CSB364: GROOMERANG RAID

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I'm starting to believe in hello, hello, hey man. What's up? Hi, those are the eyes of

a good night. You know, last week when I at the very end of the podcast, I was like, okay,

I got to go real fast. I mean, page of streaming, the end of shadow clauses, because I think

we're getting sick. Yes. Hey, guess what? Yeah. Okay. All right. Got sick as fuck. Yeah. Literally

the following night. So by the math on that, you should be either in the thick of it or

or cresting on my way out, but okay. But I had a fun little experience. And I'll give you a

preview of this experience, Willie. Okay. So you put your toddler starting to get really grumpy,

like super grumpy, like unreasonable outside their personality grumpy. Yeah. Right. Oh, I

know what that is. They're sleepy. All right, buddy. I can see your eyes rolling back in your head.

Come on. It's nap time. So you put them down 615 630, right? And you're like, as you're doing it,

you're thinking, this is pretty late. This might not be, but he's fallen asleep. What are you

going to do? So you go to wake him up at 8 o'clock, because he's got to go to bed around 10, right?

So he can't sleep to go, hey, buddy, wake up. And you like, you're shaking them. And they're like,

they're cooked fucking mega dreamland stage 4 REM. Mm-hmm. Not they're not going to come out of it.

And if you pull them out of it, they're going to freak out. All right. It's probably one of those

nights where they just go from like 5 p.m. to the next day. What are you going to do? Go about your

night. All right. Everyone's in bed. Everyone's going to sleep. Everyone's asleep. He just crushed it.

12.45 a.m. What does bagel mean? What is it? What a bagel. What is a bagel?

Middle of the dark. These are the midnight questions. Yeah. What? I want to see it. Okay.

Okay. I want to go downstairs and tell, but bagel mean. Okay. Down we go, bud. Yeah.

We go. I just every one of these where I'm like, oh man, I wish you could communicate. And like,

you're basically, I'm like, what you're describing is worse. It's all communication means nothing.

You get no understanding. You get minus understanding. Because I go downstairs. We go downstairs.

And he'll like, Hey, man, here's the milk. Do you want something to eat? You want to ody chump?

Okay. Here you go. And then I show him the bagel. And I go, this is a bagel. It's like a circular

piece of bread. I eat them in the morning. And he goes, what's that? And he points at the bagel.

I'm showing. And I go, it's a bagel. And he goes, no. And then runs in the living room and

one in the morning. And I'm like, Oh, yeah, sick. Yeah. So I'm on, I'm on those midnight to 4 a.m.

feeds. And when like, there's times where she's waking up, go and just like, there's, there's

waking up hungry. And then there's waking up like, like famished, you know? And you can hear when

the cries are like, yo, hurry up. And when they turn into, I'm a kill everybody right now. So

I've fully transitioned because like when, when you have the 2 a.m. feed, because I basically did

that. Yeah, I was up for two-ish hours. And you have the 2 a.m. feed and you have the potato.

And you feed the potato and the potato, you got to rock the potato back to sleep, right? But

it takes maybe a bit. In the whole time, you're like, don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Don't

fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Right? But now I'm sick, right? And so I'm watching

the boy while Paige is running an errand. And I'm lying down on the couch and my head's on the pillow.

And he's playing with his toys. And I'm like, okay, I can just rest. And he walks up to me and

slaps my stomach and goes, I don't like it when you lie down, dead, dead. Oh. And I'm like, well,

oh, you can't. And I'm like, no, I'm just tired. He's like, I don't like that.

I'm so, so something in terms of just getting across the concept of like, hey, I get what you,

I understand your needs, but also like life and time. And there are concepts that are happening

around us like the concept of milk needing to be heated a little bit before you drink it. For

example, is one that is that the entirety of everything to do with like how the universe

requires heat to be transferred into this bottle is the vein of her existence, right? And you're

so when I'm hearing like shrieking, I'm hearing cries that are hitting new pitches of like,

yeah, right? So I've tried, I've tried a couple different things and like the usual things and

the, and the rubbing the stomach, etc. That when that stops working, right? And something that

actually is like throwing a wrench in is, okay, like the bottles and the bottle warmer.

And like, I pick her up and I point at it. And you know what a bottle is now, right? So I pick her

up and she's like, oh, and she's looking at me like, what are you doing? And I'm like, look at it

right there. It's heating up. And she looks and she's looking at my hand and following towards it.

And she kind of is like paused. And there's a little bit of a like, so I should stop crying

for a moment. Yeah. And I'm like, you see, you see, right? And she's like, okay, I'm like,

right. And she's like, no, I don't trust it, man. Yeah. So you're just like, the finale,

the finale of that scenario was I sat up and I went, come on, man. Yeah. And yeah.

And he looks at me and goes, don't say that to me. Don't say, come on, man. It's not polite.

And I'm like, it's not polite. You're right. I'm sorry. Oh, God. Yeah.

I so I'm sure you've gotten the version of this where, um, with the whole like, okay,

I'm when I'm, if I'm trying to pursue the putter to sleep or something, so doing anything,

and she's like, in full on, not fuck you, dad mode, right? Yeah. Like, um, and moms in

disposed and is unable to come at the moment. So then the escalation is going up and you're like,

and there's a number two is here. Exactly. Right. And there's a level of like, like, hitting the,

again, hitting the peaks. And eventually, there's a like, okay, I'm just putting you down right now.

And like, we're going to see if you're going to be more upset by the put down or by the

pulled that's a human being too, because you just two situations happening that you have to pick one.

Do you want like to be held more than you hate me, right? Yes. Exactly. Exactly. Right. And so

there's a point where, and it's like, the answer is both. I actually hate both of these things.

And I don't, and so there's a little bit of like, what if I have put you down and, uh, uh, uh,

right? And, um, at one point, at the point when mom comes over and it's like, okay, well,

here you go, right? And she's like, she settles in. And I'm kind of just staring and I'm just like

blank face, just going like, and she, and she actually has a look of like, yeah, what do you want

for me, man? Like, it's an expression of just kind of like, yeah, I don't know. Okay. But it's better

now. That's a call. Yeah. And then, then I'm turning this way. And I'm like, I'm looking at her

and she's like, I don't want to look at you right now. You know, and I'm like, no, no, I'm over

here. And she's like, no, I'm not looking. I'm not, I'm not, no, I contact. And I'm like, okay,

because you know, you know how you feel right now. Oh, man. There's a new word in my house.

Mm-hmm. And the new word is doodah. Doodah. Doodah. Okay. And I was like struggling to understand

what doodah was because it would, it's sometimes be the answer to, I would ask him something. And he

go, no, dad, dad, it's doodah. And I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? Because he's using it

like it means something, not like it's nonsense, right? So he's invented a word. And I'm trying to

piece together the language like a fucking scientist. And I figured it out. And now the word

drives me the fucking, driving fucking crazy. Okay. Doodah. Origin. Yeah. That I'm all

looking at. Doodah's origin is dad, dad, I want some milk. How do you ask for milk? Smirk?

Doodah. No, say please. No. Doodah. And I'm like, doodah means fuck you. Doodah means

rebellion. Doodah means I don't want to do it. And I think it's funny that I do answering

you what like in this passive aggressive way. Doodah means resist. Doodah is rise up against the

authority. And it's so challenge, challenge God's time. He like does something and you're like,

say, sorry, buddy. He goes, no, doodah. And I have fucking, oh my God. Oh, man. Wow. The place

holder is for fuck you already in place. Right. Okay. Well, it's that emotion predates any language

for like super early. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, yeah, this is the best shit ever.

Getting roasted by a small person who has no power, but has all the power is a really fun experience.

So what I was going to say before is that I feel like it doesn't happen often,

but every once in a while, there are weeks where you know, we're like, oh, it's a doozy.

We got a whole bunch to cover, right? Um, but not all, all doozy weeks are built the same.

Sometimes the doozy weeks are doodah. Sometimes it sometimes the doozy week is a doodah.

Sometimes the news happens evenly distributed. Sometimes it happens immediately after we turn the

lights off. Sometimes it happens literally all within 24 hours of the beginning of the podcast.

And sometimes it happens. Sometimes we enter into the poochie made in heaven,

escalation of events where the week is like, yeah, it's pretty slow. Oh, you know,

and there's like, oh, a couple of things are going on. And then the 48 hours coming up to going

live are just bang, bang, bang, up to the second, up to the very moment of starting where it's just

like, oh, my God, like eight things just happened in the last 10 minutes. Yeah, it really, like,

eventually when we, I don't remember why we moved the podcast to Tuesdays. I think it was for D&D,

but like, that's paid out because Monday, Monday announcements, Monday news. Yeah, I mean,

sometimes it's Tuesdays too. It's also just, you know, you never, you never know.

It was this morning. Certainly. Many of them were this morning, you know. Um, so no, let's,

let's, let's get to it. But, uh, I mean, look, there was, there was a week, uh, uh, to cover a bit

before. Um, I played slay the spy or two. I did a stream. It's good. It is good.

Played some more and eventually unlocked the, uh, the necker binder. As, uh, you know,

you're mentioning and, and try to run with that, uh, super interesting, very tricky, though.

I got a bad initials, like, uh, um, set of cards to play with and died real early into the run

because I just didn't get anything to make her survivability go up. Um, the whole thing with,

like, yeah, having her, uh, Oste be the, your defense and your offense and everything,

you have to get a good amount of summon cards to keep him alive and, you know, can I keep him

doing good damage? And, um, yeah, like just the first, the initial run I did, I was like, oh,

no, no good hands right now. This is just not going to work, you know. Um, but what I didn't know

was that the next character to unlock after that was my boy, um, right. I was waiting the whole time

and the redact is here and I'm like, oh, I forgot that once I got the redact in the first game,

I just ran that like all the time. I love the redact. Busted robot with all this bullshit

nonsense all over it. Go. So good. So, uh, excuse me, the defect. Excuse me. And, um, basically, uh, uh,

the, the run immediately just gets more manageable where you're like, okay, we're doing orbs,

right? And we're, and like the, the different colored orbs are procing each turn and you're kind

of like going, this is this character. I actually, I'm remembering I had more fun with this character

than the rest of the game. I like, I like the version of the game that comes from the, the, the orbs

being a part of it. Um, so that was a whole lot of fun. Um, and yeah, made, made, and, and, and,

and I'll also say too that, um, doing that run and getting a bit further in, I was able to see

some more of the, I guess there's a couple more things that are that are distinct and different

from the original, but they're definitely, um, not as immediately obvious as we were discussing

before. Um, but I had a really fun build, um, with, uh, just slamming everything with the, um,

uh, I forgot the name of the first character, but the, the default. I'm glad. Yeah. Yeah. So, um,

had a good run with that, um, giving it, giving it, uh, more tries. I'm, I'm warming up to it,

and especially now that I've got the, uh, you know, the, the defect back, like, very excited for that.

Ostea build, I guess, we'll just have to, you know, try a few more and see, but, uh, I get it in concept.

From my experience, I played a little bit more, and it's like the, the, the region and the

Necro binder are really cool. Uh, all builds are not created equal, like very early access,

like there are, there are some ones that are just like, to the fucking moon with this.

And then there's like multiple others that I'm like, I can't make this shit,

fucking work at all. Like they just don't have the, the synergizing,

the, that I feel like it needs. I mean, I, that, that initial slam deck that I was talking about

was basically just like throw away all your strikes. Um, I got a slam card, upgrade it, duplicate it,

and just hit huge damage for free as often as possible. Um, yeah, it was great. It was, uh,

build up defense, and then, um, your defense is now also how much damage you're gonna do,

by slamming, you know. Um, good stuff there. Um, get working through, uh, versus drafts.

Um, yeah, fun, fun new concepts. Some goofy fucking shit in there.

But, um, Papa, Papa, Papa, you know, as a status is a really interesting one. Like it feels like

some of these ideas were already cooking when the game was released, and some of them were like,

we saw how you played, we saw how you freak beasts broke the game, and we designed this to stop you.

There, there, there's definitely some of that. There's also the guy who

fakes you out like 10 times in one attack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That is definitely the joke.

Having the piss. Um, the final boss there is very, very for real, even as somebody who beat up Simon.

Um, and, and then the freaks over at the tower, those freaks over the tower are built to deal with

whatever you used to take out Simon. Yeah. And then you go into the drafts and go, okay,

you need to use the, the, the busted busted fucking shit in here, but go back out to deal with the

freaks. And it's interesting because like it's like, okay, have you built out a bill? Are you a

freak that is one and done? Right? Do you have no stamina? Can you, can you only get it out once

and then you're out for the night? Or can you keep it up? Right? And if so, can you survive at

least one volley of bullshit? You know, because that's the thing is like, okay, deplete a life bar.

Now let's see you do it again. And you're like, I can't. I used all my stand all energy and all of

my pickedos and luminas were for that first hit to be really good. And it's like, well, then you

fucking die. You know, but um, the freaks at the tower, um, yeah, it was really cool to see some

of the changes. Um, some, you know, some of them like, um, you know, Clia, it's just like, okay,

be perfect. Right? That's it. Be perfect. All we ask of you is perfection. Um, and then in some

other cases, you're like, let's take the most disappointing part of this game, which was

how much of a job or the dualist turned out to be and fucking fix it. And just go nuts. Just go

completely crazy. Way to fix the dualist. What a cool way to redeem that, you know? Um, because

the energy and design of that and the buildup of the event are so much higher than the actual

fight and it's challenge. So have you gotten a bunch of those new pickedos that have bizarre

alternating effects? Timing is what matters. Every fifth hit, 600 damage. So the, the game, the,

the base game pushed really hard towards it. You're going to want to build up into like one hit

and it's going to go go to space. And now it's like, well, what about every time you get a crit,

it'll double the damage of the next non crit. So you actually want 50% crit. What if do some

math? What if the first four attacks don't hit at all? Yeah. Put the fifth one is really big. And

so it's like, it completely inverts it back to multi attack. And then you're going and you're

looking at that move list going how many attacks here are hitting five times? How many attacks are

doing the fifth hit being the most devastating? Oh, look, burning canvas. Okay, perfect. But, uh-oh,

burning canvas costs five. And I can only go up to four lumina points, AP points. Let's get a

reducer going. And now you know, and so it's this whole little system that's like, yeah, they want

you to sit down and like do the math on it. So clever stuff going on there. And also it's fun to

see the, um, at least lore wise, the whole like, it's a kid's playground idea, you know, like very much

so, um, it's cool to see like, yeah, okay, even in this, like, even in this greater playground,

you have a, a, just this fun stuff of like, what would a kid's doodles of like family and everything?

And, you know, those memories be like. So very, very cool stuff there. Um, checked out. There is,

there is the, the implication that one of the characters played Xeno blade and Persona five.

Is there? Yeah. So the, the, the, the, the shithead, the, the shithead, um, who has the, the,

the fucking gastro that does all sorts of fucking jukes on you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Like his, um, his fucking quotes are, I'm really feeling it, which is, yes. Okay. Okay.

So it yells out and you'll never see it coming. Right. Right. And they, the, the other one is a test

of your reflexes, which is, uh, from FF 14. So that's cool. And in, in, in my mind, that does a lot

that like, oh, there's a character here that fucking loves RPGs. Okay. Okay. Japanese RPGs.

I mean, yeah, that character is Guillaume. You know, like, um, I love it when you play a game and

the, the creator, like, like, Hojima or Tartino or Guillaume goes, I really like this band.

I really like this other game. Um, I also lost my shit probably when it's like, you know, the,

the, the origins of all evil oskyo. Hey, it's him. Kuku.

That's the most stupid branch guy. Um, and then, you know, and then, of course, um, there was, uh,

the rematch, right? Boy, yeah. Boy, did they just go, all right, nerds, show me what you've got.

Um, I like, we went in and took a look and like, it was like, all right, what is the actual deal

with Simo at this point, right? And it's like, let's, if you think, because the, the, the, the,

the truth behind all difficulty in all video games is memorization beats everything. You can never,

ever lose if you just lab it enough and internalize it. No, we're gonna make a, we're gonna make a

character in this game that has guaranteed inconsistent timings on literally every single attack

every single time. You're gonna have to just fucking wing it every time. The divergent star

requires your attention on every single swing.

The rules of your combat system at the dead last second. Oh my god. You know, you've been

coasting on memory so far. And even if you're at the top of your fucking game, crushing this with

billions or whatever the case is, your defense is all based on, I've seen it before I know the

timing. Well, fuck you. Improvise. Your only jazz will win this battle. Um, holy shit, man.

And the moment you fuck up once, like, like, that was what it was. It was like learning that was

the rule. You're an agent that he activates is like on and off at different whims with each combo.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, like you're just like what the

fuck you have a second to react to the flash. And then you drop the ball once, get the fuck out

of my canvas, bitch. Like, oh, that was a proper, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh.

Those four bosses for when I go back and replay the game because I, I loaded it into the DLC

from six months later, right? Like eight months later. And I struggled pretty good. And I didn't

have the builds ideas that I had that I eat even made. So I was like, fuck it, just more damage,

more damage. And I reinforced it. And then I went over to those guys. And I'm like,

fucking nearly a year long fucking break since I was in here. You guys get to be the top of

the mountain for when I replay the game in the future. Like just you have broken the game.

Congratulations. That's your entry ticket. You know, you are, you're barely, you're barely able

to enter. Show us what you got. So that was very cool. Yeah, should be wrapping that up a little

bit later. Oh, yeah, you're, you're there. If you're talking about this. Indeed. I, uh,

I'm, some people were wondering like, oh, should you do the DLC? After you beat it or whatever,

I was like, no, no, no, I like it's pretty clearly. Yes. Yes. Right. The only thing you would want

to do for Reggie is mentally checklist how high you should juice the final boss. Yeah, exactly.

That's what just something I've been thinking about already, just to make it sure that you can see

how cool it is. Juiced it a lot after doing that shit. Mm-hmm. For sure. And, um, you know,

except people were like, oh, why would you do it this way? No, no, no, because narratively,

the coolest things are book ending the whole journey, right? And it flaccid. I hate when you have

a moment in games where you walk back out after credits, go somewhere, do an interesting thing,

and then go, all right, well, I'm sitting here on the overworld and I guess that's done now. And

it's like, that's so weird and unsatisfying in the game to be rolling credits. And the real DLC,

the real thing that you do post game is the fucking five. Well, no, I was going to say is the

conversation. So that is what you spend your fucking time on. I remember seeing an interview with

Guillaume where they were asking him about how so many people got to the end of the game and like

massively like fucked up act three, like just took act three apart. And he's like, yeah,

no, that was on purpose. We wanted, we wanted you to be able to go and do anything and just go nuts

and go crazy if you wanted. And maybe we let them go a little too far, but like that was definitely

intentional. Um, and then they they somewhat rectified that by allowing you to be like have your

friend tell you know, juice the bosses for juice the finest, the final bosses HP buy

buy a million. So you would like a million. No, I mean buy like one million, give the boss one

million times more HP. So we're so serious knowing where to go was was with the challenge on that

because we put times 10 on Simon and on Seymour and it was too much. And then it was like, should

we go for times five? Well, no, no, we needed to because the one shot initial bass Simon was not

enough, right? And that's tough. And I and I and in my my I calculated wrong, I thought that his

that stand out against Seymour would result in almost dead, but not quite dead. And then you get

to fight a little bit to the end. And it wiped him, right? Because roulette roulette can do it. So all

this is I don't understand math. So roulette's really good. I guess. So in the end, uh, you know,

I get that that's the thought. But I'm I'm always in preference of a, you know, like I said,

the cool book ending with the exception of something like Citadel where it's like this is actually

perfectly designed for posts, right? Um, where you have like your your, uh, anyway, if the story is

meant to be like an epilogue of sorts, right? That then that works out. Um, anyway, so that'll be

going on this week. All right. Also checked out a couple of them fighting games. So one, you played

fighting. There's one that I've been keeping an eye out on. And I wanted to wait for a little bit

more. But I've decided to just pull it now, pull the plug now. Hell versus is the Helltaker fan made

fighting game that looked really cool. And I was like, Oh, this looks like some fun shit to check

out in a minute. Only two characters so far. So it's just a little demo and a versus pardon. Hell

and versus. Uh, unfortunately, uh, not hell and not versus. Um, but uh, for Helltaker, I mean,

they they got they got Zdara in there. So like they know right off the bat who people want. Um,

and you know, Helltaker, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so so they there. This is a game that for the one

hour that the game actually lasts the effect it's had on just fandom and the impact of its character

designs and then overall, uh, general attitude are like the perfect just the amount that the effect

is so disproportionate for how long the source material is. Yeah, but it made people's dicks hard.

It sure did. And, uh, like I said, we bring back the kickboosting. All right,

fuck a kink shame. We kink boost. So this game is like pick what you what you what kind of

harm are you looking for? And I mean, if you're whole, if you're your baseline is everyone's

wearing a suit, then like, got my fucking attention. Um, so anyway, the fighting game looks pretty sick.

We tried out to we tried out the little demo played that for a bit. Um, so far so good. You

know, fun stuff, kick, cooking. Um, it's also funny because it's Helltaker related. It's a two

character demo and it has like one stage. The assets are like at the early or they're super early

in the in the cycle, but they already have voice acting. They already have that a stage with like

little cameo, you know, Helltaker and the background doing stuff.

A game the new show because I think the the game is all about the fan art and the characters

and the lore and the love into like the girls in the harem. So you're kind of like, yeah,

it's important to put all that right away. You know, you can't build this up like a normal game.

You have to put all the shit that fans are going to freak out and love immediately in your two

character demo and work like vertical slice down almost. Um, built from the goon up.

That is that is exactly how it should be put. Um, so yeah, that was, uh, uh, uh,

you know, that's coming along. Keep an eye out on that. And it's a I think it's it seems like it's

one of those like one person projects. Um, I also, uh, took the opportunity to, um,

not only play it, but men came over one day and just decided and just handed me a box

and said, here you go, check this out. And I was like, what what is this? And he hands me this.

That's threatening. Oh, the R cod. It's called fuck that dude. Why? It is a controller PlayStation

style on one side and a button like arcade stick setup on the opposite side. Why would you do it?

Because some games actually like some are some games on better on arcade stick. Some games

on better on pad. And sometimes the hybrid is actually ideal. So tech and fingers I talk about

a lot of the time are when you're playing on a normal PlayStation controller and then you put your

hand up, wrist up, and then you tap, right? A lot of players play tech in that way. Um,

because of the way you hit strings and stuff. It actually just, it flows better. It feels better.

It feels more accurate for for how you got a time things. And, um, for me, I've like third

strike is a good example of a game where I'm like, I've got more pad experience on third strike

than stick experience. So I'm, I'm way more accurate and I, with, I'm, and I drop things a lot

less on, on pad. So let me try this out. Min just brought my bonnet and just said, here you go,

give it a shot. And you know what? For the weirdness of what you're looking at. It ain't bad. Um,

for starters, you customize the D pad so that it can be PlayStation style if you'd like or Xbox

style if you'd like. Um, so there's a couple different options if you want this full circle or

whatever. And then these buttons, I don't think you can replace with San Juan, but I seem,

it seems like there's another model that you potentially can. So if you have a good feeling

D pad on one side and good arcade stick buttons on the other side, that's solid. Man, that ain't bad.

Um, I went, I was like fully going, oh my god, is this, are we going, are we doing like

abomination reviews? And I was surprisingly, uh, pleased with this being quite a decent way

to go, you know? So if you're somebody out there who's like, you like the feeling of touching

the buttons, but the stick accuracy has been an issue or so are you just prefer your thumb and

have gotten used to playing on pads more? Maybe give it a shot. You know?

Well, Lee, I would love to sit here and discuss your crimes against God further, but I am required

at the home. I will have to be right back there be already. Um, that controller looks fucking terrible.

I just want to, I just walked over to help page with the baby and like you see this fucking

head on the screen and she's like, I know it looks awful. Look, some people are, if you've gotten

experience with a pad and then you're, if you got experience with a stick and you have that moment

where you're like, fuck me, I dropped to this one important moment and that feels bad. Sometimes,

many times the answer is just like, yeah, if you practice more with any peripheral, you'll get

the hang of it. And that's true, but as someone with experience in both with preferences all over

the place and that, sometimes I'm like, actually in this game, I kind of want this. You know,

and someone thought the same thing and they did it. I guarantee you, I know my opponent to

wretch on the floor when they see me playing the game and this will give me an advantage.

Bitch, people are pulling up to tournaments with fucking pianos and DDR pads, okay?

Yeah, but see that's cool and creative. You're just using some pile of shit off a bargain bin.

And it, this is, it's custom built. It's pretty solid. The D pad, because you built my fucking

assholes, shit on a button. Okay. All right. Cool. Yep. I'm still a little sick. So you're getting,

you're getting good little bit of extra sass today. Good counterpoint. Ultimately,

that's the kind of thing where I would look at it and be like, you, if what usually happens

where to happen, which is it would feel terrible, right? If you grab this type of peripheral

put out by like fucking liang number one or some shit, oh, you know, performance and then you

touch it and you're like, oh, these are awful buttons. This is an awful pad. They had the idea,

but this is terribly executed. That'd be one thing. But the fact that it actually feels solid goes,

oh, well, shit. Hey, let me ask you off the, off the top of the dome, the Ooya pad or the

original steam controller. I mean, straight dog shit. They're, okay, like the steam controller

feels bad in a way that it is expensive. It's just not the feeling I want from my

at control. Whereas the Ooya pad feels like plastic from Kmart. I think my favorite part about

the Ooya pad is that you press like one of the buttons. And if you're moving to the side even a

little bit, the fucking button goes under the shell and stays there. Yes. Which is what happens with

the, with the, the toys arrest controllers. Like that's the thing. It's fucking crazy. It weighs

nothing. It has nothing in there. It's the cheapest plastic possible. Whereas the steam controller

was made using real parts that they were bad parts for fucking for gaming. They're just not what

I want my controller to feel like, you know. Yeah. I just, there's even if you have the mold of a

controller I like and you build it out of the fucking Ooya thing, it's dog shit every time.

Fucking crazy. Anyways. So yeah, I know that's pretty much it. So, you know, this week gonna,

yeah, wrap up on E 33 and Thursday going to be busy. And then Saturday probably we're going to

check out Alex. So come hang out. Should be fun. Yeah. Oh, and don't forget that I believe Thursday

is a steel ball run day. It is steel ball run day.

Okay.

Gonna get that white turn. Gonna get. Yeah. No, I'm just gonna say get to get that white man's money

on Thursday. Oh, yeah. Don't forget. Do we know how it's gonna get released? God, I hope it's

a single episode, dude. I'm expecting it to be part one is a drop of multiple. I don't know.

We'll find out. Um, what's going on? Uh, me and Paige got sick this week. Most mostly me. Paige

seemed to dodge most of it. Um, and, uh, so I've, I've, I've, I canceled my whole weeks worth

the fucking streams, which is quite rare for me, even when I am sick. Um,

cause I'd be like sitting there just leaking and then coughing my shit off. And then like,

I streamed on Monday, uh, Sunday, briefly. And I was like, I'm coming out of it. I'm coming

out of it. And then I start the stream. And like, literally the first comment I saw was like,

whoa, dude, you look like shit. Cup like, like, friendly, you know, like, like the kind. And I was

like leaking all over myself. And I just ended up doing like a single beat the backlog game,

which was heartworm, which is really cool. It's very, uh, classic style, 1998, like fixed camera,

horror game. Super cool. But then like, oh, I'm still actively dying. And my voice is nasally

and my throat hurts. I'm, I'm out of here. Yeah. Unfortunately, I like things that you would

100% stay home for if you were like punching into an office, you'll just like fight through and

click live, go live anyway. Um, yeah, like, hurt my hand or hurt my foot or whatever. And

I'm like, whatever I'm just sitting in the chair. But like, oh, cool. It hurts to talk.

Not a good one. Yeah. And then there's pushing it. And then regretting it double hard a few

days later when it's like, you should have been recovering. You stupid fucking. So I didn't,

I didn't play much. I played a little bit more of my switch than I usually do when playing

Xenoblade X, which is the fakest fake MMO game to ever exist. Like every single thing about Xenoblade

Chronicles X, you were mentioning is an MMO like a classic Japanese style MMO, other than the fact

that it's not an online. It's, it's the, it's, it's more MMO than like some of the fucking

dot hack games that were also fake MMOs. Yeah. That's, that's what I brought up last time. It's

fucking bizarre. It's fucking strange. Um, and I watched the first episode of that,

of that one piece television show. Oh, yes. Season two. Second season came out. Mm-hmm.

Um, I had not followed it super closely in the lead up to the season two.

They should give whoever is the casting director, like an Emmy, by default. This, this is the best

casting for anything I have ever seen in my life. Oh, every single character is like a 1990s fan casting,

not accounting for acting ability. Right. It's like, Oh, it's, it's them. It's them off the page

in the war in real life. And they're doing it. And they're all pretty good actors. Like they,

they do, they do a good job. Like even more so than the first season, because

in season two, the first episode takes place in Loghtown, which is like a very large scale city.

And the amount of detail they went into like, Hey, people who exist in the one piece universe look

like stupid jagoves, like even pedestrians all look like stupid cartoon freaks. Everybody in every shot,

every extra stupid ass cartoon freak in the background. Absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, I really like

that first season. And this is, it's unfortunate that the whole, the whole enjoyment that's coming from

the casting being like, holy shit, they nailed it. I don't have any of that. I'm just, I'm just

judging it on the merits of what it is, you know, for the first time. But enjoyable enough as that.

There's also something that this has to be Oda's idea, where, um, so Oda writes like real

loose. And like people will pulling out plot hole. Like if you read, if you read the manga and

you read like every most chapters have like a letter to Oda, where he answers like fan questions.

And people will point at like massive plot holes that like a year later will become, oh,

actually this happened because of this. Uh-huh. I wasn't a plot hole. I had it in my head the

whole time. No, he actually takes the time to answer that shit. Yeah. Okay. Well, no, what he does

is it like people will be like, hey, how come Luffy grew back his teeth after drinking milk?

And he'll be like, it's a manga. Be quiet. But then later.

Okay. Okay. Um, and one of the things that you see even in the first episode is

characters from like 600 chapters later in the manga appearing crazy early. Like absolutely

insanely early. Mm-hmm. And you're like, oh my god. And the reason is is because upon those

characters introduction in the manga, they will flash back to that early chapter and be like,

I was there by the way. Mm-hmm. I was there off screen. I saw that. But also you have to take

into consideration. There are not going to be 600 live action episodes. So the jump to wherever

you're talking about is much closer. No. So if they wanted to adapt everything they did, I think

I saw people say it would take like 14 seasons. Oh, until now. Oh, okay. And like, you're talking,

and taking like a butcher's fucking knife to it. Like, it's and yeah, they're, they're, they're

like massaging it. And like, they're cutting this. And what about can you drop like two or three

movies to like, you know, fucking Rayse Ark, you know what I mean? Just just just around halfway.

Oh, wow. There is a time skip. So you could do six, seven seasons with these guys. And then

and it. And then you could then six or seven live action sees. Yeah. And then you could be like

the one piece live action is returning. And you, you recast the whole, the whole group and be like,

they're older now. You get to where fucking Seinfeld and friends are at. And you go, we are now halfway

through the story. Well, I remember it was like around like in the one thing or whatever it was.

Like we're a chapter like 1200. And Oda did an interview. He's like, I think we're starting to see

where the where the final arc may start to have or some shit like that. It was very,

it was like 15 years and he's like, I'm starting to think about the ending.

Okay. So divorced from all of that, though, is the reality that it's good. It's very fun.

But no, I just, I don't have faith that like Netflix or any of the

shits involved on production at some point won't fuck this up for that many seasons. Like you get

a number of competent seasons before someone, somewhere fucks it up. You know, season three is

confirmed already for sure. For sure. For sure. And season three would be Alabasta. And then

you could totally like their adventures continue after the end of the third season. And then

if they did the fourth season, it would be the knockup stream and Skypia. And you could totally

do their adventures continue after that. It looked it would be nice. It would be nice that like a

good project could be long running successful and work and just be untouched by the way everything

gets ruined these days. But I'm just how often does that happen? You know, it's so rare, man.

And I don't know if you saw, but I mean, I'll pull a docket story out here so that we can

relieve the the back half of this podcast. Yeah, I get just let some of the steam out the bus.

Let the steam out. But tomorrow, tomorrow studios now with their with their, you know, reinvigorated

you know, egos are like, yo, how about how about that shampoo though, right? And after the success

of one piece, it's like, yeah, yeah, let's see it, right? But don't forget, they also did cowboy

bebop. And so the difference they said in the interview when they're talking about this is we

realized that having the creator there in the process was very important. So they reached out

to Shinichiro Watanabe and he is going to be involved with Sham Samurai Shampoo. So that's

what's important. What's important is that the creator has a kill clause in the fucking contract.

Oh, that's that's why the one piece live action is good. Yeah, because Otis walking around with

the gun. Otis like, like getting daily updates. And if he thinks something sucks shit, he's like,

yeah, I'll cancel the whole season. I don't even care. So, so that's it. Like, okay, can the people

that did that, they did this and it worked. Can we trust them to go into us? Because you've

already botched, you know, this previous franchise from this from the same creator. Welcome to the

out some other fucker. Can you fix this? Can you save it? And it's like, yes, by having the creator

on board to kick everyone's ass and actually do what he thinks would make make it make sense.

You know, you provide the, you know, ability, the production, the talent, etc. and have the

person whose vision actually created the fucking thing show up and make the decisions. Yeah.

Um, I, though, though sometimes that's not true. Um, you should not have, for example,

had Stephen King consult on the shining. Well made that movie awful. Well, well, thankfully,

we have the TV miniseries shining to look at. What an incredible like compare and contrast.

No, this is my vision. And it's like, Steve, you're not a good director. You're bad.

Like it. There are some things about that miniseries that are interesting, right? There are some

twists and, and, and overall like Stephen King universe pulls that work that are cool. But you have

fucking nothing on that movie. Like it's, it's just not your baby anymore. It's done. It's cooked.

It's over. Um, anyways, anyways, all that to say that, um, I, I, yeah, with, with the proper

guidance, I, I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with shampoo. Yeah. I believe it can be done.

And casting is fucking paramount for that too, you know, so you could fuck that up.

Fuck that up like two seconds. Like Luffy is a very, very specific person. You got a nail and,

and Mugen is, I'd say, as precise, you know,

I would have had like super detailed notes and expectations of what the, what these

characters would look like in real life if they were real people down to like what countries

they would be from in the real world. Yeah, that's, that's, that's good detail. Um, maybe

if like fucking, what would be really sick is if a live action shampoo could even like fix some

of the pacing of the original show, which is not perfect. It's fucking cool, but it ain't a perfect

show towards the end. It, it does kind of get a bit five more baseball episodes.

I mean, just, you know what? We've decided to delete the sunflower smelling samurai,

and we are spending an entire arc on a world series of Japan, you know, the baseball.

I have a complaint about samurai shampoo that, um, that I think I've never surfaced to you ever.

And this complaint might suck, like I might be completely wrong, but I actually really strongly

dislike the final episode matchups. Like the, each character has their final conversation.

No, I don't think that's, this is not, this is not a wild take. This is not extreme. I most,

a lot of, I thought that in the lead up to that episode, that the matchups that we got would have

actually been switched because instead of fire, fire and ice, ice, I thought it was going to be

fire and ice and fire and ice. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I, I get it, I get it.

Ultimately, I do feel like, um, considering, uh, uh, cowboy bebop, I do, I felt like the first

half of shampoo is just way stronger than the second, you know, um, overall. And, uh, you get a

couple of, you get your baseball episode in there, you get your beat box bandits, you know,

you get your fucking best of Nujabes, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, tracks dropped in and like you enjoy

a couple of episodes, but a lot of that fun was, was like the beginning of the journey. And, um,

I, yeah, I just remember the, the back half of it kind of, unfortunately being not as strong and

a bit more forgettable in a lot of ways and food, story and arc. I feel like it's the total opposite

of bebop where all the bottle episodes and the second half of bebop are like the best parts of

the fucking show. Yeah. Um, and so that's the last thing I was going to say is with live action

shampoo, like I wonder what do you do on that music because there is now an army of post Nujabes

disciples that exist, you know, uh, there are so many people that like have taken up that,

that style and are killing it. Um, you know, you got your, your Marcus D's and you got,

yeah, I mean, mellow doing that type of shit is, is, is crushing it. There's so much like low-fi

sick post Nujabes stuff that is, uh, I wonder if you kind of just like get people to come in and

kind of homage it, you know, like I, I'm not too sure. Is Nujabes still alive? Nujabes is not alive

anymore. No. Oh, really? I kind of asked that facetiously. No, no, no, it's actually a,

this is a big deal. This is like, he passed away and it was tragic. Oh, well then, oh,

shit. And then I actually have like locked into what you're talking about because it's like,

oh, yeah, that is actually very difficult and possibly very disrespectful. Yeah. So fat

John was a part of that, you know, there's a couple people you can, you can 100% pull back in.

But, uh, you know, either way, the music choices for this are going to be very, very important

because the legacy of how anyone came to know Nujabes was because of Shinto. I know what they're

going to do. Somebody in the chat was right, Shadow lilies, right? They're going to use AI to

replicate the feel of the music in honor. Yeah. Anyway, um, I would, I would, I would like to believe

that you can get Shingo to, to like, choose who he thinks would be the best fucking lineup, you

know, uh, uh, uh, to, to handle that. Um, that would be the, the probably the most appropriate thing,

I think. Um, anyway, anyway, uh, Paul order. Yeah. Paul fucking order. Yeah. Rest in peace,

Jinseba. Um, anyway, so one piece got to go check that out. It's good. Mm hmm.

What else is going on? Character in there that people are mad that they made them look a certain

way. And all I could think of is that they're stupid, that they're stupid idiots and didn't read one

piece. Uh, anytime, anytime anything has, uh, a successful series on Netflix, it's just like

you can take bets on how many seasons you're getting. It's two. You're getting two. And then

the bat starts at three. Yeah. I mean, okay. So I will say that after I brought up Castlevania,

I did see it turns out it's not as much as a Castlevania dropped off consensus as much as it is. It

mixed and there's a lot of people that were saying, no, no, no, it was actually quite good.

You know, so there's debate as to the drop off discussion. Got into it, but I can tell you for

fact, the animation is out of fucking control on the, the fifth and sixth seasons. Okay. Okay.

I mean, I just, I know that it first, the first two, like it was universally just like this is

fucking fire, you know, and uh, then afterwards there started to be some, some noise. But again,

I haven't seen it myself so enough to go find out. Anyway, what else is going on?

Watch one piece did that. Honestly, just been just napping.

All right. That's fair. Yeah. I mean, me and Paige were napped trading because someone alive has

to watch the child. I'll tell you what, though, taking care of a toddler can sometimes be tough,

but it's a wonderful experience. But you know what is tough when your kid, every now and then

goes, and it's like they're fine. Like they're not in, they don't have a fever or they don't. But

all the places that you would usually go that have other children are now off limits because you

can't have your probably still infectious child cough all over the other children. And then you

get to feel, woolly, you get to feel a hatred in your chest. Let's go. So deep. Talk about it.

Speak on it. Speak on it. Because what? Because what did you just do? The re what I did was I acted

like a response. Oh, oh, and then the kids say, I should stay home with the child and just

extra hard to entertain them. And it's almost like the fucking sick kids at the daycare that are

being brought there by their parents should probably be doing the same thing because every time your

child gets sick, you usually get to see it happen. You see a child that is obviously ill in the public

space touching things and coughing on people. And you go so good. So like I there is a there is a

reality where you're like, okay, is this something where you're work or you're you have an

inability? Oh, yeah, okay. I'll just run down the thing because I see some people already doing it

in the thing, which like sometimes people can't do that. No, because my child doesn't go to gay

doesn't go to gay care. No, gay care. Okay. That's for that's for gay baby jail, actually.

No, we had a gay baby jail briefly. It was a it was like a big big play pen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to take care of it all the time. There's no reason to put them in daycare, right?

So send the kids to gay care. What is going on? The library. Yeah.

Mommy and me style playplaces that are open for a couple hours a day for the kids to interact

with other children and stuff like that. Not child care. Optional child enrichment activities.

So when you are at the optional child enrichment activity and a kid comes in and is literally

leaking fucking green and you're like, you don't have to be here. You don't have to be here.

There is immoral for you to be here. There are there are places that are I mean depending on where

where you're set up is of I know for we know for fact that there's places that are free that you

take that you can take your kids and such. But no, I would say that if you have serious

or emergencies or you have there's lots of situations where you got to be able to like

gotta go deal with that, right? Part of being a parent is you don't have the full control.

You don't have autonomy over your full schedule anymore because you got to step in for anything going

on and yeah, it feels really really annoying to know that like for every moment that that same

thing that crossed your mind because we had that as well. Oh, she's a little bit sick. Looks like

we're not going to take her anywhere where other kids are going to be. Gotta keep her hair until

that's over with. Just walk around outside in the in the in the open air. And you're just kind of

like like please also do this other parents so that you don't make it worse. It's just

yeah, yeah, I'm woolly. I don't think you've you're she's not old enough that you've encountered

this type of person. But at the same time, you'll be like at this community service and you'll be

like looking at the sick child and you'll over here their mom be like, oh, they could they couldn't

have it. I definitely never got them vaccinated. So there's no there's no worry. And then you look

back at the child stacking like 400 cars in a circle. And you're like, no, ma'am. So that's what I

was about to say. I was about to say that like there is like you can you can there is a particular

situation you can imagine where somebody is like every like I literally have to like every

single I can't take any time off of work to deal with this and or if any emergencies happen,

I also am shit out of luck, right? Yeah, no, that happens. They're it that's what I'm saying,

right? There are circumstances you can you can you can envision here where there's like

I literally I can't not to do anything if my kid gets sick, right? Your back is against

your worker be like I can't believe somebody sent their sick kid to daycare. And then the response

is if I don't go to work today, I won't have the food to pay rent and type type shit, right?

What the fuck are they supposed to do? And I don't want to sound like a fucking asshole

describing that type of scenario here, right? But then you describe what you just said, which is the

like actually um I'm being intentionally neglectful. We are we are we are we are getting our

kid to like eat more fucking buffs of get we're getting our kids sicker on purpose in the swamps

to increase their own natural immunity. You see and and you'll thank me by getting your kids sick too.

We've sent our child to the bat caves actually to just go play in there. It's crazy. It's crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I've been sick. That's that's what's up. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. Well,

I'm playing a lot of I've been playing I've played more switch to in handheld mode this week. Yeah.

Then I played switch one at all. You hit that copy because that and Zena played X and it's like

Hey, you playing with your sensory bin? All right, I can I can build a little house and put

Polkopia before you get distracted from your sensory bin. Can't put it on the TV because you'll

just lock on and get all overstimulated and shit, but I can hide over here in this chair.

Make sure you don't eat any any sensory bin rice, but I got it. It really is nuts how

aware they are of the fact that your phone like exists and is something interesting simply because

of the fact that they know they see you around the house looking at it and like it's it's not

just any other random object. It is an object that is worth reaching out to and seeing what what

is that thing you're looking at over there? You know, and you're like, no, no, this is not don't

ignore this. I'm here. I'm looking at them. We're we're we're engaging and it's like, yeah,

but I see you over there looking at this thing. I want to know what's going on. So I feel like

and it is it is glowing like fucking pulp fiction. We've threaded the needle on this because the

boy will walk up to page his phone, pick page his phone up and then walk over to her and go,

hear mommy, I found Siri. Oh, and gives her the phone because when when and he'll do that with me

and be like, Dad, I found Google and he hands me my phone because when we we lose our phones in

the house constantly. So we walk around the house saying the activation word and going where

are you? Okay. And the phone goes, oh, I'm over here. Okay. Oh, you can do that. Huh?

Yeah, no, it's very useful. I haven't done it like mine. Where the phones just appear everywhere.

I'm still silently listening for a vibrate. But the other thing is that he has so page will be

like doing an errand or should be at the doctor or something. And he'll be like, where's mommy?

And like mommy's at the doctor and he says, take your call mommy on the phone and tell her to come

home. And he'll pick up my phone and hand it to me. And what he starts to do is he starts to like

do this. Tell mommy to come home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go, okay. And then I

text her and was like, the little man is telling you to come home now. I was like, I told her,

okay. And look, to be fair to these, he knows it's a communications device. To be fair to

these kids, if we were growing up and your parents had the pulp fiction briefcase and every once in

a while, you'd catch them looking inside of it. And you would go, hey, what is that? And they

shut it and go nothing. You would become obsessed with the briefcase. I understand.

You know, I hear something absolutely crazy. Yeah. This child has never seen a Mario game in his

life ever. Not on the TV, not on a video, nothing. I load up the switch to on the television to

like check out the the weekly deals. And he looks at the TV goes, I want to see Mario, please.

I want Mario. Mario, please. Because Mario's on the fucking. It's in the air. It's in the air,

bro. There's like, no, there's there's a Mario book we read to him, like a cute little baby book,

like 18 months ago. Oh, man. Right. Yeah. And like, just the Mario, blue and red little guy design is

like, and the name is so strong. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that like Mario, uh, Optimus, you know,

old Superman Gundam. Nintendo will always win. Red, white, blue, console race. Red, white,

blue, and yellow are like super attractive designs for kids, like 1 million percent every time.

This is studied and known. And, um, the, uh, uh, which we call it, um, the, we have a one of

our teasers that, um, and brother in law got was a super Nintendo controller. It's pretty cute.

You know, it's like, it's a nice tether. And it's, it's pretty useful. And a lot of the ones we,

the ones you have don't fit properly in our mouth. So like that one actually does. But like,

you know, the, like the whole like, ah, getting them started early. And it's just like, well, it,

it's a gift. And it's a, it's an opportune one. And it happens to be the right size. But,

you know, everything in due time where there's no rush. I'm sure, I'm sure by simple virtue of the fact

that in the house, there is a glowing room with sounds coming out of it. And she's going to be

around and be like, what's happening in dad's workroom with the purple and green lights and the sounds

and all the, the curiosity is going to be baked in there. I'm sure at some point. And maybe she'll

be like, oh, that shit's lame. Get it away from me. A big glowing box of mystery. It's a big room

for dorks. It sucks. I'm out of here. That's what it is. You know, we'll see now. I'm in the,

now I'm in the moment where he goes, I want to go to the office and I want to do dad show. No more

dad show. It's my show. He said, no more dad show. It's my show. And then climbed with this chair and

said, this is my chair. It's for me. And I'm like, no, not for you. You're going to grow up

mentally well. There you go. So that's what your week is. Yeah, pretty much. Okay. I am coming back

this week, not tomorrow, tomorrow, I'm busy all day. But Thursday, I'm going to start the RE9

insanity difficulty playthrough. And then after that, I'm going to play a bunch of crimson desert

this week because that game still looks fake, even though I have confirmation that it is real.

Have you seen any of crimson desert? I was excited based on, you know, being like, I thought

black desert was cool and then seeing what they were doing going on. It was like, oh, cool,

building off of that. But the more I learned about black desert and stuff, the more I kind of

learned that it was like, not what it was advertised to be. Oh, it's definitely not.

Black desert was advertised to be. Right. Right. Maybe it seems fake. It seems really fake.

And just at the end of the day, like, it taught me that I will, hit stop will stop me in my tracks.

I will, I will look, I will look twice at anything with hit stop, you know.

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Oh, righty.

Oh, I mean, just, I'm like, oh, we can start talking, but not what here we get.

So I mean, look, do you just, do we start on questioning what the fuck is happening with

digital foundry right now? Do we just, do we run the filter? Do we, do we do it?

So I've gotten, I can straight up tell you what's happening to digital foundry.

I've gotten, I've gotten messages from lots of people being like, can't wait to hear y'all

talk about this type of shit, you know, uh, uh, I can tell you what's happening. Sure. Sure.

Before we talk about what's happening to digital foundry, we have to talk about why we should

talk about what's happening to digital foundry, which is DLSS five has been announced from Nvidia.

They showed a demo off and it is supposed to be a more realistic lighting pass added after

the fact via AI, the internet. Yeah, exactly. And it's, uh, the demo they showed off was running

on 250 90s and 1200 watt power supply. It's apparently supposed to be of something that's coming

this year. All right. So, and in order to talk about that, we need to talk about the existence

of DLSS. So DLSS was invented back in, I want to say the fucking 2000 series, maybe 3000 series.

But the idea behind deep, deep learning super sampling is the idea that by feeding a bunch of

games footage at super high resolutions into the robot, it can teach your video card via drivers

how to ballpark what a lower resolution image would look like at a higher resolution.

This is used so that what you can do is have the game look like it's 4K and I'll put it 4K,

but its internal render is at like 1080p or something which frees up a lot of resources. And DLSS has

gone through multiple transformer models. We're up to DLSS 4 and DLSS 4 is really great. It creates

like high resolution images that are in a lot of cases superior to traditional anti aliasing techniques.

It's an existing at much faster frame rates. So the core of it of DLSS and AMD's FSR is

we are using this technology to create better looking results at a much much faster performance.

So when they say hey guys we invented DLSS 5 to improve lighting by the way it takes 250-90s.

Right away the plot is lost. Immediately it's like no no this is not what this is for.

So they're saying that they're going to get it running on. One again later in this year is what

they're saying but the demo that they showed off was using to and a 1200 watt power supply.

Second of which is the important thing of Nvidia has been pushing ray tracing and path tracing

for a while which is basically reconstructing light rays to more accurately do something in the scene.

The problem with ray tracing and path tracing despite the fact that if there's a lot of water

or reflective surfaces it can look very nice. It's like the most expensive computational setting

on your computer. It's like 20% of your computer's like energy is going into something that's

like 1% visually better. It's a massive waste. It is the easiest setting to turn off and

oh cool now the game runs good. So with all that setup the way that this was revealed is they

had digital foundry check it out and they got hands on to a demo the tech and they took a look at

it over a couple different games and the flagship one was RE9 and it's oblivion remastered. There's

a couple others and right off the bat what you end up seeing when they're looking at the tech is

you're seeing they turn it on they turn it off and you see the change in lighting to the environments

you change that you see the change in lighting to the characters and then you see the faces on the

characters become completely different faces that look exactly like every shitty GNI filter that

you've been seeing all over the place for the last year. So what's happening here is they say it's

not a filter. I know displayed it as a filter. This is what everyone sees right? So the feedback

was properly negative because everyone has been getting conditioned into this bullshit for a long

time and is getting kind of sick of it and what you see when the filter goes on essentially which

they say it's not but when you see what they turn it on is it effectively acts as a fuck your art

direction button. So what happens is they yesify. If you want you sure you can go with that we

can go with that or the ads for what is it we're under fucking attack play now for free.

And a lot of people kind of went no thanks in video I don't feel like designing my own AI

slut right now actually I think I rather not it looks exactly like that shit. So there's there's

more going on here. So like DLSS's biggest thing is that there are some artifacts but it's being

based off of like the game's own footage. So what ends up happening is that you'll have minor artifacts

typically shimmering or may some interface elements when you go too fast get a little goofy but nothing

crazy when you look at the DLSS five thing grace is like the best example but they also have a

screenshot of Leon that shows a similar problem. The filter or whatever the fuck they want to call

it is adding things that aren't there. Yeah. And when it adds things that aren't there it adds

all the same things that aren't there every time. So the grace image looks like a porn actress

and that's because these AI models have been trained on porn. But more than that you take a look

at Leon Leon's chin gets slightly bigger in the shot that they should. And what this means is that

per frame the characters are going to look slightly differently per frame. So like there will be

like that morphing fucking shit going on and a little worth it. And you know what there might not

even be like that sounds like like based on the way we see gen AI stuff look right now that frame by

frame it's going to look like a weird different person thing totally possible. But again and video

saying that it is not a filter and they specifically went into the comments to talk about how

the developers are going to have control to maintain the aesthetic that it I whatever you what so when

you see the video in particular it literally needs to be a filter. It's a frame buffer going into

the model and then being having changes applied to it like so as digital fondry is reviewing the tech

and you they're getting very excited about it and they're kind of going well I mean between having

it off and having it on I think it's a no brainer. I know which game I'd rather play in stuff

and you're kind of looking at the they're zooming in on like racing you're seeing the details of

the close-up and such and it's like okay so like it doesn't matter whether the artist and the art

direction was disposed specifically going for a particular look at particular shading particular face

etc every eye must be glassy or every lip must be raged in the same sort of way cheeks are suddenly

they must be shiny these same sort of just erase whatever the artist did filter drops on like it

feels like it drops into place and you see that effect on everything else they do when they

showed it off with FIFA and every other game you're just seeing like whatever the artist did

absolutely out of the picture go fuck yourself here's something that people are going to glance at

and be like oh look it's that pretty um Instagram fucking Snapchat filter that you're dropping

on top of things and people are so conditioned at this point to seeing that exact type of thing

and being like oh at this point that it doesn't it doesn't get the reaction they thought either

we're going to have which is people going wow it looks like we're skipping two or three gents ahead

you know it feels like we're on ps9 holy shit so there's there's there's a lot to break down so

first of all I don't believe for a second that the DLSS five announcement video is for anyone

that's ever going to buy a video card or play a video game this screams shareholder

slop keep investing in Nvidia look how real it looks I mean Nvidia is like one of the most important

companies on the planet but it has to keep going up or else it'll crash right and this has this

and the fact that it requires like whatever they're going to say it requires 50 90s guess what nobody

owns a 40 90 right like nobody like most people are playing old games most people are playing

on a old hardware this is for no one like like on a on a practical like people actually using this

in their games level this is actually for no one the same way that pass tree path tracing is for

no one they have a streaming thing called g force now that they could probably turn it on and show

it off but whatever bad ideas have never stopped them from ramming forward by the way nothing

in this industry has ever been there's just like a computational like hard line to what is

actually possible to what you can sell to up the consumer actually never mind that selling to

the consumer actually matters anymore mind you and well they're also like downgrading projections

for selling video cards in the future anyway so like there there's this shit is for no one for

digital poor boy why don't you just stream the game if you can't afford to 50s if you can't

afford to video cards then just say so right no interest you can't you can't afford to 50 90s

then just stream it we talked about this fucking poor boy video game industry has a problem that

the movie industry doesn't even have which is like there's so many good video games that you

can get readily available access to with current technology the average person could easily just

play games that have already come out forever there's there's absolute like we talk yeah

fuck it i'm out we is totally by a drop off for almost every single person

um right i when i was talking last week about the new helix box and the angles that they're

going to approach this from and how you're going to market a the console that can also play

steam and you know this is going to challenge not just a PlayStation but also a steam box etc

all the AI features describing um that you know are surely going to get rolled out

i guess i was not really thinking about the one that would just erase the entire

artistic intent of the game you're playing you know i know that we've seen um i know that we've

seen like again filter shit dropped in over classic games and we've seen the the whole like we're

smoothing over the pixels of a game you love and everyone's like we fucking hate this it looks

like dog shit you know play chrono trigger with this blur fucking vomit filter on it why don't you

but yeah i guess it's just like of all the filter the things that are going to be in your face

i can easily see this being one of those things that it's like no matter what you play look it

just looks better on helix or whatever or like the individual AI offerings becoming part of this

the bullet points they're trying to sell you on uh so the dlss five thing before i forget

because it's a point that it's important in my head anyway uh is like everybody's focusing on

graces face and and the the the starfield ladies face and how they're being justified for their

own protection i mean it's kind of hard not to when it looks like the tweeter the twitter guy post

that says this is how she should know well no you can choose that like what's actually like even

like worse is something that happens with a i generating imagery um so are you familiar with the yellow

tint in a i imagery no okay so a i has an issue with its its output and that is a weirdly

disproportionate amount of all images ever have more yellow in them than other colors uh there

just happens to be a crazy amount of yellow images dsx piss filters okay as a result

some ai models are skewed yellow compared to whatever their source would be interesting over and

over and over right and what you're seeing with the dlss five thing is every single comparing contrast

image made this scene like twice as bright yeah the assassin's creed shadows forest

like in particular a dark forest a dark street under rain and a dark room underground in the

starfield one all of them are just super brightly saturatedly lit and that's even a bigger problem

than the fucking ai face shit a resident was a fucking horror game that takes place

mostly the dark and i think i think the um yeah the fact that the faces just came across that

fucking like immediately revolted for anyone who's gotten conditioned to this shit was like like

you if it was just something where they only showed environments and or just and and such like

it probably wouldn't have hit and been as like oh my god please fucking stop but seeing their face

look exactly like the you won't last time minutes playing this game you know and you're just like

guys how did you think this was gonna go over well so um the digital found like the the video

and such like i mean yeah it's it's everyone is is is rightfully upset dislikes through the fucking

roof and um the the uh yeah the examples they they they gave the the comment they said was um

where was it yeah that basically that the developers will choose what to toggle on and what to

toggle off and such yeah um and i don't i don't it i i don't again i don't believe for a second

that uh these types of things are kind of like when you have to go to your uh your parents house

and turn the tv fucking blurs mose mose shit off right or the fact that youtube shorts automatically run

a filter on everybody's face now as soon as it goes on and it makes it look different add on me too

it accentuates all the hairs and lines and you have no say in the matter there is zero precedent

to for any of us to believe that this shit is not gonna be on by default and and pushing its way

into your face and you're gonna have to opt out of it um more than anything right it's it's

a hundred percent gonna be the way to the that that this goes um and yeah i mean

fucking these the i feel stupid to keep saying the word art as if it matters as if it means

anything cuz it doesn't fucking mean anything right is where we get into what's going on with

digital foundry and i feel like people haven't been paying attention and literally have never paid

attention to digital foundry in the history of their thing everyone is going i don't understand

how digital foundry can find this impressive when it screws up the art design digital foundry

does not do fucking exhaustive technical treaties on art design

they're engineering nerds and tech freaks that's what everyone always went to them for

they're like i want to know why this thing runs i want to know what technique this is

i want to know how all this shit works but if it's bump mapping or fucking ray tracing or whatever

the fuck right their technologists right like at its core digital foundry is like a technologist

right like organization and so you're you're biting you're biting into this big old product

right now this tasty product so there's a post that i'm gonna directly quote uh from court

wrist wolf hearts who i think summed it up really perfectly he took a screenshot from uh

a resident two two screenshots from reasonable games in which uh digital foundry was like

digriding the path tracing in it where it's a fucking uh uh it's a fucking typewriter with like

slightly better shadows on one than the other i'll send it to you okay um and it's like the most

nothing shit ever it's like who gives a fuck um and they say serial killers often fixate on my

newt improvements to methodology in the desperate hope of mastering their method of choice

we'll make the rush of their first kill return and i think

right we have seen we have seen technical guys in the games business go from like the fucking

super Nintendo to like the 360 era and just be completely losing their mind at all the technology

advancements but now we're at the point where we're talking about the fucking reflected resolution

of a path traced re puddle in the fucking ground and it doesn't matter it doesn't fucking

matter it is the ultimate in fucking splitting hairs now but it is technologists who also rely

on industry support to send them redirect footage and devices to test yeah of course they're

gonna decryde any new technical like development and because that's what they do and these are

this is this is a place that you turn to this trustworthy for the like the level of granularity

is always going to be to the extremes because it's gonna be more granular than you would ever go

to find for certain levels of um for example for finding out like which version of something is

dropping more frames in which you know or um to the point where with the games we play that are

higher responsiveness like certain versions dropping more frames actually feels worse to play

and such these are these are things that you know your way you like the amount that we're looking

for is way in the weeds compared to where the average consumer wants to go um and then you you

live in that space and then you you take it to the end degree with these types of moments so yeah

what I will say is in the video right there's moments where you hear them say uh something to the

effect of um I think it's like the the the artistic vision is a question or it's a concern you know

they're like they're going wow this looks phenomenal this it's take this tech is really great now

the artistic and the inter the artistic vision you know the the change that might have to it

that is a bit of a concern or that is a question to add to be answered you know they kind of like

I forgot the exact phrasing of it right that gets posed but overall it's like yeah but

of plausible to say that like ultimately yes this is wiping out what the art direction intention

was for all of the things you're looking at here but ultimately it looks like we're skipping

a generation or four ahead so wow right yeah except it turns every white woman into Aubrey

Plauses every Joe Hanson like it everything it looks like every everyone has to look the same

like at that the same trained faces same trained features and again like if you deliberately did

something like made someone's eyes not reflective in a you know in a moment or whatever

fuck all that right so um I think it's it's crazy because like photo realism as an art style

is also an art style it's a choice did but more than that different interpretations of photo

realism look different R E 9 is going for photo realism it doesn't look anything like fucking

arc raters or fucking Call of Duty like one of the first things could bring it up art whatever

one of the first things in art school you learn about when you're like wow look at the photorealistic

incredible work here and then it's like yeah people learn how to do that um so that they then

break the rules right like you like you get competent at basically becoming a photo you are a

photographer with your hands with certain mediums with Conte or charcoal or whatever and then

you diverge from it after that point and you develop a style that essentially is something that

knows what the rules are so that you can break them in a way that's still it conveys something right

I don't know what this felt what this this looks like when it runs over anything that's not meant

to be realistic none of the demos they showed oh it probably freaks the fuck out and is not suitable

right they didn't drop we're not seeing this running over hi-fi rush right we're not seeing it

running over anything that is going uh not photorealistic and like that's a that's an extra element of

this two words like this particular AAA homogenized like uh oh now they're all gonna look even

thing that's worse it gets worse because you made the thing that pushes it even further together

it all looks like the fucking Twitter threads you know I want to say it was a Japanese developer that

basically talked about how like all the growth in the games business is like games between like

20 and 40 dollars because expensive games are so expensive that they represent multiples of that

and that their point was not even that their point was like hey if you localize your game into a

different region remember that it has to hit this range in other regions also when you convert the

prices mm-hmm mm-hmm like if you just raw convert things into Brazil dollars hey guess what no one's

gonna buy it because it's like a house I find it particularly funny that already night is the

chosen example because it's a current hit game that looks great and is doing very well and is

is you know it's topical right you know what great point in those in those screenshots they don't

show a enemy that's what I was about to say Pat what happens if you show a monster that's

supposed to be fucked up in disgusting or anything that's designed to be weirdly sort of human but not

human right what does it do to a zombie or a creature that's meant to be dead or anything that

has any kind of feature like what does it do for that I would love to know because the only thing

it understands obviously is the distilled beauty filter that we've trained you know every girl to

look like an every guy to look like how do you drop that onto a realistic art style that is also

being inhuman on purpose show us what a monster looks like I want to know

doesn't get rosy cheeks and glossy eyes you know we're not even gonna spend much time on it

because obvious every time we talk about AI but like now that we're past training the the model

on the game itself and now it's showing us realism looking AI humans okay where did that training

data come from did it come from the same slow oh we can you can't even get into the training

data part of this like yeah you have to just take that and sidestep it entirely oh it looks like a

real person okay that means you stole the real person's photo or probably billions I mean look

yesterday like I I was describing just you see this type of shit again somebody posted it somebody

posted what it would look like here bully I'll show it to you yeah okay so thanks yeah the

pacify preachers that look like all right great I mean it's just I'm I I'm the wording I used

talking to people yesterday about this was that like I'm trying my hardest to not give in

to industry crash accelerationism and it's it's fucking it's coming up on my neck like

Sasuke's cursed seal like I got a fucking like I got over oh so last week willy I think this

is a decent segue last week we talked about you you put your fingers in your ears and you were

like no no no AI stuff for Microsoft no no no no no yeah did we or know the new console or whatever

but there wasn't anything actually announced uh did the co-pilot stuff get announced in between

last week and now it must have okay so Xbox having seen you uh they said woolly's right

and they said you know here's what the AI shit coming to Xbox is going to be and they've

announced what it is uh it's co-pilot co-pilot is coming to all your Xbox games of course it is

of course it is yeah so this means that an AI robot will be hiding in the background of your

processes sucking up frames so that you can ask it a question and if the question is about the

most popular game of all time that you could have solved with a one second Google search it'll maybe

give you the right answer but if it's about about if it's about fucking Icaruga or if some

fucking fighting game it'll tell you some bullshit and then you'll never use it again then you'll

like this type of thing for video games you'll ask it a question and it has one chance to tell you

the right answer and if it gives you the wrong answer once you'll never use it again

there's no other place this could have gone because you're having you're coming up with a way to

sell an expensive piece of hardware to people in an affordable industry and an unaffordable

economy and you're also giving something that you're telling them they can play it elsewhere that

they can play it on their existing platforms etc and so you have to come up with a feature to

pull people over and if it's not going to be exclusives all you have to go on is what is the

current bubble based on what is everything leaning towards how do we get people to come in and build

that and get the for the the investment machine going you tell them that the box has a unique AI

thing that they can't get anywhere else that's that's that's all it is robot that's always wrong how

to beat this boss so look i don't know the the the the full deal with the the folks over a digital

fountain everything like that but i do know that all nice people but i think their heads to to deep

in the beast i it i i see people quote uh not quoting but people are mentioning one person in

particular john lineman who just wrote dot dot dot on twitter and um i i guess that could mean a

lot though it could be a lot so no but i don't know what any i don't know what any of that is but

like one thing's clear is like yeah i don't maybe not everybody's on the same page you know with

with whatever whatever's happening as possible it's definitely possible sometimes um he's an anti AI

person who has written about that i see i see i see okay okay staunchly that's got to be awkward

it works that's got to be awkward yeah okay well um well the other thing is that if like so even

from a like a technologist perspective the AI stuff is kind of self-defeating because like the

entire like onus of image generation is just like next neighbors like like imagining an image

like essentially at some point there's no graphical technology in it at all it's it's just

copying existing images it's like a completely different discipline well this were to replace

image generation yeah then the whole thing that those guys are into would just disappear and make no

mistake right if this is not a filter but we're seeing this these effects and this is the and

video is putting out who are again the most important company on the fucking planet at this point

right um what do all competing companies that are not in video start running to compete with this

tech to do anything if they like they're going there of course but they they're going to be the

ones running filters and running the same shit that you see on uh everything that's awful now

on top of these games as a standard feature like if they can't do this they're going to just drop

back to that and um hey guess what will your cousin be able to will my cousin be able to tell the

difference or care or will it just be like oh wow cool the latest Assassin's Creed looks fucking

sicker than ever uh time right my cousin that I'm too busy getting them pregnant Alex what are you doing

what are you doing Alex stop me

you see Samoa Joe usually when you bang your adoptive step-sister you got a 0% chance of

but then you see me Alex and I'm the genetic freak right so suddenly your chances go up by 33

and a third percent and then you add Tom whose protrusions dead and my mom's cousin so that

increases the chances by 8% 8 and a third percent so you see Samoa Joe when you bang your second

cousin it's sacrifice the numbers don't lie this was the first thing that I saw when I woke up

I'm like we go downstairs making myself a bagel and I got him some milk and he wanted

oh

Cheerios and a teacup and I'm I'm having my bagel

I fucking hop on the internet and I'm like what are people what are people

and then like I'm like oh Alex and Patricia got married and I have a baby in the street fighter

thing I'm like that's weird steps fucking weird because he's a big brother and sister he's adopted

by Tom so that's the it's it's a strange choice that's pretty like step-sister in sesty shit

but typical for anime right and then I scroll it and he could have left it there you could have

left it there out of nowhere he's like by the way my parents and Tom are related you could like my

brain it's so crazy I'm like googling yeah okay and it's like share a grandparent that's second

cousin like okay they could have just left it at he was the adopted uh you know so they grew

up together and it's the step sister dynamic or so and you're like yeah that's not like everything

so far everything yeah they're now they're related it's bad now and everything was platonic about

the energy so far projected it to these two characters throughout every other game and then

and it's part of his arcade mode ending and on the right side of the screen is him and Patricia

getting married and on the left side of the screen is him as a five-year-old holding her as an infant

and then the upper left is hers like a smiling adorable infant baby it is just like

it's it's like it's specifically the like we grew up together like all my the my little cute

you know childhood friend sister whatever it's specifically going for that and and it's not even

that and the other thing too is that like it's also like we're it's not like oh look there they are

and they're they're grown-ups and like now they're like making out or something it's like nah she's

already pregnant right so click the fucking new genetics train on that to see what kind of

lannister shit is happening I mean I I bust it out a fucking chart so this is the problem and I

fucking I know you everyone did everyone did and this we're gonna break down all the factors here

second cousin is the answer right and and and that grandparent that like it sucks that we have to

start doing fucking genealogy tracing on a street fighter character and also it's all all factors

here and it's also burying like what no this is the lead but like it's burying the other story

which is that he has a last name and like nobody cares winger Alex winger apparently weird last name

whatever so they all hold on hold on pause Alex has come out in street fighter six he's available

okay and the game updated with him and his patch notes for other stuff just that is the story oh

oh and everyone's pretty happy with this this version of street fighter six meanwhile the tech

and players I know somehow some how even more on fire tech and is really going through it because

they said we're going back to basics and it sounds like they didn't do that so everyone's losing it

great but little hey lily can do a double congressfire right so anyway all right so

okay so their second cousins because they share grandparent all right this means that they are

one thirty second genetically similar similar right we're talking a couple percent let's do

some Steiner math baby what this means what this means is that for future genealogical progress

right they are at the furthest limit that society would accept it is it is like your second cousin

is officially your in the lie clear you're but you are technically medically clear

but the social reality is do we do we enjoy living on the line is the line really where we want to

build our house do we want us so is this is the structure sound is from a genetic perspective

this is on the it's a maybe right all right let's move on to family situation okay step siblings

raise raise together not illegal right on the line and there's two types of step siblings too

there's parent married in or like I'm 10 and I'm now part of a family and there's a there's my 10

year old sister right that's one but this is not that this is I'm there from day one I can't believe

they went for a double whammy on this and either one of those on its own would have no we're not

no it's a triple whammy you're not you're not you're not thinking with portals enough okay so

whammy 2 is family relationship right functionally identical to real siblings

but not technically I think this is over the line this is if people would be like that's no good

right number three that's it vibes age gap five years there's a five year age gap

which as adults is super normal right a 25 and a 30 year old yeah or I think they're I think

they're like I think that's that yeah I think they're 25 and 30 yeah in in in when they're in

the street fighter six story it's like that's normal yeah right a 30 35 whatever however

that's not the reality of that age gap the reality of the age because everybody goes oh

Leonardo caprio's dating in 25 year old that means he was 14 when she was zero or whatever

shit it's like well he didn't know her when she was fucking zero he's a creep and he met this

person when they were 20 but he was their adults right no okay it's the growing up together part

I met this person okay it's it's the growing up it's the growing up it's the growing up

I met them when they were zero the zero and five is real for this situation that did happen

the so the the that you get the um this isn't like oh you look so cute in your baby pictures

this is I remember when I changed my wife's diapers as a child so that's fucking weird

it it it feels like every checkbox of the umoto like uh the childhood friend thing you know

it feels like every checkbox like needed to be hit here in one person and it's almost like they

couldn't decide on one or the other or the other so they just went all of it actually all of all

of on the line on every single one of them and it could have just been any one of those and

everyone would have been like huh they seemed to just be siblings that's a weird poll but oh okay

what are we doing and you're just like nah if you got past any one of those there was another

fucking wall behind it man I have I have the the mental thought that that sums up how how we

how fucking strange it wasn't the second impact it was the third strike all along so this

Alex and Patricia's relationship is the type of relationship that when they have grandkids

they're gonna be explaining it to their grandkids and their grandkids are gonna be going oh

what uh like the way we see our grandparents and they're like how'd you and grandpa get together

and they're like well grandpa was a 25 year old man and he would hang out outside the high school

waiting for me to get out for two years and eventually my dad said he kept he kept asking and I

kept saying no and eventually I gave it yeah so Alex is going to be with his with Patricia

helping their daughter take their first steps right this is one year old how I met your mother

how I met your mother and it'll be like I and it'll look over it is like I remember when I

help you your steps okay all right it's weird um so this is where I remember when I used to

hold your mother like this fucking weird can are we in a world where patch notes on the story

are possible we are but it's too late can we get a balance passed on the script I I because

this is not what they wanted this is everyone talking about on day one of Alex's

rational character slander I mean like it's almost never been done and they're and like at

li and like they're not even going to be he's not even sitting on the iron throne to make up for it

like if this were a westeros that'd be one thing you know I just I'm watching like the most violent

like anti-takes on this just like sucker punch me I have a mutual whose response to this was I

guess people will stop making fun of me as much for playing the game had a file in blaze blue

because they're going to play the racist incest guy

and like racist and then I get linked to the street fighter five story mode where he runs into

dolls him on new in New York and dolls and floats over to him to ask him and he goes oh what are

you a mugger oh and then they fight and it's like why and of course he's based off of Hulk Hogan

okay I have I need to see what the fuck that's about um it's fucking weird that don't sound good

hey Alex Alex is from the mean streets of metro city okay it's I um yeah I don't think I don't

think this is what uh they wanted day one of Alex to be about and I I'm I want I feel like

we've entered the realm of you can just you can just change that script because there was no problem

up until right now it's too late like well I was talking to Erie this morning and Erie tells me

that they're in the fucking Portland FGC chat in discord and they just hear somebody scream out

groomerang raid it's too fucking late it's too late

we could know now we could put it back in the bottle we could put it back in we can do this

like you we can it's not too late people haven't even updated their copies of the game yet

it's it's fucking crazy like it was june and it was like Kai married a four-year-old

and and and that chick from the blaze blue married a cat but at least none of them

fucked their cousins it's like yeah crazy well because the the um actually on on the gears is

their mental growth here's where it goes here's where it goes okay you talk about Kai Kiske and

Dizzy and you go I'm actually oh she's a gear it's different okay that's one I'm actually

you talk about fucking the blaze blue shit you're like um actually it's like oh they're a regular

person they just have the body of a cat or whatever you talk about Alex you have to do three

I'm actually you that's three I'm actually oh actually they're not that different in age I'm actually

they only grew up together they're not they're not brother and sister I'm actually they're only

second cousins that's I just I I need to know like why it had to be every box ticked on that it's

knots it's it's not even consistent with existing depictions of the characters the two characters

in every comic and everything everything everything of course and and like they were going for the

heartwarming twist that Alex is walking around trying to figure out his identity and so on but really

back home he's already grown and his life is advanced and whatever you know they were going for

the sweet heartwarming moment and just leaned into the fucking the emotion and now you're like I

think the person who there was never an ounce of that energy I think the person who storyboarded

or commissioned the storyboarding for the image of her holding her him holding her as a baby

on the left and them getting married on the right it should be investigated that's like that

that shit is so nuts it is so crazy within the same within the same screenshot there is a

visceral reaction that is you can't umaxually because we're stopping you with it all being here

in one um yeah man we can patch we can patch the plot just like come on come on guys there there

has to be they can't just know no cell this response like it's the only thing people are talking

about what part of it are you going to fucking change change one thing the one thing the cousin

line the cousin line okay so it's like still fucking weird yes yes but but now there's no blood

you just you remove the blood from the situation dude it's that's in one so nuts because like oh by

the way we're actually related after all that's that's what I'm saying right why like you didn't

have to do that it was like it was hot people already go like I would if you I'm you edit out the

the cousin line and then you remove the blood from the equation and then you're just stuck with

the other two but now we're doing a little bit less stiner math bro this dude turned heel like a

fucking mother fucker like wow dude oh that's heel that's

morning dude jab project on the theme of incest bro

haha they got the second one the fucking incest track man

all right well this hey I was so excited to play Alex and guess what I'm still excited to play

Alex I'm gonna play Alex later today this is this is this is I'm I can't think people I want

you to reach out to me with characters that have been I just walked on this hard well it's absolutely

insane I I know that there there's generational fucking ball drops but oh yeah but this is the only

way I think of right now the fact that it's like the street fighter story the thing that matters the

least in the world and it's the only thing we can talk about right now oh by the way yeah black

got nerfed sure yeah his world tour and story mode and they found the one mention of street fighter

three from Alex is one time I traveled around the world and some of the guys I thought were real

weirdos that's it that's the end of the gill storyline you know look aia aia got it pretty bad

and typhlosion got it pretty bad in the lore drops what was Pokemon yeah but the what but I know

we talked about this but what was it typhlosions in the files bro oh yeah typhlosions in the files

typhlosions in the files yeah there's a cave don't don't go there bad things bad things in the cave

um fuck it's uh yeah yeah I got that's I can't believe just how I started my fucking day this is

the first thing I fucking see um you excited to play Alex here you go pat is it his new move the

predator stance yes it is he learned it oh no sorry it's the no it's a polar stance

prouder prouder stance just the prouder stance bro i'm proud and where you prowling my own house

oh no please please he deserves so much better you know this was meant to be the new spotlight

Luke Alex Luke took the spotlight and Alex never got that shine i Alex deserves better but

we need to remember that Alex and storylines do not mix because Alex has maybe the worst storyline

ever in street five he has to take revenge because over over top winning a match against fair

against tom doesn't even die and he tells him you don't have to do this i'm fine actually and Alex is

like no i got to get revenge insane storyline totally weird uh and and gill is like you're a fine

specimen join my cult you know but oh i just i mean it's just yeah a torch pass you know i just

wanted a nice clean torch pass and um now we're doing fucking cleanest don't get any of that

fucking outside the family DNA on this torch just all in here now we're doing 23 in me

on fucking Alex man there's a song for this uh i posted it earlier which is like if they're

in your family tree you have got to let them be um and yeah it's don't do it it's not good

it's not good to do ancestry dot com is not a dating website

back hp bro get over here flash top flash chop to turn you around first

i just um hey man he's got a one-winged angel and um he's got a bunch of really cool extensions

on his command grabs and um ruffle logger thinks he's probably pretty good so that's cool

i could see that he's possible yeah it's not too late it's not too late it's not

he's doing some cool stuff for them okay well look how about i mean if it were i don't know what

bearing this has on the situation uh however i can say that um i opened up my percentage tracker

this week and i did some quick maps when i saw that an additional 5% of capcom had been acquired

by saudi arabia specifically the mis-foundation and really enough a different part of saudi arabia

yeah well because the mis-foundation is specifically among the mohammed bin salman

group and then the p-i-f is a public investment fund so there's different sources for where the money

comes from and um the uh there's different whatever organizations that ultimately do the investments

but what we're looking at is uh basically five percent on top of five percent so 10 percent now

right so yeah that's a 10 percent uh and we're talking um another however many billion because

i believe previously it was um somewhere i was i think it was or it might have been around seven

or eight billion or so but it's still like you know that is multiple SNKs in its entirety because

the SNK deal i believe was at six hundred million in cost so we are probably 10 to 12

SNKs deep worth of investment uh at this point for anyone who's playing the long at home um so that's

fun uh now here's the thing your your transition was legendary and uh that's like that's that's a

segue that that can't be beat uh much like Scott Steiner at sacrifice uh however i was going to go

with one i was originally going to go with the one piece of um somewhat yay a i use that happened

and it was simply that uh the supreme court declined a dispute over copyrights for a i generated

material you know what that is you know what the genesis of that precedent is um well so the

case that was uh specifically brought up by a computer scientist who was denied a copyright

for a visual uh a piece of visual art made with his a i system and so they declined to take up the

issue on whether it was generated uh whether uh generated a i generated art can be copyrighted

under us law uh what what did you so um back in the tens a uh monkey took a selfie of itself

a macaque monkey grabbed a uh a camera off some british guy and uh took some photos of itself

like legitimate like this is them this monkey made it and in the attempt to copyright it

the legal decision came down that um only human created works can file for copyright not monkeys

monkeys and birds okay dogs and cats are not eligible for copyright only human beings

uh oh that also applies to robots and so the um the supreme court declining to take up the issue

um why that's matters is because uh the pre the case in particular that was escalated through the

lower kates uh little records rather it got to a point where the um yeah the lower courts decided

that uh it's inel and anything that's not human created is ineligible for copyright protection

so that's so that's where the case remains and it also makes sense from the original

purpose of copyright which is defend uh the desire to create works in the public sphere um yeah

and and so uh uh to quote uh oh and Dennis on this actually which is a pretty good thing to

keep in mind with the precedent here is that now companies this is a huge win because companies

would never in their right minds pressure you to use AI if you get to say we can do that as long

as you don't want to own the stuff you make and anyone can use it for any reason without paying

you for it yeah they're not gonna like that there's a uh a problem in hey we made AI to make this

TV show oops every character in this TV show is now what do you what do you own domain what

likeness do you own yeah now that we popularize the use of AI you can use AI to take these

characters and make them do whatever the fuck you want especially things like copyright owners

but not like which and this is hilarious because we were just talking about uh not not long ago how

Disney was like against all of it and then I was like why are they against it because they're

investing in and buying into their own platform where you can generate AI Disney characters and

different AI scenarios or whatever right so like how does the how is this all going to apply

at large now of course I think um one individual like this is um you you have a case of precedent

here which which is great and can be relied on until it's not or until bigger larger more

fucking money from the mouse for example decides to step in and have something to say about it

at which point this win no longer is a win that's guaranteed anymore right but uh at the very

least in the meantime until that happens um this is pretty good for the basis of the idea that

you cannot copyright anything that you generate yeah legal legal uh uh uh legal obstacles for

these freaks is always nice um okay couple other things going on uh I guess there's the uh yeah

so we talked about what's going on with Alex and uh and Street Fighter um tech in on fire as we

mentioned you know um and just other fighting game stuff going on uh the uh token account yet

what's going on a couple hours ago or yesterday I didn't see this but Todd Howard did a special

little announcement going how excited Bethesda is to work with DLSS 5 going forward working on

Starfield and onwards and like that's what they're going to do for fucking elder scrolls so it

doesn't look like shit they're going to just AI Slop filter the whole fucking thing oh man that's

awesome oh fuck um uh re-releases where you just drop a filter on it and put it back out

yeah good uh good we're extending to me that dad asked to appreciate it and it's literally

again what old what old pixel re-releases were like 15 years ago you know did you see like the

the oblivion remastered characters have this thing applied to them they look fucking bad I didn't

because they have non-human fucking features features yeah yeah okay it's fucking terrible

um excuse me so uh the other things I was going on uh so yeah tech it is on fire uh but token

is actually listening to feedback and I don't know if you heard about any of the changes

I did they added a huge variety of changes a lot too many to get into so it's like everything that

you and me and everyone has complained about they're like it's either gone or been added I can

summarize really um they basically made it so that um you can use your assists in more free

stylish ways you're not locked into the same repetitive routes you can pick any version of

the assist to use it any in any way at any route um you can you're not stuck using air assists um

when you want them to come out on the ground you can only use them at a certain height um when you

mash jab you don't get the auto combo coming out when you whiff so now it's only when you confirm

it's a massive big deal um they added and and in terms of uh combos being sort of stagnant

they added a a style system effectively which rewards you with better scaling on combos that are

more stylish so you get more damage actually for being less repetitive and for doing more

unique setups and such um a lot of and and they also sped up the the the tagging system itself uh

they made it so that wall breaking doesn't happen anywhere near as often you don't get wall break

every time you do a super um and when you do get a wall break it leads like a hard knockdown which

means you can go get like a nice advantage situation so they basically are just listening to like

everything that everyone was complaining about with that which is great because thank god you know

this is a fucking cool-looking game and it would suck to have you know that feeling be there on an

arksis game no less mind you so um they went into a ton of it but like 10 10 big changes they basically

put out in this one video and uh yeah you can see you know you can see the the demo of what they're

going for and how and they're like legit going okay this wasn't it you know we're gonna we're gonna

make it so that the the building blocks of a good game are here but let's reinvent a bunch of

these systems from the ground up and so I hope that we get another chance to get hands on it to see

what it's like now you know it's very interesting to me and we'll see um see how it goes but one of

the thoughts that I had looking over this enormous list of like very fundamental changes was that

there is a sequence of events in here in which I should apologize to the 2xko developers um which

is one of the things the the devs of 2xko talked about is that a lot of the reason the game took so

long to come out was that it's their first fighting game that they've made and like the you would

they would do like a change and then they would do like exhaustive testing to see how that worked

and then I look over at our system works who've been making fighting games for a hundred years

um and they see the complaints and the people who've done it forever just go okay change this change

this change this add that add that add that what will you set it to set it to this this this this and

that from experience because they know because they made guilty gear and guilty gear and guilty gear

and blaze blue and blaze blue and blaze blue um yeah experience matters it matters it does matter

I was looking at the amount of changes that they were making and I was like I'm

fucking bedazzled and the level of they've turned it into a fairly different game

with changes and the thing is too as well as you know something is uh said like there is um

because token it's it's a mixture of like uh western and and of course arksis you know doing

most of the work on that we know that um yeah it does a lot of folks in Japan too a lot of the

players that are joining the devs and people that have been in that in the business of making

fighting games and designing combat etc for literally path their lives or at this point you know

and I mean like it's been forever um in North America but you have like fucking

less than three or two guys it's a very small amount you know um it's so yeah it does make a

difference um really happy with that very very cool to see and um you know the the fact that

like I can see them doing things like you don't want to make a change where you've deleted

the assets we made like wall breaking from the game entirely so how do we make it so that it's

actually more rare and doesn't affect the game as much the pacing doesn't get as fucked up.

I think there's ever going to be an arc system or exciting game that doesn't have a fucking wall

breaking it ever again. They love that shit. I wonder I mean I like dust combos turning into

these cool things where you land in a different stage of that shit looks dope as hell you know um

but the and and and again I think the idea to play with the wall is an interesting one

but I do love that you can live in a world where for everything that strives says which is okay

you got the corner here's a big reward now the person who's in the corner gets to keep playing

you can have a street fighter that says die in the corner bitch sit and die in this corner

do you know both can exist and should do you want to know something about me that just happened

that has shown me up to be the biggest fucking scrub shit bitch ever mm-hmm I was recently

watching a Rufelmonger video about fucked up overheads in history overheads that are just

fucking lies it's like KOF shit in there that it's like it's a low kick and you're like what the

fuck that's an overhead mm-hmm and one of the examples he uses it's a great video you should

check it out is testaments dust in guilty gear XX where the fucking red hands come out of the

fucking ground yeah yeah and see I played a lot of testament when I first started playing guilty

gear and this led to the thought in my mind going dusts are overheads it's just a lie and like

it's just a lie but like every guilty gear match I've ever played the flashing in my fucking eyes

at fast for like dusts are overheads every time the yellow flash went off that was meant to be a

moment to stand up every dust oh my god okay yeah that's the that's a basic universal overhead

that everyone has never says this is an overhead or this and I just never oh my god because I

always like why does this launch or take so long to come out I can never hit them I believe the

command list does say it no I but you need to go to a part of the game that is forbidden in order

to discover that play Potemkin you don't need overhead I will die before I enter the lab he says

yeah there's a couple blind spots I'll be honest yeah no that's okay and you know what you

take those and you accept them to to follow through on this philosophy it's it's you know that's

what I know I can I can I can get to the top of the mountain without fucking doing training modes

I'll I yeah yeah I'm a dumb guy yeah well we all know this Street Fighter 6 doesn't start until

you reach high master the goalposts excuse me while I grab these goalposts and go on my way

the real game doesn't begin until at least at least 1900 MR great video by say jam but how ranked

isn't real talking about the mental headspace and how fucked up you get and then Pat the flip

put out a great article counter to the to the discussion about he basically runs down how he gets

frustrated that fighting game products design gourmet fighting game food but he's forced to turn

into dog food and the dog food is ranked and how bad ranked is for for fucking like everything to

do but it's absolutely mandatory because people just want to hop on and hit matches and I originally

like kind of disagreed with that a little bit because I'm like I just want ranked just want

ranked right now I don't want to practice and then I went to 2xco and I played some player matches

and I actually had a better time than I usually do playing ranked and I was like maybe there's

something here and then I remembered wait a second the reason I'm having a better time in player

matches because I'm winning more and then I realized that I am there you guys in that article

hey man yes no I have more fun in a fighting game when I fucking win more and whatever mode is

going to give you that is going to feel good and leave a good memory and then that'll be the end

of it hey guess what there are a lot of great ways to enjoy this dish and a good a good place should

offer up many so that you can enjoy this game online ranked offline casual whatever you need a

lot of different weight single you know it's a great it's a great thing you can enjoy in many

different ways I actually some fantastic tweet about this earlier today which was me lose it well

let me see if I can find the person but it was me losing a set in person was zero to 30 oh you

know what good game I guess I guess I have a lot to learn me losing a single match in ranked oh

I didn't know they let illiterate pedophiles play this game yeah that dude like the last month has

been be basically saying different versions of exactly that it's like insane it's my whole thing

my whole thing with the with local couch playing a fighting games being so much better than anything

and that energy not being captured by the version that people get into nowadays is that feeling

is fucking lost immediately and one match online where you lose and you want to fucking burn your

house down it sucks it sucks there's there's we need to make sure that feeling can be captured man

it's a such an important part of why we love the thing um but anyway like uh uh uh I've already

solved this I believe crushing force was presented as the answer to all our problems here I need to

stop being cowards about it um anyway um only other things though is gonna uh touch on there so um

I mean there was a bit of a fun one seconds before we went live uh so Jeff Kaplan exited blizzard

and uh uh a lot of interesting fucking things to say one um announced his new game legend of

California uh two talked about um the biggest fuck you moment of his career which was walking into

uh a meeting at blizzard and basically hearing the exact you know the thing we say every single

week and I'm a strong man that we've created out of our perception of CEOs and rich people

and it's an unrealistic depiction of a non-human evil entity we're closer than you'd think

what ultimately broke me in my blizzard career was when I got called into the cfo's office

and he sits me down and he says he gives me a date at the time which is 2020 and we're

is going to slip into 2021 and he says Overwatch has to make this amount of money by 2020 and in

every year uh then needs a recurring revenue of this amount and then he says to me if we don't do

this amount we're gonna lay off a thousand people and that's gonna be on you and that was the

biggest fuck you moment I've ever had in my career it felt surreal to be in that condition

as someone who's worked on a lot of games made a lot of games you get in these meetings where they're

going Fortnite has 1400 people working on it so if we hire 1400 people and make it free to play

we'll make that money right I've heard that version of almost every from almost everyone I've

ever spoken to in the industry including you who I think heard it in person we have made this quote

like we have said quotes exactly like this on this show constantly here like some financial nerd

literally say that out loud I need more specifics on the particular one you might be Tomb Raider

shit with the multiplayer maybe not that project I mean but there are there's been so much over the

years of just the simple basics of yeah these guys are doing this they've got this all going on

on the project can't we just emulate that and in many cases it's the investors going why don't you

just copy what the competition's doing right it's investors in a lot of cases going you guys what

are you gonna start doing what these guys are doing over here clearly it works for them right it

doesn't matter who's doing anything or what they're doing or who you hired shot gang 86 in the chat

reminds us of the perfect engineers conundrum which is the phrase nine pregnant women can make a

baby in one month like that's how these people fucking think so it's just yeah it like

you're talking and I mean I don't know what the fucking the through line the plot line of this

fucking podcast it feels like over years now has been that the people making these decisions the

brain rot that comes from the greed that makes no fucking sense every time you get someone like this

who's in a position that can come and describe it behind the scenes or whatever you're only gonna find

out 10 years later six years later about these insane decisions but they're as bad if not worse

then you imagine them to be no matter how hyperbolic you get it always appears to be it's like

even worse than that you know and there's a a business man's sociopathy like

side to it's gone on in in in fucking society where oh dude hold on let me get there where

you that rich people are portrayed as heartless logical automaton and they go I don't care what we

have to do the lines gotta go up and they're looking at spreadsheets and they're figuring out costs

and they're doing all this shit and like they don't live in the real world but the rest of us

they're only looking at a spreadsheet and what most people have to realize is they're not looking

at the spreadsheet at all they're just going off of vibes it's based off of nothing

so we sit talking about video games almost in an insular way where you kind of sometimes think it's

its own separate space separate from the rest of what's happening in the market quote unquote

the same you know remember remember the same shot calls all the time broke wrong all the time we

have some hits you remember the same dudes who were giving out subcribe subprime mortgages that faced

zero consequences except for that one yeah right you remember remember those people from rich people

okay remember how mother fuckers were suing united health care for not denying enough claims

I do remember that right in the wake of like like literally it was you're not denying enough

claims from people right remember how in the fucking Epstein files he sent Peter teal an email

that was saying zero percent interest rates are too high do you remember that I didn't know that

I don't even know what that means Epstein says to Peter teal in the emails paying them if they

were to be given zero percent interest rates that's too high I can use what you should be paying us

to exist and to make money wow yeah interest should be reversed right do you remember these people

remember this thought these are the same people making decisions in the industry they're the same

people sitting in these suites making every one of these video game fucking decisions dude

why the fuck for a second would you think they weren't you know what the funnest thing about

Kaplan's quote from the CFO is hmm he goes out of his way to not name this person but says it's

the CFO of blizzard in 2020 and then goes thankfully they're no longer there and it's this very

strange thing of like I just don't want to say their name I'll just include the position

super weird also I'll give I'll give Jeff Kaplan some up some upies because they announced

Legend of California and then he's streamed it for 10 hours oh wow okay and it's super early

it's super early and I'm like that's pretty fucking ballsy okay um and then the second thing he said

was uh if you're complaining about games that you don't play shut up shut the fuck up no one cares

it's it's interesting that it took this long to hear that from not Nintendo do you remember

super paper Mario in which do you go on more message boards online and complain about games you

don't play oh fuck I mean now listen uh we are currently speaking into microphones recorded

on the castle super beast podcast that's true we are it's that is true I have I have all at times

complained about games I haven't played on this podcast an opinion may have been shared about a

game that you do have not played it's possible perhaps more than once I would never I would never

slander you to hold you to that but I think it might be possible I think it's a likely reality

um what I will say is uh is that I definitely I mean you've described you I believe you said

you're like woolly the thing is is that you're not a natural born hater and you're not you're not

a natural born hater and and but there's there's times where you're like oh that oh that heroin you

know oh that's a little tingle in my arm that's oh hey how about that right but realistically I

know that um shit that means nothing to me uh I don't I'm not hating on shit that means nothing

to me because I'm not even bringing it up right most of the time I feel like when opinions are had

it's often for something where I care about the thing if it's a studio that I buy games from

and they're going downhill or if it's a horrible trend in an industry that I care about that I spend

money in I'm going to have opinions on that thing right and I think that like there's

you know I'm sure he's talking about like he's announcing his new game and the specifics of

you you're working on overwatch it's the it's the fucking dead center middle of of the bullseye

but um I think that the the opinions you can have about the things you do care about are extraordinarily

valid and if you are somebody who knows and or cares about that thing and therefore

represents the consumer base that they're probably trying to appeal to uh what you're saying about

that thing is extraordinarily valid and underlined and makes a ton of sense you know um so

if you're if you're talking about it and it's like completely out of your

range wheelhouse and interest that's a separate thing from something that is within your

wheelhouse of interest and maybe you have and you and you if you have not played it or so are

you're talking about it it's coming from a place of I care about what this overall throughline is

be it a trend or a studio or whatever the case does that make sense um okay so you know um

I think I think that that's an important distinction that is not maybe what um he was getting

at in that quote but I read it and I was like okay true asterisk no what he's what he's talking

about is what I look at a fucking right a reasonable nine video and tick tock and I click comments

because I want to see what people thought about it and the top comment is red dead redemption

too is more realistic sure okay sure he's talking about he is full on full on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

and and there is there is nothing in life I mean I mean admittedly I just like I can't think of

times where maybe having a having a microphone in front of me puts gets my opinion out there often

enough that I just I just don't leave comments really anywhere out things that I'm going through

or medium watching oh that's my boss I was talking to my chat about that for a really long period

and I was talking about the self selection process of personalities that leave comments

but like what I'm getting at here is if I feel like in difference towards something

like you couldn't pay me to drop a comment on that because it's it I mean pick the wrong idiom

sure I'm just saying that like it's so nothing to me I don't engage I don't engage I barely I

barely engage with things that are relevant to me at times you know so that's it that's that's

where I'm not on it is that like you can be very very much somebody who is not playing the thing

but care a lot about what thing is pointing at worth thing represents what thing is worth

things going et cetera et cetera hmm anyways um beyond that uh there was a trailer for the

Sekiro anime sure um saw some screenshots initially and it had a very bright style that was like

does I was uh confused by but seeing it in motion it looks fantastic I think it looks cool I like

I like what it looks like in motion the screenshots were not conveying it as well but like

what what they're going for is not dark it's just it's it's a bright kind of um

not past Ellie but there's a quality to it that is uh very unique uh I would say and it also

feels like just watching the characters and trailer and everything going on I'm like oh I

pop this right on after watching Ninja Scroll back in the days of kid like it feels like

the kind of story that'll lend itself strongly to um just yeah uh a a you know a a tight short

uh um story with some you know some cool fights and there's enough dialogue in it compared to

um there's enough there's enough guiding uh of the plot compared to the average from soft story

that they have more beats to go off of right so yeah I'm super interested to see how they're

going to do an anime based off of a game in which the main character doesn't talk and nothing

happens I mean like it's it's it's very it's very weird uh but pick there's I mean uh the other

there's the kid and the the the the owl and there's a bunch of other characters that are going to

do all the talking you know but he's around there and and he had the conversations I can't he's not

a silent protagonist no he does talk he does talk but the game has more of a linear story than

the other from soft games do for sure but the there's enough it's there's enough to go off of

that I think this anime can work and make an anime out of the fucking Elgin Ring manga

full gags and all full yeah absolutely hell yeah expensive expensive gag anime

um yeah no um there's there's you hear him in the trailer you know going back and forth and stuff

so looks cool um and then in other adaptations uh there's some extended cast info about the mario

galaxy movie including Louise Guzman as wart uh he's array as honey queen and Yoshi is Donald

Glover is Yoshi going to do a rap will I mean yeah listen much like knuckles Yoshi now has the pass

so who knows he might sing he might start acting he might Yoshi might start doing stand-up comedy

yeah he's he's multifaceted stay woke Yoshi's creeping Shaka has gonna find you

get you sleeping have you uh do you have the craft and shit on the docket so if you remember

the craften uh so craften uh had their kerfuffle with subnautica where they thought that subnautica

two was going to one one one hundred ninety one million sales whatever but they owed them two

hundred fifty million for the bonus so how do I get out of paying this two hundred fifty million

bonus cuz that it'll make me look like a bitch ass pushover so they've been going at it in court

oh man the judge was like hey you have to rehire the CEO that you fire the guy you fired we can

actually see when you like decided to fire him to fuck up this deal and then started going back

through employee information to try and find something to fire him with and then you found it

and then you fired him for some bullshit but like we can see the timeline of events that's a no-no

well that to do surely this will lead to a very awkward stand-up meeting

the the the the the crux of it is that subnautica two's devs whose names I can't remember are like

you know the game's good to go it's good to go which the unknown world's and is like no it's

not good to go that's why we had to delay it and the bonus and all this shit and all this nonsense

back and forth like the game exists in an early access state right now but has yet to hit because

the stupid fucking lawsuit and even then they have to hit certain sales targets to get the bonus

so the whole reason the guys afraid is he's afraid they're gonna hit the targets to get the bonus

but not make anything more than that mm-hmm so fucking stupid you must rehire someone is kind of

fucking crazy work though crazy because like now you work under hostile terms yeah like what what

is that working professional relationship looks like you know how about this are you still

or someone while you're actively suing each other still you know are you writing emails

going can you can we double back on that thanks you know like the court says you must get back

together with your ex girlfriend absolutely mandatory oh man you must find a better reason

for breaking up or else and you know I mean nine times like in most cases you imagine someone

wants to work somewhere that's enjoyable and professionally fulfilling and hopefully you know like

the vibes are good enough that you can see a future you know that you you you built you know or

you look to go elsewhere so but like a fucking gunpoint I'm taking my job back and now we have to

I don't know I've just how long would you can you stay there and what how far can you push it

you know I don't know that's crazy some malicious compliance incoming oh well I need to take a

break I just realized this guy is two hours late for his food I'm sorry buddy I'm so sorry

all right uh oh I don't have any video from you by the way what the okay uh you're just a

well we are well we're live um what is happening okay that that was me can you still not see me

no I can see you huh uh what about now no all right hold on just your own logo

oh boy okay um did it how about there you are I found you great wonderful

two buzzer beaters oh fuck are you serious in literally as you're on break uh two things here one

um apparently there's a firefly animated series and the return the the the cast is coming back

it's called uh it's called fucking elastar well that happened first in the timeline actually

so technically elastar is the beginning and then came part two um interesting I'm I'm curious

to see what's up with that man this took way to the fuck long this fucking woo um I I liked

firefly when I watched it I and I enjoyed uh you know the movie and stuff and a lot of time

and life has happened since back then things have happened since then um but uh yeah joss

Sweden's not involved as well um apparently people didn't enjoy work and with them oh is he busy

um I don't think he is I just oh okay it sounds like pd treated people kind of shitty and they

don't want to work with him anymore so get at what but uh yeah I'm you know it's been a while

and I'm curious to see from buffy the vampire slayer the finance here yeah what um and this joke is

good every time it's awesome I love it uh uh that said um I I liked firefly and and I'm like oh

shit more is that that let's see what the what what's going on there animated is a format I

wouldn't have expected um I would because they want to keep it going right after but everybody's

old now every it's been a while it's been a while um but yeah cool let's see what's up man um

I I'm seeing some it doesn't hold up well and I'm like I don't I haven't revisited I don't know

but I there's like a couple parts of it that just hold up like dog turn I've got positive memories

in the brain and I'm I'm curious to see how this is going to work and if it if it follows through

on you know yeah I mean hey if um if it doesn't hold up well like maybe this new thing can you know

like I don't I don't know but uh yeah cool and I guess the other thing in terms of uh shit that

ain't coming back um so D slugs is a fucking awesome artist really fucking amazing dude that's

done a bunch of cool shit for fighting game art and everything I kind of marked out when I saw

um at uh at a convention and uh he's also the person who has been literally all the art on the

back of my laptop like it's all just this is all these slugs all of it amazing so he makes um

amazing fucking cool shit he was working on a alien versus predator uh game beat him up game

pitch that was apparently going for some time and uh it never got green lit however uh the art

from it is fucking dope as hell um here's a thread and you go check it out and it's kind of like

okay his style applied to the old beat him up idea and they don't have the capcom license

necessarily but what you can see of this character select screen is old man dutch

narrow from prey and we can't get Lin Kurosawa so how about Ripley just Ripley right there

and then the three pro and then the three playable predators as well of different styles and

oh god damn it we don't live in a world where this is getting made but fuck me man and like his

style in particular is perfect for capturing kind of the old arcade game art style as well

he still wants it to happen and if anyone can fucking do it I mean again his his art's incredible

but uh the the that trio of playable characters like dutch narrow and and Ripley is

come on man even if it's just an arcade game random thing to happen like the predator license

and the alien license has gone out to dumber shit you know please guys please every time I feel like

one of these posts goes up it's almost like a flare for like fat attention to be like hey maybe

we can pressure it into happening through everyone marking the fuck out you know what you can

also pressure everybody happening mm-hmm you know what screams confidence when we put something

out and everyone's like this sucks and then you come out the next day going no you guys are wrong

about how it sucks I have some quotes from jensen Huang about TLSS 5 from a couple hours ago oh my

god it we are treated the poochie maiden heaven cast just continues okay as we're live going okay

what's going on also who is that jensen Huang is the CEO of Nvidia okay the man with the leather

jacket gotcha what did he say well first of all gamers are completely wrong these are slightly

paraphrase quotes for clarity uh Huang said in response to a question from Tom's hardware editor

chief the reason for that is because as I have explained very carefully dlss five uses control

ability of the geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI

he oh the bellvers can still fine tune the gen AI oh style the thing they said it wasn't as it

actually is hold on this is where he gets offended it's not post processing okay filter it's not

post processing at the frame level it's generative control at the geometry level

also said the developers can try the tool and see if they want to use it suggesting it's up to a

developer to make a tune shader or see if the game should be made of glass quote all of that is

in the control direct control of the game developer this is very different than gen AI

it's content control gen AI that's why we call neural rendering see it's not the thing it's

the thing I said before in earlier in the same interview where I said that it was it's not that

it's that with the new word uh hi there uh woolly castle super piece of podcast

yeah actually how are you are you full of shit yes oh okay cool just checking thank you

gamers completely wrong um customers you're all wrong it's actually awesome well I'll tell you what

it is awesome because I am looking forward to playing cult of the lamb with this new dlss filter

eye and I don't know if you've seen what cult of the lamb looks like with the filter on but don't

put it in the newspaper that I got mad okay can you know oh oh you put it in the newspaper

though mad I'm not mad though you know the funny part is that like path b is n video can just

completely give up on doing anything video game related and just like fuck out of your way

they can just take the money and fuck off like it's the bubble will eventually burst and when it does

they need to have a business that still exists mmm but you see if you like video again business now

is kunami's non-pachinko divisions that right right right but but but this bag I'm currently holding it

what do you suggest I do with it I just it's so heavy my arms are getting tight I genuinely my arms

are getting tired hold on back even imagine CEO of the most valuable company in the world going

on an interview a day later going no it's everybody's wrong it's great like

to be fair you got me you got me you're right to be fair I feel like most of the

flack that Nvidia has gotten has been post market shit and not directly at them over the years

right it has been in the distribution and the fucking scalping process and the insanity of the

prices and the fucking again the the market going towards you know I don't get it has never been

this direct and lightning targeted specifically on a feature that represents everything we fucking

hate right now in this moment it is the most zeitgeist lightning feature you could have dropped

that everyone hates but you're glazing it up to be a prediction for this is where games are going

inevitably you know I don't get about this arguing about this is how it works this no it's this

is like in a month or two maybe longer people are gonna start working with this at the technical level

it places that aren't in video and someone even like a like a glaze post is gonna describe how it

actually fucking works and it'll not it's be a fucking filter like yeah no I'm like well just going

off of the comment they dropped in the video earlier it's probably gonna be like there's gonna be

an artist on a team that's gonna be like okay so it can we take the feature and make it not apply

to the faces but have it apply to other stuff and then they're gonna get into a fight with this with

the you know the higher ups that are gonna be like no this feature needs to run this way and it's

like okay so can we just run it on everything below the neck or you know you're gonna get into

these weird like what will be okay and what will not be okay to apply it to and how that's gonna

look or or or you just go the skyrim wrote wrote of what you're talking about and just be like do

whatever you want we don't care it's all getting dropped on on top of it anyways his language

consistent because he says that it's up to developers to try and make something like a tune shader

it's like you mean like a fucking filter because it's a fucking filter I don't want like

remember well you remember when we used to go in and have remember the discussions about how

like amazing the artwork in Castlevania was that Kojima would do the other Kojima and how I found

out relatively recently that they're actually all big paintings their glorious paintings one of

the best wall scrolls I ever got was from the PS2 game super nice they're amazing and how much

the translation into 3d it's like ah they didn't capture the same energy of that but how could

you it's an amazing painting and did it like we're so far beyond the pale at this point of like

how much of that model captures the original concept art and we're just full on like fuck the

concept art and artists and everyone at all entirely your protagonist can be a blank face

fucking low poly insert and you can just run this over it and to say in to to be to claim that

hey no it's not Jenna it's not Jenna it's not a filter etc and then come out and clarify this

after the fact I'm like you're this is getting forced you're not going to have the ability to

like it doesn't matter that you can that they're saying developers are going to have the option to

do or to be used this as much as they want to or whatever the case is because we know that people

making decisions are going to force them to use it and it's going to be part of the product and

it's going to be a sticker on the back of the box and it's going to be included with each I

charge where is I think major bullet point list I think shit that's going to be the

masters are going to be the poster child for this new tech because I think Bethesda games would

actually benefit massively from it because their characters always look like shit now here's the

real question of course is when this gets running and beyond the echo chamber whatever the

the insulate whatever the when when you take the part where we're here we think this sucks a lot

of people that we talk to thinks it sucks most of our audience thinks that shit sucks you go online

I'm seeing Suzy go and what the fuck I'm seeing Max go and what the fuck I'm seeing just about

everybody that is the content creator space and and people that are paying attention to the

industry in general that give a shit about the art of whatever the thing is are like this is

auction right okay so where does that fade out how quickly will that fade off into yeah we

don't care right ball and gun whatever etc and how and will the money will the profitability line

like elaps you know like when the sand runs out and you start hitting water you know what I mean

does the money so you jump to the horse changing midstream on the river

which is no consoles gonna run this shit

won't run it it's too intensive requires 240 50 90s let's say they cut they cut that

fucking computational need and half requires 150 90 but that's on top of path tracing which

you know console to like this shit this shit is pie in the sky nonsense

for insane PC people and insane PC people are fucking crazy about their hardware

and and what like they don't even like a fucking frame generation because it's not real frames

but what I mentioned earlier is it's not about the ability to have an actual NVIDIA 50 90

running this shit I think it also is emblematic of this is what Microsoft is going to try to emulate

this is now streaming ship yes this is now what you're going to see as a

before we like because because since you and I had about stadia are the same it is it doesn't change

it doesn't change nothing changes right but but I just mean to say that like with this reveal intent

has been placed on the board and anyone that is trying to again compete to keep up with this bubble

to keep it to keep inflating it etc are gonna go we have to lean our games our products our hardware

into this or emulating this tech and if you're not actually doing DLSS 5 but you can do a simple

stupid porn AI filter on your shit and pitch that instead as a more affordable way to go I don't

think it's going to it's going to hit because it has to be adopted and has to work on hardware

the people have like this field this whole thing feels like shareholder slop and someone just said

GTA 6 with this shit oh GTA 6 is only and the the the the people over at rock star actually did

an interview today talking about if GTA 6 and which they are very anti AI if any part of them

leans towards any of this that's a tectonic plate fucking shifting on the ground underneath us

no question that is the market right there mother fuckers are diving off the bridge to do everything

they can hoping that GTA 6 sets all the trends you know I have to say I am actually kind of glad

that we've we've moved from a world in which everyone's like we have to be just like GTA 6 to a

world in which it's we have to get away from you need to get away get the fuck away from it genuinely

a much smarter way and it's funny because like we see everybody trying to copy everybody everywhere

except for Grand Theft Auto everyone's like fuck it no they have that get away from it yeah

no I just every single one of these stories every time we talk about something like this one of

these subjects um yeah I I need to just go okay what about people who are not online what what

about people who are like like like at what point does um the integrity argument slash any of the

shit we're saying eventually hit a uh you can lie and make and get money about what about guys who

don't know shit ball and gun gamers right right and and what you're describing is a technical

argument for why it won't even get to that ball and gun gamers by their ball and gun game every year

and none of no discussion matters at all because that's the game that they buy to play their ball

and or gun game uh whereas and that represents an enormous proportion of yearly sales

but those ball and gun games are already picked like Fortnite adding AI or removing AI or

whatever the fuck doesn't matter because it's Fortnite and it's the Fortnite it's the fucking game now

that's it yeah yeah no no and and as we just established with Overwatch like the expectation uh

that you of the profitability you're hitting it's like you need to you need to hit this every year

we know we expect ball and gun money to be this high and we how do we get to this

and it's like gatch is doing well you know what gatch is super vulnerable to this nonsense

but they're they'll do anything uh and then you have like the growth the the fucking

the trends are for games like fucking eugenics and play the spire which do crazy fucking numbers

and look like a fucking toddler sure them it doesn't matter because they're fucking cheap

yeah that unit like i was talking to phage about this we're going somewhere and i was just like

it's so fucking frustrating almost every discussion we have about video games to some degree

is always ignoring the elephant in the room which is they're too fucking expensive

i mean i'm watching i'm watching like a guy who in the restaurant business talking about how

the restaurant industries in trouble you want to fucking hazard a guess why the registered

restaurant industries in trouble because it's not fucking cheap enough because foods too expensive

like tap the fucking so stupid the whole fucking thing is so stupid tap the sign tap the sign

shorter games horse graphics etc hey hey you know what we're gonna fucking a i slot filter your

shit all over the place the game's gonna cost half as much that's an argument to be made but

no instead it's we're gonna a i slot filter this shit all over the place by the way we've made

pc parts cost 600 percent more because fuck you oh no the the energy the the energy is being

displaced from the yeah the people the cost etc the man hours into the fucking render farm yeah you

want to fucking feed me slop okay i'll pay slop prices oh no i'm paying fucking top shelf or

fuck you anyways shout out to atlas for raising salaries and reducing fixed over time

nice based on crunch shit going on that's very cool fucking quote but from awada is so perfect all the time

where he's like you know if profits are down you might be tempted to cut staff but i don't think

people who are afraid of being laid off will have the energy and like inspiration to make you know

world-class software yeah people who are people who are doing just enough to not get fired don't do

great work what about employees who are reinstated at gunpoint dude this makes me so interested in

some not a good too man all right even though that game makes me vomit oh the movement

so no subnautica one was a game i played on a on a goof and i had such an intense panic attack that

it's why i came up with the mind goblin series do you have a philosophy a little but it was also

the infinite expanse of like non-linear resources okay that i was like but what do i do no what do

i do next no but what would do what do like it was very intense what if your decision is wrong

yeah yeah you could do anything oh i'm gonna vomit emails hey if you want to send in an email

send it to castle super beast mail gmail dot com that's castle super beast mail at gmail dot com

do your sigma woolly and epsilon pat i write to you a question because i'm not sure whether it's right

or what the responses at my work one of the men's bathroom stalls is fucked up the doors misaligned

and in order to proper properly lock it you got to lift the door a bit customers don't know that

so anytime i'm on a bathroom break a customer will always pick that stall instead of giving up

after a few tries i hear banging and slamming like they're trying to fight the thing do i tell them

about how the door works despite their rage or do i just wait and see how it plays out because nine

took nine times out of ten they'll wrestle with the door for a minute and then either give up

or just hold the door closed and what point would you just admit defeat and try another stall

oh i okay so there's two questions here one is should i help them now fuck them

no this is really funny um this is insane this is so insane i don't go ahead

too if i'm gonna shit in a public restroom it's where we're past the point of dignity i'll just

if the door doesn't close i'll just shit open like okay i need to take a dump in a public restroom

it's over for me okay i mean you've got your own criteria but i think it's it's called a piece of

fucking paper with words on it no just put a sign on the door holy shit you know this is not

a difficult thing that woolly you have just outed yourself as having never worked in a store

do you think customers read sign oh no i get that part but if you're at the point of

fighting with the door at that point no no okay well never woolly i like i i understand your

desire to roll your eyes and think this is never i have never in my life seen a customer redesign

okay even if it would prevent their injury well i mean i get if it's if if actually calling

someone into fix the door is completely out of the question and like no leave them in their

trapped if the world will end before we fix that door no no enjoy their struggle okay i i i say put

a fucking thing on the on the on the door to the bathroom or the door to the stall whatever pick one

i mean shit i've seen well like you're talking so once a customer enters a store they turn into

the customer right you're talking about people who would walk into the back of the store

while you're taking a shit in the break room bathroom and start banging on the door and trying

to open it oh yeah when you open it yeah they're shocked and embarrassed yeah that there was someone

in there yeah no again i've seen i've seen signs in in situ i've seen the like i've walked into a bath

bathroom is the signs that were like hey don't don't squat on top the toilet and use it or whatever

and things like i i know that there is a large vast you are not going to communicate anything to

anybody by doing this but i imagine there is a trimming off of the of the numbers for the few that

do right there might be zero customers will read the sign i can't even i can't even get across to

you how it's like actually no literally no it's not a single soul yeah it defies me i remember

mopping a floor and setting up three so it was like a little intersection three signs yellow paint

like walk around the sign to get in like five people fell to put yellow paint on the bathroom door

could be mopping a floor and they would have to walk around you and fall on the floor that you're

actively mopping that they had to go around you it's it's unbelievable it's unbelievable

um and i will say that again the more you've got to go the more sure decision making slash

you know you see a sign that says bathrooms closed and then you hate it because you're like i

maybe it's not you know or whatever the case but um i don't think anything tops like

in in in a a standard public bathroom somebody trying the door after you say hey i'm in here

and they continue to try the door yeah yeah and like their their their their brain isn't the

front part of their brain isn't activating it's all gorilla it's it's it's it's so bad guy

trying to get into the fucking toilet i mean i can imagine it being like at like at normal

such circumstances it's already brutal and then you're adding like bathroom or urge go

you know to the to the situation so um okay and bad guy wants to sit on your lap and

shit between your legs think about toilet think about wife

toilet fight back toilet dead miss toilet

um and let's take one over here um from not the emperor's finest says uh deer shaken bake

you know a few weeks ago uh co-worker lost her mom at my office everyone wrote a card and their

condolences and passed it through each station uh reaching me in the middle of my workflow

i'm already a poor writer when it comes to random birthday cards let alone having words of

comfort for those undergoing heavy turmoil to add to this i listen to audiobooks usually warhammer

related as i work to keep me focused with these factors in play i decided to trust my gut and

let my heart do the talking it wrote the emperor protects you fucking what are your fumbles that

keep you up at night when you i don't mean to cast too broad a kept paint with too broad a brush

but when you when you started this email from not the emperor's finest and then they described

a scenario at work i'm going to be like this mother fucking war hammer dork is going to do weird

shit i just fucking know it so i just know it ps the lady uh doesn't speak english and doesn't

care much what was written it was the rest of my team that got mad at me okay well dodged half

up all it there

i that's a red check right there that that's a red oh that is a disco

that is a click and fame like yeah like there's a version of this where it's like maybe if you

and the person had some sort of warhammer rapport and even then it would not be appropriate but it

would be it wouldn't be a one on the d20 right i'm sorry my brain is failing me what was the

turmoil this person was going through what um no they said that they are not good at having

words of comfort for people go under going turmoil yeah so what's what's the what's the

uh a parent died the the mother her mother died

the emperor protects sidebar shit is written happy birthday smiley face the

sidebar not fully caught up on my warhammer lore um

that's like indoctrination speak that's meant to be taken ironically right

because the emperor of mankind does not actually protecting shit no the emperor mankind is

actively protecting shit constantly oh really oh okay so yeah no he's he's his ghost is doing

all sorts of crazy psychic shit all the time is a force for good that would be uh that's that

part that's that's that's sorry that's what i'm kind of i never heard anyone describing the

emperor of mankind as a force for good because i didn't think there was a force for good anywhere

in this world so the idea okay so i guess what i'm saying is like evoking this idea in this context

is this even contextually correct given that the emperor is not somebody or that force is not

devil protect you kind of like thing it's weird it's it's not it's not good to say it is a force

and it protects a particular faction here yeah it's this but is that the right sentiment to go for

from this setting it's not even good in that that's that's what i'm that's what i'm trying to say

right it's not saying it's not the same as may the force be with you yeah yeah no it's not it's

it's shit it's it's bad it's bad in its own context it's it's is it not more akin to hurrah

i'm doing my part i don't i don't i don't know it's like it's like make king charles bless you

like yeah okay you know do you want it no it's zigzion yeah yeah okay got it because i just i'm just

it's it's like let's look past the you know just take that energy hold on to it and and and compress it

but i'm like even within the context of quoting warhammer is this not the wrong energy to be

using in this moment you know damn that's rough buddy which would have been a better quote to drop

if the person was maybe into avatar that you could write on the condolences card if you could have

you could have gone for a that's rough buddy um uh yeah no this uh this if there's a there's a botch

all the way around it's not good and that's the energy i like to end a podcast on

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