Episode 123: No Man's Sky - Smokin Symbiotes

[00:00:15] I'm having insane deja vu right now. We've been here before. You actually had done this in an alternate universe. No, I remember looking at Kai and hearing you say La Crosse and going... I mean, well, you'll be honest. It's not that out of character.

[00:00:32] That's what might have happened before. We got like five jokes and that's all we got. Okay, yeah, maybe I have been here before. I have been playing Mortal Kombat 1. Deja Vu is fucking weird. Also, the fact that we don't know what it is also breaks my brain.

[00:00:49] It's the matrix, you know, putting brick walls behind your doors and stuff or whatever the fuck happened to the matrix. Like deja vu. Oh, like what is like we don't know what it is. It happens and we all understand what it is when you say deja vu,

[00:01:02] but we don't know what it is. No, I think it's like it's like tinnitus of the brain. It's like a ringing that you like you think you hear, but it's actually happening. It's like a thought memory that you're like,

[00:01:12] oh, there should be a memory there, but there actually isn't a memory there. And you just like fill it in with whatever memory is happening like currently and you're like, oh, I've done this before. Yeah, I wouldn't go with tinnitus. That's the thing I get.

[00:01:25] I would go with like it's the feeling of when you have a smell and the smell like instantly triggers a memory that you're like, yeah, yeah. Something in the moment triggers a memory that's so strong that it's eating your game.

[00:01:37] But like there's a nonzero chance this is all simulation and that you're just like, you know, you having a 100 fucking percent. I would not be surprised if someone walked out when we're like, we're in a simulation and be like, yep, I knew it.

[00:01:49] Yeah, I've seen quibble cop AI. We need to keep we need to get started before we have time here. That's right. Hello and welcome to Gaming Together, a quality podcast. I'm your host, Philip, and I'm here with my co-partner, Naive. Each pod we play through a quality experience

[00:02:04] then relate to you, the listener of this game is a criminal, a criminal and a cop or something better off playing solo. Hey, Naive. I drank three monsters today and I am about to vibrate out of existence. I see that right now. That's committee.

[00:02:16] Let's get our guests in here, Naive. So we are greeted by two thirds of the play long team, Jared and Kai. Welcome to the pod boys. The good, the good half are the good thirds. It's good. Half. We can we love you. Math is hard.

[00:02:30] One half of me and all of you is the good half of our podcast. A hundred percent of the American side. That's true. That's actually worse, better. That works better. So on Yall Show, you do a book club style play along of video games.

[00:02:44] But more specifically, I wanted to give you kudos because I was talking to my wife about you guys earlier today. Specifically, she used the phrase get wrecked. And I still think about how fucking clever you guys are. All kinds of guys brainchild.

[00:02:59] That's Kai's brainchild right there, the get wrecked. The only thing I've ever contributed to a podcast is the titles of things. Never have edited an episode, barely show up on time. But titles, that's what I got. I know one. You are the me of play along.

[00:03:16] Because I also contribute very little to our show. There's something wrong with me in titles where I just can't title anything. Yeah. The name of our show is Gaming Together a Cooperative Podcast, which is the most. It's very straightforward. You would do the point.

[00:03:29] People know what you're doing. Dude, but that's the thing. I came up with like 15 clever names and we went through the ringer with our loved to hear the other ones. They were too complicated. That was the main problem is that there were a lot of funny,

[00:03:42] punny play on words and stuff, but they were very easily misspelled. So I was like, OK, we'll just do this one. This is the one I got voted. So I'm like, I guess. Yeah, we were some friends. Yeah, I would just pull people. That's awesome.

[00:03:56] You know what kind of inspiration was it? What am I my favorite podcast that's like 10 years out of date? They don't even like do anything anymore. Is the HP Lovecraft literary podcast? That's that's like the full title. And they just talk about HP Lovecraft stuff and I'm like,

[00:04:10] what a fantastic title. That's that's all I can think about is the HP Lovecraft literary podcast. Exactly what I was looking for. Wow. That many words together with a little bit of cadence. Yeah. But yeah, shout out to Ky for the get right to it.

[00:04:24] It has been great. So we are slightly pressed for time. So we are going to book this and we are going to speed run the podcast, but we're still going to have fun and bullshit along the way because they've tried to say that this cannot be the.

[00:04:38] I called him out in front of you guys. I know you did. Meanwhile, I called him out previously about don't be late, Dave. And then I showed up one minute early and you're like, oh, look who's early and then I left and came back on time. He did.

[00:04:53] He was very funny. It was very the bit was great. I appreciated it. All right. Anything before games we have been playing? Have you guys seen Dracula flow? Did you click on it? Yeah. Oh my God, Jerry, did you click on it?

[00:05:05] I put it in the group chat Dracula flow. Oh, I didn't. Hold on. We do have to look at this now. Oh, God. It's not that far. Have you seen drinking out of cups? Drinking out of cups. Yeah. I think that's what it's called.

[00:05:19] No, where is this at? Is this in the? It's not in the Ups. It's in the goof troop. The goof troop. Oh, God, if you like Dracula flow, you'll like drinking out of cups. Dude, I've been sending this to everybody and I am just getting nonstop

[00:05:37] quote and the best part about Dracula flow is it is unhinged. Just constant, just one liners and. Everybody sends me different one liners like everyone connects with different each one. Everyone gets blindsided by different one liners. You know what I mean? They're so good. I'm moving different.

[00:05:58] This shit ain't nothing to me, man. I'm a dog. I'm biting the fart bubbles into bath. We smoking symbiotes. Smoking that whoopee Goldberg, South Egyptian, Fur burger, the Lux mega million scratcher skunk Bubba kush. We smoking dung beetle. I'm biting the fart bubbles in the bath.

[00:06:21] What is this? My man took a sharpie to his dome. There now. The video goes on the more it melts. It's so funny, dude. Oh my God, this is wild. I'm excited to watch the rest of this. Naive explained to the dear listener what we're looking at.

[00:06:38] OK, so it is this old guy who something like a clearly a bunch of zoomers gave him a bunch of really stupid things to say. And he just repeats them. But the way his cadence is impeccable. He's pretty timing. I'll have to stun on them next time.

[00:06:57] I don't give a fuck if I go blind. I don't need to see the price tag anyway. I'm high on 12 Jason Bourne's looking to beat the come out of a thick, fresh oak. I will state that like the quote I just said is eight seconds

[00:07:15] into that three minute video, by the way. So just right in it's like. It's like there are some great lines. Like there's one that's like a top shelf Zaza disrupt my circadian rhythm. And I'm just like, I'm just fucking he got punches you with so he's like

[00:07:31] call this pussy the matrix as I'm in this bitch and I can't get out. And the whole time the people are fucking just dying, laughing. It's so fucking funny. It sounds like someone reading the necronomic on or something. It's like this easy.

[00:07:49] He must be Dracula because he came up with this over over centuries. You know what I mean? Just the perfect combination of words flow. This is the most using YouTube channel ever. I'm at the plum corp records as the people who posted this.

[00:08:03] First of all, they're selling Dracula flow merch, which I'm like, all right, that's fire. You got to get some. But there's just a video titled Michael Phelps fit evaluation. And it's just another Michael Phelps, the not famous one. It's just like.

[00:08:15] Oh, yeah, I can do it again on different parts of his outfit. All right. That's fucking incredible. Everybody needs to go and look up Dracula flow three. It's the best one. I want another one, but there's I don't know how they top this because it's so fucking funny.

[00:08:32] It's a link in the description. We're just like, there's one that says is like the hardest line I've ever heard is Ops one. Ops needed initiative blew up their entire quadrant. And I'm just like, it's so fucking funny. You know, everything to get it back on track.

[00:08:48] And they got a video games podcast this week. We are going to be talking about No Man's Sky. But before we get there, let's just check in with the games we've been playing. Naive, what have you been playing in your off time? Philip, I backlog busted this week.

[00:09:04] Yeah, I saw you playing so many games. And I'm like, this man is playing. Good to see you. It's incredible. It's so I got 95. It took me 95 hours, but I finally beat Starfield, rolled credits on it. New Game Plus, pretty fucking cool.

[00:09:19] But I'm not going to play it. I did everything I needed to do. I need you to pitch it to me because I put like three hours and then I kind of just granted there's other things out that I'm playing now, but like I played three hours

[00:09:30] and I was like, ah, get out of that tutorial. Taken edible. Oh, OK, OK. I like what's OK. It is drinks, three monsters, drink three monsters. I have a hard time. It resuscitated. Thank you. I'm like, I'm like, no, take drink three monsters, play Mortal Kombat one.

[00:09:53] Don't play Starfield. You're not I'm taking you up on that. I'm reinstalling Starfield and I'm going to try that because I don't know. I played like a couple hours into it and just like maybe was like, I mean, most of those games are have a slow beginning to.

[00:10:05] But I don't know. There's something about Starfield that just wasn't wasn't. I got to the first big city and just killed everybody. I was like walking around, all the guards and everything there. You're just a public shooter. Yeah. Oh my god. Yo, this is a problem when people

[00:10:18] are seeing little kids playing Grand Theft Auto and they're like, look what the video games are doing to little Timmy. This is ruining them. Yep. Yeah, I mean, I just sold spacecraft for a long time until I made so much money. I basically had three space Lamborghinis

[00:10:33] and I was just like, I guess I'll go do the main story now. And I just did all the. Only you could sell space crack in real life. Right. So much easier. For real. Yeah, here we are. Starfield, pretty good. Beat it. Midnight Sons beat it.

[00:10:48] Nowhere near as good. Very frustrating actually. I accidentally stayed up to like 3 a.m. playing this because I was like, I'm right at the end. And I just got one more turn civilization thing. Oh, did you love that? It's terrible.

[00:11:02] And so I'm that's why I'm on my third monster because I'm like barely conscious right now. You know that me that Winnie the Pooh gift of like his spirit leaving him like as he's like there. I know the one. Yeah, that's what I feel like right now.

[00:11:16] Oh man, that's great. I love one of the two. Midnight Son, very unhappy that it took me so long to beat Crisis Corps, another one. I was trying to I beat this. I was trying to get all the achievements.

[00:11:29] I realized it was going to take me 500 hours and I was like, I'm not fucking doing this. This is awful. And so I just went through and it's funny because I got so strong from beating all the random missions.

[00:11:40] And I was like, I'm just going to beat the last boss. And I just fucking stepped on his neck as like it's not even like the final boss in Crisis Corps on hard mode, by the way, is easier than generic enemies in tier eight missions.

[00:11:52] Like it's tier eight mission characters will just one shot you. And I'm just like, fuck. And there's a tier nine. Like they're I'm 50% through the missions. How are these going to get harder? This is painful. If you look just bigger numbers, I don't have any more Chris Chandabinge.

[00:12:08] I'm not rewatching this. God, but yeah. And then I beat Mordekombo at one and it was pretty good. Are you sure? What an endorsement. I mean, it was it was Megan Fox's voice to live that really carried that game, you know, dude.

[00:12:26] I didn't know it was Megan Fox. I was just like this vampire lady is the worst. It's really bad. You got to ever in my life. It's not fun bad either. It is just like here every time she goes on screen, like, why are you here?

[00:12:41] Hey, I don't know. They're just like celebrity. You people know who you are. Voice our character and it's like any voice work. No, it's fine. It'll be fine. It feels mad because the character is kind of cool again.

[00:12:51] So I'm like, I forgot her from the old 3D era games. Yeah, I've been just binging like Mortal Kombat lore videos again, because I'm like, oh, this is fun. I'm trying to play my voice smoke. I was practicing for like four hours listening to Dracula flow on repeat.

[00:13:09] And what a vibe is hard. Like, I decided to main a hard character. So I've been working on another ninja. No, like revamped his whole like set in this. Like he's so different than previous games. He's really fun. Ninjas that were just like the Power Rangers.

[00:13:27] They're all the same guy. They are. Yeah, we got we got this blue Ranger. Yeah. So man, smoke is difficult. And also, have you seen reptile in this game? Why is he so crazy? Why is he so fucking hot? He's so handsome. He is so sexy.

[00:13:46] I'm like what I saw in the first time I was like, who is that? Like, you know, the lizard lizard form, lizard form, obviously. I want to be in the sweet and that's strong embrace. That's what I need. I want him to hold me.

[00:14:02] It was funny, too, because it's like he has these piercing eyes. And then I was like, he's going to take off that mask to be fucked up and he takes off the mask and he's just handsome as fuck.

[00:14:10] I'm like, just like fob your hair flowing in the wind. He's just like, it feels so strange that it's reptile. That's the beautiful one of the whole cast. That's it. That's all I've been playing. I beat them all. I'm going to I'm going to. Conom all.

[00:14:27] I'll talk about this later in the nearby section. All right, next up, Kai, what have you been playing? Detroit become I've been playing Detroit become human for the podcast. I've been playing this sparingly as Jared

[00:14:41] texts me and says we need to play this because we have to record a podcast. Also, I just wanted to play the sky. And when this wasn't installed inevitably because we are terrible at that shit, we played some Borderlands too. And that's that's what I.

[00:14:54] That is a variety of games. It's pretty good for me more than one. Like that's all I that's all I need. The occasional Borderlands, the occasional no man's sky and then whatever we're playing for the podcast. Yes. All right, then, Jared, what about you report in?

[00:15:12] I've been playing dabbling little things here and there. So I as I said earlier, I was jumping into Starfield and I was playing that for a bit. But then Liza P came out and I was like, oh, let me check that out.

[00:15:23] And that completely steamrolled Starfield for me. I was like, forget Starfield playing Liza P. It's so much fun. I'm having a good time. It's like very, very dark soul. They are very blood-borney and it's aesthetic and it's it's in all of it.

[00:15:38] And I've been craving like a soul's experience for a while, even though I literally have Elden Ring, which I haven't started yet on my PS5, haven't played it. But I was like, you know what? Let me let me try out this little Pinocchio souls and it's good.

[00:15:49] It's a good old time. It looks like a lot. No, don't know. Actually, because most of the souls games are like some form of co-op, right? Yeah. Most of the sum mechanic. If it is, no, no, no. Check this co-op.

[00:16:04] That'd be a cool game to play if it is co-op though. But it's it's a ton of fun. And I think it adds enough like different things from the souls games to differentiate it. But enough where it's like, oh, yeah, this is like this blip. It has multiplayer.

[00:16:15] How many donkeys have you transformed into? I am a donkey. I have a donkey outfit. Nice. And how many whales have you been eaten by? All of them. But dude, if there's a whale boss in here, like a mech whale boss,

[00:16:28] I'll lose my shit because that'd be so cool. Oh, it's just a one for one recreation of the. I don't know about you guys, but all I know about Pinocchio is the Disney movie. It's like all I know about Robin Hood is that one part

[00:16:41] of Trek and the in the furry movie. One part. Shrek. Yeah, Shrek 2, the furry movie. The furry movie. Yeah, Liza P shows up. Liza P has been great. I've been playing Miles Morales to kind of get myself perhaps for Spider-Man 2, because Spider-Man 2 looks great. Very excited for that.

[00:16:58] And I'm very happy that Miles Morales is like five hours long. They came out and announced that like Spider-Man 2 was going to be like maybe 20 to 30 hours and people were like slam their heads on their keyboard. I was like, no, give I'll take a short experience any day.

[00:17:12] Like give me a short game. I don't want like a 90 hour game to play. Give me 20 hours. That's perfect. It's beautiful. It's a lot of Spider-Man. That's a lot of Spider-Man. And then I've been playing Pokemon, the Teal Mask DLC,

[00:17:23] which hey, if you didn't like how Pokemon performed when it launched, it runs even worse now with the DLC out. Yeah, I heard the loading screens got longer. Surprising. Yeah, loading screens and like the frame rate. And it's I mean, I'm enjoying like they added back in Pokemon

[00:17:38] from previous games, so it's fun to catch those. And some of the new ones they they added are cool too. But yeah, man, that that like 12 frames a second when you're trying to jump with your like a ride guy,

[00:17:47] just like it's a bit I've had it completely stop on me. Where it just like freezes and then continues. It's it's bad, but like most Pokemon fans will be like, but it's fun. Right? Yeah. The Nintendo has been taking lumps. But I don't know.

[00:18:02] I was just on another podcast. I recorded one earlier today and we were talking about that how like the Mortal Kombat one on the switch. So bad. I love it. I he was he was in the same boat as me where it's like

[00:18:16] it's so ugly and bad. It's amazing. I love it. It's one of those. It passes the threshold of bad where it's like now it's kind of good. It's so funny. You can turn down the settings like the the settings on was its fighter Z.

[00:18:29] It still it looks like a PlayStation 2 game like you can make everyone that's so funny. I didn't know that. That's why I turned down the resolution on the characters. On the Xbox version might be PC only. That sounds like a PC thing,

[00:18:43] but I feel like I mean, that's an option if you really want to. Yeah. So Pokemon's been fun, but it still runs like garbage. So hopefully that switch to was around the corner because dear God, we need it. These games aren't these games can't take it anymore.

[00:18:57] They just can't take it. They just can't take it. All right. So my games, which are just going to be included in my backlog busting, so backlog busting solar ash. This just came to game pass in the last week. So this is a roller blade platformer, I guess.

[00:19:13] I don't know if you guys play to get. I haven't, but it looks super cool. I've been wanting to check it out. I remember like seeing it lead up to launch with like the massive like bosses and creatures you can like run on and everything like that.

[00:19:22] It looks super cool. This game, I put it in master. Like I don't want to oversell this because it is a smaller game, like a smaller team, I think. But this is a masterpiece. Like this this game might be in my STA master masterpiece. It is incredible.

[00:19:41] Doesn't look very sad kid. Sad dad. We're the sad boy games. It is like half an hour. So that's a short game. If you want, if you want like bones to like, I don't want to spoil anything, but just think like Bastion as far as like, OK, OK.

[00:19:55] Style, like like dark world that's been, you know, has history. It's been destroyed and you're basically just like fighting for survival as you go through it. It's very pretty. Like the art and like the colors of the game are beautiful. Yeah, yeah. Oh, good.

[00:20:10] The all the particle effects. Excellent. Beated in I think two days just sitting down. I think took me around like eightish hours or so real good. There are parts where it is a little janky. There's some jank in the platforming the roller blades where you're like,

[00:20:24] I feel like my inertia should carry me because it does the Mario Galaxy thing of where gravity is located at like he just goes to whatever the curve. Yeah, like so. But the other thing is like you're not on planets though. So as you kind of curve around,

[00:20:38] it's more like if you remember Psycho knots one, the milkman level where you're on a plane that is like curved. Are you keeping up with me here? Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's more like that where you're like it's you're constantly rollerblading downhill,

[00:20:52] but the hill you're not actually going downhill. You're going around a cylinder interesting gravity is wild under you. Excellent game. Next up, that was my 87th game this year. I'm trying to get 100. My next one up. Sonic Mania. Oh, hold on. Got to let the cat out.

[00:21:11] My cat Phillips next game was Honey Pop. Honey Pop. Yeah. Your 88th game is Honey Pop. Yeah, his wife loved it. Do you see all the cool toys in Phillips background? I do. I see all the little goku's and the BB eight that's up there.

[00:21:29] It's like the polar opposite of the little master Roshi. The master Roshi is awesome. Your back is like an ice spy. It's nice to like see my junk. His background looks like two different houses have. Yeah, his line dark world. I'm going to the past over here.

[00:21:47] I'm like a collided over here. Yeah, I told him he should be. We need to take a screenshot and put in like the AI generator to like fill the rest to see what the rest of the house would look like. Yeah, from both sides.

[00:21:58] Well, I bet I can make it worse. Hold on. The difference in light temperature alone. Fucking insane. Oh, my God. It is like light and dark. That's amazing. All right. So 88 game this year, Sonic Mania, which I had not played, but I've owned for a very long time.

[00:22:17] I actually own it on the Epic Store, but I'm not actually going to place it on my computer because I never do for some reason. So instead, I got a copy from the library for my switch. I played it on stinky switch and it is an incredible experience

[00:22:30] on that tiny little screen, right? That I hold down by my crotch and play. This is probably the best Sonic game I've ever played. Now, this is not the one where they've remade the first three, right? This is the different that was Origins.

[00:22:44] That was Origins, I think, which came out fairly recently. Yeah, but this is it's this is the one made by was like Chris Whitehead or something like that. It was people that like modded the game, right? Yeah, a fan game. Yeah. And this is an incredible Sonic game.

[00:22:59] Like if you've never played a 2D Sonic, I think this is the best Sonic to come in because it is actually like fun and fast. But then at the end, you start to get it like that gritty Sonic challenge,

[00:23:10] which pissed me off because this game is only like four hours long. But I spent like three hours stuck on the last level because I could just not beat old stinky Eggman. Like, man, I don't know what's wrong with me. Right. Yeah. The game is really good.

[00:23:24] This was near masterpiece if that last level wasn't such cancer. You know that like music that plays when Sonic is drowning? Yes, like how I feel right now. Rounding and helium like almost done with. Just you're drowning in monster energy drink. Have you tried?

[00:23:42] Isn't there like an alcoholic version now? Have you tried that? Oh my God, I don't. I feel sick just thinking about that. It's like like a proof or something like that. And it's like monster mixed with some kind of alcohol.

[00:23:53] I went to this rave, Philip, so tired of hearing about this, but I went to this rave and I got invited to the after party and I got fought up on vodka and Red Bulls, like 13 of them. I was just a ligerant awful.

[00:24:03] I've mixed like like five hour energy and alcohol before and it literally makes me feel like I'm dying on the inside where I have energy. My body's begging me to sleep. It's like you it's like your what is that movie

[00:24:15] where they take the pill to unlock 100 percent of your brain? It is we just talking about this on our podcast. That's wild. It's full circle, full fucking circle. Really, Stephen. God, all right. But yeah, while I'm playing Sonic Mania, Naive, last week you recommended a writer to me.

[00:24:35] I think it was an Englishman. I don't know his name, but you recommended Brave New World. Oh yeah. Well, this is good. And I have never read any of his works. And so I listened to the full like eight hour audio book

[00:24:49] while I was playing Sonic Mania of Brave New World. And it's a lot of stimulation happening. That book is probably one of the most profane pieces of literature I've ever listened to in my ears. I was physically disgusted.

[00:25:03] My heart is like cracking into like different little blood rubies just spilling all over the floor while I was also reshaping my whole world view. That book is incredible. And I'm like masterpieces, like that book is now on my like in my top 10 list.

[00:25:18] Oh, I'm glad you liked it. What's a good book? Brave New World. Brave New World. Like there's no I don't even have to spoil it. Like it's it's imagined like, I don't know, because like

[00:25:30] in my life I always kind of picture like the future of what I want is like heaven on earth. Like what if humans can be free of suffering? What if we can solve world hunger, basically cure all diseases?

[00:25:41] What if we could all be happy and then it just plays with the idea? It's almost like 1984. What if we can make people as efficient as possible? Basically, everyone's working for the greater good. What if we can take away everybody's suffering but in a good way?

[00:25:55] Like what if instead of a dark, scary dystopian future? It's a happy future where everyone gets what they want. Nobody's struggling. Everyone's happy. But the steps they take to get there are so like it's problematic because like something good. Some of them are so bad.

[00:26:16] It's like they specifically breed people for their jobs where they are like introducing alcohol into their like when they're like natal to stunt their growth and make them so they are they quote semi morons so that they can do labor and not get exhausted by how

[00:26:35] mean you it is. God, it is. It's wild. You got a torture through. They go as you're explaining this. There's another book series that I like. It's called Scythe and it kind of sets up a similar premise where it's like we've cured disease.

[00:26:47] We've cured no one pains that you break your leg. All that stuff can be fixed in seconds. But in order to like manage the population of the world, they've introduced these people called Scythe's and they just like pull

[00:26:58] people from random and then they have to go kill that person. And then that's how they like their job is to kill people, but it's in order to like maintain the population. But it's that same concept of it's like the peace and everything.

[00:27:08] And then what happens if people are taking advantage of those kind of systems and you've got a quota each year of how many people you have to kill. And it's it's wild. In this, they managed to condition a response that death is not a bad thing

[00:27:22] by like indoctrination pretty much like when they are children, they are taken to like the like everyone dies when they're 60 years old. That's just the cut off. No one lives past 60, but they take them to like the death beds

[00:27:33] and they give them chocolatey clairs while they dance around the dying people. And they're like death is great. Say goodbye everyone. Meanwhile, the dead people are like, they're like, yeah, you know, I'm so glad to be dying.

[00:27:43] I did my part in meanwhile, they're high out of their minds on Soma, which is like this ultimate drug that so they are having a great time. You're convincing me on this book. I might want to check it out.

[00:27:54] Yeah, I'm a dying at 60 on drugs sounds better than dying at 70 sober. That's just I'll take that in your head. That's wrong as they make some good points at the same time. The same where they're like abusing children.

[00:28:08] The next part they're like, hey, what if people just didn't have to deal with starving to death? Like we've been like nutritional, you know, one, you know, it's like they got a point. They do they do stuff where they're like, oh, we finally developed

[00:28:17] like, you know, seaweed that's able to sustain everybody's protein need. So we actually don't have to kill in animals anymore. But people actually kind of enjoy farming and killing animals and stuff. So we still do that for fun.

[00:28:27] They're in it like, oh my God, we are going so back and forth on the morality scale that I can't keep up. Like the individual happiness more valuable than the collective good. I don't know. It's like the end of Metal Gear Solid 2. Exactly.

[00:28:43] What if humans had no what if humans had no real free will or freedom to do what they wanted, but they didn't know. And it's because they're stupid. So and the AI is smart. Worth the eyes better than how humans think.

[00:28:56] So let the AI figure out what the humans see and feel and react to. I'm pretty sure that was like the end of like, like Naruto Shippuden, right? It was like the whole point was to take control.

[00:29:06] I know Naruto tie in here was to take control of everyone's mind and put them in their like specific happiness in their perfect world. But they're all being mind controlled by the big bad guy. Either in their world. Right. Or was there actually like AI computers?

[00:29:20] No, there's no AI computers. They have like walkie talkies and radios because I'm rewatching Naruto right now and like they truly do watching. I'm watching it for the first time and they have like walkie talkies. And I'm like your pieces. We have like what year is this?

[00:29:35] Like that. It's all made up. I got it. Oh my God. And that's the only thing is then they go in the brave new world. They have humans on reservations that are just they live normally. Like they live in the wild like Native Americans and stuff.

[00:29:52] Like, no, I think they're actually in play blows. Like they're like in New Mexico and they are living their lives like normal humans, like going out hunting, all that type of stuff, like tribes. Having sex. Yeah. Yeah. Having babies. The whole fashion way. So fun fact.

[00:30:09] They are but they go there and they're just as bad as the modern humans. Like what's the I think there's another poet that says things like the true cruelty is man's in humanity towards man. It's like no matter where you are. Yeah, that was it. Rich, fun fact.

[00:30:27] Aldous Huxley died of a LSD overdose of 100 grams of intramuscular injected LSD without fucking party and he was like guys. He was dying of Laren Jingle cancer and his written request to his wife and they did 200 grams injected. She snuck in for him. Yeah, she did it.

[00:30:50] That sounds amazing. Just going out vibing, going out of vibing. Yeah, he was at 11. That was that 11 20 a.m. A second dose an hour later and then he died at 5 20 p.m. That day was on the blood boil.

[00:31:05] So it went into his body 11 and he died of so he was like four hours. He was just like he was just fucking seeing God. He was talking to the lights. He was he was flying. He also did a lot of masculine in his day.

[00:31:19] Like he just consistently was masculine as an entire. Love he has he wrote this book called Doors of Perception. And that was amazing. That was an amazing book for me to read around the around the time I first started doing psychedelics to and I it's really cool.

[00:31:33] It's fucking cool stuff. Doors of Perception. That's with him. That's where he was. I don't know if we mentioned it, but these are old books. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, they're from the 1600s. No, like this dude was like was it like 90 years ago? There's a publication.

[00:31:51] It is 1932 for Breakaway World. OK, he died in the 60s. So I figured that he was writing 20 years before his death. But OK, there you go. 30s, 30s, 30s. If you were saying about the the gates of perception. I don't remember. It's a cool book. You're into psychedelics.

[00:32:07] It's not a novel. It is literally him just going, OK, I took a bunch of drugs and I think completely differently now until here's me trying to rationalize that. Oh, like the Elder Scrolls lore? Yeah, it is just you know, everyone writing down there.

[00:32:23] There are thoughts as they're coming out. No, I think that that's an actual thing. Have you guys heard about that? No. Oh, it's lore. You're going to Google that. What are you going to? Where are you trying to find? No, I think. Come up with your.

[00:32:35] You're a scrolls lore. Hold on. So apparently all the Elder Scrolls lore was written by Michael Kurt Bride, who was. Oh, yeah, everyone knows that. Yeah, everyone knows that. Of course, I love Kurt's bride or whatever you said. He couldn't go in.

[00:32:56] Working for Todd is what drug or let him the drug use. That man is a nine. That's why I love. Oh my God. It doesn't say what he was using, though. He's on life. You know, Vivek and in Morrowind. Dude, Vivek doesn't.

[00:33:10] Yeah, Vivek doesn't fight you back because he knows you can just reload your save. So it's an it's inevitable that you get what you want. That's so funny. Isn't there isn't like a bunch of rumors that games getting remade oblivion? Yeah, Morrowind.

[00:33:22] Oh, it's the Bolivian, even though he has the one that needs to be whichever one I played Skyrim. That's. Man, I can't imagine a play long series on Morrowind. You guys would have a lot to say down next main series. Kai's picking me.

[00:33:38] So you're going to pick Morrowind. I will not have to. And that also is going to be an hour and 15 minutes of not no men's kind really quick. No, you're you're not in the group chat, but I said that. I don't like to fucking make it, dude.

[00:33:54] I don't know how did we go two and a half hours with just me and Philip? Like there's no way we're making this. I know we can make this and I'm playing Trek Yomi, but that doesn't matter. I don't care. No one's talking about Trek.

[00:34:06] Dave, what did you buy? Resident Evil 4 and Cyberpunk DLCs came out. And so I'm going to be playing Resident Evil 4, and then I'm going to be replaying all of Cyberpunk because I beat the game. I'm going to play Cyberpunk now.

[00:34:17] Yeah, they got the update 2.0, which changed a whole bunch of shit. Clothes no longer have our armor attached to it. So like hell fucking yes. Yeah, it's fucking sick. And yeah, I'm really excited. And I beat the game originally on the Xbox one X.

[00:34:33] So I'm really hyped to play it on the series X and just like with all the updates and stuff like that's going to be great. And also what is the name? It just Elba. Very excited. Oh, yeah, love, love, love them boy.

[00:34:47] All right, time for the patrons in St. Cracker and Naked Knight, Michael Surabacher, the Intergalactic Pinecone. Thanks boys, we couldn't do without you. And that's where we shit. We love the money. Hey, I mean, at least you're at least you're honest about it, right? Right.

[00:35:01] Yeah, we use it to pay for the games and the Zencaster. So it's exclusively for the Zencaster now. It goes straight into monster energy for Nave's veins. That's what happens. Yeah, you're enabling my bad habits. All right.

[00:35:15] So this is our longest section of the pregame usually the Am I the asshole section, which I don't think you guys have been a part of one of these yet. Oh hell yeah. So we'll let Jere do this one. Okay, that's fine.

[00:35:27] I knew no matter what I said, it was just. Whatever. Me and Philip are like Schrodinger's box, dude. We're always on the opposite ends of whatever is going to happen. Oh, what do you do can pick this? I linked a document.

[00:35:39] The gold one is actually no man's sky related. You don't have to pick that, but you can pick any of these. I will have the long silence of you trying to pick one. Okay, I'm looking for them right now.

[00:35:53] Yeah, it's hard to get out long silence if you keep talking. Which by the way, Philip, when you you edited around those YouTube videos I was showing you yesterday or not yesterday last episode, the hard

[00:36:05] head, it's like, it's like, all right, I'm about to watch that was funny. And I was like, no silence. Oh, there's so many here. Yeah, Philip really you and him, I appreciate it is well, it's like I'll look up one game.

[00:36:24] I'm like, OK, we're going to be talking about Halo. And then when I look up Halo, I find weird stuff about Rocket League and Smash Bros. And I'm like, man, I don't even have time to like quantify all of these. But I read them all.

[00:36:36] So they're all least semi. Okay, I've picked, but I haven't read anything. I'm going to Mario Kart. So I'm going to go with Mario Kart. That one's pretty good. OK, is it this one that's highlighted? Yeah. Yeah. OK, am I the asshole? I'll just make this show.

[00:36:51] I'm I mean, the whole thing. Right, burner account check. Burner account check. This guy is main account. He has no fear. You must be 18 to view this community. Is that is a good thing? Am I probably he probably posts porn and stuff on main. Fuck.

[00:37:10] I think she's supposed to am I the asshole a lot? He's also supposed to be my asshole for not telling my parents a piece of clothing doesn't know. That was a weird thing because I was like, did I just click on am I the asshole in accident?

[00:37:21] These are just the same place. Yeah, he has his really self conscious. He's always asking for confirmation from the Internet. That's hilarious. That's not healthy. Opposite ends again. Oh, I'm reading. OK, here it is. Am I the asshole? I'll just make this short.

[00:37:39] My dad, 39 male and me, 16 female, often play two player games together. Recently, we've gotten into playing more Mario Kart 8. We're both pretty good at the game. He taught me how to play. Recently it's turned. Oh, recently it's turned into though the student becomes the master

[00:37:54] because I nearly always win now. He gets a little mad at the fact, but it's nothing when what he hates is how the game treats him. The game always gives me a red shell while it gives him coins, no protection.

[00:38:06] The comms always trash on him with their godlike aim and he somehow goes from getting hit once in second to end to then ending up in fifth or whatever. I've noticed this, of course, but I can't do anything about it. He doesn't want me to purposely lose,

[00:38:20] but then he'll rage during the entire race chanting Queen OP. Or of course it doesn't hit you, but goes straight for me for fuck's sake. It just makes the whole thing unfun and I just end up quitting from one one saga of races. This happens.

[00:38:35] I really like how Jared auto corrects all of these right mistakes because we usually go out of the mistakes. We just like your brain is like it hits it. And I'm like, it's like also the caps lock is a favorite of ours because of course it doesn't hit.

[00:38:51] You go straight for we love it. It says bit instead of but this happened again today just now. And I got mad because he was just yelling at this point. I told him to just be quiet and that he's being so immature

[00:39:05] and acting like a five year old from a stupid game. You lost get over it. He got mad at this old man. He got he got mad at this and called me a butthole because you don't see how this game treats me compared to you.

[00:39:17] My mom agrees with me, but didn't really defend me. I left and just dropped it. Now I'm here while he's getting destroyed in online mode. I kind of feel bad because I could have just let it go. I usually do, but today I kind of went off.

[00:39:31] By the asshole, the butthole, he said, butthole. All right. So to boil this down, dad is losing to daughter now. And he's a sore loser because he thinks the game is being mean to him in particular. This is why I can't have children because this is just me

[00:39:50] fucking punch them like you little shit, you're not allowed to beat me. Yeah, like it's like what age can you acceptably lose to your child or something? Never never lose your child or anything. All right, let's go round circle.

[00:40:05] Kai, how do you what are your feelings on this? What are my feelings on this real situation that happened to someone? That's what makes it so funny. Your father's an asshole. Like what? Your father's a real dick. This is like, we got to get in there.

[00:40:20] We got to see what's going on. We got to have him, you know, thrown up on the cop car and every pocket searched, hit him with the stick, you know, feels uncomfortable. I searched, you know, maybe find a game that he can win at

[00:40:33] and then play that sometimes. So there's a balance or you know, you're being too soft on him. I don't know. I don't fuck him. He needs to get good. I'm not a good. I'm not a competitive person. So this is literally, I don't care.

[00:40:45] Literally, I've lost to Jared my entire life in video games. It doesn't matter. I have like it doesn't affect me. I have no pride in this. Now he knows. He's getting real real now. Jared, Jared, what about you then?

[00:41:01] What have you got feelings on this as a winner? Oh, well, I've come from the winter side. I, you know, in my professional opinion, they just need to get good. Right. He needs to get good. The dad just stopped bitching and complaining at Mario Kart and play

[00:41:15] if Mario Kart's too hard for him, he's got to get a place in the house. Put him on some animal crossing or something because Mario Kart's too hard. OK, but I want to step in Mario Kart's too hard.

[00:41:26] You need to be like me and Dave, we watch a lot of Mario Kart events on somebody's fault. So Mario Kart is actually a very competitive and technical game, especially if you do go online into like competitive challenges like this because there is like strategies.

[00:41:44] It's called sandbagging, right? Where it's like you need to hold back to get better items to flee forward in the race. Like you don't want to be in first for majority of the race. You just need to be at first at the end, right?

[00:41:55] On the final lap and there's so many overpowered power ups in the modern Mario Kart's that will launch you to the start. And so we are in a competitive lobby where everyone is performing in like a small group, you're not actually getting like spread out across the course.

[00:42:10] All you need is an awesome power up close to the end to judge you up to like first or second place. So he might actually be performing quite well, but the catch of mechanics is the tech he doesn't have the tech wallow eegee on the wiggler.

[00:42:23] You got to do wallow eegee on the wiggler. There's the tech. Yeah, you got to have the round wheels. Not not the big chunky wheels, a little wheel. It was big chonkers. No. What do you think, Dave?

[00:42:32] I was kind of on this person's side until I read you lost. Get over it, which is incredible thing to say to somebody who's upset about being one. Especially a 16 year old like a six year old. So like you lost get over it, dad.

[00:42:46] You're just like, oh, I would be tilted off the face of the fucking planet. I'm switching. And that to me. You got to hit him with the classic like parent comebacks. Like you were in my balls at one point. Like that never doesn't hit perfect.

[00:42:59] I'm going to hit him with the classic uppercut. Well, if you beat your dad at video games, right? Yeah. Well, they're your father. Yeah, that's why we don't talk. He gave me the uppercut. He gave me the uppercut I learned the. I don't know.

[00:43:19] He's never really been too good at games. So it wasn't a challenge. Yeah, it didn't take long. I was eight years old when I first beat my father. Yeah, he's been resentful ever since I told him that he lost to get over it. I don't know.

[00:43:37] So I mean, this person is young. So I mean, it's like whatever. And he's getting if he's getting mad, he probably should just Google why he's losing so hard. He obviously doesn't understand the catch up of cannons, but at the same time.

[00:43:49] So I don't play Mario Kart 8 that much. It I mean, actually, it's probably the most played game on my switch, which I don't just show some of the little I play my switch. But I play it every now and then.

[00:44:00] And these people that I play with play Mario Kart quite often. And I end up just smashing the shit out of them. And I'm in first place all the time, like just chilling in first place. So I'm always getting coins and bananas and shit.

[00:44:11] I'm like, and I'm getting hit by lightning. And I'm just like, I've never even seen the light. It's mad. You would see you need the coins to win, you know, like they. Faster, right? 10% speed boost or something ridiculous like that.

[00:44:23] Well, now you can also like when you go into games and lobbies, you can choose which items you want. So you can take items out. You can randomize items. You can have it all just be bullet bills now.

[00:44:32] Oh, yeah. I mean, they could be been in like a custom game. Like if they like are we doing MLG tournament rules, battle rifles, only no motion sensor. Like they could strip this down and I don't know, have a more competitive experience. I don't know.

[00:44:45] And there was this one time I was playing and like five or six times in one night, I would get hit by a red shell as I'm crossing a gap and fall straight down. And I'm like, it's never happened to them.

[00:44:58] And I'm like, why is it only me that this keeps happening? I keep getting nailed or right as soon as I go off a jump. And so I kind of am on the dad's side a little bit, but you shouldn't scream in front of your kid.

[00:45:09] That's not good. No. Don't do that. Oh, man. So do we have a prescription as doctors for how to cure the assholes in this family? Like we've kind of identified that the dad is in fact being a bit of an asshole here,

[00:45:24] but the kid did not handle it well with the deal with that old man that she threw out there. You got to get him with the it's OK, pop pop. Let me teach you how to play and then you give him the tech in the tech.

[00:45:36] You got a moment from the father's perspective, just bang out another kid so you can then beat that one. Yeah, I also want to we talked about it before about like a camera angles, but Kai has been slowly falling further and further off. It's funny.

[00:45:49] You can take a book out of Aldous Huxley's book and, you know, just fucking have another kid but drink a little bit so they're mentally. Now, you'll always. My job, you'll always win. Oh, you got you. You're on my moron to play. Yeah, there you go.

[00:46:09] You just need to make a worse kid. There you go. God, I can just imagine that like imagine if it's not video games like you're out there playing basketball with your kids and you're like, oh, fucking Jeremy's too good. He's 16 years old now. He's beaten my ass.

[00:46:22] Tiffany, get over here. She's like four years old. I'm just taking it out of the entirety of like, yeah, your your son's beating you and you're like, I'll just make another dumber one. Like that'll help me. I'll make one that's less athletic and that'll help me.

[00:46:36] That'll help you go. As I think I'm the only one with kids here. Yeah, yes. Yes. But if my one and a half year old. No, I have one and a half year old be me a Mario Kart.

[00:46:48] I would be impressed, but I would also try my damnedest to never lose again. It would be like a mark of shame like the orbiter getting branded. I would never let this down. And you just wait until he's older and they can understand

[00:47:04] and you're like, now's the time. Yeah. Reach over, turn his controller off. Be like, let's play again. All right. Any more notes for this asshole? That's it. That's all for me. No more. All right. The music plays, we take a little break. Yeah.

[00:47:22] I need more Sequoia Banshee boogers. Don't be shy girl. I love me some pastrami mudflaps. I'm moving like French Montana. Ha welcome to the cream kingdom, bitch. Open up. You guys need bathroom break or anything? I'm good.

[00:47:41] I don't guys not used to actually like getting asked for a break. It's usually like, oh, just straight two hours. I was surprised we get a break in the thirty five minutes we have left. But I'll take a 15 minute break. Oh my God.

[00:47:55] Let me take my 15 real quick. And we're back. No Man's Sky developed by Hello Games and published by Hello Games, the creators of Joe Danger series. I don't know what that is. No Man's Sky released August 2016 in No Man's Sky.

[00:48:12] Every star is the light of a distant sun, each orbited by planets filled with life. And you can go to any of them you choose fly smoothly from deep space to planetary services with no loading screens and no limits in this infinite procedurally generated universe.

[00:48:28] You'll discover places, creatures that no other players have seen before and perhaps will never see again. Fifty nine ninety nine steam store. This game came out 2016 and it's still charging 60 bucks. No, it just it's on Game Pass, guys. Guys, just by Game Pass.

[00:48:46] Also go to any Game Stop in America. It's like when I mean, I bought it for seven whole dollars. Oh, seven dollars. My bad. Yeah. What did you say? You say I said twenty two. I don't know. Humble bundle. Humble bundle.

[00:49:00] Anything but 60 dollars, although not a spoiler of things, but great game. So yeah, oh, spoiler. So history preconception hours played. I think I put in like 17 hours. I have no history with this game. I didn't play the poopy launch that was apparently bad,

[00:49:16] but I played it this time and I mean, I was having a pretty good time. Like it I was drawn from Starfield to this game, which that says something. Kai, what about you? History preconceptions hours played? I very rarely am excited for a game

[00:49:34] because I generally don't care about hype. But this game was something I was actually excited about and that we had watched a lot of trailers for it. And I was like, this is going to fucking change gaming. And I just like the tech behind it, like procedural generation,

[00:49:47] but using it at a scale that big was very interesting to me. And the fact that it was like an indie developer doing it. I was like, oh, this is going to be fucking sick. And then I didn't play it on launch

[00:49:56] because I don't play anything on launch for the most part. And people were upset because, you know, fucking whatever's fuckface name is over on. Sean Murray, thank you. Overpromised and underdelivered and then people were like, oh, I can't see my friend in this infinite universe.

[00:50:12] And it's like, yeah, fuckface, what do you think was going to happen? And then people wind and wind and wind like they do on every fucking video game release, whether it's good or bad. And then Sean Murray fixed it and actually went back and sport the community

[00:50:27] and started making improvements. And then I jumped into it maybe a year or two years after it initially released and was like, this is fucking fantastic. And also this is like, definitionally my shit. These kinds of games are my wheelhouse completely.

[00:50:41] And then played it for, I don't know, maybe like 50 hours, 60 hours the first time and jumped back into it periodically over the years and just recently jumped back into it and still pretty much the same experience and they keep adding things to it.

[00:50:57] So it's at least getting supported and has a life outside of its very hyped release. Jared. Yeah, similar to Kai because we played this game, watched it up to launch at the same time. I remember sitting in the back and us discussing like,

[00:51:13] like endless play procedural with planets, like endless planets. Like, that's not possible. Like how does this how does this thing? How does this game space? Feeble minds could not comprehend. And not only that, but just like music to like music like procedurally generated,

[00:51:24] like our brains could not comprehend that thing. And again, didn't get it at launch, but everyone's just like he's like multiplayer and all this is going to happen. And then he like scuttled under a rock and he's like, Oh, those things actually didn't think you'd actually go

[00:51:37] and find your friends and go to the exact same location. Didn't think that was going to happen. But I mean, as you can see from my I think almost every like E3 or game awards, whatever that has happened, like this game gets like best ongoing game

[00:51:50] because they've just continuously free updates, support, so much different shit. Like this game is so different from its original conception when it launched. There are so many different things. There's a true multiplayer. And yeah, Kai and I put so much time into no men's guides. Why?

[00:52:06] I'm just watching Naive just burn off energy with his fingers. I can feel him waiting to talk. I'm like, oh, I'm just geeked, man. These monsters were a bad idea. I love that. Yeah. So play to play to turn it.

[00:52:25] And like I said, took to kind of a little break and then have jumped back in recently. Like I missed a lot of the big updates that have happened and mean Kai been playing more recently. But yeah, Naive.

[00:52:36] I was also very aware of this game and this game's launch. This was back in my villain arc when I was only playing very provocative amongst the gamers. I like to just jump on whatever side that was the opposite. Whatever. So you'll die on every hill.

[00:52:53] Yes, I will die on every hill on the Internet. And no man's sky was one of those hills where I was very much a doubter. I was a naysayer. Yeah, it was it was what's the opposite of no man's sky.

[00:53:06] I don't know. I was going to be in the ground. Yes, woman's land. Woman's ground. It's a woman's ground. That's so wrong. It's so stupid. But also a book written by Audis Uxley. She's a great book. So I was I was right about this one.

[00:53:27] It just seemed like way too good to be true about. And it was it was an indie team that made Joe Danger a game that I have also played beforehand. So I was like, these guys are not doing that. It's not good. What they're saying.

[00:53:41] So I was a little mean back then, a little nicer now. I keep the meanness locked away. But this game, one thing I would like to do, I linked this video in the in the chat by Internet Historian, which is an awesome channel.

[00:53:58] And it's called the in good ending of no man's sky. So the first it's an hour long video. So fucking gets a pop back. It's a monster. Watch this at work or something. It's Japanese. Oh, dude, I also saw Japanese subtitles on mine. I'm like, why?

[00:54:16] The VPN, man, the VPNs go over all the stuff up. So that video is incredible because the first half of it tells the story from most consumers' perspective of all the promises and then how everything didn't work out. He goes in great detail about it.

[00:54:30] And then the second half tells the story, the exact same story, but from the perspective of the developers. And interesting. It is so great because it makes you really understand the difficult position that they were in whenever they just got swept up by the zeitgeist

[00:54:45] that Sony kind of allowed happen around them. And it's an incredible video. One of the next story is best. It's sponsored by Ray Shadow Legends. So, of course, you get your boy Ray Shadow Legends. Install Ray for free with my link. You think it still works?

[00:55:03] Do you think it still gets $5? I'm sure. You can get 50k silver and a free Epic Champion. So it's pretty good. Ray is a concert where we're gaming together. Has anyone here played Ray? I played Ray for like a second. Yeah.

[00:55:17] Or the Ray, the bug spray will take anything we can get. Any sponsorship, we will take it. I would love to be sponsored by Ray. Like that'd be incredible. Well, you can make a whole bit with like actual Ray too.

[00:55:30] And like, no, it's the bug spray and people think it's the game. We could talk about what was that bug game? Bugs Life. No, the other bugs life. I mean, Bugs Life is a game. Grounded. That's it. Grounded where you fight the bugs.

[00:55:46] What is everyone's opinion on Bugs Life and ants? Have you seen both of those? It is a fucking classic. It's a classic. I'm probably that ass caterpillar. I love the gas. It's great. Bugs Life is so much better than ants. Are you serious? No, no.

[00:56:03] Yeah, but it's a big rock. And where is that bugs life? Where in bugs like do they form a giant ant wrecking ball and start smashing thing and then go to war against acid dung beetles or whatever those are. Like that was brutal for a kid's movie.

[00:56:19] Oh, yeah. It like there's an ant with a base melt in us. And it's like it's probably like a Pixar thing. No, they did Bugs Life, I think. I'm not sure. It's Dreamworks. Dreamworks at Ants. It looks like a Gary's Mod video.

[00:56:40] You guys need to go back and look at this. This is so long. This is cursed. It looks fan made. What the fuck? Oh, no. God, just watch a muted video. There's a video where the buff ant is dancing with the girl ant and it is so gross.

[00:56:57] We this cast is wild. Woody Allen, Sylvester, Salon, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Danny Glover. Danny Glover's in this. Yeah. Why are these ants? Everyone wants to see though. That's the real question. Why do I want to fuck these ants? They're voluptuous, man. It's they really. They're four acts.

[00:57:19] Man, they're four acts. And they got four legs on the ground, but two in the air. They do have a little center. They're split. You know what? That is that is something I will say in your Bugs Life versus

[00:57:30] Ants Thing, I wouldn't fuck any of the bugs in Bugs Life. So there you go. I honestly got the sex appeal. I don't know that cute ass caterpillars chubby. And I kind of like that. I love the chubby caterpillar. There you go. Unfuckable bugs. I don't know.

[00:57:46] Like they're in bugs like they have the hopper gang or whatever. Those dudes are like, they feel like super sayings how they're just so much stronger than all the other bugs and they just rad its in and just start beating people up.

[00:57:56] I'm glad that we have stronger opinions on ants and bugs life than No Man's Sky. This is fantastic. I like that. We'll go back to it. I were just getting into me points. I wrote that this game has the freedom to sandbox.

[00:58:07] Like I dropped in and I instantly started dicking around. Like once I got through the tutorial, I was like, building up bases and it's like, oh, like it's a pretty lengthy tutorial. But I feel like this is like when I played rust,

[00:58:23] I don't know if you guys have played rust when I wanted it to be. Oh my God, what a man. Jared's holding up his cat in this thing is like so fluffy. She's so fluffy. You know, it's really funny as I was looking at ants fan art

[00:58:37] whenever you said that. And I was like, you see my screen? Sharing my screen. Holy fuck, I'd never I'd never been so scared. Oh, Naive. But yeah, like the amount of freedom that you have in No Man's Sky where you just build wherever fly wherever it's all there.

[00:58:58] It's crazy. You get kind of annoyed because when me and Naive were playing together like I had to leave and Naive stayed back to build on the base and I came back and Naive did not give me permission to edit his structures.

[00:59:10] So whenever I tried to add more stuff to it, I had to walk 10 feet to the side and build a new base then build like outside of the base on Space Jam Planet or whatever you called it.

[00:59:23] I don't know if this happened to you guys, but like in our initial server, the initial solar system you started and all the planets were just like bad. It was like toxic and freezing and death planet. We didn't have any good plans that we started.

[00:59:34] No, I think that's pretty normal. Like I think mine was also like that. But because as you advance, you of course get shielding from those things that you can equip, which I guess that goes right into like

[00:59:46] kind of the RPG side of this is this is almost like a Diablo grinder from what I can tell of like you're just always consuming resources to get better gear. There's even like a hub where you can go do destiny daily bounty missions and crap like that.

[01:00:00] I saw that and I'm like, I'm never coming back here. And I left because I did not want anything to do with that. Shenanigans and I loved it. I think this is just incredible. Honestly, they're like the one thing and maybe it's little,

[01:00:15] maybe it's not because I guess like people complain about this not being in Starfield, but being able to fly seamlessly in and out of planets is just like cool. Like it just feels good. I mean, it's cool, but I don't really care about that

[01:00:25] because a lot of times it's more like I'm just like, why does it take me 16 seconds to get around the planet as I'm holding down the boost button, trying to like do the max mega boost thing.

[01:00:36] But it's like you're too close to the planet to do the super boost. And I'm like, I wish I could just fast travel. I guess that's fair. I guess that's where like Starfield will help it because it's not like

[01:00:44] you're waiting like, oh, 45 seconds to get to this planet. And you're just like, no, I'm just I'm just here. Absolutely. OK, so there's going to be a lot of No Man's Sky at Starfield. Absolutely. Yeah, because I've been dying on this

[01:00:55] hill for a while where people are, oh, Starfield, you just fucking fast travel everywhere. And I'm like, you want to fucking fly for three hours? You want to walk for four weeks across the planet? That's what you want to do. Yes, I want realism in my space game.

[01:01:10] I can't believe people were advocating for less like time saving things. I'm like, I don't understand you guys. Have you guys played Kenchi? No. Oh, man. No, but I see that video about it. Dude, it's such a great game, but there's no fast travel.

[01:01:27] And it's like a top down like out like RPG. But it's almost like the Sims, if it was an apocalyptic alien RPG where you just told me to go do actions and there's no fast rule made co tour. Was it really? Oh, that's what it has.

[01:01:43] The co tour combat system. Yeah, it looks like a tour when you're playing it. Yeah. And so it's like, but the map is so huge and there's no fast travel or vehicles or anything.

[01:01:51] So it's like, you tell someone like, hey, I need you to walk back to camp. You will literally not see that guy for like three hours. And then you'll go to check on him and he was mugged on the way.

[01:02:00] Strip naked and going on the side of the road and dogs came by ate his body and you're like, oh crap, I didn't notice. Now to reload a save from three hours ago just to see what happened to him.

[01:02:10] Isn't there another like RPG game that's like that where there's no outward or something where there's no fast travel and you have to walk everywhere? That one's on the list. I really want to play that because I think it's co up to.

[01:02:21] God, that's gonna be a nightmare to play. It's so stupid because I bought it on sale and then they came out with an Xbox Series X version. And then that went on sale. So I just bought that. But I don't like either of them.

[01:02:33] Is that both versions now for no fucking reason at all? Oh, man. This guy. I do see this game going on sale a lot outward. All right. Back to Starfield or no back to no man's no man's Starfields.

[01:02:46] What my favorite thing, like the shining jewel of this game is the alien language learning because they described this to me before I'd ever played in the game. And I'm like, that's kind of cute. But now it is like Pokemon to me where it's like, I'll see.

[01:02:58] I'll catch all those words. See a Vex or whatever Pokemon. Yep. What Pokemon is this episode? Oh, Mr. Mine, too. Oh, OK, what's the Pokemon after Mr. Mine? Jinx 123 is a jinx. I don't know. Jinx. Oh, well, I thought it was close, though. Jinx is right in there.

[01:03:16] No man's either. Got flying bug. There we go. Flying. There's flying bugs. No man's. There is. There's also like a cursed hula hoops that dig through the ground and all sorts of other aliens. All right, my biggest thing was the giant as worm,

[01:03:32] the giant as worm that comes out of the sand. Like that thing is crazy. I think I saw giant worms. They don't know about like dune worms. Yeah, there was a giant as dune worms on our planet that like makes giant holes in the ground as wild.

[01:03:45] Oh, that's pretty cool. See, all the planets are procedurally generated. So like even the animals or the the animals, what are they called? I guess the fauna fauna fauna. The fauna because some of them look procedurally generated, let me tell you, they look a little messed up.

[01:04:01] Like it's for yeah, it's a cube or creation. It looks like a straight out of adventure quest. That's a hexagon with three schlongs. Like, oh no. As it walks across and then it turns out it's aggressive too. It's a predator. Look out. So but alien languages.

[01:04:22] Every time you see an alien, you can walk up and ask for a language lesson from them and they'll teach you one word. And the word can be really useful where they give you the whole like the alien word for of or the like, oh my God,

[01:04:36] they just filled up like 90 percent of my sentences. And then they give you another one specific one as like terrorist. And I'm like, yeah. Well, like I got one. I got one that was just like the name of the alien language. So it was like the same word.

[01:04:48] And I was like, well, that doesn't fucking help me. It's like, you know, it kind of makes sense though, because it's like if you learn the Japanese word for Japanese, you're like, OK, that's actually a different word than Japanese.

[01:05:01] Yeah, I like because they in the place we had, there were computers that were like, we will tell you the story of our people, but you must say the secret word and I'm like from and they're like good enough. You tried. You tried.

[01:05:16] Dude, and there's so many points like that, too, where it's like like this, you know, teach you like egg sacks. And then it's like you can talk to him again and I'll give you a little riddle

[01:05:25] where it's like he looks at you knowingly wondering what word you're going to say to him. And you're like, eggs, eggs, sacks. And he looks disgusted at you that you use such language so frivolously in front of him and he shoes you away after spraying,

[01:05:39] you know, viscous fluids out of his mouth on you smell like hot garbage. And there's like a long quake style paragraph explaining how you feel like it's Dungeons and Dragons or something. It's like you slink away, sadly in the fucking Rick and Morty voice.

[01:05:55] Rick and Morty voice. That's funny. Oh, man. All right. Me points, guys. I really love, like again, with the like the space flight and space combat. I love the big like starships you go to customize your ship. Like doing all that stuff is so much fun.

[01:06:12] Dave, remember when I talked about like, oh, there's a whole freighter over there and I could walk and I talked about buying on. There was another point where a little shitty freighter comes out of hyperspace and is getting blown up by pirates.

[01:06:23] And it's like, hey, go go help them. And I shot down like nine pirates and they then, you know, gave me a Gungan life debt and I took over the freighter and I was like, this is incredible.

[01:06:34] Yeah, you're the Gungan life that like, like I say their life. So their life is now my responsibility. Good or bad. Like a lucky life. You saved my life. You know what? Chewbacca is cool and flies the ship. What are we at Jar Jar? That's not cool.

[01:06:50] It does not fly the ship. Oh, yeah, I love that. And that's the pirate stuff is cool too, because you'll just be flying through space and then they'll just hop out their hyperspace and there's a bunch of like ships attacking it.

[01:07:01] You can go in and attack it too. It's so much fun. I did do some friendly fire and I shot down some like random friendly dudes that were fighting some. Space pirates or whatever. And then it was like your relationship with this whole race

[01:07:14] just dropped down and I'm like, the race. Gungans don't like me as much. So I felt bad, but also it's like if any human on the other side of the planet got in a fight with another race, like a dog

[01:07:28] bit him or something, I'm not going to be like, I don't like that dog as much. I feel like that's like GTA five logic where like I bump into a shoulder woman accidentally and there's like a cop, like 10 miles down the road.

[01:07:37] That's like, I saw that under arrest. Shot and shotting you from across the street. That city is a dangerous place. I wouldn't have these rise of the country. The more trigger happy there. That's fair. Oh my God, there's this fucking video about Starfield.

[01:07:52] That's like how to get away with murder for like with Scott free and you just take out ship parts because they're 10 weight, they're 10 kilograms or whatever. And you just hold it over someone's head and then fucking hit them in the head repeatedly with it.

[01:08:06] You can kill them and loot them and you don't get in trouble for it. He's a shit parts out. No, he's fine. He's fine. It's mine, his own business. Oh man, that was an act of God. That's incredible.

[01:08:18] That accident they just have my favorite thing I've seen is where people like have those like the money or that there's like currency on the table and they like swoosh it into a bucket and they move it somewhere else. They don't get caught stealing it.

[01:08:28] Oh God, it's so funny. Oh man. All right. But as far as like co-op in this game, there is a central hub where you can go and it's it's weird because you see like other players running around at the same

[01:08:40] time, like the Destiny hubs and you can walk up to a big computer and be like, Hey, I'm about to start a mission. And it does like an announcement, you know, Philip is about to start a mission and then anybody in the area

[01:08:50] can walk over and just join me at the poker table and they can join my mission if I've I said to open, which I think is actually really cool. It makes it like a more immersive experience of like we're in the Avengers hall or whatever.

[01:09:07] And I'm going to go do a quest who wants to come with me. And I look over and Wolverine's like, I'll join you, Bob. Like only, you know, of course, his gamer tag is get money for 20 and he's blasting it as my trap music or whatever.

[01:09:22] That's cool though. I like that there's like that because obviously it is a multiplayer game, but I like how unless you're in that hub, you're not going to see other players or unless they join your game, you're not going to see other

[01:09:30] players where it could just be like you and a buddy rocking around this world. Yeah, pretty good, pretty good. I like I mean, that's one of my favorite things about both No Man's Sky and the other game that I keep

[01:09:41] referencing where like you're walking around just on a planet, just minding your own business and then like and you just fucking ship above you and you're like, I'm like, oh, wow, it's crazy. And just watch them go around. Do they ever land people in no man's sky ships?

[01:09:56] They always they were flying around you. So if you go to certain planets that have specific civilizations that are like built out, like there are planets with large kind of docking stations that you can go to and they'll like come into orbit

[01:10:10] land land on the pad and then you can buy the ships and then like leave in the ship. So that's pretty cool. Endless fun. I know I complained about the fast travel system, but you can set up teleporters. Yes, teleporters.

[01:10:25] You go anywhere instantly and it's like in the beginning they keep them kind of away from you because you don't have electricity for a minute until you complete this like the tutorial. But once you get that, you can just make infinite of these little black hole teleporter things.

[01:10:39] And so you can have like multiple bases set up. But I didn't really know the names of all the locations and they're all just really generated alien. You would change the name of the planets too. You can change the planets in the camp

[01:10:51] teleporter names, but you can't change the space station names. So I'm like, oh crap, I need to buy some parafumium. I don't even know what parafumium is as far as the chemical or if it's even real or not. But I know I saw it. Yeah.

[01:11:07] I know it's in one of the space stations. They sell it because I saw there, but I don't know which one, but I have been just jumping galaxies. So I have like 19 different space stations I can choose from.

[01:11:19] So I just have to go down the list and hope I'm not teleporting to the same one repeatedly until I find one that has parafumium. And I did, but every time I did it, it would also be full of aliens that I need to go get

[01:11:31] language lessons from. So I spent like two hours that was supposed to be just a store run, but instead I'm out there getting alien language lessons. Parafumium is a drug. Oh, there you go. It's a use for it. It is a oral antiseptic from like the 1800s.

[01:11:49] It's liquid parafin essentially. It's a cosmetic or medicinal liquid parafin called parafumium. Parafin that is like a waxy substance they collect from puffins. Yeah, well, great. There you go. You had to go to a space station called Zagazaga. So you could get some puffin juice. Some puffin juice.

[01:12:10] Bring that puffin juice to. Which is the work on word for saying this game. Is it interloper or something? Over. Yeah, I think that's fun. I like that. It's all better than like, I think in Starfield they say like traveler or something. Interloper is cool.

[01:12:29] Yeah, you're the no. Isn't a traveler destiny? Traveler's destiny. The big thing is. Oh yeah. What do they call you? Oh, you're a guardian in destiny, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. These space games. I will say that this. So usually I don't.

[01:12:46] I'm not a fan of like the farming kind of resource gathering game and the one where you build a system to build a system to make that thing easier to do with another system. Usually don't like that, but no one sky kind convinced me that this was

[01:12:59] was a fun and good idea. And I got into it. I got into it. But usually I'm just like, guys all about those fucking system. Like, bro, I can't even hear him play after near pitching. Oh, it was a miserable. After years on our list too.

[01:13:13] And I cannot wait to play it. But we have to set out like a money just to play it. I'm sure Astro near has some weird like like the story of Astro near is like pretty cool. Like I love the narrative of it.

[01:13:23] But again, the whole system thing I'm like, why can't I just make the thing what have to make the thing to make the thing easier to me? No, no, no, no, you got to get the raw stuff. You got to then you got to macerated.

[01:13:31] Then you got to send it to the furnace. Then you got to pull it out of the furnace into the 10 business days for to be mailed back to me. It's like, I don't want. I don't want to do that. I don't want to make like these

[01:13:40] types of games like good for co-op experiences because like like there's so many different types of play styles that you can incorporate into the end of like the community. So you have like Philip doing his thing. He's like creating the base and getting the materials and I'm just

[01:13:53] like walking around scanning plants like poopy dee scoop poop poopy dee scoop on my own fucking world. I see that in my job. I'm just gonna walk around and scan shit. I'm good at that. I like to scan shit. Like yeah, I'm doing the main

[01:14:06] question and I'm like, hey man, I really need a tropical planet and I have no fucking clue where tropical planet is. And so they could be like, oh, I just saw Paraxis 94 or whatever. Just head over there and then he can like tell me which system he's

[01:14:20] in or I could just teleport straight to him if I go to like the hub and I'm work you could do it. I love that the space 711 which right down the whole I do have a complaint. These stupid galaxy maps in Starfield and no man's guy,

[01:14:33] I feel like they're held to use to try to navigate the 3D space to know which system you actually want to go into to zoom in to know which planet is in which solar system in each galaxy. Yeah, more so in like no man's sky.

[01:14:46] Go for it. What's up? No, go for it. Kai, I was going to say battlefront is the best galaxy map I've ever used. Oh my gosh. A little did it just laid out? It's a single battlefield. It's perfect. It's perfect system. My mass effect.

[01:15:01] Oh, Mass Effect does have a goal. Yeah, I love that a little too. Well, the problem with no man's guy too is there's like so many different locations you can go to when you open that map. There's like a billion little blips

[01:15:14] and you're like, I can I can go to all these I can go to all these little things. The fucking Starfield one is horrendous because like you can't there's no way to tell. There needs to be like a thing that shows you where the big cities are.

[01:15:24] But dude, I know. I don't know which system has the cities or not. It's fucking terrible. And what one thing I did was I was like, I'm just going to get a random submission. I'm just never going to do it here. Just a random mission.

[01:15:36] That's like go to the bar and get the guy's glasses he left on the counter. And I'm just like, I know, but that's going to be the thing I used to teleport back to neon. That's my one mission. Oh, man. All right. Any more meat points

[01:15:49] before we hit our final words? You sure do laser beam some you do laser beam a lot of stuff, a lot of laser beam, laser beam, you be beaming. That's another thing like the terraforming and stuff being able to dig in and build structures under water

[01:16:03] and under caves and stuff. That's super cool. I was going to attack my drones. And I was just like, see you. It's like my crap. It's like Minecraft struts. Yeah, the one. Yeah, it's like the best is the best thing that they took from.

[01:16:17] What was that game? Fracture. You remember that game? Sure. Who ever Google Fracture and it's fucking just as well as fracture at the poke. That's a Pokemon. Is that a net? I'm not off. Oh, yeah. Look at how fucking 2008. Bro, this is a PS3 as three game.

[01:16:38] I'm a see fracture Pokemon. The Wikipedia is four paragraphs long. Not a lot of impact. This looks like Lucas Lucas film every game from 2008 and just like slapped them together. Just like, yeah, especially the cover where it's like the between the legs shot of the hero. Yeah.

[01:17:01] It just it's just an unreal engine game. But the best thing about this game is it literally has that terraforming in it. Like that the whole mechanic is that you have a gun that makes the ground to go up or down just like hold on.

[01:17:13] Maybe maybe we play this for the for the podcast, play through fracture for the podcast. God, no, please. What are the mechanics mean? What does it mean about us as humans that we can alter the terrain? Like we're in part of before we go into the final words.

[01:17:29] Perifinium was used to treat childhood constipation, chronic childhood constipation. So there you go. Oh, they all got addicted. Had to had to break it back. The reason why they stopped using it is because it made everyone semi morons. You're a semi moron. Oh, man.

[01:17:47] All right, let's take a break. The music plays. You ain't seen 10 bands in your life, Jit, reach for my neck. You'll get turned into an example. You all got to stop playing with me, man. I threw diamonds at the strip clubs under the great pyramids.

[01:18:03] I pushed the camel through the eye of a needle. This shit ain't nothing to me, man. Tied the ops to the back of a track hog and dragged them around the block for 24 hours. Motherfucker looked like a Resident Evil 5 campaign extra after we was done with them.

[01:18:23] Ops wanted some initiative, blew up their entire quadrant. Let's get over some. We're not taking a break. Just kidding, there's no break. Yeah, well, I mean, there was a break for the listener, but not for us. Oh, well. That's OK. Thank you, and we're back. No man's sky.

[01:18:40] I'll take these first final words. I actually really like this game. The problem is I see myself as like I could play this game like I play Earth Defense Force, where I could just log in for hours and just slowly grind away, build up my my ultimate house,

[01:18:56] jump on my my freighter. And there's even like a way to you can have multiple freighters that you can send like ship shipping shipments all through space and make money that way. You don't have to go farm resources. You could literally say like, hey,

[01:19:09] go grab me a bajillion gold atoms or whatever. It'll go grab it for you and bring it back and they'll make trades like you don't have to mine if you don't want to because I really don't like the mining.

[01:19:20] I like the scanning where you just go out there and use your Metroid Prime as scanner to like look at all the objects. It's like Metroid Prime. Like that's all I could think of when I was doing it.

[01:19:29] One thing is the controls are kind of dookie at first, but they're necessary with how many systems they have like stacked on top of it. It is like obnoxious to use on console. I bet PC is like really well done

[01:19:43] where you can do it for like you in for map and stuff like that. You think so, but I for there's so many inventory systems that I forget which button does what and trying to figure out which button is inventory and which opens which system is complicated.

[01:19:55] I think you have more inventories too. You get very you like the primary like the most important things are also the most accessible. So it's like if your life support systems are low, it's just like down down a on the deep end

[01:20:08] is like down on a and it's it always highlights the mode the thing that's lowest. So it's always like well and usually when I'm when my life support systems go low or whatever, I'll just be like down down a down on a down on a down on a

[01:20:20] I just fill everything up while I'm thinking about it. And it's it's like it could be it could be. Less cumbersome, but I really don't know how because like you said, there's so many different things so many systems. God, it's just like when I was building my base,

[01:20:36] which by the way, the main story, this game does have a main story. It is so well interweaved with just playing the game that it's literally just like, hey, you want the next part of story? Go build a base.

[01:20:48] Like just go build a normal base and get like one camp follower to go in there with you and he'll be like your command, dude. And it tells you how to do it like it's super tutorial base

[01:20:57] like the like it very easily gives you map markers, tells you what to do. And as you did it, it's like, hey, here's more of the main story. And I looked it up and the only way to like finish the game

[01:21:08] is to get like the final main ship hyperdrive upgrade, which of course takes like 40 hours of basically building up a base together, the rarest enough resources or to be able to afford them to be able to build that final upgrade

[01:21:23] to make it to the center of the galaxy or the universe, I guess. I don't know if it's I'm not sure the scale of this game. Do they go like outer galaxy to like universe? I think it is universe. The center of the universe. Galaxies. All right.

[01:21:37] Yeah, but it's like the scale is that every planet is 50 feet from each other. I know. Like you can jump from planet to planet, Super Mario Galaxy style. But real quick, I recommend this game. Everyone should go play it on Game Pass. Don't pay $60 for it.

[01:21:52] Like they said, buy to use. I'm pretty sure I was looking earlier for like switch games and even on Amazon, you can give this game for like $9 for the switch. But that's my word switch game. Yeah, I think you could switch game.

[01:22:05] Just pick up play for a little bit, maybe not for like the multiplayer stuff, but maybe just scoot around. Nape on awards. So I played this game on three separate occasions and three different iterations of this game, because this game has changed

[01:22:19] a lot over time and I have given up at the same point every time. So I think that this game just isn't for me, but I do highly recommend it because it is very good for what it does. For someone who likes that farming,

[01:22:34] for someone who likes that kind of exploration or do whatever you kind of thing you want to build the base and upgrade the stuff. This game has so much upgrade the stuff, like a lot of upgrading everything to be upgraded. Yeah.

[01:22:45] The problem for me is that like I just I need like some sort of hook to like some like narrative hook to keep me entangled in it. And the part that I always give up on is when you have to build the base

[01:22:59] and make a bunch of like upgrades and stuff before it gets like there's a yeah, a way longer period of time between story beats and somewhere in the middle of those of those two story beats. I always get distracted by something else.

[01:23:13] I never quit the game because I'm like, this is boring or because I'm like, this is unbearable. I always just been like Mortal Kombat one just came out. So that's a thing. And it's like that. It's really hard to keep me like engaged if I don't have like

[01:23:30] a space girlfriend. I need a space. Yes, romance options. I'm here for it. He was looking for space girlfriend. Aren't we all? All right. No. OK. Hi. A lot of words. We all are looking for a space girlfriend. Yeah, I think this game is a solid

[01:23:50] middle of the road for most people. Like it's fun for a while. It's good. It has the thing that Minecraft does really well, which is like if you like adventure, there's adventure. If you like building, there's building.

[01:24:01] If you like dicking around and, you know, feel free to dig around. The multiplayer is interesting. I wouldn't say it's the most effective use of multiplayer. It's very difficult in the game this big and like this solitary and individual based to do good multiplayer,

[01:24:19] especially with like the base building thing, where you can't really share a base. It's more just you have to that are kind of adjacent, but not really too close. Just neighbors. The game doesn't know how that works. You can now give permissions.

[01:24:29] I don't know if they did before, but Dave could have given me permission to build there, but I did not. You do not have the right. And those why not? It's it to touch my home. Well, I mean, we didn't figure out any permission stuff

[01:24:42] when we were playing recently because we just restarted. And the other thing is the tutorial is really fucking long if you've already played the game before, because I had played. On console previously and then went to PC, but then like getting

[01:24:54] through the tutorial is just a lot of grinding and a lot of doing the same thing over and over again. I'm like, I know this game fucking works. And also my baby ass brain can't fucking comprehend a keyboard. Like I barely play. That's right.

[01:25:05] Become human with WSD and I get confused on quick time events. So having to relearn where all of the fucking mapping was to understand how to get to the third deep menu in this game on a keyboard was near impossible. But it's good. It's a great game.

[01:25:19] It doesn't deserve the hype it received when it first came out and it doesn't deserve the vitriolic hate that it received slightly thereafter. It's a brilliant idea. It's incredible that a team of like seven people made this to start and that they have somehow been able to maintain

[01:25:36] its success and a, you know, I wouldn't say passionate fan base, but a fan base, nonetheless, that's out there still playing this game and engaging with it is pretty fucking impressive. And like, I don't know if you haven't tried it. Try it.

[01:25:48] If you like things like, you know, this kind of large simulation sandbox exploration game, like if you've enjoyed Minecraft, but it's not really definitely a thing or Astra near or any games in that realm, like I think you're going to have a

[01:26:02] good time doing this and it's it's there's something for everyone and that's what makes these kind of games good. So those are my thoughts. If you played Starfield and you were disappointed, you couldn't spend three weeks walking across the planet. Do we have a game for you?

[01:26:19] Jared, final words. Yeah, what Kai said. Cool. Hell yeah. Yeah, I won't repeat a lot of whatever I was saying here, but like the same thing with like me in Starfield, just getting over that tutorial. It is long, especially if you've played the game

[01:26:37] multiple times before, but once you get over the hump, like, like what Nate was saying, how it interweaves the story into just like naturally exploring and progressing and doing things is done really well. Like you're going out and you're naturally wanting to

[01:26:50] explore and then do a good way of drip feeding narrative little bits along that path as well. And the story does get interesting. I mean, I don't know how much narratively they've changed throughout the like 20 plus updates they've done to the game.

[01:27:02] I know it's been like a lot of systems on a lot of things there, but at least like base when Kai and I played the story is actually really interesting about exploring the world and getting to the center of the universe and like finding

[01:27:12] the meaning of life or whatever the fuck the point is of this, but I would say get to that point because it is a ton of fun. And again, the Minecraft mentality, you can go and do whatever you want.

[01:27:23] You can go in and jump in for five minutes in mind a little bit. You can go fly a spaceship, you can battle space pirates, you can fly around. And yes, if you're a person that wants to spend three weeks walking around your planet,

[01:27:32] this game has that for you and you don't have to worry about it. So again, and don't buy it, play on Game Pass because you're going to pay a fraction of the price for Game Pass and have a multitude

[01:27:41] of amount of games you can play on top of no man's guy. So do that by Game Pass. That's the moral of the story. Also, this game is probably one of the worst feeling things that I've ever experienced in a game where like I'm like, oh, I'm going

[01:27:54] to go over there and then I get in my ship and I hold that right trigger and it's like not enough fuel. And you don't have any fucking carbon or whatever. And I'm just like, oh, I just sit there and stare at it for a minute.

[01:28:07] Like you got to be shitting me, dude. Also, also, like the flying in Starfield, it feels better. I mean, I guess flying in no man's sky feels more realistic, but it's just harder and I don't like that. It's easy in Starfield and I appreciate that. I don't know.

[01:28:22] I feel like it's pretty dumb down in no man's guy because like, well, I guess I get like the technical parts of it. Yeah, yeah. Last into each planet, mashing the X button until it automatically lands me. And it's not even like you'll crash into the surface.

[01:28:34] If you hit the surface, you just kind of just bounce off a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I guess like the technically there is more going on in Starfield. You can manage like the systems and put different energy into different spots. But yeah, I with with no man's

[01:28:47] guy, it's just actual control. And with that, I want to thank our play along boys coming out. Just me. I'm the only one left. Yeah. Go check out their show, dear listeners. They play like a book club video game video game book club type deal.

[01:29:08] Right now they're doing. Book club video game, video game book club. Detroit's human, I think. Yeah, the sequel to Detroit's animal. No. Isn't it made by the same people that made those games we were talking about last week? The I'm going to go play

[01:29:23] with the kids instead of setting up the dishes. Oh, is that a heavy rain? They said, Jason. Yep. It's one of those games. One of those play with the kids and not to the story kind of games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So go check out their show.

[01:29:38] They also have their side show, Get Wrecked where they take a closer look at recommended titles. And I know they was featured on a very notable episode where they played Mirror's Edge and Fracture, I think. I'll say neither of the two.

[01:29:52] I will say like that one gets brought up like all the time from people because we talked about, oh, Jesus, what is it? The Spectre? And Spec Ops. Everyone's like, oh, yeah, you didn't get to read with Dave about that. It was good. And I was like,

[01:30:03] that was a good episode. It was good episode. It was fun. If you haven't listened to a check out, we talk about that. And we talk about Senua's sacrifice against the deep episode. But it's a good one, for sure. Yeah, we we chose.

[01:30:13] We're very jovial people, but and we chose the saddest fucking games we got to possibly do them. Oh, you really did. It was great. It was a great time, though. All right. And with that, Nate, what are we playing next week? Oh, Microsoft Solitaire.

[01:30:27] I really don't know where we're playing next week. Do you want to play party animals because I played a little bit of it. Oh yeah, that just came out. It might be Game of the Year. It is incredible. Game of the Year. Really? Wow. Big talk.

[01:30:37] At least party game of the year, because I played it and I could not stop smiling through my whole like first game. Even there was like people on in-game mics talking shit like, you know, we need a little fucknut. It is like to beat me up and we're

[01:30:49] little stuffed animal bears and stuff. Is it more like Fall Guys or is it more the what's the cooking one? Overcooked? No, it is definitely a combination of gang beast and fall guys. OK, interesting. Oh, if you know your jiggly armed person games,

[01:31:08] did you guys see the new video game Dunkey video about Mortal Kombat? Oh, I have it. I was wanting to check it out. I just saw like the other day and I was like, oh, I got to watch that. Dude, you fill up saying something

[01:31:17] about in-game chat reminded me there is this guy. Dunkey is comboing him out and you just hear him go like this sigh. It is so funny. I laughed. I barely laughed. I had to rewatch it like eight times because of him sighing. Oh, my gosh.

[01:31:37] I think he missed his fatal blow and just sighed because he was getting comboed out. Such a weird person that used the in-game chat these days, like everyone's in parties or discords for someone to just plug in just raw dog in the Internet like that.

[01:31:51] I don't know what they're thinking. I see that sometimes I watch some YouTubers that play call of duty and it's a similar thing where that's like you die and you get that like after calm like death and it's just like people upset or frustrated or just like,

[01:32:05] OK, well, it's so funny. The proximity chat to somebody that is so good when the fucking servers got fixed for fucking black ops, you bet your ass I was in there and everyone was in the fucking lobby chat talking shit. And I was like, whoa,

[01:32:22] fucking did not believe it. Flashbacks apparently there there's more signs of those coming to Game Pass. That'll be cool if all of those old cold games come to Game Pass. That would be incredible because like that they. They were like the couple of the

[01:32:36] call of duties were like in the top Xbox games, like oh, yeah. Now you can look in the store and see what the top play games are recently. It's like, oh my God, this is incredible. This is 2023. And black ops to Oh, yeah, I'm so excited for black

[01:32:49] ops to come back. I played so much black ops too. Oh, I'm so excited. All right. Well, let's end it here, boys. Thanks for joining us this week, fellow partners. Maybe next time we can all become semi morons together. Thanks for having me, guys. Scooby-Doo poops. These guys.

[01:33:12] Top shelf Zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm. I have seen the Magna Carta. I have seen the Eye of Horra. I was flipping bricks for Monsa Musa before y'all even became a type one civilization.