Episode 126: Asshole Gamers - The Guilt and The Dairy

[00:00:12] I don't know what the fuck I'm looking at dude. What are you looking at? You're fucking this fucking sorcery over here. Oh, yeah, hold on. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to Gaming Together, a cooperative podcast. I'm your host Phillip and I'm here with my co-partner, Nave.

[00:00:26] Each pod we play through a cooperative experience that they're made to use a listener. This game is the criminal of CRIM of CALLP. There's something better off playing solo. Hey, Nave. Dude, a fucking...

[00:00:34] I'm on my way to... on my way home from work literally just like maybe 20 minutes ago a fucking turkey jumped in front of my car in the middle of the city. Female or male? Female. It is the season. For fucking... Thanks killing? Yeah.

[00:00:49] For fucking turkeys to kill themselves? Well, no like Oklahoma, like it's a turkey thing, right? You know? Yeah, there's fucking turkeys everywhere. This was a problem last year too. Well, I had a story about the fucking... I mean the last two years.

[00:01:02] It is a recurring tradition that turkeys harass Nave in Oklahoma. But this turkey... luckily I saw it from a long distance away, but it was just walking into the street and I was like surely that turkey's gonna see me coming and just stop, right? And then it just...

[00:01:15] Nope. And so I had plenty of time to slow down. But the people around me were like, what the fuck is going on? Like they honked at me and stuff? Which of course startled the turkey. Well, it's weird because you wonder what

[00:01:27] natural predators are out there culling these wild turkeys. Yeah, that they're fleeing into the fucking cities and getting nine to five jobs. Like, what the fuck are they doing? No, those are just looking in the cities. Like they have to deal with wild dogs, maybe large house cats.

[00:01:41] These fucking miscellaneous turkeys just fucking making my life a living nightmare. Like, man, I could I could have imagined me playing Hearthstone fucking battlegrounds on my phone for like five seconds and then hitting a damn turkey. While you're driving. Yeah.

[00:01:57] The other day, like this was like three days ago, I was in the morning walking my dog and we're walking along and I look over and I see a I thought it was like a weird cat.

[00:02:08] And then we got closer because it was still like mid morning and there was an armadillo and where I'm in Texas. So yeah, there's armadillos and it was just trucking along. And my was like, yo, I want to get next to that weird cat.

[00:02:19] Like really wanted to get at it. And I'm like, no, but we can we can watch. We can admire nature. Anyways, the armadillo turns and looks at us and this starts trying towards us. So those little legs just like shuffle. And I go, oh, no.

[00:02:32] All of a sudden, like I had the I had primal fear of this unknown creature. And it's what I don't know what untoward motivations it might have had towards me and my dog. And me while my dog was like, oh, I'm about to rip and tear this armadillo.

[00:02:45] And I'm like, no, I don't want you to get the lumpus or leprosy or whatever it is that armadillo apparently have. Dude, but for real, like one time I was I was there's a bunch of geese outside of the post office and I was walking on my phone.

[00:02:57] I just had my one headphone in and I heard the geese. I got real close to it. I didn't realize I was walking right out of juice and then it hissed at me. And I this is how I know I would fucking kill.

[00:03:09] I would kill a goose with no hesitation is that the homicidal right there. Dude, the homicidal rage I felt. I was like, if this goose comes at me, I am going to fucking grab it right on its neck. Like I've been fantasizing about this for decades.

[00:03:25] About grabbing the goose by the neck. Yeah, that's got to be the goose's weakest point. It's got to have some kind of maneuver that's kind of maybe that's the structural that's a structural vulnerability for sure. Like I don't know how do they even survive?

[00:03:39] Like there's got to be some sort of like it's got to be a really strong muscle. You know what I mean? Like what if I grabbed it by its neck and it wrapped around my arm like a boa constricted. And you start losing blood flow to your arm.

[00:03:51] You know, it's got me. I'm being constricted. And then I just show up the next week on that and I have one arm. Yeah. And I never told you because we save everything for the pod.

[00:04:01] You have to like save for the pod, which speaking of save for the pod, Nave, you asshole, last week, I specifically asked you multiple times if my audio sounded bad and you're like, sounds fine to me. And then listening back last episode, it's terrible.

[00:04:15] OK, so here's the thing. And I'm going to be honest, it's happening already like you are dropping out again. I don't know what is happening. Yeah, I don't know if you're bumping your mic and it's like coming unjiggled a little bit or something.

[00:04:26] But while while I've got you here, my captive audience, I you sounded fine. Like and but at some point I was getting concerned about the amount that you were dropping out because Zincaster, there's a lot of problems, right? We have run into problems sometimes.

[00:04:43] You start lagging out or something or like we become desynched. But Zincaster always fixes us. So I was like, hopefully this is just a Zincaster problem because we've never had this problem before. But after about 30 minutes, I'm like, we have gone way too long

[00:04:55] for me to bring it up now because now you're just going to be mad at me if I bring it up 35 minutes into the episode. I had that conscious thought where I was like, should I mention your mic is fucking dropping?

[00:05:05] Well, I hope it doesn't happen this time. You're listening home. I spent like 40 minutes trying to go over everything. So I hope I fixed everything so there's only drops unless it is a Zincaster problem and I've just been chasing ghost in the system

[00:05:18] or something trying to figure out what the issue is. You are still dropping. You dropped in the middle of that sentence. What? Really? Which part? I don't know. I didn't I didn't commit it to memory. Oh, no. I can't hear you at all. Are you fucking with me?

[00:05:33] I was just moving his mouth. No, I'm in the process of Lee's. And I didn't know if he was fucking with me or not. Oh my God, I'm not fucking with you. OK, so we are a video games podcast, but we didn't actually play anything this week.

[00:05:48] Instead, we are going to take a little bit of a little break, a little breather because even though it's the holidays, we are it's not the holidays yet. It's getting very close about to be Halloween. I feel like I'm already super busy.

[00:05:59] There's all sorts of crap going on. So we're taking this week off and we're just going to kind of chat. Talk about some of the assholes and just have a good time. But before we get there, Naive, what have we been playing this week?

[00:06:12] I'm playing a shitload, dude. I mean, a little bit of everything like usually there's one or two games in this little list here. Philip's looking at a fucking paragraph and essay now. There's so many things. It already goes into like a whole another paragraph. Yeah, two lines.

[00:06:26] Two lines, yeah. So I mean, you know, I'm still playing a lot of this. I'm just playing a little bit of. So just to knock two out of the way, Quake 2 and We Love Katamari.

[00:06:35] I'm just like for 30 minutes at a time, I like play a level in Quake 2. And then I play a little bit of Katamari. I'm just trying to get some achievements, get some gamer points. Katamari is adorable, by the way. I fucking love the second one.

[00:06:48] But I've already described it like twice. So you see that screenshot I sent you? No, of what? Oh, of a, let me see if I actually send it to you. There's a Katamari reference. There it is. I'll put in the notes for you. Right where I can see.

[00:07:03] So I thought it did. It worked. No, I just put the same thing twice. Look at that. There we go. But in Rinshu, the app I use to study my little Japanese, I got a new word of the day and it was Katamari.

[00:07:18] And even had the prints in it. You sent this to me and I was like, this isn't for me because I don't know what the fuck this is. I don't know what I'm looking at because it's literally like kanji.

[00:07:29] And then like, you know how like, I guess this is a thesaurus. Like just a bunch of words that mean similar things. I didn't know the word. It's a definition. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, where on it does it say Katamari? Above the kanji, it says the kana.

[00:07:45] I can't read that. I can't read these runes. Yeah, but it says Kana. Mario, you said that to me and I was like, it's probably for Jana and he misclicked it out. So I bet it's on it. I see it now.

[00:07:58] Yeah, I see him down there in the bottom right corner. He's pushing the ball pushing the Katamari. Yeah. Yeah. The catamari is super cute. Um, I got all the achievements of vampire survivors because I forgot that I didn't do that.

[00:08:11] And so I went back and I got all those. Just took me like an hour. The new weapons, pretty cool. All that stuff. The new level is really cool. It's like a fucking mod chart in guitar here in clone hero. Really? It's a really cool. Yeah.

[00:08:24] And so like it literally takes you through like a blank area where it's showing just screenshots of levels flying by as you're fighting and then a hand comes and grabs you and then drops you in the main level. It's very funny. That's so it's almost getting meta.

[00:08:42] Yeah, too big. Oh, it was already pretty meta like towards the end of the game. But anyway, vampire survivors. Cool. Cyberpunk still playing. What's it called? Phantom Liberty. I just met Aegis Elba. So that was pretty cool.

[00:09:00] And then it was like wait two days and I was like, all right, I guess that's it for this game. Even though I could just sit on a bench and wait for two days. All right. Well, I guess this is a good stopping point.

[00:09:10] And then this is going to break into what did they buy? But I bought a game called Sayonara Wild Hearts. And this was a game that I was talking about last year. It's been on my radar for a while, which by the way, did you know Sayonara

[00:09:26] is Japanese? Are you fucking with me right now? You have not fucking with you. I don't do it for some reason. I thought Sayonara was Spanish. No, that's I've lived my life. I literally lived my whole life until like maybe last year when I heard Sayonara

[00:09:40] said and fucking Yakuza, and I'm like, why are they speaking Spanish? Like, how do they even know Spanish? Like what the fuck? I mean, if you think about what languages are Japanese people most likely to learn

[00:09:50] if we go down the list, it's going to be like English, Chinese, maybe Korean, then Spanish. It's got to be the top four. You think Spanish, not Russian or Indian or something else, something closer to them. Are you googling the top of other languages that they learned?

[00:10:07] If the second language is in Japan. Japan, the most spoken, followed by English, Korean and Chinese. Yeah, OK, well, you know those. Hold on, we're still looking. Like surprisingly, it's English. That's not surprising. Portuguese made the top or made the top list. Yeah, it's up there with Chinese.

[00:10:28] Yeah, I don't know. I can't find Spanish is not not coming up with this one. So you may have me on that one. I played every Yakuza game so far, Philip. I know what I'm talking about. And they never speak Spanish. No one ever said audios.

[00:10:42] Oh my God, there's this fucking. There's a stupid as fucking. Hold on, let me go find it on the X. It's a stupid as meme. Look at this first. What do we got? What am I looking at? Read the read the top tweet like I replied to something

[00:10:56] with this mean that I've been using all the time. So the tweet you're applying to is from Zeng Yong, who says sore throat very subtle. Who's in Yang? It doesn't matter. Is Zeng Yong? Yeah, I have no idea who this is,

[00:11:13] but this is just a tweet that went viral and I saw it and I just was like, all right, well, post tell me her and see see how that goes. Well, dude, suicidal ideation and make his very next tweet is please stop reporting my account suicide or whatever.

[00:11:31] So funny. Well, he seems to have spelling issues on his other comments. Yeah, I. I wonder if it's Google translate. He's sending stuff. Please stop DM me, Hintai. Yeah, it looks like it might be like Google translate wasp's ding me comma fuck you comma excruciating pain

[00:11:55] or is this some kind of high coos that we don't know about? It sounds like a high coos, doesn't it? Excruciating pain. Fuck you. God. No, they're funny. It's just kind of just what I'm going to drink until have no more liver. All right.

[00:12:14] So yeah, Sayonara is in fact Japanese. Now tell me about these wild hearts. But why would I think it was Spanish? Because a lot of Spanish or Japanese words sound like Spanish words. You think so? Is it the A at the end, Sayonara?

[00:12:28] Sayonara. I think it's all the vowels at the end. Like, I mean, just in the the newest spy family episode, have you seen it? Yes, they talk about Bond a lot and, you know, they say Bondo.

[00:12:41] Oh, yeah, that's just I don't know what the O at the end of names are for some reason, it's from the Kana. Like they don't have anything that's like a hard constant ending except for like in kind of. Oh, that's super weird.

[00:12:54] Everything has a val at the end. Anyway, Sayonara Wild Hearts is really fucking good, Philip. I think you need to get this game. It's like it went to Google it 10 bucks. Oh, it looks like 80s sci fi. Not sci fi. What's this like neon punk type stuff?

[00:13:09] This game, I think screenshots do it a disservice, I would imagine. I don't know. Not looking at any of them. But like this game in motion, this is I'm going to beat I beat it. I beat it in one sitting. I couldn't stop playing it. Look at you.

[00:13:24] I just sat there and I literally the whole time I had goosebumps. I was smiling and laughing. It is so insanely creative and fucking interesting. Like I was completely mesmerized by this game. It's weird because it looks like it looks like there are like almost

[00:13:40] like subway surfer levels combined with like fighting game battles. Oh, yeah. Transforming. And there's like first person shooter sections. This game is so insanely ADHD. It's like if you took it takes two and condense that down to a two hour experience.

[00:13:57] I mean, everything that it does cohesive, warrior wear or something. It is really cool. So essentially every stage is a song, but in that song, you will switch like a dozen times between different things that you're doing. And so the entire game, you're a character who is

[00:14:14] it's kind of like Scott Pilgrim kind of. But instead of ex-girlfriends, you're fighting people with corrupted hearts and you're trying to do something. Yep, I got you. So well, the game doesn't have much story.

[00:14:28] It literally has a cut scene at the beginning and a cut scene at the end. And then everything in the middle is fucking amazing and super creative gameplay and it is it is extremely. The music is awesome. It's like it's a rhythm game like through and through.

[00:14:44] Oh, it's more of a yeah. It's more of a rhythm game than over everhood ever, Lord. What the fuck? Ever heard I think it's everhood. Yeah, it's more of a rhythm game than that because this game you actually are collecting things and you and attacking to the beat.

[00:15:01] Whereas in everhood, the enemies attack to the beat and you dodge whenever. So that makes it less of a rhythm game and more of a rhythm based bullet now if that makes sense. Yeah, so in our wild heart, I I recommended everybody and it is like a

[00:15:16] 10 to 15 dollar game. I got it for on a sale, like a 20 percent sale, which is what made me bite the bullet. But I'm just so I was so blown away by how awesome it was.

[00:15:27] This is this is 100 percent going to be in my game of the year talk. Really? Yeah. This game fucking stomped on like so many other games that I thought I was going to be talking about. It's going to be hard to beat this one.

[00:15:38] But this is like my kind of shit. It is like it's got so many amazing, like not references, but inspirations, like clear inspiration. Like it is like very Sailor Moon kind of like it's like all of these like eighties, nineties, animes like together.

[00:15:55] But in like this cyberpunk futuristic thing, there are like levels that look like Studio Ghibli fucking like everything has the same aesthetic. But it looks like it's it's like this is inspired by Studio Ghibli for sure. Or it's like this looks like a bloodborne level.

[00:16:08] Like I'm like it's so fucking cool. Yeah, there are so many amazing and intricate, not intricate, but like inspired level design in this game. And it's really interesting. Who's the developer or is this like their first foray? I'm not sure, but it's not that many people.

[00:16:22] It is a it is a super indie team. The developer is apparently CY MOGO, a Swedish company or Swedish developer. Yeah, literally in a perna as it turns out. Yeah, good old in a perna in a perna. The best is good as devolver.

[00:16:41] Everybody in the credits had like crazy names. So I was like, I can't read. I can't pronounce any of these. Yeah, their website is incredibly bare bones with only three pages on the whole thing. And a pernas are the developer that already forgot the name of the developer.

[00:17:00] Simmongo, Smogo. I don't know. They have they have made other games when they're all look like artsy indie trash. And a lot of them are phone games and Wii U games. Really? Well, they fucking smashed it with this one. I'm sure this is probably on like everything.

[00:17:16] They did an ebook to bedtime stories for awful children. Back in 2015, they put out a a guess an ebook. Yeah, these guys definitely have some artsy trash, which I love. I know I called artsy trash or any trash,

[00:17:31] but that is literally my genre if I, you know, had to pick one, I guess. All right. Anything else you been playing? Playing, I don't know, probably not. Not that nothing important, I guess. So games I've been playing,

[00:17:46] I've been playing a lot of Crash Team Racing, which, you know, me, I love my my car racers and I never played Crash Team Racing before on the PlayStation one. And I've been playing on my little Game Boy and it is a very well made

[00:18:00] cart game as it turns out. Like, have you played this one? No, but like so I listen to Sacred Symbols every week. Chris Reagan, who's one of the co-hosts there, whenever this game first came out, he made a vow

[00:18:13] a bet against a listener who wrote in and challenged him that he would. Team Racing? Yes, that he would get the platinum within a week in this game like or he would buy the guy a PlayStation five. Whoa, he did do it. He did do it.

[00:18:30] But he also has hard. He cut his hand up, apparently, like playing it, like like getting so fucking mad at it. Like he's like, I've never been so angry at a fucking game before. There's some real bullshit. And like my favorite character is like the big bandicoot.

[00:18:47] I don't know his name. He's the big meaty one that's like an evil boss in the games. I know you're talking about. He has like the highest max speed, but of course, he's the bowser. So he's got the best top speed, worst acceleration.

[00:18:58] So it's like any mistake, you're severely punished. But one thing I didn't realize is that he takes up so much of the screen on my little tiny Game Boy screen that's, you know, like four inches across. So it's like I literally have trouble seeing the game

[00:19:13] on my tiny Game Boy screen. This is not a good mobile game, but I'm enjoying playing it here. So it's crashing raisins. Good. I'm probably going to finish it for my backlog. I think I'm over halfway through the game. I think I have like two worlds left

[00:19:27] because you can go to like the leaderboard and see where you are on it. It'd be like, oh, I have this many races left. I think you're playing the PS one version. Yeah. That's interesting. You play as one version of Emulator on a Game Boy.

[00:19:41] I'm pretty sure that I'm I'm I'm almost 100 percent sure that the Xbox thing got approved all across the board. So I'm pretty sure that the new remastered version of the game is going to like the remake version of the game is going to be on.

[00:19:53] Yeah, I assume the remakes probably very good compared to the version I'm playing. I think it's literally just a like they swapped all the models out. Yeah, so I think it plays exactly the same. So it's good. It does a lot of things that I wouldn't expect.

[00:20:11] Like one like in Mario Kart, you know how you can get a little boost if you jump at the top of a jump. Like you do the bump little. Yeah, this game has that. And I'm like, wow, this game is like 90s.

[00:20:23] And it has like has this always been in other kart racers? I didn't know that was a thing until the Mario Kart on the switch, because I didn't play anything after Mario Kart 64. I just didn't play any of the other Mario Karts. I'm not really sure.

[00:20:37] But I know there's this game called Excitebike 64, which and I think a TV the ATV games have this to where like if you like push forward so that your character leans forward and at the bottom of a ramp

[00:20:49] and then pull back with like hold down when you're at the top of the ramp. And then that's like a similar mechanic that's that existed in those games. Yeah, I remember that too. But yeah, Crash Team Racing is good. Next up, the big con.

[00:21:03] This one's on Game Pass. Have you seen the cover or anything? I probably. And then is it just recently released? Yeah, it's pretty new as far as you know, going on what's called Game Pass. There I dropped a little artwork in there.

[00:21:21] So in this game, you your mother owns a video rental store in the 90s. The whole game takes place in the 90s. And she had to borrow money from loan sharks to keep the shop going. And it's like ninety four thousand dollars or something like that.

[00:21:38] And she has eleven days to pay back the loan sharks. And so you as a sixteen year old girl decide to run away from home and make as much money as you can by doing crimes.

[00:21:52] And it has to be one of the most like morally strange games I've ever played, like because you're a child and you're out here actively pickpocketing people stealing things, robbing children, like doing doing, you know, grand larceny as much as you can actively.

[00:22:10] It's mostly just stealing money and you find like a grifter and he like takes you on there is tutelage because he's much more older and more experienced. He's like 17. So he's one year older than you and you guys travel all the way to like

[00:22:24] fake Las Vegas, just doing crimes. I'm really enjoying it. The game is really funny and you make a lot of friends on the way. But it also feels bad because the you keep meeting the same people as you're traveling town to town and they're like, hey, I'm a,

[00:22:38] you know, professional video game player or whatever. If you play this game with me, we can have a good time. And I'm like, that's great as I then reach into his wallet and steal his money. And then we play a game together and I feel bad afterwards.

[00:22:51] Like the character doesn't feel bad. I feel bad even though it is just a game. And it's weird because I need to make, you know, $94,000. And I've been playing for like an hour and a half. I think the whole game is like four hours long.

[00:23:05] And I've only made like $4,000. So something big has to happen if we're going to make it in time. But this makes me wonder if there's a way to fail this. Like, can you get because every pickpocket you do is a little mini game

[00:23:20] and you can fail it and get caught and then you can't steal any money. Like, I don't know if there's a way to get to the end of all these days and you don't have enough money to pay for your video store.

[00:23:30] Like maybe there's alternate indies or something, but I'm really enjoying the big con. Next game on my list, Ogre's Tactics Reborn. I've been playing that. I think I'm maybe an hour or two in. The game is really cute. It's it's weird because it does like

[00:23:48] chibi, chibi characters are on the field and it looks like the old game, I assume, where they're just going around fighting. And then it pops up to this very hyper detailed, painted anime characters as they're like talking and they look super intricate. I love it.

[00:24:04] And the game is funny where you're out in the field and while you're in a battle, two of your party members are arguing with each other and at one point, one character just picks up a rock and nails them.

[00:24:14] And you see the animation on like in the game where it just bounces the rock off the back of the other guy's head. And I'm like, so they just programed and that's just wings them. And the other one picks up a rock and throws back.

[00:24:24] It doesn't cause any damage and you don't lose a turn or anything. It's just flavor. And I really enjoyed it. Like it's almost like if they did what was the game where your guys get scared and shoot each other? XCOM XCOM.

[00:24:38] It's like, what if XCOM was funny instead of shooting each other? They just kind of like talk to each other and threw rocks at each other once in a while. That's funny because you're like, I heard you say, what is that game where your characters get scared?

[00:24:49] And then I was already saying fucking darkest dungeon and then you then shoot each other and then I had to like the fucking thought. No. Yeah. But yeah, Ogre's tactics reborn or whatever. It's good. I'm going to keep playing it, but I assume it's long.

[00:25:04] I haven't even looked at how long to be on that one. I've just been playing it a little bit before bedtime each night, but it's good. Next up is my backlog, Buston. So I beat Sonic Chaos on the game gear

[00:25:16] on my little Game Boy for the game gear, which in UK or not. OK, like Power regions. I think it's called Sonic and Tails. So it has like two titles. This one is interesting. That's what it's called here, too. Sonic and Tails. It's not called Sonic Chaos.

[00:25:31] But I put the box art in there. It literally has the ESRB rating and says Sonic and K or Sonic Chaos. There is a game called Sonic and Tails, though, because like in Sonic game compilations. No, this one was on the Sonic Gyms Collection.

[00:25:46] If you have that, like this one was in that mix. No. No, OK. I was thinking of I was thinking of like there's like just a Sega compilation of like a like more than just Sonic, but there is a bunch of games.

[00:25:58] But this one is actually pretty good. Like it's weird because there's like power ups that you I've never seen in any other Sonic games, like there's like rocket boots that are literally just like a rocket skateboard that you can fly around the map with temporarily

[00:26:10] or like on the cover, you see how he has like a spring stuff. Like and he's like bouncing on it like you bounce on this spring and it sticks to your feet and you use it like a Pogo stick.

[00:26:19] So it's like a Sonic game where you have a Pogo stick and jet boots. It's a very interesting Sonic game. It feels like what they did with Super Mario Land compared to Super Mario Rose, where they just like kind of put in weird stuff that

[00:26:32] they never seem to reference in any other the other Sonic stuff. So I enjoyed my time with it. It was pretty short. I think it was only like two hours long and not too difficult. It's actually easier than the other ones, probably for the sake of

[00:26:44] out of shorter levels, they couldn't put as many as like intricate levels in this since it was on the game gear. Oh, do you know what I'm thinking of? It's like a Sonic and Knuckles. Oh, yeah. That was the Sonic and Knuckles. Another classic.

[00:26:56] I'm like losing my mind. Like where the fuck is that game Sonic and Tails? I swear to God, I swear I've seen this. And it's where because Sonic and Chaos or Sonic. There's a Sonic and Tails 2 as well.

[00:27:09] But that one got renamed to like Sonic Triple Triad of Death or something weird like that. Like it has a goofy title or Dangerous Triad. I don't know. But that one's good. That's number 96. I love the because I'm on the Sonic Chaos wiki page or whatever.

[00:27:28] And it's like reception and legacy. And you know how there's like a fucking chart with like 15, 30 different like magazines and stuff? There's only three. Well, I mean, did you have a game gear because I didn't have a game gear?

[00:27:40] No. Well, it's on the Sega Master System too, apparently. Oh, yeah. I guess that a port because Master System. Wait, I don't know why, but Nintendo Life gave it a four out of ten on the Master System. Get dunked on.

[00:27:54] Yeah, it's because that's the master system is the is the previous the one before the the Genesis, right? I don't know. I hate it. I didn't like the Sega systems. Yeah, I don't like the Sega systems either. But I'm going to go look at it now.

[00:28:09] I'm looking at the review. See, our core Sonic fans might get a kick out of this lesser known incarnation. But for most, there's no reason to bother. Is this going to be funny? No, it's not. This review is one, two, three, four paragraphs long. All about Sonic Chaos.

[00:28:25] Yeah. I don't know. They don't need all that. This game does is not that detailed. It is definitely lower quality Sonic. But as I've been doing this backlog, Buster, this is like the I don't know, fourth or fifth Sonic game I played.

[00:28:39] And I am getting more and more respect for Sonic as time has gone on. Like I used to be a real anti Sonic boy. But I think I might be a born again Sonic fan. Born again, Sonic fan.

[00:28:54] Yeah, like I've come back around the horseshoe at this point because like, I mean, I like had I played PC ports of Sonic one through three whenever I was younger. But for a while there, I just didn't play any Sonic games

[00:29:06] until I picked up like Sonic heroes on the GameCube. And then I didn't play any Sonic games again until I played Sonic 06. Is it 06 or 08? It was one of those 06 on the 360. And I'm like, oh, these games are dog shit.

[00:29:22] Like why would anybody play any of the Sonic games? And then I got I bought the like hundred and twenty dollars Sega mega collection on a Christmas sale on Steam. And it gave me like all the old Sonic games.

[00:29:34] And so then we back and play like Sonic CD and Sonic Sonic was a battles battle to whatever it's called. Adventure Sonic adventure. The Sonic adventure battle to on PC. And that game was fantastic with the chow garden and everything. I'm like, yeah, these are the good games.

[00:29:53] Where were these when I was growing up? Maybe I would have grown up a Sonic fan. I mean, I grew up. I played the Sonic games as a kid. Now I was like, I fucking I'm not I'm not the guy. No, this isn't for me.

[00:30:04] I'm in next game number 97. Somerville or Somerville. This is another game pass game. This is a child in dark world game, except you play as a dad looking for your your family and you meet some aliens along the way. Yeah, updated for the PlayStation audience.

[00:30:24] Is this an old game? Not really like maybe a year. But it's like this game has been on PlayStation or something. No, I said I said I was making a joke about a dad. Oh yeah. And not having his kid. I mean, this is different.

[00:30:39] Look, you can either be a sad child lost in the dark world or you can be a dad looking for your kids and family and being sad or whatever. It's those are the the range. But this game is very pretty, great art style, great screenshots.

[00:30:54] But there's so much junk that your character just gets stuck on while you're walking and it does a stupid like flashlight tag with enemies where you have to stealth and just stay out of their flashlights. And I hate that in games.

[00:31:07] But so many of my indie trash games use the stealth system. And I think it's the worst. I hate it. Yeah, I didn't notice it too much in this game. I mean, I didn't think about it. Yeah, I beat it. I got all achievements and everything.

[00:31:20] Oh, did you like it? Well, also what ending did you get? I don't remember. I got all of them because I needed. Oh yeah. OK. I accidentally got an ending because I wasn't sure what's going on because there's no dialogue in this game.

[00:31:30] So you're you're scorn in your way through things. You don't actually know what's happening unless you're just really smart, which I'm not. So I was really just scorn in my way through things. And at the end, they pop up spoilers for Somerville.

[00:31:44] They pop up your house and I'm like, hey, it's my house. And then you walk into it and apparently that's accepting your fate and basically going taking the blue pill instead of the red pill. Yeah. And I didn't realize at a time.

[00:31:56] And it's like achievement took the easy way out. And I'm like, the fuck are you talking about? And it rolled credits. So that was kind of annoying because I had no idea what was going on. It was like that. What is that?

[00:32:07] There's a bit in the office about that, you know, you ever see that? What? No, what is it? They set up Dwight to like, you know, basically make him think he's in the matrix and then like of the custodian pretends to be Morpheus.

[00:32:19] And he's like, take the blue pill or the red pill. And like he describes it and Dwight's like crying because he's so excited. And then Dwight goes, I'll take the blue pill. I'm actually really happy with my life here. You're like, God, it's so funny.

[00:32:33] And it's and then he's like trying to get the pill. And the guy is like talking to the camera, like, are these pills OK to eat? He's like trying to take the pill for a moment. Don't worry, just like will. So it's really stupid.

[00:32:48] Yeah. But Somerville 97 pretty good. Just a couple more to go next up 98 before your eyes. This is I played on my phone, actually, because I pay for Netflix. I get access to the Netflix arcade, which is just a collection of random bullshit.

[00:33:05] It's like Game Pass, but for Netflix. So I played it on my phone and this is one of those blinking games where you blink to control it. And this game is maybe like an hour to two long.

[00:33:17] Played it through one day and a lot of blinking, except it's weird because they play really well with the mechanic because there's parts where it's like you're supposed to be like your whole premise is you're dead and you're

[00:33:30] recounting your life to see if you're a soul of value or not. And there's parts of your life where it's like, don't blink, don't look away because any tragic is about to happen. And you just like blocked it out in your memory and you have to see it.

[00:33:43] And my cat throwing up over there. I don't know what that was. Hey, stop it. I guess we're just. Wait, wait. Just wait. OK. You managed to not throw up. I'm sure it's back. You're alive. OK. But cats aside.

[00:34:08] Yeah. So it's like there's points of the game where you have to not blink and just intensely stare as you're like slowly reaching a point, which is harder than you think. Like once you realize about like, man,

[00:34:19] I haven't blinked in a while and you have to sit there for like 30 seconds, not blinking. So it's a very strange game. It's like they played alone in the dark and they're like, what if this mechanic all the time? You want to say hi to Jana? Hey, Jana.

[00:34:36] Oh, the cat. OK. Yeah, he just had to come over to me so he could throw up. So right next to you. Yeah. Perfect. I do have to knock at some points because it does go with the trope of like, oh, we're going to make you feel bad.

[00:34:50] That's a really dangerous children. And I'm like, why do we always got to come back to this? Why is it always got to be children in danger? Why does it always catch the run up? It was a little bit of a run up,

[00:35:00] which I got to admit, though, I did tear up like twice while I was playing this game. Is it because your eyes were open for so long? No, no, no, no. I don't know, man. Like I'm a softy.

[00:35:13] I don't know about you, but I tear up when I play video games. If a dog is in danger, I am unhappy. Oh, so I don't think you know this game. So I'm going to spoil this. There's a moment where it tells you not to look away

[00:35:29] because you just kind of breeze past something. I don't think anyone's going to play this game, honestly. But there's a part where you go through your whole life and you have a cat. It's a one eyed cat and you have it for a very long time.

[00:35:42] And then at one point is just out of your life because every time you blink, it skips forward in your life. Could be days, could be weeks, could be minutes. And eventually the cat is gone and you're like, I don't know what happened to this

[00:35:52] cat, you go back in to see what you missed in your life. And you realize, oh, the cow was pregnant at one point and even had kittens. And while your parents are arguing about the kittens,

[00:36:03] you know, getting a divorce in the other room while you're playing with them, you're like, cool. But then shows one point where you hear like loud noises outside and it's like, you have to go check. And the first time you saw this scene,

[00:36:15] like you just blink naturally because you didn't even think about it and you just skipped out of the scene. So you got to never see what was the noises. And you come out and

[00:36:25] if you hold your eyes open during that scene, you actually get to see the truth in that you go to the window and you look outside and coyotes had broken into your yard and had killed the kittens.

[00:36:36] And you just you blocked it out when you retold your life. But in this one, you can't blink otherwise it makes you restart that section. And so you were just open eyed, staring at the mangled bodies of all these kittens that you were literally

[00:36:52] playing with like 30 minutes ago. Well, at least there wasn't dogs. Yeah, I guess. It's just a really sad cat. Wait, the mom, the big cat, I mean, the whatever cat I've ever before. As well as the mom cat lives, but it was just the kids that died.

[00:37:10] You just make some more kittens. Now I mean, he was really sad. I don't know. I don't know where you're getting from this, but I thought this was a sad game. I'm trying to be entertaining.

[00:37:20] Oh, yeah, this is probably isn't very fun with a listener, especially they like cats, but that is number 98. I only need two more games at this point. I can knock out crashing racing and big con and I'll have my 100 games for the year done.

[00:37:33] How about you believe it? You have two months. Why don't you play two good games? Dude, the big con is good and so is crashing racing. Is the big con long? No, I think it's like four hours.

[00:37:44] I guess along doesn't mean good, but, you know, it doesn't matter. You're almost done anyway. So my nightmare is over. And then I can finally stop spending 40 minutes talking about the games that have been playing every week. And with that, Navy already did what you did by section.

[00:38:00] But Naeva, I did what did I did by? Yeah, whatever you've already done. You're buying the what you did thing. I bought something. So rare. I know it's unbelievable. But yeah, well, what I bought. So, Naeve, did you know that people make games for the Xbox? Right? Yes.

[00:38:19] So they have to use some kind of developer console for their game testing and quality testing stuff like that. Right. What are we talking about? What I bought. I got lost. OK. We're getting there. Stay with me here. OK, so you get anybody can do it.

[00:38:35] You can go online to the Xbox partners, whatever, bullshit, Microsoft partners and sign up to be an Xbox developer partner. And I did 20 bucks. They let you become a developer. And then I'm able to set my retail Xbox, my Series X into developer mode,

[00:38:53] which lets me make my own games and load them up on there. But I'm not really into game developing right now. So what I'm actually using it for is you're able to side load applications on your Xbox, like almost like a jailbreak situation.

[00:39:09] Yeah, but you but they're aware of it. They are aware of it and it's all above board. You're just testing applications. So anyways, as it turns out, the Xbox Series X is a powerful console. And it can actually emulate games up to Xbox 360, surprisingly.

[00:39:28] Yeah, like the way that they emulate Xbox 360 games already. If it doesn't emulate 360 games very well in developer mode. So I would not play 360 games on there. I'm not going to bust out too human tomorrow. But it can play up to PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, GameCube. All no issues upscaled.

[00:39:48] Out of every fucking game you could have possibly named, you named a free to download game. What is? Yeah, to even is illegal to sell. Whatever. So to human, a classic. I really want to go back to it one day is on my list. I own it.

[00:40:04] I've set it up and it's just so weird sitting down, putting on Metroid Prime for the GameCube and playing with a widescreen hack, upscaling into 4K and just being able to sit down and just blast through them with my Xbox controller

[00:40:21] automatically, you know, optimize all the controls are mapped and everything. I'm like, this is so nice. I boot up Kirby Air Ride and just turn a second controller on. And all of a sudden I have two player Kirby Air Ride right from my Xbox.

[00:40:33] And it's just another app on the console. Yeah, it's really cool. Have you seen it before? Yeah, that's been a thing since Xbox One. People because I remember people were showing like Crash Bandicoot. This is before like the insane trilogy, obviously, but like they were playing

[00:40:48] like Crash Bandicoot with Xbox controllers and they're like, I'm fucking losing my mind. That looks pretty fucking cool. It's it's always been way too scared. And also, I do not understand emulation at all. So I don't even know where to begin.

[00:41:01] Well, it's like I remember back whenever I first left home and we're in our me and Janna are in our one bedroom of my apartment and we have our friends over and we're emulating like Mario Party. Yeah, I remember these fucking days.

[00:41:15] Yeah, it's like we have like USB controllers running to a laptop that's plugged in and we only have three controllers. So I'm like sitting on the floor using the laptop as a controller or whenever

[00:41:25] I went through basic training and I would hook my laptop same laptop up to like the little room in the in the like in the main room they call the day room where it's just like a room full of couches and like a TV.

[00:41:38] And I would hook up my laptop to the TV and we would play Mario Kart 64. Like just the boys hanging out like, yeah, I mean there's some about emulation just going back to these classic games. I just can't get away from it.

[00:41:50] It's crazy too, because like even way back then I remember you would whenever you lived here by that Bethesda church and that was before I knew Bethesda was like a place I thought now like, dude, this church is about fallout, bro. The fallout church is crazy.

[00:42:03] But like you'd come pick me up and you'd be listening to fucking podcasts. You'd be listening to Red vs. Or not mean the Rooster Teeth Podcast. And I'd be like, this fucking sucks, bro. Can we listen to cake or something?

[00:42:14] Like I'm like, listen, I like, dude, podcasts are stupid. I'll never like this. And then now I fucking lost all I listen to is why? I mean, I listen to a lot of music too, but then we go back to my place

[00:42:26] and we would emulate games and play them because I'd be like, no, we're not playing our Xbox ones. We're going to emulate Mario Kart. Yeah. I'm that goddamn laptop. Dude, I still have a laptop. It's what I used to edit the pod on now.

[00:42:42] Oh yeah, you showed me a little setup. God, which is better now. I'll just send you a picture. We moved all the furniture around the day and it's not as trash. All right, so this point, let's thank our backers in St. Cracker and Nick and night Michael Superbacker,

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[00:43:08] maybe that'll be available for patrons. It's only been two months. Maybe the under since you even existed it. I forgot it even existed. Not even existed. And with that, let's take a quick break and then we can hit the meat and music plays. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[00:43:25] Dude. What? So I went to that concert on Saturday. Which one? Chelsea Grin Suicide Silence. OK, I almost went to jail. Were you fighting people? No. So I was drinking, I was partying pretty hard. It was a Saturday. I mean, I don't have to work tomorrow.

[00:43:41] So I was like, it'll be fine. And also this is an extremely hard core show. So I was actually kind of scared of the mosh pit this time around. I didn't want to, you know, get fucking irreversible brain damage, which I might have contracted. That's a good name.

[00:43:55] Irreversible brain damage. Yeah, I was in the IBD. So I was drinking quite a bit. But in the in the mosh pit, I was getting rattled up. All right. Like I got hit in the back and it was like a crash test dummy.

[00:44:09] Like, you know, the fucking the fucking back and forth head motion kind of thing. I had a lot of shit going on. I fell down a couple of times, but eventually I fell down on my like so I got hit like flung across the pit

[00:44:23] and I landed on my elbow like full body force down onto my one singular elbow. And that was the thing that broke my fall. And that hurt really, really bad. And so like more than normal. And so somebody picked me up out of the pit

[00:44:40] because I was fucking still laying there, like holding my arm. And they brought me over there to the wall where like there's a couple of nurses, there's some chairs and stuff. While I was sitting there, the lady, like the little nurse person,

[00:44:51] she was like, hey, I'm going to bring you a water. And I was like, fuck yeah, dude, water. That sounds amazing right now. I'm thirsty as fuck. And so I'm holding my arm, you know, and everything. And she comes back with the water and there's a police officer.

[00:45:05] And I'm like, oh, cool. This is whatever. Well, I'm like, I might be hurt. So I was like, OK, this guy's going to be like, do you need an ambulance? You know, whatever. And so he's talking to me and I'm like, yeah, what?

[00:45:17] You know, a fell in the pit. It's no big deal. And then he like grabs my arms, like both of them. And he's like looking at him for a second. And then I'm like, yeah, it was my elbow. And he's like, OK.

[00:45:29] And then he pulls my wristband off like the little thing that says I'm 21. Yeah. I'm like, oh, OK, I don't. That's weird. I mean, whatever. I don't think I don't even think a second about it. And then the lady's like, I'm going to bring you another water.

[00:45:44] I'm like, OK, sure, whatever. And so. I don't know how drunk they think I am, but I'm really like not terribly drunk. Right? I've had like I had like two or three shots before the show and then like an

[00:45:58] hour passed and then we went to the show and I have like maybe three beers at that point, right? Yeah. So I'm not incredibly drunk, but I had been drinking. And so she comes back with a second water and then in a different police officer.

[00:46:13] And then he's like, so I'm drinking the water and he didn't say anything to me. He's just standing there. And then as soon as I finished the water, he's like he grabs me by the arm, the arm that's hurt, by the way.

[00:46:22] And he's like, you got to go. And I was like, what? He's like, you have to go. You have to go home. And I'm like, what? What do you mean? I have to go home. Weird. This is the during this.

[00:46:34] This is like right when the second band is ending, right? So like I'm it's not even the headliners are up yet. I didn't get to see the people I wanted to see.

[00:46:41] So he picks me up, like pulls me out of the chair and drags me out of the fucking out of the show, which the door is like right there. Like it's not a long distance. And so though I'm in shock. I got completely confused.

[00:46:53] And then the cop is stent is like yelling at me like you shouldn't be drinking. You know what I mean? I'm like, what they sell alcohol in there? Like, what are you talking about? And he goes, he said, you you've been told you can't drink.

[00:47:07] I'm like, I don't remember anyone fucking telling me that. And he goes, that's part of the problem. And I start laughing and he throws me to the ground. This isn't a fucking joke. I'm not joking. Like my hand hurts and shit from fucking slamming down on the ground.

[00:47:22] I didn't expect to be pushed. So I just fell straight down and then he goes, stay there. Like I'm just sitting on the ground and I'm like laughing like, what is fucking happening to me right now? Like this is insanity.

[00:47:34] And eventually so the second cop, the first cop comes up and the one that pulled the wristband thing off. And the second one puts me in handcuffs and he's like getting against the wall. And he puts me in handcuffs front ways,

[00:47:46] like not behind my back but in front of me. Like in between my I'm just like resting crisscross applesauce with fucking handcuffs on. And I'm like, I have no idea what happened. Like I have no idea what's going on. And so that dude is screaming at me

[00:48:01] about something that I can't even fucking remember. And I all I'm thinking about is like my friends are in there and I'm the right. And I'm like, well, this fucking sucks. And as soon as that cop walks off, the second cop is like you have to call somebody.

[00:48:17] And I was like, what do you mean? He's like, you have to call somebody because you're not driving home. And I'm like, you guys are fucking you're killing me. I'll call an Uber and he's like, no, you have to call somebody. You can't call an Uber.

[00:48:31] Someone has to pick you up or you're going to jail. And I was like, what are you fucking serious? So I call my friend. Do you call the people that are also tricking in the office?

[00:48:43] I was telling him, I was like, I fucking have nobody here in this city. The only people I know that are here are in that venue right now. Like and they're not going to answer the phone because they're in the venue

[00:48:53] with the music playing and I call them a bunch of times and they don't answer obviously. And so I'm like, I'm going to call my friend Don Trey. He's a trucker and he's literally out of the state right now. But I'm just going to.

[00:49:05] He's just going to have to say yes, he's going to come pick me up. And so I call him and in the cop is sitting there and he's like, he wants to he wants to hear that the guy's going to come pick me up.

[00:49:13] So he wants to speak your phone. And Don Trey is just like, dude, I'm not I'm not in Oklahoma right now. And I was like. Bro, you're gonna. I just need you to say you're coming to pick me up. And it's literally verbatim what I said to him.

[00:49:27] I said, I just need you to say you can pick me up. And he said, OK, I'm coming to pick you up. And I said, thank you, thank you, bro. Thank you. And I hang the phone up and the cop takes the handcuffs off of me. Right.

[00:49:39] And I which I don't even know why they were on me. But it's like so you didn't get wild. They didn't need to take you down again. I was not being crazy. Like I legitimately was just confused.

[00:49:52] And I was I think it was just because that guy got. I think that guy got molested by someone that looks like me as a young kid. And he was just taking his fucking anger out on me or something. He was a piece of shit, dude.

[00:50:01] And the other cop was just kind of like he was just a cop. So of course, there's a baseline of being an asshole to in order to just be a cop. But like that other guy was above and beyond the call of duty. You know what I'm saying?

[00:50:13] Like that guy was trying to get the fucking employee of the month. Yeah, RoboCop for sure. And so that guy was talking to me and eventually a belligerent couple, like a way drunker couple, who's fucking screaming is getting pulled out of the fucking

[00:50:27] front of the venue and that cop walks off. Right? There are also there's always people leaving the show early, right? So there were people like leaving and I make a very quick calculation. I'm like, OK, I think I can escape.

[00:50:42] Like I'm going to run from this fucking cop because he told me to stay there. And so I was like, OK, I'm leaving. I get up and I fucking Assassin's Creed blend with like three people walking out. And as soon as I get around the corner,

[00:50:56] I just fucking just start jockeying away like down the parking lot because I parked in the front, but I'm walking towards the back, right? I'm walking behind the building so that I had to take this really wide

[00:51:07] birth around the building so that I like I'm in the darkness. Right. I'm like literally stealth mission like Somerville style around the fucking whole entire place. I doubt they're even looking for me. But it's like, yeah, they probably don't care.

[00:51:21] But I was like, dude, I am not going to jail. You guys have me fucked up if you I didn't do anything. Like I have no fucking clue what that guy was on. But I think the only reason why that second that second cop was like even put

[00:51:36] even like you have to call somebody was because that first cop was so pissed off at me for some reason. You know what I mean? Yeah. I was I was beyond bizarre. And I am so sore all over the fucking place from that fucking mosh pit, bro.

[00:51:51] I was having a great time and then I had to just laid in my car. I just got my car just laid the seat back and laid there for like an hour and a half, just waiting for my friends to have to get done with their fun time.

[00:52:03] I'm sorry that you're being persecuted, persecuted by the police state that we live in. It's fucking wild. And you know what's really funny? Oh, so this is a fucking horrible plug. But I was I guess it on a bunch of shows, right?

[00:52:19] I guess it on Aaron and Tommy's superpod saga two weeks in a row. Yeah, so go check us out. Yeah, they're fucking amazing episodes by the way. Everybody's gotta go listen to them. It's very funny. So they're both the sixth generation games.

[00:52:32] I don't remember the title list, but it's about the six generation consoles part one and part two. And then I was on between two podcasts with Slade and that was like an interview type thing.

[00:52:43] And so if you follow us on Twitter, I mean, I shared both of those. But you should be able to find those pretty easily. Um, what was I talking about? Oh, so on Aaron and part Aaron and Tommy's show,

[00:52:56] I joke I made jokes about an abusive cop push shoving somebody down. Like the day before I went to that show, it got shoved down by an abusive cop. It is so fucking funny whenever I read the odds. Pretty high, I guess.

[00:53:11] I think cops are just aggressive naturally, but oh well. All right, and we're back. So this week instead of reviewing a game, we just kind of thought we'd take a look at some of our favorite Am I the Assels?

[00:53:22] Me and Dave each picked out one that we wanted to bring to the show. So I'll start with the one that I brought first, Dave. OK, do you want me to read it or do you want to read it? No, I'll read it. You can read yours.

[00:53:34] This is a burner account, only one post. And that's this one. And it was labeled an asshole with 15,000 upvotes. So this one got some coverage. Am I the asshole for not wanting to play a game? My girlfriend created is the title from valuable frosting 812.

[00:53:54] So your listeners home, if you're unfamiliar, people come on Reddit and they post a question that usually ends with am I the asshole and they let Reddit weigh in to see what they think.

[00:54:05] And we are going to take a look and see if we can gain a little bit more details. So let's dive in. My 27 year old girlfriend. I know he's 27. He just messed it up. My 27 and girlfriend is 24. Has been working on.

[00:54:23] I was confused with what you meant, but I was auto correcting it in my head when I was looking at it. Yeah. All right. So girlfriend has been working on a visual novel game as a side project for almost two years and recently finished it.

[00:54:35] She wanted me to play it, but I initially declined since I'm not in the visual novels or reading long stories. But after she begged, I gave it a try and played for a good 15 minutes.

[00:54:47] Now, I can tell she put in a lot of effort into the writing and the art, and it was a good start. But I just got tired of reading and stopped. She asked what I thought and wanted me to eventually finish it and tell her

[00:54:59] what I thought about the choices and the endings. But I told her I had no plans to. She looked shocked and asked if it was boring. I told her no, it's just that I'm just not into this type of genre.

[00:55:12] And she knows I'm not into reading, but asked me to make an exception this time since she made it. I got upset because I think she is being childish and wants a black male mean to doing something I don't want. After I made it clear I wasn't continuing.

[00:55:27] She hasn't talked to me. I already know that she is talented and smart. So just because I don't want to play, it doesn't mean I don't support her. Some of my friends agree she's being immature, but others think I should be more supportive. So am I the asshole?

[00:55:43] I was going to say who the fuck is agreeing that she's being immature. But I'm assuming that the way he's telling his friends and also the fact that they're his friends, like they'll obviously be taking his side. You know what I mean? Yep.

[00:55:55] I think it's he just probably has his own. All right. So I wanted to fit in this guy. I chose this one though, because I want to take the guy's side on this one. Interesting. You play in the old, the old NAV maneuver I see. Yeah.

[00:56:09] So I like to put my own business out there. Like whenever I make the podcast, it's definitely something I do. But my significant other, Jana, my wife of many years who've been married for like, I don't know, almost 10 years now.

[00:56:25] Do you know how hard it is for me to not say my wife is fucking in fucking with the borats impression every time you say that? Go on. Do you think she listens to every episode of the pod? God damn no. I hope not. I hope not.

[00:56:39] She does not. In fact, she hasn't listened to an episode in a while from what from basically what I gathered. But I mean, it's just not in her lifestyle to listen to podcasts. Like she's just not a podcast person. She used to listen up like we're at what?

[00:56:53] One hundred and thirty two or something like that. I don't even know how many episodes this is. Oh, like a hundred. Oh, Pokemon, Pokemon check. We're at over 120 something episodes at this point. Most of them over two hours long, some up to like three hours.

[00:57:07] I don't expect anyone that is like relationshiply connected to me to listen to all that crap. Even if they just put it on the background and just like let it play. I don't like my family members like my sister or my mom,

[00:57:19] any of my family that's listening to this, you don't need to listen for my sake. Seriously, go out and live your lives. There's better things to do than listen to me talk about video games for two hours a day or two hours a week.

[00:57:30] I don't feel bad if someone just said I don't want to listen to your show. Like if someone came to me and said that to me, if it's about I be hurt, obviously, I'd be like, oh no, they don't like my show.

[00:57:39] But I'd be like, fine, go on and do something else that you actually enjoy. Yeah. So it's strange that he's being. I feel like he's being overly hard about it though. Like he did 15 minutes and said that's enough. I don't know.

[00:57:53] I don't think he's as asshole as he sounds because he did not write this very flattering for himself. He definitely paints himself as an asshole the way this is read. But I don't think he's the real true jerk in this. I don't know.

[00:58:05] Like the other thing is if I was a game developer, like let's say like I, you know, I dream of making a game in the future at some point. What if I went out there and just decided I'm going to make my own souls

[00:58:14] like my own dark souls spin on it because that's cool to do. Everyone's doing it these days. And then no one in my family wants to play it after 15 minutes. But they sit down there like, well, this game is fucking hard.

[00:58:26] And I'm not enjoying my time with it and everything's ugly and brown and this sucks. And I'll be like, no, you have to. It sucks. You have to get through the suck. You have to get good. They're going to be like, no, I don't want to play this.

[00:58:37] Should I feel bad that they don't want to play this game I made whenever it's obviously not for them? We've had the not for them chat many times on this podcast or not every piece of media is actually designed for every person like inclusion and all that

[00:58:52] shit, but it doesn't apply to video games and media. What do you think you raised some interesting points? But I don't know. I think the idea of I agree with a lot of things that you're saying. In fact, I was going to go that angle too.

[00:59:07] So it's cool to hear it being said back to me because it gives me a lot more time to think, so I'm not just like vomiting out words. Like because usually I'm speaking and my brains going faster than I can speed or talk.

[00:59:19] And so it's like hard to keep my my thoughts together. But I do I think that the one thing I would want to look at is when you use your Dark Souls example, it's kind of different that a game

[00:59:32] is too difficult rather than something like a visual novel, which is something that you could just read for like 10, 15 minutes at a time. Like like a lot of people play visual novels that way. Like you're able to save at any point in any normal visual novel.

[00:59:47] And I think it's really strange that it's the complete outright dismissal that I think is kind of strange. Like whenever you want to support somebody, you you want to like involve yourself. So even if you so you're reading the visual novel,

[01:00:02] you're not into visual novels, you don't like it, right? But like there are other ways to support and he seems to not be in that mode, right? You can like show it to your friends. Like maybe it's like, OK, I don't like this.

[01:00:13] There we go for a while. I I I hate reading. I'm a troglodyte. I can't I can't breathe out of my nose. I'm constantly mouth breathing. Yeah, you can do better and then he makes all his friends download it and they start reading it.

[01:00:27] Yeah, you could do a lot of different kinds of things. It kind of seems like he's being a lot more dismissal of it. Like he's not even interested in entertaining the idea of like involving himself in the thing.

[01:00:36] I think that it's normal for your partner to want to feel like enthusiastic about the things that they are passionate about. Even if you don't like the things, right? And I don't know. Like even when you were saying like Janna looks at the like listens,

[01:00:52] listens to the podcast occasionally, whenever she feels like it. But podcasts aren't her thing anyways, right? Now she's listening to this. I think that that says a lot about how like she support. She supports you in a lot of other ways too as well.

[01:01:08] So that buys into the thing like she's taking care of the kids while you're recording the thing or like you guys have this amicable like situation that you've kind of worked out in your household so that it can it can support the podcast hobby that we have. Right.

[01:01:25] And I just don't see any of that in this in what he's writing here. It really just seems like outright dismissal of the entire thing, which is kind of strange. I don't think that she should force him, but it doesn't sound like she.

[01:01:39] I mean, she's asking him to do it, right? Like it doesn't seem like a complete forcing. I think that may be the reason why she stopped talking to him for a little while is because of how rude he was being about it.

[01:01:50] But I literally I'm in the same boat as you. OK, I'm kind of rambling now. I'm like reaching at a different a bunch of different thoughts in my head. But no, I mean, I'm checking the the the post to see what

[01:02:03] what like the general consensus is and mostly people are talking about like the years she put in like that could be a standpoint because like, I mean, we work to produce the podcast. You know, this isn't a one to one because we do what three hours of recording

[01:02:18] each week and then, you know, three hours of editing. So like six hours a week, not counting any game time we do together. It's not the same as two years of labor. I think I think one really telling thing that he leaves in here that kind

[01:02:33] of gives me insight on his on his personality and the way that he's like handling the situation is when he talks about how talking to his friends, he said some of my friends agree. She's being immature. That gives me a lot of insight on the way that he's

[01:02:48] per he's perceiving her in this entire situation where I immature is one of the last things I would say about this. I would say like disappointed and that like you're not being so that you're not being supportive of this thing that you've worked so long for.

[01:03:02] That this thing that she's clearly I mean, it's not like I doubt she went two years making this. And then when it was almost finished, she was like, oh, by the way, I'm doing this thing, right? No, definitely not.

[01:03:13] This is something that she probably spent every weekend working on a little bit. If she did the art and the writing with multiple endings. That seems like quite a bit of fucking that a lot of goes into that games are hard to make even visual novels,

[01:03:27] which seems seem simple on the surface. It's a lot going into it so complex, I bet. You're making sure that every like every story beat like falls in the right order with the right characters popping up when they talk.

[01:03:39] And if there's any like audio that goes along with it or sound effects, like I can bet like visual novels, they look simple. But I think there's way more under the hood than we even think about. Especially with choices, which is implied if there's multiple endings. It's

[01:03:55] I don't know. It's interesting because he said that she wants him to look at the endings as well. I wonder if he has a. If she expects him to go through the entire thing over and over again, like you can save in these things.

[01:04:10] So like I'm sure you just say before each choice and then figure it out. And maybe if you ask her, she'll tell you what goes where. But like I wonder if he has like a dev version of the game where you can just

[01:04:20] jump around and because she's where she said like most visual novels have like chapters in them so you can like go to each chapter if you wanted to start from a different point unless like the choices are really far reaching. Yeah, maybe. So well, here's what I'm wondering.

[01:04:34] Would this be different if he asked her or she asked him to QA the game instead of just play it like, hey, can you just see if this works? Like run through this for me because like I did a tiny bit of game development.

[01:04:47] I say tiny bit because it was like bare like fucking around in Unreal Engine 4 and I was developing a cart racer. And whenever I was working on the controls, like I completely like homemade the controls and everything.

[01:05:01] I would have my kids come over and I would make them play it. And then I would take in like, hey, how do you feel about these controls? Was it like to drive around?

[01:05:10] You know, I would try to get as much QA information out of them as I could just to see what would be easiest for someone that doesn't even play that many car racers to sit down and pick up the controls.

[01:05:20] Like maybe she doesn't have any of her friends that are down to QA her game and she wants to make it bigger. But if she can't even make it past the lowest barrier of entry, which is to have your significant other check your way.

[01:05:33] Like it's kind of it's real shitty on his side. I think that that's a big important thing is like when you're making something, this is something that I suffer with with the podcast. It's very personal and like intimate to like have to give to somebody else

[01:05:45] and be like, this is what I do. Like this is what I think is fun. This is something creative that I do. And I'm putting myself out there in this way. You were right about it being the lowest barrier of entry.

[01:05:55] Like the if you're if you're significant other doesn't want to entertain the idea that you do something creative, then that's really disheartening. Right? Like if Janna was just like podcasts are stupid and I'm not going to not even that I'm not going to listen to it.

[01:06:11] I also think that like podcasts aren't my thing. So why don't you like make music or something that's like a lot more you know what I mean? It's kind of the same feeling. Like when I I don't tell anyone I'm on a podcast for a long time.

[01:06:25] Long time for a long time if they ask, I'm like, yeah, because some people will come over and they're like, what the fuck's that microphone? I'll be like, oh, you know, I record stuff. That's what I usually say is I'll record stuff.

[01:06:38] And if they continue to engage, I'll be like, yeah, it's a podcast because I have guitars everywhere and stuff. So I don't want them to think I make music or anything, which is even more scary and personal.

[01:06:48] You know, the biggest part I get revealed or outed as a podcaster. It's whenever I start talking about video games and then I start talking about the thousands of games I play and they're like, man, you play a lot of games.

[01:07:01] And I'm like, oh, man, then we'll start talking about games. And I'll just start going into detail about something like I'll get in podcast mode and I'll be like, oh, man, well, you got to look at it

[01:07:08] from this one and they're like, man, you should you know a lot about this stuff like you're like really into gaming, right? And I'm like, yeah, I'm a kind of in the gaming.

[01:07:17] And they're like, man, do you ever do like a show or YouTube or anything like that? I'm like, yeah, I do a show. I had I can't remember what friend I was talking to you, but they told me

[01:07:28] to stop talking to them like I'm like I'm on the podcast. And I was like, no, it's it's right. I guess I was going on it on one, isn't it? Are you trying gear on him? You're like hitting him with your tight five.

[01:07:40] Yeah, dude. Oh, no, that's fucking legit. I've literally said, oh, I'm working on my material right now. I like I told him it was the fucking story. It was the turkey. That it was a tight story, though, wasn't it?

[01:07:54] It was a lot of me being upset about the cop that pushed me over. But that fucking turkey story I worked on before I showed up on the fucking podcast. I was I went to the Thai restaurant eating and I'm just texting people

[01:08:06] like telling the story and working on my jokes, seeing which one last was off the cuff. No, that's a that's a look behind the curtain. Sometimes we pre-planned some of my stories. And sometimes the notes has nothing in it. Yeah.

[01:08:23] But oh, fuck, I forgot what I was going to say. Oh, sorry. It doesn't matter. Oh, we were talking about when we get out it as a podcast. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, that was it that I've been playing games. Like I talked about this already.

[01:08:38] It's been a while, but like I would play like Rainbow Six Siege and I'll join like looking for groups and we'll be playing for a while. And then someone will be like, are you like a Twitch streamer? Or like, do you make YouTube videos?

[01:08:49] Like, why are you so on right now? Like, what's going on over here? Like the way that I play games and just try to entertain people because I have a fucking clown Philip can attest to this. I've been this way since I've been in school.

[01:09:01] I am a attention whore. I love to make people laugh. I'm always trying to go for the bit. And so it extends into my gameplay as well. It's like, I'll do whatever I will fucking sabotage my KD in a fucking game

[01:09:15] of siege to do some stupid shit that's going to make someone laugh. Oh, Dave. All right, yeah, I think this guy's an asshole, but I don't think he is the anti Christ that everyone seems to think he is in all the comments.

[01:09:26] Like he has a little bit of a leg to stand on, but he's also an idiot that just kind of needs that leg kicked out from under him at the same time. Yeah, I'm wondering if he has like a like a mental disability.

[01:09:39] Like maybe he has autism or something, you know, like maybe he genuinely doesn't understand that he's being cruel, a little cruel to his girlfriend. Yeah, I don't know. All right, which one did you find and want to bring to the table? Oh no, this one's so long.

[01:09:53] I know, let's get it out of the way. This is the one that caught my eye because I want the T. I'm really interested in the T. All right, first off, this is a throwaway account, I imagine, because the name is throwaway. Am I the asshole Pokemon go?

[01:10:11] The account. Yeah, incredible. If you check their history, they only use it for this post. All right. So as you can tell from the name, this is going to be about Pokemon Go. Am I the asshole for blowing up at my boyfriend over Pokemon Go daily gift?

[01:10:28] Let me take a sip of my gamer juice because it's going to be a long one. Everyone get some popcorn. I like how it begins. This is what caught my eye. Besides the boyfriend stuff, this first sentence says,

[01:10:38] please read the rest of the post before you judge me. I'll accept whatever judgment you guys give me falling on the sword. Very honorable. Yeah, trial by what is it? Society, I can't remember. Community trial. So I, female 26, have been with my boyfriend Damien. Name drop.

[01:10:58] Name. We've had a name in like any of them. Yeah, this is the first name Damien. Maybe there's many people in this in this winding yarn. So we need to keep everything wrapped together. All right, so boyfriend Damien male 28 for five years, two years in our relationship.

[01:11:17] I found out he was cheating on me with this with an ex girlfriend of his. Damien, I was furious and we almost broke up, but we decided to work things out, provided he cut her out of his life completely and we focus on us.

[01:11:31] Meanwhile, this is incredible already. All right, Pokemon Go was still pretty noon. So we started playing as a couple and I honestly felt it made us stronger for it since we could go on long walks together, catching Pokemon and just building our relationship.

[01:11:45] We didn't play as often as the years went by, but it was always kind of our thing that helped bring us together after any arguments or disagreements and up until yesterday. All right, and up until yesterday, I thought our relationship was good.

[01:11:57] And we were even talking about moving in together and maybe getting engaged. OK, with COVID hitting, we both we both picked it back up and have been exchanging gifts every day since we don't see each other as often due to social distancing.

[01:12:11] This post was three years ago, by the way. All right, so yesterday he offered to bring by some groceries for me. We don't live together. So I was excited since I haven't seen him in a while. That's weird.

[01:12:20] You don't have to specify when you don't live together because you said that you aren't seeing each other that often because of the relax. We live together but we aren't seeing each other very often. That makes no sense. All right, but anyway, he sent me a daily gift.

[01:12:31] I went to shock. When he sent me my daily gift, I went into shock. For those of you who don't play Pokemon Go, I feel like I should have read that dramatically. But when he sent me my daily gift, I went to shock.

[01:12:43] For those of you who don't play Pokemon Go, there are daily gifts you can send that give you various that there are daily gifts that you can send that you get from various Pokemon stops. OK, that was me.

[01:12:54] The gifts usually contain a few items and have a picture of the place you were at that gave you the gift. I don't know if this is me anymore. Well, the gift he sent me was from the park right outside the apartment of his

[01:13:07] ex-girlfriend, which he has no reason to even be near since it's miles away from either of our apartments and the grocery store. I was so pissed that by the time he came to my apartment, I was screaming and yelling so loud, I am surprised my roommate didn't call

[01:13:22] the cops. I asked him why he was at our apartment. She looks she still lives there. And he told me he wasn't. We got into a huge fight and he threw the groceries on the ground and told me I was

[01:13:32] a crazy bitch and he expected an apology from me before he would talk to me again. Here's the Am I the asshole bit? That was just the dressing. All right, my poor, wonderful roommate ate a bunch of. Wait, OK, I got whiplash.

[01:13:50] OK, my poor, wonderful roommate ate a bunch of ice. We're halfway through this fuck. Ate a bunch of ice cream with me last night and told me that Pokemon Go has an update where your buddy will bring you gifts from places that are nearby,

[01:14:03] which means you don't actually have to visit them to get the gifts from that area. Now, his ex lives way out in the boonies. There's not a whole lot out there, but I don't know how exactly.

[01:14:13] I don't know exactly how close he would have been to be able to get a gift from that place. He's not at. And now I feel now I feel sick thinking I might be throwing away a future

[01:14:23] because of a mobile game. Am I the asshole for not trusting him? All right, do you want to go through the edits first or do you want to talk? I was a little bit what would change or that it's really matter? I don't know.

[01:14:35] I don't think they could change our minds. The one thing that we do need to put in is somebody asked what the flavor of ice cream was and she stated that the that's the other thing. And seriously, just makes me feel even more crazy. But it's pecan.

[01:14:50] I hate pecan. I told him so many times that I hate pecan and it wasn't even like lactose free pecan from the Fair Life thing. It was just regular pecan ice cream. I can't go on. I was so angry and so hungry because he smashed all the groceries.

[01:15:07] And that was the only thing still left intact that we ate it. Even on our anniversary, we always get my favorite, which is mid chip. I don't know how he keeps thinking it's pecan cultured. That is that is an incredibly different flavor of ice cream for real.

[01:15:23] Pecan de mitts. Yeah, pecan de mint chocolate mint chock each other. It's different colors, right? Because there's like there's the pistachio ice cream that's like green, right? Yeah. But pecan I think is like brown. Yeah, I don't know what flavor is. Is it just vanilla pecan usually?

[01:15:43] Oh, I guess there are vanilla pecans too. I was thinking like just artificially flavored. You say the other no. OK, all right. Although there are a few not the assholes, I think it's going to be ultimately a yes. The asshole is that what that normally looks like?

[01:15:59] Yes, the asshole for me. But I'm going to wait and see regardless once my stomach settles down from the ice cream and I can talk without my voice cracking. I'll try to talk to him.

[01:16:09] Hopefully mods will let this poster man open so I can give updates on how it goes. I really like that you found the pecan ice cream flavor comment. That's a that's a fucking serious roll. Update user this guy point toicolors

[01:16:25] suggested I rehearse before I actually call my boyfriend so I can keep my voice calm and not be crazy. Five ready? You got to be like a sim and talk into the mirror. Like you figure it out. I do it so much, dude. I'm always talking to myself.

[01:16:39] This is what I do normally is if I wasn't talking to a microphone, I'd be talking into the mirror. It says I wanted to call him and it went straight to voicemail, which is fair. My roommate is going to call him.

[01:16:50] My roommate is going to call his roommate and see if Damien will call me back. The roots are getting in contact. Yeah, they're going it's going a whole level deep. All right, update question mark. I just finished updating the post and my roommate asked his roommate to tell

[01:17:05] Damien to call me. Oh my god. But his roommate is saying that it's weird because my boyfriend told him he was spending the night with his girlfriend, but he didn't spend the night with me.

[01:17:16] So now all three of us are convinced my roommate is getting on a mask and we are driving over to his place. What's going on? I love OK, so the context of getting their mask and going to see if her

[01:17:27] boyfriend's cheating on her is funnier because it's like obviously COVID related. But I'm thinking that it's like a fucking baklava. You know what I mean? It's going to be a fucking splitter cell mission. Remember no Russian. Man. OK, so that's a finger of an ending.

[01:17:46] That is an incredibly good. So I wish we fucking talked before knowing all of that to be honest, but it's too late. We can't. Sorry. Yeah. And it looks like I'm checking all her post history and everything. Yikes. There's no. There's no this one stuff.

[01:18:08] There's no follow up to see like that's just a cliffhanger, except she does state that she is on team mystic specifically. She's a team mystic. So she can't be trusted. Yeah. Besides that, no other relevant information. Woo, I took I took mine first.

[01:18:27] What's your stance on this on yours? Oh boy, man. OK, so there are obviously open wounds here. So it's cool that we got all the window dressing of like the relationship and stuff. It was important because it was exactly I mean, it pertained to all of this.

[01:18:45] But I don't know. I was going to say that she's the asshole until you told me about the pecan flavored ice cream brother. Now I've got questions, man. I think he got his girls mixed up. You think he's a cheater? Maybe looks like he's a cheater.

[01:19:00] Like it's based on the evidence. Like if this was what was it? Not persona. If this was Danganronpa, I'd be like, objection. He is roommates said that he was spending night of his girlfriends, even though he didn't know who knows where he is.

[01:19:15] So here's the thing I need to know. This is what fucks the last updates all fuck fucked me up in the brain because it doesn't specify when he told when did Damien tell the roommate he was going to spend the night with his girlfriend?

[01:19:27] Was it after he left but before he got back from the girl getting mad at that something? Because if he hasn't even returned, then how would he tell his roommate that, you know, things went bad or whatever? So his roommates probably just completely oblivious to all the stuff.

[01:19:45] And then that only complicated everything. Yeah, I definitely see how this could just be a timing issue or he is just not returned home. But if he that is the dumbest thing it could possibly do is like getting to a fight with your girlfriend goes

[01:20:01] straight to your ex's house. That seems like a very that seems like a smooth brain maneuver. You know what I mean? I mean, this guy. All right, let's go. Let's go back to the evidence.

[01:20:10] So the the thing that triggered her was that he sent her a gift that was from the PokéStop outside of his ex girlfriend's apartment that he cheated with like five years ago or whatever it was. It was a long time.

[01:20:24] So in the comments, people have clarified that you can get a gift from and this was mentioned in the Am I the asshole post also? But someone clarified that you can get a gift from anything that you can see on the map.

[01:20:39] Yeah, because I think your little follower will automatically grab gifts for you. Like I haven't played Pokemon Go in like a year. I played it even longer. You can have a follower Pokemon that walks around the map and he will

[01:20:50] collect stuff for you and it'd be like, oh, Charmander brought you a gift. And then it'll just be a random PokéStop gift. So or if this is really like they've been playing Pokemon Go since the beginning,

[01:21:05] then what if this is just a gift that's been sitting in his little inventory for a very long time? Like when he did actually cheat. What could you repeat that? I was on the like the gifts that you can just keep him for like a really long

[01:21:18] time and if he's only sending one a day, like what if this is one that's just been in the pocket for a really long time and he's just never sent it because he just clicks on whatever random one and just so happened today.

[01:21:30] He clicked on one that's been in his pocket molding the last like six years or whatever. And that's the one that triggered her. OK, so I think like so what I was going to talk about right at the beginning

[01:21:44] at the top, there is obviously some open wounds about the cheating from before. And that's obviously something incredibly fucking hard to get over. A lot of things have to if he literally if there's been no signs

[01:21:57] that he's been talking to this this ex this whole time, like he's been like on the up and up and then this one thing is what sent you into a frenzy. I understand how it would upset you. But if you if there wasn't signs from before.

[01:22:12] Then maybe you went a little too far. But it's so hard. This is such a touchy thing because that trust is incredibly fragile. Like once you once you once you as a relationship go through something like

[01:22:26] that and it's really never going to be the same in that instance. You know what I mean? You're probably never going to have that trust again. And that's something that you have to sign up for whenever you guys stay together.

[01:22:40] Like you have to be you have to understand that you're going to be under more scrutiny from your significant other. And then the partner that got cheated on is going to have to understand that how do I say this on like a victim blamer?

[01:22:56] Like you're going to have to understand that they're a human being and that people make mistakes and they can grow from those mistakes. Right. And I know cheating is like the like not a mistake,

[01:23:08] but like you're going to have to rationalize it that way if you're going to stay with them. You can't have a relationship be mutually beneficial if you're always going to have this one thing that you're going to hold over them

[01:23:23] because that can turn the relationship to a radical. I don't think that this is this girl. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just like explaining my thought process. So like you have to be able to give some leniency for your partner in some degree.

[01:23:37] But you also can't just be completely naive because it's just going to happen again. Right. There has to be a very careful establishment of boundaries. And I understand that her getting a gift from this one place is it implies something terrible.

[01:23:55] But like, does he see the place that he's sending the gift from? You do. You can see like the little picture that's attached to the gift. It's like a little. So unless this guy is incredibly dense,

[01:24:09] he probably just it's like if he went to that person's house and then got a gift from there and then sent her the gift from that knowing that she would know where that gift came from. It would be that just seems too dense to me.

[01:24:23] You know what I mean? So I don't think this guy is real dummy. He seems like a big man because he did smash up their groceries. I forget that is an important detail and only the ice cream survived. Wait, the pecan ice cream was the most un-smashable.

[01:24:42] And she can't take lactose or whatever. Wait, is that what she said? She said she likes mint chocolate chip ice cream. Yeah, but it has to be lactose free. Oh, let me see. Was this in a comment?

[01:24:55] Yeah, it had to have been in a comment because it's not in the post. Oh, but in the post, she does say once my stomach settles down from the ice cream, that implies that it upset it.

[01:25:05] She replied to one person said, it's just that I have never seen him that angry and he smashed everything. We were only able to salvage the ice cream and it's not even the lactose free stuff he buys me.

[01:25:15] So my stomach hurts both from the guilt and the dairy. The guilt and the dairy is another great. Dude, write it down. That's probably the title. So stupid. All right, so for my way in, this guy sounds like he's being shady.

[01:25:36] Like, yeah, that's what it looks like on paper. Like, I don't think she's the asshole. Like she might have been the asshole because you reacted poorly, but he reacted even worse to her reaction. So everyone kind of sucks here, but this just seems like bad relationship drama.

[01:25:51] She needs to probably like they need to talk if she wants to deal with this. That means that any time she brings up any, you know, disparaging terms that he may be a cheater, he's going to freak out and smash everything but the ice cream.

[01:26:07] Then that's what she's going to have to deal with. Or she could probably take the easiest path. I say easiest, it's not easy, but it's just move on. Like it sucks that they've been together for five years and they're going to forever have this baggage.

[01:26:21] What I this so they've been together five years, two years in the relationship, the cheating happened, and then this thing happens three years after that. So it really makes that's another that's another Tauley in the this problem. She probably didn't cheat category.

[01:26:36] Oh, yeah, if it's been three years. And then this random thing happened, but this could also have been the canary in the coal mine like you we don't have enough information to be able to definitively

[01:26:46] say anything because I feel even like even if she freaked out on him, it still feels bad to say that she is even partially an asshole. If I know it's like a real victim blaming, especially whenever he's clearly violent. I want to look at the the anger too.

[01:27:04] The anger of him being accused. If it there's literally two ways because we do not know exactly how it all went down. There's two ways you could perceive that anger. One way it is a guilty conscience of him lashing out that he's been caught.

[01:27:17] And then the other the other road being him feeling betrayed while from working so hard at not doing the thing that he's being accused of and then being accused of it anyway, because that's very, very. Yeah.

[01:27:30] She and she she admits that she blew up on him, which is, you know, a severe emotional reaction. And then her roommate was there. So she blew up on his boyfriend, on her boyfriend in front of another person.

[01:27:41] So they must have been pretty bad and he destroyed all the food. So it's like I wish I could have been a fly on the wall to see the levels of anger on each side. You know what I mean?

[01:27:52] Just to see because what if he just threw the food down and walked out and it just so happened to destroy everything? You know what I mean? Like what if it was like apples and stuff? I know. So I'm saying like, what did he throw down?

[01:28:05] They just happened to be destroyed. Turns out they had nothing but like she on bread or something like that. Just like non-breed is a break of it at the ground. Like maybe they only had a bucket of chili from Wendy's and you just look straight into the floor.

[01:28:20] It was the fucking from the office. The camera dropped the chili. Yeah. Like, no, that's all our food except for this big thing of ice cream we're going to eat after we eat all our chili. It's just a it's a dented carton of ice cream now.

[01:28:35] It's but conflict. The other weird part is that he bought the ice cream. So did he buy all the groceries? I think he would have had to because he brought her. He was bringing her groceries. That was part of the thing. Oh, that was it. I missed that.

[01:28:48] That's one sentence. I just knew that there was groceries and he smashed them. Yeah. So yesterday he offered to bring some groceries for me. Yeah. And then he's been then he broke the groceries he brought symbolizing the feeling of control. So stupid. All right, yeah.

[01:29:05] This one's tough without more information, but just on paper, I think he. Like we just don't have enough information, but it seems bad on his side. There's a lot of shade being thrown at the man being the asshole and her

[01:29:20] reaction while out of out of pocket, I guess, is that what the kids say? Maybe she went a little too hard. She would have been better at holding this information and then just looking to see if there was any other red flags or just asking him.

[01:29:35] Like, hey, yeah, they really have to talk about this. She has to be able to articulate the way that she has to articulate what exactly it was that sent her into the frenzy. And she has to be willing to compromise that she may have made a mistake,

[01:29:51] but she cannot give ground to him if he did cheat. He will use that as a fucking as an excuse. Right? Like so, that's a really hard fucking tightrope to walk, I think. Because we're talking about this infidelity, right? And it's like though and it's a long relationship.

[01:30:10] So there it's going to be extremely emotional on either side. If she if her if her reacting to this, it's like like I said before, if this is the first thing that she's seen that implied that he might be

[01:30:24] cheating and this is how she reacted, that might have been like some sort of wake up call for him. You know what I mean? Like what if something else like this happens and it's in a worse situation? Like we're alone. You know what I mean?

[01:30:36] Like he broke the rule. He should leave her and go back to the ex. Is what you're trying to say. Leave her and go back to the ex exactly. And then the girl. He stopped at her apartment or better yet, she should get back to the ex.

[01:30:51] But with both roommates and have like a triplet relationship, you know, like, yeah, except he's still a roommate with the Damien. So it's going to be really awkward when she stays the night. The Damien roommate just never just Damien just doesn't ever tell him.

[01:31:09] He's just left out of the loop. All right. I think that's all we can really say for that. Naive, what are we playing next week? Oh my God, it has been an hour and 45 minutes. I had some technical difficulties in my. Yeah, we did. I don't know.

[01:31:21] Yeah, I don't know either. We really need to play My Hero Academia. I want to get through that. Besides that, I don't know what else we've been playing. Like we have so many episodes left before the end of the year, but

[01:31:33] there's so many games I want to play. But so many I'm like, man, do we have time to really sit down and play this? Do we have time to sit down and play serious Sam, Arctic Tundra adventure or whatever? Like it's hard to find time these days,

[01:31:44] especially when you get arrested at rock shows. Are you just reading more of her comments? No, I'm looking. We have a notification on Reddit since we are always on the Am I the asshole? Subreddit, we're not getting notifications from them when a

[01:31:58] trending one happens and it says, would I be the asshole if I reported the woman who refused to pay me when I babysit her? But I said I hate children. Oh my God. Oh, that's so good. Yeah, this is the bump in one right now.

[01:32:16] God, everyone's weighing in. CVA children or not? There's two people currently typing, apparently. Dude, there's people that live on Am I the asshole? And that's like what they do for fun. This is fun. I like this place. All right.

[01:32:31] And with that, thanks for joining us this week, co partners. Maybe next time we can all be assholes together or smash the grocery. Bye.