Episode 180: Call of Duty Black Ops 6 - Covert Racism

[00:00:00] I was playing the beginning of this game and it was about the time that the third female character came out and I was like, oh no. Oh no.

[00:00:13] The characters are coming.

[00:00:14] I did! I was watching him play the game and he was like, oh I'm a woman now and I was like, woke. Woke video game!

[00:00:24] But then I saw the dude in the wheelchair and I was like, no! The youngest game I've ever seen!

[00:00:35] It looks like that. It's a bad look. It looks like that.

[00:00:41] The first two things, it was like the first two thoughts I had about it was woman character, guy in wheelchair.

[00:00:52] They got a racially ambiguous woman, part of the main cast? What are we doing here, Treyarch?

[00:00:57] Is she white? Is she brown? We don't know.

[00:01:00] Who's to say? Who's to say?

[00:01:03] Now hold on, hold on. Let's do it.

[00:01:11] That was weird. That's how everyone said yes at the same time.

[00:01:14] Hello and welcome to Gaming Together, a cooperative podcast.

[00:01:16] I'm your host Phillip and I'm here with my co-op partner, Nave.

[00:01:18] Each pod we play through a cooperative experience to relay to you, the listener,

[00:01:21] if this game is the creme de la creme of co-op or something better off playing solo.

[00:01:25] Hey Nave, what's poppin'?

[00:01:26] I think I picked up by the mic pretty good.

[00:01:28] Yeah.

[00:01:28] I want to signal to the listener that it's time to get laid back, you know?

[00:01:32] We're casual gaming. We're casual gamers again.

[00:01:34] It's time to kick it.

[00:01:35] Just relax and chillin'.

[00:01:37] We are once again returning with Rachel as our third co-op partner.

[00:01:43] Hello.

[00:01:45] And another returning co-op partner, Nick and Knight from Friday Night Gamecast.

[00:01:50] Welcome Nick.

[00:01:51] Boys, it's been too long.

[00:01:52] I'm happy to be back here for another great entry in the Gaming Together catalog.

[00:01:56] It looks like he's at night over there.

[00:01:59] The walls are so dark.

[00:02:00] That wasn't what it was like when I saw you last, right?

[00:02:03] No way.

[00:02:03] I painted this a while back.

[00:02:06] We surely have done an episode since then.

[00:02:08] I think it's just like it looks darker because there's no ambient light coming in the room.

[00:02:13] Oh yeah, you're right.

[00:02:14] It's like you're under the fluorescent light bulb like I am.

[00:02:16] I just, yeah.

[00:02:17] We have the overhead light.

[00:02:19] I wish I had better ambient lights.

[00:02:21] It's not the most aesthetic, but at least it gives me this hair crown, whatever.

[00:02:26] Yeah, well, Rachel's normally sitting there in the fucking dark being Batman.

[00:02:31] You know, I open the closet door and turn the closet light on.

[00:02:35] Is that what that is?

[00:02:36] That's what's happening here.

[00:02:38] I don't want the overhead light on.

[00:02:40] It's too bright.

[00:02:41] It hurts my eyes.

[00:02:42] It's a danger light.

[00:02:44] It's a scary light.

[00:02:45] And so I'm not using my regular webcam.

[00:02:49] So maybe it won't fall down over and over again because it's just my laptop webcam this time.

[00:02:54] Which is why it looks far worse.

[00:02:56] Because my other webcam looks way better.

[00:02:59] But since the video didn't matter, and then now all of a sudden you're like, oh, we're going to post the video.

[00:03:04] The moment that I'm like, yeah, I'm just going to use my laptop webcam.

[00:03:09] It's a possibility.

[00:03:10] Listener, we talked about it last week.

[00:03:12] We might try to do the thing if this video doesn't fuck up.

[00:03:15] But, you know, that's a crap shoot.

[00:03:18] Um, Nick, what are you guys doing over Friday Night Gamecast lately?

[00:03:23] Man, we've been doing the same old, same old.

[00:03:25] We have just had continued on with the releases.

[00:03:27] We're, you know, on a biweekly schedule now.

[00:03:30] We made that update, you know, at the beginning of the season, you know, when we started.

[00:03:34] And so we've just been kicking it off and doing just a heavy, heavy on the review side for games that either Will or myself have been playing.

[00:03:41] And then, of course, you know, we have our random topics like the most recent episode that we have up was our Spooktober 2024 episode, which I was really proud of.

[00:03:50] And I was really happy with the way that it turned out, like, honest to God, like incredible conversations between the two of us talking about Resident Evil 8 and Little Nightmares 1 and 2 and Silent Hill 2 with potentially more for that last game to come.

[00:04:04] So, yeah, I'm I'm really excited.

[00:04:07] But, yeah, that's what we've been up to over there.

[00:04:08] Not not too much else going on, though.

[00:04:10] Did you guys see that shit I posted where the Silent Hill 2 sampled the piglets big game or whatever?

[00:04:17] Yes.

[00:04:18] What's piglet doing?

[00:04:20] What's going on over there?

[00:04:21] Dude, I watched it.

[00:04:22] I watched the video where that came from.

[00:04:24] And it is horrifying.

[00:04:25] It's like it's just random.

[00:04:27] You know, in Super Mario 64, how there's that random scary level that's like, you know, it's up.

[00:04:32] It's the exact same.

[00:04:33] He's just creeping around in a mansion.

[00:04:36] I don't know.

[00:04:37] I have no context.

[00:04:40] Yeah, it's the it's the best.

[00:04:41] I just I just want to know if if piglet is ever going to have like a follow up sequel where he debriefs the audience on the union, like internal adventure into his superego that he had to go through.

[00:04:53] I think that's important.

[00:04:55] He's like hooked up to the chair from the evil within.

[00:05:00] We got to know why he's so nervous all the time.

[00:05:02] Like what happened to him?

[00:05:04] Exactly.

[00:05:05] I mean, yeah, I mean, that would be a good.

[00:05:07] I mean, he's the public domain now.

[00:05:08] Right.

[00:05:09] So I mean, we can do it.

[00:05:10] Maybe we can do it.

[00:05:13] All right.

[00:05:13] We are going to be talking about Call of Duty Black Ops six before we get there.

[00:05:17] Let's just check in what games we've been playing.

[00:05:19] Anyone want to take this first go around?

[00:05:21] Rachel, I can't stop playing vampire survivors.

[00:05:27] Boo.

[00:05:28] I can't stop.

[00:05:29] You got to be careful with that game.

[00:05:30] You have to be careful with that game.

[00:05:31] Rachel, I was up when it came out or when kind of when they first pushed me into that game.

[00:05:36] I was up till like three or four o'clock in the morning.

[00:05:39] Just playing it.

[00:05:40] Just trying to get my achievements.

[00:05:42] The first two nights I played it.

[00:05:44] I literally four o'clock in the morning.

[00:05:46] I just like I would go lay down with him and then I couldn't fall asleep.

[00:05:49] And so I'd get back up.

[00:05:50] I'll just play a little vampire survivor.

[00:05:52] It's fine.

[00:05:53] And then I'd start playing.

[00:05:54] And then I look at the clock and it's four.

[00:05:57] And it's I can't I can't stop.

[00:06:00] It's what I've been doing.

[00:06:02] It does like six hours.

[00:06:04] It does something.

[00:06:05] The music, the sound effects.

[00:06:07] It just did the lighting.

[00:06:08] It just does something to your brain.

[00:06:09] You just can't stop.

[00:06:10] Plus, you know, you're going to get those golden eggs at the end of each run, too.

[00:06:14] So you're like, I got to at least get the egg.

[00:06:17] So I've been playing metaphor re Fantasio and I'm playing in Japanese.

[00:06:21] So I have to read the words because I don't understand what's being vocally said to me.

[00:06:25] And at the end of every run and vampire survivors, you get like three or four achievements and she signed in on the Xbox.

[00:06:30] So I would just keep it would just be like a like a five minute break where I had to go take a piss or something because achievements keep popping up.

[00:06:37] I'm reading the words.

[00:06:38] I'm like, OK, that's terrible.

[00:06:41] It's really good.

[00:06:42] I'm enjoying it a lot.

[00:06:44] I also started a Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney randomly because that seemed hell.

[00:06:49] Yeah, something different.

[00:06:51] Is that still on game pass?

[00:06:53] I thought somebody told me that it fell off.

[00:06:55] I think it is.

[00:06:56] Unless okay.

[00:06:57] Unless if you own it.

[00:06:58] I probably bought it.

[00:07:00] I don't know.

[00:07:00] Trilogy at one point, but then I don't remember whether or not it fell off.

[00:07:03] I got like halfway through the first game and just got distracted.

[00:07:07] It's awesome, though.

[00:07:08] Yeah, I think I'm like two chapters or whatever they're called on those games and on the first one.

[00:07:14] So episodes.

[00:07:15] Episodes.

[00:07:16] Yeah, it's episodes.

[00:07:16] Have you have you made a verdict yet?

[00:07:19] Yeah.

[00:07:21] Yeah.

[00:07:22] Objection.

[00:07:23] OK, so yeah, you're on like this.

[00:07:25] I think I completed the second episode.

[00:07:27] So I think I am starting the third, which is like the ninja or something one.

[00:07:34] Are you in love with Edgeworth yet?

[00:07:37] Yes.

[00:07:38] OK, good.

[00:07:39] It's either him or Gumshoe, you know?

[00:07:41] Everyone loves one of those two.

[00:07:43] Gumshoe's kind of dumb.

[00:07:44] Yeah, he grows on you, especially later.

[00:07:47] I'm sure he does.

[00:07:47] Like he keeps growing.

[00:07:48] When he stops like accusing you every other episode of being the villain, the murderer.

[00:07:54] Clearly the villain.

[00:07:55] No, no, no, no investigative deduction whatsoever.

[00:07:57] He's just like, you definitely did it.

[00:07:59] You look shitty-eyed to me.

[00:08:00] He's like, you're that murderer guy, Harry whatever.

[00:08:03] Yeah.

[00:08:04] Harry nut.

[00:08:05] I don't remember his name.

[00:08:06] I think that's it.

[00:08:09] It was a translation thing.

[00:08:11] Those are like the main things.

[00:08:13] I've been playing some Bellatro, but mostly vampire survivors.

[00:08:18] Nice.

[00:08:19] It's a good spread.

[00:08:20] Great.

[00:08:22] Well, I mean, I already brought up metaphor, so I'll just cap that off.

[00:08:25] There's not much to report.

[00:08:26] I've just beat the...

[00:08:28] I got through the third area with the ship and now I'm sailing across the ocean Wind Waker style.

[00:08:36] It's fucking sick.

[00:08:37] The game is getting only more and more emotional as the journey continues and as we acquire more and more mentally damaged people to our party that need to work through their traumas.

[00:08:49] If you helped your classmate deal with the sexuality yet?

[00:08:52] I have.

[00:08:53] No, not yet.

[00:08:54] No sexuality yet, but everyone's dealing with their race issues.

[00:08:58] Oh yeah.

[00:08:58] I forgot about the race game.

[00:09:00] Yeah.

[00:09:00] We got our hands tied and full now that we've acquired a new race and there is two people tagging along as like side partners that are another race that...

[00:09:11] And now there's like race turmoil inside of our tiny ship and they're fighting bosses and they're learning to put their differences aside.

[00:09:19] It's fucking awesome.

[00:09:20] I love this game.

[00:09:21] Nate, I gotta ask you.

[00:09:22] Are you grinding at all in this game?

[00:09:25] Not...

[00:09:25] No, I'm not grinding unnecessarily.

[00:09:27] So...

[00:09:28] And you don't find that...

[00:09:29] You don't find it like...

[00:09:30] Like the difficulty spikes really crazy?

[00:09:33] Well, this game is very difficult.

[00:09:35] Um, I bet if I grind it I could do...

[00:09:37] So it does the thing in like Persona 5 where you can check and see what people who are in this point in the game, like what level they are and what they're like...

[00:09:44] What classes they're using.

[00:09:46] They're called archetypes in this game.

[00:09:47] And it's like, um, I'm pretty much in the middle at any given time and I'm doing all the side quests and I'm...

[00:09:54] I'm...

[00:09:54] I prioritize side quests then I do like can't like a...

[00:09:58] Uh, partner stuff, you know, like the side missions and then I just fuck off.

[00:10:05] I mean, there's...

[00:10:06] I'm doing everything I can at any given point so far so I'm not like running out of any time or anything so...

[00:10:12] Uh, it seems like it's a lot more lenient than Persona 4.

[00:10:15] Uh, it's...

[00:10:17] It's probably even more lenient than Persona 5 if you got...

[00:10:19] If the listeners have played those games.

[00:10:21] Um, I have missed achievements now.

[00:10:24] So I...

[00:10:24] I keep checking every now and then.

[00:10:26] There's an achievement for reading all the books and there's an achievement for debating all the debate bros and winning.

[00:10:30] And I missed a debate bro and I missed an opportunity to get a book.

[00:10:35] And so I'm like, oh, well, I'm unbelievably upset.

[00:10:38] And because of that, I downloaded a free idle game and got all the achievements in it.

[00:10:42] It only took like an hour.

[00:10:43] Oh, no.

[00:10:44] And so I needed the dopamine.

[00:10:46] Oh, no.

[00:10:46] I was depressed and now I'm back playing metaphor and it's...

[00:10:49] It's fantastic.

[00:10:51] It's not the idle game.

[00:10:52] Yeah, I got off work last night at like 1230 and got home and he's asleep and the fucking idle game is just running on the...

[00:11:01] Yeah.

[00:11:03] Just destroying the environment with his electricity consumption.

[00:11:07] It just sounds like an It's Always Sunny episode when you walk in and see Frank doing something abomination like I don't know man.

[00:11:16] Oh, Nate.

[00:11:16] It's just a little guy hitting skeletons or something.

[00:11:20] I don't know.

[00:11:21] Yeah.

[00:11:22] Yeah.

[00:11:22] When I woke up, the first thing I did was check it.

[00:11:25] Yeah.

[00:11:25] You had to check it.

[00:11:26] You had to get all your collectibles, click on all the shinies.

[00:11:28] I'm a slave to it.

[00:11:31] All right.

[00:11:31] Well, Nick, it looks like you're playing metaphor too.

[00:11:35] Yeah.

[00:11:35] Yeah.

[00:11:35] I...

[00:11:36] So, I'm behind...

[00:11:38] I don't know if I'm shortly behind where Nave is.

[00:11:40] I'm doing all of the stuff that's leading up to infiltrating the airship because we're going there for an objective.

[00:11:47] So, I don't know if that's like one level or two level more like areas because they're like not really levels.

[00:11:53] They basically are kind of like zones and hubs and you can teleport in between them.

[00:11:57] I mean, this game is incredible, man.

[00:11:59] Like, and Nave and I have talked offline to each other about just like how astounding the writing is for this game and just like gushing over the individual characters.

[00:12:08] And that's what I think like sets this game apart from even Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which was the front runner for me in terms of the game of the year and just the love and the care that was put into that game.

[00:12:18] Here, it's like I see that energy, you know, tenfold.

[00:12:22] Right?

[00:12:23] And so, it's just like, yeah, this is not too much to add on because again, it's a very new game.

[00:12:27] I don't want to spoil it for people who might be listening out there and everything that's going on.

[00:12:31] But like, yeah, I am min-maxing this game.

[00:12:35] The reason why I ask you, Nave, is because I am grinding.

[00:12:38] I'm choosing to like whenever you hit dungeons, they have these like, I don't know if they call them eggs or seeds or whatever, but they spawn mob enemies.

[00:12:46] And what you can do is you can, if you position yourself in between two of them, I literally have just like clicked the sound, thrown on a podcast, listen to a game together, listen to a Pixel Project radio episode or whatever.

[00:12:56] And I've just grinded and just like killed them.

[00:12:59] And if you do that while you spec into the merchant class, because the merchant class is something that you can get very early on, you can just rack up so much money.

[00:13:07] And that kind of will eliminate all of the issues that you'll have later on in the game when you want to get in-game weapons or armor.

[00:13:13] And so I'm sitting on like $3 million right now.

[00:13:17] And so, yeah.

[00:13:17] And like I have most of the archetypes that I like switching in between for the cast members that I have right now in the party.

[00:13:25] Like I have most of those at level 20 as well.

[00:13:29] So it's just kind of doing a little bit of the grind there.

[00:13:32] But I feel like I'm going to stop now and try to play the game, just go through it, coast through it, and like based off of whatever normal encounters instead of trying to do like mid-max hacking.

[00:13:42] And just to kind of like see where I land with it or how everybody goes.

[00:13:45] I feel like I can do that from this point onwards.

[00:13:48] But yeah, Metaphor is great.

[00:13:49] Play it.

[00:13:49] Buy it.

[00:13:50] Do it as quick as you can.

[00:13:53] And yeah, and like I said earlier, you know, I beat Little Nightmares 1 and 2 in those games.

[00:13:58] I don't know if everybody on the show here has played those games, but they're legitimately just the first one.

[00:14:04] Yeah.

[00:14:04] Oh, Phil, you owe it to yourself to play the second one if you can find it on a discount or maybe find it on a library somewhere.

[00:14:10] It's currently on Humble Bundle probably out by the time this episode goes out.

[00:14:14] But you can pick up the second game, the special edition with DLC for like $3 or something.

[00:14:21] Oh, yeah.

[00:14:21] Oh, yeah.

[00:14:22] And it's so good.

[00:14:23] And it's like both of those 1 and 2 are almost because of how consistent Tars of the Year Studios was in developing those games.

[00:14:29] They're like the perfect like chapter 1, chapter 2 of the same story.

[00:14:35] Like it just picks back up and ties into itself very, very neatly.

[00:14:39] And there's a lot of cool stuff.

[00:14:40] There's a spoiler in our episode where we talked about it or we were doing theory crafting as to what was going on with that game.

[00:14:46] And it's just it's awesome.

[00:14:47] It's disgusting.

[00:14:48] It's scary.

[00:14:48] But yeah, other than that, I have picked up Veilguard.

[00:14:51] I am playing it.

[00:14:53] I haven't gotten super far.

[00:14:55] You're talking about a real horror game, am I right?

[00:14:56] Yeah.

[00:14:57] Yeah.

[00:14:57] I just I need to I need to play all of this.

[00:15:00] This is my goal is just to play all of the all of the like the games, the contenders this year.

[00:15:06] And I think that Veilguard for, you know, for better or worse, it's going to be a contender.

[00:15:10] I really like the action combat in this game.

[00:15:13] Like, I don't think that there's really that much of a problem with it.

[00:15:15] I'm having a good time playing as like a rogue where he's got the dual blades.

[00:15:19] I'm flipping around the mob enemies.

[00:15:21] The combat isn't like going to be super.

[00:15:25] They're not going to ask a lot from you in this game in terms of combat once you kind of figure out how to do it.

[00:15:30] This is actually my very first Dragon Age game I've ever played.

[00:15:34] I've just seen stuff from from there.

[00:15:37] I've seen stuff from Veilguard and I've seen stuff from Origins.

[00:15:39] So, yeah, there's a lot of stuff that I don't know about the legacy characters in this game.

[00:15:43] And I am coming into it kind of with a blind eye.

[00:15:45] But I'm trying to keep an open mind about it.

[00:15:47] See where it takes me.

[00:15:49] See if I have to grit my teeth and bear through some dialogue here and there that I've been spoiled for so far.

[00:15:55] But I'm going to give it a fair shake and see where I land with it.

[00:15:58] But yeah, there's definitely two camps of people who enjoy this game.

[00:16:02] And it's people who haven't played Origins and people who just don't play RPGs in general.

[00:16:07] Like that seemed to be like the people who are like, this is a game of the year contender.

[00:16:12] Because like out of context, I think the game is fine, especially with the combat.

[00:16:16] And if you just mute the dialogue and just listen to music the whole time, it's probably a vibe.

[00:16:20] You know, it's probably like Earth Defense Forest or you're just killing mobs.

[00:16:23] Oh, yeah.

[00:16:24] I don't know.

[00:16:25] I got a message when Veilguard came out from friend of the pod, JP, childhood friend.

[00:16:29] He just out of the blue messaged me.

[00:16:31] Oh, no.

[00:16:31] And he's like, my dude, have you played Veilguard yet?

[00:16:34] They completely ruined the combat system.

[00:16:36] And I'm like, I've seen more people angry about breast reduction than the combat system.

[00:16:43] But go on.

[00:16:43] And he's like, they've taken away any tactical choice.

[00:16:46] Now you just go out and just murder things.

[00:16:48] Well, that's what I'm saying, though.

[00:16:50] It's like people who haven't played Origins would, if you play the game out of context of like the whole Western RPG ecosystem,

[00:16:57] it's like, oh, this is a pretty decent game.

[00:16:59] But like once you start racking up more and more experience in this genre, it's like, oh, this is like, wow.

[00:17:06] This doesn't change.

[00:17:07] Baby's first RPG.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:09] Well, here's the thing.

[00:17:09] I mean, Will and I played Dragon's Dogma 2 this year.

[00:17:13] And my disdain for that game is well documented.

[00:17:15] However, the best part of Dragon's Dogma 2 is the combat system.

[00:17:21] And this combat system isn't super far from the way that you operate and control your character.

[00:17:27] It's like the Veil Guard is like so much closer to an ARPG, to a Diablo, just in a third person over the camera than anybody would have ever imagined,

[00:17:35] especially myself, just like in thinking about what these games were.

[00:17:39] I know that the combat system in 2 had people kind of like wishy-washy on it.

[00:17:44] It wasn't the best, but it was engaging enough to be addictive.

[00:17:47] And then I don't know what anybody says about the Veil Guard, but I'm coming to it from like completely fresh eyes, too,

[00:17:53] because I've been playing nothing but turn-based JRPGs or like turn-paced games.

[00:17:58] I put a big chunk out of Baldur's Gate 3, which is, of course, it's like the one-to-one comparison that everybody's going to make.

[00:18:06] I really don't think like in Veil Guards and Bioware's defense, I don't think that these two games,

[00:18:13] I mean, they share the narrative RPG elements of them trying to tell a story that's been laid out for you

[00:18:18] through the various party members you have.

[00:18:20] But beyond that, there isn't too many similarities that I feel like should be drawn,

[00:18:26] just because they're so diametrically opposed in the systems that they create in those games.

[00:18:30] Do you know why they keep getting compared, Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age Veil Guard?

[00:18:35] Well, because Baldur's Gate is the best written game that we've gotten in like 20 years.

[00:18:40] That's not fair. I mean, that's the unfair reason, but do you know what the fair reason is?

[00:18:46] No.

[00:18:47] Because Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were made by Bioware.

[00:18:51] No way?

[00:18:52] Yes.

[00:18:52] I didn't know it was Bioware.

[00:18:55] I didn't know it was Bioware. That's crazy, actually.

[00:18:57] Because I know that...

[00:18:58] That's why. It's like such a slap in the face to people that like the old Bioware.

[00:19:03] Do people like those games, though?

[00:19:04] Because before Baldur's Gate 3, I didn't even know it was a franchise, frankly.

[00:19:10] I mean, I tried the first one and I couldn't, but it's because it's old.

[00:19:14] My dad really liked those games when I was a kid.

[00:19:16] Like, they were huge in their time, yeah.

[00:19:18] But there's definitely nothing like how Baldur's Gate 3 is.

[00:19:20] Because I just remember, like, I've been, like, oversaturated with Baldur's Gate my whole life.

[00:19:26] So I've just, like, worked.

[00:19:26] Yeah.

[00:19:27] I know all these characters.

[00:19:28] I still haven't played 3, but, like, I know all the characters because I just, like...

[00:19:33] I like Baldur's Gate as a story.

[00:19:36] Interesting, yeah.

[00:19:37] That's really cool, though.

[00:19:38] So, yeah, I had no idea.

[00:19:39] I mean, the only reason why I knew about Larian was Divinity Original Sin 2.

[00:19:43] And that's a fucking game right there.

[00:19:45] Baldur's Gate 3 is literally just Divinity again, but better.

[00:19:49] Like, it's very good, though.

[00:19:52] Yeah.

[00:19:52] But, yeah.

[00:19:53] So that's the Veil Guard.

[00:19:54] Last thing I do want to point out because there are...

[00:19:56] I would say all three of you would really get into this game.

[00:20:00] And I don't know if you have already.

[00:20:01] You've probably seen the Goof Troop mutterings in the chat between Jono, Nate, and I.

[00:20:06] But Pokemon TCG Pocket is really fucking good, guys.

[00:20:11] It's really good, Phil.

[00:20:14] And you don't have to spend any money on it.

[00:20:15] It's free 99.

[00:20:17] And you can collect all your Pokemans.

[00:20:20] Is this Pokemon's version of Arena?

[00:20:22] Is that what this is?

[00:20:23] Well, Pokemon already has...

[00:20:25] They already have that.

[00:20:26] They have Pokemon trading card online, which I played the crap out of.

[00:20:30] And so...

[00:20:31] This is just in the mobile version.

[00:20:33] Can you redeem cards?

[00:20:34] We're all talking at once.

[00:20:35] But can you redeem cards, like, in the mobile TCG like you can in Pokemon online?

[00:20:41] I don't think so.

[00:20:42] Because they have such a limited...

[00:20:44] They have such a limited Pokedex.

[00:20:45] And I think what's going to happen is that slowly, over time, they're going to, like, expand the Pokedex.

[00:20:49] But there's only, like, 200 entries that you have to unlock.

[00:20:56] I'm pulling it up right now to look at it on my phone.

[00:20:58] But if I'm looking at it, yeah, it's 226 cards.

[00:21:01] And this is of, like, the original...

[00:21:04] You can't see anything on my phone.

[00:21:05] But, yeah, it's, like, mainly the original, like, Kanto region, like, stuff.

[00:21:09] Like, you have your typical Mewtwo, Charizard, Zapdos, Maltris, whatever it is.

[00:21:16] Are these specific cards for the game?

[00:21:18] It's literally the cards from real life that they have.

[00:21:22] Basically, just the digital copies of the game.

[00:21:26] And I don't think...

[00:21:26] Like, Bayside and Jungle and stuff?

[00:21:28] Yeah.

[00:21:29] Yeah, exactly.

[00:21:30] And so...

[00:21:30] The problem with Arena right now is that they have the fucking...

[00:21:33] What is that game mode?

[00:21:34] They have cards specifically for Arena.

[00:21:36] Alchemy.

[00:21:37] In Magic.

[00:21:38] Alchemy.

[00:21:38] AIDS.

[00:21:39] They literally patch...

[00:21:41] They nerf and buff cards in Magic Arena.

[00:21:44] It makes...

[00:21:44] They have a whole, like, team dedicated to alchemy.

[00:21:48] And, like, cards made for alchemy.

[00:21:50] And then it dictates also what's printed in paper.

[00:21:53] Which is the most frustrating part about it.

[00:21:56] Instead of just, like...

[00:21:58] Pokemon being like, okay, these are the cards we have in paper.

[00:22:02] We'll put them in this game.

[00:22:04] Literally, people in alchemy will go...

[00:22:06] Will see previews of cards and be like, can you word this differently so it works better in alchemy?

[00:22:11] And so now, literally, the whole format of cards has changed.

[00:22:15] So that...

[00:22:16] It's so weird.

[00:22:18] It...

[00:22:18] Now, are we talking about Magic?

[00:22:19] Or is this talking about Pokemon?

[00:22:21] Magic.

[00:22:21] We're talking about Magic.

[00:22:22] Okay.

[00:22:23] We're Magic-brained.

[00:22:25] I...

[00:22:25] No, that makes sense.

[00:22:26] I can't stop.

[00:22:27] I would just say that, like, the graphics are really cool.

[00:22:31] The sound design is really awesome.

[00:22:33] And as soon as you...

[00:22:35] And, like, it's very, very easy to get, like, some of the meta decks.

[00:22:39] Like, I'm going for a Mewtwo EX deck right now.

[00:22:41] And it's got Mewtwo and a Guardevoir.

[00:22:43] And I'm, like, you know, just throwing them out there as quick as I can.

[00:22:47] Get a couple of Professor Oaks to pull my cards early.

[00:22:50] Yeah, it's really fun.

[00:22:51] It's really fun.

[00:22:52] And then, like, I don't know.

[00:22:53] It's just...

[00:22:53] This is one of those that...

[00:22:54] It's fun because there are a couple of different metas.

[00:22:57] Like, I'm working on...

[00:22:57] I got my Mewtwo deck.

[00:22:58] I'm working on my Pikachu EX deck right now.

[00:23:01] So I can get that quick attack in if I ever wanted to.

[00:23:03] But, no, it's a good time.

[00:23:05] And it's just a cool thing where it's, like, if I can't really play anything serious,

[00:23:09] I can throw an anime on TV and then just pull out my phone and just go bloop, bloop, and do the Pokemon.

[00:23:15] Does it, like, teach you how to actually play the card game?

[00:23:18] Yeah.

[00:23:18] Yeah.

[00:23:18] No, it's really cool.

[00:23:19] And it's not...

[00:23:20] I mean, I imagine that it's not simplified, but I think the rule sets are one-to-one.

[00:23:25] Like, you have to apply your energy to the Pokemon.

[00:23:28] And you have to make sure that, you know, if you're going to retreat, you're deducting whatever energy you have.

[00:23:33] So it's, like, you can...

[00:23:35] Like, it does ask you to be relatively tactical if you want to win against in a PvP setting.

[00:23:39] Like, I've had some people...

[00:23:41] Like, people are actually kind of troll-y in the PvP setting.

[00:23:44] Like, some of them, as soon as they realize once my Mewtwo EX deck, like, gets pulled out, they're like, oh.

[00:23:49] And then they literally just try to freeze me out by running up their time.

[00:23:53] Yeah, run up the time.

[00:23:54] Run the clock.

[00:23:55] I can't see that shit, man.

[00:23:57] And it's, like, a lot of people trying to get me to, like, play Pokemon.

[00:24:00] And I'm just...

[00:24:01] I don't know how.

[00:24:02] I've never actually played the card game.

[00:24:04] It's literally so easy.

[00:24:05] You could probably literally intuit it.

[00:24:07] I'm probably...

[00:24:09] There's, like, a guy that I work with and he wears, like, a lab coat because he does all the Pokemon events.

[00:24:15] Hell yeah.

[00:24:15] There's a Pokemon.

[00:24:17] That's awesome.

[00:24:17] Yeah.

[00:24:18] Does he go by Professor or something?

[00:24:20] He does, yeah.

[00:24:21] Professor Cedarwood or something?

[00:24:23] Um, I have...

[00:24:23] Or Dogwood himself.

[00:24:25] Jesus fucking Christ.

[00:24:27] Nave ran into the other room.

[00:24:29] What are you doing?

[00:24:31] We have an inside...

[00:24:32] We have the inside scoop on the Nave household.

[00:24:34] Uh, I think there's a closet.

[00:24:35] I've never seen this part of the apartment.

[00:24:37] I've only seen the POV into the living room.

[00:24:40] Uh, his name is Professor Mahogany.

[00:24:43] Sorry.

[00:24:43] I'm present on Discord, so I had to find it.

[00:24:46] That's what's up.

[00:24:47] But, yeah.

[00:24:47] Are you doxing the guy?

[00:24:49] Well, I'm sure it's not his real name.

[00:24:51] I'm doxing Professor Mahogany.

[00:24:54] Who wears a lab coat.

[00:24:56] What is the little Pokemon that kind of looks like a, like, a caterpillar?

[00:25:01] Caterpie?

[00:25:02] Look.

[00:25:03] No, it's a different one, I think.

[00:25:05] Weedle.

[00:25:06] Oh, shit.

[00:25:06] Do you have a bunch of Pokemon cards?

[00:25:08] I have a Pokemon deck.

[00:25:09] A functioning Pokemon deck.

[00:25:11] Oh, hell yeah.

[00:25:11] Is it still functioning?

[00:25:13] Nah, man.

[00:25:13] All those cards are out of date.

[00:25:15] Okay, that made it so much worse.

[00:25:18] Oh, my God.

[00:25:19] That overhead light is crazy.

[00:25:21] That is what I don't have at all.

[00:25:22] Show them the Charizard.

[00:25:24] Or no, the Charizard.

[00:25:24] The Snorlax.

[00:25:26] And the...

[00:25:27] Look at her go.

[00:25:28] You can tell she works in a card shop because she's shuffling through it so quick.

[00:25:33] Oh, yeah.

[00:25:33] We got a full art gold?

[00:25:35] Oh, my gosh.

[00:25:36] Is it a foil?

[00:25:38] Yeah.

[00:25:38] That's a Dragonair.

[00:25:39] Yo, that's so cool.

[00:25:41] That's awesome.

[00:25:42] And then we've got...

[00:25:45] That's not going to do anything at all.

[00:25:47] We got another full art Snorlax.

[00:25:50] Snorlax, let's go.

[00:25:51] That's actually really sick.

[00:25:53] I'm super jealous of you.

[00:25:55] You know, I had a...

[00:25:56] Are those the only cool cards in this day?

[00:25:58] The rest are comments.

[00:26:00] I have really fond memories as a kid when Pokemon first popped off and I was in third or fourth

[00:26:07] grade or something like that and my parents getting me the cards.

[00:26:10] And, like, for a solid, like, two months there, like, that all of my allowance as a kid was

[00:26:15] spent on trying to get the Pokemon cards.

[00:26:17] But then I made the mistake of bringing my binder to school and I'm, like, 99% sure

[00:26:22] that fat kid Richard fucking took it and he put it somewhere.

[00:26:26] And I was so devastated I could never go back.

[00:26:28] Dude, I had a fucking Black Skull Dragon Yu-Gi-Oh deck that I lost.

[00:26:33] I didn't have Pokemon.

[00:26:35] I only had Yu-Gi-Oh.

[00:26:36] I was obsessed with Yu-Gi-Oh and I'd, like, go to my dad's work and then work so that I

[00:26:43] could get a Yu-Gi-Oh deck with him.

[00:26:45] But it was just him babysitting me at work.

[00:26:47] Dude, classic.

[00:26:48] You know, it attracted the thieves, dude.

[00:26:50] I think the Yu-Gi-Oh was the worst.

[00:26:52] Because I got, like, four or five decks stolen Yu-Gi-Oh.

[00:27:04] Oh, we're opening a pack live on camera.

[00:27:07] We're opening a fucking pack.

[00:27:08] Oh my gosh.

[00:27:08] A fucking Guru Smoo?

[00:27:10] A Sanchalot?

[00:27:12] There's a Pokeball.

[00:27:13] A ball?

[00:27:15] A horse?

[00:27:16] Yeah, it's a horse.

[00:27:18] It's a fucking horse.

[00:27:20] That was a garbage deck.

[00:27:21] Yeah, it was a bad pull.

[00:27:22] It was a really bad pull.

[00:27:23] I wonder if I have any free foundations packs on Arena that I can open roll.

[00:27:28] We did not have the Jews for that.

[00:27:30] They have a fucking-

[00:27:31] They printed a fucking two-card infinite combo in Arena.

[00:27:35] Or in any foundations.

[00:27:36] Not in Arena.

[00:27:36] It's in paper.

[00:27:37] Guy walked up to me last night or the night before and was like,

[00:27:40] look what I got in my pre-release kit.

[00:27:42] Here's my deck.

[00:27:43] And I was like, oh, let me look at it.

[00:27:45] First two cards is just an infinite combo.

[00:27:48] And I was like, oh, cool.

[00:27:50] I'm so happy for you.

[00:27:51] I hope you win.

[00:27:52] And it's not even on accident.

[00:27:55] They literally-

[00:27:55] It's fun.

[00:27:56] It's a known type of combo.

[00:27:59] All right, we got another pack going.

[00:28:01] All right, we got Dratini.

[00:28:04] Yep, another one.

[00:28:04] Dratini, okay, let's go.

[00:28:06] Golem.

[00:28:07] Oh.

[00:28:08] Oh, shit.

[00:28:09] Oh, shit, we got Let's Go.

[00:28:10] What the fuck is that?

[00:28:11] Let's fucking get Articuno EX.

[00:28:14] Articuno EX.

[00:28:15] We are so back.

[00:28:16] And we are so back.

[00:28:18] You go from the full art of the Articuno to the crown.

[00:28:23] Drawing him on Lee.

[00:28:25] Yeah, dude, that's the most jarring thing about Pokemon, I think, is the inconsistency with

[00:28:30] the art.

[00:28:31] Yeah.

[00:28:31] Yeah.

[00:28:31] That's another thing with Yu-Gi-Oh, too.

[00:28:33] I think, I just, dude, Magic's art is fucking great.

[00:28:36] And it definitely used to be better.

[00:28:39] Now, because now we've got things like Duskborn where everything looks like fucking goofy goobers.

[00:28:45] Valgovak is an incredibly cool character that they have created in Duskborn.

[00:28:51] I don't know.

[00:28:52] I don't know what that is.

[00:28:53] He's super fucking cool looking.

[00:28:55] So Duskborn has some very cool art and character design.

[00:28:58] Some of the characters in Duskborn look like they'd be right at home in Dragon Age Veilguard

[00:29:02] is what I'm trying to say.

[00:29:04] Oh, yeah.

[00:29:04] I thought you guys were talking about that game Duskborn that was made by those European

[00:29:11] devs in Quantic Dream.

[00:29:12] I actually played that game at PAX.

[00:29:15] How was it?

[00:29:16] And it was really bad, but I was assuming that it was like early alpha, right?

[00:29:20] Yeah.

[00:29:21] And then like the game came out to no acclaim.

[00:29:25] And any claim that it has was just people, basically just the DEI haters online that absolutely

[00:29:33] just decimated it.

[00:29:34] The way that Arena does their PAX is not as good.

[00:29:37] This is the pack that I just opened, but you can't see anything because they're tiny

[00:29:41] cards.

[00:29:41] Yeah, I can't see anything on there.

[00:29:43] So Arena is the Pokemon TCG for Magic.

[00:29:49] Yeah, for Magic.

[00:29:51] So it's like the Pokemon TCG, but instead it's the Magic the Gathering.

[00:29:54] Did they shut down the PTGO?

[00:29:58] MTGO?

[00:29:59] PTGO?

[00:29:59] PTGO?

[00:30:00] Is that what it's a Pokemon trading card online?

[00:30:03] Game online.

[00:30:03] Game online?

[00:30:04] I think that's what it's called.

[00:30:05] Maybe.

[00:30:06] Maybe.

[00:30:07] That would be tragic.

[00:30:08] You know how Nintendo does.

[00:30:09] Whenever they decide to come out with a new thing, they just completely just flush all

[00:30:14] of the work they had done before on any stuff.

[00:30:17] You guarantee you if they come out with another Pokemon MOBA, Pokemon Unite is just going to

[00:30:20] get right down the drain.

[00:30:22] All right.

[00:30:22] Pokemon TCG online started in 2011 and is apparently still available.

[00:30:28] So you can keep playing it.

[00:30:29] Good.

[00:30:29] Good for them.

[00:30:30] They rebooted that thing like two times though because it was so bad every time they made

[00:30:34] it.

[00:30:35] Yeah.

[00:30:36] Yeah.

[00:30:37] I believe you.

[00:30:38] Yep.

[00:30:39] All right.

[00:30:39] Moving on to my games I've been playing.

[00:30:42] Octopath Traveler 2.

[00:30:43] I've been playing it in Japanese voices and text, Snave.

[00:30:47] And I'm a very slow reader.

[00:30:49] So I'm at like 90 hours in this game and still have not finished it.

[00:30:54] You've got 200 hours ahead of you.

[00:30:55] I think I see the finish line coming.

[00:30:57] It's up there.

[00:30:59] No.

[00:31:00] There's no way that game.

[00:31:02] That game is so incredibly long, though.

[00:31:03] It is so long.

[00:31:04] And it's like the level cap.

[00:31:06] So you're talking about like difficulty spikes or whatever.

[00:31:08] Like they fully expect you to just like go off and grind for like six hours in between

[00:31:13] each main mission where it's like, oh, the recommended level for this mission is 45.

[00:31:18] And I'm like, hey, I'm like 43.

[00:31:20] That's good enough.

[00:31:21] Right.

[00:31:22] I didn't know.

[00:31:23] No.

[00:31:23] Those two levels make a huge difference.

[00:31:26] The biggest difference.

[00:31:27] God damn.

[00:31:28] It's so hard.

[00:31:29] I feel like I feel like Atlas does the same damn thing for this, whether it's Persona

[00:31:33] three reloaded or or my experience with with metaphor.

[00:31:36] Like, I feel like if you want to have a relatively easy breezy time, you better fucking grind.

[00:31:43] Persona three and four are much grindier than five.

[00:31:46] I assume because I like I said, I'm not having too much trouble with metaphor, but I do die.

[00:31:51] Like, right.

[00:31:52] Rachel saw me do the boss fight for in the ocean and he killed.

[00:31:57] He one shot me like three times and I was like, oh, OK, that's fucking because they do

[00:32:01] have that thing.

[00:32:03] If you know, you're going to get clapped out.

[00:32:04] Yeah.

[00:32:05] But this is the thing is like they'll have one turn and he goes, I have five actions now

[00:32:09] instead of two.

[00:32:10] And now and then he just fucking hits everyone with a bunch of attacks.

[00:32:14] And I'm just like, well, I couldn't have possibly predicted that.

[00:32:17] But he doesn't have a tell.

[00:32:18] But I mean, I think even though I'm I'm a I'm capable of being killed or like an entire

[00:32:23] fight just ruined, I can still just rewind or reload and then just do the fight again.

[00:32:27] And it's not a big deal.

[00:32:28] It's not like if you die in golden sun, you have to fucking walk all your guys.

[00:32:35] Yeah.

[00:32:35] Golden sun.

[00:32:37] Are there?

[00:32:37] But, you know, we talked about how charming the party was in metaphor is the party in

[00:32:41] Octopath Traveler to really good.

[00:32:44] Yeah.

[00:32:44] Sadly, it's like.

[00:32:45] Sadly, it's almost sad because it's like like I tear up at some moments because I spend

[00:32:51] so much time with these characters and you think like, oh, you know, how deep can we

[00:32:57] get into a a pixel based game?

[00:33:01] But it's fully voice acted.

[00:33:02] You spend so much time walking around traveling with like the trader.

[00:33:07] And as you as you go, you start getting like flashbacks even more to learn more about these

[00:33:12] characters.

[00:33:12] characters.

[00:33:13] And it's really well done.

[00:33:16] And they didn't have this in the first game, I don't think.

[00:33:18] But they have moments where it's just like while you're walking, a little thing will pop

[00:33:22] up and it'll be like a skit, I guess.

[00:33:24] And you can like press it and then you'll have an interaction between two of your party members

[00:33:28] that are like, hey, the healer would be like, oh, you know, I saved.

[00:33:33] You know, yeah, we like tails.

[00:33:35] Or it's like your soldier.

[00:33:37] Or it's named like light or whatever.

[00:33:39] He's like, oh, Akari.

[00:33:41] That's it.

[00:33:41] He's like, I killed like a thousand people in this battlefield, you know, one point.

[00:33:46] And then the healer is like, well, I saved like a thousand people on this same battlefield,

[00:33:50] you know, so many years before or whatever.

[00:33:52] He's like, we were on the same battlefield as like a medic.

[00:33:55] And he was like a captain at the time.

[00:33:58] And I'm like, that's that's pretty badass where like we're getting more backstory without

[00:34:02] it being physically shown.

[00:34:04] And this is just a quick little one off text conversation.

[00:34:07] So it's it feels like the thousand dreams or whatever in Lost Odyssey.

[00:34:13] Yeah.

[00:34:13] Where you get like stories of like the characters from before you got to play as them.

[00:34:18] And I love that.

[00:34:21] Incredible game so far.

[00:34:22] I'm definitely going to finish it as my final Japanese game.

[00:34:26] I'm trying to put off everything else.

[00:34:28] I got a Steam deck now loaded with games, ready to play.

[00:34:31] It's like a robot.

[00:34:33] Oh, yeah.

[00:34:34] Am I going to go robot mode?

[00:34:35] I wasn't sure if it was just me.

[00:34:37] You're back.

[00:34:38] You're back.

[00:34:38] Yeah, I'm back.

[00:34:39] But Octopath Traveler, good.

[00:34:41] Going to keep playing it before I play anything else, except for, of course, Black Ops, which

[00:34:45] we're going to talk about later.

[00:34:47] And that goes right into being super emotional because I was just thinking about I was waiting

[00:34:51] for you to finish.

[00:34:52] But like there is this part, the side mission with this character that owns a shop, like

[00:34:57] the magic equipment that people used to use magic.

[00:35:00] And like there's this part where she I don't know how far you are in it, Nick, but you should

[00:35:04] be pretty close to where I'm at because we're close to the same area.

[00:35:06] But like she is like things are just going getting worse and worse for her.

[00:35:11] And she specifically says, why won't you let me give up?

[00:35:15] And I was like sitting there staring at that like with a tear in my eye.

[00:35:19] And then Rachel's just next to me playing Vampire Survivor.

[00:35:22] So I'm just trying to not cry.

[00:35:23] She's like laying back on me.

[00:35:25] And I'm just like holding it in, like gripping the controller.

[00:35:28] Into the background, he goes, I can feel his tension and I just can't even care because

[00:35:37] I'm just so fixated on the Vampire Survivor.

[00:35:42] He's like, did you see that?

[00:35:44] And I'm like, yeah, I totally saw that.

[00:35:47] Really good stuff.

[00:35:49] One of the even even one of the sillier side missions is like it gets serious.

[00:35:54] And I'm just like, wow.

[00:35:55] Wow.

[00:35:56] Like, it's so good.

[00:35:58] All right.

[00:35:59] Put us on.

[00:36:00] Oh, there's this.

[00:36:01] I think are we moving to what did they buy?

[00:36:03] Oh, yeah.

[00:36:04] What did they buy?

[00:36:07] Oh, so I'm playing the PlayStation.

[00:36:10] Apparently, boys, look at me over here.

[00:36:12] I bought Death Stranding with Shadow Dropped on the Xbox.

[00:36:15] Look at that.

[00:36:16] Very in a time where our country needs unity the most.

[00:36:19] And the console wars are at their most dire.

[00:36:24] Hideo Kojima.

[00:36:25] I don't know.

[00:36:26] Mr. Stranding himself.

[00:36:28] Almost forgot his name.

[00:36:28] Mr. Stranding.

[00:36:30] Comes down from above and grants us this one baby in a jar.

[00:36:34] I don't know what this game is about, but I'm going to try it.

[00:36:37] It's about connections, Dave.

[00:36:39] Who did that?

[00:36:40] Cletus and the Fetus.

[00:36:41] Someone deleted one of my pictures.

[00:36:42] But yeah, I put it back.

[00:36:44] Cletus and the Fetus.

[00:36:45] That is the code name for the game when they were developed.

[00:36:50] Is that real?

[00:36:51] I remember that.

[00:36:53] I was going to say, don't fuck with me.

[00:36:56] But also, everybody say it together with me now.

[00:36:58] Thank you, Hideo Kojima.

[00:37:00] Thank you for saving Xbox, Hideo.

[00:37:02] Blessed be.

[00:37:04] We gave it away on Epic Games multiple times at this point.

[00:37:07] You can just play it there.

[00:37:09] Well, they also...

[00:37:11] Well, I mean, they...

[00:37:13] It came out earlier on Game Pass, right?

[00:37:15] It was like for a year.

[00:37:17] It was just on Game Pass.

[00:37:18] Yeah, it was PC Game Pass.

[00:37:20] Yeah.

[00:37:20] So it was weird because you could get Xbox achievements, but you couldn't play it on Xbox.

[00:37:24] So that was weird.

[00:37:25] But yeah, so now Hideo Kojima actually owns the IP.

[00:37:28] So I wonder if the second game is going to come out.

[00:37:31] What's most crazy?

[00:37:32] This game got shadow dropped on the day the PlayStation 5 Pro came out.

[00:37:36] And this is the first Sony exclusive engine on Xbox.

[00:37:43] It runs on the Decima engine.

[00:37:44] That is in-house Sony engine, which is very weird.

[00:37:49] Anyway, no one cares about that.

[00:37:52] The next PlayStation exclusive turned Xbox playable stray.

[00:37:56] I bought this game.

[00:37:57] It was on Game Pass.

[00:37:58] I didn't play it while it was on Game Pass, and now I had to buy it like a scrub.

[00:38:02] Stray wasn't in PlayStation exclusive.

[00:38:04] It was on PC, too.

[00:38:04] Yeah, it was on PC.

[00:38:05] I remember seeing it on Steam.

[00:38:07] That's why I knew it was sad when you bought it.

[00:38:09] That's where I played it first.

[00:38:11] Well, I meant like console exclusives.

[00:38:12] I heard that game was very sad.

[00:38:14] Yeah, yeah.

[00:38:15] And I don't want to cry over a little K-Cat.

[00:38:18] I'm sure it'll be right.

[00:38:19] It's really sad.

[00:38:21] Yeah, that's what I've heard.

[00:38:23] It's really fucking sad.

[00:38:24] It freaks me out.

[00:38:25] I don't know if I can handle how sad that I've heard it was.

[00:38:29] It's just like, for my two cents, I would say that it's not overwhelming.

[00:38:34] No?

[00:38:34] And you don't have to be scared for the cat's safety.

[00:38:40] Bullshit.

[00:38:41] If this is an indie game and the cat doesn't die, I'm going to ride it.

[00:38:44] I want to cry right now thinking about a little cat.

[00:38:49] That cat better be on its dying breath and reaching its paw towards the camera.

[00:38:53] He's so cute.

[00:38:54] He's got a backpack on and goggles.

[00:38:55] He's going to be fine.

[00:38:56] That would be like if you were like, here, play Little Kitty, Big City, but it dies.

[00:39:01] Like, no.

[00:39:02] I can't handle that.

[00:39:06] If I'm playing this little cat, I want it to be cute and fun and not sad.

[00:39:11] You should open your heart to all of the range of feelings that you could get from this game

[00:39:16] because it's that worth it.

[00:39:18] It's worth it for sure.

[00:39:19] I'll probably play it.

[00:39:20] They did do that at the beginning of, what was that game?

[00:39:25] The two children and the rats.

[00:39:28] You know what I'm talking about?

[00:39:29] Oh, yeah.

[00:39:29] Plague Tale.

[00:39:30] Sound children.

[00:39:30] Plague Tale.

[00:39:31] No, that's it.

[00:39:31] Yeah.

[00:39:32] Plague Tale, they had a dog and it died right at the beginning.

[00:39:34] I was like, oh.

[00:39:35] What did you say?

[00:39:36] Did you say?

[00:39:37] Sad children.

[00:39:37] Sad children.

[00:39:38] Oh, yeah.

[00:39:39] That game.

[00:39:40] That's cool.

[00:39:40] Sad children.

[00:39:41] Dude.

[00:39:42] Fucking Wilbur and Amicia.

[00:39:43] Those two, they're the saddest children.

[00:39:46] I hate them so much.

[00:39:48] Wilbur.

[00:39:49] I don't remember his name.

[00:39:50] Isn't that a pig?

[00:39:52] You kill some pigs at one point, too.

[00:39:54] I think his name is Hugo.

[00:39:55] I could be wrong about that.

[00:39:56] I think his name is Hugo.

[00:39:57] Hugo and Amicia.

[00:39:58] Yeah, you kill some pigs.

[00:40:00] I can't play that.

[00:40:02] Oh, and then they bully you afterwards.

[00:40:04] And Hugo's like, Amicia, why'd you have to kill all the pigs?

[00:40:08] Yeah, they should.

[00:40:11] Why does that sound like Mario?

[00:40:15] That's what they sound like, dude.

[00:40:17] It's not.

[00:40:17] It's French, but they're not Italian.

[00:40:21] Okay, that's fine.

[00:40:22] Similar parts of the world.

[00:40:24] Dude, that's so funny.

[00:40:26] I saw that, you know, VR chat.

[00:40:27] There's like this little fucking guy in like the, what is his name?

[00:40:31] The Ugandan Knuckles.

[00:40:32] Oh, I love Ugandan Knuckles.

[00:40:34] He's like screaming in Spanish.

[00:40:36] It's like European Spanish.

[00:40:38] And he's screaming.

[00:40:39] And then they're like, what did he say?

[00:40:41] And he's like, I don't know.

[00:40:42] He's speaking like French or something.

[00:40:45] And he's like, I don't know.

[00:40:50] I need VR chat so bad.

[00:40:52] It just seems so fun.

[00:40:54] So stupid.

[00:40:55] I would lose myself in that.

[00:40:56] I wouldn't do anything for the pot anymore.

[00:40:58] Anyways, I bought Children of Mortia.

[00:41:00] Another Game Pass game.

[00:41:02] Yeah, so this game, it was like three bucks.

[00:41:06] And I was like, oh, cool.

[00:41:08] I'll buy that.

[00:41:10] I'll buy that for three bucks.

[00:41:11] But it looks like Diablo, Roguelike, kind of weird.

[00:41:15] It's local co-op, which is why I ended up buying it.

[00:41:17] That screenshot's from local co-op.

[00:41:19] You see it in the corner there.

[00:41:21] He knows that I'm very unwilling to go into the other room to play the Xbox with him.

[00:41:26] So he's learned to just buy local co-op games.

[00:41:30] Yeah.

[00:41:30] Well, I mean, we'll talk about it in a minute.

[00:41:33] But we did play Black Ops local co-op, which was an interesting experience.

[00:41:37] Yeah, it was bad.

[00:41:39] It was something.

[00:41:40] It was something.

[00:41:41] So Children of Mortia, that's it.

[00:41:43] I don't have any updates other than that, Phillip.

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[00:42:19] It's funny every time.

[00:42:20] Every time.

[00:42:21] All right, let's take a quick break and then we can judge some assholes.

[00:42:25] Easy place.

[00:42:25] Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[00:42:28] All right, our current spread is we are seven minutes over.

[00:42:31] But we're doing good, guys.

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[00:42:35] Let me fuck it up.

[00:42:36] So there's this tweet that says, who did more damage to the discourse in the gaming industry?

[00:42:42] IGN or Digital Foundry?

[00:42:44] Oh, it's definitely Kotaku, you know?

[00:42:46] No, that's the thing.

[00:42:47] Okay, see, you stole it from my mouth.

[00:42:50] But if it was Kotaku rather than IGN, I would have been like, oh, Kotaku definitely.

[00:42:53] But now if it's IGN, it's like, well, they're shitty.

[00:42:58] But Digital Foundry has definitely wounded gaming discourse.

[00:43:03] I don't know if Philip is in on this because I don't know.

[00:43:05] I don't know the Gaming Foundry one.

[00:43:07] But I do.

[00:43:08] I have so much more respect for IGN for bombastically attacking the brothership game.

[00:43:15] Fuck you.

[00:43:16] I'm doing this with Thrak and then also you.

[00:43:21] Wait, are you anti-brothership propaganda?

[00:43:25] He just hates Nintendo.

[00:43:27] He's like me with Sony.

[00:43:29] Really?

[00:43:30] Yeah.

[00:43:30] You do not fuck with this?

[00:43:31] I thought you liked the Pokemans, Philip.

[00:43:33] Oh, dude, I love all their franchises, all their characters.

[00:43:36] I love the Marios.

[00:43:38] It's great.

[00:43:39] But every time they do something, it seems to be the wrong move.

[00:43:44] I can't ethically support them the same way I can't ethically support Wizards of the Coast.

[00:43:49] It's weird Nintendo decisions, you know what I mean?

[00:43:51] It's what they're known for.

[00:43:52] They just make bad decisions of the corporation.

[00:43:56] That's pretty much it.

[00:43:58] Anti-consumer of the corporation.

[00:43:59] Even my favorite YouTubers aren't safe.

[00:44:01] They can't even play their games on stream without getting DCM-ed or whatever.

[00:44:05] Have you guys seen this increase of litigation that Nintendo is performing on emulator YouTubers?

[00:44:15] People who review the emulation handhelds and they're like fucking retro game core?

[00:44:21] Yeah.

[00:44:21] They're DNCAing them out of the asshole and it's crazy.

[00:44:26] It's the weird thing with the Nintendo.

[00:44:28] I understand that if they want to fight the good fight with people like Power World and whoever the fuck.

[00:44:36] I don't remember who owns Nexon or who owns Power World.

[00:44:39] No, it's not a good fight.

[00:44:40] But they can fight Power World if they want.

[00:44:42] But at least the Power World company has like a publisher backing that they can fight against like a copyright claim or whatever.

[00:44:49] And it's also very weird.

[00:44:50] I don't know if you've been paying attention to what they've actually been copywriting or they call it.

[00:44:55] You can't capture creatures with objects.

[00:44:59] Throwing a ball into open fields or something.

[00:45:01] It's like, okay, so we can't do that in video games anymore because Nintendo has that.

[00:45:06] By the way, almost all the patents, from what I've seen, I mean Twitter lies sometimes, but from what I've seen, almost all the patents were filed after Power World came out.

[00:45:16] And then they retroactively were like, we're going to see you about this now.

[00:45:21] But yeah, Nintendo's stupid company.

[00:45:24] Anyways, Digital Foundry, Phillip, they're the guys who like show the comparisons between PlayStation and Xbox.

[00:45:30] Like how many frames per second.

[00:45:31] So when a game is one frame per second, a little bit more, they're like, ooh, looks like PlayStation wins.

[00:45:35] PS5 Pro.

[00:45:36] Which is interesting and cool.

[00:45:37] One frame more.

[00:45:39] But it's been going on for a long time and it's directly contributed to this fucking teraflops fucking conversation that people are always having now.

[00:45:48] I don't even know what a teraflop is.

[00:45:50] What is it?

[00:45:51] It's not RAM.

[00:45:53] It's not CPU.

[00:45:55] Like what is a fucking teraflop?

[00:45:57] And this is like, I can see 15 more leaves on the tree 17 miles away and death stranding on the PlayStation 5 Pro.

[00:46:05] So they win.

[00:46:06] You should play it on that.

[00:46:07] I'm like, oh God.

[00:46:09] I fucking hate you so much.

[00:46:11] I wouldn't give you a swirly so bad.

[00:46:13] My problem is, is that like, I don't think that they're bought and paid for the way that I definitely believe that companies who own like companies like IGN are.

[00:46:23] But at the same time, I feel like it's the fact is that they're creating this content for people out here who don't understand the context of like what it means to have like, you know, 19 by 20 and 1080 resolution versus like looking at like a screen handheld screen on the raw ally and it being 1080p.

[00:46:44] Right.

[00:46:45] Like not necessarily needing to be 4K 60 frames per second because of the size of the handheld.

[00:46:51] I don't know.

[00:46:51] Like it's just like they go into the technicalities and they'll like, yeah, at the end of it all, they'll say, yes, we award the PlayStation.

[00:46:58] The Golden Flower is the best place to play X video game, whereas like you could have a perfectly serviceable time over playing on Xbox or better time potentially playing on PC, whatever the case may be.

[00:47:09] But yeah, I don't know.

[00:47:11] Just they put a lot of arrows in the quiver of people who like want to do the console warning.

[00:47:17] Let's finish this thought before I start talking.

[00:47:20] If you want to reply to that.

[00:47:21] Oh my God, why?

[00:47:24] That's all good for me.

[00:47:25] Okay, so just another tweet.

[00:47:28] I've got the fucking the Chromebook actually that you sent me.

[00:47:31] I've got it over here.

[00:47:32] I've been using it.

[00:47:33] The second monitor.

[00:47:34] I gotcha.

[00:47:36] Yeah, the second monitor.

[00:47:37] And I just saw another tweet that's from Larry Erb.

[00:47:39] Do you guys remember Major Nelson?

[00:47:41] Yeah.

[00:47:42] He just tweeted and this blows my fucking mind that he tweeted this, but it says finally got a chance to start the COD campaign.

[00:47:50] Black Ops 6.

[00:47:50] The first achievement popped as rare for the beating the first mission, basically the tutorial.

[00:47:55] Because by the looks of it, less than 10% of those playing are playing it for the campaign, even two weeks after release.

[00:48:04] That makes me moderately upset that he doesn't understand how the achievement list works.

[00:48:12] Like, Philip, do you understand why that's a fucking stupid statement?

[00:48:18] Well, no, because the problem with the achievement list is that it's for Call of Duty, not Black Ops.

[00:48:26] Exactly.

[00:48:26] Yes.

[00:48:27] So it has Modern Warfare 2 and 3, and God knows what else.

[00:48:31] Warzone and shit.

[00:48:32] There's a million achievements inside of that one list.

[00:48:34] And that list was – it's like complaining that only 10% of the people beat the first level in Halo 3 on the Master Chief collection.

[00:48:42] You know what I'm saying?

[00:48:44] It's like –

[00:48:47] Woo!

[00:48:48] It makes me so mad.

[00:48:49] If it was just a random person –

[00:48:51] Yeah, sadly.

[00:48:52] Is he still even an executive at Xbox?

[00:48:54] No.

[00:48:55] Like, is he still actively employed by them?

[00:48:57] Okay.

[00:48:58] I think.

[00:48:58] Because I was going to say, like, if he's still an Xbox spokesperson, that would be highly concerning.

[00:49:03] But he's – that's what I'm saying is that he's been one for a long – he was in the Xbox One generation and shit, right?

[00:49:09] It hasn't been that long since he's been kicked out.

[00:49:11] What about Reggie?

[00:49:12] So it's like –

[00:49:12] How does Reggie feel about Black Ops?

[00:49:14] He's gone.

[00:49:15] He's gone.

[00:49:16] How does Reggie feel about Black Ops?

[00:49:18] You keep talking.

[00:49:19] Are we on the position that Reggie was actually a gamer?

[00:49:24] Like, do we actually think that he played games unlike Jim Ryan?

[00:49:28] I don't know.

[00:49:28] He definitely didn't play games.

[00:49:31] Maybe.

[00:49:31] I think he played some games.

[00:49:34] He's not like Phil Spencer, dude.

[00:49:35] Philly spins.

[00:49:36] He'd be on it, dude.

[00:49:38] Philly will body me if we're going gamer score for gamer score over the course of a year.

[00:49:42] Like, that man is putting in hours.

[00:49:45] I can't find anything about Reggie Fils-Aimé and Black Ops in the same article, unfortunately.

[00:49:50] Speaking of – you wanted some more cancer for the brain.

[00:49:55] Speaking of CEOs that have a lot of hours in games, did you see that Elon Musk is like in the top 20 in Diablo 4 in the world?

[00:50:05] He's like number 19 or 18 or something like that.

[00:50:07] It makes sense because he's not paying attention to politics.

[00:50:10] Well –

[00:50:10] I mean, you fucking – that fucking moron.

[00:50:13] God, I hate that dude so much.

[00:50:16] He's smart about something.

[00:50:17] I don't know what it is, but he's got that – he's smart about something.

[00:50:22] I don't know.

[00:50:23] I think he's smart at being a con artist.

[00:50:25] I think he's just – he's got the megalomania or maybe the sociopathy to allow him to con a lot of different people throughout his life to get into the city.

[00:50:36] I think – I definitely think he just wants to be – this is the first Am I the Asshole, by the way, listener.

[00:50:41] But like – is Elon Musk an asshole?

[00:50:43] But like – dude, he definitely – oh, fuck.

[00:50:46] Oh, no.

[00:50:46] We just lost Bill up for a second.

[00:50:48] But it's still recording.

[00:50:49] Should we keep going?

[00:50:49] Yeah, keep going.

[00:50:50] It's still recording.

[00:50:51] Okay.

[00:50:52] We're good.

[00:50:52] We're good.

[00:50:53] If it's – if it kept going, then it should be good.

[00:50:55] So, yeah.

[00:50:56] He got upset about the Elon Musk talk.

[00:50:57] It's his hero.

[00:51:00] No, I missed a lot of whatever that just happened.

[00:51:03] Okay, we're talking about Elon Musk.

[00:51:04] So, he definitely just wants people to admire him or to accept him.

[00:51:10] He's definitely that kind of person that will do anything for people's acceptance to the point where he accidentally inadvertently basically rigged the election with how badly he turned Twitter into a propaganda website.

[00:51:24] And I genuinely –

[00:51:25] For Putin or Trump?

[00:51:27] It's a little bit of both.

[00:51:29] Yes.

[00:51:29] Yes is the answer.

[00:51:32] Oh, man.

[00:51:33] Oh, no.

[00:51:34] We can't get into it.

[00:51:35] This is going to blow.

[00:51:36] We're going to get flagged again.

[00:51:37] Let's not –

[00:51:39] All right.

[00:51:39] And we're back.

[00:51:40] I didn't take the election well, listener.

[00:51:42] That's what I'm trying to say.

[00:51:44] Oh, my God.

[00:51:46] So, we can't talk about this since we're in the asshole section where we're going to go online and help some gamers in need to see if they're assholes or not.

[00:51:52] The amount of the am I asshole section has become unusable because it's just people going in there and to be like, am I an asshole for dumping my, you know, stuck-up boyfriend because how he voted in the election trying to take away my rights.

[00:52:07] Am I right, sisters?

[00:52:08] Rise up.

[00:52:08] And I'm like, oh, God.

[00:52:10] It's like, am I the asshole because I had my Republican roommate.

[00:52:15] I embarrassed him on social media because he doesn't pay any bills and I said that.

[00:52:21] That's what it is.

[00:52:23] It's truly – that's all it is.

[00:52:24] What's wild is that on my – so, I'm an innocuous person on Facebook.

[00:52:29] You know, I rile some feathers, but that's it.

[00:52:31] I don't do a whole lot.

[00:52:32] But I post random pictures and just randomly I was thinking about that scene from Jay and Silent Bob where they were like, a woman's body is her own fucking business.

[00:52:41] And I found that picture and just posted it on my account.

[00:52:46] And it's got – let me go look now because it just randomly is like – okay, it's got 90 shares.

[00:52:51] So, I'm like, what the fuck – my things usually get like one like.

[00:52:55] And that's rare if I get one like on Facebook.

[00:52:58] No one pays attention to me over there.

[00:52:59] But randomly I'll be scrolling and I just see some random person retweeted me.

[00:53:03] Like, I'm like, what the fuck is – over here on Facebook.

[00:53:08] Like, this shit's got – the females is a little upset.

[00:53:11] What do you think about that, Rachel?

[00:53:13] Are you upset?

[00:53:15] Super upset, but, you know, what can I do?

[00:53:18] I've been off social media for the last like week mostly.

[00:53:22] Good for you.

[00:53:23] I just fucking can't.

[00:53:25] She's been happier.

[00:53:26] She's been glowing, you know?

[00:53:27] I've been playing Vampire Survivor instead of scrolling Facebook.

[00:53:31] It's been great.

[00:53:32] Flooding your neurons with dopamine.

[00:53:35] I love it.

[00:53:36] It's weird.

[00:53:36] I've been on social media.

[00:53:37] I've like paid attention to it loosely.

[00:53:39] But my feed has been just like flooded with like silly shit.

[00:53:44] Like silly non-consequential, non-political shit.

[00:53:47] Which I feel is like very weird.

[00:53:49] Like you see the occasional political post about people wringing their hands or whatever.

[00:53:54] But then it was just like that.

[00:53:55] And then whenever I'm on Instagram, all I get is just like cooking videos the entire time.

[00:53:59] So it's like –

[00:54:00] I've been watching a lot of cooking videos on YouTube.

[00:54:03] It's been great.

[00:54:04] Yeah.

[00:54:05] What did you say, Phil?

[00:54:06] Are you being manipulated?

[00:54:07] I feel like I am.

[00:54:10] I feel like I am.

[00:54:10] I feel like I am.

[00:54:11] Of political unrest.

[00:54:12] I feel like they don't want me to see what the good talk is talking.

[00:54:17] But this is the thing, Phillip.

[00:54:18] Is that morally good?

[00:54:21] Oh, to keep the peace?

[00:54:22] It's helping my mental health at the very least.

[00:54:25] It's helping me not –

[00:54:25] It's helping me not –

[00:54:26] Power is accumulated?

[00:54:27] Fucking spiral.

[00:54:28] We're in Metal Gear Solid 2 ending territory right now.

[00:54:32] Wait.

[00:54:32] I have no idea what's going on because I just haven't been paying attention at all.

[00:54:38] As long as we don't turn into Final Fantasy XIII 2, you know, that'll be real bad.

[00:54:43] Yeah.

[00:54:44] Because that game is all about time travel and fixing shit with the time machine.

[00:54:48] I mean, are the American people just Big Boss or are we Liquid Snake?

[00:54:53] Which is it?

[00:54:54] Neither.

[00:54:55] Damn.

[00:54:55] Neither, yeah.

[00:54:56] We are just the NPCs.

[00:54:59] Oh, shit.

[00:55:00] That was bad.

[00:55:00] We are the masses being controlled through social media that they predicted, you know,

[00:55:05] 14 years ago whenever that game came out.

[00:55:07] Dude, there's too much information.

[00:55:09] There's too much information.

[00:55:10] We need something to eliminate all the bad information.

[00:55:15] I'm proud of that.

[00:55:15] Does anybody have an asshole they want to help out?

[00:55:18] Yep.

[00:55:19] I sure do.

[00:55:20] Rachel's got one.

[00:55:20] Which one?

[00:55:21] I have one, but I'm happy to let Rachel go first.

[00:55:25] Starvee, 103.

[00:55:26] Let's do this.

[00:55:27] Did you open a window, Rachel?

[00:55:28] It's fucking hot.

[00:55:29] Yeah, I opened a window.

[00:55:31] It gets really warm in here.

[00:55:33] Are you shitting me?

[00:55:34] Is the air conditioner on?

[00:55:35] I don't know.

[00:55:37] There's no air circulation in this room, so I looked at the temperature, which said 53 degrees outside.

[00:55:43] And I was like, yep, I'm opening this window before I start to sit down.

[00:55:49] Melting.

[00:55:50] I respect you.

[00:55:53] All right.

[00:55:54] So this is from throwawaygirl1010.

[00:55:58] And she...

[00:56:01] Oh, God.

[00:56:02] It's just...

[00:56:03] The only other post she did was making a Facebook game out of a shooter scenario.

[00:56:10] And it got removed.

[00:56:12] Is that like the mafia Facebook game?

[00:56:15] Does anyone know?

[00:56:16] No, it's just like...

[00:56:18] Just a post on Facebook that says, you enter a room with an active shooter killing so many people.

[00:56:23] What do you do?

[00:56:25] It's like a fucking...

[00:56:26] Like a slide, a PowerPoint.

[00:56:27] I can't get that.

[00:56:28] Where you just click.

[00:56:29] No, it's like a choose your own adventure.

[00:56:30] Well, I was thinking, because there's that...

[00:56:32] What is it?

[00:56:32] Depression quest?

[00:56:33] That Zoe Quinn?

[00:56:34] You know what I'm talking about?

[00:56:36] No clue.

[00:56:37] Does no one know...

[00:56:38] This is what kicked off Gamergate.

[00:56:40] Like, this is what I'm referring to.

[00:56:42] What?

[00:56:44] Never mind.

[00:56:45] I don't know what else Gate is.

[00:56:47] I don't know what Gamergate is.

[00:56:48] Sorry.

[00:56:50] Oh, I wish that was you.

[00:56:51] I don't even know if I do either.

[00:56:53] All right.

[00:56:54] I'm ready.

[00:56:55] Am I the asshole for having a dark-skinned Animal Crossing character, although I'm white in real life?

[00:57:02] This is digital blackface, by the way.

[00:57:05] That's what this phenomenon is called.

[00:57:06] I can't even believe I'm writing this.

[00:57:13] It feels so ridiculous, but I feel like I'm going out of my mind.

[00:57:20] Going out of my mind?

[00:57:21] Going out of my mind.

[00:57:23] Is that a British saying?

[00:57:24] Maybe.

[00:57:24] Are we talking about a British person?

[00:57:26] Several of my friends have now expressed that they think it's covert racism and cultural appropriation

[00:57:35] because my Animal Crossing character is black.

[00:57:42] You're just retching in the background.

[00:57:44] No, we gotta take this seriously, guys.

[00:57:45] This is serious.

[00:57:46] We have to help her.

[00:57:47] We have to help her.

[00:57:49] I'm a white female.

[00:57:51] But when I started playing, I decided I would make my character have dark skin, pink hair, and purple eyes.

[00:57:59] What if she just wanted to be tan?

[00:58:01] Is she allowed to be tan?

[00:58:02] Literally nothing like what I look like in person because I just wanted it to be a cute character.

[00:58:10] I even gave my character a different name that's nothing like mine.

[00:58:15] I just got fucking...

[00:58:16] Hold on.

[00:58:17] It depends on the name.

[00:58:18] I just literally just flossed my nostrils with PBRs now.

[00:58:22] This could be a Lovecraft's cat situation.

[00:58:27] Oh, yeah.

[00:58:28] The name is really, really bad.

[00:58:30] I don't know if that's the...

[00:58:32] I don't know.

[00:58:33] That's so wild that you create a character that's not like you.

[00:58:37] Who would do that?

[00:58:38] Who would do such a thing?

[00:58:41] I don't know.

[00:58:42] In a game, I only play as exact similes of me.

[00:58:46] Boys, is it cultural appropriation if I make a big titty blonde girl my main character in the video game I'm playing?

[00:58:52] If she's white, then no.

[00:58:53] Well, no, because you're a big titty blonde girl.

[00:58:57] But big titty blonde girls have their own culture too, don't they?

[00:59:02] Oh, my nose hurts.

[00:59:04] I've been playing for about a month.

[00:59:07] Let her read this.

[00:59:09] I've been playing for about a month.

[00:59:11] And I don't have live.

[00:59:14] But I found an adorable villager and I sent my friends who don't play Animal Crossing.

[00:59:22] This is AC, but I think Assassin's Creed.

[00:59:25] You don't play Assassin's Creed.

[00:59:29] Famous female player game.

[00:59:31] A picture of my screen and bam, they started telling me it's not right to make my character white.

[00:59:38] Because only black people should be able to use darker skin color options.

[00:59:45] I keep telling them that's stupid because it's just a game.

[00:59:49] If I ever have a daughter, I'll buy her all skin color Barbies to play with.

[00:59:55] It shouldn't be any different.

[00:59:57] I ended up asking my coworkers about it.

[01:00:01] A few of who play the game.

[01:00:03] And they also said it's similar to doing blackface, just virtual.

[01:00:10] Seriously.

[01:00:11] This is five years ago.

[01:00:11] This is around the time that digital blackface first became a thing.

[01:00:14] I wanted to mention, though, the Barbies of different colors.

[01:00:18] Would you be alarmed if you bought your daughter's Barbies of different colors and they treated the darker skinned ones differently?

[01:00:24] Very cute.

[01:00:25] You need to watch out for that.

[01:00:27] That's something to keep in the eye out for as a parent, I'm sure.

[01:00:33] Seriously, am I the asshole?

[01:00:34] I don't see how it could be wrong when it's just a character I love and created for the purpose of the game.

[01:00:42] Too long, didn't read.

[01:00:44] Made my Animal Crossing character a dark-skinned girl.

[01:00:50] Even named her something else.

[01:00:52] And my friends and coworkers think it's racist blackface.

[01:00:57] Now, Animal Crossing might get a red flag.

[01:01:00] Because if we were talking about Assassin's Creed, they have the warning up front that this game was made by many cultures and all that other stuff.

[01:01:08] So when you play as a Middle Eastern man in Assassin's Creed, you know it's okay.

[01:01:13] That's fine.

[01:01:14] Nothing like that from Nintendo.

[01:01:15] Yeah, this white girl made this Animal Crossing character.

[01:01:18] That's wrong.

[01:01:20] First of all, I play The Sims.

[01:01:21] I'm gonna start.

[01:01:24] I have been an avid Simmer my entire life.

[01:01:27] I've played every Sim game.

[01:01:29] Basically, all of the expansions.

[01:01:33] You don't just make white people just because you're white.

[01:01:35] That's fucking weird.

[01:01:37] Hold on.

[01:01:38] So these people are clearly Zoomers, right?

[01:01:39] Yeah, I only have white people in my Simstown.

[01:01:42] That sounds more racist than being like, yeah.

[01:01:46] You might be lashing out right now.

[01:01:48] Hold on.

[01:01:48] So these people are clearly like Zoomers, right?

[01:01:50] And Zoomers didn't live through Skyrim.

[01:01:51] And everyone knows that whenever you played Skyrim, you couldn't create an Argonian because you're not a lizard person.

[01:01:57] So there was a very small minority of lizard characters out there.

[01:02:02] And we never got to experience that.

[01:02:04] In Morrowind, Oblivion, any of those.

[01:02:06] You know how I feel about lizard men.

[01:02:09] They're your favorite.

[01:02:10] I've got a thing for them.

[01:02:12] I don't know what it is.

[01:02:13] That's the first time I've done a snot rocket since maybe like seventh grade.

[01:02:17] It feels like I have PBR in my sinuses.

[01:02:20] It's in your olfactory nerve.

[01:02:21] That was in response to the it's covert racism.

[01:02:25] It's covert racism.

[01:02:26] It's like I'm just imagining the black ops characters.

[01:02:32] All of them are putting black face on except the black guy who's putting on white face.

[01:02:39] All right.

[01:02:40] So hold on.

[01:02:41] This makes me wonder if like we were secretly covert racism or discriminatory because like when we played Overcooked, I was the raccoon in a wheelchair.

[01:02:48] And I'm not in a wheelchair in real life.

[01:02:51] You are not Woods.

[01:02:52] All right.

[01:02:53] Yeah.

[01:02:54] I'm not Woods from whatever game we talked about.

[01:02:57] Damn it.

[01:02:58] I just realized every time I play Left 4 Dead, I choose Lewis.

[01:03:01] That's ableist.

[01:03:02] Is that covert racism?

[01:03:04] Holy shit.

[01:03:06] It's like half the cast of Left 4 Dead.

[01:03:08] Damn it.

[01:03:09] That's crazy.

[01:03:09] So the originator of digital blackface was from white people using GIFs of black people doing like mannerisms, you know?

[01:03:19] Like so there are GIFs of black people and other people didn't like that.

[01:03:24] Yeah.

[01:03:24] So they were trying to cancel people who were using black people in GIFs.

[01:03:28] I didn't know that.

[01:03:29] That's interesting actually.

[01:03:30] Yeah.

[01:03:31] I guess I should stop doing that on Twitter by using reactions that have somebody that's not in my race.

[01:03:37] Is that how that works?

[01:03:38] It's all gone.

[01:03:39] People gave up that fight.

[01:03:40] That hill was a hill that they couldn't survive on, unfortunately.

[01:03:46] Racially segregated GIFs.

[01:03:50] It was like, hey, you authorized to use that GIF?

[01:03:53] Yeah.

[01:03:53] Where's your ID?

[01:03:54] Place your ID.

[01:03:55] Oh, but then it's like, which ones do get a pass though?

[01:03:57] Like, can I use Chappelle?

[01:03:58] Like, can I use Chappelle?

[01:04:00] You gotta be.

[01:04:01] You can't use Chappelle.

[01:04:02] Unless he's doing white face.

[01:04:04] Oh!

[01:04:04] And only then.

[01:04:05] And only then.

[01:04:06] He had a lot of episodes with that.

[01:04:07] You're only allowed to use Pee Wee Herman GIFs.

[01:04:10] That's it.

[01:04:18] The previous Assassin's...

[01:04:19] Not Assassin's...

[01:04:20] The previous Animal Crossing.

[01:04:21] The only way to get Dark Skin was to go to the island.

[01:04:24] Like, I don't know you guys remember that?

[01:04:26] And get a tan.

[01:04:27] Is this a new leaf?

[01:04:29] No.

[01:04:29] On the GameCube?

[01:04:30] Okay, not in the GameCube one, which was Animal Crossing.

[01:04:33] A new leaf?

[01:04:34] Animal Crossing.

[01:04:35] That was the base Animal Crossing after Animal Village, which is Animal Crossing.

[01:04:39] There's a 3DS one too, right?

[01:04:41] Yeah.

[01:04:42] Well, no, there's a DS one, I think.

[01:04:43] That was Wild World.

[01:04:45] And then...

[01:04:46] Anyways.

[01:04:46] Anyways, in Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing, the second game, you could go to an island,

[01:04:53] and the longer you hung out at the island, the darker you would get until you were, like,

[01:04:58] black.

[01:05:00] That's how it works.

[01:05:00] Sweet.

[01:05:01] Look at my arm.

[01:05:02] Let me see if I can pull up Animal Crossing tans.

[01:05:09] This is dumb, by the way.

[01:05:10] I think we are.

[01:05:11] Oh, no, I thought they were Animal Crossing trans, and now they're identifying which characters

[01:05:14] are trans.

[01:05:15] I don't think you're racist if you play a dark-skinned character in Assassin's Creed.

[01:05:19] I think you're fine.

[01:05:19] What's the top trans character, Phillip?

[01:05:23] It was like a llama.

[01:05:25] Oh, let me go back.

[01:05:26] Isn't it the gecko?

[01:05:27] The llama is transgender?

[01:05:29] The gecko.

[01:05:29] The Fortnite llama?

[01:05:31] There's a gecko in the new Animal Crossing where it's like everyone thinks it's a girl,

[01:05:36] but it's a boy, or the other way around, I can't remember.

[01:05:39] But it's the one that my picture is on Switch.

[01:05:42] Oh, yeah.

[01:05:43] I know the one you're talking about.

[01:05:44] I don't remember his name, though.

[01:05:46] It's the one that catches bugs.

[01:05:48] I know I played Animal Crossing.

[01:05:50] This is not a...

[01:05:51] Oh, okay.

[01:05:51] There's two characters.

[01:05:53] There's a peacock, and the problem is that...

[01:05:58] Another problem, but the thing is that it acts feminine, but it has the peacock tail, which

[01:06:03] are only on the peacocks, not on the peahens.

[01:06:06] Oh, yeah.

[01:06:07] It's Flick.

[01:06:07] So Flick is the character.

[01:06:09] I'm putting it in the show notes now, in the break.

[01:06:14] See that?

[01:06:15] See, I always thought Flick was just gay.

[01:06:18] He's a goth dragon.

[01:06:21] They're a goth dragon.

[01:06:22] And he hits on the guy that's a fisherman.

[01:06:25] Flick is a guy.

[01:06:26] Here's the problem.

[01:06:27] Is that the gay...

[01:06:27] So it's the pants for me.

[01:06:29] It's the kind of demeanor, but also the pants.

[01:06:31] Because the pants in the Switch, it looks like fishnets or something.

[01:06:35] The plaid.

[01:06:36] I don't know what it looks like, but...

[01:06:38] I like that they're wearing a choker, and their net has the little spikies.

[01:06:44] He's got an aesthetic.

[01:06:46] You know, he was putting that on there, and he's like, this will match.

[01:06:49] I put that as my picture, thinking that was a female.

[01:06:53] This is very cool.

[01:06:55] He's cool.

[01:06:56] Yeah.

[01:06:57] Yeah.

[01:06:57] Yeah.

[01:06:58] All right, let's move on to the next one.

[01:07:00] Number 43.

[01:07:02] What?

[01:07:03] Okay.

[01:07:03] Okay.

[01:07:03] So, am I the asshole for telling my friend his game is stupid?

[01:07:07] This is a long one, so I'm gonna speed through it, y'all.

[01:07:11] Wait, hold on.

[01:07:12] I've checked tax.

[01:07:13] We gotta look at this real quick.

[01:07:14] Yeah.

[01:07:15] Are we just making sure it's not a throwaway?

[01:07:17] I mean, I think it is a throwaway.

[01:07:19] He's got so many replies.

[01:07:20] Yeah, make sure this isn't a repeat.

[01:07:22] Like, a nostalgia critic in muck or whatever.

[01:07:26] Yeah.

[01:07:26] He did post this in multiple places, and they got removed, but he has commented all over

[01:07:31] the goddamn place for this.

[01:07:32] He's getting, yeah, he's getting commented to hell.

[01:07:35] Oh, there's no date!

[01:07:36] Or she.

[01:07:36] It's she.

[01:07:37] I am 23 female, and he's 23 male.

[01:07:40] He's my friend, and has been since elementary school.

[01:07:43] He's gay, so there's nothing romantic between us either.

[01:07:46] Our friend group is very active, but he's not anymore.

[01:07:50] Our friend group is very active, but he's not anymore, okay?

[01:07:53] I guess he's not active.

[01:07:54] He's now disabled and unable to do most activities we used to do because he can't walk long distances,

[01:08:00] and his dominant arm gives him problems.

[01:08:02] He was in an accident at his workplace.

[01:08:04] He was very depressed for the longest time and still struggles with things.

[01:08:08] It's been over a year since the accident.

[01:08:10] While he's not as depressed in general anymore, he does get sad when we go on our trips without

[01:08:15] him, and he doesn't have a good self-image anymore.

[01:08:18] He's a very handsome guy, and any man would be lucky to have him, but he thinks because

[01:08:24] he's disabled and his income is disability that he's not fit to date anyone.

[01:08:28] Anyone real, apparently.

[01:08:29] Oh, God.

[01:08:31] This is not good.

[01:08:33] What good writing.

[01:08:34] Yeah, this is actually very good grammar.

[01:08:35] Very good grammar.

[01:08:37] Around the time he started feeling less depressed, his sister got him into video games, which

[01:08:41] none of us in our friend group are into.

[01:08:43] Boss, what game?

[01:08:45] What game is it?

[01:08:47] It was never found.

[01:08:48] It's gotta be Baldur's Gate, right?

[01:08:50] That's a good...

[01:08:51] That's good.

[01:08:51] That's a good one.

[01:08:52] A lot of people are suggesting Baldur's Gate.

[01:08:54] Yeah.

[01:08:54] Uh, man.

[01:08:55] I'm thinking...

[01:08:56] So, Dragon Age Origins.

[01:08:58] I'm gonna go with that.

[01:08:59] You're gonna go with Origins?

[01:09:00] Okay.

[01:09:01] Yeah.

[01:09:01] We'll see.

[01:09:02] What was that one game with the lady with the blue hair?

[01:09:05] That story game?

[01:09:06] Oh.

[01:09:06] Oh.

[01:09:07] Life is Strange.

[01:09:07] Yeah.

[01:09:08] Life is Strange.

[01:09:09] Yeah.

[01:09:09] Life is Strange.

[01:09:10] I love the game.

[01:09:11] Great game.

[01:09:11] That's the one.

[01:09:12] He's gay, by the way.

[01:09:14] So...

[01:09:14] Exactly.

[01:09:15] He started feeling less depressed.

[01:09:17] His sister got him into video games, which none of us in our friend group are into.

[01:09:21] We like being active, not pretending to be.

[01:09:23] Wow.

[01:09:24] Holy shit.

[01:09:24] Got him!

[01:09:26] Burn!

[01:09:28] But a few months ago, he got this one popular game, and it really turned things around for

[01:09:33] him, namely the fact that you can date other characters, which is weird to me.

[01:09:38] He's grown very attached to this game and tries to talk to us about it.

[01:09:41] A couple in the group act interested, and the rest of us just don't really care.

[01:09:45] I tried to talk to him about getting out into the real world again, but he doesn't seem

[01:09:49] interested.

[01:09:50] Well, once again, he tried to talk about this game and this character he really likes, and

[01:09:53] I finally had enough.

[01:09:54] I told him no one cares about his stupid game, and he needs to find someone real and experience

[01:10:00] the real world however he can.

[01:10:03] No one else said anything, and he left to get an Uber home.

[01:10:06] One of our friends tried to offer him a ride, but he just quietly denied and left.

[01:10:10] We all went home after, and I got back to find he'd left our group chats and blocked me.

[01:10:15] I don't know if he's blocked the others as well.

[01:10:18] He left me one last message saying,

[01:10:22] That game is the only way I can feel like a normal person again.

[01:10:26] I'm not disabled.

[01:10:27] I can walk as long as I want.

[01:10:29] I can explore anything it will allow me without my body.

[01:10:33] I can explore everything it will allow me without my body hurting.

[01:10:37] Character might not be real.

[01:10:39] He says character in parents might not be real, but he looks at my character in ways I wish

[01:10:45] I could be looked at.

[01:10:46] I only get looked at with pity anymore.

[01:10:49] He doesn't see that.

[01:10:50] No one I meet in the game does.

[01:10:52] So forgive me for finding something that brings me joy.

[01:10:55] I can't replace real life.

[01:10:57] Character can't replace the love and the touch of a real person, but it's as close as I'll

[01:11:01] ever get, period.

[01:11:02] Oh man, I'm about to cry.

[01:11:04] Our friend group has mixed emotions about the whole thing, but when I ranted to my sister

[01:11:08] about it, she got indignant and told me that I messed up big.

[01:11:12] She said that I was a jerk for making him feel more isolated and for not entertaining

[01:11:16] him talking about that dumb game.

[01:11:18] I told her I just wanted him to experience real life and real people instead of focusing

[01:11:22] on that stupid game, but she hung up.

[01:11:25] Maybe I was harsh, but am I really the asshole?

[01:11:29] Holy shit.

[01:11:30] Lots to unpack here, folks.

[01:11:31] Lots to unpack here.

[01:11:32] I can see, I can definitely see where she's coming from.

[01:11:37] Yeah, for sure.

[01:11:38] Like I, I see the spirit of what she's coming from.

[01:11:41] The way that she is deploying her language though is not.

[01:11:47] It's kind of like, you know, that's not how you talk to a friend.

[01:11:50] Really?

[01:11:51] I was thinking like, uh, you know how parents will be when their kid is like, I might be gay

[01:11:55] and they send them off to a camp.

[01:11:57] Like that's kind of how I feel about this.

[01:11:59] What I'm listening to.

[01:12:01] Wait, so like, who's the parent?

[01:12:03] Is she the parent to a camp or?

[01:12:05] She's the parent.

[01:12:05] She's the parent.

[01:12:06] She wants to send them to an anti-video game camp.

[01:12:08] Yeah.

[01:12:09] She wants to, she wants to put them in.

[01:12:10] Not an anti-game.

[01:12:11] A concentration camp, I guess.

[01:12:13] No.

[01:12:16] Yeah.

[01:12:18] Yeah.

[01:12:18] I think, um, I see what she's saying where she's like, she wants him to get out in real

[01:12:23] life.

[01:12:23] And apparently this person has very serious medical issues.

[01:12:26] It is really curious.

[01:12:28] I wonder if it's like an Elder Scrolls game.

[01:12:31] It could just be a dating sim.

[01:12:33] It could be.

[01:12:34] And he's dating more to more goth.

[01:12:37] That could be.

[01:12:38] He ruined their family.

[01:12:39] That's what he's doing.

[01:12:41] This person has so many characters in the games.

[01:12:44] And, uh, that's why she's mad about it.

[01:12:47] Yeah.

[01:12:48] Oh!

[01:12:49] I think, oh, hold on.

[01:12:50] I think I found it.

[01:12:52] Hold on.

[01:12:52] I, no, what the fuck just happened?

[01:12:55] Wait, so you said there was an update on this?

[01:12:57] There's an update.

[01:12:58] I posted it in there.

[01:12:59] But this person, I, I had all their fucking comments.

[01:13:02] And then I found one that said Gale.

[01:13:04] The word Gale.

[01:13:05] I saw it as I was scrolling down.

[01:13:07] Which is Elder Scrolls game 3.

[01:13:08] It's, they're supposing that it's probably Gale he's romancing.

[01:13:12] Well.

[01:13:12] From Baldur's Gate.

[01:13:13] Yeah.

[01:13:13] Is that what they're saying?

[01:13:15] Or did she reply with that?

[01:13:16] Because I saw the word Gale coming from her.

[01:13:19] Oh.

[01:13:20] But I can't find it because I clicked on it.

[01:13:21] And then it took me fucking somewhere else.

[01:13:23] I mean, it would make sense.

[01:13:24] Wait, the way he talks about that stupid wizard or whatever you think it was.

[01:13:27] Okay, it's gotta be Gale.

[01:13:29] It's gotta be.

[01:13:30] First of all, why is this the second day in a row that I've heard about Gale?

[01:13:34] Oh, I found it.

[01:13:35] He's just making rounds.

[01:13:37] It says, I hope he doesn't.

[01:13:39] I hope he doesn't because the last thing he needs are these people trying to get him more into it.

[01:13:43] If I have to hear about Gale again, I'm going to pull my hair out.

[01:13:46] He has real friends waiting in real life to help him.

[01:13:50] Okay, but are they really handsome?

[01:13:53] Gale is not even that hot.

[01:13:55] I mean, he's like traditionally handsome.

[01:13:58] Some people really like him.

[01:14:00] He's really not.

[01:14:00] What is the one guy's name from Baldur's Gate?

[01:14:03] The, uh.

[01:14:05] Don't say Will.

[01:14:05] I'm a fucking punk.

[01:14:06] Yeah, no, Will.

[01:14:07] Will.

[01:14:08] Will.

[01:14:09] Yeah, he's fucking.

[01:14:11] He's got a bad eye.

[01:14:13] Oh.

[01:14:13] He's got a bit of a table.

[01:14:14] Shit.

[01:14:15] Have you ever seen the voice actor for Will?

[01:14:17] Holy shit.

[01:14:19] Hold on.

[01:14:19] He's very handsome.

[01:14:20] Very handsome.

[01:14:21] Oh my god.

[01:14:21] He's so handsome.

[01:14:23] He's very, very handsome.

[01:14:24] Fuck Gale.

[01:14:25] Fuck Gale.

[01:14:25] Chapter gentleman.

[01:14:26] Go seek Will.

[01:14:28] People are also very thirsty over Astarion, too.

[01:14:31] So.

[01:14:32] And I understand.

[01:14:33] Well, yesterday I had a conversation about Baldur's Gate.

[01:14:35] And it was with a man.

[01:14:37] And he didn't know who Carlock was.

[01:14:39] Because I was like, oh, she's a baddie.

[01:14:41] And he's like, I don't know who that is.

[01:14:44] And then he knew who Gale was.

[01:14:47] And I was like, why do you know who Gale is and not Carlock?

[01:14:51] Yeah.

[01:14:52] Like.

[01:14:53] When I first.

[01:14:54] Here's the thing.

[01:14:54] Hey.

[01:14:55] In all fairness.

[01:14:56] Maybe he played it.

[01:14:57] Maybe he didn't.

[01:14:58] But.

[01:14:59] Like.

[01:14:59] In my first playthrough for Baldur's Gate.

[01:15:02] I didn't find Carlock.

[01:15:04] Because I didn't look for her hard enough.

[01:15:05] I'm sorry.

[01:15:06] And then she just like wasn't there.

[01:15:07] She's just in a fucking corner somewhere.

[01:15:09] Yeah.

[01:15:09] She's in a corner.

[01:15:10] I just like know who she is.

[01:15:12] Yeah.

[01:15:12] Yeah.

[01:15:12] She's just in my mind.

[01:15:14] So I just.

[01:15:15] Well, all of those characters are iconic.

[01:15:16] They're all over Twitter.

[01:15:17] If you pay attention to the slightest of social media.

[01:15:20] She's a really good magic card.

[01:15:21] She gives you double combat.

[01:15:23] Yeah.

[01:15:23] I run it.

[01:15:24] And fucking.

[01:15:25] It doesn't matter.

[01:15:26] Gale is hot.

[01:15:27] Like.

[01:15:27] I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

[01:15:29] I'm like looking at it right now.

[01:15:31] Gale is fine.

[01:15:32] I guess.

[01:15:32] He's the top three for the characters.

[01:15:34] I think people are.

[01:15:35] I'm just not super into him.

[01:15:35] I'm just not super into him.

[01:15:35] I'm just not really unattracted to Gale.

[01:15:39] That makes him better.

[01:15:41] I think that makes him better.

[01:15:42] To some people.

[01:15:43] You have a little bit of vinegar.

[01:15:44] Yeah.

[01:15:45] Certainly.

[01:15:45] You know.

[01:15:46] Anyway.

[01:15:46] So judgment.

[01:15:48] Judgment on.

[01:15:49] On this lady.

[01:15:50] I personally am saying.

[01:15:52] She.

[01:15:52] Yeah.

[01:15:52] This.

[01:15:52] She's.

[01:15:53] She's.

[01:15:53] She sucks.

[01:15:54] She's a hundred percent asshole.

[01:15:55] Like.

[01:15:56] Yeah.

[01:15:56] Like.

[01:15:56] I would never be in a friend group with some.

[01:15:58] Not only a person who speaks to me like this.

[01:16:02] But other people who would allow this individual to speak to me like it.

[01:16:05] And then not be like.

[01:16:06] Hey.

[01:16:07] That wasn't cool.

[01:16:08] You need to make it right.

[01:16:09] And then try to like repair the situation.

[01:16:11] Maybe they are doing that in the background.

[01:16:12] Maybe they're not.

[01:16:15] I think that this has probably gone on.

[01:16:18] For.

[01:16:19] Because he says.

[01:16:19] He was very depressed for the longest time.

[01:16:21] Still struggles with it.

[01:16:22] I think this is something that has been brewing for a very long time.

[01:16:25] And this is just the breaking point.

[01:16:26] That she's reporting on.

[01:16:28] You know.

[01:16:28] I don't think it's been constantly for years.

[01:16:30] This.

[01:16:31] Like her being at a ten.

[01:16:32] For him.

[01:16:33] I think this is her going.

[01:16:34] I've had enough.

[01:16:35] I need to.

[01:16:36] I haven't been breaking through.

[01:16:38] With normal conversation.

[01:16:40] And pussyfooting around the problem.

[01:16:41] I need to be direct with you.

[01:16:43] And then he just didn't take it very well.

[01:16:45] That's not her job though.

[01:16:47] She also mentions.

[01:16:48] It's been over a year since the accident.

[01:16:51] So over a year.

[01:16:52] Also implies less than two years.

[01:16:54] So this man.

[01:16:56] Has been disabled for less than two years of his life.

[01:17:00] Uh.

[01:17:01] So he is still trying to figure that out.

[01:17:03] That's really difficult.

[01:17:05] To go from being like.

[01:17:06] An able-bodied person.

[01:17:07] To having an accident.

[01:17:08] Where you're just suddenly like.

[01:17:10] Disabled.

[01:17:10] I'm guessing.

[01:17:11] Like.

[01:17:12] That.

[01:17:13] That's a very big thing to go through.

[01:17:15] And to have someone just be like.

[01:17:16] Aw.

[01:17:17] Fuck you.

[01:17:18] Like.

[01:17:18] What if we swap out video games for.

[01:17:20] A cult.

[01:17:21] Like.

[01:17:22] What if.

[01:17:23] Like.

[01:17:23] A cult is much worse than a video game.

[01:17:25] Well this is what I'm saying though.

[01:17:26] Is that she doesn't understand.

[01:17:28] Like video games don't.

[01:17:29] What she is perceiving.

[01:17:30] I think.

[01:17:31] Is that.

[01:17:32] He is slipping into isolation.

[01:17:34] Like he is.

[01:17:35] Like cutting everyone off.

[01:17:36] He is like.

[01:17:37] Only focusing on this one thing.

[01:17:38] And that thing is like.

[01:17:39] Pulling him away from everyone.

[01:17:41] That is trying to help him.

[01:17:42] Yeah.

[01:17:42] And.

[01:17:43] I don't think she's going about it like.

[01:17:45] In the best.

[01:17:45] And most productive of ways.

[01:17:47] But what I'm saying.

[01:17:48] Like what I said before.

[01:17:49] Kind of.

[01:17:49] Is where my mentality is.

[01:17:51] Is that she's probably at this breaking point.

[01:17:53] She is the most confrontational.

[01:17:55] Of their friend group.

[01:17:56] So she.

[01:17:57] Definitely.

[01:17:57] Was the first one.

[01:17:59] In the door.

[01:17:59] To try and get him away from this thing.

[01:18:02] That she perceives as like.

[01:18:04] This thing that.

[01:18:05] Because.

[01:18:06] I mean.

[01:18:07] It might come as a surprise to the listeners.

[01:18:10] But I believe that you can.

[01:18:11] Get addicted to video games.

[01:18:13] And I think that video games.

[01:18:14] For specific personalities.

[01:18:15] Are not a good thing.

[01:18:16] It can be just as bad as cigarettes.

[01:18:18] Or gambling.

[01:18:19] Or whatever.

[01:18:19] And I think that if you have that type of personality.

[01:18:21] And your friends.

[01:18:23] Are just watching you spiral.

[01:18:25] Into oblivion with it.

[01:18:27] Then.

[01:18:27] I think that if they are your friends.

[01:18:29] And they love you.

[01:18:30] You have a little bit of a responsibility.

[01:18:33] To try and help them.

[01:18:35] Yeah.

[01:18:35] No.

[01:18:36] Like that's.

[01:18:36] That's not.

[01:18:37] That's not something that friends say.

[01:18:39] And also.

[01:18:40] I would like to.

[01:18:41] Tie in.

[01:18:42] Put your friends in a lower class.

[01:18:44] Than your normal friends.

[01:18:45] Whenever they get disabled.

[01:18:46] I think.

[01:18:46] I think that might be a bad.

[01:18:48] Turn of phrase.

[01:18:50] I think that that's.

[01:18:51] Outside.

[01:18:53] Well she's.

[01:18:54] But if she's vocalized.

[01:18:55] If she's writing that down.

[01:18:56] She's definitely thinking it.

[01:18:57] And if she's thinking it.

[01:18:58] She's probably expressed that.

[01:19:00] In one way or another.

[01:19:01] To him.

[01:19:02] But I would also like to draw back.

[01:19:03] To the very beginning of this post.

[01:19:05] Both of them.

[01:19:06] Are early 20 year olds.

[01:19:07] And I would be willing.

[01:19:08] To put money down.

[01:19:09] That both of them.

[01:19:10] Are equally insufferable.

[01:19:12] And I know.

[01:19:13] Disabled.

[01:19:14] Disabled people.

[01:19:15] Yes.

[01:19:15] They have it.

[01:19:16] Really hard.

[01:19:17] But I remember what it was like.

[01:19:19] When I was in my 20s.

[01:19:19] And I was a fucking.

[01:19:21] I was an idiot.

[01:19:22] Right.

[01:19:22] You're right.

[01:19:22] We are all coming at this.

[01:19:24] From 30 year old perspective.

[01:19:26] Yeah.

[01:19:26] Like if these were two 30 year olds.

[01:19:28] I'm seeing serious problems.

[01:19:29] And I'm like.

[01:19:30] Get away from that person.

[01:19:31] As much as I can.

[01:19:32] But I imagine that this girl.

[01:19:34] And the rest of their friends.

[01:19:35] Are all early 20 somethings.

[01:19:37] They're all either in college.

[01:19:38] Or they just fucking dropped out of college.

[01:19:40] And they're just doing coke.

[01:19:41] And drinking beers.

[01:19:42] On the weekends.

[01:19:42] Right.

[01:19:43] Whatever the case may be.

[01:19:44] But I.

[01:19:44] My whole thing is.

[01:19:46] That.

[01:19:47] Like.

[01:19:48] She's approaching this whole conversation.

[01:19:50] She's approaching this whole.

[01:19:52] Relationship issue.

[01:19:53] From a very like.

[01:19:54] Boomer mindset.

[01:19:55] Kind of like what you were talking about.

[01:19:56] Nave.

[01:19:56] How people.

[01:19:57] Think about it.

[01:19:57] Oh.

[01:19:58] All the video games.

[01:19:58] Are going to rot your brain out.

[01:19:59] They're completely altering your personality.

[01:20:01] Yeah.

[01:20:02] He's playing Baldur's Gate fucking three.

[01:20:04] I'm sure it's altering his personality.

[01:20:06] He's probably.

[01:20:07] It's the best game ever.

[01:20:07] A hundred.

[01:20:08] He's probably put a hundred and thirty hours into it.

[01:20:10] Over the course of two weeks.

[01:20:12] And that's why he can't stop fucking saying.

[01:20:14] Anything else about it.

[01:20:15] To his friend group.

[01:20:16] And then she wants to act like an asshole.

[01:20:17] It's like skipping all the gateway drugs.

[01:20:20] You skipped cigarettes.

[01:20:20] You skipped weed.

[01:20:21] You went straight to methamphetamine.

[01:20:23] Straight to methamphetamines.

[01:20:25] And the thing is.

[01:20:26] Is that like.

[01:20:26] If what she says is true.

[01:20:28] And the rest of the friend group.

[01:20:30] Actually doesn't play games.

[01:20:32] Then yeah.

[01:20:33] Ranting about Baldur's Gate three at the function.

[01:20:35] Probably isn't going to be.

[01:20:37] It's not going to hit with everybody.

[01:20:39] But at the same time.

[01:20:41] I mean like.

[01:20:41] If he's your friend.

[01:20:42] He's your friend.

[01:20:43] You gotta.

[01:20:43] You gotta just.

[01:20:44] You gotta read the room man.

[01:20:46] So.

[01:20:46] Is it better for him to be the guy at the party.

[01:20:48] Standing in the corner.

[01:20:49] I do.

[01:20:50] Nobody knows.

[01:20:51] I romanced Gale.

[01:20:55] Nobody knows that I'm Gale's best partner.

[01:20:58] I love it.

[01:20:59] I love it.

[01:21:01] Oh my god.

[01:21:02] I feel the same way about Shadowheart.

[01:21:04] I definitely.

[01:21:05] I definitely got objection.

[01:21:06] I got.

[01:21:07] I am Edgeworth.

[01:21:09] And Nikolai is.

[01:21:11] Ace Attorney.

[01:21:13] I forget his name.

[01:21:14] Phoenix Wright.

[01:21:15] Phoenix Wright.

[01:21:15] The other one.

[01:21:17] Yeah.

[01:21:18] Uh.

[01:21:18] So I'm over here going.

[01:21:20] Punching the fucking desk and shit.

[01:21:21] Do we want to read the update?

[01:21:22] I assume everyone.

[01:21:23] It's an asshole.

[01:21:24] I kind of.

[01:21:24] Yeah.

[01:21:25] She's an asshole too.

[01:21:26] But.

[01:21:26] I was trying to help.

[01:21:28] I just want to point out one comment real fast.

[01:21:30] It says.

[01:21:31] This has to be rage bait.

[01:21:33] If by some random chance.

[01:21:34] This is actually real.

[01:21:36] Yeah.

[01:21:36] You are indeed the biggest of assholes.

[01:21:39] This probably belongs on R.

[01:21:41] Am I the devil?

[01:21:43] You are not this person's friend.

[01:21:45] If you are willing to say something like this.

[01:21:48] Seriously.

[01:21:49] Seriously.

[01:21:50] No.

[01:21:50] But like.

[01:21:50] It was so well written.

[01:21:52] I almost.

[01:21:53] Quit.

[01:21:54] Like the.

[01:21:54] The.

[01:21:55] The.

[01:21:56] The way that she described the dialogue in the scene.

[01:21:58] Was so kind of like.

[01:22:00] That's why yeah.

[01:22:00] It's very well put together.

[01:22:02] It's very well curated.

[01:22:03] So it's like.

[01:22:04] For heart abuse.

[01:22:05] What are you.

[01:22:05] Just because there wasn't 37 commas.

[01:22:07] Doesn't mean this person is good.

[01:22:11] I think.

[01:22:12] I'm going to be honest dude.

[01:22:13] I think that this could be solved.

[01:22:15] If like.

[01:22:15] They just had a heart to heart talk.

[01:22:18] Yeah.

[01:22:18] Every am I the asshole could be solved.

[01:22:20] No.

[01:22:20] If they had a heart to heart talk.

[01:22:22] Sometimes.

[01:22:23] No.

[01:22:23] I think this one.

[01:22:24] Everyone is so.

[01:22:25] Everyone is burning her at the fucking stake.

[01:22:27] I think that.

[01:22:28] She got emotional.

[01:22:30] Because.

[01:22:30] We.

[01:22:31] Like I said.

[01:22:32] Like if this was to a stranger.

[01:22:33] It would be a lot worse.

[01:22:34] But this is somebody that she cares about.

[01:22:36] This is coming from a place.

[01:22:37] The reason why she's so emotional.

[01:22:39] Is because she cares about the person I assume.

[01:22:40] And so it's like.

[01:22:42] This is coming from a place of care.

[01:22:44] Like she.

[01:22:44] Doesn't want him.

[01:22:46] To.

[01:22:46] Be.

[01:22:47] Self-destructive.

[01:22:48] And.

[01:22:49] And.

[01:22:49] And from her perspective.

[01:22:50] It looks like she's self-destructive.

[01:22:51] And her telling her that.

[01:22:53] Her telling him.

[01:22:53] That no one cares about their game.

[01:22:55] And whatever.

[01:22:55] It's like.

[01:22:56] This has probably been boiling over for months.

[01:22:58] I think.

[01:22:59] And then.

[01:23:00] It's like.

[01:23:02] This is probably a conversation that had to happen.

[01:23:04] And this is just one of the worst ways that it could have happened.

[01:23:07] But I don't think that she's the devil.

[01:23:08] I genuinely don't.

[01:23:09] I think that.

[01:23:10] Unless she is like tripling and quadrupling down.

[01:23:13] I don't think that she's the devil.

[01:23:14] And we have an update.

[01:23:16] So we.

[01:23:16] We can.

[01:23:16] We can.

[01:23:25] I don't really know how that works.

[01:23:26] So here it is for anyone who might see or care.

[01:23:28] I'll start this off by saying.

[01:23:30] To everyone who is rooting for.

[01:23:31] Quote unquote.

[01:23:31] My sister in the comments.

[01:23:33] That was not her.

[01:23:34] What?

[01:23:35] I.

[01:23:36] I don't know.

[01:23:37] What they thought that would accomplish.

[01:23:39] But it wasn't until after that comment.

[01:23:41] That I even called my sister.

[01:23:43] Actually called my sister.

[01:23:44] She had a laugh over it.

[01:23:46] Before she berated me for the post.

[01:23:48] Pause.

[01:23:48] This happens sometimes.

[01:23:50] Where people will fake being one of the people involved in the posts.

[01:23:54] In these.

[01:23:54] This is pretty rare.

[01:23:56] But like sometimes it does.

[01:23:57] Weird.

[01:23:58] But for the actual update.

[01:24:00] No.

[01:24:00] My friend has not unblocked me.

[01:24:02] Good.

[01:24:02] And a couple of others in our group aren't speaking with me anymore.

[01:24:06] Also.

[01:24:07] Probably good.

[01:24:08] My stance on games hasn't changed.

[01:24:11] And it won't.

[01:24:11] I still find them ridiculous and pointless.

[01:24:14] And I still think that what my friend is doing.

[01:24:17] With that whole.

[01:24:18] I don't think they're a good person.

[01:24:19] Dating a character in a game thing is weird.

[01:24:22] Double down.

[01:24:22] I think anyone who does that needs help.

[01:24:25] Anybody who dates a character in a game.

[01:24:27] They need help.

[01:24:28] They need help.

[01:24:30] One guy.

[01:24:31] One guy messaged me.

[01:24:33] His email.

[01:24:34] The one guy who messaged me his email.

[01:24:37] My sister talked to me.

[01:24:38] Into forwarding it.

[01:24:40] To one of the friends.

[01:24:41] Who isn't talking to me.

[01:24:43] But hasn't.

[01:24:44] Hasn't blocked me.

[01:24:45] And told them to pass it to him.

[01:24:46] I don't know if they did.

[01:24:48] And I don't know if those two ever got in contact.

[01:24:50] I tried to ask.

[01:24:51] But no one would give me a solid answer.

[01:24:53] The friends who aren't speaking to me now.

[01:24:54] Apparently had been looking for a reason.

[01:24:56] Not to speak with me for a while.

[01:24:57] Big fucking surprise.

[01:24:59] Big fucking surprise.

[01:25:01] And that's all I know with that situation.

[01:25:03] And the ones who still are.

[01:25:06] Have been adamant about not wanting to pick sides.

[01:25:09] So that's it.

[01:25:10] I most likely won't log back in after this.

[01:25:13] I only got back in to post this.

[01:25:14] Because my sister said she wanted me to reflect a little bit more.

[01:25:17] And said it might help.

[01:25:18] Since I was keen to air my dirty laundry anyway.

[01:25:25] Your honor.

[01:25:27] I request that all that be stricken from the record.

[01:25:31] So.

[01:25:32] It doesn't help.

[01:25:33] This paragraph.

[01:25:34] The middle paragraph.

[01:25:34] My stance on games hasn't changed.

[01:25:37] And it won't.

[01:25:37] I find them ridiculous and pointless.

[01:25:40] And I still think what my friend is doing with the whole dating a character thing is weird.

[01:25:44] Come on man.

[01:25:45] Come on man.

[01:25:46] We gotta touch some grass here.

[01:25:49] I don't know.

[01:25:49] There's more pointless things.

[01:25:51] Like have you ever gone to the top golf or whatever?

[01:25:54] Like the batting cages but for golf?

[01:25:56] Yeah.

[01:25:56] That would be the dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen.

[01:25:59] Hold on.

[01:25:59] Hold on.

[01:26:00] Pause.

[01:26:00] Pause.

[01:26:01] I really like golf.

[01:26:02] Top golf sounds like a fun ass time.

[01:26:04] You get to get trashed while just shooting golf.

[01:26:08] Like shooting pile drivers.

[01:26:10] Honestly sounds so great.

[01:26:10] Getting fucking trashed and eating nachos.

[01:26:14] And hitting golf balls.

[01:26:15] That sounds like an amazing time film.

[01:26:17] That sounds nice.

[01:26:18] I have a lot of respect for actual golf.

[01:26:19] There's more to golf than driving.

[01:26:21] Yes.

[01:26:21] There is more.

[01:26:22] Sounds really good though.

[01:26:24] On the comments of this.

[01:26:25] Like a lot of fun.

[01:26:26] I saw this giant fucking novel that somebody wrote in the comments.

[01:26:30] And I was scrolling it.

[01:26:32] Just kind of eyeballing it.

[01:26:33] And one paragraph caught my eye.

[01:26:37] And it says.

[01:26:38] It says.

[01:26:39] I will tell you of myself.

[01:26:41] I grew up with an alcoholic father.

[01:26:43] And a verbally abusive mother.

[01:26:44] I have had every eating disorder.

[01:26:47] When I was 20.

[01:26:48] I had been one.

[01:26:49] Okay.

[01:26:49] Yada yada yada.

[01:26:50] A lot of bad things have happened.

[01:26:52] Then.

[01:26:52] I played Dragon Age Origins.

[01:26:54] No!

[01:26:55] No!

[01:26:56] No!

[01:26:57] No!

[01:26:57] No!

[01:26:57] No!

[01:26:58] It was a joke.

[01:26:59] We got him ladies and gentlemen.

[01:27:02] I'm telling you man.

[01:27:03] Origins gets people dude.

[01:27:04] Origins gets people.

[01:27:06] My best friend's favorite game ever.

[01:27:09] Dude.

[01:27:10] By the way.

[01:27:11] Female.

[01:27:12] Female.

[01:27:12] Ray Warden.

[01:27:13] Romancing Alistair.

[01:27:14] Peak.

[01:27:15] Peak!

[01:27:16] It's peak.

[01:27:17] It's so good.

[01:27:19] I guess I'm going to play.

[01:27:20] You were playing as a woman?

[01:27:21] Oh no!

[01:27:23] Oh no!

[01:27:24] Reddit.

[01:27:25] Get this man.

[01:27:26] Arrest this man right now.

[01:27:28] Ladies and gentlemen.

[01:27:29] We got him again.

[01:27:30] He's in full on woman face.

[01:27:31] So have we all agreed that this woman is a flaming infested asshole?

[01:27:36] Yeah.

[01:27:36] She's bad.

[01:27:37] She's kind of suck.

[01:27:37] No further.

[01:27:38] No further witnesses.

[01:27:39] Your honor.

[01:27:40] No further.

[01:27:41] No further comments.

[01:27:41] Your honor.

[01:27:42] Okay.

[01:27:43] And for the sake of time those two will be the last.

[01:27:46] Let's take a quick break and then we can hit the meat.

[01:27:48] Music plays.

[01:27:49] The last ones we ever do.

[01:27:50] I'll be right back.

[01:27:54] Alright.

[01:27:54] For the spread we are currently over time by 12 minutes.

[01:28:02] But we can save some time.

[01:28:04] You said we were going for 37 right?

[01:28:07] Yeah.

[01:28:07] An hour 37.

[01:28:08] An hour 37?

[01:28:08] Okay.

[01:28:09] I believe you.

[01:28:10] That's very desperate.

[01:28:11] I believe that you believe that.

[01:28:13] That is the thing that I've started to say when I want to be derogatory to somebody.

[01:28:18] Dude.

[01:28:19] And it makes people mad.

[01:28:21] Wait.

[01:28:21] To say what?

[01:28:22] To agree with them?

[01:28:22] I believe that you believe that.

[01:28:25] Oh my god.

[01:28:26] That's so stupid.

[01:28:27] I'm sorry you feel that way.

[01:28:29] It is a dagger dude.

[01:28:31] It is fucking stabbing a dagger into their fucking side.

[01:28:34] Because it makes them feel so stupid.

[01:28:36] Oh man.

[01:28:37] Does your bedroom door not close completely?

[01:28:40] No.

[01:28:42] The fucking house has shifted in a way that.

[01:28:44] The tornadoes.

[01:28:46] Yeah.

[01:28:46] They've ruined the molding on the walls.

[01:28:48] It's terrible.

[01:28:49] We're not saving.

[01:28:49] There's cracks everywhere.

[01:28:50] We're not saving any time on this game by the way.

[01:28:53] I think we're going to end up talking about this game for a good minute.

[01:28:56] People are getting their money.

[01:28:58] Nave.

[01:28:58] Nave.

[01:28:59] I just want to ask.

[01:29:01] I am literally at the second.

[01:29:03] I'm in halfway through I think the second to last mission.

[01:29:08] So I don't know if there's any like major narrative reveals.

[01:29:11] I've gotten like I know who the big bad is at this point.

[01:29:15] But I just don't know if there are any like crazy wilder reveals.

[01:29:18] Are you talking about Black Ops?

[01:29:19] Yeah.

[01:29:20] I'm going to be honest.

[01:29:20] I don't really know what the narrative is of this game.

[01:29:23] I just want everyone to know that Phil said we had one hour and three hours.

[01:29:27] 37 minutes.

[01:29:29] We have seven minutes and two seconds to talk about the game.

[01:29:33] We've discussed the time issues.

[01:29:34] That's good.

[01:29:35] Time dilation.

[01:29:36] Time roulette.

[01:29:37] Phillip's running on Alaskan time.

[01:29:39] So he's running a little behind.

[01:29:40] So it's okay.

[01:29:42] Yeah.

[01:29:42] And we're back.

[01:29:43] Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is signature Black Ops across a cinematic single player campaign.

[01:29:50] A best in class multiplayer experience.

[01:29:52] And with the epic return of round based zombies.

[01:29:56] We know we fucked up last time guys.

[01:29:58] We're sorry.

[01:30:00] That is actually so that.

[01:30:02] All reviews mixed.

[01:30:05] Released October 24th, 2024.

[01:30:07] Developed.

[01:30:08] Treyarch.

[01:30:09] Raven Studio.

[01:30:09] Bioware.

[01:30:10] Ben Tevito.

[01:30:11] Or whatever.

[01:30:12] It's been inox.

[01:30:14] There's like 20 studios published by Activision.

[01:30:17] Yeah.

[01:30:18] This game has a really high critic score on Metascore.

[01:30:23] 83.

[01:30:24] And a little bit mixed to average 7 for users.

[01:30:28] All right.

[01:30:29] I already.

[01:30:30] I revealed the thing about this.

[01:30:34] But people are mostly complaining about how the game runs on PC.

[01:30:37] And the file size.

[01:30:38] And there's like packet loss problems on PC.

[01:30:41] So I think especially the mixed reviews on Steam.

[01:30:44] That's what most of the reviews are about.

[01:30:46] Are how people are dying to console players constantly.

[01:30:50] Because of either aim assist or packet loss.

[01:30:52] Or all kinds of issues.

[01:30:52] Of course.

[01:30:53] These PC players always be complaining about aim assist.

[01:30:56] Oh my god.

[01:30:57] I cannot.

[01:30:57] Console players rise up.

[01:31:00] Rise against the hierarchy.

[01:31:01] Shut the fuck up about your aim assist bullshit.

[01:31:03] You have a mouse and keyboard.

[01:31:05] Fuck off.

[01:31:06] The hierarchy of power has shifted.

[01:31:08] And now the console players are having their time in the sun.

[01:31:12] Yeah.

[01:31:12] All right.

[01:31:13] A quick history preconception roundtable.

[01:31:16] I've never played a Black Ops before this one.

[01:31:19] I thought they were just like all the other Call of Duties.

[01:31:21] But this Black Ops is very different.

[01:31:24] Than the Call of Duties of my childhood.

[01:31:26] You nailed it.

[01:31:27] I also haven't played anything.

[01:31:30] She's never played Call of Duty period probably.

[01:31:32] I've played Zombies whenever I was like 14 or 15 years old with my cousin one time.

[01:31:37] Which is probably Black Ops.

[01:31:39] Because Zombies used to be exclusively a Treyarch thing.

[01:31:43] It's a world of war.

[01:31:44] I think it was 2010 when I was 14.

[01:31:47] I think.

[01:31:48] What Call of Duty?

[01:31:49] No.

[01:31:50] Oh God.

[01:31:50] I don't research that.

[01:31:52] Sorry.

[01:31:53] I have no idea what Call of Duty was.

[01:31:55] It was 2014?

[01:31:57] How old was I?

[01:31:59] There was a Zombies mode in Advanced Warfare.

[01:32:01] But it was not very good.

[01:32:03] I have played Zombies before this game.

[01:32:06] I have played Zombies.

[01:32:06] So I would imagine that's probably haven't been playing on the tenet of a Black Ops.

[01:32:11] But I've never played a Black Ops campaign before.

[01:32:13] I have played the original Modern Warfare 1 through 3.

[01:32:18] I played the original Call of Duty The Big Red 1 on the PlayStation 2.

[01:32:24] That game fucking rocks.

[01:32:25] Love that game.

[01:32:27] Most of the World War 2 games are literally just the same storyline.

[01:32:32] It's just World War 2.

[01:32:33] You're either in Germany or you're in Japan.

[01:32:36] It is what it is.

[01:32:37] But I didn't play...

[01:32:40] I want to say Veilguard because recency bias.

[01:32:43] But there was the Vanguard.

[01:32:45] They had Call of Duty The Vanguard.

[01:32:46] Which I think was not well received critically.

[01:32:49] And then my co-host Will.

[01:32:51] He actually played Call of Duty Cold War.

[01:32:54] And actually said that he enjoyed that.

[01:32:55] But I've also heard really bad things about Cold War.

[01:32:58] So a lot of mixed stuff leading up to this.

[01:33:00] But I will say that this game is pretty fucking cool.

[01:33:03] I guess I'm the only person that has played Call of Duty campaigns.

[01:33:08] But I've played every Call of Duty up to Ghosts, I think.

[01:33:13] And then I skipped a couple.

[01:33:15] And I would play occasionally.

[01:33:17] I would do the campaign.

[01:33:18] And I played the one with...

[01:33:20] What is not Kevin Costner?

[01:33:22] Who's the guy that sexually assaulted somebody?

[01:33:26] Kevin Spacey.

[01:33:27] Was that Infinite Warfare?

[01:33:29] I played the campaign for that one too.

[01:33:31] I enjoyed that.

[01:33:32] The only Modern Warfare campaigns...

[01:33:34] I've played all of the Modern Warfare campaigns.

[01:33:36] The only Modern Warfare...

[01:33:38] I just haven't played the rebooted ones.

[01:33:41] The only game you've played is the one with the guy who's sexually assaulted.

[01:33:45] He's a good actor, dude.

[01:33:47] I'm sorry.

[01:33:48] I'm sorry.

[01:33:49] Michael Jackson makes good music.

[01:33:51] Kevin Spacey acts good.

[01:33:52] You were like...

[01:33:52] You were like...

[01:33:53] The only one I've played...

[01:33:55] And you were trying to find an actor.

[01:33:56] And my brain was like...

[01:33:57] Jason Statham.

[01:33:58] I love him.

[01:33:59] And then you were like...

[01:33:59] Kevin Spacey.

[01:34:00] A piece of shit.

[01:34:01] And I was like...

[01:34:02] No.

[01:34:03] That's not Jason Statham.

[01:34:06] Isn't a Jason Statham fucking Call of Duty somehow?

[01:34:08] If Jason Statham were in this game, I would like it.

[01:34:13] I doubt it.

[01:34:14] No.

[01:34:15] I would 100% like it.

[01:34:18] I like anything he's in.

[01:34:20] Spoiler alert.

[01:34:20] Spoiler alert for how she feels about this game.

[01:34:22] But I've played...

[01:34:23] I don't like it.

[01:34:23] I've played...

[01:34:24] I would say the majority of Call of Duty campaigns, even though for the most part in Modernity

[01:34:28] I have fucking fallen off.

[01:34:29] I've played Cold War, which was an amazing game.

[01:34:31] And it's literally the prequels of this game.

[01:34:34] Really?

[01:34:34] And it is the predecessor.

[01:34:36] If you play it and then play this one, it's like, oh, okay.

[01:34:40] I understand now.

[01:34:41] I didn't beat the game.

[01:34:42] Because honestly, it really was kind of like, for the most part, mostly Call of Duty.

[01:34:47] We'll talk about this later.

[01:34:48] But that'll make sense later.

[01:34:51] At the very beginning, though, I really want to stress to people that this Call of Duty

[01:34:56] campaign is worth playing blind.

[01:34:58] And if you're listening to this for some reason and you haven't played the campaign of this,

[01:35:02] it's on Game Pass.

[01:35:03] I think a lot of our listeners...

[01:35:04] I think probably over half of our listeners are on Xbox.

[01:35:06] Please just play this campaign and then come back to it.

[01:35:09] We're also going to layer it so that we talk about zombies and multiplayer before and then

[01:35:13] we start talking about the campaign.

[01:35:14] I really just want to stress to people that I don't want to spoil this shit for you.

[01:35:18] And I'm going to spoil the shit out of this campaign.

[01:35:20] So this is really the time to...

[01:35:22] If you want to hear about the zombies and multiplayer, you can do that.

[01:35:24] And then later on, I'll flag you again.

[01:35:27] But there it is.

[01:35:29] Yeah.

[01:35:30] So we got a whole bunch of Steam reviews listed up here.

[01:35:33] Let's roll through them real quick.

[01:35:35] And if anything, if I have some big comments that agree or disagree, we can go into it.

[01:35:41] From BlankName, recommend.

[01:35:43] The zombies mode has only two maps and they still fell longer than the whole Modern Warfare 3 campaign.

[01:35:49] Okay, we're going to get a lot of comparisons to the Modern Warfare 3 campaign that we reviewed

[01:35:54] like three months ago or something like that.

[01:35:57] People hate that game, right?

[01:35:58] It was so bad.

[01:36:00] People despise that game.

[01:36:01] Okay.

[01:36:02] All right.

[01:36:02] I'm just making sure that I understand correctly.

[01:36:04] Cool.

[01:36:04] We went into detail mission by mission, tearing down each section about how it could have

[01:36:09] been better and what they did wrong on this very podcast for two and a half hours.

[01:36:14] Go check it out, listener.

[01:36:15] I need to go back and listen.

[01:36:17] Keith from...

[01:36:18] I was so angry.

[01:36:20] So I never played it, but I've sold video games in my life and I know that people didn't

[01:36:27] like it.

[01:36:29] So...

[01:36:29] Yeah.

[01:36:29] I don't know.

[01:36:30] Call of Duty.

[01:36:31] Call of Duty.

[01:36:32] Good old God.

[01:36:34] This next review is incredible.

[01:36:37] Rachel Reed.

[01:36:38] Or actually, Nick, you read it.

[01:36:39] I can say it over.

[01:36:40] Omni Movement is going to have me doing Palpatine barrel rolls for kills, which is great.

[01:36:46] Do you guys remember that part of Revenge of the Sith?

[01:36:48] Where he...

[01:36:50] It's like Kit Fisto and Sam Jackson confront him.

[01:36:55] And he's like...

[01:36:58] Because of course he did.

[01:37:00] Nihilates them.

[01:37:01] I love it.

[01:37:01] I was talking to my daughter earlier and she's like talking about Frozen.

[01:37:04] She's like, oh, when I was little, I knew that whole script of that movie.

[01:37:08] I could say word for word to you.

[01:37:10] And I'm like, oh, I was the same way with Star Wars Episode 3.

[01:37:13] It's cheesy.

[01:37:15] Oh my God.

[01:37:16] Honestly, I relate to your kid.

[01:37:17] I probably know the whole script of Frozen.

[01:37:20] It's a great movie.

[01:37:21] I remember...

[01:37:22] Let's go back to Star Wars real quick.

[01:37:25] It said Knave never.

[01:37:27] I mean, we're still in Disneyland.

[01:37:28] I remember the first time...

[01:37:29] We are still in Disneyland with Star Wars.

[01:37:31] But I remember the first time I saw Star Wars Episode 3.

[01:37:33] I was with Steven.

[01:37:34] And I smoked probably the most weed up to that point at one time ever.

[01:37:40] And then Steven was like, look at this part.

[01:37:43] He was grabbing me by my shirt and he was like, watch this part.

[01:37:45] And it was the part where he's like, I believed in you, Anakin.

[01:37:48] You are the chosen one.

[01:37:50] And we started sobbing and holding each other.

[01:37:53] It was the fucking gayest thing.

[01:37:54] At Obi-Wan's final speech.

[01:37:56] It's so funny.

[01:37:58] Every time I think about it.

[01:37:59] Every time I think about Star Wars, I think about that.

[01:38:01] And that's why I hate Star Wars so much.

[01:38:04] That's why you hate it so much?

[01:38:06] I'm just joking.

[01:38:07] It's such a stupid...

[01:38:09] It's such a stupid...

[01:38:10] Don't watch Star Wars High.

[01:38:12] Listen.

[01:38:13] Yeah, it's not worth it.

[01:38:14] It's not worth it.

[01:38:15] Don't watch Star Wars.

[01:38:16] Honestly.

[01:38:17] It's not fucking worth it.

[01:38:19] Who gives a shit?

[01:38:20] I love Star Wars.

[01:38:22] I'm sorry.

[01:38:23] I'm so sorry.

[01:38:24] It's one of my favorite IPs.

[01:38:25] No offense to you.

[01:38:27] No, I know.

[01:38:27] It's fine.

[01:38:28] But I don't give a fuck about it.

[01:38:31] All right.

[01:38:32] I'll read Lazarus.

[01:38:34] Does not recommend.

[01:38:35] This is a string of not recommends.

[01:38:36] Rare.

[01:38:38] Campaign is good.

[01:38:39] Like, really good.

[01:38:40] Nine out of ten good.

[01:38:41] But the multiplayer might as well be rubbing a cheese grater on your ball sack.

[01:38:45] This is an extension of people complaining about packet loss and aim assistance.

[01:38:49] So, again, everyone's upset about the multiplayer over on Steam.

[01:38:53] And this next one is a twofer.

[01:38:55] Rachel, if you want to read this.

[01:38:56] These are right next to each other.

[01:38:58] That's why.

[01:38:59] Oh, you want me to read both of them?

[01:39:00] I was waiting for this.

[01:39:02] I was waiting for this.

[01:39:03] So, main fighter says, not recommended.

[01:39:06] Added women.

[01:39:09] Honestly.

[01:39:10] And then.

[01:39:12] Whiplers.

[01:39:13] Whiplers.

[01:39:14] Said, not enough Asian Asian sexual representation.

[01:39:20] All right.

[01:39:20] Which one?

[01:39:20] So, back to the Dragon Age game.

[01:39:25] I was playing.

[01:39:26] I was playing the beginning of this game.

[01:39:27] I was playing the beginning of this game.

[01:39:29] And it was about the time that the third, like, female character came on.

[01:39:34] I was like, oh, no.

[01:39:36] Oh, no.

[01:39:37] The characters are coming.

[01:39:39] No, I did.

[01:39:40] I was watching him play the game.

[01:39:43] And he was like, oh, I'm a woman now.

[01:39:45] And I was like, woke.

[01:39:47] Woke video game.

[01:39:49] And then I saw the dude in the wheelchair.

[01:39:51] And I was like, no.

[01:39:54] It's the end of the.

[01:39:56] This is the wokest game I've ever seen.

[01:40:00] Oh, my God.

[01:40:00] It looks like that.

[01:40:02] It's a bad look.

[01:40:03] It looks woke.

[01:40:04] That was the first two things.

[01:40:07] That was, like, the first two thoughts I had about it.

[01:40:09] Was woman character, guy in wheelchair.

[01:40:12] They got a blackout.

[01:40:13] They made me do a lot of politics.

[01:40:14] Yeah.

[01:40:15] They got a racially ambiguous woman.

[01:40:19] Part of the main cast.

[01:40:20] What are we doing here, Treyarch?

[01:40:22] Is she white?

[01:40:23] Is she brown?

[01:40:24] We don't know.

[01:40:25] Who's to say?

[01:40:26] Who's to say?

[01:40:27] Now, hold on.

[01:40:28] Hold on.

[01:40:28] There's, like, five main characters on your team or whatever.

[01:40:31] And it's, like, you have older business.

[01:40:34] Johnny Cage.

[01:40:35] Johnny Cage.

[01:40:36] Yeah.

[01:40:38] Which is my favorite.

[01:40:39] What's his name?

[01:40:40] Kruger, maybe?

[01:40:41] Or something?

[01:40:42] Cass?

[01:40:43] Case?

[01:40:44] Is it Cass?

[01:40:45] No, Cass is you.

[01:40:46] Phillip's talking about the.

[01:40:47] Are you talking about the German?

[01:40:49] The Newman?

[01:40:49] The German guy?

[01:40:50] The German, yeah.

[01:40:50] Yeah, the old German who's like, I get bad things in the war.

[01:40:54] That guy.

[01:40:57] I can't stop thinking of Seinfeld every time they were like, Newman, tell me about this.

[01:41:02] Tell me about what's going on in the safe.

[01:41:05] Okay.

[01:41:05] There was a bluff where, like, you play as him for a little bit and he puts on these, like,

[01:41:09] rubber gloves, you know?

[01:41:10] Like, surgical gloves.

[01:41:11] And then later on you see him and he's putting his hands up to a fire.

[01:41:14] And I'm just like, ooh, I was in Boy Scouts.

[01:41:16] You probably shouldn't put plastic gloves up close to the fire like that.

[01:41:19] That's not very good.

[01:41:21] Oh, it's Adler, by the way.

[01:41:23] Newman Adler?

[01:41:24] Oh, yeah.

[01:41:25] Sorry, every time I heard the name Adler, I thought of this guy that I used to work with

[01:41:29] and I just got so mad because he was the biggest fucking idiot.

[01:41:33] So I just associated that character with a fucking idiot that I used to work with.

[01:41:39] And that's all I could think of.

[01:41:40] So you got some community difference with this game, huh?

[01:41:42] Adler is basically Wesker.

[01:41:45] He is.

[01:41:48] And he's what kicks off the adventure, too, which is, like, so good.

[01:41:53] Well, Adler's actually a character in Black Ops.

[01:41:55] So it's like, I'm like, oh, it's that guy.

[01:41:56] And what's weird is that, so Black Ops 6 takes place in between Black Ops 1 and 2.

[01:42:02] So that was the thing.

[01:42:03] So Black Ops, like, went into the future and then they came back.

[01:42:07] So, like, Cold War was then coming back.

[01:42:09] And then this is after Cold War.

[01:42:11] And that's what I wanted to ask you guys, like, because you have played these games before,

[01:42:16] that, like, Adler, is he the only legacy character that's pulled through

[01:42:19] or some of these characters also recurring?

[01:42:21] Woods is also recurring.

[01:42:23] The director?

[01:42:24] Or no, it's a wheelchair guy.

[01:42:26] Frank Woods.

[01:42:27] Frank Woods.

[01:42:28] Did you ever play, like, the part where he got disabled?

[01:42:32] Like, where he got his, like, legs shot out or his spine shot or something?

[01:42:36] Okay.

[01:42:36] No.

[01:42:36] So it happens off screen.

[01:42:38] Well, I mean, I didn't play the whole campaign of Cold War, so I don't know.

[01:42:43] But this is a direct continuation of Cold War.

[01:42:45] It's like how Black Ops 1 and 2 kind of, like, the same characters came over.

[01:42:48] It's like Black Ops.

[01:42:49] It's weird because one of the Black Ops doesn't even have a campaign.

[01:42:52] I think it's 4.

[01:42:53] Yeah.

[01:42:54] And so, I don't know.

[01:42:55] And Black Ops 3 is in the future.

[01:42:56] So that's the whole timeline.

[01:42:57] Black Ops 3 is, like, from now in the future.

[01:43:00] And then 4 has no campaign.

[01:43:03] 5 and 6 are in the middle of 1 and 2.

[01:43:07] So, like, it's confusing.

[01:43:10] Well, let's answer this.

[01:43:11] Which game is more woke?

[01:43:12] Modern Warfare 3 or Black Ops 6?

[01:43:15] Definitely Black Ops 6, I think.

[01:43:18] What?

[01:43:18] No way!

[01:43:19] Modern Warfare 3, where you have the Middle Eastern woman who's already better than everyone on the team?

[01:43:25] You're right.

[01:43:26] I think I blanked.

[01:43:28] You know how they...

[01:43:29] You know how, um...

[01:43:31] In the beginning of every chapter, they redact, like, the information.

[01:43:36] That's what I did to Modern Warfare 3.

[01:43:38] Like, I redacted it from your brain.

[01:43:41] Yeah.

[01:43:41] Yeah.

[01:43:42] That is the one you watched me play, Rachel.

[01:43:44] Yeah.

[01:43:45] That was...

[01:43:46] I don't know.

[01:43:47] Wheelchair Guy?

[01:43:48] That's pretty woke.

[01:43:50] Yeah, but...

[01:43:50] Wheelchair Guy's so cool!

[01:43:52] He's really cool.

[01:43:53] I really like his character.

[01:43:54] He's so cool until he fights able-bodied people, and then he's immediately taken out.

[01:44:01] I just want to date Gale.

[01:44:05] He's over on the computer just playing his character.

[01:44:11] Need that screenshot.

[01:44:13] He is that girl's friend.

[01:44:16] That's why he started a revolution, you know?

[01:44:19] He just wants to play his video game in peace.

[01:44:23] All right.

[01:44:24] So, let's get into the discussion, then.

[01:44:26] Nave, you wrote the notes, so do you want to lead us by the hand?

[01:44:30] Take me by the hand.

[01:44:32] Ocean Man.

[01:44:32] Yep.

[01:44:33] So, I...

[01:44:33] Let's start with zombies.

[01:44:35] I don't know if you guys have played zombies.

[01:44:37] Rachel's played at least one round.

[01:44:38] I'm sure of that.

[01:44:40] One singular round.

[01:44:41] So, have you guys played any of zombies?

[01:44:43] I loaded up the lobby, and then I stopped.

[01:44:48] Perfect.

[01:44:49] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:44:50] I've played a few zombies here and there.

[01:44:53] I've, you know, with friends and done, like, the...

[01:44:57] Excuse me.

[01:44:58] Sorry.

[01:44:59] But, yeah.

[01:45:00] I played, like, maybe...

[01:45:05] I don't know.

[01:45:05] I feel like for most of the games that I've played, it was most likely, like, Black Ops 3 zombies.

[01:45:11] And it was, like, staying up all night with some friends and just, like, doing the thing.

[01:45:15] But that's about it.

[01:45:15] All I know is you just survive as long as you can.

[01:45:19] Okay.

[01:45:19] I mean, like, so, you guys haven't played this game, Zombies, though, yeah?

[01:45:23] Oh, not yet.

[01:45:24] No, no, no.

[01:45:25] Okay.

[01:45:25] So, Rachel, you played one round, and you...

[01:45:28] This is really your only experience with Call of Duty before this game, was playing zombies,

[01:45:34] is what you said?

[01:45:35] Yeah.

[01:45:35] So, what do you think about new zombies?

[01:45:37] We played this split screen, by the way.

[01:45:38] So, I'll talk about that in a second.

[01:45:41] It was really hard to see.

[01:45:42] I think it was...

[01:45:44] It was fine.

[01:45:45] I don't hate zombies.

[01:45:46] Like, I am fine with just, like, a cooperative, like, horde mode, essentially.

[01:45:53] Like, I can get behind that.

[01:45:55] I didn't know anything.

[01:45:56] You were like, go get the gun off the wall.

[01:45:58] And I was like, what are you talking about?

[01:46:01] And you were like, it's white or something.

[01:46:04] And I was like, okay, I don't know what that means.

[01:46:07] But I'll look around, and then I kept dying over and over again.

[01:46:11] That was my experience.

[01:46:13] I'm not super good at shooters.

[01:46:15] Well, so we played in split screen, which was interesting that split screen is still a

[01:46:21] thing in Call of Duty.

[01:46:22] I really do like that.

[01:46:24] I think that's fantastic.

[01:46:25] I think it's amazing that there's split screen.

[01:46:27] Yeah, it's impressive.

[01:46:28] That is the best thing about this game.

[01:46:31] The biggest downside is that the text is illegible.

[01:46:35] And so you have no idea what the fuck I'm looking at.

[01:46:38] This was my first game of Call of Duty Zombies 2.

[01:46:41] So I'm like, I don't know what a gobble bobble is or whatever.

[01:46:45] You have, like, little gumballs that you can eat.

[01:46:48] And I'm like, I don't know what that means.

[01:46:50] I saw you, like, going up to gumball machines.

[01:46:52] And I was like, well, I want to do that.

[01:46:54] But then I couldn't because you did it.

[01:46:56] Then I was like, well, that's stupid.

[01:46:58] I guess I'll just go fuck off.

[01:46:59] It is wild how much is going on in Call of Duty Zombies now.

[01:47:03] And a lot of it carries over.

[01:47:05] A lot of them because it's like, oh, there's the pack-a-punch.

[01:47:07] I understand that.

[01:47:07] Oh, juggernaut.

[01:47:08] I know that.

[01:47:09] But it's like trying to explain that to Rachel on the fly where I was like, grab a gun off

[01:47:13] the wall and fucking please pack-a-punch it.

[01:47:16] And she did it eventually.

[01:47:18] But then I was like, but then she died.

[01:47:20] And I'm like, ah, fuck.

[01:47:21] You know what I mean?

[01:47:21] So it's like after that, she went and started playing Vampire Survivors.

[01:47:25] And I played a whole bunch more games.

[01:47:27] I played two extra games in Liberty Falls.

[01:47:31] And then I played four matches in Terminus.

[01:47:33] And I definitely, for people who are already familiar with the Zombies games right now,

[01:47:39] I definitely probably prefer Terminus.

[01:47:43] Even though Liberty Falls is an interesting area, Terminus just has like a better flow

[01:47:47] in my opinion.

[01:47:48] It looks spooky.

[01:47:49] It looks spooky.

[01:47:50] Is it spooky?

[01:47:50] Real spooky.

[01:47:51] It is spooky.

[01:47:52] And there are objectives in all Zombies maps.

[01:47:57] There are Easter eggs and stuff to do.

[01:47:59] But in this game, it feels like there's a primary thing you should be doing.

[01:48:02] Because you have objective markers and stuff.

[01:48:04] And in Terminus, it's a lot more obvious.

[01:48:06] I don't know if I just had bad teammates at Liberty Falls before.

[01:48:09] But I didn't know what the fuck I was doing.

[01:48:11] And we ended up dying before anything consequential happened.

[01:48:14] But on Terminus, we were making progress.

[01:48:16] We were doing things.

[01:48:18] And the map was changing.

[01:48:19] And I was like, oh, fuck.

[01:48:21] But I really did enjoy Zombies.

[01:48:23] I'm really happy that Round Base is back.

[01:48:25] Because I fucking...

[01:48:27] I said this before.

[01:48:28] I'm glad that they experimented with the Zombies formula.

[01:48:32] But I'm glad that they're back here.

[01:48:34] Because I actually wanted to play more.

[01:48:36] I was doing that before we got on the podcast.

[01:48:39] And I stopped because I was like, I got 20 minutes.

[01:48:41] I should work on the notes a little bit more.

[01:48:43] But I could have gotten one more round of Zombies in.

[01:48:46] And I really wanted to do that.

[01:48:47] I was testing that line.

[01:48:49] I mean, Zombies is kind of back.

[01:48:51] I don't know if people want this.

[01:48:53] But I wanted this.

[01:48:56] I think with the right people, I could play Zombies.

[01:48:59] Zombies.

[01:48:59] Like, I think if I were playing with Lindsay and Crystal, I could like fuck it up for a few hours.

[01:49:04] And not me screaming.

[01:49:06] Yeah.

[01:49:06] Yeah.

[01:49:07] If it was just Lindsay and Crystal, that's who I play games with.

[01:49:11] If I'm playing multiplayer games, then I'm fine.

[01:49:14] What is it like, Rachel, to share with the audience?

[01:49:16] What is it like to co-op play with Nave sitting next to him?

[01:49:21] Unbearable.

[01:49:25] I can't.

[01:49:26] I physically cannot.

[01:49:28] Because he's like, dude, he gives me so much anxiety that I have to like, I'm like, I can't.

[01:49:35] I can't do it.

[01:49:36] I'm sorry.

[01:49:37] I'm trying my best.

[01:49:39] And he's like, do this, do this, do this.

[01:49:40] And I'm like, I don't know what you're saying.

[01:49:42] Like, it sounds like you're speaking fucking a foreign language right now.

[01:49:47] So he's like pack a punch.

[01:49:49] It's probably the closest you can get in real life to standing next to like Goku as he's going Kaioken and just feeling the energy coming off of him.

[01:49:57] It's so bad.

[01:49:59] So bad.

[01:50:01] I love it.

[01:50:02] I love it.

[01:50:03] But it's fine.

[01:50:05] It's fine.

[01:50:05] It's fine.

[01:50:06] We get by.

[01:50:08] So multiplayer.

[01:50:09] So we played multiplayer at least, right?

[01:50:12] Gang?

[01:50:12] Yeah.

[01:50:12] Yes.

[01:50:13] Quite a few matches.

[01:50:14] No.

[01:50:14] There we go.

[01:50:15] Absolutely zero.

[01:50:17] That is okay.

[01:50:18] I wanted to ask.

[01:50:20] I played like a couple of rounds, but I'm sure you boys have probably put in some more hours into the multiplayer than I have.

[01:50:26] Do you feel stronger about these maps than the beta maps?

[01:50:31] Because I really had a great time in the beta.

[01:50:33] I did not play the beta.

[01:50:35] Okay.

[01:50:35] I did not play the beta.

[01:50:37] Oh, so we only have one beta player.

[01:50:38] That's fine.

[01:50:39] I go, as the listener knows, but I go on Media Blackout.

[01:50:43] I knew I was going to play Black Ops 6 because it was on Game Pass.

[01:50:46] So I was like, of course.

[01:50:47] So I just didn't touch anything related to this.

[01:50:49] I just wanted to experience it all whenever it came out for everyone.

[01:50:53] Yeah.

[01:50:55] So were any of these?

[01:50:56] So I put some maps on here in the notes.

[01:51:00] Only a couple.

[01:51:01] The ones that really stand out in my brain.

[01:51:03] Were any of these in the beta?

[01:51:07] No.

[01:51:07] There was one high.

[01:51:09] I mean, I'm looking at them and I'm trying to remember.

[01:51:12] I mean, potentially the vault might have been.

[01:51:15] But I feel like most of them weren't.

[01:51:18] The beta had like two primary maps I played on.

[01:51:22] And that was one of them was this like high rise apartment where it's like very brutalistic.

[01:51:27] Lots of glass and like swimming pools and shit.

[01:51:29] Oh, yeah.

[01:51:30] Just running around and spamming each other and just decimating each other.

[01:51:33] And then there was another one that had it was like a train yard.

[01:51:38] So those were the ones that I remember.

[01:51:40] This is where I got all of those.

[01:51:42] I didn't just want to flood all of the maps.

[01:51:45] But I know what you're talking about.

[01:51:46] So the skyline is the one you're talking about with the swimming pool.

[01:51:49] Which is an interesting map for sure.

[01:51:51] And then the one you're talking about with the train.

[01:51:56] Yeah, it was derelict.

[01:52:00] Derelict makes me incredibly angry.

[01:52:03] Because it's too long.

[01:52:05] I think it's too long.

[01:52:06] You can get sniped so easily in that one.

[01:52:08] It's actually insane.

[01:52:10] One thing that really triggered me.

[01:52:11] I was playing with...

[01:52:12] Twice, actually, since the game came out.

[01:52:15] I played with the guys over in the Discord of...

[01:52:21] Shit.

[01:52:22] What is their fucking podcast?

[01:52:25] Neon Pocket Dimension.

[01:52:26] Sorry.

[01:52:27] So Neon Pocket Dimension has a Discord server.

[01:52:29] It's called something else.

[01:52:30] Which is called Odd Valley.

[01:52:32] Fucking enough.

[01:52:33] So I always have to fucking figure it out.

[01:52:35] But I played with them twice.

[01:52:39] And the second time we played, we played Hardcore.

[01:52:42] Which I hadn't played yet.

[01:52:43] And normally I'm like, ah, Hardcore is pretty cool.

[01:52:45] But I was eating dog shit the whole fucking time.

[01:52:48] Because I was so used to the Time to Kill before.

[01:52:51] And in Hardcore, in a map like...

[01:52:54] Whatever that train map was.

[01:52:56] I can't remember.

[01:52:56] They're like, yeah.

[01:52:58] People will be on the opposite side of the map.

[01:53:00] And just be shooting periodically down one of the fucking hallways.

[01:53:04] And you will just die as you're running fast.

[01:53:06] It's one of the most frustrating experiences I've ever experienced.

[01:53:09] And I really hate that.

[01:53:11] But that's kind of just how Hardcore is.

[01:53:14] And how some of the maps are.

[01:53:15] I just don't...

[01:53:16] My play style is so get up and go.

[01:53:20] You know?

[01:53:20] Like, I'm such a Halo player.

[01:53:22] That whenever I play Hardcore.

[01:53:24] It just encourages me to just hide in a corner.

[01:53:27] And just wait for people to...

[01:53:28] It's like camping is just so boring.

[01:53:31] Yeah.

[01:53:32] That's why you gotta play the doubles gun game.

[01:53:35] That's the only thing that I really liked playing.

[01:53:37] Where it's just you and another player on a team get dropped into a small arena.

[01:53:42] And it's like, here's a random set of equipment that the other team also has.

[01:53:47] Go get them, boys.

[01:53:48] And then you literally have like 10 seconds before they are kicking in the door.

[01:53:54] Meanwhile, you're kicking in the same door.

[01:53:56] And you guys just both light up like a small apartment complex in the middle of Russia.

[01:54:00] Trying to kill each other with auto shotguns that they gave you.

[01:54:04] And I thought it was like the funnest thing whenever I was playing the multiplayer in this.

[01:54:08] Yeah.

[01:54:09] Yeah.

[01:54:09] I mean, the arcadiness of this game is definitely present.

[01:54:14] And I didn't feel it when I played Modern Warfare 3.

[01:54:17] I don't know why.

[01:54:18] But Modern Warfare 3 just kind of frustrated me.

[01:54:20] And this game, it does frustrate me as much as any competitive shooter would be.

[01:54:25] But I feel a flow state a lot more often when I'm playing this.

[01:54:32] I have a couple of maps that I put in here.

[01:54:34] Which Nuketown is in here now too.

[01:54:36] So I would add that too.

[01:54:37] But these are like the default maps.

[01:54:40] Do you recognize any of these?

[01:54:43] I recognize Lowtown.

[01:54:45] I did enjoy Lowtown.

[01:54:46] And I'm pretty sure I played a couple of rounds in the vault.

[01:54:50] Lowtown is interesting because it has this like water around.

[01:54:54] But you can swim in this game.

[01:54:55] And there's a lot of like random like getting killed from the swimming pool kind of happens.

[01:55:01] Lowtown has so many different loops that you can run.

[01:55:06] It's insane.

[01:55:07] And like every single time I'll get killed from like the apartment.

[01:55:09] I'll be like how the fuck did you get in there?

[01:55:11] And I'll go and find different ways.

[01:55:13] So every time I played that map, I would always find a random zip line that took me to a window that I was like I didn't know you could get up here.

[01:55:20] But now I'm up here and no one knows that you can get up here.

[01:55:23] So I'm just murdering like 15 people.

[01:55:25] And obviously that's because the game just came out.

[01:55:27] But like there's a lot of different directions you can come from in this game, which is normally something that makes me frustrated in these in these games getting shot from weird awkward angles.

[01:55:36] But they're also insulated, I think, like these little loops, like areas that people tend to gravitate towards.

[01:55:44] Yeah.

[01:55:44] I don't know.

[01:55:45] I really did like the Lowtown map.

[01:55:47] I will say.

[01:55:49] Sorry, go ahead.

[01:55:50] Well, I was just going to I was going to swing it around to Subsonic, which this this map also.

[01:55:56] It is basically a big you know what map it reminds me of, Philip?

[01:56:00] Rat's Nest in Halo 3.

[01:56:02] Yeah.

[01:56:02] There's a big outer ring and then there's the part in the middle that connects them.

[01:56:07] There is like this in this map.

[01:56:09] There are two doors that are closed and you can press a button on both sides of the door that opens the door up that lets people run through the middle.

[01:56:18] And there is just a constant war for keeping the doors either opened or closed.

[01:56:24] And I feel like that is just really, really fun.

[01:56:27] Like, I don't know why that is.

[01:56:28] But having people always opening and closing these damn garage doors, like it seems so stupid.

[01:56:36] But I don't know.

[01:56:37] Yeah.

[01:56:37] The play style is uniquely Cod in this game.

[01:56:40] But it also like it reminds me kind of vaguely.

[01:56:43] I have similar feelings of when playing like the big team battles in this game as like when we were playing Battlefield.

[01:56:49] What was it?

[01:56:50] 2049 or whatever it's called.

[01:56:51] Like I have just similar feelings in terms of traversing through the map and doing the different objectives.

[01:56:57] I will say that like this game, the omnidirectional movement just feels incredible.

[01:57:03] And I don't know if I've said this before, but like it's just like being able to move and slide in any direction that you want to at any given time.

[01:57:09] Whether you wanted to go backwards or sideways while you're, you know, shooting.

[01:57:13] Like, you know, especially with the jumping, able to like jump to one side and shoot, you know, going backwards at the same time.

[01:57:20] It's just really fun.

[01:57:20] I think it's really, really cool.

[01:57:22] I think that people are also insane in this game and that there are kids that are bleeding their eyeballs out probably playing this, doing the most absurd.

[01:57:31] I've seen some absurd shit happen in this game.

[01:57:33] So it's just it's one of those things where you have to I mean, I have never cared about Call of Duty for the longest time since Modern Warfare 2.

[01:57:42] I really just I have no stake.

[01:57:44] I have no investment in this game.

[01:57:45] But I will say that, like, this is the first time where I don't want to shove my controller through my TV while I'm playing a Call of Duty like multiplayer campaign.

[01:57:55] I feel like there's something to be said for that.

[01:57:57] Have you experienced the omnidirectional movement, Philip?

[01:57:59] Have someone blasted your ass 360 like barrel roll?

[01:58:03] Maybe.

[01:58:04] Now I've noticed a lot of people are jumping and diving.

[01:58:06] Yeah, dude.

[01:58:07] Yeah, it's so.

[01:58:08] And I'm sort of doing it, too.

[01:58:10] It's because that's just what you do.

[01:58:12] That's what you do.

[01:58:12] You're just jumping around.

[01:58:13] Yeah.

[01:58:15] Yeah.

[01:58:15] I don't know if it's the optimal strategy, but it's just what you do.

[01:58:18] It is a good strategy because people are aiming at like chest high or like head high.

[01:58:23] So it's like having the ability to be like head high or like crouch head high or prone or diving in a direction and like or sliding like having all these different things at your disposal.

[01:58:36] Really?

[01:58:36] It's a little frustrating when you're getting over by it.

[01:58:38] Maybe I would actually like this multiplayer because I'm so used to like Fortnite multiplayer and jumping around is so important in Fortnite that like maybe I could actually be good at this multiplayer if I gave it a shot.

[01:58:53] Probably not.

[01:58:54] Yeah.

[01:58:54] Gotta give it a fair shake.

[01:58:55] It's possible because I do be jumping.

[01:58:57] It's like the Halo 3 hops.

[01:59:00] I do be jumping around.

[01:59:02] Yeah.

[01:59:03] Yeah.

[01:59:03] The omnidirectional movement is also very funny looking because it's so the game is so realistic looking.

[01:59:10] But also the omnidirectional jumping and looking around like it looks so fucking confusing to the brain.

[01:59:17] People diving around and like just blast spinning in midair.

[01:59:21] I just love I love when people jump jump out of a doorway and I just kill them in midair.

[01:59:26] It's so fucking funny to me.

[01:59:28] My favorite my favorite though is the body shields for sure.

[01:59:32] Getting a body shield on someone is just like it's the most disrespectful thing you can do to anybody.

[01:59:38] It's like the the comms that open up whenever you do grab them.

[01:59:41] And so it's fucking incredible.

[01:59:43] Yeah.

[01:59:43] All of the Twitter moments that we've seen are just it's just as good real life unless you get like a kid who's like screeching into his microphone.

[01:59:50] Oh no.

[01:59:50] How cute.

[01:59:51] And then you snap his neck.

[01:59:52] It's actually very sad.

[01:59:53] I definitely got a body shield where he was like oh my god.

[01:59:57] And then I just I just I was like yeah that's right bitch.

[02:00:00] Eat that mannequin.

[02:00:01] Fuck you.

[02:00:02] It's like dude so many people are playing in local in local uh not in group chat.

[02:00:10] Game chat.

[02:00:11] That's it.

[02:00:11] Yeah.

[02:00:11] They're playing game chat.

[02:00:12] They're playing in game chat because they want that moment.

[02:00:16] You know what I mean?

[02:00:16] And so you keep hearing I was I said it last week but like I killed that guy around the corner and he was like you bitch and just you get so many of those and it just feels like game like like party chat doesn't exist anymore.

[02:00:27] It feels like people are playing in the lobby again and it's like it just brings me back and it makes me feel so much joy decimating people.

[02:00:37] You know what I mean?

[02:00:38] Like it's like it reminds you oh there was a human I just humiliated.

[02:00:42] I think that's the problem because it takes me back to whenever I played CSGO as a teenager.

[02:00:48] Oh no.

[02:00:48] And people told me to kill myself and doxed me and just like sent me my own fucking address and I was like oh no.

[02:00:56] That's classic dude.

[02:00:57] That's why I don't like multiplayer games.

[02:01:00] CSGO ruined everything for me.

[02:01:03] God why would you I don't even know why anybody would play Counter-Strike in the year of our lord.

[02:01:08] Maybe you're rushing.

[02:01:09] I was like 17 years old okay.

[02:01:12] This was like 13 years ago.

[02:01:15] That's fair.

[02:01:15] Honestly fair.

[02:01:16] But also it's like ah man Counter-Strike.

[02:01:20] Man and then I tried to play League of Legends and they were just as mean.

[02:01:25] But in text.

[02:01:26] Yeah but in text.

[02:01:27] Yeah.

[02:01:28] They didn't like call my actual cell phone.

[02:01:30] I'm a good teacher.

[02:01:31] And they were like hey you fucking suck at this game.

[02:01:34] Don't ever play it again.

[02:01:35] Do the CSGO people actually do that?

[02:01:38] No.

[02:01:39] Actually so someone from RuneScape got my phone number somehow.

[02:01:44] They doxed me but they were obsessed with me.

[02:01:47] They got my phone number.

[02:01:48] My like MySpace, Facebook, every account that I had on anything.

[02:01:53] They knew where I lived.

[02:01:55] They were from Japan.

[02:01:56] But you know.

[02:01:58] That's fine.

[02:01:58] That checks off.

[02:01:59] They buy Doogie.

[02:02:00] He gave me a lot of stuff in RuneScape.

[02:02:03] He gave me many things.

[02:02:05] Philip knows all about that.

[02:02:07] Yeah.

[02:02:07] You gotta have a RuneScape boyfriend.

[02:02:09] Yeah.

[02:02:09] He was my RuneScape boyfriend.

[02:02:11] I love that.

[02:02:11] And he just happened to know every single thing about me ever.

[02:02:15] Probably including my social security number.

[02:02:17] That actually was so terrifying.

[02:02:18] So terrifying.

[02:02:19] I was you know like 13 years old.

[02:02:22] It's fine.

[02:02:23] It's fine.

[02:02:23] It's totally fine.

[02:02:29] Multiplayer shooters.

[02:02:32] That checks out.

[02:02:34] I probably wouldn't.

[02:02:35] If that was my first multiplayer shooter.

[02:02:37] Yeah.

[02:02:37] I probably wouldn't like shooters either.

[02:02:38] Yeah.

[02:02:39] Yeah.

[02:02:40] All right.

[02:02:41] Oh.

[02:02:41] Want to move over to the campaign?

[02:02:42] I mean we.

[02:02:43] We don't need to talk about this.

[02:02:44] Yeah.

[02:02:44] This is what I've been waiting for.

[02:02:45] Talking about this campaign.

[02:02:46] Yeah.

[02:02:46] This campaign.

[02:02:47] Okay.

[02:02:47] So cut right into it.

[02:02:49] It's a desert.

[02:02:50] By the way.

[02:02:51] Jet planes flying over.

[02:02:52] What?

[02:02:53] What?

[02:02:53] Major spoilers?

[02:02:54] Stop listening.

[02:02:55] Yeah.

[02:02:55] Stop listening.

[02:02:55] We're about to spoil the dog shit out of this fucking campaign.

[02:02:58] Absolutely.

[02:02:59] All right.

[02:03:00] All right.

[02:03:00] So.

[02:03:01] I got to say.

[02:03:02] Being in the military.

[02:03:04] Working on airplanes.

[02:03:05] I see a lot of airplanes.

[02:03:07] Yeah.

[02:03:08] And looking at the detail.

[02:03:09] On this fighter.

[02:03:10] That they zoom in on.

[02:03:12] Like not even like.

[02:03:13] They have the dedicated crew chief name stenciled on the side.

[02:03:16] Yeah.

[02:03:17] Like the proper pedo tubes uncovered.

[02:03:20] It looks great.

[02:03:21] They did their homework.

[02:03:22] All the military stuff looks great.

[02:03:24] I mean I haven't deployed.

[02:03:25] In Desert Storm.

[02:03:27] But from.

[02:03:28] From what I can tell.

[02:03:29] Of our machinery.

[02:03:30] From Desert Storm.

[02:03:31] That's still sitting around.

[02:03:32] It looks pretty damn good.

[02:03:35] Hell yeah.

[02:03:36] That's an official endorsement.

[02:03:37] From an airman.

[02:03:38] Fair enough.

[02:03:38] Fair enough.

[02:03:38] This level.

[02:03:39] Has a fucking striking.

[02:03:41] Image.

[02:03:42] You know what I mean.

[02:03:43] It is like.

[02:03:43] You can understand exactly.

[02:03:45] Where.

[02:03:46] What time frame you're in.

[02:03:47] From the imagery.

[02:03:48] That you're seeing.

[02:03:49] Right at the beginning.

[02:03:49] Not to mention.

[02:03:50] There's like.

[02:03:51] Bush talking.

[02:03:52] Like in a voiceover.

[02:03:53] Whenever you first go in.

[02:03:54] Right.

[02:03:54] Yeah.

[02:03:55] I mean yeah.

[02:03:56] But.

[02:03:56] I mean I just.

[02:03:57] I just really.

[02:03:58] I really enjoyed this intro.

[02:04:00] But also.

[02:04:01] It prepped me to play another Call of Duty campaign.

[02:04:05] For.

[02:04:06] Derogatory.

[02:04:07] In parentheses.

[02:04:08] Like I was like.

[02:04:08] I'm playing another Call of Duty.

[02:04:10] You know what I mean.

[02:04:11] Yeah.

[02:04:12] Yeah.

[02:04:12] And.

[02:04:12] That's what I felt too.

[02:04:13] I think it's.

[02:04:14] I think it makes the rest of the campaign.

[02:04:16] So much better.

[02:04:17] And so much more impactful.

[02:04:18] Because it preps you for that.

[02:04:20] Like it puts you in that mentality.

[02:04:21] Of like.

[02:04:21] Oh.

[02:04:22] This is the thing you already understand.

[02:04:24] Here's the tutorial.

[02:04:25] But as someone who doesn't understand.

[02:04:28] It took me to a.

[02:04:29] Oh.

[02:04:30] This is super fucking generic.

[02:04:31] I feel nothing at all.

[02:04:33] Yeah.

[02:04:34] Um.

[02:04:34] This feels like.

[02:04:36] Guys with guns shooting.

[02:04:38] And that's what this game is going to be.

[02:04:40] You didn't.

[02:04:40] You didn't like the evocative imagery.

[02:04:42] It gave me like.

[02:04:42] Mad Max Fury Road vibes.

[02:04:44] With like.

[02:04:44] Zero shits.

[02:04:46] I tried.

[02:04:47] I really tried.

[02:04:47] This was generic to set you up.

[02:04:49] So they could pull the rug.

[02:04:51] Yeah.

[02:04:51] But it was so generic.

[02:04:53] That it physically like.

[02:04:54] Made me just.

[02:04:56] Detest it.

[02:04:59] Well.

[02:05:00] It worked.

[02:05:00] You probably would have not.

[02:05:01] Made it through Modern Warfare 3 then.

[02:05:03] No.

[02:05:04] Absolutely not.

[02:05:04] Well I thought you were going to say.

[02:05:05] Spec Ops the Line.

[02:05:06] Because that.

[02:05:07] Spec Ops the Line.

[02:05:08] Literally does this exact thing.

[02:05:10] But.

[02:05:10] If I want to.

[02:05:10] It's a long version in Spec Ops the Line.

[02:05:12] For way longer.

[02:05:14] Watch a movie about war.

[02:05:17] Uh.

[02:05:17] I'll watch Full Metal Jacket.

[02:05:19] Because it's a good movie.

[02:05:20] This game feels like.

[02:05:22] A bad movie.

[02:05:23] That I am being forced to like.

[02:05:26] Do.

[02:05:27] Interact with.

[02:05:29] As.

[02:05:29] Okay hold on.

[02:05:30] As an outside perspective.

[02:05:32] This is as someone who hasn't played.

[02:05:34] Like Call of Duty games.

[02:05:35] I have no references.

[02:05:36] I don't get any of the references.

[02:05:38] In this campaign.

[02:05:40] I don't think there.

[02:05:41] There really are any.

[02:05:42] Other than the callbacks to the characters.

[02:05:43] From the.

[02:05:44] From the previous games.

[02:05:45] Everyone I've talked to about this.

[02:05:46] Has been like.

[02:05:47] Oh.

[02:05:47] This references so many different things.

[02:05:49] It's so fucking crazy.

[02:05:52] And I'm like.

[02:05:53] It's still references.

[02:05:53] We'll talk about this.

[02:05:55] This game is.

[02:05:57] This game is inspired.

[02:05:58] And.

[02:06:00] And.

[02:06:00] Directly.

[02:06:01] References.

[02:06:02] Other games.

[02:06:03] In different genres.

[02:06:05] Like.

[02:06:05] Across the gaming industry.

[02:06:07] Yeah.

[02:06:07] Yeah.

[02:06:07] This game is meta as hell.

[02:06:09] It is.

[02:06:09] It's really cool actually.

[02:06:11] The Hotline Miami level.

[02:06:12] Blew my mind.

[02:06:13] Dude.

[02:06:13] The fucking Resident Evil though.

[02:06:15] Are you fucking.

[02:06:15] Are you kidding me man?

[02:06:16] But yeah.

[02:06:17] This level is.

[02:06:18] Strategically.

[02:06:19] Only Call of Duty.

[02:06:21] Yeah.

[02:06:21] Which I think that is.

[02:06:22] Probably what makes it.

[02:06:24] The most interesting.

[02:06:25] Now Philip.

[02:06:26] You wrote RC car on here.

[02:06:27] I didn't write this.

[02:06:28] Okay.

[02:06:28] Yeah.

[02:06:28] So.

[02:06:29] Right into the tutorial.

[02:06:29] They're like.

[02:06:30] Here's your gun.

[02:06:31] Here's shoot.

[02:06:32] And then they're like.

[02:06:32] Time to teach how to use equipment.

[02:06:34] And the first thing they give you.

[02:06:35] Is an RC car.

[02:06:37] And.

[02:06:38] I threw it on the ground.

[02:06:39] And.

[02:06:40] That's when I knew.

[02:06:41] I'm like.

[02:06:41] This is not.

[02:06:42] Modern Warfare 3.

[02:06:43] The second I started driving the RC car.

[02:06:46] It like.

[02:06:46] Rips around the corner.

[02:06:48] I'm like.

[02:06:48] Cutting through.

[02:06:48] And drive under a tank.

[02:06:49] Blow up.

[02:06:50] Kill like nine guys.

[02:06:51] And then they're like.

[02:06:52] Have another soldier.

[02:06:53] And they give you like.

[02:06:54] Two more RC cars.

[02:06:56] And I'm like.

[02:06:56] This game is great.

[02:06:58] Yeah.

[02:06:58] Like.

[02:06:58] I'm just gonna.

[02:06:59] I loved it.

[02:07:00] It was fun.

[02:07:01] The funny thing was.

[02:07:02] Is I.

[02:07:03] I.

[02:07:03] I put the RC car down.

[02:07:04] And I went and killed like one.

[02:07:06] I'm playing.

[02:07:06] I.

[02:07:06] I beat this campaign on veteran.

[02:07:08] By the way.

[02:07:08] Because I'm.

[02:07:09] I'm an asshole.

[02:07:09] You fool.

[02:07:10] But.

[02:07:11] So.

[02:07:11] That's the thing.

[02:07:12] Is I.

[02:07:12] I put it down.

[02:07:13] I wouldn't kill like one guy.

[02:07:14] And then as soon as I came back.

[02:07:16] I instantly died.

[02:07:17] Because where I put it down.

[02:07:18] I was kind of exposed.

[02:07:19] You just stayed in the house.

[02:07:20] They just instantly blew my brains up.

[02:07:22] But they were waiting patiently.

[02:07:23] For me to put the.

[02:07:24] Be done with that.

[02:07:26] That's really funny.

[02:07:27] Yeah.

[02:07:27] I think like.

[02:07:28] This game is really really cool.

[02:07:30] For a lot of different reasons.

[02:07:31] But like.

[02:07:32] The.

[02:07:32] First episode in this game.

[02:07:34] And the way that it ended.

[02:07:35] It was.

[02:07:36] Interesting to me.

[02:07:37] Because it was like.

[02:07:38] It gave me that feeling of.

[02:07:40] Phil.

[02:07:41] Rachel.

[02:07:41] I know you didn't play Modern Warfare 2.

[02:07:43] But.

[02:07:43] Philip.

[02:07:44] I'm assuming you did play Modern Warfare 2.

[02:07:45] And it's the.

[02:07:46] Of course.

[02:07:47] The scene where everybody knows.

[02:07:48] It's like the infamous one.

[02:07:49] Where.

[02:07:50] You get betrayed by the general.

[02:07:52] And he shoots your buddies in the head.

[02:07:54] And he fucking lights ghosts on fire.

[02:07:56] And it's like.

[02:07:57] Super brutal.

[02:07:57] And it's like.

[02:07:58] I got that same feeling.

[02:08:00] Towards the end of this level.

[02:08:01] And again.

[02:08:01] Like the.

[02:08:02] The evocative imagery.

[02:08:03] Like.

[02:08:03] In just.

[02:08:03] In the way that it's painted.

[02:08:04] The oranges.

[02:08:05] The purple hue.

[02:08:06] From the background.

[02:08:07] I just thought it was well done.

[02:08:08] And it was a.

[02:08:08] It was a great way for me.

[02:08:11] Jumping into it.

[02:08:12] As somebody.

[02:08:13] Again.

[02:08:13] Who doesn't care about Call of Duty.

[02:08:15] I was like.

[02:08:15] Okay.

[02:08:16] Let's.

[02:08:16] Let's get into this.

[02:08:17] Yeah.

[02:08:18] And I.

[02:08:18] And I will say here too.

[02:08:19] Is that.

[02:08:21] The.

[02:08:21] One of the reasons.

[02:08:22] Why I like this campaign.

[02:08:23] In general.

[02:08:24] As a whole.

[02:08:25] From a mechanical perspective.

[02:08:26] Is that it feels like.

[02:08:28] Playing the multiplayer.

[02:08:29] You're not faced with as much adversity.

[02:08:31] As you are.

[02:08:32] Whenever you're playing the multiplayer.

[02:08:33] Like.

[02:08:34] You got to really be in a flow state.

[02:08:36] This game.

[02:08:36] Is like.

[02:08:37] Nave said it perfectly.

[02:08:38] We need to characterize it.

[02:08:39] As like.

[02:08:39] Arcade-y.

[02:08:40] Because it's like.

[02:08:41] Like.

[02:09:11] It feels like you're able to kind of.

[02:09:11] Super mad.

[02:09:12] Bad.

[02:09:12] And I was like.

[02:09:13] Going to go play Magic.

[02:09:15] After that.

[02:09:15] What about it made you so angry?

[02:09:18] I don't.

[02:09:18] I think it was just like.

[02:09:20] The type of game it is.

[02:09:22] Because I'm.

[02:09:22] I think the game is boycoded.

[02:09:23] It's so specific.

[02:09:25] It probably is.

[02:09:26] Of like the type of games that I like.

[02:09:28] Okay.

[02:09:28] But by the time I was done with it.

[02:09:30] I was just in a bad mood.

[02:09:32] Like I woke up.

[02:09:33] I was fine.

[02:09:34] And then I.

[02:09:34] Like.

[02:09:35] I played for three hours.

[02:09:36] And I had a headache.

[02:09:37] And I was like.

[02:09:38] I have to go.

[02:09:39] Finish my day after that.

[02:09:42] Well we can explore that.

[02:09:43] We can continue exploring that.

[02:09:45] Hold on.

[02:09:45] Yeah.

[02:09:45] Because there's like.

[02:09:46] There's multiple rug pulls in this.

[02:09:48] Because just in the first part.

[02:09:49] Like you said.

[02:09:50] It's like.

[02:09:50] This is just another Call of Duty.

[02:09:52] And then.

[02:09:53] It almost feels like.

[02:09:55] Like Nick said.

[02:09:55] Like the end of a game.

[02:09:56] Where you're finally capturing the guy.

[02:09:58] You have the team together.

[02:09:59] Hell's burning loose.

[02:10:00] And then.

[02:10:01] Randomly out of nowhere.

[02:10:02] Another character that you didn't even know was in the area.

[02:10:05] Just drives up.

[02:10:06] And shoots your target in the head.

[02:10:07] Killing him.

[02:10:08] This is a character that is in Black Ops.

[02:10:11] Like he's a recognizable character.

[02:10:13] Adler.

[02:10:13] Okay.

[02:10:14] He rolls up.

[02:10:15] And we're like.

[02:10:15] What the fuck?

[02:10:16] What's going on?

[02:10:17] And like all of a sudden it's like.

[02:10:18] Hey.

[02:10:18] This isn't just another Call of Duty war shooter.

[02:10:21] And it's like Black Ops time.

[02:10:23] And then it does a bunch of CIA.

[02:10:25] Like.

[02:10:26] Yeah.

[02:10:27] Slideshow stuff.

[02:10:28] Or whatever.

[02:10:28] Like the credits roll for like 40 minutes.

[02:10:31] Well this is the thing.

[02:10:31] Like this is just a trademark of Call of Duty now.

[02:10:33] Where all of their loading screens have like.

[02:10:36] Slideshows and people talking.

[02:10:38] Yeah.

[02:10:39] You know.

[02:10:39] Drogue over it.

[02:10:40] So.

[02:10:40] You see the.

[02:10:41] You see the blueprints of the weapons and stuff.

[02:10:44] Oh yeah.

[02:10:45] That's neat.

[02:10:45] Yeah.

[02:10:46] Takes me back.

[02:10:47] Yeah.

[02:10:48] Before we move on.

[02:10:49] One thing I will also say.

[02:10:51] And this is like going to be applicable to a lot of different aspects of this game.

[02:10:55] You know.

[02:10:56] We're going to go into how cool it is.

[02:10:57] Of how versatile.

[02:10:59] The different systems that they throw at you.

[02:11:01] Like this not being your typical Call of Duty experience.

[02:11:04] But also something that I really loved about it.

[02:11:06] Because I like.

[02:11:08] I'm a huge fan of the pulpy Tom Clancy.

[02:11:11] Clive Cussler novels.

[02:11:12] I read a ton of them as a kid.

[02:11:14] It would basically be my dad would read run.

[02:11:16] And as soon as he's done with his.

[02:11:18] He would just pass it off to me.

[02:11:19] And then I'd just read it.

[02:11:19] And we'd talk about it.

[02:11:20] It's something we bonded over.

[02:11:22] So this like very kind of like smart.

[02:11:25] You know.

[02:11:26] Military speak.

[02:11:27] You know.

[02:11:27] Efficient with their words.

[02:11:29] And their movements.

[02:11:29] And their actions.

[02:11:30] Like all of that stuff is really cool to me.

[02:11:33] And it's just.

[02:11:34] It's something that I think is.

[02:11:36] Deeply instilled in this game.

[02:11:38] This feels like I'm playing a Tom Clancy novel.

[02:11:40] In a good way.

[02:11:41] Take that Ubisoft.

[02:11:43] Oh God.

[02:11:44] Owners of the Tom Clancy IP.

[02:11:47] Yeah.

[02:11:47] Seriously.

[02:11:48] So with this level.

[02:11:49] I don't remember where.

[02:11:50] If it plays before the first level or after.

[02:11:52] But we realize that this is all being in a.

[02:11:55] Like a framing device.

[02:11:56] Of us explaining.

[02:11:58] To the director of the CIA.

[02:12:01] About what happened.

[02:12:02] And what went wrong pretty much.

[02:12:04] Oh yeah.

[02:12:04] They're doing the.

[02:12:05] This is the story.

[02:12:06] And then they're like.

[02:12:07] I have a story too.

[02:12:07] I bet you're wondering how we got here.

[02:12:09] It's like Gears of War Judgment.

[02:12:10] The best Gears of War.

[02:12:11] Oh my God.

[02:12:12] And he's like.

[02:12:13] You guys are in big poo poo trouble.

[02:12:15] Like you didn't know.

[02:12:16] Whatever.

[02:12:16] And I'm like.

[02:12:17] What's happening?

[02:12:18] Who are you?

[02:12:18] Which this dude has the roundest face.

[02:12:21] I've ever seen.

[02:12:21] Like his head is a perfect circle.

[02:12:23] His hair is perfectly quaffed.

[02:12:25] Yeah.

[02:12:25] His hair is just.

[02:12:26] He's got the perfect part.

[02:12:28] It's very handsome.

[02:12:29] So good.

[02:12:31] Anyways.

[02:12:31] He's really mean to us.

[02:12:33] Wheelchair guy.

[02:12:35] And our boss lady.

[02:12:37] Harrow.

[02:12:38] I remember her name.

[02:12:39] Because it is a.

[02:12:40] A card in Magic the Gathering.

[02:12:42] So that's why I remember her name.

[02:12:43] I remember her name.

[02:12:44] Because I kept looking around.

[02:12:45] Trying to figure out.

[02:12:46] Who I was supposed to shoot.

[02:12:47] And it would pop up.

[02:12:49] As I aimed my gun at it.

[02:12:51] Yeah.

[02:12:52] All right.

[02:12:53] So we end up going back.

[02:12:55] And Harrow's like.

[02:12:56] You guys really pooped the bed.

[02:12:57] Oh Marshall's there too.

[02:12:58] I think.

[02:12:58] Marshall's like our boss.

[02:13:00] I guess.

[02:13:01] Yeah.

[02:13:02] And.

[02:13:03] Marshall's like.

[02:13:03] We can't give up.

[02:13:04] There's something going on.

[02:13:05] How did they know.

[02:13:06] That we were going to be there.

[02:13:07] And Adderall was there already.

[02:13:09] Like we need to do something.

[02:13:12] And.

[02:13:13] Pharaoh's like.

[02:13:14] Don't get involved.

[02:13:15] Take a vacation.

[02:13:16] Don't worry about it.

[02:13:17] And then.

[02:13:18] Marshall's like.

[02:13:19] I know a guy.

[02:13:20] And.

[02:13:21] We.

[02:13:21] Or we meet up with Woods.

[02:13:22] And we go to.

[02:13:24] Denmark.

[02:13:25] Or something.

[02:13:26] Was what Adler said.

[02:13:27] Is Bishop takes Rook.

[02:13:28] Oh that was it.

[02:13:29] Yeah.

[02:13:29] We had a code.

[02:13:29] And so we went to this place.

[02:13:30] From Adler.

[02:13:31] Yeah.

[02:13:32] Because Adler.

[02:13:33] Knows something's going on.

[02:13:34] And he's trying to.

[02:13:36] Basically recruit us.

[02:13:37] To help him.

[02:13:39] Unknowingly.

[02:13:40] I guess.

[02:13:41] I don't remember.

[02:13:42] Yeah.

[02:13:43] Something's happening.

[02:13:44] It's kind of confusing.

[02:13:46] I don't.

[02:13:46] Like.

[02:13:46] So here's the thing.

[02:13:47] Like.

[02:13:48] I.

[02:13:48] I really hype up this campaign.

[02:13:49] I don't really understand.

[02:13:50] What's fucking.

[02:13:52] I played it once.

[02:13:53] On veterans.

[02:13:54] So I.

[02:13:55] It was a longer playthrough.

[02:13:56] And so I.

[02:13:58] I don't.

[02:13:59] Necessarily understand.

[02:14:00] What's happening in the meta narrative.

[02:14:02] But I.

[02:14:03] But I'm getting all of the.

[02:14:05] All of the vibes.

[02:14:06] If that makes sense.

[02:14:07] Yeah.

[02:14:07] I mean.

[02:14:08] It's pretty straightforward.

[02:14:09] Just like.

[02:14:09] There's another organization.

[02:14:11] Hiding inside the CIA.

[02:14:13] Called the Pantheon.

[02:14:14] It's.

[02:14:14] And their goal.

[02:14:15] Hydra has.

[02:14:17] Infiltrated shield.

[02:14:18] And their goal is to.

[02:14:20] That makes sense.

[02:14:21] Destabilize.

[02:14:21] I get that reference.

[02:14:24] Once they destabilize.

[02:14:25] The country enough.

[02:14:26] The CIA will be able to seize more power.

[02:14:29] And they will seize control of the CIA.

[02:14:31] Leading the Pantheon to control the United States.

[02:14:34] As the world's lone superpower.

[02:14:36] What do you.

[02:14:37] How do you guys feel about.

[02:14:39] Para military groups.

[02:14:41] Being the new.

[02:14:42] Uh.

[02:14:43] Evil.

[02:14:44] In these kinds of generic.

[02:14:45] Like.

[02:14:46] Uh.

[02:14:46] Like military games.

[02:14:47] It's better than just making them Nazis.

[02:14:49] I guess.

[02:14:50] My brain just like.

[02:14:51] Goes blank.

[02:14:52] Well it's like.

[02:14:53] It feels worse.

[02:14:54] Well it's hard to sell video games to Russians.

[02:14:55] When they're the bad guys.

[02:14:57] Yeah.