Episode 192: Pico Park 2 - The Bottom Line

[00:00:01] I'm ready when you are. Brother, I might be sick. Oh yeah, that'll do it. I have a whole different energy. Maybe this is gonna be what the listeners are gonna want from now on from me and I won't be able to recreate it so I'll have to start like licking doorknobs and shit.

[00:00:22] I love whenever I have like my sniffles and like slurping sounds into the microphone because my mic is so sensitive and I don't know how to fix it. I don't know how to noise gate. Yeah, I mean, it's good to have just those little things that you throw in there. It gives it a personality. Makes me want to shoot myself. And with that, hello and welcome to Gaming Together, a cooperative podcast. I'm your host Phillip and I'm here with my co-partner, Nave.

[00:00:48] Each pod we play through a cooperative experience and relate to you the listener if this game is the criminal or criminal co-op or something better off playing solo. Hey Nave, what's poppin'? You know, I was determined to have a good day today. And when I woke up, fucking ice everywhere. It was horrible. You know, like the ice on the windshield, the ice on my car windshield wasn't that bad. But when I got to the office and I had to start scraping the front, we have like this de-icer chemical shit.

[00:01:14] And I sprayed the whole can on the windshield, which by the way, don't stand downwind from that shit. I know that's obvious to people like with a functioning frontal lobe, but don't stand downwind from that because you will just get a face full of it and then you're going to be tasting it for the rest of the day. Oh yeah. But um, yeah, so I sprayed the whole can and then couldn't get it off still. I just sat there for a while.

[00:01:39] Of course, I basically might as well, like I have the uh, the, the vents, you know, to put the heat like pointing towards the windshield. I don't remember what that's called. But um, I might as well be just blowing hot breath on the, on the fucking window. Like how much those things work. I mean, they're trying their best. They're really not dude. And you should know more than anyone. This is a little, this is a government sanctioned sardine with wheels is basically a hot wheel.

[00:02:08] So the tow trucks that we use to drag the aircraft around, those are like, they're held together by just like welds that, uh, you know, staff Sergeant Jimmy did down the road or whatever. So I don't know what the best quality, but the heaters in those things would like burn you if you like turn them on, like it would just be blasting so hard. There's like no vent covers or whatever. So the second you turn it on, you're just getting cooked by something. I don't even, I don't even know how they work.

[00:02:36] Yeah. The, the trucks that the maintenance trucks that come by every other day, those things, those dudes have heaters. So one time I had to go out there and be like, Hey, yo, my tires low fix it. I'm number three 11. And so he's like, I opened that shit up and it was like, Oh, like I, I, I was looking around to see if he had like his own like little furnace thing.

[00:02:53] I'm thinking about like getting a backpack, like just with like a little generator in it and like just having a heater. You know what I mean? Like those tiny little ones, like we used to have in high school in our bedrooms and my bedroom, you know, um, they make, uh, just like electric heaters now. Like that are like external, they look like portable batteries, you know, for like your cell phone and stuff only it just heats up. So it's just like a hot brick. It sounds like it's just going to blow up in my pocket.

[00:03:22] It sounds like a bad idea. Like let's have a battery that we're going to continuously heat, but apparently they figured it out and it doesn't explode. Hopefully. Yeah. Just make sure Netanyahu doesn't get ahold of my, my coordinates. Oh yeah. So stupid. But, uh, we, let's just, uh, speak of losing your frontal lobe. We're going to be talking about Pico park two with this week, but before we get there, let's check in with what games we've been playing. Nave, what have you been playing?

[00:03:52] Um, uh, my trial ran out for final fantasy 14. Boo. Yeah. Um, and, uh, I got a grand total. I have like 47 hours in the game and I have a grand total of one achievement. So that's big game. Yeah. And it's just for getting a level 50, which, uh, I could have probably did in my sleep.

[00:04:15] Um, I, I'm, I'm like, apparently, cause you can see on the, on the achievements it tracks, which is rare, honestly, but you can see the progress you're making. And there are achievements for like beating specific parts of the main quest and it tracks that as well. So I'm like 80% of the way to the first achievement for the story mode. And I just didn't get around to it.

[00:04:40] So, you know, you know, you know, you know, you got a speed runner when you're on that trial time. I bet you're, you're standing around the benches in the main town talking to cat boys. I wasn't talking to anyone cause I hate typing on the Xbox controller. It's terrible. But, um, I, what I was doing was playing triple triad. There was this one, I was trying to get this fucking ifrit card. No, it was Bahuma. And it's, it's from the main dude in the, the, the casino. What is it? The golden saucer.

[00:05:10] Yeah. And I was sitting there for like maybe 25 like minutes and I'm like, why the fuck? Like, I can't get this card. I'm, I'm winning like every four out of 10 games. So it's already not good, but I'm like the, the race, the, like the percentage chance that I get this card must be infinitesimal. You know what I mean? And so I look it up and people are like, I've been doing this for three hours and I'm winning eight out of 10 games.

[00:05:38] And the only games I don't win, I draw an accident when I'm not paying attention. And I've been here for three hours straight and I can't get the card. And as I was watching, I was, as I was reading through shit like that, fuming because I was preparing myself because I'm stubborn and I won't quit. I was preparing myself to be up at 2 a.m. playing triple triad. I got it. And like, you know, I probably played like 200 matches though. It was fucking awful. Um, I don't recommend it, but I probably would continue playing if I had more time.

[00:06:08] I don't think I'm going to renew it right now. My plate is a little full from games that I need to beat soon ish. And so I decided to forsake that because it was insanely distracting. Because it's like the little incremental, it's like the incremental like chip damage you're doing against on the grind. You know what I mean? It's like, fuck, it's like RuneScape almost. RuneScape is probably worse because it's like much more of a direct dopamine hit.

[00:06:37] Final Fantasy has got like your 20,000 experience at 40,000. You know what I mean? That you have to get. And it's you're getting like a thousand each thing you do. It's like, man, this is taking forever. In RuneScape, you just don't pay attention at all. You don't have to play that game. Um, but yeah, I'm I let that game. I'm going to let that game sit on the sideline for a little bit. Yeah, maybe we'll bring it back for an episode or something. And then you can re-up. Yeah, I mean, I do want to re-up.

[00:07:06] I want to beat the story. Like I want to beat like the main the quest for the base game, right? Yeah. The Realm Reborn or whatever. Uh, but anyway, uh, I jumped from one addicting game to another with vampire hunters. Have you seen this game? No, is this just a vampire survivors like? Um, it's like vampire survivors and Risk of Rain had a baby. Okay. So yeah, it's it's pretty bad.

[00:07:32] Um, it's I it's pretty it's like it's just serious Sam almost. You know what I mean? But I found really early on how I can like manipulate the AI because there are ramps. And so you just stand on a ramp and it is basically like plants versus zombies. Now you just got to make sure that you don't get overrun suddenly and die. Um, I don't know. I really I really like it. I've only played one level and I've just been doing that level over and over again because I'm trying to beat it.

[00:07:58] And I died three times and they're like, again, it's just like vampire survivors are 30 minute long fuck fests. So if you die, it's over. Like you're like, I'm not I'm not doing that again for a while. But, um, I mean, it's pretty cool. Uh, if you like vampire survivors, the first person shooters, it's pretty cool. Uh, but other than that, a game since I've been learning Japanese, uh, that I've been really

[00:08:26] actually intimidated by that I already started is lost judgment. And I've been intimidated by it because I'm like, I know when I start playing this, I'm going to want to understand at least some of it. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I finally came around to being like, ah, fuck it. I'm just going to start playing it. I'm like halfway through. I just need to polish it off. Spoiler alert. I'm not going to beat it for a while because of, uh, I picked, I picked up another game,

[00:08:53] but one thing that was really distracting me is all the fucking Japanese everywhere. Like signs and everything, dude, I would stop every five fucking steps and I'd just be like, that's a verb. I know that that's a verb, whatever that is. Oh man. It's fucking, it's, it's rough, but it's great for like practice. Cause you just, there's all kinds of fonts.

[00:09:19] I'm like, I'm like, there is like, uh, there is a ramen shop and not a ramen shop. It's a Chinese, it's in the Chinese food, Chinese area. And, um, it, they sell like tofu rice and stuff. And they have these like things written on the wall, like on paper, like, and it looks like handwriting. And I've seen, they're trying to decipher it. Like, and it's, it's just fucking Katakana and Hiragana. So it's like, there's like no Konji on it. So I'm trying to like, this was made so a child could even read this. You know what I mean? I'm just like practicing.

[00:09:49] Oh yeah. I forgot what game we were playing. Like maybe, I don't know if it was the finals or something like that, but there was like a, a Neo Tokyo level. And I like stopped you. I'm like, Nate, look at this, look at this sign over here. And I like tried to drag you over it so I could read this sign to you. Fuck. What game was that? Oh, it was a world war Z. Was it world? Yeah. Because it has the whole, the whole chapter in Japan. And I was like, what does this truck say? And you're like, uh, emergency truck. I don't know.

[00:10:19] It was like an ambulance actually. Or something like that. It was like, oh, that makes sense. I got into an argument with a friend. Well, I've been playing Siege. That's my last game. So we were playing Siege and I started talking about Japanese because I was playing with Dontre and this other person that I talked to every now and then that's more his Dontre's friend. His name is Jimmy. And he was like, you know, something, something about language. And then I was like, oh yeah, I'm learning Japanese. And then we got to an argument about how.

[00:10:44] So I was like, it's, it's weird because Japanese is so much different than English and it's hyper contextual. And he's like, yeah, I like English. I'm like, no, not like English because in English you have like context clues in the sentence. And he was like, no, because like lead and lead are spelled the same, but you don't know which one it is. And I'm like, no, you do. When you read the sentence, you're like, I know what that is. But if you read the sentence, like Watashi, Watashi wa kawai desu.

[00:11:14] It's not Watashi, just kawai desu, right? You don't know if you're talking about me, you, their. Yeah. The dog. Yeah. Like you have no fucking idea. And it's like, he's like, oh, you could do that in English too. I'm like, oh yes. But it is like, that is the baseline in Japanese. Like that is just how it is. You don't like, I don't, I don't know how else to explain it to this dude. But I was fucking arguing with it for like 10 minutes about it. I was getting frustrated. That's classic Japanese learner mentality. I guess so.

[00:11:44] I don't even know what that means. No, it's okay. So that's because I'm in the weeds. Like I read the Japanese learning subreddit and stuff like that. And there's learning Japanese attracts us certain types of individuals that are real weird about it. Like, oh God, there's even a great meme. And it was like the average foreign language learner. And it's like people sitting in a classroom and it's like textbooks that have like, you know, French, Spanish, stuff like that on it.

[00:12:13] And then it's like the average Japanese learner. And it's like Anki, anime, like all the, like just video games, just all this crap thrown into it where it's like, this isn't like other languages when you learn them. Or like, you know, the normal European languages, I guess. Like Japanese lends itself so hard to their media and everything else. Like it attracts, I don't know, gamers. Yeah, it's wild.

[00:12:39] That was one of the things when I was like, I need to, when I'm doing the immersion thing, it's like, oh, I'm listening to Japanese. I didn't realize how much I already immersed in Japanese. You know what I mean? Yeah. To the point where when I'm doing, uh, not Anki, when I still use Duolingo, I'm using it. A lot less lately, mostly because I got hit by the big sad stick. And so I just didn't want to learn Japanese while I was fucking sad. Which I guess is Japanese corner, by the way. Okay. Yeah. We'll, we'll go back to Phillip's thing.

[00:13:08] But, uh, I also want to talk about Siege for a second. But so like the, I was doing, I do Duolingo and I can like instinctively semi understand grammar, even though I don't know why I understand it. Do you know? Does that make sense? Like when I put a sentence together, I'll, I'll read it and I'll be like, I think wa goes here actually. And toll like, uh, mo goes here that.

[00:13:38] And, but like when I read it in English, when I translate it into my head, it doesn't make any sense. But then when I read the Japanese, I'm like, this sounds right. So I'm going to go with my gut and then it'll be right. And I'm just like, I'll never understand why that's right. I don't think. No, well, I think that's one of the things I believe in studying Japanese.

[00:13:58] I mean, I'm not there yet as far as like being fluent, but I weirdly believe that grammar can be intuited more than it needs to be super studied. Like, I feel like vocabulary is more valuable to learn than trying to learn grammar rules because you just kind of like once you know, like the basic like, oh, I know what mo means now.

[00:14:21] So you can generally apply that as you see fit that deal or how you see used in anime and stuff like that. Yeah, which I'd explain it. Not beat, but I finished a little, uh, dungeon meshy. Oh yeah. And, uh, pretty good. Oh yeah. Pretty funny. How'd you watch it? Did you do full Japanese? No. I mean, I had English subtitles. I wanted to enjoy it. I don't, I don't understand words. I understand, uh, uh, oishi and stuff.

[00:14:51] Oh my. Yeah. Love that stuff. I understand a few things and, but like, I don't know. I also finished dungeon meshy, full Japanese and, uh, it was very good. Yeah. Well, I had a fire under my ass because I only had two days before my Netflix was going to charge me a second month. And I was like, fuck that. I thought, dude, I thought I was going to get through it faster, but there's something that happens when I really like something. That I just don't want it to end. So I start slow playing it. You know what I mean?

[00:15:21] I'm like, I'm just going to let, I'm going to spread this set really thin so that I can, I continue to have this for a little bit longer. And I don't know what I want to watch now. I have like eight animes lined up. And now that I'm done with dungeon meshy, I'm like, ah. The next one you need to watch is uncle from another world. No, no, it's Netflix. And you, you don't have Netflix anymore. Nevermind then. No, that and Sakamoto days or whatever. Yeah. That, so I, that was running. So I was like, I might try to binge this. And it was like, no, this is like on episode six right now. Like, oh, nevermind. Fuck that.

[00:15:51] I'm not paying for another episode in the month of Netflix. I don't know why. I just don't like it. By the way, Fryer, I don't know if you have Crunchyroll, but Fryer is coming to Netflix next month. I do not have Crunchyroll. Yeah. So I mean, but yeah. So dude, Fryer is the shit brother. Holy fuck. God. Well, I've read volume one, but I also read that, you know, a year ago. I don't want to go back and read it again, but I'm still working through teasing Master Takagi's song and it's 40 volumes.

[00:16:20] That's an anime too, right? Yeah, it's an anime. It has three seasons in a movie. This person, this person I talked to, Mariah, she was randomly bringing up, what is it? Don to Don. And she was like, you, you read manga, right? And I was like, no, because I'm going to want to read it in Japanese. So now I'm gating myself off now because I'm like, I know I'm not going to enjoy it as much. But she's like, you need to read Don to Don. It's like, it's continued on.

[00:16:49] I know all anime continues on in the manga form, but I just want to watch the, like when I look at Free Wren's manga, it's like, this is cool. This is really interesting looking, but it doesn't look nearly as good as like the animation. You know what I mean? Like in my head, like maybe some people prefer like the manga, but like, it's like Bochy the Rock also. It's like Bochy, the anime and the manga are so unfathomably different from each other.

[00:17:19] You know what I mean? Like Bochy the Rock is like Garfield almost in manga form. And then you watch the anime and you're like, this is crazy. Like this is crazy. Animation chops. Well, I feel like even Dragon Ball, like new Dragon Ball, old Dragon Ball was pretty much panel by panel with like Dragon Ball Z. But like super versus super the animation, they're very different. Or like the styling is very different. Yeah. It's just, it's so interesting.

[00:17:49] I just want to learn. I need to do vocab. I've been doing Anki more and more. By the way, I've become a fucking, so I go every, like maybe two or three times a month. I go to S&B's, like the burger place, you know, like it's like hard rock cafe, but not, I guess. And so I go there and I just sit at the bar. And normally what I used to do was I would like do puzzles for chess. I would do chess, like logic puzzles, right? Yeah. Or I would just sit there and scroll.

[00:18:19] I would do shit for the podcast or whatever. Now I am mumbling Japanese to myself, which is awful. But the thing is, it's like I always tip good. So all the, there's always a bunch of employees like sitting around the bar and they all kind of just know me. They, you know, we talk for a minute and then I go to my phone and do my thing. So now they're all like watching me do Japanese. And it feels so cringe. Like it feels pretty cringe. It's so bad.

[00:18:45] But like the, the bartender, like the, the lady that's normally there when I go there, I usually go right after work. She's always just like, this is really interesting. I've never known anyone learning another language. Like she'll engage with me on like, not the Japanese level. That's where it really is. The cringe. Like I'm mumbling. Like, I'm like, Oh my God. Ima. What does Ima mean? Like, yes. I mean, I'm like, I see the kanji and I know all the words around it. And I'm like, I just saw this fucking sentence, dude. I'm killing myself.

[00:19:13] I just saw this sentence like a minute ago. So, uh, but, um, man, it's been, it's been insanely cringe. Unfortunately, I'm turning into this weirdo, this character. Because like, yeah, I went through the same thing where I'm like, I don't want to tell anyone that I'm learning Japanese or whatever. Like even on the pod or whatever, like, I don't think I mentioned this, but way back, like, you know, two to three years ago, whenever I played, um, uh, Final Fantasy. I forgot what it was called.

[00:19:43] Where you play is not cloud. Cloud. Oh, uh, the Final Fantasy seven, um, Phantom Pain. Yeah. Whatever that one is where you play is black cloud. I know what you're talking about. You had Zach. Exactly. There we go. I don't crisis core. That's what it's called. They read me the, they put it on switch and I played through that whole game in Japanese where I hadn't even been like studying in Japanese yet, but I beat the whole game through just through game literacy, you know?

[00:20:11] And after that, I was like, I can do this. But it's not like I told him like, oh, I'm playing this game in Japanese now. And since then, you know, I've just been pounding it out. It got so weird because like I started a different shift where I got like a new partner at my job and everything. And we're just meeting each other for the first time. And then we break off to our little computers and I start studying Japanese and he's like instantly behind my shoulder. What are you doing? And I'm like, oh, I'm studying Japanese.

[00:20:40] And he's like, oh, that's pretty cool. And then I'm like, yeah, do you want to know more? And next thing you know, I'm getting a click to know more. Yeah, pretty much. Then I give this guy like a beginner's lesson in Japanese and the different, you know, katakana versus hiragana versus kanji. The radials that make up or radicals that make up kanji like going into it. Then I even pull up a sentence and I break down step by step like different grammar points in it.

[00:21:05] And he's like, it's weird because I work with a lot of people that speak other languages for their jobs. Not until I get too far into my business, but it's like. To explain to them like, oh, you know, I took the Air Force's language diagnostic test and I got like a one one. And it's like to be a linguist for the Air Force to, you know, translate Russian or Swahili or Chinese, you need to be like a three, three.

[00:21:32] And a five is fully like capable is like 100 percent fluent or whatever. And most military linguists never make it past three, three. It's like their stopping point. So I was like, I'm getting there where I'm almost like on level with these other linguists, these other foreign languages. And it was just weird because he's like, wow, that's like really cool. That's like amazing that you can do this. And I'm like, is it?

[00:22:02] Have I made it? You got to get over the hump of where you're not cringe anymore. You know what I mean? That's the other thing. And he's like, so how long do you need to study this for or whatever? I'm like, well, the Military Language Institute says that it takes 5,500 classroom hours to become fluent in Japanese. And I track all my time and I'm at 1,300 or something like that for the last like two years I've been studying.

[00:22:28] So I'm like, I need to do this for another four to five years before I reach the point. And that's in classroom hours, whereas my hours are made up of video games, YouTube, anime, podcasts. That's not even classroom study hours. So if you think about like if my goal is that 5,500. I'm not really there yet or even near it. Not even halfway to what the United States military believes is required to learn this language.

[00:23:00] And that's the belief of like if we needed to train people to be Japanese linguists, this is how long we would have to put them in school to become fully qualified.

[00:23:11] That was one of the things I was arguing about that Jimmy character was that like I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like English is so different from Japanese that it's, it's like, it's like five times longer to learn like, like than learning like Spanish or something because the languages are literally constructed differently, you know? And it's like literally expert difficulty for English. And he's like, no, because that's like, that's like Chinese. And I'm like, dog.

[00:23:41] It's like, why are we doing this? Like, yeah, Chinese and Korean and Japanese are all in like, and maybe like Arabic or something. You know what I mean? Like those are probably the hardest languages for an English speaker. Oh, yeah. Which for the record, the, for the JLPT, which is the Japanese language proficiency test, they're estimated for level two, which is.

[00:24:08] I think that's like one of the minimum requirements for like a job in Japan is at least 900 hours of study. Just the JLPT study materials. Which, by the way, I have all, this is not, this does not count a study, but I have almost listened to all of Nihongo Contepe. Okay. Yeah. That's when I'm really sorry. And I've only been studying, I've only been studying for like, um, like two, like a little less than two months now.

[00:24:37] Dude, I'm on my third pass through Nihongo Contepe. Which I started. Which is a podcast about a guy living in Spain who's Japanese and he's a Japanese teacher. Is that why he lives in, is he, he, he always says things like he'll always just throw in random Spanish. I'm like, what the fuck? I get flash banged by it every fucking time. This is what happens to me is that like, I was like, oh, Nave, you know, like Japanese people love Spanish. And you're like, no, they don't.

[00:25:03] And then I'm like, the number one podcast I listened to Nihongo Contepe is he, he stopped, he speaks Spanish a lot in. Yeah, it'll be like, he'll be like, hola amigo. And he'll start chuckling. And I'm like, what? Like, it's so fucking weird. Oh, in the UU Nihongo podcast, he also speaks Spanish. Yes, he does. Like, but he, he, he speaks other languages too. Like sometimes, right? Yeah.

[00:25:30] Like he'll say something random and I'll just be like, I don't know what the fuck he just said. Like that didn't even sound like Japanese. So I'm not saying that like, you know, it's, it feels like the, um, if I had a nickel every time I've had a Japanese teacher speak Spanish, it'd still only be two times, but it felt like a lot. Those are the only two podcasts I really listened to at all. There's, there's like eight of them now, like that I have on my Spotify, which that's what I was saying.

[00:25:56] I started Nihongo Contepe on YouTube and I got like a hundred episodes in and there's only like 300, right? And I'm like, I'm starting backwards. So now I'm going backwards in time. Cause I just let it run. And I, I think I'm on episode. I got to scroll all the way down. Cause it's on my fucking computer now. It doesn't matter. Dude, I'm on like episode like 60 or something.

[00:26:18] Like I, I listened to so much of this dude that he, every time he's, I can tell, I don't know what the fuck he's saying, but I can tell when his tone shifts that he's about to end the podcast. You know what I mean? He does the same thing every week. Yes. And so I hear him. Yeah, dude. Nihongo Contepe. It makes me laugh every time. Yeah. I love it so much. So, but he actually has multiple shows. He has Nihongo Contepe.

[00:26:48] He has Japanese essential beginners podcasts with Tepe. And he also has Tepe Con Z or something like that. Yeah. With the giant Z.

[00:27:27] Yeah. I have a document that is just like a lot of Japanese podcasts. And I can tell you which ones were like, I don't know, I've stuck with. Because like, I have like an automated playlist that like automatically cycles through them for me. So that I only listen like one episode of Tepe, one episode of UU, one episode of NHK, easy news. You know, like I like cycle through them. Fuck yeah.

[00:27:55] I don't know if I'm learning anything, but. Which, I mean, actually that must be because of the whole like intuitively like figuring grammar out and not knowing the rules. Just like hearing it. I don't know. I'm just glad that I'm starting to be able to read the Katakana and the Hiragana. Which I have barely worked on. Because again, big sad. I've only done like half of a day of the, in this whole week that I've been working on it. Oh, I mean, I did a whole.

[00:28:24] So a day is five pages. It's like one page. Or no, it's six pages. It's one page dedicated to each Hiragana. And then there's a page or like two pages of like words. So you practice using them together, like with all the ones you've learned. And I've only done like a little bit since. So I'm on the, the ends. So I'm on, I did new. And then there's ne that I'm about to do. I don't know. Writing is just so peaceful for me.

[00:28:52] But I only want to do it when I know I can sit down and do a whole page. And that takes like 15, 20 minutes, depending on how difficult it is to draw. Oh yeah. Well, you know, if you really like the writing. I think JPDB would be a good site for you if you needed a break from Anki and Duolingo. Because that's the one where it's like you pick a source of media. Like you're like, I literally only want to learn the words in Freyren.

[00:29:19] And it'll be like, okay, here's all the Freyren words in list of like, you know, how often they come up. And we'll, it will go step by step. It will teach you the kanji, like all the kanji components you need for the word before it even gives you the word. And it has you, like at least the way I do it, is I practice writing out the kanji. Like it'll pop up and I'll just say, like the keyword that goes with it. It'll be like friend. And I'm like, oh, the kanji for friend.

[00:29:48] And then I'll do the little swoop with the little folding chair. And so I know what friend looks like before it even pops up. What is that? Something gachi? Oh, like tamadachi? Tamadachi? Tamadachi? Tachi? Yeah. Something like that. New word I just learned recently. Now I've got a fucking, the memory banks. Dude, I fucking hate it because like I'll be talking to Dontre and he's like, hey, how do you say this in Japanese? I'm like, dude, I don't know. I don't know.

[00:30:17] I can't recall the information. I only, if I see it, I'll be like, oh, oh, I know this one. Yeah. Yeah. Give me a minute. I can, like, I gotta recontextualize that, that, the, those runic symbols into the one I know. It cracks me up too whenever I don't know how to pronounce it or whatever because it feels like you're reading like ancient Egyptian or some shit like that because you look at the wall and you're like, are you saying something about our goals or intention or something like that?

[00:30:45] And it's like a video game or whatever and it's literally saying like, hey, your quest objective is over here on the map. And I'm like, he's, he's talking about the goals on this, this area, something and then he's signaling this direction, you know? So my translations are not good as far as like coming up, but I'm like, I know what he's saying, but I don't, I can't put it in good English terms.

[00:31:10] Which dude, one time I was, when I was playing lost judgment, I saw like, there was this building with a bunch of banners and shit on it. And I was like, oh, okay. I'm just kind of looking at it. And I'm like, man, this part right here is like shimasen. And I'm like, that's like to play, right? Or something to do. Like, that's like the end, like, that's the verb for whatever the front hole part I can't read says because it's all in kanji.

[00:31:34] And then, like a little bit later, it was like some kind of thing that I don't remember what it was because it was so, it was like, I don't know. I just, I, like, I realized I knew, like, that was what it was. You know what I mean? Those like random, like, things. I'm starting to like start to see through the matrix a little bit, you know? And I'm like, okay, I, I wish I could switch lost judgment into like kanji on the, on the speech as well, just to see what that would be like.

[00:32:04] But I'm too paranoid and I don't think I can do it anyways. Like, I don't think that it'll let me without like changing my system. Oh yeah. For the Yakuza games, they require you to change your system. Like I'm playing Ninja Gaiden and to change its language. Actually, they might have it on the main menu for that one. There was a different game that I was playing on the Xbox and it's like, oh, to play this, I had to change my system language. But Ninja Gaiden 2 Black. So fucking annoying.

[00:32:33] What is that? Because I figure you might know because I just started it because, you know, I haven't played Ninja Gaiden since Ninja Gaiden on 360. And I was like, oh, you know, Ninja Gaiden Black, that sounds cool. The game is really good. Yeah. Is it a remake or is it a new game? It's just a port. Okay. It's just a, or a remaster, I mean. And, but Black is a specific version of the game. I don't, I don't, actually, I don't know if that's actually a port. Let me see.

[00:33:02] Is it a part of the Sigma series? Yeah. See, that's what I'm saying is Ninja Gaiden Sigma was a, like a downgraded, like an easier version of the game. But, so Black is, I don't know why Googling this. I thought it was going to give me a fucking straightforward answer. See, that's just it. It's like, I didn't Google it because I feel like this would be a weird question. I was hoping you would know the backstory for this game.

[00:33:36] An updated version of the game developed in Unreal Engine 5. Okay, so this is, no, this is not a fucking remaster. This is something else. This is something different. Over at Sigma 2 release. See, this is, okay, so yeah, so Ninja Gaiden Black 2 is the Sigma 2 version of the game. Up, like, with the textures updated, it's in a different engine, but it's like basically the same game as Sigma 2.

[00:34:05] But not the original Ninja Gaiden 2, which was much harder. Okay. Okay. That's confusing. That's very confusing. It's not helpful. That's worse than Yakuza shit. Yakuza is pretty straightforward, honestly. I don't know why people get so confused. But anyway. The Kwame thing makes it weird because no one knows what Kwame means. Extreme, I think. Right? I don't know. Oh, no.

[00:34:34] Well, no, I'm going to, hold on. I think it means extreme. Ultimate. The pinnacle. I was wrong. Well, they could have just called it ultimate then, you know? Wait, no. See, this says, it means extreme. What? What? Okay. Japanese, whereas they have multiple meanings, I get it. Yay. Yada, yada. Siege. Rainbow Six Siege. I don't even have much to say about this. I've been playing it a little bit. I redownloaded it.

[00:35:01] I keep saying for months that I miss Siege. I know that listeners heard me say this a thousand times. And then Doncher was like, why don't you just fucking download it and play it? Why don't you do that? You idiot. I'll download it too. And so we both downloaded it. We both played it together. But I also played it randomly in LFGs. And, Philip, the LFGs exist still. It's crazy. It's crazy. You know, a game that I played that I didn't actually write down in here is called Gigantic.

[00:35:31] Have you heard of this game? I have not. It died. Nobody played it and it died. And then it came back months later. But it wasn't free anymore. You had to pay for it. Which is a bold move. But it's on Game Pass recently. So I was like, oh, people are going to be playing this game. I played three matches. And it was the same lobby every time. With the same people. But I had to wait for like 15 minutes between each fucking match. So it was like they played their own match without me.

[00:36:00] And then they came back. So there was one match running? There was literally like one match going on. The whole fucking world. And it was cross-played. And it's on Game Pass now. That was like three days after it came out on Game Pass. So that was disappointing. So that's kind of what I thought Siege was going to be like. Also, there were no LFGs at all. So I went back to Siege. Hundreds of LFGs. I click on the first one I see. That's like casual. We're smoking. We're drinking.

[00:36:29] This was on Saturday. So I was going to get drink. I was going to turn up as well. And immediately, the first one, I get a fucking invite. I start playing. I play with them for like two hours. It's like 1 a.m. We all at each other. And then every day since, I'm getting a message from at least one of them. Going, Siege? And I'm like, I forgot what this was like. I literally forgot what this was like. You're back in the community now. And no shit.

[00:36:57] I got into a fucking party with a fucking what's his name? I can't remember his name. That sucks. I hope he doesn't hear this. But I got into a party. And one of those dudes from that fucking LFG joined. It was like, hey, man. We'll probably play some Siege. I'm like, no. I'm playing Final Fantasy. Sorry, man. Yeah. He's like, oh, okay. See you. Because that was a whole thing. There's like three starting conversations that always happen when I join an LFG.

[00:37:25] It's guns versus kittens. Or, whoa, you got a huge gamer score. Or, you know, I don't know. There's a third one probably. And so, you know, that LFG, we talked about my gamer score for a while. So, I don't know what I'm talking about. Siege is just fun, dude. And it's really, there's a lot of characters I don't recognize. So, I'm like relearning it. I also don't, I can't play it very well anymore. Except, so I was playing mostly like shit.

[00:37:54] But I was already drunk when I started playing on Saturday. But I played it again yesterday. I just played one match with Dontre. And I was like six and four. And I was playmaking. Like two of the rounds, I was like the reason why we won the round. So, I was like, oh, okay. I just need to get. Yeah. Well, also, it was like a map I knew. But it was a different version of it. So, it was like. You know how in Halo Reach they would recreate Halo 3 maps? Yeah.

[00:38:24] But like in Forge. Yeah. So, it was like that. There's like a forge of Rainbow Six Siege. It's like this arena, Olympic arena kind of thing. And it's like, it's weird. It's weird to explain. Actually, you've played in it before. The area existed. Yeah. Yeah. I remember the Japanese one or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, what is this game? Like, I thought this was like a realistic Tom Clancy shooter. Oh, dude. Not anymore.

[00:38:52] Not since they got Yakuza skins. Which, by the way, apparently Fortnite's about to get Kiryu. How do you feel about that? It's rough. I might. I'm going to have to buy them. And if I buy them, I'm going to play Fortnite at least a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm going to be that random 31-year-old by himself playing Fortnite. It's going to feel bad. Just play Fortnite Festival as Kiryu. I mean, I could if I wanted to be annoyed because I still haven't fixed the calibration.

[00:39:22] It's impossible. It fucking sucks. Which, speaking of like, so you know how Nihongo Contepe has like the Z? Yeah. Like, have you heard of the Resident Evil Village Z version? No. What is that? It's the Japanese version. It's the uncensored Japanese version. Like, the only reason why I know of it is because I was like fucking around on True Achievements. And I saw that version. I was like looking at, you can look at like an entire series.

[00:39:50] Like how much gamer score you have on every single Resident Evil game. Yeah. And so the Z version, you can buy this for like $200 imported from Japan. No, I see. It's on Steam. Well, I mean, yes. I mean, I'm talking about on Xbox. Yeah. The Steam. On Steam. But it's not in our region. Yeah. You can't buy it. You have to like change your region. Or maybe use a VPN or something. But on Xbox, I'm pretty sure you could just slot that bitch up in your Xbox and it works. But yeah, so that's the only reason.

[00:40:20] It's that that's the uncensored version. In Japan, they have a version where there's like no dismemberment, no crazy shit going on. So, but it has its own achievement list. And that makes me jealous because I would love to get achievements in Resident Evil Village again. Sounds nice. Sounds good. That's what Philip's playing. I skipped ahead of him. Yeah. No, I mean, to get into games I've been playing since we're just now hitting that point. I've been playing Resident Evil Village in Japanese. And it is pretty straightforward.

[00:40:49] I'd almost argue that the language usage in Village is even easier than the remakes of four and no, not four remakes of two and three. Because in two and three, they'd be expecting you to read like pamphlets on desk and stuff like that to like get riddle answers. Whereas in this one, it is like it's it's dummy.

[00:41:13] You walk into a room and it's like there's two unlit torches and then like a torch swinging in the middle. And it's like, oh, what do I got to do? By the way, that took me a minute to figure out. Oh, yeah. And then it's like you can't like you can't like interact with it. So you have to like shoot it or something to make it go in the room and it gives you like, hey, here's 30 handgun bullets. And it never gives you usually that many bullets in one go. I was just like, yes, I just left.

[00:41:43] It's so stupid. What made me stop for a second is after you do those torches, it then like there's a third torch that needs you to light by setting an enemy on fire and then like leading them to a different torch. Oh, my God. Impossible. It's not bad. No, it's not bad if you know what to do. It seemed obvious whenever you like he's you kill him when he spawns in and I'm like, what a scrub. And then he respond. And I'm like, OK, hold on. The game developers are trying to tell me something here.

[00:42:14] This is before you even know that there's a torch in the next room. I thought I thought it was like this is the escalation. Now I have to do it under duress. And so I spent forever trying to figure out how to get the fucking which, by the way, this is when I learned you could shoot the thing because I was pushing it with I was pushing it like a swing. I was walking into it. Yes. Over and over again. God, I was making it so much harder. I thought if you shot it, it would break like I like a lot of things like you break a lot of shit when you shoot it.

[00:42:43] Like that's your primary means of like interacting with the world is breaking things with your bullets. True. You know, but anyway, yeah, the game is good, though. Like the game is real good. Is this your first playthrough? Yeah. So I saw you play through it like, you know, three years ago. I was a tiny bit of it. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, I'm definitely going to play this. And I it's weird because it's like I feel like I watched you play a lot of it because

[00:43:13] I'm like remembering things. Kind of. I just remember the big things like I'm like, I remember the big fish boss. Like I remember you finding Lady D as a vampire that or like I'm like, I remember these boss transformations, but I don't remember like any of how you got there. Probably it's probably because like it's a little monotonous. Like you you're like, I understand what I'm watching. But then when you see the transformation, you're like, oh, fuck.

[00:43:43] Kaiju monster. Yeah. So that's why it sticks out. Dude, I also played it in two separate play play sessions because I think you watched them both different times. They're like a year apart because there was DLC that came out. And so I replayed it. I replayed it to do the Ada Wong shit. But yeah. So I already knew about the dollhouse segment, too. I don't know if I watched you play the dollhouse, but I think I watched like a game makers toolkit like video essay examining the dollhouse segment.

[00:44:13] Dear listeners at home, slight spoilers, I guess, for Resident Evil Village. There is a segment where they remove all your weapons and they make it almost like a an amnesia type game where you're like hiding from monsters instead of fighting them like you do with every other point in the game. Because I mean, not to get too far away from the dollhouse, but Resident Evil Village is literally a theme park of Resident Evil, which is so funny. Yeah.

[00:44:42] Because it's like the first level with is like the village. I'm like, this is the first part of Resident Evil 4 when you're going through the Spanish village or whatever. And then you go to Lady D's house and I'm like, this is literally the mansion combined with the police station or whatever in like one, two and three range. Like this is the like set, like walk around and explore while avoiding a giant monster chasing you very slowly around the place.

[00:45:12] And like, this is incredible. And then you get to the dollhouse apart and I'm like, oh, this is I don't know if there's other Resident Evils that do that where they take away all your weapons and they just make you survive. Maybe when you're playing the Revelations game as the co-op partner. Oh yeah. When you don't have a gun. Yeah. When you're the flashlight. So maybe like they definitely pulled an amnesia on that. And then after that, they give you this is almost like another like amnesia part where

[00:45:38] it's like the the boat scene with the big fish where it's more about navigating without getting in the water. Oh, seven before like the dollhouse, you know, in seven, they did that a couple of times at the beginning where you didn't have weapons. You had to sneak around. Oh yeah, definitely. I forgot. And then in the werewolf one where you go to fight like the werewolf boss or whatever, that is literally six and like five combined where it was just like running gun.

[00:46:05] They give you grenade launchers and like all this ridiculous stuff. You're in a huge fight. There was a segment to where I guess this is a bonus boss where you fight like an axe executioner inside of like a slaughterhouse. Yeah. And he's a giant too. And he's like summoning bats. I'm like, this feels like the Resident Evil five part where you're fighting the like executioner in the little town. Oh, yeah. Chasing you around like this feels like that.

[00:46:35] And I haven't finished the game yet. I'm like, I'm. I am about to fight Magneto. Like Indiana Jones Magneto. I don't know what his name is. Are you going to are you going to replay the game with the fucking super guns? So it's so fun. Will. I don't know. We'll see how it goes. Here's the thing. The way that you unlock the unlimited ammo for the weapons is you have to max out the weapon beforehand.

[00:47:05] So whatever gun you like, you got to max that out like the upgrade tree. OK, what if you max out and sell it? Because I've done that with one of the shotguns. OK, I think that's fine. Yeah. But you're going to do the Magnum. I'm not going to give you the fucking. I guess I'll give you the Chico. But the Magnum is the Magnums are nuts. You don't do. You don't really need anything else. It's so good. The first Magnum, they give you the revolver. Like, yeah, it's just invaluable. Like, I feel like. I was going to say how good it is.

[00:47:36] What is that guy? The good, the bad and the ugly, you know? Yeah, you're feeling lucky. Oh, I made a British on accident. But yeah, the game's so good, though. I'm I'm on the last house of the Lords. Then I'm going to go deal with. I forgot her name. Sam Maria. Is it Lady Maria? Domitresk? No, we've already killed her. This is the all mother. I forgot what her name is.

[00:48:05] Oh, I forget, too. Honestly, it doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. But Magneto is like, hey, you could take her out. You know, I can be top dog. You got a deal, Sonny. And you're like, where's my daughter? And he's like, OK, so that's how you're going to be. Huh? It's like coughing blood all over him. Yeah. He cuts your hand off and throws you down an elevator shaft. And then you crawl out, bleeding, pouring chemicals on yourself. And the Duke is there going, well, are you, are you? Well, you know, there's new wares available.

[00:48:36] Yeah, dude, I love that guy so much. So good. The Duke is great. I thought he was going to be a bad guy for some reason. He's scary. He's scary at first because you like walk in. He's just like or you see him like in the little like trading post thing or whatever. It's funny because like there's even like I'm trying to like make sure I'm actually reading the messages or whatever. And there's like little research notes that you find around. And they're like, that fat traitor showed up again asking for food from us.

[00:49:03] And I'm like, dang, they're throwing shade at the Duke in this one. There's this also. I don't know how I don't think I don't know if it's in the Japanese version, but there is a reference to Resident Evil 4 with him because like you'll go and talk to him. He'll be like, what are you buying? A friend of mine used to say that. Yeah, stupid. Yeah. I want to play Resident Evil 4 now. I mean, I definitely want to play the remake at some point. But yeah, this one's real good. I also bought Resident Evil.

[00:49:35] What's the boat girl one? What's it called? Is it seven? Boat girl? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the boat's at the very end. Yeah. I mean, well, yeah, you spend a lot of time around the boat, though. Kind of. I can't remember. I've only played that game once. Yeah. I'm going to go back and replay that one in Japanese, too. Yeah. Maybe I should play because I have bad. I don't like seven as much like I beat seven. And it was a game where I was like, I was like, that's that was interesting. It wasn't a disaster.

[00:50:05] I'm glad. I had so I just never play that again. It's fine. And when I played eight, I immediately was like, I'm playing this bitch again. Like this. I don't understand because so many people are like seven is so much better than eight. And I'm like, dude, just replay eight with like a fucking strong weapon. And as soon as you get to that dollhouse, you're gonna be pissed off. That's how I feel the whole time playing seven. You're so powerless. It feels like. Dude, you are really powerful in eight. And I'm just like normal. And even then, I'm just like running gun.

[00:50:36] That's the whole thing. It's like whenever I play. It's like people are confused when I say six is like one of the best Resident Evil games. I just love how stupid powerful you are. But it's like I was talking about that with Outlast Trials. In Outlast Trials, you're weak at the beginning because you don't have your upgrades and stuff. But once you can like have four equipment slots and you unlock like the stun grenade and shit. And you can just start sprinting through just fucking beating people in the heads with bricks.

[00:51:05] And then studying them and like running fast. Like once you become powerful, the game becomes insanely fun. Like actually. And it is just the polar opposite of what normal Outlast is. All right. Back to the dollhouse though. So there is a whole segment is about. Well, the whole game is about rescuing your baby daughter, Rose. Rose. And also your wife. I'm not sure what happened to your wife. She in the beginning, she gets shot. But I don't know where she is after that.

[00:51:35] Yeah. This is Resident Evil. So God knows. Yeah. Well, I mean, she went. She turned into a monster in the last one. Then you say. Yeah. Cured her. Yeah. But everything was fine. You know, you poured some green juice on her. Yeah. And she turned back to normal after she chased you with a chainsaw. And she cut your hand off. Yeah. She was the one that cut your hand off. Because you get your hand cut off. Like there were so many times. Like what is the Star Wars? Like. There's so many times you get your hands cut off or they stick a nail through your hand and you have to rip it and part of your finger falls off.

[00:52:07] Dude. In the first one, it's like a default werewolf comes over and bites like your pinky off. Yeah. And you're just like, I just don't have a pinky anymore. You're like, okay. Yeah. That's like the very beginning of the lot of hand mutilation. I think it's because it's first person. They're like, what else are they going to do? They added third person to it though. Like it starts to be like, hey, do you want this in first person or third person? And I was like, well, first person, of course, as the game developers intended. Yeah. Because it's weird.

[00:52:34] Because it's like when you play Red Dead Redemption in first person, like you can do it. But. It's just weird. It's not designed for this, you know. All right. But the dollhouse. It's weird because like the dollhouse, you. Spend the first part of it basically doing like an escape room with like a mannequin of your wife in the center of the room. Yeah.

[00:52:57] And then after you like dismember her or the mannequin, you finally get like the door open and then you get to go through a dollhouse like a house house with a giant baby crawling through the house looking for you. Just walking around going like, da-da, da-da. And. Chee-chee. No, he says da-da in the Japanese version. Yeah. But I like their English.

[00:53:27] Like, like I have a two-year-old and he does that. Like I'll be, I'll be shitting in the bathroom upstairs and I just hear da-da, da-da. He's just like walking around the house looking for me. Yeah. That's the same here except it's my dogs and I just hear like feet walking. And I like, and I looked at the door and then eventually just eyes come around the corner and just stare at me. Right.

[00:53:52] So I actually felt like real fear playing this game and not many horror games actually get a fear response for me or like actually like creep chills. But I felt actual emotions whenever I play Resident Evil Village, whereas I don't know, some games just don't have, have a scary bit in them. Is it scarier than mouthwashing? I think so. Mouthwashing is just unsettling or disturbing.

[00:54:21] Whereas like I felt my survival was being challenged in Resident Evil. Whereas a mouthwashing, I just felt like I was experiencing a horrific delusion. Existential dread more than like fight or flight. I don't know what game made me like actually scared last. That's a fucking good question. I can't think of one, honestly.

[00:54:51] Yeah, I really can't think of one. I had a bad dream last night though. Now I'm literally thinking about it. I'm in dream chat. What happened? Made me remember. I don't remember what was going on. But eventually I started coughing and I was like there's something in my throat. And I stuck my hand into my mouth and I started pulling out. It looked like tofu. And I was pulling out like this white kind of like it's like silly putty. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like this. But it's hard.

[00:55:21] Like so it's coming out like a lot of it just coming out of my throat. It was so weird. And I think it's because I'm getting sick. And I was probably coughing in my sleep. I was like, oh yeah, that'll do it. But it was terrible. That was an awful dream. I had a dream last night that I died. And basically they were like, hey, you were in the military. You contributed to a lot of innocent deaths. So you're kind of up to debate if you're going to make it into heaven or not.

[00:55:48] But heaven is enlisting soldiers for their holy army. And if you sign up, you can get in. And I'm like, you're fucking kidding me right now. Pranked. All right. You know, you got me from before. Like here I enlist in heaven's army to go fight demons, I guess. Have you ever had a dream where you died and like you didn't immediately wake up? Like you were just dead in the dream. Like there was nothing. And.

[00:56:17] Now I have dreams like that sometimes. Like I can control myself to wake myself up. So like if I do die in a dream, I would literally just be like, this is some bullshit. And then I'd like wake myself up instantly. This sucks. Yeah. That sucks. Dude, I can because I lucid dream sometimes too. But it's like, well, I say too. I mean, do you lucid dream? Because that sounds like you can lucid dream. I can lucid dream sometimes. Sometimes I'll be like, this is a dream. And then I'll just like look around.

[00:56:44] Like that's always the first thing I do is I try to look around as fast as possible. And I realize like, oh, I don't see like anything. There's nothing around. Or like there was one time I started lucid dreaming and I was standing in like a bathroom and I tried to look in the mirror, but my eyes wouldn't look in the mirror. It was fucking scary. And then I woke. I can't lucid dream for long. Like I always like, I'll, it's like, if that marks the end of the dream, like I'm going to wake up soon. Yeah. But in those dreams where I'll die, it'll go to like darkness.

[00:57:12] And then every single time I'll wake up, like I just came out of water. It's, it's fucking horrifying. It's a terrible feeling. Hmm. I'm a stressed boy. What does it mean? Who, if anyone can interpret dreams, what does that mean? Well, speaking of dreams and stress boys, uh, the other game I'm playing nine, nine, nine, nine or nine, nine, no, three nines, nine, nine, nine. Uh, I've been playing this for a while now. I think I'm like 14 hours in deep at this point.

[00:57:41] I've gotten one ending. I'm right at getting another ending of the five. And, uh, this is not a good ending. I can already see things not going supposed to go. Cause I haven't read like a guide to get the different endings, but I can like see like, Oh, this is not how things should go as far as like ending. So it has like, it has like branching paths, but not like at the end. So like there are tiered kind of endings kind of. Yeah.

[00:58:10] I wonder if I can pull it up, but I don't want to, I don't want to spoil anything. Not for that game, but like there's this game called Stein's gate, um, which has an anime that people really like, but obviously go do the visual novel. It's way better. Probably. I haven't watched the anime, but like in the visual novel, you can get, there are, you can get endings before like the final chapter. So it's like, I don't know, like seven chapters in, like you can get an ending there if you do specific things. And, and then like chapter eight is like the next time you can get an ending.

[00:58:40] You know what I'm saying? So it's like, and there, I think they're all, they're not all necessarily bad, but the first time I ran into one of those endings, it was so abrupt and, and sad. I was like, cause I had it on my Vita. This was back when I was dating Madeline. And so Maddie's like sleeping next to me and I'm playing under the blanket, like literally like I'm under the blanket playing this game, like locked in and just crying because I thought this was like how the game ended. I was like, this is insane.

[00:59:09] And then I realized like when I looked at the trophies, cause the trophy is like, like 12% get this. And like the one just before for doing the chapter was like 30 or 40%. And I'm like, why did the percent, why did so many people stop playing before they end? And I realized, oh shit, there's endings all over the fucking place. Dude. There are a lot of endings in a Steins Gate for sure. All right.

[00:59:33] I mean, here is a, here's a very, uh, expanded, uh, flow chart for 999 though, where there's basically three main routes that get splits in. Okay. You can get multiple, like multiple of these that go to the same ending. There's only five real endings with slight different flavor text. Dude, this looks like, this looks like a civilization fucking science tech tree. Yeah. Holy fuck. It's like, I got to get pottery or whatever.

[01:00:04] Yeah. But it's like, you know, in the first hour of the game, you get put on a route and it's like one of those routes is already like a dead end. In fact, well, yeah. Uh, one, like each one kind of branches back where you have like a chance to get back on the main path. But yeah. Uh, I genuinely don't know what you're talking about looking at this. Uh, this isn't a good chart.

[01:00:31] I wish I could find a better chart for this. This is like, this, this looks like it's strictly for getting the trophies. Yeah. I think because I see the trophies down here, which is probably, this would be the, this is my chart for basically. Here you go. Okay. I found a better one. I was just about to ask. I'm like, there's a lot of letters around here. What do they mean? And I looked up and I see ally and betray and I'm like, Oh, this is spoiling stuff. Nevermind. Okay. Okay.

[01:01:00] Here is the actual in game chart that you see, but they like cut it together through screenshots because you can't see it all at once. What do you mean? This looks about the same. Oh, I see. Because it's like, well, it's not showing the branches. I get it now. Yeah. Even though the branches do affect like you're on off for the different rails or whatever. So it's a choose your own adventure, but you're not making the choices except for you

[01:01:27] like for a choice that you made 10 hours ago. Yeah. Classic. I love it. And you see how like, there's like a green light following that guy's route. That's like the current timeline he is on. So it's not just what route you're currently on and everything you did doesn't matter. It matters which way you came to get to this point. So the game shows you this. Yes. You can pull this up at any point in the game. It's like Star Fox 64. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:01:56] You can even jump to him. Like you can just like press a and click on one of these and go to it. Oh, so it'll let you like go back and make a different choice right there. You don't have to replay the whole game. You do not have to replay the whole game. That would be insane. That sounds like par for the course for a lot of these games actually. Because usually what you have to do is just make saves and never overwrite them. Oh, that sounds terrible. Like that's what people literally I was just looking through this for Stalker 2 because

[01:02:24] I was considering beating getting all the not all the achievements but all the endings for it which fuck that. I don't remember if you were on the episode where I beat Stalker 2 but holy shit. That sucked. I was considering I had saves at different points because I looked it up. I was like where are the points and no returns for each of these parts? And so I don't know. Some of them I did have. It doesn't matter. Stalker 2. Decent game. Also 999. Yeah, 999 is real good.

[01:02:55] Japanese though? Not insane but also kind of difficult. Like I feel like my skills like fade in and out while I'm playing it which is a weird way to describe it. Like I don't know. It's just I'm tired sometimes. But it'll be a part where I boot it up and I'm like I can't understand a goddamn thing anyone's saying to me. Then there's other points and I'm like I understand everything. I know what you mean because sometimes when I'm studying I just suck and I'm like why? I just can't recall information anymore for some reason.

[01:03:26] And then like I'll start studying like a few hours later because I'll just rage quit. And then I'll start a few hours later and nothing really has changed. I've really just been playing one game. And then suddenly I can just fucking rattle shit off. You know what I mean? So I think that's for real. Sometimes my brain doesn't want to work. Good game. I'm going to try to get at least one of the good endings. There's only one good ending I think.

[01:03:53] But I might just go back and try and get them all just to play through and get the full experience. It just takes a long time. Yeah. I do appreciate how much voice there is in this because not all games have full voice for Japanese stuff. This one? Oh. That is making Lost Judgment take longer also. Now I'm like listening to the words because I'm like oh I could double up now. Now I'm studying Japanese a little bit. Ha ha.

[01:04:23] But before I would instantly like as soon as I've done reading click click click and just fucking do that. So the other game I'm playing I didn't write it down but it's Tales of Symphonia the remaster. And they have Japanese voice actors on that so I'm like listening to the Japanese again. But I'm trying to. I was like oh I can listen to the Japanese. And then I'll like as soon as I'm done reading hit the X button I'm like fuck. I was going to read. I was going to listen to that. I forgot. And so I've got to get back into that mindset for this game too.

[01:04:52] But that's just going to make the game take like 8% longer. I don't know what I'm doing man. Yeah. All right. Well that's all the games I've been playing. What did they buy section? Nothing. I haven't bought anything this week. Actually I went to a concert which is why we're recording this episode so fucking late. Because so normally we record on Sundays listener. But Philip was like hey can we record on Monday actually? I got to work on Sunday. I was like yeah that's fine.

[01:05:20] And then Monday comes around and I'm scrolling Facebook and someone's like hey I'm selling this Born of Osiris ticket. I actually can't go tonight. And I was like tonight. So I went to that concert. It was fucking sick. I bought a t-shirt. I actually got to meet Born of Osiris like the band. They just stayed afterwards. And so I got like their signature on a poster and whatever. But there was this other band there with Indestruction which they were pretty cool. But they had this. I was pretty drunk at this show.

[01:05:49] And they have this fucking t-shirt. Look at this fucking shit. Talk about fucking cringe weeb shit. Do you see this? It's a little pixelated. Yeah because we're looking through Zencaster. But it's this like samurai lady. It's also cringe weeb shit. I don't think you can wear that at work. Yeah well that's the thing. So this is the thing I didn't realize. So it's like a samurai woman. But she's like scantily clad. But she's got like the oni mask. You know with like the teeth. But it's not the mask.

[01:06:18] Like that's actually her teeth. Like her face. And I was like that's cool. And then she has a decapitated head. Like that she's holding in her hand. But what I and so. And also half of her body. She looks like the gaping dragon. Like from Dark Souls. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah just big chompers. Yeah she's got like a giant vertical mouth. Like greed from Full Metal Alchemist a little bit. But I didn't realize until I looked at it sober. But it starts at her vagina.

[01:06:49] That's where the mouth starts. And so I definitely can't wear this to work. Because she's not wearing pants. I didn't realize. You can just see her ass cheeks. So like she. So I can't wear that to work. But it's made of this real nice material. It's a shame. That it's got this weeb shit all over it. This t-shirt though. Yes you cannot wear that shirt to work. Yeah I mean I wear. I wear some crazy shit to work sometimes. But like not this. This is a little too far. This is walk. This is.

[01:07:19] It feels like pajama pants. Honestly. Like this would be just a nice shirt to wear. Around the. Around the house. Yeah probably. Answer the door. Whenever the piece of guy shows up. And he's like a nice shirt. And I go. Sumimasen. And then he leaves. I bow. Stupid. Stupid. Alright. Time for Patreon. Here at Gaming Together. We were a card to provide excellent call up content for you the listener. If you have the means. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Link in the description. Here are our supporters.

[01:07:49] Jose Martinez. Berserker This. Mr. Quang. Insane Cracker. And Nick and Knight. Thank you for all your support. And with that Nave. Let's take a quick break. And then we can help some assholes online. Music plays. Boom boom boom boom boom. Alright. And we're back. I already found one Nave. I linked in the notes. If you want to take a look at it. Okay. Alright. This is from Beautiful Cod. Who.

[01:08:19] This seems to be a burner account for sure. They. They've posted on. R slash. B da boobie. B da boobie. Who is a pop star. I think. B ba doody. B ba doobie. Is that what you said? Yeah. I think you said B. B da boobie. This is difficult. Yeah. Or a rock band. And they got some tickets for $15. That's insane.

[01:08:49] To get to see a bit of boobie. Like after all of the. After all of the. The superfluous charges. After the. Ticketmaster surcharge. And the. Early surcharge. The digital. Dude. Like. The tickets for Born of Osiris. Were like. $27. But after the fact. It was like. $38. Or something. They're fucking gouging us out here dude. Oh yeah. Those Oklahoma rock shows. Will get you. Yeah. Which is insane. Because like. I talked to someone from California. Who was like.

[01:09:18] No show is under $200 here. Even in small venues. And I'm like. That doesn't sound correct. It sounds like you're fucking with me. But also I believe it. Honestly. Alright. Let's see what beautiful Cod has to say. Am I the asshole. For not doing what my friend told me to do. Okay. They have rated them. As not the asshole. Like the comment section has. But we'll see. 9 up votes. 11 comments. Yeah. Not a lot of response on this. Oh.

[01:09:48] I was saying 9-11. Oh. Yeah. That too. This. Seems like. A given. But I've been driving myself crazy. Because I might be in the wrong. I won't be disclosing ages. But. I. B. Have a friend. We call him. R. I own a Minecraft realm. If you're unsure what that is. It is a server. I host. That is free to join at any time. Regardless if I am in it or not. I'm glad he explained that. I own the server. Giving me. O. P.

[01:10:18] A server operator. Referencing the command. To make me an operator. Okay. Give a no. So. Like. God powers. I was introduced to this group through A. Another one of my closer friends. He is in R's friend group. I myself. This is getting complex. I wish you just used names. I myself. Do not associate with their group as a whole. But more so A. A's group. All were invited to the realm. Due to a sudden peak. In interest for the game.

[01:10:48] And to spare my A dollars. I invited everyone on. Into it. We. All got on. Imparted ways. As we ran and started playing the game. Everyone had obviously died a few times already. R. Had died. Trying to reach us. But he also joined the game late. Even though I am morally right. Minecrafter. I teleported him to our location. Because he asked me to teleport. It seemed fair enough.

[01:11:16] Because he wasn't on equal leveling as us. Because we had started before him. We ran again. We again ran. To find a new place to live. And he stayed behind. He then asked for another teleport. To a friend. We can call him F. I. Instead of asking for a teleport. This time normally. He inserted a slur. Into the sentence. Asking me to teleport him to F. What? I asked him to repeat what he said.

[01:11:45] And he added a string of obscenities. Into the chat. I then put him into spectator mode. For those who aren't familiar. Is when you can do nothing. But fly around the world. As if you were a ghost. Before I could switch him back. To his regular mode. R left the game. And banned me from the group. Then taking time. To text me. On my phone number. Saying. I overreacted. And I was overdoing it. Okay. Um.

[01:12:16] I don't know. Okay. This is weird. So. The. The crux of the matter is. Okay. He says what he thinks. Is the crux of the matter. He says. I think I'm the asshole. Because I could have. Ignored him. And just did what he said. In the first place. Which was to teleport him. To his friend. It seems kind of weird. That. I don't know. What. What is the purpose. Of not disclosing the ages. How old do you think. These people are.

[01:12:46] Probably in their. Mid to late teens. I. Yeah. Probably. Or something. I don't know. It's real weird. That he mentions. Not disclosing the ages. But apparently. They can afford to go. Or old enough. To buy rock show tickets. $15. Rock show tickets. And they're also. Trying to cheap out. On $8. Yeah. Yeah. This seems like. Somebody who doesn't have much. So. This is a 17 year old female. Because they did a different. Am I the asshole. And they mentioned their age. In that one.

[01:13:17] I kind of felt like. It was a female. Mostly because of. The. The rock show. That was in it. Let me go back and look. Yeah. The Biba Doobie. This doesn't seem like. A guy's rock show. Like rock band. You know what I mean. Yeah. This isn't Breaking Benjamin. This isn't. Five finger death punch. This looks like. A K-pop band. Or something. Yeah.

[01:13:46] So these are teenagers. That they obviously. Seems like they're teenagers. Especially throwing the slurs together. You know what I mean. You know how we were. Back in the Halo 3 days. Yeah. So the. I don't know. Are they friends with R? So we'll call him. So B. I. What. I. I. Are confusing. Have a friend. I won't be disclosing ages. But I. B. Have a friend.

[01:14:16] We'll call him R. Who's B? B is the. No P. The poster. B is friends with. A. Mostly. They're talking. About themselves. And the third person. That's the only time. That's the only time they mention B. No. This is just poorly written. Okay. So to sum it up. They have a friend. They're close with. Who is A. A. Is a part of R's friend group. And B. Is friends with R. But mostly hangs out with A. Anyways. It doesn't matter. Because A. Does not get mentioned again.

[01:14:46] And neither does B. It's all about R. And so R. And A's. Friend group. All join. The Minecraft server together. So it's one big. Double. Friend group. Playing together. And then R. Started saying slurs. Which is probably. Just like retard. Or something right. Like probably not. Not even something serious. I don't know. It's unclear what they said. But uh. Apparently slurs. So. It's.

[01:15:16] It's weird. Because it's like. They don't even bother to say. Hey man. Don't talk like that. My Minecraft server. My Christian Minecraft server. It just instantly. You know. Takes away all his ability. To play the game. Without saying anything. That feels like an asshole move. You can at least say like. Don't do that. Or mute him. I don't know. Like I don't. I just don't care. I just don't. I just. I don't care really about. People saying the gamer word. In a fucking video game.

[01:15:46] Like if it was real life. That's something different. Right. But. A string of obscenities. Like this just seems kind of. Passive aggressive. To put him into spectator mode. But I mean. Then again. Are there rules. Were you told. That you can't say. Fucking. You can't say the F word. You can't say. The S word. You can't. You know what I mean. Like what were the. What was the terms and conditions. You signed. When you. I know. Join this realm. Hold on there.

[01:16:16] President Kim. Like this seems like. Like they're setting all the rules and restrictions. This guy probably didn't even know it wasn't allowed. I love that. I'm just looking at the comments now. And it's like. The comments are 100%. A slur. Isn't a joke. Or a good time. For anyone. Not even for racist people. I'm pretty sure a slur is a good time for racist people. Is it a racist Minecraft server? Yeah. They're all good.

[01:16:46] They're going to be super happy. You know what's funny. Is I just started re-watching. Not re-watching. But going back to the Bad Friends podcast. Which is funny. Because that was one of the first podcasts. I started listening to. And we started the podcast. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. Just to kind of like. Understand what a podcast was. Because I really. I didn't know at all. When we first started. And so I started listening to it again. Just like maybe three or four days ago. And. That is like. 90% racial humor. Like that. That's just.

[01:17:15] It's just two comedians. Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino. And it is just. Almost all racial humor. Like the first thing I heard. Was they're like. Hey. They have a Puerto Rican. Sesame Street doll now. And then they're like. You want to act it out. Like what they're like. Oh no. You know what I mean. It's fucking awful. I mean that's great for comedians. But this is a. This is a casual friend group. Just doing an activity together. You're doing an escape room. And Marco's in the corner. You know. Dropping hard R's.

[01:17:45] What are you going to do? It's hard too. Because like you invited R to the. To the friend group. Right. Or not the friend group. You invited them to the server. You invited all of them. So. The people that own the server. Who made you the mod. Probably are like acutely aware of that. Like. Oh. The person you brought is a. A flaming. Uh. I was going to say homosexual. That's not right. What is the. What they don't like homosexuals. What's that called? I forget. Homophobic. Homophobic. Yeah.

[01:18:15] A flaming homophobe. So. Probably. Ages are all likely sub 15. I felt very old trying to read this. Same. It's only from a year ago. Yeah. It's not their server. So. I mean. It's like. Maybe you just had. That's what you had to do. You could have probably explained that to them. They. They have your phone number. So. Probably text them like. Dude. I am a mod of this. You can't fucking say.

[01:18:45] The R word. Like. You can't do that. You're going to be in trouble. They. They have it in the code. The source code. That I invited you here. God. So stupid. Yeah. You're a little. Passive aggressive. Either go harder. Or. Go easier. But this is middle ground. I feel is too. Weak. I love it. Because like. Even though I am morally right. Like. No. He didn't say he was morally right. He's saying he's a morally right. Minecrafter. Saying that.

[01:19:14] It was morally correct. For him to use the teleport command. Because I think they're probably playing survival. Oh. Well. I. I respect this even less now. If it's the people that. Have. The respect. The sanctity. Of survival. In Minecraft. I don't know. It's tough. I just don't care. Really. Yeah. Because I think. He's trying to say that he doesn't usually. Abuse. His mod powers. And this guy was asking him to go against his morals.

[01:19:44] And get a free teleport. While using slurs. Yeah. And stringing obscenities together. I don't know. Not on my Christian Minecraft server. But now they're banned from the. From the. From the group chat. So I mean. Yeah. It all worked out. That'll teach you. Yeah. That'll teach you to. To. To. Put him in spectator mode. Yeah. I guess this guy's not an asshole. But also. You could have done it better. Yeah. Take your lumps. Learn. Or don't. I don't. I don't care. What's the saying? Don't be good.

[01:20:14] Do good. It seems like we're on their side. Whenever we say it like that. I'm not on their side. I do not agree with this person. But I also don't think they're an outright. An asshole. All right. Do you have one? Uh. Let's do 36. Strong number. I thought so too. Zombie wolf pup.

[01:20:44] Main account? It is. It looks like it dude. They post on love trash. Which I. What is it? What is love trash? Love trash? Yeah. Love trash. What is trash? Trash is trash. For some reason. It is the banana peel from the breakfast. An old resume no longer needed. A bill for something you've already paid for online.

[01:21:14] Soup cans for dinner. A broken car missing a wheel. Or that chipped wine glass. But for others. Trash is a treasure. Trash is everything. And everything is trash. What's trashier than trash? A trash yard. A royal junk heap to celebrate everything trashy in this world. A repository for everything trashy online. R slash trash. Dude this person puts their parents on blast a lot. On Reddit. As you should. Yeah.

[01:21:43] This is what parents lose it over Easter egg hunt. And it's on Facebook post. So you know it's good. Strong start. Oh god there's updates for this. Is there? Alright let's get started then. Yeah there's a lot. Alright. Am I the asshole for quitting. This is from zombie wolf pup by the way. Am I the asshole for quitting a game after my husband interrupted me. So long story short. Hold on. Let me maximize this. So long story short. My husband has been trying to convince me to play Ghosts of S. Oh god.

[01:22:13] Tsushima. Is that how it's spelled? Or is it spelled wrong? I think it's spelled wrong. Hold on. Now I gotta look. Tsushima. No that's how it's spelled. Yeah. Okay. That's weird looking. So anyway. Play Ghosts of Tsushima for a while. Pretty much since it came out. And I finally agreed to play it. However. While playing the game tonight. He interrupted me during a standoff. And I missed a game guide tip. That came on the screen.

[01:22:43] To be clear. I was in the middle of a standoff. While he was watching me play. And as I'm fighting. He asked me a question. Not related to the game. And I got distracted. Answering him. While trying to not die at the same time. Yeah we got it. I'm not. This is like me. It's explaining. Over explaining everything. I'm not great at processing multiple sources. Of sensory input. At the same time. Which is why. I don't normally play games like this. Since they require the player. To keep track of lots. Of different moving pieces. Simultaneously.

[01:23:12] That does not happen in this game. That's very stressful to me. And I typically game. To reduce stress. So I don't gravitate. Towards games that I find difficult to play. Can you just lower the difficulty on this? I'm pretty sure this game has difficulty settings. While. So well. While I was fighting the enemy. And trying to answer my husband's question. At the same time. I missed a tutorial tip. That came on my screen. And wasn't able to read it. Before it vanished. I honestly. Does this person have short-term memory loss?

[01:23:41] I honestly didn't even know. I missed it at first. Until my husband asked me. If I had seen what it said. I told him no. I asked him. What it was. I had missed. But he refused to tell me. I got a little frustrated. But it's not the first time. I've gotten distracted. From something right in front of my face. While trying to process. Other sensory input. So I asked him. If it was something important. I needed to know. To play the game. To which he said. Yes. So I explained to him.

[01:24:11] That I had missed that. That I had missed that. The tip even came on the screen. Because I was talking to him. And asked again. What the guide said. He smirked. And said no. Again. With a smug. Teasing expression. Are you really not going to tell me. Even though I missed it. Because I was talking to you. Can you at least tell me. What it was. So I can try to google it. I asked. Nope. He answered. I closed the game.

[01:24:40] Put the controller down. And left. To watch TV. In our room. Now he's texting me. That I'm overreacting. Overreacting by quitting. And telling me to just play the game. And I'll eventually figure it out. Thing is. What little interest I had. In playing the game. Is completely gone now. I didn't really want to play. In the first place. But I knew my husband wanted me to. And at least the gameplay was beautiful.

[01:25:10] And the story sounded interesting. But again. I play games. To relieve stress. So now that I've missed important information. I need to play the game. And I don't even know. How to find what I had missed. I'm just over it. I don't think. I can go back. Since the game auto saves. And doesn't keep a backup. And even though. I'm not super far in. I still don't want to start over.

[01:25:39] And redo everything. From square one. So. Am I the asshole. For quitting the game. Fucking kill me. Dude. This is terrible. Do you want to run to the updates? Or do you want to just. Just leave it at that. Where are the updates at? I mean. Do you want to. Do you want to chirp. About this for a second. Because. Press makes me want to fucking. Give him a swirly dude. This person is.

[01:26:08] Perpetually on TikTok. And I know it. This person. Is a refugee. From Tumblr. Like. There is just a specific way. That these people. Who. Their entire personality. Revolves around Steven Universe. Talk. About things. This whole. Over sensory thing. I. I'm so sick. Of these like. TikTok. Therapists. That like. Throw these fucking words out. This happened. This happened originally. On Tumblr. Where people just start. Over diagnosing themselves. With shit. They learned.

[01:26:38] Like the word. Gaslighting. And thing. And now they use it. All the time. Like flamboyantly. Like they just throw it. All over the place. I didn't mean flamboyantly. I forget the word. I was about to say. But. It's. It's so fucking frustrating. And. It just seems like. Intense. Excuse making. Like this was just. A reason. They didn't want to play the game. And this was just a reason. To throw it down. Not only just a reason. To like. Not play the game. But to spitefully. Get back at their partner. Who they clearly. Have an issue with.

[01:27:07] You know what I mean? Yeah. So. Real quick. To go through. After we. Now I'm digging some digging. While you were getting into. Your rant about the tumblers. They apparently are. Where'd it go? They have a service dog. They are autistic. With dyspraxia. I don't know what that is. Classic. And have sensory processing issues. Along with a diagnosis. Of. Demand avoidance.

[01:27:37] Which. Apparently. Requires them to immediately respond. To know. Anytime somebody. Asks us to do something. And so is her husband. Both of them are. Quote unquote. Abnormal. From their. Description. Fuck that shit dude. I. What. What a hell house. Like. They have to immediately reply. No. Like to everything. Yes. We over. We fucking over.

[01:28:07] Diagnose people dude. Like. Like. No joke. I. I don't know. I don't even know what to say about that. Like that information I just learned. That makes me more. Just. Revolted a little bit. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's tough because apparently. She's. She claims it as her disability. And she does have a service dog. And she says that she cannot fully function. Safely out in the world without support. Can't you just get a service dog? Like isn't.

[01:28:37] How do you get a service dog? How hard is it? How hard is it to. How hard is Ghost of Tsushima. Was the first thing that popped up. That's kind of weird. What was I even. How hard is it to get. A service dog. It's very hard. Oh no. This is to make a service dog. To make a dog. How did you just get one? Can you just get one? I don't know. There's probably some services that offer them.

[01:29:08] Depending on what your doctor prescription is. If you. Maybe you go to the pharmacy to pick one up. Yeah. I don't know. Every single fucking thing I'm seeing. It's like. Oh it's really hard to train a service dog. That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking how to get one. How do you buy one? How to buy a service dog. Buy. Oh okay. Dude. Well I'll eat shit. I'm wrong. I'm wrong apparently. It's apparently really expensive to do that. I even consider. Because obviously a service dog has. You know what I'm thinking about? I'm not thinking about service dogs.

[01:29:38] I'm thinking about a. Emotional support animal. Oh no. That can be anything. Yeah. See that's what I'm thinking of. Service dogs are literally like. For. Like seeing eye dogs. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like with the vest and shit. More into her post. She has a lot of health issues. She does not have reliable fine motor skills. And has poor balance. Jesus. She can't bend over to pick things up. Which is what the service dog is for.

[01:30:08] She. Apparently gets nauseous. With any strong smells. And bright flickering lights. Give her migraines. And can trigger seizures. So she is struggling. Do you know what the poop squatch is? No. So the poop squatch. This guy named Andy Ditch. Let me see if I can find a video for you. We're not going to watch it.

[01:30:38] Are you looking at it? No. Just reading more of this lady's history. She seems to be in the hardest of hard struggle modes. Yeah. She's living life on the expert difficulty. Google poop squatch please. Just so you can see what this guy looks like. Andy Ditch. Listener. You can look him up too. If you want. I don't recommend it. So this guy. Yep. I see him. It's not good. He. So he's. He like goes on like.

[01:31:07] He has a fucking laundry list. Like a fucking. A Walgreens. A CVS receipt. Of like. Elements that he has apparently. Right. And he clearly has something wrong with him. When you listen to him. And also like. When you hear all the things he does. But this dude. Is. Like the most insufferable. The worst kind of human being. To ever be around. And he. He abuses his parents. Like he. He takes advantage of the fact that. He has all these disabilities. And like.

[01:31:38] Fucking tortures his parents. And it is gross. It is like. Not funny. Like. You. At first. You're like. This is funny. And then you start to feel bad for him. And then you go. Oh. I hate this guy. I actually feel extremely bad for his family. That are just trapped with this fucking monster. This guy. By the way. I think. Because the. The whole story is wrapping up. He tried to poison his family. By putting laxatives in their coffee.

[01:32:08] For weeks. And this is not the first time he's done it. And then. They took him to. They took him to. They arrested him. I don't know if he's in jail or something. I don't know what they're going to do with this dude. Honestly. But he is a fucking. He's a psycho. But that. Like. Just hearing the. A million things. That you. I'm like. Why am I having such a revolting. Revolted. Like. Reaction to this. And it's because. I was directly. Like. Having a PTSD moment.

[01:32:37] When I learned about this guy. Because. It's just. Like. Listening to him. Talk. Because every time. Someone would start fucking. Talking back to him. He would start screaming. About all the things that are wrong with him. Like. Sometimes. Like. One time. He walked into his brother's room. At like. Two a.m. And he had a fucking. Speak and spell. And he was. Talking through the speak and spell. And his brother was like. I'm not fucking doing with this. This with you Andy. And he would be just. Just start screaming at him. Until.

[01:33:07] His brother would stop. Talking. And then he would just go back to typing. On the speak and spell. It's. Insane. Like. It's crazy. And that's what I was imagining. The more I learned about this person. It's obviously not the same. Because this guy is a monster. But. Right. Yeah. So. I don't think we need to go into all the updates. Because it's basically just like them. Explaining themselves. About all their. Medical conditions.

[01:33:36] Yeah. Very sad. Yeah. Anxiety. Seizures. Psychological issues. Dog. If you don't want to play the game. Then don't fucking play the game. Like. That's just the. That's just the bottom line. Well. Stonegolf said so. She barely wanted to play it for her husband. Because he recommended it. Yeah. God forbid you engage with something that you. I. I can't. I. I also triggered. By the way. Because it's like. Like. That's something I would do. Is just be like. I'm not telling. Like.

[01:34:06] That's just something. That's just. What normal people do to each other. Is to just. Oh. I've got information you need now. Oh. Interesting. If you're going to play the game. Go to the help section. And it's probably. Has a new tab on it. That says. What it just said. It would be like. The top one. Or it would have a little exclamation point next to it. Yes. Like. Every fucking video game does this. Dude. Well. I mean. That's game literacy. Maybe she's not very. Game literate. Yeah. Probably the only thing she plays. Is her like. Unpacking and shit like that. Like. I don't know. What do you.

[01:34:35] What do you play that's not stressful? Animal Crossing. You know. Animal Crossing. Yes. Stardew Valley. No. Stardew Valley has a time limit. Yeah. So that's pretty stressful. So you can't play like Persona. But Persona obviously. That's off the. Because you can die in that game. So. That's pretty stressful. Death is. Death is scary. All right. So I think everyone sucks here. The husband. Why does the husband suck? He just seems like an asshole.

[01:35:03] Maybe that's why I relate to him so much. But. It. It just seems like a fucking. Nightmare. Dude. I. I couldn't. I am completely and totally incompatible with this kind of person. Like. I couldn't even be friends with this person. Because I would blow up on them. Like. Obviously. Like. You heard me go crazy. I hate the kind of people that use shit as an excuse. You know what I mean? So like. When you ask them a fucking question. And they. As soon as you. Like. The first fucking couple of words that are coming out of their mouth.

[01:35:32] You're already aware that they're about to just fucking ramble off an excuse. Rather than directly answer you. I. I just hate that. So fucking much. I. It's. I'm listening to like. Sovereign citizens. Like. A lot lately. And I think that's another like fucking trigger that's happening right now. Where it's like. As soon as they're asked a question. They just start fucking rambling. Complete nonsense. Rather than directly. It's just the same kind of thing. Man. You know. It's so funny. Like. One of.

[01:36:01] It's like day one in basic training. Is that they teach you. Do not ever make an excuse for anything. Thing. It's like. If. Like. Why could you not fucking. Fold your. Your sheets on your bed or whatever. Don't say like. Oh. It was because I was doing the 500 pushups you told me to do. Instead. It's. I failed to fold my sheets. And that's. That's the end of it. Like. It doesn't go any further than that. Really. Dude. My fucking ball. My. My supervisor is in the. Is in the Navy. I think. Or something like that. And. Every now and then. Like. I'll do something.

[01:36:31] I'll fuck it up. And he'll be like. Why did you do that? And I'll be like. Oh. I don't know. I guess I just wasn't. Making attention to this. And he's just like. That's not good enough. I don't want an excuse. I'm like. That wasn't an excuse. You just asked me why. You directly asked me. Why I didn't do that. Dude. That's my favorite ones. Why are you wrong? I don't know man. I fucking suck at my job. Is that what you want to hear? I don't know. Yeah. That's basically the answer. Like. No. The answer is to make you better. So you don't think about. What you did wrong. You think about how you can do different. Next time. Yeah. It's like.

[01:37:01] I didn't want to say that to you. Like. You made me say that. You know. I'm aware. As soon as you said that. I was aware. I fucked up. But then you stood there. Staring at me. Waiting for me to answer. And now I don't know what to say. Other than the truth. All right. Is. Is this guy an asshole? Uh. Not. They. They are an asshole. Like slightly. For the way that they reacted. Like. You. You throw a fucking hissy fit. Then. Don't expect people to want to show you things. That they. That they enjoy. Ever again. Like.

[01:37:31] I wouldn't be surprised. If this person just. Resented you. For this kind of behavior. You know what I mean? I wouldn't be surprised. If he didn't tell you it. Because you act this way. And he just wanted to hold it over you. Because of that. Which makes him more of an asshole. If I. In that headcanon. But like. The. You're not a total asshole. If you don't want to play the game. Don't play the game. Like. That's just the bottom line. 100%. All right. Let's take a quick break. And we'll come back with Pico Park 2. The music plays. Boom. Boom.

[01:38:01] Boom. And we're back. Pico Park 2. Pico Park is back. Back with all new levels. Play with 2-8 players locally. Or online in this co-op action puzzle game. Very positive. From Technopark. Gym Drops Incorporated. Released September 11th, 2024. Good date. Another 9-11. I know. I tried to grab. That's kind of weird. Steam reviews for this one.

[01:38:31] But there were just no good ones. Besides everyone making the same joke. I used to have friends till I played this game. Now I just have the game. Recommend. There's a lot of people saying the same. Like. How. Like. You know. Singling out the weakling. Like. There's a couple of those. Yeah. Jeremy's a goddamn idiot. I got a couple that I thought were like. Decently enough. Uh.

[01:39:00] This one is from Random Kimmer. Recommend with 4.8 hours on record. Meaning he'd probably beat the game. Nearly lost my voice yelling at Neanderthals. I don't know if we can use that word. I call friends the entire time playing the game. Yelled at them in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Kimmer. Wishing for bad things to happen to them and their family. And I've started doubting the reasons why I am friends with these people. Overall. A really good game.

[01:39:28] And would highly recommend to other people 10 out of 10. That is like the best version of the. You know. My friends are dumb. But I found another one that I thought was really interesting. You want to read this one? Uh. This is from Kazaretsky. Recommends with. 3.8 hours on record. Says. Playing this game is like watching AIs failing over and over again in dumb ways. Then after the three.

[01:39:57] The 34,814th attempt. We finally get through the level together. Technology is crazy bro. I fucking love those videos. I'm going to be honest. Dude me too. They're really cathartic. They fail for like 7,000 generations. Then the summoning salt music starts. It's like. But then. Something other. Yeah. It's like they walk across a rope bridge. Or something like that. Yeah. Have you seen Code Bullet? Code Bullet. I love Code Bullet. It's so good. Yeah. He like physically recreates the games.

[01:40:26] Like he just pirates them basically. Like in fucking Unity. No he doesn't pirate. He rebuilds them in Unity. Which is insane too. Just another way. He's like. I ported it to Unity. So that I could run my algorithms on it. But it's funny because he just like makes a square. And then he just slaps the texture on it. He's like. That'll be right. That'll be good. I have a technical. Like almost another one. Alright. Watch that real quick. And explain what you're watching. It's.

[01:40:57] It looks like Subnautica gameplay. Or something. It was just random. I don't know what game this is supposed to be. Is this like. I have no idea. I have no idea what game that is. But it's like. My bro convinced me to buy a game. That we will only play once. And we'll never get back to it. And then it's. What's his name from. Was like Hoop Dreams or whatever. Leonardo DiCaprio. I think that's from Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah. He's like. Oh this is something. We're really important. I don't remember. But anyways. So that video. I sent it to a couple of people.

[01:41:26] One of them being. A friend of the podcast. Insane Cracker. Jacob. And he responded. Literally. He responded. Oh. Pico Park 2. Because it melts my mental stability. Totally not knowing. That we're going to. Or did I mention. We're going to saw Pico Park in last episode. Maybe I did. Oh man. I might have. But I'm going to assume. That he just did that totally serendipitously. Not knowing I was about to record. Later that day. Alright.

[01:41:55] As far as gameplay wise. I didn't really have any preconceptions by this game. It was just on my wish list. And then you were like. Buy this game. Or I'm going to buy it for you. And yeah. I bought it. And I have 4.5 hours on record. Which is enough to beat the story mode. Shit. I don't know how many I've got. It will only take a second to look though. You probably have. I'm guessing six hours on record. Yeah. Because I played through it halfway. And then I went back. I have 11 hours apparently. Oh. Yeah. That's a lot.

[01:42:25] Do you leave the game on? No. I really do think it's because I played like 80% of it. And then I went back to the beginning to play with you again. Okay. But the game is required co-op. There is no single player. And you can play eight player local play. Specifically you can do this using the Tecmo GamePad app. Where you can use your smartphone as a game pad. And this is for any version of the game on Xbox, on PC.

[01:42:56] It's like Jackbox. But there's also an option where you can just map eight players to one keyboard. But I would not do that. Yeah. That sounds terrible. But the whole game is a 2D platformer mostly. There's like other variations of games. But you just play as a PicoCat. Which is a low bit. Little critter. With big eyes. Big dead soulless.

[01:43:26] Not thinking eyes. Unblinking. Oh yeah. And this game does have a pixel art style. Very super meat boyish. Yeah. Or the impossible game. Do you remember that shit? Yeah. From the Xbox indie arcade or whatever. Simpler times. Yeah. I was happy then. I played this on Steam. You played this on Xbox. So it was your cross platform. And what was interesting about this is you don't see who's in your game.

[01:43:55] Like you don't see gamer tags. You don't have anything like that. They just get numbers assigned to them every time they join. So you're like one, two, three, four, five, six. Just numbering up. And it keeps going. So like even if you're like the third player. Like when you join. If you're the 12th that has been in the game. You'll be number 12. Which is great. Because it's like you can see who's what lobbies have been going on for four hours. You know who's committed to the game and whatnot.

[01:44:23] When you join in and you're like oh I'm number 57. And they're only on second world. That means the owner of this server has been trying really hard. Yeah it's bad news. Bad news appears. Which this game requires all the players to reach a finish line. Or some kind of door at the end. For you to complete the level. Everyone has to make it and no one left behind. And so if one person dies. The level restarts. If one person doesn't make it to the door.

[01:44:52] The level restarts. If there's a time limit. And it goes zero. And one person has not stepped through the door. If you're up to eight players. Everyone restarts. And you have to do it again. Yeah. It's great. My favorite part about this is when someone dies. And everyone turns around and looks at them. It's so funny. Yeah. Another thing I liked is like when someone would die. And I just kill myself. Like right as fast as possible. But I feel like that encourages people to kill themselves.

[01:45:22] Also. So I was afraid I was encouraging bad behavior. Yeah. The griefing behavior. Which we did encounter like one or two people that seemed to clearly be griefing. And then other people that were just incapable. Yeah. When I played before you. I ran into quite a few griefers as well. Like people. People who would just refuse to do. Like it was borderline. Like I. Do I kick this guy? I don't know. And sometimes. So when you see number one stop moving.

[01:45:50] You have to kill yourself before they can kick you. Because. Because it'll reset the game. And then they can't like navigate the start menu anymore. But. It's so stupid. It's annoying. Because someone did do that. Like they killed. They managed to kill themselves like twice before I kicked them. Because you have to toggle over to them as well. It's fucking frustrating. I did see a couple people were complaining that you can't permanently ban griefers from your game. It's just you can kick them once and they can't join back. But if you start a new game that's just come up.

[01:46:20] This game is weirdly low population. I think. Like if you just look on for just Steam users. There's currently 350 players. That's not a lot of players. It's a lot for a game like this. It feels like. It's a small game. Because we were. We were like. Like I would have. Like. I don't know. I say. Like what do you think the average player count that we had was? Because I want to say it's like four. At least four. Sometimes more.

[01:46:49] And those more ones were rough. Yeah. Because you start getting rogue elements man. And now you're. You're. You're. You're adding like human error times five. You know what I mean? It's like. There's so many things that could go wrong. The levels are super simple. But it's just like. Hey. This simple task. We're going to have seven people do it in a row. And if one of you guys messes up. You all have to do it again. And you think like. Oh I can make this jump. You know. One in 20 times. I'll fail it. Or something like that.

[01:47:19] Like I have a 5% fail rate. Well. That 5% fail rate. Across eight people. Makes it really likely. Somebody's going to fail this. Yeah. Especially like. When people are joining. Like. And then they're like. Oh I don't know what this level is. They just die right away. Yeah. They don't have the cadence down. So you got to go back into the rhythm. And try to figure it out. Another thing is that like. Some of the level. All of the levels. Like will change. Depending on how many people are in the game. So it's like.

[01:47:49] Some of the maps that we did fill up. I was like. I would. You would hear me say it. Like maybe eight or nine times. The last time we played it. Where I was like. Like that was so much easier. With just me and you. Like. It was crazy. It was crazy hard. With like seven people. Oh yeah. This was almost impossible. So. With more people. This game definitely. I think skews higher in difficulty. With more people. Like. A lot of our last playthrough. Was just me and Nave playing. Like we didn't seem to find. Like any partners until. Like the last world. We got a.

[01:48:19] A ride or die with us. He was our bro. Oh my god. Yeah. I took a screenshot. Of like the. So at the end. When the credits roll. Which there's only like. Twelve people that worked on the game. But uh. The credits roll. Then it's like. Thank you for playing. It shows everyone. That was in the lobby at the end. And I was just like. There's the purple guy. Or not. I was purple. But like. It was like. There's the blue guy. It's great. He was our bro. I love that guy. Yeah. And then he's gone. Which the first time we played. We. I definitely got attached. To some of our. Our random joins. Where I'm like. Oh yeah. I really like.

[01:48:49] You know. Our yellow guy. Yellow guy is actually trying. Like he struggles. But he's trying. And then we got orange in there. I'm like. I fucking hate orange. Like. Yeah. Can we kick orange? Like. I don't want him in our game. Yeah. Orange. Bill. Bill hat. Fuck that guy. Yeah. Which we didn't talk. So you could customize. Your. Your head. A bunch of different little heads. I don't remember what Philip had. I don't remember what I had either. I think it was just like. One of the hats.

[01:49:18] I think I switched to a Santa hat. To match you at one point. So I just beat it. Or something like that. You can have cat ears. There's like a Moogle ball. Like literally like the ball. Like on a. Moogle's head. Yeah. From Final Fantasy. But yeah. The Santa hat is what I would wear. Because it was. It was cute. It like covered your whole head. It was like a beanie. So it was like. This is the closest thing to me. Is this beanie. I was doing the cat ears for. The first time I played it. But like. We had like four.

[01:49:48] We literally had like. Seven people in the match. And four of us were cat ears. And I was like. I feel. I gotta. I gotta stand out. I don't want to be cat ears with everybody. Yeah. Nobody's wearing the Santa hat. Even though character customization. Does not matter that much. It gives you a choice. Except for one level. Where. If the customization was there. You'd be able to fucking figure it out faster. You know that level. With the. All the boxes. And you need to figure out which one you are. They'll find you. Yeah. And so. It's like.

[01:50:17] That was hard for me dude. That was so hard for me. Well let's talk about the. The types. Because there's the default platformers. Where it's just like. Jump over spikes and pits. Then there's. Like the minigame sections. Which these are weird. Because there was like a pong one. There's kind of like a. A block moving one. Like. Uh. There was a flappy bird clone. Uh. There was. Like you said. A um. I like a. It's like find you. They were like. WarioWare levels. Yeah. Or it's like. Find your character. And these.

[01:50:46] 20 characters. That all look like you. But that's the thing. Is that like. If they were moving randomly. It would be one thing. But I swear. There's like. Eight of them. Are. Well. With 22 people. Yeah. Yeah. So they are doing. Almost exactly what you'll do. Except one of them. Like twitch to the right. And you just gotta like. Figure out which one it is. And so. I would just get bamboozled. Sometimes. I'll be like. I'm certain this is me. And then it's not. I'm like. I don't know anything anymore. Is God real? I don't know. Is it my real? Another one they did.

[01:51:16] Is like the rope challenge. Where it's just like. The chain together game. I love those. And those are so funny. Because it's like. If there's three of us. And like first one person. Falls off the edge. And the other one. The last person's like. No. No. No. Yeah. It's like. As he gets dragged off the edge. Dude. There's a whole. Indie game about that. Have you seen that game? Chain together. Yeah. Dude. It's like the getting over it guys. I think. Or maybe it's just influenced by that. Same style. It looks awful. Fuck that. I mean. It's on our list. Yeah.

[01:51:46] Unfortunately. I mean. It would just suck with two people. Because if one person falls. We both go down. Yeah. It wouldn't matter. Three people. Is probably a sweet spot. There was that one level. With the rope. With where like. You're walking on the tiny path. Oh yeah. And you have like a person. That you're raising and lowering. Like a crane. To grab a key. To unlock the door. While dodging spikes. That one was pretty cool. There's also other ones. That were like. Movement based. Where it's like.

[01:52:16] What was it? Like. We had to. Make sure we don't move. When a critter's on the screen. Or something like that. Or like. There's like a dinosaur. And it's like. Don't move. Or it will instantly kill you. Or don't jump. And so we had to like. Only move one at a time. Like there was. And you don't know these rules. So you have to like. Figure it out. Through trial and error. And. Every time someone new joins. They don't know what you know. So they instantly jump. And get everyone killed. And it's like. Why would you jump? Or. Dude. There were like.

[01:52:46] These senseis. Playing this game. Like I don't know if they're devs. Of the game or what. But they were people. Like joining. And like. Just knowing what to do. Oh yeah. Just leading us. And. You could tap on the screen. I thought people were playing. On like the switch. But Philip could do it too. Because he could click. The only reason I knew. That Philip was doing it. Is because. The first time he played it. He was multitasking. Runescape. So I would see him. Alt tab. Over and over again. And I clicked back on the screen. Each level. Yeah.

[01:53:15] To make the keyboard work again. So stupid. But yeah. I liked. I liked the. The ability to. To draw on the screen. Because like. You would see people get. Visibly frustrated. Tapping on people. Like clicking on the red guy. Over and over again. And I'm just like. Oh man. Oh man. It's not like you. But it's all pre-programmed messages. And some of them just say like. Stop. Yeah. Or no. Yeah. So someone dies.

[01:53:44] And then like two people say. Stop. No. Stop. And then the other guy replies. Sorry. Or shoot. Shoot. There's also like blind levels. Where it's like. You can only move. When the screen's blocked off. So you can't see. And so it's like. They'll pull the screen. Just to see where you are. And then it closes off again. And you're like. Okay. Because one person. Has the controls of it. So someone is activating it.

[01:54:14] There's a couple of them. Where like one person. Will have the control. But the screen one's hilarious. Because like. You never. It doesn't make sense. I don't. Like the movement. Must be fucked with somehow. Because it like. Doesn't make sense at all. Where you're at. Like. I don't know. I feel like. I would be able to play. The first level of Super Mario. Like with my eyes closed. You know what I mean. Not on the first try. I would die a couple times. And drop in a pit somewhere. But. I'd figure it out eventually. Right. Yeah. But.

[01:54:43] This game. It is just RNG. Like I just don't understand. It is weird. I'll be like. I'll be like. Phillip will be like. All right. All you gotta do is just jump on my head. And then I'm gonna pull a little thing up. And I'm like. Okay. And I'll just. I'll just jump. And move slightly to the right. I'll be right next to Phillip. And then I'll just be. On the left. Like really far away. And I'm like. I. I don't know how that. And then we'll do it again. And then Phillip will be on my head. It looks like a fucking. Flintstones cartoon. Dude. All right. Just goofy shit.

[01:55:15] There's also. Shmup levels. Where we're in like little. UFOs shooting. And you can shoot each other in the ass. And that is very funny. Yeah. Except when you are fucking. It's like the 12th time you're doing it. And you're just like. Oh my god. Please. Stop. So it took us. You know. At least four hours. To get through. All the levels. And there's I think like 15 worlds. With like four levels. Each in them at least. It's not a lot of game. But it could really drag out. If you get stuck on one.

[01:55:46] Yeah. Especially if you have an open lobby. Like I. I kind of do. Even though there's a lot of potential. For griefing. And trolling. And just bad players in general. I do recommend opening the lobby up. Because. The levels. Even though it's more frustrating. The more people join. It is also funnier. You know. Definitely. Like. I was imagining. Getting through this entire game. With like. Seven friends. And just. What that would be like. You know what I mean. Oh dude. It would take forever. Like.

[01:56:15] At one point. When we were playing. Like the hard levels. The hard mode. Like dark world. I was like. How do we beat this? And I look it up. And somebody's playing it. And they were playing it. With like. Two or three of their friends. It was just like a four player party. And they were all playing together. And to make this video. Of one level. 15 minutes long. They're playing on like. Four or five times speed. Fast forward it. And so I'm like. Oh my god. This is. It took them an hour. And 40 minutes. To beat one level.

[01:56:45] Those levels sucked. By the way. They fucking sucked. Yeah. To get into those real quick. So these are. Intentionally unfair levels. Like. They say it in the little steam page. It's like. It's like a plug. Where like dark worlds. Levels literally designed. To be unfair. Like. A lot of it is only. You can only learn through. Trial and error. Or. You have to get. Very precise jumps. It is literally like. The getting over it. Game. Where it's like. This is gonna suck. But you can do it. If you really want to.

[01:57:16] I did not want to. Also it was like. 1 30 in the morning. When I. You're like. You don't want to do it anymore. I was like. No. Yeah. It's only 10 30 for me. Dave. Let's keep playing. I surrender. Yeah. But. We did not finish. The dark world. I don't think it's worth it. I think we did one level. Right. Yeah. We did one chapter. So we got like a fourth of them done. You're like, let's not do anymore. I got it.

[01:57:43] The fucking last one of those was like, I don't even know how you're supposed to fucking figure it out on your own. Because the only reason why we got through is because you looked it up online and you were like, you have to run all the way to the right. And there's a fucking button there that drops a block. And like, there's no fucking way. There's no way to fucking figure that out on your own. Unless you're just trying everything, gave up and just started walking to the right where there's just nothing. There's nothing telling you to go that way.

[01:58:12] There's nothing signaling like there's anything more. They give you a box previously where you're like, we could probably use this box to make it. But that is just a fucking distraction. Yeah, it's not what you're supposed to do at all. Because directly by the box is a spike. And so the moment you start pushing it, you die. And so what we were doing for like 15 minutes straight was trying to jump into the edge and use our toe to move it one pixel to the right over and over and over again.

[01:58:39] Until we eventually fucked up in the 700 pushes it would take to move that block away from the spike. And then accidentally touch the spike. And then had to do the whole level over again. Which is also a bunch of precise movings of boxes. And like, precise jumps. And if you fall, you don't die. You just fall in a pit and you can't get back up. So now you got to reset, which is worse than dying. So it's like, God, dude. Dark World sucks.

[01:59:05] We also did the multiplayer like versus mode, which is like Mario Party competitive mini games. Because I was even like, man, I play a whole game of just these. And you're like, that's Mario Party. That already exists. And I'm like, oh yeah, it is. But this is just stupid. And there was like eight player pong, which is just terrible. Yeah, it's awful. There's no skill. It is really literally luck. There's the reaction time one where it's like three, two, one, go.

[01:59:33] And it's like whoever goes in the fast milliseconds. I was super sweaty with that one. I'm like, I can do this. But we always lost because it would be someone just randomly walking. Like without the thing even going. And so they get like 0.13 seconds. Yeah, somehow they win 0.01. It's like there's no way he went on go. Because you can go early and just hope that it comes up. And if you don't get it, it just goes like a big fucking red mark on your time. You suck.

[02:00:03] Yeah, but it's like you're probably going to lose anyways. Because if you just go in reaction time, you're probably not the fastest reactor. So it's like you almost need to try to predict it to consistently win. But even that's not going to give you a win most of the time. Yeah. Party games are fun. I didn't win a single one, by the way. Oh, damn. Let's see. I think that pretty much covers all the game modes. There's endless where it just cycles through all the levels without going back to the level select screen.

[02:00:34] Yeah. So there was one level of Sagatsubi, which is like a bunch of buttons. And it was like Russian roulette. Oh, yeah. That was stupid. And that was literally just RNG. And one thing. So I played that before you started playing. And there was seven of us. And there was always one. We got through it like four times. Like no shit. And then there was always one person who would either accidentally or on purpose press another button. And it would always blow them up.

[02:01:03] And we would have to restart. And dude. It was funny the first time. I'm not going to lie. But every other time it was fucking infuriating. There were so many points too where it's like, man, I have the chance to do the funniest thing ever for me. If I just kill myself at the last second. But a lot of people do that. In every single level, you have to physically go to the door and walk through it. And sometimes people don't. They just stand there.

[02:01:33] And the funny thing is, is that when you're in the door, you can get back out. And be like, come on. Like here. Like go. You know what I mean? Like people will come out and start trying to push you. God. There's so much trolling potential there. And it's by design. It is. It seems intentional. I think that pretty much covers our meat points. You want to head into final words? Yeah, sure. All right. So I'll take this first final words. This game is going to be a hearty recommend from me.

[02:02:03] Especially if you have more than one co-op partner. This game would be perfect. Like I can't wait to break this game out at the next, I don't know, house party we have over dinner guests. Like if I still lived in Texas, I'd be like JP, come over, bring the wife and kids. We're all going to play Pico Park together. And this would be an experience like no other. So this is a big recommend for me. I think this is a great co-op title. It's simple. It's stupid.

[02:02:31] But as long as you're not trying to look for a deep co-op experience, this is shallow and fun. I have to go the opposite direction. This is extremely deep as a co-op experience if you get eight people. I think you got to find a bunch of people, entice them, be like, hey, look, if we beat this, I will buy us all a ticket to Six Flags over Texas. And we're all going to go right on to Superman together. But we got to be this as a training exercise.

[02:03:00] That's all men. Imagine, dude. Imagine you work at McDonald's and this is your group training exercise. They're not training, you know, like team building. You know what I mean? Dude, this would be great team building. I'll recommend this for my next work excursion. Like, fuck it. We're not going bowling as a squadron anymore. We're going to split into groups and play Pico Park. But every two minutes, you have to rotate a member out and send them to a different group. So, like, Jerry, you're out of here. Go over to that group.

[02:03:30] Who do we get? Oh, not Thompson. Damn it. Thompson's terrible at fucking platforming, man. Yeah. He's like, Thompson, what world is the other group on? And they're like one four or something like that. You're like, no. Damn it. There's so much further. We're on two three. But yeah. I did genuinely enjoy this game. I think I put it. I've rated it. So, I threw my little rating thing. We were talking about something in the group chat and the group troop.

[02:03:59] And then Phil was like, no Pico Park? And then I was like, oh, yeah. And so I went ahead and rated that, too. And then Phil was like, this is my list of my games this year. And it's only Pico Park. That's the only game on there. But no, that was the list that you gave. Yeah, that did happen. But I updated. I beat a game. I didn't even mention it because it was the shady part of me. It's on Game Pass. I don't know if you saw the cover. It looks like this. Burp, burp, burp. Oh, yeah. I've seen that. I haven't downloaded it, I think, actually.

[02:04:27] It's just another sad child and dark world game. Much like your limbos, your insides, your planet of Lana, your, you know, just my jam. My little nightmares. That type of stuff. It's nothing new, sadly. It has a great soundtrack and there are some very interesting puzzles. But the story has nothing to it and the voice actors aren't particularly motivating.

[02:04:55] That's what you like to hear in your fucking whatever. I put Pico Park at the bottom of B tier underneath Indiana Jones. I feel like if I put it above, I have been on a jihad in the group troop about the Indiana Jones. I don't even hate it. It's become my new Last of Us 2 in our friend group where I just hate on it because I know it makes everyone mad. Because everyone in the group troop just loves this game. And I'm just like relentlessly shitting on it for no reason. It's a good game, I think. I just think it's fine.

[02:05:25] I mean, B is good, right? B is good. That's where I put the shady part of me. I put that one in B tier, but I put Pico Park 2 A tier. Yeah. I couldn't. This is the thing. It's like I don't even know what the tiers mean until I start filling the games out. And then I'm like I can't put the – I can't put Pico Park 2 above Outlast Trials because I just had so much fun with it. But Outlast Trials is top of B, so it's like I got to figure this out. Meanwhile, I'm about to finish Resident Evil Village. I'm like that's going to nest here probably.

[02:05:54] So I know Pico Park cannot be on the same tier as Resident Evil Village. That was it. I was like, dude, if I put Pico Park above Indiana Jones, they're going to fucking kick me out of the group chat. I'm pretty sure I started the group chat. I don't even know if they can kick me out. But they would just all mute me or something. That would be worse. Leave your group chat. Just fucking shadow banned in my own group chat. Holy fuck. You just – Oh, my God. You make a post and no one replies or anything.

[02:06:23] That happens anyway sometimes. Yeah, dude. I love it. I love it when it happens to Chris from One Hour One Decision. Because he'd just be like, thanks, guys. He always says something. That's fucking awesome. Dude, my favorite is every time I look into the group chat and it's just like the AI summary page or whatever. It's either like America's gone to hell or PlayStation continues to eat ass. Yeah.

[02:06:52] That's like the two go to. Two. Yeah. Yeah. Or something about AI with the elder trolls. They're always talking about AI. Yeah. Stealing our jobs. Taking our jobs. Bidding. All right. Yep. That's Pico Park 2. Good game. Double recommend. Nave, what are we playing next week? Or what are you playing next week?

[02:07:16] Next week, I'm going to – I got a guest on to talk about Halo Combat Evolved. Hell yeah. So that'll be fucking sick. Hell yeah, brother. And then I also – so I talked about Tales of Symphonia. That's not going to be the game after that, but that's going to be the game after after that. Yeah. So we got a whole fucking slate of games that we're probably trying to figure out to do. Phillip, you got the one after – you got the one in between those, sandwiched in between those two bangers. Yeah, I'll find something good.

[02:07:47] Yeah. Maybe not Pico Park 2, except that I picked this. So I stole that from you. That was a good pick. All right. Co-op listeners, thanks for picking us this week. And maybe we can all kick orange from the group together next time. See you. Bye. Or say a string of obstinities. Bye. Slurs.