Episode 202: Day of Defeat Source - Showing Dongle

[00:00:11] Welcome to Gaming Together, A Cooperative Podcast. I'm your host Phillip and I'm here with my co-op partner Nave. Each pod we play through a cooperative experience and relate to you to the listener. If this game is the creme de lo creme of co-op or something better off playing solo. Hey Nave, what's poppin'? What's changed with you? Nothing. Everything's the same. Nothing's changed at all. Has it? Has nothing really changed? No. I got a computer. You noticed the new computer because like my camera angle is different now. Yeah. I know the listener can't see.

[00:00:41] Instead of seeing like your lounge area with your rock band drums and your, your, was it like chairs that you use as side tables? Yeah. Was it like your dining room chairs? Yeah, that's my dinner table. Oh yeah, your dinner table chairs. I can see your full kitchen spread. Yeah. Well, so the tower that I got is enormous. I don't know if you've seen it. Hold on, let me. No. There it is. Oh yeah. It's got the, uh, the LEDs flashing.

[00:01:11] Yes. You can see, you can see like, hold on. Well, no, I'm connected to my fucking computer right now. Cause my headset died. But if I have the lights turned out, you can just see my face is still completely illuminated. The lights are so bright. It's like flash. You can turn those down. There's a setting. I bet. But actually it's, it's, it's cool because now I don't need a ring light. Oh yeah. Yeah. See, that was a problem before when I go on to, uh, like different podcasts and they had a video element.

[00:01:40] But yeah, I got a new computer. Very cool. Very good. Nave. You have joined, uh, the rest of everyone else. You're no longer limping along recording on your Xbox. I wasn't doing that either. I was, I was, I had a computer. It's right here. Look, I got the core. Is that a VCR? Yeah. It looks like a Xbox one, like the original one. Look, you can literally see through it. Can you see? Yeah. It's hollow. Yeah. It's fucking completely hollow.

[00:02:07] Uh, this little server thing, not a single led. Yeah. Uh, what the fuck elder trolls? Why even gift that to me? But yeah, so that thing, that thing got me through like a year and a half of podcasting. So, and it would cry for mercy whenever I would edit the audio track, the audio kick on. Yeah. Fucking sobbing. Um, but yeah, so I mean, editing, I, I, I edited a video and did you, did you see that?

[00:02:37] I did. I watched it. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. It's, uh, uh, the first stream. So I've been streaming, I've been doing all kinds of random shit. Been a very busy boy. I'm going to have, we're gonna have a very front loaded episode. I think this episode, but, uh, I've been a very busy boy. I've been streaming basically every day, just learning something new every day. Uh, like with OBS and everything goofing around. Like today I streamed oblivion and had YouTube up on the screen.

[00:03:04] So I was watching YouTube. Yeah. It was crazy. And so, but like, also look, I, I learned how to, the Chromebook that I've had that I used to just have for the notes. It's like actually a, hold on. Look. Whoa. What's the second monitor? Oh my God. It's you. Yeah.

[00:03:21] Yeah. I know that that's not impressive for most people, but it's, it was, it's a app, like a wifi app or whatever. It's like, you can either get an HDMI to fucking micro USB adapter, get both. I'm like, or you can just download this app and then, you know, I figured it out. Good. Good. Look at you.

[00:03:38] Good. Yeah, dude. It feels, it feels like I'm in a spaceship. The best part is that this desk was a design. So I, I mentioned that the camera's pointing in a different direction. The reason why is because this tower is enormous. It's so big and it doesn't fit anywhere unless it just sits on the floor. And Luna sheds like crazy. There's fucking dog hair all over the place. Every time I start cleaning it up two days later, there's fucking dog hair everywhere again. Like nothing, like nothing changed.

[00:04:05] And so I didn't want the computer down there and that shit. Right. So I took my monitor out of where the monitor used to be, where it's supposed to be. Cause it's like a corner desk. And then I put it just on the arm part where the keyboard and your arms are supposed to rest. And it kind of feels like I'm at it. You know, the fucking beginning of Halo one, when they're in the pillar of autumn and all those dudes are like at their like desks and shit. That's what it feels like.

[00:04:33] Or like, you know, you know, in school, how they have that desk and there's the one armrest, but then like the other sides open. So you can get out. It's just like that. I'm constantly slamming my fucking elbow into this shit though. Constantly. And it is solid wood. They really don't have desks like that in schools anymore. Like, I don't know when the last time you've been in a classroom, but I've been in a couple since I have kids and it is weird. Like a lot of them just have just tables with really sleepy pods. No, I wish.

[00:05:05] Tables with rolly chairs. Yeah. Like it's like gone are the days of just traditional desk. It's all just like tables and stuff. And like kindergarten. I guess so. It's like, you just like, here's your table. You know, they all just sit around it or like, there's like a long table, like a, like a Viking hall. And they all sit around that like a council. I'm thinking of like the episode of family guy.

[00:05:29] I don't know why this is one of the first thing I thought of, but there's an episode of family guy where there's a murder mystery and it's like an hour long episode. You know what I'm talking about? And they all sit at this really long. Dude, it is like a, it's like season four or something. It's pretty early on, but I don't know, but there's someone knows what I'm talking about. Yeah. Anyway. Uh, yeah. So the computer is pretty fucking sick. I've been playing computer games. I've been doing all kinds of fucking shits.

[00:05:57] Perfect. Let's get into, uh, what games we've been playing. We're going to be talking about Dave defeat source. But before we get there games, we have been playing, Dave, what have you been playing? Uh, a lot of chess. I've been studying lots of chess. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I could play five games at once. Hell yeah, man. And there's no like stutter. Like there was a, like if I would be fucking, if I had like Spotify playing in chess at the same time, it would, I would be running at like 10 frames a second.

[00:06:27] Chrome could not handle it. Yeah. The Chromebook was, was, was suffering. So, um, yeah, I've just been playing a lot of chess. I've been streaming it. You know, I, I think that was day two or I learned how to do that. I played some today on stream and I was getting fucking tilted. I was on full tilt. I only lost two games, but the way I lost them was the most pathetic. I just fucking blundered one movers. I just completely fucked up.

[00:06:53] Like one time, like I had my queen sitting somewhere and I was like, I want to push this pawn in the center. And then they move a pawn. And I'm just like, I'm not even going to consider what that did to the board. And then I just immediately moved another piece and it just moved. It just, I instantly lose my queen to the bishop. I'm like, I'm going to fucking shoot myself with a gun. But then the, the very next game, they, the enemy, the opponent or whatever was doing the exact same shit that I did the last two games.

[00:07:17] We were just fucking just blundering one movers. So that's what it's like to be 600, 700 is to just fucking lose instantly all the time. And then when, cause the, just like whoever fucks up catastrophically first is like, I guess that's every game, but especially in chess. Well, I mean, chess is fun. What else are you milane? Uh, so the first game I turned on whenever I got the computer was how fish is made because you were talking about that.

[00:07:46] Oh yeah. Yeah. It seems like such a silly pig. Like finally, my computer's ready. What's the first game I'm going to play? Well, I literally couldn't play it before. I literally couldn't play that game. So I knew it was short and I knew I wanted to play it cause I loved mouthwashing like so fucking much. And so I dug this game too. Now I put it, I put it in B tier, like right in the middle there. Cause I can feel like I couldn't justify anything higher.

[00:08:12] It's a cool above Indiana Jones though. That's the interesting point. This is the thing is that I was engaged the whole time I played how the fish is made, even though it's two hours, but the gameplay is like, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. And then Indiana Jones, the gameplay is like pretty good sometimes, but like, it's like serviceable the whole game. Like there's never like a bad moment besides the last level where you got to drive a boat. That fucking sucks. That probably really tainted my idea of what that game was, by the way.

[00:08:42] Like if that last level just didn't exist altogether, it probably would have gotten in low A if it was just like the first couple like biomes. But, um, yeah, so I was just snooze fest for like 70% of Indiana Jones. I was just so bored out of my fucking mind. And I was hoping that the beginning of the game would happen again. You know what I mean? I don't know if I talked about this on the pod, but it's like, there's like three main biomes. And it's like they were designed by different teams within Microsoft.

[00:09:10] It's like the first biome was designed by the guys who made Dishonored. And then the second one was designed by the guys who made like Wolfenstein. And then the third one was designed by the guys who made fucking Redfall. You know what I mean? Well, I think they're trying to make it feel like a different movie, like each biome type deal. That makes sense. But since there's such an expanded Indiana Jones universe, it's like now we got to do the ancient Middle East.

[00:09:36] Now we got to do the modern European town or not modern, but, you know, modern by their standards. We got to include Nazis somehow. Like, and then you got to hit all those points. It feels like if they put, if they put, what's it called? The first level at the end, I would have liked the game more. You know what I mean? Like if it was, if it was literally just take that first part and then move everything up.

[00:10:03] Like if it was, if it was desert, then jungle, then the fucking city. Like I would have been like, oh, the fuck. What a great way to end the game. You know what I mean? Like, oh, this is fucking sick. But I don't know. Well, I think they wanted to use the city to make everything feel more like it's definitely more of a playground to keep you constrained in one area. I think. Yeah, I liked it more that way. The more open it got, the word, like I was like, I, it's fucking, it doesn't matter.

[00:10:33] Egypt is way too fucking giant. Egypt is way too big. And the fucking jungle is like probably not that. It's probably the perfect size, but the water is the problem. Like the water just completely impedes your, it's off. I don't know. Anyway, this is not Indiana Jones part. I replayed Signalis. You see that? Yeah. For like the seventh time. And top of S tier. Like, what do you know? I fucking love it. Fucking love it a lot.

[00:11:03] I'm still seeing things I haven't seen before. I don't remember if I talked to you about this or if I was talking to, okay. You said you found another droid in a hidden room that you didn't need to go to. I think I'm going to play this game again sometime. Maybe not this year because there's so much going on. But I want to play it again because there is a secret fourth ending. By the way, there's three endings to this game. Only got, only get one every time I beat it. I always get the memory ending every single time. And that's like the neutral default ending.

[00:11:33] So, and then there's like a good ending and then the bad ending, obviously. But like the bad ending, you have to like die a lot. Like the game keeps track of how many times you die. Really? And then you have to die a lot. And also I think you have to be very aggressive, like kill a lot of people. And the good ending is you don't, I don't think you have to, I think you can only kill like a couple of people. And then you can't die. Not only that, but I think you have to go fast, save, not save that much. And like, it's fucking hard.

[00:12:01] And, but the secret ending is like this, this crazy obtuse, like ARG shit. But it was not an ARG, but like everyone had to coordinate like fucking data mine the game just to figure out how to trigger different things. Because at the very end of the game, you get in like, something that happens at the beginning of the game, you go through a hole and you get in this room where there's a radio in the book, the king in yellow and shit.

[00:12:25] And, um, which by the way, speaking of the king in yellow, huge part of signalis, uh, I beat the game. And then a day later, windigoon, one of the biggest horror YouTuber video essay guys made a four hour long video about the book and the king in yellow, that book, that exact book. Weird. I didn't know it was a real book. There's a lot of real things like the, like there's, I was explaining this, but like, uh, one of these papers, they, they talk about the red eye.

[00:12:54] That's always watching. And it's, it's, it's referencing the government, but it's also referencing the eye of Jupiter because that place that the referencing is actually a moon in like, like orbiting Jupiter. It's like, if you look into it, it's like, Oh, like if you look at different things, there's like Japanese, there's kanji and like there's pantanese. There's, there's the Korean language. There's German, there's English. It's all kinds of different languages. And it's like, that's, if you think about it, it's like, why would they do that?

[00:13:24] It's because those languages are in the lore, which means like English and German and all of these words exist in the lore. Anyway, signal this is amazing. I forgot what point I was trying to make. Oh yeah. The secret ending is like fucking insane. I already know what the ending is. I've seen it before, but I just feel like it would be like cool to do it. You know what I mean? Like actually do it myself because the game is so fucking meta that I can't explain it without spoiling that stuff.

[00:13:53] But it's like it, it, the, the metaness of going out of your way for the characters to do the secret ending, like reinforces the ideas in the game. Also, you know what I mean? There's, Oh, it's an Ouroboros of meaning. Anyway, clone hero, speaking of meaning, this game has no meaning. Have you played clone here at all? Yeah. I've played it. Remember gay and ain't so. I played it quite a bit. Oh yeah. We were just fucking talking about this. Yeah. Gay and ain't so.

[00:14:24] So there's a multiplayer on clone here, I think. Yeah, there is. We can remote into each other and play together. Are you playing with the keyboard or did you get a, did you get a guitar? No, I'm still playing on keyboard. The, you know, there are, I think we talked about this, but there are guitars now. They're like available. Like not only that, but like the, the newer guitars, like got pressure off of like the older guitars. The annoying thing is that the Xbox ones, you need a little dongle thing. That's like 30 bucks.

[00:14:51] But I got one from Walmart for 14 bucks. Like it was just on sale. Yeah. The little, little dongle thing. Hold on. You see it up there? Oh yeah. He has a, he's showing me the dongle. Yeah. I'm showing him that dongle. Uh, so I think it's, I don't know if that counts as a dongle. I don't know. Cause the, the, my, my headset, this is the, this is a dongle. Oh yeah. I mean, dongle needs a cable. Yeah. I think is, is otherwise it's just like a plug. Yeah.

[00:15:21] It's like a, I, I said an apparatus. It was like a, I can't remember what it's called. It doesn't matter, but that literally just arrived today. So I was playing with it. The funny thing is, is that, so the calibration for the whammy bar is fucked up. So every time a sustained note would happen, it would go. No, but it wouldn't full press. It would only semi press and it would just make every, it would make every. So I learned on like a fucking Beatles song, which had so many sustains.

[00:15:50] And I'm like, something sounds wrong. Which is not. So before on the first day I played clone hero, I played a guitar hero Metallica song, uh, Orion. And the drum track was like off beat or something like, but only sometimes. So it sounded like a meme song. It sounded like someone was fucking with me. Right. Because it would only sometimes like it would just be like playing and then it would just start going. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. And I'm like, I get flash banged by it.

[00:16:19] It would instantly make me fuck up. So, uh, dude, I don't know. I'm so excited to start fucking with clone hero. I only just download, I downloaded a bunch of packs. Right. So I downloaded just all the guitar heroes and rock bands besides the ones I don't give a fuck about. And, um, I unfortunately downloaded Beatles rock band because I was like, Oh, I want to play the Beatles songs. There's I get, I, I random night, I random song like while I'm playing and every four out

[00:16:45] of five or every, uh, every fourth or fifth song is a Beatles song. Um, and it's very annoying. Yeah. Very annoying. But, um, I don't, and I don't know cause I'm streaming it. So I'm like, I don't know if I could stream Beatles. I don't know if that's going to fucking like take my account down or not. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. I figured it out, dude. It took a long time, but I started, I've slowly figured out OBS to where I learned how

[00:17:11] to separate the sound and then like pick which things go into the VODs and stuff. But now I, cause it's like, I, I do a stream where I'll play some chess. I'll play some clone hero. I'll go play evil within. I'll talk about later, but then I'll go play fucking oblivion. And I do a bunch of things. Right. And so when I go play clone here, it's like, if I would just separate the clone hero and just in the stream and start it again and just not have the VOD there, because when

[00:17:41] I'm playing clone hero, there's, it's just me staring at the screen, the game's playing, but there's no audio. And then every now and then I'm just like, uh, fucking Jeremy spoken. You know, I just start singing randomly, you know, it's, it's, it's very embarrassing. So that's what I'm trying to say. I wish I would just do something about that. Got to figure it out. All right. But anyway, I brought it up evil within two, uh, finally.

[00:18:09] So playing how the fish is made and signal this got me in a horror mood. I had like eight horror games. I just arbitrarily picked this one. Um, and have you, have you, have you played the evil within one and two? No, but I've watched your videos about the garage doors. Yes. So these games are jank as fuck as if they just purposefully decided to make a game that didn't play fun. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[00:18:35] And so everyone was telling me, dude, you're going to love evil within two. Like all the shit that you say about the evil within one is totally fixed. Now, last year I played that game. I put it in C tier to the chagrin of a lot of people. Like I got a lot of shit for that because a lot of people were like, dude, this is literally your kind of game and you're shitting all over it. And the reason being is because the, the third person action is very, very, very, very frustrating. And the game is centered around that. Right.

[00:19:03] And so I loved the aesthetic of the game, but it's not like scorn where the game was tedious, but like, it wasn't that frustrating. It was like, I know how to do puzzles. I know to avoid enemies. I know, you know what I mean? I know the gameplay. I know that shooting sucks. So to, so to not engage with enemies too much in this game, you have, you have to, it's like, if you tried to play call of duty pacifist, like, you know what I mean?

[00:19:32] You can't avoid, you can't avoid these fucking enemies. Uh, this game is kind of similar. There's way more stealth evil within two. It's presented a million times better. It's, it's basically going from resident evil two to resident evil four. Right. Where it's a big, suddenly we're, we're kind of spooky. You know, there's some body horror, there's some gross things happening, but we are doing some bad-ass shit. Like we are fucking the, the, we're falling through the air.

[00:20:02] The rain's going sideways. Like the fucking shit's going, it's fucking awesome. Right. I'm taking a lot of screenshots. Game's really pretty, even though it's pretty old and like the downside, I got to rip the bandaid off for everyone. This game still plays like shit. Like it plays fucking terribly, dude. Like nowhere near as bad as the evil within one.

[00:20:25] Like I can fight, but there's still so much frustration and there isn't, there's a little toggle for aim assist. And I'm like, Hmm, I'm thinking about turning it on because I'm starting to get very annoyed with this game. Like there's so much, so much stealth, but the game, the, the enemies will, they shamble around and they're hunched over. And sometimes an eyeball will see under their armpit and see you behind them.

[00:20:55] And they'll get, they'll be like, Oh, there he is. And then they'll start fighting you. Like no leeway at all. Like they'll like so much stupid shit. Now the AI is not great. Like you can fucking run away around a quarter and then jump on a thing and they don't know where the fuck you went. It's like, you know, Assassin's Creed and shit, but sometimes it's like, there's this one part in the, I think I clipped it in the stream where I'm like sneaking around. I see this guy and I dropped down behind him on a, on a lower level, not all the way down. So I didn't know if I dropped all the way down, it would make noise.

[00:21:24] So I dropped a little bit lower and then I got caught on the ledge to get off of that ledge. And I'm like, what the fuck what's happening? And like, as I'm doing that, he just turns around suddenly and I'm like, Oh fuck it. I don't want to, I don't want to stealth kill you. I don't even want, because this is another one of those games where they give you like six bullets at a time. Yeah. And so you, you need to sell the kill people. Otherwise no chance. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm, I'm enjoying the game.

[00:21:51] I do want to go back to it, uh, pretty bad, but unfortunately another Bethesda game released a shadow dropped, uh, just recently. And so I've been playing the shit out of that and that's oblivion remastered and Phillip, are you going to, are you going to loop back around onto this? Yeah, I'll probably pick it up in a year or so. Pick it up. It's on game pass. Is it? Yes. It's a, it's an Xbox game. What do you mean? I don't know.

[00:22:20] I just, it's so hard to turn the Xbox on anymore. Like I'm just steam, steam decking all the time. Download it on the Xbox PC game pass. True. One thing I know though, whenever you talk about like one of the first things you installed was how fish was made when you got a computer. When I got my steam deck, when the first games I installed was oblivion just to play portable oblivion. And it's dookie, but you can do it. I bet it was, I bet it was sick as fuck. Dude. The funny thing is, is like, I was just saying this on my stream.

[00:22:50] I was streaming oblivion before we started recording. And, um, I, I was just saying so, cause I had YouTube up. I was watching Doug, Doug. Uh, so I had YouTube up over here on my Chromebook and I, and I was playing oblivion in just complete sensory overload. And I'm like, dude, this is exactly what I was like in 2007. Like I had a laptop on my bed and I was playing oblivion and I was blasting the laptop through my, my fucking little subwoofer and shit. Like watching YouTube.

[00:23:20] Like I, I feel crazy when they, they had a, cause they shadow dropped it. They did a little like a Twitch stream thing. And when I was watching it, driving around in my mail truck, I felt like I wanted to throw up. Like I was feeling so much nostalgia and happiness and shit. Cause they were throwing out. They like all, they kept showing like gameplay and shit like that. And then you would just hear like, uh, you know, the God, the goblins outside there. They're sneaky bastards or whatever. Just like one of the voice lines.

[00:23:50] Yeah. You're just getting fucking blast. You'll hear a random song and you're just like, Oh my God. Like it's just fucking, it's so much. You know what I mean? And the whole chat, like I had the chat up and like everyone is just fucking so happy. And I'm just like, this is crazy. Like there's not often gaming events where like they're announcing shit and showing shit off where everyone's happy. Like it's usually like 60, 40 or 70, 30, like mostly negative. And then like some people happy.

[00:24:20] You know what I mean? Now, granted it was a literal thing for the oblivion remaster. Like that was the, it was only that. Right. Yeah. Which I'm really upset that they called it a remaster because it's not a remaster. No, it's a new engine and everything. It's a remake, right? It's annoying. So that was the thing. So, uh, and we're doing a, in a super pod, uh, the super pod network, we're doing a Metacritic draft. And that was a question mark where everyone was watching the stream ready to go. I want that. I want to trade for that.

[00:24:49] But it's called the remaster like officially. And we're just watching like, is this, is this, I don't know. Like, but once they, you know, once they started talking about, because the leveling system really is different. Like it's a little different now. And you can sprint. That almost made me throw up. I'm like, what did they do to my boy? Yeah. Sprinting? You can sprint. The funny thing is, is that I, I max, I'm like at 70 movement because I'm like, I need to schmove. Right? Oblivion, you need to jump and you need to move. It's very important.

[00:25:20] Oh my God, dude. Amber was like, what the fuck are you doing? Cause I'm standing in the arena. Cause of course the first day I did. Yeah. And I'm jumping in circles around it. And she's like, stop. And I'm like, I've got to level up. I've got to keep up. Every moment I'm not jumping. I'm not leveling. Jumping is wasted XP. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Fuck. Oblivion is sick. Did you see the character I made? Yeah. He looks pretty good. The fucking abomination. Hold on. Go look at it again. Hold on. I want you to see the whole character sheet, right?

[00:25:49] Let me, let me pull it up here. All right. Look at that whole character sheet there. Can you read? Oh, no, I see him. Oh yeah. That's a Jumanji devil Vance. Yes. J.D. Vance. He's, he's a wood elf steed. And his class is Pope Slayer. He's level one. Did you hear about that? How he killed the Pope? Yeah. How he killed the Pope. Yeah. That's what I heard. Oh man.

[00:26:15] So the funny thing was, he must've just been in my subconscious, right? Because as I was making this character, I didn't, I didn't set out to make J.D. Vance. Right. Right. But it, and it looked, you've seen all the memes, right? The memes of J.D. Vance's face getting like worse and worse, like just insanely round and small. And so I accidentally did that. Like it was like, I was 80% of the way through the character. And then I stared at it and I was like, oh, I'm making, I'm making J.D. Vance meme.

[00:26:46] Interesting. So obviously class Pope Slayer came naturally. They definitely kept the goofy character creation thing. And I do appreciate that. But what I'm really wondering is like Oblivion has a big soundscape in the original. Like a lot of objects, when you bump into them, they're like thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk. And they just like fall. It could be like a piece of paper hitting a wooden table.

[00:27:11] And it sounds like you dropped like a bag of rocks onto, I don't know, the side of a bookshelf and knock the bookshelf over. Is that still around? I don't know. I, I, I'm, I'm telling you, I'm always being bombarded by sound when I'm playing this game. It's either Spotify or YouTube. So, but like, um, I do hear the same voice actor in this, in the general vicinity from different directions. I'm like, what the fuck's going on over here? There's that.

[00:27:40] The other one, have you gone to an Oblivion gate yet? Yes. Yes. Okay. Have you dropped the sigil stone to see if it still makes the sigil stone noise? Oh no, I have it in my pocket. So I can do it. I still have it in my pocket. Uh, future me, edit in the sigil stone noise.

[00:28:16] The, um, I did run into my first almost game breaking bug. Already? Good. Really good. What is it? It was directly after the first Oblivion gate, you know, in Kvatch. Yeah. Right. Um, no, that's where it's at, right? Yeah. I think so. Cause you become the hero of Kvatch. Uh, so while, after you do the Oblivion gate, the dude there is like, Hey, let's storm the place. We got to go get our dude, right? The mayor or whatever. And so I go in there and like right before the end where like you get to that building.

[00:28:46] Now I'm like listening to YouTube. I'm not really paying attention. I just go into the building and I'm fucking off and shit. I think I went in there too early. Yeah. You need to be a sort of a yard. Yes. And so he was just standing out there going, uh, charge the courtyard. Yeah. Let's go. And so I'm like, that's not good. And so I Google storm the, hold on. It's in my Google right now. Let me see exactly what I Googled. Charge the courtyard. And it auto-corrected.

[00:29:14] I typed in charge the, and courtyard Oblivion remastered bug. Oh no, it's a known issue. Yes. And so, yeah, the video I clicked on, let's see who it is. It's a perfect paradox. Thank you, brother. 29,000 views. Says 29,000 people that this happened to. Yeah. Oh boy, dude. Oh my God. Well, that place would, in the original, you would get that same issue. That was like a known bug.

[00:29:44] Like you could get glitched there. Yeah. That was a bad glitch. So the way that you beat it, in case anyone's listening and they hear this and they're like, oh my God, I can go do this fucking mission now. Uh, all you have to do is go into the building, go all the way to the back in like the Count's bedroom or whatever. Yeah. Or the Mayor's bedroom or whatever. And so, he's dead on the ground. He got killed by like an elemental or whatever. Just loot his body and take the ring off of it. Or the necklace. One of those things. Take everything. Fuck it.

[00:30:12] And then, when you go back, it'll automatically, as soon as you interact with his body, it'll automatically update the mission. But, no. The way, what happened to me was, is when I killed the elemental, it fell down on top of his body. Like, it fell in the middle of the room, which is where the body's laying. Because it's in the obvious spot where you would clearly see it. But I didn't see it because the elemental was in the way. And so, when I went back in, the elemental's body was like somewhere else. Which is something I've noticed in this game.

[00:30:38] Like, I killed an old lady because I wanted Dark Brother to approach me. So, I killed a random old lady. And, uh, when I went back, her body was like in a completely different place. And I'm like, is... That's weird. I don't remember. I don't think that's how Oblivion was. Because I remember our friend Steven would kill a bunch of people and collect their bodies and put them in a pile. And then, they would just be there. You know what I mean? Like this pile of bodies. So, we... I don't know. Famous glitch. It's like the paintbrush glitch? Is that still around? Does not work.

[00:31:05] First fucking thing I did was I was like, I gotta go find a paintbrush. And it does not work. If you're unfamiliar, the paintbrush glitch was... The paintbrush just had no physics. So, when you dropped it, it would just stop in mid-air in front of your character. And you could jump directly on it because it had a collision. But it would not fall or anything. So, you could do, like, weird skips. Get out of bounds. Just do lots of goofy shit. Like, make walls with paintbrushes. Yeah, dude. It was sick.

[00:31:34] It was OP as fuck. Yeah, it was stupid. Thank you, Perfect Paradox, for helping me with my problem. Shout out to that guy. Shout out. That's it, though, I think. Yeah. Looking good. For games I've been playing, I'm still doing my Japanese practice with Zero Escape non-ary games. And, man, things are getting weird. Because, remember when I talked about how, like, the game is all about, like, different timelines and stuff like that?

[00:32:03] Or, like, there's different paths you can take? Yeah. I went down one path and I got to a computer where it's, like, enter the password. The clues are the voices of the dead or something like that. And I'm like, this is the farthest I made it. I do not know what the password is. And it's like, hey, you don't know what the password is. Come back later. And then it put me on a different plot line. And so I'm guessing I have to learn a clue in one of the other timelines.

[00:32:31] Then come back to the prime timeline to get the password. Because I did, like, three other timelines that all resulted in my death. Except for one, which resulted in an escape. But a lot of people died along the way. So it was obviously like a bad. Yeah. We escaped. But I'm able to find, like, one of the bad guys. And with the help of another guy, we literally, like, almost tortured this guy to give us the password. And he gives us a password. But he's like, it's already too late.

[00:33:00] And I'm like, that's where you're wrong, bucko. Like, we can time travel. Like, maybe in this timeline we're too late. So the game is getting more meta than I thought it was going to be. Because it's like, imagine doing, you know, a puzzle game or whatever. Where it's just like, oh, you know how to solve every puzzle. You don't. You know, like. But what if you did in a different version of that game? So this game can be. It's.

[00:33:30] I don't even know how to describe it. It's like. You could beat it in one playthrough. But. Like the path you take through the game is part of the narrative. Outside of the narrative of the, you know, the visual novel that you're experiencing. I don't like thinking that hard. I don't like. That's too much thinking. It's like, what if you read a book. God. And then poorly. And the book said. Hey, what if you read it again? But skip the odd pages. Or something like that. And you're like, what?

[00:34:00] And then you read it again. And it's a completely different book. You're like, oh, that is insane. Of course it would be a completely different book. Half the pages are missing. Well, yeah. But for video games, it works. It doesn't work with books. Don't try that. Unless it's like. One of those choose your own adventure books. Then it might work. It's funny. Because while you're talking about that. I literally just did the campaign mission. And what is it called? The main scenario. What is it fucking called? In Oblivion? It doesn't matter. The main story. Right? Oh, yeah.

[00:34:28] One of the missions is you get these four books. And then that's it. And it doesn't really say anything. And it's like, maybe you should read them again. And I'm like, what? I didn't read them the first time. And so I went back and read them. And I was like, okay, it's going to update. And it didn't. And I was like, hmm. You have to actually read something in the books? Well, no. See, that was my. That was like, I'm not going to read these books. So I was going to go to the internet. But my last ditch effort. Go. Because there are big letters.

[00:34:57] On the beginning of some paragraphs. And I'm like, I'm going to go look at those letters. And then those letters do indeed spell out. It's like Green Emperor Way where the tower touches the midday sun. That's like exactly what it says. I literally just did it. And so I think that's what it says. And so I was like, okay, I don't know what that means. I could look it up. But I'm in the city. Right? I'm in the Imperial City. There's a big tower in the middle. So I'm just going to go over there.

[00:35:26] And as I get there, like in the courtyard where it's called, it's called Green Emperor Way. And I went, whoo! Whoo! Neuron! And you wait till noon to see where the shadow lays. And all of a sudden you're like, this is more puzzle solving than in all of Indiana Jones. Yes. Well, it wasn't the shadow. It was literally the sun in the sky. And you walk until the tower is in front of that sun. And I was like, huh? What now? And so I went back to the wall. And then you can see a little like sigil. And you're like, I'm like, hmm.

[00:35:56] And then there's a problem in Oblivion. Now, I don't know if this is because I'm casting the Xbox to my computer and that's fucking shit up. I don't have this problem with any other game. Only Oblivion. So I assume it's another bug in Oblivion. But every button is getting pressed multiple times whenever I press it once. Like when I press it, it presses A like six, five or six times. And it's very fucking annoying. Like when I talk to someone and I'm like, okay, I'm done. I press B and I instantly crouch.

[00:36:26] And then I press B to uncrouch. And I stand up and sit back down. I had a katana and a shield. And when I hit the shield, my hand goes. Like this fucking vibrates. And like I'm angry, you know. I'm like the angry controller. No. But like I said, I have been streaming many games. Evil Within. Signalis. Not where the fish is made. Okay, it's just Oblivion then. Yes, it's just Oblivion doing this. And so I could have looked it up. I forgot to do that.

[00:36:55] I've just been living with it. Because I'm like, there should be a hot key thing, right? A hot key ring. I remember that in Oblivion. Maybe not a hot key ring in Oblivion. The original. But like there was a way to save specific things. Because I would remember switching between fire and like healing. Like not going into the pause menu all the time. And turns out it's the left button bumper. Which I thought did nothing. But it actually holds the ring up. But you have to hold the button down. But I can't hold it down.

[00:37:23] Because it fucking turbo controllers it. So the way that I do it is I hold the button. And just keep pressing down on the analog stick. And it like. It like. Very robotic. Like you know what I mean? Because the menu is technically opening up over and over again really fast. And I just keep doing that until it selects summon skeleton. And then I fucking do it. And I'm looking at the ground. It's so annoying. But I mean you know hopefully it gets fucking fixed.

[00:37:52] Yeah maybe I'll just wait a month before I start playing. When an update comes out. I need a day two update. Yeah hopefully that shit fucking schmoves out. Because it doesn't have any reviews. Because this. Because like I said Nick swapped out his Mario pick for this. And then it doesn't have. Because it doesn't have any reviews. So it technically counted. So another thing is dude. That Claire Obscura Expedition 33 game.

[00:38:21] Are you going to play that? Because that's also on Game Pass. I remember the video. I don't remember anything about the game. But I will probably play it. The trailer looked good. I don't remember what was in the trailer though. I just remember feeling positive afterwards. It is a 92 on Metacritic. Okay. It is now the highest scoring game on our Metacritic draft. And that makes me very upset. Because I did want to pick that. But I am just looking at it very upset. I think it's supposed. Because it's a JRPG.

[00:38:50] I think it's supposed to be really short. In comparison to normal JRPGs. No wonder it scored so high. People are actually finishing it. Yeah people are getting through it. And going whoo. Under the fucking. Yeah. Speaking of finishing games. I'm still on the second game. In the .hack GU last recode. Quadrilogy. And. I realized what's happening in it. Because. At first I'm like. Okay. You know. It's definitely anime inspired. But I think it is literally just like. Following the path of like.

[00:39:21] Yu-Gi-Oh. Where it's like. You go into the game. And it. You do not care about any of the. The PVE stuff. In the. In the quote. In game. In the game. Your character only cares about. The PVP. In the arena section. That's like the number one thing you do. Is fight other teams. Or other anime characters. But. After like. 15 hours in the game. Something happens where. Literally somebody gets. Killed. Like in the game. Or they just get like deleted. Where it's just like.

[00:39:51] Hey. You know. It's great having you on my arena team. Let's go hang out. And then. You know. The computer AI virus in there. Finds them. And literally melts their brain. In real life. And you're like. Oh my god. He got sent to the shadow realm. And. Yeah. And of course. You just kind of deal with it. So. I'm enjoying it. But it's definitely. Cheesy anime. Cringe. The whole time. Good game. Perfect. My kind of game.

[00:40:21] I also started playing through. Bioshock Infinite in Japanese. Strange. That's a strange experience. I bet. I feel like it would take me out. Dude. It is weirdly. Clashing. Because you expect. You know. It's super. It's super American. And then everyone's speaking Japanese. But. They speak so fast. And so often. Everyone is talking. At all times. You always have a video. Recorder going. Elizabeth won't shut up.

[00:40:51] Booker's talking. Comstock. Is yelling at you. Through microphones. And it's all like. Super like. Lo-fi. Intercoms too. So I can't really understand. What people say. So there's like. They give them like. Almost like old timey accents. In Japanese. And I'm like. This is weird. I feel like. I don't even know. What that would sound like. If it's not in a subtitle. I can't understand. What anybody's saying.

[00:41:20] Because that's so funny. Because I'm thinking. Like dude. Like a dragon Ishan. I'm like. Did they speak in old timey accents? I don't think I'd be able to tell. But I'm pretty sure they didn't. Like. I'm pretty sure they just talked. Like they were in fucking 2025. You know what I mean? Well. Not like old timey accents. But they almost put like. A little zest on it. Like. I don't even know how to describe it. I want to say like. Like a carnival speaker. I think. You know how they talk in. Yeah. And stuff like. Like. Come on down sonny. You know. Like that type of stuff.

[00:41:50] Back from the circus of value. Yeah. Literally they do that. In Japanese. Or like the same like. Pitch. Pitch modulation. They're hitting. I don't know. Weird. Do not recommend. Game. Still pretty good. As far as just gameplay mechanics go. But. I don't know. It does not fit well. Like. I don't know who did the. The localization. But it feels weird.

[00:42:19] You have beaten this game. Right? Bioshock. I've beaten it like three times at this point. Okay. And it's weird because playing it again. I'm like. This game isn't great. Like. Yeah. Like. I went back and I played like. Bioshock 1 remastered. I think like three years ago. Or something like that. And that was great. Like Bioshock 1. And then I come back and I play Bioshock Infinite. And then I'm like. Something's not right here. And it might be just the voices. I don't know. Something just doesn't feel good.

[00:42:51] Anyway. Yeah. Anyways. I was just thinking about like. What would it be like playing the game. And just not being able to understand anyone. And just like. Oh. Because the story is like a big part. The story doesn't make sense at all. If you don't know what's going on already. Like. I don't even know the story. Like. I know of Elizabeth. I know about the bubbles. I know about. Booker. So it's like. I know what's happening. Bird. Bird. I know about the bird. Yeah. Anyways. Kill the Crows.

[00:43:20] Little indie roguelike. Bird. Yeah. It's about like. A girl. In the wild west. Who. Goes out to kill a gang. Called the Crows. And they basically track her down. To like this abandoned ghost town. And they have surrounded the town. And it is a. End of Halo Reach style. They're going to kill you. No matter what. So they're just like. Throwing themselves at you endlessly. It. Has a big focus on the. The Deadeye mechanic.

[00:43:50] From Red Dead Redemption. Where you just like. Mark targets. Whatever. Yeah. That's like the center of the whole game. So you're just doing like. Dark Souls rolls. Shooting. Marking targets. Just gunning down. It's a one hit kill. Another thing. So it's. It's very stressful. Like I've played like maybe half an hour at this point. But it's like. My heart rate. Has skyrocketed so much. During Kill the Crows. Meanwhile. Like. I am asleep. Whenever I play. I don't know. Dot hack. Slash slash GU. Or whatever. Where it's just like.

[00:44:20] Watching an anime. Whereas like. Kill the Crows. I come to life. It is. Very good. I recommend. I got it down on the indie bundle. I need to start paying attention to those again. But. It's so funny. You're talking about falling asleep. Because I was literally. Earlier today. Just falling asleep. Playing Oblivion. Yeah. But it's not like. I'm happy. Like I'm happy. But it is so comfy. You know what I mean? That it just lulls me to sleep. I'm like. I made the difficulty higher.

[00:44:49] So that I had to fucking. So you actually worry a little bit. Yeah. I can't beat. Dude. I can't beat the arena. I can't. There's the fight with the three cats. The three cat prisoners. I can't beat it. So I'm like. They keep disarming me. And then punching me to death. I can't fucking do anything. I don't. And the graphics are so good. I have no idea where my sword went. So I'm like. Oh no. They just slapped my food into the floor. I'm like. Crawling on the ground. And they beat you up. Yeah.

[00:45:19] That's so funny. Sad. But I gotta get 200 levels higher. I might have fucked it up. Because I remember thinking. Like. I remember it's like. Oh you level up by making your main skills. And then working on those. But I'm like. Is there a way to fuck yourself doing that? Yes. Because I don't remember. Because I put on some non-combat skills in there. And. I'm worried. But I don't know. Yeah. The problem is. Is like. Much like even Skyrim. I think. Also had this issue. Like. For instance.

[00:45:49] Acrobatics. If you got acrobatics to 100. Before leveling up. I don't know. Blade. Past 20. Or whatever. You're about to get fucked up. By the first guy you see. Because now your player level is like level 5. Meanwhile you're. Well no. If you got to 100. Your player level would be like. Level 11 or 10. But your combat skills would be like. Trash. Not to mention. I don't know if the level up system still does. The like. Plus 5. Plus 4 points. Or whatever.

[00:46:19] For the different stats. Like how much you could put in. A level. Per level. Well like. You know. In the old one. Like you would level up. And it's like. Pick 3. Of your characteristics to increase. Oh. No. Not yet. I mean. I don't know. I'm only level 5. So. Okay. I don't know if they've made it. Later in the game. Or what. But yeah. My stats are stuck. Where they're at so far. Okay. Well. In the old one. Like you could level up your stats. And your stats would increase.

[00:46:48] If a governor in skill. Under it leveled up. So. For instance. With acrobatics. That would go into. Like agility. Which increased damage. Oh yeah. You're right. Bows. Movement speed. Not movement speed. That was in speed speed. Yeah. It was like. It's athletics. Athletics is the speed. And the swimming. Okay. So it was like. If you. You wouldn't have any plus bonuses. So it's like. You can increase your health. By one point. Whereas like. Your agility would go up. Like five points.

[00:47:19] I really like the leveling system. In oblivion. So. Like. I was angry when Skyrim changed it. Now that I'm thinking about it. The way that it works. Is. Whenever you put points. So you level up. And it's like. Here's 12 points. And. Put these into. Your. Your main. Like. Like stats. And the. So. Let me think. No. It's like. Okay. So it's like. You know. Strength. Affects how much health you have. So you get more health.

[00:47:49] If you put points into strength. And it also affects your encumbrance. And then like. If you do. Endurance. That's how fast. You recover stamina. And also. How much damage you take. So. That. I think that's different. Than what you're saying. It's like they reworked it. Which is probably good. For quality of life. But. I don't know. I miss the crunchy. Stinky. Morrowind. Leveling system. What's really weird. Is that. So luck is there. But it costs. Four points. Per one. One point.

[00:48:18] And I'm like. I didn't know that. So like the first. Two or three levels. I was fucking. Putting points into luck. And just not paying attention. And just being like. Okay. I guess I'm out of points. And then just went on with my life. Right. But. Then I started getting my ass. Bullied in the arena. And I was like. What's going on? And I leveled up. And I realized. Oh my god. You know. I fucking. Actually read. Well that's how it was in. Oblivion too. Like. In. Like. Because it sounds like those pluses. Is basically. They just made it easier. So you didn't have to worry about. Like.

[00:48:49] Because you need like. What like. Ten levels in major skills. To be able to get a level up. Or something like that. And so it's like. If you leveled up. More than four times. In acrobatics. Then you're missing out. On those pluses. So it sounds like they fixed that. But. Yeah. Luck could never get a plus to it. So no matter what you spent. Luck would only go up by one. Each level. Oh. So it sounds like. You just unlocked it. In my brain. I can literally see. What you're talking about now. Yes. I know what you're talking about now.

[00:49:19] The pluses and everything. Yes. I understand. That is kind of sad. This is only for the old Oblivion heads. Yeah. Old Oblivion heads. Where you at? Type one in the chat. If you liked Oblivion. As a child. All right. Yeah. And Kill the Crow's good. Besides that. Just Day of Defeat. Which we're going to talk about this week. So let's go into. What did Nave buy? Why? I bought a couple of things.

[00:49:49] I didn't write one down. So there was a game called Muse Dash. I just remembered. And the whole thing was that. It was like a rhythm game. And this is. I bought this for like. I don't know. Four or five bucks. And I was like. Oh. I need a rhythm game to play. And when I bought it. And downloaded it. I was like. Oh wait. I can just get Clone Hero for free. And so I never booted this up. And I was going to put it on stream. Right? But whenever I went to the store page. It has a tag. Sexual content there. And I was like. Wait a minute.

[00:50:19] Wait a minute. And now that I looked through. And since then. I have. Because I think about. I'm thinking about playing this on stream anyway. I went to the community hub. And went to the screenshots and shit. Just to scroll for a while. And I don't. I think it's just suggestive. Like there. You can unlock pictures that are suggestive. And I'm like. Okay. Well I'm not going to fuck with the pictures. I just want to play the rhythm game part. Kind of like the Hitsune Miku game. Which by the way. Oh. I'm glad I fucking mentioned this to you. Because. What Hitsune Miku game were you playing? Were you playing the phone game? Or were you playing like the.

[00:50:48] The PSP game? I was playing the first PSP one. Okay. Yeah. I remember you mentioning the PSP. Have you played the phone game at all? No. Colorful stage. It is lit dude. Holy shit. It's so fun. Like it's actually really good. That's annoying. Because I don't. I'm prejudiced against phone games. The problem. This is the thing. Is that it wouldn't work on anything else. It had to be on a touch screen. Because it's like. You're tapping the things. And it has flicks. And shit.

[00:51:18] And like the movements. So like. You touch the thing. And then you drag it around. With like the thing. While you're touching it. It's like. It's actually so fucking fun. Like it's scary. But. I was trying. I got it. I rigged it up to where I could play it on the stream. But there was a delay. So. I'm like. Okay. Well I can't. This is hard. I had to ignore. I had to actively ignore the music. It's the same thing with Fortnite Festival. Only it wasn't as bad as Fortnite Festival. But. I had to like. Just actively avoid. Listening to the music.

[00:51:46] So that I could fucking do well on this game. But I play it on the toilet all the time now. Like it is replaced. It is replaced toilet. And early go. Vocaloid music is just blasting. In the bathroom. Oh my god. Did you watch that video I sent you? The Vocaloid video? I didn't watch it all the way through. I started it. But then I think I went to sleep. Dude. Yeah. I mean. It's a video about mayonnaise and cooking. Yeah. And best toppings. All right.

[00:52:13] So the video is from a channel called Nu Nu Nu Nu Nu Nu Nu Nu Nu Nu Nu. And it goes on like a hundred thousand times. It's the Japanese heilagana for nu. And you. And it's called. Momi. Momi. Momi. Momi. Gewo. Shaka. Gewo. Is that it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Momi. Gewo. Gewo. Gewo.

[00:52:43] Shaka. Gewo. Okay. Anyways. Yeah. It's about. So these Vocaloid characters kidnapped other Vocaloid characters. And they're going to shoot and kill them if they don't agree that mayonnaise is what goes on fried chicken. It goes with fried stuff. Yeah. And one of them says Vegemite. Yeah. He instantly kills him. No. She says Vegemite. And the other one doesn't know what it is.

[00:53:11] And then this second character who's holding the Mossditch is like. So they're like. I'm going to let you go. Because it's probably. Because she's like. Oh it's kind of like mayonnaise. And she's like. All right. I'll let you go. And then the second character is like. Vegemite's the most disgusting spread that you could ever have. It goes with nothing. It's horrible. It's like. This is awesome. But. That song is catchy as fuck dude. Like. That. I. That song's had me in a chokehold for like. Two weeks. I'll add it to my list. Which.

[00:53:41] In other words. In Japanese corner. I do have a complaint. Nave. Against Netflix. Because. I don't know about you. But. You. I know you're not a Netflix subscriber. But I'm a Netflix. With ads. Subscriber. Probably the worst. Worst case scenario. Yeah. You're paying to get ads on you. But. I finished laid back camping all three seasons. And. I went in for. Haiku. The volleyball one. I went back to that one. And. I have a program that lets me add subtitles.

[00:54:11] To internet streams. So I have the subtitle files. And I can just throw them on there. But. I went five episodes in. And the ads play at the beginning. So it's not a big deal. But. All of a sudden. The ads have now switched. Where they play like a fourth of the way. Into the episode. And this completely. De-times my subtitles. What? Really? Yeah. Because you know. The subtitle program thinks the video is still playing. Even though. It did not. Or it is not.

[00:54:40] Oh my god. This actually happens to me. I have. I was. I had an ad block on my. On my Chrome extension. And. Now. My ads get fucked up. All the time. On YouTube. Where like. The ad will start playing. And it thinks the video is playing. And I'm like. But it's an ad. Now I can't skip the ad. And like. I'll leave it. I'll come back. And the ad is still there. And then when the ad ends. It just stops. And the video keeps playing underneath. And I'm like. What do I do? This is like.

[00:55:10] Incomprehensible. And I can't just. Write to YouTube. Hey. My ad block. I know right. I can't go with Netflix. Be like. Hey. My subtitles. That I've been putting on top of your videos. Aren't working. Fucking stupid. So I just went back to. Amazon Prime video. Instead I'm watching. Flying Witch. Now. Instead of Haikyuu. Flying Witch. Yeah. I haven't watched a whole lot lately. I've been very. Distracted by this computer. It's very enticing. The colors.

[00:55:40] Call me. Over here. At the corner of my room. The flashing gamer colors. Yeah. It's been super. Super fun. Learning how to. Every now and then I do Duolingo. On stream. Just for fun. It's neat. But usually I'm just. I'm working on chess and shit. But yeah. I'm doing. I'm still doing a little bit of Duolingo. I'm. I'm doing like two. I'm still doing at least two lessons a day. Right. I've.

[00:56:10] I've slowed way down. On Anki. If I go out and eat. I will like sit on Duolingo. Like that's become my. Every time I'm out and sitting and eating. I feel. Like I have to start playing on Duolingo. You know what I mean. I just like feel so good. I used to do a lot of toilet Duolingo. You know. When I get. You go to work. Get paid to shit on the toilet. Do Duolingo. Now that's Miku time. Whisper into the microphone. It's like.

[00:56:40] It's fun. But I haven't done any of the book either. I don't even know where they're at. Oh they're up there. So I'm still waiting to do the Katakana book. And then I'll do the Kanji book. I probably should just jump straight to. Honestly I'm still not very good at reading Katakana. So. Don't worry. You'll never get good at it. Katakana is the worst. It's just. There's so many that are similar to each other. Like why did they do that? Like fucking she. And Sue. And then the other one I forget. That's like that. And.

[00:57:10] It's stupid. Oh. It's dumb. So is the other one. It looks like that. Yeah. And every time I see it. I got to stare at it. Like fucking 10 extra seconds. Like what. It sounded out like a child. Which I saw. The way. You remember Sue and Sue. Was. Their eyes. So there's. Big. Sue with a T. And then little. Little Sue. Yeah. Have you seen that picture? Where it's like one looks down at the other one. No.

[00:57:40] Oh let me see if I can pull it up. Do you see the picture that fucking Chris posted. Of the dude working in that fast food behind the counter in it. And he said. No. That's so funny. That does not look like me. It's she and Sue. That's it. Here. Let me send it to you. Copy image. I'm not putting this guy in the thumbnail. You're just going to have to imagine him. Listener. Yeah. I probably know that. But it's like she looks up at him. Because he's taller. I don't know. Men are usually taller than women.

[00:58:09] So it's like she looks up at Sue. One's looking up. The other one's looking down. This is nice. I like this. Because I was just winging it every time I saw one. I would sound it out. And I'm like does the word sound right? No. Fix it. Which by the way. I keep getting. I keep. So. When you go into like a new little section in Duolingo. You run into a bunch of new shit. Right. Obviously. And so it's like.

[00:58:37] I just ran into like this new shit. And I can't remember what the sentence was. But. It was something like. I'm going to move. It's like. Ashita. Something something. I'm moving next. Like next week. And when are you. Where are you going? Or something. And I'm like. I'm like staring at it. And I got to translate it. Like with the Japanese. Right. And. I put the Japanese together. And I'm just reading it. And I'm like. This sounds wrong. But. Because it's like. Okay. Something. It's like.

[00:59:08] It was Sugiwa. Something. Something. Something. So I put the. The. The. The object. In front of Sugi. And so I was like. Object. Wa. Sugi. Something. Something. And I was like. Staring at it. Like this sounds wrong. But. If I put it the other way. Sugiwa. Sugi is not. Yeah. The subject. Trying to follow like. The regular grammar rules. I was like. Sugi is not the subject. But Sugiwa. Something. Something. Something. Sounds right. And this is the first time. I'd ever seen.

[00:59:39] Not only that word. But also like another word. Like the whole concept of this sentence. I'd never seen it. But I. Just intuitively. Knew. That. Or not. You know. I felt. That. Sugi. Went in the front. Of Wa. And then. I got it right. And so I was like. Oh dude. This is crazy. Like that. I'm just. It's all of that listening. You know what I mean. I'm still listening to Japanese podcasts. And stuff. Just like. In the background. And I'm at work and stuff. Whenever I don't have a YouTube video. I don't know what I'm saying. No. I mean.

[01:00:08] I get exactly what you're saying. Because like. Vocab will only get you so far. Because. You really need. Like a grammar guide. Because. There's some. Phrases. That are just like. They're almost like whole terms. In themselves. Such as like. Moving. To a new house. Or whatever. Is like a set phrase. Yeah. It's not just like. Yeah. Whenever I see that in. Like there are phrases like that. In Duolingo. Like genitis. Like that's not multiple words.

[01:00:37] I think it is multiple words. But in Duolingo. It's always just one block. Every time. Genitis. And I'm like. Which is honestly. Good. Because I wouldn't be able to function. If it was like. Broken up. Yeah. Anything else for. Japanese corner? No. Not really. Did I talk about repo? No. Actually. I might have passed that one. And then we went straight. In Japanese corner. Yeah. So I think. You know. You're like. What did Nate buy? And then I started talking about something.

[01:01:06] And that fucking segwayed into Japanese corner. But. So. The thing I bought was repo. Oh. I was talking about the dash game. And then we started talking about Vocaloid. And yeah. It went fucking off the rails. So. The game I actually wrote down was repo. Now. You saw that video that I. That I made a video on. Yeah. Horrible sentence. Dude. I think we need to fucking play some of these games. This. I'm not gonna lie. Whenever I was standing in. In. Best Buy. That's where I bought my computer.

[01:01:35] Don't fucking crucify me. PC gamers. But. I. I. I was standing in Best Buy. I needed a new mouse. Because I was literally gonna shoot myself. If I had to edit another podcast. With the fucking mouse. That was rapid firing. Like it's going. Like what's happening in my oblivion right now. But. It was literally impossible. To fucking edit. And so. Or do anything. So. I was like. I'm gonna buy a mouse. And I was staring at this computer. And that's what pushed me over the edge. Was thinking about repo. And. That game where you get. Viral.

[01:02:05] That donkey played. You know what I'm talking about. And fucking. All of these fucking co-op games. These like. Stupid ass co-op games. This is what pushed me over the edge. So I. Very desperately. Want to fucking do these. Especially after. So. I think we'll link it in the description. Or something. I made a video. It's on our. It's on our gaming together YouTube channel. I think I'm gonna make some shorts and stuff. For our Instagram and everything. Out of some of this stuff as well. But like. I. I sat down. I played repo.

[01:02:35] With the guys over at. Neon pocket dimension. And they helped me set up some of my OBS stuff. So shout out to them. They fucking helped me out. On my first day streaming. First day back. And. It was a fucking blast. Last. Playing this game. And so. I think everyone already knows. Everyone who knows repo. Or knows like online. Like Twitch culture. Like they've seen this fucking game. Like it is silliness. It is absurd. And so. Um. I'm really looking forward to the day. That we get to jump into this game.

[01:03:04] And any of these fucking stupid co-op games. Oh yeah. There's a lot of different games out there. And PC just opens you up to so much more. Even if we just look at like retro games too. Yeah. I don't want to think about it. There's too much. Alright. Let's go into Patreon. Here at Gaming Together. We work hard. To uh. Provide excellent co-op content for you listeners. If you have the means. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Link in the description. Jose Martinez. Berserker This. Mr. Quing. Insane Cracker. Nick Knight. Thank you for all your support.

[01:03:33] You guys have been supporting us for so long. It is insane. Uh. In case you forgot about that. It's okay to cancel. You've done enough. But. If you keep going. We will appreciate it. Don't listen to him. Oh my god. Don't listen to him. Thank you for the support. Dude. Next sim. What? I fucking. My fucking debit card got stolen again. Like the information. Yeah. So the fucking Patreon literally saved me from getting overdrafted. For a day. And then I did get overdrafted.

[01:04:03] But so. What happened was. It got fucking stolen. A hundred and eighty dollars. Fucking taken out of my account. Right? Yep. And I had like two hundred dollars in my account. So I'm like. Wow. That sucks. But I'm going to get reimbursed. Right? And it's going to be totally fine. Uh. But then. You know. I got the Patreon money. I was like. Okay. Fuck. Like give me a fucking little cushion. Patreon takes a couple of days to come in. Right? So. It actually didn't help. But. It came too late. But. Pay.

[01:04:33] I don't know if you use PayPal. But PayPal. The way it works is. It takes a few days to actually come out of your bank account. Right? So you make the charge. And then a few days later. Like two. Like one to three days will pass. And then it'll come out of your account. I do this sometimes. Whenever it's a day or two before payday. And my bank accounts load. To order DoorDash. Which is not. Oh, man. That is not responsible. But. But then. But this is the thing. Is that the payment comes afterwards. Now the reason I like PayPal. Is just because I don't like typing my credit card information in. And all that shit. Right?

[01:05:03] It's super easy to just kind of. Sign in real quick with a password. And do the thing. And so I've got it signed up to a lot of different things. Um. I made like three purchases. And. So this is the timeline. I made like three purchases on PayPal. On in one. And on Saturday. I think. And then on Sunday. My credit. My debit card. Gets. Like. Stolen. Right? They charge it a bunch of times. And then on Monday.

[01:05:32] Like I. Because it's Sunday. I can't fucking go to the bank and fix it. So on Monday. I mean the fraud team stopped. Killed my credit card. Right. Right away. But. Only like three of those. Like transactions went through. Monday. I go to the bank. Or I call the bank. What do I do? No. I go to the bank. And I'm like. Hey. Can you give me the new card. And fix all this shit. Yeah. Cool. On Tuesday. Everything gets fucking hit. And my bank account gets overdrafted. Hardcore. Oh no. And so. Now today. I called them. And I'm like. Can you fix this? And they're like.

[01:06:02] Well technically. Because my refunds are back in the account. So my bank account went like a hundred something into the negative. And then. And I got refunded. And then. So I'm like. And I'm like. And I'm like. Hey. Can you fix this? And I'm like. Well technically. The refund isn't actually like. It's in a provisionary period right now. In case we can't get that money back from the people who stole it from you. I'm like. What do you fucking mean? The money that's missing now. Is from the overdraft fees. And I didn't. It wasn't my fault. Like. This wasn't my fault. I didn't want to yell at this lady.

[01:06:31] So I was trying to be nice. But it's like. Fuck. I gotta wait a little longer. You know. Stressful dude. At least you still have the ramen right? I still have the what? You still have ramen to eat right? Oh yeah. Lots of ramen. I ate some ramen today. So you won't starve. Yeah. What I'm trying to say is. Thank you patrons. Oh yeah. Yeah with that. Let's take a quick break. And then we can help some assholes in need. The music plays. Boom boom boom boom. You know.

[01:07:01] Speaking of. The king in yellow. Have you read animal farm? Yeah. I like animal farm. So the other day at work. We're military. And anyways. We were just. You know. Shooting the shit. And I'm. Like. A question came out. Just high instead. I was like. Would you rather be. Like. A barn cat. A pig. Or a rooster. Just in a farm. And so. You know. You know. Everyone's talking. And instantly. I'm like. You know. Pig. Because you're living the best life. For like.

[01:07:31] A year. Before you die. But you know. That's going to be a great year. Rolling in the mud. Just munching all the time. Getting super fat. And they're like. No. Pig sucks. And I'm like. Dude. Pigs. These wild shit. Animal farm. And they were like. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. And I'm like. That's crazy. You don't know what animal farm is. You didn't go to high school. Yeah. I know. Like. You didn't take high school. Like. Freshman. I don't know. English or something. Yeah. Anyways. One guy ends up pulling it up on his computer. They have the whole like.

[01:08:01] 1999 movie. The newer version or whatever. Of Animal Farm. And they put it on the TV. And we all sat down at work. And just watched. Animal Farm. And it was wild. Because it was like. It felt like watching. Like. I don't know. Avengers Endgame. In theater. Where something would happen. And it would be like. No. Snowball. No. Or like. Napoleon would drop like a line. Where it's like. Some animals are more equal than others. And everyone was like. Chicken jockey.

[01:08:31] Chicken jockey. Yeah. Like it was literally like. Everyone was reacting. Like vividly. To Animal Farm. Like every time something would happen. Or whatever. Like. Boxer. No. That's not going to the hospital. Boxer. Don't get in the truck. Are you their superior? Maybe they were hamming it up. Because they knew you liked it so much. No. I'm a middle manager. If anything. They would have way more superior people. But it was. It was pretty fun. And we were. We were locked in. On Animal Farm.

[01:09:01] For like. You don't know. Did they get anything from it? Or was it like. Whenever I played. Fuck. What was it? I played something recently. And it was deep. But I just didn't get anything out of it. I don't remember. Well maybe. There was an argument. About the ending. Because. Well first off. Every time someone else. Would come in the room. They'd be like. What are we watching? They'd be like. Animal Farm. And they're like. Oh you guys aren't. Turning into communists. Are you? You're like. You're like. No. We're not extremist. Or anything. But anyways.

[01:09:31] The ending of the. I think it's a 1999 movie. The book ends with. Oh. What's the dog's name? Jesse? I think it's Jesse. I can fucking remember. Yeah. Jesse the sheepdog or whatever. Is like looking through the window. At Napoleon Squealer. And the bank owner. And his wife. And they're drinking whiskey. And partying. And she's like. And I couldn't tell the animals. From the humans anymore. Or something like that. Like in some heavy line. And then.

[01:10:00] That's where the book ends. But the movie goes on. And it's like. Jesse ends up. Doing like a freedom trail type thing. And like. Helping the animals sneak out. Of the animal farm. And they hide at the edge of the farm. Until eventually. Napoleon. Apparently dies from his greed. Or something. And then she returns to the farm. With the animals. And like someone else comes in. And buys the farm. And the farm is rebuilt. In the old style.

[01:10:30] So everyone's like. That ending is trash. You know. Whatever. Oh no. Like the good ending. Where like everything works out. I guess. Meanwhile it's like. You know. I guess. I do think the book ending. Of just like. You know. Things suck. Like what are we going to do. Is the more scary ending. And I guess I did want to do that. In a full length movie. It makes sense. Yeah. I was talking. When I beat Signalis. I. This person. Amber was watching me. And she. Was talking about. How fucking sad.

[01:11:00] This game is. Because. Even the good ending. Is very. Very. Sad. Like. There is no goodness. In the. The good ending. Is like. Oh man. I can't say anything. I guess. I almost just spoiled it. But. It's like. Animal farm. Is like that. Dude. Even in animal farm. Like. It weirdly hits. With today's political climate too. Yeah. There was one part. With a windmill. And. Like. First off. There's a pig named.

[01:11:30] Like Snowball. And. Snowball's like. Hey. If we build this windmill. We'll only have to work three times a day. Or three days a week. Or whatever. It's going to be great. And. Basically. Napoleon. The kind of bad pig. Runs like a smear campaign. Against. Snowball. And. Labels him a traitor. And gets him like. Banished. And if he ever comes back. We'll kill him. That type of stuff. And then the second he leaves. Like. Because he was like. Against the windmill. He even like. Walked on the. The plans. And peed on it. In front of everyone. He's like.

[01:11:59] The windmill is shit. I hate the windmills. It's not going to help us. It's a waste of time. As soon as Snowball left. He was like. I've always been a big fan of windmills. You know. Windmills and me go together. Like ham and cheese. Or whatever. And we're like. Oh my god. It's Trump. Like. Like. We're going to build a window. And it's going to be great. Pig Trump. That's what it felt like. And everyone's like. Oh my god. It's Trump. How did they know? How did they know?

[01:12:29] Back in 1950. When he wrote the book. I'm not going to watch this woke movie. That's parodying my president. Cool. Capitalism bad. No. Commie isn't bad. No. Capitalism bad. Again. Maybe there is no answer. Is literally. Like the point of the book. Anyways. That was our animal farm segment. Let's go online.

[01:12:58] And we're back from the break. Let's go online. And help some assholes in need. I got one. All right. Which one? 79. Which is deleted. But it is. Yeah. I scrolled to the bottom. I scrolled to the bottom. Deleted. But they caught it in the bot. Yeah. The bot's here.

[01:13:28] All right. Let's hear it. All right. So this is. Wait. I need to look at the link. Am I the asshole for wanting my upstairs neighbor to STFU at. And then. I don't know. The link ends. At night. Probably. Okay. So it says. So. For. So. Long pause. The story begins. With me. 28. Female.

[01:13:58] Losing my third shift job. What does that mean? Night shift. What's second shift? Uh. Second shift is like. The afternoon. Like a 2 p.m. To like 10 o'clock. Weird. Anyways. Uh. Emoji. Where it's the three lines. Right? Yeah. Like the. Uh. Not. Not pleased. Not pleased emoji. I had just bought my kids. Two female. And three female. A bunk bed. For their bedroom. You know. Good start. Uh.

[01:14:28] I just recently learned Kai. So. You know. It's like. Ni Kai. And uh. Oh no. What is three? Oh no. What's happening? San. Ichi ni San. Yes. I need to count up to it. San Kai. Second floor. Third floor. Japanese joke. Since we moved into this two bedroom apartment. We have all been sleeping in my bedroom for the past year. Tenants above us. On the. Ni Kai. Moved out.

[01:14:56] And I decided to buy my kids a bed last month. So they wouldn't constantly be sleeping with me or my spouse. While I'm at work. So I discovered after losing my job earlier this month. Nobody sleeps in that bedroom. Why you ask? Because through the vent and the ceiling. The new tenant has been playing Fortnite until 3am every night. Oh yeah. Fuck yeah. Problem is. He wears a headset. And you can clearly hear him cursing. Screaming. Using profanities. And sexual talk.

[01:15:25] As gamers do. Through the ceiling and the vent. Do we use sexual talk? Let me see that dongle. Yeah. His gaming system is right over the vent. By the window. So even outside can hear him. Through the vent. Go outside? I guess so. It's just a hole in the wall. Oh. The vent by the window. I get it. Okay. So now I can't hear him. Now I can't hear him in my bedroom. Because there's a wall and the door is shut.

[01:15:54] So the vents don't connect enough to hear all the commotion. But with four bodies. It's super hot. Super hot. Super hot. So tonight. I decided. We need to use the other bedroom. Dude. Have you seen that video of the parrot mimicking the apple alarm? No. Because it's like dead on. Oh my god. It is fucking scary. Hold on. Let me see. Let me see if I can find it real quick. If not. Just fucking eliminate this from the record.

[01:16:22] I did hear that episode of Dungeon Daddies when they're talking about the parrot that can tell if things are metal or not. What? They did an episode where they mentioned that there's a parrot that can detect metal.

[01:16:51] This is not the same video. But it is the same concept. Let me see. I'll watch that. You watch this one. What's this made of? What's this made of? What's this bowl made of? Alright. What's this small cup made of? What's this made of? Oh, I've seen this fucking bird. Yep. That's a parrot making the alarm noise.

[01:17:22] I've seen this bird before. I've seen this exact bird. It's the dude that I know. Because I remember. Because he's also like, Hey, what color is this? Purple. What color is this? Blue. No. Red. You know what I mean? It's kind of guessing a little bit. But that video I sent you is not as funny. Because it's like hypercut. But the funny bit is that it waits the perfect amount of time to do it again. Like exactly how long the alarm is. You know what I mean?

[01:17:52] It sounds like an alarm is going off. It's very funny. I would shoot myself, dude. Birds making alarm noises. I get so much bird content on my Facebook. Like that is all. That is so much of my reels. It's bird content. I'm entering birdcore. Dude, have you heard of Hatebeak? No. You don't know Hatebeak? Is it like a racist bird? No. Dude, no. Now I gotta show you.

[01:18:19] Sorry for people who love the MIT Asshole session. But here. Here. I gotta show you Hatebeak. Is it a metal band that features a bird? Yes, dude. The vocalist for Hatebeak is a bird. You gotta listen to it. Bird Seeds of Vengeance is the name of the album.

[01:18:50] I'm not a parrot. Yeah. Okay. That's some good stuff. I'm bad at that end too. It's like. Now, unfortunately, everyone wanted these guys to tour. But they obviously couldn't. Because the bird. It would not do well. The bird would not be happy. With all that noise. Anyway, Hatebeak. Bird Seeds of Vengeance. Oh, God. Where am I at? What even started that? Okay.

[01:19:21] Oh, you're talking about hearing things. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I heard those birds. Oh, no. It was us mimicking Superhot. Oh, yeah. And then I thought of parrots. What is your camera doing, dude? Dude, I don't know. I don't want to mess with it. Because it might make it worse. Okay. Anyways. So, tonight I decided we need to use the other bedroom. At least I was going to. Until I heard the cursing, screaming, sexual talk.

[01:19:50] And bad-mouthing 12-year-olds. Oh, he's a kid. Not the 12-year-olds. He's a kid. Okay. The sexual talk makes sense now. No. He's saying that he's bad-mouthing the 12-year-olds he's playing with. Oh, he is doing that. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, gamer. Fuck, dude. I just scrolled and lost my place again. So, it's 1 a.m. Okay. So, it's 1 a.m. I first tried to knock to be like, hey, do you mind? I'm a gamer. I totally. I'm a gamer.

[01:20:19] I totally can't. I get the bad mouth. Yes. So, I am a gamer. I'm turning British. So, I get the bad-mouthing and the trash talk. So, no answer. And I can still hear him going on and on and on. I mean, headphones are pretty soundproofing, man. Molly and Luna could be killing each other. I wouldn't even know. All right. So, next I call the cops. Maybe they... Wait. That's what she did?

[01:20:49] Yes, you call the cops. So, next I call the cops. Maybe they can bang loud enough to get his attention. This guy can't hear anyone over his headset. So, cops leave. Tell me there's nothing to it. What? The profanities continue to 3 a.m. That's... So, my question is, am I the asshole for wanting to use my other bedroom and for wanting this guy to tone it down? So, okay. Calling about a noise disturbance obviously didn't work. Why don't they...

[01:21:17] She needs to call for a welfare check at this point. Yeah. Because they have to come in, right? Somebody's dying. Like the time... Like someone called a welfare check on me one time. Because you were yelling. Yeah. Because I was yelling. And I thought... I didn't know what a welfare check was. For the listeners... For the listeners who haven't heard the story. This is like a two-year-old story, I think. But someone called a welfare check on me. And I thought that meant like an old person. I don't know. The word welfare is like... Oh, that's like old people. So, I was like...

[01:21:45] There's an old guy across the hallway. And so, the cops went over and talked to him. And then he was just sitting there talking to them for like an hour. At like maybe 3 a.m. It was fucking awesome. Yeah. So, yeah. Am I the asshole for... Or is she an asshole for wanting to use the other bedroom? And for this guy to shut up? I mean, no. Not for using the... Not for wanting to use the other bedroom. I don't know.

[01:22:13] Is it like a constant thing? He's always like in there screaming? Maybe? I don't know. So, he does it every night up to at least 1 a.m. Oh, apparently he goes up to 3 a.m. every night. Every night. That is kind of crazy. I am this person in my apartment complex. In my apartment building. But I don't... Like, I'm not screaming at 3 a.m. I'm obviously sleeping by then. I gotta work in the morning. So, my... The thing is, is that one day a week, I am up until like 4 or 5 a.m. And sometimes I'm pretty loud.

[01:22:43] So, it's like... Sometimes... But as far as I'm aware, besides that one time that the welfare check thing happened... And that was like two years ago. Nobody's really done anything. So, I think everyone just kind of got used to my autism. They're like, this kid's touched on that a little bit. We're gonna have to let him, you know, just do his thing. But, like I said, I'm not... It's not that I'm like... When I'm doing the podcast, I'm screaming. But other than that, I'm like kind of just chilling. Right?

[01:23:12] Like, it's the music. When I decide to turn music on, that's probably the loudest I ever am. Or maybe when I'm playing the guitar. Every now and then, I fucking tilt off the face of the planet in a video game. And I'll fucking start getting pissed off. But, like... The thing about that is that when I start getting pissed off, my dogs come to me to comfort me. And that usually actually calms me down. Like, I'm just like, oh, you're right. I'm being crazy. Sorry about that. Yeah. Well, as long as you can rein it in.

[01:23:40] So what do they need to do to resolve this issue? Buy a gun? Shoot up into the fucking ceiling? I don't know, dude. I think they should get a Fortnite account and just start trolling this kid. Like, just following him. You know what I mean? Do you remember... Dude, do you remember that parent that catfished his daughter? Yeah. Just do that. In Fortnite? Non-sexually. He catfished her to be her friend.

[01:24:09] Which is weird. That's also weird. But like, yeah. Just catfish this person, but like, troll them. Don't actually befriend them. Be mean. Tilt them so that they don't want to play Fortnite anymore. That's probably one answer. I think they should probably just continue trying to contact him. A couple people suggested banging on the door when he's sleeping and do everything you can to try to wake him up and remind him that he's being too loud.

[01:24:38] Other people are like, get the landlord involved. The other one is just call the police every night until the police get annoyed enough that they actually do something. Yeah. I mean, maybe. The, um... Is it just him living there? Because that's another thing. Because if it was just him living there, why is he... I don't think so. Because why would he be playing games in the bedroom if it was just him, right? He'd be playing in the living room, probably. Well, no one else answered the door. When the cops came. Maybe they were asleep.

[01:25:06] Maybe they sleep with, like, earplugs. You know what I mean? No one. Because he's yelling so much. Yeah. I'm thinking... I'm reading between the lines here. Yeah, just keep calling the cops, I think. Maybe. Yeah, just do that. I mean, another thing you could do if you really, really hated this person is start making complaints with the apartment complex. Because I think they have to do something, right? Like, that's something you can get evicted for, I think. Yeah, probably.

[01:25:35] If you're disrupting the piece and the thing. Yeah, especially if there's rules where it's like quiet times are between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. or whatever it is. Yeah. All right, yeah, this one's pretty cut and dry. All right, I got one. Let's go with number two. This video I saw where the person was playing the guitar and it's like my neighbor, my fucking neighbor wants to jam again. And like they're playing the guitar and then they hear boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom on the floor.

[01:26:04] And then they start playing again. Oh, no. They hear the boom, boom, boom, boom. Like with the banging? Yeah, well, the banging happens and then they start playing last resort. They're like, danananaanaanaanaanaana. And then the banging starts banging with the music. It's fucking dumb. Anyway, let's go with number two. This one's Minecraft themed. You're going to make me scroll all the way to the top?

[01:26:33] In honor of the chicken jockey, I found a Minecraft one. This is from a year ago from Grand Cell. Oh, my God. This is like max, max, max words. Yeah, it's very big. Okay. It looks like there's even an update. Oh, no. Do you see this tag? Not the a-hole poo mode. What is poo mode?

[01:26:58] Poo mode means they took the average, I think, of, like it says, when it posts in poo mode, only users with enough subreddit karma are able to comment. If that doesn't include you, don't worry. So it's like only the people that are like pooperintendents or partassipants, like high-ranked members that can comment on this. Grand poobahs? Yeah. Yeah, literally those ranks. Okay.

[01:27:26] Am I the asshole for not getting upset or convinced the bride after I was uninvited to my friend's wedding? This happened over the weekend, but there's still so much tension. One of my good friends, Matthew, 26 male, is getting married next month to Jennifer, 26 female. I, 25 female, have known Matthew since high school. We've both connected when it comes to video games, especially Minecraft.

[01:27:52] Matthew has had his fair share of girlfriends over the years, but when he met Jennifer three years ago, he said that he knew she was the one, and they are madly in love with each other, and I'm so happy for them both. Okay. Solid. Get that out of the way right away. Yeah. Last year, Matthew popped the question to Jennifer, and she said yes. Jennifer's demeanor towards me drastically changed after the engagement. Oh, no. Uh-oh. She was distant towards me.

[01:28:18] She wouldn't look at me, and she would hardly speak to me, which was weird, since Jennifer was always so sweet and nice to me. I'd still talk to Matthew, and we'd meet up with him and our group of friends, and sometimes with Jennifer, and she would act cold and not speak to me much. I kept my distance from Jennifer. Three months ago, we all received a save-the-date invitation, and the wedding was going to take place in Matthew's cabin two hours away, and we were going to keep it small due to the size of the cabin, so we were only allowed to bring one guest.

[01:28:48] That was when Jennifer acted extremely harsh and hostile towards me and said, but you don't have a plus one since you are so into my man. Dude, okay, so in the back of my head, I was like, you know, thinking gay jokes. I'm like, if I could slip a gay joke in there, that'd be pretty funny. You know, like this guy must have, you know, they must have been bro-bros, but this is actually what's happening right now. Like, she really thinks that. Well, no, this is a female. Our OP is a female.

[01:29:19] OP is a female? Oh, yeah, it is another female. Oh, okay, my fault. I'm always just assuming the OP is a guy. I'm always assuming they're a guy. Anyways, I was taken aback. I asked her what the fuck she was talking about, and she smirked and said I knew and not to act stupid. I ignored her remark and told her my boyfriend was coming. She looked surprised and left. I, of course, told Matthew about what Jennifer said to me, and he was not happy, so he made her apologize to me.

[01:29:48] I bet that made everything better. Yeah, I'm sure that helped everyone. You couldn't just let it go? Then, last weekend, I was invited by Matthew's sister to go dress shopping with her and Jennifer. I declined at first because I wanted to keep my distance from Jennifer. Good idea? Yeah. But Matthew's sister assured me that she will deal with Jennifer and that our other friends will be with us there. So we go dress shopping, and I found a beautiful dress

[01:30:18] that I thought would be perfect, and I took a picture to send to my boyfriend since he was planning on matching with a bow tie. With me. Oh, the boyfriend exists. Yeah, he's real. I tried the dress on, and it was a perfect fit, so I guess I got lucky. Jennifer was angry, called me names such as whore, a boyfriend-stealing bitch, and that I was officially uninvited to the wedding. She caused such a commotion, the employee of the store asked us to leave. Okay. Wow.

[01:30:45] I told Jennifer I didn't want to come to the wedding anyway, but I was going to because my friend was getting married. I told her if she didn't want me at the wedding, fine. I don't give a fuck, since I won't go to a wedding if the bride is going to be so rude to a guest. Matthew and our friends found out. I was getting texts left and right begging me to come to the wedding. I told them I was happy to get uninvited, and I'll just spend the day with my boyfriend on the day of the wedding instead. They're all mad at me for not fighting hard enough. Am I the asshole?

[01:31:15] There's a lot more. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if you saw. Did you see the extra update? I have not read the extra update, but let's read the first updates. First edits. I guess a whole bunch of people commented on her, giving her suggestions, and she threw in an edit. So my decision is final. I will not be going to the wedding. There's no change in my mind about it. I will be sending a wedding gift to Matthew the day prior to the wedding instead. I told Matthew and all my friends that I won't be going, and they can't convince me otherwise.

[01:31:46] Matthew also called me and asked if we could talk somewhere. I agreed, but it's to tell him in person that I won't go. That way he knows I'm serious about it. For a quickie. That's what the girlfriend's going to think. No, no, no. The wife's going to think that's bad. You shouldn't meet up. And she wears up with her gun. Yeah. All right, so update after. I've seen fucking uwu. Eewu. Time skip. Update. I met up with Matthew and brought my boyfriend along. Of course, he begged me to come to the wedding, and he said he would beg Jennifer to let me attend.

[01:32:15] I don't know if it's best if I wasn't there. I told Matthew that Jennifer has a problem with me, period. He said he doesn't understand. He did ask her many times, but Jennifer would continue to say that she was just stressed. I got angry and said this bullshit, and he knows that. My boyfriend also intervened and said to Matthew that he needs to wake up and realize Jennifer is crazy and that he can't keep defending her. Matthew said that he loves her too much and doesn't want to lose her. My boyfriend and I got up and told Matthew to let us know when he has a backbone.

[01:32:46] In the meantime, it's best if we don't talk. What does gaming have to do with this? I don't know. Yeah, he's got a backbone for his phone, so I can probably make you go. Yeah, let us know when you've got a backbone and he pulls his fucking phone outside playing Minecraft. I message all of our friends in the group to let him know I'm keeping my distance from Matthew because of Jennifer. He's still my friend, but at an arm's length. I will still be sending him a gift regardless, but I'm keeping my distance from Matthew.

[01:33:14] It seems like he's in denial and can't comprehend what's going on at all. He usually is in denial. Ever since high school, he would have a sense of denial. Okay, I don't know what that means. That made my brain fucking my worms in my head stop worrying. Another thing to mention is that Jennifer is nice to all of Matthew's female friends, just not me. I've also got a message from two of our friends saying that they have dropped out of attending the wedding because of Jennifer and they're on my side.

[01:33:44] Oh, shit. I know. They're all quitting. Yeah. All right. Time skip. Jennifer already brought her or already bought her wedding dress a while ago. When I went dress shopping with Matthew's sister, she invited Jennifer as a way to resolve this animosity she had towards me. So it was Matthew's sister who wanted to buy a dress and I found a dress that I love and Jennifer went crazy. Hope that clears things up since many people were confused. Okay. I guess they were confused about when she bought the dress. You know what happened? What?

[01:34:14] I think I've got this one pinned already. Already is a fucking long story. But this Matthew feller hinted or outright said that he thought she was attractive. Or maybe that he had a crush on her at some point in their friendship because they've known each other since high school. Maybe they even dated in high school or something. I don't know. That'd be a weird thing to omit from the OP if that was the case. But something was going on there.

[01:34:43] And he's like, no, but babe, you're the only one for me or something or something. You know what I mean? They were drunk or something happened. And then this Jennifer lady has held that in her brain. It's been a time bomb. Just waiting to go off for probably over a year, which is why it's blown up so viciously. Now, before we make any judgments here, we have to see if things got reconciled because there was an update. Yeah, a really, a really long one.

[01:35:11] I will be posting an update here because frankly, I do not have to. Okay, she posted it on her main page instead of on Am I the Asshole? Hello to all. A lot of you have been asking me for an update, so might as well make one. Before that, I do want to clear up a couple of things. The first part says, I don't have the time to edit or shorten up the post. I exceeded the character limit. It's long. That's what it says. Yeah, it's basically TLDR, long. All right, so here's a couple of things that people were confused about.

[01:35:41] It's more of the dress shopping? When I went dress shopping? Dude, whatever, dude. Every Am I the Asshole, we're like, what game did they play? When I went dress shopping with Matthew's sister, she brought Jennifer along because she wanted us to put our differences aside for Matthew's sake. Oh, it was a setup. It was a setup. This shopping trip was not for Jennifer to buy a wedding dress as she had already purchased it a long time ago. Hope that clears things up.

[01:36:07] I would never try on a dress or purchase one if the bride is the one who's shopping for a dress. That's an obvious rule, lol. Is it? I don't know. Ask Jenna. Where's Jenna at? She's putting the baby to bed right now. This is more important. Ask her next time you see her. You'll see her while we're recording. Okay. Matthew and I never had romantic feelings for each other. Okay, there answers your question. Oh, no. We never hooked up or anything of that nature.

[01:36:36] Our relationship has always been Minecraft. Wait, pause. Pause. She said for each other. That doesn't rule out that Matthew had feelings for her. And just never let it out. Like, I think... I still believe. I still believe. I'm gonna go straight to the point with this update. There's fucking 100 sentences after this!

[01:37:04] This is going to come out as a shock to you, Lada. But Jennifer called off the wedding! That is a shock! That is a shock. I didn't see that coming. I found out from our friends who messaged me. I asked what happened and they explained that Jennifer told Matthew she couldn't marry him. And admitted that her behavior towards me as well as towards a couple people, which includes Matthew's sister and her best friend Jacob. She apologized to Matthew and realized that she wasn't in the right place to get married. This happened about two days before the wedding. So do you think this was her an attempt to destroy the wedding?

[01:37:34] Sabotage. Yeah. Self-sabotage it seems like. All right. I decided to call Matthew and I told him I heard about the wedding being called off and assured him I'll be there if he ever wants to talk. Wait, hold on. Pause. Two days before the wedding? I just realized. Haven't you paid for everything already? No, they're just doing it. Yeah, I think they already bought the dress. They're doing it at the cabin. Seems like they're just all going up there and just having a little rowdy event. Do they own the cabin?

[01:38:03] Yeah, it's Matthew's cabin. Is there a cake? Probably. There's a bunch of shit, right? Yeah. I think that's probably the big issue with calling off a wedding is that it takes a lot of work. How dramatic. I know. A lot of dramatic flair going on. Anyways, she called Matthew and said, I assured him that I'll be there if he ever wants to talk. He asked if we could meet and I agreed. Matthew explained that Jennifer has severe trust issues, not just regarding me, but with his best friend Jacob.

[01:38:33] Jacob was supposed to be Matthew's best man, but he was also uninvited by Jennifer over the fact that Jacob might encourage Matthew to cheat. Bachelor party. Matthew also told me. That's why I wasn't invited to your wedding, right? Exactly. Matthew also told me that Jennifer has constantly accused Matthew of possibly cheating on her with me, despite showing her evidence that we did nothing of the sort.

[01:38:59] It had gotten to the point where Jennifer would prevent Matthew from going out with friends. She would sometimes confiscate his phone, and she has even taken his car keys, causing him to be late for work. So there was a lot more happening behind closed doors. Matthew wasn't blinded by love. He was simply afraid to reach out to any of us for help. Jesus. He was embarrassed to tell us that his bride was doing more than just controlling the wedding guest list. Pussy, you'll do a lot to a man. I mean, this sounds borderline.

[01:39:28] I don't want to be the guy saying like, oh, this is spousal abuse or whatever on Reddit. But this actually looks like spousal abuse. Yeah. Stealing the keys and he's late for work because of it. That is a lot. That's so much. And they're in their almost 30s. This is a high school shit. I asked Matthew if he wanted to go with us on vacation, but he declined saying that he wants to be alone, which I understand. I go on vacation. I have a fun time.

[01:39:59] I sent him a lot of pictures. I was like, man, look who you're missing out on. I did wear the dress that I bought and I wore that to dinner with my boyfriend. He loved the dress and constantly complimented me the entire time. Flex. When we returned, Jennifer messaged me, which I was surprised by as she has never done such a thing. She asked me if we could meet at first. I wasn't sure. Oh, my God. She's going to shoot her. This isn't going to end well. This is actually Jennifer typing this message. Like this whole thing.

[01:40:28] That's why it's so in detail. I brought my boyfriend along for safety reasons. OK, good. As I wasn't sure what Jennifer's intentions were with me, Jennifer told me that she wants to apologize for lashing out with me at the store and for calling me names and uninviting me to the wedding over something so small. She explained that she allowed her jealousy to get the better of her. And she was so scared of losing Matthew that she ended up doing things that she deeply regrets. Jennifer is going to therapy.

[01:40:56] And she said that she had some trauma in her childhood that lingered into a relationship in ways she didn't expect. She also admitted that she was insecure and found me to be a very beautiful woman. And she was a bit jealous when Matthew and I talk about our hobbies. And I made her feel left out because she wasn't into Minecraft or gaming. Wait, is this the Minecraft? Wait, is this the first time gaming's been brought up? No, it was like in the first paragraph that they were Minecraft buddies.

[01:41:27] Oh, right. Now I'm looking at it now. Yeah. Minecraft was mentioned one whole time and all 20, 23,000 words. I told her to none of these things matter to me now since she has apologized, admitted that she did what she did wasn't right and that I had forgiven for her. Well, I already forgave her. It's all good. Look at that. Yeah. As Matthew and I's friendship, we are now back to hanging out and playing games together.

[01:41:57] Even my boyfriend has been hanging out with Matthew long gone closer. Uh-oh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, man. Keep an eye on them. I did decide to ask Matthew if he did ever have a crush on me back in the day and he said he never did and he was being honest. Jennifer moved her stuff out and asked for the cabin where the wedding was supposed to take place. Matthew, my boyfriend, myself and a couple of our friends will go there this upcoming weekend. Okay.

[01:42:26] I apologize for taking too long. I think posting it on my personal profile rather than subreddit was better. Okay, yeah. Talking about the character limit. I want to thank everyone who's giving me advice. I love Reddit. Whatever. Okay. Yeah, I don't give up all this fucking schm... I don't need the credits. Schmancy shit. Yeah. Where they are now. All right. So at any point do you think she was an asshole for just being like, I'm not going to fight you. I'm just not going to go to the wedding. No. Not at all. That's the best option.

[01:42:56] I would not put myself in that situation either. I'd be like, oh, sorry, brother. Like, I can't do it. I'm not going to fist fight your fiance. Well, it's not even just that. It's that I'm going to be actively ruining the wedding for at least one person that I'm there with. Like, I'm there, like, with. I wouldn't want to just... I'm just not that kind. I don't have that dog in me, dude. I don't. You know who is an asshole, though? What? Fucking Matthew going, no, I never had a crush on you. What?

[01:43:25] Am I not attractive enough? Oh, no. I'm not attractive enough. You never once thought? For a moment? Okay. No. I don't think there's any asshole here. I think she did the right thing and everything kind of worked out, I guess. Well, I mean, the girlfriend. It was crazy. But she seems to realize she's crazy. Going to therapy. That's good. She apologizes. I mean... She was literally just having a mental break. Well, she... No. Because it went on for longer than that. Remember?

[01:43:53] She was taking car keys. Yeah, those are early days. Fighting with boys. You don't have a mental break for two years. You don't have a mental break for, like, two days, maybe. Max. Well, no. It said they were dating for, like, four years. That's what I'm saying. Before they hit this point. So she must have been chill in the beginning. Well, she... Okay. So she was doing things to him. There's no time frame. Yeah. A lot of these things.

[01:44:21] Obviously, the fighting over the wedding stuff. That obviously happened around this time. But, like, the other things. Like, fighting with... Taking the keys. Saying that... It said that she accused him of cheating of her repeatedly. So it seemed like that was always a problem. I mean... Preventing him from going out with friends. That doesn't sound like that was recent. Like, that sounds like it was, like, a repeated thing. I don't know. But, um...

[01:44:50] Anyway, yeah, it's good that she's getting help. That's gonna take a lot of fucking effort. It sounds like. Because there's a lot of shit going on. But you never know, you know? You never know until you live together. I learned that lesson. All right. I think that wraps up our assholes. Let's take a quick break. And then we can hit the meat. Music plays. That one am I the asshole part is gonna be, like, longer than the... Than the review, I bet. Probably.

[01:45:20] And we're back. Day of Defeat Source. Day of Defeat offers intense online action gameplay set in Europe during World War II. Assume the role of infantry, sniper, or machine gunner classes, and more. Day of Defeat Source features enhanced graphics and sounds design to leverage the power of Source, Valve's new engine technology. Incredible. Game came out in, like, 2012 or something like that.

[01:45:50] Like, it was, like, ancient. I don't have the release date. It fucking feels ancient, dude. What do you mean? Okay, yeah. It's a World War II shooter in the Source engine, which is, like, the same engine that, like, Left 4 Dead runs on Counter-Strike Source, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life. So, Garry's Mod. So, this is a very old engine, much like the creation engine that Morrowind and Oblivion ran on.

[01:46:23] So, this is very clunky, very crunchy shooter. Now, history and preconceptions. I played this game back in 2012. It was when I got my first achievement, which was to play on five non-official Day of Defeat Source maps. That's your first achievement on Steam? No, on this Day of Defeat game, which I got at 8.54 a.m. August 26th, 2012. So, what was I doing? In the morning?

[01:46:51] What was I doing at almost 9 a.m. on the 26th that I'm like, I'm going to play some Day of Defeat? It must have been a weekend, because you were in school still. Yeah. Weren't you? Or was that after? No, August? Is that summertime? Yeah, so it might have been summer. I think it's summertime, yeah. If it was summer 2012, then you had just graduated. And what other way to celebrate graduating high school and playing Day of Defeat? That's so stupid.

[01:47:18] And I picked this game because you had just gotten a computer. I'm like, oh, man, we have to play some computer-only games. Like, instantly, we got to do one of those. And so the first, like, I just pulled my Steam list, and I saw what we had in common. And I saw Day of Defeat on there. And it was like lightning bolts in my brain. It was like, Day of Defeat. Like, we have to play that. And you're like, what is that? And I'm like, you know. You had that World War II PTSD meme?

[01:47:43] Yeah, where I flashback to Panzerschreck and whatever else they're yelling and the music plays. And I have 24 hours on record when I wrote this. But, Nave, you were late for the pod. So I just played more of this, and I made it to 25 hours. I'm going to be honest. I thought that we recorded. I thought you were four hours behind me. No, only three hours. I don't know why I thought four hours.

[01:48:11] So I was playing, and then, like, 9.30 came up. And I was like, all right, I'm going to stop the stream. I'm going to start working on the notes. And I don't know if you – when you have OBS up, does it turn off, like, Discord notifications? Okay, well. It turns off all the notifications. Because you were in a call with me. And I'm like, what the fuck? I never fucking heard this. I didn't even hear it on my phone. It never went off anywhere. Because I hear my phone going off through my headphones. So it must have, like, completely muted Discord on every application. Yeah.

[01:48:40] Well, your Discord will only go off on whatever your active device is, which is the PC. But OBS gets detected by Discord and it mutes itself. Okay. Well, now you know I'm streaming. I don't even think you knew I was streaming. I did not. Like, I've been streaming. So now you can just go in there and just type in chat. Like, hey, fucking Nate. Because it goes – in my ears. I'm like, hey. Like, look over there. It makes a loud-ass noise. And I go, uh-oh. I'm late for my fucking – my second job. All right.

[01:49:09] So what's your history preconceptions on this? I had no idea what this was whenever you were – They're like, who's now going to defeat – I don't know why it said that we had this in common. I had to buy this. Oh, you did? Yeah. Oh, no. I bought this for the pod. How much? $10 maybe? I don't know. Maybe less than that. I don't know. Oh, damn. So – but anyways, I'm glad I did because this was a weird experience. Like, this was a very bizarre world I wandered into.

[01:49:37] Dude, it felt so – It felt like home. Like, you were talking about with Oblivion. And, like, logging into this game was comforting. That's so weird. Okay. I guess I understand in a way. But we'll talk about it. Yeah. My first experiences. Some reviews that you found. These are really spot on. I'm glad you found these. Oh, for hours played, I had three. Okay. Three. Did you – look.

[01:50:05] If you click on achievement progress, did you see all these stats that are in there? Uh, no. I don't think I'm going to look at them. Go look at it. Like, look at the game and it says achievement progress and there is a fucking – you know what it reminds me of? You remember in Halo 3, you could go to Bungie.com or Bungie.net and, like, look at your fucking in-detail, like, heat maps of the maps and shit like that. I don't think there are heat maps. But it literally shows – There were heat maps. Well, I mean, like, on Halo, yeah. But not for this.

[01:50:38] The grenades, the fucking – it shows you the hit percentages, the headshot percentages, average shots per kill, all this fucking shit. It's pretty cool. Shows you the time you played with each character. I fucking love in gritty-ass stats like this. Very detailed stats. Which I only have, like, one of these achievements that's not, like – I don't know, normal one. And it's to get, like, 150 kills with a carbine.

[01:51:06] Because that was just my favorite gun. I probably am close to that. Because I have 80 – let me see. I have 71 kills with the K98. So, that's, like, a carbine, right? No, well, the carbine's a specific gun. It's the secondary for the American rocket troop. So there's an achievement tied to every weapon on every class. Oh, shit. Well, you know. Yeah. I really like the K98.

[01:51:35] I was fucking cracked as a German, dude. Cracked! I think that was just a German rifle. The German rifleman? Yeah, yeah. I was always rifleman. I never picked anything else. I have zero time on anything else. Except, I guess I played the machine gunner for a second. For 0.1 hours, it looks like. Looks like. Let's read some of these Steam reviews. So, from Slime, with eight hours on record, and a recommender says, buy if you want to play with 40-year-old alcoholics.

[01:52:05] Did you encounter any 40-year-old alcoholics in this game? Almost exclusively. Yes. I think that's the demographic. That is literally this game. It's so weird. And it's always on all. So, the game is like server-based. You jump around in all these little custom servers. For one. Well, okay. We'll get into this. But, like, yes. I played with some 40-year-old alcoholics. All right. You want this next one? Okay. Derby. These are good names. Slime. Derby.

[01:52:36] Did you see Slime's picture? It's fucking the dude. Fucking Max Payne. What's his name? I don't know who that is. The Max Payne guy. I don't know. Okay. Derby recommends with 17 hours. Says, first server I joined at a middle-aged lady and man flirting over voice chat. Very good game. Did you encounter that as well? Yes. Yes. I almost didn't until I played a game with you.

[01:53:03] And you brought me into that server where this one lady, who was clearly like 35 at least, was just, like, getting hounded by so many at least 40-year-olds. Like, it's... You can just tell by the way that they talk and, like, how much... Oh, we didn't bore into that. How much breath is going into the microphone when they were slobbering, dude. They're like, holy fuck. All right. It was hard to listen to.

[01:53:31] Next up, it's Lobster Crab. She, her, I guess. I don't know if that's the full thing. 214 hours on record. Recommend says, I shot a man and he died. That is wild for a shooter. Yeah. It's actually rare to see a man and shoot them in this game sometimes. It depends on what the map is. Also, I want to point out, when they made this review, 214.2 hours on record.

[01:54:02] And then, since then, 214.3 records, hours on record. So, they only went back for a little bit. Yeah. And this was in 2021. So, in four years. Is that Jana? Yeah. Phillip, ask Jana the question. Hey, can you come answer a question for the pod? Yeah. All right. So, you need to talk to the mic so it can be heard. Do you remember the question? Yes. I don't remember the question. Okay. So, you've been involved with more weddings than me.

[01:54:31] If you go with the bride to go dress shopping, specifically for their bridal dress, is it faux pas for you to buy a dress for yourself while you're there? Yes. Yes. Why? Because it's supposed to be about the bride and not about the people around you. Unless the bride wants you to pick out a bridesmaid's dress while you're there. Mm-hmm. Okay. So, apparently, that is a thing, Dave. Why? Why? Say why again. Why to that second part?

[01:55:02] Why does it have to be about the bride? Yeah. Why can't it be about me? I don't know. All right. That's all I needed. Love you goodnight. Go with mama. Hell yeah. Okay. Thank you. Give me kisses. Also, tell Jane I waved and she didn't see it. Dave waved, but you didn't see it. Just so she knows. Because she waved at me. Okay. She also waved. Bye-bye. What were we talking about?

[01:55:30] You're about to read this next review from... I didn't see the name! You have to say it right there. Make sure you say it with the right enunciation. Is it womb voyage? Yeah, but you gotta say it like... ...von voyage. Womb voyage. Womb voyage. I don't know how to make... I don't know what French people sound like. Croissant. Womb voyage.

[01:55:59] Oh my god. Hold on real quick. While you bring up French. I learned something after watching Animal Farm. It wasn't about Animal Farm. But do you know why in legal terms we have multiple words used for like... Like it'll be like the same thing. Like cease and desist. There's more than one cease and desist? I mean there's a lot of them. There's um... What are they like? Legal... Double... Double words?

[01:56:29] Or something? Oh, legal doublets. Here's a whole bunch of them. There's like... Aid and abet. Mind and obligate assault and battery. Breaking and entering. Drunk and disorderly. Due and payable. These are called legal doublets. And they originate because... In the olden days or whatever... They would have courts with like multiple languages. So it'd be like...

[01:56:59] Oh, this is uh... Like the legal language is English here. But... For the benefit of the court... We... They say like the French version... And the English word for it or whatever. So they'll say like fit and proper. Or uh... Let's see if you and cry. Legal and valid. Wait, one of those is French. Which one is the French one? Well, not all of them are French. Some of them are like English and Latin. Or uh...

[01:57:28] English and... Japanese? Uh... No, I mean some of them are just Latin. Like will and testament. Like testament's Latin. And will is English, I think. Like... No, wills from Friday Night Gamecast. Oh my god. Yeah. But uh... I learned about that. And now I keep thinking about double words. Well, doublespeak is a big thing in 1984. The sequel. The known sequel to Animal Farm. That's where the pigs went. They went and made a... Made a... Made a... Made a place.

[01:57:58] Anyway. Uh... Womb Voyage. Uh... Uh... Doesn't recommend. 13.6 hours. And says, I couldn't handle the recoil. So I went back to CSGO. Is the recoil bad in this? Yes! What are you fucking talking about, dude? It is so funny. Like anytime someone tries to fire the machine gun from the hip. Dude! It's just like... Dude! You literally... 90 degree... Instantly. 90 degrees. Just staring at the ceiling. It's the worst.

[01:58:28] We played that fucking kill confirm... I'll talk about it in a minute. Get the gun game. Or kill confirm? Gun game. No, it was a gun game. It was impossible. I hated it. Let's talk about the gun games. Because this is a first person shooter. Team based though. There's no like free for all action. Uh... But... The game types we played. There's just like capture the point. There's like place the bombs. Kind of like search and destroy. But... You respawn infinitely. And there's also guns. Gun game. Weirdly enough. And I don't know where gun game originated.

[01:58:55] But this feels like a very early version of it. I swear... It's gotta be from Call of Duty, right? Where... I don't know. The original gun game. Is this saying it was possibly a counter-strike? I think the earliest incarnation... I think we're looking at the same thing. Yeah, probably. Counter-Strike. Gun game became really popular in Counter-Strike's source. Mods.

[01:59:24] Reproduced in video games. COD 2. COD 4. I suppose... That's what I think... Like the earliest recollection I have it... Is from Modern Warfare. Like the original Modern Warfare. Yeah, COD 4. There's no way it was in COD 2. COD 2 was like archaic as fuck. This was original... In the original Counter-Strike. Not the source version. I believe that. I believe that. Because Counter... Like... Any... On the PC, it's like... A lot of games came from that. Like fucking...

[01:59:53] Dota and shit. Yeah, supposedly it was Counter-Strike 1.6 custom servers. Yeah, a lot of people are saying they remember playing it from Counter-Strike. So, I mean, yeah, I mean... Which, Counter-Strike itself is a mod of Half-Life, right? Yeah. Or is that Team Fortress? I think they're both... It's Team... Both mods of Half-Life. Half-Life? Yeah. Dave Defeat.

[02:00:20] This is the World War II version of Half-Life. Which, if you play Gary's mod... You want this game because people pull assets from Dave Defeat into Gary's mod. Yeah. Otherwise, you get a big ol' checkerboard. Purple void thing. Yeah. Gun Game is fun. But that is where we... I first experienced the fucking LMGs. And they... I'm not joking. When you get one bullet that goes straight.

[02:00:49] The next one is at 45 degrees above you. And then the last... Like, every other bullet since past your first two are shooting the ceiling. If you don't... I mean... If you're not constantly scrolling down. Yeah. Like, you might even make sure... How goes my pulldown? Yeah. Like, what's your... Like, when you play fucking... My DPI is high as fuck. Okay. My DPI is really high. So... But I... Even then, I still needed to, like, constantly move down. I've never in any game needed to do that where I actually need to move my mouse and my arm.

[02:01:17] I have my DPI set so high that I just flick my wrist around. And I, like, get all the motion I need normally. Hmm. The recoil is absurd. There's a lot of them about the recoil. I actually think it's really cute. I like it. It's recoil in this game. That's the thing, though, is that CSGO, people also quit CSGO because of that game's recoil. That's how bad this game's recoil is. People go to CSGO to be like, oh, thank God.

[02:01:46] It's not whatever I just experienced. I'm pretty sure when I got the submachine gunner, I don't remember it, but I assume I shot my gun the first time and went, no, no, no, no. I'm going back to the rifle. Dude, that's so weird because, like, the SMG was my class. So you could run and gun, throw smoke grenades. Like, I really enjoyed that class. I was fucking smiting people from the heavens with the fucking car, dude. Or the K, whatever. I don't remember what it's called. Yeah, I think it's short for car.

[02:02:16] Anyway, that was gun game. Gun game was fun. Gun game fun. We talked to these old people. Bombs and captures, these are kind of basically the same, except, like, you have to pick up a bomb from, like, a supply point. And then take him to the enemy's locations. How did you feel about the capture modes? Oh, yeah, you didn't get to that one? Who would play a bomb in this? Just go play Counter-Strike. Why are you in here playing a bomb? It plays more like, like, what's the Halo game mode where you plant the bomb?

[02:02:47] Uh, I don't know. Bomb? Yeah, it's called bomb. That's it. Yeah, it's literally that. That's the game mode. Only there's, like, multiple bomb planting locations. So it's, like, so it is, like, search and destroy, but it's not like search and destroy where you just die if you get shot. No, you come right back. And the bombs spawn in middle of the map. And everyone is defending and attacking at the same time. So it is, like, actually like Halo.

[02:03:12] So it's, like, fight to the middle of the map, pick up a bomb, and then regroup to attack another point. Or take all the bombs and just bring them into your base and just hold them. Wait, no, that wouldn't be a good idea because then you die. Oh, there's infinite bombs? Everyone can have a bomb? Anyone can pick up a bomb. You just have to go by the point. There's also asymmetric modes where you're just, like, defending against someone who just, they just, like, spawn with bombs and they just siege you. Incredible. There was this, so capture mode, I liked it a little bit.

[02:03:43] That's, like, 99, that's the only thing I played whenever I wasn't playing with you. When I played with, I didn't know there were other game modes. I just was just joining servers. And so I only played gun game with you and then we went and played more capture. And so, I don't know. I thought capture was fun. The map that me and you played, the two maps that me and you played were fucking terrible. Oh, dude, we played some cancer maps. There were awful fucking maps, dude. Now, there was one that I started murdering on.

[02:04:12] I was, like, the second on the leaderboards. And this was, like, my fifth game. So I'm, like, fucking massacring some people. Dude, you're playing 40-year-old drunks. Yeah. But the other, so when I was playing by myself, there were a couple of maps that were pretty decent. There was this one that was, like, a horseshoe a little bit. And then there was, like, an upper deck. And so, like, you could drop down a vent and, like, fight for this, like, outer rim. And then if you won the outer rim, you could shoot down on the fuckers out there.

[02:04:41] But there was constantly people flooding in from the outer. So that was fun. That map was actually pretty decent. How'd you feel about the castle map? I hated it, dude. I fucking hated it, dude. There was just two LMGs just shooting across the whole time constantly. And you would spawn and die. And, like, a hundred times. And then you, like, eventually spawn. And, like, oh my god, I spawned in a spawn that's not instantly, like, viewable from the other side of the map.

[02:05:08] And then you drop down into the tunnel. And then instantly die. Because people are just shooting down the tunnel. So it's, like, and the friendly fire wasn't turned on. So everyone could just constantly shoot fucking forever. So it's, like, in all the other game modes that I didn't play with you, there was always friendly fire. So, I mean, in fact, we did play a game mode. I wanted to, so, I made a clip. I wanted to make a clip, I mean.

[02:05:34] But I forgot to flip the switch that makes my VOD take the sound from the game. Because I was playing another game and it was copyrighted. So I turned it off and I was, like, I remember to turn this on. And I never did. And I was, it was towards the end of a map. It was that one long map, the terrible one. Yeah. And I dropped down and you were on the ground thrown shooting. And you were having a good time. And I walked past you and then I turned around and just slowly aimed to your head.

[02:06:03] And then blasted you in the face. And then ran off. And then you went, oh! I was toasting him. Yeah, I know. It was so funny. It was so funny. And I'm so sad that the volume. Friendly fire is a big feature of this game. I have never seen a more, like, active communicating, I don't know, team. When you friendly fire somebody, or if you get friendly fired, instantly they're like, hey, I'm sorry about that. Please don't kick me.

[02:06:32] Because there's only, like, three active servers usually bumping at a time. If that. Maybe two. And so it's like, if they get banned from the server, they're going to be like, they can't play their game anymore. So everyone's like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to go here. Go, man, aside. Like, everyone is very quick to apologize. Which I even put the information on there.

[02:06:56] The 24-hour peak for this game in all time, supposedly, since they started doing this back in 20-whatever, was 473 people. I don't know how true that is. No, the all-time peak was 2,900. But the 24-hour peak in one day, the most people they ever had was 473. And whenever we played, there was only 150 people playing. Incredible. And we met half of them. We did.

[02:07:26] It was like the same names were popping up in multiple servers. Because there were only, like, three active servers. It was like, and then, like, two others at the time. So it's like, we would join one. We'd meet some people. We'd then join the other. And we would start seeing people bounce around in between the two servers. It's like if we're doing Halo custom games when you have more than 24 people or whatever. So people are just bouncing in between the games at all times. Dude, there was this one match I was playing. There are chatty Cathy's playing this fucking game.

[02:07:56] Dude, they love to talk. So I started talking. And there was – so my name is Genie Cream on Discord. Or on Steam. On Steam. And there was another guy on the other team who had Cream in his name. So now I'm like, oh, I'm killing this guy. And so I started dominating him. Which is the thing. Like, if you kill him a couple of times, it goes, dominating! Or whatever. I don't know.

[02:08:24] I don't know if everyone hears or if it's just you and him. Everyone hears it. It's great. Unless you're getting dominated. Then it's not great. But I started dominating him. And then I killed him again. And I was just like, only room for one Cream in this server. And I was just fucking with him. Because it's all chat. Like, you talk in the chat. Everyone can hear you. So you hear people on the enemy team and everything. And so I kill him again. And I was like, loser. And then someone went – because he's not talking at all. And someone went, that was kind of mean.

[02:08:53] And I was like, oh. I felt real bad. I felt remorse. I was actually bullying this person. This isn't a trash-talking type game. It's so funny because it is literally – We're just busting into this community. Just like face-checking everything. It is so weird. See, like here's another point I wanted to bring up. Was kind of like weird server drama. You talked about the female thing or whatever. I joined one server or whatever. Who had like a person named Lady Squirrel in it.

[02:09:21] And once again, there was a lot of mouth breathers. Giving her compliments and stuff like that. Anyways. I then switched servers to another one. I get you in it, I think. And then somebody started talking about it. Hey, man. Do you know Lady Squirrel on the other server? And whatever. Like they just started like talking about her. And I'm like, dude. There's only two servers active right now. Like this is so weird. It's like if you go to a party or something like that. And just walk into a different room.

[02:09:50] And start talking about somebody in the other room. It's like literally anyone in this room could go join the other one. And be like, hey. The other server, they're like talking. I don't know. Weird stuff about you or whatever. And I'm like, this is like borderline creepy. But also. I don't know. It was so. It was just a weird experience. Yeah. It was very weird. It's so bizarre too. Because you want it to be like a welcoming environment. For like women to play the game.

[02:10:17] But the community is just so weird. That as soon as I would hear a female talk. I'm just like, oh no. This is going to ruin the whole server. Not because of her. But because of how the dynamic is now going to warp around this person. Like it's fucking sad. I don't like it. I don't like being involved in it. I don't like being anywhere near it. Makes me want to die. Yeah. That's real cringy. And then like they get like a double kill or something like that on the leaderboard.

[02:10:47] And you just hear them go. Good job. Good job. Yes. And that's so weird. They're like, nice. Nice one. Good work. And they're like, thank you. And I'm just like. Whew. This is so fucking weird. That's real cringe. All right. So there's that. But then there's the more positive side. When I met Captain Snuggles. While I was waiting on you to join in. Waiting on me. Dude. Every time I joined in. You were already just locked in conversation. You're like. Yeah. I'm just chatting.

[02:11:16] I'm just waiting on my. Because you forgot my name was Genie Creek. Yeah. So I'm in the game. And just running around killing people. And you're like. Yeah. I'm just waiting for my friend. You guys are just talking. I'm waiting for my friend. And maybe we'll go on a different server. And he's like. Oh man. You're going to go to a different server. Oh. Yeah. There's only three of us in this server. If you. Yeah. Fuck. And then way later. You're like. All right. Nave. Let's go get on another game. And I'm like. Okie dokie. And I left. And then you didn't leave. And so I'm like waiting. Or something. I don't know what the fuck happened.

[02:11:46] They were like. Oh man. Don't leave. This is a good map. And I'm like. Well if it's a good map. I guess I gotta stay. Stay for him. It is not a good map. And so I'm like. I'm like waiting for you. And then you invite me. And I'm like. Oh there it is. And I give joy. And it's the same game. And I'm like. What the fuck. You guys are just talking to each other. See that was really positive. That was just a fun experience. Yeah. I mean those guys were cool. I talked a little bit. Okay. So some of the servers were weird though.

[02:12:16] But to get back into the weird side. They're like. Just looking down the list. A lot of them are like. RP servers. Kind of. Like the 1st Marine Raider Battalion. The 6th Rangers Battalion. The 415 Clan. And then you have. These like. Goofy ones. Which is like. The dog house. Dominated by Brazil. Adult gamers community. Alternate retirement plan. And the Blitzkrieg horrors. 18 plus. Yeah.

[02:12:46] And then you have the. One EU server. Which. Apparently my name. Dr. Tuff or whatever. Banned. They would not let me join. With my. My name. Apparently it was inappropriate. What? Yeah. So I cannot join the EU server. What could it be? D. R. T. U. V. I don't know. They didn't like it though. My name is Genie Cream. I was fine. I passed the bar.

[02:13:16] So. My question about these. There's at least three different. Adult only servers. But my question is. What children would play this game? I don't know dude. Because you have to pay for it. So it's like. What children. Conscious. What kid. Consciously is like. Wow. This looks fun. Like. You know what I mean? In the day. In the day and age of Fortnite. And. And Marvel rivals. And all this shit. Vying for their attention. How often. How often. Yeah. How often do you. You join a server. And there's a kid talking. Right.

[02:13:46] I don't know. But it's weird. Because then we go back to. The bumping servers. Which is the 6th Rangers battalion. And the 1st Marine Raider battalion. Those guys. Are family friendly. Like. Oh yeah. That weird. What was the interaction? It was like. Yeah. He's like. Vote this map. Or your mom gay. Or something like that. Yeah. No buddy. You can't say that. Yeah. There was one where they. Someone said fuck. In the chat. And they were like. Yo. Hey. Calm down. With the cursing.

[02:14:16] And I'm like. Calm down. With the cursing. You're a Nazi. You are playing a Nazi right now. I'm blowing your leg off. With a grenade. You're screaming blood. All over the wall. And dead bodies in the corner. You can't say the word gay. Yeah. So. In that one map. I was fucking murdering people. There was one guy. In the background. Like we. So there was one guy. That spent like. 80% of the time. In the back. Hiding behind a box. And like. Killing people. Running around this corner. Right.

[02:14:46] And it was in a corner. Where. Barely anyone. Went. So he was not even like. High up on the leaderboards. And no one. And like you would run around the corner. Like a minute later. Not expecting him to be there. Because it must be so boring. Sitting in that corner. And so. I run around that corner. Instantly blast his ass. As I run into their spawn. And kill like two more people. And then we take their flag. And their spawn. And we win. And I go into the chat. And go. I talk. In the chat. And I'm like. Hey man. Thank God. That. What's his name.

[02:15:16] Was in the fucking corner. Behind the boxes. Really contributing to your team. Right. And everyone was like. Dang man. You know. Anyone's play style is good. And I'm just like. Oh my god. Yeah. These guys suck. These guys stink brother. Like. I just. It's such a. Anti-vibe. Inside of this place. Can we talk a little bit? Can we trash talk? Some. That's just that. This is so weird. Because they have like. The no trash talking thing. Or whatever. But then. At the same time. They have. Like. Music blasting. In half the servers.

[02:15:46] Oh my god. The stupid announcers. Like. God. Or what is the pineapple thing? The funny thing. Dude. I spent like. Two hours. Trying to figure out. How to disconnect. The fucking audio. From Spotify. So I could play Spotify. While doing chess and shit. And then. I played Day of Defeat. And fucking. Little John. In the Eastside voice. Starts playing. And I'm just like. I've got a fucking. This might be. This. That might be the reason. Why I turned off. The fucking. Vaught audio. Is because.

[02:16:16] The fucking music. Kept playing. Yeah. I mean a hero. Starts blasting. While you're. You're sieging. The Nazi fortress. Kryptonite. Yeah. God damn it. God. The other thing is like. We're like. Wait. Why does it take so long. To join a server. And it's like. Because you have to download. All the server files. Which included. Their like. 30 song playlist. So you can listen to. Kryptonite. MySpace. I need a hero. Little John. Whatever. Like. God. And it was something.

[02:16:45] It's funny because like. They would show updates. And it's like. This map was updated. 2024. August. So it's like. This. Is a new map. That someone made. Or whatever. Like. This is the updated version of it. That people are still actively playing. Which is sad. For some of those maps. Because they fucking suck dude. They suck. Like some of the worst maps. I've ever played. Yeah. Maybe. I. I don't think. I would be shocked. No. That one map. I'm thinking of specifically. The two castles. Is definitely not a classic map.

[02:17:15] Because there was words in the sky. Like someone was so proud of that map. That they fucking plastered their name up in the fucking sky. And I only know that. Because I was just like cursing God. That I was still in this fucking mode. Because. I waited like. 15 minutes. 12v12. Instead of 24 players. Or whatever. I don't know if it was like 8v8. Or something like that. There was too many players on that map. Yeah. 12 is good. Because there's too much. Maneuvering around. There's too much shit going on in that map. But like. Yeah. Dude. I.

[02:17:45] I. You literally have to wait. For like 15 minutes. Maybe. Like maybe 20 minutes. To get into one server. It's. It's insane. And like one time. Like you invited me to a server. I sat there. Scrolling my phone. Just bored out of my mind. And. I get in the game. And I'm like. Phillip's not even fucking here. I'm so mad. I thought. I thought. You went to another server. Because this server sucked. And you were going to invite me to another game. And I was like. Where are you? And you were just like. Floating.

[02:18:15] And I'm like. Oh my god. He's on Steam Deck. It took so long to load into one match. Because I'm on the Starlink or whatever. That. It moved to a new map. In that time. It might download had to restart. As they moved to a new map. And I'm like. Well. I'm not going to make it in the server. As I see. Literally the file it's downloading. And it's this stupid. I don't know. The who. Pinball wizard. Is downloading. MP3. No. They were DAWave files. Even worse. Like. Gotta get higher quality man.

[02:18:45] For the fucking 20 seconds of the intro. Infortunate Son plays whenever you load into one of the servers. Yeah. It's. Okay. Another fun server. There was a Chinese server. I wonder why people don't fucking stream this game. Because you've been DMCA'd. There was a Chinese server. That popped up for a little bit. And had like five members. And I'm like. Well. It's the only other server. That's not the two. Family friendly ones. I'll join this one. And yes. There was like. Four different people. With Chinese usernames. In there. Playing.

[02:19:15] And I'm like. Why are Chinese people. Playing this game. Like. That is so weird. Day of Defeat Source. This was the one. It's such a weird community. And I was so glad to interact with them. I don't know if I. I don't know if I can say the same. But I mean. It was an entertaining story. Well. It's wild. It's like you think about like. I don't know like MMOs.

[02:19:44] Or something like that. You know like. Oh this game is full of. A bajillion players. Or whatever. You can form guilds and clans. Or whatever like that. And I feel like in the time. That I have played like. Elder Scrolls Online. Or whatever. Or any of that. I feel like I got more. Person interaction. In Day of Defeat. In like three hours. Than you know. Ten hours of ESO. Rider Shores. Rider Shores. Same thing. Like even when you try to talk to people. On Rider Shores. They're gone in a second. Like out of the room. Yeah. We almost. Yeah. I mean I met people.

[02:20:14] I eavesdropped on people. Like. I talked shit to you. Every time I could. Yeah. Which was not often. Because I was killing. Bro. Did you look at the ping? In gun game. I was running like 150 ping. You had like 30 ping. Dude. My ping was consistently very very low. There was one guy. Yo. And you remember that one game? You were there. The guy was like. My ping is one. And I was like. Nuh-uh. And I went and looked. And he was like.

[02:20:43] Oh my god. His ping is one. Is he hosting the server? Like. I don't know. It must be. Because I was. Everyone was like. Where are you? In Valve? Like where are you? He has to have a fiber connection. Directly to wherever the server is hosted. He's literally plugged into Ethernet. To their fucking mainframe. He's just playing the game. He was just. There are some funny. In that one game. And that map was awful. But the people there were kind of funny. But also. It was the same people.

[02:21:13] That I talked shit about. The box guy. And they were like. Whoa. Dude. Man that's a good for Ron. Why you gotta. Pull him. He's doing his best. We would kick you. If you were at the top of the team. I don't know. The fuck. I was fucking murdering people. In that match dude. I don't know what. I don't know what came over me. I was possessed by the German spirit. Of the German fighting spirit. Alright. So we talked about the servers. We talked about the game types. We talked about the guns a little bit. And you just want to touch on like. You know. The recoil is bad.

[02:21:43] But just the controls for this game. Like. How do you feel about it? On a pure gameplay stance. I mean. If you like Half-Life. It's this. It's that. It's ye olde. Ye olde Half-Life. It's not like Counter-Strike. Like the recoil is insane. But if you play with the rifle. Like I was doing. I was only using. I was only the rifle. One shot. Right. Yeah. Well. No. Not. When you have the M1 Garand. You do have to pop them. Like three or four times. But. Yeah. For the car. And for the other one.

[02:22:12] It's just one shot. One kill. It's fucking sick. Feels real good. I think if you shoot him in the legs. It's not a one shot kill. But who's aiming there. Right. Well. Dude. There's like mods in it. Where it's like. You can get disarmed. Just like in Oblivion. If you get shot in the arm. You will drop your primary weapon. I don't like that. That sounds stupid. Or your movement speed does slow down. If you get shot in the leg. I mean. That's kind of cool. But I mean. You. It would never come up.

[02:22:42] Like you would just die. Yeah. You'd die too fast anyways. I don't know. I thought the game was like. Entertaining. Like. It's a thing where it's like. You know how people don't like. Insane Clown Posse. Because of the. The crowd. Really. I mean. Yeah. I mean. It's also the music sucks really bad. But like. The crowd also. Is like. Hard. To be around. And that's kind of how. I feel about this. These guys. Well. You don't like these guys? The 40 year old drunks?

[02:23:13] I feel like. In a vacuum. Like. If I played with one of them. In a game. And all I heard was them talking. I feel like. I could talk to. Like. You were talking to Captain Snuggles. Because that. The only. I think the main reason. Why it was so fun. It was like. So interesting. Is because. It was only three people. In that server. And only you two were talking. So it's like. It basically was. What I'm describing. Where you're just like. One on one with another person. You're like. Okay. I can find something. To talk to you about. But once there's like. A bunch of them. Like. And then they start mingling. And it's like. Oh.

[02:23:42] We have a totally different lexicon. We're breaking. And entering over here. We're like. I need two different words for you. I'm dealing with feeding right now. Yeah. Fuck. Man. Yeah. I don't know. Honestly. But. People are strange. Gameplay. Pretty good. Maps. Most of them ass. We were playing on. A remake of Blackout. With Captain Stubbs. Yo. That was sick. That was a fucking sick map dude.

[02:24:11] It was great. Because I was like. I just knew. Like. I don't know if they knew. That map. Because I was like. Finding them. You know what I mean? I knew where to go. You know what I mean? I knew where to be. Because it was Halo. Yeah. It was just Halo. It's weird. It's almost like. There's pretty good map design. In most Halos. Yeah. Dude. Blackout could translate. To fucking anything dude. Alright. On three. Let's name the worst Halo map. One. Two. Three.

[02:24:40] What was the one with the gate? I can't remember. The one with the gate? Yeah. In Halo 3. Where there's a beach. And then it goes into the fortress. No. Not the big screen. Lockout. I think. Lockout. Is it called Lockout? Halo Lockout. No. Lockout's the map we played. Headlong. Oh my god. Halo Beach. No. That's the big one. What's the Halo 3? Last Resort. No.

[02:25:09] Last Resort was just Zanzibar. Zanzibar. Yeah. Wait. That's the one with the fucking. What are we talking about right now? Oh. It's called High Ground. I love this map. What? This map is ass. What's the map with the rocks in the middle? That map sucks. The really big one? No. Yeah. I didn't describe it very good.

[02:25:38] So there's a big map with two bases. And then on one side there's like a big metal ring. No. That's like. Was that containment? Or not containment? Containment. Oh my god. Look at us. It's a Halo 3 map. Oh. You know what the worst map is? What is the ice map in Halo 1? Oh yeah. That one's real bad. I fucking hate that map. It's a big U and then they remade it for Halo 3 I think. No.

[02:26:07] Well I like the Halo 3 version of it. That's containment. I think. I don't know. This is getting too deep. Alright. So Halo has bad maps. It's official. Oh wait. Hold on. Look at this. I found a tier list someone made. We don't need a tier list Halo. Wow. They put Valhalla in C. I don't know if this is correct. I don't know. Everybody knows. Everybody knows Guardian is the best map. What? Guardian is the best map. I mean it's great for 1v1s. But any other point I don't want to play Guardian.

[02:26:37] I fucking love Guardian. Guardian is another map where you could translate that to any game probably. And it would feel good. Blackout definitely needs to be top tier. Last Resort is great asymmetrical big team battle. It's like the best thing it does. I hate Foundry. Base Foundry is terrible. Snowbound. I kind of hate. I kind of hate Snowbound. Yeah. Base Stainbox. I don't like Longshore either. Do you remember Longshore? That's the one with the whale picture.

[02:27:07] Yeah. It was like the last DLC pack. Oh Ghost Town also trashed. No dude. Ghost Town slaps. That fucking center area is sick. The whole thing is that there's three. There's two rings. And then the small area for CQC. Right? Yeah. And so like you got this middle area for mid-range combat. And then the outer ring for long-range combat. That nobody goes to. Because they don't want to fight long-range combat. They want to fight mid-range combat. You know looking at all of them though.

[02:27:34] I think possibly the best would probably be Rat's Nest. Because it has it all. I do like Rat's Nest. It's too chaotic I think. I'm still the Guardian dude. Or actually. The Pit is the best. No I hate the Pit. I mean the Pit's okay. But I never pick it. I would rather play. I don't know. Etipath? Epitaph? Yeah. Epitaph. Which. Oh. Oh Epitaph. I do like Epitaph as well.

[02:28:03] Epitaph is fucking awesome as well. Because it's really small. But like it's all corridors and corners. It's all rats. Like you just go down in corners. Fucking sick. And then that upstairs area that everyone. Oh man. Do you want to do Halo 3 next week? Maybe. You know what? Next week is our. Our fourth year completed anniversary or whatever. For the podcast. Four year? Yeah. Because we started back in 2021. So it's 25 now. What did we do for our three year?

[02:28:32] I'm not sure if we did anything. We just forgot. We forgot our second 200 episode. Yeah. We forget all the milestones. Yeah. Fuck the milestones dude. Is it really fucking. That can't be true. Now I'm just going. I'm like. I'm looking at it right now. Hold on. Wait. Where'd it go? Did I go backwards? What the fuck? I thought I sorted it by. Why is April 2025? Oh 2021. Okay. Yeah. There it is. I don't know what the fuck that was. It was just lying to me.

[02:29:03] May 8th. 2021. That is. Literally two weeks from now. Yeah. There you go. I don't know. We'll think of something listeners. But don't hold us to account. The people who made it two and a half hours. Into this fucking. Yeah. Now we're talking about Halo 3. In the middle of our fucking review. Alright. So let's go into final words then. I'll take these first ones in eight. This game. This game. Is going to be a full recommend for me. I don't know if it's worth ten dollars. It's probably closer to worth.

[02:29:33] Two dollars. But. If you drop in. Talk to some of the people in the community. You might find some weirdos. You will. Actually. If anyone's playing this game. It's weirdos. Like us. I guess. It just felt like we were just. Peeking in. It felt like. Whenever you watch. Like a YouTuber. That's like. Oh. I'm going to tell you about. Fluffy Cat 47. A famous. Gamer. And this is what he did. You know. Six years ago.

[02:30:02] And as he jumped from server to server. And like. It's some crook thing. The summoning salt. Yeah. It's like a summoning salt thing. Yeah. Like. And then they like. Piece together. Some archaic history. About a dead game. That no one cares about. This is a dead game. That still has people playing it. Dude. I love the fucking dead. Literally. Just my. Just recently. A YouTube recommended. It's like. I played 30 days of MMO. That has zero players. And I was like. Ooh. Maybe. I'll watch that. Yeah.

[02:30:34] Okay. Final words. The game plays pretty good. I wish there was. Is there a story mode? I don't think so. There's not. Multiplayer only. All right. Well. I would have played the single player of this. I don't know. I would much rather play Counter-Strike. Because it feels like. It's more versatile. It makes sense. That Counter-Strike. Is the famous one. And not Day of Defeat. It totally makes sense. But. I mean. Like. I don't. I don't know.

[02:31:04] I think. If you can get this on sale. And I imagine this goes on sale. All the time. Just grab it on sale. And just poke your head in. I played for three hours. At ten dollars. I think it's probably worth that. Just to have an experience. To talk about on our. On the show. You know. Tacked right off and everything. Yeah. All right. And with that. Dear co-partner. Thank you for joining us this week. Maybe next time we can all. Day of Defeat together. Breaking and entering.

[02:31:34] See ya. See ya.