Listening Together Ep 8: Persona 3

[00:00:27] Like, oh, let's a drug us. This is new Philip and new Nave and new Aaron. And I don't remember what we were talking about exactly, but Aaron, you are the second person to ever be on a listening together twice. You know, you're the first person to do it twice, not the second person to do it once because that was taken by someone else. Not you. Yeah, that wasn't you, I don't think. Whoever they are, fuck them.

[00:01:40] This is my turf now.

[00:01:42] Yeah, you have the best performing

[00:01:44] listening together episode we've ever done.

[00:01:46] I don't know why, but it is like 20 to 50% there. Let's just check in with what we've been playing. But since this is past Phillip and Dave, it's going to be irrelevant. So instead, let's ask what Aaron's been playing. Well, the past Aaron, I guess since this is coming out in like three weeks, playing a little bit of Super Mario RPG remake, also trying to bust through ease one. There's a

[00:03:01] deep cut for everybody there. They're pretty fun game in the series except for five is on gog for sure Which they've in my when I was looking at top 10 PSP RPGs list or whatever your stupid Monamooce of the shadow blade game popped up or whatever the game that looks like oh, yeah, I'm a trash Yeah, nice all like I've I've seen this game only because of nave

[00:04:24] That game's pretty good actually I mean I wouldn't call whole thing with like Final Fantasy where one of the ancient Japanese overlords was playing Dungeons and Dragons and want to make Final Fantasy. I don't know which one. There's Miyamoto. There's there's Kazuma Kyrie, there's just so many of them. Okay. But Reggie Phil's aim or Feasam is in there too. He's in there too. Yeah. Reggie

[00:05:43] Feasam made the notorious Japanese developer. He made Final Fantasy to. It was a real spin fucking shoot shoot me yeah I saw that I was like I've no I don't know what the fuck this is and I just scrolled on fast yep yep you're not who that is and I don't know where that is so I'm just gonna go which it is confirmed the Mario Bros house has a front sign that says pipe house in the Super Mario RPG original one what did you want to go to the pipe house nice dude I was gonna say I only

[00:07:05] know Drew Barrymore from 51st States but nobody else has ever watched that something. So she's lost all of her short term memory. Whenever she is just ghosting him and she's just really awkward. Yeah. Plus the different read of it. That's it. No, that's that's the movie that that's that's all. I like that. So real and I shamal on shit. All right. Oh, another thing that kind of came up since we don't games we've been playing

[00:08:23] to talk about. Nate, we got a semi ride do know who he is now as a play. No, he plays the blue NEPTUNIA games. Oh, I don't know about that one.

[00:09:41] Yeah.

[00:09:41] Scangers are boring.

[00:09:43] Was the blue reflection is it's, it's just the one guy. Just that one. What's the director

[00:11:00] dude? The guy that makes the news or

[00:11:02] something like that. It's just that guy.

[00:11:03] It's just I love him 2 or like Chronicles 2. And I happened to get the Pokemon summon, which is the giant chested woman. Like it's like, you know, or the problem with like naps that with near. I'm like, man, I love near, but also I have a barely dressed model on the screen at all times.

[00:12:20] I feel that, yeah, Xenoblade was pretty bad, I'm like, Oh, Kajima, is that, is that like an actual cannon? Like that's why she has like that. Yeah, and they explain like it all it. It links up in the story why she's involved with you while why she breathes through her skin. It all has a reason. It just doesn't explain it till 60 hours in right after you already have

[00:13:40] Ron and team, but if you get her to friendship bond level eight out of 10,

[00:13:46] you can unlock clothes for her.

[00:13:48] Nice.

[00:14:42] especially recently, this is a anime called Space Dandy. And it's basically Johnny Bravo meets Cowboy Bebop.

[00:14:45] And this guy, he goes to his favorite place in the world.

[00:14:51] And his whole point of being a alien bounty hunter

[00:14:54] is to make enough money to go see every single one

[00:14:56] of these restaurants called Boobies,

[00:14:59] which is just Hooters in Space.

[00:15:01] And like that is the first thing that happens in the show

[00:15:04] is he goes to this restaurant called Boobies

[00:15:06] and he goes, yay! Cracker, Nick and Knight, Michael Superbacher, intergalactic pinecone. And everyone who is not supporting us, I want to thank you, but I can't. So instead, I want you to think to yourself how cool it would be if we could just, I don't know, pay our guests for spending time coming down to our show. Aaron, what, what do you like money?

[00:16:21] I would love money right now. Yeah. And right now you're not getting paid. In fact, you're

[00:16:25] like wasting your time coming out here to be on our show. You could have been doing so Where we go on the internet, find some people that have the question of am I the asshole or a asshole? And we let them know if it's real or not, or if they're really assholes. So let's take a quick look at this one. Dave, do you want to read this to you all? Me too. Where's the link that you... Oh, the link is been destroyed. Oh, yeah.

[00:17:40] Here, I still have it.

[00:17:41] There you go. It's in chat.

[00:17:42] Okay.

[00:17:44] This is once again in a suspended is just insane. Yeah. Well, I used to have this bird named Sammy with a little love bird, and I would like it would be out flying around in my house.

[00:19:03] And then I would be reading and it would jump onto my book and just sit there.

[00:20:04] I can't find like a gif of anything even by just slashing the chicken, but I feel like it had like a red I might be imagining it yeah

[00:20:06] You would have to like look at a video because no one's gonna screenshot that specific thing you think that but no

[00:20:11] I know that because you know

[00:20:13] I have to go find script bunch of random fucking images for our stupid thumbnails all the time and I'm you be surprised

[00:20:19] How I'm like a key were you crying you choose a gentleman?

[00:21:24] one or not this one but tomorrow's episode. You know, we could do our own am I the asshole without him until he gets back.

[00:21:28] A separate am I the

[00:21:29] Yeah, maybe there's a quick one.

[00:21:30] Do you have any way of knowing if they're quick or not? Oh, there's a lot more in

[00:21:34] his than there was last time I looked. But then again, I don't look this one looks

[00:21:37] twice as long. Okay, in your mind, it has a lot of reading.

[00:21:40] This is pretty good.

[00:21:44] You want to do it then?

[00:21:45] There's a sacred symbols plus episode where they were talking about furries because that says, I wish I did not throw away. Am I the asshole for being uncomfortable with a furry in my D&D campaign? Yes, you read that right. I've been running a D&D campaign since the beginning of last semester with some friends of mine at university and virtually unfortunately, some of those friends couldn't be with us here this semester. So we were looking for people to replace them. So we could have a reasonable number of people for

[00:23:02] the campaign. Oh, a lifestyle choice I'm not used to. But I feel like a should have at least asked us if we'd be comfortable with someone's

[00:24:20] like this in the game, you know, not only that, but a seems to be inconsiderate in general

[00:24:26] these days. fucking weird and just going for it all the time. Like you have to be a little bit crazy or just really determined to be that out there because I don't think furries are popular. I don't think that's a popular thing to do is to come out as a furry, but it is also weird. I agree. Yeah. Oh shit.

[00:25:40] Oh, I'm lagging. So you guys keep talking.

[00:25:42] All right, Aaron, feelings on furries. Are you a furry? It's okay if you are. It's just

[00:25:47] not weird. the racing games episode now this. I talk to a quite few people actually that are, if not furries, like very close and it's fine but most of them are pretty self aware about how like strange some of their like behaviors are and they don't act that way around normal people. I'm assuming that this furry in particular is being, I will call a flamboyant fur.

[00:27:03] No one can kill fur.

[00:27:05] That's the thing. is in Arby's and they are constantly every day around six to seven they are getting all the magic the gathering players going there for modern tournaments and and and commander turn it through. Yeah, it's like they probably I have literally seen the whole last first suits like multiple times in the couple of years that I went there of people standing outside of Arby's and furry suits like non

[00:29:22] I just blew my own mind. But it's probably a connection like that.

[00:29:24] It's probably maybe it has their character name on it,

[00:29:26] or like a picture of them in their full gear maybe.

[00:29:29] So if they identify with another fur based person,

[00:29:33] they can be like, this is maybe fur based.

[00:29:36] Okay.

[00:29:36] Yeah.

[00:29:37] Here's the main thing is like, is the furry crinkling?

[00:29:41] What do you mean?

[00:29:43] I don't know what that means.

[00:29:44] Do you know it?

[00:29:45] Like a diaper?

[00:29:46] Oh yeah, like a guy, that's just but Yeah, but that's the thing is that would be a structural weakness for master chief because he has the shield but Master cheeks himself

[00:31:03] Okay, so apparently oh my god I really like skirts or something or it's like a like that's part of the

[00:32:05] for so fucking long dude fuck medieval I was well isn't it like cold and bread I bet it felt good I was like oh no warm for a second like dumb and dumb like I've

[00:32:10] got to go man no everyone's everyone's pissed in the pool before and we all know

[00:32:16] that it feels good it feels real good there's a part in Metal Gear 5 where I

[00:32:23] think it's right in the beginning where a bigger problem with a the guy who invited the furry

[00:33:43] Which if you're on like if we're tier listing your Dungeons and Dragons team and the furry is sitting higher than like, oh, all right. Human male. He's like, I gotta play human male because this is role-playing and I am a, I am a Fox spirit. Oh, I got like, oh, yeah, I forgot. They're like, do you think like it's human male? Let's go a little further with that. Do you think that they're like, oh, how do you humans say, do you think that the out of characters,

[00:35:01] Oh my God. pretending to not be a human. I Mean yeah, but now he's got a furry in his house. Yeah, it's hard to get those out

[00:37:26] Some of the comments are funny who will notice treasure or notice

[00:37:32] It's almost always the asshole

[00:37:40] He's not in conflict with anyone is just being himself and he's the asshole they're really going in or the comments. They're really dissecting it. Okay. There's more like I found another one that I don't know if you saw this one, but it was like apparently furry phobia is a known issue in a lot of tabletop RPGs and many GMs will ban furry races just in the case of there may be any romantic.

[00:39:06] Some romance may happen in the game and. Or the old 13 though. No, I think they're all high school age. Oh, yeah. And then one

[00:40:23] kid is not in high school. Yeah, once a robot. He's like the brother of somebody. Oh, yeah, that's it Dude, this is tough like how is it? I don't want to go If it's one of those frees that like that isn't so bad I guess to put a plainly if it's one of those frees that isn't so bad like it's fine Like it's no big deal But if they are being like oh

[00:41:41] And they're being like oh like doggy sees twesher or like doggy whoa's a daddy We just know there's cat ears so possibly cat. What's up, doc or something? I'm a carrot. All right. So now for a palate cleanser. Let's go on to the original. I'm not the asshole we picked. Maybe you want to read this one? Sure. This one is for faking game. We just heard.

[00:43:00] This guy.

[00:43:01] Give me out.

[00:43:02] Am I the asshole for sacrificing my girlfriend to the dog gods?

[00:43:07] I don't want to an extent, but really what this was both the point of the game and completely in character and her character almost certainly wouldn't have let mine live if she completed that ritual. Am I the asshole? I've only played a different game. That's too fucking complex for me dog.

[00:44:20] I like this, but I routinely, I have this tabletop game called, betrayal on the house, betrayal on haunted house hill or something like that. Like some combination of those words. And the whole point of the game is that you're exploring a house and eventually,

[00:45:41] eventually someone gets revealed as the traitor

[00:45:43] and then it becomes like a one versus however many

[00:45:46] of you guys are there and you want to be the best villain. So it sounds like like yeah, you would want to take out the other players maybe unless I'm I don't know I don't know the game that well but I guess yeah I'm I'm siding with nave I can't say it better than he could have or better than he did because yeah you you should be if you're playing a fucking role playing game

[00:47:02] you should have known shit like this is gonna happen and if you get mad about it, that up.

[00:48:02] for whatever. They're just out there walking around. Yeah.

[00:48:03] I think it's just some other

[00:48:04] Darth Maul when he gets cut in half.

[00:48:06] I deal.

[00:48:07] Goes back with robot legs.

[00:48:09] Does Darth Maul come back with

[00:48:10] robot legs? Yeah, he does.

[00:48:11] Spoilers for Star Wars in general, I guess.

[00:48:14] Comes back with baby legs.

[00:48:17] Don't worry. It was in the cartoons that happened, you know, off screen, off the movie screen.

[00:48:22] All right. Yeah. But I think they. Now I don't have a lot of stake in this. So I don't really care either way, but I'm predicting that it gets shadow drops on the Xbox on the day on December 7 during the broadcast. I'm also predicting that it's getting shadow drops in the game bass. We'll see. I hope so. I hope that comes true. Yeah. I hope that comes true as well. Mostly

[00:49:41] because I want to play it with Philip and I and and then it'll fade out and then what songs we play during the intro. Cut the song, cut the song. We're done with the music. Cut. Alright, Dave.

[00:52:21] So the poem for everyone's souls, this isn't like every persona though.

[00:52:24] This has been, it's in like four, it's in five.

[00:52:27] This is one that's like just reoccurring. out or so persona three is in the notes. It says intro the guests. So I guess I'm doing it again. Welcome Aaron from Aaron and Tommy super pot. Like we haven't been talking for the last hour. Hey, hey, hey, howdy. So you. Just bonked the mic. Yeah, it's fine. The

[00:53:43] other time, but you put out I forgot what price But game was really really cool. I heard about it from some people that that I used to work with and it the soundtrack was just

[00:55:03] bitching like just fucking bitching good and

[00:57:40] No, the uh, caught. I don't know. So, so the original persona three, you, uh, you could not change your characters. Yeah going to get an HD, well, I guess more HD Blue Dragon or Lost Odyssey? I hardly did. I want infinite undiscovery. Or what was the one where they were like guns and werewolves and they were like World War II or something?

[00:57:41] Oh my God.

[00:57:43] Operation Darkness?

[00:57:44] Is that it?

[00:57:45] Yeah.

[00:57:46] I think he he did I didn't do it that much research for this guy except I know he did the music for a lot of the Shin Megumi Tinsai it didn't say it in Megumi's the personas and Catherine which of name fame who talks about Catherine

[00:59:02] every week hell yeah you should always playing it at some point it's a great fucking game Lotus juice if that fucking hell is of the name of the rapper. Yeah, if anybody fucking cares What else does he do? He makes other music It sounds it makes me want to play jet set radio. Oh, yeah, I can see that. Oh, yeah

[01:00:25] Oh, so yeah, they also a

[01:01:23] Persona 3, portable Persona 3, the FPS or whatever. And then the remixes.

[01:01:24] And then there's just the songs that have like vocals to them also on its own.

[01:01:30] OSC separate from the game tracks.

[01:01:32] Like there were so many different variations.

[01:01:35] It was hard for us to get a concise list, but I think we got it down.

[01:01:40] So yeah, Philip sent me this playlist on YouTube that has a bunch of them.

[01:01:44] And then like I was listening to it on Spotify, I'm getting some disco vibes. Only. I don't know that much disco. I just think about karaoke songs from Women fire. No, what was the game? Cause cause games with There we go. Yeah The sounds are there. I just don't know the order

[01:03:01] the Friday night the Friday night disc

[01:03:05] Finally, I was a good song from Tekken

[01:04:02] afternoon break. Let's take a listen. I mean, it's poppy. It's funky. You can put it over anything.

[01:04:11] Yeah, I can't nail a specific genre, dude.

[01:04:22] I love that. Yeah. I haven't just like no no You're other picks gotta make it all right. That's afternoon break Well, then next up Aaron what what about your pick if you would be so bold I?

[01:05:42] picked Tartarus second floor is I mean you're you're in Tartarus a lot and

[01:06:43] And I basically came down to two and six. But I could not identify what was different between the two of them.

[01:06:47] I don't like three, four, and five.

[01:06:50] They have like...

[01:06:52] Oh, how do I explain?

[01:06:53] They sound like crunchier, I guess.

[01:06:57] This one is just way smoother.

[01:06:59] It's like, yeah, this one's real smooth.

[01:07:02] That's like a Marlboro menthol, I guess.

[01:07:04] I don't know, I don't smoke, but I'd just assume those are mellow.

[01:07:07] I don't smoke, but if if I know out of the whole playlist. As soon as I heard it about like a minute in, I'm like, oh man, I'm going to want to listen to this a lot more. Maybe... My Yumi Fuchita? Maybe? Have Yumi Kawamura right now. Yeah, Yumi Kawamura. What else does she do?

[01:09:44] I'm wondering if she though. So, who is the Kingdom Hearts song that we talk about every single Queen or whatever?

[01:11:04] Sepulately.

[01:11:05] Well no, that's an English though, so I don't think-

[01:11:07] There's probably another version, right? any game like Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. Kind of really moving.

[01:13:40] It's weird because I think I might have heard this before to memories of you, but it's just piano and that one almost made it as well. But determination got me more. It was more determined. It reminds me of the little piano, I guess, part that plays on the press start screen for Persona 4, where it's like, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, you used to like, roll a homie, like, the ever the homie chilled out by, I guess.

[01:13:46] Yeah.

[01:13:47] Alright, Aaron, what about your pick?

[01:13:48] What's notable? I just keep thinking about'm trying to place this. This feels like another song. Like, if that's not Sonic, there's something like that.

[01:16:26] That is a bop.

[01:16:28] Oh, yeah, dude. And also this song has the same Like melody as memory is a view so I guess it is kind of funny. I picked both of them Put me in a lot of them like this right here Like this right here is like literally a sample just straight out of a jetset radio game apparently

[01:18:41] Yeah, Joy's really funny.

[01:18:45] We're in a new place to fucking Trump it for all these songs. Do you just or she they they built that fucking shit out to

[01:18:49] Yeah, so good.

[01:18:54] All right, for our final section, the guests prompt ask you to supply us

[01:19:01] with this outsourcing my work to the guest.

[01:19:04] Once again, the listeners, if you want more guests to come on the show,

[01:19:07] if we could pay them, that would be great.

[01:20:03] He's like, you know, I like to wear the shoes. I like good shoes.

[01:20:05] You have to leave school now.

[01:20:07] And water is good if we're cleaning the good stains.

[01:20:11] You use the hot water.

[01:20:13] Like thank you.

[01:20:14] Aussie dude.

[01:20:15] All right.

[01:20:16] So I picked shadows.

[01:20:17] Let's take a listen and we can talk about it.

[01:20:21] So I've played a little spooky. Makes it very feel like the shadows around the school that are keeping me distracted. And that's the reason I flunk. It's not because I'm bad at school, but it's a banger too.

[01:21:41] Very anxiety inducing.

[01:21:48] I really like this one for notable. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

[01:23:00] Fuck you.

[01:23:01] Fuck you.

[01:23:02] Fuck you.

[01:23:03] Fuck you.

[01:23:04] Fuck you.

[01:23:05] Fuck you.

[01:23:06] Fuck you.

[01:23:07] Fuck you.

[01:23:08] Fuck you. three Fried or Booker T and the MG and the song is just all green onions. Oh, yeah, that one's finger too But we're not gonna listen to it because it's probably more trademark than these are So next up, nave, what is your song and why is it gonna flunk you out of school?

[01:25:24] And then I looked at the list and saw the flunk out thing. I was like, oh, this is obviously just going there This is perfect for that. Yeah, this is one I could like fall asleep during class 2 dude

[01:25:31] Make sure this one play whenever you meet like the

[01:25:36] The the man and the woman the spooky man in the back alley. Oh

[01:25:41] No, that's the

[01:25:43] The the one you play at the beginning the poem for So stupid. So that covers all of our notable categories. At this point, Aaron, I want to thank you so much for coming out on such short notice to you. Like less than a week. We were able to put this together. Dude, no problem at all. I love doing these. I love video game music.

[01:27:03] I love the video game music.

[01:27:04] I love the video game music. This house we're gonna steal it here. I am just like and then Vinny is like Stupid Nate what about you final feelings? Oh shit

[01:28:20] I can definitely see where first on a four and five are getting their fucking style from and you can see like this is definitely the

[01:29:22] I picked it up specifically on your recommendation actually.

[01:29:24] Oh, cool.

[01:29:25] Yeah. I think I said it in the episode too.

[01:29:26] I don't remember.

[01:29:27] We're going to first talk about it.

[01:29:28] Yeah, if you ever decide to do a listening together on that, I'll all

[01:29:31] fucking be there.

[01:29:33] But definitely I knew we were going to get to the personas eventually on

[01:29:36] listening together.

[01:29:37] I'm glad that we were able to get to it today with you.

[01:29:40] But I was I was hesitant at first when I was just listening to the random

[01:29:45] 55 songs.

[01:29:46] I'm like, yeah couple tracks on that. And that'd be cool too. Hey, there's so many good ones. The problem with near automata is that a lot of the songs evolve based on your location

[01:31:02] in the map.

[01:31:03] It's the doom eternal problem.

[01:31:04] That's so cool.

[01:31:05] Where like it changes.

[01:31:06] The original mirrors like that too.

[01:31:08] Yeah. flouder and then as you go away, goes away. But it's always in time with the music wherever you're at in the song. It's so fucking good. So good. I don't get something to play Niro Tomata sometime then. You have to. It's so good. And with that, thanks for joining us this week, co-op partners. Maybe next time we can all oo-woo together. Oh, it's so good.

[01:32:20] Let's sign off with the battle for everyone's souls.