I'm On My Way - Rockstar Hacked Again, Disney to Save Epic & Devs aren't Lazy!

Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Elder Trolls Gaming podcast. If you are to enjoining us, we are two brothers should get together and talk about gaming. We may also tech talk, tech, TV movies and another nerdy geegee stuff too. The first time. Nasty Night and die and taking easy John O. And it's been a while. It's been like a month. Yeah, it's been a month. We had a hiatus for what why. I don't remember. You were sick. You were sick, and I was sick this week. Just this sickness. The sickness. There is a sickness. There is an I was down with the sickness. I don't like this came because it makes me look fat. So I'm just gonna mhm. It's the camera that that camera adds adds ten pounds. Yes, how many cameras are actually on you right now? You go? If I could switch cameras with have one here here, here good. I don't like this room because the one wall is like the window is like the size of the wall, and there's so many crumpled like it looks all frumpy. You see, like the sheets on the wall there, that's my rumpy. That's the curtains and I have to like mangle it to cover the whole window. It's not very nice. I have mine kind of open, get some natural light in, get some artificial lights. And you can see you can see like the line of like the light of the window. Yeah, I hate that. Shit pisses me off. That kind of looks like there's a corner in your wall, like it just a little bit. That is the corner a bevel is it? That is the corner of my room. That's why I wanted to move my camera. So it's just shows this but I can't do it. No, I want to block all this off. It's fine, and it's fine. Yeah, we've been sick here in this house for like a month. First it was Aila, then it was me. Now it's Alma. Well just me in this house. So does Pam never get sick? She does sometimes, but you know what, not this time it wasn't very serious. Like I was just like at astort of throat for like a day or two days, and then I was a bit stuffed up for another two days and then it was kind of gone. But yeah, that started on like Monday, so it was over by Friday. Played two hockey games on Friday was fine, two games. I had a terrible game on Friday. Have you been playing on Sundays? Yeah, but they're not very good, right, so my play has went down. Yeah, they're not. They don't invite us to play that game. I don't get the invite. I think Ben's embarrassed. Ben's embarrassed of that, of that Sunday. But yeah, yeah, it's not it's not good. Oh yeah, shit, there's like two there's like two people who maybe two three people that are as good as like Bannon me maybe that. Everyone else is fucking terrible, so fucking bad. Hopefully not listening to this. I yeah, they're avid listeners. I didn't mention I was in a podcast. Oh that's funny. That is funny. When I came out on Friday night, it seemed very slow, but. Like it was, It's Friday, Friday night. It's not good either. Fuck, that's funny. So what have we got on the doc today? We got some We're just gonna do news day because like. Neday on newsday, because I've just been well, we'll get into game time. But yeah, it's gonna be a news day. I've got a few news topics. Frida fresh off the presses here. It might not be as fresh when the episode releases, but whatever, yeah, yeah it goes Yep. Something else happened. I got duped into buying another mystery bundle on fanatical dot com. Which who duped you? Who duped you into buying this mystery bundle? That was yourself? You duped yourself. So I bought three of these mystery bundles and I've maybe I've maybe redeemed like two of the keys out of like the six was it sixty keys? So like you're like Philly, sound like phil Yeah, So I've listed all free games and I've put them up for grabs on the discord. Maybe I'll throw them out on the socials first come, first serve for these keys. But they do a good job in including games that have only gotten like a positive or more review on Steam. So they're not bad games. They're like mostly positive, positive, mostly positive, very positive. It's like that. So there's quite a bit of games. I few have been plucked out already by Nick, but no one else. Seems to stealing all the deep the bargain bin ben City, you start your own bin City, but beIN city for video games yeah, I don't know. I just I just want to get if I can. Now it's not worth it, right because I've bought three mystery bundles at twenty bucks each, so now I'm getting into triple A cost territory. Yeah, so without the triple at the triple A drop. Yeah, so it's like it's like fucking buying packs of I don't know, like like buying cards. Yeah, just gambling. You're just gambling. You may as well just go gamble on a on an app, like a casino app. Casino probably that's sixty dollars. They probably would have given like newbie money, you know how they give you nubie money. Yeah, you get your bonuses, you get to play the roulette for fifty free dollars or some shit scam me out of that. Because they know they'll just get hooked and then whatever. But that's the biggest scam ever. Like gaming on those little apps, like that's like at least at a physical casino, you have a physical game that you're playing and that can't be really I guess it could be tampered with technically, but like you're seeing, yeah, you're seeing the decks, you see that everything is there. The app is just it's just it's just code in the background. They could be completely scamming you. Well, yeah, absolutely, But you know. What I do do? You know what I do? Do? I do four dollars a week on the subscription LG, So I just have to I just sign up for that four dollars a week. They send me my picks, tell me if I'm winning or not, and maybe in thirty years I'll hit the jackpot. You can do that four bucks? Yeah, four bucks a week and it picks your numbers. And shit, I gotta do that. I gotta do that too. Just whatever. Can't wait if you don't play. Yep, that's exactly. Can't wait if you don't play. And then every buddy's like, it's like, why don't you just put that four dollars in the bag in a high rate savings account And he's like, oh, and then he made the calculation. He's like, I just made you sixty thousand dollars. I was like, I look how he's like in forty five years, It's like, oh, yeah, thanks. I mean that's probably more than you'll win on the lottery. Yeah, well no, no, wait, and how long it's like forty or forty five years. Forty five fucking years. Holy crap, Like, Okay, that doesn't sound worth it. That's funny, I think for you. I got a new mouse. Oh, I got the I received my mouse, the Logitech super Strike X two Pro. Now this is the news. Got no buttons, It's got no buttons. It has buttons, oh on the. Side there of it, so plane looking. It's the same as their standard light speed super light whatever like this baby like that that's unnecessary. But this mouse has it's a bit different than a normal mouse. It doesn't have buttons, so like it doesn't have buttons. It like switches. It doesn't have switches. It has analog his sensors. So it's just like there's no click. There's no click. It's a haptic feedback like kind of like a like a Mac track pad. Ok. And you can adjust this the strength of the feedback. You can adjust the sensitivity of the button the travel so you can barely touch it and it will activate. Or you can make it hate that, or you can make it like travel more or stronger, like the more you press the. Can you do it? Okay, and then when you launch a game, it'll set it to a certain. Maybe. Yeah, probably through the software you can, because I don't like going through Windows and having my mouse being too sensitive to clicks and then I'm just like, because my fingers get lazy and they like touch the keys sometimes and they click some like freak ah. That happens to me all the time. I think, maybe you can do that in the software. I didn't really. I mean, it's Logitech software, so I don't know if you expect if you should expect too much profile hits configuration, short click, click, haptics, rapid trigger. It's got eight thousand hurts polling right, Not that that is required. That's a complete gimmick. But yeah, I just had to. I wanted to check it out because everyone was talking about it, this new mouse technology. How long have you had for now? When did I get it? I got it on the twenty first of March, so I've had it for like three weeks. Yeah, three weeks. I like it. I like it. It feels a bit weird when you click, because you can here's the thing. The button still moves the same amount, Like the travel of this plastic piece that is here is still the same. It doesn't change, you know what. I mean, yeah, like the haptic feedback doesn't change the actual travel of the physical button, just the amount the sensor receives before it activates. So no matter what sensitivity you have it on, you're still going to feel this button move. See that move. You can see it kind of moving. That doesn't change. So even it feels a bit, I would prefer if that didn't move so much. But I really have to touch it to kind of activate the actual sensor. Other than that, it's pretty nice. I mean, it's about the same way as my other mouse. It. I just like the customization. The haptics is cool. It's definitely different. I don't know in terms of a performance that it would that it's anything more than a gimmick. Really, people have tested it and say that, oh, yes, it's the fastest responding by house ever, blah blah blah. But I mean when you're looking at it technically, my APEX stats this season are better than last season. But who knows. That could be that could be anything, That could be anything. But I was crushing it in APEX ranked with this mouse. I was like too like deep into platinum. I was to two point zero kill death ratio, which I'm not usually that high. I'm usually like one point six or zero, but crushing it. So I don't think it's the mouse though. I don't think it is. But yeah, it was very expensive. I don't think it was really worth it, but you know, you gotta do. You got to live on the bleeding edge sometimes. And I live on the bleeding edge, and it costs. It costs money to live there, you know. Yeah, that's a that's seeing money. Yeah, just bleeding money. But yeah, I actually read or watched a video on YouTube of guy who was like testing all the polling rates and and in the different games like Valorie Across, Valorie Apex, what was the other game like Siege and and he said it depends on your frame rate. It depends like what your refresh rate is, and and if and I think it's like the higher your your frame rate is, like if you can push a game to two hundred and forty fps and or higher, like like Csgo you can play on like four hundred fps, and if you have one of those crazy monitors, i'd like four hundred or three hundred and eighty hertz like that, that's when the higher polling rates might actually be worth it. But the higher polling rates make your CPU work a lot harder. Oh, so it can actually slow down your game. But like if you're playing less than one hundred and forty or one hundred and sixty five, then like there's no point going over a thousand polling rate. So like, okay, whatever, I'm not doing that then. But yeah, but I knew that before, Like I had a eight thousand on my my Razor mouse. I had the eight thousand hertz dongle. It was a complete fucking gimmick, like waste, a completely pointless and it was like a fifty dollars extra charge. I was gonna make a video on that, but fuck it, I don't have the tools to fucking. Measure, yeah, to measure all the stuff. I can just tell you from the hands on tests that it's a it's bullshit. It's just bullshit. So don't get an eight thousand polling controller. The controllers, I think controllers do like four thousand. Now that might be controller. You might actually notice it more because you're like you're moving with the controller too, right, Your input is for movement and aiming, not just like keyboard is movement, right, Yeah, so the keyboard is completely separate than the mouse. So which one am I feeling the keyboard or the like? Which one am I going to feel more like if my keyboard is faster or my mouse is faster. But on a controller, you'll probably feel it more because you're actually moving with the left stick. You're inputting kind of all the time with the same device, so you may you may notice it more on a controller. But I think controllers do have like four thousand. Now that game, sir, might be four thousand the G seven did you not get did you buy a new controller or no, you've found one. I wanted to get it. I wanted to get that Zendless Zone zero one. Yeah, that's supposed to be a good controller. The game, sir. They only sell the licensed Xbox wireless ones with some tupid graphic on it. They don't. They don't. They don't sell it, just a regular fucking black controller or something. Yeah, I saw a different one too. There was like a Fallen feathers Woo Chang. There's a Dragons Dogma two one. Like they don't they're just putting like the graphics on it. I don't know why, but like does end the zone? Does? It? Does end the zone? Zero one looks the coolest because it has less of like a flamboyantly Yeah, I couldn't really tell what it was, yeah, exactly, just like and it's like through graphic. It has like a transparency to it. It's pretty sweet. So that's a good controller. Yeah, that's really good. I'm not liking my bit do. I just don't like it anymore. No, they eight, but do Ultimate Bluetooth one is just a basic kind of It's a basic pro controller. It's not like a pro controller. It's like a like a semi pro. It's like a good switch controller. And because I can't like the firm operating a firmware on this thing is such a pain of the ass because the software never opens, never detects the controller, and I'm like, when was the last time I updated the fir more on this I have no idea because sometimes it won't turn on. Now I have to like unplug, replug, and I never had that. If you reset the buttons and ship. I don't like how there the button faces are switch button faces. Like yes, and you have to you have to buy new buttons to. Like the caps or whatever. You Yeah, just change it to Xbox, like it's so dumb, like every game, every game, like, there's how many different like it? You know, it was probably Nintendo. It's like, if you want to use this with Nintendo switch, then you have to put our face buttons on it and then the PC players can deal with it. That's what they fucking did because Nintendo. Not that I care, but like Pam is always complaining about it because when she plays it, yeah, on her PC, she's looking at her buttons before she presses, Like, why do you have to look? Just press the bottom button. The bottom one is A, the right one is B. He's like, well don'ts you know what they say. I'm like, stop looking at it. You don't have to look at your controller. That's just you know, amateur gamers. You know. Yep, I might get it. I'm gonna sell this. Maybe I can sell this for aybe fifty bucks. Maybe I don't know, maybe maybe not maybe yeah, maybe just keep it first. I got a thousand controllers and I've got no switch, so. Oh that's yeah. If you got no switch, that's a good switch controller. That's about it. That's about it. That's what we use it for. Anyho headed over the game time, head into burd of game time. Hold on, do we have a transition? Where's my transition? There? It is nice? Nice? Uh so what are we playing? I've just been playing nothing but Crimson Desert for the past. When did it come out? A month ago? Almost a month? Yeah, a month ago, totally. Thirteenth Crimson, Yeah, twelfth, I think it was, or No, nineteenth, it was the nineteenth. So yeah, March nineteenth, almost a month. It'll be a month by the time it's come so yeah, yeah next week. Yeah, I'll talk too much about it because uh, I'd like to invite the boys together and talk about it. I'm like sixty hours in to this fucking thing, and I think I'm a forty. I just scratched the surface, unli, I don't have it's just unlocked the second area and unlocked the third playable character. Really, I still have not done that in a way. But the Or dude, Yeah, the ork dude. Man, I go on the mods page is like Cliff and Unca Beefcake mod Whor. It's just them like just completely ripped and gigantic without a shirt. It's so stupid. Ah. Yeah, I'm about forteenth. I haven't really been I played. I haven't played this week yet I last played April sixth. I haven't played in it since last Monday. I've been playing fucking Slay the Spire for some reason. I don't know. The first one. Yeah, first one, playing the Bizarre. I think it's good, but it's like not, I'm not very good. Maybe I don't like it. That's fire. Yeah, yeah, it's a bit random for me. I don't know. But you have to know when to like skip picking a new card. You don't have to fill your deck with shit like you water down your deck. You want your deck to only have synergy with the rest of your deck, so you want to remove even the basic attack stuff. You probably want to remove them eventually, so you just have your kind of build that you made. You want to skip cards that don't you know, don't give you the the synergy with your build. But again, you're not always getting those cards. You get random fucking relics. Like I had an insane, insane build just because I had these crazy relics like that I got and that it basically made me un killable like everything I played because of my build. It was just a combination of my build that I chose and the random relics that I got fit my build like perfectly. So it's just random, Like it's it's just a lot more random than let's say the Bizarre I would say, like, but it's it's harder and like sometimes you just don't have the block and you just fucking die. It's like, dude, come on, yeah, Like so I don't know. It's addictive though, so like I want to keep playing, but I don't want to keep playing, you know what I mean. I know, fuck this game, this fucking stupid game. I hate this game. And then I'm like. Just to play. When Alo was a baby and I'd be just in a room and I'd have it on the tablet. Oh that touched controls are garbage on it. They're fucking awful, like the mobile. The mobile version sucks, like I'm touching card, touching a different card and it's like choosing a different card, Like that's not the fucking card I am touching. Like it's horrible. The touch screen controls are awful. Yeah, sometimes I would touch it near the bezel of the monitor of the screen and it wouldn't do anything. Come on, or like minimizes the app. I'm like, yeah, fucking stupid. But other than that, I bought a game because me and Pam were watching ted Lasso and and I was getting in there was like, ah soccer man, Yeah, I like then the World Cup's coming up, and the fever got you. Yeah, you do get the fever. Italy lost, of course, lost in the qualifiers, so they're not making the World Cup for the third straight World Cup. That's absolutely pathetic. It's a complete joke the state. And then I was like watching all these videos of the state of Italian football and it was just like it's a giant cluster, fucking a huge mess. The guy was watching more soccer clips and I was like, ah, man, it's so cool. So then I saw on Steam that eas FC twenty six was like eighty percent off for some reason, Like when did this game come out? Well, came out in September, so it's uh, it's like. It's pretty old. But I got it. Yeah. I got on PC for fucking twenty seven dollars or something from one hundred and twenty dollars. It was like some special icon edition and it was like twenty seven bucks. I'm like, oh, I haven't played a FIFA game in a while, Like so I just bought it and I've been pooling around. Off just off Steam or did you get some unlike No, they. Didn't have it on Fanatical, it's not there. It was just seven it was like twenty eight bucks. I'm like, okay, I'll grab that. So I've been playing that. It's it's a piece of shit game as EA is FC twenty six not for casual gamers. Not for casual gamers. Yeah, I mean you can play in easy mode. It's like this FC twenty six feels like it requires a university course just to learn what to do. There's a lot of like modifier buttons and stuff. Yeah, for like the advanced moves, so like, yeah, someone can be very good at it, probably if they knew how to do all that shit, like with the with the bumper buttons and like the as modifiers. It's yeah, you can do I guess some pretty wild dribbling and whatever. But but it's just a casual you can play against the AI whatever. I would not play against. Oh yeah people those figgin soccer sweats. Yeah, I don't think I would play against people. But uh yeah, I mean it's cool. I mean watching clips and stuff of the Champions League and all that shit, which is happening now. There's a game on Tuesday. I think there's two games. It's in the quarterfinals. That's exciting. That's exciting, you know. Not for Italy though, no, So like what am I going to tier for Canada? Like, yeah, we're only in it because we're fucking hosting. Yeah, Like, give me a break. I don't know who helped you for I don't know. I have no idea. It's good to watch players, though, you want to watch some of the players play the good players. There's a there's a lot of like insane players. Did Ronaldo retire yet or what she's still going? No, he plays in the Saudi League, which is shit. So he's old, but he'll probably be playing for Portugal, but they'll. Probably put him in the last like ten minutes. From Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. Like they used to do with the buddy on Italy del Piero del Pierro. Yeah, he's a fucking legend. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, that's all I've been really playing Pamson, playing Pocopia, Poco Pia just I don't even know what she does in the game. It's just it's one of those mincraft games. You just do whatever. It's just a world to live in. Yeah, And so like you can go visit other people's worlds. So like you can look up these crazy builds on on the internet and just type in their code and go to their to their world to look at it, like and run around in it. So she's been doing that and like sending me all these reels on instan a gram of all these different freaking worlds. Like someone remade like Jurassic Park, and I saw someone made like the starting town from the. First Pokemon game. They rebuilt it the Do you see that one? That one was pretty crazy. Yeah. I don't even know what the game is about. I guess there's some kind of story, but I don't even think she's doing the story. She just like went to the different areas and unlocked the different areas. And it's trying to find all the the Pokemon. You have to like do something to get them to come to your to live with you, or something like to summon them. Basically you have to have a you have to find their habitat or create their habitat. Okay, So like it says, oh, like if you walk by something, I think and there's like a bush and like a tree, and like a bush and a tree is a habitat that could summon a specific pokemon, So I guess there are these different things. So you put a bush beside a tree and then you'll get some cat orpy. Yeah, yeah, exactly, some stuff like that. She's finding all these Pokemon and just like she's just upset that that he her world doesn't look as cool as some of these other ones. You've got to have a freaking I don't know. There's some people to they do things like why why couldn't I have thought of that? This is just like Minecraft nerds playing yoke. Like these guys are just like building these insane things which take like planning. They're not just like going in there and build it. You have to like plan it out. Okay, I'm gonna do this that Like this guy made this underground cyberpunk style city who's completely underground with like an elevator going to all the different levels. But you can't just do that, Pam. You have to, like you plan it out and. Like you have to have an idea first, and then we're like okay, I gotta put this to paper or then I gonna put this to game. Oh, there's definitely like paper and they have a plan and like maybe even is there an app? Maybe there's an app for like planning Minecraft builds and shiite. I don't I wouldn't doubt that's the thing. I wouldn't doubt it because like, how else do you fucking do that? Yeah, because I didn't do much in Minecraft. I just drilled into the ground, into the magma, and that was it. Yeah. I just dug as far as I could down. That was the extent of my Minecraft. It's like, oh, I can't go any further. That's pretty deep. And I look up and it just I'm like, oh, I'm supposed to get back up there, all right. I jumped back into Pokemon TCGP because I had an idea. I was like, oh, I haven't played in a while, so I'm gonna get clawed to analyze the current meta and all the cards that have been released since I left. How did it know that? Because you feed them a website and on this website it has all the card packs, all the cards in those packs, it'll tell you like the meta decks, how they're built, whatever. And I was like, analyze these websites, and these are the cards I got, right, these are the cards I have from the latest packs because I opened like thirty packs whatever from all the free coins I had. And I was like, make me a deck that I could try to use to be competitive. And he's like, he's like, since you have two Gang Gar Mega ex cards, here's a here's a deck you can build with your current current cardlest I was like, okay, sweet, oh I'm starting. I'm gonna use that list. He's gonna give me the list he gave me, and I'm gonna try to win some some matches. That'd be cool. That'd be a cool content. Like it's like, can I break the meta with AI built Pokemon TCGP decks? You know, maybe that'd be pretty sick. It's like, analyze all the cards and make the best deck possible, and then it just gives me like. Or like even you could try it and slay this fire. Like I'm going to tell you what cards that I have a choice from and tell me which the which is the best one, and like so it knows your deck and it knows your build, and it could maybe give you advice as like for drafting for drafting your cards and. Then I was like, he's like, oh, would you like me to put this card to a PowerPoint? Like was make sure? And then he made a graphic power point slide of the deck, all the cards in the deck? What the like? The plan is all that kind of stuff. I was like, oh, damn Claude, pretty sweet. Yeah, he looked at his power his power point. Yeah, it's in gang Guar color theme like purple and black mega gang gar X. But I was like, I don't really need snorlax in there. And I made a few changes and then he's like, oh, let's good changes, good change, and like listen. But I'm like, don't be a yes man, Okay, I need you to be calculated. So okay, this be calculated. Are these good moves? Did I make good choices on these replacements? He's like yes, blah blah blah blah. So okay, we're gonna try that out. I've won a couple of matches, but the ranked season is uh isn't unlocked yet. I don't know why I don't. I don't get there, stupid. It's always if, it's always a comeback later, it's never open. But whatever. That's all I've been doing other than Crimson Desert John. Crimson all right, well let's talk about let's get into some gaming news. We're gonna just talk some gaming news, but first a word from our VR sponsors. Hello, everyone, we are thrilled to announce an excitingnew partnership with vrrock dot com. 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How they made it accessible and all this stuff. Now everyone's going to start making these fucking extraction shooters, you know what I mean? Yeah, monkey see monkey do Yeah. And now it's like, oh, Disney extraction shooter with Fortnite graphics, Like is that what I'm picturing here? Like Donald Duck and Goofy running around with guns, Like one of. My kids might want to play that shit. It's this is for fucking people who play Fortnite. It's for like people who play. Our graders are not going to go play this, but no, for sure, And but kids aren't, Like young kids aren't playing our graders probably. And apparently they're not playing Fortnite anymore. Like the really they had they had to raise prices. No one's buying v bucks. Yeah right, that's bullshit that they did not raise prices to pay the bills, how much like they made like fucking seven billion dollars, Like they don't need to. They don't need to raise the prices to pay the bills. That's just as early as twenty twenty six, Fortnite has experienced a decline in average active players. With that and indicating a drop of over twenty percent of players. Maybe they're moving on to Apex because Apex has more players now than fucking ever for some. Reason compared Yeah, because people are getting the players older. They're moving on, they're moving to the better game. Finally lost over one hundred to three hundred thousand average daily users. Yeah Apex, that's three hundred thousand wow peak twenty four hours right now? That somehow why so. They think that making an extraction shooter with Disney characters could bring these people back. Give me a break, Where was. I not happen? Kotaku? Two more Disney Sorry, Two more Disney connected games are also in development, though the second has received mixed internal reviews and resources have been shifted away from the third from the third after Disney reportedly expressed disappointment with its progress. You don't get in bed with Disney, okay, Like, yes, their money is nice, but like they're just pieces of shit. You know. Some employees are worried about an unrealistic schedule, and internal testers have flag concerns that the games mechanics are particularly aren't particularly original. This is the new game they're talking about. I think one of the other ones, Though Epic and Disney both say they remain committed to building out a larger shared gaming universe. So yeah, we've got a we've got a Disney extraction shooter coming in alight, what do you think about that? Huh? I would never play it. I just can't like Disney characters, Like this is just for kids. Disney characters are for kids. Any games that have Disney characters in them are for kids and babies. Eh, but I. Just find it for kids and babies. I just find it funny that they've they've turned to Disney to try to save like Fortnite and shit, like oh god. I mean, yeah, it doesn't make sense to save Fortnite, you want to use Disney characters, which is the same, like the same demographic anyway for. Fortnite, maybe even younger, you know what I mean, Like Disney characters young. It's just annoying, like they have too much crap in the game all the time. It's always something. Now granted, it is always something different, so if you're but like it's always some stupid like opie thing that you can't take like a break from Fortnite and then go back and play it and you're like, what the hell has happened? Yeah? Yeah, like you have some guys shooting a fucking came from the sky and die in one shot, Like what the hell was that? Or like Spider Man swinging around, or you got fucking lightsabers all of a sudden and you just die in one shot to a lightsaber. Uh, why am I playing this game? Yeah? That's dumb. Yeah, dumb. Next, it's more of a discussion point than a news. But Disney didn't. Disney didn't Disney pull back on their Ai. They were gonna put a billion dollars in the Open Ai or something like that, and they see they they pulled out of it. Because Open Ai closed their Sora. I think, oh that's right. No, they were gonna give them a bunch of money to use to use their character likeness in Sora or whatever, and then they pulled out and then fucking open Ai closed down Soro, which. Is I thought it was good because they closed down, so I. Don't think so. I don't think so. I think maybe they closed down SOA because they didn't get that fucking money, you know what I mean? Yeah, it was kept Zora open. Yeah, like they don't say much any money. They're losing so much money. I love it. I fucking love it. And he's already renegged on the all the memory he thought he was going to buy Sam Oltman, fucking idiot. And then there was a bunch of like Europe, I love. I think I could have moved to Europe. Europe has passed all these like legislations and bills making it harder, uh for these big AI data centers to be plopped everywhere, you know what I mean, because of the energy costs and all that stuff. So they're like, no, you can't do it, so opening eyes, like okay, so they canceled a few data centers in Europe. Fucking sick. Love it, love it. We need to do that here. Yeah, I love, I love Europe. I think I can. Yeah, I think I can move to Europe. Although it's closer to Russia and shit, but it's closer Russian shit. You could become a soccer wooligan. Yeah maybe. Pretty pretty fucking good, pretty damn good. Pretty good, lads, if you're a man. Just so you know, I ed fan seeing the Man just do you know it? Song theme song? Yeah, that's fucking sweet. Yeah. Any any news of Sam Alton losing money and losing stuff is like is that candy? Yeah? Amazing I love it, and I love when Microsoft gets gets a fail to like what their AI ship failing. Hey man, they're they're pulling back. Microsoft is doing a lot of like backpedaling. They're saying, Okay, we're gonna because they see how many people are leaving for Linux. I think they can see it in their numbers. Steam, Steam just went Linux. Now, yeah, people are going to Linux. So like Microsoft is like, Okay, we're gonna remove co pilot from We're gonna kind of reduce the the co pilot integration and all this reduced reduction of like the AI integration in some of their and their apps because they see people don't fucking want it. Yep. So I think they are kind of learning, so that's good. But yeah, I have been using Linux. Actually, I only really use Windows for games that I need to use Windows for, which is like Apex and oh so you're over there all the time pretty much. I play Bizarre on Linux. I play, and I Slay the Fire on Linux. I play. I can play Crimson Desert and Linux. Yeah, that's what I did. So although my Steam my Steam Cloud save isn't sinking recently on Linux, so I have to play it on Windows. Now, but I was playing it and just stop working at it them. So I installed catch the OS on a second SSD and I was fooling around with it. I got Crimson Desert. It plays Crimson Desert the same. I guess performance. I didn't see any increase in performance even after doing all these like tweaks, and I guess maybe because of those tweaks and performance tweaks and all that shit, it is playing at the same prame rate as I would get in Windows. The thing I don't like is that it's just it's more loopholes and jump throughs to get my like a little bit of my mod's working a bit. So if I were to play, if if I was playing Crimson Desert Vanilla, like not doing anything, then I would probably play a Linux but it doesn't have FSR four point one installed installing, yeah, installing or doesn't even have four. Especially Linux is good for the AMD stuff, the MD drivers and stuff. Yeah, so I had these Opta scaler to get to inject FSR four so I really want to do that. Just getting like an overlay to see my fps as was a bit wonky, like just stuff like that. So if like, if I were just like playing vanilla games without mods or nothing. Sure, but if it's not going to have the most up to date like FSR builds, because I how I play Crimson Desert is a virtual resolution to four K, and then I put quality mode on f SR. So the so it looks, it looks much better, looks much better, but the performance is terrible. So so right now I'm playing four K sixty fps Crimson Dessert maxed out graphics with the with f SR on quality at sixty fps at virtual four K. So if I don't put any f SR on, it's too sharp. It's yeah, it's the fr was sharp. They fix that. They've done a lot, a lot of fixing, a lot of fixing. There's a patch every other day. Yeah, and they just they just released some graphic options for like the meshing and the level of detail on fire objects and shit like that. So the popping isn't as bad. You know, there's a patch today posted today Crimson Desert. On Sunday, it was one pat version. There was one the other day. Yeah, there's there's one, like, there's one April tenth. April tenth, there's a huge one. Yeah. Uh, there was two posts of updates on April tenth. That's weird small April third. Yeah, like every week you're getting at least one. Oh it's just a tiny one today fixed an issue where a projectile ricochet fixed issue where nothing on PC here. But yeah, oh man, that's a sexbox. Like Will said from fridaynight gamecast in our in our chat, we're having our Crimson Desert chat. It's like they're chaining these guys to the desk and they're just whipping them that so. They you know, they're not they're not wild gold farming anymore. They're just working on the which which brings me into my next talking point. Slash news not really news. On Games Industry dot biz, there was a written piece which is an opinion pushing back on two common player complaints. The lazy devs accusation is the main target. The author argues it's a deeply unfounded jab it workers in an industry notorious for long hours, punishing crunch, job instability, and comparatively low pay punishing crunch. The second argument is about entitlement around post launch updates. The piece makes the case that ongoing patches and consent ongoing patches and content drops are a business decision, not a promise, and players shouldn't treat them as a guarantee. The overall message toxic consumer identity. Fandom has normalized the mode of criticism that misunderstands how game development actually works and directs blame on the wrong people. Listen, game development, how it actually works. Well, if we make here's how it actually works. You make a good game that's complete yep, and you release it, then okay, yeah, you don't get to do that. Yeah, I agree this guy, I don't know this. I like listen, I'm paying one hundred dollars for a game, and I don't want it to be a piece of ship. You better work your ass off to get it not being a piece of shit, okay, Or yeah, we're gonna bomb you, not like not bombed. Okay, bleep that out. We're gonna review bomb you. Yeah, okay, well I won't. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. But if you make a. Normal review, yeah, which is negative because of obvious things. Like I don't I don't find it. It's the only way these people are going to learn to put out a better product. You don't want to, you don't want to be chained to your desk and whipped for the next month. You know what I mean, like a post launch, Well then get it right the first time or as close tested. Yeah, hert is fucking testing, like because they skip because they gotta pay testers, right, Yeah, what's the different? What's difference? You pay QA testers or you have to spend three months after release going back and fixing all your ship? Like which one is more expensive? Probably do they don't just launch it. They don't. And you get bad press. So you get bad press and it's expensive. You got to force your workers in the devs to work harder after the release just to fix the ship that you could have caught by QA testing before release. Hello guys, but you know the CEOs they don't want to hear this, That's true. They don't want to hear they don't know what they're deal with it later they don't know what they're talking about. They just don't know what they're doing. The people in charge are making poor decisions, and we see this across all industries. People are generally, I've said it before, most people are generally not good at their jobs. That's true. The average person is not good at their job. I'm just saying I experience it all the time. I don't feel I'm sorry, but I don't. I don't feel sorry for the devs that have to work their ass off to patch their game. I don't feel sorry for you put a game out, a complete game. If you can't then be prepared to work your ass off to get it and working like in working condition for people to spend money on. Yeah, I mean, it's not rockets, Rocke appliances here. Yeah, so like you're. Going to get a bad review if the game is not good, or if it doesn't run well, or if it is buggy as ship. That's it. That's it. Uh So yeah, continue Crimson Desert to patch your game. I love to see it. And man I said this, I said this on our socials. It's like the way they're pumping out updates like other devs should take freaking out here. Okay, if your game comes out and it's like just Marathon too, they're pumping out patches an updates like a monster to get Marathon a little bit more like. Yeah, because they told people to not review their game until they were that's also very greasy and bullshit. But also look at Larian's been pumping out boulders Gate three updates for fucking three years. They're still updating it. It's still going I get update pop ups for fucking boulders Gate three all the time. I'm like, geez, man, oh, it's so big, that world, it's so big. Well, yeah, this is uh, that's a no brainer. Mm hmmm my next one maybe actually I put it in there, but I'll put in the chat here. It's an Instagram thing. The f oh, the FAA, not the FCC. The FAA wants you, FAA, FAA, FAA recruiting gamers to fill air traffic controller jobs. Oh, they want gamers to be air treamer controllers, ready to level up. We're looking for the best and the brightest. Mission requirements. It must be an assistant of the United States, must be under thirty one years of age at application, must speak fluent English. Take your skills to the next level and apply to the air traffic controller applications in April seventeenth. Yeah, it's not a game, it's a career. Yeah. Yeah, they're struggling a lot of people. Oh after what happened was that in Toronto? That happened the freaking airplane that hit the fire truck on the runway. It was in Air Canada. I don't think it was in Canada. It was an Air Canada flight. I don't think it happened here though. Yeah. New York is in New York. Yeah, Air Canada Express has collide with a fire truck at New York the Guardia Guardia. Yeah, it's I mean, there's a lot of people. It's a hard job and they're losing people, and I can't travel, not going to travel. The stress on that one, Like, no thanks. The fucking Timm? Is it? Tim? And Eric? Where Will Forte is an air traffic controller? No, man, that's a fucking ridiculous skit. But yeah, it's not far off. I mean it's crazy. And then they weren't being paid and shit like that. Yeah, when the government was shut down or whatever in the States, Like these guys weren't getting paid and they're fucking going in and doing this shit like they're all quitting. Everyone is quitting, Like there's it's bad, Like they're gonna have to figure something out. But this is just like a shot in the dark, I guess looking for gamers. Why gamers specifically, I don't know. Maybe this is an idea, you have to put like a professional FAA air traffic controller game on Steam. Yeah, just make it a simulator, I guess. And then that's it. That's how you train them. Maybe give them a pay increase maybe or pay them maybe pay them more, and you'll get more people who would be willing to do it, Like there's rocket science. There's so many planes up in the sky though. Man, that's so crazy. Yeah, like it's no, yeah, no fucking way. Yeah, that's bad. That next Rockstar gets hacked again? How many times have rocks are been hacked? Man? This is insane? Like, don't they learn it's not their fault? Though? I don't think this is just a This was a vulnerability between the data center and some some other tools. This is the this is the second time, I think. Okay, So Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by a data breach courtesy of the hacking group Shiny Hunters. The group didn't crack rock Star Systems directly. Instead, they compromised ana Dot, a third party cloud cost monitoring tool Rockstar uses, and used stolen authentication tokens to act star Rock to access rock stars Snowflake cloud data storage, potentially exposed data included financial records, marketing timelines, and contracts with Sony. Fuck what kind of contracts with Sony? Eh, we're gonna about to find out voice actors, music labels, et cetera. Though there's no evidence player passwords or payment info was accessed, shin Hunters set an April fourteenth deadline to pay up or face public leaks, and Rockstar confirmed the breach, calling it a lamited amount of non material company information but no impact on players. Shiny Hunters has previously hit Microsoft in AT and T and Ticketmaster using similar third party integration exploits, and Rockstar appears to be part of the broader wave of Snowflake related extortion text these This is from ruddit. I think it's a Kataku andthgamer dot com contracts with Sony. You think it's a timed exclusive with Sony? What else would it be? A's fuckers? Like why? But shouldn't that be public? Only want to make money? Shouldn't that be public knowledge? Though, well, they haven't freaking released anything yet. They might do it with the next trailer. True, uh, but that goes against what we were talking where we heard m H about the PC launch may not be far away, Well, what was that stemming from? What PC launch? Thing? So that came from previous Rockstar employees who've worked on the game. Oh, and they knew or they believe that. They said that the game was slated to come out on PC in February twenty twenty seven. Uh, February twenty twenty seventh, that's what that's only two months after after launch? Right, No, it's there in November. Three months. No, we don't even know when they're launching. Tell it's November nineteenth, is it? Yeah? Jay, I think it's November nineteenth. Yeah, Okay, November, December, January, Fember. Oh three months, so three months, but like, if that's. True, four months max? They said they said before end of March or something at least three months. Beautiful love it? So do you believe that? Are you believing that enough to not buy it on PS five? Well, they'll they'll have to let us know, like whenever they come out with that last trailer, like releasing on November nineteen. They want you to buy it and then buy it again. But what contracts with Sony? That's what I want to know. M contracts with Sony? Contracts with Sony bundles. Maybe you think bundles timed exclusivity. I don't think it's times exclusivity exclusivity. Maybe it could be like a PS five new PS five version controllers, Grand Theft Auto bundle. Oh, it could be the marketing. Oh, Grand Theft Dot O six is not a permanent Sony exclusive, but PlayStation five is the primary development and marketing platform. So that's maybe what it is. Oh, Sony's like, oh, we'll give you a lot of money. So if you're showing anything to do with the game, it's showing it on PlayStation and all this stuff. Yeah, it could be that. But still going back to the other thing, are you gonna wait? Really? Are you really going to wait three months to play it on PC? Even if even if this was one hundred I mean, if it was one hundred percent confirmed okay, that it was releasing in piece on PC in February, would you wait? I think so you would. Wait four months or three months to not play Grand Theft Auto six. It would get spoiled for sure. But like, I really don't want to play it on Bass Bitch PS five, Like I really don't want to, but I've been looking at it a lot and it's like everything they've showed on the trips it's all base PS five footage whatever, gameplay. Like that's insane to me, it's crazy. Really, it doesn't say PS five Pro. No, I thought it's a PS. FIVETA six all shown on PS five base. Hmm. I thought it was PS five Pro, But I don't know. I guess I didn't really, I've it's it's been a long time since the last trailer or. Whatever I read I read. I think I read it in the same article that whatever they've shown that wasn't cinematic was base PS five gameplay footage or in game footage. So, and they're targeting performance targets. Reports indicate that while the PS five Pro will offer higher performance, the base PS five is expected to run GTA six at thirty eight phrase per second. But we don't know what resolution. I'm assuming like eight hundred p visual fidelity. The trailer showed high end graphics in twenty twenty standard hardware, yeah, including detailed reflections. I mean, it's been a long time. They've honing it, they've been they've been optimizing it, they've been maximizing their PS five maxing. You know. Yeah, here we go grade. The thout four or grade of DOOT six trailer two was captured entirely in game on a PlayStation five. Not Prosi. Their graphics mogging the entire industry is what they're doing. What do you mean graphics made there there there looks maxing their graphics maxing. Well, this is for sure going to be like the game that absolutely pushes the hard word to the absolute like limits. Yeah, well probably that's what I'm saying. It will be maxed, it will be maxing. This is the best. This is the best you're going to be able to push out on a PlayStation. Five for six years. The best it's been up for six years. Yeah, that's crazy as a release of GTA in November, right because it came out in November twenty twenty, didn't it, or like September of Sober twenty twenty. So six year old console plays GTA six. That's gonna be the headlines on Sony. Yeah, it does the same on Xbox, does the same thing, but Sony get it best played here on Sony. Yeah, I don't think I can. I don't know. I don't think I can. Maybe that I don't think I would wait honestly, I gotta play. I live on the edge, Like I said, I gotta play the psfi Pro. No, no, no, it just went up one hundred and thirty fucking dollars. Oh yeah, that's right. The boys at Gaming Gaming Duo they bought it before the upgrade or before the h the price increase, and they traded in their PS fives for it, so they got a pretty good frigging deal on it. Sony was offering like two hundred and seventy five US dollars for their regular PS fives and trade in value with the PS five Pro, bringing the PS five Pro down to like what was it four or five hundred bucks US. Yeah, I don't know what the deal was here, though. I don't. I don't all because it's expensive here because you have to buy the disk drive too, Like fuck off. But yeah it's a disk drive, man, it's an extra one hundred dollars. Give me a break. I wasn't ye, I wasn't a gun. I was thinking about doing it. I was like, oh, yeah, maybe i'll do. And then I saw that you have to buy the disk drive too, and I. Was like, fuck that just a way for them to start taking away your heart where your hard game your hard copy games. Yeah no, no, I'll just get the PS six when it comes out. Yeah, like I'm probably not gonna upgrade my PC again, and I'll probably just get a PS six, you know what I mean. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. But the prices of RAM are coming down a little bit, a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, I was listening to elnas tech tips way and show, and yeah, he's the RAMS. The RAM looks like it's gonna start. Nvidio's not coming out with a new GPUs. Yeah, they're skipping a year, same as AMD. Yeah, so we'll see what happens in a year. But make my words here, Okay, if we have to wait two years for any kind of like hardware upgrade in like tech or performance, you better be fucking good two years Okay? Yeah, when did they release the nineties last year? Right? So they're what they're not releasing graphics cards this year twenty six? I don't think AMD next. Are they releasing twenty twenty seven though? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. I thought like they're skipping twenty twenty seven. No, skipping twenty twenty six more likely to be released in twenty twenty seven. The next name be U the ten thousand series. God ten thousand and seventy XT. Like, I expect a very big increase in performance if you're skipping a year, okay, or I'm just getting LESSS five or I'm just going frigging PS six okay, and I'll have I'll deal with the pisser. Yeah, but you're gonna cost the PS six will cost as much as. The graphics card. Yeah. Yeah, so fine, I just get a PS six. Or a graphics card. I guess seconds, you know what I mean. But yeah, that's a tough decision. It's tough decision. It's tough because like the games aren't the games that are coming out. It's like, oh, they're gonna be coming over for PS five two, there's just gonna be ship and you're. Like, yeah, we're getting we'll get into that. That overlap yeah era, yeah, that overlap period, the the between jen period where we saw Cyberpunk fail. Yep, well we. Didn't see that. We we played it properly and saw it for what it what it what it was. But you know what I think, with which are four being primarily like console optimized, like Whicher four and PS six is. Gonna be fucking sick. Yeah, like, yeah, that's gonna be sick, very sick. Hell yeah, I can't wait for that. That's gonna be because they've got a whole bunch of new tech they're working on four which are four unfortunately it's underal entent five. But the tech looks unbelievable, like the oh was it the geometry and like trees and shit is like new Unreal Engine five stuff that's that they're working on. It's crazy, gonna be crazy, all right, next one, we got a few more and then actually we can probably skip this one. I don't really care about it. Um, how about this one? Fuck you, Nintendo. Nintendo has taken a beating on the patent front as it pursues its lawsuit against Power World developer Pocket Paar. The Japan Patent Office rejected over twenty Nintendo patent applications related to the monster capturing mechanics, citing a lack of novelty and extensive prior art from games like Arc Survival Evolved, Monster Hunter four and Pokemon Go. Meanwhile, in the US, the USPTO rejected all twenty six claims of Nintendo summon a character and make it battle patent Wow, a non final ruling, meaning Nintendo has two months to respond or appeal. Notably, the examiner didn't need to look at a single video game to reach that conclusion. The case rested entirely on four prior patent filings, two of which Nintendo had filed itself, alongside ones from Konami and Bandai Namco the ruling. The rulings don't directly affect Nintendo's ongoing lawsuit against Puck Perry in Tokyo, but they are clear signals that regulators on both sides of the Pacific are skeptical of Nintendo's attempts to lock down broad, long established gameplay mechanics. Wow. I remember in previous episodes, I have I read somewhere where there's a book about It was a book about like legal video game legality or something like, and it's from back in the day, and it talked about in the eighties and shit like there was an agreement like a general a gentleman's agreement to not to not be doing this shit, or like the games would like, you can't just patent every fucking game you make, and every little mechanic and it's like there would be no other games. Yeah, like it's not good for the industry. It's not good for gaming. It's it's just stupid, like it doesn't it would completely like annihilate creative growth in the industry. Like it's so dumb. Like I remember back in the day, there was a game that I patented, I think, like mini games during loading screens, which is why it's not in any other game really something like that. Yeah, like you think that would be like a like a thing across like how many other games, But no, you can't. Can't do it legally, which is why we don't ever see it. When I see when I see rulings against Megacorp like Nintendo, I love to see it. I love to see this because I love when Nintendo gets knocked just a little bit. It's all. I'm not saying they're gonna lose this thing, but this is very good just to tell Nintendo, like you need to calm down, Okay. It's good for the consumer. Yes, this is an anti consumer behavior from Nintendo. Expected and yeah sure expected and typical from Nintendo. But yeah, but yeah, this is ah, this is a pro consumer announcement. That's some good news. That's some good news. Hopefully it helps PoCA Pear, because you can already tell they've already switched out of balls for PoCA pear. I think it's they've changed to cans or something cylinders. They are like pop cans or something. Now nice. They drink them, drink the drink it and spit out the Pokemon drink it. They drink it and then turn into the pal Yeah. Like on I think there's a game like that or no, you turn into your pocopoles. Isn't that animo? Yeah? Okay, yeah, Pam was playing the beta. She loves that game. She can't wait for that game to come out, and. She said it was really girly and I wouldn't like it. Maybe it did look very girly. Yeah, but like the graphics are cool. It's like an MMO, so that there's people everywhere and like you turn into your little Pokemon or whatever the fuck they're called animos. You went to animos? Is that like? Is that like saying. It like a baby? Yeah? A baby speech cut? Anyway, what else you got are that's. A good good news set good news, sessh. We still got some time, yeah, we're gonna do it am I the Asshole Gaming Edition, and then we're gonna call it quits here. Okay, so let's head over into uh am I the Asshole Gaming Edition. I have updated Claude has updated the excel sheet with what with new stories? Really? And he fixed the links so the links actually work. Okay, So let's try to get a better one here. Let's look through the mirror. Let's let's see which one we want to do. Oh, no, number number eight. Oh okay, yeah, that's good. Okay, let's do it mature content. Oh hell. The fuck? What are these fucking this is a porn gift? Excuse me? Is Claude not Claude? Just sent our slash Chinese Gone Wild? That's what the fucking link is. Like, are you serious? Man? Okay, Claude, you're gonna hear from my lawyers. Use their name of this post becoming underscore slut. What the fuck is this? Is AI? Ladies and gentlemen, this is what AI is stealing our ramp, giving us fake fucking links to porn subreddits. Wow, good thing we didn't have that on the fucking share it on screen? Like, what is Claude doing? That is so strange. I'll remove that link. I'm not finding it. I'm not finding it, Claude. Or he's just made up? Did he make them all up? God, it's possible, dumbass, Where is he? Okay telling this, Claude, you linked porn? Ha ha, the fucking idiot. This link for this story is porn. Let's you say. What do you gotta say for yourself? Claude? Oh no, I'm really sorry about that. The link was when I generated without verifying. Fucking idiot. I made up. I clearly made up a your al that happened to land somewhere completely wrong. Why do you? Why are you making up ur ls? Like? Well, now it looks like I have to go through all these fucking links. Oh shit, freaking Claude, don't trust a for nothing. Okay, so let's just do the first one there. Am I asshole for telling my wife to stop playing roadblocks and do her dirt, do her duties as a parent. You playing rollblocks again? Let's let's try. Let's just check this one out. Yeah, okay, so this is from our slash Am I the asshole? Uh? The poster is middle Underscore leading eight for six nine burner account. Uh they're all it's got multiple am I the asshole posts man? This guy just needs to tell let people tell him. I think it is a burner account. Yeah, burner account because it's all from the same posts. Okay, burner account. Smart. Okay. My wife thirty seven female, and I thirty six male, have always tried to keep the housework pretty evenly split between us. I, for example, modo lawn and do laundry and dishes, and she meal plans, cooks and picks up and drops off the kids. Okay, I've already, I've already. Hold on. Are you reading with me? He mows the lawn and does dishes, Yeah, and laundry. We'll get into why that's not okay, so flag that. Lately this has all changed because she has become addicted to a game called Dressed to Impress on Roadblocks. If you aren't familiar, it's a game where you have to dress your character in a themed outfit but before the time runs out wow and the other players rate it from one to five stars. It started off harmless, just as fun or just a fun thing she would do during downtime before bed, but recently she has missed crucial appointments and chores. Because of this game. I tried to be understanding and gently remind her to do her tasks when she would always say that she forgot or got distracted. The big argument happened last night when she forgot to pick up her nine year old son from basketball practice ends at six o'clock. Well, I don't believe that I hadn't gotten home yet, as I have to work or I have to work late, and our son doesn't have a phone, so I had no way of knowing the situation. I eventually got home at around seven o'clock and realized he was not in his room an hour. Oh my god. I looked her he got home an hour. He didn't even get home at seven. I looked around further and saw that he was nowhere to be found. I walked into our bedroom, confused to ask my wife where he was, and found her on her iPad playing the game as always. When I asked her where our son was, her eyes grew wide, and I knew what happened without her having to say wow. Immediately got back into the car and went to go pick him up. Luckily, his coach had stayed after to make sure he was picked up safe. And I apologized profusely. Apparently he had been calling and texting my wife, who was the emergency contact, and she didn't even notice. I don't even I don't know if I even believe this. Holy crap. This is like an episode of The Simpsons. Remember when he went Homer doesn't go pick up Bar and he's like, wait, I think I'm forgetting something and it's like pick up Bart, pick up Bart and he's like, pick up our What the hell does that mean? And then Marge leaves. She's leaving the house and he's like watching TV. He's lying down on the couch. She's like, don't forget to pick up Bart and he's like, I'm on my way. But it was like it was like. What was on TV? It was like a Jeopardy or something. No, it was a Wheel of Fortune. It's like I'm on my way was the answer. And he's like, I'm on my way and he's like. What did you say, Marge? And she was gone and he forgot to go get him. When we got home, I immediately blew up at her. How could she be so addicted to a kid's game that she completely forgot our son. Now she's telling me it was a one time thing, and then I'm an asshole for getting angry. Wow. I don't know what to think. I do kind of understand her side of the story, as it has only happened one time, but she has to responsible parent. She can't just completely forget about our child who has no way to get home on his own. So am I the asshole? Wow? Wow? It says it only happened one time, but earlier in his story it says it has it happened. No, just just just forgetting the kid happened one time, but she has forgotten other chores and stuff. Okay, yeah, yeah, chores, that is uh okay. So as a new parent, and like I, I'm on my way the chores. Add that to our fucking media board, to our soundboard. So his chores consist of mowing the lawn, doing laundry, and dishes. I don't really consider those chores to be honest. Uh, mowing the lawn, shoveling the snow, laundry like that. I don't dishes like what? Okay, dishes, Dishes, they're not chores. Okay. Meal planning fucking sucks. Okay. I hate cooking and I hate meal planning. But part of her chores was to pick up and drop off the kids. Now, this is not a chore either, This is a duty, you know what I mean. Like, since he's working, she needs to go pick up the kids. Like that's a that's a not a chore. Okay. So first of all, uh so she she meal, plans and cooks, who cleans, Who cleans the house? Doesn't care I'm saying. I'm saying is when you're in these kinds, when you're in a marriage, okay, and you're like weighing and you're weighing your like chores, it doesn't it shouldn't matter, Okay, Like me and Alma don't share chores. We just do it. I sometimes I'll do I'll go clean up all the dog shit in the backyard. I'll rake the leaves, I'll mow the lawn, I'll change the car tires, I'll snow through the snow, right, I'll i'll vacuum up with the like I do a bunch of shit. She does a bunch of shit. Okay. But when it comes down to it and your kid needs to be picked up, like that's fucked up when you don't go pick up your kid, Okay, like forget about the chores. He should anyway. Yeah, this is so dumb, Like I I'm almost I was in disbelief, like like this guy's commenting like one hundred times, so I don't know, maybe it's real, but this seems so stupid. Like but I mean, you can be addicted to a video game, like I'm addicted to video games and she's ignoring her phone. Yeah, like where's your phone? Exactly? Okay, that's that's. You're just sitting crazy playing roadblocks like roadblocks as a thirty seven year old playing roadblocks that's like a Facebook game, you know what I mean, it's like being addicted to. Well, roadblocks is roadblocks is on iPad. I didn't even know that. It's on everything whatever kids can use it's on right. Yeah, true, I guess. But okay, obviously he's I'd blow up at her too, but I. Yeah, this is justifiable. He's not the asshole. Like, no, he doesn't even ask a question. It's again another one that's not even a question of. It's like of are you the asshole? This is just like a stupid story. Now, this is where we don't know all these You only know one side, right, So let's let's play devil's advocate for second here, and let's say she actually told him to pick up the kid after work. Okay, no, her eyes went wide? Why would why would her eyes go wide? If she tried? I tried to. Sorry, we tried. Sorry, sorry, lady, we tried, fucking wackle. This is just like, this is grounds. Man. If I did this, Alma would probably threaten to divorce me after that. Like that's crazy, Like what could Luckily the coach was there with the kid, like, man. Yeah, that's uh, that's upsetting. Wow. Yeah, I tried to like defend her, but you can't really. He covered all his bases here. He gets home around seven? How convenient? Yeah, Like, wow, you don't have an alarm on your phone? Like where? Yeah, where's your phone? Like, man, that's crazy? And the hell does the kid? Yeah, even if she had an alarm, it doesn't appear that it would have done anything because she was ignoring phone calls and texts. Like you know what, I take away her iPad? Yeah, you gotta. I would take away her iPad and I would make her do all the chores for a week, for a fucking month, for a month, for a month, I'd. Make her get out there, shovel the drive away. Yeah. Oh yeah, there's some snow out there, baby, take care of. That dishes too, that's insane. Yeah uh not the asshole for sure. Yeah she's close. What the comments saying? Man, he must have been just rattling with rage when driving to get the kid. Vibrating of this first comment. This isn't a chore she's blowing off. It's forgetting her own. Child, That's what I said. How could she not even notice the calls and texts from the coach? That's what I'm wondering about. Is something else going on with her? Oh this guy's spreading, planting a seed. I'm not entirely sure how she missed all the messages and phone calls from the coach. We haven't spoken much since the argument. I haven't noticed anything different with her, But I could be missing things. Maybe she's on drugs. Maybe she's talking to someone on roeblocks. Oh oh, maybe she's getting catfished by someone who thinks she's a child. Oh man, this is this could go deep, This is go I doubt. If I doubt if a husband was addicted to a game to the point of forgetting his child that the top comment would be asking about midting getting factors. H where's this what? That's one of the comments on the first comment. Oh how do you do that? I do to use Reddit. I have a I have like an add on Firefox that kind of lays it out better. Yeah, this is not the asshole. I don't think this is even the second comment. Is this real? I'm like what I was saying, like, this is fucking scary. If this is real, she needs therapy. Yeah, old fuck, Oh my god, that's this. Is a core memory for your son now, Oh my god. Yeah, she stayed in hore with coach. Probably got some practice in, you know, some more practice. Yeah, it seems to have shrugged it off. If anything, it seems you're taking it lightly. Yeah for sure. Yeah, I mean this kid's okay. He says he was a little afraid and confused, but nothing that should impact him in the long run. Man, he'll understand. He's gonna get addicted to video games, for sure. Yeah, that's just the way this is. Wa Yeah, he'll understand when he's older. But he's as he forgets his child at soccer practice playing her looks I'm on my way. God, not the asshole. She needs help, for sure, I would. I would take away all I would ground her like crazy grounded. Yeah, no iPad and you're stuck cooking and cleaning for a month. Listen to limit her screen time, set up parental controls on the iPad for the parent. Well, you have to look, she's she's missing everything. Okay. Stupid sounding game, dude, Yeah, yeah, I know what the what a stupid game? Not even a cool game, like I guess it might have Maybe it is competitive. I don't know. Maybe there's a rank. Like people are grinding the rank they rank. They rank her on her outfit. M Anyway, missing your chores every once in a while is fine, but you can't miss picking up your kid. O. Get true, Get some help, lady, get some help. Yeah. Wow, I like that one. I like that. 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