The Airing of Grievances - Movie Theaters, Hearthstone and BotW

Hello. It's like when people call like, Hello, Nate speaking high Nate speaking Hello boy. That gave a funny name. You must get your parents hell for that one. I hate people. I fucking hate them. All right, well let's start with that. Welcome the Elder Trolls Gaming Podcast. We are three brothers if you have not joined us before, who talk about gaming, and we talk about tech. We talk about TV movies, geeky nerdy stuff too. I am taking easy Jano with me. Nasty night here and dand off the wise. There you go, There you go. Happy weekend, Happy, happy, happy, happy weekend. Weather's warm, the sun is shining. The Elder Trolls are sweating, with the exception of me because I don't schwitz all that much. I don't sitz that much. Yes, I've already said it's been two twenty two. And here at the end of this episode, this shirt's gonna be seen through. My beard is gonna be sopping like a mop. Just the wet t shirt contest for the for the video. For the YouTube. It's not like it gave us like. It didn't go gradually to twenty five degrees. It went from zero degree. He's five degrees it's pretty sad. Dude. We go walk the dogs around a little pond over here. Last week, one week ago, it was a foot of snow and ice everywhere. One week ago. Now it's twenty fucking five degrees out there and there's dry, no snow anywhere. It's crazy. I was like, what the hell? We were just here a week ago slipping on ice. I was like, back it up, weather, give me at least a couple of weeks with ten degrees. Fifteen degrees. Yesterday was nice, it was pretty cool. I hate this ship. Winter back, give me winter back. Oh no, no, no, no, no, you cannot have it. No, no, no, you're crazy man. You okay, like we freaking weight five months for this shit. You waited, I didn't. It's time. Just because you you schwitz a lot. It just doesn't mean I want winter back. Okay, I can't. We're getting summer. I'm gonna, oh my god, drinking, and then you'll never leave. You'll never leave. You're gonna be fucking Billy Madison. Yeah you're painted right, Yeah, but day is it? October? Backed Ober? All right, Well let's get into guys. I want yo. So you guys didn't see the Maria movie yet. No, no, I want to see it. I want to see it. I was gonna go on Tuesday with the guys, but then that's when the Leafs start playoffs. Oh yes, sir, playoffs. Mmmmmmmmm wow. Oh that's exciting. I'm sure they'll be out in four games and then I can go see it. Well maybe, but I saw it anyway. I went to the theater, much to my chagrin, my chagrin, chagrin. He lost me what with my vocabulary? I don't know what you'd be seeing. Oh, stop there, Okay, I want to say it was fun. Okay, it was a fun movie. Lots of fan service. There's lots of fan service, lots of references to like all the different Mario games, like, maybe not all of them, but a lot of them, a lot, a lot, a lot, very colorful, lots of colors. He's going to look great on the ole it. Oh yeah, Jack Black hilarious. Now, Chris Pratt was perfectly fine. I don't really see an issue of people maybe complaining about them. They haven't seen the movie yet, you know what I mean. They were all complaining before they even saw the movie. What are they expecting to be honest, like he wasn't gonna put on a ridiculous Italian accent. Oh you know what I mean, Like that was just kind of like a like a half way in between. Yeah, like a light Italian accent is fine. You don't want to go full on racist, stereotypical Italian, okay, because I'd be upset. It's okay to make fun of Italians. Man, everyone makes fun of Italians, perfects fun of us. I know. It's we had this conversation and we just sit there and take it. Yeah, because it's funny. This thrill House sent me. He actually was like, you should show this to your brothers. He sent me a couple east Side Mario's commercials because he's fully aware of that issue. And he's like, look at this, Daniel, look at them. Culture appropriately Yeah, what's the word? Culturally appropriately appropriate? And it's everyone in the restaurant talking like and everyone it's like and they do like the voice over of everyone in the restaurant and they're all like and they're all twalking like this, and it's like, this is so stupid. Yes, because everyone in the restaurant it's gonna sound like that. That's what we all sound like. And all we do is eat pizza. It's funny. It's only cake eaters go to east Side. Nobody would be talking like that and east Side marios. Okay anyway, but let me talk about going to the theater, guys, the most horrible place in the world, especially especially for a kids movie. Kids movie in the theater. No, yeah, it's been a while. Maybe Detective Pikachu was the last one I think I saw in theaters that was like younger. These two little pukes behind me would not stop moving around, fidgeting. I could feel them fidgeting and like not really kicking, not intentionally anyway kicking my seat, but I could still feel them vibrating. They were fucking talking. It was so annoying while you went with kids, though, And that was just the ones behind me. This was a whole theater full of these little pukes. Pam like six seats down said there was like some teenagers around them having full conversations during the movie. Yeah, like the whole movie. Then you get this, Get this, somebody started somebody started fucking banging on the emergency exit door on the outside, like at the front of the theater, down kind of towards the front man, I'd like to see Mario, like, we're gonna let you in, get the fuck out of here, Like what are you doing? Like I felt like walking up to the door and just booting it open, so the guy got a teeth full of metal door, you know what I mean? Like, like, are you doing have some fucking respect? No? No, these kids don't have resept there's no respect. Kids do not tell you. I tell you no, it's true. Where are your parents? A little assholes part? Are your parents? Yeah, but they don't live Tracy, did you order the pizzas? Did should be missed? Are your parents here? My parents in Paris? Sorry? Hi? Hi? Are your parents home? Yeah? Do they live here? No? No, why shouldn't they all kids? No? Parents? Probably as your fin just real quick. But even going to the movie theater and adults in the movie theater are this. It's the same thing. Man, when I saw a Joker or a Batman or one of the movies like that came out resently. I went to see one of the few these people were just full fledged, standing up, yelling at each other, arguing in the theater, and I'm like, would you shut the fuck up. I'm trying to watch a movie, like what are you doing? It's you said this or you were like I like like fist fighting. It's like you think you think you could be Batman, you think you could be bad arguing you I'm not a Batman. Oh my god, like batman, just like something else. And then somebody else's apartment was on fire and they were like making a big commotion about it. Fuck man, I know, like I'm trying to watch a movie. Oh your potman's on by a shot at I've I don't know. I've never had a terrible experience at a theater. One time, I did tell the people behind me to like control their fucking kids, like I told dying right now. Like I remember, like the kid was kicking my seat. I turned around. I was like, can you please tell your child to stop kicking my fucking seat please? And she's like, oh, like all you have to do is say something and they shit their fucking pants. Oh yeah, and then the kids like and then they're like stop stop happy feet. Happy feet starts crying. Yeah, yeah, that was funny. Stupid kids movie theaters. Yeah, well that's two in a row that's been a horrible experience for last two were to go. I'm going late. I'm going eleven o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, when all those little ships are in bed giving their periods, that's when the real little losers come out. And there those are the real bad seeds. Those are the ones I can beat up though legally, those are the ones. Those are the ones you want to beat up, but you can't because they're like fifteen and you know they're out past curfew and they don't care. Yeah, so and you can't. They're like, what are you gonna do? You canna do? You're gonna be Yeah, it's bastards. I have I have since how do you say it strayed from the path of anger, hate, and and fear and fear? Yes, m hmmm anger, Okay, it's fear. Um okay. Should we go into game time? None? Sure, all right, we'll be back and we're back game time. What are we playing? Couldn'tly? What couldently playing? Yes? I got a couple, so we are some some of ours may aligne here? Oh yeah, maybe maybe not. Oh so I'm almost done Zelda Breath of the Wild. I'm just about to go take on Gannon. I picked up all my Ancient or my ancient gear set, and I've upgraded it by one fairy pond. Yeah yeah, yeah, I totally forgot about that. So that I'm about to go take on Gannon, I've got some bones to pick for later. Um really, but that's that's what I'm playing. I'm at like thirty some hours. Just Switch doesn't give you, um an exact amount, it just says thirty or more hours or something or more. But that's surprising to me. I didn't think I post putting in that much time. But the game is very good. I think I'm very good or more. Yeah, you can just play that. You can just play that thing for fucking hours, run around. There's another bone to pick about that too, which I'll get into later. I've also been playing this new it's not new, but it's new to Switch, Wild Frost. Take on the elements in Wild Frost, a tactical roguelike deck builder journey across a frozen tundra collecting cards strong enough to banish the internal Winter card game. Yeah, deck builder card game, much like Slay the Spire. It's fucking hard. I never played Slay the Spy off. It's it's actually really addicting. It's fun. So you build your deck. No, you start with like a they randomize a hero for you out of three. You get to choose one out of the three heroes to start your little adventure with, and this hero has health attack and then a little ability on the card, and then you start your adventure. And throughout your adventures, you go through the little map and you collect other party members, cards, items and stuff like that to help you on your way. And then you have to this one. You have to really strategize which items you want to keep and use and when to use. It's very because if you fuck up, you've lost your fifteen minute play through and you're back to the beginning. Choose a new hero, so you start over when you die. Yeah, so there's leaderboards every day. Yeah, so every day they have a daily challenge which is tracked with a leaderboard, and they'll give you your starting party items and all that stuff, and then you start your adventure and then you see how far you can get, and then it'll end your daily challenge, and then there's a leaderboard and I'm like, how are people surviving for fifty minutes? Like that's fucking ridiculous. I can get to like ten minutes maybe before I fucking die, but like it gets really hard, and then I'm like, like, is this game harder? Am I just shite? I googled that right, oh, and it's Everyone's like, no, it's fucking hard like Steam reviews. Everyone's like, there's no need for the second boss to be this hard, like YadA yaday. I was like, okay, so I Wild Frost, Wild Frost. Okay, the art is really nice. It's colorful, it's cute, it's bubbly mobile. The more you go on your adventures by my iPad, no, no, not mobile yet. The more you go on your adventures, you do like achievements, and it unlocks stuff in your little mountain town that you have, and it unlocks like new pets you can bring with you, new items that you'll find on your adventure, new hero or new companions you'll find on your adventure, stuff like that. It's really fun and addicting but hard, but hard, very challenging, and I'm just gonna throw the cyberpunk jump back into that for some photomode because of the new overdrive path tracing. Okay, so four hour listeners and me, what is path tracing. Oh god, can you can you put this in a nutshell? It's ray tracing, but without any like limitations on how many lights are being or how many how do you say, John, than the lighting refraction and like there's a limit on the ray tracing. This one is like all of it, I think, okay, So it's just more intense. It's more intense ray tracing, I guess you can say, right, and when you're riding like it's they're really marketing for the forty series cards, the RTX forty series cards because of the DLSS three point zero, which has that frame generation so like adds fake frames inside your FPS so for a smoother experience um which will also add latency. By the way, it's not just a magic coole fucking thing that makes your FPS go higher. They'll they're inserting fake frames by AI, which then takes down your your response time and latency. So I'm playing on an RTX thirty eighty. You can still enable it in the settings and it crushes the thirty eighty like ridiculous, but like you can run around it twenty fps if you want and just experience what it looks like. And it's unbelievable, Like inside the buildings it looks real, like inside the grungy, shitty buildings in the bottomless pits of Night City, oh man, like just like favorite places to hang out. Like I've walked into that area where that street you go through the back alley where there's like this little hole in the wall and there's these two joy toys that are all tweaking in like this basement somewhere, and like the fire from their barrel fire on the walls, and like you go into their ship bathroom they used to like get high and it's like shoot up the light, the lighting and the bat It's unreal. It is surreal, unreal, unreal engine both it's sick, but outside it's not that much of a difference than the reflections maybe, but not worth the performance hits. So what they did allow, though, is they allowed you to turn on path tracing in photomode, so you can turn it off in the game like in gameplay, and then the moment you go into photomode, path tracing gets enabled and you can take your shots with path tracing right because you don't need the game to be moving in photomodes. But you can also enhance your pictures. That's cool and it's sick. I took a few shots. They're up on the Twitter. Um, very very cool. Yeah, I saw them. They're pretty yuh saw. I watched the video on YouTube comparing like on off and then overdrive and the lights are they look brighter. It's like, yeah, the lights and the overdrive they're just more and diffuse, just more light and they look like they've they're like they diffuse better onto the walls and stuff in terms like what I noticed was there was an example there was like a scene with like a neon a neon sign or something against the wall and with the ray tracing off, it like you could barely see it on the wall. With the ray tracing on, you could just you could see a reflection of it on the wall. But with the overdrive on, it was actually lighting up the wall. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. It was actually like a light was beside the wall. Only for PCs people, not for consoles. So sorry, I wonder that's actually my next I was wondering if they're I wonder if they're going to do any more visual enhancements for console. I just don't see how they can push it anymore without performance suffering. But again, I don't think it really needs it. It's pretty amazing on content. Then again, I didn't see how could they could make it look any better. You know, the City Project Red is their masters at this ship, and I wouldn't be surprised if whenever FSR three point zero gets pushed somehow and the consoles are able to do it, they'll try something. They'll try and update. Why not, I'm sure they'll try. Yeah, in the in the back, in the backs, behind the scenes. I don't know if you'll make it, if you'll make it out excuse me, my goodness, I am. I just drank a shake and a coffee. I'm just like, you're both disgusting. I've got the like the I'm pretty much over the cold, like it's not killing me as much anymore. But it's just like the snot that's bubbling back here that I can't blow out. I can whenever I breathe, I can hear it going in your back here nose mucous holes. Yeah, and I can't blow an alien like fucking Voldemort in there, just we all, Yeah, little Voldemort nostrils in there. One time I was baked out of my mind and trying to sleep. I was trying to sleep and I was super high, and my nose was stuffed up, and all I could feel as those holes just like closing, like yeah, like a rail, like a fishure or something. Yeah, it was super strange. I thought it was. I felt like an alien or something. I was so whacked. That's crazy. Speaking of aliens. I watched The Avatar, the new one. Oh right, don't speaking of aliens. It's so fucking bad. That movie is so fucking bad. It's so stupid. It wasn't also four hours long like the first one. It was three hours long that I'll never get I'll never get back. It was so stupid. I don't know what he was thinking, Like I think he, well, obviously the dollars, right, but like he, I don't know. It's like he spun up his new RTX forty ninety machine, started fucking around with AI generated amazing with this Avatar upscales or whatever, and he's like, Wow, this looks great. Oh, this will be a good movie, like a new toy. That's all it was. It's a sequel. Yeah. It was so bad and the kids were so annoying in it, so annoying, like he has kids. No, he has kids in the movie The Man. The main spoiler, fuck it, I don't care, I'll spoil it. So you guys, Sam Worthington, I don't know what his name is, but the kids like every three seconds is bru cousin. I'm like, what what I know? I was like, what is going on? This is so annoying, so bad. The story was stupid. It was just a vengeance story. Like it didn't need to be made. The movie didn't need to be made, and it doesn't need to be watched. That's it. Don't waste your time or your fucking money. Don't watch that movie. Wow, James Cameron stick Determinator Man. I went. I went from Bring Back Panicic remake Titanic Survives Survives like that? Oh yo, that YouTube video remember that? Remember somebody put together like a like a trailer for the next Titanic movies. Oh yeah, that was a jack or something like that. Yeah, but it was just a bunch of Leo movies that they spliced together to make it look like, Yo, that was really good. It was just like a frozen block of ice. They show like a man. That's what they did. They showed I think it was No, No, it wasn't. They put like visual effects and like free strange. It looked like he was in a block of ice and like and like they're bringing it into the ship and like they then showing stuff from like all these different Leo movies, just like splicing it that kind of fit together. It's very funny, very funny. I went from seeing one of the best movies I've ever seen to one of the worst I've ever seen in a span of two weeks. Yeah, it can be pretty um what's the word a roller coaster experience? What a roller coaster of emotion? Yeah? All right, what let's move on then let's keep it going here. What you got anything else? No, I'm good, Dan, I just got a few things I would I would mention. So first one, this one's pretty cool. See if Thieves. Big congratulations to thrill House check this out for achieving his legendary thief commendation. Let me explain this one to you. It's kind of fun. See a pirate legend. He's a pirate legend. He got that like first before me. He was the one encouraging me to get my pirate legend status. But anyway, so this commendation was like his Barnacle chest thing. Okay, so he must steal five chests of Legends. Well, it's just one of the rarest and most valuable chests in the game from other crews. The criteria is the other crew must have picked up the chest first, so they have to have touched it and put it down for it to qualify as a steal. This took him one year to do. You have to steal five of them from other crews. Now, this chest is only available at events world events like Ford of Fortunes, which are or used to be really difficult. I think the new update made them a little easier, but like really difficult events that take you a while to do, and it's like one of the rarest chess and so this is the This is the type of loot that you would wait for other people to do the event, and as soon as they pick up the chest, you would go in and grab it and steal it, run off the island to get your ship to come pick you up or something like that. That's kind of how we've done it before. I somehow have four out of five chests. I don't know how that happened, but it must be because I've helped Matt do his. But so I have it by proxy, I guess. So I have one more until I get the legendary thief combindation, which is kind of sweet. But he's been doing this for a long time. This has taken him the same amount of time or if not more, then it took to get my Barnacle set. So pretty awesome. Hats off to thrill House. You go, buddy, this one's cool. Guys, Okay, check this out. In the spirit of Story of Seasons a wonderful life coming this summer, I was like, you know what, and I started talking. I started reminiscing about Back to Nature in our group chat with me, Thrillhouse and the other guys. I was like, I'm gonna fucking buy that right now. So I went to the PS store and I purchased Harvest Moon Back to Nature for seven ninety nine. Okay, yeah, yeah, I started thinking about it like that's like that's a moment. Okay. The last time I've really played this game was years ago when physical gaming was the only gaming to then kind of be parted with the game throughout you know, you guys selling consoles and selling games and the tides of time. What I have it? I have it? Oh you still have it? Oh yeah, freg man, I thought maybe rid of it. But but anyway, like throughout this period of like you're young and adolescent life, there was perpetually still a physical gaming market during like you know, the formative years, only to be reunited with it when I'm thirty one my favorite childhood game ever and I need more. I need like I'm in need of old comforts more than ever. And it just kind of blew my mind because ten or fifteen years ago, if you asked me if if I've ever played that game again or see or own a copy of it, I'd be like, that's so far beyond the realm of probability, Like I don't know. It's an old ass PlayStation one game. I don't know, And now it greets me on my PS five home screen as a nice background and it will always be there for me. That's pretty special. So I picked that up, and I might just pick it up and play it casually whatever, because it's been a while, so why not the remake? I have that one too on Switch. But I just wanted to own a cop my own copy of Back to Nature, because why wouldn't I. I mean, it's now, that's what my point being. Now we're in the digital age and that kind of stuff is possibly can get these old things back that you used to have, but in a different form. You know. Um, we're at that point. So other than that um legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, I've been collecting memories to gain a more cohesive understanding of the game story because I kind of realized as I was playing, I was like, I don't know exactly. Yep, if you don't if you don't collect the memories, though, there's nothing. All you're doing is is destroying divine or not destroying but solving divine beasts and getting their power and preparing to defeat Gannon. And you're like, why why am I defeating Gannon? Who is Gannon? Who? Who are these divine beasts? Didn't like, So that's why it's important to collect these memories. And when I picked it back up the first time, I realized that it is a main quest line. So I will now be making sure I collect every memory before fighting Gannon, and I'll probably go do my ancient armor and get stuff upgraded. I think I have six memories left to do, so it won't take me long. How many memories are there? There's town, there's ten. Yeah, you'll have six left. I think there's I think there's more than ten because it's like a row four. They should have just baked it in. They should have just baked it into the main fucking story. It's like twelve or something. Yeah, wow, whatever, it's part of the part of the main Quest series. It's a Zelda game. It's supposed to be rich in story like the other ones. Why not just bake it in? Make me do it, or I won't have to, or I won't do it, most likely because I just want to. It was a strange, It was a strange choice to have a choice, But I realized, really rich in story, aren't they really? I'd say they like the original few like this. The nest Ones and Links Awakening was great, which I'm gonna play through sooner umber the story m but like this one, it's like, yeah, the Princess l that you gotta go savor. What story? Is there? The most medieval plot line? But I think that that. I think that's why Breath of the Wild stands out though, because I again, I haven't played as much Zelda as you guys have, and and and maybe this is why, because I just went playing it, I'm like, I don't know what's going on here? Who is Link? And what am I doing? But I think Breath of the Wild had a nice way of actually presenting the story in a different way than they ever have. So you're playing these memories, and you're you're unlocking these memories, and you're seeing Link interact with Zelda and Metha. I would say that's a lot. I'd say it has more story than Yeah, I don't know. Really, you wake up, you don't know where you are, and you have with the like the forgetful trope or the fucking lose my memory shit, like yeah, my god, I'm tired of it. I guess my time. There. Point is, I don't think the old games did a very good job at presenting a story of telling the story method wise, and I think that's why Breath of the Wild stands out bit more because they actually solved that. They were like, how can we how can we tell this story? And it's through like memories and stuff, which is cool. I like that. I'd much rather it baked into the main quest line, so I wouldn't have to go search for the story, just like I didn't like to go search for the story in elden Ring, and I didn't have to fucking go do that ship. They did this Elda manga which tells the story. Well I didn't. That's cool. There's like a bunch of Now the question is with the new one coming out, is his mind wiped again and I have to go I pray to God not, please don't do that to me again. Well it's a sequel, so maybe not. I'm hoping it starts off right after So you've got everything and they just fix all the stupid shit that I'm going to mention that I don't like. No, you start his caveman link with long hair and like tattoos and stuff. Yeah, we'll see, like I don't. All right, Well cool, that's it for me though. Game time wise, nice, Well I'll keep mine short. I've just been playing Hearthstone. Ah yeah yeah, so by but keep going horrible game. It's not that fucking bad, it's just you just have to accept that it boughts. It's just it's just ridiculously overpowered cards that don't make sense in the game. They are just cards so insanely powerful, Like what is the point? Like how long before you can drop a thirty thirty on turn one with charge and just kill him in Like how long until that happens? Like just do it already? Like you may as well. Yeah. I lost to a demon Hunter on turned three fatal in my face turn three. Wow, I didn't concede. He hit me for fatal in my face turn with wend turn three. So his turn four, no, he had like four one hundred minions on boost them up, Like what the hell is this? Turned five against the Hunter I quit, who filled his board with some hydrop bullshit things. Yeah, yeah, like what is that? You can't kill them? Or they spawned two more silence. I was just like, but you can't even get a silence all until at least turn four, well maybe three with one man of silence, but it's still a full board of minions on turns. So every class has an op either card or a little combo, every single one of them, and every single time that class is able to do it to me. Yeah, and I can never find mine. That's my issue. It's I was able to get the platinum five with my Totem Shaman pretty like. Yeah, I went through Bronze, a bunch of bots and bronze, and then Silver was a mix, and then gold, Gold was mainly humans, and then when I got to a lot of bots and gold, I got the Platinum. It's all humans, and Platinum five is like insane superhumans, I think, because like they get perfect draw every single fucking time, and I cannot get out of Platinum five. I fucking cannot do it and I'm smashing my head on it for like three weeks. I can't, Okay, can do it. Let's talk about the power creep. I got a different hunter who played a card. It cost eight manna. Okay, okay, eight manna and in Classic car Stone eight manna that's a lot. That's a lot, a lot, even I know that's a lot. What could happen for eight manna? Flame strike with a mage seven manna? Right? That does for damage to all minions, all enemies. That's a good card, all enemy minus. That's a good card. Pyra Blast ten manna did ten damage to ten damage for ten manna to direct damage. I had a Druid that hit one of my minions for ten for one manna one manna, but what was the combating up to that? How was rake? But he had a bunch of a tack. So his rake, which costs one manna, did ten damage to one of my minions. I was just like, I had a giant minion there. I was like, you suck drew, it has no removal rake one manna ten damage. I was just like, are you fucking out of your mind? That's that's different than a ten manna pyral blast because he has to he has to get up to that two or three turns before to get that rake to ten something. He's got to take time to get that rake up. It's not actually one is still technically yes, it's one manna for ten damage, but it takes two or three turns or four turns to get that up there. So it takes ten turns to get the viral blasts. So dumb. Anyway, this this hunter played an eight man a card that did six damage to each enemy sorry, six damage to three enemy minions. Okay, any overkill damage hits you in the face. Eighteen damage for eight mana. I was just like, what in the fuck was that? I had like three man dominions and it killed all of them and hit me in the face for like twelve and he played it for seven manna. It didn't even cost him at manna because he reduced the cost of it. There's demand of cheating in this game is just like, it's great. All people can think of this sh like mana cheating. You know how long it would take me to figure out one of these one of these combos to do that. My brain signed it like that because the cards are too strong. You have Druid's playing thirty mana worth of spells for eight manna with that stupid fucking Druid card that legend that costs or what is this cast random Druid spells? Yeah, it's like eight manna cast how many random ten random Druid spells or something? I counted. This guy did it to me. He got thirty mana worth of shit for eight manna. Yeah, I don't. I don't like the one Druid card that's out now where he can drop three legendaries or ten tens or something for like zero man cost. It doesn't cost man I cost some armor or something like that. So they boosted like yeah, yeah, this game has lost its integrity there's no integrity. It has no integrity anymore. I'm I'm enjoying it. I just I can't. I like win too. I went through, I get on a streak, I'm like yeay, and then some guy just completely wamps me. And then I go on a huge losing streak back to five because he can't fall behind five. Right So I'm at platinum five, I'm gold four right now, I think platinum five. I go up and I'm like what, And I'm like, I had a match against the mage for it was like twenty minutes long, I swear, and it was meticulous. I had to be like, oh, I was like reading every fucking card and I was like looking at because I was so frustrated, was like, I just need a fucking win to get this daily done. So I was like looking at mage decks online, which one he could be using? What cards he has played? I was like, that's another thing. I don't have no idea what cards. And I was like like making perfect plays as perfect as I could do it. And it took twenty minutes. We both fatigued, and I and we were both at like he was at four health, I was at three health and I had this draw comes up. I was like, yes, like a weapon or some shit, and I hit him in the face. Fuck it was. It took so much effort to win that one game. And I was like, oh my god, yeah, I don't know the cards too, so like I could and they could play anything, I wouldn't know, Like I don't know how to play around things yet because I don't know all the cards. So like this mech mage they have that legendary. It's like he had a bunch of minions on the board. It's like, okay, well I didn't feel the need that I had to clear those off until he played that legendary that is like whenever a mech attacks, deal one damage to all enemies. So he put it down and he attacked with his minions that did damage. Then every time one of those minions attacked, it did one extra damage to all of my things. I'm like, right now, I cleary clear board, like I don't let anybody have any space. I have to because then Paladin's buff, the Druids buff, the fucking Warlocks they have buff. Everyone just takes advantage of. So you got it just gross, it's disgusted. Like I said, there's no integrity in this game. There's the bots, the bots. The bots, like a bot should not be able to fucking play a game and get to like high gold rankings. It should not happen. That's that's zero integrity game right there. It's just bullshit. Power Creep, the bower, creep mat of hard Stone standard or anything can happen any turn and the winner is random depending on who drew the strongest card. Basically, I actually think I hate it more than war Zone right now. Wow. Speaking of which, meet Greg and Steve hopped into the zone. Oh god, Season three of war Zone two point zero came out and they fixed a bunch of things and we won our first game. We won our first game playing in months. Wow. Wow, Wow, there's no bots anyway. That is uh, that's all for me, really cool. I I don't know. I'm still maybe once I learned the decks that are happening. But okay, um, okay, so I guess Nate has some bones depict what Okay? All right, I did not beat Breath of the Wild yet. I thought I was going to by the time he recorded this, but I did not. I might upset some people with what I have to say. M hmm. I do not believe this game to be a masterpiece. I'm sorry my opinion, although doesn't matter. I am entitled to it and this game this could have been so much fucking better in my opinion. There's so much little things that frustrated me throughout my playthrough and really got under my skin unless left a bad taste in my mouth, which made me not want to get the next Zelda game. Oh if it was going to be anything like this one, well, not anything like it, but if it was going to have this bullshit in it. Overall, the game is great, don't get me wrong there. The whole half ass survival thing is stupid. They should have just left it all out or went all in, like make a decision. For instance, you can chop down trees, take the wood and the sticks to make a bonfire to sleep, But can you take one of those sticks and make a torch? No, and I mean a torch. I don't mean take a stick and light it on fire and it disappeared in five seconds. Okay, I mean make a fucking torch? Can you make a portable cooking fire and a pot that you can buy from a store and PLoP up a fire somewhere and cook food in the middle of nowhere so I can get some buffs and ready to fight an enemy. No, I have to fast travel back to town, spend four minutes in loading screens, get shipped together, cook over a fire you make in the wilds. No, I don't remember, only like you can only like roast. You have to find You have to find a fire with that that has the pot on it, that pod that you throw ingredients in, Okay, and then you have to have a fire arrow or something to light that fire. They thought of that, though, They thought of that, and like yeah, and the fast traveling like back and forth. I have to wait through the switch loading screens with which are like, oh my god, I couldn't that. That alone frustrated me just loading because I'm so used to the fast PS five and PC hardware. Yeah, real hardware. Now. Another thing that bothered me was the rain. I'm about to go do something, it starts fucking raining. So I can't climb this mountain right or I'll slip off. I can't light this fire to do whatever because the rain puts it out. Oh, but can I make some kind of shelter over the fire? So then I can make a fire to sleep and wait the rain out. No I can't do that. Can I go into the menu and just sit there and wait the rain out? No I can't do that. I have to fast travel somewhere that has a bed, sleep till morning, fast travel back to where I was, and hope it doesn't start raining again. And half the time it did. Fuck that drove me fucking crazy. That's hard, man. That shove me fucking nuts. You think life is easy and high rule, bro, life is easy. And then on top of that, okay, they think of letting Link be a lightning rod if he has a fucking weapon on his back. Yeah. Now, they were in the development studio and they're like, let's not let these guys create portable cooking fires, but let them create campfires. Let them collect sticks, but not make torches. But you know, it's a good idea. During thunderstorms, let's fucking light them up. Let's fucking light them up and send them flying. And it takes like fifteen seconds for Link to stand back up. I'm mashing buttons trying to get him stop rolling. No, it'll just fucking keep rolling down the hill, and then he'll finally step back up, and then the lightning is already charging on me again. I'm like, I've fucking got to take off all my clothes. Oh yeah. Also I had to google it. I was like, why am I getting electrocuted so much? I had to fucking google anything metal on it? They think of that, Ah, It's like they think they went this far and then they forgot about the good stuff that would have just been, you know, useful. I don't think it's that they didn't think of it. I think it's that they thought of it and omitted it, because obviously, if they thought of making lightning like attractive armor on link and shit, they obviously were like, we're gonna make that to be an annoyance. You know what else is an annoyance? Not being able to craft a torch. We'll make sure we we don't allow that either. You know it also is an annoyance. Is this food craft in the business? Like that's cool, you couldn't craft food, collect mushrooms, craft food? But every time I have to go through the menu and select each fucking piece and then cook it again. Can I just have a recipe book that I can click once collects all my fucking items and puts it on the cooking but yeah, I still don't remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. It's like, oh, I want an armor buff? What did I What did I use to make that? Oh? I don't know. You know it to have been nice, a fucking recipe for you. I think the tooltips tell you. If I have to read through a fucking thing of text, I just want a recipe book that says this is a recipe that gives you armor. Up, like click, it makes me a new fucking soup or whatever. Up. It frustrated me so much, like I fucking couldn't stand it, and it didn't make me want to play the And Alma's watching me. She's like, this game is stupid. I was like, I know. It's like, oh, she hasn't played it. I thought she did. No, She's like, maybe i'll play, and then she was watching me. And when she watches me, it's just me getting hit by lightning. My horse not listen to me. They're stupid. I don't think the game is stupid. I think they tell me why. Played through the game perfectly fine. When it first came out, I was like, okay, I'll just take off. I love the game I don't know. I don't care about any of this. I also didn't craft anything else. It's like I didn't need to. I was. It's like they purposely made me to need buffs, bro, they purposely made it so I had to go out of my way a lot. And I don't like that. I don't like that the horses, the whole horse thing. I have to resume my horse at a horse. God, that's fucking stupid. I just let my horse. That was like a journey. That was definitely a journey. Like what if I really like my horse and they get shot by an ancient robot laser beam and he's dead and I gotta go find this fucking horse. God, resum No, I'm not gonna fucking do that. I did. I don't think everybody. Yeah, you see, I love my horse, So I was like, now, let'm just go get another stupid horse. I didn't you use a lot of horses? I guess I did. Yeah, but I also glided around a lot just jumping off. Yeah, that's cool. I like that, um horse. And I'm not gonna get into the durability shit, Like durability is stupid. Shouldn't have been a thing unless game. It doesn't matter what game it is unless you can fix it, unless you can fix your items. It shouldn't have been in there, because what if I really like this item the way it swings whatever, right, and it breaks on me and I'm stuck with I'm stuck with a fucking skeleton armament. I'm like, what is this gonna do? Right? And then I have to go find I have to go stockpile all these swords I like, right, and then think of things, Oh, this enemy is a shitty enemy. I'll use a skeleton arm on him. I don't want to think that way. And then I go get my master sword. I'm like, oh, master sword. Look, I google it. Does it break? No? Like sweet? So I'm going around and I'm hacking things a bit. I'm like, yeah, finally, finally, but but it loses its charge and disappears from the inventory for ten fucking minutes. Ten minutes. Oh, it disappears from the inventory. I don't remember that. Yes, it has a little timer on it. Ten minutes for the recharge. I almost lost. I almost fucking through my controller because I'm out. I don't grind it. I'm out grinding these ancient machines. And I have no no Master Sword, which does which is the only thing that seems to do any kind of damage to them. For ten minutes, I have to sit on my ass and wait for this thing to fucking recharge. Oh my god, man, the raid's lightning. Get to god. Fuck. I'm gonna finish this game, and I'm I'm gonna pray that the next one doesn't have this shit, or buy a physical copy and I'll fucking get rid of it. Yeah, I'm gonna buy physical probably. Uh. I don't remember much of that stuff. But the second play through, which I was when I put my most time in, was on the emulator, which you could probably change any of this shit. Turn off durability, turn off rain, and it was probably like a thousand times better. Yeah it was great. Yeah, no durability, infinite stamina. Also really good, always sunny everywhere. Yeah, great, great game. Yeah great. I think that I just didn't have high exec high expectations for mechanics in Breath of the Wild, because you know, you had games that came out at the run at the same time which were like Red Dead, Redemption two and shit like that, and you're like, that's where I can get all that where you expect the realism, But in breadth of the while, I was like, whatever it is, what it is. It's a freaking Nintendo game. So I just played it and I didn't have anything. Just a Nintendo's a Zelda game. It's still a Nintendo Switch game. I don't think they're gonna go it's not gonna be as realistic or if it's out as if they left out all of the survival mechanics, the game would have been an tenda A ten for me. It already is for everyone else, but for me, tenda if they left all of that shit out, the durability, the the rain, the soaking of the cliffs, the lightning, all that shit, they leave it out. I know they tried to do something different and people love them for it, but like I would have been on that, don't do this unless you're gonna do it. Unless you're gonna do it one hundred percent of the way, don't do it. Well. When you think about it, compared to all the other Zelda games, this is completely different than every other Zelda game. So in that, in that magnification, it is like one hundred percent, like you know what I mean, because comparatively nose Ella game is that dynamic and that it's like, yeah, I know. But it's like they were like, oh, let's make this survival game, and then they got to a certain point it's like, yeah, that's just gonna take longer than we thought, so let's just stop thinking of things and focus elsewhere. That's what they did, and I can tell and it frustrates me. Now. I love the dungeons in the game. I loved how small, sweet short they were awesome, loved them. That's what kept me going was the little snippets of the story with each one of those beasts. With they could have told mart and not have me go and search for my story bits. But that's another thing. Um I beat the other ones. I get to the lightning one, the camel, and the grew grew to city. What is it with all the ladies. Yeah, with all this sexy nos ladies, I'll get in this and belly buttons yeah, those child bearing hips. Um so I go through that one man not allowed, man, no get out of here. I tried flying through the top. Mate for mating only Yeah, that's it. And the mating tent outside the gates outside in the far inside the city. Gates, the studs free range studs are out there, So I'm going I go through the camel dungeon. It's good, it's cool, it's got little little puzzles. Yet yet I get to the end and this guy wallops me over and over and over. Yeah, this Lightning gannon. I was like, what the fuck? And I tried it like a handful of times. I was like, okay, I'm either way too under leveled. I got like twelve hearts or whatever it was. I don't remember that one, and I'm like just getting walls used ancient arrows man ancient arrows on everything. Yes, I didn't have hound everything. I didn't have the research lab unlocked to make the ancient arrows yet at this point, because I went straight there, not straight, but I went in order one, two, three, four. This was my fourth beast. And just like the belly they put you in, like the little area and the belly of the camel that they put you in is just so tiny. During the fight, yeah, and I'm like trying to find this guy. He's floating around because here the lightning guys, who's like flying around. I'm trying to find rods. Right, Yeah, that was cool. You'll throw the lightning right up, he gets shot down. I can get to the second half of the fight. But the instance, the instant he gets to the second half of the fight, I lose sight of him because like, once I hit him with the lightning rod, he like flies somewhere, like he gets hit and thrown somewhere, and I can't find him, and the camera's shitty in this little belly of the camel. I can't find him. And then within two seconds he one shots me. It's like zip zip zion smack, and he fucking one shots me with his lightning sword. I'm like, what the fuck. I can't find him to even first lock onto him and then try to dodge or anything. Right, most of the time was just the shitty like camera and me trying to find where he was to do anything. Yeah, So I'm like, that's it, So I gotta get some lightning. Did you use lock on the lock on target? I couldn't find him to lock him on. Right, he has to be the most challenging fight. He has to be in camera view for me to even try to lock onto him. So I was like, that's it. I'm going to get the rubber suit. Two out of three pieces rubber armor, Yeah, rubber armor because they thought about that having rubber armor too. Holy, I never knew about rubber armor. Combat was that. I don't think I don't think I have that. Is that the original? I don't remember that rubber armor. I don't know if it's rubber, but it's lightning resistant. That's just in the it's called rubber Okay, it's called rubber armor. You you called rubber armor. Your bloody He's still one shots me with the two out of three armor. The fight was cool, but the locking on was awful, even when he was in my view and I was like running away from him. So I'm Link is running towards the camera and he's behind me, right, I'm like, lock on because he's on my camera view. Lock on. It just swings the camera behind Link to show forward of Link with what Links looking at, so it leaves the bad guy behind me. I'm like, what the fuck just happened? And then I got one shot in the back, and if you're getting one shot, I don't know exactly right. So I was like, I'm doing something wrong. So I google it and everyone's like, no, it's pretty hard YadA YadA, YadA. Daniel's like, yeah, I had some issues with him. I was like, what the fight? I had to do that fucking ten times, I think before and and and and and one time was not short Like like I it's a struggle every time, and then you die after you've been fighting for fucking twenty minutes, and then you have to do it again. It was the same. It's like second row. It was the same shit. But it was the hardest battle of all the Divine Beasts in my opinion, And I'm just no wonder I've been putting off playing Gannon fighting Gannon. If it's going to be that difficult, I feel like, subconsciously, I just don't have the energy. Now. It wasn't like it wasn't even a little bit harder than the other Divine Beasts. It was like it was, yeah, it was the other ones were fighting though. When you're up fight, Yeah, you're gonna go fight Gannon. Yeah that's good. I'm getting closer to the cast because I was hacking away at those ancient machines. But I was like, okay, I better go get my master short because I didn't have my master short at this point. I've already done four beasts. I haven't got my masters or three beasts, so I go do my master's hurt. I get I get to the fucking forest, okay, and you have to go. You have to go through the forest and light a torch, right, And I'm getting lost in the fog. I'm like, what am I supposed to do here? Light these brassiers rights for the for the divine, for the divine breasts. So I go through and I see these like lampa. I'm like, oh, obviously I gotta light these. So I light them. And I get to these two and I don't know what to do, and I'm looking there and I'm going I'm running around into the fog. I do like them, Like, what the fuck am I supposed to do here? Oh? I google it? Oh? Follow the the ashes blowing off your torch into the wind. They blow towards where you're supposed to go. I'm like, what, So I light my torch. I like, in the air is going either and the wind is going towards it, right, And I'm like, how was I supposed to fucking I don't think of that either, man, So I follow I followed the sprinkling of the ashes that are in the wind and I get to the next lamp post to light and I get through the forest. Oh yeah, it's like a maze type forest thing too. Hey fuck yeah, my memory is like I did all that, and my memory of it is just ye, I don't remember that, but I don't know how I was supposed to figure that out without googling it. Yeah, Like, but that to me is was I just supposed to randomly find the next one by running in different directions? Like I didn't know I could follow the sprinkling of the flames. You know what, I don't even think a sound thing too. Wasn't it a sound? Wasn't there a sound you'd follow? Because what happens if you ran to the wrong in the wrong direction, you'd get you die, right, something happened and you get reset to reset. Yeah, I think I just figured it out by pattern by just doing it over. Okay, I gotta go this way, I gotta go this way. I don't definitely don't think I followed any sort of Yeah. Same, Yeah, I had no idea about the ashes, no clue. Okay, wow, So I get to the I get to the deco tree and he's like, oh, I'll try to pull the sword from the stone. I'm like, okay, cool, I try to pull it, I die because I only have what eleven arts or something. And he's like, oh, you have to be mityar to do this. I'm like, what is it? Yeah, you need a certain amount of hearts, so yeah, I need that too. Does it say somewhere where I had I needed thirteen hearts in the game. No, of course it didn't. Why would it well to do that before I go there and do this? So I google guys like okerin of Time and all the zel other Zela game they did the same thing. They didn't tell you what to do in those games. He just figured it out. Yeah, but the same. The worst, the worst Zela game, the worst Zelda game for this is the minush Cap. It's the absolute worst. It's the one Zelda game I had to look up constantly look kind of a game. It was a Gameboy game, game Boy Advance, the minush Cap, the Legend of the Minus Cap. It was the worst Zelda for that. Like, I was constantly looking up how to do shit because it was so hard, Like I was like, wow, the fuck am I supposed to know that? It was ridiculous that's one thing I remember about that game, but I don't remember it about the Breath of the whild. Yeah, so I was like, oh what, So I google. I was like, you need thirteen hearts to pull it out, so you get just a little fraction of your health and you can't cheat it. You can't take potions or anything. Oh you can fucking cheat it because I did it. I was like, well they updated that then, because I was like, I am not going to do eight more shrines. So I google it is like, any way to pull this thing out without thirteen hearts? And apparently, well not apparently, I did it. You build a camp fire right on the corner of the pedestal of the stone, okay, okay, okay, and you like go to sleep, and while you're waking up, you smash the A button and you pick up the sword. It's like some stupid glitch. I was like, fuck you, Dico Tree, I fucking glitch the sword. I meant you couldn't like drink potions or anything to increase your hearts. No, no, no to to get it to do. That's what I mean by cheesing it. But you definitely cheesed it. I broke the quest. I don't think I can go back and talk to Dicotree now, but I don't care. So then I went so, I'm hoping I can beat the game. To beat the game now, so I went back. It punishes you for cheating Gannons, like you acquired that sword through illegitimate means. It doesn't work on cannon. Wow, you're one damage. So I go back to the Camel boss and I wallop them because the damage the sword does is like way bigger than any of the weapons I could find in that in that part of like that kind of like shrines and stuff, getting those like Guardian plus plus swords you do those, I was using those. They're all I keep getting the fucking shitty axes and I don't use axes. They're still they take so long to swing and I can't stand them. And it's always the weapons that drop the axes. Yeah, I'm just getting by R and G. Maybe throughout the whole game. I don't know, but like I remember the grind getting all the hearts to do the Master Sword because I did. Look that wasn't like actually I think Thrillhouse told me. It's like oh shit, So I just grind and grind and grinding got the hearts and I was like, yes, I now could go get a master sword. It was worth it. Fuck them them, um, But yeah, I think that's uh wow, that's pretty much all my beefs with it. I give this game so far like a seven out of ten, maybe eight at ten Okay, okay, now not at ten out of ten for goddamn sure? No? No? Should we uh? Should we use this to segue because I have some tears of the Kingdom under gaming news. I wanted to just tell you guys about it's kind of funny. Sure, and then Jonathan, you can do years after. Okay, let's set into gaming news. Then after this quick break, Okay, we're back. We're going to talk about some things in the happenings in the world today, the world of the world. Now, we were talking about Zelda. Daniel, you said you had something about Zelda. What did you start? Well, they released they released a new Tiers of the Kingdom trailer. It's about four minutes. It's a pretty long trailer. I couldn't watch all of it. I didn't want to watch all of it. I don't watch full trailer all the time, especially when they're four minutes was good. It's very good. But it did I watch about half of it. It looked great, um, very intense, looked very action, very intense, which is cool. But my question for Nasty Nate because I was watching it and I said, and he had said for those listening, he had said in our group chat, I'm more interested in this game now after having seen that. Why is that a than I'm curious, why are you more interested in this game now? After all your grievance is a Breath of the Wild. What made you say? M I like the look of this one more. It looks more fluid, like it doesn't look as hindered by the bullshit that you the Breath of the Wild. Yeah, Like they're like, oh, I'm going to show that stuff in the trip, but they did show in the game, in the the feature game, the GAT. Yeah that once your durability is losing on a weapon, you can combine it with something and then extend its life right and keep doing it. And that is like a pseudo way of fixing the durability mechanic. So maybe they thought of better things to remedy some I like, I like, and they're going if they're gonna craft cars and jet packs or whatever the fuck they're gonna craft in this game, then I'm going to assume, sorry, that'll go Frank. They're going to assume I'll be able to craft a fucking torch. Okay, yeah, if they're gonna do this torch shit, okay, I'm assuming. So this is the reason why I wanted to wait. But the bad guys look really cool the way they're doing the dungeons. If they're like the Big Boss. You see that Big Rock Boss. That was sweet. Yeah, there was some cool cinematic looking I don't know. I don't know that. I'm gonna spoil it for elf person. Who's that elf person? Like the dead face? Right, I'm thinking that Zelda and she turns evil. I'm hoping Negga Zelda. Yeah, the Mega Charzard Zelda. And you gotta love the flow also, right, this just saw both. Did you not see he had the flow? You had the hair like in some scenes and then in other scenes he looked exactly like he did. Can we get hair dues in this game? Yeah? I don't know that. Or it's a time jump, it's a time back or forth in the store, yeah, um, or one could be at the beginning, Like I think maybe you start off as caveman link with the hair flowing and the and you travel through time and shit, and he's like, Oh, I gotta go see Zelda. I go to look good, Broke, go to look good, bron go to the barber. Yeah, go to the barber and cutreco village. Elda gotta look good, look good. Okay, add but it looks it looks better than what I've been playing. Did you guys check out the comments on the YouTube trailer that you linked, Nathanel You guys didn't check out the comments? Oh my god, man, Okay, So I copied and pasted them in some of them just today I had me laughing. But so check this out. So it's actually there's a serious element, a serious component to this too, because a lot of people are looking forward to this game, and I think they may feel the same way. I don't know if they've got a lot of grievances about Breath of the Wild, but a lot of them are really hyped that Tears of the Kingdom is finally coming. Wildfire Gaming commented on that trailer the raw energy and hype when seeing Gannendorf and that Zelda theme kicks in is unreal. This is already my game of the year, So that's pretty that's pretty crazy. Another avid gamer. Another YouTuber called avid gamer commented, this doesn't even feel like a game anymore. I was like, oh, he says, this feels like a movie. This is an event in gaming. I'm all here for it. I was like, okay, cool. So a lot of reception, good reception for this trailer coming out, But then check this out. I keep reading, keep reading, and I see comments saying this is beyond my wildest dreams and expectations for a sequel. The trailer, the action, the story. I am so excited to be playing this game. I'm like, I look at them. I look at the name of the YouTube account. It's come fast to get into my body. And the profile picture is like some chicks ass like up in the air right, And I was like, wow, So there are bought bonuses on this YouTube on the in these comments. Another one just hiring bots. I don't know, but people were applying to these comments. It's really falling. Another one named Julius Stark, to quote Captain Holt, she had that she was her profile picture was a woman with nice heavy breasts of graphics over her nipples. Right. So her comment was, Julia Stark almost thirty seven years of Zelda and here we are. We've scoured our way through dungeons, defeated Gannon countless times, and have saved High Rule from despair by sheer courage. This is lining up to be one of the most memorable Zelda experiences I'll ever have, and it's going to be all within a sand box. I'm pumped up and can't wait to start poor hours into this world. And then some guy comment, okay, Julia, just because it's like it's a total bot accounts that happened. But I found that so funny because I'm reading these comments, are like, wow, people are stoked, man, and half of them are just bots with like really encouraging Wow. Yeah, I just mind blowing. But anyway, I thought that was really funny. Well, I sent you a man, it's a problem. I sent you guys another thing on Instagram there on one of the chick spinning Chicklets posts. He's like, it was just all bots, yeah, all of them. I was like, what the hell is this? This is just what Instagram has become. That's why Elon Musk wanted to fucking take over Twitter, get rid of all the bots. How many? How many Twitter bots are there? Probably more than there aren't freaking YouTube. I don't know if he's done anything, really has he anyway? That's hilarious, But I wondered, like, why are bots just commenting on these things? Unless Nintendo's hiring them too, Well, they're not really looking into the fucking YouTube. The name, the account names come fast to get into my body. That's not very Nintendo friendly. That's a little too friendly. Oh my god. Yeah, it's so stupid. So I mean they're obviously doing it. And there you go. There you have it. Speaking of Chinese bots, Oh, talk about AI in China. China's game art industry is reportedly decimated by growing AI issues. Now, this is a link an article I read on Game Developer dot com. Okay, this is I think this is a huge problem. Like this is as per industry recruiter Leo Lee, illustrator jobs declined by nearly seventy percent last year in the gaming industry, seventy because of AI growth. That's whopping. Yeah, bosses maybe thinking they don't need so many employees, said Lee. This was referencing another article by a website called rest of World dot org. Who's and those who spoke to Rest of the World said they're encouraged by their employers to use the generators as a way to increase productivity. Zoo Yin I don't know how to pronounce this man Zoo is Xu Zoo. Zoo Yin Ying, who provides art at an indie studio in chong Qing, China, told the outlet that AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by ten. Like this is serious. What happens to human made art? What's going to happen to human made art? That's the biggest debate right now. I feel like that, you know what I've been saying, Illustration is the first to go, like it's already gone, Like illustration is the first think about it though, So I am in part to play here, But you know what, it's with the economy. I'd rather end twenty dollars a month, not even ten dollars a month, and I can get two hundred prompts okay for these AI images and choose which ones are best and then alter them later. They're good, and they're good and they're fantastic. Now they're fast and it's like this. You don't have to wait fifteen hours for an artist. Like some of the some of the new logos that will be printed on shirts are AI generated, which would have cost me if I wanted someone to make that, like three hundred bucks. Okay, I don't have that. Cash aren't cheap. We don't make money on this podcast. I'm not gonna go drop through in our books on a logo. You know. It's not gonna do it because money's hard to come by right now. So I'm sorry, but yeah, yeah, if you can get it cheaper, get it cheaper. Well, what's gonna happen? People are gonna make full animations with AI. We're gonna have AI generated like cartoons. They're already there, full movies. There's gonna be laws. The role that humans will be playing is just overseeing it all. It's all gonna be project management. Now, it's gonna be yeah, looks engineering, it's quality it's quality control. Well, in China they passed a law that's all AI generated art has to have a watermark on it. There you go by law now if people are using that stuff. Now this doesn't apply you to in game stuff. This is just outside of games. So now you know people are using AI, if they're using it on graphics of things like that, and then maybe in the future they can ban it for yep, you know they're gonna that has to have that watermark, has to have some kind or you're like, the artists are artists. Music is next day, you're done. You already got AI generated photography will be soon. Well, you can even do it. I could take a selfie of myself put it into the AI generator, say realistic lighting, a k ultra details and apode and one that looks just like me headshot. There you go and put it on. Let me philosophies here for a second. That's interesting though. Yes, music is obviously good to follow the same thing. But and I think obviously we have to learn to adapt in whatever way we can, if that includes project management and quality control and whatever. But check this out. A mixing engineer I follow on Instagram that I connected with was he made a real about I'm pretty sure it was him revealing your secrets As a professional in the industry, a lot of people hold their cards close to their chests because they don't want to reveal what they do and how they do it whatever. And then he realized, he said, he realized one day that that didn't matter. What mattered was that people didn't hire you because of your secrets. They hire you because of your tastes and your opinions and and you know, And so I think ultimately that's still well. Where humans are going to reign maybe is our taste. And if I can use AI into my workflow and adapted it to my process, how I use that AI in terms of taste, it's another still going to be my I guess prerogative what prompts I use to get what out of the AI. Because you're still as a musician, as a producer in the music world specifically, you're still going to be needing to hear something in your head from that AI music maker. You're still going to need it to give you what you want, and you can only get that through your tastes and your prompts you as the music maker. What if the customer just goes straight to AI well anymore? Yeah, that's all That's what I'm saying. Like, you know what, remember Morpheus Morpheus, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled in our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI. Remember Morphus say that Shah, artificial intelligences. You know, the only way this is the start of the matrix. The only way is to you have to limit just to just to protect the arts. Yeah, they're protecting arts, so it has to be laws on using this art. Now, there are groups of artists in the States, and I think over in Europe they're collecting together. They're coming together to try to pass certain laws where you can't use certain prompts in the ai um machine. So when they say do this make this like this in the style of and you put an artist's name, right, you cannot. They're they're trying to make it so you cannot. You cannot allow that much like because it just steals from that artist, right exactly when especially when you say stylized like or in in the style of. So just like how these ais have rules where I can't put sexy woman with lingerie are naked whatever, You can't say that. They already have limits. Why not add limits to protect the artists that you're stealing from. Well, somebody's got to do something soon, and people have to start and right now it's a weird gray area because it's just coming around and nobody's able to get their hands on a control it yet. But soon enough, everyone in the creative industry is going to be like, hey, whoa, Soon we'll be able to even just take all our episodes together here, dump them in an AI box, yeah, and give it a topic and say, make episode. There's enough. There's enough of our vocals out there, of our dialogue for I'm not even fuss joking, man, like, you'll be able to do that soon, I'm sure of it. You can even make videos. You can put pictures of us in or videos of us doing talking like this, put it in the AI video maker and make us eat spaghetti yeah and shit like that. Yeah, Will Smith, Yeah, it's yeah, it's crazy. At the beginning of the Matrix is ever so the Animatrix, did you guys watch the Animal? Like all of those I'd like to watch they're sick, they're sick. It's like the how the Matrix started with It's like the story of how it became what it was and how the robots rise, rose up and started like it's wild, it's and every different, Every episode is a different style of animation, right, very good. What we have to leave with is it could be the beginning of the end or the beginning of something incredible, right Like, if we can just you know, narrow it down, keep a little bit of rained some rules on. Is the time, This is the time to really make AI help us and not replace us. We can use it as a tool. We can use this shit as tools to further our knowledge in you know, coding or proper coding or proper this, proper that. Like I've used the Eye for a lot of things over the past month, like a lot, and like it can be used as a fantastic tool, but it needs to be rained in a little bit, maybe put a little rules on it so it doesn't replace too much of people's artistic flare. Because in the end, a customer is going to be like, I just need this photo to look like this to put on my website, right, yeah, a customer, the average customer. There are people who care about things like if no, I'm not gonna say me, but like there's people out there who like I need a meticulous way to push my brand, to make sure it's on point, YadA, YadA, YadA, all together with everything else on by website. It's got to be on point. So I have to hire someone to create this for me, right, But if Joe Schmo is like, I just need a picture of control, be varying degrees of collaboration, like you can't get human affirmation and and and a back and forth a dial with a with an AI in the same way that you can a human like you can't work on things and repine things in a similar way you can be surprised with GPT four. Man, it's like having it's like having a conversation with the fucking human being. It's crazy, it's insane. And in Version five is coming out there say it's gonna blow your goddamn mind. Literally, it's going to fuck our heads. And Elon has just jumped in on the AI race because he's like, yeah, it's gonna make me a ton more money. So he just made his own new AI company called X or something. AI. X isn't his son AI? Pretty sure his son is probably fully I'm pretty sure he's all those billionaires I've left a long time ago. They just left she different planet, like in that movie like in the don't look up, they all went to a different planet. Fucking stupid. Wow, all right, is it is scary? For sure? It's scary. Now it's the time people, All right, let's move on. Microsoft. Did you see this? Microsoft comments to Sony about they have ten years which is more than enough to create their own Call of Duty or something to that effect. Did you hear did you read the glanced? I think so? Microsoft is giving Sony ten years of Call of Duty. They're they're obligated by contract, like if they when the acquisition goes through, that they'll give Call of Duty to PlayStation five for the next ten years at least, you know what I mean. They're obviously going to cut it off at ten years, Like why would they go anything. I'm hoping Call of Duty doesn't exist in ten years because that game is shite and it has always been shite now it'll always be a thing. But do you think Sony will or should make, like actually start working on a replacement for Call of Duty? Do you think they will like a whole other franchise if this goes through, like their own, Yeah, something to rival, like a first party shooter game to rival Call of Duty. They have all these other first party games that are game of the years every time, Like you got God of War, they have they have it. They have you know, they have the mad they have that magic and that that know how. They I think they can do it Last of Us. The thing is like like a shooter. If this goes through, they're gonna have to ay if Call of Duty is gonna be ripped away from them in ten years. They I believe they can make something that's better than Call of Duty. Okay, Like yeah, I mean it's not better than Call of Duty. Like on it's not fucking hard. So I don't know what their whole beef is, Like it's it's so stupid, like Call of Duty is shit. I'm a lot of the PlayStation people, like they play Call of Duty on there right, Like yeah, would they leave PlayStation to go to Xbox just for Call of Duty? Like a lot of people already have both consoles or a PC at least. Yeah, Like I don't know, they're I don't know, but like Call of Duty, they're being a little unreasonable. This is where this is where they could actually make like think about a sick first person game like as good as God of War as good as Last of Us, but it's an FPS with a sick campaign story mode. They had like a six story one that and then a really good multiplayer that that rivals Call of Duty that could be good for like E sports and ship. Yeah. Hell, you don't even know what Bungee's cooking up behind the scenes after they got acquired, you know what I mean? Because Sony acquired Bungee, like make it run at one twenty. Do you guys remember Kills Fast Shooter. Yeah, I was gonna say they should make kill Zone. They should bring back kill Zone. What did that rival? Was that? Like the Halo rival or the Gears of War? Right? Was there? Like FPS? There's also that so calm they could So Calm was a m was sweet? Man? I used to play that all the fun. Is that an FPS or a third person person but it was just still a shooter. Technically, it was like a tactical shooter. Yeah, yeah, that'd be cool. Sweet Tom Clancy j Yeah Tom Clancy like Seal Game. Oh through the jungle and shit and the mud and yeah, they have this is their opportunity to do this. Yeah, I think they they should take this as an as like a I guess you see opportunity, but they should take it as like a fire in the belly and create something that blows our fucking mind and like, fine, have your call of duty, you know what I mean, Like have it and we'll have this and this could be amazing. This is their chance to step the bar up again, because, like, to be honest, I don't game on my Xbox. I barely game on my PC anymore. I look at my game Pass and I don't touch any of those games. Mh like Minecraft Legends. I'm getting excited for it coming out in a couple of days, but like any game that pops on game Pass lately, I've just been like me, you know, like, I don't I can't explain the feeling I get when I go into the game Pass app and see all these games and not play any of them. Yeah, I can't explain it. I can't explain it's still a branch of that gamer's fatigue. I'd say it's still a facet of that. You're just like, I just want to unlant. I don't know what the feeling is like that whole long thing. I don't care. I just would love another br so I hope they I hope they do and make a little br action as well as like a campaign and other stuff like i'd be cool games I don't care for. I'm not gonna play anyway games. I just looked at the list in the game pass. I don't care. I might even just let that lapse in my next in three years when it's over, because I fucking I was without it for a long time. I don't have game game pass doesn't do for me. It's just it's the games that come to the car, like PS five, I just find it's the quality is higher, Like the quality is higher, like even this Red Fall bullshit. The thirty fps thing is that? Are you gonna come into that with some news? I didn't have that now. So it's gonna be released at thirty fps only, quality mode only, and which on everything on console the Xbox I thought I saw that. I don't know, but all I know is it's being released quality mode only, and then later on it's gonna come with a performance mode just so they don't have to delay it again. What is that's a vampire like survival? Yeah, it's like a Left for Dead team shooter survival vampire thing. But like I think it's just gonna I'm gonna play it for two hours, and I'm like, man, you know, like these game Pass games, it's like they they get to a certain point, like a in bar of quality, and it's like, man, call this ship and I can't explain it. I can't explain it. There's a lot of indie stuff on game Pass, isn't there. Oh yeah, it's tons plus some really good like Triple A shit. The PS five exclusives are just there's just so fucking They're just so good and and I'm that's like, that's like exactly why I was talking about that thing with the Call of Duty, Like if they make something, if they can they just put their resources towards making a sick shooter game, it would be fucking yeah, it would be a really good game. I'm here for it, Tony, I'm here for it. Yep. Like, give me a cool shooter game I can play on PS five. But that's why I kept both consoles. Like that's why you should own If you're a serious gamer and you love like great games, you should have a PlayStation five for those amazing exclusives and your serious can be your dude, I haven't played Xbox in yet fucking two years? Is my multiplayer shit and my kind of every other thing as console? Well, the only reason I kept my Series S is because of all the games I had bought previously. Like, I'm not gonna throw away my hundreds of games that I have on an Xbox, right, m Yeah, that's why I never bought a Series X. I still have the one X one Yeah, one X one x who All right, Well, a lot of a good discussion today, Yeah for sure, Yeah for sure. Is that all we have? That's all I have? All right, Well, let's stop there. Thanks for listening, you know, thanks for hanging out with us. What are your grievances? Do you share any of our grievances this week? At least let us know. People come fireback at Nasty Nate about Breath of the Wild at him, not not us. Don't at me, bro, don't act okay at him. But yeah, let us know. If you enjoyed the show, give us a rating or review on whatever platform you're on. You know, if you're on YouTube, give us a like and give us a subscribe if you haven't. If you're listening, we are on this YouTube website. It's been out for a while. Come check us out, Come check us out the video. We post other things too, not just episodes. 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