New Year's Resolutions

0:11 Hello everybody and welcome to plug in for player 4.

0:15 My name is Mark. I thought you're going out like

0:18 Hello everybody. My name is Mark.

0:20 Hello everybody, my name is Mark, not Markiplier, no Mark.

0:25 15 seconds. Yeah, I know.

0:28 That's all it took for it to get Dupree.

0:29 We. Sucked it.

0:30 We suck at this shit. No it's fine, I just thought he

0:33 was going to do it anyway. Go go on, go on.

0:36 Do your outro intro intro this. Is the intro not the outro?

0:40 Not be quiet. OK.

0:41 Anyways, welcome to plug in for player four.

0:44 I am Mark and I'm here with Ethan and Brandon.

0:47 Fuck you. Wow, I didn't.

0:50 Even know how to respond to that.

0:52 Yeah, no, I was about to. I was about to ask you your

0:55 Christmas wine. God, it wasn't.

0:56 Even geared towards me. Yeah.

0:59 Geared towards anybody. Well anyways, how did you guys

1:02 Christmases go? It was pretty good.

1:06 Yeah, it sounds pretty good for me too.

1:09 I got a got a giant heater right here, Brandon.

1:13 Brandon seen it. It's pretty big.

1:15 He's also felt it too. It's pretty warm.

1:25 You know, maybe the fuck you need to be director somewhere.

1:27 Did it or did it not have the protective covering?

1:33 Why are you putting anything into this conversation?

1:36 Look at this, if you're going to be feeling heat or you, I mean

1:39 wanted to be protected. I when I took it out, it didn't

1:42 have a start protective like Styrofoam like that.

1:44 It got kind of protection like around it or?

1:46 Yeah, yeah. OK.

1:47 Yeah, yeah, it's also remote controlled.

1:51 Well, did it have sort of like a rubber plastic covering over it

1:54 to? No.

1:56 Well, anyways, we're into the new year now.

2:03 Look at that. Going from 2025 to 2026 feels

2:09 like the half year that we've been doing this has kind of

2:11 flown by. I mean, you're, you're not

2:14 wrong. It's been half a year and that's

2:17 kind of insane. Yeah, we started this in wet.

2:22 June. Yeah, Yeah.

2:23 I think it was early June. Yeah, early June.

2:28 It's going to be a year in June next year.

2:30 That's crazy. Yeah, I know.

2:32 Dude, the whole it's 52 episodes, Yeah, yeah.

2:37 Crap. Right.

2:41 Yeah. We got to think of something to

2:43 do for that day. I really do.

2:46 We'll discuss it in post. Yeah, we'll discuss it in post,

2:49 guys. You'll hear it.

2:50 You're all about in post, yeah? Just all of our plans, our

2:54 secret plans, our operations and shit.

2:59 Anyways, I think now's a good time to talk about how Ethan and

3:04 I finished our year game. Oh my God, yeah, no.

3:08 So granted, we've been playing this for more than a year, but

3:11 at the end of last year, we were like, hey, Mark, we're, we're

3:16 going to beat this by the end of the year next year.

3:20 And it took us like 6 months to play just once, yeah.

3:26 But you guys finished it though. We did.

3:28 Yeah, it was. Pretty cool.

3:29 Yeah. To catch everybody up, we were.

3:33 We got Wizard with a gun in 2024 and we never got a chance to

3:38 actually play it in 2024. And then 2025 rolls around and

3:44 we're like, OK, we're going to we're going to beat this by the

3:48 end of the year. We're going to get through our

3:51 play through and we're we're going to beat it.

3:53 Mind you, we were playing the hardest difficulty too.

3:56 Yeah, we're playing on Outlaw. So no wonder dude, let me tell

4:01 you, you should have seen our fight with the final boss.

4:06 It was horrible. It it went bad to start off with

4:09 and then we just locked in. Yeah, 'cause I, I had AI had a

4:13 weapon called the Hammer of Soul and like it's, it's a cannon and

4:16 just the only cannons are only guns with an arc to them.

4:19 There's very few cannons in the game.

4:21 But like I put a lightning strike bullet, I'm like, let's

4:24 see, let's see how much damage this does.

4:26 Like the lightning strike bullet on my sniper I think did like

4:29 500 or something base damage. Yeah, the Hammer of Soul and

4:35 like 1100 damage on. It mind you his lightning strike

4:40 bullets already had a cool down. Yes, on the Sniper, they were a

4:44 very long cool down. On the Hammer of Soul, it was

4:49 like an eighth, the cooldown of the Sniper.

4:53 Yeah, it was. Really.

4:54 Fast. So not only was he able to throw

4:57 more damage, it just it was doing more damage overall

5:01 because he could do it faster. The problem is once you pick a

5:06 spot, because it's a mortar, it goes towards that spot whether

5:09 any enemy moves or not. The final boss doesn't move, so

5:14 it's just stationary. Yeah, it's right for the picky.

5:17 Yeah, it's really. Mortar bombardment.

5:22 So like Mark wait, we need to get you 1.

5:27 Our first attempt after I got one, we got down to like 1/4

5:30 half left and we're like oh wow. Well.

5:33 It it was, it was like 1/4 health down left to go in like a

5:39 third of the time that it took us the first couple of tubs.

5:41 Yeah, but let let's go back to the beginning.

5:43 Like let's let's start. So there, there's 4 main, right?

5:48 But yeah, there's four riders which are like the bosses of the

5:52 game and you have to go like you start off in the uperium and you

5:57 have to go around and collect gears.

5:59 There's small gears and big gears.

6:01 Big gears will expand the area, and small gears are just kind of

6:03 like side objectives. So I expand the area.

6:08 Next time you remake the world, 'cause you got like what, 3 1/2

6:12 minutes? Yeah, 3 1/2 minutes.

6:14 Each time you go into the world before it starts to just self

6:17 destruct, you can get more time. But anyway, so eventually you

6:23 get to the final gear of that area and that's a rider.

6:29 So you know, good that you go through that.

6:31 You get to the fell, which I think that's where we left off

6:33 on was in the fell because we played a little bit, you know,

6:36 last year, whatever. And then we left off at the

6:40 fell, which is. Everything's poisoned.

6:43 It's a poison swamp. Yes, if you even step one pinky

6:47 toe into that poison swamp you're getting poisoned and it

6:50 sucks and everything there is aggressive as shit or just

6:55 poisons you outright. It's like we we were struggling

7:01 to get through the foul. We were struggling, starting to

7:03 just get into it. Yeah.

7:06 And when when it came time for like the cause, like there's

7:09 some enemies you have to take out where it's just like, oh,

7:11 here's here's the big frog, but it's surrounded by like 30 other

7:14 tinier frogs trying to get that gear.

7:18 Yeah, they all spit poison trying to get that gear sucked

7:21 it. Was so bad.

7:25 And then we, we've made eventually made it to the frozen

7:29 waste or whatever it's called. Yeah, frozen waste where we get

7:33 the hammer of soul. We killed, you know, we, we got

7:37 to the area, got all the gears. We killed that boss first try,

7:41 piss easy. The other boss we had struggled

7:43 with, I think especially the first one.

7:46 First, first one. We were really too familiar with

7:50 the system. So yeah, that was a struggle.

7:52 Orion wasn't too bad. Yeah, I think maybe once or

7:54 twice. But Orion wasn't too bad.

7:56 Yeah, Galana was once. And then we get to the worst

8:02 area. Oh God, the barren sea.

8:05 It is a giant desert location. Where there's these little

8:10 fruits around and they have a 50% chance of being an enemy in

8:15 disguise. Oh, that's great.

8:17 And so, yeah, and they'll just pop up, be like, hey, and like

8:20 run up to and attack you. And it's like you just, you try

8:23 to walk through the area, you kill one another, one spawns,

8:25 you kill one, another, one spawns, you kill one 'cause

8:26 you're you're trying to walk and trying to like explore more of

8:29 the map and get further in and just more spawn.

8:32 Yeah, another another problem with that area is that you gain

8:40 burning damage if you're out in the sand in the middle of the

8:44 sun. Yeah, during the day.

8:46 And you will catch on fire, yeah.

8:47 The frozen waste you get cold if you're on the snow and or ice

8:52 during the night. Eventually Mark was like, hey,

8:57 what if we negate burning damage?

8:58 I'm like, you're a genius. I'm adding reverb to that go on.

9:03 I was like, you're, you're a fucking genius, Mark.

9:06 And so you stroll around a lot of enemies can't like a lot of

9:10 the bigger enemies like spew oil and or just splash fire on the

9:13 ground. You're immune to that too.

9:15 Oh, you, you, you take the initial hit.

9:17 But if let's say someone spits fire at you, you know it happens

9:22 and you walk into the fire. Fine, you don't take any damage.

9:24 It's just the initial hit will deal damage.

9:26 But like, I'm like Mark, I'm looking at Mark.

9:28 I'm like you're, you're the smartest person alive.

9:33 While you're good at strategy games.

9:35 Yeah, And then I had the bright idea.

9:38 I was like, you know, Ethan, now that we're negating burning

9:42 damage, what if I start throwing burning damage?

9:48 That's right. I got a a submachine gun that

9:52 spurts oil all over the ground and then I shoot out fire

9:56 bullets that ignite all the oil and it sets everything on fire,

10:00 all the all the objects around us, all the enemies and it just

10:04 catches the entire island on foot.

10:07 Anyway, we get to the last rider.

10:08 It's a sniper, so you kind of got to like, dance around it,

10:12 yeah. We.

10:13 Surprisingly took it out first try.

10:15 Yeah, it was very scary, but we did it.

10:17 Yeah, and here's a little me be like, all right, cool.

10:22 We finished all the riders. Ethan are we don't the game.

10:24 He's like, no, he's like, now we're actually getting to the

10:28 game. Now we're getting to the end.

10:32 There's there's a thing you can do with the riders.

10:34 I won't say, but in case you guys want to play wizard with a

10:38 gun. But we get to like what Mark

10:42 thinks is the final boss. He's like, ah, yes, this this

10:44 giant like jellyfish is fondling this gigantic gear.

10:48 I'm like. So this is the end.

10:48 Right, gear that we need. Yeah.

10:50 So this is the end, right, Is it?

10:51 Yeah, sure. And so Mark is like, where's the

10:55 riders? They don't show up in this

10:58 fight. And then we kill it.

10:59 He's like, why did the writers showed up?

11:01 I'm like Mark, I told you. I'm like, OK, well, I guess it

11:07 was just kind of bugged out or whatnot, OK.

11:09 And then we spun back into the world and it's like, oh, look,

11:12 there's this little portal thing.

11:14 I was like, oh, cool, we go into it.

11:16 The writers are there. He's.

11:18 He then I'm like, we're not done, are we?

11:21 Yeah, he's like, no. And then we go in, there's the

11:28 final boss. I'm like oh do we get smacked

11:33 like 2 bits? And I'm like, oh.

11:36 Yeah, that's why. And this entire time, like I'm

11:39 making, I'm making this sound like we breezed through the

11:41 game. No, we did not.

11:43 No, they did not. I would when I was on with you

11:47 guys and you were playing it. No, it's a struggle.

11:49 It was struck, Yeah, every other run, maybe like every like, like

11:57 every three out of four runs. We were just like, help, remark,

12:01 help. It was a catastrophe.

12:04 I need healing. I met two health out of 2000.

12:09 Wow. Everything, even even the base

12:13 area stuff, everything scaled up at the tech as you got further

12:18 into the game, Yeah, so you would still get taken down like

12:22 two or three hits. But then you have the special

12:25 enemies. Oh yeah, we took out the the

12:28 Makana in the first area in the Imperium just fine.

12:31 We took out Frog the whatever the horror in the.

12:36 Fell thing. Kind of.

12:38 Easily. And then we try to take on the

12:41 wolf and what was it like a giant like anglerfish or

12:44 whatever. Yeah, yeah.

12:47 That had like 6 legs. They both spawn a kin of smaller

12:52 sizes. Yeah, it's bad they.

12:54 Were both summoning enemies. We got swarmed.

12:57 We eventually took down the dog somehow, I don't remember how.

13:01 Fire, fire, fire. That's why that's that's why I

13:06 set up the fire some GE remember?

13:08 Yeah, I know it's funny 'cause this gun didn't shoot straight

13:13 either. She's like Boo Boo, Boo Boo Boo

13:14 Boo Boo Boo Boo. And it he had, he had oil trail

13:18 bullets. So as it was, as the gun was.

13:21 Moving. They were leaving an oil trail

13:23 on the. Which way?

13:24 And then he's like, set it up, fire gun, just like.

13:28 That's smart though. Like that, that that's cool.

13:31 Yeah, I mean, it's that way with the bullet, with the oil bullets

13:34 splash. They're like all right, enemies

13:36 burn for longer if they're if they're splashed with oil.

13:41 And I had like a similar trade on the fire bullets.

13:44 So it was just nothing but non-stop just tick damage on

13:47 everything. And, and the dynamic between us,

13:49 he had a bunch of like a lot, a lot of fast firing, like tiny

13:55 damaged guns. I had a lot of slow firing,

13:58 heavy hitter guns. He was, he was geared for more

14:01 of the heavier enemies and I was geared up for a lot of the the

14:05 swarms. You're basically ad clear.

14:08 Ad clearing while he was focusing on the larger threats,

14:12 Right? And we, we, we've, we've gone

14:14 into a rhythm when we actually started getting into it.

14:17 Yeah, 'cause we still had to take down I think Kelan.

14:19 No, we had to do the thing with the writers.

14:23 Yeah, we had to do the special thing with the writers.

14:25 We had to take down the the mass of creatures in the area.

14:30 Yeah. And then we had to do the chaos

14:32 bosses. Yep.

14:34 I knew when you guys were like locked in, no fucking talking.

14:39 And I'm like wow, or I'm going to be quiet too, man.

14:43 Like this is like serious like I I would I, I shut up.

14:47 I. Didn't even notice because I was

14:50 just, I was just so focused on the game.

14:52 Oh, it it was like. We didn't.

14:54 We wouldn't even need to communicate either, it just

14:56 locked in. Yeah, I know the only thing we

14:58 said, healing, healing more. I I got myself at least a person

15:02 like Yeah. Yeah, like there could have been

15:03 questions I needed to ask you guys, but it was like, Nah.

15:06 Nah, Nah. They're locked in.

15:08 Locked in, I'm sure. But yeah, yeah, we, we completed

15:10 the this year. What, the day before Christmas

15:15 or something? Literally Christmas Eve, Yeah.

15:18 Hey, that's cool. Like 3:00 going to Christmas

15:22 Eve. All of a sudden I erupt, Ethan

15:25 erupts. We're just like, Oh my God, we

15:27 fucking did. It I think it was like 3:00 PM

15:29 too, so it wasn't like that far into the day either.

15:31 Yeah, God damn. Yeah.

15:33 And then, you know, so there was 1 episode where Mark was like,

15:37 yeah, I want to play this game called Generation 0.

15:39 He never says shit about games that he wants to play that he

15:42 hasn't gotten yet. Yeah.

15:44 And I'm just like, all right, I know what I'm getting from him

15:46 for Christmas. And so now that's going to be

15:49 our game for 2026. Yep, and I need to play that

15:53 that VR dungeon game. I still don't have it.

15:56 I I need to get it? Yeah, I, I wanna, I'll probably

16:00 like play it on my own and see how right, how it is or what

16:04 not. Yeah, it's going to be just like

16:06 a business. Oh yes, this new rogue, this new

16:08 Co-op rogue leg game that we can play.

16:11 You mean I can? Play I can play no abysses is

16:16 fun. I can't wait for the winter

16:18 update. I don't know when it's coming,

16:19 I. Also have to fucking play it.

16:22 Do you do you own it? No.

16:26 Listen buddy, I will. I knew the fence.

16:29 You were doing other stuff. Yeah, I I was busy with fucking

16:31 financial shit because of the New York trip.

16:34 Yeah, I don't know. You wanted a business, actually.

16:36 Yeah, I wanted to join you guys. And then it's like, Oh yeah, I

16:39 already beat him like a day. I was like, well, I guess that's

16:42 it for me. I will still.

16:43 I will still. That's.

16:44 Like you saw everything you needed to see.

16:47 That's one of the few rogue like I I actually just like played

16:50 like a basic bitch run. Like no no brine, whatever.

16:53 I just played like a basic bitch run probably a couple days ago

16:57 because I'm I'm still I, I will still play that game.

17:01 It's so fucking fun. It it is good I just switched

17:05 those. Those type of games would keep

17:06 my attention. Yeah, because I noticed like you

17:09 and Bran were like, yeah, let's play this for one day.

17:11 And I'm just like, I'm even going to play it for like a week

17:13 straight and. Then my attention went to

17:15 something else. Yeah.

17:17 Yeah, I, I, that is probably one thing I don't like about myself,

17:20 but it is just, it is what it is.

17:22 My my attention is so bad. Now Emma and I are excited to

17:26 play out last trials with you. Oh, you're going to have one

17:29 hell of a time, let me tell you. Yeah, it is.

17:34 Communication is key. Yeah.

17:39 And it's so some of them puzzles.

17:43 Shit man, they get difficult. That's fine by me.

17:46 Is especially when you've got a enemy on you at times.

17:51 Also like some of the locations in that game are great, like

17:55 just environmental, just the way it looks 'cause there's there's

17:59 one in particular that is like like mouth, like teeth related

18:07 and shit like it's fucked up. Like if you like Outlast, you

18:11 know what you're getting yourself into.

18:13 It is fucked up. Yeah.

18:17 But it's a fun time. It, it really is like me and me

18:19 and Tyler when we were playing it last year was a good time.

18:25 Fucking Marcus, man. This man Marcus, you know who

18:28 you are. He.

18:32 Somebody would be coming Aftermath because Marcus isn't

18:36 used to those type of games. You know he.

18:38 He's more like sports and, and like that buddy, he, he wanted

18:42 to play with us. So I'm like, yeah, no, he can do

18:45 this, you know, And I'll never forget when he quit in the

18:50 middle of the game. Oh no, you can't.

18:55 Do that man, because it screws everyone else.

18:59 Yeah, now if you get kicked for, you know, like Internet issues.

19:03 Right, that's that's a different story.

19:05 But then like Marcus, why did you leave?

19:08 So me and Tyler, it's it's kind of hard to play on your own

19:14 because there's just so much you need to do in these levels.

19:19 From what you're describing it, it reminds me of doing like Call

19:23 of Duty Easter eggs. And you always had the one

19:26 designated guy. Yeah, monitoring the crawler.

19:30 Yes. Everybody else could do

19:32 everything else. That was my job.

19:36 That's funny that. Was my job sometimes, but yeah,

19:39 it was mainly your your. It's like that, but on steroids.

19:43 Yeah. It's like you might have

19:46 multiple pursuers on you. Yeah.

19:52 So yeah, it's best for one person to try to get the pursuer

19:56 somewhere else, which could be a pain in the ass can sometimes

20:00 the pursuer changes who it's going after.

20:03 Oh boy. And you're having to try to do

20:05 the objective. There's multiple things to do

20:08 within a set objective. It can be, it could be

20:12 stressful. So, and, and there's always

20:17 something that goes wrong or an enemy that spawns that bucks you

20:22 over, which makes you have to now deal with what they just did

20:26 to you on top of, oh, here's the other like the main enemy coming

20:30 after you 'cause he's ready for you.

20:32 Oh no, like it it it is 2. Minutes.

20:36 I got you for 2 minutes. 2 minutes for play time.

20:40 You're on my time, I. Got you for three minutes.

20:45 That's for three minutes. No, it's fun.

20:48 I, I, I'm very excited to play with you guys.

20:51 OK that, but that's sorry. That's how I felt when I played.

20:54 Fucking GTFO. Yeah. 3 minutes.

20:57 I got you for three minutes. I will not touch that game.

21:02 I miss playing it though so much.

21:04 I do too. I I that's a game that I

21:08 desperately want to get better in.

21:09 We need a fourth player so. Yeah, because I know we can

21:13 easily get Nick onto it. Yes, right.

21:16 No, Nick will. Play Nick will play.

21:17 Good. I my my patience for that type

21:20 of game is is not there. Yeah, I do you.

21:24 I'll drag it down. You have to be patient with.

21:27 Yeah, I'll, I'll drag you down. Yeah, I just will not.

21:30 Yeah, I will not do that. Do you guys?

21:31 Yeah, See what? Jack?

21:32 Jack just can't handle it. He's just like, you know, it's

21:35 like. It's a cool game.

21:36 No, it's. Just so much stress.

21:39 And like, there have been times where like me, Nick and Mark are

21:42 just like, all right, we got we each got an enemy.

21:44 We got our hammers on our 321. Bam, all, like, all in unison.

21:48 Yes, we're locked in. Yeah.

21:50 Like I watched what Markiplier? Yeah, yeah.

21:54 How much Markiplier Weed and Bob?

21:56 And then just watching them stressed me the fuck out.

21:58 Yeah, because if you fuck up, yes.

22:01 That's it. That's it.

22:02 You're dealing with a swarm and you're not, you're not going to

22:05 have a good time after that either.

22:07 No, even if you even if you get through the swarm, it's very

22:10 hard to recover. But I I will appreciate it for

22:14 the level of cooperation you have to do with your teammates.

22:19 Yeah. Like, I don't, I can't think of

22:21 any other game that is that involved.

22:23 Yeah, I don't. Think like that's aggressive.

22:26 Yeah, it is. Like I even though I don't play

22:30 it doesn't mean I don't like it. Yeah, I like the game.

22:33 I like what it does, but I just, I can't myself play it.

22:37 Yeah, I just don't think I'm having a good time.

22:39 Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, but I'll watch you guys

22:41 play it. Hell yeah, I'll watch it.

22:43 I don't care. Fuck yeah, I wanna watch you

22:46 guys suffer. Yeah, of course.

22:48 What if we actually what if we get Shelby to play it?

22:52 I doubt Shelby will have the patience for.

22:54 It I don't know, she likes like whenever she plays like Legend

22:58 of Zelda, she's always like sneaking around like not true

23:01 and like she's always said like, oh, I've like I've always tried

23:03 to like sneak around and be like, you know, getting the

23:05 mindset of a stealthy person like maybe there's a chance

23:08 there's. A chance she.

23:09 Probably would do OK. Yeah.

23:11 Yeah, I'm just I any stealth games I get anxious.

23:17 Honestly, I don't like stealth games because I'm just like, I

23:20 just want to shoot. That's what everything but this

23:22 one you have to steal. It will force you into it and it

23:26 will. It will make you think.

23:28 About like and like. That's what I like about it.

23:30 It's it's. Like clear the room without

23:32 fucking everything. It's a tactics.

23:34 Game, yes. Yes, it it kind of also like I

23:38 know this is kind of totally different, but it also kind of

23:40 reminds me of how was it ready or not in a way?

23:44 Yeah. Yeah, like it's like they're two

23:46 different games. But because I have ready or not,

23:49 I do. Too.

23:50 I fucking love that game. Yeah, I like playing it.

23:52 Yeah, it's like that's probably about as far as I'll go.

23:55 Yeah, because you have typical shooters.

23:57 Yeah. And it's not anywhere you're in

24:00 in heaven, that type of involvement like TFO.

24:03 Yeah. And I will say we can get back

24:05 to this, but I didn't want to bring up something Mark talked

24:07 about beforehand. Yes, New Year's resolutions.

24:12 I have a gaming resolution for next year.

24:16 I have this bingo card, actually.

24:18 Where's my phone? Because I'm going to read it

24:20 out. Ow, that hurt.

24:21 I have this bingo card that I made of games that I currently

24:25 owned at the time. This was before Christmas

24:27 because I saw someone else do it on like a Steam achievement

24:30 hunting web subreddit. Yeah.

24:34 So I'm like, oh, that's a good idea.

24:36 And here it is for I'm I'm going top to down, left to right.

24:43 So first the B column, then ING O but planet crafter at the top,

24:47 then spirit fair, volcanoids, sea of stars, underdogs in the B

24:52 column. Yeah, cube.

24:54 It's a puzzle game. Gunfire Reborn tear down slime

24:58 rancher 2 Sonic Mania in the I column Astro near Terraria,

25:05 isopod wobbly life and off the RPG in the north column, Quantum

25:12 conundrum, Body Bite Land overclocked Moonlighter,

25:15 psychopom gold and let's build a zoo in the G column.

25:20 Risk of rain too weird RPG, which that's like a you're going

25:26 to have to see this. It's kind of funny.

25:28 It's it's meta. Yeah.

25:31 Dicey Dungeons, A Hat in Time, and Circle Empire.

25:35 Rivals for the L column. God.

25:38 Currently I have crossed off Planet Crafter.

25:40 Yeah, it's not the new year, but this is my bingo card.

25:44 I completed it after I made it. I'm counting it.

25:48 If you have a problem with it, it's not your bingo card.

25:51 It's not you. Shut up.

25:53 It's not you, It's me. Yeah, it's me.

25:56 Shut up. I need to I really need to

26:01 finish A Hat in Time. Me too.

26:03 It's. Such a cute.

26:04 Game I got to the train level and I stopped.

26:07 I got. Through the conductor in the

26:09 whatever. That's where I stopped.

26:11 Yeah, yeah. God, I haven't played that in.

26:14 Years. I haven't either, yeah.

26:16 Do you guys got any other or do you guys got any New Year's

26:20 resolutions for games? This year I really want to start

26:24 actually getting games and playing games that I want to

26:27 play, especially now that my career is kind of starting to

26:32 stabilize everything and I had a.

26:34 Little scroll bar on your steam profile?

26:36 Yeah, yeah, I need one. I remember the first time that I

26:40 got enough games. I have a scroll bar.

26:42 I'm like hey scroll bar. Oh man man, I remember when I

26:46 when I had money and I was buying a bunch of fucking hubba

26:49 bundle. Yeah, yeah.

26:51 I just buy the games that I on steam.

26:53 I don't really care because being a Steam achievement

26:56 Hunter, I'm like I if I buy a game, I'm a Humble Bundle and I

26:59 don't care for it. Yeah, I can make a deal.

27:01 But like, yeah, that's another game that I'd have to 100% or

27:07 whatever, get more achievements just to keep where I'm at, which

27:09 actually I recently I went from 52 to 53 percent average game

27:13 completion rate. That's a big jump.

27:16 That's a big jump. Well, also remember when you get

27:19 like, well, you probably know this, but those Hubble bundles,

27:21 like I just grabbed the games that I'm gonna play.

27:23 Yeah, cuz I don't put all of them in.

27:26 Yeah, OK. And I think those keys don't

27:29 expire, so you just keep them so you can put them in your Steam

27:34 library or whatever. What?

27:35 The ones you don't use? Wow, that's cool.

27:37 Yeah, that's what I've done. That's because like 25 bucks or

27:41 whatever, 20 bucks for like 10 or 15 games, yeah.

27:45 Like shit, yeah. You know, that's just how I've

27:50 gotten my games. Now if the Steam's like the

27:52 Steam sale, like yeah, I'll go and get what I'm gonna play.

27:56 Yeah, Cuz I mean, there are games in my library right now

27:58 that I probably will never play, but they're there.

28:00 Yeah. Yeah, and I think you can all

28:04 can you? Can you remove games?

28:07 You can play. You can.

28:07 Hide them. Yeah, you can hide them if.

28:10 It's like a free game you can probably like.

28:12 You can remove. It yeah remove from your

28:13 profile. But if you bought the game, it's

28:15 like it just stays. Right.

28:17 Yeah. Did you go to?

28:19 Is that your? No, that's not your.

28:22 This is a little discussion. Now my, my resolution kind of

28:27 like I, I need to start playing like I want to start playing

28:30 some of the games that I've got. Because I've got too many.

28:32 Fucking games on that fucking. Profile and I missed your 600

28:36 over here. Yeah.

28:37 It's stupid. I got 200.

28:38 I really want to get a play through of Outer Wilds and

28:44 because I've heard good things about that game and you know, I

28:48 really want to just kind of see what the hype is about.

28:52 Personally. I also want to, if it, I want to

28:56 get through full playthroughs of some of my some of my other

28:59 games because I fall into the trap of, oh, I'm getting really

29:04 busy that I forget, like Satisfactory.

29:09 I get really busy with life that everything's so convoluted and

29:12 complex that I just can't keep up with it and I get burnt out

29:17 just trying to get back into into the gear of things.

29:20 Well, that makes sense because you play, you're like at a point

29:23 where like once, once you've been playing for a while, you're

29:27 like, OK, I can handle this. But you know, you stop for a

29:29 year or whatever, however long you come back and like, what is

29:33 any of this? What am I doing?

29:34 Where am I at? Where is everything?

29:37 What is? What makes what?

29:39 Like. Yeah, I just now thought of

29:41 another resolution. If we're if we're all going to

29:43 play 76, I want to try to do that the raid that's in the

29:50 game. That's that's another resolution

29:53 I want to do is I want to I want to expand out our our raid team

30:00 for our gaming group. Yeah.

30:02 Because I want to start doing like harder stuff like like

30:07 especially in Destiny as well. Yes, because I must say is that

30:12 she's got a friend. We could potentially get him to

30:14 start playing and then I think we could probably get Dylan to

30:18 start playing as well. Because I think you can if this

30:22 will probably never happen, because I don't.

30:25 I can't remember how Jack feels about Fallout in general.

30:28 I think he he doesn't mind it, yeah, but it's just not

30:31 something he really likes playing.

30:33 Which, Yeah, perfectly. That's you.

30:34 That's. Fine.

30:35 Right. But I think you can.

30:37 I think you can have up to five people in a team.

30:39 Yeah, 76. I thought I would have guessed

30:41 4. You know, typical.

30:43 Number. I thought those. 4I I it could

30:45 be 5. I think I'll have to take a

30:47 look. It might just be more, but if it

30:50 was 5, like, hey, I mean, Jack wanted to, I mean, yeah, more

30:53 people, whatever, you know, 'cause I know you and me, we're

30:56 having a blast today. Oh my God, yeah, yeah.

30:57 I was only, I was only like level 4 and I'm just like, I'm

31:00 just rigging and I'm just having fun with my little wooden stick.

31:03 Yeah, and I'm just over here fucking.

31:05 Starting starting the journey back up to the Rocket Hammer, I

31:08 see. Yes, I am.

31:11 Yeah, the Super. I am, yes.

31:14 Are you doing an old man playthrough?

31:16 Please tell me your character's an old man.

31:18 No, I just. We could be like old man, wave,

31:20 stick and clap. No, I didn't even think about

31:24 that would be funny. But I I just chose the

31:26 character, the sign of me as it was a female and the guy.

31:28 Whatever I don't want to do because I just want to play.

31:30 Yeah, I. Want to say you can.

31:32 If I remember right, you can change it later.

31:34 Yeah, I do have another resolution though, is to find a

31:39 game that I can just deep dive into.

31:43 They're like, I have ADHD. I've always bounced from game to

31:46 game, maximum every month, minimum like probably a week.

31:50 Yeah, for my entire life. You want something that you kind

31:55 of nail down and be like, this is a standing game for myself.

31:59 Pretty much like for example wizard one O 1 yeah or Fallout

32:03 76 something or like payday 2 something I can just like deep

32:08 dive in, really get to know the nitty gritty and like figure out

32:11 like the most like niche strategies or whatever.

32:15 Have a bit of mastery in. Yeah.

32:17 That's how that's what Fallout is to me.

32:19 Yeah, right. It's my deep dive.

32:21 I mean, you have 800 hours just about, yeah.

32:24 Yeah. Like, at least on Steam.

32:26 Like that's not a lot to compare to like other people.

32:29 Yeah. That's a lot to me.

32:30 Fuck off. What?

32:31 Do you mean it is? I mean it is?

32:33 What do you mean? Like I didn't like when meeting.

32:35 Terraria I have 800 hours total like on Steam.

32:39 Like that's between Terraria and.

32:42 Team on. OK.

32:43 What's really picking up there? Yes.

32:46 Yeah, we need to get. We should do that.

32:50 Because I want to get you through Calamity mod.

32:52 Because I want you to see the fuck shit and the beauty in it.

32:56 It's a it's a beautiful mod. Right.

32:59 Oh yeah, yeah, I kind of figured.

33:01 I just know it's difficult. Yeah, it's difficult, but it's

33:04 got a lot of beautiful things about it.

33:07 I wouldn't think of it as difficult.

33:08 Think of it as like challenge, like because I remember, hold

33:13 on, I remember when I was like being to Mark and Jack, I was

33:18 like, guys, we should play calamity, we should play

33:19 calamity. And they're just, they both are

33:21 just like, but then there was a day where like I just booted up

33:25 and started playing. I'm like, actually, it's not

33:27 really that bad because you know, at the start you get the

33:29 rule from stuff, whatever. I'm just like, it's not that

33:33 bad. It's got some quality of life

33:34 where you can move faster and do more damage or whatever.

33:37 And they're like, all right, let's play it.

33:38 Then we just right through calamity, bored a hole straight

33:41 through it. Some more challenging than yes,

33:45 being just outright fucking hard.

33:47 You know it's not hard at all and the curve is pretty good.

33:50 Yeah, OK, See that? That's what I like that like the

33:52 curve isn't like a fucking drop. I I would say the curve is

33:56 better across all of calamity than all of just base Terraria.

34:00 Without the mod, yeah. Like base Terraria, as soon as

34:04 you get past the wall of flesh, you hit a wall.

34:07 Like pretty much the curve is this.

34:08 It's just 'cause like, this is like the end of Calamity, where

34:11 it's just like every single boss you have to gear up for.

34:15 And once you kill a boss, you get access to more resources to

34:17 gear up for the next boss. Yeah, and the next boss is just

34:20 not a challenge. Yeah, no.

34:21 When you in Bistro are you? It's kind of like, oh, it's a

34:24 very slow start up because you had the first go because you

34:29 remember the first couple of nights we're still just trying

34:31 to find. Stuff.

34:32 Big fucking metals to get going. Yeah.

34:35 And then it starts picking up. Picking up and then kind of

34:39 levels off as you get to the Wall of flesh.

34:42 Then it's just a fucking Cliff right at the beginning of a yes

34:47 of a hard mode. Because now you have all those

34:50 different enemies, all these different systems that come into

34:54 new biomes, new biomes, new. Enemies.

34:58 Harder enemies. Everything hits like a truck.

35:01 Yes, everything that you have up until that point because.

35:06 Like you beat the wall of flesh, you're just like I am or like

35:08 you, you know, like at the end of like free hard mode, you're

35:10 just like I am my God, I am at the top of the food chain.

35:14 And then you beat wall of flesh. You're like, yes, I did it.

35:17 Now you're. Smacked down.

35:18 Now you're in hard mode and you get.

35:19 Now you're just a family on the wall.

35:21 Yeah. Maybe I want to go back to.

35:26 Nah, yeah, you had to experience be strarium.

35:29 Well, yeah. Yeah.

35:31 No, I want to get through bass and then we can continue where

35:35 we left. Off yeah I mean we can even like

35:37 restart if you really want to read familiar's cuz we did kind

35:41 of breeze. Through a couple in there.

35:43 Yeah, we did breeze through a couple bosses for Calamity.

35:46 How about to say you guys just took everything out?

35:48 Yeah. And I'm just like, nice, all

35:50 right? What are we doing, dude?

35:52 What the fuck did we do? So when we get back to that, we

35:54 should like take it easy, be like, all right, Brandon, like

35:56 here's what's next or here's what we can do and just get you

36:01 looking at the guide and seeing what you can craft whatever

36:04 resources you're like, okay. It'll be easier for me since I

36:09 would kind of know how base Terraria is.

36:10 Yeah, I kind of need to know how that goes.

36:13 A lot of calamity is base Terraria of tons of quality of

36:17 life. Yeah, with with with other

36:21 systems built on top of base I. I felt that when we started in

36:25 base on your slowest shit, yeah. Like I kind of want to go back

36:29 to calamity because. Calamity.

36:31 You can hit the ground literally sprinting, Yeah.

36:33 Yes. But in Terraria doesn't walk.

36:36 Take another step. Take another step.

36:38 I'm like, Oh my God, it's like I'm a fat guy.

36:41 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's nothing to say.

36:45 That base Terraria is bad. It's.

36:47 So no, no, no, no. It's built.

36:49 It's built in a different way. Yes, yeah.

36:53 It's just calamity is just, you know, it's built on top of it

36:55 and it's just has so many different quality of life.

36:59 Yeah. Like I'd say we're currently,

37:01 what would you say, Ethan, about 1/3 of the way through base now?

37:05 I remember where we're at. Yeah, about the same.

37:07 We don't. Just beat Wall of Flesh.

37:10 Is that a third? That's about 1/3.

37:13 I wouldn't. Say like 1/4 just because pretty

37:15 hard mode it is like so easy compared to hard mode plus like

37:20 the length of hard mode is like 3 times.

37:22 As long we still have the mechanical bosses now, then we

37:26 have the fucking. We have Golem, we have Plantera,

37:33 we have Cultists, then we have the Four Pillars, then we have

37:39 Moon Lord. The pillars are actually pretty

37:41 fun. The pillars are fun.

37:43 Yeah, if you go to the melee pillar you're going to get

37:44 fucking decimated, but it's pretty fun.

37:48 What's this dude? Yes.

37:51 Oh look, they're melee enemies so I can fly, right?

37:55 That tells me not the flood. It don't matter.

38:00 So what you're saying is when I get fucked up by that melee

38:06 fucking tower thing I look like that cat?

38:08 Yeah. Yeah.

38:10 Yeah. The cat hasn't.

38:12 Yeah, you're gonna be mad. Don't worry, you'll learn about

38:15 the celestial pillars. Oh, it's gone.

38:20 Is that you? I'll be like Yoda.

38:23 Are you afraid? No, you will be.

38:31 You will be. OK, but seriously though, I'm,

38:33 I'm really excited for Generation Zero.

38:35 Yeah, I have played the game before.

38:37 I know how it works, but like, because me and there was a time

38:41 on Xbox when I had Game Pass where me and my my friend Nick

38:45 were playing it. Well, we're just like walking on

38:47 having a jolly time. I think he said something like

38:50 there was a point in time where we met enemies and we're just

38:52 like, these enemies are harder than we've ever fought before.

38:54 Yeah. And he's like, those are DLC

38:56 enemies. We don't even have the DLC.

38:59 What? How does that even make sense?

39:02 I don't know. But then we we, we got back into

39:06 the game. Now there's like flying enemies.

39:08 So it's like, oh, great, we're not even safe from the air.

39:11 That's awesome. Like we're just going to hide

39:15 behind this building. No, no, you're going to take

39:19 your 556 and just shoot at it until God dies.

39:25 Shoot him out of the air. She's.

39:27 God dies. I'm I'm I'm excited to get

39:32 afraid of what I've gotten since.

39:35 Oh, it's it's actually really. Fun.

39:36 Yeah, yeah, you're. Going to have a great time.

39:40 It's like as you walk around the map you can get like a safe.

39:43 I hate this fucking chair. Yeah, you sit in it every time.

39:47 I know it's comfortable. I hate this chair.

39:51 I like this chair. I'm that cat.

39:58 He's angry, but he still continues to sit in the same

40:00 spot. But I'm also very content as the

40:02 pretzel. That's true.

40:04 It's a very happy pretzel. That's smiling face anyways.

40:09 That's pain. Yeah, I know there's like

40:14 different safe houses you can get into.

40:15 And it's like, it's weird because you got to clear out the

40:18 safe houses and then like, you got to find, I think like the

40:20 the room or some, maybe. Yeah.

40:23 And then like, that becomes your safe house.

40:24 And like, you teleport over to your safe house.

40:26 Like, how do we get out of here again?

40:27 Because each one is like, windingly different.

40:29 Oh, geez. So you go to a safe house,

40:31 you're like to go left or right to get out.

40:38 Where am I? Yeah, really.

40:41 Oh, I just thought of another resolution.

40:43 Oh go for his resolution. We need to get fucking past

40:48 plantatees and and what was the other one?

40:52 And you, Udra and Gog God, Oh, you're talking about monster?

40:56 Monster in the Wilds. Yes, Monster in the Wilds.

40:58 Yeah, I I really want my fucking Chocobo.

41:01 Yeah, damn it. Have have you seen some of the

41:04 GOG weapons? No, Oh my God, they look

41:08 awesome. I'm assuming that the dual

41:11 blades have something. Where's my food?

41:15 Let me just show you the great sword.

41:19 Yeah, that that boss fuck lit us the fuck up.

41:22 Jesus. We got close though to beating.

41:24 We got the final phase. Jay, you guys should have

41:28 understood that something was going to happen when Jack and I

41:31 were both saying isn't going to be an Allitreon moment.

41:35 Sure enough, there was. Because you and Emma have never

41:39 faced the Elder Dragons yet like we we never even got that far in

41:44 Rise with you. Yeah, which we got to get back

41:46 to Rise. Oh God yeah, that that little

41:54 dragon is fucking well. When it's screwing Jack up is

41:58 when I get scared. Yeah.

42:01 Seeing Jack be thrown around like a rat.

42:03 That reminds me of when I played Araius and we were playing like

42:05 the DLC whatever. This is the great sword.

42:11 Anyway, when my it? Looks like you've got the

42:13 fucking 10 commandments. Yeah, wait, let me see.

42:18 Oh my God, that's the dog. Great sword.

42:22 Dude that is awesome. That is fucking awesome.

42:24 Yeah, that reminds me. When me and Jack were playing

42:26 Rise on the Switch, we were playing the DLC on break, I

42:30 think it's called. Yeah.

42:31 And we were going through the monsters.

42:33 We beat the, we beat the game and I'm like, oh, finally we

42:35 beat it like Jesus Christ. And then so like I think we take

42:39 a break for like maybe a day or two, maybe 3.

42:42 And he's like at some point he says we're not done yet.

42:44 I'm like, wait, what? We're not.

42:46 We're not done. Oh no, he's sweet Summer's

42:51 child. But yeah, he says that I'm like,

43:00 then I got booed up my switch on the car.

43:01 Right, let's go. Let's.

43:04 Go granted Ryze is like probably one of the is one of the easier

43:07 games for Monster Hunter, but Oh my God was it still just like

43:12 trying to get through it? Yeah, I was enjoying my time in

43:14 that well, when we were playing it and Ryze, that was pretty

43:17 cool. Here's the dual blades.

43:22 Oh, I'm about to have some fun. I want that.

43:25 Oh, I want those dual blades. God damn.

43:30 It I I. Want those work?

43:33 I want that we. Can I put that down?

43:36 Can I put that down? And then what is the hammer?

43:46 Oh God, I could just imagine the fucking hammer.

43:48 Was there a hammer? Yeah.

43:49 Where's the hammer? I was actually going to ask

43:50 that, but I got sidetracked. I'm going to figure that out.

43:53 You guys keep talking. What do you?

43:56 Want to know about Brandon? Well, I like how I was telling

44:01 you this earlier. Ethan with Mark with the Tom and

44:05 Jerry shit. Oh.

44:07 Rat Crambo. Crambo.

44:14 When I showed you that video at 1st, I'm going to beep, beep,

44:17 beep, beep, drink a glass of milk or drink a gallon of milk

44:22 like oh, ADHD, ADHD, watch, watch, get out.

44:27 Get out, you know it should had me.

44:33 Cracking up when I first watched because I'm just, I'm just here

44:35 watching it. It's like late at night.

44:37 I'm just like, OK, it's a Caleb City video.

44:39 I haven't watched one of these in forever.

44:42 So I just showed up. I'm like, all right, all right.

44:47 I was cracking up for 5 minutes, it was that funny.

44:52 Oh my God, and a good shit. Oh my shit.

44:59 Look at Mark over there. I know he's looking at his

45:01 phone. Look.

45:02 At this man. I'm a.

45:04 Man, Jesus, he did that? I've never seen you.

45:07 Yeah, like you fucked. Yeah, it's like you just snapped

45:10 your damn neck. Holy shit.

45:13 Look. I can I can move fast.

45:16 I will say, yeah, Speaking of like the Payday 2 or game that I

45:20 want to have like heavily deep dive into probably going to be

45:22 Payday 2. OK, maybe a little bit.

45:25 I'll follow 76 in there. But I mean, granted, it's not as

45:29 deep of a game as Payday 2, it's all right.

45:34 It's all right. It's.

45:34 Not as the others. It's not as deep like.

45:37 It's not the Xbox. 76 I wouldn't say is as deep of a game as

45:41 Payday 2. Granted there's less to do in

45:43 Payday, but like Oh my God there's so many mechanics in

45:47 that game. Oh, definitely.

45:49 From sneaking around, is it tying people to telling them to

45:51 get on the ground to like, I know on the higher difficulties

45:56 there can be like cloakers or whatever that will just

45:58 instantly knock you out and be like, all right, you're in

46:00 handcuffs now. Oh.

46:01 Fuck. Yeah, yeah, stuff like that.

46:03 Yeah, like it's just like we call this a.

46:07 Difficulty tweak. It's like now in terms of like

46:11 if you want to deep dive into lore.

46:13 Oh God, yeah. Follow, follow.

46:14 Yeah. Stupid, that.

46:16 Trust me, I, I understand that because when the magic set came

46:19 out for that, there was like, oh, like there was a bunch of

46:21 sagas that was like, oh, vault 113, vault 111 Volt, 76 Volt,

46:25 this vault that there's so many. And I'm just like, I, I read up

46:28 on some of these vaults, 'cause I'm like, what?

46:30 What is voters dilemma, Burt? Maybe that's something.

46:34 Maybe that's not what I said, but it's like what's like, like

46:36 there's this voting one, like I read up on the lore, how like

46:40 each year or whatever, they had to vote on somebody to become

46:43 the new senator and then die. Yeah, the new.

46:46 Overseer. There was 5 people left.

46:49 We're not doing this. Congratulations.

46:51 Congratulations. Good job of maintaining your

46:54 humanity. Yeah.

46:55 It's like what? Good on you.

46:58 We just killed everybody we knew.

47:01 Now my favorite vault will always be the Gary Vault.

47:07 Gary. Basically it's a it's Gary, but

47:11 cloned so many different fucking times.

47:14 And when you go into this vault, all you hear and all they can

47:17 say is their name. So you could be like, literally

47:21 like it's fucking great. I remember the first time I went

47:23 into this vault and I'm like looking around.

47:26 It's in Fallout 3, I believe. I'm in this vault and it's all

47:31 of a sudden Gary, Gary a fuck. And I see this guy coming at

47:38 they're hostile. Oh my God.

47:40 And they're like, I'm seeing like 3-4 different fucking

47:43 Gary's coming at me. They're all named like they're

47:45 named Gary, but a different number to be Gary 123. 147.

47:49 Yeah, and Gary fucking punch me and shit.

47:57 Like Gary? That fault is so like, but it's

48:01 it's horrifying when you hear them saying in the distance.

48:06 Yeah, yeah. Gary.

48:08 Gary. My God.

48:10 No, like if you really like do a deep dive into Fallout's Lord

48:13 those. Keep the chair counter going.

48:19 Chairs. It's like a trumpet keep.

48:25 Getting higher. Cramp.

48:35 I was going to say something. Oh yeah.

48:37 So actually for Christmas I got plenty of games because I I

48:43 wanted to talk about that for I got this game called Buck Up and

48:46 Drive. It is the dumbest.

48:47 Oh, it's such a dumb. Game funniest game ever.

48:49 But it's so good. Yes, it is chef's kiss hard as

48:53 shit, but it's it's just it's like a simple like what a dollar

48:56 game or whatever. Yeah, something like that.

48:58 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got got Volo 76.

49:01 I got like a couple indie games. I'm not going to talk about

49:07 surprisingly, Buckshot roulette, but one of my friends, I'm like

49:11 what? One of my online friends, I'm

49:14 like, what? That's like the weirdest game to

49:16 ever. OK.

49:18 I I is that, is that the, the like Russian like game with a

49:22 shotgun? Yes, that's that is a very

49:25 intense strategy game, believe it or not.

49:27 It is. Oh, I know.

49:28 Yeah. Isn't it technically a rogue

49:31 like technically? Maybe.

49:36 Because I I if I remember it on steam it like has like A tag.

49:39 For like rogue like, I mean, anybody yeah, at this point, any

49:42 game is a rogue like yeah, rogue like.

49:45 Honestly, I feel like if I think I should just be conjoined into

49:48 one, that's what I like because it's at this point there's so

49:52 many rogue likes. Sorry, lights.

49:55 There's so many lights at this point.

49:57 That is, there's less rogue likes and it's just like, just

50:00 merge them into one, Yeah. You want to know what games that

50:03 I really want to see you play? What's that inscription chair

50:10 catter tick up? I was thinking about an

50:15 inscription and like I've watched videos on it but I'm

50:17 just like, I don't know. I'm not sure if this is really

50:19 my kind of game because like, I watched Jacksepticeye play it

50:22 and I can never get through a full video.

50:24 Yeah, yeah, I. Have I just?

50:27 I'd say watch Mark play it. Watch Mark play it because he he

50:32 gets really into it. There was a video I watched,

50:35 maybe Endo or Endo, something like that, where this guy, like

50:40 XI don't know whatever. This guy like, knows his way

50:45 around the game. Yeah.

50:46 Like he's like, Oh yeah, here's every infinite you can do in the

50:49 game. Yeah, like Jesus Christ.

50:51 Yeah. But what really confuses me is

50:54 like inscription Part 2 or whatever where it's like the

50:56 electronic computer. Yeah, yeah.

50:58 Where? Where the game gives you the

51:00 twist, I'm like. What?

51:03 I'm fine with the first part, Act one, but Act 2, I'm just

51:06 like, no, this, this, no, that's the kind of part that turns me

51:10 off. Yeah.

51:11 It's like I was watching, I was watching somebody on Twitch play

51:13 that. I'm like, what is the what is

51:14 this? It's inscription.

51:16 I'm like, what? This isn't, is it?

51:18 Yeah, it is. I'm like, you're not explaining

51:20 anything. I'm confused and you're not

51:23 explaining it. I'm not quite like asking the

51:25 right questions either because I'm so confused.

51:27 I'm like, I thought this was inscription.

51:29 What? I think what you will need to do

51:31 is to actually play it. Yeah.

51:34 Probably because it just doesn't make sense to you actually.

51:39 You actually do a playthrough of the full game.

51:41 What? Well, if we're going that route,

51:43 one game I would like to see you play.

51:44 You have this game as Talos, the Talos principle.

51:47 Oh. Yeah, yeah, I do need to get

51:49 into that. The puzzle game, it's, it starts

51:51 off really easy. Don't get discouraged by that,

51:53 man. This is stupid.

51:55 They get, they can get hard. Yeah.

51:56 Especially when you go for all the puzzles.

51:58 They can get hard, yeah. You know, also what I didn't

52:01 know, which I guess it kind of makes sense.

52:04 I didn't know my brother actually played still ours.

52:06 Really. I didn't know that.

52:07 Yeah. He, I mean my brother, likes

52:10 those like strategy games. And the the 4X games, yeah.

52:13 Yeah, he's he's, I mean, he also fucking loves chess.

52:17 It's fun. Yeah, I think he that one

52:20 fucking chess game and then was a 5D chess with multi.

52:23 Time loop. Yeah, and I'm like, Oh my.

52:25 How? Is this?

52:26 Yeah, there was a point in time where I was joking with Mark.

52:29 I'm like, so we're playing this right are.

52:31 You, me, kids. I'm I'm good.

52:34 But like he was like, whenever I think of chess, I'm like, man, I

52:37 don't, I can't do. This I, I've tried playing

52:39 chess. I'm like, I'm because I, I've

52:41 watched someone play it so many times.

52:43 I'm like, OK, so I know an opening or whatever, but I just,

52:45 I just have no knowledge of the battlefield like this.

52:48 The pieces don't make the pieces to me are too constricting.

52:53 Yeah, I like my brother, like he said, like playing chess isn't

52:57 that hard. No, being good at it is.

53:01 Being good at it is. Yes, exactly.

53:03 Yeah. Like.

53:05 I played against Nick who doesn't really play all too much

53:08 chess and I still lose to him cuz I'm and we're both make if a

53:12 grandmaster watched us play the. Guy would probably have a hard

53:16 time, yes. It's an aneurysm, even, yeah.

53:20 No, that's fair cuz my brother, he was in the chess club in high

53:24 school. Yeah.

53:25 So he's always been good with strategy games.

53:29 I could watch him play him and my head hurts afterwards.

53:33 Certain strategy games I can play, like for example when I

53:36 keep dressed as strategic. I was wondering when I was going

53:39 to get brought up. You got lucky at that one.

53:41 I, I don't care what Emma says, you did get lucky at that.

53:45 Hey, I, I let one unit slip by me and that was it.

53:50 I was like, God damn it, you chose the right fucking piece to

53:52 attack because I I had so many different things that could have

53:58 tripped him up. Yes.

54:00 You just got lucky. You chose the right.

54:01 You had three moving pieces. I had a 2 left.

54:05 Yeah, that's all I had. And he had like 3 pieces that

54:09 were greater than two. So no matter what, or maybe even

54:11 a 2 even and no matter what, I was screwed.

54:14 Yeah. And I I did have a piece left

54:16 minus my flag, but it was trapped with three bombs around

54:19 it so I couldn't move it. Yeah.

54:21 And I I was getting ready to start searching your area for it

54:24 because I had I still had. Threes and there was a move you

54:27 could have made that would have trapped my my speedster in, but

54:31 you're just like, I'm going to move this one all the way in the

54:32 back. Yeah, I got, I got, I started

54:35 playing with him a little too much and I was like, I want to,

54:37 I want to wipe everything off this board.

54:41 I got a little too, too sadistic at the end.

54:44 It was like, oh, that costed me. Everything.

54:45 And I'm just like, I just got to guess.

54:48 I just got to guess, yeah. You guessed.

54:50 Luckily I did because how I had it set up was I had 5 bombs

54:58 around by my flag but I put the bomb not in the center.

55:03 No, you had three bombs on like 2, like a six and a two or

55:05 something like that. Yeah, yeah, because I wanted to

55:09 to throw you off. Yeah.

55:11 With the different pieces. So I had the, I had, I put the

55:15 flag on the outside because I wanted him to be like, all

55:20 right, I'm going to attack. I wanted him to try to go to the

55:26 center so I can have time to. React, My strategy, I just, you

55:33 know, dump all the pieces, mix them up, and I just grab and put

55:35 them on the field. However, which way even I don't

55:38 know what the fuck I'm doing. I actually put a lot of thought

55:42 into mine. I I don't put any thought yeah

55:44 ever. And I could, I could cut my

55:46 board like put all the bombs and like in lanes that could happen.

55:49 I could just have 3 fucking lanes.

55:51 I'm just like, oh, I screwed well.

55:54 I already lose. Or like all my high units on one

55:57 inside of the board and all my lows, I'm like, oh, great, yeah.

56:01 I mean, those are legit strategies.

56:03 Too, they are, but just. Different ways of doing it.

56:06 I play whatever the fuck I give my it is.

56:12 It's the funniest thing. A lot of the times I will say,

56:14 and this is kind of revealing, but a lot of the times I will

56:17 put my flag in front, especially against someone I've never

56:20 played before. Yeah, because they'll never

56:22 fucking guess that they'll be. Oh, that's a bomb.

56:24 Because they'll play too cautiously.

56:26 Until they run into a three and like, I'm going to dig up that

56:28 bomb. Well, it goes my flag, Yeah.

56:36 But yeah, no, it's all, it's all in good fun.

56:39 Yeah, it is. And we were just when you guys

56:42 were playing that we were playing Tumble.

56:44 Oh my God, yeah, my check. And one of y'all motherfuckers

56:50 moved the table so slightly one of the fucking pieces fell and

56:56 then shadow went underneath the. Oh yeah, Shadow.

56:59 Oh my, he went underneath the fucking table.

57:01 We. Got yelled and I was like no

57:02 that was shadow. Oh God.

57:06 Shadow gets the pieces, yeah. Chop, chop, chop.

57:11 I love being part of the group. And while while we're eating

57:14 fucking was it the gummy crabby patties bullshit?

57:18 And one of them was really bad. No God, I remember.

57:22 Like I'd still love those but man, one of them.

57:24 I forgot what what flavor it was but it was bad.

57:28 I can't eat those anymore. I just I don't like the gummy.

57:32 Texture the gummy. I just don't.

57:34 I've never been into gummy candies.

57:36 I was like never the biggest fan of it, but I could tolerate it.

57:38 I'm like, no, eat it, whatever. But it was put in front of me.

57:41 I'll eat it. But now I'm just like, I don't

57:43 want it gets stuck in my teeth. It's like.

57:45 Slime. It's like slimy.

57:47 And in a way. Sticky and gross.

57:50 Yeah, man, I love the like the sour trolls candy, those kind of

57:54 like gummies. Like the sour.

57:56 I love sour stuff. Yeah, sour candies are pretty

57:58 good. That's a New Year's resolution

58:00 right there. What, eat a bunch of sour shit?

58:03 No, my gigantic fucking crochet dinosaur.

58:06 Oh yes. That I've been working on.

58:10 It's over there. I put that together in like 2

58:12 months like that, that amount, yeah.

58:14 Thing is going to be. Big.

58:16 And I'm still not halfway done. Yeah.

58:18 Oh, fuck, I'm on like round like 50 out of like 88 or something.

58:21 But I'm still, I still have so much like additions, like defeat

58:24 their arms, all the spines. Yeah, the spines, yeah, yeah.

58:28 You gotta stuff it. Oh God.

58:32 Yeah. That's gonna.

58:34 Be a project and I have. Yeah.

58:36 It's already, it's, it's like 7 projects.

58:41 It's like, yeah, but I, I powered through it while it was

58:45 in front of me, but then I moved out of the way and I haven't

58:47 worked on it since because, like, it wasn't right there to

58:49 work on, Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's probably best

58:51 when you're ready to work on it again.

58:53 When you when you have some downtime.

58:54 I'm, I'm getting ready to work on again like this because I got

58:57 like 9 days off and I'm just like man, like this is the

59:00 perfect time to work on it. I'm just like, I want to work on

59:02 it. I'm working on it but I just

59:03 keep getting sucked into the new games that I have because

59:06 Christmas just happened. Yeah, now that's fair.

59:09 I mean, I've been getting kind of sucked into fucking curvy IT

59:14 writers. Yeah.

59:15 Trying to unlock everything I've shit I got to unlock.

59:20 Damn it. So many characters and also some

59:27 new warp stars. You got to bring it over so we

59:30 could all give it a try, because I remember playing it on the

59:33 GameCube over here. That was a fun time, yeah.

59:36 It's. Great.

59:38 Like between the GameCube and the new version, like it's

59:43 definitely smoother, as it should be because I mean, it's a

59:46 newer game. Yeah, but I will definitely say

59:49 it. I don't want to say it replaces

59:52 the original. Yeah, they're both like, yeah,

59:55 they're both good. They're both made for different

59:58 times. Yes, but they're like

59:59 surprisingly so similar. Yeah, I, I saw the first one and

1:00:03 like, you know, a bunch of like videos on Twitter or whatever.

1:00:06 I'm just like, Oh my God. Like this looks and like it

1:00:09 looks like it will play very great.

1:00:11 Like in in my hands it looked like it'd be.

1:00:12 Playing oh, it's amazingly, it is so like just responsive.

1:00:18 Just it is. It's really fun and it's fast.

1:00:21 Yeah. Like the the laps don't last

1:00:26 very long. Like it's just, it's all crazy,

1:00:30 but it's it's so much fun and the the detail with with just

1:00:37 like picking your picking your character is fucking cool as

1:00:41 shit. Looking like it's not just a

1:00:43 screen like I mean it's a screen but like the animation.

1:00:48 Which is a. Oh.

1:00:52 What I want to say is, I know, I know.

1:00:53 We've given Nintendo a lot of Flack this year.

1:00:56 And we still will. And we still will, but it's it's

1:00:59 nice to see something that's got a little bit of quality coming

1:01:02 out. Oh, it definitely does.

1:01:04 And I mean, you can probably thank Sakurai for that.

1:01:07 Yeah, all right. I mean, wasn't he the No, wasn't

1:01:11 wasn't the guy that made Smash Bros made the original?

1:01:15 Yes, he he like well, that and and I mean Kirby also is his

1:01:19 whole thing. Oh, is it?

1:01:20 I don't know that. Yes, that that is his baby.

1:01:23 Did not know that. Yes, that's why it's kind of

1:01:26 funny. You can see the resemblance with

1:01:29 Smash Bros and this new Kirby. You can see it.

1:01:32 Yeah. Because it's still, it still has

1:01:35 the like that grid for unlocking shit.

1:01:38 Yeah, that's in this game. That's cool.

1:01:42 There's like 4 different game modes to play.

1:01:48 One of them is kind of like the, I don't want to say it's like

1:01:52 Smash Run in a way, but kind of. The city.

1:01:58 Trial, kind of. There's city trial, Yes, whole

1:02:02 new map. Yeah, I saw that.

1:02:05 I'm like this it looks. It's so beautiful.

1:02:08 It's a gorgeous game. Did it.

1:02:10 That plays pretty good. Yeah, it's surprisingly

1:02:13 gorgeous. Yeah, that's that's well, also I

1:02:16 want to bring this up really quick too, because I finally got

1:02:20 kind of an Patrick's opinion on the new Pokémon.

1:02:25 Yeah, because I wanted his opinion.

1:02:26 Because he's finished it now. Yeah.

1:02:30 All the issues people have been having, he has not.

1:02:34 OK. The like the it's apparently was

1:02:39 a pretty smooth experience all around.

1:02:42 And he's like, again, it's another Pokémon game.

1:02:47 There is also actually, I'm not going to say that it's kind of a

1:02:51 spoiler. Watching them play it, it, yeah,

1:02:57 it was like smooth as shit. Like I didn't see any issues

1:03:00 from what I could tell and I mean at some point, I mean he

1:03:05 has it. I don't have to buy it.

1:03:06 I can play it if I want and see if it's any good.

1:03:09 I just have to be in that right like mindset for it because my

1:03:16 my opinions on that game. It could have been better, you

1:03:19 know, you know, but I. My my criticisms toward that

1:03:26 game are mostly about the quality of the game itself.

1:03:29 Yes, could have been better. Fuck yeah, could have.

1:03:32 But like, if if you're going to market the game at at least when

1:03:38 it comes to the textures, at least put in a little bit more

1:03:41 effort. Like the, the flat windows, the

1:03:46 the, the walls, they're just floating.

1:03:49 It's if Nintendo wants to talk about having tons of quality in

1:03:54 their games, at least in one of your larger franchises with

1:03:58 Pokémon, at least make sure that the quality is up to par.

1:04:02 That shit still makes me laugh fucking hard is the fucking.

1:04:05 I love it. Like I know it's bad, but it

1:04:08 just makes me laugh. And then like I also brought up

1:04:13 to him like, because I know we talked about it where it's like,

1:04:16 you know, Pokémon's just kind of the same thing all the time.

1:04:18 And he's like, yes, that is true, but a lot of games are

1:04:24 like that. That is also true.

1:04:25 That are in a like a literal series.

1:04:27 Yeah, yeah, Fallout, you do the same fucking thing.

1:04:31 Yeah, in a way you still do you. Have different variations of

1:04:34 similar stories. And like, I think there's just

1:04:37 the fact that there's so many. Yes, yeah, that's Pokémon.

1:04:42 He brought that up, yes. Like there's five fallouts.

1:04:45 There's yeah, I mean you. Know there's the spit off games,

1:04:48 but those play differently. But there's also like 3 paydays

1:04:51 there's, you know, like 5 Smash Bros ish Pokémon.

1:04:58 But there's like. There's decades and decades and

1:05:01 decades worth of Pokémon games. There's.

1:05:03 Also decades of Call of Duty too.

1:05:05 Yeah, he brought that up as well.

1:05:07 Yeah, Call of Duty is following the same sort of trend of we're

1:05:10 at the bottom of the barrel here.

1:05:11 What do we fucking do? I guess the difference would be

1:05:13 between Pokémon and Call of Duty is it's not a yearly release.

1:05:18 The The thing is, though, it's just, it's, you see it so often.

1:05:21 Yeah, that's what you that that's it.

1:05:23 You just see it so often. It's the same thing every time.

1:05:26 Yes. It like, yeah, there's

1:05:29 Gigantomax or, you know, Mega Evolution.

1:05:32 But that that doesn't ever. No, it doesn't.

1:05:35 You're still, for the most part, you still have these quote UN

1:05:39 quote base foreign pokemons. Yep.

1:05:42 Battles, same thing, right? Maybe a dual battle here and

1:05:46 there. Yeah, have you really seen?

1:05:49 I haven't seen dual battles in a while.

1:05:52 No, you're really and that was the horde mechanic, but.

1:05:56 Yes, I just can't remember the last time I've had seen a dual

1:05:59 battle because. I don't remember having them all

1:06:01 the time with with Platinum. Yeah, there was.

1:06:04 There was a lot of them in there, yeah.

1:06:06 Like the the like the newer 1? I don't.

1:06:08 I think there are probably dual battles I just haven't seen

1:06:10 them. But the the dueling is the

1:06:13 battles are so different now, like in at least in this new

1:06:17 one, yeah, that they the battles kind of just go.

1:06:25 They just happen. Yeah, but no, I don't know.

1:06:29 I mean, at some point maybe I'll try it.

1:06:31 Like I said, I got to be in the mindset for Pokémon.

1:06:33 It's just one of the the games I'm.

1:06:36 Yeah, I think my time has passed.

1:06:37 I, I, I could, I could definitely see at least it's not

1:06:41 in the same position that Activision's finding itself the

1:06:45 Call of Duty series because don't.

1:06:49 Use AI for. Stupid things.

1:06:51 Well, not just that, but. Just releasing.

1:06:54 It what the fuck happened with Seven with Black Ops 7?

1:06:59 This used to be a series that was very much based on, you

1:07:05 know, realistic shooter sort of scenarios what you've seen.

1:07:10 Like it was a little bit over to the top with like with action

1:07:14 and stuff, but it was primarily, oh, we're, we're very grounded

1:07:20 in terms of like with Modern Warfare, we're doing special

1:07:24 spec OPS stuff we're doing. That was fun.

1:07:27 Spec OPS was fun. Yeah, yeah, I, I, I'm, I'm

1:07:30 talking about like the old Modern Warfare and at the

1:07:32 reboots like I'm talking about with, oh, we're, we're doing war

1:07:38 fighting in Afghanistan and in old Soviet republics that are in

1:07:45 the process of rebuilding. And there's, there's realistic

1:07:48 scenarios of, oh, we're dealing with ultra nationalists, we're

1:07:52 dealing with fundamentalist groups, we're dealing with all

1:07:58 these other issues. And you know, it just had a

1:08:01 sense of it had a feeling of reality to it.

1:08:07 And now it's all just it it keeps devolving into, oh, it's

1:08:11 got to have AI as like a a core concept of not just generation,

1:08:18 but just narrative component. It is, is AI like like like

1:08:24 robotics and futuristic shit. And it just, it doesn't seem

1:08:32 like it's focused anymore. I think you cracked the code.

1:08:36 I ain't feel the same way with Borderlands after two.

1:08:39 It's kind of like whatever, because the original idea of

1:08:42 Borderlands, like the first three Borderlands pre sequel and

1:08:46 two is like the fact that it was grungy.

1:08:49 It was like a survival wasteland.

1:08:51 You know, the first one was kind of more Mad Max Y than anything,

1:08:55 which is still fine, but it's like it's the fact that it's

1:08:57 like a like a shattered world with a wasteland aspect.

1:09:00 And like there's these tribes that are trying to like thrive

1:09:03 and or like loot resources off of other tribes and people

1:09:07 losing their goddamn mind and just everything.

1:09:11 But then you get to like 3 and now you have like sci-fi weapons

1:09:15 with like like these are basically K pop stars,

1:09:20 electronic influencers, whatever they call them.

1:09:23 It's like it's just. It's it's they've all lost their

1:09:27 sense of identity. And then same thing, same thing

1:09:30 with Wonderlands. Like I like I like the idea of

1:09:32 wonderlands as medieval, like whatever it.

1:09:35 Made a great deal see and I'm happy that that they had a spin

1:09:39 off, but it's at the same time it's just it.

1:09:41 Still had like space weapons in there too.

1:09:44 The the identity shift gradually.

1:09:48 I I did like the voice actor or whatever for the Wonderlands,

1:09:52 and I want to go back and beat it at some point.

1:09:54 Yeah, I genuinely want to beat it.

1:09:56 I will go back through and play it with you whenever you feel

1:09:59 like you want to get into it again.

1:10:00 I mean, just just to beat the campaign.

1:10:03 Yeah, because. I've got it too.

1:10:05 I don't know how many people can play that though. 4.

1:10:07 Four. It's 4.

1:10:08 OK, so I just, yeah. Typically.

1:10:10 Four, I just don't have online and I don't want to pay for

1:10:14 online. Yeah, that's fair.

1:10:16 Unless we really pay play like, for example, Monster World.

1:10:22 Yeah, really play monster in our world.

1:10:24 Like, I don't know, 20 days out of the whatever, but like our

1:10:27 schedules just don't line up right now.

1:10:29 No. So it's just not worth it.

1:10:31 Yeah, like you're. Yeah, yeah, yours are.

1:10:32 Mind bringing because you know you don't.

1:10:34 Yeah. But Mark, you know, you get on

1:10:36 at like 9. At 9, I'm getting off at 10.

1:10:38 Yeah, you don't. Have enough time?

1:10:40 Yeah. Just right now, it just

1:10:42 wouldn't. Work.

1:10:42 Yeah, we'll figure it out at some point.

1:10:46 I'm sure eventually though, oh it will.

1:10:48 There'll be more time for us to whatever.

1:10:52 Especially when I finally get off of contract I can finally

1:10:55 start doing like PTO and shit like that.

1:10:59 Yeah. Start opening up my days more.

1:11:02 Yep, being on contract sucks man.

1:11:04 Yeah, I'm, I'm just kind of beholden to the contract right

1:11:07 now to keep everything going. Yeah, but at least you at least

1:11:12 you have the job, so. Yeah, I can't complain, you

1:11:15 know. But, but again, it's like a lot

1:11:18 of these games just kind of corporatized.

1:11:22 They they, they, they don't receive routes.

1:11:25 They went with. Everybody's talking about Cyber

1:11:29 Rising and and everything's so bombastic and ridiculous and we

1:11:34 have to go that route too. Well, I mean it was same thing

1:11:38 with Borderlands 3. Like they just come back to

1:11:40 that. Like Borderlands 2 pre sequel

1:11:42 one they had, you know, pop culture references.

1:11:45 Yeah, which was cool to see. There's a way of tastefully

1:11:48 doing it without going overboard.

1:11:50 But then they had Borderlands 3, which is like memes, memes,

1:11:54 throwing memes, memes everywhere, fucking memes.

1:11:56 And yeah. And.

1:11:58 And by the time it came out. Memes were twitch streamers and

1:12:01 look at how much they suck. By the time it came out, all the

1:12:05 memes were just, like, all dead. Yeah, there was the big suck.

1:12:10 Big dock energy is like, OK, yeah.

1:12:13 That was funny at one point, but now in.

1:12:16 Yeah, it's like from our perspective is a bunch of Gen.

1:12:20 Z guys is this feels like something our parents made

1:12:25 trying to be relevant. You're right.

1:12:28 And James Z, I'm part of the millennials.

1:12:30 Oh, yeah. I'm like right at the.

1:12:32 You're right at the Buckingham. You're what, 97?

1:12:34 96. Yeah, you're right at the cosmic

1:12:37 theme. Yep, I think you're tail end

1:12:41 millennial. Yep.

1:12:42 Because I I think the cut off line is 97.

1:12:45 Yes, but you're close enough, it's whatever.

1:12:50 Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, we're rambling now.

1:12:56 We, man. That's what this podcast is all

1:12:58 about. Rambling, rambling.

1:13:00 Rambling. But we're above time, so.

1:13:04 Okay, well, if you all don't have anything else to say, I'm

1:13:10 Mark. This has been plugging for

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1:13:32 See you in the good old 2026. The Big O 6 O26.

1:13:37 That that O2 yeah, that was about O 620 years ago, man.

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