What Were Thankful For

Welcome to plug in for player 4 where you, the viewer are the player 4. Mark is currently dying, Brandon is staring at me, and I'm trying to beam my anger straight into. Into my school. Mark's bones. Yeah, crispy. Very crispy. What of what of what? What we what doing What doing? How do do you? How do?

OK, not even 40 seconds. What? Do you want me to do something better? Now. Restore if you want. Take it away, Penny. Welcome to Plug player 44IN. Oh, oh, he's. He's shoving it in. He's. Got stack overflowed out.

Well, OK, that's great. Yeah, that was one of the intros. Yeah, of of time. Of time of time, yes. Yeah. You hurt my brain. Good. You're welcome. Yeah, Cox. I'm hurting this guy. This guy with a single use. Appliance Look, macro industries were the were the world's top makers of the largest single use appliances.

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That's why it rotates, yeah. That actually makes a lot of sense. Yep. Actually, at work we have microwaves that don't rotate at all, which is really freaking weird. So that's like a toaster oven though. No, it's not a toaster oven. That is, so it's. A fully fledged microwave, but it's also got a fucking dial. Toaster. Microwave. How old is this? It's new. How new? Replace the old ones that broke the. Fuck. Wait, hold on. No, wait, this story doesn't add up. No company ever replaces broken appliances.

Stairs to. For good ones. I would say that's probably not a really good one, but like it's doesn't rotate. No, it doesn't rotate. You just set your food in and it's just stationary and it's got a dial for the timer. That's. How do I how can I see my all my food then? What? He's going to view his view food from all angles. But it works. I heat up my ramen bowls for yeah when I'm stuck at work. When I'm just get the car it heats it up all fully. Stuck. I mean, does it, does it work? Well, yeah. Yeah, heats it up quite well actually.

I found that it boils the water over the bowl. Works a little too well, so I had to add less water in. That's awesome. Yeah. Wait, so it boils over before it's done? Like heating up? Yeah. Like it tells you put it in for 4 minutes. I come back 4 minutes later and there's puddles of broth on the on the. End of the things. Cool, I got to clean that up now, yeah.

Because it works a little too well. I'm like, huh? I also can't complain if it works, it works. Well, aren't we thankful for that? Yeah, I'm also thankful for the free popcorn machine that we have. That you get every day, yeah. Yeah, they they had, they supplied the kernels, the butter and all the stuff you need to make it. And is somebody goes around, makes a communal batch of popcorn and you just scoop it up and eat it at your desk and continue working. What about the grease? Now the oil. It's it's like light.

It's kind of like it's not movie theater, but it's it's like movie theater style where you have the popper on the inside and you tip it and it pours out. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, no. Fucking bullshit I want to like. This. Go work a stairs. Yeah, well, I mean it's kind of frozen, but go work a stairs. Frozen. I can. I can get you in touch with my recruiter. You can probably work alongside me. Get out of code. Oh, you worked with Michael before? Never mind. Why am I asking? I mean there's there's no coding involved with it.

Oh is it not coding? No, it's, it's QA testing, Yeah. So we're giving the software, we're giving test cases. We have to make sure that everything's tested and performs as expected. Otherwise, we'll have to figure out is it a problem with the protocols not being updated or is it a problem with the software, or is it a problem with the hardware or? All the fun stuff. Yeah, I know. Last time you cried about it, you're like we doubled in size of the last hour.

I found a problem and then the group chat went from three to six people no matter if I. Yeah, I thought you did something worse. I'm just like, hey guys, shit's fucked. Yeah, 'cause like you said, in a way, like where even Emma was like, excuse me? Yeah, I was like concerned for a minimum. Yeah, I was like. Fuck, what do you do? Here's the thing, we're coming up. We were coming up on a software deadline. Oh, there it is. So they're like, yeah, we're trying to go to release so we can get more products out to customers.

Right, that makes sense. And it's like a week, like a physical week away from launch. And like, hey, guys, there's a problem with the software. Like, Oh my God. Well, aren't the customers thankful for that? Yeah, I've said it twice now. That's the topic of the episode is that we are thankful because it's around Thanksgiving when this episode comes out and I'll, I'll be, I'll, I'll be getting off by saying I am thankful for my mom for not throwing away all my games when we grow up. Because or having U.S. trade in for the new for new games because there are parents that do that.

Like you can't get the new one unless you trade in your old one and stuff like Pokémon that should increase value. That would suck. Yeah, I've, I've read some, read a stories, but like, yeah, she threw away a lot of toys when like, you know, 'cause we just, we just had a lot growing and I'm thankful the family that I actually grew up in like being able to have that. But she donated all of them. Like, if not most of them. Yeah. I just got like, we don't use them so just donate them.

But for the games, it's just like my one of my sisters and my brother don't really play games too much, at least anymore nice the way that me and my sister do. But because there was like, that five year gap between me and my sisters, like there was really no chance for her to toss them away. Plus my sister still plays those games. Yeah. She actually has a lot of my older games. That's why I don't have many older games here. I just ask her, oh, do you guys have Donkey Kong 64, which is that yellow cartridge right there?

And she's like, yeah, yeah, we do. Just take it. I'll go. OK. Yeah, I am, I am, I am thankful for, you know, my my parents just not throwing away all these things because that would be a lot of value on and just all those childhood memories and games and whatnot. What about you guys? Doesn't doesn't have to be gamer related but I just wanted to start off with a gamer related thing. Yeah. Now you go, Mark. I got to think about this. I'm. Thankful for. Mark Wow, this guy isn't fucking thankful little.

Nope, not at all. Nope, everything fucking sucks. Get the fuck out of my palace. Get the fuck. Out of my parallax, I'm thankful for my wife. She has always been my rocking hard times and has really rekindled a lot of how I think about the world and she always puts up with my escapades and every fucking game that we pay that we play to from. Oh God, from what we used to play gun game during Call of Duty. Cod. To Destiny 2 to Yeah It takes 2 and just she's always been there for every step of the way.

Just want to give her a little shout out of love.

I like that. Yeah, dude, I mean, I was going to like piggybacking off of you. I was going to say thank you to my girlfriend Shelby, because it was a a weird way to get into a first relationship. I will say I'm not going to go into it, but I am thankful for her because she is just the like the kindest, most caring person. She understands things from all angles and she gives me angles that I never even thought about whenever I do something stupid. She's like here just like I'm, I'm not trying to berate you.

I'm just, you know, like trying to make you a better person, which if not for her, I don't think I would have grown as a person. I don't think I would have realized myself worth by now. And I don't think I would have. I definitely wouldn't have grown as a lover because I've come a long way in three years. Oh yeah. Since just getting with her and getting to know her as well. I can definitely, I can definitely vouch for you on that. When you were younger, you just had no interest in dating at all.

And having met Shelby, you've just completely one 80s and. Yeah, I mean, it was, it was like a love at first sight kind of deal. Like she's we saw each other different times. But like when she saw me love at first sight, when I saw her love at first sight. Yeah, at least what the the first time I can remember. Yeah, I'm sure I saw her before then because like she describes like how I looked at her, but I don't I don't remember that, but yeah, I'll just. There was love at first sight. The the road was treacherous to go to where we were like actually finally dating again, not going into it.

But yeah, we got there in the end and I'm thankful I stuck around and I'm. And love works in weird ways, man. And I'd do anything to better myself for her, for me. I met Emma by breaking his school instruments so. Yeah, didn't you like trip over a? Chair. Yeah, I I was walking up the steps with a Mind you, Emma and I used to be an orchestra and we both played double bass. So for those of you who aren't really in the know, think of a cello, the sitting instrument. It's the standing instrument. It's the inflated version of I was a little kid walking up steps, you know, kind of what was it?

Was it 6th grade year? Yeah, it was just a little teenage Mark walking up some steps. I'm sorry, you met her in 6th grade. 6th, 7th grade around there, yeah. Oh yeah, you were in Perry at that point. I forgot that you went and then you came back. Yeah. I I always forget you went to Perry. Yeah, for like a year, yeah. Yeah, No, I, I was walking up some steps. I tripped and slammed the bridge of the base into a chair and it popped off the instruments. And I just look up and I see Eva just giggling 'cause I'm like, oh shit, I've got my dad watching me from the doorway.

I've got the teachers coming in trying to fix the instrument that I just broke. And I'm like, oh God. Weren't you guys the only double bases in that band too? So there was like one or two other guys, but they we didn't see them after like that year. So it was really just Emma and I. Aw. But yeah, no, that that's how we met. What a way to meet, yeah? That's all right. My OK, so I since you said your story, I'm going to say mine. So I it was at Walmart and this is this was the first interaction I remember where my supervisor at the time was like, hey, Ethan, help this lady RIP a pallet.

And I was taught not to stare. I didn't know what that meant. So what I always interpreted as was don't look. And so it, it sounds really dumb and it's kind of like it's just, it's not even embarrassing. It's just like, it's just funny how I, how I thought, 'cause, like when 'cause I would look at girls, like I wouldn't like not look at girl, but when I was interested in a girl, wouldn't look, I don't want to disrespect her at all. And she was like, oh, she, he fucking hates 'cause I was wrapping this palette, trying to show her how to wrap a palette, and I was just looking everywhere but her.

Mixed messaging. I know she she listened to this episode. She's just going to laugh about it. But yeah, no, literally it was just, I wouldn't look. It's so dumb to think about now. But they're great stories because you remember them, you know, they're. And maybe at that moment it was like, oh, fuck. But now it's like, you know, that that's your story. That's your own, I mean. I I look too acquitted of my grandparents. I mean, my grandma met my grandpa because he was hitchhiking. That's funny. I remember you.

I remember you talking about that. That's that's, yeah. Well, Grandpa was in the Air Force, and Grandpa was. In college and what, just thumb up like yeah. Yeah, like Roach. Yeah, quite literally. He yeah. Yeah, she's her friends, asked the driver. They're like, hey, you mind if we try to pick up some hitchhikers? And they're like, yeah, sure. Lo and behold, my grandfather met my grandmother that way. That's fine. And soon late as soon after they hit it off. I'm not sure if you ever told me that story.

Yeah. I don't remember. Here we are, 50 plus years down the line, married with lots of kids and grandkids. Yeah, I know. They they met because Grandpa was back stateside from the Air Force from a deployment, and he needed to get somewhere. So he was out hitchhiking. And that's why they picked him up, because they're like, oh hey, look, there's a guy in the uniform, let's pick him up. That's awesome. Yeah, just random stories of love for my family. What about you, Brian? Have you thought of anything that you're thankful for?

Yeah, I've actually had some for a while now, so not a significant other, but yeah, I know, right? Forever alone. I'm I'm that meme. Yeah. So you guys know about Becca? Yeah, so. Like I said, she's not a significant other, but she's been in my life for 15 years in a while and she told me that and I almost fucking fell over because it's like, Jesus Christ has been that long now, I mean. That's the same length of time I've known Emma so. So yeah, we we met in freshman year of high school. We really didn't talk that much freshman year.

It was more sophomore year because then she was dating my my buddy Zach.

But no, she's she's definitely been kind of my rock in certain things. She's basically family at this point. You know. I've I've definitely have seen a lot in her life, things I really wish I wouldn't have. But honestly, I'm happy I was there and she was also there with me during some shit I had to deal with after my uncle Chris passed. Yeah. All I'll say is drugs are fucking bad. Yeah, dude, I can say the same thing with alcohol. Don't worry. I I know what you mean. Yeah, it's fucked up. To be completely honest.

If she wasn't around during that time, I don't know if I would have been there being completely honest. That sucked. Yeah, that's what makes me thankful for her. She's my besides Andrew, she is my longest friend that I've known. Yeah, and even though we don't talk all the time, we don't need to. Yeah. You know. The relationship is just that strong and that well developed that you don't really need to. Yeah. Like we're so intertwined, you know, at this point that, yeah, it's basically like a lifelong friendship.

Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I've gotten, you know, I've always been asked, you know, like, why haven't you guys dated? Well, it's simple answer that when you're when you're friends with somebody for that long, OK, you have a choice you need to make, you know, do you could date? Sure, you could go well. Yeah, yeah. That can happen. But it can also go the other way. Yeah, it can also. Sound. And then trying to be friends after that is, I don't want to say impossible, but it's not the it's, it's not, it's not going to be the same.

So you have to really think about that. And yeah, there have been, we've had conversations about that, but we don't feel that way about each other. And that's. You know, totally. Understandable, honestly, because love. You don't have to be romantically in love. No, there's, there's different types of love, yeah. Yeah, there's a platonic love where you love your friends as your family. Yeah, and that's, I mean that that she's been the person to drop everything to make sure I was fine. Yeah. That's, you know, why I've, we've been friends for so long?

Because I've done the same thing. Yeah. You know, like we've both have had our issues in life, you know, but I'm happy I was the one to do that, to be there. I'm thankful for that, thankful for her. Like she, she knows that I'm always thankful for her. But it's always nice to just be like, you know, I'm happy you're still here. After 15 fucking years. Of my bullshit? Good. Believe me, I've I've definitely have been an idiot with certain things. That's how I feel with Mark. I'm surprised I haven't drove a needle off by now.

I don't think I will. Not at this point, no. I I I dude. You and I have known each other since elementary school. I don't even know why it's. Not surprising too, yeah. No, I'm, I'm just happy she's stuck around. Yeah, you know, because I've been, I've been an asshole, torture, you know, and I kind of sit there and I'm like, what am I doing? You know, I mean you, you, you know, every friendship, relationship, they got problems. Oh yeah, you know, that's that's a part of life is that you're going to have.

There's the upstairs to the Downs. There's the UPS, the downs, the rough pitches and that's all we all all have to go through at some point so. But I can tell you it's well, well worth it. Yeah. You know, that's what you should be thankful. For yeah. And I'm also thankful for all the good technology we have to make this podcast. Got to be thankful for that too, God damn it. Thank your dad for having this thing. Oh my God dude, you're right. Oh my God, if. Anything. Thank your dad. Yeah, for for the sound system.

OK, I got to be honest, Yeah. I don't know why, but when you were like, first talking about your dad, I don't know, I just, like, envisioned like this big guy and your dad's skinny as hell. I had like the completely like opposite idea. Boy you should see his photos when he was younger.

Yes, my my dad has always been thin and that's fine. You know, unless I just my head cannon. I, I, I understand the head cannon that Ethan is because I have it too. I always going to expect you to be a little bit of a larger man. It's yeah, it's funny. My dad at his prime he he could fit in spandex. Wow. Damn well. I could pick this man up like at this age I could do that. Gonna be a poor guy's bodies all fucked up now but yeah I mean I all his music he's done you know jumping around on stage and you know with.

This that's fair. I didn't even think about that. I do not take that into account. I kind of just like more so thought like studio mixer kind of guy like Oh yeah, sit in chair and. Oh, not him. He can't sit still. Literally he has to be doing something if he like, I mean, yeah, he was in like the studio helping, you know, mix and whatnot and. You know, but he was also very active. Yes, I mean, he was he was the guy that ran a lot of shit. I mean, he, you know, he wasn't the manager of the band, but he.

He looked a lot. Yeah, he would do a lot. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he did. The guys had to break up fights from his roadies because they were being dumb.

But he did it in such a great way. Like he was always, even when he was stressed, was always kind of calm about it and just trying to skip both sides, you know? I'm like, man, that that's I want to be like that, you know? Yeah, like, damn, man. All right.

I mean, that's, you know, another thing. Yeah. I'm thankful for my family too, especially now. Right. For everything, you know, not being able to find work right now, you know, it's been nice, you know, I just being with the folks, you know. Being able to help out how you can. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's, I mean, shit, I, I, I've learned a lot of things that I don't really need right now in life, but down the line that I need to know. Yeah, 'cause like my parents are, you know, they're, well, more so my father.

He's, you know, getting ready to go on Medicare and all that shit, you know, and it's actually not that difficult to deal with. It's actually really simple. Well, there you go, you know, so and being able to sit down, because we're going to sit down with this person, we're going to talk to you about all of that, just kind of get some insight on how Medicare works because eventually you're going to have to figure it out when we get older. So, you know, these learning lessons are actually quite nice because my dad didn't have that.

He had to do. He had to learn shit on his own. So I'm thankful for that being having lessons. Oh yeah, definitely be thankful for that. I I can vouch, I I can definitely say learning things on your own is really fucking difficult. It's rough. I mean, especially, especially if you have that anxiety of I need to make sure I get this done right the first time. Yes, plus you. Also had like a family that was basically shattering the fucking glass shards and you were just split apart in so many directions.

Yeah, yeah. Growing up. Like. Like all that? Really just had to figure out like yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm. I'm also thankful for my parents too, no matter what it was they, you know, support me like even even with this podcast, they're like, Oh my God, you guys having fun like whatever my mom checks in and whatnot yeah, we're great. There's a point in time where like we built with college yeah. And graduated. I went for a semester, but they were like, yeah, we'll get you the books, whatever. And like, you know, get you off your, you know, get you on your feet, whatever.

And which was really cool of them. And even then it's like, Oh well, like as pretty much all my all grown up, my dad said they don't go for a job that you hate, go for one that you love. Yeah. Yes. And as of right now, I found a job that I love. Yeah. Granted, you know, it's going to have its bad days, but it's still the first job I've ever had where I didn't immediately want to throw up within the first week. Yeah, Yeah. Which is awesome. And then just, you know, I'm also thankful for you guys as my friends, especially you, Mark, because you stuck around the most.

You even even Perry like that when you moved over there. Like I sometimes I ask my parents and they're like, yeah, well, let you hang out with Mark. I'm like, that's so far away. I mean, you know, it's not that far away as a kid. As a kid that's far fucking away. In hindsight, that's like 20 minutes down the road. Yeah, it's not that bad. It's like you really. You, you let me. Thanks. But like, even then, like just all the friends that I have, like I have you guys, I have friends from a magic circle.

Don't forget Jake. Yeah, Jack, I mean like I have like you got, I have you guys, you know, as my friend circle plus the other people within that circle. I also have like friend named Ethan and like his circle of friends that like kind of separated as a Venn diagram, but more so separate than not. Yeah. Then I'll still get kind of a bunch of magic friends as well. Yeah. A wide network and a lot of people don't even have one friend which. Yeah. Kind of like it. It does suck, and I really hope that those out there can find at least a friend.

Yeah, somebody to bond with, share stories over. And that's why I'm thankful for even having like 1 friend. Yeah, especially so early on in my life. Yeah, as well as like just how many friends I Because I'm a pretty damn introverted introvert. Yeah. I don't know how the fuck I got here. I. Feel that, man. I feel, yeah. I feel, yeah. Well, Mark adopted you into our group, so. Yes, yes, Sir. I, I took your reins, was like, hey, I like you at work. Come. Over here, come over here. Come see what we're doing.

I mean, I'm thankful for that. That is another thing because I mean, like, besides like back on Andrew, that's that was it, yeah. And like with my girlfriend, she doesn't have many friends outside me and her best friend. And you adopted her into the friend group too. I did and she's still constantly like I only have two friends. I'm like, you literally have all she. Has way more than just a brother. Old friends that you're just believe I. Cannot emphasize enough just how excited am I gets whenever you say that Shelby's gonna show up.

Dude, that's the same thing with my family. Is it? Oh my God, a Shelby? Yes. Yeah, like Shelby's awesome. Yeah, she's great. Stands that we all love her. She can be the like, depending on her mood, she can be the life of the party. Yeah. Oh yeah. I still remember the one time the pizza delivery guy came over and said I am literally drooling from like well damn bitch eat. So fucking funny. Fucking love her, she's awesome. She's so fucking funny. I don't know how I landed her. She's fucking. She makes me laugh every day.

It's awesome. I make her life every day. I I couldn't ask for anyone else. Yeah. Yeah. Shelby, if you're listening, yes, But no matter how much in disbelief you are, I would not ask for anyone else. That's adorable. No, like I said, I, I'm, I'm thankful that you guys let me in the group, you know? I'm going to be honest, at first I was worried. I'm like, is he going to fit him or? Yeah, you're telling me I was afraid to even start playing with you guys. I mean, to, to be fair, if you're friends with Mark, then like, really good.

Like more often than not, you're going to vibe with us. Yeah. And well then, now it now. In hindsight. In hindsight, yeah, no, I'm like, I may not be the greatest friend ever, but. You're one of the friends. I try. I all I can say is I've had bad days at my previous job. You were always there whenever I asked. You're always like, give me 15 minutes at least or at most. I'm like, Oh my. God, I remember even one of those days I was still sleeping. Really. Oh yeah, shit. And my phone. I heard my phone and I'm like oh, Oh no, OK, I'm up.

I think it was like 4 or five times. Yeah. It wasn't too often, but. No, but you needed somebody. Yes. Yeah. I mean you were there for me when I fuck shit of a job I was in. Right. Driving home crying like a motherfucker. Yeah. Like, like seriously. It was, yes. I I I remember some of the stories, you never really explained how bad it was, but I I could tell it was. Fucking there was like one or two calls. There, it was like, funny enough. And it was one day, yeah, I was on the phone with Ethan and I'm like, the the thing I hated about this job was just the way it was.

Yeah, it was like it was not set up right. It was it. Was not organized. He was, he was on his own and whenever he asked questions, he's like, go figure it out for yourself. Right. It was basically, yeah, like you, you could talk to us, but it's like you guys are like half the time you never answer. So it's like what the fuck? Yeah, You know, that's how my last job was like. Oh, we can always like, set up a meeting, like a video call or whatever. OK, Can we do a video call? Send us send me a screenshot of what your problem was.

That's no, I'm sorry. That's not what I yeah, what I thought was happening. So. You kind of you feel like you're like out of options. Out of options on your own with no idea of how to actually perform it. And I will say, like, I don't want to bring this up too much 'cause I want to keep Jack private. But there was one time, you know, you guys know why, even if I'm not going to explain it, but there was a time where at work he was like, hey, I'm going to ask you something. Yeah. 'Cause he was in a bad spot at the time.

I remember a a particular moment for Jake where he said he really needed to just get out of work and talk to somebody. And he told him, hey, I'm heading home for lunch. Why don't you come stop over and talk to Emma and I and, and we helped kind of get him set straight and figure out what he wanted to do, like just get him out of that. I. Don't think I've like for you in terms of you guys. I don't think I've ever had a closer network of friends. Yeah, yeah, I feel the, I feel the same way and. Like, it really helps that we're on discord every fucking well, just about.

Every day. Every. Night. Like it's I've never like I haven't had a friend group where even when we disagree on things. We're still fine. Like, we can disagree on things. That's perfectly fine, yeah, but let's not make that where it ruins everything. Yeah, I mean, I may, you know, roast the absolute shit out of the mark and.

I might call you a ginger fuck. But Ginger, I'm sorry, I, I, I can't go to like, you're not gonna now. And you're like, Jesus fucking Christ, and you're like Mark. I'm almost trying not to laugh. No, but that, that's, that's the, that's the beauty of actually having real friends. Right that. That that's just you. Know. The joys of true relationships. I guess so you can disagree on. Things like even even like the harshest joke, it's like we do it in a friendly manner. Oh. Fuck yeah, Yeah. Like the Johnny Bravo joke?

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That's right. Oh shit. What are you, Johnny Bravo? Yeah, so Brandon started making references to Johnny Bravo, and he's like, who? And I pipe up and I'm just like, so that's why you can't ever get a girlfriend. That shit sent me. I'm like, he just cracked the fucking code. I'm like that God damn Penguin meme just to see all the they see him just blankly staring as everything's going on around him. Like, yeah, I, I. Was so doing bad in the book? No, like, no, it was. I felt so bad for a Sam. Well, you're not gonna anymore when?

That was good too. I that I saw, I know you make jokes about it, but. I felt. Horrible. But then Brandon was like, what was it? Say it. I'm like, alright, you asked for it. You asked. For it. It was just. The, the, the fucking Johnny Bravo thing that was on my mind for that entire fucking night because it was just, it was so funny, 'cause yeah, I just make it so, you know, like. What are you, Johnny Bravo? Yeah.

You know, but it was the quickness of me. It took me back, 'cause I'm not that type of person. Who's that? Quick, yeah, yeah, I was really quick off the ball with that too. It was 2 seconds. Both of us were kind of like bouncing it. You know who?

My Mama warned me about women like you. I was hoping she was right. God, yeah. That's the thing about me and Mark is that we're just fucking instant. Oh yeah. Once it once it snaps, it snaps into place. It's. Natural. I don't say shit. I just sit here and I'm just watching because I'm learning you. Know. So that's how they do quips. Monkey see, monkey do. There's times where like even Shelby's like, I'm going to be my pants. Stuff like, 'cause I just, I just make jokes every fucking breath I take.

There it is again. Get that chair counter thinking. Why does it sound like an old man shit? This depends. We went over this last. Week. Are you sure it's the chair? Mr. Brandon, you are pushing 30.

Oh, I heard those teeth. Yeah, I heard the crack wrecking. The knees. This is not helping my hand. OK, hang on, hang on, hang on. We got a little. I want to see how I'm doing this so I know now it's not going to do it. Yeah, like I said, Are you sure it's the chair? There it is. That was that was a squeak. Not the, not the farts. Not the God. Yeah, like you're. There was a point where I could like when I was on that chair, I could just go like super slowly. That made me fucking think of my old chair.

My old chair. It like at first was great. It was like leather or whatever. Yeah, but it it started peeling which. No. I really hate leather now. That's how my chair is. It's, I'm not sure if it's like faux leather or if it's actual leather. It's. Most likely faux leather. Yeah, it's peeling and I can see like the the. Cloth and Oh yeah, if it's peeling, it's faux leather. OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, that's big. Like true leather, I don't think peels. So it cracks. It cracks, but it doesn't peel.

Yeah. But I don't, I'm not sure if that's true leather or not, but like it, there's almost no signs of wear and tear. Like whenever I get a scratch on it, it's like a surface scratch and I can kind of like rub it off and I'll go back to its original color. Let me. I've got a leather wallet. Oh, there we go. Right into them.

All fucking day. Let's be thankful for Mark's burps. Bass boost, bass boost, bass boost again. Add reverb, maybe little trumpets the horse sound again. Wait, I'll pause it. Pause the sounds. It's. Perfect. OK, resume the sounds. Pause the sound. Yeah, no, my wallet editor, actual leather wallet. And Oh yeah, I've had it for like a couple years now and you can see it it, it doesn't really, the material itself doesn't fall apart, it just cracks. Yeah, I can, like I can go get my wallet. I mean like there's only one part of it and that's like this.

You see this like sewn Ridge, like, yeah, the back of it, like actually where my ID would go. Yeah 'cause it's like clear and whatnot. Yeah, that like kind of tore off in the back. It was just really hard and I would just RIP up the wallet more. So I don't most of the problem I. Have is just the seams give out. Yeah, that's my problem too. Like the the the seam where I would put my ID and it doesn't even have this thumb hole either in my wallet. Yeah, I can't remember. Would RIP. How long? I've had mine but it it's like actually ripping inside.

Now I've had my wallet for a good Oh my God, yeah. What? I don't know how long I've had my wallet. I'd have to ask Ethan, 'cause he, I think. He's thinking, he's thinking. Yeah, cuz Ethan recommended it to me. He's like, Oh yeah, get a billfold wallet cuz like I don't like the trifold cuz how thick they got when you put yeah, too much bills in there like this. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a big fan of that either. I don't like the Tri, I like the I. Like the bifolds as well. Yes, I do billfold. Oh, you do, Billfold.

Oh yeah, yeah. So I have a billfold. So it's literally just the entire dollar bill. So like you open up your trifold. It's literally. Just like. Yeah. And then another front that. Closes, Yeah. Oh, that's. Nice. It's very nice. I think I had my wallet for at least six years. Yeah.

See now then, thinking about that. After this, after we're done here, but I can show you my wallet. I'm thankful for that wallet. It's gone farther than I have, Nevada and back. Yeah. Yeah, no, I like my wallet. It's like I said, ripping, which kind of sucks, but Adam. You've had it for years. Yeah. Yeah, I mean Adam. Most of how thick it is, all those cards in it like just the just the cards itself. Yeah. Yeah, not Adam at the video game shop. He's actually got a 964 wallet and he's like, you want it?

I had an NES wallet for a for a while. Yeah, it was a. It was a trifle, but like it, whatever. I just thought of something that I'm actually really thankful for. So I have it in my wallet right now. My for some reason, I don't know how or why this happened. Like at this point, it's got to be fate, like genuine fate. My I was having a rough day at one of my jobs because I was thinking about my older cat or my childhood cat, you know, that's passed away already. And it was, you know, being a childhood cat and.

Just the way he was. I'm going to detail. I miss him. I still miss him.

It's, you know, been easier since then, but it's not going to go away. My dad came up to me and he's like, hey, I found this in my wallet. I was cleaning it out. It was a vet veterinary.

What is it called? Appointment yeah from like 2002. I'm sorry you're cleaning out your wallet and you've it's from 2002 with my pets name on it Yeah Jesus. He's like yeah I'll give it to you at the end of the day I'm just like holy fuck and I still have it in my wallet. I'm like, holy shit. And that made me cry even more. Yeah. And I'm genuinely because it's something to remember. And I think that makes it easier because I can pull it out. Not just, you know, remember once every five years and have a whole rush of emotions.

I can just once a month. Yeah. I know. That's cool. One, keep my emotions in check, but two, just have that memory of have a physical memory other than other than, you know, pictures on my phone. Yeah, like a physical memory, yeah. And you know what I still have in my wallet? Oh my God, you've got, you've got the chungus in there, don't you? But I I just. Oh my God, you do. I just cannot fathom how he said he was cleaning out of there was like, in my mind, 2002. There's no way.

Oh my God. That's awesome. So story for this story time. You know how Brandon and I used to work on the Epic project, right? Yeah, yeah, We, we used to do that work for UH-1 of our test things was testing scanners is to make sure that the system was actually working with Epic and how Brandon and I would go about it. Typically what they wanted you to do was to scan just any random ass fucking card. Yep. And that got annoying, especially when we got to places where we're like, well, we can't get a business card.

Yeah. So Brandon happened to have this in his wallet the entire time. My God. And we would scan it and you would just see Big Chungus appear on the fucking screen. Yes, and all of its glory. Yeah, I. I I hate the Bing big chunk of meme, but that, that's fucking funny. That's fucking funny. The meme itself is. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's it had. It's like, it's like early brain rot. That's about it. But this, I got this from one of my Co workers back at Giant Eagle, my buddy Josh, he gave this to me and I'm like brother, I'm keeping this in my fucking wallet.

God. This I mean, we, we had to have our fun with that job 'cause that that job was a pain in the ass. Yeah, it was a pain in the ass and a lot of it was just kind of really boring. I mean, you guys made it sound like fun, like every time you talk about it, you. Guys there, there was a lot of fucking bullshit here. There's what I'm saying. You guys are like, yeah, no, Jeff came in. We were just deep throating bananas. Oh God damn it, fuck up fucking Henry. Oh, no, yeah, no take. A man's erect penis.

Poor little Henry, he was a fucking. Way he walked in. No, hang on, we're putting the mic down for this. We're we're going through the story, aren't we? Yes. We are, oh God. I know I'm going to be away from it, but that's fine. No fucking Henry, man. You know, we had a room kind of like this. Yeah, it it was just a straight rectangular room. It was on the top floor of where we could be. So we had a great luck out over Cleveland. That's besides the boy. We had two new guys working with us that day.

Oh. God, yeah. And we were like, we were trying to fuck with them the entire time, just trying to break the ice, get them used to working with us. Oh, God, it was a, oh, God,

Jacob and I were piped up. We're like, hey, have you watched the Deep Throat video on YouTube? And they look over the like, what are you talking about? And I was like, oh sweet. Summer Child. Sweet summers child. So, Jacob. Would do this now. Jacob, I pulled them the lady with the grapefruit just prior to this, our team lead, Henry is this little Puerto Rican guy. He steps out of the room 'cause his wife called him and he's just answering the call. And we find we find the grapefruit fruit video on YouTube and we're like, OK, we just happened to put on the the ear rape version of it as well.

And so she starts talking. She's like, Oh yeah, this is how you do it with a guy with a grapefruit. And this is how you get set up. As soon as Henry walks back in, he. Literally. Walks in and she starts doing the thing and it does the earring vision. So he's walking in, you know, and he's like, what you doing, you know? He's just so shocked. This short little man walks in. He's just got a face. He's like, yeah, he's just completely speechless. When he finally speaks up, he's like, did I miss something?

That was he could have not came back into the fucking room at the best fucking time. You know, fucking it's like shit you not, I remember this as soon as he opens up that door, it's. When it's starting. It's when it starts and The thing is OK, the the kind of set the stage here. There are other people on this floor. There are other offices, there's like two or three offices. So there's like the emergency response team and then like an administrative office that. Was so fucking loud that I'm sure that was probably one of the things on why a camera was installed in that room.

Yeah, OK. It didn't have one before, OK? Literally now it would. People are watching us, you know, and honestly, for good reason. After you're here, you know, like, come on, man. So there is so the there was a reason why the door had to be closed whenever we were in it, and a reason why there was a camera and. Whenever somebody went through that door, everybody shut the hell up because it was. There was no the acoustics were so perfect, they would just carry throughout the rest of the floor. God, God.

That was so. One of my favorite memories from there God and. Then all of the fucking. Thankful for that. Oh, definitely. Those are memories I'm going to take to the grave. That and all the times we're playing overcooked and extended our lunch. Yeah, we accidentally extended our lunch by an. Hour yeah, so we we had an hour long for lunches and we started getting the habit of playing Overcooked with everybody on the team and even even our project manager Patrick would come over be like, hey you guys playing overcooked, you know like, yeah, he's like I'm joining in yeah dude he would bring his Steam Deck over too and we'd all just be playing overcooked that's fine you just know oh OK.

But it's so, it's so, it's so much it, it's so much funnier. You're looking at it in hindsight too, because towards the end, we were the team lagging behind in devices in terms of just per capita number of devices that were actually tested. And by the time launch for Epic released for CMC, we had about 91% of our devices totally completed. We were the facility with the fewest problems. Yes. That's funny. We worked hard. I mean, right? Yeah we we from right at the get go we had a mentality of we need to touch every single fucking computer.

Yep. So no matter what, we we got really good at managing this too, because a lot of these floors really were jam packed with computers. Like some of these, some of these suites we would have to do were upwards of like 60 computers that we had to get at. Like no joke that it was a lot of really hard work, especially because it was in a medical. We were in actual medical rooms, either outpatient procedure rooms or we're in where you have all the residential suites. Right. Yeah. I couldn't imagine what that looks like.

Make sure it's an experience that you don't forget. It, it really was. And we were able to just coordinate with ourselves. Like we, we got to the point where we were so professional with it. We were split. There were four of us at CMC to start off with and then we split up into groups of two. Yep. And it would be Jacob and Suhani, and it would be Brandon and I. And we would just arrive at a suite, be like, hey, we need to get at the devices. We'll try to stay out of your way as best as we can. And as we go through, we make notes to each other trying to track where all the devices are going.

And it just became a matter of just instinct walking into the department, knowing where we could probably find hidden devices and getting through it within the span of like an hour or two. Jesus. Yeah, we, we had that shit locked down and we and we, we did not cut any corners too. We went through all of our our requirements that we had to go test. We went through, made sure all the equipment was good and we managed to get it down to oh, we only need a device for like upwards of 5 minutes to login, make sure everything's installed and set up properly and to get out and get it set over and yeah, put the sticker on it to make sure we don't test it again.

And we, we were very fucking rapid at it and. We were besides the the main campus like you had on or like regional hospitals and. Those other teams had a lot more people on them, too. And they, there is one Regional Hospital that somebody just put these on the monitors when the computer passed all the tests, put a sticker on it with a little check mark. Good. Well, this team decided to put checkmarks on every single computer and not even touch them. So they tested one computer in the entire department and just.

I was going to say the other team sound like they cut corners. They cut massive corners. And it's and. It and it wasn't found out until like a month or two before launch. Yep, let me tell you how higher ups were not happy. They were not happy. Is this needed to be done correctly? Right, it needed to be every desktop computer, every workstation on wheels or wow carts, every laptop, every like wall mounted computer, everything needed to get access. No, I mean, like, I remember receiving a piece of paper that said like, oh, like, epic on it.

Like, I'm not sure if that's the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, yes. OK. So I'm like, wow, like, these guys did it. Yeah. It's the type of experience we got from this is very unique. Oh yeah, this is a type of. It was, it was a very big expression of soft skills, technical knowledge and as well as workplace organization and communication. Well, like everything was fucking stressed to the limit, I mean. Plus like you 2 are like the perfect barrier because one of you guys was really get a software and one of you guys really get a hardware.

Oh yeah. So. Was I say, hey, Mark, it's your problem. I go, all right, I got it. We had that a couple times. Yeah, I mean, we bounced around, you know, there'd be rooms he's taken care of, I'm taking care of other. Rooms, right? Or he's working with equipment, I'm working with medical staff to keep tensions low because they're already stressed off enough as it was with all. Like when we started, we were still wearing masks inside of campus 'cause this was like, what would you just say, 2022? Yeah, it's 2022.

2022-2023. Then they really required it at that point. So at the start, yes, OK. So at the start still during inventory all the way through like the start of like what was that? Was it deployment or TDR? TDR, yeah, towards the start of TDR, where we're actually going through and testing stuff, we had a month where we still had to wear our face masks. I Remember Me and me and Jacob and Suhani, we were doing one of these rooms and one of the emergency departments.

This, it was an empty room, OK? Nobody was in it. Somebody was in it before. But you know, we were able to get in there and get that computer. Yeah. Well, they were rolling this person back in there and this guy had COVID was on a breathalyzed like. A air tank. Everything ever it is. He looked like a skeleton Jesus. Christ. It looked like he was. Gone. We saw a lot of shit. Yeah, no doubt. I even was in that same exact emergency department with somebody who got shot. Yeah. The thing is with with hospitals, you have to be ready to see things you don't want, you know, And some people can handle it better than.

Others I mean. It is what it is. Yeah, you have to have that degree, modicum of respect. That's why I cracked a lot of jokes. Yeah, I mean to to lighten up the mood, Yeah, we did make a lot of jokes. But in situations where we really needed to like, exercise, respect, yeah, and really enforce professionalism, we really did. I felt bad for Suhani this one time. You weren't with us, Mark. We were in an elevator and if the medical staff needed the elevator right away, you get out. Yeah. Right you. Know you don't question nothing get.

Out of, you know. Well, there was this one person that was coming in with look like a bed with like a sheet on it, you know, and we're like, you want us to get out, You know, I was like, Nah, you're good. That was a person who died that was under that sheet. Yeah. You can tell by the silver one. Yeah, yeah. And I remember Suhani was kind of like, what the fuck, you know, I felt so bad for her because it didn't really faze me that much. I, I don't know why. I just my mind doesn't go to that person died, he died.

Yeah. Right. I feel the pain for that. Right, you know of. Course, you also, you can't let your nerves get the best of you. You have to whatever you're in that situation, you have to have the utmost respect. Now this funny thing is, there's one awkward moment. This is are. You talking about what I'm thinking of? I don't know if you weren't with us. OK. Me and Suhani had to go into this, this one, not an exam room, but it, I think it was a kind of like a break room ish area or whatever. And the computer in there, you know, and we knock on this door and the person's like, you know, hey, what's up?

You know, we tell them who we are and we're like, need a set computer. She's like, Oh yeah, come on in. You know, this was Horry. These folks that were in there were visitors talking about next steps for their loved one. Oh, fun do. We put them down, God. Yeah, why are we in here? Why did you like? Why didn't you let us come? In Are you OK? No, I think you're like, you're holding your neck, like I think you strained something. No, no. I'm like, Oh my God, no. I just, you know it. Oh God. Awkward.

Oh my bad. There's there's a lot of awkward. Situations right now too, because. I I was then getting pissed off at myself. I'm like why the fuck am I in here? Yeah, you know. Like I'm the asshole, not. Right, you're just doing your job. Yeah, I'm just a tech. I could come back, later told us. You know that. That's why, like another thing, bringing it back, being thankful for your health. I was going to say I don't want to bring it back to being if we still have any more stuff, but yeah. Be thankful for your health.

You know, there are a lot of folks that don't have the greatest health. Right and. You know, great. Over the people you have around you. Yeah, and. Hold them dearly, never know when you're going to lose. Them and cherish the moments that you do have with them. Yes, you always want to do that. Live life without regret. Yes, and just live your life the best you can, you know, be a loving person. I know that sometimes the world may look down and on you for that, but you're a good person, right? Because you, you, you never know what somebody might be going through.

And if you say something to them that isn't very nice, you don't want to do that. Yeah. Right, and I will say like I even though I hate my past jobs, like this is, you know, off off the rails that you've been going down. But like I even though I hated the jobs and I hated the people in my past jobs that I've had, I am thankful for those people that I've hated because, you know, they've helped me form who I wanted to be. Yeah, because looking out back on it like. Probably like even 10 years ago, back in school, I was one of the shyest motherfuckers in school.

Yeah, you can contest. I, I, I can convert that. And just like you made me feel like a social butterfly. Yeah, Social butterfly, I feel like and I just, I just have like the lowest. I'm an introvert with the lowest social battery in my entire family. Yeah, one of the lowest social battery you'll ever probably be. But no, just I I'm still not where I want to be. I will say that because I want to be able to stand up for myself. I am not good at like thinking confrontation. Yeah, I'm not good at confrontation.

I'm not, I'm not good at thinking of what to say. Like even in like a joking conversation like I'm like. I could have said that like, yeah. And not being good at confrontation, like I'll go, I'll rehearse it in my head. Like I'll go down like a bunch of different pathways and then what really happens? None of that, nothing. So I'm not prepared at all. I understand that feeling. And silly, I just get more so angry and I just like.

More. Than anything meant like itself a long way to go but like I'm thankful for where I am now as a person like I've I know that now there's things that I just. Won't stand up for. Especially disrespecting. Yeah. Oh yeah. No, that's, that's one thing, you know, but you don't stoop down at a level, that's the one thing. Also no I. Want to keep in mind, take it from me, I'll do that. I have lost battles belief now. There are some. Get yourself taken down a pig. I the. My thing is I I would play the long game and I've tried that before but like I lost my job before I could play my final card, my last job.

Because yeah, there. Was a person that like for some reason I had this fit about this fucking chair and they just took it out of my area. Yeah, yeah, I remember that the. Person that you know, was over in that area said like, oh, that chair's been there for two years. I'm like, so why the fuck are you taking it now? Yeah, something. All right, well, on my last day here, I'll throw the fucking garbage in the bag. The fucking dumpster. I, I, I I'm more of a long person. Like you've seen me. I can.

I can play a fucking joke. Oh yeah. I will go far for a joke. So Hello Kitty, I'm an adventure.

I hate that games actually. I just love it. I just. Love it. Be thankful. For it, but not like that's how I am I I will play the one yes yeah. Be thankful for Salzburg that you know brought it into existence. Yeah, unintentionally. Yeah, I don't have. World of Warcraft I play Key Hello Kitty's Island adventure. Play Hello Kitty then wow.

Honestly, Dave, I've been kind of wanting like a wanting to find like an MMO or no, that's not MMO.

No, no, I was thinking of MOBA MO where it's kind of just get lost in it, like whether it's Warcraft or Wizard one O 1 or something like that. I just kind of like, I kind of want that long form game. Hell yeah. One of those, but a lot of those long form games require subscriptions and I just don't play like that. Yeah, I don't like. The subscription stuff, it's. Not the. It's not the. Subscription that's bothering me. It's just that I don't like because of my nature of playing games. I skip around, yeah.

I don't stay around long enough. That I I can I can understand that. Like, I don't mind paying if I'm gonna play it, but yeah. I mean I I have that subscription for Fallout. Right. And you play it and you play it, yeah. And it's kind of funny, you know, it's, I guess 76 is considered an MLO. And I'm like, really? And. I'm like. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah. It's like an MMO light, yeah. Yeah, I would say so because the lobbies aren't that big. Like 16 lobbies aren't that big. The skill, the skill system's kind of less technical than other Mmos.

How? Far, yeah, didn't. What? Path of the Exile too, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, or even with like, I haven't played it, but like Final Fantasy. Oh yeah, I I played a little bit of that and I don't like the. Combat I have, I have friends that are in the final fan like this, those Mmos. I think it's Final Fantasy and

oh, is it just Final Fantasy? I mean, there's Final Fantasy. It's not World of Warcraft. There's another one that's. It's gotcha an impact one, no? No, that's a gotcha. That's a gotcha, I think, yeah. Maybe it is just Final Fantasy, I think. I think it's like 15 or 16. No, it's 14 and 16, right, that are the MMS on lines. Yeah, I think. It's the yeah. Because I think it's. Probably 1615, yeah. But they play those and they like, I mean, like, cool, good for you guys, but I just like, I would like to get into it, but I just don't think Final Fantasy is my thing.

I'm not really an RPG person. And that's what a lot of them are. Granted, they spread across a lot of genres, but. I know there's I forgot which Final Fantasy it is, but I, I think it's on PC. My brother has it on PS-5 and it plays like King of Mars. They like done away with the that combat system or whatever. Which when I think about it, like, like not all games are like playing like King of Mars, but I the Final Fantasy has always been known for, you know, that's her based. Yeah. Like that's what I think when I think Final Fantasy, I don't think I was online, I think.

Turn based like 6 or 7. Yeah, like or even. And like that's that is Final Fantasy, but I mean like Kingdom Hearts is fine with in that regard, but I wonder how Kingdom Hearts would have been if it had a turn based. I was going to look up popular Mmos but that's a YouTube so I can't do that. That's funny, I think the closest I'll ever get to Emma Bow is truthfully is Monster Hunter, even though it's not really. I guess you could say it's an MMO light. As well, it's an MMO light with just its complexity, yeah.

Because could you? Could you consider Monster Hunter an RPG? Not in the traditional sense. Yeah, not in like, not not in the JRPG sense, I think. Like. Traditional means is Japanese RPGs because that's yeah, that's what the turn based combat comes. In a yeah, OK, because it it's not a turn based combat game and it's also not really a game where you have choice in the matter of affecting the world, right? It's more because it's very linear storytelling. It's more so yeah, you're just assuming the hunter.

Yeah, you're assuming the role of the hunter, but you have your choice of how you want to approach your combat, your weapons, your layout, your perks. Everything else is completely in your hands. It's funny, I was kind of thinking about this a little bit at work this week. It's like, why would I not want to play Wilds? But like, I also have the thought of if I were to play World again, I would probably pick that up in a heartbeat. Oh yeah. I just don't know where the difference lies. Probably. It kind of does suck that the hunts take a literal.

Hour. Yeah, God, you had to invest so much time in the world. I mean, granted, like in my main profile, I have like 700 hours. Yeah, I listen, I got that game and I played the shit. I loved it. I still love it. No, I got it and played it with Jake and you for a little bit and I fucking loved it. I need to play more. Yeah, I would totally hop on with you, but just I I think I would need to get online. Each fight is an hour long if you play at level.

Well, maximum is 15 minutes, but yeah, an hour, Yeah, more often than not, it's going to take like 40 minutes on average. Yeah. On the long end. Yeah. But again, you still have to invest the time into it well. Right, that makes. Sense and I I really want to get back into world. I would love to just. To finish it, because Jack and I, Jack's already beaten Fatalis, but I'm just at Fatalis. Now, I have never beaten Fatalis. I haven't beaten Fatalis. I haven't beaten A Latreon. Yeah, a Latreon. I think I lost with you guys.

Like, I mean, granted, Jack's like the hardcore kind of guys. Like I'm, I'm this calling ambulance, calling ambulance, but not for me. Like he's that kind of guy in in in Monster Hunter. That that's why it in Wilds I made a reaction card or it's like, holy shit, Jack actually died. Oh yeah. I got one for Emma, one for Brandon, or it's like Emma died again, or Brandon died again and it's just like the cheerful ones where they're just laughing. And then there's the one with the I think Alma is the character in it just freaking out.

It's like Jack died. What the fuck? Dude I would be so bad with Kurtz yeah 'cause like wild is so easy but I carted like 8 times yeah if not more. What? Playing the games. I feel has smaller windows in order to evade shed. Well, I'm also used to a world where it has the the the the last ditch effort dive. Yeah, I mean, you still have that, but it's just not a catch all anymore. Yeah. I would say now. That was like one of my favorite things to do. Oh my God, the toaster is exploding dark. Or was Safajiva's nuke?

I don't think you can even escape that you. Can't you have to get behind the boulder? Yeah, I wrote. Just the image of it coming down is awesome. I remember hunting that I'm not sure if you were there remember remind me if I was if you were, but it was me, Nick, Jack and I think someone else. I was not there. I think it was the other guy. I took him back. Extreme. I think so. I don't think so 'cause oh, maybe I think we hated them at that point anyway. I think I feel like there was a fourth person, I can't remember, but there was, there was a time where like we just, we were killing Safi so fast, not like actually killing, but we were damaging her so fast.

She would do the DPS check after the bowlers were gone. What? We were doing too much damage. Because I looked it up. I'm like, why are we having our problem and saying, oh, you might be doing too much damage? So we tried it. I was like, all right, guys deal less damage. There were the rocks, the rocks were there. Cool, we're good. The DPS check, all right, cool. We survived it. We were literally too good. Yeah. What if that can that happen in like like Wilds and shit? Oh, potentially. I mean, it depends on how it's set up for the for the more I mean, I mean look.

Yeah, what we're talking about is like end of the game and. This is only you have the top rated armor, yeah. Oh, like quite and. You have you have meta builds. You have beaten master rank and made it your bitch and now you're on the hardest the hard parts of the game. So Safi Jeeva is basically a raid boss. You can get four teams of four to go into this fight, Yeah. And break and break parts and get more point. I think of this in the works, get more points and what I. I know that's what it was for, you know, for.

Oh God. What's her name? Tallow Beroth or something? Yeah. Kovy Teroth. The golden Girl. Yeah. But I, I think, I think you're right. I think it's also with Safi Jiva where? It's definitely Savi where you have plants. I was like oh break the back seat but it takes. Quite literally, the hunts don't go through the full hunt. You're going into teams of four and you're all doing work to damage the monster to weaken it to the point of where teams can actually start killing it. Yeah, because you have like a set amount of time and you can't kill them at that time.

But once you break parts or get points or whatever. Then it starts advancing to the next room. Get into. Fights and then eventually like, you know, maybe like 30 minutes go by, you never, you never see that second room. After 10 minutes, you see the second room. So it's just like it was. Really goal posting you and just like being like. You got to keep doing enough damage in order to keep moving forward. And I think what I, I think what I really liked about world is that everything just made sense to me.

Like I could, I'm not sure about Wilds, but like I could just make mega potions yeah I'm not sure if that's an easily resource cuz I have what's in the box so recently yeah yeah. It is after you beat the main campaign. You have to do a couple side quests to get this going, but Nada becomes your item retrieval guy and it unfortunately it's not as simple as World's item was so simple. Oh my God, it was so. It was so easy to abuse. Yeah, so in in world there's like you have a, you have like a gathering point.

You can set one thing one and then you can you can each hunt will add one stack, whatever number like four or two, whatever per. And if you do side quests in that game, then you can like unlock more foods. You can unlock you know more slots for so you can unlock up to 4. And you can you can improve your fertilizers and stuff too. Right, so you can get like. More higher quantity, more stuff, higher quality stuff, yeah. But yeah, I was just like, all right, So what do I need for makeup? Potions. I need the herb, I need honey, and I need like something else.

No, it's just the herbs and honey. Oh yeah. Herb to make the potion and then honey to make the make the potion. Yeah like that. But then you can do two other things Yeah like, oh, if you want to like if you want to get make traps. Oh, here's some webs for. The my favorite, the mega barrel bombs, Yeah. And then once you get to the end of the game and Selena, Selena, you can just do the forge, Yeah, get you fucking everything you could ever need. You want to play slots and monster. Under Jesus Christ.

Literally. Quite literally, yes. Oh Lord, have mercy. It's us. Gambling. And honestly, it's not bad. There's no external courtesy, it's just the stuff you have in the game and it's like, Oh yeah, I can get tons and tons of just gems and shit on. An Xbox controller. It's XY and A and like there's like left, right, center basically. So you you have to you have to choose the correct sequence. And you're trying to guess. You're guessing the sequence. The sequence is random, so you can press YXA. Oh you're correct.

And like it'll like show you a check mark if you're right. So you could do like Y check and then X wrong and you can but like at at that point you just hold right trigger and it'll just go left. The right doesn't matter if you're correct, it'll just do it. And like, that's kind of the best 'cause you have so much fuel to burn through, yeah. It just goes. That there's really no point. You're going to get everything regardless. And as as you get correct guesses, it increases the temperature of the unit and once it gets warm enough it goes into critical mode.

Into OverDrive. And then you just, you just keep going and it just keeps giving you higher and higher and higher resources. And then there's events where like the like the the cats will start singing or or dancing or whatever. And then they'll show you the actual pattern. Yeah. So like, so like one will raise their pond and the other one it's a pond. You'll have one in the middle, one the left and one the right, and they'll jump up to the correct pattern. Yeah. Oh. My God, it's fun. No, it's really fun.

This makes you really want to play World now. Yeah. That's for dammit. I might have to get like the most basic version of online on Xbox just to play with you guys. And this is if we actually commit to it. Yeah, I want to know yesterday that's. The problem that's the problem with World and Rise is that you have to have console specific right? And that's the that's the issue that Wilde says solve. Cause like ain't no way am I buying it on steam even though. It's here's the thing, If you buy it on Steam, I have to buy it on Steam.

Brandon has to buy it on Steam. Well, I do have it on. Emma has to buy it on Steam. It's it's better to play it on Xbox if we did, yeah. It's just easier. That way, plus like me, Jack and Mark, we already have our build set. Oh my God, yeah. I like I'd. Be thankful for that. Hey man, thankful for some some nice builds. Yeah.

But we have gone over time. I did that for a reason. Because Thanksgiving. Yeah. And then guess what? Christmas. Oh shit, that's coming up faster than I thought. That'll be Brandon's episode if math is correct.

Probably, yeah. We'll see. We'll find. We'll figure that out. Quizmith. Quizmith. I'm thinking that episode we kind of do something similar to Halloween. Yeah. If you have Ethan. 'S going to die to an elf. Oh, that kind of similar. Got it. Yeah, the spirit of Christmas is deaf. God, this comes here and kills me and. Oh holy shit, right. He's going to burn me with the coals of raging Hells and. Now I'm, yeah, I'm thinking probably like Christmas memories. Oh, OK. Just something simple for that, you know.

Yeah, that's why I want to do this with this one. I know we went, you know, just wherever, but you know where it is at all our thanks, I think. Yeah, Yeah. Honestly that this episode is. More, more. Relaxed sport, chill I. Kind of like these episodes too. Like I wasn't sure how I how I felt the first time when you did the Halloween one, but I'm like, you know what? This is just nice just to talk. Yeah, I honestly like these episodes a lot. Honestly, I feel like I feel like what we could do is. We'll talk up.

Yeah, I was going to say let's wrap. Up. We'll talk up here all. Right. Well, thank you everyone for listening.

You OK? You doing already? I think I had a stroke anyway. Thank you all for listening to Plug In for Player 4. We really appreciate it, but that is all for today. Time for you guys to go and be thankful for your own things in life. Eat a lot of food, a lot of stuffing. Have a good one. Happy Thanksgiving.

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