105 - The Biggest Anime Weeb ft. Houston Jones, Leon Lush & Che Durena 01:43:00

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Who is one of your favorite? Can I start the podcast? Can I? Welcome to the Instagram podcast. As always, we have Eli Doubles, I have myself, Batty Streams. I'm just going to go down the line. Che, Houston, Leon, we got everybody back. We're doing like a Brady Bunch fucking episode. Yeah, we're hungover. That's why we look like ass. You just see a decline in all these podcasts once a week. It's just this wrong ass look.

Just hung over from earlier today. It's like 7 p.m. right now. Like, oh, it hurts. Okay, do you actually have questions? Is this like a real thing? What was one of your favorite podcasts on this? Because you said it was. Oh, okay. Not like a podcast. One of my favorite unsubscribed podcasts. It was Leon, right? It was the Leon Lutz episode, yeah. What was one of your least favorite? JT and Caleb. Did he write down? He wrote that down, didn't he?

That's not fair. That's easy. This is, baddies watch. This one and Leon Lush's are my two favorite episodes. This was the JT episode and then Leon Lush. So someone's like, I was like, baddies gonna hate one of these and one will be his favorite. And then the comment is a dude's just like, what?

- I love this JT episode. - Those are my two favorites. - Yeah. - That's amazing. - I know the episode of baddies. - The JT one you just did, right? - It was pure chaos, like unfiltered. - My ride. - It was, the JT episode was like. - A movie script. - No, it was not a movie script. It was like an acid trip, a very bad, like it was the drunkest I've ever been. And someone was like, dude, just take a quick hit. - On the podcast? - Yeah. - Yeah. I just sat there like.

What is happening? Matty said like 10 words. Wait, take it quick. No, drunk, you smoked. No. Who was JT? Who was JT? Jared. Jared from Black Rifle. Yeah. Oh, okay. It went just to the moon and back. You just smoked some crazy weed that put you in a grave. That's what it felt like. I didn't actually. But it was so chaotic. That's what it felt like. Yeah. No, I was sober actually for that entire episode. Yeah, that was the only one. That's probably why you hated it too.

No, no, no, I could have been pissed drunk and still sat there like I was watching a car wreck I was having a blast. I was laughing the entire time. He was like "Baddy's uncomfortable!" We don't do that to you. Sometimes he'll- He's still on "Baddy was high." "Baddy was high." Yeah, he was. I can't smoke weed. I can't smoke weed. I had like a stroke like what six years ago. Damn.

Like an actual stroke? That's what they all say. What? They all say that. I went blind, I couldn't walk. You did! From smoking weed? No, what? You made fun of him for it. Yes, so you smoked weed and had a stroke? So I had a ocular vestibular attack thing, and I had a secondary attack from smoking weed after I did it. Damn. So I do not smoke weed. Let me get some of that skunky shit. Holy fuck, you had a stroke? Let me take a fucking three and a half on that. What?

You know what that's a guy that won't- I'm tired of this fucking low-grade pharmaceutical bullshit I get in the dispensaries right now. I want that fucking- I want that stroke butt. Blind couldn't walk or move for a week. That's like when you're about to start watching a movie, it's like, if you have epilepsy, you might not. I'm like, oh, this movie's fucking sick. I'm like, let's go. This movie could fucking kill me. Honey, turn on the smoke machine. We're about to get fucking seized up.

Oh shit. - Oh, the finale's coming up. - Dude, that hits so good. - Let's just quit getting J-O in. - Epilepsy jokes are fine. I feel like those aren't really like tier A offensive shit. They're like C tier offensive jokes. - I think they're low effort. - I mean, no, even people that have epilepsy. - Before these jokes, put in flashing screens so they don't hear it. - That was kind of funny.

There we go. I think this little registration on the joke Fucking some disco ball before that so they won't be around for the joke anyway. Oh, they're just coming to what happened Only flashing lights

Well, fucking Netflix would make you think otherwise. Because I was actually on this point, I was watching a movie with my wife. Like it was this week. It was maybe five days ago. And there was an epilepsy warning. And he was like, just for whatever, like there's flashlights. And she was perplexed. She's like, they do this on Netflix? She's like, I haven't seen something like this in forever. I'm like, honey, there's trigger warnings in front of like everything now.

- Oh, yeah. - That's normal, yeah. - On Twitter posts there's trigger warnings. - So I guess maybe it was on Netflix it's less common, so she was a little taken aback by that, but for me, who lives terminally online. - Yeah, terminally. - Everything I see is like, "TW fucking--" - "TW, that's it?" - "TW, I'm talking about penis."

I think a lot of people now, they don't, like, if you want to have that warning, you have to go through a bunch of loops and shit. So a lot of people, if there's flashes, they'll just take them out. So whoever kept it in, they're like, no, this is... They're just like, if it's integral to the scene, they're like... It's storytelling, man.

Yeah, exactly. Because there's some data analyst that's like, if we put this warning at the beginning of the movie, that's fucking annoying. Like, how is that going to affect our watch time on Netflix? They're like, no, the fucking, the disco scene is integral. We cannot cut that. Jump through the hoops, put in the warning, close your eyes. You would have amazing watch time if everyone was having a stroke. Okay? They won't turn off that shit. They're stroking up. They're stroking up. They're J-O. Yeah.

"Hewton, this is why you're fucking alone. This is why you're alone on the camera." They're S.O-ing you? I just think it was a good idea. You stroke everyone out, you have the best watch time ever. Okay? I like that it gives me the opportunity to kind of pop into frame with him and say things alongside of him. Do you think Netflix wants you to hit the "Hey, are you still watching" screen? Are you still stroking? You still stroking.

Are you doing a lepidopathy? I'm a man. I'm never stroking that long, dude. I'm done in two or three talks. This all started, so I will say to bring us back down to earth. This started with me being surprised you had a stroke. I guess we might have talked about this. We were probably drunk. Yeah. And I'm totally sober now, which is crazy. So we might have talked about this on a previous podcast, but that was, I'm related to weed, but then you then smoked and it exacerbated the stroke? Yeah. And that was the last time you smoked weed? Mm-hmm. No, stoners hate to hear it.

Snoop Dogg can't believe it. Stoner's hate him. Find out why. Yeah, find out why Batty like this. Doctors smoke weed and don't have a stroke challenge. Impossible. That thumbnail's so good. His red eyes. It's just fucking Batty like. He's got like the. The kid that tried to hold it in. He's got like the Sam Hyde thumbnail. Holding his heart. Yeah.

It's like a half and half screen. Part of it's like his blood flow. It's like, is there any particles in there? And they're like watching to see if anything flies through his brain. Just living the dream over there, buddy. I will say I'm glad you made it through. And... So...

The prognosis, you went to the doctors and they're like, you had an actual stroke. Not an actual stroke. It's the easiest way to describe it. I went blind and I lost my equilibrium. It's like nonstop vertigo. So I couldn't walk, move. I couldn't see. But you obviously went to the hospital. Yeah. Oh yeah. What did they tell you? What was the prognosis? Like why? I had a virus that affected my ocular vestibular nerve. So the nerve that goes between your inner ear and your eyes, and it just cooked that off.

So my equilibrium stopped working, which caused my brain to go in like that flight or flight panic mode. Fight or flight panic mode. And it gave me what's called a horizontal nystagmus, which means your eyes flickered so fast. It chose flight.

He did. He really did. The run! He just gave up. It's like, nah. That shit flew like the Wright Brothers, man. That was- took right the fuck off. I didn't mean to giggle as you were explaining that, but... Yes, you did. Dude, it was funny as shit. I was just thinking, like, you go into the doctor for that, and you're like, man, you got some bitch-ass lungs. Yeah, like... Dude, your brain is so weak. Yeah. That bitch-ass brain. The doctor talks like...

Your lungs are so shit, it fucks up your ocular nerve. Actually, that sounds terrible. It wasn't great. It wasn't great. I had to walk with a cane for like six months. A couple points I want to make on that is I think it's, A, it's good that it wasn't related to actual cardiovascular health. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bonus for you. B, I think the second point to that is that we take for granted, two is also B. Okay. Second letter of the alphabet. Yeah, sure. So B, just for you. Yeah.

Can't do it on command. Silent, which I love it. Is that we take for granted the pivotal role that our equilibrium plays and it all starts in our eardrum. Oh, yeah. Super fucked up. So I have an uncle. I have an uncle who, I don't know what it's called. It's a super rare disease where like your shit in your ear just fucking breaks, basically. And like you have these...

Vertigo episodes. Yeah. Like he would just be like walking and fall to the ground and like not be able to move. I still have it. Lost his license. Like couldn't fucking draw like the whole nine yards. Eventually got to a point where it's like, Hey, you can, you can continue having this condition and like have these episodes randomly. You can't drive or we can drill into your eardrum and take the whole motherfucker out. So he's like, get it out of me. And they fucking ripped it out. So he has one year now. Yeah. So we can't hear out of one year. Like they had to take the whole thing out, but like, you can,

without just randomly falling to the ground. - Have you guys tried having better ears? - Thank you. - I told him the same thing, which is crazy. And he was like, I did try that. It didn't work out. I couldn't afford it. Mexican price. - That's literally what I have now.

Mine's obviously not that extreme anymore. For about a week, it was like that. And then it got better over time because nerves in your brain are shit. And I was just like, sometimes I'll be walking. I'm like, never mind. So you still have vertigo episodes? Yeah, I have horrible vertigo. He can't run, of course.

- Yeah, dude, running is the thing that makes it, like, running in a straight line, which is weird to say, straight 'cause your brain-- - You're curving though? You're curving. - Literally, no, straight, legit, if I was running on a track in like a circle, it's not as bad. But a straight line, sidewalks get to be the worst. It fucks with my depth perception, which gets your, my equilibrium's like, what, 'cause my equilibrium's really bad, so it relies on my eyesight more. So things like my depth perception can fuck with it and cause vertigo attacks.

- Damn. - That's wild. - Brains are taken, man. - I'm taking you camping. Dude, if a bear comes, I'm like, yo, sorry. - Zombie apocalypse is me and Matty. - Bro, someone's got dope ears over here. - If a bear comes, he's running on the sidewalk right away. - Yeah. - He just fucking went, yeah.

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all time for each one of you. Yeah, you're that pinnacle, super saiyan, ultra instinct. What is your one moment watching anime where you get goosebumps? Can I interject real quickly? Just so after three people, I don't want to be like, oh, we're building up the hype. I know nothing about anime. Perfect. It's even better. Think about it. So definitely the time that- I mean, you can go first, whatever you feel like. Yeah, it was from One Piece, was mine. Well, yeah.

Just one. Season three, episode six. There's just six episodes and...

When he gets the piece. So they build it up and then finally by episode six, he takes the one and it finds the piece. Oh yeah, that's, yeah. I know that one. You know one. All right, cut to you guys. It's crazy they had a thousand more episodes after that. Crazy. Insanity. So that was my moment.

John Smith when he beat the shit out of Pocahontas. Super Saiyan. Super Saiyan. I actually got it. Monogatari. You guys watch it? Monogatari? No, I don't know that. Did you just make that up? Wait, hold the fuck on. You actually picked an anime I don't know. I'm confused. You got some beat cons over?

Wait, what? Okay, go on. Fucking weird. It's subbed only, and it's about a million words a minute, but amazing, amazing. It's like the best writing you'll ever see. Okay. Someone out there watching knows. Like episode five, freak out, people fucking, like, I don't want to spoil. What's this called? Monogotry? I'm terrible at saying this. Monogotry, yeah. I had mono once. Yeah.

You're on a bunch of weebs and they don't know what you're talking about? And like, Mr. Jack Houston Jones knows this deep cut. I'm the ultimate weeb. I'm the weeb here. This is rare. I don't know an anime. I'm actually caught off guard right now. Did you go to the anime museum when you were in Japan? I was in Akihabara, which was like the anime district. Yeah, so, and I was like... What's it called? No, no. I watched it before I went to anime. If it's not on Google, I'm calling Capra. Monogatari.

Type it in. Yeah. I'm not going to try to spell that. Well, I see it. Monogottery. Oh, there it is. There it is. Yeah, monogottery. Yeah, all right. Series. Monogatari? Yeah. Gatari! Why did you say it like that? You say it with the accent. It's just a bunch of chicks in skirts. It is so good. It is one of the...

Best like it look at that. I asked for the best anime freak out and it's like this if you guys have it watch You don't understand the best anime freak out and this is the cover of it. What is the most confusing? It is one of the best you don't I'm telling you guys watch a season of it you guys will see you guys will see you know what I love What is that? Did you find that on 8chan? It is a mindfuck dude. What the fuck is that? Is this on oxygen?

- I was on Oxygen channel, you're like late night. - What?

Is that like a B-side Adult Swim? I gotta say, that was one of the most brave things you could have done. Pick out like the most fan anime ever in front of a room of dudes. We're already talking about something like nerd as fuck. I'm gonna go even deeper. Because it's so good!

Alright, look at my anime list on it. It's all like, nah. It is top, top, top rated. Top rated. I'll take your word for it, bro. You're all cowards. You're not even true weebs. I like him telling us to hit the one piece together. You're making up shit. I can see. When the one finds the piece.

Huge moment for me. Emotional. Get your mind. Me? Oh, man. I've been bouncing a couple in my head. I would either choose...

I would go Castlevania. Castlevania, obviously English-focused anime. It's a little cheating, but it's great. Castlevania, picking which freak out is a little hard. I love when the chick puts on the day armor and she just starts fucking chopping people to shit. Oh, and Berserk. Yeah, she goes hella Berserk and just murders all the humans. They literally say that we took you from Berserk. And there's that...

There's also when, what's her name? The main chick, when she pops off, that's dope. When fucking, what's his name? The main, what are the lineage called in that show? Oh, the high vampire? No, no, the vampire slayers.

- Belmont's. - Oh, the Belmont's, yeah, yeah, yeah. - When he pulls out the second whip and then he's fucking whipping the dude with the Morningstar and the- I was like fucking cumming all over the place. - They're bringing it back down. - It's like when he fought Joe. - That is a perfect pick.

But if I was gonna go like anime anime, I would go My Hero and when the dude, when they're doing that whole basement fight thing and the guy's eating the different things to have different powers and he has to crack in the power versus overhaul, right? Yeah, that's leading to the overhaul. He's fighting the three goons. He's fighting the three goons and he eats like crab and

octopus and he's like has the the Kraken power that comes up. Yeah, to the end. Yeah. He's like, oh, fuck. Yeah. It's like the guy poisons the guy with the shit. I'm like, yo, that part's fucking sick. One of either that either the whips or the fucking Kraken I would go with. These are fucking those are good. That was a good description. I'm now kind of mad. I haven't seen. I think in pictures. That's how I just like you were like,

See, I'm a little mad. I already picked mine, but you made fun of it, so I'm a little upset. What did you say? Attack on Titan. Which one? No, I love, that's one of my favorite animes. No. Levi? Yes. Oh, Levi. Levi versus the Beast Titan? Oh, it is peak. It's as good as it gets. He's literally just the tiniest, angry little man. You know that 10, 15 seconds of that took three months to animate. Wow.

- Really? - Yes. - It was one key animator that did that and it was like a three month process of him doing all those frames. - That's what you love to hear. - It makes you cooler. - Yeah, the amount of work that went into that short period. - The love. - The frame by frame love. - Well, you're missing out Leon 'cause it is like everyone's sacrificing themself for that one moment too. - Everyone dies. - Everyone dies. Everyone dies but one and they're like, "Hey, you have to fuck these dudes up."

And he's like, "I- we're dying." We just gave him the worst fucking spoiler to one of the best shows. He's not gonna remember any of that. No, that's fine. That's fine. And I do- that is enticing for me. I love- The lead up to it. You know, fucking the cast. The charge. The charge. Oh yeah. Oh my god, it's so good.

I like stories where you build up, you know, you have a relationship with the characters and then near the end of the show they climax by killing everyone you love. That's the shit I like. - Well you would love Attack on Titan then. - Okay, so. - Oh, you'd really like Attack on Titan. - Attack on Titan's good for like, you'll fall in love with characters and within the first season they're like, within the first five episodes, everyone you love, no one's safe. - Main character's dead. - Dead.

- People get murdered. - Game of Thrones style, like everyone just dies. - Yeah, people get murdered, dog. - Then you learn a new character, like a secondary character becomes-- - This one will stick around. - This one's safe.

- Attack on Titan's a great, like if you don't like anime, 'cause anime is really just television. It's put into this very nerdy box, but it is in terms of like storytelling quality, like it is just television. Attack on Titan's a great point to start because it is just mainstream. - A little more accessible. - Yeah, exactly. - Genre as well. - Yeah, 'cause there are some weird Japanese things in like My Hero where people like sniffing panties and you're like, that's Japan.

Now Demon Slayer is a good intro too. Yeah, until season 2. I haven't seen season 2 yet. Oh, he goes... Wait, what are you trying to say about season 2? It's great, but if you're not into anime, it's a little weird. Because that guy's married to three girls. No, because they're all dressed as women for like an entire arc. Oh yeah, that's fine too. Who's dressed? The main characters. It doesn't matter, you get to see the most orgasmic animation of all time.

Oh, it's so beautiful. It is. It is. It's flashy. I guess I didn't know how much you knew about. No, he is. Oh, yeah. That's why I like. Yeah, I knew you were a nerd motherfucker based on your world of work.

I love it. I feel like I got body. That's another tough one. The demon slayer, any demon slayer boss fight is fucking the animation on that show is unreal. It's UFO table. When she gets the fucking fire, like when she gets the ability, like my demon power is like lighting my blood on fire. I'm like, yo, I remember being like, mommy. Like I'm like fucking literally. And then it's like goes through the fucking webs. Have you guys watched the fate stuff? Yep. So from UFO table, same people that do demon slaver.

I have, what's it called? Fate. It's good. You don't, I mean, it's a fucking terrible, it's such a big nest of like lore in different animes. It's so hard to figure out where you start. But some of those movies are like some of the best like animated films you'll ever watch in your life.

Just the fight, the choreography and everything. Love that. If I go for one, it is... I have a couple. I'm just like, oh. But my... It's like the... I'll have two freakouts.

Guts. Going 100. Berserk 100. The 100 man. The 100 merc. When he kills 100 people. The most gangster 100 man slay ever. Oh my god. You know what? When he kills those 100 dudes and he earns that name, that is the most violent episode possible. And then Hunter x Hunter. Adult Gone. Adult Gone. The best fucking anime freakout. Before that and 100%

Oh, bro. That's one of the ones I've heard a lot about. That's a tough one. That's a tough one to introduce people to, I think, though. Well, it starts, it's 10 episodes, and it's like, oh my god, we're on an adventure! And you're like, oh, it's a kid's show, this is fucking dope. It's like, now everyone's dead! And then literally, they're like, we made it to 100 Xanax. Half of the people die, and violently, and you're like, what the fuck? And then everyone's dying. Oh, this is not a child, what the fuck is going on all of a sudden? And this shit did a complete shift. It's about the new...

New York or whatever arc it is. Well, I forget what it's called. Where is it? Like they're in that city and there's like a whole gambling. Oh yeah. The, the, the tournament. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

I think a little bit after that but like no it's after they're done the tournament yeah after they get their license really dark and then you know they go into the Chimera War Ant arc and that's what you're talking about honestly one of the best like peaks of a show I've ever seen and then it just ended and it's like the best yeah the best villain arc you will ever see and I won't ruin it because I do suggest okay but can we talk about Ahsoka

Is that like every character? He's one of the best characters. Yeah, I love Hisoka. What are you kidding? You didn't like him? No, he's weird as fuck. That's why he's good. He likes children. That's why he's good. Please don't.

He's defending his sovereignty again! Oh, he's... He's got pink skin. Okay! He likes children. It's a bunch of gum, man. It has the same properties as rubber and gum. Okay? He likes children. Well... Yeah, guess what? So I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever. Both of them...

I actually seriously don't like that because there has to be a suspension of disbelief for fictional things. I agree.

I like pissing people off with that one. It's very profound. But people like Twitter warriors really like, you know, they try to like gang pile on anime stuff, which is all fantasy.

I don't know why people need to get so mad about fantasy. - To some extent. - To some extent, yeah. - Like if I'm watching Game of Thrones and Jamie's fucking his sister, I'm like-- - That's hilarious to me. - It is, it's fantasy. It's so far out there. - I might just like stroke a little to test the waters.

- They're both hot. - What do you want from me? - Like in my mind, I know they're not related in real life, but I'm gonna play into the fantasy. - I'm gonna get my money. - You started it, I'm gonna finish it. - I'm just a squirrel in January in New England, baby. I'm gonna fucking find a little bit of food. It is cold as shit outside and I need to play. I need these cheeks filled right now.

I'm a little bit, so I've become a little callous to incestual things because I just finished the season of Milt's Manor where it's like moms and their sons Oh, did you watch Milt's Manor? What? It's actually very similar to anime. Oh my god. This is the conversation. Eli. Eli, wake up.

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Oh yeah, that is weird. That whole thing, the pixelated general shit. Do they do that in animation too? Oh, it's across the board. They- in anime, that's called hentai. Yeah, there's not typically like- It's an art piece and it's a- Hentai art, yeah. So hentai is like anime porn. Yeah. I mean, pervert Japanese. I've used hentai over the years just like when I make jokes about it because I understand that as like- You've never jerked off to hentai? Sorry, J-O'd. I'm not saying that I haven't. I just-

- He has. - Jay has. - Why am I under fire? You invite me in your home and you invite me to your church. - You look offended when I say no.

You're fine with like a spit in your mouth

- I don't watch hentai, I read hentai. - It's really fucking different, guys. - It's doujin, it's doujin is different. - Yes. - Also, expand your boundaries. - I should, I will, I will. - You know what? - You're gonna spit in the mouth, you're gonna watch some cartoon porn. - You know, have you ever seen a million tentacles is fucking a chick? - Probably. - That's a lot. - Also, I don't like tentacle porn. I think it's...

Wait, wait, don't start with, you ever watched a million? Because that means you've watched a lot to get to a million tentacles. I have. He's like jaded. I'll take the connoisseur. He's singing the, now he's like 20 tentacles pussy shit scrolls through the next one. You know, I've watched enough Fat Bastard Hentai to know. Fat Bastard, is that like a brand or just you like rock fat people? It's a take. It's a take. A take on what? It has the best animation, most of the time.

You're now you're gonna even I'd hurt you deep for me, man. I don't even know this. Your only ally in this race is just he's like, alright, I'm just kidding. As I'm on the shoot he said, I'm not gonna shoot. I'm not gonna shoot. I'm not gonna shoot.

He's like, "Yeah, he's like they're a mom and pop production company." They only have like 350 followers on Instagram. Anti-porn is phenomenal. The animation. - I would say don't follow Queen Bee. It's one of the worst studios. - You found a fucking real fan over here. - If you're looking for the good stuff, go to Hanime. It's the best website. Best streaming quality.

You know I read the comments sometimes

You know, sometimes there's like Barack Obama in the comments. Okay, to be fair, who the fuck leaves comments on porn videos? Dude, only... They're really smart and witty people. There's like, sometimes they're funny. I saw once that was a screen grab and someone said, I like that she's a little bit ugly.

Wait, did we transition to porn? We're back in your wheelhouse. Now you're back at home. I'm awake.

That's a funny comment. That's good. Foreign comments are hilarious, but I've only ever seen them because of Reddit. I've never been there. No, I never saw any comments. You know what? God bless. I grew up Baptist myself. Mr. Tentacle Porn himself! Never watches it. Mr. Niche Anti. Very niche. It's very popular.

I like porn titles that are like crazy. Oh dude. They try to hit every keyword through the whole way. Different version of clickbait. One of my favorite. Those motherfuckers make cake, man. They get advertised too, just like we do. I fucked my cousin while a tornado's going on. Yeah, so. Oh my God, check it out. I fucked Kelly's, Kelly's fat ass got stuck in the playhouse and I fucked her. Like you have these long ass names that exist as porn titles. It's good situation. They're all amateur shit too. Yeah.

I saw one where it was like, it was referencing some porn. So I can't remember who it was, but it was like such and such does like fucking bangs on vacation, blah, blah, blah. And then at the end in brackets, it said original tits. So I was like, she got her tits done. Crazy classics. It was a job. Yeah. That's weird.

Original Tits is such a fucking... That's a band name. A band name? Anytime you do like parentheses at the end of a title, it's going to be stupid like, oh, like reaction or like sad, emotional, but Original Tits. Original Tits. That's the emotion I'm looking for. The title's already 175 characters. If you made it to Original Tits before clicking the video...

You might be getting it. You don't see it when you click the video. It's a surprise. Until you click the video, then you see the original tits. The video shows up in the three paragraphs. You're like, oh, original tits. It's like a treat. That's like 98 characters after the dot, dot, dot. Exactly. Fucking crazy. Honestly, I can respect it, though, because, you know, unoriginal tits sometimes...

Yeah, sometimes. It depends. Unoriginal tits. Sometimes. Fake tits. Sometimes. Unoriginal. Fake tits. Oh, I just finally came up with one anime crazy scene. Pickle Rick.

That's a good, I mean, technically. Wait, no, are you serious? I was kidding, but that, like, you would take that? No, well, it's not really anime, but I know you're right. It's like an animation of a guy that's just fucking killing a bunch of shit, right? It's American. Well, we'll take that. We'll take that. Here, we'll go into this. This is easy. This is for you. Favorite video game moment.

You have that word transition from porn. I know. I also animated porn is a hard transition. No, it's not. This is the transition. Yeah, that is very true. Yeah. Fatty dying, anime freakouts, and tie horn favorite video games. I don't I understand perfectly. Do you have another white cloth?

Are the four cases empty right there? Yeah, claws or claws or vodkas or whiskey, whatever. I think I would honestly have to break it down by decade because video games have played such an integral role in my entire life. Moments. It's a more, I don't know, how do you explain that? It depends on if it's like, is it a moment that you experience in real life with your friends or is it a moment like in the story that changed you, you know what I mean? Because I've totally had that moment with Halo. Yeah.

No, I know you're going to get into this one. Yeah. Wait, what was the question again? I'm with you. I lost the question too. Like a pivotal moment in video games. Iconic video game moment. Oh, I got to... There's one that immediately comes to mind, but then there's definitely a few that... I think we all might have one. So I would say maybe the first time... I'm going to break it down into a few things. So there's like...

Developing a relationship with a character in a video game. Like having... Like you're watching a movie, you follow the storyline and something happens to that character and it viscerally makes you feel a certain way. Probably Final Fantasy VII. I know you did. OG PlayStation 1. OG PlayStation 1. I was in middle school.

Final Fantasy VII, the fucking Sephiroth theme music, I can still hear it. Yeah, it makes the hair raise on my arm every time I fucking hear it. Unbelievable. Someone at Super Eye Patchwolf did a video on that, retrospective. I don't know if you've ever seen that channel, but amazing retrospective on that game. Just the original Final Fantasy VII? That's a classic moment. That's actually, you probably, oh, you and Mike. You stayed up late, which one? That's fine, yeah, I got the podcast.

Even I, I know you guys are a little bit older than me, but that's like the first Final Fantasy game I played. That was the first one? I was like six years old, fucking around, had no idea what I was doing. God, that's a hard game. Yeah, I fucking sucked. Yeah, words. That's just one of those moments where you're like, I have no fucking idea what I'm doing. Iconic. Yep.

I would say breaking it more down. So early on, probably like I was, I was gaming on my PC. I had a family PC and I was like on Microsoft DOS downloading games through like bootleg fucking places. I downloaded Wolfenstein 3D when it first came out. Doom. I was playing fucking Oregon Trail. Playing Commander Keen was probably one of my favorite games from the early 90s. So like those moments shaped me as a child that was like still in my like 8, 9, 10, 11 era.

where I'm just playing, like that's what, that captivated me and kind of turned me into someone who is now a 37 year old just grippingly addicted to video games. It's just like it starts young sometimes. - And it stays. - And it stays. But you're not having like emotional moments, that was more just like the awe and wonder of like playing pixels on a screen that are colored and you can control them with a keyboard. - It kind of brought the ADD in for a second. - It was wild, yeah. You're putting in a five and a half inch floppy into a fucking computer.

God, games on floppy disks. Back in the day, Ninja Gaiden, all those old ones. Yeah. And then there's the, you know, obviously Nintendo and the progression of consoles. Super Mario 3 is one of my favorite games of all time. I think that probably is 200 times.

But fast forwarding, I would say Halo 1 was one of the moments where like probably the FPS shooter where I was most attached to that game. Yep. And the physics on that. I will say that was the first game you just play with the physics for hours at the age. I used to. Stack grenades. I spent. That's exactly what I did. On that level that like the ring level with the like the island level. Yeah. Island with the hole. And then you get the over shield. Yeah.

This is what that was how you did you like you just kill each other back and forth to like drop your grenades under the warthog and then you grab a sticky and you fucking throw the sticky grab the overshield and you're immune while the overshield is charging. So you hop in the warthog while the fucking overshield is charging and you launch onto the top of the map.

When I finally got up there, I was like, there's nothing better than this. To be out of bounds in this game, you're not supposed to be up here. I don't know what you're doing. You did some of the first person physics. It was so good when you first got to play it. Yeah. Awesome. This is an old, what is it?

Frank Sinatra was he had a song to that was a AMV video which we were talking it's like an anime music video but it was with the warthog fly me to the moon Frank Sinatra and it was stacking the grenades and you'd blow them up that's an OG viral Halo video OG this is like pre-YouTube yeah I think it got uploaded to

Yeah, afterwards, like years after. It was like a 2002. It was like an E-bombs world if I remember correctly. Yeah, yeah. Faze.net, stuff like that. You're like, what the fuck? Pure fucking, was it Pure Pwnage, all that shit. Those videos, man. Oh my god, I forgot about Pure Pwnage. What a wonderful fucking series that was. We're still in the early 2000s and I could go on forever, but let me hand it off to you. What was, so like the...

The question exactly. It was a video game moment. It's like moments that, that one where you're like, Oh, this is, Oh, I just love this experience. There's a couple. So I, uh, Halo three, uh, I, weekend it came out, right? Uh, this was already big into Halo at this point. Like, you know, like one and two and they, uh, this, yeah, I was like six. So I, I had the Xbox 360 and, uh, I bought, I was like waiting that night to get Halo. Got it.

We, in that weekend, we all brought our Xboxes, our TVs over to my friend's house, system link. We played four person legendary Halo 3.

And that moment at 4 a.m., all of us, you know, split screen, driving our Warthogs through that, everything blowing up. Yeah. And just when we jump over into the ship and the game does its last cut scene. And all your friends are there too. Yeah. Like we did it on Legendary, right? Back when local multiplayer was the thing. It was the way couch co-op was. Yeah. It was like such a, like all of us came together for this fucking moment. And it was, I just, I'll remember that for the rest of my life.

So good. It sucks that Ouch co-op. It did. Perfect Dark. Goldeneye. Oh, those like Perfect Dark. Goldeneye fork. Yeah, on N64. You had to have like the expansion pack and the controller that had extra hammer and ran like shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For like little shitty games. And then it'll come back. But outside of that, I would say obviously World of Warcraft and just grinding alone because, you know, I... What? What?

Yeah, no, uh, I didn't. No, I didn't know, like, uh, fuckin' World of Warcraft is great if you're an introvert because you can just meet people in line, talk, and this was like back with Ventrilo was a thing, right? Yeah. Oh, Vent, holy shit. Yeah. Ventrilo, let's go. What about Roger Wilco, anyone? You remember Roger Wilco?

That was like the Ventrilo competitor of the time. I used Vent. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. That's before Discord. Yeah. It was like ICQ era. Maybe just after ICQ era. And I remember I was like such a squeaker for so long when I was playing. I wouldn't talk for a while. Because I was like such a hyper. I still already have a hyper. But it was even worse back then. Houston Jones here. Hey, hey. It's your orc warrior. Yeah. You will feel my power.

And I was like a real dick in the normal chat. So they heard me talk. They're like, what is this bitch? I'm sorry guys. But World of Warcraft, just so many memorable moments. Just especially me like getting competitive PvP and competing against really top level like arena players. You killed who was- Regful, Regful, rest in peace.

It's not a laughing moment. The baddies are... Honestly, I don't know ragfellas, but I bet it was pretty fucking sick.

He was a really big Twitch streamer, but... But you killed him. You killed him. Oh, yeah? Oh, okay. Yeah, that's crazy. So he was the Warcraft fucking god. Yeah, like he, you know, he did it in BlizzCon, whatever. But I beat him. It was actually like one of my highlights of my Warcraft career because he posted on his YouTube channel.

But, and it's me, Quasimodo. - Your name is Quasimodo. - Yeah. - It's marvelous. - But yeah, and then competing against some of those top level players. I was never that bad, good, but like I got to at least, I was high enough to compete against some of those guys and I was like, that was a soul experience for me. I would say though, those though, my most legendary best gaming moments. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Hey, Eli. - Yeah?

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I'm Baraka. Baraka? Our president? No. Baraka. From Mortal Kombat? The single blade arm guy? You have no idea who I'm talking about? He's the guy with the mouth that's all the teeth, and then he has the two blades that come out his arms? He's making shit up. I remember when I was in, I think it was 2012, 2013, I kind of had thrown gaming away.

I was a huge gamer before that. And I was like, all I did was consuming games. And I had this weird notion in my head that's like, that's what you do when you're a kid and then you grow up. And I also was like, I moved from Canada to Mexico. I was living there and I didn't have anything to game on. I had no console. And then I got this shitty laptop from my sister. She had gifted it to me. My parents brought it down for me. And I downloaded an emulator.

- Oh yeah. - So I downloaded some classic SNES games. I played through Chrono Trigger. - Chrono Trigger. - Played through Chrono Trigger. I played through Earthbound and I played through Final Fantasy VI, all these really legendary turn-based games. - That's good.

And that whole journey of like Final Fantasy VI, it was like, it goes through so many loops. It was the first game I ever played. And to think of that, it's such an old game where you build a team, then you lose your team. And then there's all, you can miss characters and there's all these little secrets embedded. You see stuff like that in games now that's been pulled back in. Like Elden Ring is such an homage to old games.

to old video games where they don't guide you. They don't give you, tell you where to go. There's so many missables. There's so many secrets. And that game, I got so entrenched and tried to do every little thing I could. And then the final boss battle when it plays. Oh, thank God. I just...

All the layers, the levels. Like there's this whole undertone of like, I don't know, like of oppression and everything and like stealing people's youth and all these things. And you see the final boss and they play the music from the intro.

At the end. And he floats down. 16-bit music. And the whole, there's all this, they're always insinuating that this power will lead to something. And there's a lot of religious...

Undertone. Undertones throughout the game and then when you go through the whole battle, it's like any of those games back then, you have like a four stage boss. And then when you get to the final stage, he's like, he's a living God. He's like, yeah, he's in an angel form. It's like that. I remember that boss battle hit me super hard. That's like the old school game that hit me good. And then,

and recently was... Going off of that, also, it was just really cool. It's like, this is Final Fantasy VI. This is 93? No. 95? Before I was born. Yeah, this is before you were born. I was born in 94, yeah. And Capcom destroys the fucking world. Like, the entire world gets ripped apart and almost everyone dies and you're like, oh. And this is almost Evangelion level type stuff. Yeah, you're like, what the fuck?

And it's a game where you build a super team and then you lose all the characters you built and you have to start from scratch. Like, to think of doing that in a video game back in, what, 94 or whenever? Like, that's so, like, that rattled me that I'm like, wow, this is revolutionary gameplay in an old fucking game. Yeah. I think we saw that more back then, though. Like, that...

you could take my wrist oh yeah that brutal like approach to gameplay and that's what i think these games like dark souls and stuff touch on again where it's like you die all the all the enemies come back you die you lose all your experience you um the loss of experience in old in old games is so true it's just a high stakes thing there's missables all these things quest lines that you won't even know what to

No auto save. To some extent, I think that's what we've lost with some of the modern games is the stakes of losing, being bad, or dying, or making a mistake. That's what I think. There is no risk. Miyazaki has brought back to video games

and what he has done incredibly. He's akin to like an Anthony Bourdain or a Studio Ghibli or like a Bill Burr, like anyone who is really focused on their craft and taking something that started out as niche but became so prolific it has reverberated through the entire industry. Games like Final Fantasy VI, I would have thought, impacted what he does to create what games are today. Definitely. Yeah, that's very well said. That's why I love hanging out with Che. Like, I remember the first time he was on podcast, I was like, man.

I fucking love it. Yeah, I like Conker's bad fur day. When you thought the piece of shit was dough. There was some fat tits in that one. No, man. So kind of on that same vein, though, Final Fantasy VII for me has got to be up there. But...

To not say a Final Fantasy game, Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind and Oblivion. Morrowind. You're hitting a good... Most people watching probably have not played Morrowind. Yeah. Oblivion was the first Elder Scrolls I played fully immersed. Went on to do Skyrim the whole night. Wish I might have played Morrowind back then.

- Morrowind was mind blowing just from the graphics alone at that stage. - I don't think it's good to play now. - It's not. I went back and I tried it again. 'Cause I was like, Morrowind is one of those games where it was like, I was, it was, it was unbelievable. Like I was a big book nerd. I always loved reading like fantasy, D&D type shit. And then Morrowind came out and I still actually have my game of the year edition of Morrowind on the original Xbox. - Love it. - Like in the case still. And that game, you know,

There were no rails. You didn't see that in games because there was usually a linear path. You followed your fucking story. It was. And it was the point where like you could just kill anybody. You could be, you could save anybody. You could do whatever the fuck you wanted. You could abuse every system in that game however you wanted to do things. That state of like what you said, like there's no rails. That is what a lot of video games are.

You're on a set story path. A narrative line. There may not be a complete linear path, but there's three paths. If you follow one of those three, though, you can bounce between them. I at least like the choice. But Oblivion, like, you had a journal, and it would give you a hint

of where to go. There was no quest markers. There was no fallout. Yeah, there was nothing. And I remember you could accidentally kill, like if you pissed off the wrong guy, you would have to, you'd kill the main quest line character and a message would pop up being like, hey, you fucked up. You can't actually beat the game anymore. Yeah, okay. So I don't mean to tangent off of you about this. Have you guys played any of the Nier games? Nier Automata. Oh yeah, yeah, okay. Nier.

Have you guys played any of them? No, no, no. I haven't. I need to. So good. You will have moments. This guy becomes a bigger anime dork every time. I know. Video games, hold on. Let's, real quick. Like, the biggest anime we've ever had. But, like, you will, like, in the year, uh,

Hot chick, blindfold. I would say play the later one. The other one I just played for the story. Not worth the 33 hours I put into it. But the other one, like, you will eat, like, a fish and you'll get a game over screen. Wait, what? The game literally says, like, hey, if you want to eat this fish, you'll probably die. And it's kind of, like, baiting you. Yeah, and then you eat it and it's game over screen. Okay.

Yeah. It's just like, here, you're dead. Sorry. And I'm not even kidding. You beat the game. You beat the game. You beat the game. And then it goes into, like, the credits are falling, right? You can't skip them. And it goes into one of those retro shooters where you have to shoot all the words. Yeah. Galaga. And it becomes Galaga. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Smash did it, too. Yeah. It becomes impossible. It becomes impossible, right? And it keeps putting up things like, do you want to continue? Or you should give up. And you're like, I keep clicking that.

And then you just keep doing it. Keep doing it. And then I spent, I remember I was like streaming on Discord with my friends with this. And I was like, this is the worst fucking shoot ever. Like I'm here for 30 minutes. It's been eight hours. Like when's it going to end? And then it's like, do you want help?

yeah yeah i fucking want help and they're like like all the people that fucking failed at this moment this thing their their their profiles come in and start help you helping you shoot these fucking credits it's like the most mind-blowing fucking storytelling experience like the whole thing from like a video game experience like you know from the beginning start to the end

There's five different endings in you. Each ending adds to the story. Then the ending credits adds more. I've never seen a video have a full, complete experience with every part. It's like fucking what's his name? Who's the metal gear guy? Yeah. It's very, yeah. Kojima. Yeah. Uh, like the metal weird shitty. It's like one of the same people. Like there's a very, is it, this guy's an iconic developer that like wrote these near series. Yeah. Platinum. Yes. Uh,

And it is a ride. It's like, if you're into story-based games, it is so good. And it's like by the same people that do kind of some of the Final Fantasy... No, no. That will make me cry. Oh, yeah. It's that high action, high octane. Yeah. So it's fun. Great story. And that's honestly the story shit is what I'm really... I really suck at. I mean, that's the reason RPGs with Morrowind and shit like...

Being able to just wander the fucking map. There's random caves. There's quests in these caves, but there was no markers. There was no direction to go there. It was like, oh, I could just go over there. Like, it's the same reason why, like, Grand Theft Auto was such a crazy fucking thing when 3 or Vice City first came out and you could just... I guess I'm gonna go get a hooker now. Like, I'm 14. Let's do this. The car's rocking. This is hard to J-O-T. I probably spent 160 hours trying to fucking...

Change the camera angle. Not only that, but do backflips on the motorcycle at the airport. Yes. I perfected it, dude. Fucking double backflip. No problem. I'm like the high-reduce bike they had. You did just remind me. Grand Theft Auto Online, that was some great gameplay. Dude, I was playing GTA 2 top-down. Yeah. Oh, God, yeah. The old PlayStation 1. Did you guys play GTA 5 online when you could finally get your friends all in the fucking GTA universe? It was an absolute blast. Yep. I never got really into it.

I remember the amount of hours I spent with the friends before I was a streamer before. Just trying to get into the military bases. Like, you'd hit that fucking ramp near the tunnel to jump in. Like, oh, get to the fucking helicopter. Get to the jet. And we're all fucking dying. One guy gets to the helicopter and he takes off. No, you can't go too high because the missiles will get you. Yes. Raiden's really good at Grand Theft Auto.

like that's terrifying i know right in his life because autism and it's a superpower so he knows everything on how to do where to go what to do because i was like okay buddy okay the game started and he asked people when we i've talked about if you're robbing somebody like hey can i borrow your car then you pull them out and then you don't hit them you just take it and drive so he's polite during this entire process

Yeah, out of respect. Yeah, you're borrowing a car, right? He's the only person in Grand Theft Auto following the street laws, you know, stopping at the stoplights, putting his turn light on. He's like fluffing the collars. You look wonderful. But walking away, and I'll come back in. I remember the first time I walked away, walked back in after I was doing something, a few hours passed, come back in.

I'm like, "Where the fuck are you?" He's like, "I'm beating the game, daddy." Then I was like, "What mission?" "Holy shit, you're actually beating the fucking game! What the f-" Like, just watching, he knows exactly what to do, 'cause he's watched all the YouTube tutorials. So then he goes, translates it exactly how it needs to be done. So he killed fucking Trevor. And then it's over. Old school video games, there was like Xenogears, Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear, you guys play some Metal Gear? I hate Metal Gear.

That's why I joined it. Resident Evil and Metal Gear. Never have enjoyed them. But even the, like, you don't even like Metal Gear Solid 3 or Resident Evil 4. That's why I joined the military. Come on. Not joking. I was playing Call of Duty or Elder Scrolls. He doesn't like Galvan Ring either, by the way. I don't. I really don't. Yeah, yeah. Jake gets out. He slides his shirt over his head. Jake's like, dude!

I was waiting for that moment because you were saying what a prolific person that was. It's fine. I have a buddy who is not into the Souls games at all and then I was like, you gotta do Elden Ring and he did and then he was like, bro, this is... How much time did you give it? Four and a half hours. The really games like...

I totally respect that you watching. I don't. Watching. Che is summoning his inner meditation right now. He's like, I'm not going to slap him. This was my first time on the podcast. This was a conversation. I was like offended that you were saying that. You were supporting me for four hours. Having to watch 20 minutes of YouTube videos to play a game isn't necessarily what you think you should have to do to play a game. Sure. But. But. But. But.

The satisfaction loop that is embedded in these games is so much higher quality than anything else on the market. Like, you...

learning skills and using your abilities getting strongest find new items like understanding a quest line through reading text and all these things the how much the game gives you and how much it also withholds that you'll find that you didn't know you found it it feels like old video games it feels like when you're a kid on the playground and the only information you had was each other and you would talk to each other about how you play video games

So I just want to compound on that. It feels like that first experience you had that Batty just said was his favorite video game experience where you get to explore an open world and find things.

- You get to explore. You get to explore. Almost like it's exactly like what he just described as his favorite thing in the fucking world. - I think you probably, can I just get a cliff note? - But the dragons are too modern. - Why Elden Ring was not something you enjoyed? - The style of the game, 100%. - Style. - It was artistic, that was it? - That was it, 100%. - Like medieval or? - Yeah, I love, the way I like my fantasy genre games is-- - It was not weeb enough?

- No. - I hate when you're like, "Elderly Ring is just the medieval." And he's like, "Would you like my D&D statues right here?" - See, but from what I know you, I feel like I really like later aesthetics. - That might be it. It's true. It's just I-- - When you get to some of the capital city stuff, I think you-- - I'm sure it's different then, but I-- - I love vaginas. I just hated it. - Yeah.

You know, it's not... Did you like the gameplay mechanics? Yeah, absolutely. I love the difficulty of the game. I love the type of weapons and the way you can use your abilities. I do like all that. It's the aesthetics of the game. I don't enjoy it. And if I can't get immersed in the game, I don't give a fuck. What about Bloodborne? Hate it.

- I've played Bloodborne, I've played- - So this is like Dark Souls basically? - No, I don't like the style of the FromSoft games. - Sekiro? - Sekiro. - I actually, you know, played it, then I tried Sekiro and I was like, "Yeah."

Sekiro came out with a good time for me. Sekiro was like, I think I'd beat, or I'd never beat Dark Souls 3. I got the last boss and started getting stomped. And then I got like 100,000 souls and I was like, I'm going to go level up. And then I died and lost them. And I was like, I need a break. A long ass break. And I never went back. But what's it called? Sekiro came out at a time where I was just craving that type of game. And then it came out and I just like fucking...

And I actually, Zegro's hard as shit. Yeah, I think, you know, that's part of the reason, like, Dark Souls, like, Dark Souls, you're like, fuck, this boss sucks. I'm gonna go level up. Zegro's like, get fucked. Zegro, there is not. He's a whole mechanic. Yeah, it's skill. Yeah, like, and I was like, I'm not at a stage of like, I want to sit here and fight the same guy for 10 hours.

No, and and it's like I killed the boss they have two life bars every time you kill one So you like the first one? You like please get this as a kill so I don't have to fight two of you

Like, "Oh, I made a wuss!" At least with Elden Ring, you know, I've died on some bosses like a hundred times in Elden Ring, but at least I could always go kill some weak shit to level up and finally feel a little bit stronger, you know? With Sekiro, I was just like, "Well, I'm just fucking shit." Did that butterfly boss, that burst? Like, butterfly boss. The girl that's like, "Shh shh shh shh shh." Yeah, never got to, what? Oh, yeah, yeah. Wait, you're talking Melania? The burning, no, the burning building. No, in Sekiro. Oh, Sekiro? Yeah, never got to that. She's in the memory? That one? Yeah.

Like, you get those ones, you're like, "This is like the first real boss." And it is a reality check of what you have to get good at. - You know what stopped me? - I don't like that. I bought the $60 game. And what stopped me, it was like the guy with the sword.

Samurai guy Joe who just standing out there who is like a semi boss and I was like that guy's fucking oh The first and the first yeah, I'm like, you know what teaches you he's like this is the mechanics. Yeah I was stuck on him for hours Like this is if you I will admit the first six hours of that game I did not get the hang of it like our six which is like brutal people are our

hour six that's a lot six hours long time play a game and yeah and not have fun not have fun but the rest that's a game where i'm like i need to go back because there was there's so much sub shit i didn't do that game but i'm now that was like the second souls game i played and so now i'm so much more entrenched in that world that i'm like i know i'll go back i'll be better i get what this stuff's about and i want to do all the little sub bosses because there's there's um um

real ending there's like well there's two endings and then there's a real ending where you fight like the main main boss so i've only fought one out of the three main end bosses and then there's like the fire demon and then there's all this other shit there's so much shit in that game the monkey that just i'm good with the two heads i'll play skyrim for the fifth time thanks anyone here played monster yeah yeah yeah what one uh world

I recently put like 240 hours into world of war. Recently put 240? Okay, I- Just last week. Just got back from playing. Meh, not even once. I did 50, 55, and then I was like, I loved it, but I wasn't playing with anyone. So I fucking, I put it to bed. I put it to bed.

No, when you go in like these good Demon Slayer, which was the first Dark Souls game. So I know they're called Dark Souls. Demon's Souls. Yeah, Demon's Souls was the very first one and that was PS3. Came out in like 2009. Gym mechanics, but the... And the most brutal mechanics because it was like, oh, you can... Your half health... Why do y'all enjoy that? I love it. What was the half health? You died at the beginning. You know what? They're masochists. Yeah.

You know, you're an RPG you'd be like I can go on hard nor medium normal or story mode Yeah, yeah store fucking story I do normal

I can't even say that. That's weird to say that on a podcast. A gaming podcast. You're going to be a gamer. I go hard every time. 10,000 hours in dark. I almost always go to the one that's just below the hardest. There's nightmare and then there's hell and then there's nightmare. Hell sounds good. The hardest one is going to make me want to hang myself the whole time. So I'll do the one before that. And it's going to be difficult and I'll hate it.

what I'm going to feel so good about. I can't say I can argue. I'll always play normal difficulty because I feel like that's kind of like the base, base of what a game is supposed to be played, right? And then if I enjoy it, I'll go higher difficulty. Like,

It depends on the game. Doom, the Doom games, I go the hardest. See, that's different. On Doom, I would do that. Absolutely. Halo, Legendary, every single time. Yeah. For me, it's like an RPG thing. I'm in it from a storytelling standpoint. So I wanted to make that point that it does depend on what experience you're going for. Yeah, absolutely. In a game like that where it's like,

I don't like the mechanics of a very hard fight in this particular style of game. Yeah. I'm here for the fucking story. Like Dragon Age games. You can put that on story mode. So I'll give you that. Yeah, 100%. I will give you that. I have no problem with that.

And then there's maybe, like maybe you're an FPS guy, like Doom, and you're like, I want to just fucking kill a million mobs. I will never not play a Halo game on Legendary. You know what I mean? Like, completely different style of game. Everyone wants to get snipered by a jackal that you can't see in this diet. Immediately kill me. It's the power fantasy. If it's a game like, I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima right now. Go on. Here she goes.

because I want the feeling of like, because you have to be perfect. You have to like kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. And then when everyone's dead, you feel like, like you feel the fucking greatest. And that's what the high I'm going for. Sushi Ghost is one of the best games. Sushi Ghost. Recent years. Ghost of Tsushima? Yeah, Ghost of Tsushima. Like fucking. So good. I feel like. Just such a good time.

That is the sad end goal of the game. You're just looking for that difficulty curve that gets you rocks out of you. That's the type of game. FPS? It's different for every game. You guys ever beat Getting Over It? You guys ever play Getting Over It? I have not beat it. If I can say it over, Bennett Foddy. Bennett Foddy's Getting Over It? The most...

I will play that afterwards because it's so good. It is the most fucking like soul crushing game. You're like, it's one where it is just a mouse. There's no skill involved. It is mouse. There's a lot. Okay, sorry. When you talk about the guy that has the pick, the bucket. Yeah. So he's in the cauldron with a bucket. I would never put my house. So you're just, your goal is to climb this mountainside. That's fucking it. You just climb to the top. Oh fuck. Oh my God. No, I know what you're talking about now with the fucking, the physic hit. Yeah. Thank you.

There is levels where you- Is there an end to it? Yeah. And that's what sucks. You get to certain parts in it. Like, I got past the castle part once and then you fuck up one time and you're like, I'm doing- And then it's like, oh. No, no. And you start at the beginning and you're like,

You hold the power down button on your computer. No, you just turn your PC off. You hard turn it off and I'm like, "I'm fucking yanking." Oh, man. I got very far in that game and then I... ...lead off my computer.

I still want to go back and beat it. I want that my gaming resume that I beat it. But it's like, it's a gaming resume. I like that. I was playing it before I go to sleep and I had to stop because I would get like hot and anxious and I'd be like, sweaty fingers, get the claw hand. Cause you're like, you're like holding down so hard. Exactly. And I'm like, I can't sleep after this. I'm fucking wired now, dude. No. So with Demon's Souls back in the day, original Demon's Souls,

When you died in it, you would go half health. So you'd be in a deep, you would be in a spirit form or whatever, husk form. So you'd always play the game at half health. They don't explain this when it first came out and no one explained it. You go and you're like, oh, half health. Oh, they give you an item. It resurrects you and you go to full health. Okay, dope. So you just resurrect yourself every time. Game doesn't tell you. It makes the game infinitely harder every time. So you have a dark system and a light system. Every time you resurrect yourself, it goes to the light side, which is

Very fucking hard. So it- and there's five lights. So I just resurrect myself five times. I was like, "I need my full health for these boss fights." Then I couldn't make it to the boss all of a sudden. I was dying by the dogs in the normal and it was like, "Why is everything so fucking strong now?" "I can't get souls on a higher level."

- Murdering. I like look it up online, 2011. - Cheat code central.com. Yeah. - And that's what it says. It's like, oh, reset the game if it's hard right now. Cause you're, you're maxed out. It is just fucking. - Reset the game. - You're coming back. - Yeah. You are having fun. - What a weird mechanic to make the game harder than what you got. - You think it's like, oh, I'll help myself. I'll help myself. - Oh, this part was tough and you died. We're going to make it harder.

He was trying stuff out back then. He was riffing. He was like, "Hey, hey, hey, let's see what we're... ha!" Let's see the sticks. He's like, "Yeah, let's try this." Now people are like, "They don't like that?" "Well, I don't know, man. We were trying to see if they liked it." Give 'em the gabagoo! Exactly, dude. God, dude. You're like, "What the fuck is this shit?" Aw, man. Every comic has jokes and he's like, "I thought it was funny."

I never was the audience but you know I still do this day. He goes for it. Yeah. I still laugh anytime someone says gabagoo. It's the funniest thing to me. Get the handout. Gabagoo. Do you guys have a favorite video game character? Solid Snake. It's definitely Solid Snake. What's a Russian gunship?

That's a good solid say. Yeah, Jager. We have Jager. Why are we all here still to die? The only thing that everything from- Yeah, why are we all here just to suffer? Is there crab, the crab battle fucking? Crab battle. Crab battle. Crab battle. Crab battle. I know that game. So like, from every like, I named my son Raiden.

Because of Metal Gear Solid. That's fucked up. That was selfish. He's like a bully. Well, he's like, "Oh, no, no, no." No, he can't get that. He's got to pass, right? That's enough of a deep cut. People won't connect it back to Metal Gear. Well, it was bad because the mom was like, "I don't like Mortal Kombat, to be honest." Yeah, yeah, there you go. Well, the mom was like, Ryan's mom was like, "Oh, well, like, Ryan, but I don't, maybe something different." I was like, "What about Raiden?" And she's like, "I really like that." I was like, "Cool."

Didn't say what it's from until it was signed on the birth certificate. I was like, that's from Metal Gear Solid. That now cannot be removed. Sounds like Patriot, the best game. And then MGS5 came out and Liquid Snake's name was Eli. And I was like...

New one. This is me. Thank you. So we have Snake. Written in the stars. Favorite video game character? Snake, man, I don't know. I'm harking back to again, like kind of Cloud Sephiroth there, Final Fantasy VII, just for games I was attached to and spent a lot of hours to. But which one, Sephiroth or Cloud? Sephiroth would play cooler. The massive immune seven foot sword. Yeah, the massive, come on. So badass.

I like Master Chief's too, cliche. Didn't really get connected to him. He's cool, but that's about it. Cortana. Cortana was honestly probably cool. They ruined her. They ruined her. Stop it. She's still hot. She got so thick though. Come on. On Infinite, she got fell off. I would say like, so when it comes down to strictly story, like in being investing in characters, I was pretty invested in The Last of Us.

Yeah, no, it's Joel and Ellie. I would say they're top three for me as far as storyline characters and actually like... Good games. Yeah, incredible games. Amazing. So they're definitely on the list for me. That comes to mind. I can't... I mean, for me, video games are usually... You have a character that you're like... I'm struggling myself. I know, that's like...

It's more about like, how can I be good at this game to make me feel better about myself? Yeah. How can I smash little teenagers right now in League of Legends to make me feel good? Build up my self-esteem. No, but yeah, no, Last of Us, fucking Final Fantasy VII, even actually Final Fantasy IX, the little mage, I think his name was Vivi? Vivi. Yeah. Absolutely. I don't know why I fucking loved Vivi. It was like my shit. Like I loved him.

- I loved him. Little fucking cool little straw hat and like-- - My favorite, Skull Kid from Majora's Mask. - Shout out to Final Fantasy IX for having a complete-- - Yeah, shout out. - Yo, but that game, like it was one of the-- - It was and then to get some of the fast weapons, like the ultimate weapons, you had to speed run the game and they made it possible to speed run the game without leveling up. Like yeah, the enemies are based off of your level. So just go as fast as you want. - Oh.

This was very new for that time period. Like tactics and that were the first ones to do that. Maybe Thrall.

World of Warcraft. Damn it. Yeah, but fuck that. Did they take yours? Did they take yours? Yeah. You fucking asshole. I mean, he's been around since World of Warcraft 1. I was about to say Sylvanas, you know, like fucking undead. Jim Raider, Starcraft. I don't remember. Which one's Thrall? The Orgrimmar. He's the Orgrimmar orc. The main orc. The main orc. Until they get replaced. Yeah. Until they get replaced.

Yeah, I would need time to think about more. There's definitely been more I just I'm gonna go these I have a hard time answering this one probably like an easy monogatara Okay, you know good anime to watch it Come on Lara Croft

The amount of times I tried to kill that butler in Lara Croft with the fucking tray. Yeah, backing up the camera to get a good J-O angle. They're like backing her up and then rotating. Yeah, there's no triangle to this. Somebody jerked off to the Witcher in here. I know one of you. Oh my god, I fucking forgot about that. I mean, wait. Geralt is a great character. Witcher 3? Oh.

All the Witchers, but Witcher 3? I'll take that one. I'm just going to take that one. I want to take that one. No, no, take it back. Commander Shepard. Because it's me. Shepard is a good character. I forgot about Mass Effect. I fucking love Mass Effect. Such a good fucking...

Played- Played the- The ending was great though, huh? 1 through 3, just do- go in blind, play all three. Actually, Andromeda. Oh, Andromeda. Actually, I didn't mind it, but, uh, not as good as the original trilogy. My question is, did anyone play The Witcher 1 and 2? No. I never played 1, but I played 2. I played the updated versions of 2 and 1, kind of. I never beat them. 1's like, if you watch old, like, footage of 1, it's ridiculous.

- Oh, combat, yeah, the gameplay. - It's mechanically, like the gameplay, the controller, absolutely terrible. - What system was that, or was it PC? - PC. - PC, it's crazy that they got the funny version. - Duh, they, when I played The Witcher 3, they just came out with like an upgraded, like, you know. - Fixing the gameplay. - They updated to like a 2022 version.

version of a game where you had to change the graphics and everything. This is like a 2016, 2015 game. Yeah. And I played that on my PC and it was fucking gorgeous. Loved it. I remember, yeah, the remaster. I played it initially on my PS4 in like 2017, I think I played through it.

So good. And honestly, I don't think the combat set is settling in, but the story and everything. It's another game. I would gladly put Witcher on the easiest setting and just rock it. Yeah. See, I can kind of agree with that. That's right. Witcher 3, dude. The story of the Witcher 3. I don't care about how tough. You did some scenarios to get in and you're talking to him. I want it to be challenging though, I think. That's fair. Like the mechanics in that game are enough to make me want to get better at them. Yeah. It's definitely not the best fighting mechanics. Yeah. But like,

I don't like I could never in good conscience select the easiest setting and not just immediately put my fucking balls in dick.

I don't know what like a shooter I need to be on the hardest setting with RPG I think it's because uh the storytelling I like writing I do D&D I do I I'm there so you want to just like sit back with the controller on your fucking big bulging stomach literally I will 45 hours just smash I can't blame them like Witcher is like a master class of video game storytelling

The way they interweave all the different storylines, different side quests. The best side quest for me is fucking the world. Fucking side quests mean something. The best side quest. The Bloody Baron. Oh my God. The intro to the game is basically the intro to the Bloody Baron. There's so many people who don't even finish that. There's that fetus that comes alive. Botchling. The botchling. But even like the orc or the troll. The troll with the painting of the wall.

The walls. It's like one of the best psychos because you walk up and the troll's like, "Me don't know what to do." And they're like, the humans like, "Kill that thing." So you walk up and you're like, "Hey, troll. What the fuck's up?" "What the fuck, bro?" "You fucked up all the ships." He's like, "I know. Protect ship. So build wall," they said. "So broke ship, build wall."

So his logic, he was like, I help protect the yard. And you're like, fuck. Okay. He's like, but I need to paint now. So you walk away, you get the paint, you bring it back. He's like, me no good. Aren't you paint? So you can have Gerald do it. And it's a shitty. He's like, oh, you good painter. Or you can be like troll. You paint it. Fucking you have fun. And it is the Mona Lisa. When you have the troll do it, it is like literally a piece of art. It's just speechless. He's like, what the fuck?

And then cats through the trolley's like, "Me bad painter, should not have painted." And he leaves, I'm like, "Fuck, this is-" It makes you feel a motherfucking- Yeah!

that's a great book just like tucked in there and it's also like a joke that you would have missed if you don't hit the right fucking thing yeah that's what's crazy about a lot of video game dialogue and video game moments is they're weaving in so many impactful moments that they're like someone might never even fuck like the amount of work that goes into the the voice acting for some of these scenes like like you're they're writing entire dialogues and you're just like

Maybe somebody sees it. Skip, skip, skip. You guys played the DLC for it too. Yeah, oh, Blood and Wine. Blood and Wine? Yep. Fucking amazing. Oh, every one. And they were like 20 bucks, 10 bucks, and they were like 40 hours long. So good. And then CD Projekt Red released several of them. It's all my own fucking wineries. It's all my own fucking wineries. Well, they were under pressure.

I don't blame them. They came off the Witcher 3 and they released Cyberpunk. I'm going to say, dude, it's so good. Cyberpunk is good. And they have mod support, so there's titties everywhere now. I only played a little bit of The Witcher. I only put about 30, 40 hours in that game. I didn't play a lot of it. I really enjoyed Cyberpunk. I never beat it, but I did. I recently went back and beat it. I think I should go back and beat it. I would like to as well. I gave it about 12.5.

Now that I got a beast of a rig, I want to actually download it. I'm telling you, and with mod support, not even just for titties. There's so many cool mods to add to that game now. Like in-game mod support. The world is cool, and it's a world that I love. I like driving. Did you guys watch the Cyberpunk game? Yeah, it's fucking depressing.

oh my god i love it anime cyberpunk it's supposed to be really good it's unreal last year last year cyberpunk edge runners everyone says right like even i get the brandon herrera aka guy he's like you have you watched this i was like what the fuck are you texting me about anime at four in the morning check it out like if brandon is telling me about something because honestly he does not watch anime i'm like okay this is good this is like me when i

It's like ten episodes, so it's like the fastest thing. It's quick too, yeah. As fast as it starts, it ends. And then you're like, well, that was fucking depressing. Maybe that's a spoiler. Yeah, no spoilers. Favorite character? We still got this line. We're still like the same. It's just a slow work down the table. Favorite character? I think it would probably go Kratos. I don't know.

- Good one. - I'm a God of War stan. I've played all of them. I've played the PSP ones. I've played fucking every single God. And we're talking about video game moments before when Ares throws the pillar through fucking everywhere and it pins Kratos to the wall when he's in the temple of Pandora, that moment's fucking nuts.

In God of War 3, when he fights the Kraken sort of thing, my only problem with God of War 3 is that they bust their nut at the beginning of that game. Ew, ew! Yeah, that game starts off...

Insane! You're fighting, like Poseidon creates a cracking creature. You're on the back of Gaia. You're fighting this thing. Then Gaia punches through the monster. You grab Poseidon and gouge his eyes out and throw him off

Mount Olympus, like that game starts crazy and it never lives up to the first like hour. It ends there. It's a great game. I think it is mechanically, it is the better of the original trilogy. Mechanically, it's the best. But then even when you get to the later ones, like God of War Remastered was like a re-imagining and you had a new version of Kratos that kind of stepped away from this like, eh,

it was a juvenile version of video games that came into an adult version of what games are now. And then when you get Ragnarok, Ragnarok embraced all these moments of storytelling. Plus what I...

I didn't think the story was as good as the original. I always pissed off because I didn't have a cool, like, button press sex scene in Ragnarok. Ah, dude. The fucking orgy scene. Yeah, I still remember that. Like, every God of War game, like, one, two, three, there's always, like, you click the button. Oh, you haven't played it yet? Not Ragnarok.

- Okay, okay. - He's definitely gonna have sex with Ray. - I won't spoil it 'cause that game-- - You spoiled Orgy. - That game is so incredible. And in terms of what I enjoy about God of War and what I enjoy about video games, I thought the story was good. I didn't think it was as good as the first one. But the moments that make God of War to me are these like,

like over the top set piece moments. And it has those again and again that are fucking crazy. And then it does all these, it like does these crazy fan service moments. Or Ragnarok is four or is that five? Oh, I mean,

Technically in the main series. Five. Five, because God of War, then God of War Ragnarok. Yeah. It's the second PlayStation 4, 1, 4, 5. Oh, I haven't played that one yet. So I played, so I streamed, I streamed one in like 2018 with the first boy one. Yeah, that's the first boy one. Yeah, so there's one right after. I haven't played the new one. It's not on PC. Yeah.

No, so Ragnarok is the new new? Yeah, that's the new new. Ragnarok is so fucking incredible in terms of gameplay, like battling these set piece moments. And there's like a central part of the story that I won't say what happens, but the theme is change who you are if you want to change your outcome.

And it impacted me at a stage in my life where I was going down a certain path and I was like, if I want to be a different person, I need to change my behavior. And I changed who I was because of how this game spoke to me. And yeah, Kratos, I think, he's been with me since I've been 12. And he has always been great. What an insightful way to take...

Something actionable in your own life. That's unbelievable. He was like, I like Sephiroth. He had a huge sword and then we have your deep ass conversation. I'm like, fuck. I need to go again. My favorite games don't even have a main character. It's again, the Elder Scrolls series. It's your Dragon Age. I guess technically Dragon Age has Pong. You can place your foot yourself in, right? Yeah. So it's a little different in that case, but like... But who's your character? The character? Um...

- Betty. - It's me. I picture myself in every video game. - I'm the best. - Yeah, I'm the best. - I'm the best. - I'm the best. - I'm gonna go with Link, Legend of Zelda. - Oh, okay. - Or one of my personal favorites is Skull Kid just because I love

Skull Kid in Majora's Mask and how he turns out like, oh, he wasn't really the bad guy, but he turned into the bad guy. Yeah, he seduced Zortim into corruption. Yeah, exactly. Link's actually a really good hero, just character in general. It's like, yo, hey, this is your new job. He's like, Link, listen. Oh, fuck, okay. I feel like Link is also a self-insert character, though. Because he doesn't have the dialogue. He's like the Master Chief. The silent hero. The silent hero. Yeah.

Morgan Freeman? Yeah, he's Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman for sure. I forget about half of it. Gordon. Gordon, not Morgan. Gordon, I was like, wait, is it? Thank you, thank you on that one. I was like, that's off. I don't know why it's off, but it's off. Morgan Freeman. That's a wonderful, great job at the voice. No, do not go to Deckard Cain.

Stay a while and listen. Stay a while and listen. Oh, man. Batty's favorite voice. I want to punch him in the throat every time he does it. Batty, who is you?

I shouldn't say that. Did I use Morgan Freeman? Morgan Freeman voiced Deckard Cain. Oh, okay. I was like, wait. He didn't. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. I'm being a piece of shit. Diablo. Diablo. Oh, I'm not. I got in kind of the three and I played the four beta. See, like, that's my thing. Like, my favorite characters, it's all villains. It's I have all the. Who's your favorite? Oh, my God. That's a favorite villain. Oh, okay.

I mean, Skull Kid. That's a death row. I mean, Alduin the World Eater from Skyrim, Vivec from Morrowind. God, there's a Skull Kid fits that bill. Diablo or Ball from fucking Lords of Destruction. Like...

Fuck, man. That's actually a really good question. Like, favorite villain. You're like, oh, I got this. Like, Kefka. Kefka's a fucking... Kefka's a very good villain. Very good villain. Who was Final Fantasy X's semen guy? Seymour? Seymour?

Um, Final Fantasy X. I called him Seaman Guy because his name was Seymour. Like Seaman Guy. Yeah, I did too. I was like, Seaman Guy. His name was Seymour, but it was spelled kind of fucky. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, villains is actually fucked, man.

man like i'm racking my brain right now i still thought the z10 was mine for the longest time xeno gears i've talked about xeno gears before i think um a lot of people haven't played it with god damn travesty that's nintendo ip right that's playstation so final fantasy 7 it was supposed to be final fantasy 7 did you get it on switch now though you know gears maybe uh you know you can some of the i don't know which ones but you can on on

That one I from the Nintendo eShop. Yeah, it's a met you can get mechs or you can fight as humans PlayStation 1 and it is the reason they had to switch a lot for American development was you're fighting God. It is. Yeah, it is fucking like that PlayStation 1, you know, you're like the bad guy. The bad guy is God like you're like, hey, the angels come to Earth.

Mankind is in a ship and they're trying to control God. So it's like flying and then they have to crash land because God becomes self-aware. He's like, hey, I'm a prisoner. Fucking destroys mankind in that ship, destroys it, it wrecks, and spreads out through there and then starts your fantastic journey. And it's firing like, oh, okay. It's like, dude, dude.

music dope and then a mechs attack the village you go to save it main character fey he's like oh i gotta fucking know my people are dying because people fucking die all the time pop in a mech then uh you uh then you come to everyone's dead magic and retelling a video game storyline oh i love it i'm like oh

"Oh, this is my heaven!" - That's all the filler. He's like, "You're my heaven." - 'Cause he tells every video game the exact same way. - Yeah, I'm like, "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

I can't think of his name. The other assassin. Altair was obviously an amazing one from Assassin's Creed 1. Assassin's Creed 2...

With DaVinci and... Yes, I know. I don't know. I can't think of his fucking name. Those two games were so goddamn good. The original AC. The three original, like, playing through those. Ezio? Ezio. Ezio, yes. Yeah, Ezio Auditor. Those were great. Holy shit, amazing games. Even when you got to, like, I would say Black Flag was a peak for me.

100%. Very down to laughter. But, you know, I played Odyssey recently. I forgot my PC. Odyssey was great, but it just didn't give me that...

that Assassin's Creed feeling. There was the biggest fucking map you've ever seen in your life, you know, and I was like, I'll never see any of this. Like, I don't know why. I'm not going to make it. Yeah, but like, you can only drink out of the same recycled bottle. Yeah, exactly. The water starts tasting like, but so for villain, just real quick, it is id from Xenogears.

it was his character at first when you fight him main character's gone you fight him he fucking destroys and wipes the floor with everything and you're like what the fuck I just like this is the first dude and first game that broke 9999 damage

So it could like you get to see a new five figure damage. Yeah. First PlayStation one game and it broke down everyone. Five figgy damage. Dude and you just get marked by this red gear and you don't have his name or anything. Then he shows up later in the game. Beats your ass again. You're like what the fuck. Fuck this dude. He doesn't even do anything. Barely talks. Beats your asses and leaves. He kills everyone and leaves. Then at the end of the first. This is 50 hours in.

Your main character, shit's going down. Everyone's dying. And you're like, fuck, main character, what are you going to do? The little pendant starts going back and forth, which is something that happens throughout the game.

out the game and then you fucking he switches like you just see him freak out and he turns to id so he turns to the main bad guy and you don't realize oh yeah the main character and him have never been in the same time that's him the whole game yes and i've never real 50 hours in and you're like what the fuck

I was going to play the game. So it's like the Japanese RPG version of Usual Suspects, basically? Yeah. Oh, it's so good. I was so pumped at that moment. I was thinking Sixth Sense, like, oh, it's been a long time. It was dead the whole time.

Do my hot and then and then this - you're fighting God Yeah, you fight God and dis - you were literally fighting angels and gods and you're like what the fuck is this game This is PlayStation 1 was a teen. I was like Well, I think that's it it's a wonderful Thank you for watching this great podcast as always Eli myself baddie and our wonderful beautiful amazing sexy powerful strong

Kind of fucked up guests. I'm drunk and tired. Thank you guys. Thank you for having me. Where do we find you? Where do we find you? Perfect. I love it. San Antonio. I hate it.

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