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Best wrestling match of the week or whatever, you know, of that. All the Dallas shows. Yeah, it was probably the best wrestling match I saw. And then, oh gosh, out of like WrestleMania nights one and two, you and I were talking about this prior to going live.
I think the Johnny Knoxville Sami Zayn match was maybe the best. Yep, I agree. The most entertaining match on that show. Like, close second was actually weirdly enough.
The Kevin Owens Steve Austin thing, I think. And also, that Pat McAfee thing was really good. And I thought that was very entertaining as well. Did you ever catch any of Pat McAfee's matches in NXT?
I did not, but I heard that he was pretty decent. That's so, yeah. So, not a huge surprise. Jeff We sent me a video, our art connoisseur sent me a video of Stone Cold, Stoning Vince McMahon.
And fucking Steve Austin is laughing so goddamn hard because Vince is such a schmuck, like, and couldn't take it. Like, he's like, I've been studying this guy for 30 years and not once did he ever get it right. They've always been shitty and this one was maybe the Shittiest and that where Vince just turns to like a bag of mush and like a puddle. Fucking terrible.
So good. And just the CCG, so just having to like stuff and laugh it out a little bit. was so awesome. I'm so glad he sent me that clip.
That's all I saw of it. Then I figured out. You're good. I mean, there was a lot of, there was some decent fun stuff across that show, across those, you know, for the first 10 hours or something by the time they're done.
Oh God. Yeah. I didn't realize how much time it was all in all. Yeah.
It's like four hours of tonight for tonight. I mean, it was more like eight or something, but yeah. And can y'all believe this in like that long of shows for two nights, night one, they managed to cut a match because there was no time. Right.
Yeah. A match that was like, I think even prior to the show starting, we're going around like, this one's gonna be a quick one. They still cut it and moved it back to us tonight too. And then they wind up and like, you know, the new day, wore gear to pay tribute to Big E because Big E's out with a broken neck.
And then what did the big WW do? Make them lose. That's right. That's right.
Oh, cool. You're paying a much. You're friend. Fuck them.
Yeah. We'll check out Butch. Oh my God. Yeah.
I don't know. I will say that in the WW specifically, people always talk about just let it play out. Just let it just let it happen. And the only time it has ever paid off in recent memory is probably the Becky Lynch Bianca Belair match where Bianca finally got her comeuppance.
And then the big thing that happened too, he's here. He's back. Cody Rhodes. It's not just smoke and mirrors.
I like that he's exactly the same. Yeah. It's the sort of thing that makes you realize that he was always a WWE guy even when he was in a WWE. Like the, yeah.
I mean, I think that I found it very hard to take like his talking last night at face value. His big long thing about his quest to win the belt and all the other stuff is just like, yeah, no, I got it. Like, yeah. But it's just, I don't know, the teary eyed, like Cody Rhodes promo, I'm kind of, you know, like almost every single thing he did in a UW was bad on camera.
Like behind the scenes people say like, oh, he did a bunch of amazing stuff. And he was very helpful and all that stuff. I don't mean to take away from that and launching a company and whatever his part was and all that stuff. But I mean, the storylines he found himself into wrote himself into, I mean, I'm sure some of those cases were fucking terrible.
Yeah. So, you know, yeah, some good matches definitely. Absolutely. I think that it's the thing that is like these days, like the quality of wrestling, I think, is higher than it's been in a long time across the board.
It's the thing, you know, like, even, you have all these people to talk shit about WWE. And, you know, I think my big problem with that is like, hey, the story aspect of this, the entertainment part of the sports entertainment, the part they claim to be doing, the claim to be focusing on is the part they fuck up the most. Like all those people can wrestle, they can wrestle their fucking asses off. They can be so well, you know.
And the story aspect of it usually doesn't hold up its end of the bargain. I think that's, that's been my big problem with all this sort of stuff. And it was, last thing I'll say about the wrestling, I was kind of hoping that after the unification match for the Universal title or whatever the heck we're calling it, I was hoping Cody would just come out with a big goal. Right.
And he's like, hey, I'm just crowning myself the champion. Here's everyone's favorite belt anyway. Right. Yeah, I'm talking like that.
I would love to see them knock it down to one belt and actually dedicate themselves to only having one. Cause I think that would mean more, but. They never do that. They didn't even put their mid card champions on the WrestleMania card.
So, nope, they didn't. No. Ooh. But yeah, the Johnny Knoxville with We Man and all the Jackass crew and all that was so much fun and like, that was good.
That was really fun. It was really, really cool. It was just very entertaining. You know, there's like, they're goofing around, you know, with tasers and a big boot on a stick that you can make a boot kind of kick out and then they've kicked Sammy's aim in the junk with it.
And just like, just real dumb, like roll a bowling ball into the corner of the ring and hit him in the junk with that. It's like real just silly ass stuff that was just like a good time. It was like a real feel good kind of thing out of that stuff that maybe finally, I think I am gonna finally watch that Jackass movie. Beefer warned, there are a lot of.
Marketing work. A lot of penises from the tippy top of that movie. I'm sorry, what about penises? There's a lot of them.
A lot of them moving. Just straight dog. Sure, sure. But then like it's kind of just, well, you know, it's- Dong's back.
I just want you guys to know. Like just for boogie nights anymore. Yeah, it's not just for like the show my wife is working on. It's a fair amount of dong, but you know what I'm hearing.
Okay. What's that? What's that? What's that?
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They use like a prosthetic dong. How does that work? Do they slide it over their existing member? And then it just looks like a different thing?
Or are they talking strap? Is it like a? No, I don't know. I don't know.
So here's what I'm talking about. I don't understand. Like some people use their real decks, right? Some people, look, some people, some people use their real decks.
Some people don't. I'm making a conversation, by the way. Yeah, I get it. I wanted to really back in.
This is like every late two. Right. So here at the Don Corner, no, so like, I don't know how they do it. It's all part of the most famously, the one that comes to mind right away is Steve Zahn in White Lotus.
It's like the first or second episode where he's like paranoid about his and it's clearly a fake dong or fake sack or whatever the situation is. Like, I don't know why that is. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know the psychology behind it. I mean, like fragile masculinity. Yeah.
Like who, you know, but that is it is a it is a common thing in in. I'm going to show off their private parts. That's up to them. You know, 100% 100% not saying like their cowards.
I'm just saying actor. I'm saying the cowards get method here. So Jen would like to think it's the end and say they are cowards. Yes.
This person. My partner and I, we went to like this craft fair over the weekend, parked in front of a tree and then this gentleman. Oh, is it the craft fair? Yes.
This gentleman who's in a camper van decides to pee at this tree, even though there's a bathroom 10 feet behind my car. And then he pees at the tree. Hey, only to realize American heroes that there that my partner and I are just he's peeing in front of us and almost getting some splash back on my car. And then and then like close, he realizes that he's peeing in front of people and then he starts laughing and then he violently shakes himself dry, not just like his member, but his whole body.
I'm like, dog, dog, well, there's people. There's shimmers. Maybe he got the piavers like a dog that's just come out of the ocean. Who's shaking their whole body?
Are there people who shake their entire body and it's not just like their, their nether regions? I don't know. It was a windy day thing. It was a windy day.
It's dangerous. Like that could blow back on you. Like imagine you were at a public bathroom and the person next to you instead of just doing like the lower shake convulses, their entire body. Like that seems like a scene.
Yeah. They do the Harlem shake and then shit all over their friend nearby. Yeah. Exactly.
It's not blippy. Relax. Yeah, that's I feel like that's a crime. Yeah.
In fact, I know that's a crime. Yeah, that's a crime. But that's illegal in 20 States for sure. Yeah.
But but not I don't know. I think it was the polite. We caught me. Same thing that was like.
There's yeah. Like a sign that says restroom on top of the bat. I'm able to the tree. And I level the guy.
Right. If he was peeing on the restroom sign, then you'd be like, right on, man. Yes. Yeah.
But yeah, I don't know. Like how does that happen? Do you do you think maybe this guy is like fucking wasted? And he's just like, this was just a drunk decision he made.
And then it got in the middle of it was like, Oh, I have this is I have clearly. Oh, no. Oh, no, this was a gentleman that is like that not to generalize people that have camping vans, but he was a type that's like, Oh, I purposely chose to live in a camping van because I have money to afford myself this lifestyle. We're OK.
Yeah. Yeah. I hope you pee on the sandals. Whatever, right?
I mean, that's the least important note of this. You know his Birkenstocks and we can piss anyway. So for multiple reasons. Yeah, I got those Pittsburgh stocks limited edition.
You got to get those stocks. You got to get those stocks. No, I can't. Hey, I was at a hockey.
I went to see the devil's play over the weekend and they're playing the Panthers. And I saw a dude wearing a stock X like he kept the green thing on the stock. Oh, and I'm just like, Oh, people are doing that. That's terrible.
Nice. OK, so stock X is like a marketplace for expensive sneakers, like a third party gray marketplace for sneakers where people resell rare and highly sought after sneakers, among other things. Yeah. And what they do is they you send them the shoes, they verify them and then add on this like silly dumbass little badge.
It's like a green little badge that they're authentic. And then you get that and whoever buys it sees the badge and is like, Oh, these are really they pass the authenticity sniff test. It's like the snicker on the rim of your car. I got ripped off everyone's look.
Yeah. I feel like that's a like, Hey, I didn't get these for retail price. Like that's not a thing to brag about. I don't know, dude.
It's a new level of fucking bullshit. Yeah. So that's real fucking insane. Suck real bad.
I don't know. I had a stock X X account. I did buy one pair of shoes off of there and then somehow got locked out of that account and kick it back in. It's probably the best.
I've had nothing but bad experiences with that company. Like, look, shoes that I'll pay 30, $40 above market. If I just can't find them, right? Yeah.
I've done a couple of times on site, not great experiences, but all times. Let's just say that. I have some very good experiences that goat. Yes, I like goat.
I have a pair of the E3 PlayStation Nike's. All right. That's how I go for premium now. That I that I meant to just like sell because they were not my size.
Like they ran out of thirtines because you had to stand in a certain spot out in front of the convention center with the app open to buy them. And it was like me and Drake and a few other people were out there doing it. And by the time I got through their fucked up system, they were out of thirtines. So I was like, well, I guess I'll just get 14 because I might as well get a pair of one here.
And so I ended up with a pair of size too big. And that's not useful to me. But in the heat of the moment, I was like, well, I should fucking get something. And so now I have these things that I should just fucking flip because they're pointless.
I can't wear them. Whatever. I fucking I don't I haven't bought a pair of shoes in the sense of the pandemic started and I am barefoot almost every single day. Shoes are pointless.
I get it. Here's the thing that I've been, you know, I've I'm in the same spot where I don't need to buy sneakers pretty much ever again as far as the way. But like one day you'll be back out presumably in a way that when I you are more than that, when I when I moved, I had one pair of shoes and the rest were all packed away. They're still packed away.
I have my I have a pair of shoes. They're fine. I got like one pair of Adidas that I like and they're comfortable and and they're totally okay. And I just haven't felt that the need to unpack all these other.
Yeah, I don't know. I'm fucking Jordan's in a box somewhere around here, but like I'm like, I'm sorry. The worry is that you'll be ready to head back out into the world and all your sneakers will be a style because. Oh, it goes back around, baby.
Yeah, I mean, I bought Jordan for like retro fours and stuff like they were old when I got them and back around again and then all that other shit. So I feel like fours never go out of style. So the best I wore for my party two weekends ago was the first I had worn shoes for the first time. It's like man, I wish I was not doing this.
Yeah, I mean, I feel used to shoes anymore. Yeah, they're comfortable. They worked out. I wasn't exactly running a marathon, but it was weird.
It was weird. I feel like a psycho because I will sometimes wear my boots inside. That's fucked up. I'm not really talking to somebody about that.
Yeah, it's just boots and crocs. I swear to God, these crocs are the best thing of ever, but. OK, I keep them in defense mode though, you know, because I'm still in at home now. Right.
Boots are so heavy. How do you like wear boots around the house? Because I just like that feeling of security. Like I security.
I don't know works. I eat my delicate ankles back. All right. My delicate ankles.
I just terrified. Yes, you know, I'll say for these last fucking couple years, this barefoot lifestyle. I have in stubborn toes and smashing up my feet and on fucking stop. If I was wearing boots, this would not be a problem.
Yeah, this makes it so hard to find running shoes because I don't like my ankles being exposed. Oh my God. Like high top running shoes with you. No, no one does this.
I have to work with suckers. Yeah, what's wrong with you? Don't know. No, I wore boots.
High school and then I was like, I'm never going back and do boots really protect your ankles as much as I had they do. Yeah, if I could buy high top crocs, I would. Oh, why did you put that out there? High top.
Why can they? Wow, they must be some limited run of those. I'm trying to think how they're going to fucking work. I think I've seen like high heel style crocs.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We that's gag.
No, no, it's a lifestyle. What have we done? I don't know. All right.
Shoes are a bit. Yeah, all shoes are a bit now, especially when you pay over retail for them. And all that whole. Oh, God.
That'll let everyone know about it. Oh, yeah. I was just like, you suck. Yeah, you should have just gone over and spilled something on them.
Just whoops. And then just like you should have like, OK, you should have taken up chewing tobacco right then and there about three cans of it stuffed it in there, spit into a cup until it's fucking full and then be like, Oh, fuck, I do. And then the whole fucking can of shoe spit onto his shoes. And then I would have and then disappeared.
Yeah. That's why too. Yeah. It would be cool.
They weren't even nice. I don't know what they were. They were stupid. I don't know.
People are in some kind of wack shit out there. Like professional wrestling. Let's get us some video games. I'd love to.
All right, great. Jan. Yeah. I want to know about Norco.
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What do you think about it? Yeah. What is it? And what do you think about it?
I guess it's actually probably the. I think it's on its face. It is a point and click adventure game set in Norco, Louisiana. I want to say the developers are branding it as a southern Gothic story.
So I'm not quite sure what that means. But I do like the setting. It's you live in industrious or at least the game takes place in an industrious town. It's kind of been like run to shit because the refinery or the factory that is big in the town has kind of done what has happened across the US, you know, where where it's really sapped the resources from a town and really left these citizens high and dry.
You come back to the town because your mother passes away and your brother says he needs you. And you quickly learn that your mom was up to some, I want to say shady stuff, but perhaps some tech espionage type of deal. She was she was wheeling and dealing with some stuff that her company may not have liked. And it's interesting because this is normally my type of game.
I'm not really big into point and click adventures. But the story as the internet has blown up about it is really good. And also I think it's a really pretty game, even though it's a point and click adventure. All the art is done in like kind of like a pixel style mosaic ish and then each tableau you have between the screens looks really nice, even like the portraits of the characters.
And there's, you know, they're building a lot of entry because I thought this was the game starts super heavy because it talks about, you know, your own struggles with with mental health, wanting to leave your town feeling guilty about leaving town, your familial struggles and all that jazz. And then you go back to your home and it turns out there's robots everywhere. So it's not quite like a dilapidated like present. It's set in the future where there's like a robot chilling in your backyard.
Say is that surprising to you when you get back? You're like, I left town and then came back and there were robots there. Or like, no, it's like, no, just where everything's like I take it place. And then like on top of like the robots, there's all this stuff hidden throughout, you know, your house and and all these other places you're going where it does look like a rundown town where like the locals are like barely scraping by.
But also there's all this kind of like tech robot gentrification that's happened where you roll up to the liquor store and it's no longer a dude running it. It's just like a screen where you have to scan everything yourself and it's not someone you're actually talking to. In fact, before that, you have an encounter with someone where like they're the town local that's complaining like, I've been replaced by robots, damn it. But the robot he's talking about being replaced by was an ATM.
So you'd probably been replaced a long time ago. But they break up the way it could be monotonous pace of just pointing and reading with some mini games. Like there's a I don't think it spoilers because it's in like the first 20 minutes, but there is a childhood toy that you come across in your room and then you have to play a staring or a staring contest with it with little quick time events. And then that winds up happening throughout the course of the game with other random bits and bobs.
They really capture, I don't know if you all have experienced this, but like, you know, when you're out on like early on the weekend in kind of like a dusty or part of town where you're just really quiet, but it's kind of soothing. But at the same time, it's like kind of feel on edge. The capture that really, really well. I'm maybe about like two hours into it.
And the narrative is kind of shifting all over the place. You have some flashbacks, you kind of like go super into specific, not totems, but you see a picture and then you kind of like relive a memory and stuff. There's a very complicated mind map that is kind of logging your relationship and everyone else's relationship with each other. And it gets exponentially complicated and convoluted because it turns out the person that was your friend from middle school might have been up to some stuff with like the town drunk, but also the town drunk might have been linked up with your biological father, but you don't know your father.
So it turns out maybe your mom is up to some wild stuff. It's really cool story. It's like it makes me curious if I would actually curious and disappointed. I feel like I should have checked out something like disco Elysium, but in disco Elysium, I'm under the assumption you have so many more choices and I already have choice paralysis with like the small dialogue trees and the order of operations in Norco.
And the whole time I'm thinking it's Narcan. Yep. Every time someone talks about Norco, I assume it is some kind of drug game and it's very hard for me to separate that. Yeah.
Like an event you eventually find the Norco lab. You know, it just sounds like a future drug. One way or the other. It's I don't seem now.
I think it's a developers first game as well. I want to say, or at least as a studio, it's really cool. I want to say it's on game pass as well. Let's look real quick here.
Yeah. Yes. It's on his own game pass. Nice.
Yeah. It's one of those things where I feel like I guess I could play it through my phone, doing like steamlink or whatever, just because it is just mostly a lot of reading. There is just the quick time events that might make that difficult, but it's it's neat. It's really good.
Music is also fantastic when it decides to kick in. Yeah. If you ever get over that choice by our process, Kansas Go Elysium is is really cool. And it kind of plays into that a little bit.
Yeah. Like if you haven't finished it because I got so choice, paralyzed by it all. And also because I accidentally turned out to be a fascist because I was trying to like weasel my way out of something by lying. And then everyone was like, Oh, you're that fascist guy.
I was like, fuck. Yeah, it'll happen. It takes you down some interesting roads depending on how you if you try to like game the game, I feel like they wrote the fucking stuff for you. I was trying to play it like a video game.
It's like, Oh, I'll just lie to this Nazi and say like, Oh, no, yeah, dude. Yeah. White power, I guess. And like we're got around like, Oh, it's the white power cop guy.
And I was like, shit. I was just lying to gain his trust. I don't really. Damn it.
We just call them cops now. Yeah. I don't think you can accidentally become a fascist, but you can totally become a bad older sister. All right.
Nice. Let's see. I let you have also check out some of this is. Yeah, we're in April and you know, the end of the fiscal year came at once.
And now there's not going to be maybe quite as many game releases for a little bit here, but Lego Star Wars, the Skywalker saga finally hits. And like this game, yeah, this finally is out. I checked this out at the last E3 we went to and they gave me a little mini thing. And I was thinking, I'm trying to remember, I don't even know if the ninth Star Wars movie was even out by that time.
And unfortunately, I feel like it kind of stinks because I feel like after the new trilogy that had come out, 789, people kind of became super lukewarm on like, you know, warm, go on. Oh, brother. That's my only contribution to this conversation. Unlike the new Star Wars trilogy and, you know, especially with a kerfuffle about like Ryan Johnson, JJ Abrams, all that jazz.
But this is a vast departure from the super formulaic Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman games of the past where I'm really curious to see how this plays in multiplayer, though. But instead of having like a kind of like diorama style level, you're behind the back and it's a third person action Lego game with some open world elements in between the little bits and bobs of story. So like if you choose to start with, I don't know, episode four, a new hope, you've heard of it, that movie that sequel to Rogue One, you start out as Leia and then you went up controlling the droids. And it's really interesting because like the whole time I'm kind of stuck in the pattern of wanting to break every single thing in the world because it's a Lego game and they're encouraging that by the same time, they're like, hey, if you want, you can continue the story over there, but you can just run around and do whatever the heck you want.
And it's really interesting because like once you complete a level of an area, free play mode kicks in so you can just explore the area. So say you only have control of the droids, like C3P0 and R2D2. Once replay opens up, you can switch back to old Ben Kenobi or Leia or any other characters you've unlocked and roam around the open world segments as them because just like in Lego Star Wars games of the past, there are certain bits and bobs of the environment that, oh, you need a force, you have a certain type of character. So okay, I was going to ask if it was still like that type of thing where you've got like, I'm a lightsaber user and so I can do the cutting and yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Still a bunch of that everywhere. Turns out the droids can't do the like super fast building animations.
So you have to switch to a human and they actually have different classes for each of the different types of characters. Like you have scavengers like Ray from episode seven. And I think it's really ambitious and there's like an obscene amount of stuff in this game because on top of the different character classes, you can level those specific character classes and then you can level up general skills that affect everyone on top of like unlocking specific costumes or specific people, characters to play as in the game. You can get your kit fisto on man if you want it, if you need it.
And at the end of each level, they're grading you based off of how many of the studs you're collecting, there's a poop ton of secret objectives in there as well for each level. So they're totally encouraging replayability. I don't know if it's the game that I want right now, but I really appreciate it for how different it's trying to be from like the previous games. We'll still try to have that in there.
The Lego people do talk. Yeah. That's a big deal. I'm on the fence of that they shouldn't talk, but you know, they're doing like a whole lot of jokes and wise cracking around.
Some of it's actually funny. Like in an episode four, you know, the scene where Ben Kenobi tells the stormtrooper, these are not the droids you're looking for. You encounter that same stormtrooper later on on the Death Star where he's just going and wiping the floors like, God dang it, those were the droids. I'm stupid.
But the thing that I've fallen into lately, though, is I've kind of wound up enjoying more of the expanded universe lately of Star Wars. So like, you know, your Mandalorian, your Clone Wars, Star Wars, Rebel stuff. I was going to say, wait, that stuff's not canon now. I was looking for the Disney expanded.
But it's okay. The stuff. Yeah. No one cares, right?
They're like, no, no one cares. What's what's going on? We're going to Elle Dean Foster did out the window. It's all good.
Because I really like the stuff that Dave Filoni has put on. Like I've fallen really hardcore in love with Star Wars Rebels, which is another animated series. And I wish I know that is not as popular to the general populace as like the three trilogy movies, but I think I would have enjoyed some type of representation. I tried taking around and I didn't quite see any of those characters.
So you're not going to see a Kanan Jarrus or Ezra Bridgers in there. But if this does well, I would hope, hey, you know, maybe we'll get some DLC of one of those animated shows because apparently those do gangbusters for like kids and adults, right? They fucking hook me in. I mean, I feel like the Mandalorian is also super popular.
It's great. I like it. I will say it. It's great.
Yeah. Look at me. It's great. I feel like the conversation on that turned at some point and people were like, I actually flucked the Mandalorian.
I think it was like, maybe I was just the Boba Fett stuff that people were like, yeah, like, I finished it the other day, the first two seasons. And I mean, it's real dumb, but it's probably the, in my opinion, it's like the best Star Wars stuff. I know that I know I've offended millions of people. No, I was in the same camp because, you know, I like not sing Jedi and like, boop boop boos.
It's just it's also like there's something about Mandalorian that sort of floats above everything else where it is a very contemporary look at Star Wars, where they're sort of like, you know, Star Wars is kind of lame in a lot of ways. We're about to make it not so lame. Hey, we're still gonna be a little lame. Sure.
Some cheesy bullshit, but like, Mando's pretty cool. He's got cool voice, his armor's badass. Yeah. Fucking little baby.
Oh, is the cutest goddamn thing you've ever seen in your entire life? Turns out he's really handsome underneath that dang helmet. Right? I mean, I knew who it was the whole time just for the, you know, the actors name and from Game of Thrones, not great for him in Game of Thrones.
But yeah, like, and that's the thing. Mando sits up, it orbits the Star Wars in a way that like, it's not Star Wars, but it just picks and pulls like real fun stuff. Yeah. The stuff that I was like, Oh, yeah, I'm cool.
This and there's weird cameos and there's a scene where like Jason Sudeikus is a stormtrooper and he has like the funniest seven minutes in all of Star Wars. It's like all of Star Wars. Nothing comes close to like just how strange and human the stormtroopers are in that one little scene. It's just funny.
It's good. It's really good. Crazy. And if you like Star Wars, like I think like this, like a Star Wars game is, is going to be right up your alley.
I mean, on top of like people that are in love with the Star Wars franchise, just blindly consuming some of the stuff, I think there's a lot of actual tangible change that they've put into this that differentiates it from games of the past. The bummer though, is that you can't just jump into any of the movies. So if you wanted to do like a trilogy, yeah, you have started at the start of each trilogy and then I kind of would have liked the ability to just pop into my favorite movie, which is Attack of the Clones because it's the superior movie out of all nine. Wow.
Nice. Wow. I don't like it. I like it.
I was in opinion. And here I was just being like, I just want to say that the holiday special is where Pete for me and I have not had much interest since in Star Wars. That's about right. It's the best.
It's easy to forget that there is some kind of fucking and I'm just going to totally discount your opinion here, Jan completely totally. There is some sort of generational shift where where people started liking the prequel movies and it's a problem. It started with memes, but then it became earnest. Yeah.
At some point, people were like, no, everyone was too hard on hating Christians. And I'm like, yeah, I guess. I mean, people shouldn't be dicks to people. I got it.
There's a lot of unironic walking backs of things. Yeah. There's a lot. Yeah.
It's I'm not I am not here for it, as they say. I think it's pod racing. I think part of what is has made people defend the episodes one through three are the animated series is being so good because I this is the last thing I'll say about Star Wars. I think Star Wars Rebels.
I was in St. Campus U back. I thought Mandalorian is really great. Best thing they've done Star Wars Rebels.
I'm only on season three. She goes so fucking hard. I've never loved for any Prince's Jr. More than I do now.
That's the cartoon. That's what the cartoons. Yeah. And Filoni does it too, right?
Filoni does it too. Yeah. Yeah. OK.
I watched a did you ever watch the Disney plus like documentary they did on all the directors from the Mandalorians? Yes. Yes. Yeah.
And I that was my first like introduction to that guy. And he seems like a lot of fun. He sees an interesting character. Yeah.
My favorite thing about Star Wars is everyone's names and also making up new Star Wars names and trying to close people and like, is this a real character or do I forget it? Oh, that's too easy to get the one. People and like, look, you know, I guess here's my favorite made up one. Gungo Dunkus.
Sure. Enjoy. Then I would buy that rules. He's on that list of that all those fake baseball player names.
I whatever. Anyways, they're putting Star Trek the motion picture back out with a bunch of changes and a new 4K version. So that OK, that movie sucks shit, but maybe it'll suck shit less on the other end of this. I don't know.
It sucks. Last shit. You never know. What else is going on?
I finished Tunic. Whoo. I don't know. I have a ton more to say about tunic that I haven't said already, except boy, that game takes a sudden like there's a lot of it's very easy to look at that game as you're playing it and playing through the main stuff for the first time and going and getting your keys and opening door, like all that stuff.
A lot of people were very much like, man, this is I'm getting a lot of fans vibes from this. And then at some point, the game just says, Oh, you thought you were getting fizz vibes from this, really? Well, check this shit out. And then it's just like they just like, like they fucking open up a fucking box with a switch under it that says, Feds and they just flip it to fucking on and say, fucking here you go.
And you're like, Oh, wow. Okay. You really you you really did that. And it's fucking surprising.
And it's awesome. And and the way that game makes you think in, let's say like the back third of it and some of that is like required stuff and some of it is like, if you want to get the like quote unquote real endings and stuff like that is surprising. It is challenging. It is difficult from, but not necessarily from a combat perspective, because that's all the stuff you would do to just get to the bad ending, you know, the, the difference being bad ending and good ending is not you were better at stabbing dudes.
It is you are better at reading the manual and truly understanding what that game is really all about. It's crazy. I think my one complaint is I just wish the man a recharge. It's a very minor thing.
I just wish the man a recharge just so you could fire off the spells more frequently. But I guess, you know, it is all about resource management. And it is. Yeah.
Yeah. And yeah, I'm I'm with you. Those are fun tools to use. It would be fun to use them more frequently.
But instead they get treated like, Oh, this is why there are regular enemies in the middle of this boss fight because you need to kill them to get magic juice back. Yeah, they do that. And and that stuff's fine. I think that they're the last couple of big combat things you do in that game are rough.
Yeah. Like it's fucking hard. And I wonder if if like at some point, because that game does have just a straight up like toggle for what you just didn't take damage. I wonder if that was the out for them to just go like, actually, it's okay that this part is sort of fucked.
And yeah, like that stuff was I feel like that stuff could be tuned a little bit better compared to the rest of the game. Like a lot of the rest of the game I felt like, Oh, I'm like these boss fights are challenging and I'm having a tough time, but I can overcome them. I can I can look at this and I can get there and do this other sort of stuff. The last couple of things, it's not like any one individual thing on the last couple of big, big combat things is challenging, but there's just kind of a lot of it strung together and it becomes they become such long fights that you're just kind of like, okay, well, I guess it's good that I went and got all these bottles to recharge my health.
But yeah, I don't know. Some of that stuff feels like it could have been like, you're almost like daring. You're just like, Hey, just fucking turn it on. Just get through.
Yeah. I had to do it during some of the boss fights or at least the run ups to certain boss fights because some of the ranged enemies can do a lot of damage. Yeah. If you were just like fooling around and like slowly walking around.
Sure. Yeah. The environment sometimes. What's like, I think I think I technically beat every single part of that game without it turned on, but not in one go.
Like the first phase of this sequence, I beat with it off and then later on, after failing a bunch, I beat the second sequence of it with it off with the first, but I don't I never quite strung it all together. And I don't know, I feel fine about that. Because I think those encounters are pretty wild. Like even, you know, people have said like that the other boss fights were like crazy difficult for them.
And I don't know. I don't have a huge hard time with the previous bosses. Um, but that late game stuff just feels like they just turn it to another level. And then it's a little, it's maybe a little much.
I don't know. Um, I forget if I can back into it. I forget if I asked this last week, but have you all found a use for that shield bash that you can kind of do? Cause it's not quite a parry because you're winding up.
If you double tap, if you double tap block, he'll he'll bash. Oh. And then there's one of the cards you can equip. I think widens the window on that parry.
So with that equipped, I was able to do it once. And I think it was just like a knockback on the enemy and kind of opens them up for attacks, but it didn't, it didn't seem useful. The wind up on is so weird. Cause you have to, you almost have to do it before the attack, depending on the enemy, before the attack animation even starts, you have to fucking hit it in some cases.
Cause it feels like it's so slow. Um, yeah, I don't know. That's a weird mechanic that I found myself doing accidentally more often than deliberately, and that was not great either. Having that pop out, but, um, yeah, the last, the last time I played, um, I, I made a lot of like no progress and I got a little discouraged.
I absolutely want to finish this game without a doubt. I'm going to be prefaced by saying that, but, um, I only have one of the keys on one of the color keys and I, like trying to fight that cathedral boss. And I was like, ah, I, I'll get like 75% of the way. And then I just can't finish the deal.
And I'm like, Oh, do I have to go somewhere else? And then I think I did go somewhere else. I did. Uh, and then I came back and played and I, I'm in like an underworld now.
And I just, I almost have like a little bit of like nervous anxiety about like what I'm supposed to do and, you know, just getting all around. I just, I want to finish it so bad because I've just really enjoyed all my time. I had the same thing and you, you can just go anywhere in the game, but you won't go too far off the path that you need to go. That there was an amazing, one of the best moments for me was stumbling into the quarry.
Yeah. And just being like, well, this place is fucking radioactive. Like I can't chill here. And then like finding a thing that lets me party in the quarry without, and I was like, yo, and like two different, and I, and I got to it in two different sides too.
Oh, right. We can get through it from one side. And for me, I was just like, well, what a chef's kiss of a moment. There was great.
There's an achievement in that game. So, so here's what I did. I finished that game. I guess the last thing I'll say about just the game qualitatively is having seen the like a ending and be ending and not the, I think there is kind of one more secret ending if you find more fairies or whatever it is.
I wish that there was more of a payoff at the end. I think that that stuff is just like, here's this brief thing and then credits. And then you go like, Oh, well, clearly I've got to do more to see this other thing here. And then you do that and it's like, Oh, no, it's just a slightly different scene.
It's very different scene, but it is also a very short little boom. Here you go. And now credits. And I wish that there was a little bit more of a payoff on those for the amount of work you have to do to get there.
Did you get all the manual pages, Jeff? Yeah. I had a couple of them. OK.
But yeah, the last one I was stuck on for two hours. Oh, she last one meaning like the last like the. Yeah, the front cover, the front cover. Yeah.
Yeah, because I don't want to spoil it. Just I was doing something wrong. I think I alluded to this last week, but I don't know if it was an intentional hint on that one of those manual pages. But then I saw it and I was like, hmm, and then it worked.
And I was really mad. They're always intentional. That's why I think the whole book I think the whole book is so chock full of it. It's unbelievable.
Yeah, so cool. Yeah, such a such an awesome thing. So the thing I did is I did all that on Steam and I said, fuck it. And I downloaded the Xbox version or the the game pass PC version and started again.
And did the there's an achievement for getting the gun before you get the sword. And the spoiler, there's a gun in this game. I didn't go to that. Yeah, whatever.
It was like six times and you just spoil it. There's six items. Game for that for a long time. Cross the clown left.