I learned something about you. You know what, Jamie? Thanks to you, the whole internet learned something today. That's a weird thing to switch it up on.
But all right, more boys arrived. And now to shake things up, we are going to be using technology to solve all of our problems. In no way have we created new ones along the way, like unemployment or a surveillance state named Siri. Do we have problems?
I thought I thought Earth was good. I thought we were good now. It's the 25th of May 2020. I think everything's totally fine.
My only problem is not having problems. It's a problem. Yeah, it's kind of an one. It's an exciting thing.
It's a problem. It's the only one's a bitch is I believe the lyric. Yeah, I'm going to do 99 problems. And then the one is the bitch that I don't have any problems.
It's a bitch behind me on camera today. I'm going to sing Yora. I forgot my hitherto uncracked cold one here. Get it for the mics.
Get it for the listeners. Yes, I'm here. So today, my name is Peter O'Donohue. And I'm joined with it.
What was the yesterday? I'm unemployed. So I can change my identity here. Willie Nilly.
Who's going to stop me? I'm Ethan. I'm usually Ethan. You can just call me Ethan.
We're good. I'm James. And I just remembered that I need to do taxes because I was wondering if Peter has to anymore. Dude, the deadline is like six days.
My God. I'll file some more. I did my taxes in March. How about T4 at work?
That's the one I got. So I thankfully, my mother still has an account and a retainer that I just submit my taxes to. But last time I was like, he was at home. I had nothing going on.
I kept messaging him being like, hey, is he done my taxes yet? No, not yet. I actually don't know if I've done mine either. I get to drink half a day.
It's already $3,500 in taxes over the last four years. I think I should probably go on that. Sounds like a capitalist hellhole that we live in. I wonder if we'll be talking about anything else like that.
Well, no, of course it's not. There's no problems. That would be a problem. Oh, that would be a problem.
There's no problems, James. Of course. The year of our Lord 2020, there are no problems. You have all been taken care of.
Jeff Bezos has got us. He's got all the money. He's just keeping it safe because he would just send it responsibly. Exactly.
He's almost got a trillion now, which sounds like a lot now. But maybe when I listen back to this in my 40s, that'll be like, oh, there's a lot of trillion. Yeah, we've all got trillions in the 40s. Yeah.
Yeah. People just keep getting richer. So it might not be as just the one guy by the time we get there. Yeah, we're all getting richer, right?
It's all working. It's working out for everybody. Everybody's getting richer. You know what?
It would be a problem if only certain people were getting richer. But there's no problems. May 25th, 2020. No problems.
Like that old saying everybody gets richer at the same time. And the same way. Exactly. At the same time.
At the same time. Trickle around economics. Yeah. Trickle everywhere.
Everybody's got a trickle. Rain-thor-mechanomics. But that's the reason that we get to talk about a little bit more. I think that's a little bit more.
I think that's a little bit more. I think that's a little bit more. Everybody's got a trickle. Rain-thor-mechanomics.
But that's the reason that we get to talk about silly toys for children on the internet that people consume for some reason. Because everybody's just like so casual and set up in their ways. And everybody's fine. Are we talking about Lego lore today?
Because I know one of our fans has just been posting a lot of Lego lore videos in our discards. Well, by my... No, no, no, that's different. Well, it's like Ninja go is Lego.
It's like Ninja go is Lego, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's like a lot of Lego. I think it's a different universe though. We're going to talk about Korea. That's pretty good.
I need to do the Lego lore someday to find out if it's different universe. There's like different universes within Lego, like there's Star Wars Lego. Do you have the Star Wars Lego? In the end of Jones.
Or maybe Lego universes won the Tysmull together. Maybe. Yeah. Lego is the homeworld.
And then all the stories just branch out of there. I think there's a Lego of this. Yeah. Yeah.
Like today, we're going to be covering a smaller franchise. Very near and dear to my heart in more ways than one. Not only because they made my pacemaker. They recognize a few things in common with the real world like we were talking about because all the original ideas are already taken by real life, apparently.
Yep. So today we're going to be talking about the surge from deck 13. Oh, like Lego. Lego the surge.
From deck 13. Yeah. Exactly. We're going to be basically going through the first game cover and a little bit about the second game because there isn't too much.
Like the story is not really the focal point of a game like this. And there isn't too much that's like out there. The week is pretty scant. So a lot of this is just from what I learned playing through the games and research online as well.
Yeah. Something I wanted to add to like if you're like me and just log on to PlayStation once a month to get your free games, you probably own the surge. It was free like a couple of years ago, maybe a year and a half ago. So yeah, it's good fun and you might already own it.
Not even know it. It's really, really good. I got the first one for free because they had a free weekend, fell in love with it and then got it for 10 bucks and then bought the second one on launch. Now, due to being a smaller franchise, this entire episode should be considered to be marbled with lore boys cannon, which I can confirm is completely endorsed by the developers who I contacted a couple of days ago and they got back to me this morning.
I asked them if they had like a lore Bible behind the scenes that I could, you know, just take a little glance at a little bit unless they handed to me when it was in Braille and I just be like, Oh, you son of a bitch. It's in ancient things. Yeah, exactly. It's like on one of those like twin handed scrolls.
So and they basically endorsed the idea of having fan theories. So apparently according to deck 13 themselves, everything we say on this episode is totally true and absolutely can. Yeah. So we're basically having our first unpaid sponsorship where we do the work of writing the lore for the search.
Yeah. And the search three is going to come out and everything's going to seem like eerily familiar. If you guys haven't played this game, it's kind of like a Dark Souls type game where you can like upgrade your stuff. I'll get into the explanation due to the fact it's basically an indie title, right?
When you think about it. Also, I would like to announce just in case someone from deck 13 hears this that we're going to Frankfurt when we can to steal the surge lore Bible. Oh, I was so hoping you were going to say the Declaration of Independence. I'm going to have one.
We'll grab that along the way. We've got that too. I don't know how their government works. I'm sure the real security is at deck 13 studios.
Fuck yeah. Anyway, I want them. The reason I'm saying this out loud and putting this in recording is because I want them to think they're ready for the lore boys to come in and take that right. We're going to do the entire thing.
I'm going to be disguised as like a well to do philanthropist. Jamie's going to be my attractive date in a red dress. I started in yoga. So I'm going to be the guy on the radio who parks the flower van over the sewer grate.
It's going to be done. And then we're going to know everything about the surge turns out they made it up along the way. Yeah, God, yeah. I just want to get in here.
It just says, do we continue? Yeah, exactly. Surge three question mark on just like a bristleboard. Well, we're going to make a soul's like game.
So our lore should be so like we'll just let the fan base figure that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I want one person in the office to write one sentence and we're going to put it all in the game. And then someone's going to tell me it's all connected. Yeah. Yeah.
It's a pin the tail on the next story point and they all get blindfolded and they get a little idea and they plug them in line basically. Whoever gets closest gets the next beat. So the elevator pitch for the search is the search is an action game with a focus on pattern recognition, resource management, any balance between offense and defense has very basic RPG stats. However, as far as I know, I don't know why I wrote that.
Jesus, as far as I know, every single armor set has a set bonus for the fashion minded gamer. So you are encouraged to wear matching sets and find a set that fits your play style. So you like chop off robots arms and then you can make it your arm kind of thing, right? And set pieces like legs and arms and head and chest and stuff.
They're not even robots, which we'll get into. Like some of them are just people that have no that did not want to be there in the first place. I think like battle, battle bots meets Dark Souls. I think is a good way of thinking about it.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You play as a Roomba with kitchen knives tape to it.
Wait, we've done this before. I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And the second game are added partial set bonuses for the more chaotic, good aligned fashion gamers. So you can do three and three and have two minor set bonuses opposed to one full one because there are six armor pieces in the search.
OK, armor slots, not there's not six total pieces of armor in the game. No, no, there's six of them. Exactly. It's you get to two, three, but there's only six.
Five fingers and a hat is basically customization that you get. I think it's what I said, right? It's like leg, leg arm, arm, chest, head. That's how you farm gear to farm gear.
You need to attack an armored piece of an enemy, which will do reduce damage. But if you build up an energy meter to a certain point, you can cut off that part of the enemy. Coaches. I got you.
Well, you get the test. We do just have an app because you know, I can't get this guy shirt off if he's still wearing pants. So I got to cancel the shirt or connected. Yeah.
So if you did cut a chest off, you would effectively get all the other pieces. Yeah, exactly. That's a good point. Yeah.
It's cutting on half cutting the arms and head off is this chest off, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think a little hole in your logic here decks 13.
Yeah. Too good to send me your lower Bible, are you? Maybe the maybe the maybe the neck bone is connected to the chest one somehow. We're just not.
I know doctors. So I don't know. Yeah, either. I don't know how to harvest mechanical organs from human body.
Maybe someone in Germany does, frankly, of all places that'd be the least surprised if it was there. Well, always can in every robot and or human apparently has a self-destruct mechanism in their shoulders and neck that destroys their chest. If you cut off that. The corpses do burn away to save on ram in the game instead of just fading out of existence.
The catch fire and disintegrate. So maybe that's true. Well, kind of topical this week. You see there's an article saying that scientists have built a bionic eye that may allow.
Yeah. People see the issue now is connecting the optic nerve to the eye because there's like a million microscopic little connections there. But our brains fill in the gaps. Like there's a lot of tricks you could do.
So we probably only need to connect like half of the ones. Yeah. What you explain that was they made this mechanical eye and now the hard part is connecting it to your brain. It's like what you're saying is they made an eye shaped camera.
Yeah. They're kind of connected to somebody's head. So yeah, the issue is always because we've always been able to be like you could get a working eye for my cadaver. But it's always been connecting it to the optic nerve that's been a difficult thing.
Yeah. Getting the brain to work with the USB brain is complicated. That's why brain hard brain hard. Yeah.
Brain. You have to be input into the brain. You don't need the optic nerve. See upgrades people.
The brain plasticity. If you just put one in there, it'll work eventually. So you know what we need to do. Do these things.
That's pretty relevant. So I know that I haven't played the search at all. Either of them. I've watched like up to the first boss.
I watch this like a dark souls three replay to it. And all I know is like there's nine machines and you you're originally in a wheelchair. I think yes. Oh, hush hush your sweet lips.
Ethan, we'll get into opening the opening scene in the first game. This year. And I wanted to set it up. It was really long to I remember I played only the beginning.
You have to wheel around in it. I know fucking being grilled hard even in the game. You're like, God damn it. I'm fortunate.
So it's a hybrid action game. It has some combos for weapon classes like in Monster Hunter, which I can make the comparison to now since I played so much of it recently. So you don't choose your class based on stats. You choose your class based on your gear.
So it's like that way it's set up. There's no character sheet. So it's more like monster hunter as far as action combat goes. So there's skills or like a skill tree of some description.
No, no. OK, so what is it? What is it? What is it class then?
Left arm does slicey attacks. So now you do slicey attacks. Basically you want to build your character because you can also get implants as well, which are for certain skills that are attached to certain weapons. OK.
So you can build toward. Yeah, I mean, you don't even need to respect because you can always just move, change your gear. So there are skills with their tide, totally to weapons or they benefit. They benefit certain weapons more than others.
Like there is a one implant that I like a lot in the search to is it starts to give you like a vampiric heel based on your DPS. You cannot do high DPS with a slow weapon. Yeah, no. So you need to do a lot of damage for a swing, but it's about consecutive hits.
OK, so you need to do enough hits. You take exactly. So that's how you that's how you build something like that. And then there's boss weapons as well.
There's two weapons per boss in the surge. One is the default weapon that you get automatically by defeating it. And then there's certain secret parameters where you can get the secret boss. Web boss weapons all have a unique addition.
So the one that I use in the surge one is a set of mechanical claws and the claw weapons all have like a pirouette attack, but the secret boss weapon will lay down a ring of fire, which is like a DPS AOE that you can put underneath a large enemy and just burn them. OK, what pirouette in English for our non French listeners? Oh, it would be a fancy. OK, nice spin.
Yeah, yeah. And strangely enough, just on the subject of Monster Hunter and the surge to the final boss from Monster Hunter World is a monster called Zeno Jiva, which is like this big crystalline angel dragon and the armor set you get from that thing looks almost exactly like the Archangel Armor from the last boss in the surge to. OK, it's like a white semi crystalline, completely separate art style, like horn horns on your head, wings on your back, all white, kind of hard metallic armor that you get from the final boss of like an action RPG game. So I can't believe Monster Hunter stole that.
Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know anything about Zeno Jiva, but Lordboy's hand and the surge in Monster Hunter are the same universe. Um, Lordboy's is Lordboy's is or Lordboy's.
The surge is a fanfic, written in a clone Monster Hunter World universe. OK, Monster Hunter has crossovers with the Witcher and Final Fantasy 15 as we're talking about. Yeah, totally possible. That means that it's also in the Witcher universe.
Yeah, the Witcher is in the same universe. It would mean the Witcher is in the same universe as the surge, right? Like it doesn't go both ways. So the surge, the surge is universe has Monster Hunter inclusive in it, but Monster Hunter doesn't necessarily have the surge inclusive in it.
So if Monster Hunter. It's going to be to it. I don't know. This is just how I'm defining it, Lordboy's can.
But yeah, exactly. It's not like somebody who wrote the game has told us otherwise because they refused to think about parallel universes. Monster Hunter is its own and then they exactly cloned that for another universe, but then added all the search stuff to it as well. Yeah.
OK. So the search does have the Witcher in its canonical universe, but the Witcher and Monster Hunter don't necessarily have the surge in the con. Does that make sense? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if anybody in the search universe is for the Monster Hunter book series. I know I have.
I don't know if there is one. That is as far as I hit it to made up. Also in the search of a stamina bar that limits how many offensive and defensive actions you can make before recharging, not unlike putting gas in your car, except the stamina gauge recharges automatically, like some kind of impossible sun powered battery car. Yeah.
That's ridiculous. Yeah. I think it's much more comparable to like when a person fights they need to rest. But I like some kind of sun powered battery person.
So we just hit a bridge. That's a big stamina move. I mean, yeah, that's it's really it's sitting traffic is so bad for your stamina bar. You know, it is.
If you just cruise on the highway, it's no problem. It's the stopping guy that really kills your car. I do I do like this this impossible sun powered car idea because in May 25th, 2020, where we have no problems, could you imagine how many problems there would be if I couldn't have my good old gas guzzling car if I didn't have the oil industries at my back and there was some sort of alternative to them? Boy, we have a lot of problems.
Yeah, absolutely would, but not not like we do now in the time we turn it. We're Lord 2020 gas baby all the time because it's hard. It just goes back in the sky where from what I understand it came from exactly. Yeah, like the acid rain is just the fuel coming back down and seeding back.
What about the point about? What about the rain? It's got to happen. Don't you want to drive your car?
What are you going to do? You've got some sort of sun powered car. It's a possible. I don't think so.
Car batteries dummy. Like you're like a toy. Ridiculous. The game also punishes you for your mistakes pretty brutally.
It's quite difficult or can be and features a corpse run if you die, which is common in MMO games like Guild Wars and EverQuest. And I'm not going to say it. No, I specifically wanted to see if I could describe the mechanics of the surge entirely without invoking souls. I mean, but you did earlier, so it doesn't matter.
Jimmy has several of them. Jimmy won't stop saying it. Jimmy go ahead and try and say it again. Well, the Warcraft started in 2000.
Here we go. Everybody started again. I love the surge series. I like Steam Platinum, the second game with DLC.
And I think everybody should play these games. Like Jimmy said, it's been free on PS Plus. It's cheap on Steam all the time. They're excellent.
It's as far as the like, not quite Dark Souls games go. I would say, because I play quite a lot of them. I like Neo a lot. Because it is way harder.
Neo, I like Neo because it's way harder than Dark Souls. You like Neo because it's way harder than the surge. But Neo is the hardest game I've ever played in my fucking life. It's unbelievable.
And I like it because of that, except it's just kind of boring and there's way too much loot. So there's like, and also level gates. So it's not all skill. There is numbers involved, which kind of defeats the purpose of being a fucking soul game in the first place, right?
So that's kind of my problem. That's why I never finished the DLC. Because at the end of the game, I was like level 100 and the DLC starts at 160. And I'm like, I'm not grinding a game that's this hard to do the DLC for Neo.
But I don't fucking think so, man. I got to the first boss or the first mini boss or whatever it was and quit the game immediately because it was too hard and I didn't win the first time. The surge or Neo? Oh, really?
Yeah. The bosses in the first game are definitely the weakest point, if I'm going to be honest. Some of them are good. There's only five, thankfully.
But I would say three of them are generally quite bad. But overall, I love the series. So, I surge, use surge, HEV surge, surging, surge light, diet surge, surge zero. I can't believe it's not surge and margarine.
We all surge for ice cream. We all surge for ice cream. We all surge for ice cream. So the first place in what is described as a dystopian future in an interview with one of the devs.
However, the game mostly relies on environmental storytelling to convey that. There isn't a whole lot of world that you see overall. You're kind of just, it's kind of just like around you. It's environmental storytelling.
It tells you that like, oh, things aren't quite right here. The first game takes place entirely in one scientific facility. It's very much like system shock without cyberspace or half-life without Zen. So thankfully, despite kind of the shitty bosses, the surge does not feature a complete change in the way you control the game at the 11th hour.
Okay. Yeah. Does something normally do that? At least the original where you go to cyberspace and all of a sudden it's kind of like Star Fox, but like terrible.
And then the first half of that game when you go to Zen, it's all like insane long-distance platforming and all in first person because Valve has gone on record and saying that they finished Zen like 15 minutes before they had to release the fucking game. It's probably the other wildest cypherp. So you'd say it's a lot like the painted worlds from Percols. I like Ariandel.
No, sorry. I'm saying it's just one contained area that doesn't change the features too. Correct. Yeah.
All of the search would be like the painted worlds. Speaking of painted worlds, I really want to get a painting of Super Mario 64, the two bombs. Like the first painting you jump into, people must sell that, right? I just thought about yesterday.
For sure. Just make yourself and sell it. Nintendo will get me. You could definitely find a print of that online.
Yeah. I just had to put a sign underneath it to tell people not to try to jump into it. Yeah. Yeah.
No sign for the stop me. Please do not jump. Next time I come over, I'm jumping right through that fucking page. I'm like the two brass pylons that was right there and it just says no jumping, hanging off the rope.
So in this unimaginable future of the search, the environment isn't the best. The environment isn't the spring chicken she once was. Normal people are, this is a quote from the devs, just screwed. And governments around the world have failed.
So like I don't see anything like that ever really happening in the year of our Lord 2020 where everything is fine. Yeah, everything good right now. No problems. Especially here.
One company, Creo, which is CREO, all caps, which when I googled because I thought it's funny we were talking about Lego earlier. I thought Creo was like garbage dollar store Lego. So I googled it. Turns out Creo is a real company here in Montreal, which I mean, I don't think they actually want to send up satellites into the atmosphere to the atmosphere.
To like see to it nano machines to heal it, but it might be any, any company if they had the resources would you. I think Creo here in Montreal, according to Google Maps Street view, however, is identical to the crumbling industrial hellscape from the game. However, just a photo of construction debris in a container inside of a cage surrounded by pylons with absolutely no one working. All attached to the best.
That is the most Montreal Google Street view that you could possibly imagine. The level design from the surge and you're in a basic street street view of Montreal is basically the same fucking. I remember playing that game and you're just surrounded by actual trash like all the time or that I played as far as I played. You go up on some scaffolding fights and robots, but then go back down to the trash pit.
Yeah. Okay. The first level is a scrapyard. I can work downtown Montreal next to Best Buy.
Yeah. I don't know. It's like if I woke up, if I woke up after mechanical surgery, downtown Montreal, I would freak the fuck out too actually. Maybe it is.
Maybe the stairs just takes place in Montreal. I was going to say, Lord Boy's Cannon and official cannon, the surge one is set in downtown Montreal. Well, it's set in a downtown Montreal, which shares the universe with Monster Hunter World and the Witch. And Final Fantasy XV.
Yeah. Have you seen the size of the rats in the alleys? Might as well be. Now, unlike today, where all we had to do was tell people in California to stop driving to work from March until May to get noticeable results, Creo had to get a little too ambitious with their climate change solution.
Hello, Creo. Hello, Creo. Here it is. What if the cognitive robots that we seeded into the planet's atmosphere just had their own foreman and could just like juice the ozone all by themselves and we wouldn't have to monitor them.
That would be cool, right? Well, I mean, that would be just as effective, but it'd be a lot cheaper. Is this going to be the series that you started off with? Kind of.
It is. Okay. We'll come back to it. Okay.
Creo was founded by Jonah Gutenberg, which is a very Montreal name. If you think about it, very... I've thought about it and I agree. Andy, GCDN.
I've never met a Gutenberg in my life. Oh, no. Could we live in a cave? Where do you buy bagels?
You can't throw a rock outside without hitting a Gutenberg. Yeah, exactly. A lot of rocks. My job is to be with gluten blakes.
There's gluten-free beer that's called Glutenberg, I think. There is. Yeah. That's great.
You think you have... There's more gluten in it than on the surface. About 75% of the gluten lives under the surface. Most of the gluten is at the top.
Yeah. Most of the gluten is supposed to the surface. Yeah. Yeah.
Makes sense. Yeah. What is gluten by itself? You didn't taste like?
I have no idea. I think it's a type of sugar. I think it's a carbohydrate. Yeah.
It is a carb. Yeah. Well, Jonah, Jonah, Gluetonberg, your didn't set out to fix that problem, or he's just like, we have a problem. What does gluten taste like?
I'm a cloud and nano machine is to tell me and then oops apocalypse. They're going to pull all the gluten out of the atmosphere and bring it down to me to sample. I'm going to go to the Celiacs because I can't do that. It's hard to date because they can't go to restaurants.
I got to fix this fucking problem. Do you have a salamid glass of wine that's gluten free? Like, there's a lot of wine. Oh, really?
Yeah. Damn. We just... They're like, weet in your house right now.
We got to get the macarvira and like, ran out wheat. Yeah. I better hope Pete's not dating Celiac because he's going back to the gym soon. He should check out those glutes.
Oh. Yeah. I'm not going back to the gym anytime soon. I walked by two, three days ago.
And the sign on the door still says, yo, don't worry about it. We'll be back on March 29. Yeah. I'm going back to the gym.
Of course, the problem was that gyms were open, right? So we got rid of that problem. Oh, yeah. There's a gyms we're going to close.
Yep. I'm a gym. You're a gym. Close it up.
So that shut. So the nose, the ears, the bottle, the whole... Oh, I think you can get away with... You know, you better show it up.
Just be safe. You need to fold it down and like, staple the little... Did I ever tell you guys I used to think my belly button was spring loaded? And if I like sneezed too hard, it would like, booh, pop it out.
You've told me that. I didn't know that. We grew up together. I respect you less because I don't...
I'm surprised you. You ever respected him enough to do respect him less now? Bring the belly button. Of course I do.
Oh, the weapons are weird. We're in fucking years. Also, on May 28th, 2020, the podcast is going to be three. Wow.
Oh, it does. Old enough to drink. Finally. So, Korea was founded by Jonah Gutenberg and it was originally a technology company.
It was created... It created what was called BioTech Wet Wear. Again, Lord Boy's Cannon. I think they call it Wet Wear because the augmentation exoskeleton is partially installed inside of your body.
Okay. For all your wet bits. So, Lord Boy's Cannon, they installed things in people's body, partially inside people's bodies, to pull gluten out of the atmosphere because it was killing the earth. No, this is pre-gluten apocalypse.
Okay. Okay. Pre-gluten crisis. It's climate crisis is the actual thing.
So, it's pre-gluten crisis, which is the thing that they're seeking to solve with Jonah Gutenberg. All right. When you first said it, I thought Wet Wear was going to be inside the robot. Like, you get in and it's like liquidy everywhere and like kind of viscous.
So, like, whenever your robot hits something, the impact doesn't go straight into your hand. It kind of flowed a little bit in that viscous liquid. Oh, like your brain in the skull. Well, this is the next thing here.
Yeah, exactly. The augmentation that you're most familiar with is what Jamie has interpreted. It's called the rig. It is not a suit.
It is a very simple looking mechanical exoskeleton. It has like finger and hand pieces. It's got a forearm, bicep pieces, a shoulder rack. It plugs directly into your brain and goes down your spine.
It's got like a hip actuator and then some things that go down parallel with your legs. It is entirely on the outside except for the connections that go in. It's not a suit per se. If you had only enough materials for one limb of this stuff, which limb would you give it to?
Oh, the dick one. I don't think that's a limb. Well, yeah, maybe when it's the carb size. You know what I mean?
It's like chest, two arms, two legs, dick. Yeah, exactly. That's the sixth slot. But it's a passive buff.
It doesn't actually offer any physical protection, but it's the thing that you rotate out of your skill. Exactly. It's not one leg. One leg that you could jump really high with.
Just one leg. Yeah, you better not forget and accidentally land on that other leg. I was going to say land on the wrong leg. I'd probably go left arm, to be honest, because right arm you'd want to be dexterous with if you're right handed like me and then left arm you could just do your heavy lifting.
Are we saying robots aren't as dexterous as people? That sounds great. It's a person operating. But like, yeah, that's fair.
I feel like I'd be more dexterous with my brain hand than my brain mechanical. I just, as somebody who has a brain hand, I don't think you're breathing anything. No, we all got a brain hand and a dumb hand. A right with my brain hand and a wiper with my dumb hand.
As somebody who is horribly un-dextrous with their brain hands, like somebody who can't draw, who can't hold chopsticks. Well, actually I can't hold chopsticks all that. As somebody who like when they're hungover, I can't. I'm using this two stabbing, like basically two slop forks.
When I'm hungover, I can't pour milk because my right hand shakes so much. I would absolutely take the mechanical one on my right arm and just be like, I'll assume it's going to be more dexterous than I am now. Now, this isn't actually something you guys would need to be concerned with if we lived in the surge universe because all of the strong comes from the rig itself. So having a rig installed augments all four of your limbs and your penis.
What about your private times, Ethan? If you're using your right hand and you just got the settings a little bit wrong and that's it. I do with my left. I do that with my left.
I learn something about you. You know what, Jamie? Thanks to you, the whole internet learned something today. That's a weird thing to switch it up on.
All right. We can get into why, but I don't think we need to on the podcast. No. That's a big product switch.
That's a big product switch. After our only fans. Exactly. The little ones are fine.
Why is it you? On hands. Your call, dude, but my ears would have pricked up if I was on the commute right now. I gotta hear that story.
As a kid, I was watching comedy now, which is a comedy show out of Toronto. Yeah, yeah, it was on the comedy channel for a while. As a kid, I think as a teenager. And some comedian had the joke that was like, hey, feels like it's another person doing it.
So I started doing that. I was like, oh, let's give it a try. And then it just didn't ever went away. Oh, I remember that.
I've seen that episode of Comedy Now. I thought when you said you remember that, I wasn't sure what you were saying you remember. No, I remember that episode. It's called the Sex Beauty Trainer.
He also has another part where he'll sit on his hand for a while and make it a little bit numb. And then he'll stream off. I don't remember. It was some relatively well-known comedian that he had that bit.
And I decided to try it one day. And it's just never going away. But nowadays it's convenient because I can hold a mouse or my phone with my right hand. Damn, dude, the scroll.
You got the right stuff on the screen at all times. No delay. Got to start on his brain hand. Brain hand and my beaten hand.
I'm going to break it. I'm going to break it. I'm going to break it. I'm going to break it.
Oh, my God. Oh, that's the camera. Oh, that's the camera. That's the camera.
Yeah, that's the camera. Yeah, it's the camera. Yeah, it's the camera. So the rig makes you stronger, faster.
It has an analog clock. It's all very high tech. No, I'm not very strong. Then it would probably make you weaker.
And that would be very ironic. Yeah, right? The monkey's ball. Yeah, exactly.
It's like, oh, man, I would live. Well, that wouldn't even be the monkey's ball. Because if you wish for mechanical augmentation, technically it would still need to make you stronger. Because it's like the wishes apart is granted.
And there's like ironic consequences. I think the monkey's ball is when you use your left hand, but you slowly take one finger out at a time. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Or maybe you add one finger one wish at a time, huh? Because it was down. Yeah, yeah. Because as you make wishes, they curl down.
But would that mean you'd have to start with like an open palm just like rubbing pieces? That is how I normally do it though. I have to get further in depth on my masturbation techniques. But that is how I normally do it.
We got to move on. I'm loving it, but I chopsticks. So I chopsticks back and forth from side to side to get the illusion of both sides. Oh, yeah.
I go fast enough. All right. Good. All right.
Well, that makes sense. Anyway, I don't want to get too much into it, but I do also have a technique where I pirouette. And it might create some fire sometimes. Oh, a fancy spin.
Oh, sorry. A fancy spin. A nice spin. Whirl.
That's all. So yeah. And like I said earlier, despite the fact that there's different rigs, all they have is basically more RAM to slot in more augmentations. It does not affect your class.
Your class and your playstyle is dictated entirely by the weapons and the augmentations that you choose. These can be swapped out at Med Bay. Like I said, if you want to go from Fast Boy to Strong Boy, be my guest. There's a rig for you.
Or there's a gear for you. Since the rig is a huge deal for the player character of the surge, Warren. No last name. What's the last?
We'll call him Warren Cratchit. OK. Sure. OK.