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Episode Six - Chris: Gaming, Pop Culture, Memes, And Other Candid Musing
Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a wild ride! Joining me today is the ever-entertaining Chris, as we embark on a journey through the quagmire of pop culture and the ever-changing vistas of gaming. With a candid chat about the allure and mayhem of "Hell Divers," we reminisce about the good old days of PUBG while lamenting its fall from grace. Indie gems are disrupting the gaming world, and we're here for it – discussing how these titles redefine our notions of play and creativity.
We're not afraid to call out the elephant in the room – the battle pass obsession that's sweeping the gaming industry. Franchises like "Assassin's Creed" are morphing before our eyes, and not always for the better. This leads us down the rabbit hole of Fortnite's cultural empire, where Lady Gaga battles it out and Turtle Power reigns supreme. As we dissect the psychological tactics at play in Fortnite's universe, our heart-to-heart takes a detour into the real world, contemplating the bone-chilling concept of a second American Civil War and the transformative post-pandemic college scene.
And for those wondering what's buzzing in the gaming sphere, we've got you covered. From Xbox's Phil Spencer's controversial strategy to the debate over console exclusivity, we're tackling it all. But it's not all serious business – our musings on anime, content creation, and the quirks of campus life keep the laughs rolling. So come for the insights, stay for the fun, and let's keep pushing through together! Don't forget to plug in, turn up the volume, and let the conversation take you where it may.
Hello everybody, I just wanted to give a quick content warning for this episode. If you're sensitive to curse words, some sensitive topics and Jokes here and there, then I would say, maybe avoid this episode. I don't want to use the word trigger warning because I really dislike that phrase, but this is this is your trigger warning. But if you're willing to stick around, it was a really good conversation. A lot of jokes were had and the conversation is very chaotic, but in a entertaining way. I like to. I like to say so Again, this is your content warning. This is your chance to dip out if you are uncomfortable with what I mentioned. But if you're still here, thanks for sticking around and let's get into it.
Colby:Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Inc In Bites podcast. Today Is another very special episode. I have another guest on the show. They are a very smart individual who is Educated in many different aspects of pop culture and video games. I will now just pass over the theoretical mic over to them to allow them to introduce themselves again, because I totally didn't just restart the recording or anything.
Chris:Hello again. Oh, sorry for the first time. Sorry, my name is. My name is Chris. I am a, as you said, entrepreneur of pop culture and various comics and manga and video games, and that's all a lie. I just don't do anything and I'm very socially inept. But but, um yeah, I'm just living, trying to kind of live comfortably like everyone else. You know, make a, make a decent amount to pay the rent and various other debts. Everyone has to pay you off in their lives and, yeah, that's pretty much it.
Colby:Yeah, they paying, paying. Making enough money to stay alive is becoming harder and harder. The years go on, but uh, yeah, oops, sorry, go ahead. No, you good, if anybody has listened to my previous podcast, wait before this one was made. I bless you, bless your soul, if you have. Me and Chris had a very good episode before when we talked about our time at school and the lore that occurred there. We might, we might pull in some of those old stories again if there's time, but just, it's been a while since we chatted, so it's gonna be really fun episode just to kind of catch up a little bit, and it's gonna be More of a comedic episode. And if you really like pop culture and gaming, you're in the right place, because we're both nerds that do A lot of gaming. Speaking of which, because I was talking your discord, I seen you playing hell diver, so let's just let's just let's just talk about that real quick.
Colby:Let's talk about how this game has basically blown up the internet. Oh, man.
Chris:So hell dive is oh. So I had a friend that keeps text to me. They kept text me saying, oh, get held, I was, get held, I was. It could be like ghost of sheshima rates, like we we used to do back there in the pandemic, and so I've been going against it. I've been going against it that I found out that a target was selling a physical copy. So I was like, oh, it's 40 bucks, it's really cheap. And I've been hearing a lot of good things, I've been seeing a lot of memes on instagram and stuff. So I decided to bite the bullet and get the game and, uh, so I'm getting it. Like I said before, I was really against it. So I started playing like two rounds and I got exploded by a big like orbital missile. I had texted him. I had texted him the uh, the video of Danny DeVito saying, oh, my god, I get it. And uh, yeah, that's been my experience so far for like the past hour or two.
Colby:I will say that has been my experience for the past, like 13 that I put on that game Um, thankfully I managed to survive the queues, but that that game great. You die most most of the time from your friends because orbitals are crazy, but no, that game I, it's, it's. We were going through a trend and I talked about this in one of my earlier episodes. We were going through a trend where double a games have kind of been taking over triple a games, like we had boulders gate 3, which arguably is a triple a game, but for it's really kind of still double a because they're kind of a double a studio and you had A blanking on some other ones.
Colby:But a lot of these Indie studios are pumping out games that they're selling millions and being coming hits and hell divers. Is this crazy? I? I don't think I've played a game that has been Addicting and enjoyable since cod, zombies and sort of that wave-based like horror shooter and it's just a ridiculous game in all the right reasons. It's funny. They're suffering from success currently because the servers are blowing up and you play on a console, right, yeah, yeah, have you had.
Chris:Oh no, I, I, uh. I played like two games and it already crashed on me. That's how, how bad it's been getting, oh gosh, yeah the so connection was yeah there it's.
Colby:Like they just increased the server size to 700 000, but they still don't think they're gonna be able to Accommodate everybody. It's crazy. Did you have cues, though, on console, or were able to get in okay?
Chris:No, I've been able. It's been smooth so far. Gotcha, it's just. Uh, it's like because like I'd Be in the middle of something else and I exit out and then like it won't exit out fully, it'll just stay frozen, but like I could put my inputs in and you could hear all the sounds and everything and people talking and everything. And you have to like restart, you have to shut down the app and just restart.
Colby:Again, gotcha, I'm very, I'm very jealous. It's the opposite experience for for like, thankfully I it didn't bother me enough or that much because I wasn't super crazy. Um, I'm into it, but I'm not like super like. I'm gonna scream at the devs because loading times but 90 there was literally. So they pushed the fix when they. They finally implemented an afk timer because there were so many people trying to get into the game and they released this statistic. I think it was like 50 000 people just did not turn their computer off. They left it on for days so they didn't lose their spot. To be as petty as they could be, they pulled the two med. Is that guy just pass? I don't remember if he's that guy.
Chris:Um, so no, you know, he's dead, he's going.
Colby:Um, so I know him from one meme he's the one where he falls over.
Chris:Apparently, uh, he didn't have a good uh reputation. Uh, apparently, uh, he was uh doing very inappropriate things with the minors. And then, uh, he had a intercourse with a hit e-girl only fans girl bell delphine no really. Yeah that.
Colby:That's what.
Chris:I heard, at least I didn't really care much for it.
Colby:She must have been at the beginning of her career to to do that.
Chris:Well, I, yeah, I think that's what it was. That was like right after she sold the the bathwater. Oh my gosh.
Colby:Was that 2018?
Chris:2018, 2019. Maybe I'm uh, maybe a little bit, maybe during the pandemic. I think it was during the pandemic because that's when, like, only fans really blew up. But um, yeah, no. So like he was playing overwatch and, apparently, in his discord, he was playing at non-stop 24, seven for like five days. So one I don't know if it was like his, his, his family members or his, I don't know who it was. It was somebody. They called the police to do a welfare check on him and then that's when they uh, found his, his decomposing body in his gaming chair.
Colby:Bro is playing ranked and finally had enough. He was like he couldn't get into grandmaster.
Chris:He was like I'm done, I can't.
Colby:They just I heard overwatch just released like uh, new hitbox changes and I guess that's making the game more on fire. I bet they pushed that update. He was out, checked out, no, but I, oops, I also, uh, I also heard he wasn't really that great of an individual. I looked at a I'm only on twitter because of my twitch streaming, so I was suffer through it, but I read it like a X thread, or we call them x threads. Now what the what? It's so funny, like it's rebranded. But even the links you send out to people still say twitter. I just, you can't change a name of a brand. That that's in. It's like changing google to like ugl. No one's gonna say ugl, they're still gonna say google.
Chris:Yeah, no, I've just been called a twitter I. I don't use it at all anymore, so it's just it doesn't really affect me.
Colby:It's literally just bots. To be honest, I made all my social media for my my twitch streams and instantly when I made them, I got in dms from so many Vtuber artists that are just bots that are trying to get me to buy like overpriced, probably ripped off pieces of art. Yeah, but I read a.
Chris:I read a twitter thread just going over how not good of a human he was, so I know, apparently, like his final couple of months, he was like being really unhinged and posting like a lot of like schizo tweets, like really like the fucked up tweets.
Colby:That's what the internet does to you everyone and we're all gonna end up there. We're gonna be in cyberpunk soon, going cyber psycho, yeah, so kind of we. We were talking about how divers, um so yeah, fun game highly recommended if you, if you, anyone out there, plays games. Um, so you say you were playing for just a few hours, right, how, what's your experience so far? Like, how do you like it?
Chris:Oh no, it's pretty good. I like it a lot because it reminds me of uh, halo, odst, and I really miss halo and the in the state it's in right now with Microsoft and their current leadership and, um, yeah, no, my, uh, so far, like, I played like one. I played two missions. I played one successful mission, yeah, the second one. I had this 12 year old screaming at another guy because, uh, I guess his mic was uh tapping onto his face and um, so like during the mission he's screaming at him and I guess the guy finally figured out how to mute his mic. So then at the end I don't know what happened the the kid got pissed off at all of us, shot all of us and quit the game. Sounds like average 12 year old behavior.
Colby:Yeah, what difficulty did you complete your first mission on?
Chris:I think, it was probably on the easiest one, I I'm still trying to figure out, when I know how you gauge that, if you hot drop and if you can see any ground at all.
Colby:You're probably uneasy when you're on the higher difficulties. You just don't see any terrain because it's covered in books. It gets a little bit harder to get to the top. It gets wild, man, I, I think the highest I played on, I think, is suicide and the robots. If you, when you have you fought against the automatons yet yeah, yeah, it's literally vietnam, it's literally. I can understand PTSD now, because fighting the robot it's not fair when they can shoot back. Just give me the bugs and they run at me. Yes, it's a great game though. The galactic war is fascinating, like how you know, you're all a part of an ongoing conflict.
Chris:Yeah, no, I didn't know that. I saw that. I'm like holy shit, so like it's like involving, it's like we're fighting a real war, you know it's uh tinfoil hat.
Colby:This game was just made by uh governments to prepare us for a real war, you know.
Colby:But it's really, it's really wild and I think that makes the games feel more Rewarding in a sense, because you're all chipping towards the same thing and I don't know if this is true or not. But when you're in your ship above the planets I haven't been able to confirm this myself, but the other ships that you see shooting and the other pods, I think are actually other people it's like really dynamic, but I can't confirm or deny that, but I really I want to believe that's accurate Because when, like when you call down orbitals, if you look at your ship, it actually comes from your ship, like if you called it. There's so many little details in that game that I would not expect from that, like the gunplay Immaculate, like how it has state reloading. So if you're like reloading and you run, you stop exactly in that animation where you started running and like the recoil, how the guns feel from a co-op Horde game was not expecting it and how their first game was top down. It's just, it's insane, it's wild.
Chris:Yeah, there was another thing with the uh, the reloading you have to manually do. It doesn't do an auto one. So I'd be, I'd be shooting and I'm like, oh shit, I'm out of out of ammo. And then I keep switching to all my other guns and I guess to a point where everything's just out of ammo and I keep forgetting that I have to reload. And it's not, uh, scripted, scripted animation that just does it automatically.
Colby:It's. It's really cool. It adds such a layer of depth. And I always do the thing where I dive when I'm reloading and then I try to shoot and then I have to pull the bolt back and I'm like, well, I'm dead now, but and like how the ammo is also, like if you reload mid-mat, mid-mid mag, you're losing all that other ammo. It's really just the detail they put in things that you wouldn't really expect them to do, for the type of game Really shows how much polish they put into it. And I know last time we chatted we we kind of talked a lot about gaming monetization and hell divers is I Fantastic example of how to do game monetization. Like they're there a game as a service, but you can literally, like a lot of games, say you can earn their premium stuff by just playing. But I think hell divers is like the only one that I played where you can actually earn pretty much everything, even in the premium stuff, without paying a dime. It's crazy. I.
Chris:Notice with the, the microtransactions too. It's a lot not cheaper. It's like $2 for like a hell of fancy helmet and stuff. It's not like what game was I playing? Foam stars, that was it. Like the Splatoon ripoff that Square Enix made not too long ago and like they're their premier skins. Like a fancy skin for one of the, the soap girl, one of the the like the soap squid girls, whatever they were. Like 40 bucks for like a shirt yes, crazy.
Colby:That's why I was.
Chris:I think pub G is the same way. It's like oh no, don't get me started with pub G. Pub G is a giant scam when it comes to Microtransactions and game loot because of like they, they. They want you to buy a chest and then they want you to buy the key for the chest, or they'll give you like three chests, but you have to. You only have enough to buy four keys, so you have an extra key and you have to buy another chest. And then it's like some of those chests they only give you like polymers for for weapon skins that you can't even craft because it's you have to buy more stuff.
Colby:PUBG is the originator of some of these micro. I think is some of these micro transaction things. It's crazy, I don't remember. I think it was like pub G. You started the battle pass craze too. If I remember, that's reaching into the yield in time, so I used to play the hell out of pub G, yeah.
Chris:I've ever been playing in a lot lately. It's it's infested with aimbots, it's Huh, it sounds like another game I know called escape from Tarkov I. Was playing at the other day and like I was maybe like 200 feet away from another player, it's it's only just a black specks there and I mean you got me in like two shots, maybe one. I couldn't tell it happened so fast and I I just had. I wasn't even pissed off, I just stared at the game and just turned it off.
Colby:Completely understandable. I've been there too, like with escape from Tarkov, which is a whole another game. I've been streaming that nonstop. But they used to have a lot of aimbots. It still exists in the game, but they did some work. But now instead of aimbots, there's these hackers that are called vacuum hackers. Now they're just quality of life hackers and arguably they're worse because what they do is they load into a game and there's like I don't know 10 people, depending on what map you're on, and they have hacks that literally allow them to see where every item On the map is above a certain value, and then they just vacuum it and then leave. So you just waste your time, so you won't find anything good, and it's like that's arguably worse, because you're you're not being killed, you're just spending like 30 minutes walking around and grabbing like crackers, because the only thing they left on the map and they took like the million dollar items instantly.
Chris:Yeah, no, no, no. There was a another incidence where I was. I was playing with Nate and we were hiding behind a rock and this one guy there's two of us, right? So there's this one guy that comes up behind us, kills Nate, no, no, kills me, and it took maybe like half a second to kill me and then he kills Nate. So I'm like wait, there's something going on there. So I clicked the spectate thing, so I watch him like slowly aim on to me and shoot me twice and it immediately snap over the Nate. No, no mistake. Like no, like off, just right there, dead in the center of his head, kill him. I'm sitting. I'm like, oh, my god, this guy is using aimbot. There's no way he's, there is no way. This guy has been playing this for six, seven years.
Colby:He's never left the basement. He's literally he's attached to medical machines to keep this man alive.
Chris:And I reported him. I'm like I don't think, I don't think Korea is gonna look into it. No, this is that. This is their top top of customer right.
Colby:Yeah, they already tapped into money. They're not. They don't care about hackers, they made there, they made their buck. Since we're already a sister already talking about gaming, might as well go through some of the things I wrote down Almost. How did you get into gaming and what was your first real favorite game? Probably Halo, I got to imagine, right.
Chris:Yeah, so I got into gaming Since, uh, I Was two, I guess maybe one, I don't know. I was young. It was like around the 60 and 64 days I remember was playing Mario and Zelda and and then I got into the ps2 Pia, the ps1, then the ps2. I was playing an old game. It used to be called a Socom US Navy seals. They don't Sony drop that game like a decade ago and they think it's not gonna make any money. But you know the fan base is still alive and they're still reviving their old servers from 20s, 20 plus years ago. And but, yeah, no, but I got into that and then I got, I got introduced to the world of Xbox and then I got Halo and I immediately became in love with that series for God knows how long, until Bungie left and then 343 came in and, in my opinion, screwed a lot of stuff up, really went off the rails and what the original, the original goal, was to be. And then, uh, yeah, no, I've just been living in this house scape of the modern-day gaming industry.
Colby:It's definitely Definitely hit or miss yeah.
Chris:That's a really good.
Colby:That's. I'm curious how do you feel about the, the current gaming industry and the model like battle passes always. Online games of service.
Chris:It's, it's very scummy. Uh, there's no, there's no passion, no more. It's all just money, money, money, money. You know yearly quala duties, yearly. Well, what used to be yearly assassins, cruel, now it's going back to you, it's going back to live service now under one game. It's really stupid. Um, I don't know everything having a battle pass everything, everything just being like, oh, we need to make a make, a status quo with the investors, all this stuff. It's just, it's gotten annoying at this point.
Colby:Yeah, totally agree I. It's a hot take. But I was a really big fan of the open world RPG, assassin greed games. I kind of thought they were really good.
Chris:Yeah, it's not for everybody, though. It's like it's really good. The thing is about it. It's like, from what I've experienced with it, it's like it's trying to get into the origins of the assassins and all that, and it's just. To be honest. I made a way to.
Colby:I pay no attention to the story.
Chris:They may, I don't know it's like because you bring it up to like old school fans and it's like they want to kill you it's more. They tried getting a new audience and they did because, like a lot of people I know, I like work and stuff. They constantly like can't wait to leave to go play for a holla or a. Odyssey or something is, but it's like I don't know it. Assassins creates like a special case.
Colby:Yeah, no, I mean I also am a little biased because I I only played like black flag and assassin's greed 3, so I wasn't there for the og og stuff, but I for me it's more of the I don't know. I really like Greek mythology, so Odyssey is probably my favorite, but I don't really even pay attention to the story that much. It's just the, the world and being engulfed in the, the mythos, like north mythology for Valhalla. But I totally get the criticism like I gave up on Valhalla five times because I know it's just way too long. Um, yeah, I haven't played Mirage, but you know, as long as the fans are happy, that's all that matters. But having battle passes and always online is really fatiguing. I totally get it. It just feels like I Don't know why battlefield decided to do that, like during cope it.
Chris:I don't know. Yeah, they're there, they're all battlefields thing is that was. That was pretty, pretty wacky. Yeah, it was.
Colby:Definitely a little wacky. I mean, I'm glad that they they put effort in to bring it back and to like work on it, but it was a little little wacky. Do you have modern warfare 3? Not.
Chris:I Didn't even bother getting it. I even think about getting it. I remember they put on sale and I was telling everybody I'm like, oh, I'm probably to get it when it goes on sale. And I saw I'm saying I don't want to do it because I played the beta and it was exactly like Mw2.
Colby:It's, there's no, it's not worth it at all. Yeah, I'm right there with you. I never even like I thought the 2019 modern warfare and then the one after that which was Mw2, right, those were like, yeah, sorry, he got. Those are the last two I played, the last two will ever play, because I really like the story. But I just cannot do. Fps is like anymore. Like Valorant and Call of Duty, I just I even I guess I'm I don't want to say I'm old because I'm only 24 but I just can't do it because everyone's so competitive now. It's like it's like walking into a gym locker room. So you just want to have some fun, you're getting screamed at. I mean, calling Slerr is by a 12 year old who's popping off at like 30 kills because he doesn't. Everyone wants to be the next twitch streamer.
Chris:Now, the last time I played a Mw2, there was a guy I don't know I was. I got home from work. All I wanted to do is just play my games. You know, relax. It's a very stressed out work. I got home and there was this guy. He was like going like 46 and 2 and team deathmatch it's holy. And then, uh, and then when the game was over, he started shit talking and like the post match thing and I don't know. I went off on the guy and I said a lot of things I shouldn't have said. You know what? I Think I should delete this game. I Made, like, various efforts and trying to sell out to people. I'm like I don't want this in my hands anymore. I'm tired, I'm done with this.
Colby:It brings out the dark side of me. I don't need it near me anywhere.
Chris:Turns me into the worst possible version of myself.
Colby:I mean, I get it, man, like I. I don't like I Rage, but like quietly to myself because I'm too like Embarrassed to do open mic raging or yelling at somebody. But I totally get it like. I smashed many controllers when I used to play like a lot.
Chris:Because I recently got into a. I recently got into the siege too. That was another one that I had to put away after like two hours of playing it again.
Colby:Oh man, siege was like the last shooter that I really was into and I was pretty decent at, but then, unfortunately, what were, 12 years into that, games existence About you and I was like, yeah, I'm good. People like the one thing. I thought that game was so fun for like 400 hours of playtime and then I got to a point where people are pixel-peaking literally something that's as small as my fingernail through a hole in the wall because they know you're there. I'm like, I'm good, I'm good.
Chris:That's another game where it's like People just didn't put that game down and they're too good. It's Especially ranked. You don't have fun. It's like clocking into another job.
Colby:Literally I got that, like I managed to get to gold, but I was carried. It's like really sweaty. Speaking of that, like I mentioned a few times already, I play a lot of escape from Tarkov and that game has been out for a while now and it's become so Because they do like wipes and stuff. So like you get Like the game starts everyone from scratch and you get like half a year and then they wipe and they get new content. I won't start from scratch again doing like quests and stuff, but the game is so played and the player base are like only veterans that have like 3000 plus hours on the game where everybody knows everything. So everyone knows where all the loot is. That's really good. We're all the quest items and the quest locations. They know all the spawns and where people are likely going to walk, and that's the only thing that like drives me crazy sometimes and why I can't necessarily Recommend it to new people.
Colby:Because, unless you'd like getting kicked in the nuts over and over again, tarkov is a painful game to play. It's really realistic. It probably has the best gunplay I've ever experienced in my life, but it's just. People have that shit nailed down to a science. They did say they were gonna do like interconnect and maps, so it's like Daisy kind of and that will definitely make it easier, but, like right now, it's painful. I went on to a game with my friends on this map called interchange was a giant mall. We literally spawned and walked like 10 feet and someone was sitting in a bush Waiting for us to go there because there's only one direction to walk during that spawn and it's painful and then you lose like $5,500,000 of gear instantly.
Colby:It's rough, great game, like don't get me wrong, like it's a really fun, like there's a lot of redeeming qualities, but they're their hacker situation and that's difficulty is rough. It's good game, though Just painful.
Chris:Yeah, it's like that with the battle royale's to what the cuz like you'd land and people just sitting corners for like 30 minutes, 45 minutes, just waiting. It drives me insane like I don't know how to describe it to you that I have to turn off the game. Like I said before, I have no reaction to it, I just I I squeeze my controller and turn off the game. I'm just like it's not, it's not worth it. Hop on another game. You play a single-player game.
Colby:Relax, actually relax play a game that's made to be relaxing. It's, I think League of Legends definitely brings the dark side out of every human being that plays it I, you know. Then they put it on mobile and it got a lot worse.
Chris:Oh.
Colby:Another problem. Yeah, they have a. It's Wild rift. It's basically like league but a lot shorter, but now everyone is basically stupid because it's on the phone. Yeah, there's single-player games are the only. Those are relaxing. I mean, I like MMOs too. Those are relaxing. Speaking of battle royale's, though, I have another point on here that wanted to ask I always I playfully pick on you and I playfully pick on some of my other friends, not in a mean way, just cuz I'm curious or men outside are looking in. Let's, let's just talk about for tonight. I need to know. I just tell me about it, like what is what's like? I just need to hear from a veteran for a night player.
Chris:Oh, for tonight is uh. From what I've watched it evolve over the years See up. Unfortunately, I have over like 2025 Veteran for. But, um, watching it evolve is just one giant ad, because recently, well, right now, they got a lady Gaga battle, a mini battle, pass going on and the guitar hero section of I see, and I is that like that's its own thing.
Chris:That's its own thing. So it's like it's split in the four different games under like one hub, just being fortnight. So they got battle royale, they got Lego fortnight, they got a rocket league racing and then they got the guitar hero one. So, like each separate one has like its own special events, like Right now the guitar hero one fortnight festival. They just got done with their, their weekend section or like their weekend season. You know the, the singer yeah, now they. They transition into lady Gaga, yeah. That's why, while they're doing that, they're still doing their, the Current season in battle royale. It's like what? Chapter five now, chapter five, season one now, and on top of that they're doing a little mini event with the teenage On top of their little mini event with the Metal Gear Solid characters.
Colby:It's an onion man I got. I got that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle recommended on my YouTube feed.
Chris:I'm like what's wacky little fortnight doing now, how they doing over there in their corner of the internet and From what I've I've been seeing in the Well, the rumors, the echoes I've been getting on the internet is that they're planning on putting in a Devil May Cry characters and I've been waiting for that for maybe like two months now, but apparently that's in the files, or in the the data data files. I love it and um, that's all. That's all I know right now. With fortnight did Every day. Well, no, the battle, the battle. The item shop has been the same for like a week now because they they've over Overloaded it with so much shit.
Colby:Yeah, there's a lot of skins, I so I'm just curious, like what again? Because I never played and I just I'm super bad with battle royales. I'm gonna sound like a old person asking a younger person what a what a phone does. But like what made? Like what do you? Why do you think for tonight became this huge thing? Like what, that's a good answer because that's accurate.
Chris:Kids it was. It wasn't designed for kids but it got a big player base regarding, like at the time, 10 year olds. So now you have this whole player base that pretty much just grew up with it and that's like. That's like their call duty, like for us, like how we had called duty and battlefield and all this thing. That's their thing and but the thing is it never ended, it never moved on, it just evolved so as more children are getting into it. You know they're buying skins, they're getting attracted to all these other teenage real Ninja Turtles, all Optimus Prime, all these, all these characters are seeing a spider-man, all all these people they're seeing from all these movies and shows that they watch. They're getting their parents to get them like V bucks and everything for their Christmases and birthdays and it's just, it's A constant domino effect and it got them more money and then they're getting more collaborations with people that are also paying them and it's just endless money machine that they become. But I, in my opinion, they became they.
Chris:They did the whole monetization of games right, because it's never like they. They don't try to make their stuff overly expensive, like when they had their dispute with Apple because Apple regarding V box. They were taking a specific amount of percentage From them, from what I remember. So they broke up with Apple. They broke, like their connection with Apple and they made their V box down from like ten dollars to six dollars and Then recently they came out saying that for inflation that had to bump it back up to ten Mm-hmm. But their thing is like they. They want to monetize the game but they're trying to keep it more Fresh for people like add more new things to it, which is why a lot of people were complaining with the weekend, because the weekend got announced in it in early December and he just left. He just left last week, this week yeah, that's a long time I Am.
Colby:I am like, now that you mentioned it, that, like you said, like kids grew up with it because it's been around for a long time now. I'm just thinking because the this gaming model effect on younger people is definitely noticeable, because my friend has a younger daughter Well, not his daughter but a younger sister, I should say and she grew up on for a night. She's scary to listen to, like it's like all V box skins and it's a little scary. So I'm just the psychological impact of having a game that never goes away and keeps getting Evolved. I wonder just the effect on people as they're developing into early adulthood adolescents a lot of a Lot of Lessons on money management.
Chris:That's probably what's gonna have to. Oh yeah, I think people are the bottom because it's like old, this new thing came, like this new skin came out and then, like Three days later, they're gonna want a newer skin that just came out because I've been victim to that. Yeah, there's like I just I get a skin and then like I get like I don't know the Solid snake skin and then, like two days later, they come out with a Michelangelo skin and I'm like, oh, I want that this. Like now I realize I'm like I gotta gotta slow it down.
Colby:Yeah, no, it's definitely. I'm just digesting. It's like I never. I'm trying to think how I would feel if, like, what if we were young and we were playing modern warfare 2 2022, like, oh, geez, like I Feel like to a younger audience. Battle passes and all of that must seem like the dopamine.
Chris:Oh yeah, no, that's definitely a factor. Same thing like Just playing video games in general, like getting your dopamine rush. Smartphones, technology, everything's like whoo. I got likes on this whoo. I got a text message from this person. I am getting like. It's like a. You're feeling good, you know, oh yeah, that's how that's, that's how they've been Working with the gamers for the past couple of years. It's like because they know where to get them. You know like they know how to. They know how to Get them coming back and in some cases it works and some cases is not working. Like cold duty for a lot of its old fan base.
Colby:Yeah, I totally agree. I feel like I'm. I feel like modern warfare 3 would have been received better If they just stuck to the plan of making it a DLC and making it like 30 bucks. I feel like they probably would have like got it.
Chris:It's definitely a. It's definitely a 30 buck game. There's, there's. They give you a four hour campaign with a. It's not even like a real campaign. It's like a warzone expansion kind of, with like little little cut scenes in here and there and then, like it's, multiplayer is completely identical to MW2, only you have faster movement and All of its maps are just remakes from the original modern warfare. 2.2 dozen, not yeah, I will.
Colby:I will say that's the only part and that entire experience that is somewhat attractive is to play on those maps.
Chris:And that's where it comes to play again. Oh guys, look, we got a, we got. You got all your favorite maps when you were kids. You know you can play a game, you know, spend another 70 bucks plus tax. And then you load in crazy, want to go a little bit crazy? Spend a hundred bucks. Oh yeah, fancy skins.
Colby:I you can get two guns that have an anime girl come out of it and start dancing. Did you see that bundle? Please tell me yeah all right good. I was like if this man never seen this bundle, he's about to be even more enraged by the existence of this game.
Chris:I, it is thirst man. Oh man, they, they, they specifically did they like. You know what we? We heard Chris in his, his last MW2, you know what guys we got to make this for him. We know he's gonna come back for that.
Colby:Oh, they put cat ears on that and they made the cat girl animation. They're like this is gonna get over. Yeah, no, I did. I was like is this real? No, it's. And then like it's overall the triple-a video game industry. Right now I'm really hoping these double-a's like power hold Literally millions of dollars worth of sales, and it took hell divers to through Sony CEO to be like alright, maybe PC is in a niche community, because I remember he was like PC players are niche community and they're dying and like Half of the help held diverse to sales was from PC. So I'm hoping this year some big things happen like can we?
Chris:see a lot of play with.
Colby:Xbox, like what is.
Chris:A lot of people are on PC. I don't know. Oh yeah, there are people going to like Best Buy and Walmart right now just getting pre-built. Yeah, just to play games on PC literally.
Colby:I don't know what he was on when he said that, but it was like it's. I'm hoping big things for 2024, for the triple-a gaming space, because, man, we need it, we. I don't want to open up modern warfare 3 and being a shitty UI that tells me about the four other games that they have Because of the connected cod cinematic universe.
Chris:I know from what I've been seeing this year with games it's been mostly the the Sega show Because they came out with you know, you know the Acusa series right.
Colby:Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on that, just because it's interesting.
Chris:So they came out with their sequel to like a dragon. It's a RPG game now. It's not like the the old, like beat em ups. So everybody fell in love with like a dragon. So this one like, instead of it like just being released in Japan. First they made it worldwide, worldwide, and that's made by Sega, and then the the. The guy that's given a In my profile picture was given his friend a fade from the Persona 3.
Colby:I've been trying. I have my my window down enough so I can see your profile picture and I've been, I've been trying to decide for what that is he's given his friend a fade.
Chris:That's from the persona 3 remake and that's also produced by Sega, and I think there was a. There's another game, shimagami tense a 5. It's like a definitive edition. It originally was a Nintendo Switch exclusive and now there's release here in all the all the systems and that's getting big hype and everything, because it is a good game. I played it and Right now it's like I think this year Sega is gonna have like a lot of hits, but then, like we got Final Fantasy coming out next week and then there's something coming out.
Colby:I feel like I blink. I feel like I blink in this a new Final Fantasy game.
Chris:I don't know they're like, they're going crazy about fancy games.
Chris:Like I swear, I thought like a new one came out, like four months ago so in 22 they came out with it was like their 35th anniversary, so they came out with like a like a Final Fantasy origins game, kind of like an anniversary kind of game that they just wanted to like fill in there. And then 23 Last year they came out with that was final fantasy 17, 16 and Then this year is the sequel to a final fantasy 7 remake, final fantasy 7 rebirth.
Chris:It's a fever dream in, yeah, but um, so far it's like, I guess, regarding triple a games.
Colby:It's, it's going good. I just want them to shake it up like mainly, mainly.
Chris:Japanese base. Oh yeah, they're on fire.
Colby:I think they've been doing good for a while.
Chris:You know this must be. There's a Korean game coming out in April, stuller blade. That's been causing a lot of controversy because of the other main character. She's like a very light. They're trying to say she's unrealistic looking she's. She's like so it looks like a normal Korean girl and they didn't like that. So they tried like canceling the game, like doing a Hogwarts legacy kind of thing that she was too unrealistic. But then, like they, they show, like they're behind the scenes and everything. I guess everybody stopped talking about it. But they released a release date for everyone to pre-order. So I guess now people are pre-ordering it. I don't know.
Colby:That's wild, without canceling myself, because I would get canceled on a heartbeat that a Hogwarts legacy.
Colby:Debacle is actually tilting. I seen a website where it was like report your favorite content creator for playing Hogwarts legacy because they're XYZ. I won't get too deep into it because I'll get canceled in a heartbeat, but it was just wild. It's so wild. I canceled. Culture was such a big conversation when I was at New Paul's and I just wanted to. I hate, I hate it. It's disgusting, but see, I'm at the point. Oh sorry, no, go, you're good.
Chris:No, I'm just. I'm at the point where I'm just getting really disappointed and like being a part of like a Not being a part, but like being involved in a gaming community, like Having an interest with a bunch of people that just like feel the need to constantly make a fuss about the most minor things, like Xbox versus PlayStation and like like all this stupid stuff like cuz. Recently I don't know if you heard um Xbox came out. Phil Spencer, the CEO of Xbox, came out saying that he's making his four new exclusive Xbox games to come out on the ps5 and the PC.
Chris:I think the switch and you get all these like these grown men fighting online with like other group of grown men on whether or not their plastic box is better than theirs. I'm like I know the series X is a lot powerful, but it's not a noticeable difference, especially if you don't have like the right monitor or TV. It's it's all the same. Like to me, like I have like a ten-year-old TV, I play on all my Xbox and it's like I don't notice it. I notice like extra frames, but I don't it's not 4k, it's like HD 1080p.
Colby:Yeah, no but, um the exclusivity debate man's wild.
Chris:But um no, apparently now they're talking about putting held out as to an Xbox. That's, that's what.
Colby:I've been here I mean I would hope so, with how good it did.
Chris:It's like. What I've been noticing is like they're like it's it sucks, that the exclusivity thing, because it's like, in my opinion, like exclusivity gives these companies its character. Mm-hmm, like you know, nintendo has Mario, xbox has, you know, halo. You know they give it like these, these mascots kind of so like it builds up their brands, they get more innovative, you know, because there's a lot of competition, but uh, but then it's like you get the like these, these, like these fanboys, and they just ruin it. You know it's like, okay, like Xbox wants to Make games for the PS5, ps5, they want to make games for the Xbox eventually, and it's like it's like, it's like kind of like tribal warfare. Yeah, it's, it's just crazy, it's disappointing when you see it. I don't know it's like because, like people used to in my, like my experience, people used to like talk about stuff and it was like it was just our hobby, but it's like people just made it like their lifestyle in a way and it's just it's. It's scary to see, you know.
Colby:Yeah, I mean, I totally agree. I used to when I was younger. I used to just joke around and be like, ah, Xbox versus PS4 or whatever, but like it's just the thing you play games on.
Chris:Yeah, it's, it's a computer. It's a computer with a fancy UI.
Colby:No, I mean I don't know what. I wonder what the console space would be like if there was no exclusivity. It's like, it's like a double-edged sword, right. You get like mascots, like Xbox has Halo, ps4 has Uncharted, I don't know what other Spider-Man for a while there, I wonder what. It's just me, a giant, massive blob. I'm curious. I'm in the middle, I'm so really good, unopinionated, but it's, it's interesting.
Chris:I'm just going to one box with everything in it, yeah they're going to have a merger.
Colby:They're going to break a business lawn Xbox and Sony. They're going to merge and become a giant, giant corporation. That's they're going to be like a mega court from Cyberpunk, that's that's the start.
Chris:Of Cyberpunk starts off with the big three.
Colby:The big three, oh my God. Gabe, the CEO from Steam, and then those guys, yeah, who would be our soccer? I think steam would be our soccer?
Chris:No, probably Microsoft. Oh, that's true. Yeah, because they, they keep buying they, they, they, they're going crazy buying everybody up, like the thing with the borders gate, they good. Apparently, the CEO of a Larry in got called up by one of the Xbox marketing people and they were putting in offers to try and buy out Larry in and the guy's like no, I think I'm going to stay in my company for a little bit, a little bit, while you know, yeah especially without success.
Colby:Well, I was. They have, absolutely have all the cards. They literally have all the cards. Yeah. But just to close the loop on Fortnite, I brought up that it's basically an ad and I really like that. It's kind of funny because I will say I give for night, I haven't played, because I just, I don't know, I played it when it came out and then I guess I just got a bad taste because the kids fan base I can't, I can't get myself to play it, but their, their events are wild, like I'll always say that I love watching them, like the the one with Marvel, where Galaxia or whatever his name is, you have to fight him, and like when they change seasons. I don't, I don't know the context, so I'm going to sound absolutely out of my depth, but it was like you're floating around in space and they drop you in the racing and then they float you around again and do another mini game in the Lego.
Chris:It's like I was.
Colby:I'm sorry, you're good. The it's like their events are wild.
Chris:Yeah, yeah, you know that was the thing to like advertise, like how they're revamping the game, but like, on top of like the topic of it being an ad, from what I'm like with a like, haven't you noticed, like I don't know if, like your algorithms all screwed up like mine on like Instagram and TikTok and everything, but like I've been noticing a lot of like Metal Gear solid memes with like that one song playing in the background? I don't know if you've been getting that?
Colby:Yeah, I get a lot of memes like that and that's, that's just from Fortnite.
Chris:Like everybody. Like I remember when Naruto came out and Fortnite, everybody like started flooding in to watch in Naruto and it's like you, just you guys, everybody was rushing in. Well, I wouldn't say that was Fortnite's fault, that was actually just just your cousins, because but it just attracts, like when they do collaborations with other people it just attracts people to that specific form of media. Like a lot of people were getting into invincible when invincible got in the Fortnite as like the endless loop. I still get to watch marketing.
Colby:Oh yeah, it's. It's a really great marketing tool. Just get a collab on Fortnite. So is Lego Fortnite like Lego Battle Royale, like where is it?
Chris:So it's, it's just Minecraft Like those, I like it. Well, I always get it to.
Colby:Fortnite. There's stuff that their collaboration in there their events are really good yeah it's, we got Lego.
Chris:We got Lego Minecraft Fortnite before GTA 6.
Colby:I'm really sad I'm not going to be able to play the game, for, like it's going to come out, I'm going to have to wait another five years before I can play it on PC. There's the Hoping Roll library, oh yeah bro I yeah, literally. I try not to be a diffusionist, but I'm waking up in the morning I'm like, oh, I'm still alive. That means the news didn't fall yet.
Chris:In my in my math class today I was. I was sitting there, we were going over the lesson and stuff and like I'm in the middle of writing on my notebook and everything goes dark, all the lights go off. I was like, yes, finally happened. I guess some guy drilled into the circuit board and turned off the power to the school, oh my God. But you know, I had a had a slight bit of hope today.
Colby:It's just I was like, yes, finally, where's the mushroom cloud? I want to watch it. No, it's crazy, man I. I was thinking about doing an episode on it, but just talking about we are in such a era of I don't want to say negativity. We're like there's so much creativity going on in the world right now, like everybody is being creative we're in this creative dawning and I totally want to talk about your YouTube edits next, speaking of creativity but like, at the same time, there is just this underlying feeling, a dread. I listened to forehead fables. Shout out to forehead fables. It's a podcast from General Sam and they had an episode and they literally talking about the same thing. It feels like we're walking on the edge of a cliff and at any second we're about to fall into it. We have like constant wars going on, that like it's 50 degrees in the middle of winter. So it's like it's really hard to not have this deficiency in this mindset and be like what's the point of doing anything because it would probably be dead when we're 50.
Chris:Yeah, oh no, it's it's, it's the world's crazy. So if well, you know, like me, and you know it's always been crazy, you know we were brought up with 9, 11 and then all those wars in the Middle East, and it's just, it's the same. You know that we had, you know, COVID, and now we're going back to war. It's like it's the endless cycle of just bullshit.
Chris:Yeah, no, it really, it really nobody we live in an age now where no one can get along Friends divided by their race and political affiliations and gender, and it's just. And sexuality is just. It's crazy. It's like people just don't want to make the effort to try and get along you know.
Colby:Yeah, there's a lot of hostility. I'm right there with you, though, man. I'm like there's. There's some days where it's like is it going to happen today? Am I going to open up the? Is there going to be like a zombie virus or something Like is? Am I going to have? Rick Ryan was walking to the classroom and just it's crazy.
Chris:Yeah, no, I get. I go on Google and I see like all these like recommended searches from like the other Google users are looking up and I'm seeing stuff like bubonic plague. I'm like, oh that's crazy.
Colby:Yeah, bro, literally I don't even. I think I'll type in world. And since my brand is World Builder, right when I type in world the searches are like is the world going to end? What do I do when the world ends? How to prepare for the end of the world? What the fuck? It's crazy. I genuinely don't know what. What is what is going to be like in 30 years?
Chris:I'm just, I can't wait to see this, this election, because it's like OK, everybody hated Trump, nobody likes Biden, so it's and it's, supposedly they're both running against each other again. So it's like our best bet is like can't be, nobody can.
Colby:Can everyone just like not vote? What would happen if, just theoretically, everyone just didn't vote, did you see? Oh shit, speaking of this I know there's absolutely no order to this, by the way everyone listening. So if you're on a roller coaster and you're like what the fuck is happening, welcome to an average conversation when we talk. It's fantastic. I love it. Have you seen the Civil War trailer?
Chris:Not Marvel, oh my goodness bro, Texas and California suddenly seceding from the United.
Colby:States. That's the only part. That's like a little weird but like that movie is scary in such a unique way.
Chris:It's getting very up. What's it called predictive? Because apparently Texas is doing this thing where they're. They're not listening to the federal government. So the federal government is trying to say that Texas is retaliating. Oh boy.
Colby:Civil War.
Colby:I was like oh man, it's like I seen that first trailer. I straight up had a nightmare because it's so real. It's scary, because it feels so real. There was a scene in that trailer where the main protagonists are just sitting there and there's like kids because you know you have to have kids and movies like this, so you feel bad and there's soldiers and the soldiers like going to kill them and the protagonist are like wait, we're American. And the soldier like scoffs and like lifts up his guns. Like what kind of American I'm? Like that's so real.
Chris:That's on that level.
Colby:Like literally people are on that level already, like if someone from like I don't know Again, I'm unopinionated but like someone in the South may be like, oh, you're in a, you're in New York and you're not really in it, it's like people are already at that, that granular, granular level.
Chris:It's scary, but that's, that's the, that's the USA number one baby.
Colby:It's wild, that movie. Oh my God. It's like I'm actually scared to watch it, but I also love. I've watched Parks and Recreation, so I can't unsee Ron Swanson every time. I don't know the name of the actor, but it's the guy who plays the president in that movie.
Chris:Oh, it's really, I didn't know that. Yeah, I don't know if that was the. They were trying to make that a kind of if like in their minds, if they thought, like Trump went fucking nuts and try to make a dictatorship. It's, I didn't know. Ron Swanson was playing.
Colby:Yeah, it's the actor. For one I can do it quick. Actor for Ron Swanson Nick Offerman. He also plays in the last of a show. But crazy man, that movie, I'm going to watch it and never sleep again. But long winded, sci-taging short run, it feels like we're walking on a cliff. Just economic, like globally, like what's going to happen next? Is North Korea just going to hit the Uno reverse card and take over the world? I mean, have a red dawn.
Chris:Apparently, North Korea is collapsing. That's what I was told.
Colby:Is it?
Chris:They're their economy is not doing too well and they're losing a lot of money. And they're they're supposed to not going to be classified as a country anymore.
Colby:That's kind of what happens when you have money that's made up. I mean, I guess all my theoretically I guess you can say all money is made up.
Chris:But North Korea man.
Colby:I don't know Worlds. We're living in very wild times. Everybody, Just do what you love. Do what you enjoy. Try to live every day to his fullest, Because next you know we're going to be walking dead.
Chris:Yeah, that's, that's, that's what I'm. I'm having the mindset now that I'm just, I'll be lucky if I make it to 30. Yeah, it's like it's. It's just, it's been crazy. Honestly, I don't think like, sorry, go ahead. No, no, it's like everything's just, everything's going, everything's crazy. It's like it's no one's thinking. It's like it's just. They keep just like they they're acting before they think and that's like I don't know. Yeah, it's just been going nuts.
Colby:It's crazy. I'll end this little, I'll end this section with this last thought that I usually tell people when they talk to me about it I because I relate, like I totally. It's hard to keep positive when everything feels like it's falling apart. But if we all have the mindset of what's the point of doing anything, because the world might end in like a year, if we get to that point when the world is ending and we're sitting there at that precipice, like I don't know, maybe it's flooding or maybe it's the nuclear war, and we're we're on that precipice, is waiting, you'll look back on the years before and be like man, I never did anything, I just waited for this to happen, and it's going to feel a lot worse. So if you just do what you love every day, try to pursue your creative passions, then no matter what happens, at least you're doing what you love. You know, speaking of what you love, youtube edits you're pretty good at all.
Chris:I just I don't know how to explain it. It's just a lot of impulses. It's like I get an idea to do in some, I just do it and then I watch it over and over and over again, like how do we make it better? And I put it down for a little bit, I put it back up and I'm like you know, I'm going to add this and I make these, these skits, so skits over the years. They're pretty good, though. They're pretty good. It's a very, it's very unnatural.
Colby:My favorites are the one where something wacky happens and then it cuts to your iconic laugh that I love. It's really good. Have you thought of crazy question? But have you thought of maybe doing more content creation and maybe even doing like an actual YouTube channel? Not, that sounds like an insult, but you know what I mean. Do you want to branch out into like doing more?
Chris:I mean I got a YouTube channel. Now it's just I just post like stupid shitposting stuff. Yeah, like when when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, like I made like a bunch of like Yakuza edits and Evangelion edits and all this stuff, but it was like it was. It's all just for fun. It's like I got suspended off of YouTube apparently for like a week. I like it Because so like on my YouTube page now I have like seven or eight videos, but I have like thousands of them on listed because I just I it's all stuff from when I'm playing, like my games and stuff, and I get.
Chris:I get like good clips and stuff. I don't want like other people seeing it, I only want to see it for myself. But it's on listed so like since like I'm able to like get the other people YouTube hit me on like a, I think I was like going nuts screaming at somebody, like grinding them on a game, they put you on a list. Mama Susan didn't like that and yeah, I got suspended for like a week. So all this stuff that I was like naturally like clipping while I was playing my game, I had to just send it to myself.
Colby:I like to imagine Susan click that video and it's just ear piercing, blood curdling screams.
Chris:And the thing was it was like a. It was like a five hour New Year's Eve live stream I was doing, so somebody had to sit through that video for five hours to find out what was wrong.
Colby:Oh man, I your edits are really good. I think I think you would be pretty good at making like crazy edits. You have to give talent there, my friend. I think you're pretty good.
Chris:I was trying to remember I don't know who it was though he on YouTube was looking for an editor. I almost considered it, but then he was like, oh, it's like a contest thing. I was like I don't want to do it. But he was like I think he was like a pretty, like somewhat big guy. I just don't remember who it was.
Chris:I was watching, I know, oh yeah, so this is super niche guy. You don't know him. So he's named Mr Beast. Mr Beast, I don't know, it was some random guy. He was like, well, I'll pay you. I was like maybe I should try and, you know, get like a little side hustle with it, but I didn't bother doing it.
Colby:I think you would be a great editor, Like others there's. I think you could do it. That could be a great side hustle man and it would be pretty fun. I think I mean I'm bad. I'm working on a video now. That's over an hour long and it's my Tarkov journey from like to level 15 and level 15 is when you unlock the flea market and it's like over an hour long and I want to die. I think you'd be good at it, yeah.
Chris:It's just that I don't know. It's been something I've been doing since I was like a kid, so I guess I adapted to it. I don't know. I always like seeing them.
Colby:They're always. They're always funny. But I want to do a little transition, get into. I kind of want to talk about anime, but I'm so uncultured I don't even know how I'm going to be able to.
Chris:If you talk about anime with me, it's gonna be very Abnormal of me. I guess I don't know, I don't, I don't like, I don't like putting myself in like General, like the generic audience of a weeaboos. I guess I do not like these people. I don't like. I like anime, it's just I don't like, I don't like the community at all. A lot of people like I mean like all these these conventions and stuff, cuz I go to these conventions and it's just like it's your stereo. Like you see the stuff online like stereotypical stuff. It's not stereotypical, it's real. Like I walked into. I walked into a guy dressed up as Tanjiro from Demon Slayer at a hentai booth browsing hentai, blu-ray, hentai. You know typical, like extremely overweight. You know not taking care of himself is it's, it's it's it's it's scary. But you get, you get a lot. You get a lot of good people too, like normal people. You know individuals that Like this as a hobby and that don't ingest it as their entire life.
Colby:Yeah, there's a lot of fedora memes. Yeah, I well, I literally only watched Demon Slayer and Sort of online. So I'm super. I'm bad with TV shows, but you've been to a lot of comic-cons, right? Yeah, I mean, when was the last one you went to the? One last year nice, I haven't been there in forever. Was it like super changed from COVID, or was it like normal again? So they went back to normal?
Chris:Like I like it was before COVID. I didn't go like during like the first two years of COVID. I went back in 22 and like that was when that was like kind of like the last year, when they were treating it as like a COVID emergency kind of event and that it didn't feel like it because it was really overpacked, still gotcha and man. Oh, like last year, like it was alright, it wasn't, it was, it was better than 2022. But, um, I remember I sat in line for maybe like three or four hours to go to a final fantasy panel, just so Matt Mercer can say oh yeah, I'm playing this guy in final fantasy. How was your experience meeting Matt Mercer? Did you lock up? No, no, I just, I just saw him on stage.
Colby:I was like front row.
Chris:I was like kind of far away from him and he was just sitting there he was. He was hosting the whole event, so he was just talking about.
Chris:He was talking to the cast of the people and, no, I, actually I accidentally um Bumped into the uh, I think I was like, um, no, I, actually I accidentally um bumped into the uh voice actor that plays cloud Because, uh, when me and Rebecca were there, there was this couple trying to take a picture in front of the, the giant poster they had. So Rebecca goes up to them. She's like, oh, I can, I can take you guys this picture, and uh, so like they're like, oh, thank you, thank you. So like she took the picture and she's like sitting there, like constantly taking the picture. I'm looking at Rebecca and she's like, she's like her mouth is a gate. I'm like what's going on? I look over at the the couple and the voice actor, cloud comes and she, he's talking to the, um, the the couple, and I'm sitting there like star strong, like I'm standing. I'm like, please, I want to talk to you. Her back is like Chris, we gotta go. They're kicking us out.
Colby:I, that's, that's really awesome, man, I, I. When I went to the one comic con, they were charging like $500 to meet Tom Hiddleston. That's a, that's his name, right, loki, yeah, yeah, I mean, sometimes you just want me or idols not pay a grand for 10 seconds. We ever back him at Tom Hiddleston. It's wild. I'm happy, though. I bet it was a good experience. Was it expensive? How much was it when you did it? Because when we were, when I seen the line, maybe it's cheaper if you do it ahead of time, but it was like $500 on site.
Chris:I think it was like 300. Oh, I'm just to get a, just to get a picture.
Colby:I would have did that. See, I think my threshold is like 400. I would. I would have dropped 300. I would have said something, the stupid, like what's up.
Chris:Yeah, now I don't like doing um Autographs anymore because it's too expensive and it's like I I don't get into like deep conversations with them. I just say, oh hey, how's it going. I just get the fancy picture with their signature and stuff and I come home and I just I frame it and I put it on a drawer and I never see it again.
Colby:Hey, that's the same with all my diplomas. I get them and I never look at them again.
Chris:Yeah.
Colby:Awesome, I think. Uh, we touched base on a lot there, um, so I think I want to transition over. We already touched on a little bit, but education in co vid. I might have foreshadowed this with you a little bit before, but I kind of how, how is it going? How has school changed for you? How is how's college life after co vid?
Chris:um. So after co vid, so like Before co vid. You know we had, you know we had.
Colby:I guess I should. I should ask what you're doing before, like what do you go to school for? I forgot to ask.
Chris:Oh, uh. So I go to school for a computer networking basically just like it was like, so like basics of it, just like get certifications.
Colby:And then get a job.
Chris:Awesome, awesome, it is fun, but um but, uh, before that, um, like when you know, when we were me and you were going and when we had all these people that we were with, uh, I was doing, like you know, the radiology stuff, and then co vid happened, and then I went online. We went online and then, uh, I took a, was, I took a like a semester off and then I went back and I was like Considering whether or not I wanted to change my major because I felt like I wasn't going anywhere with my old one. So I changed and then, like the past two years, I've been, uh, I'm almost done with it now finally, but I've just been doing. You know, I'm doing my need to do with that. And then, uh, but, like, on my way back from being online, they encouraged everybody to go back in person and it was like Very spread out, you know you couldn't get a seat anywhere. I was sleeping in my car and I finally broke that habit last semester.
Chris:Um, but like, since, uh, what was? I think it was Late last, early last year, 23. I think it was. They went fully back to normal, meaning like everything has opened up. You don't have to go through like temperature checks everywhere you go. You don't have to go through check-ins for, like, the library it's. It's like completely the way it was before covid. But Unfortunately, time does go on and when you're in college for quite a while, you see a lot of things change, especially with the student body and, um, a lot of them are like six years younger than me, five years younger than me, and I don't click with them very well. So I just go to school and I Come home and on uh, let's say I'm feeling a little bit wild. I go to the library and study for like three hours. Yeah, when I'm feeling a little edgy, I like to do some work at the library.
Colby:I like to push in their chairs if.
Chris:I'm feeling really dangerous.
Colby:But yeah, no, it's like it's been.
Chris:It's been normal for like the past year. Now they, uh, they got rid of the, uh, the vaccination mandate. Um, anybody can go. There's no limits on anything. Oh, um, they, they're getting better food now. I forgot to mention that. So, yeah, I think I'm gonna go to the library. I forgot to mention that so apparently in the yeah, apparently remember how, in the, the rally building, there used to be that micro market.
Colby:Uh, that one based the big room right with the stage and stuff.
Chris:It was, uh, that fancy building.
Colby:Oh yeah, yeah.
Chris:So they had like that self-service, like micro mark thing kind of thing.
Chris:Yeah, we're in that, pablo Escobar, that guy, yeah yeah, yeah, I know we're talking about so, um, last semester they got rid of it and it was just like an empty, like void. There was no food. Now, last semester it was uh, last year, last, uh spring semester. So last semester I wasn't in campus at all. That semester I was doing like internships and stuff. So, um, from what I heard from the grapevine being my literal email called the grapevine Uh, uh, they, they. We talked about like the grand opening for, uh, a new. It wasn't a restaurant, it's like a like a cafeteria kind of thing, but it's dumped through a third party. So now, like they're doing all, like actual food it's not like snacks and stuff, like they're actually cooking food for them.
Chris:But um, and then the, uh, the shepherd building. They got rid of uh the micro mark there and I think they're putting in one of those, those kinds of services, in the uh, the basement of that place too now.
Colby:I honestly think that is going to do amazing things for the campus. It's going to be honest with you. I noticed Not the sidetrack, um, at newpulse they have element 91, which is like a restaurant, and then they have A starbucks and then they have, uh, like a little restaurant in the cat. Um, the library, and I've noticed it does a lot of things for community. So I feel like that might change the vibe a lot. There's actually, oh yeah, something nice because the micro marks man, like it's the most depressing shit ever. People are lined up to get with soup and crackers and off brand for $10.
Chris:It's literally.
Colby:Every I would go. I would like, after class, be like man. I'm really hungry. What do I got? Oh, the food trucks not here, and half the time when they are there. They don't accept card anyway. By the way, you're on a college campus, why do you not accept card? So I meander my way over to the science building, go down there and the fridge is empty and there's just fucking cheese sticks. I'm like, oh, this is good.
Chris:The only place that has the micro mark still is in the biotech building. Because, uh, today I went speaking, like you know, soup being, like you know, like uh, ramen soup being $10, I wanted to go get like a one of those caffeinated coffee Chocolate bars.
Colby:Oh, the um, um, what was it called? I'm a thing, I might know what you're talking about.
Chris:I forgot the name. I just saw it by the the way it looked. I think I forgot it was cold. Oh, was it called a week? Rebecca's telling me awake. Yes, oh, my god, I live off those fucking things. Um, yeah, no, it's like three bucks now for like a little chocolate. Oh, it's three dollars now, holy shit. I was like, well, I'm down three bucks now, but at least I'm a little uh, my hunger is a little bit uh satisfied.
Colby:I all right, I I love awake bars man. I absolutely. I would get one like every day that I was at new paltz for like more than five hours. Those things work.
Chris:I think so because I've been awake all day.
Colby:Hey, I like you've been awake all day from having an awake bar.
Chris:Yeah, they're good too.
Colby:They're like, they're not super horrible for you in there, they're pretty good.
Chris:But um yeah, no everything there is. This it's. It's going good for the new generation. Not for me, though I don't like anybody.
Colby:What I've noticed. I, when I was at, when I was there with you, I was really excited Because, like, I was super excited to get to new paltz because I was so tired of being at that school, because I was really tired of the students being mad and Pissy all the time. What's my analogy? No, I think I had a great time there In terms of the students. Sorry, I reversed it. At that school I felt like the students were better. And then I got to new paltz and the students were atrocious but the, the, the staff was better. You know what I mean.
Chris:It like completely flipped, because I can, I can rant about it, but no, I think, my, I think, my thing is like I've been there so long I'm just sick of everybody.
Colby:I don't blame you, bro, I I'm telling you, man, I was there with new paltz. I was that last semester, I thought it was. I've only ever screamed at a classroom three, two times. Sorry, two times in my educational career. I only remember one of them. But my last semester was tested me. Everybody's political at the school that I went to I'm pretty sure I already said the name. So I at new paltz. When I went there, everyone was super political, everyone didn't want to be there. If you expressed any opinion you were gonna get beat up. Yeah, they had protests on campus that were loud as hell for events, world events you can probably guess out of the three world events going on, which one?
Colby:they were protesting, of course, and I thought I was gonna die. And there was to, like the cherry on top, that really expressed how bad the students not all of them there was there was it's a, it's a majority, but there's a really good minority that are great. There was one day it was raining and I'm walking into the student union building, which is like a giant metal triangle, and it was raining. I don't know why that you might notice this too. I don't know why people don't bring umbrellas when it's raining and they get really pissy about it. We all have phones, we can look at the weather, but oh, it was raining and I said hi to this guy. I was like, hey, good morning. He just started cursing me out because he had no umbrella. It's wild, but I I actually I missed where you are now. I missed that college when I was leaving newpals because I was so tired of it. I was I'm right there with you, man.
Chris:I was like I, I think it just might be a generational thing. I know I sound like a boomer, I know I sound like an old man, yeah, we're really. I think. I think it's just. I think it's just like a generational thing. I think we hit that cusp of like where everything just changed and like Younger people were brought up into like the way the world is now. Yeah, and it's just. I. I think it might be like they don't know, I don't know it's, it's, it's different, you know it's not like it's gonna be interesting.
Chris:It's not the. It's not the same as it was before, because it's like the way people are now. You know, yeah, it's, it's weird.
Colby:Yeah, I totally, I totally understand that. I'm really interested to see and I talked about this at my old job the the effect of covid on the people that were essentially born and raised in covid, because covid was like two and a half three years, that's. That's still like. If you're already like old enough to think free, if you're, you know there's an age you're a baby and then there's a. There's a point where you gain free will and then everything hits different. It's just like you're sitting in preschool and then you reach that cusp and you're looking at the toys you're playing with and you're just having an existential crisis because now you have free will and the people that were like at that stage when covid happened.
Colby:Like Online schooling mess a lot of people up. Like I just see in a post of everybody, literally an entire high school population was leaving their high school because the high school banned phones and after graduating from new, everybody was on their phone, even at new post and was so infuriating. So I completely I don't know the whole situation there, but I understand I likely can understand the school's decision for that, but online school really messed up a lot of people and the in class environment even had a four year university institution, the know everybody lost how to act like a person in class. It was that. Did you have the same experience?
Chris:No, I wouldn't say that, because a lot of my classes were like maybe like four to five people. But like I see it like walking by in other classes, like walking by it through other classes, seeing other classes how they operate and stuff, I'm getting that like my third person point of view. It's, it's, it's the way people yeah, it's like the way people act is like I don't know. I don't know how to, how to like explain it. It's just nothing. It's rules, the same anymore. Yeah, it's like people lost. People lost their common courtesy.
Colby:Yeah, totally agree, and I for like three semesters, because my first semester at that school, at New Paul's I already said I'm going to keep saying it, come dox me. I guess my first semester there was fantastic. Every other semester after that was horrible. Everyone just couldn't act like a human being, like you. It's. It's your favorite catchphrase. I like it when you say it's like it feels like you're living in a video game and everybody's an NPC. That's what it felt like, because everybody just didn't know how to be a human being. Yeah, like it was. Like it was preschool Everyone. It was literally preschool. I couldn't believe it. Like people would complain when there was a final exam. I'm like just like they would complain when there's homework. Everyone just forgot how to be a student like what was it?
Chris:last Friday I was in the library, I had to get, I had to catch up on a bunch of assignments and so I was there for like maybe like three, four hours. And so I'm sitting there and, like you know how the library has like those like those single cubicle kind of things, so I was sitting in one of those right next to the like one of the tables in between the bookshelf, the book aisles and stuff, and I see this girl sitting over there and I hear her like constantly shuffling around. So me being, you know, paranoid all the time, I just look over him because you know, every, I look at everybody thinking that you know, someone's probably going to shoot up the place. That's just.
Chris:That's just how this is it's America.
Colby:It's America.
Chris:I always look at people just in case you know someone's going to pull fast one. But I'm like, I'm like, I'm corning my eye to like try and see her and she's filming a Tiktok. Oh God, she's filming herself like a read books.
Colby:Oh God, yeah, yeah. So like I feel bad using my camera because I have, you know, the whole influencer camera set like the poll you put your phone on. That's a selfie stick, but I don't do it for cringy shit, like I do it for my brand. Yeah, I feel bad using it because everyone's like Tiktok. I mean, if you more power to you, absolutely no problem with it, but the library, that's a little weird.
Chris:It's just, it's crazy yeah.
Colby:Moral of story Schools crazy, I see that.
Chris:I see that I've been seeing that at Ock like all the time, not all the time. I see it frequently. It's, it's, I just.
Colby:I don't like it. Yeah, it's bad. You're almost out, though. You're almost there, you'll be free. Yeah, yeah, I'm getting there.
Chris:I'm 97% done. You're 100% done according to a degree work.
Colby:I'm very excited for you. It's going to be, it's going to be a big moment. I am I. After I graduated, I needed to find a replacement because the school gave me structure, so I needed to replace it with all this crazy stuff that I'm doing. So I think I'm excited for you, man. It's going to be great for you to be out and not have to worry.
Chris:I just, I just want to just establish myself and just live the rest of my life, hopefully, normally, yeah, I get drafted to Ukraine, or Israel or South Korea, depending on, or Taiwan, or wherever the theater of war takes us, or Texas to fight on the front lines.
Colby:It's crazy.
Chris:Wait for the Eastern colonies of.
Colby:America it's so wild, man it's wild. I I think we're almost at an hour and a half. I'm trying to think we pretty much hit everything. I think more of the story there is, you know, schools just wild right now.
Chris:Schools crazy.
Colby:I have actually everything's crazy, everything's wild and the best part, no one can afford a house, of course.
Chris:I didn't get into the housing market at age seven. Literally.
Colby:I love. It's crazy, it's a shame. Everyone's like blaming. I'm trying not to say like generational titles, but essentially everyone that's older is like you kids, you're so lazy, you're not doing enough work. What do you mean? You can't afford a house. I bought a house with my apple. I'm sorry I didn't invest in the housing market when I was in middle school. I'm really sorry about that.
Chris:I bought my house in 1978 for two thousand three hundred dollars. I did it's wild.
Colby:I bought my four bedroom house and my five cars. I had a thought, but now I lost it. Oh yeah, so I'm totally not the product concept one in the beginning of this episode, but it's okay. I, my family, listens to an undescripted news station and so what enough? Yes, you are.
Chris:You are correct.
Colby:And my grandmother listens to them quite a lot and I have to stay over at house at times when my parents want the weekend or whatever. And there was one time I was over there and I'm unfortunately I was forced to listen because they didn't have my headphones. So I was literally like painfully dying as I was trying to work on my book and the guy I think it was Carl Tucker, I think that's his name. I only know his name because he's in fury. Oh, what's his name? Well, tucker Colson.
Colby:Yeah, exactly, this guy was like screaming, like a call of duty, pregame lobby, like saying because they were, and fun facts side, little side, fun fact this, this undescripted news station that starts with an F, is not actually officially labeled as a news station. They're labeled as entertainment so they don't have to fact check their sources and their stories. Just a little. I learned that and made it. Made a lot, made a lot of sense when I heard it they were doing the story of it was like this he was screaming like these kids are so lazy, they're bringing their parents to interviews there, they're living with their parents until they're 30. They only have one job and it's like oh, just do some, look at a chart, look at a graph and look at the basic annual income of a normal American, like the most stereotypical American. Just look at their income and it's not considering anything else. You would need to work like 20 jobs to afford a bedroom. People are buying houses on Amazon because they're cheaper, like the small home, so you can put together.
Chris:I want you, if I, if I ever start a podcast, that's going to be my whole persona Tucker Carlson. I'm going to be like Tucker Carlson. I'm going to be like Bill Burr every time he goes on. Kony, joe Rogan, joe Rogan, come out with the most unhinged statements. Do you think you know? People get people wear watches now, but at some point in the future they're going to want to integrate it in their wrists.
Colby:Speaking of that, hear me out, I the whole thing with the brain, whatever it's called musk link, I don't know what it's called. That is a very interesting. It definitely feels like cyberpunk. I feel like if anyone else was doing it, if it wasn't musk, I feel like it might have been a little bit less scary, right, because, like the goal of it is like help people with disabilities. I can't normally, but unfortunately the guy doing it is like I don't know.
Chris:I was doing a. I was doing like a decent amount of research on that for like a whole week, because I'm pretty sure I'm mentally damaged Me too. I think we all are apparently, according to Elon, according to Mr the musk. Daddy, musk, if you must daddy musk.
Chris:So his mission statement for that is that he wants to make it for like people you know, paraplegics, you know people that can't control their limbs and stuff they want. He wants to like make a make your brain a mouse cursor, essentially, so you just like control a computer via Bluetooth and do whatever. But according to him, he wants to like eventually make it so that we can interact with AI and stuff. He wants to make a side. He's a big fan of cyberpunk, so he wants to make it like you know, make it cyberpunk and stuff. But like, according to like the actual scientists and researchers that were working on it, they're like it's all just hype, it's literally just gonna be a mouse cursor for people that can't move anything.
Chris:There was this one video I was watching where the guy was like he was like a big, like he's big in the, the brain chips and stuff. But like he was talking about how the neural link was unique to other like previous built brain chips. Is that because this one's wireless and it uses Bluetooth rather than just being wired, that it's a, it's a lot faster? But he was saying that like for us to like, be like in that cyberpunk kind of world is gonna take like maybe like a century or less, maybe, to understand you know the actual functionalities of the brain and you know, not like just do it blind, because that's gonna it's gonna kill a lot of people. It's like so big.
Chris:Yeah, like my, my like opinion towards it is like it's all hype and it's like Elon Musk. Just you know, his ex-wife was in cyberpunk. He likes cyberpunk.
Colby:My man is a fire here. He played Fatem Liberty. He snapped his fingers. He was like I want to make this real.
Chris:He turns, it was because, like you know what I got, an idea Hear me out brain dance? I have no idea. Let me buy out a company real quick.
Colby:Then change their entire name. I think, how about we talk? How about we end on cyberpunk? I feel like that is a very good and happier, even though the game world is depressing thing. And you played all of cyberpunk, right yeah, all right, how do you like it? I loved it.
Chris:Despite everybody hating it when it came out and like going through all that, that, that nightmare that it was when it came out, I still enjoyed it. Like, even though I didn't get a lot of crashes and bugs I had a car literally get launched in the air in mid-mission and I died but I still like, despite, like me, constantly having to restart the game, I enjoyed the story. I really love the story and you know, like, ever since you know 2020, they, they fixed it and everything it's been doing. Really great, I continue to love it. It's probably one of the my top 10 games of the whole time.
Colby:I'm right there with you, I think. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off there if you were still going, trying to thought oh yeah, I think cyberpunk has one of the best comeback story next to no man's sky. There's no man's skies come back and there's cyberpunk's come back, and they're both breathtaking. Like, I'm right there with you. My top 10 game list is very hard to break into, but cyberpunk really broke into it, especially after Phantom Liberty. That game, especially at DLC, made me feel emotions and course, like you know the song that everyone cries about, I really want to stay at your house, so I did. I don't know who did you romance in your playthrough? Did you do any romances, judy? Okay, good, then you'll know exactly so.
Colby:Judy is. I mean, judy is pretty hot. So after I finished, like you know, your spoiler for anyone who hasn't played it. But when you're doing her romance mission where he likes also really good mission, just like the feel zone man, and just like when you're swimming through the ocean and you're reliving memories and you have the the NSFW scene. But when I was leaving after I completed the mission, that fucking song came on. It was perfectly timed and yet it makes.
Colby:I don't know what ending. You beat Phantom Liberty right. Are you gonna replay Phantom Liberty?
Chris:I probably am one of these days, because I kind of got like a. I kind of got like a very dud of an ending, because I made you can.
Colby:You can spoil. What ending did you get, because I want to see if it's the same. So again, spoiler warning for anybody.
Chris:So what's her name so me, betrayed me, you know, lied to me saying that she could, exactly. I went against Reed. And then so me and so me, we're going to the, we're gonna go to the moon and try and supposedly fix the brain chip in my, my cranium. And that's when she came out and said yeah, no, it's not for you, it's actually for me, I'm dying. So I was like you know what I mean? Pick up. And so I gave, I gave her to read and reads. Like you know, I'll keep in touch, we'll get you with the CIA, I'll get you to Europe at some point. Just, you know, give me a call, I'll give you a call one of these days. And it just ended like that. I was like, oh, I was probably like the most anti-climactic ending. I can go.
Colby:I'm not, you need you need to play again. I'm telling you I. So there's. I'm not gonna tell you what it, but there's three or four endings. Look, I got the new base game ending. Highly recommend trying to figure out how you can unlock that. Very, very I mean I wanted to jump off a roof, but very good, I see. No, but that that that's what read. Phantom Liberty is like fucking phenomenal.
Chris:That was so good, like apparently there was an update I didn't know about that they could change Johnny's appearance.
Colby:Really.
Chris:Because there was this. There was a video I saw on Instagram and the guy was talking to Johnny and he looked like he looked like a like Neo's outfit from the Matrix and I'm like, oh, I must be a mod. So I looked it up and apparently they they did an update where you could give them different appearances.
Colby:I didn't know that was a.
Chris:Thing.
Colby:Every time CD Projekt Red has said their this is our last update for Cyberpunk, they make another one.
Chris:Oh, because you know now the aren't they working on the Witcher 4 now?
Colby:Yeah, they're working on the Witcher 4 and Project Oren, which is the next Cyberpunk. I think, because of how well Cyberpunk did, we're going to see Project Oren, or whatever they're going to call it, in a lot quicker time scale than we did with Cyberpunk 2077, taking like our entire life to come out. So I'm very excited, man. That game was phenomenal and I think you have the same music, but the music that plays at the end of Phantom Liberty, that like action music.
Colby:oh my God, I'm pretty sure it's the same, no matter what ending, you get my the one that I chew. I went with Reed but the music played. Oh my God, I played that shit on loop. Great game, I'm so excited. I'm also really excited for the Witcher 4, because I love the Witcher and I'm reading the books and I'm almost done with the series.
Chris:See, I tried getting into the Witcher. I did, Rebecca got into it more than me and I couldn't. It was too. It was too long for me, I guess I don't know. It was long I don't have that attention span.
Colby:I don't blame you, man, trust me, I'm weird with the Witcher. I started it, stopped it, started it, stopped it, started it got like 20 hours, no, like five, six hours in stopped it and like my fourth or fifth time playing it, I stuck with it and I basically it was basically like putting an IV drip into my vein and now I live and breathe the Witcher. But it's not. It's a weird game. It's definitely, it's long, it's really weird.
Chris:Oh no, that's what it was. So I got into, like my, I finally got into a sex scene and then I put it down. That's what it was. That's what it was. That's what I lost. And it wasn't even a major character, it was one of the side characters. I like it.
Colby:If you. There's a funny thing with that game where if you sleep with all of the characters, you basically you get a cuck ending. They actually like the developers accounted for that and they're like we're going to make Yana for like essentially cuck you.
Chris:See the consequence yeah.
Colby:That's. Those are the RPG decisions that gamers want.
Chris:It's like kind of similar with a Persona five, where you, you romance every underage girl, you romance. So you know, romance the underage girls, the, the, the very overage women. It's, it's wild.
Colby:That just says the cops directly. Do they just send the cops to your door? They should.
Chris:But apparently. No, apparently, if you romance everybody on Valentine's Day, they all get you a gift and they meet up with you in the same spot. There's like 14 of them and they all, they all jump you. Yeah, that's fitting, I love that.
Colby:But yeah, cyberpunk is a great game Masterpiece. Looking forward to that.
Chris:I think I that game tried getting. I tried getting into the tabletop but no one wanted to play with me. He just kept saying oh, it's robot D and D. I'm like no, it's cyberpunk, you know, you wouldn't get it.
Colby:I am down. I actually have the entire PDF, pdf of the rulebook, and I've been trying to find people play with too, because if anyone, if anyone, wants to say it's robot D and D, I don't know if they know that Starfinder exists, which is literally science fiction. Pathfinder and Pathfinder came from D and D.
Chris:It looks like. I tried, I tried getting the original one from the 80s and apparently that's going on for like $400. Holy crap, and that was before cyberpunk got like huge. The game is like so God knows how much it costs now. That's crazy and I'm scalpers.
Colby:I'm really glad that this, the game did well and the genre is coming out because such a good game. We really need good single player story games Really do they're so they're so far in between to go all the way back to the beginning of a conversation. Everything is live service. Like single player games are so rare to come by that are good, at least from the Western market. They're mostly like JRPG is like JRPG is having some pretty good stories. I just can't play them.
Chris:No, like uh, I'm playing the Persona 3 remake and that game the original one was like 110, now was maybe, and they've been. They've been working on this game since 2019. So I think it's probably the same, maybe more on the new one, the remake one. It's wild.
Colby:It's wild Well.
Colby:I think I just make sorry, no, you're good, I think we'll wrap it up, because we're actually at an hour and 40 and that's a really good time. Um, what I like to do going forward and I'm going to this for my brother's podcast I'm going to put you on the hot seat, and if you don't, if you don't have anything to say, that's completely okay, but with, like, if you wanted to leave the audience off with any words of wisdom or a thought, what would it be? Um, or it's a wisdom, or just like, what would you? What would you leave the audience with as we close out?
Chris:Just uh, live your life, live your life uh, keep on pushing.
Colby:I like it. Live your life, do what you love, try to make every day, every day count. Yeah, pretty much.
Chris:Don't try not to worry about anything. That's what I'm trying to work on, but uh, you know I have severe anxiety issues, so it's it is what it is, you know completely understandable and everything is always fear tactics.
Colby:But of course, yeah, I appreciate you coming on, my friend. It's been a good episode and thank you all for listening and feel free to uh to follow some like subscribe. Drop me a comment in the YouTube comments section. Oh, but if you, if you enjoyed it, feel free to give give me a follow and I'll see you in the next episode. Goodbye everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
