Welcome agents to strain 96- JBB of the zero point report the number one broadcast all about the news surrounding the secret world IP Today is Thursday October 17th 2024 and
with me tonight.
We have two ton waffle Me Yes, you know thought as a person behind me No, it's you I must be and Jimmy the rabbit
Where?
Behind two-ton waffle.
Right there.
And I'm Ocho, welcome to the Zero Point Report.
How are you guys doing this fine, fine October evening?
Nice to be home.
Good.
Wishing I had made booze.
That's I meant.
fair.
Also fair.
Someone, I agreed with someone from the UK who had never had eggnog.
And they're like, what is eggnog?
And I was like, it's...
The drink, it's we have it here in the US.
It's an experience.
It is.
I love it.
I love a good eggnog.
Every year I get like massive amounts of it.
But they were like, is it anything like a snowball?
And I said, what the heck is a snowball?
And they were like, and I looked it up and apparently a snowball is essentially mixing.
You looked online at the snowball?
Yes.
The drink, mind you.
Yes, I know what a snowball is.
But I looked up for the drink and it was like mixing eggnog, basically mixing eggnog with lemonade.
And they were like, this is the drink we have over here.
I was like, that sounds ridiculous.
And I will have to try it.
I will say, I never liked, I never cared for eggnog.
That's a kid.
I still don't.
But it's like a Christmas Eve tradition.
And what my dad did growing up was he would cut it.
He'd cut it with 7 Up specifically.
OK.
Lemon limey flavor.
It's not lemonade, but it's it's close.
It's a lemon lime flavor.
I feel like you're relying a lot, though, on like the carbonation, I think, as well to like it just it just helps cut the egginess of it.
It thins it out some.
See, and I'm so used to the store-bought ones, which don't necessarily taste like egg a whole bunch.
They just more taste like...
The thick milk.
Basically, yeah, like thick sweet milk, essentially.
When I say eggy, it's less of the taste and more of the texture.
That's the 7-Up helps to do.
It's not just a taste, but you're putting a thin liquid in it.
It's too thick, right?
It's for me.
It is very thick.
The texture is wrong.
And the 7-Up helps kind of like smooth out the texture.
OK, I'm a texture person like that.
I think it tastes like one or another doesn't usually bother me.
But textures, will.
Well, that's my like, no, if the texture is wrong.
Like to me, like spaghetti.
Fucking hate lasagna.
And they're like basically the same thing.
Yeah, I was gonna say they're the thing.
It's of the lasagna shell.
It's the flat layered, that and ricotta cheese, I fucking hate the texture of ricotta cheese.
But again, I love cheese, I all kinds of cheeses.
The texture of that one in particular, like I don't like.
And it's weird because ricotta is what, mozzarella?
Basically, I bought- I like mozzarella, but it's We bought my father-in-law a how to make your own mozzarella kit once, and I was helping him do it.
and we messed it up and just made ricotta.
And it's whoops, there's ricotta.
Yeah, that's what it was.
It was sort of like, nope, we missed a step and it's well, what is this?
And it's like, well, it's it's apparently it's ricotta now.
It was like, it's basically like the same cheese, just like, I don't know, without like forming it into or without something to form it into the solid shape.
Hey Vomr.
Hey Shanta Hex.
How are you?
Thank you for joining us.
I don't know, you're talking about alcohol, just made me think about that.
That's more Christmas.
It really is.
I don't know.
Yeah, we're not there yet.
mean, even though the stores still have actually have had for like past month Christmas decorations.
We're not there yet.
get eggnog right now.
I'm sure you can.
I know I can buy it in the store now.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
We're all dancing on stream.
Well, yep.
Forgot, yes, ephemeral lop in.
That is Jimmy.
Yep, that's me.
That's me and Mario.
You might not be able to see me, but I'm on screen.
Are you?
Yes.
You see the scarecrow
See the little pumpkin
my god.
That's amazing.
All right.
Waffle, Waffle, you're the camera.
You got to show people the dancing dude in the pumpkin.
You
Let's see.
I don't even know.
Maybe I'll go like, hold on.
I'm to stand on top of you for a second.
OK.
Don't step on me.
Okay, the rainbow's too big.
was gonna say, I can't even see that.
Yes, I can.
It's giant.
I put it way up there now.
That's hilarious.
I'm still itty bitty.
It's fine.
He's so tiny.
Please change me.
I'm fine.
I'm fine being tiny.
Ant-Man.
Yes.
Punch things in the heel.
Someone I know is also streaming Secret World.
Not too long ago, they were just like, I'll just jump in for the day.
And I was like, the event had just started.
So was like, I'll join you.
So I jumped in with him.
And he was like, what the hell?
I was like, yeah, as we're going around Kingsmouth.
Jumped into the hourly jackboss.
And you mean literally inside of him.
That's right.
You're weirdo.
How do I explain that one to them?
I basically the truth.
was like, listen, I was made this small.
It's fine.
people come all shapes and sizes.
When a man loves a snicker bell.
When in the secret world.
See, this is the reason why they never made any Tinkerbell movies after the Neverbeast.
You see, you got some splayed in it.
Be like what?
I'm a bee.
He's just actual bee-sized.
It's fine.
Is it though?
Is it fine?
Yeah, I can't imagine like in the opening cinematic having like Ocho in size as he is, like crawling in somebody's mouth.
Why are you thinking about Ocho being in people's mouths?
He's a bee.
I mean, sure.
It could happen.
So welcome, welcome to your point report.
We're here.
shenanigans going on here.
The shenanigans already starting.
It's fine.
We're here.
We're starting.
Not a whole bunch of news that I found, but obviously the biggest one.
Sam Hain has started again.
How do you pronounce it?
Mr.
Sam Hain.
like you took your cowboy hat.
That's what I do.
Mr.
Sam Hain!
just piss off a whole bunch of people when you do that.
Which, okay, is the fun part of doing that.
Sao-in.
Sao-in?
That's the, supposed to be the proper pronunciation.
started again, October 15th.
Got snowballs around us.
Talking about snowballs.
Started the 15th.
And as far as I login started also on the 15th.
They started the event on the same day as the login.
What?
What is that madness?
Madness.
Well, they didn't start at the exact same time, if that's helpful.
What's that?
I they didn't start at the exact same time, if that's helpful.
Okay, alright.
There was like, I don't know, like an hour and a half-ish delay?
Something like that?
Okay.
Maybe more?
I don't remember exactly.
Bummer, I remember.
It's 3 a.m.
The logon started at 3.
so much later.
I thought they started at like 9.
The event started at 9 a.m.
but logon started at 3 a.m.
Okay.
All right.
But hey, same day.
Same day.
Yeah, same day.
Same day.
That is what we call same day service.
Here on The Secret World, we appreciate same day service.
any service of any kind, of any kind.
We'd like whatever you got.
But of course, the spooky season has returned.
the broadcast meowing cat God, hourly Jack bosses.
I mean, what you do every hour is up to you.
You want to Jack bosses.
not going to stop you.
Every hour you do you.
I'm not here to kink shame anyone, throw aspersions, come down and tell you how to do your job, jacking things every hour.
Vyra says, but you only get the pretty seasonal Samhain skin to your daily login window once the event is active, provided you have the daily login window patch, which I do.
I do.
It's mod.
What does waffle?
Nevermind.
Waffle doesn't know what login is.
Yeah, I don't know.
are you talking about?
Daily lo-login?
Daily logan.
No, it's just a different picture of a different logan every day.
You know what mean?
I'm going to Google famous Logans.
No, it's not even famous Logans.
Logan Berskowitz from...
Logan.
Logan Henderson, Phyllis Logan, Logan Lerman, Logan Miller.
I don't even know who these Logans are.
Like I said, non-famous Logans.
Logan Mankins F.
Donald Logan
Okay, chill out.
Esquire.
We're gonna start swearing at people.
Just name dropping everybody.
Name dropping every Logan.
Yeah, but you said F that one.
That's not nice.
Wait, did I?
I did, yes.
I love that that took you like...
It took me couple seconds.
Well, the processing.
I was like, I was like, wait, no, I just read it.
His name is Francis Donald Logan.
He just goes by F Donald Logan.
Yeah, F Donald Logan.
F Donald Logan, man.
Mike, it took a second or two.
That's hilarious.
F him.
Be like, no, he created that name himself.
He told everyone else.
He takes full responsibility for it.
That's right.
If you start your name with your initial letter and it's the letter F, you're just...
that's your own fault.
Ahem.
So yeah, F.
Donald Logan.
Sounds good.
Yeah.
That one just sounds like you're hitting on him.
Put the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
trying to F Donald
Tell me more about Donald Logan.
Now I'm interested.
He has a Wikipedia page.
Now you want to F him?
That's right.
Was an American.
was.
He died in 2022.
Wow.
So necrophilia it is.
right.
RIP Donald Logan.
Was a professor of history at Emanuel College.
Cool, cool.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
We're just going down this.
The son of Joseph a milk deliverer sure sure Anyway, all right enough about Donald Logan
So yeah, we're in the spooky season.
We're standing here right outside the gate to where Jack spawns.
See, you guys thought zero point report was like some kind of, you know, nod to like the filth.
It's just that we don't have a point.
Yeah.
At all.
It works both ways.
You see those rails?
We do not go on them.
What rails?
You see rails?
Well, when new people come in, they see rails, but we're no longer near them.
But in between this show and the last show, the envoys of Avalon came and went and were disrupted by hurricanes.
And sickness.
Yeah, we were going to have a show multiple times.
Yeah.
And then we did it.
Due to hurricanes, due to sickness, back to school sickness.
Hurricane again.
Or another hurricane.
yeah.
So we finally have a Thursday where nothing is breaking apart.
Hey, Scratch.
I see Scratch is joining us.
But yeah, the envoys of Avalon came and went.
Login started September 16th with the envoys making their appearance on the 18th.
Take them a bit of time.
Lasted two weeks until the 29th.
Which to me, the math didn't necessarily work there, but it does.
I did my math wrong.
I was like two weeks, 14 days from the 16th, so it should end the 30th.
And so I tried logging in on the 30th to get my last day and it was not there.
I had missed one day.
That's fine.
It happens.
So ended on the 29th.
That's okay.
Because the 29th would be two weeks, be counted out.
Including the 16th day.
Did that.
I don't think I did very much during that, I don't remember why.
bit of a blur.
I I'm gonna be honest.
Little bit of a blur.
say well you've been leveling up ephemeral lepon, right?
Yeah I have done Like OB on them.
It's not like I haven't done OD.
I just don't remember Maybe I did I feel like I did the mission at least once Okay on on femoral.
I'm pretty sure
I've been trying Lapin.
Is it Lapin or is it like Lapin?
Lapin.
It is Lapin?
Okay.
What I saying?
Remember Lapin?
I think so.
Yeah, I say Lapin.
I see, but it's your character's name, It's however you pronounce it.
I mean, yes and no.
I'm not a proponent of that jackass.
It was like, well, I say it this way.
I'm like, I don't fucking care.
What is it?
GIF.
Yeah, GIF and JIF.
Yeah, I fucking hate it he wants it to be the other way.
And I'm like, just because you don't know how to speak doesn't mean you get to decide how everyone else speaks.
You jackass.
But it's French, I believe.
I think it is.
I know it is French.
Look, I didn't come up with that.
Like, Tips just likes to call me Lelappen.
The rabbit.
Okay, this is going to sound, this is going to sound weird.
But there was one time in college, was part of the, the theater, I was part of like the, the, the student run theater troupe on campus.
Cause I just, you know, come out of high school and I did theater in high school.
And so I like, I'm just going to keep doing theater.
So I joined a theater troupe in there.
And one of the first shows we did,
was called Picasso at the Lapine Augeal, which is actually a really good show written by Steve Martin, I think.
And it's basically like Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein, and all these people just meeting in a bar.
it's a comedy, but it's like a philosophical comedy.
Okay.
but I believe it was written by Steve Martin.
And right, okay, made by Steve Martin.
okay.
So yeah, so it's a comedy.
was, it's good.
It was funny.
And so I believe it's Lapine.
Because it was Picasso with the Lapin Agile.
And so that's like the only time I came across that word was That could probably be correct way to say it.
But I also like to say Fagida.
So I was like, how do you pronounce it?
Because I'm pretty sure it's Lapin.
And what was the other one I like to butcher on purpose?
you know, Mojitos.
Maggitos.
Yeah.
There's two that I like to do.
is instead of jalapeno, it's jalapenos.
and case, case, a Dillas case of the case of Dillas.
yeah.
That's a good one too.
Guy in our cabal, Andres is from Mexico.
And I used to just
Like, butcher the words on purpose in Discord with them.
Of course.
Just to piss with them.
Like, what the fuck?
I did it once with...
I did it once with Tom, like with French.
I forget what I think it was.
I think I said.
Crappies or something.
I was doing creeps, but I like I butchered it hard and he had no idea what the fuck I was saying.
You're like, I I refer to him as creeps, creepy, creepies.
Yeah, I think I think I said crappies or something.
And he was like, what are you saying?
I was like, crappies, you know, you know.
And then I like, typed it and he was like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
And obviously I know how to say grapes.
was just, you know, I was intentionally seeing like how badly I could butcher the name.
One of our recent favorites is, my son reads a lot.
And so he has, you know, like they say, like, you know, never don't necessarily make fun of people who pronounce things wrong because you never know where they learned it from.
And if they just learned it from like, just reading a book, that's not a bad thing.
They just sort of took their best guess and just went, hey, that's what I think it is.
so he does, but he's done that for a lot of words.
And it is so hard for us to, because, you know,
The right thing to do is to basically correct it and be like, no, that's pronounced this way.
So we learned.
you want to keep hearing the funny version.
We want to keep hearing the wrong version so badly.
Yeah.
For a lot of words.
And there's one where we're just like, no, we've just fully agreed.
That's not the way it's pronounced.
And that word is a quiche.
Because every time we go grocery shopping, there's like a quiche section.
It's like, and like store, store-made quiches.
And so he saw that once and he was like, cause he was just reading the signs and he was like, quee-chay.
yes.
Yep.
That's it.
Sorry.
That will forever be quee-chay.
Sorry.
Hourly box.
I'm like, I don't make this up.
We don't make up the rules.
It's now that forever.
I remember like I was a big, big reader, like as a kid, super young, super, super like fast.
I read a ton.
The problem with with being really good at reading and not out loud, like, you know, just reading yourself when you're really young is like you said, like you don't have the
context.
No.
So you're figuring it out.
Like you just look at a word and you've learned like the basics, right?
But especially when you know, you're like I was reading
I was like nine, eight or nine and reading like Tale of Two Cities, like unabridged version and like back-flip and light fang and shit.
I was, the old English shit was nuts.
Like there were two different like Charles Dickens ones I read, like the old English versions, which is like, that shit is like deciphering another language altogether.
Yeah, that sort of old English is like, it's rough.
But probably until I was like...
like 12 or something, I think Island was Island for me.
Because I never fucking said it out loud.
I always read it in books in my head.
Right?
And so no one knew to correct me.
Now I was never only ever seen in the book and like never heard anyone say right, you know, no I was never a big So not many people talk about his land.
I Was never a big leader when I was young but I did play a lot of like RPGs
and they have a bunch of words in them.
that's, you know, we talk about like different pieces of armor.
which usually all comes from like French or just different parts of like, you know.
less problems with the other languages.
was was it was actually English that was the bigger problem.
I remember even reading like sci-fi that had its own language, like a sci-fi book that had like its own language and not like you know, Star Wars or something or a Star Trek where
like there actually is
Klingon or something in Star Trek, for example.
Right.
Well, just like a book that like they had whole sentences of like their own made up bullshit in there.
But you can figure it out like contextually.
I was good at that.
I don't remember if I did Beowulf Bomber ever, if I read that when I was young or not.
I think I read Will Be Dick.
Maybe around the time I did.
Here's the thing, the books.
Those books I was reading were like leather bound, like you know, like the like Bibles have like that super thin paper with a small print and like the gold edging.
yeah.
You can like cut yourself good on them.
Like that's that those are the copies of those books.
They're like my dad's like really good versions of these like classic, you know, expensive editions.
I think I was like super sick.
And so I don't know for like a few weeks, I was just like
in my bed, like reading these massive books.
How we doing on this jack?
we're doing good on this jack.
Jacking them down.
used to like go to the library and like check out something like 30 books like every two weeks
Okay, so you were a huge reader.
Yeah, yeah, like I like ridiculous.
I was basically going through it like a couple of books a day easy.
Sometimes like on the weekends, I'd go through like, like seven books in a day or something.
That's sort of the way that we think.
have read so much that I will never ever remember, partially because of brain injury and partially because it's just too much.
Yes.
it's just too much.
I have read the entire sci-fi section of multiple libraries from different states.
Because we moved around.
That is sort of the way that we assume my son works now.
He did the, I mean, we did together in a way, but the thousand books before kindergarten challenge from our local library and.
Sort of, and that sort of thing.
And he's currently in another one where they're like, let's see how many books you can read for October.
And he's already on like 50 something that he's, but we're trying to get him to read out loud to us.
So it's a little slower because otherwise, right.
We give him a stack of books and he just like, he just, and again, no one really taught him how to do it.
He just sort of figured it out himself.
So we don't know how he does it.
Yeah.
Well, and that's why it's good to have people.
them read out loud as well, right?
So you can tell if they've got something correct or if they've misinterpreted something, you know?
Right.
You can help.
You can't help if they're reading silently.
Exactly.
Yes.
So I recognize that is super annoying because I fucking hated that when I was younger.
You know, having to read aloud because it's so much slower.
Mm And that's what it is.
Last year, his teacher was like, he doesn't really like to read out loud.
He gets really frustrated at it.
Yeah.
And we're like, yeah, probably because it's so much slower.
Even in like, I think even like sixth grade or something.
So that's the thing, right?
I think I read, I read like the original like Jack London's White Fang when I was like eight or nine.
And then at some point in school, like sixth or seventh grade, they read, they read White Fang in class many, many years later, right?
But I was like, all right, cool.
I'll read this version because it's a little bit different.
But they were had they were reading out loud and there's like kids in the class like.
It's like they would do that popcorn thing.
I don't know if you heard of that or like you alternate who's reading out loud.
OK, here we done that.
Which is super frustrating when like you you already are slowing yourself down to read out loud yourself.
You have to wait for someone else to read out loud.
and they don't read as fast as you do?
my God.
It's like literal old Chinese torture when the person is reading like one word every 30 seconds.
You're like, for the love of God, kill me.
You're like, come on.
Yeah.
Like we think sort of, yeah, the way he reads is he doesn't actually read like word for word.
So we're right.
Having to read word each word, he was like, hold on, what?
I have to do what now?
Well, so what I used to do was I would put my thumb on the page where the class was, I would read ahead.
And then when they would call on me, I'd have to go back to the page everyone else was still on.
And like a couple of weeks in, was like entire chapters ahead while everyone else is still.
And I like the part where I'm holding my finger, like, and the pages count just kept getting bigger and bigger.
I just get bored.
Yeah.
Those all the I fuck.
OK, I hate the Pizza Hut reader coupon thing so much.
Love it.
There's not one by us.
yeah.
Well, back in a day, it was like you're everywhere.
Target.
But they don't take the coupons.
Right.
Yeah, because they're the ones in Target.
They're not the special standing stores.
And it's not like you could find a pizza where you could actually go and sit down and salad bar and whole thing anymore anyway.
Yeah, they're very rare.
Red, like red plastic cups.
Yeah.
I have to throw, I just throw them away and go to Target and buy him one.
Like that's all I have to do.
All that is, making, all those things are is making me spend money.
I mean, yes, absolutely.
No, but you know what saying?
Like it's not free for me because there's not one around.
So like, why is the school giving me this?
It wasn't.
The secret is it wasn't free for our parents either.
Well, I mean, but I think this would be free.
It is free if you the coupon there.
but since they don't accept the coupon.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Like.
The- the- the- there used to be a Pizza Hut in the area and then like, think like closed down or something, but they still give the kids a goddamn coupons.
Mm-hmm.
Kinda horse shit.
So we have a couple in our area as far as Pizza Hut's, but none of the ones that are the free standing actual restaurant ones anymore, which is We're lucky to have one near us.
We had one.
I it's not a restaurant they would take them, just like, if it's a franchise, I think they have to take them.
But like if the Target doesn't, the Target is not a normal pizza.
So that's true.
Well, I asked.
did ask.
guys just stayed in there I just gave him our t-shirt.
What now?
Some guy's just standing there, Anakian.
I mean, does sound familiar.
So I was like, I'm going to give them one of our T-shirts.
It's throwing out shit.
They're not they're not even going to they're not even going to know they're just going to look at it.
I mean, their dressing room.
When did I get this?
You don't even know.
And that's okay.
Yeah, they're gonna look months from now and be like, when did I get this?
as they say, what do we have these items if not to use them?
Clearly to hoard and take to our graves.
Like the ancient Egyptians?
To take it with us?
We're gonna take it with us when we go.
Yeah.
So waffle, check this out.
I'm gonna do the Mirage.
the rainbow, the Mirage rainbow.
Check out how tiny it is.
It's so tiny.
I gotta zoom in.
You what you should do though?
You should scare people by putting on gravity skates.
And you just pop up to full size and take them off.
I can.
I should.
Yes.
Let's do that.
It is a Halloween spirit after all.
Where are my gravity skates?
There they are.
UGH!
my, how big you've gotten.
Hey, Tatterhood.
How you doing?
Stand in front of the guy who just gave the t-shirt to.
In big and...
Wrong sprint.
There we go.
What they say?
I saw bubble.
I'm a bee.
That's what this is.
Back to dancing.
So even though it's been a while since our last show, the only other news that really we had besides, of course, the events that have been going on, we saw that Metal Hellsinger
VR released September 26th on Meta and October 3rd for PSVR2 and Steam.
So, Metal Hellsinger in VR.
cool for those who have it.
I've only tried VR a couple of times, and the couple times I tried it has been pretty cool.
I won't lie.
but I don't know, I don't have that on my current system.
I got my kids like the meta quest things like for Christmas last year and they don't use that like hardly ever.
No, yeah, that's part of the problem.
think the virtual world is just sitting on a box.
So I need to like just steal one and mess with it.
Although it is little rough, like it's hard to use the glasses.
And I probably need to get new contacts.
I have contacts, but I probably need to get new ones.
Yeah, my glasses are reaching the end of their life and it's starting to I probably need to get new glasses.
I don't remember the last time I got my actual prescription for my glasses updated.
But I will say that unless there's a setting I'm missing, I don't think you can just adjust your VR for your prescription.
But you should be able to.
I feel like you should.
If you look into a microscope, don't necessarily need glasses looking into a microscope sort of thing.
I mean, I understand that it could be like more complicated than that, but also like it's a piece of tech like unless you have like crazy, you know, other than crazy weird, like if
it's just like, you know, I mean, as far as like the corrective part of it, like you feel like you probably would be able to just code that theoretically.
Yeah, I code a prescription filter or something just to sort of make it a little
I don't even know how you do that.
So you didn't have to like wear other shit, like just have the thing itself do it.
Yeah.
I feel like there's got to be like some kind of market for that because like while lots of people maybe like maybe there's a lot of people that don't need glasses.
One I feel like that's going up.
Everyone stares at shit.
We stare at and push blue light into our eyes all day.
Yeah.
But also just as you get older.
Right.
You're you inevitably your eyes start to go.
That's just part of being older.
And there's more older people using tech.
Yes.
the market, eventually the market should be there for everybody.
What do you think would have maybe like, if you create like, you know, you go to like Walmart or something like that and they just have like that display of just here are
reading glasses, essentially.
Yeah, like a generic correction.
Right, like generic corrections and you know, so you don't need a prescription, but you just get the one that's sort of closest to whatever works for you sort of thing.
I feel like they could probably do that.
I think so.
I wonder if anyone's actually truly bothered to look into it.
And right because it would just be like a filter or something.
I don't know We're I'm sure over here we don't know how it could be It's a visual thing that you're staring at you think Like the stuff they do is like it was like like they're
warping Warping yeah, far.
We're not yeah, not necessarily not necessarily you you need something specific.
Yeah
I mean, look, there's specific cases like bombers, right, which are more difficult.
But I'm saying like the generic, like you're just nearsighted.
You know what mean?
Like should, I would think be resolvable.
But yeah, who knows?
It's a good thought, though.
They had a poke, Mr.
Mr.
John Carmack about it.
I'm pretty sure he wears glasses and he's fucking like the VR guy.
OK, I'm surprised he hasn't done anything.
Can it work?
Can you do it?
Yeah.
Besides, besides, I watched him like talk about VR for like, I don't know, like three hours once.
had no idea what half of what he was saying was super interesting.
mean, it is it is super cool tech because right when you're working with that close, it becomes more of like not even like what to show on the screen.
It's more like how to trick your brain into processing it.
You know.
Yeah.
It's the thing.
You like yeah, like how to how to trick your brain into processing it and how our brains process visual stimuli and etc etc like it was much deeper than just You know Just
combining the two items on the screen to look 3d, you know, it's it's a lot more than just that
I shouldn't have fed it the candy you got from Jack.
poor boy.
Poor puppy.
So other than that, two other things, star anvil studios.
I recently talked with, Brandon.
A because, this is fun.
One of the other, say my son started in a new school.
One of the other, I've been waiting for him to get out of school and you know, they're like, they release it like a particular door and they're like, just wait by the door and.
There's a whole line of cars and you know, pick up your kid from school.
And one of the other guys there was wearing like a tabletop shirt.
And I was like, he's a nerd.
I'm going to have to see how nerdy he is.
And how nerdy...
Yeah, test the nerdiness factor.
Be like, how nerdy are you?
Apparently, he's so nerdy that he's got like a 30,000 sub YouTube channel all about tabletop role-playing games.
Nice.
And it's like, okay, okay, all right.
Only 30?
Only 30.
Get those numbers up buddy.
I know.
I'm just kidding.
Yeah, 30,000.
Yeah, 30,000 subs YouTube.
was like, and he was talking about it.
He's like, yeah, it's not too bad.
I was like, not too bad.
Boy, I consider that downright respectable.
Downright respectable.
That's right.
Wait, was it 30?
I might be aggrandizing it.
It might just be 3000.
Either way.
Now I need to double check.
So if I send you the thousands, that's good.
Okay, it's like 3,500.
Okay, so it's not 30,000, it's 3,500.
That's still pretty good.
Still pretty good, yeah.
No, it's still pretty good.
So I was like, no, that's respectable.
It's called DM Tales on YouTube.
So he does like, he does like tabletop role playing sessions in our area and whatnot.
he said on the 22nd, he's going to have like a live stream of something.
And I was like, have you ever heard of secret world?
And he's like, no, because why would he?
don't know.
Then he smacked him in face.
And I was like, well, I was like, here.
was like, so have you heard of star anvil studios?
And he's like, no.
So I was like, let me introduce you to Brandon.
So because Brandon's currently doing a Kickstarter for
Savage World things he's going to like Saints and Sinners and Starbreaker I think is a current one that he's doing.
And so I introduced Brandon to him so that he could do like a like an interview.
Spreading, spreading the word of Secret World.
Wherever I go.
I don't know if he was really the type for checking out the MMO, like if he was for checking out like the video game, but didn't seem like a big video gamer.
Yeah, see, I do my part by keeping it a secret like Fight Club says to.
It's the first rule of secret world.
The first rule of secret world.
God damn secret world.
It's a secret.
Don't tell anyone that's that's why.
That's why the original Seeker rule- We're have a silent monk come visit you.
Too many people being like, hey.
Yeah, and when the silent monk comes in to visit you, do know what he says?
Fucking nothing, because he's a silent monk.
Just looks at you.
Disappointingly.
Which is fairly terrifying.
Yeah.
But I went to a role playing session that he had, because I wanted to just, I wanted to vet him out first, you make sure it was like, it was okay.
And he's cool.
He seems, he seems all right.
He seems, he seems, he seems cool to me.
And while I was there, I won tickets.
I also won tickets to like, one of the Philadelphia Greater Expo, Tabletop Roleplaying Expo.
That's cool.
I was like, okay, all right.
Fine, I might go to a convention.
Jesus.
It's the world.
The world telling me to go to a convention.
Am I gonna go?
I mean, probably.
I gotta figure out what it is.
I think it's a January.
Right, and while there I'll be like, have you heard of Secret World?
Have you heard the good word of...
Because I'm not allowed to talk about it.
Right.
It sharpens the dream.
That's what that's what would make them want to come check it out is you say I'm not allowed to talk about it.
Right.
like, you're here to see growth?
No.
okay.
Sorry.
I mentioned it.
And then it's reverse psychology.
Right.
What's it called?
I can't tell you now.
Sorry.
I'm not allowed to tell you about it.
First rule.
That's why they answer, what you're advertising.
there was, don't, I don't remember this person's name, which is probably for the best.
But like there was a person that was in, I think it was today, that was in like looking for a group or something.
There was like in looking for group in the game asked if they should play this game, and I'm just like Fuck you.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I think it's a big hey guys Should I play this be like you downloaded in the game already character like you're here?
You went through the intro You downloaded it like
I've come to the opinion at a certain point, I actually don't want you here.
Right.
If you're questioning now.
You can just go.
Now usually it's the people who are just straight up assholes, right?
Like some troll piece of shit.
And I'm just like, OK, the game would be better off without you in here bothering people.
More and more, the people that they're like.
the kind of people that join the game and are like trying to to like, I want to skip past this to get to the content.
And I'm like, OK, get out.
Yeah, it's it's the grand secret.
It's all content.
Yeah.
They all they want to get.
want to get to like the dungeons of the raid or something.
I'm just like, get out.
Get go.
Get out.
It's fine if you like that content, but if you're trying to skip the entire story of the game,
so that you can do a dungeon like at a high level or something like it's not the game for you man it's not it's save me some time save you some time because you're gonna fucking
hate it right go play i don't even know go play eso go play wow go play what are those yeah i'm just saying like like it's
The story is the game.
you don't like the story, if your number one thing is skip, skip, skip, skip, Look, I skip shit fairly often now, but I've seen it like a hundred times.
And even now, sometimes still like let something play.
I want to see it again.
like, if you've never seen it and you're just like, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, like get out, go play something else.
You know what I mean?
I always think with like, would these people be okay if their games were just like flat, flat lands and just like.
rectangular boxes just like hitting each other.
Yeah, it's called Minecraft.
It's fairly popular.
Right.
Yeah, it is fairly popular.
Yeah.
There's a whole community about it too.
Yeah.
Like, you know, if you really don't care what your game looks like, what, you know, if you don't care about the story behind your game, then what do you care?
What do you care about the world that it's building for you, about the world that's built around it?
You're like, no, it doesn't mean anything.
Yeah, I don't know, It irritates the shit out of me.
Yeah.
I'm getting crankier in my old age.
But I see that on, well, of course, another game I play is like Lord of the Rings Online.
And I see people asking on the Reddit thread, on Reddit about that all the time, like, hey, should I I start playing this game?
Should I like try?
Should I do this?
And it's like.
Fuck off.
a certain point it's like, go away.
Yeah, like, why are you asking, man?
Why don't you just, I don't know, play it for like a little bit and then figure out if you like it.
OK, and that's what I figured out actually really bothers me.
It's not someone like someone legitimately have a question like, hey, I want to do group content.
Are there groups to do content with?
Right.
Should I invest my time?
I would always say play it anyways.
Just for the story.
If all you did was play the story, you get like 150 hours out of it and it's cool and you go do something else.
But it's an amazing story.
It's worth it.
If you don't like story, you're playing the wrong thing anyways.
Yeah.
Right.
If you like story and you like group content, then there's avenues for that.
Right.
Like I can honestly say there are groups that still do shit like all the time, like regularly.
So like that's there, but that's not like
It's a function in the game, you have to like the game to do that stuff.
Right.
If you like the game and you want to take it further, you can do that.
Yeah.
And if that's the question, which I've seen that pose legitimately, but what I see more and more is like, basically it's almost like play the game for me.
Yes.
Like what should I do?
wait, how do I do that?
Like go do it, dude.
Like.
Which also many people have as far as like, you know,
Hey, know, the first thing they do is just look up like a build guides or something.
And they're just like, Hey, just want to,
Just give me a build and I'll play it and whatever.
And like all they want to play is like, what is the best build to have or what is the best class to play?
You see that like so many times before even people play a new game, before like a brand new game comes out.
They're like, what's the best class?
It's like, I understand that a little bit more, I guess, because if you.
But again, that could be well, a that could be answered by just looking shit up.
Like people take no initiative to look anything up, which is super annoying.
Right to me.
Which that's what Yeah, it's like if you're actually got that question, look up.
Well, if you're going to ask like like that's like I'm OK because you don't know like one of the things I'll tell people is like, you could make things easier for yourself if you
do like all the right shit in the beginning.
But you you really can't make too many mistakes because you're supposed to unlock everything anyway.
It's right.
Like.
You're gonna get everything Hey Zen You don't want to waste time.
It's why you to know people Okay, I play all kinds of videos at two times speed but that is because people talk too goddamn slow Correct.
Yeah people just want to get an eye I can process information faster like my wife cannot watch the same shit as me because it'll hurts her head and she'll walk away I can't handle
but they're talking like that.
But for me
I can process it so I can view more content.
I can listen to more things.
I can be more informed in less time.
That's just efficiency.
The two-time speed is just efficiency.
Mm-hmm.
But it's true.
It's why TikTok has taken off more than, like, you when people go to search something of how to do something, they go to TikTok now as far as, how do I do this?
Because the videos are much shorter.
They're made to be shorter.
Whereas instead it's like, how do I do this?
And it's like a 10 minute video and you're like, we got 10 minutes.
think then I think it depends on the game.
think also maybe depends on the, it depends on the genre of game and also somewhat depends on the personality type.
Right.
And maybe even the, even your, like, if you only have like three hours a week to play a game, I can see you wanting to make sure that you don't waste that time.
Right.
It's more precious.
You're like, yes.
Your time is more valuable.
I remember I had way more time than that, and I still would like.
I remember like I would like be playing.
Like fall out one back in the day and like I'd be at work at lunch, like looking up shit online like when I got home to play it and I would know.
And that was like before I was married, before I had kids, I was I was playing the game.
as soon as I got home for probably like on a weekday, like six hours.
And I still was trying to optimize like during the day, like on my breaks and at lunch, like looking shit up, like, okay, when I get home, I'm going to do this, this, this, this,
It's the equivalent of when you got like a game as a kid and you're like in the back seat of on like the drive home from the mall and you had like the, the, box and you open up the
box and it had the manual and you're trying to like read the manual in the back seat is like,
The traffic lights pass by.
Right.
Yeah.
It's like the the street light.
I can't do like words in between the under this light.
OK, good.
The next sentence.
line.
Yep.
Yeah.
never never have turn on the light in the back because obviously you'll get into a crash and die.
Right.
That's right.
Yeah.
I mean, is not a good idea.
It totally jacks with the driver's night vision.
Well, mean, nowadays with all these LED lights, mean, your night vision is screwed no matter what.
It's still not good to have it like like in your space.
It's still better to be out in the dark than like like like you're your own roving bubble of light like is more problematic.
Yes.
someone that's you drive in a lit room.
Yeah.
As someone that's done a road trip and had the light on for a reason for an extended amount of time, it was like, actually, I can't see shit.
I need to turn this back off.
I'm just saying that is like pretty legitimate.
Waymo.
Now, the same time, the same time when the light was off, was there a PSP playing Frisky Dingo cartoons nonstop the whole drive?
Yes.
But, but it doesn't glare light into my eyes.
Right.
Yeah.
In my night vision.
So my first Zen says my first spec in Secret World Legends was elemental because mage doe.
But then I ended up absolutely hating thermal overload mechanic.
mean, yeah.
So you try something new and then you.
I think I don't know.
Like thermal overload, I feel like isn't a huge.
Like, yes, OK, the first time you run into it, it's annoying because you're like, shit, that sucks.
You just feel bad.
And then you put a cold ability on your bar and it's not a problem anymore.
Right.
Because the bad part is you can't cast anything.
You're just you have to stand there like an idiot that feels awful Mm-hmm, but you have a cold ability You can always cast that and it brings your heat down so you can then
immediately cast a fire one, right?
So like I mean and I don't know about before the rebalance but since the rebalance especially right like I think certain abilities Reset when you overload Meaning like even
if you just used it it will reset
so you can use it again.
think Vomr plays elemental.
I think Flickr resets.
I think you can overheat yourself, Flickr, overheat yourself, and immediately Flickr again.
Like, it gets cooled down, it gets insta-reset.
then it's a overheat as strategy.
Yeah, actually, you just use for to like, fuck around with it.
I figure I was going to say like what other one that's like, there's a there's another weapon that works.
I thinking like you could almost compare it to blood.
In the sense that like, if you don't know how to play elemental and you first play it, you like overheat yourself and it feels bad.
You're standing there and you can't do anything.
And with blood, you kill yourself.
Right.
You just die.
But is that still you standing there doing nothing, essentially?
Right.
Like it's a similar feeling.
You're like, I'm attacking, attacking, attacking and then not.
Mm You know.
Which doesn't feel good.
What doesn't make you kill yourself in dungeon, you make her kill yourself in dungeon.
Like-
it only comes into play in long fights and dungeons.
Yeah, I could see that.
No, that's not like you always should have a reap.
It's part of your rotation.
Like, look, people just don't know how to play blood.
I mean, but he's saying but he's saying new players.
So, yeah, so they don't know how to play.
Yeah.
But if you're in a dungeon, you if you're I mean, past story mode in a dungeon that you and I see people are he 17 killing themselves.
There's no rotation in open world.
Yes, there is.
You're
that you're just doing it wrong.
There always is rotation.
Rotation is whatever you're using.
You can have a bad rotation in the open world, but you should have a rotation.
That's why periodically they throw bigger bosses at you in the overland.
should have a rotation, you should have a single target and AOE, you should have a stun for open world.
Like open world is basically scenario build, more or less.
Open world and scenario are basically the same thing.
If the room, if the room did not sharpen you for Tokyo, that did get the point across scenarios were to train you for the mobs in Tokyo.
That was the whole purpose of the scenarios was to train you to deal with the roving filth packs in Tokyo.
A.O.E.
especially.
was one giant goddamn scenario.
Essentially.
Yeah.
which now they just have, they have to do it like once and then you're good.
You don't need to keep it open world, I mean...
No, I've seen people kill themselves with blood in open world.
You can do it.
It's not even like the heal, you need to reset the corruption.
Like you need some way to reset the corruption.
Which is what, like that's what Reap does.
Reap reduces your corruption level.
I think you can use something else.
Maybe?
I don't remember.
Rune and Kex?
Rune and Kex reduces your corruption.
It reminds me I was recently reading rupture rupture reduces your corruption.
was recently reading Blood, Wind, Malory's books.
I read the I reread the first one.
what's it called?
You reset it by being out combat for a bit.
Yeah, but the number of people that play Blood and just backpedal into more and more ads that eventually kill themselves is way higher than you think it is.
If you're smart and you fight packs and then eliminate the pack and then wait for your health to go back up and attack the next pack, right?
And you have a rotation and you have like, I hit this when I engage and then I do this when I disengage that's called a rotation.
Like if you do that, then you know, yeah, you, you don't need it as much.
Although I would argue that you probably
No, they do die to corruption though, like the like you can tell what kills them.
They legit do die to the corruption.
They died because they stay in combat too long.
But for example, like you probably should have rupture like you need you should have an impaired.
Well, if not rupture, you should have the shoujo, I guess.
Like you should have something.
Yes, yeah, I was reading was to serve with love.
An unofficial I was going to say that I was like, that's a Bond movie, right?
It does sound like a Bond.
I literally was going to say that I was going to say that name and I was like, that's not right.
That's the first one.
And her character, she's basically making it off of her own character herself.
But put her character in the book is is blood, blood elemental.
Yes, they have both the things that like they could they could overheat themselves and then die and kill themselves.
But right.
But part of it was she yes, she was using blood and that right.
If she used too much blood.
Right.
She got a little too close.
And but she she actually explained it really.
She actually she actually does a really good job of in the in the unofficial legend books to
to sort of make the abilities seem more...
Not natural.
You know what I mean?
to sort of like explain the abilities.
no, was blood, not elemental.
I think her friend was elemental.
She was blood chaos.
That's what it was, she was blood chaos.
And she was explaining how chaos was more like seeing the threads of fate and picking, finding the one path through to the,
She was sort of like explaining it in way that made sense.
Is this a good way?
Good way to say it?
I don't know.
Anyway, Unofficial Legend of the Secret World.
The books are still out there.
You should go check them out.
Blood, Mallory, they're on Amazon.
and
You should just go check them out anyway, because they're cool.
And they're quick reads too.
That's the thing too.
Like you could finish like to start with love in like a couple days.
If you read at my speed, which is pretty dang slow.
It depends on the time in a day I have.
Like I I read ridiculously quick.
So I read very slow, but I only read it like right before I go to bed, maybe like 10, 15 minutes before I go to bed.
So I'll take a book and it's like, I'll be reading this for like four months.
It's okay.
You know that thing though, like if you're reading before bed, like you know you're ready to go to sleep when you've read one sentence like four times?
Yes.
You're like, I should go to bed now.
Yeah.
Because you keep you're trying to like, say, like finish a chapter or something.
And you're like, you read the sentence and your brain goes, right.
Yeah, it's like, wait, what was that?
No, I'm done.
Or you just you're looking at the book and you're like, wait, how long have my eyes been closed for?
They've been closed a little too other ones that you can clear yourself with, Assault Rifle, like the number of times I've seen like new people, new players streaming, that
again, backpedal, I don't know why people do this.
You're in Kingsmit, you're in a zombie-infested area, and they just constantly walk backwards and just keep backing into more four packs of Like they basically kill a pack
and they're backing up the whole time, like shooting at it.
and just walk into the next pack.
And I just, I've seen multiple different streamers do this.
We just like back up across like half a kinks it this trail is obvious.
And inevitably they kill themselves with their own grenades.
It's not even the zombies.
It's a grenade going off and they don't have the passive yet that makes that not kill you.
The other thing is like, and I guess it's because if you don't, you don't know how the game works, right?
Like there is no benefit in backpedaling from an enemy in Tigger Royale.
All of them have those like insta-range attacks.
I'm talking about like you just see like a little laser go from them to you Yeah, it's sort of like the if you're out of range or you're out of range like an auto an auto range
attack no matter what
So A, there's that.
B, the real way to avoid damage is to go behind them, because the only thing that makes them stop hitting you is line of sight.
Yes.
So if you're behind them, have to turn around to attack you.
like, if anything, you want to run super tight circles around them, so they have to keep turning.
Right?
Like that's what was it that didn't know that it's like you went through the boss and they're like, hold on, what did you just do?
Leo Grimm.
That's what it was.
Dude, so many hours.
So many hours.
I was watching him on Discord.
I think he was streaming his scenario on Discord.
I think it was Castle.
And like, was just the way he was handling something with like the werewolves coming through the doorways.
And I was like, you know, you can just dodge through them to get like, you know, so that you can get, you don't have to like kill them.
go through them.
Yeah.
You don't have to kill them to be able to walk through the door.
You could just dodge roll through and then, you know, pull it to the rest of them.
He's like, what are you talking about?
I was like, are you serious?
You just go through them?
Yeah.
What is it like?
It's like, what's that group?
Viva Litterlig.
They do those.
Yes.
Like video game style.
Right.
And one of my favorites is the one where he's like, well, how are we going to get over this?
How are you going to get over this chasm?
And he's like, well, we can double jump.
And he's like, what are you talking about?
I saw that one.
That was great.
He's like, what are you talking about?
Like you double jump.
And he's like, what the hell are you talking about?
He's like, you jump.
And then you jump again.
He's like, what the hell are you talking about?
Jack away from the tree and northern Mealy because they don't backpedal.
Do I hate that shit so goddamn much with a fiery passion.
It burns my soul.
The fucking jackasses that just run away.
Stand there and die like a man.
You fucking idiot.
Like, first of all, running away doesn't stop you from taking damage.
It's not how the game works.
Number one and number two, like, like you're making it so no one else can damage the boss.
Like you're not going to live.
Yes.
And that's the joke.
Yeah.
The physics of it are impossible, but in games you can do that.
Yes.
So like, you're just going to, you're just going to double jump.
You're just going to double jump, right?
You're just going to double jump.
Okay.
I love that he does it and he's like, fuck, I'm just gonna do it, I'm just gonna do it and then he just does it and he's like
Why is your profile picture a harpy from wow?
Who?
I don't know.
Who is, who is your in this instance?
Thanks, Zen.
Why not?
I mean...
Why ask why?
You know the reference.
It's fine.
But it's also, yes, but they've had similar ones of like, no, like we've reached like this log.
Be like, dang, we can't go this way if we have to go like miles around that way.
And he was like, why not?
I can just step over the log.
Like, really?
Like, it's that easy?
You can just step over the log?
Like, go ahead.
They did a whole Dark Souls series, it was super awesome.
Yeah, they do a lot of good stuff.
like when they're like have a guy who just like did nothing but to roles dark souls roles it's just like rolling and rolling roughly who will really really really
They have like they have all your good game ones and then they have the ones where they like to store.
hmm.
Kind of like a like a Best Buy or something.
Yeah, tech town.
It's like a game stop.
It like it seems more like a actual like they sell computers and stuff.
Yeah, like like a micro center or something.
Yeah, yeah.
Those ones are pretty good,
Yeah, no, they're good.
They're good.
Love their stuff.
Yeah, but that that one just made me think of that be like, what do mean?
I could just I could just roll behind him.
What do you mean?
Like I could just roll through him.
Like, what are you talking about?
Do the thing that blows my mind?
Be like, yes, you could just roll through him.
Be like, what do mean?
I can just roll through.
The thing that people that have been playing since TSW, that before me that I knew, they didn't know that you could, while you had the vendor open, double click a bag to open it.
that, that one shattered all kinds of people's Cause normally you right click a bag to open it, right?
Like you like a weapon bag or, you know, a thousand bag or whatever you right click and it opens, but you can't right click to open a bag when the vendor is open because right click
is selling item.
It's selling it.
Yeah.
But you can double left click the bag and it opens and it opens anyway.
Yeah.
The number of people that don't know that didn't know that
was astonishing to me.
And I mean, like, legit, game has something like that, though, where you'd be playing it for years and all of sudden you're like, wait, I could do I could do what?
Yeah.
I love those little discoveries.
can't tell you, I was playing once human for months before I knew there was a dump like items into a storage box key.
no.
Okay.
months and like the like two closed betas.
I think it had been there the whole time and even like a month or two into like release.
Yes, that's how I dealt with the like manually over.
Yeah, that's how I dealt with the with the the when you go up to the box, the first thing you do is yeah, dump like items.
And for something that's already in there.
Yeah, no, no.
And the thing is, it like the easiest way to do it.
It says it on the screen.
Like at the bottom, I just never looked down there like for all I bitch about people not reading the screen like to be fair, though, to be fair, I never complained about it.
That's true.
That's fair.
Yeah.
Like I'd never complained about it.
didn't bother me.
I like stacking my stuff.
Like it was not, it was a non-issue.
It was just, didn't necessarily have to, you just could have gone up to it.
And the thing is, is that that one's weird too, because you have to click it not only once, but you have to click it like multiple times.
it's one time and sometimes it's not.
Yeah.
Like if it comes across a thing in your inventory that I can't throw in there, it'll just stop.
And so have to click it again.
And so I found whatever I did, I came up to one and I hit it like five or six times and then it would finally get everything.
Yeah.
But yeah, I remember I think I was watching someone else's stream or something and I was like, wait, what?
Yeah.
I long has that been there?
I think I encountered that recently in Guild Wars 2.
I was playing Guild Wars 2 and you get all kinds of like when you finish an achievement or you finish something, you get like a little bouncy chest in like the right hand corner.
It's like right above something.
But you get like a little bouncy chest there.
And you click on it and then it opens up the chest and then it shows you the contents of it and you hit OK and then it goes into your inventory.
And it took me the longest time to realize you could just right click on that and it just automatically goes in there.
So if you have like 20 of those bouncy chests, you don't have to like click on each one, okay, each one, okay, each one, okay.
You could just right click like a madman through them and it just automatically deposits them all into your inventory.
And I was like, why didn't I know this?
Gosh darn it.
Which is like by accident, I right clicked on one time and I was like, what?
Are you telling me I could have been doing that this entire time?
But yeah, every game has that.
I just find it funny, right?
That was one of those ones like, like, you can just go, you can just, yeah.
You can just, yeah, just jump through them.
Yeah, running away is not necessarily helpful.
You just go right between their legs.
You just go right through them.
It's like, what do you mean?
Just go right through them.
I also, I also like did a lot more stuff with that after playing Souls games.
Mm hmm.
Which I should have played way sooner.
Like, I don't know, I just, I never got into them.
And then like once I did, was like, holy shit.
This is, this is like a, like a.
Austin Powers, like that, that's my bag, baby.
That's, that is my jam.
I still have to, but I think, but I think I will get around to them eventually.
I still have to, but I think I actually really enjoy them too.
Until I beat it.
Like I genuinely enjoy that.
That is you.
Yes.
It's like, like crazy, crazy good.
Yeah.
And it's, it's, it's satisfying.
It doesn't feel, it doesn't feel.
Well, sometimes it feels shitty, but like most of the time it feels it feels fairly fair.
Like you're like, no, I can do this.
This isn't like the game cheating me or something.
Right.
Like it feels like when you get it, you're like, fuck.
Yes, I did it.
It's a puzzle.
It's a puzzle to solve.
Yeah.
And it's sort of like, OK, no, I just need to figure out the puzzle.
I just need to figure out, you know, it's depending on how he comes down.
I frames.
And that whole I-frame concept of like when you're rolling you're invincible for like a couple like so many frames.
And I think just that different way of thinking about things like I started applying to Secret World because I was playing Souls of Game so much.
That yeah like now I roll through shit like I always used to roll through enemies if I needed to like to get to the other side.
Chicken crossing the road.
feel like I need to get there.
I was going to roll through them so they're not blocking me, right?
Like I would do that.
But like now I'm doing it like to like cancel casts and shit.
You know what mean?
Sure.
Yeah.
Like or sometimes it's a strategy of like, know, the boss is doing something that if you just get behind them, it like line of sight them and they cancel what they're doing and
you know.
Well, for example, if you're soloing Slaughterhouse story mode, the end guy will ice block you.
But you can dodge roll through him at a certain part of the cast bar and then you're just not in front of him when the cast goes off.
So you don't get ice fought.
You know what I mean?
Like.
And then like onk onk a couple of spots, but mostly onk five with the Orochi on the bridge.
They do this cast.
Technically the other Orochi do it as well.
Any any of the tall Orochi with the squiggly heads and the rifles, they do a cast called.
called close down, which like snares you in place.
But if you dodge roll through them at about like 80 % of that cast, then like they won't turn around in time for it to land on you.
Like they'll just miss essentially.
again, you're just not in front of them when the cast goes off, so it has no target.
So like I roll close down like all the time.
Like there's so many, and then what's interesting,
To me personally, makes it like an extra little puzzle game, is like all the cast bars have different timings.
So it's not like you can just be like, I see a cast roll.
If you roll too soon, they have time to turn around.
Yeah, and cast it again.
And cast it.
Woop.
Whereas...
Let's go.
I'm building this repository in my brain of when to roll what things.
But yeah, that's part of the puzzle.
That's part of it is if you see these games as basically puzzles,
It like combat is a puzzle.
It is.
Combat is a puzzle.
It is a puzzle.
that.
Yeah, that's not even a, yeah, I'm not just joking.
It is.
It basically it's, it's timing.
It's what ability to use.
It's when to use it.
It's, you know,
If they're doing this ability, use this one to counter it.
this is like it's it's all a puzzle.
How you build your character.
That's a puzzle.
When Darker Guard, doesn't feel shitty when it has a lot going on, but it doesn't feel because there's there's some cast that are like like it's like, OK, that's that's that's
ass.
That's shit.
But when it but when it's really good, like I literally like I will laugh out loud like.
When there's like...
three different things going on and like my favorite is focus fire.
Like there'll be like memory of flames, which is all the little flame dudes like floating randomly around, right?
And then there's like, I don't know, it be another thing that could happen there.
Like like forked pitch, right?
Which is the flame on the ground in the shape of like the pitch fork.
And then on top of that, the, you know, the hell guys can cast a little turrets.
Yeah.
And then they'll do a cast called Focus Fire where all the turrets instead of they all look at you all do it once to like, yes, a set on you.
So like when all of that happens and I'm like dodging like through and around everything like perfectly and just this massive, like bizarre shit all at the same time.
Like that's that's fun to me.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
It's like, hell yeah.
But the thing is right, it's all a puzzle.
And that's why think those, the Souls games, they're basically all puzzles.
They're all puzzles.
And so, and right, when you're like, it's, they're hard puzzles, but they're fair puzzles, you know?
Yeah, when you really get to know them, you figure out that like actually, with a little bit of knowledge goes a long way, like, you can make a lot of that stuff like, way easier
if you just actually like do some minor, like research.
Do your homework.
You know?
Do your homework and you're like, actually, instead of like fighting this guy for hours,
I can go over here and pick up these things and do this and come back and 10 seconds later he's dead.
Like there's this like idea like people have like and it's somewhat fair that like Souls games are like incredibly difficult but they can at the same time be like just stupidly
brokenly easy if you know enough and that's the thing right like if instead of just like
Throwing your corpse at the guy for like six hours and eventually getting it which you can also do There's nothing wrong with that.
You can also go the other way and just like Spend that time instead researching Or just exploring being like, you know what this guy's not doing it.
Hey, let me go over here, you know Well, I mean the number of people that don't like realize that things have like resistances to certain things or a week to certain things
gonna mean like
Like yeah, it's a lot easier when you're dealing the type of damage it's actually weak to.
And some of them are kind of obvious, right?
Like there's a crystalline guy.
probably slash damage is not gonna work great.
Probably the hammer is gonna work better on a crystal guy.
It's gonna shatter him.
Right, some of it is like intuitive.
You can just look at the monster and be like, okay, that makes sense.
You know, other ones are a little more difficult.
I feel like that was more common in like old school games, to be honest.
You can kind of know.
They'd like, this guy is fire.
Maybe I shouldn't use flame spells.
Maybe I need water or ice, right?
Because you want to counter it.
Yeah.
Well, also, I think a lot of games now are like, like this is fire.
And then you just use fire on them.
it's it's effective.
a minute.
OK, that shouldn't work, but it does.
There's a well, I mean, that can work, I guess, if you're going with like you're overheating them or something, potentially, potentially.
It's the idea of thinking, well, it's not it's not actually fire.
It's magic.
You know, like if you go with if you go that route, it's like, OK, it's just a manifestation of magic.
And it's the magic that's damaging, not necessarily the elements, you know, composing it.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
They also have like the Souls games also have shit like, you're
You're gonna use lightning damage, if the enemy's standing in water, they take extra damage.
know?
like that.
Which again, I feel is more like an old school concept.
Right.
It's like an old.
It really is.
It's more like a.
Almost about.
Not Pokemon, but you know, Pokemon was sort of like that, like, this is a nice type.
Well, you use fire attacks against a nice type, you know, like it's.
Yeah, yeah.
That's sort of that's sort of a rock, paper, scissors mechanic.
Monster Hunter.
Probably think about Monster Hunter.
I mean, probably.
Even though like a drama swears up and down, I play it.
I'm like, no, dude, you play.
I can play.
You're just drunk.
Like that wasn't me.
That was you.
I have never played that game.
See what I got.
We do boards.
I got myself a cauldron.
Not we, we.
Yeah, look, you can come stand in the cauldron.
I can.
Well, you can drown in this cauldron.
You can jump out of it periodically.
man, where was ephemeral at when we last had our last show?
I don't know.
Was that during the anniversary?
I had it much lower than I am now.
I'm E11 now.
What'd I say our last show was September 5th.
yeah.
Yeah, I don't think that was E10 yet.
No.
I don't think so.
On that meantime, I did max out my SP on this character.
Damn, look at my damage!
Holy shit.
Did I buy all my passives?
I bought all of my passives, Vodder.
Bb.
Well, you gotta go do Darker Gartha so you can spend your...
Be impressed.
Yeah, now I've got like 50 SP and I've got nothing to spend them on.
I still, I think on Jimmy, I'm like still like the seven or eight hundreds on both.
Like seven or eight hundred APS-P.
Let's see, yeah, I've got all those.
Who wants items?
bomber i know you already have every item.
Jimmy does your ephemeral character need more items?
Holy guacamole what was that?
I don't know but I have an overflow bag.
was trying to get rid of stuff.
That was a bunch of stuff.
I got a grim glamour.
I've got a bubble blower.
I a sugar skull.
Halloween items bubbles.
I'm blowing bubbles
Pretty cool.
Let's see what happens when I do it.
They're just down here.
They're at my character's mouth.
They're the same size bubbles.
Nice.
Out your eye sockets?
Isn't that where everyone's bubbles come from?
Is that their eye sockets?
I feel like that's more like nose holes though than eye sockets.
I can't tell, I'm doing it at Vomr's ankles.
And there's the last of my bubbles.
bubble you.
Did they add something new?
The bubbles have been around.
What'd get?
Zabalvin...
Yeah, the Zabalvin Grim...
Grim Glamour?
what happens if I use that?
Will I just be a tiny zombie?
You look like Scratch?
Wait, it said I got it.
Where is Where is it in my inventory?
there it is.
It's little blue bag.
Green.
Here we go.
Nope, I'm just a tiny zombie.
that's cause yours is green cause that's the zombie one.
I got the Zabalba warrior one.
I've got a blue, now I'm like, wait, where did I, why do I have all these?
Right, green glamour zombie.
Maybe there's a mine one, just a different mine one?
Zombie mine one?
I don't know.
We got randomized.
Maybe.
see, I got this one.
Farmer's got a cool vampire look.
Mmmmm
Like he would, but he's just not going to.
I can lie.
I have the ability.
Good lord.
Awful.
Waffle, pick up your stuff.
I can't.
This is leaving trash everywhere.
the blood syrup.
Thank you very much.
Use your- use your distillates!
Gah!
Use the FUD stuff!
Supposed to be What if he makes the wrong choice?
Yeah.
You're right.
No, you're right.
You're right.
Once you're right.
You can never use it again.
It's true.
And more importantly, you can't get more.
never get more dissonance.
tiny rainbow.
Thanks, we laughed too much.
Too much, it's too fun.
No, I'm saving for, you know, just in case.
Mm-hmm.
You never know.
Do you need a signet?
I mean, that is actually part of the problem too.
Sometimes you need the equipment to shove it into.
Yeah.
That's what she said.
Got Got Got Bubbles.
Well that's a cool glamour.
I like the one Zini has.
The glowing purple eyes.
yeah.
Right, all the daily logon rewards he picks up.
That's true.
But he doesn't know what those are.
That doesn't make any sense.
And now we come full circle to the F.Logan.
Alright, I'll look here.
Where is this?
that's an interesting one Deathless with the pumpkin and that's pretty pretty creepy
my god dude you just look like a pool of blood.
I'm just a zombie in a pool of blood.
When I first logged in, I was like, wow.
like there was some random character I saw some random character and I was like wow they made everybody giant for some reason I forgot
I was like, wow, they made people, they made everyone giant.
I was like, how cool.
They made someone giant.
No.
Trying to drop a Ouija board, Keeps going through the floor.
Dang Ouija board.
It's like clipped in there.
see it.
I see the corner of it, at least.
Who wants stuff?
Tatter Hoad, probably have everything.
Who doesn't have everything?
Scratch, you have everything.
Waffle, you have no room.
Gotta respect the Luigi board.
I mean, you don't.
You wouldn't.
If it's on the Luigi board, you're like, whatever.
Our death is here.
Take my stuff.
it.
Take it.
Take my stuff.
Can exercise ghost?
If that's what you want to call it, what he's doing with them.
Good exercise.
It's good exercise.
huh.
take it they're not taking it.
you know.
Fine.
know.
Go check out.
Fine.
You go find one of the graveyards with the radio.
yeah.
You don't have to worry about whether you could play them or not because they're all public domain.
Yeah, and they're.
You just gotta go to like Kingsmith, probably.
this one.
Thank you.
It's over here.
Where are going?
I'm inviting everyone to group.
No, it's talking to waffle.
that's fair.
It wasn't talking to you.
Listen here, you.
Just go to Kingsmouth and go to the church.
And also you could jump on the cars here in Kingsmith, of course, to farm the...
What is it called?
The FutureTech cache, if you wanted to.
Well, and zombies.
And zombies.
Tool farming.
It clicks.
Da da da daaaamn
The ever sharp shick injector rager.
Rager?
Razor.
One day I'll learn how to talk.
But not today.
Nah, today's not that day.
It's fine.
Not today, Satan.
You guys forget what day it was, I was over here farming the caches and I was jumping on the things and as it being tiny jumping on the things and making the zombies run out and
so I can easily kill them and get the the caches.
Cause you never know.
and a dev found me.
while I was doing that.
that's right, it's over here.
I guess I gotta turn on the...
What did they do when they found me?
Nothing bad.
just gave me more...
More rainbows, really.
I was like, I see you!
I know you're here.
They made themselves a It is super loud, What?
That better.
Do you want a roachie?
This is how you get a roachie.
David can't go any farther with animals.
He's ready for the next did you want me to tell people about that?
Well, I'm all for research, But you have a moral obligation in this sort of thing.
How do you know it'll work with human beings?
you're a surgeon yourself, Ed.
You know that human beings are animals, just like all the subjects I've used.
I know it'll work.
Well, knowing it won't get you far with society, you'll have to submit proof.
I know that, and I've tried every way I can think of to get a human being to demonstrate on.
I guess you did.
Penitentiary everywhere.
No one will listen to me.
Well in a way you can't blame them even to me with my training the idea seems well Blasphemous my dear ed you can't stop scientific progress because of a so-called moral
concept besides what could be less blasphemous than the triumph over death I'm sorry, I can't see it that way.
I wouldn't want to try it on me when I'm dead.
I want to stay dead.
that's
And you fool!
Living or the I You're
I'm just telling someone, this time of year always makes me want to like...
I want to watch...
want to the Twilight Zone.
I want to read like old books.
Like...
There's something about this time of year.
Will you help me?
give this thing up.
It's a human head.
If I succeed, I'll have roof back.
Don't you see how much it means?
yes, if you're successful.
I've no doubt about that.
Look, I've got my laboratory records.
714 times I've performed the experiment on guinea pigs, rabbits, monkeys.
714 times it's been successful.
Don't you see?
But David, this is no laboratory experiment.
group was your way the only woman i ever love that's why i want to bring a back here and start up breathing and living again as an ugly name for what you're asking me to do i know
great robert but there's a better number it did death robbery we'll rob old man death
It's every.
Death throbbery.
Kick the door shut.
Completely equipped.
What is here.
Well, it's done.
Not yet.
You mean you want me to stay?
Ed, listen.
Ever since Root...
Well, I guess I've leaned on you for everything.
I won't ask you to stay, but I do need
stay.
Ruth will be the first to thank you when we succeed.
David, I'll always doubt this until I see Ruth living, breathing, smiling again.
I won't be long.
It's a matter of 15 or 20 minutes.
If nothing happens.
What will you do if your operation doesn't work?
now look, David!
You're being silly.
You silly goose.
I'm not going to back out on you, David.
Give me that sciency thing.
Give me that large beaker.
Make a small decision.
David, have you considered it?
Please, work fast.
But Dave, Mark, she was embalmed, you know.
something to replace.
finished.
That's all to the incision, though.
After all, I've now cut away the dura mater.
Entirely?
Leave the brain exposed?
Yes, yes, I'll fix that.
I've done it 700 odd times.
This is no guinea pig, a monkey.
I hardly need reminding.
Sorry.
What's that?
A compound I've synthesized myself.
What is it?
I call it digamaparadamine.
I know that isn't chemically correct.
It's as close as I can get to it.
Erlenmeyer flask?
Was it an Erlenmeyer flask?
Come on now.
penetrates
she comes back without her.
The
But you can't even dance.
Watch the meter and keep the current between plus and minus five of 150.
This goes into a little too much detail.
Thank you.
It's like they're actually going through the procedure, which guess is kind of Well, yeah.
It's a radiant, it's a radiant play.
It's a theater of the mind.
Bring it to 150.
And now make sure it goes a little to left.
No, a little more to left.
little...
No, too far left.
Too far left.
My left?
My left.
What are you talking about,
X-rays?
No, it's a modification of the cathode.
But just another one might have been.
I call these a-theta rays.
Why do you call them that?
Well, most rays are named after the first few letters of Greek alphabet, alpha, beta, gamma, and so on.
Well, that explains theta.
Didn't you say a-theta?
Yes.
The theta was called the letter of death in the ancient.
Well, that's right.
It was the first letter in the word thanatos.
Death.
Theta without death.
Maybe I was too sedative.
Maybe.
At least humor for once.
Let's start over.
Good, pumping.
going to pump you up
160, 170.
Hold it back.
Listen carefully.
Yes.
As soon as I turn off the pump, I want Spickler readings.
What are they all reading?
Blood pressure?
Wait and see.
Give me a reading each time I ask of it and take them carefully.
Ready?
Fantastic.
I'm
reading.
Alex here.
Gotta have that Foley
We gotta make him have dual sound effects.
48.
Over 42.
David, not yet.
Seven seconds after I said...
Ha
Sorry.
killing zombies over here.
Hey, I'm killing zombies over here.
Over here.
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tried to photobomb Jimmy's pictures over here.
not taking pictures.
I figured that's what you were doing under the lamp post.
How long do you use the No, just need a light to see what I changed my clothes.
OK.
I thought you were taking screenshots.
Over 67.
Nope.
Just messing with the...
So fun fact, VomR, you'd appreciate this.
From this height, I can see that this radio is set to 4625.
it's not.
It says 6236.
that if I zoom in to first person, I come down to the eye line of the tiny character.
You
can see things that weren't meant to be seen.
Well, for doubting you, Esme.
Hi, Spider969.
We tried to make it.
No, but...
I think I'll try.
Wait a
I to keep harping on this business about his soul, I realize this is no place for a philosophic discussion, but I can't help wondering why Ruth screamed when she first came
back to life.
I think there's a logical explanation after all.
must have been...
a physical shock.
That's true.
It must also be true that there was a great mental shock involved.
I think that's why she screamed, and I'm wondering whether there's been a permanent effect on her mind.
Or was I afraid to think of it?
I'm sorry.
I've never seen any sign of permanent damage from my other experiments.
Don't forget the roof.
later.
Afraid of what?
rules.
my god.
Ruth, dear, it's David speaking.
Wake up, dear.
Ruth, it's David dear.
I kept my promise and you're alive again.
I don't know.
you're alright honey, it's David.
You're...
Ruth!
No, David.
A pole.
Ruth's not the same.
get a flicker of intelligence maybe we can teach build up from a small friend I'm gonna wake up but not why don't you take a relax and get something to eat I learned he's tight
I'm gonna wake
David.
Thank you.
It's pretty good.
Help me!
Don't hurt yourself.
Stay away!
Think of David!
good stuff.
Good stuff.
Lord.
You
What about soul?
gets out, scalping her hands.
Rose.
Mason, I'd better take her time.
RUN!
Rose, come back!
you
What'd do with that?
Yes.
you
Let's go on for a good amount of time.
No, there's nothing new.
Just an experiment.
like so many experiments here.
The End
It was.
No, I hate wasting time while if there was a way to make it go faster and quicker.
I know.
Someday in future.
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Every commercial he makes either for Mint Mobile or for...
Hinn?
Ryan Reynolds?
Yeah,
save as much as 60%.
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting.
Because I know it'll restart over again.
Okay.
Yes.
Was that?
That was it.
was it.
Yeah.
Death robbery.
We're robbing death.
I gotta give props to Ruth.
Or did death rob them?
The other guys are pretty good, but Ruth, Ruth, was was prime acting.
That was prime acting Ruth.
or the rules.
So yes, I like this.
That this radio says 4625.
on this character actually.
I need to do the whole thing.
Cause I don't have the radio yet.
Which by the way, just FYI, in case anyone doesn't know, you can get the radio in one go of mission.
You just have to pause it a bunch of times.
okay.
So to get all the different radios from every grade?
Yeah, because the next tier of the mission triggers when you get three radios.
Right.
So you get two radios, you pause the mission, you go pick it back up, and now it wants you to get three radios.
okay.
So what you can do, so in one shot of the mission, you get two radios, pause it, pick it back up, two more radios, pause it, pick it back up, two more radios, I think, pause it,
pick back up, and then the last three.
You know what I'm saying?
So you can do the entire cycle and get the achievement and the permanent radio for your inventory.
Yeah, all in one go.
Okay.
Or if you just wanted to listen to these, they're actually all on the internet archive.
That's where they got them from.
They just downloaded them from the internet archive.
You can listen to them in the game on your own permanent radio.
That's true.
I think one time they did a forum post that had all the location for all of them.
There's also like a YouTube playlist I found with all of them.
But it's all excellent.
Okay.
So yeah, Vomr was whispering me.
I didn't know Vomr wanted me to tell these because they were just whispers.
Vomr says, speaking of small happenings, the station master had posted both screenshots from the seventh anniversary photo shoots as another thing that happened.
It was posted on Twitter and Tumblr and a bunch of the screenshots the GM took were uploaded to two zip folders that are on the photo shoot thread on the Funcom forums in 4K.
resolution PNGs.
But they're fun photos.
That's cool.
And hold on, hold on.
Wait.
I had the link and then lost it for a second.
Like 70 plus people in each shot?
Yeah, I remember those.
Well, I remember the other ones at least, ones that like, Errol got.
I like in the first set how,
Yeah, a lot of people hanging around.
Yeah, Jimmy, you're there.
You're on top.
What?
Surprising, I know.
But I like how the third shot on that one is the little.
I forget what they're called.
The Agartha guys.
big mechanical.
custodians, that's right.
I love it sitting there with like a video camera.
Yeah.
Very cool, very cool.
And this was from the, as part of the seventh anniversary, this was part of the, this was a photo shoot, class of 2024 photo shoot.
Yep.
Wafua, were you able to bring one of those up?
And that was from June.
Many wounds ago.
Click on the link.
in Twitch chat.
If you're looking for which for which chat, there's like five chats.
We got to add it in one second.
He's like, no, no, I'm not showing anything.
No, no, sorry.
That's like...
my god.
That was my phone?
Yes.
Jesus Christ.
There we go.
Cool.
Yep.
Dead game.
Right.
No one's playing.
Who plays it?
I even saw a character just run through here and I was able to give them all of the...
I was able to give them all the things I picked up.
I gave them all the stuff from Jack that I had left over.
he started my, my extra life.
yeah.
Like getting a prepped cause that shit's coming up real fast.
I was going to say, when is that?
It's the last Saturday.
right.
Game day is November 2nd.
Yep.
It's coming up real quick.
Right after Halloween.
that's yeah.
That's what two weeks, two weeks of two days.
Mm So I started my like my extra life, got it all set up.
I do have a plan for it.
Cool.
What you doing this year?
I need to like get like a present.
Yeah, I'm going to.
I'll try and put something out maybe like next week, I think.
See, see if I I.
Crack down and get get what I want done done.
But yeah, I do.
I do have a.
Have a little planesy wainsy.
Cool.
I actually have plans like I'm still getting this character to E17.
Like we're getting there.
We're getting there.
We're at E11.
Like E11 and a third right now.
I think.
So.
Yeah, I I have like I think at least two more runs planned after this
I Maybe three.
wow.
Okay.
I have, I You have ideas.
Yeah, I'm not run out of things to do.
By any chance.
I would have a long time ago, so I'm very, I'm always very impressed.
I am not that imaginative.
So, but yeah.
I I...
Yeah, I'll try and get it out next week, I think.
Okay.
like on the forums and stuff.
But yeah, I just don't have...
I need to put together the presentation package, if you will, you know, the advertisement for the extra live stream.
I try not to do it too early because I feel like they just, then it just sort of languishes.
You know what mean?
Yeah.
Like it's hard to strike a balance between like, it's last minute.
So no one shows up versus it's too early and everyone like sees it then and then just forgets about it like three weeks later or something.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Which I'm trying to the right middle ground there.
Yeah.
Absolutely happens.
mean, yeah, not to be like, you know, people have too little
attention spans these days, but no, it's true.
do have It's actually just too much shit going on.
You know what I mean?
I'm like that.
If you tell me something and it's not happening like in the next two days or something, I don't register it.
Yeah, no, it's true.
That's exactly what happened.
I will deal with it later.
Like a week, like one week out is about my max.
Like is it happening in this week?
Cause if it's happening like Monday, like that's Monday's You know what mean?
That's next week's problem.
I'm not dealing with that shit right now.
I'm dealing with this week.
So yeah, they're going to be like, know, like, people have too little attention spans, but no, it's true.
We, we, what's the, what's the line?
What's the line from Seeker World?
OD on input.
Yeah.
My video like.
Flickered.
weird.
Like we OD on Mesmerism by Catmemes, if you will.
Doom scrolling.
Lots of doom scrolling.
Yeah.
Yeah, in a way, it's mesmerizing.
No, Mesmer is our boss in Eldering DLC.
It's also a class in Guild Wars 2.
the mesmer.
Zombies.
Anybody?
No one zombies?
Nobody?
I brought you zombies.
Gosh.
Do you want more zombies?
I'll get you more zombies.
God, I run around picking all this morrow.
I was running around picking up all the loot lanterns you caught us to drop.
Not as many as you think.
I was going around killing everything and I only got four.
Four Future Tech Casuals.
Yeah, but you dropped like ten for me.
They're individual.
They don't like I don't see yours and you don't see mine.
Yeah, true.
It's random whether one drops for you.
Mm-hmm.
So like you just dropped way more for me than you did for you.
Yeah.
I dropped four future tech caches and I mean, probably a whole bunch of Dark Agartha arsenals too.
I also have like in like five belts on top of the caches.
There's three more over here now for me.
God dang it.
Caches are driving for you like crazy.
They don't drive for me like at all.
I'm getting like no caches.
It's just a roll the die.
It is.
It is indeed.
there's one over here, actually.
Because I keep killing things.
That's why halfway through the middle of that, Waffle just suddenly got the kill, kill whatever.
I haven't gotten any.
Not one.
There's one over here from earlier.
this one's from right now.
I got this one.
God damn it.
I'm like a loot cache siphon or something.
None are dropping for me.
None.
That's hilarious.
I'm getting nothing but a single cash.
Jimmy's taking all the cashes.
All your cash are belong to me.
All you guys gonna say.
They're all yours.
There's more up here.
This must have been from Waffle.
Yeah, I'm going through it and I'm not getting anything right now.
Nothing.
They're all...
Every cash is going to Jimmy.
Not to say that I haven't got absolute zero.
I've gotten a couple, but...
Yeah, I've got so many.
no.
It's not the same level.
Okay, I used five of the belts already.
I have another belt.
I have 11 Future Tech and six Dark Gigabit.
Eleven!
I've only gotten four.
Four!
And I was just killing everything.
Four.
Four Future Tech caches.
I found this before too, yeah, just killing things.
It's like killing these zombies.
It's like, no, they're just not dropping.
Why are you murdering random zombies instead of running them?
There's so many more, hold on.
One...
God damn it!
Wait.
Two...
This is wild.
Somehow this is programmed.
This can't be natural.
I four, but I guess it's just three.
No, there's four.
There was four.
God damn it.
This can't be natural.
It has to be something.
Maybe it's like an age of account.
You what it is, Mikey?
What is it?
You know what it is?
It's supernatural.
Supernatural?
Again, that's how was trying to...
Those guys who were like, it's a tabletop role-play game.
And they're like, someone asked, what's the setting of Secret World?
I remember you saying like the elevator pitch is like...
It's like, it's like the show Supernatural.
A little more Cthulhu.
Right.
It's like, it's like the show Supernatural, but with, with more like Lovecraftian elements and horror to it.
And so that's why I was like, Yep, none.
Piece of candy.
That's a belt.
Got a belt on that one.
And so I was like, yeah.
So I use your.
It's like the show Supernatural, modern day, everything is true.
And like a little bit more Lovecraft-bend.
Yeah.
But a little more like Lovecraft.
it's like fighting.
I was like, so you could fight like, you know, as far as like monsters go, it's like, can say like, you know, we're going to fight, you know, make the Loch Ness monster or
something, or you could, you you can turn around to these, to real life, you know, legends of monsters and be like...
You got like your vampires, your werewolves, got mummies, got zombies.
Yeah, you got all those, it's like...
Draugr are basically Norse zombies.
Right.
But it's like...
water zombies.
If you wanted like, know, Mothman or something, or you wanted like, you know, you could throw in, you know, Chupacabra.
yeah, especially for tabletop, like literally anything.
Mm-hmm.
Like, I mean, that's why I say like, as far as like setting goes, it's the closest thing that's like mainstream I could think of is Supernatural, which is...
Because it is like a...
a common...
you setting like a like modern day you mean and the whole idea that like all all legends are true but they're not all like what you were told right right yeah
That is funny with the arcane sprint because I just see like these little floating hexes in the air Like way above you Yeah, so when you ran by the fence, there's just like these
little symbols if you're like what the hell Genuinely, I was like wait, what the hell?
No, I saw your name tag.
I'm like,
Alright, Vomit says, yeah, Mothman is the buzzing.
you can throw in the Mothman.
Mothman canonically is how the people of Point Pleasant interpreted the buzzing when the buzzing tried to warn them about the bridge.
The buzzing is...
...injured cold.
The Mothman is the buzzing to the mortal eyes who burned at the sight of their warning.
And yet we can interpret the buzzing.
Okay, alright.
Super Meat-Dash-One meets Hellboy meets Inside Job.
I got one.
you're talking about the cartoon?
Do that?
I love that cartoon.
That was good.
Is that what it was called?
Was it called Inside Zone?
Okay, how about Jersey Devil then?
We're gonna do one.
That's local to me, but Jersey Devil.
But actually, and I'm going to point this out, there's been a series of YouTube shorts done by...
I'm gonna have to think about this one.
A bunch of YouTube shorts.
Have your Jersey Devil.
Okay fine, have your Jersey Devil.
But no one needs an acronym.
13th Leeds Child, born in the Jersey Pine Barrens.
We all know the legend here.
Tell me I'm not gonna find it now.
What are you doing, Cat?
How did you get behind there?
Good Lord.
Don't turn off my computer.
Don't do it.
Don't.
I'm gonna take a picture of you.
Pogo, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Holy shit dude, my eye is starting to burn.
Is that red light?
I don't think so.
Is it a red light or a heat lamp?
No, it's an RGB light.
OK.
I just set it to red so that it would match the QBL.
Which is true.
Come out from there, you silly cat.
What if I suddenly drop?
That's I and stare at a screen for fucking 18 hours.
That's why my eyes are burning.
Today, today, by the way, is my cat's gotcha day.
This is the day when you grab it by the tail and said, gotcha.
Basically.
This is the day.
This is the day we got her three years ago, three years ago today.
Wow.
Yeah.
Nah, the cute kitty cat.
She's cute.
What were you doing by my computer?
Would you like to know?
I was going to say, why were you right by my computer?
Why do you smell?
chewing on thing probably biting you now she's biting me you can't see it just right off camera now
silly girl looks completely innocent on camera off camera bite yeah she's a she's a little terror
I should, if I can show, I don't know you could see this.
yeah.
That's all that.
Yeah.
Nice scratch there.
She gave me a scratch.
I don't know if you can really see it.
She gave me a stretch that's literally like, camera camera, please.
Okay.
It's like right from here all the way down here.
And now it's just a, now it's just a scar.
but it's probably a good like five, six inch scar that you gave on the inside of my wrist.
Yeah, she was she was nasty with that one.
She got me good.
Well, that's what you get.
I'm to be like after she gave it to me, I was like, people are to think I like tried to tried to kill myself or something.
No, like, no, no, no, I don't have to do that.
My cat does that for me.
Right.
I was like, I was like, someone's going to see it and be like, my gosh, are you OK?
And I'll be like, yeah, I have a cat.
Don't worry, I've got a cat, it's fine.
right, that's what was trying to find.
Why does Facebook's subscriptions look all weird?
I just want to know who I'm subscribed to.
Alright, Grandpa.
Just tell me!
but they've been currently doing a series and it's like,
like one one legend from each state.
They've been doing like a like a legend from each state and some of them are really cool.
And every one I'm like, gosh, that's great.
I got a.
I'm almost sure they have.
One urban legend from each state.
Here it is.
It's mental floss is the name of the account.
I saved some of the cooler ones.
One urban legend from each state, New York.
They're just short.
Here you go.
reptiles.
New York City is famous for rats and also giant albino gators.
least according to popular urban legend for decades, people have reported seeing the reptiles slinging around the sewer system.
They're said to be particularly vicious beasts that feast on rodents and attack sewer workers who must carry firearms for protection.
It's true that people have spotted the rare gator on the loose around the city over the last century.
In fact, one was pulled from a lake in Brooklyn's
Prospect Park in early 2023, but they're usually illegal pets people dump once they get too big.
The rescue gators didn't even come from the sewer system.
The water is too cold and toxic from them down there and the diet of city rats and raw sewage will be dangerous.
get snubbed again.
That's a shame.
That is a goddamn shame.
yeah, but they do.
They do wonder over legend from each state and
Some of them are pretty damn cool.
One of them was like, it was about a video game, I think in Oregon.
They were like, it's about a video game that people were reported having said like they would play the game in an arcade and then they lost stretches of time.
Yeah, that's just called playing video game.
Yeah, me every day.
You're like, yeah, I feel that.
But it's a pretty cool series.
And I was thinking like, and if anyone was wanting to do like a, you know, any sort of...
Secret World campaign where you're doing things.
This is pretty good, pretty good thing to watch as far as if you're looking for ideas.
Let's see if I can find that one.
Tennessee, South Carolina, Rhode Island, I saved a whole bunch of these.
Pennsylvania, Oregon, I believe it was Oregon.
Yes, this is it.
I got that right, it was Oregon.
Share, share, coppa the link.
It's going to be a giant link.
Here you go.
Not trimming it.
no, it's not that bad.
That's what she said?
It's not that bad.
It's not that big.
It's shorter than I thought it was.
She's not trimming it.
Oregon, that could a video game actually make you go insane?
And more importantly, would you still want to play it?
Even if you knew it could, according to Pallibius.
I would just take that as part of challenge.
Right.
You'd be like, fine, great.
Like, let's go charity stream time.
Pallibius made its way into Portland, Oregon arcades back in the fall of 1981 and the all black cabinet soon caused quite a stir.
Rumor has it that two teenagers went missing shortly after playing it, while others who tried it out quickly became addicted, falling into trance-like states that prompted
nightmares, seizures, amnesia, and even hallucinations.
Some players believe the game was sending them subliminal messages, and to make matters worse, claim to have seen men dressed in black suits removing data records from the
machines instead of quarters.
Polybius supposedly disappeared, but a month later was never spotted again.
Many believe the original game never existed in the first place,
Some speculate that MK Ultra, the CIA's real life Cold War era mind control project, was behind the whole thing.
Either way, it still probably wasn't worse than the Atari ET game.
Ooh.
Shade.
Damn.
That's rough.
Damn.
I love DT.
What are you talking about?
Is that the one they buried in like a desert?
Yes.
Somewhere in a desert that they just buried.
played, honestly, I played the heck out of DT when I was a kid because it was one of the only games I owned.
So...
I played the heck out of it.
Did we lose, Mikey?
I think we did.
He seems impossibly still.
My cat shut off my PC.
That's amazing.
Kenny said it's time for bed.
God damn it.
It's like, okay, it's like, should have done the outro.
I gave you time.
that was great.
That's so good.
I guess we can wait for him or we can close out We can wait for him to get back, I guess.
We should end soon.
I swear to God, eyes physically hurt right now.
I have to keep like rubbing it.
Yeah, I gotta be up early in the morning
I honestly, I probably still won't be asleep for another fucking two hours.
That's just how my that's how you are.
But I need I need I need to give my eyes a break.
You know what mean?
Wait, can't.
Was that him still timing out?
Well, that was from Discord.
That's from Discord.
Yeah.
It kicks you out after about what, 30 seconds to a minute?
It's gotta be like at least a minute.
Do
Should we ask him if coming back?
Are you battling your cat?
Is the cat winning?
Do you need us to call an ambulance?
Blink once for yes.
A wellness check.
Are you okay?
Is your cat hurting you?
The cat one.
It showed him on Discord the mobile option.
It showed the little phone symbol.
And now it doesn't show that.
That's why I'm wondering.
You can't get the phone to I said no technology
I asked him, it looks like he's responding.
He's trying to come back.
You
Dude, what is that GIF?
It like-
it's still loading.
It paused at the weirdest frame.
I could not see what was happening.
Only shows a symbol when you actively have the phone app open?
Yeah, I mean that makes sense.
I'm just saying like it was, it was showing.
Cause he had, he had typed my cash off my PC and then it, and then it went away.
I wouldn't necessarily blame him if he was just like, fuck it, I'm going to do it again.
There he is.
He survived.
The thing I said she was trying to do this whole time.
She finally did.
Said, yeah, you're done.
Sorry about that.
She got behind my PC.
And I try not to give her too much attention for doing it.
So I wasn't like, you know, really try to shoo her away.
And that was obviously a mistake because she literally just, she literally did just turn it off.
Just the entire computer just went, she's like, well, he's not paying attention.
Like, like for a second you were like, well, I thought you were pondering something and I was like, he hasn't like moved.
Cause your camera just froze.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what happens when you just kill the power.
So like, you were just like...
Like I was just slightly looking down.
Okay, I think he's gone.
Okay, you're like, are you there?
Yeah, no, she's now in the bathroom.
She's away from the PC.
She only does this when she hears me talking.
I said you can only talk to me.
Yeah.
She's like, I don't know what you're doing.
You keep talking.
What are you doing?
Shut your mouth when you're talking to me.
Hold on.
I forgot to do the Twitch chat.
Hold on.
There we go.
I have no idea what you just said up until right now in the Twitch chat.
Sorry about that.
Actual cat interference.
or go ahead and close out?
We were like, is he coming back?
Should we just end the show?
It was pretty much time to almost end it anyway.
Yes, it is.
My eyes are burning out of my skull right now.
Yes.
However, hold on a sec.
My notes.
If you have anything in save.
The only thing, did I bring it back up?
Code and Exiles, Age of Heroes, released today.
right.
I did see that.
Wait is almost over.
So this is the dawn of a new age.
Team has worked hard to make sure this update feels like it.
Soon you will accompany fully voiced.
Heroes as our legend is made eventually recruiting them as companions to your cause all of your thralls now have like.
Stuff they do stuff.
Living settlements.
It looks really cool, actually, I'm not gonna lie.
In the first chapter of the Age of Heroes, Mithaluu Faye, the Kite and Sorcerer, and Freya, the Aesir Warrior, embark on each of their epic quest lines to gain their loyalty
as a permanent companion.
These fully voiced characters will each gain perks unique to them based on your actions during their story.
All of your worker thralls are transformed into living, breathing people.
They're real, real boys.
Real things.
No longer digital, they're real.
No longer mere items in your inventory, workers will now also go about their business in your base, socializing and meeting needs like sleep, hunger and rest.
Don't worry, their duties will still be tended to even when away from their crafting table.
Is present some succumb to panic and flee while others will stand and protect their leader.
They are the lifeblood of your settlement.
This is a major overhaul that comes with many quality of life improvements, new UI, knock on effects and other knock, knock on effects and other details.
So make sure to check out the patch notes.
It's the opposite of knockoff effects.
Yes.
All right.
Knock on effects, knock off, knock it off.
No, knock it on.
Along with these two major features, this update brings a slew of bug fixes and improvements where wherever persistent issue.
They're Digimon now?
Yes.
Does that mean you could change their outfits?
You couldn't before?
causing some players to fall through foundations or die suddenly.
What?
We will continue to investigate this and we'll fix it as soon as possible.
Sure, Right, TLDR summary.
Companions, living settlements, cages in the exiled lands, bug fixes, and much more.
It really does look like a cool update.
It's a puppy!
Yeah.
Are you excited?
Yeah.
I showed my cat.
Now your puppy has to turn off your computer.
Just to keep He hasn't done that.
I don't think ever.
No.
Probably doesn't want to.
Like a normal animal.
He won't go get his ball if it's like too close to the treadmill.
There's like a there's like one power cable.
He acts like it's the wall of China or something.
He's like, uh-uh.
Nope, not going over there.
Not touching that.
so yeah, that's, that looks really cool.
that's what I was saying before.
I was like, we're playing, I was playing once human, but I sort of bounced off of it.
But Conan Exiles keeps calling me back.
And I I don't play too many like building crafting games.
That's the thing is like, yeah, I don't, I don't do that game genre as great as, as I enjoy others.
I will say though, when we talk about this, off, off.
show like prior to the the the new the new winter scenario of once human is pretty cool so far nice yeah and you were saying yeah it's different a lot of that kind of like exiles
actually because exiles has like the like hot cold system built into it yeah yeah right like you like if you go like in far north you have to be dressed properly yeah
Yeah, you got a dress and you have like you can't wear too heavy.
You can't wear too heavy stuff in like the desert.
Yeah, yeah.
So this this one in Once Human is specifically.
It's more about just, think, staying.
Warm because it's because it is like frozen north, so it's.
I don't think we have like a sand biome yet.
You've got like regular.
Regular and now you have like the winter one.
I don't know if you can overheat.
haven't played it enough.
Honestly, I played it for like an hour today or something.
You probably can't.
If it's in the winter biome, you probably can't overheat.
I mean, I'm going to go out on a limb and just guess.
might, because, know, for example, in even in Conan.
There's the volcanoes up that way.
Are you literally dying the lava?
Yeah, yeah.
And I think if I'm not mistaken, once human also has a similar thing where it's like frozen, but I think in some of the like poster art for it or whatever, there's like some
sort of like volcano like forage or something.
like, okay, maybe you can.
Okay, yes.
Maybe, maybe right.
If you fall in the lava, sure.
Yes.
Well, I just mean you get too close, right?
You get close to the area.
going to pretty hot.
Yeah.
They also they also have the thing where like you can eat foods that make you warmer.
OK, yeah.
But they have like you can there's different like foods you can pick, like you can get and then you can make different recipes and you can actually like consume not just wear
clothing, you can consume different foods to like raise your temperature.
And then there's something about...
I like saw this for like three seconds.
You can get like different rocks and then you put them in like your fire pit and then they like maintain a certain temperature and you like take them with you.
Yeah.
Like, what do they call those?
You know, yeah, they're like packs.
And it looked like they had a cold one as well.
Like not just a hot one.
I could be wrong about that, but I thought they might have like like a, essentially like a cold rock.
fancy.
But like again, I saw that today for like seriously like three seconds or something.
I was like, what is that?
I just I didn't have a lot of time to spend on it.
But but yeah, it does remind me a little bit of like the exiles stuff.
But the biggest thing, though, being like this is the first new map for that game.
hmm.
I think exiles exiles last new map was what?
SIPTA.
They have one since symptom.
Yeah, I love SIPTA.
Nothing official, I don't think.
Nothing official.
Everything has been, like, I'm sure fan-made projects, of course, but nothing, you know, modded stuff.
nothing official.
yeah.
I was just curious.
I didn't think I'd missed one, but I would see.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, we're going to save Jimmy's eyes and I think cut it here.
I guess why is one episode just kidding Jimmy's eyes can't be saved agents.
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Jimmy where we find you on
jimmytherabbit.com.
Woo.
Woo!
Two-ton waffle, where do we find you?
everywhere.
Most of my stuff is at two-tonwaffle.com.
Get out of my house.
I'm right behind you.
I'm touching you.
I looked.
I looked behind me.
He sadly wasn't there.
I'm sorry.
You said everywhere.
Was there an actual thing?
I lost you after everywhere.
No, said everywhere.
Most of my stuff is at two town waffle dot com.
OK.
Find me at Blue Sky threads mastodon everywhere.
OK.
All right.
Good.
And I'm Ocho.
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Blue Sky mastodon.
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