Gaming Roundup: Dragon’s Dogma, State of Decay, Deadpool, Retro City Rampage, Silent Hill: Book of Memories, Stealth Inc, and Muramasa Rebirth

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scared I don't know what to do. Probably cover

them pretty quickly. Off the Cuff episode 22.

I am your host, as always, Michael Powers. I

am joined this week by Art Danner. Hello. And

by Shonze Brown. Yay. We traded Joe for Shonze.

Still retiring. Yeah, it is. We traded Joe for

Shonze this week. Upgrade. Hello. Prepare for

diminished quality. Actually, no Joe is on a

family trip to Baltimore and Sean's he just doesn't

have to work tonight Yay And my dog is being

a dipshit He learned it from his master So how's

everyone doing Fantastic You sound so thrilled

Work was terrible today work was truly terrible.

Do you want a hug and a foot rub? Well, I get

I got yelled at by some douche nozzle who's a

presenter because he was upset about the audio

quality, which don't get me wrong. The guys I

work with did not. Use the smarts that God gave

them when they were setting their speaker package

today, so they're saying is the guy was mad because

the audio audio quality was shitty and he was

rightfully to. Rightful to be mad, but you were

mad that he was yelling at you because of it

I more so the I don't I I can't fault him for

the fact that he was angry But the other issue

is I wasn't there yesterday I took the day off

took a vacation day because I had family stuff

to do So I couldn't have I wasn't in a place

where I could have prevented it Which I know

isn't the guy's problem. You're the manager,

dude. It's always your fault no matter what.

It was the utmost douchebaggery that followed

towards me. And then the fact that he told us

we are one of the three worst places he's ever

been in his entire life as a presenter. At least

you were one of the three worst, not the worst.

Yeah, but then you go like, hey, at least she'll

always remember us. Yeah, and then we started

laughing about his FedEx kinko'd pictures on

his DVDs that he was selling there also So I

felt better afterwards because mostly because

of the fact that I'm not a huge tool Just a meteorically

sized one. Yes, so So it was a long stressful

fantastic day gaming You need a hug and a come

here you have a coconut smile So do we want to

answer these Twitter questions, or do we want

to talk a little bit about what we might have

been playing lately? I've actually been I've

actually played new stuff. Oh Yes, there hasn't

been anything new stop no I played new stuff

for me. Oh, I played dragons dogma Okay, and

I played state of decay a significant portion

of it Tell us about dragons dogma because I think

you've told us about stated okay already on the

podcast Well, I talked a little bit about state.

Okay. Oh, so okay. So dragon dog dragons dogma

I got the the dark or risen or risen. Yeah darker

risen one, which is basically like The major

expansion that came with it that comes with the

first the original game So, um, it's cut shut

up that's kind of interesting It's long awkward

pause. Fuck you. It's for dramatic effect. I

got stuck on the fact that you're coming on the

original game. Yeah, hard to just like your face

last night. Oh, hey, I'm back. We're not a family

podcast. Yeah, fuck those people. So it's it's

a very interesting game. When I when playing

it, it for a very weird reason, it gives me.

Makes me feel like Shadow of the Colossus Because

you fight these like giant dragons and all sorts

of animals like you fight like a thing that's

got the head of a lion The body of a goat with

a goat's head on the back and then the I snake

tail a snake's head for its tail It is but I

didn't know chimeras had goats. I Think chimeras

are just a mixture of any. Yeah But you can run

up to it right you have like a stamina bar I

can run up to it hit the grab button and climb

all over it You know video game stamina not your

stamina because you probably be out of wind by

the time I ran dude I would shoot it with a gun

like None of this knife shit it takes a lot of

stamina doesn't it? Sit in one place and shooting

things. I wouldn't sit. I would do combat roles

in between shooting to make it look cool. No,

you would play it like Mike plays Call of Duty.

You would just sit in one spot and shoot. Mike

does not sit in one spot and shoot. He lays down.

I apologize. He lays down like he's laying down

for a nap. He's a leaf on the wind, man. I don't

want to get stabbed. Watch as he soars. You end

up getting stabbed. Thank you for finishing that,

first of all, Dan. That was fantastic. But it's

actually really, really interesting. It's kind

of hokey, some of the stuff, because it was a

Japan game. It was made in Japan. So you can

clearly see how some of it's kind of like the

wording's a little messed up. Are you saying

that the translation is bad? No, no, it's not

it's it's done in English. It's not translated

into English, so it makes sense, but they use

phrases that Wouldn't necessarily make sense

because it's you know like medieval times Okay

certain phrase ologies. Yes sure whatever And

they have this thing. It's called. It's called

a pawn system uh you're the main character you

have main character and you have what's called

your main pawn basically like a companion that

follows you around forever it listens to you

but at any time i can go up to this rift stone

is what they call them and call in up to to make

my like two more pawns now if you played this

game i could go in and get the pawn that you

made online I couldn't get your main character

because you you use the character creation thing

on your character and on your main pawn. Then

you can go online and people can use your main

pawn if they wanted to. If you let them. So I

didn't know you guys are still there for a second.

I thought it was we were I was working with such

a frenzy about this pawn system. I just couldn't

contain myself and they have to say it's it's

it's and you can choose like there's You know,

there's basically like the ranger type guys who

uses knives and bows and arrows. There's the

mages and then there's the sword and shield guys.

So is this like a medieval lost planet? Or what

type of game is this? Oh, OK. It reminds me.

More of the. Dragon Age origins. But instead

of being a. But with more hack and slash elements

because it's strong attack weak attack, you know

Um, but it's definitely like that like life bars

or everything. It does it does kind of have that

weird feeling of like lost planet kind of Well,

it's it's very interesting. I especially like

you can kill like a dragon on foot if you wanted

to Like one of the first bosses you come up against

who is a hydro who's got like six heads Now i'm

climbing on him As he's spiraling up this like

tower wrapping around it all crazy like I Could

know I don't have to climb him. I could easily

shoot him with a bow and arrow from afar Or I

can climb on top of him and do crazy amounts

of damage And You can kind of you can order around

the your pawns a little bit think of Mass Effect

Danner Not the stopping time and ordering but

you know he could press like you can tell him

go here go there come to your attack with the

directional arrows Yeah, just like that pretty

much are you playing Simpsons tapped out again,

I am NOT He is not he's playing tiny tower or

something. I am NOT doing that either. I am Checking

out what Rob Perlman is saying on Twitter right

now Is he good I've always thought about following

him He's not bad. I like him He said he said

at pearl munitions Mutations sorry pearl mutations.

What the hell is that? That's his Twitter name

Oh pearl mutation. Oh, I thought I thought you

were actually saying he was at someplace called

pearl mutations. No, that's Twitter. I'm stupid

Sometimes I really I'm amazed sometimes that

I actually get up Time before I shit myself.

I'm amazed at the fact that you know how to turn

on your laptop and do this So I just leave it

on I don't turn it off If I turn it off, it's

like untying my shoes. I can't figure out how

to do it again He called the people to your house

instead of the laptop. He go now never turn it

off. Don't you dare? Because guys if the power

goes off man, I'm just gonna have to call somebody

out to turn it back on again It has a battery

back up Yeah, dear God, don't you die on me.

But yeah, it's someone who likes RPGs and like

those kind of medieval monster games like that

where you're fighting goblins and orcs and all

that shit would totally dig this game. I'm playing

on normal and I haven't really come across any

parts so far that are insanely difficult. But

it's it's definitely encourages you to to use

the club that climbing mechanic on top of guys

But your pawns will also automatically jump on

them, too. If they're like a melee character

So I just like I just got this I was looking

through the like the sea of pawns Picking one

and there was this little dude. Somebody had

made a short guy you were all your default human

but he made a guy to look like a like a Like

a dwarf So I'm like mine that guy's mine I'm

taking him with me And he keeps jumping on these

things be so small takes him like an hour to

climb to their heads. It's kind of funny Um so

yeah, I've been playing that and like I said,

I've played a lot more of state of decay No,

did you buy state of decay? Yes, okay? Has it

been worth your $15 or is it so far? Yes, isn't

it? It's 1600 space points. Oh, yeah I don't

know. They're I guess they're going to be releasing

a new like an update in the coming months, which

is supposed to be pretty cool. And it's going

to include a mode that they're calling sandbox

mode. That's basically you jump in a sandbox

and then you build sandcastles. You know, that's

exactly what it's not. I would totally play that

game. It's called Minecraft. Go nuts. You gotta

use the Kinect in order to build the sandcastles,

but you just can't quite grab the bucket right

to make those perfect turrets, and there's just

not enough water to get a mixture in the sand

to get the mixture of sand and the water ratio

correct, so the castle will just stay perfectly.

It's, man, fucking Kinect. You lost me at Kinect.

I'm sorry, I'm not interested anymore. That's

only good for going through Netflix. No, not

even then you know it's good for going through

Netflix my phone my phone on the Xbox I actually

think you can use the there's some way you can

use your phone to control the Netflix on the

PlayStation That sounds way way too unnecessary

and way way way too much like something a lazy

person would need to do Yeah, but it's fantastic.

Oh god. That's why I figured you would like that

direction. It's weird. You fat bitch I'm a fat

bastard. Thank you I would kindly you use my

surnames correctly. Sorry apologize fat bastard.

Thank you sir They're there tons of fun shut

up bitch. I'm I am fluffy Apologize winterized.

Hey, it's cold here Cold here when nuclear winter

hits you little bastards are gonna be lining

up to cuddle with me. Hey, so whatever slice

you open like a ton ton Yeah, go for it. Enjoy

that Taco Bell double steak a quesadilla Probably

smells better than the inside of a Tanta I think

that's debatable Dude I've I've made myself filled

with it probably does stink pretty bad to the

eyebrow to my eyeballs man But it's the it's

sandbox where it's it puts you in the same map

of the regular game takes away all the missions

You in the in the game you have to scavenge for

supplies The pleasure medicine food fuel ammunition

And I think I think it's anyone's actually like

building materials like that's how you build

like different Sections to your base like I want

to build a workshop or I want to build a med

tent But it's gonna throw you in there with no

no story and it's like how long can you survive

and let me like a leaderboard So it's horde mode

kind of But the zombies are still randomly generated

like they would normally be it's not like they're

gonna send waves of zombies at you It's basically

it's basically it's playing walking dead The

video game no, it's not playing walking dead

video game No state of the game is nothing like

playing walking dead video. No. I'm saying the

sandbox mode. No, it's not Why is it not? Oh,

okay? Well, okay. Well, first of all, there is

a game tell me How playing a game that you've

never played is not like our team this because

I have played the walking dead video game And

it's nothing like state of decay No, not the

video game not your little telltales thing not

that game. We're talking I mean if you were walking

dead game. No god. No God, that's talking about

actually the Walking dead like the TV show they

have one. It's where there's a TV show of the

walking dead There it is. Listen, I really hope

that State of Decay is better than Survival Instincts.

I'm not comparing it to Survival Instincts. I

never said that you did. So it's just like reading

the comic book? I will stab both of you in the

throat with each other's dicks. So it's all black

and white? I will murder you so hard. I hate

you. Does the sheriff lose his hand in that one

too? I swear to God! Spoilers! Does Rick go crazy

and start talking on the phone and carrying the

phone around with him everywhere? Are you done

talking about state of decay? I just want to

say... I thought we were talking about Walking

Dead the comic book. Fuck you guys, so hard.

You walked into that one. Yeah, backwards apparently

and bent over. Is Carl not in the house? Fucking

rape your what are we doing like? So Danner wait

did Shane make it to you know, you know out of

the first arc or is you know, he Relentlessly

in the second season for no apparent reason.

No, let's move on to what you're gonna say. Oh

my god. I'm trying to finish a fucking sentence

here What's going on all right see colors we're

moving on from state of decay All right, what

else have you been playing? Oh? I'm done talking.

Oh Well, I'll just drop you from the Skype call

then no you won't I won't oh He presumes an awful

lot sir. Yes. He does let me find the window

so I can drop them Anyways, I'm still here Dan

or what have you been playing I? Really with

his balls wait. I haven't played well with my

balls. I played a lot, but Never really played

that much I Had a little bit of time. I really

last two weeks. I haven't played anything until

probably Yes, two days ago, and then I started

playing Deadpool again, which I've already talked

exhaustingly about which So what game is the

replay of that? I mean, what's the I do? I haven't

even got game anything by playing it again There's

like challenge rooms and stuff like that and

there's a certain things in the game that you

can get Certain things that you finish if you

finish them a certain way you get achievements

for Do you get to like is there like a new game

plus do you get to keep all the weapons and shit?

You've earned that would require dinner to finish

a game Yeah, that would require me to actually

finish this coming from the got the saran wrap

king over here who doesn't even open his games

I open them. I just put three hours into them

and then forget about and stop that He was at

least trying the game. He started once it gets

to the menu I go with what's the most interesting

thing that I've played three hours into and then

to finish it But no, it's I mean it continues

to be absurd ridiculous and fun to play it just

like I said before it It has its issues, but

because of the fact that everything else is so

much fun about it, it's easily forgivable to

me. But just the longer the game goes, the more

unrelentlessly unforgiving it is. And that I've

unlocked the size now that you move super fast

with, but they do pretty much next to no damage.

Until you build them up and unlock more things

on them. So it's they're incredibly weak when

you first get them and the more you Use them

the more you unlock upgrades for it, which makes

them more powerful eventually But you still have

to grind through using them to do that Yeah,

but you still have to grind through using them

and I'm like pretty much 75 % through the game.

I think right now so I'm like Doing it on way

harder villains that I probably should be screwing

around with it on. So I also unlock the double

sledgehammers. That was when I was watching video

shows. That was the coolest. Yeah. So running

around with the giant mallets is fun. But once

again, they don't do a ton of damage until you

have gotten some kills and some combos with them

and unlock the abilities to upgrade things. So

it just continues to get more and more. Just

absolutely. Ridiculous and bonkers throughout

the entire game, so I'm enjoying it. It's a lot

of fun I Played actually picked up retro city

rampage again today. I played a little bit of

that Why would you pick it up again? It's because

I'm stuck on a level and I continue I figured

you'd beat I can't I'm stuck on I'm just I'm

stuck like it's for some reason that most of

the Vita games I'll play through and then I'll

get to a point where I'm guacamole and Retro

City Rampage where I just get stuck and I'm wondering

if it might be more worth it to just transfer

my saves to the ps3 and finish down there Because

I think I'm missing something Control wise. Yeah,

it's the ability to chuck your controller in

frustration. Yeah, I think that because I can't

always have that ability. I can't start my Vita

because if I start my Vita, it is game over permanently.

So I still have this still that it's an option.

Yeah. And then I played a little bit of Silent

Hill Revelations on Vita, which oh, thanks. It's

it's are you a Silent Hill fan? Am a horrible

pussy is what I am like let me finish my thought

then If you really I should let you finish with

thought if you're a Silent Hill fan, please say

it's like The Walking Dead. You won't like this

game It's like the walking dead. If you like

dungeon crawlers, you'll like this game because

it's a top dungeon one player dungeon crawler

and You just happen to fight Silent Hill creatures.

That's about it They're fighting Silent Hill

creatures. Yeah, so it's if you are don't do

well with horror games This is probably one of

the only Silent Hill games you would actually

be able to play Because it is very very not scary

It's kind of hard to make a top -down dungeon

crawler scary Unless you're far bigger pussy

than you actually are John dude. You don't even

know like Well, I can tell by your voice how

big of a trick you are, so get it. He's a mewling

quim. What the fuck is a mewling quim? Speak

English. It's another way of saying blubbering

vagina. Really? You're the one that's gonna say

that? Isn't that the pot calling the kettle blubbering

vagina? You're both pussies. But we're warm.

I'm cuddly, though. I'm warm and moist, and I

am what I eat, so be that way. I haven't had

a whole lot of time to play anything lately.

Oh, did you see what came out on Xbox Live Marketplace?

Like yesterday or today or one of those days?

The first DLC for... I downloaded it. What is

it even? I'm not even slightly inclined. Hang

on, that's one of the questions. Oh, okay. It's

about the other DLC, not about this DLC. The

first DLC for Bioshock dropped Tuesday, and it's

for challenge maps. And it's just waves, 15 waves

of enemies per map, and they're doing ranks between

all the players, so there's some online connectivity,

but you can... Just, you know, kind of challenging

as people on your friends list for. So it's basically

just leaderboard almost. Yeah. But the other

thing they did is they put more voxaphones in

there to get more of the backstory of God the

scientist. I can't think of her name, but it's

more about the twins. Yeah. It's more about their

backstory and stuff like that. So there's voxaphones

that drop throughout the challenge arenas. But

the only way to get them is to play those challenges.

Yeah. So I mean it looks it looks like it's more

of The combat that I think was kind of lacking

from the game I think it's kind of fulfilling

that need and it's just you know, I think it's

also something just to tight us over before the

meat of the DLCs drop What is has taken them

so long with us? We'll talk about that in a little

bit. I don't know I mean even just this little

challenge map thing. I just some kind of support

for the gay Okay Unlike most video game companies,

like Gearbox, they actually decided to finish

the game that they were working on, and then

make the DLC. The exact same thing that they're

doing with Blast of Us. They finished the game

first, and then after the game went gold and

went out, then they sat down and started thinking

about DLC. They didn't plot out all the DLC beforehand.

or already have, you know, portions of the DLC

already done, ready to go by the time at launch

of the game. They actually finished the game,

sent it out, and then started focusing on the

DLCs and built them from the ground up without

really having anything. I think they had a few

ideas in mind, but not necessarily don't know

exactly. Didn't have, you know, everything plotted

out that, well, this is going to happen and this

is going to happen. This is going to happen.

They actually, you know, Finish the game, got

a ship. And then we're like, OK, now let's refocus

on what we're going to do for DLC for these games.

But it's just this time span has been it's I've

lost interest in the game. I mean, I completely

I understand them focusing on one thing at a

time, and I like that. Don't take away from the

main thing to make add ons. I totally respect

that. But now it's passed on. I've just moved

on to other things now. And it's like you've

seen the trailer for the DLC, though. I haven't

even been interested to even look at it. Oh,

well, before we talk about the Twitter questions,

you were going to stop and I'm going to send

you a link and you're going to watch it and then

you're going to shut your damn face. I have a

phone. I can just do it right now. I have a phone.

I could just do it right now. I will stab you

in the face. You could be a long distance stab,

you little bitch. That would be worth the trip.

OK, you too. Not with the way you walk. I am

going to pull this podcast over and stop it right

now. Anyways, have you been playing anything

else besides Silent Hill and Deadpool? I haven't

really had any. I downloaded Stealth Think. That

was about as far as I got though. Well, I have

played Stealth Think. I actually have been playing

quite a bit of my Vita. Lately and when I say

quite a bit, I mean like 30 minutes before I

go to bed every night Wow you hardcore gamer

you Well Actually the three games that I keep

bouncing between on the Vita right now Actually

lend themselves nicely to this like playing 30

minutes to an hour before I go to bed, which

I find to be very appealing But still think it

It's not a very good comparison It's a lot like

a walking dead game no It reminds me of Fantastic

balls It reminds me kind of like meat boy super

meat boy have either of you played that No, no,

I've heard you talk about it exhaustively it's

a it's a it's a 2d platformer Basically, you're

trying to get a guy that's made out of meat.

You're trying to save his girlfriend, and the

game is just a series of challenges. From a grinder?

Please tell me the enemy is a grinder. No, the

enemy is... I could be wrong. Is that Manila?

Nope, I think it's an aborted fetus in a fish

tank on top of a suit. Well, that's okay. I can

move it. What the fuck? Anyways, I could be wrong.

And I apologize if I am wrong. But basically,

the idea behind the game is that you're supposed

to get through a series of challenge maps, and

you can see the entire challenge map at the same

time, and you're supposed to do it as fast as

you can. And when you die, and you will die,

you immediately start over. And you just do it

a whole bunch. Start over from the beginning?

Yep. You start over from the beginning. But they're

short maps. They're like 30 seconds long. and

you're supposed to speed run them. So you die

and you start back over from the beginning. And

the most rewarding thing happens when you finish

the map in Super Meat Boy, when you get to the

end of it, you get to see all of your playthroughs

at the exact same time. So you get this like

spewing of like sacks of meat like trying to

bounce around the level and they die at all the

places They would have died and then finally

you see the one guy get weeded out So if you

die like 50 times in the level you see 50 different

Meat boys bouncing around doing everything that

you did Stealth Inc reminds me of that except

not nearly as violent you play this little clone

like guy and you're going through like a testing

facility and You're trying to keep yourself from

alerting the security system, and you're trying

to stay in the shadows, hence the name Stealth

Inc. And just like Super Meat Boy, it's all trial

and error. The levels are short. You're trying

to get through them as fast as you can. So the

first time you go through, you're just trying

to figure out the level. Then you immediately

want to try it over again once you actually figure

out how to beat the puzzle so you can get a faster

time. And then when you're done, they rank you.

You know, ask for the best and then you guys

need to stop doing that because it's ending up

on the recording. What? The tweets. What? I don't

know what you're talking about. Yeah, whatever.

So I have a question. How do you spell diarrhea?

It should auto correct. I know, but it's not.

It keeps turning into Dairy Hyena, and it's really

annoying. You are Dairy Hyena. So anyways, when

you get through the level, you're immediately

right against other people that are playing.

Damn it, guys. Oh, really? Now we're too much?

Not when it's all like, oh, Shane, he's getting

you a number number. No, I'm dead serious. Those

noises are ending up on the recording. My...

I have mine muted, so it's all on his side. It's

all muted on my side, too. Anyways, it's because

of how I have to capture the audio. So I appreciate

that. It's all on you. Anyways, when you finish,

then you're ranked against other people that

you've played with. And I think it goes S, A,

B, C, D. You're rated on how fast you can get

through, how many times you're seen, how many

times you die. But I did like its design it's

set up in stages and there's like eight levels

to a stage Kind of like classic, you know Mario

type stuff. I did like the first like six in

30 minutes. It was a lot of fun And then I started

playing the other game that I'm really enjoying

which is a Miramasa rebirth on the Vita Yeah,

it's a remake. It's a more or less an HD remake

of a Wii game and it is similar in play and visual

style to Dust and Elysian Tale although it's

not quite as cartoony as an Elysian Tale is At

first I didn't really get into it when I was

playing it because the the menu systems are When

you just sit down the menus are kind of Kind

of hard to intuit and figure out what's going

on. You just end up skipping a whole bunch of

things But then funny thing happened. There was

a steam summer sale and they had dust on there

for I think it was like 750 so I went ahead and

bought it again on my computer and I played like

an hour of that and then I went back to playing

Miramasa and I'm enjoying it a lot more Because

the combat is is fairly similar. It's it's a

lot more Metroidvania than I think then an Elysian

tail was Yeah There's You go basically what you

do is you It's broken down into you go into an

area and at the end of that area is some guy

that you're you're hunting down it ends up being

a boss fight and So you just kind of traverse

through the level and eventually sometimes you'll

come up against barriers that you have to cut

down But you don't you might not have the right

sword to cut the magic barrier There's also like

dungeons that you might not have the right sword

to unlock. So there's lots of reasons to go back

to places that you've been to before. And basically

what you're trying to do is just, it's all for

experience. And then once you level up, you're

able to craft more powerful swords. And your

character at any given point in time has access

to three swords on her person. And then you have

a whole collection of swords. Like right now

I have 16 different swords. And you're there's

a trophy for collecting all of them. So I don't

think you're supposed to sell them You just keep

them all some of them add different status effects

different special moves stuff like that and the

interesting thing is that there's a Female character

and a male character, but I guess both stories

are the same. So I guess you just get to pick

Which you know, which gender you want to play

through the story as? The other interesting thing

about the game is that it's not has not been

localized All the speech is in Japanese and so

you're reading subtitles the entire time Okay,

but you get It's and it's kind of it's actually

pretty adult like one of the things I sent to

Danner Was I went I was trying to search for

a monk and the main character was having a conversation

with her spirit friend and they basically says,

why is that muff diving monk sitting in that

temple? Jesus! You said that to me and I was

at work and I lost my shit in the office. I was

laughing so hard. I was like, oh, so that's what

kind of game this is. And I think what happens

is if you I can see where the subtle differences

come in. If you play as the male character or

the female character like right now, I in either

case, you you're Character gets possessed by

a demon that is trying to reanimate themselves.

So You're you're playing as a possessed character

And so your actual spirit follows your body her

his or her body around like talking to the demon

that's possessing it and I was traversing in

this city and I went inside of a building and

there was a female NPC in there and I went up,

I'm playing as the female character, and I went

up and I talked to her and she was very like

coarse with me. She didn't have a lot to say.

She was just like, why are you in here? Let's

go, you know, blah, blah, blah. And so I just

kind of turned around and walked away. Well,

in that same city, I stumbled into a room that

had a male NPC inside of it. But I walked up

to him and started talking to him and he started

like hitting on me, say like. Did you come here

to have fun with me? And I'm like, I want out

of here. This is making me uncomfortable. So

I think there's certain things in the game like

that where it's like if you play as the male

character and you go into the female's room,

she tries to come on to you. And if you, you

know, vice versa. So that kind of stuff is interesting.

I don't know if I'd ever play it again as the

male character, seeing as how the story is the

same. There is a trophy. I have noticed that

for beating the game in four hours. And I'm at

three and I don't even think I'm that far into

the game. So Apparently you it is cape you are

capable of speed running it I don't know if there's

like a new game plus option or anything like

that yet And then the other game I just started

playing which is also conducive to this sitting

down and and You know busting one out busting

out a level before busting one out busting one

out right before bed ha ha Fall asleep me nothing

wrong with it. I grabbed it. That's all I grabbed

it yesterday after Having to fight with my Vita

For an hour. I was finally able to grab pixel

junk monsters HD on the Vita And I've forgotten

how much fun that game is and it's perfect on

the Vita because a level can take you about You

know 10 15 20 minutes to beat And then it's kind

of like, well, all right, I'm done. I'm going

to go move on and play another game. And then,

of course, on the Vita, having primarily digital

things, I can just switch right over to Miramasa

or something like that. I am hoping that I can

talk Danner into stealing my download so that

he and I can play cooperatively sometime soon.

I just cleared out memory on my Vita so I could

probably do it tonight. It's like less than 200

megabytes. Yeah, well, I couldn't even do a freaking

update on the escape plan. That's how little

memory I had on there. Nice. Yeah, I don't know

what happened with my Vita. It would not connect

to the Wi -Fi hotspot on my phone. And I ended

up having to do a system reset. On your Vita?

Yeah. And so I had to go through all the little

stupid tutorial screens all over again and register

my system. In order for it to connect to my iPhone.

I was like this is so dumb Like every other my

computer my iPad everything else was connected

to my iPhone just fine But the Vita was like

your access point must be too weak. We can't

see it or something stupid I was like, this is

just you're stupid But finally I got it to work

and I was able to download it and play it So

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escape into comics. Okay Made him laugh. That's

why I'm here. I actually put up on Twitter asking

for questions for off -the -cuff Threatening

that the listeners would have to listen to us

talk about ourselves for another week Apparently

that's all it took for one person to respond

Dear God no We got two questions from Ryan Cox

20 On Twitter with an X Cox with an X. Yep the

first one is What are your guys thoughts on the

reveal of the new Bioshock DLC trailer? I watched

the I watched the trailer. I watched it. I will

I I waited till Mike started talking I figured

I didn't need to hear that anyways, so then I

that's when I watched it Just drop you from this

all together. You don't want to though. Yeah,

it'd be a way more informed opinion if you just

drop him now. No You got a fresh perspective

of it though What was that? I don't know. I like

that you come with sound effects though. Was

that like you falling off a cliff? What was that?

Really excited about the DLC for Bioshock. Like,

really excited. Like, I have a huge boner right

now. I'm just so excited for it. Um... But do

not. That's a good point. Um, valid point. Um,

because every time I hear your sultry voice,

ooh, silky smooth. I think he's talking to you,

Mike. Uh... No. Sorry, where was I? Um... the

I'm in I'm excited about the idea of the fact

that you're gonna get to play as Booker and Elizabeth

in Rapture and that it's free shittiness Raptor

and it takes place on New Year's Eve right before

the shittiness goes down yeah this is literally

hours before the fall of Rapture So is this supposed

to be like a noir? Because that's what it looked

like, kind of. Especially this little cover.

It's got that 1950s noir feel to it. Almost like

a Casablanca type of thing. It just feels, it

looks so sexy. I just, oh god. I mean, I'll probably

play it because I've already bought the season

pass. Yeah, and you get to play as Booker and

Elizabeth, and I think it'll be interesting to

be able to play as Elizabeth. I'm wondering how...

And you'll get plasmids again real quick Do you

keep moving around the microphone Danner because

sometimes you sound like you're underwater and

other times you sound really clear He's actually

swimming right now. I am I think I keep bobbing

underneath and over top of the microphone I'm

a bobbing a weaving. Oh, yeah So that could be

the problem so Good I'll talk right into it.

Yep. That's what you're supposed to do with a

microphone. Yay. Talking in the microphone. Yay.

I downloaded the DLC that came out on Tuesday.

What was it? Clash in the Clouds? Clash in the

Clouds. And I haven't had a chance to play it

yet. And that was the basically horde mode you

were talking about? Yep. No, I'm very excited

for the new DLC. I'm looking forward to it. Yes,

I agree. It's called what? Burial at Sea? Burial

at Sea. And it's part one. Yes, have they said

how many parts it is? Two. It's only two, okay,

because... I don't know, those parts, like, the

fact that you could play through it and still

not reach the end of that DLC story, this would

be kind of annoying to me. Eh. It would be like

playing the walking dead episodes one episode

at a time something that Mike would be incapable

of doing Bite me I'm just saying you need you

You don't need your meal brought out in courses.

You want the whole thing at once. That's what

I want Your appetizer your dinner and your dessert

all in on one plate Ready to go. You know what?

No, I like to be immersed in the story and I

can't do that. If, you know, one week you've

got, you know, you get to play, you play through

an episode in a day and then you have to wait

three more weeks for four weeks for it, maybe.

And then it's like then you get to play another

one. I'm not going to. And that's the thing.

That's one of the things that I liked about playing

The Walking Dead the way that we did is that.

I remember the choices that I made. So I was

able to kind of play through it as like one cohesive

thing. And I got my story like I have no I have

no desire to go back through and play The Walking

Dead again. And I won't play it again before

episode two comes because I want my choices to

have mattered. It was it was actually kind of

an interesting experiment with the most recent

Walking Dead DLC, The 400 Days. I played through

it twice in like three hours, like back to back.

It made subtle changes here and subtle changes

there. And it... I got to see... You know the

the differences in the story But I only did that

because 400 days for all intents and purposes

is kind of like a contained thing It may introduce

you into characters that you're going to meet

in episode two Not everything is clear or in

season two, but not everything is clear about

that yet, but it was Interesting Just being able

to play through it that quick, but I wouldn't

I don't you know, I don't want to Mean I'll buy

the season pass, but I'll probably wait for all

five episodes to come out because it's gonna

be the same price anyways No matter when you

buy the season pass. It's just I don't I don't

want to have to play episode one before I'm gonna

play episode two again Because I want my story

my choice is to have like wait like I want to

feel the consequences I don't want to I feel

like you don't want you don't want that time

to pass where like you kind of like simmer down

and you're not still only at your seat and yeah,

like even like the the one you know, I finished

episode four on a Monday and I finished episode

five on a Wednesday because I work a double on

Tuesdays just that You know, that 24 -hour span,

almost 48 -hour span in play sessions, just that

was enough to change the tension at the end of

episode four going into episode five. When I

stopped playing, I was on this high, on this

adrenaline thing. I was pumped up by what was

happening. I was in it, and then it was over

the next day I got to think about what choices

I was going to make or what choice... would I

make instead of just reacting to it like in the

moment. It's kind of like it's kind of going

back and playing stuff like that. It's kind of

like having like a save states like the save

anywhere things in video games. It's like, oh,

I'm going to make a choice right now. I'm going

to save and then I'm going to see what happens.

And it's like, oh, I don't like that outcome.

So I'm going to go back to my save and I'm going

to make the other one and see what that I don't

know. It's just an easier way for me to not do

that. And it's more immersive for me that way.

I get that. I mean, I get the whole, it's immersive

and getting everything at once and not having

to wait for the next part, but I like the serialized

notion of it all too. But I'm patient and I can

wait for things. I'm not saying I can't. I mean,

obviously I'm patient if I'm going to wait to

play all five episodes at once. It just means

you're not going to be able to talk about it

on the show. Yeah, says you So I mean, it's not

gonna play anyways, I'll just YouTube it and

spoil the end for you. Let's see I don't know

I kind of have the I kind of agree with what

Sean's he said in the first segment about the

DLC is that I'm Like so much time has passed.

I've lost my if they had come out like maybe

Just with all of the next -gen stuff that's coming

out. I'm almost not looking towards current -gen

stuff anymore except for like maybe Saints for

Yeah, mmm dubstep guns. Oh my god the wub wub

gun I'm so tempted to get the collector's edition

of that just for my replica wub wub and oh well

Just focus on getting a next -gen console before

you buy any collectors edition things see they

must have all the nerd You must have a next -gen

console if you want to keep playing with us oh

You're not gonna really when's the last time

I played with either of you I Don't know whose

fault is that who got flooded out of their house?

Yes, that's my fault Blame nature five feet of

water. Yeah, that was totally my bad The whole

thing home for like three weeks my bad You're

the one that left the faucet on and the sink

plugged up way to be a real son of a dude I'm

gonna plug any kind of fixture. It's definitely

the toilet Just saying yeah, I mean the rapture

stuff sounds cool because that was honestly one

of the most interesting things playing through

Bioshock not Bioshock. Oh my god Skyoshock. Nope,

not Skyoshock. Bioshock Infinite was that brief

moment at the end where you end up in Rapture

and you play through the opening in reverse.

More or less, it's the opening in reverse. That

was one of the more interesting things. So, but

doesn't Bioshock 2 take place right around then?

Bioshock 2 takes place before Bioshock 1? Yes.

No. I thought you were playing as a prototype

Big Daddy. Bioshock 2 takes place after Bioshock

1, but the multiplayer in Bioshock 2 takes place

before Bioshock 1. I thought you were playing

the character of a prototype Big Daddy in number

2. No, you're a Big Daddy, but you're... Proto

to like an old commission decommissioned. I think

yeah, that's what I mean like like pre yeah,

but it takes place after Okay, so you're just

like awakened after yes, yes Okay, but that's

what got me confused cuz I was like I could have

pretty I was pretty sure that you were More of

an obsolete design than the other ones Okay,

so Back to the question You guys are just Dan

is excited for it Sean Z and I are kind of meh

because we think too much time has passed What

it looks I like the new war aspect of it I'm

afraid the the fact of it being in Rapture is

gonna push me away like being in Rapture in the

first one It just gives me the EBGB is just a

bit too much You know well it makes the game

not as enjoyable for me as a gamer because it's

just not my thing how much it's why I didn't

like the first one how much information is out

there do we start as We start fresh or do you

start as the character that you finish the game

with? Anyone know um like players like your level

wise yeah like can you like in the when you do

the story in the DLC do you start with Booker

at the end of Bioshock infinite or I think it's

another I Think it's a whole nother if plug your

ears if you haven't played the game I think it's

a whole nother alternative one has played it

well I would hope so at this point in time. I

think it's a different I think the storyline

is going to be an alternate one of the alternate

realities Okay, so that's that I was talking

about because that's how I'm back in time But

uh on that note with you saying everybody has

played Bioshock four million sales That's what

Bioshock infinite is that is that how much four

million four million? That's a lot seems low

Leave her out of this. It's suffered enough of

your flack what? I'm sorry. It's suffered enough

of square Enix's flack. Yeah. Hey, it wasn't

it didn't beat Call of Duty. So there's no point

I Don't think anyone ever expected Bioshock infinite

to be Call of Duty. I don't think no I'm saying

that's what it seems like they're like Oh, it's

not that the hottest shit since last bread. Well

might as well not put any more money into it

So Sean I gotta ask you are you gonna pick up

battlefield for as Mike's calling it now Call

of Duty ghosts? Battlefield for Yeah, I don't

know sure I'm I was planning on it It's okay.

You're probably gonna be playing on your Xbox

3 shitty. Anyways, no, I will not I are I Have

it pre or I have money down for the next -gen

console that I don't even pre or yet. Is it an

Xbox one? No, okay. I told you I'm getting ps4.

Hey I'm going oh god. I'm gonna see you a better.

Hope it'll ever get my hands around either of

your next See when art says one of us. It's funny

and cute when you say it Feel my butthole clamp

shot like a cigar cutter. I don't know why That's

what I want. Oh Good he wants a challenge So

what other things would you want to see out of

Bioshock DLC? Does the arena stuff that they

release interest you at all? It doesn't mean

me. No, I could not care less I think I kind

of want to play it just because I want to know

what it's like to That's the one thing I didn't

really get out of the game I saw it in the preview

for it, which is the fighting three handymen

at once. I kind of want to do that just to see

how utterly screwed you are. So, I mean, I think

that part of it interests me, but I have a feeling

I'm going to end up picking it up and playing

it once and I'll be done with it. I would like

to see something along the lines of, show me,

play as Booker after he's made the decision and

has become Comstock. Play as the villain, you

know? Yeah. Plus Booker has gone through tons

of fights and stuff before ever, you know gut

getting there But or let hit or play as even

when they when they switch to the parallel Universe

and he had died as a martyr for the cause Play

up until that point Give me like a back to the

future to kind of thing Let me see like another

maybe they should do a back to the future thing

Three thing and get a flying train. Yeah hills

to the yeah It's back to the future it's fantastic

and everything it does everything everything's

wonderful about back to the future There's nothing

about it. I hate back to the future three with

a passion. Oh Why? Too much awesome for you to

handle It does have an issue handling awesome.

It has cowboys much like it has trains There

is what it has everything there is no official

off -the -cuff Twitter No, so where do people

send their things to me? God is wiener It's wiener

now accepting applications or you can put something

out there for questions And just you know star

if someone asks you a question you can just favorite

it and bring it up on the show You can go online,

and you know find that one girl that's at off

the cuff and offer a buck for a Twitter handle

My god That would be fantastic. She's like make

it three dollars too Rich for my blood. I should

just change mine to the official off the cuff

There you go. I'll switch mine to the real off

the cuff Mine will be the unofficial Yeah Mine's

so off the cuff that it's off the cuff See now

we have a little bit of a problem with the next

one because Sean Z has sort of played the game

I've only sort of played the game to Dan is only

I'm the only one here that's finished it wait

which Kim the next question that Ryan Cox had

for us Was what do you guys want to see in the

last of us DLC? First of all walking dead I Could

not hate you I have a rage boner that I want

to skullfuck you with so hard Those are my favorite

kind oh wonderful wonderful wonderful okay, so

Sean Z You played a little bit of it. Yes. I've

played enough to get like a handle on it. Yeah

What do you think of the game? I? like it And

I can already say what I would want to be for

the DLC. Do you find the game scary? No, I'm

I of all the times that like play it. I was more

annoyed than I was ever scared because I always

came up against the fucking shrieker ones. Screamers,

what do they call them? The runners. The ones

that have like the heads are completely. Yeah,

clickers. And I never had chips. I'm like, God

damn it. Cuz I always accidentally used the shivs

like the the button pop up like ah shit. Oh shit

I should have saved that like oh well doo -doo

-doo -doo No, you said doo -doo -doo -doo -doo

I always found the situations in the game more

intense when you were going up against other

like the human AI I found the really yeah those

parts Was so uninteresting to me when it's like

oh, it's it's like oh Jesus every other game

I've ever played with any kind of stealth mechanic

has been like oh Memorize their patterns sneak

out get the ones in the outside. I've played

enough Assassin's Creed to know how to do that

I think I think for me. It was the fact that

I first of all, I was always trying to be stealthy

and You know, they do have that, you know, there's

you're stalking one guy and you're you do see

the pattern But you're stalking one guy so you

take your eyes off off of off of the other guys

We try to take down that one guy and there's

always a chance that you can get spotted by some

guy You may not use your super duper hearing

ability. Oh, I did Did that you can see everything

from true not true most most I mean when you're

facing human guts Yeah, not all the time not

when it matters. I found that out the hard way

a couple times, but I Think it's just the fact

that they had guns so they could like shoot you

from like long distance Whereas the clickers

you kind of had to engage them like they would

kind of run at you, so they'd funnel I just,

I found the clickers to be easier to handle than

the humans. Other than one. I found the complete

opposite actually. There's one moment with the

clickers where you're in the basement of a hotel

that is the absolute creepiest that that game

gets when it comes to the clickers. That's when,

that was like the most intense part fighting

the clickers for me. And then the other part

was the winter chapter was. Very intense from

a human standpoint But damn humans, but did you

enjoy it Me who you oh, yeah, I definitely enjoyed

it but like the problem I've like I I would rather

face ten humans with guns than five fucking infected

any day Because I've spent the majority of my

adult gaming career I guess, whatever you want

to call it. Covering in fear from real people?

No. Shooting third -person, first -person games.

And I don't know if it's just me. I was playing

on normal. Maybe if I put it on hard, it would

have been different. It seems like they're the

slow - the enemies are the slowest aimers I've

ever seen in my life. I'm so used to waiting,

like, as soon as an enemy pop up and being a

crack shot. Not him taking forever to aim, then

probably missing me with the first two rounds

before hitting me with the third round. I think

that may be a normal thing. But still, normal?

That's too easy for normal. I always think that

normal is going to be the majority of what your

people are going to play. I don't go out of my

way really to change a difficulty setting unless

I find it either not challenging enough or too

challenging. So did you put it on hard? Had to

haven't yeah, I haven't had a chance to play

it again. I've been you know busy with the whole

flooding shit, okay? So how far have you gotten

do you remember I? Do remember? Can you share

so that just know that's all you get I? Got I'm

like out of this I've just got out of the city

and I'm headed into the woods and I've come across

the very first building Like a radio station

or something. Yeah, I think Yeah, I like as I

am NOT I'm want to say I'm only like four hours

into the game. Maybe Maybe So far as you get

Chauncey, well, no, I don't what are you pass

that probably not us No, I'm not up to that part

even You don't have to worry about spoiling anything

for me though because I Probably will not be

going back to it. It is a cool game I totally

like it, but there's other games. I'd rather

be playing wasn't worried about spoiling it I

was just trying to figure out how far you are

without spoiling anything for Dan or Fuck him.

We don't care about him. I care about him. I

could just leave that's fine you guys you guys

can spoil it for each other and then I want to

spill you play the game right now Which is a

lie I'm gonna go watch Big Brother the moment

I get done with this but ah so good Yeah, okay

See the problem is I I kind of wish more of us

would have had been farther or something because

the DLC I I want story but at the same time I

don't I'm At this point, I just want Naughty

Dog to go work on Uncharted 4. But your wants

have nothing to do with that game having they

all want to do with the next. And I know from

the article I read online about Naughty Dog and

the DLC for Last of Us, they pretty much said

that they have no plan specifically mapped out.

That they were just gonna sit down and hash a

story out that you know kind of went along with

it And they didn't really you know it's another

one of those that they knew they wanted to do

DLC They just didn't know what they wanted to

do So they finished the game, and then they'd

sat down and started thinking DLC sounds like

they had even less of a plan than what? Kind

of Levine and the guys from a no for Bioshock

ad so you know this to me presents another problem

because If you don't have a plan and you're offering

a season pass then Your customers are really

just paying for a promise. I mean you're not

even giving them like I Just think I didn't buy

the season pass for either one. I just want to

say that up front because mainly because Borderlands

to burn to me, but I feel like For these companies

to say we didn't have anything, you know, we're

thinking of everything after the fact But yet

they still offered $30 season passes for stuff

that they haven't even like Done like Basically,

you're just giving them $30. I I can't get behind

that. It actually kind of makes me a little upset

that here that that Is exactly so you'd rather

wait till all the DLC is out and then basically

buy the season pass as like Like a collection.

Yeah, I mean Or like, you know or only have them

offer the season pass once they know that they

have or that they're going to offer DLC you know

what I'm saying like Otherwise, you've just got

people throwing money at you. And I mean, yeah,

I guess you're under obligation to create something.

But then at that point, you're under obligation

to create something. And well, look what happens.

You get I'm not creating. I'm working at that

point. I'm just trying to get this done and out

the door so you don't get mad. We don't really

care how it is. Well, but in the same token,

you have look at like Torg or Big Game Hunter.

or for a large part, the Scarlet DLC. I mean,

those weren't good, but they gave them to you

because you paid for them. Like I said, I wish

that companies... I'm getting really tired of...

I think I'm just getting tired of DLC being announced

before a game even comes out. That just... That

that irritates me because it's kind of it's getting

to that point where it's like, okay So what are

you leaving out of your game that you're gonna

plan on charging me for later? At least like

wait until like the game goes gold and you can't

make changes or until like it actually ships

to say that there's gonna be DLC But I can't

I can't remember what game was the last game.

I think it might have been Assassin's Creed or

We're missing you like the missing link or whatever

What's that? Though with Assassin's which you're

set. I'm trying to think which Assassin's Creed

it was We're like literally left out a chunk.

That was two two. Yeah, but which now you can

get for free on Xbox But the I can't remember

what the last DLC was that was it was a game

it might have been Assassin's Creed 4 or could

have been You know not that this game is getting

much love from us here on off the cuff, but it

could have been Arkham Arkham origins Because

they just keep piling on the crap with that game

I Don't know are you guys getting tired of pre

-announced DLC? I mean do you wish they'd wait?

You know it depends I kind of It I've been finding

lately that I've been looking into when they

say it more Because some studios are actually

I'm assuming to come to combat what you're thinking

and going like the purse. These people work on

the DLC have nothing to do. You know, they were,

this is a completely separate team working on

it. We're not pulling away from our, the main

game for this. We're not taking anything out

of the main game. Like as shitty as the DLC was

for, I'll say that's discrete four. It was, it

was three or yeah. Three. I'm sorry. Not four.

Um, so I'm sorry. I always think revelations

is three. Assassin's Creed 3 but uh it was completely

separate and completely different had nothing

to do with the original game So it was that was

interesting even though it sucked I still respected

it. Like I don't know. I just I Pretty much said

my piece dinner. Do you have any thoughts? Well,

I think I Would really like to see kind of like

a maybe a separate story for it kind of contained

in the world maybe maybe kind of from a different

angle or maybe from you know characters that

you meet along the way or i mean yeah maybe you

could you know wake up in a hospital um like

a few months into the infection and then and

then leave the hospital and then discover what's

going on and then you track down your family

and go to Atlanta and then when you ride a horse

you get you get you ride a horse and then you

get saved by some asian guy and he leads you

to your family and then you find out that your

wife's been screwing you know your best friend

and then you have your son kill him in the middle

of the woods and then tra la la you go carrying

yeah i'm gonna stop you right here okay This

sounds like a fantastic idea. I think they should

do this. I agree. It sounds very original. I've

never seen anything like this before. Let's do

it. Okay. Let's go talk to... Let's get the Naughty

Dog guys on the phone right now. Let's just tweet

them. I got a better idea. I got the icing on

the cake. Let's do it in black and white. Yes.

Let's do it all in black and white. But we can

sell... Wait. Wait. We do... two different versions

we do the black and the white version and we

do the color version and then and then we charge

10 bucks apiece for each version of the dlc it's

stellar but the color version will only play

if you've already purchased the black and white

version no the color version only play if you

you've purchased you automatically get that with

your season pass you got to pay for the black

and white version separately oh man i'm totally

sold i want this Need this inside me now Like

I want them. I want them to do this over uncharted

4 like a hot coffee enema. You just need this

And you know what you know what sucker punch

needs to help them get it done faster Yes, they

need to put coal in it Yes, and I'm pretty sure

gearbox should do all the marketing They should

have the guys that worked on aliens No, yeah,

you mean the one dude. I'm pretty sure his name

was Bob Bob Ashley was probably it was probably

like Rob Bob or something So I have a hyphenated

name for sure Bobby Jade of Hydra Bobby Joe Yeah,

but going back to like the the question. I think

I agree with Danner I Before he went off on his

tangent. I do think it'd be interesting to see

I Like I like me I guess if my thing is is what

I want to see it from the perspective of the

brother With the DLC packs and the season passes,

I almost like the idea of them finishing the

game and then saying, okay, we promise you we're

gonna do this many DLCs. We'll offer you a deal

if you invest in us now. Or you can buy them

as they come out. And then have the DLCs come

out three to six months after the game comes

out. of all new original content that they worked

on specifically after the game went gold. To

me, I like that idea better than them finishing

a bunch of content for a game and then holding

off on it and half of it already being encoded

in the game they've already sold you, but then

it unlocks once you get a code. It's like day

one codes. I fucking hate day one codes. I know

why they're there and why they do it to kind

of cut down on... new sales, but I think it's

ridiculous. Well, I agree with what you're saying,

though, but I just think that they... I don't

think they should announce season passes with

nothing on the drawing board. I agree, because

who's to say the game's not gonna sell worth

shit? Yeah. And then, you know, somebody mishandles

the entire company, and then the entire company

folds under, and then the entire state of Maryland

has to pay for it. Oh, that's Rhode Island. Rhode

Island, sorry. The entire state of Rhode Island

has to pay for it. Those are the same states.

They all look the same to me over there. All

those coastal states all look exactly the same,

and all the people look exactly the same. Thanks.

You mean awesome and sexy? Just a little wetter.

Thanks, asshat. No problem. You're not coastal.

I was born there. Where were you born? That kind

of explains a few things. No, sorry. I was born

in Virginia. What? Are you fucking retarded or

what? I grew up in Virginia. I grew up in Maryland.

But I was born in Richmond, Virginia. Oh, the

things I never knew. Yeah, and never cared about.

I care when it comes to everything about Mike.

It's you I don't give a shit about. You love

me. Mmm. I just think I got it several weeks

ago where you just text me out of the blue to

say that you missed me I was drunk. I don't care.

That's when your inhibitions lower and your true

feelings come out. You're drunk on Sean In your

essence and my yeah, well, that's what you call

it, but I mean it's hard to swallow it and say

that at the same time Sound of love right there

What were you saying nothing? But like anyways,

but I would really like to see like from the

from what I've played of last of us um Do you'll

see playing from the perspective of the brother

picking up a meat like him driving over to their

house? And picking up a car that'd be kind of

boring no no I mean, that's where the game picks

up, but you're playing from the perspective of

the brother So you're seeing the chaos going

into Go on his way there, then him. Then you

have to protect them. And then you go off and

join the the rebels or whatever they're called,

the Fireflies. Let me tell you, that'd be a really

short story. Why? See, does it make a very long?

Yeah, but the but but your story is what's Joel

skips forward a long period of time. Don't skip

forward that time. Go play through those actual

those those years. Think you should play as a

person who gets infected Throughout the entire

stages of their life until they become a clicker

and they get killed by Joel That would be all

about four hours. Yeah It's not a game. It's

not a real game But he'll like what you play

it in like a real time No, yes, that would be

so boring. Oh Man my arm really itches Guys hear

that clicking noise All right anyone else have

anything they want to add I Do but you'd make

fun of me Most likely is it about the walking

dead it is actually like I heard I just heard

an interesting fact in the Openings so that just

reminded me of it What is it? It's called me

to get back in the house. No shut up It's just

something I happened to hear that I thought was

really interesting about the TV show No, no,

no The way the second season they want they got

One of the main guys wanted to start and they

told him no and he walked away from the show

Back when all the show runners were leaving Which

they for every season. So yeah, but I mean like

I Mean it was before season two started. So that

was the those when the first like group left

You know how he's in the tank and there's the

soldier in the tank? He ends up having to shoot.

Yeah. Season two opened up with that guy, that

soldier as the main character heading into Atlanta.

And the story of how he got in the tank, how

what happened. Which I just thought was really

cool and now now Dan is gonna go off with some

stupid ramming. Yes, I'm changing You should

why'd you shave your head change? I'm trying

to still figure out where the fuck Shane was

in season two, but whatever Hey, it's not what

happened in the comic book a lot of things that

happened the company didn't happen After the

awesome things happen in the comic book I'm still

trying to figure out what the hell's going on

the TV series because that bullshit ending the

season 3 was bullshit exactly bullshit Farting

pony bullshit okay after I take those two separate

things I gave up on the Walking Dead TV show

being anything like the comic after it got resident

resident evilly at the end of the first season

so well I tried to block out the finale of season

1 and just don't admit the fact that was there.

You know, but the Red Queen. Stop. Stop. Oh,

when he says stop, you have to stop. Bullshit.

Racism. I've been here because I'm black, isn't

it? What? Since when? Anyways. All right, let's

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art Danner's mouth Sound of love right there

That's a perfect place. Doesn't even know where

to go from there because we raised the bar so

high.