The CFG Game Cast

[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the CFG Gamecast episode number two, seventy-six, a weekly podcast care by gamers and streamers alike to discuss the latest gaming topics from the previous week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am Mr. CFG Games himself, Davis Green.

[SPEAKER_00]: And with me today, I got my two awesome co-hosts.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got pop in the second seat.

[SPEAKER_00]: What is going on pop?

[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, schools back in session, and I'm forced to teach against my own getting.

[SPEAKER_02]: If we back was great, I have a good bunch of sophomores for the second level course.

[SPEAKER_02]: But first level, music history, but it's the second level course, because I mainly work with sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and then

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a little sad about the third stage of the music history course because it looks like some majors have left and it's probably because you know the whole financial aid situation and finding in budgets cuts that's been happening and the education system.

[SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully those students are able to come back or go somewhere else to finish out their degree or maybe they were able to change a major to get the funding that they needed.

[SPEAKER_02]: Overall, strong start.

[SPEAKER_02]: Excited for Shinobi this week.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I totally forgot that it's comes out this week.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, three days early access.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you have the Deluxe edition, we get to play on Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you get the physical game or did you get the physical game the physical or did you get the digital for that like down on your PC?

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you got on PC?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but so fun funny story about that I did not buy the game I So originally so second reached out and I think they messed up cuz they were about to like offer me two keys So I was just like you know if I can get one away I'll give it to you a friend come to find out that same friend not only pre-ordered the deluxe edition, but gifted me the deluxe edition on Steve

[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_02]: Super excited about that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm used to going to see a segment.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, give away the key at least.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully they see us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you could just give it to the day.

[SPEAKER_02]: You could give it to the day of a screen foundation or as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: We can like read up or review together for a few games and then

[SPEAKER_00]: That would be good.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've always wanted to play it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's made by the the same folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did streets of rage and they've been they've been consistent.

[SPEAKER_00]: They've been making really good games.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait for their own IP game that's coming very soon.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I want to say it's called observer or something like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, so they've been now I've been really interested.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've just wasn't sure if I wanted to spend any money or wanting to check out Shinobi quite yet is what I was.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to wait.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was just going to wait.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I was going to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's all my list.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you know, you know, you're on the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of games on the list too that I still need to play or that you wanted to play too, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: Pop.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know the person that is judging me heavily right now because of what they tried to bang.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's the five star general of the Eddie Bitty.

[SPEAKER_00]: Smitty committee.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got smitty in the third seat.

[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on my dude?

[SPEAKER_05]: Always been a busy week like like he guys are alluding to a lot happening in the video game world and and out here in the real world as well.

[SPEAKER_05]: Somehow it was crazy.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't even know what I like.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, one day I got home from work gotten side and I don't know if it was my backpack or what but like my arm felt like I had popped it out of it socket and it was back in but it was like super sore and like I couldn't like lift it like this.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know what I did to myself.

[SPEAKER_05]: are you still like that?

[SPEAKER_05]: No, it's definitely getting better.

[SPEAKER_05]: I've been taken ibuprofen though.

[SPEAKER_05]: So that's that's definitely been been helping out.

[SPEAKER_05]: There's all kinds of things because like they're sick and like I'm pretty sure I'm sick and then you know how it goes when I get sick.

[SPEAKER_05]: So I just yeah, I had to take some special medicine and

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, hopefully that I'll clear me up here, but uh, you know, at least it's happening now and not here at the end of the week.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: I can I've got time to reverse it and get it get it good.

[SPEAKER_05]: So I should be good by the end of week.

[SPEAKER_05]: other was I would be concerned.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so yeah, I thought we should be concerned now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you'll know if it's going to be.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, because the one like there's medicine that will that like makes it so that like it gets me on the right track and you know what I mean, like other than other than like the the but like because like getting sick didn't really manifest and like like I got a little bit of a stuffy nose, but like I haven't been like the girls like a man.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, now I want to ask them mainly, it's just all snodding in.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you can tell that she's sick.

[SPEAKER_05]: But like, again, that's a bunch of little kids coming to school again.

[SPEAKER_05]: And that's what it is, y'all.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's what it is.

[SPEAKER_05]: It is a germ factory at a mega home and bring all the germs back to the house.

[SPEAKER_02]: Every year when my mom gets to flu.

[SPEAKER_02]: But high schoolers, they typically get sent to school when they're sick because their parents won't believe them.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know it's because at one point in my life, I was a high schooler who was sick and got sent to school because you didn't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't contagious though.

[SPEAKER_02]: I did get sent home though because I like almost passed out in class.

[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, typically do this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it because in the reason why I believe it was because when I came back from Nigeria when I was in middle school, I had malaria and then my parents did my mom force me to go to school and I was in the nurses office every damn day because I couldn't even stand up without a ridiculous migraine and then they were like

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, yeah, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So no, I totally understand it because like, yeah, they don't be like, you just try the past.

[SPEAKER_00]: You just try to pretend to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: That was a thing.

[SPEAKER_05]: That was a thing.

[SPEAKER_05]: It was hard to get to stay home sick.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the trust was not there, but video games.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're here and there mainly snap, of course.

[SPEAKER_00]: How are we thinking about the community of snap right now because I've seen a lot of a lot of creators also bouncing out of it like it's getting I don't know it's getting kind of weird because I

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, this stuff that's kind of like we had to pay wall stuff and they put a lot of cars behind the pay wall stuff and like it's getting an accelerated rate where the disparity between being able to get the cars if you're a free to play player and being able to use the cards.

[SPEAKER_05]: All of a sudden there's new archetypes that are being created and stuff like that and you can't compete with them because you don't have cars to compete with them.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, so it

[SPEAKER_05]: If I think it's a little frustrating for the community, I totally get it.

[SPEAKER_05]: There's a time, you know, I'm not in any kind of like, oh, I have to have to have these cards or anything like that.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I can see where that would be, where that would come from a little bit.

[SPEAKER_05]: I also joined a dynasty league in college football, twenty six.

[SPEAKER_05]: with some friends at the place that I work.

[SPEAKER_05]: So there's like five or six of us in a god doing like seasons like basically dinosaur league North Carolina.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, so the stipulation was that we had to be a team that was two stars or lower.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I think it might be dukes.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's probably dukes.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's probably dukes, but yeah, no, I haven't other net that I really haven't.

[SPEAKER_05]: I haven't just had a lot of time to

[SPEAKER_05]: to do anything.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I mean, outside of gaming news and working and, you know, trying to try to be a person and dad.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: A lot.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, yeah, a lot of gaming.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a fan of the week.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, what you can get.

[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely understand that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.

[SPEAKER_05]: What about you, brother?

[SPEAKER_05]: That was your week, mate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's always busy, but it's always something so I can't really complain about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I did go to a small convention yesterday called Windbloom, which was a convention for folks who are fans of Getshin Impact in like Hoyover's games.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I am I have no idea because I don't play the I don't play the only game I tried playing a little bit was Was in the zone zero and I got bored of it and then I was like and I left although but I really went there to talk to a lot of the the voice acting guests a friend friend of the show Risa May who was who is the Bernice and said a lot of different characters in Nica was there and I was like oh I knew it was not the picture you posted

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't sure who it was.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's really cool.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like she also was like, she also played Bells above in that anime RPG Sandland as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: She has a lot of different things.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's really cool.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was just like, yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I talked to her and her husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: Very nice people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely shout out to her.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, it was funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then what's his name?

[SPEAKER_00]: Sean Shiplock.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who is one of my.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of my.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Sean Shiflott, they made it.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you did?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, me too.

[SPEAKER_00]: A long time ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I did a long time ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: I told him, hey, I told him, hey, you don't remember me, but like what I did, you were like one of my first guests that pop culture gems.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we never met because it was during the pandemic when we did it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just wanted to say, I just wanted to greet and say, hey, how you doing and stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was really cool.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, then he told me like, oh, yeah, I'm the voice of a bubbley now in the new bubbley four geek game.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, oh,

[SPEAKER_00]: No kidding.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I didn't even know that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, oh, no, I'm looking forward to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to play.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm told him I'm going to be playing it at packs when I go to packs this week.

[SPEAKER_00]: This week and stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: So looking forward to taking his stuff out again.

[SPEAKER_00]: So now he's really cool dude as always.

[SPEAKER_00]: Him and his wife as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Had a great time talking.

[SPEAKER_00]: talking it up.

[SPEAKER_00]: The only game that I was able to play, I'm wanting to play the beta, the demo of the, the new trails in the sky, demo, I didn't get a chance to do that yet, but I did do two streams of Neo too, which, which pop, you should definitely watch it because I think it would be like, oh yeah, he's getting better, but it was, it was a good, it's a good experience.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, the like, I'm starting to understand how things are clicking.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't understand how to do some of the things like the like do I should I switch my weapons out to get you know to to get because there's a there's a learning or there's a there's a that a meter of how familiar you are with the weapon that you're using

[SPEAKER_00]: to get up to a thousand.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then when you do, you get bonuses if you merge it with the with other weapons.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I wonder who's like, so should I just do that?

[SPEAKER_00]: So like once I get to a thousand on this one, but I wanted to get the best optimized gear, go to the one I want to switch it to and then get get that to a thousand and then just merge them to together and stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like all these different systems are just it's overwhelming, but it worked.

[SPEAKER_00]: They work, but I'm like, man, it's just a lot of different

[SPEAKER_02]: and possibilities of what you can do.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, so the whole merge system they added later on once they started adding new graces that you can get on your gear.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't recommend doing that until you get to new game plus because that's when you get the really, really good gear.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's good.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not like a, it's not like a absolute thing I need to do right now.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, not not in the year first round.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, absolutely not.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: Cause that's what you merge it and they're like, man, I have all this cool stuff that I can do later on.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's why they didn't add it until I got added when I was already on like the third version of the new game plus one added it, but

[SPEAKER_02]: They added it with the second DLC I believe because they added a new grace and then so the different graces give you different buffs and perks throughout.

[SPEAKER_02]: Once you I don't know if they still do it in the first run, at least I don't know mine might have been messed up when I was just rerunning with a friend and it gave it to me but

[SPEAKER_02]: They'll be like a colored text on your gear and that's like whatever your grace is and if you stack them you get the grace bonus and that improves your entire.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be talking about the place.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be talking about stacking them with the same name weapon.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, the same name grace.

[SPEAKER_02]: So like, for example, I won't say it's exactly what it is, but I have like a dragon ninja build.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the title for the dragon ninja.

[SPEAKER_02]: Grace is on all of my gear.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I get the full benefit of that build.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gotcha.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gotcha.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll know that y'all don't want to hear about my strategies.

[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, no, like two different languages.

[SPEAKER_05]: I have no idea what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll do stand because I kinda don't understand it's still to the learning curve of this game is, wow.

[SPEAKER_00]: You would probably, yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you would be like, nope, like the first two.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Please, please.

[SPEAKER_00]: The first stage.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the first stage of this game is legitimately a tutorial of the weapon that you're wanting to choose and then it gives you like a small short quick outline and I'm like, that would be too much for you in the sense because you're like, what is happening here?

[SPEAKER_00]: It is crazy of how depth this game is, but

[SPEAKER_00]: fun, but it's fun, won't you start getting the hang of it?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, but anyways, I know, yeah, I know y'all don't want to talk about the strategies that I'm going to do and try to crush when I play this game again.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to try to do another stream of that, by the way, before before packs, so we'll see.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let's go into it like we do each and every week.

[SPEAKER_00]: So each of us chooses a topic of discussion in the world of video games.

[SPEAKER_00]: The topic would or could be a game itself or something that happened in the gaming industry.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we do not want to talk about it ourselves.

[SPEAKER_00]: We want to use the listeners and viewers on Twitch and on YouTube to be a part of the conversation as always.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if there is something that you're willing to chime in about or willing to have your opinion on, by all means type it inside the chat.

[SPEAKER_00]: We would love to talk with you about it and go.

[SPEAKER_00]: from there so smitty.

[SPEAKER_00]: My friend, what are you bringing to the table?

[SPEAKER_05]: All right, we got to talk about it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Pete Parsons, he's out at the twenty three years.

[SPEAKER_05]: The last ten obviously being the CEO of Bungie.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I got to say the writing's been on the wall this is not.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't feel, again, I have no concrete evidence.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I don't, this is a, Pete, you can, you can gracefully leave or we can make you leave.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is what Sony is saying because they have, especially, and I feel like the, the big, like land mine was marathon in the shenanigans within marathon.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's when Sony was like, alright, we're, we're, we're taking over.

[SPEAKER_05]: You guys, you guys clearly have no idea what you're doing.

[SPEAKER_05]: But quote to quote Parsons.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is under the official Mungi website.

[SPEAKER_05]: When I was asked to leave, Bungi in twenty fifteen, my goal was to grow us into a studio capable of creating a sustaining iconic generation spanning entertainment, been through so much together.

[SPEAKER_05]: We launched a bold new chapter for Destiny, built and enviable, independent live-off organization capable of creating and publishing its own games and joined the incredible family at Saudi Interactive Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_05]: Today, Mark, to time for a new beginning, the future of Bungi will be in the hands of a new generation of leaders.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I am thrilled to announce that Justin Truman will be stepping into leadership as Bungi's new studio head.

[SPEAKER_05]: Number one, I didn't know

[SPEAKER_05]: Like, he's able to appoint his successor.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's interesting.

[SPEAKER_00]: He can't because, yeah, because technically even though Sony, I mean, he's the one that's bowing out on his own.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not Sony, I mean, like you're saying in the front facing way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, we may not even know, maybe that's what Sony wanted.

[SPEAKER_00]: That person to be a part of it, too, and to make sure he was his idea.

[SPEAKER_05]: All that is true and like make it look like he's got the power, but really like.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is what it's like, this is who you're going to do.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's what's going to be true.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think about that.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I mean, again, too, and I know a lot of people are torn on Pete Parsons.

[SPEAKER_05]: Personally, I don't have the best opinion of them.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's got the there's the whole thing with him and posting about the cars and over the two million car or like over two million hours spent in like car classic cars and stuff while they're chopping you know jobs and stuff like that at bungee.

[SPEAKER_05]: But he also was part of them breaking from activation, which I think was the best possible thing they could have done because.

[SPEAKER_05]: Activision was absolutely ruining them.

[SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, it was huge for them to be able to do that.

[SPEAKER_05]: But this was, I mean, he was part of that cycle where bungee was no longer really bungee.

[SPEAKER_05]: There were still people there, but they were not making the best moves.

[SPEAKER_05]: I am excited, though, to see, you know, what Truman brings in.

[SPEAKER_05]: Truman's another long time.

[SPEAKER_05]: Bungie employee just that kind of worked his way up the ranks.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I've been seeing and hearing good things and people were excited over there, which I think was something that was lacking.

[SPEAKER_05]: We know that from interviews and stuff like that from the devs that have been working on marathon and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_05]: Again, the overall atmosphere at Bungie has been pretty negative for a while now.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I can't really speak on it even destiny anymore.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm so far behind.

[SPEAKER_05]: I got the one year thing and I just kind of like I just had no desire to grind it anymore.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, yeah, I was just like, you know, the story kind of ended for me with the, the final shape.

[SPEAKER_05]: I was okay with it.

[SPEAKER_05]: That was okay with ending, ending it right there.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think this is ultimately, you know, and I don't want to get too much into it.

[SPEAKER_05]: So he's been doing some things in the background here.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I think that his time was up a while ago.

[SPEAKER_05]: So they've clearly been putting things into place.

[SPEAKER_05]: But, you know, I just wanted to see what you guys thought.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's where how you guys felt about Pete Parsons.

[SPEAKER_05]: I know a lot of people feel pretty strongly about him one way or the other.

[SPEAKER_00]: You want to go pop or you should want me to.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what I can say because I haven't really been involved with Bungie like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious to think or I think to know what my friends who do play like Destiny to think of his departure because I know they're going to have a lot to say because some of them have

[SPEAKER_02]: have had their grievances about this need to or do you're excited about one thing and then they do something else and then they're all ticked off again and I'm just going to like so guys how about Pete what you think

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, maybe it's just gamers or, I mean, that's basically gaming culture in itself.

[SPEAKER_00]: In the sense, in the, in the, in the long story.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's really charged with destiny to for some reason.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I thought PSO was bad with NGS, but then I saw like how like destiny to players react to stuff.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, yeah, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I would suggest.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, not suggest.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I think about it because like I'm kind of in the same boat as you pop.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have played Destiny, but I haven't really played Destiny like as serious as what Smitty or some of our friends have done because Smitty has been pretty consistent.

[SPEAKER_00]: playing it for like since actually smithy it was actually got a funny with use maybe because smithy was talking so much it about the was Destiny two when it first came out about like all this and then then when I think when the first expansion came or the second expansion then it kind of won you over

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, well, the first one was trash dude.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, all the things it basically erase everything from destiny won't destiny won.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know that you had done now as I just I was like, what is what is going on?

[SPEAKER_05]: Do you like that in that expansion was trash?

[SPEAKER_05]: It was absolute trash.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, okay, so I mean, to be fair, Destiny was a cash grab.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was clearly said.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's scheduled as a change as a cash grab itself, but to say that, but to Pete Parsons itself, I think the way that he has run.

[SPEAKER_00]: this studio down to the ground is something that cannot be ignored because like overall everything that was coming in like that would happen is watch you know I think the thing that really kind of made me lose respect for for for for him

[SPEAKER_00]: was the debacle of the marathon, uh, the marathon debacle that happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's not even just the development of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a whole different can of worms in itself, but the time when they got busted for stealing art from an artist.

[SPEAKER_00]: And stuff like usually you're the CEO you're the person that saw that was that this happened on your watch.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't necessarily mean that you're the one that this distinctively You're the one that did it, but no you're the one that takes responsibility for that and you do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But what do you what do you do you got the developer?

[SPEAKER_00]: of the marathon to unfortunately had them do the stream anyways when they know that they couldn't show any videos because this is like two days removed from when that happened and have them sit in the couch explaining what's happening

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's a choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I mean, Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and it says, because like, you know, but when someone says like, oh, wait, no, they had to come and it's like, well, this has happened before.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember a long time ago with with CD project read and what the whole debacle of of

[SPEAKER_00]: What's it called a cyberpunk twenty seventy seven when they lied to everyone about like the system's version of like when the the PS four version and the Xbox version and they went to shit it was terrible like it was really bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: He could have easily covered back not even not take ownership of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: No Michael Suzuki or Klizinski can never say his last name correctly.

[SPEAKER_00]: A manned up and he basically said it was his it was his fault and they were going to do better guess what they did they did fucking better.

[SPEAKER_05]: So I didn't even have to go that far.

[SPEAKER_05]: They were caught in destiny multiple times for stealing our.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, and that, and that was.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he was watching.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Was there ever, was there ever a time when he came out himself and then, and owned up to it?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he never did.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's what I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, so like, and then what they, and then just to add the, the cherry on top of all this was the fact that he decided to, when, when they, what they laid off thirty, was a thirty five percent or thirty percent of their, their workforce.

[SPEAKER_00]: that during that time, but then the two million dollars of the car and stuff, you know, like, that terrible optics of that given, but then, but to say that not it, I mean, everyone else, like, there's no other big CEOs that do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm assuming there are, but just to be as blatant as that, it just bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you don't freaking care like to this level.

[SPEAKER_00]: So part, like,

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying the person may have not didn't know what he was doing, but at the same time, he definitely curved his responsibilities, especially as a CEO.

[SPEAKER_00]: CEO's a leader, and I don't think that even people respected him to that level.

[SPEAKER_00]: And to say, he got lucky, I just think that the bungee itself was lucky on this cash cow that Sony gave him the, how much was it?

[SPEAKER_00]: Three point seven billion dollars?

[SPEAKER_05]: for a ridiculous yeah three point seven billion dollars so like and that's a lot his you know I bet his stocks stocks probably got vested having a year's uh that you know to me is stock yeah that's it now all right he says I can sell these yeah it's not

[SPEAKER_00]: and you know he's leaving a sinking ship I mean yeah I mean it's too it's well too late at this point that to whatever the the next person's going to go

[SPEAKER_00]: uh... is going to take over it's he's not going to like there's no way it's going to be flipped over so he's going to take like you're saying like you said early uh... so many like so many is definitely going to take more control of uh... a bunchy but he's going to probably be uh... is probably going to be more into the so many ether so it's not going to be a shell of what it once was and uh... and and and and and basically but he's going to die

[SPEAKER_00]: of what we know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it might be a good thing because they've always had an issue with money and they've always had an issue with keeping up to expectations to something specific, but still it's like it's all because of this guy leading the way that he was leading is ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like good good riddance.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't I mean, I don't really care to the extent of being like whatever whatever is going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: But they, he, long story short, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked, he ducked,

[SPEAKER_05]: What happened to it with Justin and how Sony being involved more of fake things.

[SPEAKER_05]: Again, I never, I mean, I get like, I mean, I don't understand marathon and why the distraction, shooter genre is so niche.

[SPEAKER_05]: You don't even like, I get it, but like,

[SPEAKER_05]: They're sweaty.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not like, I'm not like, I'm not like, I'm not trying to sweat like that when I'm doing stuff.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I was like, so I'm not like, I don't really like have much interest in marathon.

[SPEAKER_05]: I would try it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Could I know, bungee has great gunplay and I love the gunplay in it.

[SPEAKER_05]: So that would always be the only reason.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I don't have any kind of series.

[SPEAKER_05]: Not like that.

[SPEAKER_05]: isn't it like I don't know if they talked about it or not but like is it gonna cost money to like in a genre that like again free to play kind of you know yeah maybe not free to play but a little bit because like you see the tarcoffs they did charge and stuff like that but there's a monetization issue in that genre in itself um so that's the other thing that has me worried about that whole situation so we'll see I mean regardless Pete Pete uh

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Pete took his money and ran.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: You're right.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's going to get away with that, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like he's definitely no one can do about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing you don't want to do about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the fact that this guy just jumped off the sink of shit.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was the captain of the ship and he was the first person to get off that set ship.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's basically said, come on.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: exactly what he's doing like maybe just probably he's probably even saying like wave it he's probably given the two fingers to birds you know yeah pretty much it's like what is going on then right to the life right pretty much right to the life right now need this crap I'm out

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I have three point seven billion reasons why I should leave.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you was I mean he was at the company for twenty years.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did give him twenty three years.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did give him twenty three years.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't sound like, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean that like, oh, he's because his contributions was like, you know, what we're grant.

[SPEAKER_00]: He probably at one point in time was really good on his job, but he was definitely not a good CEO.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because like, yeah, because he was not, yeah, he definitely did like like the choices that was being done and the things that we're being there were being made.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, to me, honestly, was Merrick Merrick, Merrick, I was entirely under his watch.

[SPEAKER_00]: Merrick, I'm just been in the making for ten years.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so like in two it started around what the the inkling's happening in what twenty twenty fifteen twenty sixteen so yeah, so it was his it was his project this project is now probably well over like yeah, no, it's like oh my god

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, oh my god, I made a turn that giant third.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't admit it to this.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's like, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's my secret bail.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what he did.

[SPEAKER_00]: He just said bail.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's fix our best.

[SPEAKER_00]: And fully, one hundred percent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait.

[SPEAKER_00]: That would be so good.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to tell you the story.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was going to be like, OK, here we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, true.

[SPEAKER_00]: You got this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look at all my faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have all faith in you to take care of this.

[SPEAKER_00]: You got this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me out of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even care.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to play Murathon?

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to get the chances to try a Murathon out or are you going to play it?

[SPEAKER_05]: If I do, I'll try it for sure.

[SPEAKER_05]: Just to see the gameplay.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't have high expectations or

[SPEAKER_05]: low expectations.

[SPEAKER_05]: I just want to see and feel that gun Blake and I know it's going to be good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: And we'll see if they can, you know, sell me over from there, I guess.

[SPEAKER_05]: Enjoy the beta.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, I didn't even get into the middle.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I never did either, but I was in sure it was worth it, but then it's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I know I was going to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: I knew I was going to play it, but still.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm pretty sure pop.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure pop definitely was going to play it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, how about?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, but anyways, but I will say, well, good, well, good riddance for Pete Parsley.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that I think it's a little too late.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's not going to save the company anymore or any less.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be integrated to Sony's, Sony's groups of companies are going to be playing, making something completely different, something completely, something that you wouldn't think budget would ever do.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see how much they would essentially like.

[SPEAKER_05]: break break the people up into like other get them absorbed into other companies that are already doing things or do you think they would hold on do you think they value the brand of bungee more than that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's a good question.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that there's nothing that will be off the table, like because I think the brand bungee has ruined themselves so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: That it made, like I don't know, it could be like a cryptonite at this point because of that's happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like, it's hard to think that, I mean, when you think a bungee back in the day, you were thinking Halo, Halo two,

[SPEAKER_00]: The first destiny, all this different kinds of strengths and these big hits, but then that when you saw, you know, like a couple of several months ago when they found out that like how bad bungee was when it came into the the the their money.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the runways that they were having all these different kinds of money troubles and issues.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then on top of that, they've had a game that's been in production, that's being made, that's been over a decade of being made.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then now it's well over too late for that genre to for no one to care about.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they know that this is going to be an uphill battle for people to be interested in.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're probably better off just just making the name disappear at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like in my opinion.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think it still holds value.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think I think I think you can I think there's still something that can happen with it.

[SPEAKER_05]: What it is, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: But something.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all Jim Ryan's fault in my opinion because the Jim Ryan was just must've been the worst negotiator for these companies coming to Sony.

[SPEAKER_00]: It just doesn't even make any sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like

[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, oh, hey, we want you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like how much you want?

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we want, uh, I'll give you three billion dollars.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, whoa, so that's like your breaks there, Turbo.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, yeah, but I'm three point seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, it's like, okay, Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for a hard bargain, but all right.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't know how to bargain.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good God.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know, but then he was filthy rich.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, terrible.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so my topic, good topic there, Spiti.

[SPEAKER_00]: My topic is, of course, will play station.

[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, I always have, as you know, my issue is the PlayStation loves to give their news on the PlayStation blog, which is freaking ridiculous to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand why they have it on the PlayStation blog still to this day, but they just would do what they want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Donk says they own the Halo and Destiny IP, so they don't own the Halo IP.

[SPEAKER_00]: Xbox owns it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Destiny.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's how they're able to have three, four, three working on it, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's exactly in Destiny is that Destiny is their IP.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that is definitely.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's, I guess that's a Sony IP.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the, but like if Destiny's dying, well, so they got nothing of his way, you know, but you know, they got marathon exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: They got marathon.

[SPEAKER_00]: because we wish the government's spending the money that's coming in, that's going to come in real question is when does this need to come out?

[SPEAKER_00]: The government go back, the government have to.

[SPEAKER_00]: So as far as the force of the say, we're going to make destiny three.

[SPEAKER_05]: I know, today's day will never make a destiny three.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that'll believe one word you say, but you're in dire need for something to be alive.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see.

[SPEAKER_00]: So Sony announced on the PlayStation blog a couple of days ago that once again, starting August, twenty first, which has already happened, that they are going to be increasing the prices of all their console systems yet again.

[SPEAKER_00]: So now the PlayStation, the PlayStation five, the core PlayStation five is now five, forty nine.

[SPEAKER_00]: the digital edition is four ninety nine and the play station five pro is seven hundred and forty nine dollars what the fuck is happening like like what is happening

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even have words to explain.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, we understand terrorists.

[SPEAKER_00]: We understand that there's an increase of production line and stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you're telling me in twenty twenty five that a PlayStation five at this point is six years old that's going to be hit in six years.

[SPEAKER_00]: That it's now getting to a point that the the the top of the line system is going to be equivalent.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's now cheaper.

[SPEAKER_00]: to buy a steam deck at five, twelve, a five, twelve steam deck to get a place in the place in five pro.

[SPEAKER_00]: And stuff is unbelievable to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: What was the two weeks ago?

[SPEAKER_00]: We were talking about the tender increase in their prices on their switch one.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like who's going to buy a switch one?

[SPEAKER_00]: Fifty dollars less than the switch two, which is like what is happening?

[SPEAKER_00]: This doesn't make any sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like we're in a freaking upside down world at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's really weird when you even really look at it this way.

[SPEAKER_00]: When the PlayStation five pro originally came out, I believe it was six hundred and fifty dollars.

[SPEAKER_00]: When a first came out.

[SPEAKER_00]: So essentially, you got the best deal buying it day one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then you did waiting for it to get to for how everything is and like waiting for it later on, it's getting more expensive for the same shit.

[SPEAKER_00]: What is happening is just unbelievable is ridiculous to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this was what really pisses me off.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Miller Gear Solid Delta.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not out yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: It comes out next week.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I have played.

[SPEAKER_00]: I played a little bit of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And but I've unfortunately have only played it on PC, uh, but not on the console.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I've, uh, I think there was an article about how bad

[SPEAKER_00]: The optimization is for console the console port itself.

[SPEAKER_00]: The regular base PS five can run that system can run it in at seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, the minimal is seven twenty p to as high as ten eighty p.

[SPEAKER_00]: but the fray the FPS is that forty f the averages around forty FPS it's uh... it's on but it can get this points where it gets to sixty but it's still blurred kind of blurry in the sense uh... itself back when the one million sold three came out on the ps two we yes it was at four eighty but it was running out of solid thirty frames per second uh... solid thirty frames per second on the ps two of his two uh... itself and like to say that

[SPEAKER_00]: three generations later we still haven't figured out how this is all this all works because we're running on with with with technology like DLSS and stuff like that which basically kind of uses a computer computer mathematics

[SPEAKER_00]: mathematical algorithms to kind of fill in the blanks.

[SPEAKER_00]: So people don't want to need to physically code is ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the scary part is the place each of five pro does it run it as well as the PlayStation five.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you're telling me that the seven forty nine is going to white at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: Unfreaky believable.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, people need to really like, I mean, they're basically facing themselves out at this point with consoles.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is freaking, this is, this is garbage.

[SPEAKER_00]: The garbage bowl crab is what that's happening with this.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just unbelievably, it just frustrates me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to get y'all's opinion on this.

[SPEAKER_05]: We knew it was coming.

[SPEAKER_05]: We knew this is coming.

[SPEAKER_05]: We just didn't know what it was going to look like and why not and which companies were going to use.

[SPEAKER_05]: Terrific as a way to tell.

[SPEAKER_05]: What's really surprising to me is that the fact that like you said, we're at the end of these.

[SPEAKER_05]: Council's life cycles.

[SPEAKER_05]: We should be talking about the next generation.

[SPEAKER_05]: And you know, starting to get hyped up about that.

[SPEAKER_05]: These fools are going back and saying, Yo, dude, this generation is about to be the last generation is going up in prices.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like what?

[SPEAKER_05]: Excuse me.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, terrorists.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, can you, can you show me the numbers?

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, she's, no.

[SPEAKER_05]: You got believe.

[SPEAKER_05]: She's got belief terrorists trust us.

[SPEAKER_05]: We got, we got, we got, they, they just, they just got trust us.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like we got to, but you're not to, no, I'm just not gonna buy it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like that's insane.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like you're right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I mean, Teno and Teno, to me, that's the craziest.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like she said that one.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't even make any sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm freaking believable on what Nintendo stuff is.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, oh my god, it doesn't say anything.

[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, now this is this is I mean

[SPEAKER_05]: Don't just don't buy it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Just don't buy them.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like, hold off.

[SPEAKER_05]: Wait, there is no need.

[SPEAKER_05]: Don't don't.

[SPEAKER_05]: You're not missing out anything.

[SPEAKER_05]: There's so many games on so many platforms.

[SPEAKER_05]: Hell, you've got a phone.

[SPEAKER_05]: You've got games.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: So like, was that black Friday exists?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, all that stuff.

[SPEAKER_05]: Just wait, make them, you know, because this is going to slow again, but this is what happens.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is what causes those issues, because all of a sudden, all that stuff is going to back up and no one's going to be buying them and the economy is going to slow down and it's going to cause other kind of ripple ripple effects.

[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like this is just that starting position.

[SPEAKER_05]: So with that in mind, I am not a financial advisor, but

[SPEAKER_05]: What I'm gonna do is maybe look at some of them stocks that are primed tank, and then you buy a low, you sell high.

[SPEAKER_05]: No one would need a base, ready?

[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody said to buy Ford, because the US is never gonna give up on Ford, and you'll always make money on it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I literally have Ford's stock, and I have it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's funny, because I bought Ford's stock at the during the pandemic.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then because I thought the same exact way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I definitely understand, but it's funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: The donk actually posted something that actually I was thinking about about when I saw this.

[SPEAKER_00]: He says, here me out, raising the prices at end of life means that when the new PS six comes out at nine ninety nine, it won't look like a two times increase in the price.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's we still have the same goof as an office, but yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, well, I don't think, well, but, well, you know what I'm not even gonna say, but like what I think was gonna happen is that if this is the trend that we are going, the next gen systems are going to probably be ridiculously high.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like ridiculously high.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not in any way.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't be surprised if next gen came out at like,

[SPEAKER_02]: hundred and something and then you know the whole situation is fixed and it's still eight hundred and something because that's the price that you're originally gonna go for.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah they're gonna be like okay uh so basically you're saying we're gonna be competing with against computers at this point like I mean yeah yeah that's so crazy it's like why like

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, making the switch look more palatable because no, so with it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Here's the most annoying thing about the switch one as a switch.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it pisses me off with switch two on the one fact and one fact alone that the fact that well first off, by the way, do you know that Walmart is selling like our discounting switch games already switch two games?

[SPEAKER_00]: like, uh, I bought yoccuses.

[SPEAKER_02]: They've been doing it for a while.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, this is worse though than me because this is like of this game, these games just came out two months ago and they've already discounted some of these games down to two dollars.

[SPEAKER_00]: I bought yoccuses.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I bought yoccuses is zero.

[SPEAKER_00]: The collectors.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: The, the, the, the, the, what's called the game key card version of yoccuses is zero.

[SPEAKER_00]: I bought for two dollars at a Walmart.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's insane to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's two months in on the brand new system and my thing is is that how Nintendo decides to decide to basically just alienate the everyone else except for themselves to say okay anyone could use the game the sixty-four gig car, but we're only making a sixty-four gig car and but

[SPEAKER_00]: the folks that like physical, the Indies that need to focus that would like to have a physical, but they don't want to because it's like a fifteen dollar cut margin from each of the cells that they put on their card for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so to get themselves in a situation, them not make it interesting for anyone to buy their stuff is on Nintendo.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the point of portable having that portable game system without playing, without worrying about the internet, without downloading or pre-dallying your system,

[SPEAKER_00]: when you only get to one and fifty six gigs in the first place behind you is just doesn't make any sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: The original switch made sense on this original with all the different shapes and sizes and physical cards and stuff, but they but switch to they're just like totally just said you know what you go down to pay if you're wanting everyone in physical and you're gonna pay us a lot for that nonsense.

[SPEAKER_00]: So whatever man yeah so yeah so all these all these systems are just straight up

[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually when I was thinking about it and after I saw the anger that I had again with no greater solid delta, which by the way, I'm going to still get it on console, but I'm waiting, I'm going to, it's not, it's not a sixty dollar game in my eyes anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, I'm not a way, I'm going to wait till it drops down.

[SPEAKER_00]: This might be the last, the last generation I might, I'm going to be buying consoles.

[SPEAKER_00]: I might, I might have to switch over to just getting steam deck or something, because this is,

[SPEAKER_00]: This is outrageous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I, I, I, yeah, PlayStation five Pro.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's absolutely no reason to get one.

[SPEAKER_00]: The only reason why you would want to get one is for one game.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's GTA six.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't even know the, how, how optimized that's going to be when that comes out.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I don't have any faith or any trust of what these other, other companies are going to be is going to, is going to, is going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because this is unfricing believable.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's, this is where we're at right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want something?

[SPEAKER_00]: What's up?

[SPEAKER_02]: If you bring your PlayStation back to go up to a pro, GameStop will now give you fifteen dollars instead of five dollars.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's got to go up.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's true.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're getting extra ten dollars.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good news.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have more traded value for your P S five because it's cost so much more.

[SPEAKER_02]: I say that's because game stuff absolutely made a retweet when PlayStation made the announcement on the prices call.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you serious?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna have to check that out.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna have to find it and send it to you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I thought I was like there's no way.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is hilarious.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is hilarious.

[SPEAKER_00]: It makes sense to tend to have a bunch of extra twenty-year-old Android phones.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, man.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, like, it's just this heartening to see where the, where these consoles are coming are going to now.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I, I have always been an advocate for physical games.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've always wanted physical games on consoles because I don't, I do not trust the internet, the size of the car drive.

[SPEAKER_00]: on these consoles are small, or really small, so I don't want to just do just digital for most of these things, mostly these things itself.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then also, I like a sense of ownership of the games I get.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the fact that these people are fighting as hard as they are, just to say, oh, no, to just deal with it, just say, hey, you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, we should just go with the digital content and stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: We could trust, we could trust the big, the big conglomerates to do it is just naive.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, anyways.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so no.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you did.

[SPEAKER_00]: You said it to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to put it up here in a minute.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, you're darkening.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bad day.

[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Freaking ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, here we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: PlayStation increased the suggested retail price of the PS five by fifty dollars as of August twenty first.

[SPEAKER_00]: We understand that this may come to an unexpected change.

[SPEAKER_00]: Prices go up is frustrating and surprising.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why we've come up with a solution.

[SPEAKER_00]: Trade in any PS four Xbox one Xbox series and switch and we'll add next to fifty dollars in trade credit court towards a new PS five.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your old console isn't just collecting dust.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's helping you step into the next generation of gaming without sticker shot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've been helping gamers upgrade trade and save your for decades, and this is just another way we're keeping you in the game because when it comes to the next generation, we want to make sure you don't get left behind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: Game stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just some good copy.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is nice of him.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, as of today, everybody that didn't take that offer has been left behind because the small planet is a lot of.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's too hate August, twenty-third, twenty-twenty-five.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so it's too late.

[SPEAKER_02]: It practically said we got you for three days after that, leave us alone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, right, that is funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: So these bitches gave us a three-day cue.

[SPEAKER_00]: What did you say?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: He has four, but if he knows more, that is back to five dollars.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's saying, hold your horses, Donk.

[SPEAKER_05]: He says that's nice of them.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you got three days.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'll suggest you do the comments because gamer Twitter never loses.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what a deal or no deal.

[SPEAKER_02]: Paul, it is the fun thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but God, that is freaking wild.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: Holy crap.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is better than the steam reviews.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, this is.

[SPEAKER_00]: God, these people did.

[SPEAKER_00]: It just, like, it just makes you not want to be frustrating.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I love gaming.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we made, we have a video game podcast with left talking games and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But to fact, that is just, it's feeling like it's becoming brain surgery.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just trying to keep up with this.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's very, like, disheartening of where this is going.

[SPEAKER_05]: Assuring in the way of the subscription service.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you're streaming.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's what he's doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He really is.

[SPEAKER_00]: It really really is.

[SPEAKER_05]: Blacks back there like.

[SPEAKER_05]: He increases in the prices, you know, you know, we got, we got Game Pass.

[SPEAKER_05]: You can game anywhere on that.

[SPEAKER_00]: These people are good game passes going to be with all those Microsoft layouts and they laid off the game pass people.

[UNKNOWN]: So

[SPEAKER_00]: the season of the year that is true.

[SPEAKER_02]: I hope they planned out at least the next three years, but if they didn't plan out past twenty twenty five, we got to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, it's going to be weird.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're like next to like, I'm telling you the next gen console of the second, if I see that system at seven hundred or higher or or ridiculous, I like, it's not starting a price.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm starting.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm starting for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm buying a steam deck or something along the lines and then just getting a docking bay and just putting it on my television because f this.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is this is just incredibly like like now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, even come to think of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The new ally raw go whatever it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: The ally raw gecks.

[SPEAKER_00]: The next thing is now cheaper for to get the base.

[SPEAKER_00]: The base model is cheaper to get that than it is to get the next a place station.

[SPEAKER_00]: A place station.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pro a place station five pro.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's freaking crazy anyways.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, anyways, it's ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, you know, it'd be one thing if it's a brand new system, if Nintendo did like an increase because it's a new system.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact that they're that it's going up in price, even before like for old technology of the way they are is just like what is going on here guys, freaking terrible.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I didn't go up in price.

[SPEAKER_05]: I went to hell's happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, right.

[SPEAKER_05]: You tagged it on date.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like what?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, what is happening?

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, pop.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why don't you close this off?

[SPEAKER_00]: What are you bringing?

[SPEAKER_00]: Give us some good news, please.

[SPEAKER_02]: So our system of works has done two updates on their titles.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I invert to and go to your strive where we got two new DLC characters.

[SPEAKER_02]: One per game.

[SPEAKER_02]: And under night, we have Izumi, but for those cyberpunk fans, you'll be happy to hear that we got Lucy in Strive, and she is fantastic.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was a little bit disappointed playing Lucy, because I thought she would have some airplay with the wires, but after playing her, I realized why.

[SPEAKER_02]: Izumi over in under night, I actually absolutely love playing her, but Lucy was... I don't know how to describe it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So in Stribe you have the Roman cancel system.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can use her overdrive to kind of pause or do like a reset and continue a combo.

[SPEAKER_02]: Her hacking system is perfect for gaslighting people.

[SPEAKER_02]: history with experience with both characters this past week, so on Thursday, you watch Thursday's stream, or no, sorry, Friday's stream.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was playing against Neku, he was just like, my overdrive is all right, working.

[SPEAKER_02]: Just like, I don't know what's going on with the game.

[UNKNOWN]: He's just like, wait a minute, you hacked me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Just like, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: People from doing things you can cause poison.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's she has a very, very nice.

[SPEAKER_02]: I still set fun to play with.

[SPEAKER_02]: She has a DP, which is pretty awesome.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't expecting her to get one, but yeah, what do you guys think about?

[SPEAKER_02]: Did y'all play cyberpunk?

[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't play cyberpunk, but I did watch at runners, so I was kind of... I will admit, I was skeptical about having a guest character, but when they announced that a guest character would be from cyberpunk, but when I saw that it was Lucy, I was like, okay, SS solid choice because of how her weapons are.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's fair.

[SPEAKER_02]: Over and underneath you have easy me as it is like the color of the goldfish girl.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you fight for the goldfish.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very strong one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Kelly is very strong.

[SPEAKER_02]: You could do setups with her fish, which is pretty dope.

[SPEAKER_02]: She has like a dash move where she'll like serve.

[SPEAKER_02]: She has a record.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if you don't like record characters,

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not good with them.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but yeah, she's I'm a hilda main, but I definitely see myself playing a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_02]: Easy me.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Phone on is still in the lineup, but easy me is definitely someone that I've been enjoying playing.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm still not dropping Hilda.

[SPEAKER_02]: I still must terrorize the masses, but easy me is definitely another another character.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll use the terrorize my community with.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty cool.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I just can't wait to get that one character in the undernight that's going to use a capy bar eyes or weapon.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't play uni.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not I'm not I'm not really like

[SPEAKER_00]: knowledgeable on any itself.

[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like a good game.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's fun to watch, especially when people just like destroy these people's characters, like one ridiculous combo and stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this character at least seems very odd to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just in just the natural fact that she is using a goldfish as a weapon.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just odd to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, if that works for her, I'm not going to hate.

[SPEAKER_00]: So do what they really do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's for Lucy.

[SPEAKER_00]: I am looking forward to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have not gotten the chance to mess with Lucy yet, but the, the game, like, the Guilty Gear has done a really good job on, you know, making like their own identities for characters and just the fact that they were able to do to get Lucy from CD Project Red into this and to, and then like, she looks beautiful on like animation.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everything looks really, looks incredible for it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, she doesn't look out of place at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, not whatsoever and like they what they that's how you know the amount of TLC they put with it with her as a character and then also had a very justifiable weapon for her for a game that each person has a special a special T weapon So yeah, I mean I'm looking for the checking it out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll probably then check it out once I get back from from from packs and then but yeah, I am looking forward to it Smithy have you seen anything about about these characters?

[SPEAKER_05]: I did I remember seeing something about what her name uh uh the one from uh using me was it using me?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah I remember yeah I remember they did the announcement for her at the stage during Evo and I was actually in there and I got to check that out.

[SPEAKER_05]: And then of course Lucy and I watched both edge runners.

[SPEAKER_05]: I played through all of cyberpunk.

[SPEAKER_05]: I loved it.

[SPEAKER_05]: So to see a character like that in a game like this, I think it's really cool and seeing like the hacking like screen come up like it's very familiar screen to me playing through cyberpunk.

[SPEAKER_05]: So it's like I make me curious to see like what what what what ability what is what's he hacking?

[SPEAKER_05]: What's he doing?

[SPEAKER_05]: What can she do?

[SPEAKER_05]: That sounds really cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: they're overdrive or like specials.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's energy siphon where like she'll take the tension from another player, contagion, which is like, it's somewhat of some of the other characters like Happy Chaos or Faust where they have this ability where if it strikes you, if they hit you, you take more damage, she has that that's part of her hacking system, which is contagion, so it'll be like this purple smoke and

[SPEAKER_02]: I first I was just like maybe someone's getting poisoned over time and then I used it again and I paid more a little bit more attention.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just like, oh, yeah, I hear a lot of your health if I hit you while this is stacked on to you and there's another another hack where

[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't work if you're if you're a Lucy playing against an L Lucy, but apparently she can make herself invisible.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's cool.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's crazy.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's crazy.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, that looks fun.

[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like a fun character.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm here to see how people use, you know, the new characters in those games.

[SPEAKER_05]: I am not, you know, again, I don't I don't play very many fighting game.

[SPEAKER_05]: I try playing a fighting game.

[SPEAKER_05]: the other day, but it was kind of slow and I was like, man, it's all good.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's fine though.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's no crowd to watch, man.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I said, yeah, I'd rather watch people play.

[SPEAKER_05]: Watch people to play that knowledge they're doing and play it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Fair enough, but now it's fine.

[SPEAKER_02]: How's the new rank system?

[SPEAKER_02]: So I definitely looking forward to see some cool Lucy plays on the competitive level.

[SPEAKER_01]: Are you going to go rank?

[SPEAKER_01]: Are you going to try the rank?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think I'm gonna do it with Gio for she got a really nice balance this patch.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's small buff, but good enough to wear her neutral gain is just incredible at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to checking that out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm going to be playing some guilt more guilt together.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, having a good time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was messing with Street Fighter a little bit at local FGC tournaments.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm still loving that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But guilt together looks like a better one because I'm, I'd like to play as Ramlethal.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, but one try some more dead and a Bronx, but he still does a ton of damage.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if you know, if, if.

[SPEAKER_00]: What do they do there?

[SPEAKER_02]: I reduced her guard crush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you've played recently, but her swords don't go out for is only anymore.

[SPEAKER_02]: They go at like an angle.

[SPEAKER_02]: They made her the less oppressive.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, because like she has, she's very aggressively impressive though.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like I mean, like, yeah, they doubt it.

[SPEAKER_02]: They doubt it back a little bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: For what we'll see, yeah, I will, I need to mess around and check out the sea if I still like it or anything.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like it.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like in the right hands, I pretty sure she can still be the same way because some of the patch knows I'm just like, I don't see why if someone wouldn't, you know, why R.C.

[SPEAKER_02]: here or why they went and six p. there, but

[SPEAKER_02]: It is what it is.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a good patch overall mainly for the new rank system because the tower system, as you know, Davis was bad.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what they were doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact that it lasted as long as it did is really weird.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like, wow, five years is insane.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, but yeah, I think two point on next year was a jam.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm ready to cry when she comes out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why did you not like it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I've been waiting for Jams since the game came out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's crazy that they wasted that as long.

[SPEAKER_00]: But no, we all know the the man of the hour that that they need to get his apple.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.

[SPEAKER_00]: So please bring back Zappa.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I need.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what it goes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I need.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, thank you for listening to episode number two, seventy six of the CFT Gamecast.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for being a part of the conversation as always.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you did miss out on this episode, that is perfectly all right.

[SPEAKER_00]: We do release it on all podcast services at the beginning of each and every week.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there is absolutely no reason to miss out on our sexes, sex evoices.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, be sure to check us out on our website, ConflictsGeeks.com.

[SPEAKER_00]: And also, like I said, if you are at Pax West, definitely say hello to Smitty and I will be around for the next several days in Seattle.

[SPEAKER_00]: So once again, this is Davis, Pop, and Smitty, signing out, y'all.

[SPEAKER_00]: Take it easy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.