823 – Switch 2 Freebies, Pokémon TCG Movie Wildcard, and GTA IV to South of Midnight Deep Dives

Hello everyone and welcome to episode eight hundred and twenty-three of the Infendo Radio Podcast.

Brandon and Justin are here with me tonight as usual.

Welcome, Brandon and Justin.

Fellas, we have a fuck ton of news today, actually.

Like, what the hell?

Like, is this our penance

for not having news for like three months?

came out of the woodwork.

yeah.

It it all just kind of came out all at once.

So yeah, we're not

Just gonna dive right into it because we've got a lot to cover today.

~ we're gonna start at the top of at least the list that I'm looking at.

~ the Switch 2 is getting some free upgrades.

So, namely Pikmin 3 deluxe and Mario Kart 8 deluxe are getting enhanced visuals and some other things.

But the the thing that really was like, what the fuck?

They added

Eight-player split screen to the to

Mario Kart?

That is insane.

And these aren't like Switch two editions.

They're still Switch One games.

They just have enhancements to take advantage of the Switch two, which is really cool.

It's a

nice little thing that they throw in.

~ Pikmin 3 Deluxe with, yeah,

with Pikmin 3 Deluxe, just ~ the GameShare support being added is kinda neat.

Cause that's always been like,

that's cool to have two players, but you know, I was never in a position to play the game with two players.

~

Let alone eight.

Y

Yeah.

Yeah.

W well and then on top of that,

these are free upgrades, which is really great.

So like I I love free.

Yeah, yeah, it's nice that Nintendo's being generous right now, which I get it, because it's kind of the Japanese.

We had to raise prices and we are very ashamed.

~

Nintendo's really good

at making up for for price hikes with, you know, like digital ~ digital carrots.

Yeah.

There there was a couple of other minor upgrades as well, like ~ Super Mario Galaxy One and Two and Game Builder Garage received Switch 2 mouse support.

~

Game builder got that?

Dang.

~

Super Mario Odyssey and the Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom have received HDR support.

So again, like like minor upgrades, but welcome, really cool.

Ooh.

as well.

Yeah.

Have nice.

I it's funny, I actually went through a a ~ bunch of my games and just to see if they had any down or any ~ any updates to download and oddly enough the ~ Super Mario Galaxy ones

were not available at the time that I checked them, so I'll have to check again.

Yeah.

Yeah, Odyssey I have digitally.

The Galaxy games I have on cartridge, so those are a little

it physically signed by Charles Martinet, so...

~ that's fancy.

sixty four signed by him.

was nice.

He was a nice guy.

Well, Nintendo, keep giving us free shit like that.

That's really cool, in my opinion.

You know what?

Now that I think about it.

Switch two owners, 'cause you know, like

the the there was a lot of debate when it first came out about whether it was worth the upgrade, and I think they're doing a lot

to make it worth

Have they added mouse support to Mario Maker yet?

And if not, why not?

my god, that would be cool.

They must've...

so.

That's wild if they have it.

~ that...

Nintendo steal our ideas.

That better

be in the...

That better be in the next thing that happens that you guys...

When do you think there might be a direct, Eugene?

well, I don't know, Brandon, maybe September 10th.

~ okay, so

this one's kind of funny.

~ apparently just dance, yes, that just dance, l may have leaked the

next Nintendo Direct because somehow they were talking about like mark your calendars for November for September 10th because we have blah blah blah.

And like most people are like, well.

You guys don't usually do your own like direct style things.

You guys usually announce things with Nintendo, and that's leading the n the internet to like surmise that, well, the next Nintendo Direct is probably coming September 10th.

~ I think that's probably pretty good detective work.

I mean

day of the week?

That's a Thursday.

So I usually feel like they announce it, what do you think they announced beforehand?

I don't know.

Some days I feel like they announce like two days ahead of time.

Other days it's like a week ahead.

So remember Miyamoto dropped that one thing for Star Fox ~ like out of nowhere in the middle of the night, remember?

that one.

Yeah, that was basically 24-hour

notice.

~

Yeah, so like who knows?

~ I think it's i this is as likely to happen as anything.

It's kind of the right time for something like this, I feel like.

When was the last time we heard about what's coming, like, towards the latter half of the year, you know?

Like I feel like they need to tell us what's going on towards Christmas time, so

Yeah, it's about that

time.

I mean like we've also seen like, ~ you know Sony's play event or whatever that's called and the yeah, the

state of play and the Xbox done their thing and I feel like Actually, Nintendo's kind of do to Say something they've got

they've got the game a lot of people are looking forward to ~

I've I've heard and I I don't know how much credence to put behind this rumor, but I'm hearing some a lot some rumblings about Twilight Princess also coming ~ like to switch.

those sickos will be happy.

~

mean?

That's the that's like the best one.

yeah, I don't know.

I'm ready for another direct.

I'm waiting and with baited breath though, because like, you know, Nintendo's just gonna do whatever the fuck they want.

They might just like pivot and see that this news came out and be like, Well, fuck you guys, we're gonna launch it on the eleventh instead of watch watch us or something, you

know?

So like, yeah.

Yeah.

It

Yeah, exactly.

So

Yeah, we haven't heard anything of about like Ocarina of Time and if that's coming this year, like I feel like we're due another something.

~

some gameplay or something.

~ But Twilight, I don't know.

I don't want to get into the discussion.

It's just like, Princess.

I would love to have the whole Zelda franchise available on the Switch ~ like

family, you know?

That'd be great.

They'll and then what would we be missing?

Just like the Panasonic games.

Yeah, the DS ones

too.

I I I want like Wand of Gamelon somewhere.

Like I I I'm gonna hope against hope

that that'll get put somewhere somehow.

Ooh, I'm going to have to set a reminder to find a way to emulate that.

You can.

can on the Thor.

Ver yeah, it's it's possible.

you w yeah, I was gonna say

you you it might be more effort than it's worth, but you can do it.

Actually what I really wanna get

is a th three DO emulator, just so I can do the the C D visualizer.

And of course play Way of the Warrior,

which is just an epically bad fighting game.

I do remember that sitting there for at least an hour watching that...

that

visualizer when you

got a 3DO...

~ Spaceships.

I remember Spaceships.

3DO games, Justin, you can go to my emulation website.

I have 3DO on

there and I'm pretty sure I have Way of the Warrior, like ninety percent sure.

So Yeah.

~ okay.

my ~ on my Steam Decker Thor.

Well if I can do it on my Thor, you're already doing it, so

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, the Thor is probably the easiest way to do that because you just literally open up a Chrome browser and go to my website.

So and it just works.

~ okay, let's talk about other news.

Did you guys know that the Pokemon Trading Guard game is getting a movie?

I don't I do not know what to make

of this.

they made movies based on battleship and clue, so should we really be that surprised?

I mean

Don't forget Greta Therese mo gotta gate.

You got a movie.

So

~ how must how could we forget?

wondering what the hell the angles gonna possibly be on this if it's just gonna I mean like it is it gonna be the story of like a little up-and-comer

An up and coming video game c or a Pokemon card collector that is, you know, you just you know what they need to do?

Just make it Yu Gi That's what they need to do.

Just make it Yu Gi and then we're good.

What are you saying, Justin?

I just I just shrugged them like yeah, it's basically the same thing.

I feel like it's a real life story of a man getting revenge upon scalpers

This is

in a drive angry sort of situation.

No, no, no, drive, God damn it.

Yeah, no, it is just drive.

I have no idea what just happened here.

I'm I'm gonna read this

a Pokemon trick, a guy who loves Pokemon cards who just gets so angry that he just goes onto a murder spree.

This is clearly Nintendo would be all behind this.

time to practice that mute thing.

I'm gonna read this excerpt from Nintendo Life where I'm reading this news from.

~ the movie's protagonist

is a Pokemon trading card player who is striving to become a champion.

It aims to showcase the competitive spirit of trainers around the world.

According to

Ishara, the team is currently hard at work on production and looking forward to bringing it to audiences soon.

Sorry if I butchered your name.

Go ahead, Justin.

So in the ~ Pokemon trading card game video game, if I'm not mistaken, the cards exist, but the Pokemon themselves don't exist in the game based on the card

game based on Pokemon.

So so is so is this going to Yeah, like is this going

to be ~ one of those things where

The cards and the Pokemon exist at the same time or is this person going to be just a card shark?

Is this

a Did You Mind situation?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know.

I'll I'm gonna watch it though because I'm curious.

It arrives in cinemas next year.

I will not be watching it in cinemas though.

I will be watching it

in ~ Cinna Home for

sure.

I'll probably also Cinna pirate it.

I mean wait, no, that's not what I meant.

I'll buy it legally.

~ and share it with my all my friends.

Okay, well, ~ Pokemon

is getting a trading card game movie.

Stay tuned for that.

I mean, who knows?

Maybe it could be good.

I mean it's called Pokemon Wildcard, I think.

So yeah let's get get ready for that.

would, it would be a great way to return to the Detective Pikachu sort of universe at least in my realistic...

in my realistic mindset.

this that's why I'm wondering, is this Pokemon trading card game movie going to be exclusively about the trading card game or is it going to be a trading card game within

the universe in which Pokemon exist?

Well,

question.

Hey.

find out.

I still like the idea about the guy killing everybody.

But you know, that's just my taste in movies.

maybe they'll get there eventually.

We'll see.

~ okay, well let

fan movie.

John Wick, do it John Wick.

~ anyway.

You burnt my favorite

Charmander, no!

You blew up my Voltorb.

guys

the Charmander of Wildcard?

And that's how it all starts.

He's the devil, they call

him Los Muertos.

Somebody, somebody give this man a ~ a screenplay.

Brandon needs to be hired.

~ okay, we're going to

shift into Switch Online games that are coming out.

And this is actually a pretty fucking good list, if I do say so myself.

~

so if you are a Nintendo Switch Online member, you get some new games, namely Ninjigaiden 3.

Ninja Gaiden, Gaden, I don't know.

When I was a kid when I was a

kid it was Gaiden.

Now it's Gaiden.

But ~ in my heart it's still Gaiden.

aww.

In my heart it's gated.

and RC Pro M2 have all been added.

~ what do y'all make of this?

This is actually pretty awesome for me.

Yeah.

I mean they're definitely notable games, none of them are ones I have any nostalgia for, but that's what's great about the NSO service is if I wanna

try it I can try it and it doesn't cost me anything.

Yeah, Ninja Gaiden 3 for example, I mean that will greatly benefit from Rewind.

~

And Akari Warriors, you can play two player online with that, that's cool and it will greatly benefit from Rewind.

~

And RZ Pro-M2, hell yeah.

That's just a good game, that's just solid.

That was my fur 'cause that's rare, right?

I think that was my

first rare game.

~ because I

I was looking at it and I don't think the sequel was rare.

I think only the first one was.

~ really?

games.

Like, it's, yeah, I know.

I'm wrong.

It was developed by Rare, but it was published by Trade West, so Trade West's name is

on the box.

Because Rare

was nobody then.

~ bat well when after I played like RC Pro Am, I was like, this is this is good.

And then I started like recognizing the Trade West, because I think Trade West is also on like Battletoads.

And then I started playing like Battletoads and you know some of those other ones.

But anyways, ~ that's beside the point.

the

the the list is good.

I'm ready for some ~ some retro games 'cause I've been retro fucking gaming.

I don't know if this is a good transition into Nintendo or no into into change the system rather.

But ~ yeah, do you guys want

ready to talk about some of the games we've been playing?

What do you think?

Hell yeah, sure.

Sure.

I've got some some interesting new selections.

I w ~

I wanted to hear about those, Justin, so why don't you tell us?

Alright, so I as I said last week, I have been using Chat GPT to basically walk me through modding games on my Steam Deck.

And it's turned out s mostly successfully.

~

thus far I have restored the original soundtrack and and brand names and voices to Crazy Taxi.

on Steam so it's basically look

of voices...

The change of voices?

the the licensed locations anymore.

So they couldn't say, Take me to Tower Records.

Tower Records didn't exist in the game.

So so somebody did a mod

where they took all of the assets from the Dreamcast game and made them ~ insertible into the ~ the Steam game.

And so now when I play it it's almost exactly like the original Dreamcast game, which is good fun.

~ I even

than the original StreetCast game.

It yeah, it r it runs well and ~ you know you can even add additional songs if you know how to do it.

So I not only have the original

Crazy Taxi One soundtrack, I also have two, three and the ~ the Steam exclusive music as well.

So I've got tons of music.

I can play it for an hour without hearing a repeat.

nice.

It is.

way to do things.

playing a bunch of crazy taxi.

The other game that I put a lot of time and effort into modding and just started actually like playing in earnest is Grand Theft Auto Four.

And I know I started this a long time ago and the whole reason for getting it on Steam was to play it to to replay this game that I haven't played in like twenty years.

~

Wait, four

is the the new ones that's coming out is six, right?

So th that's the one before what

New York City one, the dirty New York City one.

Yeah.

Okay.

And then

whi remind me, which one is five?

Is five where is that located?

Is that also?

California ~ San Andreas one.

Okay, continue.

Thank you.

Okay, yes.

So so I've got the Grand Tath Douta Four complete edition on Steam.

I installed a mod that restored all of the songs that were deleted through various updates because of, you know, licensing things.

~ I installed a mod that removes the filter so that the game doesn't just look gray and brown.

~

And actually the mod that I just installed yesterday lets you choose the filter.

So you can have no filter, you can have the default filter for your game, or you can choose to have it always be the GTA four or lost and damned or ballad of Gay Tony filter.

~ I just have it completely off.

But since I have the complete edition, my plan is to and I also ~ edited my

game save using an application I have on my computer so ~ I have like ~ the maximum amount of money and health and ammo and everything that I can have at this point in the game.

No, there's ~ there's

an there's a Windows application ~ that has ~ save editors

for

Grand Theft Auto Four, Grand Theft Auto Five, the original trilogy,

the Definitive Edition trilogy, ~ Red Dead Redemption one and two, ~ Saints Row one and two.

Like the this person has made save editors for a whole bunch of open world games.

So ~ so

basically I'm doing, you know, just a story only story and screw around only, I should say, ~ playthrough of Grand Theft Auto Four and

I'm doing it in chronological order.

So at at the point in the story that I've reached I it's time for me to switch to the lost and damned.

And so I'll play the lost and damned until I reach the chronological moment when it switches back to Nico and then I'll bring in Luis and yeah.

So I'll basically be playing Grand Theft Auto Four like it was Grand Theft Auto Five.

And it looks and plays awesome.

pardon me.

another thing that I've ~ noticed is works really well, especially when I'm using my glasses, the AR glasses, is I've started putting all of my games in a seven by three

ratio, you know, like the ultra wide monitors, the so yes, so

~ that's cool.

it basically letterboxes the picture.

So like I'm playing Grand Theft Auto Four and there's an option to turn off the letterboxing in the cinemas in the in the mod that I installed.

So now just the entire game is in letterbox and it's and

with with a slight ~ field of view, it's like an anamorphic movie.

It's so cool.

And it also

helps

what are the glass what are the glasses that you have again?

~ Ray Neo Air Pro Four or something like that.

~ Ray Neo Air Four Pro.

the reason I ask is because I remember you were saying last time that you that when you w play the it like s locks in place or whatever, I think you were saying and that made it

kinda hard.

Are you still having

issues with that?

Somebody in our Discord chat brought

up like a solution.

Well and ~ I don't I didn't

see that, but the solution that I found was if I play the games in letterbox then the HUD stays within my

field of view.

So

Yeah, Scott Fly in our disco says with the Ray Neo you can install their app Mirror Studio to lock the image in place.

So maybe try that.

I don't know if you can do that with the air ones because those are the cheaper brands.

They don't have the head tracking and stuff, but I will look into that.

I do have the Ray Neo app on my phone, so I will certainly look into that.

But ~

it.

but but I mean honestly playing the game in letterbox when the when you've got this giant screen just floating in front of you is is just like the perfect way to play it.

~ I f I feel

like I'm sitting sitting in and even like playing it on my big screen TV.

It's it's it just makes it more cinematic.

And it runs better because now I'm only now I'm only using like

yeah, i i I'm taking away like one third of the rendering, so

Hmm, it's pretty neat.

Yeah,

I was gonna ask how that runs with that resolution, so but it sounds like there's no issue there.

Yeah, I I mean I had to do some finangling with a few settings to get it.

It runs at a pretty

smooth forty-five to fifty ish frames per second for the most part.

And like honestly, as long as it's 30 or above, it ne it you know, I have don't have a problem with it, so.

~

and there's a motion blur, so that helps as well.

~

The only

other new kinda newish game that I have been playing is I started playing Sonic Frontiers.

I have had that on Steam for a long time.

I saw that the Switch 2 version is available and on sale and I thought, ooh, I'm probably more likely to play this on the Switch 2 than on the Steam Deck.

I should

Look into getting that one.

I'm like, no, let me play it on Steam first and then decide if it's worth buying it again.

And I think I'm

just got that game too on Steam because it was on a humble bundle.

~ so I I I haven't played it yet, but maybe pending your review I might have to give Sonic's stinky ass a try.

that's a lot of lightning.

very far in it and for some reason I haven't figured out how to turn off the birthday overlay.

There's, you know, this thing that they're doing for Sonic's birthday that is playing like music and has little things on the side of the screen.

So I forgot how turn that off.

But ~ yeah, it's again, ~ if I put it into letterbox, increase the field of view and play it on my glasses, that should be quite a trip.

Anyway, ~ yeah that's pretty much it for like new exciting things, but now that I've got the other things that I installed on ~ Grand Theft Auto Four are a weapon and radio wheel

like the Grand Theft Auto Five one.

So now you know it's easier to switch weapons and

Shoot, I can't remember.

There was some other like feature that was part of this mod, but yeah, like the it it's like playing a brand new game at this point.

So I'm hoping to have Grand Theft Auto.

I'm hoping to have Grand Theft Auto.

I'm hoping

to have Grand Theft Auto 4 complete completed before Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out.

That's going fast.

I was gonna I was actually gonna ask you, Justin, before you move on, did you watch that trailer?

Are you like excited about it?

Do you care?

I am excited about it.

I have not watched the trailer.

I am terrified that this game is gonna come out and then next year they're gonna release new hardware and a new version.

It's gonna be exactly like what happened with the PS3 and Xbox 360

versions.

They'll just completely forget about it for fifteen years.

yeah, never mind.

Eventually there'll be a PC.

if you don't

wanna I was gonna say, yeah, get it on PC if you don't wanna worry about that.

But it it's not coming to PC right away, right?

Well and I don't think I'll have a piece I don't

same time as when...

Well, I don't think I'll have a PC that can run it.

Like my Steam Deck can barely run Red Dead Redemption 2.

S Yes, so I even if there is a PC version

announced?

I didn't even know that it was coming out like

they're doing it the same way they did it with five where initially it's console only then after a period of time

they're like, okay, here's the Upgraded version.

I think they did the same thing where they here's the upgraded versions.

yeah, and here it is on bz now, ~ so

And then they have an enhanced version of the PC version that came out like last year, but ~ but yeah, I'm I'm probably going to get it on Xbox.

It's all gonna depend on what sort of like special features the PlayStation 5 version has.

because I don't like that controller.

like that controller

either.

I got a chance to play some games with at a friend's house.

We were just playing like FIFA and I I just don't like that controller.

It just doesn't feel right.

I don't know.

and yeah, I think the dual sense is actually less comfortable than the previous dual shock controllers and I accidentally press the touch pad so often when I'm trying to hit a

button or a joystick or something and yeah, I don't wanna have to deal with that.

But if the PS five version is going to have something special that the Xbox version doesn't, we'll see what happens.

But

The game's at least a year off anyway, so we'll all be

we'll we'll all be playing we'll all be playing the Oak Ren of Time remake.

I thought it was

coming next November.

No.

then November coming up.

Coming this year, dog.

I th I thought it'd been delayed until twenty twenty seven.

But okay.

Well, that's

cool.

So maybe we will be playing that before

Why they got the pusher out?

this like Netflix special has all come out because they're like finally like, no, this is happening.

So I feel like if you're paying ~ if net if you've got this contract with Netflix and you're putting a date on it, it's coming out that fucking date.

Yeah,

get ready.

I remembered

it having been pushed back again, but yeah, it's officially officially scheduled

to come out November nineteenth.

Mm-hmm.

We're mere months away, sir.

so you will be playing it sooner than you thought.

Well now b circling back to your plan to beat Grand Theft Auto four before Grand Theft Auto six comes out, now how do you feel about that?

Now you better get slammin'.

I mean,

Grand Theft Auto Four is not a super long game, even with the expansions and I do have it modded and hacked and everything, so it shouldn't be too difficult to just blow

through the story.

Well, I I actually wish that ~ we wouldn't have told you that it's coming out this year and then it just like came out and you're like, What?

I'm sure I would have figured

it out before then.

all right.

Well what else?

What w how's your ~ state of three D printing?

I still haven't gotten to it yet.

Damn.

Okay.

I need you to make a trip to down to wherever Justin lives, or up or left or right, whichever direction it is.

I need you to fix that machine.

over to the east.

It's at the east.

I to go east.

~ Northy.

Northy east.

love.

I I I I can't see a big, huge

printer just being unprinted.

Well, I have ~ stuff kinda piled in front of it right now, so when I get the off

was piled in front

No, I haven't had a chance Do we have to discuss this here?

Yes.

No, apparently not.

~ Brandon, what have you been playing?

if you want, I...

Or

what have you been happy mealing as it were?

Godzilla man Getting that ever since I mean

it's like it feels like the promotions gonna go soon So I kind of like I mean grabbing a few of them I've got like three two of which I don't really want but I think I can trade

with people to get the ones I want Rodan and I got Rodan King Ghidorah and Mothra and I just got Mothra today.

So I'm like one third of the way there

to get the actual happy meal or are you like are you like going and like just buying the toys?

pay like five bucks and get some chicken nuggets and some fries and a chocolate milk?

when when we were doing

the I can't remember what it was that we were collecting.

I think it like the Pokemon ones a f from a year or two ago.

But anyways, like we just like we bought the Happy Meal and then 'cause we wanted like several of them, w you can buy just the toys for like I think it's like three bucks or

however much it is and then yeah, so you can do it that way too.

I officially have just decided whatever, I'll get a Happy Meal.

I'm a adult, I'm allowed to do what I want.

d a dupe?

That's the worst.

You don't want a dupe toy.

It's true.

But I...

I have gambling.

It's a gamble.

It's always a gamble.

Who knows?

I love Godzilla stuff, so...

Even if it does have to have Hello Kitty slapped in.

Anyway, that's not why I'm playing.

~

Godzilla destroy all monsters remake?

Cause I will totally get that if if I will totally get it if you're getting it.

I didn't realize

you were a good Godzilla head.

How do you feel about the American Godzilla's that happened in like the nineties, early two thousands or whatever?

The those atrocities.

~

had Godzilla minus one, which is like the best Godzilla movie ever.

And you're like, hey, how about not in the 90s when it's Matthew Broderick?

sure we're on

the same page.

I love how like the Japanese Godzilla killed the American Godzilla in

was it, that was

it.

God, what was it the...

have never actually seen any Godzilla movie, but now I feel like I have to see the nineties one.

~ I remember that one.

fun.

That is like the most anime, and it's also the most anime-ass Godzilla movie of all time.

~ Whatever

that, they have like a Mike Hagar lookalike, and it's like just a guy, just a guy

in this, and, man.

Anyway, South of Midnight, I beat it.

~ Good.

You good 7 out of 10 game, it's got good flow, it's got a pretty good story.

I don't know if I like didn't get...

like time to beat on that?

That was like about 20 hours roughly.

Nah, I think I could have done it faster if I didn't dig around so much.

I mean, like there's a lot of nice little, I mean, like there's just so much cute stuff.

Auto.

It's just cute.

too much like side stuff.

The flow stuff is...

a car,

the guy tries to steal it back, you shoot the cops are after

you, you spend five minutes running away, and then you're like, shoot, I was gonna do a mission.

I mean, like there's a thing where like they have animals in the woods and if the animals run away from you You should probably check out where they ran to because sometimes they

lead you to to power-ups and things like that It's got an upgrade system.

It's really bare-bones.

Just like the combat's kind of the most mediocre part of the game But the boss battles are really cool and the traversal is fun

So, and the story's good.

So it's not terrible.

It could be better, but you know, it's a good game.

I think I played a little bit of Mario Kart World with Justin, I have noted here.

So we did that for a bit.

I feel like we played something else, but I can't remember what it was.

Did you play Justin

Rules or did you play ~

I just assume it's Justin Rolls, I just don't choose the- the- the three laps.

I I'm kinda with Justin though.

I don't mind the like driving between two like the track races.

I think those are fine for me, honestly.

So yeah.

The big thing that I have been playing though this week is I got to play I finally like was sitting down I keep having to dodge all these Deltarune spoilers and like I'm just

sitting there and I just googled how do I beat that chat chapter 4 boss and There was one aspect.

I didn't realize and once I realized that ~ I was finally able to beat the chapter 4 boss progress the story

and move into chapter 5 and ~ you know, Deltarune's really neat in just how it, it's, it, it, I keep thinking it's just gonna be like the last one, but it always surprises you

somehow.

~ when the dog yells at you and ~ no, it's, it, there's a lot of surprises gameplay wise in that.

I mean, like alone, I like, the biggest thing I'm say, hey, it's an RPG, but the battle system is a bullet.

Mm, mm.

I did not know that.

but the battle mode is a bullet hell, but it also has like all of these little tweaks and goofy little things you gotta do.

upgrade like your like the fire the like the how d how does that work?

I I need to know.

So the thing is, it doesn't work like a normal RPG.

You're just supposed to survive and spare the person.

You're not supposed to kill them.

Leveling up is basically useless.

Increasing your defense is more important.

~

basically, it's all just, you just, every single move, if you played Undertale, you know this, it's just, you are a little heart on a grid.

~ And...

the enemy can do any number of animated attacks to attack you and you have to just dodge it with the little heart.

And that's the battle.

It's a bullet hell.

In the end, it's a bullet hell

Sure.

that just has a story attached to it.

~ It's a lot more than that.

It's a very ambitious game.

And I do appreciate, hey, every single one of these chapter chunks is just an even five hours.

And...

Pretty sure it's in one of my libraries, if not Steam, then like Xbox or something, so

for free, because it's a drug.

~ And then two and three is like, I think it was like $17.

~ But now that I paid, I get every other chapter going forward.

So why not?

They're up to chapter six now, and I'm two chapters behind.

And soon I won't get the memes, or I'll just be finding an image that's going to tell me something I didn't want to know yet.

~ But I'm back in on

Deltarune and I'll probably...

It's the perfect little, like, you just choose a weekend, you play it, you're through the chapter, you're done.

~ The

only thing that went through me for a loop is I did it one weekend and I got stuck on chapter four on that battle mart and held me up for nearly two years now, so...

Damn.

You're like, I'm finally gonna get get past this bitch.

I didn't realize that I thought la it got you stuck like for a weekend, but no, you were stuck for

of bullet hell segments in that fight that I could not dodge well enough and I didn't know what it was I was doing wrong and then I found out, there's this thing that makes your

heart brighter and because that you can defend off the enemies faster because they die as they get closer to you and get into the light that your heart emits.

it's very, it's very, you know, it's a soulful game and it's very genuinely funny.

I'll I'll have to give that a go because that that's the same dude that did ~ Undertale, right?

So yeah.

So yeah.

I I I dig that aesthetic and I div he's got a good ~ got a good head for game design, I feel like.

So ~ okay, well what else?

You've been been playing anything else?

see here.

mean, like, I made something for a friend that's for charging his vape pen, but that's a design thing.

What

I I have to know how does it work and what does it do?

It's just, you know, it's a vape pen and it just charges with a USB connection.

So I had to design a stand that a USB

cable could come up underneath.

And then I also got fancy.

I fancy enough.

went fancy enough with it where I had to figure out where to drill a hole in it so that you could see that it was charging through.

Cause the lights on the same end, it's charging.

So if you put it into a little

sheath or so, you're not able to tell if it's charging if you haven't plugged in.

Sounds overly complicated.

I like doing that.

I like overthinking something and making it work.

yeah, no, just had it.

So it was a cable that came up through the bottom.

And I started off trying to make it really like precise to the USB plug.

And then I realized, what if I didn't?

And you just shut the cable in and that was the smarter way to go.

Because it's like, also,

you know, he might not always be using USB-B or whatever.

that type is in my BSE sometimes, so that allows them to sort

of swap it out.

It was just sort of a challenge I got, and I did that.

Getting ready for Halloween decorating, got my apples, my apples have ripened.

I

got them, I got them.

I got a good, at least 13 pounds of apples, so it was enough so was physically heavy for

me to carry around by the time I was done.

you what do you do with all the extra apples like apple butter, apple sauce?

Like what do we do with the apples?

I mean, most of the apples, ideally, I will just eat.

The rest of the apples, the rest of them, well, I mean, that's only

about like, I'd say five or six pounds are eating apples.

The rest of them had like bug, bug chews on them.

They had little bits of

rot in places that were weird.

They did that.

And those are the applesauce apples.

~ I'm gonna make a bunch of

applesauce and then can it up and.

You can use that, add that to like a pancake batter, make yourself some applesauce pancakes.

I'm not good

enough to make apple pie.

I don't know.

You can do it.

Anybody can just go watch a YouTube video.

It's the same thing as like taking apart a fucking console.

apple pie I've ever had in my life.

~ And it's just like, it's kind of like,

it feels like pulling back the curtain if I know how it's done.

So I just

Sure.

let him have

the best apple pies I've ever eaten in my life.

~

doing cobblers and pies.

Actually I don't really like pie to be honest with you, but definitely cobblers and sauce, maybe like an apple butter or something.

Man, I'm j a little jelly.

Well, I'll see if my apple tree lives through next year.

That's gonna be the next test, but...

that's the tree that fell over.

~ So...

It's lit.

It seems alive.

~

you you said you put like tie downs or whatever to like hold it up, right?

an entire wooden structure to support it.

I bought stakes

that I put a foot and a half in the ground, then I found some plywood that's pressure treated so it's waterproof, and I secured it on the sides.

I pulled it up so it got into the basic grid.

Then I put a board behind it to hold it up, and that tree ain't falling over.

Nice.

literally is supported by its dead brethren.

~ So good luck, man.

Let's see how it does in the winter.

Yeah, and then I guess if it comes back next year you know that it's you're f you're all right.

Mm-hmm.

I still can't

about this stuff.

Yeah.

Cool.

We ha the only thing we have that went good this year was our pomegranates.

I we have like

have to have yeah, g have to have at least like a hundred ~ pomegranates on this tree that we it's really a bush, but it's huge.

It's like I don't know, like fifteen feet tall.

Yeah, that's what we're trying to figure out what we want to do with all of it.

And but, you know, taking apart a pomegranate ain't no thing, you know?

It's like a

kind of like the deterrent to me in pomegranate is ~ the act

of eating the pomegranate is a lot.

It's a lot of commitment.

Mm-hmm.

Anyway, that's what I've been playing.

All right.

I'm done.

Eugene.

right.

Well then I guess it's my turn.

~ I've been playing a lot of stuff, but it's kind of, you know, this a lot of a little.

I've been on a remember a couple of months ago, Justin, you were on like a nostalgia kick.

I think it was nineties for you.

I'm kind of in the same

kind of yeah, I'm kind of in the same rut.

Like I've ~ been playing a lot of older games.

~ I I

The the most notable one I'll talk about here in a moment.

But like, you know, been playing like Aladdin on the Super Nintendo and like Lion King on the Super Nintendo.

It's really cool with the Steam ~ machine and emu deck, or I guess emul emulation station is what it uses.

But anyways, since that connects with ~ retro achievements via retro arch, it's like basically a whole new way to play a lot of these games that I've played a million times

over, you know.

So that's kind of cool.

~ like for example, there's like some retro achievements for what was it for?

~ for I think it was hook for the Super Nintendo.

And I was like, I didn't even know you can do that.

So like, yeah, there's just some like, you know, it's it's cool because like it because it

was the

No, with it well, like it was like for Hook, it was to like collect all of the items.

But like I didn't even know there was an item that I could collect in one of the levels.

So I had to like look it up.

And I was like, shit, I didn't even know you can like go over there and like do stuff.

So it was just like one of those things where I'm like seeing new parts of the game that I didn't even know existed because of like achievements that I'm trying to get, you know?

So

~ I think that's cool.

not that achievements do anything.

about with achievements is when they make me do things I wouldn't normally do but it they're fun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Some of them are are are pretty creative.

Some of them are like, you know, it's like, okay, beat the the game with this score.

Like in in the case of like ~ like Pac Man, I that was like the the achievements to get like for Pac Man is just like just get a better high score.

I was like, yeah, that's kind of boring.

But like, you know, like some of the games that you can get on there, if they have achievements for because not all of them do, you can look at the list and you can like

say, yeah, cool.

Let's let's do this.

I'm gonna play this game in a new way.

But the game that I've been playing the most, that is old as shit, ~ doesn't have achievements, but it is a PC game that I can now play with a controller because I have a

Steam machine or Steam controller, Red Alert 2.

~ I can play RTS games with just a controller, not well.

I don't think I'm gonna go online and try and play it this game at all, but like, you know, I can go play the story and see ~ Whitey

from fucking ~ One Tree Hill ~ pop into the game in the full motion video, like on the corner and like tell me to do shit.

That's

why that's that's why I started playing Red Alert because of Tim Curry, yes.

So or Command and Conquer.

Which one is he in?

I think he's in Red Alert 2.

Or three.

Ed, three.

I know is Mark Hamill is in the Wing Commander games.

yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's in let's see, three, yeah, Red Alert Three.

So yeah, I've been playing just all these old RTS games.

I I settled back on Red Alert 2, my old my old baby girl, because I love that game.

~ and yeah, it's it's it's really cool, but like Age of Empires is playable now for me on my controller.

Like, you know, all the command and conquers.

It's just like really neat.

That's good.

That sounds like a hell of a...

That is a time sink right there.

The second you get Age Empires going.

And you're like, I'm just gonna do

a little Civ.

Gone forever.

is is ~ a time sink because I'm the type of person who like reads all the bullshit because I'm kind of interested

in like the historian aspect of all the things.

So I'm like reading Joan of Arc's shit, you know, and like Genghis Khan and everything.

But yeah, no ~

had when I first started playing Skyrim was I started reading all the books that I found and then I realized that you just

find hund hundreds, if not thousands, of books in the game and

Yeah, for sure.

So ~ but yeah, I've been just doing it in bits and bobs.

The it was kind of cool to see Tim Curry, but I just don't like that game that much, Red Alert 3.

~ I so I always go back to Red Alert 2.

That's like my old standby.

~ what else though?

I've been playing some other games that aren't so old.

Dench Attack is still

fucking good.

It's hard though, ~ especially

if I'm trying to like get all the things.

I think I just need to get past that though.

Yeah.

Keep going until you get the Queen Train.

Once you get the Queen Train...

my my isms are make me like need to do it.

I know it was hard

for me to get just accept I just want to progress to get to better better trains and

that once you get better trades it's a little it's a little easier to get some of those things so I tell you don't kill yourself just do your best to get through

it and just you know it's a fun thing to go back to later then once you yeah

once you've unlocked everything

I'm gonna have to do that, I think, then, because ~ I'm really enjoying this game, but my again, like I'm I have all of these objectives and like well I better do like them all

before I move on to the next l that's why it's taking me forever to play this game.

So I I I need to like get past that block.

I need to get past that block for sure.

too, but like, just realize, hey, that score metal, you're gonna have an easier time if you just keep going.

The score medal especially is this is really hard to get.

so yeah.

the train has a special multiplier on the high end tricks.

So that makes it way easier to break a hundred K on like a lot of levels.

When do I get that?

I'm in like the fourth world right now.

like level six.

You'll know it because

you'll get, I'll just say you'll get the rock band reference I just made, which is...

~ okay.

We all right.

Well, fair enough.

~

you want to call it.

Well cool.

Well then I'll I'll maybe I'll take that to heart and I'll just play the that this weekend.

'Cause that's my ~ that's my game that I that I bust out when I'm like, okay, the I'm ready to video game.

Not a game that I'm like I have like fifteen minutes.

It's like, no, I this is when I have like an hour, a couple hours to like play games, you know, because you have to focus in that.

And it's it it's like Yeah.

Yeah.

But I love it.

It's

it's it's it's definitely

Maybe not my game of the year, but it's it's gonna be on my game of the year list for sure.

It's it's a hell of a game.

It's just it's just a video ass video game ass video game.

It really is.

It just really is.

~

for it to go for $14.99 and get that shit, it is...

aw, it feels so good.

I definitely

will once it's, you know, within my budget, which right now is zero.

But

Sure.

but I definitely plan on on getting it, especially with all of the crazy taxi I've been playing lately.

Like that just seems like a perfect segue.

got that yeah,

the like d Sega vibe for

sure.

Yeah.

Okay, well, ~ another video game ass video game is Dead Cells.

~ I I've been playing the h the hell out of Dead Cells.

I don't know why.

I played the hell out of Dead Cells when it first came out.

I played h the hell out of Dead Cells before it came out, when it was like in early access or whatever.

So I've played a lot of Dead Cells, but it's just ~ it's kind of a comfort food game for me.

You know, like I can I can go in.

Pretty much at this point, I can beat it ~ every time I ~ do a run if I can get the right ~ you know, the right items.

yeah, it's it's just a fun game.

The if you've never played Dead Cells before, I guess really what it is is it's like a roguelike and it's kind of like a

I don't know, like not a beat up, but yeah.

Yeah.

or Castlevania in general, which is why when it had Castlevania

DLC, it made perfect sense.

So.

And I've been playing the Castlevania DLC by the way too, because I never played that before.

And it's really good.

It's actually it's really good.

So yeah.

~ Dead Cells is good.

~ I don't you don't need me to tell you that.

The internet already knows.

~ I've also been playing

I

ever played was the light gun shooter on the switch or on the Wii, so.

Not related.

Dead.

Very.

~

I know what you're I I it took me a minute, but I know what you're talking about now.

~

like the light gun versions of of I'm thinking dead space, not dead cells.

Never mind.

yeah.

D d

de Dead Space ~ extraction, I think is what that was called.

that was a great game.

That was a good game.

get those two titles mixed up in my brain.

Never mind.

Well that that one and ~ what was the other really good one?

Resident Evil, ~ I always call it umbr umbr

side Chronicles is the good one.

There's one that's like both and That one's that one

the graphics were pretty weak and like it didn't really do I mean the ~ Nevermind.

I love

dark side Chronicles so much

That was a great era for light gun shooters.

There were some really good ones that came out.

Even the rabbits, ~

on the Switch, but not nearly as many as I would have thought considering you know it's got the motion controls in it.

Yeah.

E even those Rabbits mini games with like the plunger, those were fucking fun too.

Like there was just some good times on the Wii.

I'm telling you, man.

Good times.

okay.

whole night where we just played the dart game ~ from WarioWare Move-It.

WarioWare Move-It has a dart game and like just an

entire night, me and a bunch of college friends just throwing.

playing ~

bowling on ~ yeah.

Yep.

Just switch to taking turns, passing the the Wii remote.

Yep, exactly.

~ okay.

I've also been playing hyper drop.

I talked about that last week, so I won't talk too much more about it.

It's still really fucking fun though.

It's ~ it's like crack.

there's literally only one level right now, so there's like a not a lot there, but it's enough for me.

~ it's it's just sunk its teeth into me.

Or...

It's no, it's a roguelike pachinko, actually.

~

and it's just so good.

~ I if if you have ~ a computer and you can download a demo on Steam, highly recommend doing so.

~ it's on my w

to my library,

but I haven't played it yet.

Say, you told us we had to do it.

it

comes out, so Yeah, I'm I'm ready for it.

~ but the last game and probably the game I spent the most time with, ~ another game that was on a ~ Humble bundle, I don't remember how I got it.

One of the cheap ways to get video games on PC.

Yoku's Island Express.

~ I this d d

Yeah, this is an oldie but a goodie.

I remember this came out on the Switch and I ~ I I don't think I like gave it much thought, ~ but it sounded cool.

If not, it's been on my wish list for years.

it was on sale for three bucks and I played it for a bit.

It's

it's fun.

It's it's so the premise is you are like a dung beetle or whatever a beetle and you're t you have this ball that you're taking around the world, but like you also are playing

pinball because the world has like flippers in it.

So that's how

like you're platforming.

I'm having a really good time with it.

~ I think I'm gonna be end up beating this game.

I don't know why I have ~ like it sunk its teeth into me, but it's fun.

~ my wife hates the noises that it makes because like there's like the

be what turned me off.

That might be.

There was something

about it that just felt low quality or like I just couldn't get past and I had better things to play and I just moved away from it.

I was pretty far in too.

there's this thing.

~ I don't remember w I think it you push like the A button or whatever.

But anyways, like you like you're you like make a noise to like get Yeah.

That's

it.

My wife my wife hates that.

~ so ~ oftentimes I'm playing with the TV on mute.

~ but it's still a fun fucking game.

I'm I'm I'm enjoying it because it's just different, you know?

Like it's like

it it's something that is

Only possible in the video game medium.

~ but also like it's pulling from so many other mediums like pinball as well, you know?

So like yeah, it's it's just really cool.

I like I like it a lot.

~ yeah, and that's kind of what I've been playing.

I've been well, my wife has been, ~ 3D printing a shit ton of shit.

Like I you can't see it, but like our whole entire wall behind over here.

I'll have to post

a picture in the Discord.

It's all a grid.

It it's all Funko.

~ there are th one, two one, two, three walls now, all full of these hexagons that have been printed.

Ha there's gotta be I don't even know if I wanna count.

There's gotta be close to like three, four hundred Funko's ~ on this wall.

But

yeah, I've been printing a shit ton of those lately.

and yeah, that's

I look down upon you Funko folks.

And

you know what?

I actually don't like Funko's at all.

My wife knows this, but you know, whatever.

It's not for me, it's for her.

your wife's thing.

It's fine too, that's good.

Yeah, yeah.

No, it it ain't for me.

But you know,

like she she is

but yeah, it's not not anything I got really into.

threw at me and I had to take it, so...

~

I always I always joke that these 3D printers are actually my wife's because they are always the only time they're not going is when I'm when we're podcasting because they're a

little bit loud, but like as soon as we're done, she's gonna go fire it up again and start printing more of those little hexagons.

So yeah.

~ all right.

That's pretty much it though.

~

We need to do the obligatory and especially now that midterms are coming, like go register to vote.

Like you can still do it probably.

I know in New Mexico we you can even do it like day of.

I don't know about like in your state.

So go take a look.

But it's time to get the fuckers out.

And the only way we can do that is to vote.

So go register to vote.

Get ready to vote.

if you're in red state make sure you're registered to vote they might have taken you out of the boulder rolls make sure they haven't

Yeah.

If you can early vote, do that.

That's probably even better.

is 'cause Texas

is closing a bunch of

Jeez.

Yeah, for sure.

So yeah, you know, figure all of that out ahead of time because y God only knows, especially like Brandon and Justin were saying, in those red states, they're not making it

easy for you to vote.

So yeah, yeah.

~ and ~ on that note, fuck ICE and fuck Trump.

~ and goodbye.

I hope you have a good week and weekend, and we'll see ya next time.

Peace out and protest.

fungus.

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