What? No, no, stop it. Stop it. No, it's too late now. No, no, do. No, no, this is it.
This is the intro. No. I've already started it. You said you wanted to say hello. Yeah,
but not like this. Not like this. So it works. Hello. Everyone, I'm shy now. What's that?
Why? Hello. What do you mean? You said you wanted to fucking say hello. Hello, welcome
to What's the Buttons? What's on the Button? We're here. It's been a damp day in What's the Buttons
HQ. We were going to record this a while ago. Two hours ago. Yeah. And where we've got the podcast
set up, it sounds so snobby, don't it? It's right next to the pool. No, no, I don't think that's
even why. I think so. We had a pipe burst a couple of months ago. It frills. But I think also this,
it's just built in the shade. So there's this like fucking white. Yeah, where the room is,
it gets no sunlight whatsoever. So I've got all my Funko, like basically all of my gaming shit is
in here. I need to clean my glasses, Karen. Let's go for it. And my mountain of Funko pops. And we
just noticed like a little bit of damp. So have basically gone through for the last two hours,
just boxing everything up. So all my Funko's bar, the signed ones, which are all in hard stacks,
are now in a fucking in a cardboard box. But it has allowed me to set up the God of War shrine,
which I think is quite nice. I think it looks decent because before it was just cluttered.
Like I think it looks better. We've hung the fucking the old Galadriel and Eowyn, hung those up. So it
looks decent. It looks less cluttered. It's just the Funko's now live in a fucking cardboard box
until we get our own place and then and then bang them in a shelf. But I'd rather that than
them rot away. Well, and like this this has been like, you know, I kind of get like a strange
enjoyment from sorting things. Yes. But nothing will ever satisfy me like the way cleaning your
kitchen and your old house. Oh, what in the annex? Oh, my God. No, that and the bookshelf. This is a
gaming podcast. Incredible. Just a little bit. It's on it's on it's on the spectrum with the gaming
and that I've I've oh my God, I could have we could have been Instagram famous. You know what
I mean with the before and afters on that. But anyway, basically, yeah, we've saved we've saved
the Funko pops from from crumbly from imminent, imminent death. So that's how our morning's been.
Yeah. And now we're going to be cleaning segment. Yeah. That's the mating service of fucking watch
the buttons. Now we're for the gaming side of it. Got the dog in this trying to eat a fly.
We are actually remarkably good. She's very good at catching flies. Go on, girl. Great. I just
don't want to jump around anything. We did we speak about it last week? Which it was you last
week, wasn't it? It was. It was. Did we talk about my little break from wow? I don't think we know.
Yeah, we kind of we're saying about Diablo. Yeah. About the old collapse of Diablo. Yeah. And I think
you were one of the saying you were you were hinting at it. Yeah. Yeah. Which ass was having
a little fucking wind off a bit. There was no one there to defend Diablo. Shut the fuck up. You
weren't here. That's exactly what. Oh, because he's because he's sucking the cock of Diablo,
isn't he? I didn't think we were like slagging it, though. We weren't slagging it. We were just
speaking facts on it that they fucked up with their patch and everyone was angry about it.
Mate, I'm like, I. Yeah. And now and now Nicki Minaj is coming to call the duty war zone. So
there's swings and roundabouts on on what shit and what isn't. I think Diablo shit personally.
I just think they've they've flopped it. Well, I mean, I don't think I don't really have an opinion.
He won't have an ad. He was just saying it was like there was no one to defend it because
obviously he likes it. I don't know. But you kind of ripping into it. Yeah. But it was one of them
where it's it's flopped if you're more than a casual gamer because there's nothing much for you
to do if you're casual like ashes, obviously, because he's an adult with an adult life.
I suppose it's like the people who love it most are the ones struggling with it the most. Yeah,
because they get the most time down on it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, but exciting developments in the world
of gaming for us in that me and Steph have since opened up our love for ESO again. And I'm thoroughly
enjoying myself, which we've been down this road many times. I'm not holding my breath. I won't lie.
I won't lie. I mean, I am excited. And this time I have sort of the this would be technically our
third embrace of ESO. And second time. So the first time around, I've spoken about it on the
pod before I was burned. All right. I was burned by the LinkedIn. He you know, I believe when he
said just rewind it there when he when he was like, I love it. I'm into it. I'm really excited for it.
He says this. And then it inevitably, wow, it comes in and he's gone for dust. But so last time,
I didn't get ESO plus. But this time, I'm you know, I'm going to let that that little flicker of hope
that we might actually be still playing this this time next week. I'm enjoying it. I'm looking at
it in a different light of ultimately, my my World of Warcraft career is still very flourished, but
it's very lonely at the same time. I've got people that I play with, but really and truly only really
really raid with them. They play other games. And at the moment, us, the entire guild have all taken
a step back. We've all taken a break because we're burnt out. And yes, there's content to do,
but we've done it all. So we we've done it at least once and we're all at the ceiling at the
moment. So there's a little bit of movement to go further up in terms of better gear and stuff. But
ultimately, it doesn't really matter because you know that when the next patch rolls around,
everything you've done is nullified. So everyone's sort of like, right, we'll we'll just take a break
for a minute. So in light of that, when I come home and then see you at ESO, I thought, oh,
fucking hell, let's let's just give it a go. So I downloaded it again. And it's it's fun, man. Like
you said yesterday, we don't even have to be playing with each other, just the fact that we're
playing the same game. And it is fun. I never disliked ESO. It was just World of Warcraft just
grabbed me a bit. But but this time around, it seems to be seems to be quite decent. And
we've already like we went out for dinner last night and it's basically fucking Lanzarote all
over again. We just spent the whole night planning what we're going to do on ESO. There's fucking
there's so there's there's companions that you can get that that help you along the way. And you can
you can level them up and put gear on them and change their style of combat and all that shit.
It's basically I think to the point where if you join a dungeon, you can run a dungeon with those
companions and they class as actual players. I think so. So to say you're in a five man or a
four man, I can't remember exactly what what I think it might be for. If someone leaves, your
companion steps in and replaces that person until someone else drops in. So I think the fact that
we've both got companions means that we could theoretically do dungeons on our own. Yeah, I think
so. Which probably might be the best because when you do it normally, everyone just fucking
rinses for them. You don't know what's going on. I know I always get left behind mainly because my
internet inevitably like struggles because you're slow, but no thorough. No, you're slow. Thurra.
I've just remembered. So, you know, so obviously I'm sure if anyone plays ESO, like there's no
cross players, no, you know, interaction. No, you can't get your account from thing. And anyway,
the first time around that we played ESO, we played it on. I was on PS4. Reese was on. Did
you have a PS5 yet? Was it PS4 Pro? I think I was on my Pro, yeah. I've always just got the
one hardware shitter than you. You know what, though, it wasn't bad. It really wasn't bad to
play on on the PS4 as old as she is. No, yeah, I had it. Sorry. No, I had it on the PS5 because
I remember this was when I was over the road. You had shit that I couldn't get. Yeah. And I was over
the road. And then when I come over to see how you were getting on, I saw the graphic difference and
I was like, what the fuck is that? I was like, yours looks grim compared to mine. And didn't you
come and see mine? And you was like, yeah, actually, this looks way better than than fucking my one.
It's all right. At the end of the day, I was playing a Game Boy Advance this morning. It's
the same. It's the same now. Same now. You're playing it on a Mac, on whatever graphics and
I'm playing it on mine on fucking ultra ultra ultra. So they look differently. But as long as
you can play it, it gives a fuck. Well, yeah, the but what was I going to say? Oh, and I
suppose it's kind of like the whole mini egg Breath of the Wild thing where I knowing
that somewhere something I want exists that I can't have annoying. I can't stop thinking about all
the stuff that's on my PlayStation account. And just then you send companions. I remember I put
me and Bastion in like matching crop top and skirt armor. And we look like such a fucking team.
I've got some really cool shit on my one as well, like different skins. I had that zombie. Yeah.
It was like a personality thing you had, didn't it? Yeah. So on this one, I've got the polymorph
that turns me into that lizard skeleton. But on my PlayStation account, I had like the personality
that's a zombie. So you walk around, you're like, yeah, it's really weird. I had loads of shit on
that one. And yeah, once we found out that it weren't cross play, when you Google it, they
basically say like, absolutely not. We're never going to do it. We cannot be bothered. It's like,
you fucking you can't you could if you wanted to. And we had that just link them. I don't want to
be able to cross play. I just want it to be linked. I just want it. I want the I want to. Yeah,
I'd love the ability to say, look, I bought it on the PlayStation. I bought it here. It's the same
account. Or can we please just merge these accounts but then have it solely on on PC or like
select your platform? Yeah. And I literally I think you do too. But you know, when you downloaded it
the other day, like on my ESO account, like on, you know, Google, it literally says like, started
playing whatever year PlayStation and started playing whatever year that one, you know, like
they are they even make that like complete, you know, line between to the point where you can't
even transfer like ESO plus. I don't think no, you have to technically. Yeah, you can't. You can't
transfer. No, you can't because they're different prices actually. I think. Yeah, yeah, you can't
transfer anything because it was cheaper on PC on PC than it is on PlayStation. Yeah. Yeah.
Because on I think this is like eight pound on finger, I think it's eleven or ten, ten or eleven
quid. Yeah, yeah, shit. I've literally done obviously the character I'm playing at the moment
is from when we last played it. And and yeah, that is literally like a carbon copy as close
as you can without like forgetting of what I had on PlayStation. That's what I'm the kind of person
I am. Like you very much like, oh, start doing stuff. I'm like, no, I want exactly what I logged
back into my main character on it, which is obviously max level and getting the champion
points and stuff like that. And I was like, no, I don't like this because I don't know what's
going on. Yeah, I don't. I don't. I'd rather start all over again than get to grips, which
which is kind of backwards because you could spend an hour getting to grips with your max level
character or you can spend the next week leveling up a brand new one. But I'd always rather just
level up a brand new one. That's why I like my World of Warcraft account, which is filled with
odd level characters when I've got loads of them because like I forgot how to play it.
Yeah, so I've just made another one. Yeah. And I think that the that's I suppose where,
you know, the type of player that you are kind of comes into it. Like I know for myself,
it would probably not so much like when you're back into the swing of things and you know,
to then make a new character, because obviously that's kind of the deal. But I think for me,
if I was coming back into it, I kind of like having having to come like that. I've come back
and I've got my fast mount, you know, like and things that are familiar to me and that I enjoy.
And then, yeah, like you say, like remembering what fucking key is what and that like. But then
once you are, you've got a bit of cash and a bit of that and a bit of that. So like I've yeah,
I quite like the only thing I don't like is I've got like some shit face paint on that you when
looked is like 800 crowns to change your face, like change your face markings. Oh,
so I just have to deal with it. Yeah, but you get face markings as cosmetics because I've got
about 10 different ones. Oh, you're going to change it. You can change it. Yeah. The same way
that you can put on a polymorphous in your collections. So you've probably got face paints
that you can. Hopefully. Yeah. But in the sense that like, you know, like if you chose a scar,
I don't know that you can then change that back. I don't know. Maybe you can. Maybe the face paint
changes it because the gate, the thing that I've got, my entire body is now blue. Oh, yeah. It's
changed everything. Well, obviously, normally I'm covered in paint and all sorts of shit,
but it changes all of it to blue. Yeah, we'll figure it out. I'm definitely going to save up
for my little merchant cat again, I think. Even though that I have to like learn to let go because
like I just got that on PlayStation when we stopped playing it. Like I saved up like that's a wasp.
You're fine. Sorry, buddy. But yeah, like Mark, Mark, sorry, Mark and Junior do that, but way
worse. Wasps, they hate them. And whenever they fly into the van or they're near them, they do the one
thing you're not supposed to do and they start hitting it. No, just trying to get it out of the
way. Like, no, fuck off. And then it won't leave them alone. And I keep saying to him, don't fucking
hit the thing. Just leave it. Let it fly away. I hate them. They're fucking horrible. Stop hitting
the fucking, you fat headed twat. Stop hitting the wasps. I always find that in a situation,
don't you, when someone's like being aggressive to a bee or a wasp or whatever. And you're like,
no, because I'm not a part of this. But like if it's going to sting someone, it's going to be me.
Yeah, if it gets pissed off, there's a chance it's going to attack me. So stop fucking flailing around,
you little bitch. Do not consent to this cycle of that. Leave the bug alone. Oh, fucking hell.
It's such a prick. Sorry. It's so annoying. Carry on with what you're saying.
I can't really remember. But yeah, basically what we're going to do. So we made the plan. We're
going to try and get the other companions that came out. So last time we were playing it, I think
that Blackwood was the latest one. It was. There's now High Isles, which has High Isles.
No, it was Blackwood. Wasn't it Blackwood when we first started playing it and then it was High Isles
the newest one then? I can't remember. Well, anyway, yeah, and there's new companions. So
we're going to get those hopefully, aren't we? Yeah. With the mount system, you have to go
to a stable master every single day to increase your mount speed. And you can also increase the
stamina and the carrying capacity and you can only do one percent every day. And so it's quite a
long winded thing. However, there is a passive perk that you can get, which increases your mount
speed by 30 percent permanently, which is quite a big chunk. And the only way to get that is to
do PvP in this area called Cyrodiil and fucking hell. So annoying. It's so fucking annoying.
Because what you unlock at level 10 and then you get to go there and then there's all these
tutorial quests and I fucked up because it gave me the option to skip those quests and reap the
reward straight away because I've done it before. So I did that, but it didn't give me enough level
to unlock that perk. So now I've got to actually take part in the PvP side of things, which as a
level 10, it's not going well for me. And I'm pretty sure I've got to do is capture one thing.
Every time I try and do it, I just get bumfucked. I think we did. I remember it being difficult and
quite long, but I did think we will kind of we I remember enjoying it. Like when we when we had
it, we did quite a bit, but it's just fucking it's just fucking annoying. This is so annoying,
but I know what's going to happen. I'm going to capture one point finally, and then it's not
going to give me enough and then we have to fucking do it again. I just want it for that 30%. But then
yeah, you got the companions and stuff as well, but I don't want to go and get those companions
until I've got the 30% because then it's just long. Basically you don't like it when I have it and
you don't know. I don't like moving like a fucking slug. I don't like the fact that I'm on my mount,
full sprint and someone can run past me. I don't like that. It's annoying. So I want I want 30%
please. Yeah, but then I think that wow, you move so slow. Wow. Not if you're on a mountain, you
don't. Yeah, but do you not remember when we did that when you when I was having a go of it and
you were like, oh, there's a if you go and do this quest, you get like a movement speed, but it's
like only temporary and then you can never get it again. Yeah. How do you cope with that? What do you
mean? You walk so slowly. Yeah, but there's movement increasing stuff like sprint and shit
like that. There's stuff there to make you move a bit quicker and you use your mounts for a lot
of stuff. So you just mount up the same way that we do now. I know I just found it. Plus it was in
the tutorial as well. That was all tutorial shit. I know. Yeah. Can't help you. Is that a bone of
contention? What do you mean? Well, I don't know. I'm sorry that I couldn't really get you can handle
getting out of the fucking tutorial. No, I didn't. It's not your kind of game. It's fine. A lot of
buttons. You're not really like a lot of buttons in the ESO. There is, but you feel like there's a
lot more fluid, a lot more movement where I don't get how you play on ESO. How do you do your I
don't get how you do it. What do you mean your abilities? Do you use the keypad? Yeah, you do.
One through to six. Yeah. So my left hand does most of it really. And then I'm pretty much just like
aim with my mouse. So you would have been fine with wow. It's the same with fucking. It is, but it just
felt like, I don't know. I don't know. Thing is I was, we were playing at different because obviously
I've got the mouse that's got all the buttons on the side of it as well. So what's the buttons?
So I got one fruit to zero on my mouse. So I literally just use my left hand for movement
and my right hand does all my abilities and everything. So I haven't got a dexterity.
You know, I feel like I know the chair. I have like a numb and numbing because my hand is up.
No, I don't have that. But I'm used to it. Is your arm straight? No. No, it is down. Yeah. But
obviously I'm used to being in that position. True. Ash had the same thing and then he stuck
at it and then he found. Yeah, you do have to like power through. Yeah, he found the right. Don't get
me wrong after a while, but it's like after a while it's like 10 hours for me is when my arm
starts to hurt a little bit. I find the elbows, the chairs that we've got that padding, that's
the only thing that your other chair used to have on my chair is the padding on the elbows.
It's way better on ours that fucking rubber shit after a while it proper digs into the elbow.
But yeah, no, I don't struggle with. I did have to deploy a fucking auto run yesterday when I was
playing a little bit. Oh, can you auto run on this? Yeah, it's tab. Oh shit. Tab and then all you have
to do is hold shift and you're away. And then you're gone. Yeah. Yeah. Rather than the old. Why?
Because you're certain. Well, so I have to the shape of my key because my keyboard is quite small
or my hands are quite small. It's like a lot of it's with my little finger, which is like a little
if just for reference, dear listeners, imagine like a tiny prawn. And then like if you were to
straighten out a tiny prawn, that's the size of my little finger. And like, so she's doing a lot
to work. So yeah, I just do also rather than just hold it down like that. Someone who doesn't know.
You're basically you're basically playing an MMO. You're gaming with none of the fucking
gaming accessories to help you make life easier. Well, yes, I think using the mouse. I'm using
that. I'm using a different mouse. Yeah. That fucking Apple mouse was. Yeah. But that was awful.
No, because it was so annoying. It was. It's not built for that. It's incredible when you're
using it for what it's made. Nothing with fucking apples built for gaming. Nothing. Yeah. But
in the same way, I wouldn't fucking edit any shit on your laptop. Why? Because screens not
the right kind of screen. Why? Because the whole point of a retina screen is it shows it in a way
that's so different to a normal computer screen for editing. Because so if I edit an image or
create something, the colorway or whatever on your your one's probably up there on like a bog
standard monitor. It's not going to be you can you can change your like you can change like RGB,
CMYK, all the different ones to try and make it a bit more true. But nothing is as accurate.
You know, where your mouse is. No, it's not because obviously you don't have a sideways gesture.
What do you mean? On your mouse, you can't go like that. That's why it's glass. Yeah, but what does
that do? When you're when you're working, it means that I can go to the sides without having to
click and drag, click and drag. I just move it. It's kind of like a what the fuck are they called?
Like a touchpad. What are they called on a laptop? A touchpad. Yeah, yeah, that.
But that within that on a mouse and it's it is incredible when you're using it for what you're
using it for. You'd be able to buy a decent like nice keyboard. I have thought about it before.
Yeah, even when I was like a bigger one, you know, where they make all the marshmallow sounds like
the really nice like mechanical keyboard. I mean, I could have one for this, but it just means I'd
have to put the laptop further back, which I like my keyboard. I can't be bothered. Yeah. But yeah,
you could get like a really nice mechanical one because you just plug straight in. But then my
I don't have a problem. But my keyboard is nice at the end of the day. Like so on my old MacBook Pro
that had the like they've changed it. It was like it was scissor and now it's something else.
But I do actually prefer the keyboard on my on my MacBook Pro than the one that comes with
the M1 like the. Yeah. Or 21 whatever year is. Yeah, I do find that like when I touch that,
it's like way more satisfying. Has that like puffy bouncy stuff. Yeah, that's what I would want to get
that. And when I first got it, it had to because the one I got because I got it like
cheaper as a student was an American keyboard, which all it is, is basically like instead of
like an arrow, it says delete and like backspace. Of course. But yeah, it doesn't have that like fat
enter thing. Oh, yeah. So that was a rule learning curve smashing the wrong keys.
But no, sorry, this is really boring conversation. As long as it's fucking working.
No, I mean, I've got some. It's cheaper than fucking getting, you know, something that would
play it amazingly. I've got some earbuds that are arriving today and some people may be thinking,
earbuds for gaming. What a fucking weird thing to do where you can all shut the fuck up because I
have decided that I'm tired of having to keep plugging in big janky headset. God,
that's the first world problem, isn't it? Oh, yeah. But that's just what it is. I just.
What do you want? What do you want me to be upset about? You know, I. Wow. It's annoying.
Bless you. I bought the I bought them more specifically for the Steam Deck because
I'm playing it quite a lot and there's nothing wrong with the sound whatsoever. However, I'd like
to not have I'd like to be more immersed into the sound when I'm playing, like when I'm sitting in
the van and I'm messing around with it. Obviously, I normally got like Mark next to me, he's listening
to a movie. So he's got he's got earphones in as well. So it would just be quite easy to have
earphones for it. Plus, this new era of phones not having a fucking headphone jack. I don't know if
I wanted to listen to music outside of the fucking van, I can't. I don't know how I can't plug anything
to a little teenager. Well, can I? Does this have no this don't know how stupid of me.
USB-C headphone. Yeah, I've actually got one of those coming if you'd like it.
So I bought them mostly for that and where me and Steph were playing here, so
she was sat in the same room, but there's a fucking wall in between us. So it sounds ridiculous,
but we can't hear each other. And I I don't want to have to keep plugging in this headset
because the headset that I've got doesn't sit. What am I talking about? You know, I mean,
this is mental, isn't it? This is for these people don't care. They have no choice.
Turn it off if you don't like it. They're right there. Basically, I'm just getting earphones.
They're raised or something. I'll let you know if there are any fucking days into this shit. I'll
be returning them. We're going to try it. What are they? They were yogurt pots on a bit of a street.
Yeah, they were. They are hammerhead hyper speeds. They are razor. So fuck it. I'll let you know.
They're rocking up. Are you also like hyper aware? Like everything I'm saying, I'm like,
God, it's really so boring to listen to. I always think that when I do these podcasts,
I think this is shit. This ain't any good. Why people? And then we've got the bullshit
that people pay for as well. And I think fuck me, you'll be wrong. I don't think so because
people say nice things. One of you pricks has put fucking less than five stars on our Spotify. So
it's four point eight. I want to know who's done it. I need to know. Don't forget also from the
very, very start, it was gaming peppered with general chit chat. Now it's general chit chat
peppered with gaming. I mean, it's whatever the fuck we want to talk about. I wouldn't.
To be fair, though, there is a massive thing in that I'm playing cyberpunk now.
Games fucking mental. I love it. Oh my God. Whoa. It's so good. I really, really am enjoying it.
I bought obviously if you if you're an avid listener there, I set up loads of
calendar notifications for games that are coming out and like just to remind me of some stuff that's
popping up. So I'm going to open the calendar now because I believe is it.
So you got Starfield on the sixth of September and I believe the cyberpunk update is at the same time.
OK, so you get the DLC that comes out with that. And basically on this update, they've like changed
everything like the fucking gear, the stats, the perks that you can get. They now actually do shit.
They've added more stuff in. They basically done a no man's sky and have gone to make this better.
And yeah, they're bringing out DLC that's alongside it. So cyberpunk was on deals on PlayStation with
that DLC for like 40 quid. And then I had a fiver off because of my achievement points.
So I thought I'll buy that in anticipation for September. But then I thought, you know,
fuck it, I'm going to play it because I don't want to wait till September to get some time and
let's see how it is. And I played cyberpunk on day one release on the PlayStation 4 and it was
fucking awful. I hated it. It was so janky. It was basically unplayable. And I was one of the people
that got a refund on it. Ever since then, I was like, no, fuck them. CG Project Red, they're a big
old company. They should have done better. Like, it's ridiculous that they released it like that.
And that was it, left it. Well, Mark played it on release and had very minimal issues and said it
was great. Ash played it and said it was great. So a lot of people now are saying that they've done
a lot to fix it. Because obviously it's been a long time since it come out. So they've done
their fucking patches and stuff like that. So I thought, you know what, fuck it, let's give it a
go. And it's just so much fun. It's so fun. It really is. It's quite good to watch actually.
Yeah. I mean, you can shag prostitutes, men and women, hilarious. I love it all. You can have your
penis size. You get to pick that. I can be a geyser with a vagina. I love it. I can have no nipples.
You know what I mean? It's so fucking fun. And the weapons, the weapons are so fucking cool.
The gun field is great. The story's great. The side missions are like the main missions
in terms of like intensity. So like Ash said, he was like, you won't know if you're doing side
stuff or main stuff until you check your log to see which one you're doing. And genuinely,
that's what it's like. Same with ESO. There's storylines in there where they're not even main
story shit, but it feels like it because you're invested in it. And I think that's the thing.
You're invested in it. And that's how it feels now. The only gripe that I've got, number one,
is when you're in a vehicle and you jump out, you don't bail out like it's GTA where you fucking
you roll out and you hurt yourself. The animation of you getting out of the car, the car literally
stops and you get out of the car. So I find that a bit fucking waft, but I'm sure that's being
changed in the patch. And then the other thing is constant texts, constant people fucking texting me,
trying to get hold of me, leave me the fuck alone. I'm trying to do some missions. Leave me be. I
don't want to be bombarded. But other than that, from my 13 hours is what I've got in it so far.
Very fun. Very fun. It's going to take me a long time to complete it because I'm just doing all
the side shit as it comes. And I haven't even scratched the surface of it. I think I was,
I think I was nine hours in, eight or nine hours in before the fucking the opening scene, like the
cyberpunk coming. You know, when games do that. Yeah. Multiple hours in before that even popped up.
And I text Ash and I was like, that was the tutorial. He was like, yeah. I was like, what the fuck?
So that's mental. So that game, that game's mega, mega redemption arc. So far, very, very fun.
There's just an absolute influx of games I'm nibbling into bit by bit. It's great. I love it.
Yeah. I think the, I love that though, when you, when you kind of get into it, it's like I've been,
I've dipped through quite a few this week. Different various things. I've got some,
anyone, if anyone's a Nintendo fan, basically the little figurines you get interact from,
I think they introduced it with the 3DS, I think, or the new 3DS. I think it was 3DS anyway. And
yeah, it's NFC and you get shit in the game. And I didn't really have them until Breath of the Wild
came out and they released five Amiibo figurines with Breath of the Wild and then another four
later on that year, I think, or the year after. And I got them too. And then yeah,
and then the new one came out with Tears of the Kingdom. And then there's another two coming out
in the winter for Tears as well. Anyway, but I never had like any previous Zelda Amiibo's,
which there are a significant amount. Obviously one, Arm and a Leg. Two, they're either boxed,
which I always feel bad if they're like really old and then I unbox them. Like fair enough,
if they're brand new and you crack that shit out of the box.
Did you open the Zelda one?
Yeah. Which one? The new one.
Tears of the Kingdom.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I made the decision, so I don't give a fuck. I'm not going to sell them.
I want to, you can't use them in the box.
Yeah. And also it's a blister pack, which I find ugly anyway.
Yeah. And wouldn't it like, you'd only make like another 20 quid.
Oh, yeah. And I don't want a fucking storage on that as well.
So anyway, yeah. And then I've, I was selling some stuff on Vinted and then I was looking,
there's actually like nutty shit for, you know, old consoles on there. Literally PlayStation,
whatever you like. There's everything is on there in some format.
Sponsored by Vinted.
Yeah. And like, obviously some people are taking the piss. Some people are literally
giving things away. And anyway, yeah, they had some of these cards. So I got them from
the guy who apparently hated Breath of the Wild. So, you know, each their own.
We had a, we had a nice conversation actually. It was all right. And yeah, so I've been having
a great time with those because you just get like a fuck ton of resources, which I feel like has
kind of helped me with this whole thing about me being bitter about things that other people can
have that I can't have. And about how I spoke on here about the glitches and how that's kind
of almost tainted it because you're looking at these people doing sick stuff, but they're doing
that because they've got the juke pitch. Like, yeah, if I've got, you know, a hundred hours to
sink to fucking farm all that stuff to be able to do what they're doing in such a throw away way.
And yeah, you kind of feel like you're on the back foot of something that you shouldn't have
ever really felt. So anyway, literally I've got like a fat stack of them now. So that was great.
Then what was I doing? Bit Dreamlike, although I'm a bit pissed off because they've started to bring
in some silly shit. Well, I knew that. We all knew that. Well, I don't know. I don't know. You
defended it quite hard when I was fucking first saying that Dreamlike would just be paid to fucking
win. No, I'm not saying that that's what it is because it's not. It isn't that. It is purely
cosmetic. It's the same as anything. Fortnite. It's only cosmetic stuff. Is there anything you
can get that pretty much is there anything that you can get that will make the time go quicker?
No. Any potions or anything that you can buy where it'll go and make your crops grow X amount of
time quicker? No. Watch that coming. No, I can guarantee that will fucking flood in. Oh, wait.
Yeah. No, this is going to be a free to play game. But the basically all I'm saying is there's a
latest update and there's like some snap thing and you have to like lay out certain items to like
pass the thing. Yeah. And I just thought like meh. I didn't really. I find it. It's boring me a bit
lately. It's getting a bit ripper. Why are you laughing? Bitch, you're the king. She's just boring
you. What do you mean? Because that was like a told you kind of laugh, which you can shove up
your actual like anus. Yeah. That's gone. Anyway. So yeah, I was a bit bored of that and then played
a little bit of Untitled Goose game. Love her. I really want to play that together with these
call up, which you did say that you would play with me and that's why I bought it. So that's on
the list. And what else? Yeah. Then I just had a random hand crin to play just like any Game Boy
advanced game. Yeah. Old style Pokemon's bro. Well, I was having again on my little journey.
I was looking at OG Game Boys and some of them are in incredible condition, which kind of makes
me sad because it's like, why didn't you like play that into the ground? Like, why is that in such
good nick? Because a lot of people wouldn't have, would they? I suppose that's the difference between
if you were like, I don't know, maybe like 15 to 25 when they came out, you would treat it better
than, you know, there'll be a lot of people that would have foreseen that being an expensive thing
or something. They're not like 50 quid. You know, you pick up like Tetris and shit for like fiber
or vinted. Anyway, but fucking love vintage. Everyone loves vintage. Oh, go on there, man.
You will be, you will be suckered in. I've seen too many horror stories of like Funkos turn up
from vintage and they just don't get it. And they packed them in like a plastic bag and then they
turn up fucked. Yeah. Well, don't get Funkos. I'm not talking about Funkos anyway. Is it an app?
Yeah. Oh, sweet Jesus. You're going to get suckered in such good prices. Oh, my fucking
thing is eight stops away, by the way. Okay. Two stops away. Oh, if you want to let Lucy know.
Okay. Thank you. Oh, my God. As if I just got a blow on my mortal right now to earn blessings
and rewards. Oh, wait. Mine is eight stops away. No, it's not. It's not the same over then. No,
it will be. No, you reckon? I reckon so. Yeah. What else was going to say? Two stops away. Yeah.
Yeah. No, no. Oh, hang on. Right. So I've just completely spoiled the flow is because I don't
there. This was the other way around. You'd be going nuts. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
You'd be like, yeah, but this is also my platform. So is it? No, it's actually yours. Ash's platform.
It is, but Ash isn't here. And then, yeah, so I was looking at these Gameboys and our one,
which is one of my siblings that I've inherited because I've slowly collected every console that
it was discarded by my many siblings. And it's in shit, Nick. And I don't know. So the battery
classically. Oh, shit, Nick. Shit, Nick. You know, when you leave the batteries too long and they
explode and they can corrode the fucking things, then I felt they're going to be cheap to replace.
But also, you know, that blue shit that like calcifies almost on anything that's metal.
Yeah. So basically I've had a closer look at it in the week. So I brought a little tri-wing
screwdriver and I had a look at every single. So in the headphone jack, in the entire little
thing that you plug in the cartridge into the little side doobie that I can't remember what
the fuck that's for. Everything is caked in this blue shit, that crusty like blue and white shit.
Isn't it like oxidization? Yes, basically. Yeah, that's what I was looking for. That's the word
I was looking for. That caked in that. The screen are very, very easy. It's like literally like
two, three quid on eBay to get a new screen. I do have the screen. It's just it's fallen off
because the glue that you're fucking scrapper what you're trying to fix the thing. Yeah,
I'm trying to refurb my gameboy. Okay, because don't you think so I was looking and someone had
this really, really good looking. Oh, my God, it was mint condition gameboy and it has Tetris,
which as we know, they packaged with the game. The game boys help sell it. We watched the movie.
Yeah, very good. And they actually had like so we have remember, I don't know if you remember,
but it was like a case that was just a massive gameboy color. And then you opened it and there
was room for your gameboy color, your charger. Yeah, yeah. So we had those. Well, I didn't
actually my sister. So we had those. I was too young. No, no, my sister's had them. I was too
young. I actually inherited a gameboy color from my mate anyway. And they had this. Did you get any
of by any of your own stuff? I was no I wasn't I this is the thing about being the youngest. You
get what you get what everyone does. You get the scrap. Yeah, we don't know. The first one that
was actually mine was my SP when it was the girls had an SP. Yeah, yeah. Jesus. Yeah, I remember
getting one of them. And then from then on, I was I think I was deemed old enough to I was allowed
my own as well, which does mean, yeah, I have I have ended up with everyone. So I actually have
to the gameboy advances there. The other one I have in its box and the last with all this stuff.
That's I think that's one of the only consoles I have that is actually in its original box still.
But yeah, so I want to fix it. I want to fix it up because I was looking at this one. It was
really good Nick. It was looking great, but it's not mine. It's not my family. How do you fix
oxidization on metal? Well, I think isopropyl alcohol is your friend for a lot of stuff,
cleans up a hell of a lot of stuff. The last time I turned it on, the screen was absolutely fine.
There was no dead pixels at all. So that shouldn't be an issue. And the lights was working. The
buttons are all working. And so essentially, yeah, there's just like loads of stuff online,
because I think the older the console, the easier it is to take apart. Oh, yeah. And sort of fix
is so much more simple. And like I was going to do it with I actually have two SNES, two different
SNES consoles. And basically, you know, when it goes yellow and people think it's because it's
sunlight and it kind of is to an extent, but also there was a type of plastic that they used around
that time that would over time that it would come to the surface like that and go yellow.
And you can treat that as well. And that is quite easy to do. But I actually have one of
the one of them is definitely broken. I can't remember which one it is. But one of them,
whatever plastic they've used on the top didn't go yellow, but the bottom did. And then the other
one, the top's gone yellow and the bottom hasn't. So I was going to swap around. Yeah.
And basically, yeah, that's my plan. I just want to like project. I miss when they used to make
stuff out of like clear plastics, you could see, you know, like, yeah, you can see all the inner
workings of it. I would love a PS5 that was like that. Or even a laptop. Just you can see
like a clear toaster. Anything where I want to see the inner workings of it.
She made a clear toilet and it was like, don't need it.
I don't need to see a clear toilet. Interesting. But definitely for like fan purposes,
I would love to see it clear so I can see how dirty it is rather than having to take it apart
and have a look. The face plates on the PS5 are interchangeable. You can pop them off and then
put new ones in. And the fan, one of the fans sits directly underneath one of them at the top.
So you have to pop it off to, and then you can see the fan to see how dirty it is.
And me and Mark watched a tutorial on how to take over and you basically like lift it and then push
up and it's just like little clips. And what I think is cool is that with the other plates that
you can get, they've been designed to have like a fan cut out for exactly where that fan is.
Because the way the PS5 works is it draws in obviously the cool air and then it disperses the
heat upwards. So upwards and downwards, I believe, which is why when my mum got me that cooling
stand, it was not the best thing to use because it's blowing air into the wrong direction.
It's fucking with the fans. So it's just like a little tweak to see, just so you can see if
you need to clean it or something. But yeah, if they made stuff where, why the clear plastic thing
isn't that much of a thing? And it used to be like, did you ever have a, you never had a
Cybeco, did you? Do you remember them? And the, the bugs, the advert was like a little old professor
guy. Oh my God, if anyone's listening to another Cybeco, please, please, please, please like send
a message or something because I've died to find, it was such a fever dream. And you went online
to like their website, you could download like shit time games. They're amazing. And they could
talk to each other. So Lou had a blue one, Charlotte had a purple one, and I had like a neon yellow
green, which is in the cupboard you've seen. And it basically, there was different generations. We
had the, the original ones, I guess. And yeah, it was a little screen, probably same little bit
bigger than like a Gameboy advanced screen. And then yeah, like a tiny, tiny little keypad. And
it had like a, like a radio thing that you put up and a stylus and you could communicate with each
other. You can be friends and you play these games together. But anyway, that was a similar thing.
They were pretty much all of them were the transparent, they were like colored and transparent.
But really sad. It means that you can see so it had the batteries, you know, the ones that are like,
they were like white with a rechargeable, you didn't change them out or anything.
They're like those white square ones. And anyway, they think so they are rechargeable, but obviously
they're also like 20 years old. And you can see where it's like exploded and killed the rest of
the thing. You can see it like eating away. So sad. But oh my God, that was such a fucking cool game.
I just love it, man. Bring back clear fucking plastic. If you're going to make sure. People
will be all over that. Yeah, if you're going to make sure our plastic, because they, because
Maybe it's the type of plastic. Obviously it's a massive thing with, with PC towers. Everyone's got
clear cases, everyone for that purpose. So you can see the inner work, is it right? Yeah. So you can
see the inner workings of everything. So cool. So why I can get like it's sleek, make it black or
make it white, fucking whatever color you want. And it's all solid color and it looks great and
blah, blah, blah, but clear. If that was clear. Oh, I think there's it's kind of like, you know,
what we were saying about how, what was it? And it was like, who the fuck replaced the really cool
phone boxes with the shitty like BT gray and purple ones? Yeah. It's almost like that. I think
it's almost like that. Like we've gone through such an era where we're now in like the boring
era, like even phones and stuff. It used to be so like cool and every phone was like different.
And now every phone looks the same. You say that you go into the gaming phone world and it's,
and it's like harping straight back to that. It's, it's, it's crazy. You've watched the,
you're telling me there's a gaming phone that isn't black. What do you mean? Every gaming phone is
black. Uh, I don't think there's a gaming phone that's solid black. No, no, but it's like black
with like a, I imagine raises got a little bit green on the edge. I'll give you the rundown.
All right. So the razor phone has the, is there any that are different colors that are bright colors
that are funny, cool shapes? Yeah. So the razor one has a big old razor logo on the back, which
is RGB. So you can change it. Yeah, it's boring. And then I think the razor phone too, you had the
same thing, but there was something slightly different with it. The Lenovo Legion has obviously
the, the front camera that pops up from the middle. And then it's also, when you open the box,
it's got a speaker in it and it's like, ha ha ha, like playing some weird shit. Um, which is
going to carry around the box with you. Go look at everyone. It's very cool. The phone looks boring,
but when you open the box, it went, the Lenovo Legion also has some various different like
patterns and shit on the back of it. I can't remember exactly the, um, the ACES rug is either
the ACES rug or it's the shark, the black shark, something like that. There's one where it has an
led screen going through the back of it that tells you like the time and when it, who's texting you,
who's ringing you like all your info is like, is on the back. So gaming phones are actually very
fucking cool. And the Lenovo Legion, they did it in like an electric blue, but it's just not like,
you know what I mean? I'm not getting a fucking Hello Kitty phone anymore. You know what I mean?
Yeah, but everything's been replaced with cases like with this Samsung Galaxy S 21. I bought a
new case for it the other day because mine was fucked. It now just looks like an iPhone 12
because they all look the same. Our phones look the same other than the back cameras.
That point I was making. No, yes. But I'm saying you were saying that none of the phones are
fucking- No, I didn't mean literally like zero, did I? I meant on average everyone's phone is a
big flat screen and then like, yeah, your individuality is your case. You know what I mean?
Like as far as like the point of- But I can guarantee you if I get, if I sold you this phone,
this exact phone, but it's a, it's a Hello Kitty version where it's got fucking ears sticking out
the top of it, you're not going to want it because after a week of using it, you go, this is fucking
annoying because you can't have a pocket, you can't do it. No, I don't want ears sticking out of it.
What do you want then? I don't want a Hello Kitty phone. What I'm saying is you used to get like,
do you remember the Cath Kidston Nokia's when I was about 10 and I get, God, why is my life?
Everyone else had one, but I didn't, I don't mean it in like a sad way because I didn't,
I don't know what I mean. Like I'm going to say again- Did you ever have an LG cookie?
No. A Blackberry? No. Oh, you're such a fucking witty, you had nothing. Jesus. I remember-
Yeah, but you had iPhones and shit. No, not until I went to university,
I got myself a little one off eBay. But then the first, it was, you know, the first one I bought
was Japanese and you can't silence the camera because there's so much upskirting in Japan.
Oh yeah. And so every time I say it was going, like that, it was horrendous. Anyway, I just
remember when, remember when Beyblades were like a massive and that like small era where they were
out, they were new, everyone was into them, but they hadn't been banned at school yet. Yeah.
And I couldn't get- Same with Pokemon cards and Pokemon tags. Yeah. And Tamagotchi's. But yeah,
so Beyblades and I remember the only one that I could get hold of was from like, oh God,
it's like a pound structure or something. But when you ripped it, it played Christmas music.
So, and that was the only one.
And it was the only one I had and I was trying to look. Oh, I want to go back in time and find you
as a child and just, just, just give you some money. I just give you some new stuff. So you
was in an arena war with all these people. Jingle bell. Yeah. It was like the cute little music box
that was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I loved it. I was happy with it. Beyblades were so fucking
cool. I used to, my mate that lived next door to me, we had like, we'd set up an arena, but we'd
fill the bath up and then just get like a sandwich tray and then just rip and pull onto that one.
Oh, it was great. And then you got to change them all up and then like some of them were metal. So
they were like more heavy hitting and then the electric ones come out and I had an electric
one. So you had like a little remote control behind your back. And when it started to like flop,
you'd pull the trigger down and it will start spinning again and everyone going, you're fucking
cheating. And then you'd fucking dash them over the edge with it. Just shut up. I know what else
as well is when they brought out the Tamagotchi's that, uh, I think it was like the third gen or
whatever and they had like a sort of infrared sensor on the top. And, uh, it was like,
but found stretcher. Yeah. Oh no. It's so me. It's almost is like, like somewhat sad. Like when
Fiona said that she gets, gets an arsenal calendar every year and she says she just buys one herself.
But the, um, but wait, you want to just, just to compound that and yeah, so you could, and it was
like, play with your friends. So I just got two and then, and then it makes each other. And I
thought it was really cool because I had one blue one and one pink one. Oh, I'm never stopping
playing ESO. You've been yearning for this for all your life to play these games with someone.
Oh my God. Oh, so funny. Oh, damn. So in distress, it was quite funny when I was playing. Um,
so I don't, I know you wouldn't have played them, but like when you play Sims on the computer,
obviously you control that same, you pick its life, you do whatever, but almost to my knowledge,
the majority of the Sims games that were on like little handheld ones,
a very much more format where you pick like a very, very basic outfit and hairstyle,
but that Sim has a backstory. It's way more like, um, you know, a normal,
pre-generated type. No, like you have, um, missions to complete and that's how you progress and stuff
like that. And, uh, yeah, it just cracks me up. So that game's about 20, literally, I think 20
years old this year. And, uh, I just logged onto it this morning on the Game Boy Advance and I'm
walking around and I'm like, and I would play it exactly the same way. Now. I remember literally
just walking around the house for a little minute and everything is a three story little house and
everything's on the top floor. And it's because I worked out that if you keep getting, like getting
burgled and obviously nicked your shit. Um, but for some reason, if, if it's upstairs, it doesn't
get touched. So I've moved absolutely everything upstairs and then I'm walking around going,
I swear I had a little dog. Where's the little dog? And obviously the dog runs through all different
floors and he's in my pocket so that he can't lick him. And it's just like, but that is exactly
what I do now. Like I wouldn't leave the house unless dog's in my pocket and everything's
upstairs, but they're actually sick games. They're genuinely, genuinely so fun. But I think so much
I think so much now, like, I know, do you remember when you'd have to type in a password
for certain, like certain games, cause it didn't technically have any memory.
You wouldn't save the level. I think you would get to a level and then it would say, right,
your password now is like rabbit. So the next time you play the game, you type it in and then you'd
go from there. Yeah. Which is crazy. Like that's how black kind of like basic the game was that
you wouldn't have necessarily any customization. It would just be, you know, you reach this level.
So you'd have these things and play from there. That sounds like such a cool fucking space saver.
And it, yeah. Well, that was the point because you don't ever have to save this game. Just
remember this fucking four digit pin and then you're good to go. Oh, literally. And I can't
remember if I've said it on here before, but it would crack me up forever. And it's like my main
memory of playing that kind of game and how violently British like me and my sister were
playing this game. It was like treasure planet and the font was all fancy and there was a
particular level and we could never get back to it because it would say that the password was wrong,
even though we were typing in right every time. And it's because the path we thought the password
was crumpet, but it was actually trumpet that we couldn't comprehend. It was crumpet. It's clearly
crumpet. Clearly, clearly this is crumpets. Crumpet and jab. And yeah, but I do love games like that.
Like. And that's why I've been looking at vintage to kind of get. I feel like the creativity in a
lot of games has on that physical side of it has all but diminished. But I also feel like the market
isn't there for that anymore. I don't think that new style of gamers are interested in doing that
kind of stuff. No, and it would be, that's what I'm saying. It's like so basic, like no customization
at all. No like person, like personal element. You are literally like going through the level of it.
Yeah, it's like gone. What we were saying with. And you almost forget that it was even a thing
where you used to, a film would come out and then it would be like almost immediately a game of that
film would come out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the other way around. And certainly like Disney and
like Incredibles and Credibles 2. There's a fucking like so many games. Yeah, because the.
It was so simple to do. Yeah, the benchmark for that was a lot different to how it is now.
People expect. And the market. Yeah, people expect a lot more now than you would back then.
And it's almost as well like that if now is quality over quantity, then was definitely quantity over
quality like I can't necessarily remember that. Well, yeah, I can't remember that many like
film games that I even finished because they were like always just a little bit wank.
And yeah, whereas like now I'd rather have a game that I really, really love and like so
much thought's gone into it and have to like wait for that rather than just be like, oh, cool,
I can play this like God is the Galaxy three that kind of shit immediately after it come out. That
kind of kind of thing. Yeah, you've sat forward in an anticipation of the podcast ending, haven't
you? That was my trip down memory lane and that was your trip down memory line. I have sat forwards.
You have. Is that my universal? Yeah. Podcast now over. Yeah. Bring it to a close, please.
Thank you. Now done. The old cue cards been fucking written. Yeah, maybe love.
Well, I've had a nice time. Even this is this may have been very boring for anyone else.
Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. People have gone down fucking nostalgia having you with this one.
It's great. So you'll you'll restore your your little consoles. Yeah. And then we'll have an
update for you in a couple of weeks as to whether or not that come into fruition or we hit hurdles.
Well, yeah. So I tried this morning to unscrew to check screwdriver worked and I was only strong
enough to unscrew one. I don't know why I thought that asked me to know oxidized screws have been
screwed for 30 years. We're going to be. Yeah, they're not just fucking come off. Yeah, that's
going to be a difficult one. I got one. I got one. And then I had to screw it back in, obviously,
because I would have just lost. Well, your mom made me do that with one of those lights. I couldn't
get the screw out. I got one of the screws out and then the other one. Yeah. Bear in mind,
it was in a plastic bag. It would rounded. Yeah. So I got a bigger screwdriver and I thought, well,
I'll just hammer that into the screw and then it will be able to come out. And I hammered it,
not realizing that it's on the thinnest back of plastic ever. And I just snapped snapped it off of
the. So, yeah, I said I've got it off. Yeah, it's just it won't go back on, but it's off.
It's crazy. Literally, that is 30 years old and the rest. Yeah, it's quite mental. I was
saying when I fixed it on today and it was like EA copyright 2003. You're like,
yeah, do I do I think that my PlayStation would turn on after a bit inactivity for that long?
Doubtful. I don't think it would mean if I left the PlayStation for 20 years and then tried to
flick it back on, I doubt that it would go back on because I think it's too technical. There's
too much stuff there for it to go wrong. I don't know. I mean, like, I suppose that's where like
we were just saying about how sort of simple they are, like literally, especially I think the I want
to say SP was the first one that did that wasn't handheld. This is I'm talking that didn't have
like obviously you could get the little packs that you put in, but ultimately it was it was batteries.
And yeah, it is literally as simple as that advance might have not been on for I don't know
how long pop two batteries in it. And it's literally like it was today. That's nuts.
It's the equivalent to one of my nan's old tractors where you had to put the fucking lever in
at the engine and then crank it around yourself and then it would start. It's basically like
that fucking hell. That's a weird memory to unlock. I remember that shit. Jesus. Yeah. All right.
Well, this has been fantastic. We're going to go and do the patron episode. That is
patron.com forward slash. What's the buttons? Is it? Or is it what's the buttons?
I just watched the buttons. What's the buttons? If you want to get into that Instagram. Oh,
the old Instagram is all everything. And then X don't even.
You can find you can find out X handle on X. But the irony is I've been on this morning. So
my app's updated now. All right. Little bird. And it still says tweets like you have this mean
to because what you're supposed to do is just change the fucking logo to talk because you're
probably take us out. You know what I mean? Fuck. Let me on my fucking slander. That's slander.
I'll put him in the title and then get some clickbait going. All right. Everyone.