It's a lovely evening. We have Bailey's.
It's warm in the podcast room and Steph's with me.
Hello. Fantastic. When's the last one that you was on?
Oh, last time you was on here.
A while ago. I can't really think of what we were talking about.
I can't remember.
It was ESO based. I know that as it always is.
Probably. Should have a quick scroll.
Yeah, but it was a while ago.
You do the thingy and I'll...
I kind of need a logo where it's your face
instead of Ash's face for when it's your episode.
Can you do that? Change it though?
Yeah, because when I...
Oh, of course you can actually.
When I upload them to our host,
yeah, I have to pick an image.
Can I make it pink?
Yeah. Yeah.
Still got to do the Jedi Club one as well.
Oh, there you go. 4th of September, I think.
Oh, not that bad.
Go on, I don't know. That feels far away though.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think it is though.
You know, fucking jam packed week.
It's been a real decent week for us.
Yeah. I've been thoroughly enjoying myself.
Playing like three or four different games at a time.
And you've discovered some newer games that are fantastic.
We've just come off the back of watching Blizzcon
for the first time in, I think it's like four years,
some three or four years that it's been.
Normally it's a yearly thing.
And I very recently cancelled my World of Warcraft subscription
and funnily enough, uninstalled it from the laptop for space reasons.
But basically I pay for the yearly subscription
and it was due to come out the 1st of December.
And I was like, no, you're right.
I don't want the almost 100 quid coming out of my account.
Yeah. Me and Steph are moving.
So to do with that not fucking coming out of the account.
And so, yeah, just watch the Blizzcon and everyone's knows that
every Blizzcon they do a expansion reveal.
Obviously, you've got World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft Classic
and World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore as well.
So there's free there's free things going on.
Classic and Classic Hardcore are very popular, especially Classic Hardcore.
You're typical once you die, that's it.
And it was the other day I was watching a how do you say a mock growl?
Is that what it is? It's a jewel to the death.
Mocks, however you say, I think it is mock growl, something like that.
All right. And it was a hard, well, hardcore
competition and basically people
people signed up for it and then were given four weeks
to create a character and then level it up and gear it
as best they can for this competition.
And it was just your typical like group stages.
And then now into semi-mock shit.
And there's people there who already had characters made
and would already plan for this.
So people who put like three, 400 hours into these characters and shit like that.
And it was for one hundred thousand dollars was the winning prize.
And I watched it. I watched it on Twitch and it was decent.
It was decent. I enjoyed it.
It was it was good fun. Look fucking stressful.
Really stressful because not only would these people be losing out on the money,
they're losing out on the characters that they've invested a shit ton of time into
because they're permanently gone.
Is it? They're permanently gone.
It's hardcore. Once they're dead, they're dead.
So that's the whole point.
It's a it's a you can duel in World of Warcraft, but you can also
that when they released hardcore, they released a Mockerah
Jules, which was a fight to the death.
So someone was losing their character in that duel.
Actually, can't think of anything worse.
Yeah. So the way I would just put it down and never play it again.
So, yeah, I think there was I don't know how many participants there were.
I think maybe like 40 or something like that or maybe a few more.
And yeah, we were down to one one winner.
So it's a lot of time that people have sacrificed for that.
And that was quite exciting.
But yeah, fast forward into what we've just seen at BlizzCon.
It's sort of like mixed feelings because I'm trying to get away from World of Warcraft
and I feel like I'm doing it quite passively and quite successfully
in that I've just sort of lost the the drive and the motivation for it,
which happens usually at the end of expansions
and moving on to other things like ESO recently been trying out Guild Wars two
have gone back to the PlayStation, playing a lot of Dead by Daylight
at the moment, even fucking Rocket League.
So there's there's quite a lot of games being explored.
And yeah, watching BlizzCon, it was definitely like really exciting,
like quite cool. It's quite quite a lot.
Not enough to put obviously, like we said off air, not enough to pull me back in now.
Because I don't want to go back in now because they're at the end of the expansion.
There's another patch coming in in like two weeks or something like that
with a new raid and all that shit.
I can't be bothered. I really can't be bothered.
It's too much time invested into it. It's not. I think.
For a gaming podcast, World of Warcraft takes up so much of your time
that I struggle when I'm in the core of playing well,
I struggle to pull away and play other games and enjoy other things,
even just enjoying stuff outside of gaming
because I'm fucking obsessed with World of Warcraft.
So from a podcast point of view, it's better that I stay away from it
because I can fuck around with other things willingly.
But yeah, they're they're doing for the first time ever a saga.
What do you call it? What do they call it? The World Soul Saga.
Something like that.
So usually they they announce and release one expansion at a time.
There's normally like a year, maybe two years gap between expansions.
And basically, they've announced the next three expansions
and then said that they're going to release them faster than usual,
which is alarm bells to me and a lot of other people.
Because to me, that means the quality is going to be reduced.
And it's.
Yeah, it's like what was it you got the war?
The war within the first one and then midnight is the second one.
And then the third one was the final Titan.
Titan, yeah, something like that.
And we've got to see what zone they'd be in and bloody, bloody, blah.
And then we saw a more in depth
thing of the war within, which is the the first expansion that's coming out.
And that looks really decent.
I won't bore everyone with the details of it,
but it definitely interesting.
And then I switched off.
That was it. And that's none of that's released until 2024.
So I haven't got to think about any of it until 2024.
But definitely cool to people were expecting World of Warcraft
to or classic plus like hot people were wanting, including myself,
hard resets of the game.
So where we could still keep all of our shit in terms of our mounts
and our transmogs that we've gained and our and other things and achievements
that we spent a lot of time on.
But a lot of people wanted that just start over again.
Just reset the game because it's got so there's so many expansions
and it's so deep in the law that it how far can you really go?
Like Chris Metzen was saying,
this is setting them out for the next 20 years.
So what you can't we're going to do World of Warcraft fucking
is on its 32nd expansion.
Like how far do you take it before you do go?
You think like Destiny one at some point, and that's do a reset.
And they did. Destiny two.
Obviously, now that's gone down the pan.
We'll get into that later.
So, yeah, people were just wanting that that hard reset,
which we didn't get, but we're still hopeful
because that is what people want.
But yeah, definitely seen what they were pulling ideas
from a lot of other successful things.
So they're they're looking in the right directions.
It's just whether or not they can execute it properly.
Well, that that that weird classic mix
and match thing that they had going on,
I can't remember what it was called trials of something
where basically you could mix them.
Something like that season of trials or some shit like that,
where you'll be able the level cap will be 25
and then slowly raise where you'll be able to mix
and match your characters or a fucking mage
can use paladin fucking spells or a hunter can use.
But which is like I said to you is a private server called Ascension
and many other private servers that do the same sort of thing.
Very successful.
So you can see that they've just take they've just capitalized
on that idea and gone, you think we'll have some of that scares me
that not doing any beta testing for it.
No testing whatsoever.
They're just going to release it in.
What was it? The next couple of weeks, I think they said.
But the next two weeks, they're going to release that out into the masses
and then just see what happens.
Well, I suppose you can say that they've taken inspiration from servers
that already exist and probably just utilize that,
just tracked how that goes and then.
Yeah, I suppose it might be one of those where in terms of balancing
because it would be so absolutely random,
you might not need balancing because of how chaotic it's going to be.
Yeah, potentially.
Excuse me if I. So interesting, nevertheless.
And that was that was Blizzcon.
I might. Because I know I've never been able to get hold
of one of the collectors editions of World of Warcraft ever, never, ever, ever.
So I may have a look and see when and if they ever like release
a collector's edition for the war within and see
because they normally come with like a really cool statue and stuff like that.
And they sell for like they hold their value real decent.
So never know. Might look at that.
Where are you going?
Well, what do you want to touch on next?
The fucking journey home from Comic Con.
Fuck me. Oh my God.
The grim, weren't it?
It was unfortunate.
Fuck me. That was horrible.
I likened it to like, I think now we know roughly what the camaraderie
on the lifeboats of the Titanic was like, because we were sat in our little six
and we became a little family.
We had the annoying, annoying ones.
And the one of my friends, that little lady.
It was just it was such a good day, spoiled by that fucking journey home.
Well, and the fact that we got robbed.
We got fucking robbed as well.
Comic Con, for fuck's sake.
Hardest bastards there.
We got fucking robbed.
It's all been good so far though.
Like we basically we've been compensated for each of our troubles.
On our way out of Comic Con, I was thirsty as fuck and they had something called Market Express,
which is basically the Amazon shop where there's no one there.
You just walk, scan your phone or whatever and then fuck off and go in.
But what gets me is this.
They were watching because what happened was we we walk up and Reese is trying to tap his phone
and it wouldn't tap because it was like a train gate almost wouldn't tap.
So then I crack out my little Apple watch and I tap and it works.
So I'm pushing this gate.
But in that time, they're taking us this woman started to come out to us and then turned on a hill and walked away.
Face like a slapped ass, but there you go.
At the end of the day, she's probably having the worst day of her life.
Let's be honest.
We've all we've all been there.
And then baby, so when we go, don't say the babies can't take it away.
Side note at work today, we're really busy and a guy let in and went keep smiling, baby.
Fucking weird.
And then literally like seven times.
He literally he think he said, thank you, baby.
And bye, baby.
Crusty old fart man.
No, he wasn't old enough for it to be like endearing.
Oh, was he not?
No, he was probably like mid 40s.
And he actually kind of looked a little bit like one of my old math teachers, which was slightly disturbing.
Nones.
And he was just buying a pack of rolls and something else.
Whatever it was.
It was one of those ones.
I was actually so creeped out.
I couldn't say anything to anyone.
That's great.
It was just like after kids to myself until I go home.
It's nice.
Anyway, so yeah, go through this barrier.
Reese follows me and it said like tap once per group.
Whatever I go in Reese follows me in he makes a beeline straight for the drinks over the other side.
It really wasn't very big shop.
I go over to have a little look.
It's an arm and a leg as you can imagine for a can of Monster for pounds.
Yeah, I picked up a can of Coke and then Reese was like, no, I'm not going to get anything.
I was like, well, okay, put it back down.
Reese walks out and it was like a little barrier that you leave from as well.
And I walk out and then literally look there was like a little iPad thing where you get a receipt and I was like, well, fuck it.
I bought everything out.
We go and I just had that feeling.
I had that feeling sure enough next morning wake up.
Nearly 25 quid's gone out of my account great. So I actually wasn't that like dramatic.
I just emailed them and it took a couple of days to get a reply and whatever and and then you know, yeah, they phoned me and they said like,
yeah, we'll do the refund for you.
And I asked what happened and they just said, yeah, somebody followed you in but I cracked it didn't I literally about five seconds before he phoned.
I went I bet someone followed us in and they did.
So essentially they've used my card to buy their stuff and fuck off.
So ultimately I've like well, it's lucky I had noticed it was purely because obviously I tapped my card throughout the day and I wanted to just double check.
I knew every transaction and it was hard.
That was hard enough as it is because I know had like funny old games anyway, and I was like, well, I know Marga Express.
I know that name but like had I not checked then they'd have stolen from me but as it is they've now stolen from them because they've had to refund me.
If basically if you're mad just look behind you if you're at the Excel Center in London at any point between now and whenever for all the different comicals and all that type of shit.
Get a couple people go to Market Express.
You ain't together get one to go in behind you and just chief the place up take whatever you fucking want and then just say well,
I didn't know someone's been using my card get your money back.
What fucking joke other than that I have a monster.
Other than that Comic Con was fucking sick.
We had the had a big old chunk of the what's the button squad was out.
It was all rep and our hoodies and t-shirts and shit.
It was it was most fun.
I had a cold the entire time was very bunged up and very grateful because I couldn't smell.
Shaking your head.
Smell that bad fighting for my life.
Was it smell bad?
Yeah.
Yes, you could.
Yes.
Yes, not all the time but when it hit you it hit you some people like a slap.
Yeah, and if it wasn't BO it was far and I don't know what's worse but like different different flavors of BO as well wasn't just standard.
It was it was it was the same gaff as the Star Wars celebration that me and Ash went to and when we went we was expecting the worst and it really weren't that bad and in terms of cosplay.
They weren't really like a whole lot going on.
Obviously those people dressed up and stuff, but it was a Star Wars event.
So it was all one one demographic.
Comic Con was fucking odd.
Oh, I thought it was amazing.
I loved it.
Don't get me wrong. I loved it, but my eyes my eyes were hurting.
There was there was just so much going on.
There was so many different genres of fucking of people and characters that was everywhere.
I was just constantly head was just on a fucking swivel everywhere and there was boobs and and and art art galleries and shit everywhere.
You say boobs or boobs?
Boobs.
Oh, there was boobs every there was boobs everywhere as well.
I'm gonna burp. There was a woman with no like you when we walk past her when we got in where she barely like just had a jacket on and just boob tape on.
Yeah, but she didn't really have boobs.
I don't know.
There was boobs there.
Oh, I don't know if we looked at the same person then what you can see the boob.
No, yeah, they weren't very.
Yeah, we looked at the same one because I know you and so what the fuck's going on over there and I turned you and we're like, well, it's not as much there.
All right boobies.
Yeah, but they weren't really boobies.
So were they well, she had a top off and she had nipple tape on.
Look, I'm not knocking I'm applauding the cup.
Wasn't it?
You would in the sense that if I had tiny boobs, I would be shy about doing that because it's not really like they're not bouncing around huge.
You know walking around with double G's.
Yeah.
Yeah, and you know, they don't make fucking tip tape for that.
No, the perky pair of things.
Shout out no trademark other breast things are available.
There was there was a lot going on.
The food we got in the morning was awful.
Some Japanese street food.
It was shit.
Absolutely vile.
Sorry.
And also the food we got in the afternoon was also disgusting.
Food we got in the afternoon was shit as well.
The burgers that we got was shit.
Oh no and the most heartbreaking thing.
Steph's burger was still frozen.
Yeah, it was.
The most heartbreaking thing is that on the way out we see that sushi didn't we?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it looks so good.
Looks so good.
The fuck the doughnuts we got though were decent.
Although I couldn't really taste mine, but I know that it was decent.
Yeah, mine was nice.
So I wish I could have tasted it.
I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known it was caramel.
They were huge.
Yeah, it was it was something where you look at and you go really five pound for a doughnut.
But actually they were they were mega.
I only bought one Funko pop and that was Aragon.
It was like a special edition thing.
Nothing really nothing crazy, but we did buy a load of prints of which some were Elden Ring prints.
So Melania and Radar and then the last of us.
Yeah, I can watch you.
About a lot.
Where did we put those prints?
I put them in my safe.
They're safe.
Okay, cool.
And yeah, I'll manage to go sign Funko pop by I don't know fucking dormio guy or whatever.
Fuck guys.
Guys hot over the Mike Wazowski.
Oh, yeah, there was a Funko pop booth booth booth booth booth.
Yeah, there was a Funko pop booth.
It's like when you say Chessington Chessington Chessington Chessington.
Yeah, Chessington is it not Chessington?
No, is there a Z in it Chessington Chessington World of Adventures play a game of Chess.
Well, yeah, but that's different though.
Is it chess Chessington curtain?
What you're about you know, that actual portion innocent on this.
I'm not pushing it in today mate.
It's Chessington.
All right, it's Chessington.
It's not but anyway, carry on as you were.
Right.
He was by looks of it specializing in selling grailed Funko pops and he had some expensive shit.
There was a pop in there.
I think it was like two and a half grand something like that.
Like there was a lot of it's worth something to pay for it.
The minute but price tag on anything.
Sorry.
I'm sorry kid to be honest.
Sorry.
I know the Funko market.
Yeah, how's that selling?
You're going to call me out on this podcast like this would seem so yeah, unbelievable.
We find ourselves here.
Unbelievable to me is still that bedroom draw since March.
Yeah.
Yeah, not crying for the money.
It'll sell when it sells.
Don't worry about that.
Sure.
As long as it sells it don't matter and if it don't it's still signed by Brad Pitt.
I can't believe you've gone for me like this.
I can't believe you've done this unbelievable.
What's happened as you were carry on he had a he had a Mike Mazzowski who Mike Mazzowski
say Mike Mazzowski wasowski.
I'd say I like to say Mazzowski Mike Mazzowski it rolls better than Mike wasowski.
Okay, he's going to fucking pick everything that I'm saying here drink your Bailey's drink
your Bailey's gone.
And I'll get this story out a Mike wasowski my Funko pop and he just wanted too much money
basically there was it was one of 480 they've made and yeah, he was he didn't like me swearing
at him.
Maybe that's where he become a dick.
He was weird.
Anyway, he was weird.
He was he was like he'd come out of like they'd let him out of the basement.
He was a bit forward when he he was weird and I and I was being proper like tempting
and I did say to him I said you got a fucking stop.
Otherwise, I'm going to I'm going to spend all my money and he was like, whoa, there's
no need for swearing.
Yeah, that was it.
No need to threaten me when I got dabbling.
All right, he'll kill you if you want fucking just didn't go back.
No, but they were desperate for it.
They were fucking wanking off in the corners.
They were after me.
They were like I was going to buy the funko even when we did a little loop and walk back.
They were still talking about it.
Oh, yeah.
No, he said he was going to come back didn't he but even he turned around to me and he
was like because he wanted when he wanted to know he wanted 370 for it.
I think or 350 something along those lines and it was Darrell that piped up and Darrell
was not even a seasoned funko pot of taking him under the under the wings.
He didn't do he did decent.
I would Darrell he do and he said like what's what's the lowest that you'll take for it
and he was like, well give me an offer and Darrell just I think he just said 310 and
the guy was like, yeah, yeah, we could probably work something.
275.
No, I don't think he did.
Did he do 50?
I thought by the way, it was 310 is what he said he'd take because then he said he'd
also sort out a deal for the the sully and the wasowski joint pop, which is also a growl
and also quite expensive to get hold of is like a hundred and something quid for that.
So I don't really know what deal he was thinking of sorted out and yeah, he was like he was
like you find one cheaper and I'll match it you show me proof of one that you found I
said, well, how am I going to do that?
There's only 480 of them.
I said I'm hardly going to find loads of my luck at it.
I couldn't everything that I found was about 300 quid, but what was funny is did I tell
you about it in the Funko group that we're in the old ink to Grails?
No, it wasn't it's great story.
It was a different Funko group that me and Mark are in on Facebook.
He posted up or one of the people from that booth posted up right saying that they've
just come back from Comic-Con and they're looking to buy more Grails.
So comment the Grails that you've got to sell.
Right.
What did I say pop up a Mike was asking?
And he was offering 300 quid for it.
The geezer that was selling it was saying that he'd said it for 300 quid.
Right.
So I just found it funny.
I just found it funny that that was there.
And yeah, temptation didn't didn't it.
I was off tempted because I had my wallet there.
But I thought now I feel better feel better not of buying it because it wasn't it wouldn't
have been one that I wanted to sell either because I like monster thing.
But yeah, it was a it was a very successful day for the first Comic-Con and it was also
your first Comic-Con.
It was mine and yours, but it was your first.
What do you call them?
Convention Convention.
No, I thought it was.
What's your first one?
I've been to the ideal home show.
Excuse me.
Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen.
Who the fuck's that?
What?
Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen is ideal home show was at the Excel in 2012.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Went to see a Hoover demonstration.
That's great.
Yeah, Jason.
It's great.
And I'm a homewares.
Well, if that counts, then it weren't my first convention because I also went to the boat
show with my uncle.
There you go.
And we also went to the llama one with your Nana.
That wasn't a fucking convention.
They were in fucking booths.
There was events and snacks.
To the llama market.
Fucking hell.
No, yeah, it was my first like nerd.
It was good.
I enjoyed it.
I highly recommend it.
But please bring deodorant for fuck's sake.
Yeah.
If you want to say the pictures of what the hoodies and everything looked like, then they're
on our Instagram because they look fucking banging.
They were nice.
Will come out very well.
I would.
I don't know that I would necessarily pay the money because actually, well, I see that
girl.
So there was, who was there?
Obviously Ashley Johnson, who was sold out.
And then there was a couple of lads from Twilight over in there.
Ashley and Ashley Green and Ken and Lutz and Jackson.
Rathbone, who I really wanted to lay my eyes on, but I didn't get to.
And Stephen Amell, who was it?
You got a picture of their head.
It was Neil Nubon.
The nearly baby.
Yeah, Neil Nubon, who is the voice actor for Astarion.
But he's also, I used to, when I was really obsessed with Hollyoaks when it was actually
good about 10 years ago, he had quite a good like really, really gritty, like drama.
Hollyoaks was actually off the fucking charts in 2013.
The amount of Astarion shit that was there.
It was so creepy.
Astarion with tits.
Oh, the mouse mat.
Did you see that?
Yeah.
That was fucking weird.
It's so fucking odd.
I know.
But yeah, he had a really, really long queue.
And one girl waited for seven hours.
I thought that's mad.
Bless her.
Seven hours is a long time.
And then, and then, and then, but then she had the audacity after to complain that she,
she didn't get to see any of the other cockpits of the Comic Con.
Well yeah, but then think about it.
Well yeah, because you stood in a queue for seven hours, you silly cunt.
Well no.
What do you mean?
No, because she's paid for it.
Yeah.
So she has to wait.
But she wasn't expecting to queue that long.
I wouldn't have thought you needed to queue that long.
It looked like it was moving quite quickly.
You think it all day that took.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, she's not silly.
Sucks to be you.
Well, you know, I don't know.
I don't know what to say.
But you must feel quite trapped because you've paid for it.
But at the same time, so now you kind of like have to, I can hear a buzzing.
I don't know about that.
Yeah, like to pay for it.
And then it was just added me on Snapchat.
Amazing.
Follow me on Instagram.
Right.
But yeah, no, it was good.
I mean, I think there was, there wasn't so many freebies as I was expecting.
I was expecting a lot.
The only freebie we got was a leaflet.
No, I got that little bag.
I don't even know what the game is, but there was a tiny little, there was like an Ikea
pencil in it and a, that's right.
Oh, it's a flashing light.
Oh, it's me speaking.
And there was like a little tiny like rock suite in there.
And then like a colouring book or something.
I was like, okay, I don't remember what the game was.
Bless them.
Robocop.
There were like three people that handed stuff out on the Robocop leaflet.
But then like, I would have liked to have seen, so they had like a Jedi thing, didn't
they?
Like a lightsaber fight thing.
But then they also had like, like you, D and D that you like, what's it called?
Like walk around in 3D.
No, I don't know.
Live.
Yeah.
Whatever it was.
And you were like people are booking slots and shit, but you couldn't really see any
of that going on.
And it didn't look like it was very big either.
There was not as much gaming orientated stuff as I thought there was going to be.
There really weren't.
No, I don't think there was a lot of digital gaming.
Yeah.
Not nearly as much as I thought there would be.
More like board games and card games.
Still very good though.
Still very good.
Yeah.
I really liked it.
And I think that there was, yeah, I liked the kind of atmosphere.
And then after seeing all of the Astarium boobies and vaginas that you could possibly
see it forced Steph down the rabbit hole that is Baldur's Gate free.
That's not what I did.
It is.
When you saw that poster of him with them big old boobies.
No, I didn't see a poster with boobs.
You did because I pointed at it going, he's got fucking tits.
I saw the mouse mat.
No, yeah, there was a print.
There was a big old fucking print of him with proper sweaty cleavage and shit.
I was like, what is going on?
What is happening here?
This is so odd.
He's got a massive following.
I know.
I said to Connor yesterday, I said, what the fuck is going on with that?
I said, did you see that weird shit on Sunday?
Because obviously he went, he was like, yeah, don't worry.
He was like, I saw the weird shit.
Yeah.
I said, it's odd.
I said, I'm a very accepting guy and I'm open to a lot of things.
But that was fucking strange.
It was really weird.
It's so mysterious and playful.
Tits.
It's so great.
Tits.
They just weren't needed.
Yeah, they were giving everyone boobs, weren't they?
But did you see the cat bar stungarees?
I would have got them if they weren't like half pound.
Yeah, they were silly money.
Yeah.
Baldur's Gate 3.
This is how much I have a deep love for you in that I was in the shower and Steph was
downloading an update for Baldur's Gate, of which my laptop had run out of memory.
Fucking patch in the middle of the year.
Go on.
Crazy.
On my day off, so I didn't actually get to play it.
So deleted World of Warcraft 4 Baldur's Gate.
Admittedly, I'd already cancelled the sub, but I could have still played until the end
of December.
Is it?
Yeah.
I said, no, take it off.
Get rid of it.
And then went through a fucking deep clean, moved the podcast off.
Didn't realise how much memory fucking audio files take up.
It's a lot.
And yeah.
Take the floor.
I'm shy.
Oh.
Why?
Do you want me to do like an interview?
I'll ask you the questions.
How are you finding it?
You liking it so far?
Yeah?
You're further than me.
Not that that's a fucking achievement, but you're doing better than I am.
You seem far more engaged in it than I ever was.
Yeah.
I do think it's potentially more up my kind of street than yours, even from playing it
just a little bit.
I kind of knew you would enjoy it.
And it's really not meant to sound as if I believe you're slow because it isn't.
But the combat of it is very, it allows you to think properly and make calculated decisions
as opposed to, ah, someone's attacking you.
What are you going to do?
Quick, quick, quick.
It gives you that time to just mash the button.
Yeah.
It gives you that time to really settle in and figure out what you're going to do, which
I instantly thought you would quite enjoy because it takes that, even though the combat
is still stressful, it takes that reactive stress away.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Because I quite like.
I'm singing praises here.
Oh yeah.
Keep going.
Yeah, but I'm just thinking back to that game we was playing when you had to shoot that
shotgun at that fucking thing and then fucked up the shot.
Because you can't handle the pressure.
No, we played it again and you fucked it too.
No, I didn't.
I just, I just, I'm recording.
I did it straight away.
No.
Banged it straight after.
Yeah.
But it's not the same tension, is it?
Because you knew exactly what was happening.
The clip is somewhere.
And it wasn't the same.
Right, but the point remains is.
And then you're now live with the shotgun and it's like, bang, missed, dead.
Right, because it's a different, completely different scenario, isn't it?
Playing it after we finished the game and you've had a fucking massive go at me.
I didn't have a massive go at you.
You fucking did.
I didn't.
Yes, you did.
And you were the first deaf.
No, you killed Rossi's face in The Grabber.
Susan Sarandon's son did the mocap.
What's his name?
I don't know.
What's his name?
Miles Robbins.
He's the actor.
Yeah, but there was no way out for him.
Yes, there was.
There wasn't.
No, there weren't.
Yes, there was.
You fucked it in the little crane.
You fucked it in the crane.
No, there ain't no.
No, I'll tell you where you fucked it actually.
You fucked it in the radio tower when he got his arm bit.
That's what fucked him when he died in the crane, when he became one of them, a werewolf
thing in the crane, is because he got bit by you fucking it up in the radio tower and
he got bit because you didn't react quick enough.
Actually, motherfucker.
So let's not dig up the quarry.
So you're enjoying Baldur's Gate.
I am, yes.
Yes.
Good.
No, yeah, I really like it.
I don't.
I feel like I've not really played very much.
I've only done maybe like four or five hours.
You're frightening me when you look at me.
What's wrong?
I don't know.
You're frightening me when you look at me.
What's wrong?
I was just thinking about what you were saying yesterday about the laptops and stuff.
Yeah.
I mean, you was like, how much was it?
What's your fucking angle?
What do you want?
Because your Mac can't do it.
It can.
You just won't let me try.
No.
Why?
She plays ESO just fine.
I don't think she does.
Yeah, but I'm not.
What?
No.
What?
Come on then.
No.
My Mac does not run ESO anywhere near as capable as what this fucking thing does.
I don't know what you're about.
It's a cakewalk for this.
My screen's twice the size.
I don't give a fuck.
What's the point when you can see how many pixels make up your face?
That's fine.
It's really not that bad.
Compared to mine, mate, when I did Isabelle's armor and you was like, what's the point?
What's that armor that you've got on her?
And then you went and did it on yours and you couldn't see the details on it because
the graphics were that bad.
Oh no.
It's really not.
I don't really don't get it.
What do you mean oh no?
No, it's fine.
It is fine.
I'm just saying.
Don't act like the Mac is doing as well as the MSI.
I'm just saying.
Well, no.
It's perfectly playable.
It is, though.
What?
Why are you looking at me like that?
Because you're looking at me like that.
There's nothing wrong.
In my opinion, there's nothing wrong.
It's like when the people go, like I remember when the Switch first came out and they were
talking about the difference in frame rate between handheld and docked, like that wasn't
fucking obvious.
And they used the blades of grass in a field in Hyrule as a comparison.
I remember this comparison.
And literally, I'm looking at it going, what?
And you're supposed to tell me that the blades of grass blind in the wind looks remotely
fucking different.
Like it was hot, it was like, this is what it looks like a 30 and this is what it looks
like a 60.
But it's blades of grass in the fucking wind.
60 is better than 30, though.
Right, but it really didn't fucking make a difference.
I'm looking at the 30.
Were they chopping?
No, they were firing.
They were blowing.
60 is far better now.
You can down...
You can put steam on your...
No, because I'm very connected to my people already.
On my save on there.
All right?
What do you mean?
What?
I can't, I won't be able to use... it won't be compatible between Windows and Mac, will
it?
The save.
It's... you'd be logging into the same account.
No.
I don't know that that would work.
Was it cloud?
This is what I'm saying.
Download it and then see what happens when you log in.
I'm not fucking about with my 160 gig.
So this was a pointless conversation then.
No, look, you started.
I just wanted to find out how you was getting on with Baldur's Gate.
And then you try piping up saying, the Mac can do it.
No.
You...
The Mac would not be able to then...
It just wouldn't be able to do it.
You're taking away from your experience.
Carry on playing it on this and you'll do fine.
Well, you've got no choice.
You have to.
Or you buy it for the PlayStation and you can do it on the PlayStation.
No, I don't want to play on my console.
Why?
Because I'm not going to play on my console.
But you're enjoying it.
I am enjoying it, yeah.
You're looking up guides and all sorts of shit.
Yeah, because I don't like the thought that I'm doing anything wrong.
If you know what I mean.
It's great.
In the sense that I know you're supposed to play it who you feel and whatever.
But at the same time, I can't cope when one of them disapproves of something I've said
or done.
Can't cope.
Can't stand it.
Are you save scumming?
What?
No, you're not going back on saves then.
Oh, I can contemplated.
So when I looked and I was about it, it had been about half an hour since I'd got done
the goblins that were in front of that little like Grove thing, Druid Grove.
And then I accidentally pickpocketed.
There's a guy, the guy that gets shot by the arrow at the top.
You got to pick a pocket or two.
And then it goes up the end.
Anyway, and yeah, he was up top.
The little chest thing was red and I was like, and I clicked it and it was like, it seems
not everybody thinks that what's mine is yours.
And there was this person just looking at me.
I was like, so I accidentally pickpocketed him, but you didn't even get anything.
You didn't actually get to pickpocket him.
So it was pointless.
And then went back down the ladder thing.
And then, yeah, whatever it was, I did.
Starion and Shadowheart disapproved of it.
And I was just like, oh, no, I don't know.
And then I was looking at my thing where they're all, everyone's neutral at the moment.
That was where I stopped was that Druid Grove place.
That was where, because I know that you can.
Oh, I go on.
There's a goblin in a cage in there that you can like help escape.
Yeah, I was going to.
Yeah, I was going to as well.
But I hadn't, you know, we were talking the other day and I thought I'd missed Lae'zel.
I hadn't, I hadn't just hadn't gone out.
I hadn't come out of the crypt yet.
And I went up, well, I looked on a guide actually to see where she was.
And I found, but I didn't even, I forgot that talking to them is an option.
So I just killed them both and then got her down.
And then I remembered I was like, I could actually have spoken to them.
I killed them as well.
Yeah, I killed them.
I actually, it was great.
Like, it was really, really fun.
I really enjoyed it.
They changed what you've got to do to have sex with your companions now, specifically
her as well.
In what way?
It used to, I think it used to be just on a rapport scale with your, if yours, if yours
friendly up to a certain point.
Now they've removed that and it is solely based on whether she deems you worthy or not
to put your dick in her.
Delightful.
Well, I mean, I'm platinum woman so my tab is a woman.
Scissor.
Yeah.
I've not worked out who I'm going to romance yet.
Not just undecided.
Oh, a star is going to have to be in it.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's going to be a star.
Was it fucking, it is Ash isn't it?
He's like romancing the, the, the inner thing, the mind flayer.
And he, I think he shagged one.
It's weird.
And it's odd.
I think I've seen a clip of that on TikTok.
It was definitely have really fucking weird.
You've never been touched like this before.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Fuck.
He's got tentacles motherfucker.
Yeah.
It was like, you wonder where his mouth even is.
Yeah.
Mr. Calamari.
I wonder what he would be like with a bit of soy sauce.
Sushi.
But no, obviously I'm nowhere near anything like that.
The, but yeah, and the same with like, I'm still definitely working out the ins and outs.
Like my God, there's so much stuff.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
And I keep forgetting and just like filling up my pockets with me because it's so bad
that you can just play as any, like you can just click and be some Astarian or.
Yeah.
But yeah, I don't know.
I mean, we'll see.
We'll see.
I'm not sure how much I can sink into it this weekend.
Yeah, Jason.
That was me finding you over time.
I was like, Oh, well.
I've got plans.
I've got to play Baldur's Gate.
Yeah, because Thursday was totally ruined.
So like we had someone come in the morning.
So I was in my room.
You do you.
I embrace it.
I played for about an hour and then I was like, nah, I've got to get some stuff done.
So I came off and then yeah, the next time I tried, they'd released a patch and it was
huge.
And obviously, yeah, the laptop run out of storage and whatever.
But yeah, and I've seen some stuff about being a bit buggy and that some things have changed
that people don't like and whatever.
But we'll see.
Obviously, it's all almost irrelevant to me because I just get what I get in the sense
that I don't know what it was like before.
Neither do you.
Not really.
It baffs me that you actually played hardly any of that game.
I'm shocked at how little you actually played.
What about was going?
Yeah.
Yeah, it just didn't.
It weren't touching my pickle.
I don't know what you did to it.
It was a bit, I'm sorry you didn't throw up.
Yeah, it was like a bit over before.
It's just not.
It's not my cup of tea.
I thought it might have been a little bit too strategic for you.
Pretty much.
Yeah, is it pretty much.
I'm not creative enough.
I'm not creative enough, and it's not necessarily all creation.
It's just like strategy as well.
No, I know.
But there's your hand up to me.
No, I'm tapping.
Oh.
Stop.
Silence, woman.
I was literally about to fucking stand up and leave you.
Okay, okay.
Stop talking now.
I'm about to make my point.
The hand is up.
No, I was just tapping this meaty leg.
If you say so.
When have I ever.
Backtrack.
When have I ever.
We're backtracking going on here.
The idea that there's so much stuff that you can do in that game in terms of just combat
alone and the different ways that you can kill people and the spells, the abilities
and all of that does not resonate with me because I'm very much, you give me a sword,
I'm going to jam it in your head.
As long as I can kill you, that's what I want to do.
You're old.
No, it's not about being old.
So because you can do all that creative stuff, I know that I'm not going to be able to do
it.
So I already know I'm missing out on it.
So therefore it's already spoiled it for me because I know I'm not playing this to its
max potential.
So I just weren't enjoying it.
It was too.
And then the movement as well.
I know it's different when you put a controller in, but I don't like playing the laptop or
a PC on controller.
I only like doing it on the PlayStation and I weren't about to pay another fucking 60
quid to have it on the PlayStation.
So I was like, I'll take this one as a loss, but a win for Larian and me and you evidently.
So just not my, not my thing.
Obviously it's Ash's goat.
Hasn't finished it yet though, as I predicted.
That's okay.
No, it's not okay.
Yes, it is fine.
No, it's not.
It doesn't matter.
No, it's not.
You don't have to finish a game to appreciate it.
He does.
He said it was better than Witcher 3.
He has to finish it.
I don't know where I was going, but it is what it is.
I'm sorry.
No, it's fine.
Yeah.
That was that.
Can I quickly.
Oh God.
Talk to you about the downfall bungee.
Me?
Do you know who bungee is?
Because you've just fucking said that.
No, no.
You don't know.
You don't talk to me.
Why?
What?
Because you've just fucking asked me that question.
You would enjoy it.
Do you not know.
If you fucking finish that sentence as do you not know who bungee is.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I was going to say, do you not know what's going on?
You've already told me.
You've already told me that they said about the layoffs and then the people have canceled
their pre-orders.
What do you think about it?
Don't know.
Don't have an opinion because I'm boobies.
Yeah, you don't know.
Fuck all, do you?
My boobs in the water.
You're in them boobies.
Fuck all.
I think Seren Wright.
Don't be a dick about it.
Release some good shit then.
Yeah, I think they've been on a downward spiral for a long time because they already said
that this latest expansion would be like their last.
What?
Expansion.
Is that an expansion?
That video where I shot the light in your eyes.
You talk, I'll find it.
This latest expansion.
It's because I'm all banged up.
Amen.
Bailey's is fucking dooming in.
Yeah, it's fucking flemming.
It's tasty but it's deadly.
They said that it was going to be like their last expansion to like round off the, little
roosty, round off the story.
So maybe this will round off the entire series, the entire franchise.
All of their jobs.
They've just fucked it.
Get that sniff in, boy.
Because they obviously, they did the one thing that you don't do and that's blame the fan
base is blame your consumer by saying that it was, the layoffs are due to not to player
retention and not meeting targets.
That's a joke, innit?
Of which is blamed on player retention.
So it's like, well, release some better shit then.
You've gone down the same pathway that fucking Blizzard was doing with WoW where you're just
forcing people to have to log in and play the game by putting stuff, by time gating
everything and making it so long to grind shit out.
And eventually it catches up with you and that's why you lose players because they're
like, I can't be bothered.
I can't be bothered to do this.
World of Warcraft in Shadowlands was fucking awful with it.
Fucking awful.
Every like covenant had its own campaign but it was time gated.
So it had chapters, like 20 or different chapters but it was like chapters one through six available
now and then the next lot were available in like fucking four months time.
Have you found it?
No, I'm just, it's just making me laugh to think about it.
I haven't found it yet.
Great.
I'm going into a Snapchat now.
So yeah, it's, what?
How was that?
How long ago was that?
Three months ago.
I don't even remember sitting that.
Oh no.
We need to do this afterwards because I'm going to be bored.
We can't go down the fucking Snapchat hole of all random shit.
I just want to find that video.
But yeah, go on.
So yeah, it's just not a good one.
It's not looking good for Bungie.
No, fuck him.
Fuck him.
They make shit bags that don't fit.
And they treat us like shit.
All right.
Fuck him.
That bag fucking hangs around.
Like literally all I did was what year was it now?
The fact that you can't even sell it.
You can't give that shit away.
And it's also moldy.
It's moldy and rusty.
When was that now?
Our bags are rusty.
What year was Destiny 2 released?
It was 2016.
I don't know.
Hang on.
It's got mold on it.
Yeah.
What year was Destiny 2 released?
Let's see.
Go on.
Come on.
Right.
6th of September, 2017.
So for the last six years, that bag is just floating about in my room.
It's never had a home.
It's just so cumbersome.
It's so shit.
It was a satchel, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Well, no, actually.
Postman's bag.
It's a...
You can have it as a backpack as long as your shoulders are a fucking meter wide.
As long as you're a giant, you can have it as a backpack.
The way the straps are.
As long as you're Shaquille O'Neal, you can have it as a backpack.
Like I think I've showed you before, but literally it's completely...
It's wider than my body.
It's true, isn't it?
It doesn't fit me when I put it on.
It's fucking massive.
The gap between the straps are wider than my body.
Who's wearing this?
Who trialed that when they made the bag?
I don't know.
Who did they put that on?
A car?
It's fucking huge.
I don't know.
Oh, I was so upset.
It's a tent.
I was so upset.
Yeah, it's funny.
Literally, because even as a messenger bag, it was just bigger than me.
And you can't...
They're dragging on the floor.
Fucking...
Yeah.
You can't shut any of the poppers because they're fucking rock hard.
And also it came with that silver thing that had inside, they were hyped up.
It was a solar powered phone charger thing.
You flip out and then a fucking shock blanket, essentially, a solar blanket, which I've never
opened because you wouldn't want to diminish the value.
And then a power cord, which I did eventually about three years in, give up and open just
to have a look what it looked like.
Inside these things.
It's a power cord.
A power cord.
You know, like the cord that you might tie yourself to shit with.
You know what I mean?
Like the cord, like threaded...
I'll show you a picture.
What a rope.
I'll show you what it is.
Power cord.
For what purpose?
I don't know.
It's like survival, isn't it?
Survival?
It was sort of themed.
That power cord.
The survival of the world.
I don't know.
The spoiler cord.
Great.
Yeah.
Could be yours.
I don't know.
There's an 8 pound for you.
Great.
Not even a cool colour if I remember rightly.
What was the...
And then it was inside...
No, go on.
Inside the silver thing that looked literally like the Olympic torch, pretty much.
And that was supposed to hook onto the top of the bag, except it's so fucking heavy.
Like by the time...
Who's walking around with that?
I would get stopped on the fucking tube with that.
You know what I mean?
Like why do you have whatever the fuck that is on your bag?
Was it the Tomb Raider collector's edition that you thought was a bit waft?
Because you just got like a torch.
No.
So she has...
A stature and a torch.
No, I didn't think it was waft.
I thought you weren't happy with it.
No, I thought it was all right.
The torch is actually shite because it turned up and it was so light.
Like 10 foot in circumference with a tiny little pin laser point of light.
It's very accurate to what she has in the game, bar and purge or just shit.
Because she has like glow sticks in the first one, because you see that crash in a plane
or whatever.
I can't remember what happens, but it's like...
She's got to fuck all.
Whereas this now, she's like a proper explorer.
So she's got this like torch thing that you hold and then yeah, it's like a right angle
thing.
And then you have little colored disks if you wanted to make it.
But it's a really, really old style torch with them big fucking cylinder batteries in
there.
Which I got some of them from my dad.
Big fucking Pringle cans batteries in there.
Yeah.
And then that makes it really heavy.
Like a little bit less cheap.
Probably still in there.
I just realised they've probably fucking corroded the shit out of it anyway.
Never mind.
Because I've been in there for however long.
And then you had, again, you couldn't really put it on a bag because it's a bit big.
It was a ice pick.
Because obviously she climbed with ice picks.
Pickaxe.
I think.
I don't know.
Ice pick.
I think.
I think it is a pickaxe.
Anyway.
Pickaxe.
But it's bottle opener.
Yeah, yeah.
It's currently on top of my books.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I see that.
Yeah.
Very, very cool.
Impractical as fuck.
Sharp as fuck.
Well no, it's not.
Yeah, because it's pointy at the end, isn't it?
No.
It's blunt.
I've still got a point on it though.
No.
It's just a can opener.
It's just a bottle opener.
Yeah, I thought in the shape of a...
It is, yeah.
But it's not sharp.
Of a pickaxe.
It's not sharp.
No, I know it's not sharp, but it's a pointed end, no?
Yeah, yeah, but I'm blunted.
Yes.
God, this has been a riveting podcast if anyone's still with us.
Yes.
Yeah.
In the way that a fake axe would be.
It's not as pointy as that looking.
Well, that's blunt.
I know.
Well, this is...
My thing is blunter than that.
I don't know.
That's quite blunt.
Have we got to do Patreon after this?
What do you want to say about Patreon?
Anyway.
Yeah, no, I didn't think it was that bad.
I thought it was okay.
It was certainly cheaper than fucking Destiny 2.
I got fleeced.
I got fleeced for that shit.
How much was that collection edition?
Oh my God, I paid like 250 quid, but I couldn't play it.
I couldn't play it.
I couldn't fucking play the game.
Oh yeah, your internet was awful, wasn't it?
I will never, ever get over it.
I'll be angry.
I will hold that resentment for my lifetime.
Imagine that.
You spent 250 big boblins and you can't even...
For a fuck all.
A bag I can't wear.
Why do you always say you're angry?
A bag I can't wear, a fucking solar panel charger that I don't fucking need.
Those are why they give you the shock blanket.
That's why they give you that.
Paracord to fucking do yourself in with.
It's horrible, I'm so annoyed.
I can't.
Every time we talk about Destiny 2, I think I'm okay and I'm not.
Yeah.
And then fucking...
I hate them.
I hope they burn.
I hope...
I hope it goes down.
That's why I'm so glad I cancelled that Constellation edition of Starfield for that box with the watch.
Oh my god, yeah.
You don't give a shit about Starfield, do you?
No, Neil does.
He's all over it, but he's an old man so he's easily attached to things.
But I think he's just crazy from what he can game.
What about Ash?
Aw, what about Ash?
Ash don't play anymore.
He didn't play with him.
No, dead in the water.
No one cares.
That's mad.
It was so hyped up as well.
It's one of them single player things.
I think people would just rather play Skyrim and shit like that than fuck around with Starfield.
And also I don't have Game Pass anymore so I don't have access to it.
Is it?
Yeah.
I thought you bought it.
No.
Game Pass.
Oh, mad.
Cost me fuck all.
Yeah, that's why I was so unbothered about not really enjoying it because I haven't spent any money on it.
Yeah.
Bless you.
I just can't believe how little you...
I said no, hot back, but I can't believe how little you played about this game.
I don't think you give a chance.
No, it's fine.
That's fine.
I probably haven't given it enough of a chance.
Well, don't start getting into it, all right?
It's mine now.
Yeah.
Yeah, fuck it off.
No, I'm currently flicking between fucking Guild Wars 2 and ESO.
I honestly thought that Guild Wars 2 was like a mobile phone app.
What am I thinking of?
When you said it, I was like, really?
It wasn't what I was thinking of.
No, yeah, Guild Wars 2 is just another World of Warcraft, isn't it?
But it's free until you obviously have to buy the expansions and shit like that.
But I was sort of like talking to myself.
Yeah, no, I don't know what you're saying.
And I was like, no, invest more time into ESO because this is something you're paying for and it's very good.
But what I like about Guild Wars is something, the subtle things.
When you get a mount and you run around on the mount, it leaves footprints.
That means a lot.
It leaves footprints in the dirt.
I like that.
And the movement of it, like it shuffles around and it moves naturally.
Whereas like ESO mounts and like World of Warcraft and stuff, they're very static in their movement.
Yeah.
You move left and it almost like snapshots to it moving in that position, kind of.
Whereas Guild Wars, I'll show you, it just feels more free flowing.
And there's like other things where like little things like you can set abilities to auto attack.
So like World of Warcraft or ESO, you attack someone, you have to keep clicking that ability.
It's the same with WoW.
But on Guild Wars, you have your ability bars very much like WoW and ESO.
But you can control right click on any of your abilities and you can only do one at a time, I believe.
And it will set it to auto attack.
So basically when you engage in combat, providing you're not pressing any other spells,
because it doesn't get any way.
If you're not pressing any other spells, it will just keep auto attacking whatever you set.
So you set it to like your basic attack and it just makes the combat a little bit more fun, I guess.
But again, it's one of those where is that me just trying to find a replacement for WoW when I've got ESO?
Or is it because I actually like Guild Wars?
If I liked it as much as I think I did, I probably would have bought the expansions by now.
So I can have access to the full game itself.
But because it's free to play, it's not it's not harming anyone.
I'm just exploring all the different things you can do at the moment.
Yeah, I think that's quite normal.
I do think you've got like a weird thing with WoW because everything you do.
Yeah, like everything you do has a...
Comparison, that's why, because there's nothing like it.
The numbers don't lie with it.
I was looking at...
It's such a Blizzard ass liquor.
It's not Blizzard ass liquor at all.
Yes it is.
The numbers don't lie.
They don't lie.
Look, let me fucking put it up for you.
So you got...
The number one MMO at the moment is Baldur's Gate 3.
Yeah it is.
Number one.
With its current active players is 4,773,000.
Current active overall total players is just over 50,000,000.
50,244,000.
Diablo 4 is next in line.
They're above... They're... Go on, keep going.
So Baldur's Gate is one.
Number two.
World of Warcraft used to be on top.
Yeah.
Number two is at the moment Diablo 4 with 1.8 million active players and 48 million overall players.
Old School RuneScape is third with 1.8 million active and just shy of 40 million overall.
And then you get into the silly numbers.
World of Warcraft.
Right. Active players is not so silly.
1.2 million.
Still nothing to shy about.
Its total players 126,788,000 people have accounts.
Well yeah but you have an account.
You ain't playing it.
You're one of them.
Yeah but when you look at the overall... The total players.
Because obviously current active players will shift quite a lot from month to month.
So the total... I think Baldur's Gate is the highest and then it's next to World of Warcraft.
So Baldur's Gate is the highest with 50 million.
World of Warcraft is 126.
That's such a large gap.
But then do you not think also Baldur's Gate is a lot newer?
Yeah.
So you've got people who have accounts with WoW.
I've got a fucking account with WoW.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah but Baldur's Gate won't have the longevity that World of Warcraft does.
What I'm trying to say is I talk about it so much because it's such a massive game
that has been around for basically like my whole gaming life.
Has it?
Yeah.
Has it?
Yeah so it's just...
Hi. Hiya.
You alright mate?
Yeah you alright.
Yeah you alright?
So it's just fucking difficult to let that go.
Alright?
I'm struggling mate.
I remember.
I need some help.
I remember when you turned to me and you said I've had to stop.
I've had to give up the guild.
I've had to come out of it.
He's like because I don't want to do anything else.
I think at one point you're like I don't even want to spend time with you.
You're like all I think about is that even when I'm spending time with you
all I'm thinking about is WoW.
There's like 500 people in that fucking guild.
I appreciate your honesty.
Yeah.
It was nuts.
I understood.
Crazy time.
I was like this is taking my life.
Certainly at that point where it was really going down with that.
I wasn't happy.
You were...
Yeah it was very very different.
Squiggy.
Whatever her fucking name is.
That cunt.
As I was saying that then I was like fucking...
I hated her.
Neil hated her.
It's quite funny because the laptop's illuminating you from below as you're speaking.
It's just so fucking stressful.
But I think now like I wouldn't...
So much.
The guild that I'm in now is real decent.
Still some odd characters there but I'm an odd character.
That guy that's really rude.
Max.
I don't think he's rude.
I think he's just so obsessed with WoW.
Like he is the meta.
He is there to be the top of the top and just min max everything.
He is fucking all over it.
His dedication to it is just crazy to the point where it is annoying.
I'm still better than he is.
Understand that.
Alright.
He has to work at double pace and I have to chill and I'm better than he is.
It's just how it rolls.
But yeah.
So I'll be back there in 2024 when that expansion comes out.
We'll hopefully be in our own place and then I can just...
What's that face for?
I'm not making a face.
You'll be next to me.
All boulders gated up like...
Real sweaty and horrible.
That's it.
That's this podcast done.
That's this episode done.
Okay.
We've got to do...
Thanks everybody for listening.
We've got to do one more.
And these lot will get this on Monday.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Oh let us know what happens on Monday.
So when did we record this?
Wait what do you mean let us know what happens on Monday?
Yeah who was listening?
No one.
That most popular day was Friday.
We just fucked it.
We moved everything over.
Oopsie daisy.
Why can't we post this now then?
Already set it in stone mate.
Can't change it now.
Them's the rules.
What I forgot to do was when we announced it...
Why don't you just make it Thursday?
What do you mean?
Just make it Thursday.
No.
Why?
Why would I do that?
Could have it as Monday.
But you just said your most popular day is Friday.
So if you release it on a Thursday,
people have only just got the notification on Thursday.
Our most popular day is on Friday because that's when it releases
or when it used to release.
So it would just shift to Monday.
So it's not going to be on the show.
It would just shift to Monday.
Are you going to put your own I.F.?
Either way, the numbers will stay relatively the same.
But what I forgot, what I did is announced it on last episode,
which was the new schedule.
So I announced it when we recorded it, which was on the Friday.
Didn't release till the Monday.
And then we were getting really pissed off and people were messaging me going,
where's the podcast?
I go, I fucking said Monday.
And then it was only like a couple of hours later when I tweaked,
I went, oh shit, I said Monday in the episode scheduled for Monday.
Whoopsie daisy.
So I put an Insta story out and that just solved everyone's problems.
We're going to do the Patreon.
So are we actually?
Yeah.
Okay.
See you later.
Bye.
Uro.
Love you.