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I'm not starting it again.

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That's fine.

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This is how we do it.

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This is our intro.

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Sorry.

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I should have said, I should have said it was you can go.

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Yes.

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Hello.

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Welcome to What's the Buttons?

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Episode 107.

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Big number.

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Over a hundred.

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I'd like to start the, I'd like to start the podcast by shouting out a friend of the channel,

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the Clarkie, he messaged the other day saying, imagine a world where Laura had such a great

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career at Celtic that she's being mentioned on the UK's best pod 20 years later.

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The football manager.

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Who?

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What?

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The Clarkie had a player that he changed the name to Laura.

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Oh yeah, Laura.

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I really got confused there.

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I was like, Laura?

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And banged in many goals for Celtic and he said, yeah, imagine a world where.

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That was a, that was a good episode.

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I enjoyed that episode.

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Yeah, it was fun.

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It was quite nice.

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I swear we have to pick up where we left off with that eventually, but do you want to,

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I can't remember where we left off.

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I think I was playing.

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You, you, you, you just done your first leg.

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You beat Antwerp.

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No, I am Antwerp.

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You twerp.

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No, you're not.

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Yes I am.

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I know what club I manage, mate.

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Antwerp.

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No, no, no, no, no, no.

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I don't think you are.

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Who did you, who did you go against then?

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It was like AZ, I think.

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No.

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Yeah, it was.

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No, not when we last spoke.

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I am Antwerp.

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That is the club that I manage.

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But who was you?

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This is what I'm trying to work out.

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Where you beat them.

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You, hold on, because you sent me a picture, didn't you?

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Maybe you, maybe you are Antwerp.

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I know I'm Antwerp.

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That part's not up for discussion.

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Hold on.

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Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

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PSV.

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That's it.

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PSV.

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That's the one you fucking.

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Yeah, so you are Antwerp.

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Well done.

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Thanks for confirming this.

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Yes, so I was winning 5-1 in the first qualifying leg.

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And as it shows quite clearly in this picture, I lost 3-0, which left the score on aggregate

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5-4, which was a lot closer than I would have liked.

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Nevertheless, we pushed on, we moved.

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So we made it through to the Europa League group stage, which is different now, and it's

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different in real life.

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And it starts this season.

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So normally, much akin to World Cups and the Euros, there will be group stages, i.e. group

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D, group E, group F, and they'll have four clubs in it, blah, blah.

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They scrap that now for European competitions.

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Now what they do is they have a league table.

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And that only starts this season.

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So it hasn't even started in real life yet.

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And it will be, I think it's like 16 clubs or 20 clubs or whatnot.

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18 clubs, I believe.

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And it will be the top six.

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So what they do is they, you'll play a certain number of games.

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I don't know how they determine who it is that you play in that league, because you're

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not playing all of them.

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I think you get put in a pot and then you draw from each of them pots and play a club

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in each of them pots.

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But it's all over a league table.

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So you play, I don't know, 10 games, I think it's something like that.

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And the top six teams automatically qualify through to the knockout stages.

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The middle six teams, they have like a playoffs against their selves to qualify.

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And then the bottom six just don't qualify.

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Fucking hell, it seems so complicated, doesn't it?

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It's not.

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I'm not very good at explaining it.

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But anyway, I somehow managed to finish like third in that table.

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I beat some fucking heavy hitters.

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Straight to the knockouts.

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Oh, straight to the knockouts, brother.

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Straight to the knockouts.

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Right, yeah.

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I'm not going to beat around the bush because I can't exactly remember.

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I haven't played it for a few days.

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I'm in the semifinals.

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That's ridiculous.

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I've took Antwerp to the semifinals of the second biggest European competition in world

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football.

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And before I got through the last round, it was because they draw the quarters and the

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semis at the same time, so you know who you're going to get in the semis if you beat the

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team that's in front of you.

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I either had Fiorentina or Chelsea.

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So they obviously played each other in the quarters.

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Fiorentina beat Chelsea.

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So now I've got Fiorentina.

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But that just shows the level of ability I'm coming up against now.

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The team's just beating Chelsea.

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And Chelsea and football manager are going to be very good because they've got loads

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of money so they can just do whatever they want.

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So yeah, I haven't played that yet.

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I'll be honest with you.

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It doesn't matter what happens because I've took them to the semifinals of Europa, which

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is an achievement in itself.

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I'd love to reach the final, but we'll see.

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The fact of the matter is, regardless of what happens, at the end of this season, I'm leaving

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Antwerp.

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They can get fucked.

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If there's any Antwerpians listening to this, fuck yourselves.

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Your club's a load of fucking cunt.

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I hate them.

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This was your...

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What?

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I love the fans.

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The fans are great.

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Is this a changed opinion from the last time?

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It's the board.

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They're selfish fucks.

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Since we spoke, I've asked them twice to put me on a coaching course.

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Some badges.

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And they won't.

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And twice, I've said to them, if you don't put me through this coaching course, I don't

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believe I can carry on with this club.

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And they say, is that your resignation?

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I'm like, no, it's not.

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And then I did exactly the same again.

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Is that your resignation?

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No, it's not.

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So they're not interested in me.

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Well, especially not now because now you look like a right bitch.

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No.

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No, no, no.

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They owe me.

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I've took them to a European semi-finals.

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Yeah, but they've then just gone and called your bluff because...

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That's fine.

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But now, with the third time around, when you hand in that resignation, it's going to

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have a very nullified effect to what it would have now.

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Only to the board.

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I don't give a fuck.

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The fans will love me.

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What if they offer you badges?

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Right.

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We'll talk.

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This is how it is.

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I'm the board.

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I'm the board.

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You're the manager of Antwerp.

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What the fuck do you want?

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You're going to speak to the board?

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Yeah, I don't give a fuck.

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That is mental.

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What are you going to do?

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I'm in the semi-final of a European competition.

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You're going to get someone to replace me to get you to the final?

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I don't think so.

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No manager in your history has done this.

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Well, you're assuming that the final is our fucking end goal here.

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We're not interested in the final, actually, are we?

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What do you want?

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You like that coffee?

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What do you want?

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Managers with decent attitude is what we want.

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Now, you've come into our office, I say our because there's 10 of us, and you've come

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into our office.

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I say our because there's 10 of us.

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There's 10 of us here.

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All right.

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It's a big office.

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I stare at all of them at the same time.

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Yeah.

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What do you want?

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This is now your third time in here.

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You called me in.

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Did we?

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Yes.

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Did we call you in?

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Yeah, well, some one of you did.

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It was fucking one of you.

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Right.

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Okay.

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Well, that changes the tempo of the conversation then.

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Rewind that.

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How would you start then if I've called you in?

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I thought you've come in guns blazing.

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If I've called you in, we need to have a chat about these badges.

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Yes we do.

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Yes we do.

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Now, let's do it.

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Right.

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Give me them, please.

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So we just don't know if you've earned it yet.

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What?

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I've got into the European semi-final.

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Yeah, but it asked.

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Something that no other manager in your club history has done.

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And I've done it on a shoestring budget, might I add.

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Everything I've done for this club has been through my own hard work.

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Your finances are back in the green.

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When I came, they were hugely in the red.

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I've balanced your books.

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I've give you success on and off the pitch.

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I've got you into a semi-final of a European competition with the potential to win your

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first ever European trophy.

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And I can't have a badge that costs you about 500 quid.

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You tight cunts.

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Not say you.

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Because if this conversation don't go the way I want it to, at the end of the season,

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I am off skis.

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Right, but you have to understand that if we give you these badges, what does that then

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make you as a coach?

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You explain to me what badges makes you as a coach.

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Better.

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Better.

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Right.

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I learn more.

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You learn more.

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Fantastic.

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More tactically astute.

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Pushes to the next step.

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Incredible.

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Possibly the Champions League.

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But it won't be us, will it?

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Because you'll get your little badges and you're off to fuck.

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Straight into the prem.

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If you don't give me the badges, I'm off to fuck anyway.

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Yeah, but you've already said this twice and you're talking bollocks.

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All right, call my bluff, bruv.

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Because I'm going.

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At this point, whatever happens, at the end of the season, I'm going.

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You can offer me whatever contract you want, I'm going.

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The lack of respect and backing I've had from this board has been, quite frankly, embarrassing.

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Do you mean respect and backing?

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We gave you a job.

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Don't forget you were nothing before you come here.

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You plucked me from the doldrums of the Belgium League.

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And we put you in the semi-finals of the second largest cup.

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I have put you there.

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You plucked me for my ability.

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You cherry picked the best of the shit.

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No one else was cherry picking.

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And I've flourished.

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You should be in here on your knees under this desk.

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There's 10 penises here.

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They should all be getting a little bit of liquid.

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This conversation is over.

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Enter this my resignation for the end of the season.

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So that's how it would go.

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Okay.

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So now we've established that.

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But there's no options to say that on Football Manager.

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We'll just have to go with, no, it's not my resignation.

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I'll come back in here at the end of the season.

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Very quick interlude.

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I saw a picture, a screenshot of someone playing Football Manager.

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It was a screenshot of a notification of one of their players had been injured.

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I think they dislocated their shoulder.

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And the next one was a chat conversation of the coach pepping them up.

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And then they had the option to slap them on the shoulder and say things will get better.

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So they did.

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And then it said like they appreciated that.

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They've got dislocated shoulders.

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Put an arm around them.

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Yeah.

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Something like that.

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It was like slap them on the shoulder to show approval.

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And then it was like they fought more highly of you or something like that.

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So you'll leave.

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Football Manager logic.

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Oh, Sam tagged me in this.

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Us in this.

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35 divorce cases.

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Football Manager has been cited in at least 35 divorce cases or free transfers, as the

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gamers would say.

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While one obsessive persuaded his wife to honeymoon in Bulgaria so he could visit the

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team he was managing in the second division.

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Fucking hell.

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Oh, it's just so realistic.

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They call it transfers.

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That's sad though.

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So if you however it goes, whether you win or you don't win the cup.

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I just think it's selfish.

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I've asked them probably like six times now since I've been there.

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What if you were to win it and then they then give you the badges?

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You're still going.

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Well, suppose if you've if you've just won a trophy, other clubs are going to want you

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in there.

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And if they give me the badges, then I'll be happy to continue my legacy at Antwerp.

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But unfortunately, for the price it costs them, which is nothing, I don't understand

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why I can't do it myself.

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That's what annoys me.

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You get these contracts, you get to negotiate your wage.

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I can't do anything with the money.

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Let me buy my own fucking coaching badge.

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I mean, I've heard all these peas.

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I can't do anything with it.

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So I have to wait for the border.

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Please, please lend me 500 quid to do my badge.

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It's ridiculous.

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And yeah, quite frankly, they've just been appalling across the board.

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Excuse the pun.

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And yeah, I'll be I know I know that I know they're not going to want me to go, which

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is great, because what's going to happen is my contracts up at the end of the season.

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There's no way in any facet I don't get offered a new contract.

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So when they offer that to me, I'm going to laugh in their faces and go eat shit, because

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what will happen is it will be like, oh, uncertainty Antwerp is Harris's contract demand store

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and stuff like that.

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The fans will be unrest.

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You say the fans are going to be on their backs.

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They're going to have civil unrest when I leave because of the great evenings I've bought

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Antwerp fans traveling across Europe, Spain, Italy, fucking Netherlands.

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They've globetrotting because of me.

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They're not just trying around Belgium, mate.

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They're going international because of me, because of my astute tactics.

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These board won't pay 500 quid for a badge.

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You have to look at yourselves, unfortunately.

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So that's where we're at.

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Where would you like to go?

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I want to go England.

335
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You want to go England?

336
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Yeah, I want to go England.

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Any Premier League club?

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West Ham.

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West Ham?

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Take me home.

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But what if West Ham aren't a calling?

342
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Well, West Ham won't be a calling.

343
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The stars will have to align for the job to become available.

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I mean, I could sit and wait for them.

345
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So can you express an opinion of I want to go to...

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Oh yeah, you can declare interest in a club like, yeah, I want to go to West Ham.

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You say, I want to go England, and they'll be like, which club really interests you?

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And you can say what one you'd want.

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But I don't want to tunnel vision myself.

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I want to just be plucked.

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Yeah, because I suppose if you turn around and you tell the media, go, I really want

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to end up somewhere like West Ham and then fucking Man United.

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They're not exactly going to come knocking on the door, are they?

354
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A man of my talents?

355
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Yes, they would.

356
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But normally, no.

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So West Ham isn't an option.

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Where do we go in the Premieres?

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Whoever's available.

360
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Brighton would be quite cool.

361
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I'll take the Brighton job.

362
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You reckon?

363
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Yeah.

364
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I'll take pretty much any Premier League job.

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It doesn't matter if they're battling relegation.

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That's fun to me.

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It hasn't got to be a top team.

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I just want to go back to England where the rules are not ski with and I know what I'm

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doing because I know England's football style.

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What a fantastic segue.

371
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Really good, I'm interested.

372
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So you'll play the rest of that today?

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No, not today.

374
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I've got other plans today.

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Many other things to do.

376
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On the weekend then?

377
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Maybe.

378
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By the next pod, I'll have an answer as to whether or not you're a champion or not.

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So that's a safe bet.

380
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Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic.

381
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I have obviously, fuck it all.

382
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Sorry, I'll never get that yordle out.

383
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You've obviously been playing The War Within, haven't you?

384
00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,480
Yes.

385
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Campaign's done.

386
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When did it come out?

387
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I thought in...

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11 o'clock last night.

389
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Wow.

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Campaign's done.

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Meaty then.

392
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It's like, I think it's like 10 hours, something like that.

393
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So yeah, that come out last night at 11 and it was quite possibly the smoothest transition

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into an expansion that I've ever experienced in my life.

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I was expecting the servers to be locked out, like get a notification saying you're going

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to get booted out in 10 minutes and then just have a fucking queue to log in and never,

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never actually make it in.

398
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But what happened is we was all stood in Dalaran, which was the capital that this was all taking

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place and then just a quest popped up and then boom, started.

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No like logging out or anything like that.

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Just boom, expansions open, do this quest and then off you go into the fucking new zone.

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And I won't spoil anything because people in the guild listen to this podcast as well

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now.

404
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So and some people haven't got the early access and some people do.

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But some shit goes down in like the first 20 minutes, some serious like, oh my God.

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And yeah.

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Is it shit that goes down that's like, oh my God to anyone or is it, oh, I know these

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characters so it's like, oh fuck.

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It's probably, it would be shit that would go down to anyone that knows a bit about World

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of Warcraft, anyone outside of it.

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They wouldn't really fucking bat an eye into it.

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They're the best ones though.

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If you invested in certain things and then these things happen, then yeah, they're the

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best types.

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But it's just the music man and the fucking, someone, someone in the guild stated it very,

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very well.

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They said they, they haven't felt like this since Wrath of the Lich King come out.

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And I would, I would mirror that.

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It just feels absolutely incredible.

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And there's just so much shit to do, but I can't, I can't explain it properly.

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If that makes sense.

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Like there's one of the new things they brought in is Delves.

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So like ESO, they're like one player fucking dungeons that you can go in with, with, you

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can go, go in with up to four people.

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But they're predominantly done on your own and you get like a little follower and you

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can build a team and shit like that.

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And they're just like super, super fun.

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I don't know how, I don't know how to explain it because I've only done the main story.

429
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I was doing the main story so that I can go, right, that's done.

430
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I know exactly where I am in the expansion.

431
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Now let me continue with all the other shit because there is so much shit to do.

432
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What is other than the campaign, what is it that goes on that you now you've done that?

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What is left?

434
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So the new drip fed over six months is it, I think they, so they've learned from their

435
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previous mistakes where everything was seriously time locked.

436
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So I believe in the next two weeks is when, so right now you can do normal dungeons.

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You can't do the heroic versions yet, I don't believe.

438
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So I think next week, I think when it actually releases for everyone is when the heroic dungeons

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come out.

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And then I believe the following week is when I believe the mythic plus C, I don't, there

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was a chart, but it's basically over the course of the next month is when everything starts

442
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to come out because obviously, for example, bearing in mind it come out at 11 o'clock

443
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last night, someone got from level 70 to 80 in 59 minutes.

444
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Yeah, that last 10 level grind is big, isn't it?

445
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59 minutes they did that in.

446
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So, and like I say, I don't know, just spam dungeon.

447
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Dungeon, well, obviously, cause you've got, you've got people where they've had a long

448
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time playing early access plan, the beta and everything like that.

449
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So they know the zones, they know the quests, they know people who have worked out the most

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efficient route to do things.

451
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And that's basically what happened is when it come out is that these people have, have

452
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done that route and got well first level 80 and, and shit like that.

453
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But it's kind of pointless because you are locked to a certain point.

454
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Like it hasn't fully released yet.

455
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And it does fully release, you can't do everything anyway.

456
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So there's no, there's no issues with, with sort of taking your time.

457
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Obviously there's a new allied race that's come out called the earth earthen earthen and

458
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they're just dwarfs that are made out of fucking stone with all gems popping out of them.

459
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They're quite cool.

460
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,720
Um, well you can play as them.

461
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Yeah.

462
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Oh, nice.

463
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Yeah.

464
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Yeah.

465
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Yeah.

466
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I can unlock them.

467
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Um, which I'll be doing.

468
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It'd be a bit annoying for me though, because I'm playing that they're a horde race.

469
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I'm playing, I'm playing Alliance at the moment.

470
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So playing your main, I swapped, I swapped.

471
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I had my, I had my main, which was my Paladin called Cadbury cow.

472
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He was a DPS.

473
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He was retribution.

474
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Very, very cool.

475
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But I thought I'm a leader.

476
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All right.

477
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I'm, I'm, I'm a leader that doesn't necessarily like to lead all the time.

478
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So I like to have an important role in being a very good person at doing damage is, is,

479
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is an important role, but it's not fucking anyone can do damage.

480
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So tanking has never been my thing.

481
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I don't want false.

482
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What?

483
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Anyone can do damage.

484
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Not everyone can do big damage.

485
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I was doing damage on world of warcraft till you taught me how to do big damage.

486
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And then I realized, Oh, I've been making terrible mistakes.

487
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:07,680
Yeah.

488
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:08,680
Yeah.

489
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:09,680
Fair enough.

490
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Okay.

491
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Um, tanking has never been my thing.

492
00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:12,920
It's far too fucking involved.

493
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:13,960
It's like a second job.

494
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:15,640
I just don't have the capability to do it.

495
00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:16,640
Yes, you do.

496
00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,080
I don't want to carry on.

497
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,920
Healing I've always been very good at.

498
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:26,960
So Paladins can be healers, but they are a melee based healer, which I've always fucking

499
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hated was hate the idea of if it's my job to heal, why have I also got to attack everything

500
00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,200
to I've now got to do everyone's job.

501
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I don't like that.

502
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So I've always steered away from it.

503
00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:39,280
Whereas up until about a week ago, I thought, we know what?

504
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Fuck it.

505
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:41,920
Let's give it another crack and see how we do.

506
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:46,800
However, the way my brain works is I've got a max level character.

507
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:53,160
I do not want to go into a, into a plan wholly, which is the healing class that I've never

508
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,160
done before.

509
00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:55,660
Cause now I've got to relearn all of that shit.

510
00:20:55,660 --> 00:21:00,960
You know what it looks like, that whole talent tree, boom, all new, now learn it.

511
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I go, I can't do that.

512
00:21:02,140 --> 00:21:06,540
So instead what I did is I made another character, another Paladin, but played them from level

513
00:21:06,540 --> 00:21:09,960
10 to 70 as a healer so I could learn them more.

514
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:15,160
And then all that happened is I made them a dark iron dwarf and I just prefer the fucking,

515
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,140
the way they feel and the way they look.

516
00:21:17,140 --> 00:21:22,340
So I brought that one with me to that's my new, um, my new main.

517
00:21:22,340 --> 00:21:24,520
And it's just going very, very well.

518
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:25,520
Very well.

519
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:26,520
I'm very pleased.

520
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:27,520
It's making me want to play World of Warcraft.

521
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,040
When they're bringing it to the console, man, pieces of shit.

522
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,040
Hurry up.

523
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,040
I want to play it more.

524
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,600
I got too much on my plate.

525
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,560
It's just so fucking good and everything's, everything's all linked up now as well.

526
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,120
One really cool thing they've done where you get a war band now.

527
00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:50,360
So basically every, where it used to be, you'd have different realms with your characters

528
00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:51,360
on those different realms.

529
00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,240
And normally, unless the realms were linked, you couldn't interact with each other.

530
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,240
Now they don't fucking matter.

531
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,960
What realm it's all linked up.

532
00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:58,960
We had that problem.

533
00:21:58,960 --> 00:21:59,960
Yeah.

534
00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:01,080
It's all linked up, including the guilds and everything.

535
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,080
So there's no issues.

536
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:09,160
But then they've gone a step further by having war bands, which is basically everything's

537
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:10,640
now linked.

538
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:17,040
So I'm talking, you can now in the respect of gear, if you're a plate wearer and you

539
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,960
also have an old, there's like cloth that wears cloth or mail or shit like that.

540
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:28,040
It used to be, if you're playing a plate class, nothing that's not for your class is going

541
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,040
to drop for you.

542
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,000
You're not going to get cloth dropping for you because your character doesn't use it.

543
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,040
Whereas now anything can fucking drop.

544
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,880
And then if your character can't use it, but you've got another character that can, you

545
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,900
can just send it to them rather than it binding to you the minute you pick it up, which means

546
00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:48,000
that gearing up other characters is a lot more passive friendly.

547
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,480
And then like all the progression, like reputations and shit like that has all been linked up.

548
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,880
So they basically just made it so that it's a lot easier to have additional characters

549
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,760
without having to do all the bullshit again.

550
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,640
So they've just made that a lot, a lot more friendly, or which is what a lot of people

551
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,520
were asking for.

552
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:13,160
So yeah, I've sort of think someone saying like, when, when's world of warcraft two going

553
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,160
to be made?

554
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,440
When are they going to stop like dealing with world of warcraft?

555
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:17,440
And then someone made a good point.

556
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,440
They said, well, we're playing it.

557
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:19,440
Yeah.

558
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,440
I said, this is world of warcraft.

559
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,440
Release it on the console.

560
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,240
I'll give it another 20 years, mate.

561
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,240
Yeah.

562
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,480
You, you look at, you look at world of warcraft vanilla, the burning crusade and shit like

563
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:29,480
that.

564
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,640
And the difference between that and now you are playing world of warcraft two.

565
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,960
It's just slowly evolved over time and you're now, you're now in it.

566
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:38,960
This is it.

567
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,000
It's the unnoticeable evolution for people that play it regularly.

568
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,960
So for argument's sake, to make it simple to understand you're playing a game that you

569
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,760
don't notice changing, but you don't notice you losing weight.

570
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,400
Other people do.

571
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:56,400
Yeah.

572
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:57,960
Because you ain't, you see in yourself every day.

573
00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,400
You see world warcraft all the time.

574
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,440
You don't see the subtle little changes they make.

575
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,040
It's just fantastic, man.

576
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,680
It feels so fucking good.

577
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:06,680
So good.

578
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,680
And there's, there's so much shit to do.

579
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:14,480
There's a, there's a, there's a character in there called, um, skitters or something

580
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:15,480
like that.

581
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,000
And we had to look up sounds exactly like fucking stitch from Lilo and stitch.

582
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000
Brilliant.

583
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000
Exactly like him.

584
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,600
And we had to look it up to make sure that it wasn't the same voice actor.

585
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,800
And it's not, but I was like, this is like, it's really fucking weird.

586
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,160
Um, but I highly recommend it.

587
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,160
I know a lot of most of the people, I don't think anyone listening to this actually plays

588
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,200
world of warcraft, except for my mates that play world of warcraft.

589
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:41,360
Um, so this little interlude might mean fuck all to everyone else, but you enjoy it and

590
00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:42,360
that's what matters.

591
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:46,800
I worked out, um, the burning crusade come out in 2007.

592
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,440
That's when I very first started playing 2007.

593
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:50,440
It's mental.

594
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,440
It's a mental amount of time.

595
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,640
He's sunk into a game.

596
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,320
So committed to one game.

597
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,320
That's crazy.

598
00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,320
That is crazy commitment.

599
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:04,120
I've literally from 11 o'clock last night until what?

600
00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:05,120
Two in the morning.

601
00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:06,800
And then I was up at seven.

602
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,280
You was up when I was up for work.

603
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,280
Yeah, that's his nails.

604
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,280
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

605
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,720
I was up and then what time you got here?

606
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:13,720
What?

607
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,880
Like half free and I stopped playing at three o'clock and then when I leave, yeah, yeah.

608
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,080
I just love it.

609
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,360
Cause it's fucking great, man.

610
00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:23,360
You do you man.

611
00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:24,360
It's so good.

612
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:25,360
No one enjoy it.

613
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:32,440
I must mention, uh, because of, you know, mainly clicks on the podcast, black myth,

614
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,440
Wukong.

615
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:34,440
That's what I was going to talk to you about next.

616
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,440
Have you bought it yet?

617
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:36,440
I have.

618
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:37,440
You have.

619
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:38,440
Have you played it?

620
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,440
I have.

621
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,440
How is it?

622
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:41,440
It's good.

623
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,440
It's damn good.

624
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,960
Nothing like a souls born.

625
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,440
It is.

626
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:47,440
It is.

627
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:53,080
If I had to pick a couple of games to say that it's like, I'd say it is, it is souls

628
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,760
born.

629
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,200
It is ghost of Tsushima.

630
00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,200
We like that.

631
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,200
And God of war.

632
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,360
If them three had a baby, this is the three games that I've, I've seen pop up God of

633
00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:07,040
war quite a bit in terms of combat style.

634
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,240
Well, the God of war comparison is very easy.

635
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,360
Just, uh, the combat so much better for me than God of war.

636
00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:16,840
I like God of war combat, but I never really, never really done it for me the way this does.

637
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:23,000
Um, and also because of the storyline is obviously Kratos and Greek mythology.

638
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,520
Nordic mythology.

639
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,480
This is Chinese mythology.

640
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,800
So this, and that's why I'm enjoying this so much is because I know a lot about Egyptian,

641
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,200
Greek, and now Nordic.

642
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,840
I grew up loving Greek mythology.

643
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,600
I don't know why I just loved reading about it.

644
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,920
And then Nordic Kratos got me into that and Viking.

645
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,120
So I learned more about that.

646
00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,840
And I also learned Egyptian stuff when I was a kid and then Chinese.

647
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:48,840
I know nothing about.

648
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,200
So this is all new to me.

649
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:55,120
It's a whole new mythology to learn and, um, and I'll be reading the books cause it's all

650
00:26:55,120 --> 00:27:02,240
about a journey to the West and Sun Wu Kong, which is the monkey guy is supposed to be

651
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,120
the most powerful fictional character of all time.

652
00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:08,240
It's who Goku was based upon.

653
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,240
Yeah.

654
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,640
Um, so yeah.

655
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,040
And the intro to that game is probably the best intro I've ever seen.

656
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,040
It looks so good.

657
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:16,040
I've ever seen.

658
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,040
So good.

659
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:22,280
It's more, more gas than the intro to like God, the war, like the reboot when, when he's

660
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:23,280
fighting a boulder.

661
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,480
It was even more gas than that.

662
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,200
I was just like, this is fire.

663
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,200
It's so good.

664
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,200
How far in are you?

665
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,880
I wouldn't say I'm very far.

666
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:37,080
Um, it's definitely got one of them, uh, tree sentinel bosses in.

667
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:42,160
So I got through the first area pretty unscathed.

668
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:50,480
And then there's basically this big fucking giant baby thing walking around the forest.

669
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,160
And I was like, Oh yeah, I'll smash him up.

670
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:54,160
Health bar pops up.

671
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,080
I was like, Oh, fucking hell he's got a bit of health and he's, he's doing me in like

672
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,120
three hits.

673
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,080
And then I went another way.

674
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,680
Um, after he kicked my ass a few times, I found another boss and I, and, but this boss

675
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,600
is like much more cut scene ish, much more important.

676
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,880
I started hitting him and I was smacking him around.

677
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,440
I was like, this doesn't make any sense.

678
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,440
I was like, well, I'm not going to do you until I've done this fucking baby.

679
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,640
Cause now I've got this weird thing in my head where once I've started fighting saying,

680
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,400
I can't move on till I've beat it.

681
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,600
Exactly how you feel.

682
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,520
Just like, it's always in my mind.

683
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:28,800
Like I haven't done that.

684
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:29,800
I need to go back.

685
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,920
You can just come back and go, no, the health bar goes down.

686
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,440
So therefore it has an ending point here.

687
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,360
So I just kept smashing my head against the wall.

688
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:40,320
I give up the evening and then I went back on it the next day and I'd done it in like

689
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,400
three, four tries after that.

690
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:43,400
It's so crazy.

691
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,800
I went, when you have a little rest and then you come back and you go, actually, no, yeah,

692
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,080
I just needed to just chill out.

693
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:53,040
But the way I killed him was pretty, uh, anti-climactic because we killed each other.

694
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,200
So I killed him and then I died and I was like, Oh fuck, does it count?

695
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,240
And then just before I died, I acquired the items.

696
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,360
I was like, ah, yes.

697
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,200
Um, and yeah, then I went and smashed that other geezer in the first try.

698
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,880
So it's like, uh, it don't get me wrong.

699
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,880
It's not.

700
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,720
It's not, which for me, it's the perfect difficulty, right?

701
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,720
Because there is no difficulty setting.

702
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:19,840
So it is just a standard difficulty and it's, it's got bits that are like, I found quite

703
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,640
tricky, but it's always making me feel powerful as fuck.

704
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,480
Like I'm not, there's no parrying or blocking is there?

705
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,480
It's just dodging.

706
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,000
I mean, there is, there's skills that you can get where you can like turn your skin

707
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,400
to stone, which is a parry.

708
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,600
I think I haven't got that yet.

709
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,120
There's loads of skills, like the amount of things that you're unlocking in this game

710
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,120
is insane.

711
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:44,920
So you, when you kill like a mini boss, you absorb them and then you can, um, some things

712
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:45,920
you can summon.

713
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:51,160
So like I killed a frog boss thing and then I press L2 and R2 and then I'll turn into

714
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,160
a frog for a second.

715
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,760
I'll start whacking shit with my tongue or that big baby.

716
00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,160
I can press L2, R2 and then I could just headbutt something with it as the baby, which does

717
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,160
massive damage.

718
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,280
That's, that's, that sentence from an outside.

719
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:05,280
Yeah.

720
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:10,960
Um, so he got that and then, but the other guy that I went and fought midway through

721
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,680
fighting that big baby is like a sick man.

722
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:19,960
He's like a wolf face and he's got like a long, um, like a dual sided s- scythe with

723
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,680
they're both on fire.

724
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,560
When you killed him, you like, you can, his weapons are stuck in the ground.

725
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,000
You go and pick his weapon up and then you put it, cause he puts it in his hair for some

726
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,560
reason, his hair is magic or something.

727
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:37,720
So he puts the weapon in there and then you, I can now transform into him and then just

728
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,000
be him for like, for a time while the bar's going down.

729
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,360
So I'm literally that boss.

730
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,720
So the graphics and everything just look absolutely incredible.

731
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,760
From the trailers from years ago, I've seen the shit you can transform into.

732
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:49,920
So now the game's out.

733
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:55,000
I don't want to go back and look at stuff for spoilers, but yeah, it's like, and then

734
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,560
there's multiple skill trees.

735
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,720
There's fucking combat skill tree.

736
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,560
There's mysticism, which is like your little magic shit.

737
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,880
There's, there's two other skill trees that I haven't even unlocked yet.

738
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,400
So I don't even know what they are.

739
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,080
There's, there's, it's so deep.

740
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,360
Like, you know what I mean?

741
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,360
What was it you was telling?

742
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:11,360
What was it about this?

743
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:12,360
It's the number one.

744
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:13,360
Oh yeah.

745
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,360
It's the highest, uh, single player game ever on steam for player accounts.

746
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,440
So the highest concurrent players had 2.3 million players playing it.

747
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:22,440
2.3 million.

748
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:23,440
Yeah.

749
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:24,440
So it's the second highest.

750
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,640
Uh, and that was just, was that just on steam?

751
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:27,640
Yeah.

752
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:34,400
That was the highest, uh, of all, um, single player games.

753
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,400
That's crazy.

754
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,960
And the second highest of all time.

755
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,280
And then might I add as well, 55 pounds on the PlayStation store.

756
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,680
This isn't a 70 pound fucking game that they're selling.

757
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:45,680
Yeah.

758
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,760
It is also people are like, ah, but it's the Chinese because the Chinese have obviously

759
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,040
is their game basically.

760
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,040
So 2.3 million.

761
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,040
They're probably all Chinese.

762
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,040
Who cares who it is.

763
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,040
Sorry.

764
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,480
When does that, when does that ever come up?

765
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,480
That's what I don't understand.

766
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,640
It can't, it can't top the charts because they're all English.

767
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,400
What does that mean?

768
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,400
It's worldwide.

769
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:06,400
What the fuck does that mean?

770
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,400
It is mental.

771
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,320
People are saying it's China's first ever AAA game or big AAA.

772
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,720
So yeah, which is massive for them and it's their, it's their mythology.

773
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:16,720
No, sorry.

774
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:17,720
It's gonna be huge for them.

775
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:18,720
Even then I don't agree with that.

776
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,160
It's their, it's their first AAA game for the rest of the world.

777
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,640
There is, there is entire.

778
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:31,200
I feel like so many people seem to forget that whether it be video games, fucking movies,

779
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:36,440
music, every single country has got their own thing going on.

780
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,280
There's everyone's in their own little bubble.

781
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:43,040
It's only a very rare couple of things where that burst through that bubble and then fucking

782
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,360
enters everything else.

783
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,000
It's just, what a silly thing to say.

784
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000
It's all the Chinese.

785
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
Yeah.

786
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,760
I don't, I don't understand why it makes any difference who's playing it.

787
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,360
Makes no difference whatsoever.

788
00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,120
The interesting thing as well that I learned today was that steam only came out in China

789
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,720
in 2021.

790
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,120
So that's, that's mad.

791
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,120
Crazy.

792
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:11,720
Uh, so at the time of writing via steam DB, steam database, it is also the second most

793
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:17,360
played game on steam ever with an all time concurrent peak of 2.4 million players ahead

794
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:22,620
of power world, which was 2.1 million and counterstrike 1.8 million pub G battlegrounds

795
00:33:22,620 --> 00:33:27,000
holds the number one spot of 3.2 million, but considering that's a multiplayer battle

796
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,440
royale title and black myth, Wukong is a single player game.

797
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,320
Numbers are particularly impressive.

798
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,160
So it's not though, because it's all Chinese.

799
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,980
Black myth was the number one most viewed game on Chinese game live streaming platforms

800
00:33:40,980 --> 00:33:44,800
on its first day, breaking all records for a single player game.

801
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:49,040
So yeah, it's, it's, it's just insane.

802
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,480
This is just insane.

803
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:57,120
That must feel, that must feel really, really cool for, for, for people who are Chinese,

804
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:04,000
who obviously where this is based on, um, their mythology, their mythology and it, and

805
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:13,760
like say who fucking goku is based off of, and you think like that, that must hold not

806
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:18,280
the fucking same sort of level at all, but something like assassin's creed syndicate

807
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:24,760
people who live in the UK or even fucking, um, Valhalla where you've got areas that like

808
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,280
the fucking mold and salt flats are in Valhalla.

809
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,180
Well, that's just fucking over there from here.

810
00:34:30,180 --> 00:34:37,060
So it's, it's when you, when you have that sort of, um, what's the word attachment within

811
00:34:37,060 --> 00:34:39,240
a game makes it a little bit more special.

812
00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:43,840
It look at, uh, assassin's creed origins, the Egyptians with their pyramids and their

813
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:44,840
mythology.

814
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,480
The Egyptians are going to love assassin's creed origins just based on their stuff.

815
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,440
So yeah, it's, but also the game is just great.

816
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,280
I mean, I can see the limitations of it.

817
00:34:54,280 --> 00:35:01,720
So the, and it's the only thing that I've noticed really is, so it's like a, it's not

818
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:02,720
open world.

819
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:05,760
It's like chapters and areas that you can explore.

820
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,000
So there's like God of war.

821
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Yeah.

822
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Yeah.

823
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,560
So there's areas you can go, you can snake around this tunnel and go up here and they

824
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,360
will kind of lead back to the same place.

825
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,960
Yeah, exploration, which is fine.

826
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,560
And they've got bonfire basically that you can travel between.

827
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,160
So you can go back and forth.

828
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:24,440
Um, but then the only way I can describe it as like more linear is, which is different

829
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:25,760
because God of war, you can't jump.

830
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,880
So it's, uh, it's not fair comparison, but so I'm in a forest and there's like a ledge

831
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,880
here.

832
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,080
I can't, I'll try to jump up that ledger, just be an invisible wall.

833
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,240
So that that's inaccessible, which is fine.

834
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:40,520
But then there's loads of areas where it looks inaccessible, but you can jump up there and

835
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,120
around, which is fine because now I'm not wasting my time looking in trees.

836
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,120
There's nothing there.

837
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:46,120
You know what I mean?

838
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:52,080
But the game itself, the combat is absolutely 10 out of 10 fantastic fun.

839
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:58,960
You feel so powerful and bad ass and just everything, the graphics, the cut scenes,

840
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:04,440
the fighting, the abilities, the leveling up just, it just feels amazing.

841
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,440
It's fantastic.

842
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:06,440
Yeah.

843
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,440
By far a game of the year for me so far.

844
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:08,440
You reckon?

845
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:09,440
Yeah.

846
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,440
Not even close to anything else.

847
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:15,320
I was looking forward to this game when I first saw it like four years ago, but when

848
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,440
I first saw it, it looked like one of them games, little like one in fake games, you

849
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,640
know, that's never going to come out.

850
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:21,640
Yeah.

851
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:22,640
You see them thumbnails on YouTube.

852
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:23,640
Like Fable.

853
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:24,640
Yeah.

854
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,760
The 10 open world games coming in 2024 and there's just games that don't exist.

855
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:34,800
I mean, uh, super ambitious fucking mental games go, that's not gonna happen.

856
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,200
It didn't look like it was ever going to be a real thing.

857
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,960
Now it's here and it's, it's blown all expectations out of the war.

858
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:46,400
Now it's come out to like eights and nines and the odd 10 here and there, but the general

859
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:52,040
consensus online is people once again sticking it to critics and just going, you have no

860
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:56,000
idea what people want because this is, this is a 10 out of 10 game.

861
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,000
It's fantastic.

862
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,400
When you look, when you have stuff like that and then you look at what critics and review,

863
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:06,560
what professional reviewers like IGN and blah, blah, blah are giving Star Wars outlaws saying

864
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,320
how, how incredible that game is.

865
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,320
I feel like, yeah.

866
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:11,320
Have they?

867
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,320
Yeah.

868
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,320
Yeah.

869
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:14,320
Is it reviewed?

870
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,320
I see someone on my friends list was playing it yesterday.

871
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:16,480
I didn't even know it was out.

872
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:25,560
I keep seeing a lot of clips of, of reviewers, like not to fucking sound weird, but sucking

873
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,040
the dick a little bit.

874
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:33,560
Um, but that's, I'm not really in the fucking space of looking at Star Wars outlaws to

875
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:34,560
be fair.

876
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,800
Um, so I'm sure there are some terrible reviews out there.

877
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,640
All the people I've seen saying it's shocking.

878
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:40,640
Yeah.

879
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,720
It's just cut and paste Ubisoft avatar, but with Star Wars skin on it.

880
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:49,840
So I just keep seeing a lot of, a lot of clips of, of people reacting to other reviews of

881
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,120
people saying that it's, it's a decent game.

882
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,640
And then there'll be like a clip next to it showing how poor the game actually is and

883
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,000
shit like that.

884
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,360
Um, that's what people are saying.

885
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:05,440
Black myth, Wu Kong, boulders gate free, these sort of games that are coming out from not

886
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:06,440
AAA developers.

887
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,400
All they're doing is keep putting the pressure on the AAAs.

888
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,400
The AAAs.

889
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,400
No, no, no.

890
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,440
It's, it's team science or game science.

891
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,560
They're called never heard of them.

892
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,200
Um, the game science, yeah.

893
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,280
The EAs and the Ubisofts and all these they're going to, and, and unfortunately for the new

894
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:30,440
Assassin's Creed, I'm going to play that it looks fantastic, I think, but all that's

895
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,400
going to happen is now people are going to compare it to black myth.

896
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,120
We can be like, how come you can do this in this game and you can't do this in this.

897
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,320
I mean, there's two different things, but the heart of the game, if the heart's not

898
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,320
in it, do you know what I mean?

899
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:48,400
You already, you already have, um, Assassin's Creed shadows already has the issue of, um,

900
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:55,680
getting into relative hot water with not portraying the culture, um, and the language as well

901
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,080
as it could be done.

902
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,480
The research is, is, is lacking in some areas.

903
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,480
It's, it's going a bit mental, man.

904
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:08,880
Like a lot of the reviews from the big outlets are saying about black myth, Wukong, they're

905
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,320
knocking a few points off here and there because it's not, um, what's the word?

906
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:14,600
It's not diverse enough.

907
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:15,600
It's not inclusive enough.

908
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,800
It's about a fucking monkey God.

909
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,080
What do you want?

910
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:20,080
Yeah.

911
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,080
What do you want?

912
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,080
Yeah.

913
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,360
So it's a monkey God of the fucking staff beating the shit out of babies.

914
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:25,360
I don't understand.

915
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,200
Like, are you going to say the same about Tetris for new Tetris comes out?

916
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,680
You're going to complain about the diversity.

917
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:31,680
It's mental.

918
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:36,240
I know there was an issue because it was in there in their fine print somewhere about,

919
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:43,600
um, streamers not being allowed to be, I think it was political and then talk about certain

920
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:48,160
aspects of everyday life while streaming the game.

921
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,960
And a lot of people were kicking off about that because they're going, oh, that's not

922
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:51,960
fair.

923
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:58,440
But I, I mean, I don't necessarily care because I'm not a streamer, but also I thought, well,

924
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:02,400
we'll know that they've spent a lot of time making a game.

925
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,000
You don't then want to have that tarnished by someone streaming and then delving into

926
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,040
politics while streaming that game.

927
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,920
Because the last thing you need is someone getting viral off of saying, saying whatever

928
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,480
the fuck they want to say.

929
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,080
And then, oh, what's in the background of this video for what this person's saying is

930
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,080
black myth Wukong.

931
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:27,200
You know, I mean, especially when this is their first proper AAA type game.

932
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,200
I don't know, man.

933
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:34,240
There's a, there's a, there's a really grim crossover between gaming and fucking world

934
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:38,480
politics where sometimes I think it, it's valid.

935
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,680
And then there's other times where I think, yeah, like, like you just said, it's a fucking

936
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,040
game about God like monkey.

937
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:46,040
What do you want?

938
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,880
What do you want us to do?

939
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,680
It's about a monkey King, man.

940
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,480
Like I heard that what you were saying.

941
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:57,620
But I saw it from someone else saying Marvel rivals sent me their latest creator contract

942
00:40:57,620 --> 00:41:01,980
and it included that I wasn't allowed to talk about politics on any social media.

943
00:41:01,980 --> 00:41:02,980
That was all I saw.

944
00:41:02,980 --> 00:41:03,980
That was a different game.

945
00:41:03,980 --> 00:41:13,560
But yeah, I, yeah, if you're being paid or gifted a code to preview slash review a game,

946
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:21,300
you're being paid or rewarded an opportunity that many people would like to do that.

947
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:22,300
Not anything else.

948
00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:23,300
Yeah.

949
00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:24,300
Shut the fuck up.

950
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:25,300
You're talking to me.

951
00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:26,300
Tell me how the game is.

952
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:27,300
You're talking about the game.

953
00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:28,300
Yeah.

954
00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:30,240
And you're either getting paid to do that, to just talk about the game or you've been

955
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:34,960
gifted the opportunity to play as early and show people still about the game is not bring

956
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,200
all the other crap into it.

957
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,200
But that's for a note.

958
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:38,200
You want to do that?

959
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,200
Do a separate stream another time.

960
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,760
Straight after this, we're doing this.

961
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:41,760
Yeah.

962
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,480
This is for, this is your reward, man.

963
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,880
This is what you do in your job.

964
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,600
It's like, can you cut this tree?

965
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,600
I can, but we also would like you to cut the grass.

966
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:53,600
No, no, no.

967
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:54,600
I'm not here to cut the grass, bro.

968
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:55,600
Yeah.

969
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:56,600
What do you want me to do?

970
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,160
So yeah, it's a, it's a bit of a weird one.

971
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,760
But yeah, at the moment, fantastic game.

972
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:03,920
I'm loving every second of it.

973
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:04,920
I can't wait to play again.

974
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,800
Cause it says that the only other game was art of war, red tides.

975
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:08,800
Never heard of it.

976
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:09,800
Never heard of it.

977
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:10,800
Game science.

978
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:11,800
I bought a collector's edition yesterday.

979
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:12,800
Did you?

980
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:13,800
Yeah.

981
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:14,800
What did you buy?

982
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:15,800
Kingdom come deliverance.

983
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:16,800
You bought that, did you?

984
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,480
I thought, I figured that would be on your radar.

985
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,600
What comes with the collector's edition for that then?

986
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,000
Oh, you know, standard statue, bro.

987
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,000
That's all I'm interested in.

988
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
I don't look all the other crap.

989
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,400
I'm only interested in the statues.

990
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:36,440
Let's have a little go within kingdom come deliverance too.

991
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,280
And then collector's edition.

992
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,400
My only concern is I bought it on Amazon.

993
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,960
It just says that and there's no picture of it and it's stressing me out, bro.

994
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,400
Was it prime?

995
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:50,400
Who's the seller?

996
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:51,400
Oh, it's Amazon.

997
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,400
Amazon selling it.

998
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:53,400
Yeah.

999
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,720
But is it, is it Amazon selling it under the seller thing?

1000
00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:59,880
Don't fucking lie to me.

1001
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:00,880
I don't know.

1002
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:02,880
It should say under the seller.

1003
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:03,880
I don't know.

1004
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,480
It just says nothing.

1005
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,280
It's just nothing there.

1006
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,080
Just isn't sold by anyone.

1007
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,800
It literally doesn't say anything.

1008
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,800
I can't even see order info.

1009
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,720
Yeah, I ain't got a clue.

1010
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:17,720
Great.

1011
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:18,720
How much was it?

1012
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:19,720
180 quid.

1013
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:20,720
Oh, okay.

1014
00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:21,720
It's Amazon.

1015
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:23,720
They can't screw me, can they?

1016
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:24,720
Or can they?

1017
00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:25,720
No, you'd be all right.

1018
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:32,240
I'm trying to, I'm trying to currently Google what's in the fucking collected edition.

1019
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:35,680
So it contains, oh, that does look like a cool condition.

1020
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:40,680
You'll get everything that's found in the gold edition, the standard, blah, blah, blah.

1021
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:47,080
Expansion pass and gallant huntsman kit plus the lion's crest bonus quest.

1022
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,800
What's more, you'll get a fantastic statue of Henry and his trusty steed.

1023
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:51,800
Pebbles.

1024
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:52,800
Pebbles.

1025
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:57,480
The exclusive cloth map, allies of Kutenberg.

1026
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:04,320
The enamel pin set, coats of valor, the iconic letter of hope, which Sir Hans Capon was entrusted

1027
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,520
with and the King's Rebels collectible card set.

1028
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,000
So you get a little card set, do you?

1029
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,000
Yeah, there it is.

1030
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,000
Look, Kingdom Come to Living, sold by Amazon.

1031
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000
Yeah, you'll be fine then.

1032
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,160
So I bought it and I got the order form for it, but yeah, it's not.

1033
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:21,160
You'll be fine.

1034
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:22,160
So that's the statue then?

1035
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,160
Yeah.

1036
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,160
That looks cool, man.

1037
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,160
That looks cool.

1038
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,960
And then there's your fucking, there's your letter and your cards and.

1039
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:29,960
Yeah, whatever.

1040
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:30,960
What do you mean, whatever?

1041
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:31,960
I just want the statue, bro.

1042
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,760
I like the letters and stuff like that, man.

1043
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,640
The enamel pins are cool.

1044
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,960
I want the Black Miff Wukong collector's edition now.

1045
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:38,960
The cloth map's cool.

1046
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,200
That's too expensive for my blood, though.

1047
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:47,280
I like, I like getting stuff other than fucking statues, man, because eventually you can hang

1048
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,000
that shit up, can't you?

1049
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,960
Nah, I like the statues, bro.

1050
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,280
We all love statues.

1051
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,640
That's the fucking main bread and butter, innit?

1052
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,960
The I won't tell you, because it'll just upset you.

1053
00:44:58,960 --> 00:44:59,960
What's up?

1054
00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:02,640
Nah, I'm not going to tell you, because it'll just upset you.

1055
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:03,640
Go on.

1056
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:04,640
Let it be the finisher.

1057
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,640
Let it be the finisher of this episode.

1058
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:08,640
All right.

1059
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:09,640
Go on then.

1060
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,840
Doing you guys a solid as well by saying this.

1061
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,960
The Elden Ring, Shadows of the Ertree Collects edition.

1062
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:16,960
Yeah.

1063
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:21,240
It's currently on Amazon for 144 quid.

1064
00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:22,240
What?

1065
00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:23,240
Yep.

1066
00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:26,240
You can see it right there.

1067
00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:28,240
Give me your phone.

1068
00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:29,720
Give me your phone.

1069
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:30,720
What do you mean?

1070
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:32,960
What, is this the actual collector's edition?

1071
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:33,960
Yep.

1072
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:34,960
What?

1073
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,320
I'll tell you why, because Amazon's got a special gaming promotion on at the moment,

1074
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,360
till the 29th of August or whatever it is.

1075
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:45,040
Yeah, so they've done it from 20, yeah, 230 down to 145.

1076
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,320
That is not bad at all, you know.

1077
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:52,040
Considering the expansion itself is like 30, 40 quid, if you want any of the other shit,

1078
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,320
you're getting it for fucking.

1079
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,160
The statue is very cool as well.

1080
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:56,160
Yep.

1081
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,160
Very, very good statue.

1082
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:58,920
I don't really give a fuck because I've got my statue.

1083
00:45:58,920 --> 00:45:59,920
Yeah, exactly.

1084
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:00,920
I've got my little statue.

1085
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:06,240
It's very cool and I highly suggest grabbing one if you can.

1086
00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:09,200
And if you're a scumbag, just buy loads of them and sell them.

1087
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,280
And on that note, you enjoy your endeavors of buying the Shadow of the Ertree Collects

1088
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:14,280
edition.

1089
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,200
Go fuck off and do the Patreon episode.

1090
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:17,200
Mm hmm.

1091
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:18,200
Right.

1092
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:19,200
See you later, everyone.

1093
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,200
Uro.