Hello everyone welcome to the what's the buttons podcast. Hello. 10 out of 10 energy from you there. Oh my god.
What the what is the fucking. It's only 10 to 10. It feels so old. I'm so tired. Yeah. I'm like,
oh, that enough. What a long week it's been. However, we're back. Apologies for missing last week's episode.
We had a for the very first time a technical issue with the one of our cables not working. So we've gone and bought loads.
So it doesn't happen again. Are you all right? You good? Yeah. I have a red. No, Steph has a red cable.
I have a yellow cable. Very cool and snazzy. What we what we've been doing for the last half hour or actually the last half hour.
We've been outside staring at the fucking moon because it's bright as fuck. Casting shadows.
It's really weird. But before that we were playing a new game that had come out. That has come out.
It's terrible. Pokemon trading card game. Pocket is the actual name of it.
Pokemon Pocket sounds way fucking bad. And everyone at work is on it, particularly my pal Roman, who's ADHD to fuck.
So has just spent an obscene amount of money. It must be over 100 quid. Has to be.
And the premise of Pokemon Pocket is literally just the Pokemon game, the card game. And you open packs and stuff like that.
And obviously you can buy packs and that's pretty much it. And it seems to have taken the absolute fucking world by storm.
Like most things. Number one in the charts. Number one in the charts. It is from last week. This was four days ago.
So these statistics would have gone up. Pokemon Pocket is earning over three million dollars per day. Jesus.
With 12 million plus banked to date. So that was four days ago. The revenue is mostly coming from high spending players in Japan.
App Magic estimates estimates sorry, suggest 43 percent of the 49 million dollar total earned by the Pokemon company to date has come from players in Japan.
That's around 21 million dollars from this app from for this app alone has come from Japan. Fair play. It's big, isn't it?
Huge, absolutely ginormous. Pokemon as an IP is fucking mental. And then when you you then.
Is it pay to win potentially? Potentially because there's still an RNG basis to it.
Still a chance. You're pulling you're pulling packs. It's just I suppose it's no different to the to the real world where if you could only afford a couple of packs a week,
but then someone else can come in and just buy a booster box after booster box.
The chances are that person's going to get more cards and land the heavier ones than you are.
So I guess maybe it is a pay to win strategy.
But I know that the meta decks are changing quite a lot.
So obviously you can make your own decks and there's ones that are absolutely obliterating.
So the the one that was really pissing Roman off and then he went to the dark side and actually started using the deck himself was the Mewtwo deck.
And I think there's a Charizard deck. I think the latest one is like the deck built around Pikachu is OP as fuck to the point where Roman was banging his head against the wall
because every time he was playing PvP, he was playing against someone else that we use in the fucking Mewtwo deck.
And he could not beat it. And that's why he was like, right, well, I'm going to fucking join them then I'm going to do the same.
And I've sort of stayed away from it because I'm not massively interested in it.
I like watching it from a side, sidelines. But like I was saying to Roman, if I was going to pump money into it, I'd rather pump that into real cards than on a digital platform.
Yeah, and we've just sat and played it for a little bit.
And I can see why people enjoy it and why people are all over it.
But if I have to click one more fucking thing and get a paragraph of text pop up telling me what to do
and then scroll through 10 different pages of text to fucking just open up the shop and look at something.
And then when I go back, there's something else.
And if it stops me doing anything and highlights one more fucking thing and forces me to press on it to do something I don't want to do, fuck me.
Yeah, I felt the same. I think we're both too tired. I mean, I'm struggling to hold this microphone.
It feels so heavy. But yeah, no, I felt the same.
Like, so I hadn't downloaded it yet. And I thought, right, well, if we're going to talk about it, I'll at least have like a little bit of a hands on.
Yeah. And yeah, I've never been one that I get it.
I get you want they want to set you up to, you know, know what you're doing.
But force tutorials really pissed me off because I just don't have the, you know, like even just down to and it's such a little moment really.
But some of it was like pressing hold. Some of it was tap. Some of it was drag.
And I was like, how can you be telling me so much what to do?
But I also don't know which one I'm supposed to do.
The amount of time I was tapping it, I was like, oh, no, it's a drag.
Yeah. But I did have I kind of I kind of like it when when games like this do kind of give you quite a lot sort of get you going.
Like, so it's it's established that you're going to get for free the chance to open two packs per day.
They regenerate in 12 hours. And then you've got your one that picks on top of that.
Yeah, which was like five per hour. And then but then it kind of gives you loads of stuff.
So you can try out like speeding up and you can collect these hourglass things that allow you, you know, it's like each hourglass is an hour and they give you 12 and that kind of thing.
So and then already, like I've probably got enough to open another like 10 packs because I ended up like 100 hours.
So that like I kind of like. And then, yeah, I went through the little tutorial thing.
The first bit is mandatory and then it kind of says like, OK, if you want to know more, you can go to the intermediate.
If you don't, then like have at it. And it wasn't as painful as it.
Like when I looked, it was like seven steps. But then actually, they were probably like 30 seconds apiece, which is really not that bad.
Yeah. I think we're both just in like arsey moods.
And then, yeah, I did give PVP a go, but it annoyed me because I did a couple of the like AI ones and it was constantly making me go second.
And I beat them twice and then did a PVP one, went second.
And yeah, it's my fault really, because I didn't read the card, the last card I picked, which kind of sealed my fate.
Was whatever his name is and he didn't it doesn't damage them, it just knocks their next attack down by 20.
But they had like 80 and I was on 60. So they killed me anyway.
And I was like, oh, never mind. But I can see. Yeah, like I get the whether it's my cup of tea, I'm not so sure.
But it's quite promising. It's quite cool. I can see, like you say, like it's a bit like you when you're playing that showdown thing and you were like massively into it for that little period of time.
And I think you did put a lot of money on that as well. When when Jay was because Jay was playing Pokemon Pocket at work before anyone else was.
And I said, Roman fucking moth to a flame. Is he playing or is he collecting?
Fucking both. He's got last time I checked, I think he had there was only 20 cards he needed to get of all of them. He's only been fucking playing it for less than a week. Absolutely ridiculous.
It's impressive, but fucking you ask his wallet, how impressive is it?
And Jay, Jay's like a natural sweat when it comes to that kind of stuff. He loves it.
But he'll he is like a chess player. He'll work out by the maths, whether he's going to fucking win or not.
It will get to a certain point and he would have calculated in his head.
You'll go, I'm not going to win this or go with this person does this. Eventually, I'm going to I'm going to win this because it's all done by hit points and the moves and blah, blah, blah.
So there's been a couple of games where he's been like sat in the van playing and he's like conceded because he's like, I'm going to lose.
There's no point. I can't bothered.
Whereas what was funny is when you when you do the AI battles, you can set it to auto play.
Yeah. So you just fucking let it do what it wants to do. Well, when Roman first started playing, that's all he did.
He just did the AI battles and just let it auto play.
And then when he started doing the PvP battles, he had no idea how to play because he was just letting the fucking AI take over and do it all.
And it's just I think it's it's one of them where you can you can be quite innocent and play something like Pokemon and just enjoy it for its artwork and the nostalgia field of it.
But I don't think it takes much to get involved and then join the more higher up, hardcore people that take that shit a bit more seriously.
Roman's one of them people at the moment. Like he fucking just all over it.
Put it this way, though, in those like that six step tutorial, I feel like I understand how to play Pokemon more than I ever have done in my life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100 percent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so that's what that does.
That is how you play it. Makes sense. Because obviously they had the they had the trading card game app anyway.
Yeah, because you couldn't play on it, though. You could just collect the cards.
I swear you could play. I swear you could play on it. Do you not still have it on your phone?
I probably fucking don't. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could.
You could still play on it. No, I've only got the pocket one.
Yeah, I just got rid of it. But yeah, because you would scan the QR codes on the on the card thing.
Well, I've got an account and then you'd get you get the packs on that and you could definitely build decks in it and all that sort of shit.
So that leads to me me to believe that you could play other players with it as well.
I don't know. I don't know. Wake up. Come with me.
I'm looking at you. You know, when you look at a baby and you get them to go to sleep, so you just gently close your eyes and close it.
That's what you're doing to me. Your eyes are like you're looking at me half lidded.
Eyes are open. You want to lick a battery? I've got one here.
She's so tired. Oh, my God. Whoo.
So that's that. I don't know. There's not much more I can give on it. I don't really give a fuck.
Pokemon. People enjoy it. It'll be dead in a month.
Speaking of games that are dead, I haven't seen your new world. And if you say on the Internet, you're talking about your fucking ass.
What's happened? What's happened there? Where's everyone gone? Why is no one playing it?
I don't actually know. I genuinely don't know. What's your reasons for not playing it?
World of Warcraft. No, I don't buy it. I promise you. No, I don't buy it. I promise you.
I was in turmoil with making an old made a few of them, started leveling them up.
And now I really like playing a tank and I've never played a tank before.
And then a lot of the people that were playing New World have gone up.
The guild itself has gone into hibernation because we're done until the next season.
A whole message went out and everything. What for? Well, for wow, we're in hibernation.
I think what the fucking I'll read the message out for you.
It says, says, Hi, all you wonderful fucking emojis is in that.
If I think it was just taking the piss. We had one without the emojis and then one with the emojis.
Said, Hi, all you wonderful people, little ghouls and goblins.
As you can probably guess, this raid here has come to its natural end.
This is horrible to read all these emojis because of this, the guild will be going into hibernation mode with no organized raids each week.
Enjoy having your Wednesday and Sunday evenings back.
And we look forward to raiding with you all next rate here.
So that message went out to just finalize that now it's happening.
And naturally, that coincided with Call of Duty coming out.
So a lot of people are now fucking playing that a lot of people are playing classic instead.
And everyone's just sort of gone. Oh, and.
That's kind of it, really. Everyone's just in a little new world.
This could make a discord for New World. Yeah.
Has that gone dead? No, no, I was really talking to anybody.
It was a very young thing. And yeah, yeah, that standard standard fucking me really just World of Warcraft fun because I'm playing something that I've never ever played before.
I'm playing a tank and it's very anxiety driving because you're both burping so much.
I don't know because you're in charge of it because I'm scared, tired and scared.
And then obviously I bought tell you I was that noise chair.
I think I bought telltales as well. The Walking Dead.
I've seen that in your hand. I've been fucking busy.
I know. I know. But that that I want to get through because I really like the story so far.
And let's talk about that for a little bit.
It's I wanted something simple and easy for the Steam Deck and telltale games are one of those where it's very much like Detroit become human.
I don't know what the genre of it is. I know.
Yeah, it's not. Is it is telltale the genre? No, telltale is the company. It's fucking hell.
I really don't know what it's like. Google Detroit.
I'm going to really annoy me. Yeah, because the same as life is strange.
It's like decision based, isn't it? Decision based storytelling kind of thing.
Interactive story or something like that. Life is strange.
Where does it tell you what fucking category that would be? Life is strange genre.
Interactive film life is strange is an award winning episodic adventure game.
Yeah, similar there.
Interactive story and decision. Yeah, you basically you make decisions that determine the outcome of your particular game.
Detroit life is strange. Telltale games. They are all that similar thing.
Yeah, yeah. Even like well, yeah, yeah. Kind of like elements of Baldur's Gate kind of thing.
You're like you are that character. The decisions you make have consequences that are either immediate or you find out later on.
And that's basically what it is. I wanted something like that.
And the The Walking Dead series has really, really good reviews across the entire games.
So I figured, well, I'll look into that and then managed to pick that up off of I think I got that off of G2A for I think it was 10 quid for all of it.
So, yes, I started playing that and it was just not it was just nice because obviously I haven't touched the Steam Deck for a long time.
And I was like, well, I don't want to get it on the on the laptop. I can't be asked to sit there and play on the big screen.
It's nice to just have something that's that's a bit smaller.
And I was like that that's the perfect chilled out game to be able to do that and get invested in the story without having to do that much.
Because I I like the idea of having something that's portable, but at the same time, I can't enjoy myself like laying down on a bed and then playing fucking Assassin's Creed in your hands.
Because I like to be fucking like that to the telly. I want to see big screen. Yeah.
So that's something that I'm fucking slowly slogging through.
Yeah. I mean, it's like it was nice when like I was reading my book and then you were playing.
That was quite fun. And then I fell asleep read my book.
I tell you what, I tell you what's terrible is you have to go back through all of the episodes that we that you and I have done and me and Ash have done talking about the PlayStation portal.
And where we were slagging off saying, what's the fucking point?
Because now that I've matured a little bit, I'm starting to see why people have them.
What the ability to play a PS5 game in your hands in bed?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that all stemmed from when I was on nights for a week and Dean had one.
And so his PlayStation was on at home.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because you can.
So weird. That's basically the Wii U.
But you can. But you're able to put the place that leave the PlayStation in rest mode and it will turn on.
Then you can put it back into rest mode when you're done from the fucking thing.
And he was playing The Last of Us.
And I said to him, I said, how the fuck are you playing that?
And he was like, it's just connected to my phone.
And it was playing really well, really well.
And was his phone the screen?
No, no, no, no, no, it was.
It was it was hotspotted to his phone for a connection.
And it was playing absolutely fine.
Daryl's got one now.
Mark's one turns up next week.
I thought you already had it.
Mark's one was a preorder, wasn't it, for the anniversary edition.
So it hadn't released yet.
OK. But I think they're like 200 quid or something like that.
And I was talking to Daryl about it the other day.
I was like, how how is it?
And he was like, yeah, they're they're decent.
They are good. He was saying exactly what I fucking said in that he gets up.
And if he fancies fucking playing a bit of PlayStation, we don't want to get our bed.
It's there. He's fucking flick on.
And it's good to go.
And I asked him, I said, how's the battery life on it?
And he said, it's not it's not great.
But he said, it ain't bad at all.
I think he was saying sort of like four or five hours you can get on it, which is of a decent fucking thing.
He was like he was saying it's it's good because it's if you're already playing on a PlayStation, it's no different.
It's just the controllers fucking split in two.
But it's the same controller that you're used to playing with.
He said the screen's very good as well.
And yeah, it's it is somewhat tempting because obviously the other day when you were playing Fortnite or whenever you're playing on the Switch.
It's sort of like, well, if you then have the option there, which is exactly what they were marketing for, which is crazy because the amount I've sat here and slagged it off thinking, why the fuck would anyone need that?
What is the point?
Just just fucking turn your telly on and use your PlayStation.
Well, now here we are where I'm like and even Mark said he was like, I'll leave the PlayStation upstairs and fucking sit downstairs with Taylor and just play on it there.
And that is a not to not to well, you know, everyone knows I'm about to bring up Nintendo.
But the predominant advert I remember for the Wii U is little kids playing his game.
And like I think the dad comes in and he goes like, sorry, mate, you know, I want to watch the football.
And the kid just walks up, picks up the game pad.
It pops up on the screen.
So the dad's now using the telly to watch the football and the kids carrying on playing his game in his hands.
And yet it was just that was such a big flop for probably that exact reason, because you're thinking, what the fuck do you need that for?
But actually, it's one of those ones, like you say, it's only when it kind of settles in and becomes a sort of more widely accepted idea that people start to see the benefit of it.
And it's like, sometimes you do have to try something to work. Either you go, actually, I'm never going to use this or you go, holy fucking I don't know how I lived out without it.
Because then I started looking at that other games where you can you can now play them portable or just like basically wherever you want to go within reason.
Things like New World, you could fucking play that on the portal, dependent on.
Anything that's downloaded on your PlayStation, as long as you've got a connection, it's anything.
It's literally your PlayStation.
It's whether that would be like that be all right with like really small screen.
Don't know. But then you've got things like the division, which is fucking bought that again the other day.
Anything on your PlayStation where.
Or even disc games.
Yeah, I believe so. Because it's on if it's there.
Because obviously it's not it's not downloaded to the portal.
No, you're basically streaming it from casting it from the PlayStation to the portal, which is why you need a stable connection to be able to do it.
And yeah, it just seems. More and more useful.
I'll be interested to get Mark's point of view on it because he's going through a stage now where he's playing his PlayStation quite a lot.
So it'll be good to hear his side of it because I know Darrell plays plays his PlayStation a fair bit, but not as much as Mark does.
And yeah, it'll be it'll be interesting to like you say with those games where would it be suitable for a smaller screen?
You think you're playing something competitive like Call of Duty.
Is that going to be too small because the screen's not fucking tiny?
I suppose you've been a different to can you play Fortnite on your Switch when it's on?
That's literally what I was about to say. So when it first came out, I played it handheld, like when Fortnite first was released.
I played handheld on the Switch and I don't know why I didn't play it on the telly.
I can't remember. Just did. Just happened to, I think.
And so that's kind of like what I knew.
And then this time around playing it, I've mainly played it on the telly.
But there has been a handful of times when I've either like sat in with Lou or just had it in my hands and played it.
And yeah, it's it's a different experience, but it's not like you can kind of get used to it.
One for two reasons. One, because, you know, like when it's on the telly and you've got, you know, you're trying to hit someone in front of you.
That person might be, I don't know, five centimeters big or they're a little bit closer.
They're 10 centimeters big. Well, obviously on the on such a small screen, they're then a centimeter big if they're, you know, in the distance or at most maybe three centimeters big.
But the other thing I find quite interesting to get used to is like having your hands be that far apart.
Yeah. The difference between holding the controller and then holding like again with the Switch.
If I've played it two ways, one, holding it as a switch to having it in tabletop mode. So I've still got a controller connected to it.
But the screen is in front of me like a little mini telly. Yeah, that's probably easier because it's what you're more used to in terms of aiming and like just positioning and stuff.
Because obviously the like the map buttons are selected and start on whatever or in slightly different places.
But again, it's you get used to it. You get it's for it is played. It does feel different though.
I've noticed that with the Steam Deck where the where it's such a wide console.
Your your hands are in a normal position for a controller, but the thumbs feel off.
Weird. Yeah. Your thumbs and your trigger fingers, they feel almost stretched out. Yeah.
So like for the but which is really which is really weird when you think about it because when you're holding a controller,
your left hand's on the left side of the controller and your right hand's on the right side of the controller.
So your thumbs on the joysticks are not overlapping each other. They're on the fucking joysticks.
So I think it's just your positioning of your arms as well, isn't it?
Yeah, it might be that might be the thing that makes it feel weird is that that feels one way far more natural.
But that yeah, that doesn't my thumbs haven't fucking changed position.
But having your elbow, your elbow feels odd.
It was like when the certainly when I suppose was a novelty aspect of our comfort aspect.
Most of the time when I was playing the Switch when it first was released, I would literally be like on like under the covers.
And then you just have like your hands like where it's comfy and you wouldn't have to worry about holding like especially when the heating was not.
It's great because you still be it wouldn't affect it.
But yeah, and then especially with some games where they are like completely because obviously again,
they were like utilizing the concept of the joycons.
They would almost be like quite. Oh, yeah, it's nice.
I could have that tomorrow. Yeah, no, it's not. Let's not go there.
I've got my hands on. But anyway, yeah, it's all under the covers.
Yeah, but why was I saying that? Oh, right. Yeah, like how they had like kind of different uses.
No, it's actually gone. I'm talking about my ass now.
I remember you're very good at distracting me. You know that. Sorry, I thought you were absolutely lethal.
I only showed you the portal. Yeah, but then earlier when you just go, I'm talking.
And you're like, why have you lost what you're saying?
Because if we were talking now, you go, oh, I can't help it.
Sometimes it just fucking comes out. Yeah, I'm just being me.
And now it's gone. So you have to think something else now.
We've got a big we've got a dead air. So.
Get the price. This is why people edit.
Isn't it? Oh, we pride ourselves on never editing our podcast.
The fact that I've shown you that portal is just absolutely killed.
Yeah, but you have seen it before.
We've seen it. We've like you said, we've spoken about it so many times.
I know exactly what it looked like. I think what that is is you wanted to get up the Amazon listing to run it by.
No, no, no, no. No. What that is is aftershock from trying to get a PS5 and how much of a cunt it was to then looking at a portal.
And it's just there. Remember that?
I remember that ordeal trying to fucking secure one of them.
What a bastard. And you had one in your basket and it crashed.
Well, you bought one of them, canceled it.
What a fucking has got to be one of the most stupidest things I've ever done.
That has to be up there. And you were with me when I did that.
So you were a party to that. Well, yeah, but we went on a walk and I said, I might cancel it.
And you did nothing to prevent that. Yeah. But then at that time you were hardly playing PlayStation.
Yeah. And ultimately at that time as well, what was there like two PS5 games?
Yeah. Everything else was still PS4. Yeah. You should have done better.
Really stopping that from happening. Don't give a fuck.
How about that? But that's the minute I did it.
Am I going to feel the same about canceling the Assassin's Creed Shadows pre-order?
Have you done that? Yeah, I've done that. I've done that. Yeah. No, I had to email them.
We got in just like them piped, mate. We're going to be thinking about.
I had to I had to email them. I'm sick again.
I had to email them specifically to request that they cancel that order
because you can't do it through their website anymore for some reason.
I think they've been taken over by someone else.
And the person that was the person that was replying to me, she was like
she she basically copied and pasted my email back to me and and said,
essentially, are you sure? I was like, yes, I'm sure.
And then she was like, you need to confirm the order number again so that we're positive.
This is what you want to do in this. And you want to cancel your order.
So I did that. And they just sent me another email.
And she was like, are you sure you want to cancel your order? Yes.
Yes. It's like the full female in the Fred now cancel the order.
And then there was like three other emails after that confirming that I had canceled the order.
But what scares me is that obviously with game, they don't take the money until the preorder fucking ships.
I swear to God, if fucking two hundred and something quid leaves that account
because she ain't fucking cancel that order properly, just double check.
You know, what do you mean? Email again?
Just say, can I just confirm that this is not talking to her again?
Do you remember? Oh, no, you went to give her.
When when the switch came out, there was this really cool like carry case thing.
And you know, I think it was Zavi.
We're selling it. And so I bought it like a real fucking loads of loads of stuff.
Yes, you do. Because obviously they're coming out with fucking everything. It's great.
And anyway, they kept me on the hook. I think it was six months.
And they finally. So six months for a case.
Yeah, because I was really wanted it. I really wanted it.
And in the end, I found a different one that I actually like better.
So it was fine. But so I preordered it maybe in like the February and it should have released in the March.
And it didn't. And then it was like back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And finally, in the October, they were like, OK, yeah, we don't have it.
But like all this time. Well, yeah.
What do you mean? We're like it's on its way.
We're just we're waiting. But it was all that was stringing you along for like six months.
Yeah. Oh, I thought you meant you were waiting for it to release.
I was genuinely like, oh, my God, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
It was like still orderable. I could have bought another one.
And yet it went on and on and on. And then finally, yeah, they were just like, all right, never mind.
Because they wouldn't like cancel it. They just get nuts.
It went on for ever. How the fuck they're still going.
I think they're one of the ones that's like they're covering up for it.
So yeah. Did you see the thing? Do you remember Vivo?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Did you see that post the other day?
Basically, someone was like, what the fuck happened to that?
Like everyone, all the big artists had Vivo in their names and like it was a full on site.
Like it was basically a screenshot of Vivo from like 2007. Yeah, I remember.
And then basically writing and stuff, wasn't it?
I don't know. I think it was still red.
But and then basically it was.
I was thinking of Vimeo. Oh, that's green.
I think that's still going. That's just a hosting website, I think.
But I do know Vivo. Yeah.
And it was like Warner Brothers, SMG.
Like it was like the four big music labels.
I've got an idea. And like make it this video website.
And then, yeah, basically, obviously it never I would deliberately go and like not watch it or like go click on YouTube.
Do you remember boycotting it for like no reason at all?
No, I don't remember doing that.
Do you know? Oh, I do. But yeah, it's just like.
But you get you get things like that where where I remember Mike Shinoda was trying to promote another social media platform.
It was like it was like Triangle or something like that.
So I can't remember what random shit it was.
It was really odd. And I remember downloading it.
And it was like a like a culmination of Facebook meets Twitter meets Instagram.
Like it was it was a really weird format and like followed Mike Shinoda.
And then there's all these other celebrities.
And he promised you can speak to me directly.
It's going to be like the best thing ever.
And it was like quick like you want to get involved on this before it really blows up.
And then you can say like I was on this before everyone else.
No, Joe, I won't download threads.
I won't download threads. I refuse.
When you scroll through Instagram, then it comes up with things from Fred's.
It sounds so once you follow you on threads.
No, yeah, not happening. No.
And they try and get you. They'll be like we do tagline.
I won't finish it. And they click it.
It goes, you need to download threads.
Most of your friends are on threads. Everyone's going to join them.
It's just you. I'm not joining. Fuck all.
No, I'm not joining it. You ain't having it.
And what's more ironic is the fact that I'm not joining it for the fact that I'm not going to use it.
I have another one.
I can't have another fucking social media.
I don't use Twitter anyway, so I don't need another version of Twitter.
But it wasn't like when threads first come out and in the fine print, you basically like gave them access to absolutely everything.
And it was like you couldn't delete your account after you've done it.
Because it would delete your Instagram as well.
Yeah. And everyone was like, I'm not doing that.
Everything that we fucking download does that already.
So that's not even something that's worth worrying about.
They're not going to get my information. Fucking fuck Meta.
They've already got it.
Yeah, it's too late.
They've already got it.
You signed that away when you were 12 years old and you made your Facebook.
Yeah. It's like when fucking Mary from fucking wherever, 64 years old, puts a picture, puts a fucking copied and pasted picture.
I rebuke.
Yeah. On a story on Facebook.
Meta cannot have my photos.
This is me officially saying you don't have my permission.
You've posted it on their platform, you dumb fuck.
What do you mean?
You already accepted that you've had to accept the terms and conditions to post that there to say you don't accept them.
Yeah. You've already done that.
And then it'll be like random people that you haven't spoken to for ages and then they'll be fucking copying and pasting.
You're fucking one of them and all.
The who? Oh, George Harrison.
I'm trying to find that thing because I can't remember.
I think it was true.
And it was basically like, I just need my other hand, someone apparently they died in Disneyland.
And because it was something like they'd subscribed to fucking hell.
Jesus Christ.
Are you good?
No, because I'm trying to do it quickly.
It's getting worse.
One second.
Disneyland.
Yeah.
Disney.
Yeah.
Let's see if it was.
Yeah, they have.
They've dropped the defense.
So basically, someone had died at Disneyland due to, I think, an allergy and they tried to get out of it because he'd basically or rather she she was the one who died in somewhere in the terms and conditions of when you sign up to Disney Plus.
It's basically a waiver and they were like, we're not going to pay out for her death because she's signed this this waiver.
Saying what?
Right.
Hang on.
So they've got it.
It's not our fault.
So they have dropped it.
Basically, they've dropped a controversial legal claim that the terms and conditions that a widow agreed to when signing up for Disney Plus, the streaming service that they protect from a wrongful death lawsuit that he brought over his wife's death when she ate at a resort restaurant.
But they have decided to drop the matter.
Basically, the lawyers also judge in Florida to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit and settle any disputes out of court.
They argued that the widow had agreed to Disney's terms of use, which state that users agree to settle any disputes with the company out of court via arbitration when he signed up for a one month free trial of Disney Plus in 2019 and again in 2023 when he purchased the Disney theme park tickets using his Disney Plus account.
They were like, no, you've agreed to settle it out. So like that's what it was basically like that you can't take us to court for killing your wife because in 2019 when you got a free trial, you agreed somewhere in the terms and conditions that you'd settle any disputes with Disney.
So because we've got Disney Plus, if we ever have legal beef with Disney, we have we've signed a waiver because I've got Disney Plus saying that we personally won't take Disney to court.
We'll settle it outside of court because I who puts that in their terms and conditions for a streaming service.
So that's basically what what happened. His wife, it confirmed by the medical examiner died was a result of suffering allergic reaction.
Cause of death anaphylaxis due to elevated dairy levels of dairy and not.
And basically, they were done in a resort restaurant, he and his wife both questioned the waiter multiple times.
And they were like, I don't know if I've ever had a severe allergy and the waiter assured them that the order would be allergen free.
And obviously it wasn't. That's fucking scary in it. If I had a mega allergy, I'd be fucking terrified to go outside.
I was like, remember the one and it was like when people they've got like a thing against people ordering, you know, like obviously how milk like dairy alternatives are getting way more popular.
And then when someone comes in and they'll ask for an oat milk, they'll like put a shot of milk, like cow milk in it.
It's like that's fucking fucking kill someone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So bad.
Where people are like, oh, back in my day, we weren't allergic to things. And if you were, you just ate loads of it to get over it.
No, that's not how anaphylaxis works. That's not how it works.
Nana said shit like that. I feel allergic to sweet corn. Just eat loads of it. What do you mean? On the on one of the Facebook groups,
it was like a picture of a black and white picture of a little kid in a car.
It was like back in my day, we didn't have seat belts. We did all right.
And everyone's like, yeah, mate, it's all gone wrong. And then people like, I'm not being funny.
Not only were there dramatically less cars on the road, which makes it even worse, but the death rate of driving was significantly higher.
It is now. So actually, no, you didn't do all right. You just fucking died. You're in a car accident. It was good.
But it's exactly you go. Yeah, you did all right. You survived. So that's why you're here.
Loads of other people. I left my baby outside the butcher shop for three hours and no one took him.
All right. OK. But did he grow up to be a fully formed human or does he have a lot of issues?
We didn't bother with fucking vaccines or anything like that. We just got the mumps.
That's why no one has polio anymore, because you none of you bothered. Is that why? No. I quite like an iron lung, actually. Yeah.
Yeah. Fucking hell. It's nuts, isn't it?
Oh, my day. We had them smartphones. We used to just fucking beat each other up.
Lost contact with my mate. That was it. No texting him. Just never saw him again. Didn't do me no harm.
It's just fucking. It's so weird, isn't it?
It's what they call it. It's kind of like I suppose survivor bias in a way, isn't it?
Like you're just because I'm alive, therefore it was great. Yeah.
Yeah. The kids used to play outside all the time and not sit indoors on their fucking playstations.
Yeah. Let me go outside where all the cars are driving 60 mile an hour, where you defunded all the parks and there's fuck all in them and then just stand there in the mud.
Yeah. Staring at stuff. But at least my teacher can't, you know, slap me or make me clap chalk. Yeah.
But I can spell. It's just so weird, isn't it? Yeah. I hate that. Yeah.
Kids just fucking sit on their phones all day and the fucking tablets and all that.
But half of us gaming. Yeah. Leave us alone. Yeah.
I mean, fucking it's infuriating, isn't it? Absolutely infuriating.
You know, no, what absolutely terrifies me is that in 50 years time, it's going to be us.
It will be us because I look at teenagers now. I go, what the fuck is that? Yeah, it's weird.
What are you wearing? And why are you talking like that? Yeah.
Weirdo. Yeah. As long as I can.
Absolute tangent on this one, this is the first like 15 minutes of this with gaming.
If you're still listening, I don't know, well done up until about I'd say about eight minutes ago.
My prediction. Yeah. If you're still here, it's around 35.
We then fair play. It's all right. We'll be we'll be fucking off soon anyway.
As long as I'll be able to put my head on that pillow every night and close my eyes
and have a have a nice sleep and wake up and continue.
As long as I don't become the type of person that buys real butter and puts it in the fridge.
You know, them squares of butter, not I'm not talking about early, but early fucking anchor, whatever.
I'm talking like country fucking country file.
What's the fucking country life? That's not about either country life, isn't it?
Country life's margarine as well, I think. Well, no, it is quite hard. It's butter.
Country life, country life. I think they do both, don't they? Country life is butter.
If I have a look here, butter clover isn't butter.
Anchors, but anchor is not butter.
Anchor is not butter.
Is what anchor isn't butter?
Yes, anchor is a brand of butter. Oh, maybe clover isn't butter.
Sorry, clover isn't butter. Anchor is butter. Clover isn't butter. Sorry. Clover.
No, clover is margarine. Clover is a soft spread that resembles butter, but is not butter.
So fucking soft spread. My favorite.
Sorry. Yeah. Anchor is butter. Country life butter. Country life is is is but is it?
Country life is butter or is country life spread?
Well, it says country life spreadable. Yeah, no, it's not butter then. Country life original salted spreadable.
Yeah. No, butter with vegetable oil. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's a spread.
Well, it just says butter with vegetable oil. So that is butter with vegetable oil.
They just called it a salty spreadable. That's that's a legal avoidance.
I mean, it says butter in the fucking ingredients. What do they call cheese slices now?
Like yellow slices. Yellow slices. I think it is yellow. Let's have some burgers.
You got any yellow slices? Any of them? Hey, corned beef.
But I swear they're even less like like, you know, back in the day when they were cheese slices, I do remember them being cheesier than they are now.
Well, you had it now. It's fucking plastic. Well, you had it with the bacon. No, the fucking cheese strings the other day.
Cheese strings have gone fucking well. Downhill, downhill. The noodles in pot noodles downhill.
Cheese strings downhill. Even baby bells are suffering.
They are. They are. They're a victim.
In this whole in this whole saga, they've taken a hit.
I'm telling you now, fuck knows how they're doing. I say not well, not well. Never mind.
They're really part of it. Where's the laughing cow gone?
I ain't seen many of that knocking about. You know, the little triangles are laughing cow. Yeah.
Yeah. No. Last time I had a Dairily triangle, it was not good.
It was not good. No, you know what I think is the great fucking scourge of what the Dairily franchise was bringing in Dairily light.
That was the gateway to it being fucking shit. What is Dairily light?
It's supposed to be like less fat Dairily, but it's basically like very much.
I hate low fat mozzarella because it's not it's not mozzarella.
It's literally just bouncy fucking taste. Bouncy shit. Yeah, it's awful.
And Dairily light follows the same. I don't know if I was looking particularly porky one day, but all of a sudden my mum got started buying only Dairily light and it doesn't taste the same.
The texture is not the same. It's awful. And I love a laughing cow.
Yeah, they did. They are the triangle ones. Yeah.
But then Dairily triangles. I used to eat Dairily. Maybe that's why she was about to say.
I wonder why she bought light. I used to eat 16 triangles. No, I didn't.
But yeah, I did used to consume a significant amount of triangles.
Got posh one day, started having it with grapes. Or the Dairily straws.
What jumbo tubes? No, no, no, no, no, no, like the cheese strings.
But they were the strip cheese. You know, it was squares. One of them pulled off in quarters.
Yeah, 12, 12 individual. There were six on each side. Of course.
Oh, here's another good one as well. I keep making that loud noise. Sorry.
It's because you're holding the mic right next to your fucking mouth.
Like you're a news reporter. It doesn't need to be there. Just hold it.
No, you know, it is just a tannoy. You have to hold the tannoy here. Well, you're not at work.
No, I know. Look at the noise on there. Sorry, everybody.
Cathedral City toasties. And it was like six little bits of cheese and six little tiny pieces of toast.
Did you have them? No, but I remember them. Yeah.
You said that I remember them. Yeah. So good. So fucking nice.
Yeah, we just used to be fucking Dairily dunker types.
Oh, no, I never had. I'm talking as an adult. You'd have that fucking depressing thing where
it would just be standard tubes, not jumbo tubes. Oh, what? Breadsticks. Breadsticks.
Did you agree as well? The cheese was different. Yeah. The breadstick cheese is really runny.
Yes, yes, yes, it was. We get an horrible one where you'd open up and there'd be that fucking thick line of water over the cheese.
You go, oh, fuck it. Do you remember when they came up with the nacho ones? Grim.
Do you remember this was the fucking the best? It's the night of all the food that's discontinued.
This is the end of this soon because we're just going off on one.
The show, I've probably walked about on here before about it, the hot dog Dairily one.
And you got no, no one remembers the fucking hot dog Dairily.
It was hot dog. And then you got Capri Sun and you got two little pieces of dime.
And it was little hot dogs and you had cheese and you had sauce and they're fucking incredible.
Honestly, if I could bring anything back, I'd forego Mars planets for the Dairily hot dogs. Mars planets.
Yeah. Or do you remember Mars Delight? You don't remember Mars planets? No, I remember them. Mars planets weren't good.
They were. No. Mars Delight. Mars Delight, I remember again. Not that good.
It wasn't that good. I'll tell you what I want back. And this will be the shots. No, this will be a clip shot.
So this will be the what is this episode? This will be the final moment. Echoes. No.
It's the biscuit base I couldn't get on with. We don't have the buttery biscuit base.
See you later, everyone. Uro. Uro.