Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year. You feel the animals. This will be um, oh
It's all coming through on my phone. I've got some signal
When is Christmas that's on the Wednesday tis is it Wednesday tis
Will there be a podcast on Friday? Fuck knows I don't know have to see how we're feeling won't be
Fucking it's a bit naughty in it. It's a bit of a naughty time to be doing it two days after Christmas
But we'll see I mean I am off I think
Yeah, I'm off, but I've also got
Kids yeah
After a range that one will figure out how fucking how exciting
Games gaming fucking all sorts of stuff. I mean
I've got um, I've got a mate of work Andrew and
I've got him. I've got him in on the podcast
He's got a long commute to work
That's what I do whenever I can plug it to people that ain't fucking out of it and andrew said
Fucking nerd as well. So I was like right what you're the demographic that we aim for
and
So yeah, he's been listening to the pod I actually gifted him
Was it like a month or two months of the patrons that he can then fucking listen off the back of that
especially after last week's
Patron episode that shit was funny
So you gotta fucking listen to that
Some of his favorite episodes are your football manager
Episodes, is he not the same guy we spoke about the other day? Yeah, exactly
But obviously he was like he was like, where's the follow-on? Like what? How's he doing?
I need to fucking know and I was like, I'm really sorry. I was like the ADHD kicked in and and it got put to bed
Unfortunately, I was like there's a there's a brief like
two minute
Finisher on another episode, but I said after that I was like this is gone breath. It's done
So yeah, you know there might there may be a point where and they look forward to the how well some point Andrews gonna listen
So if you are listening
There might be some football manager stuff in the future
At the moment there won't be well football manager got delayed which has never happened before
I mean got it normally comes out in like November and it got pushed back
To like fucking March next year or so, which is more which is mental. They're just not going ready
So basically football manager has been the same for up ten years now. Nothing's really changed
They had a few new little features in
Maybe a few quality of life things, but essentially it's just the same this time
They're I think they've got a whole new match engine. They've read because it's just spreadsheets basically
Yeah, I think so every every made everything the way it looks visual and the big one
Which a lot of people are just a bit annoyed about is they've added like fucking women's football into it
They've but they've done that at the behest of removing some things like international football
So you can't be international manager anymore
So why they got rid of all of that to make room for the woman's football?
But we can't just add the women's football in alongside apparently not
Oh, so yeah, a lot of people were some managers seem a lot of people are saying like we are your demographic
I'm not saying there's not women people that play it. Of course there will be
But you're removing features to squeeze something in why not make another game
Well, why not just add it into the yeah, or just make a female football manager because the football manager has got fucking
Hundreds and thousands of players. Yeah, I know it's big so to add all the women as well
It's good. It's gonna take a lot of resources because the football manager is not just oh, this is fucking
This is Jared Bowen who plays for West Ham. It's Jared Bowen is 29. He's fucking five foot nine
Yeah, you're going through every he was born in fucking hole. He's you know
He's all these people that he's played with over his career
It's the detail in each and every single one in players even to the down to like youth players and stuff is insane
Why not just add one up? Why would you not have the capability to I don't know internally
That's what they're saying that
Yeah, it's a lot more of an undertaking than anticipated
So they've removed a lot of stuff to add the women's football a lot of people upset by it
So a lot of people are saying they're just gonna continue playing
2023 version I think it is but they're upset for the basis that you're moving removing
Stuff that you are using. Yeah, yeah to put in stuff that is not that what we assume is their target demographic
Yeah, when if you wanted to do that, maybe make the women's football manager game and see how successful that is if it sells
Well, then obviously, you know, there's a huge market. I don't understand why you'd need to go out for maybe
See why you would that be like fucking
That be like having called a duty and going right we're adding zombies
But we're also getting rid of team deathmatch to accompany it to a to accommodate it you go
Well, why not because everyone's been wanting zombies for ages? Yeah, but why you gotta get rid of TDM over that?
That don't make any sense. I don't understand that. Yeah, I've never heard of a game having to do that
How does that I don't think I imagine there is going to do it, but they don't publicly say I would remove this
Yeah, that just seems really odd of fucking
Fair play. What's the people are boycotting?
No boycott and they're just upset that they've removed features out of the game to replace it for another one
So yeah, anyway, that's that's been pushed back a long time which has never happened before
So yeah, it's gonna be a while before new football manager comes out
And even then when it comes out will I be interested in playing it?
Probably not because football manager comes out flashing a pan and I'm like that's all I care about for a couple months
And then it's dead to me. Mm-hmm
So yeah, I've got a bit burnt by Antwerp didn't I?
Fuck me. Yeah, well, I fucked him over a bit both really so fuck Antwerp and everything they stand for the football team
Not the place
And not the real Antwerp just the digital version just just in case Antwerp's listening to this
I don't want to upset you. I know I love I love the club and I love the fans just them board members man selfish fucks
Have you?
Have you watched any secret level? No, I'm not that shit came out fucking ages ago that new stuff
I see a tweet from it like Monday or last week said that their new episodes route
Yeah come out yesterday another another eight. It was a long time before that. No one it was it weren't it was it work
Is it like it wasn't I'm telling you I saw the message and I thought I wonder why they're not fucking
Already watched it because I saw a tweet. So by the way, there's loads of secret level out today and
I was like, oh, they're not talking about maybe they don't know
And I'll find the exact tree. It was on a Wednesday. It was Wednesday when it fucking come out wouldn't it?
Yes, Wednesday night yesterday. You got told no. Yeah Connor fucking
Mentioned it but I swear it was it was Wednesday was when it the second
Lot of episodes were due to release. I'll find when I saw it, but it's neither in or there
Okay, I have a way there's
There's a there's a Concord episode
which obviously was a was a bit like oh fuckin hell because
If anyone's listening isn't aware Concord was a game that was meant to be Sony's
Fucking big boy game one of their almost flagships
They that they released this year and it lasted two weeks
Was it about two weeks before the servers were shut down?
Mm-hmm, and the the the studio was was scrapped and everyone got sacked like that not not the game releasing
And then doing really bad and flopping and then blah blah blah. Let's reallocate
No, that was straight up two weeks game flop so hard. They shut the servers down. You cannot play
Concord anymore. It's done
And I remember when we saw the announcement trailer for it and it looked fucking sick, didn't it?
Yes, yes, yes, the actual CGI. I'm just reading about it came out Tuesday the the trailer for Concord looked fucking incredible
it looked like a Guardians of the Galaxy on steroids and
I remember watching the trailer and thinking I'm attached to these characters
This this whole story this this looks great
And then in the last sort of like 30 seconds of the trailer it pops up that it's a 5v5
arena style
first-person shooter and
all the fucking
Oh
Jesus Christ people were angry. It looked like a Guardians of the Galaxy
It looked like a Guardians of the Galaxy, didn't it?
It looked like Guardians of the Galaxy and then it turns out it's actually just a fucking overwatch copy at the end and you go
What the fuck how incredibly misleading is that?
Mental I the last thing I was expecting after seeing that trailer was it to pop up and tell me it's a fucking 5v5
absolutely ridiculous
um, and
I think a lot of people were were miffed by that because they're like no one's no one's asked for this
Why are we why are we trying to break into that because the trailer looks sick and then sure enough when it released?
um, I don't actually know the full specifics as to why it flopped
Because there's a handful of people that were saying no, it's actually a good game
But it just got caught in the in the shit storm, but there must because I never played it
um
But either way it had really negative
reviews, um
I don't know whether that was because the developers sort of like based the characters around themselves and
And I remember like there was I think one of the characters was meant to be like quite a tanky character
But but the the the character itself
Didn't suit that style of of gameplay and people were annoyed about that because it was I would that's not fucking
I don't really know there's not a visual representation of the the tank is a big bulky. Yeah. Yeah
So they so that got
That got scrapped. Um and died a death within two weeks
Anyway, uh secret level they had obviously already started creating the episode or had probably already finished the episode
um before
Concord had released either way. It was it was to a point where it was like right
We can't scrap it. We'll need to continue making it
so when
That popped up for the announcement um trailer for secret level. It was oh fucking no. That's gonna be that's gonna be hairy. Whoops
I have seen that episode
and it is
Possibly one of the best things i've ever seen in my life in my animation viewing life. That was
One of the best episodes of of one of the best things that I have seen and that made me quite sad because
Fucking hell was it impressive the animation of it?
The the story of it fucking space what it made me want to do is play no man's sky
After or some kind of space game. It gave me that absolute fucking buzz. It was so good. I uh, reinstalled no man's sky
Have they yeah good i'm telling you 10 minutes turn it off. I'm still waiting for fucking light. No fire, man
Yeah, same that's gonna be good. But but if I know I know you're
Busy watching have you finished castlevania?
Finished it yesterday
So you're now you're viewing eyes are now free to explore other things
No, because I need to watch the next castlevania nocturne, which is the new fuck. Can you not squeeze secret level in quick?
You know why I don't really care for secret level you will when you watch it. I won't i'll tell you for why
because
15 minute episodes, right?
Right. I'm gonna get well into one of them and be like I want more of this one
And there's not going to be more of this one
There's gonna be more stuff i'm not interested and then i'm gonna watch that and i'm gonna go no
I want more of this one and it's never gonna end and you're gonna be interested in pretty much every single episode
I reckon yeah, and I don't want to be I want I just funny enough while you were talking. I just uh, I saw a
still image of the dungeons and dragons episode
And I was like that looks amazing. I want a whole series of that. I I even see it
I know how your brain works. Um, because me and stef have have watched the first
set of episodes bar two
um
and
That dnd one
and the warhammer one
but especially the
Well, I don't know man because they're both fucking sick the dnd one tickles your pickle because obviously we're actively playing dnd
and
brother it it's just fucking
Incredible and makes you sit there and go. Oh fucking I want to play dnd
I want to fucking get involved and then the warhammer one
I got that warhammer episode made me sit down on youtube and watch fucking lore videos about it
I told you warhammer laws mad crazy crazy shit and then I went and spoke to connor about it and he was like
I don't watch that guy
So I was like, oh you just spoiled it for me. Thanks con
Tell me what to watch then mate because I ain't got fucking clothes when you type in warhammer law to youtube
That is a fucking deep hole to dive into very deep
But yeah, I think you're doing yourself a disservice by not watching it. I will watch you love them
I will watch i'll probably cherry pick them. I'll be honest with you because
My mind works in mysterious ways as I said when i'm into my i'm not into warhammer
I love warhammer. It's sick, but i'm on my medieval fantasy shit, bro. The 15 minute episode. I know but
I'm playing done. I'm playing boulder's gate again. Yeah, so I want to watch the dames and dragons one and whatever
I can we can we can watch that after this pod what other fantasy ones it are
But then if I watch that and we're all on play boulder's gate and then if I watch the warhammer one
I'm reinstalling space marine and i'm just not gonna know what to do with myself after that
I'm gonna have a meltdown play nothing sit there and eat ben and jerry's in a huff
So I know
My brain's weird, bro
um
But yeah, I will I will cherry pick the the dungeon dragons one for sure
I will watch that most certainly but i've had this before man. I've had this this exact thing happen star wars done a thing called
um star wars
beginnings or star wars something and they were all like
just little 15 minute cartoons
um, and they were all like but they
they give so much for what they was like
Like uh, like the beginning of kwaigong jinn and stuff like that of how he met count dooku and bloody bloody blah
But considering the amount of lore on star wars that little 15 minute snippet just opens up wormholes
Of potential laws and why this happened why this happened why this happened and that was frustrating because you're watching it'll be like
This is fucking great
But then it'd move on to fucking I don't know baby asokitano or something growing up
I mean, oh, this is fucking so interesting then moves on to next one and that's following the same
Universe so doing that with all these different subjects just gonna piss me off. Well, I know it is
I can appreciate that is fucking fantastic and I will watch some of them
I think that's why they're so fantastic is because you're getting short bursts
So so rather than them sitting there and going right we need to make eight hours worth of viewing
art
then 15 minutes of like
If you're tasked with either making eight hours of something and making it fucking decent for the majority of those eight hours and keeping people
interested as opposed to a 15 minute
fucking episode where
You can throw as much shit in as you want to make it interesting. But even then
I think it's quite a
It's quite an art form to be able to have such short episodes and almost fulfill
your
Part of if not the entire story within that 15 minutes like the new world one
very good very um
very
Almost thought-provoking. Um
It's got all the old arnie in it
Is it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
It's good man. It is they're very very good. Very good. Um
I recommend them. I will watch it. I give you my word. I'll watch at least one of them. Um
Um side note to that i've have been playing boulders gate again
I'm continuing on solax astaria's journey. He's a cunt trying to work out in my head whether this is going to be set before
the campaign or after
Probably after because of uh, you know, he's probably gonna have a bit of a brutal ending as well
I don't think i'm gonna lead him down a very good path
Because i'm doing a dark urge playthrough and I know they're very different
And it's like a beginning thing that you can pick and I know it's just like I was at
Explain uh, so you can when you start at the beginning
I can't remember the certain there's certain things you can pick and one of them is called the dark urge
And it's just like i'm mysterious voice talks to you blah blah blah blah blah and then
but then now
Just when i'm bowling about or certain dialogue things are happening
It'd just be like
kill him
I was like, oh, yeah. All right, and there's just things like that. Yeah, all right do it
I don't really know what's gonna happen. I imagine you can lead them away from that or
Lean into it or find out what it is, but it's all like a mysterious thing
So I know it changes a lot in the game just on its own
So yeah, I thought that would be are you just doing whatever it tells you to do?
Uh, no, not really. Uh, I kind of just do my own thing what I have understood about boulders gate
which
Is very interesting to me is that when I played it
I had a good grasp on what was going on now when I went into playing dnd with you with you boys
and girls, um, I
I went in
I think it's fair to say a lot more knowledgeable than you and darryl because of bold only through boulders gate and listening to podcasts and stuff
But now having played dnd
For the time that we haven't gone back to boulders gate. I realized that i've learned so much more from playing dnd now playing boulders gate
Because there's so many abilities that I just completely ignored that I had
Uh, i.e. It's like
so many abilities that say are
Give a target. Um advantage on their next attack roles and to me i've just i've always just been like that sounds shit
So i'll never do that. There's no damage numbers in that i'm not interested exactly that
I don't understand what you're on about. But now I know advantage means roll twice
Waste a bonus action on not attacking something how stupid exactly and now I know that advantage means
You know roll a dice and take the high number. I'm like, yes you have advantage now
You have advantage you'll get advantage and it's just completely changed the way i play the game
i'm going for a uh
A sorcerer necromancer. I think that's the that's what i'm leaning into if solax is um
And that's what you can also lean into on our actual dnd campaign. Well, that's if we ever make it back to that point
That's what i'm trying to do. So yeah, i'm uh
See that's that's what could happen. Right? So in my head counter now, it's just all coming to me now
So this dark urge could be
something that happened
during our campaign
and then
I forgot about it and now the dark urge is coming back to me
And now i'm doing the bad shit that I used to do from the campaign
Well, I was talking to connor about because obviously i'm
I love it fingers crossed. He writes me back in otherwise
It's going to be one boring fucking time when we when we go back around there. Um
coming back as a cleric and
We had a little conversation about if you
If you're to die
obviously when I was playing as as um as
as during during
None of us had any any ability to revive anyone to to resurrect
Whereas as a cleric and i'm sure um darrell can have it as a paladin at some point because that would make sense
Um, but as a cleric, that's uh, I don't think i've actually got it yet
But I definitely know that you you could get resurrection
And we had a conversation of is that a point of you die and I bring you back to life. Is that then necromancy?
because I brought you back to life because I was talking to him I was like well what if
What if me and that fucking actual necromancer start butting heads or I want to fucking speak to it like
And we were trying to trying to sort of decipher
um
How that would go about but that would be quite interesting if one of us turns and because obviously I know you're interested in the fucking
Necromancy the dark side of him because that's when he let me know that we can't we can't bring
Um drew him back to to life because he's in bits. Yeah
I think like necromancy and their small like reanimated the dead in it and I think you can only reanimate the dead for 24 hours
Um, and I only know that since into a podcast on the way here
That's exactly what they just did to a random character because much like uh knobby
No
Uh, they've got a character called paul
Cool save nice
And uh, he he double crossed them
Um, and he was they were just carrying him around like we carry knobby about
And uh, one of the characters shot him in the face with a crossbow and then the other character felt bad
So he reanimated him back to life because what because what did what would you?
uh
Say in in terms of of wow, obviously you don't have a necromancer in well what you kind of do so you got
So you got warlocks
Which obviously are in control of of big fucking demonic creatures. Um, always have a fucking minion with them
Whether it be like a little a little imp or big fucking void walker thing or succubus or other shit
Um, and then you've got demonology warlocks where they're all fucking pets. They're all in on on big motherfuckers
um, and then you've got unholy death knights and they are necromancers, but they're
Their melee necromancers big fucking two-handed swords and shit
but they
They have a a ghoul with them a constant minion is is with them
and their whole thing is about
uh causing
infection and disease amongst their enemies and fucking um
Raising armies of fucking dead and ghouls and
And vampire things and all sorts of horrible shit night creatures, which one's your fucking preference?
Because obviously you you like a ranged character
But would you want to be given the choice?
Would you mean I like a ranged character in what respect like ranged as in everything you're fucking playing is ranged
Yeah, but I don't no no, you know that I don't yeah, but yeah, but this yeah
But I'm starting to think you're talking shit because elden ring
elden ring
A lot of your stuff was fucking ranged even though you were playing a melee build you were using that fucking moon
Remember yeah, but that's I was using a sword and then that was just overpowered as fuck
Yeah, you still was fucking and then and then you look at your dnd campaign
All you do is sit at the back dragons dogma two dragons dogma two
So i'm I don't think I think you're having a crisis. I don't think that you're actually a melee. I am a
A melee player through and through but i'm trying to go outside my comfort zone
And the reason is a lot of the games that I tend to play
As of late, I guess world of warcraft and things like that if you want to just if you want to just do sword shit
So i've got to be a great sword or it's got to be sword and board
I don't like that
I just like one sword or dual swords. That's all I like. Well, we played as roves. It was dual
Yeah, and and um
Rain dolo. He he was a rogue. He was a rogue. He was a sword geezer
Yeah, or a bow, but yeah predominantly I only ever ever use melee
So i'm just trying to switch up a bit man. I'm just trying to be a bit different. We're doing the same things
The only reason no completely different because now i'm playing a sorcerer on no, no not completely different. I'm doing that with wow at the moment
Oh, we're doing the same thing. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, I thought you meant by doing the same thing. No, no, no
Yeah, because you were playing you was playing a major wizard. Yeah in what in wow you went and made a little character for a bit
Uh my the last last character that I was trying that I was I was playing and I was thinking about maining
It is a shadow priest. That's it and they and they are all about um giving in to to to the old gods and um
Basically fucking with people's minds and inflicting damage for that way
But a lot of their stuff they summon shadowy apparitions that go
Back to the question that you originally asked me from what you just told me the them death knights
They'd sound sick. Yeah, that is what I would be all over apart from apart from the dual rounded sword
But nevertheless still sounds sick
very cool, cool, um very um
Very interesting role play capability real decent immersion. We're playing a character like that
Especially if like wrath of the lich king is your like one of your favorite
not yours personally, but one of your favorite expansions the the
the
death knight theme
And playing as unholy is what they're called an unholy death knight. They're just fucking sick man. Basically the opposite to a paladin
Yeah evil just proper or a lot of cunts. I like liches as well
There's liches in the book that I was reading and they're fucking they're powerful
It's so such a it's such a weird thing how you're
so naturally drawn to the
absolute demonic
And it's weird. It's I'll tell you why it is because they always have the coolest powers cool shit
That's it's not because I like being evil. I just like seeing cool stuff. What you can raise a fucking
Skeleton to fight for you or but then I think you can summon a fucking portal of evil fucking
Demons that pull them in and shit. They're always cool. Like the same with jedi's and that they do
I can throw you over there or vaid all just fucking pick you up by your throat and snap your neck twisting his fingers
But now just on the flip side
then you get something like a like a priest or a paladin or a cleric or something like that where where
You come up against this horrible ghastly fucking
thing that can can summon the undead and and and all the horrors of the world and you can just fucking send down god's holy light
Himself a bang fuck off. I mean
That in itself
Bastard a demon down little bit of fucking light man
Oh god, when you watch the dnd secret level, you'll experience that i'm telling you that you're gonna go fucking yes, mom
Oh jesus christ
What a fucking what a weird
Oh, it's incredible
Oh, it's incredible. I'm absolutely fucking um absorbed by it. Let me tell you when I finished castlevania yesterday
Um
At the end I was like, you know, like one of these people that get well far too too far into anime. Yeah
That's what I was like. I was like no
And then I was like, yes fucking yes
And it was like, you know half 11 at night and I was like fucking come on go on son fucking come on
It was just I need to i've never been that far into like an anime like that. I was so invested
I was getting like emotionally attached. I was like no like general
I was like, I can't no no, please
It was just mad it was madness I need to I need to I think i'm halfway through season two
It's I need to need to pick it back up. So good
I think it it slowed down for a couple of episodes and I was like, is this gonna pick back up again?
And then yeah, it fucking does and what I wasn't expecting in it was the amount of
crazy twists and turns and double crosses and
There's so much in there that I was just I thought it was just a very bland plain story
You know
It fucking ain't mate. It goes up and down and back and round and
It's crazy. It's fucking crazy in four seasons short seasons as well
What they've what they achieved in that?
Unbelievable, I know connor said the nocturne isn't that good?
Uh, I saw reviews which beg to differ but i'll make my mind up because I don't know what anyone said about castlevania
Because I think that came out
Five six years ago
Um, but yeah, i'll make my mind up on that
But if it's even fucking half as good as that i'll be very happy. Yeah, but connor's so miserable
He's a miserable guy. He's just he's just fucking miserable. He's a bit of a missile. He's got he's got work van now. Yeah
Saving shit loads of money like 250 quid a month
a month free it's all free all he's done is winch
Winchie winchie winchie winchie winchie. I mean you got a big fat pink van on his driveway. What's not to like?
He's just so fucking and he'll be listening. You go. I'm not negative you are you're just like fucking up
You're just like matt two peas in a pod. He can't he hasn't been at work all week
He come in thursday. You're two days to do before you broke up for christmas
The first thing he said to me when he got in the van thursday morning
In fucking boxes the bikes turn up in a fucking piss tank ginormous. Look at these
I haven't seen you for like a fucking week
And the first thing you do is moan about the size of the boxes things were delivered in
It's just like he bought bikes and he was annoyed that they turn up in big boxes
But then they they came in separate boxes, but you could have fit fucking both them boxes and another box in the box
I was just like
One it's far too early to be fucking going on about this two. I don't care three. You're a grumpy cunt
And I said such to him. I said to him today. I think
Is there anything on this planet that you won't moan about?
Because i've always been told you're too grumpy. I'm starting to see if i'm like that
I can see why that would be you're not that bad. You're not Jesus christ
Have a bit more of a positive outlook. I grabbed the hold of connor the other day and shook him
I said fucking sort yourself out lad
Can you give me a little cheeky smile? It's just yeah, just man life's miserable be happy man. Come on
Be happy and smile look you've got dungeons and dragons
I'll tell you why he's been miserable right is because for maybe a week possibly two weeks consistently
He's been coming in to work
Absolutely knackered. He looks like death. All right, and every time i've asked him i go what the fuck is wrong with you
What you been doing? I've had a late night. I've had a late night. I didn't go to bed till half eleven or whatever
I go well what you been doing? You want to know what he's been doing? Painting. Painting? Yeah, of course he has. Painting his war hammers
He's that fucking
Hmm into it. He's like well i've got it. What is it? He's like he's wild he's got the motivation and we crack him out
So he's just painting all of his fucking minifigures
But it's doing you ink on because you're fucking
You might be happy while you're sitting there with a little magnifying glass and your paintbrush, but you ain't happy in the morning lad
All right, I can't help but sympathize with him because i'm the same
I uh
No, fuck you. I can't sympathize with you
I'll tell you for why i'm not sympathizing with you because I did for a second go on you ain't got fucking kids
You want to do that shit get in and do it when you're getting from work
You've got all night my night starts at like half seven eight
So I get two hours or so to do what I want to do you all fucking night
Yeah, but he lives very far away, but he's still gonna be home and playing and doing whatever activity he wants four hours before me
Correct. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what he does when he gets home
Well fucking put all that shit to the side and go to bed early you cunt
Because he gets up early as well, don't he?
Yeah, yeah stupid early he gets up because he travels. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah fair enough
Yeah, go to bed earlier man. You haven't got fucking kids. You can do your shit a lot earlier than I can
I've got a reason I stay up so late is because I need very little time group chat is gonna fucking kick off when he listens
No, not till Monday. Are you gonna release it today Christmas special?
Not till Monday got a couple days to fucking recindle that I don't mean it
We can't release that I do sympathize with him because I yesterday I was playing belattro
Uh, I was watching football and then the football finished at 10 and I went i'm gonna turn
The playstation off now and i'm gonna go sleep
And I didn't and I was still awake at 12 o'clock
So and I was really tired. I was falling asleep watching the football
Why why am I still doing this? Then I played I played a little run event of the gungeon
Why am I doing this haven't played this game in like six months turn that off?
Then I put
YouTube on
And I was like, oh, I really want to play path of exile
So then I put playstation on redownloaded path of exile turn playstation off
Then I watched castlevania. I was falling asleep watching castlevania for there's only like two episodes left
I really should just go sleep and enjoy them tomorrow
Just stuck it out
And now i'm very tired. That's why I was asleep. Oh, well you did that last night. Yeah. Yeah busy night
But I was falling asleep hours earlier. I thought you meant an actual busy night. No, no all my own doing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
100 I only got myself to blame but it's last day in it. So i'm just like, you know
I'm working monday tuesday. You got one more day. I'm thinking just get through it son. You'll be all right
You can start as late as you want late night thursday and all that
And then it's christmas. So yeah, fuck it man. I'm good. I'm good
I'm happy you got that buzz because you ain't got to fucking do anything
Yeah, that's fair play gasp
I'll get to go to the dump tomorrow
Yes to the dump. Yeah, do you have to book your fucking spot still? Yeah, yeah
It's all booked up mate. Got to take a fucking bed down there. I wish you'd save this for the patreon
So otherwise we'll have nothing to talk about
Ha ha ha
How are you getting on with belatro belatro belatro
As I said to you before
I got I think it was either on my first or second run man. I got to a final boss
I was going as easy as piss and then I got smashed
And then for the next I don't know how many days I got to the dump
And then for the next I don't know how many runs I didn't even get fucking close
Same here man
And then you won and I was like nice. I can do it. So I kept plugging away
You know you inspired me. I didn't take it offensively. It's like millennia all over again or redone
You took it offensively didn't you? He's come he's done it. I was fuming got out of bed
Yeah, see I done the opposite. I was inspired. I was like, yes, I can do it too
And then I got through it and I was gassed and then I won my second one
And yeah, and then I found out that my play is just two pair all the time two pairs very easy to find. However
I feel like I've found the most I don't know if I've found it
I mean everyone probably finds fairly obvious. I've unlocked a new starter deck
which is surely the most overpowered broken one there is
and it is the
Uh, every card in your deck is either spades or hearts
So it's almost impossible to not find a flush
Uh, you know what I mean? So it's just flush flush flush flush that that um that build where I my
I've topped out like 2.4 million mental was my like big hand. That was all fucking um
Flushes and straights that was actually uh, that was a straight build
Um, because the joke is that I had one of them
one of them cut out, uh
so rather than needing like
like um
Eight nine ten eleven whatever four it would cut them out
So you so you would go so four six eight
Yeah, so you skip a number. Yeah, skip a number so you could go you could go
One three five or you could go like one three four five and then skip
um, and then I had another joker that made
Spades and clubs the same suit and then hearts and diamonds the same suit
Wow, yeah, so and then I just had multipliers fucking everywhere. I had one
I mean I leveled up my straight to it was like level
13 or something like that
And then had another joker where it was like gave me
It was like a double multiplier
Um if I got a straight
And then I had another joker where it copied the joker to the right of it
So I put that fucking to the left of the one that gave me a double multiplier
So I was just hitting straights constantly and it was a piece of piss and then yeah, I hit that fucking
Finish that that boss and then you get into um
Like challenge mode or just never ending mode and then yeah, it was anti 11 where it just went
It just just switched. I went from like
The big blind being 500 000 to 7.2 million
Just out of nowhere
That's that's a hard stop right there. I can't do anything for that
Did you not have the boss blind where it was just big big blind and that's what yeah big blind
Yeah, that's why it jumps. Well, I fucking doubles it. No, no, no, this was this was the small blind
Yeah, but it went to 7.2. Does it not make all of them? No, no, no
No, I just fucking jumped straight to 7.2 million. It was ridiculous. Do you ever skip them?
No, I should why because you get rewards in it
You don't get rewards for skipping you should do
What?
What do you mean you get rewards bro? What rewards so like you go on? Um
Say you're on small blind and then you press the skip button it tell you what you get
So it will be like a lot of the time i'll skip if it says it will say the next uncommon joker is free
Plus it'll be polychrome
Oh, I didn't know that if you if you skip i'll show you look
Uh, just press play here blah blah blah. Maybe you're gonna have to fucking
Yeah, look, so it says skip blind there. If you press this button look
gives five pound per skip blind this run
So that's what it will give you if you skip i'll give you a fiver. Yeah, and then this one initial cards and booster packs
In the next shop are free
Oh, I didn't know so yeah, you should you should skip sometimes man. Sometimes. Yeah free jokers rather than three loads of free shit
I did not know that that's terrible. You learn something new every day, you know about um
Um, like putting your multies as well putting them at the end and shit. Yeah, yeah moving them all around
You know what? I only just found out about that today
Where they trigger in an order. I only just found out about that today
So there's been a lot of times when I could easy I bet you could have made that fucking seven mil now
Probably could have to be fair. I probably could have all you get. Oh, you get the fucking horrible boss boss blinds where um
I don't know where one hand. No, I don't mind that one. No, i'm fucking biggest one is you can't see your fucking cards
Oh, that one's a cunt. What the fuck am I supposed to do? That one's a cunt
I was lucky i've had that twice and i've been lucky both times with that
Jesus pisses me off bro. I'm just like shit in it just guess then or where or where it's like, oh spades are all debuffed
But it also fucking knows that you've picked the card where it's like change your entire hand to spades
So then when it pops up boom all fucking spades, they're all debuffed. There's no point me laying them
I had that earlier today spades and uh spades and hearts are the only cards in the whole
Decks in the whole deck for me and it was like diamonds a debuff. I was like, oh no
Oh dear i'm devastated. How will I survive?
What a simple game, but absolutely fantastic. Oh, it's so good man. It's really good. Well mate j
Um, yeah the deck where you have no faces in your deck
No faces whatsoever and apparently that's quite fucking tough to to get a win with because obviously there's nothing
I'll tell you what I had
I had an unbelievable run going and it was uh the joker that
Says all face cards all cards are considered face cards. Yes. Yes. Yes
That's a fantastic joker. And then I had another joker which synergized with that which was something about uh, every time
You use a face card you multiply increases yada yada yada and I was fucking flying. I was like I am gonna reach
Infinite level there's nothing that can stop me until I reach the boss blind that says that said all face cards are
Debuffed or and the wrong way around or something. That's exactly what happened to me
I had the same joker all cards considered fucking face cards and then I had another joker where it was like it gives you
Gives you like two and a half multiplier for putting down a face card
So I was like we're fucking winners here and it was just just breeze breeze breeze and then yeah
Exactly the same happened to me got to a boss blind and it was yeah, all face cards are debuffed
I was like well, what am I supposed to do?
So then what I did is I then had to I then had to sell that joker to try and do it
But because of because my entire build was built around fucking having having faces
I had nothing when that fucking when I had that boss blind I had nothing I could do
I was like you dirty dirty. You're telling me that this is just a random algorithm bollocks
I've made an entire build around faces and you've just fucking thrown that at me. Yeah, it's such a fucking good
One geezer made that game one geezers another vampire survivors all over again when when when the game of the year, um
Nominations and everything come out. I know that we looked at belar trail and we were a bit like what the fuck never heard of it
I was like what i'd heard of it
But I looked and i've watched videos on it and i'd read about it and I was just like none of this interest
I had nothing about so plain boring. I'm sorry. I like card games. I'm playing slay the spire also at the same time now
and i've played that for a long time and
I like card games. I love card games fucking half stone fucking
Marvel snap like yeah card game connoisseur guent everything like that and I look at this i'm like but it's just poker bro
It's poker. It's boring. It can't interest me. Oh, it's fucking interesting. Yeah. Yeah, it's all the numbers and the clicking and then when you get the multiply
And then when you get multiple multipliers and then it starts speeding itself up and then you get the little flames above
It's a good one
Oh, and you get the fucking money at the end and bing bang bong bash
Yeah, it's good because the only reason that I fucking got it was because
For a long time now. I've been I pay for picture this on my phone
for like plant identification all that bollocks, um
So i've just been passively building up google play points and then yeah, I had like 15 quids worth and it was a tenner
I was like fuck it. Well, we spoke about that felt dirty bastard buying something off a play store
horrible dirty man, yeah, the funny thing is like
You you you're buying something off of a play store and it feels dirty
But it's money well spent and also you would never have bought that without them without them points
But you'll spunk money on stupid shit, but to spend a tenner on a game that you want to play
But you're like, oh it's on my phone. I'm exactly the same but i'll spend fucking 20 quid on a shitty pop figure
Yeah, I don't like it on my phone. Let me let me bring in this steam deck. That's 10 times the size of it
I'll play it on that. That's what I need. Initially. I was gonna do is like no i'll get on steam
I was like, but but i'll play it all the time if it's on my phone if it's good all the time
Well, I can limit myself to the steam deck which I don't play
Unless i'm playing something consistently. I won't take that to work with me. I think this is with me all the time
Hmm. I was I was literally we were killing killing a bit of time
um like
40 minutes, uh, because we were quite close to to the yard
um
And having a bit of lunch and then just pulled out my phone
And then there's just me and jay just fucking he he's like helping me alongside me and I said to him
I said, why aren't you fucking why because he got it on playstation
I said, why don't you buy us on your phone? I was like because it'd be curtains for me. It's i'll be done
Because he plays he plays that pokemon
pocket
religiously
Oh, there's pokemon pocket. Yeah. Yeah all the fucking time
So I like that but you know what the problem is is the games take too long
I like the snappiness of balatro and also I can just go well i'll play this later and I can just leave the run
And come back and yeah, I haven't got a fucking worry. Like if you're playing pokemon pocket
You you're playing against people bro. You can't just pause that shit
Yeah, because fucking roman's got both the decks now and all
I've pretty much got both the decks already. I saved so many hourglasses. That's exactly what that's exactly
What he fucking did man? He because where he I think he spent over 100 quid on it now something ridiculous like that
Yeah, but he's adhd to fuck. I had I had to practically beg him to stop buying slabs
Stop buying slabs stop buying them easy done. I say well you got you got proper into it and I said to him
I said you're gonna crash you're gonna burn. I said i'm telling you now from experience
Stop buying them
I know they look lovely and shiny but stop buying them and then he didn't listen and then he fucking crashed and burned
Okay, so what brought out for Christmas for his nephew? That's very nice little fucking PSA 10 Charizard
Did he say how much it cost him? It's 40 quid. That's not bad
And then he was like well
Looks like I'm buying slabs again. He's like all the way back in
Fucking loved it. Did you see um, ace grading got robbed? I did I watched the video as well
Yeah, sad man. He was devastated. Yeah fucking targeted attack and I was sort of talking about that
Um the other day you'd be fuming wouldn't you if you sent off one of your cards to get graded and then they're guy
Yeah, we're compensating guys. I want compensation
I want my fucking card from from when I was reading the comments a lot of people in there who had allegedly
I can't prove this but they were saying that they was one of the people that their card stolen
Randolph the guy whose company is
personally ranked each one
Said they're really sorry and gave them
What they are more happy with market value for them. So if they're happy with that, you know, you can either go and buy one
That's crazy though. Yeah, but he's out to like all these business ventures all down the put
He was building his own warehouse or he had his own warehouse with his own TCG shop
He was building there was gonna make a Pokemon shop where you can come battle trade come buy stuff
All that he's just like you're gonna have to all the money out of that and put it all into this
and yeah, the dirty thing is his inside job because
They only took very specific stuff. They didn't take stuff that any old robbery would take
They knew what they were taking
And they do have security, but they didn't manage to you know, alert any of that or anything. So yeah, very very sad
I feel very sorry for him and all involved very very doggy very doggy
Careful you trust man. I felt that's quite a hard thing to fucking sell off and all
Mm-hmm
because like it
Yeah tough, but there's some fucking scum in the world with that
Fucking scum in the world with shit like that
Especially just look at a fucking regular geezer like us. I mean, we're different
We're people we're employed but you're self-employed bopping about in a fucking van and they break in and nick all your tools
Yeah, you're fucked bro. Yeah, that's your livelihood that feeds your kids. There you go. I'm done. It's just devastating
But people don't care. They're like, oh, I'll sell this fucking tool for 200 grid sweet
Yeah, literally ruin my life. I've got nothing
I've got no tools can take ages for insurance payout if they do and i've got to rebuy all these tools when I should
Be doing jobs monday to friday. Well, you think we have that shit fucking looming on us constantly. Yeah, but it's not our stuff
It's not our stuff. That's what I mean. If you're self-employed and you've got a job monday tuesday wednesday
They're all lined up and then you get robbed monday morning all your tools gone
Not only have you lost all your job lost all your jobs or you can't do your job
So you said you so you're losing that money
You're also waiting for insurance to get the money back so you can go and buy the tools again
You're just out of work for ages and it's just scummy scumbags
This isn't a crime podcast. This isn't a crime podcast turning into I like ace grading
Yeah, I like but I mean grading as well has always been such a such a gray sort of area
I'm still butthurt from my fucking grade if i'm perfectly honest
I'm never getting the fucking anything graded again. Where did you send that?
ace ace
Oh, yeah, yeah
You little fuckers. I told you I was coming for you
Yeah, make me pay a quid for the fucking whole whole breakdown of my grading. Yeah, geese at works
Just sent loads off to psa
He sends them off. He sent a big bowl. Well, he sends them to fucking america. Mm-hmm
I can't know. He said he's like eight quid a card. He said or something
Yeah, I just couldn't do it because what I don't I don't for some reason. I know it's scary. I don't trust it
It's a long old way to fucking send it over and then make make it back in in because
It's not the coming back. That's the problem for me. It's the sending them out 100 because you go
All right, i've sent this perfect fucking charizard, whatever
And it rocks up and it fucking grades are two because it's snapped in half
Yeah, what do you mean? What do you mean?
like when
Uh the fucking logan paul's charizard
Where he had it actually cracked back out of the fucking slab and then
Regraded by a different company that that only had what was it like two charizards on their roster that had been graded
so therefore made a
A 10 a mint 10 even rarer for that grader
So it's like the fucking the the money that he could have lost
I mean not that it's fucking anything to to logan paul
But the money that he could have lost by doing that is is quite quite crazy or the fucking the one ring with um
Magic the gathering postman. Oh, well post he bought it. I tell him to fuck off
Like I don't know. I remember you said it's for it's worth what I want it to be worth
You get that card, right?
Everyone's sitting post. He's sitting there. He's like i'll fucking i'll give you 2.5 million for that card
You go right? Well, you've just made that card 2.5 million pounds worth
I want fucking 5 million, please you go. Well, no, it's only worth 2.5
You go. No, i'm saying it's worth five and i've got it. I've got the only fucking one
So five million, please i've got the one true rick. Yeah, but you'd be scared wouldn't you?
if you're just if if if you're just a
Normal person normal human being living a normal life. Nothing fucking too extravagant, but you're you're sweet
You got you got your little house. You've got got your family whatever and then you got fucking five million quids worth of a card sat in the drawer
I
Come in vader's got it
Imagine imagine that
Yeah, you probably would fucking sell it off to someone do because you wouldn't know you wouldn't have to you'd have to because you don't
know what could happen and
The only thing in back of my mind and I hope I wouldn't be so greedy
But if you're telling me now that cause of two and a half million and what that shit gonna be worth in 20 years
Could you imagine it's gonna be ridiculous. You mean like bitcoin?
There's one of these cards and even if there is more later down the line. It's not the OG
This is the original and it will be known to be the first this shit is going to be worth fucking billions
You know, I mean you're offering 2.5
I've posted you've just fucked yourself. I want 10. I want 10 million sit on that shit. All right, we'll settle on seven
That's fine. I think I think if I personally had something like that, I'd have to put it in storage
I'd have to I'd have to wrap it up perfect and put in like a
Storage container like not one of them little maccy ones, you know, the secure storage like a vault
I couldn't have it just sitting about the house
And then uh, yeah, then I'd die and no one would know it was in there and jen would go in there and she'd be like
Oh, you didn't have to eat some shit
Yeah, could you imagine bint?
Fucking magic. The garrons fucking loser another adhd venture fucking on vinted for a quid
Done people wouldn't even buy it
Fake shit, what do you mean the the one ring on vinted for fucking seven pound fifty postage? I'm not paying that
Yeah, be stupid brov not knowing the one true ring is actually
The one yeah, have you watched any of the uh, the anime and the more the roherian? Yeah
No, haven't gone to see it yet. It's got bad reviews. I've heard good things though. Yeah
I when I went out to look it had a this what I don't get which is why I don't trust it at all
had good, um good, uh
normal people reviews
And then bad critic reviews
Oh, it's a film. I thought it was a series. It's a film bro. Oh nice
Rate that yeah, why would you see it? 100% you can come see it with me then if you want
Uh, don't know about that. Oh, I'll go fuck myself in i'm joking
Uh, i'm not really uh, I could use my taste card get cheap cinema tickets
It's cheap cinema down the road man. Yeah. I know matt always goes on about that. What the rio? I don't know where it is
But you thought it's about three quid. Yeah, tape as fuck man decent cinema
Love it. But you know me i'm a i'm an odian guy bro. I just love it. I love the cheesy nachos
We'll watch it at some point. I was I was meant to watch it on release, but just been fucking busy
So maybe maybe tomorrow i'll go and see it tonight
Oh, you could watch it on your own. Yeah. Yeah, I was here. I was there. No, no, no, you don't be ridiculous
I'm just talking, you know in general. Oh, sorry just in general. I might watch it. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine
I'm watching a trailer on youtube or something. Yep. It's got brian cox in it
Yeah, you like brian cox. Yeah, I love brian cox. Why is he in lord of rings? He's got such a fantastic voice
Where is gandalf and out there is the star?
the one ring
183 years for the events chronicled in the original trilogy a sudden attack by wolf a clever and ruthless
Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father forces helm hammerhead helm hammerhand
And his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the hornberg
Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation
Hera the daughter of helm must summon the will to lead the resistance against the deadly enemy intent on their total destruction
I didn't know it was a film. I'm much more intrigued about it
It's a lot of the rings. So we're all over it. Yeah
Sorry, that's pretty loud patron time. Oh
See you later. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on
Merry christmas guys. Merry christmas in case we don't see you on the friday. Well, we won't see you on christmas exactly
So merry christmas jingle bells batman smells and I hope you'll have loads of food. Oh, right. All right