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shit, more shit. It's usually shit. That's about

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it, really. That's the summary of it. Delve straight

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into the episode. I've got Split Fiction. Saw

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it on the way in. I bought it. Turned up today.

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Got it from Smith's Toys. I'm going to play it

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with Steph. That's what I'm going to do. Nice.

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Because it comes, so obviously it's made by the

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same people that made It Takes Two and A Way

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Out. Very good games. And what I like about Split

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Fiction, I don't know if I spoke about it on

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the last episode, is that it comes with a friend

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code. So only one person has to buy it. Obviously,

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you need PlayStation Plus, don't you? I don't

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have PlayStation Plus anymore. I sack that off.

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Usually, I play these games with Mark, but Mark

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also doesn't have PlayStation Plus, and we're

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both refusing to pay for it. So, he's going to

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play it with his missus, I'm going to play it

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with Steph, and we both agreed that in about

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two days, we'll give up and play with each other

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instead. Brilliant. You should get PlayStation

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Plus anyway, just for this month's games, just

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so you've got them. Which ones are they? Valgaard.

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Oh, is it? Yeah. Three months after release.

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Here you go. Here's three. Yeah. There's a couple

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of other good ones as well. Yeah. I mean, they're

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cheeky cunts though. You want to know why? Why?

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Because I cancelled my subscription. I didn't

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realise I was paying for the year. And then I

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caught it just last minute. Cancelled it. And

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then obviously I didn't have PlayStation Plus

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for a while. And then decided to just pay for

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it monthly instead. Fuck the saving. You're saving

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like what? A couple of quid a year. Give up.

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But I didn't realise that whether it's a bug

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or if it's how it's supposed to be but if you

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cancel the subscription and then PlayStation

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does an update it automatically resubs you for

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the payment method that's put down. Sorry? Which

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is what happened to me. What did you say? I cancelled

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the sub. Yeah. My PlayStation later on did an

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update. Right. And in that update, it automatically

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put me back on PlayStation Plus. That doesn't

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sound right. It's what happened because it popped

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up on my phone that £7 .99 or whatever had been

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spent on Sony. And I was like, I've been hacked.

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I've been hacked. Because I weren't even on my

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PlayStation. I was in the middle of moving. Things

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weren't even plugged in. So I was like, what's

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happened there? And then, yeah, I went into my

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account and it fucking resubbed me. And then

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they make it a ball lake to fucking stop it.

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I don't, I don't, how do you stop it? This is

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what I did. I went into my bank. Yeah, because

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it set up a direct debit. Didn't just take the

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payment, it set up a debit. So I cancelled that.

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I then blocked them through my account, right?

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I thought, oh, that's got them. No, they used

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my PayPal because the fucking card, obviously

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where I blocked them, we can't take your money,

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but they could fucking take it through PayPal,

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which was a backup. So they did that. So I then

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had to go into my account. and basically delete

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all of my payment options. Right, okay. So, I

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don't know if you're aware, but if you go onto

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your PlayStation... You can cancel the sale.

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Go onto your account information and just press

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X. Yeah, I did that. And it stops it. Nope, I

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did that and it charged me. I don't... I promise

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you. Then they should be recompensating. I promise

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you, I did it. I did it and then a few days later,

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they took £7 .99 out of my account. Did you do

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it too late after the date? Nope. I can't see

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that. I was pissed. I was pissed. Well, then

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rightly so. So, if anything, I don't have PlayStation

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Plus because I'm fucking... You know what I mean?

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Look at your PlayStation just standing up like

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that. I know. I can't wait to play The Last of

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Us. I've never had my PlayStation up like that.

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It terrifies me. What, you have it laying down?

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yeah like crushed in between bits of wood like

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to get it in like that i don't know how my place

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is not dead i it's like literally this that is

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too big to fit in the thing there's nowhere else

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i could have put it so when when i first got

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it i put it in the wood and it wouldn't go so

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i punched it in what you punched your place yeah

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to get it in the wood so i can't move it it's

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stuck in there I hate the design of it. Because

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it's too fucking big. It's too thick. It's too

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big. It's too thick. And I don't know why, on

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God's green earth, because the way that the suction

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works is, obviously, it draws the heat in and

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shoots it out. So what I don't understand is

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why the fuck they haven't got vents here? Because

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there's fans there. Why have they got faceplates

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with no vents? Ugly. It's stupid. And yeah, probably

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because it's ugly. Aesthetically, yeah. But yeah,

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it's fucking large. I need to plug it in. I do

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kind of miss playing it. It's just fucking effort.

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I love the PlayStation. While we're on the subject

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of these two combining things, PlayStation and

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The Last of Us, obviously The Last of Us controller

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released today at 10 o 'clock. Nice. Could I

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get one? Could you fuck? No. No, I couldn't.

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No fucking chance. Already on eBay for 100 quid.

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It's just fucking... I think there was 75 quid

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to buy them. And then, yeah, no, straight away,

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sold out. Bang. Straight on eBay. I had an anger

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nap yesterday because I missed out on something.

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You got so angry that you had a nap? Yeah, because

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I was fuming. Does that work? Yeah, you're not

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too angry to fall asleep. No, because I was so

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angry. I've had enough. I'm checking out. I used

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so much energy and just like, ah! So I missed

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out on my holy grail. Oh. Baldur's Gate statue.

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Oh, how much? Well, would you believe me if it

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had like four minutes to go and it was at 60

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quid? And I was like, okay. So what I'm going

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to do. is I'm going to wait till the last, like,

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20 seconds. Yeah. 15 seconds, maybe 10. Mm -hmm.

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Then I'm going to put my bid in. So I did that.

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Yeah. I put my bid in at 150 pounds. Yep. It

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went up to, like, 70 quid or something. And then

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it got down to, like, three, two seconds, something

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like that. And then it went 101, 106, 120. And

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then it got to, like, 151 pound 50 or something.

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And then I was, like, panicking. Just, I pressed.

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bid and then it then it had to i had to enter

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the amount but i just didn't have enough time

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and it ended at 157 pound so i missed out on

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it by seven quid and i'm you can't get that fucking

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statue nowhere bro like without i know you've

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been trying for yeah i've been trying to get

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i've been trying to get the fucking the whole

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collector's edition uh but i'll be happy with

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just the statue but look the dice is 156 quid

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just for one fucking dice Still like 1 ,800 quid.

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800 pound. I hate this cunt. You can fuck off.

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Look, I offered him 550 quid. Automatically rejected.

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And is it still up? Yeah. Dirty cunt. I didn't

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even get a chance to bid again. As soon as I

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bid, it declined. It's like he's already set

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a precedent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I bid 400.

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No, I bid 450. Rejected. 500. Rejected. 550.

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Rejected. Can't make no more bids. You're only

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allowed to make three. Yeah, you're done, yeah.

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I'm not paying any more than that. You fucking

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greedy cunt. That's just a fucking shambles.

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People are charging. Look, everywhere. 1 ,200

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quid. 1 ,000 pounds. Yeah, but are they selling?

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Look at this statue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go into

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the fucking sold, bro. It's a fucking joke. It's

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a fucking joke, man. I had that one, didn't I?

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I bought it off that geezer for 500 quid. Then

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he cancelled it. Because fucking... I bought

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the whole collector's edition for 500 quid. He

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cancelled it saying that he didn't know that

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fucking eBay were going to take 10 % or whatever

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it was. Look, there it is. The last one sold,

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157 quid. And then you got that dice sold for

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231 pounds. Collector's edition, 720 quid plus

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25 pounds. They are fucking valid. Look at that

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one. That whole collector's edition, 184 plus

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77 pounds. I'd have paid that. You know what

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I mean? It just fucking winds me up. Greed, man.

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Absolutely greed. I shouldn't be paying £500

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for a collector's edition. I'm ashamed of myself.

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I'm desperate. I need that shit. I'm a collector

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of trinkets and baubles. Sorry, you were so close.

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Yeah, and you know what? I was sitting there

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thinking, I'm not going to be mad if I don't.

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Because, you know, it's too much money. I shouldn't

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be spending that much on a statue. But when I

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missed out on it by seven quid, oh, I was angry.

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You were angry, yeah. So angry. And then Gemma

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was like, what's the matter? I couldn't tell

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her. I couldn't tell her I missed out on a statue

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that I was going to pay 160 odd quid for. I couldn't

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tell her that. So it was a bad day. I didn't.

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I had a good day. What was your limit? Did you

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have a limit? Yeah, well, I thought 150 quid's

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probably about it, but I'm willing to pay 157.

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Do you know what I mean? For a statue, I was

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willing to pay 150 quid, but if they'd said,

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yeah, you can pay 160, I'd have gone, all right,

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you've twisted me arm. But it is what it is.

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It's not the end of the world. It's just infuriating

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because they're just going to get less and less

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available, weren't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, one tip I would throw, and I got it off

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of Steph, which is very helpful when I was going

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through my bout of just buying fucking Pokemon

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card slabs. constantly off of ebay if you're

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going to throw a random bid in always make it

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a fucking random number at the end of it so if

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you oh no i did i bid 151 pound i didn't bid

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150 yeah 151 point something that point something

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i know most people go 151 and 50 pence but if

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you go 151 and 57 pence make it a fucking obscure

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one sometimes that does just fucking pinch it

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for you because a lot of people just put Like

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20p, 30p. They're going 10s or 5s. If you throw

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random shit in. This broke my heart, man. I feel

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bad for you. So you should. I feel bad for me.

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Yeah. I do look every now and then. I do. I look

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every day. I still look every day. And it's just

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the same shit. It's the fucking thrill of the

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hunt, isn't it? No, it's exciting. Because I

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know once you finally get it, you buy one. When

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I saw that, still for 60 quid, because obviously

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I watched it. That's why I got a notification.

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When I searched it, I thought... I'll keep my

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eye on it and I'll sit here and watch it but

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that's going for a couple hundred quid isn't

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it when it actually went because I thought the

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last 10 seconds or something my £150 bid's going

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to go up to about £300 and I'm going to be like

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oh well but to miss out by £7 it's a cunt isn't

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it it's terrible it broke my little heart bro

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I'm not going to lie it really really hurt me

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and I'm still hurting I feel terrible Don't worry

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about it. Just missed out. Yeah. Them's the ones.

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Just trying to find that message from that geezer.

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The one saying that he has to cancel it. Yeah.

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That's really sad. What I should have done is

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just fucking done what everyone told me to do

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and just message him privately and I'll just

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buy off you. Privately. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But

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then eBay scans for that shit. I didn't want

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to lose my account just for that. Yeah, because

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you can't send phone numbers or any of that shit.

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They get real funny about it. I was trying to

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find a way to find him on Instagram or something.

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Just be like, look, let's do this deal, man.

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You know what I mean? But no, it's just over

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for me. I just need to come to grips with the

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fact that I'm never going to get it and it's

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tough shit. Oh, here it is. do do do do do so

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i offered it originally i offered um it was i

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offered something it was up for x amount uh so

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i think i probably offered 500 and he counter

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-offered so i messaged him and i said oh hi mate

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just so you can offer and i understand um huge

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boulders great fan i was devastated i missed

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out a click to the edition i wasn't i didn't

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know how much i was going to love it Now I am

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devastated, so I guess it's the truth. Been looking

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for one since. Unfortunately, scalpers have made

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this extremely difficult. Not calling you a scalper,

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by the way. 600 is just too far. I can't justify

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that to the wife. And he replied, do a new search.

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You may find what you're looking for. Best be

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quick. Kind regards. Jesus fucking relisted it

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for 500 pound for me because I sent him that

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message. He'd already rejected my 500 pound offer.

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I said, oh, thank you so much. Why would he reject?

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What? Well, because he wasn't happy and then

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obviously he sent that message that I was actually

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a real fan. Sympathy. Yeah, sympathy. I didn't

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do it for that. I said, oh my God, thanks. Can't

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thank you enough. You made me a very happy man

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and my wife a lot less annoyed at me. Thank you.

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He said, and then two hours later. I'm afraid

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I've cancelled the order. Just found out that

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eBay have charged me £65 to sell one item. Will

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never sell on here again. They are a total rip

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-off. Very sorry. I am really annoyed. £65 is

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such a fucker, isn't it? I said, oh, that's a

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shame. I understand. £65 on £500 is a shocking

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fee. I really appreciate what you did, however.

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Lovely. There are still people like yourself

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that have a kind heart. He didn't fight hard

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enough. He should have said, take it off fucking

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eBay. I'll buy it. Yeah, I know. And I'd have

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lost my account. What I should have said is I'll

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fucking pay the 65 quid. I'll pay you 565 quid.

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And then he probably would have lost more money

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from fees. I don't know. I just want to message

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him again and be like, bro, I might message him.

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Still got that stuff. Message him. Message him.

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Bro, there's no way he's still got it. It was

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the 24th of September. Message him. This is how

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dreams come true. I even looked for his username

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on Instagram. Get the thing back up and message

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the cunt and just say, Hello, mate. Just trying

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my luck here. You still got that collector's

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edition? Or... No, I can't. I can't. Yes, you

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can. Let's move on. This is a boring podcast.

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No, we ain't moving on. Write the message. No,

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I'm not messaging him. I'm not messaging him.

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We're doing this messaging between this and the

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patron. No, because I'm not getting my eBay account

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banned. You're not going to get your eBay account

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banned. You will. You won't. Just message and

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just say, do you still have this? And then we

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can go from there and we can work it out. This

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is how dreams are made. He said he's never selling

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on there again. He doesn't have to sell on there,

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does he? Yes, he does, because then I'm getting

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banned. You're not getting banned. Yes, I am.

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It says, if you contact people outside of eBay,

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we will ban your account. Yeah, but you're not

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contacting them outside of eBay. You're contacting

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them through eBay. Yes, but they're not buying

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through eBay, so they're not getting their cut.

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They don't know that. They do, because that's

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what they scan the messages for. They scan for

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words. Yeah, just be cryptic. It's a cunty world,

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you know. People take advantage of us as gamers,

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because they know that we'll just buy shit. It's

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painful. I'm the worst. I'm a Star Wars gamer.

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I'll buy anything. Anything shiny. Did you see

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the... I mean, it weren't much of a fucking teaser

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trailer, but it's out there in the public eye,

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the Space Marine 3. I heard, yeah. I did hear.

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I was excited as a wet fish. And then when you

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Google it, there's just nothing. I mean, it's

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only just come out. It's cool, man, but... Obviously,

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I guess. They've only just done a big update

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on it and all. It's just one of them that I just

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assumed was coming. They've had Space Marine

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1, which was a success. They've had Space Marine

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2, which was an enormous success. Obviously,

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they're going to do another one shortly. Yeah.

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You know? It's very true. It's good. Yeah. Happy

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days, but I only care about one thing, and that's

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Baldur's Gate. And games. I see your Kingdom

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Come Deliverance 2 care package. It arrived today.

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That looked very cool. My wife video called me

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and said, what have you been ordering? I said,

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I haven't ordered anything. She said, you're

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a liar. And then she showed me the box. And then

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I was like, my goodie bag. Goodies. I was so

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excited. I didn't know the mouse mat was going

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to be in there. I mean, it's fairly useless to

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me. But one day, I'll be rolling that out. Yeah,

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that's true. Or maybe I'll stick it on eBay for

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four grand. See how they fucking like it. Was

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it just the steelbook or did it have the game

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in it? No, no game, no. They've just put another

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competition up for another screenshot thing.

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Yeah. For collector's edition now. Same screenshot.

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Bang. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was

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like, surely I couldn't win twice. Could I? Could

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you imagine? Different admins fucking running

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this competition this time. Oh, look how cool

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that is. Yeah, we picked the winner. No, what

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have we done? The thing is, I've already got

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the collector's edition. So it's like, I know

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that this map and stuff was already in the collector's

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edition. So I was like, do I just, I was on the

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verge of saying, look, as a goodwill gesture,

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just send it to someone else. And I thought,

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no, fuck it. There's 10 of them that have won.

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Yeah, I want this. I'm going to take my stuff.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take your fucking stuff. So

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now what that means is I will display a map and

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keep one secure in their box. Or you can become

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the man that you hate and bang it on eBay. No,

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I wouldn't do that. Hundreds of pounds. Nah,

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not until it's worth millions. Competition one

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fucking map. Please see proof at what's the button.

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Yeah. What's the button? What's the button? One

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loud DS on the end. Someone's already got that.

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I was so disappointed with that creator thing

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that you sent me. Oh, yes. Was that Ubisoft?

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Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was like, are you fucking...

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Because I signed up to it and then it said that...

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you had to link an account, a social media account,

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and it was either Instagram, Twitch, or YouTube.

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I was like, I should podcast, get nothing out

00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.180
of that then. Sweet. Get fuck all. I was like,

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I can't do anything with that. And then it was

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like, yeah, you need X amount of people following

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you, you need X amount of views, and blah, blah,

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blah. And I was like, I ain't got that on Twitch.

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The podcast have got that. I haven't got that

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on Twitch. So I can't do this. It's shocking.

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If Joe Rogan wanted one, I think they'd give

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it to him. Of course they fucking would. And

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he ain't got Twitch, mate. What do you mean?

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I was just fuming with it. That would have been

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a cool thing to get involved with, but maybe

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next year when we're back up and booming. We're

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booming. We're booming. I looked at the statistics.

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They haven't changed. The last episode went out.

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Back up to usual business. So nothing's changed.

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I've been slaying monsters in Monster Hunter.

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That's all I've been doing, actually. I haven't

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actually played anything apart from Monster Hunter.

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Yeah, that's really good. I've, yeah, I've killed

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a lot of monsters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mainly the

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same ones. Still holding you? Not really. No?

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Just, I don't know, it's just got a source in

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it, a secret. I don't know, you get to kill stuff

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and get stuff. Sometimes you get rarer, shinier

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stuff. I had a, obviously I took a leaf out of

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your book and put quite a few games into my wish

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list on Steam. And I had an email pop up. uh

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yesterday day before and it was for i'm just

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getting up steam now to figure out what the name

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of the game was but um it was kind of like a

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soulsborne meets uh top down view when steam

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actually fucking loads up i'll be able to tell

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you but it was basically on deal and i didn't

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pull the trigger I know. I felt terrible for

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it. I really did. Because I was like, that would

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have been quite a decent game. Naturally, Steam's

00:20:52.349 --> 00:20:57.089
taking a fucking age to load up. But I forget

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how handy it is to have shit in your wish list.

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Especially for stuff like that. Ironically, my

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son plays Lego, Star Wars, Marvel. Not Star Wars.

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Lego, Marvel, Super Heroes. He's mad about Marvel

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stuff at the moment. And he's been playing the

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first one, but the second one's got Thanos in

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it and all that jazz. And I had it in my wish

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list. And I went on the other day and I said

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to Gem, I was like, that's fucking 45 quid. I

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said, I'm not paying that. I remember seeing

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it for like three quid. And then literally the

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next day, it was three pound 95. So yeah, I went

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much. And then I went on the season pass and

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I bought everything for like a quid or something.

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So I've got all the DLC characters. Well, I know

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extra 30 characters for him. Or for, yeah, like

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a fiver. You know what I mean? That's why. But

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if it wasn't on the wish list... You wouldn't

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have known, yeah. Yeah, and not only would I

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not have known, I would never have known that

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it had gone that cheap. So I knew it went that

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cheap before, so I was like, okay, then I'm going

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to wait until it does it. Because I would presume

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that it's always going to be quite pricey, i

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.e. Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are on my PlayStation

00:22:02.710 --> 00:22:07.089
wish list, and I know they dropped, like, substantially.

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I didn't buy them. And now they haven't gone

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down again for flipping ages. So I'm waiting

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:17.759
until they go down again. And I check every single

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day. And as soon as they do go down, even if

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I'm not going to play them at that time, I'm

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going to pull the trigger, baby. Yeah. It was

00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:29.940
no rest for the wicked. That's what it was. I've

00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:32.799
got that. Have you got it? Yep. Have you played

00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:36.079
it? Yep. What's it like? What are you playing

00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:41.190
it on? It would be... on the computer. Probably

00:22:41.190 --> 00:22:43.849
right there. Steam Deck. Absolutely atrocious.

00:22:44.150 --> 00:22:46.910
Was it bad, yeah? Why? Just fucking... It just

00:22:46.910 --> 00:22:51.150
runs like absolute shizing hours. And it looks

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like absolute shit. It looks really good in fucking...

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Oh, yeah. No, the game looks fantastic. The gameplay

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is fantastic. The only problem is the running

00:23:00.970 --> 00:23:03.410
of it. Now, don't get me... Don't get me wrong.

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Is there a way for me to quickly look whilst

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I'm slowly talking so you can see? Here we go.

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Okay, so I last played it on the 9th of September.

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Yep. So there is a chance that it's damn sight

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better now because they've just done a huge update

00:23:20.579 --> 00:23:26.599
as well. Well, it says the award -winning developers

00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:30.640
of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori. Fucking

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Ori. Ori. You are such a World of Warcraft geek.

00:23:34.670 --> 00:23:37.029
Of the Wisps comes No Rest for the Wicked, a

00:23:37.029 --> 00:23:40.029
visceral precision action RPG set to reinvent

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the genre. At the moment, its most recent views

00:23:42.990 --> 00:23:45.269
are mixed reviews, and I'm just clicking in them

00:23:45.269 --> 00:23:49.509
to find out why. Steam's being a fucking cunt

00:23:49.509 --> 00:23:56.690
at the moment. It says, literally all the negative

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reviews are about the updates slash future content

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being delayed and nerds sulking about no multiplayer.

00:24:02.789 --> 00:24:05.170
Play the game, which is about 20, 30 hours at

00:24:05.170 --> 00:24:06.710
the moment, which is well worth the price tag.

00:24:06.769 --> 00:24:09.569
Game is phenomenal and a leap forward for the

00:24:09.569 --> 00:24:12.970
genre. Feels like and plays like a AAA game.

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And then literally the next one down. I currently

00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:20.440
would not recommend this game due to both performance

00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:23.539
issues and baffling design decisions that overtly

00:24:23.539 --> 00:24:26.579
punish death. This game will be closer to a farming

00:24:26.579 --> 00:24:28.920
grinding simulator than anything else if they

00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:31.339
continue with these choices. It will also be

00:24:31.339 --> 00:24:33.660
close to a year without any major changes to

00:24:33.660 --> 00:24:35.640
the game, which I personally find to be unacceptable

00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:38.359
of an early access product. You do find that

00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:43.660
sometimes with some of these early access games

00:24:43.660 --> 00:24:47.549
on... Steam or whatever, where they sit on early

00:24:47.549 --> 00:24:50.869
access for fucking ages and nothing happens.

00:24:51.450 --> 00:24:54.069
Nothing happens. You've got all this dough that's

00:24:54.069 --> 00:24:56.029
come through. You're basically paying to play

00:24:56.029 --> 00:24:59.190
the beta and then fuck all is going on. Well,

00:24:59.210 --> 00:25:02.490
what annoys me is that when I bought this, it

00:25:02.490 --> 00:25:05.009
was verified for Steam Deck compatibility. And

00:25:05.009 --> 00:25:06.490
it's still verified for Steam Deck compatibility

00:25:06.490 --> 00:25:09.509
now. So, unless they've sorted it out, it was

00:25:09.509 --> 00:25:13.500
fucking atrocious. Now... Yeah, they've just

00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:15.920
announced the new content. Literally yesterday

00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:19.160
or the day before. Because I thought about getting

00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:21.519
it on Steam. But I've only played it for just

00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:24.799
three hours. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, things

00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:28.299
could change. But yeah, it's just a damn fun

00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:30.720
little ditty of a game. But obviously not for

00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.640
everyone. Yeah, I'm tempted to give it a crack.

00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:37.720
But I don't know why. I just hate paying for

00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:42.900
shit. yeah yeah split fiction cost me 40 quid

00:25:42.900 --> 00:25:45.720
i was seething about it it's because you're just

00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:47.819
so used to that wow model man you don't pay for

00:25:47.819 --> 00:25:50.039
shit yeah expansion just used to not fucking

00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:52.160
you're not a gamer you're like geezer at work

00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:54.119
he just plays arc you're just you're just a wow

00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.140
player and he's just an arc player i have to

00:25:56.140 --> 00:26:00.259
force myself to um to really pull like pull away

00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:04.059
and and play other stuff like i've got that obviously

00:26:04.059 --> 00:26:06.599
the last of us board game which I haven't played.

00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:08.700
I waited over two years for that to come through

00:26:08.700 --> 00:26:12.400
on Kickstarter. It finally arrived. It's fantastic.

00:26:12.980 --> 00:26:15.019
Literally, it arrived. I took it out of the box,

00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:16.799
looked at it, put it all back in the box and

00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:19.440
moved house. And then I just haven't used it

00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:22.700
and it's fucking sat next to us. You've got Elden

00:26:22.700 --> 00:26:25.640
Ring Collector's Edition there. Yeah, yeah. I've

00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:27.900
got all these fucking books and everything. There's

00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:31.319
so much shit, but at the end of the day, it's

00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:33.700
about enjoyment, isn't it? And you only enjoy

00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:35.799
it well. If you're finding fun in other shit,

00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:40.359
well, Split Fiction's going to take some fucking

00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:44.259
bash. Take some time. You're obsessed with that

00:26:44.259 --> 00:26:48.200
fucking word. What, bash? Fucking geezer. Fucking

00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:51.440
what? It's on my nerves. So, yeah, that's about

00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:56.380
it, really. Look at my games that I play, right?

00:26:58.039 --> 00:27:00.279
I'll ignore the ones that kids play. Monster

00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.440
Hunter Wilds, Mafia 2, Baldur's Gate, Kingdom

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:07.380
Come Deliverance 2, Spider -Man Miles Morales,

00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:09.799
Enter the Gungeon, Dead Cell, Salt and Sanctuary,

00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:12.220
Mafia Definitive Edition, Bind the Rizok, Skull,

00:27:12.339 --> 00:27:14.259
Tales of Iron, New World Eternal, Pathfinder,

00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:16.500
Wrath of the Righteous, Neverwinter, As Above,

00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:18.920
So Below, Blasphemous 2, Path of Exile, Death's

00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:21.279
Gambit, First Berserker, Kazan, Blasphemous,

00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:23.559
Armor Reforger, Shadow of War, Crusader Kings

00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.309
3, Metaphor, Refantazio, KCD1. fortnite black

00:27:27.309 --> 00:27:30.369
ops splunky 2 sonic racing crash team racing

00:27:30.369 --> 00:27:34.900
no man's sky fifa 25 Marvel Rivals, Rachi and

00:27:34.900 --> 00:27:37.619
Clank Rift Apart, DayZ, Astro's Playroom, Rishka

00:27:37.619 --> 00:27:39.559
Reign 2, Elder Scrolls Online, Throne of Liberty,

00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:42.140
Final Fantasy Online, Genshin Impact, Honkai

00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:44.059
Star Wars. What is this? All the games you've

00:27:44.059 --> 00:27:45.720
ever played? Yeah, this is just all the games

00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.640
that I have played recently, really. Rogue Trader,

00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.480
FIFA 24, Black Death Wukong. I mean, look at

00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.500
us. What I'm just trying to say is look at the

00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:55.160
selection of games I play and then you'll go

00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:59.259
on you and you'll just have like Stray or something.

00:27:59.539 --> 00:28:01.460
Where do I find that? Just click that little

00:28:01.460 --> 00:28:03.539
button there. Yeah, and then it's just the recently

00:28:03.539 --> 00:28:05.740
played. Yeah, these will be the most recent.

00:28:05.980 --> 00:28:09.440
All right, here we go. Metro Exodus, The Callisto

00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:11.619
Protocol, which I actually finished. Very good.

00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:15.559
Banishers, Division 2, New World, Space Marine

00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:19.539
2, Funko Fusion, Baldur's Gate. Yeah. Thank goodness

00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:24.180
you're here. Bramble, The First Descendant, Dead

00:28:24.180 --> 00:28:26.980
by Daylight, DayZ, Elden Ring, Plague Tower Requiem,

00:28:27.099 --> 00:28:30.220
Dredge. Bioshock The Complete Edition, Potato

00:28:30.220 --> 00:28:38.180
Sack Racing Simulator 2024, Far Cry 6, The Outlast

00:28:38.180 --> 00:28:41.460
Trials, Helldivers 2, Granblue Fantasy Relink.

00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:44.579
There's quite a few. Plague Tale, Innocence.

00:28:44.579 --> 00:28:47.019
No, but they're not though, mate. If we got the

00:28:47.019 --> 00:28:48.740
statistics up, half of these would have been

00:28:48.740 --> 00:28:51.589
played for no more than 15 minutes. No, most

00:28:51.589 --> 00:28:53.369
of them I fucking finished. Bullshit. I promise

00:28:53.369 --> 00:28:55.809
you. I promise you. The last game that I actually

00:28:55.809 --> 00:28:57.690
finished properly was the Callisto Protocol,

00:28:57.950 --> 00:29:00.009
and I really enjoyed it. That was a really good

00:29:00.009 --> 00:29:02.210
game. That was starting to get me wanting to

00:29:02.210 --> 00:29:05.390
get involved in playing more horror games. I

00:29:05.390 --> 00:29:07.549
just feel like you miss out. Just like my mate.

00:29:07.789 --> 00:29:10.150
There's so many fantastic games that you just

00:29:10.150 --> 00:29:12.569
go by the wayside because you're so engrossed

00:29:12.569 --> 00:29:16.089
in this MMO rock brain. I get it. I do get why

00:29:16.089 --> 00:29:17.990
you want to play it because I want what you have

00:29:17.990 --> 00:29:21.619
with something, but I can't get it. And it's

00:29:21.619 --> 00:29:24.200
like, with you with God of War, you dismissed

00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:26.940
it. And I know you'd played it before, rah, rah.

00:29:27.180 --> 00:29:29.579
But I was just like, how can you... If you're

00:29:29.579 --> 00:29:32.380
a gamer, that's like peak gaming. You need to

00:29:32.380 --> 00:29:34.440
play that. You need to experience that. So how

00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:37.680
many of them kind of situations do you miss out

00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:39.759
on? Just like I do when I say I don't want to

00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:41.579
play a certain character, rah, rah. How many

00:29:41.579 --> 00:29:44.279
do you miss out on just by playing well? I think

00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:48.400
the difference now... is rather than me poo -pooing

00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.819
everything else, I don't. There's some very,

00:29:52.859 --> 00:29:54.900
very good games out there. I just haven't played

00:29:54.900 --> 00:30:00.460
them. But there's a very serious addiction going

00:30:00.460 --> 00:30:04.119
on that I need help with. I need help and everyone

00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:07.750
else needs help because we're trapped. by lord

00:30:07.750 --> 00:30:09.690
we're trapped and now that I'm fucking tanking

00:30:09.690 --> 00:30:11.829
I'm even more important than I was beforehand

00:30:11.829 --> 00:30:14.990
I'm even more needed and I like it so it's like

00:30:14.990 --> 00:30:17.710
we're getting down a fucking rabbit hole here

00:30:17.710 --> 00:30:21.690
but there's there's other there's other games

00:30:21.690 --> 00:30:24.349
there that well like I say Split Fiction's there

00:30:24.349 --> 00:30:26.289
I'll tell you a game that I actually that I do

00:30:26.289 --> 00:30:30.410
own that I really want to play because a lot

00:30:30.410 --> 00:30:33.119
of people just say like the story is Is genuinely

00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:35.579
good. I know you've played it and weren't a massive

00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:37.559
fan of it. I know a lot of people aren't a massive

00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.119
fan of it. But that's Death Stranding. I really

00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:46.059
want to play that to understand it. Because I

00:30:46.059 --> 00:30:48.460
don't fucking get it. You see the Death Stranding

00:30:48.460 --> 00:30:51.319
2 trailer that was like 10 minutes long. I watched

00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:54.180
the entire thing. Fantastic bit of fucking artwork.

00:30:54.539 --> 00:30:57.640
I loved it. I didn't understand a fucking thing

00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:01.059
of what was going on. Nothing. I thought I was

00:31:01.059 --> 00:31:03.640
tripping. I do not know what was happening. Every

00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:05.599
single scene was completely different for 10

00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:08.200
minutes. I didn't know what was going on. I don't

00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:10.119
think anyone in the comments knew what was going

00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:12.259
on. And then boom, there's just a collector's

00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:14.480
edition at the end of it of some fucking alien

00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:17.359
thing with a tank on its head. I don't get it.

00:31:17.420 --> 00:31:19.299
I don't understand what we're doing here. There's

00:31:19.299 --> 00:31:21.799
a geezer holding a fucking baby. He's delivering

00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.640
post. I don't get it, but I want to get involved

00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:29.960
with it. I'll tell you now. If you played Death

00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:33.779
Stranding 1 and you, by some miracle, because

00:31:33.779 --> 00:31:37.980
I know you won't finish it, you'll finish it.

00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.779
You'll want to know what the fuck was going on.

00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.279
Yeah. And what happened. Yeah. You'll watch a

00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.480
YouTube video. Yeah. Explaining the whole thing.

00:31:47.660 --> 00:31:49.599
Yeah. And you still won't have a clue. Yeah.

00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:52.220
And that's what sucks about the game. Because

00:31:52.220 --> 00:31:55.759
Kojima, like in Metal Gear Solid, fantastic storyteller.

00:31:56.619 --> 00:32:00.990
This... I had no fucking idea what was going

00:32:00.990 --> 00:32:03.910
on. There's hands coming out of the ground. So

00:32:03.910 --> 00:32:08.950
I had a quick look into it. I also like that

00:32:08.950 --> 00:32:13.230
they subtly put snake in Death Stranding 2, but

00:32:13.230 --> 00:32:17.109
it's not snake. Yeah. I'll be honest. I watched

00:32:17.109 --> 00:32:20.049
the trailer and what I did was I fast -forwarded

00:32:20.049 --> 00:32:21.589
10 seconds, 10 seconds, 10 seconds, 10 seconds.

00:32:21.789 --> 00:32:25.269
Then you would have missed a lot. No, no, no.

00:32:25.390 --> 00:32:28.309
I don't blame you because go and watch the whole

00:32:28.309 --> 00:32:30.210
10 minutes. You ain't got a fucking clue. It's

00:32:30.210 --> 00:32:32.809
not that. It's one of them. I'm just like, I

00:32:32.809 --> 00:32:34.809
know you made one of my favourite games of all

00:32:34.809 --> 00:32:37.609
time. Like, Melga Solid, the whole series really,

00:32:37.710 --> 00:32:42.420
but Melga Solid 1. probably my earliest gaming,

00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:45.640
you know, love story. I loved that game. I got

00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:48.980
it copied on my chip PlayStation. I cried when,

00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:53.680
when I got it and it didn't work. And then I

00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:56.059
got another copy of it. I mean, this is highly

00:32:56.059 --> 00:32:57.839
illegal by the way, but it was like the nineties,

00:32:57.859 --> 00:33:03.000
you know, my parents blame them. And then, yeah,

00:33:03.099 --> 00:33:05.319
then I got another copy of it. And then I was

00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:07.680
so happy. I was so ecstatic because I'd played

00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.440
fucking hundreds of hours of the demo disc that

00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:12.920
only got up to one point. And then, you know,

00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:15.000
I was so happy. And then I got to a point after

00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.220
Sniper Wolf, went down into the furnace and it

00:33:17.220 --> 00:33:20.799
said in the disc two. And I cried because obviously

00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:22.819
there was no disc two. The person that copies

00:33:22.819 --> 00:33:24.400
PlayStation games don't know how many discs the

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.460
game was. This isn't the fucking, this isn't

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:29.000
now. You can't Google shit. I just had one disc

00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:30.839
and yeah, it weren't for you. You know, you can't

00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:32.380
just go, oh mum, can I have this game? It didn't

00:33:32.380 --> 00:33:35.779
work like that, bro. You just have to wait. You

00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:38.539
have to wait until Christmas. Where was we going

00:33:38.539 --> 00:33:42.039
with this? Kojima. He made such an amazing game.

00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.920
The genius of taking your controller out of one

00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:47.859
slot and putting it in slot two. You don't think

00:33:47.859 --> 00:33:49.579
of shit like that. That was Metal Gear Solid

00:33:49.579 --> 00:33:52.099
1. That was PlayStation 1 he'd done that on.

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.619
If you had a fucking memory card and you'd play

00:33:54.619 --> 00:33:57.279
a football game, Psycho Mantis would read it

00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:58.640
off your memory card and say you like football.

00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.000
That shit blows your mind. You don't expect that

00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:02.599
shit when you're a kid. How the fuck does he

00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.640
know I like football? And then he goes and makes

00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.079
fucking Norman Reedus deliver packages. What

00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:14.400
the fuck is going on? I think it's great. The

00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:19.159
game itself is... It'd be very good if I understood

00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:21.739
the fucking story. And that might be on me, but

00:34:21.739 --> 00:34:24.920
I have no idea what the fuck is going on. Because

00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:29.800
the only thing I can liken it to is playing Control.

00:34:31.319 --> 00:34:34.940
because I have no fucking idea what the fuck

00:34:34.940 --> 00:34:37.179
is going on in that game. I love the game. I

00:34:37.179 --> 00:34:39.099
love the gameplay. The gun feel was fantastic.

00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:41.639
I love the movement. Everything about that game,

00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:45.519
I loved it. But I didn't understand a single

00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:48.280
fucking thing of what was going on. I don't know

00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:51.119
what the hiss was. I don't know what the fucking

00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.119
building was that we was in. I don't know why

00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:55.420
I'm suddenly running it at the end. How's that

00:34:55.420 --> 00:34:57.380
happened? I thought I was going for a job interview.

00:34:57.579 --> 00:35:00.920
Spoiler alert. those games are fucking ages old

00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:04.300
but I have an interview with the CEO and then

00:35:04.300 --> 00:35:07.360
he shoots himself in the face and then come the

00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.420
end of the my brother's in there he's turned

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:12.639
into some weird thing like I ain't got a clue

00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:14.360
what was going on and when I finished Control

00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:17.219
I was like I don't know what the fuck just happened

00:35:17.219 --> 00:35:20.480
and it bugged me but I kind of like that it's

00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:22.679
like you know when you get a you get a bruise

00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.940
you know you got a bruise you know it hurts it's

00:35:25.940 --> 00:35:27.719
a sign of trauma wobbly tooth but what do you

00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:31.219
do? You fucking push on the cunt. Make sure it

00:35:31.219 --> 00:35:33.019
hurts. And then in a couple of days, you've got

00:35:33.019 --> 00:35:34.280
to still go like, but let me push that again

00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:35.760
and see if that still hurts. And that's what

00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:37.679
it is. You've got that scab you keep picking.

00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:39.719
Yeah, you go, I don't understand this game, but

00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:41.760
I kind of like that. I don't think you're going

00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:43.699
to get that with Death Stranding. I don't know.

00:35:43.780 --> 00:35:48.239
But when I watched the trailer for Death Stranding

00:35:48.239 --> 00:35:52.860
2, I actually Googled it and basically said,

00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:56.949
what the fuck is Death Stranding 1 about? As

00:35:56.949 --> 00:36:01.909
far as I could decipher, it was sort of like

00:36:01.909 --> 00:36:05.389
a, not post -apocalyptic, but the world is in

00:36:05.389 --> 00:36:08.110
a state where everyone's just trying to survive

00:36:08.110 --> 00:36:10.130
and there's almost like a disconnect between

00:36:10.130 --> 00:36:13.809
patches of people. And that's why you're delivering

00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:17.469
packages to these people so that they're able

00:36:17.469 --> 00:36:20.949
to stay alive and stay connected to other people.

00:36:21.190 --> 00:36:25.119
But then at the same time, there's like... another

00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:29.199
universe slash dimension um which is where these

00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.559
monsters have have come from and you need to

00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:35.380
essentially unplug them to send them back to

00:36:35.380 --> 00:36:39.980
where they came from was the gist of of what

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:43.300
i was reading the reasons for that i don't know

00:36:43.300 --> 00:36:45.559
yeah and that would be great if that was what

00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:48.460
it was but it's not really you go and they go

00:36:49.509 --> 00:36:52.989
deliver this to this and you go okay and then

00:36:52.989 --> 00:36:55.730
you literally spend an hour walking and trying

00:36:55.730 --> 00:36:57.929
to climb mountains and shit with your fucking

00:36:57.929 --> 00:37:00.809
backpack bricks falling out your backpack and

00:37:00.809 --> 00:37:02.710
then you having to backtrack to pick the brick

00:37:02.710 --> 00:37:04.769
up and then you have to when you're walking on

00:37:04.769 --> 00:37:06.510
unstable ground if you use left trigger and right

00:37:06.510 --> 00:37:09.349
trigger to fucking tread so you don't fucking

00:37:09.349 --> 00:37:12.690
drop shit again and then you get there you're

00:37:12.690 --> 00:37:15.579
not you're not seeing anyone The people you see,

00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:17.219
you go into these little bunkers and then they're

00:37:17.219 --> 00:37:19.739
like holographic images. There's not even people

00:37:19.739 --> 00:37:22.739
that you see. And the combat, I wouldn't even

00:37:22.739 --> 00:37:24.619
call it combat. It's not really combat in the

00:37:24.619 --> 00:37:26.699
game. And then all of a sudden, a massive fucking

00:37:26.699 --> 00:37:29.699
black sperm whale will turn up. And the world

00:37:29.699 --> 00:37:31.400
will just turn into oil. And you're like, what

00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:35.440
is going on? Here we go. The story of Death Stranding

00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.840
takes place in an alternate reality of our world.

00:37:37.900 --> 00:37:40.780
In this world, there are three existential planes.

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:43.460
The world of the living, the beach, and the world

00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:45.519
of the dead. The world of the living is where

00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.699
we find ourselves. The world of the dead is the

00:37:47.699 --> 00:37:50.320
place where our soul will go. And the beach is

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:52.579
the path that we must cross from our world to

00:37:52.579 --> 00:37:55.239
the world of the dead once our life ends. The

00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:57.699
beach is physically a beach as we know it, with

00:37:57.699 --> 00:38:00.519
its sand and its sea. Entering that sea, we reach

00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:03.179
our final destination in the beyond. In addition,

00:38:03.420 --> 00:38:06.219
each beach is unique for each person. Although

00:38:06.219 --> 00:38:09.000
in special cases, such as wars, they can be shared

00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:10.780
by different people because those people died

00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:12.800
at the same time and in a traumatic way sharing

00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:14.849
very strong thoughts. and feelings there are

00:38:14.849 --> 00:38:16.929
other special beaches but i will explain them

00:38:16.929 --> 00:38:18.809
later this sounds like i'm trying to explain

00:38:18.809 --> 00:38:22.010
death to a 10 year old um at the beginning of

00:38:22.010 --> 00:38:24.030
the story we are immersed in the end of the world

00:38:24.030 --> 00:38:26.570
a cataclysm known as the death stranding has

00:38:26.570 --> 00:38:28.210
occurred and no one knows anything about the

00:38:28.210 --> 00:38:30.869
beach or the world of of the dead during this

00:38:30.869 --> 00:38:33.510
phenomenon three fundamental things happen the

00:38:33.510 --> 00:38:36.449
arrival of the stranded entities the timefall

00:38:36.449 --> 00:38:40.809
and the dooms The stranded entities are the souls

00:38:40.809 --> 00:38:43.010
of the dead that filter from their world and

00:38:43.010 --> 00:38:45.369
the beach into ours and are intrinsically hostile,

00:38:45.690 --> 00:38:48.519
for the most part, towards humans. Since the

00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:50.739
Death Stranding began, every person who dies

00:38:50.739 --> 00:38:53.639
and whose body is not destroyed within 48 hours

00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.380
is necrotized and becomes a BT. This is very

00:38:57.380 --> 00:39:00.719
dangerous since BTs are made of antimatter, and

00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:02.519
when they come into contact with a human, they

00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:04.940
produce small and not -so -small explosions known

00:39:04.940 --> 00:39:07.460
as voids, which destroy everything in their path.

00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:10.059
Their explosions are what primarily wiped out

00:39:10.059 --> 00:39:12.219
Earth's cities, roads, communications, and most

00:39:12.219 --> 00:39:14.460
of its inhabitants. As if that weren't enough,

00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:17.519
the BTs are invisible, except in various places.

00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:19.579
specific conditions they are also accompanied

00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:24.559
by a black tar like liquid um there's quite a

00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.860
few it splits it into two parts there's like

00:39:27.860 --> 00:39:29.760
four more paragraphs i don't know if i want to

00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:31.900
read them i'm happy to read them i don't know

00:39:31.900 --> 00:39:34.440
that it sounds boring crack on mate you do what

00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:37.119
you like um you know what this is our podcast

00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:39.619
i will do what i like fuck everyone else listening

00:39:39.619 --> 00:39:42.949
to it on the other hand we have time for which

00:39:42.949 --> 00:39:45.550
always accompanies BTs. The timefall is rain,

00:39:45.750 --> 00:39:48.030
although it would be more accurate to say precipitation,

00:39:48.389 --> 00:39:50.789
since it can also occur in the form of snow or

00:39:50.789 --> 00:39:53.110
hail, which causes everything it touches to age

00:39:53.110 --> 00:39:55.610
rapidly in a matter of seconds. But after the

00:39:55.610 --> 00:39:58.369
first contact, it turns into normal water. This

00:39:58.369 --> 00:40:02.530
timefall seems to be caused by the chiral matter.

00:40:03.429 --> 00:40:07.369
Some particles present in the beach that, together

00:40:07.369 --> 00:40:09.690
with the BTs, have reached our world, spreading

00:40:09.690 --> 00:40:14.139
through the atmosphere. is similar to dark matter

00:40:14.139 --> 00:40:17.099
present in our universe since the big bang but

00:40:17.099 --> 00:40:20.000
until death stranding its existence was not known

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.079
nor could it be interacted with in areas of this

00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:25.840
is fucking this is long bloody bloody bloody

00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:29.039
blah finally we have the dooms the simplest way

00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.340
to sum it up is that they are powers that some

00:40:31.340 --> 00:40:33.059
people develop since the death stranding happened

00:40:33.059 --> 00:40:36.199
these those with dooms are more attached to the

00:40:36.199 --> 00:41:04.159
beach I don't understand. I feel like if that

00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:07.059
game portrayed all that, It'd be fantastic. Oh,

00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:08.400
it doesn't portray any of that. I don't feel

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.400
like it does. Right. That might be a me issue.

00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:13.480
Okie dokie. That might be me not understanding

00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:18.420
what is going on, but it really is just, it seemed

00:41:18.420 --> 00:41:21.159
like get this package, like it's trying to send

00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:23.340
a message, right? So the world's fractured. You

00:41:23.340 --> 00:41:26.039
don't actually see people. You just see holographs

00:41:26.039 --> 00:41:28.699
of people and not even holographs of people.

00:41:28.780 --> 00:41:30.559
You just see specific people that you're delivering

00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.119
a package to. And then you have to like build

00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.949
these roads because, we're trying to reconnect

00:41:36.949 --> 00:41:40.750
the world. Yep. And then, but then you're like

00:41:40.750 --> 00:41:43.550
connected with everyone else's world. Like I'm

00:41:43.550 --> 00:41:45.929
talking about the players. So if this world is,

00:41:45.989 --> 00:41:48.889
if this road's been built by you know 10 000

00:41:48.889 --> 00:41:51.030
people then it's built for everyone so then it

00:41:51.030 --> 00:41:52.769
makes everyone's journey easier because you can

00:41:52.769 --> 00:41:55.090
just walk across the road or drive yep rather

00:41:55.090 --> 00:41:57.130
than have to cross these mountains and stuff

00:41:57.130 --> 00:41:59.190
right and you can set up zip wires that other

00:41:59.190 --> 00:42:01.110
players can use but they're not really in your

00:42:01.110 --> 00:42:03.429
world like the dark souls you know the elden

00:42:03.429 --> 00:42:04.989
ring where the world's interconnected but you're

00:42:04.989 --> 00:42:06.630
not really there so you might see a spirit of

00:42:06.630 --> 00:42:08.809
someone but they're not really there so it's

00:42:08.809 --> 00:42:12.929
it's got all that But the story is fucking confusing.

00:42:13.230 --> 00:42:15.550
And it's weird. All of a sudden, you're in World

00:42:15.550 --> 00:42:17.570
War II with Mads Mikkelsen. It's like, what's

00:42:17.570 --> 00:42:20.630
going on? That's what happens. You're going along.

00:42:20.730 --> 00:42:22.730
And then all of a sudden, you're in World War

00:42:22.730 --> 00:42:26.130
II fucking hiding from these soldiers. And it's

00:42:26.130 --> 00:42:29.300
like, how am I here? And then I'm delivering

00:42:29.300 --> 00:42:31.699
a heart to a doctor and it's like... Right, you've

00:42:31.699 --> 00:42:33.840
got that. I've also got Death Stranding is a

00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.739
game about a pilgrimage, about activating communication

00:42:36.739 --> 00:42:39.579
relays and about delivering parcels to isolated

00:42:39.579 --> 00:42:41.820
corners of America in an attempt to establish

00:42:41.820 --> 00:42:44.260
social strands, building bonds with your fellow

00:42:44.260 --> 00:42:46.940
man in an effort to inspire hope in a dying society.

00:42:47.659 --> 00:42:50.099
What is this game about? I don't know. What am

00:42:50.099 --> 00:42:52.179
I doing? Because any... You're delivering parcels

00:42:52.179 --> 00:42:54.179
from A to B. It's a walking simulator. Don't

00:42:54.179 --> 00:42:56.380
get me wrong. I'm not sitting here saying Death

00:42:56.380 --> 00:42:59.360
Stranding is a bad game. On the contrary, I think

00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.820
it's a good game if you're smart enough to understand

00:43:02.820 --> 00:43:08.139
what is going on. Also, if you are someone like

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:11.579
me, who you've rightly pointed out gets seriously

00:43:11.579 --> 00:43:13.659
immersed in games, you can put your headphones

00:43:13.659 --> 00:43:15.980
on, you can listen to the music as you're walking,

00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:18.300
like the ambient music, and the sounds are like

00:43:18.300 --> 00:43:20.159
the streams, and you're just walking along, and

00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:21.920
you're happy to just walk along, and nothing

00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:25.480
happened for fucking an hour. Great. You'll love

00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:28.539
it. It's beautiful. But if you want combat and

00:43:28.539 --> 00:43:31.400
you want fucking action and you want a story

00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:33.619
that's not spoon -fed to you but is understandable

00:43:33.619 --> 00:43:37.019
by a person that didn't get all their GCSEs,

00:43:37.019 --> 00:43:39.199
then I don't think you've got a hope. I think

00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:41.460
you're just like, what the fuck is going on?

00:43:41.699 --> 00:43:44.159
Because that's what I got. And I love Kojima.

00:43:44.340 --> 00:43:46.820
And his stories are convoluted. They always have

00:43:46.820 --> 00:43:48.579
been. They're like, you have to reach deep for

00:43:48.579 --> 00:43:53.679
the stories. That's the thing. I cannot... It's

00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:56.670
like me with survival games. And when people

00:43:56.670 --> 00:43:59.630
build really cool shit and I go, I cannot comprehend

00:43:59.630 --> 00:44:02.570
that. My brain is not capable of making what

00:44:02.570 --> 00:44:04.909
you've just made. I cannot do it. I applaud you,

00:44:04.989 --> 00:44:07.730
but I'm getting annoyed because I can't understand

00:44:07.730 --> 00:44:09.530
exactly how you've done that. It's ridiculous.

00:44:09.889 --> 00:44:12.389
And it's the same whenever I see something from

00:44:12.389 --> 00:44:16.090
Kojima is I go, I don't understand how your brain

00:44:16.090 --> 00:44:20.250
has come up with this. What have you been doing?

00:44:20.309 --> 00:44:23.500
I don't get how this works. I can't understand,

00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:27.320
but I'm so intrigued. But everything you're saying

00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:29.679
is right. I know that when I start playing Death

00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.539
Stranding, because I will give it a go, I don't

00:44:32.539 --> 00:44:34.539
know what's going to be happening, and I'm going

00:44:34.539 --> 00:44:37.019
to be texting you or ringing you up going, a

00:44:37.019 --> 00:44:39.239
whale's just eaten my foot. Don't ask me. I don't

00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:42.119
have a fucking clue. But by the quick fucking

00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:46.019
Google, I can't ask anyone. And that's the only

00:44:46.019 --> 00:44:48.940
problem with the game, I think, is that I can

00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:51.000
watch a YouTube video to explain the story and

00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.500
still not know. And that annoys me. Those developers,

00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:56.539
could you imagine the board meetings? Right,

00:44:56.559 --> 00:44:58.699
so... It's Kojima's company, so it doesn't really

00:44:58.699 --> 00:45:00.579
matter. He goes, I want to do this. They all

00:45:00.579 --> 00:45:02.659
go, okay, that sounds fantastic. Yeah, I know,

00:45:02.659 --> 00:45:04.619
but there must be fucking coffee breaks where

00:45:04.619 --> 00:45:06.880
they've all been going at it for like fucking

00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:08.280
five hours and they all stand around and they

00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:11.260
go, what are you doing? It's got that really

00:45:11.260 --> 00:45:13.280
famous French lady in it, I can't remember her

00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.469
name. It's got fucking... It's got Norman Reedus.

00:45:16.550 --> 00:45:19.030
Who's the doll? It's got Troy Baker. Who's the

00:45:19.030 --> 00:45:20.929
doll? I don't fucking know. The fucking doll

00:45:20.929 --> 00:45:22.730
that's hanging off of your waist with the legs.

00:45:23.010 --> 00:45:24.789
Yeah, I think it says some shit or something.

00:45:24.909 --> 00:45:26.409
I think it might have been in the first one.

00:45:26.510 --> 00:45:30.429
What's the baby? What's the baby do? That was

00:45:30.429 --> 00:45:33.110
a package, I think. But you like the baby, so

00:45:33.110 --> 00:45:37.170
you keep it. And then when the BTs are around,

00:45:37.230 --> 00:45:41.730
I think that's what they're called. Or PTs. BTs.

00:45:41.730 --> 00:45:45.050
I can't remember. Yeah, the fucking phone. provider

00:45:45.050 --> 00:45:47.329
yeah whenever them things are around like these

00:45:47.329 --> 00:45:50.500
black wraithy spirit things but they can't see

00:45:50.500 --> 00:45:52.719
you, but you have to sneak past them. Like, the

00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:55.820
baby gets scared, and then it goes, wah, wah,

00:45:56.039 --> 00:45:58.500
wah. And then you have to, I think you use the

00:45:58.500 --> 00:45:59.800
touchpad or something, and you have to, like,

00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:02.119
shake it up and down. Like, it's okay. And you

00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:04.139
have to, like, use the thumb on the touchpad

00:46:04.139 --> 00:46:06.960
to, like, say, oh, rock the baby to calm it down

00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.519
and shit. Like, what am I doing? Why have I got

00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:12.719
a baby in this orange liquid? Why am I carrying

00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:15.760
it around? And why am I creeping past these fucking

00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:18.670
spirit things? Why there's a whale now? And now

00:46:18.670 --> 00:46:20.750
I'm in World War II with Mads Mikkelsen. Here's

00:46:20.750 --> 00:46:23.469
your post. First class stamp. Thanks very much.

00:46:23.670 --> 00:46:25.309
Yeah, while you're trying to deliver these fucking

00:46:25.309 --> 00:46:27.530
suitcases and then you get suitcases and you

00:46:27.530 --> 00:46:30.170
have to like deliver them all but you have to

00:46:30.170 --> 00:46:31.909
arrange them on your back if you want to put

00:46:31.909 --> 00:46:34.469
them on your backpack or you can craft like a

00:46:34.469 --> 00:46:38.449
fucking like a trailer that just trails behind

00:46:38.449 --> 00:46:40.869
you but levitates and you can put them on there

00:46:40.869 --> 00:46:42.690
but then you can't really climb a mountain with

00:46:42.690 --> 00:46:44.769
a trailer hanging behind you they all fall off

00:46:44.769 --> 00:46:46.630
so then you put some on your back and then some

00:46:46.630 --> 00:46:49.389
of it's just fuck what is going on it's ridiculous

00:46:49.389 --> 00:46:51.409
it's absolutely ridiculous i saw someone fall

00:46:51.409 --> 00:46:53.289
over with their parcels yeah because you're not

00:46:53.289 --> 00:46:56.030
yeah because you have to do l2r2 l2r2 l2 when

00:46:56.030 --> 00:46:58.630
you're walking on dodgy ground to keep your fucking

00:46:58.630 --> 00:47:00.670
balance otherwise you'll fall over you can't

00:47:00.670 --> 00:47:03.090
walk up mountains you have to like Get zip wires

00:47:03.090 --> 00:47:06.889
built and shit. It's fucking ridiculous. Honestly,

00:47:07.110 --> 00:47:08.489
it's absolutely ridiculous. And yeah, if you

00:47:08.489 --> 00:47:11.389
want to climb a mountain or you want to go up

00:47:11.389 --> 00:47:13.170
this steep hill and you drop all your stuff,

00:47:13.289 --> 00:47:14.769
you've got to go back down and get that shit.

00:47:15.829 --> 00:47:20.059
You think that's fun? Probably not. Because I

00:47:20.059 --> 00:47:23.300
know you. I didn't find it fun. But I finished

00:47:23.300 --> 00:47:25.300
the game more out of stubbornness and respect

00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:27.480
for Kojima because I don't know what I'm doing.

00:47:27.619 --> 00:47:30.280
But I want to see what's going on. What is his

00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.340
plan here? Because maybe something's going to

00:47:32.340 --> 00:47:33.860
change. And I remember getting to the end and

00:47:33.860 --> 00:47:35.960
the last cutscene is about an hour and a half

00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:40.119
long. I'm not joking. And I was like, no idea.

00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:44.130
No idea. And it's supposed to be like gut -wrenching,

00:47:44.130 --> 00:47:47.670
you know, this sad story about X, Y, and Z. Don't

00:47:47.670 --> 00:47:48.710
get me wrong, there's the odd bit where you're

00:47:48.710 --> 00:47:51.369
like, okay, I can understand this bit because

00:47:51.369 --> 00:47:53.309
he's talking to her and he's saying, right, this

00:47:53.309 --> 00:47:55.010
is what we're going to do and then this person's

00:47:55.010 --> 00:47:57.590
come in and done that bad thing and okay, I get

00:47:57.590 --> 00:47:59.869
that. And then it's back to, I'm in fucking World

00:47:59.869 --> 00:48:02.010
War II with Mads Mikkelsen chasing me. I'm like,

00:48:02.190 --> 00:48:06.110
why? It doesn't make sense. I don't know. It

00:48:06.110 --> 00:48:08.349
might just be me. I don't think it's just you.

00:48:08.429 --> 00:48:09.610
By the sounds of it, I don't think it's just

00:48:09.610 --> 00:48:10.789
you. But you better believe I'm buying Death

00:48:10.789 --> 00:48:13.500
Stranding 2. Yeah. Damn straight. Have a little

00:48:13.500 --> 00:48:15.699
fucking gander. You know why? Because he would

00:48:15.699 --> 00:48:17.639
have learnt from many mistakes, and if he feels

00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:20.260
like it wasn't good enough, because you could

00:48:20.260 --> 00:48:22.119
tell it was the start of a new IP. There's a

00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:25.300
lot of stuff that, you know, the combat was shit,

00:48:25.500 --> 00:48:27.400
if I'm being pretty honest. I don't think you

00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:29.159
even had guns. I think you just fired, you know,

00:48:29.179 --> 00:48:31.099
like them balls with rope in between, and they

00:48:31.099 --> 00:48:33.840
like... Yeah, yeah. I think it was like that

00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:36.079
or something, or maybe they fired them at you.

00:48:36.179 --> 00:48:38.920
It was just crappy. Like, the combat was like,

00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:41.780
on a scale of 1 to 10 of importance in the game.

00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:45.559
the combat would have been a 0 .1. It was never

00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:48.460
really a thing. And when it was a thing, it was

00:48:48.460 --> 00:48:51.199
bad. It was not enjoyable. Which is mental coming

00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:52.739
from someone who made Metal Gear Solid, which

00:48:52.739 --> 00:48:55.639
is just incredible. Have you ever played Metal

00:48:55.639 --> 00:48:58.599
Gear Solid games? No. See, they're amazing. I

00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:01.159
strongly recommend Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater

00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:04.840
when it gets re -released as a complete remake.

00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:08.530
You play that. Because them games... created

00:49:08.530 --> 00:49:11.130
stealth games and like fucking around with the

00:49:11.130 --> 00:49:15.369
AI and trapping them and it's just good fun yeah

00:49:15.369 --> 00:49:16.829
it's just a shame that he doesn't get to carry

00:49:16.829 --> 00:49:19.110
on making them for Konami because he's genius

00:49:19.110 --> 00:49:24.070
I will I will play it because I feel like I'm

00:49:24.070 --> 00:49:26.010
so intrigued by it I want you to play it because

00:49:26.010 --> 00:49:28.010
I want you to like it and then explain to me

00:49:28.010 --> 00:49:30.190
what the fuck because don't get me wrong it's

00:49:30.190 --> 00:49:31.570
been a long time since I played it I probably

00:49:31.570 --> 00:49:34.389
played that when it came out years ago I don't

00:49:34.389 --> 00:49:36.849
know when it came out But it feels like a long

00:49:36.849 --> 00:49:40.369
time. I'll tell you what we'll do. On top of

00:49:40.369 --> 00:49:44.309
my already busy fucking schedule. This training

00:49:44.309 --> 00:49:47.170
for an ultramarathon is fucking me up, you know?

00:49:47.670 --> 00:49:50.510
It's doing me in. I'm running four days a week.

00:49:50.670 --> 00:49:53.389
I've got two fucking dogs, yeah? I've got to

00:49:53.389 --> 00:49:57.389
raid this shit twice a fucking week, yeah? Six

00:49:57.389 --> 00:49:59.900
o 'clock. On the dot. Half sick, sorry. I've

00:49:59.900 --> 00:50:01.639
got to be ready. I've also got to keep up with

00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:03.340
the gear to fucking keep up with the raid. We're

00:50:03.340 --> 00:50:05.639
now moving into heroic. It's just, it's fucking,

00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:08.639
it's too much for me. If I had kids, I'd be fucked.

00:50:09.219 --> 00:50:11.579
I don't get how you do this with children. Well,

00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:13.619
you don't. I can't do this. You can't play WoW

00:50:13.619 --> 00:50:16.800
like that, bro. I can't do this. I've got a house.

00:50:17.300 --> 00:50:19.039
There's three fucking letters from the council

00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:21.000
asking for money. They've got their hands out,

00:50:21.099 --> 00:50:24.420
ready. I'm busy. You know what I mean? What am

00:50:24.420 --> 00:50:28.190
I supposed to do? But I want to... make it um

00:50:28.190 --> 00:50:31.670
a personal mission for the sake of the podcast

00:50:31.670 --> 00:50:35.190
and i can give an update every week not take

00:50:35.190 --> 00:50:38.369
up fucking much time depending on what i've done

00:50:38.369 --> 00:50:40.489
but i can give an update every week as to how

00:50:40.489 --> 00:50:42.650
far i've got on what i'm doing in death stranding

00:50:42.650 --> 00:50:44.710
and we can almost throw it into like a little

00:50:44.710 --> 00:50:46.809
mini series where every episode you can tune

00:50:46.809 --> 00:50:48.889
in much like you have a football manager and

00:50:48.889 --> 00:50:51.750
i'll go through what the fuck's going on and

00:50:51.750 --> 00:50:55.039
i'll try and interpret to the listeners what

00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:57.239
the fuck I'm doing to anyone that isn't quite

00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.780
sure of Death Stranding as a whole. And I feel

00:51:00.780 --> 00:51:02.980
like I can do that. I'm very much up for that.

00:51:03.059 --> 00:51:04.880
I just feel it's going to be a whole lot of,

00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:07.659
I walked here and gave him that and that's the

00:51:07.659 --> 00:51:09.340
end. Yeah. And I don't even know what was in

00:51:09.340 --> 00:51:11.440
the box that I gave him. And then I had a cut

00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:12.980
scene and I can't remember because it didn't

00:51:12.980 --> 00:51:14.420
make any sense. Because the only connection that

00:51:14.420 --> 00:51:17.619
I've got with Death Stranding is the Days Gone

00:51:17.619 --> 00:51:19.559
skin that you can get for your motorbike. Where

00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:21.920
the fuel tank's the baby. Yeah, cool. I mean,

00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:24.940
that's cool. I think I got that. And I was like,

00:51:25.019 --> 00:51:27.159
that's a cool crossover. I like that. That's

00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:30.440
enjoyable. But once again, it doesn't make sense.

00:51:30.659 --> 00:51:33.219
There's one moment in Death Stranding that I

00:51:33.219 --> 00:51:36.539
remember and I thought, oh, the game's getting

00:51:36.539 --> 00:51:40.880
cool. And then it just didn't. And that was like

00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:45.900
that review said or explaining thing said. Like

00:51:45.900 --> 00:51:47.400
the dead bodies. If there's a dead body, you

00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:49.539
need to do whatever it is, burn them or whatever,

00:51:49.659 --> 00:51:52.219
before they become like a big explosion. I think

00:51:52.219 --> 00:51:54.699
a dead body will literally wipe out the fucking

00:51:54.699 --> 00:51:56.679
America, basically. I think that's basically

00:51:56.679 --> 00:52:00.400
what it was. And you have to deliver a dead body

00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.559
to the furnace, essentially. Big furnace where

00:52:03.559 --> 00:52:06.019
dead bodies go. You're literally carrying a dead

00:52:06.019 --> 00:52:08.460
body on your back. And I was like, okay, I get

00:52:08.460 --> 00:52:09.920
that. It's dark and morbid. It's weird, yeah.

00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:13.619
And you're a postman for dead people. And then

00:52:13.619 --> 00:52:15.280
it just went back to boxes. I'm a dead people

00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:18.219
postman. Yeah, it's just fucking weird, bro.

00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:20.980
There is a PS5 version, which is cool. I've got

00:52:20.980 --> 00:52:24.059
it. Oh, you've got it? Because Lucy got it for

00:52:24.059 --> 00:52:31.500
me for Christmas, and she bought me Death Stranding,

00:52:31.500 --> 00:52:33.619
and then obviously you get the free upgrade through

00:52:33.619 --> 00:52:39.449
PlayStation for Death Stranding with a PS5. So

00:52:39.449 --> 00:52:41.570
your version might be a bit different to me.

00:52:41.630 --> 00:52:44.369
I mean, I don't know what the fuck that is. I

00:52:44.369 --> 00:52:46.489
don't know. There was no time trial fucking races.

00:52:47.050 --> 00:52:51.289
That looks like VR missions. That's the touchpad.

00:52:51.929 --> 00:52:53.650
That's what you see when you're trying to calm

00:52:53.650 --> 00:52:56.429
it down. I mean, yeah, that looks cool. I'll

00:52:56.429 --> 00:52:58.190
re -download it. I'll plug the PlayStation and

00:52:58.190 --> 00:52:59.750
I'll re -download it. We'll fucking have a go.

00:52:59.929 --> 00:53:02.110
I don't know what all this shit is. There's a

00:53:02.110 --> 00:53:04.190
lot of stuff here I don't remember. And we'll

00:53:04.190 --> 00:53:06.130
do it from there. So there you go, ladies and

00:53:06.130 --> 00:53:08.860
gentlemen. That's my homework. I'm excited for

00:53:08.860 --> 00:53:11.599
you to hear what happens because I'd love to

00:53:11.599 --> 00:53:14.800
know. For the next however long, expect an update

00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:17.219
week by week of what's happening. You better

00:53:17.219 --> 00:53:18.840
believe I'm buying the collector's edition of

00:53:18.840 --> 00:53:20.920
this just because. The statue looks fucking sick,

00:53:20.980 --> 00:53:23.239
doesn't it? That's Troy Baker. Love Troy Baker.

00:53:24.619 --> 00:53:27.360
Right, yeah. Sweet, look forward to that. We're

00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:29.679
going to fuck off and do the Patreon. Patreon

00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:33.059
.com forward slash watch the buttons. Sweet.

00:53:33.179 --> 00:53:34.920
See you later, everyone. Ooroo. Ooroo.