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Video games. Video games. We love them. I've

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been playing them. I've been playing one game.

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Is it World of Warcraft? No, I've been fucking

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battlefielded, man. I've been in the trenches,

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bruv. I've been... I sent you that picture, didn't

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I, where I went 28 and 2. 28 kills, 2 deaths,

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28 assists. it's pretty fucking it's pretty nice

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numbers all of that from the safety of a tank

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in the turret i was with this geyser this completely

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random geyser who jumped in a tank i jumped in

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the turret and he was just he was a whiz at maneuvering

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that thing he knew where to fucking put it he

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knew when to get out the way when to drive off

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he didn't fucking leave me when i jumped out

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to repair it he jumped out with me to repair

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it he was getting kills he finished second in

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the table so me and him as a team did pretty

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fucking well and the one time when the tank got

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blown up we both sat and waited for the tank

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to respawn because we knew we knew what our roles

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were i literally i sat there and waited for the

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little timer to finish on the tank and then when

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i clicked on it he was fucking sat in the driver's

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seat as well i was like what a geezer what a

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fucking geezer and then yeah i was just i was

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popping i was going mad Absolutely mad. And then

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my next four games were dog shit. Yeah, so it

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goes. Some of the worst games I've ever played

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in my life. I turned it off. I was like, I'm

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sick of this, but I had such a good fucking...

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I don't know if the XP for the tanks is different

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to everything else, because I levelled that fucker

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up a hell of a lot in that game. When the game

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finished and it went to my progression, it was

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just like... Sick. They updated all the XP, didn't

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they? So everything's going up a lot quicker

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now. Maybe it was catch -up stuff as well, but

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it was just... love them tanks man I love being

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an engineer just blowing the shit out of people

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and even I always forget that I have RPGs playing

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a game of Rush yesterday and obviously some of

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the maps are quite close quarters and there's

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just people hiding behind walls and shit like

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that I've completely forgotten until about half

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way through that I can just blow a fucking hole

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in them so I was just doing that just taking

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buildings down I was like you want to camp on

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a roof that's fine I'm taking the roof what a

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great game it was fantastic fantastic I'm sending

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you two videos of my battlefield favourite moments

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of the week. I've got two of the furthest snipes

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I've got on the game. Which was what? I don't

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know, 400 metres or something. 400 metres? Well,

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it says it's like 400 and sat in on the longest

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thing. So unless I've accidentally got one further.

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This is you in a tank. You shot out of that chopper,

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did you? Oh, yeah. Right on the rudders. Yeah,

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that was one of my favourite shots. Horrible

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bastard. I love that. I absolutely love that.

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Yeah, it was satisfying, that one. It's good

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when people actually paint stuff and all. Yeah,

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I like that. Always forget that that's a thing

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that you can just do, just paint stuff up. I'm

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not terrible for it, but I must admit there's

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been multiple times when I'm in the tank and

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I forget that it's got, like, sometimes it's

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got the gun where it will paint someone. I often

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do it with the sniper class because you do it

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with the binoculars. What's this little sniper?

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Are those the towels that you can actually make

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blow up? Yeah, and then there's a geezer climbing

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the ladder as well. They can purge them. Little

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fucking geezer climbing up the ladder, give him

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a little one bang, bang, bang, bang. Because

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what are you doing? The noise is so satisfying.

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I haven't touched a sniper yet, you know. It's

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easy, man. I haven't touched one. Change that

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fucking zero in. Never have to worry again. My

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mate Leon has finished the sniper, the recon

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challenges now. Oh, wow. One where you've got

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to get like 200 headshots at 200 metres away

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or some shit like that. He's done that. It's

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just ridiculous, but he's been farming that pretty

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much since Battlefield come out. I mean, he's

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doing it in portals. No, no, no, no, no. He's

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just... No, he hasn't been doing portals. That's

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just normal gameplay. I haven't touched portal

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either. No, I haven't. I won't. I refuse. I don't

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like getting confused. Yeah, I don't want to

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get confused. I don't want to get overwhelmed.

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I also don't want to touch a bot lobby. I don't

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want to get XP that I don't deserve. I don't

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want to make the game easy. I just want to play,

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man. Yeah. Play normal. How it was designed.

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What I did do is turn cross -play off to see

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the difference, and it definitely plays nicer

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without being filled with PC players. I bet.

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I'm noticing that there's more kills coming in

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because there's less sweats knocking around via

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mouse and keyboard. So, yeah. Yeah, that's something

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I need to do. I played that other mode for the

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first time, you know, when we capture three and

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then it takes one of the zones away. Yeah, yeah,

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it's cool, man. It's a cool mode. Yeah, it's

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interesting. I've no idea what I'm doing half

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the time. I'm just running around like a loon,

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but it's fun. I've been using SMG all week, to

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be fair. Oh, they're good. They are good, yeah.

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They are good, but I do miss the old ARs. Yeah,

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SMGs all the way. The Battle Royale shadow drops

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on the 28th. Does it, yeah? Not much of a shadow

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drop. Well, they haven't confirmed it. Is it

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leaked, is it? That geezer that never gets anything

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wrong. Yeah, I'll be over that, to be fair. I

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will be on that. Tom Henderson. said that I can

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now independently verify that Battlefield 6 Battle

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Royale is indeed planned to shadow drop on October

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the 28th. Where does he get his info from? That's

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what I want to know. So I haven't commented any

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insight into the decision behind why they are

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shadow dropping it instead of full marketing

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on it. He said Byron Bede is leading the charge,

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I believe, and he was a key figure for Warzone's

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shadow drop strategy, so I imagine he's just

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replicating. I'm very interested to know because

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I think this is either going to make or break

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Battlefield. I think the game's going to be fantastic,

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but if they want to have a real staying power,

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Battle Royale needs to hit hard because multiplayer

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games are great, but you want that Battle Royale

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audience as well. You've already taken a lot.

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Well, I don't think you've taken player base

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away from Call of Duty because they're just sitting

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there until... Black Ops 7 comes out. Exactly.

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Yeah, you do. You want to take from the Battle

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Royale player base. As much as I don't particularly

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agree with Battlefield having a Battle Royale,

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fuck it, they're already doing it, so crack on.

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All the COD Battle Royale players will go back

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to Call of Duty Battle Royale if Battlefield

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isn't fantastic because they'll just go back,

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play Warzone and just complain that they're playing

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Warzone. But carry on playing Warzone. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. They need to drop it. But what I'm

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interested in is how they implement it. Is it

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going to be a PUBG way of doing it where you're

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picking up attachments? Is it going to be a loadout

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system? Are you going to have to level the guns

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in a multiplayer? Same as Call of Duty. What

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is their avenue of doing the BR? Or is it just

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find what you find? I would imagine... I think

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they'll go loadouts, personally. Yeah, I was

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going to say, I reckon they'll do loadouts only

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because they've got the loadouts set up and the

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free separate loadouts that you can create for

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a class and for the vehicles and planes and helicopters

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and all that shit. It would be... I don't think

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I'd like a PUBG -style setup. grabbing attachments

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i just find annoying unless you're playing pub

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g um but i would also wouldn't mind the idea

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of picking up the weapon as you go but again

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that makes it annoying if you want to play the

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game a specific way you've then got to go and

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find that weapon is that is that too annoying

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if you've got to do it that way or is there then

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just going to be a i'm sick of seeing fucking

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meta videos i'm sick of them I'm sick of them.

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I hate co -players so much. I haven't even looked.

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I just play what I've... I try something and

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go, it feels like shit, and I change it. Yeah,

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they're so fucking annoying. Look at this AR

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meta. Fuck off. You're so annoying. Yeah. Obviously,

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that doesn't... It's not aimed at me, otherwise

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I'd watch it and enjoy it. But I go, will you

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just go away? These shitty fucking videos. Here's

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the quickest way to level up. Shut up, man. All

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I've seen is the SMGs that are fucking melting

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and all that bollocks. But I'd say I just use

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what I feel like using and that's all I'll do.

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Well, like everyone says, you can throw as many

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meta videos out as you want. Which one helps

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the best against a 40mm fucking tank? An RPG

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to the face. Which gun's going to help me out

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with that one? None. One that has a silencer

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so they don't hear you. So yeah, Battle Royale

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is going to be interesting. 28 is cool. Is that

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the only game you've been playing? Well, I played

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a little bit of Dying Light, but I won't lie,

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Battlefield has just sort of taken over from

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that, which is what I feared would happen. And

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then with Outer Worlds 2 on the horizon next

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week on Wednesday, it's going to be very difficult

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to find the time. and the patience to jump into

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Dying Light with those two games. So, yeah, for

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now, that's all I've been jumping into. It's

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had some decent reviews. Outer Worlds, too. Not

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bad. It looks good. I'm going to get it regardless,

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even if it had bad reviews. I'd still buy it

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because I liked the first one so much. I am slowly

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falling and slipping and crawling and holding

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on to my sci -fi love, but I'm falling back into

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fantasy. Connor! I'm trying to train myself to

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like, why can't I just like both simultaneously?

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I just can't. Because it's how the brain works,

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isn't it? No, but it shouldn't. I could not just

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play Star Wars Battlefront 2, shooting all the

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droids up, being Luke Skywalker, and then just

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go and play Baldur's Gate. I couldn't do it.

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My brain doesn't... Like you, I couldn't play

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Dying Light 2 and then go and play World of Warcraft.

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I just couldn't do it. My brain does not allow

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me to... play the two things yeah but that's

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probably that's probably quite normal you're

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an extreme point because it's like you get into

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fantasy and then everything else gets shut away

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even though you still love it everything else

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is shut away whereas I don't think that it's

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out of the realms of normality if you're playing

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if you're playing Dying Light smashing the shit

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out of zombies and then jumping into something

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like Battlefield or But that's normal. Maybe

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because that's just warfare. They're the same

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thing, aren't they? Jumping into something like

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World of Warcraft or Baldur's Gate, then I don't

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think it's too crazy to not want to do that because

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your mind's involved with something else. But

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you're a more extreme version of it because everything

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else just gets thrown to the fucking walls. I'm

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scared because I've spent a lot of money on Warhammer.

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I've painted one of them. Yeah, but you're ADHD

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to fuck. Yeah, I know. So, well, I don't know,

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but I assume that is the case. But now I'm going

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to be like, well... It's definitely the case.

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Well, the Warhammer 40K and all the paint, they're

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just going to stay in the spare room. Of course

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they will. Pointless. Of course they will. So

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what a waste of fucking money until I get back

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on my sci -fi kick. Yeah, don't worry. Roman

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done the exact same shit. And then Roman spent

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loads of money on Warhammer, then got crazy addicted

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to painting Warhammers and painted fucking loads

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of them, but also did a crazy thing of... popping

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every single bit out rather than putting it together

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by instructions. And then sold all of it. Dropped

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it all and sold all of it. But now it's going

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to end up going around Connors for Warhammer,

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apparently, unless he's winding me up, which

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he probably is. It's how the ADHD brains work.

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Your Warhammer will sit there for fucking ages

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until you jump into space again. I know. I haven't

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left space yet. I'm just teetering. Yeah, but

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you are. This is a seasonal thing. You're just

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like the leaves on the trees. They're all going

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yellow and falling off. I just miss elves and

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that. Yeah. I just miss swords and that. Yeah.

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And capes. Yeah. Yeah, I'm exactly the same.

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I'm dipping my toes. It's been a couple of days

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now where I've jumped into Legion Remix. and

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I made a warlock because obviously I'm playing

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one at the moment in Baldur's Gate. Sorry, not

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Baldur's Gate, in actual D &D. I'm playing Baldur's

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Gate with Steph. That's fucking going fantastic.

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Mega, mega fun. The other day we spent like a

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solid four, five, maybe even six hours. We spent

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all day playing Baldur's Gate. That's the best

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thing I've ever heard. Tell us about it then.

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I loved it. It was great. Where are you? We were

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shouting at each other. I was getting angry.

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Obviously. We were dying a lot. Kept dying. Why

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are we so shit? I said, what are we doing wrong?

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I think it's just the strategy of it. It's just

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a hard game, isn't it? No, it's not. No, it is.

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It's not, bruv. It's not. There's moments where

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it's a bit tricky, but most of it's quite simple.

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Well, Howson's dead. Who? Howson. The Druid geezer.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Where did he die? Where he was

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held. Yeah, same. In the cell. Yeah, first play

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through. Did you throw a rock at him as well?

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I don't know, I just killed him. Yeah, well,

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Steph had the option in the dialogue to, because

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we basically, we had a right touch, because where

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he's held in the goblin cage, in the area, in

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that cave, whatever, obviously there's goblins

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fucking everywhere. But at the beginning of that.

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I don't remember them fucking. But at the beginning

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of that, we got all the goblins on our side.

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So we were able to just walk around freely. We're

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like, yeah, this is sick. And then walking around

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looking at all these goblins going, fuck having

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to fight all of these. That's so annoying. And

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then we basically split off and we're looking

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at all sorts of different things. And then housing,

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obviously, that's why we was in there. But we

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also got a quest to find the night song. So we

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found there was this geezer called Liam that

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was being tortured. Steph was busy talking to

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housing. while these goblins were throwing rocks

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at him and this Liam geezer was being tortured

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so the goblins turned around to me and they were

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like either get involved or fuck off so I'm getting

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involved so I stabbed him in the bollocks and

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then I took his toenails and then he started

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talking and giving me all the information I want

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then the goblins fucked off I persuaded them

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to leave us alone and then I actually rescued

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Liam after torturing him and the geezer was like

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But you tried to kill me. And I was like, it's

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for your own good. I've done you a favour here.

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Saved him. Fucking sent him on his way. But before

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he went, he was like, oh, we was here for the

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night song. It's in a secret passage under wherever

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we are. So I was like, right, well, I've got

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to try and find that then. In the meantime, Steph's

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talking to the goblins that are throwing rocks

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at housing. And it gives you the three options.

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And it was like, throw a rock at him. And I said

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to Steph, throw a rock at him, see what happens.

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And she was like, no, I'm not doing that. And

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we basically said that if we come up with a decision

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that we can't agree on, we'll spin the wheel.

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So I put the answers in a spin the wheel on Google

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and it come on to throw a rock at him. So she

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threw a rock at him and the geyser didn't react

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very well because he busted through the cages

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and mauled everyone to death. But obviously this

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place is filled with goblins. So they overpowered

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him pretty much. And the way that we found out

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is because of the quest itself to save him updated

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and completed the quest because he dead, he dead,

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he dead. It popped up and said that he's died.

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So we were like, oh, whoopsie daisy. Maybe we

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shouldn't have thrown that rock. I feel bad for

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spinning the wheel. And then we explored some

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more and found these two spiders. that were locked

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up in a cage. Well, Steph's got good animal handling

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and animal speaking. So she got them on our side

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and let them out. But they just went to town.

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They tried to escape but then got cut off by

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goblins. They just went fucking ham. There's

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this big bugbear geyser or whatever that Steph

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had killed previously in her own playthrough

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or spoken to or whatever. Fucked his ass up.

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spiders come running in saved us like you know

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where obviously when you you do know but when

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you're fighting it goes from person to person

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like um fucking what's the what's the fighting

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style called turn based um and then yeah it went

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for me and then went all the way to one of the

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spiders and i was like oh shit the spiders are

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involved they're fucking they're on our side

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uh and yeah we fucked all of them up and then

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next to that building was this woman um Menethil?

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Menethil? Menethil? Someone like that. Who Steph

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has interacted with before. And she was like,

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oh shit, she's over there. Let's go and speak

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to her. There was a couple of goblins around

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her. We thought she was being held captive. No.

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No, no, no, no, no. Started attacking us. Killed

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us about three times. So we save scummed it.

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And then figured out that actually, in order

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to get her to interact with you, when it's in

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that state, you knock her out. rather than killing

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her, knocked her ass out, killed everyone else,

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and knocked her the fuck out, apparently she

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ends up in some other place, and then you can

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interact with her, and I'm pretty sure we booked

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it out of there, and then left it there, but

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that was, we killed a lot of shit, like it was

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clicking, it was clicking pretty well then, and

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then I sort of had this moment, where I was like,

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do I want to, You meant Mindira. You're talking

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about the drow? The purple... Yeah. Oh, yeah,

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yeah. Yeah, I know who you're talking about.

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Yeah. Well, you knocked her out. Yeah, she was

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beefing us. Yeah, she's hard, yeah. Yeah. She

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was beefing out. Killed all of us, bar me. She's

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quite a big character, man. Yeah. Yeah, well...

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You nearly killed her. I nearly killed her. Yeah,

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yeah. Yeah. I don't know what happens if you

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kill her. Yeah, I knocked her arse out, man.

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She's... yeah she's she's quite a big character

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yeah yeah that's why we were so annoyed because

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Steph had obviously in her own play for interacted

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with her and that's where she was like oh she's

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really cool yeah and then she's attacking us

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because we've already started a fight with the

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goblins and yeah like I say we died like two

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or three times um and then and then Steph googled

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it and it was like no if you knock her out then

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it it puts her back she ends up somewhere else

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and then yeah she basically killed all of us

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bar me and even then I only had like five health

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left I think and yeah I just popped her ass with

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an arrow and it just it knocked Minthara Steph

00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:27.740
just text me Minthara yeah yeah that's the one

00:19:27.740 --> 00:19:30.059
yeah she's cool man the rain didn't get on well

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with her Solax gets on a lot better with her

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because they're drowse yeah it was a bit it was

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a bit nutty but we knocked her out and then and

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then booked it out of there but um I'm in a bit

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of a conundrum because of actual D &D, where

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I'm sitting there thinking, do I want to swap

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to a warlock? Well, you can. Because I like warlocks,

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but obviously I haven't got any warlock stuff.

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That's easy remedy though, isn't it? I think

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they'll probably give you base warlock stuff.

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I don't know. I need to Google it, because obviously

00:20:02.059 --> 00:20:06.039
from withers, you can change it, can't you? Withers.

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And I'm just trying to work out whether I want

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to change over to being a warlock, as opposed

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to... doing because I'm a fighter now but specialised

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into whatever the fucking specialisation is archery

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whatever it is and it's cool but at the same

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time playing a warlock is very cool as well I

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think I think the biggest tip I can give you

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in any game like that if you're going to continue

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with it change because You want to enjoy your

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character. I loved Rain. Rain's like my favourite

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character I've probably ever made in any game

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ever. But the problem is with him, he was shit.

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He was by far the worst character in the party.

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Whenever it come to his turn, I was like, I may

00:20:49.509 --> 00:20:52.710
as well skip. He was just useless. He used the

00:20:52.710 --> 00:20:55.250
bow all the time. He done about four damage to

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end game. He was rubbish, mate. My best damage

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dealer was by far Lazelle. Lazelle. She was by

00:21:02.490 --> 00:21:04.589
far the most powerful character. She used to

00:21:04.589 --> 00:21:06.750
be able to hit like fucking six times in a row

00:21:06.750 --> 00:21:09.910
and just keep wailing on people. If she died,

00:21:09.930 --> 00:21:11.390
I might as well just restart. Yeah, because she's

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a fighter as well, which is what I am. Very powerful.

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Running different specs. But I think, yeah, just...

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You should always enjoy the character that you're

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playing, otherwise it kind of takes away a little

00:21:21.890 --> 00:21:23.730
bit. You want your character to be good, not

00:21:23.730 --> 00:21:26.230
like a fucking bag of old shit. My character

00:21:26.230 --> 00:21:29.910
is a bag of old shit. I mean, I enjoy my character,

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but I just feel like I want more flavour to it

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that I'm not getting from shooting arrows. Even

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though the arrows do cool things, I'm just not...

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Because at the moment... Yeah, I don't know,

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man. I'm using like an explosive shot if there's

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things grouped up, which does decent. But then

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outside of that, it's just like a poison arrow.

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And that's it. It's not really my... It ain't

00:22:00.210 --> 00:22:05.670
really my vibe. So I might switch. Because Warlock

00:22:05.670 --> 00:22:08.309
does seem fun. I'm never going to be a bard or

00:22:08.309 --> 00:22:11.150
any of that shit. I'm never going to be a sorcerer.

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I'm just not. Or maybe I might be a sorcerer.

00:22:13.690 --> 00:22:15.769
That's what I play. That's what Solex is. But

00:22:15.769 --> 00:22:18.809
a warlock just seems fucking fun as shit, man.

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And then having a little familiar that runs around

00:22:21.049 --> 00:22:23.470
with you as well. And then just the cantrips

00:22:23.470 --> 00:22:28.730
and all that Eldritch Blast. Just seems cool.

00:22:29.170 --> 00:22:33.329
But Connor was telling me that warlocks, by default,

00:22:33.670 --> 00:22:36.029
are quite squishy. Because I've always known

00:22:36.029 --> 00:22:38.430
warlocks from a WoW point of view. And in a WoW

00:22:38.430 --> 00:22:40.849
point of view, they're very, very fucking durable.

00:22:41.430 --> 00:22:44.180
They've got like... insanely high health and

00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:48.359
armor for a for a cloth wearer um but con was

00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:50.799
telling me that in the dnd world that's a that's

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they're like almost the polar opposite where

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they're still very powerful but they're not they're

00:22:55.180 --> 00:22:57.460
like glass cannons yeah i think anything that

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deals stuff damage that's not just solely with

00:23:00.779 --> 00:23:02.539
weapons is going to be squishy in it that's just

00:23:02.539 --> 00:23:06.200
the nature of the beast that's why wizards sorcerers

00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:09.960
archers they're all squishy because They're using

00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:12.039
things from afar. Yeah. And they're powerful

00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:15.740
in what they do. So they can't be powerful and

00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:18.940
strong. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, that's

00:23:18.940 --> 00:23:21.500
true. Magic users tend to be powerful, but we're

00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:25.299
squishy. When you class change, do you get to

00:23:25.299 --> 00:23:27.359
change your attributes and shit as well? Or is

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it literally just the... I imagine you respec

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all your stuff. I've never done it, but I assume

00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:34.079
that is the case. Yeah, because I suppose you'd

00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:36.059
be fucked, wouldn't you, if you specced all your

00:23:36.059 --> 00:23:40.299
stuff into constitution and charisma or whatever,

00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:43.940
whatever stat, dexterity, and then you swap to

00:23:43.940 --> 00:23:46.220
a sorcerer and you can't change your stats. And

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you go, great, I'm a sorcerer with fucking seven

00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:51.660
intelligence, but 69 constitution. Like, what

00:23:51.660 --> 00:23:55.089
the fuck? Yeah, I'm not too sure. I assume. I

00:23:55.089 --> 00:23:57.009
mean, fuck me, my Warlock in actual D &D has

00:23:57.009 --> 00:24:00.250
a minus two to strength. If I have to use anything

00:24:00.250 --> 00:24:03.190
that involves strength, I'm fucked. I've got

00:24:03.190 --> 00:24:09.569
like seven of it with a minus two. Decent. It's

00:24:09.569 --> 00:24:11.730
going well, though. I'm enjoying it. It fills

00:24:11.730 --> 00:24:13.910
me with warmth now that you're playing my favourite

00:24:13.910 --> 00:24:16.730
game of all time. It's very good fun. But yeah,

00:24:16.809 --> 00:24:20.710
I want to play... I got the Steam Deck out the

00:24:20.710 --> 00:24:25.740
other day. Pissing around with that. And I just

00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:27.619
got a real big urge to play Divinity Original

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Sin 2, which is Larian's game before Baldur's

00:24:30.619 --> 00:24:34.799
Gate 3. A lot of people say it's like, it's on

00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:37.380
par with Baldur's Gate 3. It's not got the same

00:24:37.380 --> 00:24:39.599
level of cinematography and all that, but it's

00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:41.440
all voice acted. It's all fantastic. It's got

00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:43.339
the narrator and all that sort of stuff in it.

00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:48.740
So yeah, and I played it on PS4 or PS5, one or

00:24:48.740 --> 00:24:52.740
the other. And I really enjoyed it, but... I

00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:56.180
fucking struggled hard. But now I have Bowler's

00:24:56.180 --> 00:24:59.859
Gate under my belt and now Rogue Trader. Yeah,

00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:02.220
yeah. I feel like I'm becoming a bit of an adept.

00:25:02.380 --> 00:25:05.339
Yeah, a connoisseur. Yeah, of these sort of turn

00:25:05.339 --> 00:25:07.220
-based games. So I feel like I should give it

00:25:07.220 --> 00:25:12.480
another go. And Dfinity is like, is Larian's...

00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:15.519
it's his own ip so it's something they care deeply

00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.880
for they invented divinity one divinity two and

00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.019
i assume their next project will their next big

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:24.960
project will be divinity three i assume um so

00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:26.259
yeah i was wanting to play that and i thought

00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:29.200
should i play it maybe i should play it on the

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:31.220
steam deck and i thought well if i buy it on

00:25:31.220 --> 00:25:33.099
steam then i've got the option of playing it

00:25:33.099 --> 00:25:36.299
on the pc and steam deck simultaneously yeah

00:25:36.299 --> 00:25:39.140
so Well, you know, if we're watching a film or

00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:40.240
something, I can just play on the Steam Deck.

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You know what I mean? I feel like that's a...

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So did you give it a go? No, because it's 30

00:25:44.900 --> 00:25:47.819
quid and I've got it on PS4. I've got the disc

00:25:47.819 --> 00:25:50.559
at home. So I'm just like, do I want to spend...

00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:52.819
I put it on my wish list hoping for a sale. If

00:25:52.819 --> 00:25:56.500
it goes down, I'll buy it. But yeah, I don't

00:25:56.500 --> 00:25:58.059
really want to pay 30 quid for a game I've already

00:25:58.059 --> 00:25:59.779
got. I'm pretty sure it was on the sale when

00:25:59.779 --> 00:26:02.660
me and Connor did an episode and we was looking

00:26:02.660 --> 00:26:04.940
through the Steam sale. Probably. I feel like

00:26:04.940 --> 00:26:09.569
I see it pop up on there. oh fellowship is also

00:26:09.569 --> 00:26:12.130
is also on steam i completely forgot about that

00:26:12.130 --> 00:26:15.890
i have no idea what that is fellowship is um

00:26:15.890 --> 00:26:19.769
pause the fucking trailer so i don't scream our

00:26:19.769 --> 00:26:23.809
ears out fellowship is basically world of warcraft

00:26:23.809 --> 00:26:30.710
but they've taken out the the world bit so it's

00:26:30.710 --> 00:26:35.289
basically a mythic plus dungeon game so you're

00:26:35.289 --> 00:26:38.119
just doing dungeons Same sort of formula as World

00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:40.900
of Warcraft, but there's a fellowship as a multiplayer

00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:43.720
online dungeon adventure set in an exciting fantasy

00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:46.660
setting with endlessly scaling dungeon runs.

00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:50.319
Basically a fucking, they've just copied a lot

00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:55.740
of shit from WoW and it is quite popular. Because

00:26:55.740 --> 00:26:57.759
that's more or less what you do at Endgame is

00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:00.200
Mythic Plus. But even like a lot of the characters,

00:27:00.299 --> 00:27:03.200
like the rogue, looks very similar to how a rogue

00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:05.420
plays in World of Warcraft, even down to the

00:27:05.420 --> 00:27:09.400
animations and shit like that. But that's meant

00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:13.880
to be quite good. And that's 20 great British

00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:15.880
pounds. But we weren't looking at that. What

00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:17.880
was we looking at? The video original Sin 2.

00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:23.880
I assume. Yeah, no, it's still fucking 30 quid.

00:27:24.339 --> 00:27:28.180
Yeah. It's still 30 quid. Or you could get the

00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:34.319
Saw Saga for 41 quid. What the fuck is that?

00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:39.460
All of them. Includes the Divinity Original Sin

00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:41.980
Enhanced Edition and then Divinity Original Sin

00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:46.440
2 for 41 great British pounds. Surely it's on

00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:51.940
CD keys. I don't know, mate. I'm new to all this

00:27:51.940 --> 00:27:54.700
PC gaming, aren't I? It must be on CDKs. Let

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:58.680
me look. Formerly known CDKs. What was it now

00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:06.720
known as? Loaded. Divinity. Does it have to be

00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:13.140
number two? So you can get it on CDKs for 14

00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:17.339
quid. If that helps. But then do I have access

00:28:17.339 --> 00:28:20.700
to Steam? You can get it. Oh, no. Never mind.

00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:25.420
That's on GOG. Yeah, no GOG for me. No GOG. There

00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:28.880
is Steam on here, but it says notify me for the

00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:31.559
codes, and that's 22 quid. So I'd imagine they

00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:35.259
don't have any fucking Divinity Sync codes for

00:28:35.259 --> 00:28:37.599
Steam, which is fair enough. But that's always...

00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.519
Obviously, you're in the world of PCs now. So

00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:43.940
CD keys and shit like that is something. Or you

00:28:43.940 --> 00:28:47.259
can spend 100 quid on Game Pass and have that.

00:28:47.779 --> 00:28:51.140
Woo! No, thanks. Maybe I'll just play on the

00:28:51.140 --> 00:28:53.859
PS5. It seems a lot simpler. Yeah, probably.

00:28:54.700 --> 00:28:56.119
But I really, really want to play on the Steam

00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:58.960
Deck. I just want to have it just to be like...

00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:01.480
But I don't know if it's good on the Steam Deck.

00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.259
Do you know what I mean? Maybe. Maybe. I need

00:29:04.259 --> 00:29:05.759
to ponder more. I've got Football Manager for

00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:08.180
fuck's sake. Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah,

00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:11.039
I don't know. Because I would say... I'm not

00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:14.299
trying to, you know, blow smoke up my own arsehole

00:29:14.299 --> 00:29:17.200
here, but Football Manager seems to be one of...

00:29:17.470 --> 00:29:20.369
listeners' favourite subjects. Whenever anyone

00:29:20.369 --> 00:29:22.369
mentions this podcast, everyone loves it. It

00:29:22.369 --> 00:29:24.569
is. So I think I'm going to start saying maybe

00:29:24.569 --> 00:29:28.650
we should just hide it behind the paywall. See

00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:30.910
how much you fucking love it now, dickheads.

00:29:32.970 --> 00:29:41.480
No. No. No, fair enough. That's so corporate.

00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.180
We've identified the most liked subject matter

00:29:45.180 --> 00:29:49.000
and we're now going to make you pay for it. That's

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.480
awful. It's your USP, isn't it? Your unique selling

00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:53.980
point. Football manager. I get that shit paid

00:29:53.980 --> 00:29:57.680
for. Imagine being known as a pod for that. Yeah,

00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.680
they got really famous for their fucking football

00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.279
manager content and then stuck it behind a paywall

00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.460
and then increased the patron by 50%. It's now

00:30:06.460 --> 00:30:11.000
15 quid. Yeah, fucking... I would never do that.

00:30:12.009 --> 00:30:14.430
Before we go into that, yes, Divinity Original

00:30:14.430 --> 00:30:16.930
Sin 2 is considered excellent on the Steam Deck,

00:30:17.009 --> 00:30:20.250
running smoothly at 60 frames per second on high

00:30:20.250 --> 00:30:22.549
slash ultra settings with the perfect controls

00:30:22.549 --> 00:30:25.130
right out of the box. It offers a very similar

00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:26.970
experience to Baldur's Gate 3, but with better

00:30:26.970 --> 00:30:29.150
performance on the deck, making it a great alternative

00:30:29.150 --> 00:30:31.329
for those who find Baldur's Gate 3 too demanding.

00:30:31.630 --> 00:30:33.769
This game is officially verified for the Steam

00:30:33.769 --> 00:30:39.539
Deck. So there you go. High performance, expect

00:30:39.539 --> 00:30:41.500
to run the game at a high frame rate with many

00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:43.940
users reporting a consistent 60 frames per second

00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:47.140
on ultra settings. Excellent optimisation, the

00:30:47.140 --> 00:30:49.200
game is very well optimised, making it run smoothly

00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.200
even on the highest graphical settings. Sorry,

00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.079
did you say you can play Divi Original Sin 2

00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.960
on Steam Deck at 60? Yeah, on ultra settings.

00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:01.440
It's bullshit, because I just... Why are you

00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:07.109
laughing? I'm reading it out saying that many

00:31:07.109 --> 00:31:11.930
users reporting a consistent 60 frames per second

00:31:11.930 --> 00:31:14.329
on ultra settings. No, no, I'm not saying it's

00:31:14.329 --> 00:31:18.029
bullshit. I'm saying it is bullshit because on

00:31:18.029 --> 00:31:23.259
the PS5, you can only get 30. Because I remember...

00:31:23.259 --> 00:31:25.000
Because you're in a world of PC world. You're

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.839
in PC world now. Yeah, but the Steam Deck shouldn't

00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:29.259
have it at 60 and the PS5 at fucking 30. Yeah,

00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:31.299
but the Steam Deck's a PC. Don't think of the

00:31:31.299 --> 00:31:32.920
Steam Deck as a console, it's a PC. Well, I'm

00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:34.380
going to have to buy it on the Steam Deck then.

00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:37.619
Because I remember playing it on PS5 and thinking,

00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:39.440
this is great, but I wish it weren't jittery.

00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:41.759
Do you know what I mean? I can't go back to that

00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:43.460
Jerry shit. It says the main drawback is that

00:31:43.460 --> 00:31:44.900
playing with high settings can significantly

00:31:44.900 --> 00:31:47.500
drain the battery, but it says the controls work

00:31:47.500 --> 00:31:49.519
perfectly on the Steam Deck without any need

00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.519
for user adjustments. The game looks beautiful

00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:54.660
on Steam Deck with the OLED version showing off

00:31:54.660 --> 00:31:57.900
its HDR capabilities. The enhanced edition is

00:31:57.900 --> 00:32:00.660
fully supported, including HDR and OLED models.

00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:06.759
Turn -based combat system is well -suited for

00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:09.559
handheld play. To conserve battery, you can lock

00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:12.539
the frame rate to 45 or 30 frames per second

00:32:12.539 --> 00:32:15.059
while still enjoying ultra settings. While the

00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:16.740
graphics are not as advanced as Baldur's Gate

00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:18.960
3, the performance is significantly better on

00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:20.759
the deck, making it a more enjoyable handheld

00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:23.119
experience for many. Did you ever play Baldur's

00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:25.480
Gate 3 on the Steam Deck? No. It looks awful.

00:32:25.849 --> 00:32:27.789
No, but I will. There's a lot of tweaking that

00:32:27.789 --> 00:32:30.109
needs to be done. Steph did, and it don't look

00:32:30.109 --> 00:32:33.529
fantastic, and it runs like shit. I don't know

00:32:33.529 --> 00:32:34.829
if I'll play it on the deck, but I'll definitely

00:32:34.829 --> 00:32:36.769
buy it on Steam because I want to play them mods,

00:32:36.869 --> 00:32:39.269
man. There's some big mods that come out soon,

00:32:39.410 --> 00:32:41.630
and there's one that I think is called Return

00:32:41.630 --> 00:32:44.809
to Menza Baranzen, which is all about the underdark

00:32:44.809 --> 00:32:47.109
for the drow. I follow their Discord, like their

00:32:47.109 --> 00:32:50.250
updates on it. And like I say, all that sort

00:32:50.250 --> 00:32:53.150
of stuff will be available on the PC, which I'm

00:32:53.150 --> 00:32:56.660
now familiar with. I'm sure a YouTube video will

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:58.900
get me where I need to be in regards to... Yeah,

00:32:58.900 --> 00:33:01.819
Baldur's Gate's 50 quid on Steam. Well, yeah,

00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:05.299
I'm going to play Div anyway first. But then

00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:08.019
I'm still trying to claw myself into the sci

00:33:08.019 --> 00:33:09.960
-fi stuff. I'm not pulling myself out yet. Why

00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:17.099
the fuck is Channel Divinity 2, Channel Original

00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:21.480
Sin 2, on PS5 30 frames in? Who the fuck knows?

00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:24.119
I just Googled it then because I thought it would...

00:33:24.890 --> 00:33:27.849
I thought if he can run that on Steam Deck, surely

00:33:27.849 --> 00:33:31.710
it can do 60 on PS5 now. But no, they must have

00:33:31.710 --> 00:33:33.670
different clients. I don't know the ins and outs,

00:33:33.730 --> 00:33:35.829
but they must be different games entirely in

00:33:35.829 --> 00:33:39.569
code for it because I don't understand why. Because

00:33:39.569 --> 00:33:42.049
PS5 surely is more powerful than the Steam Deck.

00:33:42.150 --> 00:33:48.059
Of course it is. Right. It says Divinity Original

00:33:48.059 --> 00:33:50.920
Sin 2 runs at 30 frames per second cap on PS5

00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:53.420
because the definitive edition is a PS4 game

00:33:53.420 --> 00:33:55.960
running through the PS5's backwards compatibility

00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:59.519
and it was not optimized with a 60 frames per

00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:01.880
second mode for the newer consoles. While the

00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:04.500
PS5 is capable of a much higher frame rate, without

00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:07.539
a specific patch or native PS5 version from the

00:34:07.539 --> 00:34:09.900
developers, the game defaults to the performance

00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:12.920
it was designed for on the PS4. So that's why

00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.079
then, it's because it's... It doesn't have a

00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:21.400
PS5 patch. Makes sense. So it could, but it doesn't.

00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:26.000
I don't understand how or why that works like

00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:29.679
that, but it does. And there you go. But apparently

00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:31.360
it's very, very good on Steam Deck. That's fine

00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:33.699
then. I'll just buy it on Steam, sucker it up,

00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:36.280
buttercup, because I'm desperate to play it.

00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:39.090
I've just been thinking about it all week. I

00:34:39.090 --> 00:34:40.809
don't know why. I must have seen a video or something

00:34:40.809 --> 00:34:42.409
that's gone, oh, yeah, I need to play that. I

00:34:42.409 --> 00:34:46.809
just love Baldur's Gate so much. Anyway, full

00:34:46.809 --> 00:34:48.730
manager, should we get into that juicy topic?

00:34:48.929 --> 00:34:51.130
I haven't got a lot to discuss. What can I say?

00:34:51.550 --> 00:34:54.389
I downloaded the game. The end. Well, this is

00:34:54.389 --> 00:34:59.690
the last text I received from you. And if my

00:34:59.690 --> 00:35:03.789
phone would unlock, please. And it says, I got

00:35:03.789 --> 00:35:06.869
a photo of it, didn't I? You did get a photo

00:35:06.869 --> 00:35:09.139
of it, yeah. Where are you? You sent me a photo.

00:35:10.059 --> 00:35:13.599
And you said, uh -oh. Uh -oh. And there was a

00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:16.079
picture of Football Manager 26 downloading. At

00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:20.019
29%. At 29%. And then you sent me a picture of,

00:35:20.059 --> 00:35:22.079
I'm going to assume you've made the manager look

00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.039
like you. Otherwise, it's just another bald,

00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:27.159
bearded man. Which you all look the same, if

00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:31.400
I'm honest. Once you've got a shaved head and

00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:34.300
you grow a beard, you all look the same. I am

00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:36.480
aware of this because I showed Rye this and he

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.280
went, oh, you made Clarkie. I was like, no, that's

00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:41.780
me. That's generic bold man B. Yeah, it could

00:35:41.780 --> 00:35:44.420
be anyone. I am generic bold man. And you said

00:35:44.420 --> 00:35:47.840
going in with no experience, no badges, nothing.

00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:51.000
Starting unemployed again as I did last time

00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:53.920
and see where the journey takes us. Indeed. I

00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:56.840
didn't actually read any of the stats. Attacking.

00:35:57.980 --> 00:36:02.510
What does that say? Unsuited. defending unsuited

00:36:02.510 --> 00:36:05.989
fitness what does the unsuited bit mean? it means

00:36:05.989 --> 00:36:09.590
I'm shit I'm unsuited for any of it so all the

00:36:09.590 --> 00:36:12.829
stats except for motivating you're reasonable

00:36:12.829 --> 00:36:16.670
but every other stat you're unsuited I'll explain

00:36:16.670 --> 00:36:19.989
why because when you start the game on this iteration

00:36:19.989 --> 00:36:22.530
they've changed it up a little bit because it

00:36:22.530 --> 00:36:25.030
used to be all out of numbers these sort of things

00:36:25.030 --> 00:36:27.429
but now they're doing it via words instead of

00:36:27.429 --> 00:36:29.710
it being you know ones and twos it's now saying

00:36:29.710 --> 00:36:32.949
unsuited but when you start the game create your

00:36:32.949 --> 00:36:35.789
manager yada yada yada then you can pick past

00:36:35.789 --> 00:36:38.369
playing experience they've enhanced that now

00:36:38.369 --> 00:36:41.809
normally it's like professional footballer Sunday

00:36:41.809 --> 00:36:44.449
league footballer blah blah blah blah now you

00:36:44.449 --> 00:36:47.630
can be Premier League footballer world superstar

00:36:47.630 --> 00:36:50.079
footballer like background experience Obviously,

00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:51.280
you're going to command more respect for new

00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:55.340
things like that. You can also do referee, linesman,

00:36:55.420 --> 00:36:58.039
media, pundit, all that sort of stuff. Well,

00:36:58.059 --> 00:36:59.300
that's your background. So you can have all that

00:36:59.300 --> 00:37:00.699
as your background, like stuff like that. So

00:37:00.699 --> 00:37:02.800
I was a pundit and now I'm trying it as a manager,

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:06.159
stuff like that. But I just went nothing, zero

00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:09.579
experience. You've got nothing. You've come from,

00:37:09.579 --> 00:37:13.340
you were a forklift driver in the Argos warehouse

00:37:13.340 --> 00:37:17.400
and now you've decided, I'm going to become a

00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.300
football manager. Exactly that. That works. That's

00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:26.539
what I'm going with. 24 stone. No. Hepatitis

00:37:26.539 --> 00:37:29.599
B. You can see I've not got... And a gangrenous

00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.420
foot. That's true. And you've gone, right, football

00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:36.960
manager is my next pathway. Yeah. And then after

00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:39.440
that, you can do your coaching badges, which

00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.000
is a sore subject, of course. Yeah, of course

00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.309
it is. So I just click none. Because... Well,

00:37:44.309 --> 00:37:46.369
you can say how many badges you've got. Yeah,

00:37:46.409 --> 00:37:48.989
you can put yourself at the top. World superstar.

00:37:49.250 --> 00:37:50.989
You can have coaching badges. If your background

00:37:50.989 --> 00:37:54.110
is nothing to do with football, I'm going to

00:37:54.110 --> 00:37:55.650
assume that you don't have any coaching badges.

00:37:56.050 --> 00:37:58.170
Well, yeah, I know. But it's your game. You can

00:37:58.170 --> 00:38:00.150
do what you want, right? I've never touched football

00:38:00.150 --> 00:38:02.610
in my life, but I've got seven. Mm -hmm. And

00:38:02.610 --> 00:38:05.289
a Michelin star. I mean, you're kind of cheating

00:38:05.289 --> 00:38:07.809
because you get more of a leg up if you're doing

00:38:07.809 --> 00:38:09.449
all that bollocks. Don't get me wrong, if you

00:38:09.449 --> 00:38:10.869
are a professional footballer, because there's

00:38:10.869 --> 00:38:12.469
fucking millions of professional footballers

00:38:12.469 --> 00:38:14.150
that play Football Manager. It's very popular

00:38:14.150 --> 00:38:18.570
across everybody. A lot of players play Football

00:38:18.570 --> 00:38:20.170
Manager when they're on playing journeys and

00:38:20.170 --> 00:38:22.090
stuff like that. They're always posting. So you're

00:38:22.090 --> 00:38:24.409
basically, this playthrough, you're playing as

00:38:24.409 --> 00:38:32.260
a fucking souls -born That whole genre, what

00:38:32.260 --> 00:38:34.460
do they call it when you decide to make the shittest

00:38:34.460 --> 00:38:37.159
character ever? The preset one, like a milk toast.

00:38:37.900 --> 00:38:42.059
I've never heard that. Milk toast one, and then

00:38:42.059 --> 00:38:45.960
there's another one where it's like scum. It's

00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:47.679
basically whatever the pre -made character is

00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.190
where they have the lowest stats possible. And

00:38:50.190 --> 00:38:52.210
then that's what you run with. I'm just doing

00:38:52.210 --> 00:38:55.269
me, man. So if you want to call me scum and milk

00:38:55.269 --> 00:38:58.769
toast, then sure, I am being me. I mean, in that

00:38:58.769 --> 00:39:00.369
world you are, though, aren't you? If you was

00:39:00.369 --> 00:39:03.929
to go to an interview now, I'm Wigan. I need

00:39:03.929 --> 00:39:06.469
a new manager. Well, first question would be

00:39:06.469 --> 00:39:08.670
like, why the fuck am I in Wigan? I don't want

00:39:08.670 --> 00:39:10.429
to manage your shit football club. This is rugby

00:39:10.429 --> 00:39:13.769
country, isn't it? Yeah, I know, but that's the

00:39:13.769 --> 00:39:15.530
problem. That's why we need a new manager. Yeah,

00:39:15.550 --> 00:39:17.559
I'm not interested. Well, yeah, but we haven't

00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:19.300
even given you the offers yet. I don't want to.

00:39:19.340 --> 00:39:20.940
I don't want to hear them. So then why have you

00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:22.500
travelled all the way to Wigan? You've wasted

00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:24.400
my time. It sounds more like I'm interviewing

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.079
you at this point. I don't want to be here. I'm

00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:27.840
being held captive in an interview. There's a

00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.159
long line out the door of people wanting this

00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.119
job, and we've given you the opportunity. I don't

00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:33.820
want it. You haven't even heard the offers, though.

00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:35.300
I don't want to hear it. I'm not interested.

00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:37.719
But it's taken you hours to get here, no? No.

00:39:37.780 --> 00:39:39.579
I was just passing by. I was just stopping at

00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:45.199
Greg's. Right. See you later. No worries. Next.

00:39:46.570 --> 00:39:49.329
That'd be a cracking interview. That's where

00:39:49.329 --> 00:39:55.250
I get my keen motivation from. Become Wigan's

00:39:55.250 --> 00:39:59.449
rival. So, yeah, fucking coaching badges, I put

00:39:59.449 --> 00:40:01.889
zero. And then you can do your style, which is

00:40:01.889 --> 00:40:06.409
a new thing. So you can, if you... You can be

00:40:06.409 --> 00:40:08.170
like, oh, I'm an attacking coach, so I want to

00:40:08.170 --> 00:40:09.590
play attacking football, I want to play entertaining

00:40:09.590 --> 00:40:12.030
football, I want to play fast -paced football,

00:40:12.150 --> 00:40:14.090
I want to play counter -attacking football. Can

00:40:14.090 --> 00:40:17.050
you pick multiples of that? You can pick two

00:40:17.050 --> 00:40:21.170
or three, I believe. I pick developed young players

00:40:21.170 --> 00:40:28.289
because that way, especially if you're where

00:40:28.289 --> 00:40:32.409
I am now, in the lowest league possible, because

00:40:32.409 --> 00:40:36.739
the way... non -league football is or the bottom

00:40:36.739 --> 00:40:39.139
tier of football a lot of the players aren't

00:40:39.139 --> 00:40:41.860
on contracts they're on like they are on contracts

00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:44.699
but basically if if you're playing for the team

00:40:44.699 --> 00:40:48.300
that i'm currently managing um and fucking chelsea

00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:50.599
come in for you you can just leave you haven't

00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:53.219
they haven't got to like cause any ruckus you're

00:40:53.219 --> 00:40:55.619
not tied to anything really so a lot of them

00:40:55.619 --> 00:41:00.059
are on like weird contracts so in the lower leagues

00:41:00.059 --> 00:41:02.619
trying to get youth players through And then

00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:04.840
developing your own talent because you've got

00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.500
no money to spend is the way to really build

00:41:07.500 --> 00:41:09.900
a club. That's the way I think anyway. That's

00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:12.920
why I picked Develops Young Players. Inspires

00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:17.039
others. I picked that because I'm quite an inspiring

00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.059
person, you know. Just put that out there. And

00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:22.760
keen motivator. Abso -fucking -lutely, Bob. Yeah.

00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:25.159
So I went with that. Yeah. And then I clicked

00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:27.380
next. Three very good traits. And my bold man

00:41:27.380 --> 00:41:30.619
started his journey into the world of... Football

00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:33.619
management. Nothing happened for a while. What

00:41:33.619 --> 00:41:35.239
do you mean nothing happened? Well, there was

00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:37.159
a couple of jobs come available, so I applied

00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:38.559
for them and they just laughed me out of it.

00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:39.539
Oh yeah, because you've got to go through the

00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:41.179
whole interview process. Yeah, I had no fucking

00:41:41.179 --> 00:41:43.260
nothing. You have to answer questions and shit,

00:41:43.300 --> 00:41:48.340
right? Yeah. So I applied for a job. Funnily

00:41:48.340 --> 00:41:50.139
enough, the first job I applied for was Real

00:41:50.139 --> 00:41:53.800
Oviedo, which is a Spanish club, which I actually

00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:57.440
own shares in, in real life. Fair enough. So

00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.400
I thought that. Why? Why? They were going bankrupt.

00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:04.440
And it was like a thing where they were like,

00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:06.559
oh, you can buy shares in our club, keep us afloat.

00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:08.900
So I bought like 50 quid's worth of shares. I

00:42:08.900 --> 00:42:10.800
don't know why. I don't know how to sell them

00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:13.099
now, but I've got them. They're there. So basically,

00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:15.760
I can turn up to Alaviada and demand. Yeah, I'll

00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.579
go, I'm a shareholder. Let me in the boardroom.

00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:21.800
Yeah. I own part of this club. I do. Literally.

00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:24.699
So let me in. I'm the same with Southend United.

00:42:25.230 --> 00:42:27.070
That's cool. I own shares in Southend United.

00:42:27.329 --> 00:42:29.789
It's cool, isn't it? I do have the certificate

00:42:29.789 --> 00:42:32.150
somewhere, so I'm one step ahead of you. I've

00:42:32.150 --> 00:42:33.989
actually got proof of me owning them. Oh, you

00:42:33.989 --> 00:42:35.510
want proof? I can give you proof. Oh, you've

00:42:35.510 --> 00:42:38.630
got proof of... Oh, yeah. You, butt naked in

00:42:38.630 --> 00:42:41.150
the boardroom. No, no, no, I've got proof, but

00:42:41.150 --> 00:42:43.530
don't you worry about that. Does it say how many

00:42:43.530 --> 00:42:46.230
shares you've got? I don't know, I can't... I

00:42:46.230 --> 00:42:47.670
have that somewhere. I don't know where it is,

00:42:47.710 --> 00:42:50.369
but it is somewhere. Looking around now, seeing

00:42:50.369 --> 00:42:53.769
if I can find it, but... I canny. It's somewhere.

00:42:55.779 --> 00:42:57.260
What is this? You're going through the archives

00:42:57.260 --> 00:43:02.579
finding a photo of the certificate. No, yeah,

00:43:02.619 --> 00:43:04.699
I've got the certificate. I've purchased four

00:43:04.699 --> 00:43:08.079
shares. There we go then. So you can go in there

00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:11.739
and go, I own four shares. Let me the fuck in.

00:43:12.500 --> 00:43:15.659
I wonder if you'd get laughed at the door. I

00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:19.679
assume so. But no, I know people that have bought

00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.619
shares. And they've gone over there and they

00:43:22.619 --> 00:43:24.840
treat you like king. Treat you like Roy. If you

00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:26.760
go over there and you've got shares in it, they

00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:29.699
give you free ticket in, free match day experience,

00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:32.699
everything, because you saved their club. You

00:43:32.699 --> 00:43:34.860
know what I mean? That's our holiday book then,

00:43:34.900 --> 00:43:37.440
isn't it? Yeah, exactly. So you had interviews?

00:43:37.940 --> 00:43:39.980
Yeah, so no, no, I didn't get interviews for

00:43:39.980 --> 00:43:42.619
ages. They just laughed at me. Real Oviedo being

00:43:42.619 --> 00:43:47.079
one of them. And then some American team. I can't

00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:49.280
remember. I saw when an American club's laughing

00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.840
at you. Yeah, basically I was aiming way too

00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.659
high. What, like Premier League division sort

00:43:54.659 --> 00:43:58.039
of high? No, no, Championship League one, but

00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:01.239
I'm like, I wasn't even getting them jobs. I

00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:04.840
love that it's like, no, I know the person behind

00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:09.260
the screen knows how to run this, but ignore

00:44:09.260 --> 00:44:12.239
the character in front of you. You need to look.

00:44:12.570 --> 00:44:15.369
deeper into who's playing the character because

00:44:15.369 --> 00:44:18.570
they can do it. I promise you. Yeah. I'm not

00:44:18.570 --> 00:44:24.030
sure I can. So, I am now the proud manager of

00:44:24.030 --> 00:44:30.269
them. Alfredton. Yep. Let's Google them, shall

00:44:30.269 --> 00:44:36.210
we? Alfredton Town. Alfredton Town FC. That's

00:44:36.210 --> 00:44:40.329
the babies. And they are in the National League

00:44:40.329 --> 00:44:43.349
North and South. Correct. Fucking damn right.

00:44:43.429 --> 00:44:49.250
Look at that. Let's have a look. They lost their

00:44:49.250 --> 00:44:55.969
last two games. When are they last? They haven't

00:44:55.969 --> 00:44:59.409
won a game. Where are they in the table? It's

00:44:59.409 --> 00:45:01.949
encouraging. They're 21st in the table. They've

00:45:01.949 --> 00:45:06.210
won one game so far in their last five and they're

00:45:06.210 --> 00:45:11.789
currently sat on 10 points. having played 12

00:45:11.789 --> 00:45:15.170
games. That's fine, because they're not managed

00:45:15.170 --> 00:45:19.130
by me. And they also don't seem to have a badge.

00:45:20.269 --> 00:45:22.750
They're playing Buxton tomorrow. Yeah, they're

00:45:22.750 --> 00:45:24.789
a three o 'clock kickoff. Oh, what, are you following

00:45:24.789 --> 00:45:26.949
them now? I've got to keep an eye out. I like

00:45:26.949 --> 00:45:28.369
to keep an eye on the club. I've looked around

00:45:28.369 --> 00:45:30.550
the area. It's in Derby. It's a nice place. Does

00:45:30.550 --> 00:45:32.650
it live update? Anything like that? What do you

00:45:32.650 --> 00:45:34.719
mean? Well, no, no. I suppose it doesn't, does

00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.260
it? But it's always the immersion to follow.

00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:39.980
It's interesting because then you'll be like,

00:45:40.059 --> 00:45:42.000
oh, I sold that guy. He was shit. He was banging

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.719
them in. It would be so cool if you were able

00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.039
to like fabricate the league matches and stuff

00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:48.960
like that. So like have them in Football Manager

00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:52.039
play Buxton next. Well, that's what they do.

00:45:52.820 --> 00:45:55.119
So the fixtures will be the same as they are.

00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:56.739
Oh, yeah, because they're in the fucking... Yeah,

00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:00.519
yeah, yeah. Yeah, they will be. But yeah, so

00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:02.559
I had a job interview with them. I basically

00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:04.699
told them a load of lies. Yeah, that's good.

00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:07.980
They were like, oh, we think we want to try and

00:46:07.980 --> 00:46:11.179
keep mid -table position by the end of the season.

00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:12.679
I was like, fuck that. We're getting promoted.

00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.219
That's a lie. I've no idea. Yeah, no, that's

00:46:16.219 --> 00:46:20.300
good. So just over -promise is what I did. And

00:46:20.300 --> 00:46:23.980
they seemed chuffed, to be honest. They seemed

00:46:23.980 --> 00:46:26.380
chuffed that I was going to basically win the

00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:28.039
Champions League with them. Well, they listened

00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:30.260
to you. They listened to me and they gave me

00:46:30.260 --> 00:46:34.800
a job on 450 quid a week. So I snapped that up.

00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.260
And then they decided to let me know that I've

00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:40.380
got no money to spend. Yeah. Which I assumed

00:46:40.380 --> 00:46:42.679
would be the case. Yeah, what did you expect

00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:48.059
from a bottom in the table from National League

00:46:48.059 --> 00:46:51.980
North and South? I know, I know. What's the next

00:46:51.980 --> 00:46:54.739
move up from North and South? Just National League.

00:46:54.980 --> 00:46:58.079
Yeah, and then it'll be League 2. League 2, League

00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:00.239
1, Champions. There's a long way to go. Well,

00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:03.119
it's not too bad. You've got to win promotion

00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:04.860
to get in the National League. One more to get

00:47:04.860 --> 00:47:07.119
into... It was my first game and the last one

00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.760
was fucking... I can't remember who I was manager

00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:12.099
of. I won my first game, lost like 12 and then

00:47:12.099 --> 00:47:14.239
fucked off to China. Did alright, didn't I? Did

00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:16.079
alright. Ended up at fucking Antwerp. Didn't

00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:18.019
get your badges though. That was the problem.

00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:20.179
Yeah. Interestingly though, considering they

00:47:20.179 --> 00:47:24.250
missed FM24. then so it was the last one i played

00:47:24.250 --> 00:47:29.030
then fm25 didn't exist so fm26 i watched an interview

00:47:29.030 --> 00:47:32.010
with the creator the other day saying this is

00:47:32.010 --> 00:47:33.829
the biggest jump they've ever made in foot because

00:47:33.829 --> 00:47:35.429
they've rebuilt the whole game everything's different

00:47:35.429 --> 00:47:37.269
the menus are different ui is different the match

00:47:37.269 --> 00:47:41.909
engine is fucking amazing by the way um of which

00:47:41.909 --> 00:47:45.110
i believe tom from the guild actually actually

00:47:45.110 --> 00:47:48.250
worked Yeah, interesting. Provided the data for

00:47:48.250 --> 00:47:50.389
that engine and was part of the reason why they

00:47:50.389 --> 00:47:55.690
had delays. Yeah. Cheers, Tom. Yeah, all of that.

00:47:55.730 --> 00:47:57.590
So they said this is the biggest shift in football

00:47:57.590 --> 00:48:01.530
management in like 25 years. Since like 94 to

00:48:01.530 --> 00:48:04.489
95 or something they said. Because it used to

00:48:04.489 --> 00:48:06.269
be championship manager and then it's football

00:48:06.269 --> 00:48:07.670
manager. This game's been going on since I was

00:48:07.670 --> 00:48:10.250
a kid. I mean, yearly. It's the first time they've

00:48:10.250 --> 00:48:12.869
ever missed a game as well. So it's a big, big

00:48:12.869 --> 00:48:17.190
change for them. I can't remember why I started

00:48:17.190 --> 00:48:18.949
telling you that story. What were we talking

00:48:18.949 --> 00:48:23.469
about? Football manager. Yeah, I know that. We

00:48:23.469 --> 00:48:26.690
were talking about... What the fuck were we talking

00:48:26.690 --> 00:48:28.170
about? We could rewind it, but I can't be bothered.

00:48:28.210 --> 00:48:30.369
Oh, right. Yeah, no, because... So what I mean

00:48:30.369 --> 00:48:35.789
is... So they missed FM 25, but... The interesting

00:48:35.789 --> 00:48:38.170
feature that is in there, you can import your

00:48:38.170 --> 00:48:41.969
FM24 save into FM26. That's cool. Which is mental

00:48:41.969 --> 00:48:44.349
considering the whole game is built. I have no

00:48:44.349 --> 00:48:47.150
idea how that works because players, different

00:48:47.150 --> 00:48:49.510
ages, I just don't understand how that works.

00:48:49.630 --> 00:48:51.769
I didn't bother because I was unemployed. I've

00:48:51.769 --> 00:48:55.150
left that save. Fuck Antwerp. That's gone. That's

00:48:55.150 --> 00:48:57.929
gone. It was Antwerp, wasn't it? I took to the

00:48:57.929 --> 00:49:01.030
European final. Fucking... Is National League

00:49:01.030 --> 00:49:06.760
North and South still EFL? Or is EFL from something

00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:10.039
up? English Football League EFL stands for. Yeah.

00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:13.300
So I'd imagine the National North and South is

00:49:13.300 --> 00:49:16.199
in. People that play in these are like semi -professional

00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:18.119
footballers. They're not like, they've still

00:49:18.119 --> 00:49:22.019
got jobs. So I think the Football League is from

00:49:22.019 --> 00:49:25.699
like League 2, League 1. They're professionals.

00:49:26.340 --> 00:49:31.699
League 2 up. So yeah, I've only played one game,

00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:37.690
which was a friendly. and I won 5 -3 to a club

00:49:37.690 --> 00:49:41.610
I'd never heard of. But more importantly, every

00:49:41.610 --> 00:49:47.130
single goal I scored was a header. And the reason

00:49:47.130 --> 00:49:49.889
for that is because I'm old school. You've got

00:49:49.889 --> 00:49:52.690
Harry Maguire up front. I looked through my squad.

00:49:52.730 --> 00:49:55.949
I said, every cunt is six foot and above. Get

00:49:55.949 --> 00:49:58.429
that ball on the wing, you cross it in, and you

00:49:58.429 --> 00:50:00.630
hit someone's head. And that's what we did. We

00:50:00.630 --> 00:50:03.820
played for set pieces. We ran down the wing,

00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:06.980
we crossed it in, we headed it in. We absolutely

00:50:06.980 --> 00:50:11.420
dominated and the future is bright. I love the

00:50:11.420 --> 00:50:16.300
idea of, what's your guy called in this? My name,

00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:19.380
Ashley. Ashley. That's it. I love the idea of

00:50:19.380 --> 00:50:25.900
Ashley coming into Alfredstown Town FC with absolutely

00:50:25.900 --> 00:50:29.460
zero experience when it comes to football and

00:50:29.460 --> 00:50:32.590
especially managing football. And then that first

00:50:32.590 --> 00:50:36.010
team talk. And then just reeling off strategies

00:50:36.010 --> 00:50:38.750
like you're in the prem. Just going, we're going

00:50:38.750 --> 00:50:41.730
to do this, that, your fucking tool, headers,

00:50:41.809 --> 00:50:43.230
this is how we're going to play. But from this

00:50:43.230 --> 00:50:45.670
guy that on the face of it knows nothing. It'd

00:50:45.670 --> 00:50:48.389
be like me walking into there. And going, this

00:50:48.389 --> 00:50:49.429
is what we're going to do. This is how we're

00:50:49.429 --> 00:50:50.309
going to attack. This is how you're going to

00:50:50.309 --> 00:50:51.730
defend. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Whilst

00:50:51.730 --> 00:50:55.690
it's funny to assume that, I think if I went

00:50:55.690 --> 00:50:58.650
into Manchester City, right? No, I'm serious.

00:50:59.340 --> 00:51:04.659
If I went into Manchester City and they were

00:51:04.659 --> 00:51:07.619
playing, fuck knows, West Ham, say, for example,

00:51:07.699 --> 00:51:12.519
I'm confident I would win my first game. Now,

00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:16.000
the players would laugh at me and think, what

00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.619
a plonker. Granted, and I'd understand that.

00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:22.980
But all you need to do is, there's a certain

00:51:22.980 --> 00:51:25.199
level to it. You tell players, just go out and

00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:26.420
play football. You know how to play football.

00:51:26.730 --> 00:51:28.090
You're some of the best footballers in the world.

00:51:28.190 --> 00:51:30.210
You do not need me how to tell you how to play

00:51:30.210 --> 00:51:33.309
football. Keep safe at the back. Keep structure.

00:51:33.849 --> 00:51:35.690
Keep your formation when we haven't got the ball.

00:51:36.190 --> 00:51:39.369
But just do go and express yourselves. They would

00:51:39.369 --> 00:51:40.989
go and win that game. I don't need to tell them

00:51:40.989 --> 00:51:43.349
how to win that game. Football at its core is

00:51:43.349 --> 00:51:46.329
such a basic sport. Get the ball and put it in

00:51:46.329 --> 00:51:49.130
that fucking net. It gets so overcomplicated.

00:51:49.849 --> 00:51:52.309
Now everyone's copying PSG's kickoff routine.

00:51:52.550 --> 00:51:54.530
Have you seen that? Everybody's doing that now.

00:51:54.590 --> 00:51:56.539
When they just send it out. Yeah, just fucking

00:51:56.539 --> 00:51:58.599
loft it strong. But it makes sense. Because then

00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:00.239
you get further down. And people have adapted

00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:05.019
it now, which I think is much more, which is

00:52:05.019 --> 00:52:06.880
better than PSG's one. I can't remember who I

00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:08.380
see do it the other day. So they get the ball

00:52:08.380 --> 00:52:10.599
from kick -off. They kick it back, which they

00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:14.619
have to. The geezer flicks it up first time,

00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:17.800
boots it in the air towards their goal, but outside

00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:20.519
their box if he can. And then all their team

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just rushes forward. So it just causes mayhem

00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:24.920
so that the keeper doesn't know where to come

00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:26.739
out for a bouncing ball that's outside his box.

00:52:27.179 --> 00:52:29.039
Defenders and midfielders are rushing back trying

00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.059
to head the ball. You try and win that second

00:52:31.059 --> 00:52:32.900
ball, you're in on goal. It's a great tactic

00:52:32.900 --> 00:52:36.360
because all that happens normally on a kick -off

00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:38.800
is it gets passed back and you can't get out.

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You can't get out of your own half. That's why

00:52:40.820 --> 00:52:43.179
they always kick it long because there's no way

00:52:43.179 --> 00:52:45.900
out because the structure is too rigid. No one's

00:52:45.900 --> 00:52:49.139
moved from their positions. So, yeah, I think

00:52:49.139 --> 00:52:51.719
football at its core and its basic. is very,

00:52:51.780 --> 00:52:53.980
very, very simple. That's such a weird tactic,

00:52:54.019 --> 00:52:56.760
isn't it? It's weird, but it makes sense. I'm

00:52:56.760 --> 00:52:59.760
just going to blast the ball straight down. Because

00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:02.139
it puts them under pressure straight away. That's

00:53:02.139 --> 00:53:04.420
why. You don't want pressure. You don't want

00:53:04.420 --> 00:53:06.500
pressure instantly. You know what I mean? So

00:53:06.500 --> 00:53:09.199
it's a smart tactic. But then surely the opposition

00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:11.360
just adapts to that then. They go, right, this

00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:13.039
is their tactic, so we're just going to fucking

00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:15.409
have people sitting in the back. ready for that

00:53:15.409 --> 00:53:17.610
to happen yeah but they haven't adapted yet because

00:53:17.610 --> 00:53:19.570
it's new and that's what it's all about and always

00:53:19.570 --> 00:53:22.949
finding new ways of tricking people and new tactics

00:53:22.949 --> 00:53:24.610
and stuff and that's why football's fantastic

00:53:24.610 --> 00:53:28.710
um but yeah when it comes to laughing at me about

00:53:28.710 --> 00:53:33.690
being a manager of alfredson the baseline if

00:53:33.690 --> 00:53:37.170
someone just comes in I'm not saying I don't

00:53:37.170 --> 00:53:38.369
know anything about football. I'm saying I've

00:53:38.369 --> 00:53:40.309
never had a career in football. That is the difference.

00:53:40.610 --> 00:53:42.969
So you know football. You'd have some understanding,

00:53:43.170 --> 00:53:45.429
limited understanding, but I've watched football

00:53:45.429 --> 00:53:47.730
most of my life. So I have a good understanding.

00:53:47.789 --> 00:53:49.530
I've also played Sunday League football. I've

00:53:49.530 --> 00:53:52.889
played zero level of ability football, but I've

00:53:52.889 --> 00:53:54.929
played against Chelsea Academy players. I've

00:53:54.929 --> 00:53:57.010
played against players that have played for Chelsea

00:53:57.010 --> 00:53:58.789
Academy. Can't get a ball off them. They're just

00:53:58.789 --> 00:54:01.590
different levels well above me. I wouldn't even

00:54:01.590 --> 00:54:05.340
get close to them. I know the fundamentals of

00:54:05.340 --> 00:54:07.119
football I know how to play football and I understand

00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:09.539
the simplest tactics I can give them is run down

00:54:09.539 --> 00:54:11.860
the wing and hit it in the box to the big fellas

00:54:11.860 --> 00:54:15.079
big fellas make late runs into the box all that

00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:18.360
sort of stuff is very simple and to get out of

00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:20.139
the lower leagues that's what you need to do

00:54:20.139 --> 00:54:22.639
you need to keep it simple and not complicated

00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.400
when you get up to the Premier League levels,

00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:28.099
then you can start going, right, I want to, I

00:54:28.099 --> 00:54:30.219
want to Geigenpress. I want to play out from

00:54:30.219 --> 00:54:32.219
the back with all these fancy ways of playing

00:54:32.219 --> 00:54:33.760
because you've got the players to do it. Right

00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:36.619
now, kick it in a box and try and get it in a

00:54:36.619 --> 00:54:39.179
fucking goal. And that's how we'll get up. Mark

00:54:39.179 --> 00:54:43.199
my words. That's it. In the box. Mic drop, but

00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:45.239
I didn't drop the mic. In the box. In the goal.

00:54:45.420 --> 00:54:47.980
Mate, we're going up. Done. We are going up.

00:54:47.980 --> 00:54:50.219
I said we are going up. And then I'm going to

00:54:50.219 --> 00:54:51.559
assume that we're going to get an update next

00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:54.449
week about that. absolutely fucking see you later

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