WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.320 am I there you go that's the start welcome to 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:06.919 yeah fuck it well he didn't even sound check 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:11.400 no I know that's what scared me oh god no I can 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.720 see the little blips we're cool that's good enough 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:19.800 for me yeah are we cool yeah I'm cool yeah I 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.480 think we're cool sorry I'm used to I'm used to 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:25.300 John's deep Chinese voice he's very well spoken 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:27.260 well done John that was a great episode it was 00:00:27.260 --> 00:00:29.850 a bit long I started nodding off but That was 00:00:29.850 --> 00:00:32.090 mainly the subject matter of being World of Warcraft. 00:00:33.030 --> 00:00:36.710 But it was nice to hear someone with actual brains 00:00:36.710 --> 00:00:38.990 on the pod. Yeah. As opposed to us two. Well, 00:00:39.030 --> 00:00:41.130 I wouldn't go as far as brains. He's just fucking 00:00:41.130 --> 00:00:44.289 well -spoken. I did say to him, I said, Ash said 00:00:44.289 --> 00:00:46.469 that you've got a posh voice. And he was like, 00:00:46.670 --> 00:00:49.549 no, I don't. And I don't hear it personally. 00:00:49.869 --> 00:00:51.450 But you'd hear him all the time, wouldn't you? 00:00:51.570 --> 00:00:54.109 Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the fucking time. It was, 00:00:54.130 --> 00:00:57.630 funnily enough, I had a go at him yesterday because 00:00:57.630 --> 00:01:01.310 he's got no patience. So he's a very, very calm, 00:01:01.469 --> 00:01:05.250 lovely guy in person. Behind a screen, he is 00:01:05.250 --> 00:01:10.109 a cunt. He is proper. He has zero, zero patience. 00:01:10.250 --> 00:01:12.390 And we won't talk about WoW, but he was obviously 00:01:12.390 --> 00:01:14.969 involved in that. Basically, the dungeon we were 00:01:14.969 --> 00:01:17.609 doing, the tank was brand, brand, brand new. 00:01:17.849 --> 00:01:20.010 I looked at their achievements and they had like 00:01:20.010 --> 00:01:24.170 50 points, which is like one. So unless it was 00:01:24.170 --> 00:01:26.349 just some random person on a fucking random account, 00:01:26.489 --> 00:01:29.500 I don't know. to the untrained eye it's a brand 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:31.439 new account and obviously they didn't really 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.379 know what they were doing so rather than being 00:01:34.379 --> 00:01:37.459 helpful John as the healer who was having to 00:01:37.459 --> 00:01:40.060 basically pick up all the mess that the tank 00:01:40.060 --> 00:01:43.239 was leaving what are you doing? have you never 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.239 played before? leave! just fucking flaming the 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.459 poor cunt And yeah, I had to explain to John 00:01:49.459 --> 00:01:51.540 that he's got no gaming patience whatsoever because 00:01:51.540 --> 00:01:53.760 he freaks out and kicks off constantly. You know, 00:01:53.780 --> 00:01:56.200 people with really bad road rage, like instantaneous 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:04.280 road rage. Your phone. Yeah, that's fine. I wonder 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:06.599 why you went silent. No, check Bilbo the bonsai. 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:11.419 Still there? What the fuck? What do you mean, 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:15.219 check it? Check it. For what? It's gone. It's 00:02:15.219 --> 00:02:18.460 just fucked up. No, no, no. To water it. It doesn't 00:02:18.460 --> 00:02:20.740 look in great shape, mate. It's not doing great 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:22.900 because it's winter. It doesn't look great. It 00:02:22.900 --> 00:02:25.319 looks like it's... No, I pruned it at the wrong 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:29.099 time. I pruned it just heading into winter because 00:02:29.099 --> 00:02:31.979 it had a lot of growth on it. But I've over pruned 00:02:31.979 --> 00:02:35.360 it. So I'm... Trust me, I've been down this rodeo 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.039 before. I've had this thing for like five years. 00:02:38.539 --> 00:02:42.240 Four or five years. So I know... It may look 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.699 creepy. Poor Bilbo. No, think of it as a London 00:02:45.699 --> 00:02:50.919 plane. Okay. It's just been pollarded. That's 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.060 what I've done. I mean, a lot of the leaves have 00:02:54.060 --> 00:02:55.879 fallen off. It will come back. Trust me, we'll 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:58.659 be sitting here. Earmark this. What's the fucking 00:02:58.659 --> 00:03:03.219 date? Earmark this for the 6th of February. You 00:03:03.219 --> 00:03:06.580 come back here on the 6th of June. Or whatever 00:03:06.580 --> 00:03:09.599 Friday is in June. That thing will be flourishing. 00:03:09.939 --> 00:03:11.680 And if it's not there, I'll delete this bit. 00:03:15.020 --> 00:03:18.060 It's not looking good, bruv. No. It's fine. It's 00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:20.280 fine. Let it crack on. Let it crack on. Sorry. 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:22.620 Anyway, yeah. I don't know what I was talking 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:25.500 about. I was talking about John. I was disappointed 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:27.780 because I was listening and you were like, oh 00:03:27.780 --> 00:03:30.199 yeah, the juicy stuff on the Patreon. You're 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:32.580 going to reveal all the group chat stuff and 00:03:32.580 --> 00:03:35.009 then you never did. What? Talking about the group 00:03:35.009 --> 00:03:36.849 chat and what goes on in the group chat or the 00:03:36.849 --> 00:03:38.830 Discord, all the mad stuff that you put in there 00:03:38.830 --> 00:03:42.150 that was like... Who was? You two. I don't remember 00:03:42.150 --> 00:03:43.710 talking about that. Yeah, well, it was an hour 00:03:43.710 --> 00:03:45.590 and fucking 45 minutes long. I don't remember 00:03:45.590 --> 00:03:47.629 talking about that at all. We spoke about ghost 00:03:47.629 --> 00:03:49.310 stories and shit like that. Oh, yeah, that was 00:03:49.310 --> 00:03:51.210 it. Yeah, it was fucking... It got a bit dark 00:03:51.210 --> 00:03:54.270 for me. Why? Oh, because it's just like, oh, 00:03:54.430 --> 00:03:57.330 I saw a light flicker and I went, ooh, but fuck 00:03:57.330 --> 00:04:00.039 off. Do you know what I mean? Oh, get a grip. 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.919 It was good. No. It was. It was. You're just 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:04.580 annoyed because you couldn't tell your fucking 00:04:04.580 --> 00:04:06.620 story. I guarantee you've got a couple. I've 00:04:06.620 --> 00:04:08.280 got one. Exactly. There you go. Well, what if 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:09.740 I went, no, I don't want to hear it. It's boring. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:11.479 It is boring. That's why I ain't saying it. Well, 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.240 you're assuming that it's boring, but I bet it 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.719 ain't. Well, it's pretty sure. Leave that for 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:23.620 the patron. More ghost stories available. Fucking. 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:31.459 Ubisoft laid off all their people again. Prince 00:04:31.459 --> 00:04:34.879 of Persia remake is dead in the water. Ashes 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:37.860 of Creation is also seemingly dead in the water. 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.180 Is that Ubisoft? No, no, no. I'm just talking 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:44.000 about just gaming industries losing all their 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.759 fucking people. Bit mad. But it's okay because 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.100 there's an Assassin's Creed crossover with The 00:04:53.100 --> 00:04:56.509 Division. So that solved that problem at Ubisoft. 00:04:56.769 --> 00:05:00.949 Yeah. Assassin's Creed skins in The Division 00:05:00.949 --> 00:05:04.029 2. Woo! And then what is it I'm seeing about 00:05:04.029 --> 00:05:07.529 they released an anniversary edition or something 00:05:07.529 --> 00:05:11.709 of The Division 1 with all of the DLCs or was 00:05:11.709 --> 00:05:12.990 it The Division 2? I can't remember which one. 00:05:14.370 --> 00:05:18.230 And there's no upgrades to it whatsoever. It's 00:05:18.230 --> 00:05:20.370 literally just the base game and all of the additional 00:05:20.370 --> 00:05:23.129 content for the... for what seems like the same 00:05:23.129 --> 00:05:25.470 price as if you were just to just buy it normally 00:05:25.470 --> 00:05:29.110 anyway anyway that sounds great that sounds fabulous 00:05:29.110 --> 00:05:31.670 what the fuck are they doing I said in the discord 00:05:31.670 --> 00:05:35.290 because everyone was talking about Ubisoft I 00:05:35.290 --> 00:05:37.889 wouldn't be surprised if in the next couple of 00:05:37.889 --> 00:05:42.370 years they're gone oh I I fully agree that reminds 00:05:42.370 --> 00:05:45.930 me before I forget did you know HBO Max are merging 00:05:45.930 --> 00:05:50.410 with Netflix are they yeah that's cool that's 00:05:50.410 --> 00:05:52.449 really cool I knew I'd forget that's why I jumped 00:05:52.449 --> 00:05:55.610 in but it's gonna push the Netflix price up of 00:05:55.610 --> 00:05:57.350 course it is but it's only I think it's only 00:05:57.350 --> 00:05:59.910 like a quid or something but I think HBO don't 00:05:59.910 --> 00:06:01.990 they do like Game of Thrones and fucking all 00:06:01.990 --> 00:06:04.269 that shit I think that's worth it because there's 00:06:04.269 --> 00:06:06.750 so much Last of Us was on there all the good 00:06:06.750 --> 00:06:10.850 shit's on HBO yeah yeah no that's not bad I'm 00:06:10.850 --> 00:06:14.430 just fucking sick of prices being ramped up I 00:06:14.430 --> 00:06:16.750 know it's mad isn't it but yeah couple years 00:06:16.750 --> 00:06:19.910 I reckon they're not here anymore Yeah, I had 00:06:19.910 --> 00:06:21.949 that realisation yesterday. I was laying there 00:06:21.949 --> 00:06:26.029 watching YouTube and I was just like, I've crossed 00:06:26.029 --> 00:06:29.009 that threshold now where I definitely can't go 00:06:29.009 --> 00:06:33.050 back to ads. Sorry, this is a completely different 00:06:33.050 --> 00:06:34.350 conversation. I thought we were going to talk 00:06:34.350 --> 00:06:36.829 about Ubisoft, but I forgot. You're talking about 00:06:36.829 --> 00:06:38.850 subscription services and stuff. It just popped 00:06:38.850 --> 00:06:41.110 in my head that I couldn't. Remember that autism 00:06:41.110 --> 00:06:46.129 thing that we were talking about? Yeah, I told 00:06:46.129 --> 00:06:49.910 you. Mate. You know, I've just come back from 00:06:49.910 --> 00:06:53.149 physio. The geezer showed me a video on YouTube 00:06:53.149 --> 00:06:56.389 of how to take my foot up. And an advert popped 00:06:56.389 --> 00:06:59.209 up for 50 seconds. And I went, NHS don't pay 00:06:59.209 --> 00:07:01.850 for fucking premium, no? And he was like, oh, 00:07:01.850 --> 00:07:03.850 have you got it? I went, yeah. And he was like, 00:07:03.910 --> 00:07:05.430 I've never used it. I said, I'm telling you. 00:07:05.490 --> 00:07:07.410 I was like, 20 quid a month. I've got my whole 00:07:07.410 --> 00:07:10.670 family on it. I was like, it's worth it all day 00:07:10.670 --> 00:07:12.050 long. And he was like, oh, I'll have to look 00:07:12.050 --> 00:07:13.610 into it. The amount of people that don't have 00:07:13.610 --> 00:07:15.970 YouTube premium. Because it just feels dirty. 00:07:16.209 --> 00:07:18.290 Of course it does. until you're doing it yeah 00:07:18.290 --> 00:07:20.709 but then it's not very well advertised because 00:07:20.709 --> 00:07:22.889 I don't think I didn't know that you got that 00:07:22.889 --> 00:07:25.329 YouTube music app and shit as well so like that 00:07:25.329 --> 00:07:27.269 changes everything well I think you get YouTube 00:07:27.269 --> 00:07:30.009 music anyway but it's obviously a shitter version 00:07:30.009 --> 00:07:33.350 without the premium yeah well I don't know can 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:35.750 you you won't be you'll be like Spotify you get 00:07:35.750 --> 00:07:38.129 free Spotify but you can just shuffle shit you 00:07:38.129 --> 00:07:40.569 can't actually like listen to albums I don't 00:07:40.569 --> 00:07:43.089 understand the point of it are you using YouTube 00:07:43.089 --> 00:07:45.829 music more than Spotify now no because I haven't 00:07:46.170 --> 00:07:48.269 I got really excited one night and then just 00:07:48.269 --> 00:07:50.250 liked loads of songs and then I need to remember 00:07:50.250 --> 00:07:53.550 what other songs are missing from Spotify that 00:07:53.550 --> 00:07:55.129 I wanted. Because I've never made a list because 00:07:55.129 --> 00:07:57.310 I didn't think it was possible to get this technology. 00:07:58.730 --> 00:08:01.889 So yeah, Ubisoft, eh? No, no, I want to talk 00:08:01.889 --> 00:08:04.009 about YouTube now quickly. So how are you enjoying 00:08:04.009 --> 00:08:08.329 the fucking ad -less? It's great. That's what 00:08:08.329 --> 00:08:10.290 I'm saying. I don't think I could ever go back. 00:08:10.790 --> 00:08:13.360 See what I mean? The other day... I just got 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:14.779 out of the bath or something. I walked in. Tommy 00:08:14.779 --> 00:08:17.800 had YouTube on. And an advert popped up. And 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:19.420 I wasn't even looking. I was like, what the fuck 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:22.100 is that? I was like, what's happened? Give me 00:08:22.100 --> 00:08:24.300 that control. Yeah. Ah, you've logged into the 00:08:24.300 --> 00:08:26.019 wrong profile. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's get that 00:08:26.019 --> 00:08:28.660 back on. Let's get back on premium. Yeah. We're 00:08:28.660 --> 00:08:31.000 not paupers, son. Fuck that. We laugh at people 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.279 like that. We throw shit in buckets out window 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.279 at them people. We're premium members. Always 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:40.679 remember, Simba, we don't go to that dark area. 00:08:41.580 --> 00:08:44.860 It's awful. It really is awful. Yeah, it is. 00:08:45.059 --> 00:08:48.740 It's one of the few fucking subscriptions that 00:08:48.740 --> 00:08:52.399 I'll firmly, firmly stand by. And it's a problem. 00:08:52.539 --> 00:08:55.840 What's mad is that it's a problem that they created 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:58.639 as fucking themselves because they never used 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:00.559 to have adverts. Oh, yeah, they create the problem 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:02.899 and then sell the solution. Yeah. Business 101. 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:04.879 What's worse is that the cunts that when you 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:08.200 click on a website like a news bulletin or something, 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:11.120 any website, and then cookies pop up. I'm starting 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.679 to see now that if you want to ignore the cookies, 00:09:13.899 --> 00:09:16.720 sometimes you have to pay for it. You have to 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.399 pay for the privilege to ignore. It's like £3 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.799 .99. It popped up. It was a gaming thing from 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.559 like The Guardian or some shit. It's always the 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.080 news outlets. Yeah, and it was like, if you want 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:30.259 to continue reading, pay £5 .99. No, Google it 00:09:30.259 --> 00:09:31.899 somewhere else. Yeah, get fucked. They ain't 00:09:31.899 --> 00:09:34.159 reading your article for a fiver. No chance. 00:09:35.139 --> 00:09:38.639 Yeah. Yeah, no, it's good, that YouTube. I actually 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.809 listened. On the way here, I had a YouTube D 00:09:42.809 --> 00:09:45.769 &D law thing going on in the background. But 00:09:45.769 --> 00:09:47.909 I was just like, YouTube, click the hour -long 00:09:47.909 --> 00:09:50.850 video, lock my phone, put it in my pocket. Woo! 00:09:51.429 --> 00:09:52.929 It's great, isn't it? It's fucking great, mate. 00:09:53.049 --> 00:09:55.529 It's fucking... It's game -changing. It's an 00:09:55.529 --> 00:09:58.210 absolute game -changer. I think it's on par. 00:09:58.370 --> 00:10:01.049 I think Amazon Prime's a good deal as well. It's 00:10:01.049 --> 00:10:03.070 a good sub. Because you get the TV and you get 00:10:03.070 --> 00:10:05.389 the next day delivery. And sometimes you get 00:10:05.389 --> 00:10:07.389 more discounts as well. Yeah. I think that's 00:10:07.389 --> 00:10:09.750 a good old deal. There's not many great subs 00:10:09.750 --> 00:10:11.830 out there. I think Netflix is a bit of a con. 00:10:11.850 --> 00:10:13.149 You just get the telly, didn't you? Do you know 00:10:13.149 --> 00:10:15.289 what I mean? Yeah, I think Netflix used to be 00:10:15.289 --> 00:10:16.750 decent when there weren't that many others knocking 00:10:16.750 --> 00:10:18.570 around. It used to be fucking £5 .99 a month. 00:10:18.870 --> 00:10:22.190 Now you're looking at like £17 and shit. It's 00:10:22.190 --> 00:10:24.370 quite the price hike, isn't it? It's a bit stupid. 00:10:25.450 --> 00:10:29.409 But yeah, Ubisoft, not good. Not good at all. 00:10:29.789 --> 00:10:32.509 New game out today. I would buy it. I probably 00:10:32.509 --> 00:10:38.799 will buy it. Fuck. It's called Nioh 3. Oh, yeah, 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.519 Nioh. Yeah, I've been playing a demo of it. It's 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.120 fucking 7 out of 10. Suck my balls. It's not. 00:10:44.340 --> 00:10:47.899 That's Steam review. IGN 9 out of 10, 4 .5 review. 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:52.720 Amazing game. Yeah, it's good, man. It's really 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.759 fucking good. I love Nioh 1. I love Nioh 2. I 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:56.799 would never recommend someone like you play it 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:58.659 because it's just too hard and you get too frustrated. 00:11:00.430 --> 00:11:02.850 I'm sorry. Yeah, but it's not like Elden Ring. 00:11:02.950 --> 00:11:05.590 Elden Ring is a different beast. Annoyed and 00:11:05.590 --> 00:11:07.929 frustrated like Remnant 2 that you didn't finish. 00:11:08.169 --> 00:11:10.190 I got to the final boss. But I did. Yeah, but 00:11:10.190 --> 00:11:12.909 the trouble... Shall we pause it? Is that Jay? 00:11:13.149 --> 00:11:17.750 Yeah. Right. I don't know where we left. I don't 00:11:17.750 --> 00:11:19.230 know what we were talking about. What were we 00:11:19.230 --> 00:11:22.049 talking about? Neo, probably. Neo. Neo, Neo, 00:11:22.169 --> 00:11:24.860 Neo. Yeah, it's too hard for you, I said. And 00:11:24.860 --> 00:11:27.059 you said, no, it's not. All I do is see it as 00:11:27.059 --> 00:11:28.559 a challenge, but I'm not interested in it whatsoever. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.940 No, that's good, because you do it. But it's 00:11:30.940 --> 00:11:32.320 still different now. They've changed the formula 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.259 a little bit. It's more like open -y, world -y, 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.120 but not. It's like open field, I think they're 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:40.419 calling it. So it keeps the little, the neo formula, 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:44.519 but it's, yeah, it's more open world now than 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:47.159 it's not. Is it a Souls -like? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.139 It was like one of the first iterations of Souls 00:11:49.139 --> 00:11:52.559 -like. Oh, so I'd be sweet then. because you 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.200 haven't played any souls just played Elden Ring 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.980 exactly one of the hardest ones out there absolutely 00:11:57.980 --> 00:12:01.360 fucking go play fucking Dark Souls 1 do you know 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.779 what it is right I think I've come to the conclusion 00:12:03.779 --> 00:12:06.600 go on and I've nailed it and no one can tell 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:08.279 me any different because it's fact because I 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.879 know because I've done them all the difficulty 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:16.039 in games like Dark Souls 1 which is notoriously 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.840 hard. It's not the difficulty of it, because 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.080 it's hard, but I wouldn't say it's no harder 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:23.240 than Elden Ring. Yeah. The difficulty is every 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:24.919 time you die... You've got to run all the way 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:26.659 back. You have to run for like five minutes. 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.139 That's the... Because you're just like, I can't 00:12:29.139 --> 00:12:31.039 be bothered to keep doing this. And isn't it 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.379 like when you're phasing through into a boss, 00:12:33.460 --> 00:12:35.179 you can still be attacked while you're phasing 00:12:35.179 --> 00:12:36.720 through? Yeah, you can still get hit. And also 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.570 like... You lose all your fucking potions because 00:12:39.570 --> 00:12:41.389 you're trying to run past enemies all the time 00:12:41.389 --> 00:12:43.750 as well to get to the fucking boss again. Whereas 00:12:43.750 --> 00:12:47.129 in like Elden Ring, get the stakes of Mario or 00:12:47.129 --> 00:12:49.850 whatever it is and you can just walk back into 00:12:49.850 --> 00:12:52.769 the boss room. That's like, if that was in all 00:12:52.769 --> 00:12:54.830 the hard games, it'd make it more fun because 00:12:54.830 --> 00:12:57.730 the difficulty is not in the challenge. The difficulty 00:12:57.730 --> 00:12:59.370 is in the monotonous of having to keep doing 00:12:59.370 --> 00:13:00.870 the same thing over and over again. I remember 00:13:00.870 --> 00:13:02.509 when we first started playing Elden Ring and 00:13:02.509 --> 00:13:05.190 I remember you saying that. The stakes of Marica. 00:13:05.450 --> 00:13:07.559 That's it. When you was like, fucking hell, we 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.899 never used to get this. We used to have a fucking 00:13:09.899 --> 00:13:11.820 spawn right outside the boss. Because wasn't 00:13:11.820 --> 00:13:14.600 it even Bloodborne didn't have that? No, no, 00:13:14.659 --> 00:13:16.940 all of them haven't. That's the only one that's 00:13:16.940 --> 00:13:19.740 ever had like a... I think the checkpoints have 00:13:19.740 --> 00:13:21.620 gradually gotten closer and closer to the boss 00:13:21.620 --> 00:13:23.539 room. Yeah. But having them literally pretty 00:13:23.539 --> 00:13:26.080 much outside the boss gate is just a game changer. 00:13:26.139 --> 00:13:30.799 It's like, I'm playing a lot of Hades 2 on the 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.460 Steam Deck. And I'm sure you're aware it's like 00:13:33.460 --> 00:13:35.019 a roguelike, so you fight all the way to the 00:13:35.019 --> 00:13:36.960 boss and blah, blah, blah. But the trouble is, 00:13:37.019 --> 00:13:39.500 and it's great, and there's two sides to the 00:13:39.500 --> 00:13:42.720 game, so I'm on the second half now. I've managed 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.879 to kill the fucking final boss on the first half 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.960 of the game fucking loads of times. But initially, 00:13:48.059 --> 00:13:50.820 when you first get there, you get one crack at 00:13:50.820 --> 00:13:52.759 it. And if you die, you're like, I've learned 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.340 nothing. I've got to fucking fight tooth and 00:13:55.340 --> 00:13:59.610 nail for 40 minutes to try and get back. to that 00:13:59.610 --> 00:14:03.190 boss to learn more about him. So it's like, the 00:14:03.190 --> 00:14:05.929 fun is in the roguelike challenge in that respect. 00:14:06.129 --> 00:14:09.129 But you're not, if I could just bang my head 00:14:09.129 --> 00:14:10.669 against that boss over and over again, eventually 00:14:10.669 --> 00:14:13.529 I'd get it down to a T. But saying that, Radan 00:14:13.529 --> 00:14:18.269 was a cunt. So that's not strictly true. Both 00:14:18.269 --> 00:14:21.110 times. Yeah, both times. But more so the second. 00:14:21.350 --> 00:14:25.899 So yeah, I think the challenge is more. The monotonous 00:14:25.899 --> 00:14:28.659 shit. Whereas I think Nioh is kind of leaned 00:14:28.659 --> 00:14:30.620 towards... Well, something I've just said is 00:14:30.620 --> 00:14:32.740 that it feels like the game wants you to win. 00:14:33.580 --> 00:14:36.440 What does? Nioh 3. Oh, mate, it's fucking hard, 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:40.580 mate. The first boss in Nioh that I fought, I 00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:43.279 got him down to like, you know, you can't see, 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.820 but the size of my penis health bar left. Yeah, 00:14:45.820 --> 00:14:47.820 that's nice. Which is like a centimetre. Yeah, 00:14:47.820 --> 00:14:50.600 it's decent. Yeah, I got him down to that and 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:52.820 I was like, sweet. And then I didn't even get 00:14:52.820 --> 00:14:54.419 him a quarter of the way down for the next 10 00:14:54.419 --> 00:14:57.600 attempts. I was like, how have I almost fluked 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.480 that? And now it's the hardest thing I've ever 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.240 dealt with. But then when I killed him, I got 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:04.899 that. Yes. Yeah. Because Neo's like, it's an 00:15:04.899 --> 00:15:12.620 amalgamation of Elden Ring slash Soulslike plus 00:15:12.620 --> 00:15:18.340 Diablo because it has all the difficulty. of 00:15:18.340 --> 00:15:20.940 of a souls like game but it also has the random 00:15:20.940 --> 00:15:26.320 loot of a diablo game so it's like a great yeah 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.299 great combination it sounds cool that's very 00:15:29.299 --> 00:15:30.759 fucking good you'd love it if you played it but 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.139 i just i'm just not i'm not in the mindset no 00:15:33.139 --> 00:15:35.740 no you have to be in the mood and also i'm not 00:15:35.740 --> 00:15:37.720 really in the mood for it i'm just getting a 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:39.820 bit of fomo but i still need to finish divinity 00:15:39.820 --> 00:15:42.820 and i'm on the final final section of that game 00:15:42.820 --> 00:15:45.299 now so i uh so i have to push through with that 00:15:45.299 --> 00:15:48.019 but Too addicted to the Steam Deck. What I do 00:15:48.019 --> 00:15:49.779 is I put Steam Deck on to warm me up for the 00:15:49.779 --> 00:15:51.779 PlayStation. Put that on, I have a couple of 00:15:51.779 --> 00:15:53.440 runs of Hades, a couple of runs of Binding of 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.379 Isaac, a couple of runs of Nuclear Throne, and 00:15:56.379 --> 00:15:58.659 then I go and play Divinity. But nine times out 00:15:58.659 --> 00:16:00.860 of ten, I get so hooked on Hades, I just can't 00:16:00.860 --> 00:16:03.179 turn it off. And I spend my entire night playing 00:16:03.179 --> 00:16:07.320 that. It's fucking sick. So, yeah. I'm loving 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.799 how much I've put into the Steam Deck. I must 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.840 have put in fucking 200 hours in the last couple 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:15.059 of months, whereas I hadn't put that in its lifetime. 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.299 Steph's using my Steam Deck now. It's the best 00:16:17.299 --> 00:16:19.340 thing ever, man. Do you hear the Steam machine 00:16:19.340 --> 00:16:22.559 has been delayed? Oh, is it? Well, I read that. 00:16:22.659 --> 00:16:25.460 I woke up to that article this morning, but it 00:16:25.460 --> 00:16:27.740 was just a headline. I think they're umming and 00:16:27.740 --> 00:16:32.840 ahhing about the price point and the RAM or something. 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.879 Yeah, because crypto and AI has fucked it all 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:39.309 up for everyone. So it's now parts of... way 00:16:39.309 --> 00:16:43.230 way more expensive than they used to be um let's 00:16:43.230 --> 00:16:46.470 have a look so this is direct from steam themselves 00:16:46.470 --> 00:16:53.309 um before we die when will these be launching 00:16:54.220 --> 00:16:55.620 When we announced these products in November, 00:16:55.740 --> 00:16:58.179 we planned on being able to share specific pricing 00:16:58.179 --> 00:17:00.279 and launch dates by now. This is directly from 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:03.419 Steam. But the memory and storage shortages you've 00:17:03.419 --> 00:17:05.700 likely heard about across the industry have rapidly 00:17:05.700 --> 00:17:08.099 increased since then. The limited availability 00:17:08.099 --> 00:17:11.359 and growing prices of these critical components 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.759 mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.180 and pricing, especially around Steam Machine 00:17:17.180 --> 00:17:21.880 and Steam Frame. Our goal, once Steam Frame was 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:26.000 the VR... thing i swear there was i think that's 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.380 what it was um our goal of shipping all free 00:17:29.380 --> 00:17:31.299 products in the first half of the year has not 00:17:31.299 --> 00:17:34.220 changed but we have to work to do land on concrete 00:17:34.220 --> 00:17:37.740 pricing and launch um dates that we can confidently 00:17:37.740 --> 00:17:40.519 announce being mindful of how quickly the circumstances 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.539 around both of those things can change it's it's 00:17:43.539 --> 00:17:49.170 a very because it's it's because of um ai because 00:17:49.170 --> 00:17:51.630 of how much computing power it takes, and you 00:17:51.630 --> 00:17:56.650 now have entire manufacturers who produce RAM 00:17:56.650 --> 00:18:01.549 selling solely to people, to companies that develop 00:18:01.549 --> 00:18:05.789 AI. I don't know. You're talking foreign to me. 00:18:05.869 --> 00:18:10.150 I don't even know what RAM is. RAM's like a... 00:18:10.150 --> 00:18:14.420 Let me get a fucking... RAM. I kind of know, 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:16.500 but I don't really know. Do you know what I mean? 00:18:16.500 --> 00:18:18.319 I don't really understand. Here we go. RAM explained 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.119 for dummies. Perfect. Is your computer's, phone's, 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.019 or tablet's short -term memory. It acts as a 00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:27.380 lightning -fast temporary workspace where the 00:18:27.380 --> 00:18:31.440 processor, the CPU, stores data for active, immediate 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.339 tasks like running apps, browser tabs, or games. 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.579 More RAM allows for smoother multitasking, while 00:18:37.579 --> 00:18:41.259 less RAM causes lag. It is volatile, meaning 00:18:41.259 --> 00:18:43.700 everything is erased when the... device shuts 00:18:43.700 --> 00:18:46.039 down which is basically the thing that makes 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:51.640 everything else run um so yeah the the the creating 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.720 ai uses a lot of computing power uses a lot of 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:00.019 ram um and because of that the prices of ram 00:19:00.019 --> 00:19:02.819 is through the fucking roof i'm talking like 00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:05.680 um i won't go into the specific types of ram 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.779 um so we'll just bundle it all together but you 00:19:08.779 --> 00:19:11.619 would say let's say we'll pay 500 quid standard 00:19:11.619 --> 00:19:14.720 for this this certain type of ram well it's now 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:19.880 1500 because of the demand. Much in the same 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:21.819 way as when the PS5 come out, they couldn't make 00:19:21.819 --> 00:19:24.220 enough for the demand. So anyone who had a PS5 00:19:24.220 --> 00:19:27.019 could sell it for fucking 900 quid. It's supply 00:19:27.019 --> 00:19:28.819 and demand. It's the same as the Steam Deck. 00:19:28.859 --> 00:19:31.019 When that first came out, no one could get one. 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:35.559 But the problem you've got now is that some companies, 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:40.000 like I said a minute ago, that make RAM, some 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.759 of them are only selling specifically to AI developers. 00:19:45.180 --> 00:19:47.839 Therefore, they're taking themselves away from 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.380 the fucking consumer market of us peasants because 00:19:51.380 --> 00:19:54.720 they know they're going to make more money selling 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:56.880 directly to the companies that make AI. Thus, 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.460 any other company that sells RAM to everyone 00:19:59.460 --> 00:20:02.059 else, the price is going to fucking go up because 00:20:02.059 --> 00:20:06.119 there's less of it. So, basically anything that 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:10.599 involves fucking games and visual. is going to 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:12.839 get more expensive because of AI. That's why 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:18.259 a lot of people in sort of our world really detest 00:20:18.259 --> 00:20:20.920 it. Because number one, it makes people a lot 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:26.579 lazier. It's a helpful tool, but I fear in the 00:20:26.579 --> 00:20:29.700 same way that Connor fears that a lot of people 00:20:29.700 --> 00:20:31.720 are just switching their brains off because they 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:34.039 know they can just fucking ask AI to do most 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:36.859 of their shit for it. I just did that NEBOSH 00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:40.369 exam. 100 % I could have done the entire thing 00:20:40.369 --> 00:20:43.009 in AI if I wanted to and that's an exam with 00:20:43.009 --> 00:20:45.450 a 40 % pass rate. People don't pass that easily. 00:20:45.650 --> 00:20:48.769 It's my second time doing it. I know for a fact 00:20:48.769 --> 00:20:52.269 that I can rewrite AI so that it doesn't come 00:20:52.269 --> 00:20:54.930 up on a checker and that I could have just fucking 00:20:54.930 --> 00:20:57.589 breezed through that but I didn't because what's 00:20:57.589 --> 00:20:59.490 the point in me having the fucking qualification 00:20:59.490 --> 00:21:03.099 if and when I get it? And that's the same thing 00:21:03.099 --> 00:21:04.740 for a lot of people that use AI. You see it with 00:21:04.740 --> 00:21:07.160 artwork, with fucking games themselves. People 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:08.799 kicking off saying they won't play a game because 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:12.460 it's got AI in it. Cutscenes, movies, fucking... 00:21:12.460 --> 00:21:16.460 You know how many lore videos I've seen? 4Wow, 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:19.319 Star Wars, Warhammer. And then you see in the 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:21.579 description, AI created. And you go, right, it's 00:21:21.579 --> 00:21:24.720 bollocks then. It's bollocks. This isn't real. 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:27.680 And then let alone the people that see videos 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:29.619 where they look so real and they're convinced 00:21:29.619 --> 00:21:34.079 that it's real. Jay showed Jesus a video of someone 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:38.160 being knocked out and it looked so real until 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.279 the geezer just carried on floating off into 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:43.319 the sky but for a point Jesus was like oh my 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:46.200 god he's been proper battered no it's fake like 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:48.240 what you're watching is fake but that's the danger 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:49.700 though isn't it because you can show people real 00:21:49.700 --> 00:21:52.259 stuff and they think it's AI that wouldn't happen 00:21:52.259 --> 00:21:54.400 it's too far fetched the lions become very very 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:59.000 blurred but going back to gaming that's why That's 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:01.079 why you get shortages is why Steam's obviously 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:03.099 having to delay certain things and revisit the 00:22:03.099 --> 00:22:05.079 price point. The difficulty of it is that everyone 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:09.099 talks about this AI bubble. So we're currently 00:22:09.099 --> 00:22:11.940 in the bubble of how AI is and what it's doing 00:22:11.940 --> 00:22:15.940 in terms of RAM prices. But a lot of people sit 00:22:15.940 --> 00:22:17.779 there and say, well, that has to pop eventually. 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:22.579 Because in this day and age, most markets rely 00:22:22.579 --> 00:22:26.220 on some form of computer. It's a big, big part 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:29.589 of our world. So if you fuck with that, at some 00:22:29.589 --> 00:22:31.650 point, it's got to break down and crumble and 00:22:31.650 --> 00:22:35.170 then reset. So people say that this bubble that 00:22:35.170 --> 00:22:38.269 we're in will eventually pop and then reset itself 00:22:38.269 --> 00:22:40.170 and go back to normal. So the difficulty I'd 00:22:40.170 --> 00:22:41.990 imagine that Steam have is if they turn around 00:22:41.990 --> 00:22:43.930 and they go, all right, well, the Steam machine 00:22:43.930 --> 00:22:46.829 was going to cost 900 quid, but because of what's 00:22:46.829 --> 00:22:49.309 going on, it's now going to cost 1 ,200 quid. 00:22:49.650 --> 00:22:51.990 They then start selling it at that and then RAM 00:22:51.990 --> 00:22:54.170 prices plummet back to what they used to be. 00:22:55.660 --> 00:22:57.960 you'll then have to drop the price. Say you then 00:22:57.960 --> 00:22:59.720 drop it back down to its original. Well, every 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:01.579 other fucker who bought one off the bat is going 00:23:01.579 --> 00:23:05.019 to sit there and go, hold on, which is exactly 00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:06.799 what I did when I bought the Steam Deck and then 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:09.779 they put it on fucking sale. I bought it from 00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:11.759 Steam and then they put it on sale and I messaged 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:14.599 them and said, well, I've just bought this and 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:16.859 now you put it on sale. Can I have the fucking 00:23:16.859 --> 00:23:19.440 difference? And they told me to fuck off. It 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:21.680 doesn't sound like Steam. They're getting sued, 00:23:21.819 --> 00:23:24.789 aren't they? Are they? They got a lawsuit against 00:23:24.789 --> 00:23:29.089 them for, would you believe it, unfair prices. 00:23:29.789 --> 00:23:34.210 What? Yeah. Absolutely outrageous. What? They've 00:23:34.210 --> 00:23:37.190 got the fairest prices in the market. They're 00:23:37.190 --> 00:23:41.029 the best. They're the benchmark. Against Valve. 00:23:41.210 --> 00:23:44.609 Yeah, here we go. No, I don't want to sign into 00:23:44.609 --> 00:23:49.220 that. Valve Corporation will face a £656 million 00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:52.559 lawsuit in the UK over alleged unfair prices 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:54.940 on its global online store following a tribunal 00:23:54.940 --> 00:23:57.559 ruling that the case could continue. The gaming 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:00.119 giant is being accused of abusing its market 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.299 dominance by imposing... restrictive terms on 00:24:03.299 --> 00:24:05.720 the game publishers and locking players into 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:08.279 using steam the world's largest distribution 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:11.440 platform for pc gaming the legal action was brought 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.160 by digital rights campaigner vicky shotbolt in 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.579 2024 on behalf of up to 14 million steam users 00:24:18.579 --> 00:24:21.440 across the uk who could be in line for compensation 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:27.089 if she wins what the lawsuit alleges Valve forces 00:24:27.089 --> 00:24:29.750 game publishers to sign up to conditions which 00:24:29.750 --> 00:24:32.210 prevents them from selling their titles earlier 00:24:32.210 --> 00:24:36.210 or for less on rival platforms. So like GOG and 00:24:36.210 --> 00:24:43.349 Origin. Rivals. Not really. Not really. It's 00:24:43.349 --> 00:24:49.789 not really, is it? Sainsbury's Rivals is Londis. 00:24:50.029 --> 00:24:53.750 It claims that as Valve requires users to buy 00:24:53.750 --> 00:24:56.460 all additional content through Steam, If they've 00:24:56.460 --> 00:24:58.180 bought the initial game through the platform, 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:01.240 it is essentially locking in users to continue 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:03.119 making purchases there. Well, yeah, because it's 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:06.599 a launcher. It's their launcher. They're basically, 00:25:06.819 --> 00:25:10.039 everyone, every single person I've seen comment 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:12.039 on this has basically just said, well, Steam 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:15.720 will not lose this. No. Because Steam is probably 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.839 the only company that I can think of, especially 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:21.099 in the gaming industry, where people that use 00:25:21.099 --> 00:25:23.519 it are actually like, no, they're good. Like, 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:25.819 everyone else will moan about Sony and fucking 00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:27.940 Microsoft and that, but everyone's like, no, 00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:30.599 Steam's good. Steam does good prices, fucking 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:32.940 great sales, never really have any issues with 00:25:32.940 --> 00:25:35.920 it. Fantastic customer service, apart from your 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.420 thing, but, you know, whatever. Yeah, but that's 00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:39.980 just fucking greedy for me. Fucking, you know, 00:25:40.019 --> 00:25:42.180 sending out free chargers and replacing Steam 00:25:42.180 --> 00:25:44.759 decks for free and all sorts of shit. Like, Steam 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:49.119 are the best. But it... Obviously, little research 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:52.519 has been done, but... Is it not the same circumstance 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:54.720 with other launchers that if you buy a game on 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:57.220 another launcher that you can't fucking buy DLC? 00:25:57.420 --> 00:26:01.680 You wouldn't be able to go on to, say, GOG, buy 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:05.079 Elder Scrolls. Well, Elder Scrolls Online is 00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:07.680 different because it's a fucking account base. 00:26:07.819 --> 00:26:12.119 But let's say Borderlands 4 on GOG and then buy 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:14.819 DLC for it on Steam and then download it on GOG. 00:26:15.140 --> 00:26:18.400 You wouldn't be able to do that, I assume. No, 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.329 of course you can't. So it's the same. what the 00:26:21.329 --> 00:26:23.869 people that are whinging are the same people 00:26:23.869 --> 00:26:26.829 that just what pick the platform you want to 00:26:26.829 --> 00:26:28.890 play on and play it on there how far do you go 00:26:28.890 --> 00:26:31.329 i've bought this ps5 game but i can't play it 00:26:31.329 --> 00:26:35.910 on my xbox one or my xbox s x i'm locked into 00:26:35.910 --> 00:26:40.769 the sony ecosystem damn it well yeah don't get 00:26:40.769 --> 00:26:44.470 me wrong in in some instances like with elden 00:26:44.470 --> 00:26:47.660 ring for example I have a shitload of stuff on 00:26:47.660 --> 00:26:49.799 the PlayStation version. I have a shitload of 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:52.460 stuff on the PC version. It would be lovely if 00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:56.059 I could just merge the two and then either pick 00:26:56.059 --> 00:26:58.119 whether I play it on PlayStation or I play it 00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:01.339 on PC. That would be great. But I understand 00:27:01.339 --> 00:27:03.000 it at the same time because they're not the same 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:08.619 server. But I don't... How many people are pissed 00:27:08.619 --> 00:27:11.140 off with having to play games through Steam? 00:27:11.380 --> 00:27:13.059 Mate, the amount of games I've bought twice. 00:27:13.840 --> 00:27:16.460 Because I've got it on PlayStation, but I think, 00:27:16.460 --> 00:27:18.480 oh, this is great for Steam Deck. Do you know 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:22.160 what I mean? I bought Divinity 2 again on Steam 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:24.299 Deck. Not that I need it, but because it came 00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:26.240 in a bundle with Divinity 1, it was only a couple 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.160 of quid more. I was like, fuck it. I'm going 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:31.079 to play Divinity 1 on Steam Deck, so I'll... 00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:33.539 I'll buy the bundle because I might want to play 00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:35.259 Div 2 again and I'll play it on the Steam Deck. 00:27:35.420 --> 00:27:37.920 Yeah. Fucking hell, man. People need to get a 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.079 grip. According to VG Insights, over 19 ,000 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:43.779 games were released on the platform in 2025 alone, 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:49.480 generating a revenue of £8 .6 billion. The company 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:51.480 has also branched out into creating its own hardware 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.859 such as the Steam Deck in 2022, a portable handheld 00:27:53.859 --> 00:27:55.880 gaming computer, blah, blah, blah. Valve recently 00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.200 announced... It was also releasing a new console 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:02.559 rival to Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation in the 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:05.160 Steam machine designed to allow gamers to play 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:10.500 PC games on their TV. I don't really know what 00:28:10.500 --> 00:28:22.190 the purpose of that lawsuit is. has enabled Steam 00:28:22.190 --> 00:28:25.950 to charge an excessive commission of up to 30%, 00:28:25.950 --> 00:28:29.710 making UK consumers pay too much for purchasing 00:28:29.710 --> 00:28:34.289 PC games and add -on content. What? Have you 00:28:34.289 --> 00:28:37.069 seen the Sony store? Actually, no, scratch that. 00:28:37.190 --> 00:28:40.970 Have you seen the Nintendo store? Oh, that's 00:28:40.970 --> 00:28:43.450 the worst. That is the worst, and there's no 00:28:43.450 --> 00:28:45.430 fucking depreciation on that store whatsoever. 00:28:45.789 --> 00:28:48.829 It's shit. How are you going to sit there and 00:28:48.829 --> 00:28:54.200 say excessive commission? Of up to 30%. What? 00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:57.539 Steam's always the place I go to where it's the 00:28:57.539 --> 00:29:01.180 cheapest. Exactly. I get excited for Steam sales. 00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:04.539 I go on Steam on my phone, look through it and 00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:05.900 be like, I'm probably never going to play any 00:29:05.900 --> 00:29:08.700 of these, but they're like 68p. Yeah. So I'm 00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:12.079 going to buy like 20 quids worth of games. Gem 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.359 got me fucking vouchers for Christmas, 60 quid 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:20.849 worth of Steam vouchers. I got 18 games. For 00:29:20.849 --> 00:29:28.990 60 quid. 18 games. I don't understand where... 00:29:28.990 --> 00:29:35.670 Here we go. What could happen if Valve, if they 00:29:35.670 --> 00:29:38.390 lose? Valve suspend service in the UK. Prices 00:29:38.390 --> 00:29:41.390 go up if they lose their 30 % cut. They should 00:29:41.390 --> 00:29:45.329 turn the tap off. um all their sales valve lost 00:29:45.329 --> 00:29:48.309 eat the cost and keep on trucking and then someone 00:29:48.309 --> 00:29:50.809 said i dare any other company to just make a 00:29:50.809 --> 00:29:53.089 comprehensive game launcher take a five to ten 00:29:53.089 --> 00:29:55.670 percent cut and try to compete as a consumer 00:29:55.670 --> 00:29:59.890 i want that but no one is i think um I think 00:29:59.890 --> 00:30:02.869 Valve has a solid case and likely will win. And 00:30:02.869 --> 00:30:05.190 as a Brit, I'm a tad embarrassed it's coming 00:30:05.190 --> 00:30:07.670 from us, especially at a time where so many people 00:30:07.670 --> 00:30:10.109 I've spoken to are leaving PlayStation and Xbox 00:30:10.109 --> 00:30:12.910 behind for PC gaming due to the silliness of 00:30:12.910 --> 00:30:18.430 those companies. My biggest fear, and I got it 00:30:18.430 --> 00:30:20.789 from a comment, was people saying, well, the 00:30:20.789 --> 00:30:22.630 easiest thing, if they wanted to shut it all 00:30:22.630 --> 00:30:24.329 down, would just be like, well, Steam's not available 00:30:24.329 --> 00:30:26.849 in the UK. Yeah, that's what the first one says. 00:30:26.910 --> 00:30:30.089 Valve suspends service in the UK. Cheers. But 00:30:30.089 --> 00:30:32.569 at the same time, from what I just read in that 00:30:32.569 --> 00:30:35.369 previous article, they make close to £9 billion 00:30:35.369 --> 00:30:40.950 a year, or last year, from just us alone. Nerds. 00:30:41.170 --> 00:30:43.250 Fucking shitload of money. We're such a small 00:30:43.250 --> 00:30:46.630 island. What a bunch of losers. And we've spent 00:30:46.630 --> 00:30:49.109 billions on this service that we hate so much. 00:30:49.150 --> 00:30:51.789 Oh, fuck the government. We've got no food or 00:30:51.789 --> 00:30:57.789 heating. But we've got games. Who's ringing me? 00:30:58.349 --> 00:31:03.890 Why is he... Look, Jamie, I know... Hey, no, 00:31:04.029 --> 00:31:06.190 no, no. This is my time. No, look, I know you're 00:31:06.190 --> 00:31:12.529 about... You know, you're about... don't let 00:31:12.529 --> 00:31:14.009 him know I'm here see what he says he's gonna 00:31:14.009 --> 00:31:16.269 interrupt my podcast don't let him know I'm here 00:31:16.269 --> 00:31:18.410 I'm gonna have to pause it again this fucking 00:31:18.410 --> 00:31:20.269 I'm gonna make him pay for the patron because 00:31:20.269 --> 00:31:23.130 of this this is the last time that is the last 00:31:23.130 --> 00:31:25.410 time that I'm pausing this podcast it ain't happening 00:31:25.410 --> 00:31:28.130 again and I already know that we're gonna have 00:31:28.130 --> 00:31:30.990 to wrap it up eventually before Steph comes home 00:31:30.990 --> 00:31:32.769 and the dogs go fucking mental because she's 00:31:32.769 --> 00:31:38.109 probably on her way home yeah I'm not part of 00:31:38.109 --> 00:31:40.349 that group of people in the UK that are complaining 00:31:40.349 --> 00:31:43.269 about fucking Steam. Good. And I don't really 00:31:43.269 --> 00:31:46.589 buy a whole lot for Steam. I do. But that's fucking 00:31:46.589 --> 00:31:49.410 it. I'm a Steam whore. Oh, that reminds me. Go 00:31:49.410 --> 00:31:51.690 on. There's a game coming out. Crimson Desert? 00:31:52.009 --> 00:31:55.009 Oh, no, not that. Fucking robot shit. Piss me 00:31:55.009 --> 00:31:57.890 off. Ruined it for me, that did. And it looks 00:31:57.890 --> 00:32:00.789 so good. And then they're like, by the way, here's 00:32:00.789 --> 00:32:04.319 some cyborgs. It's ridiculous. I don't understand 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:06.200 what you find ridiculous about it. Because it 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.619 doesn't make any sense. I need to be immersed. 00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:11.000 I'm not immersed in that if I'm like doing that 00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:12.759 and then all of a sudden I'm in some fucking 00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:17.460 submarine. This is ridiculous. There's a game 00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:22.200 coming out on Tuesday called Mugenics. Mugenics? 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:26.559 Yeah. M -E -W -G -E -N -I -C -S. Mugenics. I've 00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:28.779 been very excited for this for very long. It's 00:32:28.779 --> 00:32:31.109 basically... It looks like Cult of the Lamb. 00:32:31.410 --> 00:32:36.329 Yeah, no, but it ain't. So it's like The Binding 00:32:36.329 --> 00:32:38.309 of Isaac, which I've had thousands and thousands 00:32:38.309 --> 00:32:41.769 and thousands of hours in over PlayStation, PC, 00:32:42.109 --> 00:32:46.849 Steam, my proudest Platinum. It's basically their 00:32:46.849 --> 00:32:53.910 next game. Mugenics is a roguelike meowster piece. 00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:57.680 Only Edmund and Tyler are capable of taking a 00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:02.039 concept as offensive as watching cats bang and 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:04.759 turning it into a polished, deep and endlessly 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:08.480 replayable indie game hit. While the game's striking 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.440 Flash -era visual style might be a bit grating 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.119 to a younger audience, those alive for the internet's 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:16.299 golden era will appreciate the nostalgia in this 00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:18.039 game's presentation. So it sounds like it's hitting 00:33:18.039 --> 00:33:19.700 its demographic perfectly, if you're fucking 00:33:19.700 --> 00:33:21.700 interested. Old cunts. So if you can stomach 00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:24.160 the rotten humour throughout Mugenics, prepare 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:28.140 to feast on a feline smorgasbord that will leave 00:33:28.140 --> 00:33:30.259 you feeling bloated and satisfied for months 00:33:30.259 --> 00:33:32.819 to come. Yeah, so it's like a turn -based... 00:33:32.819 --> 00:33:35.240 It's like Baldur's Gate, but with cats. But with 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:37.049 cats, fuck it. Yeah, that's the only problem 00:33:37.049 --> 00:33:40.549 is I don't like cats. Yeah. But then I suppose 00:33:40.549 --> 00:33:43.089 it don't really matter. Well, yeah, you're playing 00:33:43.089 --> 00:33:44.809 a game. You're not fucking owning the cat, are 00:33:44.809 --> 00:33:48.869 you? Yeah. But it's cool because you get cats 00:33:48.869 --> 00:33:50.670 and then they can shag and then they get like 00:33:50.670 --> 00:33:52.789 baby cats and then they get like different perks 00:33:52.789 --> 00:33:55.089 and then you can send them out to battle. It's 00:33:55.089 --> 00:33:56.730 a cool looking game. It sounds so like Pokemon. 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:00.660 Basically, yeah. But with cats. Basically, it 00:34:00.660 --> 00:34:03.559 doesn't matter what it is. It's the man that 00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:06.140 made Bind of Isaac, so it doesn't fucking matter. 00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:09.679 So yeah, there's a lot of people excited for 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:12.340 that, including me. I'm seeing that people don't 00:34:12.340 --> 00:34:15.539 have high expectations for Crimson Desert. Yeah, 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:17.179 well, it's because it looks too good to be true, 00:34:17.260 --> 00:34:18.900 doesn't it? I just can't shake my gut feeling 00:34:18.900 --> 00:34:20.619 on this one. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I just 00:34:20.619 --> 00:34:23.500 think I'll be disappointed. Crimson Desert promises 00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:27.289 the world, but how much will it deliver? That's 00:34:27.289 --> 00:34:30.710 what worries me. But I think Resident Evil Requiem 00:34:30.710 --> 00:34:32.170 is out soon as well, isn't it? I keep seeing 00:34:32.170 --> 00:34:34.730 shit for that. That looks pretty fucking good, 00:34:34.809 --> 00:34:39.289 but I'm scared. I know, I know. Maybe we should 00:34:39.289 --> 00:34:43.050 force ourselves eventually to... Well, that's 00:34:43.050 --> 00:34:46.829 a ping. A ping, a thing. I've played a lot of 00:34:46.829 --> 00:34:48.510 scary games, man. I've played Resident Evil 7, 00:34:48.690 --> 00:34:50.150 I've played Resident Evil 6, I've played Resident 00:34:50.150 --> 00:34:52.510 Evil 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Manus has sent me a list 00:34:52.510 --> 00:34:55.869 of games that he's aiming to get finished. Who 00:34:55.869 --> 00:34:59.119 is? Mark, started and finished this year. Bald. 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:03.380 He is bald. I'm also bald. Assassin's Creed Shadows. 00:35:03.500 --> 00:35:07.340 Shit. Resident Evil 3. Resident Evil 4. Sick. 00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:11.239 Metro Exodus. Good. Black Myth Wukong. Amazing. 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:13.619 Which he's near the end, but for some reason 00:35:13.619 --> 00:35:15.079 hasn't finished. The best goated game. Little 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:17.599 Nightmares 2, which is sick. Not played. Really, 00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:19.500 you should put... I mean, he needs to play the 00:35:19.500 --> 00:35:21.179 first Little Nightmares and then Little Nightmares 00:35:21.179 --> 00:35:23.159 2. And then, to be fair, Mark, because you're 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:26.880 listening, Little Nightmares 3. uh came out a 00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:30.340 couple months ago and that is more co -op than 00:35:30.340 --> 00:35:32.760 single player so it's better to play with someone 00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:35.039 so could probably play that with taylor i'd quite 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:36.980 like to play with steph to be fair rise of the 00:35:36.980 --> 00:35:39.739 tomb raider shadow of the tomb raider bioshock 00:35:39.739 --> 00:35:44.739 bioshock 2 dead space horizon zero dawn and undisputed 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:48.300 it's undisputed a boxing game that was one of 00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:50.239 the free to play free games from playstation 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:52.739 but he's into boxing isn't he so there's a nice 00:35:52.739 --> 00:35:54.780 there's a nice mixture that is a nice mixture 00:35:54.780 --> 00:35:58.579 um i'm not so sure on the assassin's creed shadows 00:35:58.579 --> 00:36:02.840 there's not one that i would like to jump into 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:05.659 you know i mean i don't really fancy that one 00:36:05.659 --> 00:36:10.840 same as i tried metro exodus boy i tried i just 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:13.719 can't It's another one, man. As you get older, 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:16.199 you have to be in the mood for games. I'm only 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:18.800 in the mood for games when I'm in the mood for 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:24.480 them. I think that's what it was. If I were to 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:28.579 try and play and finish Bloodborne, I couldn't 00:36:28.579 --> 00:36:30.639 finish this podcast and then just go switch it 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:33.019 on because I'm in the mood for gaming. I feel 00:36:33.019 --> 00:36:35.909 like, yeah, you have to be. I have to want to 00:36:35.909 --> 00:36:38.949 hate myself to play games like that and I feel 00:36:38.949 --> 00:36:41.409 like the setting of Metro Exodus is the same. 00:36:41.510 --> 00:36:44.469 It's miserable. Yeah, it's like I need to want 00:36:44.469 --> 00:36:47.130 to be miserable for entertainment purposes rather 00:36:47.130 --> 00:36:51.090 than actually be miserable. So I think maybe 00:36:51.090 --> 00:36:52.789 that's just where I've gone wrong. I'm hoping 00:36:52.789 --> 00:36:55.110 that something like Metro is the same shit that 00:36:55.110 --> 00:36:57.469 I had with Days Gone where I've tried and tried 00:36:57.469 --> 00:36:59.630 and tried and I don't like it and then eventually 00:36:59.630 --> 00:37:01.750 it clicks and I'm like, this is the best fucking 00:37:01.750 --> 00:37:03.869 thing ever. Now I see what everyone's on about. 00:37:04.429 --> 00:37:06.929 fair I only got to the second biome on Metro 00:37:06.929 --> 00:37:09.590 Exodus and then I give up because it was brutally 00:37:09.590 --> 00:37:13.389 fucking dark and just it was a it was a grind 00:37:13.389 --> 00:37:15.909 wasn't it and I'm just like once again it's one 00:37:15.909 --> 00:37:17.849 of them I'm just not in the mood for it ironically 00:37:17.849 --> 00:37:21.530 though and interestingly enough that was a weird 00:37:21.530 --> 00:37:26.510 experience because for some reason I got Metro 00:37:26.510 --> 00:37:31.289 Exodus and it just let me randomly download the 00:37:31.289 --> 00:37:34.769 season pass fair enough for free And I remember 00:37:34.769 --> 00:37:36.230 it being a bug. And everyone was like, I've got 00:37:36.230 --> 00:37:38.449 a season pass. And they were like, yeah, whoopsie. 00:37:38.550 --> 00:37:41.869 That was a mistake. You know, those that have 00:37:41.869 --> 00:37:46.510 got it can keep it. But wasn't that sweet? Coolio. 00:37:46.809 --> 00:37:51.610 Coolio. Never finished it. You all right? Got 00:37:51.610 --> 00:37:55.590 itchy nose, man. Sound like a fucking drug addict. 00:37:59.849 --> 00:38:02.500 Haven't seen the Steam Deck in the office. No, 00:38:02.539 --> 00:38:05.260 and you won't. No? No, because it's precious. 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:07.400 It's portability. It's not going to get battered 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:09.800 in there. Well, I don't know. Well, maybe not. 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:13.840 It's portability into... When am I going to play 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:15.860 it? I don't take breaks. Yeah, no, to be fair, 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:19.239 I agree. Plus, I feel like that would be taken. 00:38:20.249 --> 00:38:21.929 Even though you're on a break, there's something 00:38:21.929 --> 00:38:23.809 about pulling out a Steam Deck and going, what 00:38:23.809 --> 00:38:25.849 the fuck are you doing? Yeah, but there shouldn't 00:38:25.849 --> 00:38:28.050 be though, should there? I've read a couple of 00:38:28.050 --> 00:38:30.869 times, but for like five minutes, I'm like, no 00:38:30.869 --> 00:38:33.510 one else is reading. I read it. When I was up 00:38:33.510 --> 00:38:37.250 there last week, I started reading my book and 00:38:37.250 --> 00:38:39.909 everyone around me took the piss. They were like, 00:38:39.989 --> 00:38:42.210 are you fucking reading? I went, yeah. And they 00:38:42.210 --> 00:38:44.610 were like, I'm on my break, I'm having a read. 00:38:44.750 --> 00:38:47.690 And they were like, they're so gay. I'm fucking 00:38:47.690 --> 00:38:50.090 reading. I love reading, man. I'm reading a book. 00:38:50.250 --> 00:38:54.309 Reading's goated. I'm enjoying it, man. I'm into 00:38:54.309 --> 00:38:58.429 it. Any other sort of gaming? I'm trying to think 00:38:58.429 --> 00:38:59.610 of anything that we've missed because obviously 00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:02.710 it's been a week or two since she was last on 00:39:02.710 --> 00:39:04.650 the pod. Me and Steph are still cracking on through 00:39:04.650 --> 00:39:06.869 Uncharted. She's playing Palia a lot at the moment 00:39:06.869 --> 00:39:08.789 and actually downloaded it on the Steam Deck 00:39:08.789 --> 00:39:14.510 now. What the fuck's Palia? It's... How do I 00:39:14.510 --> 00:39:18.530 describe Palia? It's free to play. Sort of like 00:39:18.530 --> 00:39:22.530 a survival -esque... It's one of them. I can 00:39:22.530 --> 00:39:24.829 see it already. I know exactly what game it is 00:39:24.829 --> 00:39:27.489 from that picture. I already know exactly what 00:39:27.489 --> 00:39:29.489 you're going to say, but it's not what the picture 00:39:29.489 --> 00:39:30.989 makes it look like. You're going to say that 00:39:30.989 --> 00:39:34.630 that's like Zelda. No, I'm going to say it's 00:39:34.630 --> 00:39:37.170 like Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact. It's not. 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.480 it's not at all um there's actually like basically 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:44.599 no combat in it other than hunting so it's not 00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:47.480 it's not i mean it's not my cup of tea but it's 00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.980 a very very very popular game i mean it's free 00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:53.360 um and she's playing that a lot so it's a cozy 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:56.380 game yeah she actually said she was like um play 00:39:56.380 --> 00:39:59.579 uncharted without me if you want to to get through 00:39:59.579 --> 00:40:03.280 it i said no this is a trial that we must get 00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:05.619 through together because I want us both to experience 00:40:05.619 --> 00:40:07.940 the story. And yeah, the first one was fucking 00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:11.159 great. Second one's very much the same. I don't 00:40:11.159 --> 00:40:13.760 think I ever played the third one. What? I know. 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:18.460 So I'm excited to get through to that. And then... 00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:20.320 Which one's the one we climbed up the train? 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:22.739 That's the second one. That's sick. It's Uncharted 00:40:22.739 --> 00:40:25.099 2, yeah. Yeah, it's cool. Which is exactly what 00:40:25.099 --> 00:40:27.619 I remember. I knew that I'd never played Uncharted 00:40:27.619 --> 00:40:31.219 1. And I didn't... obviously didn't know any 00:40:31.219 --> 00:40:36.019 of it but uncharted 2 i did play um and yeah 00:40:36.019 --> 00:40:37.860 there's a lot of stuff even though it was so 00:40:37.860 --> 00:40:39.679 long ago when i played it where i'm like oh yeah 00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:42.920 i know this happened and i know and yeah i remembered 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.579 the the train was the main thing that stuck with 00:40:45.579 --> 00:40:48.480 me um because i think at that time when it first 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:50.219 come out and you start playing it you know when 00:40:50.219 --> 00:40:52.039 you have that sort of like where you think everything 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.599 looks mega mega crisp and perfect and this game 00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.989 feels amazing where in like By today's standards, 00:40:59.269 --> 00:41:02.250 yeah, it feels a bit janky. Like some of the 00:41:02.250 --> 00:41:04.130 climbing can be a bit fucking annoying and blah, 00:41:04.230 --> 00:41:08.530 blah, blah. And yeah, it's just a fun game. Plus, 00:41:08.590 --> 00:41:11.289 they're only like 10 hours long. Yes, that does 00:41:11.289 --> 00:41:14.769 help. Yeah, fuck it, we're done. That's sweet. 00:41:17.510 --> 00:41:19.550 It's Patreon time. See you later. All right.