 Do do do do we seem to be streaming So let me pull up the other biz It's I guess we got opening bits plenty opening bits Women news again Mario tennis nerf sure jackbox party pack thing The Overwatch League thing draw door. That's plenty. We got one Especially because I think we had a lot to say about pub G2 All right, not that much. I mean, it's not despite being a good game There's actually not too much to say about it because it doesn't have it's pretty simple There's a lot of key bindings. I I didn't bind until I played the game enough and realize why What what key do you hit to hold your breath? Did you even look that up? There's a whole breath, but yeah I'm not doing that changing the ranging on your scope if you zoom level but the Distance level while it's while it's zoomed in you can use a page up and page. Yeah, that is true I think that's the button. Do you know how to figure out what to set it to? No, I don't give a shit I just leave it that yeah that you know what that means if you're too far away or too close It'll literally you'll guaranteed miss. Yeah, you know, I just aim higher or lower on the next shot You think even if I even if I did set it how would I know what to set it to based on how far away the prison I've noticed most people who kill me when I look at the death cam They spot me and I'm like doing something and then they like look around see if there's any wells And they like set up and like And then headshot That's the majority of my deaths. They must know something. I don't know. Yeah Had like even if I knew like ah, if he's this far away that I need to aim it higher or lower How do I know how far away you are? Yeah, and I look down on you know the answer is mm-hmm gotta get a fucking sense for it like it's a real gun It's realistic. Yeah, so that I don't like that part I learned that I want someone to just make PUBG and just I learned a little bit as a kid shooting rifles and like Cub scouts, but that's really one of my only complaints of the game is I just wish the weapons were more Counter-strikey and less stupid military fanboy play play a fortnight before it night takes it too far for a fortnight It's like TF2. Yeah, you're not gonna find that the middle ground because I don't strike is the middle ground Just make counter-strike on the giant map where you fight I find when I'm in close quarters combat with someone like counter-strike style I almost always win Like now like I'll go all fuck them. I I mean most of my the damage I do is SMGs at short range Yep, I don't have any problem with that. I don't try to snipe anymore I try to sneak in close and just open up on people with like Yeah, no, I don't know problem with that. I only have problems, you know Because I you know, yeah, I'm also I have no idea what all the weapon Parts do I just attach it. I figure well, they don't make him a gun worse I attach as many as I can I will I attach everything I get that fits any gun I'm carrying that's pretty much it. Yeah, but then sometimes it's like alright Well, there's a quick draw mag. It's like when am I gonna reload in a fight? I go down before I'm gonna reload I usually take the holographic scope instead of like a two or three I can't tell the difference between the holograph and the red dot. I like the holograph a lot I can't tell different. I tend to get a lot more kills if I got that holograph All right, I'll start this thing If I get a like a 4x 6x 8x scope. I mostly use it just for looking what's going on. Yeah Like are there people over there? Yes, there's people over there. Let me see is anyone you know Maybe I'll try to shoot someone. Yep. Yep Because like they let you put it on guns that are not sniper rifles. Yeah, like I'll put it on an AK It's like well, even if I zoom in I can't hit anyone with his that is 6x the 2x is good though for that Hmm. All right. I don't see 2x too often I did two or two or three is what I usually find. I never even seen a three. I thought it was two four six eight Maybe I'm thinking a four. Anyway, I find only like small ones Yeah, usually four is the most common one that I see two is definitely the most common I've run into But I've seen I'm sure to probably I don't I feel like I see four more often Yeah, I don't you know what I usually see is seen twice You know what the most common is is watching my death cam. Yeah, I see that more than I say Walk around and loot some buildings and then suddenly die. Yep. Maybe kill one person along the way All right It's Tuesday July 17th 2018 I'm rimms good and this is Geek Nights tonight We are talking about pub g player unknowns battlegrounds because we are in no way late to this party The kids got to understand that the older you get the later You're going to be to every party. No, you just don't got time for that Actually, yeah, even Counter-Strike. I didn't play till beta eight something like that six I don't even know I started somebody was playing Counter-Strike before me I was playing Counter-Strike before the P 90 but not that long before the P 90. I remember when they It before the umph for sure I remember when they added the P 90 remember when they added the umph and then I remember when the P 90 was Ridiculously overpowered That also this P 90 was my favorite. It was a good time that P 90. I remember those days. It was a good day Is like the number one gun of you know gun fetish fanboys. Yeah, it's I mean gunslinger girls I think whenever I see like some you know, like especially yeah, especially anime But like any sort of anime fanboy stuff. It's always P 90. It's always that bullpup You know the one from Counter-Strike the uh, oh god. I remember what was called the stair. Oh It's either the stair. I'll get pub G in a crate. Yeah, I've seen one I've never I've never got that the other guy have it because there's no point in me taking it But I usually get the scar like that's the weapon. I end up using the most I actually rarely see that I find it a lot It's not great I don't like it But I end up with it a lot to the point that I think about it Last time I saw it. I looked at it. I was like, yeah, you know what nah Now I'll pick up the shotgun instead and that let me tell you that worked not at all no fuck shotguns Anyway, that's the main bit when we talk about the fact that we're playing pub G But we got some news because it's Tuesday. It's gaming day All right, so Mario tennis is out and it's got it's not it's got some problems. Yeah, this is this is the Second weakest Mario tennis offering from Nintendo So it has a lot of it's like it's it's better than the it's not it is Mario tennis, right? Yep, but there's not the bullshit DS one is real there's a lot of things they messed up I'm sure we'll review it at some point But so I'll just talk about the news here the news being that they are going to actually update it And they're gonna nerf Bowser Jr. Who is OP? Yep, and they're gonna adjust the way the trick shot works is right now You can basically just keep trick shotting over and over always return the ball no matter what with a trick shot No matter what that will fill up your charge meter to max and then you can use the power shot and then Condend and repeat using the trick shot again. That's pretty much the strategy for winning It's similar to snaking in Mario Kart similar to basically the exact same problem It's not fun like trick shots are not that fun Like I don't really like them actually you can play in the mode that has no meter and it removes the trick shot Yeah, I actually kind of feel like the thing is the problem with that mode that I found is that it Chain chomp and certain characters are actually more powerful because without some sort of super shot or zone shot It's like they can almost always get to the ball and return it Yeah, and you know with with relative ease, but the trouble is and I even ran into this I haven't even played kid Koopa because it's money even though. He's like my character. I love the shit out of that kid I don't like him being in the stupid clown car like I don't like the aesthetic So I ended up playing Rosalina instead I play As you as you do who was also an OP character with these nasty hooks and shit. Yeah, man I always been the case in Mario tennis I still feel like Mario tennis for n64 boo is like tricky It's the ball it curves like a motherfucker I do miss older Mario tennis is though like I play older Mario I feel like as a guy's our friend group. That's probably what we should do. I haven't we can just play at any time But yeah, it's interesting for a bunch of reasons so one obviously the game needed to be nerfed like that like there's problems with the game's core design, but Why didn't Nintendo pick up on that before they released the game? This is this game is you can just sort of tell that it was obviously released too soon They sort of rushed it out. Yeah, there's there were like missing textures and all this shit Unlike Nintendo to put out a product like this I mean when we played that preview like it really didn't feel good No, I had problems and like the netcode doesn't really work like playing multiplayer. I wouldn't have bought it but I the I I pre-ordered it and forgot why pre-order the reason I bought it was because You know that the demo even though it had some problems. I wasn't gonna play online. Those are online problems Mostly I was like, oh well the tennis part is still good I'm gonna play this locally so I don't care and then when I actually got it I found that you couldn't even play like actual tennis. Yeah, so we'll talk about a full review But the other problems with the game aside from the fact that Nintendo Clearly didn't play test this with anyone who tried to be good at the game at all This isn't like overwatch or like someone figures out a very difficult strategy and it becomes the new meta over time This was like day one you can just snake and it's invincible and if you don't snake you lose But aside from that like you can't actually play real Matches of tennis with multiple sets can either play like this sort of tiebreaker only quick match like not even normal tennis card Or you can basically play this one set match or it's like you get two games and then you win So you can't play like a five-set match and like feel the other player out and anything like that Yeah, like it's really actually not fun and shit as much as that seems like a really like minor point It actually really really makes playing local multiplayer not fun If I had known you couldn't play like five sets I thought I don't even question that like oh, of course you it's Mario tennis You can be able to play a match of tennis if I would have known you couldn't play a match of tennis I wouldn't have bought it. Yep, but there was no way to know that but I could I guess I could have waited one day instead of Pre-ordering I could have waited a day and then bought it. Yep. I I too was over optimistic Did I worry conceivable that you would not be able to play a tennis match? Yep Like if you bought a racing game and it only had one lap races and you couldn't do a three lap race Because like Nintendo like you wouldn't be conceivable that that would be you also can't pick the map Yeah But I guess I assumed that Nintendo would have the problems they always have meaning Online play is garbage never do it and there'd be some like single-player mode I won't care about and those things were true But on top of that like nothing else really works Like I actually like the single-player mode and old Mario tennis is because it was literally just play tennis Play tennis against the computer into as and learn and get better at playing tennis until you can beat the hardest AI Whereas now the single-player mode is like this adventure with all these garbage challenges in it That are annoying as fuck and I quit after like yeah one try like I guess Ostensibly they make you because that the real skill in the game as it is today is one You have to trick shot literally every shot which they're gonna hopefully fix but to you have to return Fancy shots with frame per or semi frame perfect timing like this very particular timing and you have to get really good at that But all the single-player doesn't really make you good at that. It makes you good at that in these weird contrived situations and there isn't really a good single-player against just like normal tennis and Online the hardest AI in some very very short games Yeah, lots of them, but that's not fun and then or playing more local multiplayer Also was actually really hard to make work Like we had a lot of trouble getting the right controllers and Nintendo really just was sloppy in this game to a degree that I'm not pre-ordering any more first-party games I'm gonna wait one day. Yep at least Except for Metroid Prime 4. That's good. That's a shoe. I don't know. I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna Metroid Prime 4 Not be a shoe. I'm gonna let you play it for a few days. Let me see what you say Cuz I'm just me Metroid Prime. I'm not I'm a little worried about this game Play the other Metroid Prime. No somebody why you don't need to play the new one. Yeah, maybe maybe I want to play the new one Why would you play one you haven't played the other one? Why not? This might be better I mean I skipped a whole bunch of Zelda's and then I played Breath of the Wild. It was great I don't feel like I need to play Skyward Sword. No, but well think about this. You're like, oh, I played Breath of Wild It was great. Yeah, you guess what you missed out on a whole bunch of great Yeah, I I mean I didn't even finish Twilight Princess because I got bored about a third of the way through It wasn't as great but it wasn't that it wasn't that fun still good The fact that I got bored during it was enough to tell me that it wasn't for me Breath of the Wild I feel like I'm gonna play again. Anyway, Mario attendance is a lot of problems Nintendo didn't like play tested They've missed all these talking about too much Mario tennis obvious issues and we still got we'll do an episode of Mario Yeah, stop talking about Mario 10. So Jack box party pack five. It's coming They're still they're gonna make it and so far they've revealed one of the games that's gonna be in it It's a rapping game and the way it works is this you put in a word any frickin word you want And then it puts your word that you chose at the end of a rap phrase that it is generated by the game And then you must then enter an entire rap phrase that rhymes with the last word of your new rap phrase That you write an entirety must rhyme with the single word that was put at the end of a random I'm feeling that I like the jack box games And then a text-to-speech thing does the rap in a hilarious way And then I think there's some sort of voting on who's is the best or whatever because originally like there's a bunch of different ways To play these jack box games and obviously half of the party fat games are just garbage But the ones that are good. It seems like you're paying for what you're there Basically throwing darts at the wall and you're buying all the darts and half of them hit Yep, but the ones that are the most fun seem to the ones like this where they basically are enough context and prompting to make a Situation that is both competitive But more importantly it's just an excuse for you to be funny with all your friends And it guides your less funny friends into being more funny I feel like this rap battle is gonna be right in the same feel as TKO, which is still the pinnacle of jack box Mm-hmm, see I'll probably just buy it. I just buy every jack box game So overwatch league playoffs weren't just on the internet. They're also on something called Disney XD That's the Disney channel that shows cartoons and shit. Yeah, I guess I didn't actually know that existed still That's where I keep this Disney channel and then this Disney XD you to cable channel where they show cartoons I'm shocked is where gravity falls was aired. Oh wow No, but I as far as I knew gravity falls was aired on this pirate ship somewhere I mean these days gravity falls in overwatch League are on the same channel Yeah, which is weird, but the interesting news here is that the overwatch League playoffs were just on Disney XD and They got a shit ton of people watch it. Mm-hmm like What was the number is the highest ratings for Disney XD 127,000 viewers That's the numbers you see on twitch. Yeah, twitch had about a hundred thousand users What's interesting is that as far as I can tell I read a bunch of like other people talking about this cuz I didn't even I had no idea until this news that they put this on TV. Anyway, I didn't either and Yeah, apparently that many people watched it there Despite there being basically no advertising whatsoever about it being there I mean probably people flip through the channels and saw overwatcher like holy shit Yeah When is someone gonna be put in like fortnight on a network like this because fortnight is the most popular thing ever I'm surprised it isn't yeah, I'm actually really surprised fortnight could just be on like primetime TV I think at this point probably So I guess there are a lot of kids who just have cable still and Will watch eSports on cable instead of on twitch for some reason But I am curious about or maybe there's kids who play video games on their playstations or the switches or whatever And it don't know about which they're not twitch YouTube. There's so they're not technically advanced You know what it could be like you don't even brand it even have a PC They might they maybe have a phone or a tablet only it might be the demo like it might like look at the demographic of people Who go to mid-tier local conventions like they don't know the packs even exist They go to a local gaming con and that's it So if like a game studio goes to that gaming con and does a panel that is like like they would never encounter that otherwise Even though it's just literally streaming on twitch somewhere So maybe it's that this is fascinating That they're that this demographic exists in numbers that it does it I I Greatly underestimated the demand for eSports on cable Especially on Disney XD So in some other news Trogdor is a fantastic thing like I want to make that very clear It's the countryside we've been fans and those horrible peasants and codges I mean we Scott and I it's not an exaggeration to say that we were literally fans of Trogdor from his inception Yes, I saw Trogdor the day he was released to the internet. We were already I was burninated We were already pretty deep into the brothers chaps fandom well before Trogdor existed correct So this Kickstarter game is legit like home star runners actually had a pretty big renaissance if you haven't been paying attention I'm trying hard. Yeah, but it's kind of working. Yeah, like there's a little bit. They have Maintained a pretty sizable fandom Despite the fact that the type of humor that was originally home star runner was from a much earlier time Mm-hmm. I mean I don't still why I don't watch any new home star runner No, but I still strong bet on Twitter, but I watch I like a while actually a few weeks ago I ended up watching the ukulele Okay, like I just watched an old home star runner And it was about in terms of modern comedy sensibilities was basically on the level of hey So yeah, it's still there, but they made a board game Well top game is Trogdor the board game and basically this board games on Kickstarter You can pre-order it and get either the wooden meatballs or the plastic miniature. It's already like way over double It's goal like it's still going up and the game seems mediocre. It's a game where Basically, you're caught. It's a co-op game You take turns controlling Trogdor the burninator trying to burn and ate the peasants and the Thatcher of Cottages and all the tiles on the board and Meanwhile, there's some I guess AI Controlled nights who and peasants who make things less burn and ate it. Yeah, and it's co-op So I like how there's a peasant meeple and then there's a fire Thing to put on the peasant. Yeah, so it's like the theme and the end of this game is hilarious and great The actual game does not appear to be good. So there's no reason to buy it or play it Yeah laugh at the video of it and you're good to go I guess board games are now on the level of like when all the great graphics literally no gameplay era Yeah, pretty much it's been going on for like a couple years now already at least but the Ghostbusters Kickstarter game for was like the real Genesis of this era before then but like people now especially Kickstarter There's a big, you know faction of the board game community, especially online where they really like their board game collectors They care about miniatures. They care about the quality of the cardboard, you know, they're putting shit in sleeves But more importantly, you know, maybe they do play games But they actually aren't super deep into playing games and game mechanics and winning in competition Well, there's a parallel thing going on that I've been reading a lot about around how a huge percentage of people who buy tabletop games today In this like niche extended market core market like not mass market. We're not talking about that I'm a monopoly but a huge percentage of even people who do care about game mechanics buy games and Literally never bring them to the table. And there's a lot of reasons why we even did a packs panel on it once I have one game on my shelf. I haven't played I At one point bought a copy of castles of burgundy because it was on super sale only to discover That not only did I already own castles of burgundy, but it was still in its shrink wrap in my closet So if anyone wants a copy of castles of burgundy, I accidentally bought another one So this is a thing, but the confluence of people don't actually get games to the table that often and People want to collect makes a perfect storm of games with literally garbage game mechanics And it does not matter to the primary Tons of games coming out these days that are just all you know, physical physically fancy But don't have much game going on because that's the hard part It's like if you told me Scott make a board game But what matters most is the fancy pieces and the rules don't matter I'd be like well roll and move and let's make some fancy miniatures We're gonna have like a four pound like lead Filled computer miniature of the Baron Harkonnen, right? It's a piece of cake right now. It's like, okay make a game that's actually good Yep, this game comes with an entire wooden ship. Yeah, let's go. Yeah, it's like it's easy to make a game that is physically What's the game? It's basically just mousetrap So there's a lot of games like that out these days and there's a lot of people who are into that and I feel like they're at you know Even though they're in the same Community space they're actually completely have nothing in common with people actually interesting There's a really there's a neat way to tell these games and like to tell this demographic because there's games You see at packs that are demoed a lot But you very rarely hard one or the music card one. Oh god We're the machine I care so little about that game that I literally from on the harmonics made yeah Honestly, that was the Omega-Thon final. It was garbage. That was drop mix. Yeah drop mix was the second worst It was the second worst Omega-Thon finale in packs history I've talked about no game But all kinds of fancy shit because the only packs Omega-Thon finale that was worse than that one was the one that actually failed Yep Even though that one would have been good if it hadn't failed, but it failed so it failed. It was the worst one but You see games like this I mean I always get back to that Ghostbusters game But I'm not gonna even bother using that as the example anymore because there's so many games like it But you can tell because they have a big Kickstarter They have tons of sales a lot of people know about the game and the games are very highly reviewed But you literally never see them on the table at a packs Like just look on the shelf at the game store and you can see all these fancy shamancy games and stuff But it's like the games that actually get played a lot Are you know back in the olden days or an olden days? Yeah It's like people play fucking settlers in Carcassonne and take it to ride Which are way way way less fancy but get played a lot a lot a lot more yep But I do feel like part of this is a response to the fact that I hate to say this the tabletop Market is pretty saturated already and the rate of games being released both from indies and big publishers is only accelerating and The skill game space is definitely like super saturated right now And the euros are super saturated this space of collect games that are primarily aimed at collectors and IP is Probably way easier to grow For a lot of reasons. I mean, you know, they're making with cells Yeah, but I feel like these are selling too. They're you're playing games. Don't buy a lot of games They buy a few games and play them. There are some people who play games and buy a lot of games some yeah But not many not enough to build a business around. Yeah, definitely not All right No, look, there's people watching the stream. It's like 11 people in there. Why go home You know why I'm wearing a cap because I got I got rained to hell on on the way home because when I woke up It was like 80 degrees and sunny and not a cloud in the sky and I didn't even think to look at the weather Every morning no matter what I look at the weather like multiple times a day religiously So this year is only only in a few minutes before we did the show did it actually dry. I'm soaking wet and Let's see. Yep. Pat knew it was drop mix, but we didn't actually I should have looked at the chat He would have reminded us written sounds to it. Well, I remembered it. I eventually Eventually remembered it You like my hat to people are commenting on the hat, okay? Don't they you must have something better to do than look at rims hat and go somewhere and do something All right, go make a crappy game with really fancy pieces that That'll be more productive use of your time I feel like with our grease the wheels game though The way to go is the game has to be really simple but really polished But I think we also need to go all out on the theme like Tammany Hall style like Yeah, I'm talking that style that that aren't like Tammany Hall era political cartoon art. All right, let's get into the main bit but anyway things of the day so I Am actually a big fan of the American National Anthem, but not for the reasons you'd think no It's awful. I like it because it's awful. Okay, kind of like imagine a sci-fi or a fantasy world where there's like some Byzantine style archaic Ancient civilization that has like traditions and weird stuff that go beyond memory and beyond recorded history And they have weird old rituals that no one knows where they came from. I Feel like singing the American National Anthem is gonna be that if America survives another thousand years Our National Anthem is fucking awful. The lyrics are awful if you get past the first verse they get pretty fucking racist Yeah, no one sings that part because no one knows it But yeah, it keeps going after the part that people sing and it's not good and it's racist past that part Yep, it's racist and it has other problems. Yeah, also if you know anything about music It's weird and it's really hard to sing right well They shoehorn some poem that was not musical into a song Yep, but also the rain wasn't like they had a song and then wrote lyrics They had lyrics that were whatever and they refused to change those at all So in high school I used to do a lot of arrangement just like I used to arrange songs like Partly sometimes for money sometimes for class whatever but when you're arranging songs For people to sing not even just writing them just arranging them like writing the parts however you're gonna do it You take into account that most humans sing in a set range of notes And not many people can sing outside of those ranges well And you fatigue people who try to sing outside of those ranges You don't generally write a vocal part that crosses all these ranges I mean you might do that if you know that I'm writing this song for such-and-such singer who has a mad range Yeah, I can make this song balls out and you say oh I'm writing this U.S. National Anthem is like the opera in the fifth element like normal humans cannot fucking sing this song No, and even worse even if you like Have a decent range if you're not a professional like say you're just asked to like you can sing Okay, and you're asked to sing the National Anthem at like your high school sports ball game Unless you're a like trained musician as opposed to someone who knows how to sing You'll even make a mistake of you'll start to sing in your national register Oh say like that that'll already start you too high to have a chance of hitting those later You'll notice a lot if you go to like baseball games or you know at big stadiums or things like that where there's people singing They start low. Yep. You got to start low start lower than you are comfortable but anyway to not belabor the point this video in Very good detail explains Why it is so hard to sing why so many people forget the lyrics It has a compilation of some of the most amazing Fails in the history of people singing the National Anthem and it's just a great video I love the fact that our National Anthem is so utterly representative of how archaic and fucked up our government is And I'll just take control of the government. You can change the National Anthem I feel like we can only change the National Anthem if we fix our government by fundamentally restructuring it And I feel like our penance is that we got to keep this thing as long as our government works the way it does But also I kind of like changing it doesn't seem to be an issue We can change it when you change the daily savings, but I do like the idea that it's almost like this test like Ken the Lord who's going to take over the space whatever in the future They have to pass the archaic test of singing the ancient song So what do you got for me? So they tore different homes happening right now. Yep And you know, even though I like bicycling watching bicycle racing is Not super exciting because it's like, okay, it's people by sick But it's still cool, you know, because it's but you feel bicycling But yeah, because the Tour de France they basically bike everywhere in France. It's crazy how far they bike and how high they bike It's it's insane and since you're biking everywhere You're just biking on the fucking road mountain roads here past farm there Yeah, in a city here like random person just hanging out picnic king and like watches you go by Yeah, you know, so, you know things can happen It's not like there's a wall around all the roads in France while this race happens So somebody and this is not the first person to do this but I think it's the first person to do at the Tour de France and I think someone else did at a different bike race And I think it was tour de Palogne, but anyway, I saw it on YouTube Here this person while the Tour de France Peloton is going by this road They come down the hill on a mountain bike and jump over the Tour de France Now I will point something out as a mountain biker. This is Probably I mean, I don't know exactly what he had Practiced it and set it up and everything. This is actually way less dangerous than you might expect assuming the person doing it Knows what they're doing because the person if the person practice they knew they could make this jump They've done it before they knew they would clear over the the rider Yeah, because on a mountain bike like you know, you can do it very consistently It's not like some mega jump where there's you know like big margins, right? It's like if you practice this you're gonna make it Yeah, but if they had fucked up, which is still a non-zero chance and gone right into all those That would have been I think the most likely things they would have fucked up would be they would still land in the same place that they Landed because they're gonna land in the same place no matter what but they would have landed sideways or upside down and kill That's possible. They could like if they had hit the brakes and slowed down They could have landed short. Yeah, you know to be if you practice that much you would not do that Yeah, because I mean the way you mountain bike You basically do the same trail over over again like you do it slow and learn it and just like you know Car racing you memorize a true route and you do it consistently and increase your time or decrease your times So this is while this isn't as dangerous as it looks It is still dangerous and you're I'm not saying you should do this No, but you can also notice the riders in the tour. They don't slow down for shit. No, they don't even flinch They just keep on go. This is one of those things where because no no harm no foul because no one was hurt This is awesome. If someone had gotten hurt other than the person doing the stunts I would have been way less cool with this totally different news. Yeah Thing so in a related thing of the day because there's another video Full disclosure, but if you watch this video, she is fine like I double checked that the person This is not a snuff film it very likely could again So this person this was sold to me by FARC as Someone tried to ride over a drawbridge as it was opening that is not the case Well, it technically is the case Technically the drawbridge is opening. Yeah, and this person attempts to bike over the drawbridge while it's opening That is technically true However, it is not an awesome Blues Brothers moment This person is either drunk or stupid. It's really hard to tell. I suspect they might actually be stupid It kind of looks like they were looking at their phone But basically they bat they bump into the guard arm that is down telling you yo don't go over this Bridge it looks like they clearly intentionally go between them. Yeah, but they mess up and hit them on the way Yeah, and then they just turn sideways and literally just bike into this hole and disappear The hole that the drawbridge is about to crush Yeah, not not the not the hole in between the two pieces of road Yeah, not the cool part one at the bottom where that's because the road is lifting up It's like at the bottom of the lifting road a space is appearing and they go into that space And then they slowly sink into it and then you don't see what happens after that Well, if you watch so the video is really long But basically eventually you see a bunch of people walk over and be like whoa and slowly help the person out of the hole the Drawbridge is like this usually have a human controlling them like there's usually a tower nearby And this is some automatic thing that's like on a schedule Yeah, it's just as a human being who's like sitting in a tower opening the thing The only reason this person is fine is that the person who controlled the bridge Saw them bike into it and basically hit a button to stop the bridge from moving Which actually was really to lift up enough for the boat to get through. Yeah, which is real lucky because I Could imagine a situation far worse where the boat is gonna crash into the bridge and the person in the control tower Problem they had to either kill the person or let a possibly horrific accident happen The boat we kill someone in the boat probably because boats can't slow down. There aren't just boat breaks. No It's not like a car break. No So yeah, again, I only use this as my second thing of the day because I confirmed that the person was fine She had minor injuries I guess the moral is if you're gonna bike somewhere stupid if a thing comes down and says drawbridge Train tracks do not go. Stop. Stop. Stop. Oh my god. Don't fucking go. Oh, no, no more importantly If you're gonna bike somewhere. You're not supposed to bike Practice it Be good at it and commit to it like the person There are no red lights saying tour de France do not jump Yeah, I will there was a conceptual red light because there is there is a voice of the heavens That's really saying, you know, it's probably a bad idea what you're about to do jumping over the Tour de France Like do not do this But if you're gonna do this at least commit to it Don't just like derp into a pit and almost die. Well, I think the thing is the person who jumped over the Tour de France I think they may have spent a night or so in jail I think the person who fell into the drawbridge should have also spent a night in jail I've spent a night in the hospital. Yeah, so big tip. Don't go to either. They're not good places to be Yeah, but if you're gonna go to jail, he's do it for something awesome that didn't hurt anyone All right, all right, let's see In the middle of a minute Connecticut on which we were not at for the first time in like 10 God that more than 10 years too many years we So we went to Connecticut on for a decade plus and we ran the entire panels department like this entire goddamn floor for the better part of a decade and We passed the torch. We couldn't do it anymore. We weren't there this year I still want to go to Harper's far away. Yeah, it's a perfectly good summer weekend I do want to return to Connecticut on to do panels again because I actually really like doing panels at Connecticut But I cannot commit to taking vacation days to doing Connecticut anymore. There's just too many packs is We we do a lot of packs is that really adds up like I can't even deal with packs dev every year anymore So for the first time in more than 10 years, we didn't go to Connecticut I'm apparently went fine and we may return to do some panels next year But the next convention we will be performing at will be packs West the real packs the convention Like if if we had to drop every other convention we go to this is the last one we would drop I think the only thing that will stop us from being at packs West every year is us dying So what happened someday? We will be there doing a panel. We've done before first rim or packs West I'm pretty sure you're gonna die before me, but I'm not sure if packs will die before I'm gonna bet on that. I am confident you will die before me You want to bet you want to put you want to put some money in like an estate escrow? Yes, because if I die, I don't give a shit about money So that's the only way I'll lose the bet is if I'm dead You want to have a tanteen and both put in a thousand dollars wherever dies first The other person gets it with and all the interest no because then I lose a thousand dollars now Well, I'm alive you can take but if you're confident that I'm gonna die before you you're gonna get a thousand dollars plus a high yield Investment on that that means I lose a thousand dollars no matter what I need to basically lose no money And then if I die I still lose nothing, but if you died then I get money So what you should do is you should buy life insurance on yourself for me I have a substantial life insurance, but it's not going to you That's not fair if you If you give me a thousand dollars, I will also get I'll get like a million dollars for you, too I'm sure because I'm confident. I'm I'm pretty confident. You won't just murder me for the money Hmm a million you say yeah, I'm pretty sure you won't murder me for that. Hmm pretty confident Also pretty confident. You're gonna die before me anyway. I wouldn't have to go to work though. I Am so confident you're gonna die before me. Hmm, but I digress anyone who knows anything about poison Let me know at least one of the panels we're doing at Peck's West is the 40 tabletop games You must play which we did in the past. We've done versions of this in other cons. We did it once We've done it twice. Oh, no. Yeah, but we've tweaked it a few times I'm gonna tweak it a bunch more. I got some ideas about it But the the reason we're doing it here as a repeat as opposed to doing a brand new panel as much as I wanted to Do a brand new panel. Maybe we'll still do another brand new panel stay tuned, but We're actually doing this one in the streaming theater for oh my god So it's gonna live stream on PAX's twitch We got it. We got a very bad time slot. It's the very first panel on Monday morning Yeah, when nobody cares, but we're in the official PAX one of the official PAX streaming room So on one of the two or more, I don't know how many PAX streaming twitch channels You will be able to see this panel. There's the only things that stream our main theater and the two big Panel room, so there's three channels. There's three channels. So we're probably on I imagine I think we're PAX two We're on the third channel. We're either PAX two or PAX three. Okay, we'll have details later But that does mean we're gonna up the production value of the panel a little bit and based on the feedback from the last Two times we ran it it will be different in some ways But parts of it are not gonna change because they're perfect like I'm not gonna take Dune off the list There's a lot to say about Dune So, uh, yeah, stay tuned and Otherwise hopefully we'll see you at PAX unplugged PAX South magfest Yeah, I put out a new episode of anime judging we judge the summer anime All of it. We reviewed it all before it came out. So if you want to know what anime to watch I'm pretty sure we're right about all these shows You trust someone with just going based on gut instinct and almost no knowledge I'm actually feeling a lot of the shows like if you watch it. It's minor spoiler We're gonna give a lot of these shows a couple episodes Like we're gonna watch a few of them more so than we have said we'll watch from any season hither, too And the book club book is the Odyssey and I should be able to finish it by Thursday Yeah, I said the Kindle says I only have like a few hours left so I can read well Oh, I didn't read any the last weekend because I was busy It says I can only have a few hours so I can just read it before I go to bed Usually overestimates like usually when it says three hours it means I'll try to burn through it tonight and tomorrow I forget how many hours it said but it's single. I'll try to burn through as I'm ready So there's so most likely Thursday. We'll talk about the Odyssey. So read the fucking Odyssey It's a really important story What's your name Emily Wilson? Yeah also follow her on Twitter because when she talks about the Odyssey on Twitter, holy shit Is it great? All right And if you live anywhere in like the New York area and you are a biker or even if you're not a biker But you bike sometimes like if you could bike 10 or 20 miles But if you can bike you can bike 10 or 20. Yeah, you just don't think you can but you totally can yes Especially you're like really older and firmer have a problem But you could bike 10 or 20 miles where there's like rest stops Cars like following everyone to help you out if there's a problem You have many hours to do it right even if you go slow as balls, right as slow as my mom You will make 20 something miles in like what 10 hours, but you'll make it So this weekend the Harlan Valley Railroad is Super goddamn fun. There are tons of bike rides all over the place, right? Especially around New York that all over the country But me Scott and Emily will be at this one right there's tons of organized bike rides But this one of the many you know that I've done this one. It was the most luxurious and awesome So there is a 23 33 45 57 to 70 to 80 and two different hundred mile routes We're just gonna camp in this field on Saturday than on Sunday We're gonna do the ride. It's gonna be awesome. So if you want to go to this thing We'll be there. We got nothing to do on Saturday, but dick around in upstate New York in this park Maybe play some games Maybe go swimming at the lake there. Yep. Hang out with some cows and some horses. It's gonna be a good time We'll be there so pub G So pub G came out. It was a big deal. It's a real good thing that pub G didn't come out when we were in college Yes, I didn't pay a lot You know, I didn't play it right away because it was like this early access game that was getting huge It was number one on steam. It was the biggest deal ever and I just didn't get into it because I was 50 bucks And I didn't have time to get into it. I was busy Yeah, it was it was I wanted to play it and it's a money wasn't even an object It was just I knew I did not have time to commit to it because pub G the best way to describe it If you don't know anything about player unknown battlegrounds It's the hard more. It's the hard mode version of fortnight, right? Even though really fortnight is the ripoff tf2 of pub G right But if you don't know it's an FPS and the way it works is a whole bunch of people get thrown onto a map Which is a giant giant map between 90 and 100 people It's an island Yeah, and you basically go around collecting, you know armor weapons ammo vehicles whatever you need And then when you meet people you fucking murder them or be murdered by them And the last person alive is the winner and they get the chicken dinner. Yep So here's the deal the maps just like battle royale the movie only with less people more people So the the things that the important points about this game or that one This is an old school fps. This is one of those games old school What do you mean old school then? Is quake where everything's fast, right? This is not the that's not the aspect of old school because there were slow FPSs back then too, right? But those fpf like the old fps like that were like maps were mazes So here i'll clarify. This is one of those. This is a military fan. I'll clarify. This is this is Arma This is old school mod type fps is because old school mods of fps is Like those quake one and quake two mods and make a tf and all that nonsense They were Characterized by having a million fucking buttons. You could bind to a million different complicated things. This doesn't have that many It yeah does you just don't know about this is just a military fan boy fps You didn't even know you could hold your breath people cared about realistic weapon stuff and you know actual instead of a hit scan bullets, they're actually like ballistic and they have to they but it's a game where you can start playing but Eventually you'll you're gonna start looking up the keys to hit to do complicated things You didn't even know you could do like change how the sights work on a gun Yep, uh, like you can hold you can bind a key like you can crouch you can lay prone You can crawl you can lean. I don't lean yet. I feel like I should start leaning leaning is pretty important Yeah, I don't lean at all. It's a problem It's got melee. It's got all sorts of nonsense. There's a lot of buttons and a lot of stuff to Learn before you can actually be good at it at all like so on one hand It's like counter-strike semi realistic weapons and like super dead like one bullet will pretty much just take you out Sort of it has this that's one of the it's weird great because Fundamentally right and if you look at the big picture of this game, right? I love it and I knew I would right which is why I played it when it went on sale after we and especially You know the seeing the the maker the creator of the game at the packs east kino reaffirmed like all right Yes, everything I thought about this game was correct. I would know was great He's really smart and he talked a lot about like why he made this game Right, but so on the big picture of the game everything is like totally awesome, right? You parachute onto this island the parachuting is way fun. It's one of the only things i'm okay Especially because like you I only mess up after the parachute really far away from the plane But then you look around and you're like oh good i'm by myself Or sometimes you're parachuting and you see like a bunch of other people parachuting to the same spot I've been playing squad only. I stopped playing by myself. I like all by myself as lame I like playing by myself. I also like playing with squads Self is lame anyway, but then right you you go around and collect stuff and it's all like you're exploring this map It's all kinds of fun. You're collecting loot. You're you know getting better weapons Reload configuring your guns, you know, that's way fun. Especially. It's like this. It's big It's like it's so big you got this like for example one of the maps that desert map like If you don't get a car like you just can't get to the other side of the map No, it's too far away Not only is it big but like you go into a building this building said like multiple stories with like tons of rooms in them It's like yes Like I love it like it's it's hyper realistic just one building in this game will be as big as like a whole counter strike Yeah, so Imagine like that that feeling alone is really fun like this giant Tribes tribes isn't even big. So you look at the map. You're thinking about your strategy like Should I go head head toward that? Should I go head for that city? Uh, there's probably a lot of people there. Maybe I'll just cut through the woods here There though. Yeah, I'll cut through the woods. I won't find any loot But this is a weird remote part of the map. There's gonna be no one out here Or I'm literally just I land on this island by myself and get a jet ski and leave the island when I'm ready But anyway, so then there's a circle that appears and the circle is what makes it interesting Because there's only a few maps, right? One's the new one is like a small one. Well, the two and there's two things that are Important here. There's one. There's the circle and there's the random plane route, right? Well, the yeah, so the the The the flight that everyone jumps off of with a parachute is different every time And it's hard to fly far away from the plane in your parachute So people start in generally along that line. So the map starts you look at the map There's a hundred people with you on the plane and you decide when are you going to jump off the plane? And when you're on the plane, you'll see like a seating chart And you'll see people disappear as they jump off the plane Yeah, like it goes over the military base a million people jump out the starting distribution of players is different every time It's more dense along the line more dense in the in the cities with lots of loot And then there's a circle that appears once you're on the ground And if you're outside that circle when the time runs out Then it these this electric fence that's like virtual electric fence will come in And if you're outside of that circle when the fence comes in you start taking damage and eventually die The circle appears in a random location And then it gets smaller and smaller and smaller at intervals And those inner those smaller center of each one of those is also in a random location within the current circle Yeah, so basically the game is different every time even though It's on the same enormous map because a the map is enormous b You're starting in a different place and c the circles are different which shows like as the game goes on It's like all right Well the game is ending this time like in the water or on a bridge And then this this time the game is like everyone's you know coalescing around this building or this You know this uh, this you know, maybe big city the game ends on or just in the woods is what happens most of the time Right or this rock formation and that really changes how the game goes Based on the terrain that everyone's being forced into or at least the survivors are forced to yeah Now at close and moderate range like in a firefight It's very counter-strikey in terms of the skills. Yep, but the firefight because counter-strike as a game Starts at the point the firefight broke out basically So you're already really close to someone like even if you just spawn in counter-strike and you're both at your spawn points You are hella close Yeah, if you're that close in pub g like you're gonna die like pub g is a game We're like you're walking through the woods. You hear one gunshot in the distance. You're like Uh, where's that? Yep. What's going on? Someone's nearby. Hey, they'll be here soon Like you hear a bunch of gunfire and like some people play like scavengers Like they hear a bunch of gunfire and this are creeping in to catch someone looting like that There's a lot of dynamics, but the real strategy in the game come down more to things like real world overland movement and like really realistic Tactics seeing someone else before they say you matters way more than your counter-strike head clicking skills Yep I mean, you know people will do stuff like they'll they'll stay inside the wall as it comes in and then they'll aim Outwards. Yep. And because they know I've gotten a lot of kills by being along a road They know that people are coming from that city and if because they're they have to run that those people didn't make it to the Circle in time They're coming in from that general direction will shoot them as they come in my favorite thing that ever happened is There was another strategy is oh, we know people are gonna camp there to shoot people as they come in Let's go shoot them Yep, or in the back because they're looking outward There's a fire watch tower up there and it's in a good spot I'm pretty sure someone's camping up there doing what we just described Let's toss a little grenade up there and I hear it explode and someone's just dead good game Yeah, there are how many times I've been like in a building and I'm pretty sure no one knows I'm in here As I haven't moved or made any noise. Yep a grenade comes in the window. It's like well All right, so Do I attempt to run revealing that I'm in here and then go out run out the front door where I will be shot Or do I like try to sit here and survive the grenade Still make no noise even if I survived the grenade I'm now damaged and they come in and shoot me Even though maybe I can get some shots on them that way. It's like, you know, it's like that kind of thing Yep, so it means the game is really more about things like literally managing your time a grenade and throw it back I've no idea. I don't in kind It's pretty rare that I get a grenade thrown at me So I haven't really interacted with them in that level that happened to me a lot when I would just camp in houses Now that I run around it doesn't happen as much But so that like threat assessment like you're driving along the road and you see some houses up in the distance like You got to think about what if someone's in that building? Will they do anything to me? Do they care or they just because they're just just as afraid of me as I am of them probably Well, if they're good, they're yeah, it depends, but I feel like the good players are going around hunting everyone And aren't afraid at all. Yeah, but I'm basically afraid of everybody I'm trying to hunt people more and I'm having fun with that I've been playing in squads more because then when I get in a squad with good people, uh, they carry me But you're thinking of things like So I got to get inside the circle. Where do I go? Like you're pulling off the map if you're playing with a squad Usually like someone's got the map up like and picking waypoints like all right. We're gonna head here. We're gonna head here Well, someone else is like covering you that's the team stuff is so fun You can put waypoints on the map and then your friends can see that on their map and you can sort of You know communicate really nicely So let's talk about that. There's there's a couple there's a few ways to play There's a third person mode, but fuck that noise. No, don't play third person I've heard the third person is like the the the way to win But at least they keep the third people their third person perspective people separate from the first person Yeah, I tried it's not fun. It just feels really I didn't even try it. It's really not fun I'm only an fps person But so you can play solo which is fun in its own way. It's just 100 people last man standing wins. I think is more funny if you're actually good Yeah, it's also very it's very unnerving because you're just alone But it's also a good. It's a good way to learn sort of basic skills like I didn't learn a lot doing solo because I just died and but when I played in a team people could tell me stuff And would give me pointers. I just read some wikis I started playing solo and I started getting like I'm not saying I'm good But I can usually make it to the last 10 or 15. Oh, I can make it to the last But not but I make it there. I don't just hide and then get killed very far by hiding I kill a few people along the way and I take risks. I take a lot of risks Because the game's not fun if you don't take risks No, yeah, I mean, what do you want? You're playing a game and what do you do? You spend your time crouched in the closet and then you die that the trouble is what did you just do for 20 minutes? When I'm getting really close to the end like one time like that was that fun There are only five other people left alive and the circle is getting real small So I was in the second story of a building that was right on the edge of the circle I just hit up there prone I was fucking gonna move and I was just gonna hope and hope and grenade came into the window Yep, that was the end of me. That's how it was in a camp in a building. Grenade comes in the window Nope, but you can also play two-player like duo squad where you can do two people You can do three four two people is the default Scott and I stream two people That's pretty fun because it's very like you like you can do basic simple tactics like I'll cover the windows on this building while you go in or I'll look at the map while you're covering me Like that kind of stuff before people is really where it's at It's it's just great to have four people, you know, you don't get outnumbered by some bigger squad Yep four people is I've only played four people a few times. It's real fun. I play four people the most Once I realized you don't actually need I thought at first I thought you needed to bring three friends Oh, no, you can join you can just join a random group of four people once I learned that that's all I do Yep, but it's four people is especially fun when you play with friends Because four people like you could you're on voice chat and you're just playing a game when you play with friends Or you randomly get put with people actually good But I actually was worried I'd get put with like shitheads from the internet, but that actually hasn't happened Uh, I think a big part of it. I've usually been with like good people. I haven't had any awful experiences But then again, I'm a dude. Yeah, that is true But I have noticed I think part of that is that there is a pretty high barrier to entry for this game Like imagine if you've never played like counter strike or like those kinds of games And you've never played those army like super realistic games And you've only ever played like call of duty. You're fucked if you try to play this game Yeah, like you're not gonna have a good time. So, I mean, you know, the it's not necessarily A negative but the only negative things I see in this game is simply that a I don't like the military You know realism stuff. I do a lot. I I just like I like more I don't want it to be so, uh, simple and arcadey like it's team fortress too But I like the counter strike level of the way weapons work where I don't want to have to adjust the sides and worry about this Ballistic shit. It's like if I click on someone, I should shoot them, right? It's like come on So I like that realism. I mean, I understand it. I understand that other people like it It's just a matter of taste. Well, I would argue. Here's the main reason is not my preference Here's the reason why it needs to be that way in counter strike the sniper rifles were Way too dangerous and the only reason they worked is because you can't get that far away from people I think it would be cool if they just a counter strike style awm in this game Where you could just click and it'll always kill the person. I think it would be cool. Just don't have sniper rifles Scopes you can see but no guns that are actually any accurate at that range No, I like the fact that sniper rifles exist because sniping like you can interact with this game in very different ways But you can't necessarily specialize because Every game is so different that even if you get one a snipe like sniping is really fun Or interacting with snipers is really fun Like sometimes like a sniper takes a pot shot at me and misses and then it's a game of Me trying to figure out where the hell they are figure out where they are Serpentine get out of sight like get over a ridge and then it's not like now. I got to go kill them It's well. I got away from the sniper. Good luck. Have fun sniper. I will probably never encounter you again You know this stuff going on there, but you know, I just you know, the the realistic weapon Shit is not for me. It's a military fan boys. Yeah, but I also like so there's what there's so much of this game Like vehicles because the maps are so vehicles are just fine So you can literally like getting a car and drive it around with your friends or like a jet ski There's all like there's so many different vehicles. The other thing is like the inventory stuff It's like it's all right You need to have some amount of inventory thing because part of the game is about going and getting loot and like upgrading your weapons and stuff Right, but you know, it's a it's just like the complexity of it is just like one smidge too much Right to where it's like, oh, you got to have the right bullets for that gun I like that though And then you have to remember which bullets go with the witch gun They don't help you know because if you're holding a wet if you're holding a weapon if you have one Then it shows the silhouette of the weapon when you look at the thing on the ground It's not it's it's still It helps you a little bit. I can't I don't even know that because and I've been playing it for yeah See I like I don't even know what the hell I don't like what gun do I'm even holding right? It's like you have to be a military fanboy to know Oh, I'm holding the Tell m4 apart from an m16 and know what kind of ammo they take Uh, so if you don't know that stuff, which is weird that I know some of that stuff The easy way is if it shows the silhouette pick it up one of your guns uses it Yes, I don't even notice but anyway the point is but I like that element because here's a counterpoint You can't pause the game. It's PUBG. It's live. You're just going So like the real world imagine if you literally were teleported like jumped out of a plane naked Into a town you've never been to ran into a house You hear gunfire outside and on the ground is a pile of guns and bullets you gotta Really balance your time between Carefully picking up the right things you want versus grab a bunch of shit get somewhere safe figure it out later I like that aspect a lot. I've been killed a couple times Fucking around in my inventory when I thought I was safe. Yeah, that happens often, right? I do like you know getting killed fucking around your inventory or watching someone else kill someone Wait for them to go loot the body. There is no way you can keep that aspect without Of oh my god, I'm fucking around inventory while I have a shot Without having to be a military fan boy and know which ammo goes with which gun But you don't need to the game literally just tells you it's not super elegant I think it actually is I'm really surprised you didn't notice that it's not super elegant or obvious I think the way that it is actually pretty elegant because it keeps the realism But it gives you very clear You can use this get rid of the realism fuck realism But I don't give a shit about yeah, you're just you just want to be some fortnight kid is what you want No, I don't that's too stupid a game. I need to be counter strike level We're just I've you know, let me pick up the ammo like quake where I shouldn't have to touch When was the last time you played counter strike? Uh At least a year ago. Yeah, you want to play counter strike. No, I still play counter strike But I want to play counter strike where I parachute out of a big plane Onto a giant map and then I play counter strike and only one person survives Yeah, anyway, I like I like PUBG a lot. Yeah. No, it's great So here's the other things that are important about this game because of all the factors we talked about Irrespective of scott's complaints about the military fanboys. It's not it's just I don't it's you know It's not bad. They do a good job of it. It's just that's not for me But I still play the game because all the other parts are all like everything's pretty tight and there's A lot of complexity that you don't have to engage with if you really don't want to Like well, you're not gonna win if you don't you'll do well, but I'm not gonna win it I'm not gonna win anyway. So it doesn't matter, but I guess it's a game Where losing and winning are pretty much equally fun Once you get above the point of you just die immediately and don't know why naked in the wilderness Like when you get past that point losing at this game is actually super fun Yeah, I don't really don't give a shit about like I've never won and I don't really care Right, it's like in counter strike if you just keep losing and losing and losing Eventually you want to quit and find a different team and pub g I expect to lose I lose and I don't care But I just keep playing the the emergent stories the emergent gameplay the narratives of winning and losing like this game Is such a triumph in that regard like literally every game of this I play is completely different from every other It has at least one story to where like if I'm hanging out with people who have also played pub g I can tell the story and it's usually funny or interesting in some way and Not many games can generate that consistent level of interesting stories I mean the only games that don't really have much of a story are the ones where you Land in the hotbed area and die right away. Yeah, or occasionally But if you I've landed in the hotbed area and not died right away, and then a good game happens Yep And the other thing is like you be playing and then you won't even realize like you just playing and playing and playing You're lucky. Oh, shit. There's only 10 people and then it's like, oh my god Look how small that fucking circle is you don't even realize that like you are now entering the danger zone Or because you're like like I had one game where it just so happened That The circle was basically following me. So I was basically always in the center of the circle That circle is what even though you're on the same map doing the same exact thing with you over and over again The random circle or the random plane flight change the game So much every time is completely different and it's like relative to where you happen to land, right? It's like Even though you know you get different circle every time but your landing spot is different Maybe the circle keeps focusing on you. You don't move around a lot that game You just sort of chill out Yeah, but you load up with like close-range weapons and you hold up somewhere that grenades can't get into the window Some other game you play the circle appears real far away from you And now your whole game is like this journey to get over there without dying Now your game is like, oh, fuck. I need a car Like you see a car coming down the road and like brigands You try to like fucking kill the people in the car and steal it Right your car can run out of gas. You got to get more gas for it So I was this was like one of the most fun I ever had I was playing solo And I was in the big desert map and like the circle just started on the Like I started on the edge of the map and the circle was the opposite side Like I'm fucked. There's no cars or anything near me And then a car from a little bit even further away to the north comes driving by on the road And I see the car coming and I take some potshots and rather than just ignore me Dude stops and gets out of the car Why so and he comes after me So I just sneak out of the building and like sneak all the way around and get to the car And I see why he got out of it. It was mostly out of gas I had a gas can I filled it up I drove away and just as I get in the car and started driving away I hear a machine gun open up and the dude is in the window of the building Clearly panicking because the fact that I got his car means there's no way he will make it to the circle And I basically killed him That was so fun like the bullets are bouncing off the back of the car and I'm just trying to get away And I totally got away crazy shit like that happens is like epic stories Like every single time you play and live for more than 10 seconds. Yep, which is why You know, it's like, all right, I'll put up with some military fanboys and for that I tend to live it's not the most extreme military fanboys in my obscene So if you if you're okay at the game games last between 10 and 20 minutes Like that's about how long you're in there. Yep Uh, if you're when your first start anything is you don't have to chill out while the game finishes You can just leave and join a new one. Yep. Basically when you die You have two options You can either start spectating and like watch the person you killed you and see if they make it Because I did that a couple times or watch the rest of your team if they're still alive Yep It's real satisfying when like you get killed and it feels salty about it But then you see that the first new killed who killed you Is like a super expert who goes on to win the entire thing and you were just one of many That they took out or you can watch the death cam and it shows All the context that led up to your death Like the person who killed you and it's way earlier in the timeline than you might expect I think it's like 30 seconds before you died. Yeah, it's something it's some amount of time It shows the person who killed you for their perspective for like x seconds up until the point you died It's pretty cool. So like literally like one of the ones I watch is I see this guy like fucking around in his inventory and like just sticking around in this house And then he hears a gunshot That's me because I fired a shot at something and then you see him like look And then creep over to the window and like lean and he sees naked rims stay like off in the distance And then he like leans again And he keeps like lean lean like looking and when he's confident that I don't know he's there Then he very very carefully like gets his gun out Fucks with his sight aims at my head like holds his breath and just headshots me And I didn't see any that rid as far as I was concerned. It was naked rim is walking through the woods and no one knows he's there It's such a fun game. It's definitely Do not buy it unless you Think you'll have enough time to play it though Yeah, like you have to basically like I don't there are other games I have that I'm playing like every day But like pub g I can only play like if it's now I have hours to sit down and play games right now And I'm no one's here and I got nothing to do it's game time If you have time like that where it's game time Yep, or you're gonna make it a thing at least once a week then you can buy this game But otherwise don't also the game has uh micro transactions you loot crate shit cosmetic just ignore them It's a hundred percent cosmetic so I am buying absolutely none of it I think there was actually you know, I twitch prime you get all this free stuff There's like a dead mouse pub g thing you can get for free right now I'm not even getting that free loot crate that I get for free. Maybe I'll get it and not open it For now, even though it's disadvantaged. I'm just being naked. I didn't even put on the default clothes Yeah, I'm using the default clothes and I'll never use non-default clothes Uh, and that's just how it's gonna be. I'm gonna commit to being naked I'll see how much how much pub g money I can accrue and never spend because it's someday if I ever win a match It'll be that fucking naked guy. Do you get more pub g money if you win is I don't even know how it works Uh, I don't know. I never I speaking. I forgot one awesome thing about this game Uh, we built two awesome things about the game number one This is red circle that appears in the map sometime Oh, yeah, and just bombs fall out of the sky if you're in that red circle And you're not in a building bombs and shit fall out of the sky So you kind of want to not go in the red circles and it sort of creates interesting player movements, right? You know, uh, you know, especially it tends to it's I was in a game where the red circle appeared over a city So me and the rando squad everyone starts running out of the yeah We camped outside the city and they got flushed out by the bombs. We killed like four people. It was awesome Uh, the other thing is that there's this sometimes the airplane comes and drops a crate When the airplane drops a crate it parachutes down It's a red box and then smoke comes out of it That red crate is full of the best loot like level three armors level three helmets guns You can't get anywhere else. It's also a giant sign saying hey Nobs are going to run toward this thing and be very easy to kill, right? So like there have been you think oh scott who's not good at the game It never will be would never go anywhere near a deadly crate But actually there've been like two or three times where like I've been on a team the crate just lands near us like Yep, or the crate lands kind of near us And then we go and camp and see if anyone goes for it and then shoot at them It's like the crate is like it creates like these events Of awesomeness that happen in these individual places if you're not in the center of the action Suddenly, uh-huh. Here's a hot spot of action near this crate full of loot So, uh You know it it mixes it up and I wish they would I think the game could actually do with like just only one just one more Thing that could happen on the map besides the red circle in the crate Just like a third thing that would be four would be too many But just like a third special event that could happen on the map randomly Just to stir things up a little bit, you know, yeah, there's some weathery stuff Like there's stuff like that the weather happen is different every time the weather moves along But the weather only matters a little bit It depends like in a rainstorm people can't hear you like it's you can you can book it fog You know one can see you Anyway, but yeah, it's a it's a good old fps. We're gonna I'm gonna keep playing it semi regularly for a long time I think yeah, I mean, I don't think it's going anywhere. It's still super popular Yeah, it's like a weekend thing or like an evening thing like I'll play overwatch every day But I'll play this like every weekend at least All right, that was a good show