 Yeah. So I figured out how to use the, uh, like the, I didn't pay for the, uh, the log profile on the GH five, whatever, because it costs extra money. Yeah. But it comes with a synod profile and I had that lot from that guy. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. So I tried to actually use it and it works great, but I learned something. What'd you learn to install it in premier? You got to basically put these files in these folders that are really hidden ways. Yeah. It's a pain in the ass. Like program files, Adobe, premiere, the technical, let creative something, right? You got to pull these files down there, right? It's way easier to install like templates and other kinds of things. You just put these files in a folder, right? So then when I go to render, I'm looking at the render preview and it's all like gray and black and white and shiny. And I'm like, I'm like, what the fuck's up with that? Apparently you also have to put the files in Adobe media encoder. The same files. Adobe media encoder has its own separate set of folders that are the same folders. Because Adobe media encoders its own thing, but you it's like, couldn't this set of folders just be shared among all your creative for whatever reason, they're maintaining Adobe media control as its own thing, the encoder, despite the fact that the vast majority of people only use it out of premier after a set of folders that contains templates, fonts, you know, whatever kinds of plot should all be just one set of folders that's shared among all the creative cloud. I don't get it. All right. Anyway, it totally worked and it looks good. The only thing is the lighting is still bad because it's coming in from the side. Yeah. But I, you know, I brightened it up as much as I could. Well, we can play around more with all the footage from a review con. There won't be in a hurry. Well, you have to put in order for it to work. You have to put certain settings on the camera in advance. Yeah, I remember when you recorded about how to do that stuff. So it's like I had to set settings on the camera in advance like minus this and plus that and, you know, yeah, and then it'll apply properly for good colors. But if you don't do that, if you just choose like standard, then it's like, well, you don't need a color grading because you already got it. Yep. You're letting the camera do it. Of course, actually, I was looking for the review con stuff. This has a mode that a lot of people use that's really good for that kind of thing where it basically makes the colors a little like it instead of since like the opposite of cinema. And I saw a couple of people talking about it's really good if you're capturing a lot of 2D surfaces with like text and designs on them and you want that stuff to really pop, which for board games. Anyway, it doesn't have to be super high quality. Let's just do the show because I want to be done. Oh, wow, for once we had someone join and then leave. Smart. Never seen that happen before. Wisdom. All right. It's Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018. I'm rim. I'm Scott and this is Geek Nights tonight. We're talking about middle manager, Tony Gawa. Oh, they're back. I figured I figured out the relationship and why we were confusing Akagi and Kaiji. I saw that too. And I actually found a thread that was like, should I watch Akagi or Kaiji? I learned the difference. Yep. They're both about gambling, but Akagi is the mahjong only. And my Akagi is actually a spin off of his different. Yeah, that's what I that's the problem because I never heard of before. I vaguely thought that Akagi was a spin off from Kaiji, but no, it's a spin off from yet a third thing. Right. Kaiji is its own thing and it's everything. It's just games gambling. Right. And then middle managers spin off that. I want to see the Kaiji Akagi crossover crossed over with initial D2. They're playing on the back of a truck that Takumi's driving. All right. An open a bit. Do I have a kind of one? I guess I might have something. What am I doing in my life? Going to London and look about that. You can go first, whatever yours is. Anyway, go for it. So I don't know if you got this email. Which one? I actually I got a couple of emails I was thinking about talking about on the show, the one from city bike. Oh, no, I got an email from G kids. Oh, okay. No. So like about a week ago, I say, oh, no, wait, I got an email from city bike too. Oh, okay. I noticed like, Hey, where the fuck did all the city bikes go? The docks are empty. And then someone else posted on the internet like, Hey, are there any city bikes? And I'm like, no, Astoria is barren. There's like no bikes here. What the? Oh, that's no, because the email I got was like, yo, we saw that you canceled your city bike a while ago. You want to start it up again? Oh, no, not okay. I get a free from work. So then right after we're discussing in that thread, like, yeah, there's no fucking city bikes anywhere. They've been gone for like two days. I get an email from city bike. All right. And I think there's coincidence that people started discussing it on the internet right before the email came. But the email was like, yeah, there was some issue with like the handlebars or something on a lot of the bike. So we took them out of service. Oh, the thing where the like droop. I don't know what it is, but they, it wasn't very explicit. It was very vague in what the, what the problem was. It must have been at least a little bit dangerous because that's the only reason they would recall the city bike. Yes. But basically they're apologizing that there's no bikes. And even now I biked here on my bike just now because I knew there weren't any outside because the app told me. Actually, now that I think about it, if there's not a lot of city bikes, that really fucks up the commute of a lot of people I work with. And a lot of people were way late the last few days. It fucks up a lot. So that, so on my way here on my bike, because I knew there weren't any city bikes outside, I passed by one, maybe five city bike docs and I saw one city bike. All the, all the docs are empty. Also, the last time we did a podcast on Monday and I was leaving here, I go over to grab one to go home and I go over to the bridge where the dock is and it's empty. And someone comes down the bridge of the city bike and jams it in there and I'm like, oh, yes, I'm grabbing that. And it's one of the, it's one of the E ones. Oh, I have not yet tried one of those. It was one of the pedal assist ones, which I also have not yet tried. So I wasn't, I wanted to go try it and I go over there and that motherfucker pushed the red repair light and I was like, you motherfucker, you just wrote this down the bridge safely. If the bike works, do not push the button, especially at an empty dock where there's none in service. You only push the red button. If the bike is on your ride, you should have punched him right. He was already gone. I didn't, you know, you only push the repair button, which takes the bike out of service. If the bike is literally unsafe to ride or impossible to ride. If like the brakes were a little weak or squeaky or if the gear shifter is a little messed up, but it's still, you know, you can still pedal and go. Even if you stuck in one gear, right? If it has a flat tire, you push the button. Yeah. If the brakes don't work, you push the button, right? Otherwise, if like, if that battery was dead and it's like, don't push the button, what's wrong with people, especially when there's enough bikes in service? You know, I imagine the average person doesn't think about like they, the idea of considering how many bikes are at the dock, they're dropping off. Even when there's plenty of bikes, that's the policy for pushing the button. No, if there's plenty of bikes, if there's anything wrong with the bike, I hit that button. No, I don't hit it because otherwise they'll never fix the bike. I don't know. I hit it when it's actually like beyond, you know, it was even a little annoying. I'll hit the button. Then you hit the button on every single city bike. Just go down the whole dock, put down a city bike that worked fine. And in fact, the brakes actually stopped the city bike like reliably, which I have not experienced before. Usually those brakes are just, I don't know. The brakes usually work. Usually the shifter that's an issue. The thing is, I don't really need city bikes still because I can park my bike inside my building in a really nice bike parking lot. No, I use it for things like I'm going to go ride the subway, but I can go to the subway. Yeah. Well, that's it. Because I live next to the subway. I use it for things like, oh, I can just go over to, you know, like you could use it, for example, to go down to LIC and eat it, say Casa Enrique. I just bike there with my regular bike. No one's stealing a bike in Queens. I'm just saying, you know, though actually what I would use it for is to bike to other nearby subways like the E. It's also good. You know, that's the kind of thing you use it for. Yeah. At work, but I want to eat lunch somewhere slightly far away from work. It could be done. So in some other will meta will probably not even meta will probably skip next Thursday's show because I'm just kind of Emily and I are randomly going to London to dick around. Oh, speaking of which, I'm going to a tropical island on a tropical island from the week of October hanging with the hula dance. The week of October 20s through the week that has all 20s in it in October. So there won't be any podcasts rubbing it on my body or rubbing it on my body. There won't be any podcasts on what is this? The there'll be some days with no podcast coming up because we're both traveling at different times. I'm not sure which days it is. Yeah, I don't, I barely remember. It's a, it's a Tuesday, Thursday week, the 23rd to 25th. I won't be here. One thing I can say that's funny is that the more I travel, like as I travel more and more and more in my life, not only do I plan travel later and worry about it less, but I roll into the airport like right before my flight. I basically plan nothing. My plan is go to the, I got a plane. I got a hotel. I'm going to go to the tropical island. Yep. I'm going to lay on the beach. I don't need any plans. I assume there'll be food there that I can find once I'm there. Yep. I don't need my phone even to work. London is the same deal. Like I know my way around like central London better than I know my way around Brooklyn. So I don't need, what do I need? You know, I don't need anything there. The hotel will provide a beach. It has a beach on it. It has food. It has a bed, a shower. No, my planning was basically bring a book with me. We should just go somewhere that weekend. And I just went on kayak and I was like, I love Paris. And then I looked and it is way more expensive to fly to Paris right now than I'm used to. I don't know why. Like way more tropical islands cheap. Yeah. But for whatever reason, it's way cheap to fly to London right now. So hey, that works. My mom went to London now. What's she doing there? Just hanging out? Hanging out. Yeah. Is she like central London? Like where is she? I don't know. You don't know? What do I know about London? This is a big band and it's a castle. What do I know about diamonds? It's you know, fancy taxis that are black. They call the subway the underground. Yep. Their subway is very. They talk funny. London and Paris the only cities I've been to where the subway is like the New York subway. Paris way more so than London. It's not 24 seven. Paris is is parts of it at least. Paris is the closest to New York. London is real close, but yeah, it doesn't run at night. And the central line is a bunch of weird construction. Like the last time I went, the station I normally use to like get from Paddington to where I'm going was just closed. And because I don't live there, it's not like I get their equivalent of the MTA notifications. It's not like I'm getting the thing that says, yo, the station's closed on this day. Actually really notify UK that you can get. I guess but like I have the notify NYC app that's like, yo, helicopter is coming. Yo, there's a flood. Yo, it's, you know, well, I use the MTA three or three one one app, but 99% of what I do with it is get people's cars towed for parking in the bike lane. You get the notify NYC app. Yeah, I think I got that too. I got the notification today. The funny thing is when we get the flood warnings, like everyone's phone goes off at once with this thing. It like rolled across the office for about 20 minutes like back and forth. And almost no one knew it was happening. Like no one knew what it was, except not read news. I guess not. The only people who knew it was coming were the people who pay attention to politics and the young people. All the non young people who don't pay attention to politics had no idea. And the funniest thing was everyone coming out of like the elevator, like I was leaving. I was like, everyone who came out of buildings later, it just went off. Like I guess their phone wasn't getting signal until they came to the ground floor. So yeah, it's a Wednesday. So in the news, it looks like there's a, this is perhaps the epitome of too little too late. Well, I don't know what the deal is here. So they're going to make a movie somehow based on Dance Dance Revolution. Konami's money is behind it. Who fucking remembers DDR, but us, the 20th anniversary of DDR. So that has something to do with it. They're actually, they did some cool stuff like the new DDR machines have a mode in them apparently that they added for the anniversary that lets you load up the menus and stuff. And stuff. So it looks like the old mixes. That actually gets me really excited. It does. So as much as I make fun, even though DDR is kind of dead, I just really want to play DDR right now. Yeah, why not? But the point is they're making some movie that seems really, really dumb. Somehow I've seen DDR appear in movies. Well, we saw it appear in Wasabi. I've seen it appear on TV shows and comics and all sorts of other mediums, but I've never seen something that was about DDR. That seems really dumb. Yep. I mean, the best case scenario, the best possible case scenario is like initial D. The only way to make a movie about DDR that would be good would be to make a documentary about DDR champions. I'll bet you could make a movie that was the aesthetic and style of initial D, but just about DDR like that could work. You could do it about all rhythm games, but not just DDR. Not enough to do just DDR. Not enough to work with. You got Takumi, the kid who just sits at the arcade. The kid who's really good at DDR, but doesn't like DDR doesn't even like no one knows you. He only he's dead. He works at the bowling alley and he plays DDR at night when he's doing maintenance. The kid who's actually like, you know, the head boss, he's legendary at DDR, but you never see him do any moves. That's Ken's game. Right. And then what? You got the guy who got the best DDR shoes. There's no other guy. The guy who does the matrix and breaks the machine and like cuts his arm. The guy who's all style and personality. They tape the dude's arms to the bar and come on. I feel like that you'd have to go crazy with it for it to be good. I feel like this is going to be a gem in the holograms. The movie situation. I just, I DDR is kind of dead. Like even at the cons, like at magfest, there really aren't as a minor resurgence right now, but not. It's not a resurgence among the people. It's a resurgence in that the people who are into it have it more than they used to because they're actually putting some machines over here in places and updating them. But meanwhile, if you go to certain places in the U.S. now, there are new machines that are updated and hooked up to the score system. And that's how I think we talked about this before, how the world champion of DDR was from America like last year or the year before, I forget. But meanwhile, step mania has kind of gotten worse. Like there's not more people into it, but the people were into it. It's like it's getting, they're getting a little bit more support than they used to. But in all the cons where they're quote unquote DDR machines, like magfest used to have like a bunch of legit DDR machines, all different mixes. It's all these kind of shitty laggy bootleggy machines now. And I'm really curious like what, like how come there are no DDR machines older than extreme? Did like all of them just like, did all the third, fourth, fifth mixes in the world just like get updated to, you know, they can get updated all the way. Third, fourth, fifth, I'm not going to get into it, but I'm saying I think there are several generations of machines, but I'm saying, right, but I'm saying like it seems like all the machines of a certain generation were updated. Like, are there any fourth mix plus machines in the world anywhere on earth? There was one of the machines at magfest this past year was a was clearly a fourth mix plus machine, but it had some bootleg bullshit inside of it. Like it was not the DDR hardware. I'm saying is there a fourth mix plus machine that's actually running fourth mix plus in its original form? I have to imagine if on earth anywhere. If there's one anywhere? Or have all of those because there were many, there were thousands or hundreds of machines. Well, I feel like they got bought by people who then took them home and modded them and that's where they live now. I don't know. There might be one in Japan. If there's one anywhere it might be still at the pup hut. I don't know. That was a regular fourth mix, not a plus. I know, I know. So in some other news, Anime Fest and New York Comic Con are this weekend and thank Satan that I'm not going. I think I've skipped what's the last seven years of this nonsense. I went the first year. I didn't go to it. I walked past it to see what the deal was and there was a big mega line and it was a disaster. It was a shit show. It was a failure. The second year I went to it just one night to go in and see one person and say hi and just look around and then I left. Well, we got free badges every year until we just stopped actually went to it. Like we went to it for like one day when the Anime Fest was there and we had a panel. Oh, no, when we went to it also the next morning to see a Makoto Shinkai's movie that wasn't good. Yep. And then none of the member. There was the other name of the movie and then there was the interview with him and we were just going to see the panel we were in the room and literally no media were there. So I just filmed the whole thing myself and my video is the only video of it. And then I don't remember. I went to a bunch of I haven't been to it in many, many years. I went to more of them and did panels without you. And I used to get me and Emily used to get professional badges every year. But there was increasingly just no reason even when I did go to it. I usually went to it for a day. Like honestly, New York Comic Con is now in the class of conventions that are the anti pattern for how to run a fun, enjoyable, engaging convention for people like us. It's basically San Diego Comic Con but worse. But it's in the United States. But it's in New York. The other one's in Diego's also in the United States. So we've talked about how they added the anime fest back to it. But sort of like with like five asterisks next to what I just said, it's in a different location, not accessible by any form of transportation. That's weird and far away and cause extra. There is no way the anime fest thing is going to succeed. Like I am confident no one's going to go to this thing. I don't know. I don't know. But there are actually a lot of events happening around it that are. Oh yeah, that's so that email that I got from not all like there's some like this individual specific things that I've seen people excited for. For example, there is a panel. There's a someone's they're making an official baby metal graphic novel that will supposedly reveal the very, you know, secretive lore to some extent. And the person who made this graphic novel has doing a panel and people are like, Oh shit, we got to send in questions. We got to do a live stream. Like they're organized around this one panel. There's also going to be like some sort of a whole bunch of like anime, idol J pop kind of concert situation going on. Yep. You know, there's certain like individual events that on their own are like, Whoa, that's pretty great. But as a whole, the event seems like not so good. Yep. Yeah, that G kids email. There's basically there's some sort of like G kids party at some venue, like over on 38th street the night before and I got an invite to it for some reason. Go have fun. No, I'm not going to review con. Okay. So yeah, but the news is not that we've talked about all this before. Like there's a we don't go to this kind of con because they're not it's not for us. It's not fun. But what we used to say is that we could take the seven train from our houses to this con and we still don't bother going. Well, the time that we that's how long ago was we went to it. There was no seven seven seven train. It did not go there. When the last time I went to the New York Comic Con, I had to walk there from like 34th street. But now the seven train goes to the Javits and I don't go there anymore. But yeah, the seven train this weekend is not running. It's being replaced by a shuttle bus. Yep. So there's no way to get to New York Comic Con except a bus. Well, it's just like it was in the old days. Yeah. Even worse, a lot of the people who come to New York Comic Con come from outside of the city for like one day, like half a day. Like take a metro north, drive in and park. Kind of like how I said, I didn't mean to parking near the Javits though. Like, yeah, not that much though, pay for it. But also a lot of people take the train in and remember I said earlier that I got kind of fucked in London that like Lancaster Gate station was closed. I didn't get a notification because I don't live in London. A lot of people think they're going to go from Grand Central on the seven train to this con and they're going to get told to go ride a weird bus that's going to be stuck in traffic. They're going to go in down into the station. There's going to be MTA people there. There's going to the stairs are going to be roped off. They won't be able to go down there. Yep. And someone's going to say, go upstairs. Use a shot of free shuttle bus. And that free shuttle bus is going to arrive at Grand Central from Queens already full and you're not going to be able to get on it. This is MTA. So MTA New York City Transit. Yeah. Please go upstairs. The seven train is not running in any direction. Please go outside to the corner of whatever street. So there won't be a subway that goes to New York Comic Con and there won't be any fucking city bikes to get there. You're not caught riding your city biking in cosplay unless you're biking as a yo petal. I was about saying unless you're cosplaying a biking in cosplay as yo petal. So yeah. I just think that's really funny. That's enough news. Close my thing a day again. Oh yeah, the door. Oh yeah. Pat in the chat says apparently the vendor that used to bring all the good DDR machines just doesn't come anymore. At MagFest. Okay. We should we should get that. Who are they? Can we contact them? I wonder if we could get the vendor who does it. I mean this person has DDR machines in storage somewhere presumably or an arcade. What about the vendor who does Connecticut? We should just go to the Tokyo attack. Yeah. They do go to MagFest I think. And they don't have that you know. Yeah. The point is get me the contact info for that person who owns DDR machines so that I can go to where they are. I don't need them to bring the machines to me. I got money now. I could just buy a DDR machine. Where are you going to put it? That's the problem. You can't have money and live in New York and have room for a DDR machine unless I turn this room into the DDR room. Let's buy a tiny house to upstate and just put a DDR machine in it. The tiny house will have like a bedroom. A store. A garage. Yep. A piece of grass. And a DDR machine. A DDR machine. And an air hockey table. A kitchen and a big storage hut. And a regular regulation photo on air hockey table. That's right. It'll just be a party house only. The Connecticut vendor was the guy. Damn it. Okay. Anyway. Isn't it Tokyo attack? Maybe. There's another one. I don't remember. Pretty sure Tokyo attack is the one that brings everything to Connecticut. Yeah. It's Tokyo attack not go to MagFest now. I should see who does it. It's pretty sure they do. I think they also go to Zenkaikon. So whatever. But those Tokyo attack doesn't have the old good DDR machines. They have new ones. But anyway. Things of the day. So I was watching a bunch of YouTube videos and it's funny to say that someone stepped up their game when their game is already so high. But I was always a fan of Captain Disillusion. Well he's like a you know he's a video. If you don't know this guy. He's like a video master. So like he's basically so meta on YouTube because he makes YouTube videos. But he is a video master and his vid his videos he makes are about videos on YouTube. Yeah. Right. He'll be like basically finds videos that have you know weird stuff happening and then he sort of debunks them and he's like he's like yeah you think that this person's turning invisible. How they do that. I'll show you exactly how they did it. Here's how you do it. Look so you can tell us a tripod here and look at this and look at that. And here's the pixels. There's this mask. So he has stepped up his game from its already amazing game in a big way. Like I but I was just clicking through like I clicked on one of his random videos. I was just clicking around in it like like what's the deal with this one because it looked like a pretty cool thing and I was curious like how he debunks this and what the deal was because I've never heard of it. But then I noticed something when I clicked on a random frame in this video that I hadn't actually watched the thing. What thing the Sentinel from RIT was a background. Okay. So I was like wait wait wait wait wait what the what what what. So I had to back up. You realize for us the so the set if you don't know at RIT the college we went to while we were there they built the thing they built they spent a bunch of money that didn't come from student money. It came from some and some donations. Yeah so we couldn't we complained about it but we couldn't really complain. I mean whoever donated the money why'd you donate it for a statue instead of for a fucking no I like that. I do like the statue. Whatever you know but the but I like making fun of the statue as well. They built this giant statue that's sort of vaguely in the shape of a knight with a lance that not really though but it's and all the pieces of it look like rusty metal. We're purpose. It's somewhat abstract. You know it's an acquired taste the statue but it was a big deal because we were there and they put it in but realize though that like for students now it's just there. It's just it's an accepted like thing they don't realize that like they don't have that experience as a sign situation. It's like for us. It's like the quad. There was like the infant spinning infinity thing. We just accepted it that it was there. It was like some new thing to complain about. Yep. So I just saw the thing. Also it's enormous. You don't realize how big this thing is. It's big for scale. There's a person standing next to it. I think it's like four or five stories tall. Maybe it is huge. It's really it's as big as like an apartment building is tall. So I watched this video and the videos like so apparently there's a viral video I just never noticed about this asherian stairwell that did it like it looked like an MC asher thing if you walked in it and apparently it was in building seven and I was like what? I don't remember this fucking thing. There's nothing like that in building seven and of course it was a hoax perpetrated by RIT students at RIT. So here you go. So Dr. Disillusion was just he's debunking some RIT students who thought they were too clever. Yep and it's good because this now intersects RIT and Captain Disillusion. So you're unfamiliar with either of two of those two things. My thing of the day is for you. I don't understand why 2,000 people disliked this video. RIT students. Because I was like building seven. There is nothing like that in building seven because I broke into building seven and explored the entire thing in the middle of the night multiple times. I worked in building seven. Yeah. Building seven was the building that was open at night and you could bust into and wander around. There were weird. Art students had to do art. Yeah and there were there were weird that like building seven had the most weird areas. Because it was like two combined buildings. Yep it had like all these balconies that weren't accessible to students that you could kind of get out onto and anyway what do you got? Oh so it's just a tweet but in the tweet is a video and the tweet has a joke in it but the joke is you know for machine learning people. Yeah. The point is the video is awesome whether you understand the joke or not if you understand the joke that's great if not the video is this door on I think but it looks like a barn or some sort of looks like a garage something like that. There's a car in there. It is an awesome fucking door. If we get the house to put a DDR machine in we should have only doors like this. So the only problem with this door and the reason I think about it is because remember the marble machine the guy's making the new machine which by the way it's getting close to completion so I'm gonna get ready to buy tickets. Yeah. To the New York. The guy's awesome. Okay. When the winter gotten guy is like super cute and super funny like it's very good videos to watch and I saw one of my engineers watching one of his videos while he was coding today. That's why I was thinking about him but he made a point because he's making the machine he has this stuff and he starts talking about how someone on the internet pointed out that a part of the machine he had designed would very easily if he wasn't paying attention literally crush his entire foot flat. So I'm looking at this door this door is guaranteed to crush someone's finger completely. I think the main problem with the door is that it is not ADA compliant. ADA compliant it will crush you that will destroy your finger. I think it's you can only open the door if you have like an arm and you can stand and move to the side I think that's the problem with the door. There's also no ramp here there's multiple ADA problems. The good part about the door is that once you open it you don't have to like you never have to hold the door open you don't need a door stop you don't need anything like that right you can you open the door it's open that's just a portal. You can open the door a little bit and close it it's closed. Yeah but it does and it's cool and like opening the door. It will provide you joy whenever you enter or leave the space in the meta moment. The Gingnow's Book Club book is apparently still Homer's Odyssey. It is not. I was still not updated the one thing that I plan to do today that I didn't do because I was busy editing a judge anime by its cover winter 2018 which is now rendering and I'll upload it when I get home. So yes if you don't remember I'm uploading it. I will update the website of frontware crew dot com to say that the current book club book is not Homer's Odyssey but is instead our DC Clark's Space Odyssey 2001. So judge anime by its cover a link to the playlist we've done this a bunch of times. The new one is just about to go out. We review every coming season of anime before it comes out based solely on the information on any charts and we're pretty accurate about the quality of these shows and whether or not they're worth watching. Other meta we already talked about what shows we are and aren't doing in the near future because it trips to London and tropical islands. We are going to go to packs unplugged which is soon the schedule just went up today. I didn't look at it yet. We are doing learn and win Puerto Rico and we're doing the 40 tabletop games you must play. We are not going to New York Comic Con this weekend but you are going to our friend Mads House. We're going to play a shit ton of board games and live stream them. So pay attention to twitch YouTube channels that belong to us. Who knows which one we're going to use. You should know them all anyway. Look at our if you just follow our twitters we'll all tweet. You know not only links to the streams but also who wins and loses and other things while it's the second review. We're going to play board tabletop games literally all fucking weekend long. But the point of review con is that we play these games with experts. All of us like we're all experts at tabletop and then we load up on games for us to review on Tuesday shows going into the future and we're going to help that game. We're going to get commentary from the other people. So it's not just going to be Roman Scott doing normal gig nights episode. We're actually going to get the commentary from the other experts. We're going to play some weird games and they will have a lot to talk about. Also are we going to go to anime NYC or not. Nah. Nah. I just didn't really go to it for one day. We could go to it for one day but we're not going to do a panel at it. Not because why didn't submit anything because I realized they have a policy around like they had this really big thing in their panel thing around you can't show like do you do you have permission like written permission for clips and stuff like that you want to include in your panel. All our good anime content involves showing stuff and I didn't want to go to that hassle. Okay. Because the only other anime content we have is that doesn't involve that is really good but it's really stale like we haven't written a new anime panel like that because I've got an anime boss. Yeah and five plus years. How many should tickets cost for one day of anime. I have no idea. I want to take a look at when is it. I have no idea. Okay. We have so many packs to deal with plus magfest that and Zenka con at least for me that I just don't have like I'm running out of room to deal with cons and my NYC which is not the thing that's happening in conjunction with with the New York Comic Con this weekend is a different anime con though it's also in the Javits is on November 16th through 18th order by October 15th to get your tickets mail. Oh we can still order them get a mail. Yeah. How much are they. Let's see who even knows. Anyway I don't know what conventions cost anymore. A mega ticket not some bullshit right there. Sunday ticket 40 bucks. That ain't bad. Maybe we'll see. We'll see. So we watch an anime and we're going to review it and before we get into that we need to point out that Akagi and Kaiji are not the same thing. Right. So who's the creator of this. What's the guy's name. Oh God. I don't remember. Wikipedia brand. So this is a person who made these manga and this anime based on two of these mangas and or three it may be three anyway three. So first they made one I forget what it's called because no one's ever talks about it. Yeah. But there was a spin off of this manga they created. It was it was a manga about mahjong. There was a spin off called Akagi which is also about mahjong and that Akagi became an anime and that's when I first heard of it because I saw this Akagi mahjong anime. Then there was a brand new thing unrelated to the first things called Kaiji which I confused with Akagi but I knew that it was related because I had the same exact art style. It was clearly by the same creator the animes and the mangas look the same. I thought it was also about mahjong. It's not Kaiji is about gambling in general and not just about mahjong. Yep. And because I vaguely knew that like Akagi was a spin off or something and we got these things confused until just now. Yep. Apparently most of the internet also confuses and conflates them for what I can tell. Right. Anyway there was a spin off of Kaiji that we judged last season on judging by its cover called Tonagawa middle manager or whatever. Yeah. There's a lot of different English titles for the Chronicles of Middle Manager to Konagawa Middle Management Blues. So here's the deal in Kaiji from I've never watched Kaiji but in middle manager they give you basically summaries of what happened in Kaiji. So you can sort of figure out what the deal is. It seems like what happened in Kaiji is an evil company. Right. Yep. And the boss of this evil company was the most evil head boss person and he's bored and he's bored. So he got his employees to create this ridiculous gambling game of death and Kaiji the main character of Kaiji got involved in this horrible gambling game of death and that game existed to entertain the big evil guy in charge of the company. Yep. And like the second boss like the sub-boss of the show was this Tonagawa guy who was like the second in command. The second in command was this guy named Tonagawa who did most of the work setting up this evil game of death. So what is Tonagawa's middle manager. It's a completely separate anime that shows you how Tonagawa the middle manager second in command of the evil company whose boss is the head boss. He's basically the vice president. Tonagawa is the vice president. It shows you how the main character is the second in command guy. It shows you the story of how he created the game of death which I presume is the main plot of Kaiji itself. And it's literally like he's thinking about going to golf and he's like a middle manager like doing HR paperwork or whatever and then the big boss is like yeah I need you to make a game of death for me. So it ruins his weekend and his job like he gets a team together and it's literally just like board meetings and HR shit and like how do I put this together. And office jokes like Dilbert. Yep. But at the same time like even though he's also a bad guy he's also terrified of his insane boss. Yep. But he's also trying to keep his you know the people below him under control. But he's also trying to be like he's trying to be like good manager. Right. He's he's trying he's like you know his boss is a crazy bad evil dude everyone's scared of right. But he is like trying to learn the names of all his subordinates so that he can gain their loyalties that it was actually really funny and they all have names that like are too similar to each other and he's going crazy but he's also trying hard to actually remember them and gain their trust but you know it's like they hate him they like him he's trying to make you know he takes them to a barbecue to try to make them like him so that they'll come up with good ideas. He accepts all their ideas but then when the boss comes in he has to you know berate them all. Now it's pretty funny and I watched a bunch of it. We're not going to finish it. I only watched like three episodes. I watched like seven but basically it's pretty funny. Like it's worth watching a few episodes especially like the first couple when he's trying to learn everyone's names is actually really funny. That's the funniest part. But as the as it goes on I guess the problem is you don't actually have need to seen Akagi Kaiji at all. Right. It gives you these flashbacks and some reason what happened in Kaiji. In like excruciating detail. Like literally the the beginning of the first episode is like this very long summary of what happened in Kaiji. At least I assume I don't know if there are other things happening in Kaiji that they're not summarizing because I didn't watch Kaiji. Yeah. But I feel like I don't need to watch Kaiji now because I got a cliff notes of it. Right. Yup. Because it does spoil stuff like it tells you what happens to him in the end. But on the other hand I don't even though it summarized the events of Kaiji I don't care about Kaiji or the events of Kaiji. So so many of the jokes are referencing or basically tied to the story of Kaiji that it's like oh here's how they came up with that particular game of death that happened in Kaiji is like I don't care about Kaiji because like maybe if I had seen Kaiji it would be funnier. Oh my god the scene when they're that's the other really good scene in the early episodes where they're they're workshopping like high level ideas for games of death and one of the guys is like what do you say something like what if we make him play poker but they're betting their own blood and that was actually a really good idea. All right. Anyway the point is if think if you've seen Kaiji and like Kaiji a lot of the jokes in this show will hit harder. I you don't have to have seen Kaiji to watch this show but I think you will because you care less it will be less funny and they'll be less tying you to it. Now in one way the concept is really solid take a not really a deconstruction but take any of those anime that have an evil organization with lots and lots of faceless goons that's like always ever present and hyper organized and and look at it from the back and explore how would you organize like these thousands of goons to be the bad guys in the anime. Right it's like usually when you watch a typical you know show right that's an action show whatever where there's good guys and bad guys you see the mostly focusing on the good guys and a few scenes of the bad guys that you know what they're up to. But like the thousands of just faceless dudes in sunglasses who get shot in noir right like who who organized them what if you're watching them Thundercats but they show but it was mostly what are the mutants up to when the Thundercats are just dicking around and you know there's not a fight going on. That's one thing He-Man did well. He-Man spent equal time on Skeletar. Oh right but imagine if the show was just like you know Skeletar on all all the days when they're not fighting with He-Man when he's like preparing to fight you know what? What? You know like Starscream just you know chilling with some energon cubes or whatever. And I really like that concept and the show pulls it off okay but there's a fundamental problem that makes like there's a poor part aspect of the execution in that it'll make really good jokes but then it'll go way out of its way to explain the joke to make sure you've got the joke to double reinforce what the joke is referencing and it like it almost the jokes are funny but it spent it over it really brings them out too much and just drags everything out too far. Right that funny joke about the the getting trying to memorize the names of all the employees it's like that goes on for like minutes it's like it was funny and now why you still it's like someone just keeps telling the joke like hey why the chicken crossed the road to get the other side to get the other side get it? And I guess why did the chicken cross the road to get to the side you get it? And on one hand why the chicken crossed the road for like two minutes someone just keeps going on it's like it was funny the first time but why are you still telling the joke again? Now on one hand it's clearly parodying the style of Kaiji like it'll come to someone who's thinking like well if I do this then he'll do that so therefore lots of internal monologue which is good. Yep I like that. A bit of you know it's just the timing of it well that's it. Things are stretched out too long right? And there is zero comedic timing. The timing of the comedy is just wrong. It's like the joke is perfectly good and it's just there's no timing whatsoever. Yep it's like the literal opposite of Nietzsche Joe where the jokes are very simple or absurdist or often completely nonsensical but the comedic timing of Nietzsche Joe is so perfect and this completely fails to execute at any point on the timing and cadence of a joke only the content of the joke is conveyed and that's the fundamental flaw of this and I feel like it's a common problem in almost all of these parody anime that I've seen. I feel like what the show would have been way better. The show would have been way better if it was a short show. Devilman parody. Like a domingo dobuzu and they were forced to squish it because they're trying to fill this full episode length I think that's the reason that I don't I think it feels like they didn't have enough material to work with they had to stretch it out. Yeah. Or they could have just crammed two episodes into one and told more stuff. Yeah. That could have worked also. Or they could have or you know what they could have done too is if they'd aimed it at the audience of people who have already seen Kaiji and our fans. I think they did but it's like they aimed it at them but they tried to make it so that anyone could watch it. It's like they should have given up on the people who haven't seen Kaiji. Because at least like remember that like mini that devil man parody thing that we watched a long time ago. Like all those other weird parody anime they tend to do the opposite and they don't explain. Shit. Yeah. Those I think there's a Fist of the North Star like working in a grocery store one where they're all chibi or something and they didn't explain nothing which was fine but even then as someone who's seen all Fist of the North Star I couldn't even watch it also it wasn't funny. Yeah. Well that's the thing that that show the content wasn't funny and the execution wasn't good. This show the content is great and the jokes are great. It's just the comedic timing falls so flat that it really kills the momentum and it's hard to keep watching. You know it is funny what's that the chibi Lotto scores one. Oh the Lotto's Island. Lotto's Island. That stuff. Also mini Pato but there's not a lot of mini Pato. Yeah mini Pato really relies on having seen Pat Labor though. Yeah it does. Like if you haven't seen Pat Labor you're just like what. If you haven't seen Pat Labor why would you even think about watching Middleman when you can go watch Pat Labor which is itself has a lot of comedy in it even though it is not a comedy. But I guess what I would say I'd recommend watching one episode of this partly because then you'll see what the deal is and you'll see like kind of what the deal is with Kaiji and it'll tell you if you like either or both. I would recommend watching Kaiji see if it's see if it's a thing you like watch one or two episodes of it. If it is good if not then don't watch anything ever don't watch any of it ever again. But if you do like Kaiji well you can finish watching Kaiji and then if you need some humor that will probably you know not be as lost on you you can then watch the middle manager and maybe even watch Akagi or who knows what anything else created by what's the person's name. Oh I didn't even pull it out pull it up. No I'll look it up because we should you know give credit to be the person Paul Chapman wrote the article I got up here. Okay let me get the person's name Nobuyuki Fukumoto that's the person who wrote wow lots of stuff but it seems a lot of it is a gambling apocalypse Kaiji gambling magric chronicle Kaiji gambling admin chronicle Kaiji gambling admin chronicle Kaiji kazi art yeah okay a very prolific uh gambling manga writer all right I think we did a show