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Top 10 Greatest Games of All Time (Revised), or: The Return of the Low Five Goats
Luke has a running bit where he gives Alex a hard time for declaring any game he enjoys as deserving of a spot in his top ten best games of all time. Well, the two finally sat down and declared their official lists. There are some spicy takes!
In this episode, Alex and Luke revisit their Greatest Games of All Time lists, making some surprising revisions. Tune in for updated picks, spirited debates, and fresh takes on the best games ever made.
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all right and welcome, dude to an extra special summer edition of some Summer SideQuest. And how you doing, boss?
Speaker 2:Pow, pow, pow, pow, Pow, pow, pow pow. Super Summer SideQuest yeah.
Speaker 1:AKA. We suck at games these days. So we're like half done with fucking Control and Ace Tite. But you know scheduling and we like to drink a few brews and then talk about other cool things that we would do, so we're gonna do one of those this time. It's gonna be a good time this is true, man.
Speaker 2:We are about halfway through control. It's been cool, but, just like with disco elysium, I feel like it's uh, it makes more sense to roll the credits on that one instead of giving our our hot takes halfway through yeah, and I also know that without that carrot I won't finish the game.
Speaker 1:So I you know I could. I could give you some pretty solid thoughts on all sorts of things gameplay, vibe, just everything going on but uh, it would be better to finish it and uh understand what's going on indeed, lo-fi boys, rolling credits again yeah, we'll catch a stride eventually here. You know, when we pick like kiddie games that take two hours again kiddie games come on, I just meant like short. You know what?
Speaker 2:fuck it I take nothing.
Speaker 1:This man has no respect for the game boy I didn't even mean it like that, but as soon as I said it I was like, oh man, he's gonna be all butthurt about his niche game boy aesthetic, which is fine. Um, but yes. First off, I've been teasing this in private chats for like a year, but I do not feel great about my top 10 of all time and Alex has like seven more games that he wants to enter into his top 10.
Speaker 1:The top 10 low five goats yes, we did this For the avid listener that would have been maybe 2022, end of 2021.
Speaker 2:It's been a while since we refreshed the list list.
Speaker 1:I want to say it was at the end of 22 and we released it at the very beginning of 23. That feels right okay, yeah and uh, spoiler I don't think any game I've played since has entered. Maybe if I was a ballers gate 3 boy, or if I was, uh, manly enough or, you know, just generally courageous enough to play Elden Ring, perhaps that would have cracked it.
Speaker 2:I've got some shakeups to my list.
Speaker 1:Oh, you do. Okay, well, first off, I'm going to go, I'm just going to, I'm going to list mine.
Speaker 2:Right on.
Speaker 1:And I want you to list yours. So number one I had the greatest game of all time, not Tetris. Show me yours and then I'll show you mine. Mm Breath of the wild. Number one all time. Um, ocarina of time. Number two mildly controversial, not really, uh. Number three I have civ six. Number four scrimmin skyrim. I have replayed that. I feel great about that since listing this on there. I didn't feel great at the time but I feel very, very strongly. Number five red dead, redemption two, right on. Number six ncaa football 14 coming back this, uh, this month. Baby, oh boy, very excited for that. Very ignorant. Number seven skate two. Very specifically has to be skate two, but the whole franchise slapped. Number eight smash brawl, gamecube brawl. Huh, nostalgia, middle school. Everything's the coolest in middle school and high school. When you remember it, you know the bands were the best then, the food was the best then. All those things were always the best then.
Speaker 2:Number nine melee dude brawl on the uh, the wii elevator music smash brawl.
Speaker 1:Release date 2008 um gamecube bitch keep it all right, so it was melee.
Speaker 2:Hmm, which one's mainly on?
Speaker 1:uh, the wii right, we fucking guy. All right, number nine, uh, knights of the old republic, and then number 10 at the time felt pretty sheepish to do it, hades oh word yes, all right. Do you want to hear my revisions of my thoughts or I want you to run through those real quick, just like run through the list.
Speaker 1:Just be smarter about it yeah, all right breath of the wild ocarina of time. Civ 6 skyrim, red dead, redemption 2, ncaa football 14, skate 2, smash brawl on the GameCube Knights of the Old Republic, and then Hades.
Speaker 2:Solid list bro.
Speaker 1:I agree, perhaps the 10 greatest games of all time, some would say, in this basement right now.
Speaker 2:Low Five Goats. Right there Luke's Low Five Goats.
Speaker 1:The goat of Low Five's goats. Get the hell out of here you are the goat of his goats.
Speaker 2:Now let's go down over to my list. You ready instantly sullied continue all right, I'm gonna go, should we?
Speaker 1:I'll just go top to bottom, like you did yeah, I see the appeal of the reverse rank now you mention it, but you know what? So here we go coming on uncut, just like us.
Speaker 2:Coming out hot, just getting it over with Ocarina of time. Ocarina of time for the Ocarina folks, ocarina of time for me. Number one, number one game of all time. You know what that's, what number one means. This is how it's going to be. Yep, number two, I've you want to applaud.
Speaker 1:I just don't want to acknowledge I was just hoping to move on as quickly as possible.
Speaker 2:I have a note about that one.
Speaker 1:I don't know what this is.
Speaker 2:Number three Link's Awakening Okay. Number four Witcher. 3. Number five Red Dead Redemption. 2. Number six, grand Theft Auto, vice City. Number seven, super Mario Bros. 3. Number eight, metroid Fusion, theft auto, vice city. Number seven, super mario bros three. Number eight, metroid fusion. Number nine dead cells. And number 10, age of empires two.
Speaker 1:I wish I knew how to make like the little noise that when you click on the settlers, which I know how to make that noise. Yeah, I think that's the house, but anyway, what's up though?
Speaker 2:I think we just gotta michael bumpus this and say that tetris is the greatest game of all time and therefore I don't need to include it on my list. Shout out to dave of tales from the backlog and a top three podcast that he does top three, they got there. Basically, I think they call the michael bumpus and that is greatest all time.
Speaker 1:Everybody acknowledges it, so you don't include it on your list I mean, I think the part I can agree with is that you could leave it off your list, but I think to say that it's the greatest of all time. I mean, it's like dude, it's the perfect game. It's inherently a video game, but I also feel like it's like putting mancala up there or something fucking lame dude mancala's, not even.
Speaker 2:It doesn't even touch tetris, tetris bro. I was playing tetris effect last night.
Speaker 1:Dude bro, tetris tetris slaps anyways, you want to put solitaire up there, then no, spider solitaire. Maybe these are not comparable. Maybe minesweeper, these are not comparable. I mean, they're kind of in the same neighborhood. You can put pac-man in there you know, whatever works for you.
Speaker 2:Pac-man kind of dope, though, bro yeah, do than Tetris, but I'm just saying like it's not true.
Speaker 1:It's like putting peanut butter and jelly is your favorite foods. Like, yeah, I've smashed a trillion peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but is it a top 10 food of all time? No, that's not comparable.
Speaker 2:You're just around. It's super comparable dude, no.
Speaker 1:It's like.
Speaker 2:It's like a nail on the head Dude like nail on the head dude. This is a podcast between me and you. I wish we had some other homies here right now so they could all tell you how out of pocket you are right now I mean it depends like are they all 40 and above?
Speaker 1:because then, and then you have a bunch of support but like no, give me dude, that detroit champion right now is a kid everyone 35 and below, and we're like get out of here, grandpa dude not to side with the zoomers, but like damn dude. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what you can text the show. You can text the show. It's a thing.
Speaker 1:Now you go in the show notes, there's a link shoot us a text and you let us know if tetris is goat or not and I'll say the carrier pigeon to alex and he will receive it, because that's how tetris people communicate with one another it'll come through.
Speaker 2:Let us know also apparently un-american.
Speaker 1:You fucking communist dude.
Speaker 2:And if you agree, dude, we didn't you watch that movie on apple tv?
Speaker 1:no, I didn't watch. We stole that shit from the russians. Well that's, that's cool. I dig that, but it's the only part I like um, yes, tetris not gonna leave.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna take it off my list, not to appease you, but to make room for other games for more more content, because Tetris should just be the GOAT.
Speaker 1:Anyways, moving on.
Speaker 2:I'm going to do you a favor and remove it from the list for whatever reason you need in your mind.
Speaker 1:Can you put Breath of the Wild on your list now?
Speaker 2:It's possible. It's possible, but I'm going to remove Tetris. I'm dropping that from my list as a favor to you. So it can have its place in its holy wherever and the Michael.
Speaker 1:Butt Kiss, Hall of Fame of bad games. It's like the chef's kiss but a butt's kiss.
Speaker 2:Excellent joke, nailed it.
Speaker 1:Keep it in.
Speaker 2:I'm getting rid of it, so that's going to give me some space, that's going to bump everything up, that's going to keep OOT at the top, that's going to bring Link's Awakening to number two and it's going to bring Witcher 3 to its rightful place.
Speaker 1:That was actually a big issue and I can't quite remember current recording. I really, really felt like you missed an opportunity to have it at number three.
Speaker 2:That's true, but now it is bro.
Speaker 1:I mean, mind you, I have Red Dead Redemption 2 at five and Civ 6 at three, so numbering only mattered when it wasn't for me. But Witcher 3 at number three Mine's not going to make Witcher 3 is not going to make my list, but I actually replayed it shortly after we made the pod and God, that came. So fucking good dude. Some things to mention someone call it a goat.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, and they should dude. It's sick like the monster hunting. The storytelling, uh, I think a critique that, like some of the story stuff is kind of whack is okay, but the side quest stuff is so good it's like I don't think a game's ever made better you play the dlc you know? No, because I replayed the whole thing and I was in that area. That's supposed to be like france.
Speaker 1:I'm blanking on the name right now yeah, um and I'm sure it's got like a fancy name blood and wine deals the blood and wine expansion is correct. Um, and it was really cool, it was just so much, I haven't finished. I probably got like five to ten hours into that maybe what's the other one?
Speaker 1:it's like the iron I, something iron well, that was like a big gwent heavy thing which kind of blows doesn't it, so I just wasn't but gwen on this my one remains breath of the wild, and I just want a small space that, uh, some people would probably replace breath of the wild with tears of the kingdom did you ever? Beat tears of the kingdom no, I didn't dude you're not the only person.
Speaker 1:I know a handful of people that, like, acknowledged the game was top tier and it just didn't click with them and I thought that was a little odd. I mean, I beat it, I put a ton of time into it, but even though I understand that it's a better like next level version of breath of the Wild, you just cannot capture what Breath of the Wild was in that moment of time. My level of obsession cannot be matched and Tears of the Kingdom was sick. But the obsession, the discovery and all that stuff in Breath of the Wild was just so top tier that even though Tears of the Kingdom did some of those creative shit in gaming ever I don know like, if I'm any other game developer, I'm like, god damn it, dude, like it's your favorite gamers favorite game.
Speaker 1:I would assume, or your favorite game developers favorite game. I bet right, right um, but I'm still keeping breath of the wild at top and tears of the kingdom.
Speaker 2:Sequels are always make my list. Sequels are always tricky, though, dude, because like it's a continuation of the perfect game, you know. So they're like it's a continuation of such a great game, so like, how do you make it stand alone? I do think they elevated that game to it, you know with ultra hand stuff was so crazy.
Speaker 1:It was cool.
Speaker 2:They changed up they changed it up, you know, and they really pushed the boundaries of what you could do on the switch. And then what you know, zelda, is I respect it breath of wild still better, and I, you know, actually I didn't beat breath of the wild for a long time on that one either, but I got right up to ganon and I just never finished because I didn't want it to be done yeah whereas with this one, I think I made it through three quarters of the way, I didn't even get all the way up to the final boss I think part of the problem with me too is that you had the underworld and then the sky islands and the underworld was.
Speaker 1:There was some moments down there, but I didn't want to discover every inch where the islands I kind of did, and then you can't match, like. I think that some of the greatest magic of the first game is the fact that discovering the map was so wild and having such built-in knowledge like kind of robbed you of that. In the second one. Uh, but I was so hard and how like horny to talk about that. I didn't even. What did you add to your list?
Speaker 1:yeah, so and does it slot all the way at the bottom?
Speaker 2:I'm actually gonna cut another game from the list. Oh wow, controversial.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna cut dead cells interesting great game I thought the introduction of castlevania to it would only put more wind in your sails. I haven't played that.
Speaker 2:DLC.
Speaker 1:That game is sick. You're kind of high on it at the moment. I thought it was impulsive at the moment.
Speaker 2:It was recency bias, for sure, and I have played it since we made our goat list and it is honestly I don't feel bad about originally putting it on there. It's a great fucking game.
Speaker 1:It's smooth too.
Speaker 2:You can pick it up, drop it, just it says that when you're talking goats, though I don't know, man, I just don't know if it's got that same power. So I'm gonna cut it. No, interestingly enough though, I'm not gonna. I'm going to, I'm not gonna put it something in its place, I'm gonna bump up. Age of empires 2 so that goes higher on the list now.
Speaker 2:So that's uh, so that's gonna bump age of Empires 2. So that goes higher on the list now. So that's going to bump Age of Empires up into 8. So I've got Ocarina of Time, blink's Awakening, witcher 3, red Dead Redemption 2, grand Theft Auto, vice City. I want to make another hot change on my list. This is a pure swap, though. You ready for it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Super Mario Bros 3 is Super Mario World.
Speaker 1:In my head for a second. I had them so interchangeable that that didn't even register for a second. But I like World better.
Speaker 2:See, at the time I can't remember which one we played, I don't know if we had played World before we made this list, though.
Speaker 1:That I don't remember, but we've never done 3 as part of the pod, so I don't have the same relationship with 3.
Speaker 2:3 is great and it is worthy of being a go-to game, but I am removing it for Super Mario World because we did, whether we played it before or after I made this initial list. I've had plenty of time to think about it and world should take the place of three. Three is fucking phenomenal and the reason that I have it on there is purely nostalgia. That's one of the first like Nintendo games ever played as a child, a very special place, and it's like, honestly like it is. It is worthy of being on this list, but I'm going to, I'm going to exchange it for world.
Speaker 1:I support it.
Speaker 2:Cool.
Speaker 1:God, can you edit out when I go?
Speaker 2:I cannot, oh man Gosh.
Speaker 1:Hopefully your music isn't up too much on your headphones. Lord have mercy, I'm not that heavy of a breather, guys. He gives me the bummy mic that makes me sound gross.
Speaker 2:The magic of editing. I get some of your mouth breathing out, bro. Not all of it, though. It has to be pure, they have to know. Super mario bros 3 at 6 now becomes super mario world. Then we got metroid fusion. Gonna keep it, I cut dead cells and I'm bumping up age of empires too. So that means I have two extra spots. Right am I am a 9 and 10 okay so what goes there?
Speaker 1:that's the question correct, I'm waiting here and focusing really hard on not breathing in the mic while I just wait here, awkwardly.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna bump up one of my honorable mentions and into the number nine spot and that's the sims bro it's hard not to have the sims somewhere.
Speaker 1:Which sims is it the original? Og?
Speaker 2:I'm going with the og or sims 2 I figured you'd sims to it sims 2 actually maybe makes more sense. I'm gonna go sims 2 the woohooing was much better. Yeah, totally sims one fucking great game. Sims 2 did elevate that shit enough. Sims 3, 4, etc. It just became it's a lot. It's still super cool, but like that was a sweet spot for me, uh, gaming ubiquity dude.
Speaker 1:As far as, like my wife, played a mad amount of sims as a kid, I just feel like the sims reached so many different levels of people and scratches such a specific itch. Sad time. Um, who's the developer? Um maxis no, I'm trying to think, well, yes, of the sims, yes, but um the people who make uh city skylines paradox, or something like that I'm not going to make it the council well for city skylines to know.
Speaker 1:Um, I'm talking about. They had a competitor for the sims that they're working on life by you or something like that. It looked pretty rad and I guess it bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, completely like controversially. So no, um, paradox, I think it's the people doing that. So I was actually excited for that because I feel like there's a certain, there's certain game franchises in my public personal opinion that really need to be like. They need that capitalism competition to like be better. Madden is a prime example. They own the exclusive rights EA does to do the licensing to the NFL, so no one else can really truly compete. So they get kind of lazy. Right, the Sims? I wouldn't say they get lazy, but that whole DLC structure, it's like thousands of dollars to have everything. So I'd love for someone to push them. So that was a bummer, a little anecdote to slip in there. So, all right, you added the Sims, pretty much the Sims 2.
Speaker 2:Right, we're going with Sims 2.
Speaker 1:And then what's your number? 10?.
Speaker 2:Or do you?
Speaker 1:have any fun Sims stories other than making me run around my fat ass around the block to help me get the cheats to?
Speaker 2:get money Fucking bitch. Hey man, I was just trying to make you healthy.
Speaker 1:Ellie cried you, piece of shit.
Speaker 2:But then she got the cheats, bro, after you felt guilty. Dude, here's Ellie's problem. She fucking gave it her full and sprinted around the block your ass like probably jogged.
Speaker 1:I jogged and I was like bitch. You know, this was enough.
Speaker 2:Oh man, Good stuff. Being the other brother is great. Yeah, I bet. Gotta have those moments. Uh, I would like to bump breath of wild onto my list, but I'm gonna keep it as an honorable mention because otherwise my list is just too zelda, heavy bro that's fair.
Speaker 1:That's fair. I felt. I felt silly looking back upon this having breath of the wild and then oot right next to each other and I was like don't care, but it looks a little silly.
Speaker 2:The game in my game, my number 10. And will it stay on there? Time will tell.
Speaker 1:I'm tempted to throw 2K up in this bitch but I'm not going to. I'm going to save the people. You were an NBA Live boy back in the day too, so you're not even being honest.
Speaker 2:That's true, but you true, but uh, you know all right also fuck 2k. They need some competition as well I think someone's working on it, but that's neither here nor there ea's been trying to revive nba live for years so I don't know, maybe someday the game I'm gonna bump into. My number 10 spot is celeste that one ain't gonna last either.
Speaker 1:This is the newest that sells, so it could be I'll see you in about a year or two. It could be.
Speaker 2:It's less is tight, but did you enjoy it or is it cool both?
Speaker 1:because I feel like it was really cool, but I didn't enjoy it, so both man, it's one of those games I'm more positive on it at that time yeah, yeah, in hindsight, I just wanted nothing to do with it again that was shit, but see that's uh.
Speaker 2:It like works that gamer piece of me where I really like the challenge of it. I loved dude like it was so difficult at times and like it drove me nuts.
Speaker 1:You know, I got a fuck ton of strawberries and I was like damn.
Speaker 2:Oh, your boy Ace. Ace dropped in how many strawberries I had.
Speaker 1:I was like Jesus, I fucking suck yeah. Yeah, Compared to me it was a child's play. I was like God damn. I think you and I were like super close.
Speaker 2:I think I barely he might've had this with Ned John yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then he crushed his both. I was like damn.
Speaker 2:So dude shouts out and it's tough. Man, I am going to go Celeste. I was going between Celeste and Disco. Disco is also some recency, biased Um.
Speaker 1:Disco. I mean both of them, but you're going to think about it a lot but both games have great replayability as well, so that's not totally true word, I just meant, like the impact of the game right, right.
Speaker 2:And the thing is is like the celeste story is not like it's. You can feed into the story. I think the story is great there. I would like the impact that it's had. Um, you know it's. It is an indie joint, but it's like one of those ones that's like surpassed, like it's. It's come out.
Speaker 2:It's about come out of this like it's bubbled up and became a huge thing right yeah, so that's still indie, but it has red general regard, right, right but I just think the the development of it and like how cool, like how they really have pushed the boundaries of like helping the player, even though it's a super tough game. I don't know it's got to be on there. Man, I'm making it the number 10. I'm dropping dead sales for it. All right, all right.
Speaker 1:I respect it.
Speaker 2:The number 10.
Speaker 1:I'm dropping dead cells for it, all right. All right, I respect it. The goats.
Speaker 2:The revised goats, bro, the revised goats. The goats part two Summer sampling side question goats.
Speaker 1:The summer shandy goats, all right. So I gave you a random blip of mine because I forgot how to like generally podcast and go back and forth BT BOT Dubs mine, because I forgot how to like generally podcast and go back and forth. Bt bot dubs oot one and two. Number three civ six. Feeling strong about that, stronger than ever, I'm actually um pretty excited for civ seven. I've been playing a lot of games just to scratch that specific itch. Uh, where it gets controversial is at four and five. I have Skyrim and Red Dead, redemption 2, and I'm really tempted to flip those.
Speaker 1:All right, because I have a feeling that the more I go back, like every five years, I have a feeling I'm just going to play Red Dead Redemption 2. You know what the fuck I mean? Like I guess you played it for your first time when we played it for the pod, but like how did I get you to do that in a month, by the way, I had a different life, dude like we need two, two fucking months to do fucking control, but back in the day, fucking mashed, fucking red dead.
Speaker 2:Redemption two in a month, putting in hours, I didn't have a baby, you know dude, I think I put more time into fishing and hunting than I have any other game on this list.
Speaker 1:Um, red red, red dead. Wow, red dead redemption 2 has so many flaws and yet, when you play the game again, all of that washes away, because they've just created the most beautiful simulation of all time, and like it's just crazy. The thing, though. The thing, though, the reason I don't think I'm gonna switch it after much consternation, is I've picked up scrim on the steam deck. I randomly did it when I had game pass. I've scrimmed at least two more times, all right, since my last scrim on the pod. So, like, you just pick, you just grip it and rip it. Man, you make an orc, you make an elf, you want to be sneaky, you want. It's just, the versatility is going to keep it. Uh, six. Ncaa football nostalgia still reigns strong. That'll remain. Skate two at seven. I'm fine with that. What I was thinking, though, is that, uh, it comes at nine. So brawl smash bros, still smash bros.
Speaker 1:Knights of the little republic I played it a ton as a kid. I loaded it up on the steam deck and instantly noped because of the controls, and maybe I just got to find out some community controls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude for sure but one.
Speaker 1:I only played it the once and I was really relying on nostalgia and how much I enjoyed it as a kid. And two, um, it's a game that I omitted. So here's a weird thing an honorable mention is gonna leap my number 10 so logically. It makes so no sense. Right that it didn't make it onto my list at all, and it's going to surpass 10,. 10 is Hades. I've played Hades since we recorded that pod.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I never felt better. It's the opposite of dead cells. Okay, we're like you were like hey, I was caught up in the moment. That game was sick.
Speaker 2:I loved it, but it's not like one of my great Right.
Speaker 1:It's not that it's a bad game, it's just one of your greatest of all time. I completely redid all the way, beat Dad a bunch of times.
Speaker 2:Oh word Did the whole. Thing.
Speaker 1:And that game, once it gets its hooks in you, is just so sick. And the way that they deliver a story and marry it to the the music's great in that one too.
Speaker 1:Yep and like To marry the storytelling with such a specific gameplay loop that no one thought you could actually get a story in the way they did. That is just unparalleled. It's sick Currently playing Hades 2 in Early Access. Most of my Early Access life is on weird crungy fucking city builder shit, settlement shit. So I don't have a bunch to report on that other than the next one's just going to be good too, but I haven't really gotten too far into it. So drum roll, my number 10, my number nine that somehow surpasses hades. Uh, you had a funny line to me after we did the pod. Do you remember what it was?
Speaker 2:no, the podcast we did like a year and a half ago about my number nine selection or my omission.
Speaker 1:You don't remember that once, but you said you did an entire master thesis. Basically it's inspired by one game and it didn't make your list and I was like, yeah, that makes sense oh yeah, it's pretty fucking stupid and that is cities skylines. Unfortunately, I will not put cities skylines 2 because, um, they seems to, they seem to have lost their footing and it's not a horrible game, but um, it's just. It's gonna be a while until people really should start pick it up. But dude the time traveling I've done in that game yeah is just unparalleled.
Speaker 1:It's just, it's deserving dude, and the creativity and the weird obsessions I've had with it and the things I've built and the way it sparked my mind outside of like when you sit down and play games, like the weird shit I've thought about when driving. You don't get that with any other game sure, for sure what are you doing on your phone? Dude, it's distracting.
Speaker 2:You're not in the moment I am trying to make sure my list got masturbating over here instead of making love.
Speaker 1:Dude, what is this shit? I'm making sure my list got 10 and not 9. You're fucking masturbating over here.
Speaker 2:instead of making love, dude, what is this shit? I'm making sure my list has 9 or 10.
Speaker 1:I can't remember if I did 9 or 10. This is the worst podcasting partner of all time, bro's just sitting there.
Speaker 2:He's like uh-huh. I asked if we could take notes and you said we'll just rip it. He's like cool.
Speaker 1:We'll just rip it. I like what you said there, sort of paying attention Playing Tetris over here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let me load up Tetris again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fucking bitch, alright, I got ten, bro, good, wow, it's almost like you counted to ten a minute ago. Fucking piece of shit, dude. Anyway, city Skylines it makes me think of the place I live differently. It makes me creative, it makes me wish I would have taken different career paths or like just makes me want to do a bunch of stuff, dude, and that game like I could make an argument that maybe when we do this again I'll probably move it up higher. It's probably going to be this weird thing where it slowly creeps up when the nostalgia builds.
Speaker 1:I don't think it'll ever make it to one. Because, like you know, I don't think it'll ever make it to one because, like you know, the Zelda games like got me into gaming and like fantasy and all these different types of things, but like I can see it sneaking past, like in the neighborhood of Civ, right on. So like because it scratches a similar type of social studies brain type shit. So there is my revised 10. It's pretty much the same.
Speaker 2:I dig it. Run through them real quick. Final answers.
Speaker 1:Final answers. I'll do it in the correct order for listing things. Number 10, hades. Number 9 is no longer Knights of the Republic, it is Cities Skylines. Number 8 is Super Smash Bros Brawl Shouts out to middle school. Number 7, skate 2. Number 6, ncaa Football 14. Come on back, baby. Number five Red Edward and Amtron 2. Still, number four Scrimmon. Number three Civilization VI. Number two Ocarina of Time. Number one Breath of the Wild. No Tears of the Kingdom.
Speaker 2:Breath of the Wild comma, not Tears of the Kingdom, Correct Word.
Speaker 1:That's a great list, dude. I feel like the need to defend it over Tears of the Kingdom, which other people are going to talk about forever and forget about the magic that was Breath of the Wild.
Speaker 2:Man, I'm going to set it before. I don't think you're too out of line on that one, though I think that's acceptable.
Speaker 1:I just have to tell this anecdote one more time because it's my favorite. I was once upon a time when I didn't have children in my summer break just meant I was scratching my balls all day doing nothing. I played fucking breath of the wild all the way until my wife came home from work, except for the half an hour before she got in the door. So I'd charge the switch and then, like 10 minutes into her being home and talking to her, I'd be like oh, oh, I'm going to play this game a little bit.
Speaker 1:I'm going to play a little bit of Zelda. I haven't touched this all day and then I would just grind until I went to bed. Dude, oh, that's wonderful. Yeah, I love that forever.
Speaker 2:I can dig it, man. That's a hell of a list Set in stone until the next time we revise.
Speaker 1:Did you count 10? My end, I got 10 in total.
Speaker 2:Celeste Number 10. Sims 2. Age of Empires 2. Metroid Fusion. Super Mario Bros World. Super Mario World, grand Theft Auto, vice City. Super Mario Bros World, red Dead. Redemption 2. At the number three, spot the Witcher 3.
Speaker 1:It's rightful place along with Triss. Alongside Triss. I mean, you're right.
Speaker 2:Triss is number three Oof it's Yennefer Geralt and.
Speaker 1:Triss, he's proud of himself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dog, he's hot. And then Link's Awak awakening and number two ocarina of time. This pot has killed me, dude. I used to say I used to stick to my gun so hard on ocarina I said ocarina very specifically last time yeah, this is it. There's just too many people that I talk to games about now. What's an?
Speaker 1:ocarina anyway.
Speaker 2:Never heard of it. Ocarina of time. Ocarina of time Number one go to game.
Speaker 1:Berenstain Bears.
Speaker 2:I can dig it, man, the updated list. Sweet dude, I can dig it. We'd love to hear about your go to games.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you shared with us last time, share again.
Speaker 2:See if you can stick to your guns. If you got revisions, I want to know about them.
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Speaker 1:Luke's out of pocket and we've already already played portal too, so don't worry about it.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:Don't text us to play.
Speaker 2:Portal to dog Portal slaps, though Portal does slap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, portal holds up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and with that, let's take a break.
Speaker 1:Come back with our unsaved new sponsor. Hi man, you ready? For? I know I got your ear on this one. I know I know we're on the same side, dude, you know what we're brought to by quite literally most of the time fucking android dog and, uh, not being those guys, but being those fucking guys when it comes to, like, talking shit about apple and being butthurt about it all the time dude, and we are Pixel boys. We're Pixel boys. You got a Pixel. What do you got?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like a Pixel 6.
Speaker 1:Sick dude. I bought me a new Pixel, got me the Buds dude, not AirPods dude. Stop calling them pods dude.
Speaker 2:They're Buds, dude Buds, and they fucking buds for the buds boys, yeah and um I'm just tired of like apple people being mean to me yeah, dude, what's the green bubble? Bullshit. I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1:I had a co-worker who was like I don't have your number, I should get your number. I was like word and then I look at the analytics, bro.
Speaker 2:We got a lot of apple users and listen you know, you're fine, you're fine, uh.
Speaker 1:But the co-worker gets my number and then like there's a quick text exchange and then she's like dude, your android. I never. I was like she's like. I was shocked, like really, and I was like what part of me doesn't look like I'd be the fucking android what does it say about you that you have an android phone versus apple or vice versa?
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean nothing, it shouldn't, but people are weird and I feel like it's like the console wars, just like all the fucking try hard neckbeards, just move to this battle. Except for unfortunately for the neckbeards, they're all android users and all the pretty women are apple users.
Speaker 1:Um but then they get a little taste of the, the camera on the, on the pixel, bro, and they're like I wish I had it they're just so pilled, just like little neckbeards were so pilled on xbox or playstation or whatever, and they're just like hey, man, uh, they both got their pros and cons. I just can't handle the inherent superiority. So, kids, like you know, I teach middle school and they like to roast each other. And the kids like you got a fucking android and I'm like dog, all your mommies bought your phones, so let's fuck off right there. And two, tell me about the specs. Dog, tell me why apple's better. And they never can.
Speaker 2:That's because they don't know. No, simple it?
Speaker 1:no, it's just this is cool and that's not cool. And I'm like you know what's cool? Not having smartphones? Let's burn them down.
Speaker 2:Dog dude, there's so many cool lights rise up dog there's some whack android phones out there for sure I don't know doubt but you know operating. There's gonna be some whack ones your samsung's pretty dope yep pixels pretty dope lg.
Speaker 1:I fuck with it a little bit, but lesser I got lg tv. I don't really fuck with their phones yeah, I had one back in the day. I didn't like it so they got that oled I didn't hate it either.
Speaker 2:I meant the phone oh, where were you know?
Speaker 1:I'm pretty, I'm pretty religious with the samsung on the tvs but, I noticed that um when I had the playstation 4, it linked. It would not like link up with my tv because it's sony right get out. But when I like hooked up nintendo like this little blip showed up like a little shortcut to my nintendo stuff, I was like that's nice. Yeah, they'd be doing that kind of stuff they got xbox too, so the only one they don't have, and like sony low-key is kind of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have a samsung tv.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, sony low-key is kind of like the apple of the gaming industry. Yeah, apple's like we're the apple I'm like fuck off apple. No one cares about your apple shit um, but like the, sony superiority thing is still kind of like their little bougie boy shit, like not playing well with others, like I don't know I thought, I thought I would uh, thought I'd be a playstation stand forever and now they got like two games. I'm glad I can't play in this. What?
Speaker 2:is playstation's vr thing? Is it just psvr? Yeah?
Speaker 1:psvr to buying any vr dude, that is.
Speaker 2:They made some announcement not too long ago psvr2 is gonna be compatible with your pc, so if you have one, you can use it on your pc. Congrats, it is in theory that's supposed to be dope, but then the fine print's like yeah, but none of the cool shit that it's supposed to do works on pc um, we're also brought to you by reality, which is not just the reality checks that androids are fire, but also that, like I have no interest in vr, like zero like negative, negative interest in vr.
Speaker 1:I would fuck with vr till they get the porno stuff better. I'm vr, I'm vr curious. For sure, dude, I have some cool games out there I don't like to do that tasted it like I I jumped in the matrix real quick like the gran turismo, like the.
Speaker 2:You know that kind of like dude. It's fucking dope. I got like dude the eye tracking and shit. Like you don't even used to be old vr. You had to like move your whole body to make the fucking screen move.
Speaker 1:You need to like move your eyes and you're like your field of vision changes I rescind my negative because I like the videos where some motherfucker like runs into something because they think they VR. I like VR that much that it can make me content of some motherfucker like running into his wall.
Speaker 2:Dude, the half-life game is supposed to be dope. That one's supposed to be really fun. Uh, I don't really do a bunch of like some of the horror games. Like, I think like there's a lot of potential there. I'm not really a horror game guy but I mean, shit your pants if you need to. No thanks, dude, I'm such a dude, I'm like dude, I would like. Uh, I want to get the vr. So what is the vr that? Um, that steam does? They got a. They got their own little proprietary vr set. That's way too much money they all are.
Speaker 1:That's actually part like the facebook, one's probably the most. What's that? Oculus?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that one's the most approachable in terms of price.
Speaker 1:No, it's the MetaQuest right, Isn't?
Speaker 2:that their shit. Oculus is someone else. I can't even keep track.
Speaker 1:That's the point, dude. I don't want it. I feel like they keep telling me it's the future, but here we are and I still don't want it. So maybe my kids will be into it, but I'll just be, his ass smells like I'm, like I can imagine dude, have you read or seen ready player? I have an older brother, I have not. It's like, don't make it come sit on you. How do you think I know dog? Uh, I have not seen ready player one.
Speaker 2:I'm very vaguely familiar with the premise. But uh, dude, I would be down like I'm not trying to do, I'm not trying to like live my life in vr, but like I would like to play vr for sure the tv is good enough for me, dog.
Speaker 1:Maybe a curved tv with some curves, that's right, that's where I draw the line. Or like a dual monitor setup but yeah but uh, the point I'm making is that I don't care what operating force and the system your phone has. Let's just stop being fucking tribal about it, dude.
Speaker 2:You can't, you can't come out here and be like hella pro android, and then I have to.
Speaker 1:That's the point I'm making, though, is that I have to be pro android, because the apple people are so pilled and they're so mean. There's bitches out here not dating dudes because they got green tax bubbles, and I'm like that's fucked up, man maybe he would have changed your life, girl, but you're gonna. You're gonna go to some piece of shit because you got an iphone. Like go for it, girl. You just missed out on a king short kings, android kings, we got to protect them all.
Speaker 2:Dog well, shit, you heard it here. Folks you on your apple phone?
Speaker 1:I know you're on it because I got the analytics yeah, if you're listening on your apple phone, dude just those google pixels. They're inundating you with commercials.
Speaker 2:They nice you text us about how we're wrong. You can get on your apple phone. You can hit that link in the show notes and tell luke that he's once again out of line.
Speaker 1:Out of pocket and then agree with me that, uh, me and the mylodites we don't want. We don't want the fucking vr dog.
Speaker 2:Either way, you cut it though, bro we are unofficially bought to you, in part by android yes, sir yeah you've been side questing on this summer side questing extravaganza super side questing squared.
Speaker 1:Yeah, double side quests. This is a side quest. Is this just a fetch quest? Is this a fetch quest and not a side quest?
Speaker 2:our original side quest got goaded.
Speaker 1:We turned it into goats anyways um, yeah, I'm gonna talk about two different things. The first is that I found myself in like a rhythm gaming and hear me out, this is deeply nerdy and sad. Um, when my boys nap, I play the game that we're supposed to be playing control, right, yeah, and it takes attention. It's not like an easy, just passive playing game. It's kind of intense, spooky, those types of things, right, um. And then when I want to go brainless, when the boys go to bed, right I play a little bit of madden.
Speaker 1:I get my little fucking truly mindless listen to a podcast type fix how's this different than any other time in your life? Deserved. Uh recently looked at my hours of madden shook my head, was sad for a moment and then played some more um whatever dude, I'll be playing that duke, I know, but I'm more talking about it again for the rhythms, because then I get burnt out quicker than I used to, right, because I've been playing so fucking much. So I'm like, alright, I got my arcade-y sports.
Speaker 2:See, I thought you were going cadence-high rule or something with this.
Speaker 1:Arcade-y, sports team building, and then the next slot is that I, I mix it up, I got some, uh, some star wars, uh okay okay, what's the game called dude? It's the ginger jedi. I just call it the ginger jedi chronicles, that's my thing yeah, it's jedi survivor and, like the story's meh, a little bit overacting, if you ask me. Uh, generally don't love when they get a celebrity to do motion captures for video games and voice acting yeah I thought this dude did a good job.
Speaker 1:He does and he's cool. Yeah, he's ginger jedi, it's all good. Um, he does a good job, it's cool. I just like I think you should keep voice actors and video game actors over there and kind of let them do their own thing I just generally support that and I feel like a lot of games kind of go out of their way to get different celebrities and I think it's kind of dumb uh, but it's got a souls like sword fighty force kind of vibe to it right so it hits a different itch.
Speaker 1:You got the tough boss battles. Um, you got a lot of environmental stuff, gorgeous environments. So like it's really cool to like mix that type of game style in. I turn the podcast off. I actually have a volume on the tv, I pay attention to what going around and then when I'm just not feeling that either and maybe I still want to podcast, maybe I want to listen to music, I got a looter shooter. I picked up Borderlands three for like eight bucks yeah, and a fun story about that.
Speaker 1:I was super hyped for the release. As a kid I used to play with a ace boy and our buddy Colin over over at colin's house I want to say the original borderlands. So I have like some nostalgia. So when three came out on the ps4, it's another hole in my my gaming history.
Speaker 2:I've never played any of the borderlands that's okay.
Speaker 1:Um, and I was super pumped for three and I played maybe five to ten hours of three and hated it. It's what, like? It's the only time in my like adult life I've brought a game and traded in a gamestop and I got risk of rain 2. Yeah, convinced my friends to buy risk of rain 2 and then barely ever played on dope, though super dope.
Speaker 1:It's a really weird game to have a physical cartridge of, because so much of it got like patched and updated, so that's like a weird separate thing I got a physical as well, so it's pretty funny to come all the way back around and buy it on the cheap. I've bought this game twice, so as much as I didn't like it at first, I bought it twice, yeah, and I've and it's just like all right.
Speaker 1:So I'm looking for, I want to play games, I want to be mindless, but I don't want to do sports anymore. Star wars a little too intentional of a place. Then I'm just looting and shooting, and you know what they really nailed? Those shooting mechanics, dude, right on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1:It's pretty sick. So that's the little rotation. And then sometimes for me and a true fucking king, I go lay in bed and I pick the steamy D back up.
Speaker 2:Always.
Speaker 1:I play a little Hades 2 with my little bed. Get a little hot in the steamy D, get a little hot with the steamy D, and then I play a little bit of that and then I uh, and then I got my terrascape and I'm just, I'm just, oh, my god, I'm a fucking animal.
Speaker 2:so you mentioned to me? Is that the one you said?
Speaker 1:do I have that? One it's the one that I harassed you about on the last pod and you're on your phone again trying to handle other things and I was like pay attention to this fucking nerd game.
Speaker 2:It's like a tile. Yeah, it's cool did you, you like, sent me like four different terrorscape s games uh, I have a couple of them yeah, one day.
Speaker 1:Uh, our monthly pick is just gonna be I'm gonna call it lo-fi gaming. Lo-fi is lo-fi yeah, because like lo-fi gaming is a term that only makes sense to me and doesn't actually really fit the aesthetic that these games are, but in my brain it works. Right, right, right, so we're going to do that. I have one more thing to talk about, but I've been going on a little rant here, so I'll pick it up after you talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Speaker 2:Dude, my video game side quests are shameful. I just played Tetris again. I did play some Tetris last night. It hentai tetris. I don't even know what's. The fact you're not playing tetris effect is a mistake. Such a fun game. Music integration, that is so nice. It's so. This is nice. You're gonna flow. Anyways, don't don't get me excited, now come on, yeah, titillated your tetrises. I will throw out there. I uh, we recently had another steam sale. You know, all the time you gotta gotta be your seasonal steam.
Speaker 2:So you mean the uh backlog the backlog garage sale yeah dog, dude there was an article that came out not too long ago.
Speaker 1:They came out and called it that I would pay extra money.
Speaker 2:You guys, are kings, dude. They had an article that I came across, an article that I came across the other day posted it in the discord.
Speaker 1:Join us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hit that discord you could have seen this article before I mentioned on the pod. But the article, dude, if I can uh, they calculated the amount of unplayed games that people throw on their steam like backlogs, and it's billions of dollars, yeah, billions of dollars, and I like I can't even lie, dude I've contributed to that, like massive I just bought ratchet and clank ripped apart for like 40, 50 or some person on off and I've yet to touch it since buying it and I was like Sony what are you doing?
Speaker 1:Not putting all your games up here?
Speaker 2:I'd buy so many of your old games and never play it. I bought, like I bought, a bunch of Sony's games too. There's only a couple that have come to to PC that I haven't bought yet, and I haven't Spider-Man.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Dope-ass game. Oh dude, that should probably be on my fucking goal list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a bit of a mistake.
Speaker 2:Which one I've only? Well, I've never completed Miles Morales because I had a save issue where I was about to beat the game.
Speaker 1:That game almost made me cry.
Speaker 2:The first one yeah, yeah, it's dope, I feel you.
Speaker 1:I always knew Peter. I I always knew peter. I've always been proud of you. Yeah, uncle ben would have been proud of you.
Speaker 2:I was like shut the fuck up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was too much. Dude. Great game spoiler dude. Some people like the combat.
Speaker 2:I think the comment is dope uh, the combat's good.
Speaker 1:It's just like it's not innovative when people get you know yeah, you can't always be innovating on everything yeah, you know it's out there right, right, right.
Speaker 2:Uh, I've been playing a lot of 2k bro. Uh, when I'm not playing control, I'm playing 2k mostly what mode are you playing on?
Speaker 1:still seasons no man I've been getting fucking weird off. I'm gonna get wild with it.
Speaker 2:Uh, so throughout the playoffs I play the game of the day, or whatever yeah um, but I'll tell you what they.
Speaker 2:They fucked up this year. I think I might have mentioned this already, but like they weren't syncing it up with, it would be like a day behind. Yeah, like this whack. The last version of this game didn't do that, so I don't know what the fuck might have been some licensing shit, I don't know. Uh, but I was doing that. And then, dude, and then I started playing the wmba is the links dude? Fuck, yeah, we're good this year. No, I know. So it's been fun doing that. And then I just, like recently, started fucking around with the, my team uh, little part of it.
Speaker 1:So shame, shame, dude, but you see online stuff, dude, you're a little card collecting fucking shit, dude that's why it's tight.
Speaker 2:Because that's why it's tight, because you open packs.
Speaker 1:You bust open packs dude, I'm like oh shit, you haven't spent any currency. Real life, oh hell, no, dude.
Speaker 2:And I've only dabbled in. I played like a little bit recently, not even much. It's mostly there's one-off games uh, my buddy kev.
Speaker 1:He rightfully calls me like I've done the mama shit that's what. That's what I was looking, please is that like a story mode type, like? Uh, it's just like you career moments, kind of like what they used to do with jordan yeah, so kobe's the cover of this one.
Speaker 2:The last one was jordan, so they had like a whole bunch of like uh, little pieces of you know historic games and whatnot. You do these scenarios, play these games. Uh, same thing with kobe, where he wrecks ricky rubio's career by injuring him and ruining his perfect career and uh bummer, otherwise kobe's pretty tight, that shit's staying though he was my least favorite player.
Speaker 1:I loved to hate him. He was a heel. You know rass.
Speaker 2:I was real good, though Real good.
Speaker 1:A lot of propaganda, dude. Like he was real good, but it was the image, it was the pageantry of it all, like a lot of good branding, totally yeah. So the card thing, uh, alex, as previously mentioned in pods, where I my eyes glazed over like he was talking about technical specs, fucking cards, dude. Um, my buddy kev will defend these game modes like he'll do it, and he'll spend money like he loves it, like the ultimate teams and everybody doesn't know right yeah, yeah it's the cards, the packs.
Speaker 1:It's just the way for them to like fucking milk us for the money right right. Um, there's ways that you can do it without paying, but you know how it goes. You gotta grind hard, bro, and I I'm upset because I feel like those games are such cash cows.
Speaker 1:That's where all the that's where all the emphasis is gone, right so like they have just completely abandoned any type of innovation and other game modes for those sure and that's actually one of the reasons I quit 2k was I felt like they were trying to do so much with the like the when 2k came out, with the player career like the career I made it, I made my guy, but I don't really fuck with the career mode used to be sick, but now it's like this whole integrated park thing and like I'm just a big, old, old dude yelling at a cloud because, like I think kids love that shit. They like play with each other in those goofy game modes online and you?
Speaker 2:know, that's cool, but uh, straight seasons for me usually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's weird that you're not just in dynasty mode, though, or what do they call it? Do they call it franchise or franchise do? They call franchise or dynasty in the game.
Speaker 2:I got a couple different settings. I think it's it's like my team or no. It's not my team, it's it's, I don't remember that's what you got to be playing.
Speaker 1:I don't know my gm.
Speaker 2:You could do the yeah you can do that shit though, but like I don't know, like I'm not such a weirdo dude like I like trades but that's just it.
Speaker 1:Like the trades like okay, I don't want to do the draft.
Speaker 2:Shit the draft is. So you end up like getting fake players. I'm like I don't care about it.
Speaker 1:It's sick dude, I don't know, it's whatever. That's what I care about. So much I have thought about, like, what I would do if I was playing 2K, because I haven't bought it in a few years. Sure sure, I basically am like one sports game sickness at a time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fair, About to be the NCAA football bro.
Speaker 1:I love yes.
Speaker 2:no-transcript rid of in real life by cow.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, yeah, yeah true, but I'd like I'm never trading nas or like anything like that, so they're fun to play with in this game too.
Speaker 2:But that's enough time on 2K, dude, that is like a main side quest always. I do want to shout out a game called Wizard with a Gun. It's one of the games I picked up on the Steam sale.
Speaker 1:Sick name. Obviously it is.
Speaker 2:So it has that top-down isometric view, the kind of angled thing going on, cool art style. It is a roguelike, uh, but and I'm not that far into it about 45 minutes, but it's, it's really. I like what's going on. There's, uh, it scratches a lot of itches.
Speaker 1:I like dual stick shooting games yeah, is it like into the gungeon type dual stick?
Speaker 2:uh, similar yeah um, but it's got its own flair going on. So it's like kind of a. I would say it's like a little mesh between that and hades almost, but it's like it's got its own thing going on too. It's got like a little mesh between that and Hades almost, but it's like it's got its own thing going on too. It's got like a base world where you do some like crafting, you gotta you definitely have to go collect stuff to like make different guns and whatnot. I'm just starting to scratch the surface on it, but it's, it's cool and it's been a fun pickup.
Speaker 2:Playing it on your steamy D Uh on the pc, but it's on the steamy d as well. It's a verified. Verified, that's tight. Yeah, all right. Major side quests outside of the gaming realm. Finished the bear season three yes, chef yes, I started.
Speaker 1:Uh, I can't like. I will watch it it's anxiety porn bro yeah, yeah. And jeremy allen white. Like I just want to pace around in jeans and a white tee and smoke cigarettes and play with my hair and just like look brooding and hot, and that's all, huh rat boy.
Speaker 2:Is that what he is?
Speaker 1:that's like a whole movement right now, like rat boys are big I mean, that's what he's been doing for like a decade plus so yeah, I know, but I mean, like girls are into rat boys now. I mean, they've always been into it, but like he looks like a big thumb like who's another big one that dude saltburn did you watch saltburn? No, I heard it was trash.
Speaker 2:What saltburn god, this is good dude where he fucks the dirt right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that part was wild yeah, I mean I heard it was like edgy yeah, totally.
Speaker 2:It's one of those movies like I don't know if I like liked it, but I fucking thought about it a lot gets the people going dude, but uh the.
Speaker 1:I can't remember the actor's name, but he's another one of the rat boys a lot of girls like him right now so it's just like a dirty hot boy thing, not necessarily like a rat pack short shorts a big part of it short kings. It's good.
Speaker 2:Good for them kind of like they got little rat faces going on, you know yeah, he looks like a big thumb and he's always running and shameless and like did he run in the bear at some point.
Speaker 1:I'm like, dude, you're always brooding, smoking a cigarette or running. What is your deal?
Speaker 2:um did you?
Speaker 1:like it. I heard it's mildly controversial as far as it just can't reach its peaks.
Speaker 2:I don't want to spoil it for anybody but I will say that it is not. Uh, I didn't enjoy it as much as other seasons smelling its own farts, type of shit I thought that this was the final season. For some reason I picked up along with so for some like I don't know where, but I thought that this was the final season.
Speaker 2:And then when I I finished the season and found out there's this isn't like a spoiler, because people know there's a season four- yeah, true I didn't know there's gonna be a season four, so when I like finished I was like you, fuck me in the ass um, very mild spoiler, but I know he struggles to get along with um his sous chef and that's just like a trope.
Speaker 1:I feel like I saw coming from a mile away. That's part of the reason.
Speaker 2:I don't want to watch is like I don't want to watch him do that that's a that's a real thing.
Speaker 1:It's frustrating, it's frustrating it's like, uh, you were probably maybe a little too old to watch scrubs, but I remember watching scrubs as a as a pre-teen and being like why is he self-destruct all the?
Speaker 2:time. Yeah, it's hard to watch that um tight I will watch it.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'll have some input later. Um, I also have a show and I feel like I never talk because I'm such a fucking people like why don't you watch shows? I'm like I got two hours a night.
Speaker 2:I just yeah, I just go into my groove dude um.
Speaker 1:I got like a homer simpson ass groove on my couch for when I play madden.
Speaker 2:What's your wifey do when you're, when you're gaming? Does she read or is she like? She wishes, she's cultured and she reads no, she reads more books than me out of here. What's she?
Speaker 1:doing. She's tick tocking, youtubing she. She just streamed the whole time um long form youtube okay, but also lots of talks I forgot she does more youtube than than my way. Yeah, yeah lots of talks though sometimes they really get caught in that algorithm um, so yeah a lot of that like.
Speaker 1:She never asks to watch like shows on the tv, but she'll be watching like yeah, see, anna b, she's a tv person so we can go watch the tv. Yeah, you know I got the steamy d ready in the game the switch if she needs to. But she doesn't really want much, and when she does, it's the kardashians boom yeah um, but anyway. Uh, delicious in dungeon. Have you heard?
Speaker 1:there's no way you've heard of this what you're not, are you even can you, I think the only anime I've ever heard of you really watching was castlevania couple of bebop all right, that's. It's one of the greatest ever, so I'm definitely no jokes there.
Speaker 2:Um, I also loved castlevania as well, probably my personal favorite watch some of the witcher stuff too, I guess so, uh, you generally understand that like food is like a crazy big deal in anime, like they kind of go out of their way to like animate it pretty crazy, like sure, like down to like individual grains of rice or like fucking drawn and shit delicious and dungeon.
Speaker 1:It's got like this video gamey slash dnd vibe, where like people talk about how it was like their first death and they're going down in a dungeon. Oh interesting, they very lightly give you pieces like this. They're never like explain the world, you're just kind of dropped in it.
Speaker 2:Word getting anxious over there no, uncomfortable, but not like no no, not the conversation, just this chair where I was like oh is this your way of telling me fuck off um
Speaker 1:so delicious in dungeon. It starts off this fight against this fucking dragon and, like it eats one of their party members. He gets pulled out of the dungeon. He's like, no, it's like my fucking sister. And they're like, oh no, we gotta get her, and so they gotta go back into the dungeon. They're like we gotta eat first. And then he's like here's the deal. We like my fucking sister. And they're like, oh no, we got to get her, so they got to go back into the dungeon. They're like we got to eat first. And then he's like here's the deal, we don't have any money. We got fucking wrecked down there Before we go back into the dungeon. We're going to eat monsters as we go down. And they're like we can't fucking eat monsters. And he's like on there what's this thing called again?
Speaker 1:delicious in dungeon. Okay, so like I would say the first episode's a little strange. It kind of hits its stride. What are you watching this on? Netflix, I think it was made for netflix.
Speaker 2:It's japanese true anime we're thinking about dropping netflix uh, I just picked it back up with ads.
Speaker 1:That's a dirty weird thing, you, yeah, but also like welcome to life, brother, I guess, um, a lot of the other ones, and I don't watch a lot of TV, but I actually had a babysitter and I was like I need to have some shit for her to fucking do before.
Speaker 2:I get home.
Speaker 1:I felt dirty being like.
Speaker 2:here's my Hulu with ads I was like it's got to get fucking Netflix, we can't have Hulu. I paid the $20 to have no ad Hulu for the month so I could watch the Bear.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we should drop it. I don't know why kardashians and shit like that are on there, so I think we hold on to it for longer than we should. But anyway, delicious and dungeon.
Speaker 2:It scratches a specific and I got that peacock. She'll be watching the e entertainment shit on there I don't do any of those and I don't mean?
Speaker 1:e I just mean, like the peacock, the apple, all that like I'm behind on all sorts of stuff and it's okay, but delicious and dungeon dude, right, delicious and yeah, that's probably what it's called um, I googled it before this, but you know um, I love it because it scratches a really weird video game itch and it's almost like a video game. That's interesting is it, uh, is it the bestiary in the witcher?
Speaker 1:yeah it's almost like a playful that where, like they're describing the monsters and like he meets this character they meet a character right away they meet this character right away, who's like an expert living in these dungeons and like cooking interesting, and he's like oh, you can't just eat it like this, you gotta like, and it's so fun to watch the detail and so it's like it's like a cooking anime plus biology Interesting it's like monster. Um, both Okay, Cause I got the subtitles on everything I watched, so I watch English with subtitles so you're not listening.
Speaker 2:So can you listen to it in Japan? Yes, yes, certainly Okay.
Speaker 1:It's funny. I didn't skip the intro so it had like your classic anime, like really over the top Japanese pop anime intro and she was like what the fuck are you watching? I was like I don't know where the remote is, my fat ass. I was like just gotta let the intro ride. But it's really cool and it's really unique and I full recommend man Right on unique in it. I full recommend man right on delicious dungeon cool. And I'm not like an anime guy so I feel like if you're anime curious or anime casual, I think is what I would be right on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wish I could say I have more side quests.
Speaker 1:But, dude, if I'm not fucking playing the game of the month, playing 2k, watching the, watching the bear or that dragon show, I'm categorizing my best hot d the house of dragons, yeah, um well, you got the olympics coming up I'm stoked on the olympics coming, dude yeah, I just got, uh, brushed up on three on three basketball. You're aware that's a new olympic? Not, it's actually not even a new olympic sport. Are you aware that it's going to be new to us americans because we're going to be good this time?
Speaker 2:uh, I'm aware that it's a thing. I haven't been watching the rosters or anything like that it's on a jimmer for debt.
Speaker 1:You remember him, jesus fucking guy. Um, jimmer for debt was like byu uh, college standout, used to hit all these deep threes he got drafted he's kind of short, though, so it didn't really work out in the league became like a legend in china okay, played overseas some other places too. Um tried it again in the league and just didn't really. China okay, played overseas some other places too. Um tried it again in the league and just didn't really work out.
Speaker 1:But he's rededicated himself to be a three-on-three I guess serbia kicks ass I guess they're ranked number one in the world yeah they play on like a different court. It's like that spongy cushiony, so like I just I'm so here for random shit like that like team usa basketball is just going to mop up, so I need something a little bit more spicy.
Speaker 2:The ladies will be fun too. Dude, Fuck the Russians.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ladies will be fun too, but fuck the Russians.
Speaker 2:I saw the camera was on the three-on-three team, but she got hurt.
Speaker 1:Camera brink. Yeah, she was on the three-on-three team? Mm-hmm, oh, because she probably didn. Uh, that could be why I'm not really sure. Yeah, I mean she's young.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think, kaylee.
Speaker 1:Clark made it as a reserve right Like after someone got hurt.
Speaker 2:Nah, I don't think she's on the team, I think someone pulled themselves out due to injury.
Speaker 1:I might've been bringing her out.
Speaker 2:There's been a lot of, there's been a lot of fake news out there around the Olympics and the WNBA. I don't know why that is. Actually, I do Sexism big part of it, yeah, and racism another big part of it. Yeah, also, it's like Two people be hitting on Brittany Griner. It's like fuck, she can dunk. Dude, you need to be quiet yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's, I think, welcome to sports media man. It's actually pretty grimy for the men's sports too. So I guess you've arrived when you're when you're being talked about and you're like what are these people fucking saying? Cause uh, give you lots of weird takes being said all sports, but yes, summer Olympics.
Speaker 2:Oh bro, you got. You got like fucking swimming, you got skeet, you got all that kind of skeet for here right now.
Speaker 1:Uh, I'm just here for like needless patriotism, like in the most harmless Dude, I like watching the track and field shit too.
Speaker 2:I do not, oh really.
Speaker 1:I like clips.
Speaker 2:I threw the shop on discus. I like.
Speaker 1:I mean I'll fuck around, I'll throw something on and I'll watch a little bit.
Speaker 2:but like it's, fun to watch those bitches jump off Like this is just in general, like I'm talking like whole yeah, no, I'm just coming off of a sexist, racist comment and then like saying that, no, I mean like bitches is like the whole of bitches, all them athlete bitches jumping over hurdles. Someone gonna stick a clip of this podcast and just put that out there.
Speaker 1:It's out of context bro, send it to some employers. Employers, I work for myself. I know you're gonna fire yourself one of your clients. Son, you fucking dick Alright but anyway, the Olympics, dude. I'm just here for nonsense. I'm here for being unreasonably patriotic in a fun way.
Speaker 2:Fuck the Russians dude, let's go. We got some international listeners, dude, russian ones, not a bunch Maybe.
Speaker 1:Are they allowed? They Russian ones Not a bunch.
Speaker 2:Maybe Are they allowed. They're internet censored, dude. I don't think we get anybody listening from Russia really.
Speaker 1:Oh well, fuck them, dude. Not the people, but your government for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good outstand by that Sure. Fuck Putin, putin's like last time I listened to this pod fucking do shit, dude, I got a. This is my favorite video. There has been a shift. Man, we used to. We used to shout out some of the locations outside of minneapolis, st paul. That would give us the most listens. And there's been a shift where are we at? Uh, hold up, hold up, all time, all time come on now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get that heavy breathing. You do it too. That's what I'm talking about all right you'd have a doozy editing this one dude countries and territories.
Speaker 2:United states still at the top. Actually 61 of our total listens. So like dude we actually less than I would have thought yeah, um, but anyways, I want to go more granular minneapolis hometown. I guess you're st paul boy, uh, number one you're supposed to be Fucking hometown Fucking bitch.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, this has actually changed since the last time I looked. Montreal and Winnipeg are back up into our three and four spot. Dude, I'll fuck with them. Dude, holler at Canada, you guys are doing work. I was looking at this a while back and they were usurped by a couple other cities. But yeah, we got Minneapolis, then followed by St Paul, not as closely as you'd think, but then Montreal. We got a strong showing in Montreal, strong showing in Winnipeg and then our Denver folk, chicago Closely after that, good, cities. Yeah, dog.
Speaker 2:Internationally, was that it so the way it goes, we got united states, canada, then the uk, mexico, germany, australia, france, netherlands, norway, brazil, those, uh, those are our tops. It's pretty cool. I don't see any russia on here. I don't think they get, they don't? They don't get to taste the low five how about north korea?
Speaker 1:do we have like one?
Speaker 2:I think it's probably like no, they're not on there either. How?
Speaker 1:would you feel?
Speaker 2:if, like you, found out that poop huge huge oh man he like wants to sponsor the podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm like I could use some bread, though. It's like I want dennis rodman as a guest star dude for me.
Speaker 2:For me living in spain for whole year, I feel like Spain should be higher up on this list.
Speaker 1:They're too busy being angry about stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1:It's too hot.
Speaker 2:Dude, but in the last few. So I was just looking at our all-time numbers, right? So within our last five episodes I'm going to go. We still got US and Canada, but Frankfurt, oh man, I'm going to butcher this Frankfurt, I'm Maine Hesse.
Speaker 1:Frankfurt, and then the second one was what I would assume, that's just Frankfurt.
Speaker 2:Right, but it's probably the territory or something.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I really thought I was going to dunk on you and know some shit, but I didn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got someone in Germany listening. That's dope. Listen to a bunch of our last five episodes, Dude.
Speaker 1:Salaberry, de Valleyfield, quebec, dude, what kind of accent was that?
Speaker 2:I don't fucking know.
Speaker 1:Maybe a little bit of French fanciness, but it was the coolest, most regal-sounding shit I've ever seen. Dude Shouts out to you.
Speaker 2:Right on.
Speaker 1:That's right Shouts out to you.
Speaker 2:Thanks for sticking around Big Digital Hugs. It's time for us to sign the book off. Peace, peace. Hit us up, do that text thing. That's new, that's fancy. I want to get those texts in the inbox. I want to tell Luke that 300 of you said that Tetris is the goat Dick pics. Until next time, peace, thank you.
