Gamescom's Weak Apology After Devs Get ROBBED — Top 10 Convention Lies

SPEAKER_03 0:48

What's going on, everybody?

SPEAKER_07 0:56

Look at Pharaoh. Oh boy. Phillips. Um, why do you even say that? No one knows what we're talking about. I know. But I figured I was uh as a way to wake you up. Yeah. Hey, let me tell you. Let me tell you something. Um, so I've been playing Dragon Dogma, Dragon's Dogma 2. Okay. And they got a they got a DLC coming out here soon. Right. And they call it like Dark Arisen or something like that. Um, I think next month. But like they've come a long way on the game. I remember playing buying it when it first came out because I loved the first Dragon's Dogma. And then uh I bought it when it came out and I didn't it was just not ready. Like it was so glitchy and it wasn't fun. I mean, I I mean it was kind of fun, but it just was too glitchy to play. Uh but how long ago did that game? Like a year maybe? A year later. Yeah, it's good. It's fun. Playing the hell out of it. I should play right now. Yeah. I probably won't get the DLC when it comes out, but because you know there's some games coming out here soon that I kind of want to play. Like Blood of the Dawnwalker.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

That's gonna be tight.

SPEAKER_07 2:07

That's good. That comes out next week. I know. The third of September. That's it. I'm getting it. And after that, guess what? What? Tell them. The Witcher 3 remaster. That's true. Coming out um September 30th.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

You know, I play that game for seven years. You ain't never played that game. It'll take me seven years to beat it.

SPEAKER_07 2:31

You ought to play it. Like this is if you have not played The Witcher 3, this is the time to play it. Not only that, they're going to come out with another DLC like if I think a month or two after that. But the remaster is coming out at the end of September. You gotta play it. I mean, you gotta play it. It's one of the best RPGs of all time.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

You're so excited about me playing.

SPEAKER_07 2:51

You're so amped about it. Because you haven't played it. You haven't played one of the best video games ever made.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

I know. I'm going to. And the thing, but uh, it's just funny because like you text me and you're like, I can like hear the excitement in your voice. You're like super excited about it.

SPEAKER_07 3:04

Well, I mean, like, you gotta play it, dude. You don't play games, you play games every now and then, and you don't beat them. And then I hear you like the I'll ask you a week later, you're like, well, I didn't play it.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Well, I can always tell when you're excited about a game because you always text me at like an obscure hour, like at 12 o'clock in the afternoon. You're like, give me this long paragraph about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 3:24

You you gotta play The Witcher 3.

SPEAKER_03 3:27

Like anytime that you text me about it at work when you're not supposed to, that's how I know it's exciting.

SPEAKER_07 3:33

Well, the thing is, because like Blood of Dawnwalker's coming out, but you like you don't have any experience in any like Witcher games. Because you know, rubber wolves that are ex uh CD Project Red uh devs. Yes, they're the ones that made Blood of the Dawnwalker. So you're gonna play that game and you're just gonna be like, oh, you're you're not gonna have appreciation of dog. Appreciation. You're gonna be just a just a fat, worthless noob that doesn't appreciate Blood of the Dawnwalker.

SPEAKER_03 4:02

So I gotta drink the fine wine first.

SPEAKER_07 4:04

I really do hope that game's good though. They worried me at first now. Rebel Wolves, they said that it was only going to max out the 30 FPS, even on PS5 Pro on consoles. So that kind of concerned me at first. But then like everyone started be like, what the hell? Why are you guys not putting it as 60 FPS? That's stupid.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Yeah, yeah, it's dumb.

SPEAKER_07 4:26

So they came back and said, they actually came back with an update and said, hey, we will have it as 60 FPS on PlayStation 5. Uh at least I think PlayStation 5 Pro or maybe all consoles, but there is a 60 FPS mode, performance mode, which is good. I mean that's come on now, it's 2026. You telling me you can't get to make a game 60 FPS? That's dumb.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Well, I am looking forward to it. I'm gonna kick ass in that game. And I'm gonna beat that game before you.

SPEAKER_07 4:58

No, you no, you won't. Anyone that's been listening to our podcast for a while, no, you ain't doing that.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Hey, you know what I've been in uh you know, I know we we always say we're gonna get right into the stories and you know get right into everything, but yeah, you know what I've been into lately? I've been watching on YouTube. Have you ever heard of have you like you gonna let me talk? Yeah, what because I'm talking to you like um you ever seen like the Zelda one randomizer? Uh no. Okay, so some guy what he did was it's Zelda 1, right? But everything is extremely random. Like instead of like going into like the first place to get your sword, you know, when you walk in there and get your sword, it could be like level nine.

SPEAKER_07 5:48

Okay, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:49

But everything's is is uh you know moved around and stuff, so you have to like do it and stuff like that. But here's the thing is like there's tournaments based on this, like like speed, like who can beat it the fastest. Like it's it'd be like a person versus a person, and they have like real tournaments based on this. It's a complete every everyone's random. It's never the same, yeah. Yeah, the very first Zelda. It's never the same.

SPEAKER_07 6:10

It's extremely extreme mods, it's like a random, it just builds a random level or what?

SPEAKER_03 6:14

Yeah, no, it does yeah, the maps, yeah, maps everything, everything's random, like new maps, everything. It's all random.

SPEAKER_07 6:20

Nintendo hasn't dropped the ball on that yet.

SPEAKER_03 6:22

Yeah, I don't know. Um, so the thing about you know how they are, yeah. So like what happens, you'll start with like one random item. Like it, you know, like you start with the candle, and like it might be a while for you even get a sword, so you're like using your candle like as like fighting with, you know what I mean? Yeah. Um, now it's pretty cool, dude. Like you should check it out. Zelda one randomizer. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 6:48

Oh, I'll check it out, Grant. You'll never check it out. So much pretty better things to do with my time.

SPEAKER_03 6:55

Oh, yeah, yeah, because I'm sure your time is extremely valuable.

SPEAKER_07 6:57

It is a bit valuable. Right or wrong. All right, Grant, tell me about the little anime con you went to. Oh, yeah, cool.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Oh, yeah, cool. It's not that exciting.

SPEAKER_07 7:13

Is it con anime con in Mississippi?

SPEAKER_03 7:15

Yeah, well, I mean, it kind of tells you everything you need to know, right?

SPEAKER_07 7:21

Well, tell me about it real quick. Don't go on a long spill.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

That's pretty cool. No, it's pretty cool. Um, they had a couple voice actors there. Um, they got the guy who did um he does the voice for Android 16. Um, you know, they're all anime people. The guy, I don't know, you is your is your daughter into Blue Lock? She played she liked that one? That's the one about soccer and stuff like that. It's like I always like okay. Um so the one of the one of the guys there was from Blue Lock or whatever, and it was just like a little cosplay event. They had all kinds of cool stuff, man. They were selling stuff. I sent you that photo of the coolest pop. Oh what was that? Um this is the best episode in Dragon Ball Z. It's where Goku goes and gets his driver's license.

SPEAKER_07 8:04

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

And it's got Piccolo with the backwards hat. Stupid.

SPEAKER_07 8:08

That was a filler episode, man.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

But those are but some of those were the great were the best episodes.

SPEAKER_07 8:15

How much were they selling it for?

SPEAKER_03 8:16

It's only 15 bucks.

SPEAKER_07 8:18

Collector's item down the road.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Piccolo with the backwards hat.

SPEAKER_07 8:22

Yeah. Hear about Burger King and uh doing a collab with Dragon Ball Z with little minifigures.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

Oh, hold on. Speaking of that, look what I found.

SPEAKER_07 8:35

Is it my copy of uh Shining Force?

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Remember these Ed?

SPEAKER_07 8:45

Yeah, I remember them.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

Remember these because you had these in your closet.

SPEAKER_03 8:51

And these were cool, man. Yeah, where'd you get that one? This one's mine. I had it uh I found it cleaning up all my stuff.

SPEAKER_07 9:04

Probably jacked that from my closet. Oh, you got one from Burger King? Oh shit, look at you.

SPEAKER_03 9:15

I think we should start doing a segment of all the things that I found. Like reading up reading a page from um GamePro. Oh, GamePro 1996.

SPEAKER_07 9:27

1996? What Doom was that on there? Doom 6.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Doom 64. Yeah. Let's let's just find a random page real quick. I'm gonna find a random page and the Nintendo 64 blasts off. Hands-on with the N64 comparisons with 32-bit systems and a look at games to come. Let's see what games they have to come.

SPEAKER_07 9:48

Um God. All right, NBA Hangtime, Ed. Okay, NBA Hangtime. Okay. Thank you, Grant. All right, Grant, let's kick it off.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 10:08

All right. So let's bring up we'll bring up this first, then we're gonna get into more GTA 6 news. All right, uh, so Asmongold, I mean he he he did a reaction trailer or excuse me, just a reaction clip to uh the Netflix. Did you see the one? The Netflix one? I haven't seen it, man. I've not seen it. All right, so he did he watch the whole Netflix uh clip on GTA 6, uh um kind of like showing the game off. And uh I would say he he he pushes back on a lot of the community's like negativity. Uh-huh. He says a lot of people are commenting, it seems like not genuinely, and uh because they don't want the game to be good, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:55

No matter what Rockstar shows them, I'm not defending Rockstar, okay. Um, but it's kind of um, you know, a lot of hate towards the game. Listen, deservedly so. Like they they've delayed this game two or three times, right? Yeah. I mean, deservedly show. Um but I mean people are just starting to just make up stuff now on the criticism, I would say. I mean, personally, what I've seen online, you know, just talking about stuff. There are some concerns though, like with the uh, I would say the the other secondary character, what is it, Jason's voice acting, right? Like his voice acting, like he just seems like some beta secondary character. It feels like they just added him late to the game just from the trailer alone. Like it feels like he's a late at addition to the game when it comes to the character. So I see that criticism. Um he sounds flat and like just boring, and you can tell there's more excitement or the game focuses more on the girl. Uh I forget what her name is. But uh Lucia, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Or Lucia, I don't know how they're saying that.

SPEAKER_07 12:18

But uh so he he we can we kind of float the idea that Jason was at and I would say Britain later in the story, and you can kind of tell with the um at least the voice acting that we've uh verbal dialogue that we've seen so far. Um then you have the uh PC delay reaction. I mean that's that that's genuine though, because it's just gonna come out on PlayStation, right? Yeah, and there's a PC delay. So it looks like console people will be getting the game first. Oh god. And his reaction, Asmund Gold's reaction, was like, I'm getting a PlayStation 5 Pro, and I'm just gonna have to play on controller for a little while. So he's gonna get the game as soon as it comes out. Uh other critiques, I would say, um he also names drops Elden Ring, like when it comes to uh the like how the release of this game's gonna go, I would say. Because you look at like when Elden Ring was about to drop, people had I would say hype for it, right? But the hype was so huge, and then when the game dropped, it was even better than what the hype was. Yeah. All right, so like we hear all this negative stuff about GTA 6. I could see an Elden Ring kind of scenario for it. Like we it has a lot of hype, it's one of the most hype games in history so far. And then it drops, and it's even better than what all the hype was about. Yeah. Or it's a complete like there's not gonna be any flopping with this game. No, it's going to be either way worse than what all the hyper was around, which makes it still a a game where millions and millions of people still are gonna like it. Yeah, or it's gonna be way above what everyone's expecting.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

It could be the greatest game of all time.

SPEAKER_07 14:11

Exactly. Like revolutionary, yeah. Revolutionary, you know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

But here's the one.

SPEAKER_07 14:19

I don't know. I don't know what he's up to. You give him a call. Um, but as like there are a lot of people crying over this game, dude. Like, I would say the release up to it. Me personally, my gripe about it was the delays. Yeah. And then you're going instead of like this how big the game is. This is a like this this is the game that the first game ever to have a Netflix trailer.

SPEAKER_03 14:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:52

You know what's funny?

SPEAKER_03 14:54

You know what's funny about this game? Impression trailer, whatever. It's like the rumors and lies and truths and stuff are so far-fetched about this game. Like one guy said the game was uh he was like, he was literally like, this game's gonna be two terabytes. I was like, really? Because my PlayStation Pro is only one. So do I need to like delete my whole entire PlayStation to like play this game? Like some stupid shit like that.

SPEAKER_07 15:21

But I they gotta they gotta make sure, like, I don't know, maybe we just got some bad trailer footage. But like, if you're gonna a lot of people are gonna play the male version, you know, he's they're gonna play Jason. Like 90% of gamers are probably gonna play Jason and Romance Lucia.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

I don't know, man. You gotta get a bunch of gooners out there. It's gonna like the first thing you're gonna do is like try to like get her naked. Like, that's like the first thing they're gonna try to do.

SPEAKER_07 15:52

Yeah, I could see that. Uh uh. But uh adding on to this, uh his final take was I mean, his I would say his overall verdict on his uh stream when he was watching the Netflix uh impression trailer or whatever it was. People asked me if he was gonna play it on his stream, and his answer was yes. Like he is literally going to buy, he doesn't have a PS5 Pro. He's gonna buy a PS5 Pro and play the game. He could buy a million of them. Yeah, I know. Like ridiculous. Uh and that I think that's sums up everyone's opinion on the game. Yeah, all these people crying about it, hating on it, at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

Every single one's gonna play it.

SPEAKER_07 16:38

Every single one of y'all gonna play it.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

And the thing about- So keep bitching. And if they look at you, and if they looked at you and said, guess what, guys? You're gonna pay $200 for this game. You're still gonna buy it. Still gonna buy it.

SPEAKER_07 16:49

They're still gonna buy it. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Alright. Another thing, uh, I would say on this is uh you have gamers that uh like I don't know if I'm gonna play it the first day it comes out. Uh probably will. What am I talking about? I probably will play it the first day. You go stream it's going out. You go stream it. Man, dude, I haven't streamed a game in forever. You know what I mean? Oh, you don't have it no more? Dude, when I play a video game, I just want to be laid back, relaxing. I don't want to be on camera streaming video games. Well, you know what they say, Ed. This game's about to make a lot of millionaires. You might be missing your shot. Dude, I don't have time to do that. Like, I just don't. I don't have time to stream a game for hours. You might miss your shot, Ed. Wouldn't it be the first time? Oh, you gonna stream a grant?

SPEAKER_03 17:42

You can't you don't know the first thing how to hook that up. I don't. You don't. Like, it's it'd just be a picture of like the camera in my face the whole time talking about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 17:54

But anyway, yeah, I mean, uh this game's gonna just break all types of records. Let's be real. Let's be be be real. Okay, Grant. Let's go to the next thing. Let's go to the next thing, buddy. Let's see. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:18

The Gamescom theft. I felt bad for this man. What's that? I felt bad for the guy.

SPEAKER_07 18:25

Yeah, let's uh actually let me bring up uh that guy's name. I think I replied to it. I told him just to open up a GoFundMe and everyone will pitch in. Did he do that? Did he follow your advice? Uh I'm not sure. All right, so Mimic, the the developer behind Mimic, a game that's coming out. Uh here, I'll just pull this up. Okay, yeah. So uh Ryan Laley, he posted earlier uh basically that you know they they they had a bunch of their equipment stolen after one of their uh premieres. And uh he after the words he thanked everyone for the support. But uh the biggest thing is uh when when he was they were at Gamescom, they left their equipment. I mean, like Gamescom has a security and everything like that. I mean, I would think so. I mean they do, they have security and they have cameras everywhere. So anyway, so Ryan Latin, he tweeted out um my Gamescom cut short, our equipment was stolen last night from the booth. Police reports have been filed at a loss of words to describe the feeling, just defeated, going to do my best with what's left of the week. But a huge blow financially and mentally. And uh their laptops and a bunch of other stuff was stolen from Gamescom with like builds of the game and everything like that.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

Let me ask you a question. Why wasn't the first thing they did was went and checked the cameras? What do you mean? Like, I mean, if there's if the shit was stolen, obviously there's cameras everywhere. Yeah, they did. Well, but you would think that like it would already have been leaked online, like with every I mean they leak literally everything in this world. Like now they're getting to the point where they're like leaking like national defense videos and stuff. You mean they can't get this one out there?

SPEAKER_07 20:21

Yeah. Alright, but check this out. Um I am 8-bit, which is another individual that was games con. They were in basically the same station as Ryan Laley's company for the mid game. Um, two of their laptops got stolen overnight, too.

SPEAKER_03 20:39

Then it had to be it had to be somebody there. I mean, nobody's just gonna walk in off the street and be like, hey guys, and then walk out with a bunch of equipment.

SPEAKER_07 20:47

But the then the story gets even bigger, Grant. The story continues. So this hasn't been the first time it ever happened with Gamescom. Actually, from what we're getting, is there's many developers that came out after this and said the same thing from past Gamescom. And this one, Gamescom, is in clone Germany. Oh, and uh there's many other people that came out that said talked about past years of Gamescom's where their people's equipment got stolen, so it's not a secure event. And every week or every year, Gamescom always has a already has some you know worthless, stupid reply to everyone that has their equipment stolen. Oh, yeah. This is their reply to one they heard about you know, when they got news of Ryan Laley and all their yeah. So let me read this real quick. All right, so official X Gamescom response posted Saturday on X. They're aware and take it very seriously. Uniformed guards cover the venue, individual stand security can be booked, and uh exhibitors are advised to ensure, basically get insurance on their equipment. Cases reported to them by the police. The investigations were on the way. They call these individual cases. Anyway, at an event of this size, there will always be individuals attempting to take advantage. Security minimizes such risks as effectively as possible. No compensation offered, no extra overnight measures announced, no apology that landed. That's why people are pissed right now. Basically, pay extra to not get robbed is when they talked about you need to ensure you have your own personal security, which is stupid. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Basically. It you think, you know, I'm sort of thinking this might have been one of them old felon gaming companies that did it.

SPEAKER_07 22:42

I got a take on it here. Let's read their official response.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

It might uh you're gonna find out it was Ubisoft.

SPEAKER_07 22:49

Yeah, probably. All right, so this is their official response. We are aware of the stolen hardware and take these reports very seriously and understand the frustration of affected exhibitors. Since many requests have reached us, we would like to inform about the general security regulations at the event. Now remember, this is no apology. This is basically given excuse, basically pretty much blaming the you know other people. And this is an event where they invite all these gaming studios and people want to pitch their games and have uh exhibits and everything like that. Uniformed guards, and let me continue. So, anyway, since many requests reached us, we'd like to inform by general security regulations of the event. Uniformed guards provide general security across the venue. Individuals stand in security can be booked separately, and exhibitors can are advised to ensure equipment against theft. This is note in terms and conditions of participation and technical guidelines. All cases have been reported to us and to the replace. All cases. There must have been they must have got a shit ton of cases then. Wow. And investigations are already underway. We also want to ensure that the reported cases of are individual cases, which are which we are very sorry to read because security has one of the highest priorities to us as an event, and to see that indie developers are affected makes us very sad. What? Does it make them sad as I don't think so. At an event of this size, however, there will be always be individuals attempting to take advantage of the situation. Our security measures are designed to minimize such risks as effectively as possible. And then they got community noted. While Gamescom frames these thefts as isolated incidents, investigations into the event security providers have revealed significant vulnerabilities by their own general security. A WDR investigation found that one-third of the security guards checked had violations, including missing ID.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

So they're saying so they think you think it's some of the security guards?

SPEAKER_07 24:52

Yeah. Now listen to me. If I'm a Chinese studio grant, you know how they love copying the shit out of games. Like that Horizon game. And they got this new game, I forget what it's called, something fall, but it looks just like fucking Elden Ring. So, and we know Genshin Impact is a direct copy of graphics from Zelda Breath of the Wild. So this is not the first time that China, China Chinese studios love copying other studios. So if I'm a Chinese guide about to be a startup, I'm throwing some money out. Give me give me their engines, give me their you know, their games and stuff like that, and I'll reverse engineer the engine and then make my own game. I'm not saying it's just China, but it's it's obviously a theft, not just for the equipment, but maybe some thefts of some major IP too.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

They're gonna make a GTA six clone grand stolen automobile.

SPEAKER_07 25:53

Maybe. But so Gamescom, like their response was weak. They're obviously their security doesn't even have good background checks. So you know, uh it's just a it's a failure on them. Yeah, can do the studios have to take some responsibility? Yeah, but I mean you're at a gaming convention with security around, you know, do you why would you expect your stuff to be stolen at a gaming convention with a bunch of security around and you know what they should have done?

SPEAKER_03 26:28

Next year, what they should do, they should set it up to where like it's supposed to be stolen and then have cameras all around it, you know.

SPEAKER_07 26:35

Yeah. Anyway, Grant. So since Gamescom didn't offer them any type of, let's say, reimbursement or you know, a real apology, I'll give hats off to CD Project Red. They actually, after Gamescom responded, they responded to the uh guy's account, uh Ryan Laley's account for the game mimic. They responded, no tune should have, you know, they're referencing uh cyberpunk slang. No tumb should have to start from zero. And then uh they offer to they actually are sending replacements equipment to them.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

Yeah, that's cool. That's actually really cool.

SPEAKER_07 27:15

Yeah, it is cool. And uh, and they I don't know if they have a goal from me yet. I don't see one up. Maybe they will. Uh another news, nope.

SPEAKER_03 27:27

You go see it, show you go show it, see it show up on the episode of Pond Stars. The guy's gonna take the computer.

SPEAKER_07 27:33

Anyway, they they finished their Gamescom. Um and they just left Gamescom, you know, a couple of days ago. But they don't have a any type of GoFundMe. I think the guy said he doesn't need to do one, from what I'm reading.

SPEAKER_03 27:49

So he basically looked at you and took your idea and told you to shut up and go shove it. Basically. That's what it sounded like. You should what you should have done is you should have acted like Ryan Laley and said, This is my goofy.

SPEAKER_07 28:10

Let's talk about what people are saying about this. Oh God. Uh a lot of devs are saying this is the cost, a lot of gaming devs that have done shows at uh Gamescom. This is the cost of doing a show in Germany. Gamescom is the only event we lock everything up. So a lot of devs know that there's theft. So they do lock a lot of their stuff up. People that have, you know, the studio and like the devs that have gone to Gamescom multiple times because they've had their shit stolen. It's just laptops and stuff, right? Yeah, it's equipment.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

Just fucking take it home with you, like put it in a bag and fucking like what are you doing?

SPEAKER_07 28:45

The community is saying Gamescom statement is a corporate damage control, not a fix. I agree. And then you got you know a bunch of TikTok kids trying to sneak in some wild theories, kind of like how my China theory is. And uh I should make a TikTok about it, Ed. I should. Uh police so the status as of August 30th. Uh police investigations are still open, no public recoveries announced. Show is wrapping. I think it's already wrapped. Laley's Gamescom week was effectively over Friday, no official compensation. Yeah, so that's it. Nothing from Gamescom. Hmm. You might want to check those security guards. Yeah. Or check the cameras.

SPEAKER_03 29:34

I mean, I don't this baffles my mind. Like there's no mentioning of that.

SPEAKER_07 29:41

They might. That might be that's part of the investigation, Grant.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

Hmm. I wonder if that'd be like the first thing I did. Hmm. All right. You know what? It's gonna be like a it's gonna be like three months later, you'll be like, hey, I got an idea, guys. How about we check the cameras and see if we can find who did it? Or just take your shit home. It's in a bag.

SPEAKER_07 30:05

Yeah, that's true. Okay, so let's get to this. Grant. We have some games that are going to release here soon. Okay. I like that.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

I like this. Okay, I like this where this is going. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 30:22

Anyway, uh Blood of the Dawnwalker. Okay. Releases September 3rd. Are you digging it? Are you digging it, Grant? So Blood of the Dawnwalker, September 3rd. Uh from Dev's uh Rebel Wolves. You know, some old G devs from uh CD Project Red. They decide, I mean, it looks really like Witcher 3 when it comes to the movement and combat and everything like that. No, you don't know. So let's just let me talk. I know exactly what you mean. You're like, I know. No, you don't. I know exactly what you mean, man. But it looks very similar to the Witcher 3.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

Um exactly like it. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_07 31:08

Uh so I'm excited for that one. We have uh Final Fantasy Residence.

SPEAKER_03 31:14

I can't I can't be excited about that one. I'm not allowed to be. Why? Because I never played the Witcher 3, so I can't be excited about this game. Final Fantasy Resonance? No, I'm talking about the uh Blood of the Dawnwalker. Am I allowed to be excited about that game?

SPEAKER_07 31:29

Yeah, if you are excited to how it looks.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

I know, but I mean, do I have to like you're making it seem like I have to like play the other one to even be excited about it? You need your Witcher 3 card, dog. So so no, I'm not allowed to be excited about it.

SPEAKER_07 31:42

No, but we have Final Fantasy Resonance coming out.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

It's tight. Yeah, it looks good. Looks good.

SPEAKER_07 31:47

And uh GTA 6 around the corner. And uh, you know what just just came out that I'm actually wanting to play? Um I mean it looks pretty good. Uh but the uh Zero Company, Star Wars Zero Company, it looks kind of like XCON, XCOM, the game. Um it looks good. I just I don't know. Blood of the Dawnwalkers is like four days away.

SPEAKER_03 32:17

You know what I mean? It's gonna be tight. I want to ask you a question. This is not a game, but it's a movie. But it is from a game. What do you think about the new Resident Evil that's coming out?

SPEAKER_08 32:29

The movie?

SPEAKER_03 32:31

Do you not know about a new Resident Evil movie coming out in like soon? Sir Okay, right now, I need you to go pull it up because I can't are you fucking kidding me? This is a joke, right?

SPEAKER_07 32:46

I'm being a Resident Evil movie.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

I'm being I'm being scammed right now. Am I right? Trailer. Is it a movie, series? What? It's a dude. Um this is not real. This isn't real. Like you're I mean, this fucking trailer's been out for like three months. Pull it up and play it. God, oh my lord. I've never seen a guy so far behind and why.

SPEAKER_07 33:17

Why am I supposed to care about this though?

SPEAKER_03 33:19

No, because it looks fuck I need you to play it.

SPEAKER_07 33:22

You oh are they gonna get it right, Grant? Are they gonna get it right?

SPEAKER_03 33:26

They they they might. I want you to look at it and see what you think. I I thought you're gonna like go right into it.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Have you ever tried to fake a group by layering your own?

SPEAKER_03 33:37

I thought you were gonna go here we go.

SPEAKER_05 33:40

Hey man, I gotta be seven. Do you know where I can take this? Uh excuse me, I got oh my god. Anybody order a kidney or liver, whatever this is. Anybody, it seems like it's kind of important.

SPEAKER_06 33:50

Hey, you got time for another run?

SPEAKER_05 33:51

No, I'm I'm I'm wrapped up for the night.

SPEAKER_06 33:53

It's outside the zone, so it pays double.

SPEAKER_05 33:55

I can do that. I'm sorry, this signal sucks here. Can you hear me? I'm gonna stay with Katie for a bit. Michelle, please do not go stay with freaking Katie. Why are you driving fast in the snow? Seriously, I'm working.

SPEAKER_07 34:14

Why is he driving fast in the snow? Is that what you're really concerned about? I mean it's so unbelievable though. No one drives that fast in the snow. Dude, we drove that fast in the snow.

SPEAKER_03 34:27

Like we didn't because it never's gonna get like that.

SPEAKER_05 34:29

We didn't lose some eight-year-old boy's heart or someone's mom's brain.

SPEAKER_06 35:05

There's uh an emergency here. Wonder if I can use your phone.

SPEAKER_04 35:14

I'm really sorry that we got disconnected earlier. Some things have happened. Could you just call me back on this number, please? Yeah, where where was it going again?

SPEAKER_06 36:11

Rackling City General.

SPEAKER_04 36:13

Hey, no sweat.

SPEAKER_03 36:25

All right. I don't know, man. Now that you've been caught up in now that you're in twenty twenty six now.

SPEAKER_07 36:35

I don't know yet. You're intrigued though. I mean, yeah, there's kind of cool scenes there, you know, intense, right? But I don't trust them. Yeah, that might be like that might be the best scenes that they have. Yeah, but the director that did bar Burbaring was pretty crazy. What was it called? Messed up. Barbarian. I thought you said Barbarian.

SPEAKER_03 37:00

Like, what movie is that?

SPEAKER_07 37:01

No, Barbarian was a pretty good one. Yeah. Uh I I still don't trust them, dude.

SPEAKER_03 37:08

I'm just more than shocked that you didn't know that was even coming out. Like it's coming out in like two weeks.

SPEAKER_07 37:14

I thought I thought they were doing like something else. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 37:17

Yeah, it's just like every time they're doing like a Netflix series with Leon and they're like, Netflix series was so trash. Yeah, they're supposed to be doing like a new one. I'm kind of optimistic about this movie though. I have to be. If this sucks.

SPEAKER_07 37:29

I'm not no, because every time I see a new resume with thing, I get optimism, you know, optimistic about the new thing. And I'm always well that you that's your fault.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

You should have looked at the one on Netflix and not have to be optimistic about that. Like, that's your fault. You did that to yourself. I could have told you it was garbage just by looking at it. This actually this actually looks good. It has potential.

SPEAKER_07 37:56

Yeah. We'll see. Um I kind of like how it is, but what who is the guy? What is what was his name? Yeah, I don't know. That's the thing is I don't know. Are they just going off a random dude? Probably. I don't think it's anybody. His name wasn't Ethan, was it? I don't know. I don't know. No, it can't be anyway, because uh it doesn't want to make sense. His wife wasn't named Michelle.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 38:22

Uh but I like how he went to the house. That was kind of cool. And that person burning out in the snow, he was freaking out, couldn't load that shotgun.

unknown 38:31

All right.

SPEAKER_07 38:33

No, brother. No, brother. That thing would have been dead already. Like as soon as it broke that fence line. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 38:41

You'd have loaded, like you'd have loaded like motherfucking what's it, the the T 800.

SPEAKER_07 38:47

Nah. All right. So yeah, Resident Evil. We'll see. We'll see. I'm just fucking shocked that you didn't know like it's been this when did that trailer come out?

SPEAKER_03 38:58

One month ago.

SPEAKER_07 39:00

Yeah. 30 days ago. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't watch YouTube all the time, Brant.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

No, but it's been like it when's the last time you've been in the movies. Oh god, like forever. Oh that's right, because there's it's overly expensive now.

SPEAKER_07 39:13

If I go to the movies, you can spend like 900 bucks each. That's a car payment. That's true.

SPEAKER_03 39:19

That's true. That's true. I had look one time I went to the movies with uh my girlfriend and her son, and we went and we sat down. Well, we went and got popcorn, and I'm sitting there like, hey, do y'all want anything? Like nervously, I'm like, yeah, I want anything else. And they're like, yeah, I want a drink. I'm like, fuck. I'm like, oh, fuck, you know, and then I'm like, I went like this, I went like this. I said, uh I said, yeah, I need to get uh two tickets, uh three tickets or whatever. And she punched into it. I was like, nope nope, he's a child. He's a child. I was like, no, no, no, he's a child. I'm getting that discount.

SPEAKER_07 39:52

Oh my gosh. Last time I took uh my oldest daughter and her friends.

SPEAKER_03 39:58

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 39:58

Friends?

unknown 40:01

Fuck.

SPEAKER_07 40:02

It was like the day after her birthday, so you know I had to pay for all of them. Oh no. She saw like Friday night after Freddie's tour, I don't know, yeah, movie.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You should have you should have told her to friends like, y'all gotta be I think your mom's calling saying y'all gotta be home.

SPEAKER_07 40:22

Dude, that thing it was 200 bucks, dude.

SPEAKER_03 40:26

Dude, it's insane. I got I got a thing of popcorn, uh, uh, uh, uh, a gas like milk duds or like five dollars. Uh two yeah, two hot dogs, two large drunks. It was like sixty-seven dollars. I said, like what?

SPEAKER_07 40:40

I mean, that was a bill. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Yeah. But yeah, it's a car payment when I go to the movies, dude. So I don't go to movies that often. No wait for that bitch to come out on uh streaming or whatever. Yeah. All right, the grant. Last segment. Top ten. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 41:06

What? You wanna do it?

SPEAKER_07 41:11

All right, the top 10 this week for this episode is the top ten lies you hear at every gaming convention. We thought this tied in very well. We're talking about Gamescom death and all the other stuff that happened at the past Gamescom. So, Grant, your turn, sir.

SPEAKER_03 41:31

All right, Ed number 10. You always hear this. The lines here aren't that bad. Which means you're about to wait three hours for a 10-minute demo.

SPEAKER_07 41:42

Oh my goodness. Grant, my number 10 is I I love it when they say this. I love it when they say this. Uh-huh. Our servers are ready for launch day. Oh, yep. That's it. Dude, you know, you know those servers aren't gonna be ready. They never are. No. Speaking of GTA 6, is that that's mainly a single player game? They're gonna have online aspects. I haven't read much into it. Because you know GTA 5 had the GTA online thing or whatever. I don't know, we'll see. But go ahead, Grant. You're number nine.

SPEAKER_03 42:28

And number nine. How many times have we heard this? This gameplay is from an early build. I think that's in my top 10 somewhere. This is the oldest excuse in gaming. And some here's the thing is sometimes it's true, but sometimes that's just that's the way they use it to like, especially when they see it against everybody else's. That's what they use to explain like the rough visuals against once they see somebody else with like smooth visuals.

SPEAKER_07 42:53

They had a gaming, uh it's not one of the major conventions, but they had one in Tampa, and this gonna is this is gonna flow into my number nine. Buying the um VIP badge or whatever. So I bought like a VIP badge for this one they had in Tampa a couple years ago. And their big thing about the the badge was this badge will get you into anything or everything. Yeah. It barely got me into the fucking lobby. And if you're lucky, it'll it'll get you at least in the bathroom line. But I mean, Jesus, dude. I mean, I could I everywhere it said a VIP badge, well, guess what, Grant? I didn't know there was actually step up from that. Yeah, I'm not saying it was called the VIP badge, but I thought I bought the most expensive one. But it turns out it wasn't. There's another tier, there's more tiers, and there's tears and tears and tears. Anyway, I was very upset.

SPEAKER_03 43:52

This is not a top 10, but this is ties into that. Um when I was at that that that anime um thing today, um Um I was with I was with her her son and we went or whatever and he got it got the autograph of his the guy from Blue Lock, you know, it's his favorite anime. And uh I said, yeah, he'd like to get your autograph. He said, sure. It'll be $40. I said, I said, who are you? I was like, who the fuck is like I had to go look at the sign and see what all if I recognize any voices that he did. I was like, who is this guy? Uh what's your number eight? Uh number eight, Ed. It'll all be fixed before lunch. Bugs, frame rates, AI, physics. How many times have we heard that one? It'll all be fixed before lunch.

SPEAKER_07 44:40

Oh God, I think that's one of mine too. This actually it kind of is. So my number eight, Grant, is the statement is basically done. We're just polishing. You're just polishing what? Polishing really usually means like the third act doesn't exist yet. Yeah. And two of the main systems are held together with a prayer. So when I hear that and they're saying we're just polishing, the game's not even close to being done.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

That means we've looked at everybody else's games and now we have to go rewrite ours.

SPEAKER_07 45:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:15

Go ahead, Grant. Yeah, this game really respects your time. And then next thing you know, it's got battle pass, daily challenges, weekly quests, login rewards, and 4,000 collectibles.

SPEAKER_07 45:28

Yeah. This is actually the one that tied into yours. But my number seven was um we're on number seven, right? Yeah. Yeah. The demo represents the final product. Yeah. All right. So if you don't remember, oh yeah. I remember this. The Witcher 4. They did a tech demo showcasing what was what were they showcasing? The um Unreal Engine Five or Five, yeah, whatever it is. For five technology, and they and they basically played a trailer with that. And then at the bottom of the screen, in those little tiny words, said does not reflect actual gameplay. Not actual gameplay. It happens so many times. What was the point of doing that? But everyone, I see everyone tweeting, you know, that video, like, oh yeah, what you're for, this is what it's gonna look like. No, it's not. They told you to. They're telling you it's not going to. You won't be let down.

SPEAKER_03 46:29

All right, go ahead. Ed, how many times have we heard this one? Ed, this game has no microtransactions at launch. Yeah. That's I think I got too. You got uh $25 skins and premium currency, deluxe upgrades, the whole nine.

SPEAKER_07 46:48

Yeah. My number six is it'll run great on the switch too, also. Oh boy. That shit's in like nine frames per section. Your switch is about to blow up.

SPEAKER_03 47:00

And the switch is all hot, yeah, super heated up.

SPEAKER_07 47:03

So you how many times we've heard that? I think they have one for Elden Ring 2. Like the Elden Ring's on the Switch 2. All right, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 47:11

Um, this is actually this is actually the same as yours. Everything that you see here is actual gameplay.

SPEAKER_07 47:17

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 47:18

And then six months later, it looks like shit.

SPEAKER_07 47:21

Yeah. Oh, number five for me is no pay-to-win mechanics. Kind of like your yours is no pay-to-win mechanics, we promise. Yeah, we promise it won't be. And then season pat season pass, which unlocks like you know, stuff you need to play the game to be even remotely competitive, and buying gear. I mean, there's always going to be pay-to-winning mechanics. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 47:49

And how many times have we heard this one? We're listening to the community. Oh my god. And then it's the exact opposite of what the community is saying.

SPEAKER_07 48:04

Or go on going into my number. What the fuck? We hear you. We hear you guys. We hear you. What's what are we on? Four now?

SPEAKER_02 48:12

Yeah, we're on four.

SPEAKER_07 48:14

All right, four. Grant. Come back tomorrow for the bigger announcement. Like Blizzard or somebody. And the bigger announcement is a recolor of the logo of the game or a Discord link. Every time it doesn't fail. Yeah. All right. Go ahead. Number three, right?

SPEAKER_03 48:37

Yep. Um, number three ties into the one that you had. Um, the servers will handle it lunch, Ed. Every MMO, every online shooter, every single beta, what happens when you try to play on day one? You are unable to connect. Yeah. Every single time.

SPEAKER_07 49:00

All right, number three. This is kind of ties into my other one. This exclusive demo build has never been shown before. Except it's the same build from the trade show like three years ago. Someone forgot to change the debug watermark in the corner or something like that, and they get caught showing the same shit they showed the year prior. How many times does that happen? It happens a lot. It actually happened this uh not this past game's comm, but the one before that, and at the last PlayStation showcase. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 49:35

Ed, number two. It just works. It just works, Ed.

SPEAKER_07 49:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:45

They said that every single time. Oh, it just works.

SPEAKER_07 49:48

Yeah. My number two is this is a triple A experience on a double A budget. Ah, yeah. This is code, pretty much this is code for half of the animations are recycled from the last three games we made. Ubisoft. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 50:07

Ed, the number one, and we've heard this, and you hear this every single time. Imagine the lights go out, they show the trailer, and the lights come back up and it's got the develop there. And this is what he says every single time. Ladies and gentlemen, this is our most ambitious game ever. Every single time. That's exactly what they say. This is our most Phil Spencer up there or something. This is our most ambitious game ever. Like, you know, you remember, do you remember this? I put this how I picture it. Remember the scene in the first Iron Man where he's standing there and has like the big explosion behind him? Yeah, right? That's how it is. This is our most ambitious game ever, ladies and gentlemen. And then it ends up being shit. Diablo mobile. Oh my god. This is a fucking joke, right? Diablo immortal. That guy said only on mobile. That guy said, excuse me, I got a question. This is a fucking joke, right?

SPEAKER_07 51:08

Grant, you have this one, but this is my number one. Right. We listen to the community. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's it. The community, as if the community asked for one specific thing, then they shove battle pass in your face, microtransactions in your face. You don't you didn't listen to the fucking community.

SPEAKER_01 51:26

We listen to you. And then they whisper, we heard you.

SPEAKER_07 51:29

A big one for this is Blizzard. Oh yeah. Blizzard is a huge one for that. Battle pass for Diablo, battle pass for everything. It's how we make money. Cosmetics. You know, I want to buy a game and just you earn everything. That's how it should be. Yeah. But I don't think we'll ever go back to that because these companies have gotten so greedy with get battle passes.

SPEAKER_03 51:57

I would rather I would I I'll be honest with you, I would rather play a little bit more for a game to get rid of all that. Like I would.

SPEAKER_07 52:03

I would too. Like, give me a deluxe edition that has all that stuff up front. Or access to all that stuff up front. One-time payment, that's it. But we're never gonna go back to that. Never going back to that. Well, that's top ten. That's a top ten. Top ten lies you hear at every gaming convention. And that's it. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 52:30

Is that the podcast? That's damn podcast, box. Oh man. Alright, guys, we appreciate y'all tuning in. Go like and subscribe, everything. YouTube, Twitter, Twitch. All of them. I can't even think of them. We got our Discord, DMG Gaming Podcast Discord. Go to DMGgamingPodcast.com or pod podsites.dmg dot html dot slash dot whatever whatever that long ass thing is. What you gotta say? You gotta add something. You're looking at me like you gotta add something. No, no, you go ahead. You keep going, keep rolling. I'm trying to think of everything. Yeah, the YouTube channel. This this this here. Like and subscribe. That's what you want me to say? No, like on subscribe. I'll make that face again.

SPEAKER_07 53:15

You know what? I got a I got some beef. Oh, we got beef?

SPEAKER_03 53:27

Why did I say it like that? I said you got beef.

SPEAKER_02 53:35

No. I don't know why I said it like that.

SPEAKER_07 53:37

Listen. I got beef.

unknown 53:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 53:44

And I got beef on uh YouTube. Oh. We got one? Uh-oh, we got one. They're increasing the requirements February. Come February. That's true. Yep. For streamers that have to have like 8,000 hours. 8,000 hours and 365 days in a year. Yeah. Of watch time. 8,000 hours? Like that is a small YouTube channel killer.

SPEAKER_03 54:13

Yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 54:14

You know? Even let's say you post a video and you get like 5,000 views a video. You know, just to whatever. Yeah. You wouldn't that would you have to have let's add that up. Let's say for a five-minute video, but only realistically people watch two minutes of it, you know, when it comes to average view rate. So now you're looking at to get one hour, you need 30 people to watch for two minutes to hit that one hour of watch time. And then you basically have to have, I would say, let's see, let's just do 3,000 per. So that's 100 hours of what's 100 hours per video if you get 3,000 views, right? 100 hours. You would need to have, if you got 100 hours, then now you need what 80 more videos like that through the year. A lot of and don't like we post a lot because there's short form content for clips of our one episode that we do once or twice a week, whatever, or every or bi-weekly, whatever. Someone a lot of YouTube accounts, smaller ones that do get a lot of views, but they only post one video like every month. Yeah. You know, consolidated content. And that's a that's it's a shitty thing to do to young or small YouTubers, uh, in my personal opinion. Does that mean yes, you need to start making better content? So but you gonna understand from even just two years ago when we started, the competition, everyone is doing it now. Yeah, like he has grown exponentially just the last two years of the amount of people on YouTube. So your competition competition is very, very like huge. Like so much competition. Because everyone's doing it. I I just don't think that's a very I mean if if anything to allow at least you know for the smaller YouTubers to have monetization, then maybe just decrease the amount you pay for certain things. I don't know. But a lot of YouTubers that make that 8,000 hours, they get the content creator stuff and they get the monetization and it helps push their videos.

SPEAKER_01 56:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 56:41

Now these smaller YouTube channels are gonna have to work twice as hard to push the content. And I'm guessing that's going to be their reason for doing it. Oh, we want people to continue pushing content so YouTube just takes over everything. I don't know. But I I have a lot of pro issues with it. I think it's gonna kill a lot of channels. But you know what? We're gonna get there. Oh, yeah, we're gonna get there. But I mean, like, we're not even we haven't been monetized for two years. Like we don't really we haven't really done this. I mean, it'd be nice to have it, like to have some type of monetization, but we haven't really done it for the money, otherwise we would have stopped a year ago. Yeah. If you think about it. But anyway, that was my beef. I have beef with you too. We have beef with a lot of other people. No. What's up? Tell him what's up. What's his name? Oh, Hassan Nabi. That's Hassan Nabi with his little gay beard he has on. The little what kind of beard he's trying to grow with that. Really, it's like you see him and it's like like the beard's coming out here, and there's like a puff in his beard over here, yeah, and he gets on his little streams like that. But Hassan's a dude's a piece of shit, dude. Yeah, he really is. He he is a piece of shit pushing all this communist socialist shit to all these young people. Yeah. If communism and socialism worked, why how is it that mayor became the number one superpower in the world in a little over 200 years? 250 years to be exact. We became number one superpower in 250 years while all these countries have exist existed forever forever with monarchies, socialists, communist governments, but we become number one with capitalism and a constitutional republic. That's right. We became number one. So Hassanzi's a fucking idiot. I don't like the guy. I don't know why people, I mean he's but uh yeah, did you see a lot of Democrats running away from him? Yeah, I remember when he tries to stream like he's like a gamer or something sometimes, and he just sucks at everything, like he just sucks at the game. I remember him trying to stream a couple of times. But yeah, Hassan don't like him. He's a piece of shit. If you watch him, you're an idiot too, honestly. You're a piece of shit. I'll tell you right to your face. Yeah, oh yeah, that's it. Yeah, I still got I got animosity, dog. Oh, Anna. Yeah, I got animosity. Who else is a piece of shit?

SPEAKER_03 59:19

Ubisoft's a piece of shit. Oh well, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 59:22

Did you see that game they came out with?

SPEAKER_03 59:24

Which which one? I I I've literally given up on that.

SPEAKER_07 59:29

Oh, yeah. And then build yeah, they they they uploaded the game and then they have the game. They didn't have the game. There was like a link to the file to the file or something like that. I put that on TikTok. It got like 13,000 views. Yeah. Let's see. Let me look at my other. I got some more beef. I have some beef with this actually. CD Project Red. All right, so they you know they they're old developers. We talked about this, but the old developers, Rebel Wolves, their game comes out September 3rd. Yeah, I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but but they announced the Witcher 3 remaster without any talk about it, and they're going to release it at the end of the month. Like the remaster version, knowing that Blood of Dawnwalker is coming out on the first week of September. Like, are they doing this to try to get people more interested back into the Witcher world? Because you know the Witcher Netflix series is dead. Oh, it's terrible. I forgot he's even come out. Yeah, the the well, the new season got delayed. Yeah, but uh it's pretty much dead in water. And so a lot of hype around the Witcher and this world has just gone, you know, flat. Uh, and they're trying to get, I'm assuming they're coming out with their three masters to get more hype back into the Witcher world so the Witcher 4 will be um, you know, successful uh with the hype coming back to it. But I'm glad they're coming out to remaster, but it's kind of weird on the timing of the release, you know. Are they throwing throwing shade at their old devs over Rebel Wolves? Because I usually you work at CD Project Red. Actually, the Witcher 3 is a lot of the work from these old devs that are now at Rebel Wolves. This is why you haven't had really anything from CD Project Red recently that's worth the shit. Besides, of course, the Cyberpunk expansion and all that stuff. But you know, that game kind of you know had its rough edges for a while, then eventually got good. But yeah, CD Project Red, I don't know about them. I don't know about them, dude. Oh, another beef, Grant? My last one, Amazon. Oh lord. Why are we still bringing rings of power back, Grant? Like why have you seen this new? I'm gonna show it. I'm gonna show this, Grant. The new Rings of Power, they have had some like images from it, I'd say, come out. Let me show you this, Grant. Here we go. Look at that.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:20

This is the dwarves, Grant. That is terrible. I saw that. That is god awful. Somebody said that looks like the guy from the from Cypress Hill.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:31

Did you see? Oh, no, we gotta I gotta find this. Did you see that little? Do you see that bit they did called the The Reigns of Power? No, you that was funny. The reins of power. I gotta find that.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:44

Yes, this is shit, dude. Oh, also, we forgot the most important thing, man.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:52

What's that?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:54

We gotta get some R.I.P.s, man.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:59

Oh my god, some RIPs for what? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:03

We lost country icon Dolly Parton. That's right. Dude, my dad was my dad would have killed for like he was in love with Dolly Parton.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:13

Whatever, can't find it. I saw Dolly Parton. Yeah. I saw her at the little Mississippi or something stars across Mississippi or whatever. Yeah, she didn't like you anyway.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:25

She said, get this peasant out of my face. No, um, we gotta say R.I.P. to Tim Curry. Oh yeah. Tim Curry was awesome. Yeah. And uh I don't know if you knew this, Ed. Um Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime. Yeah, yeah, I knew that.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:43

One of you passed.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:45

He also did Monterey Jack from Chippendale and Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Nice. It's not nice that he's dead.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:57

I think he's like, oh, that's great.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:59

No, no, I was just saying like the stuff is done.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:01

I know what you meant.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:02

Stuff is done, Grant. I know what you meant. It's funny though. You said he's passing away.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:07

And you said that's nice. A lot of people end of the era. Yeah, dude. Dude, Dolly part, I think I mean, I think she's a super heartbroken over her husband. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:23

But uh, yeah, I mean, that's all I got. I don't got any more beef. I was gonna try to get the range of power, but I can't find it.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:30

We'll find it for next time. The rings of power. This is this that uh you know I thought that I thought that photo was fake. It is in fact real. I hope we're bullying them into like changing that. Please. There's no way that they thought that was a good idea.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:54

Have you watched the series, dude? I'm not going into. A lot of it's been a bad idea. I will not. I feel like they've just thrown so much money at it and they just gotta finish it.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:06

It's kind of like that uh it reminds me of that. Remember when when Lizzo and Jack Black was she was the president of the world?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:12

Terra and the Mandalorian? Yeah. Yeah, I just think they're trying to wrap it up, but they keep making even worse decisions. Now even more people are going to find it cringe. Oh, I do have a question. Have you seen the new Spider-Man? Nope.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:29

That's good.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:30

It is good.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:31

It's good.

unknown 1:05:34

It's good.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:35

Is there a punisher in it? He is.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:39

Don't tell me nothing about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:40

Now here's the thing he's in it a lot. Like it's not a lot of it. Like a lot? Like he's like in it. He's actually pretty funny. Oh, he is? Yeah. Tight. Well, you have to think they couldn't like they couldn't carry the Netflix Punisher into this one. Like they had to like like he's still him, they just toned his language down some. Oh everything has to. They had to do that. Everything else is still the same. They just had to tone his everything else the same. They just had to tone his language down.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:07

Yeah, because a lot of kids still go see Spider Man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:09

So other than that, uh Frank Castle.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:11

Yeah. In his OG form. Yeah. No, you can't have that. You you ain't Frank Castle. Shit.

unknown 1:06:18

All right.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:19

Come on, man. All right. All right. Let's end it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:32

All right, guys. We appreciate all tuning in. Again, go like and subscribe to the YouTube channel. Um, everything. This will be up later on the podcast forums, Apple, Google, everything else. Stop making that ugly faces. Jesus. Um, anything you gotta add? No, just end it. All right, Sultan. Peace. Peace.