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Tim Gettys
Foreign what's up? And welcome back to the Kinda Funny Games cast for Thursday, June 26, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Blessing. Adio. Yay, junior. Greg Miller.
Blessing Adioye
Parade Saturday.
Tim Gettys
There is a parade Saturday. Do you want to talk about that?
Blessing Adioye
No, I put in housekeeping.
Tim Gettys
Okay, cool. We'll get there in a second. Thank God. And rounding out the group today, it is a very special guest. You might know him from the super awesome movie Novocain that if you didn't see in theaters, it must be streaming at this point. Go support it wherever it's streaming. He's also the Prince of the Saiyans. Jack Quaid, Prince of the Saiyans. He's the Prince of the Saiyans.
Jack Quaid
It's me, Vegeta, Prince of the Saiyans.
Greg Miller
Oh, hell yeah.
Jack Quaid
It's a very long walk to get to explain it.
Blessing Adioye
Welcome to every kind of funny joke ever. Go for it, Jack.
Jack Quaid
Explain it to bless Austin. Who is it?
Blessing Adioye
Austin, originally.
Jack Quaid
Austin Creed. Yes. Who I've met a few times. He's a very nice guy. But you guys called him, I think for your anniversary or for some reason you guys called him. And his voice, his voicemail, like outgoing message is like, you have not reached Austin, but you have reached me. Vegeta, Prince of the Saiyans. It's just a very nerdy, incredible voicemail. And I think Greg had told me that at some point during that Gamescast or whatever it was that he'd be calling me. So I was like watching the stream just to see what you guys were talking about. And then I heard that voicemail. And then when Greg called me, I just tried to recreate that voicemail as best I could. And now every time you guys call me, I just start with like, you. You think you reach Jack Quaid, but you have in fact reached me. But it's just very. That's perfect.
Blessing Adioye
It's like. It's like the. It's the most. Hey, how do I get Greg to stop calling me thing. A lot of people haven't figured it out. They yell at me, they bully me. That just encourages me. The Vegeta thing. I'm like, I'm not doing this again, Quaid.
Jack Quaid
No, call me. I want to see how I can heighten this for. For like a call from Greg Miller and from kind of funny is just. It's just a treat. So every time.
Tim Gettys
Oh, yo, Jack, how. How are you doing? Before we get into all the show and stuff, what's going on in your world?
Jack Quaid
Oh, man. I'm here in Toronto. We are shooting the Boys final season. I have four days left of shooting, which is crazy. Just for.
Tim Gettys
I mean, this honestly was, like, a percentage of your life, right?
Jack Quaid
Like, yeah, huge chunk of my life. Like, I think when I was cast, I was, like, 25. I think when I was cast, I started when I was 20. Yeah, something like that. But it's been, like, the bulk of my, like, adult life. I've been on this show, and now it's coming to an end. And I'm glad that we're ending when we are. I'm glad that we've had five incredible seasons and we're ending on our own terms, which is so rare nowadays, especially in tv. But, yeah, man, it's very emotional. It's gonna get weird. I don't think it's gonna quite hit me when it. When it's actually over. I think I'm gonna be, like, back in LA at a grocery store and, like. Like, with a shopping cart in hand and, like, I'll hear a Billy Joel song and I'll just. That's what I think is gonna happen. But I don't know. I don't know until it hits me, so. But I'm grateful for every second of it. So, yeah, it's bittersweet and weird, but, yeah, it just kind of feels like I'm about to graduate high school or something. Like, it's just very strange.
Tim Gettys
From the boys to the man.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, exactly.
Tim Gettys
Jack Quaid, Journey. Probably.
Blessing Adioye
Probably a dumb question before we get into video game stuff, though, but, Jack, is that the Boys is the, like, before and after pivot point, I assume, for you, like, where, like, everyone stops you. For the Boys now.
Jack Quaid
Yeah. Oh, that's the. That's the, like, that changed my life. I've never had that before. I may not even have it again, ever. But it was this thing of, like, seemingly overnight, my life changed for the better when that show came out. And I couldn't be more grateful to Eric Kripke and everyone involved in this thing for, you know, letting me have that opportunity. It's just. It's huge. But, yeah, no, that's like, the people just shout Huey at me on the street. It could be a lot worse.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, that's great.
Jack Quaid
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
How often do you. Does someone reference bongos with you from Oppenheimer? Does it. Is anyone shouting bongo guy? It's bongo guy.
Jack Quaid
No one's ever said bongo guy. But I feel like every time. Like, literally every time I do a version of this, like a podcast or something. Someone's like, like Scott Aukerman from Comedy Bang Bang for, like, years just said, called me bongo man. That was it. And we have. No, no, he called me Mr. Bongos. Perfect.
Tim Gettys
Perfect. Somewh respect.
Jack Quaid
Yes. Yeah, Maybe the bongo fans, they're just not out in the wild as much as I thought.
Blessing Adioye
They.
Jack Quaid
They. The bongo players. I don't know. I want to. I want to communicate with them. So if you are a bongo player and you see me, talk to me about bongos, I would love that.
Blessing Adioye
This is actually an interesting question behind. Obviously, Huey. What is the second thing people stop you for all the time?
Jack Quaid
Oh, God. Scream is right.
Blessing Adioye
That's a good.
Jack Quaid
You know, that's a pretty passionate fan base. Like, I've had people recognize me at a cafe and they're like, I'll be right back. I'm gonna get my knife. And what that means is they have like a scream, like a ghost face knife that they want me to sign. There's, like a real knife that I'm signing.
Tim Gettys
One day this is gonna be real bad for you.
Jack Quaid
It's crazy that I hear that. Like, I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. I'm getting my knife. And that is not a dangerous sentence to me. Is very. Is very funny. It's Scream and like. And lately Novocaine and Companion have been up there as well.
Blessing Adioye
Companion. What a flicker.
Jack Quaid
Yeah. Crazy. Absolutely insane. Thank you for watching it, guys.
Tim Gettys
Dude, we need to know. The Kane sequel, man. That was the type of movie that took the premise to the nth degree. And you love it because by the end of it, you're like, I need more. I need to see how further they can take this.
Greg Miller
I gotta watch.
Tim Gettys
It's good.
Jack Quaid
I got ideas. The directors have ideas. The writer has ideas. Like, we would all love to do another one. I'll just shout it out right now, watch it on Paramount. Plus show that there's a demand. And who knows, maybe some Hollywood magic can happen and you can see me just get shredded to pieces.
Tim Gettys
Yet again, I will say, Jack, this is an important thing to get to before we talk about the games. Kind of funny does have a level of power in the streaming services that has been unforeseen, actually, because we knew our power. A couple years. A couple years ago, the Tomorrow War, Amazon prime original starring Chris Pratt, came out and nobody watched it, but Greg and I did, and we loved it. We had a great time with this movie. And years later, like, A couple weeks ago we, we brought it up and we're fighting for how good this movie is. And next on a podcast and the next thing we know, trending. It's trending. We're getting all these like screenshots of people sending it.
Blessing Adioye
I'm just like, there's actually, there's articles right now about how for some reason.
Tim Gettys
Services, we're taking full credit for that.
Blessing Adioye
We are.
Jack Quaid
Oh my God. Okay, I need that Kind of Funny bump.
Blessing Adioye
Everybody go to Novocaine and make that happen.
Tim Gettys
That's it, everybody. Anyway, this is the kind of Funny Games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the big reviews, previews and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free and a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be part of this show, please YouTube super chat as we go. We're already getting a whole bunch of them. Exile Online says, hey Jack, please let Greg know he sucks. Thanks. Mr. Hawk says quo, you got any smints? Hashtag Quaid army for life. I love it when fan bases kind of like overlap. Weird. It's like we all are the same weirdo with just different words coming out of our mouths.
Jack Quaid
Oh God, Greg, you suck. And I don't have any Smiths. Unfortunately.
Blessing Adioye
You didn't have to do it.
Tim Gettys
Brian. Cake says, hey, Jack, huge fan. Are you going to play Death Stranding 2?
Jack Quaid
I plan to. I still, and this is like a big gaming sin. I have still never played Death Stranding 1. But it is downloaded on. I'm pointing to my TV right now. It is downloaded and I will get to it so that because I know Death Stranding 2 is coming out, I want to play the first one first.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, we'll get back to Death Stranding later because of the topic of this show, but a little housekeeping for you first. Mike and Roger. Speaking of Death Stranding to we're getting right back to it. Mike and Roger are embarking on the biggest stream Kind of Funny has ever done. They'll attempt to play the entirety of Death Stranding 2 while Mike goes step for step with Sam Porter Bridges on an actual treadmill with a couple of surprises that might change everything. With your support, they're determined to make it past Kind of Funny Games daily on Monday. And of course, order a lot of food. This starts tomorrow exclusively on Twitch tv. Slash Kind of Funny Games So the stream Tomorrow, Death Stranding 2, it starts and the goal is having this not end until Tuesday. So can you support them chat?
Blessing Adioye
Can you make it happen, Chad?
Tim Gettys
They have so many fun things planned. The lab is a mess right now because we got a brand new treadmill and it is giant. I can't wait for y' all to see this is about to be insanity. But that's not all that's happening this weekend. Sorry, Jack. Go for it.
Jack Quaid
No, just step for step on a treadmill. That's nuts.
Blessing Adioye
Well, Mike's the healthiest guy we got, so.
Greg Miller
Yeah, he's a machine.
Blessing Adioye
He needs a machine. If you want to know this man's in and out order, it'll change your life. You don't want to know.
Tim Gettys
So that is not all that's happening this weekend.
Blessing Adioye
Please just read it verbatim.
Tim Gettys
I'm going to read it verbatim.
Blessing Adioye
Thank you.
Tim Gettys
I lost. Kind of funny. Game showdown season three. And the true champ, Greg Miller is getting a parade Saturday in San Francisco. Come be part of it. 10am in front of the Ferry Building. We'll walk with signs about how terrible I am all the way to Square Pie, guys.
Blessing Adioye
Can't wait. Championship parade, everybody. Embarcadero for walking. It's gonna be a great time. Gonna be there?
Greg Miller
Yeah, I'm gonna be there.
Tim Gettys
I will be there too, unfortunately. But it is Pokemon Go Fest, so I had to be there. Greg decided to throw his parade to talk shit about me during my day, unfortunately, at my place.
Blessing Adioye
That sucks. It's real close to your birthday today.
Tim Gettys
It is, it is. I've been working for years to hit level 50, the top level in Pokemon Go. And I'm finally going to achieve that this Saturday live in front of your parade.
Blessing Adioye
Yes.
Tim Gettys
Great.
Blessing Adioye
Thanks, man.
Tim Gettys
Well, everyone come out if you want.
Blessing Adioye
It would suck if everybody circled up around you and booed you while you did it.
Tim Gettys
10Am in front of the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Be there or be square. And if you can't make it, Greg.
Blessing Adioye
Is going to be discording into the death straining. Over the death straining.
Jack Quaid
Yeah.
Greg Miller
And we'll make some signs and we'll.
Blessing Adioye
We'll support Greg and his. I appreciate that, Roger. Thank you. Roger, I didn't tell you I'm supporting you as well. Oh, I have a surprise for you, Roger.
Tim Gettys
Okay, we're in 11 person business all about live talk shows and Greg. Terrifying people came Games Daily aired our grievances with Mario Kart World after. This is going to be Superman 3 in review. Can't Wait to talk about this classic. Remember, there's no stream because we're getting ready for the marathon death stranding stream tomorrow. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is all about Greg's best interview ever. Cool.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by Cash, App and Mood. But we'll tell you about that later. We got to get to the topic of the show. The topic of the show is Jack Quaid's video game photography obsession. Jack, you Instagram posted recently, quote, he got really into virtual photography and no one ever saw him again. Along with a ton of of photos from a bunch of different video games.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, Raj, can we get that up? I put it into. I put the link into the direct message with control earlier you did not.
Jack Quaid
Gave Greg an entire iphoto. Like, don't even know.
Blessing Adioye
That's the thing is like, you put up a bunch of photos here and as one of Jack Quaid's best friends, ask Danny Jollis, he'll agree.
Tim Gettys
Of course.
Blessing Adioye
I see Jack putting up video game photo stuff all the time and I'm always like, oh, that's cool. That's quaint. Quaint for Quaid. There's something there. We'll work on a shirt. I don't know how big of a deal it is. I don't know what this is. And then he put up this Instagram post and there's several games in there that I've seen them, you know, dabble in, put things up before. I was like, oh, that's really cool. And so I hit him up like, hey, would you want to do a show talking about photo mode? I like photo modes. I, you know, it'd be cool to talk with you about it. And he said, yeah, sure. And I'm like, all right, send me a whole bunch of your photos. The man sent more than 350 photos and they all look like works of art. I don't know what art gallery in LA needs to be told, but this is an event. You could totally do a Jack Quaid exhibition of his photo mode stuff here.
Jack Quaid
So I sent you that album and then I like re. Looked through it and I realized that there is. You might. It might go up there at some point. But there is one mistake in there.
Blessing Adioye
I saw it.
Jack Quaid
Not supposed to be there and it's just a. Literally a screenshot that I guess the PlayStation automatically takes when I. Oh, no, I definitely took a photo of it because I Think I won my first, like, Fortnite match. Yep.
Blessing Adioye
It's a victory royale. I saw it. I'll be sure again. There's 350 photos. We'll get to it. I'm scrolling right now, but when I was, like, paging through, I was like, do I want to organize this some way? How are we going to do this? I'm like, there's so many. They're all great. All the photos are great. There's, like, really just clicking there. But then I was like, wait, why is there some victory royale screenshot from Fortnite?
Tim Gettys
That's so good. It's so, so. I love it because even that Instagram post, it's so varied in terms of games, like, just jumping into. You think, oh, it's going to be a bunch of Uncharted 4 picks. Because Uncharted 4 is very pretty. And he was like, no, there's like, 20 different games, a little seafood action going on. Was that Resident Evil? I think, somewhere. But so what. What is your kind of methodology? Like, are you always. Anytime you're playing a game, if you see something pretty, you're like, I got to take a shot. Or are you going out and, like, trying to seek the shots out?
Jack Quaid
Oh, man. I think re. It really all started with, yes, Spider man is a great photo mode. Yeah, that one, I think is. Oh, God. Returnal. Um, but no, it really all started with red Dead Redemption 2. I started a re. It was during COVID It was. So I was in Toronto and I was shooting season three of the Boys, and, like, it was snowing outside, and there was this virus sweeping all the nations. And so I couldn't leave. So I'm like, okay, I'll just go to this virtual sandbox of, like, the Old west of red Dead Redemption 2. And I'm replaying it. I'd played it once, and then I just. I don't know, I think one day clicked on the photo mode just to see what was up, and then I just really got into it from there. Oh, yeah, there's a bunch of. Here's a bunch of Red Dead photos. And they had. It's a really good photo mode in red Dead Redemption 2. Like, there are some games with, like, not a great photo mode where you can't really quite. Like some games, the camera can only go around the player character. You can't. Like. I love a free camera. I love focusing on, yeah, our lead character, but also, like, random NPCs or, like, side characters.
Blessing Adioye
So while we're here, I want to stop and say to you as people marvel at these. As I see the chats popping off from Hero of Time 73. God damn it, Jack, Why are you so talented? For you, what makes a good photo? Mo, what is Jack Quaid, this auteur Luca, look at his fucking shot. What are you looking for as you go through and do this?
Jack Quaid
God. I think it's just. I like a photo that tells some form of story. Like, I kind of. I think I'm going for. Hopefully it looks like it's a still frame of a movie because I'm obsessed with movies and I'm obsessed with video games. I think this is my way of kind of doing both. And I think from red Dead Redemption 2, I don't know, it taught me, I don't know a ton about photography. Like, I'll say, like, this is kind of me just in the virtual world doing it, but it kind of taught me about, like, lenses and, you know, I really do. Actually, I'm glad that you froze on this photo here, because I do like doing this kind of wide lens, but then pushing in close to something so that it almost has that, like, reaching out towards you effect. I really do like that. And I think from Red Dead Redemption, I started taking photos of, like, the cast of the Boys that season. And I got really into photography. And it's like, because I was looking around me and I was like, I'm basically in a video game right now. Here's my photo mode, so let's just do it. And no, I really just enjoy taking pictures. And it just kind of. From video games, kind of. I got this new hobby out of it and. Oh, yeah, Ratchet and Clank Insomniac's got some great photo mode stuff. I really got into. I think after Red Dead, I got into like, the Ghost of Tsushima. Photo mode is probably. Oh, yeah, it's up there. It might be just as good, maybe a little better as a photo mode than Red Dead. And yeah, the Spider man ones as well are just insane because he's. Yeah, look at that. You just do so much aerial. Insane shit. And just like. Yeah, I like when it looks like, oh, that could be a still from like a superhero movie. Like, I love that.
Tim Gettys
Matt exposure in the chat says, has Jack played Lush Foil? It's a virtual photography simulator and it's really cool. This is a game that we talked about a couple months ago, but have you not heard about this?
Jack Quaid
No, not never even heard about it.
Blessing Adioye
I just sent to kfk. Madeline and I are on the same wavelength I just sent to Cave Control the lush foil.
Tim Gettys
Because this game, the whole point of it is photography simulator. And it is the most gorgeous video game.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, look at it right now, Jack, if you're sharing your screen.
Jack Quaid
Oh, you guys got it?
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, we got it for you. Don't worry.
Jack Quaid
Don't worry. Are you kidding me?
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, so it's all these different things, but you go in with an, like, unquote, an actual camera. Obviously you're playing a game, but it's all the stuff of a real camera. So you learn about ISO, this, that, all these. How to use this and go through it.
Jack Quaid
Download this immediately. I'll. I'll. What? This is great. Oh, my God. Are you kidding?
Greg Miller
I didn't realize.
Blessing Adioye
This is out.
Jack Quaid
Yes.
Tim Gettys
Oh, yeah.
Greg Miller
This came out April 15th.
Jack Quaid
Is it on PlayStation?
Blessing Adioye
Sure is, Jack. Don't worry, I know somebody. I've already requested you a code.
Jack Quaid
Thank you, Greg.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, cool stuff. So, all right, so you're getting all this stuff. How do you. How long do you take with a picture? Like, do you. When you have it, you're like, I know what I want to do.
Jack Quaid
This.
Tim Gettys
How much do you play with the filters and everything?
Jack Quaid
So I'll just say this. That replay I was doing of Red Dead, I. I didn't beat it again. I've only beaten the game once because all I was doing at a certain point was just photo mode. I would just. I would try to get to the next area of the story so that I could, like. I could, like, take pictures and I mean, I could, like, ride to Saint. Is it Saint Denis? What's the.
Greg Miller
Oh, yeah, Saint Denis.
Jack Quaid
Yeah, I could, like, ride to Sandini and take photos there. But I was like, oh. But then, like, Dutch looks a little different at this point in the game, so, like, maybe I can get good, solid shots of Dutch. Sometimes I have. I get distracted by, like, you know, I just want to take photos of, like, an NPC and kind of. It kind of seems like I'm just taking street photography. And typically when I play a game, I like, look at the atmosphere that the game's creating. And, you know, they're so good now. You know, like, if there's a storm especially, I'm, like, really excited. Like, if, like, if I'm playing Spider man and it's like a snowstorm or there's a thunderstorm in the distance, I'm like, fuck, I gotta line it up exactly when the lightning strikes and I'll get something cool. There's one that's not even in this album, Greg. But there's this one I took. I'm replaying or I was replaying God of War Ragnarok. And I have this one of Kratos with like lightning bolt in the back that I'm very proud of. But yeah, I love like the environment. I think that's why I like Tsushima so much is because you can the nature and like the wind, you can turn it off and on basically and you can change the different nature systems, the weather systems on a menu and it's just so. It's so customizable and you can do whatever. I love that one because it's all out of focus. But I'm killing a bear.
Blessing Adioye
That's amazing. No, it's incredible.
Tim Gettys
So you're talking a lot about replaying a lot of these games. Like obviously you are one of the busiest people I know. You're in every movie imaginable. Every show imaginable is. This is kind of the life of an actor. There's a lot of downtime and you're replaying these games and able to do this photo mode stuff. Like, is this like a second full time job for you?
Jack Quaid
I mean at this stage? Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's when you have downtime.
Blessing Adioye
That's awesome.
Jack Quaid
One of the things about being an actor is you're often. At least the way it is now. Like I'm often shooting out of L. A. Like I live in L. A but like I also don't because I. I live most of the time in like Toronto and Toronto is great, but I do have, you know, I'm not shooting every day and there are these long days that pass by where like, I don't know, I'm not really doing much. Like I'll go for a jog and then, you know, I play games to pass the time and I love games. So yeah, it kind of just all works out. But it's kind of a cool way of. I don't know, it's fun to do a thing that I love but also find some form of like. Yeah, there we go.
Blessing Adioye
You had to get them so good. Shirtless Spider Man. Shirtless Miles Morales.
Jack Quaid
I took photos of you guys.
Blessing Adioye
Oh no, we're just their photographers. We're not them.
Jack Quaid
Okay, of course. But no, it's just, it's a fun way to like have a bit of artistic expression. It's cool to use a world that someone else created and then find a kind of angle on it that's your own or at least feels like your own. Like, that's a fun sandbox to play on and. Yeah, no, I think it's. It's just cool. And then I realized there's this whole community of like, virtual photography and people love doing this. And I've seen some stuff on Instagram that I have not taken and just, I love what people can do. There are some people that really focus on, like, the close up details of a character of like, Spider man, for example. It's like the definition of like the mask and everything. And like, the lighting's really cool and those are awesome. Oh, that's some random guy in St. Denis. I like that one. But there are other guys that like to focus on, like giant wide shots as well. I don't know. I think I'm somewhere in between. I think if just like, if something strikes me, you know, I just kind of go for it. Also, there's a lot with, like, character animations that Ratchet1 reminded me of. Like, I love that move he does where he jumps up and uses the wrench to go down. I'm like, okay, I got to get that pose. You know, because you're looking at these character animations constantly while you play the game and you're like, oh, that could be cool for a shot. You know, I kind of look at it from that perspective as well.
Blessing Adioye
So then coming into this, then we talked about Red Dead replaying just for photos kind of. But you're talking about watching animations and seeing this thing. Are you finding it's changed the way you play games to where are you even playing the game anymore? For the game part of it. Are you just playing it for the photography part of it?
Jack Quaid
I'll say this. So I just started. I. I got the Dark Ages when that came out. And I never played any of the modern Dunes dooms. And then I loved Dark Ages, so I went back to play 2016. And then yesterday I beat Eternal. Thank God that game does not have a photo mode. Like, thank Christ. It was like, I was so relieved when I realized they didn't have Is it ever. Is it ever though?
Greg Miller
Is it ever the opposite thing where, like, do you ever get disappointed picking up a game and like seeing it doesn't have a photo mode and going, oh, well, I'm gonna spend a lot less time in this thing.
Jack Quaid
Sometimes it has the opposite effect. Yeah. Especially if it's like, gorgeous. I'm like, damn, I wish I could take photos. Or. I think the biggest thing that makes me a little upset is when the game is so gorgeous and yet the photo mode is a little like, huh, like certain. I don't know, there's certain, like places you can't really go or it only has a certain amount of filters or focus control or something. Like I always get a little like, huh. But it's so good and so visually striking. Why wouldn't you have a bunch of. I mean, sure, make the game first. It's not about me. Make sure the game is good and playable and fun. There are times where I'm like, oh, I wish. Like, I'm trying to think of like.
Greg Miller
A lot of people in our chat are saying Expedition 33 is like the one for them that would need a photo mode.
Jack Quaid
I feel like, oh, it doesn't have a photo mode.
Greg Miller
No.
Jack Quaid
Okay. I haven't played that game yet. But a lot of the comments to that Instagram post you referenced were like, Expedition 33. So I assumed it did have a photo.
Blessing Adioye
And if we may, Roger, can you throw that post back up real quick? Because I would like to call out one of the commenters. You know, there's a lot of uneducated video game fans who don't know what has or doesn't have a photo mode. It's the one right there in the center. Yeah. On top of it, right there, someone named the Ben Star says Expedition 33 Photos when it's just hilarious that this idiot doesn't know the game.
Jack Quaid
He's in the game.
Tim Gettys
He is.
Blessing Adioye
He's in it doesn't have a photo mode. Ben Starr.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, he's. He's. Ben's a good friend of ours, one of the leads of the the game.
Jack Quaid
But I wish the game had a photo mode. I think it probably will. Oh, at some point.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. The next update, I imagine that'll be on.
Greg Miller
They know.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, they definitely. They know. Yeah. Which by the way, if you haven't heard of Expedition 33, put it on your list. It is utterly spectacular. My game of the year so far for sure. Stories, incredible performances are incredible. Are you into turn based RPGs?
Jack Quaid
So that's my thing is like, typically, no. But my friend, my friend Dylan who's into like. And you know, I've known him since middle school and he's into so many games and he streams and he's amazing, but he's like, dude, I know you don't like turn based, but this game is a thousand percent my shit and it's going to be your shit. It's so good. So I'll give it, I'll give it a shot because I know it's not, I think from your review, like it's turn based but it's not slow or plotting.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, exactly.
Jack Quaid
Yeah, that, that encourages me and I think I'll. I'll go for it. Because I never thought I'd be into like, I don't know, stuff like Cuphead or, or like Hades or I don't know any of the Dark Souls stuff, but I. I got into it. So.
Blessing Adioye
You know, there's a smart man we work with named Blessing. Adio. Yeah. Who says even if it's not his genre, if it's a banger, he's going to give it a shot. And he's been surprised how many times it has actually worked out for him.
Greg Miller
I mean, that's another one on the list. When you talk about the Dark Souls stuff like Elden Ring is another game that I believe as of now still doesn't have a photo mode. And like that.
Jack Quaid
Which is a crime. Yeah, that's a crime. That's the one recently where I was like, I was playing it and I was like, oh. Like it was one of those things where I'm like, ah, damn. But also simultaneously, thank God, because I would never stop. Yeah.
Blessing Adioye
Hey, I'm sorry, is this Ben Starr?
Greg Miller
Jesus Christ.
Blessing Adioye
Hey, it's Greg Miller. You're live on the kind of funny games cast. I'm great. Especially great. You remember when you made a horse's ass out of yourself in front of Jack Quaid when you said on his Instagram post, hey, why? Why? To take some expedition. You don't even have a photo Mode in Expedition 33.
E
I'm such an idiot. I can't believe it.
Blessing Adioye
Do you want to apologize to him right now? Because he's on the show last night. How are you?
E
He's on the show right now?
Blessing Adioye
Yeah.
Jack Quaid
Hey, Ben.
E
Hi, Jack. How are you? I would like to explain myself. It is possible to take pretty pictures in that game and I just thought it might be nice just to notice me a little bit. So. Pretty pictures. Yeah, I just, I just. I have quite low self esteem and look for it in the validation of. No, I just, I really would like. I would like to be noticed. So if that's possible.
Blessing Adioye
That Wear a shirt with a deeper V then. How about that, Ben? A deeper V shirt.
Tim Gettys
How about.
E
You'Ll be completely naked?
Jack Quaid
How about that?
Blessing Adioye
I've already announced on Gregory. Okay, everybody calm down.
Jack Quaid
All right?
Blessing Adioye
It's getting too hot in here.
E
I'm going to lube up. I'm lubing up.
Blessing Adioye
I'm coming up.
E
Coming on. Kind of Funny. Games Daily. Completely ready.
Jack Quaid
Nice.
Greg Miller
Whoa.
Blessing Adioye
That's next week, everybody. Spoiler alert. Ben Star.
Tim Gettys
Yes.
E
Anyway, thank you for calling me. I'm so sorry. But if you would like to play the critically acclaimed Expedition 33, Feel Free. It's absolutely banger.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, we were talking about it. We were talking about how good it is. Can we get him a PlayStation 5 code?
E
Yeah, yeah, I can do that for you right now.
Blessing Adioye
Okay. Thank you so much.
Jack Quaid
It's the next thing on my list. Thank you, sir. I can't wait to play it. Ah, you're great, by the way. You're great.
Blessing Adioye
We have fun.
Tim Gettys
I mean, I guess. Sorry, we get announced now. Ben Starr will be joining us here in studio.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Next Monday on my birthday. Exciting times. Games Daily, Games Cast.
Greg Miller
Hell yeah.
Tim Gettys
Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm choking now.
Blessing Adioye
It's okay. While you cough. Well, I should probably tell you, of course, we couldn't call Ben Starr without your support, everybody. Of course. Everything that keeps the lights and mics on here comes down to the kind of funny membership. If you like what we do here as an 11 person small business doing live talk shows all day long, usually about video games, oftentimes about Superman, pick up a membership over on patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Apple or Spotify. Of course, you get all of our shows ad free. You get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a 15 to 20 minute podcast called Greg Way. And of course you get good karma for supporting an independent business. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors.
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Jack Quaid
Oh, no, it's. It's just a slight gripe I have with the PS app where I was trying to send you guys even more photos from like, more recent sessions I've had with like God of war, Ragnarok. But it only saves your captures. Like, what's the limit?
Blessing Adioye
I think it's 14 days. They switched it off a while ago where they changed it over.
Jack Quaid
This is my life PlayStation. No, it's fine. I mean, you have what, 300 photos in an album?
Blessing Adioye
We got enough for you, Jack. But most importantly, we do have your victory Ral. There it is.
Jack Quaid
Look at that. Now look at me.
Blessing Adioye
Shout out for rocking the Isaac Clark dead space skin. All right, that's a gamer.
Jack Quaid
Come on.
Tim Gettys
That is awesome, y' all.
Blessing Adioye
Was this your first victory rail ever? Is that what's happening here?
Jack Quaid
I think it was like my first as like just a solo guy. I don't really. I don't play A ton of Fortnite. Because it's. I think it was the first time as a gamer where I was like, oh, my little brother is better at this than me. And I'm like, I just can't. Now they have it where you don't need to build. But I remember he was like, he could just build things immediately. And I was like, oh, no. I'm. It's my first time feeling old as a gamer, so I'm like, I just. Oh, okay. But it's fun. It's fun. I was more of like an Apex Legends guy that way.
Blessing Adioye
You were a man of taste.
Greg Miller
Exactly.
Tim Gettys
Plus, did you ever get into photo mode for any games?
Greg Miller
I mean, Ghost of Sushima, if you go back to, what, 2020 when that game came out, and look at my Twitter account, it was just filled with photos from Ghost of Sushima. Oh, in Shadow Colossus, the recent one, the remake, we have that one.
Jack Quaid
Oh, that has a photo mode. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Blessing Adioye
Oh, yeah.
Greg Miller
I think those were the two games for me. But then also, like, I think I kind of weeded off of it because it did dominate so much of my time in Ghost of Tsushima, where, like, that just became the experience for me. And I think certain games not having it also helped. Like, if Elden Ring had a photo mode, I'd be all over that shit. It was also one of those. For me, that was one of those things where I was taking photos without the photo mode.
Jack Quaid
Yeah. We would not be present.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. Greg, what about you?
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, but it's. It's that thing where I feel like when I talk about my photo mode stuff, like, I think it kind of funny. Like I'm anybody. Correct me if I'm wrong. I might be the biggest photo mode person for games or photo modes that really connect with me. But then I look at what Jack's putting up, I'm like, damn, he's making art. Like I said on the doc, I have a bunch of my stuff from Instagram and old stuff from Twitter. But, like, if you. Do you have it there, Raj?
Tim Gettys
No, I did not.
Jack Quaid
Not yet.
Blessing Adioye
Do you have the dock?
Greg Miller
Open it up now.
Jack Quaid
Sorry.
Blessing Adioye
Thank you. When you go down there, I think Dragon Age of the Veil Guard was my last game obsession with a photo mode. And I thought I did some good work there. I thought I put in some good work. I put up on Instagram before then. It's been stuff like Odyssey, I think was my first one ever that I was obsessed with. No, no. Assassin's Creed. Sorry.
Tim Gettys
The Mario Odyssey was good too.
Blessing Adioye
Oh, really?
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah. See, that's the thing, is it's got to be such a specific game. And so with Veil Guard, as we're looking through here on my Instagram, right, Like, first off, I thought, I'm no Jack Quaid, though. You know what I mean? I'm no Jack Quaid. I thought they were. I thought they were beautiful, Jackie. Okay, Jackie. You just critique my work. Critique my work.
Jack Quaid
It's good. I like, I like the skull. Like that. That tells the story. This is good. Yeah, I like the. I like the skulls. The silhouette. That's gorgeous. This is a gorgeous game as well. Yes, that's good, man.
Blessing Adioye
I'm gonna say criminally underplay like that one.
Jack Quaid
I like the grove. Like, I like the fire in the foreground. I like the character. Is that during combat?
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Here's my. Can we go back, Roger, to the one in comb? My rookies in the air there, right here. This is one of my gripes with photo modes is that for the games that have these amazing animations and frank and really great looking combat, I wish in a photo mode I could rewind time. So, like, this isn't. I don't think this is the shot I wanted of my rook, but it's the shot I got. I, you know, I start the animation, I hit pause, I'm like, I'm there. And so it's like I did this to more summarize what I was doing and I thought works, but I would appreciate it to be. If I could rewind time forward and backwards, get to really where I want to be. And then you can keep going so Jack can keep.
Jack Quaid
I'm nodding so hard right now, dude, because that's my. If you notice, most of my photo mode shots are not in combat. I wish a lot of them could be because that's obviously like the most dramatic thing, whatever. But yeah, I wish I could, like, kind of the way when I'm taking photos with my iPhone, if you take a live photo, you can get like the exact frame you want. I wish there was a bit of that.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah. And so, like, I feel like I have the most from. In my world, I would think Dragon Age and then Odyssey. And again, like, I did a very cursatory Google search. It's so hard trying to find my old Instagram stuff, find even old Twitter stuff. If you want to throw up some of the Odyssey stuff. I was able to come up with the one shot I think of my Starfield stuff, but I think, ooh, come on.
Jack Quaid
Now that's good.
Blessing Adioye
Odyssey, that's very good. Right? I think you're the common thing you're looking at with these three games. If we're talking about Dragon Age, Odyssey and Starfield, is the amount of time I spent in these games. Dragon Age, remember I did the Journal with. While I did it, I was doing an exercise, so I was taking that at a slower clip. Odyssey, I put some insane amount of hours into over years with. Right. And then Starfield, obviously. Same thing where it's like I'm just so involved in these games that I feel like I can stop and do that thing and take it. I'm excited right now. I'm announcing more things. Everybody that we've already reviewed. Death Stranding, obviously the boys are freaking it this weekend, week after fourth of July. Right. So not next week, the week after. We're going to do a Starfield or spoiler cast for Death Training two. Right. My plan right now is to keep on playing Expedition 33. Right. Review that next week on the shows. Maybe a so far, but I'm hoping to be done with it, then switch back to Death Stranding just to play all the side stuff. Not all of it, but a lot of it. And now that I'm to Death Stranding without an embargo on top of me for reviewing it, really get in deep with their photo mode because their photo mode is one that Jack, you're going to adore. Because it's one of those that I look at. I'm like, oh, this is very complex. Where I went into it. I'm like, all right, cool. Frames and borders. Yeah, of course. And then it was like, which lighting do you want? I went in. It's like, it's doing like the Insomniac. Like, you can have a ball of light right here or then back there. Like, okay, this is where. This is a different life that I don't have time when I'm reviewing the game to really get into.
Jack Quaid
I'll give Insomniac credit. The light, the ball of light or whatever. I don't really. I don't. I haven't seen that in a lot of photo modes.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, they go above and beyond with insomnia.
Jack Quaid
That one's pretty damn good. I don't really care about the borders. Yeah, that's kind of my thing where I'm like, that's fun. But it's like. It doesn't really serve my purposes of, like, the photo. It just kind of feels like, oh, we're reminding everyone that this is, in fact Spider man or whatever. Like, I don't really care about frames so much.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah. I would love to see the data on photo modes. As somebody who enjoys a good photo mode isn't obsessed like Jack. And I don't mean it because I think. I wonder how many people. If you're into photo mode, I would assume you're more. More like Jack or a little bit like me in terms of, like, I want a beautiful shot, and I'm playing with saturations and colors and black and white, this, that, the other. How many people are going in, like, in Spider man using the Daily Bugle overlay or whatever to put on sign? Like, it's all the stuff that I think takes away from those shots. And I could see someone doing it once or twice to get the trophy or the achievement to toy around with it, but then really using it. I don't. We've seen so many people in chat talking about how they don't use photo mode, and this is an interesting conversation. I wonder what the balance is.
Greg Miller
I went back and I try to find some of the photo mode shots that I've taken and posted on Twitter. And like. Like, for me, it triggered the thing that I realized that I do a lot, which is I take a lot of verticals. I don't think I did for as much for Shadow Colossus, except for this last pick here.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, that's gorgeous.
Tim Gettys
But I.
Jack Quaid
This one is insane. That's you Blessing.
Greg Miller
Yeah, that's me. So, yeah, this. That's the thing I love to do. Even in Mario Kart or Mario Kart World, I've done the same thing where I'm always taking photos to try and create phone backgrounds. And so if you turn the screen all the way to the side and screenshot it and then send it to your phone, this is the same thing I'm doing in Ghost of Sushi. I'm doing, like, a lot of different verticals. For a while, I was just rotating. My phone background is different photo mode shots I was taking.
Jack Quaid
Wait, I like that you're going in with this aspect ratio. That's really cool. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. Like, a lot of mine are, like, wide, but I like that. Yeah, it's almost like part of you is going back to. I don't. Whatever the era in Japan that Tsushima takes place in. Oh, yeah.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Jack Quaid
It's almost like you're going back there with an iPhone. It's like a really.
Greg Miller
Exactly. Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Dude. Also, these would be amazing phone backgrounds.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Yeah, that was the whole point I was just going through. I was just playing Ghost of Sushima.
Blessing Adioye
I was.
Greg Miller
Yeah. My whole point with the photo mode was just to make a bunch of different social backgrounds.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. It's funny because I. I often only accidentally go into photo mode. You know what I mean? I'm in a crazy combat encounter. I'm like, fumbling with the controller, and all of a sudden the photo mode pops up. I'm like, oh, it's this thing again. Like, the only times I've ever really played with it have been a little bit in Odyssey and like, even back in Smash Brothers Melee, which it wasn't a photo mode. But, like, when you hit pause, you can, like, control the camera and like, I think there was a screenshot mode brawl and stuff. Like, I would have some fun with that, but otherwise, like, I'm not really, really doing that. I like screenshots of things of just like, moments or like, memories of something more similar to the Victory Royale stuff. But there's more talented, smarter people than me, so I'll just watch Blessing and Jack's Instagram.
Jack Quaid
There was that direct. Recently, I saw you guys do your reaction to it of the Donkey Kong Bonanza, and I have to say, I was like, I never expect. Just because it's Nintendo and it's not usually the point, but the photo mode looks pretty damn good for Bonanza. I'm actually like, okay, I don't have a switch to yet, but I don't know, the game has to be good first. I would never buy a game for the photo mode. I think that's where my obsession. There's the line. And I think that that's a pretty reasonable.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, that is true for sure.
Jack Quaid
Have you ever done whatever that game is that you showed me? I was writing it down.
Greg Miller
Lush foil.
Tim Gettys
Lush foil.
Jack Quaid
Lush foil. Okay, that one. I mean, that's the point. But yeah, yeah, look at this. This is actually, like, pretty. For Nintendo. Like, that's pretty good.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jack Quaid
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Do you ever do the thing where a game doesn't have a photo mode and you try to take screenshots anyway to like, make it cool? Because that goes back to me with.
Jack Quaid
Elden Ring all the time. I tried to do that with. I think they had a photo mode actually, but it wasn't too in depth, which disappointed me a bit. But with Astro Bot, they have kind of a sort of sort of photo mode. Dude, nothing's.
Blessing Adioye
If you're gonna do a photo mode, do a fucking photo mode. The photo modes that are the most Half assed. Like, cool. It's a photo mode. It's got the borders. You can't. I've had them where you came and spin it. I'm like, this is. This is just an enhanced share button. This sucks. Don't do this.
Jack Quaid
What I'm saying, this is it. Like, yeah, commit to the photo mode or don't have it. But I have done that thing blessing where I'm just like positioning the camera during gameplay and hitting that like screenshot button and being like, all right, this is fine.
Blessing Adioye
Sorry.
Jack Quaid
What?
Greg Miller
Like just. This is good enough. Even though the UI is still there.
Jack Quaid
Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Like the menu. I can see the menu. I can see all the stuff. I can see my health bar. But yeah, I will attempt to do that if I like a game enough.
Greg Miller
Do you have a top three photo modes? If you had a rank.
Jack Quaid
Oh God. Well, definitely Red Dead, Tsushima and Spider man. Just because they. Oh, but oh man. Last Of Us Part 1 Remastered had a great one and also God of War, Ragnarok great one. I think I still have to go with the first three that I said though for like top in terms of like the photo mode themselves. Like regardless of the game's quality, like the photo modes, I have to say. Oh God. Rank. Those three lighting alone. Maybe Spider Man's number one because of the lighting choices. But I'm wondering if maybe Red Dead and Ghost of Tsushima had the lighting choices but I just never use them. Or like maybe I just didn't mess around with that part of it then. Okay, for now I'll say Spider Man Sushima Red Dead. Just in terms of Tsushima takes it one degree over Red Dead because of the weather that you can control. But Red Dead was my first photo mode love. So. So there we go.
Tim Gettys
We have a bunch of super chats riding in with questions for Jack and us as well. Matt Irby says photo modes become a standard in high fidelity AAA games. Would you be excited if game started developing a good clip mode to edit videos? I feel like there's been a lot of attempts at that over the years.
Greg Miller
Let me tell you about Sifu.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, really good one.
Jack Quaid
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
There's the theater mode back in like Halo 3. Even that like people took really seriously. But yeah, Sifu actually that was a great one because like I remember.
Greg Miller
I remember messing around with it and like I went through one of the challenge levels and went back and just cut all the angles to try and turn it into a kung fu movie. And like it felt cool. Like I Can see if I can find it. But, yeah, the SIFU one was pretty good.
Jack Quaid
Wait, so what did Sifu. Because I love sifu, and I messed around with their photo mode a little bit. They had a mode where you could basically, like, replay the fight.
Greg Miller
You just had, like.
Jack Quaid
And pick.
Greg Miller
Exactly. I think you would.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Replay the fight. Or, like, you would, I think, maybe start the clip and then end the clip at a certain sequence. And then they had a video editing mode where you can like, go back and kind of, like, free camera, free cam, and. And yes, change all the angles and do cool stuff with it.
Jack Quaid
I would love that. That, to me, that's, like, the next logical step in a way. Like, that'd be maybe that'll, you know, create a real life love of, like, directing or something. That'd be kind of cool. But, yeah, I would. I would be definitely interested in something like that.
Tim Gettys
Greg, what's the blue name there? I can't see. Pixelated Soul says Halo 3 lets you replay entire online matches. You could move the camera anywhere on the map through the entire map. Why is that not become a standard thing? That's how a lot of red versus blue, like, the majority of the show was created, even. It was, like, just being able to, like, free cam and stuff with just Halo online matches, which is so cool. That was, like, 2007.
Jack Quaid
It's crazy that we had that back then.
Blessing Adioye
I love the idea that when Jack is all done being an actor, he's just a photographer, and it all started here. It's like Randy Johnson, who is a very famous MLB pitcher who's now just a professional photo guy at the sidelines.
Jack Quaid
Roger, I tried to. Well, Jeff Bridges has this incredible book that he released of just shots that he took on all of his movies. And it's out there. It's so good. I think someone gave it to me for Christmas one year. But you look through it, and he takes it on this insane camera that's, like, super. The image he gets is super long and wide, but it's like shots of Downey Jr. On Iron man and, like. And, like, Big Lebowski. It's like every movie he's been in, he's taken some photos on it, and it's so cool because that's. That's his photo mode, baby. That's. I. I love that. So I've tried to do that with. With any project I've been on. I've tried to, like, take photos while I'm kind of in the world of the show or the movie or whatever. I couldn't do it on Oppenheimer because Nolan does not allow photos or. Or phones, period, on his set. So I was like, I was bummed because that's the ultimate photo mode.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Jack Quaid
Just like, oh my God. But also, I didn't necessarily want to be going up to Killian Murphy being like, can you just. Can you.
Blessing Adioye
So, yeah, I was playing Spider man and it made me want to take photos.
Jack Quaid
So I was playing Spider Man.
Tim Gettys
Killian, what are your like co workers, co stars, whatever you call them, feel about this? Like, are they. Are they aware of this obsession? And are. Do people judge you? Do they support it? Is there somewhere in the middle?
Jack Quaid
They, they. They like it. That's the thing is that they. I kind of started doing it with, with this cast and I think they've like, seen the photos and they're like, we like these photos. We trust you now. But yeah, I like to try to get people when they're not posing, when they're. It's kind of candid and when they're like in the middle of something and sometimes it comes out to someone being kind of making an. What I like to call an in between face where they're like, like kind of half blinking or coming out of a blink or whatever. But sometimes. And this is why I like live photos, because you can tweak it to where people are slightly more focused. I guess I really like just catching a moment and telling a story and trying to get something that's not necessarily posed. Actually, I do have a separate Instagram account that's way smaller than mine, but it's called Photos or no Photo. Photo by jq. What? What?
Blessing Adioye
How did I not know about this?
Jack Quaid
Why did you tell me on my account? But if you want to bring it up, I'm pret Photos by JC Photography on that too. I haven't like posted on there in.
Tim Gettys
A while, but that's awesome, dude.
Jack Quaid
I was kind of like, oh, man, am I going to have like an entire. Yeah. Yeah. So these are just. These are like from. From. Yeah, there's some Spider Man. There's some. Yeah. Virtual photography. But then there's also just like other stuff I've done. So. Yeah.
Tim Gettys
What are you shooting on?
Jack Quaid
That's. That's an iPhone.
Tim Gettys
Are they all just iPhone? Have you. Have you dabbled with like quote unquote real cameras or are you just. Just straight up on iPhone?
Jack Quaid
That's the thing about a real camera. I like the idea of it. But then I'm on a set and I have to bring this like, large, ish thing. And I kind of like the idea of just like, I already have this phone, so I'll just use that. Oh, I love this one of Carl. If you go. It's like a black and white one. It's next to.
Blessing Adioye
In the middle there with the food.
Jack Quaid
Yeah, I like this one. This is what I'm talking about. I'm like. It's like I'm in playing the video game of the boys.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Jack Quaid
And I get to like, oh, that'd be cool. And that's our camera operator, Adam. Yeah, I love this. And then, oh, I have Danny Jollis's wedding right next to that one.
Blessing Adioye
You mean Danny Jollis from this week's kind of funny podcast?
Jack Quaid
Look at him. Look at him go. There's Nick. But, yeah, no, I. Yeah, people's weddings are big for me because I'm just like, all right, here we go.
Blessing Adioye
I gotta bring the A game. Awesome, Jack.
Jack Quaid
Yeah, this is super rad, boys. There's Aaron. You know, a lot of stuff.
Tim Gettys
So. So do your. Your co workers have thoughts on your virtual photography?
Blessing Adioye
Wait, hold on. Before you. Because that's my question. Is one of this virtual photography in the video games? Is this just something you're sharing once in a while Instagram, or is it like your girlfriend comes over like, look, honey, look at this. You show all these photos.
Jack Quaid
I do. I do do that. I'm just like, check this one out. She's like. She's like, that's a cool photo. But, you know. But no, I think it's really like. Well, I used to post them on Twitter because there used to be. A, I used to be on Twitter, and B, there used to be a thing where it could just go right from the PlayStation, and the PlayStation would post it to your Twitter for you. Yeah, and I love that. That's how I started with Red Dead. And I actually liked that a lot better because the photos were slightly more high def than the PS app. But, yeah, I think with the virtual photography, sometimes people, like, the cast members would see me posting them, and I've gotten reactions from like, those are pretty cool. To. They should be paying you for this. I'm like, no, they shouldn't.
Tim Gettys
So funny.
Jack Quaid
But I. Yeah, I think I'm kind of one of the only members of at least the boys cast that plays a ton of video games. Like, it's me and Jesse who plays a train. We're like the people who play games on the show.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, that's right.
Jack Quaid
So Jesse gets it.
Tim Gettys
Cameron says delayed birthday tax because I wanted to ask if there are any games you want a photo mode for that don't already have it. I need one in Expedition 33. Happy birthday, Cameron. Yeah, we talked about this a little bit, but are there any others that pops your mind, Greg, if they added.
Jack Quaid
A photo to older games? Sorry, you weren't asking me.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, well. Mario 64, let's go, dude.
Greg Miller
Mario 64.
Jack Quaid
I'll talk about this later, Greg. You go ahead.
Blessing Adioye
No, no, no, please go, because I got to think of something.
Jack Quaid
Okay. I was just replaying through like PlayStation plus or whatever. Like I was replaying like Jack 2. I'm like, that. That'd be fun to have one in like. Or a Crash Bandicoot, but I get to go wherever. Super Mario 64? Is that what you just said?
Greg Miller
Yeah, yeah.
Jack Quaid
That'd be amazing. So good.
Blessing Adioye
Yeah, I don't. I don't have old games. Make sense. Right. But again, it'd be something. Where am I gonna invest all that time in it? And I. I think Chat, correct me if I'm wrong, I took a lot of screenshots in the division, but I can't remember if the division had a photo mode or if that was me posing and doing the thing and trying to get it how I wanted. So, like that even that's not a great answer because I can't remember either way. But it's like, yeah, it's more of the games that I'm gonna be living in. I'd love more with that gta.
Greg Miller
San Andreas, I think would be such a sick one for a photo mode. I think that one is like any open world game that has different types of environments where I'm doing a bunch of different things. I think that gives you a lot of opportunities to just frame really cool shots.
Jack Quaid
David is definitely better.
Tim Gettys
David, Tim says. Hey, Jack, huge fan of your work. You have a great artistic eye for composition. Any interest in moving on to directing in the future?
Jack Quaid
Oh, man. I think primarily. Thank you, sir. I think primarily I want to, like, if I'm doing anything in addition to acting, I'd love to be doing, to be writing, but also, I don't know, photo mode. And now talking about it like, this is really the longest amount of time I have talked about photo modes, like, ever. Like, I just kind of do it and post it, but I don't really talk about it often. And I'm realizing in this moment, like, yeah, maybe one day that'd be cool. I got very excited when Blessing you said that there was a video editor essentially for Sifu I was like, okay, like maybe one day that'd be really, really cool. It's making me more. I just know being a director is a lot of responsibility and it's a very tough job and the people who do it well are so, so talented and cool. But yeah, maybe, maybe.
Blessing Adioye
Here's what I will say. This is what they're missing. A golden opportunity. I'm reaching out and I'm talking right now to you, Andrew Goldfarb from Sucker Punch. All right, you got Ghost of Yote coming up. When?
Tim Gettys
October.
Blessing Adioye
October 16th. That's right. No, October. October 2nd chat. Correct me if I'm wrong. October 2nd. Ghost of USA is coming up in October 2nd says Cameron. Katie, I was right. Is coming up. Work with Jack Quain. Either get him up there early just to play and take photos or, or do in la. Like I'm. There's all these art galleries in la.
Tim Gettys
Do.
Blessing Adioye
One that puts up all his stuff and it's a promotional event. Do. And I'm here, Goldfarb. I'm doing it for you. All right. I'm playing Brian, Brian Fleming at Sucker Punch. I'm planning the event for you. Have a hands on preview event, launch party, whatever you want the industry side of it to be. And then it's at an art gallery with Jack Quaid's photos of Ghost One up. There you go. That's a million dollar idea. Jackson stuff.
Jack Quaid
I mean, I'm in. If this is at all a possibility. This is like the greatest thing I've ever heard of.
Tim Gettys
We're on it.
Blessing Adioye
Took these in a game.
Tim Gettys
CJ writes in saying, jack, do you have any opinions on Viewfinder or Pokemon Snap?
Jack Quaid
Well, if I'm actually being honest, Pokemon Snap back in the day was probably actually my first experience with virtual photography. It didn't necessarily give me the bug because I was just trying to like, you know, play that game.
Tim Gettys
Did you ever, did you ever go to Blockbuster and print out your pictures?
Jack Quaid
No. Oh yeah, that was an option. I never did that, but I remember. Wow, you just gave me like a full on.
Tim Gettys
It's crazy, right? Like people get. People are buying those kiosks on ebay for like thousands of dollars. And like, I don't know if you, you were probably a little too young for this. Like when Pokemon Snap came out and Pokemon Stadium as well, you. There was obviously photo modes in Pokemon Snap. That's the whole game. Yeah. But there was a photo mode in Pokemon Stadium. I guess this is my, my, my photo mode story is I got so into taking pictures of My Blastoise and shit. Then you literally would take your N64 cartridge to a Blockbuster and plug it into a kiosk and they would print out sticker versions of your pictures.
Greg Miller
I think I do remember taking photos of a Blastoise in Pokemon Stadium, but I don't know. I don't think I ever knew about the feature we printed out. That's cool.
Tim Gettys
Crazy.
Blessing Adioye
Can I give you a super chat? That's not a super chat, but it's right up our alley, and I'm surprised that we didn't even think to mention it. Alex J. Sandoval BS'd me. That's blue Sky. Meet him and says, hey, game over. Great. Couldn't make this a super chat for some reason, but Jack Quaid and other video game photographers should check out Photo Mode IO. It's made by Isaiah Smith, Janet's partner. A great place to share your pictures with others. And I totally spaced on this. Of course. Isaiah, friend of the show, has a site he's made where you can just go and upload your photo modes and check out other photo modes and search by game and do these things and that very cool phone. Photo mode IO.
Jack Quaid
Hey, photo mode IO. Get ready for 300 more pictures.
Greg Miller
Crash the server.
Tim Gettys
Nate Fletcher says Jack.
Blessing Adioye
Especially Victory Royale, the first one from Jack Quaid. Uploaded.
Tim Gettys
Nate says, Jack, will you be our champion for a Red Dead movie or TV series in the future?
Jack Quaid
I mean, of course. I feel like everyone is screaming for that, though, right? Like, everyone, like, of course I'll be there. But I'm like. I feel like that Jack Black song that he made, the video game song was just like a. Basically a rallying cry for that. Like, yes, I would love that so much. But here's the thing, though, with that, I think it would have to be a TV show, I think, for. Because it's such a huge, sprawling story. But I'm like. Part of me is kind of like. I mean, the acting and everything and the story is so good in the game. Do we need, like. My favorite parts of the Last of Us show are when they kind of deviate from the plot that I know. So I would love to see something in that world. I like what Fallout's doing when they're like, here's the world, you know, but we have our own characters within it. I love that too. But, yeah, done. I'll be your champion for that. Sure.
Tim Gettys
Hell, yeah.
Jack Quaid
That'd be incredible. I'm sure they'd come. I feel like we've just recently started to crack the code of like video game adaptation. So, yeah, I think that'd be great.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, we got a couple back to back ones here in that vein. CJ Split Song says, what game, movie or series would you love to star in? And Yang Fam says, jack, if you could star as the main protagonist in a AAA game, what genre or game would you want to star in? So what would you be interested in? Being an actual game. And is there any game that you'd want to play in the movie or TV adaptation?
Jack Quaid
Well, I can't believe you guys have forgotten my incredible lauded turn as Deer Heil in Lord of the Rings, Shadow of Mordor.
Blessing Adioye
How could we?
Jack Quaid
How could you forget?
Blessing Adioye
Outrageous.
Jack Quaid
That was my first, like, experience doing that. And that was so cool to do because last of us had just come out and I was playing it and I was loving it and I was like, oh my God, you can have like real nuance and performance in games now. And then I like show up to that audition for that game and I'm working with Troy Baker for this audition. And then it's like me in the, like, that's how I know all those guys. Like, if that's Nolan was on that game, John DiMaggio was on that game, Laura Bailey, JB Blanc, like, all these incredible people were there on one day and I got to be in a mocap studio doing that. I'd kill to do that again. I would love to do that again. Yes. Sign me up 1,000%. I don't. What genre. Just something where it's like a really good. Just something with a really good story. I think I. At this point, God, I love, I don't know, I love the stories Naughty Dog tells. I love the stories Sony Santa Monica tells. I love soccer. I love them all. They're all just great. So if they'll have me, I'd love to be there. That'd be so cool. But in terms of like, yeah, go.
Blessing Adioye
Ahead, push for a Superman game. You're Superman. Jack. Let's get in my Adventures of Superman games.
Jack Quaid
That'd be amazing. I'd be so into that. 1,000%. Yes. No, I'm totally down. I would love, I think that. That our particular universe lends itself to. I mean, yeah, because it's kind of anime inspired, like, and Superman kind of powers up throughout the course of that series. Very, you know, I'm still pushing for. And this is what you have to watch Novocaine on Paramount. Plus I want a Novocaine roguelite.
Greg Miller
Hell yeah.
Jack Quaid
Roguelike, where you are like, you have a Run. You're going on a run and you eventually, you know, he can't feel pain, but eventually he can die. So it's like a run, you know, you. You take it as far as you can go. But yeah, in terms of. There was another question there. In terms of like a game, what was it like? What kind of adaptation?
Tim Gettys
Like, what is there a game character you'd want to play in the movie or TV adaptation of a game? And the. Anthony Adams says, hey, Jack, watched Novocaine recently and I loved it. I can't be the only one that got major ma pain vibes from you at certain points. Was that intentional?
Jack Quaid
I don't think it was intentional, but I remember being there shooting in that like, leather jacket and tank top on that day. And people have told me I look like Max Payne. But what's the actor? He's also the developer, right?
Blessing Adioye
Sam Lake.
Jack Quaid
Sam. Like, people have told me I've looked like him for a very long time. And I remember being there on the day with the, with that get up on and they took a shot of me like a, you know, someone was on set doing on set photography and they took a shot of me like aiming the gun at the lens. And I, I think there was a few, including our two directors, Dan and Bobby, who are like us huge nerds. They were like, this looks exactly like Max.
Tim Gettys
Nailed it.
Jack Quaid
The whole thing. So, like, I totally get the. Yeah, I totally get the comparison. I mean, I mean, that'd be. Look, look, I, I'd play Max. That's literally the shot. Wow, that's. That's insane. That'd be so cool. I'd be down, I'd be super down to do that. That'd be.
Blessing Adioye
We'll let Sam know.
Jack Quaid
Yeah, I mean, also, he has the rights to that, so.
Tim Gettys
Zombie Keegan says birthday tax. Happy birthday, Zombie Quaid army reporting for duty. I love that the Quaid army is just growing. It's. It is out there. Do you have any thoughts on the Quaid Army?
Jack Quaid
But you know what that means, right? That has nothing to do with me.
Tim Gettys
No. God, no. I don't know. Please explain.
Jack Quaid
Okay, this is another, this is another long walk. But Quaid army is the name of the fan base of the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast. Stay with me now.
Blessing Adioye
We're with you.
Jack Quaid
So they did a sketch, they have a podcast right now, the Lonely Island. Andy Jorma, Akiva and Seth Meyers, they have a podcast where they recast and basically explain how they behind the scenes details of every digital short. They ever made on snl. I would highly recommend it. It's super fun. They call themselves Quaid army because they did a sketch, a live sketch on SNL a while ago where Andy plays Quado from Total Recall. And a thing he says is, any of you. Quaid's got a smint. That's like a thing he says in the sketch. And he calls everybody Quaid's because Arnold Schwarzenegger is named Quaid and Total Recall. Anyway, so they started calling themselves Quaid Army. I then they. They allow people to send in voice notes and they asked me to send in one kind of explaining how I felt about that. And I'm just like, I love it. I love it. I think it's so fun that this has absolutely nothing to do with me or anyone I'm related to and it. But it's weird to hear my name constantly said to me, even though it has nothing to do at all. It's very, very strange. Now they'll just directly call me out on the podcast Guess. And so my friends, particularly Carl Urban, will call me Quato. And that's kind of become a nickname that has stuck with a bunch of my friends. So now Andy Sandberg, during the middle of their podcast, that'll know out of nowhere, will just be like, he knows I'm listening in my apartment. So he just goes, quo, what you cooking? Like, it happens constantly. So sorry, that's a huge deviation. That's what army means.
Blessing Adioye
No, that's amazing.
Tim Gettys
And it's so good.
Jack Quaid
Sort of.
Blessing Adioye
I wondered about it because so many people were saying it when you were announced this, and it was like, I know Jack doesn't like stream. How is he getting a Quaid army off the ground?
Tim Gettys
What's he doing? Well, it's because he's freaking everywhere. Cole OCD super chats in saying, how's Jack Quaid? On the front page of every streaming service, but also have this much time to go on photo you really. I swear to God, there must have been a time that you are on the front page of every single major streaming service.
Jack Quaid
It was strange this year because I basically made. I made like four movies. But it was over the stretch of like a year and some significant change, but then somehow they all came out within like four months of each other. So it just seems like all of a sudden I'm in everything and I have something coming out on July 2nd, and I swear to God, that's the last thing until the boys come back. I swear to God.
Tim Gettys
What is it? Tell people about it.
Jack Quaid
It. Oh, yes, it's called Heads of State. It's a. I'm. I'm only in like this much of it, but it's a very fun movie. It's an action movie. This is the premise and I love it because it reminds me of like, in the best way, a movie that I would watch as a teenager at a sleepover with my friends. John Cena plays the President of the United States, Idris Elba.
Blessing Adioye
Hell yeah.
Tim Gettys
What?
Jack Quaid
Idris Elba plays the Prime Minister of the uk and they're supposed to have this special relationship, but they actually kind of hate each other. And then they're both riding in Air Force One as kind of a sign of good faith. Then it gets shot out of the sky. They survive and it's kind of like Lethal Weapon or like a buddy Cop thing, but with the two of them. And it's very, very fun. Holy shit. Priyanka Chopra Jonas is also in it. She's amazing in it. And I show up for like one really fun sequence.
Tim Gettys
Oh, my God, look at your hair.
Jack Quaid
Yeah, that's me. But yeah, it's a. It's a very, very fun movie. It's just one of those action movies that's like, it's just so unbelievably fun. And the guy that directed it, his name is Ilya Neichler, he directed Nobody, which was one of my favorite action movies ever. And he crushed it. He's so good. Such a talented guy. So go check it out. It's on prime video on July 2nd. It's gonna be fun.
Tim Gettys
Did you get to meet John Cena?
Jack Quaid
Dude, I have full on scenes with the two of them with John Cena.
Tim Gettys
Incredible.
Jack Quaid
What are you talking about? It's the greatest moment of my life. So cool.
Tim Gettys
Oh, man, you're supposed to be a.
Jack Quaid
Huge fan of his. So it was like, it's really cool.
Tim Gettys
And then the last super chat I'm gonna get to today is Ben Starr just saying in all caps, notice me, Jack. You guys need to become best friends.
Jack Quaid
Not only do I notice you, but I love you and I can't wait, wait to play your game. I don't know why I'm shouting at the camera like you can't already hear me.
Tim Gettys
I love it, man.
Blessing Adioye
When you're off. When you're off. I have already sent you your code for lush foil. And Ben has sent me to send you expedition. So you're all set. You're all.
Tim Gettys
Dude, you're going to love expedition, man.
Jack Quaid
I swear to God, saying that immediately. That's so okay, thank you. Thank you, Ben. Thank you, Greg. That's so cool.
Tim Gettys
Well, thank you, Jack, for joining us today. Always a pleasure having you on the show. Of course. You are welcome. Anytime. Before we let you go, is there any other thing you want to pimp out here?
Jack Quaid
That's it. I swear to God. Thank you so much. It was so cool to actually talk about photo mode for, like, a long time. And I don't know, I'm gonna probably take way too many photos now in there. Thanks for having me on, guys. This is so, so cool. You guys are the best.
Blessing Adioye
No, honestly, you got me super excited for that because I was like, oh, next week with Death Stranding, I can do that. So I'm super stoked to.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. Good stuff, man. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, everyone, for watching. The day is just beginning. We're about to do Superman 3 in review. And then after that, nothing. Because we're prepping for the Death Stranding 2 stream. Everyone prepare your bodies, minds and souls for this weekend. The Death Stranding 2 marathon stream is about to be absolutely insane. Greg's parade, it's gonna be something. Oh, also, I can say finally, definitively, my wedding video will debut on Monday, my birthday, June 30th at noon. So that'll be a YouTube premiere for everybody to watch. So, yeah, it's going to be a. A lot of stuff happen in the next couple days. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Blessing Adioye
But when, Jack, big time, you didn't come to your wedding now.
Tim Gettys
Well, I wonder why he's so, so sorry.
Blessing Adioye
No, no, no, it's too late. We're taking the codes back.
Tim Gettys
No, no, thank you. Thank you anyways. I love you all. Goodbye.
Kinda Funny Gamescast: Jack Quaid's Video Game Photography Obsession
Release Date: June 26, 2025
In this special episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, hosts Tim Gettys, Blessing Adioye, and Greg "GameOverGreggy" Miller welcome a very special guest, actor Jack Quaid. Known for his standout role in the hit series "The Boys", Jack brings his unique passion for video game photography to the forefront of the discussion.
Jack Quaid opens up about his emotional journey wrapping up the fifth season of "The Boys". Filming in Toronto, Jack reflects on dedicating a significant portion of his adult life to the series.
Jack Quaid [02:14]: “I've been on this show, and now it's coming to an end. I'm glad that we're ending when we are. It's going to get weird... it's bittersweet and strange, like I'm about to graduate high school.”
Jack emphasizes the rarity of concluding a major TV series on their own terms and shares his anticipatory feelings about life after the show.
The conversation takes a humorous turn as Jack discusses the "Vegeta, Prince of the Saiyans" voicemail he uses, mimicking his character's persona from "The Boys".
Jack Quaid [00:43]: “You think you reach Jack Quaid, but you have in fact reached me.”
This playful nod to his character fosters a lighthearted atmosphere among the hosts and highlights Jack's ability to blend his acting persona into everyday interactions.
Jack delves into his burgeoning hobby of virtual photography, sharing how it became a creative outlet during downtime from acting. Starting with Red Dead Redemption 2 during the COVID lockdown in Toronto, Jack found solace and artistic expression through photo modes in various video games.
Jack Quaid [14:57]: “I like a photo that tells some form of story. I think I'm going for... hopefully it looks like it's a still frame of a movie because I'm obsessed with movies and I'm obsessed with video games.”
Jack explains his fascination with capturing moments that blend cinematic storytelling with the immersive environments of video games. His Instagram is filled with over 350 meticulously crafted screenshots from titles like Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima, and God of War Ragnarok, each showcasing his eye for composition and narrative.
The hosts engage in an in-depth discussion about the intricacies of photo modes across different games. Jack praises games that offer extensive customization, such as Ghost of Tsushima, which allows control over weather and natural elements, enhancing the visual storytelling aspect.
Jack Quaid [18:14]: “Ghost of Tsushima... you can change the different nature systems on a menu and it's just so customizable.”
He also shares his aspirations for future enhancements, expressing a desire for features like time rewinding in photo modes to capture perfect moments during dynamic in-game events.
Jack Quaid [35:50]: “I wish there was a bit of that... like, live photos where you can adjust the exact frame you want.”
The conversation touches on the limitations of current photo modes, such as restricted camera angles and limited filter options, and the potential for advancements that could bridge the gap between virtual and real photography.
Jack showcases his virtual photography portfolio, sharing selected images live during the podcast. His co-hosts and fellow gamers commend his work, igniting enthusiasm within the community.
Greg Miller [38:57]: “That's a gorgeous shot, Blessing.”
Interactions with fans via Super Chats highlight the growing appreciation for Jack's unique hobby, with listeners sharing their own experiences and questions about virtual photography.
Beyond photography, Jack hints at his interest in exploring more creative avenues within the gaming and film industries. He expresses interest in directing and delving deeper into storytelling through different mediums.
Jack Quaid [52:54]: “I'd love to be writing, but also, I don't know, photo mode.”
Additionally, Jack promotes his upcoming action movie "Heads of State", sharing his excitement about working alongside big names like John Cena and Idris Elba.
Jack Quaid [65:02]: “It's a very fun movie... directed by Ilya Neichler, who directed Nobody.”
As the episode wraps up, Jack Quaid expresses his gratitude for being a part of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, leaving listeners inspired by his passion for blending acting with virtual artistry.
Jack Quaid [67:03]: “Thank you so much. This is so cool.”
The hosts bid farewell, teasing upcoming reviews and streams, including a Death Stranding 2 marathon, further engaging the gaming community.
Jack Quaid [02:14]: “I've been on this show, and now it's coming to an end. I'm glad that we're ending when we are. It's going to get weird... it's bittersweet and strange, like I'm about to graduate high school.”
Jack Quaid [14:57]: “I like a photo that tells some form of story. I think I'm going for... hopefully it looks like it's a still frame of a movie because I'm obsessed with movies and I'm obsessed with video games.”
Jack Quaid [35:50]: “I wish there was a bit of that... like, live photos where you can adjust the exact frame you want.”
Greg Miller [38:57]: “That's a gorgeous shot, Blessing.”
Jack Quaid [52:54]: “I'd love to be writing, but also, I don't know, photo mode.”
This episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast offers a compelling glimpse into Jack Quaid's life beyond acting, showcasing his dedication to virtual photography and its intersection with storytelling in video games. His insights and passion provide a unique perspective that resonates with both gamers and fans of his work, making it an engaging listen for those interested in the creative fusion of acting and gaming artistry.