Three Best Friends Talk Video Games - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Three Best Friends Talk Video Games - October 13, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, hosts Mike, Andy, and Nick (with special appearances from Tim in the background) deliver a quintessential “just hanging out” episode, blending earnest video game discussion with signature, riff-heavy banter. Centered around their Game of the Year picks—especially Nick’s adoration for Dune Awakening—the hosts also recap personal stories, a recent Elden Ring symphony concert experience, and the challenge of narrowing down the best games from a packed year for releases.

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Main Discussion Threads & Insights

1. The Classic Kinda Funny Vibe (00:38–13:14)

• Casual Banter & Movie Nostalgia
  The cast reminisces about Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson comedies, old-school college visit stories, and memories from recent staff gatherings.
  Notable riff:

  “They've given us the steering wheel and we're gonna cram this car into an.” – Nick (01:31)

• Running Joke: Mike visiting college campuses a la The Internship, and a chain of football-related hijinks at team events.

2. Game of the Year Process & Too Many Games (13:51–26:43)

• How Games Get Scored

  • The team discusses evolving their Game of the Year process: expanding personal lists from top 10 to 15 to give lesser-known picks a chance.

    “You know what? Giving me the deciding vote… It would be like that Kevin Costner movie...” – Nick (18:33)

  • Andy details the point system: first place gets 20 points, then 18, 16, etc. (26:52)

• Challenge of 2025:
  Emphasis on how this year yields “too many high-quality games”—everyone is passionate and played a wide variety, increasing the spread and making consensus harder.

3. Nick’s Game of the Year & Deep Dive on Dune (20:31–22:19, 60:02–62:34)

• Dune Awakening as Nick’s GOTY
  • While the team tries new games, only Dune has captured Nick's long-term attention (“300 hours in”), he sings its praises post-DLC and bug fixes:

    “It’s the game I’ve played the most and the one I’ll champion for everyone. There’s never been a better time to get into it than now.” – Nick (21:00)

  • Describes recent updates (Chapter Two, vehicle backup/tools), and shares an anecdote about in-game community (neighbors, thumpers, and making “football friends”).
  • Dune Awakening stands out for its relaxing treasure-hunting and building, not just action.

4. Other Game of the Year Candidates & Staff Favorites (22:43–36:56)

• Expedition 33:
  Multiple hosts believe this will clinch Kinda Funny’s collective Game of the Year due to its broad staff love.

  “I think that will win our Game of the Year—probably number one on most lists.” – Andy (22:53)

• Donkey Kong Bonanza:
  Mixed reviews; some found it too long, and there’s internal debate about the “Nintendo bump” in scores. Andy shares an off-the-record moment with Rahul expressing skepticism on it as GOTY, with Blessing admitting some recency/Nintendo bias (24:49).
• Yote:
  A stealth favorite, especially for Roger—described as featuring a “straightforward revenge narrative” and “the Yote 6” (29:54).
• Baby Steps:
  A divisive but oddly fascinating indie about “growing up”—praised for underlying themes, docked for its wild humor.
• Sim Games:
  Running bit about a Kinda Funny spin-off podcast to honor favorite simulation games (Water Park Sim, Card Shop Sim, “A Game About Digging a Hole”).

5. The Elden Ring Symphony Concert Recap (36:56–51:00)

• Concert Structure, Vibes & “Best Game Ever”
  • Andy recounts attending the Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure concert in LA, sharing how the orchestra scored a playthrough of the game’s story arc with curated in-game footage.
  • Descriptive highlights: “goosebumps and tears” at certain boss fights, jokes about Blessing falling asleep, missed merch opportunities (“mid” T-shirts), and praise for the companion drinks (Cerulean/Crimson Tears cocktails).

  • “While watching, I was like, this is the best video game of all time. No question.” – Andy (43:46)

  • Critiques: Sound mix could’ve used more punch, bass too light, and sections felt stretched given Elden Ring’s sheer size.
  • Hot Take: Andy suggests a Bloodborne symphony might be even better due to tighter, more consistent musical theming (50:25).

6. Super Chats, Shout Outs, and Community Calls (51:12–59:10)

• Reads super chats, including:
  • A listener’s recent marriage
  • Sim game recommendations (Card Shop Sim, Gas Station Sim)
  • Debating pronunciation of “Curacao” and hilarious beverage banter
  • “Prove Andy wrong” as a daily team mantra (56:05)
• Support for indie games (Cuff Bust, Peak, etc.)
• Anecdotes from airport run-ins with TikTok creators, conventions, and creators like Rahul, Alana, and Blessing hanging out at Hard Rock Café.

7. Wrap-Up: GOTY Final Thoughts & TV Talk (59:52–63:42)

• Nick’s Final Call:
  “For me, the game of the year is gonna be Dune. Dune Awakening… People are coming back. There’s never been a better time to get into Dune than right now.” (60:02)
• Dune Neighborhood Drama:
  Nick tells a story about a mysterious new neighbor in Dune, contemplating whether to befriend or destroy their house (“build a thumper and see if the worm will come swallow this house up.” – Nick, 61:34)
• Team Bonding:
  “It’s like when I made friends with box fart 69... that’s a friendship that will forever be.” – Mike (62:04)
• TV Tangents:
  Brief excitement over Game of Thrones’ upcoming prequel, typical banter about what they want out of fantasy prequels.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Did you ever see that Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson movie where they were interns at Google? …Anytime Mike does anything, that’s what it reminds me of.” – Nick (03:06)
• “You guys are old and stupid. But then they fall in love with them.” – Mike mocking movie clichés (05:59)
• “Me and Nick will send him a pizza every time he watches.” – Mike, on incentivizing Andy’s movie marathons (12:08)
• “There’s never been a better time to get into [Dune Awakening] than now.” – Nick (21:03, 60:02)
• “I think you absolutely could just put the games in that resonated with you the most. They don’t have to be the best games.” – Nick (34:10)
• “While watching [the concert], I was like, this is the best video game of all time.” – Andy on Elden Ring (43:46)
• “This year is just like you could close your eyes and throw a rock and you will hit an 8 or a 9 out of 10.” – Andy on 2025’s quality lineup (22:39)
• “Honestly, I kept thinking...this would be better if it were a Bloodborne concert.” – Andy, controversial take (50:26)
• “Prove Andy wrong.”—Mike, describing the daily team energy (56:05)
• “I’m going to order you a pizza...we’re going to watch The Internship and the Devil Wears Prada at the same time and play Peak.” – Nick, ultimate hang-out plan (59:46)

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Important Timestamps

• Scary Games and Silent Hill F sub-goal: 00:52–01:07
• Movie banter/New looks: 01:26–06:24
• Football prank stories: 08:12–10:46
• Poll: Shanghai Noon vs. Wild Wild West: 12:17–16:14
• GOTY voting expansion/top games: 17:33–19:16, 26:43
• Nick’s Dune Awakening love: 20:31–22:21, 60:02–62:34
• Elden Ring concert recap: 36:56–51:00
• Sim games and indie gems: 31:21–34:39
• Bloodborne concert hot take: 50:25
• Super chat community shoutouts: 51:54–58:11
• Nick’s Dune neighborhood drama: 60:34–62:15
• Episode close: 63:15 onward

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Closing Thoughts

This installment of the Kinda Funny Gamescast is a treat for fans who love the “three best friends” energy: it’s part game awards prediction summit, part comedic riff session, and all held together by genuine enthusiasm for both video games and geeky camaraderie. For listeners who want to know what games are resonating with the Kinda Funny crew—or just want to ride along as friends share stories and “hot takes” about everything from Donkey Kong to Elden Ring orchestras—this episode delivers classic entertainment.

Transcript

[Andy]

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[Mike]

Yo, what the heck is going on, everybody? Welcome to the kind of Funny games cast for Monday, October 13, 2025. Ooh, Monday the 13th. Spooky.

[Andy]

Unlucky.

[Mike]

Andy, what scary game are you gonna play this October? Give the people what they want.

[Andy]

The sub goal is Silent Hill F.

[Mike]

Silent Hill F. A full playthrough. Oh, I mean, right?

[Andy]

I guess it's not long enough. I guess maybe it's not too long. So maybe.

[Mike]

Yeah, I hear it's not that long.

[Andy]

Have you played?

[Mike]

Well, me and Roger are gonna play it next Friday.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah. Yeah. So we can. We can like pre judge it for you if you want.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Mike]

And like get you the length, let you know, kind of the vibes, you know what I mean? Okay. Okay. I like that. Nick. Hi.

[Nick]

How are you? Hello, Michael.

[Mike]

It's the games cast. It's three best friends taking over, just hanging out. Just a vibe.

[Nick]

They've given us the steering wheel and we're gonna cram this car into an.

[Andy]

I like your haircut, Nick.

[Nick]

Thank you. Yeah, I got it. Got it done this weekend.

[Mike]

I like the haircut. I like the sweater again. Nick's going with these crew neck sweaters with very small emblems on it. That's his new look. I like it.

[Nick]

I've had him for a while. I'm actually moving away from them.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Mike]

He's moving away.

[Andy]

You already lost it.

[Nick]

What I'm thinking about doing Andy, and you tell me if this is crazy, is anytime I go anywhere buying a very nice anorak.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

And then coming back. So just to let everyone know where I was this weekend.

[Andy]

Oh, okay.

[Nick]

I'm not. I'm not saying that as an example for anyone, just letting anyone know exactly what I did this weekend. How much money.

[Mike]

I just want everyone to know where I went.

[Nick]

I'm a Stanford.

[Mike]

I'm on a college world tour.

[Andy]

What are.

[Nick]

What is this type of. Of.

[Mike]

I would call this the baseball jacket.

[Nick]

I love it. I love it.

[Mike]

Where'd you get this at Stanford? I took a college world tour.

[Andy]

You know what I mean?

[Mike]

I'm taking a college tour. What?

[Andy]

What was it a football game or.

[Mike]

No, they called. They wanted me to take a tour,

[Andy]

see the campus you were streaming yesterday, so. I don't think that's true.

[Mike]

No, I took a nice drive on a lovely Sunday morning down to Stanford. Took a walk around the campus, enjoyed a picnic. Over by Hell's Gate they got an awesome museum. And then they have the big statue, Iron Cast of Hell. Hell's Gate. I believe it's what it's called.

[Nick]

That's fun.

[Mike]

Yeah. Nice little picnic.

[Nick]

I like that area down there. It's really beautiful.

[Mike]

Beautiful place. You ever been down to Stanford?

[Andy]

35 year old man tours college campuses. Is Ken Jr.

[Mike]

They're asking if I want to come.

[Nick]

You know, it reminds me of.

[Mike]

They want my mind, like we need

[Andy]

to study this because something's really wrong.

[Nick]

Did you watch, did you ever see that Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson movie where they were interns at Google? I love that movie.

[Mike]

The Internship.

[Nick]

The Internship. That's what everybody. Anytime Micah does anything, that's what it reminds me of.

[Andy]

I like. But wasn't that one of those movies where similar to when you heard for the first time they were making an Anchorman 2 and a Zoolander 2 and you're like, oh my God. It's gonna, you know, like, I, I. You wanna, you wanna relive the nostalgia of Wedding Crashers.

[Nick]

Sure.

[Mike]

But like, well, like, you know, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were on a tear at that point. Right. We had Drill Bit Taylor.

[Nick]

I don't think Vince Vaughn was in that.

[Mike]

Well, no, I'm just saying they had a bunch of movies coming out.

[Nick]

Oh, you mean they were separately and

[Mike]

then a thousand kids. You know what I mean?

[Nick]

They were like the Brad Pitt, George Clooney of movies. They were just for a while there. They really were.

[Mike]

And they were all bad. They were all bad.

[Nick]

Well, Jill bit Taylor was terrible. Remember that? Because he was like a dude that lived in the bushes. And then he was like, I'll teach you kids how to fight. And the kids were like, you're creepy.

[Andy]

How old is Drill bit Taylor?

[Nick]

Probably 20 years old at this point. I'm going to guess 2005. That movie came out 2008.

[Andy]

Wow, wow, wow, wow.

[Nick]

I was close.

[Mike]

You, you nailed that.

[Andy]

Crashers.

[Nick]

Wedding Crashers is goated. That movie is still hilarious.

[Andy]

2005 1.

[Mike]

That was the first one.

[Andy]

I keep trying to relive that.

[Nick]

Watch the Internship.

[Mike]

You might like it you would like.

[Nick]

It's actually not a bad movie. It's pretty charming.

[Mike]

You ever seen Starsky and Hutch?

[Andy]

Oh.

[Mike]

Oh, yes. That's a great one right there.

[Nick]

Yeah, fantastic.

[Mike]

What was the other one?

[Nick]

They had the two of them.

[Mike]

No, there was one more. Dukes of Hazard. They tried to remake well, but that

[Nick]

was Johnny Knox and. Yeah. Sean Williams.

[Andy]

I'm right there with you, Mike, because I. Starsky and Hutch and Dukes of Hazzard. I would always mix up if they had.

[Nick]

Well, starts.

[Andy]

They both have a red.

[Nick]

Was Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. They had. Yeah, they had the charger on that or whatever. The car was in that. And then, of course, there's the General Lee from.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Nick]

From Unfortunate movie. Dukes of Hazard. Could have been a fun one. In fact, it would have been better if it was Owen Wilson and. And Vince Vaughn. Johnny Knoxville, no disrespect, is just much better at getting hit in the testicles by a bull than he is at acting.

[Andy]

But I love the man internship. 34% of rotten tomatoes.

[Mike]

You know, it's better. It's about 52.

[Andy]

Really?

[Nick]

I would say it's a 52.

[Mike]

Go.

[Nick]

In you get. Here's what you do, Andy. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna do this for you tonight. I'm gonna do this for you tonight.

[Andy]

Are you just gonna do it on your own?

[Nick]

No, no, I'm. Stick with me. This is a fun one. Whenever you want, you text me. I'm gonna send you an extra crispy thin crust. Oh, my pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut.

[Andy]

Oh, man.

[Nick]

And I'm gonna venmo you the $3.99 that it takes for you to rent the internship on your. The platform of your choice.

[Andy]

Probably Prime Video.

[Nick]

Yeah, probably. Cause it's easier. It's not the best, but it's easy. It's like Starbucks.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

And I want you to just watch it. Wow. Wow. Watch it and tell me what you think tomorrow.

[Andy]

So you're gonna intern at Google, huh?

[Nick]

Wow. Wow. They're like sales guys, and they're like, oh, we can get an internship at Google that pays. And then everyone at Google's like, you guys are old and stupid.

[Mike]

But then they fall in love with them.

[Nick]

Yeah. Because they're. They're infectious. Because they actually know how to lead, unlike all these other. The kids who just don't, you know? They're so.

[Andy]

It's just wedding crashers. They're just like. People fall in love with them. Cause they're these two charming dudes.

[Nick]

Listen, that's just how it goes. Okay.

[Andy]

I like that the internships logo is still like the old style of Google font. Like the old Google logo where it was very serif and it was very kind of, you know.

[Mike]

Now we had the internship now. Do you remember Robert De Niro?

[Nick]

He did intern.

[Mike]

That's a great turn.

[Andy]

That's a great.

[Mike]

You know, we double dipped on this. We double dip.

[Nick]

I love.

[Andy]

Well, he was just like the old. I mean, he's like.

[Nick]

That movie is like, here's how it starts. And this. If you've never seen that film, and then we'll start talking about games in a second. This movie is like one of my guilty pleasure films. Because it's an old guy who's like. He's older. Yeah, he was a business guy. He was very successful, and he lost his wife. And after a few years of being retired with no one, he. He. She. She passed away. Or maybe. Actually, you know what? I've only seen it once. Maybe he lost her in a Walmart. And then he goes, I just want to be useful. And so he applies for this internship and he's actually really smart. And then she's running her company. He's like meant. He like, mentors her a little bit and they learn from each other. It's very lovely.

[Andy]

Kevin, is it Paula that hates her and Hathaway or do you hate her? No, I really like her.

[Mike]

Paula hates her. Oh, he's an. Wow. Okay.

[Nick]

And Hathaway is. Is perfect in roles like this where she gets to just play an hathway.

[Mike]

Devil wears Prada.

[Nick]

Perfect in that movie. This one, you know, they're making a sequel to that Devil.

[Andy]

You've watched Devil?

[Mike]

Oh, have you?

[Andy]

No.

[Mike]

Oh, that's an all timer.

[Nick]

You tell me when you're ready. I'm going to demo you $7 for the internship. And the. The devil spot is a phenomenal.

[Mike]

That's a phenomenal movie. You got to see that one.

[Andy]

You just sending me multiple pizzas reminded me of over, you know, over last weekend, us being at. Not this past one. The one prior. Us being at Ben's birthday party, which. Where were you at Mike, by the way?

[Mike]

You know what? I was seated. I was busy. I was. I was taking a seat somewhere because

[Andy]

I. I did, you know, Bear, I did tell me a story that he was like, you know. Yeah, when are you gonna go? When are you gonna head there? And then Mike was like, I didn't know it was happening.

[Mike]

Yeah, I didn't know.

[Andy]

And Barrett was like, well, it's on the calendar. And it's been mentioned in every meeting for the past month or so.

[Mike]

It's the whole thing.

[Andy]

Yeah, it's a whole thing.

[Nick]

It's only your box.

[Mike]

We have three different calendars. You know what I mean?

[Andy]

Yeah, we have. Two is one. Yeah. But I looked at Greg and I said, greg, I need you to do something for every future Ben birthday party.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Andy]

One more thing to add to your kind of list of responsibilities. Bring a football. And he said, I got one in my car with a pump. I'll go pump that football up. Brought out the football. And Nick said, why do you have a football? And he said, oh, wait, I know why this is. That's one of the footballs that. Because I was sending Greg a football every day.

[Nick]

Remember? Greg hit my football because he got tired of my toxic. My toxic masculinity where we played Centu Nurtle and I had to have the football. There's nothing that makes you more of a fucking man. That just takes the testosterone from wherever it's produced in your body and shoots it right to your brain than just

[Mike]

slapping a football in the whole thing. It'd be nice to get him a baseball on a mitt and just see him scar. Right that. Right in.

[Nick]

I had.

[Andy]

I had Nick go run a football route for me, and he almost tore his ACL six times. Yeah. Because of how that park is so pothole.

[Nick]

A lot of gopher holes, dude.

[Andy]

So many gopher.

[Nick]

To the point where if I had a child, I would legitimately be worried that a gopher was going to drag it into a hole.

[Mike]

Call.

[Nick]

But I hit that. Andy hit me. Just painted me. Painted target.

[Andy]

But, yeah, Nick was like, oh, yeah. I used to send Greg a football every day. Which is.

[Nick]

I sent him one at first.

[Andy]

Funny ass. I did.

[Nick]

I really did. He got it.

[Mike]

He.

[Nick]

It was funny. Is it played out exactly how I wanted it to. He hid the football. I didn't. Joey was like. I was like, where's the football? And Joey's like, I don't know. And I saw it. And then Joey was like, let on that shoe. I think this is how it worked. Joey. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure she was like, yeah, Greg hit the football because he got tired of you being all toxic with it. And I was like, okay, cool. She's like, are you gonna take. I was like, no, I'm gonna leave the football accusing. We'll leave it up there. Okay.

[Andy]

Wait.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Where did he hide the football?

[Nick]

He hid it on top of the TV in the conference, just out of your reach.

[Andy]

You have to get the chair to get it down. It's bullshit.

[Nick]

Kevin, mute your mic.

[Mike]

Yeah, mute your mic.

[Nick]

So what do I do? What do they do? Revenge. Is it a dish best served warm? No. Andy cold. And over the span of two weeks, I just started sending him footballs. And the first he goes. The first one, he goes, oh, I thought it was my mom sending me the football, because, you know, that's a grandma shit to do. Just sending Ben a football.

[Andy]

Yeah, grandma might misclick the Amazon one buy one click thing.

[Nick]

But then three days later, when there was like five footballs, he realized it was Nick's wrath.

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[Nick]

I love that coming at him hard.

[Andy]

Really miss you at that birthday party, though.

[Nick]

But man, I tell you what, you know what? He had to do it. Did he tell you what he ended up doing? Every time he sees a dad, he's like, do you want a football? He goes to the back of his.

[Mike]

I love that.

[Nick]

Like, he's selling footballs out of that Mini Cooper.

[Mike]

Well, let's get on task because. Because of course, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in the video game space. Live on YouTube and of course on Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, consider supporting us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, and now Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live, and of course, get your daily exclusive show, Greg Way. Today, Roger takes over your Greg Way with his mom to look back on 10 years of kind of funny and his career. Joining the crew, of course, for a chance to be part of the show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Give us good Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, like movies that Andy should watch. Me and Nick will send him a pizza every time he watches.

[Andy]

What I really missed, the days of Shanghai Nights and Shanghai Noon. That's a great Jackie Chan and that's

[Mike]

A Wild Wild west type era. That's the Wild west type.

[Andy]

No, these movies are way better than Wild Wild West.

[Mike]

Yeah, Shanghai Knights is better.

[Andy]

Shanghai Nights and Shanghai Noon are way better than Wild Wild West.

[Mike]

Jim west desperado. No, you don't want nada. None of this.

[Andy]

I know you know the lyrics to the rap song.

[Mike]

Stop it.

[Nick]

Way better.

[Andy]

Way better.

[Mike]

That's crazy.

[Andy]

Because we thought there's no way that these movies could be anywhere close to Rush Hour and they weren't.

[Mike]

But they were gonna pull up. Get a poll up on Twitch right now. Get the poll up. Pick one versus Wild Wild West. That's great.

[Andy]

That's the song and that's it.

[Nick]

I don't want to influence any of this poll.

[Andy]

I will.

[Nick]

I will tell you my opinion on these films after the poll.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Mike]

I like that. I like that. Of course, we are an 11 person small business. All about live talk shows today. Kind of funny Games Daily was about the PS6 and next Xbox due out 2026, 2027. When are they coming out? They talked all about that after. This is a very fun sponsored stream with Nvidia and and Battlefield 6. So tune into the jabron boys taking over Battlefield 6. Of course, if you remember, you get today's Greg Way. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we are brought to you by Shady Rays. But we'll tell you all about that later. Let's jump into what is and forever will be the topic of the show. Now, Andy is putting up a poll in the Twitch chat, so please put the votes. And what movie are you picking? Because you only get one. You don't get to split the votes.

[Andy]

I. I mean, I mean the Shanghai franchise.

[Mike]

Oh, was. Did they get two?

[Nick]

There's two?

[Mike]

I thought it was new.

[Andy]

It was Shanghai Noon and the Shanghai Nights.

[Mike]

Oh, okay, okay.

[Nick]

I didn't know it was so successful at Warrant to the second, Unlike the Rush Hour franchise that did three because that was how successful they were and apparently they're working on a fourth one eventually. As soon as Chris Tucker gets off his ass.

[Andy]

I typed in Wild Wild west with a question mark. I don't know why

[Mike]

Chad put your votes and we need to know it right off the rip of this podcast here. But today's topic of the show is all about Nick Scarpino. The boys are taking over your podcast three best friends and we're talking about kind of our game of the years and Nick's favorite game of the year, Dune Awakening.

[Nick]

I Mean, you would think a movie starring Will Smith, Kevin Klein, Kenneth Branagh in Selma High.

[Andy]

Are we giving that much credit to Kevin Klein?

[Nick]

Yeah, dude. You see the movie Dave, he solved the world's problems by looking like the president.

[Andy]

That is. Was that the one where the president. They thought he died.

[Nick]

He died having an affair. He had like, he had like a stroke and like went into like coma and they were like, we can't let.

[Andy]

This

[Nick]

is how we all want to go. Because you think that when you're in the coma, the last thing you remember

[Andy]

was the, you know, the boner.

[Nick]

The sex and the boner.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

So you're probably just in that moment forever.

[Mike]

Frozen.

[Andy]

Right. But he was a look alike of the president.

[Nick]

He used to do a look like he looked like he did like, like a gig where he was like. He'd go to parties and like pretend to be the president. And then they recruit him to be the president and then he realizes that he has more. He has the power because he's the president. But Sigourney Weaver realizes start war. She sees his pee pee. Oh, and Squiny Weaver's the first Lady. But then they fall in love. Then he runs for local government.

[Andy]

H, I still don't think Kevin Klein has that juice.

[Nick]

I'm just saying for a movie with Will Smith, Kevin Klein, Kenneth Bra, Salma Hayek, it should have been better than it was. I'm not. But I'm not going to tell you where I'm picking.

[Mike]

Quick early poll coming in. Wild wild west. With 24 votes, they get 25. The Shanghai noon slash nights 103.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Wow. You gotta watch these movies, Mike.

[Mike]

I've, I've seen the first one, Shanghai Noon. They were in the bathtubs. They were doing martial arts.

[Andy]

Funny man, it was good.

[Nick]

Owen Wilson and Jack. Well, first off, this is no disrespect to Owen Wilson. Yeah, he's got great chemistry with most people, but Jackie Chan could have incredible chemistry and a fig tree.

[Mike]

Anyone?

[Nick]

Yeah, anyone except his daughter. Oh, is he not going with the daughter?

[Mike]

Oh, wow.

[Nick]

What happened?

[Andy]

Just like, it just acts like she doesn't exist.

[Nick]

Oh, that's a bummer. Wow.

[Andy]

Yeah, it's really rough. It really clouded my view of Jackie J.

[Nick]

That sucks.

[Andy]

I was like, what a lovable, awesome dude. I was like, oh, no, I didn't want.

[Nick]

Why is that?

[Andy]

Is she like just. He just like, he's just like whatever. Oh, disowner for being gay.

[Nick]

Oh, Jackie Chan.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Have we gotten an update then? It's 2025.

[Andy]

It's been a while. I think it's been a while.

[Nick]

Here's what I'll say. Here's what I'll say for anyone that voted for Shanghai New. Oh, looks like you up. Yeah, you up, Lawrence, though, I mean, let's say. Let's put it this way. Will Smith has never had a controversy, so he's. He's totally fine. Yeah, he's fine.

[Andy]

We're gonna be left.

[Nick]

Jesus Christ.

[Mike]

Well, that poll's getting run away with, so I guess we don't like wild, Wild west here with this family, but we do appreciate Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights out there. Let's focus on some games, Talk about some games that we like. Nick, let's talk about some games that you like, because we came together here and we said, you know what this game's cast is about. Knicks game of the year. We don't get to check in with you in January when the whole team puts their votes in 15. I hear this year.

[Andy]

Yes, we will all be nominating 15 of our top games, because here's the

[Mike]

thing, Mike, he's gonna kick us right in the ass.

[Andy]

Here's the thing, Mike. You know, blueprints will not be in my top 10.

[Mike]

That's crazy.

[Andy]

You suck. But it'll probably be 13, which is good for people that played more of it.

[Mike]

Would it go higher?

[Andy]

No.

[Mike]

Have you been to the anti chamber and beyond?

[Andy]

I. I've watched videos, okay. And it was very impressed after I rolled credits. But here's the thing. We're all putting together our collective top 10. Nick Blueprints would not be in my top 10, so it won't even make the list. But if we all submit, when we all. Not if we. When we all submit, our top 15s blueprints will be 13 or 14. That's extra points for blueprints. And doesn't Barrett want blueprints to have more representation?

[Nick]

It could move it up the ranks.

[Andy]

Thank you.

[Mike]

Maybe we'll give Nick 15.

[Andy]

Maybe Nick's got a lot, huh?

[Nick]

It's like ranked voting. Yeah, I'll vote. Yeah, that'll be fun. I should have the deciding vote.

[Andy]

I think 15 does seem fair and legal.

[Mike]

You know what?

[Nick]

You know. You know what? Giving me the deciding vote. Just like the tiebreaker vote in this game of the year. It would be like that Kevin Costner movie where the whole. The presidential. Like the whole presidential race comes down to one dude's vote.

[Andy]

Water world.

[Mike]

Yeah. Oh, the poster. We don't talk about the campaign Enough with Will Ferrell.

[Andy]

And.

[Mike]

Or he.

[Andy]

Where he.

[Nick]

I don't even remember that.

[Andy]

Zach Galifianakis.

[Mike]

Zach Galifianakis.

[Andy]

Is that where he punched the baby?

[Nick]

I've never seen this mov.

[Mike]

They. They're on two sides of the aisle, but then they come into the middle, they meet each other, they become best friends, you know, I mean, it's a good movie.

[Andy]

Yeah, it's one of those that was like, you know, if they put this out eight years prior, it might have. Like, really? I might have been.

[Nick]

Would have moved the needle.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

When Zach Elephant Akis was popular with the hangover and people still cared about

[Mike]

Will Ferrell, Nick Leisanis. Let's talk about game of the year. What's some of your game of the year? So, I mean, I want to hear.

[Nick]

I want to hear from you guys what you're. What you're leaning towards so far, because I haven't played as nearly as many games, you guys, and just sitting beforehand talking about it, you know, I think you guys are kind of split on stuff.

[Mike]

You played a lot of games this year. I feel like you and I have played a lot of games. I've put you through the ringer this year.

[Andy]

I've played pretty much played baby steps. You were good at that.

[Mike]

Played baby steps.

[Nick]

We had a great time playing.

[Andy]

Remember when Mike us on baby steps?

[Mike]

I don't know. I'm lost.

[Nick]

But he didn't. He didn't tell us at first. He did the dad thing. He really did, which was that he waited until there was. It was just so far gone to the point where me and you look to each other and we're like, we're never getting to Yosemite. We're just never going to get to the park.

[Mike]

We're stopping in Modesto.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

We're going to hang out in Modesto for a while.

[Mike]

You really did get a nice hamburger. Modesto.

[Andy]

We're turning around.

[Nick]

What?

[Andy]

Never saw the Grand Canyon.

[Nick]

Unbelievable.

[Andy]

Andy.

[Mike]

Let's see what else he played. Baby steps. You played Sniper Elite Resistance with me. Yeah.

[Nick]

Fun one.

[Mike]

I love that game. That's gonna be.

[Nick]

We really got into that game. The problem with. With my gaming habits, y Is that we play whatever game pops up, and I get to. I get the opportunity to play with you guys on stream for a second, and if it doesn't catch fire, I just never go back to it. And the only game that has caught fire for me, the only game that I'm still like, 300 hours into is Dune, which is going to be my game of the year. Just by default of. It's the game that I've played the most and it's the game that I will champion for everyone. And there's never been a better time to get into it than now.

[Mike]

Right now.

[Nick]

All the bugs are fixed.

[Mike]

Get into Dune.

[Nick]

That chapter two just came out. They launched a big DLC drop. They really balanced the game.

[Mike]

Did they really?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I have chapter one written down. What? What. What's dlc?

[Nick]

I heard.

[Andy]

I heard a big update real quick that. That if the shy hallud taketh, you

[Nick]

can get your vehicle back now.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah. Like shy will not.

[Mike]

No, no.

[Nick]

You can get.

[Mike]

I don't like that. I don't like you pay. Put it all on the line or nothing at all.

[Nick]

You can back up your vehicle with the vehicle.

[Andy]

Just happened here.

[Nick]

Seat just maxed out the seat. Yeah. They did an update where people were complaining obviously that their tier 6 ornithopters were getting janked by some bugs and stuff in the deep desert. And so now you can actually mat. You can use the vehicle backup tool to replace.

[Andy]

You mean bugs and glitches?

[Nick]

Bugs and glitches. But like. Yeah. And though they haven't added bugs, it

[Mike]

hasn't turned into starship too.

[Nick]

It hasn't. That's what you want to.

[Andy]

They need to try to find the same four legged man.

[Nick]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy]

Or four limbed man. Two arms Too late.

[Nick]

Just a humanoid.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick]

Human man.

[Andy]

A human man. Yeah.

[Nick]

It's really fun. I'm trying to get Greg into it as well. I'm trying to get everyone into it. I think Gary and Gary's coming back. I think maybe Adam's. Everyone always keeps talking that they're gonna come back.

[Andy]

This is the year of too many games though.

[Nick]

It's too many games.

[Mike]

Well, every year is too many games.

[Andy]

I. I don't. I don't know. I know we say that every year.

[Mike]

Last year you had too many games.

[Andy]

I think this year more than anything they're. It's not that there's just too many games. There's too many really high quality games. This year is just like you could close your eyes and throw a rock and you will hit an 8 or a 9 out of 10.

[Nick]

Where do you think I'm going to throw some titles out?

[Mike]

Okay.

[Nick]

Where do you guys think these are going to lie on our lists? Which one do you think is going to be the top dog? Expedition 33. What do you think? Do you think that's going to be game?

[Andy]

I think that will win our game of the year. Our per. Like the kind of funny list game of the year because I think it'll be the highest on most people's lists.

[Nick]

It's definitely Tim's. I think Tim.

[Andy]

I think it's mine.

[Nick]

It's probably yours.

[Andy]

I Blessing also really liked it. So did Barrett and Mike.

[Nick]

What was your thought on this?

[Mike]

I haven't played it.

[Nick]

You haven't played it? You think you get. I mean, you love the final fantasies. You might like this.

[Mike]

It's on my. It's on my list to get to see if I can make time.

[Nick]

You better hurry up.

[Mike]

Currently playing Digimon. So, you know, how's that going? You can see where my priorities lie.

[Andy]

You play Digimon and. And Kingdom Come. Deliverance.

[Mike]

Kingdom Come. Baby steps Battlefield six.

[Andy]

Now what if you and I devise a way to go back in time? Time travel, rewind. I get you to play Final Fantasy 16. We get that higher on our list.

[Mike]

That would have been great. Liza P. I'm missing. Oh, DLC.

[Andy]

So unhappy with Blessing that he didn't play the lies of feed dlc. He just fell off. He just like, this wasn't the right time.

[Mike]

Gotta put that dog in. You can't be afraid. I think Expedition 33, number three on the list this year.

[Nick]

Number three. What? Beats that. The Silk song.

[Mike]

Beat that Silk song pretty high. A lot of people in there. What about Donkey Kong?

[Nick]

People like that.

[Mike]

It like Donkey.

[Nick]

They liked it. Didn't play it. I had a. You wouldn't let me play it.

[Andy]

I'll tell you what. I may be betraying some confidences here, okay? But this weekend, after the Elden Ring concert, me, Blessing, Alana and Rahul went out to eat at a Hard Rock cafe. Just the best and just the best

[Mike]

place you could possibly go into an Applebee's.

[Andy]

And Rahul said, but worse.

[Nick]

Rahul said, how worse?

[Andy]

Rahul said, I swear to God, if you all give. I will never, ever talk to you all again if you all give. Donkey Kong Bananza Game of the year. He said, that game was way too long. I was just so bored of it. By the end of it, it was just like dragged on and on and on. I wasn't even doing a bunch of extra. And then Blessing said, you know, sometimes we hear about the Nintendo Bump. If anybody else made this game, It'd be an 8. But if it's Nintendo, it's a 9

[Nick]

because they only have three good games.

[Andy]

I may be betraying confidence, but Blessing did say, I gave it a 10 out of 10. And now that I Look back, I don't. Like I was I in that. And I suggested to him, you may have been in that post coital Nintendo,

[Nick]

like you were in that route. Recency bias. Nintendo came out because when Nintendo gives you the code, when you get the

[Andy]

game, when you get one code, when

[Nick]

you get one code. And they act like, they always act like that friend that's like, I don't know if I can get you into the party, dude. Yeah, and they just say that. And you're like, you could definitely get me to the party. There's no one in the party. There's a lot of room in the party. There's people in there, but there's a lot of room in the party. And then finally they come through last minute. You're about to put your PJ's blessing

[Andy]

in the chances, Andy. Watch what you say.

[Nick]

Then they give you the code. You just feel so blessed that they care about you that of course you're gonna play. Of course it's gonna give you a bump.

[Andy]

I mean, you're. You're happy. It makes you happy.

[Mike]

It makes you happy.

[Nick]

As opposed to Dune, which you could. You walk out of the street, they hit you with a code. I go to a Starbucks. Like, here's a code for. Dude, you want to do it for code, give all your friends that. We want people to play this game.

[Andy]

One day I'll get back to Donkey Kong Bonanza, but I think Donkey Kong Bonanza, if I were to predict right now where it would land on our game of the year, I think it'll be. Yeah, top five easily. I think it'll be a three or a four.

[Mike]

Okay. Because, I mean, I like it a lot. It's high.

[Andy]

There aren't enough games that everybody played. I think this year is the most spread apart, which is why we're all submitting our top 15s, you know, because

[Nick]

I like that it's 15, by the way. I'm not sure how the math works on that.

[Andy]

Well, kind of fun. Well, I'll tell you how the math work. I already done it. Okay, number one game, you get 20 points.

[Mike]

Number one.

[Andy]

Number two game gets 18.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Andy]

Number three gets 16. 14, 12, 10.

[Nick]

Now, is this like a mayoral race where we're pulling from a list of games that are pre approved by someone, or is it just any game that came out? Like, if I did this, could I just sandbag the shit out of it by putting Baby Steps and like garbage games like that on it?

[Mike]

Hell yeah.

[Andy]

No, I mean, hey, Baby Steps is not a garbage Game by any means.

[Nick]

I don't mean that. I just mean like, could I come in?

[Andy]

Not even like slop game. Like Baby Steps is our, our co worker Russ Rushdick. That's his game of the year. Really? It's that and Silksong for him.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Andy]

That are like really, really high.

[Nick]

Someone should look into Russ. That's all I'll say.

[Mike]

I like that he's got Baby Steps

[Nick]

so high because I psychotic that game.

[Andy]

I. I want to get to it.

[Nick]

I hope I'm like putting only up as your game of the year.

[Andy]

No, but like it's not.

[Mike]

Did I. You know, here's the thing, here's the

[Andy]

thing that you haven't experienced yet with, with Baby Steps. We experienced it just in the chaos of us talking. You forgot you were on a stream with Giant Bomb at one point. There was a lot of things going on. Nick didn't have his headphones on. He's yapping and so is Jeff grubbing. I'm like, nick, stop talking. They're talking, right? And Nick goes, oh, I forgot we were on a stream with them.

[Nick]

It's hypnotic. But anyway, I really like that.

[Mike]

Really.

[Andy]

As you play through Baby Steps, like there's apparently. Because I haven't played it, but there's apparently really good commentary about just like maturing in life and you know, not being a 40 year old man child. Sort of like it's about growing and becoming better. I don't know how deep those commentaries go. I don't know how valid they are, but a lot of people seem like,

[Nick]

I'm sorry, at one point didn't. Wasn't there a donkey with a giant dick that was wiggling it in your face? Yeah, cool. Yeah. Deep, deep level of commentary. It's like listening to me talk on a podcast.

[Mike]

Yeah, very deep.

[Nick]

It's rotting people's brains.

[Andy]

So Baby Steps might make our list with how. Depending on how high it's on yours, Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah, mine will be very high. You know, maybe one through three window

[Nick]

right now for Baby Steps.

[Mike]

For Baby Steps.

[Nick]

Crazy.

[Mike]

I don't think anyone will follow that up, unfortunately. So I don't know if Baby Steps will make our list because I think I'm the only one in this office that played it.

[Andy]

Two pack of a year, man.

[Mike]

Well, you know, Sniper Elite, Dynasty Warriors, Warriors Abyss.

[Andy]

Those are just like fall by the wayside, right?

[Mike]

Schedule 1 Peak Repo.

[Nick]

What about. What about Yote?

[Mike]

You'll tell. Make it.

[Andy]

I think so. Because I'm really loving it.

[Mike]

That's got the PlayStation bias more than.

[Nick]

More than others. Just gonna be top 10.

[Andy]

Well, I think it might be Rogers goatee. Really? Yeah. Roger loved it the most. Greg really liked it. Bless thought it was like good PK or bless gave it an 8, which means he hates it.

[Nick]

Interesting.

[Andy]

No, it's like, no, he gave it an 8.

[Nick]

He was like, it's an awesome game.

[Andy]

And then it was like, comments are like, this guy. But I'm really enjoying it so far. I think that it is a lot cooler of a narrative with just this more straightforward revenge story of this woman's family was all murdered and now it's like Kill Bill style. I'm going after the snake and the snake guy has a cool mask. And now it's like, now I'm going after the oni and the oni has his own thing. Now I'm going after the. The. The dragon and the something. And it's like everybody's like, this, this. The Yote 6 are all these different villains.

[Nick]

There's something called the Yote 6?

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

How could that not be?

[Andy]

It's sick as.

[Nick]

That's the coolest thing I've ever heard.

[Andy]

It's sick as hell.

[Nick]

I'd watch that film.

[Andy]

That's the whole story of like, not only, you know, this quest of revenge, but all these different characters and interesting

[Mike]

villains and that mountain in the middle of it all just grounding you because you whip that horse and you ride across the landscape. Beautiful.

[Andy]

It's beautiful.

[Mike]

God damn it.

[Andy]

Combat's fun. It's hard as though, but it's. It's a good time.

[Mike]

We chasing foxes around.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

A little alcohol and I follow this little bird somewhere.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

You playing it?

[Mike]

Yeah, I'm 10 plus hours in.

[Andy]

Oh, nice.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, Yeah, I played it before the review and then I got taken off the review.

[Andy]

Oh, okay.

[Nick]

Here's what we should do. For me, I should get a vote this year year. But I should only pull from games that I've played on stream.

[Mike]

Of course you play a lot of games on stream, Nick.

[Nick]

Yeah, but I only play for two hours.

[Mike]

Well, yeah, but you.

[Nick]

Then you never go back to it. So literally on my list of games, it'll just be the ones that I could remember that I played. And what was the swimming pool Simulator one?

[Mike]

Oh, man. Dude, that's going to be pretty high.

[Nick]

Water park sim. Me and Joey competing in water park.

[Andy]

I thought you meant pools.

[Mike]

It should be Mike, Nick and Joey giving you the best sim games of the year. We should make like a. That's like a small game cast, but like that's a whole like man, this.

[Nick]

We play a lot of sims, yo. And I'll tell you what, Mike, if you never played water park sim, you're missing out.

[Mike]

Oh my God. What?

[Nick]

You're missing out.

[Andy]

That. That's got to be a games cast.

[Mike]

What did trading card sim come out this year? Was that last.

[Andy]

That happened this year?

[Nick]

I don't. I never played it.

[Andy]

That feels like a February game.

[Mike]

Cuz that game was so good and nobody will give it to love in the time that came out 2024 and that game rocked. That game is really, really good. Now they got 3D printer shop SIM where you make action figures.

[Nick]

I would love that. That sounds fun. I'm super into 3D printing after seeing Tronairs.

[Andy]

Did you hear about the one of like your dumpster diving mic to look for treasures?

[Mike]

Kind of like, oh my.

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[Andy]

What's it called?

[Mike]

I don't know that one.

[Andy]

That it's an. It's an upcoming one, but it's. You're kind of in a dump looking for almost. What's that show with the two dudes that everybody thought were like a gay couple? It ends up. They weren't Dynasty.

[Mike]

No, no, no. That

[Andy]

called Dick Dynasty. No, what's it called?

[Mike]

You know who they are.

[Andy]

They would go to the Storage Wars. Is it that one?

[Nick]

I mean that was one where the American pickers.

[Mike]

American pickers Property brother. Here's one people won't give love to that. I loved and adored a game about digging a hole. Straight up. That game rocks. And that game will get no coverage.

[Andy]

No.

[Mike]

Love a game about digging a hole.

[Nick]

That's what the name of the game was. A game about digging.

[Mike]

And that's what you do.

[Andy]

Is that in your top 10?

[Mike]

Oh man, I would love to put it in the top 10. But I have to be more strong, play this game. I. I have to be. I have to play the game of kind of funny where I have to put certain things in places I can't just share to the people what great games.

[Nick]

But see, I feel like that's.

[Mike]

That's repo. Go play.

[Nick]

I feel like you absolutely can. I mean, I mean that's. That's the hardest thing with this.

[Mike]

They laughed me out of the building.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And it hurt me deeply.

[Nick]

I don't know. I mean, look, I mean, we obviously want to, like, give everything a fair shake and we want this to mean something. We want. You know, Barrett does a lot. You guys put a lot of energy into making this like a real thing and trying to take this as seriously as possible. Having said that, I think you absolutely could just put the games in that just. That resonated with you the most. They don't have to be the best games. If you loved them and they resonated and I mean that, why can't that be your game?

[Andy]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[Nick]

Mike just played that like two days prior.

[Andy]

We'll never let him live.

[Nick]

That was a reason. That was a.

[Mike]

Can you believe we're getting another Ilonic, like game and they're making Halloween, bro. Holy.

[Nick]

We got to go back to Predator. Are the servers still on for that Predator rock.

[Mike]

Predator still. This is a game about digging a hole right here. So it look like.

[Nick]

See this, this is the. This is the exact reason why I still play Dune. There's no story left. I don't even care about the DLC that dropped. I just like to build shit. And recently what I've been doing is going out to the deep desert and treasure hunting. You scan areas of the deep desert and you'll see a little ping, pop up and you just go. You just go dig and find. It's so relaxing.

[Mike]

Let's get after more of this conversation after a word from our sponsors.

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[Mike]

That's fine. We'll be very close to it. We'll be in the middle of the stream. Do you not want pizza?

[Nick]

I'm gonna order you pizza. You're gonna take it home. You're gonna watch the Devil Wears product. You have dude and the Internship.

[Mike]

Devilman. Devil Wears product.

[Andy]

I know that's a great movie. I need.

[Mike]

But Intern is very good. You ever seen Drill Bit Taylor?

[Andy]

No.

[Mike]

That's a fun movie. That's one I don't believe.

[Andy]

Well, that's when I believe that you like it.

[Mike]

But I'm gonna get it. You'll get a good chuckle out of that one. Okay? I promise on that one.

[Andy]

Yeah. In the break and Nick said, what do we got after this? We got the stream. He said, I'm gonna order some. Some Starbucks for all of us. And then Mike said, what about pizza? Should we get a pizza? And I said, I can't eat until 1. He said, that's fine.

[Mike]

That's one hour from now.

[Andy]

That is true.

[Mike]

This podcast gonna go for another 30 minutes.

[Andy]

That is.

[Mike]

We got a lot to talk about because you went to a concert without me. And I won't say I'm jealous. I won't say I'm upset about it. You know what I mean? I don't know why me and Nick weren't invited, seeing how we were the boys that rode with you. We rode through Elden Ring with you, and then you go see a cop.

[Nick]

I want everyone to understand something.

[Mike]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nick]

I want everyone to close their eyes and imagine this. Imagine a beautiful, white, majestic horse.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Nick]

Now imagine Andy sitting on that horse. Now imagine be sitting right in front of him and Mike behind him and making like a reverse cowgirl. Not in a sexual waste, just Oreo cookie on this Eiffel Tower. Okay. I don't understand. I just assumed that when the Elder Ring concert came, we were gonna do that again.

[Mike]

I thought we'd all go together. That's right.

[Nick]

I thought we'd sit on each other's laughs. Someone rides my.

[Mike]

We have the moments.

[Nick]

I would have said that a bunch. My lady.

[Mike]

You're my lady. I'm a lady. She's super Dawn.

[Nick]

Rod on. He's riding the horse. Whatever guy's name was he.

[Andy]

That was his name. Wow.

[Nick]

You're bro.

[Andy]

You all.

[Nick]

It was a meaningful experience for me and Mike. That's when we actually bonded as friends.

[Andy]

You all would have found it very boring for the majority of the back half of it. I thought Bless was like head nodding to the. To it. But he was falling asleep.

[Mike]

What happened in the back half? They just got deep into the Duffy of the bag.

[Andy]

I think it was just. It was a longer concert. Yeah.

[Mike]

How long is too long?

[Andy]

And so I just kept on. I noticed in my peripheral vision just like a lot of this.

[Nick]

I've been there. Bless.

[Andy]

And I thought. I thought he was like kind of heading out him. But no, he was just like slowly falling asleep to most of it.

[Nick]

I did that over the weekend. I was at a green room Friday night. It was the late show Friday night. I maybe had. There may be some beverages were involved and maybe I was a little tired from last week. We had a long one last week. It was a fun one last week. Had to wake up super early for some stuff. And I get to the late show and then they're like, you gotta host the late show. I was like, all right. And I'm in the green room afterward and, you know, comics kind of come to hang out and they were talking about some benign. And I just kind of put my feet up on the. On the. The couch with the bourbon on my tummy. And one of my friends was like, Nick. I was like, ah.

[Mike]

What?

[Nick]

Because I had like literally passed out.

[Mike]

Once you get horizontal, it's over.

[Nick]

You can't go horizontal.

[Mike]

Don't ever get horizontal.

[Nick]

You gotta stay vertical. Joey, come in here if you want.

[Andy]

Sir Starbox. So Mike let me know that he wasn't happy with me not inviting me if he wants.

[Mike]

Tell us about this concert now, like, say I've never been to a video game orchestra concerts. Are they playing the game at the same time? Are they showing video footage of the game? Or is it just me staring at the orchestra and they're just playing for me?

[Andy]

So this was called the Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Andy]

And honestly, it's a pretty cool way to just have somebody experience the video game without playing it. Oh, because like, they go in order. The. The game is very much played on screen in order of like, not. Somebody's not playing it. But they did. They did have really good gameplay accompaniment in the background, not just like what you would see like while you're playing the game with the UI and shit. Like they had. They did a lot of good Stuff that. That Vatividya does with his lore, where he has a team that uses like the free camera mod to, you know, get really cinematic shots of your character doing like slow mo attack. Similar to when you're like doing camera mode for me.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

When you're taking National Geographic, taking candids of me. The. I thought they did an awesome job of like starting off the game of like, all right, that. That's the tarnished. And you are making your way to like, you're making your way to Stormvale and the music's playing Stormveil and they're showing you different moments. And the orchestra will get quiet for a moment because they know that this NPC is going to talk on screen. And it's that guy at the beginning of Stormville. He's like, you may not want to go to the main gate. You know, when they shoot a bunch of arrows at you. So you sneak around.

[Mike]

They got people talking to them.

[Andy]

Well, like they have. They show off NPCs talking a lot of the time to kind of like help accompany the story. And then, you know, and then the music hits and then it cuts to you and then it cuts that. Remember Nefeli Lou?

[Nick]

And she's like, oh, Nepheli.

[Andy]

Oh, you remember Nefeli, right? He's like, ah, Nefeli. There's so many. Oh my God, so many NPCs in this whole playthrough. Ah, Nefeli. And you watch the archers that didn't

[Mike]

have their legs working, so they were shooting from the ground.

[Andy]

They have that as well. Yeah, dude. But you walk through the main gate and bam. It's. It's Dragon Dower Te true. Whatever. Remember Godric the Golden? He like, sec. They do the second phase cut where he cut. He cuts off his own arm, sticks his hand in a dragon's neck.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Takes the head off.

[Mike]

They got the wolf man with his second face.

[Andy]

Oh, dude, this is my thing. Oh, wait, Blythe, wait.

[Mike]

Oh, think about the big wolf. Oh, you know what I mean?

[Andy]

Malekith. Yes. Showed all of that. They do. They. They showed it off in a way that I couldn't help but think while watching all of the footage of your character going through this journey. Now they're going to Rya Lucaria to take on the big wizard lady.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy]

And then they go to Calid to do the Radon festival. And it's all. It's all the cool shots. And then it's, you know, bly there. And he's like, I'm Bly. The warrior, you know, whatever the. And he's. And then they show you when you. When you're summoning all your homies and you're running towards Radon.

[Mike]

Cool.

[Andy]

And then they showed, like, Alexander the jar guy, the big jar man, being summoned, and they show Patches being summoned. And they quickly showed. Patches has left the. The arena or whatever. Everybody gets a good chuckle there. But throughout all of these moments, they are doing an awesome job of showing off the gameplay, showing off the boss fight. The moment where that meteor comes back, where we're done. That got Nick that one time.

[Nick]

Okay, did it get Nick? Or were you guys, like, nick, stand there, look up. And I was like, what's gonna happen here? And I just hear Mike start wheeze, laughing. Before I could move, I was like, you guys suck.

[Andy]

A good moment, dude.

[Nick]

Suck.

[Andy]

But yeah, man. And they. They did an amazing thing of kind of show. They showed all the endings off. So they showed, like, not only the ending where the. The earth tree is just in fight, and you're getting the madness ending, but they show the ending where you ask Ronnie to marry you and. Okay. You know, but all of it was. It was awesome.

[Mike]

Beautiful underground. And the deer.

[Andy]

Oh, dude. Oh, my God. Yes. There's a moment where, like, we hit the. We hit the intermission, and. And Alana's like, that's not it. Right? And Rahul was like, yeah, like, they're not even gonna do an encore. And I was like, no, I think this is intermission because we still haven't fought Malenia. We haven't gone to any of the final bosses or whatever. And then, sure enough, after we came back from the intermission, your character kind of runs to a tunnel, starts going underground. I was like, oh, I totally forgot about Shifra. And what, like, an amazing moment that was. And then the galloping deer in midair. Dude, it's. But while watching it, the whole time, I just kept on, like, looking at all the footage, tears in my eyes, getting chills, re experiencing and just thinking, snore over him. Yeah. Yeah. Bless you. To do the head nodding off.

[Mike]

He got the gist.

[Andy]

He got the gist. He played it right. But while watching, I was like, this is the best video game of all time. Like, there's just no question about it. It's. It's. It was such a magical experience. I didn't love the sound mixing, though. The. A lot of the percussion being played over the, like, PA or whatever. Yeah, they're using, like, they. They weren't boomy enough. There was Just a lot of like. And. But it wasn't like a. Yeah. You know, I don't know, something about the. Where it was.

[Nick]

Where was the theater? The door. Interesting.

[Andy]

Yeah. And I think maybe just where we were sitting, we were right underneath the speaker. So we were just.

[Nick]

Is that here? Were you in LA for that?

[Mike]

La.

[Nick]

Okay. Yeah. I've never been to that theater before. Oh, wait, no, the. You're talking about the Kodak. No, not the codec.

[Andy]

No, it's called the Dolby Theater.

[Nick]

Where's that at? Hollywood, obviously.

[Andy]

It's underneath the TCL Chinese Theater as well.

[Nick]

Okay. In the area. Okay, interesting.

[Andy]

So I was kind of bummed out by. I think a lot of it was because we were seeing.

[Nick]

Was it. Is it designed to be a theater for screen. For like movies or is it an actual live concert?

[Andy]

It is a symphony. Like, it is a. They have like this section, then they have like the upper section with all. With the side.

[Nick]

Okay. So it is legitimately.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Symphonic.

[Andy]

Definitely.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

I think when you sit, when you watch a movie, the theater mic and you're way too far to the left so you get like all of that audio. That's kind of what.

[Mike]

Been there.

[Andy]

I was. I wasn't super stoked with the sound quality, but overall it was a great time. And again, I only invited Blessing because he was in LA for Janet Garcia as well wedding.

[Mike]

They sprinkle a little night rain in there. A little deal.

[Andy]

No. No night win. No night rain. No dlc.

[Mike]

They sell T shirts outside.

[Andy]

No.

[Mike]

With the tour dates on it.

[Andy]

No. They sold some refreshments. A lot of just like basic ass snacks. But they had two Elden ring themed drinks.

[Nick]

Oh, fun.

[Andy]

They had the flask of cerulean tears, which is like a blue drink with like Curacao and. Yeah, I forget what else they had, but it was delicious. And they had the flask of. Of crimson tears and it was a super red looking drink and that was like a vodka based drink.

[Mike]

Did you say Carousel? Like blue carousel?

[Nick]

Yeah. But he said.

[Mike]

I've never seen.

[Nick]

That's what I meant to say.

[Mike]

I've never heard anyone make it sound so sexy.

[Andy]

No, I made it sound like. No, I up. I said it like the country Kurasa.

[Nick]

Yeah. He looked at me and he said. And he said. He said, nick, I had some blue.

[Mike]

It's like I've never had anyone make that sound so sexy.

[Andy]

Yeah, I made it. I made it. The. The. The Dutch Caribbean island is what I made

[Nick]

last night. I'm on a show Sunday at Cheap. In therapy, I catch a guy doing some crowd work because I'm a lazy comedian. I don't want to write actual material and crowd work. Love. And this guy was from that country. Oh, yeah. I was like, where are you from? And he goes. And he said the name of that. And I was like, I. I have no idea where that is.

[Andy]

I think there's a lot of baseball players from Kuras.

[Nick]

And he goes, his. His. His wife was from formerly German, but she's also from that country that now.

[Andy]

And Andrew Jones with a U from Kuro.

[Nick]

I'm like, where the is that? I've never heard of this country. I don't believe it's a real place. And another dude in the front row was like, oh, it's 40 miles off the coast of so and so and so. It's like, I'm dumb jerks in profile.

[Andy]

A lot of Braves. Angelson Simmons.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, a lot of Braves.

[Andy]

So, yeah, it was a great experience. And again, I only invited Blessing because he happened to be in town.

[Mike]

What is Tim doing here?

[Andy]

Tim is walking in.

[Mike]

I did walk in. Like, I was.

[Nick]

I'm a little behind, so this might have already been addressed. Okay.

[Mike]

I just want you to know the

[Nick]

Dolby Theater, that's where we did let's play live.

[Mike]

That's where they do the Oscars.

[Nick]

That's what I said.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

So I said kodak. He said, goby, it is the same place. Yes. It used to be the Kodak Theater.

[Andy]

Oh, yes.

[Nick]

The Kodak Theater is now the Dolby Theater.

[Andy]

Gotcha.

[Nick]

That's why I was confused. I was like, I think I know we've been in here. It's like a 6000. That's a beautiful theater. Yeah.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

That's where they do the Oscars.

[Mike]

Now Average John writes in with a super chat. Thank you to Average John. He says there was merchandy, but it was down in the lobby. And also pretty mid merch.

[Andy]

Oh, damn. Anybody got a T shirt down in the lobby?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Andy]

I guess I don't even know where that was because I, like, I only saw the refreshment area, which is just the bar, but I would have loved out front to have seen a merch. Yeah.

[Mike]

So now let's put those logos up. Let's look forward. You've enjoyed yourself there.

[Andy]

Yes.

[Mike]

You celebrated.

[Andy]

Went to Hard Rock Cafe.

[Mike]

Give me two games from this year that you would go see an orchestra

[Andy]

of from this year. Oh, I mean, Expedition 33 and Silksong. Here's.

[Nick]

Here's what I really want to know. Yeah. What's the tea? How's Rahul doing?

[Mike]

What's the tea? Rahul's great video.

[Nick]

I would love.

[Mike]

Good.

[Nick]

I would love to sit down.

[Andy]

Oh, this is Mid ass Merchant. Oh, that's a bummer. For the audio listeners. It's just a T shirt that says Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure and then some like. Oh, those are. I thought they were posters. No, they're postcards. Bummer. That's a bummer. Rahul's great.

[Nick]

We.

[Andy]

We just had a. We had a great time. It was just a great little catch up us. Just, you know, tell them how much

[Nick]

I like him in that.

[Andy]

I did bring it up. What was it called?

[Nick]

Death and Other Details. Hulu.

[Andy]

I brought up that, like, I don't know where Nick said that you popped up in a show and I think he was like, was it this show? And I was like, no, I don't know. But it didn't sound like Death and Other Details.

[Nick]

I mean he's in everything. Yeah, it's crazy. He has a really good career. He's like the Jack Quaid of actors.

[Andy]

Yeah, I would say so.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Me and Alana just talked a lot about Silksong. We, when we sat down in Hard Rock Cafe, we just kind of talked about gaming throughout the year. How stoked he is to be the lead in Sorrows.

[Mike]

Big deal.

[Andy]

Very cool. A lot of cool stuff. Great. He looked great on the COVID Looks fantastic in it. And yeah, it was just. I don't know, it was just good. It was good food for the soul, you know, just hang out with people that you like. And again, you, you did kind of tell me, Mike, I don't know, like, where was my invite? And I, I had to, I had to be honest with Nick. I was like, I just, I'm. There's enough stress that goes into going somewhere.

[Nick]

Oh, you can't. No, Mike, you're not good. I have an A. Veto that right now.

[Mike]

First off, no.

[Nick]

No way you're showing up to that. Second off, logistically. Forget it.

[Mike]

Get real.

[Nick]

No, get real.

[Mike]

Chaperone concert.

[Nick]

I'll show up too if it's in our back.

[Andy]

I think that's where Chris Anka was.

[Mike]

Chapel round.

[Andy]

Because I told him I'm gonna be in Hollywood and he said, sorry, I can't do that weekend because I'm going to a concert.

[Mike]

Dua Lipa, I'll be there.

[Nick]

Anything.

[Andy]

Here's the thing though. Here's kind of a hot take. I'll say, yeah. While watching the Elder Ring concert, all I kept thinking was this would be better if it were a Bloodborne concert.

[Nick]

Wow.

[Andy]

Because I don't think. I think Elder ring is so large.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

That it doesn't have the amount of bangers that it should have Half. I think the bangers are too far and few between.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Andy]

Damn. Which is like. That's a hot take. I'm sorry.

[Nick]

Thank you. In the chat, Andy couldn't take me Hot to go. Damn.

[Andy]

I'm sorry, Chris.

[Nick]

Sucks.

[Andy]

But anyway. Yeah. The Bloodborne concert would have been a lot cooler.

[Mike]

See, they got to remaster that game because I think a lot of people have forgotten the bangers.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know what I mean? You bring that up and it's like, I couldn't tell you one song without replaying that now. Right. There's nothing. Yeah. No, no. From bloodborne.

[Andy]

Oh, God.

[Mike]

It's been so long that it's like. I don't remember any of the music in that game.

[Andy]

Dude. I will tell you, though, man.

[Mike]

The.

[Andy]

Probably my favorite one was the Godskin duos. You remember these guys, Nick? They're these two dudes in big white suits. They wore, like, the skin of gods. They skinned them and, like, would wear their clothes.

[Nick]

I remember.

[Andy]

And it was like one big chubby dude with it and then one big, tall, skinny guy.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

That theme song kicks a lot of ass. And that was one of the cooler moments of the concert. And then at the very, very end, bringing back the, Like, the main theme, but it's like the reprised version of it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Goosebumps, Tears in my eyes. What a video game, man.

[Mike]

Let's tear through some super chats.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Saul writes in and says, love me some jabroni. Heavy episode. Can I get a Paul Dano from Nick?

[Nick]

Paul Dan. Poor Paul Dano.

[Mike]

Steve writes, poor Paul Dan.

[Andy]

He's got a great career.

[Nick]

Yeah. But there's no.

[Andy]

You're making fun of him. Yeah, he knows.

[Nick]

He feels it.

[Mike]

There's a great horror comedy starring Vince Vaughn called Freaky.

[Nick]

I've seen it.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick]

I think that's the one where it's a body swap horror where a girl. There's a big serial killer out there, like a Jason Voorheesy guy, and it's played by Vince Vaughn. Okay. And he body swaps with one of his victims. So, like, he's about to kill a young girl, and then they somehow body swap and so he's like the young girl. I think that's what it is.

[Andy]

Radagon's fight was too short. Completely agreed. Average. Done.

[Mike]

Can we get A trailer on that yet? I'm just gonna bring it up. I've never seen. I've never heard of this one.

[Andy]

Are we gonna get claimed?

[Nick]

Yeah, probably.

[Mike]

Well, we're not playing sound. Right.

[Andy]

That's blue.

[Mike]

Oh, it's Love House.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah, maybe. Positive.

[Nick]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's the lady. It's the girl from Pokemon Detective. Pokemon. Take the tika, too.

[Andy]

Super chat here from Arturo Tron Robo bartender who knows Ball. Obviously, it's what he. It's what he does. He's a bartender.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

He says Andy Kurasao Parentheses Triple Sec is named after the country where the Lahara Bitter Oranges are from and that were first used to make the liquor.

[Mike]

There you go.

[Andy]

Okay, so it was.

[Nick]

Yeah, you got it.

[Mike]

No, you nailed it. You just made it sound sexy.

[Nick]

You just looked me in the eyes.

[Andy]

But then I guess.

[Nick]

And something tickled inside.

[Andy]

But when you said carousel, I was like, oh, that is a different.

[Mike]

People who don't know, they call it caraca. Right? And they're like, okay, well, you mean carousel. It's like I'm just fudgeing up. I have no idea.

[Nick]

Are they not the same thing? Do we not just establish they're the same thing?

[Mike]

Yeah, they are the same.

[Nick]

Like Blue Curacao.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Nick]

Is that's how you would say it if you were to be appropriate? Right. We're just dumb.

[Andy]

Yeah, I think.

[Nick]

Okay, What I saw.

[Andy]

Now I'm learning.

[Mike]

I don't know. Such a sexy spit out of it. All right.

[Nick]

I like. I like to look into your soul when I say the name of beverages that I don't like because they're too sugary.

[Mike]

Toast writes in, I think this was meant for games. Daily says, if Xbox is a PC hybrid, can it play PlayStation games? Yeah, toast, I think if it has the Steam storefront, It's gonna play PlayStation games, homie. Yeah, Gotta get ready. You're gonna be able to play Spider Man.

[Andy]

Yeah. You can download just freaking.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Spider man and Horizon.

[Mike]

Yeah. God of War.

[Andy]

Brooklyn Rose. But where's Demon Souls? Where's that at?

[Mike]

Brooklyn Roses writes in, says, TCG Card Shop SIM is great. 224 hours in and just got the last achievement. Lots of Quality of life updates over the past year. Recommend returning.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Mike]

Gas station sim. Same thing. A whole lot of love on that one.

[Andy]

Annabelle Cook says with a five dollar super chat says, Andy, I saw your IG comment on Daft's post. If it makes you feel better, I sat two rows behind her during the Elder Ring Symphony and still wasn't sure it was her. I. I, like, I Knew it was her. 30, 39. Daft or just daft. D A P H. And I was, like, waiting to look for Alana and Rahul and Blessing in the Line. And I was. Because I had their tickets and then I kind of, like, saw somebody. I was like, is that daft? I think that's that streamer death. But, like, I just wasn't sure. And I'm. I feel stupid for not saying hi because I was like, oh, I love your. And I just didn't recognize you.

[Nick]

I hate that.

[Mike]

I met a girl. I met a Tick Tock creator in the Vegas airport security line in front of me and Roger, and I looked right at her and I said, oh, my God, you make the niche tea. Tick Tocks. I love that. Yeah. If you haven't seen this girl, she does, like, like niche communities around the Internet. She'll learn about the teas and then give it to you. So when Nick asks, like, what's the tea? She gives you the tea.

[Nick]

Yeah. There was a. He's. I've never heard Mike use the word niche before.

[Mike]

Yeah, niche teeth.

[Nick]

So I didn't. I was like, he's clear. That's not the word he's trying to think of. I didn't want to call him out. I was like, clearly, he's either saying that wrong or that's not the way. But he's spot on. The niche tea. That's a great. Is that the name of her series?

[Mike]

Yeah. She's fantastic.

[Nick]

So basically, if she would just pick, like, an obscure group like us and be like, oh, here's the tea that's

[Mike]

going on in that.

[Nick]

Except we never have any drama here.

[Mike]

Never drama. Except for Andy. Big time with us. Like, that should be covered.

[Andy]

Prove them wrong.

[Mike]

Every day we come into work and we say, let's prove Andy wrong.

[Andy]

Azar with a $20 super chat, says, hello. I got married on Friday to the greatest person on the planet. Wanted to share some love to my favorite group of fools. Love you. Kind of. Congratulations, Azar.

[Mike]

Azar got married. Congratulations, big dog.

[Andy]

Oh, it's cold.

[Mike]

Yeah, we got ice. We like cold drinks here.

[Andy]

I didn't know that.

[Nick]

Yeah, I complain a lot about the air conditioning, but then I drink nothing but ice beverages. Then I just stopped complaining. We had a. We had a big discussion, a little inside baseball.

[Andy]

We.

[Nick]

We've had some discussions about the AC and, like, kind of balancing it out and stuff like that. Very positive and good discussions. I just keep my mouth shut. My body doesn't work. Right?

[Andy]

Stanis thrax with a $5 super chat.

[Mike]

Shut up.

[Nick]

There's a guy named Stannis. Thrax?

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Is he a fucking Baratheon?

[Andy]

Probably. Says here's the Modesto tax. Thanks for shouting out my city. Team Hang Team Shanghai Noon. Death stranding game of the year. Watch Vince Vaughn in Brawl in cell block 99. Nick, you rule.

[Nick]

Thanks man. Your city's awesome.

[Andy]

I love that Stannis covered all the bases.

[Mike]

Yeah, he hit them all.

[Andy]

I'm talking about modesto.

[Mike]

Their top 10.

[Andy]

I'm gonna give you my Shanghai Noon over. Wild Wild West.

[Nick]

I'll be real. I fit some shade of a desto there. Until he said I was cool.

[Mike]

I gotta go get some love.

[Nick]

You just made me love your city by playing to my ego.

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[Andy]

Oh yeah. There we go. Here's a super chat from Jen's FC

[Mike]

lay it to us.

[Andy]

10 super chat.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Andy]

And she says I was at the concert too. It was awesome. But I really wish they had more bass. 100 agree with Andy. Best game of all time, dude. I wish they had more bass too. That's exactly what I kept feeling the whole time.

[Nick]

So crazy.

[Andy]

And then the. The. The snare would just stood out out way more than it should have. And I think it was just where we were sitting. But yeah. But then they had like a guy playing the nylon guitar. Like just acoustic like. I was like dude, this is so badass.

[Nick]

It's a hard balance. I've done a couple of those movies like where you watch the movie and the symphony is happening. You just want to hit a little harder every single time.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

It's unfortunate.

[Mike]

Can I give you all a treat really quick?

[Nick]

Please do.

[Mike]

Came to my attention last week. Finally Cuff Bust, the cute little gummy bear escaping out of prison game.

[Andy]

That's right.

[Mike]

Releases next week or this week. October 15th.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Andy]

Oh wow.

[Mike]

I'm very excited. Now there's been some details coming out that I'm not sure are real or not because it came from a tick tock. But they say it's kind of PvP. You get split into different teams and the first team to escape wins. Which I don't really love. I thought it was just like 20 jabronis screaming at each other trying to escape. But I am still very pumped up on Cuff Bust. I can't wait to play this game.

[Andy]

There's also another co op game from the peak devs from ago. Crab Bust Yeah, this is cuff bust. This is. This looks. You're just a bunch of little jelly. Weird jelly characters. I love this. And you're trying to break out of jail.

[Nick]

Just as awesome. My homie's got a weight. He's from the weight yard.

[Mike]

This is gonna be awesome. Can't wait to play this game.

[Andy]

The game from the peak devs, Mike.

[Mike]

Oh, yes. They said it to me. Greg said it to me.

[Andy]

That is a shopping cart, right?

[Mike]

No, no, no, no. It's forklift certified. You got to be forklift certified.

[Andy]

Right, right.

[Mike]

They're all forklifts.

[Andy]

But what. But what's the game call? The game has, like, a funny name to crash out crew.

[Nick]

Peak was another one of those games. I wish I had played more. Yeah, I think we could have had more fun.

[Andy]

We definitely should have played that.

[Nick]

We can still play it.

[Mike]

We can still play it. Let's tell Andy. Give us a Tuesday night, Andy.

[Nick]

I'm gonna order you a pizza.

[Mike]

Yeah, there we go.

[Nick]

We're gonna watch the Internship and the Devil Wears Pride at the same time and play some peak. How do you feel about that?

[Andy]

Sure.

[Nick]

Watch along.

[Andy]

That sounds good.

[Nick]

What a fun night.

[Mike]

A little more peak. I would like that. Together to round out this episode and get us over to that sponsored stream. Nick, what is the game of the year?

[Nick]

For me, the game of the year is gonna be Dune. Dune Awakening. I'm playing the game. People are coming back. There's never been a better time to get into Dune than right now. You guys want to come play? My server is so empty. It's so unbelievably empty. It was until here's the thing. I was gonna tell everyone what server I was on, but then something happened last night. I log in. Yeah, Because I'm thinking to myself, that'd be really fun, right? If everyone wants to play, you come take a look at my place. Come say hi.

[Mike]

Server is empty. Maybe encourage people to come to your server.

[Nick]

But then this is what happened, Mike. I log in. First off, I hit up Adam, and I was like, adam, your fucking ornithopters are cooked. You got to come back to this game and at least redo your power, because your penta shields are down. Your ornithopters are cooked. Adam's too busy doing other shit. He doesn't care. Gary's still doing his stuff, but he's weird. I log in, and there's a new guy in our neighborhood.

[Andy]

Ugh.

[Nick]

A basic ass. Basic ass fucking block house building with stone 1.0.

[Andy]

He's treating your neighborhood as a pit stop.

[Mike]

Remember when that guy built in front of Andy's house as well? Like, Andy built behind him, but he was, like, low key, and they just built a giant. He built the Avengers Tower in front of.

[Andy]

Built the Freedom Tower. I was like, dude, like, your looks ugly. I'm out of here.

[Nick]

Yeah. This guy built in just an odd cockeyed way to the point where it looks like it's my pool house and I don't like it. And it was to the point where I legitimately thought about making a thumb. He. He built sort of an open sand. And I thought to myself, I might build. I might build a thump like a thumper and put it over by him and just see. See if the worm will come swallow this house up. It's gross.

[Mike]

But then I thought that to people.

[Nick]

But then I looked around, and no one else was in the server. And I was like, maybe I'll just make friends with this guy. And then my brain goes like this. Maybe I'll just start leaving him because I have so much footballs. I have. So, no, I was gonna leave, like, an ornithopter. I was just gonna, like. My thought. My first thought process was like, because he's right on the cusp of where my plot of land is.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

I could legitimately make a safe and keep it open. And then if you walked in and just see if he starts, you should do that.

[Mike]

That'd be a fun little experiment.

[Nick]

I might, like, message you, like, hey, man, I'm gonna leave you some.

[Mike]

It's like when I made friends with box fart 69. You know what I mean?

[Andy]

Like.

[Mike]

Like, that's a friendship that will forever be.

[Nick]

What, man? Who's that kid that we made friends with in. In Call of Duty?

[Mike]

Mel C. Yeah.

[Nick]

He loved you.

[Mike]

He was a lot of fun.

[Nick]

That was different.

[Mike]

You got to turn on voice chat.

[Andy]

I really don't. I really don't. You're gonna love it. Sounds like it's always fun until it ruins the stream for you guys.

[Mike]

Now you just say, that guy's an. My bad.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know, but, you know, let's have some fun. That new Game of Thrones trailer. Did y' all see this?

[Nick]

Yeah, haven't seen it yet.

[Andy]

Oh, a Night of the Seven Kings.

[Mike]

Yeah. You haven't watched it yet?

[Nick]

Nick, we're back, bro.

[Mike]

We're back.

[Nick]

Is it another prequel that happens 10, 000 years in the past?

[Mike]

It's another guy with a small child he's got across the countryside.

[Andy]

You got to get over this prequel. You've got to.

[Nick]

It's just so boring. It's just so boring.

[Mike]

Where did you want them to go? They got to do a prequel.

[Nick]

They don't. They can make just more shows that happened after.

[Mike]

We like Game of Thrones.

[Nick]

Game of Thrones, you know, we like Game of Thrones. We want to see more Game of Thrones. We don't want to see.

[Andy]

It's not like real history where, you know that, like, oh, we won World War II. Like, you don't know.

[Nick]

See? So we did.

[Mike]

Let's get out of here. Thank you all so much for tuning in. Of course, if you are watching live on Twitch, you don't got to go anywhere. If you're on YouTube, click the new link because we're gonna go play some Battlefield sponsored by Nvidia to show you off the very best tech going behind the scenes for your computer when you play Battlefield and more. Thank you all so much for watching today's gamescast. We'll catch you on the next one. Goodbye.

[Andy]

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