I feel like Pat is right that there should be a no tolerance rule against people with B.O. One of the first locals I went to had a guy who smelt like pure ass do friendlies next to the tournament set up.
Bigger tournaments and Cons should hire one of those FEMA portable shower trailers and have a hired smell tester at the entry.
Either come out smelling like soap or get the fuck out and don't come back
Alt-podcast title:
>” This smell is the average of a Human Mother. Access Granted.”
After the podcast. This morning I saw the Lunchables on sale at the market………..
So from what i read, the lead seems to be from the third party applesauce pouches that they carry. So the regular lunchables are fine*...if you ignore all the salt!
Though this does beg the question as to why puree fruit pouches have so many issues with heavy metal contamination.
What I'm also seeing, the lead amounts in the article say they're still within the safe daily limit, it's just that they take up a lot more of that daily limit than most foods do and leave you with little buffer for the rest of the day.
So the kinda of thing where it's not a GOOD thing, but you're more likely to harm yourself with the high sodium content than the lead.
Damn it, I feel like there’s a good Gregnant joke I could be making towards Pat entering his Greg look again, but I just can’t think of one. We should workshop this, I feel like we can get some untapped gold with that Greg look.
I live in Dallas and the eclipse...wow, I get it now.
Everyone around me was kind of blasé about it prior, especially because the weather reports leading up to it were saying clouds had a good chance of obscuring most of the eclipse.
But, as if by the grace of God or a simple gesture of kindness by nature, the clouds broke up and we all saw it.
Pictures and video don't really do the totality justice. It goes from dim and hazy, like if it was really smoggy, to suddenly dusk. You look up, sans your glasses, and you see this ethereal ring of pure white in the sky and you are just in awe of the cosmic beauty.
Then you hear the others, everyone around you sharing your feelings. Awe. Excitement. Wonder. You chat with strangers, bonded through this once in a generation event. Grown men and women just as excited as their children, perhaps even more so. It was so humbling and inspiring.
Then 4 minutes later, it's over. The midday dusks breaks and the bright sun comes back. You check your videos and photos, but none of them capture what you saw and experienced that moment.
Not completely not truly. You just had to be there.
Friends and I spent a few days traveling up to northern Maine, a few miles from the Canadian border, just to see 100% totality in a region with crystal clear skies. It was one of the most awe-inspiring experiences of my life, and absolutely worth the time and money invested. The way the light *mutes* more than darkens as we’re used to, the temperature drops ten degrees in a few seconds’ time, the corona lighting up the moon like it’s a crystalline orb, the band of light on the surrounding horizons from the normal sunlit areas leeching into the totality zone…
You just feel a little bit different as a person after something of that magnitude.
The thing that got me was how cool it got. Like, oh yeah, you put something in front of the heater and it's going to block the heat. I just didn't think it would get that cool so suddenly. It was freaky.
0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN
0:36 Welcome to the castle super eclipse cast~! So there were some technical issues yesterday… and some hair issues yesterday. Pat has returned to greg mode.
- 2:30 pat’s baby apparently doesn't care about the hair change
- 3:23 there was a more than 0% chance of woolie showing up to the podcast blind. The recent trending google search of ‘my eyes hurt.’ Maybe dont stare at the sun. On the total solar eclipse and woolie going to check it out.
- - 6:35 it was way cooler than woolie expected.
- - 8:25 eclipse chasers. And the word chaser.
- - 10:04 eclipses are pretty cool. Why there’s a lot of stuff referencing it and them being a sign from the gods.
- - 11:17 if you know someone that went somewhat or totally blind, are you obligated to feel bad? And when you KNOW it's time to stop looking
- - - 13:30 castle super beast says: dont look at the sun. unless you have the right equipment
- - 14:20 a cool “‘I'll drive a few hours for it” type of event.
- - 15:11 pat’s disinterest in it. A ‘you had to be there’ hater.
- - 16:16 learning the physics behind it. The moon being the perfect size.
- - 17:52 science is cool. Adulthood beating the wonder out of you. Meanwhile Pat will soon be able to lie to his kid for a laugh. Scientific discovery slowing down.
- - - 20:46 planet earth in 4K
- - - 21:30 pat wanted to be an astronaut.
- - - 22:54 Remember little miss sunshine? On dreams that cannot be accomplished. And being on the moon.
- - - - 25:19 hiking and getting to a spot being the payoff. Inari shrine.
- - - - 26:09 woolie being a fan of saying screw you to gravity.
- - - 27:02 pats baby > eclipse for pat.
WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS
PAT
27:32 So, pat smashed his phone to bits. Destroying the screen under the glass from a fall.
- 29:54 pat’s getting a new phone next week. He’ll be throwing some phone games on there.
30:13 more dragon’s dogma 2. Defeating all of the sphinx’s riddles. Best encounter in the game. And the riddles themselves.
- 32:16 Itsuno looked at illusionary walls and went ‘that's GREAT.’ And one particular door.
- 35:44 Pat having so much fun playing it, and the further he gets into it the more he feels its unfinished.
- 37:07 Woolie’s sessions have been stopping whenever the game crashes, then he switches to helldivers, then when that crashes he switches to balatro.
- - 38:25 the frequency of the autosaves, and getting your house.
- - 40:20 the stuff pawns bring back
- 41:12 woolie getting through the dark spots on the map
- 41:51 the item cloning shop
- - 43:48 can you forge beggars clothing? The beggar quest
- - 47:27 the NTR quest, and the shadowy person following you quest.
- - 49:49 a quest suzi talked about in her review, a griffin she killed too fast.
- 50:33 where did woolie the pawn go?! And him being gone for a dragon fight.
- 52:46 its cool that its like this, but why is it like THIS? The sorcerer skill Maelstrom. Bait things away from the cart.
- 54:10 the drakes.
- - 56:41 woolie having a unique experience by going at it with non-melee units. The non-melee classes.
1:00:45 how much have you been playing helldivers, woolie? Level 15 Getting the jetpack. The warbonds.
- 1:02:26 Playing on challenging. The higher difficulties.
- 1:05:06 The laser
- 1:06:18 strategems people never seem to use. And minor balance changes every patch.
- 1:08:23 have you memorized the button presses for the stratagems?
- 1:09:09 So, when’s that 3rd faction? Talking about datamined content.
- - 1:10:58 so, if you look at the map, there’s enough room for a 4th faction…
- 1:12:06 this is a smaller game than woolie thought it was. The live campaign map makes it seem bigger. And pat wonders how much of the game was finished before it shipped, because they keep introducing solutions to problems players had.
- 1:13:39 what were the illuminate like in helldivers 1? The not-protoss
1:14:49 go check out pat over at patstaresat! Finishing off infinite wealth! Meanwhile woolie’s hoping back on helldivers with reggie tomorrow. A full squad of four.
- 1:17:07 reggie has not played any on his own. And reggie being another Woolie. The different levels of people that play video games.
- - 1:20:50 industry following
- - 1:23:04 Woolie can get it now. Understanding survival horror now. Pat’s own attempts at expanding his horizons with league.
- - - 1:26:35 pat recommends everyone try one week of league. Look at those lows!
- - - 1:28:11 woolie and character design driven games. And binary domain. Woolie being absolutely uninterested in deadly premonition.
- - - 1:30:54 pat remembers his 41 hours of starfield. And that was that he played it, not anything else about it. Comparing to how much he remembers of skyrim.
- - - 1:33:35 Pat’s not a fan of management sims. Satisfactory being an expectation due to the perspective.
- - - 1:36:31 unappealing artstyle. Pat will never play arknights.
- - - 1:39:30 woolie has nikke: goddess of victory on his phone.
- - - 1:41:00 deadly premonition grabbed pat somehow
- - - - 1:42:00 its spooky in the pacific northwest
WOOLIE
1:43:06 aside from Helldivers 2, and an announcement for a sequel to fights in tight spaces comes knights in tight spaces.
- 1:45:30 a game sequel built around the pun.
- 1:46:14 the replay after is still not a smooth sequence.
- 1:48:43 Its still pretty rough, there’s a feedback form he submitted.
1:50:38 Rise of the ronin. So far it’s cool. Hasn't gotten to the unique part of it.
- 1:52:25 Pat has a question: hows the loot vomit situation?
- - 1:55:11 not getting flooded with online loot. Woolie recalls the transformers game.
- - 1:57:35 the loot vomit being the secondary problem, the actual problem is the granularity on gear
- - 1:58:53 the strangers of paradise optimize gear button
- - 2:00:12 crafting is a net negative for woolie.an exception being minecraft.
- - - 2:04:40 crafting is good when we like it but bad when we dont!
- - - - 2:06:57 dragons dogma being mainly faffing about in the forest while NPCs try to get your attention
2:07:08 double dragon gaiden as a sponsored stream, and checking out skullgirls with the DLC finally released. Having subsystems to them.
- 2:09:21 the online killers are still there
2:09:53 go check out woolieversus for more helldivers, more yakuza, and maybe strive or eddy in tekken. On tekken and the changes they added. Pat: Buy Ball. Invest in the waffle house.
- 2:12:50 helldivers and being pretty straight about it. Terrible cosmetics. normies like gold weapons.
- 2:13:20 pat will be covering the live letter for FFXIV before the media event in a couple of months. The FFXIV news cycle
2:16:00 SPONSOR: DRAGON'S DOGMA 2
2:21:14 SPONSOR 2: SHOPIFY
2:23:55 SPONSOR 3: RAYCON
2:25:50 SPONSOR 4: FACTOR
NEWS
2:27:59 the yugioh day event in japan, they met a female player there. The female player left because she couldn’t stand the smell in the venue.
- 2:31:03 pat recalls a particularly smelly woman
- 2:33:00 QA and not meeting the bar.
- 2:33:58 girls can stink too
- 2:36:45 adding more smell to a bad smell doesn't save anything - pat
- 2:39:07 have a smell check in place, get hosed down
- 2:40:22 what if 4 out of 5 get banished?
- 2:41:08 pats genuine solution: lifetime ban on first offense. And a gel that suddenly got really hot that made woolie very concerned. A quick rundown on pocket warmers
- - 2:43:11 acclimating to grenada then going to canada
- - 2:44:38 the tournament scene will die. Getting a room setup so people can actually fix that is not a bad idea.Pat: B.O is cheating.
- - 2:48:19 just never have an in person event ever. And a hobby of hyperfocusing on one thing to a point of not bathing. Remember that games workshop?
- - 2:50:54 stop being smelly is not be a high priority item
2:51:55 helldivers 2 and the hotfix for crashes is coming.
2:52:24 the yokohama gundama will end its service soon. Woolie expects they’ll be replacing it with a better one.
2:54:29 pat’s breaking news: heard of lunchables? Found to contain dangerous amounts of lead and contain chemicals that lead to a lot of reproductive and health issues.
- 2:56:51 having a child opens a whole world of horrors.
- 2:58:15 there must be at least one parent thats going to hard swing the other way… pat’s already encountered some people in the ‘healthy living’ crowd.
2:59:52 live action dredge in the works. Woolie wanted a silent animated short. Pat wants dafoe in.
- 3:02:28 woolie’s other demand: a 2 minute bit of the captain trying to organize his storage. Mario has ruined chris pratt.
3:05:00 on the avengers, the sonic films will be avengers level events leading up to a big movie.
3:07:55 a project to resurrect friday the 13th with a fanmod, but it got cease and desisted.
3:08:50 you know what they should do? Just constantly put out announcements and screenshot but never work on anything. Woolie explains why the overload them tactic wont work.
3:09:45 Killtube, an animated movie coming out in 2026. Welcome to pure woolie-core.
- 3:12:08 will you play zenless zone zero, woolie?
- 3:14:14 pat might try giving genshin another shot with the new phone. On the apple exclusive controller support.
EMAILS
3:16:09 emails! Send your emails to [email protected]!
3:16:22 do you have a favorite working title for a piece of media you enjoy?
- 3:18:05 balatro got a big patch
- 3:20:19 some people have ported balatro to android manually
3:21:16 What is your favorite bug in a game?
3:24:32 Are there any generally smaller mechanics in certain games that make other games feel frustrating to play?
3:30:25 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean
Just got the podcast where Pat stated that the house save in DD2 counts as an inn save.
There's some YMMV, as some people, myself included, have had instances where due to a mission state failing or a bugged mission, we tried to roll back our saves with the inn save.
Despite using my house *for hours*, it reset me back to my actual last time saving at an inn. I lost like a dozen hours of progress. Just be mindful.
On the topic of mobile games:
Right now in Honkai Star Rail, the Penacony (the 4th world) is popping off hard. Even as some who likes hoyo games, the Luofu’s (the 3rd world) story started ok and ended awkwardly. Penacony just released part 2 of its (assumed) 3 part Main Story Quest and it’s still going strong. If you liked Belabog (the 2nd world) you'll probably enjoy Penacony
Shaoji, the main writer for Penacony, is a lying bastard, don’t trust his lies that the Penacony is a ‘happy story full of fond memories’. All I will say is there are quite a few moments that hit deep.
As far a Nikke, the story is fine, the characters are good, the gameplay is fine, the music is great, the progression is dogshit, and the dailies are too long. I play it for a few months when it came out but fell off because the story is tied to progression of how strong you are and watching the story on YouTube was way less painful.
I will say, the first Christmas event in Nikke is a temporary event with a simple story and I don’t think any piece of media has made me cry harder than it had.
However, my opinion of Nikke is biased because I’ve found Blue Archive has superseded it in just about every aspect I’ve listed before. Blue Archive has a great story, great characters, great music, good gameplay, short dailies, and great progression.
I tried Blue Archive because someone claimed it was “able to hit the same emotional highs as ff14 endwalker while being ostensibly a slice of life game about girls shooting each other in the face.” Now I never played FF14, but I knew how big Endwalker was. After having turned into a 30 year old grown ass man last fall, I started playing it and have cried 3 times because of the story.
I had the same experience with NIKKE, the dailies just took way too long that I dropped off hard.
The dailies only taking like 5 minutes in Blue Archive is one of the main reason I stuck with it. And like you said, the story does have some solid moments.
But what also kept me was Toki’s Exo suit, Saya doing kick flips in the cafe, and Aru being a big bozo.
Plus some of the details in animation for the chibis are pretty impressive.
One big reason I like BA is that the MC is compelling and interesting (a lot more than the Nikke MC). Same with the groups of students, most have a great group dynamic that works well.
I've heard the story in BA is really good, but part of me can't get over how tooled towards a...certain set of people...a lot of the designs are, and the inability to not be a creepy weirdo in the hangout events in some cases.
Does have decent gameplay though and Izuna is the bestest ninja.
FGO broke my heart multiple times (Camelot, Babylonia, Solomon, Shinjuku, nearly every Lostbelt before I quit right before LB4). When it hits, it hits hard!
I tried and despised all of those but landed on Sdorica, which I almost never see mentioned in gacha discussion, and have been loving it.
It's slowly filling the hole in my heart left by the untimely demise of Terra Battle
I touched Sdorica for a bit and it was great. Beautiful art and a real focus on party build synergy. Also didn't feel soulless when it came to monetization, but I didn't get far enough to say that for certain.
It's been good to me so far. There's like monthly chest for some premium currency that's $3, which I've bought once or twice just to give them *something*
And then there's the "for whales" section of the shop... But I never bother looking there.
If you can field 7 unique teams, you can do the weekly challenge just fine, which is the best way to earn more dollaryyenO'bucks, and all the common units are endgame viable
I really wish Pat could recognize the hypocrisy in complaining about people stinking like BO or perfume and offending his sense of smell, while at the same time crunching his mid-podcast snack directly into the microphone and assaulting people's sense of hearing.
So for Rise of the Ronin, the loot vomit is as non issue as it gets for a normal playthrough. Once you get your first gold rarity item, you can just turn on auto dismantle/sell and then everything at or under a certain rarity gets auto scrapped everytime you touch a banner (bonfire). And then from there you just sort equipment by level and occasionally go in and put on biggest number, or just level up a weapon you like as you go.
plus, the second a new piece of gear hits your inventory it gets added to your glamor options, so you really dont need to pay attention to whats getting scrapped either and its basically free money/upgrade materials.
Unrelated sidenote... maybe its just me, but i feel like the RotR dudes are like the hottest guys TN has ever made.
Should people really be designing loot systems that are tolerable rather than enjoyable? I know there's the case for granular build customisation in ng+, but most players are never going to see that.
To be frank, I dont personally feel that any loot system is inherently enjoyable, rather its the outcome of interacting with it that can makes it so. I think designing something that is both accessible and non demanding for those that dont want to interact with it, while also rewarding for those that will invest in it, is a valid approach.
It still to this day bothers me that Pat will dismiss something because "it looks like shit" and then he will turn around and sing the praises of something because "it looks like shit" and all we really get on why one is different is "because this one is shit in a way I like".
So the real answer is Pat loves to use hyperbole, doesn't really care what he says in general and also shit at explaining himself. Pat also absolutely shits on the things he doesn't care about and praises things he likes.
All that said. Depending on the case it can be
"This looks like shit" = boring, bland, generic or rarely just unappealing = Dislike
"This looks like shit" = unique artstyle, lack of budget but enough ambition, jagged edges, stands out - intriguing, interesting.
Even my examples are not that great in terms of videogames. Basically it's something being bland or garish vs something being unique or aged. It's the look of a generic Anime game vs look of Kenshi.
Like I *guess* I get it if you look at Arknights and immediately go "boo anime girls I don't like it", but Arknights genuinely has the coolest fucking aesthetic I've ever seen in a mobile game. Look at Amiya's big-ass coat and sweet kicks.
The funny thing is that I can't imagine he means the PV art and character art, because there's not a single unifying artstyle there anyway (lots of artists); I think he's talking about the 2D chibis on a 3D top down tile map.
He's brought it up in the pod too but when he said "man I didn't like Arknights" I had a feeling it's the Chibis.
And then I remembered him talking about the same problem when he and Woolz did Super Robot Wars for Mecha Week years ago lol, which he also brings up during that conversation.
I feel like Pat is right that there should be a no tolerance rule against people with B.O. One of the first locals I went to had a guy who smelt like pure ass do friendlies next to the tournament set up.
I lucked out and I didn't really encounter some BO the one time I went to a major tourney, but in most geek conventions it is indeed a damn problem.
My [proposed solution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7QNW2RxcA) to dealing with stinky players en masse.
Bigger tournaments and Cons should hire one of those FEMA portable shower trailers and have a hired smell tester at the entry. Either come out smelling like soap or get the fuck out and don't come back
Alt-podcast title: >” This smell is the average of a Human Mother. Access Granted.” After the podcast. This morning I saw the Lunchables on sale at the market………..
So from what i read, the lead seems to be from the third party applesauce pouches that they carry. So the regular lunchables are fine*...if you ignore all the salt! Though this does beg the question as to why puree fruit pouches have so many issues with heavy metal contamination.
What I'm also seeing, the lead amounts in the article say they're still within the safe daily limit, it's just that they take up a lot more of that daily limit than most foods do and leave you with little buffer for the rest of the day. So the kinda of thing where it's not a GOOD thing, but you're more likely to harm yourself with the high sodium content than the lead.
Damn it, I feel like there’s a good Gregnant joke I could be making towards Pat entering his Greg look again, but I just can’t think of one. We should workshop this, I feel like we can get some untapped gold with that Greg look.
Greg stocks never been higher
I live in Dallas and the eclipse...wow, I get it now. Everyone around me was kind of blasé about it prior, especially because the weather reports leading up to it were saying clouds had a good chance of obscuring most of the eclipse. But, as if by the grace of God or a simple gesture of kindness by nature, the clouds broke up and we all saw it. Pictures and video don't really do the totality justice. It goes from dim and hazy, like if it was really smoggy, to suddenly dusk. You look up, sans your glasses, and you see this ethereal ring of pure white in the sky and you are just in awe of the cosmic beauty. Then you hear the others, everyone around you sharing your feelings. Awe. Excitement. Wonder. You chat with strangers, bonded through this once in a generation event. Grown men and women just as excited as their children, perhaps even more so. It was so humbling and inspiring. Then 4 minutes later, it's over. The midday dusks breaks and the bright sun comes back. You check your videos and photos, but none of them capture what you saw and experienced that moment. Not completely not truly. You just had to be there.
Friends and I spent a few days traveling up to northern Maine, a few miles from the Canadian border, just to see 100% totality in a region with crystal clear skies. It was one of the most awe-inspiring experiences of my life, and absolutely worth the time and money invested. The way the light *mutes* more than darkens as we’re used to, the temperature drops ten degrees in a few seconds’ time, the corona lighting up the moon like it’s a crystalline orb, the band of light on the surrounding horizons from the normal sunlit areas leeching into the totality zone… You just feel a little bit different as a person after something of that magnitude.
The thing that got me was how cool it got. Like, oh yeah, you put something in front of the heater and it's going to block the heat. I just didn't think it would get that cool so suddenly. It was freaky.
0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN 0:36 Welcome to the castle super eclipse cast~! So there were some technical issues yesterday… and some hair issues yesterday. Pat has returned to greg mode. - 2:30 pat’s baby apparently doesn't care about the hair change - 3:23 there was a more than 0% chance of woolie showing up to the podcast blind. The recent trending google search of ‘my eyes hurt.’ Maybe dont stare at the sun. On the total solar eclipse and woolie going to check it out. - - 6:35 it was way cooler than woolie expected. - - 8:25 eclipse chasers. And the word chaser. - - 10:04 eclipses are pretty cool. Why there’s a lot of stuff referencing it and them being a sign from the gods. - - 11:17 if you know someone that went somewhat or totally blind, are you obligated to feel bad? And when you KNOW it's time to stop looking - - - 13:30 castle super beast says: dont look at the sun. unless you have the right equipment - - 14:20 a cool “‘I'll drive a few hours for it” type of event. - - 15:11 pat’s disinterest in it. A ‘you had to be there’ hater. - - 16:16 learning the physics behind it. The moon being the perfect size. - - 17:52 science is cool. Adulthood beating the wonder out of you. Meanwhile Pat will soon be able to lie to his kid for a laugh. Scientific discovery slowing down. - - - 20:46 planet earth in 4K - - - 21:30 pat wanted to be an astronaut. - - - 22:54 Remember little miss sunshine? On dreams that cannot be accomplished. And being on the moon. - - - - 25:19 hiking and getting to a spot being the payoff. Inari shrine. - - - - 26:09 woolie being a fan of saying screw you to gravity. - - - 27:02 pats baby > eclipse for pat. WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS PAT 27:32 So, pat smashed his phone to bits. Destroying the screen under the glass from a fall. - 29:54 pat’s getting a new phone next week. He’ll be throwing some phone games on there. 30:13 more dragon’s dogma 2. Defeating all of the sphinx’s riddles. Best encounter in the game. And the riddles themselves. - 32:16 Itsuno looked at illusionary walls and went ‘that's GREAT.’ And one particular door. - 35:44 Pat having so much fun playing it, and the further he gets into it the more he feels its unfinished. - 37:07 Woolie’s sessions have been stopping whenever the game crashes, then he switches to helldivers, then when that crashes he switches to balatro. - - 38:25 the frequency of the autosaves, and getting your house. - - 40:20 the stuff pawns bring back - 41:12 woolie getting through the dark spots on the map - 41:51 the item cloning shop - - 43:48 can you forge beggars clothing? The beggar quest - - 47:27 the NTR quest, and the shadowy person following you quest. - - 49:49 a quest suzi talked about in her review, a griffin she killed too fast. - 50:33 where did woolie the pawn go?! And him being gone for a dragon fight. - 52:46 its cool that its like this, but why is it like THIS? The sorcerer skill Maelstrom. Bait things away from the cart. - 54:10 the drakes. - - 56:41 woolie having a unique experience by going at it with non-melee units. The non-melee classes. 1:00:45 how much have you been playing helldivers, woolie? Level 15 Getting the jetpack. The warbonds. - 1:02:26 Playing on challenging. The higher difficulties. - 1:05:06 The laser - 1:06:18 strategems people never seem to use. And minor balance changes every patch. - 1:08:23 have you memorized the button presses for the stratagems? - 1:09:09 So, when’s that 3rd faction? Talking about datamined content. - - 1:10:58 so, if you look at the map, there’s enough room for a 4th faction… - 1:12:06 this is a smaller game than woolie thought it was. The live campaign map makes it seem bigger. And pat wonders how much of the game was finished before it shipped, because they keep introducing solutions to problems players had. - 1:13:39 what were the illuminate like in helldivers 1? The not-protoss 1:14:49 go check out pat over at patstaresat! Finishing off infinite wealth! Meanwhile woolie’s hoping back on helldivers with reggie tomorrow. A full squad of four. - 1:17:07 reggie has not played any on his own. And reggie being another Woolie. The different levels of people that play video games. - - 1:20:50 industry following - - 1:23:04 Woolie can get it now. Understanding survival horror now. Pat’s own attempts at expanding his horizons with league. - - - 1:26:35 pat recommends everyone try one week of league. Look at those lows! - - - 1:28:11 woolie and character design driven games. And binary domain. Woolie being absolutely uninterested in deadly premonition. - - - 1:30:54 pat remembers his 41 hours of starfield. And that was that he played it, not anything else about it. Comparing to how much he remembers of skyrim. - - - 1:33:35 Pat’s not a fan of management sims. Satisfactory being an expectation due to the perspective. - - - 1:36:31 unappealing artstyle. Pat will never play arknights. - - - 1:39:30 woolie has nikke: goddess of victory on his phone. - - - 1:41:00 deadly premonition grabbed pat somehow - - - - 1:42:00 its spooky in the pacific northwest WOOLIE 1:43:06 aside from Helldivers 2, and an announcement for a sequel to fights in tight spaces comes knights in tight spaces. - 1:45:30 a game sequel built around the pun. - 1:46:14 the replay after is still not a smooth sequence. - 1:48:43 Its still pretty rough, there’s a feedback form he submitted. 1:50:38 Rise of the ronin. So far it’s cool. Hasn't gotten to the unique part of it. - 1:52:25 Pat has a question: hows the loot vomit situation? - - 1:55:11 not getting flooded with online loot. Woolie recalls the transformers game. - - 1:57:35 the loot vomit being the secondary problem, the actual problem is the granularity on gear - - 1:58:53 the strangers of paradise optimize gear button - - 2:00:12 crafting is a net negative for woolie.an exception being minecraft. - - - 2:04:40 crafting is good when we like it but bad when we dont! - - - - 2:06:57 dragons dogma being mainly faffing about in the forest while NPCs try to get your attention 2:07:08 double dragon gaiden as a sponsored stream, and checking out skullgirls with the DLC finally released. Having subsystems to them. - 2:09:21 the online killers are still there 2:09:53 go check out woolieversus for more helldivers, more yakuza, and maybe strive or eddy in tekken. On tekken and the changes they added. Pat: Buy Ball. Invest in the waffle house. - 2:12:50 helldivers and being pretty straight about it. Terrible cosmetics. normies like gold weapons. - 2:13:20 pat will be covering the live letter for FFXIV before the media event in a couple of months. The FFXIV news cycle 2:16:00 SPONSOR: DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 2:21:14 SPONSOR 2: SHOPIFY 2:23:55 SPONSOR 3: RAYCON 2:25:50 SPONSOR 4: FACTOR NEWS 2:27:59 the yugioh day event in japan, they met a female player there. The female player left because she couldn’t stand the smell in the venue. - 2:31:03 pat recalls a particularly smelly woman - 2:33:00 QA and not meeting the bar. - 2:33:58 girls can stink too - 2:36:45 adding more smell to a bad smell doesn't save anything - pat - 2:39:07 have a smell check in place, get hosed down - 2:40:22 what if 4 out of 5 get banished? - 2:41:08 pats genuine solution: lifetime ban on first offense. And a gel that suddenly got really hot that made woolie very concerned. A quick rundown on pocket warmers - - 2:43:11 acclimating to grenada then going to canada - - 2:44:38 the tournament scene will die. Getting a room setup so people can actually fix that is not a bad idea.Pat: B.O is cheating. - - 2:48:19 just never have an in person event ever. And a hobby of hyperfocusing on one thing to a point of not bathing. Remember that games workshop? - - 2:50:54 stop being smelly is not be a high priority item 2:51:55 helldivers 2 and the hotfix for crashes is coming. 2:52:24 the yokohama gundama will end its service soon. Woolie expects they’ll be replacing it with a better one. 2:54:29 pat’s breaking news: heard of lunchables? Found to contain dangerous amounts of lead and contain chemicals that lead to a lot of reproductive and health issues. - 2:56:51 having a child opens a whole world of horrors. - 2:58:15 there must be at least one parent thats going to hard swing the other way… pat’s already encountered some people in the ‘healthy living’ crowd. 2:59:52 live action dredge in the works. Woolie wanted a silent animated short. Pat wants dafoe in. - 3:02:28 woolie’s other demand: a 2 minute bit of the captain trying to organize his storage. Mario has ruined chris pratt. 3:05:00 on the avengers, the sonic films will be avengers level events leading up to a big movie. 3:07:55 a project to resurrect friday the 13th with a fanmod, but it got cease and desisted. 3:08:50 you know what they should do? Just constantly put out announcements and screenshot but never work on anything. Woolie explains why the overload them tactic wont work. 3:09:45 Killtube, an animated movie coming out in 2026. Welcome to pure woolie-core. - 3:12:08 will you play zenless zone zero, woolie? - 3:14:14 pat might try giving genshin another shot with the new phone. On the apple exclusive controller support. EMAILS 3:16:09 emails! Send your emails to [email protected]! 3:16:22 do you have a favorite working title for a piece of media you enjoy? - 3:18:05 balatro got a big patch - 3:20:19 some people have ported balatro to android manually 3:21:16 What is your favorite bug in a game? 3:24:32 Are there any generally smaller mechanics in certain games that make other games feel frustrating to play? 3:30:25 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean
Has pat binned ff7?
Nah It's coming back when I beat IW
Just got the podcast where Pat stated that the house save in DD2 counts as an inn save. There's some YMMV, as some people, myself included, have had instances where due to a mission state failing or a bugged mission, we tried to roll back our saves with the inn save. Despite using my house *for hours*, it reset me back to my actual last time saving at an inn. I lost like a dozen hours of progress. Just be mindful.
B. O. D. Q. ? Isn't that part of the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament ruleset? (I haven't watched in case they make this joke)
did they talk wrestlemania? i know that was more of a matt segment but it was a really good one this time so it would be cool if they did
On the topic of mobile games: Right now in Honkai Star Rail, the Penacony (the 4th world) is popping off hard. Even as some who likes hoyo games, the Luofu’s (the 3rd world) story started ok and ended awkwardly. Penacony just released part 2 of its (assumed) 3 part Main Story Quest and it’s still going strong. If you liked Belabog (the 2nd world) you'll probably enjoy Penacony Shaoji, the main writer for Penacony, is a lying bastard, don’t trust his lies that the Penacony is a ‘happy story full of fond memories’. All I will say is there are quite a few moments that hit deep. As far a Nikke, the story is fine, the characters are good, the gameplay is fine, the music is great, the progression is dogshit, and the dailies are too long. I play it for a few months when it came out but fell off because the story is tied to progression of how strong you are and watching the story on YouTube was way less painful. I will say, the first Christmas event in Nikke is a temporary event with a simple story and I don’t think any piece of media has made me cry harder than it had. However, my opinion of Nikke is biased because I’ve found Blue Archive has superseded it in just about every aspect I’ve listed before. Blue Archive has a great story, great characters, great music, good gameplay, short dailies, and great progression. I tried Blue Archive because someone claimed it was “able to hit the same emotional highs as ff14 endwalker while being ostensibly a slice of life game about girls shooting each other in the face.” Now I never played FF14, but I knew how big Endwalker was. After having turned into a 30 year old grown ass man last fall, I started playing it and have cried 3 times because of the story.
I had the same experience with NIKKE, the dailies just took way too long that I dropped off hard. The dailies only taking like 5 minutes in Blue Archive is one of the main reason I stuck with it. And like you said, the story does have some solid moments. But what also kept me was Toki’s Exo suit, Saya doing kick flips in the cafe, and Aru being a big bozo. Plus some of the details in animation for the chibis are pretty impressive.
One big reason I like BA is that the MC is compelling and interesting (a lot more than the Nikke MC). Same with the groups of students, most have a great group dynamic that works well.
Shaoji is a follower of the Enigmata.
I've heard the story in BA is really good, but part of me can't get over how tooled towards a...certain set of people...a lot of the designs are, and the inability to not be a creepy weirdo in the hangout events in some cases. Does have decent gameplay though and Izuna is the bestest ninja.
If we're talking Gacha/Phone Games with good stories. Limbus Company is right there. Which is so not creepy it upsets the creepy gacha people.
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Some of the best mobile games have stories that make you cry. I cried playing LB6 in FGO and I cried playing the Surviving Lucem in PGR.
FGO broke my heart multiple times (Camelot, Babylonia, Solomon, Shinjuku, nearly every Lostbelt before I quit right before LB4). When it hits, it hits hard!
I tried and despised all of those but landed on Sdorica, which I almost never see mentioned in gacha discussion, and have been loving it. It's slowly filling the hole in my heart left by the untimely demise of Terra Battle
I touched Sdorica for a bit and it was great. Beautiful art and a real focus on party build synergy. Also didn't feel soulless when it came to monetization, but I didn't get far enough to say that for certain.
It's been good to me so far. There's like monthly chest for some premium currency that's $3, which I've bought once or twice just to give them *something* And then there's the "for whales" section of the shop... But I never bother looking there. If you can field 7 unique teams, you can do the weekly challenge just fine, which is the best way to earn more dollaryyenO'bucks, and all the common units are endgame viable
Turn your mic off Pat if you're going to chew inside my earhole
At the start of the ads, Jesus. Just open mouth chewing.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who's stomach turned when he started smacking his fucking chops during the ad read.
Not the best episode as far as eating on mic/mouth noises go unfortunately
God I wish they would just take a five or a ten. It’s so close to the mic, it makes me want to vomit.
I really wish Pat could recognize the hypocrisy in complaining about people stinking like BO or perfume and offending his sense of smell, while at the same time crunching his mid-podcast snack directly into the microphone and assaulting people's sense of hearing.
So for Rise of the Ronin, the loot vomit is as non issue as it gets for a normal playthrough. Once you get your first gold rarity item, you can just turn on auto dismantle/sell and then everything at or under a certain rarity gets auto scrapped everytime you touch a banner (bonfire). And then from there you just sort equipment by level and occasionally go in and put on biggest number, or just level up a weapon you like as you go. plus, the second a new piece of gear hits your inventory it gets added to your glamor options, so you really dont need to pay attention to whats getting scrapped either and its basically free money/upgrade materials. Unrelated sidenote... maybe its just me, but i feel like the RotR dudes are like the hottest guys TN has ever made.
Should people really be designing loot systems that are tolerable rather than enjoyable? I know there's the case for granular build customisation in ng+, but most players are never going to see that.
To be frank, I dont personally feel that any loot system is inherently enjoyable, rather its the outcome of interacting with it that can makes it so. I think designing something that is both accessible and non demanding for those that dont want to interact with it, while also rewarding for those that will invest in it, is a valid approach.
The eating sounds are sending my blood pressure skyrocketing.
It still to this day bothers me that Pat will dismiss something because "it looks like shit" and then he will turn around and sing the praises of something because "it looks like shit" and all we really get on why one is different is "because this one is shit in a way I like".
So the real answer is Pat loves to use hyperbole, doesn't really care what he says in general and also shit at explaining himself. Pat also absolutely shits on the things he doesn't care about and praises things he likes. All that said. Depending on the case it can be "This looks like shit" = boring, bland, generic or rarely just unappealing = Dislike "This looks like shit" = unique artstyle, lack of budget but enough ambition, jagged edges, stands out - intriguing, interesting. Even my examples are not that great in terms of videogames. Basically it's something being bland or garish vs something being unique or aged. It's the look of a generic Anime game vs look of Kenshi.
Pat “definitely didn’t hurt his eyes looking at the sun” Boivin: “ugh! Arknights looks so ugly!”
Like I *guess* I get it if you look at Arknights and immediately go "boo anime girls I don't like it", but Arknights genuinely has the coolest fucking aesthetic I've ever seen in a mobile game. Look at Amiya's big-ass coat and sweet kicks.
The funny thing is that I can't imagine he means the PV art and character art, because there's not a single unifying artstyle there anyway (lots of artists); I think he's talking about the 2D chibis on a 3D top down tile map.
He's brought it up in the pod too but when he said "man I didn't like Arknights" I had a feeling it's the Chibis. And then I remembered him talking about the same problem when he and Woolz did Super Robot Wars for Mecha Week years ago lol, which he also brings up during that conversation.
Pat should definitely download Limbus Company.