WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.520 It's been it's been long weeks, my friend. 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:04.800 It's been long weeks. 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:05.360 Long weeks. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:07.600 Actually. 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:09.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:10.240 How how are you? 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:11.360 How are you? 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:11.840 I'm good. 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:12.480 I'm good. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:13.440 No complaints. 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:14.240 Yeah. 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:20.960 I I was never diagnosed with autism or ADHD. 00:00:22.100 --> 00:00:28.900 But today I uh the wife and I were invited to a friend's child's birthday party. 00:00:28.900 --> 00:00:29.779 Okay. 00:00:29.779 --> 00:00:31.300 Uh she's a toddler. 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:36.780 And we went to Fun City on Bethel Road. 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:37.739 Fun City? 00:00:37.739 --> 00:00:38.860 Was it fun? 00:00:39.660 --> 00:00:42.140 I imagine that if you are a child or a parent of a 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:50.040 small child who gets to go in the ball pits and the why and the and the rope courses and the trampolines and everything, it'd be a lot of fun for me. 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:52.840 That might have been the closest I've ever been to being overstimulated. 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.320 A little too much going on all the time. 00:00:57.320 --> 00:00:59.160 It's a lot going on in there. 00:00:59.559 --> 00:01:00.519 And it's like 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.280 I mean, I was there for our friends, and I'm glad that they invited us. 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:07.200 I'm not trying to say that I didn't have a good time. 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.040 I had a good time, but it but like 00:01:09.860 --> 00:01:18.740 When I get really tired, like like really tired, like if I'm getting sick or I've had to work a lot, which is the case here. 00:01:19.340 --> 00:01:22.460 I just, I I I don't know what it is. 00:01:22.460 --> 00:01:27.579 I just like every external stimulus, it just like screams at me. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:31.039 And that's kind of what that's kind of what was happening there. 00:01:31.039 --> 00:01:31.840 Yeah. 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.520 It was just uh it was just a lot. 00:01:33.520 --> 00:01:34.640 It was a lot. 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:35.840 But it was good. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.799 I actually um here's a here's a funny story. 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:39.280 Okay. 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:39.600 Um 00:01:41.020 --> 00:01:47.180 So I saw a lot of people that are peripherally associated with the show today. 00:01:47.580 --> 00:01:48.220 Oh, okay. 00:01:48.700 --> 00:01:50.620 Yeah, I saw a friend of the show, Robert. 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:51.399 you know, got caught up with him. 00:01:51.399 --> 00:01:59.479 He was there with with his daughter, who I've only met when she was a teeny tiny little baby, and now she's a toddler with legs that go places. 00:01:59.479 --> 00:02:00.200 And um 00:02:01.020 --> 00:02:03.659 You know, good to get caught up with him and his wife. 00:02:03.659 --> 00:02:09.259 Uh and then after we were done there, we did a Costco run. 00:02:09.299 --> 00:02:11.140 And guess who I ran into it? 00:02:11.220 --> 00:02:13.459 Guess who I ran in at Costco? 00:02:13.459 --> 00:02:15.060 I have no idea. 00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:16.019 Gene. 00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:17.299 Gene! 00:02:17.299 --> 00:02:18.579 Holy shit! 00:02:18.420 --> 00:02:23.460 I have heard I have heard that Costco in Dublin is like the best place to run into Gene. 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:25.140 Well, it's you know, he said the same thing. 00:02:25.140 --> 00:02:26.740 He said he's at Costco a lot. 00:02:26.740 --> 00:02:31.140 Um which is funny because you know his kids are older and out of the house now and everything. 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:32.100 But uh 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:34.200 Same gene. 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:40.600 Like just, you know, uh for those of you who don't know, so when Paul and I worked together uh many jobs ago, 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:45.600 Gene was our manager and uh great great man. 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:47.360 Um he's got a famous website. 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.320 Uh had which I I t I tore I tore it all down. 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:52.640 At some point I stopped paying for the 00:02:52.760 --> 00:02:54.040 Like the renewal. 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:54.520 But yeah. 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:54.680 Yeah. 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:54.920 Yeah. 00:02:54.920 --> 00:02:56.200 Had had past heads. 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.200 The Tumblr's still around, I think, but you can't get there from Jeanspace. 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:00.760 com. 00:03:00.760 --> 00:03:01.720 Okay. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:02.400 Yeah. 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:03.360 Uh he's he's great. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:04.800 He wanted me to tell you hi. 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:16.560 Um you know, he's it it was just like it was like a big reunion of former coworkers today and now I get to talk to you who I haven't got to talk to in two weeks because uh life is hell and I have to travel everywhere these 00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:19.660 these days and I'm just I'm just so tired. 00:03:19.819 --> 00:03:20.940 So tired. 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:24.459 How are how are you? 00:03:24.459 --> 00:03:25.180 I'm good. 00:03:25.180 --> 00:03:25.819 I'm good. 00:03:25.819 --> 00:03:26.220 Yeah. 00:03:26.220 --> 00:03:26.620 Yeah. 00:03:26.620 --> 00:03:27.019 Yeah. 00:03:27.019 --> 00:03:27.500 Yeah. 00:03:27.500 --> 00:03:28.540 Yeah. 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:30.440 I mean, yeah, not a lot. 00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:35.400 I mean I mean the normal amount of stuff is going on, you know, like work and 00:03:36.580 --> 00:03:42.980 Uh playoff hockey started today, though the jackets missed it again by like two fucking points, but that's okay. 00:03:42.980 --> 00:03:44.020 I'm not better 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.160 Yeah, the Penguins are getting ready to play here at 8 o'clock. 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:50.520 I hope they lose so bad. 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:51.720 Yeah, you know. 00:03:51.720 --> 00:03:58.760 I don't like I think it's always adorable when Blue Jackets fans get it like annoyed at Pittsburgh fans. 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:06.920 Like they have some sort of rivalry, and I'm just like if we if we have a good playoff series, I think a rivalry rivalry can bloom. 00:04:06.920 --> 00:04:09.080 But until then, no. 00:04:08.980 --> 00:04:09.379 No. 00:04:09.379 --> 00:04:11.540 We just get a lot of so blotchy. 00:04:11.540 --> 00:04:13.540 Why am I so blotchy on my webcam? 00:04:13.540 --> 00:04:14.900 I have no idea. 00:04:14.900 --> 00:04:15.299 Yeah. 00:04:15.299 --> 00:04:23.620 We just get a lot of Pittsburgh fans that come to Columbus Games because there's a lot of and and that that just angers us to the bone. 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:24.120 But yeah. 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:26.440 Yeah, it's it's a very drivable distance. 00:04:26.440 --> 00:04:28.040 I know this for a fact. 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.000 Though, you know, let's be honest, like 00:04:31.260 --> 00:04:33.980 Crosby, Malkin, they're getting up there in age. 00:04:33.980 --> 00:04:43.500 So I honestly wouldn't be too sad to watch them do a good playoff run or whatever one last time before they're too old to play hockey anymore. 00:04:43.500 --> 00:04:43.740 So 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:44.599 Yeah. 00:04:44.599 --> 00:04:45.479 Yeah, I agree. 00:04:45.479 --> 00:04:50.280 I mean as as much as I dislike Pittsburgh, I do have to admit that Crosby is 00:04:52.820 --> 00:04:56.420 If not at one point was the best player on the league. 00:04:56.420 --> 00:04:58.980 Now it's debatable, but he's definitely in the conversation. 00:04:58.980 --> 00:05:02.020 Like he might have lost a step. 00:05:02.979 --> 00:05:04.259 But he's still incredible. 00:05:04.259 --> 00:05:12.259 I mean you compare him to Avechkin who's still playing coming in, and Avechkin looks plays like an old man, and Crosby does not. 00:05:12.259 --> 00:05:13.780 So no 00:05:14.760 --> 00:05:18.840 So if if not the Jackets and not the Penguins, then who you got? 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:20.440 Who you who you really want to root for? 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:23.080 I'm rooting for Buffalo, simply because it's a good story. 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:25.640 They've had the longest playoff drought. 00:05:25.620 --> 00:05:29.220 in uh they had the longest playoff drought in the NHL. 00:05:29.220 --> 00:05:33.780 Uh so I'm a I'm a I'm a Buffalo fan until they get knocked out. 00:05:33.780 --> 00:05:34.740 So Okay. 00:05:34.740 --> 00:05:35.220 Mm-hmm. 00:05:35.220 --> 00:05:35.699 Okay. 00:05:35.699 --> 00:05:36.099 All right. 00:05:36.099 --> 00:05:36.500 I like that. 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:37.060 I can apply that. 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:37.860 I like the story. 00:05:37.860 --> 00:05:38.740 I like the story. 00:05:38.740 --> 00:05:40.020 Yeah. 00:05:39.539 --> 00:05:40.099 Okay. 00:05:40.099 --> 00:05:40.819 Mm-hmm. 00:05:40.819 --> 00:05:41.460 All right. 00:05:41.460 --> 00:05:41.940 Cool. 00:05:41.940 --> 00:05:46.180 Well, um man, I I wish I had more to talk about this week. 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:48.740 It's been a pretty Drew Heavy focus the past couple podcasts. 00:05:48.740 --> 00:05:51.139 So I'm interested to kind of hear what you got going on. 00:05:51.500 --> 00:05:54.540 I started playing a new video game yesterday. 00:05:54.540 --> 00:05:56.700 In fact, it was released yesterday. 00:05:56.700 --> 00:06:00.780 I don't know if you've heard of this or not, Drew, but it's called Pragmata. 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:01.280 I have. 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:04.960 It's been it has been force fed to me on TikTok. 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:10.960 It's been it's been basically, I've seen some really positive articles about it on some game review sites. 00:06:11.220 --> 00:06:12.580 Tell everybody about it. 00:06:12.580 --> 00:06:16.180 Yeah, so they started development of this like six years ago. 00:06:16.180 --> 00:06:21.860 Like, in fact, they and they announced it alongside the announcement of the PlayStation 5. 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:22.680 Right. 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:27.479 And it's been in development hell for that long and it just came out. 00:06:27.479 --> 00:06:27.800 And 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:33.040 It is so it's an over-the-shoulder action RPG. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.440 Well action, not even RPG, action shooter. 00:06:35.440 --> 00:06:37.280 There is some light RPG elements. 00:06:37.620 --> 00:06:47.539 Set in a generic sci-fi universe, you're on a moon base, AI and 3D printing have gone rogue, and things are a mess. 00:06:47.539 --> 00:06:48.659 Uh and 00:06:49.620 --> 00:06:52.740 As far as like shooters, like the shooting part of it, it's very different. 00:06:52.740 --> 00:06:53.699 It's very slow. 00:06:53.699 --> 00:06:55.220 It's very methodical. 00:06:55.220 --> 00:06:58.580 You don't have a lot of ammunition in any of your weapons. 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.639 You have to be very deliberate with your shots and keep moving. 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.600 You're fighting these big stompy robots who want to kill you. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:12.000 But the gimmick is you find this android girl who you name Diana. 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:23.479 And the gimmick is she can hack these robots to make basically to like open up their armor or otherwise hurt them, make them vulnerable. 00:07:23.740 --> 00:07:27.660 So you have to do this hacking mini game, which is not a hard mini game. 00:07:27.660 --> 00:07:28.940 It's basically a maze. 00:07:28.940 --> 00:07:29.980 You have a start point. 00:07:29.980 --> 00:07:31.420 You have to get to the end point. 00:07:31.420 --> 00:07:33.340 There are spaces you can't go through. 00:07:33.340 --> 00:07:35.260 There are spaces that give you bonuses. 00:07:35.539 --> 00:07:43.539 But you have to do this hacking mini-game while you are otherwise trying not to die from the big stompy robots. 00:07:44.660 --> 00:07:54.420 So it's this very interesting thing of like, you know, essentially like as you're a as you're aiming down the sites, you enable this hacking mini-game. 00:07:54.539 --> 00:08:01.340 So you have to like make sure you're pointing at the robot you want to do, that you're looking at this hacking mini-game to get the stuff you need. 00:08:01.419 --> 00:08:09.259 You're moving, dodging, you know, out of the way so you don't get stepped on or shot or rocketed or lasered. 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:17.880 And then after the hacks complete, you basically go into, okay, I've got like 10 shots of my gun that I can fire before I have to reload. 00:08:17.880 --> 00:08:21.240 Let's go to fucking town, knock this thing out. 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:30.320 And like the story is meh it's it's uh it's not an open world or like you're gett I play two levels so far. 00:08:30.320 --> 00:08:31.440 Uh they're 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:37.159 linear-ish levels, a little bit of exploration to find like collectibles and stuff. 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:42.360 The like couple boss fights I've had are both been incredible. 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:43.000 Like 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:50.959 Okay, ever it the setting, meh, the story, meh, the gameplay, ten out of ten. 00:08:52.079 --> 00:08:54.079 Absolutely incredible. 00:08:55.839 --> 00:08:57.920 The gameplay just works. 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:04.480 It's not a fast pace because you like it's a very slow-paced, deliberate shooter. 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:06.000 It's good. 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:06.400 It's good. 00:09:06.400 --> 00:09:09.200 I'm enjoying the heck out of it. 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:14.480 So every video I've watched of it immediately turns me off to the game. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:15.440 Okay. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:16.880 And here's the reason. 00:09:19.500 --> 00:09:23.820 I don't know how many Capcom action games you were playing. 00:09:24.300 --> 00:09:25.340 Yeah, yeah. 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:27.740 It's it was it's a Capcom game for sure. 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:28.460 Yeah. 00:09:28.460 --> 00:09:31.500 The character design and the voices. 00:09:32.040 --> 00:09:33.240 Just put me off. 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:34.760 And and and it's not just this game. 00:09:34.760 --> 00:09:41.960 There's been other Capcom games outside of like Street Fighter where the characters are just a little too over the top and they're 00:09:41.940 --> 00:09:44.260 design and their voices and their animations. 00:09:44.260 --> 00:09:47.300 And it's just like something's off. 00:09:47.460 --> 00:09:54.660 Now what interestingly enough, the Resident Evil emakes uh remakes didn't really do that for me. 00:09:55.500 --> 00:10:01.740 Outside of a few characters who I think there's really no other way to show them. 00:10:01.980 --> 00:10:04.860 Just the character designs, I just can't I just 00:10:05.140 --> 00:10:06.020 I can't do it. 00:10:06.020 --> 00:10:06.740 I can't do it. 00:10:07.140 --> 00:10:10.100 It looks like a cool game, and it's been it's been very well reviewed. 00:10:10.100 --> 00:10:10.580 It's good. 00:10:10.580 --> 00:10:10.900 It's good. 00:10:10.900 --> 00:10:11.220 I'm here to get it. 00:10:11.380 --> 00:10:12.420 It's been very well reviewed. 00:10:12.420 --> 00:10:12.820 It's good. 00:10:12.820 --> 00:10:14.980 Yeah, granted, like I said. 00:10:14.839 --> 00:10:16.519 All those things you said are true. 00:10:16.920 --> 00:10:27.079 The voice acting, mediocre, the dialogue, the story, the the visuals, all I mean it looks pretty, but like, well, I don't want me. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.080 There's a lot of like just generic gray hallways. 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:34.880 Now there's other things besides gray hallways, but like there's a lot of generic gray hallways. 00:10:34.880 --> 00:10:37.200 Like everything around it is meh. 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:44.240 But that hacking shooting mix gameplay is good. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:45.200 Okay. 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:45.839 It's good. 00:10:45.839 --> 00:10:46.800 It's real good. 00:10:46.800 --> 00:10:49.519 Now do you how long of a game is it? 00:10:49.400 --> 00:10:54.760 Uh I've read that like the main story is like 15, 16 hours. 00:10:54.760 --> 00:10:59.000 And then if you want to go back and collect everything, it's a few more hours after that. 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:00.680 So it's not a huge game. 00:11:00.680 --> 00:11:02.680 And you know. 00:11:02.680 --> 00:11:03.000 But 00:11:04.520 --> 00:11:05.080 Yeah. 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:05.560 Yeah. 00:11:05.560 --> 00:11:12.520 I I mean I'll I might pick it up what it's on sale because of all the buzz that it's getting, but I might, I might not. 00:11:12.520 --> 00:11:13.080 I don't know. 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.400 I just have a really hard time. 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.120 I'm having a really hard time getting some of that past that voice acting. 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.040 And like the little girl just looks creepy to me. 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:22.600 Yeah, and she is in like 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:30.920 Yeah, there's already there's already that k thirsty neckbeard who like dude I I'm not even sure we'll talk about this, but basically 00:11:30.860 --> 00:11:39.020 There was an entire like group of people that got banned because they were very upset that they couldn't see up the the robot girl's coat. 00:11:39.340 --> 00:11:42.460 It's like dude gross, gross, gross on so many levels. 00:11:42.460 --> 00:11:42.700 I know. 00:11:42.860 --> 00:11:44.140 Gross, stop it 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.680 Fucking gamers, dude. 00:11:45.680 --> 00:11:50.160 Like they'll give a they'll give a game like out a bad review because they can't do that. 00:11:50.160 --> 00:11:52.960 And it's like why are you censoring the game? 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:57.120 It's like, why are you a creepy ass pervert? 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:58.240 Stop it. 00:11:59.319 --> 00:11:59.959 Yeah. 00:12:00.680 --> 00:12:01.560 Yeah. 00:12:01.560 --> 00:12:04.600 Very, very disturbing behavior from the gamers out there. 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:05.480 Mm-hmm. 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:06.040 No. 00:12:06.040 --> 00:12:06.680 Okay, well good. 00:12:06.680 --> 00:12:07.959 I'm glad I'm glad you like it. 00:12:07.959 --> 00:12:08.759 I'm glad you like it. 00:12:08.839 --> 00:12:09.240 It's good. 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.360 Anything else you've been playing or Diablo? 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.760 Uh I'm kind of dumb. 00:12:14.760 --> 00:12:19.960 Like the expansion comes out later this month, so I'll definitely pick that up and play that. 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:25.480 I'm looking forward to that because it looks like it really it changes all the skill trees, it changes the end game. 00:12:25.259 --> 00:12:27.740 Looks like it's gonna be a pretty big media expansion. 00:12:27.740 --> 00:12:31.500 So I would definitely jump back into that. 00:12:31.500 --> 00:12:34.380 But I do have I do have something else that I've been enjoying. 00:12:34.459 --> 00:12:36.700 Drew, that I'd love to talk talk to you about. 00:12:36.700 --> 00:12:37.500 Okay. 00:12:37.500 --> 00:12:38.380 Hit me with it. 00:12:38.380 --> 00:12:40.620 I didn't I didn't click on any of these links yet, so hit me. 00:12:40.779 --> 00:12:41.100 Okay. 00:12:41.100 --> 00:12:41.899 Okay. 00:12:41.899 --> 00:12:46.300 So as you know, Drew, I'm a fan of tabletop role-playing games. 00:12:46.300 --> 00:12:46.700 Yep. 00:12:46.700 --> 00:12:47.420 Right. 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:53.500 I don't get to play them as much as I have, but I it's always it's a hobby that I always like going back to. 00:12:53.500 --> 00:13:00.060 And uh you can uh kind of group tabletop RPGs. 00:13:00.520 --> 00:13:10.120 In this day and age, in the two big groups, you got your traditional, you got your Dungeons and Dragons, your Pathfinders, your cyberpunks, your shadow runs, heck, even things like Fallout, right? 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:11.720 Lots of roles, lots of stats. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:14.400 Lots of lots of dice, right? 00:13:14.400 --> 00:13:17.360 And then there's a whole indie space, right? 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:23.280 Uh in that I've enjoyed playing games like uh Ten Candles, which is a uh 00:13:23.660 --> 00:13:31.420 RPG around it's a one-shot RPG round uh it's a horror game where the gimmick is everybody dies at the end no matter what 00:13:31.540 --> 00:13:38.740 I've played Alice is missing, which is a very rules-like game where you play entirely in text messages. 00:13:38.740 --> 00:13:43.380 You play teenagers looking for the titular Alice, their friend who is missing. 00:13:43.640 --> 00:13:49.720 Uh I've wanted to try things like uh Blades in the Dark, Power of the Apocalypse kind of style games. 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:56.680 And those games kind of have this uh interesting mechanic where a lot of times the game master doesn't roll dice. 00:13:56.980 --> 00:14:04.420 And there is this like you're successful, but there's a complication that drives a lot of the story stuff. 00:14:04.420 --> 00:14:04.740 So 00:14:06.620 --> 00:14:14.140 There is this YouTube channel called Quinn's Quest, and it is Quinn formerly of Shut Up and Sit Down. 00:14:14.220 --> 00:14:18.380 I don't know whether he still works to shut up or sit down, but he hasn't done a video in years. 00:14:18.380 --> 00:14:24.780 But he's been doing videos on his personal YouTube channel where he talks and reviews. 00:14:25.079 --> 00:14:27.240 Indie tabletop RPGs. 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:31.720 And his gimmick is before he talks about any of them, he runs a game. 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:33.240 So he runs a campaign, right? 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.880 So he plays the game and then he talks about the game. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.040 And ah geez, when was it? 00:14:39.040 --> 00:14:40.319 It wasn't that long ago. 00:14:40.319 --> 00:14:42.399 I have I'll have the link in the show notes. 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:43.040 It was 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:53.680 About a month ago, about a month ago, he published a video on a game called Public Access. 00:14:53.920 --> 00:14:54.720 Okay. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:02.480 And as soon as I watched that, I knew, like, oh, this this game is for me. 00:15:02.520 --> 00:15:02.760 Okay. 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.480 So just this is a disclaimer. 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:08.760 This game is very much a work in progress. 00:15:08.760 --> 00:15:13.800 If you buy it right now through Drive-Thru RPG, you get a bunch of PDFs. 00:15:13.800 --> 00:15:15.720 The game is very playable. 00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:17.880 But it's still being worked on. 00:15:17.880 --> 00:15:26.280 So like unbalanced or no, just not comp just it it's more content, more uh 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:38.720 Cohesiveness in the book, I think it's there's a Kickstarter that just finished, but you can still do you can still do like a late pledge. 00:15:39.040 --> 00:15:42.160 for the physical book, the f the the final copy. 00:15:42.160 --> 00:15:46.800 Uh if you do that, you get access to the the PDFs of the game as it is right now. 00:15:46.800 --> 00:15:50.640 The game is still like again, the game is very playable and very good right now. 00:15:50.640 --> 00:15:53.760 But if you join the Kickstarter, you get the physical book. 00:15:53.560 --> 00:15:57.720 And they're doing a whole bunch of extras and stuff on Kickstarter. 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.040 I think it's like a hundred bucks for like everything. 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:02.200 Heck of a deal. 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:03.320 Highly recommended. 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:04.120 Okay. 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:04.760 So 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:10.720 I'm gonna I'm uh this this okay. 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:20.400 I'm gonna read you a little bit from the the the book, and this is kind of a blurb that it's like the the elevator pitch for the game. 00:16:20.180 --> 00:16:20.420 Okay. 00:16:21.060 --> 00:16:22.740 I'm gonna read I'm read this here. 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:31.220 Public access is a tabletop role-playing game about a group of people in 2004, the Deep Lake Latchkeys. 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:37.320 Who find themselves investigating strange mysteries in and around the town of Deep Lake, New Mexico. 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:45.640 In the 80s and early 90s, Deep Lake was the home of a notorious public access television station called TB Odyssey. 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:55.760 the history and fate of which, the station literally disappeared, is the source of mucks much specul speculation in certain corners of the internet. 00:16:55.640 --> 00:17:05.400 As the latchkeys conduct their investigations in Deep Lake, they will become increasingly aware of the central role TV Odyssey plays in everything that's going on. 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:11.000 And you have to face whatever terrible truth lies at the heart of the infamous station. 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.040 So this is a game that draws inspiration from 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:21.240 like analog horror, found footage horror, creepy pasta, that kind of stuff, right? 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.000 Like Blair Witch type stuff. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:23.959 Yeah, exactly. 00:17:23.959 --> 00:17:24.839 Exactly. 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:26.679 So at at the uh 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:32.680 But the way the game works mechanically is extremely interesting. 00:17:33.080 --> 00:17:35.800 So first of all, it's very, very rules-light. 00:17:35.919 --> 00:17:41.039 Like your character sheet, you have like a handful of attributes and a few special moves. 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:42.320 That is it. 00:17:42.320 --> 00:17:47.280 And technically in the game, there's really only four things you can do. 00:17:47.600 --> 00:17:50.639 Right, four things that cause you to roll dice. 00:17:50.639 --> 00:17:51.200 Okay. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.919 And the basic mechanic is you roll two d6, you add the attribute. 00:17:56.100 --> 00:18:01.460 Uh if uh you if you get below six or lower, you failed. 00:18:01.460 --> 00:18:06.740 But seven to nine, you succeed, but there's a complication. 00:18:06.919 --> 00:18:07.320 Right? 00:18:07.320 --> 00:18:09.480 And I'll I'll get into those in a little bit. 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:11.799 10, you do exactly what you want it to do. 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.360 10 plus. 00:18:12.360 --> 00:18:14.840 And if you get a 12, something special happened. 00:18:15.100 --> 00:18:16.220 Okay. 00:18:16.220 --> 00:18:19.659 So one of so the game is about solving mysteries. 00:18:19.659 --> 00:18:22.620 And to solve mysteries, you need to find clues. 00:18:22.620 --> 00:18:25.820 So one of the moves is called the meddling move. 00:18:29.800 --> 00:18:30.360 Okay. 00:18:30.360 --> 00:18:30.920 All right. 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:31.480 Okay. 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:36.280 And what you do is you describe like how or where you're looking for the clue. 00:18:35.800 --> 00:18:37.720 I'm going through an old trunk. 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:42.760 I'm trying to, I'm looking at this weird painting, trying to get inspiration, whatever. 00:18:42.760 --> 00:18:44.440 So you roll the dice. 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.800 If you succeed, you find a clue where you're looking for it. 00:18:47.820 --> 00:18:49.100 You just find a clue. 00:18:49.100 --> 00:18:54.220 So the game has all these mysteries with just like dozens of clues that the game master can hand out. 00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:56.460 You succeed, you get a clue. 00:18:56.800 --> 00:18:59.520 Okay, well, you got enough clues. 00:18:59.520 --> 00:19:01.280 You want to solve the mystery. 00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:02.320 That's an action. 00:19:02.320 --> 00:19:03.280 I'd like to solve the puzzle. 00:19:03.280 --> 00:19:03.520 Yeah. 00:19:03.520 --> 00:19:04.080 Okay. 00:19:04.080 --> 00:19:04.320 Yeah. 00:19:04.800 --> 00:19:06.960 You come up with a theory. 00:19:06.840 --> 00:19:10.919 on based on the clues that you found of how to what the mystery is. 00:19:10.919 --> 00:19:12.679 And again, you roll. 00:19:12.679 --> 00:19:13.799 You succeed. 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:15.320 You were right. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.840 So it can basically be whatever you want it to be. 00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:20.639 A hundred percent. 00:19:20.639 --> 00:19:23.519 It could be exactly what you want it to be. 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:24.399 Okay. 00:19:24.399 --> 00:19:24.720 So 00:19:25.600 --> 00:19:29.840 Everything else falls into day moves and night moves. 00:19:30.159 --> 00:19:30.960 Night moves. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:31.279 Okay. 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:42.040 Okay, so let's let's do a scenario where maybe you're trying to wrestle a firearm out of an evil-possessed sheriff. 00:19:42.040 --> 00:19:42.760 Okay. 00:19:43.040 --> 00:19:45.520 And you're doing this during the day. 00:19:45.520 --> 00:19:52.960 Okay, so how the game works is the game master will go, okay, so you're trying to do this thing, trying to wrestle the gun away. 00:19:53.740 --> 00:19:59.900 What are you afraid will happen if you fail or lose you lose your nerve? 00:19:59.900 --> 00:20:04.299 So as a player, maybe you say, Oh, I'm afraid that the gun goes off. 00:20:04.860 --> 00:20:12.300 And uh it gets the attention of all the other sheriffs and you know, they start running it. 00:20:12.620 --> 00:20:16.220 So if you fail that role, that is what happens. 00:20:16.220 --> 00:20:20.060 What you're afraid is going to happen is what happens. 00:20:20.060 --> 00:20:21.020 Okay? 00:20:21.740 --> 00:20:22.539 Okay. 00:20:22.539 --> 00:20:23.340 Okay. 00:20:23.660 --> 00:20:26.940 But let's say you do that exact same thing in the night. 00:20:26.940 --> 00:20:30.940 So you say, I'm afraid the gun is gonna go off and make make a noise. 00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:33.900 Well, at the night, the game master then goes. 00:20:35.060 --> 00:20:37.860 I can tell you that it's worse than that. 00:20:39.140 --> 00:20:39.700 Okay. 00:20:39.700 --> 00:20:41.700