This week on the Steam Machine Podcast, I have just one word for you, Gromit.

Jeez, cue the music.

Hey everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Steam Machine Podcast.

My name is Dalton, and joining me, as always, is 1/2 of the Destructive Breath.

How you doing, y'all?

It's Willie.

How are you doing my good Sir?

What you been up to these past couple weeks?

I've been doing pretty good.

I know on the last episode I was dead tired, which is one of the reasons we're recording this one much earlier.

In the meantime, I've been, I've read a book that basically kind of inspired me to start keeping kind of a daily habits journal.

So I've got like these 9 little checkmarks.

I'm trying to make it a little calendar every day.

So far as you can see, it's there's a lot of checkmarks being made.

Yeah.

That's what's up.

Man, it's going, it's going pretty good.

I took the weekend off and then you know, after that going pretty good.

So one of those is like every day getting up, you know, around sunrise and taking myself a nice walk.

And then, you know, I got other things there like 1 for organizing stuff, one for financial related stuff, 2 for computer programming related things, one for this very podcast.

So I'm going to get to check that off when we're done recording.

What would be other two a couple for exercise.

I think I mentioned that already, and then just other random things I'm trying to keep up on top of there aren't really necessarily worth talking about.

Well, that's what's up, man.

Like it's good to have direction of sorts.

Like it helps you know what I mean So I can get that.

Yeah, and my main goal, the idea about doing this checklist too, is I feel like it really helps me to have some specific idea of what I want to do with my day and things I need to do.

And I think that the the waking up first thing and going for a wall cabin especially has been super useful because that kind of it recontextualizes bedtime and recontextualizes awake time.

And it means the basically first thing I'm doing in the morning is getting out, making myself get some blood going through me, maybe listening to some music, maybe listening to podcasts, maybe just listening to nature.

It really gets my head ready for the day.

Then you know that come in, make myself some breakfast so it feels a lot more started.

That's what's up, dude.

I'm glad it's up.

Yeah.

And let's see, one thing that's been interesting I've been up to recently is I kind of went back to doing some delivery driving and it turns out the app I was doing has changed the way that they're sort of premium pro driver program works to now they have preferred matches for higher ranking drivers, which means if you have a high customer service record, you are going to get the orders that tip more and are basically more regular and pleasant customers.

That's a good thing.

It is like genuine, I've only been doing it a little bit so I can't say it's a world changing thing so far, but like even just doing lunch shifts I'm making like twice as much as I used to back in the day.

Hell yeah, that's what's up.

Yeah.

So even though at first I didn't want to get back to doing it, I just thought, you know, I'd like to at least pay this next bill and, you know, make myself some money so I can go to, you know, the bar and play pinball.

And it's been, you know.

Really good.

Hell yeah, man.

It's always nice to have like a little stream of income.

Yeah, like, and if they've made it, you know, easier for you to make set income, then that's even better.

Exactly the fact that like the jobs I'm getting assigned are like ones that actually have some promise to them.

And like when I say the tipping difference is big, I mean, it is a free easy difference.

Like when I was still at the green level, which is the starter level, See, I had old a bunch of old reviews.

So I just needed to get a bunch of jobs in during the month.

So I'd have the number of points for the month because I already had the high, the high approval score or the high review score and all that.

So I just needed to do like so many deliveries.

And when I was doing green, it was like, I'll go do this delivery that's going to take you like 20 minutes and it'll make $4.

And now it's like, here, here's the delivery.

They'll take you about 30 minutes and you'll make 15.

Yeah, that's much better.

So it's, it's changed.

It's changing lunch from barely keeping up to gas to actually, you know, at least beating minimum wage, which is kind of nice.

Yeah, I remember when I worked for Midnight Cookies in Gainesville, I was a delivery driver and I was delivering to college kids, and college kids don't necessarily tip that well.

So there was a lot of nights where my tip money was literally enough money for me to get gas and a pack of cigarettes for the way home.

Yeah.

That was it.

I was like, man, I didn't stick around at that job too terribly long.

Yeah, I can't blame you.

I mean, I'm very grateful that, you know, my, my tip money is covering more than just my gas.

So I'm actually able to do some stuff with it, like and like, because I've been getting out more.

Like you can see I've got my watch on right now, the Apple Watch and all three of my rings are closed.

They've been doing that most days lately because, you know, get up in the morning, do that walk and it's I, I, I'm doing the check mark minimum, just two minutes of something.

So like for the podcast, for instance, I'll say, you know what, I'm just going to get on Yakuza and play it for 10 minutes and save as soon as I do a Side Story because then I can at least mark a check mark.

And, you know, just building the habit of doing that everyday means the days you're really feeling it, you'll get in there and you'll play the game for five hours.

Similarly, like if I'm like, OK, well, I got to do some strength training.

I'll do a, a set of five push ups and see where I go from there.

And if that's all I do, I'm building up the habit of doing it every day.

And on the days where I'm do feel good, I'm like, all right, I'll throw some kettle bells in over the top.

I'll do some chin UPS.

Let's see what else we got going for us, you know?

Yeah, it's a good way to stay motivated.

And so like when I go for my walk, I'm saying I walk 2 miles or two minutes away from my house and if I want to, I can turn around right then and there.

But I never have.

I keep walking a little further.

I'm like, OK, you know, let's make it 5 minutes and see if I want to turn around.

And even then, I usually don't.

Usually I'm like, let's make it a half a mile and then turn around.

At least get a full mile while we're out here.

And I feel like even just walking like a mile every day has been really helpful.

Like, my watch has told me that my cardiovascular fitness has risen up from low to below average, which, you know, still not perfect, but it makes me feel like I'm not going to die of a sudden heart attack.

If you ever hit Eight Mile, I'm gonna start calling you Rabbit exclusively, just so you know.

Well, I feel like if I keep doing this walk every day, then after about a month I'm gonna start adding jogs in a couple times a week too, you know?

We'll see.

Well good man, I'm glad you're sorting things out it seems.

Yeah, and it just, it's, it's very motivating.

So again, like I just got to hold up that calendar and pointed all these checkmarks and be like, look, see.

And then doing that motivates me further too.

So it, it helps to turn it from an egg, you know, from an excited feeling to an extrinsic motivator to an intrinsic motivator, to a habit.

And that's my goal is to try to make habits of all these things.

So it just becomes something I do.

And it's also kind of one thing I'm trying to do is reframe the way I think about it too, where it's not like, you know, I don't say to myself, you know, I'm someone who wants to go walk every day.

I'll say I'm a Walker.

You know, I get up and walk, even if it's not every day, the longest distance, I'm a Walker, I'll go walk.

You know, I'm a, I'm a programmer.

I'll do some code.

I'm a podcaster.

I'll study for the game, I'll review the games, I'll research the game.

I'll play the game.

I'll record the episode.

Like today.

I'm I'm not even playing the next game on the show because recording the podcast is my check mark for the number seven slot on there.

Oh.

Yeah, man, the.

It just feels nice.

Yeah, forming habits is hard, but like, it's doable.

So I think you got this one.

The book I was reading that helped me with this forming habits thing is called Atomic Habits by James Clear.

And basically the idea of it is it teaches you 4 things that each that makes it possible to build a good habit or makes a habit become a habit and four ways you can reverse that to get rid of bad habits too.

So the idea of forming a good habit and makes some notes in this network are you want to make it, you want.

OK, so there's the 4-4 phases of how you respond to something, which is the cue, the craving, the response and the reward.

So for the cue, you want to make it obvious.

So for me, for instance, like trying to tie walking every morning to sunrise, that means when it's sunrise, I'm like, well, it's walkies time dude, gotta go for walkies.

Then make it attractive.

One of the big things about that is, you know, I remind myself how I feel afterwards and I remind myself, hey, I get to make this little check box and then #3 make it easy.

That's where the two-minute roll comes in.

I say, hey, if I walk 2 minutes, it counts, I'm good.

And then make it satisfying.

It's the fourth part that's the reward.

And again, part of that's the check Marks and part of that's, you know, focusing on how it will improve my ability to keep on exercising over time, how much better I feel afterwards.

Thinking about the music I listened to when I was out.

You know, like one of the things I've been doing is going through the different summer dot FM stations and just trying one of them out each time I go for a walk and seeing which ones I kind of dig on and which ones I don't.

Something I put on from time to time myself and just listen to.

It's a pretty good fucking little Internet radio station.

Yeah, I'm so stoked The Ultimate Fishing Simulator brought those guys to us 'cause it's just, it's very reliable.

The phone app is great.

There's no advertising.

It says on the Apple App that it's got in app purchases and that's literally just if you want to optionally you can donate to the station in app.

That's it.

Yeah, but there's no obligation to pay.

The only thing is like there's a station ID, not even Edge, just occasionally be like SOMA FM secret agent radio and then that's it.

You just get back to it.

Yeah, I'm gonna check and see if there's an app on Android for it.

I'm sure there must be.

I'm trying to think if I had any other games or something I wanted to promote.

I did play pinball last weekend, so there must be at least a game that.

Oh, there was a game I really enjoyed when I was playing pinball last week.

It's called Total Nuclear Annihilation.

It's by Spooky Games, which is not one of the main companies I've heard of because most of the people you know that make the pinball games that I've played are Williams or Stern.

But Total Nuclear Annihilation was originally independently developed by one guy who did the soundtrack of the art and the play design, and then Spooky picked it up to run with it.

And it's just the most 80s synth wave ass game ever.

Your goal is to kind of like the whole design is like laser grades and you know pink and blue bright colors and all that and really like synth forward music and really cool me.

I love the music in it and the idea is you like get on the play field and just your goal is to overload a bunch of nuclear reactors.

Is that the one that you were sending pictures of?

Yeah, that was the very neon.

Yeah, that one looked pretty cool.

Yes, yes, yes.

Looked like straight out of Miami Vice.

Yes, yes, it's got that very the whole synth wave aesthetic very much like goes to that Miami Vice neon lights type of look and really makes me happy.

The music is really good and it's just it was a lot of fun to play.

The only downside is at the arcade I'm playing it at, it's one of the tables that's the premium cost 1, so it's a dollar per play as opposed to the old Williams tables which are mostly $0.50.

Man, most places, I mean do they do token system or is it just put straight cash in the machine?

It's tokens, but it's 4 tokens to a dollar so I'm just mapping it back out.

Still, I miss going to the arcades and playing like I used to, like the Jurassic Park where you get in the seat.

The Jeep.

Thing and with the gun and play that like I always thought that was really fun.

Man, they had Time Crisis 3 when I went there and I usually just play pinball for the most part, but I do play a couple of arcade games.

Loved Time Crisis 3.

Getting back to that because Mikhailov was talking about that too in our group chat.

Time Crisis because he got a home light gun that he can use to play emulated light gun games, which is crazy.

I didn't know that was something that existed.

But like, Time Crisis was cool because it's the one where you can like step on a pedal to go into and out of cover so you you know what you're being shot at and you can actually dodge shot attempts in that game.

Yeah, I remember playing the Time Crisis dude, and I was, I was too young to really understand how to be good with that pedal.

But I've want to play it as an adult now, you know what I mean?

So you can really get, I want to see if I can get pretty far in it and shoot the barrels.

It's a two player game man, come on down to rec bar and play me around.

Yeah, I.

Cover each other.

I fucked up Mikhailov's life the other day.

I think not, not really.

Oh yeah, but on but it the kind is.

On the episode that we were recording for Dane and Jeff's media dump, he was unaware.

He was talking about how much he loves DDR.

And he said that he's got like APS 2 that's be able to connect it to the Internet, yadda yadda.

And he turned it into a DDR machine.

And I said, well, bro, you do realize that I said, you know Clone Hero, right?

And he goes, yeah, yeah, I made that song for you to put in clone here.

I said, yeah, you know, there's a DDR version for Clone Hero, right?

Like there's a DDR open source game.

And he was like, oh, don't fucking tell me that.

I was like.

That sounded, that sounded a lot like him.

You kind of nailed that voice.

He does.

And I'm like, yeah, dude, I was like, and there's you can buy pads that connect to the PC and he's like.

Like, yeah, you, you did that downward angle that he sometimes does when we catch him with something like that.

That's that was amazing.

And yeah, he so now he know he.

Said maybe he's even older than Clone Hero.

Dude that, that is like probably the open source home clone of a rhythm game.

You know, like Clone Heroes community owes a lot to the Step Mania community.

If I can find a decent pad I would totally use that as my aerobics because I used to.

I have.

This old I have this old ignition pad by red Octane but like I think I need to cut it open and like do some kind of soldering to it because it kind of bleeds a couple of the buttons together.

Yeah, and that can fuck you up in that game for sure.

Yeah, yeah.

It's just, it's if you want to play DDR at any kind of halfway decent level, like you want to take it to where misses are inexcusable.

But if the game is double tapping your arrow then like you're gonna miss just because the pad is growing so.

Yeah, and that's kind of my thing.

No full combos.

For you, I feel like if I want to get a good pad, kind of like if I want to get a good guitar for Clone Hero, I'm gonna end up having to spend some duckies since it's niche.

Yeah, well they did release that.

They released one called the Rift Master recently for because of the Fortnite clone hero game.

Oh no.

No, no, yeah, that's the one that I was looking at.

But that's still, I think it's like $80 a 100 bucks so.

Yeah, it is.

That sounds about right.

Yeah, somewhere in there.

It's still pricey but I mean I do love but the.

Fact that they're making plastic guitars again is kind of neat.

Yeah, for sure.

Is anything else you up to brother?

You know, usually I have like a video game thing to report now, or at least a Doom lot or something, but I kind of haven't been playing that much Doom lately.

I found a really important option in Godot.

I wish I would have found the last time I made a game in Godot which is that you can you can make a game at a low resolution like you're making like a pixel art type game.

You can put the native resolution in there and then just have it have a scaling factor and then players can resize the thing and it'll actually you can set it to maintain an integer factor so you won't blow up the pixel art by having a non integer scale.

So that can make a game that the player can resize while having.

Yeah, Ball still has that retro style because like the next game I'm working on has an Atari 2600 aesthetic.

And I think it would, I mean, that one wouldn't look as bad if you had a uneven scaling because it's going to look bad anyway.

It's kind of intentionally badly looking in retro.

But like a lot of the games I make with more, you know, 8 bit styles, I really do care about the fidelity of the pixel art, yeah.

Willie coming in and making hero two.

Hero where?

Oh, you might get dude, you might have given me an idea that is not a bad idea.

Like honestly, the the 2600 game I was going to make is literally just going to be a a Flappy Bird adaptation into our target 2600 style graphics.

Like I just want to get back into programming.

And that's one of the first examples a lot of people use.

And so I found a thing called make 20 games or something like 20 games challenge, something like that.

And it starts off with like something like Flappy Bird.

I think the choices are either do Flappy Bird or Pong.

And I've already done Pong and Gedo, so I wanted to do the other one.

We should make a little runner game or you got to run and then jump over stuff and keep running and make it a little robot and name it Steamy.

And then every now and then in the background have a billboard that just has like the name of the podcast on it or something that you would like to plug, like the name of your studio and things like that.

And just have it scroll by as you're doing a runner.

Dude actually I mean Flappy Bird isn't really that different from a runner.

You could probably reuse the code and make a runner.

In fact the second game I make might actually end up using that idea because there is an example second game that they give that could easily be re textured in any number of ways and I think steamy could actually work.

And he doesn't have an official design so.

Yeah, well, maybe I can give him the first official pixely version of Yeah.

Man, so.

All right, that's all I got now.

I have just been cooking some food.

No crackers, Grommet.

We've forgotten the crackers.

All right, after an audio mishap, the SO.

Sorry about.

What I have been doing, good man.

What I've been doing lately, basically I have been doing some cooking.

Last night I decided like I had this eggplant that I needed something to do with because we had gotten a bunch of free produce from like these local people.

And I, when I tell you that like I have a cabbage in there that is bigger than my head and I have a pretty big fucking head.

Like this cabbage is massive.

And I'm like, all right, so can make some glumpy casserole and all that kind of stuff with that.

And then we got a bunch of onions.

So it's like, I've been trying to find stuff with that.

But this eggplant, I'm like, I'm going to make eggplant Parmesan.

I haven't had that in a while.

And it's a good way to try to like mask some of the blandness that an egg plant has.

So First things first you want to do is slice your eggplant, hit it with some salt, let it rest on a tray with a cooling rack, almost like a rack underneath it.

And it's going to draw out the moisture.

And you want to pat that off because the moisture in it is where a lot of the bitterness resides.

That's in a an eggplant naturally.

So you pat it dry and you flip it over, do it the same to the other side.

And then I did that two or three times just to be, you know, safe.

Because you're not much of a fan of the eggplant.

Yeah, and eggplant's all right, but it's not like one of my go to delicious things, you know what I mean?

Right?

But for the sauce, I made a recipe from Marco Pierre White, who is the, the gentleman who trained Gordon Ramsay how to cook.

And he's a very, very intense man When he talks to you, like when he's looking into the camera, you feel like he's looking into your soul while he's talking to you.

I'm telling you about this, but he, he gave you this recipe and he said his trick to a good tomato sauce is 50% like fresh tomatoes, 50% ten tomatoes.

So that's what I did.

I boiled some tomatoes, peeled them and quartered them and I put them in a pan, started off with some onion and garlic and there was some olive oil and cool, you know, on low though, you don't want to fry it.

You just want it to kind of become translucent.

So you.

OK, so you're we're not simmering stuff.

No, not yet, not yet.

So you're you're cooking the onion and the garlic, you're getting that down.

Then you half cup white wine and once you get the white wine in there, then you turn it up a little bit so you can cook down the wine.

You want to get the alcohol out of it.

So after that, add in your fresh tomatoes, stir it around, let those cook and soften a little bit.

Add in your basil, parsley, and whatever other seasonings you want to do.

I did a little red chili flake as well, and then I added in the San Marzano canned tomatoes, which are from Italy.

They're really, really good.

I highly recommend them.

Crushed those with my hands, Put them in there, start it up.

Moved it to a different burner, Got that boiled or simmering, as you said.

Yeah, but you want to do it on low.

You don't want to reduce it.

You just want the flavors to blend.

OK, so you want it on a low simmer.

So then you take that.

I got another pan out, took my slices of eggplant, threw them in there with some.

Vegetable oil, those you cook at a hotter temperature because you want those to sear a little bit.

But you also got it.

Sorry, there was a gnat flying around my room and I just smacked my glasses and killed him on it.

So.

Nice.

Congratulations.

That thing's been driving me crazy this entire time.

God oh dude I get that bull I I've had a couple issues with similar recently so so.

Anyways, just Long story short, you end up making a little casserole out of it.

So you get a casserole dish, you go a little bit your sauce, layer of eggplant, parmesan cheese, the rest of your sauce on the top.

Got mozzarella.

I did mozzarella, fontina and parmesan.

Bake that for like 35 minutes, make some garlic bread, serve it.

Oh boy, I tell you what, it came out fucking good.

My dad had some today and I asked him.

I was like, So what you think he goes to those restaurant quality?

And I was like.

Nice, I'll take it.

I will take it then, doing some grilling, smoking some ribs, you know, the usual.

I got a pork butt in the freezer.

Yeah.

So I started a new visual novel, I started The Fruit of Grassiah and I'm really digging it so far.

The characters seem very endearing.

I'm not a huge fan of the MC so far, he's kind of a Dick, but I'm assuming that there's a story behind.

Why?

Because it's.

I feel like that is something we've seen in a few visual novels too, because I don't know, I even feel like the Doki Doki Literature Club being character was kind of a shit.

Same style, same style.

This guy is just very guarded and it's like, but he keeps talking about things that have happened in his past that but he's it's not really revealed anything yet 'cause I'm not that far into it.

I think I've got like it's as I've played it for 20 hours.

That is a lie.

I have fallen asleep a lot with that game on.

I've played it for probably like 2 hours, but actually probably more than that point like 3 yards.

Anyway, I haven't gotten into any big reveals yet, but I did install the patch that adds in all the 18 plus content that's taken out of the steam version because not only like it adds some sex style stuff, but it also adds in a lot of jokes that were taken out of the of the censored version because they thought the jokes were too risque.

Or I, I don't even know really, but like I've, I've seen a couple jokes that I'm like, oh, I wonder if that was one of them, but it made me laugh.

It hasn't been anything offensive, you know, But of of course I'm like, I should, you know, I probably further into the game before I see anything too bad.

So I'm smoking a joint with my mom and she's in here in my room with me.

And I'm just sitting there and I'm clicking through and dude walks into a room and boom, there's a big old pair of titties and I'm like, oh God damn it.

And I just went, well, that's something.

And I hear from behind me.

Oh boy, I remember when mine stood up like that and I've all fucking died, bro.

I'm saying my mom was giggling to herself.

She thought that was so funny.

I was like, yeah, I was like, let me just alt tab, I'll play this later.

I don't know where this is going from here.

And it didn't go anywhere.

It was literally the MCBN.

Like why are you in my room with your shirt off?

Put your shirt back on.

She's like, I'm just changing in here.

Why are you changing in my room?

Get out.

Like it was it was a pretty funny scene.

See, graduated a bunch of black desert characters on the season mode.

That was just me mindlessly farming mobs and watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on the older episodes that are up on YouTube.

So I'm up to the point now where he just mentioned to the coronavirus for the first time.

Wow.

And in the playlist I'm watching, I can tell that 2 episodes later, he's in the void.

So it's going to start this this season and then the next season after this one that I'm on, which I think are the the last two that are on YouTube before he starts getting into more current stuff, is him in the void where he's just sitting in a white room with no audience that's still doing the show.

So it's going to be interesting.

Man, that was a strange era of television.

Very like the Thunderdome in WWE.

Yeah, it was like very much thinking of the Thunderdome.

Yeah.

Real weird man.

Which for the people who aren't WWE or wrestling fans, basically because they couldn't film in front of live crowds, WWE decided to essentially have a bunch of people's webcams like as front row seat fans.

And so it was like there was a CG generated bunch of faces around it, reacting to every.

Yeah, it was a sea of screens and it was just a whole bunch.

Of people was really watching.

From their computer.

I never did get a chance to get in on that.

I did try one night but.

It's like if you were ever in like Stickam back when that was big and there would be like 20 people on a Stickam call or I guess Zoom calls.

More recently, if you were in like a school Zoom call or something and there were just that many faces, it was like that, but like a 3D model around the ring.

Yeah.

And if you got allowed in there, if you weren't like attentive and cheering and things like that, they would take you off.

And if you did something that was like against the rules, like somebody held up a picture of Crispin Wall or something like that, you know what I mean?

They, they got IP banned where they could not join anymore at all.

And I was like, you know what though, right?

I'm on them for things like that.

It's a it's a privilege.

It makes sense that we're putting you on TV to let you be part of our program.

And if you're.

Going to troll?

Fuck you.

Yeah, like there's a lot of people that would want to be on there, so let them in.

For sure.

Other than that man, I've just been dabbling in the middle of Earth.

Shadow of War.

Shadow War, the second game, I did see you get on that.

I was going to ask you some about that because if you remember, I really enjoyed Shadow of Mordor for the show.

Shadow of Mordor is a really good game, and so far Shadow of War has been.

Yeah, what I'm expecting is for it to surpass Shadow of Mordor.

It is.

It is everything about Mordor but better.

So far I've really I haven't even been doing the story stuff, I've just been running around fighting orc generals.

Fair enough dude, I I loved the generals and the nemesis.

Yeah, well, the Nemesis system is upgraded now.

Like there's a lot more to it.

It's it's really quite enjoyable.

It's a huge fucking game.

It is 151.31 gigabytes.

Good Lord.

It is a huge game, but it runs smooth as butter.

I'm so impressed with like how well it runs.

It's oh, and the fighting in it is just so smooth.

It's like, like we talked about on the other episodes, Batman with swords, you know, and I've just, I'm, I'm really, really enjoying it, just playing it in the background because I have like nothing to play at the moment for the show.

So yeah.

So I've been like finding things to pass time with.

Yeah, even before this recording, I actually went and looked through the game list because it's like, if I'm leaning towards anything, I might want to just tell you in advance what it is so you have something to play.

And while I'm thinking about it, before we get into our game of the week, so since we last recorded, we lost Ozzy Osbourne and right after he did his farewell concert, I did 3 Aussie vocal covers and when I was uploading a bunch of stuff to YouTube, I put those in there and I uploaded them.

Well, YouTube tells you either there's no copyrights found, there's copyrights found and but they're the the person who owns it allows the stuff on YouTube or as I know now which I've never seen before, it can be copyrighted and just straight up blocked.

No one will see the video.

So the three Aussie songs said that this is blocked.

No one will see this if you post.

It so I.

Said oh OK that's fine.

So I deleted them and I didn't upload them.

But since I've done that I have gotten 0 views on YouTube.

Like my that Radiohead song that I did for you posted it's got 0 views.

I did a a corn song called hating.

I think it's got 2 views and the corn song that I posted before like a few weeks ago has like 300 and something So like it's just strange to me that all the videos that I'm posting now are getting nothing.

You think you got like an algorithm strike.

In addition, I.

Feel like I did that and I somehow I'm getting like shadow band or something.

It's, it's, it's fucking weird.

And I, I messaged YouTube support about it, but they haven't gotten back to me.

So, but yeah, man.

So if you're, you know, if you happen to catch yourself on YouTube, Go check me out, man.

You can just put in my name Dalton Souter and it'll come up.

Give me some, give me some views.

Because it's nice when like, you know, I have people who actually like listen to the stuff that I put time into and like throw them up on there because like I, there's times where I just get disenfranchised, I think with it and I just don't upload.

Like I didn't upload to YouTube at all last year.

Discouraged, I think is what you disenfranchised is when you lose the right to vote.

Oh yeah, they're discouraged.

Didn't I just get discouraged?

But yeah, if it makes you feel any better, I have seen some of your video like covers, I mean at least a few as of a few days ago on my front page every now and then, especially like corn stuff recently.

Well, that's good.

At least it's popping up because like.

So.

It's not like 0%, it's just I haven't clicked on all.

Like I click them from time to time, but I'm, I'm usually looking for something specific if I'm on the YouTube front page.

Yeah, the other, as goofy as that sounds.

The other day I was just like I was on the steam machines YouTube channel not my other one and I just like clicked one of my videos, put it in a window, muted it and just let it auto.

I'm going to give it a view that way.

Fuck it, honker.

That's the power of the greater Steam Machine network.

Yeah, so Sir, we played a Wallace and Gromit game.

Yes, we did.

Before we get into the game.

Yeah, I think this is an interesting point.

We did a watch along on Discord, yes.

Was this your first exposure to Wallace and Gromit?

This is exactly what I just wanted to bring up.

Yes, well, I'm a little culturally familiar with Wallace and Gromit and I've seen like a couple of like clips on YouTube this game and the couple of shorts you showed me are the only Wallace and Gromit I've ever seen.

I just wasn't I guess in the age group or where that was like a big Quinous for me when I was the age that came out.

And so it wasn't like I was old enough to be watching it with nephews and I wasn't young enough to, or I was a little too old for it to be directly aimed at me when it came out, I think, or at least they came out in the USI don't know the the scheduling was a little different because it seemed like it was more universal in the rest of the English speaking world than in North America.

Yeah, so I'll I'll read a little blurb about it.

So Wallace and Grommet is a British claymation comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Ardman Animations.

The series centers on Wallace, a good-natured, eccentric, cheese loving bachelor, inventor and Grommet his loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic.

Dog it considers or It consists of four short films, 2 feature length films and numerous spin offs.

And TV adaptations.

The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was finished and released in 1989.

The.

OK, so I was a kid when this actually started.

It's just I don't think it became huge over here until like, the wrong trousers.

Yeah, which would have been later on, I believe, in the 90s.

Wallace's voice by Peter Solis and Ben Whitehead.

Let's see.

Oh, because of the popularity of the characters have been described as positive international cultural icons of both modern British culture and British people in general.

Yeah, that's fair.

And what we watched was we started with a grand day out, which came out in 1989.

OK, so we started from the very beginning of the series.

Then we watched the wrong trousers, which was 1993.

Then we did a close shave, which was 1995.

OK, so these.

Were throughout my childhood.

I just I guess they missed me in particular.

And fun fact, whenever this Wikipedia article was up, I don't know if it still is, but A close Shave had 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Nice.

And then after that.

That seems very reasonable.

We did not watch this but was Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Were Rabbit which is a film.

The full length film, yes.

It's the second highest grossing stop animated film out grossed only by Do You Want to Guess.

Highest grossing stop motion animated film?

I'm going to guess it isn't one of the ranking best like Christmas movies we were talking about.

I'm going to guess it was a theatrical release.

Does Clash the Titans count as a stop motion film because it had a lot of stop motion special effects?

I will tell you it's not Clash of the Titans.

I will tell you it was also made by Nick Park.

Oh well, I'm going to guess it's just the other Wilson ground film then.

I don't know what else he's done.

In the year 2000, they released a little movie called Chicken Run.

Oh, okay.

And that is the highest grossing stop motion film.

Fascinating.

I wouldn't have come up with that in 100 years.

But the 4th short that we watched, which came out in 2008, was a matter of loaf and death.

OK, so we watched all the shorts.

Yep.

Yeah, we watch all the shorts and then a second full feature movie came out last year, Vengeance Most Foul, and it is the return of Feathers McGraw.

Nice.

Which I fucking love.

Feathers McGraw.

That character is hilarious to me.

These characters, they all introduce themselves to me in a really joyful way.

Like I love to.

Though when we watched it, we watched with a few other people in the chat and people like, oh shit, is that Shawn the Sheep?

Are we about to meet Shawn the Sheep?

It was nice to have Adam there because Adam's super in Australia and he knows a lot more about this than we did.

So when I was like, is that Sean?

He's like, hey, it is.

Like.

Hey.

That's what's up.

But yeah, we played the game though.

Oh, let me just go ahead and say if you've never seen Wallace and Gromit, go watch it.

It is charming as and funny as fuck.

It's witty, it's clever, I love the art style, the characters are very charming.

The setting is just really delightful, like Wallace's little Wallace.

And Ground is a little world of inventions in their suburban, you know, W Wallaby Rd.

Is it just really nice?

Yeah, dude, W Wallaby St's a great place.

Like I would go there and visit if it was a real place, even if it was just like based on, you know, if the clay was based on a real place, I would go visit the place it's based on just to be like, yo.

Like taking photos at the Abbey Road crossing.

I get it.

Yeah, yeah, kind of saying the pissing on the Alamo, you know?

Oh Ozzy, rest in piss.

But the good kind.

All right, be the Prince of Darkness.

The guy from Ghost put it really well, he said.

For the man who was a Prince of darkness, he sure brought us a lot of light.

Oh, that's sweet.

And I was like, but you know, there's no shadow without light.

And there's no metal without Ozzy.

I mean, you could easily argue that Black Sabbath's was the first band to do fully formed what you would call heavy metal.

Yeah, I think so.

There may have been antecedents to it, but the song Black Sabbath is a it is a heavy metal song and it's 1970 or 1969.

Yeah, amazing.

And then I know we talked about this off air, but like what blew my mind was his first solo, the one that has crazy train.

I don't know.

Suicide Solution, Mr.

Crowley.

That album came out in 1980.

Yeah, and I mean for for one thing, fucking Randy Rhodes is showing off like crazy on that album.

He basically pre staged the entire what metal guitarist would sound like from that point on because he basically he showed up to do the shred and like basically it was just him and Eddie Van Halen doing that kind of shit at that point in time.

That was it.

Yeah.

And then like, you know, bands evolved from there, but it's just like.

The thing Randy Rhodes brought is he brought the more baroque inspired stuff that we think of when we think of the more metal stuff.

Whereas Van Halen it was more showing off and doing a lot of almost bluesier stuff.

Yeah, yeah, it's great.

Shit, man.

Go listen to some Ozzy.

Yeah, and even then, when we're talking up Randy Rhodes, you can't overlook Zach Wild era as well.

No, I mean, even, and I mentioned this in our group chat and Nate made a good point.

You know, Jakey Lee is also a great guitar player, but he was coming after Randy Rhodes and was before Zack Wylde, so he's sandwiched in there between two absolute legendary guitar players.

So but Jakey Lee wrote Bark at the Moon.

Hell yeah.

That's an incredible riff.

I.

Mean he wrote the lyrics too.

Oh he wrote so so.

Fun fact, Ozzy never wrote anything in his life.

He was just a front man and a singer.

I mean that makes sense too though because like you can definitely see that the stuff written for his solo career sounded nothing like Black Sabbath.

But the loud thing too is Black Sabbath without Ozzy also didn't sound like Black Sabbath with Ozzy.

Like there's a reason Heaven and Hell basically became a different band.

Yeah, DIO was very different.

I mean, Dio's great, yeah, but it was very different, yeah.

I mean, you could definitely hear Tony Yami in his own riffs, but the way the songs were structured and everything even like completely different sounding like without Ozzy with that voice up front, it's just it's a completely different sound.

And I'm saying that as someone who had, you know, late, obviously, you know, I first started listening to Black Sabbath.

I bought the five main, you know, Ozzy records, but got into the other stuff later.

And man, it's all very valid.

But Ozzy is irreplaceable in his own way.

Yeah, absolutely, dude.

So getting back to our topic, though, we played Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventure episode #1 But the grand.

Adventures some OWS for me.

That's what I'm going through right now.

So the obligatory Wicca booty, you bullshit.

Less I go.

The Wallace and Gromit Grand Adventures is an episodic graphic adventure game based around the characters of Wallace and Gromit, created by Nick Park and produced by Ardman Animations.

The game was developed and published by Telltale Games and consists of 4 episodes which were released for Microsoft Windows from March 23rd to July 30th, 2009 and Xbox 360 from May 27th to November 4th, 2009.

So they came out like monthly almost.

Yeah, it looks like it.

That's wild, yeah.

So, interesting fact, before I get into just the episode 1 stuff, the playable demo of the first episode was made available in March 2009 and could be downloaded from the official site as well as Yahoo Games.

Wow.

It was also included on the Region 2 DVD and Blu-ray releases of A Matter of Loaf and Death as DVD ROM content.

So you could have played the demo of the game on a DVD.

For the the the show, I think that's pretty cool.

But Telltale Games removed the game from sale in January of 2014 due to the expiration of their distribution license for the Wallace and Gromit intellectual property, but customers who previously purchased the game were still able to download them.

But the game was relisted December 2022, years after the company closed on Steam, GOG, Robot Cache and Green Man Gaming for Windows, along with Telltale's other titles.

Strong Bad's cool game for attractive people and Texas Holdem, which that Texas Holdem game has always looked interesting to me because of just the characters that are in it, like you're playing Texas.

Poker night at the inventory, Yeah.

Yeah, or you're playing with the the.

Class the Heavy.

From Team Fortress 20, you're taking the second game?

Yeah.

Clad trips in the second.

Game and then the girl from Portal.

Glados is the dealer I think.

Yeah, just hilarious to me.

Like that they're in a card game.

This is great.

Yeah, the first game was you're playing with the the Bunny rabbit from Sam and Max Strong Bad the Heavy from Team Fortress 2 and one of the guys from the Penny Arcade comic.

OK, so episode one, fight of the bumblebees.

Here's a quick little overview of it and then we can kind of talk about our experiences with it and you know, the puzzles and such.

Wallace and Gromit have opened up a new business from BTU specializing in delivering freshly made honey to customers.

They take up an offer to provide 50 gallons of honey as a repair payment to the fix, the local grocer Mr.

Paneer's shop, after Wallace's new prototype robotic cheese detecting mouse accidentally rampaged through the store on a test run.

However, Wallace has used up all the flowers in his garden and is forced to improvise a growth formula to turn daily or Daisy seeds provided by his neighbor, Missus Flit.

Excuse me Miss Flit not married into giant flowers.

The formula is a success and he meets his clients demands and things soon go wrong when the bees react to the growth formula in the flowers becoming huge and terrorizing the town and Wallace and Grommets home.

Grommet is able to trap most of the bees, but Wallace is stolen away by the giant queen bee, where Grommet gives chase and Wallace's honey tanker truck able to rescuing Wallace.

The two work together to feed the queen more honey dosed with the growth formula, forcing the bee to become stuck in a tunnel, and Wallace works out an antidote to restore the bees to normal, though he accidentally shrinks himself in the process.

Of spoilers, that was the entire story of the game.

So going into this, what were your opening thoughts about it?

Because I know that you're a fan of Telltale Games, so.

Yeah, so I was really excited to play this game because I didn't know that much about Wallace and Gromit, but loved the way it looked and wanted to get like a foothold into that series.

But I knew Telltale Games mostly from strong bad school game for attractive people.

So I knew that they could make a funny adventure game, point and click game that was very true to the spirit of whatever creators they were working with.

Because I knew they worked closely with the Brothers chaps to make the strong bad game.

And I knew that they worked closely with the Arden Studios people to make this game.

So I was like, I immediately trusted them to give me a good Wallace and Gromit experience.

And so yeah, I just, I hopped in, played the tutorial and was like, yeah, OK, I can see where I'm going to like this.

Yeah, and I kind of had a similar, you know, thought going into it, except I knew of this game from or I knew of this tell tale from the other games that they did like on the consoles back in the day that all of my friends could were just raving about like The Walking Dead game.

Yeah.

The later ones when they had a higher budget like Walking Dead, Game of Thrones.

The wolf among us.

Wolf among us, yeah.

Games like that were ones that I had always heard, so I knew very much of the tell tale style.

Yeah, but I was more used to the the the funnier ones that they did first, like the Sam and Max one, the strong bad one and all that.

And so that's why I thought this, this seemed like a really natural team up.

You know who's 2 that I thought would have made a good tell tale game but never got one was Toe Jam and Earl.

I could totally see that.

That would have been funny, but yeah, so going into this, I knew a little bit of Wallace and Gromit because I hear them talked about on Cultaholic Wrestling podcast from time to time, because those are some Brit lads.

Ross from that show has Feathers McGraw tattooed on him.

Oh, that's really cool.

Yeah, I'll have to try to find a picture of that tattoo and send it to you because it's a good, it's a good tattoo, unlike a lot of mine which are fading because they were done while I was drunk by a friend.

But yeah, so the game opens up and you immediately start playing as Grommet and you can start hearing the buzzer like in the show where Wallace is hitting the buzzer for him to be.

You got to let him down for breakfast.

Now, at this point, when I started playing, I hadn't seen the show.

So this being exactly what happens in the first Wallace and Gromit short really warmed to my heart when I saw it.

I was like, OK, now I see.

So you hit the Wallace, hit pulls the Gromit pulls the switch and Wallace's bed tilts up and a hatch in the floor opens and he drops through where there's a pair of pants hanging with by his.

Suspenders.

Suspenders.

I was, I wanted to say trouser holders.

I'm like, that's not right.

What the fuck?

They call them braces in England.

So he he falls into his pants and he lands in his dining chair and he holds his arms out and these robots put his sleeves on.

I love them attaching the sleeves that that detail just made me really happy for no real reason.

It made me wonder how that would work.

Yeah, it's just a funny visual.

It's already just like really cute.

I don't.

Know puts his sleeves on and they pull down the shirt and the vest over them and then you got to make them breakfast, which in the show goes a lot smoother in the in the game you have to actually, that's one of the first puzzles.

Yeah, you got to get the three like pieces of breakfast to them.

Yeah, you got to go make your.

You got to go make some eggs.

That motherfucking squirrel.

Yeah.

So.

That's that squirrel causes so much trouble throughout this game.

How much time?

How much time did it take you to piece together that you needed to?

Put the butter there.

Because I pretty much got it immediately, but I had to like notice the footprint on the butter tray.

Yeah, that's basically what happened to me too, is I was kind of looking for things I could interact with in the foreground.

And the moment I saw that, I'm like, Oh well, I see what you did.

I.

Was like I I see what you're getting at.

So you put the butter down.

Next time the squirrel comes in to try to take your toast, he slips and falls and then fucks off.

So.

Yeah, because it isn't always immediately obvious what you can interact with in this game, which is common of point and click adventure games and not a specific criticism.

I'm levelling at this one.

Yeah.

And there was a, there was a button.

I think maybe if you held tab, it would highlight interactable things.

But that didn't tell you what to do.

It just meant that you could you could interact with it, right?

Did you?

But it did make everything low, which was nice.

Did you have any favorite puzzles in the game 'cause I feel like we don't need to go through beat for beat each puzzle, but.

I liked the puzzle in the second the beginning of the second act.

Basically, I would say the game was separated the three acts, which is Act 1 is from the beginning of the game till the time you put together the growth formula.

Part 2 is trying to undo what you've just done with the growth formula.

And then Act 3 is basically the final boss fight where Graham is trying to rescue Wallace from the Queen bee.

And I would say the beginning of Part 2 does a really awesome job using prom.

OK, so there is a scene where you go up to Colonel.

I don't know his name, but he's a kind of retired military man who basically constantly thinks there's still a war going on.

Dude that guy was hilarious.

He was so funny.

And basically you use Wallace and Grommet's porridge gun to shoot at the giant bees in the front yard, but just hitting them isn't enough.

You need to use the props in the front yard to basically permanently trap them to where they can be contained.

And The thing is when you're exploring the front yard in the first, the first act, you can like interact with all those things and see how you can use them.

And so it's like all of a sudden stuff that it was like Chekhov's gun was planted in the front yard along with Chekhov's holster and Chekhov's bullet box.

Like, it was amazing how like, I was like, oh, that's why I could flip that around earlier.

That's what it's good for.

Yeah.

That's like, it was very satisfying to me.

100% agree.

Because when I first flipped the thing and it made the pond appear, I'm like, well that's cool.

Was that just like a little thing from the show?

I didn't really know how that was going to work out.

And then when you had to use that to trap one of the bees, I was like, oh that's brilliant.

Same thing with the wrong trousers.

When you you could go up and interact with that door and it would just come out, mow a little bit of grass and go back.

But then in that you had to shoot the door for it to come out and then drop AB in it.

Super, super fun.

Dude.

I I loved when you get the you had to get the tea bag back from the squirrel.

So you go to get strontium in order to make the growth formula, you have to find the ingredients for it in order to get you have strong EMT.

So you're like, oh, that's easy.

I'm gonna go.

So you go to get a thing of tea.

Squirrel comes, takes tea and runs it's.

Of course, your last tea bag, because why wouldn't it be?

Yeah, of course, because it's.

I don't know, I forgot the crackers.

So you go out there, you find that old piece of toast in the kitchen, you're like, oh, don't let this go to waste.

So you trade the squirrel for the tea bag, and he drops the tea bag.

Wallace goes to grab it.

It bounces off his hand and lands.

I'm just going to say it lands on his neighbour's titties and Wallace cannot bring himself to.

Ask her to sell positively English.

Yeah, he's like he he can't be like, excuse me, ma'am, my tea bag is on your bosom.

Right.

No, you have to go and do another puzzle to get a purple flower to put in with her pansies to make her think that the pansies grew.

So then she she bends over to smell them and the tea bag falls off her titties.

There's a whole, there's a whole thing to it, but that the puzzle you had to do to get the flowers cracked me up.

So you go to the newsstand and you're talking to the the old lady who runs it.

And she starts asking you for words and you put together that you're insulting her husband.

And I did that two or three times before I realized, oh OK, he liked makes the insults.

So I ended up calling him.

I went through a trial and error and so I think I called him a mild gentleman.

Yeah, that was, yeah, I think mild gentleman was it.

And he was like super upset, slams the window and knocks the flowers down and that's when you can get them.

And that just that whole thing cracked me up.

And then the one of my favorite puzzles was the cheese and the mouse with the cop.

Yeah.

Oh my God, bro, I laughed so hard.

So you have to talk to the cops.

So you're.

I failed.

I failed this puzzle a bunch too.

So I got to hear like all the dialogue before I finally figured out what you actually did.

Oh, did you?

And man, that that puzzle, it's got some good stuff in it.

I failed it one time and then I got it on the second time.

But like so you you end up finding the grocer gives you a sample piece of Wensleydale yes.

And then back at your house in Wallaces room.

If you go up there on his night trade, there is his night time snack of Gorgonzola or Gorgola.

Gorgonzola, however he called it in the show.

Remember when we were like?

Yeah, you're right.

Did he call it Gorgonzol?

What?

That's right.

Well, yeah, Gorgonzola.

And so you have to talk to the cop and click on his hat and be like, oh, it's rather hot out here to be wearing that helmet, huh?

And the guy takes it off and he wipes his forehead and you had to toss a piece of cheese in his hat.

Yeah, that's the part that took me the longest.

I couldn't figure out that the hat was separately for a while.

Do you tell me about the grills?

You could click the hat separately.

That's the thing that I got right the first time on accident.

Like I was just like, I wonder if I can put something in his hat.

It'd be funny if I put cheese in his hat and I threw the Gorgonzola into his hat.

So then I meandered my way over to that window and I'm looking into the mouse in there and I'm like, oh, well, this thing comes for cheese.

I wonder if I'd give it cheese if it'll do something.

So I threw the Wensley Dale through the window and it goes under the bed.

Then I went and talked to the cop again.

That's when he's like, I'll go interview it one more time.

And then that's where I fucked up and I, I did the, the orders wrong.

And then I my brain was like, OK, I see how this is.

Yeah, so you use the remote control for the cheese robot to basically mimic like it's trying to have a conversation with the cop?

Yeah, so the cops like, look at me when I'm talking to you.

So as well as on your little remote you choose Gorgonzola or whatever cheese you put.

Whichever 1 you put in this hat, I think you can flip him.

He doesn't matter.

He looks at the cop and then he asks him do you have regrets about what you did?

And then you go tell the mouse to try to get the piece of cheese that's under the bed, and it makes a grinding noise that sounds like crying.

And the cop's like, is he weeping?

And then, you know, the cop's like, are you going to do it again?

And you make the mouse for the third choice, which you don't have.

And the mouse is just looking around for it, which makes it look like he's shaking his head no.

And the cop lets him out.

It's fucking beautiful, dude.

I blew that puzzle like four or five times.

So I got to hear the cop yelling.

He's not showing any ounce of remorse.

And I don't think you are either.

You're both menaces to society.

It's like, really funny.

Stuff.

Yeah, the whole game.

Like if I could encapsulate this game in a word, it would be charming.

Yeah, I really do feel like that's the most fair word.

Like it just I enjoyed it a lot.

I do want to point out I did soft lock myself and caused a whole bunch of shit with myself that I did that I didn't need to do.

So I was under the impression that this game I just had just had auto saves.

So I tried to do a puzzle.

There's a puzzle that you have to do where you get the automatic frying pan from your kitchen is Grommet and you go in to the downtown of Wallaby.

You go in downtown and there's some bees that are flying around the the grocery store.

So what you have to do is go set up the trap.

Well first you have to commence the lady to close her store and then she goes up and I'm assuming bangs her husband.

Yeah, that was a fun follow up to the insult saga, by the way, it.

Was yeah, oh, Will, Will or whatever her name was.

And so it's shuttered.

So then you go over, you rig your frying pan to close the awning awning.

And what you have to do is run back over to where the bees are at, rattle a pole, and they'll fly over there and that awning will close them in there.

I thought I had to put something in the frying pan.

So I sat there trying to put stuff in the frying pan for a while and that thing went off and it closed and I couldn't get it to open again.

Oh, damn.

So I was like oh OK So then I loaded my auto save and it hit auto saved after that happened.

That's brutal.

And at that time I didn't know that there was a regular save system in this game.

So I literally just quit for the day, came back two days later and started the game over.

I got back to where I was at in like 15 minutes though, because I knew all the the answers to the puzzles then, you know, but did it the second time first try, really easy.

Now that I knew I didn't need to put anything in the frying pan.

And I was like Oh well God damn it.

And then it was not long after that I figured out there is a save system and I was like, oh God damn it.

That's so brutal.

And then you told me about it.

I didn't end up using or needing it because I didn't screw up that one puzzle, and I think that might have been the only possible soft lock.

Yeah, I think it is the soft lock in the game.

And I was like, damn it, man.

But at least when we do episodes 2-3 and four eventually, I know now that there's a safe system.

So you do want to continue doing the series?

Because I was thinking I would absolutely play more of these.

Oh yeah, dude, for sure.

There's four of them, so.

Like it might be 1 where we could do like the other three as a full game for the rest for like a single episode or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because they're not very long.

I think combined, if we like, you know, did 2-3 and four into one episode, it would probably take us, you know, 6 to 8 hours to play all three of them.

And that's being generous.

Sorry, I keep like muting myself and going away over and over.

I had like this nasty sneeze and spanking me, blowing my nose a million times, which is making me sneeze, which is making me blow my nose.

So I'm kind of in and oh, you're.

Good man.

Yeah, that would be a.

That would be a fun time.

Good.

I'm glad.

I'm glad you said that.

Because when we were playing it, I was like when I finished chapter one, I'm like, I really could see myself finishing the series out.

The only reason I'm not is because I want to get on to the next game for the show.

Yeah, yeah, we got a.

You got a week left, my good Sir.

I no, no worries.

Trust me, no worries.

Oh.

No, no, no, no, no, I'm not.

I'm not worried about you.

I hope that our our special guest that I that I had to bang that necromancer for gets at least close to the end.

We'll see.

If I fuck the witch for nothing, I'll kick him in the balls.

Was it a nice witch?

It was a sandwich.

OK.

Resemble the.

Oh good.

Moving on, do you have any final thoughts about the Wallace and Gromit game before we give it a rating and get into some questions?

I could, Sir.

Man, I just, I just really enjoyed this.

This is the experience I wanted for us to do this game.

I was excited to play it because I wanted, I thought I would like Wallace and Gromit.

I thought I would like to see how Telltale handled it and every single thing fulfilled my expectations.

It just, it made me happy.

Yeah.

And then like, you know, playing the game and then going and watching Wallace and Gromit, I now have another respect for the game and how well that they did encapsulating that.

World I really want to shout out that even the models seem to have like thumbprints on them in certain frames is that they'd just been sculpted for that scene even though they were in game.

Video game models.

Yeah, that was a really nice touch because that's something that's apparent in the show, like when you're in the things you see, because you could see fingerprints on them.

So yeah, that was really.

It did a really good job.

Yeah.

So what would be a rating that you give this market, Sir?

It's hard for me to score because, again, this is one of those games that, I mean, I'm going to say it out kicked my expectations because I thought it was going to be a really easy baby game.

And it turned out to be a lot more interesting in the puzzle design than I expected.

Like, it did what I thought it would do with the elements of the cartoon, but I also thought it was a better adventure game than I thought it would be, especially considering how small the scope of it is.

Like, I think the puzzle design was really intricate and really made use of the elements of the game very well.

Yeah, I can agree.

So I think ultimately I'm going to give it a very approving score of 8 blue Stilton's out of 10 farmhouse Cheddar's.

Beautiful.

Yeah.

I really enjoyed my time with it.

I look forward to playing more of them.

I look forward to watching more of the Wallace and Garment stuff, like maybe do a watch along for the movie at some point.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Like that would be a good time.

I was leaning towards I'm going to give it 8 and a.

Half nice.

Wensley Dales out of 10 Gorgonzolas.

Oh, and before we go, I got to tell you my favorite joke in the first Wallace and Gromit, I, I told you as it was coming up, I'm like, oh, here it comes When he when they go to the moon because they run out of cheese and they're like, where are we going to get cheese?

And oh, the moon's made of cheese.

Let's go to the moon.

So they build a rocket and they fly to the moon and Wallace is walking with a soccer ball on his hand and he looks at Grommet and he takes it and he kicks it or tosses it up in the air and they just stand there and wait.

And it doesn't come down.

And I.

Tackled.

Like that's so hard the first time I saw him that.

Just visual humor, the timing, it was so good.

And shout out to in the show and in the game, Grommet is one of the best examples I can give of expressionary reaction, getting across exactly what it needs to because he doesn't talk, but you know exactly what Grommet is thinking and feeling.

Yeah, yeah, he's, he's a, he's an extremely expressive character.

And like just you, you can tell you know.

Yeah, absolutely.

All right, man, we got a got a few questions.

Let's see.

First one was from Adam and I think we we ended up looking and figuring this out.

It was.

What is the first game that you played in your Steam library?

Oh, right, yeah.

And I think, I think we got that down to what was like some of the first games added to your Steam library.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So let me find my old messages myself because I did send it to my other account.

OK?

Yep, all.

Right, so I'm trying to find mine so you can go ahead and.

All right, so apparently the game that was the reason I installed Steam was gone home, actually.

Oh.

Yeah, I've heard of that game.

Yeah, I got that in August of 2013 and that was the first game I apparently installed in Steam.

And then several months later, at the end of 2013, I downloaded and installed The Stanley Parable, Dive Kick, and Brothers, and I've never actually got around to playing Brothers.

And then a few weeks later, or a few months later, I downloaded a Kerbal Space Program.

And from that point on, it looks like I start using Steam as more of a regular platform.

OK, yeah, mine seems the first games that I added to my library that weren't free games because those don't have a date was May 11th, 2018 and it was Oddworld Abe's Odyssey.

Oh nice.

Then I added the same day.

I must have gotten a little bundle or something.

Jade journey one and two, Freedom cry, Black guards one and two.

Then months later in October, I got Soul Calibur 6, No Man's Sky, The Witcher 1 and 2, Vampire the Masquerade, Redemption, Sanctuary RPG, a game called Metal as fuck, the Divinity games, Postal 2.

So you really went shopping that day?

Yeah, and the other games in the odd World Series, so Exodus, Munch's Odyssey and Stranger's Wrath.

And then from there on there's just a bunch of games where I was getting fanatic bundles and stuff like that, so.

Gotcha.

Yeah man, it's a little peek of the first game I ever played in Steam though was probably, I'm going to guess, No Man's Sky or Soul Calibur.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

Man, imagine how different No Man's Sky was even then than today.

Way different bro, Way different.

All right, our our next question comes in from Fenris.

Have you ever woken up screaming from a dream?

Like screaming like ah no, but a shout or a Yelp very frequently.

I don't know if I've ever woken up screaming from a dream.

I did wake up within the last couple months having a panic attack because in my dream I couldn't move.

Like I couldn't move my arms or my legs or anything.

And then I woke up and still couldn't move.

And it was because I had burrito D myself into my blanket and somehow like swaddled it like I was like really in there and I just woke up like couldn't breathe freaking out.

I'm not claustrophobic, but I mean, I felt it in that moment, you know what I mean?

It was.

Fucked Up suddenly felt like the end of the song won by Metallica I.

Tell you, what always freaks me out is when I'm in my dream and I have to piss and then I take a piss and it's like the piss never ends.

Or I pee and then I got to pee again, then I got to pee again.

And then luckily I'd say 9.999% of the time out of 10 I wake up before I piss myself.

But there has been the one, the one or two times that I have absolutely pissed myself because of that.

Yeah.

Gotta love it so.

Yeah, I tend to also get those false awakening dreams where you wake up from 1 dream into a separate layer of dream.

And those are really those are just real struggles.

Yeah, that can fuck you up too.

So thanks for reminding of us our subconscious Hells dude.

So the next question comes in from Adam, and it's a picture one.

You're a teenager in the 2000s.

Four of your friends just hit you up for a sleepover, but you can only go to one.

Who are you rolling with on this weekend?

So the choices are Zach and Zach has one of the Linkin Park albums that's not that good, Tekken 5 for PlayStation 2, Batman The Dark Knight as a movie, and Domino's Pizza for dinner.

James has $0.50.

Get rich or die trying.

Mario Kart Double Dash.

The movie's super.

Bad and Chick-fil-A.

Now hear me out.

James got a lot going on because he's got a family friendly game.

He's got a family friendly dinner.

Yeah, for some reason he's giving me this weird, like homeschooled energy that's hard for me to fight off.

But then he's got super bad and unedited $0.50 albums.

So like, yeah, interesting.

So then you got Robbie.

Robbie has both My Valentine album, Hand of Blood, Halo 3, Scary Movie 2, and Popeyes.

Chris has My Chem, My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade, Left for Dead, Grandma's Boy and Panda Express.

And then Jake comes in with an MF Doom album, Need for Speed, Most Wanted, Donnie Darko, and Taco Bell.

And I know there are going to be some Jake people out there, but I feel like he is trying a little too hard for my taste.

I feel like Chris has the most stuff I would enjoy, but also the most stuff that I would feel like I'm hoping nobody else is there that I know because I don't want to explain why I like all this stuff.

Well, Grandma's Boy is a funny movie.

Just.

Objective it is.

A funny movie.

It's it's, it's an underrated movie.

I think it's way funnier than people get a credit for.

I mean, I think that My Chemical Romance is a better band than people give them credit for.

And Panda Express is, you know, reliable Chinese esque food.

It's the Taco Bell of Chinese food.

Yeah, I I think I'm going to go Robbie though.

I do see, yeah, yeah, I feel like Robbie's is the time.

Also I feel like if Robbie's party has like 8 dudes in it, it's going to be even better.

Like his is the one that the more stacked the crew is, the happier it's going to be.

Oh yeah, everybody playing and jumping up into some Halo.

Tell ya.

And like all that, all the stuff he's got, all of that is better with more people.

Yeah, watching Scary Movie with a bunch of friends so you guys can just laugh and make fun of it would be great.

All right, so this next one, it's a bunch of movies and we got to pick 3, so I'm going to read through them real quick, and you're obviously welcome to reference this as well.

So we have to pick three of these movies, starting at the top left and moving to the right.

Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke.

The Blues Brothers, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

See No evil, Hear no Evil.

House Party, Loaded Weapon One.

Wayne's World.

Dumb and Dumber.

Kingpin Mouse Hunt, A Night at the Roxbury.

Tommy Boy Basketball Life.

Rush Hour.

Good Burger.

Analyze This.

How High?

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Shanghai Noon.

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.

White Chicks.

Starsky and Hutch.

Wedding Crashers.

Anger Management, Stepbrothers, Hot Fuzz.

I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry Pineapple Express due date.

The other guys change up 21 Jump St., Central Intelligence and the Nice Guys.

Forwards white guys 3 or white chicks three times No.

This is a tough one because.

A lot of good movies on there.

Yeah, and there's a lot of like, there's a lot of movies here that I'll go to bat for, even though I haven't seen them in so long.

Like I remember really enjoying Shanghai Noon.

Like I really, really liked that.

So I'm just kind of randomly jumped to three that just I remember really liking when I saw them when I was much younger.

Whether or not they're actually good or not, I'm gonna say Shanghai Noon Basketball and Tommy Boy Man.

Some of my favorite movies are on this list.

That's why I just had to.

I had to shoot from the hip, man.

I couldn't think about it for too long.

I'm.

Gonna go life because that's a great fucking movie.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back because that's like my childhood.

Yeah.

The last one is a toss up between 3:00 and it's a toss up between Dumb and Dumber, Wayne's World, and Anger Management.

Yeah.

Those are great fucking movies.

For the sheer quotability, I'm going Dumb and Dumber.

I feel like had Jay and Silent Bob been Dogma or Mallrats, they probably would have been a lot closer to making my my three too.

Yeah, well.

Jane Silent Bob Strike Back was my entry into Kevin Smith stuff.

Sure, that's a weird.

That's a weird on ramp because at least I would have thought you would have known him from Mallrats first or something.

Nope, I saw Jane Silent Bob on Comedy Central Secret Stash one night.

Makes sense it was unedited and I laughed and laughed at that whole.

Fuck, fuck mother motherfuck motherfuck fuck that.

Whole intro seat is great, dude.

Yeah.

So, yeah, that was the, that was the last question, my good Sir.

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