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0:00 COURTESY WARNING: woolie recommends listening with headphones because of certain language used. You have been warned.

0:20 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:53 Welcome to the castle super death of technology cast~! Troubleshooting problems with tech rears its head once again. XLR cables and capture card foibles.

 - 3:03 that one wire that's dying

 - 3:52 building up a stock of backup cables

 - - 4:48 shitty wires and good wires. Arcade sticks with certain cables that work better. Woolie getting a specific block that shows how fast something is being charged.

 - 6:52 how to store a cable

 - 7:55 pat getting unreasonably frustrated by tech support

 - 10:13 woolie discovered a superpower. Being able to control how bad a dream you get at night is from “bad dream” to “night terror.” More sugar is more terror. Pat has the opposite. Woolie had vanilla yogurt and grenadian snacks.  

 - - 13:26 grenadian snacks

 - - 15:25 said bad dreams

 - - 16:17 a woman that sleepwalks if she eats cheese and records it. Pat says woolie should do the same

 - 19:00 Pat has started dreaming again for the first time since he was a child. The change is the baby.  

 - - 20:56 woolie explains REM, and pat’s banal dreams. Pat and snorting sugar.

 - 22:25 how to use this power according to pat.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

24:10 read chapters 7 to 10 of sacred and terrible air. It was cool. We’re getting into some real dark stuff now. Disco Elysium is lighter.

 - 27:52 writing things without judgment and objectively.

30:49 Slop stream. Watching someone else’s LP of detroit. Remembering when they tried to give detroit a chance.

 - 34:14 seeing an amazing fan animation of donkey kong country. Will drop on the channel soon!

34:44 the flag of rebellion was flown. Sega sponsoring woolie for persona 5 tactica. Welcome to xcom baby~!

 - 36:00 woolie REALLY wants another arena game.

 - 37:00 are you behind full cover? You’re invincible. And you can move wherever.

38:30 UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes. Look at all that chunni text!

 - 40:02 the win quote referencing blazblue is indeed real. Eltum absolutely roasting french bread

 - 41:25 playing the beta. Appreciating there being a training mode and local play. You can boot straight to the training mode lab.

 - - 44:10 other games with something of a similar functionality

 - 44:55 its a fun game. The new characters. Every character has an absurd number of colors. Has rollback.

 - - 46:54 look at all these games getting rollback like kofXIII. Successfully bullying an entire industry and the global pandemic. The rollback rumbling

 - - 49:37 we’ll see with tekken 8 when everything else has it

 - 50:45 2Ni?

51:38 go check out woolie out on woolieversus and woolie versus the algorithm! 90’s xmen or xmen evolution for rogue?

PAT

54:54 played persona 5 tactica, and alan wake american nightmare. Pat explaining the feeling of an xbox live arcade game. It being a short game.

 - 56:47 playing the steam version. The game is meant to be played in 720p. And the basic plot of american nightmare.

 - - 58:17 “alan wake doesn't seem to be a very good writer.”

 - - 1:00:44 any magical black men? And a certain movie

 - 1:02:43 redoing levels over and over, but each level everyone remembers

 - 1:05:21 is it canon? That doesnt matter

 - 1:06:17 its a fun little game. Plays around as a fun action game.

 - 1:07:12 how to play all the alan wake games. The epic games store is terrible because when the servers go down you can’t play alan wake 2

 - 1:11:10 alan wake 2. What if hideo kojima was finnish? Its really good. Look at this level of VA meta bullshit.

 - - 1:13:41 It absolutely lands. The first time since metal gear where going through all the background info was worth it.

 - 1:15:22 changing genres from alan wake 1. Writing horror now so it’s survival horror. Building off of RE2 Remake.

 - - 1:16:46 we dont need silent hill anymore.

 - - 1:17:04 pat is lucky he’s familiar with all the various bits of media its pulling from. Pulling from twin peaks season 3. That box set did a lot of work.  

 - 1:18:37 it is once again, an excellent game.

 - - 1:19:44 pat reminded of just how self indulgent it is. How they managed to include quantum break in this.

 - - 1:21:05 so do they let you replay the first level of max payne? Also casey is straight up max payne

 - 1:22:26 how much is actually real? Remedy loves alan wake. And the music is great which feels like its spoiling the plot.

 - 1:24:45 only issues are the epic game stores and the long loading times on the map. Pat’s 6 hours-ish in.

 - 1:26:05 a bloated corpse that looks like pat.

1:27:47 go check out pat over at patstaresat! Playing like a dragon gaiden and an elden ring randomizer. It's easy to set up and can randomize everything.

 - 1:29:33 how the enemy stats work in elden ring

 - 1:31:33 an alternative save location mod so you dont overwrite your vanilla saves

 - 1:32:40 some combos are incompletable. And the options on the randomizer.

 - 1:35:00 this does not break NPC questlines, you can get randomized equipment at the start too.  

 - 1:36:16 a randomizer that can randomize item parameters.

 - 1:37:32 adjusting the bias, and how teh hint system works

 - 1:38:57 from will never make anything officially like this.

 - 1:39:50 convergence and reforged

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1:44:08 SPONSOR 2: BETTER HELP

1:45:40 woolie and reggie are going to holiday matsuri on the 21st and 22nd in orlando florida

NEWS

1:47:05 knights of the old republic remake is dead. Not being worked on by anyone.

 - 1:48:27 some rumblings about the quantic dream star wars game is that they cant get enough staff for it so it’s probably dead

 - 1:50:08 what exists for star wars now? And ubisoft’s track record

 - 1:51:33 Kotor can’t catch a break. A net negative to get into it. And aspire media saying a 3rd party stopped them from releasing the extra content they promised

 - 1:54:13 kotor 1 is the screwed up one you need to fix now. And remember you cant finish kotor on switch

 - 1:56:00 kotor is the last non-EA bioware game.ever played jade empire?

1:57:20 lukeyui make a co-op armored core VI mod. You can have a host and 5 guests.

 - 2:00:00 the logo stuff is all PC, too.

 - 2:01:01 zulli the witch and dropping armored core assets in elden ring.

2:02:30 madame web. Lets go morbius 3. What madame web represents to woolie

 - 2:04:47 pat feels its brave to go all in on the magic part of spiderman.

 - 2:06:03 coyote vs. acme, and the story behind it. Writing it off as a loss. And why WB changed their mind on letting it be released because all their meetings with filmmakers and actors get canceled.

 - - 2:07:54 woolie thought it was a lawsuit. No, it's a congressional hearing, but it was after they backed down. And the legendary tech done by uwe boll.

 - - 2:11:18 the premise for coyote vs. acme, and apparently it was really good. People generally want to make a cool thing.

 - - - 2:13:38 the best year for video games, but the worst year for working in video games. Return to mob.

 - 2:16:19 anyway, madame spider. Hey look, uncle bens in it!

 - - 2:17:30 I can make a good clone saga movie!

2:19:22 starbucks celebrated native American Heritage month. Including the water tribe emblem from avatar the last airbender

 - 2:21:21 this the same graphic design person behind the pope’s exorcist?

 - 2:22:41 B.C. and continuing to acknowledge the native americans in tiny blurbs at the bottom of restaurant menus.

 - - 2:25:11 the weaponization of nonsense therapy talk. Woolie drops a hard R from sheer mental damage.

2:27:09 there are nice things this week. 8 minutes of gameplay of unicorn overlord.

2:30:03 rivals of aether 2. The kickstarter doing really well, since they already met their goal. The movelists being really unique.

 - 2:32:23 specials from ledge grab, specials from wake up, and specials from grab.

2:34:55 ridley scott on the french. “Were you there?” on Napoleon, the movie and expected accuracy vs. what the movie is actually like.

 - 2:39:21 talking to punch mom about killers of the flower moon, and her saying the same thing about django unchained.

  -2:41:48 he was not at marie antoinette’s execution, but it would be hype if he was there. And on napoleon’s shortness. And an englishman telling the french to shut up.

EMAILS

2:44:32 Emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com!

2:44:45 what qualifies as pat bait?

2:48:12 and sequels you can approach as a stand alone and not bother with prequels?

2:52:55 between magus and the turks, who do you forgive the quickest?

2:56:11 that’ll do. Stay safe

2:56:17 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean