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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:32 Welcome to the castle super prepositions cast~! Pat: A poop disaster has occurred. On getting older and bowel issues growing as time goes on

 - 3:01 someone who has no butthole, a woman who eats through her heart

 - 5:46 to people with those sorts of conditions, good luck. Fast forward to robot parts.

 - 8:06 fast forward again: brain in a fridge.

 - 9:09 be as right now, or only poop once a year? Pregnancy and kidney stones

 - - 11:45 on the comparison of pregnancy to kidney stones

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

PAT

14:33 pat’s right at the end of lies of P. Its amazing. Fixes a lot of issues pat’s had with the souls series. Its pretty much bloodborne.

 - 15:43 what other souls-likes bring to the table vs. What this brings. A 4 vs. 1 boss fight which are not frustrating. Add fights.

 - 19:48 the last 10% of the game is still really good. Armored core also still being great right at the end.

 - 22:22 lies of P being a straight line. It's super linear. Closer to DMC. and NPCs are on a map. QoL stuff in general.

 - 24:04 do you like absurd, asinine set of requirements to get an absurd ending? There’s one here. Slavish devotion to the games theme. Pat admits the requirements are actually pretty simple to do

 - - 27:30 the music is diegetic. And what that means.  

29:07 Paige played vampire survivors. The mutliplayer is fantastic.

 - 30:26 paige gets it now

32:04 pat on FFXIV’s multiplayer. Frontlines. One really big problem: since it’s 3 teams, the average is you’ll lose more than win. 2nd place gets nothing.

 - 33:37 the crab bucket, 3rd place will go after 2nd place. Queuing in just for the guaranteed reward.

 - 37:05 frontlines is terrible, but the only one with rewards for doing it daily

38:38 go check out pat over at patstaresat. He’s playing lies of P! He’s beaten the really hard bosses. Saying its more like sekiro from how hard it is.

WOOLIE

39:31 bombrush cyberfunk. Getting to the end of the game. People misremember how long games are.

 - 41:39 improvements made over jet set. Differences in the boss fights.

 - 44:00 some of woolie’s gripes. Wanting a bit more content at the end.  

 - 45:34 the woolie and reggie mod. And other mods.

 - 47:55 the story steering pretty wildly into some body horror.

48:48 finishing up world tour, and FFXVI and getting to the end. SPOILERS HERE.

 - 49:31 how many streams are left are dependent on the amount of side content you want to do.

 - 51:18 getting new baseline abilities. Strong abilities that let you play the game and strong abilities that dont.

 - - 54:02 wanting to see what woolie thinks of the final batch of abilities from a character action PoV

55:09 reading the post avatar the last air bender graphic novels. Taking place right after the show ends. They feel great and feel like an extra season.

 - 57:17 the promise: how to establish peace and how to deal with colonies that have been fire nation for a century. Pat brings up a star trek reference.

 - - 1:00:40 asking the previous avatars for advice.

 - - 1:04:04 the hero solving the problem leaving them with problems they cant just punch

 - - 1:06:08 apartheid good, right? Just eugenics harder.

 - - 1:08:27 just solve israel/palestine. The air temple was an inside job.

 - - 1:10:50 how do you punch societal issues in the face? Not being able to rely on ancient wisdom.

 - - - 1:13:02 yakuza 2: should you have killed every korean?

 - 1:15:14 the search. Where’s zuko’s mom? More on the spirits.

 - - 1:16:39 pat has words on korra season 2.

 - - 1:18:21 people getting very upset over opinions on korra online

 - - - 1:19:52 the honeymoon phase for korra after avatar. And making a character the opposite of aang.

 - - 1:24:48 on pacifism. And what happens to azula.

 - - 1:27:45 the x-men problem

 - - 1:29:49 pushing the limits of patience. Zuko and what you want vs. what you really want.

 - - 1:32:51 did she kill anyone while they tried to rehabilitate her? Her being a paranoid schizophrenic.

 - 1:37:01 they are comics.

 - - 1:40:08 toph being toph. Toph being a poor teacher.

 - - 1:41:44 ‘what do we do with azula?’

1:42:25 SPONSOR: STITCH FIX

1:45:22 SPONSOR 2: HELLO FRESH

1:48:12 SPONSOR 3: RAYCON

NEWS

1:50:02 John Riccitiello stepped down as CEO and president of unity. But the board members who help make that decision are still there.

 - 1:52:10 so, chances of him heading to sony…? Someone so angry at a person that they cant even talk about it.

 - - 1:53:50 Apparently that sony handheld device is actually super popular in japan because they have the internet infrastructure.

 - - 1:56:32 pat is STILL mad at streetpass. Streetpass in NA being for conventions and tournaments.

1:57:58 Entire team that was QAing for dragon age dreadwolf, that were unionized, were all laid off.

 - 1:59:20 they got terrible severance packages. Suing for severance.

 - 2:00:51 bioware vs. larian. Wanting to know what dreadwolf is like and wanting to compare it to how baldur’s gate 3 turned out. Pat is sure they could have made baldur’s gate 3 back in the 360 era.  

2:05:27 telltale let go of a bunch of employees. But wolf among us 2 is totally going  to come out! And on releasing/canceling games in fiscal quarters.

2:07:05 CD projekt red has finally unionized after a third round of layoffs. Actually wanting to know how a union woud function in a country formerly part of the soviet bloc.

 - 2:08:49 europe has more than 5 countries??? And E.F.I.G.S.

 - 2:11:17 most are from the witcher dev team. Broadcasting games over the radio.  

2:14:14 the 5 former ubisoft employees are now being put through the legal system for sexual harassment

2:15:49 pat: do you remember epic bought bandcamp and have now sold it? Buying it specifically to use it as a spite buy.

2:19:07 apparently the gollum apology was written in chatgpt

2:20:58 john woo making a dialogue free action film called silent night. Garbage day!?!

 - 2:23:12 how many final movies has Miyazaki made? And kojima always making the last metal gear game. Kojima LOVES hollywood.

 - 2:27:25 there will be a speech in death stranding 2 where they’ll talk about video games at the oscars.

 - - 2:28:57 pat learns why they are named jack and rose in mgs2

 - - 2:30:00 para-medic and talking about movies

2:30:45 dredge getting DLC, the pale reach.

2:31:28 disco elysium on playstation plus, and netfix on the vita is discontinued

2:32:06 little goody two shoes

EMAILS

2:33:10 Emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com!

2:33:30 has your enjoyment of something been diminished because it's something you know very well and it is dumbing it down for a broader audience, even if the media itself is really good?

2:39:06 is 2023 the new 1998?

2:39:47 desaturation theory and ideas that are complete BS being passed down. Pat vs. Christopher nolan.

 - 2:47:22 crunchyroll caught using machine translated subs and phil spector's wall of sound

2:53:12 time for a bathroom disaster

2:53:33 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean