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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:34 Welcome to the castle super too much maple syrup cast~! Going out to the canadian sugar shacks and getting crazy amounts of maple syrup.

 - 1:40 signing up to get a crazy amount of maple syrup. the candy that grew on trees.

 - - 3:25 poor man’s pudding. And maple syrup on snow.

 - 4:35 woolie hasn't had that much sugar in his system in a while. The horse and petting the animals

 - - 5:22 checking out behind some douchebags that pretend to feed animals but pull back at the last moment.

 - - - 8:36 racoons wont break into the house, paige.

 - - 9:08 he hasn’t been since elementary, and couldnt appreciate it entirely before, but now can. And the pork spread.

 - 11:26 the diabetes demon awakening. And maple syrup mental fog that lasts a while. Maple butter. And pasteurization is important.

 - - 14:22 eras of discovering things about food.

 - - 15:47 go check out strollers or baby car seats on google. You’ll see so many stories of recalls and defects.

 - - - 17:14 the cybertruck. The xbox 360 of trucks.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

19:02 This is when you turn to Nikke. It's not bad.

 - 20:58 the first time he’s playing a mobile game with giant amounts of money in it.

 - 21:48 there's a mandatory update every day.

 - 22:02 going through the tutorial. Look at that JIGGLE.

 - - 24:26 nikkephobia

 - 25:39 seeing all the fun personalities right off the bat.

 - 27:00 woolie wanting to hang out with the grunts

 - 29:10 its a pretty fun game. Playing it vertical. Woolie would not spend a single cent on it.

 - 31:04 the reality of gacha. And at what point you start running out of stamina.

 - 32:24 EVERYONE has jiggle. Even the men.

 - - 33:45 so, pat got a new phone… and is playing more Honkai: star rail. It took pat almost 2 hours to get through all the new stuff to see all the new updates. On gacha limited events and FOMO.

 - - 37:05 having a pool of stamina to get through. Celebrating the removal of cancerous systems that shouldnt have been there in the first place.

 - - 39:20 on gacha actually having gameplay.  

 - - - 40:52 an unfortunate freeze on stream, Pat’s face and taking terrible pictures of the minister

 - - 44:00 a gacha on top of a VN. Nikke is also not the standard. The standard is a complete coinflip. More recent gachas actually have full games with them.

 - - - 46:04 Pat and arknights. Pat bounced off the sprites.

 - - - 48:03 a tweet about path to nowhere.

 - - - 49:20 Nikke being incredibly honest.

 - - - 50:40 huge VN elements. Pat could not get into danganronpa at all.

 - - - 52:40 a chasm between different gacha games in terms of quality.

 - - - 54:04 there anything like nikke?

 - - - 54:55 arknight endfield, and pats trying limbus this week.

 - - - 57:01 what is the least scummy gacha? And the sweet spot between too fair and too scummy

 - - - 1:00:40 woolie is wondering about those people that have spent money and if they feel good about it.

 - - - 1:04:01 the ones that seem happiest are the ones that are honest with how much they plan to spend.

 - - - 1:04:55 pat’s played the star rail anniversary event the entire week. Doctor Ratio.

 - - - - 1:06:16 checking out the 4 most recommended this week, limbus, AFK journey, nikke, and punishing grey raven. Luckily they all have PC clients. The horror of a random text doxing you.

 - - - - 1:08:10 pat really just wants to play zenless zone zero. Its hades.

 - 1:10:00 woolie loading up nikke to get the names of the generic soldiers.

 - - 1:10:55 How much did you interact with teppen’s card system?

1:12:55 x-men 97 episode 5 SPOILERS. Some of the best half hours of television ever. Perfect pacing.

 - 1:15:11 absolutely no longer screwing around. No longer just a callbacks but turning into its own thing

 - 1:19:20 the event being sudden and vicious. Establishing the stakes

 - 1:21:28 What arc do you go into from this? And double techs are always fun.

 - 1:22:54 will they push glob herman? And a shot of uatu the watcher

 - 1:24:34 From this point it can definitely stand on its own if it continues like this

1:25:13 Tekken 8, checking out eddy gordo. Just keep pressing 3. Feeling he is a strong character just from messing around a little.

 - 1:28:30 you can change his hair if you want. Woolie once again on how sick the killmonger hair is.

 - 1:30:00 eddy still being really damn cool. Woolie wants to be him. On Capoeira

 - 1:31:27 americans really not liking lucky chloe.

 - 1:32:08 woolie continues to ignore the microtransaction stuff.

1:33:05 Working through Yakuza 0. Getting out of cabaret club hell. Getting back to guilty gear with testyourluck. And playing monk in DNFduel. Go check it out over on woolieversus!

PAT

1:35:05 Pat finally beat infinite wealth. Seeing the end of kiryu’s story. There being one major problem with the story that relates to how side quests and the main quest aren’t really connecting.

 - 1:36:47 the primary inspiration. And jesus.

 - - 1:38:28 pat did not finish a bunch of the side content. Also, where does the chicken fit at the last supper? How about mr. libido?          

 - 1:39:17 the change in venue isnt that big a departure from the previous entries.

 - 1:41:38 being very on the nose with american bits, this being ichiban’s yakuza 1, a character who is his majima.

 - 1:43:08 it does get a bit messy in how it presents its story. And on yakuza 0 with majima’s cabaret unlock moveset. Same with kiryu’s own movesets.  

 - - 1:47:50 kiryu breaking out of the turn based world

 - 1:48:49 it is incredibly long. Its also better than 7. But more on issues with the swaps midstory.  Digging into kiryu’s history.

 - - 1:51:15 so how much does this matter? And on getting the background of why kiryu is a badass.

 - - 1:54:10 woolie wont personally be playing through the entire series to get a full understanding of whats going on, but that’s fine

 - - 1:56:23 whats the mainstream western fan’s exposure to the series here? Most would probably start with 0.

 - - 1:58:13 pat describing one of these quests

 - - 2:00:07 this in contrast to ichiban’s mental world. And the sidequest dimension leaking into the main story. Remembering Oda from 35 years ago.

 - - 2:02:53 some bits hit differently, seeing the effects of kiryu’s legacy. Turn A and polnareff

 - 2:05:46 final hour count: 92.2 hours without doing all the side quests

2:06:15 the fallout TV show. Its excellent. Its a great intro to the world of fallout. Its pretty much fallout 5. And pat talking about the internet discourse on the canonicity of events

 - 2:08:08 its 8 episodes and the episode lengths are lies. It does a lot of great things and not doing some bad things from what you’d expect from a game adaption. An example with a stimpack.

 - 2:10:51 following a cast of 3 characters. All three are potential player characters.

 - 2:13:36 its a more faithful adaptation than last of us. There’s one strange thing: the vault character is just the fallout 3 MC again.

 - 2:14:47 pat is only halfway through right now. Possible sequels and where to watch it.

 - 2:15:49 woolie picking up fallout by osmosis. The east coast vs. west coast difference between studios.

 - 2:20:00 this felt like it would have been a disaster. But its not.

 - 2:22:05 pat will probably encounter some plot bomb that everyone is mad about but he feels like he wont really care.

2:24:28 go check out pat over at patstaresat! He’ll be playing FF7 rebirth, phone games, LA noire with paige, and stellar blade is the same studio as nikke

2:27:09 SPONSOR: HENSON SHAVING

NEWS

2:31:22 if you want some bootleg pokemon, think again. A guy selling modified pokemon and earned several million in yen online was arrested.

 - 2:34:25 this wouldnt have mattered if it wasn’t pokemon. Man, if only there had been some illegal pokemon next to that child pornography.  

 - 2:36:28 cops existing only to preserve the business of the working class. That mario mascot’s life is on the line!

 - 2:40:08 what about that one story from vietnam about that landlady that got sentenced to death for stealing 3% of the GDP?

 - 2:42:48 so, capital punishment for pokemon save crimes, right?

2:43:30 so how about evo japan X sesame street? Check out this merch! Put that sesame street stage in! Oscar will pull that plug.

2:45:36 Keanu Reeves is confirmed as shadow the hedgehog in the new sonic movie. Time for GUN.

 - 2:47:01 His acting career. Pat cannot get his performance from dracula out of his head.

 - 2:48:42 pat wants this series to go on for long enough for people to complain about the other animal friends. And guesses for other VAs.

2:50:38 and invincible game by skybound, putting up a crowdfunding campaign for it.

 - 2:52:52 they’ve done a campaign like this before. And the death of the kickstarter for the non-indie thing is dead.

 - 2:54:11 pat is reminded of psychonauts 2.

 - - 2:56:58 there’s some differences here for crowdfunding rewards. And speculation on psychonauts crowdfunding money running out

2:58:21 the dev behind blasphemous reveals larian studios donated 1000 and didn’t ask anything in return.

2:59:30 a transformers x G.I. Joe movie coming. Woolie has fond memories of a G.I. Joe transformers comic run.

 - 3:03:18 beast wars as a formative experience

3:04:44 a new prince of persia, the rogue prince of persia.

3:06:52 slay the spire 2. Pat and complaints on announcements vs. release date.

3:10:55 google having become garbage recently

3:14:10 Gearbox and wasabi announcing rakugaki. On woolie feeling like it feels more corporate punk.

EMAILS

3:18:01 Emails! Send in your letters to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com!

3:18:10 do you prefer silent protagonists or more developed protags?

3:23:23 any rituals you use to improve your competitive play?

3:25:44 How many bad guys could have been sus’d out by a background check?

3:31:40 go take a nap, pat. Time to join nikke unions.

3:32:25 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean