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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:36 Welcome to the castle super better woolie cast~! Brennan Williams is here, live from a tin can. Check out his cool logo and t-shirts.

2:00 So, Brennan got fired from the WWE. Now he’s free to have creative control on his own.

 - 3:57 what you’re allowed to do in the WWE and making the most of his opportunities.

 - 4:58 when they first met  

 - 6:48 being a family man, truly better woolie

 - 7:43 Brennan in a match, and how old the guys in his match were. Everyone’s in their 30s now.

 - - 9:18 the age at which you can now stop giving a shit, what kind of old guy brennan can choose to be

 - - 11:13 pat with hair when he was younger, the bald with a beard look

 - - 12:54 Being the fit old man.

 - - 14:12 Woolie trying to pick a path himself. Brennan’s trick to staying fit

 - 16:46 Why brennan’s vtuber avatar is the way it is: he lost the rights to his own face for a bit

 - - 19:33 how to make sure people know Brennan is with all his separate identities, and the nature of the nico nico knee clip, having all the t-shirts. Being Mason D. Madden

 - - 21:35 a cool cyberpunk jacket, and cyberpunk as the best ‘ongoing’ game. The case of doing early access.

 - - 23:18 early access baldur’s gate and willing to change core elements

 - - 24:36 clearly multiverse will be in the ongoing games category this year, right? Unreleasing a game

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS + BRENNAN

BRENNAN

25:36 Lots of baldur’s gate III. Playing on the steam deck. Beating it on honor mode.

 - 26:43 did you encounter the platform bug? Playing carefully and ways people have been playing in unnatural ways.

 - 28:25 whats the split between prep work vs. actual game in honor mode? Fighting the necromancer

 - 31:15 continuing your save out of honor mode if you fail, but what’s the point? Dying early in your run due to buildings coming together later.

 - 32:23 yes, you can get fucked on dice rolls. Going full meta, doing everything as safe as possible and getting safe levels.

 - - 34:13 Fighting Ethel and getting screwed by RNG, the hardest fights in honor mode.

 - 35:53 Woolie asks: best boy and best girl, on gale.

 - - 37:50 Gale’s divorced depression beard  

 - - 38:39 but who’s best girl? Jaheira.

 - - 40:39 pat’s answer of best girl: what is your pick on trauma?

 - - 41:04 karlach, lae'zel, and minthara’s racism.

 - - - 43:34 baby in the inventory, bodies in the inventory. Kill the goblin children.  

 - - 45:52 karlach and the mitsuru is for akihiko vibe. P3 and the games after everyone is for you.

 - - - 47:33 wanting the next game to play with the idea that you are a different person for everyone. The fantasy vs. the reality, finding the right answer.  

50:10 the P3 reload trailer, the intro is sick. The new mass destruction is balless. Wanting some of the crunchiness

 - 51:11 frequently music piracy sites. Version of songs without skips of the radio bit at the end and not hitting same same since it’s not what you listened to in your youth

 - 52:52 the finale of the game must be preserved.

 - 53:52 added scenes of hanging out with the guys, sandwiching junpei being annoying with yukari being annoying.

 - - 55:30 starting with indifference or active dislike of you in P3.

 - 56:47 woolie wants the arena costumes. And Persona 3 and which version to get. And the answer, but metis looks cool.

 - 58:55 iwatodai dorm theme, using a lotus juice sample

 - - 1:00:46 woolie isn’t wrong anymore, now it is lotus juice. Explaining bad things as art.

 - - 1:03:10 finding the original sample, and the jet set radio samples and where they came from

1:05:43 catching up with Frieren: Beyond Journey's End on the plane. Seeing someone next to him on a plane watching anime. Decides he doesnt want to watch goblin slayer season 2 next all of a sudden

 - 1:07:17 so he decides to play Umineko instead! IT WAS SMALL BOMBS, I REFUSE TO EXPLAIN. Playing it using glasses that transfer what he’s watching to them so no one can see him play umineko

 - 1:08:58 frieren is cool. On the story. THe story from someone who lives long/is immortal

 - - 1:11:11 twilight and immortality.

 - - 1:14:27 imagining mass effect through the lens of an asari. And forgotten realm’s history with characters that have lived through practically all of written history.

 - - - 1:16:33 Baldur’s gate and mindflayers not having souls, but also apparently having souls, just ones not under the purview of the gods.

 - - - 1:18:10 gnolls

PAT

1:19:46 Like a dragon: Infinite Wealth Demo. Needing to beat Gaiden to unlock it.

 - 1:20:40 this is just a persona game. Ichiban has a personality grid and the menus. Look at the friendship chart!

 - 1:21:57 a massive mechanical improvement, but who cares its set in america and its RGG’s take on america.

 - 1:23:31 woolie wants this to feel like japan’s take on GTA. Look, sicko snap. And the not-pokemon minigame. And a guy with a gun is a random encounter.

 - 1:25:33 what do you mean by ‘GTA’ game?

 - 1:26:37 the demo is 3 and a half hours long. The actual game will be huge. And now you can move people around the battlefield.

 - 1:27:58 are there any cool American party members? And a guy from yakuza 3 is just there.

 - 1:29:52 no one ever really dies. Heihachi will return as reina. He learned from M. Bison.

1:30:55 pseudoregalia. A fake n64 game. An incredibly accurate one. A castlevania N64 type platformer.

 - 1:32:01 the main character is a goat lady with a giant ass. Remember that centaur girl with human with human legs? And the accessibility option is pants on or off.

 - 1:33:11 games great, just a bit distracting.

1:33:38 curse crackers. A fake gameboy color game. Didn’t care much for it.

1:34:00 weird RPG. looks like a diablo clone and the work of a student project, but there are pickups that do stuff like change the soundtrack, work with your mic, and scale attacks based on age of video card

 - 1:35:20 woolie recalls blackbox

 - 1:36:22 the perfect machine translate english.

1:37:01 jimmy and the pulsating mass. It's fine. An earthbound-like

1:38:05 song of conquest, by the people behind satisfactory. Pat has never played heroes of might and magic and this is an homage to it, and apparently hates heroes of might and magic.

1:38:52 samurai bringer. Brave fencer musashi as a roguelike with the godhand system of putting stuff together. Pat doesnt feel its much fun to play

1:39:12 Brotato, a flash vampire survivors.

1:39:39 you will die here tonight. An unashamed remake of Resident Evil 1. Goes first person when you’re attacked. Playing as 6 characters and when one dies you move to the next. Getting the perfect run.

 - 1:41:00 its fantastic. Its a littel like outer wilds in that you’re trying to find the best route. Resident evil gaiden but good.

1:42:02 go check out pat over at patstaresat! He’ll be playing pat stares at beating his wife. At video games. Beat your family.

WOOLIE

1:44:40 dicey dungeons. It’s cute and fun. Constantly picking up new equipment.

 - 1:46:20 unlocking characters, different characters’ abilities.

 - 1:47:30 rolling dice is fun. Brennan getting purple and green d10s IRL

 - 1:48:42 there are 6 characters with separate episodes. Each have wildly different rules.

1:49:35 lethal company.

 - 1:51:18 the in-game chat function, proxy talking. Sudden response stops and hilarious hijinks

1:53:54 finishing FFIX. Its a fun game, and why people praise VI and IX. Remembering really loving VI. Some light spoilers from here on out.

 - 1:55:30 Vivi is the best.

 - 1:57:23 kid characters are great, and wishing zidane would acknowledge vivi more.

 - 1:58:35 tetra master was made on meth. And the guide book era

 - 1:59:54 amarant, and wanting the equivalent of s link 10s.

 - 2:01:10 lots of send ups for FF1

 - 2:02:33 summons and seeing the desire to one up themselves

 - 2:03:43 the super bosses, ozma

 - 2:06:36 kuja’s theme. And moments that can hit hard as a kid. The first FF you played

 - 2:09:48 who’s that guy at the last second? Some god I guess. How P3 does it.  

 - - 2:11:37 I get what you are going for, but you shouldn't have done that though. The idea of not sticking the landing.

 - - 2:12:41 is it better to have less at the start and the good bits at the end? No, you need a strong beginning. Remembering how old DMC games would suck on replaying them

 - - - 2:14:02 the thought of putting up a spoiler warning for stuff this week

 - - 2:15:14 the latest he’s ever seen a villain. And sephiroth going “I’ll do it again.”

 - - 2:16:42 villain turn and the main character also having a turn. And DMC 2 theory

2:18:06 Go check out woolie over at woolieversus! Testyourluck is showing up for some guilty gear strive

2:18:50 learning some more stuff on godzilla minus one. Why didnt they talk about 9/11 in turning red? Woolie clarifying his points from last podcast. The best godzilla movie he’s seen

 - 2:22:51 former admirals and officers are amongst the average citizens. And can’t even show nazis in germany.

 - 2:25:33 on why they used the admiral: a fusion of a character that was heavily critical of the 52japanese military and someone that respected the enemy.

 - 2:28:03 pat believes this conversation is absurd.

2:30:14 before sponsors: heres a hot take. What if we DONT have another world war.

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2:42:37 the idea of guilt free cereal. Pat ate an entire cookie and felt no guilt. Where guilt comes from.

 - 2:44:52 pat hs perfect blood sugar. And Paige getting gestational diabetes.

 - 2:46:03 Brennan and going to a clinic. His blood is the best blood they’ve ever seen. Deficient in vitamin D and that’s it. Woolie also needing his sun.

 - 2:49:43 pat is glad hes just maintained a base orb level.  

 - 2:50:59 con bravo and team kawaii muscle.

 - 2:51:42 time to spend more time talking about not wasting time.

NEWS

2:52:34 AI ads from companies like wizards of the cost and wacom. Let us compete against the machines

 - 2:54:19 the complete lack of taste. And brennan bringing back the idea of the mutant league, everything is legal, go all out. Gearless Joe rises, the top of humanity vs. the machine.

 - - 2:56:38 pat imagines how it’ll actually go. Also, what happens when nuclear launch detected happens? Let the people that can parry nukes live. Human evolution has been halted for far too long. Brennan will be amongst the five.

2:59:18 bloodborne cart is releasing january 31st.

 - 3:00:44 fake ps1 and N64 games is now. The peak nostalgia golden era. Someone will always be nostalgic for something. The best zelda game was the one you played when you were 13.

 - 3:03:17 exact styles that are being replicated now, like CD-I. the flaws are the defining aspects.

 - 3:04:34 brennan and getting a sony cassette player

 - - 3:05:18 the quote woolie was thinking of in question

 - 3:07:10 bloodborne kart has a crazy amount of filters. Ones they cant use because of twitch video compression. And the intentional smear with CRT.

3:09:01 NCsoft got the license for city of heroes and the fan server is allowed to continue.

 - 3:10:33 so the fan server is just digital preserver. And MMOs that have definitive ends.

 - 3:11:46 the fan server can develop the game more.

3:12:05 Nexon and setting gacha rates in maple story to 0%. They’ve been doing this since the start of the company. Fined just a pittance.

 - 3:15:22 Nexon has patents on manipulating rates

 - 3:16:29 follow up on the china laws on gambling: the official who proposed it got removed from office

 - 3:17:06 what’s happening now that we’ll only discover a decade down the line? Swipe card, get dopamine hit.

3:18:30 world of demons is getting delisted. Nope, you cant play it at all.

3:20:27 Baldur’s gate III naked clips were getting banned for it. Seems there’s a high probability they were using AI to detect nudity.

 - 3:22:11 the QA answer is “dont allow an upload during this bit.”

 - 3:23:03 on the phrase ‘see you next tuesday.’ Youtube has an AI for it. Clearly they can detect woolie’s skin color

 - - 3:24:10 brennan can hear the soul of a black person

3:25:51 the FFXIV dawntrail fanfest news. Cat people are here. Pat summarizes the news.

 - 3:27:29 the graphics update. Fixing the dark skin color lighting issues.

 - - 3:29:11 the big problem of varying quality.

 - 3:29:58 would MLK have played on balmung? The million man raid on racism.

 - - 3:30:58 the stone of agony title detector. Brennan always says the title when he’s on.

 - 3:32:00 a low stakes beach episode, and seeing some hints of serious stuff. And two dye channels. And the new race.

 - 3:33:03 the dissonance of cutscene quality.

 - 3:35:48 the thumbnail for dawntrail.and the graphics quality is cleaning, not changing stuff.  

3:37:40 mad catz announces Yatagarasu Enter the Eastward is going to be happening. But they’ve never gotten it off the ground.

EMAILS

3:39:34 emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com!

3:39:51 which will last longer, suicide squad: kill the justice league or skull and bones?

3:41:59 What's the most you’ve ever wanted a series to end on a high note and not continue?

3:48:28 media that's good but doesnt take advantage of the medium it's in?

3:50:03 so thats it. Thanks for showing up brennan! Go check him out if you’re in texas this saturday in houston, he’ll be at reality of wrestling.  And go check him out at greatblackotaku! He’s everywhere

3:52:53 Unity laid off 1800 people! Wooo~!

3:53:26 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean