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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:33 Welcome to the castle super 250th episode cast~! Welcome to the new year too! Here’s to another 250 podcast episodes. Gotta have the balls to start with 3 digits. But what if we hit 4?

 - 1:35 did you say rabbit rabbit for new years?

 - - 2:29 where is that from? It’s from the farmer’s almanac

 - - 3:44 pat’s new years traditions. Cinnamon through the door, ham and beans

 - - 5:06 weird grandma shit, pat’s mom’s weird superstitious stuff, a bird getting into the house

 - - - 7:23 woolie’s aunt and stepping over a child as bad luck

 - - - 8:27 cleaning everything because you cant wash anything on the new year. Can you wash your ass?

 - - - 9:32 paige: its tradition! And the origins of certain traditions

 - - - 12:12 dont walk under ladders, its bad luck. But also because stuff falls off ladders.

 - - - 12:51 none of that in the madden household. The witch trials.

 - 13:47 Its too late for rabbit rabbit. And grandma magic is different from the power of god. Bring your child to church even if you don’t like going

 - 15:26 the farmer’s almanac was actually useful.

16:08 we’re in 2024 now. We’re in one of those years that was widely used back in the day. Jet set radio future is now. Same with batman beyond. The irish reunification is this year too, same with the bell riots.

 - 17:28 so, on star trek… in between now and the far future of star trek, it got really really bad.

 - 18:37 the ability to throw a word in front of the word “war.” the waste of the term clone wars.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

19:53 Woolie went to his neighbor’s place and played some board games. Checked out DropMix. Harmonix getting screwed over.

 - 21:45 FFXI is still on going. On how long people thought MMOs would last vs. how long they actually last.

 - - 22:42 there has been new FFXI content in the past few years.

 - - 23:29 it's not just RPing? There’s stuff to do?

 - 24:33 channel A

 - 26:20 flamecraft

 - - 28:33 woolie reminded of people being scared off fighting games from being complex

29:20 hanging out with the guys from please stop talking. Playing werewolf.

 - 31:17 pulling out the extra roles, information overload.

 - 34:41 video games being better at this because it automatically tells you what you can and cant do

 - 36:33 pat and a mind goblin dying of old age. Playing civ and realizing he can just try and go for a voctiroy for whatever situation he’s landed in

 - - 38:52 pat on how he thought art and grand strategy worked. Writing novels.

 - - 41:08 what pat thought writers block was, wondering why someone that can play music just doesnt do it correctly every single time

 - - 44:51 how about jam bands, pat?

 - - 46:35 then why does anyone drop combo? anomalies like tiger woods, and learning to do something adeptly and seeing that same level of detail in other things

 - - - 49:22 Pat now realizes he might be good at things now

 - - - 51:36 Dante Must Die and what pat considered good

 - - - 53:07 pat could have been an artist or a musician, practicing a lot to get good at one thing

55:46 got a new year massage. It’s tax deductible!

56:19 The youtube channel Not Just Bikes. On urban planning. Growing up with the inability to navigate.

 - 58:27 assessing montreal. Great pedestrian spaces meeting the worst urban planning.

 - 1:02:26 is the montreal driver part of the discussion? And on the very different PoV he presents

 - 1:03:33 parking and where to find it.

 - 1:05:23 restaurants with outdoor seating but not knowing the history on why those are there.

 - 1:08:20 Montreal being made up of 19 different cities

1:12:36  Godzilla minus one. It is excellent. Another japanese Godzilla movie. One of the most compelling and emotional ones. A very human story that has godzilla in it.

 - 1:14:06 does this have to do with shin godzilla? No.

 - 1:14:32 the intro to the movie. Welcome to 1945. The question of how much of WWII they’d acknowledge.

 - 1:18:11 is america in this movie? No. On how the average citizen in this time period is. Questioning if life is treated too cheaply.

 - 1:20:10 the events are brutal. What woolie wants to see: Will they ever show the effects the japanese army had on other countries?

 - 1:22:30 a godzilla movie touching on the aftereffects of war, but only the parts that are comfortable to talk about

 - 1:23:16 who’s the villain? It’s godzilla. Minus one as being less than zero

 - 1:25:01 people on the protagonist side shouting about sacrificing yourself

 - 1:26:22 pat asks where the drugs are. The question of a culture telling you dying for your country is good. But we won’t talk to nanking. How about divert godzilla to china or korea?

 - 1:29:25 pat imagines an american version.

 - 1:30:25 woolie brings up the podcast of supernova in the east again. Pat really wants sitcom godzilla.

1:32:05 finished dredge and the DLC. the endings were phenomenal. The DLC was okay.

 - 1:33:18 the DLC and what it’s about. Thought there wasn’t enough of it.

 - 1:35:50 getting a new power that's a better version of an existing power.

1:36:50 go check out woolie over on woolieversus! Sacred and terrible air continues. More slop streams. And a new podcast, versus Wolves! Coming back with FFIX to beat the super bosses. And thursday, checking out lethal company.

1:40:17 a little bit more on godzilla minus one. Looking at what’s happening within. Woolie on clarifying on how much they’d delve into the self criticism.

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PAT

1:51:48 defeat the refund continues. He’s finding it really damn fun. He’s going to keep doing it. Onthe 90 minute timer being pretty good.

 - 1:53:24 pat keeping most games, but he’s learning about his own tastes. Pat learning just how much stock he puts on controls.

 - 1:54:32 pat flying way over time on certain games. And pat doing chemical based gaming. Gamifying buying games. Just donate the price of the game to get pat to try it.

 - 1:57:27 Pat having January free.

1:57:45 Dicey dungeons. A roguelike about rolling dice. Its on phone too. One of the best roguelikes pat has ever played. By the guys that made super hexagon.

 - 1:58:57 how it plays.

 - 2:00:58 what control do you have here with dice rolls?

 - 2:02:29 the music is amazing. Pat likes it. Everything about it is great.

2:03:42 the one pat went way over time on. Pony island. Pat likes pony island way more than inscryption. You are getting to the main conceit 5 minutes in.

 - 2:05:50 the ‘intentionally bad’ quote in regards to no more heroes is a real thing, and pat disagrees.

 - 2:07:34 pat recommends both a lot. Dicey dungeons is a low stimulus game too.

2:08:53 The talos principle. Its good, but pat hates it. It makes pat feels stupid. The game in comparison to it’s contemporaries. The witness and the game making pat feels talked down to.

 - 2:11:20 pat on acknowledging that things might not be bad just because he doesnt like them. Remember RTSs? Woolie does not want time as a factor

2:13:29 Cultic. A boomer shooter by 3d realms. Inspirations from Blood and RE4. It feels good to shoot.

 - 2:15:16 the game uses voxels. Reloading at 4fps. And the question of what 3d realms is up to

2:16:23 cobalt core, an FTL with cards and furries. Did you know star fox is a furry? Where does robin hood fall?

 - 2:17:40 its got good everything but he cant stand the gameplay.

2:19:30 road 96 and ctrl alt ego. For ctrl alt ego, pat can’t stand the controls.

 - 2:20:40 road 96, a roguelike life is strange. Too pretentious for pat.

 - 2:21:48 pat is going in with as little beforehand knowledge as possible

 - 2:23:07 chat thought the AI voice acting even though it came out before the tech was widely available

2:23:41 american arcadia. It won a bunch of awards even though pat neverheard of it. It rules. Its two games. Part 1 is limbo/inside. The other is first person and solving puzzles for the first part.

2:26:01 gunbrella by devolver. Its excellent. A not quite metroidvania with good feeling controls. Celeste with a gun.

2:26:48 Little goody two shoes. The peak of RPG maker type horror from that particular time period from a while back. Its also a time management dating sim!

 - 2:28:25 a lot of the game is the town part of a persona game. Its suepr lesbian. 90’s lesbian anime-core. And it actually is an RPG maker game.

 - 2:30:08 seeing how many endings there are right off the bat. And looking up specific eras and aesthetics of video games. Like n64 castlevania or CD-I zelda. Also one piece is long.

 - - 2:32:19 woolie wants to look at early DS games like brain age with the clean aesthetics

2:33:37 more midnight suns. The game got absolutely screwed over. It’s incredible. Pat’s got the highest relationship with tony and pete. He’s got a bunch of cool cards. He got a shiny blade card.

 - 2:35:29 the main character is completely customizable and you can change it whenever you’d like aside from facial structure and gender. Pat feels Square Enix killed this game. THe director left the game after this game failed.

 - 2:37:50 there’s some great voice acting and not so great voice acting. Woolie wonders the marvel strategy for games.

 - 2:38:56 male character can have female animations. You can move around with a studio that doesnt have experience with things like that and you can feel it

 - - 2:40:42 do you mistake ps2 with ps3, pat?

 - 2:41:44 social linking tony, talking to tony about his alcoholism. Marvel and refusing to touch demon in a bottle. And bringing up the marvel civil war storyline.

 - - 2:43:41 woolie gets distracted

 - 2:44:30 people who really gave a shit made this game. cyclops/magento was right.

 - 2:45:46 the subplot and boomers.

 - 2:47:45 can we hang out with sauron? And seeing peter hoard food because he’s poor

 - 2:48:44 get the legendary version if you want to buy it. And one of the strangest decisions for DLC, on venom. You can get venom on your team and have venom vs. venom.

 - 2:50:24 deadpools a DLC character, he’s not overplaying it. And the DLC cast was decided before the movies. Morbius is there. Is there a morb joke? Yes.

2:53:02 go check out pat over at patstaresat! And beating your wife… at video games returns.

NEWS

2:54:18 Steamboat Willie is public domain. On what Public Domain actually means.

 - 2:56:07 disney single handedly fighting copyright law, and finally reached a limit.

 - 2:57:38 woolie feels there will be a corporate defense for characters that companies are still monetizing them

 - 2:58:49 the intent of copyright law has been inverted.

2:59:40 devs behind sinking city have won their battle, they have their game back.

 - 3:02:02 the game was jank on release and hasnt been updated thanks to this. Now it can be updated.

3:03:32 more details on Metaphor Refantazio. Look at this technically not persona game. THe 10-0 matchup of fighting your anxieties.

 - 3:05:36 being infested by these dangerous creatures known as humans.  They look rad.

 - 3:08:23 the name of the game is very literal. And japan internalizing email language.

 - 3:09:30 woolie is sure the last thing will be downtown tokyo showing up. And steven will just be there.

 - 3:10:49 ignitiers and archetypes. It is incredibly on the nose. Copying your own homework.

 - - 3:12:11 will lotus juice be there? And getting jumpscared by lotus juice in jojo.

 - - 3:13:24 shmup god pat and lotus juice just showing up. The remake for 3 is soon too. Hearing brennan describe remake mass destruction as balless.

 - - 3:14:33 the streaming guidelines for persona 5 tactica being a lot more permissive for some reason.

 - - 3:16:10 P3R and some of the social links being horrible people.

 - - - 3:18:24 is tartarus still tartarus? They seem to have changed it up a little. Having a lot of functionally identical floors.

 - - - 3:21:42 will they kick up the final boss a bit? Woolie would not be surprised if they added another phase.

 - - - 3:22:42 the answer, and pat wondering if they’ll change the ending.  

 - 3:24:47 metaphor doesn't seem to have a central color. Seems to be red, white, and blue.

 - - 3:26:41 pat finds tri-color flags are terrible. And misremembering brazil’s flag

3:28:27 Harda talking about tekken 8’s colorblind accessibility mode.

 - 3:31:02 Pat explaining the difference between impaired vision and colorblind. And Colorblind/partial colorblind options. Palette crushing.

 - 3:35:27 monochrome color blindness option turns things monochrome but doesnt increase contrast

 - 3:37:25 what is the logic behind these options if they dont actually help? Woolie recalls the pokemon seizure debacle

 - 3:39:17 there are global standards for colorblind accessibility, but there arent any for games. And EA’s head of accessibility did not like the tekken footage due to causing them nausea. THe low visibility option is not great for some people with normal vision  

 - 3:40:54 the low visibility feature might actually cause people to discover they have epilepsy or cause a seizure.

 - 3:44:11 who do you talk to on things like this?

 - 3:45:25 street fighter and MK switching to sound instead of visibility. And disability accomodations make everyone happy.

 - 3:46:53 also on that lotion that attracts spiders… filling a humidifier with panera lemonade and closing the garage door.

3:48:34 There is a documentary about reboot in the works and they found the digital master tapes. Yes, woolie knows, he’s talking to them personally.

3:49:56 takehiko inoue about continuing his old projects in some form.

3:51:25 the new casey edwards DMC song is for pinnacle of combat.

3:53:00 xbox put out a christmas themed postcard promoting indie games. It was made with AI. This was made by the people who were supposed to be the human element in the company

 - 3:54:34 midjourney is now part of a class action lawsuit has been keeping a list of artists. The discord DMs have leaked.

 - 3:56:33 new york times is suing microsoft over openAI from it taking entire newspaper articles and posting them as though they were answers

 - 3:57:21 time to jump on the new scam.

 - 3:58:32 deviant art being behind this sort of stuff. Imagine the stuff they put in it. And the shock value of sonic fetish art has allowed what would normally niche stuff to spread wildly.

 - - 4:00:59 alan wake writing sonic fanfiction

EMAILS

4:01:35 Emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com!

4:01:49 what is the most underrated but impressive feat of strength you’ve seen in media?

4:04:55 what is the difference between actual alphas and betas vs. marketed alphas and betas?

4:10:27 when you first started dating, when did you break the fart barrier?

4:16:28 have a good day!

4:16:33 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean