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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:36 Welcome to the castle super jojo shirt cast~! Woolie has a cool shirt. Meanwhile, pat has a peanut shirt with peanut butter. And the racist shirt.

2:05 ever wish you could put the world on hold? Woolie is in Con recovery mode. He does NOT want a 5 hour podcast today. And pat is tired because he’s taking care of the baby. Pat had so many espressos.

 - 3:48 its just suppressing the thing that makes you feel tired. Pat: it just makes time slower.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

4:58 woolie tried to boot palworld but couldnt. Meanwhile Gene Park is covering palworld and IRL at the same time.

6:19 Magfest happened! It was fun. Reggie having a good time this year compared to him getting sick last year.

 - 7:48 Reggie and woolie at the street fighter and Strive tournaments.

 - 9:38 getting wild collectors items. The swag badge, the swadge. Its a controller! You can run a lot of things with it.

 - 12:10 the indies room. Mindwave.

 - - 14:09 half art installation, half game setups. Dodecimation.

 - - 15:55 haber dasher

 - - 17:14 Raw Metal

 - - 18:45 Death of a wish

 - - 20:00 scrap seas

 - - 21:02 CIPHER ZERO

 - - 21:56 Gunmetal Gothic

 - - 22:54 noisz starlivht

 - - 23:54 DEEPMESS

 - - 25:19 unbeatable [white label]

 - 27:51 hanging out with Gene Park. he’s actually pretty tall. Talking about how true infinite wealth is to hawaii.

 - - 30:08 going to a strip club for the food with gene. For the bit. Pat: this is normal.

 - - 32:57 heading over to the club sunday with a bunch of friends. Getting priority seating. Gene as strip club jesus at the last supper. The food was pretty alright.

 - - - 35:14 woolie rejects the mystery DC shrimp cocktail.

 - - 36:53 Reggie is a natural at a strip club. Canada and phasing out physical money

 - - 38:45 stimulated the local economy. And other things. And getting some merch. Shout out to the good guys club.

 - - 40:27 there’s real athleticism for pole dancing.

 - - 41:38 ‘It must be cold in canada, huh?’

42:41 probably checkout out palworld and more sacred and terrible air this week on woolieversus

PAT

43:13 before palworld, while woolie was out going to strip clubs, pat was studying the baby. Going to an infant circle. Mom networking and socializing babies.

 - 44:53 seeing a huge baby and another baby that just threw up all the time. Like comparing starter pokemon.

 - 47:27 talking with other parents is weird.

 - 48:48 There's lots of baby activities. So far no evil or mean babies

50:16 a new windows feature pat didn't know existed. A virtual keyboard.

 - 51:45 pat used to message people by copying words and pasting them when he had only one hand available.

53:02 pat has almost beaten prince of persia: the lost crown. Not many people are talking about it. Ubisoft being insanely evil and saying “people better get used to not owning games.” It is one of the best metroid games ever made.

 - 55:05 it looked really good from the trailer. The movement abilities are all good. The double jump is at the end of the game.

 - 56:43 excellent. Pat cant think of anything bad about it other than its made by ubisoft.

 - 57:20 assassins creed is one its own thing, prince of persia is separate. Made by the rayman legends people

57:58 the Ted TV show. It's excellent. Pat: it feels like season 1 of family guy with the rule of no cutaway gags. Does the same sort of bit except now your imagination fills in the bits.

59:39 Palworld. 6 million sold. The most complicated game release discussion they’ve had on the show. There’s a lot to talk about because its super divisive.

 - 1:00:06 How the game actually plays. It is solid from a technical perspective. It looks like it should be a jank fest but its not. Its on a similar level to hades in how solid technically it is.

 - 1:02:16 its not pokemon. Its ark: survival evolved/rimworld/factorio. Pals as labor is first, while combat is second. The base is the priority.  

 - 1:07:05 the slavery is the point. The choice is kind slavery or fast slavery.

 - 1:09:28 woolie at the convention scrolling through social media. You can catch humans.

 - 1:10:22 there’s no real current plot. Any commentary is self-derived. Butcher that ak wielding not-pikachu.

 - 1:12:23 its a plantation woolie. they call it a plantation. There is no subtext, its text.

 - 1:13:42 getting labor is the important part. There’s some other bits they took too, like the just cause grapple+parachute.

 - 1:15:00 the bit not many people are talking about: the base building works really really well. You dont really have to manage it once you get it started. Having more content than ark.

 - 1:16:28 “they must have built up their experience from the last game- wait, they dont know what a rig is?!” the context of this game being pretty good for only 25 dollars.

 - 1:17:27 the two other games they made: craftopia and AI art imposter.

 - 1:19:10 pat summing up the sequence of events. Describing how they are incredibly incompetent they are and how craftopia was basically just flipping assets. Actually trying to learn with palworld

 - - 1:21:04 going into why they tried making palworld: putting guns in to appeal to the western market. Hiring a teenager to do the gun animations. The people making this game are pretty much a doujin circle. “How long until we go bankrupt?” was the release date.

 - - 1:23:27 the game comes out. People got really mad at it. Whats the difference between this and vampire survivors? It had already sold millions when people started getting uppity over it. Pats theory on people thinking this would never come out and it was fake

 - - 1:25:35 the process. The founder being super into AI and crypto and suddenly there’s discourse. AI as just a way to say ‘trashy and shit.’ its made by AI. source: vibes/it came to me in a dream.

 - - 1:28:19 it really harms people by accusing people of using AI. Game dev is hard. AI could make all of this Game dev is over. Its derivative, yes. But there’s effort in it. An example with spaceballs.

 - - 1:31:33 bloomberg and copyright lawyers sit down to play it. They say its fine. The thought if it is AI you are telling AI/crypto bros ‘wow I can make millions using AI gen? cool!”

 - - 1:33:30 assuming the worst of people. Anyone excited for FF7 rebirth? Dragons dogma II? Street fighter Koopies? On the idea of no ethical consumption under capitalism. Why not have this scrutiny with foam stars?

 - - 1:35:55 the game that seems to be a scathing critique of capitalism is totally for it. Its just played straight because its funny. Remember when sega made shadow the hedgehog?

 - - 1:38:56 ‘lets just compare the models to pokemon and do polygon counting.’ They did a trace, not a rip. And more on vampire survivors, palworld doing the same thing as vampire survivors.  

 - - - 1:42:23 this flying as close to the sun as possible. This is to pokemon as art of fighting is to street fighter.

 - - - 1:44:55 the genre of clones

 - - 1:46:30 palworld doesnt seem to have done anything wrong, just hilariously creatively bankrupt and derivative. And a palworld mod that replaced it all with pokemon got struck down by nintendo. The guy was charging for said mod.

 - - - 1:47:54 a translated tweet by the CEO on using AI that they cant make heads or tails of

 - - 1:48:50 ryo from art of fighting. SNK won.

 - - 1:50:25 back on the game dev talking about how well this game functions. The CEO with the OJ simpson vibes.

 - 1:51:46 The game is actually good. On the thought of ‘its good so defend it.’ Thinking about things critically.

 - - 1:53:30 people will die for palworld now. they even plagerized pokemons fanbase!

 - 1:55:07 if it wasn't ripping off pokemon, would it have such a reaction?

 - 1:55:57 a ‘flavor of the week’ game. 6 million off flavor of the week isnt bad

 - 1:56:30 palworld just being interesting to talk about. Anyone ready for like a dragon: infinite wealth?!

 - 1:57:45 the trailer for never grave: the wish and the curse, another game this company has announced. Hey look, its not-hollow knight with base building! BTW this is a japanese company. Its like watching SNK being born again.

 - - 2:01:09 reinventing mortal kombat. is tracing more unethical than getting hearing damage from the MK3 machine?

 - 2:03:05 all this being said, keep digging. Because digging into this stuff is important. There’s a lot of smoke, but no fire. Yet.

2:04:35 Pat is doing a sponsored stream for the apollo justice trilogy, and friday he’s playing infinite wealth over at Patstaresat!

2:05:05 woolie forgot he’s going to try a guest stream with testyourluck on GG strive, and the next versus wolves podcast will be soonish.

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2:06:25 SPONSOR: SHOPIFY

2:09:15 more palworld. A background element of gallows humor. The death of art, Sold ANOTHER million. 3rd most popular game on steam ever.

 - 2:10:39 music in opposition of the vietnam war, the imact being the equvalent of a wet fart. Crash upon the shores of palworld, twitter, and be broken.

 - 2:11:30 imagining there’s a board room meeting at nintendo right now looking at palworld and wondering if they should add guns. And the quote was from kurt vonnegut

 - 2:12:36 the funniest outcome: asking about palworld, and getting the response “what the hell is palworld?”

NEWS

2:13:40 11% of riot getting laid off, 530 people. Pat on the obvious reason: tech companies hiring because of the pandemic. And there’s no longer 0% interest on business loans

 - 2:15:48 so… an easy way to remove anyone talking about unions, huh? And it seems riot is letting them go with a decent severance package, at least.

 - 2:17:25 the layoff combo continues as it continues every week. Runeterra specifically is getting hit hard here. Runeterra and the economics of card games.

 - - 2:21:15 so how about yugioh? Isn't that generous? Lol no. marvel snap…? Nah. they nerf cards when free to play players can get them

2:24:14 so, how about making the new game plus DLC? Like a dragon: infinite wealth and DLC practices. This has always been the case of how it works in japan. The series is popular enough in the west that they’re bringing the practice over here now too

 - 2:25:58 Pat gives an example with yakuza 7 and the fighting style in lost judgement.

 - 2:27:45 is the NG+ even worth it? Yeah, it does seem to be worth buying.

2:29:13 Netflix has acquired the streaming rights to RAW. acquiring exclusive streaming rights outside the US. Pat can watch wrestling now. Work yourself into a shoot, smark.

 - 2:31:05 returning to legacy TV. That baby should watch wrestling.

 - 2:31:57 pat fought the wrestling is fake bit for a long time.

2:32:44 take two has filed a trademark dispute against remedy. But this is news from forever ago and already got dealt with. It's a nothingpasta.

2:33:47 T-pain was doing some RP server stuff. But since he’s working on GTA6 he can't do that anymore. Buying out all the RP modders.

 - 2:35:11 pat saw T-pain singing without auto-tune. He’s incredible.

2:36:55 pat might have had too much coffee.

EMAILS

2:37:06 Emails! Send your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com! Making a baby jail.

2:38:12 Enter the gungeon the arcade machine, it's a light gun game thats house of the dead style. What’s your favorite arcade machine?

2:42:36 Do you think full dive VR would replace existing genres?

2:45:01 whats your favorite instances in media that have great significance but are purposely underplayed?

 - 2:48:42 MGS2 and the JP voice actor for solidus and solid were the same. the tanker portion. Junji ito is hanging with Kojima again

2:50:50 that’ll do. Time to build a gay baby jail.

2:51:03 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean