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Despite being a successful social scientist for nearly three decades, Arthur Brooks realized that he was missing the boat on personal happiness. He decided to apply his expertise to develop a strategy for living a happier life. So he quit his job and devoted himself to the pursuit of happiness. In this YAPClassic episode, Hala talks to Arthur about building true happiness.   Arthur Brooks is a behavioral social scientist with a focus on human happiness. He is the author of multiple bestselling books, including Build the Life You Want, co-written with Oprah Winfrey.   In this episode, Hala and Arthur will discuss: - Arthur's journey from gloom to happiness - Why a spiral-pattern career will make you happier - How he met and started working with Oprah - The four types of career patterns - Why Americans struggle with happiness - The three key ingredients to happiness - Why happiness is not a feeling - The difference between enjoyment and pleasure - How hard work leads to more satisfaction - How to judge less - Why you need unhappiness - And other topics… Arthur Brooks is a behavioral social scientist specializing in human happiness. He holds the William Henry Bloomberg professorship at Harvard Kennedy School and is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. Arthur is a bestselling author, with his latest book, Build the Life You Want, co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. He also hosts the How to Build a Happy Life podcast, writes for The Atlantic, and was the subject of the 2019 Netflix documentary The Pursuit, named one of Variety's Best Documentaries on Netflix. In addition, he was selected as one of Fortune's 50 World's Greatest Leaders.   Connect with Arthur: Arthur's Website: https://arthurbrooks.com/ Arthur's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-c-brooks/ Arthur's Twitter: https://twitter.com/arthurbrooks Arthur's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arthurcbrooks/ Arthur's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArthurBrooks/ Arthur's Podcast, How to Build a Happy Life with Arthur Brooks: https://arthurbrooks.com/podcast/ Resources Mentioned: Arthur's Book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, co-written with Oprah Winfrey: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Life-You-Want-Science/dp/0593545400  Arthur's Articles in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/arthur-c-brooks/ Take the PANAS quiz: https://arthurbrooks.com/build  LinkedIn Secrets Masterclass, Have Job Security For Life: Use code ‘podcast' for 30% off at yapmedia.io/course.   Sponsored By: Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at youngandprofiting.co/shopify  Indeed - Get a $75 job credit at indeed.com/profiting  Facet - For a limited time Facet will waive $250 enrollment fee for new annual members! Visit facet.com/profiting for details. BetterHelp - Sign up for a webinar on mental health for entrepreneurs presented by BetterHelp at youngandprofiting.co/mentalhealth.  More About Young and Profiting Download Transcripts - youngandprofiting.com Get Sponsorship Deals - youngandprofiting.com/sponsorships Leave a Review - ratethispodcast.com/yap Watch Videos - youtube.com/c/YoungandProfiting   Follow Hala Taha LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Instagram - instagram.com/yapwithhala/ TikTok - tiktok.com/@yapwithhala Twitter - twitter.com/yapwithhala   Learn more about YAP Media's Services - yapmedia.io/

This week Aaron Woods is joined by one of the greatest front rowers of all time Steve "Blocker" Roach! Blocker talks the toughest opponents he's ever faced, takes us down memory lane of the great kangaroos tours, slams Shane Richardson over the Leichhardt fiasco & his new beer with Gorden Tallis! Check Out Blocker's New Beer Here - https://blockandgrapple.com.au/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arthur and Mark explore the various tactics for optimizing your mindset and finding your true capabilities. The hosts pull from personal experience in endurance, career, and coachingThe tactics include:Growth mindset vs Fixed MindsetVictim MindsetFacing fearsSelf Belief & DoubtPursuitUltra endurance athlete and coach, Mark Bottenhorn and Ultra Endurance Athlete Arthur Blue, are on a mission to find the strongest version of themselves. Episodes touch on topics including, performance, fitness, nutrition, mental health, and mindset. Please like, rate, share and subscribe if you find value in our content. Arthur: @Arthur.Blue3 Mark: @bottenhornrunning

Soul Pitt Media Health & Business Report Episode #63 | Interview with Arthur Chileshe, Manager, Distribution Engineering, Duquesne Light Company Join Craig as he discusses with Arthur: Arthur, can you talk to our listeners about what your job at Duquesne Light Company entails? What career path did you take to achieve your present position at Duquesne Light Company? What advice can you give to our younger listeners on why they should be interested in pursuing a career in STEM? Additionally, make sure you listen to our Community Calendar (brought to you by Pittsburgh Regional Transit, PRT) with Debbie Norrell at the end of each of our interviews so you can keep up with what's going on in our Pittsburgh region. Soul Pitt Media's Health & Business Report is sponsored by UPMC, Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT), Duquesne Light Co., ThermoFisher Scientific, Pennsylvania's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and PA Unites Against COVID.

Bun and Beaver go through every NFL team heading into week 4 of the season for fantasy football purposes. They go alphabetical order starting this week with the Miami Dolphins as a special birthday present to the Beaver! - Mike McDaniel Tribute- A new Bulge in town? - JAMEIS RETURNS!... but wise?- Mattison code red?- Are we starting these RBs?- Seahawks take the crown - Kyle Pitts geekout- Arthur Arthur'd himself- Stroud slurpfestFollow Cash on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SurplusOfCashFollow Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/selway151Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/fantasyunleashd/All things FantasyUnleashd: https://linktr.ee/FantasyUnleashdJosh's weird TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhPrtSx/Beaver is on TikTok! https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdAdF21a/

Ever wondered what it is like to be a trans person in the martial arts space? Tune in to this special episode of the podcast and join us as we interview Arthur Gladd and go over his experiences in the martial rats and self defense community in the last two years after coming out. I personally learnt a lot in this two part interview and I think you will get a lot out of it! Take a listen, and as always please; like, comment, share, and subscribe, you know all the internet things, And if you REALLY like the show, please leave a review on iTunes or wherever you listen, It will mean so much to me. More about Arthur: Arthur is a 26 year old trans martial artist. He teaches martial arts basics and talks about self defense topics without a paywall on his tiktok. He's an assistant instructor teaching martial arts to all ages at his home dojo Immortal Tiger Kenpo Karate located in Austin, Tx. He assists with seminars and community events talking about self defense- most recently the local Girl Scouts troop and the local Neighborhood Watchdogs. He enjoys spending time in nature, learning about plants, other martial arts, seeing new things, and creating new experiences.  Find ArthurHere: Tiktok: @thetransmartialartist Instagram: @thetransmartialartist Twitter: @MartialTrans   Www.immortaltiger.com   Follow us on our Tik Tok Channel @defencetalkswithdad And don't forget to join us for the ONE UP on Patreon  (https://www.patreon.com/randykinglive) To Book Randy to speak at your event or run a workshop for your staff: https://www.randykinglive.com/ The Self Defense from All Angles podcast is the go-to for anyone looking to break out of the self defense echo chamber.

Ever wondered what it is like to be a trans person in the martial arts space? Tune in to this special episode of the podcast and join us as we interview Arthur Gladd and go over his experiences in the martial rats and self defense community in the last two years after coming out. I personally learnt a lot in this two part interview and I think you will get a lot out of it! Take a listen, and as always please; like, comment, share, and subscribe, you know all the internet things, And if you REALLY like the show, please leave a review on iTunes or wherever you listen, It will mean so much to me. More about Arthur: Arthur is a 26 year old trans martial artist. He teaches martial arts basics and talks about self defense topics without a paywall on his tiktok. He's an assistant instructor teaching martial arts to all ages at his home dojo Immortal Tiger Kenpo Karate located in Austin, Tx. He assists with seminars and community events talking about self defense- most recently the local Girl Scouts troop and the local Neighborhood Watchdogs. He enjoys spending time in nature, learning about plants, other martial arts, seeing new things, and creating new experiences.  Find ArthurHere: Tiktok: @thetransmartialartist Instagram: @thetransmartialartist Twitter: @MartialTrans   Www.immortaltiger.com   Follow us on our Tik Tok Channel @defencetalkswithdad And don't forget to join us for the ONE UP on Patreon  (https://www.patreon.com/randykinglive) To Book Randy to speak at your event or run a workshop for your staff: https://www.randykinglive.com/ The Self Defense from All Angles podcast is the go-to for anyone looking to break out of the self defense echo chamber.

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On March 22nd, Google issued an emergency security update for its Chrome browser as 3.2 billion users were potentially at risk of being attacked. This update highlighted a single security vulnerability that could have a big impact on everyone, but specifically crypto users. Not much is publicly known at this stage about CVE-2022-1096 other than it is a “Type Confusion in V8.” This refers to the JavaScript engine employed by Chrome. The security flaw includes the open-source Chromium Project and it's possible this update comes as a response to users reporting their crypto ‘hot wallets' being hacked through a browser. Earlier this week, Arthur Cheong, the founder of DeFiance Capital and a known crypto whale announced via Twitter that his crypto wallet had been hacked causing him to lose over $1.5 million USD in tokens and NFTs. Found out the likely root cause for the exploit, it's a targeted social engineering attack. Received a spear-phishing email that really seems to be sent by one of our portco with content that seems like general industry-relevant content. They are likely targeting all crypto peep Arthur

Do you ever wonder what is the most efficient way to market to your guests? We'll give you the answer: it's email. Email marketing can seem daunting, but it's actually a lot easier than you might think. Ryan Austin is the Co-Owner of Switchback Email, a company that provides professional email marketing consulting, services, and software. Arthur Colker is the CEO and Founder of StayFi, a platform that provides vacation rental WiFi and collects valuable guest data so STR hosts can drive repeat bookings. Ryan and Austin work together between Switchback Email and StayFi and join me on this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad to discuss the ins and outs of effective email marketing. They discuss everything from recommended communication cadences and automation tools, to brand storytelling and ROI (return on investment). Listen in to learn more about why capturing guest emails and using them strategically leads to a much higher chance of them returning to your property in the future. Topics CoveredWhy capturing guest emails is crucial to ensure they stay at your property againHow Arthur created an easier way to capture guest data and drive repeat bookingsHow Ryan uses drip campaigns and location-based emails to offer a better experience and connection opportunity for guestsWhy email is the most efficient way to market to peopleThe importance of following permission and consent laws when creating email lists and campaignsHow to start with automation tools to gather advanced guest dataRecommended cadence for emails and touchpoints to guestsHow brand storytelling and location education can lead to higher click through ratesThe relationship between ROI and brand recognitionAutomated emails vs general marketing emailsArthur and Ryan's tips for getting into email marketingConnect with Arthur Arthur on LinkedInStayFi on LinkedInConnect with RyanRyan on LinkedInSwitchback Email on LinkedInResourcesGet Paid for Your Pad Email ListLegends X Short-Term Rental AcceleratorSTR Legends MastermindSubscribe to GPFYP on Apple PodcastsEmail jasper@getpaidforyourpad.comStayFi – Use code PAD for 50% offSwitchback Email See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Bianca talks with Marc Brown, the creator of the bestselling Arthur Adventure book series which has over 160 million Arthur books in print. He also is the executive producer of the longest-running children's television series, Arthur, on PBS. We talk about the conception of Arthur, how the Arthur Adventures became a book and TV series, and, most importantly, we discuss Believe in Yourself: What We Learned from Arthur. He lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard. Order a copy of Believe in Yourself: What We Learned from Arthur on Bookshop.org or Amazon. Visit Marc Brown at http://marcbrownstudios.com/. Resources: https://pbskids.org/arthur https://www.fredrogers.org/ When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death Project Zero: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/ Music: Special thanks to wgbh.org for permission to use the Arthur Theme Song. Transcription: You can read the transcription on The Children's Book Review. Discussion Topics: About Believe in Yourself: What We Learned from Arthur The conception of Arthur: Arthur's Nose How the Arthur Adventures became a book series and TV series Meeting Mr. Fred Rogers Behind the scenes of creating Believe in Yourself: What We Learned from Arthur Marc Brown on becoming a reader --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechildrensbookreview/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thechildrensbookreview/support

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Melissa and Gary review the PBS superstar aardvark, Arthur, and his savage ways.

In preparation for this episode of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast, Autumn and Jesper have suffered through some of the WORST movies.  This is an entertaining top 10 of the movies which tells the worst stories EVER. At the end, the hosts share some thoughts on what NOT to do when creating stories of our own.  Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.  SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.  Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.  Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (2s): You're listening to The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast in today's Publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from riding. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now on to the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (30s): Hello, I'm Jesper Autumn (31s): and I'm Autumn. Jesper (33s): This is episode 119 of The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. And it is time for one of our ultimate this again, One of those not so serious Episode. So we hope that you will enjoy it as we enter the world of the WORST Stories Ever Told we were looking forward to this one, Autumn (56s): which is funny because when you first mentioned it, I said, I don't know how I'm gonna do on this one, but the secret that I had forgotten about really what's that. Oh, well, have you ever heard of mystery science theater? Jesper (1m 17s): No, I'm not sure. No, no, no. Autumn (1m 20s): I'll tell you all about it and why it's my ace in the hole and I'm going to do so blow you out of the water on this one. Jesper (1m 27s): Why do we get well, OK. Let's see. But, but I actually have some surprises lined up as well, so yeah, you'll see. You'll see. I I'm going to impress, you know, I was gonna say this one, maybe it's a good, it's not the right term. This'll be so bad how bad it's going to be an excellent. Autumn (1m 47s): I can not wait. Well, how are the things over in Denmark? Jesper (1m 55s): A well for for one, we've had some chats today. Excellent. So that's a good start. And a, I'm also expecting to start refereeing next week. And I hope I actually, last weekend I did do a on the 15th match a So, but senior soccer should pick up again this coming weekend. I hope so. I'm really looking forward to that too, that we are getting out of some so Corona restrictions that makes us all our lives are a nightmare. So, so that's good. That's exciting. Yeah. Oh yeah. And speaking about Corona restrictions, we are actually managed to go to Ikea last Saturday and no one would really not be excited about it going to Ikea. Jesper (2m 45s): But the thing is that since we moved into the apartment, we've had quite some furniture that we needed to deliver back to Ikea. I can click on host. Yeah. They closed. And we were stuck with it here in the apartment because we thought we couldn't go anywhere. So it would deliver it back. And we also have like one wall in the bedroom that is still filled up with moving boxes because we needed to deliver that stuff back to Ikea. And then we needed to buy a new piece of furniture. So we could empty all those boxes and put it in to a cabinet. But we couldn't do all of that. So we've been waiting a lot for like three months, but finally, Autumn (3m 26s): Yeah, Jesper (3m 26s): Indeed. So a lot of finally last Saturday they reopened so we could get it. We still have it. You still have to book a time and all of that stuff in order to be able to go inside of a warehouse where there's like 10 people in this humongous place. But nevertheless, we in medicine and the way we actually got to our staff deliver delivered back and bought the new stuff and took that with us home. So when Easter holidays comes up here quite soon, I know what I have to do. I have to put Ikea stuff back together. Again, it's just not my favorite thing to do, but at least we are done with it. Autumn (3m 60s): Yeah. Well, like I said, I wish you were closer. I love building things. You saw me building my cabin that we're staying in. And so yeah. I would love to help out building things, but its kind of a, you know, I can't quite make the flight, even though things are improving slowly in the us, they are hoping they're saying, ah, my husband's signed me up for our a coronavirus vaccination. So like that's exciting that they got to my age bracket. It's not the bottom of the, the brackets focused. Jesper (4m 31s): Yeah. I don't know if it's good or bad weather when your number comes off. It's like, Hmm. Is this because they think either I'm old or they think that it's something wrong with me. So we better actually meet this person. This is just like what what's going on. Yeah. Autumn (4m 44s): Well they had already let me put it down to eight to 16 year olds. What you had to have one of these certain listed health things and I'm like, Nope, Nope, Nope. I'm, I'm perfectly fine, but I'm older than 16, but they finally opened it up to my age group. So that's exciting. That means I might be able to see my parents some time to, So we have a date for it already. What do you know when it's going to be sometime in April, April and April. Okay. I haven't even been told about it yet when I'm gonna get any vaccines. Yeah. So yeah. We'll see. But hopefully within the next couple, a couple of months then yeah, Yeah, yeah. Well, my parents have gotten there's, and they've been out two breweries, you know, every one space, it sounds like they are out and about all of it everywhere, but you know, the tables are really far. Autumn (5m 29s): So, you know, it's like if there's three other people in the entire room with them, it's amazing. I'm usually there taking pictures and it's empty, but they've been out and you know, going to get a draft beers and taking photos. I'm just like dad, but I go to Jesper (5m 44s): Yeah. Yeah. And we've all had enough of this stuff by now. So a for sure we need to, I think everybody is looking forward to get to the other side of it. I guess my biggest fears just because they are starting to open it up now. So my biggest thing is just that it will happen. Like it did it last time they start to open it up and then like, three-four weeks later they shot it all down. And then if they do that, I think people will get pretty damn upset because people are just fed up with it. Autumn (6m 11s): Yeah. Especially with the spring, you know, now it's almost spring here and some are rolling out. If they shut everything down for the summer, I think there would be a revolution here. They just don't do it. Let them go. Yeah. Jesper (6m 24s): Yeah. We don't. We are, we've had enough. Yeah. But otherwise, if anything is everything good on your end Autumn (6m 32s): And do lots of covers and writing and reading and all that kind of stuff. But overall, mostly just working on my laptop because it's still only in the forties, which I can't think of what that would be in Celsius, but it's just above, you know, a little bit above freezing. So it looks beautiful and the feel so warm and you go outside and about 15 minutes later they was like, I need something warm to drink. So it's looking in fighting almost all of the snow is gone, but it is still spring and very early here, but it's exciting to see the water running in this stream again and sea ground and all of those good things. Autumn (7m 13s): Yeah. Narrator (7m 13s): Oh a week on the internet with The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. Jesper (7m 19s): Yeah. So I don't know if you have something you want to share in this section, all of them, but I'm just going to keep it very brief. But I just wanted to check if you had something first before I do that. Nothing else Autumn (7m 29s): Too exciting. It's been so busy and I'd been working on Instagram, working on how to do Instagram and all of these other things, but something specifically to the Podcast, nothing to share with authors yet, but I'm working on a few things. Jesper (7m 43s): Okay, cool. Yeah. I'm also just going to keep it very briefly. Just the small thing he had. I just wanted to say that it, it will speaking to you the listener, if you enjoy The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast, the best thing you can really do for us is to tell another author, a friend about it. We are still in the process of growing our listenership here. So we would really like for a lot more people to find us. So if you like this podcast will not tell an author, a friend about it and you will be helping us out. And you will also help out the person who you are telling you about a great podcast and listen to. So it's like a sort of like a win, win situation that doesn't cost you anything on the contrary, you will probably going to get a lot of gratitude in return. Jesper (8m 29s): So a yeah, I just wanted to remind that that's a really small and easy thing that you can do that it will actually make meaning quite a lot for us. Autumn (8m 39s): Absolutely come Sherise join us and help spread the word. We would appreciate it. Jesper (8m 45s): Yeah. So with that being said, should we just a dive? Yeah, Autumn (8m 49s): I think so. Because this one, we have WORST Stories. I have plots and we both have five each to see and are trying to figure out which one's the worst of the worst. So I think we better get into it. Yeah. Jesper (9m 6s): Okay. So this is going to be interesting. I mean, I think when you, initially, when I started building my list here, initially I wanted to only make picks of stuff that I had read or seen. But, but as it turned out, I think I'm pretty good at avoiding bad stories. So yeah. So I admit that I had to pick some stuff that I haven't actually read or watch, but it just sounds so horrible that I added them to the list that I anyway, but I would say that basically more or less all of it, I do have some sort of connection to it. Jesper (9m 51s): So, and it's not something that I just picked at random, but I will, as we go through, I will say what I have seen and what I have not seen to make a key bot. What I did too, is that I only picked movies because then I can play some sound clips as we go along. Autumn (10m 11s): Well, you are in such a cheater. I only picked movies too, but I did not go and get sound clips, actually the movies. I don't know if I could've found sound clips in the us, I re watched them, but I have seen all five that are going to be sharing. And I like, I see hinted earlier. I could have shared 14 and actually so 50 to a total of 15, because one of them isn't because I've watched two seasons of something that is called mystery science theater. And you're going to love the story behind this. Jesper (10m 44s): So it, it sounds like if it's so bad, why did you want us to cease in some of it? Autumn (10m 49s): Because that's the point. So it's a show. It's a mystery science theater 3000 is actually called. It's a show that uses the premise of a show. Jesper (10m 59s): Wait, so is this your first entry on the list of your art? Autumn (11m 1s): Nope. This is just a set-up of how bad my entries are going to be. They go for it. Or it's the set up is that they are showing the most horrible movie ever in an attempt to melt the mind of a research subject slash prisoner. There's a hostage. And to keep her Saturday, he used, made this robot companions that watch they are inflicted with this movie with him. And they're just sitting there and making snide comments about the movies the entire time. And this is huge. This has a cult following it is so, so popular that they actually ran a Kickstarter campaign to get in a Netflix, to do 14 Xtra shows. Autumn (11m 42s): So it's a serious. So I've watched the series of 11 and 12, which we put out on Netflix, all 14 of them there, just with the whole WORST shows that Jesper (11m 54s): You need to have some popcorn, a beer and a sense of humor and you will die laughing and growing at the same time. So good luck beating me on this one. Oh my God. What? It does not sound very good. No, it's a fantastic, horrible Amy. There's no other, I can not wait to tell you about them. No you do. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was see who comes up with a WORST stuff because it, it it's really about it. It has to be so bad that you'd like almost prefer to do a, I don't know. I would say that you would prefer to do something really horrible to yourself instead of just to avoid watching it. That has to be that bad. Jesper (12m 35s): I've got it. My number one. It's fantastic. I can not wait. And the high, I don't like your confidence. If you have way too much confidence going into this list and easily to you a bit more relaxed like it. Yeah. We'll see, kind of let's let's see. Let's just go through and now you're just like, you're way too confident. I don't like this. Maybe it should we change the subject? So today show or something else better at it. Just shifting on the fly. Your are going to be the one who left in the dust. So whatever you want to do, I will win this one. Well, okay. I think we have jointly agreed that all the past ones I have won. Jesper (13m 16s): So if you win one time, maybe I can give you that, but still I know why I'm going to win this one. I am not too bad, too bad pics that you, you just can't beat them. We'll see if we will have one of the same ones. Why would that be funny? But we'll say, I think we need to get started though. So what should, what should we start with you? You know, obviously lease worse to worse. I take it. Yeah. I think I organized mine so that it goes from, let me just do a quick check on my list here. I don't know if mine are organized At no, because mine are so incredibly bad. Jesper (14m 0s): All of them that it does not matter which order you would take them in. They can beat all of you or no problems. So they are just in random order of mine. Okay. Minor from lease worse to worse. So I was, I did my homework. I watched 14, 15 show and she was 15 shitty. She goes in preparation for the test was born for this one. Lets go. I was humbled. I'll let you go first. Okay. So I have a short audio clip for you here for us to be ready to go for it. Audio Clip (14m 41s): I've got something on my radar. Looks like a fog bank and that's moving straight toward us. Kind of fog moves against the wind. Jesper (14m 53s): So based on what you just heard that you might be able to, Can you guess what it is or maybe not yessing Pacific room? No. Pacific room is pretty good. What do you mean? But It's not on my list, but there's better movies out there. Yeah, yeah, there it is. But its definitely not on a list of the worst movies ever. OK. So what was that one? So this one is the FOC from 2005. I did not see that one. Oh, well we'll be happy that I don't know. I Want you to enjoy a really bad book. It's a, it's a reboot of a movie from 1988, a and I only watched this 2005 version. Jesper (15m 38s): So I don't know about the original ones, but this is one of those cases where you sort of, you see the premise of the movie and when you think it could be quite interesting, but you still, you still a bit skeptical 'cause there's something inside of you telling like Mmm you know that feeling. So all the alarm bells are going off in your mind, like wanting you to, this is probably going to be crap, but then you watched the trailer and it was just like, well there is something in this sort of set up that I quite like, you know, this whole thing about dos a fork and there is some mystery about something happens and it's dangerous. Jesper (16m 21s): And just start thinking, well maybe you should try to just watch it because it, it could be good. Maybe it was, it might be worth a try. Yeah. So who, let me just explain what is about here. So I need to, I just need something to justify why I actually wasted my time watching this movie. So how does this sound? So we're in a town where the founder's got the money by murdering a colony of lepers. Okay. Nobody knows about this terrible past. And now we're like a a hundred years later where a character return's just as a statue, it is raised in a tribute of the founders and then comes the fork and there's something inside the fog, something vengeful. Jesper (17m 16s): So a little super nice or something. Oh my God, no, it could be good, but it was bad. So I went against my better adjustment and I washed it and my God, it was stupid. But you know, first of all, when you have like teenagers dancing around in bikini's on board and all the fishing boat, then you already knows that a lib there's just not going to be good will. And then on top of that, the plot just of, it just keeps going and going and going and going. It doesn't really add anything to the story at all. Jesper (17m 58s): And then you should think that by the time to spend so much time on adding plot for no real reason, you should think that then at least they would be able to deliver a satisfying ending. NOT it just, it does not make any sense at the end that either, I mean, I'm going to spoil it here, but why the heck are we suddenly presented with some We of thing that is going on with like some luck between a human and a ghost? I mean, in the middle of it as sort of a horror story is like what's going on here. So just like it makes no sense at all. No, no. I didn't see that one coming to strip from, to criticize. Jesper (18m 42s): There seems to be the consensus as well as the original, 1988 version. I wasn't that good either. So that sort of begs to question to me like, well, I remake it when you, when you're creating something that is bad to begin with. It's just bad, bad, bad. I mean, what the fuck? That's bad. I don't know. I think I have so much worse. I'm just going to start it. OK. This is the shit and move you. Okay. Autumn (19m 14s): And I don't know, it, it sounds like a good one for a couple of years sitting on the laughter. Laugh at yourself. Silly. Yeah, Jesper (19m 20s): No, you don't want to do it now. Autumn (19m 24s): Alright. Well you want to know what my number five one, and this is my only one that was not featured on mystery science theater 3000. Okay. So this one is actually 2020 and it was produced on Netflix. This is a series and I've mentioned this one a couple of times and two, you cursed. It actually makes my list of horrible shows. So it's, this is a retelling of the authorial legend from the viewpoint of Nim whey, which is the lady of a Lake. And so this has set before she becomes the lady as a Lake before author meets Arthur meets Merlin. So it's like, he's not, you know, like the source of the stone young, he's a buddy as a teenager. Autumn (20m 8s): And it sounds to me because I mean, I writing a story about Faye and Nim Wei is Faye. And I'm thinking, Oh my gosh, this is going to be really excited to have a little fun with Arthur Arthur in legends. I am, yeah. I have seen way too many years, but I love the funny, this is going to be awesome. Now it was so bad, but I feel bad because of the actors and the actresses. There are some really good ones. There's Floki from Vikings is a Berlin. I mean, there are some really good actors and actresses and they do their darn best to deliver these characters. Like you kind of care, but it was, it was bad that that my husband would put this on the nights. Autumn (20m 50s): He just wants to go to sleep. And then I'd be sitting in there, just yell, trying not to yell at the TV, set up. And then the plot holes and the inconsistencies and the jumps that made absolutely no sense and trying not to wake him up. And it was just really bad, but there are some of the inconsistency, as some of them are like, and they always, always, you know, it was, this is a story about the Fe, but for some reason, and it's about Dibley, who's the girl. But for some reason, Arthur, is that the one who has always right. And he was humid in the mail and it was just so silly, but you know, they are some of the silliness, there is a grain mill. All the grain mills have been killed, but you know, taken over by the evil King, he was trying to wipe out the Fe and There down to one. Autumn (21m 37s): So whose idea is that to go protect the one that's or if there is, how many nights did they sent you? You know, how many Fe warriors do they send like a five to go protect your food supply. And I go, and of course, if it goes to crap there that they burn them out in a mil, the green night and earth are, are almost about to die. But, and then when she shows up who she was magical, but she doesn't really know how to control it, but she manages to save the day. And later on, they are, she claims queenship. There is no, there's never been a fake queen. She claims queenship because she has the sword of the Kings, because one is what you do it, even though everyone's excited that she, she claims that she was going to be the queen, even though she has been hiding from them, not collaborating in any of the older meetings to like protect her people. Autumn (22m 32s): She had sent a letter to the Qing invading saying, Hey, I'll get you back the sword. If you let the face go that Arthur sister or a Morgan and Morgan Le Fay, the source for us eventually now dictates to her. So this wasn't even her idea she's done. Absolutely nothing, but everyone's like your queen, but like, yeah, standard, there was so many plot holes and things and I'm just like, you know, so anyway, it makes my number five, which is pretty safe. Yeah. Okay. Jesper (23m 9s): I think I have come across some, if I might be confusing, it was something else. But I do think I've seen some, you know, some of those trailers running when I log into Netflix and stuff like that, about it and, and, and the list, it must have been, it must have looked bad enough that I did hear of it because I have not watched any of it. Autumn (23m 29s): I haven't recommended to you, but this was the only one that could have gotten in a sound clip for a day. I feel so disappointed now, But yeah, yeah, Jesper (23m 36s): Yeah. Well, believe it. You're probably gonna lose on point because you didn't have some clips. Let's see here. Autumn (23m 43s): I let's say I've got some doozies that I don't think you can even Jesper (23m 46s): Come close to. Oh shit. Okay. I need to up my game. All right, let's go for it to a number of For, okay. So brace yourself for this sound clip, because this is going to be bad. Okay. You ready? Audio Clip (24m 5s): effective. We've got a white male, 54 years old. we had another one so far. The one thing is that all of the victims have in common is a fierce site to go together. Jesper (24m 27s): I'm going to stop it. That it was so fucking ridiculous so that you can already hear shit. This is, she say, it's the only thing we have in common as a parasite. They, this is at the FIA site to be here site. Oh. So they would go to a website. Yeah. It killed them. And for this one, I actually learned my lesson. So I have not watched it, but the trailer was so bad, but it just, the trailer itself scares me off. And I was pretty good. In addition to it, initially I checked it off because it said it was from the same director of a house on a haunted Hill. Well, actually it wouldn't saying that it had just realized that there are some people that's probably a good statement. Jesper (25m 9s): I think that that's true. But this movie is it fair.com. It's called O and M initially sort of pulled me in because I don't want to eat it. It had me checking out the trailer and so on because it carries some of the same tropes as the ring. Did you ever watched the ring? I actually have not watched the ring, but I, I, it looked interesting. I only did and watch it because I wasn't doing horror movies at the time. No, no. Yeah. I don't want so many horror movies either, or at least not for the last couple of years before the end. I quite liked a lot of them, but I enjoyed the ring. The ring in my view is a really good movie, the movie. But I have to say that the original, like, I think it's, I think it's Japanese or some of these at least Asian or originally a, a and the Asian version is better than the American version, but yeah, that's the one that you had wanted to see, but I just, it looked actually scary enough. Jesper (26m 2s): And I was at a point in my life where I thought like, I don't need this. No, no, no, no. It is pretty scary. The rink, to be honest, but, but in the ring, people die from watching a videotape. Right. And it is well done and it is scary. But so here they have just replace the video tape with a website. So when you visit this website, then like, I don't know what 24 hours later. So I don't know. I have watched it, but I'm people buy and a, well, at least here, at least we can see like, if you align it with some Shangri tropes, if it works right. Because it got me into Christ. I mean, even either the title, it was so bad. Jesper (26m 46s): Like, Autumn (26m 46s): I mean Jesper (26m 48s): It, in the title, I was very skeptical when a sort of titled feared at calm was like, no, but then I could just see like the links back to the ring and stuff like that. It got me so far, at least are checking out. So it's just sorta like a, you know, on Amazon, if you can, if you can align yourself with some tropes in at least people will start checking it out. Of course, then you shouldn't have a shitty trailer like this one. And then people run away screaming from it. But yeah, Autumn (27m 13s): That's true. Good point to take away after your trailers. Yeah. Jesper (27m 16s): But since I haven't watched it myself, I collect it. Some words for it, Autumn (27m 20s): From the critics. Okay. Let's hear it. Jesper (27m 23s): This one is from the New York daily news. So it goes like this quote, the story, it's a mess. This is it. A proper and critic, right? The story, this is a, it's a mess. Some of the images are offensive. The acting on the par and the dialogue. Silly. Yeah. Autumn (27m 45s): Yeah. Jesper (27m 45s): And how about this one from Metro times, quote for you.com his full of inconsistencies and contradictions, but none are more than disturbing than the fact that not only, no, sorry, none are more disturbing than the fact that not a single policeman wears gloves at any of the crime scene scattered throughout the field in quotes. Autumn (28m 12s): Then my, Jesper (28m 12s): And then my favorite one is my personal favorite one. This is from us today. Quote, theater comm is a cinematic equivalent of spam in your head, Autumn (28m 20s): Email inbox hurt that I would not want that review EVER. That would be a painful, I feel kind of bad for the person who, you know, someone obviously love this and I don't know if they did, but yeah. Jesper (28m 38s): I mean, when he was so bad that the, even the trailers gets me off, then it had to go on my top five. Autumn (28m 45s): That's horrible. I know that it was pretty horrible, but you are going to love my number for it's just, okay, lets be ready. And I'm not sure if you can make it better than this, but let's try. So she says that I'll have sound, but this is, you know, I would have literally had to watch it. This was before trailers and SoundCloud clips and all that. But this is called the beast of hollow mountain. I think that's a title. That's a good title. And it sounds pretty good. Yeah. It's, it's got it. All. It is caught the lovable orphan boy who is trunk father who's eaten by the beast. It's got to love triangle for and by a Texas cowboy who, who falls for the wealthy Mexican girl, her patrol Don Rek. Autumn (29m 29s): Oh and the beast, which is the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Yeah. It didn't quite see that coming in. But in fact, this, this show we here, I think he was from the 1950s. It, it is Jesper (29m 45s): Well I'm in the movie. Is when is it set In? Is it it's a step in and the real world? Or was it like a fence as you posted Autumn (29m 51s): Is the real world, Texas sort of like the zero Zuora sort of like kind of a time period. That kind of a thing. Jesper (29m 57s): We have to run on a sec Rex in that. Okay. How did that go up there? Autumn (30m 1s): Yeah. Well it's this show is listed as the first film to show dinosaurs and Cowboys in the same picture. Right? Jesper (30m 11s): So how do you do to get that out to you? Autumn (30m 14s): I don't know, but it's fantastically horrible. And the plot it was talking to the plot is like a hundred percent based on state or tropes obviously. So you know, the good guy to Texas cowboy, he just loves the girl. The girl was being forced to marry this guy because our family says, you know, he was wealthy. It was one of the guy for you. And of course the man she's marrying is cruel and that this sweet little boy who, you know, he's has a trunk and he was trying to take care of them and be the adult. And his dad goes and gets eaten by this monster. And it was so sad As I haven't really looked at anything before I've watched it. And so I'm waiting on pins and needles thinking this beast or the mountain was going to be a dragon. Autumn (30m 56s): It had to give me a dragon. It was so excited and that it ends up being this dinosaur, which I agree. It, it makes no sense at all. It just there's this beast and the H how that ended up in the mountain. I don't know. But don't they never explain the best part. That was a special effect. So this is back in the era of stop motion on like clay animation, right. And features it has this crazy tongue. It's like, it's hilarious. It's constantly out of its mouth like this, like Medusa a snake. Oh, I had to wake up. Adam fell asleep for the switch. I had to wake him up and be like, yeah, I'll have to see this, this, this, no, no, no. Jesper (31m 38s): Oh, how cool of you? So you were waking them up to see the boy is shitty movie on your mind. Autumn (31m 44s): I see the, this tirade a source right now it's worth watching just four, but it was totally tropes to death. I had been all the way down, no surprises, except for obviously the dinosaur and the cowboy and the Mexican Dawn. But I mean, the cowboy tries to save his fiance, his girl, the woman who loves her fiance. Oh. Till he gets eaten. By the time you write a source Rex, but this made it to number four instead of lower, because it actually had, besides all the tropes won good plot points. One of the first scenes is that the ranger looking for some lost cows and the swamp, and then they actually end up coming back to the swamp in using this swamp, just stop the dinosaur. Autumn (32m 27s): It's like, Oh my God, they are so tired of that up. So that it was amazing that they typed it up. So I just buy this one, made it a number four. Otherwise Texan cowboy, missing ranch, hands, Jesper (32m 41s): Cows missing a love triangle. Orphan boy. It was so tropey, now that it's fantastic. Okay. But I have to deduct the 0.4, the fact that you would wake up your husband to look like to sleep and then your waking up to what is the most shitty stuff. But he was watching it with me and I don't think you can deduct a point unless we brought him in and asked him if it wasn't good or a bad, because he was laughing as we were, as I was looking at these yesterday, he was like, Oh my God. I remember that. So yeah. Will you say that? Jesper (33m 22s): I, yeah. Everybody can say that. I think it was fine, but Oh, but that one was actually not that bad for a really bad movie. Hmm. It was the special effects was just fantastic. I, I absolutely loved the door to source tongue. Oh yeah. Well, it was like a, the original King Kong and stuff like that. So it looks so bad the two, but it doesn't get in the movies too. I did not go back that far, but no, I didn't go back to that. Fight that because then you could have always, everything was shit. All right. Well that was my job, but so my next one. Jesper (34m 4s): Alright. You might actually recognize the voice in this clip. Okay. Okay. All right. Ready? Audio Clip (34m 13s): I learned the truth for a long time ago. Jennifer end of the dark is when the case for most of us alive, it's happening again? Jesper (34m 28s): Did you recognize the male voice? Oh, most, but he just couldn't quite catch it. It's Christmas later as I hear it now, but yeah. Okay. So which is this one? This is a, a lone in a dock. Oh, the one in the dark now I don't think I was sad. I swear one of the sentences, there is the exact same one that used the trailer for pitch black, which is visit. Yes. But that's a different, Okay. Anyway, this is a loan for the dock and I'm here to see where it's going to get slightly embarrassing. You know, you did watch this one. No, I did watch it. Jesper (35m 7s): Yes. But I have to admit how incredibly stupid. So this, this movie is based on the video game. Okay. So, so far so good. The only problem was that it is actually based on a different video game at night. I thought it was so I was really unprepared completely. So I went into this thinking that this was a movie on a video game That I love to play when I was a child, I really liked it. And then I started watching this movie and I was like, this makes no sense. I really don't understand how, how are they? Jesper (35m 48s): And it took me quite a while before I figured out that this is something completely different, just it was two different video games completely. And they have nothing to do with each other. But, and, and then I tried later on, I tried to figure out what, what what's that game called then? That I actually liked plating because I clearly remember it as it is called alone in a dark that game. But then when I looked alone or with the doc up on the internet, then I can see it's a different game. So it is not the same one, but I still haven't worked out what the, what the one that I wanted to watch was them. So I ended up watching this movie that has nothing to do with what I wanted. Jesper (36m 32s): Right. And I was in for the most shitty experience ever, because you're basically following like a supernatural detective who uncovers a long lost tribe who worshiped demons. And of course, demons are then attempting to reach into our world. OK. And our detectives can only stop them by acquiring the help of his ex ex-girlfriend. Of course, of course, because that's what you do. Well, see, that's why you shouldn't be broken up with her, you know? Yeah. So, yeah. You know what, I it's just, I just realized that basically my first three picks are horror movies that are, So let's say something. Jesper (37m 20s): I, well, horror movies, I think are hard to get right now. Yeah. It was just like the only thing that I can say, you don't want this movie. It, it is such a waste of time and it just to drive home the point. So listen to this quote, which is from the movie. Okay. Okay. And this is just to show us, she would do, this is a, So a bit of context. They are in a cave and the character to is going to speak here. I think it's a girlfriend, she's a pointing at some native American text on the wall into cave. Okay. And then she says, quote, it's a warning. It says, once you make it down here, live, you're already dead and quote. Jesper (38m 4s): It's just, I don't know. It was just like the most shitty dialogue I could. And I couldn't even make up something that's shitty. I did just that. It's all good. It was pretty much say it. I want to make it down here. Like if you're already dead, I mean, what the fuck are you talking about? That's impossible. Yeah. Hi. I guess its supposed to be frightening. What? I would have been like the grammar Nazi going. I don't know. I, I think he could reword this. Yeah. Oh my God. So bad. Please. Don't watch that movie. Well, I, I have, mine Autumn (38m 37s): Is not a horror movie. In fact mine is Fantasy. Yeah. I have fence coming up as well as good. I got to have in my list. So my number three is an ATAR, the fighting evil. Who have you ever heard of it? That Jesper (38m 51s): Sounds really bad. Autumn (38m 55s): It's the perfect trope. It starts the film opens or is this baby at star or who has a birth Mark? And so it means that someday it will, of course he will grow up to destroy the spider cold. And so can you, you know, there's this, it obviously this prophecy, so we got this prophecy baby birth Mark. Jesper (39m 17s): And that makes sense. Yeah. Autumn (39m 19s): So the high priest of the ancient one, he attempts to kill the baby's. So the birthmark is covered up and he sent off to live in a far away village where as he was growing up, he decided that he really actually is in love with a woman who's grown up at CES sister and he asked for permission to marry her. And that's what he finds out. It's not really a sister and he was adopted Jesper (39m 41s): And well, that was a very convenient, Autumn (39m 44s): This and that makes a fine, even though they grew up as siblings, I'm sure. No. Oh anyways. So in the home study setting, what can you do? Yeah, that's right teenagers. But you know, obviously the King finds out about it or it comes and how he feels his sister slash brother takes her back. And there's all these things like he finds this warrior again, another trope who was an enemy of this ancient source or that had Tara supposed to be the one to take down. So there's all of this law Amazons are in, there are this woman who is an Amazon and a woman who wins Hill and falls head over heels in love with them, but goes with them to rescue his wife, bride slash sister. Autumn (40m 29s): And she ends up dying, not the Sr the bride, she banks. It, it is so true. So convoluted, everyone's stereotypical your looking at the only good part was that, you know, what was the spider call? So there was a mess of spiders crawling all over and the, yeah. So the ancient one, the evil source, or was a pretty, it was kind of interesting, but it's, it's just pretty much, yeah. You can look to go through it and going, my head hurts. Hey, Jesper (41m 1s): How much can you just crawling in my head? Autumn (41m 7s): It was my head. Would've been better. I mean, if it had no direct Plott it just makes no sense, but he kept tripping over a things. And this word here is suppose to teach them how to fight and ends up actually having been working for the ancient world. It just, it was just, you're just finally going, just end it please. Jesper (41m 26s): He's put me out of my misery. Autumn (41m 29s): Why did you start this one? And yeah, if it wasn't him, you know, the robot's Jesper (41m 34s): A mystery science theater is sitting there groaning themselves. Yeah. You couldn't have made it through this one a lot. Oh my God. I don't understand why you want to so many good. If I am just masochistic, I guessed, I don't know what they were saying. That they were funny and they get better from here and go to the top two are just out of the park or I can't wait. Oh my God. Okay. Well I have two left. All right, let's go. Jesper (42m 14s): And this one is not horror. So this is what this one is. Well, it's Fantasy slash adventure. I would call it all right. Now you're paying attention. It's also the first movie and a series, which was actually one of my favorite series growing up. Okay. It was before streaming services. And I actually remember a friend on and myself. We went to a gas station just up the street back then. And then they had like displays have movies that you could rent. I think I remember a desk. There was a ton of them that was probably like 50 movies or something. That was probably It. Jesper (42m 54s): And you can shuffle through to them and find out what do you want it? And we rented THE, we had previously rented the first movie in this series and we really liked it. And then we got to this one with the second movie in this series. Okay. So see if you can get, guess what? This is Audio Clip (43m 22s): In the fall there's centuries bond burst. Nothing could have prepared them for an Jesper (43m 31s): It's just a way to say it. The quickening. It was just like, it sounds so bad. This is so eighties. It's incredible. Yeah, it is. It's a it's it's like, lets take a word and see if you can sell it. Say it in such a way. It sounds bad. Even though it was like the quickening. I mean, it sounds like what the heck they all came up with. So do you know what I mean? What movie does this? The quickening is like the subtitle of it that it's not ringing a bell. It's a Highlander to Oh, okay. Shoot at. It's been a long time. Yeah, indeed. I don't think honestly, I don't think I would enjoy Highland Highlander one today, but as a kid, but I loved it. Jesper (44m 14s): I thought it was still good that I was so cool. And all of that, you know, he, well, he was pretty gruesome, gruesome right in the cafeteria, the others. And then he got that powers. It's a pretty bad, but the way I loved it. And then we, we went to a, we rented this a, this a high level to, from the gas station and I was Probably like 14 years old or something. And we went home and what is it? And I hated it. Even back then as 14 years old, it was just like, it's a completely mindless story where the good guy fights the bad guy, but it's showing up it just because you don't, there is absolutely no point to it. There was nothing going on that that makes any meaning in this movie at all. Jesper (44m 59s): And it just makes no sense. And also it doesn't add anything to the story universe at all. I can, I can almost see it. It almost feels like somebody, you know, maybe the movie director or something went into the writers room, maybe at that point in time where they were all like brainstorming, what could this be? And then he just said, well, that sounds great. Let's take all of that. And we were just going to film It. No reason to no reason to change or any of them will just go straight with you as you have it here. It's it's like a complete mess. Oh my God. So you kill yourself. If you try to walk this way, because it's so bad. Autumn (45m 42s): I remember that from the eighties though. That's where the idea is that the second, you know, any of the sequels were always just like horrible. 'cause it's just like kind of like, Oh, some of like the first one that seemed to be a second one and they throw out everything was no sense, but it was not that surprising, But Oh, that is pretty. It is sad when they do something like that. Especially two where the first movie was it horrible though? Like you said, things had changed a little bit in since you were born. Jesper (46m 9s): I think it would be a horrible today, but you know, when I was like 13 or something, I don't know. I can remember a time when the first one came out probably a couple of years before, but 12, 13 years old or whatever, it was amazing, but they don't want us to the second one. Autumn (46m 26s): I'll keep that in mind. I mean, you have to remember it. So your, your closer in age to my husband. So I was a few years older and by that time I could drive and I don't know if I was watching bad movies at that time. Yeah. Jesper (46m 38s): I don't know. Maybe, you know, well then I'll go back and revisit it. Yeah. Autumn (46m 43s): Okay. Unless I really feel like watching bad movies, which like, if you've already agreed, I might be like for some strange reason, so bad that you're, you turn off your author brain and you just go, wow. Jesper (46m 56s): I hate it because I feel like I'm wasting my life is like, I'm never going to get this one and a half hours back. This is just a complete waste of life. Autumn (47m 5s): I understand. Alright, well that, you're going to love my number two. Then you are ready. This one is more scifi. It's like, yeah, it's called the daytime ended and a bad day. Well, let's say the whole movie fits into the note that was in Wikipedia about the name that the film was originally titled. Earth's final fury, which is, that's a pretty good title. Yeah, no, that was pretty cool. That was changed the vortex because they thought it would sell more tickets. And the final title, the day time ended, came around For no one knows why that's pretty much fits the movie Jesper (47m 41s): Except for the war Tech's title. The other two is for sure Autumn (47m 45s): That that's all fine, but I would not say that that would not sell it. So this one, the premise is this family, a young family, parents, two kids moved to the Sonoran desert, which was a very pretty desert. And then the other grandparents and these weird, it's a super Nova in conjunction sort of thing going on. And then those are the reports about UFO's or in the area. And the one daughter kind of has this telepathic connection to one of the aliens. And then the grandmother C is one overnight. Of course there's lots of screaming and running and they're terrified. And I think that they see the UFO was with a really horrible light's in the sky and they run outside. I remember the horses getting away as well. Autumn (48m 26s): There, we had a little ranch in all of the family hides over night in separate areas because they are terrified. And while they're outside hiding, there is actually these giant monsters that come through a reptilian thing and this other thing, and they're just battling it out in the snow and Derrick deserts. But then the UFL is come back and like lasers at the monsters and then the sunrises and everyone gets up and they walk and they're all together as a family. And they would look over in through the next Valley. And there's this weird futuristic city, which I actually didn't know until I read the plot on this one, that it actually is supposed to be like a thousand years until the future. I had no clue watching it. And then it adds with like the doctor saying that it's all going to be fine now. Autumn (49m 11s): That's it. Hey, when was this made? Is not as old as its sound. I might've been the 80th as well. So it would have Jesper (49m 22s): To go like special effects and stuff like Autumn (49m 25s): That as well. Really horrible. I mean the reptilian amphibious creatures that are fighting, I don't even know why they were there, where they came from, what they had to do with the little UFO's that are zapping through the walls and these a little space lights and people would freeze. And it's just Jesper (49m 44s): Sounds more confusing than anything. That's it? Like you even do it even explaining what it was about. You lost me a bit there, like, Oh yeah. Autumn (49m 52s): Oh, what are you? There is no sense. And like I said, until I actually read the description of it to remind myself what it was. I was like, I don't see how you go from Okay. To conjunctions aliens, reptilian, creatures fighting each other to the future. So I joke now I actually thought they ended up on the alien planet and they have been transported there. I chose blue what was going on in some really bad acting and really bad explaining. I, and even Jesper (50m 28s): When I think about horses and the desert, Alrighty, you should've been a clue, that's it? Yeah. That doesn't work very well for a range of situations. But yeah, no. So it's, that one was pretty painful. Not as bad as number one, but it was pretty. Yeah. Hmm. Okay. I think that one you had before, it sounded Western this one way to be honest, but Okay. So the final one on my list is also one way I loved the original, Okay. Is also one from my childhood. So it was probably not that good today if I watched it again, but I won't, but this is not a sequel. Jesper (51m 10s): This is a remake and it's from 2002. So C if you can guess what this is, Audio Clip (51m 21s): It's the world's number one phenomenon. I cruise. They just thought that you could just write it in. And three players, rules. The game told you this, the promised land two or three, two, one. Jesper (51m 44s): That was just somebody's laughing because he, I didn't know, he just slammed him into the ground or something. It might be a bit of tough one to guess if I was gonna say it, but it's going to be Eddie guests. I would just throw out mortal Kombat, but I have no idea. No. Okay. You want to just not too bad. We have a guest. It's a roller ball. All right. Well, I don't, haven't seen the first one or the remakes, so, okay. So tell me about this one. Yeah. So the original is from 1975. Wow. And I watched that when I was at a child and I really liked it. So rollable, it's this sort of extreme sport. Jesper (52m 27s): Okay. So they have like this metal bowl and they are on an oval pitch that just goes round and round. And then they were holding the walls where we have to put the middle ball into that. Just go to a point actually like a fun game. Oh, well, yeah. It's pretty crazy because they, they drive like motorcycles on the pitch and they, they, they hit each other. I think as far as I remember, they had weapons as well. So it's like, you, you, you can die from, to gaming. And that was why I loved it was so different and it was so cool. And then they had made all of this kind of special gear and, and stuff like they want to do. It was cool. And then in a 2002 and some morons decided to let's do a remake of that one. Jesper (53m 10s): Yeah. That was a good idea. Oh no, no. It's just, it's horrible. So you have, in this remake, you have entire scenes, which are basically serves. Absolutely no purpose. So I just want to be just one example. Here's this just tells me if you think that sounds like good story telling to you. Okay. So you have one character dragging another character across town to some sort of a apartment building to look for somebody who isn't there and you don't know why and the person they are looking for is never, ever mentioned again. Autumn (53m 57s): Wow. Jesper (53m 58s): Oh, look for somebody that you don't know who it is. And it's never mentioned again. And then they walk away again and you will be like, Autumn (54m 6s): Huh? Yeah, that doesn't, that it doesn't work for me. So that's, Jesper (54m 10s): But that, that's how these entire movie is, is just, wow. This is nothing in it. That makes any sense. I don't know if they were drunk or something when they make the script for it or is it just like Jesus Christ? Autumn (54m 25s): That's pointless plots. Just, Yeah. Pointless scenes get under my skin. So that would, I would not have made it through that one. I would've gotten up and done something else. I would've been like I'm right here. Jesper (54m 39s): That was five very terrible movie picks. Yeah. Autumn (54m 42s): Okay. All right. You're ready for him. My number one in the back to Fantasy for this one, this is called the wizards of the last kingdom. How's that for a title? I think also it sounds pretty cool. So I was excited when I saw this one on the mystery science theater. Cause you know yeah. But it sounds like, you know, if it doesn't have to be, this will be great. It was so brave, knowingly bad in a series of bad shows. I mean, it doesn't even have a spark that made me laugh. I was so disappointed and it will all of the one out of all of them. I remember this one, the least. So I actually had to look this one up quite a bit, but it starts nice. There is a peaceful kingdom of at home and there's a teenage boy, Simon. Autumn (55m 24s): Who's the son of the court wizard, the Kings wizard and this evil sorcerer convinces the queen two overthrow her husband, a name, the sourcer, the ruler. And so S the sourcer or the goods source, or, you know, a wizard census, you know, realize this is what's happening. And he is like, gives her sun this magic ring. It says, you must keep this at all costs and protect the princess. And of course the princess gets captured and what assignment do the sun? And he loses the ring like that first scene gone at it so that it starts, you know, it goes crazy. So Simon grows up, he meets this disgrace hero Corps who is going to help them rescue the princess. Autumn (56m 10s): But Simon ends up rescuing core half the time, even though Simon doesn't have a clue, has never shown any aptitude or any training in magic Ever until this point until he thrust on to the world that he knows nothing about. And so he still, he still saving the wizard. Its so bad that Simon somehow manages to raise the zombies of dead hero's to come help him rescue the princess. And the dead heroes gets so annoyed at Simon and they end up attacking him Jesper (56m 40s): Or he does sound pretty annoying, super Autumn (56m 43s): Annoying, everything goes horribly wrong. And they ended up getting some help. They managed to get the villagers to help them and they would go raid the castle. Simon manages to find the fricking missing ring that he dropped in the castle and has been in plain sight since day one. Even though the evil wizard can find it. Oh now the best part, the best part is then Simon with the ring now battles, the experienced, skilled, evil wizards. He was just lying there on the ground on it. I think it was like, I remember a glowing, like you had to see the glow. It was somewhere a slightly hidden, but it was like, you know, maybe in a suit of armor or something, it was so obviously is not going to where you want to be. Autumn (57m 26s): He would have dropped it. It was so stupid. But you know, the, the, the grand finale, this is between the special effects and Simon, the novice is fighting. This experienced Grandmaster, evil wizard and winning and winning the princess. It was just such a hit. I know I was so bad and this sums it up really well. This is by the writer Edna HA because I don't recall this movie with so much shot as it was beaten to death, when they whittled it down to what was useful from the footage, it only ran 58 minutes. Now, Roger, as a director had done a lot of sword and sorcery of films. So you told a couple of the editor's to pull all they could from them and edit that footage together. Autumn (58m 9s): So now the finished movie has a 15 to 20 minutes Prolo. The, it has nothing to do with the rest of the day. Jesper (58m 17s): So HA Autumn (58m 17s): So that's my number one to beat that. Jesper (58m 22s): And so you have like 20 minutes that has nothing to do with Autumn (58m 27s): Nope. There's just these people fighting and this pro log about what's going on. It's just, Oh, and then they get you in the movie and which was bad enough. And like I said, I mean, if all the things he drops the ring. Yeah. And maybe he should have dropped it out in the wilderness. Yeah. Jesper (58m 42s): We just did this run into theaters and stuff like that. Oh yeah. Autumn (58m 46s): I remember. I remember there was this whole, no, actually I was at a tar, had a huge issue about his and the name and going on blue Ray. I CA it was a little bit older. I don't know if it was in B rated theaters or something, but it was a civil, a movie and it had ratings. You can look it up on, I am. I can't remember what it's called, but you have to be, I am DB it's they're Oh my God. You know, it was, was it called me again? It was called the wizards of the lost kingdom. So I have, are you interested in this one now? Jesper (59m 23s): I have to look it up Autumn (59m 24s): So you'll have to look it up. And there was a sequel and I've watched the cul too. And that one will be even worse, but I don't want to go there. I can speak well, comparatively. Jesper (59m 40s): Oh my God. It has 2.8 out of 10 rating. Autumn (59m 45s): If I win this one with that moving, it is so horrible. It was bad. Tropes, bad acting. Just, just bad, so bad. Jesper (59m 56s): But, but how, how I still don't understand. So you are watching 20 minutes of a sort of intro stuff where people are just fighting. You have no idea what's going on. Autumn (1h 0m 4s): Well, if there were some voiceover saying previous, you know, the history of the kingdom, there was a war. Yes. And then this good King Rose and write it all the countries wrongs. And he has his Nobel wizard and the daughter and marriage and Oh, look, there's the evil wizard to once to overthrow everything for 20 minutes. Yeah. Jesper (1h 0m 24s): And then all of a sudden it just starts with something and, and he drops a ring in a silo or something. And then once off doing all kinds of things to figure it out, that it's right there. When he left in the beginning, Autumn (1h 0m 38s): Are they able sort of source who was taken over at the castle? Can't find it. Even though it was like, what's the point? I don't know if there was one other than the guy that wasn't evil, evil source or who took over. And there was Simon who want it to save everyone. Jesper (1h 0m 56s): And since I'm an idiot, but I mean, the people writing this must have had some sort of story. They want it to tell her something. I mean, what, what does this, Autumn (1h 1m 5s): I think he might be expecting too much of. I don't know. I would have to go and ask Edna HA who said, you know, it was the director's fault who turned it into the mush pit. Yeah. Jesper (1h 1m 18s): But they did it. Did they go in to the kindergarten and say, Hey, can any of your kid's to direct the movie for us? Autumn (1h 1m 24s): Probably. It was like, yeah, I can tell it is painful. And again, it, a lot of it comes down to the tropes and no plot. And it was so God, so stupid. I mean, if you're going to lose the magic ring seriously at the source or worse feet and you can't find it. And then the battle between the two of them and he wins, I'm sorry. He would have been toast like that. It just, no. So anyway, I think I won In it. It's true. I know what it is. Yeah. I think actually that might be the worst one. Autumn (1h 2m 6s): It was the worst out of 14. I'm really bad movie. Jesper (1h 2m 10s): It's a 20 minute intro. I just can't. I can't even imagine ever seeing it. I mean, all, all of these other movies that I had, they are really shitty, but they don't have 20 minute pointless intro for nothing. I mean, come on. That's incredible. Autumn (1h 2m 24s): It's a long enough to put it in theaters. That's incredible. Jesper (1h 2m 30s): Jesus, you mentioned those people buying a ticket, how upset they are going to be afterwords is just like, what the heck was this? Like you just paid for this shit. Autumn (1h 2m 37s): Yeah. And I was expecting a bad movie and I was disappointed because it was so bad. It wasn't even funny. I mean, some of the other ones we're like, Oh, you know, let's do shots every time they say this or something. This was just really bad. Jesper (1h 2m 52s): Okay. I'll give you this one. A even though I had to deduct points from you, you still can you stop the cost of you inside the cross? The finish line before me, it was like, I don't have made a major defeat. It's just a slight small one. Autumn (1h 3m 6s): Oh, well I will be gracious in my winnings. Yeah. Jesper (1h 3m 10s): I think they will probably put us at like 10 to one or something. Autumn (1h 3m 15s): Yeah, sure. Yeah. I have 10. And you have one. I understand that. Yeah. Jesper (1h 3m 19s): Oh no. But the other way around, because I'm sure we'd already caught it at 11 Podcast about alternating list. So I must be up at 10 to one. Now Autumn (1h 3m 27s): We'll have to go check out or the listener as you can let us know who's winning. I'm pretty sure it's me. Yeah. Jesper (1h 3m 33s): Can I trust them? Just this one? Yes. Yes. But the overall there's, there's a clear difference so that, yeah, we'll be back to this creation stuff again the next month. And then I will need to pull a win back home again. So, yeah, but I was wondering in closing off here, is there any like serious for just one second? Is there any serious learnings? One can take from all of this nightmare is shit that we had just been through. Autumn (1h 4m 9s): Don't use stereotypical characters. It's okay. If you use tropes, everyone uses tropes. You should break them or twist them. That helps make characters that are original. That's really where the heart of the story line. All of the ones that I listed had tropes, which is bad enough, but characters, I mean Texas cowboy, Mexican, Fiona, you know, a love interest Therese for her come up with a real characters that the reader is gonna care about. And if you want to have a love triangle, have a love triangle, just don't throw in the term in the store. Jesper (1h 4m 45s): Yeah. Yeah. And the trucks pull the audience in. So yeah. I mean, I think it proves that it works, right. I mean, if, if you align it with tropes, people will start checking it up. It's like, wow, this looks interesting because it's something that they recognize that it would work. It doesn't work. So please, please, please add something new and interesting. And please don't just rehash. What is already done as well. It does not make it any better. And I'm looking at new Marvel. Can you give a shit together? Autumn (1h 5m 16s): A little warning? If you have been warned, Jesper (1h 5m 18s): It was good enough. Okay, cool. Next Monday we we'll be back. And the way we will discuss something that is incredibly important, but often overlooked. And that's the mindset you need to adopt in order to self publish. Narrator (1h 5m 35s): If you'd like what? You just heard, that there's a few things you can do to support The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. You can also join Autumn and Jesper on patreon.com/ Am. Writing Fantasy for as little as a dollar a month. You'll get awesome rewards and keep The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast, going to stay safe out there and see you next Monday.

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Hörspiel nach einer Erzählung von Oscar Wilde I Auf dem letzten Fest der Saison bei Lady Windermere liest ein Chiromant dem jungen Lord Arthur Savile aus der Hand und sieht eine furchtbare Tat voraus: Lord Arthur wird einen Mord begehen. Arthur, der kurz vor seiner Vermählung mit Lady Sybil steht, gerät in Panik: er muss den vorausgesagten Mord noch vor der Hochzeit durchführen, damit kein Makel auf seine Ehe, auf Sybil fällt. Die Zeit drängt, wen kann er unauffällig durch Mord beseitigen? Der Lord hat keinerlei Bedenken zu morden. Für ihn besteht die moralische Pflicht darin, sein Vorhaben noch vor der Ehe auszuführen. I Mit Ralf Schermuly, Gustl Halenke, Gisela Trowe, Friedrich W. Bauschulte, Andrea Dahmen, Barbara Sukowa, Uwe Friedrichsen u.a. I Übersetzung und Bearbeitung: Marianne Therstappen I Regie: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell I Produktion: NDR 1977 I Redaktion: Michael Becker I https://ndr.de/radiokunst

Everyone knows them. Everyone loves them. Final Fantasy 6 & 7 each hold a dear place in many gamer hearts. This episode we examine what makes them so different, yet so similar. Episode Transcript: The below is a machine based transcription of this episode. Sorta like Skynet if it was 2 years old, and wanted a cookie. Take it with a grain of salt.Palsh 0:00 Tara or Tifa Eris or Eric Celeste or sell us today on Press B to Cancel. Mm hmm.Palsh 0:14 Oh wait, I don't know how our actual song goes because IJake 0:18 already have a dream crowdJake 0:19 right now.Palsh 0:43 So guys, welcome. I am post one and nine. Today we are going to talk about Final Fantasy six and Final Fantasy seven. With me I have the council as I like to call them and I'm trying to make it stick so hopefully it'll stick. I haveJake 1:03 Sic Jake Hey, glad to be here. We havePalsh 1:03 wereWulff Hay ho. And we have guy prime.GP 1:06 I think I have to go with Rosa, Final Fantasy four. Thank you. Deal. Okay,Palsh 1:11 so yeah, let's just switch that skill straight into Final Fantasy four instead. Let's talk about some Final Fantasy six and Final Fantasy seven day that I think we're all for the most part Final Fantasy fans in here in the council. Anybody want to argue against that? Or state against that?GP 1:31 And hold it against you? Hi.Wulff 1:33 Okay. I am but depends on the game. Yeah, that's fair. SoPalsh 1:38 let's just try to talk a little objectively between the differences between six and seven. There's been a lot of, you know, debate on what is the greatest Final Fantasy game and seven of course is at the top of most people's lists. For me, it's not my just for argument's sake, mine personal Favorite is for but I think the best game is six. Haven't you? GP?GP 2:06 I'm with you Final Fantasy for actually my favorites. I Oh, yes I think I do have to give a bit of an edge to Final Fantasy six over sevenPalsh 2:17 edges in for about that six.GP 2:20 Oh god that was good. Well done okayPalsh 2:22 about JakeJake 2:25 you know like I've been as a kid I used to love the Final Fantasy games and I like to say that I still like them. But I tried playing seven recently and I tried playing for recently and I hit a wall on for why just just so dissatisfied with it. So I don't know if I'm still a fan of the series anymore.Palsh 2:44 That's fair. I mean, I've I went through seven and I was kind of a little bit of a grind for me, but I rushed through so I'm you know, it could have been a whole lot worse when you wereWulff 2:57 four is my favorite out of theWulff 3:00 franchise, but I know it's not objectively the best. And from the ones I've played, I gotta give that one to six over seven for sure.Palsh 3:08 So I think we're pretty much on par with it here. Jake's kind of got the same feelings as me here for seven. But in my research now over the last couple of weeks, just trying to prepare for this podcast episode here, I kind of got a lot more respect for the things that seven is done. I mean, I had a lot of respect, but there's, it's kind of cemented now. So six is a lot of stuff. There's so many things about it that I can talk about for days and days. It's like it says, not my favorite, but it might as well be my favorite because there's so much great about it. Seven i think is great for different reasons. It became what made role playing games in North America, like socially acceptable. They added things into it that made a role playing games just not you know, turn based combat and nothing else. There was cool like bed and MB badass fmvs there was many games, you know, there's different systems and stuff that you could customize more and it was a little bit less glitchy then, you know, Final Fantasy six, at least as we saw s3 in North America was one of your earliest memories of either six or seven. I just want to see which ones pop out more. So what would you rather talk about really quickly? GP?GP 4:27 Okay, okay, I'm going to talk about seven. Because I want to embarrass myself with a quick story. I got I got the game and my PlayStation one for Christmas 1997. I started off, did not know that I needed to have a memory card. So that was fun. We figured that out eventually. Fast forward. I'm addicted as I made that mistake to Final Fantasy seven. I get to the temple of the ancients. I don't realize that the clock. You have to use it as a bridge. So I'm trying every companyGP 5:00 nation of every fucking time and then going back through the rest of the temple trying to see if anything has changed, spent 65 hours alone in that temple and wreck the rest of the game as soon as I got out.Palsh 5:15 Are you? Are you trolling with us again? That was ThatGP 5:19 story is 100% true. The second time I played it, I went back and got all the materials, but by the time I got out, I'm like, fuck it. I just want to beat the game. But 65 hours in the temple of the ancients. Even today when I go back and replay it, I have to mute it because I cannot hear that music anymore. Yeah.Palsh 5:40 Ouch. Well, dedication. I appreciate that. wereWulff. How about you? Which one stands out to you right now?Wulff 5:47 I'm six. It's It's gotta be that opera.Palsh 5:51 Oh, yeah. That's, I'm not gonna argue with that.Wulff 5:55 If there's a standout moment in either of those games, it's the opera.Palsh 6:00 You don't even need to talk about earlier because it's just like one of those. Like,GP 6:05 I'm not going to be rude here because you guys just let me tell my story but not not the KefkaWulff 6:09 battle that's not what stood out. Know you the first time you're going through that game, especially back then, you know when Yeah. And and now when you're playing through it when you understand the limitations of the hardware at the time, the fact that they still managed to make an opera segment that actually felt kind of like it was like an actual opera that you're just watching in 16 bit. That is impressive as hell to me. Yeah. And the fact that all the lyrics fit with the, the sound and tempo of the music. Okay, yeah, it did such a good job and, you know, a little, I don't know, 1213 year old me I got actual chills when I was watching. I was like, This is awesome. Like, I totally nerd it out.Palsh 6:56 I never realized until doing my research either thatPalsh 7:00 It's a metaphor for what's going on in the world too. I was like, oh, wow, so that kind of blew my mind. Yeah, at 35 years old.Palsh 7:10 So, Jake, how about you?Jake 7:13 Yeah, I mean, for me it was also found 96 I think I mean, I own the first game is one the first. Probably the first JRPG I played as a kid was the first Final Fantasy, and I borrow the second for my friend all the damn time. So when the third was coming out, I saved my pennies and I wanted to get it. But that car was expensive and that's my most vivid memory of that game.Jake 7:35 Well, okay, so in Canada, I don'tPalsh 7:37 have enough pennies.Jake 7:38 Amen. Canadian poor, but they're up here we had a store called consumers distributing which is an interesting store. And the way it works, you walked in it was like a like a warehouse type store and a small front area and he filled little index card with the number of the item you want. So I went in there as a kid, and then you know, put the number four Final Fantasy three in the on the paper and I hand it to him.Jake 8:00 earrings it up $90. This is Canadian, but $90 for the 90s. It's an expensive cart. And then it comes out on this little conveyor belt and there's just flies down. And then they hand it to you as a very odd experience. That's how I bought video games and then nothing keys. And that vaguely reminds me of toys r us when I was a kid, or were they similar back then. Back then we would go into Toys R Us, at least for like big ticket items or expensive items that were small like video games, bikes, that sort of thing. You'd go over to where you wanted it, find the tag for it, pull out the paper, take it up front, ring it up, and they'd send it out on a conveyor belt conveyor belt after you purchased it. You'd have to take it over to the counter for getting your item come out of conveyor belt and you're on your way. It's such a weird contrast to today with Amazon where shit like that gets dropped to my doorstep.Jake 8:57 Like but like you music and finally six is The absolute standout and for me, it was the various character themes, which I'm sure we'll talk about, but I love the music and film a six and it's so impactful. I mean, I like seven, two, but six was my standout memory.Palsh 9:11 I like that. I'm going to go with seven just just for that I like six better I but I'm going to say that I haven't played six as much as I've played seven, but I like six better. That makes no sense to me. But I remember in high school, borrowing it from my friend and played it for hours and hours and hours. I mean, I had I think three or four master magic materias I had a double master summon, I had all of them except for I think was the yellow one because that was ridiculous to get. I played past the point of where the game actually registers how long you've been playing because it kind of resets itself after 100 hours. I think the number would change so it'd be like flashing yellow or something to show that you already went over 100 hours and then after You went over 200 I think is how it worked, they would just kind of just max out at like 9999 or whatever. And so I have no idea how many hours I actually killed just leveling everybody up to a level 100 So, for for a game that I loved in high school, I really I think I burnt myself out on it because I really felt the need to play it since. But I have in the last year and I played it on stream actually and I kind of did the quick way through. And I got through by the skin of my teeth. So, ya know, so there's a lot of things going on in both six and seven stories are just, there's so much different. They can have so many similar themes, but six I find resonates more for me. I don't know about you guys, but for me, it's just it feels like more of a personal story because, you know, the world is it seems like smaller, you know, all the towns that you go in are little, you know, little spots, you know, little villages kind of thing and, you know, there's a hardware limitation First off, but Know you supposed to be still a big world? And I think they did with the ps1, I think they were able to kind of give you a bigger scale, the futuristic, you know, the steampunk angle and stuff like that, and then you get outside of Midgar. And everything else is more classic Final Fantasy. I found like that was a big shift for me and it really threw me off a lot. SoJake 11:23 were you disappointed after a big car because they spent so much time I mean practically the first disc on midcard and it's such a flushed out and it feels like a huge city. And then when you're done with that mid garriga on the world map, nothing quite compares that first city.Palsh 11:39 I think I know what you're talking about there. But for me I was because I was spent so much time in there. I thought it was going to be like oh my god is everything going to be this intense. But uh, no, when we got out of it, finally I was I was kind of relieved because I was like, Okay, now this is where I want to be. I want to I want to kill stuff and ride chocobos and so it wasn't so big a deal, but I I think that's part of what made it so integral is how much time you actually spend in Midgar. So when you finally get out and realize there's a whole different world besides the city, then you know, it's kind of cool. It's just like, oh, wow, you know, what else is this game when I offer soGP 12:14 it's kind of like the matrix. So once you get out of mid Gar, everything changes from those, like dark green and dirty kind of colors into the clear, you know, clean green of the grass, and then they finally introduce blue into the color palette. You know what I mean? Like you have the sky you have the ocean, and it feels cleaner. Like, you know, you understand it's a video game. Your characters are real, but you can breathe better. Now that you're out of mid Gar.Wulff 12:45 Yeah, mid guard did a really good job of conveying that. This city is just so polluted and smogged up and corrupted, and it's a mess. Exactly.Palsh 12:59 So It's I think they needed that, which was really cool. And they did such a great job like it's not a small feat for you to get at Midgar I mean, how many hours do you have plugged into the game? It starts a whole lot faster with Final Fantasy six you jump in, you don't know what's going on, you know, they they get your attention in similar ways you start out beginning of six controlling Tara and the magitek nights there and she's gone you know if you don't know what's going on and question yes how many questions and all of a sudden in seven this the same thing you're about to blow up a reactor kind of deal and you're like, what's, what's going on? So they start off very similar in the way that you know, you don't know what's going on and you're trying to piece it together as you go along.Palsh 13:48 It's it's interesting because some of the things that made it so well received in seven are a lot of the things that spawned off of six you know materia systemPalsh 14:00 is a natural progression A lot of people say for coming from espers, you know, is lot more strategy involved. It was a lot more polished obviously. But they had so much in common with each other. I mean espers were basically permanent materia. You know, you could learn your spells, keep them, but materia required you to strategize more so like that's, that's something in its favor, or seven that I really never thought of before. metiriaWulff 14:26 had strategy in, you know, material choices as well as material synergies.Palsh 14:34 Exactly. So there's different ways you could play it like if you played through six, you know, this is probably the only complaint I have about six is that everybody becomes a major. You get everyone you know, you teach Stephen or seven as I always called him. You teach him Ultima and then never use it because you're too busy, you know, bomb trains. Yeah, exactly. It's weird because you It's a little bit more typical older style generation game for six, because you could still do that grind, you could still teach everybody, every spell you need to do. You can do that in seven to a degree, but it's a different way of doing it. Like you can pass it on to another character. So you can have another character instead of, you know, having to do the same thing over with each character. So it's, it's a different experience, but I thought it was, I don't want to say a better one. I think statistically, it might be but I mean, like, I'm just a naspers fan. I like toJake 15:36 see for me I when it came to the espers I didn't feel a need to Maximo. I mean, I played six a few times over the years and I never really felt the need to grind for spells for everybody or at least didn't feel like much of a grind. Whereas materials seven I felt especially toward the end game when you want to get certain material maxed out in order to duplicate that took that was a grindy I didn't like that at all. I felt as a little bit much leveling the materia I did not like it all, I felt that too grindy I guess is the way to sum it up. I also for the espers. But I also found metiria as a, as a gameplay mechanic was probably superior. And just like will set with synergies. The customization aspect was really interesting that I don't think they really kind of went all the way they should have whether they could have done more with it. The best example of Materia I think being done well, is a game called Path of Exile, which they do their skills similar to metiria, where you can take a Firebase skill and attach, you know, a sex another gem called split, suddenly that fireball splits into two. Or you can attach an ice effect to that fire spell. Suddenly, it's an ice fireball. Like that kind of mechanic and Path of Exile is something I really wish we had back in fontys seven, where you could do more with the materiaPalsh 16:54 Yeah, that's that sounds really cool actually.Wulff 16:57 Another thing to consider with six is andWulff 17:00 The espers versus materia is metiria kind of took not just the espers, but also a lot of the relics from six and melded them into one function. Do you want to give an example here for anybody? Yeah. So what there was, I don't remember the names of the relics from six anymore. It's been so long, but you'd get a relic that would make it so you'd attack four times or something, right. So that Yeah, there you go. So you to equip that and then you do a big attack like that. And so stuff like that got turned into metiria. But then, so did the big spell chains like the big blood sagas and fire ragas and things like that. Those also got dumped into a metiria. So it sort of meshed two systems that were very broad strokes into one system with a finer brush, so I do think materia on the wholeWulff 17:59 was a much more focused mechanic than espers. But then you also had a much smaller set of characters.Palsh 18:11 Yeah, I likeWulff 18:12 with that though it probably made the game that's that's probably what made the game at least if it wasn't less grindy seamless grindy because you were doing things, you weren't maxing out espers for every single character, you were, that the material could be transferred from character to character in the party, and it would still maintain its level that it had before.Palsh 18:36 Right. And that's, that's the thing like it ended up becoming a point where you can pass it off to somebody so if somebody in your party died, still kind of pissed about that boiler, please. I'm not saying names okay. I'm just saying, but I mean, there's there's different points in the game where your characters leave like, you know, Eris is gone at one point, you know, maybe Forever maybe not, you know no cloud is the main character arguably of the entire game and you know you lose him Tifa leaves to go with cloud at one point you know, so characters leave in the party and you know what would happen if if I had if I had a group of just cloud Tifa and Eris or error then you know you'd be screwed but you can take their take their material put it on another character and go and it's not a like a game changer anymore. So you can you know, you have to learn you have to adjust to it but it's not going to like ruin your experience. It's kind of like you would lose characters in six as well my you know, especially when you have to get them all back in the world of ruined later on. But at the same time, it's a little bit different because you know, the way the leveling scaled you know, if you if you grind it ahead of time, everybody else that you get further down the line or kind of on par with who you already have It's a little bit isn't actually it's a lot more lenient, but it can be a lot more grinding depending on how you play.GP 20:06 So I want to interject and just kind of make a point here about both Final Fantasy six and seven. I know we're contrasting them but in one way that they are the same. I think they are the two in my opinion of the kind of classic series will say up to like nine or 10 the grind deist of the games, but I find that the grind in both of the games is entertaining six for its own reasons, you know, you can just make every ageGP 20:33 but with the thing about seven The reason I like seven so much. With the end here we are halfway through the show, I'm considering changing my my camp and saying Final Fantasy seven because now I've got an urge to play it.GP 20:47 But the thing about the materia system is if you know what you're doing and you know where to go and you know what to equip and how do we equip it. Grinding is not that bad. There are weapons and armor out there. That will give youGP 21:00 twice and triple the, you know, AP or whatever they go toward that, or there are areas where you don't get experienced, but you get a buttload of AP. And, you know, there's likewise similarly again in six and seven parts of the game, where once you get to this, this part, you realize there's nothing that you have to do, you can just go and grind if you want to. And, to me, that's, that's brilliant, they leave you the open window, and they say you have access, you know, now to the entirety of the world. go explore find out how to do this, or spend, you know, 200 hours doing it, you know, or don't, it's completely up to you. But first grindy as both six and seven can be, I don't get bored with that part of the game. I get bored with other parts of the games, but never, never the grind. And I think that's part of the brilliant thing about the one thing with the grind for probably seven specifically is soJake 22:00 Specially toward the late game. You want to use the summons to nuke everything when you're doing fast battles, but it's not as bad as a seven those summons are really long. How did you find those? Wasn'tWulff 22:15 Knights of the Round something like a minute and 30 seconds or something like that?GP 22:19 Unless you do dual cast Quadro magic and then it's all afternoon. It's more time so No, you're right. They're very cinematic and they are breathtaking and for the time beautiful. But yeah, once you you spam them, you know four times in a row twice. They lose their charm. You're exactly right. Yeah, BahamasJake 22:38 Can you please stop love the earth and give me a short, short one, please just just for your family.GP 22:44 When you're 14 years old, and you have an opportunity to see Shiva, eight times you use that Oh, baby.Palsh 22:51 Thank you. Thank you. All right, she's still my favorite this day. Now I'm gonna be thinking about Shiva for the rest of the episode. So thanks there. Okay, so What where to go from here?Wulff 23:00 All right. Let me let me take it for a moment. I'd like to say that, you know, I, I know I ruffle a lot of feathers because a I talk a lot about how I'm not the biggest fan of seven when seven comes up. I for everything it gets, right. And it does, it gets a lot, right. The biggest and most important shortcoming for me with that game is it is a 90 hour pity party. I can't deal with that much. That don't get me wrong. First time I played through the game. I was enthralled. Everything was awesome. To me. It was a wonderful experience. It changed how our PGS were presented. And what was expected of JRPGs. Great, you know, but it's just 90 hours of constant sadness. know my story said no, my story said, and yeah, there's the little bits of quirky in there like you can make cloud and bear it go on a date at the gold saucer but I mean, there's there's never a moment that's like yes, this is awesome. You know? It's it's always just like God, everybody so sadJake 24:14 clouds whiny to just evoke whinyGP 24:18 yeah I don't disagree with you except for one part I will say I think the weakest part of Final Fantasy seven is cloud and his story everybody else's stories make some sense and all that kind of stuff, but there's a lot of big question marks that aren't very cohesive with cloud and he's so angsty and not a great leader, but he's the protagonist. But the one thing I disagree with you the most on on what you just said, Well, as you said, you know, one of the weaknesses there compared to six is how sad everybody's story is. Final Fantasy six as the most heart wrenching, backstories, setser, cyan there has never been a more tragic story than science story if you ask me. I don't disagree with you. But you have points in that story where those characters are not constantly in a low you know there are there are a lot of points in six that are you know upbeat and not necessarily to ever seem happyWulff 25:14 not necessarily but upbeat you know, it's it's a moment that's not about the sadness there are points that are like, crap we got to get this done. This is you know, this is awesome. This is epic. This is amazing. You know, this is adventure. Seven never felt like adventure to me.GP 25:35 I thought it was plenty adventure, but you're right, even going into the final battle. Cloud is like, Well, here we are. I guess we might mosey? Yeah. Let's mosey. Yeah. Yeah. He's not the most effective protagonist and I do find that to be one of the bigger weaknesses of seven.Palsh 25:50 You brought up two good points there both of you actually. And one, I'm gonna I want to address one real quick because the quicker of the two but I want to say like, I think Six has a has an advantage, I'm being a lot more positive and upbeat considering the graphics and the you know the overall art. Because, you know, the it's pixel art, you know, it's it's cartoony it's it's limited, they're trying to go for something more serious with seven they're trying to make it more dark and gloomy. So I think you're totally right though like it everybody's always on a down note, you know, said I was a cantankerous old geezer because you never get to go to the moon. You know, Vincent was beating himself and braiding himself and locked himself in a coffin because he couldn't do it couldn't save the woman love, you know, all these everybody has this heart wrenching story and, you know, these are the reasons why they're fighting. But well, I mean, that's so much said but, but everybody has a reason to go against Shinra everybody has a reason to stick around in six because they all want to save the world from Kefka because, you know, everybody has a reason behind it. You know, cyan like I said, This is probably the most heart wrenching, and I never realized it until now. But yeah, that's, you know, he's, he's trying, he's trying to go for that. So all this stuff I think with the art is what I'm trying to get at is that, you know, the graphics of six, were there more chibi style, they're more cartoony they're more pixel as opposed to trying to go for something more serious with seven I think that in his favor there because it kind of makes the light hearted moments more light and then you kind of have to use your imagination more for when things get darker. Because I mean, when I was a kid, and I saw Kefka coming, I was like, this guy's a fucking asshole. And I didn't like I'm just like he's aJake 27:40 joker but he's bad.Palsh 27:42 Yeah, but exactly, but like I didn't respect it as much as a kid but now that I look at it, I'm like, okay, you have that theater in your mind like GP says and you know, it makes you think about it and say, This guy is crazy. You know, he's not just like wearing a clown makeup and just kind of nuts. He'sWulff 28:00 Pure villain you know with the art style you have to kind of fill in the blanks is what I'm trying to say. But see in seven you don't get the the quite so quirky relationships that you get in six. I mean you you get the you know they all have sad stories let's let's take Gao for example. I mean poor kid he grew up in the while he was basically raised by wolves. And, you know, never knew his parents speaks poorly. He barely speaks, but his relationship with cyan and saben it's it's not only heartwarming, it's also hilarious. Yeah, they took a sad character and made him not make you go God, this poor kid, this poor kid, this poor kid.Wulff 28:51 I mean,Jake 28:52 I don't think I was a sad story. I agree. You have this kid. He goes out in the wilderness. He's battling monsters. He's basically a Pokemon trainer. Everybody praises ash and bread and Pokemon is like this great character guy was ashGP 29:06 here's here's exactly why GaoGP 29:13 okay it's not the girl is fighting the monsters he's living amongst and learning their stuff and then once you feed him beef jerky that's all you have to do to get him to turn on them because then he will go and kill everybody he just ran with like he's a liability is all I'm saying you better hope nobody else has beef jerky or your whole crew is gone.Palsh 29:33 I'm scared of Gavin now I love galaxGP 29:35 I love God. There's that there's that tragic thing about you know, being separated from his parents living in the wilderness. But he's never a character that feels bad for himself. Cloud feels bad for himself every moment of every second even when staring at diva he's like I'm sad that you're hot.Wulff 29:52 And and if I'm my favorite character in seven is Barrett because as sad as he is and as sad as his story. He's always trying to find the silver lining. He's always trying to be upbeat. He's he's trying to raise marleen to not see the world as the piece of crap that it is, or atGP 30:12 least identify the pieces of crap. Instead of saying everything sucks, being like, No, it's just Shinra.Wulff 30:19 Everyone. I mean,Jake 30:20 there's always angry though.Wulff 30:22 He's angry because he feels the need to fight for his righteous anger. Even when I was a teenager playing this when it first came out. I saw that and I loved that about that character. But I think cloud is just like, how can you just not all the time?Jake 30:41 like I do, but he's always so angry like cloud. Why don't you care? I'm so angry. You don't care. Marlene I'm so angry my glasses and IWulff 30:52 again, I suspect part of that is because of, I think some of it is just how much animeWulff 30:59 style, they rubbed on the story. But I also think part of it is translation.GP 31:04 Well, but also think about this. They the characters didn't really have faces. They didn't have facial expressions because of the limitations. They had shape, but they didn't have faces. So you think about the script and then like the animations of Barrett whenever he gets mad, he shakes his fist and you can see him trembling. That gives it a little bit more drama because you can't see the anger on his face. You can read the words in the script and know that he's he's cussing and know that he's shaking. And yeah, you kind of take over that said, I do you guys know the extra Craig Robinson. I imagined he is Barrett. So even when he's angry, it still has that edge to it of, I'm going to try to make everything okay, but this sucks. You know, so, otherwise, I think everybody would just be crapping in their boxer briefs the entire timePalsh 31:50 where it is that the guy from Hot Tub Time Machine is andGP 31:54 he's not veryWulff 31:55 good. I can see that. I think next time I try playing seven. I need to like pick it actor that kind of fits each characterGP 32:03 no you don't haveWulff 32:05 one for Barry but I mean all the other characters I think need one too.GP 32:09 Okay, then I will do that too, but I will think that Steve Carell is cloud that way I might like him a little bit more. I'mPalsh 32:18 just gonna stick with Office actors. I'm gonna I'm gonna try to rein things in and pretend them the hosts still are just cuz we Oh no, no, it's great. No, because I just think that's hilarious because we all have such different stances on this and like, I swear to god this this episode could be six hours long if we kept going.Palsh 32:35 But I was gonna say I just want to say for cloud for me, I think it's confusing. Thinking about him because he's he's a clone of Sephora spoilers. I should say spoilers first. Too bad.Unknown Speaker 32:51 My emerge sorry, not sorry.Palsh 32:52 ruin my immersion. Yeah, so, but he's a clown. He's a clown, a clone. And he doesn't even know who he is. He doesn't know he's a clone. And he was a failure before that. So when he died, like the real cloud, that's gone. Basically, he doesn't know who he is he failed it becoming someone in soldier. And so he was just a weakling, he was a coward. And then all of a sudden, he just has more power than he knows what to do with. So I think that's what they tried to do to balance them out a little bit is make him cowardly. Make him like, oh, like, you know, he's got that shitty attitude because he doesn't know who the fuck he is, you know? So, I mean, I think that's relatable for me. It's just like, he has no sense of self. And that causes him to just second guess everything. And I thought that's, that's the only thing that made him human to me is because he's the genetically modified super soldier. You know, he's he's Sephora in with different hair and All of a sudden, doesn't know who he is, you know, you go from Sephora off being just crazy and wants to take over the world or destroy the world so you can become powerful. Cloud just wants to fucking know where he is. So that's, that's, I like, like I said, I'm agreeing with everything you guys to say but I'm just that that's my stance on Cloud is is actually recently changed because I never thought about it this light is just he's he's lostJake 34:25 it just want to say like in terms of cloud as protagonists is every time squared tries to do the silent protagonist. I don't think he really works very well. I think their strongest stories have been told with an ensemble cast, everybody speaking like six or four. But clouds specifically the one of the reasons why I think he's just so sad all the time, is I think it was the producer of the game. At the time his mother died, yet he was going through a grieving period and he just didn't know how to express it. And when you take that, as the background, a look at Cloud, he's just calm Constantly depressing and, and sad and doesn't know how to deal with everything around me just numb impersonality when I think of the producers dead mother nice grieving that's kind of correlates to me and why he made cloud that way. Even though clouds his motivations are different ultimately, the feeling I get from the way he's in the game, kind of call us back to that for me.GP 35:19 Sure, I think it would be easier to create and write a character like cloud from a point of despair. Speaking about the retribution, or like the redemption moments that are lacking so much, and seven, there is the same right before you battle Hojo in Midgar, at the end, where he refers to cloud again and says, Oh, yeah, you're the failure. Maybe I misjudged you recently, you know, because that if for no other reason is the one relatable part to cloud is, you know, you've been cast aside everybody at some point, even if you're the most successful person in the world has felt disenfranchised. So to kind of feel like you've been capturedGP 36:00 Decide, but you've accomplished something nobody else has accomplished, you know, in your ilk. I think that's the one universal truth from cloud that everybody could relate to. It just happens so late in the game, and it's somewhat predictable, that it falls a little bit flat. Would you say is predictable? Looking back at it, or was it predictable back then? Well, no. I mean, he's your main character. And I mean, you know, obviously, I'm gonna say,GP 36:29 after Eris, what happened to Eris, everyone say, she's just waiting for guys to fall out of the sky. So after she's gone, you know that you're basically susceptible to losing anybody. We saw that also in Final Fantasy six. But with cloud, you are always given that idea of he is going to be your leader and your final, you know, you're never not going to have them and even if you lose them, which you know, you do, you'll get him back. So I think the redemption arc there in that way.GP 37:00 Of course, was obvious he was always going to be that guy, because you don't have the option of removing them from your party, which is the difference between six, you know, in six, you can just take anybody out of your party, whatever the fuck you want, with few exceptions. But yeah, I do feel like the cloud stuff was predictable in that way. I know I'm kind of rambling here. There's a lot of unpredictable, unpredictable stuff about cloud story because it's nonsense. But the redemptive arc there yes, I do think that was predictable, if that makes sense. Yeah, I wouldn't have ever been like, oh, clearly he is, you know, taking over somebody else's memories. No, that's that's absurd. But the redemptive arc Yes.Palsh 37:39 Well, I think that's part of what's making this game such a such a big deal for people to want to see a remake is because look at the conversation we're having over a single character, I mean, yes, protagonist of the game, but you can you can talk about other characters and other games just in much as much depth But there's so much more back and forth there's a lot more to consider so like you know he's not perfect and I like that sure he's got annoying tendencies and stuff like that but I didn't find it that bad personally. I mean you can look at all the characters like whatever happened with shadow and stuff like that like shadows backstory and you know everybody else's and egos like it's kind of crazy to think about it but I mean you have to go out of your way more with the with Final Fantasy sticks as opposed to seven sevens. So much more in depth. It feels like like the stories tighter but six I think because the ensemble cast, it has a lot more. What do you want to say open like just a little bit more you can take it at a glance if you want to. And I think that's part of the charm for me is because if you have favorite characters, you can pay more attention to what they say you know, when you have a party of three versus party of four It makes a big difference now. Three, I think the comment and stuff like that aside, I think that six for me has a better story just for the fact that there's a lot more going on. There's a lot more personal things like they're all on a vendetta against Shinra and six and seven, and six. They're all on a vendetta against Kefka. But it's like they all have different motivations, but six they're not all trying to save the planet. They're all trying to save each other for me, you know? I mean, they are trying to save the planetJake 39:30 you get a free the two villains I mean, it's it's Kefka is the one wearing the boxers and separatists boring these, you know, dainty silk briefs. They don't go pear Kefka is just a maniacal like Joker esque crazy son of a bitch who's actually destroys the world like he's scorch the earth and the latter half is in a desolate wasteland basically because of Kefka separ auth. Has mommy issues right? I'd like I'd never got the appeal separate the Only thing I like about Sephiroth is he's got a really catchy theme song which good for him? He's a rock star. Otherwise I have he's just not Kefka he has a good theme to has even better but he has the he has the the the actions to backup How crazy is he's a great villain. I love Mr. villain.Palsh 40:18 Yeah, I think Kefka is probably the greatest villain in the Final Fantasy games to me. So that's the ones that I've played.Jake 40:25 I think so he's up there. IWulff 40:26 agree with that.GP 40:29 If we're talking about the series golden.Palsh 40:32 Always rad Yeah, don't get me wrong.GP 40:34 It's an amazing theme song thatWulff 40:36 I have to disagree with that to the point for to the extent that it wasn't really golbez pulling the strings there.GP 40:43 You know, but that's an interesting point. Let's let's look at this and not talking about four but talking about really a lot of these Final Fantasies. You start off thinking the bad guy is one thing or one person the Empire Shinra golbez. And there's always this big reveal where it transitions to you know, Xena says A wrongness or whatever, or the you know, KefkaWulff 41:03 I'm not saying Squaresoft is always nailed the transition to like, Who's the big bad? It was the actual big bad. Final Fantasy nine. Like you spend the whole game doing one thing, and then you get to the tail end and it's like, I am big crystal floating head. Okay.GP 41:21 I'm saying I just never realized that, like, you know, who's a better villain here? Shinra or the Empire?Wulff 41:28 Well, who cares? But even early on Kefka was manipulating the situation constantly. He was pretty regularly. The bad guy you dealt with he was part of the Empire. But he was the worst of the Empire. You know?GP 41:45 Yeah, even the even the EmpireJake 41:46 hated him stuff for I was just reading books and lifting weights. is cool.GP 41:50 But Kefka I think Kefka I think polish. Nailed it. He is probably in my opinion, again, agreeing the the coolest and most interesting. Like the one I would want to see appear in more things. big bed. Yeah. And he sounds a lot like zoidberg.Palsh 42:10 So, as you can see, there's, you know, we've only talked about a couple of things we talked about protagonist. And for for one game, basically because there is no single protagonist in the second one, even though people talk about, you know, Tara in the first half and Celeste and the second for Final Fantasy six, you know, there's so many different things we can go on. We can talk about either game for hours and hours. It's amazing to see how much of a difference between this game and then you know, I thought there was three in North America was what we got the six. So when Final Fantasy seven came out, I thought there was you know, Fallout four or five and six that came out in Japan or something that we never got because the difference between six and seven graphically I was like, Oh, wow. So you know, I was trying to find out and then I found it. Oh, wait. This is this was we never got we never missed them this time. So it's really cool to see, you know, how much of a change not just graphically I think they changed, you know, for better for worse they changed everything. You know, they they tried to make it more appealing for everyone I touched on it earlier, they added mini games, you know, they had little backstories and things that just stood apart that you didn't see in the other games that they couldn't have done without the hardware. So they tried to make up for you know, lack of hardware and I think they nailed it hasn't aged well. No, I think you know, sixes as well. But because you know it's 2d it has that advantage. It's always going to have that advantage. So you're always going to remember the sprites exactly as they are. I think when it comes to a 3d render of something, you're going to pitch your cloud in your head closer to what you see in the movies like an adventure hildren as opposed to the chibby style guy that you run around on the world map. So I think mentally, you're more predisposed to enjoying the 2d stuff personally for me in a way. I don't know about you guys,Jake 44:09 I agree hundred percent like I forgot how bad the models of cloud and the party members are for most of the game. The in combat the battle models look fantastic, but the rest of them aren't random worldspace actually when you're zoomed in really close like the opening area when you go in the train there and he drops down his chibby style, right, but at least performance you stick to that it looks fine. But the low poly lack of textures. It's an ugly game. And nowadays because the rent is low and the backgrounds are all low rez it just naturally can't age well, because of that. I'm actually looking forward to the remake because of all thatWulff 44:46 in defense of seven on that front as far as the characters presentation that the higher ups like the heads at square, they wanted more of the same in regards to What Final Fantasy looked like? So they really were like, let's let's keep the chibi characters let's keep the the cutesy look. And so that's why they all look doofy when you're running around everywhere, but the director, I was at Sakaguchi thing so yeah, here knows Sakaguchi Yeah, he he pushed for a better presentation where he could and that's why the models look so much better in combat. Because in combat he he was able to get away with that, since the characters kind of needed to be able to convey more information as it was. So he wanted the big characters that looked more detailed, like in eight Did you know, but square management wasn't having that they wanted chibi. They wanted what four, five and six had done. So on that front. I don't blame the project managers of Final Fantasy seven and the design and all that because That was that was management imposed limitations not so much a design choice.Palsh 46:06 Right. So yeah, that's great points there. And I find when you're switching back and forth from the the world map sprites, to you know, the battle ones and seven, I think that kind of is the closest you're going to get for having the same experience as playing sticks where you're always in the, you know, the sprite mode. But when you fight, say, at my weapon, or Dullahan, where these crazy crazy detailed sprites are, and then you have these tiny little chippy guys there, you kind of think like, why is that more realistic? And then I kind of think, okay, so these are more like placeholders in my head. You know, the sprites are placeholders, you kind of try to immerse yourself put yourself in there he named them after your friends like I do in high school, junior high, you know, you do that kind of thing. If you had, like I said, use your imagination more and I think that's kind of the closest You could do with six with seven when it comes to having the cheesy world map versus the cool battle sprites. I think the cool battle sprites for kind of what I was doing mentally in six is like okay, this is what I pictured them fighting like you know, so I don't know it'sJake 47:18 like finally six the what helped me because you're right the enemy sprites are very detailed and look awesome and they're kind of a contrast that up characters of the main characters but what helps me as we look at the profile screen or like the menu you get to see those detailed artwork headshots of all the characters. Yeah, and it's completely off the walls. Like, but it helps tie things together.Palsh 47:42 Exactly. And I think that's part of what made me picture those in my head if if you guys haven't done that, try it sometime. Anybody who's listening, give it a shot like it's, it's more like, okay, you know the graphics are dated. Yeah, I don't care. It was made in 9493 this stuff was I think it's still ahead of its time you know crono trigger the same way you know, the art of these old games, they stand up and they're iconic because you know there's more to it than just like poorly drawn sprites for some games you know, sometimes they're everything they do is on purpose they all have a purpose and the one thing that helps found a seven started her up is found by seven has the benefit of emulation these days, right.Jake 48:23 I want to go through it again, because I did start it but there's a large amount of mods for valancy seven on PC, including smoothing out the background environments, messing with the music, adding better polygons to the overworld map. Just a whole host of different mods you can install that make the game I mean it better against other games in this generation. I guess it makes it stand up a little bit better. Because some of the some of the stuff and finally the seven like for me, it was the lack of textures on some of the monsters. You got to remind yourself it's a PlayStation era game, and PlayStation one games are ugly. It was just the way it was right? demands help a lot. It was all brand new technology. Right? So I mean, they were still working. Probably they were still pushing the limits, I'd say back then even with the lack of textures, right, so because I mean, a polygon was like one color more than anything.GP 49:13 I think if you're a fan of Final Fantasy one, for example, the the argument about how bad the graphics are in seven is kind of a moot point. And the reason I say that is Final Fantasy one was a pioneer for what it was, and it's the exact same thing with seven. If the gameplay is there, and I think it's retro video gamers can appreciate what I'm Beth say, if the gameplay is there, the graphics are secondary in their importance. And there's meet Final Fantasy seven is exactly that way. They nailed the gameplay. So the graphics while they haven't aged well, I think people who complain about that really the only league they have to stand on is all of the commercials for Final Fantasy seven showed us the FMV so we all thought that salmony in gameplay was going to look so when it came to Of course, you're disappointed, but the gameplay was there. So to me the shittiness of the graphics, of course, they matter, but it's not that big of a deal because we already played Final Fantasy one. And it was the same thing, great gameplay, but the graphics are, you know, old world. So, for me, if I had one complaint about six, it's probably the battle system for the fact that everyone becomes a major, if I had a complaint for seven, it was probably the controls just for the fact that, you know, if you play it, you can't use the analog so that's that's something and it was the way it's screwed up with the skewed on most angles like your control your directions are just weird. So it's kind of wonky. So that's like my biggest beef with the game which is a minor thing, especially saying this is you know, it's it's not a platformer, save us all if it was butPalsh 50:52 but, so if you guys want to close it up here a little bit because otherwise we'll be talking about this for another hour and a half. So anything Any points you guys want to talk about before before we shut it down for the night.GP 51:04 Gold saucer was brilliant Chocobo breeding was amazing.Wulff 51:09 You know what the Chocobo part is still the only part that I'd be willing to go back and do and seven. And it's just because that was the part that was most fun to me.Jake 51:19 Have you played the MMO?GP 51:20 I a talking about 14?Wulff 51:23 Yeah, I played it a little bit because they added the gold saucer and the Chocobo racing and that is actually loads of fun. They also have triple triad in that as well. I almost because they're subscribing to it just to play those I did. I did both of those things. But yeah, like Final Fantasy six versus seven. I gotta go with six myself. And that's like mechanically, I do think seven is superior in almost every way. But if I'm going to sit and play a game for 60 to 80 hours, it's it can't just be download after download after down No like, to me seven is just a constant downward spiral with quirks. Six is a roller coaster, there's down moments, but they're followed by, you know, let's kick some ass. Let's do something awesome. You know, let's, it didn't constantly keep you in a state of despair. I gotta say I agree. And that's what, that's what makes it more memorable to me. I mean, you have, you know this story about the airship race between sets are and Daryl and it was sad. But it was interesting. And it was a cool little story backstory for setser that the fact that I also kind of respect the fact that six you can make arguments for who the main character is. Most people will just be like, it's Tara, understandably so. But I've I myself, I kind of use Celeste as the main character.Palsh 52:55 Well, that's the thing to like after the second bird when you get into the world or ruin. That's when I kind of takes over the rules less and so people argue that you know the first half is Tara second half slist both arguments valid likeWulff 53:08 well, it's not just that it's that Celeste has the biggest standoff with Kefka Celeste is the one you have to beat the game with. You don't have to beat it with Tara. True.Palsh 53:20 You can skip getting tear completely. SoJake 53:22 wait, can you for the second half? I thought you had to get her.Palsh 53:26 You can beat the game with test sets or Celeste and Edgar. As soon as you get sets or you get the airship and you can actually go take it. That's a challenge apparently amongst the runners and stuck IJake 53:39 will say that for probably seven. There was just always so many plot holes I guess in the overall story. I was still confused about cloud and soldier and who is a clone of I never got that I've watched all the movies and some of the other lore material but the game on its own standing on its own. The plot holes are too big six, I mean not Say that goes jgb there, but it's more forgiving because there's so many characters, and there's at least one or two sides story threads for each character. So you get enough of a plot to fill in details for that the character and it kind of doesn't matter that you don't have the whole story. But with seven being so cloud focused, it's those holes are really opening glaring, and that's why I like the story and six so much more. I do I do like seven but six is my clear favorite.Palsh 54:26 I'm gonna agree with you there is seven, much more centric around the you know, three or four characters. You have optional characters in both games you have UEFI or euphy and Vincent and seven you have tomorrow and go go and six, there's more backstory that will come out of it, but it seems like is integral in seven, like with delphis character and stuff like that you need to have her for this net. It's just I don't know. I'm just going to basically be Back home that I just like six better so I'm just gonna shut up. I think this is great. I mean, play whichever one you want. If you haven't played either play them both.Wulff 55:10 absolutely absolutely don't get don't sit here and listen to people in a podcast tell you don't play don't play six or don't play seven or don't play any game. Because we tell you it's a pile of garbage or we're not big fans of it or whatever. And that's not to say I'm saying seven is a pile of garbage. Like I said, I loved it the first time. The first time it was a great game, but subsequent attempts I can't do and I do recommend if you haven't played it and you like JRPGs absolutely do it.Jake 55:37 And like the benefit from the Fast Forward option now in current emulation, having a hotkey for fast forwarding through those long grinding battles is amazing.GP 55:46 No, we can't we can't talk about that right now. Jay.GP 55:52 That's a whole other episode my man no brian ross.GP 55:55 And yeah, can we can we get one of those randomizers like they do with Link to the Past and Metroidvania are super metroid. Can we get that with Final Fantasy? six and seven? Please? Isn't. Isn't there one for six alreadyWulff 56:07 know he's talking about like, combine them?GP 56:09 Yeah, you enter a door and all of a sudden you're in Final Fantasy six. And then you go back. Cloud is cross dressed. And yes, cloud I have modeled a lot of my drag looks after him.Palsh 56:24 You lie. That's, that's the missus.Wulff 56:27 I'll rip him off. Smash.GP 56:30 Done choreo he's a pretty pretty princess.Wulff 56:35 He's a pretty guys.Palsh 56:38 Alright guys, I want to thank you again for this is probably the most heated discussion we've had yet. So it's first time we've been talking over each other since like the first episode so I like it. So I'm going to give that two plus 10 two energy. And it was so a ladies and gentlemen, thank you for hanging out here. This has been presby to cancel and Hope to catch you next time. And in the meantime, don't match that be we got more coming.Jake 57:07 For sure. Well, we everybody listening, we hope you enjoyed the episode. And we all just want to come in and shout out our early supporters. I mean, we've been doing this now for, I think 12 episodes now. That's That's pretty good. But I mean, our listeners that have stayed with us from the beginning are much appreciated. And we've had a lot of love and support from quite a few people. There's a few, but we're just going to shut it a couple of right now. I'll start off with Blitz Brom, who's a notable streamer on Twitch, actually went ahead and added a command for podcast to advertise for us, which is great. Really appreciate that support, man.Palsh 57:41 Yeah, I'd like to thank you got Marin. She's also been supporting us and retweeted four episodes. So thank you, Mary.Wulff 57:49 I'd like to throw a thank you at sinica gaming, who is also added a command for us and constantly shouts out our podcasts in his his streams and others. Twitch streamer.GP 58:01 Yeah. And then another streamer who has been a not only a big supporter, but the the composer of our theme music ortherWulff 58:10 dang and theme music thatGP 58:12 manga. Yeah. But yeah, Arthur Arthur, the last ancient is is the man. And so thank you all for the love the support and the continued efforts at getting getting the word out about us. We appreciate you.Wulff 58:26 Absolutely. Thank you so much.GP 58:28 I want to ask you guys before we go, what does it feel like? Knowing all three of you were wrong today.Palsh 58:38 This has been pressed me to cancel. Thank you very much.GP 58:43 That was a lot of fun, guys.Jake 58:45 Yeah, it was good episode. Yeah,Wulff 58:46 that was a good one. Yeah.GP 58:47 All right. I'm gonna go and hit stop and then thatWulff 58:50 was a good one.Jake 58:56 Special thanks for music go two hours of the ancient found on Sunday. cloud or the last station on YouTube. For more episodes, please visit our website presby to cancel.com. As well Feel free to like or subscribe at Apple, iTunes, Google podcasts or anywhere else you'd like to listen to your favorite shows. As always, thank you. This has beenWulff 59:17 an ad again.Special thanks to Arthur The Last Ancient on soundcloud for our podcast theme. For updates and more episodes please visit our website www.pressbtocancel.com, or find us on Twitter @pressbtocancel and Instagram @pressbtocancel.

Arthur Haines is a forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher. Arthur firmly believes that we are at an important crossroads in our existence, one where domestication of the human species has led to an inability for most to nourish, heal, and care for themselves. This process has created profound blindness to the consequences of modern industry and the illnesses associated with nature disconnection. Show Notes: Book: Nutrition & Physical Degeneration: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544354.Nutrition_and_Physical_Degeneration Connect with Arthur: Arthur’s website: http://www.arthurhaines.com/ Arthur’s Book: A New Path: http://www.arthurhaines.com/anewpath/ Arthur’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvWxcysE0u667sKYLJapAQ Arthur’s TEDX talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-neSMw_PXo&t=1s Arthur’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/arthur.haines.5/ Wilder Waters Website: https://wilderwaterscommunity.org/ Wilder Waters Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/wilderwaterscommunity/ Untaming Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Untaming-396582437559159/ Untaming Instagram Handle: untaming_podcast Untaming Email: untaming.podcast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/emily033 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Storytelling with a Purpose - Lessons from Legendary Vocal Coach Arthur Samuel JosephIf you're speaking in front of another person – or many – it's not a presentation. At least, it shouldn't be. It should be – a performance. That's how Arthur Joseph sees it. And that's how he teaches others to see it. From NFL Hall of Fame inductees like Emmitt Smith to Hollywood heavy hitters like Angeline Jolie, Arthur has helped thousands up their speaking game.Now, he's ready to help you grow. Arthur wants to do more than just bring a tip or two… he's ready to offer you, my audience a Masterclass feel for our conversation.Whether it's preparing for a TED talk or a business presentation (performance!) – whether a keynote or a quarterly earnings report, or any kind of oral story, Arthur can help you go beyond the next level as a storyteller.“I'd like us to step back each day as often as we can, allow a Conscious Loving Breath and slow this process down a bit. Let's not just stream this data. Let's learn how to embody the message and the messenger as we tell our story.” - Arthur Joseph on social mediaConnect with Arthur:Arthur's Storyteller Welcome PageVisual Voice Pro CourseArthur's Digital Offerings for StorytellersArthur on FacebookArthur on TwitterArthur on YouTube

Comment déconstruire ce qui, selon Arthur Keller, sont de "faux espoirs", pour mieux travailler à en construire de nouveaux, plus proches de la réalité de ce qui peut effectivement se passer dans les prochaines années ?C'est la question qu'Arthur se pose, alors que justement le dernier rapport du GIEC vient de paraître et nous fait comprendre gentiment que nous sommes très mal partis pour parvenir à limiter l'augmentation de la température de la planète, et que les conséquences pourraient en être désastreuses. J’ai voulu enfoncer le clou sur cette question écologique qui conditionne tous les scénarios d’avenir, pour mieux comprendre cette possibilité d’effondrement systémique dont on entend de plus en plus parler et qui me questionne au point de me faire passer des nuits blanches.Arthur Keller est un spécialiste du sujet, et je discute avec lui de son diagnostic sans concessions, de pourquoi il faudrait vite abandonner des croyances qui lui semblent contre-productives pour mieux appréhender les défis de l'époque, et de ce qu’il faudrait faire concrètement pour préparer l’avenir de manière sereine, lucide et si possible positive.Sujets abordés dans l'épisodeClimat, écologie, effondrement, croissance, politique, nouveaux récitsPour s'y retrouver...2'' - L’état du mondeLes 6 sphères naturelles, toutes se dégradent gravement« Depuis 40 ans plus de 50% des animaux sauvages ont disparu. »Notre dépendance au pétrole et le risque de pénurie à venirUn système humain fragile« Le monde est en état de pré-effondrement »10'' - Les élites savent-elles?« Ils ne savent pas, et c’est criminel de ne pas savoir. »« Nos dirigeants sont embourbés dans leurs dogmes »Edouard Philippe interviewé avec Nicolas Hulot qui cite Jared Diamond13'' - On va pouvoir trouver des solutions?Notre croyance aveugle en l’avenir est un élément commun à toutes les civilisations passées…« Les ingénieurs n’ont pas les solutions »17'' - La sociologie des catastrophes La croissance est finie.Gael Giraud, économisteIndice de Gini sur les inégalités« L’ennemi est en chacun de nous »« La notion de nature humaine n’a pas grand sens, l’homme est opportuniste »Social mood, état d’esprit social : il est important de lutter contre toute forme de repli24'' - Pourquoi ne serait-on pas capable de réagirOn ne voit pour le moment aucune inflexion de courbe.« On n’est pas câblé pour traiter une problématique systémique »Dennis Meadows, « Les limites à la croissance »« On sous-estime toujours le problème et on surestime nos capacités. »Retard pris par l’Allemagne sur son plan de déploiement d’énergie renouvelable (article Bloomberg)« Dans l’ADN même des institutions on a le problème. »CCNUCC, article 3, alinéa 5 : on ne doit pas gêner la croissance et le commerce international, quoi qu’il arrive.29'' - L’allégorie du TitanicLe syndrome du Titanic, livre et film de Nicolas Hulot« Globalement nous ne pouvons pas éviter une simplification. »« La plausibilité [d’un effondrement] suffit pour s’y préparer, c’est la voie humble. »37'' - Ne faut-il pas d’abord se battre pour sauver le système ?Le timing pour réagir est passé : « C’est trop tard depuis au moins 30 ans »Le véritable optimisme c’est de se dire que l'on peut fabriquer quelque chose de neuf »« Aujourd’hui, ne pas savoir est un choix. »L’importance de montrer le contraste entre un monde de transition et en monde où on n’aurait rien fait.43'' - Qu’est qu’il faudrait faire ?Engagez vous : « Nous changeons le monde à chaque fois que nous montrons l’exemple. »Transition townsAdrastiaLes colibrisS’engager, faire, apprendre de nouvelles compétences, partager l’information de manière argumentée.« Les enfants ne sont pas préparés au monde, ils sont préparés à un marché du travail qui n’existera plus demain. »Préparer un plan B progressivement pour aller contribuer à la régénération de la nature et du tissu social.L’importance des entrepreneurs pour inventer le monde de demain.« Sortir du déni, arrêter de dire qu'on est sûr que ça ne s’effondrera pas. »« Je vois beaucoup de gens qui sont un peu égoïstes dans leur idée de la transition. »Il faut faire sa transition personnelle et communiquer dessus pour montrer concrètement comment ça marche.Phases du deuil de Kübler- Ross : déni, colère, marchandage, dépression, acceptation55'' - L'innovation« L’innovation aujourd’hui est complètement à côté de la plaque ». Il faut trouver un compromis entre la performance et la prise en compte des limites et contraintes de ce siècle.« La technologie n’est qu’un outil, ce n’est pas une finalité »Philippe Bihouix58'' - Les nouveaux récits « Il faut des contre imaginaires pour faire concurrence à ceux d’aujourd’hui. »« La civilisation dans laquelle on vit aujourd’hui est philosophiquement indéfendable. »« L’avenir se joue sur le terrain des idées. »Teilhard de Chardin, la noosphèreLe projet de série TV d’ArthurLes kits de transition d'AdrastiaIl faut remuer les gens, faire changer d’état émotionnel, donner des clés pour mobiliser.1’05'' - Un programme politique de transitionLe programme de « transition sociétale » élaboré pour Charlotte Marchandise, c'est ici : https://charlotte-marchandise.fr/4-piliers-programme/ et le focus sur la transition écologique est consultable ici : https://www.calameo.com/books/005026737476e6a4c2757Arthur a aussi travaillé sur un train de propositions dont il a piloté la conception en matière de prise en compte politique de la question de la condition animale (ici) et son rapport de 2013 qui répond à la question « Peut-on concilier politique de croissance économique et impératif de soutenabilité ? » (là).1’10'' - Un conseil ?Se mobiliser chacun à son niveau pour travailler à la transition. « On a besoin du meilleur de l’homme. »« La solution ne viendra pas d’en haut. »Les livres recommandés par Arthur : Le système technicien - Jacques EllulLa fin de la croissance : s'adapter à une nouvelle réalité économique - Richard HeinbergPour continuer d’explorer ces sujets avec Arthur : Arthur est administrateur de l’association Adrastia qui travaille sur les questions évoquées ensemble : http://adrastia.org/qui-sommes-nous/conseil-administration/arthur-keller/Une autre interview donnée il y a quelques mois, dans laquelle Arthur explicite sa vision et sa stratégie de com : http://www.passerelleco.info/article.php?id_article=2189Une intervention dans le cadre d’une table ronde organisée en septembre dernier lors du festival CLIMAX chez Darwin Éco-Système à Bordeaux et une interview récente pour l’émission de radio L'ours et la carotte, qui ont toutes deux été relayées par Adrastia : http://www.adrastia.org/energie-climat-transition-arthur-keller/Une autre table ronde sur les limites de la transition énergétique : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnzi2VgtC3MSi vous avez aimé, abonnez-vous à la newsletter sur le site et au podcast sur votre plateforme préférée et laissez un avis et une note (sur Apple podcast), ça m’aide beaucoup :Apple PodcastsOvercastDeezerSpotifyYoutube Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Show Notes Arthur Luke: Ep 002: How to Become a Branding Expert and Win Over Your Potential Clients. Today’s Guest: Today’s guest, Arthur Luke, is the definition of the word “Entrepreneur”. You can find today's guest at , Arthur is a branding expert, blogger, and serial entrepreneur with over 35 years experience in helping some of the world's largest brands, as well as some of the smallest startups find success. Who is Arthur?: Arthur has been lucky enough to work with the likes of BBC, Coca-Cola, Toyota, BT, Penguin Books and much more! Arthur has been many things during his time as an Entrepreneur such as; Bus conductor, A shipyard boilermaker, a welder, and more which Arthur mentions during the show. By the age of 10! Arthur started to run his very own business, this is where he realised he was an entrepreneur at heart. He has created his own Publishing company, he has run his own design company he has been Creative Director of the world's biggest branding agency, he has been a space tourism expert and he is also a blues musician in his spare time and as you can see is a lifelong hustler and entrepreneur. Arthur’s Journey: Becoming an entrepreneur in his childhood although he wasn’t always sure at the time. He once lived in Australia and he started a golf balling business at just the age of 10. As he grew up he wanted to try everything such as; Civil Servant, Publishing Company, Design Company, Software Company. He went into Branding in 1972, where he worked for Terence Conran, and since then worked for some of the biggest design companies in London. Then to top it all off he’s been a Blues Musician in his own band! In this show, you will learn: Why Branding is so important for any business Why finding an audience for your business, first is so important Is it safe to run a business on enthusiasm What was the motivation for Arthur to push his ideas How to deal with difficult family members and friends who don’t understand your ideas Are mentors essential for Startups to invest in How time is needed for you to invest when starting out How to have a clear message for your audience to understand better How to find out what your passion is and learn how to create a business from it Is it important to get a job on the side whilst working on your hustle How Arthur was funding his businesses in the starting stages Is bootstrapping a good idea for early stage startups How taking calculated risks can be beneficial and essential for startups looking to scale How to have your foot in the door within multiple niches What Social Media is Arthur's Favourite for boosting Lead Gen What should you be doing to start within the Branding niche? Arthur’s Rocket Round Q&A Book or Audio & Which? Book: Tribes by Seth Godin & Made to Stick by Chip Heath Recommended App for Startups? Instagram Best advice to Startup? 1. Build your audience before building the product 2. Don’t Sell, Inspire! 3. Make Branding critical within your business. What would you say to your 22-year-old self? Don’t be limited by the limitations and beliefs of your friends and family, go with dreams. Who is your favourite entrepreneurial idol? JK Rowling (Author of the Harry Potter franchise) Best Ways to Find or Get in Touch With Arthur: Twitter - https://twitter.com/yimyamyo Instagram -

Voyage #03 La naissance d'une idée par Arthur Arthur souhaitait "voir" un esprit à l'œuvre, y découvrir comment se forment l'imagination, d'où viennent les œuvres d'arts, comment les génies inventent ce qui changera nos vies. Le caisson a essayé de lui répondre par une métaphore musicale.

Voyage #03 La naissance d'une idée par Arthur Arthur souhaitait "voir" un esprit à l'œuvre, y découvrir comment se forment l'imagination, d'où viennent les œuvres d'arts, comment les génies inventent ce qui changera nos vies. Le caisson a essayé de lui répondre par une métaphore musicale.