Podcast appearances and mentions of Kevin Stewart

Director of environmental health at the American Lung Association, Kevin Stewart, calls in to talk about the air quality in our city

ABOUT KEVIN STEWARTKevin Stewart is an engineering executive focused on building teams to build products. He has helped shape the engineering culture at a number of startups, digital agencies and cloud companies. Kevin is particularly experienced in leading remote and distributed teams to consistently deliver quality products. Although he currently resides in Seattle, Kevin is a lifelong New Yorker with dreams of relocating to a sunny island in the Caribbean.SHOW NOTES:Determining what you think is broken vs. what is actually broken (2:57)Focusing on the root issues around leadership & decision-making (4:46)Strategies for identifying the root cause of what is broken (9:08)A framework for diagnosing issues, making a compelling case to stakeholders, and driving high-impact change (10:59)Factors that impact decision making authority on your teams (13:53)Signals that your org faces learned helplessness & how to override it (16:13)Kevin's advice for leaders who realize they contribute to a fearful environment (18:26)Kevin's journey @ Splice and aligning personal values with the company mission (21:02)Challenges behind new strategy rollouts and the need for a customer-centric “north star” (26:26)Witnessing the emotional impact of your product on customers (29:44)Repetition is key when it comes to reinforcing your org's vision (30:48)Prioritizing your time & resources between strategic and tactical work (32:32)Frameworks for aggressively auditing your calendar (35:47)How to empower your team and delegate. so they can operate autonomously and you can shift your focus to strategy and business objectives (37:37)Rapid fire questions (41:38)LINKS AND RESOURCESThe Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant - Tae Kim's deeply reported business history of the chip-designer Nvidia—from its founding in 1993 to its recent emergence as one of the most valuable corporations in the world—explaining how the company's culture, overseen by cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang, has powered its incredible success.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

In episode 84 of the Summits Podcast, co-hosts Vince Todd, Jr. and Daniel Abdallah are joined by Kevin Stewart of Centier Bank. Tune in as Kevin shares his path in business banking and why he is driven to give back as a director on the Heroes Foundation Board of Directors.

Kevin Stewart has lived a life in franchising fresh out of school. On this episode he shares his "ups and downs" of business ownership and how he coaches others in the same space.  Kevin shares what he has learned over the decades and now helps franchise consultants and franchisors expand their knowledge with the International Franchise Professionals Group. Reach out to Kevin for more info! 

Welcome to Three Questions with Kevin Stewart! In this episode, Stewart, the Director of Innovative Schools Summits shares his history working with youth in another country and then answers these questions: What do you hope people get from your summits? What impact do these summits have on schools? What do you hope that summit participants get from the speakers? Quotes: “All people need love.” - Kevin Stewart “...restored my faith in education ... I still have something to give and I'm not quitting.” - Kevin Stewart - sharing participant feedback from Innovative Schools Summit Links: Kevin Stewart LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-stewart-900013110/ Innovative Schools Summit - https://innovativeschoolssummit.com/ AccuTrain - https://accutrain.com/ __________________________________________ Please share your thoughts with us on Twitter or Instagram at #InnovatorsMindset. More at georgecouros.ca George Couros on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcouros George Couros on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gcouros George Couros on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/georgecourosauthor/ George Couros on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/george-couros-a5146519 For the full audio podcast: https://linktr.ee/gcouros The Innovator's Mindset: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986155497?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d What Makes a Great Principal - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948334739?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzgeorge0f-20&creativeASIN=1948334739&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.2SBTFVTBT0S6X&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Because of a Teacher - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833433X?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Because of a Teacher 2 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833450X?tag=onamzgeorge0f-20&linkCode=ssc&creativeASIN=194833450X&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.2SBTFVTBT0S6X Innovate Inside the Box: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948334127?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Music from Bensound - http://bensound.com/

The Firebirds coach previews his team's game with Mill Valley

Benjy Katchen shares Wahi's latest report and Kevin Stewart joins us to discuss the recent changes in real estate south of the border

Kevin Stewart is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in England, he plays for the Jamaica national team. He has previously played for Tottenham Hotspur, Crewe Alexandra, Liverpool, Cheltenham Town, Burton Albion, Swindon Town, Hull City and Blackpool.Where to find Kevin Stuart:• LinkedIn (11) Kevin Stewart | LinkedInWhere to find Hadi Radwan:• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedInIf you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

In this episode of the Pool Magazine Podcast, host Joe Trusty is joined by Scott Gleason and Kevin Stewart from Pentair Pool to discuss the importance of choosing the right filter cartridge replacement. The conversation dives into how Pleatco's advanced filter cartridges can help pool professionals streamline maintenance, simplify inventory management, and reduce overall operational costs. Scott and Kevin also highlight the benefits of cartridge filtration over sand filtration systems, offering insights into efficiency, water clarity, and sustainability. Tune in for expert tips on optimizing pool care with the right filtration solutions.Send us a Text Message.GENESIS®GENESIS® is the leading educational program for pool builders and design professionals.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the Show.

This episode features an interview with Kevin Stewart, a former professional football player turned fitness and mindset coach. Kevin shares his journey from playing football to running a fitness program in Dubai. He emphasises the importance of mindset in achieving fitness goals and living a healthy lifestyle. Kevin's approach focuses on listening to one's inner voice and taking action based on that guidance. The episode delves into the mindset of an athlete, the impact of injuries, and the role of gratitude in achieving lasting results. Kevin's insights provide valuable lessons on self-care, discipline, and personal growth. KEY TAKEAWAYS Athlete Mindset: Embracing the identity of an athlete in everyday life can lead to better habits and overall well-being. Purpose and Gratitude: Finding purpose and practising gratitude are essential for long-lasting results in fitness and mindset. Investing in Yourself: Investing in oneself means listening to the inner voice that guides towards growth and self-care. Fitness and Mindset: Fitness is not just about physical training but also about mindset and belief systems for sustainable results. Identity Change: Changing one's identity to align with desired habits, such as being an athlete, can lead to consistent behaviour and success. BEST MOMENTS "I think it's easier to not do that thing. So I can't remember what it is, but there's something in your brain where if you continuously do the thing that you don't want to do, it's like a muscle that goes up and it gets stronger and stronger." "I'd say that they need to find their purpose fast, like real fast, find their purpose fast, use whatever they have."  "I mean, my own mom, she's very overweight, and it's come to a level where it's very hard to change it and to change back."  "I think I wanted to compete for a lot longer than I initially planned. So it's like, now as well, I want, like, I'm not just doing this for one final time, but I'm going to do this for a long time."  "Investing in yourself means going on a journey every single day to do the things that you know you're supposed to do, the things that your conscience told you to do." RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-stewart-5926461aa/ Insta kevstewart93 ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Charlie Sandvall LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/ Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram @ivansandvall

A homicidal turkey axes off college kids during Thanksgiving break. Directed by Jordan Downey Written by Jordan Downey, Brad Schulz, Kevin Stewart, Anthony Wilson & Grant Yaffee @thedeadlightspod

This week Kevin and Stewart invite back Tim Rothberg [E005] for a special episode that we've been teasing for a few weeks ... the official roll out of Rothberg Shurtleff Dang PLLC.Kevin, Stewart, and Tim talk briefly about the journey that leads to Stewart's return to the private practice of law.  But more importantly, the guys discuss the excitement and anticipation of this new adventure that has been 25 years in the making and spend significant time talking about their "start up squad" and the value proposition that makes RSD a boutique law firm with an unrivaled bench of relevant experience and expertise for the construction industry. || Connect with Us || Check out all our episodes on all major streaming platforms, and further engagement with the 17Twenty crew on social media at:https://17twenty.buzzsprout.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/17twentyhttps://www.instagram.com/17twentypodcastGrab your copy of the Mountain Mover Manual: How to Live Intentionally, Lead with Purpose, and Achieve Your Greatest Potential, by Kevin CareyOriginally in print:https://amzn.to/441OPeHAnd now available on Audible:https://adbl.co/45YIKB2

In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Stewart, a seasoned footballer whose journey has taken him from the pitches of Tottenham and Liverpool to Hull and Blackpool and more. But this episode goes beyond the scores and the stadiums. Join us as Kevin opens up about his remarkable life journey – from his upbringing shaped by his sister and father to becoming a professional footballer. Thank you to this weeks sponsor @andsomskin Instagram

Broker, Faisal Susiwala, Canada‘s, number one agent, and broker, Kevin Stewart from Metro Detroit join us 

Kim tells Ket about the cinematic masterpiece, Thankskilling. The girls, uh… this was a tough one. It made them grateful for a lot of things: never having to watch this again, the movie being over, never having to speak of it again… just lots of gratitude. And booze. This episode required a lot of booze… and booooooos. Most importantly, we'll learn if Ket will live or die in Thankskilling.Dir. Jordan DowneyWriters Jordan Downey, Brad Schulz, Kevin Stewart, Anthony Wilson, Grant YaffeeSupport the girls on PATREON for some sweet BONE CON (bonus content) at: www.patreon.com/kimandketstayalivemaybeKKSAM Facebook Discussion Group!!"Sammies Stay Alive... Maybe"www.facebook.com/groups/kksampodcastResting Witch Space - Ket's Witch Supply Shoppes: https://www.restingwitchspace.com/Stay at Kim's Joshua Tree Airbnb!https://www.airbnb.com/h/desert-oasis-joshua-treeGet acquainted with all things KIM & KET at www.kimandketstayalive.com Chat with the girls at kksampodcast@gmail.comPeep the girls on Instagram: @kksampodcastRock with the girls on Tik Tok: @kksampodcastBook the face of the girls on Facebook: @kksampodcastWear the shirts of the girls from the MERCH Store: kimandketstayalivemaybe.threadless.comOk we'll see ourselves out.Thanks for listening!xo and #StayAlive,K&KListen to season 1 of our horror trivia pod!KIM AND KET'S SURVIVE THE CELLARlink.chtbl.com/kkstcProud members of the Dread Podcast NetworkSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Catching up with the Firebirds coach after their 4-0 start

Al talks about Sprout Valley Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:48: What Have We Been Up To 00:21:54: News 00:44:42: Sprout Valley 01:09:13: Outro Links Disney Dreamlight Valley Enchanted Adventure Update Above Snakes 1.3.0 Update APICO 3.0 Update Everdream Valley Roadmap Coral Island Charity DLC 2 Moonstone Island Collectors Edition Spirittea Dev Update Ooblets Plushes Eastward Octopia Japanese Rural Life Simulator Sprout Valley on Steam Sprout Valley on Switch Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:26.700] This video is made using the [00:30.400 –> 00:37.840] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Al. I’m Kevin [00:37.840 –> 00:45.280] and we are here today to talk about cottagecore games. Before we get into it, [00:45.280 –> 00:50.280] transcripts are available in the show notes and on the website. Get them if you want them. [00:50.280 –> 00:59.400] Kevin, how you doing? Yeah, I’m doing okay. Well, I mean, this is probably where, [00:59.400 –> 01:05.140] where we mentioned that we had just recorded a greenhouse episode before this. So if this is [01:05.140 –> 01:10.000] low energy, that was much longer than we were. I was like, this is going to be like a 20 minute [01:10.000 –> 01:14.960] episode. And then 20 minutes, 20 minutes in, we were just stopping talking about Spiderman. [01:14.960 –> 01:23.040] Yeah, there’s some real dumb stuff in that greenhouse. But that’s okay, I’m hyping myself, [01:23.040 –> 01:27.680] I’m bringing plenty of dumb stuff to this podcast episode recording too. [01:27.680 –> 01:32.720] All right, so in this episode, I am going to talk about Sprout Valley because I have [01:32.720 –> 01:36.440] been playing that and presumably Kevin will have some dumb questions for me. [01:36.440 –> 01:37.760] Yeah, I will. [01:37.760 –> 01:43.520] Yeah, so we’re gonna talk about that and there’s a whole bunch of news. Most of [01:43.560 –> 01:47.640] reasonably small pieces of news, but there’s some chunky stuff as well. We’ll get into that. [01:47.640 –> 01:50.760] But first of all, Kevin, what have you been up to? [01:50.760 –> 01:58.520] Oh, okay. Actually, nothing too interesting this week. The usual. Snap is good. Tears [01:58.520 –> 02:05.200] of the Kingdom is good. Oh, I beat the end of the Koga arc. I love Koga. He’s probably [02:05.200 –> 02:06.320] my favorite character in that game. [02:06.320 –> 02:10.880] That is a really good arc in Tears of the Kingdom. I did that before I did like any [02:10.960 –> 02:15.400] of the other big story things because it was, I was fun just to like follow him around there. [02:15.400 –> 02:20.680] Yes, it was. I happened to run into him before I even got a horse. [02:20.680 –> 02:24.880] Who needs a horse in this game? Come on. [02:24.880 –> 02:31.520] Yeah, you’re right. The one thing that I do love about the whole Koga thing, [02:31.520 –> 02:37.360] I think an absolute stroke of genius. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, [02:37.480 –> 02:42.360] they’d already been thinking about Tears of the Kingdom back then, but the fact that they [02:42.360 –> 02:47.400] turned the ending of Koga where he falls into the hole and just tie it into his new story. [02:47.400 –> 02:55.680] Oh, that was genius. Oh, it was beautiful. But yeah, Eagle Clan, it’s really fun. I love it. [02:55.680 –> 03:04.280] Master Koga is great. Aside from that, the only thing of some note is I’ve hit year five in [03:05.280 –> 03:14.280] Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life. You only have six years before you hit credits. [03:14.280 –> 03:20.960] Yes. Well, the main credits. There are other credits. Don’t forget about the other credits. [03:20.960 –> 03:25.840] Yeah. I mean, I already hit credits because you just say not the beginning. [03:25.840 –> 03:31.000] That’s the first credits. You’ve got to do that before you do anything else if you’re [03:31.000 –> 03:36.240] going to hit everything. Yeah, I already did that. So I’m going to hit the credits again. [03:36.240 –> 03:40.640] I love that they kept that in the game, by the way. They could have easily removed that. [03:40.640 –> 03:48.160] But no, they kept it in. It’s good fun. Yeah, it’s great. So the only, I mean, [03:48.160 –> 03:53.920] my kid’s now like an adult roughly the age you were when the game started, which is interesting [03:53.920 –> 04:00.000] to see. I’m going through faux parenthood here and it’s weird. I mean, parenthood is weird. [04:01.000 –> 04:05.880] Well, yes, but I’m genuinely worrying if my kid’s going to want to inherit my farm or not. [04:08.280 –> 04:20.520] Anyways, the one super notable thing that they do something just brutal to you. So I can’t [04:20.520 –> 04:25.960] remember if it’s year four or year four. No, in year four, all the character’s hair starts to [04:26.080 –> 04:31.480] gray. Like you start seeing everyone starts getting the salt and pepper gray hairs in there. [04:31.480 –> 04:39.760] Year five, you’re getting older, so they take away permanently an amount of your stamina. Your [04:39.760 –> 04:47.360] stamina bar goes down like a good chunk, too, because you are getting up in your years. You [04:47.360 –> 04:54.160] can’t take it anymore. Oh, that’s it’s getting too real. But yeah, so hopefully soon I’ll actually [04:54.200 –> 04:59.400] be able to hit credits of this game for once and I can report back on it. Although I don’t think [04:59.400 –> 05:05.360] anything will ever top what I did for that episode. But that’s that’s all I’ve been up to. Oh, what [05:05.360 –> 05:10.040] about you? What’s going on? I obviously have been playing Spirit Valley the last wee while. [05:10.040 –> 05:24.080] And I’ve also been playing Hades. That’s a good game. Kind of. Yeah, it is. Look, I mean, [05:24.080 –> 05:30.960] I’m going to do a proper discussion with this later. Probably for a greenhouse episode with [05:30.960 –> 05:38.280] someone else. But like, I mean, my overall thoughts are probably going to be the same as [05:38.320 –> 05:44.960] most roguelites, which is I like the combat. I like the primary loop. And I hate everything [05:44.960 –> 05:51.960] else about the game. Well, hold on. What do you mean everything else? Because like, characters [05:51.960 –> 05:56.800] are really good. Okay, the character stuff is fine, right? Like, but it’s not. I mean, [05:56.800 –> 06:08.440] it’s weird in like, the story. It’s not a story. It’s more just like snippets from to [06:08.440 –> 06:16.480] this world building, right? Like there isn’t a story as such, as there is snippets of characters [06:16.480 –> 06:24.600] and kind of giving you some backstory and stuff like that. But there’s no like the story is you [06:24.600 –> 06:30.400] escaping. Right? Like, that’s the story. And there’s nothing really to tell about that. So [06:30.400 –> 06:36.320] they spend the rest of the time giving you these little, little bits and pieces as you go from [06:36.320 –> 06:44.680] different people. Okay, fine. I don’t dislike that. But how do you think you’re going to stick [06:44.680 –> 06:48.680] with it? Because I can comment on something here. But if you’re going to stick with it, [06:48.680 –> 06:54.680] I won’t comment on probably going to stick with it. Okay. All right, then. Well, well, [06:54.680 –> 07:01.280] I got so close to beating the first boss the other day, so close, frustratingly close. And [07:01.280 –> 07:07.800] the thing that I really dislike about it is like, all of the things that I did, essentially [07:07.800 –> 07:13.040] disappear, right? Sure. Fine. There’s stuff you get that can build up other things later on, [07:13.040 –> 07:16.920] right? Fine. But the problem is, if you don’t get a huge amount of that each run, [07:16.920 –> 07:22.440] it just feels like so demoralizing to go like, I was so close, because of these specific power [07:22.440 –> 07:27.360] ups I got on this specific run. And the chances of me getting all those power ups again, very, [07:27.360 –> 07:34.040] very slim. It’s just that I just don’t find that fun. Okay. I mean, all right. Yeah, no, I mean, [07:34.040 –> 07:39.760] that’s, that’s your prerogative. You know, that’s subjective. That’s can’t argue. Absolutely. It’s [07:39.760 –> 07:45.800] definitely subjective. And like, I, you know, I know that I know the reason why people like [07:45.800 –> 07:48.880] these games. And I know the reason that this game is why it is, but that doesn’t mean that [07:48.880 –> 07:57.280] I have to enjoy that. You know, I think that still, we’ve still, despite the number of rogue [07:57.280 –> 08:02.120] lights that I’ve played, still the only one that I actively enjoyed playing was Cult of the Lamb. [08:02.120 –> 08:13.480] Okay, it’s, see, that’s interesting, because Cult of the Lamb, very, well, at least gameplay combat [08:13.480 –> 08:18.360] wise, that the stuff we’re talking about where the stuff doesn’t matter when you die, that feels [08:18.360 –> 08:28.000] very, Cult of the Lamb feels very Hades-lite in that sense. But the kicker is, Cult of the Lamb [08:28.000 –> 08:33.880] runs take what, five minutes? A Hades run can last you a half hour. Exactly. So this is the thing, [08:33.880 –> 08:40.080] this is the difference for me, right? So Hades, yeah, sure, you have some kind of small base [08:40.080 –> 08:44.600] building, right, in your home, right? But it’s not really, right? It’s basically the place that [08:44.600 –> 08:50.520] you go to after you fail, to get ready to go and fail again, right? Whereas the point in Cult of, [08:50.520 –> 08:54.920] because the point of Hades is get to the end of the course, right? The point- Have you unlocked [08:54.920 –> 08:58.680] the mirror? Let me ask you that. Yes, I have unlocked the mirror. Okay, I’m just making sure. [08:58.680 –> 09:02.360] You get that really early. I don’t remember, so that’s a mess. I think you get, I think it tells [09:02.360 –> 09:06.560] you to use it, like, immediately after your first death. Okay, because that mirror makes a [09:06.560 –> 09:09.440] difference. It does, you know, it absolutely does. And I’m not saying that it doesn’t build [09:09.440 –> 09:13.680] anything up. There is obviously that building up of the stuff that you do, but I feel like [09:13.680 –> 09:19.440] this power-ups you get when you’re out on the run are just so much more powerful than any of the [09:19.440 –> 09:24.980] stuff that you’re building up in the base. But anyway, the reason why I think the Cult of the [09:24.980 –> 09:30.440] Lamb is different and why I enjoy it is the point of Cult of the Lamb is your base. That’s the point, [09:30.440 –> 09:36.240] right? And you go out on runs to gather resources, and if you fail on gathering resources, you just [09:36.240 –> 09:42.400] don’t get more resources. Yeah. And you can just try again. Okay. Whereas the point of Hades is [09:42.400 –> 09:46.400] getting to the end of the course, and if you don’t get to the end of the course, you’ve failed. Yeah, [09:46.400 –> 09:51.800] all right, that’s fair. That’s the difference, I find. Okay, yeah, that’s a very good point, [09:51.800 –> 09:59.640] and you’re right, because, yeah, the Cult of the Lamb, the base is half the game, absolutely. I’d [09:59.640 –> 10:07.000] say it’s more than half the game. Well, maybe. I guess it depends how you define half the game, [10:07.000 –> 10:10.600] right? Because different people will play different ways. So if you’re thinking in terms [10:10.600 –> 10:17.200] of like amount of time played, then it depends on how you play. I went out on runs when I needed to [10:17.200 –> 10:23.080] to get stuff, right? But I much more enjoyed being on the base. Anyway, so that’s my Hades. I’ll talk [10:23.080 –> 10:28.520] more about it in the future. I’m not going to immediately stop playing it, but I’m not playing [10:28.520 –> 10:35.000] it right now, because all my game time is currently taken up by the Scarlet and Violet [10:35.000 –> 10:44.360] Pokemon DLC. So I, okay, I have not played it. I have seen things about it, like I’ve seen the [10:44.360 –> 10:51.000] things I care about, and I’ll probably get it at some point, but the consensus I’m hearing is that [10:51.000 –> 10:56.480] it is more Scarlet and Violet. So I think it depends on what you think about that. So like, [10:57.440 –> 11:00.800] this is the thing is like, people are like, is it better? And it’s like, it depends what you mean [11:00.800 –> 11:04.640] by that. If you mean, have they fixed the performance issues? No, of course they’ve not. [11:04.640 –> 11:09.800] They were never going to do that. I said that 10 months ago, they were never going to fix these [11:09.800 –> 11:15.000] performance issues, right? They made things better over time. It is definitely a better game now than [11:15.000 –> 11:20.320] it was at release. A hundred percent, there are improvements in the performance, but to say that [11:20.320 –> 11:25.080] they would be gone, they’ve definitely still improved, right? They’re not perfect, but they’re [11:25.080 –> 11:30.840] definitely better than they were. I used to get stuck in the menus every single raid. That never [11:30.840 –> 11:37.040] happens for me now. Now I’m not saying they’re perfect, but it has definitely improved. I’m not [11:37.040 –> 11:41.880] saying it doesn’t happen at all. What I’m saying is it has improved. It is definitely better than [11:41.880 –> 11:47.320] it was. So this is the thing is like, I need to know what people are expecting out of the question [11:47.320 –> 11:53.520] to give them an answer. So if your question is, have they made the game perfect? Then obviously [11:53.520 –> 11:57.080] the answer is no. If the question is, have they made the performance better? The answer is not [11:57.080 –> 12:04.600] really no. Not since the last update. And that’s such a loaded question, right? And you say that [12:04.600 –> 12:09.360] knowing it’s a loaded question, right? Because I can’t tell you how much fun I’ve had in this game [12:09.360 –> 12:13.040] because it’s a lot, right? Like I wouldn’t put the amount of time into this game if I wasn’t actually [12:13.040 –> 12:18.800] enjoying myself. Are you sure? Absolutely. And I’m not trying to tell anybody that they should be [12:18.800 –> 12:27.720] enjoying this game, but fun means different things for different people. I’ve put a lot of game time into that new Animal Crossing. What I would say is there are, I don’t think there are [12:27.720 –> 12:31.880] more trainers in this area than there were in the last one, which I know is one of your kind of like, [12:31.880 –> 12:36.240] there aren’t more people in the, in the area than there were in the last one, which I know is one [12:36.240 –> 12:40.400] of your issues. It’s not the only issue I know, but that is certainly one issue that I don’t think [12:40.400 –> 12:47.640] has been addressed. There is, it still feels empty of people. What I will say is that I think, and [12:47.680 –> 12:55.320] this is my personal opinion, I think this area compared to Paldea, I think Kitakami is a better [12:55.320 –> 13:03.920] designed area and it feels as a whole more filled out. I feel like there are, there are very, [13:03.920 –> 13:10.040] there’s not really any areas where you look and you go, there’s nothing here at all. Okay. There [13:10.040 –> 13:16.760] are more landmarks per square mile, I think. Okay. I think that’s already an improvement. Yeah. The [13:16.760 –> 13:22.720] storyline is, I think, so probably on par with the storylines in the, in the main one. I mean, [13:22.720 –> 13:28.520] I mean, that’s just Pokemon. This is the thing, right? I think, I think that we generally agreed [13:28.520 –> 13:32.840] that the stories were better than previous games, right? Cause it’s not just like, Oh, [13:32.840 –> 13:39.080] the end of the world and Oh no, we’ve saved the world. I don’t, I mean, that’s not my opinion. [13:39.080 –> 13:46.520] Okay. Lots of people have, prefer the stories in Scarlet and Violet to some previous stories [13:46.520 –> 13:52.880] because they’re more personal. And I think that has continued. So yes. So in terms of like story, [13:52.880 –> 13:58.480] I think it continues to be more Scarlet and Violet in terms of lack of people, it continues to be [13:58.480 –> 14:06.080] a story in Scarlet and Violet in terms of how the world feels personally, I feel like it has improved [14:06.080 –> 14:11.780] in terms of how the game plays. It is the same because it’s still the same game. Obviously they [14:11.780 –> 14:16.500] have not massively improved performance. The boxes are a bit better, but they’re still not [14:16.500 –> 14:22.940] amazing. Um, and obviously they have not changed how the movement across the world works, which is [14:22.940 –> 14:30.820] obviously in my opinion, it’s biggest problem. One of them. Yes, absolutely. Okay. Here’s a [14:30.820 –> 14:38.380] question that I think can be somewhat objectively measured. Are there things to do? And it sounds, [14:38.540 –> 14:43.780] it’s a very broad, dumb way of saying, but like in Scarlet and Violet, once you’ve caught all the [14:43.780 –> 14:49.900] Pokemon, you, there isn’t that much left to, you know, clear the stories, caught all, filled your [14:49.900 –> 14:56.020] decks. There’s not much left to do. It’s raids, right? That’s what they want you to do is raids. [14:56.020 –> 15:01.500] Yes. Um, I don’t know, cause I’ve not got that far and I’ve not really been Googling for things. [15:01.500 –> 15:10.820] So I’m, I’m in the midst of the story. All right. Well, that’s fine. Um, okay. I’ll update you on [15:10.820 –> 15:16.980] that when I get further. Um, but yeah, I mean, I really, I, and I like some of the new areas in, [15:16.980 –> 15:25.220] in this are really nicely designed areas I feel, um, uh, which is, is fun. Um, but yeah, I mean, [15:25.220 –> 15:30.860] you know, if you absolutely hated Scarlet and Violet, obviously don’t buy this, right? Like [15:30.900 –> 15:36.580] it just depends on what aspects you didn’t like and which aspects you do. And for me, I just, [15:36.580 –> 15:42.500] I like playing the game. I like catching the Pokemon, you know, obviously cause that’s like, [15:42.500 –> 15:48.460] you have to like catching the Pokemon to, you know, play a professional challenge. Um, I like, [15:48.460 –> 15:54.180] yeah, I like lots of aspects of this game. I definitely want it to be better, but yes, [15:54.180 –> 15:59.580] it is more of that, but I liked that in the first place. Okay. [15:59.580 –> 16:12.260] All right. I, I, yeah. Okay. I get the gist of it. Um, it kills me. It absolutely kills me that [16:12.260 –> 16:21.380] I will probably get this largely because of one new thing that I, I mean, I won’t know, [16:21.380 –> 16:26.060] don’t know what you know, or I usually leaks guys. You probably know, but the listeners don’t know. [16:26.060 –> 16:31.820] As I said with the original, the base Scarlet Violet, Pokemon is good at Pokemon. That whole [16:31.820 –> 16:37.260] Dex, I like those Pokemon. I like seeing them. And all of the new Pokemon I like as well. Yeah, [16:37.260 –> 16:42.440] I do too. I don’t think all of them are some of the best, but I think some of them are some of [16:42.440 –> 16:48.060] the best they’ve done. Sure. They’re enjoyable. And it kills me. It kills me that I want, [16:48.060 –> 16:54.860] the only reason I want the DLC is to see those new Pokemon. Yeah. You can always try trading [16:54.860 –> 17:00.500] because you can get them in the base. I like, I know I can’t, but just, and that’s, and this is [17:00.500 –> 17:05.420] the thing, this is what I actually like how they’ve done DLC, both with sword and shield and [17:05.420 –> 17:09.420] Scarlet and violet. They don’t make you buy it to get the new Pokemon. Yeah. It’s not right. You [17:09.420 –> 17:13.180] have to, you have to buy it if you want to get them yourself, but you can always trade for them. [17:13.180 –> 17:20.180] And, you know, in my experience, you put up any shiny Pokemon on the GTS asking for any legendary [17:20.260 –> 17:25.700] and you will get that legendary, right? You can get any Pokemon if you have a good selection of [17:25.700 –> 17:32.380] spare shinies. Right. It’s, it’s so easy, um, to do like, like even, uh, Oh, what’s it called? [17:32.380 –> 17:39.540] What’s the one from legends? Uh, the, the genie, the, the, the, Oh, an amorous or whatever. Yeah. [17:39.540 –> 17:43.820] And amorous, even an amorous, I’ve had multiple and amorous just from random shiny. That’s nuts. [17:43.820 –> 17:49.340] You know, like people will trade anything for shiny Pokemon. Dang. I mean, legends is a great [17:49.340 –> 17:55.220] game and all, but that’s, that’s a track to getting an amorous. Um, Oh, wow. I will give [17:55.220 –> 18:02.140] props to the DLC for, Oh, okay. Here’s a big question. And so one of the biggest selling [18:02.140 –> 18:09.500] points for me as a Scarlet player, especially I can get out of those hideous orange shorts. Um, [18:09.500 –> 18:17.460] can I bring my you cuts or whatever to the pal day? Uh, the main area. That is a good question. [18:17.460 –> 18:22.020] Oh no, you don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. Cause like I’ve just been spending all [18:22.020 –> 18:27.380] my time in the new area. Let me tell you, let me, let me, let me, let me live. Tell you, [18:27.380 –> 18:31.100] it’s going to happen. Here we go. Cause I was playing some Mario Kart with Craig earlier. [18:31.100 –> 18:39.740] So let me just beat the game. Oh, so how big is the, the, the map? Good question. It’s hard to [18:39.740 –> 18:44.860] know because on in the game, when you like switch between the maps, it shows them different scales, [18:44.900 –> 18:53.980] right? So it looks like they’re the same size, but they’re not. It feels maybe like crown [18:53.980 –> 18:59.860] tundra sized. Okay. That’s decent. Yeah. So like I think bigger than Isle of armor, [18:59.860 –> 19:10.580] but not, but not as big as the, obviously mean, right. Let me check. Right. Game is booted up. [19:11.420 –> 19:19.580] Let me travel over to Paldera. Let’s just go to Mazagoza because that’s my only travel point [19:19.580 –> 19:25.460] because I’ve not got far in this version. Oh, I’m on a plane apparently because a little, [19:25.460 –> 19:30.740] oh, that’s fun. Little animation of a plane and a Dragonite flying next to it. Oh, that’s cool. [19:30.740 –> 19:35.620] Dragonite flies off. And here we go. We’ve touched down and I am still in my clothes from [19:35.620 –> 19:44.380] Kitagami. There we go. All right. Day’s saved. Okay. DLC is worth it for that alone. It really [19:44.380 –> 19:50.380] is much better to not be in school uniform. It’s still white wild to me that they did that. Right. [19:50.380 –> 19:54.580] Like I get why they wanted to do it, but like just force you back into those clothes for like [19:54.580 –> 20:02.900] the specific cut scenes. If you really want that. Yes. Like, yes, it’s, you can also like the extra [20:02.900 –> 20:08.380] things that you can buy, you can just buy in Paldera as well. Um, the, cause they give you [20:08.380 –> 20:14.100] a style card, right? And that gives you the ability to buy them in. Oh, that’s cool. That’s [20:14.100 –> 20:19.540] nice. You don’t have to go to the new area to buy the stuff. That’s, that’s nice. This place [20:19.540 –> 20:24.660] is only selling glasses, hats and gloves. So I need to find a place that’s selling more than [20:24.660 –> 20:28.540] that. No, I didn’t mean to walk back in. This is the thing that really annoys me about these games. [20:28.540 –> 20:35.580] When you walk out of a shop, it has you facing the shop. Oh yeah. So it has you facing away from [20:35.580 –> 20:40.020] the shop, right? You came up to it facing the shop. So I automatically think, Oh, I need to [20:40.020 –> 20:45.220] go backwards because I was facing forwards and I don’t want to go forwards cause that’s me facing [20:45.220 –> 20:50.220] towards the shop. But then you go backwards, you go straight back into the shop. Oh, it’s bags. [20:50.220 –> 20:55.860] This one is. Ooh. Right. Let’s see what these bags. It’s definitely a different style of bag. [20:55.860 –> 21:03.020] It’s one, one different style of bag. Anyway. Uh, yeah. So you can definitely leave without, [21:03.020 –> 21:07.100] you can definitely go to Pildea without the school uniform. So. All right. That’s good. [21:07.100 –> 21:13.900] That’s a big plus. But yeah, I am enjoying it. And, um, as we mentioned in the greenhouse episode [21:13.900 –> 21:18.180] that hopefully has already come out, but I don’t know when I’m going to edit it. So it might not [21:18.180 –> 21:23.340] be out yet. It might come out on Saturday. Um, I am considering doing another Professor Oak [21:23.340 –> 21:33.060] challenge because why not? Well, I can answer why not, but let’s not get into that. I think [21:33.060 –> 21:41.900] that’s everything that we’ve been up to. That’s cool. Look, I’m just, it’s fine that I’m in, [21:41.900 –> 21:49.380] I’m, I’m winding down because 10 days of this recording, you know, what’s coming begins the, [21:49.500 –> 21:55.900] the Maneco Geddon begins. Goodbye the world. Oh yeah. All right. What, [21:55.900 –> 22:02.140] what non Maneco things are supposedly coming out? Let’s talk about some news. So we have Disney [22:02.140 –> 22:08.980] Dreamlight Valley. The enchanted adventure update is out now. This is the update with Belle. Um, so [22:08.980 –> 22:18.460] the Beauty and the Beast realm and the storyline there. Um, and a lot of other things like there’s [22:18.460 –> 22:23.020] a big long list. If you play this game, you probably have already looked at the list to see [22:23.020 –> 22:28.260] if what you care about. So I’m not going to go over all that just now, but it is out now. Um, [22:28.260 –> 22:34.660] and I am still convinced that the next update will be the either final early access update [22:34.660 –> 22:40.340] or the one final update. That is what I’m convinced of. Oh snap. There’s Jack Skellington [22:40.340 –> 22:45.420] outfits in this. Look, there’s everything. There’s everything in this game. This is like, [22:45.660 –> 22:51.020] this is the everything game. Well, I mean, I don’t cause you know, [22:51.020 –> 23:00.140] nightmare before Christmas is a little, you know, not, I mean it is Disney, but like they don’t [23:00.140 –> 23:05.780] usually lump it in with the princesses and the Mickey’s and whatever. Right. Usually all kind [23:05.780 –> 23:10.140] of its own corner. Some surprise it made it in. Yeah. I look, I look forward to when they start [23:10.140 –> 23:17.380] bringing the Marvel and the star Wars and oh goodness. No, no. Whatever. Bell’s cool. She’s [23:17.380 –> 23:21.260] my second favorite princess. Um, well, you’re going to have to see who your first is then. [23:21.260 –> 23:32.660] It’s Rapunzel because she’s incredible. She’s the best. Not Moana. I like Moana. You don’t [23:32.660 –> 23:38.980] Moana. No, there’s nothing wrong with Moana. Moana is great. Just Rapunzel set the bar real [23:38.980 –> 23:44.460] high and I don’t know. I’m just, Bell’s just pure nostalgia, like beauty and the beast. That’s a [23:44.460 –> 23:49.980] good one. Fair enough. I just have real problems with that storyline. So I struggle to connect. [23:49.980 –> 23:58.860] There are, there are a lot of problems with that storyline. Gaston might be the hero if you think [23:58.860 –> 24:07.060] about it. You look at it from his point of view. No, except the, the thing he did with his dad, [24:07.060 –> 24:12.540] but other than that. Yeah, well sure. He’s not a good guy. Right. Let’s not pretend he’s a good [24:12.540 –> 24:16.580] guy. Yeah. He’s not a good guy. That’s not what we’re trying to say here. Not a good guy. But he [24:16.580 –> 24:27.460] wasn’t irrational. Yeah. Uh, okay. Anyway, above snakes, they has a 1.3 update is out now as well. [24:27.860 –> 24:34.780] This includes a photo mode plus a bunch of other content, some furniture and the piano. I don’t [24:34.780 –> 24:40.180] know why they specifically mentioned the piano. I don’t know. Piano. If you want a piano, there’s [24:40.180 –> 24:47.180] always playable. Oh goodness. Right. Okay. I missed that. If you want a playable piano in [24:47.180 –> 24:53.900] this game, there you go. And it’s on discount right now for, I don’t know how, 20% off. There [24:53.900 –> 25:01.580] you go. All right. Um, then we have Apico has its 3.0 update, which is coming out on the 26th of [25:01.580 –> 25:18.660] September. Oh, special silly September day. Oh, Apico. Um, it’s Maneco day. It is. So we’re back [25:18.660 –> 25:24.340] up. We’re back up to fish. We’re back up. Yes. Yeah. It says underwater bees right there. You [25:24.340 –> 25:29.300] get fish. I think we talked about this a little bit, right? Yeah. So you can fish in the game. [25:29.300 –> 25:38.060] Yeah. But also there’s underwater bees. Yeah. For some reason. Fish. Um, one thing I want to [25:38.060 –> 25:44.700] note that I didn’t catch before Cody, her, they, it’s Cody, Matt. I don’t know if it’s Matt, [25:44.940 –> 25:51.940] Mathive or Mathive, but they changed her name from, from her last name to put hive in it. I [25:51.940 –> 25:59.460] love that. I missed that. Yeah. All right. Go anyways. Yeah. So a bunch of water stuff in, [25:59.460 –> 26:06.460] in Apico. Go, go restore coral reefs. They’re called the highs of the, the sea for a reason. [26:06.460 –> 26:17.380] Um, ever dream Valley have released a roadmap. So they have a big update coming in October, [26:17.380 –> 26:24.180] a Halloween event coming in October as well as every game has to have, obviously. And, uh, their [26:24.180 –> 26:32.020] multiplayer beta is coming out in December. Cool. I’m going to get annoyed. Ah, there’s this thing [26:32.020 –> 26:35.780] that some games do, right? Where they go, Oh, this is the beta of multiplayer, but it’s like [26:35.820 –> 26:42.140] baked into a release of the game, right? It’s not, it’s not like a thing that you can’t like, [26:42.140 –> 26:46.780] you choose to update to because you’re on the beta branch, right? Don’t call something beta. [26:46.780 –> 26:53.420] If the game is not a beta, right? Like you can’t add a feature into your game and call it beta. [26:53.420 –> 26:59.900] Like it means anything. Your game is released. Act like your game is released. What are you doing? [27:00.740 –> 27:08.900] Nothing matters in game dev talk. Nothing matters. It’s just the first version of multiplayer. Just [27:08.900 –> 27:14.020] call it that. I forgot how this game looked. It was looking at that’s cute game. Yeah, [27:14.020 –> 27:22.260] there’s a pig. Oh yeah. I’ve never really looked too much into this game. I haven’t either because [27:22.260 –> 27:28.580] there’s nothing really kind of like stuck out to me, but yeah, it just keeps rolling. It’s in [27:28.620 –> 27:35.900] that filing cabinet Al has of we need an episode game when we need an episode and we have a week [27:35.900 –> 27:41.420] where we can actually play a game because that’s the other key point, right? Like it’s great when [27:41.420 –> 27:45.580] we have time to do it, but when we say we’ve got an episode next week, we don’t have a topic for [27:45.580 –> 27:54.300] and everybody’s busy playing something. All right. Time to have random topics. Mica and the [27:54.300 –> 28:02.060] witch’s mountain will all be playing that and not ever dream when it comes out. Sadly, [28:02.700 –> 28:11.980] it’s been delayed to early 2024. That’s fine. That’s fine. You take your time. Mika. I have [28:11.980 –> 28:19.660] Maneko on my plate that I need to get through. Yeah. They’d never given an exact date, but I [28:19.660 –> 28:26.380] think the kickstarter had said October 2023. I think they’ve been pretty good at releasing [28:26.380 –> 28:32.220] things roughly on schedule. So I think their last game was like two months late or something like [28:32.220 –> 28:40.540] that, which for a kickstarter game is basically on time, you know? Yeah, it really is. Yeah. So [28:40.540 –> 28:47.660] Mika said October 2023. That’s what it said. And, uh, oh, in fact, Koa and the five pirates [28:47.660 –> 28:53.020] said September 2023 and I think actually came out in August. So I actually did come out. Oh, [28:53.020 –> 29:01.180] dang. So that’s something. And Summer and Mara said, oh, so that said September 2019 [29:01.180 –> 29:06.940] and I think came out March 2020. So it was a few months late, that one. Um, but, um, it’s pretty [29:06.940 –> 29:13.580] good. It’s pretty good. Considering, considering I have, considering I have multiple kickstarters [29:13.580 –> 29:21.340] that are currently two years late. Um, I mean, and that’s not to mention the bidet that I, [29:21.340 –> 29:28.380] that I’m, that I kickstarted that was meant to come out in December 2020 still hasn’t come out. [29:29.820 –> 29:36.940] Okay. What was special about it? Why was it a kickstarter? It’s a portable bidet. Okay. [29:36.940 –> 29:42.460] So you take it with you. Like it’s handheld thing. Okay. Like it’s like a little, [29:43.100 –> 29:47.820] it looks kind of like a big, a big torch, big flash. What, what? [29:49.500 –> 29:53.100] With a little spray nozzle on the side. Okay. So it’s, [29:54.940 –> 30:00.540] what are you connecting to? Or just has it. So you pour the water into it from attack. Okay. [30:01.260 –> 30:10.780] Okay. Okay. And, and it just, all right, ready to go. Yep. I mean, okay. Like I’m, I’m, [30:10.780 –> 30:17.900] I’m just trying to imagine designing this thing, like to achieve that functionality. [30:17.900 –> 30:23.740] Yeah. I’m still not sure. I’m still not sure. It’s not a scam. Right. [30:25.100 –> 30:30.140] Well, look, you can say that about a lot of kickstarters. Three years late. Three years [30:30.140 –> 30:35.340] late. Three legends came out and I’m still wondering. So the last update we got on this [30:35.340 –> 30:42.940] was in March and they said, we’re ready to, ready to, to deliver. And eventually we still haven’t. [30:42.940 –> 30:51.900] That was March. So look, I’m just, I’ve, I’m there. Okay. I’ve never used a bidet personally. [30:51.900 –> 30:57.740] Okay. Like they’re not common in the area of states where I live or whatever. I’ve never [30:57.740 –> 31:05.180] seen one in person. So I’m just like, if you care that much about having a bidet, [31:06.060 –> 31:10.860] like, is it, is not a spray bottle good enough? [31:14.700 –> 31:20.060] We don’t need to get into this, right? 2020 was a weird time, Kevin. Let’s not, we don’t judge, [31:20.060 –> 31:26.220] we don’t judge what anybody did in 2020. Assuming you obviously didn’t like actually harm people, [31:26.220 –> 31:29.100] right? We don’t judge the weird decisions we made in 2020. [31:29.900 –> 31:39.340] No, I’m, I’m, I’m just, I’m just wondering like how many back this fascinates me. Like [31:39.980 –> 31:46.060] Coral Island, their new charity DLC is now out. So we’ll link to that in the show notes. [31:47.020 –> 31:52.460] I have already bought it. We’ll do it. We’ll do a greenhouse episode on it. [31:53.020 –> 31:56.060] Yeah. If you really want to talk more about my portable bidet. [32:00.700 –> 32:03.420] Oh no, we’re, we’re, we’re, we’re, we’re obviously going to do another episode of [32:03.420 –> 32:07.100] Coral Island when it’s one year old. Yeah. Yeah. Charity. Okay. For real, [32:07.100 –> 32:10.780] go save the real coral race with that. It’s cool. [32:10.780 –> 32:15.340] It’s a cool DLC. I got the last one as well. They’re both cool. Get, [32:15.340 –> 32:17.420] you can’t get the first one, but you can get the second one. [32:17.420 –> 32:23.580] I, I haven’t played Coral Island yet, but boy, do I like the ocean, [32:23.580 –> 32:27.820] the real one and the real coral reef. So yay for helping. [32:30.060 –> 32:36.380] Moonstone Island have announced a collector’s edition, which is like two quid more than the [32:36.380 –> 32:44.380] main one and gets you not a lot. It is not a lot because what it gets you is a full color art book. [32:45.340 –> 32:50.460] The download of the original soundtrack and some exclusive decor in game. [32:52.220 –> 32:56.940] So that feels like a no brainer to me. Yeah. If you like Moonstone Island, [32:56.940 –> 33:02.780] that’s the no brainer boy. The, the lo-fi girl is just super popular [33:03.900 –> 33:08.620] because that’s what they have here. Yeah. Okay. All right. [33:09.260 –> 33:18.460] Uh, what else? So this is an interesting one. So this is an interesting one, right? Okay. So I, [33:18.460 –> 33:24.300] I want to preface this with, I don’t normally cover like random little features that are on [33:24.300 –> 33:28.700] games before they release. Right. Cause we’d be here all day if we were covering stuff like that. [33:30.060 –> 33:35.660] But I think this one is interesting enough that it feels like I want to talk about it. Okay. [33:36.220 –> 33:41.260] And that is Spirit Tea doesn’t force you to sleep at specific times of the day. [33:41.900 –> 33:47.260] You can choose when you’re sleeping. They just require you to get a certain amount of sleep [33:47.260 –> 33:51.980] and you can choose when that is. So if you want to be like out all night and sleep during the day, [33:51.980 –> 33:56.620] you can do that in this game. That is very interesting. [33:56.620 –> 34:03.980] I know. Right. That’s a cool idea. Um, yeah, yeah, no, good on that. Like obviously, [34:04.540 –> 34:07.900] presumably the nighttime will be worth staying up for. [34:08.460 –> 34:14.380] Yeah. So it says that some characters are, are, are like, it doesn’t say nocturnal. It says night [34:14.380 –> 34:20.220] hours, but yeah, like there’ll be people that will be out either only at night or mostly at night, [34:20.220 –> 34:25.900] um, and stuff like that. So, uh, yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how it goes. [34:26.540 –> 34:31.420] Yeah. That’s, that’s an interesting way to go about it. Um, [34:31.420 –> 34:35.660] yes, I think at this point we’re at the it’s interesting stage and we’ll see whether it’s [34:35.660 –> 34:42.140] good or not later. Um, once we’ve actually got to play this game. Other games probably could [34:42.140 –> 34:46.300] benefit from that for sure, but okay. Yeah, cool. Yeah. I feel like it’s the sort of thing that [34:46.300 –> 34:51.660] couldn’t be actively bad. Um, it might be something that we don’t use very much, but like giving you [34:52.300 –> 34:57.980] the option feels like a good thing in and of itself. It is. Sure. Yeah. But anyway, [34:57.980 –> 35:02.060] it’s not a huge thing. I just felt like it would be interesting to at least mention that. [35:02.940 –> 35:10.380] Ooblets plushies. I played smooshy come home. There aren’t a lot of names in smooshy [35:10.380 –> 35:14.460] granted, but you know, one’s called smooshy. There’s another guy called chunky [35:15.260 –> 35:21.100] and I still think the name Shrumbo is dumb. Clumper and Glanter. [35:21.100 –> 35:28.380] These are, look at those faces though. Let me, let me look at the face. I’m just looking at [35:28.380 –> 35:35.500] the names. What’s a Shrumbo that feels like a fake Mon that they put on the Simpsons on the TV. [35:37.500 –> 35:43.820] Good old, uh, little Shrumbo. Oh, Shrumbo is pretty cute though. Actually Shrumbo would fit [35:43.820 –> 35:49.420] right in smooshy world. So I’m not going to complain. So Shrumbo plushie is available now [35:49.420 –> 35:55.980] in the US and it’s coming soon in the EU. I’m sorry in Europe. I don’t know why I wrote EU. [35:56.540 –> 36:02.780] Coming soon in Europe. I have requested to get a notification when we can buy it here. [36:03.980 –> 36:09.020] And clumper and Glanter are coming soon. They’re not on the Europe site. Interestingly. I don’t [36:09.020 –> 36:13.740] know whether they’re not coming or whether they’re just not up on the site yet, but Shrumbo is up on [36:14.300 –> 36:20.940] the Europe site. So he’s a big, big squishy boy. All of them. I don’t know what you’re talking [36:20.940 –> 36:26.460] about, but they all Shrumbo specifically. Yeah, he is. He really looks like he’d fit in smooshy [36:26.460 –> 36:35.100] with the name and all. All right. Let’s talk about Eastward Octopia. It was in the Nintendo Direct, [36:36.220 –> 36:41.660] which I thought, I thought I’d managed to get out of this direct. Um, uh, talking about it on [36:41.660 –> 36:45.420] this podcast. Um, I’m just talking about in the greenhouse cause I was like, there are no farming [36:45.420 –> 36:51.820] games. And then I looked closer at this game and realize this is a farming game. Very, very clearly. [36:51.820 –> 36:55.500] Yeah. Like I don’t know how I missed it when we were watching. I just went Eastward. Oh, [36:55.500 –> 36:58.780] that’s a game I don’t really care about. Let’s ignore what’s happening here. [36:58.780 –> 37:06.060] I didn’t realize this is a DLC to Eastward, right? Which is coming soon. No release date yet. A DLC [37:06.060 –> 37:14.540] to Eastward that you don’t need to play Eastward to play. Yup. Right. It’s like a whole separate [37:14.540 –> 37:20.300] game. Yeah. And it’s a whole completely different game. The graphics are the same. Presumably the [37:20.300 –> 37:26.860] controls are very similar, but it is a farming game and Eastward is an adventure game. These [37:26.860 –> 37:38.380] are not the same thing. I mean, not an adventure. No, this is a weird thing to happen. Like what, [37:38.380 –> 37:45.500] why is this a DLC and not another game? First of all, weird. Well, that’s that. Now that is [37:45.500 –> 37:52.380] a good question. Um, so what, here’s an interesting point. I just, I was watching the, the, the farming [37:52.380 –> 37:57.740] animation and um, when they’re watering, they’re just like walking along the line of crops, [37:57.740 –> 38:03.340] pouring water. They’re not like, take a walk, water, take a walk, water. They’re just walking [38:03.340 –> 38:08.860] along and they’re, the animation for watering is continuous. That’s so nice. Isn’t it? [38:10.460 –> 38:16.220] Why is this not a thing in other games? I hate, I hate slash love when a game does this and they’re [38:16.220 –> 38:21.980] like, here’s a thing that you never would have thought of, but now that it exists, every other [38:21.980 –> 38:28.220] game that doesn’t do this is going to annoy you. It’s all ruined now. Like I never want to see a [38:28.220 –> 38:37.820] farming square again. Just make it all continue. Oh man. Oh, so this is interesting. I don’t know [38:37.820 –> 38:44.860] what I’m going to do with this because I had no interest to play Eastward ever. Right. I still, [38:44.860 –> 38:50.540] and you still don’t have to buy it though, but I have to buy the game, [38:51.340 –> 38:54.300] but it doesn’t seem too expensive. So that is good. Um, [38:56.540 –> 39:00.620] but yeah, it’s like welcome to the charming world of Eastward population declining journey [39:00.620 –> 39:05.420] through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strain creatures [39:05.420 –> 39:11.980] and even stranger people. We are a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into an [39:11.980 –> 39:20.140] unknown. And then this is Sam and John return in an all new adventure. Remember this, remember this [39:20.140 –> 39:26.940] is a DLC in this heartwarming story driven farming sim players can grow crops, tend livestock [39:26.940 –> 39:31.100] and turn an abandoned fairground into a thriving village with the help of the weird and wonderful [39:31.100 –> 39:38.220] cast of beloved Eastward characters in a parallel universe where time and space have collided. [39:38.220 –> 39:43.420] Sam and John moved to a peaceful corner of the globe. I’m sorry, a parallel universe. [39:44.140 –> 39:51.500] Well, there you go. That solves all the problem. What? What? We’re doing multi travel in Eastward [39:51.500 –> 39:58.460] now. This is a large DLC for Eastward with a brand new story in an all new farming game mode. [39:58.460 –> 40:06.300] Eastward is required to play the Eastward Octopia DLC. Eastward and the multiverse of cottagecore. [40:06.940 –> 40:15.260] This is weird. It’s weird, but they got us. It might be good weird. I’m not 100% sure. [40:16.860 –> 40:23.820] I don’t know. Their update on it is announcing Octopia a new farming DLC coming Eastward. [40:23.820 –> 40:28.140] I bet you didn’t see that coming. They start off. You’re right about that. [40:29.580 –> 40:35.820] So the Eastward Octopia DLC will be accessible straight from Eastward start menu and suitable [40:35.900 –> 40:38.940] for brand new players and Eastward completionists alike. [40:40.700 –> 40:46.860] Why is this a DLC? The more I think about it, the more the more I’m on board with this [40:47.500 –> 40:57.580] general idea of of totally separate different DLC. This is weird. Like, oh man, [40:58.460 –> 41:02.620] I’m trying to think of a good example of a wild one. Well, I was going to make a joke [41:02.620 –> 41:08.220] about Final Fantasy or something, right? Having like a random addition that adds farming. [41:08.220 –> 41:09.900] Those are already in Final Fantasy. [41:09.900 –> 41:15.740] I realized they did that. They did that in Final Fantasy 14. Not only that, it’s on the moon. [41:16.780 –> 41:21.660] Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Final Fantasy has those baked in. [41:21.660 –> 41:27.340] There’s no joke you can make about Final Fantasy, but it’s something they’ve probably already done. [41:27.340 –> 41:36.380] No, I mean, it’s like Mario Wonder gets a DLC that’s, I don’t know. [41:38.060 –> 41:44.300] Oh, it’s like, you know, it’s like they did Mario 3D World and they just added on a whole [41:44.940 –> 41:48.140] new game onto it. There was an open world 3D platformer. [41:48.700 –> 41:51.020] Yeah. Oh, wait, they did. [41:53.020 –> 41:54.060] Yeah, they did. [41:57.340 –> 42:01.580] I still need to play that one. All right. Interesting looking. [42:01.580 –> 42:07.660] Did you look at the fishing minigame? Oh, I remember looking at it. I remember, [42:07.660 –> 42:11.340] I don’t remember what it is right now, but I remember noting it in my brain. [42:11.340 –> 42:16.380] Weird. Also, is that flying flying cows and pigs? Why are they flying? [42:17.020 –> 42:22.620] I don’t know. Yeah. Okay. That looks a little like, what’s it called? [42:24.060 –> 42:28.700] Well, I mean, the circle roots of Pacha. But yeah, that fishing actually looks interesting. [42:29.740 –> 42:36.700] It looks dynamic. I appreciate a dynamic minigame. All right. Whatever. I mean, [42:37.980 –> 42:41.260] it’s crazy, right? Because if this were a standalone game, this would be like, [42:41.260 –> 42:44.940] for sure. Just like, yeah, I’m down for that. But the fact that it’s DLC. [42:45.740 –> 42:50.540] Octopia is a weird name. I haven’t played Eastward, so probably maybe it means something. [42:50.540 –> 42:56.700] I don’t know. Wait, can we get a DLC where the universe is collide? [43:00.460 –> 43:04.460] Japanese rural life simulator talking of weird things. [43:05.180 –> 43:12.940] Yeah, this. Okay, so this is an Apple arcade game. I’m going to guess that at some point [43:12.940 –> 43:18.860] it’ll come to Android because their previous games are on Android. This is a Japanese developer [43:19.740 –> 43:28.060] that has released this game. And it’s about living in rural Japan. View the cherry blossoms in the [43:28.060 –> 43:33.340] spring, attend the festival in the summer, eat roasted sweet potatoes in the fall, hear the [43:33.340 –> 43:37.820] temple bell ring in winter, and then it’s time for the first shrine

Kevin and I talk about running dogs in wild bird trials and the differences between hunting and trials. Of course we wander off topic a lot and simply talk dogs, birds, and a Grouse Camp event held at Alibi Hall on August 19, 2023. Thank you to our sponsors Aspen Thicket Grouse Dogs aspenthicketgrousedogs.com Pine Hill Gun Dogs phkscllc@gmail.com Second Chance Bird dogs Field Armor fieldarmorusa.com Collar Clinic collarclinic.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/birdcamp/support

Al and Kelly talk about Fishing Break Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:00:54: Kelly Talks Fishing 00:04:21: What Have We Been Up To 00:16:12: Fishing Break 00:55:15: Outro Links Fishing Break on Google Play Store Fishing Break on Apple App Store Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:02.000] Music [00:30.000 –> 00:35.100] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season. My name is [00:35.100 –> 00:42.080] Al. My name is Kelly. And we are here today to talk about more fishing. Fishing. [00:42.080 –> 00:49.120] Fishing games. I mean it’s summer so it fits. Fishing month this is, I think, this is the [00:49.120 –> 00:53.100] last episode of fishing month. Welcome Kelly to the last episode of fishing [00:53.100 –> 00:58.040] month. Thank you for joining me. It’s a real pleasure, I gotta say. I love fishing [00:58.200 –> 01:05.280] and fishing games. I loved fishing in real life as a kid so I’m happy to be [01:05.280 –> 01:08.800] here. What’s your favorite fishing in the farming, not in the farming game, just [01:08.800 –> 01:15.760] what’s your favorite fishing in any game? And why is it Spiritfarer? I really [01:15.760 –> 01:20.840] did like Spiritfarer but I’m not gonna lie I love Stardew which I know is kind [01:20.840 –> 01:27.840] of… Interesting. Controversial. Yeah. I love the challenge of it I don’t know. Yeah I [01:27.840 –> 01:31.640] think that’s fair. I think it’s like, I think you either really like the [01:31.640 –> 01:35.400] difficulty of it or you absolutely hate it and you’re just like, just let [01:35.400 –> 01:39.360] me catch the fish for goodness sake. I mean I definitely have some of those [01:39.360 –> 01:43.600] moments in Stardew where I’m like oh my god especially with like the legendaries [01:43.600 –> 01:48.200] and like the rare ones it’s like just let me catch his fish. Yeah. But there’s [01:48.200 –> 01:51.360] definitely been some games I’ve played where I’m like this is so easy it’s [01:51.360 –> 01:58.800] boring. Yeah, yeah that’s fair. I think there was an episode a couple weeks [01:58.800 –> 02:02.400] ago about ranking the fishing minigames. That’s this one of one of these out of [02:02.400 –> 02:04.800] time things where it’s not actually a couple of weeks ago it will have been in [02:04.800 –> 02:10.000] a couple of weeks ago. Where Johnny and Kev rank the fishing minigames and [02:10.000 –> 02:13.040] that’s one of the things they talk about is like sometimes it’s just kind of in [02:13.040 –> 02:15.440] there for the sake of being in there and therefore they don’t put much thought [02:15.440 –> 02:19.520] into it and it’s just kind of like oh yeah just press button. Which is fine [02:19.520 –> 02:22.880] but it like you got to think about whether your game actually needs [02:22.880 –> 02:25.400] fishing or not like so many of them are just like yeah we’ll put fishing in [02:25.400 –> 02:29.480] because that’s what you do. Yeah exactly it’s you can really see which games [02:29.480 –> 02:34.040] really want it to be a part of the game and which games are just like oh well [02:34.040 –> 02:40.840] it’s like a quote-unquote requirement for fishing for farming games. Definitely. [02:40.840 –> 02:44.800] Also I thought I love Animal Crossing I just I think maybe because I spent a lot [02:44.880 –> 02:52.720] of time doing that. Stockholm syndrome type thing. Yeah so those would [02:52.720 –> 02:56.760] definitely be my top two. What about you? I think I think it has to be Spirit [02:56.760 –> 03:00.760] of Hater for me which is the one that wins in the fishing minigame episode a [03:00.760 –> 03:04.440] few weeks ago because people will have already heard that. The Spirit of Hater [03:04.440 –> 03:10.200] was their joint winner as well. I like the balance of difficulty but you [03:10.200 –> 03:14.720] can still always do it like there’s no kind of like stress time element to it [03:14.720 –> 03:18.680] it’s just like you see it getting too strong that’s fine ease off there you go. [03:18.680 –> 03:23.480] Yeah. Like the worst thing that happens is it breaks but the second worst thing [03:23.480 –> 03:28.360] is it just takes ages. Yeah and I mean you’re already committed to it so what’s [03:28.360 –> 03:32.800] what’s the harm? Exactly. I did love also that you could fish while you were [03:32.800 –> 03:37.880] moving. Mmm yeah yeah. Because I feel like that was like you know especially [03:37.880 –> 03:40.560] towards the end when I had less to do I was like okay I’m just gonna fish now. [03:40.560 –> 03:46.160] Yeah definitely. All right awesome well I guess before we get too far into even [03:46.160 –> 03:49.560] though we just had a whole conversation about fishing transcripts are available [03:49.560 –> 03:53.440] in the show notes and on the website for the podcast if you need them. This [03:53.440 –> 03:57.520] episode obviously there will be no news because again it is fishing month and [03:57.520 –> 04:03.360] the last episode of fishing month and so I think we’re recording this roughly a [04:03.360 –> 04:07.360] month in advance so that’s why we’ve got no news if there’s anything breaking [04:07.600 –> 04:14.720] then you’ll hear about it in two weeks and this episode we’re going to talk [04:14.720 –> 04:19.800] about fishing break which is a mobile game a fishing mobile game so we’ll have [04:19.800 –> 04:24.640] lots to say about that soon but first of all Kelly what have you been up to? [04:24.640 –> 04:30.880] Well I at this moment just got back from I had been on vacation in Washington [04:30.880 –> 04:38.240] State out in the Olympia Peninsula so did a lot of hiking a lot of kayaking it [04:38.240 –> 04:41.640] was a lot of fun now I’m back in New York and it’s very humid here and [04:41.640 –> 04:48.040] disgusting. Mmm you got smoke just now. You know honestly I feel like we’re [04:48.040 –> 04:52.200] lucking out because I mean I’ve been monitoring the air quality and and we’re [04:52.200 –> 05:00.920] at the very very very end of moderately bad air which is like couldn’t just it [05:00.920 –> 05:04.720] that just kind of happens in New York sometimes anyway in the summer [05:04.720 –> 05:09.400] especially so like you missed you missed the worst of it yeah we did miss the [05:09.400 –> 05:14.520] worst of it well I was here when it was when the skies were orange oh you the [05:14.520 –> 05:19.480] first yeah yeah like two chunks of it but I missed the second time which was [05:19.480 –> 05:23.920] nice I did order new air purifiers though just to just to add some more in [05:23.920 –> 05:29.720] there yeah yeah unfortunate yeah I mean it doesn’t hurt I have cats so they [05:29.720 –> 05:36.600] never hurt hmm what have you been up to? Eh not a huge amount in terms of games [05:36.600 –> 05:43.800] and stuff like that because my my switch is still broken which I keep checking [05:43.800 –> 05:48.460] every day on its progress and nothing’s happened yet but it’s meant to they say [05:48.460 –> 05:52.980] it could take up to 20 working days the 20th working day is the is two days [05:52.980 –> 05:58.340] before I leave for my month-long holiday so hopefully it doesn’t take the 20 days [05:58.340 –> 06:05.420] because that’s not getting to me do you have do you have you know you have a few [06:05.420 –> 06:10.320] switches I do I do it’s not the end of the world but it’s the one I really use [06:10.320 –> 06:15.380] and it’s the one with my Pokemon saves on it the most important one yeah so [06:15.380 –> 06:19.580] like I don’t really like I’m fine with like a few weeks of not having my switch [06:19.580 –> 06:22.820] and not playing it that’s fine but like a whole month on holiday I would [06:22.820 –> 06:27.380] definitely be like setting up another one of my switches but it’s just it’s so [06:27.380 –> 06:32.100] much effort to like set up a switch and it’s like I wouldn’t have Pokemon and [06:32.100 –> 06:38.500] it’s just yeah it’s like do I go for my very original switch which obviously is [06:38.500 –> 06:43.100] like the the original it’s getting pretty old now or do I use a switch [06:43.100 –> 06:47.900] light and then I have to use the the smallness with my hands that really [06:47.900 –> 06:56.860] struggle now like oh I don’t know I did Hollow Knight with the joy cons the [06:56.860 –> 07:02.140] first time and I didn’t realize towards the end that my the drift had set in oh [07:02.140 –> 07:07.460] no I actually didn’t realize until I was playing Celeste after that and then I [07:07.460 –> 07:13.820] realized how bad the drift was yeah um but I can’t I can’t do joy cons anymore [07:13.820 –> 07:19.860] um and I like I don’t know I love those hori like split pad thing yeah yeah [07:19.860 –> 07:23.340] that’s why I’ve been using that’s that’s why I played all of well I’ve not [07:23.340 –> 07:26.380] finished it yet but that’s why I have been playing all of Hollow Knight on is [07:26.380 –> 07:30.900] there the newer split pad the compact one which feels like it’s a really nice [07:30.900 –> 07:35.300] balance of the kind of chunkiness but not too chunky and so it still fits [07:35.300 –> 07:39.260] nicely in our in a little case and stuff like that see that I’ve got to say [07:39.260 –> 07:45.020] that is the issue with the the normal ones is like even just how like [07:45.020 –> 07:48.460] traveling now I brought my switch I didn’t actually play it which I gotta [07:48.460 –> 07:52.060] say I just realized when you started talking you meant games and not what I [07:52.060 –> 07:56.100] was doing in life no it’s it’s it’s stuff in general we expect used to say [07:56.100 –> 07:59.180] what what have you been playing but we expanded it because not everybody’s been [07:59.180 –> 08:04.260] playing something every time so that’s that’s good that’s a good idea but yeah [08:04.260 –> 08:08.980] no to travel with it it doesn’t fit in anything hmm so it’s like I’m just [08:08.980 –> 08:14.900] risking ruining the joy cons like the joysticks putting it in my backpack yeah [08:14.900 –> 08:19.180] I got a case I got it a separate case that’s like slightly bigger than a [08:19.180 –> 08:23.420] normal one it’s not like ah it’s like ah it’s like a bag that you slide it into [08:23.420 –> 08:28.900] rather than the kind of like clamshell case and it just just fits it with the [08:28.900 –> 08:34.660] compact and split pads on it and I don’t think it would fit with the pro [08:34.660 –> 08:40.700] the split pad pros I think they’d be too big and it’s just just perfectly fits in [08:40.700 –> 08:45.780] and then I it’s got a little front pocket that I put in a little case of [08:45.780 –> 08:49.620] games and and to joy con just in case I need some joy con for something because [08:49.620 –> 08:55.180] of course the disadvantage of the split pad is it doesn’t have the the gyro yeah [08:55.180 –> 09:02.500] yeah I have the what is it the 8-bit mmm controller for that yeah yeah I also [09:02.500 –> 09:07.900] I’ve also ordered have you seen there’s like a new kind of controller case type [09:07.900 –> 09:13.740] thing what is it called no let me need to find it I definitely want to see that [09:13.740 –> 09:18.540] because so you know what my my go-to thing to put my switch in is actually a [09:18.540 –> 09:24.100] knee brace I’m sorry what now um like like no like it’s not like a cast or [09:24.100 –> 09:30.820] anything it’s like one of those like soft yeah yeah yeah I put it in there [09:30.820 –> 09:35.180] because it actually the pressure holds the joy cons in place really interesting [09:35.180 –> 09:42.540] that’s what I’ve done literally the entire time I’ve had my switch hmm so [09:42.540 –> 09:47.060] yeah I don’t know it’s definitely a unique choice so I’ve just sent you a [09:47.060 –> 09:51.260] link to what I’m talking about it’s the the nitro deck and it’s like this little [09:51.260 –> 09:55.380] kind of oh my god this looks so cool controller type thing that you slot it [09:55.380 –> 10:01.220] into and it’s got the it’s got a d-pad and the two analog sticks and the [10:01.220 –> 10:09.100] buttons on it and it looks like the old like n64 gameboy it’s got those colors [10:09.100 –> 10:15.700] yeah and yeah I think it’s really cool it’s a bit expensive it’s not cheap it’s [10:15.700 –> 10:20.500] $90 but okay I was looking for the price I see it now um well that’s not [10:20.500 –> 10:25.940] too bad considering that like honestly joy cons are what $80 yes it’s not it’s [10:25.940 –> 10:30.780] not terrible but it’s not cheap but yeah I’m looking forward to getting that it’s [10:30.780 –> 10:39.540] coming out sometime in the next three months apparently q3 we’ll see but yeah [10:39.540 –> 10:42.420] I think it’s I think it’s gonna be really nice because I think it will give [10:42.420 –> 10:49.020] a nice bit of heft to it and it’s the analog sticks are also there are what [10:49.020 –> 10:55.220] they called the no the analog sticks they’re the ones that don’t drift whole [10:55.220 –> 11:01.820] whole effect that’s what I call so and a also comes with a its own case so it [11:01.820 –> 11:06.720] has a nice that is so nice so they’ve put a lot of thought into that and it’s [11:06.720 –> 11:12.240] got a little thing for some games and a little extra extra pat storage thing as [11:12.240 –> 11:15.480] well so I’m really looking forward to it I think I think it’ll be really nice [11:15.480 –> 11:24.760] oh so that’s the same thing with the hori slip heads I’ve played games where [11:24.760 –> 11:30.480] I have to like so annoying like switch them out find joy cons that were there [11:30.480 –> 11:34.440] aren’t a huge number of games that I use the gyro for but like Zelda for example [11:34.440 –> 11:41.320] I cannot play Zelda without without the gyro so like I had to for like the three [11:41.360 –> 11:46.640] weeks I was playing Zelda every day for like five hours I was using joy con for [11:46.640 –> 11:51.360] that I killed my hands wait is that so I my [11:51.360 –> 11:56.040] sister’s the Zelda person in my house so I’ve only played one Zelda game and she [11:56.040 –> 12:01.320] actually gave me Breath of the Wild to play but I didn’t start it yet she gave [12:01.320 –> 12:06.000] it to me on vacation it’s good yeah no it looks good it just looks also very [12:06.000 –> 12:09.720] intimidating and it didn’t feel like something I wanted to play while I was [12:09.720 –> 12:12.560] away fair enough fair enough well I would say if you think it looks [12:12.560 –> 12:17.720] intimidating follow the main site main quests because that will always give you [12:17.720 –> 12:21.080] something clear to do rather than because I think that’s why I really like [12:21.080 –> 12:24.760] about what they’ve done is it’s an open world you can do literally anything you [12:24.760 –> 12:29.400] want but you don’t they actually give you some pointers if you need them so [12:29.400 –> 12:32.800] it’s not just like it’s not just like here’s an infinite number of things to [12:32.800 –> 12:36.480] do is here’s an infinite number of things to do and also here’s an actual [12:36.480 –> 12:40.560] thing that you can do you know that’s exactly what I need I need some [12:40.560 –> 12:47.200] structure because otherwise I will just be running around but that is good to [12:47.200 –> 12:51.960] know because I did not know that Zelda had the need for gyro so yeah so it’s [12:51.960 –> 12:57.000] for it’s for aiming like some people don’t use it but I I’m really bad aiming [12:57.000 –> 13:00.840] without the gyro because it’s like my hands can’t move as fast as I need them [13:00.840 –> 13:06.640] to and yeah just I like I like being able to like aim with it for the arrow [13:06.640 –> 13:12.000] and the ball and I just slightly move it to get it right in the right place it’s [13:12.000 –> 13:16.360] really nice that’s very good to know I’ll have to try out both methods to see [13:16.360 –> 13:22.160] which one like suits me better yeah um yeah so hopefully I’ll get my switch [13:22.160 –> 13:27.140] back at some point and then I can finish up Hollow Knight I’m hoping it’s [13:27.140 –> 13:30.360] finished up soon for you because it’s just also I feel like it gives you [13:30.360 –> 13:34.680] anxiety when it’s it’s out there yeah yeah yeah well especially as it’s a [13:34.680 –> 13:39.360] limited edition one so and my and my Pokemon saves are on it like if it [13:39.360 –> 13:42.600] wasn’t a limited edition one and my Pokemon saves weren’t on it I’d be like [13:42.600 –> 13:45.240] oh it doesn’t really matter I’ll get one I’ll get a replacement for it if they [13:45.240 –> 13:48.880] break it or whatever but like if they break it I don’t think I think they say [13:48.880 –> 13:52.840] like if we don’t have the equivalent then we will replace it with a different [13:52.840 –> 14:03.080] one yeah and if they lose the saves there’s literally nothing they can do [14:03.080 –> 14:08.640] you know yeah no there’s there’s there’s definitely a lot riding on you know the [14:08.640 –> 14:14.880] line here yeah so hopefully we’ll get it soon and then I’ll finish up Hollow [14:14.880 –> 14:18.200] Knight and then I’ll decide what I’m gonna do next I’ve got a bunch of games [14:18.200 –> 14:25.240] to play I’ve got the new story seasons a wonderful life haven’t started it yet [14:25.240 –> 14:28.520] what else there’s a bunch of other things that I’m like I want to play [14:28.520 –> 14:32.160] this but I just haven’t done yet I’ve got a bunch of games on my steam deck [14:32.160 –> 14:35.040] that I haven’t played yet as well but it’s just like I just don’t have the [14:35.040 –> 14:38.600] enthusiasm right now I just want to go on holiday you know yeah yeah yeah [14:38.600 –> 14:43.520] that’s like um like I’m excited to get back to I was playing a lot of roots of [14:43.520 –> 14:48.760] Pacha before I left that’s one of the ones that I’ve got nice it’s it’s a lot [14:48.760 –> 14:53.240] of fun I like it I think there’s like you know things they could improve on [14:53.240 –> 14:56.680] but like overall I put a lot of time into that game and I really enjoyed it [14:56.680 –> 15:01.200] and now I’m just working on breeding different or getting different animal [15:01.200 –> 15:06.920] variations yeah yeah I think the outcome from our episode on it which who was it [15:06.920 –> 15:13.280] did that was it Cody and Kevin yes go my memory Cody and Kevin and was that it [15:13.440 –> 15:17.840] was better than they expected it to be and actually a lot of fun because I [15:17.840 –> 15:21.800] think a lot of a lot of these games can look just like oh it’s just like stardew [15:21.800 –> 15:25.720] with a skin sort of thing but it’s turned out to be a lot better than that [15:25.720 –> 15:29.960] which is good yeah I definitely think it held its own I think I think it just [15:29.960 –> 15:34.520] like you know with stardew there’s like a lot of stuff to do so that’s like it [15:34.520 –> 15:38.080] sets the bar so high yeah not to say that there wasn’t a lot of stuff to do [15:38.080 –> 15:41.760] in this game there was it’s different right like yeah I mean it’s not about [15:41.800 –> 15:45.400] saying this is a better or worse game no exactly it’s about saying is it just a [15:45.400 –> 15:49.640] ripoff or is it doing trying to do things differently that’s that’s that’s [15:49.640 –> 15:53.240] what I’m looking for in farming games just now that’s fair that’s that’s [15:53.240 –> 15:56.120] definitely hard because it’s like I look through a lot of them on Steam and I’m [15:56.120 –> 16:00.640] like is this actually what I want to be doing is this just gonna be a chore yeah [16:00.640 –> 16:05.480] yeah yeah okay cool um yeah I think that’s thing that’s everything I’ve been [16:05.480 –> 16:13.720] up to and so as I mentioned there’s no news this episode and so we’re gonna go [16:13.720 –> 16:19.480] straight into our main topic which is fishing break so I guess I’ll just [16:19.480 –> 16:25.680] introduce the game a little bit so obviously due to the name fishing break [16:25.680 –> 16:30.600] it is a fishing game and that’s that’s it that’s that’s what it is it’s a [16:30.600 –> 16:35.880] fishing game right like you are a fisher person did we ever come to a conclusion [16:35.880 –> 16:41.560] on is what the best gender neutral term for person who fishes is no let’s go [16:41.560 –> 16:49.600] with fisher person like a fisher person it doesn’t it works and you have like a [16:49.600 –> 16:53.200] bunch of different areas and you fish in them and obviously there’s more [16:53.200 –> 16:59.800] complication to it if you really want to but that’s basically it right I would [16:59.800 –> 17:03.720] say that interestingly I don’t know about you let’s let’s talk about the [17:03.720 –> 17:11.320] actual fishing mechanic first and it’s it’s very much like spirit faders [17:11.320 –> 17:18.120] fishing in a way right in terms of like reeling in obviously you you have this [17:18.120 –> 17:25.160] kind of side on view and you are you you swipe to like throw the cast there’s the [17:25.160 –> 17:29.680] one cast the line into the water and there’s a bunch of fish in the water [17:29.680 –> 17:33.280] and you can kind of like jiggle the line around and and then eventually want to [17:33.280 –> 17:37.080] grab on and then you have to it’s got like the line tension mechanic where you [17:37.080 –> 17:43.360] have to pull it back and not break the snap it exactly yeah there’s some added [17:43.360 –> 17:46.640] stuff to this is kind of like an RPG right so that you have an attack [17:46.640 –> 17:51.740] strength and the fish have a strength and the higher the strength the harder [17:51.740 –> 17:54.980] they are to catch and I think if you’re if they’re if they’re above your attack [17:54.980 –> 18:00.180] level you can’t you just can’t catch them yeah which I really I like that as [18:00.180 –> 18:03.900] a mechanic but yeah I really liked the like I didn’t expect that I thought it [18:03.900 –> 18:07.020] was to be honest when I first started playing I thought I was just gonna be a [18:07.020 –> 18:10.740] tapping game yeah kind of thing yeah because that’s how the fishing works [18:10.740 –> 18:17.020] which I do I like tapping things so that’s not a bad thing like I I do enjoy [18:17.020 –> 18:23.580] that as a fishing reeling mechanic mm-hmm yeah I think is the the the [18:23.620 –> 18:28.460] attack and defense kind of thing with you and the fish I think is like [18:28.460 –> 18:31.380] obviously all games actually have this under the hood they just don’t kind of [18:31.380 –> 18:36.700] show you it I like how visible it is and it’s like your attack is 70 this fish [18:36.700 –> 18:41.860] has got 75 therefore that’s why you didn’t catch it right like it’s it’s [18:41.860 –> 18:46.900] very clear when the difference is your skill and when the difference is you [18:46.900 –> 18:50.380] were never gonna be able to catch this you just not progressed enough yet yeah [18:50.380 –> 18:54.420] which I like I like that a lot like you said it is typically built in in the [18:54.420 –> 18:59.300] back end like it’s like your skill improvement or whatever but yeah I like [18:59.300 –> 19:05.220] how they incorporated it into this yeah I also like how each fish can have a [19:05.220 –> 19:13.420] variety of attack power mm-hmm yeah which then you know qualifies them for [19:13.420 –> 19:20.220] different oh my god grade that’s the word I’m looking for yes which I didn’t [19:20.260 –> 19:24.140] realize at first I thought I was fishing badly and that’s why I was getting bad [19:24.140 –> 19:30.260] grades fish just do better Kelly I was like am I holding it too much when it’s [19:30.260 –> 19:35.660] red like am I am I not tapping it fast enough like what’s going on here for [19:35.660 –> 19:39.300] those who listened to last week’s episode which is about by the pier it’s [19:39.300 –> 19:45.860] very similar to that as well in terms of like the reeling in so it’s quite like [19:45.860 –> 19:50.580] that and quite like spirit fader but it by the pier had a timer and you had to [19:50.580 –> 19:54.340] get it in by a certain point or always snapped and that was incredibly [19:54.340 –> 19:58.460] stressful I did not like that so I like that this does not have that I hate [19:58.460 –> 20:03.020] timers yeah games like immediately start freaking out well this is the thing [20:03.020 –> 20:07.740] right like because it’s it’s not then just about your skill it’s about your [20:07.740 –> 20:12.580] skill and also can you do your skill fast enough it’s like no just let me do [20:12.580 –> 20:15.880] it right like it’s just I don’t know why they felt they need to have the [20:15.880 –> 20:22.780] timer on that yeah I feel like that’s just trying to make you either use more [20:22.780 –> 20:27.820] bait mm-hmm or something like I don’t know that’s weird I don’t know what the [20:27.820 –> 20:30.880] deal is with that but but that wouldn’t even work in this game which so that [20:30.880 –> 20:35.860] makes it even better yeah like I don’t think you could have a timer considering [20:35.860 –> 20:43.260] the way that you have to catch certain fish mm-hmm well that’s the thing that [20:43.260 –> 20:46.420] that that was the thing about it is there is are like a perfect way to catch [20:46.420 –> 20:51.020] a fish but because of like you have to like pull it in and then stop and then [20:51.020 –> 20:54.460] pull it in and then stop and then pull it stop but that was how the other one [20:54.460 –> 20:58.580] the other game was as well and they managed to have have a timer in it which [20:58.580 –> 21:04.140] is why it was doubly annoying it’s like either like Mickey button mash or don’t [21:04.140 –> 21:08.300] have a timer right like if it’s about skill make it about skill don’t don’t [21:08.300 –> 21:12.100] add a timer into that like that’s just yeah I just find that annoying yeah [21:12.100 –> 21:15.700] anyway let’s stop talking about different game this one doesn’t have [21:15.700 –> 21:20.100] that and that’s good but yeah like the general I feel like it’s kind of this [21:20.100 –> 21:25.620] has become kind of like the the way to kind of have a realistic fishing as much [21:25.620 –> 21:31.060] as you can is is to have the line tension and you have to kind of reel it [21:31.060 –> 21:35.020] in and then stop and then we lay in this top and it differs depending on the [21:35.020 –> 21:39.900] fish like obviously like a we goldfish is gonna be really easy to get in even [21:39.900 –> 21:46.180] at the same level as like our masculine or whatever you know like it’s masculine [21:46.180 –> 21:54.520] no I meant Barracuda that’s what I meant oh my word Barracuda but yeah no I feel [21:54.520 –> 21:58.420] like that is true like it’s very realistic to actual fishing like you [21:58.420 –> 22:02.180] have to let your line go out you know you have to give the fish a chance to [22:02.180 –> 22:10.100] like cool down mm-hmm mm-hmm I like that I also really like that like you have [22:10.100 –> 22:16.140] all your different kinds of bait right mm-hmm and and I’ll be honest I’ve not [22:16.140 –> 22:19.780] done much with the bait I’ve kind of just used the kind of whatever is on the [22:19.780 –> 22:26.180] list and oh yeah yeah yeah oh yeah yeah I’ve been I’ve been I’ve actually while [22:26.180 –> 22:29.580] we’re talking I’ve been letting ads play so that I can get more of the [22:29.580 –> 22:33.280] better bait I was doing that at the airport the other night while I was [22:33.280 –> 22:43.180] bored but what I really find interesting actually is that if you catch a certain [22:43.180 –> 22:47.840] fish other fish will eat that fish and then you catch that fish oh interesting [22:47.840 –> 22:52.740] so I thought because so at first I noticed did you notice that other fish [22:52.740 –> 22:56.820] were eating other fish just notice that no so that was one of the first things [22:56.820 –> 23:00.460] because I heard a chomp at one point and I was like what the hell is going on [23:00.460 –> 23:06.380] here and I look up and I see a dead fish float up to the surface oh my and I was [23:06.380 –> 23:09.900] like whoa what is happening and it was like a little fish that ate a bigger [23:09.900 –> 23:15.900] fish Wow so I was like okay let me test this out and I caught a little fish and [23:15.900 –> 23:20.260] tried to get one of the bigger fish to eat it mm-hmm especially like the [23:20.260 –> 23:26.980] special fish seem to do this more so yeah if you catch if you watch certain [23:26.980 –> 23:31.620] fish they’ll eat other certain fish and then if you catch that fish that they’re [23:31.620 –> 23:36.260] eating they will then potentially hope not every time eat the fish that you’ve [23:36.260 –> 23:39.700] caught on your line and then you can reel them in which I think is very [23:39.700 –> 23:46.300] interesting I did not expect that level of strategy honestly yeah it is it’s [23:46.300 –> 23:52.020] definitely it’s a I think I’m not going to get to this point but I are hundred [23:52.020 –> 23:57.140] percent can understand how somebody could like spend hours and hours on this [23:57.140 –> 24:02.140] game and like really get into it and for other reasons that we get into later on [24:02.140 –> 24:05.860] there’s other other mechanics that are there a part of it but even yeah there’s [24:05.860 –> 24:10.540] just there’s so many fish and there’s so many like different ways that the fish [24:10.540 –> 24:14.420] can come out and yeah different as you say scenarios that can happen with like [24:14.420 –> 24:19.900] fish eating fish and like it’s it’s very complex for what I assumed would be a [24:19.900 –> 24:24.860] very simple it’s a pond and you have fish in it right no that was literally [24:24.860 –> 24:30.340] my mentality going in and I think like the second day I played I was like oh [24:30.340 –> 24:38.020] this is a lot more in depth than like I anticipated mm-hmm yeah and at first I [24:38.020 –> 24:41.500] was like okay I’m just gonna play this now I’m like do I continue playing this [24:41.500 –> 24:45.220] like I’m kind of like I’m not gonna put any money into it or anything like that [24:45.220 –> 24:48.980] of course not why would you but if I’m sitting here like we’re talking right [24:48.980 –> 24:53.340] now I’m just gonna let some ads run hmm so I can get some more beat you know [24:53.340 –> 24:58.860] like it’s a I really will play it often like Pokemon go is truly my main yeah [24:58.860 –> 25:02.820] mobile game but there’s still only so much you can do while you’re staying [25:02.820 –> 25:07.900] still though that’s that’s the thing exactly exactly so it’s nice for that [25:07.900 –> 25:13.140] situation where you’re just like standing there but yeah no it it [25:13.140 –> 25:17.940] surprised me the game hmm which I thought was pretty nice [25:17.940 –> 25:25.540] yeah is that everything about the actual fishing part of it oh this is a mechanic [25:25.540 –> 25:30.400] I forgot about that it’s a very simple over you get these little coins that you [25:30.400 –> 25:35.140] can then use to tell a fish to get off your line basically oh wait what is that [25:35.980 –> 25:41.260] you got yes you get zap coins if you if you have a fish on the lane that you [25:41.260 –> 25:44.860] don’t want on the lane you press that it uses up one of the coins and the fish [25:44.860 –> 25:49.300] gets off your line I only have I think one coin so I was like I don’t remember [25:49.300 –> 25:53.700] what it said I just remember it saying something about special fish so I was [25:53.700 –> 25:57.420] like I’m gonna wait I don’t know what this is yeah I think you get it for [25:57.420 –> 26:02.580] catching special fish okay that makes sense but yeah you use it you use it if [26:02.620 –> 26:06.980] you’re I don’t know why I would ever do that because it’s like it I guess if you [26:06.980 –> 26:11.620] have like very high level bait or something and you don’t want it to be [26:11.620 –> 26:15.540] used up that’s what I was gonna say I think it’s for the bait that you spend [26:15.540 –> 26:20.420] like the dollar in game dollars on yeah but I’m never going to do that so I [26:20.420 –> 26:25.100] don’t foresee myself ever using this app mechanic but it’s interesting that’s [26:25.100 –> 26:29.540] there yeah yeah definitely like if you don’t want to lose that special bait [26:29.540 –> 26:36.500] then it makes sense you get it zapped zap the fish I should have tried to see [26:36.500 –> 26:39.900] what happens you know like it’s electrocuted let me let me bring it up [26:39.900 –> 26:43.220] because I’m I wonder if it’ll float to the what I wonder if it’ll float to the [26:43.220 –> 26:50.540] top like the other fish that get eaten let’s find out live live testing this [26:50.540 –> 26:55.020] trying to think is there any other main mechanics I mean so what I do find [26:55.020 –> 27:00.660] interesting oh yeah no it does it kills them like every fish no just the fish [27:00.660 –> 27:05.060] it was on the lane and it looks like yeah you keep the bait nice okay that [27:05.060 –> 27:10.840] makes sense then it’s just fluid up to the top did you say you can get the ones [27:10.840 –> 27:15.740] that are on the top no no that’s how I that’s how I when I saw them float to [27:15.740 –> 27:20.300] the top I was like what’s going on here that’s what I think I think I should [27:20.300 –> 27:24.740] eating the one that’s flying yeah they’ll eat the dead fish yeah yeah [27:24.740 –> 27:28.400] that’s it gone it’s been eaten so there you go that’s how the zapping works it [27:28.400 –> 27:34.380] kills the fish nice which like what why does it feel weird when I’m catching [27:34.380 –> 27:39.020] fish like the whole point of fishing is to catch and kill and eat fish right [27:39.020 –> 27:45.120] like it shouldn’t be weird that I’ve just killed the fish but it some of them [27:45.120 –> 27:48.340] are all right let’s talk about museums then right we’ll talk about the other [27:48.340 –> 27:53.220] stuff later let’s talk about museums so as with every game there now has to be a [27:53.220 –> 28:01.500] museum and so and when you catch a fish if it’s the first time you caught that [28:01.500 –> 28:06.300] fish possibly a grade graded one higher grades one as well but I’m not sure about [28:06.300 –> 28:10.860] that maybe you can correct me I think there is because I think there’s like I [28:10.860 –> 28:16.120] think it’s like if you hit every grade for a fish right okay like as you hit [28:16.120 –> 28:20.400] every grade you get a reward for that yeah so if it’s a new fish or a fish [28:20.400 –> 28:23.960] you’ve caught a grade that you haven’t caught before you can send it to a [28:23.960 –> 28:29.720] museum and you get money for that and interestingly the museum’s will earn new [28:29.720 –> 28:35.720] money as you’re not playing the game income exactly exactly it’s quite nice [28:35.720 –> 28:39.280] opening up the game and it’s like oh you’ve gained 800 coins from your [28:39.280 –> 28:43.960] museums you’re like awesome let’s get that then thanks especially as you’ve [28:43.960 –> 28:48.240] like upgraded more stuff it’s like oh that’s like a whole upgrade yeah [28:48.240 –> 28:53.000] exactly and it’s also it’s it’s not even just like a theoretical thing you can [28:53.000 –> 28:57.680] visit the museum’s as well mm-hmm yeah which is nice because you could see you [28:57.680 –> 29:01.880] can actually see the levels of the fish that you’ve got oh yeah so you can I’ve [29:01.880 –> 29:09.640] got a four star sturgeon apparently ooh I only have one S tier and it’s a Wally [29:09.640 –> 29:14.000] well I I don’t know how you say that one I think it’s Wally yeah and I don’t [29:14.000 –> 29:18.120] think I have anything above B mmm but it’s interesting that it has they have [29:18.120 –> 29:24.280] stars and ranking as well yes I think it’s like you know basic fish bigger [29:24.280 –> 29:30.400] fish special fish or biggest fish so I think special fishes for yeah special [29:30.400 –> 29:35.240] fishes for where’s my shark I caught a shark shark before that should have that [29:35.240 –> 29:39.240] should tell me I was honestly shocked that I could catch the shark Oh sharks [29:39.280 –> 29:45.680] are five stars oh nice yeah the special ones are five as well I’ve got a the [29:45.680 –> 29:52.720] electric was this electric car I’ve got is five star and the only one I’ve got [29:52.720 –> 29:59.680] is five star as well yeah they’re both they’re both see yeah that’s my shark is [29:59.680 –> 30:07.320] a D so it’s not good great sad um yeah I like that you can you can go and check [30:07.320 –> 30:11.120] in the museum too yes and you can yeah you can visit it and you can see all [30:11.120 –> 30:15.360] your fish swimming around and you can see some stats about them and see what [30:15.360 –> 30:18.840] your next reward is and stuff like that there’s like this is the thing this is [30:18.840 –> 30:21.520] what I’m talking about there’s so much here right because there’s is that’s [30:21.520 –> 30:28.880] five different museums and in each museum there are like five or so no is [30:28.880 –> 30:36.520] that ten different collections mmm seven museums I haven’t put fish in so you do [30:37.000 –> 30:42.120] you gain more as you as you go then because I’ve only got five I believe so [30:42.120 –> 30:47.800] because I’m up to I just unlocked the Asian River which is like world three [30:47.800 –> 30:54.400] yeah no I am nowhere near that so that’s probably why okay so you get five to [30:54.400 –> 30:57.240] start with and then obviously you’ll upgrade them you get more as you go [30:57.240 –> 31:00.960] along mm-hmm but but I mean that’s the point like at the beginning you’ve got [31:00.960 –> 31:05.360] five and each of them has like a bunch of collections so it’s loads there and [31:05.360 –> 31:10.920] then you get more as you go on as well and the collections are different fish [31:10.920 –> 31:15.400] but I also think different you there’s two different things I’m trying to [31:15.400 –> 31:18.960] figure it out I think one is special fish and one is regular fish oh is that [31:18.960 –> 31:23.600] what it is yeah so you’ve got like if I look at my museum that I actually have [31:23.600 –> 31:27.360] fish in you’ve got the common collection the uncommon collection the rare [31:27.360 –> 31:31.800] collection the epic collection the legendary dark collection the legendary [31:31.800 –> 31:37.240] electric legendary fire legendary grass legendary ice legendary light yep oh so [31:37.240 –> 31:40.240] that’s what I was getting rewards from okay that makes sense yeah I see it now [31:40.240 –> 31:44.400] yeah I think that’s the same for all of them they all have our mm-hmm each of [31:44.400 –> 31:50.920] those collections and it’s nice for them because you just randomly get money [31:50.920 –> 31:58.200] exactly so you can’t beat that but it adds like a nice little achievement goal [31:58.240 –> 32:06.440] yeah there’s so many fish I can’t go over just how many fish there are that’s that and then [32:06.440 –> 32:09.880] there’s like these little event things too like there’s just oh I haven’t tried [32:09.880 –> 32:14.200] and have you tried one of them I haven’t tried it yes they cost like a dollar I [32:14.200 –> 32:24.000] think usually like not real dollar like in-game dollar right okay and you know [32:24.000 –> 32:27.000] I’m not doing great at them but like they’re they’re fun to just like have [32:27.000 –> 32:30.760] something to do while you’re trying to wait for other fish to show up yes I did [32:30.760 –> 32:35.280] one where I had to catch like a b-grade smelt which was really hard yeah they’re [32:35.280 –> 32:41.200] really tiny and they all look like look the same yeah but I did manage it so [32:41.200 –> 32:45.040] it’s just like it’s just like another little thing but I feel like it’s one [32:45.040 –> 32:49.160] of those things that like kind of helps you get more familiar with the fish so [32:49.160 –> 32:55.520] if you are invested in playing the game it’s like again more in-depth way to [32:55.640 –> 33:02.800] play yeah but yeah a lot of fish a lot more fish than I expected yes and I like [33:02.800 –> 33:07.160] how it’s not just catch and sell it’s like catch and give to museum and then [33:07.160 –> 33:10.800] it’s catch and sell so you then yeah you’re like oh yeah so you once you’ve [33:10.800 –> 33:15.560] once you’ve given it to the museum you’re then you are basically selling [33:15.560 –> 33:23.080] them for coins and then you use those coins for upgrades yeah so many upgrades [33:23.120 –> 33:28.920] so many upgrades I don’t do we want to talk about the upgrades for a second [33:28.920 –> 33:34.440] talk about the upgrades so my strategy initially was to focus on attack because [33:34.440 –> 33:38.800] I feel like that’s the most important one you’re not gonna catch anything same [33:38.800 –> 33:42.720] if you don’t have that upgraded and it’s definitely one of those things where [33:42.720 –> 33:47.840] like I would catch most of the fish and I would get like the stars for the fish [33:47.840 –> 33:51.200] in two of the areas but not like one of the areas because I wasn’t strong enough [33:51.440 –> 33:56.280] yeah so it’s like kind of nice because it does give you that like backward play a [33:56.280 –> 33:59.080] little bit where you you can move forward but there’s still things to do [33:59.080 –> 34:03.880] behind you yeah there’s a ton of things to still do behind like behind whatever [34:03.880 –> 34:09.160] level I’m on though too so that’s not even an issue at this moment but then I [34:09.160 –> 34:14.560] made the mistake of upgrading the cast line to the cast distance and then not [34:14.560 –> 34:19.380] realizing that the line length that was nowhere near the same so I had the [34:19.380 –> 34:22.500] ability to cast far enough but I actually did not physically [34:22.500 –> 34:27.060] that’s hilarious yeah so I’ve been slowly catching that up in between like upgrading my [34:27.060 –> 34:30.820] attack now yeah and I really did not care about the real speed because I feel [34:30.820 –> 34:34.820] like no matter what I’m just tapping so yeah well exactly yeah definitely it’s [34:34.820 –> 34:39.740] like I’m not going to I’m not gonna pay for the one that just means that I have [34:39.740 –> 34:43.260] to press less right like I’m gonna do the one that means that I can do things [34:43.260 –> 34:48.340] that I couldn’t previously do mm-hmm because there is literally no way to [34:48.420 –> 34:53.700] catch a fish if it is above your attack level yeah exactly whereas if it’s [34:53.700 –> 35:00.860] slightly under it’s just about time mm-hmm exactly um yeah I think I was [35:00.860 –> 35:05.420] roughly the same kind of just not maxing out but like getting my attack as high [35:05.420 –> 35:13.280] as high as I could and then yeah focusing on the the real length and the [35:13.280 –> 35:17.980] cast distance yeah yeah I was like am I missing something with the real speed so [35:18.020 –> 35:21.940] I upgraded it once and I was like this did nothing for me I suspect it’s the [35:21.940 –> 35:25.740] sort of thing that like maybe endgame you’ll want to have it upgraded because [35:25.740 –> 35:31.060] like some of them will just take so long that if you don’t have it upgraded yeah [35:31.060 –> 35:37.660] yeah that makes sense and so yeah so we’ve talked about upgrades then blah [35:37.660 –> 35:43.580] blah blah blah you get that through selling the fish obviously the there are [35:43.780 –> 35:50.620] different areas and so you start with a couple of areas and then as as Kelly [35:50.620 –> 35:54.060] mentioned there are worlds as well so it’s like you started with just one [35:54.060 –> 35:58.540] world that has one area and then there’s like a one with multiple and you unlock [35:58.540 –> 36:06.840] them as you get more and more stars which is by catching more fish so it’s [36:06.840 –> 36:10.380] all about catching fish you keep catching fish you keep getting getting [36:10.380 –> 36:16.940] stars you get stars you get more places to unlock therefore more fish that you [36:16.940 –> 36:25.540] can get your classic circular circular fish economy and it’s interesting too [36:25.540 –> 36:31.160] because each each world has its own version of bait oh yes so like you can [36:31.160 –> 36:34.940] use the same bait through those three levels in a world but each world itself [36:34.940 –> 36:41.880] has specific yeah it’s interested like the fish the fish will not well why did [36:41.880 –> 36:45.320] the fish in this area not like this kind of it’s like surely the bait would be [36:45.320 –> 36:50.520] first specific fish relevant specific areas but yeah yeah I feel like you [36:50.520 –> 36:55.520] know that’s just that’s more of the simplification side yeah so suspension [36:55.520 –> 37:01.000] of disbelief type thing yeah listen I got I got tiny little fish eaten bigger [37:01.000 –> 37:12.740] fish than them and you can on the line yeah but I like the the illustrations [37:12.740 –> 37:18.160] for the fish hmm yeah there’s definitely like this is obviously our mobile game [37:18.160 –> 37:20.920] it’s definitely a cash grab mobile game but they’ve definitely put a lot of [37:20.920 –> 37:25.000] thought into into things like that there’s there’s good art and the game [37:25.000 –> 37:29.620] itself feels quite nice to play it doesn’t like the you’re kind of your [37:29.620 –> 37:33.760] player character has you know different facial expressions they will do as you [37:33.760 –> 37:38.420] catch and that through the different parts of the the catching process and [37:38.420 –> 37:42.460] stuff like that so yeah there’s lots of nice thought that’s been put into this [37:42.460 –> 37:49.820] relatively simple concept but relatively large actually game mm-hmm exactly like [37:49.820 –> 37:54.140] it’s not there’s there’s definitely more to it than what you would assume [37:54.140 –> 38:03.340] downloading it yeah yeah not just that what you would but what we did and okay [38:03.340 –> 38:06.120] tournaments then you you said you’ve done a tournament don’t tell me what [38:06.120 –> 38:13.020] it’s like because I haven’t done any okay let me see which one did I do I did [38:13.020 –> 38:20.060] I did I did the butterfly fish hunt so you have I just had to catch so each one [38:20.060 –> 38:24.500] of them is different but I had to catch the best butterfly fish I could okay [38:24.500 –> 38:31.780] which at that point I think I had still not fully grasped how to get a better [38:31.7

Al and Dalan talk about By The Pier Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:04:02: What Have We Been Up To 00:25:01: By The Pier 00:43:11: Other Playdate Games Discussion 00:46:15: Outro Links By The Pier Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:04.800] COUNTRY MUSIC [00:30.400 –> 00:36.000] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. I can’t remember whether [00:36.000 –> 00:40.240] Dalen has remembers how to intro this so we’ll just see how it goes. My name is Al. [00:40.800 –> 00:49.520] My name is Dalen. Sorry Dalen not Dalen and we are here today to talk about fishing games. [00:49.840 –> 00:53.520] Fishing… Question mark? [00:55.920 –> 01:02.080] Well so the interesting thing about this is so this is I’ve got Dalen sorry I’ve it’s one of [01:02.080 –> 01:05.920] these things where you always pronounce someone’s name when you never hear them say it and out loud [01:05.920 –> 01:10.240] and then suddenly you’re actually having to say it. Everybody says it the first time so I don’t [01:10.240 –> 01:17.840] worry about it. So I’ve got Dalen on this episode to talk about a game called by the pier which is a [01:17.840 –> 01:24.320] playdate game and it’s totally not just because Dalen is the only person that has a playdate that [01:24.320 –> 01:31.760] wants to actually talk on the podcast. I’m here for my very special set of skills which are owning [01:31.760 –> 01:43.760] this device. This is episode three in our mini series of fishing month so just a couple of bits [01:43.760 –> 01:48.640] of housekeeping at the beginning so first of all obviously if you need transcripts they are [01:48.640 –> 01:56.400] available in the show notes and on the website go get them. This is obviously as this is fishing [01:56.400 –> 02:00.480] month those who have listened to previous fishing month episodes will know that there will be no [02:00.480 –> 02:05.760] news in this episode because this is an out of time episode. Fishing month is the month where I [02:05.760 –> 02:12.720] am away on holiday and so we’ve got all these recorded up and early except one the last episode [02:12.720 –> 02:18.880] might have had some news the the last episode was about dredge that might have had some news [02:18.880 –> 02:24.960] but I’m recording this before that part I’m I’m recording this before that’s recorded so we’ll [02:24.960 –> 02:33.040] find out soon. Podcast time is weird. Yeah the listeners will have already have found out whether [02:33.040 –> 02:38.880] there was news in the last episode or not. It’s so weird to be talking to you all from the past the [02:38.880 –> 02:45.360] future I’m not sure which it would be in this context. We are talking from the past. Yeah well [02:45.360 –> 02:55.600] yeah but well I yes anyway. And this episode comes out in a month and a half so excellent. [02:57.280 –> 03:03.680] So yeah so that’s why we’re talking about by the pier because I wanted to do a special month of [03:03.680 –> 03:11.200] just stuff about fishing games and we’ll see how that goes or we will have seen how that has gone. [03:11.760 –> 03:21.600] This is this is terrible. Look look it is late at night and I am very sorry for making [03:24.160 –> 03:29.280] because we’ve been going through like two weeks of heatwave which of course heatwave in Scotland [03:29.280 –> 03:35.520] is like 23 degrees right so get your mocking out there early but I don’t cope well with the heat. [03:36.400 –> 03:44.320] I am not a big heat fan either so. Good good well anyway welcome welcome Dalin how are you doing? [03:44.320 –> 03:50.240] I’m doing all right. Excellent. It is now I’m just I had to calculate the degrees from [03:50.240 –> 03:54.880] Celsius to know how much I should laugh at you. I will I will withhold my giggles but. [03:55.040 –> 04:02.240] Okay cool so yeah we’re going to talk about by the pier we’ve got no news so we’re just going to go [04:02.240 –> 04:08.000] into Dalin what have you been up to? What have I been up to? So it is summer and I’ve been playing [04:08.000 –> 04:14.800] entirely too many games. I guess I can talk about them. I wrote them on the dark I don’t know if any [04:14.800 –> 04:20.480] of these you’ve heard of any of these I kind of abbreviated them. I think I’ve heard of at least [04:20.480 –> 04:28.320] two of them. Yes at least two yeah perhaps well let’s just I’ll just go in order so I’ve been [04:28.320 –> 04:34.960] playing Honkai Star Rail which I have not heard of this it’s the only gacha game I’ve ever enjoyed [04:34.960 –> 04:42.320] in any capacity. Interesting. So you know Genshin Impact? I know of it I have never actually. So [04:42.320 –> 04:46.720] this is made by the same company Hoyaverse I think they used to be called MiHoYo but they kind of [04:46.720 –> 04:54.560] rebranded because they’re like we want to be cool and what I like about this game is just like [04:54.560 –> 05:02.240] it’s got surprisingly good writing. Genshin was like not a Breath of the Wild clone but [05:02.240 –> 05:08.000] the inspiration was definitely there with gacha elements and the story I just could not care less [05:08.000 –> 05:14.720] about. This one is sort of a sci-fi thing and I feel like it’s a lot more compelling in like how [05:14.720 –> 05:20.560] it brings you into it and like there are so many small interactable things the thing that everybody [05:20.560 –> 05:25.440] likes to talk about and which I will as well is in the second like location you get to in the game [05:26.160 –> 05:31.440] you can interact with every trash can in the city and it will give you a unique piece of dialogue [05:31.440 –> 05:38.480] like a different you like wow the first time your character is like you have an urge to like shuffle [05:38.480 –> 05:43.200] through this garbage can and like loot it but you resist it and your friends are looking at you funny [05:45.040 –> 05:51.760] and it just kind of goes in plays straight the general player’s urge to just look [05:51.760 –> 05:57.520] through and loot every container so I think my favorite one was probably oh gosh what was the [05:57.520 –> 06:04.480] best trash can there was one where you get a note from the garbage king about to stop like rummaging [06:04.480 –> 06:09.920] through the trash cans because these are his streets. Can I just point out how ridiculous [06:10.000 –> 06:12.640] a phrase what was my favorite trash can [06:14.880 –> 06:19.680] there’s a lot of good trash cans in that game I don’t know I have to say it would make the [06:19.680 –> 06:25.280] older pokemon games much more exciting if it didn’t just say you find nothing yeah you you [06:25.280 –> 06:31.520] found nothing you found a rare candy it’s like you sense that this trash can is ancient it is the [06:31.520 –> 06:38.560] elder trash can of the city what do you do I don’t I’m obviously not going to play this game but what [06:38.560 –> 06:43.840] I find really interesting is so if you go into their like their list of games on google play [06:43.840 –> 06:50.640] it just has like the icons of the different games if you saw the the honkai star ray star rail icon [06:50.640 –> 06:55.120] next to the genshin impact icon like on your phone would you know which one to press [06:56.000 –> 07:01.760] no I mean it’s a pretty unified art style it’s not just a unified art style it’s basically the [07:01.760 –> 07:07.760] same icon it’s just it’s just that the one character has one eye left eye open the other [07:07.760 –> 07:14.080] one has the right eye open and their hair is a different color that’s it well okay oh I see what [07:14.080 –> 07:20.800] you’re yeah it’s basically identical very different okay well I don’t know I don’t know [07:20.800 –> 07:24.960] they are different character they may well be slightly different but do you know which is which [07:25.680 –> 07:31.280] no you wouldn’t know without context yeah okay so what you’re saying is they should have a big trash [07:31.280 –> 07:38.320] can on the real one like a train or something yeah I didn’t even like talk about like what the [07:38.320 –> 07:41.760] game’s actually about I just wanted to let everybody know about the trash can it’s just like [07:41.760 –> 07:50.400] it’s an rpg which is fun uh you you pull characters and like the story’s okay uh I love that the text [07:50.400 –> 07:56.080] it it just kind of owns that it’s interesting to read something that was like written from a [07:56.560 –> 08:00.880] Chinese company because I feel like there’s a very distinct writing style that the whole [08:00.880 –> 08:05.120] team has and like I can’t tell if it’s like cultural or if it’s like just their specific [08:05.120 –> 08:09.520] team has a way of writing but it’s it’s very interesting I like a lot it’s interesting I [08:09.520 –> 08:14.880] wonder if I had 10 million downloads on gameplay how have I not heard of this before I don’t it [08:14.880 –> 08:19.840] only came out like a few months ago I think it was in the recent like sony direct or something [08:19.840 –> 08:24.400] they’re like yeah this is coming to ps5 oh I watched that I must have just ignored it [08:25.280 –> 08:31.840] very possible yeah it’s um I could definitely come across as just sort of generic anime but it it [08:31.840 –> 08:37.760] it has amused me fair enough I there’s a lot of care that has gone into like a lot of the [08:37.760 –> 08:42.720] side quests in this game and that’s honestly what I enjoy the most in a lot of games so [08:42.720 –> 08:47.840] I I appreciate it yep fair enough but if you want to know what this game actually is this [08:47.840 –> 08:51.680] I’ve given the most terrible description of it I mean let’s be honest if people if people know [08:51.680 –> 08:56.320] what genshin impact is then I’m sure genshin impact but with better writing will tell them [08:56.320 –> 08:59.840] everything they need to know good writing if you don’t know what genshin impact is you probably [08:59.840 –> 09:07.440] don’t want to know yeah rpg instead of just hitting things much better and it’s less boring [09:07.440 –> 09:15.360] I enjoy it more anyway uh other games tears of the kingdom that’s a good one I have already [09:15.360 –> 09:20.880] beaten this game uh yeah I’ve beaten it yeah yeah um I haven’t 100%ed it and I’m probably not going [09:20.880 –> 09:25.680] to 100% it even if you even if you ignore the korok seeds I’m probably not gonna 100 I might [09:25.680 –> 09:30.720] put some more time into it at some point um I will certainly go back with uh when they release the [09:30.720 –> 09:35.920] inevitable dlc which listeners will probably know about because I suspect it might be announced [09:35.920 –> 09:41.760] tomorrow yeah that would be that is quite likely at the time of this recording that yeah we are [09:41.760 –> 09:46.720] recording what 14 hours before the nintendo direct engines something like that I don’t [09:46.720 –> 09:51.760] I’m not gonna do more math no we don’t need to but anyway the important it’s tomorrow it’s very [09:51.760 –> 09:56.960] soon it’s less than a day away um but yeah so I’ll probably play some more when that comes out [09:56.960 –> 10:03.760] um but yeah I I might go back the thing is right like I the same thing happened with breath of the [10:03.760 –> 10:09.120] wild I really struggle with games where when you complete the final quest the final quest is not [10:09.120 –> 10:15.680] completed like you’re like I mean even if even if the world yeah even if the world was exactly [10:15.680 –> 10:19.600] the same right and even if you could go and still defeat them right I just I want it to say that [10:19.600 –> 10:24.960] that main quest is finished like having a quest that you cannot complete just even if it says [10:24.960 –> 10:30.320] 100% like if you do everything in the game it will say you’ve completed 100% that sure fine but [10:30.320 –> 10:35.120] there’s still something on incomplete there’s still a thing on my list that says incomplete [10:35.120 –> 10:41.360] it’s just it annoys me yeah I totally get that and this one’s even worse because there are two [10:42.000 –> 10:47.040] yeah there are two that you can’t get rid of in this game and I just it’s like they heard me [10:47.040 –> 10:51.040] complain about breath of the wild and went how about we make him more annoyed by adding a second [10:51.040 –> 10:57.680] one we are going to mess this up for al specifically so annoying anyway but it’s a good game I like it [10:58.400 –> 11:03.920] and yes I have completed the main story very nice yeah I am I’ve been taking a break for a little [11:03.920 –> 11:12.400] bit but I put in like probably like 50 hours into it so far amateur yeah no absolutely amateur it [11:12.400 –> 11:17.040] was funny though because I like oh I realize I didn’t put it but that’s whatever I put up like [11:17.040 –> 11:21.280] played like a tiny bit of a dragon quest game the other day that I’ve been playing over the [11:21.280 –> 11:28.320] past three years and it’s like just got to 30 hours whereas I beat breath of the wild 50 or [11:28.320 –> 11:35.360] not beat it but played 50 hours of it like just a few weeks yeah yeah yeah I’m about like halfway [11:35.360 –> 11:43.360] through the game main quest wise I’ve got two of the main dungeons or whatever the different the [11:43.360 –> 11:50.800] different areas temples as I think temples yeah yeah and I’m right I think I last time I stopped [11:50.800 –> 11:54.560] I just made it to Tarrytown and I was about to go in and see what’s going on over there [11:55.280 –> 12:00.000] I do like Tarrytown I mean everybody loves Tarrytown it’s great have you been not have [12:00.000 –> 12:04.800] you should also you should make sure you do all the Tarrytown stuff there’s some noted there’s [12:04.800 –> 12:10.960] one very particularly good thing about okay cool I will make sure to be thorough I uh I really enjoy [12:10.960 –> 12:16.400] the town quest I haven’t finished Hateno but I did like everything except for I think the last quest [12:16.400 –> 12:22.080] the mayoral election thing yeah I haven’t done that myself um I enjoyed it quite a bit it was [12:22.080 –> 12:26.400] just I just liked going around the town and like talking to everybody and helping them with stuff [12:26.400 –> 12:30.000] yeah I definitely need to do at some point because I believe that’s the only way you can like [12:30.000 –> 12:35.520] buy a second Hylian Shield if your first one breaks really interesting yeah well you’ll have [12:35.520 –> 12:40.160] to I guess check it out when if you feel like you need to prep for the dlc or something yeah I [12:40.160 –> 12:44.400] wouldn’t be surprised if if they announce the dlc and I’m like I must do more of this game I think [12:44.400 –> 12:51.120] I think I’m technically at 54 complete but that presumably includes all the core exceeds all the [12:51.200 –> 12:56.080] rain which both of them I just I don’t really I mean maybe I would care about the cooking but [12:56.080 –> 13:02.400] the cooking might be fun because it’s like yeah all the recipes yeah yeah the the recipe book is [13:02.400 –> 13:06.000] annoying because it like it felt like it was going to be like oh you can just like press a thing and [13:06.000 –> 13:10.400] it will make the thing rather than having to select but no it’s not it’s it’s literally just [13:10.400 –> 13:16.160] a log the reference which is useful and it’s nice it’s basically it’s basically the curry dicks right [13:16.160 –> 13:21.760] like I appreciate it compared to breath of the wild oh sure and I was sure I’m not going to [13:21.760 –> 13:25.280] remember anything yeah yeah no absolutely it’s nice to be able to go like oh these are the ones [13:25.280 –> 13:29.680] I’ve actually done already so that you can complete the certainly the the side quests I [13:29.680 –> 13:34.560] could see myself doing uh finishing them off and whatever I don’t know why they have two different [13:34.560 –> 13:39.920] they’ve got side quests and I think they’re just to like indicate like how much of an undertaking [13:39.920 –> 13:44.960] it’s going to be there’s side quests side adventures side adventure yeah yeah it just [13:44.960 –> 13:49.840] it’s weird that well first of all it’s weird they don’t kind of describe the difference I guess you [13:49.840 –> 13:55.680] just have to infer from the word and secondly they are separated by shrine quests like it goes main [13:55.680 –> 14:02.240] quest yeah that is a little side quest in between their shrine quest side adventure yeah and then [14:02.240 –> 14:07.200] weird that then the memories is like in that list as well but anyway I’m not going to question their [14:07.200 –> 14:12.480] UI decisions that is not my field of expertise it is a little weird though I will question them [14:12.480 –> 14:18.400] all I want please do someone must um I mean it’s not really like you know we must take it down [14:20.000 –> 14:25.280] nobody’s questioning these bad decisions no it’s still it’s still a very good take [14:25.280 –> 14:32.960] nintendo to task about their terrible nobody ever criticizes them ever ever it’s never been done [14:32.960 –> 14:41.120] we’re the first yes here’s the kingdom good game good game and uh I feel like I’m talking too much [14:41.120 –> 14:44.880] about these video games but we’re definitely not I don’t know what else we’re gonna talk about by [14:44.880 –> 14:50.720] the pier we’ll be pretty short yeah uh I’ll I’ll talk about uh hard space and then we can talk [14:50.720 –> 14:56.400] about bloom which I’m also playing which I have thoughts and it’s definitely relative relevant [14:56.400 –> 15:02.560] it’s definitely relevant to the podcast as well yeah yeah um hard spaceship breaker uh is a game [15:02.560 –> 15:08.240] I picked up I don’t know when a while ago uh it’s you’re just dismantling ships in space it’s a [15:08.240 –> 15:14.160] simulation where you dismantle ships in space that that’s basically it it’s uh I it was kind [15:14.160 –> 15:20.560] of stressful at first but like I as person yes it’s a first person game you are like physically [15:20.560 –> 15:25.920] taking apart a ship you’ve got like a cutter tool um you have a grapple to let you pull things [15:25.920 –> 15:31.520] towards you or pull yourself towards things you can’t choose it’s simply like are you heavier [15:31.520 –> 15:37.840] than the object or is the object heavier than you or your whole force um fair enough yeah um [15:37.840 –> 15:42.480] and then what’s the other tool I think you’ll get bombs at some point I have yet to use them at all [15:43.120 –> 15:50.000] um but they are needed for uh the later game introduces elements of like sometimes ships are [15:50.000 –> 15:55.440] like pressurized inside so like you need to depressurize them and sometimes you can’t [15:56.080 –> 16:02.560] do that manually so you have to uh throw a bomb and get away rapid depressurization yes [16:02.560 –> 16:07.200] rapidly pressurization it sounds like the way that um spacex would describe explosions [16:08.080 –> 16:16.400] uh yeah if you like um just it’s very much so this game is set like in the late let’s see it’s [16:16.400 –> 16:22.080] like 2400 I want to say is somewhere in that somewhere that century I think the game takes [16:22.080 –> 16:27.600] place and it’s like the future and all of earth thanks for clarifying that’s the future yeah [16:27.600 –> 16:33.040] yeah it’s the future uh all of earth is ruled by a giant mega corp that you work for [16:33.040 –> 16:40.720] of course so it’s there is a wealth of commentary on uh maybe one company shouldn’t own everything [16:40.720 –> 16:45.920] in the world and uh it comes through in the dialogue there was a one of the uh writers on [16:45.920 –> 16:50.080] this game is someone I follow on twitter so I was like oh I can kind of see their style poking [16:50.080 –> 16:55.680] through here a little bit I think so I’ve been enjoying just they they sort of weave the story [16:55.680 –> 17:00.720] in by having your co-workers will like talk to you either in between shifts or just kind of at [17:00.720 –> 17:06.560] the beginning of the shift over the intercom so that’s fun verified on steam deck yeah it’s pretty [17:06.560 –> 17:12.000] good I enjoyed it would recommend I need to I have not finished it yet but I’ve gotten through the [17:12.000 –> 17:16.080] first act I think there are three acts I’m not sure can you go back and replay them because it [17:16.080 –> 17:20.080] feels like the sort of game that I’m not going to play it because I’m not a huge fan of first person [17:20.080 –> 17:26.080] and stuff like that except in exceptional circumstances um but it feels like the sort [17:26.080 –> 17:32.480] of thing that you could just go back to and it’d be kind of you know repetitive and oh absolutely [17:33.040 –> 17:38.080] relaxing in that sort of way they yeah besides the campaign mode you can basically just I think [17:38.080 –> 17:43.040] they have like a free play mode where you just kind of pick any ship to dismantle any because [17:43.040 –> 17:47.360] there are like different types of ships in the game and then also I think there’s like some sort [17:47.360 –> 17:55.200] of like race mode where you’re like trying to race against somebody else to dismantle it faster or [17:55.200 –> 18:00.400] something the the game gives you like shifts in 15 minute chunks usually I don’t know if [18:01.200 –> 18:05.840] it would limit to that I haven’t touched the mode at all to be honest but it’s a cool option for [18:05.840 –> 18:13.760] people to have competitive ship dismantling interesting mm-hmm and then finally bloom which [18:13.760 –> 18:18.960] I just picked up yesterday uh so I’ve not gotten super far in but I’m enjoying it quite a bit oh [18:18.960 –> 18:24.640] in yeah enjoy I what what um without story spoilers like how sure how much have you [18:25.680 –> 18:31.680] let’s see in terms of here I will open it on my playdate right now let me make sure the the sound [18:31.680 –> 18:35.280] is off so I’m not because I guess there’s two there’s two kind of main parts to this game and [18:35.280 –> 18:41.440] one is like this is it’s just a it’s just a very simple farming game right kind of you’re [18:41.440 –> 18:46.080] I think of the farming very much like Animal Crossing farming um that’s the kind of level [18:46.080 –> 18:50.400] it is but obviously the graphics are much simpler and then there’s the the story aspect to it which [18:50.400 –> 18:57.360] you can you can do as uh I will say as slowly as you want probably not as quick as you want [18:57.360 –> 19:02.160] but as slowly as you want honestly I feel like I’ve been going too quick so I’m I’m fine with [19:02.160 –> 19:09.760] that I enjoy the sort of leisurely play pace of things um right now in terms of upgrades I have [19:10.640 –> 19:18.560] three four twelve spots on the roof to plant things so not bad yeah uh I’ve got about like [19:18.560 –> 19:25.520] in terms of chat messages I’ve met aside from like the shop in the horoscope a day in the opening [19:25.520 –> 19:32.000] tutorial I have seven people I’ve met so far okay I have messages with I’ve been playing the little [19:32.320 –> 19:39.520] uh what’s it called star shooter hoshiko game which is fun yes I was like man this game’s easy [19:39.520 –> 19:43.440] and then I beat the first like record and I was like man this game’s hard [19:45.440 –> 19:51.600] it’s easy until it isn’t it’s easy until it isn’t yeah my current high score is 680 so I could not [19:51.600 –> 19:58.800] tell you what mine was not bad not great but fun cool yeah no it’s a good game I really enjoy it [19:58.800 –> 20:03.200] um I can’t remember whether I’ve gone back and played all of the the update oh yeah because [20:03.200 –> 20:07.040] there was a new content added there was yeah I definitely started playing it but I can’t remember [20:07.040 –> 20:10.800] whether I finished it so I’ll need to try that at some point once I definitely once we finish this [20:10.800 –> 20:16.480] episode because I’m not closing pop it open I’m not closing by the pier just now it’s no might [20:16.480 –> 20:20.560] open that for reference as well I think it’s about time we go into it well first what have you been [20:20.560 –> 20:28.400] up to uh well yeah so not very many games because um my switch is still broken um although hopefully [20:28.560 –> 20:32.880] the time this episode comes out it will not be broken anymore we’ll see I dearly hope so yeah [20:33.520 –> 20:38.960] so it’s with nintendo now they have it they are just going it says it could take up to 20 days [20:39.600 –> 20:47.040] wow which is just such a stupid like whatever um it’s with nintendo now it’s it gave me like [20:47.040 –> 20:51.600] it’s in a better place now we sent we sent the switch to a farm upstate [20:51.600 –> 20:58.720] yeah yeah so um I’ve been playing obviously by the pier for for this podcast and there’s [20:58.720 –> 21:04.800] another game I’ve been playing for uh another episode of fishing week that will be recorded [21:04.800 –> 21:11.760] next week I think I’m recording that um maybe it’s two weeks I’ve lost track um that’s that’s [21:11.760 –> 21:19.040] about it games wise I’ve been uh going through the mission impossible films um so I am now up [21:19.040 –> 21:24.640] up to date with them the new one I think something like that so um I’ve been enjoying them I had seen [21:24.640 –> 21:29.520] a couple of them before but I couldn’t remember how many so I just like watched them all um which [21:29.520 –> 21:35.360] is pretty standard for me I started like properly tracking what I’m watching a couple years ago um [21:35.360 –> 21:39.360] so there’s a lot of things I have watched that haven’t tracked um and that’s why I’m like let [21:39.360 –> 21:43.600] me watch all of this franchise and then it’s all logged and the next time when there’s a new one [21:43.600 –> 21:48.080] out comes out I don’t need to go oh did I watch that no I have because I have them logged so I [21:48.080 –> 21:53.440] did that for mission impossible I did it for transformers um there was something else that [21:53.440 –> 21:59.360] I can’t remember but yeah so I’ve done that for a few few franchises this year I liked them um I [21:59.360 –> 22:06.400] think there’s kind of there’s a they have have you seen many of them uh I think I’ve only seen like [22:06.400 –> 22:11.040] snippets I’ve never sat down and watched one through so one thing that they have in the films [22:11.040 –> 22:16.080] is like there’s technology that can like realistically create someone’s face as a mask [22:16.080 –> 22:19.600] and they also have these little things that you put on your throat and it gives you their voice [22:19.600 –> 22:25.120] as well right so so that that is something that it’s not even a spoiler right that is literally [22:25.120 –> 22:30.880] in the first one minute of the film the first film right like it is literally the first thing [22:30.880 –> 22:37.920] is somebody pretending to be somebody else um and the problem with that is because they did it in [22:37.920 –> 22:43.200] the first film it means that they can’t pretend like that technology doesn’t exist so I think [22:43.200 –> 22:48.880] almost every film I think every single film has at least one scene where halfway through [22:48.880 –> 22:54.240] the scene you’re like oh wait that’s not that person is it and then it’s like somebody dies [22:54.240 –> 22:57.200] and you’re like no I can’t believe they killed them and it’s like oh wait a minute they didn’t [22:57.200 –> 23:06.320] kill them it was somebody else every single film has that um I won’t tell you what scenes so it’s [23:06.320 –> 23:10.720] not given but yeah like this is the thing like by the fifth one I was already predicting that this [23:10.720 –> 23:14.480] would happen right like because it’s like they just do it all the time and there’s a few cases [23:14.480 –> 23:18.160] where they’re like oh we can’t use masks for this one because of this reason but they still use [23:18.160 –> 23:24.560] masks at some point in the film right it’s like oh my word so I get why they can’t just kind of [23:24.560 –> 23:29.600] ignore it because it is technology that exists but it also feels like you know maybe they could have [23:29.600 –> 23:34.640] had some plot reason to get rid of them and never use them again because after six films it gets a [23:34.640 –> 23:40.080] bit tiring having that same thing happen yeah it just kind of wrote themselves into a corner with [23:40.160 –> 23:45.520] realm of possibility is something they always have to account for exactly exactly but overall [23:45.520 –> 23:50.240] I think they’re I think they’re pretty good action films with with either kind of um they’re one of [23:50.240 –> 23:56.880] them uh I won’t say which just so it doesn’t spoil it but one of them was like so many double crossings [23:56.880 –> 24:03.680] that I was losing track of who was on what side at any one point and it just felt like have you [24:03.680 –> 24:09.920] ever seen the um uh the Rick and Morty episode about the heist no I haven’t seen it it’s a very [24:09.920 –> 24:15.120] funny episode and it’s just basically making fun of heists basically it’s like the entire episode [24:15.120 –> 24:19.840] is just constantly like double crossing double crossing double crossing to like a ridiculous [24:19.840 –> 24:25.760] degree and it just felt like this film that it was like this is this is what um created that episode [24:25.760 –> 24:30.800] isn’t it it was this film it was like so many double crossings it’s like there was a space [24:30.800 –> 24:36.160] where it was like in one minute I’m pretty sure they double crossed like five times and I’m like [24:36.160 –> 24:43.520] what just happened here but overall they’re fun I enjoy them so I’m looking forward to the new one [24:43.520 –> 24:48.080] or I will have been looking forward to the you’re gonna go see it and you have seen it by the time [24:48.080 –> 24:54.480] this has come out yes hopefully cool uh yeah I think that’s thing that’s that’s that’s about it [24:55.040 –> 24:58.000] so only 25 minutes of what we’ve been up to uh [24:59.520 –> 25:03.120] I think I think they should cover it yeah should we talk about by the pier [25:03.120 –> 25:09.840] why not we’re here so we are the playdate players um so we bought is that our team name now the play [25:10.880 –> 25:16.320] the play the playdate players it sounds sounds a bit yeah no there’s not there’s not really a [25:16.320 –> 25:21.360] good name no we’ll workshop something play daters no that’s not even that’s that’s worse yeah that [25:21.360 –> 25:27.680] is worse uh we have play dates because we are the people that for some reason spent money on this [25:27.680 –> 25:33.120] thing uh which I definitely don’t regret like that’s not sarcastic I don’t regret it but as [25:33.120 –> 25:38.480] I’ve said many a time you probably shouldn’t buy one but they’re great it’s one of those things [25:38.480 –> 25:43.440] where like I don’t know I’m glad I bought one but when I got it in the mail it’s like oh this is a [25:43.440 –> 25:48.960] nice surprise but it was uh it was more like a gift to future me yeah a nice surprise that I [25:48.960 –> 25:55.040] paid for 18 months ago yeah that’s what I love about kickstarter like I have so many kickstarters [25:55.040 –> 25:59.120] and just like every couple of months I’m like oh a new game that I paid for three years ago [26:00.240 –> 26:06.560] yeah I’m I’m really I’m coming around to that I enjoy the the surprise oh it’s it’s a fun thing [26:06.560 –> 26:11.520] it’s I already spent the money I don’t it like it was getting spent either way but yeah yeah [26:11.520 –> 26:16.800] instead it’s a nice pleasant surprise instead of a well and the thing is I guess I can spend money [26:16.800 –> 26:22.560] and the thing is buying one now for later compared to buying one now for now it’s not [26:22.560 –> 26:26.640] like I’m going to play the game now anyway I have too many games so I may as well buy one [26:26.640 –> 26:32.240] for the future absolutely this is our pitch for the play date you’re gonna want to play it [26:32.240 –> 26:39.120] eventually just just buy a copy it’ll get there and like I I think they’re mostly caught up but [26:39.120 –> 26:44.320] like you know a few months half a year you’ll be like oh what’s this and it’ll just just be a fun [26:44.320 –> 26:49.920] thing to try out there’s like I got so many games that like a lot of them I will probably never [26:49.920 –> 26:54.640] touch but like even just today the day we’re recording this a bunch of games came out for [26:54.640 –> 26:59.840] the play date that I’m looking thinking about going through and picking up a couple so yeah [26:59.840 –> 27:03.760] and I think the interesting thing about most of the games is they’re not just like oh you could [27:03.760 –> 27:08.240] play this on anything like sure there are similar sorts of games with some of them like there’s a [27:08.240 –> 27:12.640] kind of snake clone which is changing things up sure you could guess but it’s not the same [27:13.200 –> 27:17.120] right and there’s some there’s something really charming about it and it’s not I would never [27:17.120 –> 27:22.320] suggest that this should be people’s only games console no but it’s a nice as an additional I [27:22.320 –> 27:28.240] agree it’s it’s fun to have like I mean I think that was a lot of the appeal of the DS2 is like [27:28.240 –> 27:33.040] you’ve got two screens what can you do with two screens and like this set of buttons like what [27:33.040 –> 27:37.840] kind of gameplay does that create and sometimes there was a lot of fun stuff that came with it [27:37.840 –> 27:43.520] yeah yeah I know definitely definitely cool so I guess a quick explanation of by the pier [27:43.520 –> 27:50.240] it is a play date fishing game where you I mean well let’s let’s just be honest about it you use [27:50.240 –> 27:55.600] the crank that you know that’s that’s the gimmick they they put a crank on this thing they were [27:55.600 –> 28:00.960] asking for fishing games when they said when they did that I’m frankly surprised there aren’t [28:00.960 –> 28:08.560] billions more uh well I mean maybe there are but I haven’t heard of them hey uh don’t don’t don’t [28:09.440 –> 28:14.080] don’t get into that don’t fall down that hole I have a list as long as my arm of games [28:15.200 –> 28:20.480] I’m both fishing and farming games oh yeah yeah there’s a so there’s a tag on h.io right for [28:20.480 –> 28:26.320] play for play date and you can just kind of you know scroll endlessly through them um now that [28:26.320 –> 28:31.520] I’m getting into play date was this is gonna start being dangerous I think yeah yeah especially [28:31.520 –> 28:36.160] as so many of the itch ones are obviously free or very very cheap like I think this one was [28:36.160 –> 28:42.800] technically free but like they suggest two dollars um so so why not buy it it’s two dollars yeah [28:42.800 –> 28:48.080] exactly exactly and I think the fun thing about that is like oh you don’t technically have to pay [28:48.080 –> 28:54.000] it um but if you do maybe give us this like I I just I was like oh I’m not gonna give you two [28:54.000 –> 28:58.560] dollars I’ll give you five dollars right like it was just like such an easy thing to go well [28:58.560 –> 29:04.320] if you’re asking for two I’ll give you five like it’s such a small amount extra um being such a low [29:04.320 –> 29:09.200] amount anyway and like you know I mean let’s be honest this game probably isn’t really worth five [29:09.200 –> 29:15.840] dollars it’s a very simple game but it’s such a small amount of money that it’s for me obviously [29:15.840 –> 29:20.640] I understand everybody has different financial situations but it felt worth it to me and I like [29:20.640 –> 29:25.920] to support people um and small devs and stuff like that oh man there’s so many little games on [29:25.920 –> 29:32.160] here I’m gonna spend too much money what have I done no I was on itch.io already so this was just [29:32.160 –> 29:36.720] kind of when you reminded me by play date existed this was sort of an eventual thing that was gonna [29:36.720 –> 29:44.560] happen so this is a very simple fishing game so you’re you’re on a pier um it’s a side side [29:44.560 –> 29:53.440] profile view um and you you press a to throw to go back the way I can’t remember what this [29:53.440 –> 30:00.800] terminology for this in fishing I’m sure but I can’t remember and then you you move the you like [30:00.800 –> 30:08.240] flick the play date forward and let go of a to cast it out and then it goes in the water and then [30:08.240 –> 30:14.560] you wait and a fish nibbles and then you crank that thing like nothing on earth except kind of [30:14.560 –> 30:17.680] so but we’ll get into that we’ll get we’ll get into that we’ll get into the details of that but [30:17.680 –> 30:24.160] that’s basically it right like you you cast out a fish bites you you crank to pull it in [30:26.080 –> 30:29.440] and just like a whole bunch of different fish and you get them at different points [30:29.440 –> 30:34.720] basically you you have to like put the line out at different points which I’ve it took me a while [30:34.720 –> 30:40.720] to figure out that I got really good at casting but that means I got really bad at casting a small [30:40.720 –> 30:45.920] amount so it was like oh how do I get the small amounts again you can just you can just reel it [30:45.920 –> 30:51.840] back in before a fish goes on and then you’re closer in and it was much easier once I realized [30:51.840 –> 30:57.120] that it took me ages of just going like I can’t get a small amount anymore I’m too good at this [30:57.120 –> 31:03.520] now I can’t remember how I was bad at it before suffering from success yeah exactly exactly yeah [31:03.520 –> 31:09.600] I uh I think I threw it out pretty far right away I was like oh I didn’t even okay I guess I’m [31:09.600 –> 31:14.480] throwing it out this far I guess cast that’s the word for it yes casting the line this far [31:15.440 –> 31:21.600] uh it’s it’s a very simple mechanic and I like that it makes use of the play dates like gyro [31:21.600 –> 31:28.480] I guess it can detect that it’s being moved around yeah uh beyond that I mean what do we want to [31:28.480 –> 31:32.080] tackle for I know there’s so much to talk good question well let’s talk about the actual fishing [31:32.080 –> 31:37.760] mechanic itself right so um yeah so we talked about the the casting it’s it’s fun I can see [31:37.760 –> 31:43.120] how it would be annoying if you wanted to do this a lot um it I think I don’t know if it’s possible [31:43.120 –> 31:51.200] to like to cast it without flicking it um but I guess it doesn’t massively matter right um the [31:51.200 –> 31:55.840] but then once you’ve got it out you’re you’re reeling in with the crank this is what we didn’t [31:55.840 –> 32:02.320] we kind of alluded to before is that you have to you’ve got a timer and the timer is different [32:02.320 –> 32:09.200] depending on the fish I think um because some of them certainly moved faster than others and you [32:09.200 –> 32:16.640] have to reel it in before the timer runs out but here’s the catch hey um the there’s a tension [32:16.640 –> 32:21.520] meter and if the tension meter goes all the way to the top your line snaps so you have to like [32:21.520 –> 32:26.320] reel it in and then stop and then reel it in and then stomp and then reel it in and stop and uh [32:27.200 –> 32:32.480] it’s an interesting I think the the timer made that really stressful to me like if it weren’t [32:32.480 –> 32:38.320] for the timer I think it would be a lot less it’s certainly not relaxing in that aspect of things [32:38.320 –> 32:43.520] like if you think about um have you played spirit fader yes so the fishing and spirit fader is kind [32:43.520 –> 32:50.240] of similar where you have the tension meter um and it’s but there’s no timer on that so like you [32:50.240 –> 32:54.080] hold it to reel it in and then you notice it’s going too much you let go and then you you press [32:54.080 –> 32:59.040] it again when you think there’s enough enough time as a lapse that it’s not and it just if you do it [32:59.040 –> 33:04.080] correctly eventually you’ll get it in whereas this is like if you don’t do it fast enough and then [33:04.080 –> 33:08.880] pause for the right for just long enough that it goes down enough like you’re not going to get it [33:08.880 –> 33:14.240] in and that that timer aspect is kind of makes that stressful right because if it reaches the [33:14.240 –> 33:21.600] end of the timer you’re the line also snaps yeah so either way it’s just not gonna happen there is [33:21.600 –> 33:28.160] it and let me tell you the snap sound of the uh the line is something about it is just very [33:28.160 –> 33:35.200] visceral and infuriating it is it is deeply upsetting I’m quite impressed [33:37.760 –> 33:43.440] yeah I’m trying to so there’s also I mean the graphics are incredibly simple like it’s a stick [33:43.440 –> 33:51.040] man um but um I think overall the gameplay is fun I mean that that we that’s literally it we’ve [33:51.040 –> 33:55.200] talked about the entire gameplay I mean yeah that’s basically the game uh if you press the [33:55.200 –> 34:01.120] little home button on the play date there you can click how to play and it’ll tell you how to play [34:01.680 –> 34:05.760] which by the way I definitely needed to do I could not figure out for the life of me how to play [34:05.760 –> 34:11.280] before I did that and the okay let’s talk about the how to play let’s let’s just talk about that [34:11.280 –> 34:14.880] first because it says this is the instructions it gives you it says how to cast the fishing rod [34:14.880 –> 34:19.440] you press and hold a you swing and flick the play date forward then you release a right at the end [34:19.440 –> 34:25.200] of the swing flick which is cool I’m glad yeah it teaches it’s nice to have that page it does not [34:25.200 –> 34:32.160] tell you the process of reeling in fish so I was immediately getting fish at the very end of the [34:32.160 –> 34:36.480] screen and I was like trying to reel them in and it just kept snapping and I could never get them [34:37.120 –> 34:42.480] yeah to come in and I like I didn’t understand what the tension line was I didn’t understand [34:42.480 –> 34:48.800] like what the timer was I’m like is the timer like how close the fish is to me and is the tension [34:48.800 –> 34:55.840] line like I guess hitting the top of it’s bad what do I it was incredibly frustrating I don’t [34:55.840 –> 35:03.600] but to figure out I’m just like I know I’m an idiot but I I wish I just understood what I’m [35:03.600 –> 35:07.920] doing wrong here um so I I think I was just getting like the hardest fish right off the [35:07.920 –> 35:13.760] bat or something yeah so like I mean probably important to say you can scroll down in that how [35:13.760 –> 35:23.600] to and it does tell you I tried and it let’s see why is it it oh my gosh so it does tell you all [35:23.600 –> 35:27.760] that information down there but it could I was like I’m sure there must be more of this because [35:27.760 –> 35:32.160] I could see like a tiny bit of rolling off I’m like maybe it’s just glitched but I was just [35:32.160 –> 35:38.800] pulling it towards me instead of pushing it away wow I’m really quite clever yeah I think it could [35:38.800 –> 35:42.560] do a better job of like it doesn’t show you that initially and there’s no like kind of like [35:42.560 –> 35:48.000] interactive tutorial which might be asking a bit much for a free game for it for this but sensibly [35:48.000 –> 35:52.080] two dollar game yeah at least showing you the how to play right like it took me a while to actually [35:52.080 –> 35:57.840] realize that there was a how to play thing um and then uh actually go into it and read it and I [35:57.840 –> 36:01.440] obviously then knew how to play as soon as I’d read that like I didn’t actually need an interactive [36:01.440 –> 36:06.640] tutorial um it’s it’s I’m looking through it now and it under it explains it quite well quite [36:06.640 –> 36:11.920] easily yeah yeah yeah definitely there are definitely some fish that have still failed [36:11.920 –> 36:17.280] to catch like I’ve not played an hour maybe played about an hour or something um but there [36:17.280 –> 36:22.080] are still some fish that I just I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do because I don’t [36:22.080 –> 36:28.160] know whether I’d like need to do like keep the tension at a specific point but like every time [36:28.240 –> 36:34.080] I let go it then moves further away okay I think I have a hypothesis on this now I guess I’ll have [36:34.080 –> 36:40.800] to test it but it’ll be kind of pointless after the podcast to report in but uh I see now that [36:40.800 –> 36:45.200] says the exclamation point means the fish is struggling and that tension increases much more [36:45.200 –> 36:49.760] rapidly so before I would always do it then because I was like it’s gonna get away faster [36:49.760 –> 36:54.480] is what I assumed the exclamation point means it does go well this is the thing that’s when it does [36:54.480 –> 36:59.920] move away so like I’ve tried yeah I’ve tried stopping when it has the exclamation park and [36:59.920 –> 37:04.320] exclamation point and yeah it moves away from you quite fast at that point as well so like [37:05.200 –> 37:10.320] I’m not sure it’s it’s a little tricky uh yeah I’ve gotten every fish in the game except for [37:10.320 –> 37:15.840] one I believe and I don’t really know where or what it is yeah sometimes I’ll just just can’t [37:15.840 –> 37:20.320] get the thing that’s on the end of the line and it can be pretty frustrating there are three that [37:20.320 –> 37:25.840] I haven’t caught um and I’m not sure what they are I’m pretty sure I have one on the line right [37:25.840 –> 37:31.200] now I’m definitely not going to get it in though because I it’s further away than the timer is so [37:31.200 –> 37:36.560] yeah I think I think what I’m saying is I think this game would be a lot more enjoyable and I [37:36.560 –> 37:42.800] would probably spend more time playing it if it weren’t for the timer right um and it’s like even [37:42.800 –> 37:48.720] if the tension like got more and more as you went along so in essence there was a timer there [37:49.280 –> 37:55.360] right but it was still possible to do it like you just had to like do it really really slowly [37:55.360 –> 38:01.600] or something that would be more enjoyable I just like you know this is about cottagecore games [38:01.600 –> 38:06.640] we talk about games that are generally relaxing and that sort of stuff right um and this seems [38:06.640 –> 38:12.080] like a good time killer but I don’t know if I would call it relaxing no no and this is the [38:12.080 –> 38:17.200] thing like because actually like spirit faders fishing when I talked about before I think is [38:17.200 –> 38:23.040] generally quite enjoyable right like I like the challenge it’s not just like oh you press the [38:23.040 –> 38:28.240] button and you catch the fish right like and different fish have different methods that you [38:28.240 –> 38:33.280] have to do to catch them and that’s that I think that’s quite fun but if you suddenly have 10 [38:33.280 –> 38:39.840] seconds to do it suddenly it becomes a lot less fun a little less fun yeah yeah it’s because it’s [38:39.840 –> 38:45.040] all about pattern recognition but the problem is that when you have almost no time to figure out [38:45.040 –> 38:52.720] the pattern it just ends up becoming like a battle against time and it’s that and also [38:53.600 –> 38:57.680] the other thing about spirit fair is like generally you have roughly the same fish in [38:57.680 –> 39:03.760] the same area right so you can I’m basic on that yeah trying to figure out exactly where [39:04.480 –> 39:09.920] I have thrown my line and therefore what fish I’m getting I can’t right that’s not [39:10.880 –> 39:16.960] there’s no like lines to tell you like no or in this fish exactly kind o

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Bev and Codey talk about Capybara Spa Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:04: What Have We Been Up To 00:06:41: News 00:47:59: Capybara Spa 01:06:28: Outro Links Everdream Valley Flutter Away Parkasaurus DLC Lightyear Frontier Mossfield Origins Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara Garden Galaxy Update Steamworld Build Mineko’s Night Market Spirittea Sprout Valley 33 Immortals The Palace on a Hill Capybara Spa Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:35.000] Hello, farmers, and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season. [00:35.000 –> 00:36.000] My name is Cody. [00:36.000 –> 00:37.000] And my name is Bev. [00:37.000 –> 00:41.000] And we’re here today to talk about Cottagecore games. [00:41.000 –> 00:43.000] Woo! [00:43.000 –> 00:45.000] Capybara games. [00:45.000 –> 00:46.000] And spas. [00:46.000 –> 00:47.000] And spas. [00:47.000 –> 00:50.000] There’s actually another Capybara game in the news. It’s crazy. [00:50.000 –> 00:52.000] Capybaras are on the rise. [00:52.000 –> 00:54.000] They are. [00:54.000 –> 00:58.000] As always, transcripts are available in the show notes and on the website. [00:58.000 –> 01:03.000] And, as we’ve already mentioned, we are talking today about the game Capybara Spa. [01:03.000 –> 01:06.000] Which has been on our list for a long time. [01:06.000 –> 01:13.000] It’s just kind of like a small, cute little game made by Cozy Beat Games, who also made Lemon Cake. [01:13.000 –> 01:15.000] Which is very fun. [01:15.000 –> 01:22.000] But before we dive into spas for Capybaras, we have some news. [01:22.000 –> 01:24.000] Actually, a decent amount of news. [01:24.000 –> 01:25.000] Thanks, Al. [01:25.000 –> 01:27.000] No, I’m kidding. [01:27.000 –> 01:30.000] Wait, are we doing what we’re put up to first? [01:30.000 –> 01:35.000] But before we get to the news… [01:35.000 –> 01:37.000] It’s early, farmers. [01:37.000 –> 01:38.000] Farmers, give us a break. [01:38.000 –> 01:40.000] We have some coffee. [01:40.000 –> 01:46.000] I actually considered having it be part of the intro where I’m like, [01:46.000 –> 01:50.000] Good morning, farmers. [01:50.000 –> 01:55.000] That could be after the credits. [01:55.000 –> 01:57.000] It’s true. [01:57.000 –> 02:05.000] Yeah, go to the end of the credits for me, for my goofiness. [02:05.000 –> 02:09.000] Yeah, what are the events? [02:09.000 –> 02:13.000] I love how in the show notes you just have work, work, work, work. [02:13.000 –> 02:15.000] And so I put work, work, work, work as well. [02:15.000 –> 02:18.000] Because I feel like that’s all I’ve been up to. [02:18.000 –> 02:23.000] I have a huge conference next week and stressing out about that. [02:23.000 –> 02:27.000] But I guess what I’m trying to not think about work and trying to [02:27.000 –> 02:31.000] de-stress, I’ve surprisingly have gone back into Clash of Clans for [02:31.000 –> 02:32.000] whatever reason. [02:32.000 –> 02:33.000] I don’t know why. [02:33.000 –> 02:34.000] Wow. [02:34.000 –> 02:36.000] But I’m all in. [02:36.000 –> 02:40.000] I feel like I’ve been building up my town hall. [02:40.000 –> 02:42.000] I got up to a town hall 10. [02:42.000 –> 02:43.000] Now I have a second all to count. [02:43.000 –> 02:45.000] I don’t know why. [02:45.000 –> 02:49.000] So I’ve been doing a lot of that. [02:49.000 –> 02:54.000] I’m occasionally playing, what am I playing? [02:54.000 –> 02:55.000] Oh, goodness. [02:55.000 –> 02:58.000] The one, Cora Island, that one. [02:58.000 –> 02:59.000] Oh, yeah. [02:59.000 –> 03:00.000] Uh-huh. [03:00.000 –> 03:03.000] And I also got Fire Emblem engaged last weekend. [03:03.000 –> 03:09.000] So I’ve been also trying to put some time in a minute a day or so, as [03:09.000 –> 03:11.000] I do in that. [03:11.000 –> 03:12.000] Yeah. [03:12.000 –> 03:14.000] How about you? [03:14.000 –> 03:17.000] Work, work, work, work, work. [03:18.000 –> 03:24.000] So I am about to do my comprehensive exam, which is basically in my [03:24.000 –> 03:27.000] university, it’s different at every university, but at my university in my [03:27.000 –> 03:31.000] department, it’s basically where I stand in front of my committee of five [03:31.000 –> 03:35.000] people and say, this is what I want to do my research on. [03:35.000 –> 03:39.000] And it’s funny because it’s like, here are two, excuse me, here are two [03:39.000 –> 03:43.000] chapters that I’ve already finished. [03:43.000 –> 03:47.000] So you can’t tell me I can’t do that because I already did it. [03:47.000 –> 03:52.000] And then here are two chapters that I have made that I have an idea of [03:52.000 –> 03:53.000] what I’m going to do. [03:53.000 –> 03:56.000] One of them is in progress, so I think if anything, they would just be [03:56.000 –> 04:00.000] like change how you’re asking the questions. [04:00.000 –> 04:03.000] And then the other one is kind of like this offshoot from that. [04:03.000 –> 04:07.000] And so basically the question is like, is that enough? [04:07.000 –> 04:11.000] This is the exam where they are like, wow, look at all the things you’re [04:11.000 –> 04:15.000] doing, but it’s not enough for PhD. [04:15.000 –> 04:22.000] And then you have a chance to like add to it and redo it later. [04:22.000 –> 04:26.000] Or they could just be like, you good, looks great. [04:26.000 –> 04:28.000] Like get her done, you know? [04:28.000 –> 04:30.000] So we’ll see. [04:30.000 –> 04:33.000] But that’s in like a week and a half. [04:33.000 –> 04:37.000] So that’s exciting question mark. [04:37.000 –> 04:42.000] But like after that, I don’t have anything until my defense, which will [04:42.000 –> 04:46.000] be in like October of 2025. [04:46.000 –> 04:52.000] So I literally would just be collecting my insects, identifying them, [04:52.000 –> 04:56.000] going to conferences, writing my papers, like all of that, like getting [04:56.000 –> 05:02.000] all of that stuff done, likely doing any extra chapters that come along [05:02.000 –> 05:07.000] because every single time I collect field work data, I like. [05:07.000 –> 05:11.000] Well, I talked to my, I talked to like my collaborator and my advisor [05:11.000 –> 05:13.000] and I’m like, Oh wow, I found this cool thing. [05:13.000 –> 05:14.000] And they’re like, let’s write a paper about it. [05:14.000 –> 05:17.000] And I’m like, no, please. [05:17.000 –> 05:19.000] So yeah, I’ve been doing that. [05:19.000 –> 05:24.000] I haven’t really been playing games, but I’ve been in like that nostalgic, [05:24.000 –> 05:29.000] like rewatch movie series that you’ve watched a billion times. [05:29.000 –> 05:33.000] I’ve been reading a lot of books lately. [05:33.000 –> 05:39.000] So that’s, that’s kind of my, Oh, I did, I did download like Tetris on my phone. [05:39.000 –> 05:43.000] There’s this Tetris app that you can get on your phone and you earn like [05:43.000 –> 05:49.000] these VIP points and if you get 4 million VIP points, which is like ridiculous. [05:49.000 –> 05:54.000] But if you get 4 million VIP points, you get an eight day cruise to Alaska. [05:54.000 –> 05:55.000] Amazing. [05:55.000 –> 05:56.000] You can like turn them in. [05:56.000 –> 05:58.000] Like you can turn in all these points for like legit things. [05:58.000 –> 06:05.000] Like if you live in, if you live in that one place where people gamble, Vegas. [06:05.000 –> 06:07.000] That one place. [06:07.000 –> 06:12.000] There’s like, you can get like a free night in MGM or, you know, [06:12.000 –> 06:16.000] with a very small amount of points, you can get 15% off your thing [06:16.000 –> 06:17.000] and you don’t ever have to pay. [06:17.000 –> 06:20.000] You just like watch the dumb ads in between a Tetris game. [06:20.000 –> 06:21.000] But like, I don’t care. [06:21.000 –> 06:24.000] I just put my phone down and play with my dog and then I’m like, Oh, cool. [06:24.000 –> 06:25.000] The ad’s done. [06:25.000 –> 06:27.000] Yeah, yeah, exactly. [06:27.000 –> 06:29.000] I’ve been joined with a cat. [06:29.000 –> 06:33.000] So if you hear any purring, that’s her. [06:33.000 –> 06:35.000] I just thought you were purring. [06:35.000 –> 06:36.000] No. [06:36.000 –> 06:37.000] Yes. [06:37.000 –> 06:38.000] Yes. [06:38.000 –> 06:40.000] No, I’m also a cat. [06:40.000 –> 06:41.000] I have it. [06:41.000 –> 06:42.000] I have it. [06:42.000 –> 06:47.000] OK, so we can get into the news. [06:47.000 –> 06:49.000] OK, so first bit of news here. [06:49.000 –> 06:56.000] Everdream Valley is going to release on the switch on June 23rd. [06:57.000 –> 06:58.000] I’m trying to think. [06:58.000 –> 07:02.000] I think that by the time this is out, it’ll be it’ll be up. [07:02.000 –> 07:04.000] You can you can play the game. [07:04.000 –> 07:05.000] You can do the time. [07:05.000 –> 07:07.000] The time is real. [07:07.000 –> 07:08.000] Yes. [07:09.000 –> 07:10.000] This looks super cute. [07:10.000 –> 07:12.000] It’s like a little farming. [07:12.000 –> 07:17.000] I mean, it says like that farming is its main one of its main things. [07:17.000 –> 07:19.000] But you’re like a small child. [07:19.000 –> 07:25.000] The look of the child makes me think that you like is abandoned on this island. [07:25.000 –> 07:29.000] And I’m like, why is he the one doing all of this stuff? [07:29.000 –> 07:33.000] But I feel like this gives me like someone more like vibes. [07:33.000 –> 07:34.000] Uh huh. [07:34.000 –> 07:35.000] OK. [07:35.000 –> 07:40.000] Like just a small child living by herself on a island, taking care of her a little. [07:40.000 –> 07:41.000] Oh, yeah. [07:41.000 –> 07:42.000] That’s what it feels like. [07:42.000 –> 07:44.000] I’m just like, what? [07:44.000 –> 07:45.000] Get it like find parents. [07:45.000 –> 07:47.000] What are you doing? [07:47.000 –> 07:50.000] What an industrious child, though. [07:50.000 –> 07:55.000] Um, I watched the trailer and the beekeeping looks great. [07:55.000 –> 08:05.000] And by that, I mean, it showed it showed the like a really big close up of the hives and it just had bees all over the screen. [08:05.000 –> 08:09.000] Like I was like, yeah, that’s how it feels. [08:09.000 –> 08:13.000] And you collect bugs, which is always fun. [08:13.000 –> 08:14.000] I’m in. [08:14.000 –> 08:17.000] I feel like the name is a little unfortunate. [08:17.000 –> 08:24.000] Like if they came up with this name like two to three years ago and then Dreamlight Valley came out. [08:24.000 –> 08:27.000] Yeah, that’s true. [08:27.000 –> 08:31.000] Also, ever dream valley makes me think that he’s like in a coma. [08:31.000 –> 08:32.000] Oh, my goodness. [08:32.000 –> 08:34.000] And this is all a hallucination. [08:34.000 –> 08:35.000] Yes, that’s exactly what’s happening. [08:35.000 –> 08:36.000] It does. [08:36.000 –> 08:38.000] It should end. [08:38.000 –> 08:41.000] You beat the game and zoom out. [08:41.000 –> 08:43.000] He’s not actually doing like child like labor. [08:43.000 –> 08:44.000] Oh, my gosh. [08:44.000 –> 08:46.000] I mean, better. [08:46.000 –> 08:47.000] No, no, not better. [08:47.000 –> 08:48.000] Not better. [08:48.000 –> 08:51.000] Um, God, we are unhinged. [08:51.000 –> 08:56.000] Okay, so that is ever dream valley coming to switch on the 23rd of June. [08:56.000 –> 08:57.000] The next one is flutter away. [08:57.000 –> 09:00.000] This is capybara game number two. [09:00.000 –> 09:06.000] Yes, capybara game number one will always forever in our hearts be capybara spa. [09:06.000 –> 09:23.000] Um, but flutter away is quote pulled this from the steam enjoy the serenity of the Amazon rainforest and this cozy short nature exploration game as a butterfly researcher on a five day camping trip explored nearby tracks take photos me animal friends and journal journal [09:23.000 –> 09:36.000] the discoveries found along the way, and quote, if you eagle eyed eagle eared listeners could hear me pause after a butterfly research. [09:36.000 –> 09:42.000] As I like was like, I know I saw this on the which McCall at the wholesome game. [09:43.000 –> 09:53.000] And I was like, I need to be a researcher in my virtual life, as well as well I’m not research IRL but I need. [09:53.000 –> 10:06.000] So I’m here for it. But like, it looked so cool because like you put a stick out that I’m assuming has some kind of like thing that attracts butterflies on it and like nectar or something. [10:06.000 –> 10:13.000] And then you have to like pull it really really slowly towards you if you pull it too fast and they’re like what the heck and they like fly away. [10:13.000 –> 10:21.000] But you’re basically like what from the trailer it looked like you’re trying to figure out like the diversity of butterflies in this area. [10:21.000 –> 10:26.000] And you and you have a capybara friend. [10:27.000 –> 10:28.000] Okay. [10:28.000 –> 10:46.000] I’m speaking of capybaras I just remember this. I saw a video yesterday that said that capybaras can swim five kilometers an hour underwater, like, they literally just like walk along the bottom of me or whatever and they just like kick off and zoom by you it’s Holy Holy [10:46.000 –> 10:57.000] Hekaru. They are very, very fast little sprightly things that are very fast little rodents, or big rodents, big rodents, biggest rodents Yes, correct. [10:57.000 –> 11:09.000] Um, I don’t think that they’re going to be swimming in this game but flutter away releases on steam and switch on the third of August, maybe they will be flying in this game. [11:09.000 –> 11:12.000] Man flutter away on switch. [11:12.000 –> 11:15.000] Ow. [11:15.000 –> 11:22.000] Let me cover the motherling game. Um, are we just going to cover like all the research like games. [11:22.000 –> 11:34.000] I feel like we’re obligated. I feel like we are, and I’m not not upset about that. I’m not either, um, a research game that I don’t feel obligated transitions on point. [11:34.000 –> 11:40.000] Parkasaurus prehistoric wonders DLC. So I think we’ve already covered Parkasaurus on the pod. [11:40.000 –> 11:55.000] So this is just a DLC and it’s out now and it just gives you 10 new animals and the animals are the American lion mammoth saber tooth mega theorem, Eastern Puma giant capybara Oh my gosh, I didn’t even goodness. [11:55.000 –> 11:57.000] They’re everywhere. [11:57.000 –> 12:01.000] Year of copy bar. [12:01.000 –> 12:04.000] Name, that’s gonna be the title of the year. [12:04.000 –> 12:07.000] Yes. [12:07.000 –> 12:16.000] Uh, short faced bear dodo direwolf and dwarf pronghorn. So they looked really dumb. [12:16.000 –> 12:21.000] I mean, not like the game did not make them dumb. [12:21.000 –> 12:24.000] They’re just dumb. [12:24.000 –> 12:31.000] As the owner of two chickens I feel like I can very much say confidently this is a dumb bird. [12:31.000 –> 12:33.000] Yeah. [12:33.000 –> 12:39.000] So yeah, if you have Parkasaurus or if you’ve been wanting a dodo and Parkasaurus. [12:39.000 –> 12:44.000] And that’s why you haven’t played it. Do it now. Good. [12:44.000 –> 12:47.000] Okay, light your frontier. [12:47.000 –> 12:55.000] Um, I, I like. Okay, I guess let’s just let’s take a look under the hood. [12:55.000 –> 12:57.000] Cody. [12:57.000 –> 13:00.000] I don’t remember games. [13:01.000 –> 13:05.000] I’m gonna record this podcast and I’m out. [13:05.000 –> 13:11.000] All that knowledge is gone. So every time there’s a news article about a game. [13:11.000 –> 13:24.000] I like the night before or right before whatever I put like these little blurbs of what they are and for this one last night I wrote Ark survival evolved but you have mech suits. [13:24.000 –> 13:29.000] I don’t really know that you’re doing your homework, because I am not. [13:29.000 –> 13:37.000] I just like to know what I’m talking about, but, um, I can’t, I’m not good at riffing I feel like when I riff and like I go rogue. [13:37.000 –> 13:45.000] I don’t know. I’m just at the stage of like, I don’t care anymore. I’m just flying by the seat of my pants. [13:45.000 –> 13:49.000] The listeners love you anyway so. [13:49.000 –> 13:56.000] Whereas my anxiety is like they will hate you. [13:56.000 –> 14:05.000] So yeah, that was my note for light your frontiers Ark survival, but you have mech suits because that’s what it looks like he’s like mech suits. [14:05.000 –> 14:10.000] And they have updated the release window for this game and it’s coming early 2024. [14:10.000 –> 14:22.000] I’m like, intrigue I kind of don’t like the first person like aspect of it and it’s weird to do so in a forum but yeah, this also gives me a slime rancher like but like steampunk vibes. [14:22.000 –> 14:32.000] And that’s also a game that I want to play so who knows maybe I will. It’s just so interesting that like, because you can use the suits to like farm instead of him remember. [14:32.000 –> 14:46.000] So it’s like, yeah, it feels like fulfills people’s Gundam desire. Exactly like I want to like have a cottagecore like vibe, but I want to shoot water out of my gun. [14:46.000 –> 14:59.000] And then if you, I don’t know if this happens in this game or not but if you if you’re watering your plants and you have your water gun. And then a baddie is coming for your crops, you can go. [14:59.000 –> 15:02.000] And then switch to your regular gun. [15:02.000 –> 15:04.000] And then you go. [15:04.000 –> 15:07.000] That’s what happens in the comic ops. [15:07.000 –> 15:11.000] Which is a stress. Well, with that sound effect. Oh my god. [15:11.000 –> 15:20.000] Well, no, but okay good. Your, your water is also your weapon. I thought it was original. [15:20.000 –> 15:29.000] The sound effect was supposed to be the water gun going back in the, in the arm and then the real gun coming out. Beautiful. I love it. It was so good. [15:29.000 –> 15:32.000] Thanks. [15:32.000 –> 15:36.000] Next up we have Mossfield origins. [15:36.000 –> 15:49.000] So quote. This is a small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation. Take your time build a sustainable community for your residents, sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game with no time pressure [15:49.000 –> 15:51.000] or external forces. [15:51.000 –> 15:57.000] Yeah, upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space. [15:57.000 –> 16:07.000] Um, let me tell you, that’s the end quote. Let me tell you, so as someone with ADHD I need time pressure. [16:07.000 –> 16:22.000] Or else nothing’s getting done. I know I maybe that’s something we’ll talk about where we actually get into the game but yeah, I also feel that, but also at the same time, I, it’s like, like I want it but also I don’t because stress. [16:22.000 –> 16:34.000] Yeah, but I guess it depends on how they like roll it out like if it’s like starting like yes there is time pressure but I’m not stressed out about it. So, yeah, gotta do it right. [16:34.000 –> 16:37.000] It looks really cute. [16:37.000 –> 16:45.000] The animation style looks really interesting and I really like I don’t really like the sepia tones. [16:46.000 –> 16:52.000] Okay, cool. Mm hmm. Like it’s very other like worldly and. [16:52.000 –> 16:55.000] That’s true. Yeah, yeah, sorry. [16:55.000 –> 17:02.000] Are you like on like a different planet like you’re kind of looks like you’re wearing a space suit, space suit. [17:02.000 –> 17:06.000] I’m assuming that’s why it’s like a weird like different environment. [17:06.000 –> 17:09.000] It’s just a different atmosphere, I don’t know. [17:09.000 –> 17:18.000] But I can, I feel like I could probably get into this like I’m not in a very creative space right now so I don’t want to have to figure out where to put buildings. [17:18.000 –> 17:22.000] I’m very anti like creativity in my game right now. Yeah. [17:22.000 –> 17:29.000] So I could see me not wanting to play that but at the same time, I also enjoy like city building so we’ll see. Yeah. [17:29.000 –> 17:34.000] Yeah, we’ll see. I, that’ll be a you game. [17:35.000 –> 17:42.000] So the roadmap and the release date are quote unquote coming soon. Love that, love that for us. [17:42.000 –> 17:49.000] But we’ll get more information right now. One blurb from their, gosh, what is this their blog. [17:49.000 –> 17:54.000] All events Mossfield Origins, I think this is a blog. [17:54.000 –> 18:01.000] Quote one of the artistic goals of Mossfield Origins is to reflect a healthier relationship that’s possible between humans and the world we live on. [18:01.000 –> 18:06.000] Worlds. Oh, worlds. Okay, confirmed. Yikes. Okay. [18:06.000 –> 18:12.000] We live on depicting a more sustainable approach to life and our habitation. [18:12.000 –> 18:23.000] So, um, yeah, I think it. The vibe is right but I need, I need someone telling me what to do. Yeah, or else isn’t it she not getting done so. [18:23.000 –> 18:29.000] Hopefully they have a really good quest system because that. Oh, if they have achievements. Yeah, yeah, exactly. [18:29.000 –> 18:37.000] Then you have goals. Like if it’s just like go in there and like mine Minecraft and like no, no, no thank you. [18:37.000 –> 18:47.000] Every time I play Minecraft, I literally do the exact same thing and that is go down to the, well, it used to be go down to level 11 but now there’s negative levels. [18:47.000 –> 18:57.000] Oh no. So I go down to like negative 40 or something like that and I just make a strip mine and put everything in, in chests. [18:57.000 –> 19:02.000] And so they organize chests. They are organized. [19:02.000 –> 19:07.000] So everyone that’s playing with me because like I play on these, these like community servers when I do. [19:07.000 –> 19:19.000] And so that they, they can be like, oh wow look a chest that has four stacks of diamonds. Cool. And I’m just like down there with my diamond pickaxe. Just doing that. [19:19.000 –> 19:23.000] That’s all I want to do. [19:23.000 –> 19:24.000] Okay. [19:24.000 –> 19:30.000] Next, Koa and the five pirates of Mara. Speaking of Summer and Mara. [19:30.000 –> 19:35.000] I wrote that this looks like a cute slash fun puzzle platformer. [19:35.000 –> 19:48.000] I’m excited. Is that what quite. Yeah, I think that it’s by Chibi. So same world as Summer Mara is in the same universe, but they, I guess, are deciding to branch out a little bit and they’re, I don’t know, type of game, I guess. [19:48.000 –> 19:57.000] So it is definitely a like 3d platformer and it just looks so cute and like getting to play as like Koa. [19:57.000 –> 20:05.000] I will just love and I do. It’s been so long since I’ve done a platformer because I feel like I got like tired of Mario for whatever reason. [20:05.000 –> 20:13.000] So maybe this will like get me back into like wanting to do platformers because it is so cute. It looks so bright. It just looks really good. [20:13.000 –> 20:21.000] I’m excited. And I did pack it. So excited just to get it. Well, good for you because it releases on July 27. [20:21.000 –> 20:31.000] So that is when it will be available to you. Beautiful. Super awesome. Speaking, I’m going to take a small sign here. Speaking of platformers, have you played Hollow Knight? [20:31.000 –> 20:40.000] Yes. Oh, so good. I have not like, I feel like finished the story or like I’m probably like 75% of the way through. [20:40.000 –> 20:48.000] But I also like get through like various like kind of like Stardew where I’m like, OK, I kind of want to get back into this. Let me start playing it again. [20:48.000 –> 20:55.000] But yes, love, love, love Hollow Knight. When I saw the trailer for Koa, I was like, oh, it’s a platformer. [20:55.000 –> 21:02.000] And then I like had a little bit of like anxiety and I was like, I’m not ready. [21:02.000 –> 21:06.000] If it’s Hollow Knight, then definitely not ready. I don’t think it’s going to be like Hollow Knight. [21:06.000 –> 21:12.000] I don’t know. I’m just too scared of platformers in general. [21:12.000 –> 21:17.000] Hollow Knight got me and I didn’t even get that far. It gets so hard real quick. [21:18.000 –> 21:28.000] I mean, I guess I’ve I’ve beat the game, but like my partner has done like the path of pain and literally a thing. [21:28.000 –> 21:34.000] And it’s just like it’s throwing all of the bad and all of the difficulty at you. [21:34.000 –> 21:39.000] And I’m like, I’m not doing that. It just sounds like stress. I watched like people stream that. [21:40.000 –> 21:47.000] I’m like, I’m not here for that. Like, I want it so I can like 100 percent the game or 120 percent it or whatever. [21:47.000 –> 21:52.000] But also, I’m never going to beat it. And it’s so frustrating. So no, thank you. [21:52.000 –> 22:00.000] Yep. That small aside, I’m trying to think of a nope, there’s no transition. [22:00.000 –> 22:07.000] Garden Galaxy, Garden Galaxy. [22:07.000 –> 22:16.000] Yeah, you don’t do that in this game. So, quote, discover, collect and organize to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idol slash creative sandbox. [22:16.000 –> 22:20.000] And I wrote, I have no idea how to describe this game. [22:20.000 –> 22:26.000] Yeah, it gives me like match madness vibes, like those matching games. [22:26.000 –> 22:32.000] But it’s not that at all. It’s like, I mean, I guess you do kind of like put you like match. [22:32.000 –> 22:37.000] It looks like there’s something there’s like this container that you can put things into. [22:37.000 –> 22:44.000] And then it pops out a randomly generated other things. Yeah, I don’t quite understand whatever that pot is. [22:44.000 –> 22:49.000] No, but it gives me like like city builder. Yeah. Vibes just in a garden sense. [22:49.000 –> 22:56.000] And I feel like I remember playing a phone game like this. That was also an idol game for just growing flowers. [22:56.000 –> 23:02.000] And it has like the same art style and like cubes, like sections, I guess. I don’t know. [23:02.000 –> 23:11.000] But like I said, I’m very anti-creative right now. And if you don’t tell me where to put things, I’m not going to put anything. [23:11.000 –> 23:16.000] Yeah, but this is like if you really enjoy being creative and like, yeah, exactly. [23:16.000 –> 23:24.000] Like if your favorite thing about Animal Crossing New Horizons was designing your island, you’re going to love this game. [23:24.000 –> 23:31.000] Because it’s just like it’s just that it’s just that and terraforming your your own galaxy. [23:31.000 –> 23:36.000] You’re playing God in this galaxy and just building. It looks it looks really cute. [23:36.000 –> 23:41.000] I’m not going to lie, but it’s just not like this is something that I would watch someone else play. [23:41.000 –> 23:48.000] Yeah. And maybe maybe at some point when I’m not feeling so tired and so anti-creativity, I will get into this. [23:48.000 –> 23:54.000] Bev, when you’re when? I’m hoping there will be a time when I’m not tired. [23:54.000 –> 23:59.000] Yeah, no, same. So we’ll see. That’s I just have been like joking about that myself. [23:59.000 –> 24:06.000] But like, you know, when I have free time. [24:06.000 –> 24:14.000] When I’m in the not so distant future, when this is all done in October 2025. [24:14.000 –> 24:19.000] Yeah. Yes. Catch me in January 2026. [24:19.000 –> 24:25.000] Yeah. So basically this there’s a summer update to this game coming out in June. [24:25.000 –> 24:29.000] This game’s already out, so you can already play it right now. [24:29.000 –> 24:36.000] But there’s a summer update and one of the new sets like they literally just put here the preview of one of the new sets. [24:36.000 –> 24:41.000] And it’s like a little island, kind of like a beachy. [24:41.000 –> 24:48.000] I guess it’s more like a deserted island theme now that I’m looking at it because it’s got like it’s got like a message in a bottle. [24:48.000 –> 24:55.000] Oh, wow. And like palm trees and stuff. So if you already have a game, new stuff is a coming. [24:55.000 –> 25:00.000] If you do not have that game, but this sounds intriguing, new stuff will be coming soon. [25:00.000 –> 25:07.000] So dive in now. The next game is we’re getting there. [25:07.000 –> 25:13.000] Y’all steamworld build such a weird name quote in steamworld build. [25:13.000 –> 25:18.000] You must escape a dying planet by building a mining town to dig up vital long lost technology. [25:18.000 –> 25:25.000] Meet the ever growing needs of your citizens, trade resources and defend your mine from the creatures that lurk below. [25:25.000 –> 25:31.000] End quote. That is giving Factorio vibes. It is. [25:31.000 –> 25:37.000] Actually, I don’t know. It’s the one where like you crash land on a planet. [25:37.000 –> 25:47.000] I think it’s Factorio because you crash on a planet and you’re just like mining the crap out of the planet to build your your thing back up. [25:47.000 –> 25:53.000] Eventually, these like creatures come at you and you’re just like, kill them. [25:53.000 –> 25:56.000] Oh, my goodness. Yeah, it’s Factorio. [25:56.000 –> 26:00.000] But yeah, it’s giving that. But the trailer. Did you watch the trailer? [26:00.000 –> 26:07.000] I have not, but I’ve I’ve heard about this game of seed. I think we talked about it on a like previous game or game previous episode. [26:07.000 –> 26:18.000] And I am excited by it. Like, I like the premise and like I enjoy mining and this is essentially what you’re doing. [26:18.000 –> 26:23.000] So I think I would enjoy this. And this also sounds like you’re like Minecraft like life. [26:24.000 –> 26:26.000] Until you can’t anymore. [26:26.000 –> 26:34.000] Like the gameplay trailer makes it look almost like like city skylines, like you have a city that you’re managing. [26:34.000 –> 26:43.000] And then there’s also like, I guess this might be minecarts that I’m looking at in this thing, but it looks like there’s like roller coasters. [26:43.000 –> 26:46.000] So it’s like a little roller coaster tycoon. Oh, my gosh, I forgot. [26:46.000 –> 26:59.000] If you go to 24 is for you and for anyone, if you go to 24 seconds into the trailer, there’s a there’s a what is that called? [26:59.000 –> 27:04.000] A drive through theater. A drive in. [27:04.000 –> 27:15.000] And there’s like these it’s all rusty in the image on the screen just looks like a robot is like about to have a showdown in the middle of the town in front of the tavern. [27:15.000 –> 27:19.000] And like he’s got his hand on his gun and his other guys, but like all you can see is the robot’s face. [27:19.000 –> 27:23.000] That’s just like what it’s evoking. But yes, drive in theater. [27:23.000 –> 27:38.000] So like this game just has a lot. But like to me, if I was the person trying to escape the dying planet partway through this, I would be like, maybe I don’t want just leave the planet. [27:38.000 –> 27:44.000] I mean, do we want to look at the beauty of that of that drive in theater and the roller coasters? [27:44.000 –> 27:51.000] Maybe we just fix up the planet that we have. Anyway, it looks really cute. [27:51.000 –> 27:57.000] I’m excited. And the news is that there’s a new trailer. [27:57.000 –> 28:04.000] That’s the news. So I definitely watch the trailer. It’s really cute, especially 24 seconds in. [28:04.000 –> 28:10.000] Tell me, listeners, what you think is happening in that movie at that drive in. [28:10.000 –> 28:13.000] It’s definitely a Western. OK, because it feels like a Western. [28:13.000 –> 28:17.000] It’s definitely a Western with the hot and the squidty eyes. And the squidty eyes. [28:17.000 –> 28:23.000] OK, next, Menechos Night Market. [28:23.000 –> 28:28.000] That’s me trying to be really, really excited, but also not too loud. [28:28.000 –> 28:35.000] I don’t want to blow out the speaker. So Menechos Night Market, this game, I did not have to look up because I know what I’m talking about. [28:35.000 –> 28:42.000] Exactly. The news here is that it is coming to Game Pass on its release. [28:42.000 –> 28:48.000] And of course, its release is September 26th, which is like the release for a billion games. [28:48.000 –> 28:52.000] There’s like four games that we cover that are all coming out on this day. [28:52.000 –> 29:01.000] Too many games. Pick another day. I mean, they can pick another day because whatever day Menechos Night Market comes out on is going to get our attention. [29:01.000 –> 29:06.000] True. Very true. So all the other games need to step off September 26th. [29:06.000 –> 29:10.000] Yeah, I feel like I need a Game Pass, but also I know I’m just going to buy this game. [29:10.000 –> 29:20.000] So, yeah, I mean, this is good news. Like if there if if you have been thinking about Menechos Night Market and every time you hear us talking about it, you’re like, oh, my gosh, I want a game. [29:20.000 –> 29:23.000] And you have Game Pass. That means you don’t have to buy it, right? [29:23.000 –> 29:30.000] Like you don’t have to put the money down because it’ll be on the for freezies, quote unquote. [29:30.000 –> 29:35.000] I think you have to pay for a Game Pass every month. Yeah, like ten dollars a month or something like that. [29:35.000 –> 29:45.000] So it’s not terrible. It’s only ten dollars. Which is why I was like, maybe I get it for Dreamlight Ballet because I want to play this game, but I don’t want to pay twenty five dollars for a free to play game. [29:45.000 –> 29:50.000] But also, I’m still paying whatever. It’s another subscription. [29:50.000 –> 29:53.000] Nope, don’t need it. OK, don’t need it. Exactly. [29:53.000 –> 30:02.000] If there’s like a specific game that I want to try, but don’t want to commit to, like I suppose Dreamlight Ballet, then I suppose it might be worth it for only like like a month. [30:02.000 –> 30:09.000] Like I definitely would pay more than ten dollars per an entire month if I bought a game. [30:09.000 –> 30:14.000] But whatever. Well, Bev, a great time, a great time to try Game Pass would be in September. [30:14.000 –> 30:25.000] Exactly. Because then you could try you could like if you do it early September, then you could play Dreamlight Ballet until Moneko’s Night Market came out and then swap over. [30:25.000 –> 30:31.000] Love that. That’s good planning, too. Maybe I will do that. [30:31.000 –> 30:36.000] Because I can plan for ten dollars in September. Right. Right. Yeah. [30:36.000 –> 30:42.000] I can do that. I also think that farming simulators on Game Pass. Oh, no. [30:42.000 –> 30:49.000] And I need to be playing that. Spoiler alert for future episodes. [30:49.000 –> 30:56.000] Spirit tea. Just going to transition very poorly. [30:56.000 –> 31:05.000] Spirit tea. So this is a quote from Al. Beta slash alpha slash meh. [31:05.000 –> 31:13.000] Out on Wednesday. So I believe that that means that it’s like Wednesday, like the day after the podcast comes out or the day of that. [31:13.000 –> 31:21.000] That’s unclear, Al. You put dates in the show notes. Wow. We’re just coming out all over the place because he then wrote might include all content. [31:21.000 –> 31:34.000] All content might not. Who even knows? And then I tried to click on the link and I sassily wrote would love to be able to read the update, but it’s only viewable by backers, Al. [31:34.000 –> 31:42.000] And that was where I was going to leave it. But y’all, he actually I didn’t like tag him or anything. He just looked at my notes and then he left. [31:42.000 –> 31:51.000] Yeah, he saw. Yeah. So he commented on that. What did he say? Not sure why I’m being blamed for this. Yeah. [31:51.000 –> 32:03.000] And then he took screenshots. Just copy paste the whole thing in here next time, Al. I mean, no, I wanted to give him crap. And then he ruined it. [32:03.000 –> 32:12.000] You still gave him crap. And then he gave you crap back. Yeah, it’s true. We do be ribbing each other. You’re like poking fun at each other. [32:12.000 –> 32:21.000] So, yeah, he said, let’s see, this says because this is I didn’t look at this last night. It wasn’t available to me. [32:21.000 –> 32:28.000] The developer says I’ve just finished a few of the crucial items and now we’re pretty much ready to start the public beta. [32:28.000 –> 32:36.000] Oh, I was about to say what is a public beta? And wouldn’t you know it? The next sentence. What is the public beta? Thank you. [32:36.000 –> 32:43.000] It’s essentially a chance to play the game early. I believe the beta will contain only the first two seasons of your first year in the town. [32:43.000 –> 32:50.000] However, there’s been talk of potential access to the full game as well. How do you not know? How do you? Yeah. [32:50.000 –> 32:54.000] So maybe it is. It’s not like the plan. [32:54.000 –> 32:58.000] I believe maybe maybe they just don’t have a lot of confidence. [32:58.000 –> 33:05.000] I also I also start with like I I think before things that I know for a fact, so it might just be like a confidence thing. [33:05.000 –> 33:13.000] So I hope that they will know what the beta contains and will maybe just plan to change it later with full access. [33:13.000 –> 33:19.000] I don’t know. Maybe it’ll be like a surprise, like a special surprise of like, oh, you get more. [33:19.000 –> 33:25.000] And you get a full game and you get a full game. [33:25.000 –> 33:31.000] Sorry, I’m tired. Yeah. And then there’s a secret. [33:31.000 –> 33:37.000] The next the next two paragraphs end up saying, oh, and please keep this to yourself. [33:37.000 –> 33:42.000] So I’m not going to say that. But Spirit Tea is done. So this is what they say. [33:42.000 –> 33:47.000] Anyways, the game is done, but the polishing isn’t done. So, yeah. [33:47.000 –> 33:52.000] Well, the secret is that, nope, that they’re announcing the beta for something else. [33:52.000 –> 33:56.000] That’s a secret. That’s for something else. Oh, is it? I can’t read. [33:56.000 –> 34:01.000] It’s too early. A secret. OK, I don’t know who that was. [34:01.000 –> 34:06.000] I just assumed it was the same person. No, I think they’re talking about two games here. [34:06.000 –> 34:11.000] Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That’s that’s not clear at all. [34:11.000 –> 34:14.000] This dev needs to make that clear. This is a new game we’re talking about. [34:14.000 –> 34:21.000] This is also it’s just so unclear. I mean, like Dan, Dan, Dan. [34:21.000 –> 34:28.000] Thank you for staying for like communicating to people and like having these, you know, semi regular updates. [34:28.000 –> 34:32.000] But also, this is not clear. No, Dan’s probably also overworked. [34:32.000 –> 34:36.000] They’re probably submit this up, like in the middle of the night, like, oh, it’s out. [34:36.000 –> 34:41.000] OK, I’m done. Good night. Oh, my gosh. Dan is about to have a new baby. [34:41.000 –> 34:44.000] Oh, yeah. That’s why Dan is so tired. That makes sense. [34:44.000 –> 34:48.000] All is forgiven, Dan. Enjoy your baby. [34:48.000 –> 34:54.000] We will enjoy the game whenever she is 1.0, not this public beta. [34:54.000 –> 34:59.000] I’m super excited. OK, cool. [34:59.000 –> 35:04.000] Next. Only three more. OK, Spirit Tea. [35:04.000 –> 35:08.000] No, I already did that. Sprout Valley. [35:08.000 –> 35:11.000] It’s another Kickstarter, so valid. Oh, my gosh. [35:11.000 –> 35:18.000] OK. Oh, what? My laptop or my computer was doing some weird things. [35:18.000 –> 35:25.000] Sprout Valley, quote, a simple casual game. What a simple. [35:25.000 –> 35:28.000] A simple casual game about harvesting and gathering resources. That’s legit. [35:28.000 –> 35:33.000] Like that is what they that’s what the Kickstarter says. [35:33.000 –> 35:37.000] Oh, we’ve talked about this because it’s what the 1.0 is out now. [35:37.000 –> 35:44.000] And then Al says, although not sure what this means, because apparently it is releasing in July and this version is 1.0 of the demo. [35:44.000 –> 35:51.000] Or I’m very confused. And by I’m I mean, Al is very confused, but I’m also very confused. [35:51.000 –> 36:00.000] 1.0, but like still in beta. So like still then it’s not 1.0 Bev. [36:01.000 –> 36:06.000] I don’t know. I could see them be like, this is 1.0 and we expect to have bugs. [36:06.000 –> 36:11.000] So 1.6 will be actually the full release. I don’t know. I don’t understand. [36:11.000 –> 36:18.000] They need a standard. The industry needs to standardize this whole process because it’s ridiculous. [36:18.000 –> 36:24.000] It looks like it. So you can play this on itch.io. [36:24.000 –> 36:29.000] But they have a Switch version in the process. They just have to get it approved by Nintendo, [36:29.000 –> 36:34.000] which a shout out to Elle from Apico. [36:34.000 –> 36:39.000] I now have kind of an insider’s view into like how this stuff happens. [36:39.000 –> 36:51.000] Awesome. And they can they can take a long time and then slap you with the ESRB rating because you have meat in your game. [36:53.000 –> 36:55.000] Because you have meat in your game? [36:55.000 –> 37:00.000] Oh my gosh. So Apico, they have meat. Well, it’s Apicola. [37:00.000 –> 37:03.000] It was mead because you’re making mead. Yeah. [37:03.000 –> 37:08.000] And they didn’t call it mead. I think they did at first. Oh, maybe they didn’t. [37:08.000 –> 37:13.000] I don’t remember. But it was it’s very clearly you’re brewing. [37:13.000 –> 37:20.000] You put honey into a brewing thing. And then if you don’t understand the brewing process of me, then maybe don’t. [37:20.000 –> 37:23.000] But the ESRB was like you are gratified. [37:23.000 –> 37:31.000] You’re like showing alcohol in a positive light because you get these like powers from drinking this alcohol. [37:31.000 –> 37:38.000] And so they like slapped him with a mature rating. Apico, Apico with a mature rating. Ridiculous. [37:38.000 –> 37:42.000] So, yeah, that’s that’s just I don’t think that was Nintendo. That was the ESRB. [37:42.000 –> 37:48.000] So like Sprout or not. Yeah. Sprout Valley. Take your time getting the Switch version out. We get it. [37:49.000 –> 37:56.000] We get it. Also, did you hear? OK, sorry. Future versions of Sprout Valley to come on the Apico train. [37:56.000 –> 38:03.000] Did you hear that there was a bug that was because of me? What? No. [38:03.000 –> 38:11.000] It like made people’s game crash. Just like your existence in the game was just like so magical. [38:11.000 –> 38:14.000] There was something. Gosh, I don’t even remember. [38:14.000 –> 38:19.000] I so I was like talking to Elle. I’m going to pull up my my chat with Elle. [38:19.000 –> 38:28.000] He just one day reached out to me and he was like, I need you to know that you’ve caused me such a headache on Switch because there’s a crash that happens only after people speak to you. [38:31.000 –> 38:37.000] It was called like the Cody crash or the solitary bee crash, but he called it the Cody crash and I retweeted it. [38:37.000 –> 38:42.000] I was like, where do I put on my CV that my bee knowledge crashed a video game? [38:46.000 –> 38:55.000] In your fun notes, more information about me that’s not relevant to my experience, but it’s fun to know. [38:55.000 –> 39:01.000] The knowledge in my brain about bees makes people’s games crash. OK. Amazing. [39:01.000 –> 39:05.000] That definitely should go on your CV, please. Oh, we’ve had so many side notes. [39:05.000 –> 39:09.000] I mean, that’s an accomplishment all by itself. The fact that you’re in a bee game, just saying. [39:09.000 –> 39:15.000] Yeah, that was that was a weird a weird what a crazy random happenstance. [39:15.000 –> 39:21.000] I’m pretty sure it has to do with this podcast because like Elle listened to this podcast and met me from from here. [39:21.000 –> 39:26.000] And then he asked me for like a knowledge. [39:26.000 –> 39:30.000] Yeah, bee knowledge. I was going to say advice and I was like, that was what it was. [39:30.000 –> 39:40.000] It was like bee knowledge. And then at near the end of like me giving him bee knowledge, like once a month or whatever it was, like very, very infrequently. [39:40.000 –> 39:45.000] He was just like, oh, also, I’m putting you in the game. And I was like, what? Love it. [39:45.000 –> 39:52.000] Love it. OK. That needs to go to your CV. I feel like if I could say I’m the co-founder of a Quage team, I feel like you need it. [39:53.000 –> 39:58.000] But you’re you’re in a bee game. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, for sure. [39:58.000 –> 40:08.000] OK. Oh, what am I? I am messing things up on this. OK. 33 Immortals. [40:08.000 –> 40:14.000] So my here’s my quote here. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. [40:14.000 –> 40:22.000] And then I quote 33 Immortals. Yeah. 33 Immortals is a co-op action roguelike for 33 players. [40:22.000 –> 40:26.000] Pick up Thunder Lotus. Yeah. Yeah. Spiritfarer. [40:26.000 –> 40:33.000] Yeah. The people who made Spiritfarer. Pick up and raid, cooperate to survive hordes of monsters and rise above the Almighty. [40:33.000 –> 40:37.000] Yeah. So this is made by Thunder Lotus is the people who made Spiritfarer. [40:37.000 –> 40:42.000] Al, this link is not helpful. I need to know what this game is. [40:42.000 –> 40:51.000] I think it’s like newly announced. So it’s it makes sense that the link is not helpful because that’s all there is. [40:51.000 –> 40:59.000] And oh, oh, it kind of looks like like to me, it looks like Diablo, maybe. [40:59.000 –> 41:05.000] I don’t know. I’m getting like Hades vibes as well. OK, I’ve not played Hades, so it’s so good. [41:05.000 –> 41:11.000] But yeah, I mean, you don’t have to have 33 people, but you can. [41:11.000 –> 41:16.000] That sounds amazing. And I kind of want the chaos of 33 people. [41:16.000 –> 41:21.000] It’s going to remind me of my World of Warcraft 40 man days. [41:21.000 –> 41:26.000] The horror of trying to keep all those chickens in a row. [41:26.000 –> 41:34.000] Uh huh. But yeah, you you can you like dungeon crawl and you are like fighting things. [41:34.000 –> 41:39.000] And this is like an MMO without actually being an MMO. It looks really good. [41:39.000 –> 41:44.000] Yeah, it looks really good. And of course, Spiritfarer people. So Spiritfarer and like the art. [41:44.000 –> 41:51.000] We know the animations like fantastic. We know the art’s fantastic. So I’m very excited to hear about this. [41:51.000 –> 41:59.000] Yeah. And I just hope it’s kind of like a monster hunter, like like waiting room where you could just join random groups. [41:59.000 –> 42:09.000] Yeah, I don’t know. 33 players

Kevin Stewart 

On today's episode of The Confluence:The American Lung Association's annual State of the Air report finds particle pollution in the Pittsburgh metro area was worse by 24-hour and year-round measures, compared to 2022's report. Allegheny County has disputed the findings of this report, noting in a statement that it meets national standards. We speak to Kevin Stewart, the Association's director of environmental health, about the report. (0:00 - 7:22) The federal death penalty trial for the man charged in the 2018 synagogue shooting begins next week. While court rules will dictate the pattern of those proceedings, survivors of the attack say there's no guidebook for their healing journeys. 90.5 WESA's Kiley Koscinski reports. (7:44 - 15:17) Westmoreland County was founded 250 years ago, and to celebrate, the Westmoreland Historical Society opened a new exhibit over the weekend titled, “Westmoreland 250! Telling our Story with 25 Objects.” We speak to Joanna Moyar, collections manager at the Westmoreland Historical Society about the exhibit. (15:30 - 22:30)

In Part Two of this three-episode series (listen to Part One here), we speak with Maria Stewart about finding the strength to support her husband as he lost his battle with brain cancer, embracing the help being offered by friends and family, and ensuring that her children could rely on their family “Power Unit” throughout this incredibly difficult chapter in their lives.       In 2010, Maria's husband, Kevin Stewart, who was then 48 years old, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Maria and Kevin had three children, ages 10 and 8 year old twins.   Maria shares the good advice she received:  the children are part of this story. She involved them in making decisions about hospice so they understood that they were part of the process. This empowered them to come through the experience with the knowledge that they could trust her to tell them the truth.  The outpouring of support from friends and family was incredible, but somewhat overwhelming. Maria tells us that asking for help was made easier by a few close friends who could coordinate efforts and make sure their family got what they needed.  Going through this experience, Maria recognized that without resources, it would have been nearly impossible to care for her husband and navigate the complexities of the healthcare system while also caring for her children and trying to fulfill obligations to her full-time job. Suppose you have listened to Part One of this series, where we speak with Roy DiNicola about the experience of losing his wife to cancer. In that case, you might have gathered that eventually, Roy and Maria find their way to one another. But that is a story for another day.Episode Links and Resources:Big Tree is Sick: A Story to Help Children Cope with the Serious Illness of a Loved One, Nathalie Slosse (Author), Rocio Del Moral (Illustrator) The List of Things that Will Not Change, Rebecca SteadGlioblastoma - Mayo Clinic OverviewGlioblastoma Multiforme - American Association of Neurological SurgeonsWho is Lewbert from iCarly?Support this podcast by subscribing and reviewing!Music is considered “royalty-free” and discovered on Audio Blocks.Technical Podcast Support by: Jon Keur at Wayfare Recording Co.© 2022 Silver Linings Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Andrew Tate is the most controversial person on the internet today. He is repulsive to most women and yet he has captivated the hearts of young men (both outside and inside of the church) perhaps like no one the internet world has ever seen. How can this be? In this episode, Nathan, Jordan, and Kevin break down all things Andrew Tate and even address the current human trafficking allegations that are against him. You don't wanna miss this one.  

We're just gonna let the google description take care of this one. You can't improve what is already perfect.ThanksKilling is an American independent comedy horror film shot in 2007 and released in 2009, about a cursed turkey killing off college students during the Thanksgiving break. The film was shot over a summer by Kevin Stewart and Jordan Downey on an original budget of $3.500.This week's Deranged Killer Turkeys are Colton (@ceasyspecial), and Zee (@uneaszee)! Let us know what you think of the episode on Twitter, we love to hear fan feedback so we can put on the best show possible, and we also take episode requests! Go check out @zeeformarts on instagram for all your art commission needs! Tune in next week where we talk about... Something else!Speaking of tunes, our intro and outro is courtesy of @conduit_edm!

Hello and welcome back to another episode of B Bin Horror! We wanted to celebrate the week of Thanksgiving with a Thanksgiving classic like Thankskilling 3! Thankskilling 3 was directed by Jordan Downey and written by Jordan Downey, Mike Will Downey, and Kevin Stewart. The film stars Daniel Usaj, Joe Hartzler and a bunch of puppets. On this week's episode we discuss the movie and what we think could've happened in Thankskilling 2. We also talked about Twitter news, the crypto crash and we briefly talk about the original Thankskilling. If you like what you hear you can follow us on Instagram and Facebook @bbinhorror. You can also send us emails at bbinhorror@gmail.com.

Today the group interviews Kevin Stewart. Kevin is a devout hockey fan who recently picked up beer league hockey. After two years, Kevin discusses his journey of becoming a beer leaguer and some tips and tricks for anyone thinking of starting beer league hockey. Email: thepenaltykillpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @thepenaltykillpodcast Twitter: @penaltykillpod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thepenaltykillpodcast/support

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What does it mean to be a man after God's own heart? We believe that prioritizing the presence of Jesus in your personal life is the manliest thing you can do. 

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The Firebirds coach previews his team's game with Olathe North

We are talking with Derek Hebert, President of Manuel Commercial, along with Kevin Stewart, Architect | AIA at Manuel Commercial. We will dive into what it takes to design-build a project from start to finish as well as learn more about Manuel Commercial and how it relates to Manuel Builders and it's founding. You can check them out on their website or find them on Facebook, Instagram, and Linkedin. manuelcommercial.com 337-427-6100 — The Tea Podcast is proudly sponsored by The Music Academy of Acadiana & The Orchard, Authorized Service Providers of Apple. The Music Academy of Acadiana is Acadiana's top choice for music lessons in piano, guitar, voice, drums, violin, saxophone, flute, audio production & more. They teach students of all ages and styles, they have sent students to college, to compete in major music competitions, and have also premiered on major TV Music contests like American Idol & The Voice. Founded by University of Louisiana at Lafayette music school graduate Tim Benson, the Academy has been voted as a top finalist in the best music school by readers of the Times since 2016 and they have won the national music school of the year award in 2014. Their goal is to make music lessons fun, educational and to help foster the next generation of musicians and creative thinkers! You can find them at the following links: Website: https://www.musicacademyacadiana.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MusicAcademy... — The Orchard is our tech sponsor and are providing the tech we need to assure a successful live podcast. Check them out at https://theorchardstores.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-tea-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-tea-podcast/support

Keri White from The Agency in California and Kevin Steward from Stewart Team Real Estate Partners in Michigan join us for a quick look at the markets down south.

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We are live from Bellevue's Rhythm & Brews and it couldn't have been a better day. Chris and Chey are joined throughout the day by various guests discussing the festival and craft beer in the area. We had the opportunity to talk to:1. Scott Streit for Rhythm & Brews2. Dustin from Hitchhiker Brewing Co.3. Chris and Chey discuss people watching4. Festival attendees/craft beer enthusiasts Karissa and Reese5. Adam the co-owner of 412 Brewery, current president of the Pittsburgh Brewery Diversity Council, and pro wrestler6. Michelle of Pittsburgh Foodie Girls stops on and chats about her festival experience 7. Jeremy Thieroff and Grayson for Rhythm & Brews8. Kevin Stewart for Phoenix Brewing9. Lisa Vacini* for Northern Beer Traders (*guess on spelling)10. Grant from Lincoln Avenue BreweryThank you to all of our guests and to all of the people who took the time to talk with us during the entire day. We had a blast!All things Poor Man's Podcasthttps://linktr.ee/Poormanspodcasthttp://poormanspod.podomatic.net/

Just having a great chat with my friend Kevin about being a dad and our thoughts on various topics --- 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/carl-liggins/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carl-liggins/support

The American Lung Association's “State of the Air” 2022 report finds that despite decades of progress on cleaning up sources of air pollution, more than 40% of Americans—over 137 million people—are living in places with failing grades for unhealthy levels of particle pollution or ozone. Lancaster and Dauphin Counties got F grades in particle pollution while Cumberland County was graded with a D. York and Adams Counties did well in the report – earning A grades. Monday's Smart Talk has more details about the region's air. Our guest is Kevin Stewart, Director of Environmental Health, American Lung Association. Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Follow @TexasNursesAssn Welcome to season two of #TexasNursesPod! In season one, our policy episodes focused on issues that matter to nurses with nurse leaders, such as nursing shortages and workplace violence. This year we're back with new hosts, new topics, and awesome guests! The new season opens with a special episode and a gracious hand-off! Thank you to Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN, and Kevin Stewart, JD for piloting our #NursePolicy podcast, and thanks to Sola for featuring in this episode to open the door to our new hosts! Listen to Chasity Shaw, RN, BSN, MSN and Elizabeth Clark, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC discuss what led them to policy, who they hope to reach with this podcast and the importance of nurse advocacy. Stream now, and stay tuned for more! Instagram Facebook Website

In this episode I sit down with my buddy Kevin as he shares how he encountered Jesus during a 7 year prison sentence and how the love of the Father transformed his entire life. 

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On this week's edition of the SamSportsTalk Podcast, Nate and Sam are joined by Hadi Basma and Kevin Stewart. Hadi, a Broncos fan, and Kevin, a Steelers fan, are here to discuss the futures of each of their franchises in the upcoming seasons. With so much speculation around the Quarterback position for each squad, we break down their options, and discuss Aaron Rodgers' possible move to Denver. We also review both conference championship games, with both the Bengals and Rams moving onto the Super Bowl. Check out our website! SamSportsTalk.com Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/SamSportsTalk_ Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/samsportstalk/ Follow us on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@samsportstalk Subscribe to us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/SamSportsTalk --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samsportstalk/support

On this week's edition of the SamSportsTalk Podcast, it's a special one, as this is the 50th edition of the pod! Sam is joined by his usual co-host Nate, and welcomed on two members of TeamSST on this week, with Ethan Machado and Kevin Stewart hopping on. This week we discuss a multitude of subjects, including a discussion about the AFC (No one wants to be good??), we speak about the Rams and yet another loss for Sam's SB favorites, and an NBA discussion about the Lakers woes, Warriors HOT streak, and much much more. We also wrap up another week in the SST Fantasy Football League, as we've had a lot of shakeups over the past week. ALL SST LINKS: Linktr.ee/SamSportsTalk --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samsportstalk/support

1 Adam Nickey - Perfect Destiny (Nick Silvestri Remix) 2 Rento - Sundown (Jackarta Remix) 3 Shingo Nakamura - Summa (Extended Mix) 4 CYA (Official) - Timeless (Original Mix) 5 Forerunners - Stream of Consciousness (Extended Mix) 6 ZOYA - Bright Star (Extended Mix) 7 Protoculture - Inu (Extended Mix) 8 Basil O'Glue, Nomas - Untold (Original Mix) 9 ReOrder, Jordan Tobias, Crowd+Ctrl - Hush (Extended Mix) 10 Richie Blacker - 2 Late 4 Love (Extended Mix) 11 Jeremy Olander - Steps (Original Mix) 12 MK8 - Breathe (Extended Mix) 13 Ahmed Helmy - I'm The Future (Extended Mix) 14 Deepsky - Cosmic Dancer (Orkidea Pure Progressive Extended Remix) 15 Julie Thompson, Kolonie - Light Me Up (Extended Mix) 16 Pink Bomb - Indica (Orkidea & Solarstone Pure Progressive Extended Mix) 17 Push - Remind (Extended Mix) 18 Allende - Fate (Extended Mix)

1 Activa, John Dopping - A Future Memory (Original 12" Mix) 2 LTN, Christina Novelli - I'd Go Back (Dave Neven Extended Remix) 3 Daniel Kandi - What Happens When We End (Extended Mix) 4 Super8 & Tab, Factor B - From Way Back (Extended Mix) 5 Starpicker - Origins (Original Mix) 6 Sunscreem, Greg Downey - Perfect Motion (Extended Mix) 7 Dan Stone, Stine Grove - If I Never Make It Home (Extended Mix) 8 Nu NRG - Dreamland (Original Mix) 9 Ben Gold, Allen Watts - Change The World (Extended Mix) 10 Alan Morris - Spirit (Extended Mix) 11 Aly & Fila, Denise Rivera - Hymn Of Hope (Extended Mix)

Julian sits down with Kevin Stewart of WSOC to discuss his path to working in Charlotte sports media plus his thoughts on the Carolina Panthers offseason and what the team should be looking to do in the upcoming NFL Draft. Also, Julian and Kevin evaluate the rash of injuries that the Hornets are dealing with and what the team's playoff outlook looks like now. 

We talk to Kevin Stewart (@KStewWSOC9) about his new podcast "Crown Score" where him, John Ellis, and Reggie Walker talk all things Charlotte Sports. Then we get into the excitement and buzz around this years Charlotte Hornets team. We discuss who we believe will be the week one starting quarterback for the Carolina Panthers. What the Panthers plans should be going into the wild offseason and NFL Draft and a ton more.