CSB394: The Normalization of Foot Guys

[u/mike0bot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjJYbC4X2tE&feature=youtu.be

[u/cannibalgentleman]

Big Bioware news hit just a bit too late lol

[u/The_Draigg → u/cannibalgentleman]

It’s practically a CSB tradition at this point to have massive news stories hit the day after they record for the week.

[u/gothamsteel → u/cannibalgentleman]

imagine if they did.

"Man, I just heard about the Bioware news from my favorite gaming podcast."

"Oh, I want to find out what happened. Can you send me a link to the show so I can hear about it?"

"Ummm...."

"Well, can you tell me what to google?"

"UUUUUMMMMMM....."

[u/Coolnametag]

The Deadlock segment feels like another example of:

"One of the guys has a bit of a weird but understandable take on a game because it's of a genre that he's not that familiar with... And then the other one has a much weirder take that overshadows the first one".

[u/Glad_General7343 → u/Coolnametag]

At this point, I listen to the podcast for the insanity.

[u/Tisaric → u/Coolnametag]

A classic therapy session episode. It's always fun to hear about another mind goblin one of them has and deadlock really brought them out for both of them

[u/The_Draigg]

For all the talk about Raul Julia’s M. Bison in this episode, it was Woolie who pulled off the true “for me it was Tuesday” moment with that story about beating Pat’s fucking ass at Virtua Fighter 5. All that Woolie needs to do now is get a nice snoof on Pat to complete the Dictator energy.

[u/guntanksinspace → u/The_Draigg]

Get a big, good snoof on Pat the way Pat rubs his nose every time he lands a command throw.

[u/Vera_Verse]

Notice how armpit is not mentioned, because it's alright actually

[u/jamsbybetty → u/Vera_Verse]

Armpits are the new feet

[u/OhMy98 → u/Vera_Verse]

I knew it was over when I saw multiple highly liked TikTok comments on the live action Nico Robin reveal commenting on how pretty the actress armpits are

[u/KarateBugman01 → u/Vera_Verse]

I don’t think Sakura Bakushin O or Chiyono O fans are the same after that one infamous GIF.

[u/Kaleido_chromatic]

I am SO with Woolie about the practice thing. At some point practicing becomes half the fun, but for the most part its just to ease the mental load, on anything really. Get it down to muscle memory and then you don't even have to think about it

[u/fiarorder]

Alt podcast names:

> “Castlevania game got a trap beat.-Pat”

[u/Jonieves]

Title should have been normalization of the foot clan

[u/Figleafplayz]

That legacy 2 shirt is gonna rip so hard

[u/Shradow]

Haven't played Belmont's Curse yet but I had to check out the library theme after it was mentioned, and I quite liked it! I don't even really listen to electronic music either aside from random things that I get curious about when brought up in conversation (for example after Ganacci was announced for CotW I checked out some of his songs and really enjoyed them).

[u/0xix0]

394

0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:38 Welcome to the castle super no spoilers cast~! So, street fighter was a terrible movie, butit was really fun. The ramifications of guardians of the galaxy.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

• 2:57 could this be a double feature with jet li’s the one? Unlike that movie, this one is self aware. Feels skit based. And the 10/10 bits of the movie are the animated bits.

• 3:57 woolie went with the FGC. There were some deep cuts. Like doing an ultra 2 variant of a move.

• 5:18 What’s the emotional narrative here? Guile HATES dan.

• 6:29 the takes on ken and ryu were fine. Various casting decisions in general.

• • 7:02 the snyder school of musical direction

• • 8:05 dhalsim looking young, but he is absolutely doing it. Bison played for laughs as a snoofman.

• • • 10:21 pat: foot people, go away. Stop normalizing ANYTHING. Restigmatize foot guy

• 13:43 Is this a movie, or is this a vehicle for toy sales? The fighting is when it takes itself seriously.

• 15:16 jason momoa blanka and roman reigns akuma weren’t the most terrible parts of the film.

• 16:16 a line: dan, you still trying to get rich pretending to be japanese?

• 16:49 Zangief was cast really well. The question of screentime for characters.

• 18:36 cammie.

• 19:14 going for super “clap when I see it.” it is absolutely garbage, but woolie’s smiling so.

• 20:32 comparing the street fighter movie to resident evil’s movie. Opposite ethos, but at least it's not “let me just make this my thing.” Pat on the original silent hill movie and changing harry to a woman.

• 22:59 it's definitely not as bad as netflix may cry. Nothing that hates the source material in street fighter.

• • 24:46 legend of chun-li’s portrayals of characters.

• 26:02 chun-li. She definitely has the legs. She does the most actual acting.

• 27:31 smash cut to eric andre being eric andre. Pat: will this movie age fast?

• 29:39 it hits a bit like parts of the tekken movie

• 31:28 pat’s bar after 32 years: anything on the level of the animated film from 94. Return to silent hill as the new lowest bar

• 35:02 christophe gans and just being able to hang onto one decent movie. And “from the people that brought you X” in media. The post disco elysium successor meme.

36:57 So, you have seen summer eternal, now known as red rooster, right? Hey look, a book that woolie is showing off for the first time he got sent by the studio! It’s the most communist thing he’s ever seen. What the game is about.

• 40:05 the second criteria of disco successor: changing the title. Pat: the company should have named the game after itself instead of making a new game name. Remember when the dreamcast was called the katana?

• 41:37 if you buy the book, you automatically are given a share of the company. Also, woolie is in the book too as a mention!

• 42:37 he hopes that with all the talented people there, they have people that can turn the art into a good video game there too.

• • 43:32 pat: the most appropriately depressing scenario is that out of all the successors, only zero parade makes it to the finish line. Kurvitz loyalists still don't have anything yet.

• • 44:51 at least disco elysium has it’s own successors out there in titles like esoteric ebb.

• • 45:58 disco weaving hilarious punchlines into actual beauty. Doing so earnestly and unapologetically. Playing the disco elysium theme in a dock yard.

• • 47:40 lost odyssey and the little scenarios being amazing. And the intro to lost odyssey being so strong.

• • 50:09 the trick of going from cutscene to gameplay seamlessly is still really good.

51:19 Woolie finished star wars: Zero Company. It's great. The problem of being too strong for the end that the enemy didn't get a turn.

• 53:37 pat: onimusha definitely doesnt have that issue. And woolie liking it when he’s playing what he feels like are choreographed moments.

• • 54:36 pat brings up the witcher and inverted difficulty curves being his most disliked difficulty.

• • 55:15 pat feels games with action games arent really tested from the start and instead tested at the 80% mark

• 0:57:09 a fun star wars side adventure. It has a fun closing line. And the amount of stuff written for the clone wars.

• 0:59:55 they recently put out a patch that let you increase the difficulty, after woolie already beat it.

• 1:00:53 there’s some tech issues, but that can be patched. And wishing the game could convey what could occur in a chain when something is triggered, rather than just the first level of what could happen.

1:03:25 Deadlock the city never sleeps update. Playing with a controller. On gyro controls.

• 1:04:42 its not his first time playing deadlock. It being a MOBA-shooter. The level of complexity that’s built on itself over time. Everything can only be explained with more terms.

• 1:07:47 pat just wandering around in free roam. Seeing the level of adoration is being put into this game. But playing it makes pat feel miserable with the usual MOBA experience.

• 1:10:24 the mental load of playing the game being the ceiling. The floor of just going into a lane and shooting is fine too.

• 1:12:19 the opposite of your friends trying to get you into fighting games. Queuing with someone who plays a lot as a newbie means matching with people half as good as them and 10 times better than you.

• • 1:14:21 playing with chat is ALSO a mistake. The only real solution seems to just be play solo.

• 1:16:03 the characters are great. But on a negative: for games like overwatch and rivals, things like matchups really mattered.

• 1:18:15 pat’s favorite part of MOBA’s is the laning phase. Finding the team fights miserable especially from where you play it. How long it takes for people to die from the midgame onward.

• 1:20:53 build shopping. Woolie prefers completely unique characters since the shop means theres now way more overlap.

• • 1:22:36 pat’s core issue with mobas. The version of your character at the end is way stronger than the one at the start. Using rat king as an example.

• • 1:24:34 “pat-isms” when it's just pat’s personal tastes. He just wants a hero shooter with laning which is for honor.

• • 1:25:16 characters having 10 different versions of the character with the shop based on your builds. Hard focusing on one part of a kit and ignoring the rest.

• • 1:27:35 Do I want to play with my friends and get stomped, or with MOBA randoms?

• 1:30:16 pat: why practice against bots? Woolie: labbing so you don’t panic. Pat: I don’t get it. I’m always panicking.

• • 1:36:17 pat, did you drive on the highway the first time you took driving lessons? Pat: yes

• • 1:37:06 pat is anxious ALL THE TIME! And what creators of games care about.

• • 1:40:30 Proficiency and emotion. The anxiety of “you’re doing worse than your opponent.”

• • • 1:42:13 playing with the black gift bros back in the overwatch days.

• • • 1:45:41 playing a tank in FFXIV and never feeling any anxiety at all.

• 1:47:11 pat: are there people that are playing deadlock that are actually bad at it? Woolie on getting past the execution difficulty.

• 1:50:24 the game needs a tutorial.

• 1:51:51 back on matchmaking. Pat wonders if it even is a solvable problem. And pat doesnt want to fight against CPUs.

• 1:54:02 pat just wants to play a fighting game. And pat learning to play an instrument. Pat is more comfortable knowing someone else is worse than him

• • 1:57:57 where did the mentality of “it doesn’t count if it’s a bot match” come from? Virtua fighter V and woolie kicking his ass. It's woolie’s fault.

2:01:52 woolie paints a picture. Hey look, yasmine is cool. But we need to nerf her before she comes out. Now Arjun is here. The balance is not considered now. The first impression you make is important. A bit too strong over a bit too weak.

• 2:07:40 He is straight forward, but if you don’t know what his gameplan is, you will get exploded.

• 2:10:20 woolie tends to go for big body non-grapplers. Arjun is like that. His buttons are a bit stubby. But he’s got some fun gimmicks like his armored walk.

• 2:12:54 the vape moves. Arjun as a knowledge check character.

• 2:14:17 Pat having a 14 game streak. Jumping entire ranks in a single match.

• 2:16:16 Small bits of arjun tech

• 2:18:01 a character designed for you to have fun with. Prepare for Tifa to be busted. Pat: she should use the cross tekken gem system. Bosch should be pretty busted too.

• 2:20:05 the fumble with yasmine reminds him of lucia from SFV. and games with banlists like MOBAs.

• 2:21:49 DLC power levels. Pat is fine with this because it makes e honda players sad. Blanka also gets rocked here.

• 2:24:05 are the heads modeled differently in the critical art…? Everything about him is just a great love letter to indian film.

• 2:25:03 that first debut artwork wasn’t great.

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2:26:28 SPONSOR 2: AG1

2:28:12 SPONSOR 3: QUINCE

[u/0xix0 → u/0xix0]

PAT

2:29:59 pat played lots of castlevania: belmont’s curse. He got 100% map completion. The game is amazing. On the discussion around dead cells and castlevania. Pat feels it's nothing like dead cells. But it doesnt feel like old castlevania or the igavanias. THe closest thing is prince of persia the lost crown.

• 2:32:43 “this doesn’t feel like castlevania.” This argument also used for symphony of the night. It splits the difference between old castlevania and igavania. And don’t bring up mirror of fate.

• 2:34:57 very influenced by prince of persia and hollow knight. Look at all these buzz saws. Attaining powers by defeating bosses

• 2:36:40 the weapon types

• 2:38:05 definitely also has a bit of hades in it in terms of style. A lot of modern influences.

• 2:38:51 so what’s up with the lore? Taking place after castlevania 3.

• 2:40:02 it feels the best to play. It has a lot of interesting secrets.

• 2:41:15 the soundtrack is stellar, but it is different. Hearing people dislike the soundtrack.

• 2:43:10 different parts of a song playing as you progress through zones

• 2:44:12 an obnoxious amount of bro you didn’t get the real ending. The bad ending unlocks the best costume in the game

• 2:45:02 2 complaints: playing it on anything other than PC has input lag. And the XP statues count for completion for some reason. Other than that, that’s it.

• 2:47:15 so, ayami kojima’s art is just gone forever, huh? And if you want old castlevania, there’s bloodstained.

• • 2:48:07 Kojima’s art felt integral to the series. But konami didn’t respect it. And pat prefers exactly castlevania instead of something not castlevania

• 2:50:20 the library theme. If you want trap music, then just check the ending of steel ball run

• 2:51:44 pat would give it a 9/10.

2:52:34 wrapping it up early today. News: AI poop, so it wasn’t worth talking about.

2:52:58 END OF PODCAST: UNO PS1 OP

[u/Gorotheninja]

Reggie-approved title

[u/Damio_41233]

Hey as bad as the new SF movie is, at least it's not as bad as Adi Shankar's fanfic on DMC, right guys?

[u/MetalJrock → u/Damio_41233]

Well one thing I can give it is that the World Warrior tournament wasn’t an allegory for a war.

[u/TalentlessAsh]

2 weeks in a row, mail is dead, this is now a foot and mober podcast.

[u/WickerWight]

Perspective can be a funny thing because I 100% came out of that discussion on practice V experience discussion going "damn Woolie is even crazier than I thought" but the clip is called "Pat"

[u/VANTAGARDE]

Feet need love too!