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We catch up on what we’ve been doing lately, from gardening plans and convention runs to building skills for cybersecurity and digital forensics. Then we go full hobby mode as we debate music takes, break down the biggest gaming showcases, and vent about why some studios keep missing the moment. 
• figuring out where to plant sun-heavy flowers and bonsai seeds without squirrels ruining them 
• quick MomoCon stop that still turns into merch, shirts, and glassware 
• starting an ethical hacking class and aiming long-term at digital forensics 
• upgrading to multi-gig internet and fixing bottlenecks with the right Ethernet gear 
• planning a home network with VLANs, firewalling, access points, and a NAS media library 
• weighing whether to cancel streaming and build a personal Blu-ray rip collection 
• arguing Childish Gambino’s catalog deserves a bigger spotlight 
• reacting to Summer Game Fest reveals and the rising cost of gaming hardware 
• calling out Bethesda for the lack of Elder Scrolls VI and meaningful new announcements 
• comparing publisher habits to Bungie and Destiny 2 live service fatigue 
• getting hyped for Nintendo Direct highlights and the return of arcade nostalgia 
• noticing World Cup teams struggling with U.S. heat 
• talking upcoming cons and swapping stories about Atlanta mishaps 


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New Setup And Gardening Plans

SPEAKER_01

Thank you, and welcome to another episode of Carolina Taco Podcast. I am Afro and I am here with my co-host.

SPEAKER_06

Lexi.

SPEAKER_01

Uh yeah, guys, welcome back. As you can see, I'm in a new location, moved to a different spot in the house. Just more space, a little bit better, and I can roll around on my floor better. Lex P was just asking me about what this is. This is like a hummingbird mix of different flowers and stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Is that the spicy one?

SPEAKER_01

No, no, no, no. This is like for flowers. So you put this, you uh plant this and it blooms and put it in the sun, but it brings a lot of it's like nectar flowers type shit. So hummingbirds, butterflies, and stuff like that. I've just been thinking about where I want to put it, what location gets the most sunlight. I'm thinking about the same thing about that. Remember that bonsai kit that you got me? Yeah, I haven't planted those yet, but a lot of those bonsai trees, those seeds need to be in full sun most of the day. So they need to be like outside. I have no place in this house that gets like full sun just because of the way that it is. So I'm I'm trying to think of a place to put them on a deck, but then I'm like, fuck, I can't put them on a deck because I have birds and fucking squirrels that come on my deck looking for food. So they're gonna be digging up my bonsai tree, you know, and that's gonna fuck up shit, and I'm not trying to deal with that. So, yeah, anyway, uh, welcome back. Thank you for you know watching us and everything like that. Really do appreciate it. You guys know how we start these off, what we've been up to lately, what's been going on. So, what you been up to, Lexi?

SPEAKER_03

Damn, I don't I don't think I've been up to anything,

MomoCon Recap And Purchases

SPEAKER_03

actually. That I said now I sit here. Actually, that's a lie. That's a lie.

SPEAKER_01

Damn.

SPEAKER_03

I did go to Momo.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. I was like, you went to a freaking convention.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, hold up, wait a minute, wait a minute, a minute. It wasn't even like that. I literally went the last hour of MomoCon. That's when we got there. I got my pass for free because we came the last hour. So that was it.

SPEAKER_01

Watch this, y'all. Watch this. What you buy?

SPEAKER_05

Why do you have to put me out there like that?

SPEAKER_01

Like last hour of my ass.

SPEAKER_03

I don't I don't know why you did that. Because you know I watched it, but like whatever. Um yeah, don't have it in here. Um, I bought a bunch of stuff. I got a shirt. It's a Akira from uh JoJo Bizarre Adventures. As uh American Psycho.

SPEAKER_06

Nice.

SPEAKER_03

Um I bought a bunch of glass, like you know, those beer glass mugs. I bought like four of those.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, what do they call those things? Birken a beerenstein or something? I know you're talking about US.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but yeah, I bought like those. Um mainly like it that I can think of at the top of my head because it's kind of like anyways. That was pretty much what I did. That was like three two, three weeks ago. Other than that, not really much. Gardening. About to start an ethical hacking class.

SPEAKER_01

Ooh, have fun with that. Yeah, have fun with that. What's

Ethical Hacking And Forensics Goals

SPEAKER_01

what's the you know, hard to interrupt you, but what's the uh what's the what's the plan? Like what's the plan for going that route? Are you trying to go into go into that? Like in general?

SPEAKER_03

I am trying to get into that. Currently, like I'm trying to do it where I work now.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But they keep like you know, being corporate, so we'll see how that goes, if not eventually. I probably will just leave and find that's not really but the end all be all goal. I do want to work in digital forensics. I know that's not for everybody.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But like me being my true crime loving self, I think I will be just fine. So that's kind of like my end all be all goal with everything. So I'm just learning building upon my skill set.

SPEAKER_06

Nice, nice, very good.

SPEAKER_01

Uh me. Bright speed is fire, it's great. Uh, I am hitting two gigs, but

2 Gig Internet And Home Lab Build

SPEAKER_01

if you do this, you have to buy the stuff that actually is able to reach it. Yeah, yeah. You're gonna limit, like, you're gonna limit yourself if you're not getting the right equipment. So I had to buy an Ethernet kind of dongle for my work laptop so it can get up to the 2.5, and then I had to buy a uh PCI card for my desktop instead of using the motherboard Ethernet. So now I get the 2.5 on my desktop. And Wi-Fi's clean. I'm basically now on the hunt searching to make like an infrastructure. So buying a router, not a wireless router, but a switch. It looks like a switch, but it's a router that's able to handle yeah, VLANs and firewall and all that shit. And then uh I'm my Wi-Fi is just gonna be with a AP. So kind of just mount that to the ceiling or something and and get two of those and put two of those in a house. And then the end goal is to uh have a NAS as a storage, build something within AWS, kind of to, you know, just as a project, that also helped too. But be able, if I'm somewhere, log in to the NAS, be able to watch like animes and stuff. Because I'm what I'm starting to realize, because I'm really close to almost like canceling my Crunchyroll account, just because I've realized that I'm not really watching new stuff like that. Yeah, so I'm not I'm not watching new stuff like that. So, and the old stuff is still on there, yeah, but I'm to this point where I want to buy Blu-rays of stuff and basically burn them to a storage and then watch them whenever I want to. Now, here's the shit. You would think Blu-ray shouldn't be crazy, shouldn't be crazy expensive, wrong. There are, which is insane. So, which is crazy, Blu-rays being so damn expensive is insane to me. But it's all a process, and uh I'm just starting out with the with the animes that I like. So if I can find all of the Gundam series, find case close is gonna be hard. I saw a Blu-ray for Samurai 7 that I'm thinking about getting because I actually really like Samurai 7. If I can find Cowboy Bebop, if I could find Trigun and um I don't know, just anything else that you know I just want to watch. I mean, shit. If I can find a Blu-ray of Good Eats with Alton Brown, I'll get that shit too.

SPEAKER_03

I love so love that show. You know, he has a YouTube channel.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, of course I do. I've seen I um I was so close to going to see him in Durham when he was doing his uh live show. Yeah. Um but yeah, that's what I've been up to. Internet is great, it's working well. It went out one time because I think a squirrel chewed through a line that was like close to the entrance where it comes in, but they came out literally the next day and fixed it like that. So I posted a video on TikTok, a short talking about the support of Spectrum and just seeing how bright speed is gonna be. Right now, they're killing it. Can't complain, they're killing it right now, especially for the price that I'm getting, and also I can kind of tell the speed of it now, just watching us record is really fucking smooth, which it's great. So that's what I'm waiting. Did I already watch the dogs? No, so watch the dogs. Family went to Germany, had a good time, that was chill, really cool, and other than that, just uh working, studying for the AWS cert, that's going well. I've kind of found notes that other people have taken, and those shits are really nice, really, really nice. Um, and I follow the notes that you know, with the videos that I watch and everything like that. So next is going to be getting into doing the practice tests and all that shit. I'm not rushing this. You know, a lot of these uh a lot of people rush this shit and they give themselves like a certain time frame to do it, which is I understand why, but you also don't want to rush the shit to the point where you take you just take the test and you pass the test, but you have no projects, you haven't done anything except for like maybe the demos that you've done within the you know, videos and stuff, just following along, but you haven't done anything on the side yourself, like certain projects and all that shit. And that's what I that's what I'm doing now. So that's really what I have been up to lately, and like I said, moved to a new area in the house. Um other than that, we have some stuff to talk about. First, I had one of my high moments. You remember this? I had one of my high moments, right? And I'm sitting, I'm sitting chilling on my bed, listening

Childish Gambino Deserves More Respect

SPEAKER_01

to music, right? And there was a song that I was listening to YouTube music, and there was a song by Childish Gambino that came on, and I listened to it and I said, I heard the beat, and I was like, who the fuck is this? And as soon as he started rapping, I remembered the whole song. What was that song called? Kodo? Your fat Kodo or something like that. But that song is so sick, and then I just went through his whole catalog, and then, you know, me being me, I send a message to Lexi, and I'm just like, I'm sitting here listening to Childish Cambino, and I feel like he should be what where Drake is. I said that. And I still and I still stand on that because if you look, okay, so some people will listen to Camp by Childish Gambino and say Camp was annoying. I like Camp, right? I like Camp too. Yeah, but this was this was like a time of like the backpack shit, right? Childish Gambino was wearing like plaid shirts, skinny fucking jeans, and like Converses, right? And then you get into because of the internet, you get into Kawaii, you get into fucking, yeah, like really good shit. Awaken my love. Oh my god, my goodness, like his catalog is really fucking good, and then the songs that didn't make an album, like a this is America or It Feels Like Summer, and animated, yeah, my god, like that shit is great. Yeah, right, that shit is great. Driving, look, it's summertime right now, sunroof down, windows down, that's jamming. So I'm I'm just like, man, this motherfucker should really be like on some shit. And then you and then I went down his rabbit hole of when he was like doing interviews. So when he was doing like sway in the mornings, and he was doing freestyles, and I'm just like, damn. This motherfucker is nice, and he's an actor, and he writes, but that motherfucker does it all. Why shouldn't he be in that same like realm as a Drake? Why not? Yes, he might not have the the big fan base and all that shit, but that motherfucker does a lot of shit, and he's good at it. That's other shit. Anyway, that was just one of my one of my shit's thoughts that I had. But anywho, there were a couple of showcases that happened this past week. It's also interesting that they all happen in the same fucking week. We had the summer, we had the summer game festival, we had the Xbox Game Showcase,

Summer Game Fest Highlights And Prices

SPEAKER_01

and we had the Nintendo Direct that happened today.

SPEAKER_05

So Yeah, State of Play.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, did I watch the state of play? Yes, and the state of play.

SPEAKER_03

Did I watch the state of play? I didn't watch the play, but I did catch some of the highlights.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think I watched the state of play. I totally forgot about that. But also, y'all, Steam decks are going up.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, that's already happened.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I know. They're like at nine, like the highest one is like 950 right now.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's fucking insane. And also, the Steam machines are supposed to be coming out sometime this summer. And like I said, they said they said that the lowest would be around 750. So you're gonna be like, if you want the best thing, probably paying like a thousand bucks. So be prepared for that. Everything's gone up. I think switches have gone up. We already know PS5 pros have gone up.

SPEAKER_03

I think everything has gone up.

SPEAKER_01

Everything has gone up. So be prepared to shell out that money, and it's not going out no time soon. But Summer Game Fest had some great shit, just some things that really fucking just like stood out to me. And some of these might actually be a mixture of the state of play, maybe. I don't know. Resident Evil, Veronica, Final Fantasy VII, Revelation. That looked fucking amazing. I don't even play Final Fantasy like that, but goddamn, that shit looked good.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know. They've been milking like Final Fantasy VII for like a hot minute now.

SPEAKER_01

Lexi. I know I know I know I know. I know it looked good. It looked good.

SPEAKER_03

It looks great.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

unknown

I know.

SPEAKER_01

Can we move away from seven? I know, and I got I got trust me, I have my gripes for some shit. I'm just gonna go through this list. There was Guild Wars 3, Alien, Isolation 2, Gen Atlas, Stranger, then Heaven. Uh something that stood out to me was Gundam Rogue Orbit. Love the way that it looked. Sega, Crazy Taxi's coming back.

SPEAKER_03

I know, get like I love that.

SPEAKER_01

Love the way it looks. I love that they had the same fucking intro of the game. We we talked about this, I think, last year. Sega said that they want to come back and build on shit, and god damn it, that is the way to do it. And they also are doing that with Virtual Fighter, Crossroads, Castlevania, Belmont's Curse would actually look pretty cool. Attack on Titan 3. Uh, they had a Hot Wheels game. One game that stood out to me because it looked great was Stellar Blade Blood Rain. It looked great. I will say that the reason why a lot of people I think liked it was because it was a woman dressed in basically some evangelical like type of clothing. You know what I mean? Like the tight, tight shit. You know what I mean? And she was like really tiny. You know, niggas love that shit. Clutch, the blood of Dawn Walker, Star Wars Zero Company, The Wolf Among Us 2, The Wolf Among Us Remastered, Cuphead 2. That's also Yeah, that's gonna be crazy. You know, people are gonna be streaming the fuck out of that. Cuphead spinoff, Fortnite Runners. Looks like there's an I think this was an expansion for Power World.

SPEAKER_03

Uh 1.0 coming out.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Monster Hunters. Oh, it's the new one. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Monster Hunters. Street Fighter revealed some new characters, which is cool. Love that. Runescape, Dragonwilds. So they updated the way that it looks and everything. Looks good. I know it's probably gonna be some people pissed about that shit anyway. Sonic Racing Cross Worlds look good too. Okay. So I kind of want to talk about this Xbox uh Xbox shit, Microsoft stuff. I want to just go through these lists of games real quick. Gears of War E Day

Xbox Showcase Takes And Bethesda Frustration

SPEAKER_01

is a console exclusive game.

SPEAKER_05

It's not gonna be on Steam at all.

SPEAKER_01

So it's just gonna be on the Xbox console. Fuck you guys.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, I ain't got no problem with that. Fuck I'm gonna play it regardless, though.

SPEAKER_01

It looks great. I'm not going out and buying an Xbox to play this fucking game. They better put that shit on fucking Steam. No, fuck that. I don't know if it's gonna be on like the day it comes out. What's the what's their game pass? Yeah, I don't know if it's gonna be on there either. I have no idea. Probably not. Halo, Halo campaign evolved, looks cool, just you know, remastered, looks good, updated stuff on it. Fable. Yes, which was big. Minecraft Dungeons 2. I guess. Um, if that's just shit. State of Decay 3 looked good. One that I like just because I love the way that it looks and I like the steampunk shit. Clockwork revolution. I love the way this shit looked because it reminded me of Dishonor a little bit, but it's not. Totally not in that realm, but it reminds me of that, and I love the way it looked. Loved it. Doom, the dark ages. They come out with a new Doom like damn near every two years. Persona 6, Persona 4, Revival. Yes, they're coming back out with Spiral. They're coming back out with Spyro, and I love it. I'm gonna play the fuck out of Spyro.

SPEAKER_06

You have fun.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm gonna play the fuck out of that game. Jesus Christ, it's gonna be great. There was another game called Magician's The Devil's Deal.

SPEAKER_06

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01

That actually was a really good concept, and I think it looked good. Okay, so this is where this is my gripe here. So Bethesda, you had a update of not an update, but just a fucking, you know, expansion, Fallout 76, fucking, uh, what was another one that they did? Fallout, ESO, and what was the other thing that Bethesda came out with or did something just to let people know? Whatever. I don't care. I need Bethesda to get their shit together.

SPEAKER_03

Definitely. I need Bethesda Like they've missed the merch so many times now, this particular point, right? Like, can we get a remaster something? A new trailer or something.

SPEAKER_01

That's what they missed. They came out, they didn't talk, they didn't even talk about the Fallout remaster.

SPEAKER_05

No, they didn't even talk about that shit. Like, nothing. No eldest no new Elder Scrolls. Nothing.

SPEAKER_01

A lot of these games are coming out in 2027. What in the fuck are you guys gonna do? I'm so serious. Bro, I hope. Man, I think that Microsoft really needs like, all right, we gave you some we gave you some grace because you're Bethesda. Like, you know, you the homie, cool, you got it, you you good, you good. I need Bethesda to come up with some shit. I need y'all to come up with something.

SPEAKER_03

I don't I don't know what they're doing over there. They're like

SPEAKER_01

Because I love Bethesda. I play a lot of their fucking games. And people have been waiting for this shit for a very long time.

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

They know. Bethesda knows that people are going to buy this shit no matter what time they release it. Which is fine. You want to be fucking assholes about it? Cool. But you give us, like, you got to give the people something. You have to.

SPEAKER_03

What's the last game that they dropped? That was not like a remaster or anything. Literally, I think it's just Starfield. Starfield was the last game.

SPEAKER_01

And next major game. I remember that shit came out. Didn't you buy?

SPEAKER_03

I did. I did.

SPEAKER_01

Didn't you buy the controller?

SPEAKER_03

No, I did not buy the controller, but I did buy the game. And um, I was in the process of moving. I stopped moving and unpacking shit to try to play this game. And I was like, no, I'm good. I'm gonna go back to unpacking because it's just that bad. Like, I had I don't know what but I was doing, but you gotta give the people something. Like, it's been so long, and it's it has been so long since they had like a game that was like, ooh, uh everybody and their mama's been talking about it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like you know this shit is going to win awards. Like, you know this shit, this shit's coming out, this shit is gonna win some shit.

SPEAKER_03

And I'm tired of hearing about people talking about oh leaps, leaks is coming. No, okay, if it's coming, like at least say something at this particular point.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_03

At least you know it's hyped up, like you could just be like, yeah, like a little picture or something, like, oh, it's coming. Like, oh, I'll take that. Like, where the hell was Elder Sprose like what's the next Elder Sprose? We ain't heard shit about that since like what 2018 at this freaking point? Like, it's it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

And I don't think you can I don't think you can like defend them.

SPEAKER_05

You can't, you can't anymore.

SPEAKER_01

It's really disappointing because they bought Microsoft came through last year and bought so much shit. They bought a lot of different IPs, they did, and you can see it from this showcase. And with Activision, um, I think DMR came out. Basically, it's a extraction game. So division for Microsoft. But they bought all of these IPs. Like I said, some of this stuff is great to see. It's great to see it. But that whole that whole time, it was like each time it was like world exclusive. And you're like, oh shit, what is it?

SPEAKER_04

What is it?

SPEAKER_01

No, no, yeah, it would say that. It would be like Bethesda, and you'd be like, oh shit, what is this? ESO. Fallout 76. The fuck, man? We already know about this. Y'all been doing the same shit for the past couple years.

SPEAKER_03

I I don't want to compare them to Bungie at this particular point, but I'm gonna compare them to Bungie at this particular point because we gotta talk about that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go ahead and like segue into that, I guess, real quick, because it's very high on the comparison the third right now. So, like, yeah, look at look

Destiny 2 Finale And Live Service Fatigue

SPEAKER_03

at look at Bungie with Destiny, right? The game's been out for god knows how long. I think like close to almost 10 years, and Destiny 2 is like, okay, here's our last update. Everybody jumps on. Yeah, I'm gonna jump on after this, probably. Um, anyways, I'm not gonna lie to you and be like, I'm not gonna jump on, I'm gonna jump on, right? But like, and this happens after they got pop up somewhere, right? I wonder if Microsoft is over here like, yo, y'all, like, y'all are running to death, these live service games. Like, and so in like 76, like, I need Microsoft to be like, hey, drop something at this particular point, especially with this new CEO that they have, like, she's all about the game. Like, honestly, we have seen quite a big turnaround since she's like took her seat, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_03

Because I'm tired of this. Like, we need something at this particular point. I don't need any more update for all of 76. I don't need any more update for ESO. I haven't played ESL probably like two, three years at this particular point.

SPEAKER_05

Like, come on.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, bro. I haven't, I haven't played, I haven't played, and thanks for uh watching. Greatly appreciate it. Um, I haven't watched, I haven't played yeah, in a long time. I haven't played in a very long time. I I'm not the I I used to be a really big fan of the whole like live, you know, MMO type shit. But I'd rather just sit and just play a game that doesn't deal with a whole bunch of like it's you. It's just you. And you enjoy this fucking game. That is what we need right now, and they are fucking it up right now. Destiny 2 is on this shit of like goodbye tour type shit. There is a petition for them to come out with Destiny 3.

SPEAKER_05

I don't think that shit gonna happen. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think so. I don't think so. I it it's I if it happens, I don't think I don't think it's gonna be bungee that does it.

SPEAKER_05

I don't know either because what's the other game that they have? They have another game that's out that they just dropped, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Like I don't remember the name of a game.

SPEAKER_01

Recently, I forgot what it's called though. Fuck. But it's I don't know. It it's it you know, people are playing in the destiny shit now just because they know it's not gonna be another update for it, right? So all these people are in it. There are loading problems and all this shit. Everybody's just in it right now. And like I said, people are trying to get a Destiny Destiny 3 going, which, if they did it, it's gonna have the same type of effect as every other new game. You're gonna have the people that stick with it forever, but then you're just gonna have the motherfuckers that come in every six months on a new update. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, okay.

SPEAKER_03

So Bundy, like part of his downfall is just stop listening to like the community and like what they wanted, right? And so we're kind of doing their own things and kept stuffing DLC after DLC after DLC after DLC, and that ultimately led to his downfall.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So I mean, Bunji, if if if Bunji could do a Destiny 3 and actually listen to like what their players want, I think it could be more successful, right? Because I I I love Destiny 1. Destiny 1 was awesome. I like Destiny 2 for a good while, and then they start doing dumb stuff, and yeah, just like I'll play when it update something. And then, like, some of these in the last few updates have been like not the greatest, so it just left. Yeah, but because it is the last update, I am going to go back and play this.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. You and a whole bunch of other motherfuckers though. Bungie is under Sony, right? They bought Bungie, Sony bought Bungie, right?

SPEAKER_06

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Well, yeah, it's it's it's gonna be on Sony to do what the fuck they gotta do. But I highly doubt that. I highly doubt they're gonna do it though. I really don't think so. Just because they saw how Destiny 2 went and it was popular at first, but it just like it was just a decline like over time, and then it was just sad. You had your people that constantly played, but like I said, it just declined. So you can't. I don't know why go why go through that again. And knowing Sony, I'm not saying they they wouldn't do that. Nah, they wouldn't be like, oh yeah, we're coming out with Destiny 3 for the next gen. Actually, they would do that. Sony would do that, they would definitely do that. Yep, they would do that big time, and then and then make it an exclusive only to Sony, so you couldn't play it on PC.

SPEAKER_03

That's the only exactly what they would do.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, so it's probably somebody in that bitch already thinking about it any fucking way. Also, like I said, Nintendo Direct was uh this morning, and the big thing for that to me was the Legend of Zelda

Nintendo Direct Buzz And Arcade Nostalgia

SPEAKER_01

Ocarina of Time remake, looks great. Star Fox looks fucking amazing, the Xenoblade Genesis. They have I think they have all three coming out, and then we got to see Kingdom Hearts. Great preview. We got I think we were able to see some gameplay of it. It looks good, it looks really good. Um I I will say this this for the amount of games that they showed here, a lot of these were very creative, a lot of these were just good to see. Like I said, the biggest one for me is Crazy Taxi. Seeing that fucking crazy taxi is great.

SPEAKER_03

Uh I saw that. I was like, ooh, take me back in my childhood.

SPEAKER_01

Crazy taxi Crazy Taxi was like in a lot of arcades back in the day. It was in a lot of arcade. That's that's all you really saw was like fucking Konami and Sega like games within arcades back in the day, and Crazy Taxi was just one of those ones. It was just one of those ones that was just so good and just simple. And you just going around just picking picking on yeah, like it's great. I I am so ready for that. But yeah, man, it it's 2027 is going to be a packed year for games. If the game is a good year, would get off their fucking ass. They could they could win every fucking thing. They could win every fucking thing. Everything. They don't want to. Nah, they don't want to, though.

SPEAKER_03

I feel like I don't know what they're doing over here, to be honest. Todd, what are you doing? I don't know, but like, I I feel like they need to get Todd the fuck up out of there. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I actually like Todd.

SPEAKER_01

I'm Todd up out of there, man.

SPEAKER_03

I like, I don't know. I feel like they might wait on the remasters until the next season.

SPEAKER_05

I don't I don't know. I feel like that's too long.

SPEAKER_03

That that is, but then again, I mean, it could be a great play for them because okay, you got the show, now you got the game, hype it up. I don't know. But like they had prime windows to do this, and they did not execute on either.

SPEAKER_05

None of them at all. Yeah, what they did do is push 76 updates.

SPEAKER_03

Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they pushing the fuck out of there, man. It's fucking sad. I I know what's crazy? They could've right now, right now, I I don't even know. They could come out with a fucking like new quake or whatever the fuck. I don't fucking know. Like, come out with something. Come out with with I don't know. Come out with something.

SPEAKER_03

I did I forgot. They also have that show coming out.

SPEAKER_01

What?

SPEAKER_03

Fallout shelter that they're doing too.

SPEAKER_01

They're doing that? Like the mobile game shit?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. They're they're actually making the Amazon show. Where you got live for testing and stuff. They're pretty busy with now doing TV. Other type of yeah, other media. So I don't really think they're focusing on any of the Fallout remasters or any of that shit because they're so it's you gotta, you get they have to do something.

SPEAKER_01

People want to see Elder Scrolls. People want Elder Scrolls.

SPEAKER_03

I would like something else to play besides Skyrim. I've been playing Skyrim, how long now? Almost what 10 years?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. It it's a I don't know. I I don't know what else they can do right now because all they're doing is just it's nothing. Like nothing. There's so many articles about oh, Elder Scrolls is this, Elder Scrolls could be doing this. We have nothing from Bethesda at all. People can bring hypothesis out, all that shit. This shit was first announced back in 2018.

SPEAKER_03

We're in 2026.

SPEAKER_01

2018. They talked about they they showed they showed a stupid ass camera shot of it coming up over the hill. And it just said Elder Scrolls 6.

SPEAKER_05

Wait a minute, that's it. Like that's it. Nothing else. Nothing else.

SPEAKER_01

Everybody waited for something to happen at that Xbox showcase. I really did. Like I sat there and I sat there and I said, Bethesda, every time Bethesda came across that damn screen. Bethesda, nothing. Nothing at all. Just just shit. Whatever though. Something something's gonna come in. Some game is gonna come through and just take everything from people are still gonna um I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

Uh I don't know. Like it's sad.

SPEAKER_03

Well, it is, and like there's so many other games that got dropped that I'm just gonna focus on them, but with that at the physical point, because you got yeah for me, Persona 6 and Persona 4.

SPEAKER_00

Yep.

SPEAKER_03

I'm a Gears fan, so I definitely am waiting for E Day. Um, I may play Doom, Dark Ages, Revelations, just because I have a multiplayer is gonna be insane. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

I'm not buying an Xbox, fuck that. Not doing that.

SPEAKER_06

I'm not okay.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_01

It's it's just, you know, whatever. I I I do I do think that out of these three, out of these three showcases, all of them were good. Microsoft definitely did come with some heat. Can't even lie about that. Nintendo did come with some good stuff too. All of them came with good stuff. The summer summer game fest, great stuff, just good seeing that. It's you know, people are playing Destiny 2. Like I said, it's are you gonna stream it or no?

SPEAKER_03

Anyways, what else are we gonna say?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I could have streamed. I guess not. All right.

SPEAKER_03

No, I don't really stream much anymore.

SPEAKER_01

But yeah, that was that was kind of like the the biggest thing that was uh going on. You know, kind of just these new games and just seeing how everything looked and all that shit. Also, I've been getting into the World Cup. So uh I say the past like two years I've been getting more into football and uh

World Cup Heat Hits Hard

SPEAKER_01

trying to keeping up with the World Cup and all that shit. And motherfuckers are hot. Motherfuckers are like a lot of these, a lot of these uh I'll I'll use the word soccer, a lot of these soccer teams that are coming into America are getting overheated. They're like, dude, it's hot as fuck here. Got motherfuckers from like fucking Sweden and all that shit, Norway and all that stuff. They're not used to that. They're not used to this type of heat. Motherfuckers are dying out there. Like they are dying. They're like, oh my god, how do people do this? I saw I've seen videos of like the France team like hot as hell, like they're just dying out there. Dying. But I mean, you know, it's America, so it's whatever.

SPEAKER_05

But yeah. I can't really think of anything else. Was there anything else that you uh want to add on?

SPEAKER_01

You want the MomoCon? I am thinking about going to this Loracon thing here in uh Durham.

SPEAKER_05

When

More Cons Plans And Atlanta Story

SPEAKER_05

is it?

SPEAKER_01

I think it's like in September or something, but it's called Loracon. And uh they have like these early invites, like a hundred bucks for like the day before, just to like check it out. I might get a ticket and check it out. It's a new con, first year type shit. So I'm like, oh. Just not one in fucking Georgia.

SPEAKER_00

I'm not, I am never. Okay, so speaking of Georgia.

SPEAKER_03

So my band bro was with me, right? That's the reason I went to MoboCon, right? Yeah, and I think that year. Was it that year? No, he wasn't there that year. Anyways, he came down before from MoboCon. We went to the Bando. You know what the Bando is, look it up, right? So I was like, okay, we're gonna go to the Bando again because he wanted some Bando, right? There ain't really great weight. And we're going, this is in the hood. I mean, like in the hood of a land, right?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And so this is all the rain that was going on, and so there's like this big puddle pothole in the middle of the street. There's like a car that was like kind of stuck in this ridiculous round. And now tell me, this is like seven o'clock on a Sunday. Why are you closed? And why am I able to make an order online? And you just tell me, uh, yeah, we close when you take your money, yes. Yeah, they had to I had to literally follow the dispute with Miami, with the Amex, and be like, yo, I didn't get my food. They're like, okay, well, we'll just be funny. Nah.

SPEAKER_01

Nah, I'm good. Um fuck no. As long as the con is not in fucking Atlanta, I don't give a fuck where it is. Like, look, it can be in fucking South Carolina, fucking Virginia. I don't care. As long as you want to go to TwitchCon?

SPEAKER_05

Where's that? It's in San Diego.

SPEAKER_01

Oh shit, I hate California.

SPEAKER_03

See, it's but it's not in Georgia.

SPEAKER_01

I hate California so much. I hate California. I hate California, though. I don't hate it as much as Georgia or Atlanta.

SPEAKER_04

See? Oh.

SPEAKER_01

Jesus. But yeah, thinking about Lorcon and Durham. I like going to it. I would think it's smaller, you know, something just more chill and stuff like that. Plus, I need more artwork to fill out this room. But yeah, man. That's all I can think of right now. Yeah, I'll not too much. We can wrap it up. Yeah. Let's wrap it up. All right. See y'all niggas later. Nah. All right. Thank you guys for listening. Do appreciate it. And we will see you when we see you. All right. Bye. Go ahead and play your destiny.