s02e10 Left4DonutsBeBackBy2 Left4Dead2 edit04: Whoa, that is real loud. Who me? No, the game. yeah. You're the fourth person to say that to me. You mean the the loud music? The Thanks, Valve. Make a third anything, for God's sake, Valve. that's how they get you. Welcome to Co-op Chaos, a game life balance podcast. Here are your hosts, Bob and Aaron. Hello, I'm Bob. Hello, I'm Aaron. No, you're not. I'm Aaron. No. Yeah, okay, you're Aaron. I'm Bob. I'm the voice you just heard. Say your names correctly. And and with us today clearly is Matthew and also Mela. Thanks for joining us, guys. Yay Hooray I blew through all my enthusiasm before the And what's gonna make it so enthused is that if you haven't listened to us before, Coop Chaos is a podcast about living life while fulfilling our aching desire to be gamers. If you're also a busy adult attempting to function and squeeze in that sweet morsel of gaming, you've come to the right side of the podcast realm. We're here because we're trying to stay connected and keep our friendship going. Come join in on this chaotic journey. What we do here on Co-op Chaos is play a new co-op game every week, talk about other fun things we're digesting, like books, TV, shows, food, whatever we feel like in the moment. We usually snag a game that's under $10, and you'll also get to hear a little bit about what's going on in our lives. And today, we are playing Finally, fing finally, Left for Dead 2. From my buddy Keith. Let's fuck it e falls, mother fing go! Hit the transition button now. No, where's my window? I gotta say, Bob, every time you do that every time you do that little intro that you do where you're like what we do on this show, my nipples get hard and I don't Must be my my luscious tone. even when I'm just listening to the show, just outside of being on, it's just like, hmm. Yeah, that's a real good intro. I just don't know about it. I I so long as it doesn't last longer than four hours, you're good. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. I don't know if it's It tries. It doesn't. Well, that's why you bang it against the side of a table to get it to calm down a little bit. All right. Let's calm down. All right, so yeah, we're playing Left 4 Dead two. This is a long time coming. I'm very excited. I'm wearing my Ellis hat and my Ellis T shirt. My bowl shifters shirt. And now we just need to decide what campaign we wanna play here. So Matthew, you've never played this before, or have you played it a little bit? I feel like I actually played with you guys briefly at some point, like offline. maybe like offline we played the first one. Yeah. was that was that Left For Dead 1? whoops. I know we played we played Back for Blood with you for the podcast. That was it. That was that's what I'm thinking of. Okay. Which is a spiritual successor, yeah. Then I have three then I have never played this. Left for Dead three. Yes, Mela, that is correct. Valve can't count to three. No. So the great thing about this game is that you've got a lot of fun campaigns, so it depends on If you're in the mood to see just the very first campaign and see how the characters initially introduce each other. Ooh, it looks like I accidentally picked that one, so I guess that's what we're doing. Yeah. I'm I'm ready to kill zombies. I'm I'm assuming this is general first-person shooter controls. Very standard first-person shooter. Yeah. You got melee weapons, you've got you can have pistols or melee weapons, you can have your main weapon, which is gonna be A shotgun, a rifle, a auto. Ugh that glare I'm blind. It's always time for a pissing contest. Come on. Let's go! Melodis Leroy Jenkins his way down. yeah. Well, I remember I'm used to playing unrealism now, so this is might be Well I think I put it on easy so it would be easy for us to chat. I'm here for the vibes. Alright, so Matthew there's grab a med pack. Yeah, you can do a med pack, you could do a melee weapon, or you could do one or two pistols, you can carry two. That was one of the perks of this game. Melee weapon takes up your secondary or slot there. Yeah. So it's melee or pistols. Don't worry guys, I'm keeping it safe. Cool. Save him. I'm trying to pick up the second pistol, but it will not let me. there you go. Shift. Nope. I'm I'm on a controller man, don't tell me that. I don't want this piece of shot. Is that the magnum? no, it got rid of my well, I guess I'm stuck with magnum. Please don't. No, please not at me. Okay. Well I don't think I think What the pick somewhere I think in realism you can get splashed with the boomer bile jar, but I don't think in the in normal mode you can't. It'll splash near you, but it won't. Yeah. I'll throw it down at myself for funsies. Yeah, see? I see. Yeah, I guess I don't play enough on normal. I'm just not a ph so It said Mela don't shoot teammates. Don't, please don't. I've sh I already get enough in one video game. Alright. This game has clearly never met Mela before. No, it has. It knows me very intimately. Hunter, Hunter, Hunter. Alright, grab his f<unk> and twist it. I'm gonna f well smack! Smack that! Smack that! Smack that! Got it. Grip the chrip the ch Smack that all on the floor. I hear a spitter. Yeah, there's one around. Yeah. there she is. Ow found her. Tippy toes. Yeah, yeah. So Mella, how ya been? How have I been? I'm hanging out window. Yeah, how ya been? no. well Great. Fantastic. What I don't remember. How long has it been? Ages. It's been a while. I mean you don't have to recount everything. No, obviously not. But like I don't know. Other than the b story, I don't really man. Okay, I'd like a hel a hand, guys. Yeah. I got you. Yeah, thank you. I really appreciated all the staring. okay. What the f where this guy come from? well. I got you, boom. He tried to he tried to come on me and then he came all over you, so. He tried to ride me. He did. He was trying to exert his dominance. His jockey. Whoa! Boomer! yeah, the boomer. Yeah. Yeah, so that big bloated zombie. Matthew is a boomer and he will squirt boomer juice all over you if you blow him up too close to you and then it attracts all the zombies to you. okay. Mella, where are you? I'm doing the door downstairs. I'm right behind you. Come here, come here for a second. don't touch me. I'm a big boy, I can handle myself. The more we heal each other, more health packs generate. Yeah. Yeah. Also there's a D fib up here that so I can pick that up. Crouch for accuracy. Alright. That was dumb. that Yeah, I've got plenty of time. Don't worry, I'll save you. I think Ellis had a beer with me. Drank a little too quickly here. Ooh, is the chainsaw in here if anyone wants the chainsaw? Thought about it, but I'm having fun dual wielding pistols. Yeah, the dual pistols was a nice touch. That was not a feature in the first game if I recall. What have they got in this vending machine? How have you been Matthew? Yeah, ruffles. I mean, you know, I I'm surviving one day at a time. Yeah, that's fair. Or I'll get Getting tongued. Yeah. shit. It's been a while since that's happened. No, but to answer to fully answer the question, I've been getting into board games again. Yeah Yeah, me me too, man. Me too. And a bunch of people I play Guild Ball with and I started playing this game called Twilight Imperium. And let me tell you, That game is fun as hope. you're good. That's why I throw the bile jar in the fire. I'm so sorry. I'm a mess. I think I shot a teammate, sorry. No, Alice, we can't. This one time I sent my d on fire. It was crazy. Uh-huh. Can't see sh. I don't want a silent submachine gun. I'm having too much fun with these pistols. Well, you can keep the dual pistols and the silenced submachine gun, because that's the primary. No, don't pull the secondary. Don't give me options. I just need one thing. Well no! well I'm coming back. I like how it's called a jockey. That makes me happy. Yeah. Yep. The jockey rides you. I love that sound he makes when he dies when he's just like there's an adrenaline shot here. if somebody wants to pick that up. No. And more boomer bile if somebody wants a throwy. Actually, I gotta I gotta fight. Alright. Who's this? How about you, Bob? Ooh. Let me shut this door and I'll tab out to my notes because I wrote notes. How have I been? Let's see. So shortly before coming down here, I was just chatting with the wife and my littlest was sitting with us, and she was just like looking at both of us, she just dead ass farts and stares at us. And we're just and she's six and we're just like looking at her, and I was like, What is going on? And she was like, and that's what you get for revenge. I was like for doing what Wow You got a little steamer. What the hell? she's yeah, she's I'd be scared. Insane. She's terrifying, honestly. Like she She's gonna move past parts pretty quick and it might might turn to some physical harm. crap. No, she's like she'll like play fight with me sometimes and like she'll drop kick me in the spine so hard that I'm like I'd rather get into a brawl with like like a bunch of like yeah bears or badgers or something. They'd be gentle. You already have one. yeah, you've already got one. Oops, alright, and I shot you immediately. No no, don't don't make excuses for me. Baseball bat. I know who I am. Yeah, so Aaron got me this sweet ass mug for my birthday, which I'm excited about. It's got like a wolf on it. Happy birthday! When was your birthday? Saturday, last week. it's in my ear, it's in my ear. It's in your mouth, it's up your ass. Don't listen to it. It whispers sweet nothing. It was the d donut before the d donut was a thing. I was little well I was a little slow on the draw there. I'm on fire. I'm on fire my goodness I'm on fire Yeah you probably don't want to be fired. Yeah he'll you'll survive. spitter. Little fire never hurt anybody. I beg the difference. I'm in pain right now. Well that you know, a lot of fire. Now that's a different story. sorry, I didn't realize there was such a distinction. Yeah. I just thought all fire was bad. I don't have to learn Gaming vo voiceover. Damn. let's see what yeah. Aaron also got me got me the the sweet Legend of Zelda master sword pocket knife. Which is awesome. Nice. I'm being jockeyed. He's in my ear. He's in my mouth, he's up my ear. Donut they definitely weren't last minute TikTok purchases. You know what? It's it's the fact that you knew me well enough to get a random ass mug with a f wolf on it and a little knife that looks like the master sword. Whoever I want, that's who I think I'm shooting. Take that, society. I don't I hear my girl take care. I'm just gonna keep shooting that bush. I hear my lady. Botched that throw my wifty. Good job. You dung goofed. And the consequences will never be the same. Stop. I goofered it. You dung goofed. there's a fatty over there. I hear a charger. Not fatty, but you know. Pipe bomb. I go. I'm okay. I don't have any ammo in my primary anymore. I'm going in! Swish! Watch it. Olay! there's a lot from behind. I got That's what she said. Each I found my witch. Burn her anyway! well So so Matthew, when you startle the witch, this is what happens. Uh-oh. Where? Where where? god. yeah, you're So if if she hits you you're immediately incapacitated. She looks like the the Spectre in the shining that Jack Nicholson finds in that hotel room. my god, yeah she does. You're welcome for that callback. Yeah, good job. I hear I hear a tank. I hear I hear a tank. Yeah. We can get up here. the a- Retreat, retreat, retreat, retreat! No, no, I'm done. sorry. he's down. you're good. Sweet mother of It's my favorite. China Lake, yeah. What what'd you find? The grenade launcher. Go dear. Grenade launcher. Holy! Well that doesn't look good. You're gonna wanna make peace, my man. You go down again. we're coming up to the store that's got all the weapons. We gotta bring in some soda. Is that what he wanted? yeah, it was cola, right? Cola. He's like, I need some of that cola. Show that now. That's French for a liter of cola. Can we take what I need one of them six packs from the store. Stop ignoring me. Who am I who am I gonna feel ya? Well, once we're done with the event, I'm gonna have to come back in and get the AK because I'm gonna completely unload this grenade launcher. the laser sight on it for good measure because accuracy matters. I don't know if it really does. We're not competing, right? I was wondering why I couldn't move. It was a big black. Yeah, look at me. Let's all touch each other. Hey, come back here. Wait, where are you going? Get your ass back here. Come back here and find in the gun. Did I just hear them say smoke that ass nice. Probably. Yeah, so more left for dead trivia because that's where we're at at this point. there's another grenade launcher. Look at that. Coach is voiced by an actor, Chad Coleman, who also played Tyrese in the Walking Dead television show. Nice. And in a Hulu zombie show that only survived three seasons called Freakish, he played a coach at a high school in the first episode. Nice. you MP5? No legs for you. Alright, let me see. What else do I have going on in life? the third oldest is doing some Girl Scout things, so I just purchased like way too much candy and stuff. But you know what? That's it's my girl. It's my daughter. I get a supporter. There you I've been very immersed in cooking lately. Ooh, what's you been cooking? I recently cooked one thing that I was super proud of. I did some seared pork chops with some sauteed apples which came out amazing. I've been charged. the the coke's not doing much. How much meth have Hold on, I'm working on it. I'm hold on one day it'll there you go, I got it. Alright, I guess I'll just go and I'll just return this. Right. get the off me, woman. Get off. This is it's like a k off me. I kinda wish there was like a red versus blue style thing of this game. Ow. But instead it's like this is spinal tap. I mean they do have a versus thing in this game. Like where Rob Reiner is just like, I wanted to capture the sights. Sounds and the smells of a zombie apocalypse. my god, a truck just ran over me. Saw that. it actually exploded, but you know it's pretty pretty similar. I'm sure it felt the same. I love undead as much as the next guy, but seriously all. Now that sounds like like an offshoot of the series. Hold on, second window. Alright, I've had my fun with the grenade launcher, getting my AK with the laser. I think my health is my health is still decreasing. Does anyone have a- Whoop! Don't go that way! I'm out! See ya! Shoot up! I'm out! Uh-oh, uh-oh. Get away. I don't want you selling! No! Wow. She just wanted you to toss it. Well, that witch too. That witch took you to school. She made love to you. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna touch myself back here. Hold on. I'll be there in a feel so much better. Come on, baby. Let me help you. Ooh, what do we have here? What do we have here? I didn't realize Mela was a fan of the Divinals one hit wonder. Every time I think about you, I touch myself. I'm black and white. Hi black and white. And it's uneasy. This is terrible. I've got a med pack in here. Aaron. Yeah, he did. Giraffe, look done there. I guess it doesn't really matter if you heal yourself since we're about to go into the safe room, but and there's a Molly in too. We're doing Molly in this game? I don't know if we're thinking it's maybe not, but you know. The spirit is there. Get the off me. Alright, there's another med pack here. Look at that. I got it actually. I d I don't even have one. I hear a boomer. Where are you, chunky? There you are. Boomago Boom Welcome. Welcome to Marcus Marcus Munitions. Capitalism is best. When you die, I don't care. Just give me money. So more of my cooking adventures. I'm gonna be making some beef stroganoff this week. You're gonna be doing what now? I'm gonna be stroganoff in the corner. It's my favorite Clarence Clarence Carter song. tomorrow night I'm gonna make some calzones. Love a calzone. no, no, no. I've got I've got a s we've got options. So there's gonna be Kids can choose between whatever they want. I'm making myself a buffalo chicken one. my wife's probably gonna do my wife will do like a chicken and broccoli moment, I think. But then we've got salami, italian sausage, pepperoni, so the kids can do pretty much whatever. And then I also got stuff to do like Hawaiian pizza style. My mic was muted! no. all that content out the window. no. it's okay. I was so enraptured by your cooking. were you like n I was I'm really hungry now. Your cal zoner was rock hard. zone with a crust. The calzone, the Italian cousin of the d donut. I I don't understand the lore of the donut. Am I missing out on something? You need to play dispatch. The d donut is just a long john, isn't it? It's a cream filled long john. And you know so there's no other kind of long john. I don't care what any of the I didn't know if like I didn't know if one of you was getting hard and the other one was stacking them. That's what you're talking about digging. Well, when there's no cream in it, it just means that it's geriatric because it doesn't have any ammunition left. That's I don't know. That's scientifically incorrect, my guy. But my headcannon says it's correct. Yeah, sure. I see what you did there. I've never tried your head. Headcannon. That's what I call my my head cannon. so so Mella, there's this amazing game called Dispatch. It's like I'm sure you've heard of it, it's pretty popular. And there's a part in it where one of the characters is at like a donut shop and they ask you, like, like what's your favorite kind of donut? And you can pick like a plain, a glazed, or a cream-filled long john, and if you pick a cream-filled long john, she says, so you like a dick donut. And you're like a what? And then she's like, Yeah, you know, like in your mouth, up your ass. Is that a game? Yeah. it's so good. Hold on, Googling it right now. Yeah, so it's like it's like a dispatch four rule thirty-four don't That's just called Dispatch at that point. They're just they're just They're just being real unimaginative with it. Is this an OnlyFans thing? I don't even know. What? But yeah, so speaking of dispatch, they just hit their one year anniversary from their release, so they're doing all this fun stuff, which I think is great. they're doing like a concert. One of the voice actors is like a musician, so she's gonna have like a concert to commemorate it, which I think is amazing. Didn't they have new content for it or something? Yeah, so now there's a whole developer commentary thing that you can do, you can have it playing while you're playing through the game. I'm like, I need to get down on that. I thought maybe it was like a new mission or something. No, I wish. That's a Telltale game, right? Yeah, so it's it's ad hoc studios, but it they have a bunch of former Telltale game developers before like so telltale died. Yeah, and then New Telltale happened but they still lost most of their developers to a couple other studios doing similar stuff. Yeah, and I've been I've been doing a playthrough of the Telltale Walking Dead recently. they're so good. Dude, I I know. If if you like those, like I love those games with a passion and I think I love dispatch more than those ones. Well I've I've been trying to I've been trying to get my My my buddy's never played him before. So I've been I've been sitting on the couch watching him play it. You're you're like, you sure you want to do Kenny like that? I'm like, what the h doing? No. What you don't you don't touch Kenny? Come on. He's like, I think Lily's right and you're just like I'm I can't even I can't even talk to you anymore. No, remember he did it by accident. He's like I am so sorry. where did I Whoa! Did you just did you just hit my butt? Dude, you just hit my butt really hard. charger. I see. I I I don't know what happened. I just turned around and all I saw was you bomb and then Damn, yeah, we just had a train ran on it. Check out the pain train. Hey come here, I wanna touch you. Pills in here, we've got a baseball bat. Get the p out of my way. no, don't shut the doors on me. No Yah Well Wow, I just my whole room echoed there. This is amazing. I didn't know I was I can't go this way. missed the stairs. Hey, Matt, you wanna maybe up here a little bit? Good. Can't too busy dying. Escalator. crud. Where are you? third floor. You're doing great. you're down. Yeah. Down, what? It's okay. I'm distracting them. I sure hope so. I don't know. Adrenaline. He's just beating the crap out of me. hit me, hit me. Thank you. I I didn't realize you were being smokered. I thought you were like normal incapacitated. Yeah, no, there's And then I was like, why are you wriggling like that? Are you into this? Yeah, I'm into that zombie bump. Where? Huh? Dude, I already have too many tabs open. I can't open anymore. Not with that ass. Donut donut. Where's that music coming from? What the f- I'm being dick donutted. No. Keep off me. Hey, how you doing? He's making love to me. yeah. Thank you. Hey, we made it. Did we? Because I mean y'all don't look so good. I'm great, but like, you know. I mean I'm I've got a med pack if I need my toes. My toes hurt. Toasty. I think we're near the safe room anyways, we'll be fine. Back down the stairs. Back down the stairs above. Ollie! Don't forget to crouch to increase accuracy. Don't tell me what to do. Based on CSGO. what I want, man. that's how you crouch. Okay. Yeah, control. I found out how to crouch. you're on are you on controller? Yeah. yeah, you're lost. I I don't know. You're on your own buddy. It's alright, I figured it out. Charger. He just charged himself all the way down to the bottom. Well he'll charge his way up the stairs eventually. Going up. Here is Smokey. Where's Smokey? Yeah, he found me. again! We're good. Thank you. So that's another fun Left 4 Dead story. Uh-oh. Many many moons ago I was playing with some randos down. And a couple of them were from Spain, so they were like typing in like Spanish, you know, so they're like laughing like instead of like H A H A, they like J A J A. So I was like, And then they were like laughing. They were they like blah blah blah ja and I was like yeah guys ja ja ja and then we're going through like one of the levels and then all of a sudden I'm getting attacked by a smoker and I was like I was like help help and I was like pinada pinada and like they both in unison like turn and aim up and shoot the smoker at the same time. Nice That's a great call out and then I was just like ja ja ja ja ja ja ja You could have been like, I'm just the biggest sublime fan, ja ja is coming. I'm gonna have to steal that one. Pinata, pinata. Yeah, they just they knew they were like, he's speaking our language. Finally, this dumb American. Okay, okay. Now now, now I I feel I need to point out. I'm pretty I don't know if pinatas are in Spain. Yeah, it's probably a Mexico thing. I do know they're predominantly Mexican. I'm already on it. I'm already on it. We do have some listeners from Spain. So if you're from Spain and you're listening, tell us. Ooh, pinatas originate from China. No, wow. Yeah. Typical New Year celebration decoration introduced by Mar Marco Polo introduced it to Europe in the 14th century. so he stole spaghetti and pizza. Yeah, so like many great things, we just steal it from the Chinese. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. So that's all right. It's a long, wonderful history of theft. Where did the white people be stealing? Am I right? Speaking of long, wonderful history of of d donuts, Aaron, how's your week been? so many d donuts. Yo, you get I fought I've I follow him on Snapchat. He's been doing some weird donut stuff. Me acting like I actually have Snapchat. Yeah. Yeah, I d I don't That's that's what someone who has Snapchat would say, Aaron. That's what you want us to do. That's what I want you to believe. No, Yeah, no, you know, work's been kicking my ass. we got to season two of Interview with the Vampire. I'm down. yeah, you were watching that and you said it was super good, right? Yeah, did he get a job? Yeah, it's still Well if you're on season two, it must be good. Ooh, I'm gonna heal myself unless someone else wants to heal me. yeah, no, this is this is the last this is the event mission. You might as well just smella I'm just doing my job. That's what I'm known for. Mella's trying to be the necromancer. I'll fix ya, but I'm gonna kill you first. And then I bring you. What else is going on? I think that's kinda all. keep going hit shift and then stop sprinting. Okay. No, you're good. Yeah, don't don't shoot these gas cans. We need to fill the car up with these ones. huntered. I don't think I got that shot. wait. And I'm down. Nope. I I don't have the angle. well. Sorry. I think I might have dropped D fib? No, I I don't think I did. Well, I'm gonna try and find one. Well that door's gonna open any second now. Yeah, no, just another week of life kick in my butt. Yeah I called out sick Monday because I just felt like garbage. no, did you have the d the death cold everybody's been afflicted with? with or was it worse? Awful cold a couple weeks ago. You guys, I'm up here. You I I may have got whoa what the I I saved wait, I saved myself somehow for a second there. That was weird. Who keeps ringing that bell? Shut the h up. Hence the zombies, they're ringing the dinner bell. no. I finally got I finally got some donut. Yeah, you're right in the ear hole. I'm the only one with that one. And he has brought me to his donut friends. Yeah, his lair. I'm the only one who needs to get donut. Now I feel like Honestly Mella, I've had better. not for me, right? No. Well, I haven't had you yet, so you know, one day. Yeah, I know. There's still time. Yeah. You said you're coming to Philly. It's fine. I'm a tank. Uh-oh. Well, I'm gonna leave you. Goodbye, everyone. Now we're dead. Goodbye. Woo! I'm a donut! And this is the glory of Left for Dead 2. What the fuck is wrong? god. How did I no. I'm dead. Yeah, we're all dead. And now we get to restart it. Yay. And now we're all gonna die. I'm gonna kill myself here. Go in hitting Leroy That's me. Please die Jimmy. Leroy, you are dumb as hell. Yep. I've got adrenaline shot in here if somebody wants it. No. I'm gonna hot dog the zombie apocalypse. I don't need no adrenaline. I didn't want to give you adrenaline shot anyways. I'm gonna go get my own adrenaline shot. Hookers. That forget this. they follow They're following you, they're following ya, they're following ya. What are we doing? Hanging out? No, no, get the elevator. No! I don't wanna. Get to the chopper! I don't wanna! I'll play my own game now. Wait for everyone. I think how that went from like you having like an to you becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well a couple drinks deep, so it started at- And then somehow back? Like Yeah, I don't know why you're complaining. Aaron, do you have do you have your theme question? Yeah. Do you want me to do mine first or do you want to wait until after this event? yeah, we're gonna do this event. I feel like we clearly need some. no! Boulder dash! No, the cans! No! There's so many gas keys. There like five cans and they're all just lit up. Aw man, all my work. Yep. Get off me, zombie. Go find your own can. And that's why I play solo. no, Jackie! it's in my ear! He's making love to you. And there's a fatty. I wanna make love to you. Reloaded. Well. And that whole chicken. You do? no, I jumped off the wrong side. No. And that is what we call a dumb ass kid. Yep. On the spinner just spit on me. that D fib might come in handy, Aaron. Hey Why is the tank still standing? Come here boy, I'm gonna stab you. This is supposed to be uneasy. Woo! I'm being touched and I'm wet! god! look at that. You are I'm hysterical and I'm wet I don't know why, but I'm enjoying this My Body You know if come up and help me there's some Molotovs up here in the corner by me. Dude I'm working on here the whole f time, right? You calm your ass I'm Every time I walk that way, like eight more zombies show up. Well that's kinda the point of the game. No, I get that. Doing its job. crap. I've shot an alarming amount of zombies in their crotches. hey, just if it works, it works, man. Keep doing you. who needs heal? there's one more up top. Healing myself. I'm gonna heal myself too. I've gone a wet myself. Anybody got a pipe? I've got a Molotov. that doesn't it's not exactly what I asked, but yeah, if I wanted a Molotov, I would have asked you for one. No, I'm sorry. Alright, got last one. You chucked it? Yeah, yeah. wood chuck? How much woodchuck? now you gotta come back down to get into the car. Yeah, well what do you want me to I'm telling you, sure. I'm one guy, alright? Well, come on, you want a carry or do you want a passenger princess? Make up your mind. I want a pillow princess, baby. I wanna go anywhere with you, baby. No. It's the best one. Dark Carnival. Come on, you can do it now. Dark Carnival. yeah, okay. We should queue up some insane clown posse. so theme question. again this was a last minute thing, so last episode we were talking about Ghostbusters, ghosts, such and such. Picture Slimer, from real Ghostbusters, but you get to have your own little ghost familiar, but it's a famous person from history and you get to pick. Who would you choose? James Earl Jones. James Earl Jones. Solid choice. Solid choice. Or maybe even me you know you know, not my my initial one was for the voice. Steve Irwin. Ooh, that's a good one. Steve one. Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers, yeah. I would take Mr. Rogers. Croiggy. He slimed me. Croiggy. Bob Ross. Yes, thank you. That's all right. I don't know. I feel like that one might get a little annoying. I'll be honest. I ch like he'd be look, you're overthinking it, so you made a mistake. We're just gonna make it a bird now. Dude, I would drop it. Dude, I I would be making a sandwich. I'd drop my sandwich. It'd be like, that's okay. It's all right. We make mistakes. I think no! I lost my sandwich. Shut up. Which is gonna make a dirty. I just painted this this nice little setting with a French bistro and we got this donut on the plate. Just a nice little d donut here in the corner. It's right there. Yeah. Happy little donut donuts. Look at this happy d donut. He's so happy. The cream's coming out. Whether you like it or not. So so any famous person that you choose to be a Ghostbuster, was that the question? Or I just to haunt you. To haunt you as like your little ghost familiar like slime And then okay. I was like waiting for And you both get into hijinks. You know, maybe maybe I would want something a little more like abrasive. Like can I wait for Gordon Ramsay to die and he'd just call me an idiot sandwich all the time? Well I can make that happen. I'm not gonna cake shame you on this one, but that just seems a bit much. Well, maybe I'm just too positive and I need something to balance myself up. You know? You know me. Cause you know Gordon Rams is gonna spend time yelling at you about killing teammates. You know Gordon, right. And did you fing team kill again? You Every TIME WITHE TEAM KILLING YOU MY GOD DO Y SEE HIS BODY, IT'S FING RAW! It's a condition. I don't know what to do. I don't like that I lost my second pistol. Yeah, you'll be able you'll find another one. Yeah. They always do. Well I think usually it goes to the next campaign, but this did not cycle to the next campaign. Honor, there he is. Bubby. That hunter gussy. Ooh ooh ooh. I slapped that hunter like eight times and I just couldn't even get it. I'm to think Man, I'm trying die I had I had someone in mind who I wanted to haunt me and I can't think of their name. mine's easy. Bruce Campbell, a hundred percent. He's not dead yet. He does have a terminal illness, so It's only a matter of time. Yeah. Yeah, he's got like some like severe rare form of cancer. Yeah, and it's like late stage. Or Bruce. And he's just like, Yeah, you know what, I'm just gonna keep doing my thing until whatever, it I love you, Bruce Campbell. if there was ever gonna be a cure. If there was if there's if we're picking people who are curious Not dead yet to be our familiars. I think I'd want Tom Waits. there you go. what about Robin Williams? There you go. that's a good one. That's a good one, but like I'd be afraid that the chaos scale just tips a little too far. Well, I feel like that resonates very perfectly with my vibe. Is that a tank? I'll take that one. Yeah, I've been fighting him alone, guys. You get out? No. I'm just over here. You're doing great. Fighting the swole ass son of a b Well that's what you get. I got him with a rack. I'm just eating it. I need help. I'm strapped down and I don't know how. my god. Ow. Yeah, that's you're like the smoke I got you. Alright, you know what? That's fine. No, I'll just do the whole thing. It's cool. It's okay. I helped you with the tank. I was shooting him from a safety. I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't we'll see the credits. you'll s you'll see in the credits on the I don't know. I remember seeing someone's name up at the top of most of those categories. mine for all the throwies. Come here, I wanna I wanna I really wanna touch you. Where are you going? You're getting chased by a jockey. I wasn't talking to you. Alright. Alright. No, you can't you can't no, you can't just oopsie that. I oopsied it and I poopsied it. Well I'm gonna keep I found a Molotov in here. Molotovs in all of these rings. Are following me? Apparently. my god, why'd we throw the Molotov at same spot? Because we're both covered in zombies and just geniuses. Genii Genus G Nussies? I don't know. My G Nussy. My G Nussy is really smart and rat now. You can't handle my G Nussy. That's my favorite Limb Biscuit song. I did it all for the G Nussy. Woo! Woo! Were you getting huntered? Get off! No! Alright, well I can't. I got you. Told you I'm helping you from a distance. Whoa! Why? Whoa! Everything's on me. You know, I I kinda I kinda don't have sympathy for you because you do keep running ahead. I what do you mean? Yeah, that's true. You're coming at me. I I dropped a pistol here if somebody needs a second pistol. sh yeah. That would that would be me. Well that's too damn bad. yeah, I guess you can also just pick a alright. I don't feel like that was necessary. John Brown, that's who I was. there she is! okay, okay. She's you made her angry. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. We gotta get you back on your feet. I think Thank you. and a jockey. Man, he got bounted little white. Donut. Hey there you do how about you don't, you son of a b Ooh I mean I don't I don't I don't mean to brag, but does anybody want the katana? There's a katana in here. No where? Down here. Fatty You got the boomerella. Thank you. Yeah. Well, I got the fire axe. I like the fire axe. no, you're doomed. Leave him there. He's better. I'm putting some firebulks down. I forgot that he says that. Grab some in Cindra Rare Ramo. What what did you say, Coach? Are you drunk? What? Is Ellis strawcat Double Smoke? Ellis does what Ellis pleases, and often he tells stories about his buddy Keith that is probably dead. Keith Classic game. This one time me and my brother Kate. Wasn't there like a isn't there a whole cause I know there's there's a comic series for this game, I think. And I'm pretty sure there's a whole there's a whole backstory to Keith, isn't there? There is, yeah, there's a bunch of lore. Donut on my face! no, you're being dead. Okay, I'm good now. Thank you. Whoa! Gonna make it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure like there was a whole thing about Keith, and he just like kicks absolute. whole story. yeah. I don't remember if it's like official or a fan thing, but like I I was always hoping that in a Left for Dead 3 we would have had a reunited Keith and Ellis and then Zoe because you know Zoe and Ellis well at least Ellis had a thing for Zoe. I think that might have been a one sided Molotow love affair. Hold on. No I got I gotta I gotta wait, so did everybody pick who they're getting haunted by? I think I need to pick an actual dead person because I did I said Bruce. Yeah, so I'll take I'll take Robin Williams. And I think my close second will be like maybe Joseph Stalin. But but you know that's bothered. Joseph Robin Williams and Joseph Stalin? Feel like it'd be a cool different thing. You know, there are some weird ass layers to that onion, sir. Both do it for the people. Come on. Man, who would I pick? If I died right now, would you pick me? yeah. Yeah, that's right. You don't have to pick one. Perfect time. Get in, get in, get in, get in, get in, get in, get in, get in. No, I don't want to. Put it in. No, guys, I it. Hey, don't leave me out here with that. Alright, we're good now. What are you doing? man. Yay, now we get to go to the carnival and we get to play all the games at the carnival. You gonna get the gnome? Yeah, you have to bring the gnome. That's we gotta get gotta get Matt the achievement for that. What? There's a gnome that you can pick up early on, like you play this game and it like poops out a gnome after. And if you bring it with you to the end, you get an achievement for it. It doesn't really do anything other than give you the achievement. No, but it's it's cool. It is cool. Yeah, I got a buddy who's obsessed with that home. He won't go for it. He actually has a replica of it and he installed a f no, he does actually. So you know, i once he gets it in his hands, it he's pretty much useless for the rest of the mission. He really loves that thing. In his mouth, up his ass. I feel things I shouldn't feel. Help me! Help me! Help me! These zombies are really tickling my pickle right now, sugar. Well, I don't got a pickle. Alright. Did we get the gnome? I'm gnome now. no Maloney. he's over there. Go save him, Gnome. maybe not. I'm turning around. Don't go that way. He's free now. shit. I beat him to death with the gnome. Wait, how do he like a charger appeared out of him? Yeah, he gives birth to the charger. He's actually the mother. His one arm turned into a charger. He's like the mother worm in back for blood, but it's just the tank. Hey buddy, how you doing? Hold on, you're gonna have the gnome. you okay. I need to heal myself. We got super sniper gun over here. And he took the gnome. Alright, that's all you, buddy. It's all yours. I'm putting ammo down. Okay, there's a chainsaw in here if anyone wants to play with it. Can't carry a gnome. my chainsaw. Yeah. It looked like you'd seen better days, man. Probably. Yeah, so my dead person that would be haunting me that I'd have to suffer with, I think, would probably be Don't go in there, Mella. I'm on fire! There's a smoker hunting us from the fire. no, I'm back in the fire. no, he dragged you in. No Help Help me. Thank you. Well I'm back on fire again. Well the the gnome was lost in the fire. here it is. The gnome is eternal. Yeah, gnome's life. Gnoman's love. Nobody knows. I saw a hack recently on how to get up onto this canopy thing. I don't remember how to do it. on that track up there, there's a way to get up there. Should have written notes. who who's my dead person that I'm taking with me? you know, I'm gonna pick Julia Child so she can sh shit on everything I make. Wow. She can like, That's not the proper way to make scrambled eggs. this is not the French method queen. What are we doing? I love the queen. yeah, you could do the Queen of England. That's a good one. I'll I'll I'll hold that for you. Don't you worry. Got you. Explosive ammo. Gnome yeah. Yeah, I probably shouldn't be holding the gnome. I'm like dying. we just gotta heal you then. We gotta find a med pack. Yeah. I found the AK. Yeah. Ooh, and a grenade launcher. tough choice. Get the out of my face. Smoker somewhere. And a lady boomer. I'll save you! I always love taking out a single zombie with a grenade. Which is it's so satisfying. I made a bad choice. Yeah, it's okay. That's what the pipe bomb's for. It heals all wounds. Like Milly Vanilli. Well, girl, you know it's true. how'd the gnome get up there? Alright, Bob, what's yeah, my question. Ooh, let me blow myself up first. And then Phrasing. Which? I wanna aggro that witch. yeah, she's on the carousel. what witch? I see nothing. Nice. What? Alright, this is gonna open the gate and what I've got by eleven grenades left. Let's get to the safe room and then I'll ask my question. Sure. Hey. there's a fatty climbing a a drain pipe. Get up the stairs, bozo! Hello. Keep going. Go for it. For for spooky season and we're playing a zombie game. So it's the ultimate question that you have to ask. It's the classic, it's on brand. It's the zombie apocalypse. So you have to answer who are you bringing with you? What's your weapon? Where are you gonna fortify or where are you gonna travel to? Do you think you're gonna survive? And what is your currency of choice, be it ramen, alcohol, bullets, it's whatever you feel like. I feel like that's a lot of questions. No, it is. Can I get a pen and paper? That is the weirdest D campaign setup I've ever heard, my god. Do I think I personally will survive? Personally I'll be fine. I feel like bringing a blunt weapon that will last is probably a smart choice. Yeah. Gotta charge you around. So I will bring a metal baseball bat. Okay. Wrapped in barbed wire. I like it. That's that's some Negan from Walking Dead energy. That's great. Who I would bring? I would bring and I'm just doing fictional characters here. that's fine. Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec. my god. Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn 99. Okay. And I will bring all four golden girls. never mind, you're not making it. And I mean it depends on your definition of making it because those ladies beah. They're gonna get you killed. No, they'll be They'll just be able to find all the cheesecake in the world. That is true. They will do that. Whoa! Don't open that door. You hit a woman, how dare you? Wahaa he did it again. that's And then for my last one, I will bring Wayne from Letter Kenny. There you go. And I think all four of us will protect the golden girls. They must be protected at all, gods. Exactly. 1000%. I don't know if I've ever said this on on on this particular program, but The Golden Girls is my favorite show of all time. Okay. And it's not close. I mean, love it. Yeah. So who's next? Well, I you're gonna have to walk me through that list again because I don't remember it anything. Yeah, what was the question again? Alright, zombie apocalypse. Who are you gonna bring with you? Like part one, part two, part three. Let's go through it. All right. Go through it together. What's your weapon and will you survive? Okay, well, I don't want to bring anybody because I hate all of you. So Well, you don't have to bring us. That's why I chose fixable characters. Fine, I'm gonna start my own zombie apocalypse with blackjack and hookers. you know what? That's a good one. I'll take Jack Black. there you go. Vegeta. Yep. Yeah. And then Robocop. Do you no actually though I think yeah, Robocop's pretty good. Maybe Thanos with the gauntlet. T W. Or he can do what he should have done and double the resources. But that's a different discussion. No, weapon though I know. I'll bring a twenty ounce claw hammer. I know how to use one of those things pretty well. It's got a blunt end and a and a serrated edge, so it's pretty good. There you go. It's a good one. And they're pretty top heavy, so you don't get your arm don't really hurt from using it too much. Yeah, good stamina. And will I survive? Yeah. Nobody's there to bother me, yeah. No one's there to f it up. Except for Vegeta. well, you know what? Actually, I'll take that. I want I want Goku. I'll take Goku. There you go. See, here's why I wouldn't bring Goku. All he's gonna want to do is keep testing himself. So I can't. And he's gonna eat all of your food. Yeah, exactly. He he's also gonna just keep getting himself into nonsense. Thank you. You bring up some really good points there. Sorry, Goku. You're out of the clubhouse. what goo. He was never gonna make the cut. Hey cool ranch. Hey cool ranch! I'm touching you. yeah, touching him. I don't like when you look at me when I do it. This needs to be an anonymous interaction. Yeah, I want you to turn around. Shove it. I don't know. One of the two. Don't you look at me! Don't look at me. I forgot we're gonna do the roller coaster of that. I don't know which button it is for you because you're using a controller like a dumb butt. But punch. Start punching. Yeah, I do this. Don't too much, then there's a cooldown. Yeah, I know. I figured that out too. Yeah, I I sure hope so. Who you gonna bring? You got that. What your weapon of choice was the hammer thing. where Are you planning to fortify yourself or travel to to live out your days in the apocalypse? Canada. It's a good one. I like that. Well, I mean, think about it. You know, it's never really addressed but like they're just, you know, walking corpse. There's no way they make it to the winter, right? I'll just pick off. I've always been a subscriber of that too. Like they're they're gonna freeze, like they're already like cold because they're yeah, effectively dead, right? Plus, I mean, how much of Canada is actually populated? I mean, let's be real here. You go far enough in the woods You find a nice lake. 'Cause it's the land of a no, that's Minnesota. I was gonna say land of a thousand lakes, but I mean also Canada has the most islands, you know, in the world. So I mean you just find a nice little island and you call it good. Wait for winter to come around. I don't know, and kill a moose maybe. And try to populate the area near where your island is gonna be with polar bears. Yeah. No, they'll eat you. Well, this isn't sexy. Debatable. I can't go back up? Well, that's annoying. Well, sorry, Matt. good. Can I get you through the wall? Hey buddy. How you doing? smoker got me. You alright? Down there? Pinata, pinata! yeah, I've had a pipe bomb this whole time. Hold let me throw it off. Sorry. I've had this instrument of preserving our lives. Mm-hmm. But I chose death. I chose content. I think I'm waddling it. Am I alright? I thought you got Matthew. Couldn't get back here. No, you can't go back up around. He's still by the where we activated the thing. which means we lost the gnome. But it's not the end of the world. Yeah, because you can't go around. Wait, where is he? You can go all the way back on the track. He officially died. Can you? No, you can't. You can't go up this track. Wait, so where's the gnome? Do you have a D fib? yeah, where's the gnome? I don't know. I'm gonna It's right next to me. is it? Which is right where we activated. We can go back and get it, I think. no, it won't let us go. I'm looking at it. that's bold. I didn't know we couldn't go back up this part. I didn't know either until I tried to go back and get you realize we disappeared as soon as the lights. I saw you disappear, but I'm like, where'd you guys go? And then there were just these all these zombies around. Yeah. And the gate just opens up. Come on, there's gotta be a way to jump over that. I don't know. It is a source game, so I mean, you know, something's gotta be broken, right? Yeah. Well they always re-break all the things that you know shouldn't be broken. yeah you can't I was gonna stand on that thing, but you can't. I'm trying my best. That was n just fall into the back of my head. Dry harder, d I'm tired, grandpa. Man. And then what's your currency? What's your zombie apocalypse currency? You gonna try and stock up on like ramen? Funko Pops. Funko Pops? Okay, I like that. Mmm. The most sustaining of terrible toys. Someone out there in the apocalypse will be like, man, I need some fing Funko Pops. Yo, I'll trade you I'll trade you my Iron Man for your Harry Potter. No, no, no, no. Harry Potter and a pack of cigs, buddy. Let's hand it over. All right, all right, you drive a hard bargain. All Well, I think I think Mell's got the right of it, going north. But we'd we'd always had that conversation before, so I'm still that's still my origin my plan is to for some kind of home improvement store and just kinda hole up, you know, like go go for a Lowe's or a home depot or whatever. Mhm. And then you know, just just start farming inside and on top of it as much as you can. Yeah I think I just storm Area 51. What are they gonna do? Stop me or the Zom? What are they I'll steal a few of Matt's crew. let's see. Maybe the aliens will save me. Ron Swanson and Rosa. Ron Swanson's a popular pick. Well, didn't that actor also play Bill in The Last of Us and he was like Yep. Yeah, he was amazing. And you all it's so old. I had somebody else in mind too, but I can't have him now. Bruce Campbell. Probably Well, I was probably gonna be Ash. I mean, have an adrenaline shot? If you hit the bell with a melee weapon when you have an adrenaline shot, you I got one. You set off a horde and it's great. yeah, come here, come here, come here. I got I'm ready. Well to know. Now we're gonna die. You're all dead now. You're all gonna die. Ow. boy. now we're coming up to the absolute worst event. The concert? No, the concert is easy. This is when you have to run through the gate to this safe room before the concert. Uh-huh. This one is awful. I remember vividly. So bad. and trying to get the drone through this was a pain. Pinky! Yo, we got Pinky. Hey, we got steroid Patrick Starr over here. I'm out of owl, I'm at a mimel! Ow. Don't worry, I'll Hey, he's down. He's just a little b. Owl. Rubber. What you doing? I got a knife. this really is CSGO. Hey, does anybody know where some ammo is? I got none. We'll probably find some shortly. Aww, dead cows. So sad. Friends, I have found thine mother dead in the corner. She's a cow. Got an adrenaline shot. Over here actually. But the penal stilling could not get the ill in a stop. Yoink unlocked the celling. Take them pills. Alright, whatever. Took them pills. That's a god! That's not a man. That's a monster. That's your new lover. He's holding Stop that. Hold me now. Bad touch, bad touch! Don't open that door. I've got a molotop, there's a pipe bomb here. I need a gun. There's a charger chasing the There's two guns. I'll pick a gun. and I don't know. I th I was I think my currency was gonna be, I don't know, seeds or something. That's a good one. That's pretty smart. Good one. That's a good one. And do you think you're gonna survive? Huh? no, I'm dead. I'm gonna die early on, probably. S in like some stupid way. yeah, like flip on an ice cube. first aid kit over here. I'm pinata, pinata! Pinata? Pinata. Wow, y yeah, I I almost forgot to call out. Sorry guys. Whoa! Whoa, what the f come from? Health pack's still over here. Smoker? Again? yeah, I was still on the roof. We never killed it. And a boomerella. Where are you, boomy? I've got ammo stash up here. And a med pack. Actually I'll grab that. I will heal. Where's that ammo? Matthew. up on the staging. Delicious ammo. The scaffold. You shot that hunter right in his hunty d I know what I did. Alright, for me, let's see, zombie pocalypse. I'm gonna bring my littlest because she's a force of nature, and good luck to the zombies. as a result, I do think I'll survive because she's gonna destroy all of them. Against better judgment, I'm gonna fortify a Costco, even though I know it's gonna be a target, but you know, people are gonna go for it. But you know what? At least I'll be able to build up a stash of currency. Because they've got so many varieties of ramen. Dude. Would be good currents. Hot dogs, baby. Dollar fifty. And the hot dogs, yeah, those things'll last a while. They sell generators, they've got gas. You can set that up for a while. tippy toes. Yeah, that's true. That's pretty good. Gates are open. Maybe maybe I do need to bring somebody. I need a sacrifice. there you go. Booty really not like that wouldn't know it? And they'd be like, Yeah, I love you, man, and you're like, Yeah, I love you too. Okay, now see those zombies, run towards them. And I'll distract them from behind you, I promise. Hunter. Yeah, I don't know. It's that's a substantial list. I don't know if I can just choose one person to sacrifice. Well then you have a lot of people you can sacrifice. And they're all like, listen, man, everyone keeps dying around you and you're like, look, I know it looks bad, but it's not my fault. These people are inept. I'll save you. I'm a hero. I'm not a heroing. Safe from Yeah, it's safe. Trust no First try. Alright, did I answer all my own questions? Yeah. Alright. what is my weapon? Ooh. I'm gonna bring a wooden sword because blunt force because it's dangerous to go alone. Exactly. Yeah. So I think we are on to life co-op. Yeah. Mine's just that co-worker. You might have that co-worker. You might know that co-worker. That co-worker is that co-worker. That you can just look at and just be like, This is fucking bullshit And they just look back at you and go, Yeah, this is fucking bull sh know. That coworker. That co worker is my co wor my co op, life co op. Okay. Good job that co worker for being that coworker. yeah. Keep working. Keep working and jerkin, baby. Well, one of those. Melan and Matthew. Do you guys have a a life co op you wanna throw out? Anybody that's Done you a solid recently or someone you just want to shout out. Solided, you're done. They gave you the old donut and made you thank them for it. Grab your shout out from behind donut. you like it from behind, don't ya? I got you. I don't want to talk about it. When you say had me. Well, I did have you covered, just covered in fire. come on. Stop punching me. If I must. Wow. Midnight Riders just like nondescript butt rock band, don't they? They are. And you can also sing into the microphone. We're gonna turn the music on. that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Life Co op. I'm gonna shout out the folks that got me into Twilight Imperium because playing that That was pretty cool. because despite being like a game that is notoriously It's notoriously not brought to the table a lot because it takes all day. Mm-hmm. it is a game we can play turn based online where we get to it when we can, and it's just it's been so much fun to just get into and learn and I'm getting pounded in the corner. I'm being I'm being smoked. I think. I can't Well trying. Thank you. I got you. That's okay guys. I just I'm just gonna lay down for a sec. Yeah, so so Ducky, Spartacus, and Apex Wolf. Thank you so much for getting me into Twilight Imperium. Awesome. And I love the social aspect of that game. The social aspect of that game really really makes it for me. huntered! flaming hunter! Flaming hunter! That's rat. He's out Fuego, baby. Ugh Mm. I hear a jockey. I hear a jockey, no. Yeah. Alright. did we kill the tank? Yeah. I took an adrenaline shot and just annihilated him with the the old donut. The old donut. Donut the universal fly here. Uh-oh. Sorry, Bob. my god. Haha. it's all good. We just made doubly sure that he's Olay. He's down to me. Now where is there's a charger. he got me. Now where's the helicopter gonna show up? there's another tank way over there. Of course the helicopter is gonna land near the tank. Why wouldn't it land near the tank? Get do the job! Whoa, hello Mr. Tank. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna climb in here. Okay, maybe not. I'm not gonna climb in there. I'm just gonna Okay, hold on. I was like halfway in the helicopter and the tank was just holding me here. I was in the helicopter and then he hit me out of the helicopter. no, Matthew, come over to the chopper. No! Matthew! my god! Stop touching me! Where did this guy come from? Where is he? What's that? No! I'm down. Goodbye. Where did he come from? my lord. I have been left for dead. Yeah. In memory of these two That rules. I love that a lot. That is amazing. The humor in this game is on point. Yeah, it's good, man. you guys died. Uh-huh. Sure did. Thanks for pointing it out. Yep. you threw the only bio jar. We only got one in the whole campaign? That's crap. Right. Everyone else has done a life co-op. I guess shout out real quick, I guess, to my sister. She just got engaged, so congratulations. She she's been nagging me a lot lately to build her a house. So that's about it. She's like, I got engaged. Yeah, so I need a host. And you're gonna do that, right? Yeah, yeah. So like, you know, i I know she's not listening, but stop bothering me. No, it's on. I got to do, are you really engaged though? Is this just a ruse? You're just trying to get me to do work for you for free. It's like, so is this one gonna stick or like z what how engaged are you? It's like, man, that's just crazy how every time you want me to do something, you're all of a sudden. You're like John Ralphio from Parks Rec. So how married are you? You you you get you're in that rude mood, you dab to clown? Like what's that? Right. Alright. I can we'll switch it up here a little bit. We'll do we'll do No Mercy. What's No Mercy? So this is the this is the first campaign from Left 4 Dead 1. So when they like a year after Left 4 Dead 2 came out, they ported the entire first game into the second so you can play all of the campaigns, all of those original characters. And then they did this whole like cool crossover thing where there's like a campaign in each one where the two groups kinda cross paths and then you have one event where one group actually helps the other one get out of a sticky situation and then Does anybody remember how the launch for Left 4 Dead 2 went? 'Cause I w I don't remember if it was back when like E3 didn't they didn't they announce Left 4 Dead 2 like a couple months after Left 4 Dead one came out? And people were like, What why? It it was less than two It was less than a year after. I think it came out less than a year after. I think it was eight months, I think, is what the time table. 'Cause the first one came out in two thousand eight and then the second one came out in two thousand nine. Yep. I g yeah, they were just like, Well, let's put out one and just see how it does, but like we'll just be polishing number two. Secretly one was just the beta version of the second game. Right. yeah. And then they're like, y we really should have added those melee weapons and you know that idea that had about the boomer bile, I think you were right. No, really, I think the meeting was, you know We could just make some money right now selling this. Right. And we'll just drop the rest of it later and they'll buy it. Yeah. Yeah, they they were right. I I bought the second one. Immediately I was like, Yep, pre-ordering. yeah, I did when it was three dollars on Steam. I I pay full price for both games. I bought the first one, I think, at a circuit city. Showing my age a little. I don't know. I first time I ever played it was at my neighbor's house when I was like fourteen. Interesting. he had it on the Xbox and That was a stuttery mess. In the orange box. Orange. Hunter. What hunter? Got a billy club over here. Sometimes there's goodies in here. Chainsaw. chainsaw. Ooh. I'm gonna pick up this chainsaw and I'm gonna drop a katana if somebody wants this katana. Yes. I'm trying to figure out how to get to where you guys are. Nowhere, don't worry. You're out near us. and you got bill. yeah, you gotta come through. yeah, you gotta come around. Yeah, this way. There you go. Alright. Wants to smoke your meat. I could really go for like brisket. yeah. Yeah, no kidding. Brisket sandwich. Hell yeah. Baseball bag. I put some brisket in some. You should put you should put that in a you should put that in a calzone. man. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. That's a top tier idea right there. Brisket calzone with barbecue sauce inside. Dump that in some ranch. look many. Look, man, here here you go. Here you go. Bob. Bob. Here you go. I need to kill these zombies, then I will then I will poke it. I got that undead happening right now. okay. Here's Okay. In like 2009, my ex-wife and I. no! My ex-wife and I started a tradition that I carry forth to this day. Okay. Every Thanksgiving I make what I call the Thanksgiving burrito. Ooh. Now, it's a burrito filled with all the stuff you put on the Thanksgiving table. So like turkey, corn, stuffing, cranberry sauce, all of it. Gravy. you can eat it with your hands or you can cut it up. It it's perfect. In your mouth, up your ass make it a calzone, my friend. That's what you should do this Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving Calzone. Yes. That's brilliant. I like that. You should just you should be like, hey, honey, let's just do the us here, the nuclear family for Thanksgiving. And I wanna try something. I'm gonna practice this. And I am going to make it my project for Thanksgiving. Listen, we're gonna make it Italian throwing it in some pizza dough. I have a feeling it might go over really well for you. Probably would. I could yeah, I would make that work. man. Let's see, let's see. yeah, my life co-op. I gotta do that. I need to do my life co-oping your life. I'm gonna give my life co-op to our good friends soap and milk because they sent me some some bomb goodies for my birthday. They sent me a a new Xbox controller so instead of using my jank GameCube controller on the PC that works with a third of the games. I can actually use an effective controller now. and they also sent me some other fun stuff. A bunch of Legend of Zelda stickers that I put all over, a cup of mine, some fun goodies like that. So thank you guys for sending me a birthday gift. Nice. And everyone else has sent me a birthday gift. Somebody else I think Fire ammo over here. A couple of my my in laws sent me I've been into puzzles lately. The wife and I have been kinda getting into puzzles and board games and stuff. So they got us this like big puzzle board thing that like is on like a lazy Susan so you can spin that sh around instead of having to move around the table. Yeah. Love that. I was like, this is a game changer. Yeah. I've been I've so for the for the holiday this December I'm going to Minnesota where my mom and sister live. Okay. And I have convinced my sister and her boyfriend to play Twilight Imperium with me. man. So I'm bringing that monster of a board game. And I have like bought organizers for it. I bought a little stand for it that has a lazy Susan on it. Amazing. Because because it requires like A ridiculous amount of table space. So I figure instead of having to buy an extra end table or something, I can I can find a way to like Bring some dice trays and run away, run away, run away, run away, run away and you know, just make sure that like we can keep everything in a relatively confined area. Because not everybody's attention span and focus matches mine when I'm really into something. And I know that if I can keep everything organized and take up and sort of restrict like the table footprint of this game, it will keep everybody sort of on message. message and we can put we can set it down and go do something else for a while because I know that if we s even if we start in the morning we're gonna have to eat at some point. So we could just And plus they have a new puppy so it's just it's gonna be chaotic so That sounds fun. I like it. I'm very excited for that. Yeah. I love a I love a I love a board game with a ridiculous amount of factions that I will never fully learn but insist on reading about. Listen, it's complicated, but it's a good so the funny thing is, like, I'd heard of Twilight Imperium when I got into board games, you know, the first time. where I got super just into trying it. And like I heard about it, it sounded very fascinating, but immediately saying you have to spend a whole day doing it, it's a turn off 'cause I don't have a whole day's worth of time. playing it asynchronously, the way I have this has sort of proven to me that like despite requiring a lot of time, it's not hard. Like it it's definitely it's one of those games that's way e it sounds way more difficult when you talk about it than when you actually play it. Hunter! Thank you. yeah. I'll save you. So it's it's one it's one of those things that like I would say like despite it seeming way unwieldy. but despite Twilight Imperium seeming very unwieldy and appearing really complicated, it's actually like super easy. does that mean that like you could just put it on the table and be good at it? No, because I make mistakes all the time. because it does require planning and my my AD doesn't my ADD doesn't r doesn't let me plan very well. witch Yeah, she don't like me. She did. thank god. You survived. I was the bait. But but yeah, Twilight Imperium rules and despite it sounding very complicated, it's actually really not once you get once you have someone that can sort of walk you through everything, it's so good. I like that. I feel like I like it when a game seems harder than it is and you get into it, and you're like, this is actually really simple, it's just involved. Yeah, like I love I love a simple set of mechanics, but bottomless level of strategy. I love that stuff. But I also love when something completely absolutely massive is actually distilled into like four or five things that all you have to do is remember these things and you're good. I'm incapacitated, thank you. Yeah I got you. I'm trying somewhere. Yeah it's behind you. Got it. he was trying to tongue me from behind. And you're complaining? Let's get his pocket off. Well, he didn't take me to dinner first. You know, some people would pay top dollar for that kind of action. Well, some people are like a little fed. Don't apologize for that. Hey, you you shoot him and you shoot him dead. I thought you were talking I thought he was saying I thought he was apologizing for wanting to pay top dollar for that action. man. Before crack open the safe room, I'm gonna go grab a beverage. Grab that that beverage. I'm in the wrong lobby. Amazing. you're starting to piss me off, you pigly son of a b. Call me I don't see anybody outside. I think we're safe. Goodbye. I'm not here. Dog, leave me alone. Stop! No! Get off my keyboard! What the f are you doing? Dog! Stop! Stop! Okay. Alright, this is Rob. I'm coming back. What you want, boy? You know what time it is? It's hard cider time. That's what time it is. my god. damn it, Francis. You better not f up my loadout. Lighten up, Francis. It's the worst when you go idle and then the bot drops all of your Yeah. And you're like, why did you do this? And it's like, I just want it to be different. Alright, so we are on to game of the moment. And that game is Left 4 Dead 2. Beep beep bee! Bam bam bam bamboo! Hey papy Bob's getting back blown out. Help him. So we're actually playing and I just got charge. I gotta plan on the other monitor right now. my god, I didn't know the witch could do that. What is she doing? Shoe we no. Alright, so I don't even think I need to look at anything to talk about this one, Aaron. Left for Dead 2. It is a first person zombie shooter that it's four players. Been out since what, two thousand nine. I I think the historic sale price that I've seen for this game is ninety nine cents. I d I don't I didn't know that I'd seen it that low. That's I I bought it for somebody in a a combo pack where it was like it was like a dollar for both games. Yeah. It was like two dollars, get both games, and I was like, that just seems wrong, but okay. Yeah, what did it originally retail for? forty? Yeah, it was forty bucks, which is what I paid for it, and I would pay it again. Ooh, grenade launcher. Come to daddy. Come on, it's a butthead. system and platform, this is out for Everything, I think. Pretty much everything, yeah. I don't think you can get it on Nintendo, but PC, Xbox. I don't know if you can get it on PlayStation Shovel. When did they add this? It might not be on PlayStation. Yeah, it might just be Xbox. Yeah. the shovel's relatively new, just like the knife. I know it was on PS3. I don't think it was ever on four though. Hmm. I'll try the shovel out. Actually, no, I don't like that. I'm picking up the tonight. Donut! Nice! Ticky little donut. A little warm. Yeah, he kinda jumped in my ear and curved my shot a bit. What else do we need to say about this game? objective and story. Objective and story, that's right. See, Aaron, you usually do this, but I just I wanted to take charge because this is like my game, but yeah, objective and story. So you are trying to fight your way as a group of four survivors. through hordes of infected AK zombies and you're just trying to get to each next safe room until eventually at the end of each campaign you reach rescue, which inevitably ends up failing at the beginning of the next campaign. And you just rinse and repeat and yeah, that's it. You're just trying to survive. But you are immune, I think. Indeed. I think they actually reveal at some point in the course of the story that the the characters you're playing are actually technically infected themselves and are actually spreading they're actually carriers, I think. yeah. That might have been when they did that whole crossover event with the comics and like you're on the train or whatever. And then they have people talking about it. Yeah, I think you're right. But yeah, I mean that's it. You have the first and second game rolled into the second one, so you've got Both sets of four characters. No What witch? I don't see a witch. dear. Pretty sure I hear a tank up there. I'll check. Or we'll check together again. we're good. Usually there's a lot more zombies up here. I literally just went up that ladder with my head inside of Aaron. Yup. I want to feel inside me. I mean honestly, I felt safe the entire time. It was warm and still. So did I. Yeah. Alright. So, Aaron, is there any other part to the the game of the moment read that I'm missing or just moving on to the talking about it? Controls, art style, and then what we like and what we don't like. Alright. So controls. Controls are pretty standard. Very standard, yeah. Mm-hmm. Easy to pick up, super simple. Yeah. art style. I mean, like for the time it was Relatively realistic. look i looking back in twenty twenty six, this will look like a standard two thousands first person shooter, but this was also sort of the standard bearer for them. Mm-hmm. So I mean, think about it. Two thousand nine, I think it holds up pretty I'd say it holds up pretty well. Yeah, I mean I've said it before in the podcast, but there are games that come out today that don't look as good as this does. Yeah. Very true. I made it mad. No, I missed. I will say that those those games that come out that don't look as good at this, they're kind of doing their own thing to varying degrees of z of success. Like they're I'm thinking of a game called El Paso Elsewhere. Yeah. Like that game looks a Dreamcast N sixty four PS1 era game. However However, in terms of just play in terms of just playing a game by myself, like I could play that on my Steam Deck for just days on end and just time would just evaporate. That game rools. This however If I were to have a group of folks that wanted to play this on the regular, present company included, like this would be another Helldivers for me, which is kind of what I need right which is kind of what I need right now, 'cause I keep playing Helldivers simply because like I don't have to think about it anymore. I can just vibe. Yeah. Yeah. And this I mean, know we're playing on easy mode and we haven't had to solve too many problems. I feel like if you bump it up even a little bit, it becomes weapons it becomes a proper four person co-op game where you have to sort of each think in terms of like a a specific role. Yeah, you kinda strategize and for sure. I mean yeah, I mean I I was just talking to before you got here. I just finished with a bunch of buddies playing through the realism mode. And my god, it's it's a headache, to say the least. there's there were a couple there were a couple times where I've had to just turn everything off and just be like, you know, I think we're done for the night. We're just gonna we're just gonna chillack. Yeah. We're not gonna play it anymore. 'Cause this is too difficult. Everyone keeps shooting me in the back. So I mean it it's a it's a good It's good in the fact that it supplies like both experiences where you can just put it on easy mode and just shred your way through everything and then you can also put it on level. You know Yeah You can absolutely test your metal so And then the modding community for the game is ginormous. yeah. So there's like almost an endless amount of content in the game. Yeah. You know, one of the things that I loved was not too long ago there was like some fans of the game that were also like kinda indie game developers and they asked for permission to do like a a campaign that they were originally going to do like an update for. And then they didn't. They just kind of released I think it was in the survival mode or whatever. It was like the lighthouse level and they did like a full campaign based around it. They made it like a legit level. I mean, yeah, you can do you can do anything from just change like character skins to Yeah, like you're saying download entire campaign or The infected. I th one of the one of the many mods I had installed before getting in here was I think we changed all the zombies into teletubbies. I don't know why we decided that, but that was the that was the mood. So come on. You know, I saw a Left For Dead 2 mod recently that I tried out that was the walking dead telltale game. It's like a map for it. Yeah. I thought that was so funny. Yeah, no, it's No, that's ridiculous. how much how much is available for this game. It's just still such a relevant game. Like I see streamers playing it all the time still, people talk about it everywhere. it's closing out twenty year anniversary. Now are the maps always the same? so there can be slight changes throughout the maps, like where like the breakaway walls sometimes those can change or where you'll find certain goodies. that can change a little bit, but not super significantly. Sometimes certain routes will change. Yeah, but like the overall map itself doesn't like this wouldn't be like a l a different layout more or less. It would be the same pretty much every time. Man, this would never pass OSHA. I think we've literally been making that joke the entire time we've played this game. I mean it's ridiculous. She just puts a piece of caution tape up. Yeah, I've been having I'm Yeah. I'm pretty close to having a stroke there and I have a street. Huh. You're like, well actually I've worked in places like this before. No. You know, actually now I think about it, pretty accurate. Pretty accurate. Just dub. You need some really heavy metal music blaring and I don't know, maybe an old guy to say a couple slurs and then it'll feel like home. Well, we do have Bill. One of the things that I've always loved about Bill specifically as a character is he reminds me a lot, and Aaron will probably relate to this. We worked with this old guy at Blockbuster Video who looked just like him. It was like uncanny, and he kinda sounded like him too, and he would always say like the funniest sh- What were some of Aaron, what was your favorite Dawn moment? There was a time where he he'd always smokes lucky strikes. So he went out to go smoke and it was you know during the summer, so of course it was hot as heck. So and then he comes in from smoking and he just puts his hands on either side of the counter to kinda steady himself and then gyrates his hip and hips like this. Haha and goes, I'm sticking to myself. my god. He was a legend. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna save most of my Don stories for when we do that video rental store game, but couple of mild funny ones. maybe Maybe I'll tell like my my one favorite one about him. So like we we had this issue with a gumball machine. So Blockbuster always had a gumball machine right by the, the exit door because impulse buys were, a very big deal. And so this gumball machine broke one time and we tried to fix it. Could not get this thing fixed. So we had to throw it out. So we had ordered like a new gumball machine for the store. we put the old gumball machine in this big cardboard tube that the new one was shipped in. And then we had to haul it out back to the dumpster. And as I was walking back up to the front, Don like motions for me to come over to like the side, like he's gonna like deal me drugs or something. And he was just like, hey. He's like, listen, I need you to do me a favor. And I was like, Man, I would do like anything for you. Like, you name it and you got it. And he was like, I want that gumball machine. And I was like, the broken one? He was like, yes. And I was like, what do want to do with it? He was like, I'm gonna turn that into a fish tank. And I was like, consider it done. It's yours. I will steal that out of the dumpster for you. So then I think Aaron, you helped me get it. And I think my our stipulation was like, alright, but like we get to keep the big cardboard tube because we wanted to try and roll down a hill in it. And we did roll down a hill in it. Yeah we we did, but we came halfway out of it and we're like slapping against the ground. I mean we got to the bottom of the hill. Yeah, s painfully. Very painfully. But yeah, so we so we get this my leg We we bring this gumball machine. no, you you dying. You did. I'm just a girl! I say you he didn't Hi, So we bring this thing to his house and it just like it was the funniest thing. It like kickstarted this friendship with me and him and then he would like occasionally invite me over to like have like a beer and eat some pizza to just like talk about life. He was like this really interesting dude. He had this like Interesting life where in his younger days he was like a big force in bringing like the California wine industry out to the East Coast. Just like what a legend this guy was. And then he worked at like Blockbuster Video for like a thousand years. Wow. Interesting human being. But yeah, so Bill is in honor of of Don. But Aaron, what do you like about this game? What do you not like? What would you change? I don't know. Like, I mean Why do you think it's perfect? There's a l there's a lot about this game that's pretty good. Like it's pretty action packed. Sounds are good, music's good. You know, the graphics are even I guess even by today's standards are you know, serviceable. Yeah. It's a pretty solid game. It's not perfect, it's every now and then, you know, wonky things happen. Right. I don't know. I guess maybe the only thing I'd change is have them come out with that third one that never happened. Never. Thanks, Valve. Thanks, Val, where did you come from? where did he go? Alright. Well that was I love the grenade launcher. That and change them this map back to the original. Yeah, yeah, because they changed some things in it, like exploits that we really liked. What about you? What would you change? I what do you love? What do I I mean I love everything about this game. Like the characters, like the voice actors were all amazing. they put so much thought into each character and the models too. So the the visual models for the characters are not the same as the voice actors, but they're all super invested in the game still. Like the guy that was like the visual model for Ellis still plays the game and live streams it, which I just think is amazing. I just I like I I do think that's pretty funny. Yeah, that's incredible. I like saw him on TikTok and I was just like, really? Where'd Matthew go? god, I think he got blown off the side of the build. no. Maybe we'll find you in a closet. That's true, I think there are some kicking around out here. I think there might be some. no, jockey, jockey, jockey. There might be. I got you. Thank you. Molotops, yeah. I did no. I mean nothing. It's on fire, baby. It burns us. Yeah, I like I like how dedicated the fan base has been for the last like nearly two decades of this game. I love that people just don't want to let this game go because of how good it was and that it still set standards for games that come out today. Things that I don't like, I really hate the fatigue on the shove. I wish they never did that, but I get why they did it. Like it was Yeah. It was it was an exploit that, you know, we didn't really need. It was nice to have the challenge, blah blah blah. I love that they just like added stuff. In this game that made the first one better and then included the first one in it so we could have that experience in the second game with the first game characters and maps. Good fan service, you know, they really did not hold anything back with it. in terms of what I would change, just give me that third game, please. That's all I want. Give me an actual Left 4 Dead 3. None of these spiritual successors or the former devs of are doing this. Like, I don't want any of that garbage. Give us give us the real legit third game. Yeah. Wanna see where these characters went. Right, yeah. I was I was always hoping that we were gonna get like a More story. More yeah, like we were gonna see the characters from the first and second game meet, like more characters were gonna die. You know, like spoiler alert, but like in the The crossover for games, you have one that's called the sacrifice for the first game, and Bill sacrifices himself. So you lose Bill, and then I think they were gonna build out this whole thing where the two groups were gonna meet each other, and you know, you were gonna have like more playable characters. So, like, kind of what they did in Back for Blood was you have more than four characters to choose from. You just can't play more than four characters on a team. And I think they would have done something similar. So it would have been nice to have that and to see the story play out more, see more. More of the characters, get to hear more of these amazing voice actors that put so much heart and soul into them. I think that would have been what I would have liked to have seen, but this is what we've got. In memory of Medium Cool Ranch. I did it for you. Yeah. You sacrificed yourself too early, Bill. Yeah, I'm old. A different campaign. Yeah. That charger hit me real hard. It's always fun when they do that. It's worse when it's the tank and you're almost at the helicopter and he just punches you off the side and you're like what's to me at the stupid dark carnival over and over again. I think he's punched me through the helicopter before Yeah, he hasn't happened before. What a t he just doesn't give a f you know? Don't care. Would you play with your kids? I would let my thirteen year old play this with me. I think he'd be able to handle it. I'd probably give my twelve year old a little bit of time. I think my six year old is Zoe, so he's already playing it. I don't know that I'd play with my kids on this one, but maybe yeah, when when they're older, if they had any interests, but maybe your oldest. Well, your oldest has tried it before, right? Yeah, but I I don't think he was He wasn't a fan. that's okay. We're all tired here. It's it's later for you guys. Yeah. Right into the throat. I don't even know what time it what time is it? It's one thirty for you guys. wow. It's twelve thirty for me. I've been up for nineteen hours today. I was real close to not being able to make it. And then something happened and and one of our one of our final cases, which was gonna be a absolute nightmare, didn't So that was good. I had a gr I had a great day, you know. Like you guys are just a bunch of her. I just drove around in my truck all day and you know Mel out here just living the dream. Just get some tacos for lunch. No, I have burr, but I did have a spicy falafel bowl for lunch and ho so. So there you go. So it wasn't so bad. And it was free, so y so yeah. Well that's it really wasn't that bad. But does despite all that, final thoughts on this game? Yeah, how do you guys feel about it? I'll play it again. Yeah, I this was really fun, mainly because it's nice to like lately when I've been playing Helldivers, I just put my headphones on, listen to music, and like kind of stay out voice chat. which which I have to say, really fantastic when you're playing with Aaron. Because because Aaron and I are like super simpatico in that game where he's able to go one way, I'm able to go another, and we get missions done until I'm too drunk and he's bailing me out. 'Cause yeah, he has spent he has spent s he has spent several mission missions bailing me out and I'm like, I gotta go because I'm I'm gonna break Aaron's back with him carrying me like this. my god. But this is one like I would definitely want to be on voice chat just shooting the sh. Yeah. Mo mowing down undead. Yeah, this is for me, this is one of those games where like you pick it up for a while and then you put it down. Yeah. And then eventually you just go like, What's the I don't I don't know what to play anymore. And it's like you know what? Yep. Let's just play some more Left for Dead. Yeah. Yeah. And then, you know, grind out all the campaigns. Mm-hmm. You do a little bonus content stuff and then you you put it down again for a couple months and you pick it back up again. You know, it's just one of those rinse and rinse and repeat games, you know? You just Yeah. Yeah, you can get a little bored of it, but then you come back to it and it just you're like, I remember why I fell in love with this game. Every time I play this game after not playing it for a while, I'm like, I remember why I I played this game for like twelve years straight. Yeah, a hundred percent. Yeah, like I I mean, considering this is my literal first time playing this, I won't ever have that attachment to it. However, if any if any of y'all ever DM me on Discord or anybody in in the the Co op Chaos Discord were to DM me and say, hey, you want to play Left for Dead? I'll if I'm able to, I'll probably be like, yeah, I want to play Left 4 Dead. So because this was Absolutely d absolutely delightful in terms of the game being mechanically sound and even playing on easy like we were. It wasn't taxing and the fact that there are now what close to thirty years of standardized first person shooter controls. I think Quake was nineteen ninety six, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So really it's it's really kind of evergreen and I can see like this is one of those o this is one of the only games where I can see like Why Valve hasn't made a sequel. because they really don't need to. Like this is one of this is one of those like it's like the Kleenex of video games. And now go with me on this one. Because Kleenex is not Kleenex, it's tissue. But everyone calls it Kleenex because Kleenex branded themselves correctly. Yeah. I would almost say that it knows exactly what it wants to do, and it just does that. Yep. About as good as you can do it, Yeah. So anytime you anytime somebody has a zombie game, I can almost guarantee you they probably think of Left for Dead, Yeah. It just, it does its thing. Yeah. It's either this or Call of Duty zombies. that's it. yeah. Or or COD Zombies. But that's it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, this was dope. Thank you for thank you guys for being my first session of this. I will always have a good association with it because of that. Excellent. and and like I said, if you ever if if you ever like hit me up on Discord and I'm available, chances are we're playing Left For Dead. Yeah. Or Helldivers. those are real that's really it. What are the two when you get sick of me on Helldivers, you can I'll never get sick of you, Mella. I'll never get sick of you. I'll never get sick. We competed with these two jokers to try and take over the podcast. Yeah, that's true. And we all failed. And I'm still here. huh. Now we're just on a different podcast. Exactly. We just now we're doing this and it's great. And and I w I wouldn't have this any other way. There you go. I agree. Yeah. I don't I don't think I I can even say any final thoughts about this game because it would just be like broken record. Like I love this game so much. I'm gonna be playing this game on and off for the rest of my life. It's like one of those games. Yeah. yeah. Well then what's been keeping everybody sane in the past recent amount of whatever time you choose to I have been reading more Dungeon Crawler Carl, finally. yeah. Excellent. I just ordered the last one of those. That's on my list. One of one of the PAs I work with is like, I feel like you would like Dungeon Crawler Carl. Then I looked at it, I'm like, Are you sure? Yeah. And then and then she and then she sort of she started trying she started naming, she started like going through it. I'm like, Okay. And then I a I I ask this is this is the thing because pe because people I work with know that I'm into nerd shit. And I say, Did you read Ready Player One and would you recommend that to me? And they're like, Well, have you read it? I go, Yes, but would you say I should read Ready Player One? And she said she said the words I needed to hear. She said, I read player one ready player one. I thought it was I'm like, thank you. Okay, I will listen to you. because that that book sucks, that movie sucked, like I don't care what anyone says. What was wrong with the book? it's it it's it I'm not gonna I'm not gonna fight you on the movie, but I so the the the thing is Family Guy has existed for however long it's existed doing the same thing that Ready Player One does, and it's not very good when Family Guy does it a lot. Okay. Now, are there moments in Ready Player One that are wonderful? Yes. Overall, as a full piece, fell well short for me. Fair enough. That's that I mean now. Do I think it is bad writing? No. Because it's a very successful book, and that person is a writer, and I am not. That would be like. That would be like me when I was a music critic saying, this band is garbage and shouldn't ever perform. I can't play an instrument, so I have no business trying to say that. I've never studied music theory, so I have no business like shaming somebody for how they how they construct a song. But what I can say is whether or not, you know, it did anything for me and Ready Player One did very little for me. Okay. So it's like it's like I'm not really trying to be objective about it. I'm j I'm being one hundred percent subjective. I would say I've I've read that one and it was like okay. Dungeon Crawler Carl though, like I am fully obsessed. That is like different beast. Much different beast in my opinion. And I think it's like you have some of those like you know, like Books like that that are look, it's game related and it's trying to this book is more more like it has like the video game or like RPG game elements to it that you're kind of like they refer to, but it's really just like about a character who's like thrusted into a ridiculously situation and was like, Well, how the f do I get out of this? Yeah. And it's like it's compelling, you know, it's more you're on the edge of your seat a lot with like, well, this just went awry. How's he gonna get out of this one? Yeah, I think the way the way she said it, because she, while she doesn't identify as, a quote unquote gamer, she did say that like like they they use the RPG idea of experience very well. And I was like, okay, now you're speaking you're kind of speaking my language. So yeah, Dun Dungeon Crawler Carl is on my list. Excellent. I will start with the first one and then we'll see happens. I'm not committing to the series. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of where I was at. I was like, I'll read the first one and see how it goes. And like before I was even done with the first one, I was like, I'm buying the second one. Like it's got to be on the way so I can start it as soon as I finish the first one. Okay. Do you mind if I dovetail onto this? Because something that something that kept me sane, apart from you know, the the normal Helldivers Guild Wall. Triumvirate. I read, I started and finished the book House of Leaves finally. Okay. And I don't know that one. So it came out in the mid-2000s. I want to say like 2005, 2006. It is everyone says it's like a very scary book. Or and it's also a very difficult book. I didn't find it to be either of those things. Because I figured out what it was doing relatively early. Now that doesn't mean I figured out the end, because I did not figure out the end. But it is a book that is filled with like multicolored text, different it it like gets wild with layouts for being fiction. It uses footnotes a lot, and in those footnotes can be a completely different story happening concurrently with what you're reading. Okay. So The way I would describe it, because I know you you folks are are movie folks. Are you familiar with the works of like Robert Altman or the movie Magnolia? Yeah. Where it's like a tapestry of things all happening over the course of a certain period of time. Right. And it's sort of woven together and that the through line is literally this start point and this end point. It's that. it's it's a it's a different scale, but Each different font and each different footnote is a different story being told. And all of you could just skip all the footnotes and just read the normal text and you only get one of those stories. And both stories are all the all the stories are written fully well and fine. Okay. And you'll be you'll you'll you will have a nice experience. But I had tried this book I think five times, the fifth time I finished. And what had stopped me the other times just like, you know, I had to put it down or like I couldn't get back to it in a in a reasonable time where I remembered where I was and what was going on. But when I finally finished it, I felt weirdly seen in various aspects of my current situation. Okay. And it was it was basically adds up to being one of the most beautiful things I've ever read, but not necessarily like happy or nice. Yeah. I love that book and if anybody is a quote unquote reader, I I highly recommend it if you haven't. That was definitely one thing that kept me sane. But I'm before I get lost in the weeds, I wanna pass the mic to someone else. Cause y y'all know I can ramble. It's all good. Yeah, just Dungeon Crawler Carl for me. I haven't really done any games, but I'm still hoping to pick up some Tears of the Kingdom and finish that game because now I've got the Ocarina of Time remake pre-ordered, so that it's gonna be coming in soon and I'm gonna be stuck doing that. I never finished Tears of the Kingdom. It's just too involved for a Zelda game, I feel like they went a little bit too far with like everything that's in it. So I'm gonna disagree. Okay. But but you're pro but I'm gonna say you're probably right. Because more often than not, what I do every time I think about Tears of the Kingdom is I log in, I'm like, I'm gonna finish this today. This is the day I'm going to that castle and I'm taking out that mother and finishing this game. But then I just make a flying machine and just fly around. The little hoverbike. Yeah, y I just I just get a thing. I put I I I have this I have this blueprint that basically is it's basically a plane with four laser guns and I just find Lynels and just melt and then and then it's just like and then when I don't see a Lionel, I'm just flying around waiting for it to stop blinking Yeah. And honestly, if you were to tell me years ago before that game came out that I was going to have a Zelda game that I basically do the same thing in No Man's Sky, I would have called you an effing liar. But here I am. I just put on some music and I go flying around and it rules. Yeah. There's so much that you can do with it, and it does have a little bit for everybody, but for me, I'm like I'm like, all right, I'm gonna go in here, I'm gonna do this big part of the mission, and then I'm like, but I gotta find all these fing wells around Hyrule. I need to find all the wells. I need like six more and I can't find them anywhere and I'm not gonna look it up. I have to find them myself. And then I just like I find one and then I'm like, I'm so tired. Yeah, a buddy a buddy of mine, I don't know if he did this in Tears of the Kingdom, but he did it in Of the Wild, where he scoured the map for every single Korox seed. All 900 of them. All of them. And when he told me that, and I don't care if I spoil this because it's what almost 10 years old now. Yeah. when he told me you get a giant, you basically get like a giant golden turd as a trophy. I'm like That's perfect. As someone who as someone who still to this day loves a loves a trophy hunt, I love a platinum trophy on my PlayStation. I will probably do that at some point, just so I could say, like, yeah, I have a golden turd. There's nothing you can do about that. Yep. You can't take that away from me. It's my turd. How about you guys? What's been sustaining you, Aaron and Mella? keeping you going, Mella. A lot of caffeine. Yeah. No good. Cocaine, am I right? Yeah, right. I hear it's a hell of a drug. Just chugging along, you know. I read every now and then. I mean I got plenty of projects at the house that Keep me busy, so I really don't I don't really have a lot of time to think about how the world's on fire all around me. I mean who does? Yeah. Yeah. I'm just ig just existing. You just keep your head down, put one foot in front of the other. Yep. Yeah, I might trip a couple times, but it'll be all right. Yeah. Yep. I can I can relate to that. yeah, so I mean when I when I do have some free time, what I've managed to squeeze in has been a little bit I've I've still been playing more of Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed or whatever since we did the episode. I've been playing it all week. It's it's a good game. And every now and then I've been playing rounds with the kids and that's been fun. And and we got RJ bought a copy of that other Ghostbusters game we recommended. yeah, the and his kids were playing it. Nice. Yeah, that's right. and then as far as like anything else that's been keeping me going, I wanted to mention like a couple of games that are on like Steam Next Fest. that like I wanted us to do and I don't know if we're going to, so I just wanted to like mention them. One is like I definitely have to get you to play if we don't do an episode. It's called Debauchery and Magic. yes. and you just play as a wizard. Sounds like my Tuesday. No. And you and you and you drink beer and like smoke sigs and like write a skateboard and like what? Yeah, like check it out. It it's there's a There's a free demo for Steam Next Fest till they launch the game, Depochery Magic. But the other the other one is looks like a little bit more of a cozy explorer type game is called Hella of Mice and Magic. you play as a as a little mouse that's a familiar of a witch who's like the witch is like too old to go around and like take care of the forest that she used to take care of. So she's like, Hey, I need you to like go out to this totem and go figure out what's wrong with it and fix it for me. So interesting. And that's that's a that's a fun little co op game that I think it's up to I think it's more than four, but I could be wrong. Yeah, that's interesting. We just got so we've been getting like inundated with people like asking us like cover my game on your podcast. And like most of them are like turds that are just like they're not listening to the podcast. They're just like what free advertisement. But we've had a few. We had one that messaged us today that has a game that's called Banana Airways. And he was like, yeah it's like you guys played Yap Yap and you know, I thought that was interesting and here's what my game is about. So like it's one that we might try at some point. I don't know if we'll make it for the demo timeline, but Yeah, like there's there's so many there there are quite a few that like reached out to us and the I like all like the the indie type people reaching out to us and being like, Hey, like, you know you you did this and I'm doing this. Can you give it a sh give it a give it a shot? And a lot of it's like, like you know, they I want to try and get stuff done for, you know, next fest or whatever, but it's like our timeline is just funky. Yeah. For for getting anything done. We're we're like molasses. Yeah. It's hard. Yeah. I mean you g you guys both have decent sized families too, so it's like Responsibilities, y'all. Yeah, this this eat this is basically all of our free time at this point. I think. Yeah, I think most of the time when I'm taking a kid to like a thing like tonight I both of my girls had dance and while I was sitting there waiting for them to get out of their dance classes, I was on my laptop editing what the episode that we recorded last week. So wow. Just how it goes, yeah. But it's fun. I enjoy it. Yeah. I think that's all I got, sir. Yeah, that's all I've got. I think we're ready to To call it a wrap. you guys are riding the two AM timeline, so I think we need to get you guys to bed. Mela and Matthew, did you guys have anything you wanted to plug if you people wanted to find you somewhere? Mela. You first. I mean, you'll find us in the Super Earth Podcast Discord. Yeah? Yeah. Straightforward as that. Yeah, I'm also in the copcast one. You can find me on Blue Sky Infinite Dash Rewind. that's Where I do most of my social media in. and then also I do host a podcast. It is kind of on hiatus right now because my co-host and I are both going through stuff. it is called Free Reeling It. it is about movies where we basically watch a movie and then talk about it. and sometimes we are joined by a guest, sometimes we are not. Hopefully, any one of y'all. will be on there at some point because you guys and I have talked about movies a lot. So yeah. yeah, I think Bob and I were gonna try and get you to watch the item. Do you know that one, Mella? I don't think I don't think you had I don't think you had mentioned that one, but it's been I do a while. since I've the item is it's you ha you've seen it. Yeah I've seen it. Thank you, Mela. Thank you, Matthew, for joining us. it's been wonderful having you. thank you to Matthew again for our intro. Thank you to Afterlife Boy for all of our show music. And we have links and things and yeah, that you can find somewhere. Yeah, we've we've got all the shit for you, baby. You you want it, we've got it. We've got we've got blackjack, we've got hookers, we've got Cheetos. forget the whole thing. Long John Donuts. And donuts. You couldn't tell we retired from four. We like Pringles. Once you pop, you ain't stopping, son. God damn it. well, you can find links to all of our stuff on in the show notes. we have a website that I need to do some updating to. We are on the Co-op Now website. You can watch Pretty much all of our episodes are on there now. Anywhere that you listen to podcasts, you can find us. Come check us out. Come play with us. Come eat our donuts. All game audio and sounds featured on Co-op Case are the exclusive rights of their respective donuts. And an adrenaline shot must be my birthday. Call me.