P. S. Transmission# 5 - The Future of Gaming and Beyond!

On this episode of Pixel Sistas: Afro Gaming Podcast, we're joined by a special guest, The Husky Hokage, known for his incredible knowledge and bold predictions about gaming and what the future holds for the industry.

From industry shifts to rising prices and everything in between, we get into some real conversations about where gaming is headed—and what it all means for players like us. We also tap into the world of entertainment with a few thoughts on what’s coming up this summer 👀

Of course, we couldn’t leave out our personal gaming journeys and a little bit of that Geeky Gems flavor—bringing in touches of fashion, comics, and culture that keep things unique!

This episode is full of insight, personality, and unfiltered moments you don’t want to miss!

Thanks for hanging out with us! If you enjoyed the conversation, be sure to follow the podcast, leave a review, and share this episode with another gamer or anime fan! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

Where fall out though? Hello. Hi guys. How are we doing? Hold on, because I think Tati. Okay. Now we have unmuted a Tati. We can go ahead and get started. Hi.

SPEAKER_03 0:57

What's going on, Pixel Sister Family? It's your friendly neighborhood, Fluffy Ninja. And your pretty gamer, the Sailor Kirby, here today. We are here after a good couple week hiatus.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

Um I had to recover from Las Vegas. That that was a lot. So Tati had to recover from work because they're trying to kill her to death. So we're all here.

SPEAKER_03 1:23

It's either that or I'm trying to kill them.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

That or burn burn the place down. I'm still trying to figure out which one it is, but we'll we'll get to that in a minute. But I hope everybody's doing great today. I hope everybody is out doing all the things. Um we have a very great show that's coming up for you today. Uh, we also have a very special guest here today. Uh, we've been talking about this for a while now because uh Tati is a very is the biggest fan of this, our special guest. Because she um she watches his shows, she uh posts them on um on our podcast, TikTok, and everything else, and then I've known him since uh the Blur Syndicate podcast. So if we're gonna do this, we're gonna do it right.

SPEAKER_03 2:14

And also, wasn't he also wasn't he in here in our very first stream?

SPEAKER_02 2:20

Yes, him and Sir and Sensei, they all were in our first stream. But I gotta do this the best way I know how. It's like summoning, it's like my note, my new little summoning jutsu. So just give me a second. I'm I'm gonna go ahead and warm it up. Okay, so what's up, Speaker Sister Fam? Today's guest is someone I've had the pleasure of knowing since our day in the blur in the blurred syndicate podcast over the years. One thing has always stood out about him his passion for gaming. Whether we're talking about the latest releases, gaming news, hidden gems, and the future of the industry, his love of gaming seems to grow with every conversation. Um, he's a content creator, uh, reviewer, writer, fellow lover of all things blurry culture. Beyond that, he's someone who genuinely enjoys building community and creating spaces, creating spaces where gamers can connect, share opinions, and celebrate uh the hobby we all love. He's also one half of the Victory Road Gaming Podcast with co-host uh the dub, which we'll we'll kidnap dub next time. Uh together, they're together they bring a thoughtful discussion, game insights, plenty of laughter of the gaming community. So, whether you're here for gaming, anime, blurry culture, or just a good conversation, you're in for an awesome episode, ladies and gentlemen. Pixel Sister fam, help me to welcome and summon our lovely, lovely husky hokage. Hey, husky hokage, how you doing?

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Hey, hey, lovely, thank you so much. I just that was one of the best introductions I've had. I really appreciate that.

SPEAKER_04 3:58

I told you I need to take it to get warmed up.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Yes, you did. I appreciate that. That was that was amazing.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

So, for those that don't actually know you know, let uh break us down like who you are and what you love most about this blur culture. Why is it so important?

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Um, so as she said, as Fluffy said, I am the Husky Hokage, uh, Marcus to some big hus to others. Um, I am a gaming content creator, streamer, uh, like you said, reviewer writer, um, and lover of all things blur culture. Um, I know for myself, um, someone who's growing up, and I grew up rural area, urban, hood, whatever, but growing up in the hood, you do need you don't see a lot of people that look like me that support or that are vocal about the things in blur culture that we love. So growing up, I didn't have a whole lot of examples. I was one of the only kids I know watching anime or stuff like that. I'm thinking it's just Japanese cartoons, didn't know the name of it. I'm watching. I told you my very first anime was something I shouldn't have been watching, but I ended up seeing anyway because my mama had HBO, I think Cinemax, it was something, it was Ninja Scroll. I watched my very first anime ever was Ninja Scroll. Oh, and I'm just thinking it was a cartoon because it's guys with swords. I'm like, oh, I like swords, and clearly it was something else, but uh very first anime ever was ninja scroll. But like I didn't have I didn't know anybody else that watched that type of stuff growing up, so that's why I'm very vocal about blur culture and just all of that encompass from anime to comics to wrestling to Star Trek, Star Wars, and overall gaming as well. So I try to make sure I'm vocal about all of it, but my niche, my love, and my hobby mainly revolves around the gaming aspect of it.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

All right, good people. Let's clap it up, clap it up.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

I forgot to put the thing on the screen, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

Yes, so as much as we would love to still stare at all this black excellence in one podcast, um, I want to go ahead and jump right into the the first segment that we have today, which is the gaming industry highlights. So with the gaming industry highlights, the one thing that I have uh oh, everybody's gone. Everybody is gone.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

Oh yay, technical difficulties.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

Get out. Let's see. See, you know it's a good episode if we always have definitely technical difficulties. All right, so with the game the gaming industry, there has been a lot of stuff going floating around. Uh one, which I actually asked you about, was the new uh PS5 policy when it came down to well, license policy when it came down to your games. So uh to give it a short thing, when I first read it, it said that if you don't play your games within the like 30-day time zone, then you lose your licensing and then you have to go through all that. Can you what do you think uh about that, Tati? Do you think that's like a fair thing to do? Even though it's like we've been we've been doing this for a long time, and there's no reason why this should start now. There was nothing wrong with the licensing before, so why is that going on now?

SPEAKER_03 7:40

I do not care for this. I think we should be able to keep what whatever that with if I'm understanding correctly, we we purchased this license correct, and if after 30 days of not using it, we just automatically lose it. Am I is that correct?

SPEAKER_00 7:57

So so the actual thing is what happens is if you purchase a game and it was after a certain date in March, but if you purchase a game and you don't and you're not online, let's say this. So if you're if you purchase a game and you go offline for over 30 days, then in order to play that game, you will have to re-establish your license for the said game, which by going which which is basically going back online. And what what they were doing was, or what they were trying to do, is they were doing this because they had scammers who were not saying it's not saying what they're doing, you know, what they're doing is right, but what they were what the issue was there were scammers that were buying games, asking for a refund, but going offline after, and they would get the refund and still have the game. So they were trying to do this to stop that. So, like I said, so you don't lose your game or have to rebuy your game, because I know a lot of people had that uh misconception where you have to rebuy your game. No, it'll it'll show that, but if you you have to go online and just reestablish your license, or you can go to, I think if you go to it's on the PlayStation, but I can't remember because I had to do it for my kids where you have to restore your license, and once you go online and hit restore your license, I think it's in the settings or something like that, and it'll show right back up as yours or whatever the case may be. So if you ever run into that, that's all it is. You just need to go and restore your license if your PlayStation hasn't been online for a certain amount of time.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

So the I'm trying to figure out does that also apply to like um Horizons? Because I put too much time, I did 12-hour shifts on that game. I I don't appreciate that I have to sit here. Well, yeah, that that's I think that's where my TF is because it's all if you haven't been online.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

So if you don't play online at all, like if you're when I say when I say play online, I mean like is if your console is in offline mode, like if you're off your console does not connect to the internet at all, period, you don't get the updates, you don't do nothing, you don't go online, even just jumping party chat, you're not on your offline completely, then yes, you will have to restore it. But if you're online all the time, you don't you don't have that. No, you should you shouldn't you shouldn't have that. And if you do, all you still all you have to do is restore your license. But like I said, it's for those people, and it brought up a point where people were talking about where like people in the army where they leave and be on leak go take their console with them and they be gone for a certain amount of time, and then they go somewhere and try to play a game, and it you know, it has its you know, cons or what have you, but long as you like say even if you don't play online, but if you get on, like if your system is still online, you shouldn't run into that issue necessarily. I don't, I don't think.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

Okay, Tati, any thoughts on that? It feels like a bit still feels like a huge inconvenience. I just think they need better security just against scammers, it just feels like an unnecessary thing.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

I agree with that.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

I think it's like my question is with this being a thing with PlayStation, even though it's like a separate console too from Nintendo and um Steam, do you think that they will try that type of stuff? Because no, you know, if a trend just like a trend, like a regular trend, if you know for a fact that uh something is working, then sometimes like other companies will start hopping on that same bandwagon.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Well, tech they're all technically all most of these, what people don't realize about games in general, like you're basically even if you buy a game, whether it be physical or not, you're renting the license. And if you play online, they can reject their license at any time. Like Nintendo, uh it was a story that came out like in the first year of the Nintendo Switch 2, where a guy bought a used game from someone, and it they I don't know if they brick, but they shut down his console, they shut shut it down or whatever because they thought it was uh um it was a fake game or what have you. So it got it eventually got cleared up, but it was the fact of that they did that, they have the ability to do that if they see that you you're online and you have like a fake game. So I think or it was stolen, it was something that I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something to either stolen or a fake game, even though he had bought it from someone, they registered, I guess it was registered to another IP or another switch, and then he put it in his and boom bam, it's hey, this is not this is not yours. We basically bricked this console or whatever. He you know, so they he got it resolved, but it was just the fact that it happened, and it wasn't in the United States, I think it was um in South America somewhere, if I'm not mistaken, but it still happened now. And it did this don't think about this. Uh, one last thing is the we as a society don't read user agreements, and I tell people all the time, like it's a lot of stuff you don't read those user agreements, and it's so much stuff in there that they put in there that people don't actually sit down and read, and you never know what they can and can't do. So that's why I'm that's why I don't have a I don't have an outrage, but at the same time I'm not outrage, but I like I'll have I'll voice my you know dislike of it, but I don't get I don't I don't try I try not to let it like just because of the simple fact of I know I don't read user agreements, I know a lot of people don't read user agreements, right? Right, and they slide so much verbiage and stuff in those user agreements.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

They do that on purpose because you're just so excited for the game, purpose, and you didn't got hyped up for the trailers, everything. Yeah, you didn't got hyped up on all the trailers, you got all the little walkthroughs, you don't give a care, you just want to play the game. I and it's it's sad that I'm guilty because I did that with South of Midnight, and I kind of regret that right now because um I uh we can talk about it in gaming odyssey, but let's go ahead and shift gears into the other section that doesn't seem like it's making any sense either. So now we're in a day and age where because of what's going on outside the world, and yes, we're not gonna touch on too much political jargon, we're just gonna know that Agent Orange is in office and there's not much that we can do about it, but right now you're starting to mess with gamer pockets. So um to run that back a little bit, anybody remember how much the switch originally was when it first came out, like the actual switch light. Um, I think it was maybe it was about like 250, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:41

Maybe close to or something like that, around two between 250 and 250.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

It was around 250, yeah. So as of right now, as it stands, that if you was to get it off of eBay, is about three three hundred and fifty dollars. If you decide to get a brand new switch to now, because originally the switch two was what three something Tati or what no the the switch two, uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

Or the switch the switch two originally when it came out, it was five hundred.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Yeah, because it's five something.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Well, no, it's it's four right now. It's so the price, they do have a price increase coming, it's gonna go up by fifty dollars. So switch two what's 450. Yeah, correct, and then it's gonna go up to like 499 in like September or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

Why why around my birthday? We're gonna go ahead and get everything hot. I feel insulted.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Yeah, um, I tell people so I've I've been telling people since last year that if you wanted a console, go ahead and get it because they're going to raise the prices, and it's it's a lot going on from you know the the so-called the from the tariffs. The big issue is tariffs, but the big issue is AI, AI and the data centers, and AI is all this AI is causing them to build data centers, and those data centers require a lot of ram. And what that's it's doing is it's affecting the console market because consoles do use ram and they have ram chips, and they're starting to, you know, they're cost more, whatever, because because the data center people the government and government and use likes to I guess likes AI and they're willing to pay all the money, and so they have a bunch of money for AI. So those people can buy RAM like whatever, and what is causing issues with consoles, computers, and other stuff that use ram and it's start, so they're when they're having to do is because they have to pay more money for the ram, they're starting to put that on the players. And like I said, when initially the switch they raised the price when switch two came out, they raised the price of I think around November or September last year, they raised the price of the original switch, like the switch, switch one, um, switch light. They raised the price of that to keep from raising the price of the switch two, but they couldn't do that any longer, so now they're raising the price of the switch too. But it's on the I'm I'm saying, but only by fifty dollars, but it's still a price increase, so eh, but is I will say it's one of the cheapest consoles out right now because that's the sad part.

SPEAKER_03 17:10

Nintendo is the cheapest, is the cheapest option at this point in time.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Yeah, and then well, Tati, don't you have not beef with Nintendo? But I was like, Don't you have uh Nintendo have you in a choco? Isn't that what you said the last time we talked about this?

SPEAKER_03 17:24

Nintendo has you in a choco, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they do because that's like one of my favorite platforms, and it's mostly because it's like the only one that I can actually afford without feeling guilty.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

So I have a whole list of like all of it.

SPEAKER_03 17:47

No, I'm just like, yeah, when I bought my when I bought my Switch 2, I bought the what the Pokemon bundle, and it's like that was like uh origin the bundle, the game was like $50, and that's like a bundle, but now with the price increase, you're essentially just paying the bundle prices without getting the extra game. That sucks. But then again, I already bought my switch too, so but it just sucks for everyone else.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

Yeah, because I I have a whole list of like all the different price increases, like um PlayStation 5, uh the disc version is $650, and I remember that being $500. And then uh it says PlayStation Digitals is now six hundred dollars, PlayStation Pro is $8.99. And if we remember like a couple months back when they did the anniversary PlayStation, that was literally rent. Uh my rent is already $1,400. So that's part of my rent. Literally, yeah, no. I was I was like, we good. The Steam Deck is almost a thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

Yeah, yeah, it's Steam Deck OLED is a thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

And it says Steam Deck Bay starts at about $789.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

You can still get you can still get the L C D version for I think you may be able to find an L C D version for like $500 or something like that. And I have an L C D version and I like my Steam Deck or what have you, but the OLED, yeah, it went up by $300. Even the the 512 went up by $300, and like or 5 12 went up by like $250, but then uh the one terabyte went up to basically a thousand, close to a thousand dollars, and it's like, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

Okay, and then it says Xbox is $650, and then the S vers the X series is $650, and the Xbox Series S is about $400. And I'm surprised that it's the Xbox and Nintendo are at a at an impasse with each other because they're like about the same, but they're not really the same. So it's like Nintendo and Xbox is your only choice to come to the dark side, but then after that, it's just like if you would like to be the expensive and bougie, you gotta start kicking out for the PlayStation and the Steam and any other console that's just like over a hundred over like $400. So I feel like the future in gaming right now you rather know I feel like the future in gaming as of right now is looking as though it's becoming a luxury rather than a commodity, and it's it's sad because I remember just having a Nintendo 64 and I'm blowing in the cartilage, and the cartilage itself was like I think when my father got it, he was like it was like ten dollars for that one cartilage, but he knew somebody. I was saying it depends on the game, yeah, depending on the game.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

The game, so because there was some 64 games like 80. There were some cartridges that were six that were eighty dollars, so it depended once again, all depending on the game, and that's why they you know when PlayStation first dropped and they had their their disc, it was cheaper because it was on a disc and not a cartridge, because they cartridges were supposed to be higher, um, or whatever, and so they switched to the disc. But yeah, this is the first generation where we've seen the console prices as the generation got on, the console prices go up. Uh, this is like the first generation we've seen that because of so much, because of everything that's gone on with the tariffs and uh the the RAM data and all that stuff. Uh, all that has caused the price of consoles to go up, man. And it's it is just sad. Like, so like the next generation of consoles that we possibly will see if in the next two years or so are probably gonna be base a thousand dollars, if not more.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

Okay, so my that's why I was like, my Initial thing is, and I'm gonna put it up on the screen for that. The future of gaming, uh, will it still exist for the next generation? Now, I put this up there like that because I realized that even though we're seeing it, how are we gonna explain to the next generation? Like, uh, see, back in the day when a console was like $300, but now your console is like $2,000, and we're gonna have to make payments. And they'll look at us like, okay, so why? I was like, why is it two thousand dollars now, mom? And I'm like, baby, that is a long story for another day. I mean, I have a sage called the um the husky hokaga that might be able to explain it better, but uh I just uh and a um fluffy ninja named Sailor Kirby, they they'll probably tell you better than I, but I'm gonna tell you right now, you ain't getting that call so I'm trying to figure out like what is the future gonna look like for future gamers that like or the ones that just started out. I know we just got um, and this is outside of like the gaming industry in total. We just got another uh stream network outside of Crunchyroll because Crunchyroll ate Fundamation, so now we're in this age where it seems like it's gonna be free, but not for long. So, how do we explain that to them?

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Uh I mean it as far as the next generation, a lot of them are gonna grow up with the city. Yeah, well, that's part of it, but a lot of them are gonna grow up with it, like they're gonna already it's gonna already be ingrained in them because of everything that's going on. Like the shift in the shift from gaming from where like we saw from us growing up to where we to where we are now, like if you look at how just take Fort Fortnite, for example. Like, when we were growing up, you know, we didn't have a a game like that. Now, I'm not a I don't play Fortnite. I don't really like Fortnite.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

I don't either, but I see no question.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Kids and a lot of people love Fortnite. They neither they now they don't they're not apparently they're not printing money like they used to. That's um, but they you have a look at how how big it is and how everybody knows what Fortnite is. Like they have that now, and it's a free-to-play game. It's a free imagine spending that much time and hours in a game that you didn't that you don't have to pay for. You didn't have to pay the game was free, and you can choose to spend money or not, but you know, like I said, it's a free-to-play game, and it still makes money. We didn't have that growing up, so like the next generation are gonna already be ingrained with a lot of those things. Um, now as far as consoles, like I said, it's going to be crazy. Now, one one thing that could possibly happen, because I know you mentioned it where consoles are are a luxury. Consoles are it's kind of been a luxury, yes and no, on the luxury part, because it's yes, it's a bit of a luxury, but no, it's not so much of a luxury where the average person or the casual gamer wasn't able to, or they you know, they were able to still afford it. Like a console Christmas time, you you know, you you know your family wasn't the most well off, but your mom will still be able, your parents will still be able to get you that new console at that point in time. Now it's gonna be to the point where I gotta pay rent, I can't afford, you know what I'm saying? So it's gonna either cause a gaming crash where we see the market tank where they they push all this money, it's gonna go that route. Don't but the way some of some people are that can see the the problem lies in where I know I can sacrifice and not get some. You may be able to sacrifice and not get some. But Tati, she may be like, I'm gonna get it, I got the money for it, I don't care, I'm gonna go get it. You have so many people like that where even though it's bad for gaming or whatever, you're gonna have so many people be like, I'm I don't care, I'm about to get it. I got the money for it because I want it, and that's their right. It might be, but it but also like if they're if they love gaming and that's their that's their favorite console, that's their thing, like they're gonna pay for it regardless of what it is, because of the simple fact they I have the money for it, and like I'm on I'm on dope, I can do it, you know what I'm saying? So you're gonna have people like that. So that's why I'm like it's something drastic's gonna have have to happen in the gaming industry where to where everybody is like has put their foot down and like you know, we're not paying for that, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:44

We're not paying for that, yeah. No, yeah, like how I told Tati when it came down to the um the Sonic movie when it first came out. The the actual poster was a guy in a sonic jumpsuit, literally just him head head of Sonic, and then just one giant fluff, like you were going to a convention, and then everybody stood up and said, Yeah, no, we're not having that. And if we could do that, and they changed it back to changed it to what it was originally supposed to be. Now, um, I know that for everybody, not like us, like you said, not everybody has the luxury to actually do or buy games. Um, because in some cases it's like uh yeah, again, a luxury type of situation, or if people like Tati or or me or you have the money to be able to do that, but we have to choose between uh security and gaming, automatically you choose security because of the fact that you know that in order for me to join this AC while I play Call of Duty, I still have to pay the electric bill. So, uh, in order for me to eat this popcorn on the couch to watch my favorite movie, I still have to pay the streaming service on Netflix. So it's like it comes down to, and this is where we wrap it up on at least on this section with the gaming industry. It comes down to this. Um if we're going to if prices are gonna keep rising like this, um GameStops thing is gonna tank, best buy uh stocks might tank, and then they're gonna wonder why, and it will be because of the pricing. And like I said, it's understandable how the price is just how you explained it, um, Husky, but just hey, you're gonna have to choose which D you gonna serve. Um, I I like uh not sweating hot balls in South Carolina heat. Uh, so we're gonna run with that instead of like buying a new game.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

But um, all right, so and also more of the reason why AI needs to die. Yeah, Tati is like a big reason why AI should just die.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

I'm I'm gonna say this. I I'm not completely against AI. I'm against to the point where I don't like generative AI, but when as far as gaming, that's there has been talking about yeah, I'll say there have been there has been AI used in gaming for years. And how if the if it's used how it's supposed to be, which is supposed to be a tool, I'm fine. If it makes some life easier for certain um developers, I'm fine with that. It's just like you said, the generative part, I don't really vibe with. I I don't even like I I get as someone who online, you know, you get on Facebook and you see all those people, those images they just be creating, playing with stuff, making little images and stuff, having to re have the AI remodel them and all that stuff like that. They get on my nerves now, but like that there's stuff like that. Like, and I get it, you think it's fun, but I like I just don't I I don't even play with it like that, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:01

Oh yeah, I mean, there's always gonna be nuance to the AI situation. I just specifically want genitive AI to die, yeah. But it's like there can be some balance here, balance here, but it's like the these companies are using genitive AI, chat GBT to for writing and stuff like that. I'm like, come on, y'all. Y'all don't y'all don't need to do that.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

Yeah, I just for me personally, again, I I'm with Husky. I don't like I'm not totally against it, and I'm not totally for it. Go ahead and pay the artists what they're due because literally there was a company uh that I read a while ago that fired half of their artist staff just to do use AI to be able to cut the time for creating an anime that is supposed to take over a year, but they want it to be done in between six to eight months. So, and I was like, that is not okay because you got kids now that aspire to be artists, like anime artist and cartoon tunists, and they're looking at this like, okay, so I'm gonna be out of a job. It's the same thing, like for people that work in, I would say in a car car manufacturer, they're gonna be replaced by uh metal arms because the metal arms don't ask for time off, they don't have to go see their kids, they don't have to go home and eat. We can run them ragged and just make sure we charge them for the next day. But the reality of the situation is there's nothing like human touch to every everything, and um, all those, like I will not lie, because I've I've used it to help me like improve some of my writing, but all of it's my words. I'm not trying to sit here and make it write all my script or anything else, hell no, because then that's not me being authentic. But when it comes down to paying artists what they're worth and being able to do it that way, uh that's that I'm all for. So we just have to keep an eye on all this as far as it's concerned, because at some point we're gonna um we're gonna have to stand up for that as well. And it's like it's gonna be a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 32:18

There's gonna be a breaking point.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Yep, there's gonna be a breaking point. It has to be. So um, as we wrap up like the gaming industry, does anybody else have any final thoughts before we go to the next segment? All right, no, I'm good. Okay, uh, so now we're gonna go to the next part of our segment, which is uh summertime screen time. So with this, I um we are gonna be talking about whether it's all the either anime or regular movies that's just coming out for the summer. Summers out, fun's out. I just want to look at like all the different movies that are coming out now because we talk about AI, but we also need to talk about this live action stuff that's going on and whether or not it's even worth it. So, um, first thing before we do anything, we need to talk about um because I want to hear Tati's rant about Super Mario Galaxy because she she's hell-bent on saying she has beef with beef with uh whoever made it. What is it, Illumination?

SPEAKER_03 33:38

Yeah, yeah, so I have beef with this company. Essentially, uh the Super Mario Galaxy movie, it just feels like uh just a bunch of TikTok and industry and Instagram reels to me. There's like there is a plot, but it's like barely cohesive. And it's just like I I did not care for this movie. It is like it improved in some aspects, but it's like why is Fox McLeod here? I love the man, but why is he here? All that screen time from Fox could have gone to Rosalina, who got shafted in this movie, by the way. You could get to see her being cool for like the first 10 minutes, and then she's just dancing the rest of the way.

SPEAKER_02 34:29

And it's like so, like I told you, they probably okay. So, one creator that I follow, she's the one that uh I can't remember her name right now, but she's the one that said that she could be the lawyer for the different villains. Oh, you uh I'm trying to I know who you're talking about. Supreme attorney, yeah, I think so. And she was like, if she could be the lawyer or the defense attorney for the um for villains, this would what she would say. She went to go see that movie, and she said that she was like, although I didn't care for it too much, but she's like, But if you're a person that loves nostalgia and loves like uh Mario and its whole, you'll actually like this movie. But for the other people, it might not be it might be a hit or miss for them. And I was like, I agree, because um for me, it was nostalgia for me because of the fact that I could see all the different halos, like you incorporated Superhero Mario Sunshine, uh uh Smash Brothers Medile because you have Fox in there, and then at the end of the movie, yeah, uh from the very end, you see Daisy. So it's like now we're starting to bring the whole team together, and it's become more of a show now. Uh kind of like how Marvel was when everybody was like, you can't watch this ep, you can't watch this movie until you finish another one. Just informational right now. Any thoughts on that? Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

Go ahead, Husky.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

I was gonna say, uh, because I oh I we went as a family to see the movie. I thought it was I I actually enjoyed it. Um, I'm not the hugest, like I like Mario, of course, but I'm not like the hugest Mario fan. I did like Fox. Now I do agree there couldn't have been a there may have been a or could have been a better way to explain to include Fox. But I mean the the way they included him, or they said you know, the bomb went off and knocked him into another galaxy, which is why he ended up there is trying to get back to his galaxy. So, you know, I I I I'm I'm not saying it was a kid's movie, but at the same time, I'm like, I wasn't I could with movies like that, like same thing with Minecraft. I went in not expecting like you don't have high expectations. Well, I wouldn't say that I would I I wouldn't expect I wasn't expecting like something that was gonna have me like just thinking or like a deep plot. I'm thinking like superficial, this is Mario, it is what it is, you know what I'm saying? I'm just going and I'm going in for the pure enjoyment of it being Mario, like you said, nostalgia and all that. So, like I went in and was like, hey, okay, we're sitting there laughing and watching stuff going on. Like, you know what? I gotta walk walk out of the movie, like, hey, I loved it, I enjoyed it. But like I said, I went in just with a pure enjoyment factor of hey Mario, hey, it's Fox McCloud. Because I wore like all my kids had on Mario shirts. I had a Star Fox shirt on because I love Star Fox, but okay, I went in for went in with that. Like the fact that Fox McLeod in this movie, I'm good. Like, I'm I'm I'm all you already won me over because of Fox McCloud is in here, so and Tanti.

SPEAKER_03 37:43

I want I would never say I would never say it wasn't an entertaining movie, I just wanted a narrative to go along with the nostalgia because Fox has an interesting story. I just wish they kind of did more with it. Like Rosalina j really has a good story, and the light went out, lovely. But she I wanted more than just like nostalgia, I wanted a narrative within the nostalgia. That's why and I really hate to bring I really hate to bring the Sonic movies into it, but I'm going to do it. That's why I just kind of prefer the Sonic movies. Yeah, they have the nostalgia factor, but there's still like a narrative going along. They don't copy the games one to one, but you can just kind of see the the progression of the storyline that they're trying to tell. I just didn't get that with the Mario movie, and they did it, even though it was kind of weaker, they did it well in the first movie. And I'm like, what happened here? It's like I did have a good time with this movie, I just wanted more narrative than just being like nostalgia for the sake of nostalgia. If I wanted to feel nostalgia, I'll just play those nostalgic games. Okay, I mean, that's like my major beef with this movie.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

Oh, I have no beef with it whatsoever. I loved it as a as a child that whose first game is of course you don't. This would be even better. Like that, that was my whole thing. I was five, I was like, I am eight years old sitting here watching this movie. Like, I am so proud that I'm an adult and I can do this.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

But they have a what is I think they have a Yoshi now that cracks out of an egg. I know I wanted to get that.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

That's what I was trying to get. Yes, my friend uh Megan, she said that they have them at heart in harvesting right now for like $55. Yeah, they're like $50 compared to like if you buy it on eBay, it's about $150 to $200. So I'm like, yeah, we're gonna go to Wally World and just hit them up when I can. So now that we've talked about one of influential movies that we know that it's it could you can you can throw it, you can go with it either way, it's still a great movie on its own. Uh let's talk about the future here, uh of the screen time. But we're gonna talk about like the far future since we're still in 2026. I am waiting on uh Spider-Verse beyond the vibe beyond the Spider-Ver, and I've seen the trailer, I have seen the um the art for it. So um the official date right now has become June 18th of 2027. So what is our expectations for this movie right now? Because I was not expecting uh what was at the end of Across the Spider-Verse. Oh but then again, it's like the dimensional thing should have Prowler Miles.

SPEAKER_03 40:54

Yes, I was not expecting that. Miles Morales has the prowler, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

I I I I'm looking forward to it. Um, like I said, um plan this gonna be probably another family movie thing, but I really because my kids love it, so I'm really looking forward to it. Um, it's uh because that even that you know watch CNN and I like how they did it, you know. It was like because he hit he went to the universe his d his spider came from, basically, so which is which is dope. And so I'm I'm looking forward. I really want to see what happened. Looks like you know, they were trying to get the old band back together, they brought back some of the other um spider people at the end. So I want to see what's gonna happen. I want to see what's you know, see what how Miles is gonna bounce back and how you know Miguel is going to what's gonna happen to Miguel. Like uh and because Miles is low-key one of my is probably my favorite Spider-Man ever since his iteration. I have like the first book. Um, I didn't get the first run, but I got like the second run of when Miles first was first introduced. And but I'm looking forward to this, man. I love Miles and I want to see him, you know, do do good and everything, so it's gonna be interesting to see. I'm I'm really looking forward to that.

SPEAKER_02 42:10

I'm looking mostly towards the interaction between Spider Gwen and Miles because I need to know what happens at that point. Because, yes, she has a lot to make up for. Yeah, she has a lot to make up for, and absolutely I've oh I've read things and seen things on TikTok about he should just say bump her, that's not his friend, and that's pretty much it. And he's like, and if he forgives her, then I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm like, first first of all, dude, this is still a character. Let's just let's just wind that back. This is a character going through an emotional employment of what he thought was the truth for a moment. It's just like when you find out your father ain't your father, it is a shock and all for a first go around, but after a while you start to adjust to the fact of what it is, as long as they taught you things, that's all that matters. But I feel like their relationship should not cut off at the ankles. Hopefully, it doesn't in this movie. And even with her saving him, I hope that they can come to some type of impasse with this because, like I said, they were cool together, and he made you can see the difference, like he she made him feel safe, and he did vice versa. That's what a true friendship is. And when I see friendships like that going on like heels, I I kind of weep for it because it's not it's not fair, but I know these things have to happen, but uh anybody else's thoughts on what they want want or expect out of the Spider Verse movie?

SPEAKER_00 43:54

I just want a good movie.

SPEAKER_03 43:56

Same, same. Honestly, I want to see. More Hobie Brown. I want to see more spider punk.

SPEAKER_02 44:04

Oh, no. See, I have too many. We had so many. When I went why, why? Okay, so when I went to the convention at Momo, it wasn't MomoCon, it was GalaxyCon. There were so many Miguel, there's so many Miguel's cosplays, it was ridiculous. Me personally, I got beef with Miguel anyway, because like why are you jumping and chasing after my dude? Like you could have handled that a whole other different way. You didn't have to make it like a dire sentence when you did that. You could have handled that a whole different way there, sir.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

But all right, let's fast forward to the I expected redemption art, but I don't expect him to live. Well, I expect the redemption art for him, but I don't think he's gonna make it out alive.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

I think the same thing, but it's like it's only hoping. I just expect a good movie at this point.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

Lovely.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

Alright, so the next uh movie we're up and it's gonna be the last one before we go into a break. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is scheduled to be released March 19th, 2027. It's around Tati's birthday, and she is giddy as all get out. Yes, she is more than Amy because of Amy Rose. And she is my favorite character. So um, if you are a big Sonic fan, I would say uh hit the like button or subscribe. Oh, there she go. So if you're a big Sonic fan, comment down below. Oh, you got her on the controller holder?

SPEAKER_03 45:56

Yeah, uh it's the classic version. I got them. Okay, Amazon.

SPEAKER_02 46:01

So do we have any high expectations for this movie? Or are we not like big Sonic fans? Like, let me know what's up.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

Uh I actually so I saw the first, I haven't actually seen Sonic 3 yet. I still gotta watch Sonic 3. Okay, so I but I actually enjoy the movie, I really enjoy the movies. I I like Sonic 1, like Sonic 2. I gotta, I just have not sat down to watch Sonic 3 yet, but I'm looking forward to it when they talk now. I know, I know. They um I when I heard they were bringing Amy Rose, I was like, Yeah, I gotta watch Sonic 3 now so I can be ready for Sonic 4. I just haven't had the time to sit down and do it, but yeah, it's on my it's on my list. It is on my list.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

I know, don't worry.

SPEAKER_03 46:48

I I'm wrong the same thing, even though it's like I still tell you that I was uh jumping the whole entire movie.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Yep, she no, let me tell you about this. This is worse than when we were at the end game, because at end game there was a white lady in the back seat that was looking at me to tell her tell Tati to shut up because she was jumping up and down, saying, Yes, and then she she was like, Um, yeah, tell your friend shit. I was like, I can't control her no more than I brought her here. Like, so I don't know what you asked. You have entered. I was like, I told her when we left. I was like, ma'am, you in a nerd sanctum. The moment you step in here, you are supposed to expect just about anything in this field. There will probably be some people that will be Naruto running in the middle of the field. That's why they got um ACs. I expect all of that. So when you walk into a place like that, just be prepared, please do. Because I don't, I I couldn't, I couldn't help her. And then there was like another lady that was like telling Tati that uh she needed to calm down too. I was like, so it's Tati versus the whole cinema. I'm just gonna have to bring a shield, find the Iron Man, sorry, find a Captain America shield and just bring it and just hide behind it because I'm short enough to do it. So and so that way when Tati finished beating them up, and I'll just be sitting here like you good? Can we go home now? Like, can we go home? But Tati, um expectations. What do you want to see? What what do you want to expand on before we head on to commercial break?

SPEAKER_03 48:31

Oh, I just really want to see Amy being I want to see Amy being very cool, but still keep her sweet and kind side. And I want I want a mutual relationship with her and Sonic. Because the thing about the relationship is is that Sonic acts all nonchalant about the about the about Amy. Even though it's gotten better over the years, it kind of it kind of gets to a point where it's like Sonic, you stop playing games and just be nice to her. This whole nonchalant thing is getting old. I want I want a more mutual kind of relationship between Sonic and Amy. Well, there is a fan, but I also want her to be cool. I want her to hit I want her to use her hammer and to beat up people with.

SPEAKER_02 49:25

Oh, okay. Yep. Uh so you were saying, no, I was saying like there is a fandom that feels like in it's not the uh Sonic that should have Amy's shadow shoot because she might be able to soften him up a little bit, but it's like we won't know we won't know until the movie comes out, but it's like there's some people that feel like that that's a better match than that, and then Sonic should be linked up with somebody else in the um Sonic universe, not Amy. So just be mindful they they might put something like that in there, but who knows?

SPEAKER_03 50:01

At this point, I'm not hey, I like hey, I love Shadow with Amy too. I love the whole I love the whole emo with the preppy thing, so I would be fine either way. Okay, so I'm I'm just saying, I'm just saying Sonic and Amy was my very first, so I would like to see that. But if it doesn't happen, I'm not opposed to Shadow and Amy.

SPEAKER_02 50:25

I feel you. Either way, I win. Oh, yeah, either way, and either that's the most important part. I I cannot. Um so we we've laid a lot on you guys. We've we've done a lot in this first section of the podcast. So let's go ahead and take a break so that way we can honor those that have passed on before us and to give everybody a chance to get a drink of water.

SPEAKER_06 50:52

All right, so we're gonna do this.

SPEAKER_02 53:43

Technical difficulties. There we go. Yeah, I figured it out. All right, so I hope you got your water and everything situated. Exactly. Everything to block it, technical difficulties in every section. I love it. All right, everybody. So I know we just did like a very short treat to all those that have passed on voice actors, artists that contribute very major impact to the game of voiceover, um, artistry. I was really upset about like the person that the did the background art for uh Kiki's delivery service because that's one of my favorite movies from Studio Ghibli. That is mine too. But what got me is that we will not have for those that love to read subtitles, we'll never we don't see those voice actors again. So I would like to honor those that passed on. I would have gone further, but then that's that would have been a longer video than we wanted to be. So and then I even researched uh and if there's any uh blurred voice over uh voice actors that have passed on, and it's like all of us are still kicking, so I'm happy about that. So let's let's go even further down. So let's go on to the next section that we have here, which is the gaming Odyssey now. Since we have been in the gaming verse, the blurred culture, we all know that there is one thing that we love most, and we've been talking about it since we started gaming. So we would like to know exactly what your uh gaming odyssey is, what that means for those that are new to the channel. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. Um, gaming odyssey is basically what game has you in a chokehold, uh, what game has you hold you hostage, what are you expecting, what games are you expecting, and um what do you want more of out of the game you're currently playing? So, since we have our lovely, lovely guest here, we would like to get him go first. Because I I love I love all the monologues. He gets to go first, he gets to go first. You're on the seat, Husky. Let's go. Gaming Odyssey. What game has you in a chokehold right now? Like, even if you want to put it down, you cannot put it down.

SPEAKER_00 56:16

Um, so currently, I've actually I've been playing uh Black Menth Wukong. Um jumped into that uh because I finished some other game. So I decided to play. I've had an uh I purchased it, decided to pick it up on Xbox. So I've been playing that, and I don't play, it's not a Souls game, but it's kind of have some of those same type of difficulty aspect of it. However, however, it's really fun, it's challenging, um, and it does it, it does piss me off here and there. However, I'm having a lot of fun with it. I that's right now is one of the games I want I want to I want to roll credits on, so I'm doing my best to try to get through it, but I'm having fun while doing it.

SPEAKER_02 57:00

Okay. Uh so what about uh games that you're expecting? Because I know a whole lineup, and again, we're we're they just love my birthday of September to start throwing games out there. Um, is there any uh games that you're expecting that would be uh your number one play or my number one play actually got delayed till next year.

SPEAKER_00 57:25

Um, and that's Fable. I'm a huge Fable fan. I grew up uh when I grew up, but I played like the original games, Fable 1 and 2, uh 3 back on the 360, and then the X later on on the Xbox One and things that so I'm really looking for the remake of Fable, and it was supposed to come out this year, but it came out and said it's being delayed until next year in 2027. So hopefully we get that first part of next year. So that was my most anticipated game of the year. Um still a most anticipated game, so I'm looking forward to that. But I know Wolverine is coming in September. I'm also looking forward to that, and more recently, um, the remake of Star Fox. So with them that dropping in a couple of weeks, I am also looking forward to that. So Star Fox is doing like a full remake, um, remake of Star Fox, adding some more lore to it. I'm excited for that as well.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

So okay, swag. Let's do a clap up for our lovely husband for her strong with the bangers.

SPEAKER_04 58:27

All right, so next we have Tati, our Taylor Kirby.

SPEAKER_02 58:33

Talk to us. Okay, so Tati, can you hear me? Okay, so what has you in a chokehold this time around? What games are you either expecting?

SPEAKER_03 58:50

You're lagging again. Oh sorry, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you now, but you're still kind of lagging. Okay. Um, of course this happens when it's my turn.

SPEAKER_02 59:07

Oh god. Go ahead, Tati. You have the floor.

SPEAKER_03 59:16

Okay, all right. The game that I'm uh currently in a chokehold about is Pokemon Pocopia. It's essentially what you get with Animal Crossing and Pokemon, and it's just like a very you're trying to rebuild, you're trying to rebuild the town's homes and everything. It's super cozy. It's a very fun, cozy game for me. And it's the only thing that's gonna be the past few weeks.

SPEAKER_00 59:43

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 59:45

Basically Animal Crossing for Pokemon. I literally just said that. Yeah, but you got a lot more to you got a lot more to do. You uh you you you'd be surprised how much personality a lot of these Pokemon be having. Some of them be having the audacity, and I love it. Okay, so what is like a game that you're expecting? That's like the only game that I the only game that I've been kind of semi-interested in is kind of the is uh the and I'm like seeing like this new weird art style for it, I'm like, okay, let's see what you got, Star Fox. And also another game that that as of this recording had just came out is uh Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. I may pick that up way later, but that's also another game that I'm thinking about picking up. Okay, sweet. All right, so what about you, my fluffy friend? What's your game odd to say?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:58

Uh so um I think I said it earlier. The game that had me in chokehold is South of Midnight. Now, um, I will say this only because I thought I had to buy the Xbox to get it. I didn't think that there was actually gonna do a crossover with Sony to be able to allow us to have it. So I stayed up, I started at I made a schedule, and that's something I haven't done in years. I made a schedule to play this game. I started at seven and I didn't finish till 5 a.m. And um my Twitch stream is the receipt of when I started, so uh I did it for two days straight. I got I got fussed at by my husband for it. He was like, Are you coming to bed or are you just gonna stay here? I'm like, shh, I'm being beat up by hate right now. I need I need to focus because every time I kept dying, I was pissed. Uh uh another game that has me right now, I would say, ooh, I I have not played it, but so that's been very schedule, yes, because uh I'm recovering from that as well. So I used to be able to do like a 12-hour gaming session, maybe longer than that, but I realize I can't do that anymore without the consequences of my actions. So um uh one game that has me held up is Welcome to Adulthood. Listen, listen, we're not we're not gonna do this. Um, I I was fine before I knew I was an adult. I still feel like I'm a teenager in this moment when I play these games like that. Um I think it's the new Resident Evil until Rent has to come. Yep, until Rent has to come, and then I have to figure out exactly what's going on. Um, the Resident Evil game is something that I'm not too big into horror games, and to me, that's where it sits. But I've watched um my husband play it a lot, and then I've been like, this is very interesting. I would not mind playing this, but now my question is like whether or not I'll complete it, I don't know. So um, and in the game that I'm looking forward to as of right now, because I'm trying to get the the name of it come up now. Where'd it go? Where they go. I wrote it down where they go. Okay, because I've I've already accepted the fact that uh auto six is not coming, and then that's just where my life is, because that's what I wanted, but it I'm constantly keep getting disappointed, so I'm not even gonna bother with it anymore. I'm done. Um, I think for me, and this is like a nostalgia game on my end, it's the Rugrats Retro Rewind. Okay, because I I've always wanted to play the game, but I never got a chance to buy it when it first came out, so that's something that I'm looking forward to. And I'm trying to step out of my comfort zone and not just uh I was thinking about playing where is it because I wrote again, I write them down in a dark dark siders war master edition. Okay, I don't know how I would like this game, so I'm trying to step out of my usual because I'm actually waiting on the Yoshi game. So what is it, Yoshi and the mysterious book, yeah. In a mysterious book, that's the one I want to want it to play, but uh, I was like, I'm just gonna step in my comfort zone and just go from there, but I digress, but that's all that's all for me as far as that. See, that's a that's a very short section, and for those of you that don't know anything about June releases, let's go ahead and go down the line. Um the first one is Fate Keeper Early Access is June 2nd. That's already passed, but we know that. Uh, eFootball kickoff is gonna be on the switch June 4th. Uh River City Saga, Journey of the West, PlayStation 5 and Switch MPS. Sorry, and PC June 4th. Then we have the solar punk for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, Switch 2 and PC June 9th. Uh, was it Crushing Time PC version? Uh June 10th. I'm wondering if they'll ever put these um PC games actually for on like uh digital for PlayStation or Xbox or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:04

Some PC games do go. Some games will release on PC and then they'll they'll eventually get released on console. Um uh what just Doom Doom Awakening was originally released on PC only and then they are on Steam and they just announced that it's coming on to console in September. So they have you have games that do that they're released on PC and then they'll come to console vice versa. You know we've seen it like Baldur's Gate 3 you know sorry so it it it does it from time to time so yeah also Baldur's Gate is another one that I wanted to do um I didn't look I don't know if the gaming awards have already happened or or not no they don't have the they have in the actual game awards like that that show doesn't happen until like December.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:50

Okay. Because I was about to say I was like I don't think the game awards has happened just yet but um I saw Bouldersgate when it won so I was like that's another thing to look into again stepping out of comfort zone and seeing where did we go um there's also Pokemon champions coming out June 17th.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:07

Yep for mobile and yep just for mobile then we have the adventures of Eli the Millennium Tales the whole outrage with that there's an outrage with that let's see and we have dark scrolls that's supposed to come on switch June 22nd uh the echoes was it uh dead or alive six last rounds coming out June 25th uh for PlayStation at both Xbox games and PC and then Star Fox for you that's coming out June 25th and then there's supposed to be another rumored to be another Splatoon game coming out Tati yeah Splatoon Raiders then we have the Digimon that was the other one yeah yeah that was the other game I'm just gonna look forward to then we have uh what is it Digimon Story Times surprised Digimon's are popular enough to get games right they their games are I haven't played them but uh there's a lot of people that love the Digimon games Digimon games are actually um they're more JRPG based but they're really good people like them people love them uh I think the one that just came out like last year uh not cyber soup it was um time strange or something but people love that game oh I have no idea I just love the I love Digimon for a while and then just like certain parts of Pokemon I retired I put in my camera watching the anime right yeah yeah but this the the games are really good the games I have I'm saying I haven't played one but like I know dub played it a couple other friends I think sir was playing through like they all played through and they they loved it they love Digimon well there's also um aside from that one Tati is not gonna like this one Paul Worlds uh comes power yeah yep she's not gonna like that july 10th because she because our very if everybody remembers or been following us for a while our very first or second episode we talked about Paul World and how the it that was the beginning of the artist decline and ai increase so if you haven't seen that episode I highly encourage you to go see it um but Paul World is gonna be for PlayStation 5 and both Xbox series and Xbox One PC and Mac um what is it next hand of Fate Hordes that's early released on PC July 22nd Splatoon Raiders that is July 23rd the Gothic classics is July 28th there is another one called Detoid I have no idea it looked interesting to me so I wrote it down it comes out July 14th and then we have the new EA Sports College football 27 that comes out July 9th so if you are wondering where we get all our lists from we get them from game informed so if you are a person that's still trying to figure out what's your what's your uh game preference or what's your genre style your fluffy ninja is going to be doing gaming 101 where we'll not only talk about you as a gamer but we'll also be talking about you as um what type of gaming style that you like the most because I think a lot of people they just they just play the game at random because it's either recommended or it's just something that they find accidentally so if you know what your game gaming style is you you'll probably better love it more. So um any thoughts on like any of these releases guys um I mean college football is something I get every year but I I agree with you as far as if you find something like if you have a certain type of genre it helps you know you can find because like you have your big triple A games but then there are smaller indie and double and double A games that also are really good that some people miss out on because it doesn't get the marketing that some of the triple A games get so long if you know the type of genre or the game type of games you like to play you there's so many uh so many games come out like I'm on big um a lot of people don't know but I love beat em up games um so I'll find like certain beat'em up I'll search for them or just find the ones that's that are being made things like that I because I love those type of games from you know Streets of Rage Double Dragon to uh like the turtles TMT Turtles Revenge all those like games like that like good little beat em up marvel cosmic invasion that just came out of too long ago I love those type of games there oh there is another there's a game on PlayStation that um yeah yeah like Marvel versus Capcom that I saw that I probably that I want to get I can't I don't know the name of it right now but that's one of those um is it the is it like one of the newer one or is it one of the collections I I think it's a newer one I don't know I think uh the newest Marvel versus Cap is the say it again because I know a while ago they did put out a collection for Marvel versus I said I know a little while ago they put out a collection for Marvel versus Capcom games somewhere uh somewhere yeah somewhere like wait did they make a new one already yeah no no they have a I did not hear Marvel versus Capcom they have a what do they have they have a yeah if you're talking about the beat em up but they have Marvel cosmic invasion like that's like the the newest game okay it dropped that came out late last year um and it's it's like I said excuse it's a beat em up style but it's it's really fun they just introduced some new characters for it okay so um all right everybody that wraps up the gaming odyssey for us so everyone did an awesome job so I'm gonna play continue to play this clap it up clap it up clap it up so now this is where me and Tati start to shine in this situation husky you can chime in on this one now is the final segment of the day which is a favorite and Tati this is the one I was telling you that you're gonna like off the top ladies and gentlemen welcome to geeky gyms where we talk about books fashion makeup collabs and more so let's go ahead do that there we go all right so as the founder of uh geeky gyms which is Tati over in yonda geeky gyms for those that don't don't know is basically I was taking the culture in one sitting so we're talking about uh geeky chic stuff like trending makeup and beauty and otaku streetwear mangas that we have been reading and sometimes like anime spotlights anything that's been like that you've been addicted to just like the game at Odyssey something that you can't just put down so I'm gonna let our lovely Sailor Kirby take us off on the first go round atati what do you have for Yee Gee Gems or Geek Chic?

SPEAKER_03 1:14:50

Let's put it that way well at the well for right now I'm doing a uh well to start off lightly I'm doing a manga reading manga called magical girl dandelion it's uh basically about a girl who who befriends like an enemy an enemy shadow and um basically she gets rolled into becoming a magical girl but the thing is she has to fight um like the fight this um by all the these evil shadow creatures but the issue is she befriended one who saved her saved her from certain deaths so they're trying to navigate their friendship and uh her being a magical girl it's a very interesting read so far okay so far I think there's two volumes out right now I'm halfway finished with the first one I'll pick up the second one in a bit and so far I'm liking it the artwork is very nice very it's very of my alley okay and there's another book uh there's yeah there's another book I've been reading not sure if I'm able to pull it up though but it is uh it's an ebook that I've been reading called um Tuesday's blues this is the one I told you about Ariel when we were doing our meeting thing yeah it's about this girl it's by Jackie Ari.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:21

Ari she's a content creator on TikTok also she wrote she writes books uh this one uh that I picked up it's called Tuesday blues it's a it's about a girl overname Tuesday who uh lives in a world of monsters and mythical creatures and she's struggling she's a struggling musician trying to pay rent essentially and just just so I so no one gets shocked there is some spice in this book and I'm still I'm using take book talk yes and you can you can imagine some of the scenarios with uh monsters and stuff like that that way the YouTube gods won't try to smite us when we talk about spicy stuff so there we go we're gonna go that for um all right do you have any like makeup collabs or anything that we need to know about that's just coming out uh give me one second because I thought I brought it up here with me let's see oh shenanigans I need to read a book I haven't read a book in the you haven't read any like manga as of lately or you just stopped altogether I haven't read any manga as of lately oh that's fine I know like a lot of people they they've gotten so used to just watching it that they just stop with it's okay okay go ahead you won't all right so this is a special collab from uh Winx Club and this um uh online creator called Neko Yanyan she made these really pretty eyeshadow um winx club palettes they're in the shape of butterflies oh wow and you can get like all yeah you can yeah you can get like all of the Winx Club girls based on their um color palette and your girl bought the whole set oh my god it's like yeah well financial responsibility I'm here for it hey I g I was extra good going through hell during during my work hours I deserve this you definitely do I didn't set anyone on fire this time I did not set anyone on fire this time so I deserve this or got a complaint like the last time try trying to nearly strangle that up listen that that is hilarious that the lady said that you were um that you were something and she didn't just explain the whole detail she just said you were something oh yes because she can she had the audacity come in like 10 minutes before we're closing and I had the audacity to side eye her she there's a literal there's a literal review on that with my full name there I don't know how to feel about that feel feel proud my fluffy friend feel proud because someone has taken out account of their busy schedule oh yes yes I take off so much hate in someone's heart while I'm here just showing off my beautiful butterfly eyeshadow palettes that I spent my hard on money to to show y'all I might do an actual I might do a separate review on these whenever I get the chance but yes this is what uh that has been uh been on my radar lately so my friends so what is your whole um spiel this time Ashley you have any for me or is it all right for me to go um I don't really I don't I don't uh I don't have anything like I said I um the most recent thing well the only most recent thing I got like I said I bought a got a new controller for my switch too but other than that I bought a uh Nixie controller the Hyperion 3 um and it is it's awesome it vibrates like crazy i was I was playing donke combinows with it and it was just gone i have i i'm gonna have to figure out how to turn the vibration down in it but it's it's amazing amazing controller i also i'm gonna need a new uh new case but yeah you can actually you're gonna have to send me the link to that because i'll probably go like that yeah it's it's super nice uh um you can like said they have a discount and all this stuff i need to i gotta go through and finish uh getting it set well like to decrease the volume but it looks like uh it looks like this oh sweet yeah you can of course you can take it apart and it has the has the magnetic uh sorry my bad no you it has uh you know it's magnet just so it works with the switch too I have to buy the I also have I bought this from when I had my switch one uh oh sweat yeah it's a game cube uh controller for the for the it's they actually bought they made adapters for it by Mad Cats uh it's by uh Nixie it's by the same company it's by the this same oh well it's my background but we can see this okay there we go it's by Nixie uh same company that made this they also made this so they just I just need um and they made adapters for this they made adapters for it so um if I get the adapters to it'll it'll connect to my switch too like it's normal it still connects to Bluetooth so I can use it but if I want to connect it like the magnet style like this I can do that with the um with the adapters it has for I just have to I think they're like ten dollars I need to quit being cheap and go ahead and buy them yeah like I said it comes apart like it like in Norman but yeah this is this is awesome I used this when I was playing certain games my switch to my switch so it but it's it's it's like I said it still works it's it's awesome so yeah yeah you most definitely gotta send me the link to that because I didn't even know much about that oh so what about any anime share that with me yes and I'll pass it along to you sharing is caring um so is there any uh very invested in um the anime that I have been I actually haven't watched anything recently I need to go and go back because I know a new season of uh Wisteria Sword and Wand um came out so I I really need to go in and jump on that but um but I haven't had the time to go and see through I watched like a first I went in finished up JJK season of JJK and I'm behind I had to go I went and went to go finish that up um I went to try to think what else was there anything else I watched I'm waiting on uh they did announce uh uh delicious in dungeon season two got confirmed so waiting for them to announce when it's gonna be uh waiting on season waiting on season three of Shangri Lock Frontier I need to finish that up and um what else Shanglock Frontier Shangri Lock Frontier is really good.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:52

If you have not watched that one I do recommend that to people Shangri Lock Frontier is is a cool one to get into um what else and I'm looking forward to it was another one that that I'm really looking forward to oh to the movie next year is one of my favorite animes is haiku and I am looking forward to they're getting a they're doing another movie next year um I think another movie next year and they're gonna try to finish the series somehow so yeah I'm looking forward to that swag swag addition thank you a good sir nice Tati you got any anime uh recommendations for us this time around uh no I've just been mostly re-watching a bunch of things I'm trying to catch up with apothecary diaries and I'm trying to I know I know and I'm also trying to re trying to watch uh delicious dungeon apothecary diaries delicious and dungeons I hope you if you get a chance if you do get a chance to finish that's really good oh yeah I've only seen like the first two episodes I only saw like the first two episodes and I'm really digging it so far but it's like ah timing just timing but I'm really digging it so far that's awesome okay yeah but I'm not really watching anything new nude not right now at least okay so I'm going to uh wrap it up on that on my end so my section of Geeky Get Gems talks about streetwear so as we all know as your fluffy ninja I am a person that likes a lot of clothes uh things to show my swag and such and uh I would like to do shout outs on um different street wear that has been coming on trend or some that I have ran into so I would say box lunch I will give you a shout out because uh you gave me the best shirt that I could ever buy. So the shirt itself was on sale it was originally $45 but I was able to knock it down to 20 uh with my um my lunch money uh it was a uh Goku versus Frieza shirt that we that I wore at the wait is this the shirt that you bought the pop-up place yes that's the same shirt so it would have goku and freeza on the back of it and then it um the the other shirt also came from box lynch that's Terry's shirt now because I can't fit it and he well let's put it this way the correct way he stole it there we go uh but he like I think since he's been around my family he's starting to know their tricks where we're like can I borrow this for five seconds I don't ever see that shirt again yeah that that's where we are right now I don't I have no idea what that shirt is gone um so another one I will name is uh Kiki's attire Kiki's attire has become like a very hot trend of uh uh classy cute girly uh where you can do the fit any way you want to mine was the Goku version of her of her attires I'm trying to see if I have if I have a chance to share okay so this is he gets tired she's starting to to do more guy wear so it has been I think that one is from uh Luffy but the one that I and she's starting to do a lot do jars now but the one that I got where are you is this one the one that has Goku because on the back of the shirt It has Goku symbol on it. If I can just go up there, we go.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:06

I wore that to the um a to AWA, but I noticed that there's a lot of creators that's getting her stuff that has um, and there's some people that never heard of her, so I want to give shout out to Kiki as well because I tagged her in it and I collapsed with her with it. So I appreciate you give me some of letting me buy your attire and allowing me to show you off, and that's uh another one that I've seen a lot that's popping up on another trend that I've seen popping up a lot is the where are you here? Anime ape. Now, if anybody knows anime ape and how long that they've been doing business, uh I personally like their uh shirt jackets and I like their um their shorts because when I work out I want everybody to know that I'm a nerd and I'm proud of it. Um, I'm trying to see and their jerseys, so these are some of the jackets, and they're semi-fairly priced, they're not oh they're not too high because I've seen jackets like this or like hoodies like this for over $150, and they're only pricing it between $50 to $60. It's literally around the same price as an average video game. So if you're a person that loves jujitsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, and there's one for Spy Family here as well.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:40

Okay, that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:41

And they also have the t-shirt, the t-shirts are cheaper than the jacket, so that's nice. So it's like if you're a person that likes to be um not cosplay, but you like to be dripped down, like I do, so this is an option for you, um, as well as there is uh a content creator now. Uh, she has made her own. What is it here? Let me stop. There is another content creator now. She did an excellent cosplay of shadow, and she now has her own swimwear, actually. Um, that she put out. I'm not sure if it's fully out yet, but I've seen videos of it on TikTok, and that's something to expect for the summer. So if you're looking for like anime-inspired swimwear, she's one when I get the the details, I'll put it in the comic below comments below in the description so that way you can get full access to it. Um, another thing that I want to bring up as well is the collabs that have been going on. Just like we have clothing collabs, there have been a lot of different collabs going on for uh anime inspired things, like uh the Pokemon collab that just happened. Well, yeah, is it no? It's tomorrow. That's still happening. Yeah, that's still happening, but the second half starts on Target. Yeah, at Target. We did a whole video, we're doing a whole video on that. I I will bring it up to you now, but my phone is being a booty, so uh just expect if you are a lover of Pokemon, and Tati brought uh bought the perfume from the Target collab with Pokemon, and also we realized that I have them with me. Okay, so Tati bought the perfume and stuff. They come with the like the nice size bottle, and also there's a charm attached to it. She'll show you in the next 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:47

Here's one for here's one for electric types, smells like pineapple. Okay, got one for my my favorite tights, water type, and this one is berry scented, and I got one for fairy type for normal fairy types, and it's something called peach marshmallow.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:12

Okay, that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:13

They also have a green one that um it smells like green apple, and then there's also another one for water types, um, that's out, but there's also the yeah, so I want to for those that don't already have access to it.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:35

I want people to know that out of my way, you add yeah, and this is like some of the things I managed to salvage because the that section of Target is like stripped.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:51

Oh, yeah, our section is bare, there is nothing left besides the perfume and the jackets. You see this jacket right here, that's the only thing that was left. Everything else has been murdered. There is a set of headphones that's supposed to that was gaming headphones that were supposed to be there, murdered. It is not there anymore. Poof. Um, they have t-shirts, home goods, and they're not even good headphones.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:18

I bet they just got Pokemon on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:21

Yep, $25 for a handbag for like a sling bag here, uh for a keychain, $130 for that jacket that's still there, even though it's like price $80 at our target over here in like Garness Ferry. Then there's the book bag for $35, the other hoodie for $40. But um, we've had for anybody that's that loves Pokemon in all its forms. The second half is gonna come June, June 6th, which is tomorrow. So if you want it, you can go ahead and grab it, just save some for the rest of us. If you can, we don't want it to be now that's not happening. Listen, I could dream, can I? Um, and I would say the last thing. Oh, I think the last thing as far as like uh collabs-wise, is the uh the collab with Popeyes with uh Luffy and the Bento box, the shirts, all those things that is still completely sold out. So if you're a person that's still looking for them, yeah. Sorry to inform you, they're sold out, they're not making any more, and there's supposed to be a chest treasure chest that you could buy too, but the only person that has that is Megan the Stallion, and I'm pretty sure she ain't giving them up for nothing. So you can know, yeah, yeah, you can continue to look for the shirts. It most likely you might find it on eBay, but maybe not. But I I give commends to these creators on and the collabs because I've noticed because the Pokemon collab made me realize that it's it's been as of May 22nd, it's 10 years since Pokemon Go has been out, and then Pokemon itself is 40 years. Was it 30 or 40 years old?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:10

Tati, I think he's about 30 years. Is it 40? I think it's 40.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:18

Is it I think it's I'm googling to the Google 35, baby? No, 30 years old, coke as of February 27th, 1996. Pokemon is 30 years old as of this time. We're talking now. Um, so if you have into crap it, get out, speak for yourself, you are yo, and then Pokemon Go has been out for for 10 years now. So I'm pretty sure that this is just a homage to the 10-year anniversary. Sorry, the 30th anniversary, and also so that way we love love Pokemon ever since high school.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:07

It was before that, it was probably elementary middle school.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:09

I remember when Pokemon came out. I remember when Pokemon came out.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:16

I remember fighting over the TV. I remember fighting over the TV because my grandmother said she didn't want to watch this myth, so there's that. Um, as far as things that I've been watching, I'm trying to skew past this. I have been watching this um anime called May I Ask for One Final Thing. It goes into the story of a villainess that has uh the power of Cronoa, the god of time, and she is supposed to marry a guy who uh uh is not so good, in my opinion. But uh when he decides to break off of their marriage arrangement, she said, Can I ask for one more thing? The anime itself is action-packed, it's not just about like her her going through things, but the character does develop a little bit. Um, I've also ran into this thing called the bartender glass of god. That's also a good anime to to look into as well. Uh what else? I watched uh uh Suka Suki Michi Moonlit Fantasy. I re-watched it, so it's that's also a great one. It's about a guy that's pulled into a fantasy world. Uh originally his sister was supposed to be pulled into the world, but he decided to go in her place. Um, he has to go against a goddess who does not care for him too much, and her perfect world, every every person she's made is beautiful, and she considers him to be ugly and decrepit, and she bans him from ever reproducing with any of her people. It's it's a whole thing. You if you look at it, you'll you'll find the funny in it. Um, okay. So that way I can be prepared for when not only the movie but the third season comes out. Uh, I've seen solo leveling more times than I should, and I'm waiting on the other season to come out. And where is it? I'm trying to. Oh, the one that the newest one that has just uh caught my attention called The Witch Hat at Attler. That has become a very interesting one. It's about a little girl who loves magic and all of its forms, and then she meets a um a witch that gives her a note a book that has all these different magic spells in it, and she decides to uh explore trying to become a witch, but in the result, she ends up um risking her family to be to do so. Now she's on a mission to be able to actually get her mother back and be able to go back to normal, but there's a lot more to just becoming a witch besides casting spells, it's all about the intent. But um, that itself is a great, great anime that's new to me. I highly recommend anybody that wants to uh look into that, it is well worth the wait. And fear fearin' if you've already seen Fearin, I'm I'm just starting. Please don't give me any spoilers. I'm still trying to figure out why she's nonchalant about everything. Um, and then finally, my anime reads is a whole list, but I'm not reading them. The top three I have is Tears of a Weather Flower. Um, big synopsis. Uh young girl moves away to Tokyo, decides to get married to the love of her life. Come to find out he's in like deep amount of debt, and ends up breaking up, getting a divorce, and then finding trying to figure out how to process life after marriage or after what she's been through. And then there is uh the second one. This is on webtoon, it's called To Whom It No Longer Concerns. Basically, our main character she uh sees the future and sees that her family kills her, and then she finds out, yes, it is very she she sees the future first before she passes. Um, she sees that her brother tried to stamp her blood on a deed of trust, which gives them access to everything as far as family fortunes, cars, money, you name it. She has access to it. So they kill her, stamp her blood on it to confirm that she's the one that that gave up her rights to everything, and now she's when she flashes back, she um decides that she's going to get her revenge on her family for trying to kill her. It's a really good story, and it's it's a lot of twists and turns that you never thought to see coming, but other than that, I have nothing, nothing else as far as my geeky jumps. That is it for uh for me. So I give all claps to all my people here for allowing me to rant and such clap up here. I also like to thank the Hussey Okage for riding with us to fun having you here. It is.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:50

Thank you guys. I appreciate y'all. I've I've had a good time.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:54

We appreciate you. Thank you. If you would like to leave, you are free to go, good sir.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:00

Oh, yes. Well, I just once again just want to thank y'all for um giving me the opportunity to be on y'all platform. I really appreciate y'all. Um, but yeah, thank y'all so much. I I do have to go, I gotta feed kids, but yes, uh, thank y'all so much for everything, man. I had a had a really good time, had a really good time, and we appreciate you for giving us your time.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:20

We know that you your big boss creator, so just by stopping stopping by to our lovely abode, it gives us great joy to know that uh we gamers support gamers in every every platform, always and I appreciate you, Tati.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:37

You got in always, we appreciate we appreciate you coming, coming over. It's been very fun despite the technical difficulties, despite the technical that must mean this must be our best episode, yes. Yeah, we should this might be our best episode yet. Oh, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:58

But we thank y'all again.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:00

No problem, we'll see you later. Thank you. All right, good people. So we're going to wrap up this uh this lovely, lovely podcast. It is almost two hours. We said it was gonna be 30 minutes, but then again, at the same time, it don't work that way.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:20

Um our editor is gonna be no, not with us. We love to yap to we love to yap too much. And plus, we have a special guest. This is a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:31

I know, but again, our editor's gonna kill us. He's gonna look at this and be like, Really? You're doing this to me again. Um, but no, we really appreciate you guys that support the show that's been here um from the beginning, and also for those that are just joining. If you have not already uh subscribed to our channel, we do stuff like this uh once or twice a month so that way we can bring you all the juicy details and all the different uh geeky gems. We do this because not just because we love gaming, but we love the blur community and we love what it offers us. Um, do you have any uh final remarks there, Tati?

SPEAKER_03 1:44:17

Uh not much. I'm just saying thank you for having us. And also, please, please, please be the the world is kind of crazy right now. A lot of nonsense is going on. Please be the light that you want to see in your community. Please let's just support each other because there's a lot of fandom nonsense and a lot of real world nonsense. So please support your local black establishment, your favorite creator, all that good stuff. Because we are all we at this point, I feel like all we have is each other, so we we need to uplift each other, and that's all the purpose of Pixel Sisters.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:59

It's not just about to hear us rant or have guests or anything else, it's to create a space where this type of stuff can happen. And I know that uh for some people this may not be their their uh their jam, but I highly encourage you just to take a moment to look look at your favorite creators, look at your favorite animes, and ask yourself like, is because of these types of spaces that your your favorite animes and stuff are able to exist because someone took the time to like make the space. So as we close this episode out, uh we thank you so much. We appreciate you with all our hearts, or I'm gonna do creating one. We appreciate you all, but just like all things, we have to uh shut it down, but we will talk to you guys another time.