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Hi, I'm Sadiq.

And I'm C from Young Crypto.

Actually, I have a fun crypto fact for you today.

Did you know that Matter, the smart home standard,

how do you think it delivers firmware updates if you opt into the Matter

protocol?

I'd imagine there's like some hub that like distributes firmware updates to

the devices.

Manufacturers upload their firmware files to the blockchain and your Matter

controller checks the blockchain and pulls the latest firmware update.

Excuse me?

What?

I can't tell if you're joking, right?

Like, I can't tell if this is a bit or not.

I legitimately can't tell if this is a bit.

Is this a bit?

Is this a bit?

Are you joking?

I'm not joking, and I'm pulling up a link right now to put it in there.

OK, so.

OK, I love technology.

So in the context of Matter smart home terminology, a Matter firmware update

blockchain refers to the use of a distributed ledger technology called the

distributed compliance ledger, which acts like a blockchain to securely manage

and verify firmware updates for Matter devices.

I mean, OK, I guess that's one use of a

blockchain is just like a computer science concept.

But like I.

OK, well, we can't go into this right now because I'm on the DCL.

That's that's that's not.

Let's not do that.

So this this episode, we're at the end of the year.

Right. And as with the end of the year

content things everybody does is lists, listicles,

podcasts about albums and video games.

We like. So we're doing a video games and music podcast

today, culture.

So we're going to start with albums of the year.

And I think we can sort of alternate between mine and yours

because I don't want to be the only one doing the list.

I feel like that would be kind of weird.

So that's kind of like you have fewer albums than I do, but that's fine.

We have the same amount of albums. We put it together, right?

Because Bratton, the first album, like we're both going to talk about Bratt.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's talk about the first album on my list.

These are not I didn't put these in any particular order.

And I just put them in whatever order I feel like.

So Charlie XCX, Bratt,

how do like what's the word to describe this album?

It's like the bump in that bump.

Bump in that mean girls, party girls, sad party girl vibes

like it's the kind of vibe where it's like playing at the club,

like you're partying, but you're also sad like that.

That's kind of I don't know. I don't go to clubs.

It's like, you know, like there's the I guess there's like the CIS guy

version of this where it's like the subreddits of it.

Me, memes were just like really sad, but relatable anime, anime memes.

It's like that.

But for people who party every single fucking day.

Yeah. Like Mean Girls, the track on Brad, that's like my most favorite.

Like I literally that's like my favorite track, most favorite album.

And I legitimately feel that vibe of that.

A hedonistic like party girl who's like just kind of like has dead eyes

and like has been partying a little bit too long.

You know, I need to call you out on your shit on this one,

because I you don't party.

I've done that party life before.

So I actually am curious, what part of this do you relate to?

Because I've been the person who's been out to like four in the morning

making poor life choices.

No, I know people like this.

It's not that I relate to it personally.

I've known people like this

and sort of specifically the mean girl stereotype, the trope rather of a person.

Like I know people like that.

And that's what I relate to.

Not me specifically.

It's not a projection.

That makes sense.

That's why you're probably feeding your hinge algorithm of like, what do you want?

Yeah, absolutely. I am like that.

That's why you're joking.

But like, that's literally what I'm trying to do with dating apps.

It's like, you know, anyways, we don't need to discuss my dating preferences.

I know you can't feel like shit.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're fine.

No, no, you're fine.

I have a question.

I know you came into this album that you came into this into a little late.

I feel like you were a little late on the sort of brat hype train.

You know, I feel like you kind of were didn't listen to it until like

fairly recently, actually, like you did really.

I guess appreciate the the album until.

So what are your thoughts about coming to it as like a musical phenomenon in an album?

So I came to Brett by listening to the remix album first,

because I remember I hit you up and I'm like, oh, this cool album, Brett.

But it's not really Brad.

I didn't realize the remix album because it's just the remixes.

And you're like, bro, how are you this late to Brett?

And I'm like, oh, that's a separate album.

It is.

That's actually very interesting to me because you came to.

What do you think about the differences between the remixes and the original?

I'm curious about your thoughts between the remixes and the original.

The remixes keep it as like more of a party album, whereas the original songs

are far more introspective and actually emotional.

I yeah, that's that that was my thing.

And like that's one of the reasons I don't I don't dislike the remixes,

but I always prefer the original album, because for me, it's like about Charlie

XCX sort of embodying this more introspective kind of like.

But like kind of like vibe throughout, like it's still a party album, but more

more low key, more sad, more introspective, and I think the my the remix

that I love the most is the one with Lorde in it.

I did that.

That's I think that should be on the main album.

I really think that should be one of like that should not be like the remix.

Like that should be the main like track.

But I guess it completes the full story.

I like the original album version of of Girl I Girl.

So I forgot what's the title name again.

You just said it.

I'm blanking.

Allow me to allow me to pull up track lists as I.

Girl, so confusing.

So the original version of it, I feel like that second verse, it's just like

hinting at who it could be.

But you get a far more complete story when you listen to the remix.

It does.

Yeah.

Like I kind of like what Charlie XCX did from like an artistic point of view,

where it's like you have a story that gets fleshed out and like B-sides

or remixes.

I find that very interesting from like a musical production perspective.

I think that's like an interesting way to tell a story.

Right.

I also guess the version, I guess, of Billie Eilish is better than the original.

Well, I love the guests because Billie Eilish is just like I would like I don't

Charlie is it into girls, but I would I would hit it like, you know, like it's

very good.

It's another queer anthem.

It's like it's good.

Speaking of sad girl music, did you enjoy did you really listen to Billie

Eilish's album this year and hit me hard and stuff?

I thought I have a confession to make.

I have never listened to a single Billie Eilish album.

How?

Okay.

I've heard some songs.

I've heard some songs and playlists and stuff.

And I saw the Spotify or not the Spotify, the tiny desk that she just did.

But I have never actually sat through and listened to a single Billie Eilish

album.

I so I'll confess something here as well, since we're doing confessions, is

that before this album, I wasn't really a Billie Eilish fan.

I kind of thought her like kind of like boring whisper pop, especially was I

what I call it.

Like, I was just like this.

I don't know why.

Why do people think this is good?

And I listen.

This album, though, is much more it's actually interesting because like

Charlie X is Brad, it's way more introspective in many ways, like the

first track skinny where she's talking about being body shamed, essentially.

It's very, it's very interesting.

And like the person, I think what Billie Eilish was in the tiny has changed

my mind.

So I'm probably going to go back to listen to albums.

Yes.

I thought she was kind of like Drake, where she would just make music for

pizza, plain H and M.

No, no, she does have like talent.

Like it's not like an entirely like, no, I don't mean like talentless.

No, no, no, not like Drake is spineless.

As I listened to the past episode, the prior episodes about the Drake

Kendrick beef.

But no, I thought it was more like just pop music, you know, to go shopping

to like there's a really good most F quote.

I got to find it.

I'm sending it to you.

I've seen the most of interview where he was asked about the about the

Drake, Kendrick beef.

And he's like, Drake makes really good music for, you know, shopping when

you're going to Target shopping, but with an edge.

And I kind of thought like Billie Eilish's music was prior to that tiny

desk concert.

Yeah, no, I that's what that's.

I mean, I agree with that in the sense that I sort of thought that's what

Billie Eilish's music was when I like her previous albums and songs.

I thought she was just like kind of boring and not particularly interesting

musically or as an artist or as a person or whatever.

But I think like this album has kind of definitely changed my mind on Billie

Eilish.

And I think that really changed my mind on this album.

I mean, partially it's like it's the more more introspective vibe on this

album and also the production.

Bro, this is one of those albums that really shines in Dolby Atmos.

Like I this is the album that sold me on Dolby Atmos.

I'll be real with you.

This is the album that sold me on Dolby Atmos.

I wasn't sold on it until I know this.

Oh, I know.

Oh, I know.

Oh, I spent a year.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Listeners.

I spent years back when he used Apple products telling Xatic, hey, Dolby

Atmos is it?

And he's like, I don't need Dolby Atmos.

I could just get a good stereo reference pair of headphones.

No, no.

I have been pushing for years that spatial audio is the best.

And this is the only so we're not, I'm not, this is not shades of Brown.

We don't talk about tech here, but I'm gonna talk about tech for a minute.

This is the only downside to having a pixel is that Google will not pay the

licenses for Dolby Atmos.

So you can knock it Dolby Atmos in the title.

Legitimately.

This is one of those albums that if you want to give somebody an album that

really shines in Dolby Atmos, like the production on this is already good.

Like even if the stereo version is amazing, but like it really shines like

the sort of the sounds, the what's the word, the soundstage, right?

The times audio files use like the soundstage.

It Dolby Atmos is just expansive.

Like it's incredible.

Um, and I'd strongly recommend if you have Apple device, if you have Apple

music and you have like, uh, AirPods or like AirPods Max, like I do.

Or beats too.

Um, specifically if you, if you do have an Apple product, don't use Dolby

Atmos with third party headphones.

And the reason is Apple has a proprietary encoder thing, the

personalized spatial audio, where they scan your ear.

And to me, that's the only way spatial audio sounds good is when you have like

the ear scan going, that only works on AirPods.

I really wouldn't try with third party headphones.

Yeah.

So this album is just, um, you know, it's, it's good.

I love this album.

It's not a long album.

It's pretty short album.

Actually.

It's like 43 minutes, 11 songs.

Uh, 11 songs and it's like very short and to the point.

Um, and it's kind of like a little dark introspective.

Uh, the production is also like that.

And I got to say lunch, that track was the one track that like, I was like,

all right, this Billy Eilish got something going on.

Um, anyways, that's Billy Eilish.

Uh, I, I think you should listen to it.

Uh, because I know you haven't, I haven't actually watched the tiny desk yet.

Uh, at some point I will, I have a few tiny desks I need to watch.

The Sabrina Carpenter one surprisingly good.

I did not realize how country she, she did a country twist on her songs.

And it works.

I need to listen to that because I, my opinion on Sabrina Carpenter is, I mean,

not negative as like generally positive actually, but like, I, like, I don't, I

don't think she's like an album girly.

Uh, like she's more like a singles kind of artist, which is fine.

Um, and I've not really listened to that album she put out.

I only just like, obviously Espresso, which is like the track of the year.

Uh, so that's, that's good.

I listened to those.

Uh, this next album, I don't think is on your list.

I don't think you listened to Kronkman, but I feel like you should, I

feel like you would enjoy Kronkman.

Um, Kronkman is, uh, a band.

Um, they are, how do I describe this?

They're like, ah, psych bunk surf band.

I hard to describe.

It's like beach music, like chill beach music.

I think you would enjoy it.

I legitimately think Kronkman's entire discography is up your alley actually.

Uh, but this is their, um, album this year, Alla Sala.

I had it pre-ordered.

I've become a Kronkman fan fairly recently.

I went, I bought all their music on Bandcamp.

Um, and it's just good music that I put on when I'm reading.

Like when I read, like, I'd like to put on like some ambient music that has like

no more minimal lyrics or vocals.

Uh, and Kronkman's music is like, it has a groove to it.

So it's not just like, not, not like pure ambient in that sense.

So it's like, it does have a groove.

It has this have a funk to it.

And it's, it's good.

Uh, the next one, Baby Rose and Bad, Bad, Not Good.

Slow Burn.

It's an EP.

Uh, this, I don't know if you've heard this.

Um, I've heard a lot of Bad, Bad, Not Good.

Um, cause I used to do songs with Hellzah Creator way, way, way back when.

I have not heard this specific EP though, but I will check it out.

This is really, really good.

So this is like, it's a very short, it's like an EP, it's like six tracks.

It is like smoky jazz bar vibes.

Like it's just, and Baby Rose has this like very sultry kind of jazz

fusion bar singer voice.

That's just like very art, R&B and soul jazz, like fused together into this

like really lovely kind of like very, very lovely vibe.

It's just, it's just good.

Um, so it's been one of my, like, I, one of the themes this year that I've

been getting more into jazz this year.

And this is one of those albums.

So I was like, all right, no, I really actually am into jazz quite a bit.

Um, so that, that, that's one of those.

And, uh, the next album is instead of, actually I want to, I want to kind of

like talk about this album and Cowboy Carter at the same time, we can, we can

kind of like mix and match this because these, both of these albums are count,

uh, country albums, American country albums.

So I'm talking to one Z, the other is ha, we got to put it together.

Get that yee haw.

Okay.

Um, so I'm talking about, uh, Shaboosie's Where I've Been

Isn't Where I'm Going.

Uh, this is album this year and you may have heard the single from this.

The big single from this was the second track, a bar song, Tipsy.

Great, great, great track, by the way.

A very fun song.

Uh, but the rest of the album, I think, I think legitimately a lot of people

might not have listened to, or maybe they did because Cowboy Carter kind

of highlighted Shaboosie, right?

Like this is the thing I wanted to talk about is that Beyonce's sort of love

letter to American country highlighted a lot of contemporary, uh, American

country artists, uh, like Shaboosie, right?

Shaboosie is featured on, uh, Cowboy Carter, right?

Like if I remember correctly, I don't.

Two tracks.

Yeah.

Two tracks.

Yeah.

So Shaboosie is on, on Cowboy Carter.

So like it's the year, it's really like American country has had a very, like,

I feel like it's an interesting time to be a country, American country listener,

because like the black people in the genre, like are making like a definitive

statement that, you know, the American country is also made like by black people.

And I feel like that's the statement.

This, these two albums make, I don't know, like that's to me anyway.

I don't think, I don't know if the artists are saying that, but, uh, like

that's my read on the sort of situation on American country music.

Uh, what do you, what do you think?

Um, I mean, we talked about Cowboy Carter so much in the, in the earlier,

in the earlier in the year, my thoughts have stood the same.

I don't, I don't think that there's really anything new to specifically

add, so you can really listen back to that episode, but Cowboy

Carter has held up the entire year.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've, I have not really gone back to Cowboy Carter.

I'll be real.

I'll as an album, it doesn't really work for me.

I think we talked about this, as you mentioned, because there's a lot of

filler in this, um, that I don't particularly enjoy the skits and whatnot.

I'm not a skits person.

That's also, but I will, I will give Jolene as one of my, probably

the best cover I've heard in a long time of a song that I really like.

So that's, that's good.

Um, Elka Prism of Pleasure.

Um, I not heard any of it.

Yeah, this one is a little bit more underground.

I think I came through this through listening to K-E-X-P.

Um, this is a queer artist from, uh, Wales, uh, in the UK and it is a very,

uh, it's a deep house, like album, like electronic deep house album, like

kind of like late night club, deep house.

Like it's, it's not like a party album in the same way.

It's just kind of like club chill, like cocktail bar, maybe vibes.

Um, it's like very queer, a lot of queer implications in the lyrics.

Uh, it's, it's, it's a very intimate album in the, in a deep house kind of way.

So I, if you haven't heard this, I think it's, it's a good one.

Um, good one to listen to.

Um, I want to do like a hip hop segment here.

Like, I feel like all the next three albums I have on my list are all hip hop.

And we also have a bunch of hip hop albums on your list.

So that's like, I want to, I want to talk about the JPEG Mafia album because

I haven't actually listened to it.

I am not a JPEG Mafia person, but I need you to talk about, uh,

I lay down my life for you.

There are two kinds of people in this world.

There's people who, um, listen to how distortedly fucked up the production is

on a JPEG Mafia album and go, hell yeah, brother.

And there are people who listen to it and go, I, I can't like, you know, the,

the, that one reel or vine or whatever it was of, um, the, the kids sway where

you have the blocks and to put them in the hole.

Right.

And then like the girl starts crying because they keep putting all the

circles in the square holes.

Like, I feel like that if you were the person who does that breaks her brain,

you're not going to like JPEG Mafia.

But if someone was like, hell yeah, I'll just put it whenever a hole fits.

Hmm.

Um, then you will absolutely be down for a JPEG Mafia album.

So yeah, I mean, it's scaring the hoes music.

Like it's literally like the, literally his last album was called scaring the hoes.

And it is, but this one is just so more introspective because JPEG Mafia has a

history of just abrasive, like, I think he sampled, he samples anything.

He sampled a toilet for a cover of Call Me Baby by Carly Rae Jepsen.

It was just a flushing toilet that got auto-tuned in the middle of that track

while WWE clips were playing.

It's beautiful.

JPEG Mafia is just weird as fuck.

I respect it.

I respect it.

But this one gets a lot more introspective.

Um, honestly, if there's any track you should actually listen to, it's JPEG

Ultra with Denzel Curry.

You would love that track.

Cause it is, it is the least scaring the hoes of the entire.

Like as a hoe, you will be not scared.

That's good to know.

I, I, I, I, yeah, JPEG Mafia, I respect the art, but it's not my kind of music.

Like, so there's new black history of Vince Staples, right?

And it can only be what I describe as a floopity whoopity beat.

If you just listen to it, it's weird.

It's so squishy.

The scents on it are just so squishy.

It's weird.

I didn't even know this came out.

I think I don't, I don't remember it, but, uh, I will say, um, either on or off

the drugs is top 10 tracks of the entire year.

So either on or off the drugs, he samples a, it had like 200 views on YouTube, AI

cover of turn off the lights by future sung in the style of the 1970s through

some random, like open AI model.

That's I, that's so esoteric.

I love like the thing about JPEG Mafia is like, like, as you said, like just.

These samples, like, how does he even find these?

Like, what is how, how do you even, because it had so little, it had so little

freaking like views at the time he found that it's like the only one that exists

on YouTube, this man must be on YouTube, like 24 hours a day, just like clicking

shit.

I like listening to stuff like in a way that, how do you find that?

Like, it's like insane.

That's like absolutely bonkers.

Also, I don't put anything on the Bible has a very beautiful instrumental two

minute, um, sung section by Buzzy Lee, which is Steven Spielberg's daughter.

Oh, that's, uh, that's an interesting, she's a, she is an artist, but yeah.

So.

Wild.

Yeah.

Wild.

That's, I got to listen to some of these tracks you mentioned because I haven't

listened to it at all.

And you know,

the first half is regular JPEG Mafia.

All right.

So once you go from JPEG Ultra through the end, it's very introspective.

It's beautiful beats, uh, loop it and leave it.

It's, it sounds, it's not a final fantasy six or final fantasy five sample, but it

sounds like an SNES final fantasy samples just being looped.

Like think of like, um, you know, play Pokemon, but you know, like you played

enough RPGs and like the, the, the ice, the blizzard levels have like those

traditional harp OSTs, right?

Like that's it.

Yep.

I know exactly what you mean.

Yes.

I know what you mean.

Yeah.

That is literally just looped and I was like, Oh, it's hit on it and it's so

weird, but it works.

So, uh, production production, 10,000% yes on JPEG Mafia.

I lay my dad, my life down for you.

Um, lyrical content on the second half specifically is great.

Um, the amount of times JPEG Mafia says no Drizzy is very funny.

No Drizzy.

He'll say something a little bit weird and goes, no Drizzy.

That's that reminds me of like Kendrick doing his little vocal inflections.

Uh, that's a, it's like baby Keem.

Baby Keem.

It was very funny too.

Cause during the, uh, the, the Kendrick Drake beef JPEG Mafia tweeted, God damn.

I thought I was the biggest Drake hater.

Oh, that's so funny.

I didn't know that.

That's good.

Oh, I love JPEG Mafia.

I shout out, shout out to JPEG Mafia.

Uh, so I think I do Chromocopia super quick.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that was pretty good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wanted to do it.

So we got Chromocopia here, which is the, um, latest Tyler creator album.

And really this is just like a lot of bows, a lot of, of, of like bows and

tying things and closing loose ends.

He has a lot of Tyler's earlier stuff with him being extremely misogynistic

and problematic, right.

About, um, women and about his father and his family life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot, a lot, a lot of the early sort of cherry bomb years.

Right.

Yeah.

And this album is completely narrated by his mother.

And it's like him addressing it.

A lot of tracks, like himself having children, the fact that he's scared of

having children, the fact that he seems that he's like egotistical as fuck.

The addressing his father issues in a way of like, you know what?

I accept that man for who he is and the choices he made.

Um, and then it gets very silly, sticky.

As you can imagine, things get sticky sometimes.

Okay.

He got, he got Glorilla and Sexy Red on it.

Yeah.

I, I, yeah, we'll talk about the Glorilla album in a, in a next, but, um, and then

you have Dochi on, um, on, on Balloon, my favorite line, I don't give a fuck.

If he is gay, then we are gay.

Like, okay.

I respect it.

I love that.

Tyler, the creator.

Yeah.

I've never been, I, we talked about this off call on another calls is that Tyler,

the creator is like, I feel like if you re if you get it, you really get it.

I feel like Tyler, Tyler is one of those artists that like his music is good.

Like flower boy.

I really liked flower boy.

I remember enjoying flower boy, but I feel like his music just doesn't stick with me

as much.

I don't know why.

I think it's a silliness where some people doesn't work for others.

Like in one track and rock, ta-ta he, he keeps talking about like, I don't want no

bitches at my house.

And then he, what is the one verse that never trust these motherfuckers or those

women to tell them where you sleep at.

And he says it just like this and the music cuts what he says or those women.

And it's just like, what?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we, you mentioned, uh, uh, Glorilla and I want to talk about Glorilla's album this

year, which is I as appropriately titled, uh, named, uh, glorious.

It's it's, it's like, there are no bad tracks on this album.

I gotta say it's like bangers, 42 minutes of bangers, like literally from, from track

one to track 50.

And it's like, just like Glorilla just being like, fuck you.

I'm here.

This is, this is me.

Um, and this Memphis rapper, like this is a good year for music, hip hop from the

South, I think, because we have this album we'll talk about big X the plug next, but,

uh, this album is just, there are so many good tracks.

My favorite's like what you know about me.

Um, and like procedure with Lotto on it and like how I look with Megan Thee Stallion

on it.

Great, great track.

Uh, I just wish it was a little longer because it's only like two minutes long.

Um, and I just, I just love her accent.

I don't know how to say like our flow and her accent are so good that Memphis accent

just, just hit, right.

It's good.

I don't know if you've listened to this album, actually.

Um, it is.

I've listened to all of it.

Listen to a few tracks.

Um, I, I political views aside, if you could separate the political views, uh, sexy

red is like top 10 rappers right now.

And that, that is an opinion I would take to the fucking grave.

Oh, I don't know anything about sexy reds.

Political opinion.

So I will, uh, I don't know if I should, uh, but, uh, I'm not a sexy red.

Enjoy.

She, she'd probably be in the Capitol on January 6th.

This is how I'll put it.

Oh, okay.

That's uh, all right.

Let's, let's leave it there.

I think, uh, because I don't, I don't think we need to get into that.

Uh, big X speaking of rappers from the South, this is a big X, the plug from

Dallas, Texas, uh, the biggest, the largest as he calls himself, um, just

no, that's literally like he's just like the biggest.

I know it's so good though.

Like it's cause of how funny he does it.

And the way he says it, it's like, I can't do it justice.

Like when he says biggest, the largest, I'm just like, yeah.

Uh, this album, I wasn't like, I became aware of big X the plug.

He did had a feature on Shaboosie's album, actually.

Like he had one of the tracks, the drink don't need no mix.

Uh, he was like featured on that track and that's how I kind of discovered him.

And I, when I, when this album came out, I was listening, I was just like his flow

and the way he raps, the way it's very, very introspective album talking

about taking care of his family.

Um, you know, having kids and, you know, uh, you know, trying to, trying

to keep, take care of everybody and et cetera, et cetera, there's a lot of,

like a lot of introspection happening in this and it's just a good, good, good

album, like, uh, 15 songs, 31 minutes.

It's actually a fairly short album.

Um, and I, I, I've been, I've listened to it multiple times on repeat.

No skips.

Just, just good, good stuff.

Um, I know when I sent this to you, your first reaction was very funny because

you thought I said to you the Drake album by the same name, right?

Um, yeah, yeah.

I could, all I saw, cause you know, sometimes it depends on your internet

connection, you see the preview, right?

And the preview didn't have the full photo.

So I was like, the fuck you sending me take care of for the only good tracks

off, take care of the ones that have the weekend on it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's, that's, that's fact.

Uh, the weekend is good.

Um, so yeah, this is, uh, the first track is take care.

Um, and it's, that's kind of the vibe of the sound.

It's good.

Uh, if you haven't, if you're a hip hop enjoyer and you haven't listened to

big X the plugs take care, you should definitely listen to it because I think

big X is like, I feel like this is just the start, like he's been around for a

bit, but like, I feel like this album is just going to put him on the map a lot

more.

Um, and it's going to be like, uh, he's going to become even bigger.

I hope so.

Because this man is, this man's good.

Uh, he's already the largest.

Where can he go?

Yeah.

The biggest, the largest.

It's so good.

I love his, I love his energy.

You don't like all in his photos, like just, just so chill, uh, the good vibes.

Um, so that's take care.

Um, I think we already talked about GNX last week, so I don't think we need to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We could skip GNX.

So, um, let's do a king of the mischievous South.

I'm shocked.

Why is king of the mischievous South?

Not, not on your list.

Um, because I didn't.

Okay.

So it's not that I don't, didn't like, I, I didn't enough enjoy enough of the

album to say it's like, or rather it was not impactful enough for me as an album

this year to be on the list because my list is already pretty long, right?

There's a lot of stuff on it.

So there is like this album just kind of like, it was fine for me, like as far as

Denzel album, uh, the Curry albums go, but like, it didn't really as much standard

as for me as like, you know, his previous album, which was definitely one of my

favorite hip hop albums of all time, but like king of the mischievous South while

good, it just didn't like stand out enough for me to put it on my list.

It's a mixtape for me.

I feel like it's a mixtape, which is probably why.

Yeah.

It's kind of like, and also hoodlums is, is such a good fucking track.

That song has been in rotation and consistently since it dropped.

So yeah, I will, I will say, um, king of the mischievous South, um, the re the

deluxe one that came out recently too, has a really good plugs on it.

Got me geeked.

Fire.

Um, still in the paint also super good.

Uh, it's ignorant.

It's got, it got horns in it.

What else do you need?

Yeah, absolutely.

And I'm, uh, I, we're, there are two more albums, uh, on the

old list of one on my list.

I'll talk, I'll quickly talk about small changes.

This is like the album that I listened to the most recent addition to this list.

Michael Keon hookah is like a jazz fusion artist of some kind.

Um, like I'm not entirely sure about the genre there, but, uh, it is a good album.

Small changes.

Great, great, great album.

Um, just good jazz, more jazz vibes.

Um, I, I think we need to, I need to talk about logic.

Uh, no, I mean, no, look, I ain't like, I ain't like I enjoy logic music sometimes.

Like, I'm not judging anybody for enjoying logics music.

I think logic has, uh, a good.

Not good.

Uh, or rather like us, I can understand why people enjoy logics music sometimes.

And like, it's not, I don't know, it doesn't do that often, but you know, he

has some good tracks and he can rap.

That's, that's, that's not, I'm not taking anything away from Mr.

Logic.

So what about ultra 85 is kind of like, you know, the reason you put it, like,

what's the reason you put this on the list?

What's the definitive thing?

I, I, I'm not proud of this, you know, I would, I'm not, I'm not proud of having

ultra 85, but it's the first time he addresses all the shit we meme him for in

an album without it being cringey.

So the biracial thing, he addressed the biracial.

Yeah.

It's like, it's like addressed in like a measured musically interesting and

lyrically coherent way.

That's actually, I actually, I vaguely remember listening to this album and like,

I know it was like, it's like a long album.

It's like, yeah, there's some skips on it.

I would not put this on top.

Yeah.

It's like 20 tracks an hour and 17 minutes long.

The highlights are extremely high.

So that's why I put on this list.

There, there are skips on it for sure.

Yeah.

I like logic always felt like, yeah, kind of like an artist that didn't know how to

like fully express his very earnest ideas about stuff, like about being biracial.

Like we meme.

Yeah.

So if you want some good tracks that I cover this right, Ghost in the Machine,

Interstellar, In Retrospect, 40 Forever, Love Me, Antidote, Peace, Love and

Positivity, City in the Stars, Deja Vu, Favela, and Gardens 3.

There's only like three other tracks on the album that I didn't, that, that would

skip.

Like those are, all of them are fantastic.

So for that reason alone, it's worth listening to those.

I haven't listened to this album since it came out.

Like I remember listening to it when it came out.

I didn't really make an impact on it back then, but I wasn't really paying attention

too much, honestly, to Logic and his music.

I guess I wasn't taking the Logic too seriously because for obvious reasons, I

think it's hard to take Logic seriously.

Also, I feel like we, neither of us probably have listened to this cause it just

happened, but Scissors has dropped 15 tracks.

What?

Excuse me.

Hold on.

Hold the phone.

What?

What?

What's happening?

I, I don't know if this is this, I, yeah.

What?

Like on Apple Music?

Or like what?

Yeah.

Oh.

Oh.

He dropped a deluxe 2 SOS called Lana that has 15 new songs.

I, that's not a deluxe.

That's a new album.

Like girl.

There's a Kendrick Lamar track on it.

Okay.

I like, we can't talk about this right now because literally none of us have

listened to it.

It just literally just, what, what are these, what are these KD, TDE artists

doing with like dropping these?

I mean, Kendrick's not on TD anymore, but like what are these TD artists like

doing?

These surprises.

Speaking, speaking about TD.

Um, I, I'm not gonna put Dochi's album on here, but her tiny desk performance

should be in performances of the year.

Yeah, absolutely.

We do not have a performance in the year section.

If we do put her tiny desk, it is so good.

Honestly, the Dochi album didn't make it to my list.

Not because I think it's bad.

I actually like it quite a bit, but I just didn't listen to it enough to really

kind of grasp, grasp where it's on my list because I got, kind of got to it

kind of late.

Like it's appreciation kind of came after I listened to the tiny desk, but the

tiny desk performance, if you can find the link, uh, put it in, I probably have

it in my, in my history.

Yeah.

I have it right now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I have it.

I have it.

Uh, tiny desk.

Um, I think everybody should listen to, uh, watch this, uh, watch this Dochi's

tiny desk concert because the live performance legitimately like is so

fucking good.

Like it's just, it just so it's like really elevates like her music in a real

way.

It's, it's really fucking good.

Um, and like last album on the list, uh, annex worries, wild Lord, uh, wild Lord,

Lord, uh, wild Lord.

Um, I don't know how to say it.

Why Lord?

It is the sequel to yes Lord from 2019, 2018.

It was so annex worries is knowledge and Anderson park.

Firstly, we already know knowledge is fantastic.

What top top producer?

Um, when did, oh, I'm sorry.

I got to search up.

When did yes Lord come out?

I, it was a long ass time ago.

It was a long, it was a while ago.

Yeah, it was, it was, it was a while ago.

I got it.

2016.

Oh yeah.

It came out 2016.

So it's been the sequel.

Um, it's very funny.

I mean, it's not funny.

It is funny.

Cause it's not my life and I like enjoying other people's drama.

It's very funny that this album is Anderson Pockters dealing with getting

a divorced because he cheated on his girl.

Oh yeah.

That's, that's why I didn't like this because it was just kind of like, I, like

I don't, like, I just didn't find it like an interesting topic for an album.

Like a personally, like not, look, I may, look, look, I'm not going to

either confirm or deny the reports, but if anyone's ever been a home wrecker

here, you can relate to a little bit of what's going on.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Wait, wait, wait.

So we can move just musically.

It's fantastic.

And lyrically it's very funny.

If you've ever been in that kind of situation, I'll be, I'll

call out something about this.

I do not appreciate the Dave Chappelle feature in 2024.

Uh, personally, I don't, I don't think Dave Chappelle should be featured on.

Uh, you know, I can't, I'm not going to fight you on that, but at the same

time, you're also pushing sexy red and sexy words, a lot more problematic

than Dave Chappelle, but yeah, that's fair.

I didn't, I don't, I don't follow sexy red and her music or whatever.

So I didn't know about her political views either.

Um, so, okay.

Um, that's, that's music.

Uh, well wait, okay.

I, just one last one.

So I titled this section.

I don't know if we have albums we're looking forward to, but, um, so I, I

could have sworn at some point in life.

We talked about this on the podcast.

I'm going to search it.

Probably shades of brown, right?

Shades of brown wind swept add on.

So in Ichigo Oba, um, released, um, wind, uh, wind swept add on in 2020.

Right.

She's a Japanese folk artist.

That album is top 10 top five, even so I don't, if we ever did like a top out top,

like records of all time, mine is fucking weird.

I know you were shocked that I listened to that kind of, this kind of music, but.

Yeah, I was a little bit surprised.

I was like, this is not the kind of music I expected you to be into, but that's cool.

I respect it.

Um, um, apparently according to Google, we've never, we never, so if I had a top

five, um, top five albums ever, it would be honestly for one or two, the DJ carnage

and young thug, young Martha EP.

I am on ironically saying that thing is it is four tracks.

It is so good.

A Liger is such a good song.

Homie is such a good song.

I have, those have never been off repeat ever since that EP came out.

Um, number the top five winds up out on would be there just because of how

fucking lush, beautiful and minimal at the same time that album can get.

Yeah.

I, I gotta listen to this because now, now I'm like, I, this is the kind of music I

like, you know, not always, but I do.

Uh, like if there's a certain vibe, like if I'm doing some writing or whatever, like

this is the kind of music I put out.

If I'm writing.

So like, if you want to, if you want to understand me as a person, you would go

from young thug to windswept out on to do what to future sound of London to like

some, okay.

I know future sound alone.

We both, both of us grew up listening to future sounds a lot of that.

We can't.

No, I'm not making fun of it.

I'm just saying it's a journey.

Yeah.

Shout out to IRC and entropy.

That, uh, yeah.

To like some, I don't know, some random ass Spanish music.

Like that is just be as a person.

So the fact that, um, her follow up to it five years later is coming out February

28th, like the band camp links, everyone, please check that out.

The, um, the, the singles that have dropped so far have been fucking majestic.

Uh, what is it?

What is the lumen?

I, it's a French word.

I can't fucking pronounce it.

Don't let's, I was not pissed off.

The French list.

Lucifer near Lucifer Lucifer near, uh, Farine, Farine, French, French

listeners, French listeners.

I will never apologize for mispronouncing French because the French don't deserve

it, but please do let us know how you pronounce that word because, uh, I would

love to know, uh, but I will, I will listen to wind sip, uh, wind swept, wind

swept add on, uh, later because I will, I put it on my wishlist and I will put it

on, uh, let's do it on Apple.

Um, that is, I do like this kind of music.

So I actually, I'm interested in, in, in this going back and listen to her

Point Dorney album.

So Ichigo Aoba.

I'm going to add, I'm going to start adding click throughs to the fucking

links I send you to see if you open them.

I that's, that's not, I don't think you can do that.

No, I don't think that's, I don't think that works though.

Uh, if I just run my URL shortener, I think I can.

Yeah.

The thing is I don't like your direct nurse.

Yeah.

I'll just not click on the links if they're your own shorters.

Uh, because listen, I know how to fish.

That's not a lot of video games.

Um, I, I, this is going to be a weird one because I, I, it's, I basically stop.

Wait, did any of those come out this year?

Hold on a minute.

Nope.

That's what I was getting into.

I was about to get into how I didn't really play a lot of video games this year.

I kind of stopped playing video games halfway through the year.

Like, like, or rather I'd stop engaging with like big, bigger titles.

Like I just played a lot of multiplayer games, a lot of Overwatch, Halo, Call

Duty, um, you know, kind of live service stuff.

I didn't engage with like more single player titles because I had a whole

thing happened in the middle of the year that kind of changed my interaction

with video games anyway.

So I have three games on those lists and none of them came out this year, but

that doesn't mean they don't deserve to be out here.

They're really fucking good games.

Uh, and I, and I think all of them are amazing games.

Uh, Alan Wake 2.

I played this at the beginning of this came out late last year and I got around

to playing it at the beginning of this year in January and I still think about

all the way I haven't played the DLC yet.

I actually probably should do that at some point.

I should probably play the DLC at some point.

Especially cause it ties into Control, which is a game you love to.

I'm pretty sure it's on your game of the year list.

Yeah.

I, I, I love Control.

Yeah.

It's been a minute.

I, I need to go get more back to like some of these games that have DLC and I

haven't played them, uh, like Alan Wake 2.

So I'm gonna, I'm gonna play Alan Wake 2.

Um, and I'm gonna, um, you know, wait, I, uh, I also played a game.

I completely forgot to put on this list.

I'm putting this on the list right now after Alan Wake 2.

It's Resident Evil 4 Remake.

I forgot about this.

I legitimately forgot.

I played this.

Um, like I, I don't know how much you are into like horror games, uh, like

or Resident Evil, I guess.

Um, but Resident Evil 4 Remake was my first Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil game.

I never played a Resident Evil game before.

Resident Evil 4 Remake.

My contribution to this part of the conversation is about the Mac

port of Death Stranding and got bored of it 10 minutes in.

Okay.

Um, so Resident Evil 4 Remake, just a really fun, um, really fun sort of action

horror, action survival horror game.

And I just, the reason I enjoyed it is because it's more action than it is

survival, because I don't really enjoy survival mechanics in video games.

I'll do a survival kind of person, uh, survival game kind of person.

Uh, but this game just slapped all the way.

This is a solid game.

Absolutely.

10 out of 10.

The DLC was kind of mid.

I didn't finish it.

Honestly, I'll be real with you.

I didn't finish the DLC.

It felt kind of mid.

Uh, but the base game, 10 out of 10 game.

Um, the next game on my list, uh, Horizon Forbidden West.

I don't know when this came out.

This, this came out of PC this year.

Right.

Uh, um, and, or rather it came out in PC like last year.

I don't remember when this came out on steam or upon PC, but, uh, yeah,

the game came out in 2022.

Uh, so, which means that I haven't, I've been waiting like seven years to play

this game, uh, because like Horizon Zero Dawn came out in 2017 and I remember

playing that on like the PS4.

Uh, it was, it was the reason I bought a PS4 was to play Horizon Zero Dawn.

I had an idea of how much I love these games.

Uh, Horizon Forbidden West is just better than Horizon Zero Dawn in literally

every way, it's like, it's just a straight up upgrade.

Like everything about this game is just better.

Uh, the writing is better.

The animations are better.

The visual fidelity is better.

Uh, the story lines and the character interactions and the romance and all

this stuff is like just better.

It's just a better game overall than Horizon.

Guerrilla Games just straight up made a better game.

Um, and the DLC also has a surprisingly good queer storyline that's, that was,

I talked about this, I think, I might've talked about this on Voxels actually,

is that it has a really good plot line, uh, that it's, it's really well read.

Um, so 10 out of 10 game.

Awesome.

Did you play any of the Horizon games?

I don't know if you have.

They're not on GeForce now.

Oh, they're not?

Sony, Sony does not allow any other games to go on GeForce now.

Yes.

I can't play.

Why?

I, Sony, why?

Uh, that's, that's the only reason I would, I wanted to, but, um, as you know,

I'm, I'm, I'm anti, I, Windows is cancer.

Um, so I will not, I will not build a gaming PC, but I will play it on

GeForce now if it comes to it.

That's fair.

That's an, I, I'm not, yeah, that's, that's, Sony, what are you doing?

Um, and the last game on the list, uh, Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth.

Uh, this was the latest Like a Dragon game after Yakuza, Like a

Dragon, the sequel to that basically.

And this one was like, I had some issues with this.

There are like weird difficulty spikes and like, kind of like, like a narrative

plot, like thing about VTubers, which was, which kind of went off the rails.

Um, like if there's a legit,

There's a whole contest to get VTubers in the game.

I hope you know that.

I did not know that.

There are side characters that are actually VTubers.

Voiced by them.

That's, that does not surprise me, but I did not know that.

That's like, absolutely not surprising because it's a whole ass narrative

plot point about a certain VTuber personality in this, in this game.

Like a character.

No, uh, like there's a character, like a antagonist or like a, not an antagonist,

like a main, one of the main characters out of the primary characters in this

game is a VTuber in game, right?

Like, I don't know if they're like a VTuber outside of the game.

Like, I think they're just like a normal voice actor, but like the character is

like a VTuber in the game and it's, there's a whole plot line about VTubers.

It's very weird.

It's a very, very, like, I don't think this game will age well in some ways, but

like, it's very funny because it's like playing this game and knowing even a

little bit about like VTuber culture is very hilarious.

Like, I don't know if you play this game, but like, I think it would be,

Um, I have not, and I have an F set the way from VTubers because, uh, it's a

little, that's VTubing is like the end game of problematic streamer creator

audience relationships, you know?

Sure.

Yeah.

Like, yeah.

Like I agree with that.

I, I do find, I mean, this is like a JRPG, JRPG, like it's a long ass game, video

game.

This is a lot of, it's a, it's a, like the studio, like this is like in the style

of like an RPG, right?

Um, like you have dungeons and, and all that, and you have like turn-based kind

of turn, dynamic turn-based combat.

Um, it's, it's, it's fun.

Like I really enjoyed it.

This is the only kind of JRPG I really kind of enjoy that this, like Final Fantasy

seven, um, anyways, those are the four games I have on my list.

As you can tell, like, I didn't play a lot of big games this year, just, uh,

personal reasons.

So I don't have a lot of games that are like all released this year.

Um, so Christian, uh, what are your games of the year?

Because this list is hilarious.

Talk about like, this is not great, but at least if he's like, I don't, I'm not

judging, but like, I'm judging a little bit.

Uh, a little, a little, uh, so what's this first one, Christian?

Uh, I spent 160 hours this year watching anime and I watched 69 nice individual

animes, but so my first game of the year, though, shattered space.

Okay.

I mean, do we want to talk about the anime side of it?

Cause really my anime of the year, my anime of the year is ReZero, which is on

its third season.

ReZero is forever the best anime.

Um,

ReZero, oh right.

I forgot about ReZero.

ReZero is good.

We have consistently talked about 30 years.

Yeah.

You should watch it.

It's actually good, but okay.

So Starfield had a DLC called shattered space.

Um, I'm on my fourth play through of Starfield.

Oh, I have, you know, it's the best part of my play through Starfield is yeah.

Yeah.

I instantly boost my character to level a hundred every single time I started to

play through.

I don't do any of the left leg in the game.

I just do a quick console demand command to bump it all the way up to level a

hundred.

So I have to grind shit and then I just go through, play the same storyline,

quest, make different choices.

And I've done it three to four times.

Now, um, I, you know what?

I respect that.

You know, I respect that because you just like kind of playing the game and

that's the, that's the way you play Bethesda game.

Like, I know people who just still play the same character in Skyrim.

Cause how, um, randomized some of the, the quests are right after you beat the

main story.

So start, um, shattered space came out, which, um, explored the Valorun, um,

faction and it was disappointing, short, not worth the money, cool visually, and

not a throwback to oblivion, like Bethesda said.

And I loved every second of it, but I do not recommend a single other person.

Check it out.

I love this.

I love this part.

I love this for us.

I love the, I love like, this is like the media, like it's like your trash, you

know, trash video game of the year where it's like, it's, I love their shit, but

nobody else should play it.

Like absolutely not.

Um, um, next I'm speaking about shit that I love that no one else should play

destiny to the final shape.

Okay.

I'm curious because I, like, I know this is the final shape came out and like,

uh, you know, it happened, but I don't, I don't know what your reaction to it

was.

I don't remember actually.

Uh, what are your, we, well, we finished the fight, right?

So in pure bungee fashion, you kill the witness.

Who's the big bad, right?

Characters come back, you lose, they type some story threads and then, uh, what

is it?

What was it?

Uh, shards of the traveler or whatever they call it.

I forgot what it's officially called in game land on three different planets,

which is what the current episodes are about.

Cause people are getting powers from the traveler.

Um, and bungee is still doing the same kind of storytelling they're doing where

they say, wow, we really did some close narrative ends.

And in the actual story, there were no, no, in fact, no close narrative ends.

Um, but it's all building up to frontiers.

Um, so at least like the light and darkness saga is behind.

It's kind of like kingdom hearts where, you know, the story you got is a story

you got, so they could push forward because each of these episodes are

contained and are not really like longterm stories.

Right.

So the one with the, um, vex was just like a three month story that was just

that, so even though they necessarily didn't really like conclude it in a way

that I would call it a real conclusion, that at least is an isolated thing that

they have said is not a longterm story.

So that's what they're doing right now for these episodes.

Um, so really, unless like you're really into destiny, I don't

recommend you get into it right now.

Just don't, it's not like I play it every now and then I check into the content

just because it's my thing.

I do, you know, it's like listening to the verge cast, it's comfort food.

Um, so I love it.

I got to make a, I got to, okay.

So you finished that thought and I'll have to say something.

Uh, but, uh, I realized the date on the resident evil four review was a fun.

I yeah, it's 2023.

I was going to wait for you to see that.

Cause I saw that in the URL slug and I'm like, I was like, brother, I don't, I

don't think you play that this year.

Oh, okay.

That's God.

Sorry.

I completely like my lost track of games, but anyways, I, I have played

enough destiny to know that I don't.

Stick with it.

Like I can't really get into it.

You don't want more of the same.

Cause it's just more of the same and different packages.

I just can't do that same loop again.

Like just in a slightly different flavor.

And I'll just like slightly different flavor of the loop.

Like I can't, I just get bored.

And like, I know I can like, the thing is I can't, like, I can see past the game.

Design bullshit.

Right.

And I can see what they're doing and I can see the systems that are designed.

Like I can see through them, which makes them not enjoyable anymore.

Right.

Like they're like, kind of like I could see how the sausage is made in a way,

like what the design is like, and I can see it's the exact same shit they've

been doing for literally years.

Right.

Like more than a decade.

It's like World of Warcraft.

Right.

It's like World of Warcraft.

The only way that World of Warcraft is going to grow is when they

inevitably bring it to console.

They're not bringing in new people on PC.

Probably not.

No, not at this point.

They're probably churning and, or if they're bringing new people, they're

probably churning with existing people.

Right.

So some of these games are like predictable businesses.

Yeah.

Or they're like, or they are like existing people coming back from like

other MMORPGs, like Final Fantasy 14 or whatever.

Right.

Like, it's kind of like, like those two games are probably trading players.

Yeah.

So at this point, Destiny is what it is, you know?

Yeah.

It's, it's fine.

It's, it's Destiny.

Cyberpunk 2.0, Cyberpunk 2077 rather, is this like, was a game that you

played how many times now?

This is my second time.

I only played it once.

I played it once on the Xbox One X when it first came out.

Jesus Christ.

Okay.

That's like, that's a while ago.

So I played the launch version of Cyberpunk and beat it with the suicide ending.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

So I had, I think quite objectively the worst version of Cyberpunk.

And now, right now I am playing it on GeForce now on the 4080 tier with

patch tracing on frame generation, DLSS.

So I am now objectively playing the best version of it that you can play

outside of playing on a 4090.

Yeah, you are.

You're playing the best version.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You haven't played the DLC, right?

Raphat of Liberty, but you have played like the best version of it.

Yeah.

I'm probably gonna pick it up next week because I've already, I want to do the

other two endings.

I'm about to start the rogue ending because I did the Arasaka ending and I'm

gonna do the, um, uh, Alco, Avocados, not avocados.

It's the avocados ending.

Yes.

I actually can't remember what the name was.

I can't remember the name of it.

Avocados.

The Panam ending.

The Panam ending with the avocados.

Yeah.

Um, so I'm gonna do those two and then I'll pick up the DLC.

And this game is aged really well.

CD project red has turned it into an actually good game.

It is a good game.

I, I would maintain that it is along with the Witcher three, which is also one of

my, uh, one of another CD project red game.

One of my favorite, like action RPGs.

Uh, just straight up really good shit.

I've been saying this for years, but shout out to Polish.

Polish food is fantastic.

I'm not even joking.

All right.

Polish, one of the best countries in Europe.

Okay.

All right.

Shout out.

Shout.

I don't know if we have any Polish listeners, but I know y'all getting

shouted out.

Whatever.

Whenever we talk in trash about Europe, we're not talking trash about you.

Yeah.

It's just the French we're talking shit about usually.

And the British and the British return to stolen artifacts.

Okay.

Speaking of colonization, a black ops six.

Um, so how, uh, this is the latest iteration.

You know what I like about black ops is that it jumps every year.

Call of duty jumps every year from bastardizing your culture to bastardizing

my culture.

And you know what?

I love that for us.

It's yeah.

You know, we love the diversity and colonization, you know, like the

diversity and what kind of Brown is fucking up the world.

Jesus Christ, man.

Uh, so this one is the one setting, like what, like the, what, what time, what

time were post-cold war, like late nineties, sixties, fifties, Bill Clinton.

Oh, Clinton.

Oh, nineties.

Okay.

So it's like the nine late nineties.

Okay.

Um, I haven't played the campaign.

Is this what we're not playing the campaign either?

I've only played multiplayer.

I've only played.

I don't, I just.

I kind of want to play the campaign because call duty

campaigns are like interesting, you know, kind of like a game design kind of way.

I find them fascinating as like an object because it's like, they're

the only kind of, they're kind of unique.

Like you don't really get high production.

First person shooter campaigns anymore because nobody wants to make them anymore.

Literally others in activision, right?

Only call duties that will be game that last time we had a big campaign, like

this was Titanfall two and we all know about it.

Um, so like, I'm curious as I don't want to play this campaign.

I might install it.

You know, it's a good, yeah.

Yeah.

Do it, do it.

I'm here for the multiplayer.

You know, I like once again, destiny multiplayer is the

crucible is bad, been bad for years.

Halo is halo.

It's okay.

I shut this plane and it's getting better.

Um, you like hail three, four, three is doing the thing to have every halo game.

When multiplayer numbers start dipping, they reintroduce the classic

modes, which is what they've done right now in five, they did it in four.

They have done this every single time.

So that's the only reason why halo with multiplayer is good right now is

because they implemented classic modes that you can play with classic

movement and classic maps.

Yeah.

The classic so is like objectively a good multiplayer game.

Yeah.

It legitimately, I love the way the guns feel in this game.

Like this really, the gun, I feel like a weird person talking about

gun feel and first person shooters, but it's a thing like, I feel like

certain games just have really good, uh, like first person shooters that have

really good guns that feel good to shoot.

And this one, this is Treyarch, right?

Or is it like, uh, it's Treyarch, right?

Yeah.

It's Treyarch, but it's using the same, they've all moved on to the same engine.

Now.

Uh, remember cold war was not on the infinity ward engine.

They are all on the same engine now for the, um, Treyarch and modern warfare games.

Yeah.

And the way it's like the guns, the guns just feel really fucking good to

shoot, uh, the, the feedback is good, right?

The weapon feedback is good.

It's the latency, right?

So I run it with, even though I'm on GeForce now I'm running at 40, 80, about

120 plus FPS, I use the SS quality and I have, um, reflex boost on it's so

snappy, even over the network.

Yeah.

That's that's it's, it's really just feels like a really solid first motion

shooter.

Like it just literally feels really good to play.

It's fun.

Um, tears of the kingdom.

Last minute addition to the list.

Um, I, this was the last game I played on the switch.

That's all I'll say.

I did enjoy it as, uh, a lot of people seem to have, uh, but I didn't enjoy

breath of the wild all that much either.

So that's, that is not surprising.

Actually.

Uh, I have said earlier in the year in the podcast that like, ah, tears of the

kingdom, whatever I'm playing through it, probably won't talk about it.

I have put over 200 hours in this game.

I only put about a hundred edition breath of the wild.

So I was like looking at him, like I apparently actually like this game a lot.

Um, I fully completed the map, the underground and the above ground.

I have almost every shrine in the game.

I, I know why you don't like tears of the kingdom and why I do.

This is the most Bethesda like Nintendo.

It is.

No, you're right.

It is.

That's why it hit that part of my brain.

Like I, you want, you've unfortunately like Ubisoft games, me and Bethesda games.

I'll play every single one and I will, I will have fun in it.

I look.

Yeah.

Like we all got our trash video game publisher developer.

Um, and that's Ubisoft for me.

I bet that's not for you.

Uh, I don't know.

Well, it's, it's like a different flavor of trash, but you know, um, yeah.

Cause it's just fun to fuck around and it just builds stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, and I enjoyed some of the changes that they made with the mechanics, but I just,

that's not the kind of stuff that I enjoy doing in a video.

I'm not a sandbox kind of guy.

Like I'm legitimately not a sand, like I don't enjoy Minecraft for a reason.

Like I don't, I can't get into Minecraft because I need me.

I need to get you.

You would die in Sardau Valley.

If you ever played that.

Yeah.

I need the game.

You would actually die.

I need the game to give me like a definitive set of objectives, like to

check off a list or whatever.

I legitimately, like, I'm not joking.

Like I literally lead that because otherwise I just get frustrated and like,

I'm like, what do I do?

What the fuck do I do?

Right.

Uh, I just, like, I don't really like open world games that are that open-ended.

Right.

Uh, like breath of the wild or, or tears of the kingdom.

I just like a style of open world game where it's just like, you have to kind

of make your own fun and I'm just like bad at doing that.

So that's why I don't enjoy the designs.

But that methodology of here's the kingdom, but like Bethesda games.

Uh, I mean, I have other reasons for not enjoying, but that's the games.

They let me like the shit ass engine.

Um, but, uh, so yeah, that's, uh, I don't know if you have anything else

to say, uh, where we can wrap this up.

Uh, um, I only have one thing, biggest L of the year.

Everyone who was publishing switch to rumors biggest L of the year.

Uh, what about that Sony game that these, uh, stop selling Concord?

Oh, that's, that's another big L that's an iconic L.

Yeah.

That's an icon.

Like that, if you're talking like iconic L for the year, like that one is Concord

for categorizing L's we have like slay iconic and big, you know, the largest.

I mean, we have to deliver here.

Um, yeah, the Concord was the largest, the Concord was like the, like iconic,

like absolutely massive, embarrassing failure for Sony.

Um, and the way they would do from that was just a chef's kiss, but Sony also

had a big success this year.

Hell divers, right.

Hell divers too, was like a massive success for them.

We don't need to talk about it, but I did.

I didn't play hell divers too.

It's not my kind of game.

Um, but I, I'll have to acknowledge how that was too as a massive success.

Yeah.

You went some and you lose some.

Yeah.

We want some, you lose some.

That's fine.

Um, so let's wrap this up.

This has been, um, I mean, this is probably the last episode of voxels this year.

I don't know if you were doing what next year, because it's going to

be like Christmas weekend, I guess.

Um, no, next weekend's the 27th.

I have nothing to do.

Oh, all right.

Then maybe not.

28th.

Yeah.

We could do one.

Yeah.

Maybe we'll do it.

Maybe we'll actually do the biggest L's of the year.

Yeah.

We can do a biggest L's of the year.

We can talk, we can talk trash about bad music.

The largest.

Biggest.

The largest.

I know it's stuck in my head.

Like I literally can't get that phrase out.

Thanks.

Shout out to Big X the plug.

Uh, go listen to that album.

That's good.

Um, so as always show notes, the, uh, list of, uh, links, uh, of the albums.

We talked about the performance of the year from Daichi, uh, the Ichigo Aoba

pre-order, uh, link, the games of the year, which are my reviews, review links.

Uh, go read those.

I love, I want to write more game reviews.

It's eventually more when the next Assassin's Creed game comes out.

Uh, you can find me on Massadon on the Fetiverse at

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Um, Christian, where do people find you on the worldwide web?

Um, so I finally renewed my domain.

Yes.

Yes.

Shout outs.

Um, so you, the easiest place actually is lofi carrots.link.

Oh, so, okay.

Um, you know, gravatar does like a link page.

You can tie to a domain now.

Yeah.

I've heard of it.

Yeah.

I've heard of it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I've just been that right now.

Cause like my Massadon, my, my blog, my other stuff.

Um, if you do want to pay for my WordPress domain for the next year, I did turn on

gift subscription.

So if you want to pay for that, go for it.

So I don't lose my domain again.

Yeah.

No, no, absolutely.

Yeah.

Help, help, help.

Um, but yeah, I have all my links there.

Hit me up online.

And, um, I also, I didn't introduce myself.

I'm Christian.

15 minutes into the show.

I, okay.

I feel like this is, this is like the AK young C AKC from young crypto.

I feel like this is the new bit of voxels, like where you forget to introduce yourself

until like the end of the podcast.

I feel like that has been the thing I think for every podcast we've done.