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Adam Barnes

The missed opportunity for the guy who wrote in about Eurojank to coin the term ‘yankjank’ was biblical.

Johnny Ronnie

In Australia the standard edition of KCD2 is $114.95 on the PSN store. In stores I've seen it at $89. Sony absolutely deserves a lawsuit.

Seth

Yeah I'm pretty sure you said you were a Canadian Marine who fought in the war that should never have happened.. so I should lay off. It really isn't Canadians fault. I understand that you guys fought alongside us in a war that should not have happened. TBH we should have the same enemy, the busted Euro/American Bureaucracies and complete corporate takeover of the world since the 60's and 70's. And you are probably right on the cost of jobs. As they already put in a 1-month exemption for Automakers today. I hate the fact that our companies and country sold us out and now it makes it feel like we are at odds with allies when trying to figure out how to take something back. I also just looked at the cost of apartments in Windsor Ontario where there is a Stellantis plant is and it's like 2k a month for a 1-2 bedroom. You guys are being raped over there too I see. Good luck to you guys it's about to get really rough for everybody.

Jacob Lesperance

This Canadian did 2 tours to Afghanistan cause your country asked us to. How many did you do? It ain't Canada or Europe's fault your government, Dem or Republicans screw your population over for business interests. The current president is literally running a crypto scam.

Seth

Are you layed off? What % of jobs in game dev are coding when using an already built major engine like Unreal? If you guys are getting blanketed lay off because your Art Designers and writers and directors are all completely incompetent, you guys need to be speaking up creating your own studios 100%. I never once said it was an easy job either. Management just hired a shit ton of cancer that now unfortunately needs full on chemo to cure.

Jacob Lesperance

I don't know what data you're looking at, but you're wrong. And you're probably looking at the grow in starting wage. Its different contracts, depending on your hite date. I can tell you 100% I'm right because I literally work at the plant. Here's an easy way to look this up. Go to the UAW and Unifor website and look at the pay they just got in the last contracts. Its public. Maybe know what you're talking about before jumping into a conversation. We always negotiate cheaper here. That's why we have a job.

Seth

I read this 5 times thinking I was high and wrote it... I swear to God I didn't... Right? Am I going Schitzo? I play MTG super casually and don't thing I would do research at this level to get all this info LOL

Bailey Callis

Nah, there was a whole lot before the game even released based on tone and trailers

Gooch Gobbler

No one who knows how to code signs up for game dev as it is an "easy" job. That just doesn't make sense. Me included, I didn't go with game dev as I could make more at a much easier job and my job would be infinitely more stable. Just saying your logic does not make sense

Gooch Gobbler

Thanks for all this info, man I am jealous of how workers are treated in the rest of the world. I'm going to become a father soon and the fact that my company has zero paternity leave and barely any maternity is really dystopian

Gooch Gobbler

I, for one, would love a reskinned LOTR or Batman game cause we have not gotten either in 10ish years

Gooch Gobbler

You guys gave us Bone Thugs and Kid Cudi though, so there's that

Draven E.

Wouldn’t the criticism and backlash come after the reviews? Like I said I haven’t played it but just curious.

Bailey Callis

The real content of the game wasn't even close to 82, and most of us know it. Review outlets felt the need to protect and defend the game due to all the criticism and backlash

Draven E.

Haven’t played Dragon Age VG yet but did it really bomb critically? I know it did commercially but 82 on metacritic is solid. One of the game of the year candidates last year was an 81.

Bailey Callis

Colin definitely doing an experiment at the end leaving the beautiful boys to fend for themselves

Bailey Callis

I know right. A solid wonderwoman game could be huge, Colin kind of lost me there

Bailey Callis

Everyone's signaling now days. Chris does this a LOT 😆

Bailey Callis

I disagree with Chris about Dragon age. Inquisition sold over 10 million copies, Origins was the best selling Bioware game ever when it released, and people had a real hunger for fantasy rpgs after bg3. The Dragon age universe is very interesting and has great potential, Veilguard failed because it was horrible, and everyone knew it.

Jason Thompson

If you think Spider-Man and Magic the Gathering crossover is weird, wait till you hear about the SpongeBob crossover.

WashedAF

Lots of Trudeau(Castro) shills in here

WashedAF

Cleveland sucks but Detroit literally filed for bankruptcy

OrochiNewsTeam

6 minutes in they speak about Indiana Jones, based on on the swift subject of aging fictional characters. Derived from Dustin seeing the new Shrek trailer. My point is, I recently rewashed Indiana Jones Crystal Scull When that movie first came out, I felt Harrison was so old. Watching it today he's absolutely not. However watching the newest film Dial of Destiny he's borderline decrepit. It's not right.

Glen Yelenovic

Nice. We went there every other year durning the 90’s. Haven’t been back in a few years though. Gotta love the arcades in town

Josef Barker

Sorry it's $129.95 still that's $5 more than Sony charges for exclusive titles like stellar blade.

Ahlickaloo

What happened to your currency down there??

MATTKBAN

Hehe just posted this on the video thread. 8) I’m up there often in the summer swimming with my dog. I have a little spot near Log Jam Bay which is unfortunately increasing in popularity 8(

Josef Barker

Dustin I can confirm game prices in Australia on the PSN can be crazy. A pre-order of metal gear solid delta is $139.95 that's the standard edition.

Gooch Gobbler

Colin we had almost no LOTR games in recent times (no Gollum does not count) and pretty much 0 GOT games, I get you hate fantasy but NO. DO NOT LEAVE THEM ALONE. The worlds are so fuckin cool. How about we leave Megaman alone, he got like 20 games

Glen Yelenovic

Chris, the Minnie Ha Ha is a paddle boat in Lake George NY.

Jimmer

It’s perfectly fair to compare 3rd person action games to the best one in the genre. You’ll say they’re different but that’s only because there’s an incentive to pretend that any difference however small makes a game in a completely different genre, rendering the comparison non-sensical in the minds of those who want to defend other games. Elden Ring evolved the genre. It’s not in a different one.

Jimmer

We need to stop pretending these would be new games. They would be games we’ve played a million times but with a WW or BP skin. Until games fans realize this, they’re going to keep being blown away that no one cares about these kinds of games anymore.

Ethan Barcelos

Something very funny about Chris reading Colin's words

Murderer Kevin

The effects of the war have been felt in America tho and in Europe with the cost of living crisis, leaving this to go unchecked for longer would effect Americans even more. Ukraine is one of the world's biggest exporters of crops. I can understand Americans not wanting to be involved with a war half way across the world given Vietnam and the Middle East.

Murderer Kevin

It's not that deep

Ahlickaloo

We don’t need to carry the title “world police” anymore. Let American tax dollars go to America. The Third Reich comparison to modern day Russia is not accurate

Knightsofray

Right? Western PA is basically Ohio.

Robbie Agnew

Disappointing to not have Colin on the whole episode. This is the most important show at Last Stand and most come for him. Colin please rebook appointments if these conflicts come up again.

DOGE enthursist

My weak men comment really hit home it seems, I mean try looking in a mirror you’re a bunch of cry baby weirdos bringing up politics on a gaming podcast comment section. Like go to R/politics and have your group therapy/cry sesh there you clowns

Deemac

Ha yeah Smyths is a great option to have and reasonably priced too, especially considering the lack of brick and mortar options for buying physical games now

Murderer Kevin

First off, it's closer to 100 billion from the US not the 350 trump has made up. It's a lot of money don't get me wrong. That's not totally true that Ukraine never had a chance, Russia has 20% of Ukrainian land in 3 years, not the 3 days that Putin originally said. I don't understand this mindset, I thought America was about freedom and democracy, helping defending a country that's being invaded is standing up for democracy. I know the Trump administration doesn't care about democracy (jan 6th, saying the election they lost was rigged). The sooner this war is over the better, but telling the invaded country to just give up is madness, if Britain has done that when they were in a seriously bad position during the second world war, the Nazis would have won.

Ahlickaloo

It’s been real fun throwing hundreds of billions at a country half way around the world that never had a chance to win. Where did that money go? 🤔

Ahlickaloo

It’s Brian Altano

Ahlickaloo

I agree, it’s a tired sentiment. Often times people need to get laid off because a project is spinning its wheels. You shouldn’t “feel for them” in every situation

PuppiesOnParade

Bet you're a lot of fun in conversations. What's the point of the whole podcast? Just post the word 'podcast' to the patreon, and we'll get the idea.

Kyle Fokma

I second this. I cancelled before the lead up to the Feb deadline. I was highly conflicted especially given the political leanings and what I had heard Colin say on some previous podcasts in support of tariffs and Trump’s antics. His shout out on this episode to Canada l and clarification on his opinions has made me feel better about my resubscribing and continuing to support. LSM really does provide some of the best podcast content in gaming so it would suck to disengage from it.

Caleb Peacock

Doge is clearly 14 years old and just discovered Andrew Tate w/ that weak men comment lmao. Dude you have algebra II homework to attend to

Murderer Kevin

Then on that basis American leadership is failing.

Morgan

Be kind. That's all you have to do to be a good person. Just be kind.

Tyler Stafford

Great close to the episode Dustin and Chris.

joefray_

The Nemesis System is basically The Last of Us Part II

SoulCracker#1

Chris, if you have long hair you go to a salon, not a barber.

Jimmer

Instead of spending 20 minutes mourning jobs of strangers every episode can you just say “I’m a good person”? We get it. You’re very compassionate and concerned for others. Let’s move along.

David D

Trump's use of tariffs goes beyond gamesmanship to me, feels more like mafia esque extortion. Just gotta take them as they come and retaliate where we can like good 'allies' should.

Drew Lee

Ohio Against the World

Born-Blind

I was not expecting to enjoy Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (Peasant Simulator 2) but this game has sucked me in and won't let go. I'm going to actually see it through to completion despite the occasional tedium. Some of the best writing I've seen in years

Caleb Peacock

If Colin wanted to go on vacation instead of just going on one in google, I do think the show would be fine. Dustin and Chris did a great job

David

As someone who was born and raised in Ohio. The boys are right. Ohio sucks. Everything about it. Let’s stop pretending Cleveland is a city people care about when we have Detroit and Pittsburgh 2-3 hours away. Cleveland sucks so bad LeBron left us twice. Our claim to fame is setting a river on fire and creating the EPA. The only two good things to come from Ohio are the macho man Randy savage and the Browns Daddy Ben Roethlisberger.

Steve

Live in Vegas. Went to herbs and Rye after midnight after listening to this episode (sitting here as I write this). The ribeye was good. Half off. Chris, do yourself a favor and take bachelor party to Lost Spirits in Area15 while you are out here

Jeece

Chris and Dustin did a great job

Evan Cooper

Oh shut up. Dustin lives in the what is literally the Shelby of PA lol. Also Ohio has 7 of the largest 30 cities in the country . Fuvk off

Aaron B Vick

Timothy Tolkien needs to release the rights already...

Xemphanis

Wonder Woman is THE most important female super hero.

Steve

Smoke the blacks has got to be in an edit. Dustin really hit that “The blacks” lol

Derrick wears Vaseline-filled socks

HA! Called it!

Tanner Denso

Chris you need a men’s salon. Not a barber.

Gonçalo Ferreira

Oh so a Wonder Woman game doesn’t make sense and it’s for nobody, and Black Panther also doesn’t have a market? What’s going on here?

Yalingo

Proctologists have seen a lot of rectums mate. Just be showered and follow the directions given in regard to the bowel preparation.

Derrick wears Vaseline-filled socks

🤮

Shadi Haddad

Dude, not for nothing, Chris playing the straight man as host after Colin left actually felt very natural.

Big St3ph3n

Wichita Kansas native here! Fuck y’all on the disses hahaha. JK Kansas sucks! It’s warranted.

Seth

I'll pipe up as an mtg fan that the general consensus in the community is distaste for the ceaseless crossovers. Not only is it making the game feel corny (more so that mtg already is) it's also eroding the identity of the game. Magics rule set is super comprehensive and there is so much design space but it's all getting eaten up by things that don't gel with my perception of the game. The casual draw of the crossovers has been incredible for wotc earning them record profits all while the quality of the cards decline (like the physical actual cardboard is flimsy and poor). The new players tend to not engage as deeply as already enfrachised players and so don't really care about the game becoming something different to the game we loved and grew up with. It's all just really depressing.

Derrick wears Vaseline-filled socks

Chris using the term “Hooverville” wrong for the second time when he means “company town”. lol 🤓

Daddy T

It’s Tim Gettys

Derrick wears Vaseline-filled socks

I’m gonna guess Destin Legarie.

Jacob Lesperance

The only reason things are even half affordable is because they are made in Canada and Mexico. The dollar isn't worth as much here. Ex. If you work for Stellantis in Detroit. You make $36 an hour. Canada $43. $36 US is $52 Canadian. We are way cheaper, and that dosnt include huge health care packages the companies have to pay for on the American side. They don't have to do that here cause our health care is provided by the government. Auto parts supplier margins are only 12% And its only that way cause the currency of the countries they work in our cheaper. Speaking on tje protections. The 80% wage when on unemployment is already paid for. 60% of that is unemployment from the government. The other 20% is from credits that are already paid for in a float. Them pulling out of the country dosnt effect that, only pensions. And maximum unemployment is Michigan is 20 weeks. Canada it's 52 weeks. I'm sorry to say your country has horrible worker protections. Considering they just got rid of consumer financial agencies and gutted the department of labor, this current administration isn't interested in helping the working people this will affect.

DOGE enthursist

Man, It seems that I’ve stumbled into a group therapy session of weak men having a cry together. You shouldn’t really do these in public it’s embarrassing

Forrest Hunter

Holy shit, I totally forgot about the crackling that Cloves would make!!! That memory hit me DEEP !

Ryan

If you, as a fully grown adult male, can’t fill out a standard Large t shirt… that’s a you problem. #twinks #twinkarmy

Ryan

King

Murderer Kevin

In this meme the dog says "this is fine" but... we don't think this is fine, how could we possibly think the situation is fine

Joshua Jones

You’re literally the dog in the house on fire meme lmao

Daddy T

Can always count on Smyths for coming in clutch with the prices hahahaha

Daddy T

Fits the bill for Sacred Symbols

Stephen Lucey

Forza Horizon 5 date and pricing must have just missed press time. Easy win for Colin’s 2025 draft.

Matt The Outlaw 🤠

Me feeling infinitely inferior because I've moved from an XL down to Medium in the last year

Matt The Outlaw 🤠

Satan

Seth

Are you positive about this? What happens if the American Company just pulls out of Canada altogether? How would the Canadian Auto Union workers even claim money? The workers wouldn't be laid off, there would simply be no company to work for. You can't require a company that doesn't exist pay 80% of wages to employees it has 0 responsibility for. Also, yes we do have those same protections or at least similar (not sure of timeframes) within our Auto Unions as well. We should not be building much of anything in Canada or Mexico when we have dwindling Jobs here and our Manufacturing towns are blown out hellscapes now because we were sold out by our previous administrations for the last 50 years. Do you guys have Large blown out (Previously booming) cities with average household incomes below 35k like Detroit, Rockford, or Gary? (You don't) Then on top of that we pay huge amounts of tax dollars to pay to protect the entire west from being taken over by China and Russia and meanwhile your gov can spend it on silencing free speech and push shit cultural ideologies all over the world. I like Canadians but our administration is the first one in many decades to even mention how unfair the relationship is. Sorry if this seems aggressive, but my hometown is a blown out, sold off manufacturing town with 70k people and median household income around 30k. It's literal hell there is nothing like that in all of Canada from what I can find.

Daddy T

Who’s the old friend Colin was talking about interviewing I wonder?

Murderer Kevin

It is tho. When his country was invaded by an aggressor he stepped up. All Trump does is lie and shout, he tells about 10% of truth in there and some people seem to believe all the lies that go with it. I will give Trump props for not being Vance, that guy tried to tell Zelensky to his face that he understood the war better because he'd "seen the news", laughable.

Big titty drinker

lol at Chris not liking black myth wukong because he felt more nimble in elden ring. Here we go again using elden ring to critique games that are not even trying to do what that game did. Like I get that Dustin and Chris love Elden ring but the criticism of “ oh well in Elden ring this , and in Elden ring that” is getting VERY stale and annoying from both of them. Like by no means is Elden ring a bad game but get off its dick already Dustin and Chris. You guys don’t have to compare everything to Elden ring when you critique games.

Theotokos Respecter

Extremely corny to call Zelensky an ‘actual leader’. r/politics behavior

Jeece

Offering the option to order xl and up sizes in last stand shirts and then judging people for buying them all if so fucking funny

Michael McCoy

I disagree that it’s not good enough to be worth the effort, the problem is that the entire game has to be based around it.

Derrick wears Vaseline-filled socks

Wow, nothing on that scammy shovelware company, huh? Gotta assume it’s not quite meeting Colin’s journalistic standards yet, because I found it fascinating as hell.

Birds Aren't Real

Because it's not patentable. It's just rage bait for people who refuse to do research. The system itself isn't patented, but the specific way it's implemented is. Anyone can do it. Racing games have been doing it for years. Its just not a good enough system to be worth the effort.

NeO JD

I like how Colin talks about what the future of the show would look like and if the boys would leave before him and then he’s the one that leaves in the episode. 😅

Frank G.

A pari pari pari. That's all mmmm bitches god I hate the new warner bros. Thank God DC atleast has James Gunn. My hearts always had a place for the warner characters. Now with that old CEO gone we can aliviate what's been hurt and get back to some good content. Rip Cartoon Network.

Deemac

To Dustin's question regarding pricing of new games on launch day: I'm in Ireland, and I can currently order Monster Hunter Wilds off Amazon for €67, or in my local toy/games store for €65. It's €80 on PSN

Dan Morgan

💯

latenitecali

Take care guys? 😂

Context Should Matter

Why is one patentable and the other isn’t?

Jacob Lesperance

Just a little tidbit for Tariffs between Canada and the US. Specifically focused on auto. If the tariffs go into place the entire North American auto industry will go down in just 1 week. Canadian auto employees from the unionized plants have a 1 year safety net. They make 80% of their wage if they are laid off for up to 1 year. The auto companies aren't going to move, it's just way cheaper to make them in Canada and parts in Mexico. American auto employees do not have these same protections. It will be devastating to the US auto worker employees. As a Canadian, who did two tours in Afghanistan, I love our neighbors. It ain't the people I got a problem with, it's your current administration.

Big Dumb Stupid Idiot

It's always nice when your fucking stupid ass username gets a laugh from the boys

DOGE enthursist

Sounds like all of you have skill issues, sucks to suck I guess hope it gets worse

TIger Castle

Does Micah go into the doctors room with Colin like he’s her 9 year old boy and needs a parent there to supervise?

Pianopower

@Doge the world is not doing great. I dunno what blessings you are having, but it sounds personal

PairOfShuse

It’s very possible they are but you want to make sure that you are taking the proper dose so you don’t end up taking too much or too little. Normal doses go anywhere between 1000 and 50,000 units.

Ben

What if I spend very little time outside? (It’s cold as balls) I’m 95% sure my vitamin D levels have gotta be low

Michael McCoy

The Nemesis System is essentially the core of the Mordor games, for example there’s an in game hierarchy of orcs right? Specific orcs grow stronger after killing you and will also adapt to your strategies, they’ll also replace other orcs on the hierarchy as they grow in strength. It has been awhile since i’ve played but it’s very different from just repeating boss encounters

Zack

Also. There's SO much they could do with middle earth, but thankfully, the Tolkien estate still keeps a pretty tight hold on things. But even so, even if studios only had access to the 3 books and the appendices, a lot could be done. But that requires effort

Michael McCoy

Agreed, I need some escapism after being embarrassed by dumb and dumber today while they had a tantrum at an actual leader.

Zack

Sooooo Tolkien did actually write that orcs would reproduce the same way the elves did in the Silmarillion. However. Not once was the depiction of an orc family put to paper by him

Murderer Kevin

Ah good to see you again Doge my friend, nah everything's great, definitely don't have the world's biggest cunt in charge of the US with a second in command whose an even worse hillbilly inbred fuck 🤣 honestly if Americans could see how the rest of the world sees them rn...

Jay McGraw

Love the 'Take care guys' getting faded out at the end as they awkwardly forget how colin closes the show 😂

DOGE enthursist

The worlds going great, idk what problems you’re having but it sounds personal

Haru Discourse

First song on the moon should have been Walking on The Moon by The Police tbh…

JustInsane

Lego HQ was in Enfield CT for 50 years and they had a huge factory. However they recently moved out.

Sweet Jones

Thanks for reading my comment ☺️ honored

Sweet Jones

No. Just be as clean as you can I'd say. If it's an issue they will do it 😉

Henry Velasco

Shoutout to Mad Men

Murderer Kevin

Glad we have gaming in this fucked up world

Allan Sweeney

Just wanted to say as a Canadian who has felt somewhat morally conflicted on what I'm choosing to support recently I really appreciate not downplaying the situation and giving us some love! My loonies and toonies will continue to head Colin's way.

Context Should Matter

How is Nemesis system different that Gary Oak showing up multiple times in Red and Blue and challenging you? I don't get it.

Kelzilla

Another beefy episode! Thanks sacred gang!

Seth

It's pretty obvious that mass layoffs in the gaming industry are necessary. Look at how long and how large these budgets are and how mediocre the games are. Mass Effect 1 2 and 3 all released within 5 years. Those games are all amazing, then they literally mass hired the new generation of activist college grads and 1 game took 5 years and was significantly worse than any of the previous titles. Then they kept hiring more and more of them and now it's been 8 years without so much as a screenshot of the game. The entire industry needs to cleanse out those college activist types they all mass hired and go back to smaller teams of passionate artistic nerds making games. Fingers crossed for 28k this year. Fuck em.

Heezy

Is it proper etiquette to shave your butthole prior to a colonoscopy? Assking for a friend.

Zac

Dustin to all the youngsters using Ohio as slang: "my culture is not your costume"

E_DOUBLE

The fiberglass is in the filter. If you cut the filter on an angle, heat it, and press down on it with something hard you can make a little knife out of it. Something I always kept in the back of my mind in case i went to prison

PairOfShuse

Nah that’s C and other water soluble vitamins. K, A, D, and E all build up

Aaron B Vick

Don't you piss out excess vitamin d

Stray_Bullets

If you see da police, warn a brotha

Deemac

Old man Moriarty had to go get his vitals checked, so the kids closed the show. They grow up so fast 😥

PairOfShuse

Dustin, or anyone - don’t just take vitamin d. Go get your levels taken first. You can take too much vitamin d as it’s a fat soluble vitamin. It can and will build up in your system potentially causing other issues.