Thank you for talking about accessibility in gaming, Connor. Disabled people are often forgotten about, left behind, or considered to be not worth the effort, so seeing you speak about this is really meaningful.
Garnt- "I like Genshin" Connor- "that sounds like an ad read" *Also Connor* - "APEX LEGENDS IS A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AWARD WINNING FPS BATTLE ROYALE SHOOTER..."
Handball is one of the only sports I actually liked when I was in school. It's like soccer meets basketball. You dribble the ball and throw it in the goal etc.
When Joey said tennis I started laughing so hard, it's more like soccer and basket having a child, it's not even close to tennis 😭 I think he got confused with squash
I didn't think of Ironmouse, Connor's take sounded so genuine and actually caring that I'd rather not get that side of the community like "Shipping" them more and taking other spin on his take :C
@@hola37899 I don't think it had anything to do with shipping.... just that she is his friend. She doesn't currently have issues with gaming but it could unfortunately become a reality. I'm sure they have a lot of fun gaming together; it would only make sense that he would always want her to be able to continue.
@@allenbocephus oh, that's exactly my point, Connor sounded like he cared a lot about the subject, that's why I don't like the mention of Mouse too much, because it attracts that side of the community (The side that will do anything to "ship" them)
The bois talking about accessible gaming, we love to see it. As someone who's disabled, I struggle with using controllers sometimes so being able to adjust controls to how they work best for me is amazing. Love seeing large creators discussing accessibility options in a positive light! Accessibility in gaming benefits EVERYONE!
So long as we are separating dificulty from accesability in the argument, I'm full support of providing whatever extra options. Why the separation? Because there are loads of pathetic people who use disabled people as literal meatshields to beg for easy modes on games that weren't designed for them. It becomes very obvious once you see literal crippled people (without hands) playing stuff like fighters at tournament level skills with just their arms and a arcade Fight stick setup. Basically I believe accesability should be about giving disabled people the tools to make it possible for them to play at the same level as regular people, instead of being condesending and just throw an easy mode at them.
@@tumamaencosplay Yes, a way to have the controls be made more accessible or just for personal preferences without needing to just go "oh, we made you unkillable and invincible and all the enemies have half health" is a preferable alternative for most games, but some games imo are fine with the easy mode difficulty. Devil May Cry 5 actually does my favorite difficulty type, where bosses and enemies alike don't exclusively become meat shields (they have more health too, but there's more). Adding new functions, new attacks, new complexity is imo the best way to do difficulty adjustments, but not everyone has the time and care to give to a game to meet the standard of DMC. Accessibility is a different thing entirely, having settings to allow people with disabilities to make the experience better and easier to play on a physical level. I'm slightly colorblind, the least intrusive disability, but I'm extremely excited when I see colorblind modes that help me distinguish reds and greens better for things like important objectives or teams.
@@ksad96 Actually I'm not against the existence of difficulty modes existing, so long as the game designer CHOSE themselves to implement them because he thought that was for the best. I'm VERY MUCH against people trying to shame developers into implementing easy modes when they already had chosen not to. I believe both easy and hard games, for them to be good, REQUIRE their entire design to revolve around said difficulty, and if there is to be a difficulty mode, each mode needs just as much care to be good, even GOOD easy modes need that care you talked about. But yes, it's also why it's a completely different topic to accessibility, and trying to mix the two, only slows downs research and development into actual features that these people need. People like to bring up celeste and it's glorified cheatcode list as a good example of doing things right, but it's exactly the opposite, or at least it is if you don't separate difficulty from accesibility, because a disabled person that desires to play at the same level as a abled person only finds cheatcodes disguised as accessibility options, and therefore, while they are ok as alternative easy features for those who want them, making them a normal "accessibility" feature would only slow down research into the area, as companies would pretend they did serve disabled people through dificulty options.
It's cause these guys aren't "gamers." They just play for fun rather than are paid to do it, plus these "gaming" channels don't even play the games they talk about nowadays.
Legit, there’s a couple gaming channels I still watch that are just gaming, especially the horror game gamers. And then the others reviews are sterile and watered down to the point you play the game it’s not what you expect.
Every Friday I send my close friends a meme of doge saying Congratulations you made it to Friday Retard, with krusty krabs theme playing. I've been doing this for 4 months now.
As a Welsh person, hearing Connor say the exact same thing I told my English friends about the Euros Final and why I didn't want them to win shows how ingrained the "anyone but England" mentality is amongst us. 😂
1:40:00 I know I'm late, but I wanted to explain why that method (probably) worked. The "red ring of death" happens because the solder connections for the CPU and GPU to the motherboard become "disconnected". Some of them still connect, others don't, so the console gives an error. A temporary fix is to apply more pressure on the CPU and GPU to force those connections back together, but that's an unoptimal solutions and probably won't hold long term. How you're "supposed" to fix it is by re-heating the solder connections (reflow), basically re-soldering the chips onto the motherboard. What Grant did was probably a ghetto version of this, where you heat up the console / CPU + GPU to a point where the solder melts on its own and reconnects the components. That this is dangerous and not very good for the hardware is probably self-evident.
Literally was having a conversation with a few friends about this the other day. My mate used to wrap it in a towel and hotbox it in the towel for £20 a pop for his mates to reconnect the motherboard for like 2 weeks till that red ring came back. Dude made bank
@@HollowPurple-if2co theres been majored chefs who just cant cook some dishes vice versa. Just bc he has a major doesnt mean he is an expert in everything within that area
For anyone who wants to know about the Red Ring of Death: So due to certain market/health restraints, Microsoft had to use a substandard kind of solder to connect the internal heat sink to the board. The internal temperature of the Xbox 360 could get above the melting point of this solder. If the heat sink became disconnected from the board, you get the Red Ring of Death. The reason the towel method had any success was because it would purposely overheat the Xbox to melt the solder and you would hope that it reconnected.
It wasn't the heat sink, but that was part of the cause, the X shaped bracket that held it on flexed the board slightly so when the solder on the cpu got too hot the legs detached from the board, so the towel trick had a chance for the solder to re-melt and reconnect to them. The second time mine RRod'ed I actually dismantled it and manually soldered it myself.
@@tiny5th im calling bs on this one dude lol. anyone that knows how reflowing works knows damn well that without specialized equipment theres no way you just took it apart and did it by hand lol. those cpus arent pin based they're legit tiny solder balls on the bottom that require specialized hardware that can cost up to $20k lol so unless you're some big time electrical engineer theres just no chance you did anything by hand. maybe you took a heat gun to the cpu but i shouldn't need to explain why thats not a good idea if you actually knew what you were talking about lol
@@tiny5th one more thing ill add is the xclamps on the back werent there to flex the board they were there to do the exact opposite. they kept the board from flexing under the heat of the system.
@@roidsaccounts9565 Of course they weren't designed to flex the board XD what moron would want that to happen, but it still did. And the old 360 one was just a QFP not a full on BGA from what I remember. I work for an electronics company so had access to some of the kit.
@@tiny5th nah if you go as far back as the xenon motherboards which were the first revision of the 360 its always been full bga and no the clamps didn't flex the board lol ive got well over 100+ hours of experience working on 360s and the only time i encountered flexed boards was when i got a console that didnt have the clamps because some idiot thought they weren't necessary to put back
"Imagine if Dragon's Den was in Japan." Fun Fact:- Dragon's Den is inspired from a Japanese TV show called "Tigers of Money" which aired from 2001 to 2004 on NHK.
Did you think the Olympics weren't anime enough with all the themes playing? well in Mexico and some other Latin American countries, they got the Spanish voice actors for Goku and Vegeta to be the commentators for the events. I can't believe Latin America technically had Olympics that were more anime than Japan.
@@joshsmith2178 I had to Google it to make sure you weren't yanking my chain but it looks like you weren't. Good to know. Though by how many likes my comment got looks like I'm not the only American who didn't know.
1:09:44 Pre-orders actually used to matter imo because games were primarily sold physically and would actually sell out. With the shift towards games being bought digitally primarily its importance has declined significantly
As someone who doesn't care about sports I'm with Connor. The opening and ending ceremony are actually the part I care less. The sports themselves are pretty fun because of the narrative and seeing the people trying to achieve their dreams and all the energy, etc...
i'm a "casual sports enjoyer" (=P), there are certain sports i enjoy watching(like volleyball, gymnastics, athletics, swimming and some others), and enjoy them even more when i care enough to root for a team\country to win (if it's an individual and i don't know about them i root for them if they seem like "they've got potential" or just trying their hardest, you can see it when it happens), so the Olympics is just SUCH a fun time of two weeks and i look forward for it whenever it happens. but yeah the narrative is also one of most fun aspects, especially when the commentator recalls the athlete's entire history in the sport, and how they've climbed and gotten better and better each tournament! OR they're a newbie but somehow made it in the Olympic scene, you can't help but to root for them. it's just fun, like Connor said, to be able to flip channels and you're almost guaranteed to find something interesting and fun to watch.
I always feel bad about myself for wanting to play games on easy mode but then I try to remind myself that games are meant to be fun, and maybe I'm more interested in story and exploration than combat, and there's nothing wrong with playing a game like that. I'm looking for escapism, not necessarily a serious challenge.
Story-focus games I always pick easy on the first run cause I don't wanna spend half an hour on a boss fight, it's just ruin the story's enjoyment for me, if I wanna have a challenge then I'll do it on the second run, if I don't come back for a second run then the game isn't worth half an hour of boss fight anyways
@@hornitako7006 I literally played Persona 5 the first time on safe mode because i was so afraid my lack of skill would take away from the extremely engaging story, and I wanted to do everything possible to get the good ending. My second run I played on normal, though. Best of both worlds. I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima right now and I keep flip flopping between normal and easy mode, I've powered up enough to breeze past most of the combat on normal mode but there's still that occasional encounter that completely wrecks me but I'm in it for the story and the exploration more than anything else so if there's a difficulty spike later on (I'm still pretty early-game), I'm shifting to easy mode permanently without hesitation. Wish there wasn't a stigma against that sort of thing.
We're all looking for something different. I like a big challenge that takes me time to complete but that makes me feel accomplished when i finally beat it. There's not a stigma against easy modes, it's that some games require a level of difficulty for the experience, and some people threaten that exclusivity. People like the "club" of "I beat x boss, did you?" and it's a badge of honour. You strip that away with a difficulty bar, even if the player does not alter it, because there is the possibility he did. It kills the "shared experience" where everyone felt the same terror and everyone overcame the same obstacle. The "shared experience" is incredibly important, it allows people to talk for HOURS about a game that they both share the same experience in. The existence of a difficulty level threatens this. If Dark Souls was inherently easier, I would not have enjoyed it as much. If I had the option to dumb down the difficulty when i struggled, I may give in and I would never feel a sense of success that was as the designer intended. There's a stigma against being so bad at things that if that thing catered to your level of skill, it would change the product for other customers in a non-beneficial manner. I actively expect and accept that stigma. I suck at C:DDA, so frustrating, and yet if I start with a character that has artificially raised stats, it simply becomes boring. Sometimes it's OK to accept that a product is not for you. Not everything is for me either. that same fear you feel in P5 I am feeling as I play P3 FES, assuming it will be so much harder than it actually is, and facing the final boss waaaay beyond the level I should be, because of fear and caution. That makes me take the game seriously, though. That stress is part of the experience, and you only get better by learning through failure after failure. Refusing to fail by adding slack through a difficulty slider means you don't get better. I love stories that are intensely difficult. It seasons the story and makes progression through it even more fun. Surpassing a boss in a Yakuza game on Legendary difficulty and limiting yourself to no healing items feels good. It feels inherently good to surpass that obstacle - that feeling of success that is directly rooted in a high difficulty is so adored that most uploaders of Yakuza content intentionally restrict and limit themselves, lest the game become too easy. They actively make the games harder for themselves because this produces more fun for some customers, customers that aren't you. Not all games are flexible enough to be balanced and fun at any difficulty and that is a thing to consider. I love stories that you make up yourself entirely, like Dwarf Fortress. I am sure in ten years when my reaction times begin to wane, I will complain about difficulty too! What an essay. Sorry >.
@@AdamOwenBrowning That’s why games have different modes. I like a good challenge here and there as well, and I’m learning to venture past my fear of difficult to beat bosses and mind wracking puzzles because I’ve been getting more and more into gaming lately. I used to be more of a ‘casual gamer’ but I’m a lot more interested in excelling at games (or at least being competent at them now) than I was a couple years ago. I’m not saying games need to be ‘dumbed down’ - easy and story modes exist for a reason. Same goes for hard and merciless modes. A little bit for everyone. Because while I may enjoy a good challenge, I’m definitely primarily in it for the escapism and the worlds I get to immerse myself in - so if something feels ridiculously impossible in a game - it tends to diminish my enjoyment of it because it starts to feel like a chore (i.e the very last gym mini game/side quest with Jules in the FF7 Remake) - poor game design, built for people with the reflexes of dexterous toddlers on steroids. And I wasn’t the only one who felt that way, I’ve seen complaints about it in several forums. People spending hours and even days on it playing it in rapid succession before finally managing to beat it for a relatively crappy in game reward. Anyway, I get what you mean. I’m starting to appreciate the challenge some of my favorite games present me with. I can’t wait to dive back into God of War before Ragnarok comes out and try to beat all the Valkyries. That said, I’m definitely not somebody who needs or necessarily wants an intensely difficult challenge just for the sake of it. Accomplishment obviously feels great but sometimes it gets frustrating (I’ve been trying my hand at a survival game like Subnautica lately but boy does it get tedious having to manage my resources and farm for hours just in order to be able to explore freely). Also accessibility in games is important. I’m not old, but I didn’t grow up glued to my controller. I’m not an experienced gamer. There are people with disabilities who can’t match the reaction time of an abled person. Games should cater to everyone who plays them - especially in a time when they’re becoming more mainstream, so ‘not for customers like you’ isn’t an excuse. Games have extremely difficult and extremely easy modes for a reason, in order to be inclusive of anybody who’s interested in playing the game.
I've never really been bothered by choosing the lower difficulty when I wanted to because of my personal experience with my brother who has cognitive disabilities. He can only play games on easy mode or he won't be able to play at all. If he can sit there and enjoy himself fully while playing the game not as intended, then I feel no guilty in doing the same when I want to chill. I'd rather people have an experience the directors didn't intend for the players, than have no experience at all. If games simply have a "this mode is not the intended experience" notification during their difficulty selection so as to let players know that there is a certain way to play that game, then those who want to play as intended can do so, and those that don't want to / can't play at those higher difficulties still get to take *something* from the game. Just don't do what Wolfenstein 2 (?) did and shame people for playing at a lower level. Did not enjoy seeing that kind of content being presented towards those who pick that level and happen to have disabilities. There have been games where I had to help my brother get through a level because he cannot mash a button very quickly or have a quick reaction time. Hell, I have low vision and auditory processing disorders meaning many games like Borderlands 2 was impossible for me to play because I could not make out what was on the screen. Or like many FPS games which rely on (poor) visual/audio cues to indicate when you were being hit, and I simply could not hear/see them (think Resident Evil 2 Remake or Overwatch). So easier modes are the only way we could play.
as a 24 years old guy, this is the most relatable content I have seen in my entire life. It almost feel like the market doesn't give a fuck about us anymore, is all about the kids and you have to watch that in silence knowing damn well how cringe they are but also knowing deep inside you heart you would probably were like them and that make you feel weird bc you are not really old and also you are not really a kid. Life is weird
button remapping is a god send; I have cerebral palsy, and my right side is more adversely affected so being able to fire with left, or set quick time events to only need one successful press has made so many games actually playable.
Agree. While I have nothing wrong with me, it's far easier to play games now with my elite controllers where I can shoot, reload, crouch, move, look & interact with the environment at the same time without moving my thumbs off the thumbsticks. Specially now with the controllers you can modify the sensitivity of them, I basically play with PC-like settings, playing right up to the limits of the game engine. I can't go back playing with regular controllers or any hardware input device that will limit my abilities within some game.
For the subtitling discussion, as an Italian dude I thought I was just not good enough to understand original English audio of movies when they were basically whispering even though they are supposed to be talking normally, I'm glad to hear that even native speakers struggle with it
honestly, button remapping is a pro gamer move, maximize efficiency with the most comfortable layout. proof that Connor is the only real gamer on the show
@@FredMaverik i'm not saying if it's a good idea or not. He's complaning that he can't re-map a joysticks layout...well...you can...not only they let you choose from differents layouts (if you don't like the default one) but you can also go to windows xbox and re-map your joystick with the app to your personal liking
I didn’t even think it was that much of a “pro gamer” thing to do. Like you how could you not remap the controls whenever you’re playing an old fps where holding down the sights is fucking L-shift or Z.
While the song "Song of the Ancients" did play in NieR Automata it is actually originally from NieR Replicant and fits pretty accurate to the worlds current state of being plagued by a deadly disease.
Ugh, Connor bringing up the videos about pranking someone by turning off their consoles while playing reminded me of another prank genre I despise. The parents pranking their kids by making them cry genre. Like, it's just straight up abuse. Like blaming the kid for something they didn't and filming them crying and breaking down? It's fucked up. Or when parents give their kids a present that obviously in an expensive box but they've switched out their contents? Like, that's so mean. It's always filmed as "Look at these spoiled brats, not being grateful for their socks, they just want iPads and phones!", but like, if you get their hopes up and then trick them, of course they'll be sad! And there are so many videos where the kids are just trying not to cry because they know they are being filmed, and it's just sad. Parents need to stop exploiting their kids for views, man.
fr those videos are straight up child abuse. My least favorite one is where this little kid (like less than 12) got straight A's in school. So the parents got them a "cake" to celebrate, candles, the whole shebang. This kid is hyped. The kid cuts into it and it's just a roll of toilet paper. You could just see this kid's soul getting crushed as their parents just laugh at them, and I'm pretty sure the kid ends up crying and the parents still keep laughing. That kind of shit is so cruel. I'd never to that kind of things to any kid, let alone my own.
Reminds me of a UA-cam channel called Daddy-O-five (correct me if I'm wrong) it's about this family who somehow made the youngest kid being the target of abuse. Fortunately the account got banned even though it took like 6 months (?)
@@epsorks Taiwan is the name of the Island. Offically since the Chinese Civil War never technically ended, the Kuomintang that control mainland China fled to Taiwan in exile, so the Republic of China still exists despite practically no one recognising it.
i loved your take on accessibility controls for physically challenged people. I am a physically challenged person myself with a disability on all 4 limbs and the only way i am able to play games is if they have accessibility options and button remapping
I remember reading an article saying the Olympic opening ceremony was meant to be a lot grander. Nintendo was supposed to feature but pulled out, and I think it said it was meant to start with an Akira themed thing. Not sure if it was accurate but sound damn cool.
Just want to chime in with a joy con drift fix. I used WD40 electronics spray (any other brand would work I'm sure). You put it in underneath the thumbsticks, there's a little silicon flap you can safely raise as it's not glued down. I've done this for friends too and they haven't had the issues return over a year. You don't need screwdrivers, you don't need special skills, just lift the flap with the nozzle of the electronics spray.
I've thought of a perfect comparison for that "turn off the console while they're playing" thing. Imagine someone is making pottery. They've just spent the past two hours taking a lump of clay and carefully, diligently shaping it into a beautifully designed vase. They're smiling, happy, and enjoying themselves. Some utter fuckwit comes in and smashes the (soft) clay, reducing it to an ugly lump. They then proceed to laugh and point as they record the person getting mad that two hours of their hard work was just destroyed unceremoniously by some fuckwit. The clay can be reshaped, and the vase made again. But it'll never be quite the same as the first time it was made, and it'll be much less enjoyable, and even then, their effort was destroyed for no fucking reason.
25:55 To be fair, I did actually eventually forget that there was nobody watching the ceremony. At some points the stadium was dark and it really looked like there were just many people wearing different coloured clothing.
I might know nothing about the lore of this podcast but, i surely know that "the triangle" will become one of the awardw nominees of the best guest of the year.
@@Accordstome that's what i thought!! because i played Automata very recently (of which the soundtrack was absolutely amazing and i loved it!), and while it sounded extremely familiar, like i "recognized the sound", but i knew it must've been from the other games because it didn't sound exactly the same as anything i remember hearing in the game xD
Not sure if someone mentioned this yet, but one Pokemon game (Black and White 2) actually did have difficulty modes! The normal mode was the only one available at the start, and an easy mode and hard mode would be unlocked after the game was completed (I think you could unlock the modes at the start if you have a second game that was finished though). Pokemon being Pokemon, the easy and hard mode were actually version exclusive, and you had to connect opposite games to unlock all 3 modes.
Regarding subtitles in games and "why don't they just give us all these options": You know what makes it even worse? It's software. They just need to write it once and they can literally re-use the same code in any subsequent game. Sure, it will still require some work to integrate it, but the vast majority only needs to be done ONCE. There really isn't much excuse not to do it.
@@karlussdominion3089 No he is Greek and his name is Miltiadis Tendoglou, as for other athletes, Im pretty sure that many made anime references( like aot, sailor moon, One piece etc).
As someone who is disabled and often has trouble using certain buttons I’m super happy to hear Connor talk about accessibility! I use button mapping all the time, and it allows me to play video games that i would otherwise have a lot of trouble playing
Connor repping accessibility was really nice man :') I have horrendeous vision, most accessibility is jank in video games. The last of us accessibility sounded amazing. And what he said about the subs is true as well. Make it highly customizable.
Can we appriciate, that it took the boys a whole year to have ONE technical problem that is visible for the viewer? Like god damn you do a great work off camera. I'm talking about the black... stain? on the up right corner of the screen
1:57:18 "You can traumatize them" so many memories of me and my cousin watching those jumpscare videos on early 2000 ....aaaaah the horrors....and nightmares those videos brought to our younger siblings...magic.
Pretty sad that these "gamers" think that having these options, which they clearly would not HAVE to use, would somehow ruin whatever game it is for them.
@@yellowcard8100 Even in that case...literally what is the problem outside of "Other people are going to play the game differently from how *I* want them to play it!"
@@ROBOTPETER101 when the difficulty is a big part of the game, then having an easy mode really takes away from that experience. Like dark souls isn’t a fucking story game, it’s a grueling game of trial and error, make it easy and where’s the fun
You mean the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime?
Ngl I strongly agree with Connor in that mainline Pokemon games should have a harder difficulty setting. Yes nuzlocks were invented for this issue, but with recent games, I wish npc trainers were smarter. Like, imagine if in a random encounter they just revived their pokemon with an item. I also miss when gym leaders had full 6 team pokemon. Not 4. Now only the League has 6 pokemon each and maybe the last 2 gyms. And maybe they could buff up your rival more like when they at least chose the pokemon with type advantage over you
The reason the opening for the Olympics was crap was said to be due to Dentsu, one of the biggest advertising agencys in the world. Originally MIKIKO (choreographer for Perfume, Babymetal, etc) was in charge of doing the opening and had this awesome idea involving the bike from Akira and Naomi Watanabe with a "passing of the torch" theme, but behind MIKIKO's back one of Dentsu`s people snuck in a different idea despite the IOC agreeing with MIKIKO`s idea originally. MIKIKO couldn`t say anything explicitly but she did tweet about the situation some months ago. Really sad...
Exactly, i'm surprised the boys didn't talk about this. It was pretty public news. The original agency was completely replaced and essentially a skeleton crew was left to pick up the pieces. Not to mention the leader composer for the opening ceremony had huge backlash following self-proclaimed abuse toward handicapped people, but he didn't end up leaving the position until a few days before the opening ceremony. And of course, COVID and all that; there was discussion about how "happy" the opening ceremony "should be," being too serious would make everyone sadder during a time where people didn't want to think of the bleakness of what's happening in the world, but too happy could be seen as a mockery of what's happening too, and I think organizers spent too much time thinking about that.
I finally caught up on all of trash taste in order from episode one, including all the specials and after dark episodes. It's gonna be weird going from bingeing to watching weekly.
51:17 Apparently Dragon's den is actually based on a japanese show called tigers of money. So the whole bit about how the dragon's den could never work in japan is really funny.
The original blueprints for the opening ceremony that were released for the public to see would have been so dope. Too bad lots of drama went down that disrupted the planning.
23:40 about the budget, a lot of the main sponsors of the Olympics stepped out at the last moment because of the Covid situation in Japan and they didn't want to be associated with it anymore. I remember Toyota being one of them
I feel Connor on rooting against England. Everybody was do obnoxious during the recent Euro event, that I was quietly rooting for Italy to win so everybody would just shut up about it, and I got my wish
@@balabanasireti I think sports has a way of drawing the worst out of people, but the English epitomize that, I pray we keep losing until the day this shitty little rock sinks and we become little more than a story parents tell their children at night to scare them into brushing their teeth
Do you really want the one country You happen to live in to sink? Do you remember hate your own country that much? I find it hard to understand how you could harbor that sort of belief unless you want to die
Yes guys, I definitely did not know these episodes are prerecorded. My point is definitely not that I'm making fun of how the one time they're talking about something relevant, it's already 2 weeks old. They definitely didn't already say multiple times that a lot of these episodes are prerecorded guys yeah nah definitely
Satoru Iwata had a special assignment for the people designing it: There wasn't allowed to be any damage whatsoever after dropping it from chest height. And they actually did it.
I remember the Xbox 360 towel trick! If I remember right, the red ring of death was mostly caused by a manufacturing defect where a solder point somewhere would eventually come loose, covering it with a towel and preventing the Xbox from cooling itself meant that over a long enough period of time the solder point would start to melt and then reflow between the points so it would get a good connection again. I think the reason why it seemed random whether a console would work after the towel trick or not was due to how close the failed solder point was to a hot component like the CPU, the closer it was the more likely you could get it to reflow.
In regards to the “Weird TikTok trends” section, that was the first thing that I was shown from Tiktok and seen when I downloaded it; just the screen cut into two, with some Microsoft Sam reading a headline of an article that was CUT OFF, and some dude who raised his eyebrows staring at the screen for the whole 20 seconds. It had 600k likes. And then I found out that people just use the same… “sound?” I had three people send me three separate tiktoks using the same exact sound making the same exact joke almost word for word just different people, each having at least 200k likes. I think I am a bitter old man now lol
Red Ring of Death is caused by the thermal paste on the chip....hence why overheating it with a towel might cause the paste to spread out and properly cover the chip. I have replaced the Paste a few times for myself and friends. ✌
Most of us Americans don't watch actually TV anymore except older people, i just use streaming services so I don't get ads and that's most people nowadays
28:37 Y'all forgetting about the Saturday morning Sonic cartoons that help keep in relevant in the late 90s and early 2000s onward. Maybe didn't air in the UK and Australia though...
I'm from the Cayman Islands!!!! Connor said Cayman Islands!!!! Is this how the pirates in One Piece feel like when they get their first wanted posters? Yes, Yes It Is!!!!!!!!
I feel like in pokemon games, in the beginning when you create your character, there should be a question along the lines of "are you a returning player to pokemon?" That could potentially get rid of the hand holding and just explain the new gimmick and storyline and maybe allow you to skip some cut scenes (like in the start, when they're introducing the basic construct of pokemon).
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was one of the best games I've ever played. With being able to choose good or evil and raise chaos was awesome. Idk how they could hate on that and say there r no good 3d sonic games.
I mean, them hiiting on sonic games while also enjoying crappy anime is a wtf moment. Like bruh, have you seen the recent pokemon games? Unfinished garbage, yet it still sells cuz blind brand loyalty (just like sonic, lol).
I felt this way about Castlevania, especially Trevor's and sometimes Alucard's lines. So many times I had to run it back because I didn't understand them and it doesn't help that both mutter to themselves a lot. Thank goodness it released on a streaming service where I could do that, or else I may have been forced to drop it. Phenomenal show but I would kill for it to be re-released with louder audio when characters speak.
The Boys: "Entertainment nowadays is too front-loaded with advertising" This episode of Trash Taste: "Hold my -beer- limited edition mug!" Stay classy guys!
Hi Son, What a great episode! I particularly liked the part about Grant saying his biggest pet peeve as a child was people with greasy fingers touching his controller. I loved playing with my neighbour as a kid, but god, she ALWAYS had greasy fingers and I would ALWAYS have to clean my controller after she used it. Anyways, keep up the good work. - Dad
Thats what I love about Monster Hunter, it doesn't have a difficulty that you need to select. The skaling of difficulty as you hunt monster after monster is great game mechanic.
i feel like i got lucky just getting pshifer since i only got dizziness and sore arm on first, and nothing on second (getting third soon due to being chronic ill). But hearing Joey describe waking up with all joints hurts is just my vurrent daily day// So i'm glad connor talks about accessibility cuz sometimes my spine just don't exsist some days, and my knees are horrible atm
Today's my birthday most of my friends are on holiday so i unfortunately i have to spend it at home. I forgot that the podcast comes out on Friday so this was a great birthday present
ye funny people always say something is dying when its getting bigger than ever. Maybe judt because they dont like it anymore thry feel that way. I hate nintendos bad marketing and bare bone games but they are never gonna die lol
Mass Effect, Borderlands, Fallout...NOW you're speaking my language. I'm right there with you Garnt when it comes to Mass Effect. It was fun listening to you all talk about some of my favorite games. And you make me really glad that I've only ever been a PC gamer. Never had to deal with the kind of tech issues you have.
Sorry about the triangle, one of the lights drooped a little bit and now you get a triangle 😭
Triangle good.
is this ?is this ? some secret sign xD
The triangle is welcomed
Its a candidate now for the best guest of the year
Best guest
There was a period of time in the Olympics where I would look at the athletes' names and cheer for the person who had the name I liked the most
There's an East-European weightlifter called Bonk.
B O N K
your better than me, I would chose my athlete after their hair style
The bonk is stronk and his name made him stonk
When I watched the Olympics for the first time, I called Simone Biles “Simon Billys.”
Thank you for talking about accessibility in gaming, Connor. Disabled people are often forgotten about, left behind, or considered to be not worth the effort, so seeing you speak about this is really meaningful.
Amen to that
Plot twist : he's typing this with his legs
@@veerrathore2686 not cool.
Respect
👏 *claps*
Glad Joey has a friend with him this episode. Gotta love the blurry black triangle.
the secret 4th member of Trash Taste has made their appearance!
the lighting shade do be photo-bombing him
It’s a staged joke to make you think there’s something on your screen
Lads, this is the acquisition to the team we've all been waiting for
it's just a CGI
Garnt- "I like Genshin"
Connor- "that sounds like an ad read"
*Also Connor* - "APEX LEGENDS IS A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AWARD WINNING FPS BATTLE ROYALE SHOOTER..."
And it's kinda shit compared to Titanfall 2, gameplay loop wise
@@wokedog1799 We all know Titanfall is still King even after these years
@@wokedog1799 Yeah Titanfall 2 is fucking great
@@FaerieHijacker haha, stim go zoom
Apex raaaaid of shadooows
Garnt: WTF is Handball?
Joey: Is just tennis against a wall!
Conclusion: None of them know wtf they're talking about
Lol squash
Handball is just boring Volleyboll
Handball is one of the only sports I actually liked when I was in school. It's like soccer meets basketball. You dribble the ball and throw it in the goal etc.
How could Joey not know!? He was a HBK in high school!
When Joey said tennis I started laughing so hard, it's more like soccer and basket having a child, it's not even close to tennis 😭 I think he got confused with squash
Hearing Connor talk so passionately about accessibility for games was really heartwarming!
Honestly, it immediately made me think of IronMouse.
my heart
I didn't think of Ironmouse, Connor's take sounded so genuine and actually caring that I'd rather not get that side of the community like "Shipping" them more and taking other spin on his take :C
@@hola37899 I don't think it had anything to do with shipping.... just that she is his friend. She doesn't currently have issues with gaming but it could unfortunately become a reality. I'm sure they have a lot of fun gaming together; it would only make sense that he would always want her to be able to continue.
@@allenbocephus oh, that's exactly my point, Connor sounded like he cared a lot about the subject, that's why I don't like the mention of Mouse too much, because it attracts that side of the community (The side that will do anything to "ship" them)
@@hola37899 I mean, at this point they pretty much ship themselves lol. She had his name written on her ass. Only really one way to take that 🤣
The bois talking about accessible gaming, we love to see it. As someone who's disabled, I struggle with using controllers sometimes so being able to adjust controls to how they work best for me is amazing. Love seeing large creators discussing accessibility options in a positive light! Accessibility in gaming benefits EVERYONE!
So long as we are separating dificulty from accesability in the argument, I'm full support of providing whatever extra options.
Why the separation? Because there are loads of pathetic people who use disabled people as literal meatshields to beg for easy modes on games that weren't designed for them.
It becomes very obvious once you see literal crippled people (without hands) playing stuff like fighters at tournament level skills with just their arms and a arcade Fight stick setup.
Basically I believe accesability should be about giving disabled people the tools to make it possible for them to play at the same level as regular people, instead of being condesending and just throw an easy mode at them.
@@tumamaencosplay Yes, a way to have the controls be made more accessible or just for personal preferences without needing to just go "oh, we made you unkillable and invincible and all the enemies have half health" is a preferable alternative for most games, but some games imo are fine with the easy mode difficulty. Devil May Cry 5 actually does my favorite difficulty type, where bosses and enemies alike don't exclusively become meat shields (they have more health too, but there's more). Adding new functions, new attacks, new complexity is imo the best way to do difficulty adjustments, but not everyone has the time and care to give to a game to meet the standard of DMC.
Accessibility is a different thing entirely, having settings to allow people with disabilities to make the experience better and easier to play on a physical level. I'm slightly colorblind, the least intrusive disability, but I'm extremely excited when I see colorblind modes that help me distinguish reds and greens better for things like important objectives or teams.
@@ksad96 Actually I'm not against the existence of difficulty modes existing, so long as the game designer CHOSE themselves to implement them because he thought that was for the best. I'm VERY MUCH against people trying to shame developers into implementing easy modes when they already had chosen not to.
I believe both easy and hard games, for them to be good, REQUIRE their entire design to revolve around said difficulty, and if there is to be a difficulty mode, each mode needs just as much care to be good, even GOOD easy modes need that care you talked about.
But yes, it's also why it's a completely different topic to accessibility, and trying to mix the two, only slows downs research and development into actual features that these people need.
People like to bring up celeste and it's glorified cheatcode list as a good example of doing things right, but it's exactly the opposite, or at least it is if you don't separate difficulty from accesibility, because a disabled person that desires to play at the same level as a abled person only finds cheatcodes disguised as accessibility options, and therefore, while they are ok as alternative easy features for those who want them, making them a normal "accessibility" feature would only slow down research into the area, as companies would pretend they did serve disabled people through dificulty options.
Yet again Connor lays open his pure and caring heart with rant about accessibility options. That boi is a hero.
He really is!
Now this sounds like an episode Chris Broad would fit very well in.
Yes, hoping they'll talk about Apex Raid of Shadows again
Ah cmon he's a fellow kid
same with literally every episode
yes
@@allbyhmsf9878 hello fellow kids
- Chris Broad
Best guest of season 2 confirmed.
Black triangle.
can't wait wait to vote for best drip
im 30 minutes in and I didn't even notice
Black triangle kun
noticed it at 29:43
@@clarkalarcon4057 same
Honestly, these guys’ gaming discussions are much better than most “gaming” channels out there.
Probably because they opinionate as gamers rather than wannabe critics.
It's cause these guys aren't "gamers." They just play for fun rather than are paid to do it, plus these "gaming" channels don't even play the games they talk about nowadays.
And most gaming sites
Legit, there’s a couple gaming channels I still watch that are just gaming, especially the horror game gamers. And then the others reviews are sterile and watered down to the point you play the game it’s not what you expect.
This is the reason why Friday is widely considered the best day of the week
Yep, knowing the boys are gonna release a new episode each week makes me want to keep pushing through throughout the week
Every Friday I send my close friends a meme of doge saying Congratulations you made it to Friday Retard, with krusty krabs theme playing.
I've been doing this for 4 months now.
Cries in Australian saturday mornings
@@damianrodriguez7165 let them out of the basement, it’s not worth it
Yes. Before trash taste, friday wasn't regarded as a good day of the week.
Love to see Joey’s guest, the black triangle.
Where
@@PureDreams10 The camera
@@PureDreams10 when the camera focuses on joey, its near the top right
I love this comment cause it just reads like a dereality/unreality-core comment.
(Also thank you, I can't unsee it now >.
It's Punpun
As a Welsh person, hearing Connor say the exact same thing I told my English friends about the Euros Final and why I didn't want them to win shows how ingrained the "anyone but England" mentality is amongst us. 😂
"What's the Commonwealth?" - Joey, A man born within the Commonwealth.
That's the magic of commonwealths, not even the people living in them know what they are.
@@LouisSubearthme Malaysian: true
Funny how that works
Short answer: 54 countries still politically aligned / owned by Britain.
The only answer that matters: Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
@@IlIIlIIIIIlBrianSt0rm makes sense. Those 3 are some of the richest countries in the world
Hot take: Blurry black triangle has been the best guest so far
Its actually probably the best take tbh
Ok somebody notice.
This might not mean anything, but someone stole your comment word by word
@@DeadRattle4444 Lol ur right, it‘s actually right above my own for me now. That‘s kinda wrong
Lazy drip tho
1:40:00 I know I'm late, but I wanted to explain why that method (probably) worked.
The "red ring of death" happens because the solder connections for the CPU and GPU to the motherboard become "disconnected". Some of them still connect, others don't, so the console gives an error. A temporary fix is to apply more pressure on the CPU and GPU to force those connections back together, but that's an unoptimal solutions and probably won't hold long term.
How you're "supposed" to fix it is by re-heating the solder connections (reflow), basically re-soldering the chips onto the motherboard. What Grant did was probably a ghetto version of this, where you heat up the console / CPU + GPU to a point where the solder melts on its own and reconnects the components.
That this is dangerous and not very good for the hardware is probably self-evident.
He did major in engineering
Literally was having a conversation with a few friends about this the other day. My mate used to wrap it in a towel and hotbox it in the towel for £20 a pop for his mates to reconnect the motherboard for like 2 weeks till that red ring came back. Dude made bank
@@HollowPurple-if2co theres been majored chefs who just cant cook some dishes vice versa. Just bc he has a major doesnt mean he is an expert in everything within that area
@@abookishfable8268 I'm joking
Connor: American Football has too many commercial breaks.
Indian Cricket Broadcasters: Let us introduce ourselves!
15-30sec after each over
Bruh indian channels are fu**ed up
What is wrong with you? 💩🇮🇳
For anyone who wants to know about the Red Ring of Death: So due to certain market/health restraints, Microsoft had to use a substandard kind of solder to connect the internal heat sink to the board. The internal temperature of the Xbox 360 could get above the melting point of this solder. If the heat sink became disconnected from the board, you get the Red Ring of Death. The reason the towel method had any success was because it would purposely overheat the Xbox to melt the solder and you would hope that it reconnected.
It wasn't the heat sink, but that was part of the cause, the X shaped bracket that held it on flexed the board slightly so when the solder on the cpu got too hot the legs detached from the board, so the towel trick had a chance for the solder to re-melt and reconnect to them. The second time mine RRod'ed I actually dismantled it and manually soldered it myself.
@@tiny5th im calling bs on this one dude lol. anyone that knows how reflowing works knows damn well that without specialized equipment theres no way you just took it apart and did it by hand lol. those cpus arent pin based they're legit tiny solder balls on the bottom that require specialized hardware that can cost up to $20k lol so unless you're some big time electrical engineer theres just no chance you did anything by hand. maybe you took a heat gun to the cpu but i shouldn't need to explain why thats not a good idea if you actually knew what you were talking about lol
@@tiny5th one more thing ill add is the xclamps on the back werent there to flex the board they were there to do the exact opposite. they kept the board from flexing under the heat of the system.
@@roidsaccounts9565 Of course they weren't designed to flex the board XD what moron would want that to happen, but it still did. And the old 360 one was just a QFP not a full on BGA from what I remember. I work for an electronics company so had access to some of the kit.
@@tiny5th nah if you go as far back as the xenon motherboards which were the first revision of the 360 its always been full bga and no the clamps didn't flex the board lol ive got well over 100+ hours of experience working on 360s and the only time i encountered flexed boards was when i got a console that didnt have the clamps because some idiot thought they weren't necessary to put back
"Imagine if Dragon's Den was in Japan."
Fun Fact:- Dragon's Den is inspired from a Japanese TV show called "Tigers of Money" which aired from 2001 to 2004 on NHK.
Did you think the Olympics weren't anime enough with all the themes playing? well in Mexico and some other Latin American countries, they got the Spanish voice actors for Goku and Vegeta to be the commentators for the events.
I can't believe Latin America technically had Olympics that were more anime than Japan.
Garnt: "You know who's not a mug? You!"
Me: "Uh.. thanks?"
Such a wholesome compliment :D
Such an inspiring massage
Mug is British slang for an idiot in case you're confused😂
@@joshsmith2178 I had to Google it to make sure you weren't yanking my chain but it looks like you weren't. Good to know. Though by how many likes my comment got looks like I'm not the only American who didn't know.
If you don’t want it , you can always send one my way 😉
1:09:44 Pre-orders actually used to matter imo because games were primarily sold physically and would actually sell out. With the shift towards games being bought digitally primarily its importance has declined significantly
That's why they added as many bonus as possible.
They still do pre-order bonuses with digital games and get around them with physical collector's editions
As someone who doesn't care about sports I'm with Connor.
The opening and ending ceremony are actually the part I care less.
The sports themselves are pretty fun because of the narrative and seeing the people trying to achieve their dreams and all the energy, etc...
It's probably the only time of the year that I feel patriotism.
i'm a "casual sports enjoyer" (=P), there are certain sports i enjoy watching(like volleyball, gymnastics, athletics, swimming and some others), and enjoy them even more when i care enough to root for a team\country to win (if it's an individual and i don't know about them i root for them if they seem like "they've got potential" or just trying their hardest, you can see it when it happens), so the Olympics is just SUCH a fun time of two weeks and i look forward for it whenever it happens.
but yeah the narrative is also one of most fun aspects, especially when the commentator recalls the athlete's entire history in the sport, and how they've climbed and gotten better and better each tournament! OR they're a newbie but somehow made it in the Olympic scene, you can't help but to root for them.
it's just fun, like Connor said, to be able to flip channels and you're almost guaranteed to find something interesting and fun to watch.
Hearing the bois talking about THE sports is like hearing old people talking about THE google
It is the boomer episode afterall
I always feel bad about myself for wanting to play games on easy mode but then I try to remind myself that games are meant to be fun, and maybe I'm more interested in story and exploration than combat, and there's nothing wrong with playing a game like that. I'm looking for escapism, not necessarily a serious challenge.
Story-focus games I always pick easy on the first run cause I don't wanna spend half an hour on a boss fight, it's just ruin the story's enjoyment for me, if I wanna have a challenge then I'll do it on the second run, if I don't come back for a second run then the game isn't worth half an hour of boss fight anyways
@@hornitako7006 I literally played Persona 5 the first time on safe mode because i was so afraid my lack of skill would take away from the extremely engaging story, and I wanted to do everything possible to get the good ending. My second run I played on normal, though. Best of both worlds. I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima right now and I keep flip flopping between normal and easy mode, I've powered up enough to breeze past most of the combat on normal mode but there's still that occasional encounter that completely wrecks me but I'm in it for the story and the exploration more than anything else so if there's a difficulty spike later on (I'm still pretty early-game), I'm shifting to easy mode permanently without hesitation. Wish there wasn't a stigma against that sort of thing.
We're all looking for something different. I like a big challenge that takes me time to complete but that makes me feel accomplished when i finally beat it.
There's not a stigma against easy modes, it's that some games require a level of difficulty for the experience, and some people threaten that exclusivity. People like the "club" of "I beat x boss, did you?" and it's a badge of honour. You strip that away with a difficulty bar, even if the player does not alter it, because there is the possibility he did. It kills the "shared experience" where everyone felt the same terror and everyone overcame the same obstacle. The "shared experience" is incredibly important, it allows people to talk for HOURS about a game that they both share the same experience in. The existence of a difficulty level threatens this.
If Dark Souls was inherently easier, I would not have enjoyed it as much. If I had the option to dumb down the difficulty when i struggled, I may give in and I would never feel a sense of success that was as the designer intended.
There's a stigma against being so bad at things that if that thing catered to your level of skill, it would change the product for other customers in a non-beneficial manner. I actively expect and accept that stigma.
I suck at C:DDA, so frustrating, and yet if I start with a character that has artificially raised stats, it simply becomes boring. Sometimes it's OK to accept that a product is not for you. Not everything is for me either.
that same fear you feel in P5 I am feeling as I play P3 FES, assuming it will be so much harder than it actually is, and facing the final boss waaaay beyond the level I should be, because of fear and caution. That makes me take the game seriously, though. That stress is part of the experience, and you only get better by learning through failure after failure. Refusing to fail by adding slack through a difficulty slider means you don't get better.
I love stories that are intensely difficult. It seasons the story and makes progression through it even more fun. Surpassing a boss in a Yakuza game on Legendary difficulty and limiting yourself to no healing items feels good. It feels inherently good to surpass that obstacle - that feeling of success that is directly rooted in a high difficulty is so adored that most uploaders of Yakuza content intentionally restrict and limit themselves, lest the game become too easy.
They actively make the games harder for themselves because this produces more fun for some customers, customers that aren't you. Not all games are flexible enough to be balanced and fun at any difficulty and that is a thing to consider.
I love stories that you make up yourself entirely, like Dwarf Fortress. I am sure in ten years when my reaction times begin to wane, I will complain about difficulty too! What an essay. Sorry >.
@@AdamOwenBrowning That’s why games have different modes. I like a good challenge here and there as well, and I’m learning to venture past my fear of difficult to beat bosses and mind wracking puzzles because I’ve been getting more and more into gaming lately. I used to be more of a ‘casual gamer’ but I’m a lot more interested in excelling at games (or at least being competent at them now) than I was a couple years ago. I’m not saying games need to be ‘dumbed down’ - easy and story modes exist for a reason. Same goes for hard and merciless modes. A little bit for everyone. Because while I may enjoy a good challenge, I’m definitely primarily in it for the escapism and the worlds I get to immerse myself in - so if something feels ridiculously impossible in a game - it tends to diminish my enjoyment of it because it starts to feel like a chore (i.e the very last gym mini game/side quest with Jules in the FF7 Remake) - poor game design, built for people with the reflexes of dexterous toddlers on steroids. And I wasn’t the only one who felt that way, I’ve seen complaints about it in several forums. People spending hours and even days on it playing it in rapid succession before finally managing to beat it for a relatively crappy in game reward.
Anyway, I get what you mean. I’m starting to appreciate the challenge some of my favorite games present me with. I can’t wait to dive back into God of War before Ragnarok comes out and try to beat all the Valkyries. That said, I’m definitely not somebody who needs or necessarily wants an intensely difficult challenge just for the sake of it. Accomplishment obviously feels great but sometimes it gets frustrating (I’ve been trying my hand at a survival game like Subnautica lately but boy does it get tedious having to manage my resources and farm for hours just in order to be able to explore freely).
Also accessibility in games is important. I’m not old, but I didn’t grow up glued to my controller. I’m not an experienced gamer. There are people with disabilities who can’t match the reaction time of an abled person. Games should cater to everyone who plays them - especially in a time when they’re becoming more mainstream, so ‘not for customers like you’ isn’t an excuse. Games have extremely difficult and extremely easy modes for a reason, in order to be inclusive of anybody who’s interested in playing the game.
I've never really been bothered by choosing the lower difficulty when I wanted to because of my personal experience with my brother who has cognitive disabilities. He can only play games on easy mode or he won't be able to play at all. If he can sit there and enjoy himself fully while playing the game not as intended, then I feel no guilty in doing the same when I want to chill. I'd rather people have an experience the directors didn't intend for the players, than have no experience at all.
If games simply have a "this mode is not the intended experience" notification during their difficulty selection so as to let players know that there is a certain way to play that game, then those who want to play as intended can do so, and those that don't want to / can't play at those higher difficulties still get to take *something* from the game. Just don't do what Wolfenstein 2 (?) did and shame people for playing at a lower level. Did not enjoy seeing that kind of content being presented towards those who pick that level and happen to have disabilities.
There have been games where I had to help my brother get through a level because he cannot mash a button very quickly or have a quick reaction time. Hell, I have low vision and auditory processing disorders meaning many games like Borderlands 2 was impossible for me to play because I could not make out what was on the screen. Or like many FPS games which rely on (poor) visual/audio cues to indicate when you were being hit, and I simply could not hear/see them (think Resident Evil 2 Remake or Overwatch). So easier modes are the only way we could play.
as a 24 years old guy, this is the most relatable content I have seen in my entire life. It almost feel like the market doesn't give a fuck about us anymore, is all about the kids and you have to watch that in silence knowing damn well how cringe they are but also knowing deep inside you heart you would probably were like them and that make you feel weird bc you are not really old and also you are not really a kid. Life is weird
The market never gave a fuck about anyone.
@@derekskelton4187 Apple: This guy 👆gets it.
button remapping is a god send; I have cerebral palsy, and my right side is more adversely affected so being able to fire with left, or set quick time events to only need one successful press has made so many games actually playable.
That shit is pog yo
Agree. While I have nothing wrong with me, it's far easier to play games now with my elite controllers where I can shoot, reload, crouch, move, look & interact with the environment at the same time without moving my thumbs off the thumbsticks. Specially now with the controllers you can modify the sensitivity of them, I basically play with PC-like settings, playing right up to the limits of the game engine. I can't go back playing with regular controllers or any hardware input device that will limit my abilities within some game.
For the subtitling discussion, as an Italian dude I thought I was just not good enough to understand original English audio of movies when they were basically whispering even though they are supposed to be talking normally, I'm glad to hear that even native speakers struggle with it
Coming Soon This Winter: The Trash Taste Curling Special
I’d join Patreon for a Trash Taste Olympics
Trash taste Triangle special
Connor: “Yeah there was this NFL player who killed someone..”
Me: “Which one?”
Joe
@@carlneoh5843 Joe Biden.
@@carlneoh5843 Joe Mama
@@mystque8754 wake up
@@carlneoh5843 balls
honestly, button remapping is a pro gamer move, maximize efficiency with the most comfortable layout. proof that Connor is the only real gamer on the show
It truly is. The first thing I ever do in a first person shooter is make sure I can switch the crouch button with the melee takedown.
and yet he thinks you can't re map a joystick. Him being the Xbox kid out of the 3...
@@maximilianoalcaraz7351 well you can, it's just not normally.... a good idea. The controls are normally optimized, but sure to each his own
@@FredMaverik i'm not saying if it's a good idea or not. He's complaning that he can't re-map a joysticks layout...well...you can...not only they let you choose from differents layouts (if you don't like the default one) but you can also go to windows xbox and re-map your joystick with the app to your personal liking
I didn’t even think it was that much of a “pro gamer” thing to do. Like you how could you not remap the controls whenever you’re playing an old fps where holding down the sights is fucking L-shift or Z.
While the song "Song of the Ancients" did play in NieR Automata it is actually originally from NieR Replicant and fits pretty accurate to the worlds current state of being plagued by a deadly disease.
I was honestly so surprised this year by the music especially NieR it was so cool!!
Yea but who outside of Japan and massive anime fans would get that reference?
People who played NieR Gestalt on Xbox 360 since NieR Replicant originally did not release in the US.
definitely one of the hardest NieR songs
I am not gonne be a pillar of salt from flu goddamit
Ugh, Connor bringing up the videos about pranking someone by turning off their consoles while playing reminded me of another prank genre I despise. The parents pranking their kids by making them cry genre. Like, it's just straight up abuse. Like blaming the kid for something they didn't and filming them crying and breaking down? It's fucked up.
Or when parents give their kids a present that obviously in an expensive box but they've switched out their contents? Like, that's so mean. It's always filmed as "Look at these spoiled brats, not being grateful for their socks, they just want iPads and phones!", but like, if you get their hopes up and then trick them, of course they'll be sad! And there are so many videos where the kids are just trying not to cry because they know they are being filmed, and it's just sad.
Parents need to stop exploiting their kids for views, man.
fr those videos are straight up child abuse. My least favorite one is where this little kid (like less than 12) got straight A's in school. So the parents got them a "cake" to celebrate, candles, the whole shebang. This kid is hyped. The kid cuts into it and it's just a roll of toilet paper. You could just see this kid's soul getting crushed as their parents just laugh at them, and I'm pretty sure the kid ends up crying and the parents still keep laughing. That kind of shit is so cruel. I'd never to that kind of things to any kid, let alone my own.
Reminds me of a UA-cam channel called Daddy-O-five (correct me if I'm wrong) it's about this family who somehow made the youngest kid being the target of abuse. Fortunately the account got banned even though it took like 6 months (?)
DaddyofFive basically
@@IR-Fan I believe they also lost custody of the child and their other children temporarily, not sure if they faced charges tho.
@Taña Nii yes with friends, but breaking the trust to your child like that.. big no no
"Looks like Britian isn't doing that well."
Meanwhile:
*Britians' on 4th place*
Ashley: ROC, the Republic of -
Connor: That's Russia.
Joey: That's Russia.
Chinese Taipei = Taiwan, Republic of China
ROC Russian olympic committee
It is Russia
@@kealeradecal6091 you mean republic of Taiwan
@@epsorks Taiwan is the name of the Island. Offically since the Chinese Civil War never technically ended, the Kuomintang that control mainland China fled to Taiwan in exile, so the Republic of China still exists despite practically no one recognising it.
@@princeendymion9044 They used to be recognised by the world as the real China until 1971, when the UN and veto rights went to PRC.
i loved your take on accessibility controls for physically challenged people. I am a physically challenged person myself with a disability on all 4 limbs and the only way i am able to play games is if they have accessibility options and button remapping
Imagine how the Pokémon op would have hit during the opening ceremony:
"I want to be very best,
Like no one ever was..."
Waste of oportunity
You know all the Japanese team looks up when Ash does in the OP
I remember reading an article saying the Olympic opening ceremony was meant to be a lot grander. Nintendo was supposed to feature but pulled out, and I think it said it was meant to start with an Akira themed thing.
Not sure if it was accurate but sound damn cool.
Opening ceremony was expected to have Mario, Dragonball, Miku, Doraemon, and Hello Kitty, but sponsors pulled back.
I also got the lower back pain 24 hours after the first shot o: after AZ though.
Did you check to see if the nurse was a one-piece hater?
Oh hey there
OH GRANDLINEREVIEW (I'm a big fan)
imagine being able to get a vaccine. could'nt be me
Bruh you here
Just want to chime in with a joy con drift fix. I used WD40 electronics spray (any other brand would work I'm sure). You put it in underneath the thumbsticks, there's a little silicon flap you can safely raise as it's not glued down. I've done this for friends too and they haven't had the issues return over a year. You don't need screwdrivers, you don't need special skills, just lift the flap with the nozzle of the electronics spray.
I've thought of a perfect comparison for that "turn off the console while they're playing" thing.
Imagine someone is making pottery. They've just spent the past two hours taking a lump of clay and carefully, diligently shaping it into a beautifully designed vase. They're smiling, happy, and enjoying themselves.
Some utter fuckwit comes in and smashes the (soft) clay, reducing it to an ugly lump.
They then proceed to laugh and point as they record the person getting mad that two hours of their hard work was just destroyed unceremoniously by some fuckwit.
The clay can be reshaped, and the vase made again. But it'll never be quite the same as the first time it was made, and it'll be much less enjoyable, and even then, their effort was destroyed for no fucking reason.
Now that official merch is a thing, how long before the Trash Taste body pillows arrive?
now Im intrigued
this man is asking the real questions
Petition to Trash Taste to release body pillow
And also, you can smell the boys with additional perfume 🤣
Which body pillow do you think will be sold out first?
25:55 To be fair, I did actually eventually forget that there was nobody watching the ceremony. At some points the stadium was dark and it really looked like there were just many people wearing different coloured clothing.
I might know nothing about the lore of this podcast but, i surely know that "the triangle" will become one of the awardw nominees of the best guest of the year.
Hands down no question triangle boi ftw
lmao ur pic is nostalgic for some reason. 😥😁😁😋
Eyy that Warcraft 3 pic. Good times.
@@nekoscum4929 back when wraith band and razor have the same icon
Joey says "NieR: Automata" four times and pronounces it differently every time
He didn't want to discriminate against anyone saying it differently. So he went all out.
It wasn’t even the NieR Automata version that played it was from Replicant, pain
@@Accordstome that's what i thought!! because i played Automata very recently (of which the soundtrack was absolutely amazing and i loved it!), and while it sounded extremely familiar, like i "recognized the sound", but i knew it must've been from the other games because it didn't sound exactly the same as anything i remember hearing in the game xD
Thanks for the fact
Not sure if someone mentioned this yet, but one Pokemon game (Black and White 2) actually did have difficulty modes! The normal mode was the only one available at the start, and an easy mode and hard mode would be unlocked after the game was completed (I think you could unlock the modes at the start if you have a second game that was finished though).
Pokemon being Pokemon, the easy and hard mode were actually version exclusive, and you had to connect opposite games to unlock all 3 modes.
Connor: “Pokémon should have a difficulty setting”
Garchomp.
Underrated comment
Sylveon
Ah yes the cynthia battle
not to hate but he did said, platinum is challenging to going to thru the pokemon game, unlike all the other new pokemon game
I love how we just know with a single word.
Did anyone see the Dutch Windsurfer cosplaying Aang from Avatar The Last Airbender? He won gold apparently lmao.
What a god damn champ
Yeah, also the spirits Tui and La on the Mexican synchronized swimming duo's swimsuits.
Regarding subtitles in games and "why don't they just give us all these options":
You know what makes it even worse? It's software. They just need to write it once and they can literally re-use the same code in any subsequent game.
Sure, it will still require some work to integrate it, but the vast majority only needs to be done ONCE.
There really isn't much excuse not to do it.
20:45 And as a Greek person but NON-One Piece fan,
I guess i was hyped.
Yeah same here 😁
Mood
Wasn't he Italian? Did two athletes make a one piece reference after winning gold? Nice
@@karlussdominion3089 No he is Greek and his name is Miltiadis Tendoglou, as for other athletes, Im pretty sure that many made anime references( like aot, sailor moon, One piece etc).
Joey wearing an Eva shirt this week hits different.
@Ruairi Collier because the Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 movie just came out (in English)
@@galacticpopcorn9981 I cried when it ended
@@galacticpopcorn9981 good name man
@@hardtanker7522 the fuck you mean "the ending"?
I cried the whole 2 and a half hours
@@prizm8530 LOL thanks
As someone who is disabled and often has trouble using certain buttons I’m super happy to hear Connor talk about accessibility! I use button mapping all the time, and it allows me to play video games that i would otherwise have a lot of trouble playing
Connor repping accessibility was really nice man :')
I have horrendeous vision, most accessibility is jank in video games. The last of us accessibility sounded amazing. And what he said about the subs is true as well. Make it highly customizable.
connor was a hella bro for that
Can we appriciate, that it took the boys a whole year to have ONE technical problem that is visible for the viewer? Like god damn you do a great work off camera. I'm talking about the black... stain? on the up right corner of the screen
I was blissfully unaware until I saw this. What have you done?! 😱
@@ochahap no it's the lightning thing
i get what you mean, but then i remembered them saying that one time, the camera or the mic was off for a whole episode and they had to scrap it
Triangle-kun.
What do you mean "Technical problem"? That's just the unanounced guest for this episode: Black Triangle-kun!
1:57:18
"You can traumatize them"
so many memories of me and my cousin watching those jumpscare videos on early 2000 ....aaaaah the horrors....and nightmares those videos brought to our younger siblings...magic.
I love how their so called Boomer Takes are that video games should have accessibility options so that everyone can enjoy them.
Wholesome boomer moments.
Pretty sad that these "gamers" think that having these options, which they clearly would not HAVE to use, would somehow ruin whatever game it is for them.
@@yellowcard8100 Just because you haven't doesn't mean others haven't, and I have. I'm not talking about difficulty options.
@@yellowcard8100 Even in that case...literally what is the problem outside of "Other people are going to play the game differently from how *I* want them to play it!"
@@ROBOTPETER101 when the difficulty is a big part of the game, then having an easy mode really takes away from that experience. Like dark souls isn’t a fucking story game, it’s a grueling game of trial and error, make it easy and where’s the fun
"No Man's Sky is one of the only redemption arcs in gaming."
"Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV Online?"
I mean to be they only said one of, not the best redemption arc
@@valor555 which, being fair, NMS did it for free, FFXIV charges monthly
"it's not a story the trash taste members would tell you"
You mean the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime?
Ngl I strongly agree with Connor in that mainline Pokemon games should have a harder difficulty setting. Yes nuzlocks were invented for this issue, but with recent games, I wish npc trainers were smarter. Like, imagine if in a random encounter they just revived their pokemon with an item. I also miss when gym leaders had full 6 team pokemon. Not 4. Now only the League has 6 pokemon each and maybe the last 2 gyms. And maybe they could buff up your rival more like when they at least chose the pokemon with type advantage over you
The reason the opening for the Olympics was crap was said to be due to Dentsu, one of the biggest advertising agencys in the world.
Originally MIKIKO (choreographer for Perfume, Babymetal, etc) was in charge of doing the opening and had this awesome idea involving the bike from Akira and Naomi Watanabe with a "passing of the torch" theme, but behind MIKIKO's back one of Dentsu`s people snuck in a different idea despite the IOC agreeing with MIKIKO`s idea originally.
MIKIKO couldn`t say anything explicitly but she did tweet about the situation some months ago. Really sad...
Exactly, i'm surprised the boys didn't talk about this. It was pretty public news.
The original agency was completely replaced and essentially a skeleton crew was left to pick up the pieces. Not to mention the leader composer for the opening ceremony had huge backlash following self-proclaimed abuse toward handicapped people, but he didn't end up leaving the position until a few days before the opening ceremony.
And of course, COVID and all that; there was discussion about how "happy" the opening ceremony "should be," being too serious would make everyone sadder during a time where people didn't want to think of the bleakness of what's happening in the world, but too happy could be seen as a mockery of what's happening too, and I think organizers spent too much time thinking about that.
@@Renvi thats the most retardded logic lmao,being "too happy"
@@amogus1415 That basically japanese TV.
Of course Joey, a man of culture, added a black fang to the camera to represent us, the fang lovers.
You must be a big fan of pit vipers
I finally caught up on all of trash taste in order from episode one, including all the specials and after dark episodes. It's gonna be weird going from bingeing to watching weekly.
Welcome to the club I usually just rewatch old episodes since i forget some of the stuff
51:17 Apparently Dragon's den is actually based on a japanese show called tigers of money. So the whole bit about how the dragon's den could never work in japan is really funny.
The original blueprints for the opening ceremony that were released for the public to see would have been so dope. Too bad lots of drama went down that disrupted the planning.
1:49:56
Joey: "ugh, gross"
**proceeds to pass a massive belch**
23:40 about the budget, a lot of the main sponsors of the Olympics stepped out at the last moment because of the Covid situation in Japan and they didn't want to be associated with it anymore. I remember Toyota being one of them
Glad to see Punpun as a guest on the podcast. He needs some time to breath and laugh.
51:27 Ironically, Dragon's den actually originated from Japan. It was called tigers of money and it aired in the early 2000s
I feel Connor on rooting against England. Everybody was do obnoxious during the recent Euro event, that I was quietly rooting for Italy to win so everybody would just shut up about it, and I got my wish
Every country besides England wanted Italy to win. There are arrogant and annoying sports fan everywhere but English people are something else.
@@balabanasireti English fans don't deserve the win anyways the way they behave its disgusting.
I walked into a cafe where there was a viewing party for Italy. Had I stayed another 10 minutes I would have got a free coffee.
@@balabanasireti I think sports has a way of drawing the worst out of people, but the English epitomize that, I pray we keep losing until the day this shitty little rock sinks and we become little more than a story parents tell their children at night to scare them into brushing their teeth
Do you really want the one country You happen to live in to sink? Do you remember hate your own country that much? I find it hard to understand how you could harbor that sort of belief unless you want to die
They're finally talking about the Olympics
*2 weeks after it ended*
They prerecord episodes so what we see today was filmed a few weeks ago
I mean, a couple of them where literally moving houses and visiting family last couple weeks. So I’m sure they have a couple of vids prepped
Yes guys, I definitely did not know these episodes are prerecorded. My point is definitely not that I'm making fun of how the one time they're talking about something relevant, it's already 2 weeks old. They definitely didn't already say multiple times that a lot of these episodes are prerecorded guys yeah nah definitely
Satoru Iwata had a special assignment for the people designing it: There wasn't allowed to be any damage whatsoever after dropping it from chest height. And they actually did it.
I remember the Xbox 360 towel trick! If I remember right, the red ring of death was mostly caused by a manufacturing defect where a solder point somewhere would eventually come loose, covering it with a towel and preventing the Xbox from cooling itself meant that over a long enough period of time the solder point would start to melt and then reflow between the points so it would get a good connection again.
I think the reason why it seemed random whether a console would work after the towel trick or not was due to how close the failed solder point was to a hot component like the CPU, the closer it was the more likely you could get it to reflow.
18:04 Joey needlessly explains what "Out of alphabetical order" means
Connor really is the protagonist. Not only does he have wild adventures but he’s also so nice and wholesome.
In regards to the “Weird TikTok trends” section, that was the first thing that I was shown from Tiktok and seen when I downloaded it; just the screen cut into two, with some Microsoft Sam reading a headline of an article that was CUT OFF, and some dude who raised his eyebrows staring at the screen for the whole 20 seconds.
It had 600k likes. And then I found out that people just use the same… “sound?” I had three people send me three separate tiktoks using the same exact sound making the same exact joke almost word for word just different people, each having at least 200k likes.
I think I am a bitter old man now lol
No, it just goes to show that the bar is really that low for people to be entertained. But quality always tops quantity.
I absolutely adore the voice Connor makes when he's making fun of conceited bullshity people, that forced accent is so hilarious!!!
Red Ring of Death is caused by the thermal paste on the chip....hence why overheating it with a towel might cause the paste to spread out and properly cover the chip. I have replaced the Paste a few times for myself and friends. ✌
Most of us Americans don't watch actually TV anymore except older people, i just use streaming services so I don't get ads and that's most people nowadays
Seriously though. A friend of mine has Hulu with ads and it just sounds awful
28:37 Y'all forgetting about the Saturday morning Sonic cartoons that help keep in relevant in the late 90s and early 2000s onward. Maybe didn't air in the UK and Australia though...
ngl sonic x was awesome, the older cartoons were okay as well
@@saucegodsed2890 Sonic X was Jank
Loved every second of it
It aired in the uk on a channel called pop with the mario show too
I'm from the Cayman Islands!!!! Connor said Cayman Islands!!!! Is this how the pirates in One Piece feel like when they get their first wanted posters? Yes, Yes It Is!!!!!!!!
You can tell that this was recorded for a while, because Genshin just finished their 2.1 stream after inazuma lmao
I was looking for this lmao
Is anyone gonna tell them that many watch the stream for 300 free gems lol
@@hornitako7006 Still, they're people invested in Genshin if they want primos
The blurry black triangle almost makes me feel like I’m peeping on Joey with binoculars.
39:15 “…an NFL player that killed someone”
Which one? Lmao
I feel like in pokemon games, in the beginning when you create your character, there should be a question along the lines of "are you a returning player to pokemon?" That could potentially get rid of the hand holding and just explain the new gimmick and storyline and maybe allow you to skip some cut scenes (like in the start, when they're introducing the basic construct of pokemon).
How to get top comment in Trash Taste episode:
*haha black triangle*
_IT'S THAT EASY_
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was one of the best games I've ever played. With being able to choose good or evil and raise chaos was awesome. Idk how they could hate on that and say there r no good 3d sonic games.
Because aside from Garnt, they don't play Sonic games and just parrot journos who don't like anything that's not sprites.
I mean, them hiiting on sonic games while also enjoying crappy anime is a wtf moment.
Like bruh, have you seen the recent pokemon games? Unfinished garbage, yet it still sells cuz blind brand loyalty (just like sonic, lol).
Jojo is one of those things where the characters talk at like 1% volume and the sound effects are at like 100%
They are literally constantly shouting wtf
I felt this way about Castlevania, especially Trevor's and sometimes Alucard's lines. So many times I had to run it back because I didn't understand them and it doesn't help that both mutter to themselves a lot. Thank goodness it released on a streaming service where I could do that, or else I may have been forced to drop it. Phenomenal show but I would kill for it to be re-released with louder audio when characters speak.
The sound designs are cool but the characters are yelling weird shit all the time
That's why I always watch every with subtitles.
@@anishsawan6496 zipper man
Joey's sound effect game is on a whole other level this episode
That bloody MUGS intro scared the crap out of me
😂
Pre-ordering games only made sense back when it was a physical copy and your local gamestop was limited on copies
*The bois talking about how TikTok makes them feel like boomers*
me, 18 years old and feeling the same way: maybe I do have back pain
The Boys: "Entertainment nowadays is too front-loaded with advertising"
This episode of Trash Taste: "Hold my -beer- limited edition mug!"
Stay classy guys!
Hi Son,
What a great episode! I particularly liked the part about Grant saying his biggest pet peeve as a child was people with greasy fingers touching his controller. I loved playing with my neighbour as a kid, but god, she ALWAYS had greasy fingers and I would ALWAYS have to clean my controller after she used it. Anyways, keep up the good work.
- Dad
Thats what I love about Monster Hunter, it doesn't have a difficulty that you need to select. The skaling of difficulty as you hunt monster after monster is great game mechanic.
Japan's greatest tap dancer sounds like the title of a Yakuza sidequest
i feel like i got lucky just getting pshifer since i only got dizziness and sore arm on first, and nothing on second (getting third soon due to being chronic ill). But hearing Joey describe waking up with all joints hurts is just my vurrent daily day// So i'm glad connor talks about accessibility cuz sometimes my spine just don't exsist some days, and my knees are horrible atm
Today's my birthday
most of my friends are on holiday so i unfortunately i have to spend it at home.
I forgot that the podcast comes out on Friday so this was a great birthday present
HBD buddy
Happy birthday 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊
Have a great day bruh
Happy birthday boi!
Happy birthday ~
"Maybe Nintendo it's in the ending"
Yeah... yeah....
ye funny people always say something is dying when its getting bigger than ever. Maybe judt because they dont like it anymore thry feel that way. I hate nintendos bad marketing and bare bone games but they are never gonna die lol
Mass Effect, Borderlands, Fallout...NOW you're speaking my language. I'm right there with you Garnt when it comes to Mass Effect. It was fun listening to you all talk about some of my favorite games. And you make me really glad that I've only ever been a PC gamer. Never had to deal with the kind of tech issues you have.
Man i really want that mug, but god damn i'm sad i'll be paying twice the mug price for shipping, making it out of my budget :(
Make it yourself
Yeah too much for a mug with shipping lol
same here mate
@@reverb4311 well paying for a pottery wheel and classes will cost less and enable me to make more things so nice idea tnx
Yeah I get that it's like 60 dollars in my currency for a single mug