Hello everybody, this is Shane Armin row and you’re back in the passenger seat with me passenger seat radio. second episode for the day I’m on my way back from Costco. And as I promised, if you’re talking about dimeo, or demio, how you actually pronounced that I said I would get back on here and you guys can have the trip home with me. And so here we are. So VR is the only thing I’ve been playing lately. Of course, you guys know that I am a an avid PC gamer. And the hot game on topic right now of course is Resident Evil village Resident Evil village. And I’m about I want to say I’m about three quarters of the way through probably a little bit more. I’m on apparently the last leg of the game, you know, they sort of tell you what leg you’re on as you’re doing it. But you never know if after you do the last leg, there’s a bonus leg at the end, you know, you think you got the bad guy and then get down because there’s somebody else, that sort of thing. So I don’t know yet but I’m quite a ways in I’m probably, um, gosh, 12 hours into the game, I think something like that. And I am, I’m a bit of a completionist I do like to find all the hidden treasure. They, they helpfully lay the rooms out. So if you’re a Resident Evil player, there’s not a lot new here. But for those of you who may have may have may have not seen Resident Evil since like resin evil for something. We’ll talk just a little bit about it. So the game plan here is I don’t want to give any spoilers, but it’s essentially a first person more of an adventure game, I would say than a really a first person shooter for sure. But it is definitely a light puzzle solving. Let’s say if you played Resident Evil four, five, you’re probably you’re probably up to speed. If you played Resident Evil seven, you’re up to speed. Essentially, it is a very guided experience. So I wouldn’t say that it’s on rails. But they very cleverly lay the game out so that you are doing exactly what they want you to be doing when you’re doing it. But there’s an illusion of freedom of being able to decide how you get there. So for example, if they don’t want you in a particular area, they’ll put a door there, but it’ll be locked from the other side. So you can’t get to the area. So they force you to go around the area to get there, which of course there’s a scripted bad guy. So while it definitely looks like a sort of an open world sandbox, it’s still pretty guidance. So for those of you who don’t like not being told what to do, this game will actually probably be right up your alley. Because it gives you enough information to work with, but not too much that it feels like they’re literally you’re literally on rails. So graphics are incredible, especially if you turn on ray tracing, if you’ve got the ability I know who’s got who’s got a new graphics card these days, right. But if you do have, if you do have ray tracing capabilities, you have a really nice video card, I got a 2080 Super just for a frame of reference. And it looks great. I’m in 1444 p I’ve got everything turned up real nice. And I got ray tracing on and it looks absolutely fantastic. I did play a little bit with HDR on so I have my choice I can either play 4k 60 with HDR or I can play 1440 p 144. So typically speaking, the 1440 p tends to, you know when out versus the 4k 60. And in this case, I did try it on both and 4k 60 with HDR was it was totally suitable, I would play it there. But frankly, I thought the 1440 p at the higher frame rates, I was kicking, I kick somewhere on the 120 frames per second with my rig so I yeah, I’m gonna stick with that. But the game of course features lots of interesting characters. This is I feel this is more of a character driven vehicle this time around. You’re really interested in who the bad guys are. You’re interested, they have a little bit more personality than the typical bad guys that I’m used to seeing in Resident Evil. So you’ll be much more interested in that piece of the equation. There are some there’s some reports going around that they turn the game down so it wasn’t quite as intense. I gotta tell you there were many times that that Game Freak living crap out of me. And this is you know, playing at night with the lights off and you got headphones on and, and there’s some really twisted scenarios within the game. In terms of, in one case, a giant half melting fetus comes running after you in a completely dark, a completely Dark Room a completely dark house I guess and environment, a completely dark environment. Giant fetus. scary as hell, you’ve got a flashlight alone. And pretty much if he catches you, you’re dead on the spot, right? So it’s not like you can heal or anything. Same as always you get a gun, eventually you get a shotgun, then you get a rifle, then you get a sniper rifle, mini a little better gun, then you get a little better shotgun. You can incrementally upgrade the guns. You can buy attachments for the guns it Listen, if you’ve played any Resident Evil in the last 10 years, you’re probably up to speed. storylines, good. Bad guys are good. environments are good. Graphics are good. Sounds good. There are some people that were having issues with some performance problems. I didn’t see it personally. Even I had raytracing on usually that really, really choose my system down but it it’s working. It’s working pretty well. So yeah, I mean, listen, I paid 47 bucks. I think for it. That’s the one thing I’ve got to love about Pete Well, I like a lot of things about PC gaming. But my favorite part about PC gaming is you’ll never pay MSRP for a game if you’re if you’re even a remotely shrewd shopper, you can most definitely get, you know, easily 1015 20% off, sometimes 25% off of games before they even hit the shelves. So listen, if you want a reason to be a PC nobleman, that’s a great reason to be so. So I’ve been playing that I backed off on Val Haim a little bit, I kind of got to a point to where I’m kind of spinning my wheels at the moment. I’ve got a great base. I’m all isolated, I can survive whatever the game throws at me. I’ve got I’ve upgraded all my equipment as high as I can. So I’m just kind of I’m kind of waiting for a drop, you know. So that’s where that’s where I’m at with Val Hyman. If you missed the earlier show, by the way, I talked about dimeo dimeo on it with VR tabletop Dungeons and Dragons light if you will. So definitely, definitely check out that earlier. It’s like a 12 minute clip. So right now you’ve probably heard I’ve been I’ve been drinking the my new passion. Remember, I used to be a diet coke with lime fan. And I pretty much shed my soda. I didn’t drink soda for like a year. And so as I’ve tried to lighten up myself on my on my dietary things and try to work a few things back in if you know in moderation, right? That’s the whole secret. You can kind of eat what you want as long as it’s not half of a pizza you have a piece of pizza you don’t have a you know you don’t have you know a double Whopper with cheese you have a whopper jr with no cheese, you know what I’m saying? So there’s a way that you can kind of work it out. So I tried to sort of slide soda back in is a periodic thing I was having, you know, one or two a week. That’s pretty good, right? And then I met my new adversary the new thing that they dragged my ass back into soda, which was Pepsi zero mango. That’s right. It’s I think much like Diet Coke with lime. The the Pepsi zero mango is essentially laced with heroin or barbiturates or something that is highly addictive. And I don’t recommend i do i recommend it because it tastes great, but I don’t recommend it. If you’re trying to keep yourself off of an addictive behavior with diet soda. So right now I am indulging I haven’t. I haven’t had soda all week long. So being Saturday at all, I’m indulging myself and not around 44 mind you but it’s simply a large Diet Coke with peach and mango. So that’s what I’m that’s what I’m slurping over here and I actually had a line item to talk about. Pepsi Pepsi zero with mango, so I got to do a twofer there. For those of you who know me, they’ll the show. Well you know I’m a big fan of Dragon’s Lair. Don Balu is one of my personal heroes. He left Disney back in the 70s because they were they were uninterested in maintaining the Disney master animation masterpieces they they were interested in in cheapening the animation experience and Don Bluth, one of the original Disney master animators got fed up and said Listen, I’m going to leave Disney and I’m gonna make my own company. Don Bluth productions and we are going to make true classic animated films The secret of near American tale Thumbelina, what are the other ones Anastasia Titan a listen, you know Don blue is working if you don’t know his name. Well Dragon’s Lair was a 22 minute video game, the ran off laser disc. Most of you who are if you’re listening to this show, you know what Dragon’s Lair is followed up by space as followed up by a whole bunch of other games but one of the interesting games That sort of caught the tail end of the real video played as sort of quick time events in the arcade wave was a game called time traveler. And time traveler was built into a big giant white circular ish cabinet called Holocene. And it was designed to be, quote, The first holographic video game. Now, we all know that there’s really no holograms yet, and there certainly wasn’t back in the 90s was the late 80s. Anyway. Yeah, so we know there’s really no holograms, but they paid a very convincing mirror, you can look at the technology, but essentially, it looked like you were playing holograms. And it was a time traveling based game where you play like a cowboy from the Old West. Trying to save the princess blah blah blah hacia gives you time reversal cubes, you can rewind your mistakes if you die, yada yada. He had the idea, but a lot like Dragon’s Lair, you know, it wasn’t something where you literally move the game around. But you would you would make time taps on the joystick to make him duck and make him move left, make a move, right shoot that sort of thing. But I’ll tell you what, for those who remember seeing it now if you were to see it right now, like if you were to go to somebody’s house or go to some arcade or something and you saw Colosseum right now. You’d be like yeah, yeah, just say we saw dragons there. But the truth is these things like we’re literally cutting edge bleeding edge where we’re closing in on the 30th anniversary of time traveler. And you know a lot of people there’s a lot of people who love dragons there’s a lot of people love spaces and a lot of people love Don Bluth. But if you ask most people if they knew a time traveler was they would really have no frickin clue dragonslayer Yeah, liked it loved it, didn’t care for it, played in the arcade knew and know what it was sat around watching people dump endless quarters into it. Yeah, we all know. But in the end, probably is a time traveler people like but but time traveler seems to have a bigger following than a lot of us realized. There is a an interesting Kickstarter going on regarding the 30th anniversary of time traveler. So if you go to YouTube type in time travel time traveler 30th anniversary, you will see this guy talking about what time time traveler meant to him and they’re trying to get together the original cast all of the original actors, which apparently was pretty hard to dig up and create a some sort of an event this November to, to meet and to be part of this 30th anniversary experience. So I thought that was kind of cool. I thought that was a neat thing. And it’s nice to see something that’s outside the normal scope of popularity, actually get a little bit of love. So I thought that was kind of neat. Let’s see, what else have I got here? Oh, so I’ve been playing a lot of wheel of YouTube lately. I’m a fan of quite a few channels is like so what does what does Shane Arman rose subscribe to like, like, What? What is his YouTube look like? Well, I stay away from anything political or controversial. So my YouTube is not filled with recommendations about anti Trump this or pro Biden that none of that stuff? I am I am, I am firmly fixed on video games and education and I know I know my used to drive my daughter crazy. I’ve watched documentaries, I’m watching informational videos again. Why are you watching this crap? It’s like, No, no, no, no. Someday you’re gonna want to know stuff. You’re gonna want to learn and then you’re gonna understand why dear old dad is his nose buried and document, you know, documentaries and all this other stuff. So I’ve been watching this. A couple of different channels. I’m a big fan of 30 to 42 here. I watched that a lot. I like minty comedic guards. I know we’ve talked about minty on this show. Quite a bit. Big fan of his course Mike Lorraine’s watchmen, but I’m really starting to get into a lot of these, some of these true crime. The SEC, I’m trying to get into the carwash here. So I’ve been watching some of the more true crime stuff. And I ran across a pretty cool channel that I’ll share with you. It’s called fascinating horror. So you can look that up on YouTube right now fascinating horror. And it’s no nonsense stuff. I mean, it’s not it’s, it’s produced but it’s not overly produced. Right. Some of these some of these channels go really really far in the extra production numbers. Me I want to know the information. I want to see the pictures. I like. I like I like sensible presentations. I’m a little more utilitarian. And what I like in that regard, and this, this channel fits the bill, it’s always something interesting, you know, you’ll see things that you, you know, and you want to learn more about right. But he doesn’t go too deep into any of them. And each one of them is something that’s remarkably interesting, I guess, you know, fascinating is a good word, but sorry, it’s the carwash. But they are very interesting, even if the topic isn’t something you normally thought you’d be interested in. So I’ve been watching a lot of that that’s been sort of my new thing. And, you know, again, if once you start clicking on the 30 to 30, twos and, and the fascinating horror, you’ll start getting feeds of other, you know, true crime, real life, you know, real life tragedies, that sort of thing. Some really, really interesting stuff. So, that’s what I’ve been watching on YouTube. Let me see here. Okay, so what about what have I been watching for movies, television, that sort of thing. I recently went back through the entire Prison Break series, and I actually finished it. So I believe I talked about it on the show, big fan of prison break. I thought Season Two was a little slow. I thought Season Two was sort of the, the weaker of the seasons. But I was a big fan of three. I loved four. I liked the whole Scylla getting the getting all these keys. I William Fitch, there’s a real good actor, Michael Rapaport, a great asshole. So we, I really enjoyed the cast. With those last couple of seasons. Well, as you may or may not know, a few years back, they released a new season, they call it a television event for Prison Break, which is essentially an additional 10 episodes season of the show. And I watched the first two or three and I and it wasn’t clicking with me and I stopped, which is crazy. Because I’m such a huge fan of prison break, I stopped. And so I decided the next time I watched it all the way through that i would i would stop take the time and finish out that 10 episode season. And I’m really glad that I did it turned out to be really good. It was it was perfect. It was the kind of ending I wanted. everything lined up perfect. And so I finally I finally finished that. But after that, I was looking for something to watch something and pick it up. And I ran across. You know, recently I also went through six feet under again, too. And while I was going through six feet under I was kind of curious where Lauren Ambrose ended up landing, right. She was the she played the redheaded teenager. I was an 18 at that point, but she played the redheaded daughter on six feet under. That’s like, I wonder what she ended up doing and what did she land anywhere? You know, because Michael C. Hall went on to do Dexter and they’re doing a TV revival of that. I don’t know what Rachel Griffiths went on to do some sort of Australian TV show. I think after that, of course. The mom and the dad they’re all famous character actors, so they’re off doing other things. But what’s Lauren Ambrose doing? I mean, she did some sort of psycho beach killer movie or something. And it’s like that didn’t look any good. But I found out that she’s been involved in this television show. I think it’s on Apple TV. I don’t know where it’s from, you know me I I don’t know where it comes from. It just lands it magically lands on my box. But the name of the show is called the servant and it’s produced although not on, not written by directed by or anything but it’s produced by m Night Shyamalan Shama, Milan shamala ding dong. And, you know, my, my, um, my interest in his stuff pretty much ended with the first thing that he did, right. They see dead people if that was the name of that. Anyway, yeah, the first thing that he did, I really liked it a lot. The second thing he did, I liked it a lot less. And then the third, fourth and fifth and six things he did I even, like less and less and less. So. Yeah, so I don’t go out of my way to see any of his stuff if it happens, that he’s part of it great, but I’m not. It’s like, oh, m Night Shyamalan. I gotta watch that. Now. Now, that doesn’t work out for me. But anyway, so I kind of went in blind on it. Not quite sure even what the show was. And I’ll tell you what, the first it’s a slow burn. I’m going to warn you right now. There’s two seasons. It’s it’s left open supposes a third one coming. So if you’re looking for something cut and dry, watch done. wash, rinse, and dump. I’m not there yet. But it’s got two full seasons too. I think it’s 1010 or 12 episodes per season, right? standard stuff. And the story without getting too, I won’t give you too much about it, but I’m gonna give you the intro piece to it. So, Lauren Ambrose, of course, has now grown up, she’s, you know, she’s a mom, her and her husband live in this, you know, in this Pennsylvania suburb. They’re, they’re fairly wealthy. They just had a kid and she wants to go back to work. She’s a news anchor. For some TV show, he is like this really esoteric chef. So he’s he works from home and his his, he said, his job is to challenge people’s, what he say challenge people’s palates or something like that. So it’s an interesting dynamic in terms of who these people are and what they do on the outside. And so in order for to help her get back to work, because he works from home, so so to get to get her back to work, they hire a nanny. And this nanny is, you know, 18 dark hair. A little on the front beside. Very interesting, it’s nondescript yet. You’re sitting there thinking, what, what, what’s, what is with this, what, What’s with her? What is that? What is that? What is that? So the show kind of starts with this with this nanny arriving. And we haven’t like we have a day or two, you know, in show time, before the nanny arrives. And was it the maybe it was the first night the nanny or I don’t remember anyway, not important. So the couple are in bed. And they got the baby monitor, right? anybody’s had a kid knows, you know, you have the baby monitor next to your bed. And so they’re sleeping and the baby’s crying, right. So the dad gets up and goes into the kid’s room, goes over to the crib, and reaches down and grabs the baby’s leg and pulls it out of the crib slamming its head against the crib. And you’re like, What the fuck is going on? Right? I mean, I was I was literally I’m sorry, I ruin that moment for you. I was literally fucking floor when I saw him jerk that baby out of the out of the crib slamming its head against the thing. And then unceremoniously throwing it on the floor. I almost shit myself, right? When you’re not a parent, you don’t understand what that means. You know, it’s like watching gage get creamed by that Aramco truck, when you’re a kid, wow, that’s some fucked up shit. When you’re a parent that’s like, that’s like your worst fucking nightmare, or kid wandering out on the road and getting hit by a truck. But I digress. So then the camera focuses in on the baby, and it’s a doll. I mean, it’s a really, really lifelike looking doll, but it’s adult. So we fast forward into the morning. And the nanny has the baby slash doll. And she’s like, you know, cuddling in brushing gets her in the whole bit. Right? It’s a doll. And, and so the mom leaves for work, right? Lauren Ambrose leaves for work. And so the husband sits the nanny down, he’s like, you know, you don’t have to do that anymore. Right? You know, you don’t have to do that. Because you know, she’s making a big fuss over this is no panda. And so then the story starts unfolding. They lost the baby. like six weeks or eight weeks, whatever was there was some period of time they had the baby, baby died, no details. baby died and the mom fucking snapped. And so the life coach therapist, whatever friend of the family suggested that they put this real looking doll to try to transition her from the loss in the nanny, the nanny, you know, you’re not really sure you can’t get a read on this man. You don’t know what the fuck is going on? She should get it because she not get it. But what are we doing? But what do we got going on here? I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going on. And that’s how you’ll spend most of the first season. I don’t know what’s going on. Oh, wait, wait, wait, what was that? What was that? Wait, who covered up what? And so you’ll start getting dribbles? That the story isn’t quite what it seems. And neither is the nanny. Because well I’m not gonna ruin it for you. But trust me if this even remotely sounds interesting, pick it up. You need to watch about I would say if you’re not into it like acid elbows deep by three episodes. Just flush it. I was in the first episode. I had to know What the fuck was going on? I had to. And and again, much like a lot of these other you know, these other serials, you know they they answer a half a question and they ask two more. So it’s kind of like lost or something where you you don’t feel like you’re getting answers for a while and then all of a sudden you get a bunch, then it’s like well wait a minute if that’s true, what about this? what’s what’s going on with that? And by the end of the second season, you’ll know everything that’s going on, but you won’t have you won’t have closure on everything that’s going on. Right? There’s there’s room, but they kind of made it so that there’s sort of an ending to it, but kind of not. So I would recommend it if it sounds even remotely interesting. Pick it up. Alright, this is Shane armour. I got to get out here. This is Shane R. Monroe pageanty radio. We’ll see you next time. Take care everybody.
Passenger Seat Radio Episode 2021-05-15 Show 2
