#407 | Pleasure Spiked With Pain

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 246 minutes

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Summary

Things are quiet recently. It feels like we're waiting for something to pop-off; some new announcements, or tantalizing rumors, or whatever. We have a little of that this week, though -- perhaps as usual -- it's good news mixed-up with a few questionable items. Let's start with PS5 sales, which picked up substantially in the days leading up to the hardware's global price increase. We then move into the surreptitious release of once-hidden Grand Theft Auto Online numbers, which shows a game still making around $10 million a week, with around two-thirds of its playerbase on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Then, we get into first and second party fare: More details about the unannounced (but heavily rumored) Faye-driven God of War spinoff, casting and performance capture details for Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT, word of a Bloodborne animated feature in the works, and a Metal Gear Solid film, too, both being steered by Sony Pictures. And did Insomniac's Spider-Man 3 get leaked, too? Inquiries from the audience help us round things out, as always. Why is PlayStation 2 Colin's least-favorite Sony console? Is there room for the point-and-click adventure genre in modern gaming? Will Xbox really go back down the path of exclusivity? Can we act as an effective billboard for a listener's pregnancy announcement? Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at https://www.shopify.com/sacred Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/SACRED and use code SACRED and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Go to PrizePicks.com/DoItLiveSweepstakes or check out PrizePicks social pages for more info. Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement.0:00:00 - Intro0:35:29 - Player 30:39:45 - Timothy's weight loss0:44:56 - RIP Juno0:56:18 - Back to PSVR2?0:57:39 - Weird Pragmata discourse1:09:20 - Roblox on PS51:10:14 - PS5 sales boost due to the price increase1:22:13 - GTA Online makes $10 million a week1:36:28 - New Faye God of War details1:47:42 - Physint casting details1:56:27 - Bloodborne animated movie2:12:37 - Metal Gear Solid movie rumors2:21:39 - Mocap for Spider-Man 32:32:29 - New PS+ games2:39:39 - What We’re Playing (Starfield, Marathon, Mouse PI For Hire)3:00:56 - Defending capitalism3:16:27 - "AI-free"3:27:11 - PlayStation in Super Smash Brothers3:38:01 - PS2, the least favorite3:43:06 - Point and Click adventure games3:49:05 - Xbox returning to exclusives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast. This is episode number 407. My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my son, Chris Ragon, who's looking today like a mid-level soprano's mobster, like you're made, but you're, you just got made. Right, right. I've still got to go through the hazing. Right, right. You're kind of still on some bullshit like tasks, but you know, you're one of the family.
0:42.6	You had the little ceremony. Yeah, I'm driving people around mainly.
0:46.6	Right, right. Well, it's good to see you. How are you?
0:49.7	Good. Just got back from a walk. It's nice out. Thank God. But I got my coffee. I'm ready for the day. I don't know. It's pretty, pretty low-key, which is good. You know, I thank God for low-key weeks at this point.
1:10.5	Drinking a coffee here, I see. Is that from, is that from Starbucks? It is. It's a basic bitch coffee. That's all right. I was craving it. I was like, you know what? I don't want to do anything. You got to be a basic bitch sometimes. That's all right. I'm trying to cut something out here. I'm going to put it in the Discord for us in our
1:27.9	staff discord. Oh, what is this? Here, I'm getting it ready now, putting it in. All right,
1:33.5	there it is. Oh, no, that's not it. There we go. That's what it says on the bottom of my,
1:38.6	it says fire weather statement. Because it's so hot and dry here. My weather instead of it saying.
1:45.5	That's crazy.
1:47.0	I've never seen that here where fires happen often.
1:53.3	Yeah.
1:54.0	So that's kind of nuts.
1:55.3	Yeah, it's very distracting because it's just sitting there and it's just a fire weather.
1:58.3	Oh, now it says 89 degrees sunny.
2:00.1	Okay.
2:18.5	We're back because it's so fucking hot. Right. Already. Got to tell you this, though. That solar power, we're turning right now. Oh. I'm almost 500 kilowatt hours for the month already. Big time. Big time production. Very, very excited about it. Chris,
2:23.8	good to see you as we're in the fire weather statement era of Virginia. Dustin, good to see you as well. Are you in the fire weather? Not quite the fire weather, but you reminded me that
2:28.4	the other night, Holly and I were in our car. We were driving, cutting through like a nicer
2:33.6	neighborhood up at the top of the city.
2:36.4	We're driving.
2:37.3	And then there's,
2:37.9	there's just a small flame
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