Hello everybody! My name is Christopher Thomas Plant.

I'm Russ Frustick!

And welcome to the resties where the best of the rest discuss the rest of the best.

This week we are talking about Elden Ring, more Elden Ring, but here's the good news.

One, we're not going to give you all the spoilers, but we are going to help you play and or enjoy the game.

Because after doing this week's besties episode, we realized, especially from comments on our

Twitter, a lot of folks want to get into this game but don't really know how. So we're going to help

you with that. And then in the second half, we're going to talk about the new free spin-off of Portal,

a game that we've talked about quite a bit on this show. So that's it. Are you ready?

I'm ready. I'll see you on the other side.

Okay, Elden Ring. I think there are two ways that you can get into Elden Ring.

No sound obvious, but they are...

Are you talking to me when you say you? Do you mean me, Russ?

Well, no, because you're actually better than video games than I am. So I feel like I can't like

make you nice. But like as somebody who is maybe hasn't played a lot of from software games,

but sees that this is the conversation in all of video games and like kind of all of entertainment

right now. Yeah. And like, hey, I want to get into this. You can play the game and we're going to

help you do that. Or you can watch the game, which is quite valid. In fact, I would say just as

valid with a game like this. And we'll talk about like what that means, too, because it's not as

simple as like, oh, just turn on YouTube. So first, I think we should talk about the play of the

game thing. And then we'll talk about ways that you can watch it while still kind of getting a

feel for the game. That's not good to you. Yeah, sounds good. Okay. So if we're talking about

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