Idle Thumbs 258: Change the Name to Game

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🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 92 minutes

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It's game time. You're confident. You know this. You load up Dark Souls 3. You have some trouble with the menus, but it's alright, you figure it out. Forty minutes later, something on the screen almost resembles a human face. Enter the game—it's brutal, not what you remembered. As your grotesquely-faced wizard is wrecked beyond belief time and again, you reflect on how one can feel so old and yet like such a baby. You load Super Hypercube and watch a small cube slowly and satisfyingly descend into an appropriate receptacle. You make a drink on the rocks.

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0:24.0	dot com with the offer code thumbs a plus a plus yeah I kind of I like doing these
0:30.9	like I played dark souls last night and I ate shit and it's like you know what I've just been doing these ads every week for a couple years now and I'm actually good at it and it's one thing in my life that I know that when I start doing it. I'll be good at it and I'll finish it
0:44.4	More on that after this It's April 14th, 2016.
0:57.0	This is Idle Thums 258.
1:00.0	This is Idle Thums 258, I believe I'm Chris Remo. I believe I'm Mick Brecken. I believe I'm Jake Rodkin and I believe in Dark Souls. Do you? No I don't either do you but the thing you don't believe in is your ability to be great
1:16.7	I fully believe in Dark Souls I've lost belief in yourself. Yes, I really have with respect to my ability to sort of engage
1:29.0	with video games that I'm not just automatically good at you know. Oh man I so I I started playing
1:37.4	Dark Souls the night it came out Dark Souls three that is and I mean in case it wasn't obvious and you've been playing the original
1:46.4	Dark Souls for years from starting from the night it came out and I made a
1:51.0	character and you know it was already a bad sign that I was like bad at the character creator
1:57.4	You know like already I'm just like man. I am just
2:00.4	Apparently everyone is bad at dark series menus well yeah I mean the
2:03.9	the dark the souls games have always kind of been like that I I did care the creator
2:07.8	I mean I spent two hours I mean I spent two hours really yeah I can can't realize that I can't make anything look good this is I'm just really bad at knowing what a face looks like
2:18.2	But then I realize like no, it's just like the Mario 64 thing where you pull on one side of the face and the other side like moves over
2:26.0	But it's not like Mario 64 because they're trying to create like really realistic looking
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