The boys Immortal Storm and Nick are back, this time joined with a good old friend, Jose. The trio discus at length about video games vintage and current gen, artificial intelligence, and embarrassing childhood stories about inappropriate things.
0:00 Nick’s Superman hair
3:38 - The town we grew up in; scary parts of town
7:15 - Sparking Zero; PC gaming setup
10:44 - Nick & Jose have bought Storm games and he still hasn’t played them; Star Wars: Outlaws; Game Informer shuts down after 33 years
14:10 - Porn stories; VHS tapes, magazines, finding dad’s stash
16:48 - Gaming magazines; Game Informer, Nintendo Power, Pong, Atari, PS3 releasing at $700
23:44 - PS5 Pro; graphics, frames, waste of money, physical games; games changing with patches
29:13 - Memory cards for games back in the day, remastered games, Horizon, Breath of the Wild, Bloodborne
34:56 - Sequels to stories that finished, stories that don’t end, unsatisfying endings to shows, My Hero Academia, Jiu-Jitsu Kaisen, High School DXD
38:36 - Hating things you’re a fan of, writing MCU humor into everything
43:48 - Kids shows today are all loud brain rot, quality kids shows we grew up on; Elsa Gate, Cocomelon, Bluey
50:41 Vine ruined everyone’s attention span, the TikTok platform formula
55:09 The Simpsons’ latest season premiere; Tesla robots and ai taking over; Detroit: Become Human, Ex Machina; narrative decision based games
1:01:38 Ai2U, a game where you talk to an ai girlfriend
1:08:50 Nick thinks Storm should stream on Twitch; Streaming culture, Storm hates IRL streamers, playing a character to people
1:13:38 Vince McMahon documentary, brief mention; Storm is still fascinated by the whole Chris Benoit situation
1:20:32 Walking to Jose’s house to play games as a kid; customer controllers; Switch technology
1:29:49 The Wii and its best games to playing with the motion controller; Call of Duty, Spiderman, Resident Evil, Wii Sports; throwing the Wii remote at the tv
1:34:46 Storm wouldn’t go to Jose’s house because he didn’t have an HD tv; TVs with antennas, black and white; Sparking Zero