0:00

I was giggling to myself the other night when I

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was like doing dishes. I didn't see anything. And

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I just had a pop in my

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head. Is Wayne Brady gonna have to

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choke me? Hahahahahaha! Welcome

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to No One Can Know About This, a

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podcast where we play every final fantasy. I'm

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Jeff Ekman. And I'm Ryan Kazmiski. And here

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we go, Season 7, Episode 60! We're

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out of stuff to do. We're now

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going to be running around

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grinding and preparing for Osmo

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and reading everything about

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Ultimate Weapons and just an endless

0:37

number of things that you could

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do. We're gonna know about

0:41

all the secrets before the end of this

0:43

episode. I'm gonna run around and do

0:46

a lot of grinding. Last week we

0:48

collected some frogs. We're real close to the

0:50

end on that. We're at like 89 on

0:52

frogs. Really almost done with

0:54

frogs. We talked to Yan. Like off the

0:57

top of my head, I think what we

0:59

have left in terms of like real side

1:01

quests to finish is frogs, Osmo, and the

1:03

Auction House. Right. We're gonna do the Auction

1:05

House next week. Yeah, in this episode I

1:08

think I'm just in the mood to grind.

1:10

And I- I think you're gonna

1:12

crank it up before X. To try to avoid an

1:14

emerald weapon situation. I'm just gonna do a bunch this

1:16

episode and grind while I feel like it

1:19

before we even attempt Osmo. This

1:21

is an important grind. It's gonna pay off

1:23

later for us in ways that we like

1:25

forget about. Because we're like, man, everything's like

1:27

pretty easy right now later on. And

1:31

it's because we're gonna put in the work now. And

1:34

yeah, with the with the triple X or whatever,

1:36

the fast speed, you can really get through a

1:38

lot of fights fast. Yep. We

1:40

look up what are the most lucrative fights to do. So

1:43

come with us for this prep episode.

1:46

We're prepp- episode. Huh? Prepp-

1:48

episode? It's not that good. It's not that

1:50

bad. It's not that- no, it's a prepp- episode. I

1:52

guess- I don't think it'll be a thing. I'm sorry,

1:54

you're right. Every

1:57

show needs a prepp- episode. It doesn't.

2:00

Is there any business, any

2:02

other, anything else? Not really,

2:05

just thought I would ask this

2:07

time. Boy, we're getting close to the end of

2:09

this season. We are getting close to the end.

2:11

We're in the 60s now, and right now we're

2:13

looking at 65 is

2:16

where the season is gonna end. So. Yeah,

2:18

I mean, we're really. We're really in the final

2:20

stretch. Yeah, I mean, most of what I say

2:22

every episode is, there's not much left. There's

2:25

not a lot left. I'm excited for this one,

2:27

this one's really fun. I love

2:29

being in this part of the game, as I said last

2:31

week. Yeah, I mean, we really play them just to get

2:34

to this part. So let's do

2:36

it, let's get grinding. We're

2:41

gonna fuck around and need to level

2:43

for ya. Yeah, I was just thinking

2:45

we should get our final, like a

2:47

party together to start leveling. Uh-huh, well

2:49

I think Zadane's gonna be grateful, of

2:51

course. You, Vv and Steiner?

2:54

Steiner's great. Yeah. I think,

2:57

yeah, Dagger, Vv and Steiner.

3:00

We're figuring out who our final party's gonna be, because

3:02

we're not gonna level everybody up to

3:04

be ready for Oz. Yeah, it's time to start

3:06

focusing in on a core group, and I start

3:08

looking up all the ultimate weapons that we don't

3:10

have. We got Zadane's ultimate

3:13

weapon. Vv's

3:16

is called the Mace of Zeus. Can

3:21

be found in the memoria in Gaia's birth

3:23

room. You'll find it on the left side

3:25

of the platform after climbing up the ladder.

3:27

A lot of the stuff we're gonna read

3:29

about in this point of the game will

3:32

be accessible in the final dungeon, so it'll

3:34

be stuff that we won't even see until

3:36

we decide to go do that. And the

3:38

weapon can teach him doomsday. He's

3:41

still coming up. The memoria? Yeah,

3:43

that's where we're going next, I

3:45

think. Okay. It's like the second

3:47

to last dungeon. I think it has a ton of

3:50

extra shit in it. Okay, including some of the bosses.

3:54

Garnet's is the whale whisker. Don't we already have

3:56

that? I think so. Yeah,

4:01

you get it in the Chogrograph

4:03

Side quest. Steiner's Excalibur II and

4:05

Ragnarok. It's a difficult

4:07

and tedious quest to undertake. It's

4:09

much easier to get a second

4:11

ultimate weapon than Ragnarok. Once

4:14

Steiner has gained the Sky Ability, the

4:16

team needs to make their way to

4:19

the Outer Continent in the top right

4:21

of the map and land

4:23

on the island to collect it. Does

4:25

he have the Sky Ability? I don't think so.

4:29

What does that even mean? I'm reading about

4:31

a really weird super weapon that you

4:33

can get for Steiner. I'll read more

4:35

about this soon. Oh yeah, well yeah,

4:37

I mean this is like the most

4:39

famous terrible quest in all the Final

4:41

Fantasy games. It's not possible for us

4:43

to get the Excalibur II at this

4:45

point. It's not possible for anyone to

4:47

get it. It's like a joke. It's

4:50

crazy that they did this. The

4:52

phrase is the dragon's hair, which

4:55

you find in that super

4:57

hidden mountain crack. So

4:59

I think we have that. We're doing

5:02

amazingly. Kenos is the Gastrofork.

5:04

The Beastrofork? Right, no,

5:06

no, Gastrofork. Not Beastrofork. Okay, yeah. Which

5:09

I think we're going to get from

5:11

the frogs. Aiko's

5:13

is the Angel Flute. Did we not

5:15

just get that? I don't...

5:17

I really don't know. I'm going through and

5:20

unequipping all of the people that aren't going

5:22

to be in our party for this grind

5:24

so that we can see all the accessories.

5:26

This game was like... And make sure that

5:28

yeah, our core group gets everything. Before

5:30

like quality of life things, like seeing the

5:33

full inventory even if it's equipped to people

5:35

and stuff like that. Yeah.

5:37

The hammer ends with the room claw and

5:40

it's in the memoria dungeon. Three

5:42

of them can be found in the memoria. One

5:45

of them is going to be the frog quest.

5:48

And I'm pretty sure we have

5:50

this dragon's hair for Fred. See

5:52

about Steiner's sky ability? It's

5:55

kind of weird to me how many more ragtime mice

5:57

wait to find. We've

6:00

been running all over this world. But

6:02

I mean, if we're level 40, and the super

6:04

bosses are like level 99, we'll have to run

6:07

a forest enough that we'll run into them.

6:10

Yay! So

6:12

there are two big super bosses of

6:15

the game. You

6:18

might want to level up a bit. At this point in the

6:20

game, you have levels of crawling in the low to mid 30s,

6:23

and you might want them in the upper to low 40s.

6:26

That's where we're at. It's in

6:29

preparation for the super bosses. We're

6:31

doing alright. That's already a sign to

6:33

me that like these super bosses are

6:35

not the super bosses of previous titles.

6:37

Not the emerald ruby level. Yeah, because

6:39

if they're telling you to get into

6:41

the 40s, then that's a very

6:44

different story from like if you're not at

6:46

least 70. Yeah. You know.

6:49

But I also look up where are the

6:51

best places to grind. One of the better

6:53

places to do this is against the grand

6:55

dragons, although you want to make sure that

6:58

you have certain skills equipped first. Blah blah

7:00

blah. Here's strats for that. You can find

7:02

them on the Papos Heights or Volanar Island,

7:05

which is the same island with Q's

7:07

marsh on it. This place is great,

7:10

especially if you finish the Choppadoh Beachside

7:12

quest, as you can heal up

7:14

on this island. The

7:16

bouncy ball in the sky. The

7:19

other super boss in this game, Osmah,

7:21

is definitely a lot more challenging to

7:23

face. In order to find

7:25

Osmah, you'll need to do the Choppaboh

7:28

hot and cold side quest and fish

7:30

up enough of the chocograph treasures to

7:32

prepare the sky ability for Choppaboh. Blah

7:35

blah blah. Dude, there's a structure in

7:37

the air garden near the back that

7:39

you can examine. And if you examine

7:42

it twice, you'll get the

7:44

option to change party members. We

7:46

spent so much time up in that air garden, I can't

7:48

believe we didn't run across this. Well,

7:50

we spent so much time there on the

7:53

back of the chocaboh. You have to be

7:55

off the chocaboh, just walking around as Zidane,

7:57

which I don't think we ever did. I

7:59

think it's actually, you stay on the chocaboh.

8:01

but it's that you aren't in the game.

8:03

Oh yeah, okay, that's what I mean, is

8:05

you're not playing Chokobo hot and cold. Yeah,

8:07

and we were only doing it after talking

8:09

to Mini. We never explored it not while

8:12

playing. So it's in that sky Chokobo area.

8:15

Oh, okay. You know that, like, back

8:17

island with, like, the mountain? You

8:19

go to that. Interesting. Before

8:22

you actually dive in, though, let's talk

8:24

about the preparations needed for this creature.

8:27

First and foremost, you want to complete

8:29

the friendly monsters, as this

8:31

makes Osmo weak to shadow damage, and

8:34

your melee characters will be able to

8:36

reach him. Yeah, when we gave Yann

8:38

a diamond, he said,

8:40

now you can reach the round guy.

8:43

Yeah, so I mean... We don't know

8:45

this yet, but Osmo is round. And

8:47

I guess if we had encountered Osmo

8:49

before we had finished friendly monsters, it

8:51

would have been, like, an emerald weapon

8:53

level, like, you don't have the underwater

8:55

materia thing. Exactly. So, yeah, it would

8:57

have been a real deathmatch if

8:59

we hadn't gone to Yam. Yam.

9:02

Mm-hmm. He has a large

9:04

number of moves at his repertoire. With

9:06

one of the worst being

9:09

curse, this does damage

9:11

and can inflict the following ailments

9:13

on your party. Confuse, poison, slow,

9:15

mini, and darkness. Auto-haste will

9:17

take care of the slow, and

9:20

you should equip everyone with antibody, clear-headed

9:22

and bright eyes, and you'll

9:24

want equipment that either absorbs or nullifies

9:27

shadow damage. And then, you know,

9:29

give it a shot. But apparently

9:31

it's very challenging even if you're prepared. So,

9:33

yeah, that knowledge is gonna help us a

9:35

lot in the Osmo fight when

9:37

we finally get there. But

9:41

that seems like information that we can wait on. Someday

9:44

we should play this game with, like,

9:46

a notepad. Oh,

9:49

totally, yeah. We should just play it all again.

9:51

I mean the next game. Oh, you

9:54

mean the final fantasy. Yeah.

9:56

One of these games. Yeah,

10:00

we'll just sit down to another playthrough of

10:02

this. We're at 74 hours

10:05

in on the

10:07

in-game timer. I'm gonna add

10:09

up how many hours of footage we have eventually.

10:12

I mean I think it's probably pretty accurate. There

10:14

might be like an hour more, you know? I

10:16

think there's way more than that of footage. Oh,

10:18

of footage there's a lot more than that, yeah.

10:21

Edelbart Steiner. I don't think he

10:24

has Skye. I don't know

10:26

how to get it either. I don't know what that is. I'm

10:28

not really looking to it. It's

10:31

a sword, Art. I

10:33

don't think we have a sword that teaches him. So

10:40

I look up how to get the Excalibur.

10:43

Oh dude, yeah, this is the crazy Auchinhaus

10:46

thing. Where you have

10:48

to buy four key items from

10:50

the auction house and sell them

10:52

to four key people in Trino.

10:57

And then the magical fingertip will appear in

10:59

the auction. And only if the player is

11:01

already tucked to the old man in De

11:03

Guero's second floor to request it, the

11:06

player, which I think we did. We

11:08

gotta make sure. The player must buy

11:10

the magical fingertip at 49,200 Gil,

11:15

give it to the old man outside of the

11:17

inn in De Guero, and he will give you

11:19

the Excalibur. I feel like we should do this.

11:21

I do too. It's substantial

11:23

enough that we're- Yeah, I'm

11:25

not thrilled about

11:27

it. But it doesn't seem

11:30

that bad. No,

11:33

we just need some money. And luckily you get

11:35

money every time you kill one of these grand

11:38

dragons. Yeah, quite a bit. Branding it out. Yeah,

11:40

we're gonna have plenty of money. Okay,

11:42

we're gonna get this weapon. So Steiner is coming

11:44

with us to the end because this is gonna

11:47

be a pain in the ass. Yeah, exactly. Probably

11:51

not even gonna put equipment on him because the Ragnarok

11:53

is great. Yeah, but if you have

11:55

the right armor, isn't this better? Yeah, it

11:57

says that if you wear a Mithra- You

12:00

look how a more rebirth ring

12:02

makes an answer. And

12:04

the Excalibur has an innate holy element, you know

12:06

what I mean? Umm...

12:08

I know what you mean. I know

12:11

that kind of sword, you know? It

12:13

teaches him Klimhazard. Wait, but

12:15

what about Skye? Oh, hang on. Excalibur

12:19

II, I can't believe there's two

12:21

Excalibers in this game. Okay,

12:24

the Excalibur II is Steiner's ultimate night

12:26

sword only meant to be obtained as

12:28

a reward for a successful speedrun of

12:31

Final Fantasy IX. Oh, I've heard of

12:33

this. I've heard of this bullshit. The

12:36

Excalibur II teaches Midas Strike a

12:38

fixed damage ability based on Steiner's

12:40

HP and Klimhazard in Stock Break,

12:42

which damage all enemies, blah blah

12:45

blah. It's the strongest

12:47

weapon in Final Fantasy IX, but

12:49

most players never see it as

12:51

to get it. The player will

12:54

need to reach near the end

12:56

of the final dungeon in under

12:58

12 hours in the in-game clock.

13:02

What? Yeah, this is

13:04

the infamous quest. The most infamous in

13:06

probably all the games because... You have

13:08

to do it within 12 hours

13:11

of starting the game. I just

13:13

wonder how they decided on that

13:15

number because 15 would also

13:17

be too small. Yeah, well they must have done

13:20

speedruns... Was there a tester there

13:22

that was really fucking good at this game? And

13:24

got to like... they were like, okay, alright. They

13:26

were watching... You can do it in 12 hours

13:28

pretty consistently, so we should put a thing... Watching

13:31

this guy, they were like, ah, we should put

13:33

something in because we know it's possible. Yeah. Yeah,

13:36

anyway, I don't know. This one blows my mind. This

13:38

is doable in any version of

13:40

the game, although the PlayStation PAL

13:43

version runs slower than the Japanese

13:45

or North American equivalents. The

13:48

challenge is easier in FF9 Remastered that has the

13:50

sped up button. The Excalibur

13:52

True is more of a trophy

13:54

item than an ultimate weapon from

13:56

an era prior to achievement

13:58

systems. obtaining it

14:00

still yields the ultimate sword achievement

14:03

trophy level but you have

14:05

to just like if you get

14:07

near the final dungeon in under 12 hours

14:09

it just like pops into your inventory

14:13

I mean look at this image don't

14:15

you want to see that on your

14:17

screen I guess it does just pop

14:19

up I'm showing you on my phone

14:21

a screenshot that just says like received

14:23

Excalibur 2 I guess this serves as

14:25

the emerald weapon level fuck you to

14:27

the player in this game like people

14:29

will try to get this and they'll

14:31

fail over and over they knew at

14:33

this point that people play these games

14:35

over and over again and start creating

14:37

their own challenges so I guess they

14:39

were just wanting to get in on

14:41

this as well before I ever heard

14:43

of Final Fantasy speedrunning yeah like if

14:45

there was a community it was tiny

14:47

disparate yeah you have to make it

14:49

to the final dungeons gates like

14:52

it won't spotlight the check I don't

14:54

want to put the like thing but

14:56

I just read gate to space fucking

15:02

spoilers you keep doing this I keep like

15:04

I'm just gonna read about

15:06

the end of the game here the minute

15:08

that we're gonna oh look at this it

15:11

turns out kuja switches sides and there's

15:13

a different bad guy I mean I

15:15

mean oh I was just trying to

15:18

see up to where we were without

15:20

exceeding 12 hours of playtime and then

15:22

you have to search the pillar on

15:24

the right of the room to

15:26

receive the sword a message is left

15:28

near the sword for Gilgamesh written

15:31

by and keto which reads

15:33

to brother Gil bro I found

15:35

the sword like you told me

15:38

but there were two one

15:40

of them had a lame name something

15:42

to it was a

15:46

dingy old thing with flashy

15:48

decorations something you probably like

15:50

so I went with Excalibur

15:52

I'll be back after I find

15:54

the tin armor Gilgamesh was

15:57

the forearm guy who was like gave

15:59

us the thing for being treasure

16:01

hunters. Got it. And I

16:03

think about it, I've seen it on a lot

16:05

of lists of like 10 most bullshit side quests

16:07

like ever in a video game. Yeah, this is

16:09

pretty bullshit. I

16:12

can't believe they put it in back then. That's

16:15

what I mean. Like a final fantasy game. That's what I

16:17

mean. And this one. Is that a thing at

16:19

the time? Of all, you know,

16:21

doing it fast must have become, I

16:24

bet you, after FF7's

16:26

massive success, people

16:28

were timing themselves and being like, yeah,

16:31

but that's a fun idea

16:34

to reward people for that. Totally right. I

16:36

want to see the Aaron Sorkin show about

16:38

the history of speed running. I

16:41

want to see it's development. Taken so

16:43

seriously. Like blown way out of proportion.

16:45

We're doing things fast. Like we'll

16:47

have a full hour episode about that time

16:49

when like someone dropped a Zelda speed run

16:51

on the Ocarina of Time forums that was

16:54

like three hours faster than anyone else had

16:56

done it. And he was an outsider and

16:58

no one believed him, but he changed the

17:00

game that night. You played Majora's Mask 30

17:03

hour play time. I got a 4.0 when

17:06

I went to Harvard. Yeah, like

17:08

I feel like we could lend

17:10

some unwarranted gravitas to this. We

17:12

take this shit seriously. Extremely funny.

17:16

Like recontextualizes as though

17:18

when a speed running thing happened, it shook

17:21

the world. Yeah,

17:23

I don't even consider that like canon completion.

17:25

There's no way to get that. Nobody

17:28

got that. It's really not meant for

17:30

your first time. But

17:33

Brian, if one is going after a

17:35

quote perfect game, there's much more that

17:38

needs to be considered than the Excalibur

17:40

2, such as the

17:42

many items with limited availability. To

17:45

get the S rank medal, one will

17:47

need to have not missed much treasure.

17:49

Another issue is achieving perfect stats. If

17:52

one is to make the most of

17:54

a character's stat potential, one must play

17:56

a quote level one

17:58

game until... until the end

18:01

game when the best stat boosting

18:03

equipment becomes available. What the fuck

18:05

are they talking about? Wild shit.

18:07

You don't level up intentionally until

18:09

you get to the end. And

18:11

then you level up hard. Ugh,

18:13

okay. Man,

18:16

I'm glad I'm not that serious of a

18:18

gamer. Yeah, I guess I'm glad. I mean,

18:20

you know, I don't need to go for

18:23

that. There's some thresholds I'll never cross, you

18:25

know? It's just I'm not built for it.

18:27

I'm glad that that sickness was out of

18:29

our reach. Dude, yeah, no. That thing happened

18:31

to us. Yeah. Like,

18:34

yeah, just like, what the fuck? That's

18:36

really cool that it's in there. But

18:38

we can go through the absurd bullshit

18:41

to get the Excalibur 1, which

18:43

is absurd enough. In

18:46

the background here, you just cranked up the

18:48

gameplay speed. Yeah. We're gonna supercharge

18:51

this grinding. Burn through as many fights as

18:53

I can and hope to run into the

18:55

ragtime mouse. Well, you're not going to do

18:57

that. Because you forget that you have to

18:59

wait 20 seconds for the ragtime

19:02

mouse to appear and you start going

19:04

at super speed, constantly getting into a

19:06

new thing. And it doesn't come up.

19:08

And it just keeps not coming. And

19:10

you're like, where is he? Where is

19:12

he? Oh, man. I forgot that

19:14

we're gonna turn this on to grind. That's

19:17

what I'm doing right now. I know. I

19:19

forgot that, like, we're gonna fucking grind

19:21

it out. We're gonna warp speed this.

19:26

Um... Let

19:28

me know when you want to go through the

19:30

auction house portion. I want to get another fucking

19:32

ragtime mouse. Maybe when you're in the forest. I

19:34

also don't think we have enough money right now

19:37

to go through the auction house portion. You know

19:39

what I mean? Yeah, no, I do not. We

19:43

really don't have much. We should go

19:45

to one of these... What's the most...

19:47

Grind islands. Yeah, they're here. Because I'm

19:49

fighting Grand Dragons right now, I think.

19:52

Yeah? These dragons? Are

19:54

they Graham? I mean, I don't know.

19:56

They appeared because of this war happened.

20:00

Yeah, they're grand. One nice thing about

20:02

disc four is since the mist covers

20:04

the world, everywhere is kind of okay

20:06

to grind because the monsters are all

20:08

increasing. That's nice of them. Most lucrative

20:10

FF9. Best

20:13

places to grind and level up in Final

20:15

Fantasy IX. There's

20:22

Popo's Heights. What is that? I

20:25

want to go to Popo's Heights. That's

20:27

where you find a bunch of grand

20:29

dragons. I think

20:31

that was where Gizumalu's Grotto puts you

20:34

out of Earth. Yeah, it is. You

20:36

had a grand dragon, something like disc

20:38

one over there. Outside Deguero is also

20:40

good. Memorial is a good place to

20:43

grind. Yeah,

20:50

I mean, we've blown the ability

20:52

to fight the special yan, but

20:55

the other yans, the little ones

20:57

are XP machines. They

21:02

sure are. I hope I don't fucking

21:04

die right now. Okay, it's only one.

21:06

You're back in the yan forest. Back on Vile

21:08

Island. You should be okay. Jesus

21:11

Christ. You gotta be kidding me. What

21:15

the fuck? Holy shit, man. Triple

21:18

speed, things get out of control really

21:20

fast. Yeah. I'm almost dead now. Zidane

21:23

is blown out of the battle. Dagger's

21:25

dead and Steiner and Vivi are at

21:27

pretty low health. Oh

21:31

my god. I did, dude. Oh my god. You're

21:33

the fuck off. Dude,

21:36

yan. He gets to go so much.

21:38

Triple speed is a bad strategy for

21:40

yan because he's already so fast. But

21:42

I think we're okay just because Dagger's

21:45

regenning. Hopefully that'll be enough to keep

21:47

her alive. What the

21:49

hell, yan? Fucking you up, dude. Now,

21:54

Dagger's the only one alive and she

21:56

summons a Tomos. Oh

21:58

my god. Kill him. Please it's a

22:00

demi-attack isn't it? Well, I mean it's

22:03

gonna do 999, but won't be a

22:05

nothing you do that twice This

22:08

is terrible Miss

22:10

okay. Okay. She survived hit him. Okay.

22:12

Let's go. Oh my god do it,

22:14

please That

22:25

was just with one yeah Well, I think

22:27

it was really the triple speed Yeah, looking

22:29

you up because they get to go multiple

22:31

times before you do unless you're really fast

22:33

on the inputs And a triple speed you

22:35

just can't be it fast enough. Wow No,

22:41

I don't think it's the money here let me

22:43

look up what's the best cuz I did say

22:45

something was good for money Gil

22:47

farming The

22:49

best way to make money. All right.

22:51

Yeah And Yeah,

22:57

it looks like there's some money

22:59

farming thing where you can like

23:02

buy wrists and steeple hats

23:04

and then you synthesize them to cotton

23:06

robes and then you sell them all

23:09

and they're like There's some strategy

23:11

like that Now

23:15

I'm fighting three and I'm being a

23:17

fucking idiot you gotta slow this down

23:19

Yeah, I just don't even think it's

23:21

possible at triple speed. We saved though,

23:23

right? This

23:28

is wild these guys are assholes Come

23:36

on You

23:42

Phoenix down dagger and she gets commented You

23:50

might want to slow down for the You

23:54

know, it's really funny Yeah,

24:01

yeah, yeah, yeah Just

24:05

tell me what fucking animals to kill

24:07

for money I think

24:09

we were, we weren't making bad money fighting those

24:11

dragons I think it may be that killing grand

24:13

dragons is the best You should probably go to

24:16

outside de Guero if you're gonna do it though

24:18

So that you have a chance of running into

24:21

the gimme cats Which you can

24:23

fucking not listen to those guys

24:26

Just kill them Not a fan of

24:28

all this mist I know I hate

24:30

navigating now, you can't see shit Wait, but we want

24:32

to be in a forest For

24:34

the ragtime muffin Yeah Show

24:37

me a grand dragon, god damn it Gimme

24:40

cat Cool, don't listen to

24:42

him Raaaaaaay

24:44

Gimme a diamond, meow Fuck

24:47

you I

24:49

know you're a liar, you bitch Okay,

24:52

cool Yeah,

24:57

5,000, girl Kill all

24:59

the kittens Gonna put all these

25:01

gimme cats into a bag Nice

25:20

5,000 gill Now

25:22

that's lucrative Mm-hmm

25:27

God damn it, I wanted that fucking ragtime

25:30

Yes Where

25:39

is he? Where's mouse? And what are these

25:42

hydras? I don't want these So

25:44

yeah, problem with my grinding fantasy I

25:46

was hoping I could go in the woods

25:49

And fight grand dragons And find ragtime mice

25:52

And the gimme cat Yeah, but the gimme cat

25:54

and the grand dragons only spawn on the plains

25:56

And the ragtime mouse only spawns in the forest

25:58

And not only that You have to wait 20

26:00

seconds on the world map before getting into an

26:03

encounter to have the ragtime mouse actually show up

26:05

And I'm pretty sure that's not a sped up

26:07

20 seconds. It's just 20 more seconds. Whether it

26:09

is or not, we've forgotten that Yeah,

26:12

it looks like the gimme cat was outside of the

26:14

forest Okay

26:26

Do you think that the frogs respawn

26:30

At the rate of the game

26:32

timer affected or not affected by

26:34

forex not affected probably Boo, like I

26:36

don't think the game like because

26:38

that's why that it broke that

26:40

uh, chakra graph So well,

26:42

the real way to farm gil in this game

26:44

is you get 1390

26:47

gil you spend 130 of that on

26:50

a wrist in dali and a steeple

26:52

head from the mag shop in bermisha

26:54

for And

26:57

then you spend a thousand to

26:59

synthesize that a cotton robe And

27:02

then you sell the cotton robe for 2000 gil

27:04

and you just made yourself 610 gil to profit Okay,

27:07

great awesome. And you repeat that

27:10

until rich. I mean you can do

27:12

it. You could do like that You can do a lot of it

27:14

at once. Maybe we should do that I

27:16

don't think we do do that, but I definitely wanted to include

27:18

it as a tip for all of you out there Well,

27:21

one thing I love is like no matter

27:23

what video game you're playing There's someone who

27:25

plays it like they're an amazon reseller. Yeah,

27:28

and you'll find a youtube video. That's like

27:30

how to make a billion dollars fast It's

27:33

like get never need it. Yeah in

27:35

stardew valley But

27:38

for each one you synthesize you're winding up with the

27:40

610 gil profit Five

27:44

steps to crash the economy in

27:47

final fantasy nine bit by bit

27:49

like 600

27:51

is almost nothing. Yes Fight

27:54

you get so much. There's all these

27:57

tips that are like if you do

27:59

this laborious thing Yeah, you'll play

28:01

smarter and much slower. Look this

28:03

is the grindset mentality that people

28:05

are talking about You're

28:11

gonna make even more money I

28:29

Wonder how much money we should have for this fucking

28:31

auction. I feel like you need

28:33

a lot Yeah, I think so too. So

28:36

I need to level up anyway at some

28:38

point. I mean two birds There

28:42

are two birds if within every person there are

28:44

two birds But

28:47

only one rock It's

28:49

up to you to figure out how to kill both

28:52

of them What

28:54

you gotta do is get a gun Line

28:57

them up both of the birds you

29:00

fire the gun and you call the bull rock

29:03

No, you wait for the birds to fall in

29:06

love and get close together Huh, you know you

29:08

hit them both and you hit them both when

29:10

they're fucking. Yeah With

29:13

a big enough rock towards they're both in that nest,

29:15

you know, you just yeah if you got a big

29:17

enough rock Yeah, big enough rock Nobody

29:19

ever tells you the size of the stone

29:21

that well, I guess that's the operative stone You

29:24

know, you'd never like call a large rock a

29:26

stone You know stone is like it fits in

29:29

your hand unless you're a giant and

29:31

then it could Anything

29:33

and you drop it on two

29:35

birds at once and crush them

29:38

both. Yeah, we're right. This is

29:40

actually a logic problem Yeah, there's

29:42

a solution stop it. It's getting

29:44

dangerous when you do that night. I'm here You

29:56

should save I

30:02

feel so powerful to go this fast.

30:04

Yeah, that's pretty awesome dude. Give

30:07

me a diamond, write me out. Poor

30:14

little cat. Shouldn't have tried to

30:16

deceive me. Poor, I

30:18

could keep you cute. I

30:25

mean, this is grinding. Good stuff. It

30:27

feels good. I don't know what it

30:29

is about it. Well, it's like going

30:31

so fast. It's almost like that mobile

30:33

game, like dopamine hit of like the

30:35

sounds just repeat. Yeah. And

30:38

no progress is being made. Remember when this

30:40

was like all the games were? Yeah, well

30:42

it's like all. The NES era. F1 was.

30:54

lucrative kitty. Oh,

30:59

look at you. She knows the

31:01

old one's sword now. Out of life. As

31:04

the abilities are getting learned, you start swapping

31:06

them out. Out of life. I

31:11

strike. See,

31:13

I looked up Steiner's sky ability.

31:16

There's someone who works at a

31:18

place called Ability Physical Therapy named

31:20

Randy Steiner, PT. Oh, Randy Steiner

31:23

went to BU for

31:27

a six year combined bachelor of science

31:29

and doctorate physical therapy program. Good

31:32

for him. Working at Ability Therapy. Anyway,

31:35

that's not what I'm looking for. Oh. Oh.

31:56

I don't know. Nobody else is even mentioning a

31:59

sky ability. even remotely, other than

32:01

that one thing I read that I can't

32:03

even find now. Can

32:07

we be real, what the fuck is wrong with

32:09

you? Man,

32:17

we were at this for a while. Yeah, I

32:20

was just in the zone. I could legit do

32:22

this without thinking about it. Sometimes.

32:26

I just forgot I was doing it. Well,

32:33

maybe when we get enough money, we should go do

32:35

this fucking auction house thing and then

32:37

maybe call it a day. Yeah,

32:39

sure. I mean, yeah, we'll see. We can

32:42

get that started at least. Yeah, I don't

32:44

know. We'll see what it takes. I

32:47

mean, let me know when you want me to stop. I don't

32:49

know what enough money is. Well, let's see

32:51

where we are. Right

32:55

now we have 144,000 gil. Get

32:58

to at least 150, which

33:00

were almost there. Seems

33:06

like they made it really easy to find the good

33:08

grind. They just put it everywhere

33:10

on this board. It was like everywhere in the

33:12

world in that map has these dragons and shit.

33:14

Pretty cool. Yeah,

33:16

pretty smart. Just

33:23

doing reps, getting ethers. One

33:29

more and then go over there. I

33:32

hope you're all yawning too, audience.

33:39

So having grinded enough with

33:41

enough money, we head to Trino, not just for

33:43

the auction house, but because you

33:45

want to check it to see if we can go

33:48

into that treasure hunter room. Oh, yeah. No, the treasure

33:50

hunter like headquarters is here. I

33:52

don't know. I'm hoping there's some

33:54

payoff to that. being

34:00

S-rank, since they were so disparaging to

34:02

us throughout the whole game. I wanted

34:04

to look at, for the Auction House,

34:06

we got the fucking medallion. Let's see,

34:09

your character Hunter ranked first. Oh my,

34:11

you're rank S, that's amazing, I've never

34:13

met a rank S-hunter before. In the

34:15

flesh. Well what do we do

34:17

with this medallion? Yeah, what do we get for

34:19

it? It's a medallion? Yeah, the...

34:21

We get to go in this room? No?

34:25

There is a back room that at the beginning

34:27

I'm pretty sure we saw Marcus walk into and

34:29

she blocked us from it and she's been standing

34:31

in the way of this door the whole game

34:34

and I was certain that when we came back

34:36

here as a rank S treasure hunter she would

34:38

move out of the way but she does

34:40

not. I can't believe she doesn't. Too often,

34:42

the final thing of a side quest in

34:44

these games is like, and that's in your

34:47

menu now. Yeah, I mean I guess, I

34:49

don't know how you design around that, but

34:51

this is... Well what you can do is

34:53

just let us into this room and then

34:55

we can look at stuff. I

34:58

don't know, we'll look around at stuff. So like,

35:00

cutscene where fireworks go off because they're so proud

35:02

of me, I don't know. Do

35:05

something. FF9

35:07

treasure hunt. Treasure

35:09

hunter rank or medallion or whatever.

35:19

Yeah, one point for every open chest, two points

35:21

for every chest found on the world map, while

35:23

riding a choco. None of the

35:25

items in the choco bohadin called minigame or

35:27

items bought from stilts can count. You

35:31

know what would have been a good reward? Gilgamesh

35:33

is a secret playable character. Well

35:36

that's a whole... That would be huge. Yeah, I

35:38

mean, I'm just... That would have been cool. Yeah.

35:40

They should have done that. Yeah. You have to

35:42

get 75% of the game's treasures in order to

35:44

reach rank S. Which I guess

35:46

we have. Oh wait, there's also...

35:51

Savor acid. And you

35:53

remember that the weapons shop here in

35:55

Trino has a couple of boss fights.

35:57

Yeah, there's some monsters locked up under

35:59

the floor. that we can fight on disc

36:01

4. Or the party with the

36:03

rank s award key item. Tannia

36:05

yields the another man's treasure

36:08

trophy. Oh, so we just...

36:10

it's just like an achievement. I

36:13

want to fight the monster. And

36:19

the monster at the weapons shop arena is

36:21

a behemoth. Classic

36:23

monster. Take that behemoth.

36:28

What? Well

36:31

that's bad. What happened? He

36:33

counters with meteor. Well that's not

36:35

good. Oh,

36:40

you're okay. Yeah, you're putting in max

36:42

damage and taking very little. Just like

36:44

a thousand a meteor. We're

36:46

not going to become the kings of jump rope,

36:48

I don't think. No, they're not even there

36:50

anymore. A rare item. After

36:54

a thousand leaps. A

36:57

thousand. One

37:00

thousand jumps. One

37:03

zero zero zero. Yeah,

37:06

I heard ya. Three zeros.

37:09

I done heard ya. We couldn't do more

37:11

than two. And we had that lag, but still.

37:13

But even without the lag we never would have

37:16

gotten a thousand. A thousand jumps. A thousand jumps.

37:18

You gotta be like in the zone. A

37:21

medal of honor. I

37:23

won. Oh

37:25

shit, and we missed the key item,

37:27

the athlete queen. Which

37:30

is the item that you received when

37:32

Vivi is victorious in his races against

37:34

Ipol. But we

37:36

won. Not enough? I don't, I

37:38

don't, I, you know. We didn't do enough? Remember

37:41

we won a, we, we, uh, should we get

37:43

the athlete queen? No, we didn't, we didn't. We

37:45

didn't do enough. It's bullshit that we couldn't go

37:47

back and race him another time. Yeah, I wish

37:49

that had been available because we would have done

37:52

more. Definitely. It's just like all in one go

37:54

to do like how many races? I

37:56

don't want to look it up, I don't remember. But

37:59

a lot, a lot more than we did. Yep, I

38:01

guess that's what you got to do to be the

38:03

best you can't be complainers like us you can't come

38:05

back to Racing later. I

38:07

can't believe it. Here's your prize. I got

38:09

to circle it I think we

38:11

did stop at like in the

38:13

60s of our level instead of like at

38:15

99 or something The

38:18

mayor's key. Oh, yeah, what

38:20

the fuck is the deal? We have to leave.

38:22

Oh, yeah. No, I saw this we missed

38:24

it You have yeah, you have to leave

38:26

Treno during the card tournament and travel to

38:28

Dali Boo

38:32

Yeah, there's some stuff in this game that we

38:34

missed a couple things.

38:36

They're always are though I'm always

38:38

bummed by it. Wait, they're Morin's

38:40

coffee side quest. Yeah, what the

38:42

fuck is that? Hang on? Oh,

38:45

that's the guy in the airship

38:47

museum loves coffee. I remember that

38:49

guy. He's looking for legendary coffee

38:52

There's a few there's coffee beans

38:55

around the world We're getting coffee

38:57

beans Somebody put

38:59

on a pot because we got some Question

39:02

to do I feel like

39:04

we already learned that we can't do

39:06

this anymore But

39:08

we're so tantalized by the

39:11

hope I guess we

39:13

just remembered the coffee Remembered how excited we

39:15

were to get him the coffee. We're gonna

39:17

learn that not only can we not do

39:20

it There's a it's really sad. Yeah, it's

39:22

a tragedy Yet he has

39:24

that model in his house Morin

39:26

is old and Lament's desire to taste

39:28

various coffee beans from around how do

39:30

we forget poor old Morin? What

39:33

a horrible name really bad.

39:35

It's like a combination of

39:37

horrid and morbid it I can't

39:39

even know he's dead Cuz the

39:42

earthquake when the ephatry roots

39:44

break through the ground killed him. Wait,

39:46

I mean we just can't get in

39:48

there Canonical he's dead when you fly

39:50

back to where he lives. There's like

39:52

a tree root blocking the tower He

39:54

was in just like go in there

39:56

as a he's dead. It

39:59

says more It dies in the

40:01

ensuing earthquake when the Ephatree roots

40:04

break through the ground to release mist

40:07

after Terra has been destroyed. So

40:09

this is a point that like I totally

40:11

missed when you said that the first time

40:13

and is not conveyed by the game. No.

40:16

Like when you like open that portal

40:19

to Terra like a minor cataclysm occurs?

40:21

Like nobody in the world comments on

40:23

this. Well I think memoria is like

40:26

above the Ephatree but nobody talks about

40:28

how all these new roots think that

40:30

there's mist all over the world. But

40:33

nobody is like oh my god

40:35

the roots destroyed half the planet.

40:37

Exactly no NPC. Which apparently is

40:40

the case. Yeah. Like

40:42

all those people in Estogaza are dead? Is

40:44

that what this means? That is

40:47

a good assumption based on that.

40:49

I mean okay so I went

40:51

over here and you can't get

40:54

in because there's roots blocking your

40:56

entrance. A village girl called the

40:58

dutiful daughter Sly in the dolly

41:00

item shop relays Zidane's party the

41:03

sad news. Oh. He's

41:06

fucking dead? Why can't

41:08

we do the coffee beans? We can't give him

41:10

the coffees. Jagged

41:13

you should have mentioned this on disc

41:17

three Jagged. Yeah really.

41:21

Why are we listening to Jagged? Just

41:24

because we like the layout of the website

41:26

really. And because it was

41:28

there for us before in that other

41:30

one. Seven. Yeah.

41:32

Steiner and Princess Garnet can return to

41:34

Dolly and can visit Morrid again. They

41:37

can offer him the rare coffee

41:39

beans he was after and delighted

41:41

Morrid brews a batch. Fucking

41:44

god damn it. That's

41:47

exactly what I want. Because

41:50

there's three rare coffees and we might still

41:52

be able to go get the beans. I

41:54

mean who cares. There's

41:57

only one man in this world who drank coffee

41:59

and he's dead. now so... He

42:03

was gonna die anyway. I

42:05

mean I gotta question the motivation behind

42:07

the creators for killing him. I mean

42:09

like it's one thing to block the

42:11

quest off but it's like extra driving

42:13

the knife in like you can't do

42:16

it. He didn't even get to enjoy

42:18

the one thing he cared about. Yeah

42:20

don't even ask. If

42:22

you give him the coffee before going

42:24

to find his dutiful daughter, she'll

42:27

say that he died in an earthquake

42:29

but was happy to have finally tasted

42:31

the legendary coffee. So

42:33

he didn't get to taste it before he

42:36

died in our world, which is a fucking

42:38

shame. It really is. And that

42:40

one moogle is never gonna get its letter. You lost

42:42

sight of what's really important. We did. Which

42:45

is the people we met along the way, you know. Man

42:48

and there's all this stuff about the

42:50

coffees and there was an active time

42:53

event and Senna brewed some

42:55

coffee and... Ugh. Awful.

42:59

And yeah like the last of the coffee

43:01

is located in Dali but there's only one

43:03

chance to get it during the card tournament

43:05

in Trino after, you know, where you... Why

43:07

would we have gone back to Dali? Oh

43:09

I guess that's where it... Yeah that's where

43:11

the main... Like what about Dali? Like why

43:13

would we think, oh I gotta get back

43:15

to Dali right now? So I think we

43:17

pointed this out when it happened but the

43:19

clue is that day you start out in

43:21

Alexandria. Mmhmm. And the

43:23

mayor of Dali is in the inn so you

43:25

know he's not at home and then in like

43:27

a drunken night you go to Trino. Yeah you

43:29

should go. And so when you wake up the

43:32

next day, if you're thinking about that still, you

43:34

know that the mayor isn't there. He's not there

43:36

to stop you from going into his house. Yeah

43:38

and you could go to Dali and get in

43:40

his house and do all kinds of shit there.

43:42

But we missed it. Yeah it's at the same

43:44

point where you can go to Vivi's grandfather's cave

43:46

or whatever. Quonswell. There was probably

43:48

an active time event that hinted at it and

43:50

we just didn't pick up on it. You know

43:53

what I mean? Yeah. If the

43:55

player returns to Observatory Mountain to give

43:57

the three coffees to Morad, he will...

44:00

promise to send the mini Prima Vista

44:02

ship to Lindblum. It can be found

44:04

in the Tantalus hideout on the floor

44:06

near the bed. Getting the mini Prima

44:08

Vista in the latest versions of the

44:10

game earns the My Little Airship achievement,

44:12

so we missed out on a trophy.

44:15

While you're reading all this, I'm walking around to

44:17

Guero looking for secrets. Oh dude, because we looked

44:19

at those books, we talked to this guy, he's

44:21

like, I can't find it. And we said, I

44:23

saw that book over there. And he walked, oh

44:25

sweet. You appear to be quite the traveler, I

44:27

can tell. Do you happen to find an item

44:29

called magical fingertip? Please bring it to me. Okay, so

44:31

we're gonna need to do that. This

44:34

guy is his dying wish. Oh wait, there's

44:36

something over here. What was that? Go down?

44:39

Wait, whoa. I found an old man

44:41

who wants me to bring him a

44:44

highlighted word, which is a magical fingertip.

44:46

That's gonna be the auction house thing.

44:48

But behind a bookshelf, I find like

44:51

a secret ladder that goes down to

44:53

another floor of dolly. Find yourself on

44:55

a balcony for 1.5. I've

44:57

never even been here. There's all these NPCs I've never

44:59

even spoken to. Good, good

45:02

findings. Oh. I

45:06

love books, especially the old

45:09

ones. I appreciate everything about

45:11

them. The authors, the publishers

45:13

and the readers. Guy

45:15

doing research. I'm doing research on

45:17

a legendary man. He had the

45:19

power to restart people's lives. Okay.

45:22

Okay. A legendary man

45:24

with the power to restart life. Elixir,

45:30

nice. What's down here?

45:33

Is that it? Is that it? Is

45:35

that what's over here? Probably

45:37

cards. Well, I think there was another round.

45:40

Yeah, yeah. Hey buddy. Geez,

45:42

so many books, what should I read first?

45:44

Lord of the Rings. Church

45:47

of the Rise. The classic, son. The

45:51

classic, son. The American classic. Check

45:53

out this book, The Gift. Anything

45:55

written by a drunk man,

45:58

really. It's considered classic. our

46:00

eyes. Read this book The Giver. All

46:02

that's on this floor are two hidden

46:04

elixirs and some NPCs who are reading

46:06

books. Do they have the scarlet letter?

46:09

The drunker he was the more legendary

46:11

the book because I mean you ever

46:13

tried to write every really drunk? Forget

46:16

it. Well he walked over here and what's

46:18

I guess that was just so we could

46:20

get back there. Huh. Get the

46:22

elixir and such. Oh it's fucking

46:24

engineer Z-Bolt. Yeah he hangs here. He's here

46:26

to research new sorts of power. I think

46:29

we ran into this guy when we were

46:31

here before and we were like how does

46:33

he know about this place? Well yeah this

46:35

just again like kind of breaks my brain

46:37

that like everyone from other parts of the

46:39

world are here. I'm like this is a

46:42

secret. They should at least be talking about

46:44

like wow it's amazing that we've found this

46:46

place. There's so much new knowledge here or

46:48

something instead they're like because all the stink

46:50

that was made about how the world's not

46:52

explored and people don't even know. But yeah

46:55

we've been over that. Some of the symptoms

46:57

here are complicated. The source of all this

46:59

water is a mystery. Maybe it

47:01

is the work of the dragon god. No that

47:03

guy's in my pocket. Yeah I

47:06

know that guy he's not doing this right now. I

47:08

didn't get him from here. We've officially talked to the

47:10

guy. Man I'm really pissed

47:13

off about this coffee situation. I know

47:15

that actually is a real bummer. And

47:23

that's where we're gonna end episode 60. We're

47:25

entering the wasteland of this game. That's

47:27

right. We're really just like we enjoyed

47:29

it so much though. I think you

47:31

know our ringing of the dry cloth.

47:34

Yeah so next week

47:36

we're gonna go to the auction house and

47:38

do all of that. The auction house from

47:40

what I remember is gonna be great. This

47:43

was all really important grinding today. The auction

47:45

house is the kind of quest that like

47:47

after Ocarina of Time came out in the

47:50

Happy Mask quest happened every video game like

47:52

has to have one of these. Yeah that's

47:54

how I feel about it. Yeah but yeah

47:56

this week we did a lot

47:59

of stuff that could have been a Galnica

48:01

type situation but we're getting the work

48:03

done. Yeah and I mean it's also

48:06

just taken me back because I remember

48:08

grinding so much in this game as

48:10

a kid that it's like transportative to

48:12

do it. Had to

48:14

get all that money. I still can't

48:17

believe Morrid though I can't believe they

48:19

killed him in some random thing that

48:21

we didn't weren't even aware of happening

48:23

to the world. It would have been

48:25

tragic to find out that

48:27

he died if we had given him his coffee

48:29

but then it would have we

48:32

would have been like well at least he got

48:34

what he was. Part of it is just that

48:36

I'm like mad that we missed it and I'm

48:38

like I'm looking for ways to like criticize the

48:40

creators for their decision to block it off. They

48:42

should have had room on disc four to put

48:44

all these locations that they clearly blocked off with

48:47

roots. Why did they

48:49

yeah I mean clearly they didn't have

48:51

room on the desk. There's a missing

48:53

cutscene where roots pop out of the

48:55

ground to destroy a couple places. The

48:57

idea that Morrid's dead yeah I still

48:59

can't quite stomach it. I'm like they're

49:01

lying. They're making it up. It's

49:04

not true. They just don't

49:06

want us to have the fun of

49:08

the coffee. Yeah. Anyway that's not how

49:10

it is. No. I'm that's not reasonable

49:13

or rational. Nope. I was just remembering

49:15

the petrified forest for some reason. Remember

49:17

that whole chunk of the game? Yeah.

49:19

Blank got petrified and we ran out

49:21

of that forest. But he's okay now.

49:24

Thank God. Yeah. Marcus went to get

49:26

him. But Morrid is dead anyway. It's

49:28

sad. It's sad. But we

49:30

saw Deguero again and found some elixirs.

49:32

Yep. Yep. And next week we're getting

49:34

to the auction house. Yeah next week

49:36

is the end of day 14. After

49:40

that we're gonna be going to Osmo and the end

49:42

of the game. This auction house

49:44

is fun. Yeah the auction house stuff is

49:46

pretty good. Oh and we're also gonna do

49:49

the frogs next week. We're gonna get 99

49:51

frogs and see what happens. We're gonna fight

49:53

master quail. So join us

49:56

for it. Join us. Join us.

49:58

Join us. Join us. Oh,

50:00

but before we go let's check in with the

50:03

dog net and see if we've got any messages.

50:05

Oh, hell yeah Running

50:09

probably low on messages we might

50:11

be so let's relish it Haley

50:13

come here Thank

50:15

you for the message. Thank you. Maley

50:18

here We have the funny nutty's crunchy

50:20

treats these are naturally nutty packed with

50:22

energy and a little nutty just like

50:25

some dogs we know packed

50:27

with energy We're

50:29

getting closer every day to the energy

50:32

bar for dogs Okay

50:38

This message comes to us from

50:40

bad luck while thinking and the

50:42

message reads hey there Jeff Ryan

50:44

and Haley after finishing FF7

50:47

rebirth I became obsessed with trying to

50:49

make sense of what I had seen

50:51

I had some bad luck while thinking

50:53

and ended up creating charts like the

50:55

always sunny meme to make sense of

50:57

it all one thing led To another

50:59

and I've now started a YouTube series

51:01

to help others make sense of it

51:04

without having to go down a similar

51:06

rabbit hole The first episode is up

51:08

now and the second is coming soon.

51:10

I don't go wild with speculation I

51:12

just try to detangle and analyze what

51:14

is actually being shown on screen Please

51:16

join myself and guffosmith to kick off

51:18

the bad luck while thinking YouTube channel

51:20

Which is youtube.com/at bad luck while thinking

51:23

as we try to help make sense

51:25

of the misdirection and Storytelling

51:27

choices in this game from bad luck

51:29

while thinking oh my god first of

51:31

all I love that name Yeah, that's

51:33

an amazing name. That's a great channel

51:36

Especially in reference to breaking down the

51:38

end of seven rebirth Yeah, I will

51:40

definitely be watching because I have a

51:42

hard time thinking about what happened in

51:45

that I can make so little Concrete

51:48

sense of it. Yeah, and what I do

51:50

take away. I'm like, I don't know Yeah,

51:52

I guess I'll just wait to see the

51:54

next game. I kept being so I need

51:56

some help We're being shown, you know, like

51:58

here's like forget explain all of it.

52:00

It's like, what does the text tell

52:03

us? Yeah, like what, what is concretely

52:05

there? Cause it comes at you so

52:07

fast. It's simplifying. Without interviews explaining what

52:09

they were thinking or other Ultimania

52:12

nonsense, just what does the text

52:14

say? Our reaction to the FF7

52:16

Rebirth finale has not yet aired,

52:18

but you can go to patreon.com

52:20

and watch the Rebirth playthrough. But

52:22

after you go to Bad Luck

52:24

while thinking, Yeah, you should go.

52:26

to learn what's really going on.

52:29

You should go check out Bad Luck while thinking

52:31

on YouTube, right YouTube? Yes. Okay. And check

52:33

out their breakdown because what the hell? It's

52:36

going to be a rabbit hole and you're

52:38

going to need help. You cannot do this

52:40

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52:42

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52:47

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52:54

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53:35

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53:38

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we appreciate it. Ben, keep doing whatever it is

54:11

you're doing out there. Keep doing it. With that,

54:13

we've got a dessert to eat. I

54:16

had Dintai Fung last night, and

54:19

they have these dessert boughs that are chocolate.

54:21

Oh, I was going to tell you with

54:23

the red bean. Oh, I

54:25

haven't had that one. Dessert buns,

54:27

steamed dessert buns. Yeah, this was

54:30

a steamed dessert bun. I'm going to get one

54:32

that's just full of birthday cake frosting. That

54:34

sounds good. This

54:36

was like a doughnut of some kind.

54:39

It was great. So that's

54:41

what's for dessert. Dessert

54:43

buns. Steamy and gooey on the

54:45

inside. We should go to a Grateful Dead

54:47

show and sell dead peppers. See

54:49

if anybody can see it. We could make

54:51

a food at them, sell them a lot.

54:54

Stuffed peppers. Call them dead peppers. Yeah. Sell

54:56

them in little chocoboe foils. They're

54:59

too spicy. You

55:01

know? Yeah. They're just way

55:03

too fucking spicy. It works on every

55:05

level. Like even if you don't know the Final

55:07

Fantasy IX, it's like out of their dead peppers

55:09

because it's the Grateful Dead. Out of their dead

55:11

peppers because you'll be dead. And then it'll be

55:13

like. Also. You

55:16

get the trifecta of getting it. If

55:18

you were a fan of Final Fantasy.

55:21

That rare, rare customer who just, while

55:23

they're eating it, realizes everything. What do

55:25

you think the crossover is of Grateful

55:27

Dead fans and Final Fantasy

55:29

fans? You know, the

55:32

same as other stuff? I

55:34

don't know.