Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Hogwarts
Speaker 1: trend to Guess, But that, of course is the music
Speaker 1: from Hot Hodgwartz trend to Get Legacy more like hogwash?
Speaker 1: Am I right? That's so. Those are the comedic stylings
Speaker 1: of today's special guest co host DJ Daniel good Man.
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Speaker 1: She'll never find love while she's silent. But because of
Speaker 1: toxic masculinity. Eric was like, oh my god, she's so perfect, perfect, Brian,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about anything, she might say.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha. All right, there's there's a bunch
Speaker 1: going on the discourse. Is uh ablaze ablaze, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling.
Speaker 1: Hogworth's Legacy is trending. It has crossed my desk. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know everybody sees gaming news. What does Jack think?
Speaker 1: What's Jack kinda says about it? Is it out on switch?
Speaker 1: Is it out on switch? The answer to that, I,
Speaker 1: of course no, but I'm not going to say it here.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that because I'm not going to date the
Speaker 1: show because I'm might one day, you know, you never know,
Speaker 1: and then evergreen where it might be right now? Uh so, Daniel, Yes,
Speaker 1: pretend I'm an idiot, so I close your eyes. Just
Speaker 1: imagine a world where I'm a complete fucking idiot. Don't
Speaker 1: know nothing. It doesn't know shit about the world of gaming.
Speaker 1: Absolutely what what? What's going on? Hogwarts Legacy? Is it
Speaker 1: a is it a sandbox game? Is it's a very
Speaker 1: good jack? So? Hogwarts Legacy is the open world RPG
Speaker 1: developed by Avalanche Games or Avalanche Studios for all your
Speaker 1: contemporary quote unquote next gen systems. It is a Harry
Speaker 1: Potter RPG that, if you ask I g N is
Speaker 1: the game that every Harry Potter video gaming fan has
Speaker 1: been waiting for. And I'm sure to a certain extent
Speaker 1: that there I don't know, maybe right, but the release
Speaker 1: of this game has gotten so many people to crawl
Speaker 1: out of their high holes to participate in a discourse
Speaker 1: that is absolutely fraught with bullshit and throw out takes
Speaker 1: that are completely ridiculous. And I want to talk about
Speaker 1: them very brief briefly for a little bit. And I
Speaker 1: want to start with the idea you just unrolled a
Speaker 1: whole long as scroll. You guys, when you say you
Speaker 1: can't see, actually it goes behind me. It just rolled
Speaker 1: out the door. And then I heard some cars get
Speaker 1: into a car accident outside when it rolled into the street.
Speaker 1: So right, that's what we're dealing with. But I I
Speaker 1: seed the floor to you. I'm just gonna go go
Speaker 1: for a job. Well, I'm gonna get my soapbox out
Speaker 1: of the way. Here longs the long story short here
Speaker 1: is that like it brings up a bunch of topics that,
Speaker 1: like you know, sometimes come to the forefront, things like
Speaker 1: separating the art from the artist, things like we need
Speaker 1: to support X person, things like well, that's the way
Speaker 1: business works and blah blah blah. All of these like
Speaker 1: trends that you know are are sometime are easier to
Speaker 1: tackle in like confined packages where it's like, you like
Speaker 1: music from this person, but they're also an abuser. How
Speaker 1: do you handle those two things. That's a conversation that
Speaker 1: we can have another time about whatever. But with Hogwarts Legacy,
Speaker 1: this is a game that is about the wizarding world
Speaker 1: created by a J. K. Rowling. This game was produced
Speaker 1: and released in a world completely aware of her own,
Speaker 1: you know, horrible thoughts and beliefs or turf nature, like
Speaker 1: everything about J. K. Rowling that we that we now
Speaker 1: really know. It's also something that is forcing quote unquote
Speaker 1: forcing the hand of media giants and game reviewers to
Speaker 1: participate in the discourse of talking about this game. Some
Speaker 1: people handle that well. Some people absolutely are not. And
Speaker 1: I think one of the people that handled this really
Speaker 1: poorly is I g N. I g N is a
Speaker 1: company that you know has been reviewing games for years,
Speaker 1: is a huge, huge, huge company, and they gave this
Speaker 1: game a nine out of ten. A nine out of ten,
Speaker 1: and the criteria for a game being a nine out
Speaker 1: of ten is this If we call again nine out
Speaker 1: of ten means it's amazing. If we call a game amazing,
Speaker 1: that means something about it seriously impressed us, whether it's
Speaker 1: an inspired new idea or an exceptional take on an
Speaker 1: old one. We expect to look at this game as
Speaker 1: one of the highlights of its time and genre. And
Speaker 1: I just wanted to quickly pull out a couple of
Speaker 1: lines from the actual review of this game, just certain
Speaker 1: lines that stuck out to me as uh, maybe things
Speaker 1: that go counter to that very review not reflective of
Speaker 1: a nine out of ten not reflective ideas tradition correct.
Speaker 1: It may not be the most impressive technical achievement, and
Speaker 1: it is certainly cursed with a lack of enemy variety.
Speaker 1: One Legacies plot has more holes than a fish net
Speaker 1: stocking and sort of just expects you to accept that
Speaker 1: its magical world makes no sense too if you're like
Speaker 1: me and you roll your eyes during moments when you're
Speaker 1: introduced to hundred years worth of dead characters lettering you
Speaker 1: from hatings. Three Legacies dicey performance suffered from just about
Speaker 1: every issue that makes I g m S Performance review
Speaker 1: team cry frame reading, consistency, weird issues with the lighting,
Speaker 1: aggressive Poppin and more. Every door in Hogwarts has a
Speaker 1: brief loading screen. We're talking about stuff that is just
Speaker 1: like some of these things are day one patch stuff
Speaker 1: where it's like this stuff is gonna get fixed, it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. But then you have things like the
Speaker 1: plot doesn't make sense, the enemies are boring, the world
Speaker 1: is You're just full of exposition and nonsense, stuff that
Speaker 1: on a very base level takes a game out of
Speaker 1: the category of amazing or unique. And that's only looking
Speaker 1: at this game on the level of it's just a
Speaker 1: regular game with no other political issues around it at all.
Speaker 1: And I g N does a very very short skirting
Speaker 1: thing of well, here's how we talk about this game,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to read the whole thing, but
Speaker 1: the long story short of their little like you know,
Speaker 1: of their of their small piece about why or why
Speaker 1: not the reviewing this game is because their whole thing
Speaker 1: is as a company, we have to talk about the
Speaker 1: video game as a video game, outside of politics, outside
Speaker 1: of discourse, and just how it presents itself as a
Speaker 1: video game. And that's something we have to do. And
Speaker 1: I think that is bullshit. I don't believe that at all.
Speaker 1: I think The reality is more along the lines of
Speaker 1: another thing that I have linked in the stock here,
Speaker 1: and I promise I will get off my soapbox shortly,
Speaker 1: which is this. This is a tweet from Patrick Kleppick.
Speaker 1: Watching gaming outlets jump through rhetorical hoops to justify coverage
Speaker 1: on Hogwarts Legacy isn't surprising, but it would be more
Speaker 1: honest if they played it straight and just said quote,
Speaker 1: our shaky business model does not allow us to ignore
Speaker 1: any game that might sell ten million copies. And unfortunately
Speaker 1: that is the truth. If this company, we're talking about
Speaker 1: so much lost revenue, if they were to not cover
Speaker 1: this game that is undoubtedly going to sell well, because
Speaker 1: there are certain Harry Potter fans who, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that there are tons that really felt touched by the
Speaker 1: by you know, the book's narrative about you know, finding
Speaker 1: your truest and best version of yourself and striking down
Speaker 1: the forces of evil, how that applied to their own
Speaker 1: lives and their own you know, self realization and self actualization.
Speaker 1: Despite all that, they're still going to cover this game
Speaker 1: that directly supports this awful turf woman who you know
Speaker 1: is making so much money off of this game. And
Speaker 1: that sucks. Um, and it's just um, yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: long story short, people are really going out the work
Speaker 1: to say, well, it's okay if I review this game,
Speaker 1: or it's okay if I play this game, because man,
Speaker 1: it would sure be bad if all these developers who
Speaker 1: worked on this game weren't able to eat. First of all,
Speaker 1: they get paid no matter what. It's not like all
Speaker 1: of them are getting royalties. And second of all, if
Speaker 1: that's your stance, you have to go and support literally everything.
Speaker 1: Go see every movie, eat at every restaurant, read every book,
Speaker 1: listen to every music album, because God forbid, the people
Speaker 1: who did the work on those things don't get the
Speaker 1: support that you think they deserve. That's the end of
Speaker 1: my right. Well, speaking of music albums, which is what
Speaker 1: we call them here, Um, the Grammy's happened. The Grammys happened.
Speaker 1: And another thing that is just has the take machine
Speaker 1: in over running. It's just so it's it's lost, it's equilibrium. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it was one of the those
Speaker 1: moments two where where it really seemed like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is something that I don't care that much about,
Speaker 1: but that everybody was in on it. Felt like, or
Speaker 1: at least there was a lot of people who were
Speaker 1: surprised when the Best Album Grammy went to the wrong person.
Speaker 1: For instance, um, when Song of the Year instead of
Speaker 1: going to Beyonce or Lizzo, although Lizzo one Record of
Speaker 1: the Year, which is also the categories are fucking confusing, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Record of the Year is actually song of the Year,
Speaker 1: but as like including production, where a song of the
Speaker 1: Year is just about songwriting. And they went to Bonnie
Speaker 1: Rate which is an artist that my parents were into
Speaker 1: when I was twelve, Like so she was like old
Speaker 1: at year. Some of those songs I've like listened back
Speaker 1: to them, been like they're pretty solid. But like I
Speaker 1: anytime the winner is announced and I have to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the wrong year. This is this is
Speaker 1: a past year's list of winners. It's it's always just tricky,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't, I don't. I don't feel like Bonnie
Speaker 1: Rates return captured the Zekeeys necessarily this year. Um, maybe
Speaker 1: it did. I I guess it did. Among the elderly
Speaker 1: folks who vote on the Grammys, though exactly is the
Speaker 1: point among the representative body that makes these decisions is
Speaker 1: that do not matter. But last year, A Bad Bunny
Speaker 1: did not kind of got a lot of snubs despite
Speaker 1: having what a lot of people thought was, like, it
Speaker 1: feels like this will be the year that people look
Speaker 1: back on and say, well, bad Bunny is this was
Speaker 1: the artist who, like, whether it was reviews, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the best reviewed albums of the year when
Speaker 1: you look at apples like most played Songs or Spotify's
Speaker 1: most played songs, like across the year. For like six
Speaker 1: months after he dropped his album, like, there were like
Speaker 1: five songs off this album in the top ten. Bad Bunny, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Badunny Bunny all the way down. Yeah, it's Bad Bunnies
Speaker 1: all the way down. Um so I don't know it,
Speaker 1: but again I'm just like, so ever since they gave
Speaker 1: the first best rap album too Will Smith and DJ
Speaker 1: Jazzy Jeff over a Public Enemy and gave McLemore rap
Speaker 1: album over Good Kids at City, I mean, that's it,
Speaker 1: that's it, that's I need, that's it. Where Ever since
Speaker 1: they picked a fight with Frank Ocean because he wouldn't
Speaker 1: go along with their weird like the Grammy musical performances,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about one of them, which was
Speaker 1: like iconic that happened this year, Like they're big production numbers.
Speaker 1: It's very cool that these things are happening because they're
Speaker 1: able to get like amazing talent together because they are
Speaker 1: the powers that be in the music industry quite literally.
Speaker 1: But the production is weird and overwrought and it's always like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you can tell that there are live
Speaker 1: like music performance producers are like something who whatever the
Speaker 1: funk that is called that they're producing. There are people
Speaker 1: who are like that is really what we want to
Speaker 1: be the star of the show, right, and not Frank Ocean.
Speaker 1: So they picked a fright with Frank Ocean where like
Speaker 1: Frank actually doesn't like he he's his own worst enemy,
Speaker 1: um and we did not like enjoy working with him
Speaker 1: and whatever. Yeah, it's just like shut the funk up,
Speaker 1: shut up. Yeah. But anyways, they did have a big
Speaker 1: thing the Rap fifty Years of Rap because raps fiftie
Speaker 1: anniversary debatable, but some people believe it's coming up shot
Speaker 1: a cool hurt, Yeah, cool Hirk back to school party,
Speaker 1: that cool hurricane his sister through that had like that
Speaker 1: that was where the seed was planted. According to some
Speaker 1: people on one side of a very controversial subject exactly,
Speaker 1: but so they did like a you know, twenty minute
Speaker 1: or I don't I don't know how long it was
Speaker 1: because I can't find a clip of it because they're
Speaker 1: they're lugging this ship down. So I just find like
Speaker 1: individual clips of people taking shots from their phone of
Speaker 1: the TV for twenties seconds. I've seen multiple clips, and
Speaker 1: it really seemed to be something that people were responding to.
Speaker 1: And again I ask those people, why are you watching
Speaker 1: the Grammy? I guess for moments like what exactly it's
Speaker 1: a you know, I think, uh, the I think one
Speaker 1: of the things that invites so much controversy as well,
Speaker 1: because I know another thing that people were getting the
Speaker 1: little Twitter fingers hot about was Harry Styles going up
Speaker 1: there and saying this doesn't happen to people like me often.
Speaker 1: And it's just like, man, you really walked into that one,
Speaker 1: because you could very easily just accept your reward, hold
Speaker 1: up the trophy and go hey thanks, and no one
Speaker 1: would say shits. Yeah, they would have, I mean probably,
Speaker 1: but it's like, but it's not like you stiffed Beyonce.
Speaker 1: It's not like you stiffed bad Bunny. All these people
Speaker 1: are releasing music, and it's like, that's just it's their job.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to release music. Like it's not like Harry
Speaker 1: Styles is being like, well, I better not release this
Speaker 1: album because I don't want to step on Beyonce maybe
Speaker 1: getting a Grammy. That's not how it works. But you know,
Speaker 1: you do get to choose what you go up there
Speaker 1: and say and how you represent yourself. And um, I
Speaker 1: think everybody can take a lesson, take a big old
Speaker 1: slice of humble pie, and just remember, don't go up
Speaker 1: there and say anything. Just don't don't say anything at all.
Speaker 1: This voting body is only here to present awards to
Speaker 1: people for whatever reason. It never makes any sense. It's
Speaker 1: never good. But when you insert yourself into the discourse
Speaker 1: by saying some ship like that Harry Styles, Oh baby,
Speaker 1: I mean this is you know, you reap what you
Speaker 1: sew and that's what happened there. Just go up there
Speaker 1: and shut the funk up and take your trophy and
Speaker 1: get drunk on the free meal and then go. The
Speaker 1: other moment that really seemed to stand out to people,
Speaker 1: or at least me, UM was singer and songwriter Adele
Speaker 1: was presented with um an Award for Best Pop Solo
Speaker 1: Performance category, Hell yeah. And presenting that award was of
Speaker 1: core Dwayne the Rock Johnson, the Rock, well, the one
Speaker 1: and only Dwayne the Rock Johnson, who handed her the grandphone.
Speaker 1: Uh and in announcing it, he opened the envelope, read
Speaker 1: it and said, get up here, best friend, adele, which
Speaker 1: is how humans talk to one another. I also want
Speaker 1: to believe that in in in my head, one of
Speaker 1: his people was like, just call her bestie, because like
Speaker 1: that's what everybody likes these days. And he was like,
Speaker 1: what does that mean. It's like, it's your best friend.
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, cool, I got it. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: get up your best friend. It's like I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be Bestiewayne just disconnected. Amazing. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be back with a couple more things,
Speaker 1: and we're back and that. So the big Kyrie trade
Speaker 1: happened was bomb sham drop the WOA just of WOA
Speaker 1: bombs happened. Um and Kyrie Irving, who famous anti semi right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well who you know then was like, oh damn, my
Speaker 1: bad kind of I talked to a rabbi and that's
Speaker 1: all good now right Anyways, Uh, you know, requested or
Speaker 1: trade at that towards the end of last week, the
Speaker 1: nets were like, granted badly, good sir, no problem, And
Speaker 1: so he got traded to the Dallas Mavericks, who have
Speaker 1: one of the other best offensive players in the league,
Speaker 1: Luca don Chich. Mark Cuban is the owner Cuba Mr Cuba.
Speaker 1: Mr Cubano himself one of my least favorites just in
Speaker 1: general in terms as people go. Sure, just from his
Speaker 1: his shark tankness and listening to him interviewed. He's got big,
Speaker 1: He's just got that that smug billionaire, nous energy billionairosity.
Speaker 1: But he apparently so there was somebody who did a
Speaker 1: mural of Luca looking lonely and was like, come please,
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban, bring Luca help. He needs help type of thing,
Speaker 1: and Mark Cuban reached out to the muralist and said
Speaker 1: told like reprimanded them and told them that they were
Speaker 1: being rude. But then yeah, but he's just like soft
Speaker 1: bit he's so he's so like insecure, but like in
Speaker 1: a way where he wants to you know, project security
Speaker 1: and like strength. So baby, I know. So he then
Speaker 1: immediately went and made a questionable trade because neither of
Speaker 1: them play great defense. They're both like ball dominant offensive players.
Speaker 1: Kyrier Bring has alienated every team that he's ever been
Speaker 1: a part of. Um, it's the mess. You can always,
Speaker 1: you know, get get an initial idea of how a
Speaker 1: trade has gone by how audience or how the fans
Speaker 1: of the various teams are reacting. And let's call this
Speaker 1: a win for the Nets. Homie Adam, big Nets fan
Speaker 1: shout out. Adam was like relief, finally relief, just relief.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the the room has quieted down.
Speaker 1: Everybody went, yeah, peace piece at last. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know with you and also Untie netstands Yeah, I also think.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how much time is left
Speaker 1: in Lucas contract, but something tells me that he's pretty
Speaker 1: frustrated as well, and like wants a wants a chip,
Speaker 1: wants something or is g t FO getting the f
Speaker 1: out of there? Mm hmm. Interesting that's what that stands for. Yes,
Speaker 1: these are the things that you need to explain to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and obviously, uh, you know, there was a horrible earthquake
Speaker 1: that happened Turkey and Syria. M Yeah, killed more than
Speaker 1: three thousand four hundred people. We link off to a
Speaker 1: place where you can donate money to help people in
Speaker 1: those regions in footnotes or show notes. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean just a horrifying tragedy when that, uh, we should
Speaker 1: all be keeping our eye on and it's beasts. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, just just very briefly as you know. Of course,
Speaker 1: a cautionary tale is that, like you know, it was
Speaker 1: two huge earthquakes back to back, and you see, you
Speaker 1: know this is this is how fault lines work. Is
Speaker 1: that like it's so rarely just one quick action that's
Speaker 1: is of course it's scary, but it's just something to
Speaker 1: keep in mind and be prepared for. This might be
Speaker 1: a very l a centric thing here, but it's always
Speaker 1: a constant reminder of earthquake safety and the importance of
Speaker 1: mutual aid. And it's like we need to be able
Speaker 1: to reach out and help people when they need it.
Speaker 1: These natural disasters strike it completely random times and it's awful.
Speaker 1: So you know, if there's ever time to reach out
Speaker 1: and help your friends across the world, now is the
Speaker 1: time to do it. So please help out. As a
Speaker 1: lifelong Angelina, is that something you remember like experiencing an earthquake,
Speaker 1: and then being like, oh, it's not done. Oh vividly.
Speaker 1: We had an earthquake, you know, probably a week and
Speaker 1: a half ago, where it rocked it first and then
Speaker 1: for the next five or ten minutes, I was like,
Speaker 1: hold fast, and there was and there was another. There
Speaker 1: was another aftershock not long after. I mean, thankfully wasn't
Speaker 1: very strong. It was it was like, you know, the
Speaker 1: whole thing was okay, but you know, it's it's something
Speaker 1: that you always think about. It's always in the back
Speaker 1: of your mind. Yeah, I think I have earthquake blindness,
Speaker 1: Like my equilibrium is just such that I don't notice
Speaker 1: earthquakes when they happen. My wife will wake up and
Speaker 1: I'm just I have my hands up like I'm on
Speaker 1: a roller coaster, you know. All right, those are some
Speaker 1: of the things that are trending on this Monday, February six.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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