Ethan Nestor episode was a lot of sideass, and now the Jakey episode is all crotchcam. They can do it all, folks.

Jarvis’s jacket makes him look like a Pokémon trainer and it’s excellent.

jarvis having to listen to jordan and jakey go on about max payne is absolute perfection

"a friend who I've known since we met"
-jarvis Johnson

This is EASILY your best episode (I have not watched it yet)

I’m roughly 100 hours into tears of the kingdom, probably like 2/3 of the way through the story (I think?) and I can in fact confirm that the kingdom does in fact have my tears

best guest ever. show peaked. sorry guys.

Tbh I’m glad Jarvis talked about the hoodie cuz I 100% would have been down in these comments asking for a link if he never brought it up

the 'I'll kill you' bits are some of the funniest in the new video so definitely worth the work it took

For the record that two second "I'll kill you" was perfection

I really appreciate that Jakey was comfortable talking about the feedback regarding ROMCOM and specifically the Fantano video that came out in response to it. I remember when that album released. I listened to it alone on a great pair of headphones late at night. It wasn't perfect, it wasn't safe- but goddamn was it personal and meaningful. There are moments in those tracks that really hit, and make you feel something.

It was a real shame to see Fantano just kinda throw it up in such a uncharitable and casual context and then just diss the whole thing in front of an audience. That format doesn't play to ROMCOM's strengths. It's not a safe POP album of common-denominator versus, and it's not some inscrutable cutting-edge high-brow work either.

I always wondered how Jakey felt about that, glad we got to hear some of his thoughts here. Making art is so hard.

It makes me sad when the thumbnails don’t have Jordan in them 😢

I am so glad Jakey brought up the Fantano stream clip; I’ve been thinking about it since it came out. Such a weirdly cruel moment. Like, dumping on Drake and Eminem is one thing, but it just overwhelmingly felt like punching down to be so dismissive of Romcom.

kennie, ethan, AND jakey?? we're eating good !!

They are so excited to speak about gaming and nerdy shit with Nakey they were interrupting each other way more this episode lol

Also not to let my inner Zelda fan come out too much, but I think a good part of the issues with BoTW's writing and voice acting issues come down to a poorly done localization. I know it's an overdone subject to point to in video game discussions, but when you look at the actual transations of the original Japanese, there's so much more depth and meaning in the lines and the characters. They really did so many moments dirty. Down to things like the final memory — in Japanese Zelda is begging Link not to die. So that look he gives her right before he collapses is just so much more heartbreaking. And the vocal delivery too — things like Japanese Zelda actually having her voice muffled when her hands are covering her face, or her scream when she broke down being genuinely wrenching. Or the fact that in the Japanese version the quests are written in first person, because they're Link's diary; he interjects with personal thoughts and feelings. So much was changed or lost in translation and it kind of breaks my heart a little as someone who absolutely adores the game.

You can see it right away in totk too: "secret stone" sounds so so ridiculous in English. In Japanese it does literally mean secret/mystery stone, but the word used is unusual and has a fantasy element to it, so it sounds very cool. Its like they heard us asking for a more literal translation and did it for the one thing that they definitely shouldn't have translated word for word. Translation and localization are very hard to do and they get a lot of flack from the gaming community, but when done well, like with the Phoenix Wright games, they can make games shine. But with BoTW it actively took away from what is an otherwise incredible game.

jordan is so right. pine barrens is genuinely such an emotionally important song and i will never get tired of it. when the album version dropped i genuinely lost my shit.

Now we just need Jakey on Cold Ones and every other podcast will be rendered obsolete

wow the conversation about like people criticizing your content or jarvis mentioning not watching reactions hits home SO HARD. i’ve been in a bunch of cut vids (yes i won the button yes it doesn’t matter) and watching hasan or ludwig or critikal or even cody ko  reacting to the vids i’m in is a top 3 most anxiety inducing activity. like it’s pretty meaningless in the grand scheme of things but man it is such a personally intimidating feeling.

Kojima left Konami on bad terms for a lot of reasons. Konami didn't want to keep rolling dice with funding Kojima's games since they were very expensive and he kept going over release dates. There's also some corporate fuckery where they were trying to screw him out of creative control of his projects and stuff as well. I remember watching a video about the making of PT that talks about what went on and about how Kojima used PT to release his frustrations with his relationship with Konami. I don't remember who it was by, but it was really well done and does a great job of pulling apart the end of the Konami/Kojima saga.

Konami did him dirty in the end though. Him not being able to accept the award for MGS 5 at the VGA's was brutal and taking his name off the game just to spite him was a low blow. I'm not sure how the MGS 3 remake will turn out, but it's pretty conflicting as a massive fan of the franchise as to whether it's going to be worth or not.

PS: I'd kill for a Jakey Death Stranding video!