hello sir hello oh no we're
gonna have to deal with this
great sir there's an important
day
coming up in a couple of days
happy happy episode 24
congratulations that that's the
important day I'm
talking about no of course not
but uh Kit is officially
turning the 17 once that have
already
happened doesn't matter we're
basing on when we're recording
not when this airs this will
air
several days after you're 17
but still 17 a significant
milestone for some but not so
much
if you really think about I
mean because at the age of 16
you could start learning to
drive or
you know get your license and
at the age of 18 you can then
vote purchase cigarettes
be drafted by the military etc
I mean 17 is really your last
throwaway year that has no
meaning
whatsoever before adulthood how
does the kit feel about the
aging process that that's not
really an
answer that's more of a noise
so you could take it or leave
it this is what I get for
trying to have a
conversation with you anyway
this we we literally have no
topic whatsoever today we're we
're just
running with it I mean why know
what we could talk about oh I
think I know where you're going
because
that's about where I was gonna
go but go ahead we could talk
about minecraft live you mean
minecraft free recorded mine
craft dead yeah first of all the
actual minecraft for those that
don't know
minecraft live is there what
once a year twice a year oh
well now it's twice a year it
used to be once a year
it's minecraft slash mojang
slash microsoft twice a year
thing to highlight the latest
stuff stuff coming from
minecraft and other associated
projects yes half of which isn
't even available in the version
that we prefer to play
yeah because microsoft can't
make extra money off of the j
ava version because the java
version doesn't have a store in
and doesn't have multiplayer
game modes there's no micro
transactions and therefore it's
worthless yes and yet still not
nearly as buggy as bedrock yep
anyway I'm sure that we don't
have strong opinions about this
we don't want to offend people
with our strong opinions about
how much bedrock sucks but
anyway we didn't watch mine
craft live when it was so called
live
uh last weekend in quotes and i
say quote unquote because mine
craft live used to be a live
event and then there was covid
yeah and now they don't do it
live ever they just edit it and
add pointless intermission
stuff yep so instead of people
doing things live it's all pre-
recorded segments which some are
interesting like i always find
it interesting when
when they interview the sound
effects lady because they show
how she goes about doing and
obtaining the sound effects i
mean supposedly supposedly
supposedly allegedly we don't
really know but i think i can
officially say that minecraft
has lost the plot there was a
plot well you know what i mean
like most of the enhancements
are either cosmetic like this
was the the babies i mean yeah
that was the last update yeah
so there was the babies update
we got better skins for the
chickens instead of a baby
chicken looking like a mini
chicken it's it's a tiny number
one pool ball yeah it's the
baby oh and we can we can take
dandelion i guess and put gold
around it and feed it and they
'll stay babies forever which
it was something people wanted
but i don't think it was
integrated well but the only
good thing out of that entire
thing was you can craft name
tags and then even even then
people still aren't entirely
happy about that because it
means that the final librarian
trade is made useless since
candles and the one thing that
i thought was truly a good
feature as i mentioned earlier
can't be incorporated into
java because java because java
doesn't have friends list yeah
java doesn't have the ability
to join other people's world to
join other people's worlds
unless they start like a proper
server versus a realm or a mod
or a mod yeah so basically they
gave the ability for bedrock
users to create parties where
you could very quickly add like
your friends together and jump
into a specific
multiplayer event or
multiplayer event or server or
whatever and that's great but
like find a way to do that for
java without giving us crappy
microtransaction stores that
violate your own guidelines it
's java they don't they don't
think it makes any money all
they get is stuff on console
but yeah i don't know um and
then they announced a minecraft
land at some theme park in the
uk a minecraft world in the uk
and that's gonna be out in 2027
fine i mean they did it for
super mario in universal
studios so why not have a mine
craft land they're also doing
another live experience thing
yeah i have the first one that
's like save the village and now
there's a different one that's
based on minecraft legends yeah
and i'll say that to me that
actually seemed like a good
thing like those those kind of
seem cool yeah and then we
found out about the sulfur
caves
so we have a new biome ladies
and gentlemen again chaos cube
that's what they're gonna call
if you don't if you don't play
minecraft none of this is gonna
mean anything to you
so i apologize but i don't
apologize for kit either
because he's being himself to
the extent that he knows what
his self is
yeah so the sulfur cave the
sulfur cave which has farting
springs that have noxious gas
that make you
have the nausea have the nausea
effect so your screen sways
back and forth and there's cinn
abar
and sulfur as blocks and
supposedly there's some kind of
special sulfur that acts like
well does the bubbly
thing yeah it does that it
makes a nasty smell but neither
of these blocks can be used for
anything but
building you can't even use it
to make bombs yeah like sulfur
you can make a more accurate
dynamite
recipe or just a new one yeah
or just make a new one but no
those blocks don't do anything
they're
decorative they're decorative
because we need more yellow and
red i guess i mean yellow maybe
but but
best of all they came out with
a new mob and they didn't even
specify this is great because
kit was
asking me this several times
during the minecraft live they
didn't specify if it was
hostile or not
is that hostile or not we don't
know it didn't seem to do any
damage but we can't be sure
because it does
act like a slime or magna cube
yep so it's a sulfur cube and
the best feature of the sulfur
cube is
you can stick blocks into them
yep you stick a block in it and
then you can kick it yep that
that literally is
the feature the distance that
the that the sulfur cube will
fly
depends on what block you put
in it so if you put like
something super heavy like iron
in it
it's not going to go very far
but if you put something light
in it
then it'll go super far and you
can use it to do things like
come up with basketball or
soccer in
minecraft because people didn't
do that already or anything i
don't know it just feels like
they're
rolling out things that are
cute they're rolling out things
that give people a feeling of
being able
to be creative but they don't
really add much to the game
they don't add much to the game
first of all
but secondly it's clearly
directed more at children yeah
which i understand but most
like a lot of the
people who play minecraft and
grown up and stuff no we got to
keep them kids in we got to
make it so
that we compete with roblox by
having it so that you can
create games inside of games
inside of games
inside of games inside of games
yeah so great but they they
also showed pretty much all the
things you
can do yeah the sulfur cube in
minecraft plot there's not
really too much you can really
do with that it
might be useful in redstone
because redstoners like to do
wacky things with entities red
stoners like to get stoned
probably anyway but the most
insulting wow i can't talk
right the most insulting slap
in the face
was there preview of minecraft
dungeons 2 it was a terrible
cut scene and then title card
yeah it was
just one long cut scene that
was a uninformative teaser it
was uninformative yeah shocker
and to me
if you're going to be demoing a
new game or announcing a new
game like it doesn't have to be
a full-on playthrough like for
15 minutes that you need to
show but do do the teaser
trailer and then just do a
montage of really quick
clips of gameplay especially if
it is coming this year there
should be enough done that you
can show some of it
yeah like show us what we're
gonna be playing because
i don't want to show up more
money for microsoft and the
teaser trailer wasn't even that
good no it was like
oh they thought everything was
better and then it all went
wrong or it wasn't yeah it was
just all happy
until it wasn't and that was
that was the line that just
just no well i think also
whoever was directing the
actress that does the voice
just wasn't thinking about how
that line was delivered because
that line could
have been delivered better but
it totally wasn't until it wasn
't yeah like and everything was
fine
and i i can't remember exactly
how she said it but it's like
until it wasn't yeah like and
it's like no
until pause it wasn't that's
that's basically what she said
yeah versus and everything was
fine
until it wasn't like you know
like drop the voice a little
bit or something like try to
add some
tension there and that's i
guarantee you that's not the
actress that's not the voice
actress
that's the the the director
yeah like whoever's directing
the voice actress it's like nah
well
let's let's do it this way it
'll be better are you sure you
want to go with that take
really i thought
that was my worst one that's
the one that you want but if
you're gonna if you're you're
releasing a game
this year actually what in
theory within a few months yeah
i mean then maybe show us what
we're working with
but no no so you're expecting
me to get excited about yet
another minecraft game i'm
gonna be honest
the concept art that got leaked
showed us more about the game
than that teaser trailer did
and you know
minecraft dungeons was a decent
enough game it got repetitive
after a while but still it was
a decent
enough game but they then
killed it in order to make room
for minecraft legends and that
did so well
yeah minecraft legends was the
best game you know just flat
out the best game in all of
mine in fact it's
better than minecraft itself
better than minecraft earth
season and totally not totally
totally not
i you know i i i have i will
say that i pre-ordered that
game
i had that game ordered before
kit had access to it and when i
saw what the gameplay was like
i'm like
no you see because i i do a lot
of my minecraft stuff don't get
me wrong like i my friends and
i
had access to minecraft way
back in the beta version and
even then i didn't really get
it to be honest
it's like oh you can build
stuff and you can wander around
aimlessly and it's like wow
that's a great way
to waste time but you know my
friends had a server and well
he and his brother had a server
and they
they illustrated some of the
things that are possible like
building giant castles and
building giant
toilets that's how i got into
minecraft because i then i knew
other people who were into it
and they're
like oh this is fun you should
get it and i did and similarly
like with kit he got into mine
craft he
thought it was cool so i
started playing with him and uh
i got minecraft dungeons and
minecraft legends
because i thought it would be
something you know we could
bond over but i think even he
only played
minecraft legends i only played
it once once yeah you know it's
bad when the most hardcorest of
minecrafters is
take one look at the game and
they're just like no no no no
no i have some concerns
about minecraft dungeons too
now if it's basically a clone
of minecraft dungeons one i'm
okay with it
yeah because there are a couple
of areas of improvement from
minecraft dungeons
but but not many not many like
it's it's a pretty solid game
and since it does seem to
center around
wardens maybe they'll do that
well maybe they'll make it so
that you do actually have to be
careful about
how much noise you make do you
know what i'm excited about all
right for minecraft dungeons
too what
all new enemy blind spots oh
yeah the good old redstone gold
yep we love the redstone how
long did
it take them to fix that i don
't think they ever fixed it you
don't think they fixed it it's
just you
could literally stand right in
front of the thing and just be
hacking away yeah like rarely
it will fix
itself but like that's a point
zero zero one percent chance
that's the best that's the best
mechanic ever
um also the one thing i just
got kind of tired of with mine
craft dungeons is
there's no real advancement
after a certain point like
unless you really want to grind
it through the tower
and i mean we did play the
tower when it went like that
was still being done when they
stopped updating it
but there were like people that
had like level 287 gear or
whatever yeah because of a pre-
previous bug that we didn't get
to exploit
you know they could have fixed
that i mean they did that's why
we didn't get that level 500
gears because
yeah but people who had it didn
't immediately have it taken
away either i don't think they
ever got
taken away but people would get
mad if it got taken away oh you
you mean like when games get
taken offline
without the ability to play
them anymore like minecraft era
but no one played that anyway
or like
if you tried to play minecraft
without a microsoft account
after the transition which
there is an active
lawsuit being done a class
action lawsuit oh yeah i didn't
sign up for that i forgot to
i did i had to go back and find
it like in a text file
somewhere or no not in a text
file it's in
the web code for the minecraft
website when you sign in like
you can look at some specific
area and it
will tell you when you created
your account and my account was
created a long long time ago
mine won't
be accurate because i i
accidentally made a new account
well no you transitioned it to
a new account but
you you're the the creation of
your original account is still
the same uh so that would still
be accurate
oh yeah that's that's something
that was fun about minecraft
when microsoft took it over is
when we
had to transition it over to a
microsoft account kit
accidentally created a brand
new microsoft account that
he didn't need and so we had to
actually change the microsoft
account that his computer uses
or something like that i don't
even remember how we fixed it
but we figured we didn't we
didn't
it's still on the wrong account
we tried we tried to ask some
microsoft and they say well we
can't do
anything about that yep sucks
to be you yep sucks to be you
it's wondrous it's great thank
you microsoft
we're turning to the sulfur
cube stuff they didn't even use
a good sulfur cave generation
for the minecraft live
it was not good generation yeah
it was it was a pretty small
sulfur cave well they were
trying to
highlight so this is what it
was it was a sulfur cave with a
giant like tunnel above it
like coming down from the
surface so they could show how
the cinnabar and the sulfur
make layers
yeah well like they went down
from the surface and then they
went into a big cave and then
that led
to a really tiny sulfur cave
yeah and you just go like make
make it a bigger sulfur cave if
you're gonna be
highlighting it why not or
better yet how about you don't
make a better sulfur cave how
about
you fix the combat system
between bedrock and java
because bedrock is essentially
on 1.8 combat
and java's on 1.9 combat bed
rock's offhand also doesn't work
the same you can't put anything
in the
offhand you can only put really
specific things in the offhand
well yeah because they didn't
implement
1.9 yeah like you can put a
shield a totem maybe torches
and i think that's it and you
know like i feel so
nerdy and stupid for talking
about 1.8 versus 1.9 because i
couldn't give a like i i only
learned
about this the other day like i
never pvp in minecraft i just
you know what my job in mine
craft is
i dig and i build a little
house he rocks and he stones
that's it that's all i do i don
't care about pvp
i don't care about drama if
people are causing drama on my
server i would rather kick them
off
or like just repeatedly kill
them over and over again using
powerful cooking oh yes i
created a
cookie well i did well you
could at the time you created
it but then or you told me how
to create it
i forgot but whatever it's a
cookie with like 255 sharpness
and 255 not back and i think 25
5 fire
aspect yeah i think i only did
50 knockback because 255 kind
of breaks yes but i'm just
saying like i
have a cookie that if i take
out the cookie and hit somebody
with it it's the equivalent of
god smiting them
and you know what that's what i
want people on my server to
think of me but i don't know i
i i know
that i heard that there was one
of the minecraft developers who
was working to create a nice
middle
ground between 1.8 and 1.9
mechanics and it never came out
i mean it came out but still
just well it
came out in preview it was
never released formally into
the game yeah there were people
who made servers on it
yeah for pvp yep and now nobody
can play on those servers
because it was never
implemented i mean you can
but you can but you have to
find that one rare snapshot
yeah to play on combat preview
something or other
it's like listen to the
community all right i get that
the community wanted cuter baby
animals and
wanted them not to age fine
everybody likes cute animals
except when they discover that
the cute
animals still poop and you have
to clean up after them then
they're not fun anymore but
like the combat situation i
watched like a youtube about
the combat situation how it
literally broke the
minecraft community oh yeah it
did it's it's still like
probably the biggest minecraft
drama in terms of
updates and to me that's
something the community's been
wanting for a very very very
long time yeah but
but you want to know why it's
not implemented why because it
's specifically combat focused
and
therefore won't add anything
for all the small children it
only adds things for all the pv
pers who have
their own drama going on right
now well yeah i mean when don't
pvpers have drama going on but
what's
the latest drama from the pvp
ears anyway uh never mind i don
't care no go ahead we only have
a few
minutes but a player named mar
lo who runs the one of like pvp
ranking server where you can
get ranked in a
certain tier by fighting people
uh finally got exposed as an
old hacker that no one liked
and was causing
problems a while ago and and
there's been a bunch of stuff
about this person but no one
really believed
it until until until recently
so somebody docks them uh no it
's just uh more evidence came
out about them
that kind of just final nail in
the coffin them oh boy yeah but
it was a famous hacker in the
minecraft community
uh turned out to be this person
interesting well i'm not
surprised yeah but yeah they
had the monopoly
over the entire pvp community
because they had the only
server where you could get
truly ranked
officially quote unquote yes
officially ranked but not by
microsoft or mojang just by
this other website although
that's common too like speed
runs and stuff like that are
generally ranked
by independent websites well as
we near the end of our our
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but despite kid's birthday
being in a couple of days he
will not be with
me in a couple of days he will
be at his other parental units
so i decided to do special
birthday meal
for him the second night he was
with me this week and kit what
would you care to tell the
listening
audience one of the things that
you ordered or we ordered to
split as an appetizer cheese qu
esadilla
a very good cheese quesadilla
with blackened chicken and oh
it was so good
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wireless mics again i don't
know why because i'm connecting
the dongle
directly to a phone now um we
're trying a different recording
technique this time so it will
allow me to
tweak the audio more between
the two of us but really at
some point i would like to
switch over
to a different set of
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mentioned in a previous episode
three hundred dollars
so it's not inexpensive to get
the equipment to do this in the
way that we like doing it so
anyway kit do you have anything
else to add no no okay well oh
and one other thing i did think
of one
more thing to add this was not
a birthday gift for kit but the
fact that he said in our last
episode
that it's been so long since he
saw the a-team inspired me to
make a little purchase which is
the
entire a-team collection on blu
-ray it was all of 54 and it's
amazing so anyway we're going
to go ahead
and wrap things up for this
episode episode 24 but we look
forward to chatting again and
thank you for
listening and all that all
right bye bye