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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Crimson Desert, March AI Woes w/ Joseph Bradford

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast · March 23, 2026

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02:11:48 - 02:11:57

I actually saw an ad for an old vintage Toronto arcade back in the day just recently. But yeah, it was also a matter of like I could not

In Context

... And I think that's the kid that's playing a Mega Man 2 arcade game at that setup, which is really cool. But I was never really allowed to occupy arcades when I was a kid. Don't tell me-- don't even like-- I don't know why. I actually saw an ad for an old vintage Toronto arcade back in the day just recently. But yeah, it was also a matter of like I could not going into a machine. So did you just say you never saw The Wizard? You never watched it? Or you never saw it? It's not a great movie. ...

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02:11:38 - 02:12:59

... It's not like they were like smoked ends full of bad people. I actually saw an ad for an old vintage Toronto arcade back in the day just recently. ...

01:06:30 - 01:07:02

but it was a particular line that stuck with me, that really stuck in my craw, that was to roughly quote it, we should have waited for the audience's reaction. And I saw that, I read that, I heard that, I went to go listen to it in context. ...

00:09:38 - 00:10:07

... I purposely did not evolve a Dragonair in my first run of Pokemon Red Blue because I saw what Dragonite looked like and I thought he looked goofy and I didn't want to evolve my Dragonair into it. ...

01:43:16 - 01:43:46

... In fact, I believe Digital Foundry said the demo that they saw was running on 25090s with the ultimate goal being a single 5090. ...

01:15:14 - 01:15:44

... And for me, it's like no, we use the entire scale. This is why you saw us, you give fours a couple of times last year. ...

00:22:38 - 00:23:09

... I didn't find out until yesterday I could use a tree as a slingshot to fly me across the map. - Yeah, I saw some video of that that looked pretty sick. I was like, I had not considered that as an option mostly 'cause I didn't think the tree would bend like that. ...

01:19:48 - 01:20:19

That means that we do have to start to think about how we talk about things, and it leads to all those sorts of weird gray areas of you don't wanna destroy something because it looked bad, but you also wanna be honest about what you saw, and-- - One of the first times I encountered that actually was, and I know we're probably going long on this too, but E3 2013 was Wolfenstein The New Order. ...

01:48:43 - 01:49:14

... Like game developers wanting to put out a game that looks the way it looks, that plays the way it plays, that there's very intentional choices made about lighting in certain scenes. I think we saw that with some of the Grace Ashcross stuff that even just changing the shading in a lot of those, outright changed the mood of the game. ...

02:14:24 - 02:14:55

... And they were just all freaking out about Mario 3, because that's where they saw it for the first time here. That's how they used to-- how do you explain that to children? ...

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