Sacred Symbols, Episode 333 | Waking, Believing, Running

You have always been my favorite game media guy, I remember when beyond was you, Greg and Ryen. If you could go back for a day and record with former ign staff who all would you want on the podcast?

Orrie Cat Gaming

I live in an Indiana suburb and we had a female serial yard shitter back in 2021. She shit in several yards and even carried her own TP so it was clearly a premeditated shitting. If the write-ins situation was an honest emergency, just how far was this woman running? Unless it's a half marathon she was likely 15-30 mins from making her way back home. No way was this a one-off emergency. Mark my words, she will strike again!

Kojima’s Trouser Snake

Xbox being a minor part of Microsoft hasn’t been true since ABK got acquired

Bartevious

People who criticize RFK for brain worm most likely have parasites in their body and don’t know it

Alec Davis

Christmas tree in AUGUST?! Absolute psychopath.

Daniel Meegan

Bruh! Dustin what’s this man’s @ I’ll sell this dude as man old shoes as he wants. My dog needs a surgery so I need the money 😂

Draven E.

Yeah, it’s morally incoherent. We all know why soft paywalls exist. Circumventing them is you getting value out of someone’s work without compensating them.

Jimmy G

I still don’t get what Chris is busy with? Other than Snark Tank, and his LSM appearances. 😅

NeO JD

I don’t mind different designs, I just don’t think the PS5’s is a good one. 😅 I was also surprised the Pro is smaller and lighter than the launch unit. Makes me feel like maybe they rushed that out.

NeO JD

I’d take blurry but plays smoove over looks great but you walk like you’re in quicksand.

NeO JD

Colin: *Makes reasonable point* Chris: "Well Actually..."

Bailey Callis

Colin on switch piracy: "people aren't getting paid for what they do, it's crazy!" Colin on bypassing paywalls to read news articles: "it's fine"

ajwhite

Dang Colin, I am in the same boat I have the same elbow pain too after lifting weights, I think it’s called “Tennis Elbow.”

Raymond keys

Well the issue is the time and characters are what sells. So if you do elsewhere you’re paying for the super expensive IP and not getting the benefits

easelgames

??? Just have it in a different time or with a lesser known character in the story. I don't want a retelling, there is so much lore to draw from. Don't really know what you mean by gameplay, seems tailor made for a choice/faction based RPG

Gooch Gobbler

Chris is such a know it all, but in fact, knows so little. Amazing stuff.

Bailey Callis

Uh oh, we got a badass over here.

Chris Van Buren

Oh wow a PS3 game runs better on the pro incredbile

Luke Oliveto

Chris' Beatles take might be the #1 worst take in LSM history. I can't imagine calling The Beatles "Disney Coded" while being a massive fan of Green Day and Weezer. Colin's take on being the only person to predict that the CFB game would be big might be #2.

Brannon H

Gonna run back at the end of the year and total all the shows Chris was ‘busy’ and didn’t play anything lmao

Ryan

Everyone at the FDA are “experts” and we’re unhealthy as shit. It’s not working.

Jimmy G

I think both can be true. Xbox exclusives in the past 7 or so years have been somewhat weak but the first three Halo games and Gears games are awesome and PlayStation owners should be excited they might get ported with trophies. Indiana jones I am cautiously optimistic about.

JT

Everyone knew college football was going to be a smash hit.

Beau!

Chris, brother. I can’t take your opinion on GOTY seriously when you haven’t fully beaten Rebirth, Animal Well, Space Marine, etc. I completely get dropping games if they aren’t clicking, but don’t keep saying “I need to get back to it” if you realistically have no intention.

Cormac

I agree, lets forever continue the era of poisoned obese Americans

Alec Davis

And on the contrary the FDA and big pharma have been wholly ethical and honest about the way they value American health. Experts like Dr. Fauci have been instrumental, infallible heroes for the health and safety of the American people And of course it’s not like the United States serves its citizens a concentrated dosage of internationally banned chemicals

Bartevious

2:56:18 cringe. A lot of people knew CFB would be huge. It just wasn’t obvious to 2/3 of the show and probably most of your audience who don’t know what a touchdown is.

Heezy

Same. I appreciate the conversation, and god knows I have things I do people would call out as inconsistant too

Jared R

Yeah, his argument of "metered paywalls are exploitable, so I will exploit them" pretty easily maps to "the Nintendo Switch is exploitable, so I will exploit it". I appreciate him at least engaging with the critique I guess

Matt H

listen to the Snark Tank and you'll see how he truly feels. I've lost a lot of respect for him

Alyssa

Dragons Dogma 2 runs crazy well on the pro even with Ray Tracing. I was shocked

Alyssa

Forgetting about EA FC sales going into the sales numbers

Daniel Guerrero

“Prothean ruins on mars mehhh” 😂

Joe Perez

Just a reminder about RFK he has NO expertise to talk about what he talks about when it comes to health.

Kenneth Fox

Throw JK "RAO-ling" in there as well

Seany Mac

I don’t think Resistance being streamed means the emulator is dead. They had all 3 streaming before ps5 came out and idk when they took a good chunk of ps3 games off.

Jason Thompson

I guess that makes two of us. 🙄

SneakerHead24

I think he was being facetious.

Xstar25

Jesus Christ, that Beatles take is stunningly retarded. I love you Chris, but fuck you on that one.

Cubes

Nop I played it when it came out and the console hasn’t been trashed with perception that it has only bad exclusives. Two different scenarios

Edwin Garcia

Apple TV+ is on all devices but they still make Apple TVs. As a primary Xbox player right now I’m not worried about them leaving hardware.

Xemphanis

This is the thing that’s missed. Xbox’s biggest weakness is understanding where the market is headed but pushing for it before the market is ready. Sony is doing everything to hold on to the past as they try to catch up. Xbox lost the console war so they’re trying to make consoles less relevant.

Xemphanis

Wild take, for sure. Toasters are dirt cheap and unless you live in a cracker box, it’s no big deal to just sit on the counter for extended periods.

Alan Wake 2 - Alan WOKE

Colin, Metaphor 1000% benefits from the Pro. The frame rate is a locked 60 with the Pro, and much smoother than when I played on PS5.

Chris Van Buren

The Human-Turian War (The First Contact War?) and the aftermath with humanity coming into galactic society seems like it’d be ripe for adaptation as far as Mass Effect goes. Maybe some human joining a strike team of other races, with the human and the Turian on the team both having PTSD from the war and having to learn to trust one another. The effects budget a ME show would need is where my worries would lie more, though Star Trek has been handling it well.

Jared R

20 years ago she could’ve gotten away with it but everyone has ring cameras now. She either knew that or was lucky enough to not be recorded in the act, regardless she was recorded and could be identified so she should’ve cleaned up her mess and apologized

Katana Silver

The fact that he says sharing links from patreon is stealing but bypassing a paywall on a news article isn't is so wildly hypocritical.

Eric the human

Would you not be excited or happy to have the ability to play Spiderman 2 on Xbox Series?

Edwin Juarez

A Flag with a Zebra cake on it that says “come and take it Sacred Symbols Crew”

Zachary Beach

She coulda cared enough to leave a note or knocked on the door? But she didn’t. I woulda had her in the news so quick for straight up SHITTING on my property.

Theotokos Respecter

“I really do hope the Chinese just launch a series of EMPs over the United States”. Aaaaaaaaaand make your entire business completely useless and irrelevant. 🤣

SneakerHead24

Not surprising

Andrew Simmons

Guys he didn’t hack it! He just used third party software to manipulate his way around the copyright owner’s intended outcome! VERY different.

Dante B

Colin, you've mentioned how some episodes are stronger than others. I felt like this was definitely one of the strong ones. You all were on point and had some really great contributions to the conversations

Queef Wellington

Who doesn’t have a fucking toaster?

Knightsofray

Eric Golley

Who woulda guessed Mr. ‘Ain’t no rest for the triggered’ woulda had bad music takes

Ryan

Chris' veiled Trump voter comments seem kinda bizarre considering the people he's hosting the show with.

Joseph Gedgaudas

Isn’t manipulating the counter just a simple hack? It’s bypassing a program’s security. It might not be rigorous security, but still.

Jared R

Recently bought CK3 just for it

Noah Friscopp

Not exactly the same thing. This person "hacked" Metaphor. Colin did not "hack" the WSJ or NY times. He he has a program that manipulates the counter. If there is such a program that would do the same to trials so that the counter doesn't work would he consider that stealing. I believe it is

Chris Adams

Yeah, it's really annoying, considering he's the host of the biggest playstation podcast in the world. You'd think a self proclaimed "Playstation expert" would want to give his audience his initial impressions on new hardware. It doesn't surprise me though. Colin is probably the weirdest person of all time. He's in a tech focused industry, yet has this strange aversion to learning anything about tech. Like with PC gaming. He's like "how can I play the old Call of Dutys, I guess get them on PS3". No Colin, just play them on your very capable RTX 2070 in your PC!! But I digress.

Mike Held

The best GOT game is a Crusader Kings mod lol

Pasqual Ribot

This happened with Metaphor. Someone was able to make the demo not stop, and they just played the full game. That’s very much in line with Colin’s “Well, they shouldn’t have given anything for free to begin with” argument he’s made here.

Jared R

Is it weird that it really annoys me that he hasn’t opened it? Kinda feel like a Playstation podcast should have at the very least set it up to give us first impressions

Cormac

If there was a way to bypass or reset the timer on a game that offered a trial on playstation premium would colin consider that stealing? I think that has more in common with his argument then emulation

Chris Adams

As a runner ... we've all been there.

Michael Cook

“Imagine a flower, an orchid even. It grows in very few places. This orchid blooms once a year, and must be hand pollinated. From each flower comes a single pod, which must be hand picked and dried in the sun. It travels all across the world to come to us, and we have the audacity to call something so rare and beautiful “plain”.”

Caleb Peacock

Fair

Robbie Agnew

Chris’s TDS is so strong i can barely hear anything he says

Hunter Flaherty

This comment is an Xbox

Katana Silver

Metro Awakening my GOTY

Jacob Lesperance

Preface: I don’t care if people straight up steal news articles. Have at it. That said, Colin’s argument for not paying for articles basically amounted to someone going to Publix, taking free samples until they politely ask them to buy the product, and then coming back with glasses and fake mustache on to keep taking more samples. It still doesn’t seem any less morally dubious than emulation the way he explained it, imo.

Jared R

You’ve converted me with your positive vibes! I’m officially a fan. Xoxoxo

Adam Barnes

I actually don’t mind the look of the console at all. Far from my favourite but not offensive. My issue, especially with Sony seemingly trying to position the PlayStation as the iPhone of video games, is the awful and cheap packaging. When you open a new iPhone you FEEL the R&D money that Apple spends to ensure the unboxing experience is top notch. Opening the PS5 Pro box felt like such an underwhelming experience in comparison. You can’t position this thing the way Sony does and have such cheap feeling packaging. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Tdot’s Finest82

The baits not working anymore, the shitlibs gave up

Scott

Need a swear jar for Colin pronouncing it “Yotai”.

Alan Wake 2 - Alan WOKE

Timestamps are off.

Context Should Matter

It’s crazy how exited they sound for playing xbox games on PlayStation😂

Edwin Garcia

You guys are smoking master chief collection is not coming to playstation. We still waiting on game pass to playstation it's not coming that's why!

Deon

I have iOS and the “podcasts” app and Spotify aren’t work yet still

I need scissors! 61!

I think a lot of Xbox discussion on the Xbox side comes from a place of concern - no Xbox fan wants to lose their digital purchases. If they keep making hardware, great! But if they keep doing this, less people will want to get an Xbox, making more reason for Microsoft to leave hardware. It’s possible they could make Xbox a PC hybrid so it could continue having a store, keep compatibility, and have access to pc storefronts and thus PlayStation games, but it’s such a hypothetical that it simply is a non discussion until we know their next generation plans.

Stevie Walnuts

It’s not on rss feeds!

Kaim Argonar

Same here

Eric Cyr

Hey I know there have been a lot of reports about the podcast not loading in Apple feeds, but I was wondering if it's just an era feed issue. I'm on android using Pocketcast and it's been about 4/5 hours, with no new podcast. Thanks, looking forward to the episode

Daniel Maynard

I was waiting for you Adam.

Mateusz Kuklinski

Final fantasy 16 is a night and day difference as well and isn’t even a enhanced game. But I’m loving the pro so far

Michael Thew

It’s an embarrassing looking machine. I hide it behind my TV lol.

Diddy’s Dong Quest

There he is 😉

Adam Barnes

Chris immediately coming in hot with the dogshit takes, big surprise 🤣

Adam Barnes

Trump won, just wild wow.

Robbie Agnew

Still can’t see it on Apple Podcast. We need a public statement from LSM asap. This is outrageous!! /s 😝

Jeff Caseres

RSS feed still broken on Apple Podcasts as of 1 PM MST

Jake Whitaker

Same

Limawhiskey

Why isnt this on spotify yet

Daniel Jablonski

I was surprised when i got it how nice the ps5 pro looks. Much slimmer than the base digital model

Tristan Kimball

He probably hasn't gotten to the unboxing part of the Metaphor walkthrough yet.

Eric Smith

The PS5 design slander has been ran into the ground. Heaven forbid something isn't a bland corporate rectangle. Personally, I love that Sony tried to add some style, even if it didn't quite hit with the launch version. I think the smaller, diskless model is where it's at.

Michael Rogers

RSS down as of 1:50pm EST

Kevin Bogues

It isn’t showing up in Apple Podcasts still. I’m constantly refreshing 😩

David Speer

RSS Feed broken as of 1:37 PM EST

Raptorator

Is anyone else not able to listen on the Patreon app either? I came here since the RSS links aren’t working and it’s also absent here

Oliver Johnson

RSS issues are common with Patreon. Sometimes I don't get LSM shows in my RSS feed for hours.

StewDog

Colin having his PS5 Pro still sitting in the box is the most Colin thing ever.

Mike Held

Thanks Dustin!

latenitecali

You can probably download it in the Patreon app if the RSS isn't working by the time of your flight.

Zach

Damn Chris really has the worst music takes lol

Jeece

TIL Dustin is packing HEAT

Mitch Orobko

Crusader Kings 3 GoT mod is pretty perfect for it. All the political manipulation.

Noah Friscopp

Thank you Dustin! I need to download this for my flight in a couple hours!

Hank666Hell

Hopefully, this glitch is because Patreon is working on getting multiple RSS feeds working!

Zach

Dustin you legend!

Laurens B.

Now this thumbnail I’d put on merch.

NeO JD

Many thanks!

Joe

Getting quite a few reports on this. Nothing different on our end, so I've emailed Patreon support to get this sorted! -Dustin

Dustin Furman

Fellas, I guess RSS isn’t working. Nothing yet on the Apple Podcasts app. Please fix.

Joe

Their aren't any good GOT games because... How do you do the gameplay? Like what makes it interesting? Everyone already knows the plot hits, that alone isn't enough.. Telltale tried, it was HORRIBLE. (seriously, it's by FAR their worst game) It could work in a decade when it's more forgotten but for now.. nope.

easelgames

Bewember, bewember, the Ides of November.

Alan Wake 2 - Alan WOKE

Props for awesome thumbnail

Josef Barker

12:20pm and my Spotify LSM feed still not showing this episode. So I have to listen on the trash patreon app. Colin always says, "you don't even have to deal with the patreon app". So why am I dealing with it? This is a first world problem and I'm just complaining for the sake of it. It is annoying though.

Mike Held

How can you not care about resolution? I mean something visually crisp vs blurry is a no brainer for me.

Zachary

Although silent hill 2 says it’s ps5 pro enhanced it’s actually not

Zachary

Colin’s going to be insufferable in this

Kaim Argonar

10/10 thumbnail

Henry Velasco

Thank god Dustin used the thumbnail lol

Brandon Tyler

Nice transistor reference

Riley henderson

My favorite Xbox podcast 🔥

Michael Mashpotato

Lmao

Joseph

The thumbnail is fucking gold lmaooo

Adam Martinez

First!

Mateusz Kuklinski