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childhood game references and gun taste
crash bandicoot, spyro, and split-screen play
counter-strike, goldeneye, and metal gear solid
listener prompt about games shaping gun taste

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Double Tap 472 – RobotNick (2026-07-28) · We Like Shooting 683 – Crackers (2026-10-06)

childhood game references and gun taste

“are you talking about? Dude, that game came out when I was a child. Yeah. Nick F. I'm a Contra guy, personally.”

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are you talking about? Dude, that game came out when I was a child. Yeah. Nick F. I'm a Contra guy, personally.
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“I think it's the other way around because I was into guns before I really was old enough to play many video games. Um, as a result, I think I've largely selected guns in video games that follow my, my real life tastes, uh, like with all the weapons customization stuff. in some of the newer games um i really enjoy building out like configurations that i have in real life or as close as i can yeah i agree that is fun anyway uh let's see call of duty um the series as a whole has some pretty cool guns in it whole um i would give it a c because there is a lot of cool stuff in there.”

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I think it's the other way around because I was into guns before I really was old enough to play many video games. Um, as a result, I think I've largely selected guns in video games that follow my, my real life tastes, uh, like with all the weapons customization stuff. in some of the newer games um i really enjoy building out like configurations that i have in real life or as close as i can yeah i agree that is fun anyway uh let's see call of duty um the series as a whole has some pretty cool guns in it whole um i would give it a c because there is a lot of cool stuff in there.
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crash bandicoot, spyro, and split-screen play

“I've played that. Dusky says Crash Bandicoot. I've played that. Crash Bandicoot's pretty awesome. Says Spyro is better.”

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I've played that. Dusky says Crash Bandicoot. I've played that. Crash Bandicoot's pretty awesome. Says Spyro is better.
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“Is this more fun than Sonic lore? I just got the Spyro remake or remaster or whatever it is. and tyler and i have been playing it a little bit here and there it's pretty good it's a lot of fun nice very nice i'm looking for uh another game for angel and i to split screen because baldur's gate was so much fun yeah like so much fun It was amazing.”

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Is this more fun than Sonic lore? I just got the Spyro remake or remaster or whatever it is. and tyler and i have been playing it a little bit here and there it's pretty good it's a lot of fun nice very nice i'm looking for uh another game for angel and i to split screen because baldur's gate was so much fun yeah like so much fun It was amazing.
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counter-strike, goldeneye, and metal gear solid

“I did play a decent amount of Counter-Strike Source. There are some very cool guns in Counter-Strike. a lot of them are relatively basic the the m4 with the um that's mirrored with the ejecting ejection port and the um forward assist on the left side always bugged me and then when the reload animation when they pull on the forward assist always always pissed me off so because of that i'm gonna give counter strike a d damn okay that's gonna average out the cast to a d for that one golden eye um the james bond movies and books had way more influence on me than golden i did i i have played a decent amount of golden eye um i'm gonna give it a c okay with savage's s that one's gonna average out to a b for the cast metal gear solid this one i'm gonna give an s no shit just like just like if you do really well in this one you get an s ranking um yeah the the guns and metal gear solid are awesome uh there's a lot of attention paid to them more so than in a lot of other games like in one of the games there's a whole uh a whole spiel explaining the modifications that he's made to his 1911 nice and my my project 1911 that i pull out every once snow isle and work on a little bit is loosely inspired by uh one of snakes 19 one of one of the snakes 1911s from one of the games that's awesome um so yeah i'm gonna give it an s because the they've got like the mark 23 with the laser aiming module and yeah like the cool 1911 stuff um metal gear solid 4 had a bunch of really cool like real life i think the trp's in there um a bunch of really cool guns uh metal gear solid five has one of the coolest weapons customization systems that i've ever played with in a game like it's it's so badass you can spend hours and hours mixing and matching parts from different guns and like coming up with all kinds of crazy setups it's it's a ton of fun that's freaking awesome uh that's gonna make that one a C for the hosts because I gave it an F, not because it's bad, just because I'd never played it.”

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I did play a decent amount of Counter-Strike Source. There are some very cool guns in Counter-Strike. a lot of them are relatively basic the the m4 with the um that's mirrored with the ejecting ejection port and the um forward assist on the left side always bugged me and then when the reload animation when they pull on the forward assist always always pissed me off so because of that i'm gonna give counter strike a d damn okay that's gonna average out the cast to a d for that one golden eye um the james bond movies and books had way more influence on me than golden i did i i have played a decent amount of golden eye um i'm gonna give it a c okay with savage's s that one's gonna average out to a b for the cast metal gear solid this one i'm gonna give an s no shit just like just like if you do really well in this one you get an s ranking um yeah the the guns and metal gear solid are awesome uh there's a lot of attention paid to them more so than in a lot of other games like in one of the games there's a whole uh a whole spiel explaining the modifications that he's made to his 1911 nice and my my project 1911 that i pull out every once snow isle and work on a little bit is loosely inspired by uh one of snakes 19 one of one of the snakes 1911s from one of the games that's awesome um so yeah i'm gonna give it an s because the they've got like the mark 23 with the laser aiming module and yeah like the cool 1911 stuff um metal gear solid 4 had a bunch of really cool like real life i think the trp's in there um a bunch of really cool guns uh metal gear solid five has one of the coolest weapons customization systems that i've ever played with in a game like it's it's so badass you can spend hours and hours mixing and matching parts from different guns and like coming up with all kinds of crazy setups it's it's a ton of fun that's freaking awesome uh that's gonna make that one a C for the hosts because I gave it an F, not because it's bad, just because I'd never played it.
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listener prompt about games shaping gun taste

“All right. Well, let me start going through this fucking end the pain for everyone. Uh, end and open listener voting. Okay, here we go. So for which game most shaped your taste in guns, terrible, terrible game board.”

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All right. Well, let me start going through this fucking end the pain for everyone. Uh, end and open listener voting. Okay, here we go. So for which game most shaped your taste in guns, terrible, terrible game board.

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