Episode 484: A Comedy of Errors
Part One: Chris Froment Presents “A Get Rich Eventually Scheme!”
Welcome to the pre-Christmas episode of Hardly Focused! Jack, Fro, and Nate presenting this one. See if you can spot all the technical errors in this episode!
Kicking off this episode, Fro explains how he’s making money by doing web searches using a Python script. He makes pennies per search, roughly equating to $1 USD per day. At this rate, he’ll be rich by the time he’s… many hundreds of years old.
Elsewhere, Cyberpunk 2077 has been out in the wild for one week. Simply put, it’s launch has been a disaster, especially for PlayStation and Xbox users. As discussed during Episode 483, Jack and Kate are both playing on PC; the latter is having a much better experience.
Part Two: Cyberpunk 2077, and the Era of Unfinished Video Games
This segment begins with an impromptu guitar jam between Jack, Fro, and Nate. Rocking the banjo, Nate promptly breaks a string. Meanwhile, Jack attempts to serenade by playing Oasis and From First to Last. What year is it?
Back to Cyberpunk 2077, Jack tells Fro and Nate about how Sony has delisted the game from the PlayStation Store. Moreover, Best Buy is accepting refunds of opened copies of the game, an unprecedented move in any retail setting. This leads Jack to rant about how modern video games tend to be released in unfinished states, eventually achieving completion over several years’ worth of updates.
Part Three: Tom Cruise Has a Meltdown on the Set of “Mission Impossible”
Nate kicks off the final segment of this episode by devouring chocolate with 92% cacao. Appropriately, it tastes like dirt. Jack equates the taste to an infamous scene from Nickelodeon’s Doug.
Moving on to a bit teased all throughout this show, Jack features audio of Tom Cruise flipping his lid on the set of the new Mission Impossible film. Jack equates Cruise’s meltdown to that of Christian Bale’s public freak-out in 2008, and to a lesser extent, Dennis Quaid’s staged outburst in 2015. Fro and Nate see both sides to Cruise’s argument over COVID-19 safety, while Jack finds his rant to be justified.
On a related note, Nate asks the room if they think COVID-19 has affected new music in terms of songwriting and content. Jack notes that blink-182 has a song all about quarantine, while Taylor Swift’s folklore was most definitely influenced by the lockdown. Jack is also attending his first “virtual concert” with Jimmy Eat World, which is going to be weird after decades of attending physical shows in the “before times.”
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