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Today in the nerdy news

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you need to know about

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analysts say the Nintendo switch

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2 is gonna crush console

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records Sydney Sweeney is set

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to star in the new

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it takes two movie and

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we got a double dose

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of layoffs. Oh, that's not a

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good one. Yeah, but of all

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this and more because this

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is kind of funny games

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Friday, April 25th, 2025.

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I'm one of your

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host, Greg Miller, alongside

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the Hispanic Heartrop, Texas

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Street, Latino heat, clicking

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heads and ripping them to

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shreds, the Globe, Trottin, heads,

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shot, and three-point shooting,

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rooting, rooting, tooten.

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Nitro rifle from Twitch.

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I'm okay. Gregi. Something's

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happening. What's up? You

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got your keyboard out? Typical

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anti-fashioned bear. It's

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like you're ready

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to go. You're like,

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wait, I forgot something. And

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you ran off and came

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back. Well, it's, uh, you know, it's

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obviously a very

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momentous occasion, everybody.

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I love you all to put

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your phones up in the sky.

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Happy birthday to you. Happy

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birthday. Happy

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birthday

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to

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you.

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You.

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You.

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You.

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You.

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You.

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You.

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Yeah, well, yeah, my birthday is on Sunday, so

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yeah, today we had to celebrate. Yeah, today we're

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celebrating. And I'd also love to... I

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celebrate your child with a brand

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new alarm. No! No! For your

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baby, for your little baby. Is

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that really? Is it yours? Yeah,

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well that's mine. Yeah, but I'm

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getting it away? Yeah, I'm getting

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it to Ben. You sure? Getting

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it to Ben, yeah. Positive? Because

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he's going to flip. And I

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thank you. Turns out the ladies

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don't love it, Greg. Okay. You

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know. It doesn't work with more

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than one person in the bed.

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Yeah, yeah. It doesn't know how

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to read the motions. Oh man,

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that's good. Happy birthday. Thank you,

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Andy. Give me a hug, come

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here. Love you. Everybody, happy day.

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Everybody, happy birthday to Greg. Of

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course, we're celebrating my birthday today

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by streaming Monster Hunter for like

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five hours, so get ready for

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that everybody in the afternoon. Oh,

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really. Yeah. You're excited about that.

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Hit it. Well, hold on, I'm

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trying to do that. Trying to

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really get the, uh, because we

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need to remind people. That's true.

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You have Twitch prime. And hold

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on. You have Twitch run. All

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that for that. It's the Thanos

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thing, all that for a drop

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of blood. You could just say

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it seven times. If you have

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Amazon prime, you have twitch prime.

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And we got to help, you

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know, keep the company in business

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so that Greg can have one

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more year as an employed person.

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Yeah, as an employed person. You

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too. Well, me too as well,

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I would love to say employed

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as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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if you got Amazon Prime, you

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got Twitch Prime, give us that

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free sub. But of course, there's

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a million ways to help because

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this is kind of funny games.

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In podcast services around. The Globe.

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Is that one more time? Podcast

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services around what? The Globe. Oh,

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okay. Pocket services around? The glow.

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I like that. It kind of

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sounds like a heartbeat too.

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You know? Do it again.

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It's my birthday. We're celebrating me.

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It's my birthday. We're celebrating me.

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How many peas does one body

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hold? What if we counted them

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until we got old? We'd be

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up in the thousands by now.

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When will it end? Oh no,

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poop train! The producers in the

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room like, I don't know if

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we want to use that part

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while we are live, youtube.com/Kind of Funny Games,

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you can super chat with your thoughts and

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opinions. Like Samson did, who said, it's my

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cat Misty's 17th birthday to day too. This is

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my day. All right, I need to share it with

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Misty as Misty as well, all right.

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Golden Spider says gotta pay

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the birthday tax, happy birthday

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to Gregie too, thank you

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very much. No, no, no,

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it's Greg's Day. We're celebrating

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Greg, it's Greg, it's Greg's

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Day. It's Greg's Day. It's

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the observed Greg Day. Happy birthday

5:38

to you. Harmony's are off right now, but

5:40

it's a little, it's really cold outside. It

5:43

is cold, yeah, it's getting your vocal cords

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colded. It's so soft, I guess. We had

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to walk too, the gate isn't working. Ricardo

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Gonzales says, happy birthday to the greatest healing

5:52

history, hope you have a great time with

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Tim's three stars, you know I will. You

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know I will. I'll be doing just obscene

5:58

things to those stars, don't worry. like the

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way the Stanley Cup

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winners in hockey will

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they all the stars

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get like a week

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with it and they

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all go on vacation

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with it and they

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take it everywhere. Push

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your mic away okay.

6:19

That's crazy. And

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I mean, it might be small or

6:24

I might go like, hey, everybody like

6:26

the city. It's really good. I'm a

6:29

psychopath. So I got a win now.

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I got a win. Portland, Kevin says,

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happy birthday, Mr. Seven Stars, Greg Miller,

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and then Melo Fellow says, happy birthday,

6:38

Misty, and Greg. Oh, where they must

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see? Can I at least see a

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photo of Misty? Samson L. Can you

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blue sky me? Why are you trying

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to like approve of whether the cat

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is pretty enough to get up? I

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mean there's some cats that I'm like

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yeah, and then there's other cats are

6:56

like there. Yeah, it's similar to the

6:58

example of a nah cat, you know

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I don't like them when they got

7:03

like the triangular fur. You don't like

7:05

the furry ones. I mean, I like

7:07

cat. I don't like hairless cats. Hold

7:09

on, is your palico a furless one?

7:12

A furless one? A furless one? A

7:14

furless one? No, no, no. Again, it's

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not furless. So I'm not saying they

7:18

need to be hairless. No, but not

7:21

furless, but you know, but not furless,

7:23

but you know what I mean. You

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don't really? Come on, I'm not fat!

7:27

Rain it in! Go fuck yourself! You

7:30

need to look like Garfield. Put up

7:32

the black cat there with the pink

7:34

ribbon. Now that's a cat you can

7:37

set your watch too? That seems even

7:39

more aggressive in the other way that

7:41

you don't like. Listen. I call them

7:43

like I see you. You're all over

7:46

the place here. Get it together. You're

7:48

not a wolf. You're not a snow

7:50

leopard. You're not a snow leopard. It

7:52

is so cute. It thinks it is.

7:55

It thinks it is. It thinks it

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is. It is. It thinks it is.

7:59

It is. It thinks it is. It

8:01

is. It thinks it is. It is.

8:04

It is. It is. Get in the

8:06

champs and get in. I gotta see

8:08

what your cat will flavor is. That's

8:10

cool. I'm drinking. Monster Blue, Ultra Blue

8:13

Hawaiian, this one tastes like pineapple, it's

8:15

so delicious. Was drinking a lot, I'm

8:17

playing Marathon. Huh? You enjoy marathon? We're

8:20

playing a lot of Marathon. Can't we

8:22

just talk more about it? We have

8:24

a Game Scouts coming out of Marathon.

8:26

Yeah. Marathon, da-da-da-ton-ton-ton-ton. I like it when

8:29

the pinkie-bodina-cos. Yeah. I've been enjoying it,

8:31

but last night was a, one of

8:33

those moments where when we played with

8:35

Nick and Mike and Mike. Having the

8:38

most amount of fun winning some fights

8:40

losing some fights last night Was not

8:42

a vaud that you want to watch

8:44

or stream you want to watch if

8:47

you in any way want to be

8:49

encouraged to play this game got it

8:51

Last night was me and Mike now

8:54

granted we were dropping duos in a

8:56

trio's thing for a bit and then

8:58

eventually we got the homie caliph But

9:00

to be our third in the trio,

9:03

but the first four matches or so

9:05

Greg It was like oh what was

9:07

Like, we just bought in, ran into

9:09

a building, ran into a building, no,

9:12

not even that, ran into a building,

9:14

what the fuck are the, oh we're

9:16

dead, we're just, we're dead, we didn't

9:18

know that anybody was here, gotta get

9:21

your head, gotta get, and we weren't

9:23

even, it was really bad, and we

9:25

weren't even, it was just really bad,

9:28

it was like, don't watch it, it

9:30

was just really bad, it was just

9:32

really bad, it was, it was just.

9:34

Yeah, like when you run into a

9:37

building in war zone, and you see

9:39

someone just like run around a corner

9:41

and they go. Ah, okay, okay, okay,

9:43

okay. It's the worst, dude. The worst.

9:46

I was like, get out of this

9:48

game. Go play war zone, you fucking

9:50

freak, you know? God damn 12-year-olds. We're

9:52

an 11-person small business all about live

9:55

talk shows. After kind of funny games,

9:57

you're going to get the kind of

9:59

funny games cast. It is episode 2.

10:02

It is episode 2. I'm fine, I

10:04

don't mind. Of course, this is us,

10:06

me and Mike sitting down with Rich

10:08

and Matt from ESO. doing the deepest

10:11

dive of my career. This is a

10:13

four-part series we're doing in partnership with

10:15

ESO. It's already up on there. Bethesda's

10:17

YouTube channel. Of course we'll have it

10:20

up, like I said, after this. You

10:22

can listen to it on our game

10:24

cast feeds. You can watch it on

10:26

YouTube, watch it on Twitter, hang out

10:29

with the other people. Most importantly, I

10:31

encourage you to do it. Obviously, I

10:33

know, not a lot of ESO crossover

10:36

necessarily. and oh shit, everybody hates it.

10:38

So it's gonna be an interesting response

10:40

to what that was like, how they

10:42

changed, what they did, and how they've

10:45

managed to go for 10 years. So

10:47

please check it out. It's like when

10:49

people weren't interested in F1 and they

10:51

started watching the F1 and they started

10:54

watching the F1 show on Netflix, you

10:56

know? It's because you're not showing the

10:58

F1 show on Netflix, you know? It's

11:00

because you're not into it like, like,

11:03

video game documentaries, I'd ever watched. Yeah.

11:05

and you know watching the the Devs

11:07

of Super Meat Boy being like I

11:09

did not you know expect any of

11:12

this and then we were like wait

11:14

why is our game not on the

11:16

Xbox live store? Really really cool woman

11:19

I just love hearing stories like really

11:21

really cool woman I just love hearing

11:23

stories like that. And then after like

11:25

you said it will be a very

11:28

long monster hunter birthday stream for me

11:30

Greg Miller will hang out together it

11:32

is of course also Misty's birthday we

11:34

do have images of Misty of Misty

11:37

from Samson I have sent them over

11:39

to assets. That's a pretty cat. Misty's

11:41

cute. That's a cute little kitty. First

11:43

off, that's always cute. The face-down thing.

11:46

I used to have that bed too.

11:48

And then yeah, Misty. Misty's cute. That's

11:50

a great photo of Misty right there.

11:53

Happy birthday, Misty. If I was allergic,

11:55

I would. If I was allergic, I

11:57

would, I would buy with Misty. Misty's

11:59

allergic to cats. And then out of

12:02

times Ben goes, I wish I picked

12:04

him up from school. I get him

12:06

in the car, he starts sucking his

12:08

thumb like Ben, you shouldn't suck your

12:11

thumb. And he goes, but I want

12:13

to. And I go, I know buddy,

12:15

but that's what makes your tummy upset.

12:17

And he goes, well, it's my choice.

12:20

And put it back into his mind.

12:22

I was like, damn, my body, my

12:24

choice. He just got me on that

12:27

one. I can't argue that. You know

12:29

what I mean? I did see a

12:31

commercial the other day of this guy

12:33

who was like, I married my scientist,

12:36

married my wife. She has a cat

12:38

and I'm allergic. So I developed this

12:40

medicine, this pill that like, this pill

12:42

that like really helps me. Jen's definitely,

12:45

I mean, she has, her parents have

12:47

cats at home. And so when she

12:49

goes home, she will cuddle these cats

12:51

and then be hoar, like, she, and

12:54

she's done thing, well, I can, we

12:56

could get a cat, I'm like, no,

12:58

we cannot get a cat, Jen. It's

13:01

so funny, looking back and not understanding

13:03

why I was in constant, like, pain

13:05

and punishment, not being able to breathe,

13:07

when I'd go to my grandma's house

13:10

because my aunt had her cat there,

13:12

and it was like. I just think

13:14

back to never being able to sleep

13:16

because of... Like just not being a

13:19

runny nose, just bad red eyes. Same

13:21

with a, that's me for dogs, really,

13:23

weirdly short-haired dogs, really allergic to like

13:25

pit bulls in southern. Anytime I go

13:28

to my aunt's house, it was rough.

13:30

Yeah, Andy's the reason we got a

13:32

dog instead of a cat. So congratulations,

13:35

Lulu. That worked out for you. If

13:37

you're a funny member, today's Greg. in

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frames, what will tell you about that

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later for now. Let's begin the show

13:53

with what is, and forever will be,

13:55

the Roper Report. A baker's does it!

13:57

Oh, I like that. I like that,

13:59

that's good. Number one of the Roper

14:02

Report, Nintendo Switch 2 will be the

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biggest... console launch ever according to one

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analyst. Jordan Midler VGC reports Nintendo Switch

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2 is set to enjoy the biggest

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console launch in history according to an

14:13

analyst. Previously analysts had predicted that the

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Nintendo will that Nintendo will likely produce

14:18

between six and eight million units of

14:20

the console by the time of the

14:22

June launch. Now an analyst has claimed

14:24

that there is the constant that The

14:27

console's incredible popular pre-order campaign in Japan

14:29

may point to the Nintendo

14:31

switch to and join the

14:34

biggest console launch in history.

14:36

Quote, as Japan accounts for

14:39

a third of global switch

14:41

installation base, it implies 6.6

14:43

million pre-orders globally said

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Pelham Smithers globally said

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Pelham Smithers Globally said

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Pelham Smithers Associates.

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No, I'm saying what you said,

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right? What did you say? No.

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Well, you say Pelham, though,

15:00

right? Yeah, I would go

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Pelham, yeah. What was I

15:04

saying, Pelham? Pelham. I'm such

15:06

an idiot. Add it to the

15:09

board. Ghost of what? It's

15:11

all there. What's the sequel

15:14

to Ghost of Ghost? Yote.

15:16

Yote. Yote. Okay. Someone in

15:19

the subreddit said

15:21

yesterday. Best Duo. Greg

15:23

and Andy, you know what I mean? At the time

15:25

of writing the two biggest console launches

15:27

in history both belong to Sony with

15:30

the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 tied

15:32

at a reported 4.5 million units during

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the first two months on the market.

15:36

It's worth noting that the PlayStation 5

15:39

faced constant stock issues during its

15:41

first year, meaning the PS5 would

15:43

have likely eclipsed the PlayStation 4

15:45

if stock had been available. Earlier

15:47

this week, Nintendo President Shuntaro.

15:49

Burukawa warned that a significant

15:51

number of players in Japan will

15:53

miss out on Nintendo switch two

15:55

pre-orders after 2.2 million applied for

15:58

its Mine Nintendo pre-order lottery. Pre-orders

16:00

for the console opened in the US

16:03

this week with players reporting constant issues

16:05

with attempting to pre-order the console online.

16:07

Pre-orders in the UK and Europe went

16:10

live earlier this month following the Nintendo

16:12

switch to direct presentation. How have

16:14

I not heard? I know we got people over there

16:16

from the UK. Did you have a bunch of

16:18

problems? Was it easy? Smooth sailing for everybody

16:20

else? It sounds like it. At least people

16:22

from our chat would check in and be

16:24

like, oh yeah, I don't live in the

16:26

US. I already pre-ordered mine. I think

16:28

it's just an issue with website

16:31

design. Like are we, do they have

16:33

like the metric system of websites

16:35

and we have the, the other

16:37

one, Imperial? Remember it's so much

16:39

smaller over in the UK. Less

16:41

people, less computers. Isn't it what

16:43

like, you know, England's like, England's

16:46

Texas or some shit? Yeah, I

16:48

think it's the size of Rhode Island.

16:50

So, it's just a lot of castles

16:52

too. They can't have Wi-Fi. Yeah, how are

16:54

they going to run a hard line to

16:57

that? You got the surfs out there? They

16:59

don't have Wi-Fi terrible out there. The numbers

17:01

here, Greg, are, you know, not a lot

17:03

of people speaking with their wallets, I guess.

17:06

Like, you know, in terms of the price

17:08

raises. But I remember there was a, there

17:10

was a bit of time where people were

17:12

like, man, this could just be another

17:14

Wii U, watch out in Nintendo, and

17:17

Nintendo. And I think we're just in a

17:19

different era and a different era. And

17:21

more importantly, I think these high

17:23

estimates and these high predictions really

17:26

speak to people that are like, yeah,

17:28

I'm kind of tired of this fucking old

17:30

machine looking like garbage. And also, I mean,

17:32

the, the way switch has become so

17:35

mainstream looking like garbage. And also,

17:37

I mean, the, the way switch has

17:39

become so mainstream, where it really is

17:41

the ubiquitous console, where, you know, even

17:44

when we talk about console wars and

17:46

Xbox PlayStation, you never can count for

17:48

Nintendo, because it's got to be. Can

17:51

you imagine how how

17:53

things would be on a

17:55

like not even just sales

17:58

level but for an

18:00

expert in excitement if Apple waited like

18:02

seven years to put out the next iPhone. You

18:04

know, like I feel like, you know, once it

18:07

once Americans have had this piece of

18:09

hardware for long enough, it's this is such

18:11

a different thing of hardware sales where

18:13

they look at this next upgrade and don't

18:15

feel like, I don't need that new one,

18:17

I don't need that new one, I can

18:19

wait, you know, but this one,

18:22

it's like, no, I've had this

18:24

long enough. I'm ready for the

18:26

next thing. There's been a lot

18:28

of great responses to my UK

18:30

jokes over there, but Nick here

18:32

gets the best. Nick says, UK

18:34

here, traded my family donkey, and

18:37

swayed in from mine. A swain.

18:39

A swain. A singular swain. Of

18:41

course, this is all well and

18:43

good. I'm glad that. What's the

18:45

name for? Oh, Pelham. Pelham. Pelham. Pelham

18:48

Smithers. of Pelham Smithers Associates believes this,

18:50

but we only listen to one analyst.

18:52

That kind of funny, all right? And

18:54

his name is Matt Piscotella from Sir

18:57

Con. I did not reach out to

18:59

Matt, I could have done that, I

19:01

should have done that, but instead he

19:03

blew skied. And so we can just read that.

19:06

Matt says, there are two things you need to

19:08

have to reach the biggest console launch

19:10

in history of whatever. Demand, but you

19:12

also need the units to sell. Having

19:14

the biggest console launch ever would be

19:17

cool, sure, but it'd primarily be a

19:19

reflection on production. Can't read more

19:21

into it than that, really. Real test comes

19:23

in year two, when the price in

19:25

sensitive enthusiasts are satiated and units have

19:27

to start selling to mass market.

19:29

All the dynamics change. Great starts

19:32

don't guarantee great finishes and vice

19:34

versa, etc., etc. T-L-D-R, the supply

19:36

chain, logistics and operations folks at

19:38

the console manufacturers are the real

19:40

people that make this happen and

19:42

deserve love and propsps. Very true.

19:44

Remember how hard it was to just,

19:46

the amount of time and how long

19:48

it lasted to get a PS5 during

19:50

the pandemic. Sure. And it was not just

19:53

websites being busted or whatever, it

19:55

was just a supply chain issue

19:57

and just a lot of issues

19:59

with manufacturing. If those issues don't really

20:01

crop up here, then yeah, we can see

20:03

these numbers be absolutely nuts. But it's really

20:05

just all dependent, like Matt saying, on production

20:07

and manufacturing. So my question to you, Andy,

20:09

becomes this. And Super Chat, of course, I

20:12

want to know what you think of all

20:14

this. Do you think they hit these numbers?

20:16

Most likely, have you pre-ordered? What's your preordered

20:18

story, Benson's, preordered day. How many donkeys have

20:20

you sold for yours in the UK? When

20:22

do you think you're able to walk into

20:25

a target, because that's all we have out

20:27

here, a Best Buy, no Walmart, and buy

20:29

a switch off the shelf, or switch two

20:31

off the shelf? Readily available type shit. I

20:33

would say within, within the year, within a

20:36

year of launch. You don't think, I mean,

20:38

I feel like when we start to go

20:40

down out of, okay, cool. Outside of holiday

20:42

season, maybe? Yeah, I think you have to

20:44

get through, I would think you're looking at.

20:46

And I don't know, who knows. People celebrate

20:49

Andy's birthday month in February and we'll be

20:51

buying them up nonstop, you know. I think

20:53

you gotta get to 2026, yeah. Because I

20:55

think by the time the launch hype dies

20:57

down, that's when the Christmas hype ramps up.

20:59

And I think it's now you have it

21:02

where it's like, what would have been, you

21:04

know, nerds like us, the kids that go

21:06

to school with their switch, then they infect

21:08

the kids there of like, oh, I need

21:10

this for Christmas, and then you get a

21:12

whole new hype train, Well there's still fortnight

21:15

on the switch. I know but buy them

21:17

clear obscure on PS5 or X, but you

21:19

know what I mean? We gotta help the

21:21

kids man. I've tried, I've tried Andy. Gosh,

21:23

yeah. Kids playing robots all the damn time

21:25

and it's like that's cool but like there's

21:28

other games man. Yeah. Check out this game

21:30

called Doom, you know what I mean? Like

21:32

it is so metal. It's hard to imagine

21:34

for those kids how you cross them over.

21:36

I know this is another conversation we had

21:39

with Matt Piscotella when he came in for

21:41

our amazing games cast with him and I

21:43

mean dialed in but you know how do

21:45

you get the people who are playing Fortnite

21:47

in Roblox and Minecraft how do you get

21:49

them to actually go outside of their comfort

21:52

zone and play something else and then fall

21:54

in love with games beyond that one thing

21:56

beyond honestly I think that the last of

21:58

us TV show has been helping out and

22:00

continue to help out and if we continue

22:02

to have really good serious adaptations of serious

22:05

IP it just teaches people more that games

22:07

are more than this I will never forget

22:09

going back home and Having a PS5 that

22:11

I had sent back to my parents' house,

22:13

and when I was finally back home for

22:15

Christmas, I booted up Godowar Ragnarock, and I'm

22:18

playing through that, and I'm just like showing

22:20

the whole family, look how crazy this shit

22:22

is, like how amazing this experience is so

22:24

far. And then my sister-in-law, going, so what

22:26

are you doing in the game? I was

22:28

like, well, it's a story, it's a, it's

22:31

a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

22:33

a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

22:35

a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

22:37

a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

22:39

a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

22:42

a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

22:44

a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

22:46

a, it's a, You know, fucking, what's a

22:48

little boy's name? Trace. Trace, that guy. Kind

22:50

of funny, kind of feudy, or game showdown,

22:52

last place. Name, a character, God of war.

22:55

I think I said Demetrius for the head

22:57

guy, I forget. Like, and we're seeing these

22:59

amazing moments play out, right? And then my

23:01

sister's all being like, so, what is the,

23:03

what do you do? Because all she's used

23:05

to, seeing my nephew run around an apex,

23:08

should other people, die. Yeah. Run around a

23:10

four night show other people die and I

23:12

was like well it's a story that unfold

23:14

it's just your character and you get stronger

23:16

and you have this bond with your son

23:18

that you're kind of exploring your like it

23:21

is a really adult sort of situation but

23:23

you're also fighting as the method of getting

23:25

through all that and it was it blew

23:27

me away that that isn't like that isn't

23:29

fully knowledgeable to a lot of people out

23:31

there to where they just look at video

23:34

games and think yeah Mario Cart world Or

23:36

a Mario cart, and of course, you know,

23:38

the kids playing roadblocks of Fort Night and

23:40

Call of Duty. I was thinking about this

23:42

last night, actually, of like, how strange video

23:45

games are games. to game. And this is

23:47

even from my own perspective. But it was

23:49

that thing of like, okay, after today's Monster

23:51

Hunter stream, I think I'm gonna have kick

23:53

the junk from my system. Robert, cool. I've

23:55

accomplished what I want to accomplish for right

23:58

now. You're going to un install? No, no,

24:00

no. God no, no, fuck no. I'll be

24:02

checking it out. They do events in all

24:04

these things weekly. But it's like, I, I,

24:06

last night playing it, I was like, I'm

24:08

in a great place with what I wanted

24:11

from the Blossom festival, what I want my

24:13

gear to be, I don't need, I'm like,

24:15

I'm in a great place with what I

24:17

wanted from the Blossom from the Blossom from

24:19

the Blossom from the Blossom Festival, what I

24:21

want, what I want, what I want, what

24:24

I want, what I want, what I want,

24:26

what I want, what I want, what I

24:28

want, what I want, what I want, what

24:30

I want, what I want, what I want,

24:32

what I want, what, what, what, what, what,

24:34

what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what,

24:37

what, what, what, I want, I want, I

24:39

want, I was like, I wonder how many

24:41

hours I'm actually in the sink into oblivion.

24:43

And then I was thinking about like, if

24:45

you were to there and actually take and

24:48

do the math of an open world Bethesda

24:50

RPG. How much time is me just walking

24:52

to the next thing versus when you're playing,

24:54

I was thinking of Ben playing Donkey Kong

24:56

Tropical Freeze on his switch, where it is

24:58

there's always, you're constantly doing something, right? But

25:01

when Ben looks at me playing an oblivion,

25:03

which he hasn't, but if he was to,

25:05

I think he's playing an oblivion, which he

25:07

hasn't, but if he was to, I think

25:09

he seems to play Starfield, right, me just

25:11

running across a planet, me just running out

25:14

into Tamriel, right? I fight, I fight a

25:16

wolf or whatever, but I fight a wolf

25:18

or whatever, but I fight a wolf or

25:20

whatever, but I'm not onto the next thing,

25:22

but I'm not onto the next thing, but

25:24

I'm not onto the next thing, but I'm

25:27

not onto the next thing, but I'm not

25:29

onto the next thing, but I'm, but I'm

25:31

not onto the next thing, but I'm, but

25:33

I'm, but I'm, but I'm, but I'm, but

25:35

I'm, juxtaposition is for people when they start

25:37

to actually consider what games are. Barry you

25:40

popped in. Something I'd also just considered that

25:42

I don't know if a lot of people

25:44

have is kind of with the free to

25:46

play stuff that is easy access for kids

25:48

to get into. I feel like there's less

25:51

incentive of like kind of the hand-me-down culture

25:53

in terms of video games. A lot of

25:55

me getting into video games growing up was

25:57

babysitters either giving me N-64 cartridges they didn't

25:59

want anymore or you know playing on my

26:01

dad's like PS1 or whatever. And so I

26:04

think in terms of that there's something interesting

26:06

where so much of my gaming history is

26:08

from old old hardware that people didn't want

26:10

anymore. I got an N64 on my fifth

26:12

birthday in 2000. I think the Game Cube

26:14

came out like that year, the year after

26:17

or whatever. I think like I didn't have

26:19

my own next console because my stepdad had

26:21

the PS2 until the 360. And so I

26:23

think there's something to be said there because

26:25

there isn't like a, hey I'm gonna give

26:27

you this old switch and then all these

26:30

old games, you know, the switch has fortnight,

26:32

you know, so there's something there as well.

26:34

That's also interesting. Hopefully. Hopefully, like I was

26:36

mentioning these awesome TV adaptations, kind of showing

26:38

people that like, hey, the gaming is more

26:40

than what do you think it is, but

26:43

also, we have Grand Theft Auto Six, and

26:45

that going to be the massive phenomenon that

26:47

it's going to be, and kind of maybe

26:49

just hopefully re-ignite and make people kind of

26:51

remember what the medium is. It's just so...

26:54

I think we've talked about this in a

26:56

million different ways, but it's just also the

26:58

economy of the attention economy. Where it is,

27:00

I can't, like, you know, when Ben sits

27:02

down in the morning and he, I'm like,

27:04

what do you want to watch? Like, legitimately,

27:07

you remember when we, it's before school and

27:09

you'd wake up to have your serial and

27:11

watch TV, it's whatever it was on. V.R.

27:13

Troop, V. V.R. Troopers, Beelborgs, I'm watching, I'm.

27:15

V.R. Troopers, Beatleborgs, I'm watching. I'm watching, Vow.

27:17

V. VEv. V. V. V. V. V. V.

27:20

V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V.

27:22

V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V.

27:24

V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V.

27:26

V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V.

27:28

V. V. V. V. V. V. V. V.

27:30

V. V. V. V. eight-year-old kid. I don't

27:33

want to watch this show. And so it's

27:35

such an interesting thing of like I wonder

27:37

if that you know on-demand nature also that

27:39

keeps away like Ben you know there's been

27:41

many a Greg Way question that I think

27:43

I'm only it's only infiltrated once or twice

27:46

of like if I would you know before

27:48

when Ben was super small when I started

27:50

him on like an NES and then bring

27:52

him up to like modern games and then

27:54

now it's been more like how do I

27:57

pick what to show him and it's very

27:59

much he picks based on his interests right

28:01

like he sees sonic on TV and I'm

28:03

like oh well sonics a game and then

28:05

we play a bunch of different sonic games

28:07

and then that leads to Mario games at

28:10

least doggy con because he he picks based

28:12

on characters and exactly it's IP and stuff

28:14

like that right when you're kind of walking

28:16

down the you know the old the old

28:18

guy looking at a look at a book

28:20

being like yeah I'm gonna you know buy

28:23

this game or buy this book so it's

28:25

interesting you know we've had a couple different

28:27

super chats and regular chats come in one

28:29

of them came from jacuba I believe over

28:31

on twitch who said peer pressure is how

28:33

you get them into playing other stuff Which

28:36

on one hand is true, but on the

28:38

other hand, I think is completely false. Because

28:40

I always go back to when Jack Post's

28:42

son, 10-year-old, was here last summer, right? And

28:44

we were playing hell dot. We were playing

28:46

Fortnite with him, and we kept trying to

28:49

get him to play hell divers. And they

28:51

finally started playing hell divers, and they finally

28:53

started playing hell divers, and they finally started

28:55

playing hell divers, and they started playing hell

28:57

divers, and they finally started playing hell divers,

28:59

and lovedavers, and they finally started playing hell

29:02

divers, and they started playing, and they started

29:04

playing hell divers, and they started playing, and

29:06

they started playing hell divers, and they started

29:08

playing, and they started playing hell divers, and

29:10

they started playing, and they started playing hell

29:13

divers, and they started playing, and they started

29:15

playing, and they started playing, playing, and they

29:17

started playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing hell

29:19

divers, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing, playing,

29:21

playing, playing, in front of thousands of people

29:23

playing this game and had a great time

29:26

and it's funny and it's this and it's

29:28

that but I can't convince you I guess

29:30

to buy it to play it to break

29:32

away from fortnight and it's the same thing

29:34

for jumps double O4 in the live chat

29:36

on YouTube said a story that I'll butcher

29:39

I'll butcher I'm sure that I'll I'll chat

29:41

on YouTube said a story that I'll butcher

29:43

I'm sure that I can't try so I

29:45

can get him to play a real fellow

29:47

to In a super chat in anime there

29:49

are gateway anime like deathnote cowboy bebop and

29:52

attack on Titan. What are the gateway games?

29:54

I mean I mean I think there's different

29:56

definition of gateway though because it comes into

29:58

genres at that point and also like who's

30:00

your audience in terms of age yeah I

30:02

think Mario is a great one. I do

30:05

think again Ben loves all Mario games and

30:07

we've gone through all of them and he

30:09

wants to go back to 64 some days

30:11

and some days he wants to play wonder

30:13

like and knows what that is and likes

30:16

that. And honestly like another thing that I

30:18

know was popular for my friends and I

30:20

growing up was like IP games that's another

30:22

way to like a gateway for. Matthew Aldo

30:24

says Super Smash Brothers Ultimate got my kids

30:26

interested in so many games like Mega man

30:29

Pacman Cuphead and the Nintendo. license games and

30:31

stuff right like i like star wars so

30:33

then it's easy for me to get into

30:35

like starbusters is the whole reason i like

30:37

video games right because i saw that and

30:39

i was like i want to play that

30:42

but then that's also tough when fortnight literally

30:44

has every fucking franchise and yeah yeah what

30:46

i peer out there like even for kids

30:48

at this you know they're not watching i

30:50

carly or whatever you know what i mean

30:52

like what are the things growing up that

30:55

that do they do they have their This

30:57

is going to sound insanely ignorant and I

30:59

apologize, but like, do they have their version

31:01

of what Spongebob is or are they just

31:03

opening Tik-Tok and or... I think they do.

31:05

I mean, playing Roblots and stuff. Yeah, I

31:08

guess so, yeah. The young kids paw patrol,

31:10

like, you know, I mean, like, there's all

31:12

this stuff happening. But yeah, we have lost

31:14

that. You come home from school and what's

31:16

on, it's ghost rider, it's ghost rider, it's

31:19

fucking car, it's... Would look at a superhero

31:21

game and go, oh shit, you know, I

31:23

love watching the Spider-Man cartoons or the movies

31:25

or whatever. Let me buy that Spider-Man game.

31:27

Well, I was going to say Eldon Ring,

31:29

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31:32

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be playing, Zoe or Mio. Released on

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positive reviews and massive sales. According to

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Hayes Light, the game sold more than

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2 million copies in the first week

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following its launch, and that number continues

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to rise at a rapid clip. Andy

35:26

Cortez? Thoughts. I mean, she's also gonna

35:28

be in the Gundam movie, which is

35:31

huge. I'm at a weird place with,

35:33

even the split fiction used being a

35:35

thing. I really thought you're gonna be

35:37

a city Sweeney. Real racist family now,

35:39

but like It kind of reminds me

35:41

how I felt when you go. Oh,

35:43

they're making a they're making a twisted

35:45

metal TV show like there's Are am

35:47

I? in that weird universe where twisted

35:49

metals like the number one IP like

35:52

I understand split fiction great video game.

35:54

Yeah and that's who she's got to

35:56

be right she's got to be the

35:58

redhead the fantasy one the I mean

36:00

is she's doing English accent is that

36:02

I can't do an English accent is

36:04

that Zoe I forget if that was

36:06

Zoe is that Zoe is that Zoe?

36:08

No I think the other way around

36:11

that was Mio? No maybe you're right

36:13

I think Mio is the dark is

36:15

the dark haired well maybe we don't

36:17

If I'm right, Mio was the one

36:19

time. She said, oh man, I've had,

36:21

it's so rough out here because of

36:23

my personal life and I don't find

36:25

joy in anything until I find my

36:27

friend and we go through this. I

36:29

don't know, I appreciate it. No one's

36:32

been able to correct. No one. No

36:34

one. No one is corrected or so

36:36

finally? Mio A. She says Mio is

36:38

the dark soul. Not dark souls. I'm

36:40

happy that more and more adaptations are

36:42

you know, we're we're sort of we've

36:44

eclipsed the comic book And we're going

36:46

into video game movie and more and

36:48

more of these IP are going to

36:50

get green lit and That's cool because

36:53

that puts more of a focus and

36:55

that will hopefully lead to more sales

36:57

and things like that But I do

36:59

think it's it's kind of odd that

37:01

a game that came out this year

37:03

is already kind of getting this level

37:05

of attention for a movie. Yeah, maybe

37:07

it's just because of Maybe it's the

37:09

source material. Maybe it's like you know,

37:12

it's more easily adaptable because of the

37:14

different situations they're going through because it's,

37:16

you know, two characters that get pushed

37:18

into a video game and that's kind

37:20

of every video game movie. Yeah, yeah,

37:22

yeah. That's exactly what... this is you

37:24

know and I think this is the

37:26

premise of genre blending and stuff I

37:28

think that's kind of an easy pitch

37:30

to Hollywood for them to be like

37:33

ooh we can get sci-fi and fantasy

37:35

fans together in the theater you could

37:37

put your tron in here and we

37:39

could put your tron in here and

37:41

we could put you know warcraft or

37:43

what I don't know I think all

37:45

that I think you're 100 percent right

37:47

I think again like they see that

37:49

success those two million units in the

37:51

first week let alone of course the

37:54

success of haze you see that they've

37:56

got the juice and like again remember

37:58

what we're talking about here and how

38:00

movies work there they've announced this with

38:02

Sydney Sweeney attached and John Shoe attached

38:04

right so and then now we're going

38:06

to studio so like you're still quite

38:08

a ways from the next step of

38:10

this getting made I remember when they

38:13

optioned an antler movie back in the

38:15

day when I was at Mizzo like

38:17

somebody wrote a script about this thing

38:19

and it was gonna have one of

38:21

the first bachelors in it like I

38:23

was in charge the time so I

38:25

had to give a interviews and stuff,

38:27

that movie never happened. You know what

38:29

I mean? It's just things getting snatched

38:31

up and what's going on. I think

38:34

again to your point, what you and

38:36

Barrett are talking about, like, it makes

38:38

sense why. You can show this trailer

38:40

to someone and they go, I get

38:42

what this movie would be. Right. And,

38:44

you know, it's also important to note

38:46

that it's April 2025. You gotta assume

38:48

this movie. come out in 2027 or

38:50

2028 and we'll have like five different

38:52

directors and producers and writers that have

38:55

been laid off or left the project

38:57

or whatever. Maybe Sydney Sweeney leaves in

38:59

two years, who knows? Because that just

39:01

kind of seems to be the story

39:03

with a lot of these things. You

39:05

bringing up the handler thing always reminds

39:07

me of way back in the day

39:09

reading that, uh... freaking Mark Wobberg's production

39:11

company buying the rights of the co-heating

39:14

Cambria story for a movie rights Yeah,

39:16

and I was like holy shit. They're

39:18

making it and then like it never

39:20

happened of course Yeah, they're just buying

39:22

rights with it In the chat you

39:24

had mentioned you've never finished split fiction

39:26

Alex Frazier does super chat and say

39:28

what are those unaccounted four hours Andy?

39:30

I really cursed him for bringing up

39:32

this unaccounted hours thing. Yeah. Because now

39:35

it's just become Mike's staple. Sure. And

39:37

it's just a lot of creative. I

39:39

don't know. Yeah, yeah. It's like that

39:41

time that he definitely heard a phrase,

39:43

a folly of errors and then repeated

39:45

it. Yeah, like he, you know, that's

39:47

not something he ever learned in school.

39:49

Yeah. So you have no answer for

39:51

words. I mean, the unaccounted four hours

39:53

are just, I saw you for 12

39:56

hours today. Give me time. Give me

39:58

space, you know what I mean? Where's

40:00

Mike text back to Andy? Last night,

40:02

you know, last night after Mayor, I'm

40:04

like, all right, that was my last

40:06

one in marathon. No, no, no, it's

40:08

not. You both, you fucking, you hit

40:10

the button. Like, no, I have games

40:12

daily, I need to stop sleeping. Joe,

40:15

Ferra. Joe so far as? No, no,

40:17

no, Ferrelli. I think I got it.

40:19

It's not Ferrelli, but Ferrelli, maybe it

40:21

is Ferrelli. Anyways, Joe, says, Sydney Sweeney

40:23

doing split fiction, outrun with Michael Bay,

40:25

and the live-action Gun to movie, Sydney,

40:27

come on the podcast. Yeah. Anybody knows

40:29

Sydney Sweeney and wants to put in

40:31

a good word for us, go for

40:33

it. I don't know if she went

40:36

to Glenn Powell's wedding his she went

40:38

as his date to his sister's wedding

40:40

and every flipped out when was this

40:42

it was like right after they broke

40:44

the news of her was it once

40:46

you show that photo with the with

40:48

the no ring on her hand or

40:50

whatever no ring on her hand or

40:52

whatever no I don't think so but

40:54

maybe I haven't seen that you got

40:57

to come here for all your news

40:59

everybody like we should be well you

41:01

know she's so tied in the Sydney

41:03

Sweeney Sweeney report you know you know

41:05

you know what I'm down? We need

41:07

to be posted on City Sweeney News

41:09

as well. City Sweeney, Sweeney, Glen Powell,

41:11

Sister's Wedding. Are you making sure this

41:13

wasn't in your multiverse? No, I'm just

41:16

going to read to you the real

41:18

thing, you know what I mean? Okay.

41:20

Well, this is it. I haven't heard

41:22

this. This is breaking news to me.

41:24

Oh shit. And from when? This is

41:26

from April 2nd. But Paul says this

41:28

is why Sydney Sweeney was actually at

41:30

a sister's wedding. I don't believe it.

41:32

He'll try to cover up Glenn. He

41:34

insisted. There's a simple explanation for why

41:37

she was there and no, it wasn't

41:39

as his date. Leslie and Sydney, the

41:41

sister, are obviously great friends and it

41:43

was a hell of a wedding. The

41:45

pals know how to do it right,

41:47

he said. Okay. We'll get to the

41:49

bottom of that. You know what I

41:51

mean? Okay. We'll get Glenn Powell on

41:53

here. Cross examination. We'll get some real

41:56

answers on this one. Moving on, number

41:58

three on the Roper report, skate won't

42:00

be playable offline. This is Victoria Kennedy

42:02

at Euro gamer. Skate developer Full Circle

42:04

has stated its upcoming reboot won't have

42:06

an offline mode. This is because, quote,

42:08

the game and city known as San

42:10

Vanster Dam. are designed to be a

42:12

living breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox and

42:14

both are always online and always evolving.

42:17

According to a recent column by the

42:19

developer skate players will notice changes to

42:21

sand vaster dam itself as time goes

42:23

on as well as quote smaller things

42:25

like live events and other live events

42:27

and other in-game activities and so the

42:29

studio can deliver on its vision skate

42:31

will always require a live connection. Full

42:33

circle says this may not be a

42:35

surprise to anyone who has been partaking.

42:38

After all the original games were offline.

42:40

Then again, the skate revival will be

42:42

a free to play title on its

42:44

release, so perhaps some were already expecting

42:46

an online connection as standard. In addition

42:48

to chatting about the lack of an

42:50

offline mode, the skate team also addressed

42:52

the playtest microtransactions. As reported in March,

42:54

microtransactions were added during the games closed

42:57

alpha test. Quote, we know that using

42:59

real money during a play test is

43:01

a little unusual, but we think it's

43:03

the best way to properly assess and

43:05

adjust the system before launch, full circle

43:07

said today. If you see prices or

43:09

other things changing over time, please understand

43:11

that this is normal. And of course

43:13

you will receive the amount you spend

43:15

during playtest in San Van Bucks, SVB,

43:18

when we- I like that less. When

43:20

we reset for early access launch, end

43:22

quote. As to when we will be

43:24

able to get our hands on skate,

43:26

Full Circle remains committed to its 2025

43:28

early access release window, although it hasn't

43:30

shared a more specific date yet. The

43:32

last portion of this article felt like

43:34

parody. It's not like something we it's

43:36

an article they'd be reading in GTA-6

43:39

on the internet. Yeah, the sand van

43:41

bucks and everything. I'm not surprised by

43:43

this. I think that it will disappoint

43:45

some and I think that it will

43:47

be a big deal and there will

43:49

be an outcry for maybe four days

43:51

that people will forget and then people

43:53

will. End up just moving on and

43:55

then buying skate whenever it comes out

43:58

now these play tests. Oh, and Jay

44:00

Show says this game is going to

44:02

be D-O-A I want super chats on

44:04

youtube.com/kind of funny games. Do you think

44:06

this game is going to be D-O-A?

44:08

Are you excited for skate? Do you

44:10

care about any of the stuff we

44:12

just talked about? Sorry, back to you.

44:14

I mean, you're I don't disagree with

44:16

that when it just with you mentioning,

44:19

you know, you know, it's a everybody's

44:21

fighting, you know, you know, you know,

44:23

you know, you know, you know, you

44:25

know, it's fighting, you know, you know,

44:27

you know, you know, you know, you

44:29

know, you know, you know, you know,

44:31

you know, you know, you know, you

44:33

know, you know, you know, you know,

44:35

you know, you know, you know, you

44:37

know, you know, you know, you know,

44:40

you know, you know, you know, you

44:42

But yeah, I I don't when are

44:44

these plate tests? Who's are they embargoed?

44:46

I got to assume But it's that

44:48

place I said February. I yeah, people

44:50

are spending money It just feels like

44:52

I've there's been a lot of missed

44:54

emails like why has nobody here? Participating

44:56

in the play test. I have a

44:59

skate guy. I'm texting them right now.

45:01

Hello, sir. I'm writing this on KFDD

45:03

Are we not in our... I should

45:05

put fucking all caps. Why the fuck

45:07

are we? I thought he was going

45:09

to sound himself to say, oh I

45:11

shouldn't put fuck in this email. Skate.

45:13

Alpha. Is it Alpha, right? Alpha, yeah.

45:15

Or play test or whatever. Alpha play

45:17

test. Thank you. Please respond on it.

45:20

there. This is this this is live.

45:22

I think I think what mainly sucks

45:24

about a lot of you know the

45:26

DOA talk with a lot of different

45:28

games that are trying to exist and

45:30

trying to have a living breathing economy

45:32

for a lack of a better word

45:34

is it's never an indictment on the

45:36

quality of the game. It's just always

45:38

where people are at and and I

45:41

hope that developers no one understand that.

45:43

You know. Amazing games get canceled and

45:45

have their servers shut down. And it's

45:47

never because the game was a bad

45:49

quality. It's because people would rather be

45:51

in their spaces where they already were

45:53

and where their ecosystems are and where

45:55

their money and where their money and

45:57

their accounts are. And there are counter

46:00

types. So let me bring in a

46:02

question or a statement here from the

46:04

chat, which is Fox the future, who

46:06

says there's no way this will be

46:08

DOA. People still play skate 3 online

46:10

to this day. I think as we

46:12

found time and time and time again,

46:14

there's always a way something could be

46:16

DOA. as you're saying, how much there

46:18

is to play, how much is going

46:21

on, all the different things that are

46:23

happening in our world. I also am

46:25

in the belief that, where we get

46:27

into trouble with, will this be DOA,

46:29

will it not, blah, blah, blah, blah,

46:31

is EA. What is EA expecting out

46:33

of this? What does EA need out

46:35

of this? What does even the developer

46:37

full circle need for this to be

46:40

a success? I look at that, and

46:42

that excitesitesites skate. I've missed skate. When

46:44

I hosted the E.A. thing, the E.A.E.3

46:46

play, E.A. play before Xavier Woods killed

46:48

it. Oh, what a shame. I was

46:50

always making jokes about skate because I

46:52

wanted skate to come back and I

46:54

got to announce skate was back and

46:56

I was so excited. So like, it

46:58

coming back and being this always online

47:01

and this thing and this thing and

47:03

the other, it isn't a downer to

47:05

me because maybe I'm going to pop

47:07

in for... 15, 20, 30, what at

47:09

minutes, maybe bigger, bigger sessions, but it

47:11

is, what are the dailies today? Go

47:13

do this thing, earn a cool shirt,

47:15

whatever. Even the microhand. I'm the kind

47:17

of guy who is like, I will

47:19

not buy the overwhelming majority of them,

47:22

but when there is a cool shirt

47:24

that makes my character look more like

47:26

me, when there is a ghostbusters tie

47:28

and whatever, you know, I'd be like,

47:30

yeah, sure, that's like fun. Yeah, sure,

47:32

that's like fun. That's fun. Let's not

47:34

fun. Let's not get her hopes up.

47:36

Let's not get her hopes up. Let's

47:38

up. Let's not get her hopes up.

47:41

Let's up. Let's up. Let's up. You

47:43

know, putting in a gajilian out, hey

47:45

Mike you're here, what's up? Hey Homie,

47:47

what's the difference than just playing the

47:49

game normally if it was a normal

47:51

game? Yeah, I'm gonna do two or

47:53

three missions today and call the day.

47:55

You know, it's like, just a different

47:57

way of thinking when you bring that

47:59

up, it's like, well, why not just

48:02

play, if it was a normal $60

48:04

title, it dropped. Oh, I'm just gonna

48:06

play three missions today and call the

48:08

day. Well, I imagine, I imagine, I

48:10

imagine there's, I imagine there's gonna, I

48:12

imagine there's gonna, there's gonna, there's gonna,

48:14

I imagine there's gonna, there's gonna, there's

48:16

gonna, there's gonna, there's gonna, there's gonna,

48:18

there's gonna, there's gonna, there's gonna, there's

48:20

gonna, there's gonna, there's gonna, there's gonna,

48:23

I imagine, there's gonna, there's gonna, there's

48:25

gonna, there's gonna, there's gonna I think

48:27

a lot of people have drawn the

48:29

line on now this is a live

48:31

service product when it should just be

48:33

skate for like $70 out the bag

48:35

give me the full experience because I

48:37

think my worry goes to now with

48:39

this live service thing is we're gonna

48:42

play early access and all of a

48:44

sudden I'm gonna jump in the sand

48:46

fancier dam and it's gonna have four

48:48

dudes with missions and then eventually those

48:50

missions will run out and it's like

48:52

well now I'm jumping into an open

48:54

world to skate which is what I

48:56

want to do but it's like I

48:58

would rather just have a full world

49:00

that is already created and I play

49:03

at my time not on your time

49:05

so you're coming in with a very

49:07

worthy time not on your time so

49:09

you're coming in with a very worthy

49:11

argument and I appreciate it and I

49:13

appreciate it Counter to that would be

49:15

two examples of I think that do

49:17

it well so far and that don't

49:19

do it well number one being monster

49:21

hunter where you know how much I

49:24

love monster hunter how much I've played

49:26

monster hunter vanilla and here's this blossom

49:28

festival with new shit to go earn

49:30

and no stuff to you and they're

49:32

gonna put they've already put in more

49:34

monsters and they're putting in more monsters

49:36

I'm going to put Monster Hunter down

49:38

like I was saying right after our

49:40

stream today until there's the next big

49:43

update I want to come back to

49:45

because that's exciting for me right? I

49:47

like being able to come back to

49:49

a world I'm invested in. My counter

49:51

so like that's right there of like

49:53

why I wouldn't want it just to

49:55

be hey here's the package skating it's

49:57

done I'd rather have a reason to

49:59

come skate over and over again. My

50:01

other example of doing it wrong I

50:04

think is animal crossing. Amacrossing was the

50:06

biggest fucking thing in the world. Had

50:08

a tiger by a tail. We all

50:10

love that. I love that so much.

50:12

We, majority of us all loved it

50:14

so much, right? Played the fucking shit

50:16

out of it. Was it checking in

50:18

every day? And then it was like,

50:20

oh, this is, that's it. There's nothing

50:22

happening anymore. This isn't alive. This isn't

50:25

changing. This isn't, there's never been beyond

50:27

the first Halloween event where I was

50:29

like, yeah, oh wait, I have to,

50:31

I don't get the shit, I don't

50:33

get the shit until Halloween, until Halloween,

50:35

like, like this sucks, like this sucks,

50:37

like, this sucks, and I've never, this

50:39

sucks, and I've never, and I've never,

50:41

and I've never, and I've never, I've

50:44

never, I've never, I've never, I've never,

50:46

I've never, I've never, like, like, like,

50:48

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

50:50

like Like I'd rather it be that

50:52

hey there is a full game there

50:54

is a skate game and experience they're

50:56

putting out after early access which I

50:58

still don't I don't want to judge

51:00

them on right and then there is

51:02

all this other stuff to go earn

51:05

and events and this and that I

51:07

think it comes down to do you

51:09

want a smaller amount of people paying

51:11

$70 and having that hardcore audience be

51:13

like I care about this this game

51:15

is back it's it's sort of like

51:17

the the Madden kind of thing where

51:19

it's like football fans and Madden fans

51:21

want to get the Madden game every

51:24

year right? Yeah. Can you sell a

51:26

smaller amount of people on a $70

51:28

product and is that worth it for

51:30

your studio to then fund the next

51:32

thing or whatever? Or the live service

51:34

game that's free and we hope a

51:36

lot of y'all people are spending money

51:38

on it in order to fund whatever

51:40

this is. Yeah. Because if you're not

51:42

funding it and if you're not keeping

51:45

alive it, it will die. And that

51:47

looks like a failure. The life service

51:49

stuff, our service are going down a

51:51

year and a half after, it's easier

51:53

to frame that as a failure and

51:55

like, man, what a fuck, they took

51:57

a big L there. Then we put

51:59

out a campaign, we sold however many

52:01

copies for 70 bucks, we still made

52:03

money. Sure, we're doing like online things

52:06

or whatever, but it's, I always go.

52:08

back to the Outriders thing. Them framing

52:10

it as, this is not a life

52:12

service. You play, you beat the game,

52:14

you play with your friends, and when

52:16

you're done with the game, you're done

52:18

with the game. And because of that,

52:20

you can't frame this as an L.

52:22

If you will stop. because the game

52:25

is done you know yeah like another

52:27

wrinkle of just like the always online

52:29

and all the stuff of like I

52:31

think for a skate game especially with

52:33

the the first three you know my

52:35

memories aren't like playing really online skate

52:37

three it's having friends over and we're

52:39

playing offline and doing all the fun

52:41

modes and stuff is like you know,

52:43

Greg, you're talking about like going back

52:46

and stuff for your dailies. Like I

52:48

would like the idea of being able

52:50

to just go back to that game

52:52

five years down the road, like people

52:54

still are with skate three to this

52:56

day, right? And then also with the

52:58

dead on arrival thing, I don't think

53:00

it'll be dead on arrival because I

53:02

think what that game is offering is

53:04

a bit more unique than a lot

53:07

of other like live service games that

53:09

are usually more like shooter focus. I

53:11

think it'll be. something similar that was

53:13

also released under E.A. was knockout city.

53:15

I don't think knockout city was free

53:17

to play to start, but that was

53:19

definitely one that lived for a bit

53:21

because of its uniqueness being a dodge

53:23

ball game. Yeah, I think it was

53:26

like 20 or 40, I forget. Yeah,

53:28

it was something like that. I think

53:30

they might have pivoted to free to

53:32

play and they're like last, kind of

53:34

last legs. And then they withered away.

53:36

And I could see that easily being

53:38

the story of skate. We will wait

53:40

with bated breath to find out Joey

53:42

says skate threes community is still big

53:44

on tic-toc and then Superchat from Jake

53:47

Jake Jake if there will be other

53:49

players annoying me in the world with

53:51

weird skins like I see here I

53:53

am so out on skate. I do

53:55

not think skate's gonna be for you.

53:57

And what happens when these games completely

53:59

fail Andy? Layoffs! The first one comes

54:01

from Chris Kerr at game developer reporting

54:03

a hundred plus at meta's reality labs

54:05

have been laid off meta has reported

54:08

laid off over 100 employees across its

54:10

reality labs division. The embattled business unit

54:12

houses meta's wearable hardware and software business

54:14

formerly known as Oculus and lost over

54:16

17.7 billion dollars during the last fiscal

54:18

year. Bloomberg is reporting that over 100

54:20

workers have been laid off across the

54:22

division that number comes from a source

54:24

familiar with the situation. Those impact include

54:27

staff working on a meta quest fitness

54:29

application called Supernatural, which I used a

54:31

lot during pandemic and really enjoyed. We

54:33

used it for about four days. You

54:35

did? Yeah. Put it aside next to

54:37

my we fit or whatever the fucking

54:39

switch fit adventure. Right next to the

54:41

chili. Quote, we're deeply saddened to share

54:43

that these changes have resulted in a

54:45

loss of some of our incredibly talented

54:48

team. Meta neglected to comment on the

54:50

exact scope of the layoffs but confirmed

54:52

downsizing is taking place quote Some some

54:54

teams within Oculus studios are undergoing shifts

54:56

in structure and roles and have impacted

54:58

team size said a spokesperson These changes

55:00

are meant to help studios work more

55:02

efficiently on future mixed reality experiences for

55:04

our growing audience while still delivering great

55:06

content for people today in quote The

55:09

representative added that meta remains quote committed

55:11

to investing in mixed reality experiences including

55:13

fitness and games end quote How

55:16

long you think they're committed to that?

55:18

Oh, God. They keep making them out

55:20

of quests. Yeah, hats off to them.

55:22

They keep doing it. They keep financing

55:24

games like Batman Arkham Shadow that we

55:26

loved. They're doing it. I mean, at

55:28

one point, the money pit will run

55:30

dry. The well will run dry and

55:32

you just kind of... Yeah, I don't

55:35

know how long this shit lasts. I

55:37

think that there's still the market out

55:39

there, but they have to severely change

55:41

and... rethink what the strategies are, because

55:43

it's clear that this technology will never

55:45

be a ubiquitous thing. I don't think

55:47

these headsets or anything, until they get

55:49

to the point of your ray bands

55:51

with the... you know, the camera, like

55:54

until they become way less cumbersome, this

55:56

will never become a cell phone. This

55:58

will never become something that is always

56:00

on you until it's something that isn't

56:02

gonna hurt your head or leave marks

56:04

on your face or, you know, get

56:06

your head sweaty or get you motion

56:08

sick or whatever, because I still deal

56:10

with like motion sickness stuff as well.

56:12

I think they just have to, it

56:15

seems like they're doing obviously with these

56:17

layoffs. There is a reshift in what

56:19

are we doing and who are even

56:21

going after anymore. Yeah. I still think,

56:23

I think VR is such a closed

56:25

off experience that I think it just

56:27

dampens the excitement of it. Again, like

56:29

when I finally get time to go

56:31

play downstairs, I don't feel like putting,

56:33

or when I went playing on the

56:36

couch next to Jen, I don't want

56:38

to strap a headset on. I don't

56:40

want to strap a headset on. I

56:42

don't want to move everything. Like when

56:44

I was doing supernatural, you know, we

56:46

live in SF apartments, right? I had

56:48

to get up and move the kitchen.

56:50

So yeah, VR is an interesting case,

56:52

but we're talking about laughs. We'll get

56:54

back to that more about it. For

56:57

now, the next one comes from Samuel

56:59

Roberts at Games Industries. The big con

57:01

developer drops an unconfirmed number of employees.

57:03

The big con developer, Mighty Yell, has

57:05

laid off an unconfirmed number of employees.

57:07

That is, as it approaches the release

57:09

of its next title, all systems dance.

57:11

As shared on the Toronto-based company's Blue

57:13

Sky Account, the statement pointed to financial

57:15

challenges being the reason behind the studio

57:18

laying off a few of its developers.

57:20

This is not a decision we came

57:22

too easily and we know the impact

57:24

it will have on our team and

57:26

community. We want to be as transparent

57:28

as possible regarding the layoffs and the

57:30

difficult state of funding in games. We

57:32

are still on track for the release

57:34

of all systems dance and we will

57:36

share news about the launch very soon.

57:39

But right now, what's important is supporting

57:41

our team through this tough time. While

57:43

we wish layoffs could be avoided, we

57:45

are hopeful that we will get through

57:47

this difficult chapter and bring as many

57:49

members of the Dev team as possible

57:51

in the near future. Quote,

57:53

end quote. Mighty Yell has put out

57:56

two games so far. The big con

57:58

in 2021 and adventure games set in

58:00

the 90s won't. Night in the Attic

58:02

is a 2023 first person VR game

58:04

about interacting with an intricate labyrinth board

58:07

game. All systems dance, meanwhile, is a

58:09

rhythm action adventure game set in a

58:11

dystopian world. I would like to think,

58:13

I know more than the average person

58:16

about the goings on in the industry.

58:18

I have not heard of any of

58:20

what you just read. Oh yeah, the

58:22

big con was one I liked at

58:24

a preview session. I like that a

58:27

preview session. Oh, I mean, years ago,

58:29

this is 2021 game, so 2020 probably,

58:31

or something. But it was like, it

58:33

kind of looked like a Nickelodeon cartoon,

58:36

and it was set in a mall

58:38

in the 90s. It had a good

58:40

vibe. Okay. But again, it didn't make

58:42

waves, and I don't know if I

58:44

even played it enough to care about

58:47

it, or not care about it, but

58:49

to have an opinion on it. Right.

58:51

So yeah. There are a small team,

58:53

so hard squat time in terms of

58:56

that, and obviously, everybody who got laid

58:58

it, who got laid off, who got

59:00

laid off, who got laid off, who

59:02

got laid off, who got laid off,

59:04

who got laid off, who got laid

59:07

off, who got laid off, Number five,

59:09

and maybe better news, IGM publisher ZIF

59:11

Davis is suing Open AI. This is

59:13

Benjamin Mowen at the New York Times.

59:16

So get him ZIF, is if a

59:18

person? No. ZIF Davis, the digital publisher

59:20

behind tech sites like Mashable, PC MAG

59:22

and Life Hacker, and IGEN, even though

59:24

New York Times doesn't want to give

59:27

credit to that, sued open AI on

59:29

Thursday joining a wave of media companies

59:31

accusing the artificial intelligence giant of stealing

59:33

its content. Zif Davis is one of

59:36

the largest publishers in the United States

59:38

and I'm sorry with more than 45

59:40

sites globally that together attract an average

59:42

of 22, geez I can't read today,

59:44

292 million visitors per month and is

59:47

among the biggest media companies pressing a

59:49

claim against open AI. You know, I'm

59:51

going to read for you? No, I

59:53

got it. I just for some reason

59:56

stalled out there. I don't know what.

59:58

They put a little, you know. declaration

1:00:00

here of the course the New York

1:00:02

Times is also or has suited as

1:00:04

well so you know take it with

1:00:07

a grain of salt if you want

1:00:09

it is 62 we're also pissed in

1:00:11

a 62 page complaint filed in federal

1:00:13

court in Delaware where open AI is

1:00:16

incorporated Zif Davis says the tech company

1:00:18

has quote intentionally and relentlessly reproduced exact

1:00:20

and created derivatives of ZIF Davis Works,

1:00:22

infringing on the publishers' copyrights and diluting

1:00:24

its trademarks. It claims that open AI

1:00:27

use ZIF Davis content to train its

1:00:29

artificial intelligence models and generate responses through

1:00:31

the popular chat-GPT chatbot. Quote, Open AI

1:00:33

has taken each of these steps knowing

1:00:36

that they violate Zif Davis intellectual property

1:00:38

rights and the law, the complaint says.

1:00:40

The company is seeking at least hundreds

1:00:42

of millions of dollars in its lawsuit,

1:00:44

according to two people familiar with the

1:00:47

matter. A spokesperson for Open AI in

1:00:49

a statement said the models were grounded

1:00:51

in fair use referring to the legal

1:00:53

standard for use of copyright material. Many

1:00:56

executives in publishing industry, which are profoundly

1:00:58

disrupted by the widespread adoption of technologies

1:01:00

such as search and social media, have

1:01:02

regarded the growing popularity of artificial intelligence

1:01:04

with increasing unease. Powerful AI systems built

1:01:07

by companies like Open AI have been

1:01:09

trained on copyright content drawing an outcry

1:01:11

from many media companies. Those companies have

1:01:13

generally responded in one of two ways.

1:01:16

Striking deals to license their content to

1:01:18

companies like Open AI for millions of

1:01:20

dollars, as is the case with news

1:01:22

court, the publisher of the Wall Street.

1:01:24

journal or filing lawsuits to seek damages

1:01:27

and reaffirm their rights to intellectual property.

1:01:29

Executives at Zif Davis have been considering

1:01:31

for months which path to take one

1:01:33

of the people said. The company decided

1:01:36

to sue in part in hopes that

1:01:38

other publishers would follow. Damn putting in

1:01:40

Wall Street Journal blasts like that. Yeah

1:01:42

right. Being like these cowards give some

1:01:44

their souls or whatever. Yeah it's crazy.

1:01:47

You know. Go get them. Zif Davis.

1:01:49

Yeah, I mean this is great. This

1:01:51

is hopefully when you have such a

1:01:53

large entity like that, kind of joining

1:01:56

the fray with a lot of other

1:01:58

people, you know, small things like this

1:02:00

could start a change to battle back

1:02:02

a little bit. You know, I'm still

1:02:04

super, you know, pessimistic about the whole

1:02:07

situation. Sure. But man, I really hope

1:02:09

that some of this stuff can be

1:02:11

fought back, you know. Anytime I see

1:02:13

one of these stupid fucking You know,

1:02:16

at agencies would pay millions of dollars

1:02:18

and I made this on fucking whatever

1:02:20

platform you're using to create a generated

1:02:22

AI commercial in 10 seconds. I did

1:02:24

this in 5 seconds. It's like, or

1:02:27

you know, film, film studios and directors

1:02:29

are fucked. Graphic designers are fucked. It's

1:02:31

like, okay, but I look at this

1:02:33

and I'm impressed that a computer could

1:02:36

do this. But I watch shit to

1:02:38

be impressed by people's creativity. Yeah. I

1:02:40

watch you consume media to be like,

1:02:42

God damn, a person made this, holy

1:02:44

shit. How did, like, I'm not watching

1:02:47

to be entertained by a computer making

1:02:49

whatever. It's always like the human element

1:02:51

is why I consume art and media

1:02:53

and fuck, man. It's just, it, God

1:02:56

damn. You just, sometimes you just see

1:02:58

media or hit your whole planet. Seeing

1:03:00

those ads of like, oh, these people

1:03:02

are fucked. It's like, it's like cool.

1:03:04

It's like, it's like, Haunting to see

1:03:07

how many people out there don't understand

1:03:09

the point of art You know and

1:03:11

our time they do it'll be too

1:03:13

late and are normalizing it. I legitimately

1:03:16

had Such a fucking depressing weekend the

1:03:18

weekend that I think it was Twitter

1:03:20

AI or I don't know who was

1:03:22

doing it that when all of the

1:03:24

the Ghibli films started popping up or

1:03:27

the Ghibli AI images that whole weekend

1:03:29

was like Some of the saddest I

1:03:31

felt in a long ass time, not

1:03:33

only because of what it's doing, but

1:03:36

the amount of people normalizing it and

1:03:38

then thinking like, man, you're stealing the

1:03:40

art style and using a computer to

1:03:42

do what the White House making fun

1:03:44

of the immigrants, whatever the hell's going

1:03:47

on. And you're stealing the style of

1:03:49

a person whose like sole existence was

1:03:51

to be an environmentalist. and to be

1:03:53

creative and the things that you're doing

1:03:56

are killing the planet faster. because of

1:03:58

how much energy it requires. It's just

1:04:00

like, it's such a movie plot. It

1:04:02

feels like just the most evil thing

1:04:04

possible. You can't write this shit, you

1:04:07

know? If it was, you'd be like,

1:04:09

oh, this is so hackneyed, you know

1:04:11

what I mean? Yeah, I'm honest. We're

1:04:13

using images and it costs extra energy

1:04:16

to do that bullshit, but it's like,

1:04:18

the amount of energy and water from

1:04:20

local lakes to power coolers to power

1:04:22

computers to then. you know be able

1:04:25

to render these images it's just like

1:04:27

it's doing so it's taking away so

1:04:29

much and you know don't you know

1:04:31

don't let anybody ever scoldy for using

1:04:33

a straw that's not what's fucking killing

1:04:36

the planet it's this sort of stuff

1:04:38

and it's just God I just think

1:04:40

of I think of not this buried

1:04:42

but baref found fantasy 7 every time

1:04:45

the the the planet's crying out cloud

1:04:47

listen to it you know yeah that

1:04:49

game was fucking 30 years old at

1:04:51

this point sad it's crazy God

1:04:54

I kneeled it right there the first

1:04:57

day Ben's got it. You know what

1:04:59

Ben's got I bought it But it's

1:05:01

like he's got the I am Superman

1:05:04

book that I like a lot And

1:05:06

like one that you know we're doing

1:05:08

the one Superman's narrating his whole story

1:05:10

like you know page two was just

1:05:13

like you know My father was a

1:05:15

scientist and he warned the the government

1:05:17

of planet Krypton that they were destroying

1:05:19

it, but they wouldn't listen but Frankly,

1:05:22

I'm sick of this big news that

1:05:24

is the collapse of Western civilization and

1:05:26

the death of the planet Andy. If

1:05:28

I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest

1:05:31

news I need to know about, where

1:05:33

would I go? You'd go to our

1:05:35

last story, the Wii News Channel, where

1:05:37

we cover all the small news items

1:05:40

you need to know about. Number six

1:05:42

the Wii News. Capcom announced today that

1:05:44

the worldwide sales of a Resident Evil

1:05:46

4 surpassed 10 million units in the

1:05:49

approximate two years since the 2023 release,

1:05:51

making it the fastest selling title in

1:05:53

the series to hit the milestone. Via

1:05:55

Noble, Claire Obscure, Expedition 33, has already

1:05:58

sold 500,000 copies. Yeah! Gody!

1:06:00

Make sure you check out our review

1:06:03

on the kind of funny games cast

1:06:05

of it. That's a game of the

1:06:07

year! Andy I thought more about it

1:06:09

since our review. And I'm a little,

1:06:11

now, because I said very confidently, Blue

1:06:13

Prince is still my game of the

1:06:15

year. But now I'm a bit back

1:06:17

and forth. Come on man, what a

1:06:20

what a piece of art. Joshua Bowen

1:06:22

writes in with a super chance. This

1:06:24

happy birthday, Greg. I'm about to start

1:06:26

Claire Obscira. I know the combat has

1:06:28

paper Mario elements. Would you guys recommend

1:06:30

controller or mouse and keyboard for a

1:06:32

place? controller. controller. controller. And hey, polygon,

1:06:35

shame on you, polygon. Video video game

1:06:37

outlet, polygon. Big fan of you guys.

1:06:39

I got a fucking bonapid. Get him.

1:06:41

How dare you tell them to forget

1:06:43

about parering. Yes, you can dodge a

1:06:45

whole bunch. You got a parry. But

1:06:47

I was working on paring. Paring is

1:06:49

way too hard. The window is not

1:06:52

as small as you think it is.

1:06:54

It's like, you know, I think Eldon

1:06:56

Ring trained people, Greg, to hold a

1:06:58

last second. No, to do it way

1:07:00

too early because an Eldon Ring, when

1:07:02

you're doing like a shield bashed parry,

1:07:04

you want to hit the button and

1:07:07

then you want. their attack to hit

1:07:09

your shield while it's up here so

1:07:11

you gotta do it way earlier okay

1:07:13

in clear obscure you lean later in

1:07:15

towards the attack so it's like you

1:07:17

when it's like coming down no eat

1:07:19

right when that fucking hits that's why

1:07:21

it's like so securoe feeling in that

1:07:24

sense yeah and I was doing it

1:07:26

too early I'm not way later I

1:07:28

I had a lot to learn but

1:07:30

I was in the groove of it

1:07:32

when I was playing the groove of

1:07:34

it when I switched off to oblivion

1:07:36

any time I've missed the paries that

1:07:39

It looks like the attack hit and

1:07:41

then the parry happens like fucking milliseconds

1:07:43

after and it's like ooh that was

1:07:45

probably too late but it still works

1:07:47

so lean towards later into it because

1:07:49

those paries and those counterattacks and then

1:07:51

getting health back from the counterattack oh

1:07:53

it's just the it's the best feeling.

1:07:56

Bobby Danning says just paying my birthday

1:07:58

tax about to smash pizza and then

1:08:00

hop into oblivion or expedition. I'm leaning

1:08:02

more towards oblivion. You can't go wrong

1:08:04

in the both on game paths and

1:08:06

you can get back to whatever. I'm

1:08:08

gonna smash a pizza too after this.

1:08:11

Once an old game though. But it's

1:08:13

new. As we know from Open Critic.

1:08:15

And of course our fantasy drive. Somebody

1:08:17

will answer for that. Alex Frazier says

1:08:19

shout out to expedition 33 though, game is

1:08:21

unreal. Danger Daddy D

1:08:24

Superchats and says picked up expedition 33

1:08:26

yesterday after listening to the review loving

1:08:28

it so far already cares so much

1:08:30

about these characters after only a few

1:08:33

hours Remines me of playing OG Final

1:08:35

Fantasy 7 for the first time And

1:08:37

I think that's everybody who wanted to

1:08:39

come out of the woodwork to talk

1:08:41

about how much they love expedition 33

1:08:43

throughout the show before they even knew

1:08:45

we talked about it right here Wild

1:08:47

story is out now on steam Dragon

1:08:49

Ball sparking zero adds eight new dragon

1:08:51

ball Dima Dima. No, hold on, it's

1:08:53

sigh, so die, mah, dima, yeah. Playable

1:08:55

characters. Yeah. In New Deal, see, and

1:08:57

a little today. I forget what it

1:08:59

was. I almost interrupted your stream yesterday

1:09:01

though, because something happened and it popped

1:09:03

up and I was like, it's like,

1:09:06

it's like, ah, it clicked. Even think

1:09:08

of the way you say artificial intelligence,

1:09:10

AI, AI, AI. Like, it's like. The

1:09:12

AI, like sides, you know? Sure, that

1:09:14

one's gonna throw me off, I don't

1:09:16

know if that. Also, there was a

1:09:19

Playism direct today, Playism, of course, a

1:09:21

video game publisher. They sent a million

1:09:23

emails to me. It was a good

1:09:25

show, apparently, Shu Hayushita was on it.

1:09:27

There was a bunch of different stuff,

1:09:29

like, they're talking about Mind Divers coming

1:09:32

to steam in 2025. Valcharia Fantasim is

1:09:34

coming to switch in PSPS in PS5

1:09:36

in PS5 in 2025, 2025, but a game, but

1:09:38

a game, but a game, but, that I was

1:09:40

originally like, you didn't even hear about this? And

1:09:42

then it was like coming to switch and PS5

1:09:44

May 1st. It looked goofy as hell. This is

1:09:46

what Playism does. Go look for the Playism direct.

1:09:48

They have a ton of games like Nitro Express.

1:09:51

Coming to steam on May 19. This is a

1:09:53

cute art style. Playism's got something going on over

1:09:55

there, everybody. And they put out a whole bunch

1:09:57

of news about a whole bunch of games today.

1:09:59

There's your butter. cat and you got the

1:10:01

butter. I want to see more 3D

1:10:03

style games even though this is like

1:10:05

2.5d but I want to see more

1:10:08

games using that really sort of hard

1:10:10

style anti-aliist or alias look rather in

1:10:12

this case because uh I think back

1:10:14

to playing a short hike yeah and

1:10:16

just like I love the jaggies I

1:10:19

love that old retro look 100% and

1:10:21

that's your wee news to close out

1:10:23

your week. As many of you have

1:10:25

been super chatting, let's get a whole

1:10:27

bunch in here. Charlie Nugget says happy

1:10:29

birthday, Greg, and Good Morning Andy.

1:10:32

In music news today, we got

1:10:34

a new sleep token single, day

1:10:36

seeker single, and ghost album. Have

1:10:38

a happy weekend. This is real big.

1:10:40

I need to... I hear so much

1:10:42

about sleep token and everybody being in

1:10:44

love with them. What kind of music are

1:10:47

there? I don't even know, but I know

1:10:49

that I always see Echo Chloe posting

1:10:51

about them. and other people in my circles

1:10:53

super into sleep token it's like man I

1:10:55

got I don't know what they are but

1:10:57

the look and everything that they're posting visually

1:10:59

I'm like I feel like that's something I'd

1:11:01

vibe with maybe okay but I also like

1:11:03

whenever it's time to you know listen to music

1:11:06

my listening to music for me is

1:11:08

like playing expedition for you where it's like

1:11:10

I could just play monster hunter that's me

1:11:12

with like I put on my podcast you

1:11:14

know sure sure sure sure sure sure I

1:11:16

need to catch up CJ splits on super

1:11:18

chats for and says $2 tax for doubting

1:11:20

Greg about PSV R2 viability. I

1:11:23

accept your apology and your tax.

1:11:25

Thank you. Remember, I'm rarely wrong.

1:11:28

And because of that, you'll, I

1:11:30

can give you my alarm. Thank you. I

1:11:32

appreciate that. Yeah, for men. He's

1:11:34

gonna lose it. Like I'm gonna have to

1:11:36

set it up. You need the KBC. Would

1:11:38

have assumed they'd still put a micro

1:11:40

in there. Like the switches USB. And

1:11:43

your Super Chat says Andy I finally

1:11:45

played hyperlight drifter and loved it. I

1:11:47

beat death's door last year. What should

1:11:49

I play next? It's got to be

1:11:51

expedition 33 after everything we said. I

1:11:53

mean that's a phenomenal game. But if

1:11:55

you're looking for something in that vein

1:11:57

that sort of that isometric type vibe. Tunic.

1:11:59

real good I would even say a game that

1:12:02

I gave up on this at the

1:12:04

end of last year because of just

1:12:06

other shit kind of came through crypt

1:12:08

custodian was an awesome one that I'm

1:12:10

I'm so bumped out that I didn't

1:12:12

give more time to and I'm so

1:12:14

I feel angry at myself that I

1:12:16

started it way too late in the

1:12:18

year yeah because I'd loved the vibes

1:12:20

in the combat and just the I think

1:12:22

the game loop was such a cool

1:12:24

idea and yeah that's one that I

1:12:26

would recommend for a top down. From

1:12:29

that same developer I really loved Islets

1:12:31

from a few years back which is

1:12:33

a Metroidvania. Where the Metroidvania map are broken

1:12:35

up into pieces and the whole

1:12:37

kind of loop of the game

1:12:39

is you bring it slowly bringing

1:12:42

the map together so the metroidvania

1:12:44

going back to certain places is

1:12:46

you just connecting certain parts of

1:12:48

the map finally together. It's such

1:12:50

a smartly designed game. That's so

1:12:52

fascinating because Crypt custodian the way it

1:12:54

operates it's a top-down obviously

1:12:57

isometric Zelda-like is what I would call

1:12:59

it yeah and there are certain elements

1:13:01

of it that are rogue light inspired but

1:13:03

it's not a rogue light and it's still

1:13:05

a story but you'll walk up to a

1:13:08

little shrine or totem or whatever and you

1:13:10

walk up to it and it'll be like

1:13:12

hey you'll get the sick-ass power right now

1:13:14

but you have to kill five people

1:13:16

without getting hit And so they implement

1:13:19

those things in their campaign story

1:13:21

game and that are kind of like

1:13:23

rogue light inspired of like, all right,

1:13:25

big risk, big reward right here. And

1:13:27

it'll be a sick ass power, but if

1:13:30

you die, you're dead and you never get

1:13:32

this power. So I love how they kind

1:13:34

of mix genres, but this game is so

1:13:36

cool, man. Indeed. Two super chats to

1:13:38

close you out. Yeah, a lot of

1:13:40

people super chatting. Wish me happy birthday.

1:13:43

Thank you so much. But two touching

1:13:45

ones here. Austin earned super chats and

1:13:47

says catching y'all live for once. My

1:13:50

daughter was born on the 14th and

1:13:52

after some complications. Mom and baby Beverly

1:13:54

are finally home and healthy. So congratulations

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there. Some symbols for you. And then

1:13:59

blue hair. protagonist says, hey guys, first,

1:14:01

we'll ask a friend this week, just tell

1:14:03

everyone you love them. And second, Andy can't

1:14:05

retire from Game of Showdown, I will write

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and start protests. Thank you. Oh shit. Well,

1:14:10

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1:14:12

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1:14:15

second part as well. Because you have to

1:14:17

retire, because I'm going to get your star, if

1:14:19

I can make that happen. That's what you

1:14:21

said. Yeah, I did say that. Oh yeah.

1:14:23

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1:14:26

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1:14:30

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1:14:32

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1:14:34

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1:14:43

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1:14:46

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1:14:48

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1:14:50

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1:14:52

10 years now. Please, even if you don't like it,

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1:14:59

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1:15:01

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1:15:03

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