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Episode 219: Fantasy Critic check in! · WASD and Beyond

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  None. The.
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  It's fun. Well, it's it's effectively the
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  video gaming season I. Don't get it?
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  Yeah. Bull Core 316 says.
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  Bull Core knows. Nothing.
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  Shut up, bull Core. Yeah, yeah.
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  We're alive, by the way, there. You go, let's let's give it a
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  second. To let the stream actually go
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  up, there we go and get some people in here.
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  Oh, I got a yeah. Under Raid the ARC.
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  Look at the general chat there. I don't think that's right.
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  I don't think that's right. Notification.
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  That's not right. Go Can we go on the crusade?
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  No, what? What?
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  Do. You mean we do one more?
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  Crusade. One time to rate the final
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  crusade. One last crusade.
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  Who used this shit less? We got the boys here.
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  We want a crusade. Come on.
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  Everybody gets one. That's what Spider Man said.
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  Well, it would have been me that it would have been me that used
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  it last, but Nick didn't change it.
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  Who was reigning the arc? He was probably playing Indiana
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  Jones. I was Raiders.
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  Yes, Raiders. Oh my.
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  God I. Was testing him.
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  Yeah, that's. Two times.
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  So that's two times today. That's two times today.
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  He's used that excuse on me. He did that his.
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  Logic is falling. I don't know what you mean.
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  He's looking at a user and it says reset password and he goes
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  where's the reset password option?
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  I'm like where it says reset password, he goes, oh, I was
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  testing you. I'm like, no you weren't, dude.
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  I've had a headache for the past two days.
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  I've just been like whiffing it at work.
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  I sit here going, I need to like quit this job because I'm just
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  not doing good, right? Now, yeah, buddy.
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  It's like like. Three months into it, it's it's
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  his pain. Is 3 months scary?
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  Welcome to him. His pain not.
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  You. It's genuinely me.
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  His pain is bouncing around from his head to his knee because his
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  knee was hurting really bad on Monday and then Tuesday it's
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  it's my head hurts and today is my head.
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  It's not like. Famously, only one thing can
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  hurt at any given time, brother. Oh yeah, You can't have
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  multiple. You can't have multiple bodily
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  pains. That's not.
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  Possible I think give you a multiple ski for it.
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  Yeah, let. Me let me it is a pain
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  allocation like it's the power budget of a of a spaceship.
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  Let me. Let me just.
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  Put it in one. Line.
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  You can't have it in the other. Let me hear it, Steve.
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  You just got to wake up and do a line before you go into work.
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  There's dudes in the bathroom at our job doing lines.
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  Oh do. You think so?
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  Do you think? So I was, I was, I was, I was
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  under. The bad ass.
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  Nicki, go in the bathroom. You, you guys, I was doing the
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  old cocaine. Bad ass guys.
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  I was, I was in there, I was in there the other day and I heard
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  him. I just heard like 3 big sniffs
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  and then I hear him go, yeah honey, the contractors will be
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  by soon. I'm like.
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  Are you in the phone with your wife?
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  I maybe maybe there's he's smelling his scratch and sniff
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  sticker pack. I I would not trust any of the
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  modern day shit. That shit's not OK.
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  That shit's not OK. Listen, I walked in the other
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  day. I isn't a good shit.
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  I walked in the other day and this dude was all I.
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  All I hear is a big snort and then A and I went damn dude,
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  alrighty this. Dude was.
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  Yeah, snorting and ripping shits dude, I.
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  Was like, what are you doing that?
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  Guy's. Eight, 8:43 AM And I'm hearing
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  this. I'm like, what the dude, get
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  your life together. In one, out the other, you know.
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  Oh my. God dude, I was like what the
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  fuck is happening here? All right, anyways.
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  What are we doing, Nick? What are we?
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  Doing, we're doing, we're doing. Welcome back to our mid year
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  hold up. My Ring camera just went off
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  like a motherfucker. All right, we are back.
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  That's not a mid year we. Probably back.
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  With our Mid Year Fantasy Critic update this is WASD and beyond.
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  We are doing a community campfire with this Bond Camp
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  community. We are sponsored by Final Boss,
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  Doc Longy and Screen Box. All of our sponsors will be down
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  below now, along with the Discord link that brought you to
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  update because I've been telling people to join the Discord, but
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  I've been giving them an expired Discord link and that's good
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  business. I'm crushing it.
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  I'm doing great. I can be trusted with social
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  media allocation. It's Cartman's.
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  It's Cartman's you can't come policy.
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  Yep, sure. Yeah, Incredible.
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  Doing great. I'm crushing it.
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  We're all crushing it. Also while we are here please
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  check out Brody's show Roll for Deception and please check out
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  Me Noah and Alex's brand new show as well called It Came from
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  Screambox. Both shows are part of the Spawn
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  Cam network presented WASD and beyond.
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  Roll for Deception and It Came from and now to the mid year
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  fucking roundup or fantasy critic voice.
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  For the record box, yeah, for the record, we should say that
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  it came from screen boxes within the WASD feed, whereas role for
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  deception is in a different feed.
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  But Wolf? All down below.
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  Yeah, it'll be there. I didn't want, I didn't want to
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  make a new feed. It was.
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  Really. You find it, you'll fire.
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  It it's right in Smart Cookies, it's right in the episode.
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  Yeah, you can. Can't miss it.
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  Can't miss it? You'll find it.
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  Guys. You'll find you'll find it.
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  You'll find it. It's a mega sized ape.
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  I believe you'll find it. This this week's episode is Mega
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  Ape. It was Noah's pick and then it's
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  truly, truly wild. So.
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  Let's you say it's bananas. Oh, it went bananas.
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  Fuck up. Shut.
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  The fuck up. Get them out of here.
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  All right, I'll leave. So let's see.
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  Last we left, we were all in the same spot.
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  Didn't matter, and now things have shifted, quite shittily so.
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  Shitty, that's. What you're talking?
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  For some, that's who you're talking about, yeah.
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  So I'm catching up in the ranks right now.
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  We have rolling bowler Noah, so Boulder Initiative is in first
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  place with. 2nd Interactive. Interactive.
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  Boulder Initiative. Interactive.
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  Interactive. Oh boy.
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  I my head hurt. It's a good show.
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  Please. Interactive reading is hard 70.
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  Five, I was going to wait on this.
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  I was going to wait on this. What?
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  But I have a thing. Hold on.
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  I'm going to turn my headphones this way.
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  You. Got the crown, you got the.
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  Return of the King, baby. The yes, I did.
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  I spent company time and I made this.
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  This is the spawn. Camp.
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  Hold on, you can see Spawn camp says the secret and it's got all
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  our names on it. We.
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  Can see that's amazing it's. Got the.
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  It's got it's got the spawn camp logo.
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  Buddy, no, it only goes to 1. You don't.
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  You don't have. That's awesome.
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  We got we got the Burger King crowns.
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  It's lit. Funny.
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  Oh my God. That's awesome.
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  That's right, I have to send one to Eric.
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  Yeah, I made, I made six, but I can do a couple more.
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  It's so funny. So good.
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  Incredible. Thank you.
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  Well, I guess the king of the scoreboard and the leaderboard
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  has made us all the crowns. Because we are his peasants.
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  Because Noah's at 73.51 point. Hey talk later this.
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  Year talk for your talk about your own self like that.
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  I'm gonna give him a run for his money.
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  I think I would just like to get close.
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  We also need to state how many games they have had released.
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  Correct, we are gonna. Get because that is important.
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  I just wanted to try to get through the leaderboard.
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  Want to try to get through this. First of all, go down.
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  I interrupted with my very funny audio friendly joke.
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  You got crowns, ladies, and. Gentlemen, this.
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  Is, yeah. So yeah, just when you go
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  through it, it says six games released as well or something
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  like that to that effect, because that does change 6.
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  Expectations Older Interactive first place 73.51 points with
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  six games released, six games expecting and now he has a
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  budget of 37 duelers. We have Steve MD, Steve Electric
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  Boogaloo Soft at 49.38 points, 2nd place.
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  He has four games released, 6 expecting and $70.00 left.
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  We have Cricket JQ, Connor Cricket Digital at 37.62 points.
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  He's got three games released expecting, 8 to be released with
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  $68 left. Corn Fed Games is Brody in
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  fourth place. Three games released.
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  He has 32.51 points. Three games released so far.
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  Expecting $683 left. Guys, you got the host with the
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  post right here. Sloppy Bukaki with the sloppy
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  baby at 2024.94. Fifth place.
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  That's the highest place I've ever been on a score.
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  So 5th place. Three games released, 8
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  expecting 90 bucks. I got $90.00 left you fools.
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  You have no spots. You have no he has one slot.
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  I I he has he has one slot and a counter pick.
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  Wait until you see. Wait until you see.
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  That's because you get to drop one because he he bid on like 8
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  games at a time with four spots. Oh dude, I pissed the whole
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  thing off. It was.
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  A can't do that guy. We we have we have full
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  Interactive, which is Evan with 23.12 points.
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  Two games released expecting $455.00 left.
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  What you doing there bud Evan? He's updating is what he's
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  doing. Jitter.
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  I I just actually did all the drops today for all the I have
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  three. I would like to point out I have
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  three games on my list that I actually need to be dropped out
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  of all the ones I 4. Sorry.
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  But he's fixing up his list. Yeah, well, they're all dropped
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  now. They'll be gone like.
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  So the games that are expected to release from my list though?
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  I will, I will, we we when we go down the list we will get there.
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  So we have bowl cut gaming on which is lien at 16.67 points.
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  He has three games released expecting for a budget of
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  $99.00. We have sweaty Mcswamp ass Alex
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  at Swamp Ass Software. I love it, dude.
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  I love it. 11.78 points, three games released, expecting 8.
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  Alex is going to be like a sleeper cell agent.
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  I feel this is going to get pretty scary.
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  He's hoping. Yeah, I did.
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  We'll go through the list. We'll go through the list.
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  No. What?
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  Move. Move past it.
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  No what? And then we have Trick Shot
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  Studios Trick. It's up for grabs.
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  The guy dipped. I'm calling you out.
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  What? Do you mean the guy?
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  Well, he's who are you, man? What am I saying?
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  He got bored. He got bored.
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  This isn't his thing. John doesn't want to do it.
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  You've been bullying John all day.
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  I'm not to tell him. Yeah.
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  Motherfucker bullies me all the time.
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  This does not please the King. So oh.
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  I lost yes. As of this time, our highest
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  ranked games, we have Claire obscure Expedition 33 that went
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  to Steve and then in second is split fiction with 91.
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  So that's 21 points. Monster Hunter Wilds, which is
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  in limbo because that was John's.
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  I'm I'm just scrolling. Through scrolling through and
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  looking at. Yeah.
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  And Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which is 89 points or 89 and
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  it's some 19 points there too. And I would tie that with Death
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  Stranding as well. That also has an 89.
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  Right now it is matched with. KCD Dark Ages is 86 which I
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  have, you know. Who had?
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  Death Stranding. Blueprints also tied at 19
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  points as well. OK, Yeah.
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  That's probably going to be a + 40.
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  Well, we'll see what happens. That's yes.
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  You keep thinking things over there.
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  Up next, we have some upcoming releases everybody should be
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  expecting to get further lists. Brody has Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
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  + 4. It currently has a score of 85.
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  That's going to be a. So 15 points there.
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  That's not bad. That's a good boost.
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  I mean, it it, Yeah. And it technically hasn't come
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  in or come out yet. It comes out on the 11th.
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  So there was a bunch of early reviews for this one,
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  surprisingly. Yeah, and it's a Tony Hawk game,
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  man. As long as they don't fucking.
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  I played it last night. It's pretty good, yeah.
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  Fucking Tony Hawk for me. I have Donkey Kong Bonanza.
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  Yeah, that's going to be a big hitter.
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  Yeah, it's going to hit. I got it's just, it's, it's a
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  scary game to have. Sorry boys.
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  It's made by the Mario Odyssey team too, so.
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  Yeah, that's going to hit. That's easy, like 8889.
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  Sloppy hockey is sloppy baby. Interactive prison.
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  But we also have Shadow Labyrinth, which I think is
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  going to be a pretty sleepy like it's going to be AI.
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  Don't think people are going to expect how well Shadow
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  Labyrinths go. My opinion, I expect at least
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  85. That's how I felt about
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  blueprints. I didn't even know anything
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  about it. And Noah made out like a bandit
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  on that one. Oh yeah.
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  Blueprints is. It had like a there was another
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  game in the series I think that I looked at it had like insane
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  numbers and I was like, I bet that sequel will do well.
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  Yeah, Speaking of Noah, Noah, So Wuchang feathers, are you
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  keeping it or are you dropping them?
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  I'm I'm going to keep it. I did some looking into it.
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  It looks like it's doing well. It is a it's a souls like a lot
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  of people, I made my mistake thinking it that it was like a
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  Wukong DLC because the Internet is full of dyslexic people.
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  And I'm finding people who are like saying like, it's probably
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  not going to do Wukong numbers, but it'll probably outsell a
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  game like Stellar Blade, to be fair, or lasting the Wukong's
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  Wukong's success mainly comes from China.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's that.
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  But also in mine, I I currently have a situation.
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  I have a game, but the Five Nights at Freddy's Secret of the
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  Mimic has been released, but there's no score yet.
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  But it just hasn't. Been for reviews.
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  It just has a time out a. Week and a half ago.
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  Two weeks ago. Yeah, that's a long time.
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  Yeah, I didn't think I was going to keep it, but I did that
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  little bit of research and now I think I'm going to hang on to
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  it. All right, all right, so we're
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  gonna go through only the first page of the upcoming games.
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  By the way, so we also have killing 4/3 for Alex, which Alex
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  let me know yesterday that Evan and him talked and that is going
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  into a open beta, open alpha. Open.
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  It's open right now. I think the.
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  Play test is open right now, maybe head on over to steam and
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  click request access I think. I think that game is going to do
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  pretty well for Alex if it comes out in a good state.
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  It should. It should Killing Floor so it
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  should come out in a good state. Other fucking one for Noah.
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  God damn dude. Tales of the Shire, a Lord of
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  the. I'd say it's like AI don't want
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  to say survival. It's a cozy life game where you
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  kind of it's, it's kind of like a layer frontier or something,
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  something of the Stardew Valley type where you're a little
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  Hobbit hanging out on the Shire and building your yeah, exactly.
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  Building your little, your little, your little home there.
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  And I think that's going to it's, it's one of those games
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  like early reviews and stuff where like it gets there's
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  nothing to do after a certain amount of time.
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  But that doesn't really matter for reviews.
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  Reviews are going to do it on what you see like right now.
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  Yeah. Going back to your Five Nights
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  at Freddy's game, it currently has three reviews on Open Critic
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  and it released June 13th. It has an 84 from game 8A85 from
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  Noob Feed and a 2.5 out of five from Games Creed only reviews.
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  I don't know. Something's going on with that
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  game. It's getting buried.
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  It has very positive with like 6 1/2 thousand reviews on steam so
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  I. Don't.
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  Yeah, I mean. A lot of the Youtubers that
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  seven I watch have played through the game multiple times.
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  And what's the one of the big haters of the Five Nights at
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  Freddy's security breach? They actually said that this is
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  from the same maker of that one. They said that this one was
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  phenomenal so. Guess we'll see.
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  Just got to wait till till reviews it.
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  When you just start telling people to go put write some
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  reviews, Yeah, I'm going to tell them to review them.
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  Yeah, I need you to take this guy's bad.
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  No. I'm on now.
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  Might it be real with you? I'm just praying for your
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  downfall over here in second. Place you can try but but for
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  now this crown stays right here brother.
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  It's staying. Right at the top of that.
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  Head dude. Honestly, I'll be real with you,
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  your downfall's gonna be the fact that you counter picked
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  Borderlands 4. Oh, I'm cool.
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  Yeah, it might be. It's true.
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  Was to do well. I still feel pretty good about
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  look at that and just kind of space just went I.
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  Still feel pretty good about my counter pick and I like the
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  beast. I think you I can change that
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  right? Please.
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  No. A little bit of suck.
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  John took Ninja Gaiden Ragebound.
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  Unintentionally, he thought, he just drops that I'm getting
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  Ninja Gaiden for. Ragebound is still going to be
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  fucking cool though. If he drops on taking out.
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  Well, over here, that's a little bit of suck.
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  I'm not letting him drop all of his games, you know?
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  Piranhas. Dude, yeah, it's.
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  Just blood in the water. At that point, man.
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  Everyone's going to. Be yelling at each other, which
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  might be good. Birdie, don't be weird.
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  Be cool, be cool. I'm just going to or release
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  them and not tell anybody and I'll just have them on Saturday.
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  You're. Right there's gonna be this
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  there's gonna be an at everyone. It's gonna be like all these
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  games are back in rotation. It's gonna be every one of us
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  going like fuck off, Those are mine.
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  That's. The fucking site Let's.
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  See we now for Evan, he's got mafia, the old country coming
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  up, which at could do good. I hope so.
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  I'm very curious because it's different from the previous
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  three. It's linear, it's not open world
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  anymore. I'm curious how that plays and
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  watching some of the gameplay. They showed it, I think it was
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  at one of the Sony presentations or something like that.
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  It just looked kind of clunky, like the animations didn't flow
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  very well together. So I'm holding, I'm holding on
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  to it, but I'm hoping that they can, you know, this will be the
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  thing that I think if I can't pick up some good games, this
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  will bury me if it's bad because I got.
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  Never. Financially I got kind of
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  screwed with picking counter picking South at midnight.
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  I lost 7 points for that and then on top of having to lose
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  literally 4 fucking games. Counter picking is rough, like
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  it's hard to pick a games don't really score below 70, like if
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  they're even a halfway decent right?
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  So it's like you're going to lose points.
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  You're just trying to minimize the amount of points you're
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  going to lose. That's that's why every counter
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  pick I I went for was just something that I knew for a fact
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  would not be coming out this year.
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  I think. I think that we still don't even
• 21:47
  know how that works. If somebody is able to drop that
• 21:50
  game for free because it we didn't enable the rule where if
• 21:53
  it's counterpick, you like can't drop it anymore.
• 21:56
  So I don't know how that works. I look into it, I looked into
• 22:01
  it. If we do enable it next year, if
• 22:04
  a gameplay cannot come out, they're just stuck with it.
• 22:08
  A person is stuck with it, they cannot drop it.
• 22:10
  That'll. Be.
• 22:11
  Fun. That's what I plan to do next
• 22:12
  year, but we didn't do it this year.
• 22:14
  So I'm like, I don't know how it.
• 22:15
  Went out this year. I mean when we re roll for the
• 22:17
  next year of games and I get GTA6 again and then it gets
• 22:20
  delayed another year. Yeah.
• 22:22
  So if we had that rule this year, Evan would not be able to
• 22:26
  drop Marvel 1943. Rise of No, I think no, I think,
• 22:30
  I think I just realized something here.
• 22:32
  I think I have six games on my list that are not going to come
• 22:34
  out this year. Some of them just haven't been
• 22:36
  announced yet. But we have GTA6, which has been
• 22:39
  announced, Resident Evil 9 unannounced, Forza Horizon game,
• 22:44
  Marvel 1943. No, it's not anymore because
• 22:48
  they announced that the Xbox thing they said here are the
• 22:50
  games coming out in 2026 and Forza, Yeah.
• 22:53
  It won't show up on this list is not coming out unless it has
• 22:56
  been confirmed they are not. Coming out so so those so those
• 22:59
  four I just named are on the list that are marked for that.
• 23:02
  The two that I think that will not, maybe potentially 3 is
• 23:05
  marathon. Marathon has been confirmed, it
• 23:08
  just hasn't been updated. And Battlefield isn't coming out
• 23:11
  this year, right? Battlefield.
• 23:13
  I think it's going to enter early access.
• 23:15
  I think it will enter early. Access.
• 23:17
  If anything, that's going to be the thing.
• 23:18
  That kills you. I have another one here, Vampire
• 23:21
  the Masculine. Almost your.
• 23:24
  Entire list. Hey baby, I got dune awakening
• 23:28
  and Kingdom come, that's all I need.
• 23:31
  I have two games that I don't think are going to come out this
• 23:33
  year. The mainline 3D Mario game.
• 23:37
  I'm like very positive. We are not getting that at this
• 23:39
  point. I know what game of mine is
• 23:41
  coming out. And Judas coming out I I highly
• 23:44
  doubt Judas is coming out this year either.
• 23:46
  Half Life. If ever.
• 23:49
  Yeah, Half Life 3 is also not coming out, Judy.
• 23:51
  You don't know that. You don't know that in normal.
• 23:53
  Pretty certain will you know that until December.
• 23:55
  I talked to Gaiman on his yacht. Yeah.
• 23:58
  You think the? The thing that sucks though, is
• 24:01
  Judas isn't going to be confirmed as not coming out like
• 24:04
  until the very end of this year, if even then.
• 24:08
  And so I'm just going to be stuck with this anchor and I'm
• 24:10
  going to have to pick up something in the last like week
• 24:13
  of the year. Well, I haven't seen.
• 24:15
  I'll pop up. I haven't seen.
• 24:18
  Oh yeah, I'll, I'll will. Probably not.
• 24:20
  Come is all right, I guess. What about the Bloodborne
• 24:23
  remaster on my list? No, yeah.
• 24:25
  That's probably also not happening.
• 24:26
  What about the next mainline animal processing game?
• 24:29
  Also probably not. Happening Ocarina of Time
• 24:32
  remake. No, probably not.
• 24:35
  I mean, that's more likely than. So that's all I got left.
• 24:38
  I I appreciate that you went for like the Hail Marys on this.
• 24:42
  They could, they were only halfway through.
• 24:44
  One of them hit though. The Oblivion remake hit that.
• 24:47
  What? Yeah, that did hit.
• 24:48
  Yeah. You guys, none of your Hail
• 24:50
  Marys hit because you guys didn't take any.
• 24:53
  The Great. Bear, that was just every shot
• 24:55
  that you don't take, and you guys simply took none if you.
• 24:58
  Can't even save Hail to Mary though.
• 25:00
  My Hail Mary. 1st. Pick did hit.
• 25:04
  And I hate you for because I was going to take it second round.
• 25:07
  Oh. My God.
• 25:08
  So we have two more games. We have Connor with Dying Like
• 25:12
  the Beast. Which is my counter pick.
• 25:15
  My current I want to. Do super well.
• 25:18
  I don't think. So no clue honestly what it's
• 25:20
  about. I was just.
• 25:21
  It's like a third Dying Light game.
• 25:24
  Yeah, pretty much. Studio is treating it as if it's
• 25:27
  dying like 3, yeah. Yeah, but we also saw how Dying
• 25:31
  Light 2 turned out, so. It did all right.
• 25:34
  It did OK. Like I said, I'm minimizing my
• 25:38
  losses is all I'm trying to do here.
• 25:40
  And then we have the last one for Alex.
• 25:43
  Yes, we have what a big hitter, what a piece of shit you are,
• 25:47
  but we have Metal Gear Solid Delta Fake.
• 25:50
  Eater, I can't believe this like bypasses the the restrictions
• 25:55
  you know of like remake or whatever, but it hey, if it
• 25:59
  works, it works. It has a.
• 26:00
  Different name technically. Lucky Alex.
• 26:03
  What a big hitter that is. I mean, I guess I got Tony Hawk
• 26:06
  out, Tony Hawk 1. So yeah, the Tony Hawk remix can
• 26:10
  go through, which is that is the same game with a fresh coat of
• 26:12
  paint. It's very weird how it and what
• 26:16
  is like remake and remade and like it allows things to happen.
• 26:21
  He's like, dude, Ape's going to be so mad.
• 26:23
  She's going to be so mad, Ape is going to be.
• 26:27
  Passed. Have you played it yet, Brody?
• 26:30
  Yeah, I played it last night. I played a couple hours.
• 26:33
  It's very good. Got it.
• 26:34
  Made it like halfway through Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3.
• 26:38
  All right, Brody, do. You want to take over for from
• 26:43
  here for a minute while I get some water.
• 26:44
  But now we are on our actual list, what we've maybe picked up
• 26:47
  in the meantime, what we've dropped, what we've all got
• 26:50
  going on. I'm going to get some water.
• 26:54
  So First off, there was 1 little thing that he left out on this
• 26:58
  that I feel is important. Projected points for the year.
• 27:03
  So it it pretty much follows, it doesn't fully follow.
• 27:08
  So anyway, we have Boulder Interactive with 106.99
• 27:12
  projected points, which is first place.
• 27:16
  Second place would be Steve with 100.24 points projected. 3rd
• 27:22
  place is Me with 96.67 points projected. 4th place would be
• 27:28
  Connor with 93.06. What we got 5th is Sloppy Bukaki
• 27:36
  or Nick with 72.81 points. 6th place Alex with 65.85 points.
• 27:47
  John who is not playing anymore with 61.9 points, 8th place is
• 27:52
  Julian with 47 points projected and 9th place is Evan with 44.9
• 27:57
  points. What is funny?
• 28:00
  To be fair, Evan has to drop half of his list and.
• 28:04
  Get a whole. New list so.
• 28:07
  I really got to go get worse. Than I.
• 28:10
  So I'll start rolling through some of the lists that we
• 28:14
  currently have. So Evan has GTA6 which has been
• 28:18
  delayed do an Awakening which has come out and got an 81
• 28:22
  Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 which got an 89, Resident Evil Requiem
• 28:28
  which is not coming out this year.
• 28:30
  Mafia the Old Country which is coming out soon as we talked
• 28:34
  about unannounced next mainline Battlefield game which we also
• 28:38
  talked about Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2
• 28:42
  unannounced new Forza Horizon game Marathon and Marvel 1943
• 28:47
  Rise of Hydra and he counter picked South of midnight he has
• 28:53
  two spots open there and by two spots I mean like 6 actually
• 28:57
  because he's got to drop some games I'm.
• 29:00
  Going to come back, come back in the second round and go
• 29:03
  swinging, but. If he doesn't remove them on his
• 29:06
  own, would those games just stay on his list and do nothing?
• 29:09
  Yep, I already did that. I already did.
• 29:12
  I already did the drop request. So as long as those are allowed,
• 29:15
  they'll go through and drop. But yeah, thank you, Brody for
• 29:17
  not turning that rule on for the first.
• 29:18
  Time we did this because, man, that would.
• 29:20
  Fucking suck. I always preferred the rule in
• 29:23
  this that if you picked a game and you were wrong and it didn't
• 29:27
  come out for whatever reason, just that you would be
• 29:29
  penalized. My audience.
• 29:31
  Yeah, I mean you get you get free drops as long as they have
• 29:34
  been announced. As not dropping out driving
• 29:37
  hands. Right.
• 29:37
  Yeah. That's every game.
• 29:40
  Nobody does. Nobody just is.
• 29:41
  Like the release date comes and they just don't put it out and
• 29:44
  don't say anything. Right yeah, I want to say just
• 29:47
  as we move on and I'm done here it was there's nothing more
• 29:50
  painful than getting the notification on my phone every
• 29:52
  time from fantasy critical another one of your games is no
• 29:55
  longer I just I like the if I like the fourth time I just went
• 29:58
  dude, God damn it. I I even continue.
• 30:02
  So I on on my list Judas, I'm fairly positive they are not
• 30:05
  going to announce that it's not coming out.
• 30:07
  So I'm just stuck with that fucking anchor so.
• 30:10
  I also have an anchor that I need to rectify at some point.
• 30:14
  No, the dragon. Question one.
• 30:15
  Two AC 2D. Ring.
• 30:18
  That should be good. Yeah, so running through my
• 30:22
  list, Elden Ring Night Rain disappointed me with an 81 Like
• 30:27
  a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii also disappointed me with an 82
• 30:32
  A vow. Those are good scores.
• 30:34
  They're not bad. They're not bad.
• 30:35
  I I expected Yakuza to actually do better though.
• 30:38
  And. Usually is doing much better.
• 30:41
  Yeah, I had a vowed with an 80 Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D
• 30:48
  remake, which is yet to get a release date even at this point.
• 30:51
  I'm pretty sure my unannounced mainline 3D Mario platformer
• 30:55
  Judas Mina the Hollower, which is coming out this year.
• 31:00
  We just, I don't think we have a date yet, but they did announce
• 31:03
  it was coming this year, so I'm stoked on that.
• 31:06
  Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 and 4, which has an 85 currently, and
• 31:10
  Marvel Cosmic Invasion, I have three slots open and Dying Light
• 31:15
  the Beast is my first counter pick.
• 31:18
  I do have to get a second counter pick though.
• 31:20
  So. There's that.
• 31:22
  How many of these games have you played?
• 31:24
  I'm curious. I have played Night Rain of
• 31:29
  Vowed and Tony Hawk, so three out of the four that have come
• 31:32
  out there. You go.
• 31:33
  Good. I don't really play Yakuza games
• 31:35
  just because I don't want to start all the way from the
• 31:37
  beginning or there's a lot there and they're all like 80 hour
• 31:42
  games. I don't.
• 31:44
  They're crazy and they pump these things out like every
• 31:47
  year. Yeah, it's out of control.
• 31:49
  Are we having the people whose list?
• 31:53
  You told me to do it, so I was just reading.
• 31:55
  Through I don't give. A shit if anybody wants to read
• 31:58
  their list you are more than welcome to.
• 32:00
  I was just doing it so I didn't put you guys on the spot.
• 32:04
  I'm putting everyone on the spot.
• 32:06
  OK. Well, yeah, that sounds about
• 32:08
  right. Pieces of garbage.
• 32:09
  Steve, do you want to read your list or would you like for me to
• 32:11
  run through it? Well, if Nick's going to put me
• 32:14
  on the spot, then I'm fine being put.
• 32:15
  On the spot. Anybody who does not want to
• 32:19
  read their list, tag me in. I got.
• 32:21
  You all right? Well, since Nick is putting me
• 32:23
  on the spot. Oh my God.
• 32:25
  My first answer? I didn't get to read my fucking
• 32:27
  list. Fuck you, Nick.
• 32:28
  Fuck you, fuck you. Brody, if you were to read
• 32:32
  through everybody's list and then comes back, hey Brody, why
• 32:34
  isn't why are you reading? Why are you reading all the
• 32:37
  lists? What?
• 32:38
  Are you doing really good? At well, you're not letting
• 32:39
  people talk. I'm really good at having the
• 32:41
  car go straight for a minute and then it means I go, hey, what if
• 32:44
  we just went left? Just what if we hit that tree?
• 32:47
  That tree looks really nice. Look, everybody else I.
• 32:51
  Slammed on it. Wouldn't it be funny if I
• 32:53
  slammed on the brakes and jerk the car to the right as hard as
• 32:55
  I could? All right, so first round pick
• 33:00
  my Shining Dark Clare Obscuric Vision 33, netting me a total 24
• 33:04
  point. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful
• 33:06
  game. Beautiful game.
• 33:06
  It deserves it. It deserves more.
• 33:08
  Except for I'd be mad because you would have those points it.
• 33:11
  Would. Help.
• 33:12
  Yeah no, I wish it got more. It deserves more.
• 33:14
  It has such a special spot in my heart.
• 33:18
  Yes 2X KO, which might be my anchor.
• 33:20
  They have not talked about a release date even though I know
• 33:24
  it's. Close.
• 33:25
  It's not coming out. The thing is, it's close to
• 33:27
  being done. They have like almost all the
• 33:29
  characters for release, they just haven't said shit about it.
• 33:32
  It's. Going to enter early access at
• 33:34
  best. Honestly, my, I'm, I'm, I'm
• 33:38
  going to say it now they're going to talk, they're going to
• 33:41
  say something about it at EVO and then they're going to
• 33:43
  release the the date there and then I will be fine if they
• 33:48
  don't say shit by the end of if they don't say shit by the end
• 33:52
  of July, I might just have to drop it.
• 33:55
  That's fair and that's fine. Pokémon ZA.
• 33:59
  That. I'm it's going to do fine.
• 34:02
  It's going to do fine. Ninja guide him for this game
• 34:04
  looks sick as hell. I'm.
• 34:05
  Excited for it. Pony Island 2 Panda Circus, the
• 34:10
  first game trippy as hell. What a fever dream of a game.
• 34:13
  I hope the second one is just as fucking awesome and acid trippy
• 34:18
  as the first one. The first one is like $0.74.
• 34:24
  It's yeah, no, it's, it's OK. For anyone that doesn't know
• 34:27
  what Pony Island is, it is a game that starts off just being
• 34:32
  like an innocent game and then it just turns into a very meta
• 34:35
  game that just fucks with you the whole time.
• 34:38
  Just a Doki Doki literature club in a different package.
• 34:41
  Yeah. Oh wow.
• 34:42
  Yes. This is not what I expected.
• 34:46
  Exactly. Yeah, the game is wild.
• 34:52
  Weird pull, but I like it. Yeah Adam, Adam fall.
• 34:57
  I expect this game to do better and I think it just didn't cuz
• 35:00
  people expected they fall out and it just wasn't bad.
• 35:05
  I think that's my. Issue was I was watching game
• 35:07
  and I was like this is. I think I was the only one who
• 35:10
  actually yeah who played through it cuz it's on game pass and
• 35:13
  like, it's not inherently a bad title or anything like that, but
• 35:16
  I I think it just, it really is a generic type of open world and
• 35:22
  post apocalyptic story where you don't really know like it takes
• 35:24
  a lot after STALKER. It's like a British stalker
• 35:27
  almost, but less hardcore. So there's less inherent risk
• 35:32
  and it feels more of like a an easier Fallout.
• 35:35
  It is probably the better way to describe it.
• 35:37
  Some things were nice about it, like there was some pretty good
• 35:39
  animations and like attention to detail and stuff like that.
• 35:42
  But it just. Yeah, it's not.
• 35:43
  I think people just expect something else out of it and
• 35:47
  that's kind of why they. Dogged.
• 35:49
  On in reviews a little. It is from the Sniper Elite desk
• 35:52
  who have made the same game for the past 15 years.
• 35:55
  And then they were like, well, let's do an open world title and
• 35:57
  see what. Yeah, like I love those games.
• 36:00
  I'm not shitting on them for that.
• 36:01
  But like, yeah, I mean, I think you're right.
• 36:03
  It probably just didn't do well cuz.
• 36:06
  It's not a bad for showing from that studio though.
• 36:08
  From. Outside of their comfort zone.
• 36:11
  Right. Yeah, that was impressive.
• 36:13
  I'll give them props for that for trying something different.
• 36:15
  Well, I picked Wonder Stop to diversify My Portfolio.
• 36:18
  It's just like a cozy type game. He's talking like he's an actual
• 36:23
  publisher. He's like a.
• 36:24
  First of all. What are you doing?
• 36:26
  Well, Nick. Nick.
• 36:28
  One just shows me on the spot. I'm.
• 36:31
  I'm, I'm stepping into it, you know, I'm getting into it.
• 36:33
  Oh. My God.
• 36:35
  Midnight Walk. Fuck yeah.
• 36:39
  Got it. Just wanted to go on that walk,
• 36:41
  you know? Yeah, yeah.
• 36:45
  Fantastic game. And then Echoes of the End.
• 36:48
  I think this game's I'm going to do well, and I just think the
• 36:51
  hype just isn't there yet. Even though it comes out.
• 36:55
  Is it at the end of this month or next month?
• 36:57
  I can't really hang on. I know it's soon because
• 37:05
  everything I've seen about the game just looks good and
• 37:07
  polished. It comes out soon.
• 37:12
  That's all it says. Coming soon, OK.
• 37:14
  OK. It does.
• 37:15
  Look cool though. Yeah, like the game looks
• 37:18
  polished and I know it's supposed it's supposed to be
• 37:21
  like by the end of the summer. It has.
• 37:24
  Like a almost a similar look as Expedition 33 in a way.
• 37:28
  Yeah. A little bit more medieval,
• 37:32
  obviously, but yes, it's very cool looking.
• 37:36
  Yeah, I I think it's going to be solid and I got 2 empty slots
• 37:39
  that I just kind of haven't figured out.
• 37:41
  I'm just going to wait till September and maybe then pick
• 37:45
  something up. And that's my goal too.
• 37:47
  I'm like, I can't just completely go too early here.
• 37:52
  Yeah I'll, I'll wait on my last two slots cuz maybe the end of
• 37:56
  the year has some curveballs in there for the holiday season.
• 38:00
  OK. Yeah, very well, Mike.
• 38:01
  It might he was sitting at 49 points.
• 38:04
  Fucking not bad, Steve and. Then my counterpixar Okami
• 38:09
  sequel and that's a Gungeon too. Both of which are not coming
• 38:13
  out. So my counter picks are
• 38:15
  irrelevant to my total score. I wonder, I wonder if somebody
• 38:19
  drops it because it's not coming out this year if you have to
• 38:21
  pick a new counter pick, I wonder.
• 38:24
  I also look into the. Rules.
• 38:27
  It doesn't make you do new counter picks.
• 38:31
  Oh. Well hang on, I have to make a
• 38:33
  counter pick real quick. Scream.
• 38:39
  Why? I counter picked games that
• 38:41
  weren't coming out because I 0 is golden baby.
• 38:47
  Fair enough. Yeah I counter picked 1943 and
• 38:51
  my points is 0 for that. Connor's like.
• 39:01
  She's like hold on zeros. Oh my.
• 39:08
  All right, Julian, you doing your list?
• 39:12
  I. Don't wanna.
• 39:15
  All right. You.
• 39:16
  Want me? To run Jamie you.
• 39:18
  Want me to run through it? Let let Brody do it.
• 39:20
  You want Brody to do? It Brody wants you to do it, but
• 39:23
  make sure you had pizzazz. Oh, you want a little pizzazz?
• 39:27
  Doom the dog ages. Oh.
• 39:29
  My God, look what you've. Done see what you've done?
• 39:32
  Yeah, no, that got a 86. So 16 points for you.
• 39:35
  W. Unannounced mainline Half Life
• 39:39
  game. That's.
• 39:41
  Gonna come. Gonna come unannounced.
• 39:46
  The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
• 39:49
  Gonna come diamond hands. The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion
• 39:55
  remastered this guy in 81. You got 11 points from that one.
• 39:58
  It did it. Did that did come?
• 40:01
  Did anybody know anything about that coming out at the time we
• 40:05
  were doing this, or was that a complete shot in the dark?
• 40:08
  I heard. Rumor.
• 40:09
  We had rumors of it being a shot.
• 40:11
  Game, yeah, it was complete shot in the dark, guys.
• 40:13
  It was me just having just aura. I can't remember.
• 40:17
  Yeah, there was. There was smaller rumors back in
• 40:20
  February when we drafted all of this.
• 40:22
  But I mean, before it came out like almost everyone knew about
• 40:26
  it. It's been rumoured since last
• 40:28
  year, like in certain spots where it's just been, like it's
• 40:30
  been said once, you know, in the ether of like, yeah, they're
• 40:33
  working on it and like, I never got much out of it.
• 40:36
  I will say he he did pick this prior to it being like heavily,
• 40:40
  heavily rumoured of like this is coming next week and everybody's
• 40:44
  like no, the unannounced next mainline Animal Crossing game.
• 40:48
  That's going to come too. It's going to come.
• 40:52
  Just came out, guys. They need an Animal Crossing.
• 40:54
  That's 4. That would be good if they did
• 40:56
  that, but yeah. Yeah, see this is where you're
• 40:59
  wrong though. The main line Nintendo game is
• 41:02
  Nintendogs 3 so I thought it was.
• 41:05
  Gonna. Be there was a 2.
• 41:07
  Dog. Yeah, it's.
• 41:09
  So good it skips over the second.
• 41:13
  This new Nintendogs, it's an extraction shooter.
• 41:16
  OK, Yeah. It's also a rust like there you.
• 41:19
  Go it's a rust like souls like extraction shooter.
• 41:22
  Hyper realistic. It's it's probably like that.
• 41:25
  World. What was?
• 41:26
  Open world back on like PlayStation 2 where you were the
• 41:30
  teddy bears that killed each other.
• 41:32
  Oh, I know you're. I don't.
• 41:33
  I don't. I know you're.
• 41:34
  Talking, that's what Nintendogs is going to be this next
• 41:38
  iteration. It's like Gang Beasts, but it's
• 41:41
  just yeah, with dogs and cats. That would be simulator a really
• 41:45
  good they weren't thing for Nintendo to do with.
• 41:50
  Dogs and cats. It's just party animals.
• 41:52
  Party animals. The next unannounced game on
• 41:56
  Julian's list is Bloodborne. Remaster it.
• 41:59
  Will come. Shout out Ethan.
• 42:01
  And his last game was Lost Records Bloomin Rage which got a
• 42:06
  70 and that's a 00. Why is it no points?
• 42:12
  It was 7070 is minimum. It should also be noted by the
• 42:17
  rules of our league, Oblivion is also giving him 0 points.
• 42:27
  Oh wait, no never mind, never mind.
• 42:29
  No it it it did give him a weapon.
• 42:33
  Well. Here it would have let him drop
• 42:35
  it if it changed the I. But not being Yeah.
• 42:39
  Here's the thing though. I did the math wrong because of
• 42:41
  his counter pick. F Life's kind of I.
• 42:43
  Was like he counter picked Dune and had a negative 11 here.
• 42:47
  Yeah, yeah. He he does currently have 5
• 42:50
  slots open and a lot of games that are probably going to be
• 42:52
  able to get dropped here shortly.
• 42:55
  Still. There's he's in the same boat as
• 42:57
  Seven, kind of. There you go.
• 43:00
  Yeah, but mine haven't been delayed.
• 43:01
  But the funny, but The funny thing is, is that like the the
• 43:04
  half life thing is like you can drop that, but like if you don't
• 43:07
  like you're just you're stuck with that because that's not
• 43:09
  going to be announced. Not coming out.
• 43:11
  And I said at the beginning, Diamond hands, baby.
• 43:15
  He said I'm syncing with this boat anchor.
• 43:17
  I only know what a diamond pickaxe is bro.
• 43:19
  I don't know. Yeah, I have a nether right
• 43:21
  pickaxe there. You go, yeah, So we lost 11
• 43:24
  points on Dune Awakening, so there's that.
• 43:26
  Good. I'm gonna reocc those points,
• 43:28
  OK? Connor, we are down to your list
• 43:31
  now. All right, Connor.
• 43:33
  So I will say I don't know much about any of these.
• 43:40
  Well, you probably know about this second one here.
• 43:43
  Yes, I do. So the first one Ghost of Yottai
• 43:49
  I. Strong first round.
• 43:51
  It is. Yeah.
• 43:52
  Oh yeah. Yeah, hopefully that's good.
• 43:55
  Because the name reminded me of, you know, Ghost of Sushima.
• 44:02
  As it should, yeah. Is it?
• 44:05
  OK, Cool. That's right.
• 44:07
  You still. Didn't know that.
• 44:12
  I know that it's. Annoying, but still all.
• 44:16
  Right, it's been 6 months. Can I, can I get that game, Can
• 44:20
  I get that game on merit here that you didn't know?
• 44:24
  Give. Me that.
• 44:26
  A. Lot of I will say a lot of these
• 44:28
  games I pretty much just looked at the like art style of actual
• 44:36
  like possible gameplay trailers and stuff like that, and most of
• 44:40
  them just look cool. Very yeah, I so yeah, that was
• 44:48
  the first pick. And then Mario Kart World
• 44:52
  Banger, it's an absolute banger of a fucking Mario Kart game.
• 44:58
  It with the the whole open world thing.
• 45:02
  They have like little like Peach medallions, they have little
• 45:06
  things you can collect it. It will take a long time for
• 45:10
  anybody to completely 100% it. It took streamer that I watched
• 45:16
  about four whole days of streaming to nearly 100% the
• 45:24
  main or the open world, like tokens, platforms and stuff like
• 45:28
  that. So there's a lot of playability
• 45:31
  with Mario Kart World, which is cool, and then Fatal Fury, City
• 45:37
  of the Wolves. So that one I actually haven't
• 45:42
  seen anybody play yet, but the art style looks phenomenal and I
• 45:48
  guess they got an 81 so people liked it.
• 45:52
  Go. That's not bad for a fighting
• 45:54
  game, to be perfectly honest. Yeah.
• 45:58
  And then Dying Light the Beast, now that game just looked
• 46:04
  fucking awesome. As far as the screenshots that
• 46:07
  I'm taking a look at those. Who?
• 46:10
  Got a bad guy though doing bad guy things.
• 46:13
  Deal with this one. I'll be real and by my
• 46:16
  counterpick counterpart. I think I think it's going to
• 46:19
  get at least an 80. Yep, I think so too.
• 46:24
  I'll look forward to it. And then Reanimal being pretty
• 46:32
  much a, what is it, a little nightmares?
• 46:37
  I don't want to say clone, but. It is it from the same studio?
• 46:43
  Is it? Is that the one?
• 46:44
  Yeah, I. Was gonna say, I think that's
• 46:46
  the one from the same studio, yeah.
• 46:48
  Got. You.
• 46:49
  Well then that should probably do pretty well.
• 46:53
  I would imagine so, yeah. Now the Professor Layton.
• 47:00
  I think there is a a fairly decent following behind the
• 47:04
  Professor Layton games, so that's pretty much the only
• 47:08
  reason why I picked it. But they don't lie.
• 47:10
  They, they, they all do smash out of the park.
• 47:12
  You you're going to get like at least 12 points on that one.
• 47:16
  Yeah. Would be good on that one.
• 47:19
  They're pretty safe. Then first Berserker, that just
• 47:24
  looked cool as well there. You go.
• 47:28
  What a bold strategy. Gotten I the rule of cool for
• 47:31
  the rule of cool, Yeah. Exactly.
• 47:32
  It's been working the rule. Of cool, yeah.
• 47:36
  So that did pretty decent too. It looks like 81 now.
• 47:40
  This was just what I wanted was the mainline Super Smash Bros
• 47:46
  game. I just wanted another one.
• 47:50
  That's not going to happen this year.
• 47:53
  I. Know I don't think it's going to
• 47:54
  happen at all if I'm being honest with you as much as I
• 47:56
  want it at. All really.
• 47:59
  With the. I mean, with the ultimate, it
• 48:01
  feels like they're just going to build that out.
• 48:03
  I'll, I'll be real with you, Sakura is not working on another
• 48:06
  one that that Batman has sworn off.
• 48:09
  Shortly after Ultimate he came out and said that yeah.
• 48:15
  There's no way they're bringing him back.
• 48:18
  There's no way. That man has worked hard enough.
• 48:21
  Let him retire. Also, he's working on Kirby Air
• 48:23
  Riders. Come on.
• 48:26
  Yeah, yeah. Is he actually?
• 48:29
  Yeah, yeah. That's his studio, Kirby.
• 48:31
  Is faith. That's his baby.
• 48:34
  Kirby is his baby. That was his like first game
• 48:38
  legend. Yeah.
• 48:39
  And then another one that's that looks cool is Dispatch.
• 48:44
  Yeah, I think you're going to do well with that one.
• 48:46
  I think that one's going to crush it.
• 48:48
  I think I've figured out the secret for next year.
• 48:50
  I'm not going to tell any of you guys, but I think I, I think I
• 48:54
  know what my strategy will be going.
• 48:56
  For I also think I have a good strategy.
• 49:00
  I bet, I bet me and Sneeze are thinking very similarly.
• 49:04
  Probably I would like to know what this strategy is.
• 49:09
  Absolutely not. And then my 2nd to last is Tales
• 49:18
  of Fate, which I think kind of looks cool. 2D action
• 49:24
  platformer. So, I mean, I know we have a lot
• 49:29
  of those already, but I don't know, the characters are kind of
• 49:34
  cute, you know? It does look I I dig the art
• 49:37
  style in this one. It does look cool.
• 49:39
  I don't know anything about it doesn't look like the studio has
• 49:42
  done anything before. So that is concerning.
• 49:47
  But also like, yeah, it could be really cool and it looks looks
• 49:51
  good. Another one for the art style
• 49:55
  Shinobi art of vengeance. Very good pick.
• 49:58
  Yeah, that looked awesome. Classic series, very good pick.
• 50:03
  All right. And then yeah, my counter pick
• 50:05
  was Marvel 1943, but that was cancelled.
• 50:09
  Solid. Solid, yeah.
• 50:10
  You might just be safe here though, so yeah.
• 50:13
  Yeah. For the rules that I didn't
• 50:16
  read. D Grab dispatch.
• 50:20
  Yes, he did. No.
• 50:23
  Evan is like going to be just picking at the scraps.
• 50:27
  This fantasy critic is going to be my downfall.
• 50:31
  I got to get back in Vegas 10 more dollars.
• 50:35
  It's a learning experience. Next year I feel like it's going
• 50:38
  to be a lot tighter. I feel like it's going to be a
• 50:40
  lot more argumentative next year.
• 50:42
  Oh wait, I'm. Probably going to get.
• 50:44
  I'm probably going to brim sips will be tested.
• 50:46
  You know. We have to next year, I will say
• 50:50
  I am so pumped for these crowns, but we have to get a actual
• 50:55
  crown made that will go the winner, the winner.
• 50:58
  Yeah. We took passes around like this.
• 51:01
  Yeah, what do you mean is the? Crown like a.
• 51:04
  That's. This I'll build.
• 51:05
  I'll build you a Lego crown. We have this crown.
• 51:09
  This go to the trophy store, yeah.
• 51:10
  Other ones might as well not exist.
• 51:12
  We. Can do a trophy and keep and a
• 51:14
  player we have to every year. We have to pass that shit around
• 51:18
  like it's did anybody watch the league or is that just me?
• 51:21
  The league I did well, I wrote, I wrote you what I'm staying
• 51:24
  passing around like. You know, it'd be cool what we
• 51:27
  did and like if we signed to the inside.
• 51:30
  We can just. Want to make the winner signed
• 51:32
  the inside with the with the year date.
• 51:34
  Yeah. I just Stanley code.
• 51:35
  I like it. Winner.
• 51:38
  Well I have to do another one then without the because I put
• 51:40
  the the year on this. One the date.
• 51:42
  Yeah, the so we could do another one without the.
• 51:44
  Date and the winner will sign the inside of Start at the top
• 51:46
  of the crown and we'll whittle down and go around.
• 51:50
  What are we? It'll be, I mean, we could
• 51:52
  definitely sign that one that that date just marks everyone
• 51:54
  year we. Yeah, this is the beginning of
• 51:56
  the start. Of this.
• 51:57
  Yeah. It should be signed.
• 51:59
  I agree. All right.
• 52:01
  I like it. Off to a good start, Alex, you
• 52:05
  want to read through yours. Sure.
• 52:08
  All right, come on, motherfucker.
• 52:10
  Starting off, fuck. You.
• 52:14
  Jeez. I don't read it.
• 52:16
  It's. Because you made him watch Dead
• 52:18
  Girl and then talk about it it. Was a good episode.
• 52:22
  I made us watch it whatever I got.
• 52:27
  Sid Meier's Sieve 7 critic score of 79 and 9 points thought that
• 52:33
  was going to do a lot fucking better than it did.
• 52:35
  It's it's probably, it's probably better now, but it
• 52:38
  really, it came out in a really shitty state like it was.
• 52:41
  Bad. I didn't.
• 52:42
  I didn't play it. Like it was like almost felt
• 52:45
  like a mobile game, like it felt like it was toned down and you
• 52:48
  like, you know, like previous SIV UIS felt really good and
• 52:51
  like this felt simplified, which just makes it look really shitty
• 52:55
  like because it's just very bare bones and like pick this or
• 52:58
  that. Yeah, it sounds like honestly a
• 53:01
  79 is probably pretty good for the state it came out.
• 53:04
  Yeah, I'm curious if it's better now in like a significant way
• 53:08
  and obviously it wouldn't matter for this, but just in general,
• 53:11
  like I'm curious if it's just a better SIB title.
• 53:13
  Yeah. Then next I got Borderlands 4
• 53:17
  projected 11. I think I think that's going to
• 53:18
  do good. Counter picked by Boulder
• 53:21
  Interactive though. I think, I think he's going to
• 53:25
  have to deal with that one. 3rd we got little.
• 53:29
  Nightmare 3 hunter pick Oh. Then.
• 53:31
  Your little nightmare is 3. I think you're going to be a
• 53:34
  sleeper, yeah. I don't.
• 53:35
  I don't think it's going to be a sleeper.
• 53:37
  I think it's just going to be fucking critically acclaimed.
• 53:39
  I think people love Little Nightmares.
• 53:41
  Dude, they're great games. Yep.
• 53:45
  Killing four three projected to four points.
• 53:49
  Wolf among us two. No release date yet.
• 53:54
  I might draw. I might.
• 53:55
  Drop it. It might be your boat anchor
• 53:57
  unless you use your 11 free drop.
• 54:00
  I might. It don't have a release.
• 54:04
  Date because like if that was a thing like that would do well
• 54:07
  that could break critic 73 three points split gate 270 zero
• 54:16
  fucking points but. Sox, that game is already dead.
• 54:19
  Yeah, I was going to say that game is also already dead.
• 54:21
  I looked at the Steam charts while we were doing this because
• 54:23
  I saw it on your list, the all time peak.
• 54:25
  The all time peak of the game was 25,674 players.
• 54:29
  As of an hour ago, there are only 2789 players.
• 54:34
  Playing cool. That's a shame because it was
• 54:37
  fun, like we had a good time playing it.
• 54:39
  People. Get spread out on the but it's
• 54:41
  what happened with the betas. Yeah, well, that that was
• 54:44
  definitely, I think part of it because they just let it run
• 54:46
  until it was done and like in like out in the open.
• 54:49
  But like the first game had the same problem.
• 54:51
  People loved it for the first three weeks and then.
• 54:55
  Just stopped. This is like they just aren't
• 54:57
  bringing enough content to keep it alive.
• 55:00
  To be. Fair.
• 55:01
  Quickly, it feels like this is a lot.
• 55:03
  I don't know what, I don't know what people want out of A.
• 55:06
  Game to be fair, I'm just curious.
• 55:07
  I think it also didn't help that the main game director that kind
• 55:14
  of said a lot of Dick head stuff that.
• 55:17
  Pissed a lot of did not. Help.
• 55:18
  Yeah. Yeah, it did not.
• 55:20
  Help. Really.
• 55:21
  Yes. Yeah, he was the drag ass that
• 55:24
  came out with the make shooters great again or yeah.
• 55:28
  Make FPS. Make FPS great again.
• 55:29
  Yeah, it was one of the two. He kind of had a crash out and.
• 55:34
  Yeah, he got. He's like he got.
• 55:36
  Criticized for that games and Halo games he well he did that
• 55:40
  and then he. Got called out.
• 55:41
  For it on Twitter and then he crashed out and then he
• 55:43
  apologized for it. It's like Oh my God, get this
• 55:46
  guy away from the fucking social media like.
• 55:48
  He's supposed to nepo baby. Like what?
• 55:50
  Do you want from them? Just like, stop talking.
• 55:54
  I think the first split gate only phased out because the new
• 56:02
  Halo game came out. That's once the new Halo game
• 56:06
  came out, nobody was playing. That's true.
• 56:09
  That's true. Cuz I remember that, yeah.
• 56:11
  But if Halo didn't come out. It's a shame because I really
• 56:15
  like the portal aspect of it. Like, it is fun.
• 56:17
  I do too. It's it's unique.
• 56:19
  It's interesting. Yeah.
• 56:24
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then I got Metal Gear
• 56:28
  Solid Snake Eater. Oh yeah, that's gonna be big.
• 56:33
  Then Power Wash Simulator 2, which I hope that's gonna do
• 56:37
  pretty well. It's only.
• 56:38
  Projected 3 points which is crazy.
• 56:40
  I think it's gonna get. Over love that game.
• 56:42
  Yeah, I think you'll at least get 10 out of it.
• 56:45
  OK, so here's the thing, the power washers this time.
• 56:47
  Is that the improvement with the second game?
• 56:48
  The projector points are only based off off of pipe, so indie
• 56:53
  games don't get high projected points.
• 56:56
  Right, that's fair. Which is silly because it seems
• 57:01
  like more hype leads to a lower score.
• 57:04
  Like, yeah, genuinely, it's weird.
• 57:07
  Indie games do really well. I know.
• 57:12
  They did add a couple new things to the game for cleaners.
• 57:17
  How much is that? Did they like, was it a
• 57:20
  significant like do you think it's worthy because you've
• 57:22
  played a lot of the first one? And I'm just curious, do you
• 57:24
  think this is going to be worthy of your your money for for a
• 57:27
  second game? Like, is it going to be that
• 57:29
  much of an improvement? And probably and a lot more
• 57:32
  content because they give out free content like crazy with the
• 57:35
  first one I. Don't know anything about the
• 57:37
  second one. I I didn't know anything about
• 57:39
  the Yeah, well, that one isn't even really that good.
• 57:41
  No, it wasn't all the name, all the like IPS and stuff.
• 57:44
  They charge you for it, but they come out with their own a lot of
• 57:47
  their own stuff. It's a great game.
• 57:50
  Like this? It's a perfect game if you just
• 57:53
  but also you can spend 4 hours cleaning one thing and you're
• 57:56
  like Oh no what happened? Yeah.
• 58:00
  Where's you had a good time? Where's that one spec at a good
• 58:03
  time? Then we have Silent Hill F.
• 58:06
  Which I that's going to be a good hit.
• 58:09
  I'm actually that is that you took this from me.
• 58:11
  We haven't had. Silent Hill game in so fucking
• 58:13
  long so. I think you hopefully pay for
• 58:16
  that's when I'm pissed about it. Which is crazy because I've been
• 58:19
  low. No, I think you'll be like by
• 58:22
  two dollars. So I've been low and then I mean
• 58:28
  that's projected 9 points so. And then we have Crystal Theatre
• 58:34
  of Idols, which is a new, new title that looks really good.
• 58:40
  And. You're kind of.
• 58:41
  Kind of Bioshock. My counter picks is unannounced
• 58:44
  mainline half life. I mean dude, if you are unable
• 58:48
  to counter pick I God damn. Yeah, I.
• 58:54
  Guess I mean, isn't that, isn't that inherently something you
• 58:56
  wouldn't want to do because the game's not going to be, it's not
• 58:58
  going to come out, so you're not going to win points if it gets
• 59:01
  like a bad review, right. So.
• 59:03
  You're definitely safe. You're definitely.
• 59:06
  Safe. You get 0, yeah.
• 59:09
  Which for a counter pick is. Golden.
• 59:11
  Yeah. 0. Is right.
• 59:14
  Very rarely are you going to be able to counter pick a game that
• 59:17
  is actually going to get you points right.
• 59:20
  It's got to get below A7. Me obviously remember South of
• 59:27
  midnight -7. Oh, plus oops.
• 59:34
  Oops that that Crystal Theater of the OR Theater of Idols is a
• 59:39
  Blum House game, so that should. Do good then that's cool.
• 59:44
  It looks like a really, really good game.
• 59:46
  It looks cool. All right.
• 59:50
  Can I run through John's? Yeah, go for.
• 59:53
  It so he's got this will not. Be changed at any point and will
• 59:57
  not be added to dropped or anything so.
• 1:00:00
  Here we are. Yeah.
• 1:00:00
  So he has on his on his list. He's got Fable, which is not
• 1:00:05
  coming out, Monster Hunter Wilds, which John got a pretty
• 1:00:08
  good amount of points where he got 19, he got an 89.
• 1:00:11
  He's actually got another two good games on here.
• 1:00:13
  He's got Outer Worlds 2 and Ninja Gaiden Rage Bound.
• 1:00:16
  I think Birdie actually messaged me and said he was going to give
• 1:00:18
  me both those games. I think we talked about that.
• 1:00:21
  Yeah, once you Venmo me the money man, come on.
• 1:00:24
  Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy.
• 1:00:28
  Yeah, he's got The Outer Worlds 2 and Ninja Gaiden Rage Bound,
• 1:00:31
  and then he's got Phantom Blade Zero.
• 1:00:33
  I don't even, I don't think I've even heard of that one.
• 1:00:35
  I've don't know if it's. Like a flashy, futuristic ninja
• 1:00:39
  type of game. It looks pretty cool actually,
• 1:00:40
  but it's the one that they showed off at one point and it
• 1:00:45
  almost looked like a movie. Like the the fighting style.
• 1:00:50
  I don't even know how you would pull it off in a game.
• 1:00:52
  Yeah. I know what you're talking
• 1:00:54
  about. OK, so he's got that on there.
• 1:00:56
  He's got Exodus which is no longer coming out this year and
• 1:00:59
  Enter the Gungeon 2 which was counterpicked by Steve, and then
• 1:01:03
  he also had for his counterpick Assassin's Creed Shadows which
• 1:01:06
  hurt him with -11 points. I think that was about the time
• 1:01:11
  he stopped carrying. Yeah, that was about the time he
• 1:01:13
  stopped carrying. Here's what here's what pisses
• 1:01:15
  me off. He's projected to still get 62
• 1:01:17
  points and he's got more than like 3 people right now and he's
• 1:01:20
  not even here's. Here's the crazy.
• 1:01:22
  Projected, obviously. I think even with the hit of
• 1:01:25
  Assassin's Creed Shadow his list was insane.
• 1:01:30
  It. Very good.
• 1:01:31
  It's pretty. Good, like a favorable drop
• 1:01:34
  Exodus. Yeah, yeah, those had.
• 1:01:36
  Yeah. No, I think that would have
• 1:01:38
  been. Great, he still had guns.
• 1:01:39
  And I think we'll do a good job too.
• 1:01:41
  I think that's. Still had a lot of budget if it
• 1:01:43
  comes out this year. If it comes out, yeah, yeah,
• 1:01:46
  yeah. That's John.
• 1:01:47
  Well, you got the king of the leaderboard up next.
• 1:01:52
  Tell us how you did it put. Your crown on?
• 1:01:54
  Put the crown on. Hell yeah.
• 1:01:58
  I so I'm sprinting in the first mile of this.
• 1:02:01
  Marathon. And he's very humble.
• 1:02:04
  I'm still maintaining that it's probably anybody's game from
• 1:02:10
  here. But I came out of the gate hard
• 1:02:13
  with the split fiction. I knew that I know I knew.
• 1:02:18
  I saw the success like everybody loved The way out and everybody
• 1:02:23
  loved It Takes 2 and I saw so much, so much like on in social
• 1:02:30
  media about It Takes 2 and I knew that the split fiction game
• 1:02:33
  was probably going to do well studios.
• 1:02:35
  So consistent. Yeah, they they've only made
• 1:02:38
  bangers Metroid. Especially after what I've seen
• 1:02:42
  with the Switch to Joy Con essentially being a mouse, I
• 1:02:47
  think that game is going to go absolutely insane it.
• 1:02:50
  Works really well too. Yeah, I think it's going to do
• 1:02:53
  really well. And people are 3D printing like
• 1:02:56
  mouse handles, so you can put it in.
• 1:02:59
  Yeah, that's crazy. It's only a matter of time for a
• 1:03:02
  Nintendo just sells One South of Midnight.
• 1:03:05
  Yeah, me too. South of Midnight came out, Not
• 1:03:09
  a lot of people played it that I know of, but I think it
• 1:03:14
  downloaded it. It's very.
• 1:03:17
  Good I'm halfway there it's very good you know from from other
• 1:03:21
  like perspectives. I think it's a, it's a little
• 1:03:25
  bit better. It was definitely a black
• 1:03:28
  centered story and some reviewers were like, that
• 1:03:32
  doesn't quite speak to me. And that's that's sort of its
• 1:03:36
  thing. But then I, I was very hopeful
• 1:03:41
  when I picked Assassin's Creed Shadows and thankfully it paid
• 1:03:44
  off because that series has been on a fucking nosedive ever since
• 1:03:48
  Origins. But I will play every single
• 1:03:52
  game and this one was really good.
• 1:03:54
  It was good. It's really good.
• 1:03:56
  And then we got ANO 11117. There is a beta period coming up
• 1:04:05
  for that, so I'm excited to see how that goes.
• 1:04:08
  Those games do all right. Wu Chang Fallen Feathers is like
• 1:04:13
  a souls like game that people seem to be pretty happy with so
• 1:04:17
  far. I did think that it was a Wukong
• 1:04:21
  DLC and when I looked on Reddit it would appear that I'm not the
• 1:04:25
  only one who thought. That.
• 1:04:28
  There was a lot of confusion about that for sure.
• 1:04:30
  Yeah. And I was so I was like, dude,
• 1:04:31
  Wukong DLC that that sold gangbusters.
• 1:04:34
  Like, of course this one's going to be a shoe away.
• 1:04:37
  And then I was like, I was going to drop this, but then it looks
• 1:04:39
  like it's doing all right, so I'm thinking I'm going to hang
• 1:04:41
  on to it. It's a female protagonist, so a
• 1:04:43
  lot of, like, the Stellar Blade fans are flocking towards it.
• 1:04:47
  Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh.
• 1:04:49
  Yeah. It doesn't seem like it's the
• 1:04:51
  same thing. Well, it doesn't seem like it's
• 1:04:53
  the same vein as Stellar Blade, but they're they were just
• 1:04:56
  looking for like a similar combat style and everything.
• 1:04:59
  So yeah, I think it'll do good. I think it'll be fine.
• 1:05:03
  It's projected to do all right, but I think it'll probably do
• 1:05:06
  better when it actually comes out, judging by what people have
• 1:05:10
  been saying and what reviews it already has two point Museum.
• 1:05:15
  There's like, I think there's like four other two point games.
• 1:05:18
  They're just cozy build your little dollhouse kind of games.
• 1:05:22
  People like those. They always seem to do well and
• 1:05:24
  it did do well. Blueprints have no idea what
• 1:05:29
  that is but I looked up. I searched it and it has like a
• 1:05:34
  prequel game that got incredible reviews.
• 1:05:37
  It's a game where you have to build rooms with hard house.
• 1:05:43
  No, you you build like rooms in a house and you have to like put
• 1:05:47
  blueprints together. To construct rooms.
• 1:05:50
  They get. To.
• 1:05:51
  So I actually did play a little bit of this one.
• 1:05:53
  It is like a puzzle game and you have to try to make it to a
• 1:05:57
  certain point and it's randomly generated each time.
• 1:05:59
  So you have to go through these different rooms, find clues,
• 1:06:02
  make it to the next room and each run like you have more
• 1:06:05
  information, like this is a game.
• 1:06:06
  I I literally had a Google Doc open and I was typing in notes
• 1:06:10
  because it is that in depth. It's, it's wild, but people love
• 1:06:14
  it and I enjoyed it, but it's too involved.
• 1:06:17
  It is so involved for me. I've been I've been meaning to
• 1:06:20
  get to it. It looks like so much fun.
• 1:06:22
  It does. All right, what's next, Tales of
• 1:06:28
  the Shower Looks? It just looked like it looked
• 1:06:32
  like a little cozy game. I think that'll do.
• 1:06:34
  Well, sort of on the lines of like your Disney Dreamland
• 1:06:37
  Valley kind of thing. Yeah.
• 1:06:40
  Five Nights at Freddy's, we talked about that a little bit
• 1:06:44
  where it's like a game that hasn't officially come out with
• 1:06:47
  a score, but it seems like it's doing well.
• 1:06:50
  Those games. I feel like those games always
• 1:06:53
  do well. People love Five Nights at
• 1:06:54
  Freddy's. They.
• 1:06:55
  You know that game is going to go on till the end of time.
• 1:06:58
  Yeah. Hollow Night Silk Song is where
• 1:07:01
  I blew half of my budget because I know that that game is going
• 1:07:05
  to crush. So I had to get that one and I
• 1:07:07
  supposedly coming up. Who else bid on that?
• 1:07:11
  I. Did I did.
• 1:07:12
  Oh my God. Yeah, because I think that's the
• 1:07:15
  game we had the most bidding on. And I think you outbid me by
• 1:07:18
  like 5 bucks and I bid like 40 something on.
• 1:07:22
  It Yeah, I I did. I spent 45.
• 1:07:24
  I was in Discord with John and Morgan.
• 1:07:27
  It was like the day after we saw it.
• 1:07:29
  The reason we knew it was going to get a release is because the
• 1:07:33
  ROG, Yeah, because it was in. Well, no, it was in the switch
• 1:07:37
  to video. Yeah, so.
• 1:07:39
  It was, and now we were like, that is for sure happening.
• 1:07:42
  It was also in the Xbox ROG Ally announcement.
• 1:07:46
  Yeah, yeah. Which I think it was all but
• 1:07:49
  confirmed that it was coming out this year.
• 1:07:51
  So I think I think that bodes well for it.
• 1:07:55
  It's been like rumors for a long time.
• 1:07:57
  It's going to do great. Kirby Air Raiders.
• 1:08:00
  I just picked that because I was like, well that'd be cool if we
• 1:08:02
  get a new Kirby Air Ride game. And then I counter picked
• 1:08:06
  Borderlands 4 like an absolute goose, assuming that people
• 1:08:10
  would be tired of of Borderlands.
• 1:08:12
  Don't know why you fucking did that.
• 1:08:14
  I don't know. Alex like she's.
• 1:08:16
  Tired of rainy. Everybody's tired of rainy
• 1:08:19
  Pitchford. Yeah, real Borderlands does R
• 1:08:23
  absolutely fuck. Faced myself on that one, but I
• 1:08:28
  don't know. We'll see.
• 1:08:29
  We'll see how it does, hopefully it won't hurt too bad pretty
• 1:08:32
  soon. I've got a lot of other games on
• 1:08:34
  here that look like they could be big winners and hopefully
• 1:08:36
  that'll make up for it. I guess we'll see.
• 1:08:40
  I did do a counter pick during the show, but I also did of a
• 1:08:44
  game and you'll you'll hear about that.
• 1:08:48
  You'll hear about that in 2 days.
• 1:08:52
  I'm unable to do that because I'm fucking streaming the
• 1:08:54
  fucking screen. Grab your phone, dog.
• 1:08:57
  That's it. Grab your phone.
• 1:09:00
  I texted it on my phone while we're doing the show.
• 1:09:01
  Don't worry, there's a plethora of games are you texting coming
• 1:09:04
  out that you can? Yeah, I feel like you all have
• 1:09:07
  learned that zero is gold and just pick something that doesn't
• 1:09:09
  come out and like you all are flocking to these games.
• 1:09:13
  Don't mean I that might be exactly what I did, but I
• 1:09:16
  thought if you counter pick something and it wasn't coming
• 1:09:18
  out and they dropped it, it didn't count.
• 1:09:20
  So yeah, that we learned something.
• 1:09:22
  Every day, I counter. Picking GTA 6 after dropping it
• 1:09:25
  from my own list. And.
• 1:09:27
  And now we, I think. Can you kind of pick yourself?
• 1:09:31
  Nothing. No.
• 1:09:32
  Right now that this game could still go a lot of different
• 1:09:38
  ways. I'm feeling good.
• 1:09:45
  All righty, Nick Nicholas. Now to our own personal anchor.
• 1:09:55
  No, the anchor's the final runner in in a race usually.
• 1:09:59
  The fastest? Sure, that's what.
• 1:10:01
  You meant only convenient. It was Nick.
• 1:10:05
  My first pick was Death Stranding too, on the beach.
• 1:10:08
  I love the first game. I'm in love with the second
• 1:10:11
  game. It is a fantastic ride.
• 1:10:13
  Evans playing the fuck out of it as well.
• 1:10:16
  Yeah, it's just incredible game, incredible story of every second
• 1:10:20
  of it. Skate Story is one of those
• 1:10:23
  games where I'm really hoping is being released here.
• 1:10:27
  Really. What are you guys talking about?
• 1:10:30
  Nothing. Just keep going.
• 1:10:31
  Just. Keep.
• 1:10:33
  Going. Keep going big man.
• 1:10:34
  Pieces of dog shit keep going big fella.
• 1:10:36
  Keep going. Fucking bastards.
• 1:10:40
  The skates. What?
• 1:10:42
  Nothing. I'm blazing, Kojima.
• 1:10:45
  Is that what we're doing here? No, no, no, Keep going.
• 1:10:48
  Keep. Going no, no, we're down.
• 1:10:49
  Idiots no one else got. Rasped this hard what they were
• 1:10:52
  doing their thing anyways mouse Pi fare hire.
• 1:10:58
  I feel like that. I feel like 8 story and mouse Pi
• 1:11:01
  are gonna fucking. I think that guy's gonna do
• 1:11:04
  really good. Yeah, it's gonna do good.
• 1:11:05
  You know, I'm fucking pumped for that.
• 1:11:08
  So prior to Black Ops 7 being announced, I chose the next
• 1:11:11
  mainline Call of Duty game. I think I chose white so I got
• 1:11:17
  Black Ops 7. Please watch.
• 1:11:23
  I'm glad you have that on your list, but I'm so I'm still
• 1:11:26
  pissed about its reveal. I'm so that was so.
• 1:11:30
  It wasn't good. Yeah, it was mad.
• 1:11:32
  Next like oh it's fear and then it was like Black Ops seven I'm
• 1:11:35
  like couldn't have been the more opposite thing the.
• 1:11:38
  Trailer was so cool and then you're like.
• 1:11:40
  It was cool. It's Call of Duty.
• 1:11:43
  I should have known it was Call of Duty.
• 1:11:45
  I got bamboozled. Yeah I got bamboozled Switcher
• 1:11:49
  Rooneyed and it pissed me the fuck off cuz I don't care about
• 1:11:51
  this franchise. But it's probably gonna do good.
• 1:11:54
  For you, it's good to have. Fair enough to pick it.
• 1:11:56
  It's gonna do good. So Remedy fucked me.
• 1:11:59
  FBC firebreak did not do well. No, you mean the single player,
• 1:12:05
  notoriously single player company?
• 1:12:07
  Studio making a cop. Yeah, that's crazy.
• 1:12:10
  Got fucked. That's.
• 1:12:11
  Unfortunate that it did that it didn't do well.
• 1:12:13
  It likes the premise of it. I played the beta or the play
• 1:12:17
  test and it I don't know if this contributed to the bad score,
• 1:12:21
  but it was poorly optimized. It was like abhorrently bad.
• 1:12:25
  It did not run good at all well and it was like you can't fix
• 1:12:28
  this in a month. I have not played this, but I do
• 1:12:31
  know like I played through Control and the shooting was
• 1:12:34
  probably my least favorite part of the entire game.
• 1:12:37
  Yeah. So having a game that is solely
• 1:12:39
  shooting based from Remedy, I'm like unless.
• 1:12:42
  It's Max Payne. Yeah, which is like 90% of the
• 1:12:47
  people that worked on that game are no longer with the company.
• 1:12:50
  Well, they're, well, they're fucking yeah.
• 1:12:53
  It also has a It had a weird tone compared to the other game,
• 1:12:55
  like To Control was very serious and and also mysterious and had
• 1:13:00
  its own sort of portion like an Alan Wake type of thing.
• 1:13:02
  Obviously the environment is like 90% of their games.
• 1:13:06
  Like, I mean, honestly, that's what sells on this, this
• 1:13:09
  mysterious. Like I bought it not knowing
• 1:13:12
  anything about it. I just saw the vibe of it and it
• 1:13:14
  was like, it was like Montauk project, Stranger Things looking
• 1:13:19
  Caribbean facilities. And that's what, yeah.
• 1:13:22
  Go on. Sorry no, that's just like the
• 1:13:24
  vibe just carried me through the game and in my opinion has the
• 1:13:28
  best like force powers of any game I've ever played.
• 1:13:33
  Controls force powers were incredible.
• 1:13:36
  If I could use those over the gun at any given time I would.
• 1:13:40
  100%. I'm only throwing boxes at
• 1:13:42
  people. Yeah, so Control for me was
• 1:13:45
  X-Files. Alan Wake was Twin Peaks.
• 1:13:48
  That's what drew me to those games.
• 1:13:50
  Those two shows that I love oh fucking much.
• 1:13:54
  Hell is us. So I'm very, very nervous of
• 1:13:59
  this one. But it looks so cool though.
• 1:14:02
  So cool, but I know. People, I played the demo.
• 1:14:06
  I'm telling you, Nick, I don't know if you played it, It felt
• 1:14:10
  clunky. It felt clunky.
• 1:14:12
  I saw everyone talking about it so I'm a little.
• 1:14:14
  Nervous. Is this the one that I played
• 1:14:15
  the demo of? I played a demo.
• 1:14:19
  I played a demo of something and I don't remember.
• 1:14:21
  What it was or something that was Chrono Odyssey.
• 1:14:23
  OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:24
  We're good. Yeah, that game's bad.
• 1:14:26
  By the way, yeah. You were like, you were like,
• 1:14:28
  don't do it. And I actually told you I was
• 1:14:30
  like, I have a download, I'm going to give it a try.
• 1:14:31
  And you're like, good luck. And I was like, I'm going to
• 1:14:33
  take Bertie's advice. I'm not going to do it.
• 1:14:35
  I'm. Like bad longer than me.
• 1:14:37
  I really after I told you it was bad.
• 1:14:39
  I'm a glutton for punishment. What do you want from me?
• 1:14:42
  So I had Roadcraft, which Evan and I were talking about work.
• 1:14:47
  I'm like, he's like, what the fuck Rd.
• 1:14:49
  Craft you got? What the fuck is that on your
• 1:14:51
  list? And then he, yeah, let me, yeah.
• 1:14:53
  Can I say I made fun of Nick when I saw this because I was
• 1:14:56
  like, this sounds like a dumb like I said that to him.
• 1:14:58
  I was like, this sounds like a dumb fucking game, bro.
• 1:15:00
  And then I looked it up. I looked it up and I went, OK, I
• 1:15:03
  take it all back. This is the coolest shit I've
• 1:15:05
  ever. Seen it's.
• 1:15:06
  It's mud runner. Right.
• 1:15:08
  I ate my words immediately. Well, it's more than that.
• 1:15:10
  Like it's. Well, it's the company that made
• 1:15:12
  Mud Runner. Same people?
• 1:15:14
  Yeah. They made spin tires and Mud
• 1:15:16
  Runner and Expeditions and they have like another game it snow
• 1:15:20
  runs the Snow Runner. Yeah, yeah, I should have
• 1:15:23
  fucking known it was. It's pretty cool, but I have not
• 1:15:27
  played much of it. I want to play it with people.
• 1:15:29
  It looks like a game that is best served to play with a group
• 1:15:32
  of people. Like the map in the just the
• 1:15:33
  tutorial mission is huge and there's so much like work you
• 1:15:37
  have to do to get to all these places.
• 1:15:39
  It's like I would rather have people with me like just to, you
• 1:15:43
  know, lighten the load. So dead load.
• 1:15:47
  I also picked everyone's facing very good.
• 1:15:52
  I got Painkiller. This is a franchise that is
• 1:15:55
  being brought back. I'm very excited for it.
• 1:15:57
  If you like you like the current Dooms, you will like the
• 1:16:01
  upcoming Painkiller game. It looks awesome.
• 1:16:04
  It's actually being focused and on the front cover of Peace
• 1:16:07
  Gamer this month or next month, so a lot of good advertisement
• 1:16:11
  for it. It looks great.
• 1:16:13
  It looks very fun. It's look good.
• 1:16:15
  So colorful and dark all at the same time.
• 1:16:18
  Yeah, very cool, very, very dark tones story wise as well.
• 1:16:22
  But there's painkiller is awesome.
• 1:16:25
  If you haven't checked out any of the previous painkiller
• 1:16:28
  games, I suggest you if you're trying to get a little bit of a
• 1:16:31
  blast of the past, I suppose Terminator 2D, no fate.
• 1:16:35
  Listen, I'm I love Terminator. Terminator games are notoriously
• 1:16:39
  bad. I'm willing to risk it.
• 1:16:42
  Willing to risk it, so taking it.
• 1:16:44
  Fair enough. Donkey Kong Bonanza?
• 1:16:47
  Fuck y'all. I got Donkey Kong on my list.
• 1:16:49
  I'm good here. I think it's going to do good.
• 1:16:51
  Yeah, dude, I think it's going to do great, yeah.
• 1:16:56
  I think it's going to do very, very well.
• 1:16:58
  I think you'll be like at least at least 90 if not low 90s.
• 1:17:03
  I think I'm going to fucking fly up the list a little bit with
• 1:17:06
  that one. Then to Evan chagrin, I got Arc
• 1:17:11
  Raiders. I played the beta with the alpha
• 1:17:13
  with Evan, and I went, yeah, I'm putting this on my fucking list.
• 1:17:17
  This is incredible. The game is.
• 1:17:19
  It didn't even hit on it. There's a there's a pipe.
• 1:17:23
  Yeah, it's funny. It's funny, isn't it?
• 1:17:24
  Yeah, there's a pipe bomb in your fucking desk.
• 1:17:29
  Open your drawer, dog. Yeah.
• 1:17:33
  It's a third against him and I, because I'm right next to him,
• 1:17:35
  it's going to hurt me too. There's stuff in that drawer I'm
• 1:17:39
  not going to, yeah. Dude, it's his work.
• 1:17:44
  There's. There ain't shit in there.
• 1:17:46
  What? Are you?
• 1:17:46
  Oh, I think I'm on my drawer right here.
• 1:17:48
  No, I'm talking about your drawer at work.
• 1:17:50
  What's in your drawer? Yeah.
• 1:17:52
  What's in your drawer at home? What's in your wallet?
• 1:17:54
  Yeah. Dude.
• 1:17:56
  You brought this up. Mind your P's and Q's.
• 1:17:58
  How about that alphabet soup bro?
• 1:18:03
  So what's in your drawer? Yeah.
• 1:18:04
  Shut up, Arc Rangers. I fucking also counter picked
• 1:18:08
  unannounced Bloodborne remaster. That's gonna be enough.
• 1:18:12
  That'll be a fat 0. So we're going for gold, right?
• 1:18:14
  Now, yeah, you're good. So yeah, those are my picks.
• 1:18:17
  That's my list. Hell yeah, we did good.
• 1:18:21
  We did do a thing. We did do a thing.
• 1:18:24
  We did do a thing. I'm sure everyone listening to
• 1:18:28
  the audio is going to hate all of this.
• 1:18:31
  That's fine. I'm sure the the video watchers
• 1:18:34
  also hated all of this, but we did it.
• 1:18:36
  Hey, go team. Though it's not for you, it's
• 1:18:38
  for us. OK, we're having.
• 1:18:40
  Fun. No one made crowns.
• 1:18:41
  You remember it for later, I made.
• 1:18:42
  Crowns. Made crowns.
• 1:18:46
  There. No, you didn't see those.
• 1:18:50
  Like I blew my load too fast. My he made a crown.
• 1:18:54
  I shouldn't have shown all the crowns, but there's this one.
• 1:18:58
  This is the one. That's the one.
• 1:18:59
  Those ones don't exist. You didn't see it.
• 1:19:02
  If you did see it, no, you didn't are.
• 1:19:05
  You able. Can.
• 1:19:09
  Do whatever you want, buddy. No, no.
• 1:19:12
  Yes, I make like a wax seal thing.
• 1:19:17
  We'll wax seal it the little stamps.
• 1:19:21
  Yeah, you could. We could do that.
• 1:19:23
  You have. To make a you have to make a.
• 1:19:24
  Snore. Hammer Yeah, dude, it's the
• 1:19:27
  inaugural fucking ground. Gotta.
• 1:19:29
  Do you know how much it's going to cost to make it waxy?
• 1:19:33
  I'm about to look. Into this.
• 1:19:34
  Not not much, dude. I can.
• 1:19:35
  We can make this. Well, yeah, I guess anybody,
• 1:19:37
  anybody, you know, anybody you know, with a 3D printer can make
• 1:19:41
  us. That's true.
• 1:19:42
  We don't have to actually make them out of metal anymore.
• 1:19:44
  I forgot about that. We could be casting shit, we
• 1:19:47
  could fucking then the fires. I'm gonna put it on on making
• 1:19:51
  the signet ring. Yeah, full on making the ring of
• 1:19:54
  man. Just the ring.
• 1:19:56
  So I go like that and then press it.
• 1:19:59
  In good, though. My God.
• 1:20:02
  All right, dude. Yeah, we should.
• 1:20:04
  All right, So that's how the lists are looking.
• 1:20:06
  When are we gonna check in again, do you think?
• 1:20:09
  I don't know. We said it like once every
• 1:20:11
  couple months and we've waited six months to do it, so I
• 1:20:14
  thought. We talked about doing a half, we
• 1:20:16
  talked about doing a halfway point and then we're going to do
• 1:20:18
  one at the end of the year. And then, yeah, we do one at the
• 1:20:20
  end. I feel like at this point we
• 1:20:23
  should maybe do one like third quarter.
• 1:20:27
  I'm fine with that. Get a third quarter in and then
• 1:20:29
  get A and. Then we'll do one at the end,
• 1:20:31
  yeah. Okay, in the end of the year is
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  probably gonna be technically like either the end of December
• 1:20:37
  or the beginning of January type of thing.
• 1:20:39
  Well, it would. Maybe we should.
• 1:20:42
  We'll have to see if anybody has any games still coming out.
• 1:20:45
  That would be a big thing. When does this, like does this
• 1:20:48
  end? December 31st and that's when
• 1:20:50
  everything's tiled up and that's what the.
• 1:20:51
  Winner is probably but if we don't have any games that are
• 1:20:53
  coming out at that point then we could end.
• 1:20:55
  It well yeah, if we sooner right.
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  So I was going to say because. I'm not going to December game.
• 1:21:01
  Well, I was going to say because sometimes the Game Awards just
• 1:21:04
  will shadow drop a game and it's available that day or like, you
• 1:21:06
  know something. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:21:09
  But I don't know if any of us are going to have any space for
• 1:21:12
  that though. I mean if you still have an open
• 1:21:14
  space like December 7th. Evan and Julian.
• 1:21:18
  Will really. Couldn't wait that long.
• 1:21:21
  No, I don't think I was going to say like we should only try and
• 1:21:24
  do something if we have to do it after, if our if spaces are
• 1:21:27
  open, if everybody's filled up and it's before the game is
• 1:21:29
  there's no reason to Yeah, like, wait.
• 1:21:30
  I hope play it by ear, but I don't like to do a third quarter
• 1:21:35
  check in. I just hope people like Fantasy
• 1:21:37
  Critic. In a couple games.
• 1:21:39
  I hope people like Fantasy Critic because you're gonna be
• 1:21:41
  getting the wrap up and then immediately the new one next
• 1:21:45
  year. My God.
• 1:21:46
  Yeah, drafting again. That's true, yeah.
• 1:21:49
  But we're gonna have. To like it.
• 1:21:50
  Again, this is for us. We're.
• 1:21:52
  Gonna have to. We're gonna have to reroll in
• 1:21:55
  January because Resident Evil comes out at the end of that
• 1:21:58
  month, right? Oh my God.
• 1:22:00
  Comes out like bright, like right at the beginning of the
• 1:22:02
  year. You're going to have to.
• 1:22:03
  Do it like right away. Yeah, we're.
• 1:22:05
  Going to do it right away, right?
• 1:22:06
  Away Evan Evan's going to have to choose so fast between
• 1:22:09
  Resident Evil and G, which I already know what it is which.
• 1:22:13
  Baby, are you going to pick up? Evan's not going to be first
• 1:22:15
  necessarily, though. I know.
• 1:22:17
  Yeah. It's not a guarantee that'll be
• 1:22:18
  first. I just got lucky this time.
• 1:22:19
  He could get neither. I want to I want to like you
• 1:22:22
  neither reroll. I want to see who hypothetically
• 1:22:25
  good. One of us.
• 1:22:28
  When I generate everybody into it, it just like a sign.
• 1:22:33
  So I mean just more probability. It could be any of us.
• 1:22:37
  It could be any of us, I. Don't care.
• 1:22:41
  Knowing my luck with how this draft went, it's going to be
• 1:22:43
  like Evans third. So I don't get GTA or Resident
• 1:22:47
  Evil but I get to pick like WWE26?
• 1:22:52
  Requiem names out February 27th, so we've got a small win.
• 1:22:57
  Yeah, we got time. I thought it was January.
• 1:22:58
  That's my bad. Guys I want the game to go till
• 1:23:01
  December 31st because halfway three could release on December
• 1:23:05
  30. First anythings possible.
• 1:23:07
  Anything that was possible that could possibly be Gabens
• 1:23:10
  Christmas gift to you? I don't know you guys, I doubt
• 1:23:12
  it, but. You guys are, you guys are
• 1:23:15
  feeding into a problem. Listen.
• 1:23:17
  It's fine, it's my problem. So you both concede that it
• 1:23:20
  could happen. To therefore the Now look what?
• 1:23:22
  Theoretically, yes it it. You get you, you get an.
• 1:23:26
  Incentive on December 31st. Are we ready for the wrap up
• 1:23:31
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• 1:23:33
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