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GameStop’s $55B Gamble, Xbox Cancels Copilot, & AMD’s “RAMpocalypse” · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boss Rose podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Gordian. Alongside me, as always, is the
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  PC muscle race himself, La Ron Dawkins.
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  Yo, what's? Poppin La Ron, you must be
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  feeling pretty good about yourself right now.
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  Yeah, yeah, I'm feeling, yeah. You know I, you know how I can.
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  Wait, wait, wait, how you? How can yourself?
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  Because your lights are brighter and you have no sleeves on.
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  That's all I can tell. I also have less hair.
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  I mean, that's also fair. But I mean, I mean, I wouldn't
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  cut my hair. Not my hair fell out.
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  But yeah, like, look at all these freaking Gray hairs.
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  Oh my God, I'm freaking. I mean.
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  I'm seasoned, man, yes. I'm seasoned.
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  We're old man I Dude, There's Gray hairs all in my beard.
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  There's like all the way up. Yeah, I'm just going to shock
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  the hell out some people because some people like, I got this
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  haircut. I got this haircut today.
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  And then I kind of sequestered myself except for work, work
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  related stuff. So nobody's really seen me.
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  So everybody's going to be like, where did all your hair go?
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  Because yeah, because, because I have this, I have this qualey.
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  Like I think it's, I think it's type 4C hair, which is just
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  black people talk for like really, really kinky coiled
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  hair. But yeah, every now and then I
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  pull a strand of my hair out and measure it and my freaking hair
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  was was like 7 inches long. Measure it.
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  You're measuring measuring it. Yeah, like, you know, just pull
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  a strand out and put it next to a put next to a ruler and see
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  how long it was. It was freaking 6 inches and I'm
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  like crap. Cool cool.
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  Well I have AI have a problem here.
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  Why are these old, old, old episodes of Boss Rush podcast
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  showing up in the playlist? That's a bad.
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  That's a bad look, bad look. But that's not important.
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  Not important. You know why?
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  Because, Laurent, I have things to share with you.
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  Yeah. What's up?
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  I was going to do this to in the pre show banter, but here we
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  are. We're already here, you know
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  what? And we got a lot to talk about
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  tonight. So we got it.
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  We got to we got to get started early.
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  We're early. It's fine people.
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  Get over it, Laron. Where are we early?
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  Are we premature? I don't know who knows both yes,
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  we here's here's the thing, Laron.
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  I've been doing a lot of YouTube research lately and a lot of
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  work on just fighting algorithms.
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  So here's what I did. Laron fighting algorithms.
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  Fighting algorithms. OK, you know how that goes.
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  So what I did, we already talked about Nintendo.
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  Pile Block moved off the channel, right?
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  Yeah, Pile Block has its own channel now.
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  OK, well Gamescast has its own channel now.
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  Oh, really? Tower casuals and Xbox casuals
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  have their own channel. They've had it for a while.
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  Yeah, I knew about, I knew about tower casuals and Xbox casuals.
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  Boss Social Entertainment has its own channel and now we have
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  the clips channel they're on, which as of as of yesterday have
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  like 56 clips scheduled out. Yeah.
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  So, and also all those clips are also going on social media.
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  So, you know, the the longer form ones are going on Facebook
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  and LinkedIn, the vertical ones, obviously Instagram.
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  And I haven't decided if I want to put the longer form ones on
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  Twitter yet or not because since we're verified, we can do that.
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  But also like who goes on there and watches long form videos,
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  you know, Right. Yeah, I mean I've maybe I've
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  noticed scroll by one, but. I've started to notice I've
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  started to wane on long form videos now, like if a video is
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  longer, if a video is longer than than 2025 minutes and it's
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  not about something specific. It's just like a a let's talk
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  kind of show. I'm I usually don't stick with
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  it. Call her on I have bad news for
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  you about this show. I know.
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  It is not a short show. This, yeah.
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  Although it is our shortest show now, so that makes you feel
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  better. Don't figure it's not our fault.
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  We dude, we were just, we were just, we were removing last
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  week. OK, We we had stuff to do you.
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  Know, right? And now it's funny too, because
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  that was planned to be a short show and we actually made I
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  think it was 2 hours and 1 minute.
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  That's true sometimes, which we can't even.
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  Most times we can't even do 2 hours and 1 minute just trying.
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  I mean, yeah, yeah. But you know what?
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  You know what we you know what we did do, Laron?
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  You know what we're debuting with this episode on when it
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  comes out on Monday. What's that?
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  Obviously, if you're watching live now, obviously you're gonna
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  have to wait till Monday. But new logo, the Boss Rush.
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  New logo refreshed. I will.
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  I will say a refresh logo and a new icon logo, we'll say.
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  So very excited, very excited. Lasby likes it.
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  Ed likes it. I like it.
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  You like it, Nobody else commented, which is fine.
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  It's fine, you know, But I like it.
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  I think it's cool. And you're going to start seeing
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  that rolling out. Very happy with it.
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  So I'm very happy with the way things are going right now,
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  Laron. Very happy.
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  Very. Everything's looking really
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  nice, you know what I mean? Everything's looking real nice.
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  Yeah, it is exciting. So, you know, plus like the way
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  that man, the way that Riverside allows you to make clips and
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  shorts, man, so easy. It's so easy.
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  Although you know what? I did find out Laron.
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  What's that? With PAL block last week is that
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  you cannot upload a video to make clips out of that is longer
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  than three hours. Well, looks like you have looks
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  like you have some some some decisions to make with PAL
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  block. Nope.
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  You know what I did? I processed it anyway and then I
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  duplicated it and then I cut it in half and uploaded it in two
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  parts. So.
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  That's cheating, cheater. So still worked, oh man.
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  But I've been having, I've been having a blast.
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  Here's the thing, I've been having so much fun making clips
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  and shorts and I'm afraid that we're putting out too much
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  content now as opposed to not putting.
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  Out enough. That is a serious problem.
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  Like, I mean for real like you like like basically like the
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  algorithm will like will like not silence you, but quiet you.
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  I know, I know, and I'm trying to be real careful with it, but
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  here's to get back to get back on track real quick before we go
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  back into the, the whole the the show thing, right?
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  So I've kind of like been looking at our channels now that
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  we have pretty much silos of, of content, right, getting back to
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  that, the network kind of feel for us, right?
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  And so Bostra's podcast, that's that's us, that's you and me,
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  right? And whoever else shows up on
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  this night, we're going to focus on industry news about the
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  high-powered consoles, PC gaming tech, and just general industry
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  news, right? Is that our?
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  Is that our mission statement? Yes, this is.
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  This is it. OK.
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  Now tell me if you disagree at any point.
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  Nintendo Power block, obviously focusing on high tech PC gaming,
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  right? Obviously no Nintendo, Nintendo
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  pal box, the Nintendo channel. I think it's pretty clear.
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  Gamescast, the Gamescast channel, OK Gamescast, obviously
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  it's going to focus on indie games, gaming impressions, retro
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  games, and like that kind of niche because of, you know,
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  who's kind of running it over there.
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  Right. And I think that's OK, right?
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  I think. So too, visual novels, you know,
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  smaller RPGs, indie games, that kind of thing, Tower casuals,
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  obviously Destiny Marathon, that sort of thing, those sorts of
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  games. And then entertainment is going
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  to be like when we bring After Dark back and Standard Def and
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  anything else entertainment related, you know, And it
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  doesn't just have to be the podcast.
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  It can be like, you know, if you wanted to do like a 5 minute
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  thing on Star Trek and why it's cool and why spot goes like this
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  and all these other things, right?
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  Like you could, you could put it over there, you know, you're,
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  you're. Going to give me that much
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  power. Yeah.
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  OK. Yeah.
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  OK, we'll see how this rolls. Yeah.
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  And then here on the Boss Rush podcast channel, the interviews,
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  developer interviews this show and then, you know, kind of
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  whatever else we kind of want to do later.
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  I think I'm also going to make just a Let's Play channel just
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  so like in case anything gets copyright struck.
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  It doesn't, we don't lose anything.
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  Yeah, yeah. You know, like the main product,
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  which is the podcast obviously. Yeah, we just, and we just have
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  to make sure that we don't do any, we don't have any actual
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  like live rolling video of Grand Theft Auto 6 before Grand Theft
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  Auto 6 actually comes out. Yeah, yeah.
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  Remember that episode of Crossroads you got you got
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  dinged for because you had that gameplay running in the back of
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  what game was it? Resident Evil 2?
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  No, no, no, no, no, no. The the Resident Evil ones were
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  safe. What was it?
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  I, you know what? I don't.
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  Maybe I don't remember. Maybe I log into my YouTube
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  studio. I can I can see which one it
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  was. Yeah, maybe it was.
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  I just. That threw a series like.
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  AI know. That was that.
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  Sucks too, because every time, every time, like someone goes to
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  do that, I'm like, man, that looks really cool.
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  I'm going to be the unlucky one that gets dinged for it, you
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  know? And then actually.
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  Actually, I might attempt, I might attempt instead of I might
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  attempt. I might, I might tempt fate and
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  and have some footage, have some pre release footage of GTA6 in
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  there, like, you know, from one that from one like the the
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  trailers or whatnot. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm
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  gonna, I'm gonna mirror flip it so, so it's backwards and see
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  what happens. I mean my, my, my channel.
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  My channel is small enough, you know.
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  Sure, but you just still don't want to lose it, right?
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  I mean. That is true.
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  That is true. Yeah, So I don't know.
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  And then like, I don't know, I just want to get back to the
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  cause the, the whole idea of like the boss Rush network and
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  like the website, we're doing a good job of it and we were doing
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  OK with it at the beginning. But like just that feeling of
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  like we can pull creators from hundreds of outlets and just do
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  stuff with them, you know, without having to like, I don't
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  know, you know what I mean? Like I just, I miss that
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  ambition I used to have. And now it's like after like a
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  year and a half of being burnt out from the bosses.
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  Yeah, which which we, we owe everybody an apology, right,
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  Don't we? We owe everybody a show.
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  Yeah, I actually could get to. That I just it's not too late.
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  It's never too late. We're it's never too late.
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  You know, whatever. The thing the thing though, is,
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  is like, there's just been a lot going on and.
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  Yeah, there has like life has been life ink.
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  Like, don't get me wrong, I, I wanted to do it so bad, but like
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  it just with everything going on and, and you know, work stuff
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  and life stuff, it just like it didn't sneak up on me.
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  It just, I just couldn't find the time.
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  Like I literally couldn't find the time to do it, you know?
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  But anyways, I'm, I'm really excited for like this, this
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  YouTube kind of initiative thing.
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  The what this YouTube initiative that we're kind of moving
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  towards with these separate channels and like trying to get
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  people to do more of what they want to do instead of like being
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  confined to the these things that they may or may not want to
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  do, you know? So yeah, anyways, Laron, let's
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  get into the let's get into this this here podcast that we say
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  we're going to do and we haven't started really yet.
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  What are you? What are you doing?
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  What are you watching? What are you playing?
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  What are you? OK, so oh, achary obituary
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  liquid death. Yeah, this one, this one, this
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  one. One of my favorite flavors.
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  I I think this one and the the root beer one, which I can't
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  remember the name of, of that one specifically.
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  These are two of my favorites. They just can't.
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  They also just came out recently with Pina colada 1 and and
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  anyone who knows anything about me is is I'm a Pina Colada like
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  like nut. I'm not going to say the thing
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  how people start singing the song or whatnot, but I love
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  Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, no, but but yeah, like I'm one of those
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  people. Like whenever whenever I find a
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  711 has like pina colada in their slippery machines, I'm
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  guaranteed to buy one. OK.
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  The only the only problem is there's so many 7 elevens around
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  here and and Guante just all have pina colada.
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  You would, you would hope they would, but they don't, OK?
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  So, so as far as the the what are you playing?
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  What are you watching, all that stuff?
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  Let me see, Let's see. I think last week I told you
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  that, that I, I just actually, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go a
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  different route. Cause normally's TV shows and
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  stuff, I've, I've been watching, I've been watching some, some
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  new anime lately. There's animes, there's anime
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  series that me and my, me and one of my best friends are
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  watching right now. It's called Jenosha basically is
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  the anime version of Among Us, the enemy version of mangas.
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  Basically, Basically you have your main, the main character
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  basically is stuck in a time loop because like every time he
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  wakes up out of his cryofreeze or well, actually, I'm not sure
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  if I'm not sure if they've established his, his, his gender
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  identity, because this isn't, this is a show that actually it
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  actually, you know, like they have like he see they, them
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  characters in it, you know, which I, which I thought was
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  very interesting. I was like, I was like, you
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  know, this show, right? We, we should force people to
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  watch this show so they learn, they learn about pronouns, you
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  know? But could like try and get
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  people to do that. But political and LGBTQ agendas
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  aside and all this stuff, basically, basically what
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  happens is, is our main character, they keep waking up
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  in a loop. They keep waking up in a loop.
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  They're on a they're on a spaceship traveling through
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  space, is heading to a planet. And every time they wake up,
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  every time they wake up, like they encountered, they
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  encountered members of the crew and, and at least one of the
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  members of the crew is this thing called the Genosha was
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  basically like a shapeshifter that looks like a member of the
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  crew, you know? And yeah, so and basically
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  there's a process of elimination that happens.
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  And at the end of the loop, at the end of the at the end of the
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  cycle, you you find out whether or not like you successfully
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  isolated the Genosha or if you isolated wrong people with the
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  crew. And basically, so like murder
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  usually happens or some, or, or there's actually so far in the
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  episode, so far in the episodes I've been watching, they,
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  they've successfully, they successfully eliminated the
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  Genosha. And then the loop started over
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  again. And it's, it's basically like
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  among us because, because like I'm, I'm on the, I'm on the 5th
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  episode. We're on the 5th episode right
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  now. And at first it was like, you
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  have like XYZ members of the crew and one Genosha, which is
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  like the imposter for, for, for, for among us.
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  And then, and then as we got a little further in the episodes,
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  then more characters, more, more crew members showed up.
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  And now you had two Genosha on this on the ship was like, OK,
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  this is just like Among Us. And then another loop happens.
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  You have two Genocho on the ship and one person's an engineer.
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  And it's like, Oh my God. They, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm
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  wondering, I'm wondering if I can't remember the name of the
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  company that does Among Us. I'm, I'm wondering if they're,
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  they're attending a lawsuit right now.
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  I I wonder. They could.
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  I mean, you never know, I guess. But yeah, this, but yeah, this
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  anime is pretty. This anime is pretty good as a
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  matter of fact. The synopsis is when a shape
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  shifting enemy known as Genosha infiltrates a long spaceship,
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  the crew has only one way to survive, identify the imposter
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  each day and put them into cryosleep.
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  But for but for Yuri, that's our main character.
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  The day never ends, trapped in a time loop.
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  Oh the synopsis says it's a she even though I don't.
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  Even though where I'm at in the storyline, they haven't
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  established if it's a if it's a boy or a girl.
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  She relives the first day of the crisis over and over to escape
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  your must uncover the truth behind the Genosha and the time
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  loop itself before it's too late.
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  So yeah, I'm watching that. It's it's pretty, it's really
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  good. It's really good.
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  Like most episodes. Most episodes.
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  I'm giving like a almost a five star rating for most of the
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  episodes I've watched so far. And then let's see what else.
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  Like I said, I've been watching a few.
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  I've been watching a few new anime series.
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  I'm also I well, I I'm also watching this, this, this anime
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  series called kill blue Kill Blue came out, Kill blue came
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  out and oh, kill Blue is new this year.
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  It came it it started this year basically.
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  Basically it follows legendary hitman Juzo Ogami, who has never
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  failed an assignment before. But after admission, he stung by
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  a mysterious wasp and wakes up in the body of a 13 year old
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  boy. His body, you know what him is a
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  13 year old. And to make things weirder, he
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  receives A bizarre new order to infiltrate a middle school.
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  Now the one spirit assassin must balance the chaos of school life
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  with deadly work and all, all while searching for a way to
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  regain his adult his adult body back.
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  Basically, I don't know what the make of the show just yet.
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  Like so far, so far it's only three episodes in because it's a
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  brand, It's a, it's a twin, a brand new twin twins.
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  It's anime. And let's just say there are
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  some shenanigans like, you know, like, like this is and and my
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  roommate stopped watching it with me because he was afraid
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  that, you know, like this this this this 30 some odd year old
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  man trapped in his 13 year old body was going to start doing
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  stuff with like with like the the middle school girls and
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  stuff like that. I'm like, I don't think that's
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  going to happen. But then.
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  But at the end of episode 3, yeah, at the end of at the end
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  of episode 3, one like one of the most popular girls in
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  school. Threw herself at him and then
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  the episode ended right there. Wow.
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  I mean. Nah, kill Blues, kill Blues
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  actually really good. Like I'd like like I I I've just
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  been I've just been like check because I've I haven't really
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  been into like any newer anime in a while.
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  Like as a matter of fact, like I haven't really been tracking
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  anime since probably like probably like the the early
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  twenty 10s. And so like I just like to start
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  looking around because I just wanted to see what else is what
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  else is out there and what's new and start reading just synopsis
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  for certain shows. And I was like, OK, I'll give
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  this show a chance. They yeah, so so there's that as
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  far as TV goes, like I'm still watch I'm still watching the
• 21:17
  boys. As a matter of fact, hopefully
• 21:19
  when we got off the show off the show tonight, I can I I can
• 21:22
  actually go watch like the the episode of the boys.
• 21:24
  It just dropped. So I'm so I'm caught up but
• 21:27
  knowing me. I'm.
• 21:29
  Almost the 6th episode just aired and I think it's 10 up, 10
• 21:33
  episode run. And then and this is the final
• 21:34
  season for the boys. And then like there's a couple
• 21:36
  of new series, new series in that universe coming out.
• 21:40
  They call it the VCU, by the way.
• 21:43
  Yeah. Well, there's the one about
• 21:46
  that, that Captain America RIP off character.
• 21:49
  Right. Soulja Boy.
• 21:50
  Soulja Boy. Yeah, That's, that's that's
• 21:51
  that's coming soon. And then and then what else?
• 21:59
  Let me see. Oh, now the now the finale for
• 22:02
  Star Wars mall Shadow Lord has has premiered, has has aired.
• 22:07
  I'm now going to sit down and watch that series so I can see,
• 22:10
  you know, the all the Sunanians Darth Maul got up into before
• 22:12
  Obi Wan finally killed him. Did you see the did you see the
• 22:16
  new the new poster? New poster the for for Maul of
• 22:23
  him standing there with like the dual lightsabers.
• 22:25
  No. It's it's literally an exact
• 22:28
  like it's, it's like a, it's like an homage to Star Wars
• 22:34
  Force Unleashed 2. Oh yeah.
• 22:37
  Because Starkiller holds his lightsabers like that and it's
• 22:42
  the same actor. Yeah, Sam.
• 22:45
  Oh, Sam. Yeah, 'cause Sam Whitward is the
• 22:46
  voice is the voice for Maul in the in the in the animated
• 22:50
  series. Yeah, so that's cool.
• 22:53
  I thought that was cool. Yeah, but I'm ready.
• 22:56
  I'm ready to check this out. And now and now that I don't
• 23:00
  know, I don't know if it's getting a new season, I don't
• 23:01
  know if it's getting a second season or what not.
• 23:03
  I I think it. Is, I think they said it is I
• 23:05
  think they said. It is.
• 23:05
  That's good. That's good.
• 23:07
  Keep Keep Dave Filoni employed. I mean, he's going to be the
• 23:11
  head of Lucasfilm. So is he?
• 23:13
  I hope he's yeah. So Kathleen Kennedy is
• 23:16
  officially moving on. Yeah, you didn't.
• 23:19
  You didn't hear that story. You of all.
• 23:20
  People didn't hear that story. OK, so here's the thing about
• 23:23
  it, right? The Star Wars fandom pisses me
• 23:25
  off a lot, a lot more than the than the Star Trek fandom does.
• 23:30
  So like, everybody's been calling for her head, you know,
• 23:33
  on a stick since like, since like The Last Jedi.
• 23:37
  I think I, I thought she was doing a fine job.
• 23:40
  So when all this, all this word came out that, you know, she was
• 23:43
  on when, well, I saw like something was going on and
• 23:45
  looked like she was leaving and stuff like that.
• 23:47
  I was like, whatever, 'cause I can't, I can't trust anything
• 23:49
  right now on the Internet because people are just haters.
• 23:52
  Yeah, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are going to run Star
• 23:56
  Wars now, so. Yeah, was she?
• 24:02
  I mean, I wait, was she ousted or did or did she just decide to
• 24:06
  step down? I mean, who?
• 24:09
  Who really knows? Kathleen, This is Hollywood
• 24:13
  Reporter, by the way. I.
• 24:15
  Have trust issues now? Kathleen Kennedy steps down as
• 24:17
  George Lucas proje, Dave Filoni, exec Lenwyn Brennan take over
• 24:24
  Lucasfilm. So this is A Hollywood Reporter.
• 24:29
  This was January 15th, So yeah, I mean, I mean, sure, good.
• 24:38
  I guess I, I really don't know like if that's good or not.
• 24:42
  You know, I, I don't, I'm not smart enough to either.
• 24:44
  I don't know either. I just try not to listen to the
• 24:47
  Internet as much. So, so yeah.
• 24:54
  Well, no, no, it's. It's, it's, well, no, I, I say,
• 24:56
  I say I, I try not listening to the Internet, but I feel like
• 24:59
  all the news comes on the Internet comes all the, all the
• 25:02
  real news comes from the Internet.
• 25:03
  You just have to know how how to like, break it down and figure
• 25:06
  it out. Yeah, you have to like, and also
• 25:09
  you have to like find those sources that you trust even like
• 25:12
  'cause even major outlets have like, you know.
• 25:16
  Yeah. So.
• 25:20
  Yeah, yeah. And let me see like the the
• 25:23
  rookie the the 8th season, the rookie just wrapped up I so I, I
• 25:26
  wrapped, I I finished that and that's.
• 25:29
  That next season's getting kind of like a semi reboot ish.
• 25:35
  Oh can they do that because the series ending on the
• 25:37
  cliffhanger. I don't know, I heard that they
• 25:41
  are ending. On the cliffhanger, I mean.
• 25:45
  I don't know, I don't know. I really don't know.
• 25:52
  But what do I know? I'm not smart.
• 25:55
  We. Don't know anything.
• 25:56
  I just work here, so I, I don't know, I just saw that.
• 26:01
  I saw like because there's like a cast shake up or something.
• 26:05
  I saw I don't know anything. About the controls so.
• 26:09
  I hope I'm not. I hope I'm not like shaking the
• 26:11
  tree or whatever. See what it's called these?
• 26:13
  Days now I gotta see. You know well.
• 26:19
  No, no, I mean, I mean there's always, well, there's always
• 26:24
  well, as far as like rookie, the rookie characters and stuff like
• 26:27
  that. There's always like people who
• 26:28
  cycle out and knew people that come in.
• 26:29
  But the but the core cast is usually the same.
• 26:33
  He's not very different with, with, with, with cast, with this
• 26:37
  cast exit, who's leaving this show?
• 26:41
  I don't know. Is it a big deal?
• 26:43
  We're finding out if Laurent knows.
• 26:45
  Oh, this is oh, this is this was click bait.
• 26:49
  Oh my God. Was it?
• 26:51
  Yeah. Hey, it's clickbait, everybody.
• 26:57
  Whoops. Good job, Laron.
• 27:02
  Yeah, this is oh oh, if I could download websites.
• 27:09
  Sorry, you can't. You know what you can do though,
• 27:12
  La Ron. I, I met Corey, you made me run
• 27:14
  to the Internet to look and see what was going on, 'cause I'm
• 27:16
  like, hey, I love these characters.
• 27:19
  Like what the hell? I don't know.
• 27:20
  I just saw it floating around. I didn't click on the article.
• 27:22
  I don't know anything about the rookie except for what's his
• 27:24
  face is in it. So I always want to call him
• 27:31
  Nathan Drake, but that's not his name.
• 27:33
  Like you you, you about about pissed me off.
• 27:36
  Oh my God. I heard La Ron.
• 27:38
  Everybody write that down. I hurt La Ron.
• 27:45
  I I will find you. I I mean not that hard to find.
• 27:54
  It's almost like you want to be found.
• 27:55
  Do you want me to find you? Do.
• 27:56
  Do you want me to find you? Maybe.
• 28:00
  Huh. Maybe somebody will love me.
• 28:02
  I don't. Know I don't know like just
• 28:04
  complete if you want to play hard to get you better make sure
• 28:07
  you don't get got. No, I'm not.
• 28:13
  Not this guy. Yeah.
• 28:15
  So basically basically it's TVTV stuff.
• 28:18
  I'm going to finally see them Super Mario Galaxy movie now
• 28:21
  that's available on on on demand.
• 28:23
  What was it on Digital now? Yeah, it's on digital.
• 28:26
  When did that? When did that happen?
• 28:29
  2 days ago it was available. It was available.
• 28:32
  Well, actually, actually apparently it was supposed it
• 28:35
  was available on Sunday, but I couldn't find it on like any of
• 28:38
  the low any of the outlets that I usually check out for on
• 28:41
  demand stuff. But but it it finally showed up
• 28:44
  in my feeds on last night. OK, yeah.
• 28:49
  OK, so the Mario Galaxy movie is like that's going to be my next
• 28:52
  movie. I'll I might yeah, that probably
• 28:54
  come to my next movie and then and then let me see video game
• 28:59
  wise, it's video game wise you. Have to rent it though.
• 29:01
  Right to rent it is a rental. Right.
• 29:02
  It is a rental. Yeah, that's yeah, it's a rental
• 29:06
  and video game was been playing a little bit more advanced wars
• 29:09
  one to reboot camp, but but I I sunk some time in the Tekken in
• 29:14
  in the Tekken this past week and I and I finally got promoted to
• 29:20
  Tekken God, which is now officially the highest rank I've
• 29:23
  ever been since Tekken started a ranked online system back in
• 29:27
  Tekken 6. Nice.
• 29:30
  Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so I feel like, I
• 29:33
  feel, I feel like I'm, I'm doing the thing, you know, becoming a
• 29:36
  big boy, you know? Yes, good job, La Ron.
• 29:42
  Proud of you. I knew you could do it.
• 29:45
  I didn't know I could do it, I just wanted to.
• 29:48
  I knew you could do it. Not like famous last words.
• 29:51
  I I didn't probably do it, I just wanted to do it.
• 29:55
  I mean, you know, the there have been worse things said.
• 29:59
  It's famous last words. So, you know, I mean, I don't
• 30:04
  know what they were, but I'm sure it happened.
• 30:07
  And Daredevil born again. The second season just wrapped
• 30:10
  and I'm and I'm sitting here and wringing my hands.
• 30:13
  I watched. I finished it last night.
• 30:18
  Is it enjoyable? I really enjoyed it.
• 30:22
  I I want to know what happens in like the like, this third
• 30:29
  season's going to be really strange with how they ended
• 30:31
  Daredevil this season. Like I'm not going to.
• 30:33
  Didn't the defenders show up? So Jessica Jones is actually in
• 30:38
  the season Like she's in, She's in like 3 or 4 episodes.
• 30:44
  OK. So yeah, technically I guess
• 30:50
  they are, but they start dropping, dropping little hints
• 30:54
  and stuff. And then the last episode has
• 30:57
  like some like you can make guesses on.
• 31:00
  Some shenanigans. What's gonna happen?
• 31:02
  Some shenanigans. So that's, that's happening.
• 31:08
  I would, I would assume that Marvel's going to try to do
• 31:11
  another defender's season at some point.
• 31:15
  So, but yeah, I, I really, yeah. You know, go ahead, finish your
• 31:21
  thought. I was going to say, I really, I
• 31:23
  really enjoyed Daredevil. I think Daredevil is like
• 31:27
  probably Marvel's best show. I I really liked it, even like
• 31:34
  it. It probably lists and the Born
• 31:37
  Again series probably rivals the first season of Daredevil on
• 31:40
  Netflix. Oh.
• 31:41
  Really. Like I've.
• 31:43
  I like it that much. I think I'll finally take the
• 31:45
  plunge and at least wait, are these shows, are these shows
• 31:51
  like kind of a blended continuity, kind of like how the
• 31:53
  Arrowverse was where like, where like where like, you know how
• 31:56
  like cause 'cause Daredevil. The original Daredevil was three
• 31:58
  seasons. Jessica Charles was three
• 32:00
  seasons. Luke Cage was two seasons if I'm
• 32:03
  not mistaken. They all connect, if that's what
• 32:05
  you're asking. So does that mean I have to
• 32:07
  watch these like 1 after the other or do Or can I watch the
• 32:11
  entire daredevil series you know?
• 32:13
  Seasons. Seasons 1 through 3 or do I have
• 32:15
  to hop? Do I have to watch season 1 of
• 32:17
  this and then go to season 1 of that and?
• 32:18
  Season 1 I think is, I think is. So before I started watching
• 32:22
  Daredevil Born Again, I did that.
• 32:26
  I definitely don't think you have to do that.
• 32:28
  I think all you need to know is like basic story beats from the
• 32:31
  from like those shows overall. Not even the in particular
• 32:36
  seasons, just the shows cause. 'Cause.
• 32:40
  I think I would though, if I were you though, I think I
• 32:42
  really, I think I would watch if you, I mean, I'm sure you have,
• 32:45
  but if you haven't watched Dare Daredevil, like the Netflix show
• 32:49
  yet, I would watch that. But I think it's on a seat,
• 32:54
  yeah, Which is on Disney Plus also, by the way.
• 32:57
  Are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:59
  Well, are you? Daredevil born again.
• 33:04
  I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure you need to be familiar with
• 33:07
  Daredevil to be. It is a direct continuation.
• 33:10
  Daredevil Born Again is the first season of Born Again is
• 33:13
  essentially Daredevil season 4. I would also recommend watching
• 33:19
  the Defenders season, that first Defenders season, just because
• 33:25
  it's kind of like, you know, how like essentially Captain America
• 33:33
  Civil War is essentially like an Avengers movie.
• 33:35
  Yeah, yeah, Like it kind of feels like the opposite of that,
• 33:38
  where like the Defenders feels like a a pseudo season of
• 33:41
  Daredevil, but also like it has all the other characters in it.
• 33:46
  And so like, I don't know, I would, I would at least watch
• 33:48
  that if you haven't. It's not amazing, but it it does
• 33:53
  serve a purpose in Daredevil's show.
• 33:58
  So OK. But I think all you need to know
• 34:02
  is that you don't need to. You really don't need to know
• 34:05
  anything about any of the other shows as long as you know who
• 34:07
  the characters are and what their powers are, I think.
• 34:10
  Yeah, which I pretty much, I pretty much know that, know
• 34:12
  that. Yeah, there was a little bit of
• 34:15
  a shock though at the end of Daredevil.
• 34:19
  I will just say something that happened in the original Netflix
• 34:24
  run of these shows. Has been.
• 34:26
  Retconned Well, it wasn't retconned.
• 34:29
  There's it's just something changed.
• 34:33
  I will say, man, I don't want to spoil it.
• 34:38
  Never mind. It's not really no, it's not
• 34:40
  even really a big it's not even really a spoiler for the show.
• 34:43
  It's just like, I'll just say someone's relationship changed
• 34:46
  with someone else. Oh, so that's it.
• 34:54
  OK. All right, Yeah.
• 34:58
  So did I invite that because because I started talking about
• 35:03
  like eventually watching Daredevil.
• 35:06
  Is that how this happened? Maybe.
• 35:10
  I don't know, I don't know how things happened, man.
• 35:12
  I just, I mean, I just, I just go where the conversation takes
• 35:15
  me, Laron. Yeah, I mean, yeah.
• 35:17
  Oh, oh, I wouldn't saw. I wouldn't saw Michael this
• 35:20
  weekend. Mike Oh, the Michael Jackson
• 35:23
  movie. I was like I, I.
• 35:25
  Really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it.
• 35:28
  Did you? Was it good?
• 35:29
  Was it like, is there going to be a sequel?
• 35:32
  I feel like it, I feel like it. I feel like I feel like the way
• 35:35
  it ended, it needs a sequel. But honestly, where it ended, if
• 35:38
  that's where they're going to stop it at, I don't have a
• 35:40
  problem with that. Yeah, I just, I feel like if you
• 35:44
  make a sequel, you're just asking for trouble with like all
• 35:47
  the accusations, whether they're true or not or like, you know
• 35:51
  what I mean? Like I well, that's the thing
• 35:52
  about it where the movie ended, the movie ended, the movie ended
• 35:56
  at the start of the bad era. The movie ended there.
• 36:01
  So all the scandals and stuff came out after that, you know,
• 36:05
  and then of course, like, you know, like his, his, his
• 36:07
  eventual death, you know, and I'm like, are they, are they
• 36:11
  gonna go that far, you know, or, or what?
• 36:13
  You know, right. But, but there are some things I
• 36:16
  will take on. There are, there are some things
• 36:18
  I, I kind of like had that, you know, like had like a, a problem
• 36:22
  about, you know, like they passed over, they passed over
• 36:25
  like a, a segment of, of his career when he was transitioning
• 36:29
  from, from the Jacksons. Well, Jackson 5 to the Jacksons
• 36:33
  because like when, when they got older, they started, they just
• 36:34
  called themselves the Jacksons and then eventually to his solo
• 36:38
  career. And there was a, there was a big
• 36:40
  transition phase between that. When Michael was in that movie,
• 36:43
  The Wiz with Diana Ross, Richard Pryor and a couple other people.
• 36:46
  They didn't even talk about that.
• 36:50
  Yeah, but that might be a rights issue.
• 36:52
  You know, like like the Wiz thing or like, I don't know,
• 36:55
  maybe I don't. I don't know.
• 36:57
  I don't. I I mean, they can talk about
• 36:59
  it. They don't have to show anything
• 37:00
  about the Wiz. You know, they can talk.
• 37:02
  They, they say it leaves me a lot to talk about it.
• 37:04
  But I have a funny feeling the reason why is the controversy
• 37:07
  surrounding Diana Ross. And I'm not going to say I'm not
• 37:14
  going to say much else about that.
• 37:16
  I have my theories about what was going on with Diana Ross and
• 37:19
  Michael Jackson from back in the day.
• 37:20
  And I've already said too much. Just saying that all that.
• 37:24
  What? What was going on?
• 37:28
  OK, All right. At the risk of, at the risk of,
• 37:31
  of being hit with a defamation lawsuit, I'm, I'm truly and
• 37:34
  wholly believe that Diana. Ross allegedly.
• 37:37
  That Diana Ross allegedly was grooming Michael Jackson since
• 37:40
  he was at from the age of 10. Oh, oh, I thought, I thought you
• 37:45
  were going to say something like that was going to shock me.
• 37:51
  You're telling me you you're telling me you knew about that.
• 37:54
  I mean it, I didn't know about it, but it did.
• 37:57
  Wouldn't shock me. Did that means your flabbers
• 38:00
  were gasted? Shut up.
• 38:03
  My guess? My flabbers were gasted.
• 38:08
  I'm trying to play, trying to play me.
• 38:11
  I'm not playing anything. I'm just, I'm, I'm just, you
• 38:15
  know, I just work here, man, Hey.
• 38:19
  That's my line. I say that all the time.
• 38:21
  Don't, don't look at me man. I just work here.
• 38:23
  Yeah, that's what I try to say. But then I always never works.
• 38:29
  Never works out anything else. Anything else.
• 38:36
  Watching, playing, doing, I think I ran through every, I
• 38:39
  think I've yeah, that's it actually, yeah.
• 38:44
  So got some gaming and got some quality like TV and movie time
• 38:47
  stuff going on and yeah. Nice.
• 38:51
  Still still doing a work in progress of redoing my office
• 38:53
  and stuff like that. You know, I decided that I'm
• 38:56
  going to put ATV in here and then figure out what video game
• 39:00
  systems are going to be hooked up to it.
• 39:06
  I see. I see video games.
• 39:10
  Yeah. So I've been like kind of
• 39:14
  bouncing back and forth with games I did.
• 39:17
  However, the one game I do want to talk about is I play.
• 39:19
  I finally downloaded the Pragmata Sketchbook demo because
• 39:23
  everybody's talking about it. It is really cool.
• 39:28
  Like the gameplay loop in that game is really cool.
• 39:30
  I think the like the way the game opens up right is like you
• 39:34
  see the girl Diana, the little robot girl, like colouring on
• 39:40
  the ground. She looks like she's coloring,
• 39:42
  but I think she's actually like making a plan to escape wherever
• 39:45
  you are in this demo. I I haven't finished the demo,
• 39:49
  so I don't know and I'm not going to because Ed told I
• 39:52
  thought like it was one of those games where like you played the
• 39:55
  demo and then your progress carried over, right, Because a
• 39:59
  lot of Japanese games have started doing that, but that is
• 40:03
  not the case. So.
• 40:06
  I don't want to play any more of it because Ed told me that the
• 40:08
  part in the demo is actually like kind of the beginning of
• 40:11
  the game. And so, I mean, I don't know if
• 40:15
  you get this way or not, but like in a, in a single player
• 40:18
  experience, I don't want to like replay the beginning of the game
• 40:21
  more than like once or twice, right?
• 40:23
  So yeah. That's mean.
• 40:25
  Oh, wait, doesn't wait. It's not going to carry over
• 40:27
  your save. I'm like, Oh no, then yeah,
• 40:29
  yeah, thank you for telling me what I that because like I, I
• 40:32
  don't want to play the the demo. Now I I've had it, I've had it
• 40:35
  loaded up on my team for a while, but I just have not had
• 40:37
  to play it. I think it's I think it's worth
• 40:39
  playing like maybe like 1/2 hour of it just to see if you like
• 40:42
  the gameplay. Loop just to get used to the to
• 40:44
  the gameplay. Because like the I got, I got to
• 40:49
  tell you, I've been I I played on Switch too.
• 40:52
  I think I think it would be really cool ROG Ally game for
• 40:55
  you Leron. Say no more.
• 40:58
  Like it, I think that like so the the the way the game works,
• 41:02
  right, it's a third person, kind of it poses itself as like a
• 41:06
  third person over the shoulder shooter, right.
• 41:08
  But and it is really, but also there's this kind of hacking
• 41:16
  mini game think like Bioshock when you have to like hack and
• 41:20
  like you have to put all those kind of like all the things
• 41:23
  together to, you know, solve the puzzle or whatever.
• 41:27
  Yeah, it's kind of like that. And like the, the different
• 41:32
  things that you collect, you can add to the puzzles or to these
• 41:35
  hacking things to like do more damage or I'm sure I think
• 41:38
  there's like elemental attacks at some point and like
• 41:42
  connecting all of them with Diana's hacking ability, like
• 41:47
  will stun the enemy and then you'll be able to take your
• 41:50
  weapon and like do way more damage to them or stun them or
• 41:56
  something like that. And it's really cool.
• 41:58
  I think the weapons like, feel really good.
• 42:00
  They look really cool. Definitely.
• 42:03
  Like it doesn't play like Vanquish, but it's definitely
• 42:07
  giving some Vanquish energy. Oh, I like that.
• 42:10
  Like the, like the weapon designs.
• 42:12
  Yeah. Like the weapon designs and like
• 42:14
  just the overall like look of the enemies.
• 42:19
  Like you know what other game it really reminded me of too that I
• 42:21
  was telling Ed about on Power Block was I don't know if you
• 42:25
  ever played that Sega Gears of War RIP off binary domain.
• 42:29
  I know that I know the game. I never played it.
• 42:31
  But it it like some of the enemy designs was were giving off some
• 42:35
  real binary domain energy, which is like, dude, that game is like
• 42:40
  one of the best sixes you'll ever play in your life.
• 42:42
  It's so dumb and fun and like, it's like, it's like totally
• 42:47
  trying to RIP off Gears of War, right?
• 42:49
  In terms of like the designs and the, and the, and the level
• 42:53
  design and the character design and the weapons and stuff, but
• 42:56
  it's just really cheesy and dumb.
• 43:01
  But yeah, man, this game is really cool.
• 43:03
  I, I, I like Hugh and Diana's relationship.
• 43:05
  It's like a nice change of pace in terms of like somebody said,
• 43:10
  somebody said that Capcom is starting to make the the glad
• 43:14
  dad simulator instead of the sad dad simulator that PlayStation
• 43:17
  is making. Because because like when you
• 43:19
  Start learning about Hugh and you learn about this in the demo
• 43:22
  and like the first like whatever story beats of the game, he's
• 43:25
  like a normal dude. He's just an engineer.
• 43:28
  He's has like a good life and a good family and whatever.
• 43:33
  I mean, I'm, I'm being dumb. Except he's not about to get
• 43:37
  stabbed in the eyeball or, you know, eaten alive by aliens.
• 43:40
  He's just fighting robots and hacking stuff.
• 43:45
  And then that you collect these little blue energy orbs or not
• 43:49
  orbs. They're like little cubes.
• 43:50
  They kind of look like the tesseract from, from Avengers,
• 43:56
  but you collect them. And I, I think that's the energy
• 43:58
  that you collect to upgrade your stuff when you go back to kind
• 44:01
  of like your hub area. But I, I really like the, the,
• 44:09
  the platforming actually works surprisingly well too, where
• 44:12
  like you have a, you have a double jump, but then you have a
• 44:15
  hover also because you're in a space suit and you have a hover
• 44:20
  jetpack. And like you can, I'm sure you
• 44:22
  can upgrade that to get different places and different
• 44:25
  areas of the levels and stuff. But like, I really like that
• 44:30
  ability to like hover and the dash feels good and like when
• 44:36
  you dash out of the way at the right time, it does the little
• 44:38
  like, you know, kind of rewards you for doing that.
• 44:41
  It's it's a really great gameplay loop.
• 44:44
  I highly recommend it, honestly. And it it's one of those games
• 44:47
  where like everybody was talking about it, how good it was, and I
• 44:49
  was like skeptical. I was like, I don't know, Are
• 44:52
  you sure? I mean, it's like one of those
• 44:54
  games, right? Where like everybody's like,
• 44:56
  it's perfect. And I'm like, is it?
• 44:59
  When I saw the previous, when I saw the previous for it, I was
• 45:01
  like, I don't know, you know, like I was like, I'll probably
• 45:04
  play it, but I'm like, I don't know.
• 45:06
  And then as we got closer to it and like, you know, people
• 45:09
  started talking about their experiences and stuff like that,
• 45:11
  I was like, OK, I, I should try it.
• 45:14
  Yeah, I I definitely think you should try it a little bit just
• 45:18
  because the loop is fun. The, the thing I think is gonna
• 45:22
  either hook you or not is the hacking thing.
• 45:26
  Because like on paper and the first couple times you do it,
• 45:28
  you're like, how's this going to work for like a 12 hour
• 45:30
  campaign? But then you kind of like get
• 45:32
  used to it And like you realize, oh, well, I can pick up these,
• 45:36
  you know, yellow lightning Shields and like that'll like
• 45:40
  stun them and, and I can do more damage than if I was just to
• 45:43
  solve the puzzle by itself or, you know, little things like
• 45:47
  that. So I, I think, I think once you
• 45:50
  get used to the hacking thing, it's really cool.
• 45:53
  I think it's definitely worth it.
• 45:55
  All right, I'll try it out. But that's kind of all I've
• 46:00
  been. I mean, I've been also been
• 46:01
  playing marathon and I've been playing games with my kids.
• 46:03
  But like, that doesn't count. That doesn't count.
• 46:08
  Mario Kart doesn't count. Everybody.
• 46:09
  Sorry, I I did. I have been watching some movies
• 46:20
  though again recently. Just be I don't I'm on this
• 46:23
  weird like movie kick. No, I like, I like hearing about
• 46:26
  this cause 'cause I swear, like it's like you don't, you don't,
• 46:31
  you don't watch the, the popular stuff.
• 46:34
  Yeah, I know. I so I you know that those
• 46:39
  movies Den of Thieves with ice cubes son in it and Gerard
• 46:45
  Butler. I watch both of those and
• 46:48
  they're both like really good and really bad at the same time.
• 46:52
  No shock there. But they were, they were pretty
• 46:56
  good. I enjoyed having them on in the
• 46:59
  background. You know, they're like those
• 47:02
  movies, right? Like they're kind of like
• 47:03
  background movies were like, oh, it's on.
• 47:05
  I'll watch it while I'm doing something.
• 47:10
  But I I watched this kind of weird apocalyptic movie called
• 47:15
  How It Ends. Who's in that?
• 47:19
  I think. Forest Whit.
• 47:20
  Forest Whitaker's in it. Theo James is in it.
• 47:23
  And then the girlfriend is, I always forget her name, but
• 47:26
  she's Oh my gosh. What is her name?
• 47:31
  She's Oh my gosh, What is her name?
• 47:35
  Cat Graham. Oh my gosh.
• 47:37
  Oh, whoa, isn't it? That's on?
• 47:39
  That's on my watch list. And it's basically like he like
• 47:46
  Theo James character and Kat Graham's character are are like
• 47:51
  engaged or whatever. And he goes on a business trip
• 47:53
  to New York, and her parents live there, but they live on the
• 47:56
  West Coast. And like, something happens on
• 48:00
  the West Coast. Oh yeah, that that movie came
• 48:03
  out a few years ago, Yeah. I think it says 2018 on it but.
• 48:07
  Yeah, that was a Netflix movie. Yeah, but it was pretty good.
• 48:12
  Like the, it just like them trying to get back to try to
• 48:15
  find her was really interesting 'cause she doesn't go with him.
• 48:18
  Like she's stuck, but they never like, it's about the journey to
• 48:23
  get back to her. So they never show her like what
• 48:26
  she's been going through. So it's really, it's really fun.
• 48:31
  It was really interesting apocalyptic movies like trying
• 48:35
  to survive. And the I think the cool thing
• 48:37
  about it too is like, they never tell you what happens.
• 48:42
  They never tell you what the event was that made the.
• 48:44
  Apocalypse, what the event was they never like, they never tell
• 48:47
  you like how it happened. There are there's some like talk
• 48:52
  of like, was it a natural disaster?
• 48:54
  Was it this was it that? Was it a government conspiracy?
• 49:00
  And then, like the way the movie ends, you're supposed to make an
• 49:03
  assumption of what happened, but they never really tell you.
• 49:08
  Not cool. So I I thought it.
• 49:11
  Was that's that's a movie that would annoy me.
• 49:17
  So yeah, it looks like like there's some scenes in the movie
• 49:19
  where like I feel like this movie probably like it was a it
• 49:24
  was a long movie. It was like 2-2 hours long.
• 49:27
  But like, I feel like there's probably another half hour movie
• 49:33
  in there that would like, kind of flesh out some of the things
• 49:36
  not necessarily like what happened, but like there's a
• 49:39
  character in there that like, kind of goes into like a
• 49:41
  government conspiracy idea. And then they never really do
• 49:44
  anything with it. You know, it's like one of those
• 49:46
  movies where they like open things up and then they never do
• 49:48
  something with it. You know, they just kind of
• 49:50
  ignore it. Yeah.
• 49:54
  But it was fun enough. It was, it was good enough.
• 49:58
  And then for some reason, Laron, for some reason, I'm trying to
• 50:03
  train my brain to play Resident Evil this summer.
• 50:07
  So I watched Army of the Dead. Army of the Dead, Dave Batista.
• 50:15
  Yeah. It's like a Oh yeah.
• 50:17
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, where like there's like a
• 50:18
  zombie apocalypse breakout in in Las Vegas and like they trap all
• 50:22
  the zombies in Las Vegas and they have to go in and like do a
• 50:25
  bank like a hype to get the money out or whatever.
• 50:28
  And it's, I don't know, man. It was, it was kind of funny and
• 50:32
  fun and it has the like. It has the girl from Fallout in
• 50:36
  it, Ella Pernelle. Oh, from the from the Fallout
• 50:40
  series. From the show yeah, it was
• 50:44
  pretty good. It was pretty yeah.
• 50:47
  I'm I'm I am kind of shocked they didn't make a sequel,
• 50:51
  although they did make a prequel about one of the characters that
• 50:53
  has nothing to do with a zombie apocalypse.
• 50:55
  So I don't know, man, it was kind of strange, but I watched
• 51:02
  that too. It was it was what do you?
• 51:04
  Think it was. It was OK.
• 51:06
  It was fun. I kind of like Dave Batista as
• 51:11
  an actor. He has like this kind of there's
• 51:15
  something about him, man, in these movies that's.
• 51:17
  Like he's not a bad actor, honestly.
• 51:20
  Like I'm like, I'm not going to say I've seen every Batista
• 51:23
  movie, but but the movies I have seen, like he's doing a pretty
• 51:27
  good job, you know? It's not like he's being like
• 51:30
  hokey or over the top. I mean, honestly, honestly.
• 51:35
  Well, I mean, I mean, for sure him, Dwayne Johnson and and John
• 51:39
  Cena, like they've got the Hollywood magic, yeah.
• 51:44
  Yeah, I don't think I don't think John Cena's a bad actor
• 51:47
  either, like I. Don't think he's bad at all.
• 51:49
  He's definitely gotten better. Like I don't know if you've
• 51:51
  watched heads of state, have you watched that?
• 51:53
  I think we talked about it a couple weeks ago.
• 51:55
  I have not. It's on my list.
• 51:56
  It's on my list. That movie is like really good
• 51:59
  and John Cena's like really awesome in that.
• 52:02
  He's also, he's also like a what?
• 52:05
  What's the movie called? It's on Netflix too.
• 52:09
  It's called, it has Alison Brie in it.
• 52:13
  It's called like freelance or something where he like goes to
• 52:17
  a country to protect this journalist or whatever it was.
• 52:22
  That movie was really good too. So yeah, I don't know.
• 52:28
  I think, oh, oh, the other movie I watched was Free Guy last
• 52:31
  night. I never watched it.
• 52:33
  I had avoided. That one, for some reason, no,
• 52:37
  there was a. There was a valid reason for why
• 52:39
  I avoided that one, but right now, like it's escaping me while
• 52:41
  I avoided that one. It, I mean, I wouldn't go out of
• 52:45
  my way to watch it, but it was fun.
• 52:47
  It was fun enough. I don't know.
• 52:49
  I needed something after all the murder movies I watched.
• 52:53
  Needed a palate cleanse? Yeah, I mean, I don't, I it's
• 52:58
  like one of those movies that's like totally forgettable.
• 53:03
  And it's kind of annoying how they talk about video games in
• 53:05
  that game or in that in that movie, right.
• 53:07
  Like, you know how they make movies about video games and
• 53:09
  like they always, oh, the the Avatar, you can't change the
• 53:14
  skin of the avatar. And it's like nobody, nobody
• 53:17
  says the word Avatar. Guys, come on.
• 53:19
  Nobody says that. Nobody says that.
• 53:22
  OK. And then they have to go in and
• 53:25
  like because he's an NPC, they go into this like a long
• 53:29
  dialogue thing about what an NPC is, is like, I think most people
• 53:34
  kind of that was. No.
• 53:35
  Well that was definitely meant for the people who don't play
• 53:37
  fucking video games. I know, but that's like the
• 53:40
  annoying part about like movies that are based on video games,
• 53:43
  even fake ones, is like you have to go in and like explain all
• 53:48
  this stuff and it's like, oh man, that's why games should
• 53:51
  just be games, man. But but yeah, that's that's what
• 53:57
  I've that's what I've been watching.
• 53:59
  So they added Veronica Mars to Netflix.
• 54:02
  No way that. Veronica Mars is our wait.
• 54:05
  No, Veronica Mars was on was on Hulu.
• 54:08
  Yeah. Oh, it's the movie.
• 54:11
  I forgot they made a Veronica Mars movie.
• 54:15
  So. But that's it I think for now.
• 54:19
  I'm sure I'll have more next next time.
• 54:22
  So. But yeah, that's it.
• 54:27
  Let's let's talk about stuff, Laurent.
• 54:30
  OK, Wanna talk about stuff? Yeah, let's get started.
• 54:35
  Let's talk about stuff. Of course, of course this
• 54:42
  happened. Laron's, Laron's got a got a
• 54:45
  phone call. Hollywood.
• 54:46
  Hollywood, Yeah. At over here, at 2 point O over
• 54:51
  here. I thought I had this.
• 54:52
  I thought I do not disturb. Well, it definitely disturbed
• 54:56
  the show. Laron.
• 54:57
  Yeah, sorry about that. Let's see where where we can
• 55:01
  start on the DL. Is that is that is that it?
• 55:05
  Yeah, we can do that. I there's no descriptions, but
• 55:07
  it's fine, no? No, no, I got descriptions.
• 55:09
  I got descriptions. All right, so this is the new
• 55:12
  notable games coming out for the week of May the 11th through the
• 55:14
  17th in 2026. All right, so starting off we
• 55:19
  have the for that we have for on May the 11th.
• 55:25
  The most anticipated pick so far is outbound and Outbound you
• 55:30
  build your own home on wheels and live sustainably off the
• 55:33
  grid. Craft workstations and power
• 55:35
  supplies, source energy from the sun, water or sun, wind or
• 55:39
  water. Upgrade and customize your
• 55:42
  vehicle, grow crops, automate your production and explore a
• 55:45
  colorful world. Outbound will be available on PC
• 55:50
  and Xbox Series X on the 11th of May and then and then we'll
• 55:55
  release on Switch to PlayStation five and the and the original
• 55:59
  Switch on May the 14th. Next up is Battlestar Galactica
• 56:04
  Scattered Hopes, also available on the 11th.
• 56:07
  Battlestar Galactica Scattered Hopes is a story rich tactical
• 56:11
  rogue light with hard choices and and intense space battles.
• 56:15
  You are a gun star, Captain. Gunstar.
• 56:18
  Cap. Oh, Gunstar.
• 56:19
  OK, yeah, that's a different type.
• 56:20
  That's a different type of ship in Battlestar Galactica.
• 56:23
  For those for those for the uninitiated, you're a Gunstar
• 56:26
  captain, leading a fleet of survivors escaping the Cylon
• 56:29
  fleet's devastating onslaught on humankind.
• 56:31
  Admiral Adama has called for you to rejoin humanity's last hope,
• 56:34
  the Battlestar Galactica. Prepare, fight and survive at
• 56:37
  all costs. So say we all.
• 56:40
  As you navigate different planets and galactic points of
• 56:42
  interest, Battlestar Galactica Scattered Hopes will test you
• 56:45
  with a challenging with challenging dilemmas.
• 56:49
  From allocating dwindling resources to managing divergent
• 56:51
  factions, interest on board each crisis will push you to make
• 56:55
  hard choices, including identifying impostors that may
• 56:58
  already be among your ranks. They could be anyone, anywhere.
• 57:03
  The Cylons will close in with each action you take.
• 57:05
  Prioritize your cruise actions wisely to prepare for the
• 57:09
  inevitable fight to come. So Bassar Granica Scatter Hopes
• 57:15
  will be coming to PC on the 11th, so be on the lookout for
• 57:19
  that. My personal pick coming out on
• 57:25
  May the 12th. This is my personal pick and I
• 57:28
  also feel like it is also the is also extremely anticipated by
• 57:32
  the community. This is Directive 8020, a dark
• 57:35
  pictures game. Yes, I've been waiting for this
• 57:38
  one. Is this the military one?
• 57:41
  No, this is the. This is the.
• 57:42
  This is the from the same group that did, like, laugh.
• 57:49
  Yeah, I mean. I know, I know the studio.
• 57:51
  I'm just I I wasn't sure if it was like.
• 57:53
  That it's the sci-fi one. It's the sci-fi one.
• 57:56
  Yeah, OK. Yeah.
• 57:57
  Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:59
  Yeah, yeah, like ever since ever since it showed up on the key on
• 58:02
  on Keely Summer's Game Fest, I was like, yes, I can't wait to
• 58:05
  play this game and I'm so glad it comes out.
• 58:08
  The next installment of Dark Dark Pictures Anthology is
• 58:12
  coming to Xbox Series X consoles, PC and PlayStation 5.
• 58:18
  In this game, Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time.
• 58:21
  12 light years from home. Tao City F offers a small sliver
• 58:25
  of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia
• 58:27
  crash lands on the planet, it's crew soon realize that they are
• 58:31
  far from being being alone in space.
• 58:34
  Death takes many forms. Experience immersive cinematic
• 58:37
  storytelling and as you see horror on a deep space mission
• 58:40
  to survive humanity. I'm sorry to save humanity,
• 58:43
  evade a deadly alien threat that roams the dark corridors of the
• 58:47
  ship. Intent on eradicating human
• 58:49
  life. Overcome.
• 58:50
  Your enemies are using improvised weapons, lightning
• 58:53
  reflexes, and stealth. Man, when I tell you I cannot
• 58:57
  wait. I, I, I am so ready for this
• 58:59
  game. I'm so ready for this game.
• 59:02
  Yep, Xbox Series XPC and PlayStation 5 all on May the
• 59:06
  12th. Also on May the 12th we have
• 59:10
  Call of the Elder Gods. This is set 30 years after the
• 59:14
  first game. Didn't even realize there's a
• 59:16
  sequel. Calls Call of the Sea was the
• 59:18
  first one. OK, thank you.
• 59:20
  Thank you. Players join Harry Everhart and
• 59:23
  Evangeline Drayton on a gripping journey to uncover the truth
• 59:26
  behind the disappearance of their loved ones.
• 59:29
  Call of the Elder Gods expands far beyond the island setting of
• 59:32
  his predecessor, transporting players through time and space
• 59:35
  to to the far corners of the world.
• 59:38
  Call the other guys will be coming to play season 5 switch
• 59:40
  to Xbox Series X and the PC and then I think it's also.
• 59:46
  In Game pass day one also in case anybody out there cares.
• 59:49
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 59:50
  I was not aware. Also on May the 12th, we have
• 59:54
  the switch to version of Indiana Jones the Great Circle.
• 59:58
  Do I need to talk? Do I need, do I need to give a
• 1:00:00
  synopsis for us? I think we are, yes.
• 1:00:02
  OK. All right.
• 1:00:03
  What about all the porn Nintendo fans who are going to play it
• 1:00:05
  there? OK, so on the switch to uncover
• 1:00:08
  one of history's greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones the
• 1:00:10
  Great Circle. A first, a first person single
• 1:00:13
  player action set. I'm sorry, action action
• 1:00:17
  adventure game set between the events of Rays of the Lost Ark
• 1:00:20
  and the Last Crusade. That's pretty broad.
• 1:00:24
  Well, wait, wait. Wait wait, I keep forgetting it.
• 1:00:26
  Tim Ladim is a pre, Yeah. Tim Ladim is a prequel.
• 1:00:30
  Yeah, the year is 1937. Sinister forces are scouring the
• 1:00:34
  globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the
• 1:00:37
  great Circle, and only one person can stop them.
• 1:00:40
  Doctor Indiana Jones live the adventure as Indy and a
• 1:00:45
  thrilling story full of exploration, immersive action
• 1:00:47
  and intriguing puzzles. As the brilliant archaeologist
• 1:00:51
  fame, first King, intellect, cunning, resourcefulness and
• 1:00:53
  trademark humor, you will travel the world in the race against
• 1:00:56
  enemy forces to discover the secrets to one of the greatest
• 1:00:59
  mysteries of all time. Travel from the halls of
• 1:01:02
  Marshall College to the heart of the Vatican, the pyramids of
• 1:01:05
  Egypt, the sunken temples of Sokotai and beyond.
• 1:01:10
  When a break in in the dead of the night ends in a
• 1:01:12
  confrontation with mysterious, colossal man you, you must set
• 1:01:16
  out to discover the world shattering secret behind the
• 1:01:18
  theft of a seemingly unimportant artifact.
• 1:01:22
  So yes, excellent. So yeah, Indiana Jones in the
• 1:01:26
  great circle finally makes his way to Nintendo to Nintendo via
• 1:01:29
  the Switch 2 that's available on May the 12th.
• 1:01:32
  And and just in case you've forgotten, it's already out on
• 1:01:35
  PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles as well.
• 1:01:37
  I'm sorry, just the just the XI was too powerful.
• 1:01:40
  The Series S, apparently you know.
• 1:01:42
  It's on. It's on Series X, it's on Series
• 1:01:44
  S Everything on it, everything that comes on the Series X has
• 1:01:47
  to be on Series S. OK, my, I'm sorry.
• 1:01:50
  Dumb rule Microsoft made. I'm sorry, I I the the Rundown,
• 1:01:54
  The Rundown just just showed Series X and so, well, you know,
• 1:01:58
  I forgot. OK, I'm used.
• 1:01:59
  I'm used to. I'm used to seeing series XX and
• 1:02:01
  S. All right, you can blame me for
• 1:02:05
  that. And And Last Up and Last Up
• 1:02:09
  coming out on May the 14th, is another hotly anticipated game.
• 1:02:16
  Even though this is early access, though, so our gamers
• 1:02:19
  get ready to play Subnautica 2, which is been getting a lot of
• 1:02:23
  news for sure. Negative news.
• 1:02:27
  Yeah, Exactly. All right.
• 1:02:30
  Subnautica 2A. New world awaits alongside an
• 1:02:32
  all new story. You are a pioneer traveling to a
• 1:02:35
  distant world, but something is amiss.
• 1:02:37
  The ship's AI insists you carry on the mission.
• 1:02:40
  This world is too dangerous for humans to survive unless you
• 1:02:43
  change what it means to be human.
• 1:02:45
  What creatures, intelligent or otherwise, await your arrival?
• 1:02:49
  Play alone or with the three friends in online multiplayer
• 1:02:51
  Co-op. Whether exploring mysterious
• 1:02:53
  ruins, building custom bases, or venturing deeper into the world,
• 1:02:57
  the challenge of this planet will test your ingenuity and
• 1:03:00
  ability to adapt in in unexpected and curious ways.
• 1:03:04
  From towering underwater cliffs to lush coral fields, this
• 1:03:07
  aquatic alien world is brimming with vibrant and breathtaking
• 1:03:10
  biomes, each teeming with diverse ecosystems and unique
• 1:03:14
  creatures. But something isn't right, The
• 1:03:17
  world is out of balance. What happened here?
• 1:03:20
  What happened to you? And more importantly, where are
• 1:03:23
  you? Subnautica 2 Early Access
• 1:03:27
  Subnautica 2 is hitting PC and Xbox Series X on the 14th, and
• 1:03:34
  there is no other news about what's happening after the early
• 1:03:38
  access. So strap in and be ready.
• 1:03:40
  And that's all the new notable games coming coming this this
• 1:03:44
  upcoming week. Corey, what's I already I
• 1:03:48
  already I I think I already shouted to the heavens like what
• 1:03:51
  game I'm I'm all about for this release.
• 1:03:53
  It's directive 8020. What about you?
• 1:03:56
  I mean, I'm probably gonna, I, I never finished Indiana Jones on
• 1:04:00
  Xbox, right. And so like what I'll, I mean,
• 1:04:03
  what I'm probably gonna do is play it on Switch to just to
• 1:04:05
  have that content first for Pal block.
• 1:04:08
  But I mean, Indiana Jones is probably my pick on here.
• 1:04:13
  Although I've heard a lot of good things about Outbound as
• 1:04:15
  well. I know we have a strong indie
• 1:04:19
  kind of flavor here at Boss Rush.
• 1:04:21
  So I want to give a shout out to Outbound.
• 1:04:25
  Heard a lot of good things on that.
• 1:04:26
  But I just, I remembered, man. Now that I am remembering
• 1:04:31
  Directive 8020, this is totally right up your alley.
• 1:04:34
  Yes, yeah. Seems like Mass Effect meets
• 1:04:37
  Alien is what it seems like. That would be nice.
• 1:04:40
  That would be nice. Because I mean, Dead Space was
• 1:04:42
  was definitely Alien, Alien meets Event Horizon.
• 1:04:46
  You know, which by the way, that that should be a movie you you
• 1:04:49
  should watch. I know you're kind of squeamish
• 1:04:51
  about horror movies and stuff like that, but that's a movie.
• 1:04:53
  That's a movie I think you would you would enjoy.
• 1:04:56
  This guy thinks I'll enjoy this movie.
• 1:05:00
  Alright, alright, but there you go.
• 1:05:03
  Definitely come back next week because because the hotly
• 1:05:05
  anticipated game for the for the upcoming week is we're going to
• 1:05:09
  be talking about Forza Horizon 6.
• 1:05:12
  Oh yeah, I forgot that that was dude, I always, I keep
• 1:05:15
  forgetting that that game is coming out.
• 1:05:18
  Me too. Forgetting.
• 1:05:19
  I've been, I've been so like tuned out of like what's coming
• 1:05:24
  out on Xbox because I'm waiting for Fable and Gears to the point
• 1:05:27
  where it's like, I really don't care about anything else at this
• 1:05:30
  point. I feel like, and like, I feel
• 1:05:33
  like I want. The problem.
• 1:05:34
  I thought the problem is, is that is that #1 like, like
• 1:05:39
  racing games don't hit the same way they used to.
• 1:05:41
  There used to be a time when we were always waiting for the next
• 1:05:44
  racing game, whether it was Burnout, Need for Speed Grid,
• 1:05:48
  you know, you know, Tokyo Extreme Racer, you know, and
• 1:05:52
  then racing games is kind of like just fell by the wayside,
• 1:05:55
  you know? Now it's like we have to beg for
• 1:05:57
  like, you know, like a game, like a like, like shoot.
• 1:05:59
  I forgot what the Colin O'Neill games became, you know, after
• 1:06:03
  what was it? Play Masters got bought out by
• 1:06:05
  EA. Oh, code yeah, Code masters.
• 1:06:08
  Code masters. Then they fold them into what?
• 1:06:11
  Black box? I think, which was the old like
• 1:06:14
  burnouts, like the studio they made from old burnout
• 1:06:18
  developers, right. And now they work.
• 1:06:20
  Now they just do the driving sections and tank stuff for
• 1:06:22
  Battlefield. So yeah, I don't, I don't know,
• 1:06:28
  man. There's a lot of weird stuff
• 1:06:29
  going on over there. I, I just, yeah.
• 1:06:35
  Yeah, but, but ultimately, yeah, I, I, I really think, I really
• 1:06:39
  think just just just racing games just kind of fell out of,
• 1:06:44
  fell out of taste for people. Yeah, I kind of feel like there
• 1:06:47
  was a time and place for like, not just racing games, but also
• 1:06:50
  like sports games used to be huge and now they're just not.
• 1:06:54
  Yeah. Like, I mean, I mean, yeah,
• 1:06:56
  Madden's still huge, but I feel like there's a time where, like,
• 1:06:59
  everybody played Madden, you know, like even non sports
• 1:07:02
  people played Madden at one point.
• 1:07:04
  And now it's like, well, also, I think that has a lot to do with
• 1:07:09
  the quality of the game that they've been putting out the
• 1:07:11
  last two decades. But yeah, yeah, right.
• 1:07:15
  Madden has not been good in my opinion, but again, it's just an
• 1:07:20
  opinion, don't yell at me. And I've honestly been afraid,
• 1:07:24
  been afraid to play around with with the NCAA.
• 1:07:28
  Yeah, that's the that's the one too, right?
• 1:07:30
  It's like they just so the the big discourse right now online
• 1:07:34
  is like, so they just announced Madden 27 is coming to switch,
• 1:07:39
  which is like great, or switch to, I guess not switch one.
• 1:07:44
  But now everybody's like, dude, where's college football at?
• 1:07:49
  It's like, guys, come on, it's EA.
• 1:07:51
  They they, they're giving you the bare minimum.
• 1:07:53
  You should just appreciate that. I know, right?
• 1:07:56
  Like, don't get me wrong, college football, it's a massive
• 1:07:59
  thing, but. Also, it is, yeah, I think, I
• 1:08:02
  think that's a problem honestly, with college football, with a
• 1:08:05
  college football game is so monolithic.
• 1:08:06
  You have over 100 different teams, you know, whereas whereas
• 1:08:12
  in NFL, in NFL games are keeping track of what like 36, 30. 2.
• 1:08:19
  32. Although there there's going to
• 1:08:21
  be an expansion soon an. Expansion for who?
• 1:08:25
  Football. Oh, they're, they're bringing
• 1:08:28
  out, they're bringing out two new teams.
• 1:08:30
  Within the next four to six years, is the rumor.
• 1:08:32
  They're going to. Add 8.
• 1:08:33
  They're going to add 8 teams so that each each each conference
• 1:08:38
  can have two more have each have another division.
• 1:08:42
  What the hell? Yeah, Yep.
• 1:08:48
  So everybody's strapping for that.
• 1:08:51
  That's interesting. You know, like, wait, Corey, you
• 1:08:54
  were alive when they when they when they introduced Carolina,
• 1:08:58
  who was it was Carolina and Jacksonville and well, it was
• 1:09:01
  four teams. Right.
• 1:09:02
  Cleveland No, it was just two. But then they so the But then in
• 1:09:08
  90, after like a year or two after that, the Browns moved to
• 1:09:13
  Baltimore and became the Ravens. And then in 99, they brought the
• 1:09:16
  Browns back to Cleveland. So that's kind of like, you
• 1:09:22
  know, in terms of expansion teams, although there are some
• 1:09:26
  in the late, I don't remember this, but I think there were
• 1:09:27
  some in the late 80s. But yeah, I don't know, man.
• 1:09:35
  Sports are weird. Hockey's getting some new teams,
• 1:09:38
  I guess the. One the one sport I absolutely
• 1:09:44
  do not keep track of. Dude, I don't.
• 1:09:49
  Yeah, man. Yeah.
• 1:09:50
  Were you about to say you know? NBANBA is going to.
• 1:09:52
  NBA is going to expand too, and with two more teams.
• 1:09:55
  I don't know that. Las Vegas and Seattle.
• 1:09:59
  Wait, Las Vegas already didn't already have a team?
• 1:10:02
  Dude sports were banned there because of the betting for a
• 1:10:05
  long time. You know what?
• 1:10:07
  Now, now they have now they have three of the four like they have
• 1:10:11
  a hockey team. Now they have a baseball team.
• 1:10:13
  Now they have a football team now.
• 1:10:14
  So now they're going to have a basketball team.
• 1:10:19
  So all right, yeah. Sports talk here, everybody.
• 1:10:28
  I swear, I swear, I swear. We run the gamut of topics
• 1:10:31
  nowadays, like, like what happened, you know?
• 1:10:34
  And I'm not asking, I'm not asking what happened in a bad
• 1:10:37
  way either. Like I I, I am enjoying the new
• 1:10:40
  format of the show. I mean, yeah, I mean, we, we're
• 1:10:43
  just kind of all over the place. I mean, I which is fine.
• 1:10:45
  I, I wanted like, that's the show I kind of wanted to be
• 1:10:48
  with. Like, oh, we have things to talk
• 1:10:50
  about, but if we don't get to them a lot.
• 1:10:53
  Granted, Corey, Your wish has finally been granted.
• 1:10:56
  Man, I've I've been waiting for this.
• 1:11:03
  It only took 320 episodes. Wait, weird.
• 1:11:07
  There's no way we're that high. No, we're at 3:16.
• 1:11:10
  OK. Anyway, Speaking of topics to
• 1:11:14
  talk about Ron, this is something.
• 1:11:15
  I, I'm so happy to be here. I, I wish I could have been here
• 1:11:17
  from the start, but I'm so happy to be here.
• 1:11:19
  Look, I think I'm the longest running newcomer though.
• 1:11:23
  To be fair, the newcomer Dude you you think your first episode
• 1:11:26
  was like 40 something? No way.
• 1:11:30
  Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 1:11:31
  Wait, I've been boss versus what, five years now?
• 1:11:33
  Yeah. That that, that, that that
• 1:11:35
  tracks 1 show, 1 show a week for the most part.
• 1:11:38
  So averaging about maybe 44 episodes a year, you know,
• 1:11:42
  because we do take time off. Yeah, I think you're right.
• 1:11:48
  Yeah, as somebody who just went through all of the episodes
• 1:11:50
  trying to find PAL Block and Expansion Pass and all these
• 1:11:53
  other things that we do right like.
• 1:11:55
  Wow. I'm old.
• 1:11:56
  You've been around for a while, Iran.
• 1:11:58
  Sorry. Hey.
• 1:12:01
  You know what to. Be fair, to be fair.
• 1:12:03
  You want to hear something real? You want to hear something real.
• 1:12:05
  Sad I I am now older than Ed was when we started this Like when
• 1:12:11
  we started everything like. Podcasting together.
• 1:12:16
  That's because Ed's pretty old. I know, but it.
• 1:12:20
  And I'm saying that a nice way. I'm saying that a nice way.
• 1:12:23
  No, it just means we've been doing this for a long time and
• 1:12:25
  we should probably stop at some point, but Oh well.
• 1:12:27
  Do you want to stop? I don't want to stop.
• 1:12:30
  Sometimes I do, but I'm more of like.
• 1:12:33
  I have, I have mornings when I wake up, I'm like, man, I'm
• 1:12:36
  done. Yeah, like, man, I wish I didn't
• 1:12:39
  wake up today, but here I am anyways.
• 1:12:44
  Speaking of dark and gloomy, let's let's talk about this
• 1:12:47
  thing I texted you about last Thursday right after we
• 1:12:50
  recorded. Yeah, I know, right GameStop,
• 1:12:56
  but I'm actually glad we're talking about now because things
• 1:12:59
  have developed since since we since you first mentioned it.
• 1:13:02
  I know, I don't know if you watched the CNBC interview he
• 1:13:05
  was on, but we're going to do that too.
• 1:13:08
  Oh my gosh dude, it's so funny. Gamestop's massive eBay bid is
• 1:13:17
  sparking a market doubt as Ryan Cohen defends quote, trans
• 1:13:21
  transformational gamble. Wall Street wasn't ready for
• 1:13:27
  Gamestop's latest move. After announcing a surprise
• 1:13:31
  $55.5 billion bid to acquire eBay, GameStop saw its stock
• 1:13:38
  tumble. Shocking.
• 1:13:40
  I didn't know they had it. I didn't know it was that high
• 1:13:43
  to even tumble. First of all, I didn't.
• 1:13:45
  I didn't. Know they're like.
• 1:13:46
  I didn't know in. Stock I'll give you, give you 3
• 1:13:49
  to $3.50 for that. I didn't know GameStop had had
• 1:13:54
  had assets in the billions. I thought they were in the
• 1:13:56
  millions at this point. I know dude, I had, I had no
• 1:13:59
  idea they had this much money to even try.
• 1:14:02
  So apparently they've been acquiring stock within like,
• 1:14:08
  over the last few years, which is why the price is lower than
• 1:14:10
  the $100 billion worth of eBay apparently games.
• 1:14:17
  Let's see. GameStop saw its stock tumble as
• 1:14:21
  investors question whether Ryan Cohen's ambitious plan is
• 1:14:25
  realistic or reckless during a tense CNBC interview.
• 1:14:30
  Dude, it was like, so uncomfortable to watch this
• 1:14:34
  thing. Dude, this guy's a psychopath.
• 1:14:38
  Cohen defended the proposal as a once in a generation opportunity
• 1:14:44
  to build a larger, leaner commerce platform by slashing
• 1:14:47
  costs and leveraging Gamestop's retail footprint.
• 1:14:50
  But skepticism over a financing and strategic fit immediately
• 1:14:55
  dominated the conversation. So here's here's kind of the
• 1:15:01
  breakdown. GameStop has offered $125 per
• 1:15:04
  share in 1/2 cash half stock deal for eBay, despite GameStop
• 1:15:10
  being worth only a fraction of the proposed acquisition price.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah, what the hell? There's, there's, there's one
• 1:15:15
  strike. It makes it.
• 1:15:18
  Makes no sense. Yeah, dude, it's Ryan Cohen.
• 1:15:22
  By the way, Ryan Cohen's the CEO of GameStop, in case anybody
• 1:15:24
  didn't know that. Not that you need to know that
• 1:15:27
  and nobody really cares, but Cohen argued eBay is quote under
• 1:15:31
  earning and claimed tighter operational controls and
• 1:15:35
  dramatically improved profitability with a within a
• 1:15:38
  short period, he's doubling down on aggressive cost cutting and
• 1:15:44
  then investors are questioning whether the deal is even
• 1:15:48
  realistic. While eBay shares rose modestly
• 1:15:52
  after the announcement, GameStop stock dropped sharply as
• 1:15:58
  analysts and shareholders raised concerns about financing,
• 1:16:01
  execution and long term strategy behind the merger.
• 1:16:06
  There is a really fascinating article over on NBCCNBC as as
• 1:16:10
  well as the interview. You can go listen to it or read
• 1:16:13
  it. Dude when I saw this I'm like
• 1:16:18
  how does GameStop even have enough money to do this?
• 1:16:20
  You know you. Know right and they're buying
• 1:16:22
  and they're buying eBay, which if I'm not mistaken eBay doesn't
• 1:16:26
  eBay own PayPal? They don't anymore.
• 1:16:28
  They sold it, but they do they still have like a payment
• 1:16:33
  platform, but I don't really, I don't know what it is or like
• 1:16:37
  how it works or anything. Like I mean, I I use eBay and
• 1:16:41
  they pay me when I sell stuff. So like it's all I kind of
• 1:16:44
  really care about, but I don't really know how it all kind of
• 1:16:49
  works together, if you know, if you know what I mean.
• 1:16:54
  So I just I don't understand man like.
• 1:16:57
  It's. Very it's very weird.
• 1:17:00
  I don't understand how he even like has the money to do this
• 1:17:04
  right. I mean they you can't afford to
• 1:17:06
  keep and no offense to Game Informer.
• 1:17:09
  I I I like those guys dearly, you know, but like you can't
• 1:17:12
  even afford to keep your ten person magazine open.
• 1:17:16
  Like I understand that magazines are like a dying kind of media
• 1:17:21
  platform, but like, I mean, come on, that was like that was
• 1:17:25
  literally the only reason why I had a power up pro membership
• 1:17:28
  was to like get the magazine. You know, that was that was one
• 1:17:32
  that. Was one of my reasons.
• 1:17:33
  Like I like, like, I mean, I don't know, like, I don't know.
• 1:17:37
  Like I, I, I, I feel like, I feel like sometimes I feel like
• 1:17:40
  sometimes print media is like, is like, is like, is like a form
• 1:17:43
  of like some type of porn for me.
• 1:17:45
  Like I sometimes I like having fixed physical print media
• 1:17:49
  sometimes, you know, and other times I'm like, no, get it away
• 1:17:51
  from me because I have to like keep track of it and, you know,
• 1:17:53
  boxed up whenever I'm moving all this stuff.
• 1:17:57
  Yeah, No, I I get it. I think.
• 1:17:59
  I think magazines are fun. You know, I, I don't know if you
• 1:18:04
  there's like a, there's a retro PlayStation magazine out now
• 1:18:07
  that comes out quarterly. I forget what it's called.
• 1:18:09
  Oh my gosh, I forget what it's called.
• 1:18:11
  But like I was listening to an interview the guy that was like
• 1:18:14
  that's putting it out and it's like really interesting and
• 1:18:16
  fascinating. It's just a retro PlayStation
• 1:18:18
  magazine with like interviews with old devs and you know, kind
• 1:18:23
  of like re reviewing older games and stuff like that.
• 1:18:25
  It's kind of neat. You know, I just think like
• 1:18:30
  print media is such a niche thing now where like, you know,
• 1:18:33
  obviously the Nintendo Power and EGM and stuff like that doesn't
• 1:18:36
  don't exist anymore. But like, you know, you, you can
• 1:18:40
  still get, you know, I mean, Celeste works for a magazine
• 1:18:42
  read, read only magazine. She's the editor there.
• 1:18:44
  And that comes out quarterly, you know, so, But yeah, man, I
• 1:18:51
  don't know this, this feels really weird, especially because
• 1:18:53
  like half cash, half stock, but that still means you're paying
• 1:19:00
  about 27 or $28 billion, right? Like.
• 1:19:03
  Freaking money. How do they even have that much
• 1:19:06
  cash on hand? You know, like, so who was I
• 1:19:13
  talking to about this? I was what I was talking about
• 1:19:16
  with this. I was saying like the only way I
• 1:19:19
  feel like this makes sense from a video game standpoint.
• 1:19:23
  Now, I don't know if he's actually trying to go for, you
• 1:19:27
  know, the other stuff on eBay, you know, like the because eBay
• 1:19:31
  sells everything, guys, remember that.
• 1:19:34
  But like, I almost wonder if like they would kind of merge
• 1:19:37
  the gaming part of eBay into GameStop and somehow like people
• 1:19:41
  can sell their used games on this platform, right?
• 1:19:46
  And then GameStop takes a cut of that essentially, you know,
• 1:19:51
  like, I don't know how that would work even, but that would
• 1:19:54
  be the only way it would like make sense to me.
• 1:19:57
  Yeah, I, I, I don't know. I can't even, I can't even begin
• 1:20:01
  to make any type of speculation, prediction or anything like like
• 1:20:06
  this. You know, it's it, it, it's a
• 1:20:09
  week later. It's a week later since the
• 1:20:10
  announcement happened. And I'm still like, just mind
• 1:20:13
  blown about this whole thing because I was like, I was like,
• 1:20:16
  if anything, I thought GameStop was trying to like protect its
• 1:20:18
  own assets, not spread them out. Yeah, I, I don't really, you
• 1:20:26
  know what this feels like. This feels like when Elon bought
• 1:20:28
  Twitter, you know, like I'm going to, I'm going to do this,
• 1:20:34
  I'm going to do it. And then somebody's finally
• 1:20:36
  going to call him out and then he like, he's too stubborn and
• 1:20:39
  and bullish to back out, you know?
• 1:20:41
  Yeah, well, you know what? You And you know what's really
• 1:20:43
  shitty about this is I for my for my real life job, I use eBay
• 1:20:49
  a lot. It's usually how I can it's
• 1:20:50
  usually where I, the place I go to get like, you know, like,
• 1:20:53
  like obscure and hard to find stuff.
• 1:20:56
  Yeah. Components.
• 1:20:56
  Yeah, yeah. I, I just feel like, I just feel
• 1:21:01
  like something really, really crazy is going to happen here
• 1:21:05
  and not, not in a, not in a surprising good way.
• 1:21:10
  Yeah, this doesn't really seem great.
• 1:21:13
  It doesn't seem smart. I I'm just no, it's like.
• 1:21:19
  For a company that was what? What would 2026, a company four
• 1:21:22
  years ago was getting ready to, you know, file chapter 13 or
• 1:21:26
  whatever, or just not exist anymore like GameStop?
• 1:21:30
  They shut, they shut down like 200 stores last year.
• 1:21:33
  Yeah, GameStop was literally, was literally about to go the
• 1:21:36
  same way Bed Bath and Beyond went.
• 1:21:39
  I just, I don't even know where the closest GameStop is to me
• 1:21:42
  right now to be honest with you. Oh, I know where I know where I
• 1:21:45
  know. Where I think it's like I know
• 1:21:46
  where I think it's at least 1/2 hour away.
• 1:21:48
  Wow. They close, they close, they
• 1:21:51
  close the one. Like there used to be two right
• 1:21:53
  down the street from me and they both closed.
• 1:21:56
  So now like the closest one is like probably at least 20
• 1:21:59
  minutes away. Isn't it, isn't it wild?
• 1:22:02
  Isn't it wild when you when when you can when you can call a
• 1:22:06
  video game store Quote UN quote low low low traffic.
• 1:22:13
  That's weird. A video game store.
• 1:22:16
  Yeah, but it's, it's just the rise of the digital market now,
• 1:22:19
  right? And that's why, I mean, that's
• 1:22:20
  why GameStop started selling Funko Pops and like cheap
• 1:22:23
  T-shirts, right? Like.
• 1:22:24
  Yeah, and you know, and you know what, I finally, I finally came
• 1:22:26
  to to realize that, you know, like they had to do something to
• 1:22:29
  save their identity, you know, so like that, like, I mean, like
• 1:22:33
  you just become a fucking toy store that primarily, that
• 1:22:37
  primarily sells electronic games.
• 1:22:39
  You know, they'll be fine. You know, like, yeah, like, I
• 1:22:44
  mean, I got over to shock and awe of all that stuff.
• 1:22:46
  I used to, I used to be, I used to, I used to run a GameStop.
• 1:22:50
  I used to be a manager of GameStop store and I was at the
• 1:22:52
  company for 9 for nearly nine years and stuff like that.
• 1:22:55
  So I had a lot of reconciliation to do, you know, like after, you
• 1:22:59
  know, I departed the company and stuff like that.
• 1:23:01
  I really don't have a problem GameStop.
• 1:23:02
  I just don't shop at GameStop anymore.
• 1:23:05
  Besides the stuff I'm trying to buy at GameStop, like they don't
• 1:23:08
  sell anyway. I'm buy PC games and PC
• 1:23:11
  components. Right.
• 1:23:13
  Yeah, I'm for sure I would not buy any old price.
• 1:23:16
  Yeah. Oh yeah, I remember, I remember
• 1:23:17
  that shoot, GameStop also had a problem, which is why they
• 1:23:20
  stopped selling it like they they had they had high shrink
• 1:23:23
  rates on like their PC components, especially RAM and
• 1:23:25
  graphics cards, which lo and behold, look, look at how that
• 1:23:28
  look at how that's going in this day and age.
• 1:23:31
  Yeah, we're gonna get there. We have a story in here for
• 1:23:33
  that. Yeah.
• 1:23:36
  I just, I don't know if you have any final thoughts on this.
• 1:23:39
  I just it just like, I mean, you need to listen to the interview
• 1:23:42
  and it feels even worse than the story sounds when you listen.
• 1:23:46
  To the interview, GameStop just needs to be very careful because
• 1:23:50
  I feel like they dodged a massive bullet with the whole
• 1:23:53
  stonks like, you know, controversy and and they're
• 1:23:56
  putting themselves right at the barrel of the gun again.
• 1:24:01
  But it's their I mean, it's his own fault, man.
• 1:24:03
  Like this is just this is. But then again, you know, you
• 1:24:07
  know, you know business people make wild decisions sometimes.
• 1:24:12
  Wild is a way to put it. Was that too nice?
• 1:24:17
  I mean, that's. OK, they make idiotic fucking
• 1:24:21
  decisions. There we go.
• 1:24:22
  They had like, it's just one of those situations where it feels
• 1:24:25
  like people have too much money, then they know what to do with
• 1:24:27
  and then. They make dumb decisions.
• 1:24:31
  If GameStop all this damn money why the hell didn't they buy
• 1:24:33
  Activision Blizzard? I mean.
• 1:24:39
  Yeah, because it's a conflict of interest.
• 1:24:40
  And I, I think they're in the vein of like selling used goods
• 1:24:44
  instead of like developing video games, right.
• 1:24:46
  Like I mean that would be. OK, you know, you know when you
• 1:24:50
  say it like that, that makes sense.
• 1:24:52
  Yeah, but also, these companies do things that don't make sense,
• 1:24:55
  So you know what I mean? Remember when Google thought
• 1:24:59
  that you could just, like, poop out a video game console and,
• 1:25:02
  like, have a game ready in a year and a half and they're
• 1:25:04
  like, oh, we actually have to, like, pay for somebody to build
• 1:25:07
  the game? Oh, we're going to shut it all
• 1:25:09
  down. So boneheaded.
• 1:25:12
  RIP, Stadia. RIP.
• 1:25:15
  Barely knew you. All right, let's let's talk
• 1:25:20
  about this real quick. I was going to wait till Pal
• 1:25:22
  Block talk about this, but we're talking about it now.
• 1:25:26
  Star Fox. They're on surprise Direct
• 1:25:29
  today. Surprise Nintendo Direct today.
• 1:25:32
  Wait, wait. When you say surprise like it
• 1:25:34
  was unannounced. They announced it through the
• 1:25:36
  Nintendo Today app about an hour before it went live.
• 1:25:40
  Yeah, I definitely missed it because like I never get
• 1:25:42
  notifications from the Nintendo Today app, which I just
• 1:25:44
  downloaded like a month ago I'd never get.
• 1:25:46
  Notifications. Yeah, that's fine, you don't
• 1:25:49
  need them. But they announced A remake
• 1:25:54
  slash reimagining of Starfox. Now I can't really tell.
• 1:25:59
  A lot of the articles I saw was Starfox 64.
• 1:26:02
  Yeah, yeah, that's the one thing I do know.
• 1:26:04
  I'm like I'm, I'm like, is it like in the vein of Star Fox 64
• 1:26:08
  or is it basically? No, it's a, it's a remake of, So
• 1:26:12
  what I kind of took away. So the article here from
• 1:26:15
  Nintendo Life says it's a remake of a reimagining of Star Fox 64.
• 1:26:19
  I think what they're doing is taking the concepts of Star Fox,
• 1:26:23
  the Super Nintendo 1 and 64 and kind of blending them into one
• 1:26:26
  game. But Starfox is officially
• 1:26:31
  returning Laron, and it's coming to Switch 2 in June.
• 1:26:39
  Wow. So really in less than 30 days.
• 1:26:42
  Yep so Fox McCloud is finally back in the cockpit and Nintendo
• 1:26:47
  officially revealed a brand new Starfox title for a Nintendo
• 1:26:50
  Switch 2 launching June 25th and it's another ambitious
• 1:26:54
  reimagining of Star Fox 64, blending cinematic storytelling,
• 1:27:00
  expanded multiplayer, updated visuals and experimental joy con
• 1:27:04
  2 features. And the game.
• 1:27:06
  The new game looks designed to modernize one of Nintendo's most
• 1:27:10
  beloved rail shooters while leaning heavily into nostalgia
• 1:27:14
  for a long time fans. So one of the cool things they
• 1:27:17
  showed Lauren, you can use the Super Nintendo and the and 64
• 1:27:22
  controller in this game. Oh, really?
• 1:27:25
  Yeah. That's that's pretty cool.
• 1:27:29
  Yeah, it looks. Here's the thing, after seeing
• 1:27:34
  Fox McLeod in the in the Mario Galaxy movie, like I haven't
• 1:27:39
  seen the movie but I've seen so many clips of him in it that
• 1:27:41
  like. I haven't seen any clips from it
• 1:27:44
  besides what they put out in the what Nintendo put directly out
• 1:27:46
  in the previews. I have not seen anything for it
• 1:27:48
  and I'm I'm happy with myself that I have not seen spoiler
• 1:27:52
  content. Yeah, well, I mean, my kids are
• 1:27:54
  into it, so they watch clips all the time.
• 1:27:57
  So I get spoiled, but that's. Understandable.
• 1:28:00
  Now that I've seen that, now that I've seen and heard that
• 1:28:02
  version of Star Fox going back, like and then seeing this, it's
• 1:28:06
  like, man, you should have just used the movie version.
• 1:28:12
  Like I understand, Like I understand you couldn't like use
• 1:28:16
  Glenn Powell, obviously, because he's probably way too expensive
• 1:28:18
  and it probably caught his voice acting.
• 1:28:21
  Probably cost more than Nintendo invested in this project
• 1:28:23
  altogether. But.
• 1:28:26
  I mean, that's just the way Nintendo budgets games.
• 1:28:28
  I'm not trying to like be mean or anything, but like they're
• 1:28:32
  remaking a Nintendo 64 game. That game cannot cost that much
• 1:28:35
  money, you know what I mean? Like comparatively, so it's
• 1:28:41
  4999, so price point also below $70, which is great and it looks
• 1:28:50
  really nice. It like it looks like a modern
• 1:28:53
  video game. I don't know.
• 1:28:54
  I don't know if you've been looking at a trailer or anything
• 1:28:56
  Leron, but like. Not yet, not yet, but I think I
• 1:28:58
  think I should before I go to bed tonight.
• 1:29:01
  It looks very, very modern. Wait, would you like to have my
• 1:29:05
  live reaction right now? Yeah, let's do it live.
• 1:29:07
  Reaction, everybody. This is.
• 1:29:09
  Going to count. This is going to count as a
• 1:29:11
  direct recap show. We're clipping this out and put
• 1:29:13
  it on Power Block channel. Nintendo Direct Star Fox.
• 1:29:16
  Here we go. All right, OK.
• 1:29:20
  It's a 15 minute kind of breakdown video, so maybe if you
• 1:29:23
  just look. Oh, then I'm just going to, I'm
• 1:29:25
  just going to kind of bop through this thing then.
• 1:29:27
  Well, the, I mean the trailer, they show a trailer, Koizumi
• 1:29:31
  kind of goes through the history of or Star Fox and then they
• 1:29:34
  breakdown like a lot of the features that are coming to the
• 1:29:35
  game or whatever. But I didn't watch the whole
• 1:29:37
  thing. I just watched the bits of that.
• 1:29:39
  Well, you know, of the gameplay. I know what Star Fox is all.
• 1:29:41
  Right. Well, let me.
• 1:29:42
  Well, let me see. All right.
• 1:29:44
  I'm sure there's just a trailer on the Nintendo YouTube channel
• 1:29:47
  somewhere, or on the Nintendo Today app which you can download
• 1:29:51
  with your 75 other Nintendo apps.
• 1:29:53
  Oh wait, so the first thing to do is they started with the the
• 1:29:56
  clip from Mario Galaxy. Yeah.
• 1:29:59
  OK, here we go. OK, I skipped that because I did
• 1:30:01
  not want to. I did not want to see that.
• 1:30:03
  OK, here we go. Here we go, the Ron's live
• 1:30:09
  reacting to Starfox the. The lilac system Planet
• 1:30:16
  Corneria. OK, yeah, it this is literally,
• 1:30:19
  it literally opens with the opening to Starfox 64.
• 1:30:23
  Holy shit. It looks really nice though,
• 1:30:27
  like it looks like a high budget Star Fox game.
• 1:30:31
  Wow, you know wow those starships look so much better
• 1:30:34
  than anything I could imagine from the 64 game that's.
• 1:30:38
  What I'm saying right? OK, the furries are going to
• 1:30:42
  nuts. The furries are going to go
• 1:30:43
  nuts. God, don't start that.
• 1:30:48
  Looks too good. Even though it does look it, it,
• 1:30:51
  it still looks heavily, not heavily CG, but you know,
• 1:30:56
  basically it looks like a computerized, you know, like
• 1:30:59
  game. Well, yeah, it is, though.
• 1:31:01
  I mean, it is. I mean, I mean, I mean with the
• 1:31:07
  power the switch to has, like we can kind of go for realism and
• 1:31:10
  still have a cartoony, if that makes sense.
• 1:31:13
  Yeah, I kind of wanted that. Like I don't know if you
• 1:31:16
  remember that kind of like anime looking thing they put out a
• 1:31:20
  couple years ago. Oh my God the the characters
• 1:31:23
  look good. Peppy.
• 1:31:25
  They look uncanny, man. They look very.
• 1:31:30
  Falco. Yep, Falco.
• 1:31:37
  Oh oh all, I got to transition to the gameplay.
• 1:31:44
  Yeah, it's, I don't know, I think it, I think it looks nice.
• 1:31:51
  It doesn't. I am just like, man, you're like
• 1:31:57
  I, I guess like you've gotten so much hate over the last probably
• 1:32:02
  what, four or five Star Fox titles that like, you know, N64
• 1:32:06
  is kind of considered the last good one.
• 1:32:09
  This, This has given me such big space Harrier vibes and that's
• 1:32:15
  wild because like when I think about the original Star Fox
• 1:32:18
  game, the the Star Fox game did not give me like like space
• 1:32:22
  Harrier vibes. Yeah, it's start.
• 1:32:29
  The Star Fox 64 is really interesting.
• 1:32:34
  So it does a lot of interesting, like multipath kind of things
• 1:32:38
  that I feel like people don't really think about a lot.
• 1:32:41
  I think people just think of the spaceships shooting and kind of
• 1:32:44
  flying in a straight line until you don't.
• 1:32:48
  But. You know, the graphics look
• 1:32:49
  nice. The graphics look nice.
• 1:32:51
  They do. They do look nice, you know.
• 1:32:55
  Kind of surround its held vehicle.
• 1:32:58
  Yeah, the Landmaster. Yeah, that's in Star Fox 64.
• 1:33:02
  That is. Yeah.
• 1:33:04
  I don't remember that. You have to like go a specific
• 1:33:07
  path. It's only in 2 levels, but you
• 1:33:09
  can use it. Yeah, there's also a submarine.
• 1:33:12
  Well, you gotta, you gotta remember I, I never owned a
• 1:33:14
  Nintendo 64. So anytime I played A64 game,
• 1:33:16
  that's 'cause I borrowed it. I borrowed this a whole system
• 1:33:19
  from somebody just to play the I.
• 1:33:21
  Mean. Yeah, that's fair.
• 1:33:24
  That is fair. So yeah, Starfox.
• 1:33:29
  Starfox is returning. I can't believe it's coming out
• 1:33:31
  in June. Yeah, this is crazy.
• 1:33:34
  Which is, yeah. They were crazy.
• 1:33:38
  They were. They were.
• 1:33:39
  They definitely kept this a secret.
• 1:33:41
  Yeah, I mean in two months they. Have four games and it feels
• 1:33:46
  like it moves faster than the than the original.
• 1:33:48
  It it, I mean, well, yeah, but I think that.
• 1:33:51
  It probably runs the higher. Controller.
• 1:33:53
  Yeah, I mean, it probably just runs at a higher frame rate and
• 1:33:55
  like is just the animations are smoother overall, right, 'cause
• 1:33:58
  it's 30 years since Starfight's going to be 4.
• 1:34:03
  But yeah, I was, I was, I was pretty impressed that they were
• 1:34:07
  putting out this out in June, considering that they have now
• 1:34:10
  they have like 4 games coming out in two months.
• 1:34:14
  So with like, well, let's see Yoshi, they have Yoshi in the
• 1:34:18
  mysterious book, Star Fox, Rhythm, Heaven Groove, and then
• 1:34:25
  what's the 4th game? And that doesn't include Fire
• 1:34:28
  Emblem. So like, you know, they have
• 1:34:31
  they have quite the lineup this year already.
• 1:34:33
  This. Game is gonna sell well.
• 1:34:35
  Yeah, I, I, yeah, I think it's going to sell pretty well,
• 1:34:38
  especially because it's not $70. Yeah, Like, I don't know.
• 1:34:43
  I don't know if I'm going to. I don't know if I'm going to get
• 1:34:45
  it. I might, I might, I'll be
• 1:34:50
  serious with you. I might get it.
• 1:34:52
  He's going to get it. I said might.
• 1:34:55
  Nope, you're going to get it. I didn't say Ghana.
• 1:34:58
  You're going to get it. I feel it.
• 1:35:02
  I feel it. Oh man.
• 1:35:09
  And it can be played. And it can be played across both
• 1:35:12
  generations of Switch consoles. Oh, can it?
• 1:35:17
  It looks like. It looks like.
• 1:35:18
  A game. Share, share, play.
• 1:35:19
  Game. Share.
• 1:35:20
  Yeah, share, share, play, whatever it's called.
• 1:35:24
  Yeah. So the the last couple things
• 1:35:25
  here. Nintendo describes the new Star
• 1:35:28
  Fox as a cinematic take on Star Fox 64, featuring upgraded
• 1:35:33
  visuals, new story sequences, redesigned versions of Fox,
• 1:35:36
  Falco, Pepe and Slippy. There's new multiplayer and
• 1:35:40
  Co-op features. Players can team up using 2 Joy
• 1:35:45
  Con 2 controllers, experimenting with mouse mode aiming, which
• 1:35:49
  that'll be cool. A mouse kind of mouse mode, like
• 1:35:52
  the aiming and and whatever. Yeah, I just, I just saw that.
• 1:35:57
  I just saw that. Experiment and even play as
• 1:36:03
  members of both team Star Fox and team Star Wolf and Nintendo
• 1:36:07
  is embracing experimental Switch 2 features supports the USB
• 1:36:11
  camera integration for animated face filters, game share
• 1:36:15
  functionality and alternate control options, including the
• 1:36:19
  Nintendo 64 controller for retro fans.
• 1:36:22
  So they must be sitting on a stockpile of N64 controllers on
• 1:36:27
  NS for NSL because yeah this feels like something they would
• 1:36:32
  do for that. So yeah, I mean, Star Fox coming
• 1:36:35
  out in a month, like a month and 1/2, which is crazy.
• 1:36:42
  That's so crazy that this I think, I think.
• 1:36:43
  This is going to be a successful game.
• 1:36:46
  Yeah, I do too. I really do.
• 1:36:49
  All right, LeBron, let's talk about.
• 1:36:55
  Let's talk about. Let's talk about let's talk
• 1:36:58
  about do you want to do AMD or Xbox?
• 1:37:02
  Well, let's talk about the. Rampocalypse, as they're calling
• 1:37:07
  it. Let's do that.
• 1:37:09
  I feel like, I feel like you have a lot to say on that.
• 1:37:13
  Plus we had a Nintendo topic in here for me, so here we are.
• 1:37:17
  AMD warns that the quote Rampocalypse could crush PC and
• 1:37:23
  game, PC and gaming demand in late 2026.
• 1:37:28
  The AI boom is fueling data centers, but consumers are
• 1:37:32
  starting to feel the fallout, AMD says.
• 1:37:35
  Soaring memory and the component prices could significantly
• 1:37:38
  weaken PC and gaming demand in the second-half of 2026 as AI
• 1:37:43
  infrastructure consumes the global supply.
• 1:37:46
  Despite strong rise in sales and a continued commercial growth,
• 1:37:51
  CEO Lisa Sue warns that rising costs are beginning to squeeze
• 1:37:56
  everyday buyers out of the market, threatening gaming
• 1:37:59
  hardware sales, console demand, and broader PC upgrades.
• 1:38:05
  Laron, This is something we've been talking a lot about at
• 1:38:08
  work, actually, not PC gaming, but just RAM and, and, and
• 1:38:14
  memory going up in price in general.
• 1:38:16
  You, you work in the tech space. You work on on computers a lot.
• 1:38:22
  What's what, what, how are you feeling?
• 1:38:24
  How you feeling about this? Especially, especially because
• 1:38:30
  the bread and butter of my business is we, we build custom
• 1:38:35
  PCs like that's the bread and butter.
• 1:38:36
  Even though technically what what actually really keeps us
• 1:38:39
  going is like IT service contracts and stuff like that,
• 1:38:42
  but still like if we can't, if we can't do anything with with,
• 1:38:47
  you know, new PCs for for clients as they need them, then
• 1:38:51
  I mean, you know, we're in trouble.
• 1:38:54
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:38:55
  Like the like, like honestly, the current Rambocalypse is
• 1:38:59
  what's kept me from actually upgrading my machine.
• 1:39:01
  Like I was actually going to upgrade my rig sometime last
• 1:39:04
  year and get onto the DDR5 platform.
• 1:39:08
  No, not right now, no. Yeah, I mean, my computer is
• 1:39:13
  still a workhorse if you know, like what was the DDR4 RAM?
• 1:39:16
  It's just, it's just, but these these trends happen.
• 1:39:21
  But this trend, this trend is kind of forced because there's
• 1:39:24
  usually, it's usually one of three components that's always
• 1:39:27
  like high in demand. It's either graphics cards.
• 1:39:31
  It's either, it's either graphics cards.
• 1:39:33
  It is either, it's either of course, of course RAM, you know,
• 1:39:39
  or it's or it's storage like particularly solid-state device,
• 1:39:43
  solid-state drives, you know and stuff like that.
• 1:39:45
  Those are typical. I needed a new I need a new one
• 1:39:48
  and they like tripled in price since I bought my last one.
• 1:39:51
  Yeah. What size do you need?
• 1:39:54
  Well. I was going to get a two
• 1:39:56
  terabyte one and the last one I bought was like less than $200.
• 1:40:03
  Now they're like, hold on a second.
• 1:40:07
  Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.
• 1:40:08
  I hadn't checked in. I hadn't checked in a little bit
• 1:40:09
  yet. They have gone back up there.
• 1:40:11
  Shit. They're like in the three
• 1:40:12
  hundreds. Yeah.
• 1:40:15
  That that just shows right now how, how like right now, like
• 1:40:21
  the like demands for new PCs are up there, But the fact that all
• 1:40:24
  these, all these things are in flux right now, like, you know,
• 1:40:27
  like it explains why like, you know, like, like right now, like
• 1:40:30
  the only one thing, one thing I'll say in IT is that is that
• 1:40:34
  you would never want to wait until the until the last
• 1:40:38
  possible moment to like get an upgrade or what not, you know,
• 1:40:42
  or getting seen. Because like, you know, if you
• 1:40:44
  wait until your, if you wait until your, your machine breaks
• 1:40:47
  down, you're going to spend an ass load of money.
• 1:40:52
  Hold on. I'm trying to see if I can help
• 1:40:53
  you out here though, Corey. I mean, I I don't need a new
• 1:40:57
  one, I just, I just wanted a new one because I like new things
• 1:41:00
  and I'm trying to reorganize everything but.
• 1:41:03
  I understand, I understand, I understand.
• 1:41:07
  I think I can get you something. I know I can get you something
• 1:41:10
  for under 250. I mean, not under 2, I'm sorry,
• 1:41:13
  for under 300, you know, like an Engine 4, which is basically the
• 1:41:19
  the current standard right now as far as SSD.
• 1:41:22
  But anyway, going back to going back to our conversation like
• 1:41:25
  it's, it's a vicious cycle. It goes from it goes from GPU's
• 1:41:28
  to SSD's to RAM. And like one of them, it's
• 1:41:31
  always like the invoke thing, you know, that's going to cost
• 1:41:34
  money because of the prop, because of the situation going
• 1:41:37
  on with RAM right now, GPU prices have kind of like taking
• 1:41:40
  a nice little dip, which is good, but still GPU prices are
• 1:41:44
  still kind of high, you know, and apparently SSDs are are up
• 1:41:48
  there now. Thank you.
• 1:41:49
  Thank you for alerting that to my attention, but.
• 1:41:51
  You're welcome. So I'm here.
• 1:41:56
  Well, I thought, I thought, wait, no, Asus is trying to come
• 1:42:00
  to our rescue though. But there's also, there's also
• 1:42:03
  rumors that, you know, because of what's going on right now,
• 1:42:05
  like like AM 6 is starting to. I'm, Yeah, I'm, yeah, yeah, AM 6
• 1:42:10
  is starting to like, you know, like enter the chat now.
• 1:42:13
  You know, I didn't even know AM 6 was in development right now,
• 1:42:16
  but yeah, it's starting. It's starting to enter the chat
• 1:42:18
  now. Yeah.
• 1:42:20
  And like the the whole thing too is like we at where I work where
• 1:42:25
  Mac more like a Mac user, like a centric kind of company.
• 1:42:30
  And a lot of and a lot of and a lot of Mac products have
• 1:42:32
  integrated memory. Well, not just not just that,
• 1:42:35
  but like in terms of running like, well, I forgot these AI
• 1:42:39
  things. Like a lot of people are like
• 1:42:41
  they're making runs on on Mac minis, you know, because they're
• 1:42:46
  the cheap, they're cheap and relatively, you know, and you
• 1:42:51
  know, for, for what you get in them, you know, 'cause people
• 1:42:54
  don't people want the, the memory.
• 1:42:56
  They don't care about anything else with it.
• 1:42:58
  So, you know, you're using them to run these different kind of
• 1:43:03
  AAIAI programs on them, on them. Like even if they're running
• 1:43:09
  them on the in the cloud or whatever, like they still need
• 1:43:11
  the on board processing power, right.
• 1:43:13
  So I don't know, man, it's, it's, it's a weird time, man.
• 1:43:18
  It, it, it, I never really thought like my hobbies and my
• 1:43:22
  job would like, even though they're in the same kind of sort
• 1:43:26
  of the same space, I never really thought they would be
• 1:43:29
  crossing over like this. You know, in terms of like
• 1:43:32
  things we, I talk about at work and things I talk about here and
• 1:43:35
  things, you know, that are just talked about in general.
• 1:43:39
  And like everything is just so reliant on this AI bubble to
• 1:43:43
  burst like it needs let's. Just.
• 1:43:50
  Yeah, I'm just like I'm kind of, I'm ready.
• 1:43:52
  I'm done. Sort of, you know, like I'm
• 1:43:54
  I've. Been over it for like a hot
• 1:43:55
  minute. Yeah.
• 1:43:57
  And it's just like, man, I just want to like, be able to buy
• 1:44:02
  something without having to like, worry about if I'm going
• 1:44:04
  to have to, you know? Yeah.
• 1:44:07
  For arm and a leg or whatever, right?
• 1:44:09
  Like even, I mean this is totally different subject, but
• 1:44:14
  like man, dude gas the other day, man.
• 1:44:17
  Yeah, Gas. Prices.
• 1:44:19
  What's what's gas like in your area right now?
• 1:44:20
  How, how much? How much is it?
• 1:44:22
  So I it's it's over $5 a gallon. Well, first of all, do you
• 1:44:28
  drive? Do you drive a car that requires
• 1:44:30
  premium fuel or can you get regular unleaded?
• 1:44:32
  No regular I alright. No, so, so out here in my area,
• 1:44:37
  out here in my area of Virginia right now, gas is like 4 about
• 1:44:40
  between 4:20 and 4:25 a gallon. Today was fucking rough for me
• 1:44:46
  because like, because like for a while it's been inching closer
• 1:44:50
  to $50.00 for me for, to fill up my gas tank because I usually go
• 1:44:53
  to like Costco or Sam's Club to get my gas.
• 1:44:55
  You know, today though, because we're now seeing everybody else
• 1:45:00
  outside, you know, outside on the street was like, you know,
• 1:45:03
  like 425 a gallon, stuff like that.
• 1:45:05
  Freaking Sam's Club was freaking Sam's Club was 405.
• 1:45:08
  And I was like, Oh my God. You know, yeah.
• 1:45:10
  So like I, I was, I don't even know why I get, I don't know why
• 1:45:14
  I get anxiety. I'm, I, I always, I always am
• 1:45:17
  able to afford gas for my car, but it's just, it's just really
• 1:45:21
  anxiety inducing when you see like, you know, you spend more
• 1:45:24
  than $45.00 for a full tank. Yeah, and it's like.
• 1:45:28
  At least for, at least for me. Like, I want to, I want to be
• 1:45:31
  able to have like money to like do normal stuff, you know, like
• 1:45:35
  I just, yeah, like over the summer, like if gas stays like
• 1:45:38
  this, I like, I'm was talking to my wife.
• 1:45:42
  Like, I mean, I'm going to do this anyway just because kids
• 1:45:44
  are home. But like, I'm going to have to
• 1:45:46
  like, work from home two days a week just to save money on gas,
• 1:45:49
  you know? You you you have the option
• 1:45:52
  though, right? I I do which I'm.
• 1:45:54
  So glad. I'm so glad I work from home.
• 1:45:57
  Like I, I like going to the office because it helps me focus
• 1:46:00
  because you know, we, we have, we, we know how to focus here at
• 1:46:04
  Bostrush. We.
• 1:46:05
  We talked, didn't we talk about this a couple weeks ago where I
• 1:46:08
  was saying I kind of miss having an office because at least if I
• 1:46:10
  go to an office, like I have less distractions than I do
• 1:46:13
  working from home. Yeah, so, but like, you know,
• 1:46:20
  the office helps me focus and like I can usually get more done
• 1:46:24
  there, but like man, I'm just going to feel like work later
• 1:46:28
  essentially, you know, like I I do, I want to no, but like to
• 1:46:32
  save money on gas, you know, like.
• 1:46:34
  Yeah, it's kind of the nature of the beast.
• 1:46:37
  Well, at least, but at least you at least, at least you, you have
• 1:46:40
  a job. Well I mean technically I feel
• 1:46:42
  like your job was built for work from home, or at least hybrid.
• 1:46:47
  Yeah. I mean, my job has evolved quite
• 1:46:50
  a bit since I started working there, which is fine.
• 1:46:55
  I'm not like complaining or anything.
• 1:46:56
  And just, you know, there's been a lot of change and, and a lot
• 1:47:00
  of, of change over and, you know, kind of taking on
• 1:47:03
  responsibilities and different things.
• 1:47:05
  So I, I mean, but yeah, I mean, my job essentially, you know, I,
• 1:47:11
  I really like to go to work because of like meetings and
• 1:47:14
  having meetings in person is much better than like hearing
• 1:47:17
  someone come through a really terrible webcam, you know?
• 1:47:24
  So there's that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:47:29
  Gas is just. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:47:35
  But I, I, you know, again, it's like everything is going up in
• 1:47:38
  price like and it's just, it's not a, it's not a great, it's
• 1:47:45
  not great, man. It's not.
• 1:47:49
  I don't know. I don't know how to, I don't
• 1:47:51
  know if we're going to like be able to how do you come back
• 1:47:55
  from like this, this kind of price thing?
• 1:47:56
  Like I, I know like the bubble's going to burst at some point,
• 1:48:00
  but. The price, the pricing's going
• 1:48:02
  to come down like honestly, because I mean, like, I mean,
• 1:48:06
  like this is not new. Like, I mean, the last, the last
• 1:48:09
  price hike was definitely because of a conflict in the
• 1:48:11
  Middle East, you know? That's the gas thing, right?
• 1:48:15
  I mean when you blow up the middle.
• 1:48:17
  East, we're back, we're back talking about we're back talking
• 1:48:19
  about PC stuff. I, I know, but I mean like gas
• 1:48:23
  prices. We did, you know, not we, not
• 1:48:26
  us, but you know, our country did kind of blow up some of the
• 1:48:30
  Middle East. Gas prices are high.
• 1:48:36
  Anyways, not to get political. Sorry everybody.
• 1:48:40
  Anyways, go ahead and run. Sorry I didn't interrupt you.
• 1:48:43
  Well, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, keeping us, keeping us
• 1:48:46
  centered on the keeping us centered on the whole, the whole
• 1:48:49
  PC parts and particularly RAM thing.
• 1:48:53
  I, I know like, like I mentioned a little while ago, if we start
• 1:48:57
  talking about gas, like Asus is supposed to be coming to our
• 1:49:00
  rescue and, and, and trying to manufacture RAM because because
• 1:49:03
  I think they, I think they picked into some scummy stuff
• 1:49:06
  that, that, that crucial and Samsung.
• 1:49:09
  Well, I don't, I don't think Samsung was as scummy as
• 1:49:11
  crucial. Samsung actually tried to make
• 1:49:15
  consumer grade, grade RAM and like, and like all these AI data
• 1:49:18
  centers and all these people that needed it just threw too
• 1:49:21
  much money that they're like, well, we, yeah, we would lose
• 1:49:23
  money if we, if you're, if you're offering this, we would
• 1:49:26
  lose money trying to, you know, be consumer friendly, you know,
• 1:49:30
  you know, so I don't really, I don't, I don't want, I don't
• 1:49:32
  really want to say that they were scummy in that way.
• 1:49:35
  They kind of it's capitalism at the end of the day, you know, at
• 1:49:39
  least as far as this goes, but you know, as far as like AI, the
• 1:49:43
  AI stuff and data centers and all this stuff like this is the
• 1:49:45
  real, this is the real problem. I'm glad.
• 1:49:48
  I think I, I think I saw the, I think I saw like on social media
• 1:49:52
  that I think 21 states have started to push back on this.
• 1:49:58
  You know, like they're actually, they're actually trying to get a
• 1:50:01
  situation to where like this stuff is regulated.
• 1:50:04
  And if it, if they're not trying to regulate it just on the fact
• 1:50:06
  of like, you know, like the, the, the, the supply demand on
• 1:50:09
  parts, they're trying, they're definitely trying to regulate it
• 1:50:12
  on the cost on the economy as far as like people's electricity
• 1:50:15
  bills, water bills and pollution.
• 1:50:18
  Yeah, I mean, that's a big thing too is like the the pollution
• 1:50:22
  too. Like people don't, people don't
• 1:50:24
  really don't think about that, right.
• 1:50:25
  Like, it's definitely environmentally, like, really
• 1:50:28
  hurting. No, this, no, this is shit.
• 1:50:31
  This is this is we don't talk about global warming enough, but
• 1:50:35
  this shit right here is is like is like is like, you know, put
• 1:50:40
  to the pedal like, you know, a hundred, a hundred plus miles
• 1:50:43
  per. Hour yeah, I do think like
• 1:50:47
  especially like with with, you know, open AI shutting down Sora
• 1:50:52
  like they're just sitting on all that RAM now like they're just
• 1:50:57
  sitting on all this stuff now right because they can't use it
• 1:51:00
  and so like are they going to turn around and try to sell to
• 1:51:04
  people now because they can't stay funded you know like that's
• 1:51:07
  the big rumor now is like open AI can't stay funded long enough
• 1:51:10
  to like. They need.
• 1:51:11
  To do what they want to do, you know.
• 1:51:13
  They need to fucking sell it and they need to.
• 1:51:15
  They need to use common sense when they sell it.
• 1:51:18
  Yeah, well, they should have thought they should also should
• 1:51:20
  have used common sense when they bought it.
• 1:51:22
  They should. Use common sense when they when
• 1:51:24
  they when they ran themselves into the ground, you know,
• 1:51:26
  thinking that this was going to be the magic pill or something,
• 1:51:29
  the magic pill, the magic bullet lightning in the bottle,
• 1:51:31
  whatever, whatever they want, whatever they want to coin it.
• 1:51:34
  They thought they thought that this thing that is LLM large
• 1:51:41
  learning model like that, which means like it does not know
• 1:51:44
  everything. It's still trying to figure
• 1:51:45
  everything out, you know? Well, it's, it's machine
• 1:51:48
  learning. It's not even like, it's not
• 1:51:49
  even like real artificial intelligence.
• 1:51:51
  It's. Just like, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:51:53
  And you know, like it's and you know, like it's hokey when you
• 1:51:56
  think about it for the fact that, you know, like, for
• 1:51:58
  example, well, there's Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot is
• 1:52:04
  basically just doing one massive Google search, searching for all
• 1:52:07
  the for all the correlating popular stuff and throwing that
• 1:52:10
  out there, regardless of whether it's been fact checked and is
• 1:52:13
  and is correct or incorrect. So I mean, you know, you know
• 1:52:16
  what the you know what the two most used things are for these
• 1:52:19
  things. What?
• 1:52:20
  It's a cert, a search engine, and an article summarizer.
• 1:52:23
  Yep, Yep. You know, I mean, we, I mean,
• 1:52:29
  I'm not gonna lie, we use it for, for, you know, summarizing
• 1:52:32
  stuff when we need notes on the fly or whatever, right?
• 1:52:34
  I mean. Yeah, I'm not gonna, I'm not
• 1:52:35
  gonna lie to anybody and say I don't 'cause I do, you know,
• 1:52:38
  like shoot like it, it helps me out in the crunch.
• 1:52:41
  It doesn't even help me as far as like I can, I can create and
• 1:52:44
  generate my own articles and stuff, like, you know, my own
• 1:52:46
  writing stuff and stuff like that.
• 1:52:47
  Sometimes what I needed for is just to get, is just to get the
• 1:52:50
  notes together to prepare the stuff.
• 1:52:54
  Yeah, Honestly, I and, and yeah, like I, I want to say like if
• 1:53:00
  you were to, if you were to like copy and paste my stuff into
• 1:53:03
  something that analyzes it, like I would say like I would say 30%
• 1:53:07
  of the time will you get like hit saying that this was created
• 1:53:09
  with AI because guess what? I like to write.
• 1:53:11
  So like I, I, I get the material and I still, I still, you know,
• 1:53:15
  formulated and put it together myself.
• 1:53:19
  Yeah, I mean for especially. Like she's smart.
• 1:53:24
  I mean, even what I do for work, right?
• 1:53:25
  Like I have to write scripts for podcasts.
• 1:53:28
  I have to write, you know, summarize articles for news
• 1:53:31
  stories. I have to summarize all these
• 1:53:32
  things for, you know, the, the podcast and the, and the streams
• 1:53:37
  and stuff that I do. And it's like, if I didn't like
• 1:53:40
  it, it, it has made my job infinitely easier, right?
• 1:53:43
  Like, but I also like they didn't, they didn't fire
• 1:53:48
  anybody, right? I just am able to use it as a
• 1:53:53
  tool to help me be more efficient, right?
• 1:53:55
  Because I'm I am a team of one person really at the end of the
• 1:53:59
  day. That's something too sometimes.
• 1:54:01
  Sometimes you wind up on time crunches.
• 1:54:03
  What do you do? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:54:05
  So I mean, look, man, I'm, I manage an entire podcast network
• 1:54:10
  now. I, I edit it, I post it, I do
• 1:54:13
  the social like clips for it, like, and it's hard, you know,
• 1:54:18
  like it's, it's hard work. And it, it is definitely
• 1:54:20
  something that a team of like 10 people used to have to do,
• 1:54:23
  right. But now, like again, it, it's
• 1:54:28
  not, I don't know, I don't want to get in the whole AI
• 1:54:31
  conversation again, but like, I, I, I genuinely think that like
• 1:54:35
  some of the stuff that we use it for is genuinely good, right?
• 1:54:41
  But you know, the way that some of these companies are wanting
• 1:54:45
  to use it or, or how they're, you know, buying up all this,
• 1:54:49
  all these resources because they think they may need it someday
• 1:54:52
  because they're going to build their own version of the
• 1:54:55
  Terminator or Skynet or I robot or whatever, right?
• 1:54:59
  Like I. Robot would be.
• 1:55:02
  We're not there, you know we're not there.
• 1:55:05
  So you know what you know you know who is is cancelling AI
• 1:55:11
  though apparently is that is Xbox.
• 1:55:18
  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:55:19
  I, I, I I gleamed that, but I didn't.
• 1:55:21
  I didn't have the chance to actually like, read like read
• 1:55:24
  into it. Yeah, so Asha Sharma continues
• 1:55:27
  to shake things up at Xbox. They've cancelled the Gaming
• 1:55:30
  Copilot for Xbox Program and changing up the leadership team
• 1:55:36
  to to focus on platform growth. You know they say Asha Sharma.
• 1:55:41
  Yeah, they say Asha Sharma. But I have a funny feeling this
• 1:55:43
  is Nadella. This has Nadella's fingerprints
• 1:55:46
  all over it. Cancelling copilot?
• 1:55:48
  I don't think so man. Dude he has.
• 1:55:52
  He has the copilot logo tattooed on his.
• 1:55:55
  If he's going to trim the fat somewhere, he's going to do it
• 1:55:58
  in the gaming division. I mean that's fair but also like
• 1:56:03
  I feel like cancelling copilot is like the exact opposite of
• 1:56:07
  what he would want to do that. Of what he wants.
• 1:56:09
  Yeah, but also like I. Mean.
• 1:56:13
  I feel like his era, I feel like his era at Microsoft is coming
• 1:56:15
  to an end soon, right? He was the cloud guy, right?
• 1:56:19
  Like, yeah, he got Microsoft through the cloud era.
• 1:56:22
  Azure's pretty successful, right?
• 1:56:26
  But he's not, he's not built for the AI era of Microsoft, you
• 1:56:33
  know what I mean? Yeah.
• 1:56:35
  So just to kind of catch people up, Xbox's making more dramatic
• 1:56:41
  course corrections as it restructures its leadership team
• 1:56:45
  and pulls back on one of its biggest recent AI initiatives.
• 1:56:49
  Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Gaming Copilot development
• 1:56:53
  for consoles is ending, while the mobile version will begin to
• 1:56:57
  winding down, signaling. Wait, hold on, did I miss
• 1:57:03
  something here while them? Oh Nope, I just can't read.
• 1:57:07
  That's fine. While the mobile version will
• 1:57:10
  begin winding down, signaling A broader strategic shift focus
• 1:57:14
  focused on speed, community engagement and platform growth.
• 1:57:18
  The move comes alongside sweeping executive changes and
• 1:57:21
  renewed efforts to strengthen hardware, Game Pass and Xbox's
• 1:57:25
  long term Global strategy, which we talked about last week.
• 1:57:31
  Gaming's Copilot is effectively being shelved.
• 1:57:34
  Xbox has confirmed it will it will stop development of Gaming
• 1:57:39
  Copilot for consoles and phase out the mobile experience.
• 1:57:42
  Despite previously promoting the AI assistant on a major feature
• 1:57:46
  for current Gen. systems, Xbox leadership is being rebuilt from
• 1:57:53
  the rebuilt around AI and consumer growth.
• 1:57:57
  Multiple executives from Microsoft SCORE AI division are
• 1:58:00
  joining Xbox leadership roles as the company restructures
• 1:58:04
  engineering design, subscriptions, and platform
• 1:58:06
  strategy. And then the last bit here, Xbox
• 1:58:11
  is shifting focus towards engagement and sustainability,
• 1:58:14
  which we kind of already talked about last week.
• 1:58:17
  Following declining hardware and service revenue, Xbox says it
• 1:58:20
  wants to prioritize active users, game pass,
• 1:58:23
  sustainability, emerging markets, and faster product
• 1:58:27
  execution moving forward. I think the it's it's kind of
• 1:58:34
  weird seeing that they're moving the AI people into Xbox to
• 1:58:37
  cancel the AI for Xbox, You know, I mean, I know core AI
• 1:58:43
  isn't technically like an AI program per SE, but like the
• 1:58:49
  headline is funny. The headline is pretty
• 1:58:52
  hilarious. So I don't know, I think that I
• 1:58:55
  think this is good though, right?
• 1:58:56
  Like this is like the third time Xbox has tried this, right?
• 1:59:00
  They tried with the Kinect on 360 with voice activation and
• 1:59:04
  then they built, they built Cortana into the Xbox One,
• 1:59:07
  right? And that didn't work.
• 1:59:08
  And then they were going to try this for the third time, so.
• 1:59:10
  Cool that too. That's the crazy part and
• 1:59:13
  Cortana was a part of Windows which I was like what are y'all
• 1:59:15
  doing? Like Cortana is a gaming thing,
• 1:59:18
  not a not a Windows OS thing. I know also, like when you think
• 1:59:23
  about the lore of Halo and you think like, Oh, well, Cortana
• 1:59:27
  and Cortana is supposed to die after seven years, like the
• 1:59:30
  rampant AI dies after seven years, right.
• 1:59:33
  And like, you really want that to be like what you're known
• 1:59:37
  for. Yeah.
• 1:59:40
  So I I don't know, I think this is a good Xbox is looking for
• 1:59:45
  all the good PR they can get, right.
• 1:59:47
  And like, this is another for like a gamer first move for
• 1:59:51
  them. Again, I don't I don't know.
• 1:59:55
  Sorry. Go ahead.
• 1:59:56
  I was just going to say this is some really good spend.
• 1:59:59
  Yeah, I, I feel like at the end of the day, all these things
• 2:00:04
  that people hate always end up in these boxes anyway, right?
• 2:00:07
  Like the the online check in for digital games and, you know, all
• 2:00:12
  these other things that like they wanted to promote but ended
• 2:00:17
  up putting their foot in their mouth, but they're all there
• 2:00:20
  anyway, right? And PlayStation even has those
• 2:00:22
  features too, right? So it's just kind of.
• 2:00:26
  Funny to see this part of it, but I don't know man.
• 2:00:31
  I'm still pretty impressed with what she's been able to do.
• 2:00:33
  And less than 80 days, you know. Yeah, I am too.
• 2:00:39
  I don't know, I might become a super fan sooner or later.
• 2:00:43
  Yeah, I can. I can see that.
• 2:00:45
  You got your. You got your got your Project
• 2:00:48
  Helix tattoo appointment lined up.
• 2:00:51
  You're gonna get a big Helix logo on your shoulder.
• 2:00:54
  I'm not gonna go that far. Like, you know, if I, if I don't
• 2:00:56
  have a, if I don't have like an N7 or, you know, like a actually
• 2:01:03
  I would never get a unatology anything, you know, But yeah, if
• 2:01:06
  I don't have something, you know, related to Mass Effect,
• 2:01:09
  Uncharted, Dead Space or Metroid on my body, I'm definitely not
• 2:01:14
  getting Project Helix on my body.
• 2:01:16
  I mean, that's fair, that's fair.
• 2:01:22
  I just, I just thought the whole like I, I do think Xbox, the
• 2:01:26
  leadership as there's turnover, as the turnover keeps happening.
• 2:01:29
  Like I, I wonder again, how much is Satya's footprint on this or
• 2:01:37
  fingerprint on this, right? Like I, I wonder how much, how
• 2:01:44
  much leash they have, right? I wonder how, how loose the rope
• 2:01:48
  is at this point, You know, like, do they have a year?
• 2:01:52
  Do they have five years? Do they have six months?
• 2:01:54
  Like what's, what's the timeline look like on this turn around?
• 2:01:57
  You know, I, I feel like I really don't know.
• 2:02:00
  I feel like, I feel like the safe bed is one whole year.
• 2:02:03
  That's what I feel. That's what the safe bed is
• 2:02:06
  like. We don't, we don't know for
• 2:02:07
  sure, but you know, but you know, like this is also a
• 2:02:12
  problem when like, you know, like we let executives become
• 2:02:16
  beholden to the shareholders. Yeah, I just, I wonder again,
• 2:02:22
  like we, I mean, we both know how slow corporate companies
• 2:02:27
  work and how they expect things to be done fast and they move at
• 2:02:32
  a snail's pace, you know what I mean?
• 2:02:33
  And like, I, I don't know, man, I, I, I wonder, you know, what
• 2:02:39
  would be really huge for them. And I wonder if they would do
• 2:02:41
  this just based on component prices or whatever.
• 2:02:45
  I wonder if they will drop the price of Xbox at summer
• 2:02:49
  showcase. I'm wondering just to get
• 2:02:54
  people, because obviously PlayStation has raised price.
• 2:02:56
  There's rumor that Nintendo will probably raise the price over
• 2:02:59
  the summer, and I wonder if they would just eat the cost because
• 2:03:04
  these consoles are already out there, right?
• 2:03:06
  They're already manufactured. They're just sitting in
• 2:03:08
  warehouses. You know, I wonder if they will
• 2:03:12
  slash the price to just get these things out of their
• 2:03:16
  warehouses to make room for more inventory of of newer consoles,
• 2:03:22
  especially if they do like collector's editions or
• 2:03:24
  collector's edition wraps or whatever, right?
• 2:03:26
  Like, remember that Starfield wrap they made?
• 2:03:29
  They're like, we're gonna do console wraps and then they made
• 2:03:31
  two and nobody bought them. I don't know.
• 2:03:39
  I, I, I like, I'm very fascinated with Xbox's future.
• 2:03:43
  And we're going to as, as Palpatine would say, we're going
• 2:03:47
  to watch her career with great interest.
• 2:03:50
  Great interest. That's not that's not a line.
• 2:03:53
  I thought. That's not a line for Palpatine.
• 2:03:55
  I thought was going to get quoted but damn that works.
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  Do it. That's that's what.
• 2:04:03
  That's what Nadella's telling her over.
• 2:04:04
  So do it. He has an Xbox hoodie on, but he
• 2:04:08
  just has the hood up like Emperor Palpatine and he's like,
• 2:04:11
  do it. Strike them down with all your
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  power. Yeah, I can do that.
• 2:04:18
  That's what he's saying. Oh, man.
• 2:04:22
  All right, La Ron, let's we have two questions.
• 2:04:25
  La Ron. Let's do them, Let's do them.
• 2:04:28
  Let's, let's, let's answer these real quick because they're not
• 2:04:30
  they're not they're not super long.
• 2:04:33
  I had to think. Amanda Kay writes in via e-mail.
• 2:04:37
  She writes in the paddle block, I think, Hey, boss Rush crew, I
• 2:04:41
  am absolutely loving the pod. Found you through the Iron Lords
• 2:04:44
  podcast and I hope you all continue to grow.
• 2:04:47
  Awesome shots. The Iron Lords podcast, ILP.
• 2:04:54
  I have a question for you, What is your favorite character
• 2:04:56
  design? Pretty simple question but just
• 2:04:58
  curious on what characters you think are well designed.
• 2:05:01
  Thanks again, looking forward to your answer.
• 2:05:07
  OK, so my one of my absolute favorite character designs is
• 2:05:13
  the engineer is the engineer suit that Isaac Clark wears in
• 2:05:16
  Dead Space. But we take that up, we take
• 2:05:20
  that up a level, we go to Dead Space 2 and we get the and we
• 2:05:23
  get the, I think it's called the, the Vantage suit, Dead
• 2:05:28
  Space 2. I feel like that's a Metroid
• 2:05:30
  suit. That's the, that's the various
• 2:05:34
  suit, right? That's called.
• 2:05:36
  Suits. What were the suits called?
• 2:05:39
  Let me see. We had the not the Vantage suit.
• 2:05:43
  I'm sorry, the advanced suit, it's the one that's, it's the
• 2:05:47
  one that's on the cover. Yeah.
• 2:05:51
  I was getting, I, I said the Vantage suit and then there's
• 2:05:54
  actually a vintage suit. So I think I was getting Vantage
• 2:05:56
  and advanced suit, like kind of like confused with each other.
• 2:06:00
  But yeah, like, like honestly, like I feel like a lot of
• 2:06:03
  designs across Dead Space 1-2 and three, like those, those,
• 2:06:07
  those, those space suits are amazing.
• 2:06:10
  Even the boring ones. Look, look, look, look tight.
• 2:06:14
  Yeah, yeah, I think Dead Space has a good design to it.
• 2:06:19
  Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
• 2:06:23
  Other other other character designs.
• 2:06:25
  I like Javik from Mass Effect 3, as a matter of fact.
• 2:06:31
  As a matter of fact, a lot of the aliens from Mass Effect
• 2:06:33
  three, I love their designs. So like we have Javik Thang
• 2:06:38
  Krios, the asari, I think I think all the Asari are, are are
• 2:06:42
  are freaking beautiful and even like even the even the girl that
• 2:06:46
  got contaminated by the Thorin by the thorium and had green
• 2:06:51
  skin, but she had freckles that yo, that was so cool.
• 2:06:55
  It's what other character designs.
• 2:06:58
  Oh, I did not think I was going to love the Samus Aaron's
• 2:07:01
  Metroid red suit as much as I wound up loving it.
• 2:07:05
  I, you know, like, like, like yo come.
• 2:07:09
  Dude, you want to talk about a good suit, You want to talk
• 2:07:12
  about a good suit. That and then like even the
• 2:07:15
  later suits you get in that game are like.
• 2:07:17
  Yeah, yeah. Like, you know, when you get
• 2:07:19
  the, when you get the variations of them, like the Lavaria
• 2:07:21
  version of it and the Gravity versions of it.
• 2:07:23
  Yeah, yeah, man. Sick.
• 2:07:26
  Just so good. Just too sick.
• 2:07:28
  And then you go back to Metroid Prime 4 and it's like the fats
• 2:07:31
  shoulder pads again and it's like.
• 2:07:34
  Yeah, there are some ones on the top of my head that I can think
• 2:07:37
  of of like, like, yeah, there's those are the ones I can think
• 2:07:45
  of off the top of my head. A lot of the character designs,
• 2:07:47
  OK, it's just character designs, you know?
• 2:07:49
  So I'm not going to go into creature designs because like
• 2:07:51
  almost every damn thing from Monster Hunter is fucking
• 2:07:54
  gorgeous. Yeah, I mean, I, I think for me
• 2:08:00
  it depends on if like what the aesthetic of the game is, right?
• 2:08:04
  Like what the art style is and if the things fit that aesthetic
• 2:08:07
  right. Like I look at Mass Effect right
• 2:08:10
  a lot and like that kind of. BioWare has a really polished
• 2:08:15
  look. It doesn't matter if it's Mass
• 2:08:16
  Effect or Dragon Age like BioWare has.
• 2:08:18
  I mean very polished. Look, I mean, you even look at
• 2:08:21
  Anthem, right? And like that had a really cool
• 2:08:23
  look to it, even though the game was like Mars.
• 2:08:26
  Wars Game. Jade Empire.
• 2:08:27
  Jade Empire, the steampunk kind of Chinese dynasty looking Yeah,
• 2:08:32
  that was cool too. Yeah.
• 2:08:34
  They just have like a really strong.
• 2:08:37
  Well, you know, strong sense of art leanings from Star Wars in
• 2:08:40
  general, but just the original stuff.
• 2:08:42
  Me and Kotor was was looking pretty hot too.
• 2:08:45
  And that plus like, and that game and that game is very dated
• 2:08:48
  by the way, like so like for it to look the way it did back in
• 2:08:51
  like the what was that like the early 2000s?
• 2:08:54
  2002, I think 2003, yeah. So yeah, I mean, I, I, I
• 2:09:00
  definitely think that they had like a strong aesthetic for
• 2:09:03
  that. But also like you look at
• 2:09:04
  Obsidian and what they did with like the Outer Worlds, that has
• 2:09:07
  a really cool aesthetic, you know, so like I, I think it just
• 2:09:12
  depend, I think it's game dependent for me.
• 2:09:14
  But also like I do have, I do, I do think there are game
• 2:09:19
  characters that look really good.
• 2:09:21
  Like one of the games I just downloaded for for Switch to and
• 2:09:26
  I know people played this like 4 years ago when it came out, but
• 2:09:29
  it came a bridge of spirits like that game has is very
• 2:09:34
  aesthetically pleasing, right? You know, I think, you know, I
• 2:09:43
  think one of the one of the stronger ones too.
• 2:09:45
  Like when toys the life was really big, like Disney Infinity
• 2:09:49
  had a really strong design to it.
• 2:09:52
  Like even though all the characters are from different
• 2:09:55
  franchises and different. But they all had, but they all
• 2:09:58
  had that same like aesthetic, even though they looked like
• 2:10:01
  they're even they look like they're versions, but they still
• 2:10:03
  had that aesthetic. I like that.
• 2:10:05
  Yeah. And so like I think it's, I
• 2:10:07
  think that is really nice. And then also like you look at
• 2:10:13
  Final Fantasy like especially like Final Fantasy 7 not right
• 2:10:16
  now. Like it's that mix of like kind
• 2:10:20
  of realistic, but also kind of anime and like it just whatever
• 2:10:25
  they're doing with that look, it just works right, right.
• 2:10:29
  So it's not quite Final Fantasy 16 where it's like it does look
• 2:10:33
  super realistic, but it does feel more than just like a an
• 2:10:38
  anime, you know what I mean? Like it?
• 2:10:40
  It definitely has a look to it so.
• 2:10:43
  Oh yeah. That's a game I'm going to get
• 2:10:47
  to this summer, too. I think I need to finish
• 2:10:49
  actually. I shouldn't actually stop
• 2:10:51
  fucking around with like some of these other games I've been
• 2:10:53
  playing and actually try to finish Final Fantasy 7
• 2:10:56
  integrate. You should probably do that.
• 2:10:59
  Yeah. So it's part 3's coming out
• 2:11:03
  soon, right? That's the rumor.
• 2:11:06
  Yeah. I mean, we don't have a date for
• 2:11:07
  that. I feel like we're going to get
• 2:11:09
  an announcement for the Monster Hunter Wild expansion before we
• 2:11:12
  get before we get Square Enix to to give us something on the
• 2:11:17
  third part of Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
• 2:11:21
  Yeah, I mean, that's fair. All right, well, let's get to
• 2:11:26
  our last question here. Mark via X writes in Hey boys, I
• 2:11:31
  have been loving the new direction of the pod, diced and
• 2:11:34
  simple. More in depth topics and awesome
• 2:11:37
  convos about the shows and movies. 2 last week.
• 2:11:43
  My question for you is this, do you really think that video game
• 2:11:46
  movies and TV shows are going to be the new quote comic book
• 2:11:49
  movie fad? Looking forward to your
• 2:11:52
  thoughts. Thanks.
• 2:11:56
  I see. Actually I'm sorry.
• 2:12:01
  I'm distracted right now because there's a bug crying on my wall
• 2:12:03
  and I need to like I I need to kill it before like it it
• 2:12:07
  disappears and then I'm paranoid for this tonight.
• 2:12:09
  Well, you killed the bug. I I do have an answer for this.
• 2:12:12
  It's pretty quick. I think.
• 2:12:13
  I think video games overall are going to kind of miss the Marvel
• 2:12:18
  phase just because like when you look at comic book movies,
• 2:12:21
  they're you know, obviously like you had Sony Fox and, and Marvel
• 2:12:27
  proper or whatever at one point, but now like they're all owned
• 2:12:31
  by the same, you know, company essentially at this point.
• 2:12:35
  And so like it's essentially Marvel versus DC and it's I
• 2:12:41
  think you really only get a couple different flavors from
• 2:12:45
  that and they all kind of start feeling the same, especially
• 2:12:47
  when they start connecting the universes right now.
• 2:12:50
  I know DC is doing something different, right, with Superman
• 2:12:55
  and the Man of Tomorrow and what's the horror one they're
• 2:12:59
  putting out? Clayface, I think, right?
• 2:13:01
  Like they're all doing something different.
• 2:13:04
  But I think once these things all start coming together,
• 2:13:08
  they're all going to start feeling the same.
• 2:13:09
  And I think that's what you find in comic book movies in general,
• 2:13:12
  is that they just all kind of start feeling say me or if it's
• 2:13:16
  like a something like sort of independent, they always have
• 2:13:21
  that what I call like the edgy filter, right?
• 2:13:25
  Like the that Watchman had or like, you know, that filter on
• 2:13:29
  it that makes it look, you know, I don't know the the Zack Snyder
• 2:13:33
  filter, essentially. If you want to call that, I know
• 2:13:37
  what you're talking about. But I think like when you look
• 2:13:40
  at, you know, I think when you look at at video games, they're
• 2:13:45
  all like, there are so many different games that don't
• 2:13:50
  belong in the same universe and aren't in the same universe that
• 2:13:53
  like you're really gonna get something different a lot of the
• 2:13:57
  time. I mean, I think you're gonna see
• 2:14:00
  things trend towards different audiences, but I think you're
• 2:14:03
  gonna see different things, right?
• 2:14:04
  Like Sonic, like Sonic the Hedgehog, right right now is
• 2:14:08
  like probably one of the larger video game movie adaptations
• 2:14:12
  right now. It's it aims towards a certain
• 2:14:16
  audience, but then you have the Mario movie, right, which is
• 2:14:19
  different. And then you have like, you
• 2:14:21
  know, the Tomb Raider movies and you know all these very, you
• 2:14:26
  know, street fighters coming out soon and Mortal Kombat, right?
• 2:14:29
  These are all different games and all different types of
• 2:14:33
  games. And so like I think I think
• 2:14:36
  there's a better range of audience for video game movies
• 2:14:39
  than there is for comic book movies, 'cause they're the comic
• 2:14:41
  book movies are aiming for that PG13 mark, right?
• 2:14:45
  All the time for the most part, except for like Deadpool and
• 2:14:48
  stuff. But even even the Deadpool
• 2:14:51
  movies, like I feel like you still could have made those PG13
• 2:14:53
  and they would have been the same in my opinion, right?
• 2:14:58
  So I don't know. You have an, you have an
• 2:15:01
  opinion. I agree with, I agree with what
• 2:15:03
  I what I caught the cool thing is like my headphones, my
• 2:15:06
  headphones basically like like I can, I have pretty decent
• 2:15:09
  hearing. So like when I step away from my
• 2:15:10
  computer, my headphones, they're not super loud, but I can
• 2:15:13
  definitely hear what you're saying.
• 2:15:14
  So I agree with, I agree with practically everything you said
• 2:15:17
  about that. Yeah, I don't, I don't think, I
• 2:15:20
  don't think video game, video game IPS, you know, in movie
• 2:15:24
  form are going to be as crazy as things are with comic book
• 2:15:28
  movies. I do believe that that, you
• 2:15:32
  know, like they're still going to be kind of niche for a good
• 2:15:34
  little while now. It is true.
• 2:15:36
  Like video game movies are getting more and more popular
• 2:15:38
  and stuff like that. But, but, but for the most part,
• 2:15:42
  I think I think ultimately, like we're, we're still, we're still
• 2:15:50
  going to be in that phase where like video game movies are going
• 2:15:53
  to come out like, you know, like some of, you know, a majority of
• 2:15:57
  them are going to be stinkers and some of them are going to be
• 2:16:00
  actual jewels and stuff like that.
• 2:16:01
  That's going to kind of be what keeps things in check.
• 2:16:04
  I mean, I got my eye on this. I got my eye on this Resident
• 2:16:06
  Evil movie that's coming out. Like I, the trailer for the
• 2:16:09
  movie does not hit me like anything.
• 2:16:12
  I, I, I'm kind of hard pressed to find any Resident Evil in
• 2:16:16
  this in this movie and based off that trailer so far and stuff
• 2:16:19
  like that. And I think So.
• 2:16:21
  What is this? Trailer.
• 2:16:22
  I've heard people talk about it. I haven't watched it yet.
• 2:16:25
  I heard it's like a story told within the events of Resident
• 2:16:28
  Evil 2 but not quite Resident Evil 2.
• 2:16:31
  Is that what? I'm hearing 2.
• 2:16:32
  I didn't hear that. 2 So that's what I heard.
• 2:16:36
  OK, like if that if that's the case, it still doesn't make any
• 2:16:39
  sense because like, to me it just looks like a horror movie.
• 2:16:44
  I mean, the only thing though is like the trailer is just showing
• 2:16:46
  us stuff that makes it seem more like a thriller than an actual
• 2:16:49
  horror slash action movie. Yeah, you know, like, but also
• 2:16:54
  like I've got my own Liz and Zelda movie, which I think that
• 2:16:57
  has the potential to be something really magical and
• 2:17:00
  amazing, but I still don't I've the stuff I've seen on still has
• 2:17:04
  not 100% sold me on it. That that recent Silent Hill
• 2:17:08
  movie returned to Silent Hill did not do anything for me.
• 2:17:11
  As a matter of fact, like I agree with a lot.
• 2:17:13
  I agree with a lot of critics in the audience that that said it
• 2:17:16
  was a bad movie. It was bad, you know.
• 2:17:20
  I'm trying to think of the last good video game movie I even
• 2:17:22
  saw. So like you saw in terms of
• 2:17:26
  yeah, in terms of like video game adaptations, like I thought
• 2:17:30
  Twisted Metal was pretty good on Peacock.
• 2:17:33
  I thought that show was pretty good.
• 2:17:34
  I haven't watched the second season yet but.
• 2:17:36
  Yeah, I feel like the second season.
• 2:17:37
  Oh man, maybe I'll just watch that.
• 2:17:39
  Maybe I'll watch that. But I really liked that first
• 2:17:43
  season and then I really liked the Uncharted movie.
• 2:17:46
  I know it's not like an amazing piece of cinema or anything, but
• 2:17:50
  it's dumb fun Indiana Jones action movie so like.
• 2:17:53
  The Uncharted movie was not bad. Like I walked in expecting it to
• 2:17:57
  be a dumpster fire. Yeah.
• 2:18:02
  It wasn't, it wasn't bad. And you know, people are going
• 2:18:06
  to tell me I'm horribly biased, but I didn't see anything wrong
• 2:18:08
  with the Monster Hunter movie. There was a couple of head
• 2:18:10
  scratching moments in that movie, but I didn't see anything
• 2:18:12
  wrong with it. I think.
• 2:18:13
  I think what really hurt this movie is it just came.
• 2:18:15
  It just came out and, you know, at the earliest part of the
• 2:18:18
  COVID pandemic. Yeah, I also like.
• 2:18:23
  I also wonder if like people just have expectations of, you
• 2:18:29
  know, that style of of movie, right, where like Mila Djovic
• 2:18:36
  and like the whole like corny action flick or like the like it
• 2:18:41
  had definitely had that Resident Evil underworld stink on it,
• 2:18:46
  right? Like, and I, I don't mean to use
• 2:18:49
  stink as a as a, as a bad term or anything.
• 2:18:52
  It just like that's the aura that movie gave off because of
• 2:18:57
  who's in it and who's directing it.
• 2:19:01
  And so like people just went in with X.
• 2:19:03
  It's the same. It's the same thing with games
• 2:19:04
  now too, right, where people just go in with these negative
• 2:19:06
  expectations and like the loud people on the Internet are so
• 2:19:10
  loud that like it ruins things for people, right?
• 2:19:16
  You know, like Highgard and Concorde, which like I didn't
• 2:19:19
  play either of them, you know, from what I heard from normal
• 2:19:23
  people is like, they were just serviceable.
• 2:19:25
  They were fine. But like, you know, the loud
• 2:19:30
  Internet is just so keen on taking things down, right?
• 2:19:34
  I mean, that's the thing that Marathon is dealing with right
• 2:19:37
  now, right? It's like just people just want
• 2:19:39
  Bungie to burn. And it's like, but why?
• 2:19:43
  You know, like I understand, like Destiny fans are mad that
• 2:19:47
  you're not getting Destiny content right now, including me.
• 2:19:51
  Like I'm like, man, I we haven't had any new Destiny content in a
• 2:19:54
  long time. Like meaningful Destiny content?
• 2:19:57
  Well, here's my here's my. Question, right?
• 2:20:01
  I'm sorry, I'm sorry. My my question is as a, as as a
• 2:20:06
  Monster Hunter player and Monster Hunter is essentially
• 2:20:08
  games that service game like destiny and you know, like other
• 2:20:11
  games like that, right? I, I typically don't when, when,
• 2:20:16
  when Monster Hunter world well, Monster Hunter world ice born,
• 2:20:20
  like announced that, you know, there was no more new content
• 2:20:22
  coming out and stuff like that. I still wound up playing that
• 2:20:25
  game until the next game in the series came out.
• 2:20:28
  You know, as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, like I'd,
• 2:20:31
  I'd, I, I, I, I went back from Monster Hunter rise sun break
• 2:20:37
  back to world because like Andre and a couple other people were
• 2:20:41
  really interested in it. Andre Wilson and and yeah, like,
• 2:20:45
  so I wound up playing that game. I wound up playing the game to
• 2:20:49
  help him get ready for Monster Runner Wilds.
• 2:20:53
  Yeah, so I wound up and I even I even rolled a new character.
• 2:20:57
  What? Yes, yeah, I basically started
• 2:20:59
  over. Dang.
• 2:21:02
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, so I, I, so I'm
• 2:21:04
  wondering, I'm now now basically, correct me if I'm
• 2:21:10
  wrong, but basically like, you know, I feel like Destiny is
• 2:21:14
  like a boomer shooter basically, you know, right.
• 2:21:17
  A boomer shooter? OK, Boomer shooter might be a
• 2:21:19
  little extreme, you know. Definitely not a boomer shooter.
• 2:21:23
  But I, I feel like, I feel like, I feel like this type, I feel
• 2:21:26
  like this type of game, like, you know, like I feel like the
• 2:21:28
  audience that it appeals to has a short attention span, if that
• 2:21:32
  makes any sense. I don't see, I don't think they
• 2:21:37
  do because of like end game activities and stuff.
• 2:21:40
  Definitely require you to have focus and like sit there for a
• 2:21:44
  long time. Well, that's the thing about it
• 2:21:46
  though, like I mean, like monster, the Monster Hunter
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  series has has a pretty involved end game, you know, and once and
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  and and I feel like once everybody, I think the cool.
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  I think the thing about Monster Hunter, though, is once
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  everybody, once everybody has their fill of the end game, they
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  still find other shit to do within the game and they keep
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  playing it. Like, I mean, monster monster
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  servers are notoriously like, you know, like, like I'm not
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  going to say they're filled, they're filled to the brim or
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  whatnot, but the Monster Hunter server always looks freaking
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  packed, you know, compared to some of these other games that,
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  you know, hit end and, you know, like end game.
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  And then I was like, it's like the community loses, loses
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  interest in it, you know, and it's, and I think it's, I think
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  it's weird, you know, and, and you know, this is not me trying
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  to boost Monster runner in any way, because like there I have
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  criticisms about the monster runner series, you know, just
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  like, just like Destiny, people have criticisms about that, you
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  know, and, and, and a lot of these other games of service,
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  you know, stuff like that. But I, I just, it just seems odd
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  that, you know, a game that has that has such a big community
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  base, you know, get they get really, they get really upset
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  when content slows down. I didn't not even stop, just
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  slows down. Yeah, I mean, the the thing with
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  Destiny though, is like, again, it's just the it's just the loud
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  minority of players, right. And like this is something that
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  we talk about on tower casuals from time to time is like
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  people, people want when people play, you know, like 203040
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  hours a week or whatever and they do all the content.
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  It's like, well, yeah, you're going to be done with it in like
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  two or three weeks. You know, it's like what?
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  It's like this. The streamers that used to
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  stream Destiny all the time is like, that was their day job,
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  right? Like they would literally stream
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  Destiny 8/10/12 hours a day, do the raids and all the in game
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  content. And it's like, well, when you're
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  doing that six days a week, right?
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  You're going to do all the content because you know, the
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  insurance and outs you've gotten the inside scoop from Bungie in
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  terms of like, you know, what you're allowed to say and do and
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  like what you're supposed to find and, you know, trying to
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  find certain things and, and that sort of thing.
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  And it's like, well, yeah, you're going to get find all the
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  content and do all the content by the time, you know, normal
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  people have maybe beaten the campaign or, or, you know, done
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  some of the in game stuff, but not all of it.
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  Or, you know, the the level grind, right?
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  Like you're going to grind to Max level in 10 days for the,
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  you know, for the raid and you're going to be done because
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  you're not chasing anything. You know, like, it's it that
• 2:24:25
  it's that kind of thing too that like really bothers me.
• 2:24:27
  Yeah, like, I've, I feel like, I feel like people who burn
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  through games like that are literally are literally killing
• 2:24:35
  their own joy. Yeah, I mean they are.
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  I mean, that's what I mean that I feel like streaming, like
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  streaming and like like online culture for for gaming has like
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  killed games, you know, and, and like normal games, you know, I
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  mean, that's just again, that's just my opinion, but I feel like
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  it's really killed a lot of normal games and people who
• 2:25:00
  would like normally like games that just die on the vine
• 2:25:04
  because some streamer said it wasn't good or some content
• 2:25:09
  creator made a video about it and it wasn't, you know, great
• 2:25:12
  or whatever. So.
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  I always, I always challenge people.
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  I know sometimes I get in my own way sometimes, but I always
• 2:25:18
  challenge people. I was like, OK, you've heard a
• 2:25:20
  couple things about it. Like if you heard a couple
• 2:25:22
  things about it that, you know, like it feels like if there's
• 2:25:25
  like 3 people saying this one same thing, I, that's not
• 2:25:28
  consensus enough, you know, you know, you know, like, for
• 2:25:32
  example, like, you know, like we'd have some pretty big panels
• 2:25:34
  on the Boss Verse podcast now it's just like us too, which I,
• 2:25:37
  which, you know, like I not a problem for me and stuff like
• 2:25:40
  that. You know, if you and I agree on
• 2:25:43
  the same thing, you know, and it's the negative thing, I would
• 2:25:46
  still encourage people to like kind of take that brain of salt,
• 2:25:49
  figure it out because like everybody has their own likes,
• 2:25:52
  their preferences and all this stuff.
• 2:25:53
  And you know, like sometimes you just do not know if like this is
• 2:25:57
  the thing for you until you tried it, despite what all the
• 2:25:59
  other people say, you know, like there's a lot of people that
• 2:26:02
  enjoy movies that in my in my mind are like the worst movies
• 2:26:05
  ever and stuff like that. You know, who's wrong?
• 2:26:08
  Am I wrong or are they wrong? You know, like, you know, like
• 2:26:11
  it's all a matter of opinion. It's all a matter of taste
• 2:26:13
  sometimes and stuff like that. That doesn't mean like go out
• 2:26:15
  there and spend like maximum money, you know, just to try
• 2:26:19
  just to test out a theory, you know, like shit, if we're, if,
• 2:26:23
  if we're, if, if we say something like let's use
• 2:26:26
  pragmatic, you know, for example, if we turn around and
• 2:26:29
  say pragmatic was a bad game, like, you know, like, you know,
• 2:26:32
  like I would still encourage you to try it out for yourself.
• 2:26:36
  Try to demo, of course, you know, but you know, like, also
• 2:26:40
  like use caution. Like do you need to spend $70.00
• 2:26:42
  for this game? Can you wait for it to go on a
• 2:26:44
  sale? Like we always know they do, you
• 2:26:47
  know? Yeah, yeah.
• 2:26:53
  I mean, I don't know, I think games are just, I think we all
• 2:26:59
  just like for the most part, just want more of the things
• 2:27:04
  that we love. And like when it doesn't happen
• 2:27:05
  in a in a timely manner. And also like the way certain
• 2:27:11
  people play games is like, it's just a perfect match of like
• 2:27:15
  you're going to be negative about it.
• 2:27:16
  And it sucks that we are just inherently negative people.
• 2:27:20
  And the negativity speaks louder than the positivity, right?
• 2:27:23
  But you know, positive or negativity boosts engagement.
• 2:27:30
  You know, and we live in such an engagement driven culture that
• 2:27:34
  like we are incentivized to be negative, we're monetized to be
• 2:27:39
  negative. And, you know, that's, that's
• 2:27:43
  the world we live in. And it sucks, but I don't know.
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  But that's going to do it, Laurent, We're going to, we're
• 2:27:54
  going to tie it up, put a bow on it.
• 2:27:56
  We're going to get out of here. Everybody out there.
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• 2:28:20
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• 2:28:23
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