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Oh. This is Fine. · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: You know what, I want to cover some old tech news,
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  Speaker 1: like it's like it's nineteen ninety eight. Internet Explorer just
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  Speaker 1: overtook net Vista and there were only one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty one Pokemon. Good stuff, But Counterpoint Quaxley, Okay, the
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  Speaker 1: magic still there. Electronic Arts, the makers of your favorite
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  Speaker 1: full priced annual sports game Roster Update, announced today that
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  Speaker 1: it has been acquired for fifty five billion dollars. The
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  Speaker 1: consortium buying EA includes Saudi Arabia's public investment fund along
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  Speaker 1: with Infinity Partners, which was founded by Donald Trump's son
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  Speaker 1: in law, Jared Kushner, not the kind of kush typically
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  Speaker 1: associated with gamers. The enormous deal makes EA the biggest
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  Speaker 1: leveraged buyout ever, and we'll see the company shareholders get
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and ten dollars per share. Right now, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know how this buyout will impact EA's games. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have to wait to find out if this is part
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  Speaker 1: of Saudi Arabia's attempt to reset suscitate their public image,
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  Speaker 1: or if EA's video games will start to show signs
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  Speaker 1: of Saudi government influence, perhaps a next gen simms title
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  Speaker 1: featuring forced labor and executions, or a battlefield six DLC
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  Speaker 1: game mode featuring journalists assassinations. EA already just blew up
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  Speaker 1: our beloved zach Efron, so really nothing's off the table.
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  Speaker 1: Qualcomm Snapdragon x to Elite and x to Elite Extreme
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  Speaker 1: chips have been benchmarked by a number of tech outlets
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  Speaker 1: since their unveiling last week, with most of those outlets
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  Speaker 1: running headlines like this show's promise and reay not bad. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Normally that kind of measured, cautious enthusiasm really gets me going,
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  Speaker 1: but it's important to note that the only results being
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  Speaker 1: shared are from specific synthetic benchmarks that Qualcom pre installed
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  Speaker 1: on the demo laptops, although they did let the journalists
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  Speaker 1: press the start button, for which they received a sticker
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  Speaker 1: that said I helped now. Some of you may remember
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  Speaker 1: Qualcom had a similar sit up while promoting the first
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  Speaker 1: gen Snapdragon X series. The pre launch hype for those
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  Speaker 1: chips reached a fever pitch. Reviewers in certain tech news
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  Speaker 1: related individuals were foaming at the mouth for what we
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  Speaker 1: all thought and hoped would be Windows answer to Apple
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  Speaker 1: Silicon power efficiency and compatibility on the ARM architecture, And
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  Speaker 1: then the actual chips launched and their performance turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be just okay. They were interesting and innovative and
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  Speaker 1: definitely pretty cool, but compatibility issues remained and the gaming
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  Speaker 1: experience didn't live up to the hype. So forgive me
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  Speaker 1: if I feel the need to use a bit more
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  Speaker 1: than a pinch of salt in this particular entree, even
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  Speaker 1: if I do love to see it on the menu.
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  Speaker 1: Open Ai is adding a couple long awaited features to
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  Speaker 1: chat ept parental controls and the ability to buy stuff
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  Speaker 1: directly from the chatbot, two things that actually go together
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  Speaker 1: quite well. After a lawsuit from the parents of a
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  Speaker 1: teen who took his own life, the parental controls OpenAI
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  Speaker 1: promised our finally here, allowing parents to link to their
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  Speaker 1: teenagers' accounts if the teen opts in and if the
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  Speaker 1: teen doesn't ever disconnect their account, which they can do
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  Speaker 1: at any time, although the parents will be notified. And
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  Speaker 1: right there is a perfect illustration of how in the
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  Speaker 1: Internet age we you know, we're just trying to try
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out out. We don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: fuck're doing. This is parental controls for the good kids
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  Speaker 1: that need it the least, but it's something. If the
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  Speaker 1: accounts stay linked, though, parents can customize their teen's experience
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  Speaker 1: by setting time limits, turning off voice mode and image generation,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully disabling that other new feature, instant check out.
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  Speaker 1: It'll let chat GPT suggest products that users can buy
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  Speaker 1: without ever leaving the app. It's built on an open
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  Speaker 1: agent commerce protocol developed with Stripe, and we'll only work
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  Speaker 1: with Etsy listings for now, although the plan is to
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  Speaker 1: add support for over a million Shopify merchants soon, which
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  Speaker 1: is exciting news for the diehards who couldn't ignore that
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  Speaker 1: something real was missing in their relationship with their AI
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend or girlfriend, the ability to engage in commerce, or
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  Speaker 1: at least have a conversation about our sponsor, Proton, the
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  Speaker 1: email provider that's not linked to big tech, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't want your personal data. Oh you live in X
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  Speaker 1: plays with why other people and or animals? They could
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  Speaker 1: literally not care less, although they are happy for you.
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  Speaker 1: See Proton uses end to end zero access encryption, so
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  Speaker 1: only you can read your emails. I thought that's how
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  Speaker 1: it's supposed to work. Plus they use advanced phishing protection,
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  Speaker 1: tracker blocking, and they even monitor the dark web to
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  Speaker 1: see if your email shows up because that's not allowed,
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  Speaker 1: and if you're super serious about privacy. Proton lets you
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  Speaker 1: use unlimited email aliases. Plus you can connect to it
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  Speaker 1: through the Tour network for another layer of anonymity. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I wish Proton could also replace apps like Google Docs
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  Speaker 1: and my VPN and password manager too. That would be
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  Speaker 1: guess what they can So yeah, I guess you gotta
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  Speaker 1: go create an account for free. Tried for a few
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  Speaker 1: months and see how it feels. To stick it to
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  Speaker 1: big tech now using our links. In the description, Proton
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  Speaker 1: Reggi Aleki is the fastest Pokemon with a base speedstead
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  Speaker 1: of two hundred, but that legends it's got nothing on
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  Speaker 1: these quick bits in Video's RTX fifty Super series of
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  Speaker 1: cards are rumored to be arriving in the first half
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six. Bench Life reports that although the
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  Speaker 1: cards were expected to be announced at January CES twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, the cards should actually be revealed between March
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  Speaker 1: and May this coming year. Benchlife suggests that the RTX fifty, seventy,
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  Speaker 1: fifty seventy TI, and fifty eighty will all get supervariants,
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  Speaker 1: which will see all three cards memory capacity expanded. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's very thoughtful of Nvidia to delay these cards so
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  Speaker 1: we have more time to process damage they'll do to
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  Speaker 1: our collective bank accounts. Still playing video, They're gonna sell out.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a fact. A SEUs is working to address
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  Speaker 1: stuttering and performing issues with several of its ROG gaming laptops.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the issue impacts ROG laptops all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty one models, but this bug was
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  Speaker 1: only recently brought to light by Zefkek on GitHub, whose
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  Speaker 1: work was highlighted on our September nineteenth Wan show Our
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  Speaker 1: I mean. Asus has released beta bios updates for a
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  Speaker 1: number of the affected laptops, and in a community update,
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  Speaker 1: the company says to expect more finalized work in early October.
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  Speaker 1: Good of asues for finally getting on this long standing
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  Speaker 1: issue after being called out on a popular tech podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's the kind of quick customer service we love
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  Speaker 1: to zee. Apple has made its own chat GYBT like
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  Speaker 1: chatbot app, but it exists only to test their new
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  Speaker 1: Serie AI revamp. Ultimate knower of Apple Secrets, the imperious
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  Speaker 1: germinatorius Mark German, reports that the new app, code named Veritas,
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  Speaker 1: is being used internally by Apple staff to test out
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  Speaker 1: the company's current AI models. However, the app is not
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  Speaker 1: planned to be released alongside the long awaited upgraded Sery,
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  Speaker 1: which could start rolling out as early as this coming March.
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  Speaker 1: Early is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Honestly, though,
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  Speaker 1: app will take all the time you need to make
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  Speaker 1: this good. Nobody needs a slightly better SERI, it's too
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  Speaker 1: late for that. Microsoft doesn't seem to like your energy
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  Speaker 1: when you're working with its office products, so, inspired by
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  Speaker 1: AI driven vibe coding, they're introducing Vibe working aka not working.
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  Speaker 1: Using Microsoft's new Office Agent in co Pilot Chat, you
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  Speaker 1: can type in prompts to create AI generated PowerPoint presentations
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  Speaker 1: and Word documents with Excel support coming soon. Probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to win any Excel Championships with this, but hey.
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  Speaker 1: You can also use the incredibly similarly named Agent mode
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  Speaker 1: in Word or Excel to create AI generated spreadsheets and
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  Speaker 1: documents right in the app. Ultimately, what is better for
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  Speaker 1: your work vibes than just letting AI do a worse
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  Speaker 1: job of your tasks for you? Your work doesn't make sense?
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  Speaker 1: Who cares you're vibing? And what do you do for work?
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  Speaker 1: We vibe and beloved streamer Skyrim Grandma, also known as
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  Speaker 1: Shirley Curry has announced her retirement from uploading Elder Scrolls videos.
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  Speaker 1: In her goodbye video, the soon to be ninety year
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  Speaker 1: old told her viewers that after about fifteen years of streaming,
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  Speaker 1: she is tired and not having fun anymore. But don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: Curry says she'll still be posting vlog every so often,
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  Speaker 1: and she even left information to stay in contact with her.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to see her retire like this instead of because
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  Speaker 1: of an arrow to the knee. That plus, there are
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  Speaker 1: always rumors that the Elder Scroll six could be right
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  Speaker 1: around the corner, so one day we might see Skyrim
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  Speaker 1: Grandma right again. But I know tech Linked will definitely
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  Speaker 1: ride again on Wednesday, so come back on that day.
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  Speaker 1: For now, go like and subscribe, and I will go
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  Speaker 1: catch up on literal decades worth of new Pokemon. What
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  Speaker 1: the hell is a blacephalon blasyphag blasiphalon