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Play Has a 30 Day Limit on PlayStation, We Are Xbox Memo, and More · 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, Corey Derrigan.
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  Alongside me, as always, is PC must raise himself.
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  Laurent Dawkins. What's happening?
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  Hey, Corey. How's it going?
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  How's life? How's you got a You got a You
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  got some new toys behind you. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Some things are changing in my backdrop because because my
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  roommate moved out. Is that an?
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  Xbox I see nothing is that an Xbox?
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  I see, is that an Xbox and not not the not the generic this is
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  an Xbox campaign that. Talking about this series S
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  right here. Yeah.
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  Yeah, well, I. Lost you?
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  I lost a roommate because my, my, my, my, my former roommate
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  got married, got married two weeks ago.
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  So like him and the wife are actually doing the playing house
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  thing for real. Like 'cause they moved, he moved
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  out and they got a house together and all that stuff.
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  My new roommate, my new roommate.
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  Finally we we now have we now have the the quartet now we have
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  where this is now a Nintendo, PlayStation, PC, and an Xbox
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  household now. Wow, look at this guy.
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  We got the cortex going on here. I don't need, I don't need
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  friends to have all of them. Yeah, yeah, you know what, I'll,
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  I'll be honest with you, I have been playing a little bit of
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  this, this this little sucker. So, yeah, so I know, like it
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  feels hypocritical and like I don't need an Xbox because I
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  have APC. Yeah, yeah.
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  But there's a ready made console here so I'm gonna play some shit
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  on it. Hey, man, look, the is the the
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  series S is well, the original at the at the original price
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  point. It was a pretty it was a pretty
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  nice machine. Yeah, yeah.
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  Now it now it costs as much as the Series X did when it came
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  out. And yeah.
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  I'm not. I'm not playing Monster and
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  Wilds on it. Oh, I'm not even well.
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  Speaking of, I put monster and Wilds on my Rog Li X.
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  And oh boy, how's. That going it actually it it's
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  serviceable. I'd rather play on my PC though.
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  It's serviceable though. A ringing endorsement.
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  Yeah, 'cause it was not serviceable when it first
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  launched on the on this on on on PC handhelds.
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  I can't imagine it was Laron. I cannot imagine it was if.
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  APC hand if me being a Monster Hunter fanboy and only having
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  access to APC handheld if if I did not have APS 5 I did not
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  have my PC of course, and I only had APC handheld.
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  I would probably walk into traffic trying to play Monster
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  Hunter Wilds on on back then on this on the on the I was about
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  to say series X What the the the rug LIX.
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  Well, you know, it was. It's bound to happen someday.
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  Yeah, all you, all you PC gamers hate on Xbox and you all end up
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  with one. You know what I mean?
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  Not by design, not by design. It's not like I ran out and
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  bought 1. I I don't believe you.
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  I I thought you did. I bet you did.
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  I have no receipts to say I bought this thing that sounded
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  just as that sounded more incriminating than just saying I
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  went out and bought one that didn't it.
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  Yes, yes, it did. So yeah, I mean.
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  Speaking of Speaking of being criminals, what were you doing?
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  What were you doing on Sunday? I I, I don't know what was I Oh.
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  You flew, you flew the you flew the boss Rust network coop so.
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  Here's the thing. So we didn't, we didn't have an
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  episode this week, but we did have an interview go out, a
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  spotlight interview that Stephanie did for Dark Machine
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  Games. But I also guested on the Iron
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  Lord's podcast for what, 3 segments I think.
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  So that was, dude, they're so cool.
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  They're the those dudes are so that not only are they cool,
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  they're they're like the nicest people you will ever meet.
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  There, man, it was a blast. Just just just tuning in like
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  for, for anyone who was paying attention to our socials on
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  Sunday, like, yeah, like if you ran, if, if you, if you saw a
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  blast on the socials, if you ran over to the Bosphorus, to
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  bosphorus.net. You actually saw a bonus live
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  stream of Corey shenanigans on Sunday.
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  Yeah, it was dude. It was, it was really fun.
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  We talked about the the whole Xbox kind of switcheroo going on
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  right now and I love Oh I. Oh, I really, I really
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  appreciated the love y'all gave Ossa Sharma, Ossa Sharma and
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  Matt Booty because you know what?
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  I I honestly, I honestly have not been respecting Matt Booty
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  for a, for a. While, I mean, here's the thing,
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  I I don't, I don't think Matt we're going to talk about it in
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  a little bit, but I don't I really don't know why Matt booty
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  is is there. Is still there.
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  I have I have strong opinions about it, but like I know that
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  they are very friendly with Xbox.
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  They have a lot of connections there and they are very friendly
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  with them. And so like I wanted to be
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  respectful because like you know, 11 wrong thing, somebody
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  can cut you off. It doesn't matter, you know?
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  I mean, that's seriously. That's true.
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  Obviously they, they are a different breed of people and
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  they, they know, but like, I didn't want to like ruin, you
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  know what I mean? Like I didn't want to like.
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  Yeah. Anything that would potentially
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  harm their relationship with Xbox.
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  But I, I tried to be respectful, but I, I do think Asha Sharma's
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  doing a really. I think, I think Asha Sharma's
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  doing a good job too. I, you know, like, but you know
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  what, I actually, I actually went in completely neutral about
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  her. I mean, you know, say what you
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  will, everybody, everybody has heard me for the past few weeks,
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  knows that I'm, I'm still a little slighted about the whole
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  Sarah Bond thing, you know, But, you know.
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  I think that's the thing too is like, I think a lot of people
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  had a lot of opinions on not just the way everybody left, but
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  also like everybody was like, oh, well, Sarah was next in
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  line. Like what's going on where they
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  all forced out And then she comes, you know, Asha comes from
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  the the core AI program, which is like not a real AI program,
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  Graham, but like, you know, so like, here's my thing, I'm
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  people had those. I'm not even right.
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  Yeah, I'm thinking up in arms about the fact that, you know,
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  like they didn't give Sarah a chance to do her thing.
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  You know, it was just like she it, it still feels like it was
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  just a major ouster compared to compared when you look at when
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  you look at how Phil Spencer went out and how she went out,
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  it seemed like something not nice happened.
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  You know what I mean? Well, you know, like Phil had a
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  lot of like things to say, a lot of nice things to say about the
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  team. A lot of, you know, a bunch of
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  different things. And then Sarah didn't say
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  anything like and. Nobody's silence is speaking
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  volumes. And nobody said anything about
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  her except for Phil, right? So, like, you know, that story's
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  going to come out someday. I'm very fascinated to see what
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  happened, but I. I feel like, I feel like Sarah
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  is going to bounce back though. She, you know, she's going to
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  wind up, she's going to wind up, you know, with another tech
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  company. I don't know if she's going to
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  be back in video games, but she's going to wind up another
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  tech company. She'll be, she'll be.
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  I mean, I I almost wonder if she'll wind up inside Microsoft
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  somewhere else. Right.
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  But I, I, I don't know she's. Still in.
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  She's still employed there, you know.
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  Oh, she is, I thought. She was going Phil.
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  Phil and Sarah are staying through the summer to help with
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  the transition. And like, well, that's what it
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  says on paper. But, you know, I wouldn't be
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  surprised if she transitioned into like, devices and services
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  for Microsoft somewhere, right? Like something like that, you
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  know? Next thing you know, this is a
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  Zune. This is a Zune.
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  Oh my God, everything's a Zune. Hey, I liked my Zune, thank you
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  very much, remember. Remember when they tried to
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  revitalize Zune back in the Xbox One era?
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  Yeah, I do. Yeah, you do.
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  You're next last man boy, You. You do.
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  I I had I had two Zunes, I had AI had a blue 1 and I had the
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  Gears of War one. I didn't own a Zune, but I fell
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  in love with like with like with like everybody.
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  My, I had some friends that had Zunes and I fell in love with
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  those things. I don't know why I I don't know
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  why. I don't know how I managed to
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  not spend money on one of those things because I really love
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  those things. I just never owned one.
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  Yeah, I I really liked the Zune a lot.
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  And then and then the Zune evolved into the Windows Phone.
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  And then we all know where it went after that.
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  In the toilet. But yeah, shout out, shout out
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  to the Iron Lords. Thanks for having me on, guys.
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  We'll, we'll, we're gonna we're gonna collab with them soon on
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  something. They asked if I was going to
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  Summer Games Fest and I was like, man, I would love to.
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  But although apparently I am unofficially officially part of
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  their road to Cologne. Yeah, apparently.
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  Apparently you're pimping yourself out the.
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  I mean, look, if, if, if they make some, if they make enough
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  money and they want to take me, I'm not going to say no.
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  I mean, that's. Corey, like you're pimping,
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  you're pimping yourself out to them, like and, and and here and
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  here I am. I just been sitting here for
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  years now. You've never pimped yourself out
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  for me once. That's because you always show
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  up. When they come, when they come
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  call and I have to, I have to answer.
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  You know what I mean? I don't know if you saw, I don't
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  know if you saw that. I I know.
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  I know what I'm buying. I know what I'm buying you this
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  summer and sending to you. Send it to your house like
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  direct. I'm buying you a set of knee
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  pads. I mean you did you see the tweet
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  thread I was I'm in with Cog? No.
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  Do I need to? Yeah, I'm going to.
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  I'm going to send it to you in the studio.
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  In the studio chat. I'm sending it to you, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just look what I replied to him
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  with. Oh, this this, this about to be
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  good. Oh man.
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  You're a you're a simple whore. I am, you know, I I'm, I'm a
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  simple, I don't. Sees him.
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  Did you see what I replied to him with?
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  Yes, yes, I see it. Oh my God.
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  So I guess you can look forward to that maybe.
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  Hey, you did yourself. Hey, hey, hey I hey hey.
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  Make sure those wind up in my DMS. It's out there.
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  It's out there. So hey, look, man.
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  And, and with all the things going on going on around here,
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  I've, I've slipped down kind of quite a bit.
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  So, you know, I could fit into that.
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  Yeah. It'd be weird with seeing me in
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  here though. Laurent.
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  Oh. You're so seeing you here would
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  be the weirdest thing about that whole ensemble.
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  OK, whatever. What I mean, would it not?
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  You tell me. I don't know.
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  Oh my God, by the way, by the way, OK, OK, so are all our
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  viewers and listeners on on for this show?
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  You guys, you guys can back me up.
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  I didn't start this sexual harassment tonight.
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  I did not start this. Hey, man.
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  Like that guy started it, that guy started it.
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  All I can say is it was a good time.
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  Oh whoa, I bet this. Is a good time.
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  You were having. You were having big fun.
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  I was. I was.
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  That's alright. Man, I'm happy for you, man.
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  Shoot, sometimes you have to stray outside the yard, get a
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  little, get a little strange with strange people.
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  I mean, look that that episode so far on YouTube has like 7000
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  views. So and they gave us they gave us
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  the collab, the collab tag. So, you know, shout out to them
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  for how amazing. Get a few, get a few of them
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  views, you know what I mean? So yeah, that the the other
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  thing I did though, Laron, is I went through all the episodes of
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  Nintendo power block, every episode of expansion pass and
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  every direct recap show. Oh, you.
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  Were. Busy re re rendered them.
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  You rendered. Them.
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  Re rendered them, ran the audio through some audio garbage and
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  re uploaded them to a new YouTube channel.
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  So Nintendo Power Block has its own YouTube channel.
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  OK. Well, you know what you said
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  that was you said that was a a project that you were going to
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  get on. So Congrats on that.
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  Yeah, I started. I actually started in January.
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  So that channel's been live since January and I've just been
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  slowly uploading over the course of the last three months and
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  it's finally done. Oh OK, good shit.
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  So there we are and you know, the clips channels starting to
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  get up to date up to date. Although I hit the daily limit
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  today for uploads. So to be fair, I just scheduled
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  them out. I didn't like publish them all
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  today, but we're still hit our our daily limit, which was cool.
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  I guess the daily limit is 10 now.
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  It used to be 15, now it's 10. Was.
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  That a fact. Apparently, yeah.
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  So. So the Clips channel's live PAL
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  blocks live, Tower Casuals is live, Boss Rush is live.
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  We're all live. Boss Rush Entertainment is
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  existing. We need a logo for that.
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  It'll probably just be that TV logo we use for standard def,
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  though, to be honest. Maybe with that, with the moon
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  from the After Dark logo inside, something like that.
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  I don't know. I haven't decided yet.
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  Anyways, Lauren, how are you? What did you do on Sunday?
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  I don't even know what day it is.
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  It's Wednesday, I guess, right? Sunday OK, so Sunday OK, so this
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  weekend my new my new roommate started moving in here.
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  So a lot of the stuff I did over the weekend was basically to
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  help like kind of kind of get, kind of get him acclimated and
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  situated here in the spot and everything.
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  Like, like, like it's not some rando either moving in with me.
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  Like it's a, it's a really good friend of mine.
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  Like we've known each other for almost 3 decades now and stuff
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  like that. You know?
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  Yeah, but, but yeah, but yeah. So a lot of a lot of the stuff
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  that went on this weekend was basically that I've, I've, I've
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  been cooking more dinners and having people over and stuff
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  like that. I made, I made some crazy ass,
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  some crazy ass chicken tenders this weekend.
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  I mean, I mean, shit, like, like, I'm not trying to brag.
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  I'll just let, I'll just let my friends do that.
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  Like restaurant quality, like, like chicken tenders, you know,
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  nice, you know, yeah. Like I love, I love to cook.
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  I love to cook and and I love and I actually love cooking for
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  people when people want to eat, Well, I mean, it's not hard.
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  Hey, hey, you want to eat? I'm cooking, you know, And
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  everybody was like, yes. I mean, I I can eat.
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  I could eat. I'm going to make the drive.
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  Hey, hey, come through. I might.
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  I mean, I'm, I'm just shelling myself out to myself, out to
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  everybody these days, so I might as well, no.
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  Oh, you'll be you'll be well rewarded if you come this way.
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  I'm sure I will be in more ways than one.
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  Yeah, yeah. But for the most part, this
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  weekend was like helping my helping my former roommate with,
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  with, with we're moving and stuff and and then and then
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  helping my new roommate get moved in and situated.
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  And it's almost, it's almost. We're almost at A at a
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  equilibrium now. Cool.
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  Yes, as you see, like, 'cause I, I technically don't share like,
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  like, I mean like actually an Xbox has moved in here, you
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  know, so technically I'm sharing the office, but now I'm sharing
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  the office in a different capacity.
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  What is that? Oh, flapping around back there.
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  OK, that was weird. What is that flapping around
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  back there? I have.
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  I have. My, I have my fan running and I
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  have it pointed away. So like it bounces off the wall.
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  So it's not like just pure cold air hitting me.
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  And there's a, there's some Kleenex over there on the edge
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  of the table. So I look, there's now like,
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  what is that flapping? I have to look, yeah.
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  And and I got a display case back here that I don't know why
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  in this at this angle it looks crooked.
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  It's, it's just, it's just the camera, man.
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  Your, your desk is angled. Your, your camera's probably
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  angled. It just, it's not.
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  It's not. I think, I think that's I think.
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  That's what you. Do too?
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  I think my. Stuff looks crooked too, and
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  that's because my monitor isn't straight on to the wall, it's
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  kind of shifted. I'll, I'll, I'll fix that later
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  yeah, because I don't want to fuck around and break my camera.
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  But yeah, it's like, but yeah like actually I feel like I
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  probably should buy like another another stackable module and put
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  on top of that because I got I got some, I got some unboxed
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  Legos that wouldn't will be built eventually.
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  I'm in there and then and then I'm starting to display my video
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  games like let me see my, my PS Vita and my Nintendo Switch
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  games are in that little, that little cubby right there.
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  There's there's no Lego, there's no Lego box set in there.
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  Graphic novels and a couple of books are in there.
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  A speed editor for for for when I'm doing for when I'm doing
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  video video stuff like PlayStation 5 and PS4 games are
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  in that are in that middle one another Lego set.
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  And then the the ones in the bottom are blank except for like
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  a couple of boxes like my, like my, my ROG Ally Xbox is on top
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  right there. My, my original ROG Ally box is
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  down there along with the the box for my for my original
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  switch. I don't know why I still have my
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  Nintendo switch box. I really don't know why.
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  I have all my boxes for my Nintendo consoles now.
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  The only the only box I don't have is a Super Nintendo box but
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  that's because I didn't buy my Super Nintendo new.
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  But everything else I have one so I'm pretty proud of that.
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  DNS box though, man that things move so many times it's like man
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  I don't even know. Where the robot room on them?
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  Yeah, I still dude, I still have the Styrofoam inside and the.
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  Instructions. You said your original NES box.
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  Yeah, man, it's the one. It's the box that comes with the
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  pad, like the the pad that you step on.
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  Oh. My God, the power.
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  Pad man Yeah, and it has the IT has the zapper and 2 controllers
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  and some inserts. I don't even have that shit
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  anymore. Oh, the Ron.
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  Speaking of NES, did I not? Did I tell you that I found a
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  CRTTV? No, you did not.
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  Yeah, man, it's it's like AI would say probably like a 15
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  inch Magnavox CRT. It's so old it doesn't even have
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  composite cable hookups. I have to, I have to find RF
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  adapters. Wow.
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  You think you think any? You think Anybody under the age
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  of 25 knows when an RF adapter is?
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  No, no. Anybody under the age of 30
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  knows when RF adapters You know what's sad?
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  They're on. I'm going to be 40 this year.
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  Just. 40 Yeah, whatever I got to get my life together.
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  Whatever. I was going to ask you something
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  else, but what? Let's let's just let's just get
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  into what we've been playing. LeBron, what are you, what are
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  you playing? You've you've you've played
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  things right? Yeah, you've been playing.
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  This. Yeah.
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  Well, I mean, you know, out of the spirit of not boring
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  everybody to death, like like I will just go ahead and just say
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  like, I still have not beaten Front Mission 3 yet.
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  Like I don't, I just stalled on that.
• 21:06
  I have this problem and this is problem I had with Horizon 0
• 21:09
  Dawn, God of War and a few other games, right?
• 21:12
  When I know I'm at the end of a game, like I kind of put it down
• 21:16
  because I don't want the end, you know, it's, it's a terrible
• 21:20
  'cause I get latched onto the characters.
• 21:22
  I love the story and the universe and all that stuff, you
• 21:24
  know? And, and you know, I don't know,
• 21:26
  you know, people are like, well, you know, you get this new game
• 21:28
  plus it. No, you can't because like,
• 21:29
  you've already, you already know how the story's gonna pan out at
• 21:33
  that point, you know? So, yeah, so, so Freemason 3
• 21:37
  Remake, it's almost complete. I might as well, I might as well
• 21:40
  say I'm, I've, I've beaten it. But you know, like for the sake
• 21:43
  of things, I'm not going to say I've beaten it because like, I
• 21:45
  really want to beat the game and I'm in the last few missions.
• 21:47
  I'm in the last few missions right now.
• 21:50
  But you know, I did lateral to another tactical RPG game 'cause
• 21:56
  I picked back up Advanced Wars 1-2 Reboot camp.
• 22:03
  Yeah, How's that going? And you enjoy.
• 22:05
  Yourself yeah, it's fun. It's it's fun And, and I'm
• 22:08
  trying to and I'm trying to do it like it's going slow for me
• 22:11
  because like, because like I'm trying to I'm trying to get the
• 22:14
  most points possible. Like anytime you clear a map,
• 22:17
  depending on how fast and how, how, how efficient you are, you
• 22:20
  can get up to 300 points per map, which, which helps unlock
• 22:24
  goodies and all that stuff, things like that.
• 22:28
  I'm playing without looking at strategy guides or like
• 22:30
  walkthroughs or whatnot. So like, so like, so like I'm
• 22:34
  trying my, I'm trying my best to get as close to 300 points as
• 22:37
  possible. And yeah, so it's going slow.
• 22:44
  Like I should have already been in like these.
• 22:46
  I can't remember how Advanced Wars, I know Advanced Wars 2 you
• 22:52
  wound up playing with the other factions.
• 22:56
  So, so, so yeah, there was like 3 acts 3 arcs to the advanced
• 23:00
  wars too, but I cannot remember the life of me out how many arcs
• 23:03
  Advanced Wars is. I think I'm on mission like 8 or
• 23:05
  9 right now, you know, but that doesn't really tell me anything
• 23:08
  at this point, Right, right. Yeah, but but yeah, like I I
• 23:14
  love this game. I love this game.
• 23:17
  Awesome. It's so it's just so fun.
• 23:19
  It's just so fucking fun. It's just so fun.
• 23:21
  It is. I mean, it's, it's definitely,
• 23:24
  it's, I wish it. Here's the thing, I wish it was
• 23:27
  more popular than it was so we would get more.
• 23:30
  Yeah. You know.
• 23:31
  Like, well, I mean there is a good possibility we're going to
• 23:34
  get like dual strike. Yeah, well, we'll probably get.
• 23:40
  We'll probably get Battalion Wars on the Switch too, also
• 23:42
  through NSO, right? Oh.
• 23:45
  Well, if, if NSO, yeah, like don't, don't.
• 23:47
  It'll be through NSO. Nobody's buying battalion wars,
• 23:50
  dude. Come on.
• 23:53
  Yeah, Dual strike's the DS1, right?
• 23:58
  Yeah, DS. Yeah, Dual Strike's the DS1 Dual
• 24:00
  Strike is actually it's hard for me to decide if if Dual Strike
• 24:04
  is my favorite one or if or if or if Black Hole Rising Advanced
• 24:09
  Wars 2 is my my favorite one. Well, pick one, pick one.
• 24:16
  Dual strike. Dual strike Attaboy.
• 24:18
  Dual strike Attaboy. Attaboy.
• 24:24
  Man, I just, I just saw something on Advance.
• 24:27
  Oh, it was on sale like the physical copies.
• 24:29
  We're back in stock on VGP and we're on sale for like 30-7
• 24:33
  dollars. Oh yeah.
• 24:34
  Yeah. I wanted to buy it, but I got
• 24:37
  other things take care of first. So is that it?
• 24:41
  Is that all you're plan? And and I'm back on Monster
• 24:45
  under Wilds actually. Like I'm doing like I'm doing.
• 24:48
  Ally. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
• 24:50
  loaded Monster 100 Wilds on my ROG Ally and I can, I can I can
• 24:54
  honestly say it's a serviceable game now.
• 24:57
  Like it was not that way like when it first launched, but then
• 25:00
  again on on PC on PCI feel like it wasn't really serviceable
• 25:05
  then either. Like it was playable for sure,
• 25:07
  but on handheld PCs it was not, you know, but yeah, Capcom is
• 25:12
  the the Capcom and the production team have been
• 25:15
  putting a lot of work into like fixing the problems of like, of
• 25:18
  like of not just the PC version, but all the versions.
• 25:20
  But the PC version is getting the most attention because
• 25:24
  because the PC, because the performance of the PC version
• 25:27
  actually impacted the overall sales of the game itself.
• 25:31
  So yeah. So yeah, like you guys need to
• 25:33
  pay attention. Like whatever we do, whatever we
• 25:36
  do it over here to PC Master race, you guys to pay attention.
• 25:41
  Pay attention, everybody, pay attention.
• 25:44
  I reinstalled Monster Hunter Wilds I when I had some time, I
• 25:50
  was going to ask if you wanted to play it, but I have not had
• 25:53
  time. I'm I've, I've finally cotton up
• 25:56
  with the new workload at work, so maybe I'll have time.
• 26:02
  You know, I, there's just been a lot going on at work And so I
• 26:08
  just finally caught up on all those podcasts.
• 26:10
  But they're, you know, they're, they're, I don't have to work at
• 26:15
  night anymore. Feels like, at least for now.
• 26:18
  That's good, right? Yeah.
• 26:20
  Well, you know, sometimes when you get a new, when work gets
• 26:25
  transitioned to you and like it's not like where it's
• 26:28
  supposed to be, so you just have to do it.
• 26:33
  So yeah, that's where we're at there.
• 26:35
  But it's fine. I really, I have command.
• 26:38
  Tell you what, out of everything in life right now, job's the one
• 26:41
  thing I'm not worried about at all.
• 26:42
  So I I love my job, dude. That's a good thing, right?
• 26:46
  It's awesome. I love my job so, but other than
• 26:54
  that, I've been playing marathon or marathon shooting stuff, you
• 27:00
  know, being awesome and by awesome being the old man trying
• 27:05
  to play this young man shooter, you know what I mean?
• 27:07
  Trying to but like I'm I'm really having a lot of fun going
• 27:12
  through the contracts and like doing the objectives on the
• 27:15
  contracts and you know, getting unlocks from that and upgrading
• 27:20
  stuff. And the knife is still pretty
• 27:24
  Opie when you upgrade it. And I'm going to be really
• 27:28
  interested to see how people react to that getting wiped when
• 27:30
  it's done. Yeah, at the end of the season.
• 27:33
  But yeah, man, a marathon. Marathon is awesome.
• 27:37
  I'm going to try to get, I want to try to get somebody from
• 27:39
  Bungie who worked on Marathon on the show at some point.
• 27:44
  Just be just because like, I mean, I don't know if you saw
• 27:47
  the rumor, but there are more people working on Marathon now
• 27:49
  than there are on Destiny. I have the marathon.
• 27:53
  Wait, is that a rumor or is that?
• 27:55
  I mean, as far as I saw, it was a rumor.
• 27:57
  I did not try to confirm that, but I saw that and it was, yeah,
• 28:04
  I don't know. I I am really concerned for
• 28:08
  Destiny. But also it's just, it's just in
• 28:10
  a spot that you know, it just it's not.
• 28:14
  It's not, aren't they, you know, aren't they doing some things to
• 28:17
  like to like, you know, like revitalize Destiny, though like
• 28:20
  wasn't I thought I heard that stuff was in the way.
• 28:22
  Of that they're trying, but it's just not working for them.
• 28:26
  You know it's just people don't really like the portal system
• 28:30
  that they implemented, which I don't either, but I, I just
• 28:35
  here's the thing. I'm not going to lie to you I
• 28:36
  haven't played enough the last few months to really care.
• 28:42
  You know I've been doing a lot of Nintendo stuff.
• 28:46
  We did the marathon review, which I have to get that review
• 28:49
  up today or tonight or tomorrow, probably tomorrow morning.
• 28:54
  I'll just put it up and send it. Put it, put in the chat, put in
• 28:58
  the because Josh did the review on that one, right.
• 29:02
  He was writing one, but he had a lot of stuff come up recently
• 29:05
  with his job. So I kind of just wrote it.
• 29:10
  And then I mean, if he ends up writing it, I'll just replace
• 29:13
  mine with his butt. Yeah, It's, it's an, it's an,
• 29:19
  it's a phenomenal game. And I, I really think the things
• 29:25
  that they're doing with it to try to get more people in is
• 29:27
  real, a really smart idea. Like the they're doing like
• 29:32
  free, like the a free, like the free loadouts playlist, which is
• 29:37
  like a kind of like a casual playlist, which is nice.
• 29:42
  And then obviously like pinwheel, like getting into
• 29:46
  pinwheel and and obviously cryo archive are like the hardcore of
• 29:50
  the hardcore. Good luck trying ranked mode,
• 29:56
  though. That's all I'm saying.
• 29:58
  Good luck. Good luck out there, runners.
• 30:01
  You're going to die and you're just going to have to live with
• 30:04
  it. Catch phrase of that episode, I
• 30:08
  guess, and then, you know, diving through some switch
• 30:15
  stuff. Just trying to, I'm trying to
• 30:17
  figure out what I want to play next, right?
• 30:19
  Just because like, I finished Super Metro and I really haven't
• 30:23
  really been playing anything since then except for like time
• 30:27
  filler games, you know? Yeah, you're not.
• 30:30
  You're not doing more Metroid games.
• 30:33
  I am. I just played three in a row
• 30:35
  though, and it's like, I kind of it's the same thing with
• 30:38
  firearms. Like I want to keep going but
• 30:41
  I'm worried that I'm going to burn myself out on it.
• 30:43
  Oh I almost like I almost went instead of doing advanced wars I
• 30:48
  almost went to back to firearm 3 houses.
• 30:51
  The only reason why I didn't go back to firearm 3 houses because
• 30:54
  I would have to start all the way over.
• 30:56
  I've been thinking about starting over 2 just because
• 30:58
  Fortune's weave connects to it in like a major way and I want
• 31:04
  to be ready. But yeah man, I'm, I'm, I.
• 31:11
  I just got to pick something and play it 'cause I'm, I, I want.
• 31:15
  I also have been wanting to play through Xenoblade, which I have
• 31:21
  been saying that on Nintendo Power block for like literally 4
• 31:24
  years at this point that I want to play through the series and I
• 31:26
  haven't yet. Like I'll start them and then
• 31:29
  I'll just be like, we're just going to move on.
• 31:33
  So anyways, that's that's what I've been playing.
• 31:38
  Yeah, that's pretty much what I've been playing.
• 31:41
  Yeah, Laurent, before we get before we get into these topics,
• 31:44
  OK, Before we, before we get into these topics.
• 31:47
  Tonight's going to be a shit show, isn't it?
• 31:49
  No, no, it's gonna be a great one.
• 31:52
  It's gonna be a great show. I have faith.
• 31:54
  Have faith in the show. La Ron.
• 31:56
  All right. One of us has to.
• 32:03
  Edward. Edward and I were talking about
• 32:04
  the Zelda movie on Power Block. OK, so hear me out.
• 32:08
  I know not Nintendo Power Block, but hear me out.
• 32:11
  We were trying to figure out who was going to play Gannon.
• 32:15
  I think I picked the perfect casting.
• 32:18
  Who? Who'd you pick?
• 32:21
  Idris Elba should play Gannon. I have 0 objections with that.
• 32:29
  I like I can't stop thinking about Idris Elba's Gannon now.
• 32:33
  Like since we. Started talking about I actually
• 32:36
  like whenever Idris Elba plays a bet plays a villain.
• 32:39
  Yeah, and like what what I was thinking was like, OK, so like
• 32:43
  if you had this political battle between Hyrule and the Garudo or
• 32:47
  whatever, right and Zelda somehow escapes because Gannon
• 32:50
  takes over like Lion King style, right.
• 32:52
  Like he just kills the king, takes over, Zelda runs away, she
• 32:58
  finds Link, whatever. But like Aegis album, man,
• 33:01
  coming up, it being the king of the Garudo as Gannandorf and
• 33:04
  then like somehow getting I don't know which version of the
• 33:10
  are they? Are they if they're going to use
• 33:11
  like the sake, the secret stones from tears of the Kingdom, or if
• 33:14
  they're going to use the the the, you know, the things that
• 33:17
  they use in Ocarina time. Whatever to get his powers to
• 33:20
  become like Gannon, right, Like, but man, I cannot stop thinking
• 33:25
  about Idris Elba as as Gannon Dorf right now.
• 33:28
  Like you could do some really cool like like red dreads.
• 33:33
  Like you can make him look like a serious bad ass.
• 33:37
  That's if they're going, that's what they're going with.
• 33:38
  The Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild.
• 33:40
  Gannon though, right? Not necessarily, no.
• 33:43
  You could do like you could do the Skyward Sword Gannon or
• 33:46
  well, Demise, I guess, but like you could do Twilight Princess,
• 33:51
  you could do like, I mean, the the look of Link is clearly
• 33:55
  Twilight Princess, right? I don't know if you saw the
• 33:57
  linked the the leaked images of Link.
• 34:00
  I saw them, but also, but I also, I'll be honest with you, I
• 34:03
  haven't been paying a lot of attention to it because I don't
• 34:05
  want anything spoiled for me, which is kind of weird
• 34:08
  considering that I'm not like an Abbot, like a hardcore Legend of
• 34:11
  Zelda person, you know, right. Like I, I have, I, I, I know
• 34:15
  what I like about the Legend of Zelda franchise and I know, and
• 34:18
  I definitely know what I dislike about the, the franchise.
• 34:21
  So I haven't really been paying a lot of attention to.
• 34:24
  Well, I mean, I paid, I, I, I, I noticed, I've noticed this to
• 34:27
  be. Fair.
• 34:27
  There's nothing to pay attention to yet really.
• 34:35
  They cast Impa, though they did announce that.
• 34:38
  I don't know who the actress is. Like I recognize her but I don't
• 34:41
  know what her name is. But.
• 34:44
  Yeah, man, what do you think? What do you think about Anitra
• 34:46
  Salva? Oh, I love it.
• 34:49
  I love it. Yeah.
• 34:50
  Who would be like who would be like the side chick?
• 34:52
  Like the side Not that sounds bad.
• 34:54
  Like the side kick for him. Like the the like the female
• 34:59
  leader of the Garudo. Who would that be?
• 35:01
  Michelle Rodriguez? I just dude, I just, I just
• 35:05
  watched Fast 9 and fast 10. Oh, you did for some reason.
• 35:10
  Don't ask why. I just, I'm not, I'm not caught
• 35:12
  up. I'm not caught up.
• 35:13
  I haven't watched 9 or 10. I don't think I watched 7 or 8
• 35:16
  because I'm trying to figure out like the last one I watched they
• 35:19
  were like escaping on an on a plane or something at the end
• 35:22
  but I don't remember which one. They all blend together.
• 35:25
  Everyone dies and everyone comes back to life and everyone fights
• 35:28
  The Rock at some point, and then apparently John Cena shows up
• 35:31
  somehow and is Vin Diesel's brother.
• 35:36
  I didn't know that. That's weird.
• 35:39
  The fuck? Yeah, man.
• 35:41
  It's it. It's family, man.
• 35:45
  It's all about family. Family.
• 35:53
  Yeah, man, I don't know where. What were we even talking about
• 35:56
  now? Oh who?
• 36:00
  Who's going to be the the the female lead for the Garrido?
• 36:03
  See, first of all, I don't even know what the Garrido is.
• 36:06
  That's that's how the. Sand the sand people of all
• 36:09
  women and there's only one male born every like 100 years and
• 36:12
  that male ends up becoming the king and is usually a terrible
• 36:16
  person like Ganondorf I. Have no idea.
• 36:20
  Like, I mean the Michelle Rodriguez thing.
• 36:22
  Oh, I got it. I got it.
• 36:25
  I know, I know who I know who I think should it should be based
• 36:29
  on the. Who?
• 36:31
  Based on the recent games, but the the that one Jonas Brother's
• 36:38
  wife, the Indian. Yeah, her.
• 36:43
  Oh, she's got the voice, she's got the look.
• 36:49
  It would put her back on the map for sure 'cause I feel like I, I
• 36:52
  feel like she's been kind of hit or miss with some of the
• 36:54
  projects she's done lately. Yeah, she was in a heads of
• 36:57
  state. I don't know if you watch that,
• 36:58
  that has Idris Elba in it. It's Idris Elba and John Cena
• 37:01
  are like the president and the Prime Minister.
• 37:06
  Wait, wait. OK.
• 37:07
  It's on, it's on Amazon, I think, and she's in it.
• 37:13
  She was really good in that. She's also rumored to be Rita
• 37:15
  Repulsa in the Power Rangers reboot.
• 37:17
  What? Yeah.
• 37:19
  I don't know how well that's going to go though.
• 37:21
  I don't know if that's going to go over well or not.
• 37:22
  I still don't know anything about that.
• 37:24
  There's so many rumors floating around right now that it's like,
• 37:27
  are you, Are you sure? I don't know what, what else was
• 37:35
  who, who, who else was I thinking of?
• 37:38
  There's somebody else. I was thinking of that.
• 37:40
  Oh, what's her name? I still man, I still would have
• 37:44
  picked Florence Pugh as as Zelda, but they didn't go that
• 37:49
  route, obviously. I, I also feel like, I feel
• 37:52
  like, I feel like for a role like that, Florence Pugh is kind
• 37:55
  of aged out, you know what I mean?
• 37:58
  See, I don't I I mean, maybe, but like I was thinking more of
• 38:02
  like she has, you know, she's the Princess, but she's learning
• 38:07
  to become the queen or whatever and like she's like stuck in
• 38:10
  this political war and she also like knows how to fight clearly,
• 38:13
  like you know what I mean? She has that going.
• 38:16
  I don't know it. That was like my original pick
• 38:18
  for Zelda, but they didn't go that way.
• 38:23
  So also it's funny, somebody, somebody I work with, actually
• 38:28
  lives in New Zealand and apparently where he lives is
• 38:33
  like a 45 minute drive from where they're filming this.
• 38:36
  Are they filming? Yeah, but he has no interest in
• 38:42
  Zelda so I didn't ask him anything else.
• 38:46
  He just see, he lives close to like the The Hobbit area where
• 38:50
  that's like a whatever, whatever that is.
• 38:53
  So another series I've never seen.
• 38:55
  By the way, Lord of the Rings. Me neither, I've never watched
• 38:58
  it. So you watching anything
• 39:03
  interesting though, Laurent? Did you watch anything
• 39:05
  interesting? Yes, as a matter of fact, yeah.
• 39:07
  Well, I mean, like, well, last, last, last last episode of the
• 39:11
  of the podcast, I was talking about the boys.
• 39:13
  Yeah, which I'm still watching that like, like this season is
• 39:16
  this season's pretty good. I mean, there's some stuff
• 39:18
  that's like, what the Hell's happening right now?
• 39:20
  You know, but this season's pretty good.
• 39:22
  But but, but, but, but my in my opinion.
• 39:27
  OK, so my judge, the guy that created like be of some Butthead
• 39:32
  king of the hill that series my my roommate turned me on to tale
• 39:39
  the he did a series on Cinemax called Tales of tour bus It it
• 39:43
  lasted two seasons. And basically it talks about
• 39:46
  like the behind the scenes stuff of like some of like the some
• 39:49
  like the greatest music legends that are out there.
• 39:51
  Like a season one season 1 was a was basically a country and
• 39:57
  season 2 was a was funk. And so yeah, like I just got
• 40:01
  through. I just got through watching the
• 40:04
  I just got through watching because I'm because I'm.
• 40:07
  I'm, I'm black, so I'm, I'm, I was watching, I'm watching the
• 40:10
  funk stuff because you know, like, you know, like I grew up,
• 40:13
  I grew up listening to his music, you know, my parents from
• 40:16
  my parents and stuff like that. So I just got through watching
• 40:19
  the the two parter featuring Rick James and my God, like the
• 40:23
  the commentary, the commentary and the and like the and like
• 40:27
  the, the, the storytelling of it is, is, is incredible And it's
• 40:31
  all animated. It's all animated.
• 40:33
  Like, I mean, they do show some like live action clips, like
• 40:35
  from I mean interviews or music videos and stuff like that.
• 40:38
  But they are like they're they're narrating like, you
• 40:42
  know, like that the prolific points of like these artists
• 40:44
  lives and stuff like that. It's animated in that Beavis,
• 40:47
  that King of the Hill style animation, you know, that where
• 40:50
  everyone knows and like, you know, like even when they're
• 40:53
  doing interviews with like interviews with people who were
• 40:57
  around these artists back then there that, you know, let's be
• 41:00
  honest with you, a lot of these, a lot of these icons, they're
• 41:03
  all dead, you know, but yeah, like the people, the people who
• 41:07
  are surrounding them or, or part of them and stuff like that.
• 41:09
  Like even they even they were animated like doing their
• 41:12
  retellings and so like that. So they do, they did animated
• 41:14
  versions of them in their retellings and stuff like that.
• 41:17
  So yeah. So yeah, I'm kind of bouncing
• 41:19
  around. I'm not watching it in order.
• 41:21
  And it's not the many episodes because it, it, it debuted in
• 41:25
  what are you debuting? It debuted in 2017 on Cinemax
• 41:28
  and it only went on for two seasons.
• 41:30
  And these seasons are 8 episodes long.
• 41:32
  So you know, like season 1, you know, there's Tammy, Tammy,
• 41:37
  Tammy Winnett and George Jones. There's, there's messes on on
• 41:40
  them, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis.
• 41:45
  And then, you know, for for for season 2, which was cover the
• 41:48
  funk, George Clinton, Rick James, Bootsy Collins, James
• 41:52
  Brown, Morris Day and the time and and and the black Betty
• 41:59
  Davis, not to be confused with Betty Bette Davis, you know.
• 42:06
  I don't know who either of them are, so you know.
• 42:08
  Yeah, when I saw, when I saw Betty Davis, Betty Davis, I was
• 42:13
  like, is this a typo? And I looked and I was like, oh,
• 42:15
  they're talking about the black, the black Betty Davis from the
• 42:18
  from the R&B soul era. Yeah.
• 42:22
  I remember that era. I was there.
• 42:24
  I just finished season 1 of the Hulu show Paradise, which which
• 42:29
  has Sterley K Brown and and James Marston in that.
• 42:36
  That was actually really good. And I'm kind of, I'm kind of
• 42:39
  like being slow in watching season 2.
• 42:42
  Well, starting season 2, because I can pretty much have that
• 42:44
  watched in the week and you want basically it's a post
• 42:48
  apocalyptic show. I'm not going to tell what the
• 42:52
  tragedy is because like you got to you, you got to, you got to
• 42:56
  like sit there and like realize what the tragedy is.
• 42:59
  Like it it that helps keep get you hooked into the show.
• 43:04
  But yeah, like there's a tragedy that basically like reduces
• 43:06
  humanity down to like a certain number of people and stuff like
• 43:09
  that. And, and there's a whole mystery
• 43:12
  unfolding because something happens in the in the area that
• 43:16
  that our that our characters are in that is basically like a
• 43:19
  seismic shift for like the way of life out there.
• 43:22
  And I'm not talking about the natural disaster, because at
• 43:24
  this point, the natural disaster, at that point, the
• 43:26
  natural disaster had already happened and they were trying to
• 43:29
  live their lives from that. Yeah.
• 43:31
  So yeah, Paradise, the, the, the boys.
• 43:35
  And yeah, that's about it. I'm just waiting for some of
• 43:38
  these shows that are currently airing like 911, like for the
• 43:42
  season finales to happen, you know?
• 43:46
  Yeah. And, and yeah, so yeah, that's
• 43:50
  what I've been watching. Let me see as far as nothing
• 43:53
  new, nothing new as far as movies, there's a couple of
• 43:55
  movies that I that I want to watch.
• 43:59
  I'm going to watch the new Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz movie
• 44:03
  outcome real soon here. I'm going to watch that real
• 44:06
  soon here. And also good luck.
• 44:12
  Have fun, don't die. That's the film.
• 44:14
  That's the film. Basically it stars Sam Rockwell.
• 44:19
  Juno Temple. Zozzy Beats is in it.
• 44:22
  Oh yeah, OK, yeah, I know what that.
• 44:24
  Yeah, basically A and this is in quotes, a man from the future
• 44:28
  arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit
• 44:31
  the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him
• 44:34
  on a one night quest to save the world from the terminal threat
• 44:37
  of a rogue artificial intelligence.
• 44:39
  Apparently this show is a roller coat.
• 44:41
  This movie is a roller coaster. Interesting.
• 44:44
  You know what show that you know what that sounds like?
• 44:46
  It sounds like that show Travelers on Netflix.
• 44:49
  I don't know if you watch that or not.
• 44:51
  It's a really great show. It has has the one guy from Will
• 44:55
  and Grace. Yeah, no, I never watched it.
• 44:58
  Well, I think, well, I think I remember watching like the like
• 45:00
  the like the the pilot episode and I was like and I was.
• 45:06
  Dude, like the I I get I wasn't sure either, but dude episode
• 45:10
  like like the by the 3rd or 4th episode, I was like my wife and
• 45:14
  I became obsessed with it and like it's only three seasons
• 45:17
  long because they weren't sure if they were going to get a
• 45:20
  fourth season. Did did they at least wrap it
• 45:22
  up? Spoilers, it didn't get a fourth
• 45:24
  season. Here's the thing.
• 45:25
  They did a nice job of wrapping it up, but also leaving some
• 45:31
  threads open for a fourth season.
• 45:33
  But like like it it didn't feel like they were like, oh, it got
• 45:41
  cancelled early, right? Like that's kind of like they
• 45:44
  they wrapped up the story arc they were telling but left it
• 45:47
  open for like more if they got renewed that that show was
• 45:54
  really good, man. Oh, it's that OK.
• 45:59
  Let's see, I so I watched a couple things too.
• 46:05
  I watched Wrecking Crew with Dave Batista.
• 46:11
  And Momola. Yep.
• 46:13
  How was that? Dude, it and Marina Baccarin's
• 46:17
  in it also. Oh, it was really good dude.
• 46:21
  I highly recommend if you want something that's like like a lot
• 46:25
  of action and really funny at the same time, but like also
• 46:30
  kind of brutal. I I recommend it.
• 46:34
  Oh, so it's a thigh slapper? It's dude, it's, it's, it's so
• 46:37
  good, man. Like it's it's like, dude,
• 46:40
  they're like fighting the Yakuza at some point.
• 46:43
  So like the premise of the story is like they're estranged
• 46:45
  brothers. One lives in like Oklahoma or
• 46:47
  Texas or something, which is Jason Momoa's character.
• 46:50
  And then Dave Batista lives in Hawaii.
• 46:53
  And like they're, they are both like just very distant from
• 46:59
  their dad and they find out that their dad was killed, but they
• 47:02
  find out that the quote UN quote hit and run was actually like a
• 47:07
  setup and a murder. So they're trying to solve this
• 47:10
  murder together. OK.
• 47:12
  It's so good. It's so good.
• 47:14
  And like Jason Momoa's character's kind of like a screw
• 47:16
  up and Marina Bacharan is like his on and off girlfriend that
• 47:21
  they live together but they fight all the time kind of
• 47:23
  thing. It's dude, it's really good.
• 47:26
  Highly, highly recommend that. And then there was another movie
• 47:30
  I was going to tell you about, but I can't find it that I
• 47:35
  watched recently, but I guess it's not that important.
• 47:41
  So yeah, I, I watched that. I recommend it highly.
• 47:44
  And guess we'll, I guess we'll, I guess we'll talk some topics
• 47:50
  now because that's what we do. Let's do it sometimes.
• 47:54
  Let's do it. Do you want, do you want to talk
• 47:58
  about positive or negative stuff first?
• 48:00
  Lauren, what do you want to, what do you want to talk about
• 48:03
  first? I, I guess it's all kind of kind
• 48:05
  of tie together in the end anyway, but.
• 48:08
  You know what? Let's talk about the negative
• 48:12
  stuff first, because I have a positive for that negative.
• 48:14
  Great. Let's do it.
• 48:16
  I mean, hold on. Where's the doc?
• 48:18
  All right, here we go. Oh, I'll do this.
• 48:22
  I'll do this. OK, it'll it'll mind.
• 48:24
  On my crossroads days, OK. Cross for this guy.
• 48:27
  Oh so. Wait, hold on before we start.
• 48:30
  I remember the other movie I watched, Twisters.
• 48:34
  How was that? It was awesome.
• 48:36
  I loved it, every second of it. The fact that Corey is watching
• 48:39
  movies is amazing. It is.
• 48:43
  You know I, dude, I. Need and the fact that the fact
• 48:45
  that Corey's watching movies that are not that are not that
• 48:49
  are not current like as in like in the theaters right now is is
• 48:52
  even more amazing. Which means like he actually had
• 48:55
  to stop what he was doing and go back and look for these movies.
• 48:57
  Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Hey man, Twisters is recent ish.
• 49:02
  Twisters was last year and it was and it was and it and it
• 49:05
  was, it was nominated for for Oscars, not for the Oscars that
• 49:09
  we think it was nominated for. It was nominated for Oscars.
• 49:12
  Also, side tangent, in that movie I gotta say I I understand
• 49:17
  the appeal of Glenn Powell now. He's a good actor.
• 49:21
  He is. He's a good.
• 49:22
  Actor I don't understand. Him, he's a, he's a great, he's
• 49:26
  a great actor. There's a discourse going on
• 49:28
  right now that you know, like Glenn Powell.
• 49:31
  Glenn Powell is like a boring actor and like and like and like
• 49:34
  it's and like the basically is like, it's like.
• 49:36
  Because he's a handsome white man with blonde hair and blue
• 49:39
  eyes and just feels like the everyman.
• 49:41
  Yeah, that's the problem too. Like, you know, like he's
• 49:43
  basically cookie cutter. He's basically a cookie cutter,
• 49:47
  you know, and I'm like, you know, I actually feel like he's
• 49:49
  actually very talented, you know, and stuff like that.
• 49:52
  I'm not saying he has the best range, you know, for for an
• 49:54
  actor. I mean, you know, like.
• 49:56
  No, he clearly has a style and A and a thing, right?
• 49:59
  Like he he's kind of like a charming snarky, kind of, you
• 50:05
  know, sort of funny in his own weird way.
• 50:08
  Kind of like dude, like I see why like Fox, like he's Fox
• 50:11
  MacLeod. I see that.
• 50:12
  Like I see it now. Right.
• 50:14
  Yeah, I don't. I don't think he's a bad actor.
• 50:17
  And what was the movie with him and Sidney Sweeney like?
• 50:20
  Like he was definitely the he was definitely the better, the
• 50:23
  better performer in that movie than she was.
• 50:25
  And you know, and I guarantee you somebody's out there like,
• 50:28
  oh, Lauren's bisexual. He just wants to sleep with
• 50:30
  Glenn Powell, which is not too far from the mark.
• 50:32
  But at the same time, I can be objective and say like, hey,
• 50:35
  like, you know, like this guy, like like Actor A did a better
• 50:39
  job than Actor B and definitely did a better job than Actor CD
• 50:43
  and E. You know the Oh my gosh, I got
• 50:48
  to look it up now it's bothering me.
• 50:52
  There it is, anyone but you. Yes, which?
• 50:57
  Is getting a sequel apparently, according to
• 50:59
  netflixohwow.com/blog. I didn't know they had a blog
• 51:04
  but OK, cool. No, Glen Powell.
• 51:10
  Glen Powell is not bad and I think he has a pretty good, I
• 51:13
  think he actually has a pretty good resume of of movies because
• 51:18
  let me see, I I did that. Football movie I saw top.
• 51:22
  Glenn Maverick? I have not seen his devotion.
• 51:25
  Huh. Was he?
• 51:26
  I didn't know he was in top. Gun, he was in Top Gun Maverick.
• 51:28
  Yeah, he was, he was actually, he was.
• 51:31
  He was one of the like the the the rival pilots.
• 51:35
  I haven't seen Devotion, which was basically a a biopic from
• 51:39
  about about some World War. Was it World War 2?
• 51:43
  No, that doesn't sound right. 1950s what?
• 51:45
  What what conflict were we in the 50s?
• 51:48
  Was that World War 2? Vietnam.
• 51:50
  No, Vietnam, that's too early for Vietnam, but it it, it
• 51:54
  doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
• 51:56
  It was basically, it was basically time, but it was
• 51:58
  basically time when the military was when the military was like,
• 52:02
  you know, like, like, like more people of color were were were
• 52:06
  were getting high up positions. Like, you know, like Jonathan
• 52:09
  Majors was in it and Jonathan Majors was a was a pilot, which
• 52:12
  means like you're automatically an officer, you know.
• 52:15
  Yeah. Like, yeah, I haven't seen that
• 52:17
  movie, but the movie Hitman, he was amazing in that movie.
• 52:21
  I haven't seen, is that worth watching?
• 52:23
  Hitman is worth watching. 'Cause I added it to my list,
• 52:26
  but I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch it or not.
• 52:27
  I, I, it feels like a movie that I would have to, like, be in the
• 52:30
  mood to watch. Yeah.
• 52:31
  I haven't watched Twisters yet. I haven't watched that.
• 52:34
  That show Chad Powers, that was on, that was on Hulu last year.
• 52:38
  I that's the one I was talking. About the Running Man is on my
• 52:40
  list. And then and then How to make a
• 52:44
  Killing is like his most recent movie, which is which is I think
• 52:48
  is like a parody. Like not a parody, but like
• 52:50
  almost like a retelling movie, whatever.
• 52:53
  Basically. Basically, he is not, he is not
• 52:56
  this, this, this, this one trick pony actor that people are
• 52:59
  trying to say is, you know, like he's got, he's got a Hollywood
• 53:03
  look, you know, and stuff like that.
• 53:04
  Like he's got. A classic like Brad Pitt look,
• 53:07
  almost. Yeah, he does.
• 53:08
  He does. Yeah, which I guess that also
• 53:11
  like, you know, fans flames, you know, because people, because
• 53:14
  people are now trying to say that, you know, Brad Pitt, you
• 53:16
  know, Brad Pitt wasn't that it wasn't.
• 53:19
  It was just a face as well. I'm like, no, have you seen the
• 53:21
  movie 7? Yeah, dude, that movie was
• 53:25
  great. Yeah.
• 53:30
  Yeah, man, I, I, I'm interested in more to watch more movies.
• 53:35
  He's in he's I, I don't know, there's something about him
• 53:38
  that's just like really easy to watch.
• 53:39
  That's. The only thing too is, is not
• 53:42
  even like he's trying hard. He's you know how you can
• 53:45
  sometimes you can watch a movie and be like, oh, he's just
• 53:46
  trying way too hard. She's just trying way too.
• 53:48
  She's doing the most he's what is he doing, you know?
• 53:53
  He just, he looks like he's showing up to have a good time
• 53:56
  and like exactly. Exactly.
• 53:59
  Yeah. Which is good.
• 54:01
  I think we need more people like that, to be honest.
• 54:03
  But. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to
• 54:05
  shut my mouth though, because like, I don't want people to
• 54:07
  think I'm, I'm, I'm pandering or whatnot.
• 54:09
  I'm, you know, I, I said what I said though, like Glenn Powell
• 54:13
  is not a bad actor by, by, by any stretch in my opinion.
• 54:16
  Now, I'm not saying Glenn Powell is like, you know, Academy
• 54:19
  award-winning leading man, like, you know, like, like, you know,
• 54:22
  well, he's leading man in his movies, but you know what I
• 54:24
  mean? He's not.
• 54:25
  He's not, He's not, he's not. Going to head up the next like.
• 54:28
  He's not. He's not Scorsesely.
• 54:30
  Male. Well, not yet.
• 54:31
  He, he can eventually be best male, you know, you know, at the
• 54:36
  Oscars, but, you know, not all the movies he's getting right
• 54:39
  now. And, and, and I, I feel like his
• 54:41
  range has to get a little bit better, you know, like, like
• 54:44
  he's probably going to be, no, I don't want to say that because I
• 54:49
  don't want people. I definitely don't want people
• 54:50
  in my DMS, you know, like razzing me about this, about
• 54:54
  this nonsense. Sure, sure you do.
• 54:57
  No, I mean, I mean, if he has a, if he has a, a long career, like
• 55:01
  let's say like Leonardo DiCaprio, you know, So like,
• 55:03
  well, actually, no, that's unfair because Leonardo
• 55:05
  Dicaprio's been doing this just since he was a kid.
• 55:08
  Who's who's an actor. I dare say he's a better Chris
• 55:14
  Pratt than Chris Pratt. Oh, that was the other movie I
• 55:17
  watched too. Was Mercy that AI movie that
• 55:20
  Chris Pratt is in? How was that, man?
• 55:23
  You would, man, you would. You're putting some work in.
• 55:26
  I well, dude, I haven't really slept very well the last few.
• 55:31
  Well, we'll say like the last week or so.
• 55:33
  So like I've just been having movies on in the background to
• 55:35
  kind of like have background noise to work to.
• 55:39
  But like so like the premise of that movie obviously is like he
• 55:43
  endorses an AI to become like judge, jury and executioner in
• 55:49
  Los Angeles and. He wasn't getting accused of a
• 55:51
  crime, right? It's like a beta, not like a
• 55:53
  beta program, but it's it's in use, but it's only been used 18
• 55:58
  times in two years or something. But essentially the person that
• 56:06
  gets accused has what 90 minutes or 120 minutes to prove that
• 56:11
  they are not guilty or they're executed on the spot
• 56:15
  essentially. And they use it for, they only
• 56:17
  use it for murder cases in like, you know, bad cases like that.
• 56:21
  Not like a robbery or anything. But like, the movie starts with
• 56:26
  him waking up from like, either being knocked out or whatever.
• 56:33
  And like, he's been accused of murdering his wife.
• 56:37
  And the whole movie is him, like, working with this AI to
• 56:41
  try to solve the case. Yeah.
• 56:43
  And like it's it like it sounds really dumb and it has like a
• 56:48
  lot of like red flag buzzwords around it.
• 56:51
  That's really dumb. That doesn't sound dumb at.
• 56:53
  All No, I mean, I like the buzz around it online was like, oh,
• 56:57
  Chris Pratt and AI. Those are two things that will
• 56:59
  be in movies forever. It's like, OK, well, but it was
• 57:02
  actually like a really awesome like I actually like I literally
• 57:06
  stopped working halfway through and watched the rest of it
• 57:08
  without working. I was really into it.
• 57:12
  So and it's like this program where like everybody's cell
• 57:15
  phone is hooked up to this the network, right?
• 57:19
  Everybody's cameras are always on everybody's, you know, every
• 57:23
  single camera, every single monitor, everything is connected
• 57:27
  to the, the cloud, right for mercy and like, so mercy has
• 57:32
  access to everything traffic data.
• 57:36
  You know, this AI has literally access to everything you could
• 57:39
  possibly need any and like the whole thing is him trying to
• 57:42
  solve this murder with this AI. It's awesome.
• 57:46
  So I, I do recommend it. It's on Amazon, I think.
• 57:51
  Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but you said
• 57:53
  Chris Pratt and I was like, Oh yeah, I watched that too.
• 57:55
  No. No, no, that's OK.
• 57:56
  Like basically, basically basically I said what I need to
• 57:58
  say on all that. Yeah.
• 58:01
  All right, Loron, let's get angry.
• 58:04
  Let's. Make Let's make people angry.
• 58:06
  Let's get let's get down to business with what's with what's
• 58:08
  going on in the industry for this for this current week all
• 58:11
  right so if you didn't know there's something going on
• 58:16
  PlayStation and PlayStation 5 right now.
• 58:18
  What and it and it deals with DRM.
• 58:20
  OK, so I'm going to lead us with the story that I'm going to lead
• 58:25
  us with the story that started this whole thing.
• 58:27
  And then I have some stuff to add to this stuff.
• 58:30
  Yeah, because I think there's been new information since I
• 58:32
  created the doc. Yeah.
• 58:34
  So, so right now PS-5 digital games now the the narrative is
• 58:38
  PS-5 games digital games now require a 30 day online check in
• 58:45
  which for the most part has been confirmed.
• 58:48
  All right so this all started as a rumor, but has now been
• 58:51
  confirmed that Sony's implemented a 30 day online
• 58:54
  check in requirement for digital PS-5 and PS4 games.
• 58:57
  That means that players who who stay offline too long can
• 59:00
  temporarily lose lose access to their purchase titles, a move
• 59:06
  that immediately raised concerns about ownership, preservation
• 59:09
  and always on restrictions making a comeback.
• 59:12
  OK, so what's actually unfolded in this whole thing?
• 59:20
  Because of course people have been reaching out trying to find
• 59:22
  out, you know, trying to find out from Sony.
• 59:24
  Is this true? And apparently like the only,
• 59:26
  the only person that's answering person, I use that word loosely.
• 59:31
  The only thing that's answering that question is like is like
• 59:34
  Sony's AI bot. You forgot.
• 59:37
  I think GameSpot reached out for a quote.
• 59:39
  Let me see if I can find it. OK, Sieve Games, Sieve GameSpot
• 59:43
  got something. Because everything I've heard so
• 59:45
  far has been, you know, basically like, like the chatbot
• 59:48
  is answering is answering this and the chatbot's answered this
• 59:51
  to the basically the chatbot's interpreting the rule and then
• 59:56
  giving us the answer based off its interpretation of the rule.
• 59:59
  Which, by the way, that's what damn near every AI query does
• 1:00:03
  right now is whether it's whether it's ChatGPT, copilot,
• 1:00:07
  Gemini, DeepSeek, grok. That's basically what all of
• 1:00:10
  them are doing. So please, like, please, like do
• 1:00:14
  your due diligence if you're going to use AI to answer
• 1:00:16
  questions, you know, for things that you want to know.
• 1:00:18
  But anyway. But anyway, so basically, yeah,
• 1:00:21
  like, like apparently like, you know, some actual, some actual
• 1:00:24
  content creators have actually gone on and tested this stuff.
• 1:00:27
  And yeah, something is going on here.
• 1:00:29
  But we're now like a few days past like the initial, the
• 1:00:33
  initial revelation about this. And it's come to find out that
• 1:00:36
  this look that is looking more like, it's like it's a, a, a, a
• 1:00:40
  stopgap measure to try and combat piracy, but not, but not
• 1:00:47
  the piracy that we're thinking, you know?
• 1:00:50
  Yeah, I'm putting the link to this this quote in the chat, by
• 1:00:52
  the way. Cool.
• 1:00:53
  I'm cool. Let me read this right now
• 1:00:54
  before I continue with before I continue with Rumor control
• 1:00:59
  rumor. Control.
• 1:01:00
  Here we go. OK, all right, so, OK, so this
• 1:01:04
  is from GameSpot. I'm just going to I'm going to
• 1:01:05
  read the verbatim like a new cork has begun affecting
• 1:01:09
  PlayStation 4 and PS-5 owners with digital game purchases.
• 1:01:11
  It appears the system's latest updates have introduced a 30 day
• 1:01:14
  online license check for digital games, leaving those who extend
• 1:01:18
  who who have extended Internet analogies without access to
• 1:01:21
  certain games. However, Sony has clarified
• 1:01:23
  exactly how it works, and it seems like players have nothing
• 1:01:26
  to worry about. OK, so GameSpot goes on to say
• 1:01:30
  several users, including the Game accessibility Twitter
• 1:01:33
  account Does It Play have report that all new PlayStation
• 1:01:36
  purchases, those made before March 2026 appear to be
• 1:01:39
  unaffected. But anything, anything other
• 1:01:43
  than that feature a 30 day timer that shows that that shows when
• 1:01:47
  you will need to connect to the Internet again before losing
• 1:01:49
  access. This timer doesn't appear to be
• 1:01:51
  visible on the PS-5, but according to Does It Play it is
• 1:01:54
  still being tracked in the background.
• 1:01:57
  While unlikely to be a tangible issue for most players, there
• 1:02:00
  are definitely use cases that could find that could see APS 5
• 1:02:04
  or PS4 disconnect from the Internet for extended periods of
• 1:02:06
  time, according to a statement. According to a statement Does It
• 1:02:09
  Play gave Kotaku the license checks have been introduced to
• 1:02:14
  combat refund scams. As a matter of fact, this is the
• 1:02:16
  rumor control part that I was getting ready to get into.
• 1:02:19
  I'm glad. I'm glad Gamespot's talking
• 1:02:20
  about this to combat refund scams, but were but were
• 1:02:25
  designed to convert into unlimited licenses afterward.
• 1:02:29
  So here's what's going on here. And actually an SIE spokesperson
• 1:02:34
  according to GameSpot has still In the following, players can
• 1:02:37
  continue to access and play their purchase games as usual.
• 1:02:39
  A one time online check is required to confirm the game's
• 1:02:42
  license, after which no further check insurance are required.
• 1:02:45
  This is a quote. This is an actual quote from
• 1:02:47
  someone at Sony. I'm not sure.
• 1:02:50
  This doesn't sound like the AI is talking this time.
• 1:02:52
  It sounds like somebody actually said something to somebody about
• 1:02:55
  this. Yeah.
• 1:02:58
  At least one major gaming company has wasted no time
• 1:03:00
  chiming in, however. GameStop, God, GameStop
• 1:03:05
  publishes a wrong statement on the situation, emphasizing that
• 1:03:08
  this problem will not happen to you if you purchase physical
• 1:03:10
  games. Which that is a true and valid
• 1:03:12
  argument. But here's the problem, right?
• 1:03:15
  Well it depends on which physical games right?
• 1:03:17
  Cause a lot of games now are just.
• 1:03:19
  Do not have data on the disk. It's just the license on the
• 1:03:22
  disk and you still have to download the game.
• 1:03:24
  Yep, it gives you a token. There's a reason why it does it.
• 1:03:28
  play.com, existsor.org or whatever it is, right?
• 1:03:31
  Yeah. So yeah.
• 1:03:33
  Yeah, so, so here's, so here's the here's the layman's, here's
• 1:03:37
  here's the layman's terms on what's going on about all this
• 1:03:39
  stuff. OK, So, yeah, this is this
• 1:03:43
  apparently is being done to, to combat refunds scams.
• 1:03:47
  Apparently what happens is if you buy, if you buy a game, if
• 1:03:51
  you buy a game on one of the marketplaces, Yeah, if you buy a
• 1:03:57
  game on, on, on on the PlayStation Store, but not
• 1:04:00
  direct from the PS-5 console, you wind up getting a temporary
• 1:04:05
  token that when you turn your system on and, and, and go to
• 1:04:09
  download it, that's when it actually activates.
• 1:04:12
  Now, here's the thing about it. There's a refund policy that's
• 1:04:15
  almost across the board for almost all the all the major
• 1:04:18
  marketplaces that you can refund the game.
• 1:04:21
  Well, I know if you have like the highest tier of PlayStation
• 1:04:23
  Plus, if you play a game, you can get a refund.
• 1:04:25
  And if you've if you've played less than two hours of the game
• 1:04:28
  and don't like it, but but what's really been going on is
• 1:04:33
  that people found an exploit to where they buy the game not
• 1:04:37
  through their console and then they and then they and then, but
• 1:04:42
  now the game is attached to their library.
• 1:04:45
  They never downloaded. They never downloaded.
• 1:04:48
  And then they and then they request a refund.
• 1:04:51
  But the token is still there in an explodable in an exploitable
• 1:04:54
  state to where like they wind up getting the game for free.
• 1:04:58
  So basically they buy the game, they they do some some
• 1:05:02
  tomfoolery, they refund it and then at a certain time they just
• 1:05:07
  go ahead and download it anyway because it's because like it's
• 1:05:09
  an explodable problem that's going on right now for
• 1:05:12
  PlayStation. To be fair, to be fair, that
• 1:05:14
  sounds like a PlayStation Network problem, not a.
• 1:05:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But here's the thing about it
• 1:05:21
  too. Here's the thing about it.
• 1:05:23
  And, and I, and I had to think about this for, for a little
• 1:05:25
  while, right? OK, so people are stealing
• 1:05:30
  games. I'm just going to say it like
• 1:05:31
  that, you know, like you can add me in my comments and in my, in
• 1:05:34
  my DMS or wherever, you know, you can add me on social media
• 1:05:37
  or whatever. If I'm for me saying people are
• 1:05:39
  stealing games, but at the end of the day, people are stealing
• 1:05:41
  games. But here's the thing about it,
• 1:05:42
  right? You have to purchase games.
• 1:05:44
  You have to purchase games, you know, through a, through a
• 1:05:46
  merchant, MasterCard, Visa, discover, whoever, right?
• 1:05:51
  These companies have to be have to be the ones that issue the
• 1:05:54
  refunds. So this is going to be a
• 1:05:56
  nightmare. This is going to be a nightmare
• 1:05:58
  for for not just Sony, but but the but the but the merchants,
• 1:06:02
  the banks involved, as well as the person that's doing the
• 1:06:05
  exploit and stuff like that. So I feel like Sony's trying to
• 1:06:08
  get ahead of this before. There's a real real.
• 1:06:10
  Problem, you know, and the fact and the only thing that the only
• 1:06:13
  thing that that you know is like troublesome about this whole
• 1:06:15
  thing is that Sony has not directly addressed the gamers.
• 1:06:19
  They, you know, apparently like, according to GameSpot, you know,
• 1:06:22
  like, like somebody taught to them a GameSpot, yeah.
• 1:06:28
  So of all outlets. Yeah, that's my, that's my weigh
• 1:06:31
  in on it. And you know, the fact that
• 1:06:33
  GameStop, you know, you know, got a chance to like, you know,
• 1:06:36
  like, like, like take kick a Barb at them.
• 1:06:39
  The main thing, the other problem is, is that, OK, buying
• 1:06:43
  physical games, like we just said a few moments ago, that
• 1:06:45
  doesn't, that doesn't mean you actually have the full data on
• 1:06:48
  the disk, you know, but also, guess what?
• 1:06:51
  Guess what? You have a game on the disk.
• 1:06:53
  The data might actually be on the disk.
• 1:06:55
  What happens when the servers come down for that game service?
• 1:06:59
  I know that's that's been my whole thing with like
• 1:07:01
  transitioning to digital media anyway, instead of physicals,
• 1:07:05
  like like I do have physical games of the games that I love,
• 1:07:08
  right, like Zelda and firewall and and you know, God of War,
• 1:07:12
  stuff like that. But like those are more for show
• 1:07:15
  and and shelf fun purposes, not but like you're these game.
• 1:07:22
  A lot of these games require you to be online anyway at some
• 1:07:26
  point, right? Like that the destiny disk in my
• 1:07:30
  collector's edition is a coaster, right?
• 1:07:33
  It's a coaster, you know, like it even like when you put it in
• 1:07:37
  now, it takes you to the store page for you to download the
• 1:07:40
  free to play version. It doesn't even like it doesn't
• 1:07:42
  even play off the disk. It makes you download the free
• 1:07:45
  to play version. So like that I I look I love I
• 1:07:52
  love looking at physical media on shelves.
• 1:07:54
  I think it looks so cool when everybody has their stuff lined
• 1:07:56
  up. But like for games now, it's
• 1:07:59
  like you're going to have and, and even Nintendo games now at
• 1:08:04
  this point, right, like Mario Kart's been updated 17 times
• 1:08:08
  since launch, right, 17 times little tweaks.
• 1:08:12
  And now the game obviously played and plays on the one
• 1:08:15
  point O version, like Nintendo has always been good about that.
• 1:08:18
  But like you're not going to get the nerfs and the buffs and the
• 1:08:21
  and the adjustments to the racers, right, Like you're not
• 1:08:24
  going to get all that or any updates.
• 1:08:26
  They kind of do in the future. And like, don't you want to just
• 1:08:30
  have the best version of the game?
• 1:08:32
  And like if one of the, and if like one of these companies like
• 1:08:35
  goes out of business and these servers shut down, right, aside
• 1:08:38
  from like the weird license games or like racing games with
• 1:08:43
  license music in it and they're licensed cars or whatever.
• 1:08:46
  Like if one of these companies goes out of business, we're
• 1:08:49
  going to have a bigger problem, right?
• 1:08:51
  There's probably something way bigger in the world going on
• 1:08:53
  that you're probably not going to be worried about playing
• 1:08:55
  video games. You know, and yeah, that that,
• 1:08:58
  but also, but also let's look at this.
• 1:09:00
  I have a ginormous backlog of games and, and, and, and like, I
• 1:09:04
  want to say 80% of that backlog are games that are digital
• 1:09:08
  games. 80%, Yeah. Will I be miffed if I wake up
• 1:09:13
  one day and like, oh, I finally want to play this game and, and
• 1:09:16
  find out and, you know, like, start it up and find out the
• 1:09:19
  servers are dead. Yeah, I'm going to be miffed.
• 1:09:21
  But also, I'm going to be miffed at myself, one, for buying a
• 1:09:24
  game that I knew I did not have time to play, you know, and I'm
• 1:09:28
  also going to be miffed around the fact that, you know, like
• 1:09:31
  that, you know, like I took too long to play that game.
• 1:09:35
  Right and like I was going to say something that just left my
• 1:09:40
  head. Sorry I, I, I blacked out.
• 1:09:46
  Also, like, OK, one game doesn't work.
• 1:09:49
  There's literally thousands of games coming out every month.
• 1:09:52
  Yeah, that too. That I just feel like there's
• 1:09:54
  enough out there to play that like at this point, if if the
• 1:09:59
  game you really want to play is is delisted or gone or whatever,
• 1:10:05
  like sure, maybe you can find it physically and it plays off the
• 1:10:08
  disk, but also there's probably 17 other games on steam right
• 1:10:12
  now that are very close to that or you know, if you want to play
• 1:10:19
  like, oh, the division is going offline.
• 1:10:22
  Well, there's a lot of loot looter shooters out there that
• 1:10:26
  you can play third person ones, right.
• 1:10:28
  I mean, Mark Raiders is out there now and not not
• 1:10:31
  necessarily that they're the same game, but like, you know,
• 1:10:34
  like. Plus like the division has been
• 1:10:36
  not long enough, you should have already gotten like your your
• 1:10:38
  fill from that game, you know? Don't, don't say that, Leron.
• 1:10:42
  There is a definitive edition coming at some point at some.
• 1:10:46
  Point and you know, and you know what, honestly, that's how
• 1:10:48
  that's how they appease as gamers in some, you know, in
• 1:10:50
  some regards, right. I just, I just feel like
• 1:10:54
  sometimes like, you know, like we, we cry about the wrong
• 1:10:57
  things. And yeah, I understand, you
• 1:10:59
  know, like stop killing games just had a major victory.
• 1:11:02
  Yes, I love it. I love it, you know, but we're
• 1:11:06
  talking about we're talking about the here and now and right
• 1:11:08
  now, stop killing games does not have anything in place to
• 1:11:11
  protect us from this shit. So in the here and now, right
• 1:11:15
  now, it's like you're buying games that you that you have no
• 1:11:19
  intention of playing right now, you know, or, and I'm not even
• 1:11:23
  talking about the I'm not even talking about the people who are
• 1:11:25
  being scummy and stealing games, you know, like, like using this
• 1:11:28
  exploit. I'm just talking about us, us,
• 1:11:31
  the layman's, you know, like, like I've done a very good job.
• 1:11:34
  I'm not buying a lot of games this year, you know, like we are
• 1:11:36
  about to, we are about to be on the 1st of May and I can
• 1:11:41
  honestly say that I haven't bought, I haven't bought a brand
• 1:11:44
  new Monster Hunter game because I am trying to beat the last one
• 1:11:48
  that I played. Oh, stories I forgot.
• 1:11:51
  That that came out yeah stories three yeah and everybody knows
• 1:11:54
  me. I'm I'm a day one gamer.
• 1:11:56
  You know I but I've been tempering myself that you know
• 1:11:59
  like I know I'm going to play this game.
• 1:12:01
  The fact that I don't the fact that I know I do not have time
• 1:12:04
  to play this game because I want to beat the previous title
• 1:12:06
  before I played this one. Number one that saves me just a
• 1:12:09
  little bit of money and also saved me a little time and
• 1:12:12
  stress. By the time I'm ready to play
• 1:12:14
  this game, it's probably going to be on sale and guess what?
• 1:12:17
  I will have saved even more money and guess what?
• 1:12:20
  At that point, I will have had the time to start playing the
• 1:12:22
  game. If I'm smart, you know, you
• 1:12:25
  know, pragmat is out. I really want to play that game.
• 1:12:29
  I know I have not bought it. Yet I have not bought it yet.
• 1:12:32
  You know, shoot like you just like, you know, I'm being as
• 1:12:37
  practical as I can about my gaming habits, especially
• 1:12:41
  because the economy has changed, my life has changed, you know,
• 1:12:45
  and these are things I have to take into account.
• 1:12:48
  And I'm not saying and I'm not saying that people who just buy
• 1:12:51
  everything day one with no intention of playing it.
• 1:12:53
  I'm not saying you guys are wrong.
• 1:12:55
  I am not. I'm just saying that, you know,
• 1:12:57
  like you can't, you can't do something like this and then be
• 1:13:01
  upset, you know, when 15 years later the server is coming down
• 1:13:06
  and you never turned it on for like 10 minutes, you know, when
• 1:13:08
  it, when it was a new game, you know, you know, and this is just
• 1:13:13
  the DRM conversation, right? Which, by the way, DRM has been
• 1:13:16
  a contentious issue for years, going all the way back to the
• 1:13:19
  launch of the Xbox One. Yeah, that was like, that's the
• 1:13:22
  reason why Xbox is in the position they're in, so.
• 1:13:27
  Yeah, Originally, plans were in place to allow users to install
• 1:13:30
  physical games to your systems and then no longer need the
• 1:13:32
  disks. Instead, it would require online
• 1:13:35
  license checks. This hasn't this, this, this
• 1:13:38
  concept is not brand new. This thing, this has been a
• 1:13:40
  thing for for nearly 15 years. Yeah, and like it, it's just
• 1:13:45
  like, you know what I what I thought this was when it when I
• 1:13:49
  first saw this, right. Like, first of all, I knew it
• 1:13:51
  was I knew it wasn't what people were reporting First off, right,
• 1:13:54
  Like it never is, especially from like if it's from like a
• 1:14:00
  source that you've never heard of, like the anime blue check
• 1:14:03
  with 12 followers, right? Like I I saw it.
• 1:14:07
  I'm like, OK, well, we're clearly talking about this.
• 1:14:10
  You know, this week on the show. I even I sent you that.
• 1:14:13
  Did I? You saw the the meme I sent you,
• 1:14:16
  right? Yeah, yeah, play.
• 1:14:18
  Play has a day limit. Play has a. 30 day limit, yeah.
• 1:14:22
  That's the name of the other. One too, by the way.
• 1:14:24
  Usually play has no limits. That, by the way, if you're
• 1:14:26
  wondering. Yeah, and I was like, OK here.
• 1:14:29
  And then I saw like some people were like, it's just a rumor to
• 1:14:33
  to to get past, you know, piracy or, or refund policies or
• 1:14:38
  whatever. I'm like, OK, that all makes
• 1:14:40
  sense. My thought was like, OK, once
• 1:14:43
  you download the game, like if you haven't played it or like if
• 1:14:49
  you play it and then like 30 days goes by, you have to check
• 1:14:54
  in online again and then your license would be permanent.
• 1:14:56
  That's what it felt. That's what it felt like.
• 1:14:58
  And you know, and, you know, here's the thing about it.
• 1:15:00
  Like I'm like anyone who has common sense most OK.
• 1:15:05
  Talking to the Internet here, Leon.
• 1:15:07
  I know. I know here's the thing about it
• 1:15:08
  though. Here's the thing about it
• 1:15:09
  though, like unless you're APC gamer like myself who I have
• 1:15:13
  these consoles and I barely turn the consoles on because I have
• 1:15:15
  my PC that plays all my games and stuff like that.
• 1:15:18
  Most of the times you are a console gamer and most of the
• 1:15:21
  times your console is the only thing you're playing.
• 1:15:23
  So guess what, I know you turned that bitch on more more than
• 1:15:26
  like once 30 days. And guess what?
• 1:15:29
  They're not saying that you need to turn that particular game on.
• 1:15:33
  What is never said that there was there was nothing
• 1:15:35
  terminology said you have to turn God of War Ragnarok on, you
• 1:15:38
  know, every 30 days or you lose access to it.
• 1:15:41
  It just said you have to be online once every 30 days, you
• 1:15:47
  know, and I'm like, everybody turns shoot, everybody turns.
• 1:15:50
  Some people, some people accidentally turn their
• 1:15:52
  PlayStation on, you know, by mistake, you know, like.
• 1:15:54
  We probably accidentally, we we probably like breathed too hard
• 1:15:58
  and turned our PlayStation on at some point.
• 1:15:59
  Yeah, you know, you know, shoot like you, you tell me you've
• 1:16:03
  never like wiped off your controller and accidentally
• 1:16:05
  pressed this the the wake up button.
• 1:16:07
  Dude I every time I like move my Xbox controller it turns on my
• 1:16:11
  Xbox. It's like, oh, every time, yeah,
• 1:16:14
  shoot, our devices, our devices are more checked in the stuff
• 1:16:17
  than we are ourselves. And we're supposed to be checked
• 1:16:19
  in 24/7, you know, based on how our lives are and stuff like
• 1:16:22
  that. So yeah, like the.
• 1:16:23
  AI man. Yeah, so people just got all
• 1:16:26
  twisted up about this stuff and I'm like, dude, like, like shit.
• 1:16:30
  Like most people do not completely power down their
• 1:16:32
  consoles. When I say power them down, I
• 1:16:34
  mean like shut them down. Most people put their systems in
• 1:16:37
  standby mode and every console is in standby mode now.
• 1:16:40
  Like is designed to like when a, when Microsoft, Sony, whoever
• 1:16:44
  pushes an update, depending on your settings, like it
• 1:16:47
  automatically updates, guess what?
• 1:16:49
  It turns itself on to do the update.
• 1:16:51
  I feel like you're safe. I really do.
• 1:16:55
  I feel like you're safe, you know, but everybody's doing the
• 1:16:57
  most like, you know, they're, they're, they're, they're,
• 1:17:00
  they're, they're, they're, they're flashing their CMOS
• 1:17:02
  batteries and stuff to like reset the time to the beginning
• 1:17:05
  of time and all this stuff. And like, oh, my game is gone.
• 1:17:07
  Yeah, you, yeah, you did a, you, you did a, you did a, a, a sunk
• 1:17:12
  a, a sunk cost fallacy experiment and, and and and
• 1:17:15
  fucked yourself out of an $80 game.
• 1:17:17
  Yeah, yeah, here. Here's the thing too is like, I
• 1:17:22
  know like people have their issues with PlayStation.
• 1:17:25
  Right now I'm doing a lot of cursing tonight, man.
• 1:17:27
  I must be. I must be dude.
• 1:17:28
  We're both dude, we're both on one right now.
• 1:17:30
  It's fine. I know people have their
• 1:17:34
  problems with PlayStation and like them not getting first
• 1:17:36
  party games out fast enough or like closing studios and stuff,
• 1:17:39
  which rightly so, like we've had our fair share of comments on on
• 1:17:43
  that. But like they're not out to like
• 1:17:47
  screw you over from buying their games, right?
• 1:17:49
  Like they just want to make sure their business model is safe and
• 1:17:53
  with, I don't know, I don't know if you saw the numbers recently
• 1:17:56
  they're on, but 77% of gamers now buy their games mostly
• 1:18:02
  digitally, so. So while.
• 1:18:06
  I'm talking console gamers. I'm not talking that doesn't
• 1:18:08
  include PC gamers. That's this is console.
• 1:18:10
  Games. Yeah, because every Because
• 1:18:11
  every PC game is digital. Yeah.
• 1:18:14
  So that was. You know, that was really
• 1:18:16
  striking. I think I noticed, I think, I
• 1:18:20
  think it was like 2000. Let me see.
• 1:18:23
  It's let me see. I started working for my, for my
• 1:18:26
  company in 2013. I think by 20/14/2015 I just it
• 1:18:31
  was it was striking how there were not that many physical
• 1:18:35
  copies of PC games anymore. Yeah, I mean, what?
• 1:18:42
  World of Warcraft still had physical editions, but that's
• 1:18:44
  because they were collectors editions with like the code in
• 1:18:47
  the box. That was like the beginning of
• 1:18:48
  code in a box. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:51
  So. Yeah, but, but yeah, like, I, I,
• 1:18:54
  I, I feel like none of these companies, even Microsoft and
• 1:18:57
  then this boneheadedness of the last two and a half, three
• 1:18:59
  years, you know, even Microsoft is not trying to screw people
• 1:19:03
  out of stuff that they purchased.
• 1:19:04
  Maybe Ubisoft is, which is why we have stopped killing games,
• 1:19:08
  you know, you know, but but you know, like these companies, they
• 1:19:12
  know, like gamers are gamers are gamers are their business model.
• 1:19:17
  They have to sell games. They have to sell games when
• 1:19:19
  they have to sell consoles because if you sell the games,
• 1:19:23
  people will buy the consoles. You know, it's, it's, it's not
• 1:19:27
  even the chicken or the egg thing because like, what is it
• 1:19:30
  is the, is the, is the, is the game the egg and the console's
• 1:19:33
  the chicken or is the console the chicken and the game is the
• 1:19:36
  egg. You know, like it's not even the
• 1:19:37
  chicken and the egg dilemma here.
• 1:19:39
  It's more like the games sell the systems and the systems
• 1:19:44
  therefore drive sales for the games.
• 1:19:46
  It is cyclical. Yeah, it's.
• 1:19:52
  I don't like getting preaching on these things, but I I swear
• 1:19:54
  sometimes, sometimes people don't use their brains about
• 1:19:57
  this stuff, you know, or they or like I or like I said a few
• 1:20:00
  minutes ago, they do the most off the wall experiment to try
• 1:20:04
  and prove a point. That is that is that is that is
• 1:20:07
  definitely going to be either like like like controlled or, or
• 1:20:11
  squashed out out right. You know, like you.
• 1:20:14
  You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
• 1:20:17
  Yeah, I, yeah. I mean, it's just, you know, I,
• 1:20:23
  I just, people like to complain, right?
• 1:20:26
  And when things don't go the way people want, they complain.
• 1:20:32
  And it is what it is, man. I just, they're just so quick.
• 1:20:37
  To claim that these companies are anti consumer, yeah, some of
• 1:20:40
  the stuff they do definitely looks anti consumer.
• 1:20:42
  But at the same time, but at the same time, I guarantee you like
• 1:20:46
  you will do whatever you can to protect your house and protect
• 1:20:49
  your house. Here's the thing, if you're
• 1:20:51
  buying the games digitally, you're already online.
• 1:20:56
  So the only people complaining about this are the people who
• 1:21:00
  are trying to steal the games. Who are trying to steal the
• 1:21:02
  games or who are trying to circumnavigate the system?
• 1:21:06
  If you're trying to, if you're buying the games digitally,
• 1:21:09
  where do you think it comes from?
• 1:21:11
  Your console's online buddy? It's already online.
• 1:21:16
  It's already plugged in or or waving, waving the Wi-Fi to your
• 1:21:21
  PlayStation and sending you a pragmata or whatever.
• 1:21:25
  Here's the crazy thing now, right?
• 1:21:27
  Right. Games.
• 1:21:28
  Games get patched magically on consoles.
• 1:21:33
  What? As AP as APC gamer?
• 1:21:36
  As APC gamer, When I start Tekken, Tekken lets me know that
• 1:21:39
  there's an update that I need to apply.
• 1:21:41
  Whereas whereas like whereas like console gamers.
• 1:21:45
  I mean the game is already patched by the time you you
• 1:21:47
  start it. I mean, remember.
• 1:21:51
  OK, mask Andromeda. I mean it was patched by the
• 1:21:56
  time I started playing it 6. Months later, Yeah.
• 1:21:58
  Well, well, yeah, you bought. Yeah, you bought it after.
• 1:22:00
  After they stopped, they stopped development.
• 1:22:02
  Development for it. But it stopped support.
• 1:22:06
  I'm sorry. Look, it's better than the
• 1:22:08
  freaking 90s when you had to download like zip files off of
• 1:22:12
  off of some random website to hopefully, you know, run, you
• 1:22:16
  know, doom or roller Coaster Tycoon and a better frame rate
• 1:22:19
  or update and not like some virus on your computer.
• 1:22:23
  Check this out right 'cause cause 'cause I.
• 1:22:26
  Here's what Here's what I love about I like Steam.
• 1:22:28
  Steam always tells me if there's an update pending for a game.
• 1:22:33
  There's never a time when I open up my Steam library and I don't
• 1:22:36
  see like update queued or update pending.
• 1:22:38
  Guess what? Marathon has an update right now
• 1:22:41
  on Steam. Dude that game updates like
• 1:22:43
  every two or three days. And I have to manually start
• 1:22:46
  this update before I can play the game.
• 1:22:48
  Whereas guess what? On your, on your, on your PS-5,
• 1:22:53
  on your, on your Xbox Series X. That update is already applied
• 1:22:57
  before you even think about it. Theoretically, although my my
• 1:23:02
  Xbox doesn't update on its own for some reason even though I
• 1:23:05
  have the box checked. Oh, you do.
• 1:23:07
  OK, for automatic updates, it just doesn't do it.
• 1:23:09
  OK, well, to be fair though, Marathon.
• 1:23:12
  Circumstances. This is how it happens though.
• 1:23:14
  At least Marathon's only like what, 22 gigs or something?
• 1:23:18
  It's not very big at all, which is awesome.
• 1:23:20
  Good on good on Bungie for optimal.
• 1:23:22
  How? How fracking big is Monster
• 1:23:23
  Hunter Wilds? Monster Hunter Wild is ginormous
• 1:23:25
  now. I mean what is it like 123 gigs
• 1:23:29
  or something? Let's see something here.
• 1:23:31
  Monster Hunter Wild info properties size on OK I I
• 1:23:44
  thought it was bigger than actually no the game the game
• 1:23:48
  itself before like the texture update is 97 gigs, the texture
• 1:23:53
  update is an additional 30 some odd gigs and the texture up the
• 1:24:00
  texture update The texture update is what makes the game
• 1:24:03
  look super pretty. Yeah.
• 1:24:11
  You know what? I'm sorry.
• 1:24:12
  You console you. Console gamers will never have
• 1:24:15
  as many problems playing games as PC gamers do.
• 1:24:18
  I'm sorry. Yeah, it's fine.
• 1:24:21
  Look, man. Look how dismissive you are to
• 1:24:23
  me, Corey. Look at this.
• 1:24:25
  You like it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:27
  You play your, you play your fancy highfalutin shit over
• 1:24:30
  there. Dude I'm playing my switch too
• 1:24:32
  OK? No, no, no.
• 1:24:36
  I. Played Super Nintendo games on
• 1:24:37
  my Switch too. I don't need texture packs.
• 1:24:40
  Shit, I'm playing Super Nintendo games on my on my S S Wrong
• 1:24:43
  ally. Although the emulation packages
• 1:24:48
  did get updates recently on the. Switch too.
• 1:24:51
  Oh yeah, it did that. Was nice.
• 1:24:52
  Yeah, the the GameCube one got a really nice update recently
• 1:24:57
  where it like like they decreased input lag, especially
• 1:25:02
  if you're using the GameCube control, the NSO GameCube
• 1:25:05
  controller, which had like really bad input lag, which I
• 1:25:08
  didn't notice because I was playing firearm with it.
• 1:25:10
  But I guess that and then they it runs at a higher resolution
• 1:25:15
  now. I think it it runs higher than
• 1:25:19
  1080P is what the update says, whatever that means.
• 1:25:22
  So what? 181 P.
• 1:25:25
  All right, let's close out this topic real quickly here.
• 1:25:27
  Here's my summary. Here's my summary of this whole
• 1:25:29
  thing. Give Sony a chance to, to like
• 1:25:32
  to like correct the ship because I because, because basically
• 1:25:37
  what looks like is going on now is that Sony is actually trying
• 1:25:40
  to get ahead of people trying to steal product.
• 1:25:43
  And not just, and not just not just their product, not there's
• 1:25:46
  just their first party stuff, also third party.
• 1:25:49
  If this becomes a big deal, Sony's going to wind up getting
• 1:25:51
  lawsuits from from every which way and stuff like that.
• 1:25:54
  So Sony's trying this is this is a Band-Aid or a stopgap measure
• 1:25:58
  or whatever. Let give Sony a chance to like
• 1:26:00
  do its thing. And you know, like I know
• 1:26:02
  someone's going to be like, oh, Lebron's being chilly.
• 1:26:04
  We forgot that LeBron was a PlayStation gamer before he ever
• 1:26:07
  be he was APC gamer. So the so the hell, what so the
• 1:26:11
  hell? What you know, I work in tech.
• 1:26:15
  Corey works in tech. We understand these things.
• 1:26:17
  We understand that sometimes just because he might look
• 1:26:21
  walking quack like a duck doesn't always mean it is the
• 1:26:24
  duck. But but normally it is that you
• 1:26:26
  know. It's true, by the way, the wrong
• 1:26:30
  interesting stuff. I don't know how you feel about
• 1:26:34
  Aipcs, but they're coming. Oh yeah, I've heard about that.
• 1:26:37
  Like where? Like the computing is all done
• 1:26:40
  with AI in the cloud instead of on, you know, which you'll
• 1:26:45
  always have to be. Hey, wasn't that?
• 1:26:48
  Connected online. Hey, wasn't that a?
• 1:26:50
  Wasn't that a? What's my colleague?
• 1:26:54
  All the stadia and and and luma What and.
• 1:26:59
  No way. And playing Resident Evil
• 1:27:01
  playing Resident Evil 4 remake on your on your iPhone.
• 1:27:06
  This feels like you know what this feels like and this feels
• 1:27:08
  like we're cloud, cloud computing didn't work out well,
• 1:27:12
  so we're rebranding it we're. Rebranding it, yeah.
• 1:27:15
  Which, which? Which buzzword is hot in 2026?
• 1:27:18
  AI, John, write that down. Get me some coffee.
• 1:27:23
  AI Computing, AIPC Cloud Go. What a wonderful world we live
• 1:27:33
  in. OK, OK.
• 1:27:34
  Is it OK? I'm done.
• 1:27:37
  I'm done with this PlayStation topic.
• 1:27:38
  We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll give you updates on
• 1:27:41
  this stuff as as new as new information becomes available.
• 1:27:44
  You know. Yeah.
• 1:27:45
  But untwist your panties, you know, like like like like you
• 1:27:48
  know, like like unstuck. Oh, I was about to say something
• 1:27:53
  really dirty just now. I'm not untwist your panties.
• 1:27:56
  Do not clutch your pearls like, you know, like if Sony was going
• 1:28:01
  to steal money from you, they would just raise the price of
• 1:28:04
  the consoles again. It's true.
• 1:28:07
  That's true. All right, Leron, let's, let's
• 1:28:11
  talk about the let's talk about the green side of the room here.
• 1:28:15
  Let's talk about Xbox because we have news since the last time we
• 1:28:19
  did this podcast. All right, lay it on me.
• 1:28:22
  Talked a lot about it on Iron Lords this past weekend but.
• 1:28:26
  You guys had a lot of fun talking about this topic, don't
• 1:28:28
  mind. It was it was a good time.
• 1:28:31
  Look, I even pitched I. I dare say to the people on the
• 1:28:34
  Iron Lords podcast are actually in love with Asha Sharma.
• 1:28:38
  I mean, I think everybody on that episode is, and I'm just
• 1:28:41
  going to leave it there. Where was I got distracted by
• 1:28:48
  Asha Sharma? OK, so we are.
• 1:28:50
  I mean Xbox, I mean she's, I mean she's a beautiful looking
• 1:28:53
  lady though. I mean.
• 1:28:55
  She's pretty. I, I oh, no, no, no, I'm not
• 1:28:59
  going to do that. I was wondering 00.
• 1:29:04
  It's 2026. We don't do that in public
• 1:29:05
  spaces anymore. I I am just reading what is
• 1:29:11
  written here. Just just look at the chat.
• 1:29:13
  Just look at the chat. Oh God, our our chat.
• 1:29:17
  Our chat. Our chat.
• 1:29:22
  Wait. Oh, I almost messed up and put
• 1:29:25
  it in the actual public chat. Oh.
• 1:29:27
  Yeah, good, Good job, Laron. So AUSA Sharma and Matt Booty
• 1:29:35
  wrote a letter to team Xbox called We Are Xbox.
• 1:29:39
  This is the new leadership kind of direction.
• 1:29:46
  I'm reading Laron's chat that's it's debatable but it's close.
• 1:29:54
  Debatable, but close. I'll leave it at that.
• 1:29:56
  It might be a matter of taste. I'm sorry, it'll.
• 1:29:58
  Might be a matter of an After Dark topic before we get in even
• 1:30:05
  more trouble and a candid internal memo.
• 1:30:09
  Xbox leadership didn't sugarcoat it.
• 1:30:12
  Players are frustrated the platforms falling short of in
• 1:30:15
  key areas and the old playbook isn't going to cut it anymore.
• 1:30:19
  Now Matt Booty and Asha Sharma are laying out a sweeping vision
• 1:30:24
  to redefine what Xbox becomes next, a global for player first
• 1:30:29
  platform built around accessibility, creation and
• 1:30:31
  constant engagement. Now, La Ron, I'm going to read,
• 1:30:35
  I'm not going to read this whole thing, but I'm going to read
• 1:30:37
  some sections from this. We are Xbox memo.
• 1:30:41
  It's on Xbox Wire. You can look for it.
• 1:30:43
  It'll be in the show notes, all the that sort of thing.
• 1:30:48
  And here's what Matt and Asha wrote together on Xbox.
• 1:30:54
  Dear team, Xbox has always been different.
• 1:30:57
  We started with a simple idea. Games should bring people
• 1:30:59
  together through shared experiences.
• 1:31:02
  That led Xbox to the first. That led to the first Xbox in
• 1:31:05
  2001, Xbox Live in 2002, and new ways to connect from friends
• 1:31:09
  lists to achievements to parties and play across devices.
• 1:31:13
  Today, Xbox reaches over 500 million players around the
• 1:31:16
  world. That number seems high.
• 1:31:19
  Asha, sorry, I I think that number seems high.
• 1:31:23
  I was. Thinking that like what's what's
• 1:31:26
  on half a billion? With some of the most important
• 1:31:31
  franchises in entertainment, from the beginning, Xbox was
• 1:31:34
  built by people willing to try things that others wouldn't.
• 1:31:38
  We placed a consumer bet inside an enterprise company because we
• 1:31:43
  believe gaming would define the living room and we were at risk
• 1:31:47
  of missing it. That spirit has carried us
• 1:31:49
  through 25 years and it is required to carry us forward.
• 1:31:54
  So the first, the first section here, we have work to do.
• 1:31:59
  Players are frustrated, so they're talking about new
• 1:32:05
  features on the console have been less frequent, their
• 1:32:09
  presence on PC isn't strong enough, pricing, that sort of
• 1:32:12
  thing. Is there is there is there
• 1:32:14
  presence on PC not strong enough I feel.
• 1:32:17
  I feel like I've been having a fucking blast on.
• 1:32:20
  PC, I feel like PC games, yeah, but you're not there primarily
• 1:32:24
  for Xbox, you're there primarily for Steam, right.
• 1:32:28
  And then the. Xbox, yeah.
• 1:32:30
  Xbox like also like isn't the Xbox experience on windows still
• 1:32:34
  pretty bad? Like on desktop actually.
• 1:32:39
  Yeah. OK, so the Xbox.
• 1:32:41
  It's gotten better since the. So the Xbox experience is not
• 1:32:44
  even official on the PC yet we're still using Game Bar.
• 1:32:49
  Oh God. Yeah, the Xbox experience is
• 1:32:51
  only available for the, for the, for the.
• 1:32:53
  PC handhelds, I thought that was over.
• 1:32:55
  I thought they were done. Oh no, that sounds.
• 1:33:00
  No, no. I mean, there's the Xbox app,
• 1:33:02
  you know, which is kind of like the Xbox, you know, the Xbox
• 1:33:05
  experience. But yeah, it's not.
• 1:33:07
  Yeah, the Xbox experience is not there yet.
• 1:33:10
  I feel terrible for PC players now.
• 1:33:16
  So what? What they are talking here
• 1:33:18
  though, is that they want to. A new generation of players is
• 1:33:22
  coming online with different expectations.
• 1:33:24
  Their time is split across games, media, and everything
• 1:33:27
  else competing for their attention.
• 1:33:29
  The they expect more content in familiar places, want to shape
• 1:33:33
  the world's they play in, and want to create and socialize
• 1:33:36
  together, not just play together.
• 1:33:38
  These changes are happening as the industry reshapes around us.
• 1:33:42
  Console remains large and stable.
• 1:33:46
  Windows now represents more players and more hours, and is
• 1:33:49
  increasingly where competition is most intense.
• 1:33:53
  Players have access to more games than ever, even at as the
• 1:33:57
  cost and time to build blockbuster titles continues to
• 1:34:02
  rise, putting pressure on what gets made and how risk is taken.
• 1:34:06
  So they she goes on to talk about how Roblox and Minecraft
• 1:34:10
  are are popular and they kind of want to take that and kind of
• 1:34:14
  lean into it a little bit in terms of how they scale major
• 1:34:19
  franchises. The industry is becoming global
• 1:34:23
  and competitive, becoming Tasha catch up.
• 1:34:27
  It's been global forever. Just because just because Xbox
• 1:34:32
  doesn't have a presence globally doesn't mean gaming is not.
• 1:34:34
  Sorry I'm being really snarky tonight, Lauren.
• 1:34:38
  I can't. Yeah, me too.
• 1:34:40
  I can't help. I can't help it.
• 1:34:41
  Here's the thing. I don't want to make this sound
• 1:34:43
  negative because I'm actually I love their plan here laid out
• 1:34:47
  like this, right, because like I'll get to the major bullet
• 1:34:51
  points in a second, but like the way it's laid out, we have never
• 1:34:57
  seen Xbox do this. Lay out a plan, right, like and
• 1:35:04
  communicate to the players what they want to do with the
• 1:35:07
  ecosystem, right, like with and, and look, everybody loves Phil.
• 1:35:13
  I love Phil everybody loves Sarah.
• 1:35:15
  I love Sarah. Leron loves Sarah.
• 1:35:18
  It's his PC wallpaper right now. It's his PC wallpaper right now.
• 1:35:24
  But they never, ever seem to communicate and be on the same
• 1:35:29
  page when they were communicating to us or lack
• 1:35:32
  thereof, right? They want games everywhere.
• 1:35:35
  Phil's over here talking about exclusives.
• 1:35:37
  Then they put exclusives on, you know, PlayStation and now
• 1:35:41
  they're not exclusive anymore. You know, they trying this multi
• 1:35:43
  platform strategy. They're trying to merge the Xbox
• 1:35:46
  and PC ecosystems into one. Like it's just kind of feels
• 1:35:51
  like a bunch of ideas coming together.
• 1:35:54
  But there are too many cooks in the kitchen, right?
• 1:35:58
  This feels like Asha comes from Asha Sharma comes from
• 1:36:05
  Instacart. She knows how to grow a
• 1:36:07
  platform, right? But she doesn't come from games,
• 1:36:11
  which worries people. I'm not worried.
• 1:36:14
  Remember, Reggie Fizumay did not come from games.
• 1:36:16
  He came from Pizza Hut to Nintendo.
• 1:36:19
  I'm not. I've forgot about Pizza Hut.
• 1:36:22
  But what she has done seemingly is surround herself with
• 1:36:29
  industry people, smart people that no gaming.
• 1:36:34
  And I think she can use their knowledge about gaming to shape
• 1:36:38
  this vision that they've laid out here.
• 1:36:40
  Now this, this letter is really long, but I'm going to go, I'm
• 1:36:43
  just going to go through the these bullet points where their
• 1:36:49
  new North Star is daily active players.
• 1:36:52
  We'll execute this through 4 priorities, hardware, content,
• 1:36:57
  experiences and services. Again, Asha comes from a
• 1:37:03
  marketing background also, she's choosing her words very
• 1:37:07
  carefully. These, like these words are said
• 1:37:10
  with intent. And I guarantee you she like,
• 1:37:14
  maybe not her, but like whoever her assistant is, right,
• 1:37:18
  Probably read this 456 times and made sure it sounded just like
• 1:37:22
  she wanted it to sound right. Yeah, hardware stabilized Gen. 9
• 1:37:27
  as a healthy and high quality base.
• 1:37:30
  So Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S deliver Project Helix to lead
• 1:37:36
  in performance and play your console and PC games, Lead in
• 1:37:41
  comfortable, personal, high performance accessories.
• 1:37:45
  Build a strong ecosystem that expands choice and reach.
• 1:37:49
  OK, so they want the console to be a bigger deal.
• 1:37:52
  They wanted them to have higher quality Project Helix, man,
• 1:37:58
  that's the one to watch. Because if you can play your
• 1:38:01
  console and PC games, man, that having APC storefront on a
• 1:38:07
  console is a is a risky move. That's a risky move, right?
• 1:38:12
  Because like if you're a Steam player and you buy Project
• 1:38:15
  Helix, like you're going to buy Steam games, right?
• 1:38:18
  You're going to buy your Xbox games on Steam, right?
• 1:38:19
  So I don't know, I mean, how do you feel about that as APC
• 1:38:22
  gamer? And let's just say you happen to
• 1:38:24
  have Project Helix. Would you be buying?
• 1:38:29
  Would you be buying, you know, games through the Xbox store or
• 1:38:33
  through the PC store? PC Store.
• 1:38:36
  Yeah. Especially with the fact,
• 1:38:38
  especially with the fact for one reason, right, The the the
• 1:38:41
  wording and the terminology of this whole thing makes it seem
• 1:38:44
  like it's going to be cohesive. So it's going to be just like
• 1:38:46
  how Xbox just just all PC GamePad.
• 1:38:49
  Well, that's a bad example actually, just how Game Pass is
• 1:38:54
  right now. Like if I had multiple Xbox
• 1:38:56
  systems, I could play it anywhere.
• 1:38:57
  And that includes like the PC side of it too, you know, as a
• 1:39:00
  matter of fact, as a matter of fact, the one time I logged into
• 1:39:03
  my Xbox account on someone else's Series console, my clear,
• 1:39:07
  obscure Exhibition 31 was available for me to play, even
• 1:39:10
  though I'm playing on the PC side.
• 1:39:13
  Yeah. I mean, I think the Play
• 1:39:14
  Anywhere thing is like it was, it's an awesome idea that
• 1:39:17
  clearly works for the most part, right?
• 1:39:19
  Like it clearly works. And that's exciting from from
• 1:39:23
  that standpoint, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, let's PC is my
• 1:39:28
  default. This is my default.
• 1:39:30
  I mean, Sony's trying to make PlayStation my default again
• 1:39:33
  because like, you know, they're they're basically undoing their
• 1:39:36
  PC program. You know, I guess they got tired
• 1:39:39
  of waiting me waiting 18 months to buy that game.
• 1:39:44
  They want their money now and I respect that.
• 1:39:46
  Yeah. At least I don't at least I
• 1:39:49
  don't go to GameStop and buy it used.
• 1:39:51
  They they need to be happy for that.
• 1:39:53
  Yikes. Yeah.
• 1:39:56
  So the the next thing here content grow and extend our
• 1:39:59
  enduring portfolio franchises players love OK, make good games
• 1:40:03
  within portfolio got it. Evolve our third party
• 1:40:05
  partnerships and strengthen our five year slate.
• 1:40:08
  Expand into China, emerging markets and mobile first
• 1:40:11
  audiences. They're still working on that
• 1:40:13
  mobile store by the. Way.
• 1:40:14
  Yeah, they are. Maintaining growing live games
• 1:40:18
  and long term stewardship. I mean they're I would argue
• 1:40:21
  that live service games are like the thing they do the best.
• 1:40:25
  Yeah, that's, that's, that's honestly Xbox's identity.
• 1:40:28
  It's probably been Xbox's identity since the since the
• 1:40:31
  since the Xbox One, if not, if not late cycle Xbox 360.
• 1:40:36
  Yeah, and I mean, even when Halo doesn't hit right, they they
• 1:40:40
  still have Sea of Thieves, They have Elder Scrolls Online,
• 1:40:43
  Fallout 76 like they they have, they have that unlock.
• 1:40:47
  It feels like for now, elevate creator centric platforms like
• 1:40:52
  Minecraft, Elder Scrolls, and Sea of Thieves.
• 1:40:54
  OK the experience. Fix the fundamental fundamentals
• 1:40:58
  for players and partners. Make Xbox the best place to for
• 1:41:02
  developers and creators to build and grow.
• 1:41:04
  Overhaul discoverability, customization, social and
• 1:41:07
  personalization to connect the community and then services.
• 1:41:12
  They want to fortify Game Pass with clear differentiation and
• 1:41:15
  sustainable economics, which they've already done right.
• 1:41:18
  That was something that they did.
• 1:41:19
  They lowered the price to Call of Duty out.
• 1:41:22
  Did we talk about that the last time or was that that?
• 1:41:25
  Happened. Did that not happen yet?
• 1:41:27
  That hadn't happened yet. Yeah, so you take Call of Duty
• 1:41:30
  out, save $7.00 a month apparently.
• 1:41:34
  You're getting confused with Nintendo price dropping physical
• 1:41:38
  games. No I don't dude.
• 1:41:40
  I just, I just feel like I have these same conversations
• 1:41:42
  everywhere and I never know where we're having.
• 1:41:44
  Wait a minute. No, no, no, I'm sorry.
• 1:41:45
  They press dropped digital games but kept physical games high
• 1:41:48
  price creating, creating a new level of entry.
• 1:41:51
  But we're talking about Xbox today.
• 1:41:55
  Yeah. So you know services return the
• 1:41:59
  business to durable growth and strong cost discipline, make a
• 1:42:02
  cloud play feel native, fast and reliable across TV's and low
• 1:42:06
  cost devices which good luck unless you put a data center in
• 1:42:11
  every single neighborhood which the way the eyes go and maybe
• 1:42:15
  we'll have them and use M&A deliberately to accelerate
• 1:42:20
  growth and organic paths are too slow.
• 1:42:23
  So they are still talking about mergers and acquisitions.
• 1:42:27
  Laurent, how do you feel about that?
• 1:42:31
  I don't feel good about it. Man, can we just stop buying
• 1:42:35
  stuff guys? Xbox Xbox does not need to
• 1:42:39
  expand anymore right now. They already have too many
• 1:42:43
  studios I would argue. Exactly.
• 1:42:45
  Exactly. And it's hurting the industry.
• 1:42:49
  Yeah. So Sony, it's hurting.
• 1:42:51
  Sony's also hurting the industry by doing this shit.
• 1:42:55
  Yeah, it's. It's and I'm pretty sure
• 1:42:56
  Nintendo's doing it on a on a micro scale that's not as large
• 1:43:00
  as like Sony and Microsoft's doing, but I know Nintendo's
• 1:43:03
  doing it to an extent. Yeah, it's just, I don't know,
• 1:43:09
  it's it. And and maybe they just, they,
• 1:43:12
  maybe they, they're just saying that because they're always
• 1:43:15
  looking at acquisitions, right. But like, I don't know, this
• 1:43:20
  last section here, King and Cog lovingly called them the 10
• 1:43:24
  commandments of Xbox on on Sunday.
• 1:43:31
  We are. We are a high agency culture
• 1:43:34
  where wild and wonderful ideas thrive.
• 1:43:36
  Our job is not to smooth and not to smooth over our differences,
• 1:43:40
  but to connect everyone in something greater than anyone,
• 1:43:43
  studio or product. We have to be honest about where
• 1:43:45
  we are. We're a challenger and we're
• 1:43:47
  meeting this moment. And meeting at this moment will
• 1:43:50
  require pace, energy and a level of self critique that should
• 1:43:54
  feel uncomfortable. At our best, we earn every
• 1:43:58
  player. Protect our art.
• 1:44:01
  Stay rebellious. OK.
• 1:44:04
  That's that. That's a word she really likes.
• 1:44:08
  Progress. I don't know what that means
• 1:44:10
  because like honestly, Xbox, Xbox did.
• 1:44:14
  Well, when Xbox When? Xbox entered the scene.
• 1:44:17
  When Xbox entered the scene, it basically looked like it was it
• 1:44:20
  was the holdover of the Dreamcast.
• 1:44:24
  Well, I mean, they also like built this thing.
• 1:44:27
  I don't know if you watched the Xbox on documentary for the 20th
• 1:44:30
  anniversary, but there's like a whole section about this
• 1:44:35
  rebellious group within Microsoft who wanted to make
• 1:44:38
  games and make a console and they started doing it behind.
• 1:44:43
  Bill Gates. Wait, was that tower on the
• 1:44:45
  story of Xbox? Yeah, OK.
• 1:44:47
  It's like 6 parts progress over perfection, signal over
• 1:44:53
  ceremony, core before more. So that's a big one that people
• 1:44:58
  are pointing to you too is like they want to focus on the core
• 1:45:01
  Xbox user instead of growing the audience that they they're going
• 1:45:04
  to focus on the core before they grow, which is probably good
• 1:45:10
  right? I mean make your core fans
• 1:45:12
  happy, then more people will follow.
• 1:45:14
  I assume outwork the problem speed is learning makers over
• 1:45:21
  managers, so. Good luck.
• 1:45:27
  And clarity is kindness. So that's the, the, that's the
• 1:45:35
  Xbox kind of mission statement. Again, this letter is pretty
• 1:45:39
  long. There's a lot of content in here
• 1:45:41
  if you want to read it. It's over on Xbox Wire, which is
• 1:45:43
  Xbox's official news site overall.
• 1:45:48
  I mean, she's been in, she's been the CEO for what, like 70
• 1:45:51
  days now, like, and she's been really aggressive.
• 1:45:54
  We've talked about that. And I like how aggressive she's
• 1:45:57
  being. I think her not being attached
• 1:46:00
  to this brand at all coming in and her not being attached to
• 1:46:03
  games at all really allows her to see things differently.
• 1:46:06
  And I think she's making some smart moves.
• 1:46:09
  Yeah, I think, I think her not being attached to games is the
• 1:46:11
  thing that scares people right now, which that's a that's a
• 1:46:14
  nice healthy fear to have. But but I, I have a unique
• 1:46:19
  perspective on this stuff because like, you know, like
• 1:46:23
  Corey, you know, a couple of years ago I became a junior
• 1:46:25
  partner for, for the company I work for and stuff like that.
• 1:46:27
  You know, like I had to, I had to change from being like a
• 1:46:32
  technician, a supervisor, a manager to actually being a
• 1:46:35
  business owner. And these are the things that,
• 1:46:38
  you know, like you need to understand business to make
• 1:46:42
  business work and then make it grow, you know, and all the
• 1:46:45
  stuff that all the stuff that she said, because I feel like
• 1:46:49
  she said, I feel like most of this is her words and maybe like
• 1:46:52
  15% of his Matt Booty's words. I mean, I feel like, I feel like
• 1:46:59
  Matt Booty's like the, the, he's like, he's like the.
• 1:47:02
  Man, so bad. He's like the sidekick that
• 1:47:06
  always attaches himself to whoever's winning, you know,
• 1:47:08
  like. Yeah.
• 1:47:10
  Yeah, like, you know, like villains in the in the old 80s
• 1:47:13
  cartoons who have like, the sidekick who like, abandons the
• 1:47:16
  loser and like, goes off with the guy who's winning.
• 1:47:19
  It's like Cobra Command Commander and Sapentor from GI
• 1:47:22
  Joe. When things are when things are
• 1:47:26
  going good, one of them is always trying to take the credit
• 1:47:28
  for it. But when things go bad,
• 1:47:30
  someone's always blaming the other one about.
• 1:47:32
  It Yep, Yep. Well, you know, it's like, it's
• 1:47:36
  like start, scream. Yes, start screaming Megatron.
• 1:47:41
  Yeah. But yeah, yeah.
• 1:47:44
  I, I, the more and more I see of, of Asha, the more and more I
• 1:47:51
  hear about what she's doing, the more and more I hear her speak
• 1:47:54
  on things, the more my respect grows for her.
• 1:47:58
  And I am. And I don't envy her in her
• 1:48:00
  position because I mean, like, you know, like it is literally
• 1:48:05
  it. ASA is fighting on 2 fronts
• 1:48:07
  right now. Like it's ASA versus the gaming
• 1:48:10
  community, which is a very bad fight to be fight to be having
• 1:48:13
  right now. But we also know that events is
• 1:48:16
  going to be ASA versus Microsoft.
• 1:48:19
  We know this. I feel like right now.
• 1:48:21
  And I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to
• 1:48:23
  basically paraphrase, paraphrase what you guys talked about on
• 1:48:26
  Sunday. And on the, on the Iron Lords
• 1:48:29
  podcast right now, Microsoft is giving her a lot of latitude.
• 1:48:33
  Like, you know, like Microsoft is taking its foot off of off of
• 1:48:37
  Xbox's neck right now to see if this ship can be corrected.
• 1:48:40
  But you know there is a deadline to this stuff.
• 1:48:43
  Oh, of course there is. Yeah, you know, so, so yeah.
• 1:48:47
  And here's where, here's where I'm going to challenge the
• 1:48:50
  gamers in the community. And I know I'm not an Xbox
• 1:48:52
  gamer, but I am a gamer, you know, I challenge the Xbox
• 1:48:56
  gamer. I challenge the gaming
• 1:48:57
  community, particularly the Xbox gaming community, to show a
• 1:49:02
  little bit of grace and exercise some patience.
• 1:49:04
  You know, these things do not change overnight.
• 1:49:07
  Yeah, dropping the price of Game Pass $7.00, that's an, that's an
• 1:49:12
  OK change. You know, here's the thing about
• 1:49:15
  it though, like there's a, in Star Trek, in Star Trek, there's
• 1:49:19
  a race of, of aliens called the Ferengi and the Ferengi.
• 1:49:21
  The Ferengi are basically the capitalists of the, of the Star
• 1:49:25
  Trek universe. Like they, they, they, they live
• 1:49:27
  their life by capitalism and by conservatism and stuff like
• 1:49:31
  that. They, they have, they have this
• 1:49:33
  thing called the rules of acquisition that talks about how
• 1:49:35
  they manage their empire, slash their businesses and stuff like
• 1:49:39
  that. And there is a rule that there's
• 1:49:41
  a rule of acquisition. Once you have their money, never
• 1:49:45
  give it back. Them dropping the price of X,
• 1:49:50
  them dropping the price of Xbox, Xbox Game Pass by 7 bucks,
• 1:49:55
  That's not really a that's not really back to where it was at.
• 1:49:59
  It's not. No, it's it's not.
• 1:50:01
  I mean, 1999 was the last price it was before they added
• 1:50:05
  Activision Blizzard, right? And so like, I get it, but also
• 1:50:09
  like what we were, what we were talking about is like Call of
• 1:50:14
  Duty, people who play Call of Duty want to buy Call of Duty.
• 1:50:18
  They want to then they don't really play.
• 1:50:21
  Obviously there's crossover, but the Call of Duty player doesn't
• 1:50:24
  usually expand beyond, you know, Call of Duty or other shooters,
• 1:50:30
  right? A lot of them are just like Call
• 1:50:33
  of Duty is the game they play with their friends and that's
• 1:50:36
  the only game they have or, or you know, a handful of games,
• 1:50:40
  right? And then when the new one comes
• 1:50:41
  out, they buy the new one and and that's it.
• 1:50:44
  And I think so I think it's smart to take it off.
• 1:50:49
  Plus, like, I think a lot of people kind of missed this too,
• 1:50:54
  which I wish now I would have brought it up on Sunday.
• 1:50:56
  But like Warzone is free to play that Call of Duty Warzone is
• 1:51:02
  free to play and it's their most popular mode.
• 1:51:05
  So like it's not really affecting, you know, game pass
• 1:51:11
  one way or the other anyway, you know, I mean, that's, that's
• 1:51:16
  just my take on it. But I, I think, you know, taking
• 1:51:20
  Call of Duty off to make it a better, you know, and, and it's
• 1:51:23
  not like call of Duty's leaving it like they said, it'll be the
• 1:51:26
  last year's version will be on Game Pass the following year,
• 1:51:30
  right? So like, if you're hardcore
• 1:51:34
  about Call of Duty, you're going to buy it.
• 1:51:35
  And if you're not, you can play, you can play it later, you know?
• 1:51:39
  Yeah, that's so yeah. I mean, any, any final thoughts
• 1:51:45
  before we kind of move on and and kind of get out of here?
• 1:51:48
  Leron. Yeah, well, basically like, like
• 1:51:53
  I said in my in my, in my plea to the gamers, like, you know,
• 1:51:56
  show some grace, exercise some patience and and support your
• 1:52:02
  platform. Support your platform.
• 1:52:06
  I'm not saying, I'm not saying like just eat up everything they
• 1:52:09
  do. But when you see them doing
• 1:52:12
  things correctly, support them. When you see things doing, when
• 1:52:17
  you see them doing things that you know are questionable, ask
• 1:52:21
  questions, challenge them, you know, but don't don't just make
• 1:52:27
  it seem like it's just a, you know, unilateral dumpster fire
• 1:52:30
  because you know, it's real easy to doom and gloom something.
• 1:52:35
  But it but it's damning when you doom and gloom something that is
• 1:52:38
  honestly trying to change. This is like this is like, this
• 1:52:41
  is like you making a mistake to like, you know, like you know,
• 1:52:44
  to your parents and your parents just continue to damn you for
• 1:52:47
  the rest of your life for that one mistake, even though you
• 1:52:49
  changed that mistake. Yep, everybody at the age of of
• 1:52:56
  15203040 knows that feeling. You know, like, yeah, like,
• 1:53:01
  yeah, like in the cycle of generational trauma for Xbox,
• 1:53:04
  you know, but also, but also, you know, keep your eyes on the
• 1:53:07
  prize. Yeah.
• 1:53:09
  I mean, I think just to put a bow on it, I think so far Asha
• 1:53:15
  has Asha has done an awesome job of, of, of communicating to the
• 1:53:20
  players, communicating her plan, communicating, you know, what
• 1:53:24
  she wants to do with the platform.
• 1:53:26
  And I hope it works out. I hope she can fight this
• 1:53:29
  battle, not just with the the quote UN quote gamers, but also
• 1:53:33
  like stave off Satya Nadella, you know, like he's been clearly
• 1:53:39
  been in overlord for too long over the Xbox.
• 1:53:41
  Frame, he's the actual enemy. And the crazy part is, is that
• 1:53:45
  he's the enemy that everybody has to listen to.
• 1:53:47
  And when I say everybody, I mean, I mean Phil, Sarah, Matt,
• 1:53:52
  Asha, us, the gamers, everybody at everybody, activism,
• 1:53:56
  Blizzard, everybody, at, everybody at, at, at, at
• 1:54:01
  Bethesda, all these people, they have to listen to him.
• 1:54:07
  Yeah, and and so like, you know, I know that's why people were
• 1:54:10
  worried because she came from the quote UN quote AI division
• 1:54:13
  or whatever. But like just just don't, don't
• 1:54:17
  miss, don't miss the forest of the trees.
• 1:54:19
  Just just pay attention. It's going to be really
• 1:54:22
  interesting to watch Xbox over the course of the next 6-12
• 1:54:25
  eighteen months and see how it turns around.
• 1:54:27
  And like I, like I told the Iron Lords on Sunday, right, like if
• 1:54:32
  she turns Xbox around, her crown's going to be fitted and
• 1:54:36
  she's going to be queen. Forever so and Xbox needs this
• 1:54:41
  one. Xbox needs this win, this win
• 1:54:44
  the same way they won Xbox. People need to feel the the same
• 1:54:48
  win that like that feels like the win that Xbox 360 had.
• 1:54:53
  People need, people need this, you know, because like the Xbox
• 1:54:56
  One didn't do it. The Xbox Series X&S definitely
• 1:55:00
  didn't do it. And by the way, like, I really
• 1:55:02
  hope they don't have another debacle like that confusing
• 1:55:05
  everybody about what system to buy.
• 1:55:07
  Yeah, if you have a secondary version, please don't call it S
• 1:55:10
  or X, just say pro or regular or whatever, like just.
• 1:55:15
  Call call it the Xbox, Xbox, Xbox Pro.
• 1:55:18
  Call it the Xbox Helix, bro. Nobody's awesome.
• 1:55:22
  I'm just saying nobody's gonna, Nobody's gonna get confused, you
• 1:55:25
  know? Nobody's gonna get confused.
• 1:55:27
  The basics and the new and and and the new Xbox is called the
• 1:55:31
  Xbox. And then there's an Xbox Pro
• 1:55:34
  that would be. That would be well, no, because
• 1:55:36
  people are already confusing the Xbox One, the console with the
• 1:55:42
  OG Xbox. Xbox One.
• 1:55:44
  No, it needs it needs some you can call call the Xbox five.
• 1:55:49
  I don't care. Just make it stand out, you
• 1:55:53
  know, like make it its own thing.
• 1:55:55
  With the X, well, yeah, but then you know, people are going to
• 1:55:58
  call it the X5 and then they're going to get confused with the
• 1:56:00
  BMW. Just call it, just call it Xbox
• 1:56:04
  Helix and call it a day, OK? Yeah.
• 1:56:06
  You know what? Yeah.
• 1:56:07
  Just just do that. But I will be watching her
• 1:56:11
  career with great interest. Me too.
• 1:56:13
  Especially considering she's this is this.
• 1:56:16
  Is honestly really interesting I mean let's be real here this is
• 1:56:21
  this is actually really interesting to see this because
• 1:56:23
  guess what nobody, nobody really cared about the regime changes
• 1:56:28
  at Sony. I mean like OK, after Kazarai
• 1:56:32
  like I mean did anyone give up? Did anyone give like 2 shits
• 1:56:35
  about Sean Layton and Jack Trenton and you know Jim Ryan
• 1:56:39
  not? Really, I would say the only
• 1:56:40
  person people really care about getting fired was Shoe Hey.
• 1:56:47
  Oh, and Shui had to fix that comment, by the way, because
• 1:56:49
  because everybody, because he was jokingly and said he got
• 1:56:52
  fired and what he meant to say, what he meant to say was is that
• 1:56:57
  is that he was being moved out of a different division.
• 1:57:00
  Yeah, I, I kind of figured that wasn't what it really meant, but
• 1:57:04
  also I, I. Didn't because he said him and
• 1:57:06
  Jim Ryan are actually were like best friends within the company.
• 1:57:11
  I mean, sure, you know what I. Yeah, those are his words.
• 1:57:17
  Those are his words. Yeah, I mean, I look, you want
• 1:57:21
  to save relationships, whatever. I don't, I don't care.
• 1:57:23
  I think Shuhei has always been pretty awesome to listen to, so.
• 1:57:30
  Yeah. And I'm interested to see how he
• 1:57:32
  grows his. Like, he's an indie consultant
• 1:57:35
  now, I think. So I'm interested to see what he
• 1:57:37
  does there as well. But all right, Lauren, we're
• 1:57:43
  going to. We are.
• 1:57:44
  Xbox. We are.
• 1:57:47
  Even I am Xbox my with my PC gaming ass.
• 1:57:51
  Yeah, well, you know, good. Have fun with your Xbox Game
• 1:57:55
  bar. On that note, we're we're
• 1:58:00
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• 1:58:02
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• 1:58:04
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• 1:58:15
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• 1:58:18
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• 1:58:23
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• 1:58:25
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• 1:58:28
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• 1:58:32
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• 1:58:35
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