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34:47So I'm excited about this area. Petty. What? Petty. What? Paris. It's Paris.

34:53Andy Cortez:I mean, it's the City of Lights or whatever. It looks like Paris. I kept thinking you were telling me that I'm Petty. Oh, no, no, no. I'm saying Perry. Perry. I'm very French. Petty. Is Jen excited? No. No, no. I mean, as much as... No, she's not. I couldn't even tell you if she knows it's happening. Jen's always so busy. I'm excited. I'm going to show it to Ben. That's just like the little bread place back home. Yeah. Well, I mean, she's not from Paris. She's from Quebec. Of course. Different. Similar, but not. The France of the West. Sure. Yeah. I'll give you that. Paris of the West. Kebabs writes in and says, Pokemon DJ Hero featuring the 2BA Master CD.

35:33Andy Cortez:2BA? I don't know what that means. That's probably some Pokemon reference that you and I don't get. 2BA Master CD. Oh, 2BA Master CD. No, I have no idea what that is. but a lot of people in the chat love in that reference it seems people are sucked about it does Ben have a favorite Pokemon ask Daniel Z

35:51Andy Cortez:that's a great question he builds the shittiest teams I've ever seen in Pokemon because I'll it's the way it's like the curse right now where I'm like I'm playing I'm trying to beat all the DLC for Scarlet and all that just kind of get a well-rounded team it's like I've got my guys we're ready to rock out there you know we've challenged the Elite Four we're doing the whole and so it's like He's out there with the Elon Musk Elden Ring build. Ben wants to go out there, and he's just capturing level sevens. I'm like, we don't need these guys. These aren't the people or whatever. So then I let him go, and then he gets mad if he sees me swap somebody out.

36:22Andy Cortez:So I got to fight lower levels. So no, he has a – on his team, he's always excited by somebody. But, I mean, he still pops for Pikachu the most. When we went to the toy store, and he finally wanted to buy a Pokemon, he wanted a Pikachu in the little ball that you build, like the little Lego one that sits in the ball or whatever. I've seen that, yeah. They didn't have that. so then his next one was he settled on Bulbasaur so he's a Bulbasaur he runs around with him likes Bulbasaur quite a bit yes alright dude yeah so yeah those are he still pops when he sees Pikachu anywhere but Pikachu's the mascot so it's kind of hard not to and yeah he still plays with Bulbasaur and carries him around so yeah yeah yeah I love that do we and I forget chat let me know of course I will be reviewing Pokemon Zah don't listen to Tim do we know the starters for Zah or is that going to be part of this presentation we think no we know the starters it's uh And it's two from Gen 2 and one from Gen 3.

37:12Okay, hold on. They kind of like did a little slip swap.

37:14Andy Cortez:Pokemon Za starters.

37:20Why were I... Okay, here we go. Yeah, Cyndaquil. Torchpig. Torchchick. Taypig.

37:28Andy Cortez:Or Totodile. Man, I wish I could have just named him. Chikorita. Chikorita. So here's... I mean, obviously, I look at that and I will say it on three. One, two, three. like i'm going with toto dial of course he's awesome my problem is uh kevin i i don't mean to make you do this on the fly i'm sorry can you show me the evolutions of toto dial because i'll tell you what i picked uh quackers in the in you're gonna love toto dial's evolution i i hate this guy actually quacksly they just okay okay okay he turns to a big godzilla all right this is great this is awesome i'm done that's what i need to know because i didn't look ahead i went Years ago when I started fucking Violet, I was like, yes, this duck that kind of has Trump vibes.

38:13Andy Cortez:I don't like the Trump vibes, but I like this duck. Awesome. And then he just evolved into this figure skater. And I'm like, I don't know you. Yeah. I named you Quackers and I don't know you anymore. You are not Quackers. You're not the guy I fell in love with. And that's okay. People change. We all evolve and change. You change your career and you're out here figure skating. And I just don't have time for you anymore. like uh napoleon dynamite in that figure skating movie with will ferrell yeah and i just can't get down with that and again i don't i'm not standing in your way i want you to go be free well there's fucking all powerful there's never been a bigger betrayal i think than um then from that same gen the little fire uh for coco yeah yeah for coco there's no bigger betrayal than what he turned into because like that i see that evolution i'll try to get you it's uh think of like the word Fuego Kevin but Fue Coco F-U-E C-O-C-O He's so cute to start and that's why I didn't want to believe in Totodile Easily one of the cutest stars of all time Kevin I'll drop in assets for you his final thing okay so the final one there like it's like a clown like bald head type thing like I think he looks badass in his final thing in his It's certainly better than the second yeah blades of glory there it is thank you kevin yeah the second one and i'm not one of these woke people all right but it we're kind what is he in a sombrero is that what they did that yeah well yeah fuet coco yeah yeah yeah so the yeah that the hat is that's an egg up top or whatever and then the uh the egg hatches in the third one and there's a little firebird you see the little firebird in the nose oh yeah yeah you know what i fuck with fuet coco so the the the middle one though is the worst and i'll tell you why the middle one looks like a random enemy you would see in a mario game you don't really talk about anymore the middle one looks just like a thing that kind of runs and you know you got to hop in its head on the egg head to like weaken it or whatever the middle evolution just looks like dog shit i hated it damn okay but for coco the cutest easily the cutest kevin i'm tossing general i'm just throwing a general i can never find assets in a pinch i didn't like can we see quacksley's uh evolution just in case people don't know what i'm talking about here didn't like the purple squares chat on uh on the final evolution there mellow fellow says he uses it like a mike greg uses what like so that look at how cute quacksley was to start yeah donald all the way down okay there you go the evolutions thank you quacksley so adorable a ducktales character fine quacks well i was like i'm not vibing but Everybody's got these awkward teen years.

40:52Andy Cortez:And then, yeah, we get to Quackwavl. Quackwavl. And I'm just like, bro, are you a mech? Are you a figure skater? I don't know what I'm looking at anymore. I see the mech with the little headpiece or whatever. What are we doing over here? Yeah, I think a lot of people hate on me for saying that Bulbasaur is my favorite of the OG starters. Yeah, I only know that's bad from the Hunter Pence song we did back in the day. But I'll tell you why. It's because he's a quadruped. Okay. Because Squirtle and Tramon, they walk on two feet like little humans. And I like looking at Bulbasaur and being like, he's a little animal.

41:23He's a little, you know, four-legged creature. Lizard. Dinosaur. I don't like that way more than a two-footed Pokemon.

41:33Andy Cortez:I was already excited for Za. Now that I know that Totodile grows up to look cool, I'm in. I'm very in. Totodile's a very, very popular one. Okay, good. I'm in. I'm going to do that. I may go Tepig. Final chat on this one comes from Benny B. Good, who's a member for 23 months. Thank you so much. and says they did Cinequil dirty in the new Pokemon. Why? That looks just like him. I mean, come on. John Heater has a lawsuit against Pokemon if he wants to. Unless he came afterwards. I'm not even sure. Peter V. Quackwavl. Ladies, gentlemen, and NBs, this is kind of funny games daily. We're still running through the nerdy news you need to know about in the video game world.

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46:10Andy Cortez:number three on the roper report the last of us season two just scored a bunch of emmy nominations this is james hibbard over at the hollywood reporter the last of us season two might have divided fans but the new episodes were clearly a hit with television academy voters hbo's post apocalyptic drama earned 17 emmy nominations on tuesday morning while that's fewer than the first season's 24 noms it still represents a terrific hall perhaps the most interesting nomination is that Pedro Pascal was nominated for Best Actor. While Pascal's performance was widely praised, his character Joel had very limited screen time, appearing in only three of the season's seven episodes.

46:48Andy Cortez:Star Bella Ramsey was nominated for Best Actress for their portrayal... Portrayal... Close, so close. ...for their version of Ellie. You didn't even try it. You gave up on it. I mean, I was like three swings and a miss. I gotta just get on the base, you know what I mean? Portrayal. Plus, the show was also nominated for Best Drama. Several other actors scored Emmy guest actor nominations. Joe Pant. Who do you guys call this guy? Joey Pants. Joey Pants. Joey Pantalonina as Eugene. Jeffrey Wright as Isaac. Caitlin Dever as Abby. And Catherine O 'Hara as Gayle. She better win, Catherine O 'Hara. She was awesome.

47:23Andy Cortez:Gayle was awesome in this show. The other Emmy nominations for The Last of Us included Best Production Design, Casting, Picture Editing, Contemporary Makeup, Prosthetic Makeup, Music Supervision, Nonfiction Short for a Making of Documentary, sound editing sound mixing and special visual effects non-fiction like i saw non-fiction i was like what of what and then of course for a documentary but that'd be awesome but they just thought this is all real hell yeah that's a lot of noms well-earned i think you know what i mean were you divided were you happy with season two i didn't even finish it god damn it andy too many games to play and i was oh so that's why you finished death stranding too these were out at very different times interesting i didn't even start that i mean i kind of did i got to mexico we'll get there later um yeah i that's why whenever i've talked about the show it's always just probably not from the best perspective because it's based on people's tweets yeah and i try to go for the more rational ones where i know of i know a lot of people personally who are rational non-freaks and say man I just didn't love what they were doing with this character this character and this was better in the video game but it's kind of honestly it's refreshing to see the general audience go okay but like I don't care what happened in the video game I watched the show I didn't play the video game so that is that is kind of nice to see that you know this fandom is growing and maybe bringing in new people and we're seeing numbers go up on you know um lots of sales and getting this new sort of um timeline you know update or whatever like it's encouraging order yeah it's encouraging for sure okay i'll accept that i thought the performance i i i like season two i i have my problems with it but i didn't i think it's well earned on these nominations i think jeffrey wright had a really good stuff in there i like to see caitlin dever in here like seeing again catherine hara amazing i can't wait to see what happens there but yeah i can never even finish andor and that's where i don't need to you know how it ends you've seen rogue one what are we doing don't do the nick scarpino right now i'm sorry don't do the nick scarpino you got me engaged you got me engaged you know what i mean did you like andor i watched the first three episodes of season two and it was like was goaded when tim asked you if you've been watching iron heart did you laugh in his face the way i did i'm like no tim i'm not going to iron heart i mean i heard it's good like for what it's worth i heard it's good i just there's too many video games legit and i know that we say that all the time yeah never like maybe about two weeks ago was like i'm at peak mass when i'm ending my stream i'm continuing to play something else off stream yeah and then i go take a shower and then I play something else on my Steam deck.

50:12In the shower. Pee Pistrella. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or The Altars. Or, you know, Back in Dune Awakening gets a new lighting for my house. Too many things.

50:24Andy Cortez:Yeah, I understand. I understand a lot. Number four on the Roper Report. The only official John Wick game is being delisted. This is Claire Lewis at Polygon. John Wick Hex is being removed from Steam and all other game platforms this week, according into a statement released by the games publisher big fan games quote john wick hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning july 17th 2025 the statement shared on the game's steam page reads after july 17th 2025 existing owners of john wick hex will still be able to access the game via their digital libraries pc console and or physical copies console however new purchases of John Wick Hex will not be possible regardless of platform or storefront.

51:08Andy Cortez:Big fan, sorry. I thought I could do it where I saw we don't have something I wanted, so I was like, I'll open up the other window over here, and I'll clearly be able to keep reading, and I could not because the line blocked everything. Big fan game statement did in detail the reason for the game's impending removal, but given the fact that the publisher is mainly known for publishing licensed games, it's possible the publisher's license to use the John Wick IP has expired and is not being renewed. John Wick Hex is currently the only official John Wick game on the market. Andy, you dress like him all the time.

51:39Andy Cortez:How do you feel about that? That's so bizarre. You would think that these things get ironed out a bit more knowing that you are the only thing on the market. I guess in these deals, there may just be a standard licensing time period that most studios or most developers as most publishers go for yeah i it's it's so odd to me i feel like this is really the only market that this medium yeah yeah the only medium yeah very very odd yeah i think it's interesting how contracts must be negotiated and done this way and you when games were just boxed and you didn't worry about it you sold through all the copies and then that was the end of it right so it is a weird thing now of it and i i would i would hazard a guess we see it in movies we just don't know it where it's like okay company x is licensed to sell the blu-ray and then when that license expires right another company then picks it up and goes but you don't know because you're just buying the right off the thing right uh why you might know a little bit more about john wick hex of course or have heard us talk about it of course is that this is a mike biffle game mike biffle of course independent video game developer who's been around a long time and a kind of funny best friend from the very beginning i put an assets a bs that's a blue sky team a chain from him pour one out and pick up a copy asap if you want to this one is a weird this one this one was a weird journey initially polarized folks but now it's one of the consistent favorites people want to chat with me about when i'm doing public stuff my first disappeared game a weird feeling its legacy will be that you can watch me getting my arse kicked on the john wick three special features by the eventual director of love hurts my pink face will echo through eternity you know we talk about all this stuff and i think we lose the human factor to sort of see mike out there talking about this not being torn up about it it seems but being like man this is weird we know a game especially for i think you know mike doing thomas was alone volume you know these games that for the some degree he owns and operates and really takes care of something he's working on licensing for that's out of his you know hands to see it go away is interesting of course mike just put out that tron game too yeah again it just kind of goes back to this being such a unique sort of medium and i guess it happens in tv and movies sometimes too or you can't it's removed from streaming or not the superman but the super mario brothers movie you know we had to watch through a certain way i forgot exactly how we watched that during in review but yeah it is odd when you think about these creators that just want to look back on something that they've maybe done and you have to have it or else it's just not out there anymore.

54:13Yeah.

54:13Andy Cortez:Bummer. Very much a bummer, Andy. Number five, another bummer. Nintendo is aware performance may drop slightly in Donkey Kong Bonanza, but says the team prioritized fun and playability during development. This is Vicky Blake at IGN. The director of the upcoming Donkey Kong Bonanza has acknowledged some performance issues while saying the team prioritized fun and playability during development. In an interview with La Vanguardia, director Kazuya Takahashi responded to performance issues noticed by a journalist whilst previewing the game. Quote, there are several factors to consider, he said when asked about the issues.

54:50Andy Cortez:First, we intentionally used effects like hit stop and slow motion to emphasize impacts. Second, because we use voxel technology, there are times when there are major changes in destruction in the environment. We're aware the performance may drop slightly at these times, he said. however as the journalist says overall the game is smooth in the points where large-scale changes occur we have prioritized fun and playability end quote okay i feel like it's a non-story for the most part right like yeah i'm yeah i your switch two is doing all this voxel stuff it's you're smashing through the floor and you're red factioning in the time i expect there to be a chug here and there when a lot of shit's happening it's i mean you know i'm fine with a couple hitches here and there is this article you know i could look at it from both sides i could look at it as like oh it's reassuring because sure you may get some frame rate drops and when digital found you does a breakdown you'll see it's 60 uh frames and the frame time graph is looking a certain way and then when this happens it drops down to 52 and this when this happens it drops down to 41 or whatever and it comes right back up but as long as it's not a consistent style issue and on the flip side of it you know on the more you know pessimistic side it's classic Nintendo classic Nintendo yeah you know you know maybe they aren't as maybe they aren't as worried about maybe their performance issue is different for me it's like when you talk to somebody you know you ever hear those conversations of like oh my god this person that lives in Texas thinks that this is a short drive and it's like a 90 minute drive or something like that's not a short drive or whatever right yeah it's one of those things where it's like all right that may not be a performance issue to you but to all of us who are playing on other consoles it is kind of egregious i'll wait and get my hands on it before i have a final answer but for me that game looks so much fun i cannot wait to play that with ben show that to ben that i'm going to be able to accept a hitch here or there the first garbage all the time let me ask you this great open critic or metacritic either one what do you think the average score is going to be.

56:55Andy Cortez:I'm better. I'm not better. I'm bad at all of it, but Metacritic, I feel like he's more in my wheelhouse. OpenCritic always confuses me. So Metacritic. Now keep in mind, this is on Stoneback Mike's Fantasy League. I know. I'm aware. Fantasy Critic team. So we're saying Metacritic, what, at the end of the first weekend or the day? You know, it's always like that it changes and evolves. I would say after a week of reviews, the reviews are poured in from all of the large outlets. I'm thinking Ghostbusters 2, so I'm saying 89. Ghostbusters 2 came out in 1989. Oh, I thought you were going to say, like, one of the...

57:28I don't know why. I thought you meant the most recent movie, and it had, like, a really...

57:32Andy Cortez:That's Frozen Empire, Garaka, remember? Garaka. Tell you what, big moment today when I was... Ben, what do you want to watch with breakfast? And he saw Ghostbusters 2. He's like, I want to watch that. Like, Ben, that's a big movie. We can't just watch that right now. It's a big deal. I mean, I will not take you to school. Jen comes home like, why are you still here? You want to watch Ghostbusters 2, babe? I'm sorry. I'll go 88. Okay. I think 88. Staying right there. You said 89? 89, yeah. Yeah, I'll go 88. It looks awesome. Previews are really positive. Yeah. People are having a blast out there in DK.

58:02DK. Donkey. Come on.

58:05Andy Cortez:Number six. Sources suggest that the staff laid off at King will be replaced by AI tools they helped create. Sick. Fucking hell. Anonymous sources within the mobile developer King have said that the staff who have been laid off as part of Microsoft's recent round of redundancies will be replaced by the AI tools they helped to train. Speaking to MobileGamer.biz, one staff member at the Candy Crush Saga Maker said that many of the level designers had been let go after spending months creating tools that would build levels more quickly. Quote, now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams, the anonymous staffer said.

58:38Andy Cortez:Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removed. I'm sorry. Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals had been creating, end quote. Quote, around 200 people are thought to have been laid off from King as part of Microsoft's sweeping cuts. But the same source quoted above suggested that the actual figure could be higher. MobileGamer.biz reports that a recent internal employee survey found that morale within King was already low. An anonymous source quoted by the site said that since cuts, morale is now, quote, in the gutter.

59:12Andy Cortez:Jeez Louise. like the expected outcome of introducing AI to these kind of things where corporations that don't value you as a person or an employee can then go oh well a machine can do it yeah yeah and I wonder if if those projects you know when you're talking about having AI being trained to build levels I'm not even sure what that means like for candy crush right yeah laying out the different icons and all that shit damn i mean tragic this is like this is what everyone is corporations wants when they introduce this right remove the human element be able to fucking do this this is the type of story that you are terrified of and hope that you never hear about and it's already here of course yeah damn uh it'll be interesting to see as how much worse this gets and where it goes and again like i don't want to be insulting with a broad stroke especially about something i don't know but like you're talking about so stick with me and maybe i'm speaking out of school and yet yet but you're saying your morale was already low within king and it's like well yeah because again not having much information on it but you look at candy crush as mobile game slop right games that are just there to distract you from whatever you're doing in the parking lot while you wait for somebody to finish whatever like clearly that's what this corporation also thinks of these games these are just spigots of money to turn on and go right so yeah we don't need quality we don't need people actually making good shit they just somebody needs to make shit because they will buy shit and you will play shit when do the big strikes happen because this all kind of reminds me of the voice actor saying oh well i mean this is like when you're why we're sitting there all the time rallying for video games to unionize yeah and make those calls this is i mean i would assume right the king is not unionized and so yeah there is no where to do that to argue to collectively bargain against this and you know build in protections like you can sit here like oh my god it's so stupid those people change the train the ai but if your boss showed up at your desk and said your new job is we're working on this ai tool you guys have to work you would do it because it's your job right yeah you're gonna be out of a job either way at least go for six months or i'm sure they also told them this won't replace you this is gonna make your job easier yeah now they're fucking out the door this may crack me up this morning in a bad way in a sad way whatever this will give you time to concentrate on creative exactly uh the bs i just put into assets uh hey localization industry how's it going and then it's all these fucked up translations from open ai and chat gpt and all these different things wrong on the things are published on kevin if you can bring that up and go to the second slide where it's like blah blah blah it's all in different language then claude can make mistakes please double check the responses chat gpt said and then it's all in german oh god then this one here sure here's the translators text into brazilian portuguese and then everything keep going on it's like they're translating and then the answer is being the fucking response from the robot is translated it's like oh my god oh my god this is what we want this is where we're at right now to try to save a few fucking bucks horrible but andy i'm sick about talking about the collapse of everything we love in creative industries and the fact we're all just going to work for amazon robots soon if i wanted something maybe happier maybe smaller where would i go you'd go to our last story the we news channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about number seven the we news from game developer horses and saturn alia saturn saturn alia saturn alia santa raganoli is accused apple of undermining the value of sustainability of games as cultural and artistic properties after the tech company informed the studio its 2016 visual novel wheels of aurelia will be pulled from the app store without clear justification okay there's ripping stuff down now great via Wario 64 Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D remake on Switch will not have an upgrade path to Switch 2 version save data also cannot be transferred or shared between the two versions so buy the one you need invincible versus will be playable at Evo that's exciting for blessing whoa well it makes sense too of course obviously with no it doesn't actually I was going to say with PlayStation but this is I play this at Xbox.

1:03:24Andy Cortez:So don't even listen to me. How many characters do you think they'll have? Because for the demo, didn't they only have like these five? Oh, I guess we see it right there. Rexplode wasn't even in the demo I did. Okay, cool. He's a new guy. So you get one extra. Yeah, you get somebody else out there. Maybe two extras. From Eurogamer, Cyberpunk 2077's 2.3 update is being revealed this week and it's probably got something to do with cars. Interesting. They're really, really hyping this one up. Yeah. Like, I know this is the, we always think that it's, you know, it's like the Rolling Stones like farewell tours.

1:03:54It's always going to be the last Cyberpunk update. This is the final one. But this 2.3 one is one that everybody was like, all right, we have one more thing coming and like it's actually really, really sick. And it being car related kind of makes me less excited. Tomorrow, right?

1:04:11Andy Cortez:I'm not on that page anymore. Hold on. All right. So it's Tuesday, July 15th. 11 a.m. Pacific right now. Mm-hmm. Okay.

1:04:26You just asked me what time it is?

1:04:27Andy Cortez:Yeah. I have an embargoed thing in here, and I'm trying to decide if I can do it, but I'm not confident enough to say it. Is it the time zone in, like, Poland? Well, no, because it's... Look at it. Don't say anything you're saying. Okay. I'm agreeing to an embargo of that, which is July 15th at 6 a.m. Pacific. So I'm in the clear. But then... Here's what we're doing. We're into Google. We're into Google. it's like well this is one of those things where it's like all right cool no everybody's reporting on it so i can report on it great okay i wonder if this is tied into the fact that uh apple hit me up with an email uh cd project red is announcing that cyberpunk 2077 ultimate edition is launching on max with apple silicon this thursday july 17th through the mac apple store gog steam and epic game store i wonder if this is all part of that right as they go out in one giant version, whatever the update is, make one big beat out of the whole thing.

1:05:21Andy Cortez:I mean, I hope it's like content related. Oh, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm saying that, yes, this update will have content about cars or whatever, but it's like they're partnering it with this release. Because this is very much like, it's being revealed this week and it's probably got something to do with cars. It's probably revealed to go out with this Mac version, I assume, is going to launch with it. So there you go. Frost Haven is launching Steam Early Access July 31st. Asteroid Requiem is out now on Steam. Eden's Zero launches today on PlayStation 5, Xbox, and PC. Here's a Game Pass update for you.

1:05:52Andy Cortez:Standard is getting high on life today, I assume. Robocop Rogue City is coming out on July 17th. Farming Simulator 25 is August 1st. If you're an ultimate person, My Friendly Neighborhood comes out on the 17th. Back to the Dawn comes out the 18th. Abiotic Factor comes out the 22nd. Wheel World comes out the 23rd. Very excited for that one. Woo-Chong. Woo-Chong Fallen Feathers. The Fallen Feathers, I can pronounce. The 24th and then Grounded 2 on the 29th. And that is the end of Wii News. Let's get some Super Chats in before we get out. Oh, actually, you know what? There was one, not you're wrong, but Miss News.

1:06:28Andy Cortez:Mappy wrote in and said, Guild Wars 2's next big expansion was announced today titled Visions of Eternity. Damn, they're still doing shit. It seems hype is growing and people are returning or trying for the first time. A release date is announced for October 28th this year. and then Nitro says missed we news Destiny 2's Edge of Fate expansion is out today what? everything's happening all at once everywhere, everywhere, I want to do laundry with you Cozy Bear live in the super chat says get ready on this afternoon's happy hour you will witness the next evolution of my Cozy Bear branded antics it's going to be a wild ride Cozy Bear, keep it together keep it together

1:07:11Andy Cortez:Dane Guru 605 says ghost of Sushima stream idea to lead up to the new installment of the franchise bless plays the game and every time the wind blows to guide Jin Sakai Mike has to let his wind blow and then he ends with a frowny emoticon as if he didn't know what he was writing and then he wrote it and he's like oh not happy about it

1:07:35Andy Cortez:Fredo can't read says SOS I've been locked out of my PlayStation account due to a lost email can anyone tell me where I might find help email the sony did not help no they're not going to help me just like they didn't help me at all with my 250 gift card again you could have hit me up and i could have helped you that i can help you with probably nepotism i'm against it okay fine you want to be mad of the people i understand that i yeah i don't have a direct content for you fredo can't read sorry but we can try i don't know we can try google around what happened one of my favorite things just like watching kind of funny content for so long is is greg just trying to read any of these words that like are not real words somebody's name or username i'm not bad at reading real words so when they're fake words i definitely that's my favorite thing i try i'm out there having fun yeah dang you know what i mean like and the thing is about dane gruer you know what i mean maybe that's a real name dane's a real first name it sure is gruer could You know what?

1:08:36Andy Cortez:Let's do it. Hold on. We're going to go to Google. Dane Gruer. See if I can find out who the fuck this person is. There's a channel. Oh, here we go. Are you going to try to dox this person? I dox people on the show a lot. I don't know if you watch it a lot. I'm on the LinkedIn now. Well, you know what? Okay, hold on. 605. No, not like Burton Meg. Because that sounds hard for me. 605 is area code. South Dakota is the 605 area code. I don't know if this is legal. I don't know. It is fine. And then there's a Dane Gruer who is a student at Southeastern. University in North Carolina. I don't think that's them.

1:09:08Andy Cortez:I don't know if we should be. I'm going to back off that one. There's a Dane Greer who has a profile on Pinterest. Game Master Bob. I'll find you, Dane! What are you going to do, Dane, when I show up at work in North Carolina? Game Master Bob's Super Chat at$2. Thank you, Game Master Bob. If anyone enjoyed Sunderfolk, check out Frosthaven. Sunderfolk was that mobile type of... always something I wanted to try out. Seems like a great party game, but you got to go to parties for that. Kobe Foster, W7U, says, Superman tax, taking my girlfriend tonight to IMAX to be able to listen to Superman review.

1:09:49Andy Cortez:Torn borrows-y work. Tom borrows-y work. What the fuck are you trying to say? It was all normal. You know what I mean? Everyone's just writing things and then hitting send and not reading them. But anyways, I'm looking forward to you doing that as well. Are you excited? Have you watched Superman Returns yet for interview this week? When are we doing that? Thursday? No, I have not yet. I watched it last night. Oh. You like the movies when they're short, right? Yeah. This one's extremely long. Oh, no!

1:10:24Andy Cortez:It's a breezy, like, two hours, 40 minutes. Oh! No! I'm going to tear it a new asshole. dcash 114 fallout 5 leaked to jez only so we can talk about how much we want fallout rather than lamenting layoffs these were clearly cancelled for ai fuck xbox i mean i think we when we talk about fallout we lament the layoffs as well but i understand everybody's mad about it i understand take your time do your thing yeah you know you try to like dangle the dangle the fallout 5 kind of like when you're a pedophile and you get called out on it and then you're like well No, but look how bad Rosie O'Donnell is.

1:11:05Andy Cortez:The Kooshma lady living in Ireland? She's a threat to the country? That's what we're doing now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember when he was like, why are we still talking about Epstein? Fucking funny. Enough talking about Epstein. Why are we? He's dead. You know, he sucked. And then have you seen this other one going around? I shared it on Instagram, but there's more photos of Trump with Epstein than there are trans athletes in the NCAA. Yeah, there sure are. Great stuff. The world's falling apart. but we're happy to be here to hopefully be a distraction for it every day with you as we talk about video games and all the nerdy news you need to know about if you love that and like us like subscribe share youtube.com slash kind of funny games all the different podcast services go over to twitch where if you have amazon prime you have twitch prime and then hold on free you have twitch prime harmonize both of those do it please uh of course if you really like us pick up a kind of funny membership patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games Apple and Spotify.

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