Game Awards 2025 Nominee Predictions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.14.25

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42:55Yeah. Like, best narrative I think will ultimately go to either Expedition 33 or Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Man, I'm riding the high on that one. But you need a nomination, at least, is what you're saying. Yes. I need it to be in the nomination. I need to see the image, the thumbnail, just to make my heart feel good. Andy, just for our stuff, kind of funny game of the year, all this stuff. Ignore the Game Awards for a second. How long is Citizen Sleeper 2? How long did it take you to get through a full playthrough? I think like 13 hours, 12 hours, something like that. Oh, wow. If the next couple of weeks for me go well in terms of beating games.

43:36Just life. In life, in completing so many games, I want to try to commit to Citizen Sleeper 2 as my over-the-break game. I love that. I like that. What's your over-the-break game? my over the break game honestly might have to become ghost of yote wow because i have a ps5 back at my parents place in texas that i might that you know that's where i essentially i ended up finally beating stellar blade last year you know what i mean so i when i think at your parents house wow it was a it was a yeah it was a little sketchy a little sketchy parents walking by just you know when you were playing stellar blade and things are just moving all over the place you know um best art direction what are we thinking because i'm looking at hades 2 i'm looking at clear obscure expedition 33 i'm looking at silk song and maybe something kind of under the radar like absolume oh i would love absolume i don't feel like enough people have played and talked about it to nominate it i don't know like that nintendo bump i don't know like it's just fun it's colorful it's animated i feel like when people talked about the art direction though it was only because of the last level and how disturbingly yellow it is to a point that it like hurts to look at that's the only time i've heard people talk about like the art direction of that game that stranding 2 definitely hits it yeah that's right i'm curious about expedition 33 because i do think the that being because that's unreal engine 5 right yes um that being one of these early Unreal Engine 5, all of those games have a particular look to them that isn't the cleanest.

45:20I do wonder if that hurts it a little bit. Can I give you last year's best art direction to kind of give you the vibe of what they're looking at here? Metaphor, Astro Bot, Black Myth Wukong, Elden Ring Shadow of the Earth Tree, and Neva. Does Night Rain make the list? So kind of shooting you all over the place of different art styles and direction there. You could really kind of go anywhere with this one. Maybe Night Rain makes it. on art direction. Yeah, just thinking about, like, the way the bosses look whenever you walk in. Remember that final boss, Mike, with the crazy sky changes? Like, holy shit.

45:55They were a goat man. Remember the goat man? They're doing some awesome shit there. Art direction chat has reminded me of South of Midnight, I could see. Ooh, that's a great call. And that also reminds me of Keeper. Oh, and then another one, that claymation game that came out. Remember that one? Oh, the one Tim was excited for. The Midnight Walk or Midnight? something yes um best score in music i think this is going to be the the craziest one right here this is going to be a real packed one because expedition 33 i think is the heavy favorite i think silksong but i think silksong could take it oh man silksong's fucking sound and i think that would i i think that'll people will look at that as like the largest snub of the night okay of like experts 30 you're getting fucked over here now here's a cheat code for me Mario Kart world has every song available.

46:45And I do love that. It is hard to be not to smile when I play that. Dude, you're so right. It's a cheat code. No, I mean, it really isn't because of the level of work that was done to do these full instrumentations and orchestrated kind of ensemble pieces to like, hey, that old Mario song you have, now it's like a 70-piece orchestra with an awesome jazz drummer. I mean, that's a great call. A lot of work was put into that. Damn, okay. So now we got something like best action game. Yeah, now you start to blur the lines when we start to do RPG, action adventure, action game. We start to see a lot of shared game qualities in this one, right?

47:31What is the just defined action game to you, right? A focus on combat. Yes. Like, maybe it has some other things, but the focus is the combat. And to me, it won't get nominated, but it should be Shinobi Art of Vengeance as one of the easy noms for that. Great, Paul. Do you think, I mean, I don't think it would be too weird for that to get nominated, though. I don't feel like a lot of people talked about it. In terms of teams wanting to spread love around, I think you always kind of have the indie titles that are also thrown into a lot of these larger categories. I could see that being nominated for something like Best Action.

48:12Now, here's a game that makes my ears bleed every time I play it, and I love it to death. Battlefield 6. The audio design in that game, the moment-to-moment wow factor of a helicopter crashing from overhead and then crashing in front of you, jet planes flying by you, just the screaming and the insanity that is the moment-to-moment. Are we talking about audio or action, though? I'm talking about action. Okay. I'm talking about action. Yeah, I mean. I'm in this shit when I'm playing that game. I don't think that's weird at all for something like Battlefield 6, for as large as it is, for that to be kind of going to the Ghost of Yote discussion or a point that Barrett was making earlier where a lot of outlets played that.

48:57A lot of outlets played Battlefield 6. Let me just remind you and the audience out there that was not what was nominated last year, right? Black Myth Wukong won. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 was nominated. Helldivers 2, Stellar Blade, and Warhammer Space Marine 2. A lot of shooting games in that mix right there, just so you're aware. Night Rain could be there. I could see it. I could see Night Rain there. I could see Doom the Dark Ages. That's a good pull. And a lot of that is the name, right? You know, kind of the most people would have played something like that. What about Liza P DLC? No. Does Liza P DLC get any love at all?

49:40No. Okay. Unfortunately. We have Roger. Until we get a best DLC category. Yeah. then like Liza P is a top five gaming experience for me all year. Wow. We have Roger's burner account in the chat that says pirate Yakuza. Shout out. Oh, right. That was, I see you over there. I'm looking at you. To go back to art direction, I think sort of the C, if I'm going to give that a nom, that would be the one thing. Shout out to that game. If you haven't played it, it's an enjoyable time. If you want a journey skateboard experience. Plus, you got the OEA Jr. in the YouTube chat says Ninja Gaiden 4 has a good shot at winning.

50:19Action. Action game, yeah. A lot of good action game. That's going to be a tough, that's going to be a tight one right there. It's crazy that Ninja Gaiden Ragebound can come out and not even be in the forefront. What a stacked year it's been. Best RPG, I think Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 wins that easily. I don't even want to look at the rest of them. you don't think expedition 33 has a shot at best rpg i think when we're talking what an rpg like i know what the category says it's like deep skill trees and shit but when i think of a role-playing game where you are making conscientious or conscious decisions and like role-playing as a person and deciding whether to do that mission deciding what are the like i I think Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is, at its core, more of an RPG game.

51:16I see what you're saying. I think Expedition 33 opened up so many more new people to the ins and outs of RPG mechanics in terms of turn-based RPGs and got people more into the nitty-gritty of min-maxing their party and all that stuff that I think people really fell in love with this year. which is why i think more people are going to think about expedition 33 at the top of their brains than kingdom come no outer worlds 2 avowed from obsidian outer worlds 2 will make the list i don't think about makes the list for best rpg okay okay yeah i don't i mean is that crazy i don't think outer worlds 2 i think was largely received a lot better right Can we give them workhorse studio of the year or just hardest working studio?

52:08Oh, man. Three games, one year? Or maybe it's just something that gets recognized. You know, like every year they have, when you go to these big award shows, Mike, they'll be like, you know, the something, something award. And they award it to like the most whatever. And like in past years, maybe Insomniac wins it because of like Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank or whatever. But yeah, I think this year, if we were to give out the workhorse of the year. A little tip of the hat. El Caballo of the year. Like that horse was working. That goes to fucking Obsidian, dude. Really, really killing it. Someone in the chat was asking if there's any game from last year that got caught off from last year that has a chance for this year.

52:48The only game I can think of is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. But that is not on people's minds. The same way Smash Bros. like smash brothers i think is the only example we'll see of that level of a game coming out in december being too late for nominations and still being on people's minds a year later now the game that wins the fan vote arc raiders yes because they don't have a deadline to meet probably they don't miss the window there and it's probably just available yeah arc raiders or i could see dispatch dispatch has really been Taking over social media a lot. I'm in a weird spot right now with.

53:28Like debut indie and indie game of the year. Because what, you know, Hades two versus silksong is going to be a heavy expedition. 33. The most, and expedition there. They fuck that. I forgot that as well. Best and for best indie. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cause they're not making debut indie. They had Hades one, right? No, that's not a expedition. 33 will expedition. Season 33 will get. Right? Best debut, for sure. Blueprints. Yeah. That team's in it, right? They're in the mix there. I think that's their, for sure. Them as that team, I think, is their first game, yeah. Holy shit, what a year. This seance of Blake Manor.

54:05I think it came out a little too late. Okay. Yeah. Ball Pit? Ball Pit will be there. Okay. Ball Pit will get some love. Ball Pit will definitely be in the nominations list. How about games like Schedule 1, Peak, Repo? are those getting any sort of love in this category i think something like peak will and that's it i don't see schedule one i don't see reap like i think a lot of that is flavor of the week okay i see peak as like nominated for best multiplayer game or something like that can i give you another one i could see peak on best indie game honestly i think with the i could see it then the units that it was selling i mean it's probably like 13 million sold now or something like that we definitely got to highlight some of these games because they're selling like crazy oh Oh, for sure.

54:51Yeah. Like you said, they might be the flavor of the week, but they are the talk of the town for about a month. So it's like, how do we highlight this? Because there are so few categories here and so many games to highlight, right? I think with something like Peak, Mike, it being the flavor of the week, the month, right? That had a long thing, but it was also a lot more recent in our memories where was Repo this year? It was last year, right? Repo was this year? No. I believe so. No, that was last year. You think? I'm pretty sure. I don't think so. but also a lot of these games blur together with me that I, I kind of forget.

55:25It was February, 2025. Fuck. Shut this year. Yeah. It started out the year. Yeah. Yeah. What? I don't tell you games. Like there's like an early access period for it. Oh, I'm thinking the one that came out last year, Mike, what's the video one where you take videos of each other. No, I'm not thinking of liners. I'm not thinking of content warning. I'm thinking of the one where, gosh, Chad, you know what I'm talking about, dude. Lethal Company. That's what I'm thinking of. What about Abiotic Factory? The Factor? What did you just say? Yeah, remember that one? So we got to get back to that one, dude.

56:01Because the love that that game is getting reviews-wise from people. It's got some gas. Like the homie, the 8-bit closed fist, the homie Co-Carnage, who says that this has easily the best level design in any multiplayer, open-world game, whatever you want to call it. Like, man, I really want to get back into Abiotic Factor. Can I give you a sleeper hit that could definitely be in the best indie conversation? It should be in the conversation, but it will probably, hopefully it makes its way into best sports game. Lonely Mountain Snow Riders from the team from Lonely Mountain Downhill. They made a skiing game that was very, very good.

56:3987 on Metacritic. A lot of fun with friends. This is one of those titles, I think, because it's skiing, right? You're talking about an extreme sport, a winter sport that not many people do. Maybe they didn't try this. This is a fun game. When was this? Lonely mountain skiing? Yeah. Let me tell you. Definitely like earlier in the year, right? Snow Riders was, oh, it was 2024. It's out. It's out. Take it off the list. Well, it's October 3rd, so it's hitting that weird window. Yeah. You never know. One that I want to shout out for Indy that probably won't get it, but Blessing and I adore our time with Dead Take.

57:19I would love to see that get some love. Maybe performance. Maybe, but again, I don't know. I don't think nearly enough people in the industry played it to have it get enough votes for a nomination. StarCore with a super cat. Oh my. What about Dune? What about Dune? Dune was good. Dune didn't have the lasting staying power, but Dune knocked it out the park with the survival mixing with an MMO. That could be in like either I could not sim strategy but multiplayer game possibly. Does rematch make multiplayer or is it only sports? Probably only sports. Rematch gets a nom. How about this one? I could see it getting a nom only because of not a lot of other options like looking around the landscape and going what else is there let's get really real talking about games that missed the cutoff like Barrett brought up Marvel Rivals released December 6th my best friend Kevin A.

58:21Sext reminds me that's a game that's still hot had a big year will we recognize that enough people remember that it's exactly do we does Jeff Keighley have a problem where we forget that there's a window still open and there's games that are left in that window that they'll have to go to next year and we kind of forget about it. I would love to get that notification, that reminder. Like, hey, the cutoff last year was this year. These are the ones that missed out. Here's seven games that might have missed out. That would be a nice reminder because I feel like once the stuff comes in, he just like the ball plays where it lies kind of thing.

58:56Yeah. So if that doesn't get nominated, that's on us. That could easily be a conversation for Godey. No. Top six? No. Really? You're too strong. Not with the games that we talked about. Is that a multiplayer bias? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think it's because it does the Overwatch thing again. And Overwatch was a game that won Game of the Year the year that it came out, right? So I just don't think it's doing anything revolutionary in that way that would get a multiplayer game to be nominated for Game of the Year. Easily for Best Ongoing. I remember Overwatch won. Yeah. Game of the Year.

59:35But that was such a big pick. It takes two won Game of the Year as well. And this is another sort of been there, done that situations. Varam Dex with a$2 super chat says, I need Captain Sunburn nominated for content creator. Thank you. We really do. Varam Dex. Kingdom Hearts reference, right? I think it is, right? What do I always say? Varam Dex. What do you say it? I just tear it up. Yeah. If there's three letters in common, you just, you'll say it. Super Chat here from Clawmaster. $5 Super Chat says, I would throw Sonic Fox getting closer to passing the all-time grade of Justin Wong. And Evo wins with seven and counting for eSports Player of the Year.

1:00:16And also, it doesn't ever seem like Sonic Fox has real competition. That's also me being an out. It just feels like Sonic Fox is constantly winning. So, yeah, it's a good call. It's odd that I look at best eSport athlete last year. I don't see Sonic Fox on the list. So, it's like, are we giving Sonic Fox the flowers that they deserve? I don't know. serve where's it at i don't know that's a great question right there mike uh ava nuts with a five dollars super chat says oh asks who would win it if i had a grilled cheese or a taco oh that's a great call so the grilled cheese definitely really good armor on the outside with the toasted kind of toasted strong outside and then imagine it opens it up gets you in the gooey center but it depends on whether it's hard shell or soft shell taco also Because of your hard shell, you have an opening.

1:01:04You have a weak point with where the meat is. And you crack easily. Yeah. Stuff. But you could crack a piece of yourself off, use it as a weapon. Dagger. Oh, good point. I've definitely stabbed the shit out of my gum sometimes. I love crunchy taco. Jeff Reikling with the$2 Super Chat asks, How many knives for Ghost of Yote? Audio design? I think Ghost of Yote could be in audio, action adventure. Oh, one that we didn't really get to was like Game Direction, which is always like, it's just that's the game of the year. Yeah, that's the weird one is we kind of put best game direction. It's like album of the year record of the year type.

1:01:42Yeah, you kind of just get like second runner up. But Astro Bot won both last year. Here's what I would love for best game direction. I would love something like the altars to win. I want game direction to be something doing so wildly different than anything else. Like, I don't love that Astro Bot won last year in Game Direction because it's at its core. It's a 3D platformer. Like, I want innovation there in Game Direction. I think what won Astro Bot, won over the industry for Astro Bot getting Game Direction was, you know, the story of this team wanting to be small and not, and, like, seemingly being, like, a well-oiled machine in terms of, like, being lean, leaning into what they're passionate about and not spending years and years and years making one big project and like focusing in on like what they do well so i feel like that's why there's like a little bit of like why that got game direction was because of like just how well like managed that team is almost i think game direction i think in one game direction because in the sort of description for what it is you see uh innovations in technology used and when you're god dang little Astro Bot guy and you're running around a whole room full of like coins or anything and you feel them all vibrating and you hear them all it's like oh that's the tech innovation we needed right there but yeah I would love to see something like the alters I think Death Stranding 2 probably wins it that's a great call from some people in chat something Night Reign taking a single player focus game turning it into a multiplayer focus game maybe that takes some team dedication to kind of change that thought It's not a bad call.

1:03:24But yeah, I would love for Game Direction to be more of a closer to an innovation. I think the award needs to be, the name needs to be changed. And I think the What If focuses on needs to be changed. Because it feels like copying just the Oscars in terms of Best Director. Whereas Best Game Direction and Best Director, I don't think those are really the same things. their respective industries. Yeah. Barum Dex with a$5 super chat says, Mike, you can pronounce it however you want. I've accepted it. And yes, Andy, it is a Kingdom Hearts reference. I knew that. I knew that. How did I not know? I'm a Kingdom Hearts mega fan.

1:04:05I'll tell you how I knew because we were talking about Kingdom Hearts, whether it was going to be on the PlayStation, the Japan State of Play. Yes. And Barum Dex had left a super chat. but then we had also seen somebody mentioned varum decks like in another super chat about and i was like oh that's a i didn't realize that that's crazy pointing out it's because you haven't played kingdom hearts three yet mike ah that's it that's right that is definitely it i don't know about sex sexy wrexham sexy wrexham i don't know you got the guy's name already a lot of them ricky no the bad guy he'll come to me we'll get to it um Let's go to story number two.

1:04:50Yeah, let's tear through some of these stories. Well, we have one story left that I'm making an executive decision. Okay. We have one story left. Can we do that really quick super chat, though? Because I have a question. Oh, sure. Go ahead. No, can you read it? Oh, wait. Which super chat? Did you Slack me or something? No, it's the latest one. Oh. Buzzer. No, sorry. I saw another one asking for Mike to do something. Let's see here. Well, I see a lot of it. Oh, from Hello Jaime? Andy do you know about the six letters Guitar chords Dadgad Well Yeah like the tuning Learned about it last night that's all Well that's like a that's not traditional Tuning It's unlocking your guitar's full potential with dadgad Oh wow I bought a$60 guitar last night Really Holy shit It's blue How many times do you think he uses it Oh man I will say by this time next year, it doesn't know the status of it.

1:05:49Yeah. Doesn't know whether it's somewhere on the closet, under the bed. Can you break this guitar like Jeff, Jared did with Greg? Is it an acoustic or is it? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, you're going to have to understand that like it's going to probably be preset tuned to standard tuning. Well, dad got it. You don't know what that means. That's somebody who's never driven a car. He'll bring it to you and you'll dad get it. If someone who's never driven a car, ask about, like, do you drive standard automatic or manual? Like, well, I don't know. I've never driven a car. So, like, that's totally, yeah.

1:06:23Okay. Breaking news. Not really important, but just a fun thing. I'll be going to the Game Awards for the very first time next month. Breaking news! So, yeah, friends in L.A., hit me up. Hit them up. I want to see you. Let's go to story number two. Number two. That, again, making an executive decision, because I want to talk about another award show. Oh, wow. This year's Indie Game Awards nominees have officially been announced. This comes from Devin McClure at Polygon. The nominees for the second annual Indie Game Awards show were announced by 6-1 Indie Thursday, as well as the show's presenters and judges.

1:06:58Many of the heavy hitters of 2025, like Claire Obscure, Expedition 33, Hollow Knight, Soap Song, and Hades 2 have been nominated, as well as several what could be considered even Indier Indie titles. A full list of the Indie Game Awards nominees can be found on the website. The Game of the Year nominees go to Absalom and Roger, which really, really freaked me out. I'll never forget getting an email about Andy and Roger. I was like, why is Roger also in this email there? Citizen Sleeper 2, which would be my pick right there. Blueprints, Claire Obscura 3, Consume Me, Hades 2, Hollow Knight Silksong, Keep Driving, and Peepistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo.

1:07:40A game I didn't beat. I played a lot of that. I like to keep driving a lot. I really enjoyed that game. I remember this. Yeah, great music there. One that's been left off the list that is high on the Metacritic, and we talked about it before this show. Despelote? Despelote was at the SF MoMA. Had a big moment there with the sports area. I am surprised not seeing it on there. I am committing myself to beating Despelote before the year ends. Okay. I have to. I'm making it a must. It's only two hours, and I want to support really, really small teams yeah um so yeah shout out to uh six one indie and the indie game awards we i'm personally rooting for citizen sleeper too because i think that's the best writing in gaming um and yeah there's a you know there's a lot of other stories we're skipping i'm sorry we're running very very late and there's a lot of other there's a lot of layoffs a lot of bad stuff happening in layoff ai call duty come on now call duty you pay those artists you're making a billion dollars a year pull it together call no the money needs to go to the executives mike it needs to go to the pop you know papa company microsoft mike the the stupid studio ghibli ai stuff is like i can't believe that made its way into i i want to hope that it's fake like i want to hope that it's like not a i'm hoping that we got like tricked we're getting deep faked yeah that it's like it's a fake article or something like that oh my gosh i'm to talk about Apple charging$230 for the iPhone sock.

1:09:10Just ridiculous. Looking like that thong. What are we doing? Yeah. What has this world come to? What are we doing? Over under on Tim Getty. Tim Getty is buying one of these. Apple trying to charge$230 for an iPhone sock. You buying it?

1:09:30I'm not helping. That would be... I can't help you. That would be a really, really big purchase, Mike. But I'm tired of all sorts of big stuff. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the Weed News channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. I'm not helping. Red Dead Redemption, including Undead Nightmare, has been confirmed for Xbox Series, PS5, Nintendo Switch 2, along with Mobile for December 2nd. Go on back. I don't know if I want to. I've already been there, done that. I'm good. Maybe Undead Nightmare.

1:10:07Maybe for a fun October next year. But yeah, I'm good. Maybe. I really want... I would love for us to... For you and I to commit to this re-animal playthrough. I mean, I'm in. Blessing really wants to do it with you, but I'll play it with you. He and I already have a Thanksgiving. I know. He was just one of the few to be like, I'll take his spot. I want to play it. Commit to Blessing, and then you and Blessing become the new... No, because I would like to not... I mean, hey, I'll commit to this one and Blessing if I can get taken off the other one. No, you got to do both. He says, no, I don't, Mike, so he doesn't want to play it.

1:10:44I'm in then. I'll play it. I'd love to. Okay. We didn't play Little Nightmares 3. Take me off the other one. The other one's going to be exciting. Hi-Fi Rush publishing rights have been transferred to Crafton, the AI First publisher. Yeah, you saw that, right? Awesome. That's the tough part is you want to celebrate like nice. Hi-Fi Rush is still around. Like that team might be able to figure it out. Maybe we'll get somewhere. And then you read Kraft and you're like, ah, shit. The company that just said they're AI first. That's not where you want to be. I think it just shows the incompetence of Microsoft and Xbox as a team of like they fumbled that IP so bad and so hard that it's going to this AI first company.

1:11:24Like what the fuck are we doing? Solar Punk has been delayed to 2026. I don't know what this game is. I don't know that one, no. Vampire Survivors, but it's in virtual reality, is now available on MetaQuest 3. That's the name of the game. Vampire Survivors, but it's in virtual reality. And it's Vampire Survivors. That's lit. I mean, I gotta look this up. I gotta look this up. Yeah. Yeah. It's called Vampire Survivors, but it's in virtual reality. That's an amazing title. Like that's the subtitle on it. That's fantastic. Oh, so wow. It really kind of is like they're doing like a mega bonk type deal.

1:12:04Oh, no. They're changing the perspective. Oh, no. No. Well, yeah, kind of. Like you still kind of you're still on a like an isometric sort of plane, but it isometric might be a good word. So what's asymmetric? What's isometric? This looks pretty damn cool. This is awesome looking. Yeah. Very, very neat. That'll do it for WeNews. You ever strap on your headset lately? I know you don't feel it. I love strapping on the headset with the Xbox Game Pass and making the giant 70 inch screen and playing Game Pass via the cloud. I thought that was really fun. That's a good call. I should probably do something like that.

1:12:40And then you still have your room background, so you don't feel like you're truly in the virtual world, but you are, you know what I mean? I just need a... Pretty cool. I need to really, really head over to Tim's house, break in, take him, take his X-reels. Yeah. Or you and I, we buy each other X-reel glasses for each other for the holidays, but we don't tell each other, but secretly we know already and we both buy each other a pair. 500. Like, somehow I'd end up getting it on a discount and you would be paying almost double. I'll get it for you. You would be buying it, use one on Facebook Marketplace that was somehow more expensive and it's like three generations older.

1:13:16Let's get to You're Wrong or You Write Into KindofFunny.com slash You're Wrong. to tell us what we got wrong throughout the show. A whole lot of people, like, with their editorializing stuff, saying what deserves to be there. That's not what your wrong is for. You have six your wrongs. How many of them are about, no, my game should be, my favorite game should be nominated? Is it all six? Well, it's just like, Pirate Yakuza is, people are asking for pirate yakuza it's like well you don't that's not a you're wrong come on yeah that's a super chat yeah that's a super chat now here's a good you're wrong okay from katie g who is the stats master oh katie g the stats keeper write them down the keeper of the stats i picture her bear like uh like one of these old these old jedis with like the holocron and like all the info like they they they hold all of the libraries of texts and i i i picture her like Almost like in the sports coverage room.

1:14:24And she's got a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. And she's got the little golf pen and just writing all the time. I was in fantasy medieval. She has a feather. Dips it in the ink. And then she makes a decree. You know what I mean? Sends the raven to bite out. It's going down. I like that. She's somewhere in the middle of all of it. Yeah, I like that a lot. Katie G says, don't worry, Andy. I'm keeping track of pizza bets now. Parentheses. you bet Halo will launch at$49.99 FYI. That was the bet that I had against Roger. Ooh. I bet that Halo campaign involved would be 50. Yeah. Nice, Sandy. We also have a Miss We News from Kebabs who says, Concord is playable again thanks to its remaining fans setting up custom service to continue playing.

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