Mortal Kombat 2 Movie Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.17.25

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2:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Today's stories include our thoughts on the Mortal Kombat 2 trailer, another update to the Subnautica 2 story, and Netflix Greenlights and Assassin's Creed series. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.

2:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Thursday, July 17th, 2025. five one of your hosts blessing at aoa junior joining me is the nitro rifle andy cortez good morning blessing good morning andy how's it going i'm doing well how are you doing well you this has been a heavy kfgd week for you it's your third day in a row uh yeah i got switched out last second yesterday you know yeah it happens they're like you know we want to continue to have this show being as below par as it is let's keep the streak going you know i mean then why we take greg off so true uh andy how are you doing today i'm doing well um let's see here played a lot of video games last night got deeper into the altars had to redo some stuff in the altars yeah got a little he's got a little dicey it was one of those things where like yeah you ran out of time or like you weren't keeping up on schedule i was not understanding a mechanic of the game looking i was like i have 25 medals and i have 300 and rich medals that means i have 325 medals and then got to the end of it and i was like oh i needed to be using those in that way i read the description wrong had to rewind a little bit made another altar it's a whole no spoilers i'm not gonna spoil anything i've had sort of a game very good i've had a gaming paralysis a little bit in the last few days because donkong bonanza has been around the corner it's finally here i haven't booted it up yet i'm gonna play it later on stream but because bonanza has been around the corner and i've been very excited for it i've been too caught up to get into anything else because i also have the altars that i'm still very early in that i've been like well i could play that but i don't want to get halfway through and then bonanza takes me away right and then like now i'm just like you know halfway through this game and i've dropped it sort of situation same with liza p overture where that came to mind but i was like i want to spend all my time playing bonanza like i based on what tim had to say about it i think this is one of those games that's going to take over my life for at least the next two weeks right and so i've just been hanging out i did go back and i played the astrobot dlc multiple times oh how was that well you'll hear about it oh wow tomorrow on kind of funny games cast me and tim are going to review astrobot dlc and we're going to do like the updated astrobot review now that everything's said and done as far as we know maybe they have more deals that they're going to drop but we're going to do our up-to-date as of now here's where we feel yes about astrobot will i change my review score because if you remember i gave it a 9.5 a whole hour review you'll have to tune in and see i think you just go bonanzas and you go bananas with bonanza and then get it out of your system move on other stuff see that's where there will other stuff be out in the future and then now these things are just gone yeah that's the tough thing right like i i finished bonanza and all of a sudden middle gear delta and i'm like oh shit well gotta play this you know what's gonna happen i mean but here's the thing right like what are the games right now that i should be because i got i played hella tony hawk right i got tony hawk out of my system the altars right now that's on the backlog a little bit get back to the blueprints bro oof but blueprints is like the everlasting gobstopper of a video game where i'm never gonna have that finished that game is just gonna last forever and your notes are in six different places dude they really my notes are in my screenshots and my steam deck but then also have a google doc but then also have a google sheets situation i think um look i i know the management sim survival lifestyle is not for everybody but the alter story and the different permutations of things that can happen is so so fascinating and good as soon as i learned the first like as soon as i so when they give you the timeline of like this is what his life is I read every single one of those like on stream like I read all of it and I was like damn that was really cool and then they gave me the first clone and they showed it like branching from one I was like this is fucking this is fucking amazing this is fucking cool dude I cannot wait to get back to the altars it's been really cool to see people in my comments go whoa that shit did not happen to me like holy shit this this went this way for me this uh this altar died on day whatever like whoa holy shit that's crazy god i can't wait to get back to the altars good but enough about that let's talk about today's news stories because remember this is kind of funny games daily each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube spotify and apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show submit your thoughts and opinions as youtube super chats as we go housekeeping for you friday that's tomorrow game showdown returns for a special four episode nick scarpino led mini series nine contestants are vying for a prize that can change their lives tune in friday after games cast for the premiere episode tim's hosting the san diego comic-con panel for marvel cosmic invasion next week uh thursday uh july 24th so if you're at sdcc they call that san diego comic-con show up hang out see tim talk to tim talk to the marvel and comic invasion devs learn about the game and have a good time remember we're an 11 person business all about live talk shows so today after kfgd you're going to get a games cast which is a look at upcoming games that i'm excited about we've been doing these steam wishlist episodes greg did one you did one and the other week i looked at greg and i begged him i was like greg please let me talk about my wishlist i'm sad that it's a one-on-one though yeah i i'm sad too because there are games on my wishlist that i do think about you and i think about tim there's one game think about you all the time there's one game that is like a souls like deck builder with like a cool indie art style i know what you're talking about oh is it death howl death howl yeah that i'm like man we i gotta talk to indy about death howl i gotta make sure indy knows about death howl played that demo i don't know what steam next fest it was but maybe it wasn't even an x fest i played the demo though i was like okay this is cool yeah and the unfortunate thing was the demo wasn't super great on steam deck it still required keyboard mouse so i was like having a tap and point on stuff but still really cool in concept yeah great art style great art style for this game and yeah i saw it and i wish listed and i was like man i gotta do this fucking wishlist episode and i couldn't wait to talk to you about it so now since it's me and greg i went and i reordered all the games so now like the first eight games yeah it's all like narrative i got you know a the asocial giraffe game on there of course you know i got games that are about yeah like here's here's a couple that's hanging out on a farm yeah You know, this is Greg Games that me and Greg won't connect on, I guess.

9:17Yeah.

9:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, God, he shows up in the back. Hey, Greg, what's up? I didn't know he was here. What's up? Wow, what's today's Greg with? What up, big dog? What's Greg with? He said he doesn't know yet. He doesn't know yet. He's so tall. It's ridiculous. He's ridiculously tall. Seeing him in that door frame is just hot. I was like, it's just so scary. After the Gamescast is Superman Returns in Review. That's the one where he gets shot in the eye and, like, the bullet flattens. That's the only thing I know about that movie. I watched that movie in 2006 in Nigeria. I got some stuff to say about this movie. I don't remember shit about that movie.

9:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That movie must have been boring. Because I don't remember shit about that movie. Man, I mean. Okay, we'll get to interview later. Get to interview later. Brandon Routh or Brandon Routh. I'm not sure. Brandon Routh, yeah. You know, he also plays the Adam in Arrowverse. Really? Yeah. I just know him from Scott Pilgrim. He's also in Scott Pilgrim, yeah. He had a moment there. He hung out with us once during an E3. I think Mike gave him a tour. Crazy. Very nice guy. Oh, that's real cool. Snowbug Mike? Yeah, I think so. I could be wrong. Somebody was sent out to be like, hey, go show him around. Hmm, pretty neat.

10:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Then the stream is Donkey Kong Bonanza. Donctober Returns. Me, Barrett, Tim, we're playing Donkey Kong Bonanza. I'm playing it for the very first time. Getting my hands on that game. I've been waiting so long Getting my hands on Don't Kong Bananas We also got a lot of Bananas here And a lot of Banana flavored things You're gonna have to Tune in to this Laffy Taffies I don't know about Laffy Taffies I think Barrett said No to the Laffy Taffies What I don't know why Oh man Banana Laffy Taffies Sticks to your teeth It's not good for your teeth I mean What is These days You got good jokes on there Knock knock What Who's there Sorry You're here You're at the front door They're here Oh god You're at the front door.

11:08You got to answer. We got to get out of this place.

11:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, shit. I didn't know they'd be answering. I was just doing a ding-dong ditch. It was supposed to be a ding-dong ditch. Now I'm stuck at the door. They've answered. The door is open. I'm looking at them face to face. I'm sorry. I didn't want to knock on your door. Before the second knock hits, I'm opening that door. My friend made me do. Have you ever had that situation where your friends make you do a ding-dong ditch situation and you didn't really want to do it, but you got bullied into it? Well, I mean, we would do ding-dong ditches, but we never got caught. You know? We got in a car chase one time.

11:36really whoa they were not yeah they were they were after us dude uh my friends uh this is the one that i hung back for because i was a little too scared but put a bunch of water into a trash bin and then we also all pissed in the trash bin oh my god and you lean it up against the front door no have you ever gotten something the doors i could never that's some evil shit you look at the you look at the people you don't see shit right nobody's there who's here open the door

12:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:that's crazy to pee like water is one thing right like that's at that point it's like all right cool it's just water that's not harmful you did a biological attack on somebody i mean i was witnessing it you know oh okay so you weren't you weren't doing i was scared for too many of these things that's fair that's why i didn't go out and drink a lot when i you know like i i wasn't the kid who was partying and underage drinking i was way too scared i mean same yeah way too paranoid i didn't drink my first alcohol until i was 21 cops are always watching me that's why i was like now thinking back it's like oh that's where you know yeah i had anxiety like you know my friends are just like oh give a shit let's do whatever and i'm like no dude what if like what if my dad you know calls me right now what if my dad shows up i was like oh dude makes no sense i mean that brings me back to like the time in high school where i was hanging out this is addison oh like because like me you would think that me and addison ran in the same circles in high school but we really didn't right like addison did you grow apart yeah because we were we lived in the same neighborhood so we were friends as like kids but then in high school like we were still friends but it wasn't like we were hanging out in the same group i think he might have been like a grade above me or something like that right so like he just already had his established group or whatever and also they just did different things like they were the they were the weed smokers like addison very much on the hippie side of things right and so like i do remember one time hanging out with addison derrick and them it was like my first time derrick oh my god derrick let I mean, Derek was cool, though, because Derek had a car.

13:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He had a pickup truck that was, like, decked out with subwoofers. Oh, shit. Like, fucking bass knocking in this thing. Don't put anything in the back. It's only subwoofers. Dude, it was so fucking cool. And, like, I made him a mixtape because I was like, dude, I got, like, a bunch of songs that had the most bass in them. I was like. This shit's going to bang on here. I was like, let me make a mixtape of bangers for you. That's going to fucking go crazy. You're not utilizing this equalizer. I'm like, let me tell you. I got some. There's this new shit called Dubstep, Derek. Let me tell you about Dubstep.

13:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:this shit's gonna utilize your speakers um but yeah there was a day where like we're in our free lunch or whatever it was during the winter and so they're like yo we're gonna do we're gonna go to lunch bless come through and i was like all right let's do it and we all fucking cram into the back side of the pickup truck we're like laying down in like the back of this pickup truck to go to mcdonald's and then go drifting in a parking lot that's like iced over yeah and they're smoking weed and doing all this shit and when i tell you i've never experienced more anxiety i was like i'm not supposed to be here i'm not made for this somebody take me to church i can't be here but also like i think about that day often because that was cool yeah that was like some of the coolest shit of all time it's what it's what you were thinking about that one time we went on that adventure in elden ring night rain we're like well this guy's taking us to places that feel dangerous yeah taking us down here in the volcano um if you're a kind of funny member you can get today's greg way greg doesn't know what it's about yet thank you to our patreon producers carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the psalm twining today we're brought to you by shady rays but we'll tell you about that later for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have six stories today uh bakers does it starting with our number one mortal combat 2 as a new trailer that's out now here's the deal me and andy have already watched the trailer there's been a new thing recently where as a company we're scared of certain companies putting out trailers because we don't want to get copyright stricken uh by what like replaying it live and doing all that stuff because most of them actually yeah we're scared of a lot of them yeah most of them we've been getting got recently right like this is the thing where companies apparently are getting a bit more restrictive around live reactions and stuff and so sadly we're not gonna watch the trailer live on the show as we usually do but we're gonna talk about the trailer i'm gonna bring in an article from ryan at the hollywood reporter how dare you show this promotional video for our movie how dare you put 3 000 people how day you put more eyes on this thing that we want to get people's eyes in front of to your small audience incredible uh warner brothers releases warner brothers releases director simon mccoy's sequel movie in theaters october 24th that soon i didn't realize it was that soon october 24th when you think back to it like we want well the first one was 2022 it wasn't maybe 21 it was the pandy yeah it was the pandy we were at tim's house it was like early pandy it feels like we ate uh pancake no we ate pizza oh but you know what no we were in the studio no we watched at a tim's house but only because we went to watch at tim's house and then we like went to the studio after didn't we there's no way we were in the studio didn't we do balls of fury from the studio i'm freaking out i'm tripping out mortal combat one movie release release date 2023 no way yeah no Oh, hold up.

17:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, that's the video game. That's the video game. We had to figure this shit out. We had to figure this shit out. 2021. Okay, we were in the panty. Okay. Turns out you type in Mortal Kombat 1, Google gives you Mortal Kombat 1. Okay, so we were in the pandemic. Yeah, we were firmly in the panty. It was a work from home thing. Gotcha. So, yeah, that was October 24. This is coming October 24th. Hailing from New Line and based on the popular video game franchise that dates back to the 1990s the film stars carl urban as johnny cage alongside adeline rudolph jessica mcnami josh lawson ludy lynn mccod brooks tati gabrielle louis tan damon harriman chin hon tata nobu asano joe taslam and hiroyuki sanada mortal combat 2 centers on the group of ragtag fighters who must to earth from the evil forces of outworld it follows 2021's mortal combat so it was in the article we couldn't we i didn't even have to google uh which rebooted the film franchise that kicked off with the original 1995 movie in the trailer urban is approached at a bar by a fan of the show that johnny cage had starred in as an actor with the fan asking for a reboot quote nobody wants that urban replies shit went out in the 90s end quote later after johnny cage starts to compete against the other fighters he explains why he doesn't need special powers quote i'm just incredibly handsome and quote andy when you watched this trailer how did you feel pure smiles we're not dealing with the new hero or whatever it is cole young the quote yeah this is gonna this is a carl urban fucking diabolical this is a carl urban vehicle as johnny cage washed up action movie star i have no idea why they are recruiting him raiden walks up to him and they're like johnny cage and he's like what are you a couple of fans you know doing his best american accent god bless him carl urban it's so he's doing his best i would i would have much preferred if they just said hey we're changing the lore here he's australian now yeah you know how every american actor is always like from the uk anyway like everybody like everybody who you think is an american you go oh shit what they're from they're from wales yeah oh yeah yeah it happens all the damn time wait where is carl open from i said australia but i was just guessing uh i thought he was i thought he was english english i mean you're probably right maybe he's from oh no he's from new zealand ah yeah oh my bad but anyway you know you hear him out there and he's like they're not watching those movies anymore you know just really kind of accentuating the that r right there but um looks looks great in all the best ways they really really decided to focus on one of the cg moments at the end that looked at the worst.

19:52So I'm not like they really, you know, I mean, we're talking Scorpion doing the get over here, slicing a dude in half vertically.

19:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. And as the body kind of slivers apart, it was like, oh, that looks the worst. That's the worst thing I've seen this whole trailer. Yeah. Visually. But it's going to be campy. It's going to be goofy. We loved or I love the first. So I love watching the first one with you all because we had those big pop off moments of being like oh shit that's oh my god this hero is doing that i i just love i love that they understand the tone of this i love that they are not trying way too hard to be like this super serious movie they know when to be goofy with it they know what's going to make the audience laugh or smile with all the different callbacks i think it's going to be a great time yeah i'm super excited for this i was more critical on the first movie um mainly because i didn't love the what i chat what do they call them were they called arcanas or something there was basically a word for their powers and like them activating i think it's arcana is it because i didn't really love the fact that like the powers all didn't have unique backstories it was just like oh this thing activates within you and now all of a sudden like you have the midi-chlorians within you yeah like now all of a sudden you know you get the laser eye or you get the fucking blades or you get whatever cool thing that you have and for me that just felt like i don't want to use the word lazy because lazy feels mean but it felt like lazy writing right it felt like oh this is a way to get around so we don't have to like do all this work to fill in the history fill in these characters backstories and that's what i want out of mortal combat i want the characters to have these cool things because they came from the nether realm or they fucking made this laser eye with their fucking you know two hands and like they had the technical skill and ability to do this these things right like that's what i wanted out of that also cole young i couldn't care less about that character just a blank slate if he felt like a default create a character situation which you don't want out of a movie especially for moral combat a franchise that is filled with so many characters that have so much personality and also so many characters that can fulfill a main character role whether it be johnny cage whether it be luke king whether it be sub-zero or scorpion right like you have a cast of characters already in the franchise we don't need to create a bland new character to be the main character so i think for me that's the thing that makes me most excited about mortal kombat 2 it felt like city of heroes with the like just creating a dude who was good or uh or you know dc online uh universe online where it's like create your hero who's going to be alongside batman and superman and flash and all that stuff yeah so here we don't get one there's not one appearance of cole young in this trailer which let's fucking go i i love the idea of carl urban um you know as johnny cage playing the being the main character here because i think that's a wonderful role to center a whole movie around johnny cage is entertaining johnny cage is goofy johnny cage is funny and johnny cage is a character that you either love to love or love to hate yeah that's what you want you want somebody with personality that people can connect to i think the best thing i can say about this trailer especially for me being more critical of the first movie is that this is giving me everything i want out of mortal combat there's not one scene here where i'm like oh that's not invoking you know the violence or like the weird um lore or like it's not invoking like the magic of mortal combat all this entirely this entire trailer feels so inherently mortal combat also should we be playing b-roll because i get scared i thought we were just gonna pause in some i was just showing i think showing small clips of things that we're talking about is okay it's showing the whole thing that we're concerned about fair enough I would love to maybe just pause on still images just in case.

23:31Like, yeah, I'm scared of having anything in motion. I don't know. I'm just a little bit paranoid.

23:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I will say you brought up the CGI stuff. The CGI that really stuck out to me was Baraka with his like fucking big old mouth talking. I didn't like that. It kind of just looked like somebody had like, you know, a big prosthetic over their mouth, but they're moving their mouth underneath. so you just kind of see like the the this mask on top just kind of moving over it yeah it felt kind of odd um but shout out to you know i was a dummy in the year 2021 i did not know who uh tylenobu asano is but then i watched shogun and i was introduced to yabushige who was one of the most amazing characters on tv and i didn't know that he was riding or raiding back in the day and to see him now here and like oh shit yeah you're a yabu shit fuck yeah dude you're dope i love you uh somebody in chat mentions that cole is in the trailer for a brief moment um a minute and seven seconds he gets his head chopped like he i mean is he this just this guy in the background yeah i guess that is that does look like cole young yeah that looks like him yuck yeah of course shout out to the actor i like the actor but like here's i mean i didn't mind cole i think centering it all around him was like the biggest problem yeah i thought he had a decent enough move set and i thought they got a bit creative with i think they just could have pushed it a lot further and i think i would have been won over had they really just made his move set seem like the coolest shit possible like whenever we're talking about video game movies being adapted or whenever i have problems with mcu properties and maybe i always think back to the Moon Knight TV show and how disappointed I was with it as a whole total package, right?

25:25But I would have enjoyed it a bit more if Marvel was like, man, we should give Moon Knight the craziest moveset. And the whole time, Moon Knight is just stabbing dudes with his knives. And it's like, dude, you can play with so much. You have this, you have a you have a kit, like, again, in video game terms, you have a kit you could play with and you're showing the most boring parts of it and that's like that's where i hope that they are going to continue doing that because i think mortal kombat 1 did a really good job of

25:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:showcasing the full kits yeah uh another thing i want to shout out is tachi gabrielle and jade right of course jade and katana i fucking love those characters in the game tachi gabrielle can be in everything and i'll be okay with it you know what i mean like she looks fantastic in this role I also love the dynamic in the games between Jade and Quintana and like the other sort of, I forget the name of that world. I think it's... Melina? Adonia? Well, I'm trying to think of like where they're from. Chat, remind me of where they're from. But yeah, like Melina kind of fits into that, or Melina, sorry, kind of fits into Melania.

26:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Melania. Kind of fits into that, you know, roster of like the princess, like warrior kind of characters. Edenia. Thank you, chat. So I love that we're getting more of this. and yeah like Tati Gabriella's Jade I think it's just a such a wonderful pull yeah awesome shit I again there's a lot of great moments in this with where we're gonna see weird throwbacks we saw that I'm assuming it's smoke at the very very end who gets yeah well you see noob for sure yeah me and Kevin were talking about this is like was that noob getting pulled out of smoke or was that like I couldn't tell exactly what that was supposed to be but like the all black kind of gooey guy that's always that's new that's always new side that's always new side but i got to assume it's because i guess smoke well no rain is purple yeah smoke is like dark gray noob is like the jet black i think this is just straight up noob i would love to get a noob smoke dynamic though yeah for sure like a tag team situation oh that's the other thing i want to shout out in this trailer is that they do the call out of like finish him and you see fatality like um you know moves here i want i'll sound kevin this before the show too i want there to be at least two finish him moments i want at least two like genuine fatalities don't don't do these sparingly i want at least two like we linger on it fucking a dude gets ripped apart head chopped off i want zero subtlety zero subtlety rip out the spine and use the fucking spine to stab him in the nuts like you know what i mean i want to feel something are we gonna get a friendship friendship we're gonna get a little friendship probably a little johnny cage yeah johnny cage throwing the autograph like in part one johnny cage and baraka are like homies now do each other's adapt up can we can we get the uh i know it's hard for kevin to scroll through this he's he's doing a great job though can we see just the baraka close up one more time um you mean animality yeah chat because the that yeah the i think in i think in practice i think maybe in movement is where it kind of looks the most or the least convincing also it might not be the final yeah cg like they might because it does look like it's just put on top you can see that layer of his like upper right jaw yeah dude part of me honestly feels like it's just a prosthetic over a mouth because no never mind it does separate in a way right there because uh yeah it looks weird it just looked like as he's moving his real mouth underneath if it were a mask the top part is just kind of like yeah i will say i do like it it's funny i do like how it looks as a still frame but yeah in movement that's where i start to but it's also you know you get into the weird when they drew these characters they had no idea how they would practically move or talk of course a real person when you're gonna say the word you know uh loony you have to put your tongue out and go loony you know like yeah but bracket doesn't got anatomy like that yeah so how do we make how do we make this look natural whenever you say that you know when you think of like saying the if you're gonna if he's gonna say mortal when you put your lips together that's how you create the m sound he doesn't have lips to do that so like how does that even look are you just mouth flapping at that point yeah genuinely like it might actually be impossible to make that look natural it's how i always feel like if once i you know if they're ever gonna make gyarados talk how's he gonna talk mouth always is open what what would gyarados say i don't know maybe we got his inner thoughts at one point you know like original house of pancakes i do i miss being that little fish you know back when i was in magic but his mouth you know like you draw it away because it looks cool but you never really when they designed baraka they probably weren't ever thinking oh we're gonna have to have this cg animated in 35 40 years or whatever andy wasn't the original mortal combat like actual videos of people yeah it was yeah it was just like people green screened yeah like every frame was yeah maybe like a different motion i'll see you know you know everybody's got like the we all grew up with the my uncle works at nintendo thing like everybody knows that as a meme but also So everybody's always had somebody in their life that lied to you and told you that their uncle or somebody of their friends.

30:52Oh, my friend knows that game's coming out because of whatever his brother works there. I need to do some deep digging and investigation. This is more of a personal story. But I grew up with a friend in our circles who always said that one of his. Somebody that he knew that was very close to him was the mocap actor for like Sub-Zero, maybe not Lucane, but like a lot of the characters in the OG game.

31:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Is that not just like Ed Boon and Tobias? No, because they had actual, like, mo-cap actors that were one guy played five different characters. And, you know, one lady played Sonia and also so-and-so or whatever. But, yeah, that's one of those things where my uncle worked at Nintendo Story is that. Where it's like, my whole life I've been wondering, was that ever true? Did I ever, was my friend ever lying to me about, like, yeah, so-and-so's uncle was the guy who played, like, four of those characters. Can you bring up that graphic again? That was a cool graphic. Yeah. But that's like, it's a more recent game.

31:59Oh, gotcha. I don't know which one it is, but it's definitely not old, right? Oh. Yeah, I guess these are a bit newer. Yeah, no, these are not. Well, there's also Yuri Lowenthal just doing the voice, yeah. Yeah, here we go. Yeah, Daniel Pessina may have been the one. And maybe my friends were like, hey, I can lie to my friend about this because that's a very Mexican-sounding last name. That's a very Latin-sounding last name.

32:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But also, that's such a specific thing to lie about. that you would have to believe i know it's weird it's weird i don't know oh yeah once we chat about this from c max dude who says they didn't realize they could just cast lewis tan um who plays cole young as an actual character since he kicks actual ass in real life put a mask on him easy which i agree i i like that actor right like my my disdain for cole young has nothing to do with uh lewis tan like i would have loved for him to play like any actual mortal kombat character role I think would have been cool. Look at Richard Divizio, man. Getting it is Kane right there.

32:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Man, we used to live in simpler times. I always think of Kano just going, like, one of those quotes that you'll always say for the rest of your life. Ear to ear. When he talks about, like, cutting Sony a blade. Yeah. I've always said that my whole life. Ear to ear. We got a lot more show left for y 'all. But before we get there, I want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games. You can go and get the kind of funny membership, which allows you to get shows ad free. Speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors. This episode is brought to you by Shady Rays.

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36:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back with story number two, Crafton. That's right, we're back here. Crafton allegedly sabotaged Subnautica 2 to delay it. this is david carcassol at wccf tech of course we've been covering the crafton versus unknown worlds saga for what feels like forever i think realistically has been like a week and a half but it's just been go it it's been dominating the news the news and like i i can't stay away from it this goes deeper than we could have ever imagined it goes so deep let's hop into the article here the battle between crafton and subnautica 2 developers unknown worlds has escalated even further as the lawsuit filed by unknown worlds co-founders charlie cleveland max mcguire and ted gill is now unsealed revealing the full details regarding why the co-founders are suing crafton for a breach of contract some key context if you've not been following this story is that when unknown worlds was acquired by crafton in 2021 it did so for 500 million dollars with an additional 250 million dollars to be paid out as a bonus to the studio if it hit certain revenue targets by the end of 2025.

37:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:On paper, the three co-founders and 40 employees at Unknown Worlds were due to receive a portion of that bonus, with the co-founders receiving the bulk of it. The co-founders also stipulate that they would have spread the wealth even further to the other members of the team who were not due to receive the bonus on paper. According to the co-founders, Unknown Worlds' relationship with Crafton only started to deteriorate when Crafton realized that Subnautica 2 launching in early access by the end of this year would have meant the studio hitting and surpassing the revenue targets are required to unlock the 250 million dollar bonus the suit even adds that crafton's chief executive officer changhan kim admitted to the unknown world's co-founders that if subnautica 2 was released in early access in 2025 and unknown world hits the revenue targets to unlock the 250 million bonus quote it could be disastrous financially and hugely embarrassing for craft and end quote the company now denies that kim made such an admission and blames it on translators misinterpreting kim's words despite that never being an issue previously adverbs are different here i didn't say that don't worry about it quote so craft it engaged in a month-long campaign to delay somnodica 2's release the suit reads it pulled key marketing materials refused to follow through with crucial partnerships and reneged on long-standing commitments to handle important pre-launch tasks.

39:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Multiple Krafton employees themselves suggested that these moves were for the purposes of frustrating their earn-out, despite the earn-out agreement's prohibition on taking actions for that purpose." According to the co-founder's lawsuit, the experts Krafton hired to deem Subnautica 2 as unfit weren't experts at all and had no experience developing and releasing early access titles. The co-founders also flat out disagreed with the assessment of player feedback from the internal playtests, saying that the feedback in fact unequivocally proved that Subnautica 2 was ready for launch. Quote, in short, Crafton flagrantly breached both the letter and the spirit of the promises at the very core of its agreement to purchase unknown worlds.

40:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It promised to leave creative and operational control in the hands of the founders promise broken it promised to consult with the founders before taking any action that could harm the payout sorry the earn out promise broken it promised to not take any action with the primary business purpose of frustrating the earn out promise broken and it promised not to terminate the founders without cause promise broken in the name of its bottom line crafton has thrown its promises out the window and ripped the game from the hands of both its creators and its community end quote oh wait shots fired pablo torre we need you to find some stuff out we we need the best investigators on this shit i'm so hooked man like i'm i'm not usually one who's for mess in this way i mean it yeah but like this feels like watching a drama yeah it feels like watching an hbo series this is like succession type shit yeah um I mean, it's obviously we kind of suspected what was happening here.

41:13And it seems like everybody's got their own side of the story. Even from the executive saying, well, I missed translation. We never said that it would be. But, dude, I remember like the second day talking about this after you and Mike had initially had that sort of. It feels like we've been going day by day on this. Whenever there's a new development.

41:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The updates have been coming rapidly. Yeah, new thing to talk about. And I remember the second day us talking about it, us both having the thought, 250 million seems like a crazy fucking number anyway. Yeah. That felt like a clerical error anyway. That felt like somebody actually accidentally hit an extra digit on there. And then you learned that, well, the three founders were supposed to get, what was it, 90? 90 % of it. 90 % and the rest of the 10, which is 25 million, goes to the remaining 60 or 70 employees. 40 apparently 40 okay okay i thought it was more maybe i don't know i think one article i think might have said something to you now this one is saying 40 gotcha um yeah so to have i mean it's just such a messy story it is to have these executives saying well you all left the project and plus it's just not ready look hey these documents leaked how did they how did those documents get out there how did these roadmaps leak out there it's crazy how that happened but You could see that we asked for these things and that things aren't ready.

42:38But according to these founders saying, look, internal play tests were super successful. Things were on the up and up. This game is ready to launch. You are clearly sabotaging this so that you don't have to do this payout so that you will not be catastrophically impacted financially by this by this bonus structure. i like i'm excited for maybe two months from now when maybe all of this is done yeah to just know