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33:26The youth doesn't give a shit about the machine. The youth ain't buying a Steam machine. Their parents are buying it. Yeah, they are. That's happening no matter what. Are they buying it when it ends up being near 1K? It's going to be cheaper than that, Barrett. Don't worry about it. Okay. So, it's going to happen and then your point of Half-Life 3 isn't happening. What are you talking about? What was the point of Alex then? It rewrites the ending of Half-Life 2 so you can have Half-Life 3. Spoilers! I haven't played it yet. I haven't played that one yet. You're never, I'm sorry. We reviewed that during COVID.

33:53You don't want to know about the end of Half-Life, Alex. Half-Life 1 and 2 this year. I'm tearing through them. I'm doing great. Well, guess what? Your fucking bullshit ending doesn't matter. And if Half-Life 3 comes out, then I'm riding high. That's why I'm excited about this. I just, yes, real Mike, the idea of Half-Life 3 is super exciting. The idea of coming out with a console and competing, right? Yes, you need the Half-Life 3 title. That would be massive. all eyes on you everybody all the old heads are going to be talking about it the young kids Paris' son is going to be asking his dad what the hell is Half-Life why do I need to know about it then the excitement builds for the youth usually Paris' son just asks his dad what went wrong why are you the way you are boy blank period but yeah I mean I think the easy bet is to doubt that this is even real or that it will be time but like haven't they all been I guess like Mike who wants to know more haven't people been holding on to the idea of Half-Life 3 for years decades now?

34:54They have why wouldn't they have put out one yet? Because you're Valve you're like the most profitable business of all time or whatever that chart was I saw the other day you have to sit here and be so in awe of a company that stands on business we make so much money that we don't have to release a video game until we think it is perfection or as good as it could possibly be. Or like we talk all the time of the intersection of business and art. And the fact that they are a business that's like the arts first. We don't fight. Now, I hate that they buy developers and then they just never make games again.

35:32But it's like, I also go there and I'm like, goddamn, okay. Like you guys are cooking in a way that we, I mean, as I see fucking every other acquisition and with these things being just stripped of their very soul. you know what i mean i'm like the games are no longer anything what you want them to be they're just trying to make money now when i think of half-life 3 i think of the half-life 2 nvidia geforce remix that they were showcasing and we did the small demo of just one level like why is that not out yet to get people excited for this right should that not be first and then on to half-life three i'm not gonna sit here and deal with these facts you're throwing at me all right it's like what's the deal with that i mean it still could be we still got months until we get the steam deck you know maybe that steam machine whatever that would be the excitement is right yeah i guess so you've been in the industry for a long long time greg yeah what half-life three to you has there always been murmur of people working on this have there been ideas that what they just don't like because the art comes first and just well like why not put out a half-assed half-life three and just it's been 10 15 years do they've had to have put out one and just said ah that one didn't hit the mark my bad you know what i mean what the fuck is wrong with you what do you mean why why isn't rockstar to shitting out gtas anymore they were yeah they were great though they were great well i mean take away the you know the remaster collection whatever i'm talking about you know san andreas and vice city i just i guess my mind is wrapping up like if it's been 15 years whatever it is how we haven't been able to put one together in that amount of time yeah that's crazy well i mean and i but also we don't know what active production looks like right like Like, I mean, there has been things coming out of Valve and then this push to hardware and then buying people.

37:15Like, I always fuck this one up. They bought Campo Santos, right? The fire wash people who are making. Valley of the God. Yeah. Are they anymore, though? No, no. I don't. Who knows? They got absorbed in there in the mind. They're in the fucking mind meld the valve. Nobody knows what they're doing. But no, there's always been. Not always. There's murmurs quite often about Half-Life 3. Whispers. Someone Half-Life 3 is being worked on. Period. Okay. Point blank. Yes. And I think this is the time. This is the time. Like, this is the fucking time. Because, again, you'd be like, Half-Life 3 is out. Of course, it plays on any PC, whatever.

37:48But we are also putting out this mass market PC that you could get right now and plug into your thing and be competitive with your PlayStation. And it'll be$900. Barrett, shut up. Everything's expensive. When we talk about it, yes, this is the moment that you would plant the flag. A hundred percent. That would be epic. That would be the right business call. That would be everything. So, yeah, I like that. So you think game awards, though, we get some sort of tease. I think that's when you get the trailer. Yeah. Yeah. Again, that I fall back to, of course, the stars lining up, the cards being on the table, Jeff being so close with Valve.

38:23Yeah. You know what I mean? And I think, again, we then jump back to what they're doing right now with the Steam machine just from a marketing perspective of here it is, here's the hands-on, no mention of price. So everybody's waiting on that, right? And I feel like you, this is where I'm out of the, I'm not a marketer, where I don't know if you give them the good news of Half-Life and then the bad news of the price, or if the good news of Half-Life supersedes the price, whatever that would be if it's bad or whatever. Like, there's some combination there I think that works too. Yeah, there's some combination of like, if you were to announce Half-Life 3, then the pre-orders, no matter what the price is, it's going to go crazy, right?

38:59For sure. And we're switching my mic, is that what's happening? Very exciting stuff. I got two mics now, even louder. That's not how that works That doesn't work that way? Shit, sorry everybody So let me get some super chats in here BanderSN says The youth didn't care about Baldur's Gate until Fucking point on you You just dunked on your ass You know what I mean? Great job

39:25Professor YT follows up on yesterday's Kind of Funny podcast Greg, I'm from Fairfield Can I tag along on the Jelly Belly field trip? I have a wife and kids to bring So it's not weird kind of got weird there so i don't know about that one no why the kids the break we'll see if the meat and green at the jelly belly factory goes off or if it's just tio andy and me and ben out there doing it all right uh foxy steve says half-life 2 released in 2004 dot dot dot why is there so much certainty half-life 3 is the thing did i miss something they're same rumors speculations scuttlebutt you hear all the time that's about it really yeah i think this is the time people want it you know they'll do it uh charlie says valve said no new no new games on the fps podcast but again we just read from that so i don't know if you're attacking this week in video games and how they reported on it but we read about how there's no new packing for this not no new games and also i will i will i hate to do this people lie to you in video games all the time i lie to you on this show about what i do and don't know no don't read into it because i wouldn't say half-life 3 is coming or make a bet if i knew half-life 3 was actually coming that's all legitimate but people lie to you about what they're doing and why they're doing it because of marketing plans and because of it if they were asked hey are there any new games coming from valve and they were like no comment everybody would fucking explode and i said yes everybody would explode so you have been lied to charlie and I'm sorry if in fact Lucy James did help lie to you too.

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47:44Yeah, FX took that personally a brand new Far Cry anthology series is coming to Hulu with a whole new setting new cast and the exact level of chaos your therapist told you to avoid good luck out there I'll tell you man that tweet turns me off to the entire fucking thing shut the fuck up shut up tweet fucking weird Grok fucking out there writing this shit. Okay. They took that personally. All right. I'll see you later. Good luck. He doesn't like your tweet. Good luck, everybody. Good luck. Go get them. Let's talk about the show, though. Are you excited at all about a Far Cry TV show? No. I just, it's, we talk about video games being announced too early.

48:27Okay. Entertainment properties get announced often too early and then never, like, what? is this going to be the Ubisoft one that happens is this going to be the Ubisoft one that happens and is good I know Roger's not here but I know he's yelling at me about that Splinter Cell show it's sure okay like I enjoy the Far Cry games but I enjoy them for their freedom and sandbox and I'm going to go fuck around and kill a Jaguar and make a wallet like I don't know in a show what that would net out to be and I don't have that level like when I I think of Far Cry and it's over-the-top villains and the over-the-top action.

49:06Yeah. I can see where that would lend itself to a show, but is this a comedy too? You know, Rob Mack's known for fun stuff. Yeah, Mack will bring a little bit of, yeah, there'll be some fun in it, but I think it'll be a little more gritty, a little more hardcore for sure. I mean, we're talking about the guy behind Alien Earth right now that just got done. We liked that show. I liked five episodes. Fargo right there. So it's like he's got a whole lot of skill there. I'm not saying he's not. Plus Rob Mack, right? But yeah, I agree with you. in the way, Greg, of like Ubisoft and I think of some of the stuff, Assassin's Creed, the movie, I'm looking at you, right?

49:38Prince of Persia? I don't have the biggest faith, but a lot of these shows have been very good lately, right? We've been tracking in a better way. We've been trending in a better way of like more of these are good than bad, which is nice. Far Cry, I do agree with you, is a little harder to land in my eyes because it is the freedom of me doing insane, stupid things and I don't know if that really lends itself well to a TV show. Also, So for me, I thought we'd be going back. Maybe we'd be picking some of the iconic characters, villains and stuff. But when it says new setting, new cast, and the exact level of chaos.

50:12Well, this is one of the things, the Voss voice actor, who's also his performance capture, had been making the rounds here and there, I know, on things he had said. I think you could still get away with new characters. There's new characters. There's still Voss. There's still whatever. You think Voss on the island, though? Oh, I knew. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Yeah. That's where I kind of go, eh, maybe, right? Because I thought easily season one would be Voss on the Island. That's your layup, right, for most people. Still could be some kind of prequel, Newcastle. You know what I mean? But good luck to you.

50:41Go get them. You know what I mean? We'll see where this goes. I like Rob Mack a lot. Where's my Division movie? Wasn't Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain cast in my Division? Where's my Division mobile game? Where's Division Heartland? Where's Division fucking three? Rob Mack. stop making your fucking soccer teams and make video games every like Mythic Quest was a lot of fun I only like season 1 actually crazy I will say FX it's rare that they miss so if they're back in this they got a lot of good production teams they have something to write I do remember that actually that was their thing number 4 on the Roper Report Skate Season 2 has been revealed.

51:32We have a trailer. Have you watched it yet? I watched it. Can we watch it again? Can we watch the trailer sound up? Because I want to talk about it. Yeah, me too.

51:45Landing tricks alone?

51:50I am alone. Talking to fire hydrants? Me? Yes, you. Are your old trucks your best friends? Allegedly. then you might be suffering from Solo Stoke.

52:06Tired of patting yourself on the back? Stop being your number one fan and say hello to friends. Friends? Friends? Amigos. Chingu. I'm Michu. Friends are great. Does anyone want to hang out?

52:22Nice and possible, man. Thanks. It's new. That's friendship. Season two comes with everything you see here. Roofs and tunnels. Whoa! And co-op with your bro-op in collab mode. It's not chaos if you call a teamwork.

52:42Party voice chat! You're gonna go out and smack that! Better replays. Observe, rewind, deny responsibility. Who did it? Not me. What the? Threads, boards, rewards. Look better? Feel something. The rat's making me flawless. All right. Play for free.

53:09This is where I fell in love. Oh my god. Yes. This is where I was like, yeah, this guy's got it. The voices in the patch notes would walk. Season 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2. 2. Reggie said this would happen. who put a candle in the hot dog for long oh god whose baby is this i like that kind of humor mike we're back to why don't they just keep tim robinson around forever everything yes i think a lot of people i see in the live chat right now are not happy with that right they've gone too far i see some of that and i think this is exactly where it was supposed to be i think it feels like it's gone too far from the initial on skirt of the ai v robot that threw you off.

53:55Skater eyes. And now it's hard to get back to where we want it to be, which is something similar resembling this. Yeah, I would like that here for all my stuff. Yeah, yeah. Skate season pass, season two starts December 2nd and runs through March 3rd. The bullet points are new skatable areas, new challenges and tasks, seasonal events, new tricks and skatepedia updates, new brand partners, additional cosmetics and customization, new tracks to the soundtrack, a new skate pass with improvements in tuning, Bug fixes and quality of life improvements. With Season 2 Future Radical, we're heading back to the 80s, a time of neon lights, arcade machines, and pop versus punk.

54:34And what better way to experience this than with your friends? With a new co-op mode and party voice chat, it's never been easier to play together, plus there are new skatable air, the replay editor, yada, yada, yada. Yes. Mike, what is your top level here? I have a lot to talk about with you on this one, Greg. I do want to highlight one thing, of course. We're the internet's biggest skate fans. they touched on solo stoke right are you lonely it's time to bring in your friends that's a big one for this video game I want to bring up a good friend of mine back in the day my main man Kevin Cooper the sergeant of stoke back at Heavenly Mountain Resort he had the job that I thought was one of the coolest the head of marketing and communications and he always yelled share the stoke and that's what I want from skates right and that's why I'm glad that they're moving towards this multiplayer focus of like identifying hey, people want to skate with their friends.

55:22We got to do a better job at that. We didn't nail that in the launch and season one. We got to start moving towards that. That's exactly what I want to see. I want to share the stoke with my friends, my bros, okay? All the groms out there. All the groms. Gotta have the groms. For me, Greg, when I see this, I get excited, right? I like the 80s themes. I like what we're seeing in the tunnels and on the rooftops. The tunnels look really cool. I think some of the skate spots are looking fantastic for what I want to ride in. This game is going to have a giant uphill battle to try to regain the love and admiration and just the faith from its player base, right?

56:03The people that jumped in were put off and never came back, right? There are diehard fans that love it no matter what. Me and Greg are like right there on the fence of we are diehards. We love playing this game, but we're not the people every single day, but we're also the people that didn't turn it off and say, I'm never doing this again, right? And like skate now has to try to balance all of that. How do I get the diehards to stay? How do I get the people who fell off to come back? What are those things? Multiplayer own the spot, having more focused things for me and Greg and a party to do step one.

56:35Yeah. I think it'll be, it'll be interesting when this drops you and me jumping in. Yeah. Own the lot is the new thing inspired by, you know, own the spot before, but it's, we all get together and try to do this in a time limit, right? Like I like that idea and I could see you and me having a lot of fun with that and getting out there i think party chat's a great move that so many people complained about that uh again it's early access you know what i mean so to see them adding in stuff like this and more hand plants i'm a big fan of or whatever but it's the usual thing of it's early access but you are charging money and asking for money in these microtransactions and it's turned so many people off it'll be my thing with it mike here's a big question okay we can have a skate conversation when we play it later or whatever.

57:11But my big question is, do you think EA gives Skate enough time to fix this? Do they give full circle enough time to get this to a place where people are like, you know what, this is awesome. Because we love playing it, but then there's like everything around it. Their timer has begun, right? For sure. They got the good grace, I think, of the first part of the idea of being sold on, hey, we're going to go free to play like Fortnite. Hey, we're going to knock it out the park with microtransactions. I think EA heard that and they go, hell yeah, let's do that, right? And then they launched. They saw a bunch of people on day one with the free-to-play aspect.

57:48And then that fell off a cliff. And guess what? They hit the timer and they said, your timer starts now before I pull the plug on this whole idea. And so I think this team has their back against the walls, unfortunately. I don't think EA will give them enough time to truly land this. But they will give them time, right? This is a project that we will see, I think, for at least a year and a half from right now. Oh, from now. That's a two-year window, we'll call it. I think they get a solid two years of like, you are allowed to work and try before I give this up. Skate as a brand is too big to pull the plug after 12 months.

58:27Skate as an idea has an opportunity to continue to grab players and bring them back. Like, skate is an ever-evolving thing where it will get the trust of players back if you have the right things. And I could see a full kind of almost rebrand relaunch with a 1.0 a year and a half from now, which is the big moment of, like, this is our last chance before EA calls me and says, I have to turn all this off. That's what I give them. Man, I'm more concerned that they get a year from launch. Okay. But I think what gets interesting about it is where EA is at right now preparing for the Saudi deal. Speaking of number five on the Roper Report, Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs low.

59:12This is Alex Forbes Calvin at GamesIndustry.biz. Saudi Arabia's public investment fund is allegedly low on cash for new investments after a multi-year spending spree on games and esports sectors. The New York Times has reports that the fund doesn't have a huge amount of capital to deploy at the moment thanks to a number of the projects it has invested in being in quote financial distress. These include the wildly ambitious new city region Neom, which was set to be built in the country's Tabuk, Providence, but has run into extensive construction issues which have been attributed to unrealistic planning.

59:50Other businesses yet to return investment include a coffee company, a cruise liner, and an electric vehicle startup. None of the assets named as being in trouble are within the video games industry in which the PIF has been a significant investor in recent years. The PIF values its total investments at nearly$1 trillion in assets, but a significant percentage of these are hard to sell assets with no public valuation. As a result, the NYT reports that the PIF reps have told international investors that it is, quote-unquote, unable to allocate for the near future. Despite this, a spokesperson for PIF, Marwan Baccarali, told the newspaper that it has$60 billion in cash and, quote, similar financial instruments.

1:00:38Recently, the PIF was one of the parties involved in the acquisition of U.S. publishing giant Electronic Arts, along with Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. The deal is worth$55 billion and is yet to complete, though EA CEO Andrew Wilson has said it should close in Q1 of the 27th financial fiscal year. A lot going on there, Greg. Yeah. A lot of money being thrown around. A lot of investment. A lot of investment. A couple of missed investments. Yeah. Of course, their goal is to diversify away from just oil and try to get involved in other aspects to continue to help that country make money. Yes.

1:01:16Also, as we've talked to wash their image and try to make it seem like they aren't killing journalists. The guy in charge of the investment fund, the crown prince, isn't the one going, yeah, butcher the Washington Post journalists and chop him up. They would like you to forget that because they, oh, look, the fucking WrestleMania is coming here. That's cool. Mr. Beast built. Oh, this is this place seems totally cool and not at all. Yeah. A living nightmare. So what does that mean for skate EA, any of these investments? I don't know, Greg, right? Yeah, no, no, obviously we don't know. It's an interesting one billion in cash.

1:01:56Obviously, like I'm not a fan and would love to see this, them be like, you know what? Maybe we got to dial this back and not buy up EA and buy up even more stuff. But even the idea of them folding and closing and going away, which I'm getting way down the timeline of all this stuff happening, would then put a lot of different places including our own industry into free fall as jobs and things dry up and so yeah we look at skate and how much time that gets on this which is like the least of the concerns with the pif i know but it is that idea of like does ea have to tighten the belt before this even happens or do they come in as the new owners go fucking tighten the belt what are we doing why are we on season five of this game nobody wants to be a fucking pigeon yeah i mean that there's so many so many variants of what that is is right greg of like they tighten the belt or they look at it and go this is something that we want to continue to push and try to make more mainstream right of like double down on this or do they just pull the plug who knows on that we'll have to wait to see as all this plays out uh imminently though right now number six we have a required reading for you this comes from the one the only rebecca valentine at ign unsettling horror game unsettling horror game horses banned from steam uh leaving the studio with quote high risk of closure i read you from rebecca's blue sky a really wild situation here a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because valve banned their game from steam and won't talk to them about it at all uh these are the guys who published uh mid oh no sorry mediterranean inferno uh i'm really bummed about this uh you can go read this an article over at ign.com again uh on unsettling horror game horses banned from steam leaving studio at high risk of closure a required reading for you to go check out link in the description below good job rebecca okay i will go read that i don't know anything about this yeah yeah uh mike saudi arabia and the pif not having money indie devs being removed from steam with no uh reasoning why you spending an absurd amount of money in fortnite these are all big stories those are big if i wanted something smaller say what came to the mom and grab shops where should i go Greg, let me take you to our last story, the Wii News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

1:04:14Number seven, the Wii News from The Verge. The Xbox Crocs are real. After releasing Windows XP-themed Crocs earlier this year, Microsoft is now putting an Xbox controller on your feet with a new limited edition pair of Crocs. I like to say they are real. Mike, we got them yesterday. I gave them to you. They came in a giant thing. I took one of the controllers because it is lime green and cool, but I gave you the Crocs. Might be one of their best controllers they've ever made. Yeah. One of the greatest. The Crocs, Greg, my first ever pair of Crocs. Thank you so much for making me feel so special.

1:04:47Yeah. These things hit like a glove. Yeah. It was like they were made for me. Yeah. They're perfect, Greg. I love them. I can't wait to kick that thing into sport mode and achieve ultimate dad status as I need to be. I got a, yeah, I have a Ghostbusters pair. How many Crocs do I need? I have Ghostbuster Crocs that I love and I wear when I walk the dog outside, the dog who's down here sleeping in his bag. And, yeah, Crocs are comfortable. They're a comfortable slipper. I can't wait to wear them all the time. I would love you to wear them all. Joey says I can pull them off. Oh, yeah. Joey's like, if there's somebody that can pull it off, Mike, it's going to be you.

1:05:20Fucking Adam Sandler 2.0. Yeah, you can wear them. Yeah, don't worry about it. Constance is out today. We have a trailer. Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner world created by her declining mental health. The Metacritic right now is in 83. The Opic Critic is in 84. I just bought a copy on Steam. Very nice. You're looking flashy. Ooh, I like the painting. Okay. Call of Duty Season 1 is coming December 4th. Are you excited for that? I'm one of the few that's been enjoying Call of Duty. Oh, okay, okay.

1:05:54So, yes, I am excited for Call of Duty. Hell yeah, okay, cool. But, yeah, I'm one of the few. Super Mario Party Jamboree. The official soundtrack is now available on the Nintendo music app. And from Wario 64, near automata switch to backwards compatibility issues have been fixed in a new system update. We jump over to the super chats to see who was talking about stuff that we need to jump in here. Alex Foley says, long time listener, first time live viewer throwing in a super chat cash on that good karma. LOL. Thanks for watching. Thank you so much for being there. Dova beat says, Barrett, you hear that new four year strong?

1:06:29No. Okay. Do you like Four Year Strong generally? I love them. Oh, nice. They put on some of the best shows at Warped Tour back in the day. No shit, really. Following up on the skate video, Dean says they couldn't get Tim Robinson back, huh? And I imagine he's very expensive. But then in the Zaxxon, you're wrong, says some additional context for the skate video. The guy in the video is Andrew Russo. He is a YouTuber with over 1 million subscribers where he does one-man sketch comedy. And guess what? I'm going to go subscribe now because I like that a lot. Morehammer says, Mike, thanks for taking the time to play through Kingdom Come Deliverance with everybody and giving your review.

1:07:11It's convinced me to give it a go. I'm four hours in and loving it. Have some fun with it. Up next, Expedition 33. Let me see how good that game is. I've heard no one talk about it, so I don't know what that'll do.

1:07:25I and I spent whatever, something like that. Off topic. but with the year coming to enter are you guys going to do a top games we played in 2025 not releasing in 2025 Gamescast? No. We won't be doing that. We preview a lot of games. You know? Top games I've played in 2025 that aren't coming out in 2025. So like I would imagine demos and previews and stuff like that. Early access maybe. Two years in a row deadlock. There you go. There it is. There you go. You get that. Yeah.

1:07:58Dova Beats super chatted a long time ago said finally gonna finish expedition 33 tonight deciding what my next game is going to be hollow knight yote silent hill or kingdom come what are you giving them what's your recommendation well you know me yeah i'm a vibe gamer vibe so i would you have to be you have to be in your own head about what your vibe what's your vibe out of that list personally i would do yote silent hill hollow knight such a are you committed to that thing or and then kingdom come at the bottom but it's just because kingdom come isn't what i want to do yeah i'd hit him with the hard swerve left I'd say Silent Hill F.

1:08:30Get off the giant stuff. Let's get something contained, something tight. Get you in and out. OMGsus says, birthday tax. I'm working today on my birthday, but I get to watch kind of funny games daily as always. And that's a gift. Thanks for always being awesome and happy Thanksgiving. Well, happy birthday OMGsus. Virgil Golf says, happy Thanksgiving. Thankful for all the daily free content. Happy to toss a couple bucks. Killer sweater and pajama shirt, respectively. Killer sweater and pajama shirt. Mine is also a sweater, you know? Yeah. Now, will you go to a Nintendo store for the holidays? I got a new lineup, Greg.

1:09:05I got to go. I got the, I saw it in the Instagram feed. They had new shit. I'm like, God damn it. I got to go back there and check this shit out. See what's going on. What do you think? You think they'll have like sweaters and stuff? You think they'll have - The one sweater they had, I didn't think looked that great. Yeah. But I got to go see. You got to go see. Maybe they got a Tom Nook with a Santa hat. I'm hoping. I went to fucking the Nintendo store the day after Halloween. Oh. And they were like, oh, yeah, Gastly was here yesterday. You could have gotten your fucking photo taken with them.

1:09:29No. And I had missed it. They had done Pikachus that had a pumpkin body. And he's like, oh, they sold that. I'm like, ah, I would have bought that shit. I love wasting money on stuff. So we got to be mindful that they are doing fun things for the holidays. They are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what? We should probably make it. Barrett, every day on your way to work, drive to the Nintendo store and find out what's happening before you come here. So we're up on it. Please. Thank you, Barrett. That's the opposite direction. But Barrett, it's cool. You got it. Don't worry about it. everybody those are all the super chats we covered all the your wrongs which means it's time to end this episode of kind of funny games daily your nerdy news in the video game industry each and every weekday remember we are off the rest of the week for thanksgiving here in america but your programming day is far from done we're about to roll into the kind of funny games cast and talk about the 10 games that define kind of funny before me mike and andy drop in arc raiders and torture some people or get embarrassed uh remember of course like subscribe share ring the bell if you You got Amazon Prime.

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