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28:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:before we do i want to get in some super chats in here uh k lonk writes in and says the current state of gaming has made me pick up some older cheaper consoles like my playstation vita and we i wonder if others will start doing the same yeah i feel like i've seen this from almost i was talking to roger i was talking to him a while ago and he's talking about getting a flip phone and i was like ain't no way ever getting a flip phone but i respect the gusto that's the what is that new that i you know i don't even know again what generation i am i think i'm millennial technically or whatever millennial the new is it gen alpha is the youngest ones right now we're millennials roger i believe is gen z and then bear it's a gen alpha no gen alpha i think is the newest one i think there's a whole thing about how they're all making a push to they don't want this connected world they do want a flip phone that just does the phone they do they're buying the landlines again that they're reading books and they want cd players and all that jazz or whatever i mean i look andy has the ayn thor i believe is what it's called right where it's like his little emulation machine that he's playing all these old games on i've so badly want something like that like i've used my steam deck of course but the idea allegedly uh but the idea of having something that is small so i don't have to when i'm on the bar i don't have to take out my phone if i want to mess around i can play a little bit of link to the past or something yeah that for me sounds like the dream i'm sure plenty of which is just too big for you yeah okay yeah i bought a little i bought like a nicer switch bag but my switch isn't something i carry around everywhere unless i'm there yeah yeah yeah yeah um we have another super chat coming from sol herrera who writes in and says genuinely everything is so exhausting love you guys for being a medium to watch and somewhat get away from play uh p.s greg sucks and bless you're great thank you so much saul i'm sorry that's b hole and i'm g spot let's get right more together uh we got another one from flash inferno who says i don't know if this has been mentioned in any way uh in any games daily this week but chilled chaos announced he's retiring from youtube streaming after 17 years he's streaming until the end of may congratulations chilled chaos These pitches love Sosa Writes in and says happy 20th birthday to the PS3 600 US dollars Oh I know Chilled Chaos okay Who's Chilled Chaos Nintendo dude and I did a lot of stuff When we were doing Rooster Teeth Stuff still I think he was on Monopoly With me and probably something else It looks like he's lost a lot of weight though Good for him unless I'm completely against somebody different Is that who it is

31:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because he's got the same eyes It's gotta be him right stan is right and says sally field is also great and smoky and the bandit and steel magnolias i'm drafting the letter now i have it up in my thing here i want to say in college i watched a live production of steel magnolia is the one i'm thinking of it's a good that's a really good one last night i watched a live production of the hamnet play really good except i fell asleep the entire second act i was so tired no shit really you're so excited for it i was so excited for it hamnet is like my one of my favorite movies from last year um in the first act incredible but yeah a second half second act i even took one of them five hour energies it could not help me out damn stay awake uh i'll do one more from big curves who writes in and says they should announce they're pushing playstation 6 due to financial pressures unveil cost savings for fans and make xbox lip tone deaf with a 1200 helix here's the thing i i'm so curious on what helix is because i i think xbox i'm still in mind that you need a series s equivalent i don't think you just put out a $1 ,200 console in this environment, in this market apps.

32:21Yeah. You cannot do that. And that, that's why I think they're in such an interesting spot and terrifying again of like Asha is undoing a lot of different things. It seems from the outside and what they're announcing, but I just don't know if you can undo the progress that was made already on the Xbox, but it's also a PC console that they were building that Sarah bond was like, it's going to be a premium device.

32:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Like, and you can't, they're inside as an outsider looking in there in such a, tough spot rock and hard place whatever analysis you want to use because it's like well we can't put that out but that's what we were marching towards and you assume that's what we've been developing so like are we going to stop that to then make something smaller a normal xbox and then in the same breath we can't stop because we don't have xboxes on the shelves right now like how do we get target and all these go put this in there you know what i mean like outrageous um and yeah like i mean i don't think they're going to announce playstation 6 or that they're pushing it right like if you haven't announced it why would you announce bad news i think they see that is bad news exactly we're playing this thing that we haven't even said exists yet um but i also do think yeah you need i think every company right now does need cost saving measures for for people not not i mean it would be lovely for the consumer right but also for them right the idea that you want people in your ecosystem to actually be active and actually be long-term consumers or whatever you want to call it yeah you need people to go i have a reason to still play on playstation or xbox or switch and i think that comes with playstation plus xbox game pass um nintendo switch online right yeah yeah finding incentives and finding cost saving measures i think around those to allow people to play games uh where they wouldn't be able to afford full price games sure that needs to be a thing like for the ecosystem it's almost like xbox had that and then gambled everything away and now nobody knows what anybody is there's no messages and yada yada we just need two tiers you know bring it back down to two tiers what's the shirt i like the shirt uh this is uh ball creative llc this is from one of my favorite youtubers nakey jakey oh my god this is a nakey jakey shirt uh we him and i are very close friends we're very very close friends as you probably know and so yeah i've had this for a few months but i thought i'd break it out yeah support my friends who are upstanding citizens i like that you didn't you didn't say it like you didn't like prompt me to say it you waited for me to ask what this shirt it was i mean i i mean honestly i'm more wearing it to get tim's ire during gamescast but i'm glad i was able to get you too i mean i'm a big dinky jinky fan who isn't you know what you're right him and chilled chaos right at the top of my sub feed you know story number three sony records a new uh or sony sony records new 560 million dollar loss that can't be right bungie acquisition i'm sorry i'll read it again what was that 560 million dollar look up how much they bought bungie for I mean it's 3.6 billion dollars about a 6 well you know 3.6 that's like 3.6 I was almost there you were almost there oh yeah they took that loss on Bungie as Marathon struggles in Destiny 2 nosedives this is from Ethan Gotch at Kotaku to stop real quick from what you're about to read I like how you're like look up how much they bought them for and it is the 7th word in the sentence you're about to read Sony purchased Bungie for 3.6 billion dollars back in 2022 on the eve of destiny 2's best expansion ever just over four years later the playstation 5 maker is recording a 560 million dollar impairment loss for its fourth quarter of the 2025 fiscal year which closed just four weeks after the launch of marathon the company pointed to quote recording of impairment losses against bungee inks to intangible and other assets to explain the negative factors impacting its otherwise decent performance sony recorded a total of nearly$765 million loss for the entire year on the Bungie deal, with the possibility of additional losses from the acquisition in fiscal year 2026.

36:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Marathon, Bungie's first new franchise in over a decade, launched on March 5th. Two months later, Sony still hasn't confirmed sales numbers for the extraction shooter, let alone total player counts. Despite praise from fans and reviewers, Marathon has been unable to stay in the top 10 most played games each week on PS5, xbox or pc it's currently hovering between 10 000 and 15 000 concurrent players on steam the platform where it's reportedly sold the majority of its copies thus far while it can't compare with the concurrent player numbers for destiny 2 in the past bungie's famous loot shooter has also seen better days currently it's currently at its lowest point ever on steam greg where does bungie go from here where does playstation go from here with bungie

37:09I think there, it brings me no joy to say this. There's only two options. And it is either, all right, cool. Everybody cut the shit and make destiny three. We're all in. We're making destiny three or, or we're revitalizing destiny too. And like, you know what I mean? But like we, you and I know it well, you, the audience know it well as well. DLCs expansions. That is just an uphill climb of like getting people back to a game. they've stopped playing they know they stopped playing it for a reason bringing them back they all feel lost yada yada yada it's i think as we've learned over this generation it might be multiple generations it's way easier to say destiny 3 than destiny 2 expansion number 7 or whatever like it's like you know dc universe online a game i love that's been running for 15 years and they're on episode 67 of i'm like i couldn't even where would i even i don't even there's so

38:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:many games that are out there that i'll love to get into yeah i hear people talk about final fantasy 14 yeah people will be like oh yeah final fantasy 14 is great it just takes you about 80 hours to get to the really good shit and i'm like i don't know if i got that much time to get there and so i think i so i think you have just a and b choice here which is a choice everybody we're fucking making destiny 3 let's get going on this let's announce it probably too early but get the audience excited you know spin up an expansion for destiny 2 that fills in the gap that you know we can get out in a year and a half two years and then get destiny 3 out in four or five seven years which that's the realistic number but four years five years yeah uh and then the other one is you close it or not if not close wind down to such a skeleton crew that is whatever you know and then you and me of course are not the business people so i don't even understand where you get like the right the right downs or you know what i mean like there's the actual financial terms of how you get out of losing even more money on these kind of things and what it becomes but i don't think i don't think Bungie's future is bright at PlayStation.

39:05The present isn't bright and it hasn't been bright really since they've been bought, right? So it really is. Here we go. You know what I mean?

39:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:What's funny is I think the likely outcome that I see is a combination of both the outcomes you put out there of, hey, let's, all right, Destiny 3 is the next step. Let's announce it too early. Let's work on it. Get people hyped for it. And then two years later we go, okay, Destiny 3 is canceled. We couldn't make it there. Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's, again, what I'm talking about, I'm saying you announce it too early i think that's the the card playstation plays to get people to at least check out the expansion that they're trying to get out their work but more importantly for the shareholders show that hey this is what we're doing but yeah then over time inevitably it's the little leaks of like okay you know oh no it's not coming together it's mismanaged and this is wrong and the creative director left and the new creative director yeah we're into a whole thing if i want to be on the more optimistic side of it you'd go to our last oh i'm sorry I really, really dig Marathon.

40:05Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And the people that play Marathon really, really dig Marathon. And I could see a world where we get a Rainbow Six Siege style. Oh, people slowly get into this thing and end up enjoying it and fall in love with it kind of thing. Okay. And maybe you get more players. Not enough to make it so that Bungie's making a trillion dollars or anything like that. But enough to get you to Destiny 3 in a way that makes people go, oh, wait. Hold on. Marathon's fucking sick. We're all in on Marathon now, and then you get to Destiny 3, and it feels like a celebration moment of like, okay, cool, now here's our next thing that has even more people excited because of the history of it.

40:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Sure. But it's always a tall ask to take something that's not setting the world on fire in terms of numbers and say, now can we get this up to hundreds of thousands of concurrence? And I don't think you can. You know, I really don't think you can. Is it impossible? Of course not. But the grit and determination it takes to become a cyberpunk story, to become a No Man's Sky story, to become anyone who's able to overcome the odds of a bad launch, middling launch, whatever, where gamers, we know what you are and we have an opinion one way or the other. like the success stories you see on that front are usually in final fantasy i would say maybe it's an exception to the rule but i also think square was a different company when they allowed final fantasy to reboot and do their whole thing but it comes down to this grit determination and wanting to do right by your audience right no man's sky is sean murray and hello games that's a small group they're able to do that square not small by any stretch of the imagination but back then they were a bit more freewheeling with the money and they were like we want to make this work because final fantasy means something right cyberpunk is cd project red which we probably do think of now is a very big company because they are very cd project a very big company right but at their core from the game the devs that gave you the witcher 3 and you open up and like there's a little note of like here's all this free dlc we're going to keep giving like they are doing right by their audience because they know that they're at least in the cyberpunk situation cd project is the antithesis to all the other people we're talking about today with their shot stockholders okay when they ate it with cyberpunk they were like no no we are going to commit to this and we are going to do this and we are going to get this right because we know if we don't we are dead in the water for the next game and every other game after that we become a punch line yada yada rather than win back their goodwill with their audience and go for it and so again And now we're talking about a PlayStation, a Sony, that isn't a PS2 PlayStation, where I think you have people there who can say we are going to eat shit and we are going to lose money and we are going to do this, but we're going to make it right and we're going to get it to where it needs to be.

42:50instead you're sitting there with shareholders and bottom lines and games taking longer and this that the other and blah blah blah in audience that i mean sure there's hell divers sure there's a million third-party games that are not a million but a lot of third-party games that are doing better but an audience i think that's very clearly like we don't want this like playstation like it's it's doing really well on steam right it's most popular platform playstation fans are like that's not i'm playing playstation because i want to play 2k and i want to play naughty dog and I want to do whatever.

43:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:My retort, my counter to that would be when was the last brand new IP multiplayer game where on day one everybody said they wanted this. You know? Like Apex Legends comes to mind, right? But even that, it's like, I think for this kind of game, when you're launching a marathon, you can't expect it to blow up on day one, on week one, on month one, right? This is the kind of game, the kind of genre that you build over time. I know Arc Raiders, Arc Raiders actually might be the example I'm looking for, right? Yeah, actually, yeah, for sure. Arc Raiders did it last. the game i'm sure marvel rivals you want if you want to count that people in chatter saying high guard which is hilarious but like you know you are if your goal is to roll the die and go we want to launch a brand new multiplayer ip uh and have it be a amazing success in month one you have to know those are losing odds like you have to go into it knowing that you're i don't think playstation brass did i don't think jim ryan did know that those are impossible odds i don't think the sony shareholders do know those are lost odds they those are the people who are looking at why isn't it fortnight why aren't we as successful as fortnight they don't understand how this sausage got made and so i think that's the problem where i think you're also dealing with um you know if you want to launch this multiplayer i don't think that's what playstation wants to do playstation wants to launch the biggest fucking success of all time and be like we're humongous and like i don't think they're like we need to do right by multiplayer players i mean but that's why you bought Bungie.

44:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I know we're in a place of PlayStation is probably turning the ship right now, but you also can't have your cake and eat it too as far as we're going to buy Bungie, we're going to continue to see their multiplayer new extraction shooter through, and we're going to play it. And when it does what it's probably expected to do, we're going to go, that's not what we wanted from it. It's like, you can't, that's just something you can't do. Sure, sure, that's fair. That's fair. They might be doing it. You know what I mean? Like, they might be going, ah, shit, well, that's not good. But like, that's a lose-lose game for Bungie in that case that we're talking.

45:13I just feel, I agree with that. I agree with that. I just feel like even with Bungie, PlayStation and people at top must have been like, oh, we're buying Bungie, so we're getting to skip a step. We're going to have a built-in audience that knows online shooters that's going to be there day one, and we are going to be humongous out the gate. And then that just isn't the case. I think that then you go, okay, well, what are we doing? Yeah, there's also the - I don't think they have the grit and determination.

45:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:For me, there's also the extraction shooter part of it, where i'm like i every for some reason every big company sees extraction shooters the golden goose right now yeah and that disney one don't forget about it and i mean that's how i predicted the disney one because of that exact thing right like hey every big company every big company that wants to make a multiplayer game right now is going to make an extraction shooter and i don't know why i don't know why everybody looked at tarkov and went yes we all we all want to do a tarkov but like really you all want to do tarkov i don't know i find it to be an insane thing i i like it because I like this style of game, but not in the sense of we want this to blow up.

46:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I like it in the sense of Marathon is a fucking good game. Yeah, fair, fair, fair, fair. I want there to be space for that in the ecosystem, but yeah, I understand that success has to happen, but yeah, I just find it very confusing. I agree. I find it very, very confusing. You know what I find confusing? What's that? Trying to contact Sally Field. Alright? What are you doing? I'm going to an expert. Not for a connection, but for advice. Okay. I just need advice. The expert on contacting Sally Field. That's correct. Aunt May from Amazing Spider-Man. Yes, that's correct. Interesting.

46:50Hello? Well, well, well. It looks like you were trying to reach Jack Quaid, but it is me, Majija, Prince of All Sayans. Yes, yes, yes. What are you, presented by Exit 8 today? What's happening? Yeah, there's a... Thank you for asking. Yes, Jack Quaid. If you didn't know everybody, Exit 8 is out on digital. You can go get it. It's a great movie. This is not Jack Quaid. Does a machine like yourself ever experience fear? Yeah, a little bit. I do have the power of a god. Well, thank you. Thank you, Vegeta. It's always a pleasure to talk to you. Can you put Jack on the phone for me? Oh, yes, of course.

47:31He's just drinking a massive, massive smoothie. Oh, one second. Yeah, this is Saiyan pride. Oh, sorry. That was, Hey, Greg. Yeah. Hey Jack, it's me. How are you? Greg? Hi. Oh, sorry. Vegeta's, I don't know why I give Vegeta my phone. You know, I mean, when he's got the pipes like that, you have to, and he's just so, he's beloved by the audience. So that's great. We're always a fan of that. How are you? How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. I'm just chilling. I'm in Utah. Are you shooting something? You shoot a movie? i don't probably not i'm just gonna just kind of live here and sort of one shoots here that's kind of fair enough oh i like that you're calling the shot you're making the industry come to a location that seems filmable and just wait it out yeah yeah well this is this is i'm glad you have some free time in utah because i need advice okay now as always this will be a walk but stick with me okay have you ever heard of sally field of course i've heard of sally field she's a legend Sally Field likes the legend of Zelda And plays it on the Switch too She's been playing Zelda apparently since doing Mrs.

48:36Doubtfire with Robin Williams, rest in peace Really? Yeah, 100 % this is real She was really into Zelda He named his daughter Zelda Don't try to drop facts on us, we know all that So now the question I have for you is this I'm on I want to get Sally Field on the show to talk about Zelda I have the IMDB Pro thing pulled up For this kind of thing Do I write to the talent agent, the manager, or the publicist? Oh, God. I think the publicist, I would assume. And then you exist in how? Hold on. Vegeta has a pot. Hold on. Jesus Christ. I think the best thing to do would be if you know anyone who might have a connection to Sally Fields.

49:20Big fan, by the way. I'll bring it back to Jack now. Hi. Hey, can you pass it back? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Real quick. Can you pass it back to Vegeta? Okay. Are you sure? Okay. One question. Does he want to talk? He wants to talk? Oh, fantastic. Hello! Vegeta, are you a big fan of me or Sally Field? I'm a big fan of Sally Field! Ah, fair enough. All right. Who are you? Okay, please pay. That's insulting. Please pay. You knew about the Exit 8 sponsorship, Vegeta. I don't know what you're talking about. Pass it back to Jack. God, I love that film. Available now. Is it on digital? It's out on digital right now, yeah.

49:55Ah, fantastic. Yeah. I'm going to go back to being in Utah. Goodbye! Enjoy. Enjoy. All right. So I hear you on that, but it's like, I never want to abuse my relationships and have somebody, Hey, can you, you know, contact Sally field for me? Here's the, here's what I'll do. I don't know if I have any connection to Sally field, but you know, every Hollywood's a small town. I'll put my feelers out. I want to get Sally field on your show. Well, that's the thing, right? What if, what, this could be the combo wombo I do. I'll hit up the publicist. I'll send this clip and I'll say, brings, we want Sally field.

50:27and she can talk about our new movie, which actually she didn't sponsor this episode. We're not going to say it. But she can talk about our new movie and we'll have Jack Quaid on it and we can all talk about Zelda together. I love this. I would love to meet Sally Field. Okay. A kind of funny live stream. Perfect. That's what we're going to do then. That's the pitch, everybody. All right. Thank you, Jack. Thank you, Vegeta. Thank you. Thank you so much. Goodbye. All right, bye. Santa. I like he's just yelling at a smoothie shop. You know, Vegeta's got no chill. Vegeta didn't sound like Vegeta

50:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:toward the end of that call he can only do it for so long all right over time we kind of lost the vegeta but i love jack wade i love jack way too thank you jack thank you thank you so much jack wade uh let's move on to story number four playstation sees ai as a powerful tool to help make games this is jay peter at the verge as part of an earnings presentation on friday sony shared how it's thinking about ai at the company including many details about how it's evaluating ai as part of making PlayStation games. Generative AI has recently been showing up in bigger games, though many indie developers still reject it.

51:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And while Sony calls AI a powerful tool, it says that the vision, the design, and the emotional impact of our games will always come from the talent of our studios and performers. And that AI is meant to augment their capabilities, not replace them. At its own studios, Sony says that developers are automating repetitive workflows, improving software engineering productivity, and accelerating areas like quality assurance, 3D modeling and animation through new AI-powered tools. One example is with a tool called Mockingbird that can animate 3D facial models using performance capture data. And Sony says that Mockingbird is finishing animation work that previously took hours in a fraction of a second.

52:11Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The Last of Us studio, Naughty Dog, and God of War developer Sony Santa Monica are among those that have used the tool and work from Mockingbird has shown up in titles including Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. However, we are, quote, we are not replacing human performers, but rather optimizing how we process the data from these live captures, according to Sony. Sony also says that it is partnered with Bandai Namco to explore how generative AI and the latest technologies can most effectively contribute to realizing a creator's vision in the realm of video production. Through their explorations, the companies have identified massive gains in speed and productivity per person and opportunities where AI can produce highly sophisticated and realistic outputs that otherwise haven't been feasible due to time constraints.

52:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But Sony also notes the lack of consistency and controllability as a weakness of generative AI models. Greg, do we give up? Do we just give up? Do we just go, fuck it. Do what you want. I don't care anymore. I don't know, man. You know, I'm just watching movies from now on, which I'm sure also had. Oh, yeah. Well, remember, I saw this. I saw this. Did you see this stupid clip going around? You see this stupid clip going around? That's AI of this. Will Smith eating spaghetti. No, no, no. I know. We talk about that too much. No, this one is like this woman and man arguing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.

53:36And then like a meteor hits behind them and a tidal wave comes and they stop arguing and kiss right before they get destroyed or whatever. and like I saw I can't not see it because it's just on a feed I'm like oh fuck and it's like people like the people who are idiots celebrating like man you know 3.5 million views or whatever the fuck it is and like not even and it's like you're forcing me to watch it it's at the top of the feed and I watch it and I go oh that's hideous it's horrible you know what I mean it's in the same way where I'm using Google Docs for this

54:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:right like Google Docs Gemini Gemini Gemini can do this kind of summarize can you hit this little fucking thing we put right next to the button I'm sure right now they're counting me in as a data point for AI usage. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, like, for sure, everybody's using AI. Every time you actively... Here's the thing, and if we can all... We just had a great moment with Jack and Vegeta. We're all on the same page here. The generative AI sucks. We hate that. So it's nice to see PlayStation call this out, that people are always going to be at the forefront of this and yadda yadda, blah, blah, blah, blah.

54:31I still have to believe that there are things non-generative AI, just AI coding, scripting, whatever can do to help everybody to some degree. Right. It's the fact right now that you just can't separate the wheat from the shaffir. Right. Of just things are being shoved down your throat left and right. Google fucking do it. I get the fuck. I don't need you to write the email for me. Get the, you know what I mean? People using chat GPT to get out of college. You see that kid when he was like fucking, he graduated and he, he was in it. Did you see this? No clip going around the other day of this guy, whatever college graduation, like the cameras going through God and the kid was like cheering, turned his computer and scrolled through his entire chat GPT history of him asking the questions to do the essays of the homework or whatever.

55:14And then generating it. It's like, Jesus, like what? But like to the point of, I don't make video games. I'm not, we don't make video games.

55:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You don't know what I'm going to do. You know, I can be in the cooking. No, I know some of the things you make. I mean, yeah, I'm making some things. Yeah. I'll make a video game. I want to. Okay. That's really cool. You should do that. Have you thought about using generative? but anyways getting into the automating repetitive workflows and improving productivity and yet it's like i am not boots on the ground there where is somebody who is doing all that going no my god no this is making my job obsolete this is doing it poorly like i don't like so that that sounds good to a degree of being like hey it's gonna go through and do the fucking excel spreadsheet bullshit that you is keeping you from the part of the job you want to do.

56:04And so I'm not, none of us are, I think train boots on the ground enough to sit there and go, well, no, that actually is bad for everybody. Or that could be, and then not to mention, then we're just getting into AI in general. Like, is this one of the AIs that's drinking the lakes? It's killing everything. Is this what we're doing? Mr. Wonderful stupid fucking thing. Like there's so much going on that. I do believe that there are good uses for AI. period generative ai is not it i do not want to consume generative ai i want to see fucking awesome movie like that this sounds like i'm pimping for the movie i'm not exit eight was it you that told me there's somebody else the behind the scenes clip of how they did it with the guy because like the guy walks through the oh yeah and like i thought it was you that told me i

56:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:was in the conversation because he has like the guy the guy walks past the camera and then he gets on a bike and rides all the way around the set and then does the walk again it's like that's fucking really cool of like watching how you go and make something like that like that's awesome i want that back to just my thing from yesterday mixtape i'm playing that and it's like this couldn't be made by ai like this is like you know nostalgia and moments and all this different stuff like i don't want to consume things made by ai so it's like but if ai can help my creators create things and get to what they want to do better i'm not against it as long as it's not killing the earth yeah i agree i'm definitely like i i don't want to be the person that goes in detail by detail and go this is good this is bad this is good this is bad we're talking about automating repetitive workflows for me i'm like okay that sounds like it's in the category of fine improving software engineering productivity for me that sounds like it's fine animation i'm like i don't know about that but like i'm also i again to be frank the word of the day that i'm going to use apparently like yeah i'm not the person to ask about what's good what's bad i think i just get i'm just exhausted about ai period i'm not saying it's all terrible yeah right i'm not saying you know i don't know man i i think i just get exhausted when it is the number one talking point across every company because for me that's the thing that feels transparent and only for the dollars and cents right like i'm not discounting technology i'm for me it's more so just everybody is in love with ai all of a sudden and it's very clearly because you're speaking to shareholders and doing these things and i know even though i'm sure there are plenty of ways you're using the stuff in in good ways i think inherently you're probably just gonna you're also going to be using it in terror in like i'm not gonna say terrible but in the ways that we don't want i just had to assume that when it is ultimate josh has a super chat so that's gonna go too fast you read it do you have your super chats up uh ultimate josh yeah they write and say sony sony saying that is just the same bs they all say but at the end of the day they will use ai to increase profits by cutting the workforce period that is what capitalism does and yeah that's kind of the point that i'm trying to drive at here right is like for me it's all a tool to go hey we're increasing optimization also we're gonna lay we're gonna lay a bunch of people off but don't worry about that we're increasing optimization give us more money because ai is an easy way to go give us more money now i'm about to say something that is probably stupid and will piss people off i don't mean it that way though but my argument is when we say that and it's increasing my optimization and it'll probably lose a job even though the next one after that is a vo person i don't want you don't mind reading that a second but stick with me for a second it's going to increase optimization it'll probably and then capital it's like yes is that bad and i don't mean like are losing jobs bad greg dumb i mean like okay like are we it's the same reason newspapers are failing or fail have failed to the degree they did as somebody He was trained as a newspaper reporter and loves newspapers.

59:39It's like, well, yeah, but the web is faster. And is it better? Well, we're not checking our sources as much and et cetera. Why? Like there's a conversation to have, but instantaneous news is what people want, right? That's what we have an audience wants. The same thing here of like, if the job of someone, the intern is there going all day long through spreadsheets and doing this thing that takes them eight hours, but suddenly AI can't do that. Yeah. We lose the intern. We lose the person who's the data number cruncher losing a job sucks. I'm not saying that's, but are we holding onto that job just because we need to have a job for there when it could, I am I making sense?

1:00:18This isn't a well thought out point. I am percolating on a point. Please don't attack me. I'm just having a conversation of like, at what point is there legitimate? Like, cool. There's a sea change here. And are we the people who are, we selling horses and we're mad at people for driving cars. like the one of the henry ford makes the assembly line are we mad like there's these different changes and shifts when we talk about it that yes or the assembly line wow what an invention to put a lot of people out of work and make cars faster and make more money yes this is capitalism i understand that but like capitalism is rampant and still going on and is there any ethical consumption in capitalism the answer is no i don't and i'm i'm just talking here i'm just being i'm

1:00:59Blessing Adeoye Jr.:not being a host i'm just being greg i think there's so many different threads to grab onto that we definitely don't have time to do today we should have like we should have an ai person like i know that sounds like a terrible idea but just to have the conversation have the back and forth and be like yo let's dig into this shit and and and talk about it with depth because obviously like i think sometimes it feels like we're out of depth because we're not we're not ai people you know i'm here to tell you if game is fun or not that is my job yeah but i think there's so many threads one of it being like okay we're drinking all the lakes fuck the lakes right I think another threat for me is, yeah, when I read stories like this, for me, it's not necessarily like, I don't automatically assume that PlayStation, Xbox, any of these companies are only using AI in the good ways, not the bad ways.

1:01:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Of course. Of course they are. For me, I think that's the number two thing of like, all right, like, you know, when am I going to see a fucking weird face? Or when are we going to get to the NVIDIA DLSS 5 thing of, oh, you're taking a character that an artist puts much work into. And you're turning them into like a fucking bathing suit model from a magazine because that's what this thing scraped off the Internet. To pivot to this and use the real thing here, right, where they're talking about the Mockingbird facial animation, right? Mockingbird is a finishing animation work that previously took hours and a fraction of a second.

1:02:12again is that removing someone's job yeah I remember being at sucker punch for infamous second son visits and walking through and then going into a room where they were like here is Delson and here's where we're hand animating every face and doing everything and they did like choice face up and down inside and whatever you know all these things that we see now all the time in documentaries or whatever and so like if this is coming in and doing that my good faith argument isn't i don't think somebody's job there was i'm just the face guy i think it was like part of the thing that's on their platter and so if this was doing that then obviously a human has to come in and make the minute changes the very the finishing touches crafted to where it is you know what i but is this and i don't know is this mockingbird tool helping someone do something that maybe they didn't love if it's shaving off hours of them having to sit there and hand animate the face and get it in the now they can go in to be like oh well and that scene it looks like fucking trash so i'm gonna go in and tweak it and do this like yeah is it or are is all that happening and we're training the ai model to then be like cool i can do it all without you know yeah for me it's the

1:03:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:meme somebody posted this over the internet i think i saw barrett repost it to a story of a dude like laying in the park drawing and somebody comes up and is like you can have an ai do that for you and he's like why would i do that yeah he's like well yeah and he's like like i forget the way the meme goes but essentially the idea of oh i like doing art why would i have an ai come through and do this thing for me when this is what my passion is and so then we're into a grit that's a much more interesting conversation i think because then you get into cool is the person animating the face is that their passion you know again i doubt they're just the face person are they Also, concept arts, I don't know.

1:03:57It won't make any sense. But you know what I mean? Animation, sculpting, all these different things. I have a little bit of clarity on this. I know someone who sometimes animates faces. You do. And that is all she was doing. Okay. Without naming studios and stuff, I know for sure that she animated a bunch of faces. And that was all she did. And she really liked it. She was very passionate about it. She is very passionate about it. I mean, she's moved up on companies now. but um so yeah i don't like they're definitely paula's job at one point was to do that real quick i want to bring in andy of course who of course has made games and worked on games andy in the twitch chat says speaking from experience i would have loved to have some ai tech uh to have retro apologize my 3d sculpts to get me back to the funner shit what he would have loved to have had yeah so again like everybody we're doing the the chris Pratt Raptor thing of like we're not fighting this is not a fight we're just having an open conversation about like how this could actually help people but not take over

1:05:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and take over the whole job oh sure yeah I mean is that is that what companies do you know I mean like yeah they make tools to help people or but here's their ultimate goal to employ less people because they save more money that way like that's the reality of things of like I am like I don't want to speak for my wife I'm not trying to do that but like I think that this is something that she's worried about you know understandably so but here's the thing too like this is the crazy multiverse we're talking about of all this shit right where it's like yeah if playstation xbox nintendo whoever bites on this and goes that way and dot to dot and get eventually their stuff gets there and it's soulless and so it is that conversation of not to throw the baby out with the bathwater again but like what about when there is these smaller studios that are i do not want to animate fucking faces you know what i mean and they're able to use a tool in a giant thing to get back to what andy's talking about the funner shit they want to do like don't get me wrong i don't feel it i don't fucking know i'm just talking back to you like i sometimes every now and then i'll get into fl studio and i'll make music for fun right like i like making beats sometimes and one of the things one of the things i hate doing the most is sometimes i'll want to recreate i want to sample something right i want to sample a song and sometimes i'll go to the donkey kong country sound there's a literal example that i've done went to the donkey kong soundtrack uh i don't think this is okay uh but went to the donkang country soundtrack and listened to sticker brush symphony and i recreate the melody in fl studio i'd much rather be able to press a button and then boom spit that melody out in like the piano roll on fl studio so that again i can get to doing the fun shit i can chop it up rearrange it do all that shit right like i definitely don't i i i totally agree as far as the steps toward creativity that feel like more busy work right how do we optimize and get rid of those and make them uh more frictionless but yeah for me i come back to the kevin thing and i come i just come back to looking at the capitalistic world we live in and go cool this won't be used for good this won't be used for good this is going to be a step to go now we can employ less people because we can have the same level of productivity with one person instead of two get rid of one of them yeah and that's my that's my big fear oh man man if we if i could pull the plug on ai right now and put the genie back in the bottle and get rid of all this shit i would do it in a heartbeat like period yeah i I don't care.

1:07:20Take longer with your games. You know what I mean? But then we're back to this conversation of what the big company wants out of it, which is why I continue. This is the, this is a weird one, I think, but like maybe a diatribe, but like this year, the indie slate of games is so much more exciting to me. Every time when we sit down and do this month in games, like don't get me wrong, obviously I'm excited for a Pocopia or I'm excited for Wolverine, but it's like when we sit there and we're like, Hey, here's every game coming out and the things I add to that wishlist and then I'm getting on a weekly drip feed basis.

1:07:47it's like fuck I love this so much more than what are we gonna do with marathon you know what I mean like yeah like I'll do you one further actually no I'll do you one further I was gonna talk shit

1:07:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:about a game that I didn't want to talk shit about but like fucking do it well here's like I find triple-a games so fucking boring nowadays like so boring I get so much more excited about indie games I know people come back people get mad at me over that right when I review Pregmata and I'm like I think this game is okay I don't think this game is the best thing since sliced bread and I think one of the reasons because I've played a games like Pregmata a million times nothing wrong pragmata right like i'm not trying to hate on it i'm not trying to yuck people's yums i recommended pragmata to like a few friends what did you give again eight six point five i give it a six point five um and like again i think that game's fine i think it's okay but i get way more excited about a mixtape i get way more excited about a mugenics or hades 2 or playing something that's all or coming up there are so many games that feel fresh and new to me and that shit that's the shit that still fills me with passion yeah you know 100 you are nail on the head on that one yeah and i'm not trying to say that like every triple a game is bad or okay or whatever like i'm so excited for 007 for a slight it's probably gonna be a game of the year of mine if it lives up but yeah for me there's there's way more creativity happening on the indie side i love that that's what instills uh confidence in the industry going forward in my mind where it is like yeah it sucks to see all these people chasing fucking profits in their tails and trying to figure out how to shove ai in or at least speak about ai so they can get their shareholders or is excited or act like they're doing due diligence or whatever the fuck it is.

1:09:16But inevitably, all these companies, these big companies are going to get closed or sold or spin, you know what I mean? What is up with my voice this week? And only on games daily. The rest of the day, it's fine.

1:09:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This cough will not come back. I'm pushing you to the limit. It's okay. No, we're just having a great conversation. You know what I mean? Come on. Come on. Yeah, I know Tim wants to come and talk about this Nintendo thing, but you know, he can wait. He can. We're 17 minutes late, by the way. Well, we started late too, So really we're probably 10 minutes late. 10 minutes, yeah. And late. We can do whatever we want. Yeah. Do you have any more on this or should I move on? I mean, we can just keep spinning our wheels. That's true. AI is not great. We don't like it, but here we are living in the world.

1:09:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Let's close out with story number five. Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka, director of classic Mario and Zelda games, is retiring. I am pulling from Andy Robinson at Video Games Chronicle. veteran nintendo designer takashi tezuka has directed some of the company's most influential games stretching back to the original super mario brothers is retiring from the company in a note published alongside its latest financial results nintendo confirmed that tezuka will retire from his role as an executive officer on june 26th 2026 tezuka is one of the most experienced game designers at nintendo having directed classic games such as zelda super mario world zelda link to the past and yoshi's island most recently tezuka was the producer of super mario brothers wonder at 65 tezuka is at nintendo's typical retirement age though his longtime collaborator miyamoto who's 73 remains active at the company as an executive fellow tim you wanted to come on to talk about this i did i didn't want to replace greg but uh he's over there he has a mic if he has any input he wants to give but of course i had to be here this is such huge news This is the type of, wow, we are really at the end of an era, the beginning of a new one when it comes to video games.

1:11:06You're reading that being like, having directed classic games such as Zelda. We're not saying Zelda the franchise. We're talking about the original Legend of Zelda, right? And Link to the Past and many, many more after that. It's so wild. I was looking at a list of games that he's been a major part of. So producer all the way up to director and comparing it to my top hundred list. There are over 15 games that this man was a key component of creating. There's so look at his Wikipedia, do yourself a favor and just read through it today at some point to just gain an appreciation to for the what this man gave us.

1:11:48in addition to directing some of these amazing games, like literally some of our favorite games of all time, core member of Super Mario 64, right? Director of Yoshi's Island, director of Mario 3, Mario Bros. He was like one of seven people that worked on that. He created so many things. He was the one that did the sprite work for Mario 3. He's the one that designed Yoshi. He's the one that created Booz. And the story there is super fun where he kept working incredibly long hours and went home to his wife and she would turn and yell at him and he would freeze. And he's like, I need to turn this into a gameplay mechanic.

1:12:27He's like, I know what to do with this. I'm inspired right now. And boos were born. That's awesome. Hey, I get it, boo, because that's boo. There we go. There we go. There's layers of this. But dude, I mean, what's your takeaway here?

1:12:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I mean, you said it all, right? Just the fact that we have a legend that's been around the industry for that long and that we're in an industry that is old enough to now have the original legends start to retire retire retire in like graceful manner right i'm 65 it is retirement age i can just step away and go live the rest of my life after having done an amazing thing i'm sure if he wanted to he could probably go the miyamoto route and stay involved at the age of 73 but not everybody wants that everyone wants that and we'll see like maybe he will in some forms or other because uh some of his more recent credits were the mario movies like that is something that he has been uh uh keenly a part of like when you watch the credits his name is like one of the first names that you see um and so yeah it's like he's been a core part of what made nintendo nintendo now i don't look at this as like oh man we're fucked or nintendo's fucked i think they've done such an amazing job passing their franchises down to um key creators that really truly understand the vision uh you know barrett uh did his amazing zelda series talking about all the different Zelda games.

1:13:36And, you know, he was really getting into how Fujibayashi is really kind of the creative head of Zelda, even though Onuma gets all the credit these days. And, you know, they're president now that we are continuing to see so much in the Switch era, like being such a core Nintendo creative sense like Mario Galaxy and all of that, like going forward. Like we're just in a newer era of, you know, Mario Odyssey wasn't directed by the old guard. It was directed by a new guard that was able to work alongside this old guard for so long. And that, you know, industry experience that we always talk about, like Nintendo thrives in that.

1:14:17And it's just, it's wild to get here and see that we're at the point that people are retiring. And this is the end, or this is the beginning of the first class being done, right? the names Koji Kondo are still there Shigeru Miyamoto still there but not forever you know and that's going to just continue to keep happening so play one of his games today it won't be hard

1:14:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you'll have a good time yeah pick us Mario Wonder maybe you know I love that one Tim thank you so much for joining me for this yes and also congratulations to Tezuka legend legendary man greg fizuka retiring that is huge huge news but if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i needed to know about where would i go you'd go to our last news story the we news channel where we run you through all the small news items you need to know about number six is we news from gematsu capcom has released a free update for resident evil requiem which adds the new mini game mode leon must die forever leon must die forever is an extra game mode that is unlocked after players complete the main story and comes packed with a non-stop combat action that players know and love from legendary agent leon kennedy fight your way through areas you visited previously throughout the game and defeat the final boss all with stronger enemy variants five increasingly difficult difficulty ranks and a race against the clock fill your enhancement gauge by defeating enemies in order to unlock leon's enhanced abilities exclusive to this game mode i was really excited to check this out and then i realized that i played through requiem during the marathon stream you never finished on your own unit i don't have yeah i don't have a save on my own unit i don't even know if i own the game and so i don't know if i'll be able to get to this unless i steal andy's save or do something there playstation 5 shipments and sales surpassed 93.7 million units that was attached to all the financial talk we had earlier but we didn't have that detail paranormal activity threshold has been canceled oh very sad what oh 10 tracks from the upcoming star fox game are now available on nintendo music i was listening to those yesterday on the bart yeah yeah yeah okay it sounds like i'm listening to star wars which i know is the inspiration for star fox but the quality just sounds amazing i love it oh yeah honestly has me kind of like maybe i looked at the star fox game kind of maybe i judged you too roughly yeah maybe the maybe the animals aren't too real sekiro no defeat will premiere on september 4th in japan uh from mp first this is a report netflix's devil may cry renewed uh for a third season and then finally from noble blind fire got one last update and got rebranded to blind fire lights out and made the game free to play and decided to keep the servers online indefinitely instead of shutting it down okay love that you love to see it and that is it for we news uh let's knock out a couple of super chats and get out of here um let's see weapons are part of my dot dot dot sorry it cut off uh says hey greg long time listener hi totally off topic will we ever get a grandma can't juke shirt again wait now i'm not sure if it was an actual thing regardless we need a limited line grandma can't juke i don't know what that means that's i mean that's very much you know we say things on these shows i assume maybe that came up at some point with mike or whatever but maybe i said it i don't know i don't know what that is oh oh oh oh grandma miller versus the raccoon i think that was it when they when dupage county animal control wanted uh grandma miller to go put a box on the raccoon i was like yeah he she can't get away okay that makes sense no you're never getting that shirt new mateo says do you feel the same way about ai code it was built off the same principles of taking from stack overflow and github just like with artists yeah i mean my biggest hang-ups with with ai are thievery and killing the trees if you can get around those things then i think there's a bit better conversation we can have there about the uses the uses for it um let's see ultima josh says sony saying that sony saying that is just the same BS they all say but at the end of the day they will use a add increase profits by cutting the workforce period uh that is what capitalism we read this one we read this talk oh we read that one yeah i called that out as like making uh the point we were driving out there yeah um daniel says if sony closes bungie xbox should buy it and revitalize halo with their name on it alone that'd be crazy i mean that'd be such a twist that'd be honestly might fix a lot of things playstation and xbox looked at each other and went let's have a trade listen you we both made mistakes we both made mistakes here just have bungee take them back you know what i mean that might fix the industry man that's crazy about like you leave your wife go to a new wife and you divorce that wife and go back to your old wife it's like oh thank god um let's see here bender says after reading nintendo's financials mario kart world sold about 0.7 million this quarter this comes after losing the console bundle so it seems like the 80 version is not selling a lot of 50 games from nintendo now yeah yeah that doesn't surprise me the mario kart world might not be selling as fast currently yeah just because i don't think it has the that same word of mouth of mario kart no i mean also you know we always talk about this where it's like mario kart 8 has so much time yeah build up and be there but like i i don't think the reaction to switch three is going to get mario kart world deluxe and it's going to be the greatest game ever created trust me hell yeah um and then we'll knock out this last one from joshy frog who says just got to switch to for my mom for mother happy mother's day joshy frog's mom and happy mother's day to all the moms out there coming up this sunday happy mother's day everybody my mom got our flowers today uh time for you're wrong where you write in let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it for those watching later on youtube and listening later on podcast services around the globe jeppo i don't like you um tundra said it's sticker bush symphony not sticker brush I fuck it up every single time don't worry about that dork uh who Jeppo I just want them to know I don't like you right keep doing this and no I'm not gonna read it anymore I'm not gonna read it anymore um let's see let's see Fanger says the kid the video of the kid who showed his chat chat GPT history was heavily editorialized the graduate came out and explained he was showing a small bit of chat gpt logs used for a machine learning class it was used with the encouragement of his professor certain outlets made up a context for what was being shown in the video fair enough yeah i did no research into this i just saw him celebrating with chat gpt but even then just celebrating with chat gpt was i was talking i guess well i was talking about cheating it yeah sometimes you see a viral video and you don't feel like looking up the history i don't have time to go read the article about this some dumb kid that is it for you're wrong that is it for this episode of kind of funny games daily that went way over time.

1:21:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We had a great time though. We had a good time had some good conversations and the good conversations are not going to stop here because right after this is Gamescast where we're going to talk about a whole bunch of games that we're playing. That's right. The Royal Week because I'm not going to be on it but Alabaster Dawn Exit 8. Yeah Alabaster. Here's what the run of show looks like. Alabaster Dawn for me and Andy. Yes Exit 8 is part of the sponsorship with me talking about that. I want to talk a little bit about Inconbini. I'd like to talk a little bit about Replaced if we need to i'm ready to talk about lord of hatred for diablo if we need to i'm ready to talk about skate i'm ready to go if you have you if you need extra content i can talk about the invincible versus story mode oh i'd love that oh yeah okay come on for a second i don't have much to say about it but okay great no it's a fun little conversation about what we're all playing this has been kind of funny games daily if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon or youtube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show enjoy the games cast next and the stream after but until next time game daily Thank you.