In short
Kinda Funny Games Daily (Jan 12, 2026) covers “Switch 2” hardware pricing pressure from RAM shortages and tariffs, a possible imminent Call of Duty announcement for Nintendo platforms, and a controversy involving Epic CEO Tim Sweeney defending X/Grok amid reports of AI-generated sexual content involving minors.
Guests
No guest interviewees. Hosts are Greg Miller and Blessing “Bless” (Eddie Oye Jr.). Other participants are referenced (e.g., Barrett, Andy, Roger, Mike, Kevin, Tim), but they aren’t formal guests.
Key claims
- Nintendo is monitoring Switch 2 profit margin because RAM prices are rising, with AI data centers driving demand and supply scarcity.
- Furukawa says tariffs are treated as a cost and “passed on to prices as much as possible.”
- Datamining suggests Call of Duty code now includes a “Nintendo” platform entry, implying an announcement soon.
- Tim Sweeney argues against banning X/Grok, claiming “open platforms” shouldn’t be shut down, despite reports Grok being used to create sexual imagery of minors.
Notable examples
- Grok edits requested via X replies (including non-consensual undressing; reports of child sexual content).
- RAM price volatility tied to AI data centers.
- Call of Duty platform-family code listing “Nintendo” and “Nintendo account” (NA).
Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.
Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VONintendo's RAM Price Concerns
2:14 to 2:46
Discussion on Nintendo monitoring high RAM prices and tariffs.
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Game of the Year Predictions
2:46 to 5:38
Hosts discuss predictions for their Game of the Year rankings.
“what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for monday january 12th 2026 i'm I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 Under 30, a.k.a.”
Pricing and Quality in Gaming
5:38 to 9:01
Debate over the relationship between game pricing and quality.
“But I think enough of us have played it.”
RAM Supply and Pricing Issues
9:01 to 14:01
In-depth analysis of how RAM supply issues may affect gaming prices.
“because remember, this is kind of funny games daily each and every week.”
Nintendo's RAM Challenges and Price Stability
14:01 to 16:46
Explore the challenges Nintendo faces in securing RAM and the implications for Switch 2 pricing.
“Soja Go plays games 2153 Super Chat and says, title of the live episode alone had me scared thinking a price increase was already happening when I'm actively saving for a Switch 2, but it sounds like I have time.”
Impact of AI on Hardware Prices
16:46 to 19:28
Discussion on how AI demand is affecting prices of GPUs and gaming hardware.
Future of Gaming Consoles and Cloud Gaming
19:28 to 23:26
Examine how gaming consoles might adapt their strategies in response to rising hardware costs.
“So now rather than punish the people who buy later, let's punish everyone equally and put it out here.”
Call of Duty's Imminent Switch Release
23:26 to 24:32
Recent datamining suggests Call of Duty may soon be available on Switch platforms.
“But for now, we'll move into a different kind of switch to news.”
Excitement for Upcoming Xbox Developer Direct
24:32 to 28:02
Discussion on the anticipated Xbox Developer Direct and the games expected to be showcased.
Fantasy Picks and Predictions
28:02 to 31:11
Discussion on gaming predictions and picks for fantasy leagues.
“But then I think the other picks are good.”
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Discussion on Tim Sweeney's Controversy
33:39 to 36:36
Analyzing Tim Sweeney's statements about AI and censorship on X.
“Howard the Duck joins MCU in review Wednesday, January 28th at 7.30 p.m.”
Community Reactions and Concerns
36:36 to 42:00
Community responses to Sweeney's comments and discussions on X's policies.
“As reported by Eurogamer, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney took to X formerly Twitter to criticize an attempt by US lawmakers to ban the social media app and its accompanying generative AI tool Grok.”
Discussion on Internet Numbness to Disturbing Content
42:00 to 43:57
Explore how the internet's overwhelming negativity desensitizes people to serious issues.
“like I was saying, the fact that no one's talking about it.”
Reflections on Beating Dark Souls
43:57 to 45:11
A conversation about the personal achievement of completing Dark Souls and its significance.
Anticipating Persona's 30th Anniversary and Future Releases
45:11 to 47:20
Discuss upcoming Persona series news and the excitement surrounding its anniversary.
“Was really bummed out about it because I didn't know what Persona was.”
Speculation on Persona 6 and Revivals
47:20 to 49:31
Speculate about potential new announcements for Persona 6 and other series revivals.
“I think this is finally the year we get an announcement.”
The Division's Definitive Edition Announcement
49:31 to 51:48
Discussion on the upcoming definitive edition of The Division and opinions on its necessity.
LEGO Pokémon Sets Announcement
51:48 to 56:00
Reveal and discuss the new LEGO Pokémon sets and community reactions to their design.
“Division 2 we all like that one DLC so much they support it for like six more years or whatever the fuck it is.”
Discussion on Game Pricing and Expectations
56:00 to 57:20
Explores various perspectives on game pricing and the expectations around new releases.
Wii News: Game Announcements and Speculations
57:20 to 58:20
Covers small game announcements and discusses the credibility of release dates.
“Remember when they announced that, and everybody's like, isn't that the town from Fable?”
Super Chat Interactions and Discussions
58:20 to 1:00:00
Interactive segment discussing various super chats related to game prices and community feedback.
“For the record, for people watching and listening, they will say this game is coming out this year.”
Analyzing Game Art and Value
1:00:00 to 1:02:00
A conversation about the relationship between game art, pricing, and the subjective experience of value.
“Alex Motter says, Greg, did you get my BS?”
Diverse Gaming Experiences and Content Creation
1:02:00 to 1:03:40
Discusses various gaming experiences and the importance of content creation in the gaming community.
“David says, unrelated to anything, but Greg Hasbro announced a new Star Wars Black Series.”
Current Trends in Gaming and Industry Commentary
1:03:40 to 1:09:00
Analysis of current gaming trends, industry commentary, and the challenges faced by gamers and developers.
“Oh man, a lot of super chats in here today.”
Wrap-Up and Future Content Teaser
1:10:03 to 1:10:58
The hosts recap the episode and preview upcoming discussions.
Transcript
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2:46what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for monday january 12th 2026 i'm I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 Under 30, a.k.a. New York Game Awards nominated, a.k.a. Purple Poppy. Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.
3:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Good day, Greg. How are you? I'm doing good. I had to rock the purple. Of course, that's one of the colors for a game of the year this year. It is. It's not. No, we put up the key. I try to dress for the occasion. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I have no purple shirts. I'm incredibly excited for our game of the year, of course, if you didn't know everybody. right after this it is the kind of funny games cast doing uh the kind of funny top 10 for 2026 which of course crowns our game of the year if you're unfamiliar kind of funny the way we all do it is we all blind vote we put in our top 10 they are ranked they are given you know your number one gets 10 points your number 10 gets no your number one gets 10 points your number 10 gets one point uh we all give him to barrett he sits there in a little booth he made it that we can't see and he goes and tabulates it and then we all reveal it live what happens so i'm incredibly excited always a fun day i want your prediction and chat super chat in on what your predictions what do you think is going to be our number eight game our number eight ranked game of the year oh bear came back in to lean on the wall here's what threw me off everybody and bear you can come on here if you want to mug because i know you won't say anything but if you want to mug give your facial reactions to this a few weeks ago and yeah no that's not true i guess we've only been back a week i guess that's like a week and a half that friday we came back and he came by And he was like, hey, can you log into your steam on my machine?
4:22And I was like, sure, but why? He's like, I want to get Octopath stuff in case. And I'm like, dude, I'm the only one who played Octopath. I'm the only one voting for Octopath. And he's like, yeah, but if you're still putting it at one, that would be 10 points. And he's like, I think it's going to be so spread this year. It could get in that way. And I was like, I don't think so, but I want to believe that. You know what I mean? I want to believe that. Because last year it was, Barrett said, 12 points is what you need. It was the first entry on the list. so I'd love to believe that my 10 for Octopath could get it on there as number 10 but if that's the case then who the fuck knows what the rest of this looks like
4:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm gonna do like a sniper shot right here okay I'm sniping it and Roger I think and Roger's our number 8 I would love that I would love that I think enough of us have played it enough of us really like it yeah Mike3kev or Mike3kev no Mike3kev all I'll say is I'm the one who usually collects like the footage for games so I feel like Andy was just kind of fucking with you there I don't know well he's trying to make you know how he makes the graphic art, the wall thing. Oh, well, the back wall. Yeah. Okay. That's all. And again, don't get me wrong. I'm not believing it. I don't believe it. I don't think it was that spread, but we'll see.
5:26We'll see. We'll see. In just less than an hour now, we'll start going through. Are you saying Octopath? No. No, you're not saying Octopath. For number eight, number eight's got to be higher. That's not a bad one. It was between that and Night Rain. I'll throw out one
5:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:that you're going to think I'm crazy. Say it. Say it. It's spicy. It's 10 a.m. on a Monday. Wake us up. oh man oh man wake us up greg where is donkey kong bonanza gonna shake out on this bitch that's my question you know what i mean i think so too but i also feel like there was a cooling on that where people were and then it was like i think it's nobody's it's nobody's number one yeah i think because talking to talking to tim his i know his top three right his top three seems very locked I don't think it's your number one is Octopath Traveler zero. But I think enough of us have played it. But I guess, did Mike play DK Bonanza?
6:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Did Andy play DK Bonanza? Yeah. Barrett gave it a six out of ten. That's not true. What'd you give it? I gave it an eight. You hate it. Hates it. He hates it. Hey, I gave it a better score than Mario Kart World. Who else works for this company? Did Roger play DK Bonanza? I think he hates Nintendo games. Yeah, he's weird. You might be on to something. Ever since he got slapped, he hasn't been right. I know. He's been walking weird. A guy in a JetBlue flight knocked something loose in there. Yeah, he's been getting weird tattoos. We'll wait and see. We'll have to wait and see. All right, fair enough.
6:48Yeah, Roger confirms I hate all Nintendo games. See, there it is. Getting a lot of compliments on my hero sweater, by the way.
6:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:He likes weird mascot characters, but I think the Nintendo characters do polish for them. I wasn't sure if it was like all one shirt or if you were wearing a shirt underneath that. Yeah, it's like attached sleeve. Oh, it is attached. I thought it was. Oh. Who's this? Is this insert coin? Who is this? um i forget this might be toho and the toho animation like like iizo iizo google iizo i got this the same uh spot that i got alissa's sick uh quarters at bakugou uh uh sweater as well this is actually a change of topic a little bit zaki g in chat says bonanza was awesome but for $70 it was fine I feel like that's a different conversation as far as price yeah I think I get I get lost when we get into the weeds of like the quality of a video game versus like the price of it I guess in in terms of how something ranks among your list I totally understand from a capitalistic standpoint of you know you have to save your money consumers have to pick or whatever and like if a game costs too much for you it costs too much for you but like in a game of the year ranking I feel like if expedition 33 costs a hundred dollars or whatever I'm still like well fuck price like we're talking about the we're talking about the art but maybe that's a hot take maybe that's just i think it is a different conversation because i think like i think there is two different conversations of bonanza being great and then is bonanza worth the 70 dollars you know yeah yeah all right i agree with that 100 i think you know you can look back at even my some old igian reviews where i think i might ding things for the price and it's like well what the fuck was what was the point of that yeah like but then you're also an argument of are you reviewing in the moment are you reviewing for all time and what does it mean i guess i just don't think when i'm playing a game or i'm reviewing a game i'm not thinking i 70 is this moment to moment 70 but even before i worked here before i got things for free i was never like oh man is this is this gunplay 70 dollars right here you know what i mean like i don't know i agree with that don't get me wrong because i think everybody 70 50 whatever 10 dollars is a different price point for every person that's the whole the peak quote going around today about yeah well eight dollars is five dollars or whatever it is seven nine nine is five dollars eight dollars and it makes sense when you think about it, but I digress.
9:00We'll have all that more because remember, this is kind of funny games daily each and every week. Did the nerdy news you need to know about if you're watching live right now, of course, be part of the show by super chatting over on youtube.com slash kind of funny games. You could be part of the show with your thoughts, opinions on the stories, just like Bob Shigity is right now, who says just finished Alan Wake 2 for the first time after playing Alan Wake 1 and Control also for the first time. Great games. Can't wait for Resident. Control Resident coming up very soon. Probably. We'll see how it does.
9:30we couldn't do this of course without our producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny so thank you carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the psalm twining remember if you're looking for housekeeping you can find it on a new episode of the buzz available right now on all of our social medias and of course youtube.com slash kind of funny games but for right now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report time for some news seven items on the rope report oh bakers does it number one nintendo is monitoring high ram prices and tariff impacts very closely you would hope so says president shontaro furukawa this is chris scullion at vgc nintendo president shontaro furukawa says the company is keeping a close eye on the switch two's profit margin as the increase in memory prices and ongoing tariffs remain an ongoing issue in the industry and in an interview in an interview with Kyoto Shinbon uh Furukawa was asked what the challenges were regarding switch two's lower profit margin than that of the original switch quote hardware profitability depends on factors like component procurement conditions cost reductions through mass production and the impact of exchange rates and tariffs he said via a machine translation.
10:46Quote, it is difficult to generalize. Fundamentally, we aim to address this by advancing component procurement over the medium to long term, end quote. He went on to note that the rapidly increasing cost of RAM, mainly attributed to AI data centers buying up huge quantities of it, making supply scarce, is something that could become an issue if it continues. Quote, we procure from supply. I love procure. Procure. I don't, I, you know what I mean? Is this like a Bond villain thing to do? Well, for me, it was - To procure something? Chad, keep me honest on this one i want to say i learned it as one of the metal gears because i used to always say i remember a lot it would be i'm gonna go out what if we don't have something i say oh we're gonna procure on site because i remember i remember i thought colonel saying that to snake or snake saying that whether it was metal gear solid or metal gear salt 3 or whatever yeah but this idea of like whatever it is i'll get it when we're there this is whenever i hear the word
11:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:procure i have to like hear it in an evil british sure sure sure sure sure cure the rabbit's foot you know what i mean it's like what is the what's the evil macguffin that we're that we're yeah exactly yeah you don't just get it back to it sorry uh we procure from suppliers based on a medium to long-term business plans but the current memory market is very volatile there is no immediate impact on earnings but it is something we must monitor closely when asked if it could increase its prices depending on its future procurement costs uh he said that he said that was hypothetical and he couldn't comment.
12:08Later in the interview, Furukawa was asked what the impact the high tariffs placed on Japan by the US were having on the company. Furukawa noted that at the start of the fiscal year, Nintendo had projected a negative impact of several tens of billion yen several tens of billion yen as a result of the tariffs and said it did see a corresponding impact in the first half of the year. Quote, while it's difficult to accurately gauge the future impact, our basic policy is to recognize tariffs as a cost and pass them on to prices as much as possible not just in the u.s he said on the other hand this is a crucial period for our games business as we promote the adoption of new hardware and maintain the momentum of our platforms we are working on this while carefully considering the situation are you shocked bus shocked that nintendo is paying attention to market data
12:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:of market conditions yeah but i i mean i do think that given the details of this right it very much gives not marketing speak but high level we can't say too much detail because we're nintendo and we're secretive and i'm a ceo and we're a publicly traded business so like you know what i mean like this is going to affect the stock market if we start saying stuff exactly like we can't say too much here but we know what's going on and we're paying attention to what's going on okay sure i think this goes back to the conversation i was having with tim uh last week in regards to ram prices and how ai is driving up ram prices because you're seeing a lot of people move toward the ai side of things which is also driving up the ram prices so like what this all means to me is that prices of things are going to go up over time if you want to switch to at the price that you can get a switch to today buy a switch to right now because we are past the time where game consoles after three years, four years, end up going down in price.
13:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's not the case anymore. They're only going to go up in price. The Switch 2 is probably going to go up in price sooner than later, I imagine. Soja Go plays games 2153 Super Chat and says, title of the live episode alone had me scared thinking a price increase was already happening when I'm actively saving for a Switch 2, but it sounds like I have time. But how much time do you have? That's the big question here, right? of like how much RAM has Nintendo stockpiled. Obviously, when you set off with the specs of a machine, you buy X amount at whatever that price point is so that you can build those machines that way and keep going.
14:28But now there is this idea, if you haven't been following how terrible it is out there, all these fucking AI data centers that aren't even built yet have ordered all this RAM, which have now fucked everything up to where we're all stalled. Like you're not going to be able to get RAM at an affordable price ever again, or at least not in the imminent future, or less AI, God willing, buckles and falls away, and then we can get it at steel, right? Like, we see all sorts of people scrambling trying to fix this or figure out what they're going to do. I'd missed this whole thing, but AMD and NVIDIA will reportedly raise GPU prices significantly in 2026.
14:59I hadn't missed that. I had heard that. The one I had missed was this rumor, I guess, I have from Moises Tavares over at the one, the only, GameSpot, of course. NVIDIA reportedly combating GPU shortages by bringing back discontinued graphics card. as gpu prices continue to skyrocket and stock becomes increasingly scarce rumors are swirling that nvidia might be about to resurrect a previously discontinued line of hardware it goes in to talk about the 3060 gpus and yada yada but it's these are the reverber ramifications we're talking about uh the ripples in the water here right as they go out of like as ai buys up all this shit then you see the rest of the market really start to try to figure out what that means and it can mean in one hand amd and nvidia having to really jack up the price on what they already have and then also nvidia getting crafty if this is real and being a pro gamer move
15:45Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and making this back yeah i think this is going to be the story of the year regarding how video game hardware manufacturers react to all this i think with nintendo it's going to be the tug of war of how long can we hold on to our current price point because they want to hold on to it because we're still in year one of the switch 2 right we're still in the first 12 months of this thing being out nintendo desperately does not want to raise the price on the switch 2 already we're talking about this last holiday season being down compared to where the switch one was at during the holiday season right like we're in such a crucial time for new hardware for nintendo and they're going to want to keep this as long as possible but they're going to lose this tug of war and then i think they know or at least they're growing to know that they're going to lose this tug of war sooner than later so we might be talking about by the end of the year by early next year like maybe we have one more holiday season and that's me trying to be generous about it one more holiday season at this price point before they buckle and have to put prices up that's just nintendo like the conversation then we'll still playstation and xbox and next gen and how let's follow these ripples out yep right it is that idea of like obviously xbox have been very vocal about working on their next xbox which is going to have some kind of pc connectivity which is going to be a premium product right clearly playstation is also working on i forget exactly what cerny has or hasn't said in the past but you know what's happening yeah the question then becomes cool have you secured the amount of RAM you needed for these machines where they finalized to that point that you're ready to build on them and even if they were what do you do when you're like cool we bought enough to make x million units but when we want to make the next the next batch of them it's going to cost 30 percent 50 percent more to try to get that right now yeah how do you do that what kind of lurch are you in are we going to see what i know many gamers i think would be all right with would them all right you know what let's delay uh next gen two years let's let's try to squeeze even more out of the playstation 5 even more out of everything's an xbox even more out of everything back to nvidia you know what i mean of like is this what what does this mean for nvidia strategy that we talk about positively all the time in the show because we love it of geforce now of like would this be the thing of like yo there's no way you can afford a 50 80 isn't that what's in the cloud if you have the highest tier like or 50 90 like but here you could and we'll give you this introductory deal we'll do this and like it'll be interesting to see if this is some kind if it is is if this is as bad as it could be yeah is this a turning point where we all really go you know what games are good as they are we don't need to be pushing hyper realistic and i know that like ai gets involved then of like well you know that could super sample and is it also the thing that pushes more people to try streaming if it really is geforce now again in sf we have great internet but nvidia geforce now has been great to me great to us like it'll be really fascinating to see how this shakes out i mean steam machine that's one that we're all excited for we still don't have the price for steam machine right 100 that's by design i think that's them looking at the new environment and being like all right let's let's wait and see to see how much we can charge for this thing do we even get it this year you know does it end up getting delayed to next year because this shit is happening so see i think that it's it's so complicated because i don't think it gets delayed because i think that that if you're as confident as they were to say, Hey, we have the steam machine and they, they said it was first half of the year early this year, right?
18:56That they're going to put it out.
18:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I forget if they said earlier, first half either way. Yeah. Good enough. Not a date, but a date. If you said that those are in production, those are being built. Those are in a warehouse right now being boxed up somewhere, theoretically, or at least the components have been purchased. I hope so. Cause I want one, but it's gonna be expensive. But then you get back to the point of like, okay, cool. Shit. Is it good enough for valve to put out those X million units to begin with? And then not put out another wave, put out another wave, but it is significantly more expensive. Do you pass that cost on the consumer right now of saying, shit, we need to put in the next order for RAM.
19:28We might as well do it. It's going to be this much. So now rather than punish the people who buy later, let's punish everyone equally and put it out here. Because again, as the quote goes in this article from the president of Nintendo, policy is to recognize tariffs as a cost and pass them on to the prices. Pass them on to the prices. That's you. Remember, this is how tariffs work. Because a whole bunch of people who voted here in America didn't understand that's how they work. Now you're eating shit, you stupid idiots.
19:55Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. I mean, it's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot to keep track of as far as what's going to happen. Remember when the job used to be just we played a game and said if we didn't like it, we liked it or didn't like it. And now I'm thinking of the thing of, again, if we're chasing down these ripples, what does the strategy become? Right? I think you talk about the cloud aspect of it, which is going to be a big aspect of it. But when I think of me as a gamer, right? Yeah. Like, I'm somebody who, I like cloud, I don't love cloud, right? Of course. There's still that little bit of latency that just doesn't work, at least maybe for the kind of games I play.
20:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I like fighting games, I like action games. That shit's kind of hard. 100%. Latency, I don't like that. But I think for a PlayStation, I think for a lot of these console manufacturers, you might just have to lock in on software, right? Like, the strategy might change as far as you're talking about, let's extend it two years. I think it becomes, I think the big part of the strategy now becomes how long and how much can we squeeze out of the people that are already locked in already own a console you know i mean like yeah do we raise money on playstation plus do we rate like are we still seeing ps4 games come out in 2030 what year we in 2020 yeah 2030 um i think those are the conversations that we that we're going to end up having and those are the things we're going to end up seeing we will wait and see as everything goes i'm looking through the super chats here because people are talking about a whole bunch of things you know get the birthday taxes they rolling bs that's right everybody what do you do over there um let's get you this one golden spider says this is why i bought a switch to at launch even though i hardly ever use it because i knew the price would inevitably go up 100 that was what i think a lot of us are saying when it was even crazier with tariffs back then i know it's not good now but back then it was shooting from the hip uh you know what's gonna happen uh are they gonna change their mind here now do we just shoot people in the head just american citizens get shot in the head for no reason uh c barry 328 says wasn't switch to sales lower than expected this holiday and they were 50 50 dollars off would the sale numbers decrease even more with the price increase yeah well yeah c barry but again this comes back to a conversation we had on games daily of like that's a fact yes but remember of course switch to launch sales were far better than switch one launch sales so when you start talking about moving units it's like well did they sell worse than the holiday because so many people who wanted them bought them in the summer or spring, whenever it came out.
22:10You know what I mean? It's that kind of argument back and forth of a saturated market and then of course as they have said, software as well. Software of like, we don't have a Mario. We don't have, I think they talked about not having a big Western game in terms of a Western release, something like that. I don't know. DC Hard Rocker says, NVIDIA stopped selling RAM to card makers as part of their deal. They can make as many 3060 chips as they want, but Asus, etc. still need to buy RAM. Yes. but it's interesting to see them introduce the chips. Yeah. I'm with you. I'm following you. There's an article I think we're missing there.
22:43And then Dexter has a prediction for number eight. Unless Kevin bullied everyone for Blueprints to be number one, I think Blueprints is number eight. Tied with Donkey Kong. Love you, Kevin. Do you think Blueprints makes the list?
22:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think it makes the list. I think it's very low on the list. I'd be good at it. Yeah, because I think I'll have it on my list, obviously. And I could see it on one or two other people's lists, but it's definitely one that it will not be high on there. Sadly. Fair enough. Company's wrong. Whoa. Yeah, I said it. Whoa. Player obscure. More like should be an obscure. Get out of here. Get out of here. JK. I love that game. I love this. Kevin is running the smoke today. Everybody is also on my list. So we will continue to monitor the Ram prices, the switch prices and et cetera, et cetera. But for now, we'll move into a different kind of switch to news.
23:29Number two on the Roper report, call of duty on switch to could be imminent. A data minor claims. This is Chris Scullion at VGC. News of Call of Duty's arrival on Switch 2, and potentially Switch, could be imminent. That's according to ex-user Reality, who datamined a recent Call of Duty update and claimed to have found new code referencing Nintendo platforms. Under Platform Family section, joining existing entries like Sony, Steam, Microsoft, and Ubisoft Connect. Some Activision games were added to Ubisoft Plus Premium last month. It is a reportedly new entry called Nintendo. It also adds a new entry to the platform family to account type section, adding NA Nintendo account to the existing entries XBL, PSN and Steam.
24:12Reality suggested that the addition of Nintendo to the game games code suggests an announcement is imminent, perhaps during a presentation announcing new games. While it's almost certain that such games will be available on Nintendo Switch, too. It is not known whether Microsoft will attempt to bring the series to the original Switch period.
24:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:this lines up with i think jazz cordon said this um last week that this would be the year that we'd see call of duty come to switch yeah um part of this would lead me to believe maybe you say something during the the developer direct but i don't know what you would say because you don't announce the next call of duty there well no but if i mean what you would do is say we're also excited and i mean we're always looking for those day day and day drops so during the dev direct be like hey you know what we're also excited to you know to tell you previous call of duty yeah the one that just came out that people hated right hey you know that one with the guy releasing just the campaign also you know that one that the guy from heroes that nobody liked it's out today right now and switch to we're excited to announce that from here on out will be day and date maybe that's probably too far but i mean you could go back a couple call duties ago right like how long have they been working on yeah i mean like i of course am not the call of duty guy so is the move really Warzone is that what we're trying to do here you think is it like oh Warzone is dropping today on Nintendo Switch 2 that would be fucking sick actually yeah that'd be a great way and all it is is you know Phil or Sarah or whoever be like and here's something and it's just a trailer anywhere anytime drop in yeah it's Nikola it's like my switch have like a Mario costume on yeah they always yeah one of the soldiers dressed up as Luigi so it's exactly what they'll have fucking executing a shine out there yeah okay yeah no i can see it um i for some reason i don't expect it but like i could see it i think the war zone thing is smart but yeah makes sense for later this year you finally try to get in line with call of duty releasing everywhere so they can make good on all those court documents they had to all the things they had to do all the things they had to agree to we'll put call of duty everywhere we'll put it on the listen don't freak out everybody will put it everywhere any x playground is coming everywhere oh my god the any x playground can't wait for that one that's what i need the kids running around doing i remember of course the xbox underscore developer or developer underscore xbox developer underscore direct is coming out on january 22nd we will be live reacting to it here on youtube.com slash kind of funny games twitch.tv slash kind of funny games paris will be here gary will be here in the flesh we'll all be watching it and reacting to that it'll be your usual games daily time followed by of course you're well it'll be a gamescast live reaction then the post show gamescast then the games daily we'll have a great time talking about all the cool are you excited for it hey for which part sorry xbox developer direct no um yeah i'm excited for i like the the games that they have on the docket yeah i'm all the way into right forza horizon obviously i love forza horizon and then going to tokyo oh yes beast of reincarnation i believe is what it's called coming out coming from game freak yep i always want to see game freak try things and do things outside of Pokemon and like flex those muscles because they've done they did a little town hero that game that came out like 2018 five six years ago um I want to see them do different things and I think that game does look like it has a lot of potential so I'm excited to see that fable I want to see more from it I want to see them say a date and then most likely delay that date into 2027 because that's what's going to happen but I'm excited for it what if it did come this year though there's a chance always a chance that's just not coming this year though come on let's be real be honest mike paid 60 on his medic on his fucking fame secret kevin i just dropped at the end of story number two kind of funny.com slash league if you could throw that up of course we have a fantasy critic league that just kicked off last week as it does every year and it is worth pointing out if you go to still like mike uh his team team's no like mike number one you will see that over the weekend when drafts or bids processed mike filled his entire team mike picked up fable ghost of yotei legends diablo uh four lord of hatred at fate's end world of warcraft midnight and now only has one dollar left to his name in this league which is either gonna be just a brilliant move or like a colossal collapse what do you think it's gonna be i i think this is always a mistake every year somebody at the beginning of the year always picks always like fills up their catalog and then never pays off for them however if it does pay off for anybody it would be snowmike mike yeah so this could be his steph curry i'm shooting from the logo type thing i i look down i look through this list right yeah again fable i'm not i'm not 100 sold on yeah that i did bid for it as well thinking but i went like you know 15 bucks so yeah i mean i bid three i'd put three dollars down for it because if nobody else is going to get it i'll get it sure um ghost of yotei legends i don't think that's going to be reviewed like in the 90s right like I think that'll be maybe low 80, if not high 70.
29:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But then I think the other picks are good. At Fate's End, I'm not convinced we'll see this year. That's the only other thing. I think that game looks... Which one is that? I don't even know what that is. It's the game coming from the Spiritfarer developer. Got it. Really cool 2D art style. I think it... I forget if it has like a card combat system or something along those lines. Chat, correct me if I'm wrong there. But yeah, Diablo, World of Warcraft, those expansions, I think those are good picks. I don't think he has a bad lineup whatsoever here. But some of these are big risks. We'll see. I took a risk this weekend as well.
29:31I went, I of course bid on halo, like I said, but I also went and, you know, I said to hell with it. Is it all style? No substance. I don't know. And I bid and picked up replaced. I saw that. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good call. I don't know. I don't know. I bid Paris who then texted me the day of. I was like, you idiot. Are you jerk? And I was like, I'm like, Oh, it's like, I could see it going either way where this thing pays off on the style. It has, cause it has such fucking style or it totally, seven seven ones it you know what i mean it's just like okay it's a beautiful game but it doesn't get anywhere it needs to be in terms of a narrative that makes sense just indies i know and i got so bad last year by indies but i want to believe like i look at this game and i go i want to believe expose the sinister secrets of the phoenix corporation as reach an ai trapped in a human body set in an alternate 1980s america scarred by nuclear catastrophe navigate a dark cyberpunk thriller in this narrative driven 2.5 d platformer blending cinematic exploration with fluid free flow action that sounds like combat looks so smooth like the animations look so this game
30:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:looks like it's going to be fantastic yeah but yeah i've been we'll see i've been steered the wrong way you've been burned before i've been burned before i was looking at i was gonna i was even looking at mugenics which is one of my picks during the initial draft and i was looking through the history and of course they made binding of isaac but then i saw that he made other games as well that didn't score as high so now i'm like fuck all right let's see like i need this thing to hit i need this thing to do at least an 85 for me so we will wait and see and keep you posted throughout this year on fantasy critic but remember we couldn't do fantasy critic we couldn't have a great studio we couldn't have these lights or these mics without your support with a kind of funny membership patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games apple or spotify you can pick up a kind of funny membership and get all of our shows ad free you can get your daily dose of me greg miller in a series we call greg way that's me 15 to 20 minutes podcasting to you each and every day.
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36:16Number three on the Roper Report. Throw them up for the Dudley Boys. Epic game. CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI generate pornographing images of minors as just quote unquote gatekeepers attempting to quote censor all of their political opponents end quote. This is Ted Litchfield over at PC Gamer. As reported by Eurogamer, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney took to X formerly Twitter to criticize an attempt by US lawmakers to ban the social media app and its accompanying generative AI tool Grok. The move came after users discovered that Elon Musk's Grok has the ability to take photos of real people including minors and produce images of them undressed or in otherwise sexually compromising positions, flooding the site with such content.
37:02Quote, reason number 42 for open platforms to shut down every politician's incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents. Sweeney wrote in his first tweet responding to Mac Rumor's report of U.S. politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores. Quote, all major AIs have documented instances of going off the rails. End quote. Sweeney continued in a follow up tweet. All major AI companies make their best efforts to combat this. None are perfect. Politicians demanding gatekeepers selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism.
37:41AI going off guardrails. Oh, sorry. Okay, yeah. That's the end quote from Sweeney. Now we go to a quote here from Patrick Klepek. Quote, AI going off guardrails is not the same as actively excusing content for pedophiles, wrote Remap and former Waypoint editor Patrick Klepek in response. Quote, your priorities as someone in charge of a company that makes a video game catering to young people are completely off, end quote. 404 Media's report from January 5th at the beginning of the saga offers illustrative examples of Grok's newly discovered capabilities, like influencers undressed, made to appear pregnant, or shown breastfeeding a child.
38:19There are also extensive reports of users generating such material from images of minors. Given the opportunity, Sweeney appears eager to defend an unprecedented online sexual humiliation machine calling for open platforms and free speech while presiding over censorship on his own closed platform. Then we have a link here to Sweeney's response. Oh, this is a response to this article. I see over on Twitter. Yeah. Tim Sweeney tweets, this is a vile lie by PC Gamer. I criticized a government official for pressuring Apple and Google to block a speech app owned by their political opponent. deplatforming 500 million users on the pretense of stopping a small number of users from disturbing disgusting content period you know ceos say the darndest things
39:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you know tech ceos gaming ceos they always say the darndest things um i i don't know where to start with this i think the place to start would be to inform people if you're not on twitter or if you've missed out on what's been going on on call it x oh sorry x calling this twitter is such a fucking insult to what twitter used to be when twitter was good there's a ai chat bot grok yeah um that essentially you can tag and post to like ask whatever do this stupid shit yeah hey grok tell me what time it is hey grok tell me some basic shit i could google right um in the last few weeks maybe like month i actually don't know how long this has been happening but it's been blowing up more and more recently where people will post an image and people will reply to that image asking grok to edit that image and it could be hey grok you know put a hat put a green hat on this person maybe totally yeah yes but what's been happening more and more is people saying hey grok take this person's shirt off hey grok uh show me this person making out somebody else hey grok do you essentially like asking grok to do things that are very inappropriate inappropriate and non-consensual to this person and people have been doing it i think small partly because of memes but then also it seems like there's a growing aspect of people that are just fucking horny and perverted coming in well with everyone good leaving x who's left on x yeah not good and so yeah it's a lot of people basically non-consensually taking people's clothes off on this platform including children including making creating child porn using x's tool um so that's where this conversation conversation starts as far as tip twini coming in and saying and him I think initially replying to somebody saying somebody saying we should do something about this and Tim Sweeney being like no all AI eventually goes off the guard yeah all AI goes off the guard rails we shouldn't allow censorship all this stuff which that I say get it together fuck that like we got to do something about this shit right like we can't keep over complicating things in the name of free speech yeah right we can't keep allowing bullshit like this to happen in the name of oh but like we should be able to say anything we want and be able to express marketplace of ideas.
41:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. But in that we should protect people, right? Like we should protect children. We should, we should protect people who are being non-consensually put out there in these ways that they don't want to be. All this is terrible shit. And Tim Sweeney should not be defending this, but also I am not surprised because again, tech CEO say the darndest things, don't they? Like this happens all the time. Um, and I've seen this before from Tim Sweeney. So this especially doesn't surprise me. Yeah. Uh, we have two super chats about it. Uh, Techie Haas says, hi, Greg and bless. Congrats on 11 years. Just wanted to shout out Alana Pierce's new video about X.
41:44It's a must watch, and I ask everyone to please leave that platform. It will never die if people keep using it. Love you all. Kev, I dropped the link in there. Alana put this out, I think, this weekend, maybe Friday. I haven't had the chance to watch it, but I follow Alana on all the social media, so I've seen her sharing it and encourage you to go check it out. Obviously, it's her diving into all of this, and more importantly, like I was saying, the fact that no one's talking about it. Like it isn't getting that's a lot is one, one of her points over on the Instagrams. I saw about it, of the fact that like this is happening in mainstream media.
42:12Aren't actually talking about how fucked up this is and how fucking disgusting this is. Meanwhile, mucked a super chat and says your daily reminder to get the fuck off X. If you're using it, whatever good you think comes from doing it is undone by your momentarily supporting these behaviors.
42:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Tim Sweeney and part of his reply to the PC gamer, right? He says D platforming 500 million users on the pretense of stopping a small number of users from distributing disgusting content i can't express it enough it's not a small amount of users you go to any pay any like posted image on x right now look in the replies it's people asking grok to do shit to that person it's not a small amount yeah just want to put that out there no i'm glad you did no no and that's in in um to alana's video which i i watched on the way here i only got halfway through it i need to watch the rest but yeah she puts it um in a great way like you mentioned right like not many people are reporting on this and this is the richest man on the planet it's his tools it's his website right it's his ai tool that is making child porn and nobody's fucking reporting on this shit well it's just you know don't worry this isn't me justifying it's just that the craziest fucking shit keeps happening each and every goddamn day yeah so it's impossible to keep up with what the fucking latest horrible fucking thing is but i think it's also the thing of we've allowed so much shit and i think we're becoming more and more numb to things like this 100 i think the internet and like specifically terrible people on the internet and terrible people just in real life like we've given them so much ground that abnormal shit doesn't feel as abnormal because we've just gone the entire opposite direction this this should be enough for us to fucking revolt against this man and be like yo we got to get this guy out we got to do something like fucking your tool is doing this shit like yeah we should have such a bigger response to this but we don't because i think we're all just numb well I mean yeah yeah I mean you're right it's 100 % and it's because again it's this overwhelming wave of horrible fucking news at every fucking point and again what you're talking about the things that 10 years ago would have been enough to end your career are just things you can just do now you can just say now you can do whatever now you can do what you can do a Nazi salute you can do a Nazi salute in an inauguration celebration then everybody's like well hold on that's not what he meant that's not what it was supposed to be that's not what it was shut the fuck up shut the fuck up yeah not you they do the darndest things
44:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:you know I beat Dark Souls over the weekend I was hoping that we could talk about that but then I come in I'm like oh shit this is the news alright cool well here's what okay here's what we do next time even not too late right now past Jordan Midler a quid and have him he'll write it up on VGC I don't think Quid's the Scottish dollar I don't think it would actually help him much he goes to England enough for him to do it and he'll write about it and then we put it in games daily about me beating Dark Souls that's the title someone finally beat Dark Souls somebody finally got to the end of Dark Souls number four on the Roper Report Persona 30th anniversary site quietly mentions quote the next chapter of the series end quote this is Andy Robinson at VGC who I have heard knows Jordan Midler Sega and Atlas's Persona 30th anniversary website quietly mentions the next chapter in the series fans have discovered persona celebrates 30 years in 2026 with sega promising to mark the occasion with quote special events anniversary merchandise and more end quote so far alice has announced persona 4 revival for release sometime after april 2026 but it's the unannounced persona 6 that fans have been most anticipating considering persona 5 is now nearly a decade old potentially increasing the likelihood of news on that front is the google snippet for the official persona 30th anniversary site as spotted by social media users the snippet reads quote 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of persona come celebrate the journey as we usher in the next chapter for the series end quote the website itself seemingly takes makes not a mention of the next chapter the wording could be interpreted in multiple ways of course but considering the importance of the anniversary it wouldn't be surprising if atlas opted to announce the next full entry soon the next chapter of the series barrett is happening it's happening barrett the next chapter of the series we're finally gonna get it you got this is a great shirt too this is what i wanted to wear for game of the year but it's so goddamn cold out and it was like i don't want to wear this to work yeah yeah yeah um it's been 10 years like it really hit me when they're like oh like we're coming up on the 30th anniversary of persona I was like, I remember being assigned Persona 5 at IGN to do gameplay clips for.
46:46Was really bummed out about it because I didn't know what Persona was. And then I fell in love with that game. But I remember, and like, I'll take you back, bless. The way Persona 5 opens with its title cards and all this stuff, it specifically calls out Persona 20th anniversary. And it's been that goddamn long. Because it came out, I think, in Japan in late 2016. Yeah. And so it like, what are we doing guys? What are we doing? The 30th anniversary here. What's going on? It's been 10 years.
47:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:As we usher in the next chapter for the series. Here's what I'll say, right? I hope we get an announcement. I think we do. I think this is finally the year we get an announcement. Yeah. Because what Persona 4 revival are we thinking next year? Yeah. A lot of people were hitting me up over the weekend. Barrett, why? No one picked up revival for fantasy critic. You got to sneakily like pick it up or something. That game's not coming. Yeah, none of us believe that. We saw five seconds of gameplay, and on that five seconds of gameplay, it said early footage, and that's all we saw. We didn't even get a year for that game.
47:48That game is early right now.
47:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This is what I'll say, all right? I'm sniping it. Every time Bear is here, I got to snipe some. We get the announcement. Persona for Revival, Persona 6. We get trailers for both this year, and Persona Revival coming out early next year. Persona 6 in the fall next year. it's that same persona 3 reload metaphor situation the year of persona it's fascinating right because i imagine the revival team is the same smaller team that did reload the team that's been working on persona 6 i think has been working on it since royal came out so that's 2020 so you got to imagine like i would say six has got to be more ready to be like in the barrel of the gun than revival oh interesting so i don't know i don't like i'm just i continually uh i'm continually perplexed uh by this company and how they how much work are you doing copy paste right click up res game over that's it it's a it's a new uh uh what is it engine all that stuff people are also predicting uh metaphor repackages i think they're like slowing down on doing like repackages like a royal i think atlas like said like a year or two ago like hey like that's we don't really want to do that anymore we're like we're gonna do more like dlc stuff and we kind of saw that with like reload like we didn't get a repackaged reload we just got episode i guess dlc imagine if we got a repackaged reload what would you even title it persona persona 3 reload repackaged yeah i don't know re-reload anyways revival should have been called rewind that's uh that's yeah that's all i have to really say persona six i hope your main color is still green because green is my favorite color thank you barrett thank you barrett uh number five on the roper report it looks like the division the division definitive edition is on its way 10 years after its initial release this is vicky blake at ign it's been almost 10 years since we first stepped foot in ubisoft's extraction shooter uh the division and it looks like the developer will celebrate by giving its fans a chance to replay the experience in definitive edition form while not confirmed by ubisoft advertising for an unannounced definitive edition has dropped in japan or popped up in japan along with what it looks like to be hoodies caps and t-shirts inspired by the division's anniversary although it appears those are just prizes for players jumping into the game at an esports event rather than simply being available to buy you would think division is a way bigger franchise than it is unless i'm wrong i feel like we go from the highest of highs last week I think it was Friday Julian from Massive being like Division 3 is going to be as impactful on the industry as Division 1 and me and Mike here just gobbling it up so excited yes Division 3 let's fucking go and then I wake up to the definitive edition of Division 1 the definitive edition of Division 1 I do not need to replay Division 1 thank you very much you just put 60 frames PS5 out I'm fine I don't need to go back to Division 1 you don't want to go back to New York I do but as a new game go back to brooklyn i'm going going back back to brooklyn i did some things here that aren't yeah that's joke because they you went back to brooklyn in division two right wasn't yeah there was dlc for that yeah exactly no no thank you i don't need this no no i love division i love division one i love division two i'm excited for division three i do not want a division a definitive what does that mean isn't division more like live servicey also like what does that look like for a like a definitive edition are you just packaging in everything in there i guess that is what definitive can you throw a backup kev i know you just closed it out sorry can you throw that back up because the what because over here on the oh because that's esports stuff go to the esports stuff the the they're there that's division two stuff but i guess if that's esports yeah those are prizes for the esports thing i don't know man i don't i mean like what would it so it's the game Definitive Edition.
51:40So it's the game and all the DLC and I 64K all that jazz Dark Zone Darker. I mean the Dark Zone Darker. I wish I could care. I wish I don't want that. I don't need that. I don't have time for that. I only have time for the new games. I could go play the Division right now. Division 2 we all like that one DLC so much they support it for like six more years or whatever the fuck it is. It's some stupid ass number where they keep adding things to it. I turn it on Richie's still playing it. Like it's happening. I know that that's there. Roger says he's drafting it. You need to step in the way of that.
52:14You need to stop that.
52:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:There's no way the website allows that. There's no way. Is this an Xbox developer direction announcement? When do we hear this? They're putting it on the. No. On the walls of the train. And where'd they say this is? Tokyo? Yeah. Well, that's where that other thing was. Japan. They just said Japan. So like. They're putting it up. They got to announce this somewhere. We don't need this. Do not do it at fucking. Don't waste the Xbox. on it. Don't waste the Xbox on it. The only one I will accept being wasted on it is that Life is Strange game. That's not a waste, though. Well, we don't need Chloe back.
52:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Well, that I agree with. Thank you very much. No, you're right. You're right. Come on. Make something new. Speaking of making things new, number six on the Roper Report. The first LEGO Pokemon sets have been revealed, including a$650 Charizard, Blastoid, and Venusaur statue. This is Jordan Miller of VGC, the big man. the Pokemon company and Lego have revealed the first images of the upcoming Lego Pokemon sets Lego Pokemon is due to launch and is it I know I'm broken but it makes me so angry that Jordan isn't putting Lego in all caps you know this isn't like I don't feel like this is like I can when they when Sony tries to get cute with infamous where the capital I capital F that's just whatever but Lego is always all caps yeah you're right that's true Jordan do better Jordan you know what I mean get it together that's why you lost to Rebecca for best reporter yeah you would have got more votes if you capitalized Lego do better fix this article write about blessing beating Dark Souls please Lego Pokemon is due to launch later this year in time for Pokemon's 30th anniversary the first group of sets include which includes Pikachu Eevee Charizard Venusaur and Blastoid will be released on February 27th Pikachu and and pokeball will cost you 199 99 that's 200 bucks and feature 2050 pieces this set sees pikachu emerging from a pokeball onto the stand that is uh has a 25 built into it a nod to pikachu's pokedex number wow the next set evie will cost you 59 99 include 567 pieces hey that's more reasonable uh that ben will want this and i will have to make this this will be something i guarantee he loves evie uh the biggest set uh the first wave is venusaur charizard and blastoid uh which will cost you uh 649.99 include 6838 pieces uh also revealed is the lego pokemon kanto region badge collection which will only be available by pre-ordering the lego pokemon lego venusaur charizard and blastoid set uh for lego insiders a small replica of the pokemon center will be available for 2500 insider points while stocks last insider points are earned via lego lego store purchases i have a few thoughts look at them all combined my first thought that's 650 times three my first thought is a hot take and that is i don't love how lego characters look like when you're making replicas of like existing like when i look at these pokemon characters i'm sorry we gotta stop but how do i say blastoise no that's how you said it blastoise okay but i just say blastoid one time they're gonna say you just very mad i'm sorry it's i'm i am a bulbasaur guy okay i'm still at that level nobody ever evolves him in my life yeah i noticed it but i thought maybe last choice last choice yeah last choice tortoise but i think you were thinking like illinois last choice um yeah i don't like how this looks but that's and it's not even just a pokemon thing because i'm sure to lego fans this probably looks great but like when they announced the mario lego stuff too like i looked at mario and i was like i don't i don't like how they look i don't know i feel like the lego just like the dimensions the proportions just don't fit the characters as well as i want them and another correction here a chat's correcting me i'm sorry you get the three four 650 i thought they were individually 650 all three of them together i see i apologize everybody yeah so that's my first hot take um or that's my first i guess take on it aside from that i'm happy for people hell yeah let's go yeah that's my thing where it's like yeah i mean 650 sounds ridiculous but i'm not up to date on my pokemon price or i'm sorry my lego prices i know ben is building very small things and the most time he won't even let me finish them so you know i don't know where we're at my my other hot take has nothing to do with this it goes back to story number five well there should be a hallucha thank you go on oh there you go thank you um because in talking about the division showing up at xbox underscored yeah uh people were mentioning that wouldn't make sense that doesn't like really fit something like this this is what i'll say right going back to last year's direct where we got ninja gaiden and then you got like hey here's the ninja gaiden 4 launching later this year but here's ninja guy in definitive right now what if we get division three and yeah then i'm done then they're like division one is dropping today you can play the definitive edition while you wait for division three coming out in the fall i would just raise my hand from the you know the chat there and be like does it carry my save over from the old playstation one do i get the trophies again thank you i get the trophies do you still care about trophies you don't i mean if i can get an easy platinum if i can just boot up division definitive edition pop a plat i'm doing it you know fair enough fair enough blessing red pokemon being expensive legos being expensive that's big news if i wanted something smaller say the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go you go to our last story the we news channel where you cover all the small news items you need to know about number seven we news masters of albion right albion yeah uh the next god game from Peter Molyneux launches on April 22nd on Steam.
57:41Wow. Remember when they announced that, and everybody's like, isn't that the town from Fable? And he's like, yeah, they won't sue me. We're like, wait a second. I think they might. He's like, it's shown up in fiction before. That was coming out the same year. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see about that for sure. You don't believe either. You know, I can't trust anything. Again, here's the thing with Fable. I'll pizza bet you it comes out this year. I don't know if I'm pizza bet level confident. Because remember they were saying, this thing is about games coming out this year. And I know that best intentions.
58:09But I still think if it's coming out this year, it's coming out September or before. So I think you're even more confident than usual. I don't think you send this out to die against GTA.
58:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'll pizza about that. Okay. Yeah. Kevin, can we do a pizza about it? For the record, for people watching and listening, they will say this game is coming out this year. Yes, yes, yes. They will say it. I'm saying Fable will, by December 31st, 2026, you'll be playing Fable. And I'm saying it gets delayed into next year. Fair enough. Yeah, I appreciate that. That's the bad. Is that our first pizza bet of the year? We got to, I got to figure out a tracking system. I know there's pizza dot bets or whatever. Nobody understands how that works. Yeah, we need to make a sheet. I'm going to make a Google sheet right now.
58:45Put it in general and pin it.
58:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Okay. Okay. While you do that, I'll keep doing Wii News. The official PAL World card game launches on July 30th, 2026. That's another lawsuit. From VGC, Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 has reportedly been a big hit on PS5, passing five millions in sales. Hell yeah. Good for them. And then Anthem has officially gone offline. Rest in peace to a real one. Rest in peace to Anthem. I really hope we get Power World Snap, Power World Puzzle League, the Power World anime. They just lean all in. They're like, fuck it. Just say fuck them. Bring that heat. We'll take it. Pocket Pair, just say fuck them. Just go all the way in.
59:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm going to check out that card game. I don't care about Power World whatsoever. I'm checking out that card game. I want to see what's up with it. we now go into the one the only super chats youtube.com slash kind of funny game where you can be part of the show I try to pepper him as we go but sometimes we get our old centers opening around the world Yel Singh says good for$40 is not the same as good for $70 back to pricing and all this different stuff but again that's a conversation I agree with but I also think game of the year you're sitting here talking about how great a game is yeah I don't I I hear you we should talk about price and I think KFGD is the venue for that and like I and I think in your personal lives trying to figure out if something's worth it for sure and also like for specific reviewers that want to review that way for sure all I'm saying is that I think there's there should be space or there I I like there to be space to be able to talk about a game for what it is where I don't give a fuck about price right I want to talk about and I'm not saying I actually don't give a fuck about price I do but I don't know I think there I think you should have a space for games to be able to be talked about and judged and not have to worry about a price point 100 % because I think that's art I think the beauty of art is what it is.
1:00:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I agree with that. Alex Motter says, Greg, did you get my BS? That's a blue sky Tim about blokeys. Happy to send some to the office. I did not get a blokeys BS. I don't know what that is. I don't want to know. That doesn't sound like something I need to know about Twitter and blue sky having these inappropriate things on Jesus. Hey, Grock, give me a blokey. James Peter says late birthday tax from January 638 feels impossible. Happy birthday to you, James. Jameson I read those oh here we go closed forum says tiny wee news please share if you can anxiety arcade a game made by two kind of funny best friends launches today on steam for $2.99 racing thoughts come tiny what racing thoughts come tiny puzzles wow we know about anxiety arcade this came up during the right before or during the kind of funny anniversary stream and one of the devs sent us codes that we did give away.
1:01:31So I'm aware of that. Kevin, if you could dig me out an Anxiety Arcade video game trailer, that would be choice, but if you're busy setting up for Game of the Year, no big deal. I will roll on. Congratulations, everybody. Go check out Anxiety Arcade on the Steam. I have downloaded it to my ROG ally. I have not started it. Chocolate McMuffin says, I see the future go from game ownership to service subscription. More power becomes unattainable, so companies will push services like GeForce now. Sounds like we're on the same page where we're talking about the possible solutions to where we're going with all this.
1:02:03David says, unrelated to anything, but Greg Hasbro announced a new Star Wars Black Series. One 12th Wado action figure. I did see this on BS this morning and I did quote BS it saying not small enough. This is anxiety arcade. Fight your thoughts in game or whatever the fucking quote was. Dexter says, bless. Remember for fantasy critic. I'm telling you to bid on a new Mario game. galaxy three or pizzas on me don't let greg steal it from you love you i am not bidding on a new
1:02:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:3d mario what does he know what does dexter know you think i don't know i think dexter's dexter thinks they know more than they do i don't think you're not getting a new 3d mario game mario galaxy 3 absolutely not salmon trademark says edmund tweeted out that he was looking for more shows slash podcasts to appear on leading up to launch day for mugenics we had been connected with Edmund before the end of the year and Mike and him had started talking and I don't know whatever happened to that. About Mugenics or just okay I was like you're just saying they're chatting it up. No no no no. Being bros fast like I heard you made this body wise again.
1:03:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Tell me about that jabroni EJ RPG says didn't a study come out last year saying about 70 for 6 % of users on X are bots. Probably stop paying attention a long time ago when I left Napoleon blown apart said someone needs to check Tim Sweeney's hard drive. Okay. Claw Master says lest we forget countries are threatening to ban Twitter slash X in their own countries recently. So added pressure is happening because of Grok is doing with CSAM. Andrew Brown says Donald Trump is popular because he lets people be their worst self. Agreed. Oh man, a lot of super chats in here today. Aaron Lime says I get why people use Unreal Engine 5 but I think big publishers should consider reprioritizing to creating proprietary engines why use tim sweeney's tools increasingly filled with ai assets when uh he defends csam for free speech well that's complex that's a complex issue of it's incredibly expensive to start your own engine and make your own engine and then incredibly complicated to make it work and then when you try to port it to something else everything fucking breaks and yada yada yada so that's why people like to go to unity or unreal for these kind of things.
1:04:19Reed says tech CEOs say the darndest things need to be put on a shirt. Joey! Say the darndest things. He's gaming
1:04:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:CEOs. He's tech CEOs. You can just say you can short it to CEOs say the darndest things. CEOs do say, but you're a CEO. I know. I guess you do say a lot of darn things, but not like typically. But I say it in a fun way. Yeah, not a bad way. You just make jokes about 9-11. I don't make jokes. I make references. It's very different. Sorry, my bad. That's how I've gotten away for so long. You're just referencing the event. I admit that I reference 9-11 too much, but it's just like, it's like literally Ghostbusters, Superman, 9-11 right there. There it is. Greg Miller, I think of three things. 9-11 being above Oreos and wings.
1:05:03Sky Havali. Well, it's like Ravioli, but with an H. So Havali says, I rolled credits on Astro Bot finally. What a game. Couldn't stop smiling the whole time. Now I'm stuck on the great master challenge. Wish me luck. That was a couple nights of work for me, that Master. I guess two, but yeah, that's a couple.
1:05:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Sky, what I need you to do is play the DLC levels and then play the speedrun levels, and I need you to get top three amongst your friend list in all the levels for the speedruns. Reuter says, this is for Barrett's dope shirt. Shout out to Barrett. Josh, he says, as a Lego fan, the Pokemon Mega Bloks look better. Chase Super Chatterford, I'm sorry, membered for 18 months and says, hey, Greg, have you played the Star Wars mod on Starfield yet? yes Star Wars Genesis I jumped through all the hoops to get it up and running on the razor blade out there and I jumped into it and I haven't gotten deep into it because I wasn't sure what I was expecting but then I was like oh okay it's Starfield but it's Star Wars and it's like but if you hated Starfield wouldn't you still hate this because I like Starfield so I like this but I'm like this isn't like I'm still doing the same thing with artifacts and whatever but it's still Star now it's got a Star Wars skin to it I need to play more of it Mike like music super chatted can you guys give a quick pitch for my girlfriend monica as to why we should watch the kind of funny uh oh why we should watch the uh game of the year after this bless you go first yeah i mean if you want 10 games that you should have played last year or games that you might have missed out on even if you do play games right like hey here are 10 of the games that we here are kind of funny absolutely adored and so if you like our tastes or if you like at least one of our tastes you might not like all of our tastes over here uh come check out what did i do but yeah there you go Okay.
1:06:42In my pitch, Monica, people disappear every day. Oh, and if he doesn't watch this with you today, say goodbye to him. Start looking for a new boyfriend. Oh, allegedly millions of bridges. People fall off them all the time. Ice. Well, hold on. Rewind. I've been like ice. Like they slipped on ice, but I did envision that fucking doofy ass ice, agent who bit it in Minnesota. I was like, can you imagine what a heel turn for Greg Miller? This entire thing rallying against Trump AI. But yo, I just could come get your boyfriend, which is accurate. Sadly, sadly, it is accurate. No matter what, no matter what your boyfriend's nationality is, he could be murdered by ice.
1:07:33Cause that's where we live in 2026. But I meant slipping on ice and falling off a bridge.
1:07:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I tweeted our blue sky. SBS Tim what's the number one gaming news story for today because I was trying to figure stuff out one person replied so one person replied all people have been getting like abducted by the fucking government organization in my town so I hope you all talk about that we just did I've been saying that a lot for a while I mean you know god damn Ms. Good was murdered but the chat point out CEOs do say the darnedest thing we brought it full circle Costa the creator says loving my time with Dragon Age Vale Guard kind of funny is review cycle slash content for this was so good.
1:08:12Thank you. Make sure you check out my spoiler cast about it when you're all done in my gaming journal and all that jazz. And then the final super chat for right now is MIBs. Hope 2026 is treating you well, folks as well as it can. I did a Greg way today. And I was like, man, this is a dark way to start your week. I'm sorry, everybody. It was WWE TKO MAGA Saudi Arabia. What did I miss? Well, you just like in the totality of it. Oh yeah. that all i mean oh what do you mean what have you missed was there a recent new story about wwe no i mean there was a chat a chatter is like or what a gregway comment i was like oh man like how are i can't balance these things how are you dealing with all this and i'm like let's get into everything that's fucking horrible right now which then of course goes out into everything that's horrible right now gotcha gotcha and the ai stuff and the maga stuff and everything and the ice stuff and everything else we just talked about you can't get away from it everything is political.
1:09:03We go over to the one, the only kind of funny.com slash you're wrong. Uh, Jeppo, you need to stop writing in about a pirate Yakuza. I'm sorry. I'm never going to, it's never going to happen. It's never going to happen. Uh, Ignacio says weapons and equipment, OSP onsite procurement seems to be the metal gear solid quote. Greg was thinking of. Thank you, Ignacio. Uh, just Tom says Scotland and England use the same currency. So quid would be fine. Some places in England won't take Scottish notes slash bills, though, because they have different designs. This usually causes a Scottish person to appear and say, that's legal tender, pal.
1:09:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We should do a European tour. It's kind of funny. It's one of those, like, I don't know if that's a joker, if that's real. That's legal tender, pal. No, a Scottish person doesn't appear out of nowhere to tell people, hey, no, you can use that. That's legal tender. And then everybody's in here getting mad about the blastoid thing. I'm sorry. Blastoise. plus toys some we're saying is a way to pronounce people are saying that is real that is 100 % real oh and then Chroma Kira says blokeys are easy to build model kits for bluey transformers marvel characters and other I'll try to find that blue sky because of course Ben likes all of those properties but for now I digress that's another kind of funny games daily in the books remember each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live twitch.tv slash kind of funny games youtube.com slash kind of funny games podcast services around the globe if you like that pick up a membership patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games apple spotify get all of our shows ad free of course you get your daily dose of me greg miller and a 15 to 20 or like today 24 minute episode of uh regway which is your own personal podcast and of course you get good karma for supporting an 11 person 11 year old small business all about live talk shows for now the day is far from over we are going to go into the Marathon game of the year 2025 and find out what the top 10 games for kind of funny are until next time.
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