The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a MEGAHIT - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.06.26

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2:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, March 6, 2026. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing, Addy O.A. Jr. Joining me is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez. Good morning, Blessing. Good morning. Good morning, Andy. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Andy. How's it going? I don't know what we're doing right now. I'm doing good, man. I'm doing alright. You know, just had a good weekend of gaming. You know, you and I were talking about some secret stuff. Some secret stuff. Doing a lot of redacted this weekend. But outside of that, a lot of other unredacted, you know.

2:44Like what? Just a lot of deadlock. Oh, you're playing a lot of deadlock? Oh, man. I just can't stop, bless. One day I'll get to deadlock. I can't stop.

2:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Although right now I am locked into Marathon. I can only do one multiplayer thing at a time. When it finally gets announced, though, that'll be the game's cast play. Yeah, when they finally officially say Deadlock is a game that exists, when it gets the reveal trailer. When we get a press release from Valve, that's, you know. When Jeff Keighley is like, world premiere, it's a brand new game from one of the biggest devs in the world, hasn't put out a big game. The creator's a Half-Life 1-2, and he does it, and it's the Deadlock logo, and we're like, oh, I thought that was Half-Life 3 there, damn.

3:22Yeah, I've been playing that for two years, Jeff, I don't know. Yeah, these games exist. Outside of that, Super Mario Galaxy 2. Oh, yeah. I saw you're playing that. Let me, okay, here's the thing. I'm like, I'm about 10 hours in. Okay. I'm really ready to call it. It's the best 3D Mario of all time.

3:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Really? I'm really ready to call it. So you're immediately like, this is better than Galaxy 1. Yeah. Why? I think it, I think it understands what it's doing a lot quicker. I think it gets to kind of, you know, when we talk about lessons learned with sequels, you know, maybe cutting out weaker levels, getting the strengths, all of the stuff that was the most fun about the first thing. Let's kind of double down on those here. Yeah. Like, I've only really experienced one level that I'm like, I don't really love the gimmick of this so far, but it's fine. Right. Like, I feel like its weakest level is still like a six out of ten.

4:18and everything else has just been like man this is so smart this is so good oh what a great little thing right there what a great concept for this boss fight i just i loved it this is my favorite

4:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:3d mario game already can i tell you you saying that makes me offended that nintendo never made mario odyssey 2 because they think nintendo does best when they like innovate and try new things and experiment and then follow up on that experiment you know what i mean like we get galaxy and then you get galaxy 2 which is okay we've learned we figured this out we get breath of the wild and then we get tears of the kingdom which is like oh snap hell yeah let's go we get odyssey and it's like all right we follow up with donkey kong which is even more experimentation and i'm sure like donkey kong bonanza 2 if they ever make it will be fantastic it's just like bonanza 1 will right but like what happened to odyssey 2 i feel like odyssey 2 was like it was right there you could have continued to make a fucking 10 out of 10 you know what i mean as i'm playing it all i'm thinking is i want galaxy 3 i also want that's where my mind is at but i mean we know that there's one in development right do we i don't know if we do i thought they were confirming like hey mario game's coming later don't worry about it i don't think i don't think they ever said anything close to that i mean you always assume there's a mario game coming later there's there's always a mario game coming later but they never even like hinted toward a 3d mario is the big worry that just bonanza took that slot took that development i mean that's how i look at it it's the same the mario odyssey team made donk con bonanza so i think that is just what that is i think we're gonna wait longer for a 3d mario i here's my thing is that you said the fact that we're coming off the mario galaxy movie gives me a little hope that we get galaxy 3 but knowing nintendo i don't know i'll tell you what's even more wild you know um and this is kind of a a spoiler non-spoiler where was donkey kong in the movie where was donkey kong you know just kind of was donkey this kind of crazy in his spinoff movie right that they still haven't announced it's just kind of wild like i was like oh yeah you weren't there at all i saw somebody on social media say that the absence of donkey kong is the exact reason why people are receiving this movie much worse and i thought about it i was like you know what that might not be a bad theory rogan's donkey kong brought something I mean, it's just kind of odd.

6:39I don't know. I just like, it was a given to me. But then it was a given. I just assumed, like, why wouldn't you be here? You know what I mean? DK's never been to space. If you think about it. Remember, though, in that one Planet of the Apes remake with Mark Wahlberg, where they sent the monkey out to space?

6:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:What if I told you I'd never seen any of the Planet of the Apes movies? Oh. I wanted that for one of the Nick and reviews. I don't know if I wrote it down. I might not have written it down on the thing. The most recent four. I mean, okay, maybe the first one with James Franco, not the most amazing, but it was still good. But two, three, and four, fucking unbelievable. I'll put that on my film backlog. Unbelievably good. I've always wanted to watch these Planet of the Apes films. So good. Oh, my God. Andy Serkis. That's where Nick started hating Andy Serkis. Really? Too talented. Too talented. Is the second one Rise of the Planet of the Apes?

7:34It's like, yeah, Rise and then, no, Rise is the first one, maybe.

7:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's the same naming scheme as Tomb Raider. And then Rise and then Dawn. Shadow of the Planet of the Apes. Exactly. That's it. Whatever that second one is, is like phenomenal. Oh, man. It still kicks ass. I love all of them. I'll never forget seeing that. And then the fourth one comes out, and it's like, oh, it's not directed by the same dude. Oh, it's this Wes Ball guy. I watched the fourth one in the theater. I was like, he kicks so much ass. What is Wes Ball working on right now? Zelda. That's what it is. Come on. All right. Come on, Bless. Come on. We're going to talk about some video game movies.

8:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:We're going to talk about Super Mario Galaxy. I was trying to make a quick, sick transition there, but I forgot where we were going. We're going to talk about Mario Galaxy much, much more, because remember, this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Also, if you're watching live, be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. Shout out to our producers over on Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny. Thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twining. for now let's begin with what is and forever will be the roper report it's time for some news we have five stories today

8:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:but think about it has dk ever been to space like in any of the dk games that we played i had to look it up he's never been to space right uh yeah i'm only getting like dk in space but it's like footage of smash brothers yeah smash bros would be the only scenario where he would be put in space it cuts to him like in a bit because i can't breathe in a creative room he's like i don't do the travel like that i don't fly yeah i get very claustrophobic i don't do that face crap i like gravity story number one super mario becomes the only animated movie series become to open globally at more than 350 million dollars twice this is chris scolian at vgc the five-day opening weekend estimates estimates estimates for the super mario i'm still waking up for the Super Mario Galaxy movie are in, and it looks like another blockbuster for Universal and Illumination.

9:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:As reported by Deadline, the film, which had a$110 million budget and was released on April 1st, took in$372.5 million globally by Sunday, the biggest worldwide opening so far this year. As predicted, the film didn't quite manage to overtake its predecessor, the Super Mario Brothers movie, but it wasn't far behind. The first film grossed$387.8 million globally over the same time period. The result means Super Mario is the first ever animated film franchise to have two titles with a global opening weekend of more than$350 million. As well as making this Illumination's second biggest global opening ever, it's also the fourth biggest global opening for a u.s animated movie of all time behind zootopia 2 moana 2 and the super mario brothers movie damn i didn't realize zootopia 2 had it like that and the fifth biggest global opening weekend in universal's 113 year history domestically the film grossed 190 million dollars making it the fourth biggest five-day opening weekend ever behind moana 2 and the super mario brothers movie and transformers revenge of the fall nice I didn't realize Revenge of the Fallen had it.

10:47Nice. Wow. Is that the second one? I don't know. I think that was the third one. No. What about The Last Night? That's the one with Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. Oh, my God. I think I just found a Transformer.

10:58Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I find Michael Bay movies so not memorable. I watch. Yeah. I know that's not like a crazy thing. Yeah. But I couldn't tell you shit about Transformers. And I definitely watched one of them, Shia LaBeouf's Transformers. I'll tell you what. When we did Bad Boys in review, I thought I was in for like a banger. And I was so disappointed by those movies. Like I was going into it. I was like, this is going to have like an impact on me. I'm going to love these. And they were just like, I'd rather watch Blue Streak with Martin Lawrence. Yeah. I mean, Bad Boys is like, Will Smith, one of my favorite actors, pre and post slap.

11:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Wow. Yeah. I don't care. He didn't do anything post slap. I don't know if he's done anything. I think he did. Yeah. Let me tell you. I think it was on with like Kaisen at once. And I loved him then. I love King Richard. Let me tell you. I've seen like most Will Smith movies. Bad Boys is like very much low on my list. Yeah. It's surprising. It was surprising to me. Yeah. I'm like. Kind of bummed out by it. You know what I mean? Yeah. I. One that I'm surprised that isn't here is Inside Out. Like Inside Out. Really? One was pretty big. And then Inside Out 2 just took the world by storm. and that blew my mind this made me realize i do not have my finger on the pulse at all of like what are the biggest animated films because i would have said like i would have thought incredibles too would have been super high or like um finding dory or some shit like you if you would ask me right yeah i guess i would have named like the pixar sequel well yeah yeah okay monsters university or something like that maybe not university well i just thought like the movie coming out that's kind of crazy i'm not saying it's a good movie i'm just saying like it's following up it's following up one of the biggest the biggest pixar movies yeah that's true i would have thought one of the shreks would have been on here or toy story even yeah how are there not five toy stories on this list uh so right here bear has brought up the highest grossing animated films i have never heard of that number one the nesa two uh it's on fucking what's it called hbo max it's got incredible reviews and i have been wanting to check it out oh frozen 2 number that makes so much sense see i would have thought frozen 2 would have been top three yeah we don't count the lion king right unless you know is that the original lion king that's the og oh never oh wait that's oh no it's the 2019 that's insane i mean it is animated for most of it yeah but it's like presented as live action i guess it's all animated i guess it is all animated it is it all but it It looks like it's, I guess, whatever.

13:34Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't care. I don't care that much. I'm not going to argue with Wikipedia. Take a stand. There was at one point where Shrek 2 was number one. Think about that. Shout out Shrek 2. Yes, I would have said Shrek. But again, this is me thinking through my kid lens of watching these movies when I was a kid. Well, I think a lot of it is not only just the popularity, but the price of tickets. and 350 million dollars is a massive amount of money to hit with two movies with that ip with you know just things being way more expensive nowadays and 3d showings and well i'll tell you one thing i'm so pissed off about with mario is that there's no they took away the imax showings from project hail mary really and like messed up i definitely shouldn't have waited that long but every freaking showing that i would look at project hail mary it was like only the front row seats so i was like let me just wait another way and then it's just gone mario took over oh and it's like that's this is what i want to know from that's not an imax movie i mean is it though like isn't it because the only reason you're watching that movie is for the spectacle and the visuals and like lights what's that shit in dolby get the best color i mean i do love dolby you know i would watch that and don't be i need that 70 millimeter i need to see ryan gosling on a 70 millimeter i still have plans to see project hail mayor i've not seen it yet i'm really excited that and then the drama you seen that you heard of the drama yeah robert patterson yeah robert and zedaya yeah come on i need to get around to that uh this is what i want to hear from chat because i know how we feel about it and critics and all that stuff now that the streets have had an opportunity when i say the streets i mean you chat now that y 'all have had the opportunity to see the movie are y 'all fucking with it let me know in the super chats or just chat i don't care i'm just trying to get like a read on where people are because damn i didn't realize metacritic was this low for it uh i haven't seen a red metacritic in a while 36 i was hanging out my sister's in town uh she has like a work gig and so we grabbed dinner last night and i was asking her about like how the kids are doing all this stuff right and she was telling me about how uh she's telling about their easter holiday weekend and one of her kids ezekiel apparently he had a meltdown because he wanted to watch the Mario Galaxy movie.

15:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And my sister couldn't find any seating. Damn. Except for like the front, front, front row. And my sister's like, well, no, we don't want to do that. She was trying to explain to her eight-year-old child, like, no, I'm not booking these front row tickets. Like, the thing is sold out. Like, we'll watch Mario Galaxy another time. He was having a meltdown. Like, couldn't stand it. And I asked her, I was like, why did you let him know that the movie's coming out? And she's like, he just knows. He has Tubi and they have the ads on Tubi. I was like oh okay won't shut up about it and I was like alright cool Mario still got it with the kids the kids love Mario it's a beautiful it is eye candy it's colors it makes your brain feel good when you see everything kind of happening on the screen it's great action phenomenal animation with really really likable characters and that's all you need as a kid I walked out of the Mortal Kombat movie Theater, movie experience in theaters As a 10 year old and was like That should be an Oscar winner And it just was an awful movie I'll never forget my brother being like No that's a bad movie My older brother telling me I'm like You're fucking crazy, that movie's amazing What movie was that for me?

17:03Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Because I definitely had that Where I walked out and I was like that was incredible And people were like no, it might have been Hancock

17:12i think i want to will smith the will smith defender you put will smith in there and i'm like i don't know man i think that shit was fine he's on another level man he keeps getting these

17:22Blessing Adeoye Jr.:wins i am legend pursuit of happiness hancock this man can't lose will smith man all right 49 hey that's better than mario brothers mario galaxy movie you know i mean and bless you know what i was with you back then i fucked with hancock i liked hancock it was a fun movie we gotta go revisit hancock and be honest with ourselves i don't think we wait what go back to it bless or barrett go back then written by vince gilligan no shot really i didn't know that and vincent uh no but vince gilligan being a co-writer of hancock maybe that's why we love it we just i think hancock should be revisited by both us the audience but then also by the writers and directors because like we were almost there with some of these things you want it to have a speed racer like renaissance bringing it back to theaters 4k re-release all that stuff i want the director's cut where we just get a little bit more fleshed out backstory just like the back half of that movie where they try to explain things they're like oh it's angels and all it's like no we got too weird with it you know this was fun when it was about will smith being an asshole superhero like when you start when you try to explain the lore behind this character and his connection with jason bateman the less we know the better i also love jason bateman you put them two together in a movie oh man it's box office gold that's my that's my shit right there man y 'all don't know about ozark i want to bring in some super chats for you uh wrap wrap the face writes in and says i understand what andy said you should want more but the games don't have a coherent story i guess i don't get why everyone is so critical of it but it's not a game it's a movie yeah so like i again when i said when i kept saying you should want more i said several times as a caveat like i don't even care if there's a good story just give me good witty writing give me witty dialogue that is like oh that's a creative little like back and forth right there and there just wasn't enough of it.

19:19But yeah, I'm not expecting, you know, I think that was the number one response I kept getting on Twitter of people being like, yeah, but the Mario games don't have good stories either. It's like, okay, but... Those are games. Those are video games. And it's a different... I'm playing that. I'm experiencing and interacting with this medium. Yeah. And you're having fun playing that, but then like, you know, translating that to the big screen, You want something there.

19:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. At the very least, if I'm playing a Mario game, I get the joy and excitement of jumping around a world and collecting stars or getting to the end of the level and killing Goombas and all these things. Otherwise, why make a movie? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I think the thing that you're saying is don't make a movie. if you're looking at a game that doesn't have a story and you go, well, let's just, you know, if the complaint of the story of the movie is going to suck or whatever, then, like, I think, yeah, you just land on, well, let's not make this into a movie. But they did make it into a movie.

20:20Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And so they should find a good story there. And I think I watched that movie and it's not like, I don't think the problem of the Mario Galaxy movie in the Super Mario Bros. movie by extension is that the games don't have story. Because they find the outlines of a story in those movies i think it's just the fact that they don't take a breath and let these characters sit with certain things they don't let these characters develop in interesting ways it very much is the problem with the movie is just it's paced at such a brisk speed because they're more concerned with selling you toys and selling you merchandise than delivering a compelling story to to people just get the writers from the ninja turtles movie Get them to write jokes So the TMNT movie mayhem That movie is so damn funny And yeah it also has an awesome story But again I don't Even if you gave me the same exact story here But just filled it with Moments of me laughing Because again the movie goes for the bare minimum For humor where it's like A lot of slapsticky stuff that's going to make kids laugh But there's a lot of movies for kids That can also make adults Enjoy them as well And like you know you didn't really try to do that and that that sucks because you could be better if you wanted i there's i was thinking about this this morning i remember watching remember the pixar movie onward yeah it's like 2020 i want to say um i remember in that movie like towards the end there being an emotional beat between the brothers that had me like so like man this is this touched my heart right yeah like this and i still remember i still feel that feeling so strongly there's no sort of feeling like that from the super mario galaxy movie right i think the thing if you ask me in a couple years what was your takeaway from the mario galaxy movie i probably am going to be like oh yeah those starfox in it like good references good references but nothing that really tugged at the heart nothing that made me like laugh that hard right like what is the core thing that is separate from just making references right what is the core thing here that is making me go damn i love this and i don't think this movie has that outside of just pointing to things from my childhood which is fine like i had fun during the mario mario galaxy movie you know like i enjoyed the ride so much but i'm not gonna sit here and be like yeah that was a that was better than any other of like the when i look through the list that barrett brought up of the highest grossing animated movies and i look at frozen and i look at shrek and i look at you know you mentioned tmn team mutant mayhem the latest puss in boots movie last wish right like there are so much um good substance there that has you like damn that made me cry damn that made me laugh damn that's a good story damn those are good characters and yeah mario galaxy doesn't have that which is fine for what it is but it's we're allowed to complain about yeah and if you if you accept it that's how you keep on getting mediocre things like if you if you say like don't complain about it and when everything else when directors see that and go oh we can keep on putting out this stuff and still make money on it like that's or people aren't going to complain you know we're still going to have a lot of people defending our lack of effort here you know in the writing area or whatever then that's how you're going to keep on getting stuff that's going to be below par and you should want more i want the best for mario you should want more yeah uh let's see here we more super chats for you zeke speak says interested to see if the kids grow up and still like it or if they go nah that sucked love the bionicle movie as a kid but now dot dot dot see i'm this goes back to one of the conversations i was having with my sister last night where she has uh two boys ezekiel was the one that was having a meltdown ezekiel is like eight years old her older son 11 years old loved mario brothers movie doesn't really care as much about mario galaxy and i found that really interesting how like she's telling me she's like yeah he's getting older he's watching naruto and i'm like oh shit hell yeah and he's watching one piece oh yeah and he started she was telling me a whole lot he's starting to draw his own anime that's sick and like my sister saw and like my sister was like oh you're drawing these characters do you know that like and she noticed that she's he's not drawing black characters he draw he's drawing them the way that he sees them on the tv she's like have you thought about like just drawing the characters is black and he was like you can do that and she's like yeah so now he's like drawing black characters and she's telling like i'm like that's what i'm talking about these kids are all right man like let's go um but he doesn't care as much about the mario galaxy movie which i thought was really interesting now it i think a lot of that may have to do with just kind of just phases that kids go through obviously but the you know is he playing the games at all does he care about mario as an ip or was it a fun movie that he watches a kid that maybe it just didn't stick with them because i i gifted him a switch with um new super mario brothers and or whatever new super mario brothers version came out i forget it was like the wii u remaster thing they did for okay and i gave him sonic um let me tell you i think he might like sonic a little bit more of course yeah but he did play through that mario game i know he loved it and like was obsessed with the mario brothers movie and yeah i think i i think it's a phase thing um but i do think that like i think the movie was probably his main Mario interest you know what I mean like he wasn't in love with Mario outside of the movie as much uh maybe Greg's got a point he's just a plumber he's just a plumber yeah maybe what is it with his man but Ezekiel who's the younger one who definitely had the same thing of like the movie was his shit he's still in and we'll see after he watches I want to interview these kids after they watch the movie to ask like all right what do you think get a deep dive I might get a deep dive for you what I what I'm also going to ask of you um and this is totally not having to do anything with the mario movie but i would love for you to for every 30 minutes that you are watching the lord of the rings movie text me and just say what's up with this okay what's going on here what's up with that i'll give you a little thing i'll go oh well so and so is that isn't that all right cool you know just i got you kind of keep you present you know keep you present Cool, I got you.

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29:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:zeke speak who says can confirm all ezekiel's are a piece of work let me tell you my nephew ezekiel is something he's hilarious though uh really good at chess surprisingly um not surprised i guess for his age like he was making like some really good we were playing chess during thanksgiving and like he was he was destroying his older brother at chess i was like damn dude killing it uh nick stanforth writes in with an interesting one he said he says bless which do you back more as a movie franchise sonic or mario good question which is so funny because we were talking about this during the break a little bit my answer is what do i back more as a franchise sonic i think the sonic movies have been more of higher quality of higher quality even though i I was telling y 'all during the break that I think the movies are a little bit overrated.

29:51I told Bless, I said, I still haven't seen two or three. And he said, go into it with an open heart.

29:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Definitely go into it with an open heart. Because the reception of the Sonic movies surprises me. That, like, people actually really like these movies. Because, like, I don't know. They're just so, they're all Jim Carrey'd up. Okay. It's really what it comes down to. Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey maxing. We're Jim Carrey maxing these Sonic movies. and i like jim carrey sometimes a lot of the time one of my favorite movies is truman show so i like and i like liar liar i like fucking i watched eternal sunshine really dug that but i don't like his egg man and they keep bringing him back and every single time after every single one of these movies he's like all right that's my last one i'm gonna retire and i'm like thank god and then he comes back and i'm like man we're almost thank god blessing at home like sending sending links out to family members like oh here we fuck yeah just does so much in these movies and i know that's jim carrey yeah but i'm like i i feel like i'm getting more of a jim carrey movie than a sonic gotcha gotcha but i'm i definitely am on like a island with that opinion i feel like other people don't like you're like you're not the star of the show this isn't the egg man move yeah i'm like give me more sonic give me more let's get to chemical plane zone or something omega buster with a 50 dollar super oh my birthday post thanks for another great year kind of funny happy birthday omega buster that's birthday thank you so much for your generosity let's move on to the next news story story number two take two lays off its ai team i'm reading from vicky blake at euro gamer take two interactive the parent company of gta developer rockstar games has reportedly laid off its ai team including its head of ai take two boss strauss zelnick has previously plainly stated that ai is incapable of creativity on its own but this is his strongest message yet that Take-Two's approach to AI bucks, let me say that, AI bucks, an industry trend that has seen more and more studios pivot to AI tools, most recently at the cost of human translators and human-made in-game artwork.

31:52Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Well, it's truly disappointing that I have to share this with you, that my time with Take-Two and that of my team has come to an end, Dickon wrote on LinkedIn. Before leading Take-Two's AI efforts, Dickon ended his decade-long tenure at Zynga as Senior Director of Applied AI. He has now established Ludic AI, a consulting service, quote, around the best practice use of AI technologies for games adjacent verticals, end quote. As for Zelnick, quote, every entertainment business that was supposed to be destroyed by new technology hasn't been, he said recently. Quote, when I was a little kid, calculators came along and parents were all up in arms that now schools would not teach kids math because they had access to calculators well people are learning math hold on i gotta call something out who wrote this ah it's euro gamer that makes sense yeah because they're doing the thing where they're adding the s at the end of maths math to say that there are different types of maths to learn yeah but like they do it in like the when you're writing an article where you do the uh brackets or whatever i forget the thing's called but you put the s in there to so to show that like okay, I'm adding this in here as the editor.

33:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:It's math, all right? He said math. Because that's how we say it, all right? Don't just add the fucking S. All right, don't piss me off. If you disagree with how he says it, then just say, like, sick or something next to it or something. Why are we editorializing adding the S at the end of math? You a real gamer? Well, people are... Vicky alone, okay. I'm sorry, Vicky. You do great work. Well, people are learning math today, even though there are calculators, end quote. Zelnick is very much an outlier, though. many other game companies including craft and square enix uh ea and more have invested heavily in the new tech so really this is interesting one yeah this is i would say uh i would say if anybody could start the trend if anybody could show other studios and kind of like be the people at the forefront and kind of like lead the charge to say we are not for ai replacing humans and and you know we're we're okay with ai sort of automating and helping tasks and you know the really kind of annoying repetitive things to be a bit easier for uh employees but for the developers of the biggest upcoming game ever to be the ones to do this i think is really fucking awesome oh yeah like i think it's i think it shows a lot of other studios and for the amount of waves that rockstar makes for the amount that rockstar is the victor wimbanyama of the games industry okay let me explain yeah let me explain when victor wimbanyama is in the plane in in the paint defending he's the san antonio spurs seven foot five basketball player he has there's an orbit around him and if anybody gets close to wanting to maybe think about shooting the ball yeah and they see him there they go he affects everything around him we've seen the way the whole industry changes based on whatever rockstar is doing we've seen the way that for the past two years or so the whole industry has moved according to what rockstar does yeah and this could be a really cool thing for the rest of the industry to take note of and say hey we've changed our release date two times because of them why shouldn't we also like we should also follow what else they're maybe doing out there and i i just think it's a really cool thing for you know still sucks that people are losing their jobs obviously of course yeah leo leo's are never good but when we're talking about ai replacing artists and replacing art i don't fully agree with the statement here from shaselnik saying like hey everything that ai was going to replace look at that none of it's happened yet i think that's like kind of a quick statement to make that isn't necessarily true because it's affected a lot and there have been a lot of i mean look at the amount of commercials that are now just fully AI that would have otherwise hired, you know, consulting firm or artists to make their commercial.