Xbox Elite 3 Controller Leaks - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.15.26

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0:46yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for friday may 15th 2026 i'm your host blessing adi elia jr joining me is the tastemaker roger picorny how you doing blessing it's friday friday we made it through it we got it i mean the question is are you gonna be doing tomorrow because we got a big day tomorrow. We got a big day. You want to talk about it right now? Yeah, we're going to do it. It's going to be content next week. I should have raised my hand during the Con of 20 podcast thing. I've been like, this is going to be content. This is going to be big content. Our friend Yusuf is having a field day for his birthday.

1:16Which I, beautiful idea. Incredible. Incredible. Such a fun idea. We're going to get to be outside. We're going to get to flex. Yeah. We have a lot of people going. I think it's 50 people going to this event, right? We have tug of war. Tug of war. We got steal the turkey bacon. We got no idea what that is. I think it's like when you line up like both teams and there's like, there's like something like a, usually maybe we did in kindergarten or whatever, one first grade, but it was like, do the Turkey big. It's like, there's something in the middle. And then like, you like someone has to run up from the middle and like, take it from the other side.

1:45I don't, I forget how it works, but like, it's like kind of like capture the flag. Sort of. Cause I love capture the flag, but I think it's like more of like, I don't know, chat. Let me know how like adults play it. Okay. How adults play it. But like, it was like both sides lined up. And when I was like in second grade or whatever, Is it called Steal a Bacon? Yeah. He's like, I'm going to steal a turkey because I don't do pork. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. That makes more sense. That's fun. And then there's something else. But then the thing is about this, it's like, it's you, it's me going. But some other people from Kind of Funny are going.

2:11Oh, yeah. And playing in this. Yes. When I looked at the list and I saw that I was on a team with Nick S, I was like, there's a mistake. No. And I looked at Nick. I was like, are you excited about this? He said, what? I said, you're signed up to do this thing. He's like, oh, I thought we were just like, you know, throwing around a football and drinking beers. I'm like, did you read this particle that you were invited to? Oh, I didn't get the particle. Yeah, you did. Don't look at me and say you did not get this. It said it in plain English exactly what this is. He's like, oh, I got to get out of this.

2:41I can't do this. You got Nick Scarpino on my team. I'm not worried about Nick, though, because Nick, he does like jujitsu and stuff, right? Yes. I don't know the last time he went to. I assume he goes regularly still. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, you never know. He gets hurt all the time. He gets what? He gets hurt all his time. Other times he's like, oh, black eye. Oh, I can't use my thumb for a month. He's doing a PT and stuff. You know what I mean? At least he's out there. He is out there. Now, I'm worried about Tim Geddes. Yes. We should have the conversation. I love Tim Geddes. He's the best.

3:12We love him so much. Last time he did do physical activity in this office was when we were running around for the Pizza Bandit sponsored stream where we're running from outside to inside the studio, which is not that long, not that far. he did what outside to inside yeah that's not far he was limping for the next three weeks and said that he pulled something really badly so this is i don't think this is going to go well for them um i think there's an over under maybe four to five injuries at this event that's my biggest fear is that somebody is going to injure themselves because in my in my now years of playing rec league sports yeah i have seen over like four injuries across these one in my family one in your family friend eric got injured in this last last volleyball season we got uh our girl bella got injured like leonza also did fall during one of the volleyball seasons as well so yeah there's a lot of things going on so i'm like when you get a bunch of just like nerd adjacent people all together on a field you know i think here's the thing yusuf told me he's gonna lead exercise or he's gonna lead stretches and warm-ups and i think that's always our biggest issue is that we just jump right into it we don't stretch enough yeah so i think you know let tim do some lunges before before getting in there honestly i gotta i gotta get better at stretching yeah i think it's gonna be a fun time though do you think that maybe someone hurts themselves while stretching yeah like how intensive is this stretch because 100 every morning i do stretches at my gym and it is very intensive really like it is like we're we're going like we're on the floor we're doing fucking pike presses we're doing insane shit that i'm like this is the workout this would have been the workout for me like five months ago but now this is like just the beginning and i'm just scared i don't know how like yusuf's a buff guy yeah he's he's probably the most in in shape person i know yes so then how much is he pushing tim gettys and nick to like hey you know we're actually i think he knows i think he'll help us all out right either way it's gonna be content next week it's gonna be content yes i and yeah i'm i'm excited i i'm so bad about stretching which i know is gonna come back to bite me in probably about 10 years maybe even five years oh yeah next week next week i mean honestly already at times it comes it's come back to bite me um i i do this thing where i have yearly goals but then i have quarterly goals i like kind of financial quarters um one of my yearly goals is to be able to do the splits i'm not going to get there but i'm doing my quarterlies you know like trying to get you know more limber over time trying to do it can you show us how close you can get no okay thank you it's okay that's fair yeah that's It's not, I'm not, I'm not even close Have I been skipping stretching And skipping my, yeah I've not been making any progress toward this thing, but I will Roger, would you like to give it one attempt?

5:48No, I'm good, but I will say that I Recently had a moment where I I was like, you know what, let me try to touch my toes I haven't been able to touch my toes Maybe ever, I went down there Fucking perfect I'm like, I can touch my toes now It just happens, yeah, it's the stretching Teach me your stretching right now, your stretching routine We can do that off camera So, okay, fair enough. Let's talk about video game news on camera. Remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com slash kindoffunnygames. Remember, we couldn't do this without our producers over on Patreon.com slash kindoffunny.

6:20So 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. Oh, Baker's dozen. I'm mad at June Dow in the chat over here. He bends his legs for sure. Go fuck yourself. No, I don't. I'm stretching them fucking calves, okay? I feel it. I feel it. It hurts. It doesn't feel good. It's not an easy one, but I'm doing it. I bend my legs all day every day when I'm trying to touch my toes. I don't think I've ever been able to touch my toes without bending my legs.

6:54I don't understand how to be... So you want to do a split before you can touch your toes? You got it all fucked up. The end of the year should be doing the split. Maybe my two-year goal is the splits. Hey, where do you see yourself in five years? Splits. Splits, honestly. Yeah. You're right. I should be able to. That's actually a better one. I'm going to make that my end-of-year goal. Okay. My new one. I'm touching my toes. Okay. Without bending my knees. I like that. I like that. We'll update you at the beginning of next year for Kind of Funny Day. We'll let you know more about that. I'm not going to try it.

7:25I was thinking about trying. Is that legit hard? Like, you guys really can't. Like, this isn't a bit? Yeah, of course. Touching my toes? Like, without bending your knees? Yeah. Yeah, of course. Oh, we can't. Hold on. Yeah, that's tough. I wasn't that far, though. I'm like... That's crazy, guys. I'm touching my toes right now. I'm like three inches. Legs straight. Bend the other way. Bend the other way. What do you mean? Like a bow is what I'm saying, you know? No, I don't know. Bend like a bow? Just, they're straight. They're straight is what I'm saying. Oh, man. Yo, Roger got it. Roger got it.

7:57I need everyone to give 10 subs right now for that. The table was in the way. No one could see it. Kevin, you're touching your toes? Yeah. I didn't know you were like that. That's crazy. Come over here and see. I'll come over there and see. Story number one. Leaked images reveal Xbox Elite 3 controller with mysterious new buttons. This is from Tom Warren at The Verge. Hours after a smaller Xbox Cloud Gaming controller appeared online, Brazil's Anatel regulator has also accidentally published images of what appears to be Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Elite 3 controller. Technoblog has posted images that show the successor to the Elite 2 controller with an interchangeable D-pad, paddles, and two new mysterious buttons.

8:39The Elite 3 controller design appears to be more refined this time, with the addition of two new scroll wheels at the bottom that could be related to controller adjustments or a new input method for games like Microsoft Flight Simulator. The Elite 3 will also have a new pair button that can switch between a local mode or cloud mode to connect directly to Xbox cloud gaming servers. In cloud mode, this should improve the latency for cloud streaming games, and it's something that will also be available on the smaller Xbox controller that leaked earlier today. Microsoft also appears to be moving to a removable rechargeable battery in the Xbox Elite 3 controller, as the filings at Anatel indicate this updated controller has a smaller removable battery compared to the Elite 2.

9:24It's not clear when Microsoft plans to release these new Xbox controllers, but given their leaking at regulators, I wouldn't be surprised to see them get announced at the upcoming Xbox showcase in June. Roger, let's start there. Yeah. Do we see this controller and I guess the other cloud controller at the Xbox showcase in June? Yes, I think you see this. And you see the, my prediction yesterday was that the other one, the smaller one, is very much a little quick, like Asha pulls it out of her pocket and just like, oh, look at this thing. But really, what you want, throw it away. Here's the Elite controller.

9:56This is what you really want. This is some bullshit that Sarah Bond made us make. Boom, we don't want that one. We want this. Sarah Bond made us make the cloud controller? I love that. the cloud controller situation just feels a little bit like everything's an xbox type 5 you know i mean where it's like that doesn't seem like what they're going for now but you know how hardware production's made right like this takes a long time and they probably had a bunch of these already made um so you can't really stop that when that's happening unless you eat that loss um but yeah i do think we see this in june do you think so yeah i agree yeah i think it makes sense right yeah the article points out the fact that these are leaking right now through these regulators like we're probably going to see these announced soon i wonder when they come out you How long between that hardware announcement to actually seeing these things on store shelves, I don't think this fall probably makes sense for it.

10:40I guess my biggest question is, what's up with these wheels? Yeah, the wheels are weird, man. They said maybe it's an input thing for... Flight Simulator? That's weird, man. That's a weird way to... I feel like Tom Warren's stretching and trying to figure something out. How do you use these? yeah i i'd be for flight simulator fans if there's people in chat that would know exactly how these would function in that game specifically let us know but yeah i i don't obviously you wouldn't just put a thing in the controller just for one just for one game yeah but also like could this be a thing to adjust how other buttons feel could this adjust how the analog sticks maybe it's like a pressure sensitivity for like the buttons maybe you know what i mean like as you go up it like it it gets like higher or whatever or something like that i could also see it being i don't and this is a weird one but with the entire pc push and the next gen xbox being a pc type type device could it be like it's just a scroll wheel is that something you need in a controller sort of i mean i'm right now playing on the uh rog ally and i'm really liking it a lot i'm using like the xbox overlay and everything but it just using the xbox controller is just a little weird and like not having the scroll a scroll wheel or a trackpad of some kind is just a bit weird so like i i don't necessarily think that solves the problem fully but i having a scroll wheel so that i can like go through you know menus would be nice yeah but i mean i don't know it's not exciting like that's that's the thing about this like which is not the end of the world like nothing about this though like screams like i need this from my series two like if i i have my series two i enjoy my series two i the biggest issue is the build quality of those things right we've talked about it a million times of like those things break and like the rubber gets weird and like you know there's weird drift that happens for a very expensive controller like they're not they're not they don't hold up as well as you'd want them to so that's what i'm more interested about this is like what are you doing here to make sure that this thing lasts like i don't know is it the different type of rubber it does seem like it still has that like grip uh uh like that's a half tone grip that they have for the other one that's my biggest issue with the control with the series one and two um yeah i don't know it just doesn't scream like this is a the massive next generation um but also i don't even really know what i'm looking that's the thing is like does it does it need to be that is there is there something that you are looking for where it is okay this feels like it's stepping into the next generation or is it yeah yeah i mean it's it's weird because it's like honestly and i know this is like not what everyone's looking for i think the steam controller is what i'm looking for for everything i love those track pads i love everything about it and especially if you're going to the project helix which is going to be a pc half the time right like i'm sure people are going to be dual booting and booting up there you know okay i can get this game for five dollars on steam store instead of you know twenty dollars on xbox i'm gonna go into the steam um and into my xbox windows uh boot up there uh i i'd want to be able to interact with windows in a better way again using the ROG Ally, it is annoying using my Xbox controller and having to go into the settings, turn on the cursor in order to then turn off a, you know, a button that, you know, pops up that there's no way because Windows doesn't understand a controller, right?

13:53So it's all these weird, you know, layers of compatibility that I wish that they did the plunge of like, hey, we're making a PC, like we need a controller that controls PC. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. It's just, it's a weird thing that they're they're going for here and i think just having a regular xbox layout they have not figured it out within windows to do all the things you want to do easily yeah maybe that's what that flip is see that's fascinating because i didn't even think about it like that right like when you look at the steam controller and you have those tracking the buttons right the touchpad and all this stuff it is this is how you control a pc we're translating that to a controller in the way that like it's a steam deck that's whittled down to a controller in a really nice way xbox is in a weird place of hey this is a console so i don't think you want to add trackpads to an xbox controller unless it is a i could and i could honestly see this an xbox controller that is this is the pc version right with the trackpads but are you how much does that sell is that worth doing right like do you see your audience is an audience that is like we is there a sizable amount of those folks that want an xbox pc configured controller i think that'd be neat honestly i think i would be in the market for one right but that's also me speaking from how much i like using my trackpad and my on my steam deck and how much i would actually like to have a steam controller yeah but yeah i think there's a balance there as far as what you want to communicate your device as i don't think you can have that as the default because i think as asha and this new guard of xbox you want to continue to drill in that hey no this is like this is what you love about xbox it is the console experience it has a pc built in right but like here is what you have as a traditional xbox controller we are leveling this up for the core xbox experience yeah i just had a thought which again fantasy booking so i don't think it showed up in any of the uh details of what this controller is from the leak but maybe some type of like gyro situation for the mouse i think that could be like using like like the magic mouse uh the for the lgos tvs uh so being able to use that and be like okay you know scroll wheel okay now i'm in you know gyro mode okay i can go click the thing press my trigger is the mouse button left click selfishly i would love that to be standardized like every every like core controller across these devices having gyro selfishly because i i loved when like until dong would have the stand still as possible to not get detected by monsters and we can't do that when the games are on all the platforms and so i'm like let's let's get that across the board and also like andy talks about how much he likes gyro for aiming on console games i think there's a I played Resident Evil like that.

16:27It's great. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, on the PS5. Really? Yeah, yeah, it's really good. I didn't realize PS5 had that. Oh, yeah, yeah, you can get those headshots with it. Really good. Really good shit, man. Yeah, I agree with you. Jaro is, and that's, again, when you go to the Steam controller, which is only$100, right? You assume that this is going to be$120,$150. I mean, on Best Buy right now, I don't know if this is an increased price compared to what's been, but on Best Buy, the Microsoft Xbox Elite Series 2 is$200. Oh, shit. Okay, never mind. yeah i thought these are 120 dollars um but yeah the steam controller just has everything let me double check and see if that's msrp yeah everything that i would want again as a i understand that mike's in the chat talking about how much he loves the xbox controllers and just how perfect it is as an xbox controller and i completely agree but if this is supposed to be like the thing that bridges the gap for project helix like i'm just so interested of how we do this because again it's a pc so you have to kind of figure out unless you are unless windows is like locking in and like xbox is locking in and making the xbox overlay experience as good as steam os which is such a lofty goal because you are building on top of the bones of windows which is just it's bloated and there's a lot going on and it's not built for controller steam os is right steam os is just steam big picture mode um so there's very rare times where you have to break out of like what they've built it there and everything's controller based uh so them having to you know having this thing that doesn't necessarily have windows elements there is is just a little interesting yeah now mike in chat is saying oh the trackpad this trackpad that trust me no one is using that do you think has a point there i mean people are not using when they're connected to their xbox but when they're connected to their project helix that has steam on it right then they're gonna have to fucking use it because guess what you're gonna have to go mike into the xbox button go to the left go over two tabs go down all the way go into cursor mode to turn off a fucking pop-up that popped up.

18:22And that's what you're going to have to do when you go into the other side of Project Helix. I've used the trackpad for more. Also, record the buzz. Why are you watching it? You have to record the buzz. You have to record the buzz. Why are you watching this? We recorded the buzz and we have to cancel it because it was we did something bad. What'd you do? We can't talk about it. Oh, no. I saw you guys walking off yesterday after the meeting where it's like the workday's over. It was 5pm and I see you guys walk off in the distance together to go record the buzz. Michael record the buzz you're not using the track and here's what I'll say most people probably aren't using the trackpad some people are using the track you're gonna buy this steam controller and use that trackpad about two percent of the controller's lifetime span you are not using that in your day-to-day gaming ever I promise you I'll never walk up to your desk and go damn blessings going to you should have seen me play an inscription Mike I'm promising you're not the entirety of play you're not doing that also you play video games in a very special way i've been using those track beds i've been using those motherfucking track beds sometimes yeah but usually i but but mike is right in the sense that 90 mike is spitting he's literally spitting he's spitting everywhere 95 of the time i'm not using the track pad yeah but does that mean you get rid of it for that five percent of the time you might that's the question you gotta ask yourself and like honestly to mike's point i look at my dual sense all the time and i'm like what the fuck are we doing well yeah the dual sense is another conversation the dual sense touchpad fucking off of this thing get the touchpad off get the lights off why the fuck this thing should be lasting 24 why is it why do i have to plug it in every time i turn on my playstation like you know i mean there's an issue here but i stand by the i stand by the steam controller trackpad i like that it's there yeah but again this is a half a pc so unless you have to unless you figure out what the ui is of xbox overlay for windows and you really lock in and make that fully customizable for a controller and make it easy i i think you need those trackpads you need some type of solution or maybe a jar and i honestly think i honestly think it's not even in the main thing i think it is just in the honestly the oh i'm not going to speak on the cloud controller because i didn't listen to the conversation yesterday i don't know where we're at with like the cloud specific controller but i look at it as like something like that of hey here's the here's the trackpad controller here's an additional it's not the main skew it's not the elite skew it is a different separate skew maybe to test here's a remote here's a do people want to buy this let's make a thing yeah maybe make a low amount of them and see what the audience is there and give them that option if they want the trackpad yeah the xbox series pc elite people are saying hashtag mike is right i'm not trying to make this a versus thing i am okay roger i am um one thing about this that i think is interesting is the cloud uh aspect of it right having these controllers built in with the cloud uh connection where it goes through wi-fi um i i wonder if this is going to be ubiquitous like is it just because it's on the the smaller version right because that's what it's built for the the one that we talked about yesterday which is for um streaming and cloud uh x cloud stuff it's on this are we going to do a refresh of the main controllers and also have that because i feel like this should just be on everything like i don't think it should be like behind a paywall between these two controllers like i think we need a refresh of the main controllers that has a button just to connect i mean i think at that point you just wait for next gen yeah i think we're close i mean i feel like these are just next gen controllers at this point i don't think we're doing another one you know what i mean like i think we're just i think we're just gonna be if we're doing a refresh just do a refresh and just be like focus on the consoles next year two years from now whatever but i think you need something i think when the whenever the quote unquote next gen xbox releases there's gonna be like one or two bullet points i think one of those bullet points are like here's the new controller controller it has cloud now which is not going to mean much to like i think most of the players but i think that'll just be another thing that you can add and that's your opportunity to refresh and not disrupt everything i think if you refresh the core stuff now then it maybe it gets kind of messy in there but you can refresh at a new console and it feels a bit more natural i do really want them to have like an attachment for the regular like i have so many controllers i don't have to buy another one if i want to connect to the cloud like they should have some type of attachment that has whatever fucking i don't know yeah pretty much Yeah, that connects to the USB-C.

22:26Right there is a little battery pack almost. Roger, you ain't doing that shit. You're not doing that. Who's doing that? I'll try it out. I like tinkering. For me, yeah. I'm pushing it as far as the amount of hardware accessory shit that I have in my apartment. My apartment's too small to have as many things. You don't want the cloud battery pack? Dude, the amount of dust I have on my Amazon Luna controller. Why is this something I still have? You know what I mean? But that connects to the Wi-Fi. That does connect to the Wi-Fi. and also it does hold pretty well but also i never use it because i'm using when i'm playing on pc i'm using my xbox yeah like what are we but you're not using that shit i'd be open to it you try it out if it was 20 bucks i'd buy it let's bring in some super chats for you jbc writes in and says did you tap into drake's to into drake's three albums blessing here's what i'll say blew my mind by the way you should tell them that i roger walked in and was like um oh you're not even listening to the new drake album and i was like oh i'm listening to habibi and roger like continues doing his thing and then roger walks out he's like man did you so like what do you think about the double album rumors i'm like what do you mean roger he's like do you think drake's gonna drop two albums i looked at roger i was like drake dropped three albums blew my fucking mind roger had no idea roger thought drake only dropped one album and i had to inform him that though there's yeah i just listened to ice man i was like this is bad wow do you think he can do it better next week maybe with another album you're like roger he has two other bad albums like that's crazy two other albums that are out right now um it's too much music you should never drop three albums is my opinion no that sucks especially if you're drake you already have too much music i'm already tired of you drake yeah exactly don't drop three albums golly uh you got another one from the postman who says hey blessing roger have y 'all seen the new garfield secret layers that were shown today i haven't seen the cards but i did get the press release and immediately sent it to greg as a way to hopefully get greg into magic i should have sent that to you too roger oh these are maybe this is your gateway these are beautiful oh my god yeah hold on let me check out the images i would love some this is really cool these are awesome secretly if you're watching listening yeah i would love to send some garfield cards for mike and greg and roger or sorry roger and greg yeah my bad wow that's crazy you guys are two halves of this yeah that's true mike and greg they're cool heaven hasn't pulled up can we get like um like a close-up somehow sorry i'm trying to figure out where it is i just went to secret layer yeah they are it looks like oh okay coming soon got it but i'm not seeing oh they're not showing the cards that's are the best that's part of Roger did you find the cards I just googled Garfield seeker layer and I found some reddit post it is part of the cats are the best pack hold on that's fine we'll find it later yeah uh well Kev looks for that uh let me bring in another super chat from Christopher who writes in and says stretch tax because Roger touched his toes thank you Christopher I love you Lazer Shark says didn't know we'd have three baddies dropping it low on the stream today.

25:17Here's$5. Thank you so much. Thank you. We're the baddies, Roger. Oh, we are? Oh, I like these. Oh, these are awesome. Oh, it's a soul ring. I love that. That's beautiful. Dude, those are so cool. Talk to the paw. Hang in there. We all can get really into Magic the Gathering together. Join me. Join me. My little brother's been trying for years. Do you know what I did on Saturday? Oh, shit. I'm not proud of it. I watched the entirety of Beef Season 2 while creating a Sonic the Hedgehog commander deck. And I had the time of my life. That's beautiful. I've never felt so relaxed and happy. Watching Beef, a very stressful show apparently.

25:55Watching Beef, I love Beef. Such a good show. Beef season two, excellent. But doing all that while just sifting through my pile of magic cards, trying to figure out what's going to synergize best with Sonic the Hedgehog. Oh, I was alive. You're the goat, bro. For the first time in a very long time, I was alive. Man. And then just dead inside immediately afterwards. Afterward, I finished the deck, and I was like, what do I have to live for? Man, where's the shadow cards? Oh, they don't got any like that. Well, no, they do have shadow. Yeah, no, I made a shadow deck last year. You already did that with Beef Season 1.

26:29That was my Beef Season 1 deck. Yeah, exactly. Another super chat from Kebab says, Wheels might swap profiles like on the DS, like all the DualSense Edge. That was one I was going to shout out of like, maybe. But they do have a button in the middle that looks like the profile button. Yeah, I think the Elite Series 2 has a profile button, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's that. I could also see it being like a volume thing. Like maybe there's some kind of console functionality there that just makes it easier to adjust things. Maybe it moans when you flip it. Maybe what? Maybe the Xbox moans when you flip it.

26:59Wow. Jesus Christ. It's true. Maybe it does. I was going to say you scroll the wheel and then the screen spins or some shit, but you went straight to like... The screen spins? I don't know. I was trying to keep it PG. newbie prod writes in and says there's no excuse for first party controllers to not have hall effects slash tmr that's so true the amount of times i got stick drift on my dual sense plus edge is annoying i agree dude i agree so true bestie um zeke speak says y 'all hear that marathon is getting a pve mode you might hear about that in the story later today and then gamer geek says scuff valor pro has scroll wheels for mic slash audio there you go um we're gonna get into story number two which is all about subnautica 2 but before we do i want to tell you about patreon.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free and speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors look we've all been there you got the angle you've got the timing but you still lose the face off in competitive gaming milliseconds aren't just a stat they're the difference between a trophy and embarrassment and that is why the team at logitech g just changed the game again with the new Pro X2 Super Strike.

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32:20I haven't heard this in a while. So it took a second for me to cross that.

32:30Feels good to be back. Wes. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. But of course I'm not here as your three time game showdown champion or your season 13 kind of beauty champion. All right. I'm here to be the voice to the voiceless. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Greg Miller and I come to you with words from the dragon, AKA Cisco. Today at three 10 in the morning, I received the following text message. Good morning, my friend. sorry for hitting you up so early I am boarding a flight to my hometown of Baltimore for Drew Hill's history of R &B Vegas residency rehearsal and was hoping you, Greg Miller could get a message to the developers of Soros Rahul Kohli House Mark take the money out of your ears and listen up the dragon aka Cisco go.

33:40A.K.A. the thong song is speaking to you. Using my PlayStation portal, I have been playing the game on the road and thoroughly enjoy it. However, I really don't understand how there are so many accessibility settings slash options, but for some reason, no gyro aiming option. I really love my PlayStation five, but I usually will buy a game on PC if there is shooting involved because I can enable gyro aiming. But with this game, now that it's not an option because it's on the PlayStation 5 exclusivity thing, then he uses this emoji. And then a smiley cry. I say all that to say Greg, please make mention of gyro aiming for this game, if at all possible.

34:35Rahul Kohli! Housemark! PlayStation, the dragon, AKA Cisco, AKA the thong song would like gyro aiming on sorrows. I don't know if Rahul does anything with that. It doesn't matter. He knows them there. Back to Cisco and please tell everyone it kind of funny. I said, what's up and all the positive energy to you guys and all of your loved ones. That's so sweet. Signed off the dragon, AKA Cisco. aka the thong song i don't i don't know if his name is the thong song i think he just made it's also known as yeah is he known as the thong yeah yeah are you are you serious are you according to greg that's what he is i don't know if we can just call him the thong song yeah this is the dragon well that's exciting that's exciting to know that he's on the right side of history like me andy and tim i wasn't coming into this episode thinking that gyro aiming was going to be like theme this might be the headline yeah but i i'm also shocked that soros wouldn't have gyro aiming that seems like such a slam dunk functionality to have in that game yeah the action game yeah but it's like such a it's such a niche thing you know what i mean but it's because it's just me andy and the thong song aka cisco yeah playing the dragon yeah aka the dragon wow oh get on that i get on that yeah i don't know if rahul coley is the person to call out for that but i guess yeah rahul knows them so rahul if you're if you're watching market general i don't think he does but yeah yeah hit up house mark story number two simonica 2 surpasses two million copies sold in one two hours is 12 uh this is directly from a press release thank you unknown worlds today announced that subnautica 2 surpassed 2 million copies sold worldwide within 12 hours of launch while continuing to hold the number one position on steam's global top sellers charts across multiple countries peak concurrent players across steam epic game store and xbox exceeded 651 000 with steam alone reaching a peak of more than 467 000 concurrent players this marks approximately nine times the all-time peak concurrent player count of the original Subnautica, which launched in 2018.

36:43Player response has remained strong following launch. Subnautica 2 currently holds a very positive user review rating on Steam, with 92 % positive reviews. Frequently praised elements includes the game's Unreal Engine 5 power press release stuff. The game also generated significant momentum across live streaming platforms. On Twitch, on Twitch, Sonaka 2 reached more than 413 ,000 peak concurrent viewers. I wonder what Twitch 2 would be like. Ranking number one across all categories, YouTube Live reached more than 109 ,000 peak concurrent. All this to say, Sonaka 2, wow. Very popular. Wow. Yeah, the boys have been playing it.

37:19They're going to be playing it again today. But yeah, it was great to see them. I didn't watch much of the stream listening to it, but we had it on the big TV. Just looking at them and just seeing them just dead silent and just lost in it. I was like, that either means that they fucking love it or they're bored or they're miserable and then as soon as they walk out Nick just goes that was awesome I'm so excited to play it again and like yeah you feel that energy from them and it's so nice to see a team like this who've been lied on for so long by their employers who said this shit ain't ready this shit whacked as fuck multiple headlines last year the shit whacked as fuck we need to delay this shit don't worry about it it's not because of any bonuses don't worry about that comes out fucking overwhelmingly positive in an early access state with on Real Engine 5 that's like that's crazy that's crazy with the gamers the gamers hate the unreal engine 5 early access games have a lot of issues tend to be you know unbalanced yada yada yada this to be so beloved and be such a massive hit within one day of release crazy but like early access though i think there is a there's definitely been such a shift in terms of the kind of games that people flock to and the kind of games that people are willing to spend their time in because these early access survival type games there's something about them that is making them resonate with like a wide audience of people and i think part of it is maybe just the third space effect of being able to just hang out in a large world and like work with your friends to continue to build and grow and do all these things like there's a satisfying gameplay loop i think that works for so many people i wish i was more into survival games but times i've tried them i've been like man this is not what are the ones you've tried that's a good question i've tried to see if thieves but i don't think that's necessarily that yeah see if these i've tried i didn't get super into yeah we got raided and it just fucked my life.

38:58What's the... Is Dune Awakening kind of... Yeah, that counts. I guess that's kind of an MMO, but I feel like that's survival. Yeah, that counts. Tried that. Tried... You know what? Well, I know I definitely tried some more. I just can't think of what they are at this point because I feel like it was so long ago. It was more around 2020 area. I feel like I would try them out with Mike and Andy a little bit more. Maybe this is Zion, though. Maybe I'd try one more. Maybe we tried out. What's the word on Valheim? People still playing that? Eh. I mean, yes, but Spnautica 2. i guess i tried fortnight survival the lego lego mode i tried that one oh yeah i guess no minecraft i guess that's pretty much oh in minecraft i tried minecraft yeah minecraft rules that's the go yeah don't go like this to minecraft no i and i'm not trying to install minecraft this is like i didn't resonate with a person like that i liked minecraft when um i was on the one episode of the roosty show yeah why were you on the one episode because i got knocked out i played i was on survive block island which is their minecraft survivor show and let me tell you i should have watched survivor before getting on that show because i didn't play minecraft yeah it was a whole thing but hell yeah congratulations story number three bungie will test pve only mode in marathon season two and other things we learned from its roadmap this is wesley leblanc at game informer bungie revealed earlier this week that season two of marathon will begin on june 2nd ahead of the new season start the studio has revealed a massive blog post detailing plans for season two and beyond what went wrong with season one what went well and more perhaps the biggest surprise in the post is the news that bungie will implement experimental pve modes in marathon during season two in a section of the blog titled uh quote more options to chill and new survival experiences bungie says it is looking to evolve marathon as a whole to be an experience where you can find more novel ways to play when you're, quote, stressed out from a nail-biting run and just need to cool off in Step's experimental PvE modes.

40:54Quote, in Season 2, we'll be experimenting with two modes, one at the beginning of the season and one towards the middle-slash-latter half of the season, the blog post reads. Quote, the experimental mode at the beginning of the season will focus more on PvE, but with a light touch of PvP. The second experimental mode will be a PvE-only mode that's focused on crews being tasked with completing objectives together and making some progress across matches, end quote. While I personally quite enjoy Marathon's PvP stress, I can understand why the intense focus on it might be a turnoff for some would-be players, and PvE modes would likely draw them in and maybe convince them to give the excellent PvP a go, too.

41:37Bungie says it will continue to run experimental queues beyond these two offerings in Season 2 and beyond, testing the waters around other mechanics like a more purely PvP-focused mode, with potential for these modes to become part of the core gameplay loop. In Season 3, Bungie says it plans to introduce many revisions to Marathon's early experience, including major updates to Perimeter, a new runner shell, and additional content. Season 4 will focus on building more depth into the existing extraction loop, and season five will be about bringing the whole ecosystem of pv pve play together and evolving our weird sci-fi world in new ways and that is a quote a lot of p's a lot of e's a lot of v's a lot of pv yeah a lot of pvps v e's bps pv pp uh that's cool you're the person that i know that plays a lot has played a lot of this game what do you feel about this are you just gonna get you back into it um possibly i i'm i'm excited to potentially get into season two i say potentially because so many things so many things and i know we say it all the time but it feels like as time passes more and more and more games release at the same time yep to the point where it's like there's not any breathing room that said i'm excited for the idea of a reset i'd love to go in check out the things that have changed um them implementing experimental pve only modes I think it's fascinating for what a extraction shooter is because I think the core and heart of an extraction shooter, I'm saying this as somebody who's not the expert by any means.