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29:41That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Did you see I just said Tina as a Napoleon Dynamite reference? You did. You're a dumb guy. I do love that film. You're a film guy. Story number three. This is an odd show. It will be, yeah. I don't know if I like it. Why? Okay, carry on. Story number three. Stranger Than Heaven director addresses concerns over Tupac's inclusion. This comes from Kate Onder at IGN. Good website. Good website. I like it. Great review score for mixtape. Yeah. Great reviewer, people say. No one's saying that. I mean, not wrong though Why did you have to bring that up? I gave it a 9 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I gave it a 10 Stand by it I love talking to It was funny, everyone I bumped into at Summer Games Fest last week I say everyone, like four people knew who I was It was like, mixtape's actually good I was like, I know, yeah Great time Love talking to you at the Control Resident thing And you going You know, I gave that I had an awesome time in that game, gave it a 10.

30:48I was like, fuck, love this experience. And just thought, no one can have a problem with this game. It's delightful. There is nothing to hate here. Oh, well. Oh, well, and then the tongues came out. Oh, well. One of the most bizarre reveals for some Game Fest last week was that Tupac would have a supporting role in Stranger Than Heaven, despite the fact he's been dead for 30 years. I don't know about that. Wait, what? that you don't know if he's dead. Yeah, a lot of... A lot of scuttlebutt out there. I'm not going to pretend to be a Tupac expert. I am from England. I do not listen to Tupac, and I will not be offering any expert opinion on whether Tupac is alive or dead.

31:34Okay. I just want to clarify that now. Okay. You have your conspiracies, that's fine. I think he's probably dead. Yeah, I changed my mind. I think he's probably there as well. Yeah, okay, cool. Should he be in a game, though? Probably not, but let's carry on. It's crazy to just think about, like, how much, you know, you watch that Diddy documentary, and it's like, god damn, he was a, what a bad dude Diddy was. Like, the stuff that he was. What opinion do you want me to offer about this? Your thoughts. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, okay. Allegedly. To be clear, Tupac isn't playing himself in the game. Instead, the character that uses Tupac's likeness will be voiced by an actor without the assistance of AI.

32:16So really, the character is just a guy who looks like Tupac, making the situation all the more baffling. The decision to feature a dead music star so prominently in the game has raised a lot of eyebrows, especially after it came to light that Tupac's estate is managed by music executive Tom Wally, a situation that has been the subject of legal disputes between Wally and Tupac's family. However, IGN spoke with executive director and RGG studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama, who addressed the concerns and claimed that both Tupac's estate and family addressed or approved of his role in the game. Yokoyama also noted that Tupac isn't the first instance of the team using the likeness of a deceased actor.

32:54Quote, we already have had a character like Tupac who had passed away before the game was made. The character Genzo Iwaki was the likeness of actor Bunta Sugurara, who was a he's a really famous actor in Yakuza movies and Japanese film history. But it's kind of the same situation. He's a famous actor who passed away, but we made sure that we talked to his estate and family and got their permission. Not just their permission, but we also talked to them about what we wanted to do. They not only said okay, but they were really excited about the opportunity. We wanted to give their characters a role that would do other justice to the people.

33:28I'm sorry. We wanted to give their characters a role that would do other justice to the people themselves as well. If we didn't, we think that would be extremely rude so we did so we definitely wouldn't have done it otherwise so we did our best to make sure that any role we create for these characters would honor them and their families yokoyama also addressed how they went about casting someone to actually voice a character the next barrier we faced when we were bringing them back for these characters for these roles was their voice right we probably couldn't replicate their voices with ai if we went for it but we're a studio that has that really valued acting, not just movie acting, but also drama acting.

34:05And we're... A lot of translation stuff. He's a long quote. Yeah. And we're really careful about the voice actors we chose in the past. So we wanted to focus on getting a real person to put their own spin on that character. So we didn't have to... So we didn't have them just do an imitation of the character. We wanted them to also try to bring out that character's personality, but with a different voice. So we did our best to pick an actor that would fit the role and fit the character. And some of these people might be related to them or have some sort relationship to them. Let's just pause for a second.

34:32Am I right in thinking now that the character isn't Tupac in the game? The voice isn't. So they basically just use the mod, the likeness. Just the likeness. And the actor isn't trying to do Tupac's voice? They're just doing their own? Doesn't sound like it. I mean, this sounds kind of like... It seems like he didn't need to do this. It's an alive version of Death Stranding 2 or Death Stranding, period, where you get, you know, here's Guillermo del Toro. We'll have somebody else voice. I mean, the key is he's alive and presumably went, yeah, cool. I said it's in a live version. Do you want to finish the quotes before I had more thought?

35:03Yeah, sure thing. There's so many. I think when you're creating any product in the entertainment industry, there's going to be criticism, he said. You can't really say, don't criticize us. That just doesn't make sense. Criticism is a freedom that people are free to have. But this is something that we thought was a good idea, that this would be something would add value to our game, which is why we chose to do this. I mean, we had a similar issue with this when we announced the casting of Sugawara as well. He's obviously a famous actor in Japan, and there were a lot of people who responded saying like, maybe you shouldn't have, maybe you should have left him alone.

35:33For Tupac, he's a person who was well known outside of Japan and we expected those voices. But in the end, we are creating something we think people will enjoy and like. We think it's something that will add value to the game we're making so we have no real regrets or worries about what we're doing. For me personally, I think trying to make everybody happy is a job of a politician. For a person who makes games, I think our job is to try to give inspirational, emotional, or deep experience to as many people as possible. And if you try to make decisions, just to avoid criticism, you will end up with something that can't do that.

36:02I mean, I think that's a separate conversation. I agree. You can't make art to try and get everyone's approval. But, you know, we're not talking about, you know, is the parry good or not? Right. We're talking about using someone's likeness who's dead. I mean, how would you feel about it? If in 20 years a Yakuza game was like, we want Andy Cortez in our game, but you're dead. I'm dead. Would you like it? And say I was voicing you in Yakuza 14. How would you feel about that? I wouldn't be a big fan of it. Yeah. I think, you know, let the dead stay dead. And it is a fascinating quote to have him go, look, we encountered a lot of pushback the first time we did this.

36:42Okay, why would you do it again? But we're doing it again. Why do it again? So I look, there's a part of me that understands that the Tupac estate is not great. No, it isn't his close family members that care and love about him a whole lot. It is people that it's other forces that have the estate control or whatever and are just down to kind of make money. And, you know, that is not all the details are there in my brain. But I know that that's the case, especially because all of social media was like, yeah, but his this isn't like his close family and friends in the estate. You know, these are people trying to make a different right.

37:19We're in a different world now. When he died, this sort of thing didn't happen. It wasn't a thing, really. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of celebrities now Don't spill that Careful I'll worry about you I wouldn't be surprised now If a lot of celebrities have clauses Or in their will There's something that you cannot I think we're sadly at that stage When I die Leave me alone I still feel weird If games try to do Bruce Lee Yeah And the thing is, like, when I think about this game and what it's trying to do, to have Snoop Dogg, fine. That's going to be a silly little thing. Tupac's going to be, or Snoop Dogg will be in this game.

38:09I think for me where I get kind of annoyed and bothered by it is, it's not like Tupac's lineage is heavily in, not only was he an amazing legendary hip-hop artist, but he loved kung fu movies he loved uh japanese related things he loved the culture he was so involved with it this isn't one of those things it's just like it's so random and that's why i i i made fun of it so much when soon doc is on stage going well you know when you have a game like this and then you have it just felt like the right fit like it was like i was like why that doesn't make sense you know like yeah i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say it out like i'm personally offended because i'm not i'm not like personally offended by it but like i just want these things to make sure we are checking with the right people right yeah if if if it is true that his whole family are like yeah we love this we think it's great like obviously we can never ask him you know right but like as long as it's done properly i don't actually have a problem with it but it's like when we're just like it's all a bit wishy-washy right it's been like we asked this person we asked this day and snoop dog said it's fine so you know yeah you know like as long as you it properly i don't actually think it's that bad i would have more problem with it if it was like an ai version of his voice and had gone that route with her yeah that sounds a little bit a little bit grimier but i don't know it's like for me it's one of those things if you're honoring this man who was so involved in in japanese culture and cared so much about you know uh about the area and visiting and all that and i don't know i'd still would feel like not great about it but i'd be like well i mean he did love you know he let's say he was only murdered 10 years ago but he loved rgg or something like that and always wanted to be in a game this is just kind of like it just doesn't feel related if it's a small little like nod of the head cameo to a guy who worked for us before that yeah you have to take every case on its back i don't think we can just be like blanket like no dead people in games right yeah but i don't know it's it's not a simple issue it's not a simple issue you know what is a simple issue though um what i don't know it's gonna be a tough job for the spurs from here on in i'd kind of forgotten about it now i remember now i remember what happened um what is a simple issue um is supporting us on patreon.com forward slash kind of funny where if you're a patreon member you can watch all of our stuff ad free but if you're watching live right now here's the word from our sponsor this episode's Brought to you by Factor.

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41:58uh Ryad Al-Zarna says do you think he dies in the game they can't do that I don't think they can kill him in the game no I was gonna write how tasteful a joke I was gonna make I was gonna go probably not no I'll make a joke I like that that's fine yeah yeah um have a super chat here from JerBear $10 super chat says Andy this is to replenish your gummy stash and to remind you that all that and to remind you not all Knicks fans have to be insufferable I can't wait to finally celebrate though. It's okay. Sounds like Jerry Barrett. Sounds like you think you're going to win. Look, the World Cup starts.

42:33Don't let us get one more. The World Cup starts today, Andy. Are we excited? Who do you got? England. Really? Yeah. Are they favored? They're four favorites. Anything can happen. Anything can happen. Soccer is a weird game. If you ask me to actually use my brain, I'd say Spain. Okay, really? Spain. Yeah, I think Spain are quite easily the best team. France may be have the best players. Spain may have the best team. First game though in now a couple hours time. Mexico versus South Africa. Oh. The same game that started the 2010 World Cup. Interesting. Why? It's just luck of the draw that it happens to be the same two teams.

43:08Oh, okay. Gotcha. You know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, I'm looking forward to it. How many crossover is there between the players from 2010 to now? Oh, very few. Ronaldo and Messi will be there. Heard of them? I have heard of them. Good, good, good, good, good, good. One plays for Inter Miami. He does. He does. Messy. Best player ever. The pink Flamingo team. Yes. Super Chat from Tom Johnson says, every other company is guaranteeing no competition with GTA. There's no way that they don't make that game 80 to 90 bucks. Their shareholders will write if they don't take advantage. We have Hachuken with a$5 Super Chat saying, Devolver Digital is intent on releasing a game day in day with GTA 6.

43:50Do we know which game they are releasing in November? I have no clue couldn't even tell you maybe it's Dark Scrolls which is that like auto scroller kind of side scroller do they dare go up against Barbie Rewind in the Godzilla game shit what does the month of November look like I'll ask this question again for you because it went down so well yesterday do you think Godzilla's real?

44:18in what way? real? do you think he's real? is Godzilla real? do I think he exists? Is he real? It's a very simple question. Is he real? In what form? A physical being on our Earth. I think there could be... I think there could be a... Like a... I think there could be... He's here today! I think there could be a large lizard-like thing that they call Godzilla. Okay. But it isn't as large as he is. No, that would be terrifying, wouldn't it? Let's be honest. I think, like, in the same way that we think Loch Ness Monster is probably another water-dwelling creature that just looks similar or whatever.

45:04I don't know. Do you know what is real, though? A bandicoot. And you're not sure if you like that or not. Well, real bandicoots I have no real problem with, I think. I've never met one. But as we go to ad break, you look at the doc and you look at me and you go, do we need another Bandicoot? I don't know if I personally need another new Crash Bandicoot game, but people like them. I'm not going to take away people's joy. I just personally don't feel great to play another Crash Bandicoot game. I'd rather play a new Crash Bandicoot than a new Spyro, though. I will say that. Oh, OK. Yeah. All right.

45:38This comes from Sam Sepial at Insider Gaming. New Crash Bandicoot game is in development, it's claimed. Players have been waiting for quite a bit for a new installment to the franchise. The last mainline entry was back in 2020 with Crash Bandicoot 4. It's about time. And the latest entry was Crash Team Rumble, a multiplayer spinoff. Seems like another Crash Bandicoot is in the oven. The latest rumor about the new Crash Bandicoot game comes from a user on X, formerly Twitter, named as No Arms and No Legs. This leaker has previously shared accurate details about the upcoming Spyro game before it was officially announced.

46:14In their latest post, they mentioned that, quote, a new Crash Bandicoot game is scheduled to, end quote. Although it appears the developers are not planning to make any announcements about it at this time, readers should take this information with a grain of salt. Take it with a little sodium right there. Who is your favorite platform mascot? Do you have one? Are you into those games much? Platform mascot. As in mascot platformer. Platform mascot is a different thing. That's your Kratos. Let me just look up. Let's create a quick top five right here. I've always had a soft spot for Glover. Did you play Glover?

46:49Oh, yes. Bring him back. Why are we not doing that? I've been talking about this recently. There's a magician game. There's a game called The Magician's Hand or some shit. Oh, really? I thought you were talking about The Magician. No, I mean, that looked amazing. That was like, holy shit. There's a game called The Magician's Hand or some shit, and you are the severed hand of a magician. You're just a walking hand with a glove, and you are a side-scroller platformer. kind of feels like Glover's coming back a bit like Thing from the Adams family a little bit like that I mentioned the hand thing and Blessing was like that's why I never like Adams family what's he got against fingers I don't know he feels like they're kind of spider-like I guess there's Glover look at him bring him back let's see Aero the Acrobat we got Boogerman Bubsy I loved Bugs Bunny Lost in Time did you play that?

47:38that was great I don't know if I'd call it a mascot platformer Well, it was kind of that sort of game. Was it not? I don't know if it could be an existing IP. Okay, well, it was that sort of game. I like that game. Will you let me have that? Sure. Okay. Because when I think of mascot platformer. Do they have to be original characters? I think of it's an original IP. Okay. And it has to be an original IP because it feels like they are vying for the crown. Okay. They want to be the poster child. They want to be the cover athlete. I think of Gex We got Rayman Rocky Rodent You know what? Rocket Knight is probably my favorite looking Okay Kevin if you could bring up Rocket Knight I just love the look of Rocket Knight I think he's a cool looking dude How about Blinks the Time Sweeper?

48:30I was never a Blinks dude What about you? I was never a Blinks dude I think of Blasto Bob C4D doing anything for you? No, I heard it's kind of underwhelming. What did you want me to bring up? Rocket Knight. I looked up Rocket. Rocket Knight rocks. He's just a cool looking dude. You know, I don't know if I would say Mega Man is one. I wouldn't consider that. I don't know why. It doesn't make sense. It feels like a different sort of game, right? Yeah, I don't know. As much as Mega Man is my dude. I love Mega Man. I don't know if I would. It doesn't feel like Mega Man was trying to be. I want to be on the commercials for the platform that I'm, you know.

49:19He was a bit shy. Yeah. He's more low key. A lot like Rodney Mullen, you know, as a skateboarder. Yeah. I'm just going to go out there and do my job. Yeah. I'm going to skate. I want to be cool. I'm going to be at peace with the world. But Rocket Knight's always just had a cool look to me. Look at this fucking dude. I love him. there was a there was a new collection out two years ago apparently really yeah i don't know i just saw that trailer said what so i don't know i'm not familiar with rocket note i see battletoads i see uh spyro of course like you just mentioned parappa the rapper which is definitely not a mascot platform it's definitely not what are we doing here where is this why would you put that on the list no um yeah gex is kind of one that sticks out to me i think gex had a run and then unfortunately just had some, fell into some dark places, you know, made some, got in with the wrong crowd, Gex.

50:11We can all just agree Glover's the best. I think that's fine. I think so, Chad. Yeah, there we go. Let's give him a hand. I think so. Wow. I glove him. Well, he's... Do we don't want to go there? I think you crushed the first one, though. you know all these puns that we're making oh fucking cool spot how could I forget cool spot it's quite easily done isn't it let's be honest how could I forget cool spot I feel like I'm insulting a huge fan base oh you know what crock hey crock is a good shout out okay I think crock is phenomenal I'm gonna crock it there's also a now that we're just like talking we're not even anyway yeah you know if there's a new crash game cool I hope people enjoy it there's my reaction to that story chat the game called something Doug there's an upcoming video game that looks like Ren and Stimpy that a lot of people told me to react to the trailer and it is no Doug like the name D-O-U-G it's called like it's Doug's big game there it is oh it's called oh my Doug can you look that up Kevin oh my Doug spelled like Doug the Doug funny the character I don't know if you've seen this or not I don't think this was on the mix summer showcase okay and they're kind of doing what Cuphead did for you know 20s animation but they're doing that for oh cool 2D animate for a 2D animated like you know this is basically Ren and Stimpy style animation.

52:01It's gross, yeah. Yeah, it's very gross. It definitely takes you back to a certain place in time, but it's got such a cool look to it. I am such a fan of this aesthetic. And I didn't know that I really wanted this, but a lot of it is just kind of like, you're pulling at my heartstrings. I'm just kidding. This looks fantastic. This is called Oh My Dug. You know what, Andy? Thank you for showing me that. No problem. You've opened my eyes once again. Hey, you taught me about soccer. Wow, there's much more to come about that. And I also got to name, you helped me name all the teams that have won a World Cup before.

52:38Yep, yep. Any soccer slash football knowledge you need. You got my back there. And I'll tell you how else you have my back, because you're also going to help me with the segue where I'm tired of reading all the big news. Can I say it properly this time? If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the Wii News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Wii News. This comes from Simone Crady at IGN. Yeah. Speaking at a Q &A session after the reveal attended by IGN, Resident Evil Veronica's producer, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, confirmed that, quote, this game will be a third-person game.

53:21Yeah, I asked them that. Big scoop. I asked them that. Well, I think everyone asked that question, to be fair. Big scoop from Simon Carty. Yeah. Well, we had the question. The teaser, right, was fully in first person. It was like, well, is that just the opening? Like a couple of minutes of the game is a cut scene like that, and then you go to third person? Yeah, they said it is a third person game, so it suggests no switching. I thought they might do the Requiem thing, right? Right. Switching between Claire and Chris. No? Seems like it's going to be all third person. Scoop Simon. Like a big dollop of ice.

53:52Simon the Scooper. Crimson Desert has sold over 6 million copies That's a lot However Playing Devil's Advocate A game that I didn't really expect to Slow down that much with sales Because I feel like we hit 5 million or 4 million Within the first couple of weeks And if you were to ask me Andy, if it's at this pace Where do you think it'll be at On June 11th The day after The Spurs just had the most devastating loss in probably a lifetime. You probably would have just ended it there. I wanted to. Thought about it. Oh, my God. I thought about it. You know, it was a tough game. You know, tough game out there.

54:32Where did I get my cup, you're asking? Oh, NitroRifle.com is where I got my cup. But if you were to ask me where we'd be at, I would have assumed like closer to eight or nine or something like that. But still great for a game nowadays that it's so hard to sell a lot of games. And the funny thing is it's a completely different game to it was when it came out. so i'm gonna hop back in at some point me too check it out yeah i i am like dedicating and promising that i will give this another full ass weekend because i much like a lot of other people who kind of fell off early my first 10 hours were like i don't know you know what i mean i i do need story to an extent and it wasn't there for me and i don't know i'm of different minds sometimes it depends on the experience and if i'm having so much fun with the game i maybe i don't need that but i think when you attempt to do it and then do it poorly that's what that's when i get kind of angry where i go like just give me a a quiet contemplative you know sort of quiet experience with npcs that maybe aren't and you know and then i won't get mad that your story is like bad or whatever and i'll just focus on the gameplay but when you try to focus and do things like that it's why i always get mad when i play games like neo or or wolong where i'm just like man you're really trying to make this happen and you got to stop trying to make it happen yeah man yeah they make another one though so they won't stop that's how i'm feeling with the game right now playing the game right now i'm just like little tears just stop doing this little tears stop you know yeah one to keep an eye on drone xl reports pokemon ghost scans are quietly training military I'm sorry.

56:16This is wee news. It seems like big news. What? Tell me more. There's a Pokemon named Jonealath that evolves into something else that's definitely going to be a big problem for us Americans. Hundreds of millions of Pokemon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. We can really blame this all on Tim. those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial and they helped train a camera based navigation model that a US defense defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots most of the players had no idea we'll say it was you guys who bought it fucking Tim yeah it's all him Tim's doing this I mean this area has been foddery scouted so you should be worried oh my god yeah This should be more than We News.

57:14God damn. That's going to do it for We News. Shit. That's kind of a little cherry on top. Not a good day. Not a great day. Kindoffunny.com where you write in all the you're wrong so let's know what we got wrong on the show. Anthony Altered Rain says Dark Scrolls has a date of June 22nd. Maybe it gets delayed until GTA 6. Who knows? I mean that's 11 days you'd think it'd come out I'm excited for that game Force this is a super chat for Simon who says Simon said that his Spurs have been in the Premier League for 50 years but this is incorrect as a Premier League started 34 years ago what Simon means is that the Spurs have been in the first division of English football I didn't know I didn't want to overcomplicate it got rebranded you're telling me what I need to know like when I talk about the NBA I'm not going that's before the merger when it was the ABA and all that you know what I mean I'm delivering the knowledge you need to know.

58:09Yeah, because, I mean, it was a tough win. It wasn't a win, was it? Tough loss. It wasn't a win. If it was a win, you were feeling so good right now. Imagine if they'd won. I'd be so happy. It'd be great, wouldn't it? Normally, when you have a 29-point lead, you do win. Can you imagine if De 'Aaron Fox just kept dribbling? Yeah. Or if you'd maybe just block that one shot right at the end. Like that 1.4 seconds could have been so much better. But this is up there with the Ray Allen shot from the Heat against the Spurs in 2013. And Derek Fisher, the.4 shot against the Spurs after Tim Duncan just hit a dagger.

58:52Three more games? Three more games. Spurs in 11, I was saying. Spurs in 13. Let's check out some Super Chats here from all of our lovely supporters. DGenerationMax says, Happy World Cup game, guys. World Cup game. Pride month, everybody. Happy World Cup gay guys. Simon, give me a prediction. Where does England end up and who is taking it home? Semi-final for England. Semi. Or final. I'll have Spain. Spain. There you go. Zach Telford says, at this point, I think announcing a game for November 19th could actually be a good marketing strategy. Or the worst decision you could ever make. Either or.

59:33I think like, think of all of the people with open wallets that say, I want to support, I support your bravery, you know? There's some games that could, you know, not be affected. There would be a completely different audience to GTA, but I wouldn't personally do it. Ronnie Rosado with a$5 Super Chat says, Simon, Andy finally knows what it's like to support a Spurs team to bottle it. Yeah, that's a British, do you know what to bottle? You fucking bottle it. I mean, we don't really I wouldn't say we were the bottlers but, you know, we just had a terrible season We're not the fucking bottlers I pay a lot of money I have a season ticket to go see every game I saw three wins all season Andy, three Bam Three We have Del Walker the homie Del Walker with a$5 super chat thank you for a bit more clarification says the problem is the two pocket state is not owned by the family.

1:00:31It's owned by Tom Wally, who was the CEO of Warner Brothers. The family hate him. That's the thing, right? Yeah. Whether you buy, they talk to the family. I'm not too sure, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mad Rocks, with a$10 super bad, thank you for your support, says, man, if only some higher ups on Microsoft or Xbox who get paid out the ass could take a pay cut to retain the workers who get paid peanuts in comparison. Wouldn't that be a lovely thing? It really would, man. Is it a bit like here? If Greg just took a little bit less money, everyone here could have a good life yeah yeah you know so i'm not having to eat squashies candies for lunch you know what i mean um i you know after listening to keza mcdonald's uh super nintendo book i read it with my ears and it's a lovely read with your ears and she talks about you know satora iwata taking the pay cut and what a what an awesome moment that was and how that how that galvanized really i mean i would say that that would it also shows the fans we care about the people making the stuff that you really really like and sure i'm you know there's likely a chance that toruwada also at one point said no i'm not gonna take a cut for that i'm gonna do that whatever it's just like if that could just happen once sometimes when you say these things right you sound like a crazy idealist but it's really not that difficult to just treat people it's really really not yeah Yeah, especially when you have, again, more money than God.

1:01:59You are thousands of billions of dollars in the bank, and you're going to continue to lay off people and continue to discourage future talented people to not want to get into that industry. And you're going to show your veteran workers that are largely the main reason why games could be made even faster than they are. You're going to discourage them to go elsewhere, and that's going to lead to more inexperienced employees without good leadership and games that get delayed because they don't have the chemistry or the management. Like, it all, it's the fucking dominoes, man. Like, these are the dominoes we need to talk about in game development.

1:02:40I think it might be fucked, Andy. I think things are pretty bad, yeah. I'm not really, really feeling great about it. But you know what? Spurs and 11, everybody. This has been kind of funny games daily. Appreciate y 'all watching and hanging out with us. If you are supporting on Patreon.com forward slash kind of funny, we appreciate that as well. Because when you don't pay for the things you love, they go away forever. And I don't want to go away forever. It sounded like you did what I do. Yeah, last night it sounded like you really did. Oh, last night. I mean, I'll tell you what. I looked at that bottle of Clorox and I was like, come on.

1:03:12It may just be, now may be the moment. It looked tasty. You know what I mean? Fucking dear. You would never have tasted those squashies though. Just think about that. Every time you think about that, tomorrow I could have a squashy. at least the Aaron Fox is cheap actually no he's making 220 million goddamn dollars wow I didn't know that what are we doing bye appreciate y 'all watching take care of yourself take care of each other and stay tuned for Gamescast with I am on that aren't I man we're putting you to work you have to watch a Casino Royale movie I mean I like that that's a treat that's a treat huh a treat yeah yeah yeah we love y 'all gamers we'll see you all next time bye bye