Xbox Reevaluating Exclusivity, Affordability, More - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.24.26

34:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't know. I know. I know. I'm just saying like, I think that's why I'm like, even if you can't get people to buy the box again, it's not that not 100 % what it's about for them. It's about them getting in and being an active user again. Yeah. Sorry, Paris, where'd they mess up? halo i think putting halo on playstation again if they're truly evaluating it now and rolling back these changes that's one thing from the previous administration that asha would just have to come out and say you know what yeah we put campaign evolved on playstation but the next halo will not be because i think halo is xbox there is an xbox without halo so if there's any game they have that probably should stay on Xbox, it would be Halo.

35:24But is the genie out of the bottle on that? Obviously, there's the multiplayer side of it. You want people, you know, to as many people as possible to play. So maybe that factors into it as well. Look, I don't envy the job that her and Matt Booty have to do right now, because clearly they understand that Xbox, they want to, like she said, a return to Xbox. So they're trying to get it back to this, I guess, quote unquote glory days. But there's been so many business decisions that, you know, maybe they just got to rip the bandaid and go, OK, we're reversing course and we're going to do X, Y and Z.

35:59I personally, me personally, still believe in the let people play where they want. And that's obviously what they were trying to do. But it clearly was at the sacrifice of the brand. And she's seemingly is about the brand. So some form of exclusivity probably comes back, be it time to be at select games. but I just can't see them going 100 % full exclusivity anymore. I just don't think it happens. Paris, you talk about the brand. That's the last part of this letter I want to get through, and then I'm going to go into the next story. Well, I'll go into ads. Then I'll go to the next story about exclusives.

36:32But to close out the letter here, okay? Bold, we are Xbox. To achieve our master plan the way we must... Damn it, I fucked it up. To achieve our master plan, the way we work must transform. Our best work happens when the full stack moves together. Quote-unquote Microsoft gaming describes our structure, but it does not describe our ambition. So we are going back to where we started in changing our team's name. We are Xbox. We are a high-agency culture where wild and wonderful ideas thrive. Our job is not to smooth over our differences, but to connect everyone into something greater than anyone's studio or product.

37:11We have to be honest about where we are. We are a challenger and meeting this moment will require pace, energy, and a level of self-critique that should feel uncomfortable. At our best, we, colon, number one, earn every player. Number two, protect our art. Number three, stay rebellious. Number four, progress over perfection. Number five, signal over ceremony. Number six, core before more. Number seven, outwork the problem. number eight speed is learning number nine makers over managers number 10 clarity is kindness over the last five years xbox and the industry have been through an unimaginable amount of change and this team has continued to deliver through it for our community thank you for staying focused on what matters 62 days in we're proud of how we've honored our commitments to of great games return of Xbox and future of play.

38:08We're here to do the most creative and courageous work of our lives. And that's what we'll do together with gratitude, Matt and Asha. Some bars at the end.

38:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Here's what listen. I'm not I want to make it clear not accusing this of being AI whatsoever. Oh my God. But if you told me this, you think so this I mean it reads like it a little bit, but I don't think it is AI. I think it's them being genuine. That's where the problem gets in of like the corporate motivational poster speak that have been around for you know our entire childhood already sounded like ai so you get there but this clarity is kindness what does that mean i mean that's that's you know that is one that core before more is the one that stands out to me because it goes back to what i'm telling you right sure let's focus on the core xbox audience rather than trying to get more of the mainstream audience whatever but again these are pillars of a company i'm sure that in their new employee handbook are spelled out what the fuck clarity is kindness means but yeah i'm with you on that 100 yeah but i like this letter and i like this ending oh i like this letter too like it's the it's one of those things where you know can you talk to the walk can you walk the walk they're talking the talk yeah now let's see them walk to walk exactly exactly a lot more to happen uh captain slayer super chats and says as an xbox fan since 2001 the transparency from share the transparency from sharing this memo is appreciated it feels like they're at least trying and committing to a path and i think that paris that's what we're talking about here it sounds like to come out and say 62 days in you're talking a lot earlier than I thought you would.

39:37They clearly know time is of the essence. Public opinion matters here. Obviously there's project helix stuff and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, to be here now and have this letter and put it out and then publish it for everybody. I think it's a great move. Paris. Yeah, I completely agree. I tweeted. I thought this was essentially the most definitive message they've had in their 25 year history coming from Xbox, because whether it's chat, GBT, corporal word salad, however people want to define it. it was pretty definitive about this is our plan. This is what we're trying to execute. Now they got to deliver on it, obviously.

40:10But I think her being there for 60 days and this is her message to that core audience and just to the gaming industry as a whole is interesting. I think obviously they want to get ahead of the June showcase because I think a lot of that, the June showcase, you're going to start to see what this is going to be. I think a lot of that, like I think Gears E-Day is going to be fascinating to me at that June showcase. What obviously the gameplay has to be great, but when is it coming out and where? That's going to say a lot about what they're going to try to do. So I'm excited to see it. I like the aggression that they're doing.

40:49I just think this is Asha coming in. It's a fresh set of eyes. She's evaluating everything and she's making decisions that if Phil and Sarah were still there and doing the same exact things, nobody would believe them because they would go, well, you're just walking back what you already did where she gets to come in as a new leader. Yeah, and just, all right, I'm changing this. And you're like, okay, because it's new leadership. So I'm interested to see where it goes. We have even more from Asha Sharma talking about the possible futures and past in front of Xbox. But before then, I'll let you know, there would be no possible future.

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43:35And we're back. Still in the land of Xbox news, we go to Ethan Gotch over at Kotaku. Asha Sharma elaborates on Xbox affordability and exclusives. Quote, I want to make the right decision. not the fastest decision, end quote. Two months into the job as Xbox CEO, following Phil Spencer's retirement, Asha Sharma launched an ambitious, if somewhat vague plan for how to get the gaming platform back on track. It teased initiatives around new console features, affordability, and even a reevaluation of Microsoft's shift away from exclusive games. What's the timeline for announcing her decisions on each of these fronts?

44:10Quote, we'll take a data-driven approach and a strategic-driven approach, and then we'll look at our principles and we'll make some calls, she told Game Files' Stephen Totillo in a new interview that was, when asked, about future game exclusivity. She added, quote, I want to make the right decision, not the fastest decision. She said choosing which games to bring to which platforms are, quote, long-swinging decisions that have decade-long impact, end quote. Last fall, Halo Studios announced that the future of Halo would be on PlayStation as well moving forward. When I asked Microsoft this week for a comment on whether that was still the case, I was referred back to Sharma's internal memo.

44:49That pledge also hinted at Xbox trying to make gaming more affordable. Does that apply to hardware as well as things like Game Pass, which just got its first price cut ever? Quote, I think historically our pricing hasn't been as flexible, she told Game File. And I think that's the big thing we want to go to work on. We want to go to go work on. I see. Sharma continued, quote, I want to continue to make sure as we build hardware, software services we're spending just as much time on performance and play time as we are making sure that we can innovate to offer more affordable devices and hardware and services and so look there's a reality to the market that we're in so there's no promises around what the price points are or anything like that but i want to make sure that people around the world are able to play end quote xbox chief content officer matt booty was also part of the conversation and hinted at where the company's sprawling first-party development pipeline is heading.

45:45He said the teams have been working to establish a, quote, predictable cadence, robust roadmap, and aim for quality, and that these goals will, quote, create the conditions for the lightning in a bottle of winning game of the year, end quote. Despite its nearly$80 billion in gaming acquisitions, that's still something Microsoft's never won. Crazy. Another good Matt Booty calling the shot of what they're going for here. lightning in a bottle of winning game of the year okay sure and again i think what you're seeing asha and xbox learn from the phil spencer years is hey we are not we got nothing to say on that we don't know it's 62 days in and we're trying our best to do a bunch of different stuff so

46:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:we're figuring all of that out i mean it's i do like how much time they're spending identifying what all the issues are though you know like the fact that they're talking very openly about hey this isn't working this isn't working we want to figure this out we want to do this like sure you might not have the answers today but the fact that you're identifying that and it feels like a lot of people online are going yeah those are the problems yeah that's a good place to be to understand that the people at the top of this company understand what the issues are i'm very interested with the with them saying i think historically our pricing hasn't been flexible because i view xbox is one of the more flexible pricing um having some of the more flexible pricing options of game pass and all that the yeah game pass even being just an option um xbox series s being a sure you know lower budget option to get into this level of console gaming yeah i view that as a thing if they want to double down on that more and continue to find more flexible pricing i think that's going to be such a big key going into the next generation as everything rises up in price i know we talked about it earlier in the show but yeah if you're able to come in at a lower cost while playstation's going up right pcs are going up all this shit that's going to be huge for people and that's back to you know uh paris louis talking about them being a lost leader, right, Paris?

47:38Yeah, exactly. I mean, are they willing to, you know, subsidize the hardware to make it more affordable to get more people to buy the box? But I think the one thing that Matt Booty said in that quote is the aspiration for game of the year. That's absolutely where they need to be shooting for with all their games, that they need things that Jeff Keighley is going to have on his stage in December. and that's none of this matters if they don't get to that level with their games they have so many studios obviously so many talented people making this stuff but they got to start having those kind of games or getting accolades that people are consistently talking about because at that point i don't think it matters if it is on playstation or switch or wherever because they're going to always be viewed as an xbox game and right now we don't have that i i'm trying to even think maybe what psychonauts 2 is probably the last game i could think of that probably should have won game of the year from xbox should have a nominator or one one in my opinion should have won what are you trying to say greg you're throwing shade i don't remember what psychonauts

48:43Blessing Adeoye Jr.:who was up against that year i was like oh okay fuck it was it was a year that psychonauts could have taken it i'm not saying it's like that game you know what i mean no costume quest 3 i don't know what fucking tim's doing whoa whoa where's broken age you know what i mean give me another broken age like a game i want to point a point in a potter a game can't make another costume quest what the fuck is going on over there and i'm not here to glaze corporate phrasing however i think the quote of create the conditions for lightning and for uh the lightning in the bottle of winning game of the year i think is a great way to put it that's a good ambitious goal yes because you can't always choose hey this studio make a game of the year contender it doesn't work that way right it is lightning in the bottle clear obscure was lightning in the bottle blueprints lightning in the bottle uh baldur's gate 3 even lightning in the bottle even though that is a studio you look at it's like oh they're getting better and better and better if you're paying attention but yeah baldur's gate 3 came out of nowhere for so many people and took the world by storm you can't make that happen necessarily with just the purpose of hey you go do this but what you can do as a gigantic publisher is incubate and give your studios the resources and freedom and the ability to go hey we want to give you the best possible conditions to make a video game and hopefully some of y 'all make them game of the year contenders like that's what you have to do and so that sentence i think is very important 100 uh earlier in the chat somebody was also it was going what they really need to do is take fortnite out of the game pass and make it even cheaper let's go to story number three to keep this xbox news all together yeah leak reveals new xbox game pass starter edition that's part of discord nitro this is tom warren at the verge Microsoft started teasing a mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership yesterday, and a new leak appears to have detailed exactly what's coming.

50:30Discord Previews has uncovered a new Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition that is bundled with Discord Nitro. The Starter Edition reportedly includes access to over 50 games from the Game Pass library as well as 10 hours a month of Xbox cloud gaming streaming and the ability to earn Xbox reward points while playing games. It's not clear which games will be part of the more than 50 titles available but the leaked image suggests that Stardew Valley grounded in Fallout 4 will be included. The Starter Edition doesn't appear to be limited to Microsoft's own first-party Xbox games either. better x cloud developer red phoenix also uncovered the xbox game pass starter edition earlier today and noted that a lot of third-party games will be available through this new game pass tier i reported in february that microsoft is looking at ways to bundle third-party services with game pass subscriptions this new starter edition appears to be one way for services or other services to be bundled game pass netflix co-ceo greg peters told the information last month that he and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had kicked around some ideas for partnering on subscription bundles.

51:41So perhaps we'll see Netflix offer a similar Game Pass bundle soon. Good move or bad move?

51:48Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Great move. Yeah, I think being able to partner with things that people are already involved in, whether it be Discord or Netflix, and go, oh, I can get Game Pass as part of that. That's how you get that out, right? What else does that get you? Spotify? Maybe some daily active users. Oh, yes, yes. I was going to say the kind of funny membership. How do we get that in there? Hey, Netflix. Wait a second. Hey, Netflix. Wait a second. Hey, Discord. Xbox. That makes more sense for Xbox. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I see. I see. Yeah. Huh. Think about that. I might have saved the company, everybody. That's a great.

52:23I'm going to draft the letter to Asha. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. Get the kind of money membership as part of Game Pass? Well, no. Or vice versa. So what are you thinking? Paris, and I want your opinion on this, too. the way I'm reading this is that the discord previews have launched an Xbox game pass starter edition that's bundled with this so when you go to get discord nitro there's a upsell of however many bucks to also get this starter bundle with it yeah so why not the kind of funny membership on patreon you click you go to subscribe for $10 but there is a$12 tier that gets you starter edition game pass as well

53:04Blessing Adeoye Jr.:okay i see what you're saying yeah yeah how does that factor in the journalistic integrity it doesn't well first off no one is claiming kind of funny to be journalists if we've come sure if you come this far on the 11 year journey and this is the bridge too far that we're giving you a free xbox game pass you know that's fair i assure you i guess we get out all the time any of these motherfuckers opinions about starfield none of them are gonna listen so don't worry about that that's true i yeah i don't i guess it's not different from giving out codes during our charity. That's my thing is like, I mean, that's an interesting question, but yeah, for me, yeah, we give out codes and when I pitch this at no point in my head, I think we're going to start being nicer at Xbox.

53:42Yeah. Remember, let's all talk about it. Xbox lower than a grub right now. We kick their games around and their brand around all the time and they're still the nicest people to us. So I'm not worried about when they get back on top, that's when it would be like, you know, what did you fucking say? Craig, what did you give me Indiana Jones? There's only one person that gives me shit about Indiana Jones. And it's fucking Troy Baker. Yeah, that's true. I like what we're thinking about here. I like this.

54:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Xbox starter edition. Grab the letter. Yeah, get us some more money. I want to raise if that happens. Paris, how does this look like for you? Do you like this Discord bundle? Yeah, I think it's a great first step to them, again, providing more incentive by bundling it with something else that someone would take advantage of and getting them, like you said, daily active users, right? They get a little taste of Game Pass. Maybe they really like it. You know what? I'm going to go jump up to the premium tier or whatever, whatever the case. Right. So plus this essentially allows them to play a select number of games.

54:40And they're also able to cloud stream to write those games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's allowing them, hey, if they got an Xbox or PC, they can take advantage. And if they don't, they can do it on their television or fire stick or whatever the case via cloud streaming. So I like it. I think it's a I think this is part one of probably a multi-part thing they're doing with Game Pass. I wonder how many starter editions are going to be floating out there. Right. You know what I mean? Like how many times can I get this through something? But it's kind of the point of attach it to something else that people want.

55:11And then, okay, this is an added bonus. I'll try it out.

55:15Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I still pay for Hulu. And the only reason is because like five years, not even five years, like seven, eight years ago, I think I got Hulu via Spotify or vice versa. I don't know which. All I know is that I still pay for them both. Meanwhile, I'm canceling every other subscription I have. but those two still remain because they're connected and i don't know how i don't know how much i'm paying for one or the either or both i just pay apple money i don't even know what i'm doing anymore i give spotify money and i know that i get hulu because of it i don't know if it's still a deal or not i could probably cancel it by now but it works i should get rocket money thank you like i said uh paris before we let you go anything else you want to say on this xbox stuff we haven't talked about obviously it's an ongoing situation yeah it's just ongoing.

55:58I think now we, we get to the June showcase. I think that's when the next ball is going to drop and we're going to see, you know, what, what the, the next stage of their plan is going to be. So like I said, I'm, I'm genuinely excited because I just think it's fresh new blood. It's, it's fresh new eyes looking at Xbox as a business and how, like we said in that other episode, bringing back value to their core customers. That seems to be what she's trying to do, like make them happy. and then after we make the core happy alright let's go and try and get other people on board with things like this discord partnership with Game Pass so looking forward to it

56:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't even watch Hulu I don't know the last show I saw ever since Alina stopped and Dave and Rami, all the FX shows that I cared about stopped yeah I have the Disney Plus bundled with Hulu I use it for Alien Earth oh yeah that's good I gotta get rid of Hulu Can I say one thing before I drop out of here? I'd love you to do that. Tim Gatties, quality human being. I don't want to go that far. I don't want to go that far. No, I have to say it. This was the first time Tim and I just, it was just him and I hanging out. Nobody else. Yeah. Quality human being. I love him. Well, that's good. Hell yeah.

57:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I love that too then. I want to hang out with Paris someday. And Tim. Yeah. You know what? I said that to Tim. I said of everyone, everyone in the studio, I think the only person I've not one-on-one hung out with yet is you. Yeah. So we do have to do that. Let me know. Whenever you're in town, let me know. Or if I'm in L.A., I guess that's likely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you're not in L.A., though. He's close. I'm close enough. That's the problem with Paris. You never know where he is. You can't pin him down. No, you can't. He'll go anywhere. He's in Japan. Paris, we love you. Come to San Francisco soon.

57:36I will. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. Number four on the Roper Report. Gang of Dragon developer erases YouTube channel, then reinstates it. This is Heidi Kemp's over at GameSpot. The future of Gang of Dragon. The freshman effort from Sega veteran Toshihiro Nogoshi, Epidemus Nogoshi Studios, now appears more murky. As noticed by observers on Reddit, the studio deleted its YouTube channel and all related videos recently. The channel and videos have subsequently been reinstated, but without any explanation. While the Gang of Dragon trailer, which made its debut at the Game Awards 2025, is still available on the award show's dedicated channel, the various supplementary material regarding the developer from its own channel vanished into the internet ether before coming back online in short order.

58:27This all happened after recent reports that Nogoshi Studio is facing financial struggles. According to Bloomberg, the studio's previous funding partner, the China-based tech giant NetEase, has backed out of further funding for the title, which is estimated to cost around$44 million to complete. Are you ever going to play this game? No. Epidemus? guys i was nailing the japanese thing i i totally said it wrong i was nailing japanese to then throw in a fucking yeah it's it's uh but i'm that's my thing is i'm not sure if i pronounce it i say

58:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:eponymous but i don't know that's right right is that right it's a word i read a lot but i don't ever say well you're talking about the epitome of something right eponymous eponymous i don't think it's the is it based on epitome is that the rumor i don't know eponymous kevin helps not don't just laugh i think it's eponymous i'm looking at the son of dead to throw an english word in right after that the gall when you when you're eponymous there it is eponymous thanks ai eponymous okay i don't like the way the more it says it the more there's like a tone to it i feel again it's gone we're supposed to have it wow it is it's kind of sexy i don't know Again, be single like me says bless getting turned on by the fucking AI pronunciation.

59:43Call me.

59:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Whoa. Are you ever going to play Gang of Dragon? No, sadly. That's a game I really would have loved to play. Yeah, 100%. I mean, Xbox, you're wanting to make more third party partnerships. Boom. That'd be a good one. That would be a good one. That would be actually a good one. Okay. Well, we'll keep our eyes peeled on that and see what happens. But, blessing, Gang of Dragon actually happened or being acquired by Xbox or helped by Xbox would be huge news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? Eponymous. You'd go to our last story, the Wii News Channel.

1:00:17Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Recover all the small news items you need to know about. Can I get an eponymous? Eponymous. Number five, Wii News. Resident Evil Requiem has sold over 7 million copies. It's the fastest selling Resident Evil title in history. Come on. Congratulations. Well deserved. Claire Obscure Expedition 33 has sold over 8 million copies. Come on. Come on. Well deserved. Soros Review Roundup is here. We will be reviewing it on the Kind of Funny Gamescast right after this with VGC.news' Jordan Midler. But on OpenCritic, it's a 92. Metacritic, it's an 88. To spoil Jordan's review, VGC gave it 5 out of 5. IGN gave it 7 out of 10.

1:00:55And Richard Wakeling at GameSpot gave it a 9 out of 10, saying, Soros is a phenomenal game that flips Housemarque's roguelite formula on its head and approves upon its spiritual predecessor in every conceivable way. Blessing. Interesting. Are you? Nine out of ten. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Blessing will be on the games cast after this to throw some fire your way. I'm going to give it a low score. I'll tell y 'all. Towie Games announced their first three games. Kill the Law. Jesus. Hino. Debug. P. P. P. Me. P. Me. There's an N at the beginning of that word. P. Me. P. Me. Nethami. Nethami. Nethami is how I rate it.

1:01:37That's good. Good for you. You should have fucking read it then. The Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 official soundtracks are now available on Spotify. Zenless Zone Zero is coming to Steam. Square Enix has announced it will open permanent cafe locations in Los Angeles and Shinjuku, Tokyo in Spring 2026. Echo Generation 2 launches May 27th on Xbox Series, Game Pass, and PC. Golf With Your Friends 2 is coming fall 2026. Crash Out Crew arrives May 28th. And House Flipper Remastered Collection launches June 4th on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. And that is it for Wii News. We have a ton of Super Chats. We got a lot into the show.

1:02:19Let's see how many we got out here at the end, though. Starting from the coming here. Mr. Nice Guy Rye says, will there ever be a welcome back Tim shirt or is this a years long bit? I'm okay with it either way. Also, we need some KF decals slash stickers. Woo. Kevin, can you go to kindoffunny.com slash store? As you know, Nick and I were gone for a week at a time. So our shirts are up. You can go get our welcome back Greg and welcome back Nick shirts. Those are, you know, limited drops and they are very popular. So you should go get those. and then if anybody ever notices that Tim's gone maybe we'd think about it but I don't you know Tim isn't really known for going away and coming back so that's not really something we'd think about for him he's known for something else and maybe we'll honor that eventually however the stickers I will let you know we are working on we are actively working on find familiar game says hey G spot and B hole I wanted to clarify the previous flopped invitation to attend familiar con we're having a small con with big tournaments for magic warhammer and more great prizes where is it at i fucking forget this every time i want to say it's like delaware or connecticut or something like that these are the ones that i supported them on a kickstarter when they started the store find familiar games google it you'll figure it out cool uh oh here we go mob set mob skew says game of the year nominees in 2021 were psychonauts 2 metroid dread it takes two ratchet rift apart death loop and resident village oh that would

1:03:44Blessing Adeoye Jr.:not have been a crazy year for second institute to win at all sure what one was that death loop or no it takes two yeah it takes it takes two one uh michael says sure seems like playstation nintendo have many lightnings in a bottle uh remember they're talking about the conditions to have lightning in a bottle which i agree like that's a how you support your studios and what you tell them are the success metrics and so on and so on so the context is a little different but there is a quote from zoliver nelson from a while ago this is from 2024 um he's talking about sustainability more so than producing a 10 out of 10 video game but he does say uh quote i don't think sustainability is a utopian idea he tells games industry.biz in a discussion at the dice summit it's just a necessity everything you do cannot guarantee survival but you should at least create the conditions for it to occur one of the disturbing things about the current state of games is that all the conditions exist in the ecosystem for great things to be made for players consistently without destroying people in the process right i think it's important to make a studio and i'm not quoting this is just me talking now it's important to make a studio in which that creativity can occur in which that support occurs right i think that's the you got to water the garden you got to maintain a thing and then greatness can can come from that um but i don't think for your for both the examples of playstation and nintendo you know they didn't wake up one day and start making amazing games you know what i mean yeah it's years and years and years of watering the garden to get there right exactly omega buster says can we get a kind of funny podcast drafting the corpo kf vision letter absolutely not i think i think you know it's easy to joke around and like you know even be cynical about the letter we just read in the bullet points of the end like let me tell you about when ign was under fox interactive media and we moved in 2010 in the meetings we had of what the ign corporate values were and then the mission statements written behind them and one of them was irreverence and so anytime we would do something that would get us in trouble it's a reverent or a reverence and as a reverence told us to do this right and then they got bought and that shit went away pretty goddamn quick uh ox pope says they need to they need xbox needs to put effort into fixing their pc launcher could they be i'm sorry xbox seems to be putting effort into their pc launcher could they be preparing to pull out of steam to pull oh to take the games off of steam i think that's a bridge don't do that yeah i don't don't fuck up the bag yeah that's fucking up the bag too much let's step it on a rig that you don't need to yeah i i feel like that pc community is so anti-launchers as we know yeah like just let them be let them be happy they never recover don't do it you know what i mean just make your launcher better make your that's my thing why did i have to i had to go into starfield i played starfield offline on the rog ally getting ready for monday stream right yeah so i was doing that on the plane last night and then i got home and turned down the wrong ally and it's like i can't sink this safe like why the fuck can't you sink this so then i had to come in here and sit well i can't do it and i turn on the other one's like i can't see it either i'm like well you you can see that it's trying to upload so then i had to go in make a new save do that and that works i'm like that sucks that's a shitty process you just gotta make your launch so good he was just like damn make your launcher so good that people choose your launcher that's what you need that's a great point that is a great great great point uh i'm just trying to run through here see if there's anything we missed here anything going on i mean there's a lot of people saying stuff there's stuff and we got the thing do thing and i said hey i want to hey yeah and i hope all right that's it oh uh jbc when is vampire crawlers review the game is crack uh mike's been trying to stream it i think it actually happened this week didn't it i think if you go to kind of funny.com i don't think so i think that's the day we canceled the stream okay i thought then the next day he was gonna do it but he did something else there too yeah maybe i think a great point i think i remember the day where yeah we had to cancel it is that overwatch because we did overwatch on wednesday yesterday was kiln what happened tuesday nobody knows is that the one we pushed was that monday do you think mike's here if we call him in i bet he's here monday was it has not happened monday was the 420 special we wanted it to happen uh but it's been a week here as always I doubt you'll ever get a review review from it but hopefully you'll get a stream from it eventually and maybe we will review it it does say we did it on Tuesday yeah but remember it's not up there I don't know what's going on is Tuesday the day we cancel stuff I don't remember I guess I was it was Tuesday it will be Tuesday it will be Tuesday everybody so it will be Tuesday thanks Mike we love you Mike you guys got a problem you know uh all right the problem huh what's his problem oh yeah thank you yeah uh let's go on here and see what's up this is you're wrong but you're trying to put a comment in this is this uh nibble trent this isn't a wrong blessing that spotify hulu deal may be the result of an old college student deal i still have it and i will never cancel let it cancel no because this was definitely after college because i think i bought it on my xbox like i somebody yeah somebody figured this out because i'm pretty sure i bought it via my xbox but it was a spot on homework yeah homework for everybody out there does anybody else have this deal and am i still making money off of it or do i just need to cancel hulu because i never watch hulu there's no way you're making money just to be clear well yeah you're right not making money but am i saving money on it am i saving i know but guess what you'd be saving more money if you didn't have the service you didn't need everybody that's another episode of kind of funny games daily in the bank but of course kind Kind of Funny is all about live programming, which means your day is far from over.

1:09:18First off, you have homework. The one, the only, Boss Baby, a.k.a. CEO Junior Barrett Courtney put up an amazing video essay today. You can go get it on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. It's 55-ish minutes long. It is great about art in the face of oblivion. You should check that out when you have time, probably this weekend, because we're not stopping. From here, it's the Gamescast, the Sorrows Review. After that, it's a marathon stream. Nick versus the chat on who can beat Pokemon first. It is going to be a scene. We hope you enjoy that. Then we're into the weekend. Then guess what? Monday's a big day of content.

1:09:54Nine o 'clock, a live Soros Gamescast plays. Oh, it's happening right there. 10 o 'clock, a Gamescast embargoed. Can't tell you what it is. Games Daily after that. Then the Kind of Funny podcast after that, where all the usual core four are finally back together because Tim's not going to be gone again. And then after that, it's my birthday marathon stream. I'm just playing 12 hours of it and doing that. I'm just going to go play my thing there. Jesus fucking Christ. I'm not stealing your thunder. Give it away. The buzz before we record the buzz. I'm just talking about Monday. You end this show right now.

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