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[Assistant] You had to hear the lady sing, Steve. I'm in the business.


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[Assistant] Only maybe you better sing a pretty one first. After that, you can accompany it. We got lots of time. That we have.


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[Assistant] Push over, Darren Ledfoot, they're all hitting stores, Target stores in the United States, and they've been out for a while now, internationally, especially in the Philippines, so that's pretty nice if you live there, because usually everything comes to the US first, so I guess it's a nice change.


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[Assistant] I guess it's possible, because I do have some cool stuff coming, aka Bruce Miller, the RPM racer, so that'll be coming soon. But that means there's no poll on this video, even though I still have stuff to review like the Cars 3 Haulers and Pontu Wipeout. Don't worry, all that is coming.


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[Assistant] He wasn't really in any trailers unless there was a blur. So yeaah, I mean, you can probably find him if you look at one of the leaked clips, but


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[Assistant] I just don't really advise or, you know, I don't really mind if you look at it. I don't think it's like a bad thing because it's out there. Disney and Pixar aren't taking it down, but I'm not going to put on my video. But he's a very cool car. He actually knocked out pushover and made pushover kind of, yeah, he made pushover legit go on top of RV. It was like this.


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[Assistant] They were like, ehm, I'm not gonna actually hit them together because I don't want to shit my cars, but they were like hitting each other like this, and then fishtail, like hit a mound, and went, uuuh, like that.


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[Assistant] As you can see here on the back, I don't have him as a single, but you can see right there. Picture on the screen. Wabam. He's also in the 5-pack, the Thunder Hollow 5-pack, exclusive to Walmart. That includes Cruz Ramirez as Francis Beltline.


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[Assistant] We have a Lightning McQueen and Shester Whipple filter.


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[Assistant] T-Bone is the first look diecast, which means he is like first to be released there, kind of exclusive so far, and APB. So an awesome pack if you don't have the cars in the set, which I'm willing to bet that most of you guys don't actually have.


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[Assistant] So it's a great pack, I have not found it though, so, you know, that's where code may zero.


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[Assistant] Amazing Boyz Toyskill comes in handy because my stores really kind of stink, especially Walmart right now. I mean, finally Target got something new and like I was just talking about. But anyway, moving on to his third release, which is an upcoming three pack with


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[Assistant] Obviously himself, RV and APB. So it seems like APB and Fishtail are like buddies because they're always together. And yea, Case H and the contents below are in the description, so that's like the singles Case A's in.


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[Assistant] That means it's case Y, but it's the same content as case H, but case H simply does not have the post loop and looks like this. So empty right here. I wish I could do like a side by side comparison with both, but I don't have like Jimbo or you know.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's time to get on to the review of this awesome


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[Assistant] Dented up guy. First of all, I love his expression. I mean, he is just like, growling at you. Like, I love the buck teeth sticking out there, and his rimus on his eyes there. So awesome. Definitely, you know, like the down motion derby. I mean, you're trying to win, you're not going to look all happy, like.


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[Assistant] In the back, which is cool to see because, you know, they're on broadside here. The backs are treaded. Baki and Baki Jr. Am I right guys?


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[Assistant] And obviously the front tire here has the silver spray paint there in an X or a plus sign there with the rim. So it's pretty cool. It actually looks painted on there pretty nicely.


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[Assistant] I love how in him that they're, you know, shaded so the bottoms are the normal colors being gray, but toward the top where the exhaust comes out, it's burnt black, which naturally would happen. Makes sense, but for some reason they did not do that on.


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[Assistant] This guy here, Sigil Earth, they're just gray straight up and on broadside. So unless they just got brand new ones, uhm, and they just got replacements because they got so burned out before, I don't think so though.


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[Assistant] I like fishtails here. They kind of look like gills to me because they're all bunched up. Looks like gills and that goes with the idea of him being a fish. I mean he does kind of look like a fish with the whole mouth. He looks like one of those angry fish though that


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[Assistant] What do they wanna see? Kinda like a shark or something.


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[Assistant] And there was one thing I was gonna say, oh yea, explanation for exhaust headers, they provide for an extra flow of exhaust combustion, so you know, just help the car.


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[Assistant] On the side here you can see some dirt around the fenders, makes sense for him being in a muddy demolition derby. Now looks like his sponsor, which is probably just a local business, wildbills racing cones.


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[Assistant] I don't really know. I mean, it kinda sounds like a restaurant, like, at the start here, because I think of like, Buffalo Wild Wings. If you guys are in the United States, you probably know what that is, but, obviously, when you get here, racing cones, I guess they're just simply racing cones, but, I don't know, it seems kinda strange to me. But anyway,


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[Assistant] You have these two bars here, grey and white, to board up that little window there. Here's a coupe, which means only two doors, one on either side. You have Bill right there, that's interesting. Goes with the wild Bill's here. Now there is a demolition derby card just solely named Bill, and that is the one with the Pixar ball on it, and that will be an awesome one to get. Coming soon!


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[Assistant] By the way, 96 here on the hood. I like how it's in the orange and then you have the circle of turquoise there to make it stand out. Looks cool.


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[Assistant] And it's very dented, you can feel all the indentations. Moving toward the back here of 96 again, painted very sloppily, as usual for the demo derby cars.


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[Assistant] He has these two big black bars to keep the window down or whatever his intention is there. 96 and then you have like that little zigzag line which probably goes with the fact of him, you know, zigzagging like the rear end, you know, fishtailing and what not.


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[Assistant] And that is pretty much it for our boy, Fishtail here. Yeaah, he is awesome.


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[Assistant] I really do like him. I'm starting to like him even more and more now as I get to know him.


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[Assistant] You guys, you know, I don't look at really my cars before I review them. I just go straight in so you guys get like my first impression and reaction.


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[Assistant] And his headlights are knocked out, by the way. Not a surprise!


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[Assistant] I tried, yea I tried. I couldn't find anyone who's really similar to fishtail. I'm sure you guys will comment. You should have shown this person or this car and I'd be like, oh.


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[Assistant] Really disappoints me that I couldn't find anything from Fishtail because, you know, since this back end of him is like pushed up a little bit here, you can kind of see that if it was down, he'd look more like a normal car, but


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[Assistant] That's not the case, so maybe it's just kind of like an illusion, and there would be more cards that are similar, so, you'll let me know.


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[Assistant] And maybe I'll like, show it in a future video with Fishtail. Here's Andy Vaporlock. Yeaah. Nope. Nope, nope.


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[Assistant] You know, this is a good thing though. As I always say, unique is best. Tabainu?


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[Assistant] And let me know if you want, you know, I should make a poll. Do you want me to review Jimbo or not? Because Jimbo's been getting some hate lately. According to the polls, he's like always lost. And I thought they were going to be pretty like tied in this poll, but fishtail demolished. Well, the highest percentages I've ever received for


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[Assistant] What happened? Why are you crying? And you're perspiring too.


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[Assistant] What happened, honey? Where's Creep? Why hasn't he taken you home?


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[Assistant] What's that? Dynamite. Good, I can use dynamite. How much you bring me?


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[Assistant] Hey, that's, that's stuff. Not in the cave.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know this. Much air and little tobacco.


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[Assistant] I don't want dynamite in here. We have fire. It's far from the fire.


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[Assistant] My orders are to blow the pitch. And I say no. In these mountains we hide.


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[Assistant] My business is to take care of my people and I, I know my business.


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[Assistant] Leave one place, fight somewhere else. Fight, raid, block trains, bridges, way off.


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[Assistant] Horses and eight people. You and the old man with the loud mouth make ten. Now if this bridge is blown, we will be hunted. Hunted from the earth, from the air. The explosions will fall from the sky.


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[Assistant] It means nothing. Nothing then to be hunted like a beast. After this thing which brings no profit.


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[Assistant] Coward. Is it cowardly to know what's foolish? Or am I a leader for nothing? And I brought you all alive through a year of this war?


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[Assistant] This foreigner comes here to do a thing for the good of the foreigners. And for his good you want to sacrifice us. And for the good and safety of all.


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[Assistant] Woman, you have no right to speak in that way, not before my people and the stranger.


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[Assistant] I'm lazy and drink too much. Maybe you think I'm a coward. Or you know better. Maybe. But I'm not stupid.


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[Assistant] Now if you're a woman, as well as a commander, show us something to eat.


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[Assistant] Nor any cult of a girl either that makes a man crazy with hunger. You don't lie, make insults, and leave me like my father.


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[Assistant] You and me, we'll show them who's stupid. Not me, not you my friend.


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[Assistant] It's too bad you're going to miss the country club dance tonight, Dewey.


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[Assistant] There's no one to blame in this matter but myself. Miss Tronell had nothing to do with it. I deliberately went where she was.


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[Assistant] And I should be the one to suffer if I violated any of the rules. Suppose I handed my resignation.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't that be sufficient instead of stirring up a mess and causing her a lot of embarrassment? Why should she even have to know about it if, as you say, no one else knows but you? It would be a terrible thing to ask her to resign. She's a woman. She loves teaching.


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[Assistant] He was madder than a wet hand. He fussed and blusted around a bit, but he finally saw it my way.


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[Assistant] Oh, darling. Have you no confidence in me? Well, with me in this war, it'll be over in six months. It'll have to be. I have a very important date in June. Oh, don't cry, darling.


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[Assistant] The desire of ages chapter 50. Among snares. All the while Jesus was at Jerusalem during the feast. He was shattered by spies.


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[Assistant] The priests and rulers were watching to entrap him. They were planning to stop him by violence. But this was not all.


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[Assistant] If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching whether it be of God or whether I speak for myself.


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[Assistant] The question of these cavaliers, Jesus met not by answering the cavil.


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[Assistant] The perception and appreciation of truth, he said, depends less upon the mind than upon the heart. Truth must be received into the soul. It claims the homage of the will. If truth could be submitted to the reason alone,


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[Assistant] But it is to be received through the work of grace in the heart, and its reception depends upon the renunciation of every sin that the Spirit of God reveals.


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[Assistant] Man's advantages for obtaining a knowledge of the truth, however great these may be, will prove of no benefit to him unless the heart is open to receive the truth. And there is a conscientious surrender of every habit and practice that is opposed to its principles.


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[Assistant] Ever since the healing of Berseda, they have been plotting his death.


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[Assistant] According to the law, every child must be circumcised on the eighth day. Should the appointed time fall upon the Sabbath, the rite must then be performed.


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[Assistant] How much more must it be in harmony with the spirit of the law to make a man every wet hole on the Sabbath day? And he warned them to judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.


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[Assistant] Many among Christ's heroes who were dwellers at Jerusalem, and who were not ignorant of the plots of the rulers against him, felt themselves drawn to him by an irresistible power.


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[Assistant] But Satan was ready to suggest doubt. And for this the way was prepared by their own erroneous ideas of the Messiah and His coming.


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[Assistant] It was generally believed that Christ would be born at Bethlehem, but that after a time he would disappear.


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[Assistant] And at his second appearance, none would know whence he came.


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[Assistant] And because the popular conception of the glory of the Messiah was not met by Jesus of Nazareth many gave heed to the suggestion.


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[Assistant] But when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.


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[Assistant] But he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.


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[Assistant] The hearers could not but understand Christ's words. Clearly they were a repetition of the claim he had made in the presence of the Sanhedrin many months before, when he declared himself the Son of God.


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[Assistant] Among the people many believed on him, and they said,


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[Assistant] Hurrying away to the chief priests, they laid their plans to arrest him.


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[Assistant] They arranged, however, to take him when he was alone, for they did not seize him in the presence of the people.


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[Assistant] Many who were convinced that Jesus was the Son of God were misled by the false reasoning of the priests and rabbis


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[Assistant] These teachers had repeated with great effect the prophecies concerning the Messiah that he would reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously.


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[Assistant] Then they made contemptuous comparisons between the glory here pictured and the humble appearance of Jesus. The very words of prophecy were so perverted as to sanction error.


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[Assistant] Had the Jews laid by their prejudice and compared written prophecy with the facts characterizing the life of Jesus, they would have perceived a beautiful harmony.


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[Assistant] Between the prophecies and their fulfillment in the life and ministry of the lowly Galilean.


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[Assistant] And the people do not search the scriptures for themselves and judge for themselves as to what is truth.


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[Assistant] The officers sent out by the priests and rulers to arrest Jesus returned without him. They were angrily questioned, why have ye not brought him? With solemn countenance they answered, never man spake like this man. Hardened as were their hearts, they were melted by his words.


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[Assistant] While he was speaking in the temple court they had lingered near to catch something that might be turned against him. But as they listened, the purpose for which they had been sent was forgotten. They stood as men entranced. Christ revealed himself to their souls.


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[Assistant] Multitudes estimated by the numbers who accept it. And the question is still asked.


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[Assistant] Men are no more favorable to real godliness now than in the days of Christ.


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[Assistant] The words of Nicodemus came home to their consciences. They could not condemn a man unheard


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[Assistant] They were startled and sharing that one of their own number had been so far impressed of the character of Jesus as to speak a word in his defense. Recovering from their astonishment, they addressed Nicodemus with cutting sarcasm. Are thou also of Galilee? Search and look.


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[Assistant] The rulers were unable to carry out their purpose and condemn Jesus without a hearing. From the excitement and confusion of the city,


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[Assistant] He might be charged with despising the law of Moses. Should he declare her worthy of death?


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[Assistant] Impatient at his delay and apparent indifference, the accusers drew nearer, urging the matter upon his attention. But as their eyes, following those of Jesus, fell upon the pavement at his feet, their countenance has changed. There, traced before them,


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[Assistant] It was the husband's duty to take action against her and the guilty parties were to be punished equally.


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[Assistant] The law specified that in punishment by stoning, the witnesses in the case should be the first to cast a stone. Now, rising.


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[Assistant] His words, he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.


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[Assistant] Then in healing the most grievous physical disease, he cured the spiritual malady, which is unto death everlasting.


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[Assistant] The character of Jesus shines forth in the beauty of perfect righteousness. While he does not palliate sin, nor lessen the sense of guilt, he seeks not to condemn, but to save. The world had, for this erring woman, only contempt and scorn. But Jesus speaks words of comfort and hope. The sinless one,


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[Assistant] This book reader is not published to tell us that there is sin and woe and misery in this world. We know it all too well.


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[Assistant] This book is not published to tell us that there is an irreconcilable controversy between darkness and light, sin and righteousness, wrong and right, death and life. In our heart of hearts we know it.


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[Assistant] And know that we are participators, actors in the conflict.


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[Assistant] But to every one of us comes at times a longing to know more of the great controversy. How did the controversy begin? Or was it always here?


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[Assistant] What elements enter into its awfully complex aspect? How am I related to it? What is my responsibility? I find myself in this world by no choice of my own. Does that mean to me evil or good? What are the great principles involved? How long will the controversy continue? What will be its ending?


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[Assistant] Will this earth sink, as some scientists say, into the depths of a sunless, frozen eternal night? Or is there a better future? The question comes closer still. How may the controversy in my own heart


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[Assistant] The strife between inflowing selfishness and outgoing love be settled in the victory of good and settled forever. What does the Bible say?


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[Assistant] What has God to teach us about this eternally important question?


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[Assistant] It is the aim of this book reader to help the troubled soul to a right solution of all these problems.


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[Assistant] It is written by one who has tasted and found that God is good.


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[Assistant] And who has learned in communion with God and the study of his word that the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and that he will show them his covenant.


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[Assistant] That we may better understand the principles of the all important controversy in which


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[Assistant] The life of a universe is involved. The author has said it before us in great concrete object lessons of the last 20 centuries.


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[Assistant] The book opens with the sad closing scenes of Jerusalem's history, the city of God's chosen.


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[Assistant] After her rejection of the man of Calvary who came to save.


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[Assistant] Thence onward along the great highway of the nations, it points us to the persecutions of God's children in the first centuries. The great apostasy which followed in his church, the world awakening of the Reformation,


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[Assistant] In which some of the great principles of the controversy are clearly manifest.


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[Assistant] The awful lesson of the rejection of right principles by France. The revival and exaltation of the scriptures.


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[Assistant] And their beneficent, life-saving influence.


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[Assistant] The religious awakening of the last days, the unsealing of the radiant fountain of God's word.


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[Assistant] With its wonderful revelations of light and knowledge, to meet the baleful up-springing of every delusion of darkness.


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[Assistant] Glory over shame, life over death, and everlasting long-suffering love over vindictive hate.


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[Assistant] Beginning with its first edition, 1888, followed by an author's revision, 1911, this outstanding work has achieved worldwide circulation through many editions and translations.


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[Assistant] The reader will find that the author writes frankly and vigorously, pointing out errors and suggesting solutions based on the infallible Word of God.


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[Assistant] And even though the last few decades have witnessed shifts and adjustments in the socio-religious world,


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[Assistant] The main scheme and the future projections presented in this book


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[Assistant] Maintain today full timeliness and absorbing interest.


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[Assistant] Former editions of this book have brought many souls to the true shepherd. It is the prayer of the publisher.


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[Assistant] I can't wait to see where I am What we've done here is just begun


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[Assistant] Don't try to kid me. You're going to see Irene Donovan.


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[Assistant] I knew you'd be yellow, the way you shot Red's partner in the back.


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[Assistant] It's the internet, you're busy, let's do this for the next hour or so. Let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live with me, Jeff Grubb.


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[Assistant] Today there was a Nintendo Direct yesterday that you just couldn't possibly sleep through, and Blizzard is making deals. But first, join me in welcoming today's co-host for Game S Mornings. It's Lucy James from Giant Bomb, everybody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I found the battery. Well, I couldn't find the plug for it. There's a plug, but also I don't want to plug it in. So I realized it could take batteries and I was at the store yesterday.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, oh, hey, uh, or the day before I'm like, hey, double A batteries. I needed that for something. And I remembered it was the sign. So I'm like, okay, let's make that happen. Uh, so yeah, I didn't turn it off yesterday and it's still going. So that's pretty good. So I'll just remember to turn it off today after the show.


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[Assistant] All my homies love that persona's on Switch, absolutely. I'm like, I just moved so I'm still trying to figure out what the weather's gonna be like here. It was always hot in Denver.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the summer, uh, but here I'm like, we're right on the lake. We're getting a little bit off the lake, but like basically the lake is like right there. And so it gets pretty cool sometimes, although then I think when it's hot, it's also very, very humid.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, uh, before we get into the mess, let's explain ourselves. Each weekday, I, Jeff Gry, will help piece your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news, the catch-up where we discuss the biggest topics consuming the lives of gamers everywhere, and maybe even bring some of our own original reporting.


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[Assistant] For all these topics, I'll get the input of a bonafide expert who will help me look very smart. Uh, if you are watching live on Twitch, welcome. Uh, you can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game Mess Warnings or find the RSS on giantbomb.com. I believe that we are getting all that stuff sorted. Yesterday, or Monday was a bit of a mess with some of those, uh, feeds.


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[Assistant] It wasn't updating properly. We're working on it. Should be fixed and working here pretty soon. Uh, you can also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. If you are watching on there, please give us that thumbs up. It helps people find the content.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, we do have a lot to get into, so let's start the morning mess with Blizzard. Acquiring Spellbreak Studio, Proletariat is the name of the studio, to bolster World of Warcraft. This comes from Dean Takahashi at Gamesbeat.


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[Assistant] A big part of caring for our teams is making sure we have the resources to produce experiences our communities will love, while giving our teams space to explore even more creative opportunities within their projects. Proletariat is a perfect fit for supporting Blizzard's mission and bringing high quality content to our players more often.


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[Assistant] Uh, Lucy, Blizzard is, uhm, it's reached like its weird midlife crisis stage I think a little bit where, you know, it was the young hotshot studio for so long and everything it touched was gold and now it's like, it's a little bit...


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's having like an identity crisis where it doesn't know how to maintain that. It hasn't been able to maintain talent. Some talent it had to get rid of because when they were the young hotshot developer, they were people who behaved inappropriately and in many cases illegally. And so they've had to sort of.


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[Assistant] Become part of this corporation under Activision and work in a more corporate mindset, and it feels like they've really struggled to do that transition.


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[Assistant] Recently, you know, I think there's a good, like, uh, one, two punch here, where there was Warcraft 3, uh, Remastered, whatever it was, which is this terrible thing that they tried to do inside of Blizzard, and no one was happy with it. All the fans hated it. And then they brought in Vicarious Visions to help the Diablo 2 Remastered, and people seemed to really like that.


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[Assistant] And now that it seems like Blizzard has just said, hey, we need to bring in people who are talented from outside, come in and become part of Blizzard.


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[Assistant] That is a strategy that works and now here we are with them acquiring proletariat. Do you think this is them just recognizing they need, it's easier to just go out and find someone they know can make games to come work on the stuff that they need to get done?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wonder if the situation was possibly more like the writing was on the wall. Yeah, maybe the writing was on the wall for Spellbreak and so they know their player numbers and stuff like that and they know why.


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[Assistant] There's probably situations like, hey, it would be nice if we could all get that payday, get bought out, and then also move on, uh, and keep working together. Like, that would almost be the ideal. Uh, or, you know, maybe we can get, you know, big, uh, venture capitalists and a fusion of cash and go work on our next game after we've proved what we can do with Spellbreak and take another crack at it. But there's a lot of risk associated with that. Here they,


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[Assistant] Basically, they get the payday and they get to go work on World of Warcraft. And then if they want in a couple of years, well, they'll get to keep all that money they got from being bought. I don't know if, um, Proletariat is a massive studio in my understanding. I think I'm pretty sure it's a relatively small company. So I think a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's like a lot of ownership spread throughout the team there, I think. So they get to keep that payday, and then they, if they want, they can leave Blizzard in a couple years, take that money, go start their own studios again.


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[Assistant] Activision Blizzard, the parent company of Blizzard, also folded Vicarious Visions, a long-time Activision studio, into Blizzard to work on the Diablo franchise in January 2021. But Blizzard hasn't been particularly acquisitive, as one of the few we can remember was the acquisition of Swinging Ape in 2005.


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[Assistant] Rather, Blizzard itself got tossed around quite a bit in its early days before landing with Activision Blizzard back in 2008. Proletariat has been working with Blizzard since May.


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[Assistant] There's already been some partnerships there where they've already been working together.


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[Assistant] It sounds like the team probably would have known what was happening here, but I think uhm, like this, eventually...


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[Assistant] You get acquired for so long, you become part of this corporate structure, you get infused into Activision in a way where it's impossible to like tell where Activision ends and Blizzard begins, and then at some point you become the company that begins acquiring people again. It just feels like that is the arc that they were on here.


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[Assistant] Would uhm, you are a big Overwatch fan, uh, is, is this something like where you're like hey, if, if, if they need to keep Overwatch going, if they need to bring in talent,


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[Assistant] Activision, Blizzard, everyone over there needs to keep operating under the assumption that they are gonna have to do business as usual. And if that Xbox deal falls, like they cannot be operating right now, like our problems don't matter because soon they're gonna become Microsoft's problems. Until that day happens.


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[Assistant] They are still, uh, they still owe the shareholders their best opportunity to get a return on their investment.


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[Assistant] And so that means finding a way for it to make more money next year than this past year. And that's why I think we're seeing so many things move up from from Blizzard specifically. I mean, we uhm.


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[Assistant] We are getting Overwatch 2 multiplayer very soon. Uh, they're putting out a Diablo 4 open beta this year to launch that game next year. People are going to be playing Diablo 4, Diablo 4 in public this year. That's like a, that's way faster than we were thinking when that game got delayed out of like this year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then, uh, and then World of Warcraft, it's, it's Dragonflight expansion also coming this year. Like, they're not, they are trying to get this stuff up. They're trying to make sure that their comparisons to the previous year look better than they originally said they were going to.


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[Assistant] All these things are, I don't think many of, I don't think many of these games would be working in this exact way.


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[Assistant] Once Microsoft takes over, they'd be like, take more time, stop.


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[Assistant] Get more people, do what you need to do, and, and we can delay these games and that's gonna be okay. Uh, so to all of this just sounds like, hey, in a world where the Microsoft deal doesn't happen, we need to make sure we're in a situation where we can put, be putting out a lot of content frequently, and that seems, that's almost explicitly what they said this is about.


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[Assistant] About making sure they can put out a lot of expansions still with World of Warcraft and, uh, and maximizing the end of life of that game, which, you know, I say end of life, it's gonna last another 10 years.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's going to outlive us all. Yeah, absolutely. But it's like still the diminishing returns on this investment. It'll still be worth it, but they need to just kind of maximize it without, um,


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[Assistant] Spending years trying to hire people up. I think the Overwatch 2 example you gave made sense because they've been working on Overwatch 2 for years now. So of course they've been able to slowly build up to 300. When they're with World of Warcraft they're like looking around like, hey, what can we do right now to quickly be able to bolster our ability to put out content?


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe they know that's the way they need to be doing things. And so that's what like a lot of their business decisions are being based on that right now and not relying on Microsoft. And as uhm, uh, Matt on the silent in chat points out, uh, there could be up to a year between now and when this deal with Microsoft finally closes. It probably won't take quite that long, but it could. So do they need to operate business as usual until then?


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, this uh, just got uh, shared as well from Chad. Thank you, I missed this from the news. This happened 11 hours ago, so overnight. Doom RPG port reverse engineering uh, was successful.


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[Assistant] Hi, this is uh, this is, this is my first port made for PC and I hope this works for you too. Special thanks to Anark.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's really neat that someone was able to get this done. I've never played Doom RPG, so I'm gonna go for it. Me either. Yes.


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[Assistant] Yes, tell them about the fat wads. Yes, we'll get those fat wads everybody, uh, for your dooms. Okay, uh, let's, let's move ahead here to Xbox head defense Bethesda in the wake of crunch allegations. This is from Zizi Zhang, uh, from Kotaku.


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[Assistant] At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Xbox addressed the growing employee concerns about labor conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company ZeniMax. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, said he was confident that the studio was not crunching and that it was unfair to attribute crunch culture to only Bethesda.


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[Assistant] In a Q&A, Booty was asked to address the Kotaku report from earlier this month, which documented troubling working conditions at Bethesda and ZeniMax during the development of Fallout 76.


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[Assistant] Uh, crunch culture is, if you go back ten, okay, this is another one from my booty. Crunch culture is, if you go back ten years ago, it's a little unfair to put that on one studio. It was just part of the industry. I don't say that to justify it, I'm just saying that it was part of the culture of the industry. I literally slept under my desk early in my career and we looked at that like a badge of honor.


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[Assistant] Uh, Booty said that working conditions detailed in the report were in the past.


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[Assistant] I know from talking to Bethesda leadership that we do not have a situation where people are crunching and we've got this bullying atmosphere. I'm confident about that.


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[Assistant] He then acknowledged that crunch could still take place without his knowledge and said that employees needed to trust Xbox's internal processes.


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[Assistant] Uh, he said that Xbox's human resources department would be willing to listen to employee concerns, and that all studios had support groups for individual disciplines. Uh, there's avenues for them to report that anonymously back to us that got, uh, that goes through HR, Booty said. We have to rely on those independent systems, uh, of checks and balances.


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[Assistant] Of course, as this Kotaku story points out, HR is not really an independent resource, but uhm, what else is Mappu gonna say?


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[Assistant] So the original story here, Lucy, was that, uh, during Fallout 76, it was a pretty rough development and people were crunching on it and a lot of people left that game. It was kind of a mess. It was especially bad for QA. Uhm, but that, you know, that game, the development of that was like four years ago now, three, three, four years ago and this was before-


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's like, uh, they've had a lot of chance to change under Microsoft, whether or not they have is gonna take more reporting, more people coming forward to talk. Uh, but this is, this is Microsoft continuing to talk the talk about crunch and, and we just don't know if they're walking that walk.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, and, and I agree, uhm, the solutions he gave that, that like, oh, if we're gonna focus on what we're doing to stop this, it's, it is talk to HR and that never feels quite, uh, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Right, I kinda want more specifics beyond that, like, oh, we have a process for you to report the problem. Well, okay, then what happens on the other side of that getting reported? What can Microsoft actively do? And I'm sure there are things that exist, like Microsoft seems to have, uhm,


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[Assistant] Taking this stuff pretty seriously from what I understand, and they do do something, but according to Booty's answer here, it's very hard to specify what that something is. And, you know, this is not the same. I know a lot of people hear this stuff and they think about it, oh well, I mean, I work overtime at my job.


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[Assistant] Uh, no one's saying they can't work overtime and no one's saying that you shouldn't like, um, sprint to complete a project. That's something we've all done. I mean, I think about working in E3s where that's like a, you know, it's a week long, two week long sprint of like trying to get as much done in as little time as possible, taking away too much work and


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[Assistant] I like it. I liked it during that, but that's, you know, it is a beginning and an end that is very visible. It all happens within one month.


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[Assistant] Uh, extended long-term crunch was a systemic problem in video games from the beginning and it got very bad as corporations like EA got very big in the early 2000s and it was just expected that you would work 80 to 100 hours a week for years on end.


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[Assistant] That's the thing that's like, okay, anytime uhm, the industry starts getting back to that, and, and, and,


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[Assistant] That's when it really needs to be examined again. And it sounds like Fallout 76 was bumping up against that, if not fully embracing a lot of that culture. And it's like, it's worth examining every time it happens. And saying, you know, well I do that at my job, it's not a defense. Like, that just means your job needs to be examined too.


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[Assistant] Yep, it's uh, it's exactly, it's kinda just, and it's like, things change, and...


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[Assistant] Things have gotten very worse for a lot of people and so, uh, you were thinking about the good old days of sleeping at your job. Well, it's, people are probably not getting paid equivalent to what you were getting paid at the time when you were doing that, uh, just based on the way that wages have not kept up with productivity and things like that.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's, uh, let's move ahead to Sony Reveals new line of gaming headsets and monitors for PS5 and PC. This is set by, uh, Steven Petit at GameSpot, I believe, right? Uh, Sony recently, yeaah, like I didn't put the name there. Usually that means it's GameSpot.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sony recently announced a dedicated push to expand the PlayStation brand to PC, and a new line of gaming products shows that the emphasis on PC gaming won't be limited to games.


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[Assistant] Meet Sony N-Zone, a brand new, uh, sounds like a football team.


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[Assistant] Uh, term, uh, meet new, uh, meet Sony Nzone, a new brand of products that is debuting with gaming headsets and gaming monitors for both PC and PlayStation 5. While largely focused at PC gamers, uh, the Nzone brand was also developed with PS5 users in mind as it takes advantage of some of the console's audio and visual features.


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[Assistant] Endzone is a Sony brand, not a PlayStation brand, and it represents the first Sony electronics made series of gaming focused products in a long time.


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[Assistant] So there's some headsets here and there's some, uh, monitors here and I can go over some of the details. I'm just going to like...


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[Assistant] It feels like a Sony brand and not a PlayStation brand, right? Cause it just feels like, to me it sounds like a cheap, uh, video game. It sounds like a video game magazine made by a corporation in 1995 is what it sounds like.


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[Assistant] Also like, I wonder if it like, and it sounds like when you get in the goal and then in football, it sounds like end zone and we know it like that's like where you need to be as well to score points.


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[Assistant] It sounds like a magazine they would hand you at the counter when you bought something at Circuit City in 1997. Like that's what it sounds like. Uh, okay.


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[Assistant] The Endzone gaming headsets. Uh, Sony's Endzone gaming headsets come in three models. H3 for $99, the H7 for $229, and the H9 for $299. They have a white and black design that make them match the PS5, which is a nice, which is nice for those who pick them up for console gaming.


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[Assistant] The Endzone H9 rivals other high-end wireless headsets in terms of performance and comfort.


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[Assistant] Let's see, uh, the H7 doesn't support digital noise canceling and uses a fabric material on the ear cups rather than the soft fit leatherette.


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[Assistant] And then the h3 version is kind of like, uh, a much cheaper version of all these things. Um, and kind of scales it back, but, um, you know, $229 versus $299. You probably just pay the extra $7 at that point, right? And get all the noise canceling tech. I mean, if you're gonna spend that much money on it anyhow, right?


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[Assistant] I'll pick them up because I need them for, you know, discord and talking to friends, obviously when I'm playing games. But, uh, when it comes to spending hundreds of dollars on audio equipment, it's going to go towards actual surround sound speakers or at least a very good sound bar with a good subwoofer. Uh, so you get that, at least that good 2.1 upfront and, but I mean,


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[Assistant] Surround sound, those, those, uh, like surround sound systems in a box or whatever, uh, like the Vizio soundbar that comes with the subwoofer that plugs into two surround bars.


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[Assistant] After experiencing that, I'm just gonna, that's where my investment's gonna go. I think it's a huge upgrade to get like a surround sound system. I suppose, you know, this, these incorporating all the special Sony features probably makes them a little, maybe a little bit better of an experience, but it's just not where I'm spending my money these days.


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[Assistant] In addition to the headsets, in-zone gaming monitors also got announced by Sony. Sony's jump into the gaming monitor business is starting with two models. The M9 is a 27 inch 4K monitor for $900, while the M3 is a 27 inch 1080p monitor.


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[Assistant] Uh, though they have small, similar designs with a tripod stand, slim bezels and a sleek PlayStation-esque appearance.


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[Assistant] Uh, for me, I like this, but uhm, like full array local dimming, so like, you know, the LEDs behind the thing turn off on certain parts of the screen so it can get really dark. I like that, but this is Sony. They have really good OLED tech. I kinda wish if you're gonna put out a $900 monitor, it would just be OLED, right?


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[Assistant] The M9 also only has HDR 600, it only gets to 600 nits of peak brightness.


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[Assistant] That's uh, I mean Sony also is really good at, at like HDR on many of its televisions. Like I, I, there's a Sony TV over here I have.


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[Assistant] And it has like 1700 nits at peak brightness. It gets very, very bright. And that's like one of the best features of it. Uhm, yeaah. Monitors are different. You sit closer to them. Maybe you don't want them to be that bright. But I still think HDR 1000.


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[Assistant] Oh, and a lot of these things would be really nice to have. Uh, that, you know, that said these, uh, let's see the, um, the M9 4K, it does have 144, 44 Hertz refresh rate.


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[Assistant] That's nice to have. It supports, you know, HDMI 2.1. So you're going to, with variable refresh rate, it's going to support all the things. So you're going to plug in a PS5. It's going to be able to do all the things that PS5 can handle. So that's, that, that at least is very nice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, like me neither. I got, you know, I've got the stuff I need, I'm fine.


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[Assistant] Oh no! Nevermind, I'm gonna be mad on your dad's behalf. How dare you, Lucy. How dare you. I know.


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[Assistant] You know, no one's asking you to go out and get some fancy, like, experimental speaker that, like, uses, like, a lamb's skin to, to, like, shake and create noise. Like, no, just, you know, you know, use your decent speakers. You have the Vizio, use that, and then just put all the chat stuff on your headphones. There you go.


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[Assistant] I should do that. Alright, Sony, I'm just gonna look up. And thank you, I appreciate that, yes. For me and dad, I appreciate that.


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[Assistant] I see what you mean about the, like, the PS5 being under the... Let me transition over here for everybody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that, that looks, I mean, it looks a lot like the PS5 in, like, design aesthetic, but that looks very much like...


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[Assistant] If you were to like to glance at it, it looks like the side of a PS5 digital edition almost. Yeah, that is weird. Okay, very cool. Let's get back here.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, WWE 2K22's latest DLC includes Mr. T, Ronda Rousey, Doink, and the British Bulldogs by Chris Scullion at VGC.


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[Assistant] The fourth DLC pack for WWE 2K22 is available today. The Clowning Around pack is named after Doink the Clown, the popular wrestler who, light wrestler who competed in the then WWF between 1992 and 1995.


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[Assistant] Doink the Clown, Mr. T, Ronda Rousey, the British Bulldog, Rick Boogs, and Dower- Dowerdrop? Dewdrop. Dewdrop. Yes, there you go. I don't know Dewdrop. Really, I'm just excited about this because I like Doink the Clown. I think Doink the Clown is a very fun wrestler. I remember when they-


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[Assistant] Well, the problem is though, is like that's very hard because you come up with any name and it probably is a wrestler somewhere. Uh, alright, here we go. Let's transition.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there was multiple doinks. That's right. Multiple people wrestled as Doink the Clown and one of them, uh, I like Doink because, um, of the games where they basically would just like, uh, capture the appearance of the, uh, like in the nineties. And it was like the Mortal Kombat technology and then they would make wrestling games based on that. And I'm like, Doink just looks so silly in this game. And, uh, well, I like him a lot.


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[Assistant] All right, there's uh, there's, there's doink and then that looks like a mini doink, a little doink next to him. Uh, listen, babyface ran in WW, so maybe he ran as a babyface. Oh, that's dink. Oh, it's dink. Okay. Thank you, chat. Thank you. Doink and dink. That makes too much sense. I don't know why we ever.


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[Assistant] I don't know why, how we could have possibly guessed anything else. Alright, uh, Skull and Bones release date and pre-order bonuses have seemingly leaked. This is by Tom Ivan at VGC.


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[Assistant] It's claimed the long delayed pirate game will be unveiled next week. We've talked about that previously. A release date and pre-order incentives for Ubisoft's pirate game Skull and Bones have also seemingly leaked now. This is, uh,


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[Assistant] The bonuses listed include missions, a digital soundtrack, an art book, and these were reportedly revealed after the Xbox Store listing went live for some of these updates. Uh, oh man, I practiced this name before.


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[Assistant] That's the whole first name. Who regularly reports on listings that are added to the Xbox and Windows Store before they're made public.


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[Assistant] Now it's Skull and Bones time to dominate the industry. We were worried about Starfield before, but now it's Skull and Bones day to rue the sun or whatever. Uh, yeah, it could come out. I'm probably not going to care too much about it. I don't think Ubisoft cares that much about it. That's making it very difficult for me to get any excitement going.


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[Assistant] Can you like, does it, it's not downloading automatically, right? Is it just something you could stream? Cause that's how it works on Steam, where I'm like, every once in a while I'll be like, oh, I've, I've, I've accidentally ended up with a bunch of soundtracks on Steam, and then I just open up the Steam media player, and uh,


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[Assistant] I think so, yea, cause I can go to my library and listen to music and I can do it now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's basically, it's basically just a Winamp, uh, for a new day, for a new age, so yeah.


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[Assistant] Yes, that will too, yes. People are going back to WinApp. I think we should all go back to WinApp and whip the llama's ass. That's my opinion.


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[Assistant] Let's get to the catch up here. There was a Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase yesterday.


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[Assistant] Giant Bob talked over it. Some people did. Some people were sleepy. Uh, you could watch that. Uh, we also went over the news on the bombcast yesterday where we talked about everything that was in it. Uhm, but I figured we could go over some of the headlines here to catch up people who weren't watching and didn't listen to the bombcast yesterday.


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[Assistant] Uh, Nintendo is, uh, the Switch is finally getting Persona 5 Royal along with Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable. That's, uh, pretty exciting stuff, Lucy.


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[Assistant] Mike, Mike, Mike Manani in chat is laughing cause I would, he's like, Jeff's gonna play persona. Sure.


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[Assistant] I'm going to install it at least. I've got a Steam Deck, I'm just going to install it. We'll see what happens if I ever open it or not. Um, let's see, uh, oh, okay, there was a bunch of games that are available now, or at least games and demos. Here's everything you can play right now from Nintendo's Direct Mini by Phil Hornshaw at GameSpot.


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[Assistant] Uh, Monster Hunter Rise, Sunbreak demo, that is out now. I think that also has like the thing where if you, uh, you start it, you can take that save with you if you already own the base game. I wonder how that works exactly.


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[Assistant] Uh, Little Noah, Scion of Paradise, that's a side-scrolling action game that launched, Shadowdropped yesterday, that's available. I don't believe that is the story of Noah from the Bible, but maybe it is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, live, alive, that demo's out, and that definitely has the save carrying over to the final game. I downloaded that, I haven't started that, but that is a JRPG I am interested in. Uh, the HD2D stuff really gets me. Is that one that you're gonna check out, Lucy?


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[Assistant] Uhm, let's see here, and then Portal Cabana Collection, which people said was a pretty good, uh, port of those games on the, is now available on the Switch as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, other, other things that happen at this Direct. Dragon Quest Treasures is coming this December. Return to Monkey Island is headed to Nintendo Switch first on consoles. Nier Automata comes to Nintendo Switch this fall with all content and new costumes. I hope you get to play with, with 2B in a Mario costume. I think that'd be very good.


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[Assistant] Yes, a Yoshi suit, absolutely. Uh, it's like those Halloween costumes, uh, slutty Abe Lincoln. Slutty, uh, Yoshi costume for a 2B.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mario plus Rabbids, Sparks of Hope, it's got it's release date, it's coming in October, I believe.


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[Assistant] That is, right as soon as we're done here, there's gonna be a thing right at noon where Ubisoft's gonna talk more about that game. Uhm, I don't know, maybe it'll crash in here and I'll have it play in the background as we're trying to finish this show.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's see, Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, announced for PC and console, that's coming to the Switch. Uh, I think if you get the digital versions, it comes in Part 1 and Part 2, I think there's also going to be a physical version.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, new Switch game Harvestella evokes Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. This is from Square Enix. There are a lot of farming games. Lucy, did you have a favorite farming game series that you're super into?


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[Assistant] All the expansion packs for The Sims on Steam as like a means to be like, I want to get it back into The Sims someday and I'm just going to throw myself in. So look forward to it.


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[Assistant] I don't know. It looks fun, especially for anyone who's like a Disney adult.


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[Assistant] Yeah, mean words that people used to describe people like Mike Manotti, Disney adults, but I think you'll still, I guess it still looks like a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] Alright, then Zelda Breath of the Wild's Dubious Food is now a Switch player icon. This is by Jordan DeVore at Destructoid. I saw this and I mostly put it out there as a reminder for me to like, as soon as we're done here, get my Switch out so I can go to the Nintendo Switch online store and use my platinum points to get some new player icons and I will be


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[Assistant] Let's see, let me transition over to assets again. Games with gold from Xbox Live Gold were announced this month for July. Not a lot of bangers here. Not a lot of super, things that are super enticing. But it's, let's see, what are they here?


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[Assistant] Let's see if I brought a room down here. Okay. They are...


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[Assistant] Rillville Off the Rails, that's the Xbox 360 one. Torchlight is the other Xbox 360 one. Torchlight's probably the best game here. Then there is the Beasts of Maraville Island, Maravilla Island. This looks interesting, but I just haven't heard anything about it before.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, the last one is Relicta. Relicta. Uhm, and so let's see, uh, Beast of Merrillville is available July 1st through the 31st. Relicta is July 16th through the August 15th. Uh, Thrillville is July 1st, and then Torchlight is coming, uh, let's see, July 16th as well. There you go.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then finally, I saw this game here that I thought I would show off because it just looks so chill and it's coming to America and Canada and North America. Uh, it's called Cren, Cren, uh, Shenzhen, my summer vacation.


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[Assistant] And it just looks like such summer chill vibes, and I'm so glad it's getting English translations. This is the Japanese trailer. Let me make it bigger here for everybody. Uhm, oh, that's way too big. I know, I think it looks very good. It looks very, uh, exactly my jam.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, everyone look into that. It's coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch later this year, uh, in August. I'm really looking forward to it, so check it out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he looks very sweet and cute and he just like is fishing and then he just sighs real big while taking a bath. That's, that's fun. That's, that's the life I want. Yeah, there he goes.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's get to the question that I gave everybody earlier this week. Have you tried gaming on the Netflix app? And, let's see, will I get that? We talked a little bit about this because I actually asked this question twice because I never actually posted the tweet. Lucy, have I asked you this one? Have you used the Netflix app to play like Point B or anything?


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[Assistant] That's right, that's why we brought this up. So they're getting Into the Breach Advanced Edition. And that's the kind of thing where I'm like, now I'm like, I actually am interested in that. And then I remember Point B was on there and I wanted to like check in on that. So I'm like, okay, that's cool. So I actually did load up Point B.


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[Assistant] Okay, so do you play or do you plan to play games on the Netflix mobile app? Only around 10% said yes, 90% said no.


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[Assistant] So there you go with uh, most people, I think this is kind of thing where the, the audience here is very specifically.


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[Assistant] Uh, not, not gonna be thinking about Netflix as a way to get into games, but I think even like one out of ten people being like, uh, I might do that. Like it's a slow process, right? They need to slowly build up to having a lot of, um,


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[Assistant] When Into the Breach goes on there, are you gonna open up the Netflix app and actually try advanced edition?


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[Assistant] Right, so it's only on the mobile phone app and then there is like a tab that you click.


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[Assistant] And then when you click on that tab, it takes you just to a list of games and it looks a lot like the Netflix interface and you can say, okay, I want to try this.


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[Assistant] And as long as you're signed into a Netflix account that's active, it takes you basically, for me on Android, it took me to a link inside the Google Play Store where then I could download that game as an app and then now I open it up and when I open up the game, it's just like any other app, but it opens up the Netflix splash screen and my Netflix account like image is, is, yeah, it should just work. I think, I think it works on an iPhone as well. So.


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[Assistant] It is going to take a long time for the strategy to work, but I think that they're on the right path at least, and they're not trying to, um, like make it all happen in one day or one year where they're like, oh, we're going to just go from zero to stadia being like the fourth console everybody, um, it seems like taking a much more deliberate strategy and that's probably the way of doing it.


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[Assistant] Right, that is, uh, that's the thing where I'm like, uh-oh, they don't know what to do. They're like, oh, we gotta compete with TikTok. I'm like, uh-oh, Netflix, you're in trouble if that's what you think you need to be doing.


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[Assistant] Like, I would never pay a subscription for TikTok, even though, yeaah, I'm probably watching more TikTok than Netflix these days, but like,


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[Assistant] That's not what I want to pay a subscription for, ever. So Netflix, if that's what you think, that is the solution here. I'm so sorry, honey. Uh, alright. What grade would you give the Nintendo Direct Mini? Uh, so this is for tomorrow, everybody. I'll put up the, uh, the, uh, the poll here in a second. And we'll go A, B, C, and then D or lower.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I thought that was a pretty good direct mini, uh, especially because they set expectations correctly. Uh, but yeah, we'll talk about that tomorrow, everybody. Wisse, you want to give me your grade? What grade would you give it?


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[Assistant] Uh, alright everybody, we're gonna get out of here real soon, but uh, first up, what is happening on Giant Bomb? Lucy, we got anything going up? I think you mentioned a few things you guys were recording, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right, I should just go. No, there was so much that we, uh, moved the, um, uh, neon white invitational, I believe, uh, to next week, I think. So look out for that. There are fun things happening there to get it for next week. I'm gonna go to Giant Bomb and then I think we have it.


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[Assistant] Right here. Here's for Wednesday, everybody. I'm gonna transition over there.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yea, Game Mess morning is finishing right now. Uh, Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure, One Punch Man 03, and then Arcade Bit, and then Al Bummer. Uh, and then yea, we'll have a bunch of stuff going up for the rest of the week as well, keep your eyes open. Uh, we'll be back tomorrow with Game Mess mornings, and lots of quick looks are happening. I think we're gonna do a Cuphead quick look here today, so keep an eye out for that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, alright, well let's get out of here. Lucy, uh, you wanna tell the people about anything else you're working on before, uh, I throw to, uh, to the exit here?


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[Assistant] With that, we are gonna get outta here. Uh, thank you so much Lucy, I really appreciate it. Thank you for being the best audience and gaming everybody. This show's only ever as good as the audience, cause it, I mean, it's honestly true. It just sounds like something I wrote in the script here and I'm gonna say every time, but I really mean it. And until the next Morning Mess, have a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.


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[Assistant] Alright, you versus 50 Cent. Roast battle. Who's gon' win?


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[Assistant] Cause you gotta really give it to him, you feel me? You can't let 50 just lie. I'm not gonna go. You ain't going? Hell no, I'm not.


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[Assistant] What specific part of Chicago did you grow up in?


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[Assistant] That's a lot. Bro, I had a nigga snitch on me that I was selling drugs for $200 bro. Oh yea, he called his mom though.


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[Assistant] Wait, speaking of, speaking of weed, I don't know if you want to touch on this, but- Oh my god.


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[Assistant] How, like, bruh, like everybody says the word Tuka and they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about and niggas be getting their line pressed cause they just be saying that shit, like that shit went viral and like niggas from all over the place be saying that shit.


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[Assistant] Yo, yo, wait, is it on faux name or on folk name? Folk. Folk.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no real shit. But I feel like you play a huge role to all that because like, your sound that you brought, like, you helped cultivate that whole sound, like, you feel me?


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[Assistant] But was it hard when like people from like the outside of like your initial group started reaching out just because you had that sound? Right. You feel me? Like was that, was that hard? Like to like, like you don't want to give away the sauce, but you still got to make your money. You feel me? You still got to do it.


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[Assistant] Is it, is it? You were the first one to sign? Yea. By, by Warner? Oh, by Warner, okay. Yea, publishing. Damn.


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[Assistant] You know what's crazy though? If you wouldn't have said that that Moolah beat was for Chief Keef originally, it's like even though it has the same like type of style, but it was like that, like, like, like, like your style is so versatile to where like you, like certain beats just like you, it sound like you made that for Big Sean. If you wouldn't have said that, I would have never knew. So it's like-


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[Assistant] Just like, by like your whole demeanor, you seem like you were like, you're probably close with them, you feel me?


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[Assistant] But nah, that's, that's how you came about those. I could, I could, I'm already visualizing, bro. That's real shit.


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[Assistant] Did it take a long time? Like, were you one of those ones that was like, yo mom, doing this, I'm doing that, like before it really started popping off?


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[Assistant] You know? That's such a blessing bro, you know? It's hella people that come from like trying to do that shit and they don't have that family support, you feel me?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Where'd you go work in it though? Who, me? Yeah.


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[Assistant] What's your most fired meal you can cook right now? For us? Uhm. Right here. But you won't. Bro, we did an episode where we had a nigga come and cook.


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[Assistant] Bro, we had a nigga come here at the old store and make burgers while we did the interview, bro. So, if you had the motherfucking utensils and you had to make something on the spot right now, what would be your go-to meal?


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[Assistant] How far was downtown from like your hood you grew up in?


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[Assistant] Do you still live up, do you still live there or you, uh, you live, uh, I don't know? Nah, I moved. I moved to Atlanta. Hey, do it, man.


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[Assistant] Did you stage dive though, that's a real question. Hell nah, I should. Chop, we gotta get you to stage dive bro, one time. Just for, for the culture.


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[Assistant] Did y'all know who was all gonna be on it when he first sent it? No, I didn't know. He probably was like, damn.


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[Assistant] Like that's what differentiates you between a lot of other producers is you have that personality and you have the audience and you have the face car where people recognize you, you feel me? And like people like you not even for your talent but also just because of who you are.


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[Assistant] How fast do you usually cook a beat up if you're in a session? Five, ten minutes.


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[Assistant] See, he's the type of nigga, he don't go fishin' for the pussy. Right, I ain't too big on that either though. Cause you know why? Because nigga, once you get to a certain level, it's like, I need bitches who already know who I am, who already know what's poppin', and then you need the


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[Assistant] If she wanna spend shit, why not?


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[Assistant] You ever had a nigga ask you to take a picture on your phone and then post it on your Instagram? Yes.


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[Assistant] The male groupies be more prominent than the female groupies. Yeah. Bitches will be quiet on the low. Yeah. Niggas will come right up to you. Young Chop bro, I fuck with you bro. Yeah. It's kinda cool some days, but.


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[Assistant] Bro, I gave a nigga a feature for the low and then... You rap? Yea, yea, I rap and shit too. Nigga, I gave a nigga a feature for the low. Bro, like, I don't even want to say how much, for the low.


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[Assistant] Are they able to like get in contact with you through that website too?


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[Assistant] You ever charge a nigga for a face sign? Nigga ever paid you for a face sign?


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[Assistant] That's good though, you can live, you know, you can live it yourself, you can live with your fans, you can roast your fans, all that shit, man.


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[Assistant] It's like hard to read sarcasm over the internet sometimes though.


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[Assistant] Swing on em, right? Yeaah. Internet's the same thing. It's the same shit, bro. Like, like, enemy niggas that do that shit on purpose that try to say the most outrageous shit. Just to get you to respond. So they can get some fucking claps.


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[Assistant] But not even just all some money shit too, like you, like, like, like, like, I, I, I know you for like you putting on a lot of your homies that wasn't on that level, you feel me?


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[Assistant] Did you like, do shit like that just off like, you just saw the same potential in them or you just like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] A good idea from a bad person doesn't make that idea bad, you feel me?


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[Assistant] How long are you spacing it out for? Are you doing part one and then?


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[Assistant] Are you signing to a label and shit right now, sir? Are you still fucking with Warner?


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[Assistant] On the street, everybody wants to take from you what you have. And you always got to protect that. And violence is the best way to do it.


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[Assistant] Alas, if I join Sinjan, I abandon half myself. If I go to India, I go to premature death.


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[Assistant] If I do make the sacrifice, he urges, I will make it absolutely, I will throw all on the altar, heart, vitals, the entire victim. He will never love me, but he shall approve me.


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[Assistant] I will show him energies he has not yet seen, resources he has never suspected.


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[Assistant] Yes, I can work as hard as he can, and with as little grudging.


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[Assistant] Consent then, to his demand, is possible. But for one item, one dreadful item, it is that he asks me to be his wife.


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[Assistant] And has no more of a husband's heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which the stream is foaming in yonder gorge. He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. Unmarried to him, this would never grieve me, but can I let him complete his calculations?


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[Assistant] Coolly put into practice his plans, go through the wedding ceremony?


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[Assistant] Can I receive from him the bridal ring? Endure all the forms of love.


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[Assistant] Which I doubt not he would scrupulously observe, and know that the spirit was quite absent.


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[Assistant] Can I bear the consciousness that every endowment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle? No. Such a martyrdom would be monstrous. I will never undergo it. As his sister, I might accompany him. Not as his wife. I will tell him so.


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[Assistant] I looked towards the knoll. There he lay, still as a prostrate column. His face turned to me, his eye beaming, watchful and keen. He started to his feet and approached me.


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[Assistant] I am ready to go to India. If I may go free.


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[Assistant] Your answer requires a commentary, he said. It is not clear.


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[Assistant] You have hitherto been my adopted brother, I your adopted sister. Let us continue as such. You and I had better not marry.


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[Assistant] He shook his head. Adopted fraternity will not do in this case. If you were my real sister, it would be different. I should take you and seek no wife.


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[Assistant] But as it is, either our union must be consecrated and sealed by marriage, or it cannot exist. Practical obstacles oppose themselves to any other plan. Do you not see it, Jane? Consider a moment. Your strong sense will guide you. I did consider, and still my sense, such as it was,


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[Assistant] It directed me only to the fact that we did not love each other as man and wife should, and therefore it inferred we ought not to marry. I said so. Sinjan, I returned, I regard you as a brother, you me as a sister, so let us continue. We cannot, we cannot, he answered with short, sharp determination. It would not do. You have said you will go with me to India. Remember, you have said that.


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[Assistant] To the main point, the departure with me from England, the cooperation with me in my future labours, you do not object. You have already as good as put your hand to the plough. You are too consistent to withdraw it. You have but one end to keep in view. How the work you have undertaken can best be done.


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[Assistant] Simplify your complicated interests, feelings, thoughts, wishes, aims. Merge all considerations in one purpose. That of fulfilling with effect, with power, the mission of your great master. To do so, you must have a coadjutor. Not a brother, that is a loose tie. But a husband. I, too, do not want a sister. A sister might any day be taken from me. I want a wife. The sole help-meat I can influence efficiently in life.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeah, I just don't like meanness in general. Sorry, I'm a mommy of a six year old. I don't think, I think that you always take the high road. You stay as classy as can be. The guy balled out for the time that he was here and.


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[Assistant] I mean, whatever it is, most of us have lived through the process of that. So, that's life. It sucks. It's horrible. I know that he feels he could have been kept apprised of more, but...


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[Assistant] I mean I don't know, Jay, how many things in your life could you sit here and say you have hard feelings about?


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[Assistant] I love, love, love the way that TJ works.


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[Assistant] TJ, this is what we talked about on Tuesday, guys. What does a big contract do for you? And we talked about this with David and Joku.


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[Assistant] TJ signed a massive contract. He made the Steelers change the way they do business in terms of guaranteeing money beyond the first year. And you know how he responded? By working even harder.


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[Assistant] TJ said, I'm going to justify the faith that you're showing in me and every single day I'm going to go out there and prove you right. And TJ works his tail off. He may be


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[Assistant] He works with his teammates. I've watched him with Bud Dupree going over. This is this technique. This is that. All of that.


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[Assistant] You know, ultimately, we all want to reach our potential. And so, when Joe Woods is saying, I think we can get more out of Miles Garrett, that's not a knock on Miles, it's I think that Miles can be this. I think Miles can potentially be the greatest defensive player that ever lived.


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[Assistant] TJ Watt had better numbers than Aaron Donald, and I remember my husband and I were watching like the player of the year, the defensive player of the year thing, and my husband was like, oh, TJ's definitely going to get it.


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[Assistant] And I said, no, actually, it's going to be AD. And he said, why, like, how can you say that? Look at TJ's numbers. And I said, well, TJ had Bud Dupree garnering attention as well. And he had Kim Heyward and Tyson Alualo and Stefan Tuod up in front of him.


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[Assistant] I think that it was indeed a bit surprising to me. You know, like in the city of Pittsburgh, they're comparing this to offensive lineman David de Castro a year ago.


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[Assistant] And DeCastro I knew had dealt with all these ankle issues and I thought that this was very possible. To it, we kept hearing that he was doing significantly better. You know, a year ago,


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[Assistant] This young man, who is unbelievably close to his family, watched his brother die, dealt with his mother, having watched her son die, and the trauma of that and having to be there for everyone, and as,


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[Assistant] He dealt with that stress by putting on some weight. That weight then left a pressure on his knee. That led to the knee not necessarily being where it needed to be and the whole year


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[Assistant] Let's just call them, and I don't know why we don't necessarily equate the two, because I think the mind is just as important as the body. So anyway, two had spent last year really struggling in a lot of ways.


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[Assistant] Then we heard that this year he had really turned a corner. Cam Heyward, Mike Tomlin. People were very, very positive about where Stefan Tuett was in his life and what he wanted to do in his availability.


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[Assistant] And yet, he didn't come to OTAs and my guess is that as he sort of took a step back and really thought about what he wants to do and does he feel ready to put in the work and the effort and the time to playing the game of football, he ultimately decided that he doesn't want to and


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[Assistant] It really, really, really just means the number of Steelers fans that have, or football fans, let's just identify them as football fans, who've accused Tuit of stealing money.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, we'll go back to that line. Pressure either bursts pipes or it makes diamonds. So do Marvin Layel or Isaiah Laddermilk or even Chris Wormley, do they step up in a different way? Maybe they do, because you know what? Playing on a line with Cam Hayward and Tyson Oluwalu, you get some extra help.


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[Assistant] You know, that's like kind of play, getting to play from the closer tee a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, obviously, we all would like to put what's happening in our personal lives, you know, kinda in our computer bags while we go and we do our work, obviously. But we're human, and there should be some acknowledgement or recognition of that. I don't know, I just...


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[Assistant] I think that's part of our obligation too, being on the other side, to share some of that. And Adam, to your point, I get it. You know, like, people pay a lot of money. If it gives them joy to boo someone in a stadium, fine, boo. I just never really got it. How do you think booing someone encourages your team to play better?


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[Assistant] Right, so Super Bowl against the Giants, he misses a field goal, he goes back to Buffalo, and he gets all this love.


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[Assistant] And I was really little. I mean, I was, I don't know how old I was. I was like five or six years old, right? But I still remember that this guy misses a kick and loses his city and loses his team the field goal because he misses, loses them the Super Bowl because he misses the field goal. And the city just envelops him.


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[Assistant] And then fast forward a few years and it's a world series. And Mitch Williams, is that right too?


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[Assistant] I'm not 100% sure on the wide receiver position outside of Cooper and, you know, like, let's see how all of that develops, but I don't see a significant spot where I'm saying


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[Assistant] Who's doing this? Who's stepping up here? Who's available? Who's bought in? Uhm, I just.


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[Assistant] I'm a bit, and then Joe Mixon was third, J.K. Dobbins was fourth. I am a huge Naji Harris fan, but I am taking Nick Chubb every single day. I am taking him on Sunday, on Monday, on Thursday. If there are games on Tuesday, I'll take him in.


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[Assistant] My kind of regular go-to over the last 10 years, just because of where I stayed in Cleveland, downtown Cleveland, is a place called Taza, which is on that strip, you know, near the Renaissance and the Marriott key center. What's that road?


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[Assistant] In the National Football League, you work very, very hard to earn a veteran's salary and you believe that you are worth something.


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[Assistant] Tell him also I need more specificity. Like are you talking about if somebody else is buying or if I'm going to the fine one?


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[Assistant] Hadley galleries. Well, Mr. Earl, you detest art galleries.


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[Assistant] I have lots of... Don't try to be cute, George. I want it. Send it to my home.


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[Assistant] Mr. Corbin, you're being naive. This publicity has created a demand for your work. A demand which otherwise might never have come. Why not take advantage of it?


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[Assistant] Quite. I rather enjoyed it. I may even ask for an encore. On second thought, maybe I'd better quit while I'm even.


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[Assistant] Hello? Mr. John Orr's residence? Yes? Oh, hello, Mr. Morgan.


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[Assistant] No, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Oh's not home, thank you.


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[Assistant] Chador? Doesn't that mean, uh, golden cat? How appropriate. Never mind. I'll find it. I'll meet you there at nine. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] I have a wonderful idea, James. I'm going to let you, uh,


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[Assistant] James, we are but fish in the wildest of oceans. We must either eat or be eaten. Right now, you're being eaten. The thing that makes you tick is being destroyed.


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[Assistant] I took the liberty of telling someone that we were getting married. I suppose I should have told you first inasmuch as you're an interested party. Here.


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[Assistant] The glen and sky spun round, the hills heaved. It was as if I had heard a summons from heaven.


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[Assistant] As if a visionary messenger like him of Macedonia had announced, Come over and help us! But I was no apostle.


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[Assistant] I appealed to one who, in the discharge of what he believed his duty, knew neither mercy nor remorse. He continued, God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife. It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you. You are formed for labour, not for love. A missionary's wife you must, shall be. You shall be mine. I claim you, not for my pleasure, but for my sovereign service.


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[Assistant] He had calculated on these first objections. He was not irritated by them. Indeed, as he leaned back against the crag behind him, folded his arms on his chest, and fixed his countenance, I saw he was prepared for a long and trying opposition.


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[Assistant] And had taken in a stock of patience to last him to its close. Result, however, that that close should be conquest for him.


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[Assistant] Humility, Jane," said he, is the groundwork of Christian virtues. You say right that you are not fit for the work. Who is fit for it?


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[Assistant] Or who, that ever was truly called, believed himself worthy of the summons. I, for instance, am but dust and ashes.


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[Assistant] With Saint Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners.


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[Assistant] But I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me. I know, my leader, that he is just as well as mighty.


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[Assistant] And while he has chosen a feeble instrument to perform a great task


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[Assistant] He will from the boundless stores of his providence supply the inadequacy of the means to the end. Think like me, Jane. Trust like me. It is the rock of ages I ask you to lean on.


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[Assistant] Do not doubt, but it will bear the weight of your human weakness. I do not understand a missionary life. I've never studied missionary labours.


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[Assistant] There I, humble as I am, can give you the aid you want. I can set your task from hour to hour, stand by you always, help you from moment to moment. This I could do in the beginning.


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[Assistant] Soon, for I know your powers, you would be as strong and apt as myself, and would not require my help. But, my powers, where are they for this undertaking? I do not feel them.


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[Assistant] Nothing speaks or stirs in me while you talk. I am sensible of no light kindling, no life quickening, no voice counselling or cheering.


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[Assistant] Oh, I wish I could make you see how much my mind is at this moment like a rayless dungeon, with one shrinking fear fettered in its depths, the fear of being persuaded by you to attempt what I cannot accomplish. I have an answer for you. Hear it. I have watched you ever since we first met. I have made you my study for ten months. I have proved you in that time by sundry tests. And what have I seen and elicited?


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[Assistant] In the village school I found you could perform well, punctually, uprightly, labour uncongenial to your habits and inclinations. I saw you could perform it with capacity and tact. You could win while you controlled. In the calm with which you learnt you had become suddenly rich, I read a mind clear of the vice of Demas. Luca had no undue power over you.


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[Assistant] In the resolute readiness with which you cut your wealth into four shares, keeping but one to yourself, and relinquishing the three others to the claim of abstract justice,


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[Assistant] I recognized a soul that reveled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice.


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[Assistant] In the tractability with which, at my wish, you forsook a study in which you were interested, and adopted another because it interested me,


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[Assistant] In the untiring assiduity with which you have since persevered in it.


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[Assistant] In the unflagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficulties, I acknowledge the compliment of the qualities I seek.


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[Assistant] Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant and courageous, very gentle and very heroic. Cease to mistrust yourself. I can trust you unreservedly.


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[Assistant] As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.


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[Assistant] My iron shroud contracted round me. Persuasion advanced with slow, sure step. Shut my eyes as I would, these last words of his succeeded in making the way, which had seemed blocked up, comparatively clear. My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand. He waited for an answer. I demanded a quarter of an hour to think.


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[Assistant] Before I again hazarded a reply, very willingly he rejoined, and rising


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[Assistant] He strode a little distance up the pass, threw himself down on a swell of heath and there lay still.


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[Assistant] I can do what he wants me to do. I am forced to see and acknowledge that, I meditated. That is, if life be spared me.


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[Assistant] But I feel mine is not the existence to belong protracted under an Indian sun. What then? He does not care for that? When my time came to die, he would resign me


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[Assistant] In all serenity and sanctity to the guard who gave me. The case is very plain before me. In leaving England, I should leave a loved but empty land. Mr. Rochester is not there, and if he were, what is, what can that ever be to me? My business is to live without him now.


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[Assistant] Nothing so absurd, so weak, as to drag on from day to day, as if I were waiting some impossible change in circumstances, which might reunite me to him. Of course, as St. John once said, I must seek another interest in life to replace the one lost.


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[Assistant] Is not the occupation he now offers me truly the most glorious man can adopt or guard a sign? Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results,


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[Assistant] The one best calculated to fill the void left by up-torn affections and demolished hopes? I believe I must say yes. And yet I shudder.


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[Assistant] That's a hard nut, Ben. Perhaps too hard even for my jaws to crack. Your enemy has the law on his side, which wouldn't matter a threepenny bit if he didn't have power to go with it. Do you understand me? I'll have to deal with men of his own kind.


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[Assistant] That is only a sham that keeps the likes of them up and the likes of you down. The sham of blood. And the truth is, a man's a man, whatever you name him.


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[Assistant] And it is my wish that the estate known as Brithome shall be divided among my friends, its present tenants.


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[Assistant] And by their heirs and assignees thereafter. The manor house and park.


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[Assistant] In witness whereof, I have this day set my hand unsealed. It is signed Ben. Once known as Sir Benjamin Blake, baronet and master of breitham.


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[Assistant] The Desire of Ages. Chapter 52. The Divine Shepherd.


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[Assistant] He had linked the spirit's influence to the cool, refreshing water. He had represented himself as the light.


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[Assistant] Now in the beautiful pastoral picture, he represents his relation to those that believe on him.


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[Assistant] No picture was more familiar to his hearers than this.


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[Assistant] Never could the disciples look on their shepherds tending their flocks without recalling the Savior's lesson.


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[Assistant] This figure, the Prophet Isaiah had applied to the Messiah's mission in the comforting words, O Zion, that bring us good tidings.


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[Assistant] Get thee up into the high mountain, old Jerusalem, that bring us good tidings. Lift up thy voice with strength. Lift it up. Be not afraid.


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[Assistant] The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. And the Holy Spirit through Ezekiel had declared, I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them.