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[Assistant] Like, at what point, you know, is a game just being updated versus being fundamentally rebuilt? Cause I do think that there are games that get remade and it's like, that's worth, that's worth paying money for. And you know, but at what point, where is that line? A divide.


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[Assistant] Which is our energy drink taste test. Uhm, it is talk about the Borderlands movie. Jeremy, we know that you're a huge Borderlands fan. You wear your love on your sleeve.


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[Assistant] We learned today that Eli Roth is uhm, excuse me, attached to direct the movie. You know him from Cabin Fever, Hostel, in a house with a clock in its wall.


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[Assistant] Well, in addition to Eli, Craig Mazin is gonna script it. He did Chernobyl, Hangover 2 and 3, Identity Thief, and, uh, Scary Movie.


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[Assistant] Uh, Avi and Ari Arad are producing it and they've done like, they did Venom 1 and they're doing Venom 2. Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse. Spider-Man Homecoming and Far From Home. The amazing Spider-Mans.


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[Assistant] Spider-Man 1, 2, and 3, Hulk, X-Men, Daredevil, Silver Surfer, they did the Hasselhoff, Nick Fury TV movie.


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[Assistant] We don't know too much about the story except that it's gonna follow Lilith. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And if we're playing the games and we're like, not really learning that much more about Lilith each game, then it's like...


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[Assistant] What, so this is, this is the plot. The movie will find Lilith in the Atlas Corporation space prison when the CEO gives her the chance to earn her freedom by rescuing his daughter, the foul-mouthed Tiny Tina on Pandora.


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[Assistant] The mission takes an unexpected turn when it becomes clear that the little girl is the key to unlocking a valuable alien vault that Atlas wants all for itself. So like, it's gonna be like this group of rag tag, you know, uh, mission vault hunters. So it's gonna be like, clap track, tiny teens, bodyguard, Kreeg, and then a bunch of vault hunters. You know this.


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[Assistant] Well kinda what they did between like 1 and 2 where it's like new vault hunters but you like interact with the old ones to do shit.


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[Assistant] Like, House of the Clock and it's walls was him being like, I want something with a, with a universe, with like, real, magical realism, which, I mean, Borderlands isn't magical, but it's still like, you know, an amplified version of reality, right? And then this might be him being like, oh, I get my, uh, Alita battle angel.


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[Assistant] Which is the blindfolded energy drink taste test. Uhm, Omar, if you will summon the drinks, I'll explain a little bit while he's doing that what's gonna go down.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jeff Ramsey told me that you are a big energy drink fan.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I was like, okay, well, we've got to put that to the test, see how big a fan Jeremy actually is. So, we have gathered five


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[Assistant] Uh, unique energy drinks but Omar before you bring them from the shadows, I don't want Jeremy to see the color or consistency.


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[Assistant] And then you will tell us what you think it is. We will write that down and then we'll do the reveal after.


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[Assistant] Number two, you said it was Bang. I think. Number three, you thought it was Rockstar, but then...


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[Assistant] Because you have them flipped, and I think I know why. Uh, number two you thought was bang. It was rain.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then you were right the first time, number four was Rockstar.


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[Assistant] Well thanks for being a good sport, and doing that.


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[Assistant] Well, thanks, thanks so much for coming on the podcast, Jeremy. Thanks for having me. You're a delight. We covered a lot, I feel like, today. It's a couple of final just housekeeping things, uhm, before we finish, though. Coming to the channel this weekend, Birds and Beats Simulators. That video's gonna be great.


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[Assistant] And uh, Jeremy, you guys are still selling tickets for Achievement Hunter Live, right?


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[Assistant] And RTX in general. Still sell and take as 4. RTX 10.


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[Assistant] We're back, it's a new us, it's a new you, and it's a whole new year 2020. Welcome to the first, wait second, new episode of Dude Soup.


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[Assistant] Welcome everyone to an all new episode of DudeSoup. We're back. I'm joined by Elise, James, and John Smith. How are you all doing?


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[Assistant] So, what, last weekend we all went to medieval times together? Yes. That was great. We did. What did everyone do before that?


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[Assistant] Her worst times were the 70s. In Forrest's mind though, do you think he's like, she partied so hard, she caught up all night sleep. He thought she walked far. Instead of like,


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[Assistant] They cut out the scene where he goes, you were named after a KKK member.


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[Assistant] It's like a secular-ish cut. We did, back in the day, John and I did that whole review of the Christian Netflix.


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[Assistant] And there's a similar sort of kind of like a tone with...


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[Assistant] Christian movies and porno where there should be a normal scene instead of fucking there's a part where they talk about God or something like that where you're like, Oh, this feels like they're about to do something where they're like, Hey, how you doing?


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[Assistant] Oh, you don't want to talk about- We're Mr. World Traveler. We went to- Jess and I went to Costa Rica.


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[Assistant] You were talking earlier about like, oh, living in LA. I live on the west side and my friend lives in Burbank and it's taken me 45 minutes to get there.


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[Assistant] Uh, I have a new appreciation for the congested rows of Los Angeles after being in Costa Rica, where John knows because he's been there.


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[Assistant] I also had a mental breakdown driving through Central America. Uh, nothing but windy roads, uh, four cylinders, stick shift going up and down and just, if a bus breaks down, you're stuck going uphill in traffic.


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[Assistant] It was like a Perot or something like that. Oh, a Peugeot? No, not a Peugeot. Oh. No, it was like a, it was like a Korean four-cylinder. I saw a couple others on the road.


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[Assistant] It takes, I don't know, something like four and a half hours to go from...


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[Assistant] Please go forward. It just moves and also it's not a bunch of bumpy, rocky roads.


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[Assistant] Yeah, strange, right? It's there. Yeah, there's not a howler monkey coming at you or digging into your hotel room in the middle of the night. Or an iguana. There are monkeys. There are many monkeys.


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[Assistant] And then I think I got food poisoning towards the end. Probably Salmonella. I don't know. It's all good now.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I go to the bathroom like, oh boy, it's killing me. Let all go, flusher doesn't work. And I go, okay. But it's like one of those like...


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[Assistant] And I go, it's fine, like no one will care, but I still like close the door and kind of like close the hinge. Like, okay, maybe let people know not to go in there. And then later I'm up there, I'm up on top and just like, I heard some guys down there and they're like,


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[Assistant] I, so I took a film class in college. Oh, humble brag. Well, community college, but double humble. I learned about, what is it they call it? Tell us ending when they're like, Oh, this is where we take film. We put a digital so you can edit it.


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[Assistant] We have another idea. One of the kids who worked there had a 1080p, like very early gen Sony camera. He was like, hey, that's good. Let's shoot everyone's stuff on the wall.


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[Assistant] Not much difference from a college film school and how you get a Russian copy of the Avengers Endgame.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I'm sure we all had a VHS or camcorder at some point. One of us, I'm sure, at any given time went, wait, if I stop filming at this part and then I start filming here.


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[Assistant] Thanks for mentioning that, James. Yeah, uh, cause CES is actually going on right now. This is one of my favorite things here. I just realized this. I just realized why they do it in January.


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[Assistant] I remember cause we'd always be on a break and then they'd be like, CS is happening. And so like almost immediately you'd be like, news, all this stuff. It's cause it's a new year. They want you to make it feel like it's the future.


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[Assistant] Like the foldable, it actually looks good, I think. I think it actually looks like a-


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[Assistant] There was, that's sort of, I guess, where we are too with technology where, like you were saying James, everything's just a rectangle. Like, how can you make the rectangle look bad? What with the foldable phones is like, how cool can you make the fold, until there's some


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[Assistant] And there's just a shot of it where it doesn't fit in his pants. Yeaah. Yeaah. It's funny.


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[Assistant] With Seinfeld in mind. Bob's Burgers is just The Simpsons, but...


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[Assistant] So we didn't really get a chance to talk about it, but when we were at the Game Awards, they announced both consoles. Well, we got to see what the next Xbox is going to look like.


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[Assistant] It still shows where their minds at is vertical, which I don't think any of us saw or we're thinking like, oh god.


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[Assistant] It might look nice next to all your stuff, but then, uhm,


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[Assistant] Google just released their new wifi routers, or whatever, they re-designed them. Oh, to look like lamps and stuff? Because the, the consensus was, they're so ugly, and they're like, but they're wifi, you need to see them, and they said, well then make them beautiful.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then big surprise, the PS5 logo was revealed during CES. Uh, so we still don't know what the console actually will finally look like. Probably find out at E3. Uhm, but yeaah, someone already made a little video where they, uh, they open up Photoshop, hit delete, delete the 4, put in the 5.


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[Assistant] Paint broke, don't fix it. Are you gonna change the font ever? No, probably not. I thought maybe you could...


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[Assistant] Because the S already looks like a five. Just do two of them.


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[Assistant] I do. He sniffs it. He does like a, he does a rail. And then he's just like, take me away.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because Sony was insane because around the PS2 came out, they're like, all right, let's try some fun stuff. And it got crazy. And then PS3 got even weirder where they got that like alien girl to do the weird commercials and then they had the weird


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[Assistant] Uh, PSP ad where it was like a black woman holding a white woman or vice versa. And they're like, which one are you? Cause they were trying to sell a white Vita.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we're talking more about some CES stuff going on, but first let's hear a quick word from our sponsor, Bespoke.


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[Assistant] Uh, at E3, obviously, they did finally come out, finally, at the end, they came out with a electric car concept.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So the Sony's getting into the EV game. If you're, uh, I don't know, your next car is probably going to be a.


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[Assistant] It's, it's nothing really exciting, but actually Omar, if you want to bring up, uh, towards the end of that, that dock I sent you, if you go down to the Mercedes future car, if James, if I...


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[Assistant] You were wrong. There was a movie that came out in 2009. It was the biggest movie of that year. One of the biggest movies of all time.


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[Assistant] Close Avatar, would you ever anticipate that that hit movie would, uh, inspire a car?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean none of the, it's like the Cybertruck and all that stuff where it's like none of the stuff is going to make it, there's still have to go through regulation processes and stuff. This is more of like, we're just trying to give you an idea of the future.


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[Assistant] Oh really? Yeah. Well, I'll eat my hat. Uh, but speaking of steering wheel, uh, there's a part in this thing where the steering column is this like nipple in the middle of the car. I love it. What? And it's supposed to breathe with your heart. I love it. It's like a Disney world.


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[Assistant] When I watch this video, I believe this is from The Verge. They've been doing some excellent reporting. I've been watching all their stuff. They're saying like, like, Avatar is pretty popular in pop culture. I'm like, is it?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I feel like- If they don't make a billion dollars each, they're gonna be seen as failures. Which I think is interesting.


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[Assistant] Because it's easy to do. Uhm, but I think the second movie is actually going to be really good.


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[Assistant] Most people will have forgotten about Avatar, but we got that first one out of the way.


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[Assistant] I, I, I'm, maybe I'm in the minority here, but I feel like most people saw that movie, almost immediately forgot about it after they saw it. They spent their $72 on the movie ticket because it was in 3D and it made us a billion dollars. We all walked away.


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[Assistant] So I think when this new one's gonna come out, they're like, oh, that, ugh, ugh, I don't like this. Like, why am I gonna go see that thing again? I already saw it once.


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[Assistant] So we, like James saying, we went to Disney World, they have, if you go to the Animal Kingdom area, which doesn't have much as Dinoland USA, now Avatar, which is great. It also has a Bugs Life 3D. For now. Until they gut that shit.


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[Assistant] It is great. It's greater now that it has avatar, but it feels weird. It feels like you're in a movie where there's this property called avatar. That's really popular exists because you go to the store and it's all avatar toys. You're like, this is like turbo man.


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[Assistant] Yeah. You're like, this feels made up. We're like, like you can avatar yourself. And there's a kid sitting in a chair and they're like, we're scanning you and now you'll be a tall, blue, ugly cat. No one wants this.


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[Assistant] That just, it feels all very forced and made up, but like you said, we went on that ride and you fly through Pandora and you see parts that you've never seen in the movies, like the ocean. You see these like giant whale-like creatures and we walked away like, I'm pretty hyped for Avatar 2. I don't know what it's going to be like, but if it looks anything like that and my thighs breathe.


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[Assistant] Sam Worthington's not allowed near movie sets anymore? I know. What happened? They found out he can't act.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm looking for, Adam? What's that? I'm looking for a new pair of pants. Well? Can you help me out? I can get the outside of them for you.


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[Assistant] I like that you're looking at my dog. Uh, so there were a bunch of press conferences during CES and uh, one of them was Samsung, who showed off, who makes more than phones and uh, TVs mind you. They also make exoskeletons. They make gems.


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[Assistant] It used to be a- Woah, cool! Are the other glasses part of it? Yeah, they're augmented reality. During the stage demo, there was like a 3D avatar. It's like, get going, faster. And then one was like, that was really hard. It's like, yeah, I made it harder for you.


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[Assistant] The idea is that the exoskeleton is supposed to help the sort of like, you know, the less abled, able to get around a little bit more, a little helpful, but it's also now resistive because I don't think they could.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it has enough battery juice to help you, but either way, we're all going to be death stranding now. We'll be delivering packages in our robot pants.


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[Assistant] Uh, there was that guy in the season of Silicon Valley who had, like, the seat. Oh yeaah. And you saw that, like, you can have a chair anywhere you sit.


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[Assistant] You know what I can do though? I can get some new attire and press those damn gargoyles. Always hanging out with me.


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[Assistant] She's the most processed meat and much like the hungry Irish, uh, brethren before you, you eat potatoes.


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[Assistant] This impacts no one at this table more than Omar, who's an actual vegetarian.


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[Assistant] And when you ate it, you went, ew. But you liked it.


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[Assistant] I have to chew my own food? How dare you?


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[Assistant] There's something cool and futuristic.


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[Assistant] When the year 2000 came along, I think all of our brains went flying cars, jetpacks, smart-tat-like.


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[Assistant] No, it, it, it was more in the past than ever. Uhm, and then it wasn't until like, you know, smartphones and the advent of, you know, broadband, everyone getting, being like, starting to feel a bit more futuristic. So 2020, my hope is,


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[Assistant] Once, it'd be really cool when you go by and you see this giant white building and you're like, what the hell is that? And they're like, oh, they grow meat there. That's kind of futuristic. It's like FRM. Yeah.


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[Assistant] How much energy does it take up? Like, is it gonna be more for me to drive?


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[Assistant] There's a ball that follows you. That's not gonna come out ever. Uh, I feel like every six months there's a new Kickstarter of like, this robot will do whatever you want. It's like, that's a lie. One day, one day we'll get robots.


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[Assistant] I saw that too. What were we watching? It was, man, you probably saw it. What were we watching?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but they were talking about, they did a picture where they said, here's HDR, and it's like, boo, ew, and then they're like, here's LG Ultra, iSync, iCue, better, and it's like brighter, and ooh, nicer, and so now we're poo-pooing HDR, which used to be the selling point.


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[Assistant] They, they sell you all these features, hard cut to your grandmother or mother or somebody.


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[Assistant] It's a four by three image stretched out to six and they go, 4K looks good. I like this.


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[Assistant] On that note though, Elise, of talking about things that can actually pop out of your TV, uh, I believe it was Acer? Uh, doesn't really matter. NVIDIA, someone announced A.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Sounds about right. Uh, the other thing I thought was interesting, this seems to be a bit of a trend, uh, everyone's trying to make your device, whether PC or phone, into a switch.


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[Assistant] Booyah is actually a smaller Xbox Series X if you think about it. True.


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[Assistant] In this video, once again, uh, check out the Verge's coverage. Uh, yeaah, they, they, they do a part where they just play the fan noise. It is so loud. Oh really? Because, yeaah, it's sort of the, the, the idea of like arm architecture versus x86 and these other things that's like, you're trying to


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[Assistant] Is that a segway? I'm not segwaying. I, uh, I know, I know where John's brain is at because he recommended a book to, I believe Omar and myself, the Nexus trilogy, which is, I'm now getting- Don't tell me about that.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm currently reading two books right now. The second in the Nexus trilogy, Crux, and my sister got me The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, which I am now realizing my mom read to me as a kid, because I'm like, I've read all these stories before, and I'm like, oh yeaah, that's weird, I didn't understand the African Velt when I first read it, but there it is, Velt.


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[Assistant] No, because the ideas are insane, but I know where his brain's at. I totally get it.


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[Assistant] Well, when you pitch it to me, it sounded like the worst idea in the world. Yeah. Cause you said.


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[Assistant] He said this guy got tired of explaining the future to people at parties, so he wrote a book about it.


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[Assistant] People at our party go, what do you think the future's like? He goes, have you read my book? And they go, no.


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[Assistant] The idea is interesting. It is action as written by 16 year old Adam, where he's like, and then, Kade was so cool. He's the coolest guy. God, his friend's a DJ too, also hacker. It's just like.


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[Assistant] He goes, and also I can't write women. So, uh, there's that. That's always, yeah, it's always the woman is either a trophy or a sex object. And it's always.


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[Assistant] It's a bad sign when there's a descriptor of the woman's breasts in the book. Yeah, let me pick.


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[Assistant] So that's our Book of the Month Club, uh, Illustrated Man. Great book. Ray Bradbury, still not dead yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, I had some other stories here, probably don't really have time to get to them. Uh, speaking of Stadia, Google's, uh, Google's little platform there, Destiny 2's population has dropped more than half, so, so much for your future, John. Uh, and then I had a little story, just, just I wanted to hit the nail on the head that we have picked the wrong career path.


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[Assistant] I knew that. Yeah, apparently we should be, uh, a younger, weirder.


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[Assistant] Real quick, real quick, here's a, right now, sorry for our audio listeners.


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[Assistant] You're all wrong, it's the girl James pointed out in the beginning whose face is covered and I'm pretty sure according to this article she's dating the guy over there.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is an article from the New York Times, but it's talking about how there's a gold rush in Los Angeles right now of famous TikTok stars buying up houses so they can all create content together. Uh, this is hilarious because it reminds me


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[Assistant] Of something that happened with like the Minecraft Gold Rush where a bunch of Minecraft kids were moving into mansions together.


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[Assistant] I don't know what TikTok does or how you make money. Well, they don't live in the mansion. They just work there. They don't go in the pool because it's too cold.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're also, most of them, every single one of them is under drinking age.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, but if you ever, I don't know, if you ever want to like, ugh.


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[Assistant] You can pull it up, uhm, while we do that. So you can read that article if you wanna kill yourself.


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[Assistant] Uh, or WANT to kill yourself. You know, you wanna feel bad about yourself. Don't do that.


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[Assistant] Good for him. Uh, and he has some advice for you, James and John, who apparently wants to get into the TikTok game.


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[Assistant] According to him, you have to be young. You have to have a lot of energy and personality and honestly, a little weird.


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[Assistant] Weird people get the furthest on the internet, Chase said. Either have to be talented at something, or weird, or funny mix, or extremely good looking. And if you're all three, you're a TikTok god.


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[Assistant] We could have retired when we were in our 20s, but we messed up. We came at the wrong time. We came into the event of YouTube.


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[Assistant] Uh, but that's it for all the new stuff, uh, this weekend on Funhaus coming up, at least with us all locked together. The, uh, Rooster Teeth Corecast has joined us for an eye tracker video.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, and then also we have a little gameplay that I believe John brought up. You have a drunk friend.


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[Assistant] Long ago, internet cafe simulator? When did we do that?


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[Assistant] I'm not. There's so many simulators and type of like computer simulators. I forget what I'm in, what I QC'd, what I made a thumbnail for. And then lastly, we got a little gameplay from GDC's 2016 game of the year, The Witness.


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[Assistant] That's a great idea. I like that. Uhm, yeaah. Is there anything else you guys want to mention going on in the channel? Anything that is worth checking out?


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[Assistant] You rip em off like Robbie Williams in that famous music video that I watched over the weekend. Rock DJ. That's the one. I showed it to my sister and I was like, oh hey, let's watch some like, we're trying to watch like good music videos and she said this one was banned. But like squint. You have to like look for it. Censored.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yea, if you can walk away from this podcast with anything, it's to watch the Rock DJ music video by Robbie Williams.


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[Assistant] Thank you for listening and watching everybody. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe. Uh, especially on the audio side, definitely helps us out. Tell a friend, tell a couple friends, all that fun stuff. And we'll see you on the podcast next week, but we'll see you on the channel all the time. You can't look away. We're going to get FunHouseTV working someday, I promise. Maybe by now. We'll see. We'll see you next time.


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[Assistant] Bye. More together. Cause I really like those guys and I think they like us.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're talking about Doom Eternal now. Comes out March 20th. And this comes out on everything. It's like PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Stadia, PC. Everyone gets a piece of the pie.


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[Assistant] Up and coming director Marty Scorsese has an issue with the Marvel movies. We ask famed voice actor Maurice LaMarche if he feels the same way on this week's Dude Suit.


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[Assistant] Okay, well the real treat is that we have famous voice actor Maria Slamar


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[Assistant] I remember that episode, Johnny, now that I- No, I wish- I wish I- I was saying-


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[Assistant] We all, when we first met you, were like beside ourselves. I think we're all still nervous to be talking to you. Really? Yeah.


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[Assistant] You've had some hand in virtually everything we've ever loved.


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[Assistant] Past and present, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Disenchantment, Love, Death and Robots, Powerpuff Girls.


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[Assistant] Simpsons, Rick and Morty, Transformers, Batman, Zootopia, Looney Tunes, like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, well we want to know all about your banters and your twitters, uh, but first we thought it was really...


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[Assistant] Convenient and coincidental that you were coming on the show today after that Martin Scorsese.


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[Assistant] And I wonder if that's, if that's just him, you know, changing tastes or something. He, cause his exact statement on the Marvel Cinematic Universe was, I don't see them, I tried, you know, but that's not cinema. Didn't say that about Goodfeathers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, honestly the closest I can think of them as well as they are made.


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[Assistant] I was thinking of this in parallels to the voice acting world and animation because, I mean,


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[Assistant] I do think that just from the voice actor friends I have, a lot of them feel like they


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[Assistant] They haven't reached this pinnacle of being pursued as like real actors, real acting or it's totally legitimate.


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[Assistant] And I wanted to know if that's something you feel that way about or don't.


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[Assistant] Andre, what was it like when Samuel Beckett drove you to school?


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[Assistant] Has that, has that been, cause you've been on the upswing of animation, cause you've been doing animation since the 80s, right?


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[Assistant] But do you feel like you've seen a major change in animation from your start to now?


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[Assistant] Get honey for free at joinhoney.com slash dude. That's joinhoney.com slash dude. So thank you honey for the sponsorship. I don't have a smart sagoo to get back into our conversation here. Maurice just let me know during the ad break that, uh,


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[Assistant] But yea, you, there's some big news that you're tied to that broke today.


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[Assistant] Is everyone reaching out to you today? Now that his book is out.


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[Assistant] So, we always talk about your Orson Welles, uh, character here, like, well, to the critic.


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[Assistant] Do you, uh, do you feel like an ownership over the characters you play? Some, some.


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[Assistant] While, uh, while Adam's shamelessly getting his paraphernalia signed, uhm, why don't we hear a word from Quip?


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[Assistant] I have a question for you. Have you ever done any voiceover for puppets of any kind?


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[Assistant] I think before we started recording you were telling us that Mark Hamill has a great Harrison Ford.


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[Assistant] Well, off camera you've told us many a heady story.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I think that like when the you that you look at in the mirror is not the you that you like, it's easier to disappear and


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[Assistant] Uh, well we'll be back with some more from Maurice, but right now a word from Stamps.com.


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[Assistant] We're about to play Six Degrees of Maurice LaMarche, but before we get to that,


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[Assistant] Uh, you have a show that's pretty big time.


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[Assistant] Uh, so before the show we were talking about how you have your hand in virtually everything. Anything that we can think of you've touched in some way, in an appropriate way. Yes, always appropriate. And consensual.


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[Assistant] But I was trying to figure out if there's someone that you can't be connected to, a la Kevin Bacon's Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Yes, by the way, I


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[Assistant] I feel like there's some kind of maniacal power that you are deriving from this game. No!


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[Assistant] Thank you so much for coming on. Oh, thanks for having me, man.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well thank you, thank you again. We have a quick plug for something of ours, we're just gonna roll in here. We have a sketch comedy show coming out and the trailer dropped today on Tuesday, so let's roll the trailer. Take it away, toys. Welcome, Tom.


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[Assistant] That's the trailer for Arizona Circle coming October 23rd. That's a full season of it, seven episodes.


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[Assistant] I'm playing Jenny LeClue, Detective Who, which I've been waiting for for a long time.


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[Assistant] It sounds like a movie that would come out in Korean first and be awesome. Jump With Us? Jump With Us? And then they would do a version of it in America with, uh, Ansel Elgort? John Cena. Oh. And he wouldn't be able to- Both. Ansel Elgort is John Cena's son. Yeah, I would watch that.


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[Assistant] I think we're thinking about two different movies. That sounds like a leap of faith. I was thinking more along Fault in Our Stars, which is why I picked Dear Ansel.


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[Assistant] The Hot Pod Team, together again. Poppin' it up.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, it's a bit of a distraction, but yes, uh, things are not hot for Blizzard right now after a series of interest- uh oh, we got a giggle.


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[Assistant] The project's being announced at BlizzCon, lest there is another Hearthstone expansion, which there probably is.


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[Assistant] But, isn't it possible that all of the teams announcing their projects at BlizzCon that they've been working on for years have nothing to do with the decision made about, uh, BlitzChung?


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[Assistant] And would it be fair to try and cast negativity on their projects because of what somebody else?


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[Assistant] We could probably do that. Let's try it. Well, it's that sort of like myopic view of, well, he's clearly in violation of the rules. The audience will understand that. Right, yeaah. And to a degree, that was true, um, but there... But also, if you wrote the rules...


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[Assistant] I'm not making the argument that this is gonna sound like, but I do think there's an element of hypocrisy on Blizzard's part, because they had like,


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[Assistant] Pride Day for Overwatch. That was also redacted in other territories, so like South Korea had a redacted Pride Day presentation that cut out a lot of the Pride celebration stuff. So, how is it okay? I mean, to say that it has nothing to do with world politics is flagrantly untrue.


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[Assistant] Because if you have pride stuff in North America where that stuff is seen as good, and then you redact it in other nations, they're in the process, they're in the progress of, er, sorry, process of doing that.


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[Assistant] Of tailoring their output to match the social norms of every independent region. Yep.


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[Assistant] The problem is this was tailoring a broadcast for regions outside of China for Chinese sentence.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think a presence at the convention is not a bad idea at all.


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[Assistant] I-I would never argue against arguing for people's freedom of expression, and certainly human rights in the case of Hong Kong, the right to self-govern and be independent.


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[Assistant] However, there's no denying that so much of American culture now...


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[Assistant] Exists because of cheap consumer goods from China.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of it has to do with this like perfect moment to like hold a company like Blizzard accountable. It's like this perfect storm where like iPhones and like, you know, the stuff that Foxconn did and all that about child labor is not good.


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[Assistant] I'd like to go on record and say child labor, bad. That's a hot take. I know. I'm gonna mute my replies.


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[Assistant] With the protests in China really picking up steam now, uh, an incensed gamer community, which there, and a lot of them are no strangers to taking to the internet, uhm,


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[Assistant] Moscon being right up down the corner, and it's a fairly easy dunk.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people, like with the whole no ethical consumption thing, are, find it hard to point fingers, but this is kind of like a,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's something where you get direct feedback about your actions instead of... Yeah, we're seeing it happen. And it's only been a couple weeks now, and I think a lot of people are like, I'm, I'm helping. Which, maybe they are, maybe they're buying just a bunch of flags, but, uh,


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[Assistant] To continue being a corporate apologist. Oh yes. A lot of the people who got laid off got extremely generous severance packages. Uhm, and I've heard first hand that a lot of them are just taking like two years vacation because they can. I think they got a two year salary just up front.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of them were still very angry though. I mean, I think justifiably, everyone's mad when you lose, you're mad when you lose your job, but I do think on a corporate level,


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[Assistant] I think if the trailer is awesome, and if it's playable, and if the game looks good, that's three if steep. But, and if there's no microtransaction bullshit, apparent in the demo.


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[Assistant] I think it'll be fine. I've seen multiple times gamers like, gamers, figure out how to turn their heads around to make themselves okay with the thing they really like.


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[Assistant] To a degree, it's a shade of like, buying a cheap iPhone and then being mad at China in another way.


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[Assistant] And, and, it's kinda what you were saying Connor, it's an easy, cost-free dunk. The hard dunk is when you choose to not watch the keynote because you're outside protesting, and you choose to not play a game that looks really, really good.


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[Assistant] That's a fun video game, despite everything. The core market is important. The core market, the ones that are presumably listening to this podcast and following all these narratives, they're important because they kind of determine the temperature of the market.


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[Assistant] They also have very weak wills, typically. Myself included. I don't want to seem like I'm lecturing. You are very weak. It's true. No, I will step over myself to buy a good video game no matter what happens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, so, monopolies are bad. I think if Overwatch 2 co- looks really good, if Diablo 4 looks really good, people will...


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[Assistant] They'll find ways to be mad at Blizzard in a vestigial sense, but they'll still buy the stuff and still say it's awesome.


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[Assistant] And I think the conversation will cool, I don't doubt that the general audience will kind of move on from this, but what about like the Blitzchungs of the world who are like, is there going to be, Blizzard lost control of the narrative, is essentially what happened to them, is there going to be more...


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[Assistant] Like, protests from the high levels, not just from consumers. Like, are they going to have to face this again sooner? Because, I mean, the protests are not going away and there's still a significant amount of business in China and they didn't actually reduce the ban all the way.


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[Assistant] Is this going to incense more professional players and maybe casters at that level to do things?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Those are basically stuck their ass out. It's like, once you show weakness, then people are going to test you.


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[Assistant] Also, what's the divisive manner of saying people deserve human rights? There's nothing divisive about that. I mean, it is divisive to China, sure. But, again, how do you rectify that with Pride Day at Overwatch League?


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[Assistant] Which, which yeaah, and, and I'm glad you said that, because technically, like, ideally that's not politics. Human rights is a rights issue, not a political issue, but...


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[Assistant] When you have tyrannical governments that are suppressing the agreement. That makes it every single action political. The decision not to allow your employees and players to not bring up politics isn't in and of itself a political move.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if he had said, you know, like, gay rights, which is arguably something that Blizzard as an entity has already voiced that they as a company agree with, would that have been punished? Technically also violated the rules.


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[Assistant] So to a degree, yeaah, it's- or- Austin doesn't have guns, really? Different guns.


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[Assistant] Has there, speaking, or throwing back to Harry Potter, I know in fan fiction it's probably rife, but in the world of Harry Potter, has anyone ever tried to just shoot a wizard with a gun? I'm sure it's happened. It's- But in the lore-


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[Assistant] It's got to be addressed somewhere deep in the annals of Pottermore, right? Cause if they addressed wizards pooping, then you all remember that. Pottermore. I think about it often. Oh, but Connor T. Point, about like,


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[Assistant] Point of no return territory? Yea. I do think now, like, the worst thing you can do is make yourself, like, a good trolley target. And I think Blizzard's handling of this has made them a soft, soft target.


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[Assistant] They're gonna test you at every corner, make sure, like, they'll find the weak points. Uhm, so I think what Blizzard's gonna have to do, maybe they've already done it, is to have a summit with like every


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[Assistant] Public facing PR person in the entire company and say these are our policies, this is how we talk about this, and no one's gonna say anything different.


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[Assistant] Because if Hearthstone can go out there and do their thing and invite a problem on the whole company, now they need to just harden up and like, make sure that everyone's got each other's backs, no one's out there like saying stuff that's a little off message, to just really reinforce that Blizzard as a company has their shit together and they know what they're doing. Which hasn't felt that way in a while.


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[Assistant] That's what, I mean, Tim Sweeney said as much in the past. He's been like, Tencent is a 5% stakeholder, I believe, in epic games. But as long as Tim is-


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[Assistant] Tims, like back when people were mad about the Epic Games store and accused it of being Chinese spyware. Oh yea. Yea, remember that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tim Sweeney was basically like, I still own the majority stake in this company, and I get to declare everything myself, because he's 51 or higher. And he said, as long as I'm that, there will be no, like, under the table dealings with China.


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[Assistant] Until they edge him out, but he's been in the game for a long, long time.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think Fortnite would have to drop many balls before they come to ousting Tim Sweeney, right?


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[Assistant] The Counter-Strike news is wild today. What, the EA Valve stuff? I mean, that's cool. I'm just doing free association now. Valve basically said, yeah, it turns out people are using the CSGO market as a 100% of money laundering service, so we're shutting it down.


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[Assistant] That's why there were $5,000 knives, it turns out. And yet again, like, Valve finding themselves just one hair's breadth removed from straight up illegal, like, money trading. Again. And so much with Counter-Strike.


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[Assistant] What's the reception been like to this? Did Valve shut it down so quickly that everyone's like, alright.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's not them. That kinda reminds me of what happened with Google, uh, Google+.


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[Assistant] Right? That was the social media. Yeah. Uh, there was like a security loophole that someone found in the midst of all the Cambridge analytical stuff and they're like, uh, hey Google, there's this problem with your platform. And they went, ah.


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[Assistant] Well, it was new.myspace.com, which I wonder if they would have ever changed the URL.


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[Assistant] Release Overcooked 2, wait. I think Blizzard's been on the Rubicon kinda like Valve. I think World of Warcraft was the greatest and worst thing that ever happened to them. It let them grow and grow and grow.


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[Assistant] They have tons of legacy employees that they've treated very well, I think. This is just conjecture now. Uhm, it feels like they've had so much money for so long they don't remember how to be hungry and like make product anymore. Because they haven't had to.


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[Assistant] And all of the things that they've made have kind of languished over time, and then they've tried to squeeze blood from stones, and has pushed out their fanbase even further.


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[Assistant] I just think it's like, let it die. Kinda. I mean, they're, they're corporation. I think a lot of people remember them fondly from the early days when they made a lot of cool games with heart and a lot of personality.


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[Assistant] But all of that's just been smothered under corporate, uh, influence. Which, it just happens. Uhm, so what I want...


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[Assistant] Is for Morheim, who left Blizzard to found a new development studio, hire up all the old boys again, and make some cool smaller games.


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[Assistant] Yes. A lot of people quietly left recently. Dustin Browder left, David Cam I think left. A lot of Starcraft guys left when all those projects got canned. So the thing that could save it going forward for me is if Diablo 4 is like a


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[Assistant] Brutally, like, metal, violent, difficult, mechanically complex, rogue-likey game. Like, take it back.


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[Assistant] Make it really hard to win. And make it so you have to play well and understand the systems as opposed to Diablo 3, which is fun.


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[Assistant] Six or seven of those? They're, from the sounds of it, they're adding like a talent and item system, which I don't want at all. I thought Overwatch was complicated enough


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[Assistant] To be a good game and adding more to it is just kind of going down the MOBA territory.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it makes it harder for spectators to watch, I think?


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[Assistant] So I'm, I don't know, Blizzard's always had an eye for like making complicated games enjoyable by the masses, and I don't think that's gonna be dead with Overwatch 2, but to me it feels more like...


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[Assistant] It feels more like they just needed another retail product out there to raise brand awareness and to bring in more people to Overwatch League viewership.


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[Assistant] And it feels like that's what's driving the development and release of an Overwatch 2 rather than they had a really good idea for a sequel.


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[Assistant] But I'm willing to be proven wrong. I guess fundamentally, and a lot of people have asked for this, I would like them to get back to releasing


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[Assistant] Original idea games with really cool concepts that come from places like this is just a fun game to play. Instead of focusing on the like monetization or the daily active users and all that stuff. Overwatch kind of felt that way again, which was pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you can pay five dollars for a soccer ball and play soccer for the rest of your damn life. Doesn't matter, not entertainment. A game is not a movie. It's not, it's not linear, linearly consumed. A good game you can play forever.


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[Assistant] Uhm. How dare you. I know. How dare you support China like that. Such a gamer. Gosh.


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[Assistant] I wonder how much the, the United States government has like a say on that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Or if they're trying not to piss people off or something.


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[Assistant] There are some rules about what you can and can't say. You can't make a death threat on the President of the United States. That is a crime.


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[Assistant] I would never. Yeah, who would? I couldn't dream of it. But I do think you're allowed, you can misrepresent.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Secret Service will give you a very stern call. Wow! Is my understanding. Hey, we talked about this. Not that I've done it. Uhm, but-


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[Assistant] Ah, so, and there's some other weirdness about it too, how it is, it is the United States and it is Russia, but it's not Syria. Like that's the one that they changed, I guess?


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[Assistant] And yea, how would it make it a better video game to be like, you're an American soldier. By the way, I guess we bombed some civilians. Anyway, go out there and shoot the bad man.


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[Assistant] The modern warfare in the past has asked those difficult questions. I mean, the Russian level is about as difficult as it gets, which is for the sake of being undercover, do you want to mow down civilians? Yes. It sure is kind of like a sociopathic honeypot for people who just can't wait to unload on an airport.


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[Assistant] But the thing that I've come to embrace is sometimes those difficult questions and those vaulted concepts aren't what games like that are for.


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[Assistant] If it's Call of Duty Modern Warfare, it's trying to be a widely palatable


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[Assistant] Somewhat, but not too much challenging sort of product to get people talking, but not enough to actually make them think.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know what BlizzCon is gonna look like. I don't think it's gonna be a disaster. I think it's gonna be a lot on the fringes or the outside. I don't think anyone's gonna run on stage and grab the microphone as much as the chaos in my heart wants that to happen.


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[Assistant] You can submit questions they will screen and then read themselves. Because, I know this somewhat first hand. The Retro Guy from last year?


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[Assistant] He had to submit his question, so he lied about his question and then said a different one on mic. Right. Which, he's the hero of the internet, but also kind of a dick move.


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[Assistant] Based on that, not on Hong Kong, they already changed the Q&A process. That makes sense. Well, as for what I learned for Blizzard in general, it's, they're in the position where the games they have coming up are so far out that the can has been kicked down the road, so I don't think we're gonna really know, but I mean,


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[Assistant] That would be nice. I haven't played any of the Diablo games, so I don't really have a dog in this race. But uhm, I don't know, I'm just curious to see what happens with this, because these are like two huge swings of VIP they have really in the chamber. And if that doesn't work out for them, between Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, I don't know, would they


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[Assistant] Go into, splinter any teams into smaller productions? Would they publish anything?


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[Assistant] Okay, so, fun. That's what I would have liked to have seen. Yeah, but maybe not like an event or an experience like Overwatch, like just put out a game.


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[Assistant] War 3 reforged, another remake, but theoretically that's the skew they're gonna release. Uhm, yeah, cool, cooldown time has arrived.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. I guess I'm not saying what I want so much as I'm curious to see what happens if their original IP


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think probably more layoffs. Uhm, they've hired up so much. So yeah, they have to trim staff to match their revenue levels to the degree that Activision's happy with. That make sense? Right. Uhm, yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think of what's happened to other Activision teams that slip under the performance cutoff. I mean, their roster of Call of Duty devs has been pretty stable despite the series' sort of plateauing in performance.


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[Assistant] They stopped making Transformers games, but maybe they just lost the license. And then-


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[Assistant] Oh, they might be in there, nevermind. Who's making that? Beanox got moved to, from doing Transformers to pinch hitting on...


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[Assistant] They'll probably just get absorbed into like the whole developer ecosystem of Activision, because I know they like to share development resources a lot. Every Call of Duty is made by like three studios. Right. Because it's like three games basically.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know what the long, slow death of Blizzard looks like, but it would be interesting to watch. And I can say that as an impartial observer. If you work for Activision Blizzard, we-


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[Assistant] And take more Chinese money? Well, presuming that Activision is the problem, I think it's more just an internal, it feels more internal at Blizzard.


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[Assistant] That, that having a new GM in Mike Ibarra might help because he would have to go in and I think just like, probably trim a lot of jobs.


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[Assistant] Probably. Just to get people lean and hungry again. Uhm, and I don't like talking about people's jobs and livelihoods like it is just something that needs to be cut out of, cut out of a business op. Sometimes it is. Especially after you've scaled up super, super fast. Well, at this point it's not fast, but...


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[Assistant] Man, the World of Warcraft sub-numbers were, what, 15 million, I think, in the late 2000s, and now it's, now it's under 2 million? Who knows what it's like post-classic? That surely brought some people back. Probably. For a moment.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but- Yeah, I don't know how long that had lost. Yeah, I mean, that can't be, uh-


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[Assistant] Like a full rejuvenation. Probably not. It's just like a bump in the graph at a certain point.


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[Assistant] So you're, you know, if you've scaled up to operate with that level of revenue, and that revenue has just kind of bled away over the last decade.


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[Assistant] That's when they're maximally nutritious. Hey, just asking questions. I thought we were in America. I'm not gonna stop you, I'm gonna let you just peter out.


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[Assistant] Wants to like do the boring thing of calling the convention center, coordinating with staff and setting up boundaries and barriers.


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[Assistant] Event planning sucks. SUCKS. So that's to me, like, you wanna talk about making a decision with no overhead. Doing a protest requires someone.


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[Assistant] They talked about protesting at Blizzard's gates, just outside of the campus, just at the gates. And yea, some OC residents were like, what, what?


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[Assistant] We gotta, we gotta stick it to those massive media corporations whose entertainment products we consume on a daily basis and from a large portion of us use it to fund our livelihoods. Fuck em! Why isn't Robert Downey Jr. getting nominated for an Oscar?


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[Assistant] That will happen at BlizzCon. Somebody's gonna say something and someone else is gonna be like, dude, just let it go.


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[Assistant] I guarantee you that moment will happen where half of the audience just wants to play video games


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[Assistant] Suddenly, like, it's over it, and then they start pressuring the other half to shut up about the Hong Kong stuff because they just want to see video.


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[Assistant] I'll be your gorilla reporter. I will also be there. Man, on the street? Yea, Connor and Patrick are gonna be there too.


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[Assistant] It's also people willing to knock down the doors to work for free to do those jobs.


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[Assistant] There is an element of like Kotaku intentionally hires less people to treat the people they do hire right.


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[Assistant] That's true. Which, you know, I'm sure there are hundreds of people that would love to write for sub-human wages and work very long hours to get their work on Kotaku. But Kotaku says no. We respect people. We don't want to treat you like slaves.


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[Assistant] It's just exposing the chain of command. Yeaah. And then also that's in violation of their contractual agreement with their private equity holder, right? I think it's important to- He tweeted the clause that says that the editorial team has exclusive right- editorial rights. I'm so sorry. No, no, you're fine.


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[Assistant] That they have exclusive editorial rights about what gets posted and when, so if the owners came in and deleted it, that would be in violation of their-


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think it's important to note that Kotaku did not throw the first stone. That this has been, uh,


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[Assistant] I've been following this on Twitter for a little bit. A lot has been happening over at Deadspin in the same media family. Uh, today, one of the long- I think longest tenured writers was fired.


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[Assistant] It's at Barry on Twitter. He's very lucky to get that. Yeah, very cool. AtConnor is just sitting there not tweeting.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uh, yeaah, it's been, cause there's been a whole thing about like telling Deadspin to stick to sports, and then they sent some like weird email once they took over the company, the equity firm, and they were like, you have to be in a 9 to 5 business casual, and like they tried like impressing all these like,


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[Assistant] Basically the management team came in and they decided we're going to run things our way, completely ignoring the profitable, well-run organization that already existed. So Kotaku now and its sister sites have been putting up with this.


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[Assistant] Blatant mistreatment from a company that does not understand.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and they have a history of running companies into the ground, apparently, and bad workplaces.


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[Assistant] No, it's that cynical take on content that we've seen more and more of. There's an actual quote of Jeff Bezos saying, the better a TV show we make, the more shoes we sell.


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[Assistant] Talking about Amazon Prime Video. Which, you know, when you hear that, it's like, ah.


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[Assistant] I won't be happy about it. Yeaah. Right? It's like, you know the showrunners and the writers and the actors care about this art they're producing, much like the staff at Kotaku, but uhm, when it's seen as just a means to an end for the people that are employing you, it's not employing with quotes, employing you. Actually employing you. They're really employing you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, gameplay employed through the media group. It's, uh...


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[Assistant] I don't know, that's a really, you know, terrible position to be put in. I mean, the only time anyone pays for art to exist for art's sake are like endowments from the government.


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[Assistant] Aside from that, from any private company, art is always commercial. It's a means to an end. That's true. To grab somebody's eyeballs so you can market to them or to... But it has to be a balance of respect and profit. It does. You can't just push the gas. I mean, that's the microtransaction thing.


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[Assistant] Every organization I've ever seen, and I'm not super experienced, but it's always that, that exact spectrum of like, at the top it's all purely mechanical and art is a product, writing is a product, everything is just there to push ads and make money, like that's, you're looking at it as a sausage factory up.


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[Assistant] And then on the other side of the spectrum are the people who actually create it every day. And they have value in what they do and believe that there's like cultural significance to their work.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, it just seems to be like an even transition. You, as you go up the, as you get more removed from the actual production of the content, you start to see it more as a commodity or a unit to be traded against. And it just seems to get more extreme the further away you get.


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[Assistant] No idea. Yeah. That would be the end of an era for sure. Absolutely. Nuts. Especially after all they went through with Gawker. Yeah. I mean, to end like this, I mean, I guess you could see G-O or Go Media, however it's pronounced.


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[Assistant] They could, it wouldn't go well for them, but they could sack everyone and just bring in like a freelancer and some interns and keep it running.


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[Assistant] I, the thing that scares me, and this is thinking too many steps ahead, but how many crowdfunded brands can games media fans support?


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[Assistant] Cause yea, Kinda Funny got in pretty early. Yea, I think they were probably the first. Uh huh. Yea, one of the first for sure. Uh, like, Mega64 has kinda been there for a long time. True.


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[Assistant] I hope it doesn't get too many. Because the crazy thing is when you have to rely on audience numbers to support you, it does change the direction and intent of what you do.


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[Assistant] Because people vote with their eyeballs and you have to make content that appeals to the most people. So you stop seeing stories about like, this poor beleaguered indie dev who got fucked over by a large corporation. Actually that narrative tends to play pretty well with large audiences. True.


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[Assistant] But, uh, there are more important stories that deserve to be told and can affect real and positive change. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Just people's eyeballs and masks can't support happening. Mainstream publications are very important to have to offset the splintered publications that are


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[Assistant] I ostensibly made to please their audience. Not that they're like compromised by it, but you know, like you're saying, it's a difference.


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[Assistant] Thing. Yeaah. What's wild about this is, does stuff like that, uhm, this one's visible.


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[Assistant] But, having, having been in media, and I don't know, maybe you guys can attest to this too. Media? Yeaah. Mee-dia.


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[Assistant] You can't spell media without me and I. Mead. True. Honey wine. Without med.


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[Assistant] Parallel what we're seeing right now, it's just never seen. So I've, I've been in discussions that have this, this tenor of conflict, but no one's ever known about them. Yea, usually people don't see them.


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[Assistant] Not at Rooster Teeth. I should make that clear. Sorry. I didn't mean to say. I am so sorry to interrupt. I just realized something could read back. Smart.


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[Assistant] Yes, that was basically like their, uh, the whole like idea of we need some adults in the room is their kind of whole ethos when it comes to stepping in and I think that was kind of a precursor to like stop talking about political stuff or a sports page.


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[Assistant] Which, uh, I mean, that's been great for just having, and Kotaku too, like there's an incredible article, I can't remember who wrote it, but it was, he reviewed a snake being in his house. Like it was a game. Amazing. No, I think it was, oh shoot, I feel terrible. Uh oh.


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[Assistant] It's pretty good, but that's not something I think you would see in a game. Like if we see a future where it's like, stick to games Kotaku. I mean...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, they definitely get out of the comfort zone quite a bit, but I think they've always had, and maybe this is to Shrier's credit, they've always had a strong


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[Assistant] Even if they're posting not about games, it is, it is always in the wheelhouse of like games and certainly Japanese. It's for that audience, yeah. Yeah. And uhm, yeah, the stick to games thing, man, whatever. Such a dumb phrase.


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[Assistant] I just started last night. I wanted to play all weekend, but I literally just built my PC last night. Nice. So I was waiting. Thank you Omar. You're welcome. For helping me a lot. Uh, yeah, no, it's, I'm playing as a, kind of a dick.


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[Assistant] No, I already can feel that, but I've given myself the license to like, I let that person at the very beginning, like when they're like, there's marauders down there, I'm like, well you should take care of that, and then they run in and get killed.


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[Assistant] The people. Which I was like, oh, maybe I'm rude. Maybe that's who I am now.


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[Assistant] At one point I'm gonna have to bake in a redemption art for my character who cares about one small thing of life which I'll extrapolate into being a good person.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I don't think she's the romantic type. Got it. She's a little older. Elevator technician aptitude.


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[Assistant] I, uh, yeaah, I've been grinding out Death Stranding. A review coming to Inside Gaming on Friday.


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[Assistant] Uh, so look forward to that. Uhm, but yeaah, I've been putting in the time. It's been a while since I've had to just really knuckle in and play a game non-stop.


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[Assistant] Not allowed. Nope. Uh, aside from that, I've been trying to, trying to play Destiny 2 with the boys. I wanna do that raid. Ooh, that new Halloween event is great. Halloween event is up, yeaah. Get a big ol' shiny gun for me, maybe.


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[Assistant] Get that light level boostin' up. I'm not raid ready, but I can play on PC now.


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[Assistant] Steamworks and Magic Obscura, I don't remember. The world's first steampunk game, and last, thank god. But that game was actually pretty good. Yes, a game about steampunk that I still, that I liked, should tell you what it, how good it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I figure, unless they figure it out, there's probably a strike on the horizon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that seems about right. Kotaku, the doors will close. Oh man. Where will people get their car news from if not Jalopnik?


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[Assistant] I read it. I can, I can see a world conor, kinda like what you're saying, is that the Kotaku staff goes on strike.


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[Assistant] Uh, G&O like puts out an open casting call and just swipes up a ton of garbage bloggers. They start- Oh, let's gab it up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they start, they hire a bunch of scabs, uh, the scabs flood the site with just like poorly written non-edited garbage trash shitpost junk, uhm, with just-


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[Assistant] Views tank, GNL a month in, sees it's not working, they hire the staff back, and then they settle out some terms.


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[Assistant] Well also, it's weird with the, the inundation of ads though, that's not really something that like, I don't think a union typically has to worry about, right?


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[Assistant] Yes, and what is a union supposed to do when the company owning the site actively shoots itself in the foot in order to get like, squeeze a couple dollars out every day? It's weird. Like, how do you advocate against that?


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, my, I mean, the way they did, yeah. The division of responsibility, as far as I understood, was that the union, I can't remember the specific parties involved, but it's like the deputy editor, the editor in chief, and like one other person. They have the exclusive say of what gets published, why, what it looks like, and how.


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[Assistant] So they have 100% control over the creative, whereas the parent company has 100% control over the ad placement, the ad volume, the ad density, all that stuff. So the parent company is going wild on the ad density. The, uh, union has no say in that really, but they have say in what gets posted. So they post a, hey.


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[Assistant] This isn't on us, but if you want to talk to the responsible parties, go look at them. And then, yeah, the parent company.


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[Assistant] Went outside of their boundary, deleted the post. So it's a violation of the agreement.


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[Assistant] We, we, I mean, specifically us, yea, we credit, but also, we do original reporting too, unlike a lot of YouTubers. But there's a lot of people that pass it off as like, this is something I found out about Battlefront 2. A lot of games media and games reporting is really just punditry anyway. It's just, here's my opinion, and then report it as fact to give people what they think.


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[Assistant] Something to think about. It'll be fun to see them all pivot to GTA V Let's Plays. Yeah, every last one. Once they can't get Kotaku news.


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[Assistant] They'll come up with their own. I will say that like...


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[Assistant] Games media pundits are exceedingly good at extracting headlines from nothing.


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[Assistant] And, and constructing really good strawmen to get mad at. So yea, it is, I do think it is a little disgraceful to people who are celebrating the current troubles that Kotaku have, especially because they got into trouble in the first place by trying to protect the experience of their readers. That's especially shady.


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[Assistant] No, that's the octogenarian who has sound playing in every tab but can't hear it because their hearing aid is turned off and it's like, I don't see the problem.


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[Assistant] Just a handful for the road. Oh, what luck, I found a french fry in my beard.


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[Assistant] I'll remember that, Batman. You are in my world now. You will bring me Nora. For you.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the show where we discuss Apple announcements, athletic anniversaries, and the greatest console of all time in a, no, I'm not referring to the Dreamcast shockingly, bowl of dude soup.


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[Assistant] The days. I was there. No way. Oh yea, I got no. Geez. Absolutely there, day one. See, cause the thing is, my brother and I were a united front. Neither of us as individuals could afford any game consoles, but if we agreed, we could share basically a Christmas or something. We'd be like, I'll push my birthday to my brother's birthday.


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[Assistant] And as long as you get us the Nintendo 64 or whatever, like, we combine our gifts.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we have a multitude of topics to discuss this week, uhm, and we're all gonna give it a proper fair amount of time. Plus, don't forget we got Countdown to Cats at the end of the show. I never will. I know you wouldn't let me forget, but you don't have to remind me. We're holding you to it!


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[Assistant] But before I forget, I want to thank our sponsors for today. Uhm, Stitch Fix, Bespoke Post,


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[Assistant] And Quip. So we're gonna hear a little bit more from them later on in the show. Thank you very much for your sponsorship. Uhm, let's just jump right in to this. Uhm, I'm, I want us to get to talk about Nintendo Direct. It's last week. Uhm, and this is a good place to kind of


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[Assistant] Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of American Gladiators. Did you guys realize that? I did not.


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[Assistant] American gladiators because it was reasonable that you would lose that. But as a kid watching Guts, I go, what is your problem? Just jump up on the stairs, grab a basketball, and bungee down.


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[Assistant] So I think, I think I would probably go with American Gladiators because when someone got laid out by Gemini.


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[Assistant] No, you didn't have a whole neck. I can't even boil water. I was in a class with someone in college, university for international viewers, uhm, that, uh, the person was like, I just can't cook.


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[Assistant] I was like, oh, well, I mean, if you, I, I don't, didn't know how either, like, you can learn. And then, and then she went, she went, no, I can't even boil water. And I was like, well, then you're a moron.


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[Assistant] There's a bakery in Los Angeles, well there's a couple of them in LA, but there's one specifically in Burbank called Porto's, Cuban bakery, and it's pretty fantastic. Shout out Porto's! There's always a line out the door, and if you go to LAX and you're there long enough, like with a layover or just early for a flight or whatever,


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[Assistant] Chances are you're gonna see someone getting on a plane that the box support is. And I, I don't judge. I'm like yeaah.


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[Assistant] American Gladiators was one of the first athletic endeavors that I can think of that put men and women on the same level. Huh.


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[Assistant] One week the women are the eliminator and the next week the men were the final eliminator. So even at that I think there was like an objective of not making it seem like the men's version of this was the real version. It was very, and all the marketing material is all the gladiators all together.


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[Assistant] Like WMAC masters, plus American gladiators. Boy, we're getting down to rabbit hole now.


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[Assistant] Uh, Apple had an event today to announce the new...


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[Assistant] All of it. Apple Watch, iPhone 11, Apple Arcade, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple TV Plus,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yea, they announced a bunch of stuff. Uhm, Apple TV Plus. What? Which is their Disney Plus. What was Apple TV? Oh, Apple TV Plus!


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[Assistant] Oh yea, the game developer slice of life comedy. Netflix has, you know, Haunting of Bly Manor and, uh, Dark Crystal. Dark Crystal. All of their original stuff. Uh, Hallivator. I guess Sam Cooke pointed to shows like Dickinson. Huh? Like Emily Dickinson.


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[Assistant] That's cool. Uhm, they announced the iPhone 11.


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[Assistant] I think the thing about Apple is that it's, it built this audience on being so minimalist and sleek, but now that's only gotten so far and they're just reverting to the same techniques that everyone has been used forever. So it's like, it used to just be,


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[Assistant] That's it. And then they walk out of the room and be like, oh, that's so simple. Like, and this, but now it's, it's like iPhone 11.


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[Assistant] Pro, and then there's also the iPhone 11 Pro Max, which is like, Max is the least Apple terminology you could ever think of, you know?


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[Assistant] Uhm, no yeaah, I completely agree. It definitely seems like they're selling an identity. It's just so funny.


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[Assistant] That, that identity made sense when it was like, okay, well you're, you're not gonna buy your clothes from this place, too. Like, you're not gonna do all these things from this place, it's just, it's just, you have your thing, but now they have a credit card, a credit card, they have watches, they have everything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean I think at least with technology they can always bank on the fact, no pun intended, that it will be worthless.


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[Assistant] Adam's grandfather's watch probably ran well after Adam's grandfather dead. Is he not dead, right?


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[Assistant] The watch still goes, but if he had an Apple watch, it probably wouldn't. It would probably die out. And so I think part of it is there is a certain, we've done the math to see the lifespan of these products. So as long as we can keep them in our ecosystem.


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[Assistant] You also have static discharge, I think. You just, phones die around you. You don't drop them, you don't break them, they don't get wet, you keep them safe, but they just die.


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[Assistant] You're joking now, but we're definitely not too far off. When we stopped, when humanity stopped being able to have affordable real estate, and then corporations step in and go, we've got a plan, and they build tubes.


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[Assistant] It's my message and then quotations around the entirety of my message with their response and whatever they were feeling at that moment that was way easier to do than actually respond.


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[Assistant] I think what bothers me most, I don't, like, on their end they have no idea. Most people that I've spoken to are like, I had no idea I was doing, I was putting you under my heel in such a way.


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[Assistant] I want to talk to Lawrence. Okay. So what I do is, I walk over to a device.


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[Assistant] That has one thing on like hooks here and then I take that thing and I hold it up to my ear and I talk into the other thing that's there and I go


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[Assistant] Patch me through to Lawrence, please. And then a young woman on the other end goes, patching through. And then she takes the plug out of the thing that says James Williams and plugs it into the thing that says Lawrence. And then Lawrence gets, oh he goes to the other thing and maybe he has to wind it? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Well, a lot of people probably use like, sure way or shooshay or something like, you know, like something that we don't know what it is, uh, but that's probably what most human beings use. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Before we talk about Nintendo, which we will talk about Nintendo, I just want to really quick touch on one topic. Joker.


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[Assistant] Venice Film Festival. How is it awarded? Do you, like, where, is there like a group of- They have like judges. Oh, okay. Alright, cool. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Because it's SkyCaptain? Yea. Oh yea, SkyCaptain. Yea. Well he's like making it in his garage.


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[Assistant] It was like just one dude who was interested in that technology, who was like, oh, I really like these throwbacks. And so yea, he was just making a thing as a garage. And they were like, yea, exactly. Like studio was like, spend all of this money. Because Brewster's millions this.


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[Assistant] It made sense for the studios because they were treating that like this, if this works, and we never have to pay a construction crew.


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[Assistant] And thusly a construction union ever again to build a set. Do you imagine how free we will be? Like, I think sometimes studios do that where they're like, they're like, yes, this will be this. If we, the actors don't even have to be there at the same time. Can you imagine what that will do for scheduling? We'll save so much money. But turns out.


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[Assistant] You're right. I think that was a tainted experiment though, because it was the second of his Star Wars trilogy. And it holds up. That's the best part. That's the most important part. It holds up great.


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