 Well, folks, something happened today that early yesterday that's quite embarrassing. My Zelda fan card needs to be revoked, especially my Zelda expertise fan card needs to be removed. Now, why did I even have a Zelda fan? It's not because I have fancy sweatshirt and a whole bunch of merchandise related to Zelda. That doesn't... You can't buy your way into being a Zelda mega fan. I actually used to be someone who made a living talking about creating theories and being an expert in the Legend of Zelda field. I ran a Zelda fan site in ZeldaInformer.com for roughly 10 years as editor-in-chief did that for a living for a while. Before that, I did other various Zelda fan sites, podcasts and news reporting. Really, since I was 12, I'm 35. I've played every single Zelda game known to man, including the CDI ones, including all of the Tingle games and the spin-off ones. I played everything start to finish at least one time and most of the Zelda series I have played multiple times. In fact, the game that I am losing my fan card because of is one that is not only rated as the greatest game of all time. It also is one that I just beat two months ago. And yesterday we had a podcast! Oh folks, we had the Nintendo Prime podcast. It was back. It was glorious. We had some good talks. And while Andres Restart was on there, he brought up this idea of remastering, remaking Ocarina of Time and would it sell well and all this. We had a nice little fun debate. But right after that, we got into a little bit of something because I don't rank Ocarina of Time in my top 10 Zelda games of all time. And he wanted to know why. And we went through my list of games I ranked ahead of it and stuff like that. They weren't really necessarily in perfect order because I have to sit down and think about it. Doing it off the top of my head is a bit difficult. I actually have the list written down somewhere. But that's neither here nor there. One thing that came up, what he mentioned was undeniably great about Ocarina of Time is, well, the ending. How the ending went, the whole sequence and everything. And this is where I went off the rails. And it's not just that I was wrong about the ending. It's not just that I forgot how Ocarina of Time ended. I literally misremembered the entire ending of the game and was so vehement that I was remembering it correctly that we ended up in a 40 minute back and forth. We call it an argument. We weren't really mad at each other. We talked after the podcast for a bit. But here's a small clip of the idiocy I was spewing last night. So another thing that I think Ocarina of Time handles better than most games period is just how it ends. It has one of the strongest endings. This is not, you're making a face, but this is not like an alien opinion. This is a common opinion. That game had a really, really awesome ending. The whole sort of lead up to the castle, trying to find the castle, getting to the top, hearing the build up of the organ up the steps, finally duking it out with Ganondorf. Rescuing Zelda. Him having this crazy explosion. You think he's dead, but then the tower starts to crash. You have to race down with Zelda, running with her, fighting through stalfos, getting attacked by fire and rocks and crashing wall to get out in time. That's all exhilarating. And then everything just crashes down and you think you're done. You just gone through a gauntlet because the fight's hard. Like Ocarina of Time was challenging. And even going down the tower's challenging. But then after that, there's one more fight. And he evolves into Ganon. That's when he becomes Ganon, which is also a crazy thing. It shows when Ganondorf becomes Ganon, which is a huge story thing. And you have that fight, and there's this moment where he knocks out the master sword and you also don't have access to Navi. Like, well, you get Navi during the Ganon fight, but you don't have that. But the point is like, there are these moments that that entire series of battles does. It makes you feel uncomfortable for moments. And how does the game end? And then the final end, you flash the heck out of his head and you stab him in there, which is very satisfying. And, you know, then it has a pretty somber ending, which I think is kind of cool. Most games don't end that strong. Breath of the Wild did not end that strong. It took me, when I was a kid, it took me two years to be documenting the thing. This was because I didn't own it. I kept having to rent it from a blockbuster. So it was one of those situations where I didn't get to play it as often as I wanted to. I thought everything about that sequence was epic and cool and amazing. I didn't think the actual fights were that difficult, but the escape sequence and all that, that was hard. Like the tennis match was not that difficult. The, you know, going underneath his body and slashing his tail, again, not that difficult. At that point, I had faced harder things in the game than those fights. However, however, the whole sequence of events is really cool. And the Oregon plane, that I agree, that's all really, really cool. And there hasn't really been moments really comparable necessarily to that exact thing in other Zelda games. There's been attempts at it that haven't really been as great. I would argue, though, that none of that's even the ending. The ending is they send you back to being a kid. And when you get sent back to being a kid, I understand in the grand context is pretty timeless, but whatever. But you get sent back to being a kid and factually, I'm sitting there playing this as a kid, I'm sent back to being a kid and the game just starts all over again, which made me feel like, one, I'm stuck in a time loop and two, nothing I did mattered. All this epicness doesn't matter, because I have to do it all over again, just to get the same ending. But by the way, I did play all the way to the end, again, thinking that it would be different. And it wasn't. I just got sent back to being a kid again, which created an infinite time loop, which to me meant nothing I did mattered. The real story here is I'm stuck in an infinite time loop, and there's no way out. And that's the real story of Ocarina of Time, is there's no way out. Now, you find out later, the time I explained Hyrule's story, I grow up and find out that's not really what's happening. But as a child, what else am I supposed to think? I'm sending you back to your childhood, so you can have a childhood. I mean, a childhood where my mom is still gone, I'm still abandoned, and everything bad is still about to happen, because nothing I did happened yet. It felt like the game ripped it from me. It ripped my entire journey from me and said, here you go, become a kid and do it all over again. That's what it feels like. I know they explain it in some different ways, but factually, you restart the game. That's not how I interpret it. I interpret it as they have already acknowledged what's to come. To me, it was like the most disappointing ending to a Zelda game I've ever experienced. You go through all this, your whole goal is to save Zelda, and you're trying to be awesome, and you finally get to the end. You're supposed to have this nice happy ending, and you're going to be with Zelda forever, and it's going to be all great. Whether we're boyfriend or girlfriend, it doesn't really matter. The point is, we did this together, and she's like, oh, you lost seven years of your life. Oh, you didn't have your childhood. Oh, we're going to send you back in time. And guess what? Nothing that you did happen or mattered. So I understand that there's alternative explanations, but I'm telling you, if you forget the explanation, and just think about that experience, first time experience, playing through the game, you get to the end, you get sent back, and you're like, okay, the game's not over. I'm still playing. And then you start to play, and you realize, oh shit, I'm just doing what I already did. That's definitely your interpretation, and it may be part of the reason why you hate Zelda. No, that was not my interpretation at all. Were you not sent back to being a child where nothing new did happen yet? That's not true though. Oh my god, I'm making myself sick. Did I really say that? I literally had the ending playing on loop back here, although it's like a 24 minute thing right now they're doing the whole escape from the castle running down it while the rocks are falling. Look, I'm sorry. First off, I owe a major apology to Andre's restart. We've already taught behind the scenes, so we're all good. We never were bad, but I do owe an apology to him, mostly for the way I acted, not for being wrong, because sometimes people are just wrong, but for being so certain that I wasn't wrong and arguing to the point that I almost acted like he was an idiot, but I was the one being an idiot. I also need to apologize to my audience, the hundreds of you that were in the chat, well really tens of dozens of you that were in the chat, telling me how wrong I was and saying what an embarrassment it is. You're not wrong. You're right. It was completely embarrassing. Beyond all of that, I need to apologize to anyone who watched the podcast after the fact because that entire segment is near unwatchable, not just because I'm so vehemently wrong, but because I'm constantly cutting off Andre. Now I want to be a little bit fairer to myself on the cutting off point. So we had a new setup for our podcast yesterday and like literally 30, 40 minutes into the podcast, somebody mentioned that Andre's restart was peaking and being too loud, so he turned down the microphone on his side. However, the problem is that turned down the volume on our side as well. So from that point moving forward, I could barely hear him. So when I was cutting him off to me, it didn't sound like I was cutting him off because I couldn't really hear him talk. In the future, there's ways we can remedy this. We can go back to wearing headphones, which I really don't want to do. We don't really have the most comfortable of headphones. We've tried numerous different types. Honestly, we just need to get some really expensive ones that are comfortable to wear for long sessions because otherwise it just hurts. But it is what it is. I also have my children sleeping in the house, so I don't want to necessarily have all the noise blacked out around me with headphones. So that is something that we obviously need to correct before the show, not during the show. That way, there's not all of a sudden, I can't hear our guests for like half the show. That's not good. So that's one thing that led to that. And another thing is just, yeah, I was so wrong and everybody knew it. It is one of the most embarrassing moments of my Zelda fan life. I just beat Ocarina of Time two months ago and swore by this concept of a time loop ending that doesn't exist. I'm an idiot. Honestly, moments like this happen. And I call this my old man moment, right? Because I'm in my mid 30s, right? I'm not getting any younger, you know? By the time, you know, Breath of Wild 2 comes out, the next Zelda that comes out after that, I'll probably be in my 40s. And reality is, my memory might not be working as well as it once did. Apparently even my short term memory from two months ago. I don't want to blame that. I'm just being dumb. There was a moment last night that I was laying in bed thinking about this after the fact and I go, why the hell do people watch me on YouTube? I mean, I know I'm a fun loving guy and we have giveaways, including one right now, for a Switch OLED bundle and $100 to a charity of your choice. All you got to do is be subscribed to the channel. But beyond my personality, which you guys can have a lot of fun with, and you know, we'll have some drinks on live streams and I'll be bubbly and we'll have, man, oh man, oh man. I always felt like no matter what I said or did or was wrong about in gaming, I could always fall back on the fact that I know my Zelda and I know it back and forth because I've been covering it for so long. And then this has such a bad brain fart to the point that at least to a 40 minute, essentially me bitching and being completely wrong for 40 straight minutes on a podcast and wasting everybody's time, including our guests. I don't know that I could forgive myself for that. Other people have come on to say, Hey, it happens. But not like that. Other people might be wrong in a moment, but it doesn't go on for 40 minutes where you feel like you're laughing at your guest when really you're the one that should be getting laughed at you. I mean, I completely own it. I messed up. It wasn't entertaining. It wasn't fun. This video might be poking a little fun at me and having some good times, but man, this sucks. I'm no longer consider myself an expert at anything in video games. Then again, do any of you guys watch me because I'm an expert or do you just watch me because I'm entertaining fun, bringing good personality and you like my opinions on games? I have no idea. What I do know is I messed up. I'm sorry. It is what it is. My Zelda fan card has, you know, my Zelda mega fan card anyway has been revoked. I'm still looking forward to Breath of the Wild 2, no matter why. We'll see if I decide if I want to put in the work to re-earn that Zelda fan card and get back into Zelda fan theories. Then again, I'm the one that gave myself the Zelda fan mega card. Nobody else gave it to me. So I guess I'm just revoking my own self opinion. So this video is all about me not only apologizing for my massive mistake, but also revoking something that I imaginearily is that that's what I'm saying. That's a word right now. It's probably not gave to myself. Whatever. It is what it is. This is not the video I thought was going to be made today. You know, I thought we were going to have a cool podcast. Get back to the news. We did do a quick little news video on sales earlier today, but man, oh man, oh man. Whoever thought, like I never thought in a million years in the back of my mind, I'm going to be the one so dead wrong about such an obvious thing that everybody knows and has known for almost 30 years. Man. No, I'm not retiring. Sorry. I know there's some haters out there that are like, it's time to delete your channel. I ain't going anywhere, folks. The hackers couldn't take me down. The haters couldn't take me down. And me being so blatantly wrong about something Zelda related. So to all my haters out there, if you thought this met the end of Nintendo Prime, and to everyone out there that thinks my Zelda fan card should be thrown in the shredder and burned for all eternity to that. I still love Zelda just as much today as I did yesterday and have the last 20 years of my life, 23 years to be exact. So yeah, I'm good. I'm good over here. We're all good. Andre's restarted me are all good. There's no issues there. I do feel really bad about the type of content I put out yesterday. It is what it is. It's embarrassing. Maybe the most embarrassing thing I've ever done on my channel, even more embarrassing than like a couple of years ago when I was really ebagging and stuff. And I fully admit that happened. And that was really embarrassing. This is worse. This is something I always thought I was an expert in. And then I mess up that badly. This is the ending right here. Look at this. This is the ending of October of Time on the N64. I know this ending. I've experienced this ending two months ago. What's wrong with me? I'm just getting older. I need to be a little more less stubborn as well. I got this stubborn nature to me when I'm so sure about something that I'm so obviously wrong on. Man, and the thing is I had a computer right in front of me. I could have looked like literally the ending takes about 24 minutes, 20-ish minutes or so. I have a computer right here. I could have played the ending under that whole debate and just, oh, yep, I'm wrong. And I didn't. I gotta be better. I'll be better in the future, guys. I'm sorry about that. That being said, I ain't going anywhere, baby! Nintendo Prime is here to stay! Love it or hate it. Hackers couldn't take me out. Haters couldn't take me out. And me just being a dumbass couldn't take me out. Can anything stop this hype train? I guess YouTube could just decide to terminate my channel again. Yeah, by instance. Ah, folks, I'll catch you guys in the very next video tomorrow.