 Hey everyone welcome back to the Nintendo Prime podcast episode 78. I think 78. How you guys doing? We are back to our regular crew Holy crud We got Eric welcome back, buddy. Yeah, right? How you doing good good still Yeah, just yeah work was work has been crazy. So But you're alive. I am I am you're alive and that's really all that matters Mike, how you doing buddy? Going on. What's the deal? Mr. Mr. Mike Odyssey here as pretty much always so I Yeah, we have a lot of top-up a lot of things have happened The game awards is tomorrow. So that's a good thing But besides that a lot of things just have happened Pokemon Scarlet and violet are now the lowest rated Pokemon games of all time Interesting, I will have a conversation about that especially since the Famitsu review score came out and massively disagrees And I think Mike probably massively disagrees as well based on Some brief conversations and things I've seen him say online We also You know This Microsoft thing. It's a thing it Could be a really big thing it could end up being nothing Depending on how certain things happen out in the world But if not it actually ends up being a really big thing And we got to talk about that and more but we'll start off every podcast like we usually do with what have we been playing? lately and I'm gonna ask Eric. It's been Two weeks It's been the same thing sparks hope Yeah, so it's hope No, still I'm in the middle of the third level and Still enjoying it, so Alright in the middle of the third level still enjoying it. Did you pretty much 100% everything you could? I think as much as I can You're getting there you're getting there he will have it beaten at some point Yeah, so He goes he slow goes it because he tries 100% these kind of games doesn't try some things you can't do till later in the game But that's okay. You figure that out as you go. All right, cool Mike, what are you even playing lately? Pokemon Pokemon and more more Pokemon Yeah, I've been I've been hooked on I think I think I have I have not been hooked on a game since Breath of the Wild Then Breath of the Wild has has been the only game who that has caught my attention to a point Where I find myself having fun enjoying it even after passing the entire game even after meeting the all three stories You know within the game. I Basically completed the the I completed the deck When it comes to fighting every Pokemon in the game now I'm in the middle of collecting every Pokemon in the game trying to catch them all like the Pokemon Bible says you know So Yeah, I mean pretty good. I've been doing the game a lot That's what I've been playing Pokemon Pokemon more Pokemon. Yeah. Yeah, and so far I have been given two shinies, but I have never caught a shiny which still shinies are real Still to me shinies will not exist because I have not encountered one. I Was you're aware of your world? I was given an egg that egg By the blue moon shout out the blue moon given an egg for a Charmander that Charmander had a whole bunch of eggs and then that from one of those eggs came a shiny Charmander and Then and then another another pal Rolando gave gave me a another shiny, but I have never caught or seen a Shiny out in the field, so they don't exist All right, well, we'll have a lot more Pokemon talk later, so I won't say much much about it right now For me, I played quite a few things actually last week. Yeah, I got my usual Madden stuff, but The new expansion pack for World of Warcraft came out, so I've been playing some dragon flight Jump back into that did I did I don't play I'm not sitting here playing like But you know an hour here hour there and you know, I'm like level 63 almost 64 and honestly so far One of the best leveling experiences in World of Warcraft and that's saying a lot because it's been around since 2004 Yeah, so I have no idea what things are gonna be like at 70 and what the end games like or anything that could end up Sucking but for right now someone who's just playing it casually I'm having a lot a lot more fun with it than I was even going back and playing while classic Which is a thing now Which is what I grew up on with the 40 man raids and everything. I'm having more fun with this than that maybe it's just because I Been there done that, you know, you guys know how I am with games been there done that don't not really that super interesting to keep replaying content. I've already completed so So I'm having a lot of fun with that I like the new dragon flying mechanics in it that are Completely different than the flight mechanics have been for 20 years in that game So that's what it's pretty cool to actually have some skill in your flight now Beyond that I've also Been playing. Let me see. Well today. We had the new Mario Kart 8 deluxe courses drop Yeah, so check those out Sorry guys didn't play it on a live stream or anything because we have this podcast coming up And we have the game awards coming tomorrow But I did I did check out those courses and with my kids and stuff and it was there Look nice look good. No complaints really the DLC. I think seems to just get better with every new wave they drop so kudos to Nintendo for doing a pretty good job with the Extended DLC for I'm calling it extended DLC. This game came out to the 14 so Extended DLC Contrary to popular belief it didn't start out as a switch game So it's been it's games been out. I mean there is it might be out a decade before we even see a new Mario Kart So it's yeah That being said What else did I play a little smash bros with my kids and then I also played a Smidge of Pokemon Pokemon Scarlet played a little bit Think it much further than where I'm at now, but I'm okay. I'm okay with that. I will end up beating the game But I'll talk more about that in our Pokemon section Because we had an update come out for that game as well since the last podcast that that made me sort of Created weird Controversies because people were saying it was doing things that it wasn't and then it's weird I think I think there's a whole lot of people just want the damn game fixed already I mean But you know it is what it is so Yeah, kind of played quite a bit of video games actually in last week. So yeah, there's Pretty cool All right, I'm trying to think of what else I play but I think I might I think I might be I'm playing a new game called toggle tomorrow Nice for ace a new video. I'll be making new sponsored video and it looks utterly incredible I think I actually came out today Looks absolutely incredible. We'll see after I play it if I'm gonna go through with the video and everything but It's an indie platformer Weird I look I don't want to do I'll spell it too much about you guys go look it up if you absolutely want to But I'll be checking that out tomorrow Anyways, so that's about it for what I've been playing lately so I guess let's just hop right into the The monkey on the back topic in the last 24 hours and that is good old Phil Spencer Uncle Phil uncle Phil The leader of Xbox he's on the whole he's on the board of directors for the entire company of Microsoft He's got so many titles behind his name. I'm not sure I could even list them all But for the purposes of video games, he's basically the man in charge of their entire video game division Including Xbox and all their acquisitions and all that other stuff So and for those who have been living under a rock the last year just to recap They are attempting to purchase Activision lizard Well, that's not a company King. It's a three company name Can't forget King because King is like Candy Crush and a few other really big mobile games and is a cash cow Like it's an absolute cash cow. So Activision Blizzard King you got always mentioned the king part you guys might not like it But when you're making a 70 billion dollar acquisition You're gonna care about the things to make the most money and as much as Call of Duty and other things are getting all the press I'm kind of thinking King might be where most the money in this acquisition actually is for because that is the biggest cash cow No doubt. Yeah, there's e-sports around Candy Crush guys literal e-sports watched by millions It's insane. So yeah, let's just say That's probably the biggest money maker of the whole acquisition so a number of You know of the unions a number of governmental boards have raised a few issues the governing board for EU the board in the UK and then One particular member of the FTC Seemed to all have some issues with this potential acquisition Claiming that Microsoft is If not make if not creating a monopoly, I don't know that I've seen the word monopoly thrown out yet Because that's actually what they're supposed to determine if it's going to be make them a monopoly But they are basically raised a lot of concerns that this would be an unfair advantage In comparison to certain other competition out there Usually referencing Sony in fact UK has thrown out any argument that Nintendo even matters in this in this Name because for those who don't know we have what for major dedicated gaming platforms, right? We have we have switch We have PlayStation we have Xbox and then you have the PC platform, right? So you have the four major pillars of dedicated gaming Platforms and I know PCs aren't necessarily dedicated gaming platforms per se But there are devices within that space that are steam deck as an example. So What what's interesting is that and some some of the arguments are saying Nintendo doesn't count because they Target a different market because they're family friendly, which is absolutely hilarious Someone should send them the link to all the hentai games on the e-shop They clearly have never opened the e-shop and actually seen what kind of games are on switch They're too busy just watching Nintendo directs and then when they're watching Nintendo directs, you know They left Bayonetta out of the direct which skewed the opinion that if you only watch directs It's like oh Nintendo doesn't even publish M rated content. Yeah Well for some reason Bayonetta wasn't put in the direct Bayonetta had its own thing and they pushed it and published it on their YouTube In fact, it was funny because Microsoft responded to this claim from the UK saying what do you mean? Nintendo is only family friendly. Here's a bunch of massively sexual and violent trailers Right off the Nintendo YouTube channel like they're not even hiding it. It's out there in the book Nintendo's pushing it on Twitter. They're put like these games are right here and Nintendo of Japan has a bunch of the hentai ones on their YouTube channel Nintendo is not hiding the fact they have adult content like they're not even bashful about it Nintendo doesn't care they care about the reputation of certain characters, of course They're not gonna want Mario presented in a certain way or you know Samus or link like yes Pikmin But in general Nintendo may be the least strict of all the platforms when it comes to violence and sexual content appearing on there are games Factually on Nintendo switch that are banned by PlayStation and Xbox but remember Nintendo's just family friendly they they curate everything for the kids so they can't count in this competition Anyways, so that's a that's an old thing And the FTC the leader of the FTC is the one that seems at the biggest issue It looked like there was a potential that this thing could get blocked or at least turn into a lawsuit with the FTC But it sounds like even though there's some politics at play with the FTC There's basically four people that get to make the decision, but it sounds like One three it was originally going to be three people against one Well, one of the three is starting to side with Microsoft it sounds like Which makes it a split which means a lawsuit doesn't happen which means it goes through So it sounds like it's probably gonna pass with the FTC anyways They did meet with two different regulatory boards. I believe today About all this now why are we talking about all of this Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard, right? Like if you're talking about this we got to focus on well, you know, what what might we lose? In an acquisition like this has Nintendo fans, right? Like we just we got Overwatch 2 is Overwatch 2 gonna get taken away Are we not gonna get future Overwatch games? Are we not gonna get the next Diablo which by the way, we might not have been getting the next Diablo on switch anyways But are we just now for sure not gonna get the next Diablo. What about Spyro? What about Crash Bandicoot even though the collective sales of these games are barely over a hundred thousand units on switch Doesn't really matter. There's still some games that some of you guys really passionately care about So that maybe should be the focus of the conversation, but good old Phil Spencer said well Since Call of Duty is the problem because that's the the IP brought up in by all these boards as what they're most concerned with and Sony is the one making all the arguments that if Call of Duty is sold to Microsoft It would they're acting like it would essentially ruin Sony there They're pretty much adding that to going on a business. It's it's so crazy to me that they're acting like they can't survive without Call of Duty And Microsoft fired back and said hey, we offered you a ten-year deal. You just didn't accept it And Sony basically has said nothing that it's like yeah, we're not touching that we're not talking about that Well Phil Spencer being the man that he is being Bold has stated in the past that he that if the acquisition went through he wanted Call of Duty on Nintendo platforms But talk is cheap right you could say a lot of things And have that not happen Well, it's no longer talk. It's in ink signed by all parties Phil Spencer announced last night and it's been Elaborated by other people at Microsoft since then that yes, there is a ten-year agreement signed by both Phil Spencer and The execs at Nintendo of Japan to have Call of Duty be on Nintendo platforms for the next decade contingent of course Upon the sale going through so basically if the sale goes through because Microsoft won't have any power on the way So the contract will be a relevant Microsoft can't make this contract if they don't own the IP so They did that by the way. They did the exact same thing with steam and Valve saying we will put it on steam for the next decade as well now What's interesting is that people that work at Valve have come out since then and said we actually kind of laughed when Phil Spencer brought this deal to us because Literally everything he's ever told us. He's just done We were never afraid of losing Call of Duty because he told us we would have Call of Duty on steam and then they cited a whole bunch of examples of other things he said over the years that was exactly What like it happened exactly as Phil said basically that Phil Spencer at least when it comes to valve has never told them a lie He's never misled them They didn't think they even needed this kind. They basically told Phil. We don't need this contract We believe you it feels like yeah, but you're like we're trying to get the sale If you just sign this it's just more evidence that hey, this is like signed dated letters I can hand it to you and be like how are we making this thing exclusive? We just promised for the next decade on these platforms including one that doesn't have Call of Duty at all and hasn't had it since Call of Duty ghosts back on Wii U which by the way using Wii U sales to determine if Call of Duty can sell is pretty stupid So we you could sell so we you could sell so why the hell do we care that black ops 2 and ghosts sold like shit the platform sold like shits It's not a good way to determine if Call of Duty can sell on Nintendo because the last time Call of Duty was actually on a popular Nintendo system the Nintendo Wii Every single version of Call of Duty came to Wii and all of them sold over a million so That's bigger evidence that maybe when you have an install base they will buy Call of Duty That being said the big thing with the 10-year deal is that it's a 10-year deal the switch is in the latter half of its life Meaning a majority of this deal Eight seven years of it or so maybe more because we don't you know the deal can go through I believe that the deal is approved. It finalizes next June But that's probably not enough time to bring them that year's Call of Duty to switch So it would probably not see a Call of Duty on Nintendo until 2024 And at this point you're looking at possibly nine years of this contract being on Nintendo's next generation system Unless the next gen comes on next year, of course But presuming we don't get next into 2024 or 2025 it's eight or nine years of this deal are not on the current hardware So all the people you see laughing out there. Oh, here's a war zone to look like on switch Here's with it. Oh my gosh, and they're making it look like it's running on a super Nintendo for some reason It's kind of weird because they just want to make fun of switch reality as most of this deal won't even have anything to do with switch They have promised Nintendo's next platform and maybe even getting into the platform after that potentially so For a decade now you might go well, that's not a perpetual contract Correct because there's very few perpetual contracts ever PlayStation does not have a perpetual contract with Call of Duty right now They're call a duty contract ends in two years Do you know they even have a contract with that division blizzard to have Call of Duty? Yeah, they do it ends in two years So that's how this works. You do these deals And then when you get to the last, you know, five years of it you start renegotiating for the next one Like that's just how this goes and Phil Spencer has said the whole time Call of Duty is going to get treated like Minecraft Guys, how long is my Microsoft own Minecraft now? It's been a while Still not exclusive to Microsoft platforms Pretty much still on everything Oh, well, what about other my oh you mean like Minecraft legends. Yeah, that's on everything too and that's a new game Yeah, that 2014. Yeah They when he says it the proof is in the pudding now There is a bit of controversy some people argue because of the way he approached the Bethesda thing where he would definitively say that their games would stay multi-platform But he maybe suggested they could say multi-platform then ultimately people refer to starfield with this wall starfield ended up going exclusive starfield by the way Is exclusive to PC and xbox But the thing is it's a brand new ip So you can't even say there's a pre-existing Relationship of playstation customers on that a game that's never existed before an ip that's never existed before Now it'll be interesting to see what happens the elder scrolls six See what happens with that. We have no idea. Maybe that'll be multi-platform We don't know they haven't really confirmed it or not if that's going to be multi-platform yet because it's so far Away, they're still finishing up starfield. We don't know if the next doom is going to be multi-platform or not We don't know Uh, if the next wolfenstein is going to be multi-platform or not We don't know because those games haven't come out yet And if people want to go oh well because microsoft owns them Then yeah, that means it's going to be exclusive I'll let you know they bought the studio that made psycho knots 2 before psycho knots 2 came out Guess what you can play on playstation psycho knots 2 Doesn't really sound like microsoft the proof in the pudding Is that they don't really seem to be strong arming everyone And every game and every development studio to keep games only on their platform now on game pass Yes, but they own it they the game passes their baby. They can do whatever they want with game pass but It it kind of seems like phil spencer Is just putting more proof behind his words now yes This contract signing right now the day before he met with these governing bodies Is obviously about getting the deal to go through because microsoft wants it to go through That's what it's really about. We all know this, but it also just reaffirms things supporting in this case to the people most excited our nintendo fans because A lot of us have won a military shooters on switch. We don't really have many options because besides sniper elite Um, and this is why they consider the best in the industry so I guess we'll see So now that i've explained everything So far Could be a developing thing who knows what happens on the line. Um, because they also extended One of one of the one of the microsoft employees who quoted phil A little bit snarky saying playstation. We offered you the same thing. We're willing for you waiting for you to come back to the table i'm kind of like Everyone else is cool with this by you can can the governing bodies like Realize the only people to have a problem with this is them and some people have called me a shill over the Supporting this and I just go if it's not microsoft It's ten center apple and I'd rather have microsoft of those three companies by activation lizard Now mike might want apple can't blame him. Yeah, i believe mike wants apple. Yeah You know like i'm a nintendo guy. So like hey, we might get call of duty if the sale goes through so sure Sounds good to me. We're not getting it. Otherwise um Mike works at apple and he might have insight on future plant from apple and he goes no, this would be great if apple got this Boost apple arcade and some other things, you know And who knows eric Maybe you secretly have stock in 10 cent that i'm not aware of damn straight And so you want 10 cent to make this acquisition to increase the value of your stock. I have no idea We might all have biases at this table But I can't tell you I don't have any bias for microsoft themselves. I I don't really care There all these companies are massive and huge and I don't have any investment in any of them besides just playing video games. So What are your guys's thoughts on this? Really one of the biggest announcements of the year like a mega deal 10 year deal for call of duty on nintendo Go for it mike all I gotta say is that I If I wouldn't have a problem if it was nintendo trying to buy Activision blizzard because nintendo loves exclusivity Same as playstation They're both japanese companies. They're they're both very guarded companies. They're both very private companies. They love exclusivity You know, that's the one thing that I've seen between microsoft and And and xbox i'm a microsoft xbox and PlayStation and nintendo nintendo loves exclusivity. They they sign a contract for bayonetta for exclusivity Uh, they sign a contract for two years for exclusivity on on uh monster hunter rise Which it just ended but they love exclusivity, you know, so if there were a company That will be buying activision blizzard that I would worry about. I mean as a nintendo fan um I wouldn't want nintendo buying buying it or and I wouldn't want playstation buying if there's a company that I would love Buying this is is microsoft microsoft has been the company that's actually been Good at playing with everybody else. You know, I mean they don't they don't shy away From saying we love the nintendo switch. They don't shy away from saying we love what they're doing here or they're doing over there and Yeah, if there's a company that that that i'm happy that it's on the table And I feel like it's gonna go through and when it once it goes through it's gonna benefit everybody not just Not just uh microsoft and and and you know, I mean, what in one of the presentations Uh, I remember I remember that actually created it created something in me for microsoft When I saw that that nintendo switch Just sitting in the background right there visually uh during one of microsoft's presentations You know, that's that give give him respect to the console giving respect to nintendo Appreciating nintendo for who they are, you know and say hey, we we we love nintendo switch as well So for them and then how how how how phil has actually handled Game pass how he he has handled everything he has since he's been in um at the helm of xbox He's thinking about the fans first I wouldn't trust any other head but phil right now to do what's best For the fans for for for the gaming community And as a whole not just for the microsoft company not just putting them not just for for playstation Playstation, I wouldn't trust them with anything. Yeah, they're they're I feel like they are a big community. They're they're a huge community You know and and they love their exclusivity as well and just like nintendo does But right now i'm happy that that mic uh that microsoft is at the table. They're the ones who are Taking this because I feel like they're the ones who are well equipped and can actually handle This type of acquisition, you know, I like you said, I don't believe it's coming through the switch just yet I don't believe it's coming through the switch at all. Um Call duty is not coming through the switch. You know, um, they they ask them that they ask, uh, phil How would you bring? How would you do it to bring this game to the switch? Well, he said we have a developer team Who can actually develop specifically for the switch? That's the problem. Then that's actually a big solution actually The it went that let's let's say A year or two year from now. We were still on the switch, right? I hope not I really hope not, you know by the time, uh, this this this goes through I trust Bill and their team to actually bring call duty To the switch Do it right and be able to to work with the hard word that we have You know what I mean? Everybody else would would would do will be what a one-sided Thing and then blame the switch for not working correctly or blame the switch for not for not, uh, running the game correctly when When you develop a game for a specific Piece of hardware that you're making it for that hardware knowing the capabilities of that hardware and I believe that microsoft can do this If we have we still have the switch Um, if we still have a switch, let's say two or three years from now, which I hope now to help that We we moved on at least in the next year or two So the next generation console, but um, but yeah, I'm I'm all for it I'm I'm pro microsoft Acquiring activation blizzard king man, I can I I can't remember when king was a website. I used to play king.com um King.com Um before candy crush came out. There was king.com and they had all these Um, they had like a different version of candy crush now all these Other games I used to play had like a little membership for nine dollars a month just to play games on king.com Then they they blew up man to to this point Uh, but yeah, I'm I'm on board with uh with the acquisition and I don't trust any other company Believe it or not as a nintendo fan I don't trust nintendo to to take care of this company Uh, well nintendo couldn't afford them to to be fair their value is like 50 billion and this is a 70 billion dollar deal Yeah, yeah, even if even if you know, I'm just saying and when it comes to to You know, nintendo loves exclusivity. They love it. They love to have exclusives Um, so far, um, microsoft has been the one that has actually Extended the hand across to y'all to try to shake a hand. I'm that I've seen I haven't seen anybody else do that. So um, yeah Uh, uh, what is it tag team? Derek? Yeah. Yeah No, and and I think you kind of hit it a little bit microsoft seems to be Out of the three companies probably You know the one that does play the the most quote-unquote nice with everybody Um, they kind of to be seem seem to be the same type of gamer that I am Games for everybody just just just games for everybody You know, I mean what we all have our our few exclusives, but just just give games to gamers You know and that and that's that's pretty freaking cool. Um And to a certain extent I wish more companies were like that, but uh, you know To me I it's I don't really care all that much about Call of Duty So to me, I don't really give two flying hoots of who buys it and if it is exclusive just to sony or just to microsoft I honestly don't care But I mean, I I understand, you know, where other people have their their, uh apprehensions about it and things like that so, you know, if I mean all sony has to do is just sign the damn contract and they'll be guaranteed freaking call of duty for the next 10 years So, you know, it's It's really not that hard of a fix Just sign the damn contract So Well, and a lot of people have brought up like like rgt 85 brought it up today that Like what is sony scared of they have first person Shooters they have that they're not even using like kill zone And I get that none of these games are as big as call of duty But they're you make more money per game sold than you do a call of duty and I think I think the the big thing for for sony and I guess What I understood about their argument originally when I thought maybe there was a chance that hey, you know In a few years, maybe microsoft does make it exclusive Was that it is a bit of a gravy train for sony. They do none of the work Oh, yeah, for sure. They make 30 off every sale Whether it's physical or digital by the way people always focus on the digital shop Just to even be on the platform the physical copy is 30 percent goes to sony as well same for nintendo same for xbox It's 30 percent across the board. It's not just digital Um, so they get 30 cut of all the sales on playstation And then they also in addition get 30 cut of all the dlc all the season passes people buy in war zone They get 30 of everything um so For them it's free money They invest nothing They just get a bunch of money on the back side of it because the game is so popular So they they don't want to lose the gravy train and that's what people miss out like when you say Oh, they can make a kill zone they could but they also got to invest the money to make the game They that they have to make that money back before they start getting into okay now What are the profits they don't got worry about the recall duty? It's nothing but profits for for sony Uh, so I understood that argument originally but then after microsoft's like hey, we offered a five year now we're offering a 10 year and Phil just repeatedly says Hey, I am Like dedicated to making this like minecraft, which we have a long track record with minecraft showing they ain't removing it from anyone Uh, that look maybe you don't want to believe it. Maybe uh, maybe you do a 10 year deal, but then Um, they're they're gonna make them put in the contracts. Hey fine 10 years But you also need to be willing to negotiate another 10 year deal and another one like I can't just be 10 years and you're done Um, we need to have have it be a good faith Um operation and if it's not then maybe there's hefty government fines or something. I have no idea But I think there's a way that like at this point What playstation I think is Worried About and this this came up a lot in the uk documents It's game pass. They're scared of Hey about the acquisition It's about game pass Microsoft buying at division lizard and having every single game in their library including call of duty Day one on game pass They are scared it is going to hurt them and make people buy xboxes over playstations That's that that's genius of microsoft, you know, no, no for sure Well, that's I mean that's obviously why they're doing it. Obviously, they're gonna look over themselves But I do have one other point too though If you're sony One wouldn't you want to at least guarantee 10 more years? Then the chance of there not being one after the two you currently have Well, I mean, I would say I don't think at division lizard themselves would yank it But what I'm saying is if if the sale does go through once you figure you'd want to Somebody else 10 years like a 10 cent bottom. I don't think they'd take it off PlayStation either true But they also might make them focus more on call of duty mobile Yeah Because that's where 10 cent makes most of their money is mobile stuff You know apple, who knows what they would do? I don't think they'd yank it anytime soon, but They might make them start focusing resources on other things that are more Akin to whatever apple has in the works because we know apple doesn't like sharing They're not a very they're not known as a sharing company. They're they're like nintendo It's ours. You want it. You come to us like that's just It's just how they that's just how they behave business wise And there's nothing inherently wrong with that attitude Um, you can argue anti-consumerism or whatever, but you mean for things like they created like, you know macOS and You know now they're making their own silicone and and they have the iPhone like yeah, okay It makes sense like you want our FaceTime app. You need to come to us. You're not going to get that on android You're gonna have to use something else Um, and that stuff makes sense, but at the same time um I kind of look at it as at division blizzard And I think what's lost in all of this is why activation blizzard for sale Yeah Everyone who's anti-merger and wants them to stay independent means that you trust bobby catec To fix everything wrong at the company Stop harassing female employees. Stop everything's happened that lead the female employees committing suicide These are real things by the way that have already been proven by the government like this this stuff happened And a lot of these employees that did it are still at the company They haven't been removed You trust bobby catec who was shredding documents you trust bobby catec who lied publicly saying they did nothing wrong When the when the accusations first came out despite the fact that the government was was already um building this case for years Before they made it public So he knew about this and still denied it the evidence came out still denied it A company that had a suite their own employees called the cosby suite Where they were bringing female employees up there and you just imagine what was happening um This is the company where it's ceo threatened. This happened like 20 years ago threatened His female assistant with a death threat Sure, she was compensated. There was no lawsuit. She got her payday and they just paid for it to go away But this is the company we're talking about what they are like when they run independently And bobby catec ain't going anywhere. He's got a lifetime ceo contract And on top of that Despite all of this his board approval ratings are still above 70 percent They're not anywhere near the 45 threshold they need for him to be replaced Because they make too much damn money. He's been running the company for 30 plus years He took them from a company that was only worth like 200 million dollars to be in this behemoth that's trying to be sold for 70 billion He's made the investors so much money the investors won't remove him This is the company we're talking about and what happens when they run independently So when we're talking about them being for sale We're all looking at it as own mergers and acquisitions And this is bad for the industry and all this stuff and I'm looking at it This says activation blizzard is bad for the industry Yeah The biggest evil in this isn't microsoft apple or 10 cent It's activation blizzard People someone committed suicide because of the shit happening at this company and we're sitting here like Oh, yeah, they need to stay independent. Fuck that They can't fix it. They've had decades to fix this behavior and they're not these lawsuits happened They're not doing anything about it. They're just going to eat the losses Pay out their fines and move on with their day That's what's activation. We already know what activation blizzard does on their own This is about human decency for me. This isn't about a 10-year contract with nintendo I've been wanting this acquisition to go through because microsoft cleaned up their app microsoft used to have problems 20 years ago And they got in various lawsuits over it Since then Everything has changed the leadership has changed bill gates is gone The entire company has flip turned and become one of the most inclusive and welcoming tech companies in the world for everyone They are literally they literally have a sterling reputation in the tech world right now when it comes to the treatment of employees of all types That's the company That's buying at division blizzard and we're supposed to believe. Oh, yeah, they won't make any changes They're just gonna let this behavior go and tank microsoft reputation You know how much trouble phil spencer would be in if he allowed at division blizzard to tank microsoft's reputation No, bobby context gone All these employees that did these things they're gone The whole company is going to be upheaved and restructured If microsoft buys them Because they don't want to take the pr hit they don't want these lawsuits to suddenly drag their asses into it because they're not making changes They're going to lay it all at the feet of bobby and soon to be ex-employees And say that was before us. Here's what we're doing Because microsoft will have to show in these lawsuits that they've made changes They're not just gonna and out of division blizzard bought they're not the governments are just going to forget about them They're not going to have to show that the company's made changes The point is this is about human decency for me Maybe you hate microsoft and you know what? I think there's a lot of reasons to hate corporate billion dollar companies 100 billion nearly trillion dollar company I get it. There's a lot of reasons to hate these companies a lot of people ate apple ate microsoft ate google ate I get it Eight amazon i get it But sometimes you need to step back and look at What's the greater evil? a company who is Kept games multi-platform a company who is Consistently running behind the competition in this field And a company That has a reputation That's the exact opposite of activision blizzards And that's the company that wants to buy them Just because of the value of all those ip's I think we need to stop talking about this in terms of Oh, you're just a shill because If you know if microsoft doesn't buy them call judy doesn't come to switch or whatever I just want people to be treated well and I trust microsoft to change the culture at this company And if you want to say i'm wrong Fine What I do know is activision blizzard can't change their own culture that much is clear Yeah, it's a good point So that's what this is about for me The fact that we're going to get call duty on switch on top of it. That's just like a bonus Or on the next nintendo platform. I mean that's obviously where most people are excited about hey What's call duty going to look like on the next nintendo platform? I have no idea. I don't know the next nintendo platform it's going to be so um anyways So I don't know that's my thoughts that you guys got anything else you want to add like I don't know I feel like this is just something people for our forgetting about no That was a hell of a good argument right now. Well we're forgetting like why is it for sale in the first place? Because they fucked up and they fucked up bad and they haven't fixed it Like somebody died Because of the crap going on at this company and we're just pretending like none of it matters because we want things to stay independent We don't want mega corporations This isn't this isn't like disney buying marvel Where there wasn't really a lot of controversy at the time This is a company That's at a detriment to its own employees Unless you give me How Activision Blizzard and what Activision Blizzard is doing to fix this problem? Since all these employees still work there until then Someone has to buy them and someone has to change it. You think 10 cents going to change that culture Maybe apple could I don't know 10 cents going to change that culture I Rather a microsoft and I feel like sony at this point. It's just mad because they can't afford it They are scared to game pass and they can't afford it. They can't afford to have a game pass And it was funny because it was being argued by some playstation fans of call of duty Oh, well it they'll have call of duty, but they'll they'll take it off a playstation plus You know because it gets added to playstation plus after a little while Then microsoft came out said no you can still have it on playstation plus after six months or whatever Oh, oh, oh, but it's not on playstation now. It's never been on playstation now What are you? Sorry Just so you know Playstation doesn't have a game pass competitor. They're playstation plus and their new subscription program. It's not really a game pass And if you expect them to hand it to That You're just delusional You're just why are you not getting mad at all the other companies that aren't part of playstation plus as well Why is it just microsoft again mad at Microsoft who by the way gave you guys psycho nuts too gave you guys ori gave you guys cuphead when they didn't have to Kept minecraft even though you didn't want to have cross play They kept it there anyways. Yeah, they could have usually said no They could have said you know what we're sour over that cross play stuff. You're not getting minecraft legends No, they're still giving you that Microsoft has gotten to the point where they care less about system sales. They care about people Um, they care about making money and they're gonna put their games where they think they can make the most money At least right now Will that change someday? Maybe Yeah, yeah, that's all I got to say Yeah I got nothing else Oh All right. Well, I don't think mike does either. He's just kind of sitting over there in silence after that little rant I'm ready to move on Well, let's move on to something that I mean, it's not really any less controversial. It's less Humanitarian controversial Pokemon The only thing we're talking about a poor employee treatment at least that we're aware about this time What comes of Pokemon? It's a Pokemon Scotland pilot guys. Um It's uh, it's a thing that exists it is The uh, it's a thing that exists. Wow. It is the fastest selling pokemon games of all time Uh, we'll find out, you know, if it ends up becoming the best or one of the best selling yet We don't we aren't gonna have those numbers until probably the end of the fiscal year Uh, then we'll we'll see pokemon tends to not have like a super long tail of sales But usually you get a good strong six months Before things drop off significantly. So we'll see probably at the end of this fiscal year Um sales wise uh review wise it is the now at the at this juncture the lowest reviewed Pokemon mainline games of all time um Basically because the game's released and what many feel like is a beta um performance issues and glitches and graphical problems and memory leaks and It it admittedly a little bit of a beta sort of release instead of a fully polished release I think almost even the most surgeon of lovers of this game can admit Has a bit of a beta feel to it Now Famitsu finally dropped their review, which is super late for Famitsu by the way But I guess they wanted to put some serious time into the game And they gave it a 38 out of 40 which massively disagrees obviously with with the rest of the world's reviews um But I've said this all along and I say this to this day um Pokemon legends arceus and pokemon scarlet and violet Guys, I'm not a gen one or anymore Hmm I think pokemon scarlet might be my favorite pokemon game of all time followed by arceus followed by gen one And I don't even think I think the gap between arceus And scarlet and violet is like this and the gap between those games and gen one is like this um These games are amazing And they get better and better the more you play And you seem to encounter less glitches the more you play it feels like the Higher level areas seem to have less issues in the lower level. I don't know why I don't know how they split up the game and develop it Maybe that team was just whoever was handling those areas is just better I have no idea I have no idea how the game was put together because sometimes that happens or like different groups are working on different areas and stuff, but I love these games then They for me to say that despite all these issues and I agree with every criticism that exists Everyone who has said this is an embarrassment Everyone who has bashed these games the hell in back for looking running having glitched all this shit I agree with every single one of you But damn if it ain't a good game It's a good game guys Underneath all of it I can't put it down It's a good game Uh, and I that to me the fact that I'm still playing it this far out from launch Is already a sign of how much I really enjoy these games and I never thought I'd say this is what any pokemon game Um, they did release a patch 1.1 nintendo themselves admitted since the last time we had a podcast that hey, uh, we know there's performance problems Nintendo's talking about it Nintendo probably ain't happy about it Nintendo's also the one handing out refunds for digital copies. So they are the ones probably the most you guys think you're mad Nintendo is probably even more mad Yeah, they never like to handle refunds um And there was some confusion with this patch Game explain and a few others went out there and said oh this patch improved performance And then people actually took the tools out did the measuring and found out no no it actually doesn't There did this wasn't a performance patch now did it fix some of the glitches? Yes As the patch notes said it did The patch notes never said it was a performance patch. So Yeah, we'll just I'll just leave it at that that the performance isn't actually better Um, maybe you feel like it's better for you in some areas, but the math is now out there. It's not actually running any better Um, maybe you just had a lucky run Happens sometimes areas run better than they than they do other times So it happens with memory leaks like sometimes areas just run better other times you go back to it and they run worse Welcome to memory leaks That being said What are we thinking about this game today? Uh now that we've had time now eric hasn't played it and played it After what I just said, maybe he might pick it. I mean he hasn't played it. I've seen some damn goofy videos on it Oh, yeah, there's there. There's glitch glitches galar. It's hilarious. They're freaking funny Yeah, like the photo ones of the arms Yeah Yeah, or or the freaking guy just growing 18 000 feet tall and then Or shrinking and then you're like, what the hell? Oh, yeah, so using using the see people like this glitch using the jump jumping backwards to climb up a mountain People actually like that It's definitely not part of the intended gameplay, but people use it all the time It's like, hey, whatever. I want to get to the top and I don't want to walk all the way around And then I know I saw the one with like where the guy is or the the person the character's eyes bug way out and And then they threw one of them. What the hell is that dick looking pokemon in and in like, yeah, we went through In between the person's legs and it flopped right out like a, you know A nice phallic, uh And lechonk is awesome friend. I don't I don't even his evolutions are great. I love it Yeah, I mean What He only has one evolution. Yeah oink-a-lash or whatever I'm sorry. Oink-a-lone Yes, I'll play on baloney. Yes Yeah, cologne. It's like, yeah. Yeah, love it. He became like rico slob when he He did he did too. He's so cocky and full of himself. I love it Then he does like uh, it was supposed to be a headbutt one of his moves except He hits you with his ass and I don't know why it's the wrong end, buddy You're hitting him with the wrong end, but that's That's lechonk and his evolution. Um, yeah, no, I mean All right You don't have to buy it. I mean, I'm torn on it because I do it does sound it does sound good. Get it You have to get it dude. It's open a little pokemon. I know I know they did it right I know the gameplay wise they did it right Yeah, yeah, you have to get it you have to get it because it's uh, it's it's It's the best pokemon game they've ever made period Yeah, you know Putting aside putting aside Everything I'll help you get all the starters. Okay. Yeah, I mean that's You mean the one thing you have all of them. The one thing we haven't done with fucking uh, I have all our kiss with me Yeah, I have all the starters and I can get I can get whatever one you don't pick I can get the other two and give you nice Okay, okay. Yeah, I mean, which one did you get? I got scarlet now scarlet reportedly has more performance issues than violet. That's what I've been told I haven't played violet. So I can't verify this I don't know I have no idea. I have scarlet Um, I like it, but I don't know but yeah, if you get violet then we can that's what I was actually thinking Then we then we can mix up for the pokemon. I think I was looking at any worse an exclusive pokemon Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of curious because there's a few little minor differences between them with like the story parts a little bit I don't know and then we can actually play together Yes Yes, it has monthly player. I know I know raid battles Catching pokemon together. It's got multiplayer, man All three of us we can literally spend a podcast episode playing playing pokemon I mean mike's gonna have us both crushed at this moment. I know how I know how much time he's put in Yeah I think he's gonna buy it. All right, um So Part of me would be absolutely fucking frustrated that I paid 60 dollars for a fucking game and it's absolutely buggy and shit But at the same point in time At least the bugs are freaking hilarious. They are funny I have something to say about that because you know, I mean, it's the internet It's the internet. Yeah, if you make a video And you call it 20 bugs and pokemon skull and volley I'm going to click on it because I want to see what kind of bugs they found but Then again, how many how this game is already pirated this game is already running on the emulators. All right and and I can go as far as to say that a lot of these bugs are made on purpose just so that that that That they can get views, you know, I don't believe everything I I hear I've I've seen bugs that are that are credible and I've seen bugs like oh, okay Yeah, I think you're just going away a little a little too far Like really you're gonna have a giant person in the game The person's gonna become giant all of a sudden and you're you're the king of the world there really like how is it? You're the only one That bug's not triggered very much to be fun to be fair. It's very hard to trigger that one It's uh, yeah, I mean, you know, it's I've had a completely different experience with this game like completely different from what I hear everywhere And I and I put my score on the game on Twitter and then I got a bunch of responses you've been What you put it on Twitter? Hold on Hold on. I don't even know what you I don't even know you scored it Yeah, I put my personal score on on Twitter And and I got the ems about it Like the ember about it. I'm like, what the heck are you talking about a little blah, blah, blah, blah You know like that's my personal score because guess what I'm fortunate enough That all of these glitches that people are talking about all these these little whatever I did not experience Nothing at all. I'm sorry, Mike. I can't even get to your your score. You're just gonna have to tell me I'm too busy looking at these rico suave art photos that you did with that app For that ai that ai art or whatever Yeah, that that that yeah, I did it some people like oh do it do it. This is I was crazy I'm like, okay fine. Like there you go. I spent eight bucks on it. Yeah, but anyway Um, but yeah, I mean I gave it a 10 out of 10 Oh Well, that would explain the dms Yeah, I I gave it a 10 out. I think you know why because guess what? How many copies is this game sold so so how many copies there's probably like 12 or 14 million at this point Okay, so are you gonna tell me that 14 million people had glitches Or is it this or is it a minority but the the loudest minority because sometimes a loud minority can speak Louder than 14 million people Who are playing a game and having the the the the best time with the game? You know what I mean? And then you have you have um, you have A score put on on on the medic critic, right? And then people just potting on top of that and on top of that on top of that and then yeah You gather all the ants together. You put all the ants You're gonna go closest to the to the sugar and just stay there. You know what I mean? I was one of the fortunate ones that had that have Never saw a glitch on the game Okay, if I saw a frame frame rate dip It's basically the same frame rate dips. I've seen in nintendo forever like even in super mario one One world one of nes I've seen little minor frame rate dips But I've had an incredible experience doing all three stories. I enjoy all three stories. I mean For that without giving too much out. Yeah, it's three stories, but it's really one because it's it's a really good way It's it's it's the way it's put together Is is very unique Um, and the the the game actually it pulls you into the story people who are saying Oh, yeah, the nintendo switch guys. I've seen I've seen a lot of comments out there Um, even in the chat the nintendo switch is at fault for for the frame rates in this I'm I have to respond to you With this and I'm sorry if you get offended But it's just it is what it is You cannot spit a square peg in a round hole Okay, what do I mean by this? if I have uh, if I if I am I'm building a car Right if I'm building a car and I Go ahead and put a door that belongs to a truck On my little buggy car. It's not gonna fit. Why would I want to develop a? A door that belongs in a truck or a wheel that belongs in a monster truck fit it on my little car You know, if I'm developing for this car, then I develop for this car so that this car can run at its best So every issue that has happened on the nintendo switch is not because It's the nintendo switch is because of the developer Developing for the nintendo switch did not know how to stay inside the lines when he was drawing his game It's like drawing a it's like get a coloring book. Oh, no, I don't care this tree This tree is right here. I'm gonna paint it green But I don't care I want to make the tree even larger because I'm not I'm not agreeing with how the tree is Lined up and how big it is. I'm gonna make the tree. I'm gonna make the tree even bigger and call the entire page That's not making the tree You know, you're just ruining the picture That's just a metaphor about how developers sometimes treat Uh hardware, you know, and that's where why apple apple as a company They don't let anybody else mess with their hardware software because they develop their software for their hardware to run Specifically on their hardware if you have if you if you have somebody else messing with that software On another another hardware that wasn't meant for that for that software They're gonna mess it up and then they're gonna come back to apple and say, oh, you you made a bad a bad app You made a bad photo app. You made a bad this you made about that The developer company is at fault because they don't know how to stay between the lines when it comes to developing the game They have Units where they can test the game as they build to make sure that at the end of the line when they're finished with this game It's the best game ever made And and yeah breath of the wild had had some frame rate issues But guess what breath of the wild is a masterpiece And instead of proved it with it with with that It's a masterpiece. It could be done It's not the console's fault is the developer who did not know How to stay inside the lines when developing the game to me in my in my Opinion, this is the breath of the wild a pokemon. This is the one that they've been wanting to do The one that they've been working for the one that that really Um Got somebody who's not into pokemon. I I'm not A pokemon fanatic. I'm not like uh like a crazy You know, I barely know the names. I can I think I think I know the trunk um pikachu and That's it I can't remember uh, uh with coco, uh, uh Quacksley, you know, I think that's just recent But I'm not a pokemon pokemon fanatic, you know what I mean? But they got me interested interested in it. They got me to actually want to collect the entire deck man I'm like, wow, how how how am I so into this game? How did it do such a good job that I still want to explore even Even after days that I finished the game, you know, once you know, I'm like Nate one time finish the game I don't go back to it for for maybe maybe Nate doesn't play it at all. I don't go back for it for like a year or two years So it becomes new again in my head But man, they they they made a game where I'm still going back to it And and wanting to continue to to play it. So for me, I I literally give it a 10 out of 10 because It made me a pokemon fan This game made me a pokemon fan that I wasn't I love pokemon franchise, but I wasn't A real fan, but this this game actually made me want You know storyline was is amazing um The world they did a great job with the world The battle system is really good. Um, you know the the it just gets you a multiplayer I mean, I've been out. I haven't experienced multiplayer yet That's just a little part that I'm looking forward to playing when they in eric when when eric gets his copy um, but When it comes to storyline comes to the game That's just that's the score I stand by And that's it the only game that's to me for me right now. It's actually better than this one is breath of the Wow, that's it. Delta, but but that's it That's it And spin fire over there Okay, wow spin fire. I can only say that was a I mean To a certain extent he's not wrong with with you know, the devs gotta understand what what what they're working on You know, they do have test units. We I get I get you can't test everything, but So we got some insight to how the development works things to uh, nate the hate on his podcast last week. Um, and basically Game freak is the ones that tell the pokemon company when they can deliver the next game Okay, so like three years ago or whatever they said, yeah, we can get this this one out by you know 2022 You know, they don't say like what part of 2022 we can get off of 2022 um and then the pokemon company then Builds everything else around it the merchandise and the animated series and everything else that goes into the trading car game, etc um And they have a bunch of different manufacturers and a bunch of different companies that are involved with all of that And essentially what happens is you get to a certain point where there's no there's a point in no return For the pokemon company because they can't cancel the orders um, or they can't delay them so Uh, so people always blame the pokemon company or blame nintendo nintendo, by the way apparently has nothing to do with anything They literally are the most hands off like they yeah, they own one third doesn't matter They're they're they're so hands off. They don't know what the hell's going on. Uh, apparently Yeah, so I mean, um pretty obvious when nintendo is like, what the hell um anyways but so Game freak is the one that sets the initial deadline and unfortunately game freak doesn't At least to this point consider Possible issues Like they could say We're targeting 2023 But if we're done sooner we're done sooner But they don't say that ever they say no we're targeting 2022 and that's it And if they realize at the beginning in 2022 that crap, we're not going to get this game done in time It's too late to push. It's too late to push Um, they'd have to realize that at least two years ahead of time And we all know that they obviously didn't realize two years out of time Most companies don't realize two years ahead of time They notice usually between six to eight months from release. They're like, oh, yeah, we need more time um so Game freak kind of is their own worst enemy in this regard in that they set a timetables that maybe aren't maybe maybe they're a bit too ambitious With the timetables that they provide the pokemon company Um, and they don't ever seem to give themselves the time to delay um And this isn't to say delays don't happen Uh, apparently according to the eight legends arceus was a delay So the reason we got it this year when we did is because it was a delay. It was an internal delay Uh, and you might go well see see look proof they delayed something. Yeah, yes, but it wasn't a new generation There's a difference. There wasn't a whole merchandise. Well, there is some merch and there is some anime stuff built around it Yeah, but nothing I mean, I think as big as like a normal generation. I I think what happened like even now The pokemon scarlet of the violet stuff most of the merchandise most of the trading card stuff Most of the anime stuff isn't happening until next year. So it feels like there was time to possibly delay it at least a little bit Yeah, but I don't It just based on what I was told apparently that's just not even an option once they get under a year um And there could be other things that play too like keeping the cash flow going we're reliant on this We didn't plan for anything else to replace it. So then like there were probably that might play a role as well um So I I think that I mean, I even thought that you know brilliant diamond shining pearl. Maybe that happened specifically because archaeus was being delayed Like maybe that game was tossed together in like a year because they realized they had to delay arceus, which they intended to release last year um But anyways, that's a speculation that you know unless they reveal an interview we're never going to know 100% It just kind of feels like oh, it's the first pokemon we ever outsourced. Why? Oh, well, they were making art Yeah, arceus was maybe supposed to be the release last year. Maybe it wasn't supposed to be pretty I don't know working out for them. Of course. They got to double dip and make lots of money, but Yeah I just think that Look these games are I like the games. I'm really enjoying them. I People I think the hardest part Is a lot of people get to enjoy games in silence. Okay Um, you buy games that you like you play them. Maybe you talk about them with your friends Maybe you even tweet about it a little bit online Uh, you might get some negativity here and there, but for the most part you just kind of tune it up because whatever Uh, someone's being negative about it. I'll just turn twitter off Um, someone's being uh, you know, I joined someone's live stream and I I thought I liked the game And then this guy's bashing it and my favorite content creator is bashing and I just I don't I don't agree. So I'm going to turn it up You can turn it all off go back to play your game go back to your life That's not what I get to do I can turn things off But I'm still coming right back the next day because My gaming experiences are put into the public eye by choice because of what I do and so Every time I mention positive things about this game. I get called a shill I get called a money grabber. I get called all these things. By the way, I get shit for views on pokemon I don't get views on pokemon shorts. I don't get views on pokemon videos pokemon live streams None of it. I get views on zelda live streams I mean Obviously you don't because you keep getting called a shill and then everything wouldn't you talk about pokemon So people aren't going to watch your pokemon stuff because they don't give two shits about it. Yeah It's also that I've I've not someone who's been actively Covering and playing pokemon for the last two decades Zelda have been so I have a bigger zelda fan base, but it it's one of those I get attacked every time there's a positive thing and they're like, well, you're a nintendo youtuber You're this year. I'm like I get what you're seeing and I'm not gonna sit there and say I don't have a bias But pokemon is not something I have a bias for and anybody who watches my channel knows I have spent literally A decade trashing pokemon 100% this podcast has entire episodes of me dunking on pokemon. Oh, yeah So You're giving me both a zelda shill absolutely You want to say i'm a switch shill? sure A pokemon shill Yeah, no, that's a shill Yeah, let me give you the raw definition You really I had to look this up earlier today just to make sure it was what I thought it was But it basically means Um, that's not the definition Hold on Um, gosh, that's what it means. Hold on. Hold on. Uh, someone who promotes something online For pay or without pay without divulging that are associated with the entity that they shill for Um, essentially it is someone who makes money And is incentivized to say something positive To continue making money mm So like i'm a nintendo content creator I make money Hence i'm incentivized to talk positively Funny thing is that negative videos get the most views and make the most money. Um There is that but I Always does But I will say negative videos don't grow the channel a you lose subscribers I will admit so there's like a counter about to make more money But you lose subs so like your channel shrinks But in the moment you make more so I care about making a quick buck just be negative all the time Be careful about longevity you can argue that you need to be positive Um, and I get that and I get that I still make negative videos on nintendo have negative opinions and I get I I see this I've lost I see people upset at me about it People are also upset when you're positive about things like pokemon right now is kind of something I you maybe won't lose subscribers on for being negative because there's such a a giant negativity storm built around it Um, you probably are more attached for being positive than negative. I I know that uh, zack from switch force Absolutely loves these games and he is getting blasted every day Every time he mentions how much he loves the games um And he's already 40 he's almost inviting it in at this point He's like, you know what you guys say what you are. I love these games um But the point is that we live out at least I live out primarily with my gaming stuff in the public eye um, and so It admittedly affects enjoyment of games at times um When I'm enjoying something that everyone tells me I'm a I'm a shill for enjoying As I'm playing it and I and I notice a hitch Or I notice You know the the land cuts or I notice I I'm in a pokemon battle and I've had this only happened once but my pokemon didn't even appear and yes I pan the camera and my pokemon wasn't even there. It wasn't even on screen. I was fighting with nothing Um, was it floating floating 50 feet in the air? No. No. No, it just wasn't there. Um, I only had it happen once but I'm like Okay, but then after the battle was over I just moved on and it's whatever the rest of the game was being fine um I started to notice it a bit more Because people are telling me how bad it is and how and how unplayable it is which by the way, it's definitely not unplayable. That's That's being hyperbolic. It's not an unplayable. It is not unbeatable when Guys when I was a kid And I was told a game is broken You know what a broken game meant to me growing up It's impossible to beat Because it's broken et It's broken Superman 64 It's broken Ton of nes games are just fundamentally broken and can't be beat. Mm-hmm the thing is That's what I grew up with what broken means So when I go into a game that's buggy has issues that's framerate problems But I can still play it still enjoy it still get through it I mentioned before I played world of warcraft 40 man reads at 4 fps when I was younger um That would be broken to most people. How how could you even have fun at 4? It just was fun How are you having fun at 4 fps? You're guys skipping around the screen The health bars are jumping all over the place. How even I don't know I had fun and was one of the best healers in the whole damn server And I don't know how the hell I did it because I had to anticipate things Like 30 seconds ahead of time with framesca- I don't even know How I I probably would have been a worse healer if I had been a framerate At one point because I got so used to trying to anticipate damage and anticipate move I literally would have like a stopwatch like Ticking so I do like all right big things kind of happened right about now. Let me get my heel cued up Anyway, so uh Because that's not broken It's just not running well At that time because of the computers I was playing on Primarily and the 40 men raised at the time was a little bit ahead of its time for the technology that was out there For personal computers a lot of people had lots of lag in those games unless they had like really really expensive computers But the point I'm making is that broken to me means you can't play it. You can't beat it These games are playable. They're beatable. They're enjoyable. So these games aren't broken They're just in a beta form Where they're not polished all the way And you could still have a hell of a lot of fun with a beta game Does that mean you should spend 60 bucks? I don't know. That's up to you But for me Just might be my favorite. I I pretty sure I haven't beat it yet So For now, I'd probably put rcs a little bit above it because I just haven't beat it yet But once I beat it like I'm already at a point where I'm it's kind of like the breath of the wild When I played the demo like I just I just already know this is my favorite pokemon game ever I just know it even though I haven't fully I just know I already know it's already there Um cheers of the kingdom. I'll know pretty early on if I think it's better than the rest of the wild Now I can't come to the full conclusion until I beat the game But I'll know pretty pretty early on I get a pretty good sense in my first couple hours How I'm probably going to feel at the end and I know myself and my feelings and I know how I feel And I know how I felt the first handful of hours I played this compared to why I'm when I'm playing it now These games are awesome And call me a shill all you guys want It doesn't change what I enjoy And I don't really make money off pokemon anyways I did two pokemon launch streams. I think I'm gonna be like five bucks Like I don't I don't make money covering pokemon, right? Um, I could literally talk about a zelda theory for tears of the kingdom and make more money I make shorts right now that give me a huge chunk of views. I don't make anything so Call me a shill all you want if I'm a shill for anything It's my own personal taste And the funny thing is my own personal taste. Leave me to spend I spend way too much money in games Not as much as uh bike over there, you know when you're spending 100 plus dollars in sonic frontiers. Um, yeah I regret that so much. Oh, I I enjoy sonic frontiers as well, but I didn't spend 100 100 And it was discounted. It was so cool. I could have told you would have been this guy We should go to this guy Yeah Could have could have told you that was happening. Um Anyways, do you guys have any other thoughts you want to chime in on this? No, I I'll probably end up with it eventually. You're probably in the next paycheck I'm Out of thousand dollars from work right now. So You know hitting you back in my next one. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I know His business trips. It's a payback situation. So yeah, I pay for it up front and then get paid back So I know it feels nice on that check it. Oh, it's yeah, it's like, oh Hello, oh wait half that money was already mine. Hello Yeah, it's like oh a bonus. Oh wait. No, no that was already mine That was already mine. It still feels it still feels nice when you look at the bank and you're like, oh, yeah It should have been there anyways, right It feels it feels like you money Anyways, all right, um Last thing to quickly get to tonight You have the game awards tomorrow I'll be live streaming it. I'll be live streaming it guys. Yeah, we got a bet. We have a whole bet thing on it. Yeah I don't know if we figured out the punishment. I don't know if we sort of that. What is it again? Oh, yeah Yeah, I don't know what it is. It's actually written down on the on the document. Um, each Anyways, but so next week's podcast is when we'll revisit and see who won the betting special Well, we'll know probably ahead of time based on what the bet is since we'll have I'll have to communicate to people That loss or one of what's going to happen Um, if we could somehow make it work for the next podcast or not You know, we'll see next one of the week after you might have to be the week after it's all going to depend on like I guess who won and who lost because you know, like costumes or whatever um but Uh, but we can still talk about we still go over the results next week either way like we won't make you guys wait You know, we'll just plan the punishments for a future episode Yeah, but um Yeah, so the game war just tomorrow. I'm doing an event for it. I'm doing a prime gaming fest event guys We are gonna have giveaways Don't worry. I know I haven't sent out all the physical stuff from the last one. It's okay We're not doing physical giveaways. These are just all digital codes Um partner with a bunch of different companies for them So we'll we'll be giving away AAA games indie games Whole spectrum. We'll be giving away a bunch of different games nintendo games Um Stuff like that. So we we will we'll have a bunch of giveaways during the event We're going to be going live at noon central time Uh, and probably live for 12 hours. I have no idea. I don't know if it's going to go all the way to midnight I have no idea when the game warbs ends Because we don't know it's supposed to be shorter this year. We know when it starts. I'm going to have a special guest coming on Uh, right now the e2. I have Scheduled, I believe well, I have Kat Bergeson What's coming on nice, uh Tell him hi for me Andres restarted said he's coming on but then he won't commit to a time till tomorrow Which is a problem since I the schedule is already done. So I Sure, he'll probably end up making me redo the schedule Um, and I think Mike when we're gonna might come on, uh, as well Um, I believe I talked about five o'clock central time, but I'm not sure if we locked that in yet Five o'clock. No, that's uh Five o'clock. That's that's six o'clock your time. I know I that's the time I was locking you in on my side Or wait, maybe it was Maybe it was four You know, I gotta go back and look at our messages Or I could just bring up the schedule I know I wrote it on the schedule correctly Because I was going to have you come on for an hour, but um Well, yeah, well, we'll see what happens. Anyways, those two are locked up for sure game over. Jesse's supposed to come on I saw him in the chat earlier Jesse who hasn't responded to any dms on any platform that I can contact you on So I don't know how I'm supposed to get you to show up when I can't get you to actually respond And lock in a time you committed to come and it's kind of typical that you might commit to come We might even lock in a time right now In the chat you're in the podcast and I still have no way to really get a hold of you to make you show up. So um So I guess we'll see I'll have a backup plan if you end up scheduling a time just in case you don't show up um And let me show it to a few other people who didn't respond yet. Uh, like some donation and stuff like that, but Um, I think he's pretty sure he's busy right now. Um, but that's okay It's just a one day event and we already have more people coming showing up to guests that we did any single day Of prime give you a pleasant sell. So we got a pretty packed show. Eric will not be here. Unfortunately Um, so can answer that right now. Yep. It's just gonna be Unfortunately me riding solo plus the guests I bring in Uh, but we will have fun. Uh, the death wheel is coming back for every hundred dollars with the super chats We get spin the death wheel obviously i'm the only one that gets punished. So please be kind I appreciate all the super chats and everything. But please be kind Um, maybe I'll be nice and count gifted memberships in as well It's all the same. So, um, anyways, so yeah, please be kind That's all you can say please be kind. Um, because like there's some pretty Punishing things on the death wheel. So that'll be that'll be fine. That's why it's called the death wheel Uh, but we'll also have a trivia doing some trivia. That's new Uh, I think a game of hangman Uh, and we got some other Segments as well that I'm I'm still cooking up that I'll finalize tomorrow. So It's gonna be a lot of fun And yeah, you're gonna see the prime gaming festival. Let's come back and maybe some fresh music and it's it's guys It's gonna it's gonna be a good time. Look if the game award sucks I can usually safely say even if these events suck my event usually doesn't There's 90% chance it will you know because I mean people are not really there for the game award We're more there for the trailers And if zel does not there and nothing nintendo's there a lot of you guys be like, yes, that's like sucked And I'll just be like, all right, whatever. Well, hey, hope you had fun here. I can't I can't control what they do I'm more interested in the in the premier's world premiere world premiere Yeah, so they're basically But yeah, game awards is tomorrow You guys have any final thoughts on the game awards where we get there jeff kealy the only update is he said It's gonna be shorter and won't have as many game announcements As in trailers. Yes There will be less But the event will also be shorter to compensate. So it's not still going to be like a three-plus hour show With a bunch of filler some games. I think you said right 40 something. Yeah, there's still going to be a decent amount It's not a lot, but it's significantly less than prior years. So okay. Yeah That also could be a bigger focus on bigger games. I have no idea I mean, I'm I'm rooting for You know, I hope they they they do well. I hope it's a success. I hope they actually do give out a good show You know for the fans Because You know true gaming fans can only just basically just you know root for it. Make sure they have they give a good show, you know that um They continue to improve Over last year. So they they say it's a shorter game. It's just order a shorter show Because uh fat a fan feedback then, you know, okay, that's a good thing They're they're they're listening to the fans and I hope they just give a give us a good show, you know to enjoy Now I like the awards themselves um, yeah But uh, I know a lot of other people don't the awards are for the developers the uh The game trailers are for the viewers Um, that's kind of the way that's kind of the way the show has always been Uh, and probably will always be I I like all of it. I care about all of it There's just moments that I think I go, okay, jeff kealy. Have you learned Like the way in the rock johnson does not need to come on to talk about black adam From a pre-recorded video on his cell phone in his home gym Yeah, that's completely irrelevant because there was no game for black adam at the time right Um, yeah, it was really awkward and really stupid. We don't need to end with the matrix which The matrix thing was cool. The demo was cool But that's what you're ending with a timed demo that's eventually going to go away There's not going to be a full game of it and it was really just a tie-in with the movie Because the movie has a tie into the game awards. If you guys haven't seen the movie There's a tie into the game awards in the movie. Um, I think this is stupid It was just a dumb way to end the game awards Also, make sure you announce all the awards That would be nice if they actually announced all I know I know one of the major criticisms. I know that we both had of it is you know, they They announced they don't treat the awards sometimes like This is an award show they like gloss completely over some of these awards and sometimes forget them No, I have a theory So some of the people that win the awards aren't actually there and haven't pre-recorded anything. So there's Yeah, it's kind of awkward if you would come on say the winner of this is here and like there's nothing. Yeah, there's no one to accept it Yeah So I have a feeling that even though it's like, oh man, that was action. This is a major award. It should have been Yeah, maybe they weren't even there. Yeah There's that is that but it still feels like but he says he's always said Oh, I'll send it to him in the mail like so I think some of it ends up that way just because they're not there like almost everyone that's there to accept in person Does accept in person it goes on the stage but You know, they can at least you know Have like a section dedicated to that Where when they do this, it's just like as somebody's walking off stage. They're like, oh, yeah, by the way This this award was won by this and this They kind of throw it out there and just throw it out there and it's like didn't go away And these these awards I think all the awards that they aren't going to have anyone there to accept Or have a pre-recorded acceptance message. Those are what they should put in the pre-show Right. Yeah If you're gonna if you're gonna actually announce some awards at the pre-show what you shouldn't because that means that's a pre-show That means it's not a pre-show. That means that's the show It's part of the awards show part of the award show then it's not a pre-show It is literally the start of the game awards, which is always an hour before the actual game awards. It's so dumb Yeah But I guess it goes I put it in my schedule They've not even announced the pre-show, but it happens every year So it's already in my schedule that there's a pre-show and then the game awards and I did Jeff kill I labeled it pre-show and I labeled the game awards. You know mentally. It's the same thing Right, right. So do you even have world premieres in here? So, you know what? It's literally the same thing It's just more casual And I'm like, okay. Well, the whole thing could just be casual. I'm cool with that too, but Yeah, right but Yeah, no, it's it's gonna be I wish I could watch it but no, I got a family Family thing to go to. Yep. So family first always. Yep. I'm gonna make a bold prediction Oh boy bold predictions I predict Nintendo Will take home Zero awards. Oh, I've already said if they don't win most anticipated and they don't win the family category They could literally get blanked I've seen the categories that there are other games are in I don't think they're winning the categories I can't say that because there's an entire award the family friendly award is all nintendo games. So No, no, no, no, no, no one of them is it No, one of them's not one of them's not lego star or skywalker saga If if skywalker and skywalker saga could win that award. It's a popular game. So if that wins that award nintendo could get blanked okay, so so That's basically the the the chance that nintendo has a winning an award there I mean, I I it's more based on popularity than anything else, you know, I mean It's the the the new the new what's what is that the new smell the new car smell? Yeah, man, it's gonna be a massacre Yeah, probably will be um I'm looking forward to e3 2023 I will be Yeah, so here's one thing that concerns me They have a good company running it Mm-hmm What did that company say we would know before the end of this year? Uh The registrations or yeah, so media. So registrations would say announced a little bit on it, but it's not It's not launched yet And they also said we would know the companies attending e3 And we are almost to the end of the year and we have no confirmation. We still have we still have a few weeks Yeah, but we still have no confirmations of any of the companies there Yeah, and there are certain companies Nintendo that you think would get commitments super early you figure so If nintendo is not there and playstation didn't come back And xbox decides we don't need to be there because we're just going to be in our own theater anyway screw you guys um I'm not so sure like it gets to the point if there's no announcements by the end of the year that I'm wondering if Readpop is realizing they might have to cancel The whole event. No, I think I think we're gonna get everything. Uh before january I mean, they're still they're still a couple weeks Before january or in the holiday season now Companies don't like talking in the holidays. Yeah Yeah, but what a better christmas present than to find out what's going on at e3 Yeah, yeah, I think january is the month where we're gonna know everything about e3 like everything Set up the e3, uh, you know the I'm gonna predict in april they announced that e3 isn't happening I Think it's happening. I think it's happening It's to become a company to just, you know, announce that something is happening. There's just dropping it last minute But it's not last minute. They're right now. There is nothing actually announced. You can't sign up to go There's no exhibitors announced. There's there literally nothing Media is not out fans are not you can't buy tickets. There's nothing They have a date That's publicly announced and that's it Yeah, yeah, so You know that this is one of those things that it's like We don't actually There's there's nothing to lose at the moment because they haven't announced anything The only the only thing would be out is if they've already rented the venue But then again, they might not even be out that money because maybe maybe that's not even finalized I you know, that's the thing like I trust the company running it but also Mm-hmm. What if after the last couple years, none of the big companies want to come back Well, we think we did get some some Some kind of news Not maybe regarding e3, but More in the past week we got news from summer game fest They're gonna go head to head with e3. That's not really news As in the same week June 8. Yeah same week. What the heck? Yeah, they are gonna go ahead. How is that gonna work? June 8th, so e3 is june 3rd. Yeah, that's the week before e3 is june 13 through the 16th So the thing is that You know, they they they they're both very similar events I just agree e3 is an expo summer game fest is not an expo summer game fest They said that we're gonna do it live next year, right? They they said that they want to add an expo But at this time summer game fest has never had one So right now summer game fest is now the same announcements You know will that will will uh these developer companies choose one or the other nintendo xbox and uh, sony Well, they choose one or the other because it makes a big difference looks like sony and xbox are at Summer game fest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they were they were partners last year Um, but only xbox is the only one who did an actual like conferencing. No, sony didn't do that sony just had like one of their games at the show um Interesting Yeah, no, so my think here's here's the thing e3 is an expo Summer game fest has never been an expo The the thing that makes e3 stand out. I know for a lot of you guys think makes sense with all the e3 press conferences um But what makes e3 different is it is an expo it's a place where you go to play the damn game yeah, um Summer game fest has yet to provide anything like that and summer game fest is only provided summer game fest From everything that now that we've got a couple years of it Um, what it looks like summer game fest really is it's a one-time event. They'll label Everything that happens around it as oh, this is a summer game fest event. Like no, no. No, no. No. Yeah Summer game fest is just the one night thing. It's the one night thing. It's a presentation about games Summer game fest is essentially an e3 presentation That just happens to not be for one company but a bunch of companies that partner with it Which that's not a problem, but that that's basically what summer game fest is Um, at least so far. It doesn't mean it won't evolve doesn't mean it won't become more But that's what summer game fest has been to this point. It's basically an an e3 presentation An e3 press conference, which is fine Um, I still think Microsoft will still do one Um, nintendo will still have some sort of direct that month at some point um, but Yeah, you know like for me I want you know I I want e3 to happen. I want nintendo to be there Um, I just I'm just not confident because they made all these promises what we would hear by the end of the year Usually when they say by the end of the year They don't literally mean like the last week of the year That's like a generalized thing to be like. Oh, yeah, we'll have this sorted out before the end of the year Doesn't feel like it's sorted out. I mean, there's still two weeks then before the end of the last week I still I still I still don't think they're making major announcements around the time that people aren't online and are with their families I just don't see that happening. That's why major and all that's why it's next week I mean, that's why major announcements don't happen at the end of december and um By the way Them saying that doesn't mean that oh, they can't come back in january or february or april or march or some event and say something And announce everything they could But they they acted like they were going to do it different because the e3 in the past has never you couldn't sign up for media till like april Um april and you and you didn't know who all the attending list was until like may so That's what e3's done in the past Read pop was acting like oh, we're not doing it that way. You're gonna know way ahead of time You'll be the son for passes way ahead of time um And the closer we get to when it usually is announced The further away we get from what was promised Like we're supposed to be able to register as media. We can't The website hasn't even been updated for e3 next year The official website. Well, they may be freaking completely building a brand new goddamn website behind the scenes Take down the old one and put a splash page up. That's true Working on it. It still says It's still advertising through 2022. Yeah, yeah, I saw that This is what it said Yeah, so I I'm very Don't think it's happening So to bring this back to the game awards. Obviously, we know the game awards is happening Let's let's let's end it with this What if anything do you think nintendo shows? Tomorrow or do you think they're not gonna they're gonna know show the whole event? Now remember they've only no showed in 2021. They actually have had something at every other game awards Even it was just a character reveal. It was still something I'm gonna go bold here. I'm gonna go very bold Okay, very bold. I'm always been bold, right? I've always been like crazy Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah that that last direct man But you really nailed that I nailed two games, right? I got I got pick me for out of like the 70 that you said would be When you throw everything at the wall something's gonna stick What are you new marco maro? He just acted like we're getting prime hd announced tomorrow. So All right, so so so we are getting We are getting Uh, zelda trailer Okay, a zelda trailer Okay, we are getting I'm going to say prime. I'm not a metroid trailer. I don't care. I metroid it Is some sort of metroid got anything metroid metroid mobile I'm gonna go as far as saying metroid prime 4 teaser We're getting metroid. Oh now you went prime 4. So there we go. I was gonna say you said something metroid I'm like, okay, so we're getting metroid pinball on phones. Got it Yeah, I will I will play that game. They have metroid pinball at one point. It was a game, right? Metroid prime 4 pinballs at the same time Yeah Hey everybody, we got a great metroid prime 4 news Shadow drop prime 4 pinball Can we see part of metroid prime 4? No, are any of the assets in this game from metroid prime 4? No These are chibi we're in chibi art style Oh anyways, yeah only available on windows phone Not even android or apple just windows phones. Oh boy. There's like two of them in existence The amount of screens broken at that point in time would be Metroid prime 4 and then my third I got three three, uh, and then This is like so completely dumb, but I want to say anyway just for fun of it That brand new 2d mario game. Ah, there you go That rumored 2d mario game To go along with that because I feel if there is a 2d mario game coming I have the I think it's connected to the movie somehow somewhere, you know, because it's coincidental, you know So, yeah, I don't want to see a trailer for the movie. I really don't want to see another trailer for the movie I'm zelda robust over here. Yeah It has an elimination has a bad habit of Over trailing if that's a word, which is why we'll get a mario trailer, which is exactly why we're gonna get one Yeah, too many trailers too many trailers And then they end up giving all the all all the jokes out all the jokes out I remember watching the speak only three I saw all the trailers when I went and see the movies like wait all the all the jokes were already All the trailers. So it's like, yeah, you kind of chuckled. Yeah on the bright side I'm not covering the mario movie at my channel anymore. So none of you guys need to worry about it over here but here's here's the thing it's it's Illumination with their own stuff We'll go overboard with the thing nintendo has probably some I'm guessing nintendo has some say on whether or not they could put out another I don't know that nintendo cares because they they look at illumination and go Oh All your minion and despicable we ones make like a billion dollars. We want that I mean true We trust that you know how to advertise because you keep making billions. I mean, there's that we want to sweet bill ourselves, please Yeah Yeah, I like how they're doing it though. I like how they they're they're announcing their trailers with the direct So far taking charts. Yeah, bring it right into the fans. So that's a pretty cool Cool thing, you know, no for sure so far. I think that last trailer I don't know One of these trailers is going to be the ones they throw up at the movie theaters. It hasn't happened yet There's there's like five trailers out there. You know that, right? Yeah, yeah conning all the 32nd ones they have up there Yeah, yeah, they all have different footage. So that's why I've only seen the one from the direct and the first one Yeah, like the Spanish one or Yeah, I'm not looking for anything else Yeah, there's more footage out there not not enough to I think to spoil it yet, but you know It's one of those if you guys are already sold to go then like you don't need anything else And just like show up on april 7th and enjoy I'll sell with the first one. So I'm good If you're someone that me that covers it cool, but I'm also like Deciding not to cover it anymore. If I can't cover it in the way I want to then it's just not worth it I'll cover it if Nintendo announces another direct relate to the I might make a short A short on it because shorts Here dude, here's what I don't get So now I've been doing shorts like a month almost Yeah, you could do anything you want. You can use copyrighted music. They do they do not care Yeah, I think you can and when the monetization comes out They're not even taking all your money if you use copyrighted Movie clips copyrighted music. They're just going to take a chunk of that money and give it to the copyright owner But you're still going to get a chunk Yeah, you're gonna get a way you gotta really should have been so I look at this as How the hell are you doing this for shorts and not our videos? No 100% Hopefully they it goes our out, right? Like I understand they have to the the reason they're doing this is because we can't just be like Oh, you can't make any money on those because then tiktok will always be the superior platform because People are using copyrighted stuff and they're all the time without getting in trouble. Oh, yeah But also You're proving you can do it. You proved you can work out the legalese To split the revenue So then why are we doing that on our normal videos? Why isn't it split that way if I want to put copyrighted music in my live stream? I shouldn't lose all ad revenue on that live stream Maybe because I use copyrighted music it gets divvied up between however many people I violated copyright with but Okay, I'm still part of that divvy. I mean I still get part of it. So honestly to be completely honest It really should only be the amount of time The percentage of the video that that copyright is in yeah, I know but but I'm gonna fight against that because In shorts, I can use copyrighted song. It could be the whole thing could be But then don't use copyrighted song for a full full short then But yeah, okay, but again again now you're pushing people back to I get it But so you're gonna tell all the people to do all the dances. Nope. Sorry stay on tiktok. Yeah Then shorts will be shorts will never compete with tiktok then Yeah, because tiktok already sorted this out. You still make money on tiktok despite using that stuff They've all they they've literally already sorted out the legalese So you said girls and dances and you Yeah, right. No, I never said girls. I said tiktok dances. Yeah, you're right. I never specified girls But I'm just saying that they've already made it so shorts work that way anyways Yeah, so I just don't know why they can't make it for videos I just I just don't get I don't know why it's all or nothing Yeah, it's either all of it goes to the copyright guy or all of it goes to you. There's no in between. Yeah Well, and then how long the fucking process takes and then You know, like they don't really accrue the the money or the monetization and everything like that and it's like You know, why can I just I yeah the copyright thing this and fucking youtube is stupid I can just file a claim against all of your videos just because I can I don't have to prove anything Yep, you can you can yeah, I wish and the thing is like even if even if they Uh discover who you are Like Because you're supposed to get in trouble for making false claims Well, people don't use their main accounts for that to use their all-way accounts. Oh, yeah, for sure So like who cares? Oh, you banned that account. Yeah I don't mean that guess what I can spin up another freaking web. It's free to make new email and which is fine That I don't want it to not be free to make accounts. I'm it's just I it shouldn't work that way in order to submit the claim Um, you should have to provide actual proof of copyright ownership right attached to your account Right. So as an example, if I used a song from I don't know Jason Derulo or something like I'm trying to think of someone who works with vivo Um, and vivo wants to make a copyright claim that the the account that filed the claim Needs to be the same account that owns the rights You know what I mean like it shouldn't just be anyone Well, because at least then you can go click on the vivo account You can see all their sub accounts underneath their network and see Oh that song's on one of their sub accounts in the network. They do own the copyright. This is a legit claim versus Random joe smo that put jason derulo as his profile picture makes a claim Has no videos no content even attached to the account related to the claim And we're going to count that the same as a company claim Well, and then I know like every time you play the duck tail song on the podcast podcast channel but I I actually did some digging on that one and Yes, the the people who claim that are you know do have a version of the song But not that version that you're using. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's a fan creator version. So it doesn't matter The fan the the person who made that version didn't have the right to make that version Uh-huh. Yeah, but the person who's It doesn't you can't no no, okay if the person who claimed it Yeah, if that's the original version of the song they do other right Listen if I take my guitar and I start playing the song that's already copyrighted and start singing it Even if it's I'm yeah, you can't do karaoke and like all all those I get you can't do acapella anymore on here Unless you're just willing to accept you're not making any money. Yeah But no no those people Do not are not the original originators of the song. Who are the originators? I mean, it's a freaking band for like, you know recent Guarantee you it's not an originator of the song But they might have bought the rights to use it Yeah, but just because you have rights to use it doesn't mean you own the rights to the song You just have rights to use it I know but I just know the version i'm using literally was just a fan made I realized that but that's not the version that Is the people who are claiming it is he I don't really care about that. I I find it funny that when I play it on the podcast channel It gets claimed when I play it on my main channel. It doesn't which by the way This podcast is live on the main channel. I'm sure you guys have noticed by now. Maybe some of you guys Hi, hi main channel. Hi main channel. It's not live on the podcast channel. Um I'm in a bit of restructuring YouTube changed again They're already changing they're always changing But they have no notifications have no control over the notifications For live streams are no longer the same as notifications for videos, which are also no longer the same as notifications for shorts Which now means none of the content is supposed to hurt the other Supposedly supposedly which means I don't necessarily need to separate everything now That doesn't mean I don't want to have a second channel So I might finally start doing something that I used to do ages ago and actually make clips And start using that other channel as a clip channel that takes individual topics or certain segments Like in here, we have three topics a day But I can probably sift through here and find four or five different things we talked about And make like a 10 minute clip and throw that up over there Um, if people are interested in that I'm not going to do it on this channel I thought about it on this channel. Like it would only happen on this channel if it was like, uh I'm going to be gone for the next week. So I just need some content, right? Like maybe I'll throw some clips up here But the whole point would be maybe making that a clip channel and then a backup Um Like a backup channel like let's say I've had a day where I've been particularly busy at the channel Right. I got three videos out a couple shorts I did a live stream earlier in the day because something major happened I just needed to get it out and before you know, it's like, oh man I put like six things on the channel today. I probably shouldn't do tonight's live stream there. So let's go to the other channel Um, but yeah The thing that might be how I treat it. I don't know You guys tell me Tell me on the discord server because we're gonna actually we're gonna probably wrap up this show a while ago You saying this I am Tugetto you were wrong it it did hurt So Oh, that's because it did hurt and I have the stats to show it Right I had all the evidence proving that it didn't matter what youtube said it mattered what was actually happening Right and what was actually happening was beneficial at that time the live streams were hurting the views Days I didn't live stream views were higher every time I did live stream Views would just stop and you could see it stream starts the views are going like this Oop flat line It would just stop Doesn't do that anymore But that's what it was doing at the time It doesn't yeah Okay fair enough fair enough talking so much Probably gonna start live streaming then. Yeah. Yeah doesn't doesn't hurt it anymore. Um Yeah, that's all Also, the shorts aren't evergreen as I'm finding out now Now that I've been doing it long enough my old shorts are like getting new spikes. So nice cool Sorry, I am Tugetto. I don't don't mean to actually call it. I was short that crossed the line. Okay. A while is a relative term. So A while is a relative term. You're right. You're right. Um, anyways a while could be two weeks, two weeks, one week So so we're still gonna use a sec. I'm still gonna use a second channel and probably do some clips over there. Uh, and we're going to um Just kind of that mean I gotta fucking migrate the goddamn podcast back to the main channel Don't worry about migrating. Okay. I might don't worry about that. So we're still migrating everything back to the other channel No, we're not going to worry about migrating episodes back and forth. That was one thing It was a pain Back when we did another channel and brought them over there. I mean It's whatever but um, what I'm going to be doing with the podcast moving forward is I'm going to be adding all the episodes that are over there from To the playlist over here and the playlist is going to be on the main channel So that playlist will always be up to date and you can go through that playlist and and find all the episodes Instead of migrating them back and forth like that Then we'll just have clips over there and then it'll also just be a backup channel like let's just say Um God I want to get a fifth piece of content out today, but that's a way too many Well, maybe I just throw it up at that channel and say screw it It's basically a backup channel that'll have clips. It'll focus more on the clips I originally at the time that I made this decision thought oh, maybe I'll make that the shorts channel No No, because shorts don't hurt anything. Yeah, so like there's no reason to like Take the shorts away from the channel like youtube Is figuring it out They're figuring things out slowly how to have all these different types of content and have them not hurt each other They're getting there guys Slowly But they're getting there And remember they don't have control over the the algorithm at all Not that the something they don't have control It's that people apparently look at the algorithm incorrectly Not about the channels. It's about the people watching Okay, I don't know All I know is what happens on my end and that's all I can show you I have no idea and like because when I'm like as a content creator I don't look at things anymore as a viewer Like I don't know why some channels I was watching all the time suddenly vanished from my timeline. I have no idea Because I didn't because I vanished for a week or didn't watch their most recent video I don't know why the algorithm decided suddenly like thoughty two videos shouldn't be in my timeline anymore Even though I watched like all of them I used to and then I haven't seen me now for like two months I don't know why yeah, well or I get these random Suggested ones and it's like I no no the suggested ones are fine because they're trying to introduce you to other content creators That's fine My suggested ones are nothing like anything that I watch What do you mean? I clicked on I clicked on like a video like A year and a half ago this random like just music video And that's all the suggestions I get now It doesn't matter that I've watched, you know A ton of phil the franco or you know Last week tonight or anything like that doesn't matter like I spent my whole page on youtube Guys and like so I'm seeing lot down bucks podcast, which yes, I watched that that makes sense The Milwaukee bucks channel their game just ended. So yes, that makes sense TD Barrett video because I watched some of his videos Um a video from first things first, which is a sports show. I sometimes catch on here if I don't catch it on tv um Penguin zero I watch him once in a while and then spawnways video, right? So those are one two three four five Uh six of my eight Suggested videos. Yeah, but these are all channels. I'm already subscribed to you, right? Yeah Um, so that's fine. Yeah, but there are two videos slipped in here that are from people I've never I've never seen before Uh late to the show flip cover for steam deck I don't watch steam deck content At all But I can understand why this would appear It's an accessory video about video games and I do watch a lot of video game content So I kind of get it and this is a small contender. It's got 500 views on the video. It's a small content creator It's really neat to see that some small content creator got promoted to me. I'm not going to watch the video It's not done of interest to me and I don't want them to think these kind of videos are of interest to me So I'm not going to click on it But it is nice to see a small content creator getting suggested to me and then v 101 science What did we see on titan the first and only photos from titan sat on his largest moon? You know why that's I don't want to see that you know why that's popped up Because I've been watching in the last week a lot of neil the grassy videos to grassy to grass Anyways, uh His star talk channel and watching just a lot of a lot of talk about space stuff And so now I had a suggestion from something I've never seen before about space in my time Makes sense because I know what I've been watching lately and this is from a rather large channel I don't know. This this is one of mine here mark x burnout at pack wheels auto show free char Yep, that is yeah, and I do not watch any automobile freaking videos Yep, that is what my suggestions are filled with quite a bit this random shit Um How often do you watch youtube? Huh, not very that's probably why it doesn't know what to suggest to you because you're not on youtube enough So here's here's what they're trying to do is just the thing you're not on youtube You're not watching youtube a lot. So here's what they're having a problem with with you Yeah, actually they're trying to figure out how to keep you on youtube. What are you talking about? I'm on it actually I'm on it every day. I'm watching a lot of us in the background and uh And uh game drops But that's it So At least I know I'm interested in gaming. There's wait. There are there are audio going. I don't know Oh, wait. No, I didn't know I didn't I don't know someone we're there with it though Uh, but no, I I I hear you Not interested go away. I hear you but also When you're on youtube, you have a need in tender prime. Well, sorry, Mike. Sorry, Mike. Mike's the backup Hey, Mike comes across Because it's all the podcast podcast the back. I don't actually think I'm that good at youtube But um, I'm glad that you guys enjoy it. I hope you guys enjoyed the show I you guys go check out Mike. Honestly, we have um him tagged down in the description If you guys want to click on it take you right through his channel go ahead and subscribe. He's uh Quickly approaching. He's got he's got his giveaway event coming up. Um, what do you what do you call that again on the 17th? What's that called? December 17. I don't only have a name for it. I'm just gonna comment. You know what just a giveaway. That's it They had a name for last year Awesome crazy christmas giveaway this time. Yeah, okay. I just named it. So basically yeah, we have uh Some giveaways here. I think I have I have um, it's gonna be all digital except one thing for For the tradition of every year Which by the way, uh pretty cool this right here So uh Because they keep bringing the same bundle every year gotta gotta give it away every year But yeah, this is basically what they did different is that this is the old ed box And in the different designs. So so whoever wins it gets uh, I really cool pink instead of blue They uh, they they changed the design for the box at least uh, it's it's the old ed box But in in this in the regular switch for them. So now Because they couldn't they couldn't give us an old ed one. Yeah, it had to as to be the regular Yeah, but but I mean anybody who's gonna get this is gonna be playing it on Probably dock mode more, you know Um gets uh the mario kart game All right, and three months of nintendo online plus a switch, right? It's not a bad deal Yeah, no of note guys at the that's not the expansion pack online. So now this is this is yeah This is the uh, three months on nintendo online, but if you happen to To add the expansion pack on top of this when you play you pay less You just pay for the difference instead of paying for the entire thing. Yep, which is cool. Yeah Yeah, and then I and then I still have the uh, nintendo switch Olen model. I have the pokemon version and I also have the Pokemon version and then the splatoon version and those two are for the 20k, uh giveaway 20 20,000 20 thousand dollars So I have three I actually have three switch going on here three nintendo switch. Give away. Oh, yeah And then the other two noise Yeah So it's happening. It's happening All right, um That being said before we sign out. I want to remind you guys that our channel is sponsored by ewin racing It's about some chairs here. You guys have a link down in the description as well as Uh pinned in the chat for the live if you guys want to check it out. We got discount code 20 off to nintendo prime Uh, and I think that's going to do it. You guys can subscribe to the channel Hopefully listen to the audio versions. I know I've been lazy about it since eric took off for the last month I'll do something about the audio version. I have not been up. Oh, yeah. Hey, by the way I don't have an excuse. I'm full-time now. I don't have an excuse to have to spend time doing it But I'm sorry to our audio listeners that are going to get spammed with like seven episodes I want it happens. You're all right. Just be just be glad that you have your entire holiday's worth of listening Come on your way All right guys, we'll catch you uh one next week same time next week. Peace out later