 episode 43 assuming I have the numbers right I have no idea I've been trying to get all of our episodes last few weeks up on the podcast channel there's been some weird things happening with YouTube while I do it but hey you know what there's a couple things a couple things that really matter at this moment one is who our special guest is you guys might see him is some version of himself right now I'm not sure which one but mr. Mike Perez aka Nintendo Academy is here how's it going buddy what's going on this is this is the original version of Mike Perez is not the I want to testing testing you hear me yeah this is your this is not the multi-verse version this is the original version of Mike Perez here yeah you don't want to meet those people those those other people crazy I just I just got a visit from another version of Mike this guy's calling himself prime Mike prime Mike and yeah he's gonna make an appearance pretty soon so yeah is he's living on the private island with Nintendo Prime because that bastard shows up to my live streams and super chats all the time and he's just showing off how rich he is out in his private island in the Bahamas I'm guessing yeah they probably met they probably met probably case so everyone I am your host as always your moderator your whatever you like to call me Nathaniel Rumpful Jants and to my left your guys is right actually middle yeah is mr. Eric more how's it going good good hello everybody so I want to explain to the people why you're here after I told them you want me right so I was supposed to be gone for work this week was watching I was gone last week on vacation this week was supposed to actually be gone for work I was watching my emails over last week and the trip got pushed a week so I will actually be out next week hooray great fun and joy great fun great joy when you're at the Nintendo prime podcast all right um so oh lord I'm trying to fix something over here that has to do with advertising our guest because you guys should really really go subscribe the Nintendo Academy he is underneath him creeping in he's creeping in I know I gotta change that too yeah he's creeping in he's creeping closer and closer and closer to 10,000 subscribers and Mike Perez what happens when you hit 10,000 subscribers so at 10,000 subscribers that's our first milestone we're gonna be giving away a Nintendo switch OLED bundle with Pokemon special edition 25 case and a digital download of a game yeah I mean it doesn't end there at 20 is two switches at 30 is three switches at 40 is four switches that at 50 is five switches and all the way to you know infinity and although I know infinity oh my okay I'm gonna stop at 10 okay I was gonna say I'd like to see when you hit infinity how many how many OLEDs that actually would be that's impressive yeah all right so as we like to start every podcast we're gonna talk about what have we been playing lately and I'm gonna start with Eric who actually just played something I did I did actually been playing some stuff hold up stop the breath a second your button ready clip Eric right now he actually played video games I did when we have a podcast it's amazing and all right I'm surprised you own a system I actually played the stuff that's relevant to this podcast too holy crap wow what what just right whoa whoa my mind is blown here I'm gonna go fix this yeah right advertising I guess but you explain yeah yeah so I feel game I finished South Park in the stake of truth so that was fun yeah I finished you ready for fractured bubble now yeah yeah I'm gonna have to look into getting the access through my account nice yeah that could work then I played I beat the Kirby demo played a little bit of that also with my cousin's kid so that was fun a little bit of a co-op and then about I don't know half hour before the podcast starts Nate's hand me a switch and says play the dang DLC so yeah DLC for what Mario Kart 8 obviously that's in the title I said relevant to the podcast so if you can't figure that out that's on you is it though we haven't talked about it yeah you're presuming my audience can read yeah I know Mario Kart yeah yeah yeah I think it exists I'm not 100% sure so I mentioned obviously that there is a couple things to note at the beginning of this podcast and the first thing is everyone listening live how's our audio well please as I haven't broken it yet so I mean that that's true I just had to ask because we've obviously had audio issues since moving to this new set and I noticed while editing the podcast to go on the podcast channel that even when you guys said hey the audio is good it really wasn't oh boy it was still echoey as hell still sounded like we were talking down a hallway so I'm hoping that it sounds better today that was good to me I mean I don't expect our guests to say otherwise if you said it sounded like shit I'm just sorry I'm trying to get the setup over here so Mike or should I just say Nintendo Academy Academy what are you been playing lately so I've been playing of course I did the Kirby forgotten land demo I'm stuck on Pokemon Legends Arcus I'm playing that I'm and I got I'm playing that but now I was playing can't remember this game's name playing it and I can't remember the name I'm PS5 I'm playing not elder ring the other one horizon horizon for Ben and West yeah that one I'm stuck on that one I'm like really hooked on that one I'm playing that one just because of the that open-world concept kind of in preparation for Breath of the Wild 2 just kind of you know getting at my head straight with that and then yeah so those are the two games I'm playing besides that Kirby game that you know the demo one we finished but yeah that's what I'm that's what's going on right now that's a deal awesome so what I've been playing lately done done done I've been playing some triangle strategy still trying to finish that one out probably gonna go in the back burner for a bit cuz I am going to be playing Kirby in the forgotten land all weekend probably dominating beating it I hope we'll see and then I think I'm gonna get back into Legends Arceus because I haven't eaten yet so gonna go kind of a little bit back in time get back into that and move forward now what else have I been playing micro 8 DLC duh given straight given that I have been playing that so let's talk more about it shall we Mario Kart 8 DLC now I have no idea if my buttons work because I didn't set these up right hey look at that so Mario Kart 8 deluxe DLC dropped last week the first two cups a tracks can I we get some initial thoughts assuming that you guys have played it I mean Eric played it today's he's fresh have you played it Mike I did I did a topic we all can talk about look at that it's like I planned it or something um so what are you guys's thoughts on the Mario Kart 8 deluxe DLC at this point go for it Mike it makes perfect sense to me that's what I gotta say it makes Mario Kart 8 deluxe the DLC the first the first wave that's what I'm calling it first wave it makes perfect sense to me because I've been staying all along there is no Mario Kart 9 I mean not that it's not they're not making it is that that not for this Nintendo switch and then the DLC the way they're releasing it make perfect sense to me because I think I was on me I wasn't I was talking to myself but the courses yeah the courses they're releasing make perfect sense to me just because what they're doing is extending the life of the game you know until until yeah yeah exactly you know you notice how they haven't they did not release any DLC for Mario Kart until now you know it's like they had this plan already you know Mario Kart is a top selling game where fully 40 million copies and yeah they didn't need to add a DLC then because it was still selling you know there's they're doing it now because they they they want to extend the life of the game until the end of the life of the console so it gives us this that's what I feel like it is it's basically they're extending the life of the game until the end of the life of the cycle so that also gives us an idea of how much longer we have to wait till we see next gen things happening so it just makes perfect sense to me that the they look great you know they think you could tell their their ports from other other places like for example a Mario Kart mobile and stuff so they don't look as polished as the other courses but you know it's good I still haven't found anybody who has been playing Mario Kart and then racing very slow just to look around and see every detail of the game you know so yeah that those are my thoughts so I played it first time I played it was live last week and I played it a couple times since my initial impressions are that it's good but it depends so if you look at the Mario Kart 8 tracks that already exist whether they're from older games or the brand new to Mario Kart 8 that all of them have seemingly you know tight turns or a lot of like coarse obstacles that we have to navigate through and these tracks I got added maybe through no fault of their own because some of our older tracks some of them are from tour but I have literally played nothing but 200 cc and it literally feels like I'm playing 100 cc because the tracks have no obstacles and the turns aren't tight so you could literally to zip through it like these tracks are nothing except for two of them to be clear the final tracks in each cup add that extra layer of difficulty and are really cool and I think everyone you know enjoys those you know from my coconut mall to what is it the ninja hideaway so like those tracks are great I know some people are upset with the changes the coconut mall from the original course where they had real escalators not like the arrows and obviously the cars move towards the end in the original and they are static in this one so they definitely made some changes that simplified it a little or at least made it easier on the player but the thing is it depends on what aspect you look at it from if you're someone who loves racing 200 cc and you want the easiest 200 cc courses in existence you just got them so congratulations if you just want something that's pretty to look at you want to drive slow at 50 cc cool you got that too but if you care about it being challenging I feel like that's where it's lacking the the DLC courses added so far are the easiest courses bar none in the entire Mario Kart 8 and that's what now what there was 48 so I added 16 more so is that you know 50 64 courses now and these are the easiest by far it's not even close maybe you could argue that the like the baby toad speedway whatever we get go around eight times is technically easiest but the problem is that course is intended to be that way so it's actually extremely chaotic because there's so many items because there's so many you know the loops are so quick so it doesn't have the obstacles but it has the chaos involved with it's such a short track of those items flying everywhere so like that is what makes that track chaotic and fun but I feel like these are by our bar none the easiest tracks in the game and so it all kind of depends on do you like that ease or do you want more of a challenge if you're used to the challenge that made as an example some people will say 200 cc is no fun in the original 48 tracks in fact every time we do 200 cc with our Mario Kart 8 deluxe tournaments people get kind of mad because some people hate it because they lose control they don't realize that you could just not accelerate all the time like that that's the thing in the game you could also use your break those are those are those are options while you're racing guys just so you're aware when you're playing 200 cc yes you can't just hold down a the whole time and yes you can use your break both are required in 200 cc I don't know it's almost like NASCAR racers never touch their break ever right ever they never slow down or try to cut turns and none of that ever happens so like yeah they were 200 cc did is it made it so you don't you cuz even 150 cc you have pretty much this whole day the whole time and be fine about 200 cc you can't you actually have to have what do they call that skill I think that's the thing they tried to add to Mario Kart so like these courses don't have skill for 200 cc which means they don't have skill for any of the 50 100 or 150 cc either so for me personally it's fun for a quick romp but now I don't even want to play them because they're not hard but I know when you play online everyone's gonna pick them cuz they're new and they're fresh and everyone wants to play them and people some people then buy the DLC or have the expansion packs so they like you know want to play them for free and I get that and I get that some of them are good Ninja Highway legitimately a good track that one's a good one at least when it comes to challenge I think that's why I've actually seen a lot of polls at various YouTube youtubers that put up over what their favorite tracks are and I think Ninja Highway takes the cake every single time and I know why because multiple paths hidden paths it's a classic Mario Kart course there's hidden paths everywhere lots of challenge you're driving on rooftops it's fun it's different so I don't know Eric I'm gonna throw it to you because I'm kind of torn on like do I like that it's easier or do I wish it was as challenging as the rest of the game and maybe what I take is wrong maybe you guys think I'm just an idiot I want to know Eric your thoughts I actually you know me I was a Mario Kart 64 and that's pretty much it it to me it felt more like I was back actually playing Mario Kart even though it was 200 CC to me I kind of I kind of almost liked that slight ease just because to me it felt like Mario Kart from way back when I was used to constantly so I mean I like the tracks I thought they were great from yeah it's I thought it was fun it actually makes me want to possibly think about getting the game possibly yeah I think possibly maybe the next wave might actually come on Eric possibly Eric it's the greatest Mario Kart game to ever exist it's more deluxe 40 million 40 million and I mean God we're only the tip of the iceberg with the DLC so much more coming I know 32 more tracks buddy I get that are you sure I don't know if you undergrasp what's what's happening at this exact moment I understand it actually whatever more than that's way more for 40 tracks yeah whatever point is I think I messed up my math earlier for some reason I thought they added 16 tracks and eight yeah whatever it happens all right all right all right so is this DLC better than any of the tracks that are currently in the game or or would you like there's a lot of cops okay so I'm not gonna be like oh let's rank all the cups like that's that's gonna be a little a little ridiculous to try to go through and rank all the cups right now even though I have the game right in front of me to look at it quick but like do you find yourself preferring like you kind of like you were preferring the DLC over the tracks that you've played before but Mike how about you do you find yourself preferring the DLC I think I think it's it has to do with you know the newness of it if that's a word do this the you know how because we've been playing the all the all the current tracks for forever and to have something new playing a Mario Kart you know Mario Kart 8 deluxe have new new tracks even though they're not new the remix of the tracks having something new kind of gives it just a temporary edge until you get used to them again I don't necessarily think they're better than the original tracks I think I just think that because there's just they're just new right now people are just enjoying them better just yeah exactly has a new car smell until that car starts thinking like yeah so I think I think it has to do with that and then when it comes to the 200 was it CC you know I feel like this is gonna change I feel like because this is the DLC maybe something went wrong and in software and I think I feel like the two the 200 CC will will be compared to all the others in future updates it could be it could be a possibility that the 200 CC would be updated as new tracks are released this is the very first one this is the very first DLC that Mario Kart's get gets so it could be slow now but it could actually just kind of get updated later on when it comes to the speed and you know difficulty of it so hopefully for those who like difficulty maybe there could be an update when they release the next tracks or even before where everything is just leveled up with the rest of the game because I look at Nintendo they don't look like a you know I mean you know Nintendo likes to keep everything across the line if you do too on CC over here it should be the same exact here and I feel like this is just like a little hiccup when it comes to the update they release and then they might fix it later on it could be a what if this is their future like this is what they want to be in the future because remember some of these tracks came from tour which is newer true and this is the way the tracks are in there as well so or or is it kind of an ease in to you get to learn the tracks a little bit more in this get the feel of them and then they're gonna ramp it up I feel like Mario Kart tours harder to play than Mario Kart the Lux just because of the you know you have the phone and you have to kind of do with the hand and tap or whatever I mean I think the the tracks might have been slower on on tour because of that because it's actually a little difficult to actually play rather than holding a controller or holding a wheel and maybe they just they they point everything they forgot to to adjust the the speed and that's how we're getting it right now and we might get that update later on. Yeah so apparently we're on an echo again or at least my mic is. Oh, hold on a second. Yeah. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Yeah, you're good. Echo, echo, echo. Alright, is it just that port? Is it just the mic port? How do I sound? Let me mic port. I have nothing to do with this. We're porting mic in it. Right. Oh lord. How we sounding? Okay, flip me back. Flip me back. Alright, how are we doing on this one now? How are we doing on this one now? Different port. I still don't know if those echoes are from the last one or. It's like that meme. Everything is fine and the house is on fire. No, I don't think so. We don't sound this way. We don't sound echo-y at all to you, do we? Mike, are we clear to you? Yeah, yeah, perfectly. Yeah. So what the hell, man? How can a guest hear us clear but the shack can't? What the hell? Alright. My Mike Perez, Nintendo Academy. Yeah. Says Nate, you sound like you're talking through a ventilator. Are you okay? Is everything okay? Yeah, we're good. It sounds like we have a pain mask on. Okay. Yeah, echo. Maybe. Mike, can you hear me? Yes, sir. Is the sound just as good as before? It sounds the same. I don't. Okay. So do you guys. So how does it sound to you guys? We literally just went back to how I had it set up before the echo. It's funny too. We had no echo last week when Eric was in here. I quit. I'm done. Sound like you're talking through a fan. Okay. Says here Perez sounds gray, but Nate and Eric sound like they are getting jump-started. We're something. Jump-started. Got better? Oh boy. Okay. Great fun and joy. Nate's going to step outside the room and see what you guys are listening to. So hooray. Yeah, I'm talking. My lord. I am talking. Calm yourself down. My lord. Holy cow. I'm getting yelled at over here. I don't understand this. Daft Punk cover? Yes. Yeah. My lord. Yeah, Eric. You sound like a Daft Punk band cover. Pretty grainy echoey giveaway? Yeah, I know. Okay. Talking. Talking. Okay. Is any better? Hello. Echo. Okay. Echo giveaway. What? Hello. Hello. No, I don't know if it's because the two mics. It might be, but oh, three mics with my gear butt. I don't know. Maybe. I hear nothing. You hear nothing. Oh boy. I'm a human tesla coila. Oh boy. Static sound and some crackling. Great. Just wasting time to hopefully Nate figures out what's going on. Question mark. Hello. His mic is turned off. So it has nothing to do with that. Great. Fun. Right. So while Nate works the mic, how's everybody in the chat doing? Yeah, right. How is Chad? Very well. Anybody playing good games? Mention one game that you guys are playing in the chat. Go ahead. My favorite switch game is Breath of the Wild. My favorite overall game is Breath of the Wild. And Emblem Warriors is an awesome game on Switch. It's a really cool game. Mario Kart and Animal Crossing New Horizon. Love it. Dread is amazing. It is. It is super amazing. Thanks, Nintendo Academy. Mine too. I'm playing Luigi's Mansion 3. Got the, I can't read the other one, something. Oh, you got it on sale on Mario 10 day. Mario 10, Mario day. Breath of the Wild, Hayden Kirby, Joshua Molster, Fax. Rune Factory is five is cool. All right. I gotta talk again. I'm thinking of getting Elden Ring. I'm still not decided yet, but I'm still playing. Three games right now. I'm trying to get over Legends, Arceus first, so that I can do the review for that. But I'm a points, I'm all like a collecting junkie. So I have to actually finish the entire thing before I even pass it. I can't just play the game. And, you know, I can't just play the game and pass it. I have to actually collect everything within the game. That's why with Breath of the Wild, I played it three times. One time I actually passed it very quick because I wanted to see the ending. The second time I did it like an exploring thingy and then I got tired and I passed it. And then this time around, I completed all the shrines and got everything within the game because I wanted to actually complete the entire thing. So I play the game like three times. Eric, you sound good. I started playing Luigi's Mansion back when it came out and then I kind of stopped halfway. So I have to go back and finish it. Yes, Jess, Holder, Breath of the Wild is definitely worth it, definitely. So while Nate and Eric work on their mics, I'm going to tell you my little beard story to keep you guys entertained. So here's my little beard right here. I can tell it's not real. Nate, how I sound out there? Mike, I'm sorry to interrupt your beard story if you can hear us. Go ahead, go ahead. Nate's trying to test a couple other things here. So hopefully things are sounding better. All right, let's see here. It's still robotic. Fantastic. Never mind. That's not it then. Not the equipment. Fantastic. All right. So yeah, so basically I'm wearing a fake beard here because I had an accident shaving. My wife doesn't like to see me without a beard. So I made a bet that I will keep it, keep it until it goes back. So I was kind of like, and I kind of shaved my entire beard off. So literally no beard under this. So I made a promise to myself and to Nintendo Academy and to Nintendo Prime. I'm never going to let anybody see me without a beard. So yeah, here it is. I got a couple of beards. So I have a blue one. I have a green one. I have a white one. Yeah. Talking in this one, seeing how this one sounds, hopefully the lab mic is a little better. Not sure if that's going to be better or not, but you know, hopefully audio madness. Okay, hopefully this is better. Is this any better? No. The beard game's strong. Hey, Mason, I'm doing good. How about you? I'm going to have some nice chunks to cut out in the middle. Hey, you're going to have some nice chunk to cut out in the middle. So talk about things, like what things? Kirby. Well, I can't change the current topic, but. All right, everybody in the chat, you've already mentioned a game that you're playing. Now, I'll mention a game that you're looking forward to this year. What game are you looking forward to this year? Whether it's announced already or unannounced? I like that idea. Let's go with that. Announce games that you are looking forward to. I like that idea, Mike. Test team. Yeah. We needed it. We needed a technician for yeah. Clear to him. Yeah. Kirby, Breath of the Wild, Breath of the Wild 2. It's YouTube. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Splatoon 3. Breath of the Wild 2. Breath of the Wild 2. Strikers. I like that idea. Mario Strikers. Xenoblade Chronicles 3. LEGO Star Wars. The Sai. LEGO Star Wars. Sky Wars. Saga. Mike, can you even hear us? Chrono Tigger. Yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to. I don't know. Switch Sports. Man, Switch Sports is going to be so much fun. I'm going to have so many tournaments with that. When I see if Nate wants to have tournaments as well with Switch Sports, it's going to be fun. Switch Sports. Right? Okay. Can you hear me now, Mike? I can hear you. Yep. Okay, cool. Perfect. Hey, he wants to know if you want to do some tournaments with Switch Sports. He's going, okay. You're going down, Mike, apparently. I'm the Bowling King, dude. I'm the Bowling King. Nice. Oh, and tennis. Tennis. Tennis. Bowling and tennis. I was obsessed with those two. What? Do you just sit there? And then, and it just. Are we whacking? Yeah. Yeah, just, are we whacking? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes. No, dude. Actually, if we have the tournaments for tennis, I'm actually going to do where the gear, that headband, the t-shirt, the polo t-shirt, the shorts. Yeah. I'll buy that turned the little tennis racket for the, do they have it for the Switch? I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure they're going to have it for the Switch now after this game releases. The one that surprised me. Yep. Hogwarts Legacy. Yeah, that's a surprise. That's coming to the Switch. I am extremely curious to see how they do that because that game is huge. Talking. Yeah. Yeah. Testing, testing. That was it. What? Yeah. Sounding better. I think it sounds better. Are we sounding better? Yep. Chat. Question mark. How are we sounding over there, Nate? Question, question, question. How is it sounding? Hopefully, it's sounding better. Chat. How is that sounding? Sounds better. Okay. Okay. What did we have? What did we have? He had the robot. Okay. I mean, yeah. Okay. Are we, are we finally good? Did we finally figure out the mic here? I can hear you. I can hear you. Nice. Nice. Louder. Louder. Louder. Still too low. Can I go louder? Eric's mic is perfect. Nate's mic a little louder. I wasn't over here. Hey, Nate was way off. Are we good? Am I sounding good? Yeah. There you go. No, I know we sound good to you. Crowd, are we good? I think I figured out what it was that's been the problem this whole time. It doesn't make any sense, of course. Why would it? Well, whatever. Things don't make sense. Good. Wait a second. The audio finally for the first time on the new set. Wait, do we have perfect audio? This is a monumental point in this podcast on the new set. The very first time the audio is actually working correctly. Fine. In an honor. And as our good friend Eric in chat did. Oh, the dab. He did it. Eric did the dab. I did. I did. He dabbed. I dabbed. And yes, folks, because of all this stress, shots are definitely on for sure. I'm gonna need it. So for those who are curious what happened, and this has been an issue with the podcast every time we've done it on the set, even when it was just me and Eric, even it was just me. The audio wasn't quite right. And I couldn't figure out what it was because it sounds good when I record from these microphones. It always sounds good to the guest. What's going on? Is it the equipment? Is it this? Is it that all these eliminations? Well, we on our streaming software, I use what's an audio input to input this into the stream, which is perfectly normal when you're using, you know, powered mics like this to do that. Because we're also going through voice mods. So I don't like having voice mods set to the mic port, because sometimes I want different mics doing different things. But the problem is, for some reason, when it's on that audio input, it's roboticking the voice and creating all this extra static and interference. When I turn that off, and I just re-enable the normal mic, and then set the mic to voice mod or to these mics, suddenly they sound good again. So something's wrong with the streams, the streaming software's audio input interface. Something's messed up with it. Nice. So in other words, none of this had anything to do with me. Fix your shit. All right. Yeah, right, right. I'm basically bypassing how I'm supposed to do it. Now that we have a whole bunch to clip out in the middle. So much better off. This is how good the audio is supposed to always sound, guys. These are really expensive microphones with a really expensive setup with a really expensive freaking audio interface. This is how it's supposed to sound. So that being said, let's get into our Kirby topic. Yay. Yeah. Yes. And the forgotten land drops this month, baby. Drops Friday. Friday's. I know. Just got my pre-order and through our affiliate link, by the way. It is pinned in the comment. If you guys would like to use our affiliate link, I would appreciate it. We get a 22% commission off of your pre-order using our affiliate link. Really, really great deal. Might even try to get Nintendo Academy into this little program of mine as well. You never know. It's a nice little kickback. They're doing 22% on everything ordered through Best Buy for Nintendo. Awesome. Until October 1st. So expect me to be talking about the affiliate links quite a bit because you know what? It's a free way for you guys to support the channel because they're just buying games you would have already bought. All right. I'm getting my copy through that affiliate link today. I literally got my own copy through it. For me, it's like a discount. For the rest of you guys, it's not. But I do appreciate the support. We've actually sold, I think, over 30 copies of Kirby this month. I do appreciate you guys. Nice. It literally costs you nothing extra. I just appreciate the support in using that affiliate link. I'm actually going to be using the affiliate links in pretty clever ways in the future as well. I think I might start pitting some comments where I go, hey guys, these are my top five favorite Switch games from 2021. And then link to you guys buying it with the affiliate links and stuff like that. Just trying to have some fun with it. Nobody has to ever buy anything. Of course, there's no pressure, but I do appreciate the support. Speaking of the support, we did get a $10 Super Chat. So I'll be right back. But Kirby in the Forgotten Land. My lord, you guys play the demo at least, right? So first, give your demo impressions. Eric, you start. I start. Oh, yeah. I haven't really played a whole lot Kirby. And I freaking absolutely loved this game. The demo was amazing. The mouthful mode adds so much more flavor to everything. To be able to see him drive, you know, Kirby turn into a basically into a car or a giant road cone or, you know, it just adds a little bit more fun, a little bit more favor, a little bit more everything to the game. And I also played a little bit of a multiplayer with, like I said, with my cousin son. So that was that was something that was pretty freaking awesome, too. I was the secondary character. So not a whole lot it could do besides attack, but it was still fun. So yeah, I definitely looking forward to this game. Hey, you never know. I'm almost positive. I will be over here Friday night streaming with you. So, so yeah, Mike, what do you think? I think it I think Kirby and the Forgotten Land is freaking awesome. It's it's okay. I want to tell you I'm going to get I want to confess something to you guys. Everybody on the chat and the Nate and to Eric confession time. I have never finished a Kirby game. Never finished a Kirby game. Fair enough. Okay. I don't think I have either. Never finished a Kirby game. This is the first game I've Kirby that I ever want to finish. And I feel bad seeing that because, you know, you guys know the story about how Kirby, you know, how Kirby was Kirby, right? Kirby is that lawyer who won that case for Nintendo to allow them to keep Donkey Kong on that lawsuit by Universal and then Kirby was born. And then, you know, Kirby means a lot to Nintendo and then I and it's indestructible. Yeah. For me not to finish the game of Kirby, I feel bad, but this one, I'm so excited. I've always been a person that I like. I like Nintendo 64 because of the, you know, Mario 64, the multi-cam game, like a open kind of concept game. Side scrolling game for me are not that, not that, you know, since Mario one is the very first Mario was my good game. That's the only side scrolling Mario I like to play. Everything else I like 3D Mario, 3D versions of Mario, and then them making Kirby 3D and man, the game looks amazing and plays amazing. It's so much fun. I love that it's not incredibly difficult, but it's the right amount of difficult for you just to have fun and enjoy the game. The soundtrack. Oh my God, the soundtrack sounds amazing. It looks beautiful. But yeah, I mean, I can't wait to for Friday because I need to, I'm going to go ahead and play this game like crazy. And I'm a points freak, guys. I'm a points freak. I realized that there are points or coins, right? There are coins and there are stars. And then you use these coins and stars to purchase the abilities. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So I know that I'm when I, when I start from, start from finish, I'm going to want to have to have all the abilities, collect all the coins, go back into one. And if I can't get it the first time, go back into it and finish it. That's how I play. I love to collect everything. And I don't feel like I've completely beaten the game unless I collect everything. And Kirby is like that game for me right now. So yeah, since Breath of the Wild, I think Kirby is one game that I'm really excited about. So first off, shout out to Nintendo All Stars, thank you for the $10. Now, I played the demo, played the hell out of it. I think I even 100%ed it. The thing is, I'm the demo to me wasn't like this big impressive showcase, right? It gave you a tease, a mouthful mode. It gave you a tease of some very basic mechanics. But the thing is, it's also like the very first level in the game. So Kirby has always been pretty easy. And yeah, it was easy. It was kind of a joke, you know, that I don't even know what, okay, there is an easier difficulty. And I have no idea what that easier difficulty does. Nor do I care. It's already so stupidly easy in that demo on the harder mode that I can't like, what is it? Is it like, you have a star like in Mario and you just run around and touch things and they die? Like you don't take damage? Can you infinitely fly? I don't know. Nor do I care because the game is already really easy on the mode. But here's the thing, Kirby has always been easy. Even dating back to the return to Dream Land days and all like it's always been easy. So I think that I'm not going to hold that against it. But what was interesting is so the demo like, okay, that's good. It's solid. Didn't really sell me on it. But I tried to keep in mind this is just the beginning of the game, right? It doesn't mean anything. We saw some gameplay clips and commercial clips that looked significantly better than the beginning of the game. So I was like, all right, let's just kind of reserve my judgment because for a game that's always been easy, of course, the easiest of easy is going to be the beginning when it's just teaching you how to play. Yeah. All right. Well, reviews dropped today. And it is currently right now the second highest reviewed Kirby game of all time. Now we could argue third highest because there are two other Kirby games at 86 overall on Metacritic. That's only if you go by Metacritic. If you go by open critic, it is the highest rated Kirby game of all time. So all depends on which site you like to use for aggregation. Metacritic waits different review outlets as mattery more than others. Open credit treats every single review outlet the same. So it's all dependent on what you value the most Metacritic is the industry standard open critics kind of the, hey, gamers are kind of sick of these weighted review things. So that's like not weighted. And you can argue that there's inherent value in value and not doing it like should a Nintendo life love them. But there are Nintendo based place highly likely to give a higher review to Nintendo games. Should you wait that as much as say game and farmers review? I have no idea. So that's why some people think Metacritic is actually right to like maybe wait certain hours or less for certain games and wait other outlets more. I don't know. That's a whole debate about reviews. And one thing I hate about these aggregate websites, especially Metacritic, and this isn't Metacritic's fault. But it does lead to like, literal companies tying bonuses behind review scores. And I, I think all of that's just stupid. So yeah, yeah. But that's either here or there because like, what's it matter if a game gets a 70 if it sells 10 million copies? So you don't get your bonus, but the company makes banks bank, like that makes no sense. It should be based on game revenue alone. It shouldn't be based on or game sales or something. It shouldn't be it shouldn't be based on arbitrary, independent reviews, but that's neither here nor there. So it is either the highest rated Kirby game of all time or one of the highest rated Kirby games of all time. And it's funny because like one of the ones ahead of it on Metacritic is Kirby canvas curse, which is great, but also kind of a spin off. So anyways, so it's reviewing very well. And I watched a, well, I read, I think four different reviews and I watched kind of funny games do their hour long little podcast about it. And they talked for about 40 minutes about the game. And they had the reviewer from IGN on who gave it eight out of 10. And it's funny because in hearing them talk about it, like not a single negative thing was brought up. And I find that very interesting for a game that IGN scored eight out of 10. It's like, why is it an eight out of 10 if you can't really find anything bad to say? The only thing I could think of obviously is that reviewer prefers other games, like maybe they prefer RPGs or something like that. So like, Oh, I don't want to put this on the level of Breath of the Wild because I prefer that kind of game more than Kirby, but I can't really find any faults with Kirby. So yeah, but I don't think it's as good as this. I can't think of why. And that's the problem when you're reviewing games in general is, and I know I used to review games guys. It's very difficult to separate out different genres from each other and judge them independently, because you could look at Kirby as a platformer and go, man, it's a really brilliant platformer. But is it just that or is it also an adventure game? Is it also, you know, now you can level up abilities, does that make it sort of like an RPG? There's all these different elements that get muddled in. So I think the thing that excited me the most about all the reviews I read is everyone's glowing praise of how difficult the game can be. Now, caveat, it's not necessarily difficult to just beat the main story. Everyone should be able to beat the main story, no problem. But they did something brilliant. So they kept the easiness of Kirby with some clever level design and all that. And then they decided, you know what, we hear you. We know there are a number of people who have been playing Kirby for decades. And those people want to challenge. They're tired of it just being this cakewalk. So you know what we're going to do? Excuse me, you know what we're going to do? Every time you beat a main stage, a main level in the game, we're going to give you two challenge levels that are 100% optional. You're in the overworld map. You have to choose to go do those challenge levels. They are not required. You do get bonus currency and you can help upgrade your character and all that. So there is a reason to do it. There's incentive, but you don't have to. And those challenge levels from every review I read, from every video I watched, every little snippet I saw, holy shit. This is like Kirby to the extreme. Like you guys remember some of the challenging things you used to be able to like break the target back in like Smash Bros, right? Like how challenging it can be sometimes. Like you got to beat the timer and get all the targets and all. It's like that. There's a timer. So you could just beat the level, but then there's a bonus if you beat it before this arbitrary timer they put up. So you want to beat the time to get the best score. And they do all these really clever, unique challenges. And all of them are based around like a single move or a single mouthful mood or a single powering. But they take that power up to a level the rest of the game doesn't creating all these unique puzzles. It's kind of like shrines in Zelda, but cranked up to like 15. Yeah. And that's awesome. Like that to me is like, look, we're giving you the ease. Everyone should be able to beat this game, whether you're five years old or 50 years old. You should be able to beat the game. But you want challenge. We have it for you if you want it. And I love that. I also love that. Well, it's not, you know, open world Kirby because it is level based. They created a map that you could just kind of free flow fly around on a star and select what you want to do. And I know that's just dumb. You know, you could just have that all in a sub menu. But they didn't. They made it look cool. They made it feel cool. Transitions, cut scenes. Yeah. Cutting away and going in and out of buildings. There is so much inherent detail just on those little quick splash screens that are up for like a second and a half. There's a level of care with this game. I don't remember seeing it in any Kirby game before. Yep. Yep. I got a feeling can't say it for sure till I play and beat it. And this is going to be the greatest Kirby game I've ever experienced in my life. And to me, that's impressive. In 2022, so far, in my honest opinion, we've gotten the greatest Pokemon game of all time already. Maybe Scarlet and Violet passes it. We'll see. Yep. Maybe the greatest Kirby game of all time. Potentially the greatest Zelda game that comes out. Maybe the greatest platoon game. We'll see what's with soon three. We are in the midst. I mean, you were about to get the best, you know, by game best Bayonetta. We are in the midst of an amazing 2022. And if this Kirby game holds up like the reviews are making me hype. Yeah. Yeah, baby. Yeah. To follow up with that. The reason I feel like the reason why they gave it at 8.5 or the score like that, not an actual nine or 10 is because of that is because of this year, you know, out of every year this year is packed. You know, the ring is fresh on a lot of their minds to you. Exactly. You know, across the board for PlayStation, Xbox and Xbox is a little behind. You know, everything. They had Halo Infinite. That's true. But I've heard a lot of issues. I've been playing Halo Infinite. I've been getting a lot of issues online. But all out. But yeah, you know, it's just a year. This is a crazy, crazy year for game releases. And I blame it on 2020. It was because, you know, we didn't have a good year 2020. A lot of delays. And I feel like they're just rewarding us now with with 2022, you know, from from January all the way to December. And I feel like that that's why they gave it a 8.5. I mean, I saw a whole bunch of other reviews were gaming form or gave it a nine out of 10. Let's see here. I'm not I'm not going to mention the Nintendo dedicated ones. Game Radar for 4.5 out of 5. You're a gamer. 10 out of 10. This drug destructoid 9.5 out of 10. You know, GameSpot 9 out of 10. Let's go. You know, it's so the six, the six access 9 out of 10. Shaq News 9 out of 10. Yeah, where to grade the game as an a video games Chronicle 4 out of 5. Let's see here. Keep it going. This is amazing. Yeah, so lowest one is I'm sure it's like a five. What is the lowest? Yeah, the lowest one is is a game radar 4.5 out of 5. So that's basically that's actually that's actually higher than a 4 out of 5. So the lowest to be a 4 out of 5. So yeah, 45. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there you go. So the lowest is 8 out of 10. You're not seeing anything lower than that. Nothing lower than that nothing. Whoa. How about that Kirby? Get you some. How about them Kirby sweet? Suck down that switch. Give me mouth full mode up. There we go. Go over my switch and we're walking it down. Let me see the power of switch, baby. Yeah, yeah. This is 2022. The platform people keep telling me needs to be replaced. That's not powerful enough that can't get good games. I'm telling you, I keep saying it. Make good games, good games, make good games. Let's go. Exactly. Exactly. I keep saying it. Nintendo has something that all the console has and is their IPs and they know how to make games. They take your time with their games. They put their love into the games. They don't rush out games like other games that we've seen rushed out with so much hype just to fall on their butts. That was one thing that got praised by many people is it's a complete game at launch. Yeah, yeah. No one came across any bugs while reviewing. There was no day one patch needed to fix anything. It was literally Nintendo being like, hey, you know what, we don't remember how to make complete games when you buy them at launch just so you're aware. This is how gaming used to be. We didn't forget. Please buy our game. Right, right. But that's the 7-12 is trying to correct you. There was a review for $65 out of $100 on Metacritic. There was a pretty low review out there. I'm looking for Metacritic. Yeah, I'm actually curious what that low review said. Eric, can you look it up? Eric's going to look up that low review. I'm actually curious because I'll say this. Look, there are people that are going to review a game and this is true of any game, by the way, where they just don't like the genre, right? Yeah, I don't like platformers. So okay, so I reviewed a Kirby game. It makes no sense. How can you objectively give us an opinion on Kirby? Unless you're coming from the viewpoint of, hey, if someone who doesn't like platforms, how do I think about this game? But in that case, I don't know if your review should count towards a review score because you're not really reviewing it for the people interested in playing it. You're reviewing it for people that aren't interested in playing it, should you be interested? But of course, that's not how the world works. You work for some outlet, you get it published, your score gets counted. So we'll see what the negatives say on that. But dude, this game, I'm telling you guys, I'm telling you guys, by the way, I'm not sitting here trying to tell you it's better than Elden Ring. I'm not trying to tell you it's even better than Horizon Forbidden West. Don't know. Haven't played those games yet, plan to play them later this year. But, what do we got? What do we got? Eric's probably going to update. It's one day two hours and 38 minutes away. Oh, exact time. Let's see what we got here. Technically, probably a little sooner. Sometimes they let you play the different version at like 9pm. Okay, so there's 270s in the 65. 65 looks like it's the lowest. All right, what's it say? At any rate, what's here is fun, and it's Nintendo, and there's co-op for families or friends. But it's all just so incredibly light on. Okay, and I say that with the full appreciation and love of likes of Super Mario Odyssey and the Luigi's Mansion 3 and Yoshi's Craft of the World, there's no challenge outside of 100% collection of items. And in beating treasure road times, the rest is simply a cakewalk. And unfortunately, all the bad doggos will face in the game can't make me think otherwise. So in other words, he just wants a more challenging game. Super easy game. So basically he has to play Kirby. Well, one, yeah, he clearly has something like Kirby games to be expected to be hard. Two, it sounds like, look, I had a really good time, but there's not challenging to me, which I think that's an opinion many people might have. But Kirby games aren't meant to be challenging. I think we, I think what happens is we all have personal preferences, right? For how the games we like, how challenging we want them to be. We all know you want a challenging game, you play something like Dark Souls, you play Elden Ring. You want really, really super clever platforming play Celeste, right? Like, there are these really challenging things that like Mario sort of the mid range, right? It's can be challenging, but it's not to the level of Celeste, but it's obviously significantly more challenging than something like Kirby. It's that middle ground, right? You want a super hard, dark RPG action adventure game, you play something like The Witcher, but you want something that's lighter, a bit more airy, a bit more fun, a bit easier, you play something like Breath of the Wild. So I feel like there's like this wide range in different genres. And I just don't agree with punishing a game for being hard, nor do I agree with punishing a game for being easy. Yeah, unless it's easy in comparison to the rest of that franchise. So like, let's say the new Witcher game that got announced comes out and it ends up being significantly easier than the Witcher 1, 2 and 3. Okay, that's a fair criticism then, because you're not holding yourself at the same standards the series has set. But if this game is not significantly easier than the rest of the Kirby franchise, which I have a hard time imagining being easier than Star Allies where you could literally just hold your stick right and then just press jump once in a while and you get to the end. It's like no challenge. Literally, there's some stages like that in my game. I can't imagine being easier than that or like invincibility modes that have existed in Kirby before. So like, it's hard for me to imagine that it's easier than that. So if it's still in line with the rest of the series, I just don't know how you can hold that against it because that's the point. It's supposed to be like holding against Pokemon that you're an easier RPG. That's the point. It's supposed to be. Let me expand a little bit on this. I actually found the full review. So clearly again, questioning if they've actually played other Kirby games. But here we go. What they actually liked was Kirby is always a fun character to control, some clever ideas and missed some of the game's strategies or stages, sorry, a fair bit of replayability for completionists and local co-op play. What they didn't like, it was simply too easy. A visual step back from other Nintendo Switch titles, which I don't understand what they were seeing because when you came around the corner and walked out into that semi, you know, the world, I thought it looked freaking astonishing. Like, okay, maybe it's a step back from Odyssey, maybe, but it's also not that it's not as open as, like you need to compare it to something more similar, like Mario 3D World. Yeah, something like that. Like I don't know. But so yeah, other, so a visual step back from other Nintendo Switch titles. Have they played Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Fire Emblem 3D? I'm just curious. Those ones don't necessarily look very good. Maybe two old school in its structure and the game sounds by levels and the game's soundtrack can be very quickly become grating. They didn't like the soundtrack. See, I heard the opposite. A lot of people praise this. I can't comment on it yet. I haven't played it, but I heard a lot of people praise this. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I think I think this review. Yeah, the review to me, it doesn't sound too credible in a way that the person knows what they're talking about in the game genre that they played the previous games of Kirby and the difficulty. And as I said, you don't need to have history with the franchise or even like platformers to review. I just think we have to be consciously aware of who you're talking to. Are you talking to people who are interested in this kind of game? And if so, they want to actually know some specific details. If you're someone who doesn't like this stuff, that should be noted. I feel like at the beginning of the review being like, hey, I am not, you know, this isn't my kind of game. I'm just giving you my exactly from the like, and then that should be notated on something like Metacritic and a review like that shouldn't be weighted very heavily. That's my opinion, by the way. And I'm not saying this as some sort of Nintendo fanboy. I feel this way about any game and we're not anyway, we're not in any way not seeing negative reviews of Elden Ring from people who basically just said it's too hard. And I'm like, then you've never played a from soft game. You probably shouldn't have your review weighted super heavily if you're not into difficult games, because difficult games are okay to exist. And Elden Ring is, according to most, that are high experience easier than a lot of other from soft games. So they already toned it down for an open world. So I'm in no way, no way shape or form by the way to the eighth arc needs so much for the $10 AU. He wanted to note that he did that $10 specifically. So Eric can buy a beard that's on the level of me and Mike. Now, I want to be clear, you literally can buy Mike's beard. Yeah, yeah. That's very true. That's to be clear. It comes in different colors. This is almost natural. It's got $5 worth of coloring it so it looks even, but this is the real thickness. This is all real hair. Eric, now he can grow. It's patchy as hell. Yes. And he's had one on this show before. Oh, yeah. And if he lets it grow for like a year, it actually kind of almost looks like a real beard. It's crazy because like the patches get filled in by the other stuff going over it. But I like baby face, Eric. Seriously, every time I look at him, I'm like, dude, are we back in high school? You're right. Right. God damn. Who? God damn. You made a catch earlier today and reminded us of roller chair ball back in the day. But it's about, like, a football game. You play on office chairs, throwing a bald t-shirt around. Sounds dumb, but it's actually a lot of fun. Child-sized t-shirt. Child-sized t-shirt. It's going to be right there. Takeer 610 also did a $2 saying Kirby in the lands between. So, like, I want to go like excitement level for Kirby because I want to be honest. I played a lot of Kirby games over the years. I'm usually not that excited for them. They're fun to play with my kids when they have co-op and stuff because they're on the easier side. It's kind of like when people were kind of attacking Yoshi's Crafted World. I actually reviewed Yoshi's Crafted World on my channel and kind of gave it a pretty good score. I don't remember the exact one was. I think it was an eight or eight or higher. And I said, hey, look, you got to look at this for what it is. It's intended to be a gameplay by families. Play with your kids. And it's fantastic at that. So why would I doubt it? Because it's not what I want it to be. And that's the way I am with every game I play. I don't knock a game for not being what I want if what's there is still quality, even if it's not qualities that I personally enjoy. I'm not going to knock Breath of the Wild because it doesn't have dungeons because I want dungeons. Okay, fine. That wasn't the point of the game. Knock it for the point of the game rather than what you wish it was instead. At least that's how I view it. And it's totally fine that other people view it the other way. So to me, my excitement levels for Kirby, after playing the demo, I was at about a seven. Okay, I'm still looking forward to it. But the whole game is going to be this way. It's going to kind of be a quick romp. I'm done in one night and we call it a day and we forget about it. But after reading the reviews, after seeing additional footage, after hearing what seasoned gamers have had to say about it, ones I trust, like Greg Miller and Tim Getty's and the rest, even the Easy Allies crew. You know what? I think I'm at a 12 out of 10 right now. It ain't Breath of the Wild 2 levels. Breath of the Wild 2 is like 100 out of 10. Yeah, of course. But the thing is that it makes sense because I feel like those reviews you just mentioned are actually reviewing the game how it's supposed to be reviewed. Just like you said, it's a game to be played with your kids, with your family members. It's not a game to be compared with Breath of the Wild at all. It's its own category with 3D Mario All-Stars and games like that. I think in a chat, somebody put it perfectly, I think it's let me go find that Felicia Fee and somebody else here said something really to be holder said that the game, it's a game. It's a game compared to Animal Crossing New Horizons. It's not supposed to be incredibly difficult because it's targeted at families with children and at the general population rather than just one person who likes RPGs, the one person who likes shooters, the one person who likes this. It's targeted at the general population. It's like they taught me in school when I was talking in speech. You have to talk at an 8th grade level so that everybody can understand. You can't really speak at a doctorate level because then those who are not doctors are not going to understand you. You can't really speak to kindergarteners because they'll publish reports by the CDC on COVID-19 and how nobody understands it. Exactly. Exactly. They're like, I don't understand this language. And they're supposed to know. Yeah. Exactly. So basically that's how I feel like the good reviewers who gave it great reviews are of you reviewing this game as they're not really thinking about Breath of the Wild when they review this game. This lower reviewer, the one thing that came to my mind and one thing they caught to my attention is that, oh, it doesn't compare to other Nintendo releases. You know what I mean? Like, so they're comparing it with Breath of the Wild. They're comparing it with Pokemon in the dark gift. Yeah, they're comparing it with all these games, which really there's no comparison. How about comparison to the last Kirby game? Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. How about that? Oh, because he probably didn't play it. So he can't compare. He wouldn't realize that this is actually a massive leap forward from Star Allies, but I mean, that requires you actually played Star Allies. Any other Kirby games? I mean, you can even argue like, okay, fine. You can also go to Yoshi games because Yoshi and Kirby over the years have sort of become sort of the same sort of thing with different characters. Yeah. But yeah, it's, I'm dude, I'm excited, man. I don't think I could be more excited for a Kirby game. And then I am right now. And I literally want it to be Friday night already because here's the thing, we've got physical copies coming, Eric's picking them up for both of us. He's coming over. We're doing co-op mode Friday night. Oh, yeah. We're gonna get as far into the game as we can, do all the challenges as we can. We're gonna, we're gonna kick some ass guys and who knows? Maybe we're probably take some names and we take some damn names and we beat the game. Maybe if we pull it off in one four hour stream, hell yeah. Or if it's actually a 10 hour gameplay. Yeah. If it's really, really close, I'll text Yuli and be like, honey, I'm sorry. When you come home, if we're still playing Kirby, it's that good. Damn it. It's good. Pull it all nighter. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, YouTube actually does use stream for about 12 hours max. No, no, you can stream infinitely. The only 12 hours of your stream. Oh, no, no, no, it's weird. Oh, okay. So fun, fun story about that. So on the final day of day of E3 last year was our longest stream. Yeah. 17 hour stream. Whoa. Okay. Fine. The stream was fine the whole time we were live. Everything was good. We had a moment in that stream where I went on this rant about about E3. Yeah. And my problems with it. And I got very passionate as somebody who, I'm not just your average consumer that just checked in once in a while and just, oh, I stopped it for Microsoft. Oh, I stopped it for Nintendo. No. I took in the whole event. Start to finish. So I had quite a bit to say, quite a bit of feedback. Some of it constructive. Some of it just frustrated at you had two years to get this digital event together. And this is what you gave us where you clearly cared more about advertisers. And then when you had some game companies there, you let people like hear box or whatever, not even present a game, just walk around a video set and not give us any information on the actual movie nor show us any clips in the movie and repeatedly tell us, I'm not supposed to show you this. I'm not supposed to show you that. Meanwhile, you're just showing us some costumes that we have no context for and don't care about. It was the stupidest thing ever. We didn't need 45 minutes with Verizon 5G. We didn't need these panels that weren't even talking about games. It was weird. Look, I was fine with the Razer sponsorships and everything. That's all fine. Get your money. Have your sponsors. Hey, look, Razer, you want to reach out to us? Give us some laptops that we put on our podcast. So now we got to take our laptops from here, set them here. So you see the Razer logo. Got to throw a little Razer logo in the back. Hey, this podcast is brought to you by Razer. Hey, cool. I'm cool. But it's not going to affect the quality of the content we give. But maybe it'll make it better. Maybe. I mean, they'll probably try to make me, hey, can you use Razer microphones? How about now? I'm going to stick with the good products, not the ones that are worse than what I have. But the thing is, when you look at that event and that 17 hour stream we did, it only saved 11 hours and 59 minutes and 59 seconds. And they decided to cut out a moment because it was within the 12 hour window where I was going on that ramp about E3. And there was a moment where I took my water bottle, I slammed it down, like spiked it like a football. You chucked it at the camera. Yeah, it kind of bounced towards the camera. I chucked it forward on the desk, hit the edge of the desk, and it literally hit the camera. And I basically said FUE3 because you basically wasted a bunch of time. Now, our viewers didn't feel like their time was wasted because you guys enjoyed the show and it was great. And we knew we had a very strong feeling, just like we do this year, that the show is going to be a shit show. So we have lots of fun activities planned to entertain you guys, all the giveaways, all the contests might come in on as well. It's going to be a lot of fun. We have things planned to make it entertaining because we know they're not going to provide the entertainment we hope, besides for maybe three hours of the full show where we actually see some games. So my thing is, that moment to me is a classic. It's a classic moment. It's showing how every person who bothered to take off work for E3 that year felt at the end. What a waste of my life. Besides these exact moments, what a waste of my life. So it's like a perfect encapsulation of how everyone felt. And YouTube cut it for whatever reason, we're cutting that out. But that was within the 12-hour window. We're cutting that out. But we're going to randomly grab three minutes out of nowhere from the end of your stream and insert it at the 11th hour, not even at the end, and just jumble it all up. And I'm like, YouTube, I know you don't care that I say, fuck you, because I've said it many times on live streams and podcasts and you don't censor me. Did you think I was being violent because I threw a water bottle? I've seen people on this platform throw people. Throw cats even. I mean, I'm not going to name the channels that have thrown their kids, but I've seen it. And then we're joking. We're being bad parents. So I didn't understand it. Yeah, it was super weird, too, because I remember going back and rewatching it, it was like, wait. Oh, I swear. If some of our stuff gets cut this year, we're going to play Tippy Cup. I don't know if you know it yet. We're going to be playing Tippy Cup and whoever loses is going to have to spin the Wheel of Death. And it's like, oh, because we're using the Wheel of Death, is that suddenly going to get a censored by YouTube now? Because we said the word death? It's the Wheel of Death. It's from a video game. Learn your history. Learn your history. Yeah, YouTube, you get mad at people playing GTA and stuff through back in the day. They're a lot better about that now. So were you able to record it on at least on your computer on a hard drive or something? No. The entire stream? Is there a way this year? Yeah, this year. I have two methods to do it this year. So we are getting a new camera, everyone. I will reveal details on that later because it's I think it's the most expensive purchase we've ever made. I mean, if you guys want to support the purchase, you can go ahead and and donate through I think we have a Streamlabs donation. Actually, I think it is more expensive than your monitor. Oh, it's way more expensive. Yeah, it's not even close. That monitors the pennies. What's the model of the camera or the monitor? The camera. Oh, the camera. We're looking at the Sony a seven S three. Awesome. I got the a seven three. Yep. And the eight. Oh, yeah, that one. That was a beast. That camera's a beast. The seven S three is a beast. $3,500 just for the body. Plus, I don't have any Sony lenses. So the lenses we're looking at are about 1500 each. Yeah. Yeah. So we're only going to get one for the show, but you know, we'll get more lenses down the line for different things we need to for wide angles and other stuff. But it's a beast. I was going to cost about five grand when we're all said not counting taxes or anything. So it's probably more like six grand. It's insane what we're getting. And there's a couple reasons we're getting it. One, this camera we're using right now has an overheating problem and it affected us massively during our show last year. And we actually crashed because of it. I just realized we aren't having the fan. Well, we're not going for 12 hours. It'll actually be okay right now. Okay. I've tested it. It's fine for like three hour streams. So it crashed right when the Nintendo Direct was starting underneath it. And we don't want anything like that happening with tech issues. So that was one reason why we needed a camera that for starters is made to actually be used for video work. Our camera is the Lumix G9, which is technically meant to take pictures. So it's a fine camera. It's autofocus is dog shit, which apparently the whole Lumix line has an issue with autofocus. So we're going with the Sony line because they have industry leading autofocus, which is what I need because we don't have anyone behind the camera. But that's the reason why we go with Sony brand. I mean, other Canon's fine too, but they have overheating problems. So like this, the camera we're going with has no overheating problems is built to record for 13 hours straight in the middle of the Amazon jungle. So if it can handle that, it can handle being in my house. And in theory, that 13 hours is just a limitation of how much storage it allows you to have. It's not really a limitation of the camera. If you had unlimited storage, it could just keep going. So there is a thought process that I might natively record it to a massive SD card the entire time, so I don't lose anything. And then I'll also have raw 4K. Now, well, here's the thing. It won't be everything because it won't have the overlays and the weird stuff like that. So it'll be just where if I go into the stream after the fact and there's some epic stuff missing that we have on camera, we're going to put it. And the thing is it's going to be really hard because I was going to record locally on the computer, but every now and then that actually glitches out the streaming software. So I kind of avoid doing that. I actually thought about looping it to a different computer and recording on there, but that's that's just more complex than I want it to be. Because we actually might be using two sets because some of our games like tippy cup we into in here doing it over there. We're going to have two cameras because I'll still have my old camera. So we'll just flip the camera to we'll go to that set. We'll grab our wireless lab mics, which should be hooked up the camera to when we flip over. Yeah, the audio is going to change a little bit, but you guys will still hear us. Yeah, we'll be able to walk around and hear us walking over the center. Maybe Eric over there first as we're doing something. And guys, you have no idea. We have so much insane stuff planned already. No, for sure. I want to I want to make this clear about our E3 show. Okay, we already have over 100 items to give away right now. Right now, over $2,500 worth of crap. We already have ready to give away now and months away. Like at this rate, it'll be over $6,000 worth of stuff. I have no idea where it's going to stop. It just keep every day. I'm getting emails from companies every day. You know, we're coming up with new things that we're going to spend money on and buy. We have a whole store in Eau Claire that we're probably going to just got to give away to you guys. That's a nerd store. It's a lot of fun. So I just I am. I'm in shock, to be honest, at the companies that are already supporting us this early before we even have dates. And the thing is E3 hasn't even been announced. And they're already committing because they probably already know they probably got the email and they know they probably know they probably know and besides that summer game fest is happening either way. So suddenly we have like $6,000 worth to give away just in summer game fest. Well, I mean, hey, better watch us for summer game fest. Holy shit. It might be enough for everybody to win something at that point. It's insane guys. We're talking games. We're talking physical items. We're talking potentially one of these bad boys. Oh, yeah. We're talking, you know, consoles. We're talking brand. I've just showed Eric an email during the show you guys might have saw me show him my phone. That's because a company just committed to E3 to give away a couple of controllers. And these are controllers for Switch that have amiibo support, have the full motion support and are using the hall sensors, which are those magnetic sensors for the joysticks. And these are premium, really expensive controllers that I don't know, they'll probably be sold out at some point once we start talking about them. Because if they're if they're really better than the pro controllers and have all the features of the pro controller, but drift. Yeah, right. I mean, that's called the perfect controller. Right. Yeah, I'll get it. I will get them just for the amiibo support because a lot of them don't have amiibo support. Like none of these third party controllers have amiibo support. But this yeah, again, I'm getting one first to test before we fully committed to the giveaway. But they just said, Hey, look, man, we were willing to do this for you. And if you like the controller, we want to kick a little money to you to advertise it. So we'll see what happens. So I got to wait for the controller to come in. But if it's as promising as it looks, and the reviews of it are glowing, perfect five star ratings from over 7000 customers, then I'm I'm guessing that it must hold up. So that's awesome. So yeah, and that and more. So our E3 show is going to be massive. I hope you guys are there. Even if it ends up just being a summer game fest show either way, it can be massive. And I can't wait. And we have a huge financial commitment to it, including equipment. This camera is literally only being bought because of we do the show. I don't need a camera. This this camera is the acabaca fuck set up for decade. Right? I don't need a camera like this. I don't even have 100,000 subscribers. I don't care. And literally, I can get by with my phone. But you know what? I need my phone so you really can yell at me through text. All right. So we do have one more topic to get to. Oh, that's hot. Hold on. Hold on. What do you have something to say? One second. Yeah. You want to know how excited I am for Kirby? How excited? I'm buying it. I'm actually buying it. That's all you need to know. I'm buying it. He's buying it. All right. So our last topic. Some weird things have been happening at Nintendo. Last week, about March 16th, it looks like the date and it's confirmed. The Wii and DSi. First, it was just the Wii get intention, but then people realized, oh, wait, the DSi shop is down as well. The shops went down. But for those who don't know, because maybe you didn't own a Wii or DSi. These are where you could buy virtual console games and other digital games. And without that shop channel, not only can you now purchase games, which you haven't been able to do since 2019. So it's actually been a few years. But you can't read download games you've already purchased. So say, yeah, your Wii breaks, and you go get a new one, and you want to reinstall your games or even on a Wii U because it's got a Wii mode. You want to reinstall your games. You can't because you can't access the shop. And it was noted that it's been down and it's been down for a week now that they didn't have anything in their maintenance page about it. Now, last time the shop was down for a few hours for the Wii, I think was like a year ago, and it did appear on the maintenance page. So it wasn't on the maintenance page. Nintendo was completely mum didn't say anything about it. Some people were trying to note that that Nintendo of Japan was dealing with an earthquake situation, which they were. But all their servers are located locally in different areas. So for everybody to lose access means that it's a worldwide outage. That's weird. They would say something about that. They'd even notate. Hey, our servers are down if it was due to the earthquake. Nintendo doesn't shy away from noting that things are down because of a natural disaster situation. Just like they weren't shy from noting that, hey, you can't buy games in Russia because originally it was because the payment system went down. You know, the company they used for the payment system. And then they're just saying in general, we just took the shop down, you know, for other reasons that they're trying to stay neutral on the fence with the war. But bottom line is they communicated that it was going to be down. There was no communication about this until today. Kotaku reached out to a representative from Nintendo who basically told them we will have more on this later. It is down for maintenance, not schedule maintenance, our emergency maintenance, not announce maintenance, just magically some representative told them, hey, we'll have more to say later. It's down for maintenance. And in my opinion, and this is just me based on watching Nintendo's behavior over the years, they're done. The shops are done. They're down. They warned us back in 2019. They would go down at an undisclosed date. And this would be an undisclosed date, March 16, 2022. That's undisclosed. They didn't tell us. That's what undisclosed means. They're not giving us any warning. They just took it down. And they'll probably acknowledge it at some point, I would assume, maybe if the backlash keeps hitting them. I don't know that it's hitting them hard enough to care, but it's hit them enough to get a response from Kotaku. I do think that the whole maintenance excuse, while it could be true, if you get on the maintenance page, like it was a year ago. Yeah. So their maintenance page, if you go there, literally says all servers are up and running just as usual. No problem. I agree. I think this is it. I think that they're going down. That's what they did, but I feel like they didn't really prepare for the backlash or they didn't really anticipate the backlash because they announced it. They thought that everybody knew already and was prepared for it. And what I think they're going to do, the maintenance part is that they're going to actually bring it back online and actually give us a date. They're going to actually give us a date. Okay. It's back on, but until an actual date. So people could be happy because I think if people don't have an actual date, then they're not going to prepare just like they're doing with the Wii U and 3DS stores. I feel like the maintenance thing is them bringing them back online eventually and then giving us an actual date where everything ends for the stores. They never put it online and they just hope it goes away. I can see them just not caring. And people notice now, okay, we'll give them a maintenance response and then we just first pretend we didn't pretend we didn't. Three years later, still under maintenance. Hey, whatever happens to the Wii shop, it's under maintenance. We're a weekend. Nothing's been down for a week before. They've never had maintenance for a week. I want to make this a week and definitely. I'm just be honest. I know you don't want to officially say it's closed because you know the backlash is coming because it happened with PlayStation 3. Sony tried to do this to PlayStation 3 and the backlash was enormous because they announced it. Nintendo isn't announcing it. They're not even acknowledging it. Oh, it's just maintenance. I'm waiting for the response of what what we store. I mean, the DSI and the Wii store is closing aren't the worst thing. Virtual console obviously being the biggest thing. There were some exclusive WiiWare games and stuff like that, World of Goo, which has been moved to other systems at this point, but some of them haven't. So there are some games you might lose the history there. I mean, at this point, I'm sure most of those games are probably imported online somewhere, but it is interesting because that obviously brought up the grander conversation about digital games and the fact that more and more people are buying digital games now than ever. And there will likely be a point, especially on consoles, hasn't happened really on PC, but on consoles where the shops will close. And if our memory cards get corrupt, if our systems break, we will lose our games because we won't be able to re-download them. And there's already additional concerns beyond that because so many games, we're going to see it right now. Dragalia lost from Nintendo is there. They're shutting down the online servers for it later this year. Okay, what happens then? You won't be able to play a game because it requires an online connection. So suddenly a game that's been around, Nintendo's first ever mobile game, is just a game too. Yeah, it's a decent game and it's just going to vanish. Yeah. And that's the one thing people get mad about Halo Infinite. When you play the campaign, you've got to be online. And that's the big issue with the campaign, isn't that the campaign's bad? It's that you need an always online connection. Why? It's a single player. It doesn't matter. You need an always online connection. Yeah, that makes sense from what I mean. No, you have to have a single player. And there's a lot of games going that way where it needs an online connection even for single player. And the moment those servers don't exist, you can't play the games anymore. So this has been a concern. And by the way, that goes beyond digital because that affects physical copies as well. This is a really interesting situation because Nintendo's the first company, at least that we are aware of, to actually shut down their access to download games. Just you're done. And it doesn't look like we're bringing it back. Maybe we do one last time with a warning this time. But it certainly doesn't look that way to me. We'll see what happens. But right now it's down been a week, heading in the week two without an end in sight. So this does bring to the forefront the concern that a lot of people have about game ownership and losing access to games. And, you know, we can get into the legalese about how technically, whether you buy physical or digital, you don't actually own the game, you're on a license to play the game. People think copyright should be updated because of that. All I can say on that is, I don't really know that copyright needs to be updated. Like when you have windows on your computer, you don't own windows, you own a license for it. Exactly. Yeah. Like it's not really any different with any software. You don't actually own the code base and own the asset. That's not how that works. You own a license. Like the copyright actually sort of works. It's just people don't like to think of it as I bought this game and they could take it away from me. Well, I mean, well, yeah, they can. Just like, you can have windows and if you're doing illegal things with windows, Microsoft can report your license. Like that's, I mean, just don't do illegal things and you shouldn't really have anything to worry about. Yep. But, you know, that's neither here nor there. The funny thing is, I actually made a video. So I covered this and I went with the side of this is a negative. This is a bad thing. This validates all the fears people have had, which it does. And I think it's a fear we all knew was going to happen. It's just different when it actually does. And I made a video after that one where I said, but for me personally, I don't care. Yeah. And people got mad at me for that. I bet someone told me that I what were the exact words? It was something I'm not calling on a specific person, but there was one commenter who who put the words out there specifically. They are unsubscribing from my channel until I stop this foolishness, reason for my life, do some soul searching. And then they went into this long-winded explanation about how I'm being illogical and just foolhardy. And my entire, and it's funny because this entire premise is that I stated in that video that I am making that that I prefer new games. So I can't be, there's no way I can, I'm being objective and can't fairly judge any game if I only care about what's new. And that's not what I said. I said, in terms of experiencing games, would I rather play a game I've already experienced or one I haven't? I'd rather play one I haven't. So since there's always games coming out that I'm looking forward to as new experiences, I don't really care as much about the old ones. So I don't care about replaying games. And he said, I don't have an issue with you not caring about replaying games. Well, that was my entire point. I don't care about replaying games. So then I don't care if I have access to games I bought 15 years ago because I wasn't going to replay them anyways. Like that was my entire premise of that video was, look, this does suck. And I understand why it sucks for many people and a lot of people love replaying games and going back to the classics as they get older, I get it introducing their kids to it. I understand I have kids. But also for me personally, I haven't booted up Breath of the Wild, you know, in two years besides what, E3 last year? Last time I booted up Breath of the Wild. And that was for E3. Like, I haven't booted up, you know, got our community of time since the first year it came out on 3DS. I haven't booted up, you know, Mario 64 since I was a kid. Like, I just, I don't care to replay games I've already experienced. And this doesn't mean I think less of the games. My second favorite game of all time is Secret of Mana. Yes, yes. That's my second favorite game of all time. My favorite game of all time is Breath of the Wild five years ago. Won't I have something passed it by now if I only cared about new games? Bottom line is my experiences I had with the game aren't changed because I'm looking forward to the next game. I liken this to Disney World and the new Nintendo World stuff out in Universal in Japan. I've been to Disney World twice in my life. What I love to go time probably because there's been new changes there, new things to see. But let's say I have a choice that I can go out to Disney World for the third time or I could go to Universal Studios Japan and go to the Nintendo World, which I've never been to. I'm going to prefer to go to the thing I've never been to. Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to find Nintendo World in Universal Studios better than Disney World. But I don't know if I don't experience it. Yep, that's true. So that's my viewpoint on this is it does suck. I understand. I just don't care because it doesn't affect me. But look, more importantly here above all, this is your viewpoint and your opinion. You're just sharing what you feel multiple times. I said in that video, I understand most of you are going to agree and I get your viewpoint. I'm just explaining why I don't care. They should hear that. I have a culture that we're living. Yep. And forever because I just don't care to not because I don't have the ability to. I just I'd rather play the Kirby coming out. Yeah. Yeah. Not not not because you don't you don't didn't enjoy them when you first play them. That was an experience you had that you would you'll keep with you. But you're looking forward to what's coming in X and that's completely, completely understandable. Yeah. When it comes to the digital thing, I think we're not we are the grandfather. We're going to be the grandparents of the digital digital thing because we're not digital. The digital age is new. You know what I mean? It's still brand new. It started with Nintendo. What I'm saying with Nintendo, Nintendo, with Nintendo, it started with we right? It started with the we digital download games on the actual console. And I don't remember the game you had digital. Yeah, the we had digital, right? We were there. We are the game fantasy star. Yeah, yeah, etc. Yeah, but we are the grandparents of the digital Nintendo digital age and and slowly but surely I think Nintendo is going to, you know, get there when it comes to digital games because digital games. It's not hard for a multi what billion dollar company like Nintendo to have their own servers and just allow us to buy the Legend of Zelda, let's say, Ocarina of Time one time on the Wii U and then be able to redownload that game on the switch and then the next console be able to redownload that game again and just keep it backwards compatibility. Exactly. I do support that message. Yeah, yeah, it's not hard for them to do it. They just have a different mentality right now. They think that their Nintendo online service, what they're presenting is is their future. They're going to want to give us a huge library of games. Three years from now, we're going to have the week on that service like three or four years from now. Let's get GameCube. Can we get to the GameCube? We can't seem to get behind 64 for like three generations straight. So yeah, well, what Nintendo doesn't know is that that doesn't work in that Netflix era. That doesn't work. You can't just, you know, you know, you can't just allow us to purchase the same exact game for every single console that you want to provide but isn't that the point of the service though that is like Netflix? You just carry the service over? Yeah, yeah. I'm saying that when you buy a game on the Wii, you should be able to play on the Wii U and then, and then yeah, you just Microsoft kind of thing. I buy Minecraft on the, I bought, I bought Minecraft. I bought Minecraft. I bought it on the PC. I bought PC Minecraft and then I was able to download on my Xbox 360 and then I was able to download on my Xbox One and then I was able to download on my Xbox One X one. They have the industry leading backwards compatibility. Exactly. Exactly. All the way back to the OG Xbox. Not for every game, but a lot of them. But I would also note that they also were very smart. They used PC architecture from the very beginning. Yeah, that's true. They cross compatible. Nintendo was using PowerPC, which is a piece of shit. And now they're using modern architecture. So like Wii U games couldn't really be easily backwards compatible on their disk base. So that already makes it easy. So like, there's a lot of fun, but you could argue moving forward, there's no reason the next system shouldn't be backwards compatible with Switch or the system that should be back. So Nintendo has now got rid of the architecture excuse. So now it's a, hey, you can do this if you want. Yeah. Yeah. And by the way, they did do it sometime. We could play Wii games. We could play GameCube. Yeah. That was my question. That was my question with the Wii U, because I bought the Wii U right after the stores shut down for buying games. Yeah. I skipped that completely from the Switch from the Wii. But was it, it was backwards compatible, right? From the Wii U to the Wii was backwards compatible. That's what people say. Wii is my favorite console of all time. Don't you mean Wii U? Yeah. Yeah. Does it get the Wii U games plus Wii? Exactly. Yeah, it's true. Breath of the Wild Wii U, dude. Breath of the Wild Wii U. Yeah, baby. But yeah, and Skyward is already HD and it's original. Come on now. I think Nintendo's gonna get there. I think Nintendo's gonna get there. It's just taking forever, man. That's what I'm saying. We're gonna be grandparents. It's so exciting. People got four folders. Oh my god. I saw that. I'm like, congratulations. You added a capability, my graphing calculator had back in 2001. Thank you. That is hilarious. Thank you, Nintendo. You gave me an ability that Windows 95, MS-DOS had. Thank you. I did not make a video on that. Oh wait, no, sorry. They're not folders. They're groups because you can put multiple groups in different groups. And it's like, yeah, you're right. You can put Mario Kart in every group if you want. And that's fine if that's what you want to do. And some people like that. But I will say this. On PC, you've been able to just do multiple icons for the same app, put it in as many folders as you want as well. So like, it's not actually new. It's still folders, guys. It's just a different implementation. They don't want... This is Nintendo. They don't like using the common name. They gotta have their own name. It's a damn folder. Okay. Just because you can repeat the icon. It's not like you're installing the game multiple times. Okay. By the way, Nintendo had to do it in a very Nintendo way, right? Yeah. Right. You have to go to all games. So you have to press over once with your stick, assuming you're on the first game. So then you have to go into a submenu. And then you have to al again in that submenu to go to another submenu to access your folder. You can't from the home screen just hit a button and go to your submenu. You can't just go to all games and default have your folders available right there. You also can't put the folders on your home screen. So like, to me, the usefulness of the folders is next to nothing. Now, for those of you, by the way, they have thousands of games. Of course, folders are going to be easier for you because you can quickly scroll through and find things. It's still going to be faster than going to all games and looking. But it's still one of those situations where, yes, it's still better to have it than not. There is no argument for me, but it's also really. Yeah, yeah, you gave us a basic functionality within and give us the basic features of that basic functionality or the ease of use. Well, that's what I mean. It's like a basic feature. What's the point of folders? Ease of use. Well, you got rid of half the ease of use. The other half is still there and still important organizing game. Yeah. But like submenu, double submenu to get to it. No quick access from home menu. You can't you can't put folder and people like, oh, good thing. Nintendo didn't let us put the folders on the home menus that look ugly. Look, you can think it might look ugly and hit your switch. But that's all. You can think my desktop looks ugly. You want to see how many icons are on my desktop? You might think it's gross. It's all, you know, it's all UI and design. It doesn't have to look ugly. They can make it look nice. They can make it look pretty or whatever. People are saying, like, oh, having the three little icons in the one square there. Look, it's fine if you think that looks ugly. It doesn't have to. Nintendo could redesign it. But I also say, yeah, why does it matter to you? What my switch? Yep. I don't you judge. Do you guys even know what my wallpaper is on my on my three monitors? So do you know what the wallpapers are? No, you don't. Does it matter? No, it doesn't. It's mine. It's my personalization, not yours. You don't like the way folders look. Don't put them on your home menu. I don't really, I don't know. Some people, by the way, I am happy folders exist. But I think it's ironic the excitement level that happens with Nintendo fans for a basic feature. Like, remember how how the internet blew up when we got Bluetooth audio finally? Yeah, yeah. It was like, oh man, let me tell you something. I that little not when I when I saw the excitement, it was hilarious. But I was like, man, I'm so sorry for these people. I feel sorry because they're reaching for scraps here because they have to get looking for it. It's like it's like Nintendo gives you a scrap of a feature. My TV has folders. It's a TV and it has folders and audio. This is us right now. Please, sir, may I have some more? Thank you, Nintendo. You finally gave me the ability to do a light, dark and Mario theme on my thing. Man, you know, I mean, I mean, look, they're listening. They're slowly adding in things we want. Probably someday local voice chat at some point, not on this switch with the next system, probably going to do it with a phone app because they're not really doing it. I believe they'll do it with parental control. They'll add some protection to it because I feel like they do this because it's because the Nintendo itself is some a whole bunch of ages of people reaching. They don't want kids to be chatting with Dr. Strange, you know, I think they're a Japanese culture. Yeah, yeah, Japanese culture. It's a little, you guys, you guys, you guys that are out there that are very PC out there in this world in the United States on Twitter complaining about every little thing. Don't go to exactly. Exactly. Their culture is entirely different. You will be insulted the moment you get off the plane. Yeah, just how they live their life. I'm just it's a completely different world. And it's kind of where I live in the United States where we're supposed to be so accepting of all these differences. And it doesn't really feel like we're accepting anymore. I don't know the way this world is going. But you know, look at the good side. Look at the good side. Nintendo is spending all their time less time on their UI and more time on creating games like Breath of the Wild to Kirby and the Forgotten Land. So we're getting, we're getting one of the best years and we can't think about that. I got to drag Eric in. Digital mess thoughts. At least they listened. Sort of. I mean, they attempted to listen. That's at least more than what we can normally say for him. So I mean, at least there's that. I don't know. I haven't downloaded the folders yet. So I haven't tested it. But I'm not even going to look at it. I'm not even going to look at the only reason I don't know the update is because they fix Bluetooth audio. So it works, but they made it now so that your headphones can actually have some volume to them because that's good. That's that's actually good. It was really low. Max volume is really low and they made it so you can actually finally adjust the volume from your headphones, you know, like every other Bluetooth device that you do. Instead of having to literally like if you have your if you have your switch hooked up to a TV and you're running Bluetooth audio, you'd have to physically walk up to your switch to change the volume of your headphones, which is defeats the purpose of the wireless. So it is nice that we can actually take advantage of the features that exist on pretty much every Bluetooth headset to adjust our volume on the headset. Again, scraps, but I am glad that they did it. It's like folders is scraps, but I am glad that they're there. I would like them to be better, but I'm just glad that it exists. But I'm not going to sit here. That's like it's the greatest thing to ever exist. Because then I'm going to start selling like Apple. When Apple walks in finally and they say, Hey, guys, you have the iPhone 14. Finally, did USB-C charging? Praise us. Okay. Every other phone's been doing it for five years. Finally got off light. Hey, hey, hey, leave my Apple alone. Love my Apple right here. Hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm rocking the Apple right here. But I would say the lightning port needs to go. They even got rid of it on their tablets. I'm getting my Mac Studio soon too. So I'm getting my Mac Studio. I want the studio so bad. I want it so bad. Dude, but yeah, I mean that you could just import AK raw, so smooth on the lower and Mac Studio, you can you can actually eight streams of 8k footage at the same time without lagging without any single hit. I'm about to get a camera that can pull 6k footage. I would love. I would love to be out. I can't do that on my PC. It does 4k fine. Got to let that drill out here a little bit. Holy crap. They're new. They're in-house made chipset is amazing. Now NVIDIA is trying to like bite by bit. Hey, by the way, we made a new in-house chipset and ours twice as powerful as yours. I'm like, Okay, cool. We gotta actually see it in something. Okay. Okay. So competition's good. Put it in the new switch. It's not a bad thing. Competition's good, but it's kind of like, look how great this is. Okay. Intel AMD stepped the game up in these integrated chips. Like yeah, look at the apples do it. You know, the rest of us would like to have even though they charge, you know, shitloads of money because that's what Apple does. The only thing coming out of Apple that I don't like at the moment is their studio display. Oh yeah, I don't like that. I got the LG one. It's overpriced for what it is. It's nice. Yeah, I got the 5K LG one and it's the same exact thing. It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be a 16. Yeah. But that's just my personal opinion. Because they want the Apple aesthetic and the high quality stand that you have to pay an extra $400 for height adjustment. Apple. That reminds me of when you had it. What was it like $500 just to get the wheels to add to your. Oh my God, that's horrible. Yeah, $500. I think we'll go on Alibaba and get some for 20 bucks. Thank you. I'm surprised they don't have it. 500 bucks to get wheels for my car. Okay, new brand new wheels for my car. Yeah. I yeah, car does not come with wheels, $500 edition. Like, but to be fair, you don't need wheels for the thing, but it's kind of like really, really like we bought, we had to buy all new wheels because of our new floor in here for our office chairs. Well, we don't have to. Well, like 20, 25 bucks. No, no, we did. We did. It's actually a mark on the floor. It might have been from that chair or not. These ones go around as much, but no, it's it's a I'm surprised there wasn't a dongle for the height adjustment because Apple loves their dongles. What do you mean? You can't you're not even supposed to take out the power plug. But God, God forbid it. No, you can't. You can. You can. You might break your display doing it. It does have to come up. Yeah, I love Apple products, but sometimes they have some hidden misses and when they miss it, it's not a good. Yeah, I will say this. Like, I love their pro the pro displays. I saw one in person, but I'm like, how much they want for this thing is so much money. Like, OK, I could justify the computers based on its capabilities from a production standpoint. Like, there's a reason that movie production companies use Apple products. Like, yeah, the specs might be a little bit less than what you can get comparable on a PC, but it's so integrated and the performance is so well that it's great. But like, sometimes there are other things like the pro display. Oh, yeah, by the way, we sell you the display, but it doesn't come with the stand. You got to buy that. So I spent thousands of dollars on a monitor that I can't actually use without the stand that I have to buy extra. Yeah. Oh, and you don't even include basic base amounting. I had to buy that extra. So how do you think people are supposed to use this thing to prop it up against the wall? Yeah. I swear, I'm going to buy one by none of the accessories, and I'm going to duct tape it to the wall. And I'm going to send the screen. I'm going to look at the screen costs so much, I couldn't afford the stand. So this is my solution duct tape to the wall. Well, you can actually buy one of those TV mount. Yeah, there's TV. There are cheaper alternatives out there. It's just, you know, everyone's like, but it's one of those that like, look, I have I have a $2,500 Samsung ultra wide 49 inch 1440 beast. And you would stand. Yeah. Yeah. This is just saying I don't use it. I bought it. I bought a desk like a floating stand, but I have it if I need it. You got spray glue. You got spray. You can just spray glue it to the wall. I don't know what spray glue is going to the monitor might weigh a little too much. I'm not talking about Apple's monitor might weigh a little too much. Yeah. By the way, the monitor looks fantastic. It's not like I doubt the quality of the monitor. There's just a lot of high quality. Yeah. But for the price, for the price, I can just take a 50 inch TV and some TVs have gotten so good to be displayed. Yeah. They're amazing. Put it on my wall. I have a huge screen. So we got a little off topic. We're going to kind of wrap this up, but I need to wrap this up by knowing the story of the beard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So the story of the beard. Because everyone knows it's a fake beard. I hate to call it out. I've been noticing it in your videos lately and I was like, what the hell? He's not even addressing the fake beard. Yeah. Yeah. So during my, so I addressed it doing a like an unboxing video that I made for the, for the channel. But so I was, I was trying to, to my first, my wife was completely against it. I was trying to kind of create like a little style with my, with my, you know, with the beard and stuff. Like this is shape it and stuff. Oh, sure. My wife, my wife was completely against me touching anything here or here that's not done by a professional because I'm, you know, because they're really good at it. They think straight play. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So I was trying to prove her wrong. And I took the, the, I tried, I took the, I took the blade through the wife wrong. Even if she is wrong, doesn't matter anyway. Go on. So I took the blade and I started like shaping, shaping, shaping. All of a sudden my hand slipped and I got literally up to here. And I just saw that patch of, I have a similar story. Yes, yes you did. Like a patch. Okay. A patch. There was no way I could hide that. No way. So I, no, actually, I actually got a mask, you know, like a mask, like a sickness map. I want to say the word but you know, like a, like a mask and I just started, started wearing it. Like, like how did myself like, why are you wearing that mask? I feel, I feel like I'm getting sick. So I want to make sure that I don't get nobody sick watching me online. Yeah. Yeah. And then I ordered this beard and I said, look, so that's how I want the channel. I promise nobody will ever see me without a beard because that's my signature beard. There's like a, you know, the Academy beard. So now I'm wearing this one. And then I have about five other beers that I'm going to try on too. I think I have a blue one. I have a red one. Just go full pink one. I don't know the pink ones. I got a white one and I got like white eyebrows and probably going to put on too. So like, you know, old man style. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. Got it. So yeah. So lesson learned. Never try to prove your, your wife wrong. Yeah. My beer store is much funnier, but it's not funnier. I wasn't trying to prove anybody wrong. It was an honest mistake. And it just happened to happen at a time where I didn't have to worry about it because you guys see how my look is right. Like I don't grow it out, grow it out. I can, but I don't. So I trim it. And I have this trimmer I use. You know, it's got the right thing on it and everything to keep it up at the perfect size I want. And while we were misplaced from our house, when we were waiting for the floor to be installed, I grabbed my trimmer because it was getting too raggedy and I was getting ready to do some on camera stuff, you know, soon I thought. So I went to trim her down because, you know, I'll do all my own lines of my own cutting, not perfect because I don't use a straight blade. I just use my normal executive dollar shave club razor, which is an amazing razor, but it's good for the lines underneath or it's not good for getting here. Here you want more like a straight blade. And I honestly don't trust myself with it. There are times I'll go to the barber and I'll ask them to do it. And they're, of course, really damn good at it because that's what they do. But it's funny. So I went, I went to grab it and I got a phone call from, I think it was Yulia at the time, she was at work. And so like, I'm like, oh, crap, I'm answering. You know, I reach in my pocket where it was, I grabbed the ding thing, okay, I turn it on, I go like this because it's just, you can just go all over with it because it sets with the right size. It doesn't really matter. And I went like this and I looked down for a second, like that didn't feel right. I looked down and there's a bunch of hair in the sink. I look at it, the, my size fell off it. So it was just the raw razor. So I literally just shaved a huge line out of my beard. And I'm like, well, can't hide that. It hurts too. It hurts. I looked at myself in the mirror, just shocked. I'm like, I've been waiting my whole life to have this and I've had it now for the last year and I fuck it up. Now, look, it doesn't take me that long to grow up back guys. Obviously it was back before you guys saw me on video again. It was probably like a three or four day process and I was fine because my mind actually comes in pretty thick. It's not patchy like it. So it wasn't that hard to get it back. But I was like, well, I can't just leave a streak like that. I have to try to make it even. Yeah, mine didn't take long at all. I should have just clean shaved is what I should have did, but I just took the razor. I said, I just did the whole face with that stupid razor that wasn't meant to be used that way. I walked out and it was just, it was, it was a butcher job. It was and I just sat there and I said, yeah, it'll be fine in three days. You're like, yeah, but right now it's hilarious. It was let's just say I'm really glad I didn't really go out in public in those three days until I came back. So listen, listen, my wife has never seen me in her life without a goatee without a goatee. Okay. So never, never. So is the goatee gone now and do you wear the beard to bed? I don't wear the beard to be the beard to bed. I wait for her to go bed and I put my 15 now 16 years and you still you still can't let her see the no goatee hot dog. No, I don't like it myself. I'm like, I look like a like a like a boss, baby boy, like Eric, I get it. So I think she's with a younger little boy. Yeah. So, so yeah, I feel like I feel like my daughter has never seen me without without with a clean shade or my I've had my goatee since I was in high school. So what do I got to do to get you to pull the beard down? I don't think there's anything nobody can do to subscribe to the channel. Give him the 10k right now. Motivation. I want to see even your wife's not allowed to see that. So she'll still see it because you'll see the live. She's watching it live right now. She'll watch it later. She'll watch it later on. Let's just say, Hey, Mrs. Perez and then pull that beard down. Come walk in the studio and yank it. No, the thing is that if she watches this live and she sees that I took off the beard here and then I didn't take off with her. That's another thing. I hope she's watching live so I can tell her to go in there and yank it down. Extra deep shit and give the reveal for the whole world at the same time. I was waiting for him to transfer the beard up to be like Oh yeah. Just do like a whole Santa thing. Just put it above the mouth. Actually, if you see the other video, the unboxing video, it was actually, it was like all of this right here. Nice. I just cut it because it was annoying. I was like eating hair. Yeah. No, I don't blame you on that one. I literally, I literally choke in the video. I literally show podcast. I got to clip this. Yeah, right. This weird story. I did the wife's involved in this where he masked the bed. This is great. I literally choked with with that beard with this one like that and I had a hair ball. I've been cliched for most of my life. So like my fans have seen me without but yeah, that's fantastic. Whenever I whenever I go to the bathroom, I look at the mirror. I'm like who the fuck are you? You just got to make it a new. It's from the multiverse. You don't want to be in. I don't want to. I don't ever want to see a mic from a multiverse that with no beard. Turn around, scare the crap out of yourself, punch the mirror. Stranger in the house. Yeah. Oh my god. That's great. What's your hair getting in my hair now? I feel like I've said this a million times. This is gonna become my favorite podcast ever right now. This is great. I say this with like everybody but I don't care. The audio is working great. Yeah, everything's good. Finally. Mike's being him. His awesome self and just revealing a personal tidbit about his life with Beards and no, you guys. I would like to thank the academy. There you go. I love it. All right, guys. Well, I want to thank Mike Perez obviously for being on Nintendo Academy. You guys should go subscribe to him. We'll get a link up in the chat. I know there was one quite recently. We'll throw another one up here before we're done. He is trying to get to 10,000 subscribers so you can do that giveaway he's got going. So why don't you guys go check him out, check out his content. He's got a whole multiverse thing going on. The one live he did was pretty sweet when he had that going and because it took me a back. I didn't expect him a whole multiverse thing while watching it. So it was pretty fun. I have a lot of unique ideas over there. In fact, if you guys like the lights on my gray wall, you can thank Mike for messaging me and saying, Hey, why don't you get these lights I got and point them at your wall? It's gonna look cool. And everybody's like, so that was thanks to Mike. Mike's the one who came up with that idea. I chose the camera. I just went with the red and blue because it matches the sign. So it was good. And I can change it to other colors if I want. Like, oh my gosh, guys, it is the season of love. Let's make it all in the background. I can't change the colors in our prime sign. Thank you guys for tuning in. Thank you, Mike Ferris for being here. If we don't have you on another episode before them, we will obviously see you for E3. You're going to be on that in a couple of segments. Maybe more. We'll see as I get the schedule set up for that. We'll see what happens there. We'll see. We'll see. One of the multiverse makes it to the E3 event. Oh, no. Oh, boy. I ain't ready. Oh, boy. Am I about your body's not ready? My body's not ready. I'm going to meet the prime that owns that damn island. That's what's going to happen. You got to meet prime Mike. Prime Mike is a character, dude. It's a character. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. All I know is I mean, look, he doesn't have shades like I do. Sorry. No, boy. It's just he has shades. He has shades. I don't know, man. He has some Oakleys. I got Christmas. I could never afford apparently goes for myself. No, no. I think I think you got him on Amazon. I can't afford Oakleys. God damn it. But they are nice. I'm buying a $5,000 camera. And I do giveaways all the time. Okay. I could afford them if I gave up on improving the channel. Okay. I invest all my money in you guys. Love me. I'm trying to buy my love. I deserve love too. You guys have ever seen that skit with that guy? It's an intentional skit, that guy that talks about how like he saw a playboy and he's like in the garbage can and he's trying to find love and he deserves love too because nobody in high school loves them or whatever. It's like a Saturday Night Live type of comedy skit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a legit comedy skit. You can find it on YouTube. It's hilarious. No, Bowser just said you're buying Oakleys. Oh my God. Oakleys. I didn't buy them. Look, they even come with a Neon Premium case that the Oakleys come in. Oh yeah. We're keeping it prime. Prime around here. Looks like we keep it prime. All right. Thank you guys so much for tuning in though. It's been a lot of fun episode I think 43 of the podcast. It's been a lot of fun. We will hit episode 50 before E3. So that's going to be a good time. It's insane. So yeah. Catch you guys in the next episode. Catch Mike next time he's on. Eric, where could they find you at? Oh God. One place. It's all in place only. Twitter at emo 8790. Again, he reads everything tweeted at him but he probably won't respond. They probably won't. Mike, where could they find you besides on YouTube? Nintendo Academy on YouTube, Instagram, Nintendo.academy because some guy has Nintendo Academy. They won't give it to me. And Twitter, Nintendo Academy as well. Awesome. And you guys obviously find Nintendo Prime right here on YouTube and also on Twitter at Ninti Prime. We also tend to have a TikTok, Nintendo underscore prime and Instagram, I think is Nintendo underscore prime as well. Beyond all of that, if you are listening to the audio version and you want to catch the edited, let's not really edit it. It's more so we just throw the intro. We corrected the audio, tried to correct audio issues and put the proper intro and outro on. You can go check out our Nintendo Prime podcast channel where we have our full episode toasting because they do not stay up on our live channel, which is our normal Nintendo Prime channel. Basically, we split it off so the podcast can get its proper attention with the proper notification sent out and everything. We still do it live at the big channel. For now, we'll see if that changes something. Maybe we'll eventually only do it at the podcast channel, but for now, I can't. And you have caught the latest episode of the Nintendo Prime podcast. Catch you guys in the next one. Later. We're still alive. And now we're done.