 Welcome to Nintendo Prime Live, folks. Mostly just a Q&A tonight, although we do kind of have a main topic that sort of started off. We'll talk about my impressions on this in a moment. We're almost five years into Nintendo Switch. As of March 3rd, 2021, we will have reached five years of Nintendo Switch, which to me is just insane. But before we talk about that, how's it going? I want to say hi to everyone in the chat. I got my Bucks gear on today because Milwaukee Bucks are playing right now, and it's also, Yanis Atidakumpo's 27th. I don't think it's more than 27th birthday today. And he's back in the lineup after being out for a couple days. We have our first little super chat of the day that wasn't from Nintendo Prime. Here we go. Thank you, Taylor Plays, for the 499. Awesome, Taylor Plays. All the guys says, would there be a chance to see more Pokemon news besides Pokemon Legends Arceus at the Game Awards this Thursday? I can tell you this fairly confidently. I don't think we're seeing any Pokemon news at the Game Awards at all. Pokemon doesn't do these sorts of events. They've never been at the Game Awards in the last decade. So a Pokemon outside of obviously any nominations they might have been out for, Pokemon has not been at the Game Awards ever in terms of announcements. So I wouldn't think that's changing now. So yeah, I would not expect anything Pokemon related at the Game Awards. That being said, gotta get your shot rolling up here. Let me grab the good old Cardo Booze here. Don't forget, we do have some Don Julio here. This is the new Tequila shot, but these are $100 shots. And we don't bust out $100 shot. For those who don't know, my live streams, especially our night ones I should say, we do shots for all of our super chats and donations. Anything under five bucks, we just crack a Miller Lite here and do a shot of beer for the fives until I run out. We'll do some of this Tequila Rose Strawberry Cream, I don't know, 15% alcohol. Up from there, any $10 ones, we get out the Malibu Strawberry. 20 is a shot of Vodka. 25, an up or 30, an up or whatever you wanna call it, is this Butterscotch Lecour, which I still don't know if I figured out which booze this is, but it's 49 and a half percent. So it gets pretty crazy. Technically, we still have a Smidge, a Cannon Blast left as well. I'll save this for a $50 one. This is heavily fermented. It's like four years old, been open a long time. I got about a half shot left in here. That'll be a $50 one if we somehow get there. Otherwise, 100 bucks for the Don Julio or nothing. Nobody has to ever donate at all on my streams. I just appreciate you taking some time out of your day and spending it with me. So hopefully you guys end up having a good time tonight. If not, that sucks. I'm sorry. I'm trying to be entertaining, but you know, sometimes I got it, sometimes I don't. Do we have another $5 one? Hey, we had another one. Hold up, hold up. All right, we got a duck guy up in here for the 49 and it says, hey, since I'm a $20 Patreon member, when or if do I get to be part of the podcast? Well, for starters, duck guy, thank you so much for being a member of our Patreon. I honestly have not looked at our Patreon in a long time. I was unaware we even had any active members on our Patreon. So that's on me. As for when you'll get to be part of an episode, let's say not this upcoming, not this week. We got a special guest on this week. So the next free week we have without a special guest right now, we don't have a guest scheduled for next week. So potentially if you have time, it could be next week that you can get on. I'm double checking the patrons right now because again, I have not been on our Patreon in a hell of a long time because it's mostly died off. Used to be, we used to have like 100 plus patrons. It was insane. But now we kind of push our memberships instead. However, we still have it. It's still directly for the podcast. So I'm just trying to look at who we got here, patrons. Relationship manager. Let me see which person you might be in this tier. Oh, there you are. So you are a part of that tier. You've been part of it for two months. Okay. I had no idea you even joined last month. I don't even get notifications anymore. So duck guy, I owe you two episodes. All right, duck guy. We'll get you on here at least once this month, if not twice, we'll see. All right, obviously I hope you have a good mic. You don't have to be on camera, by the way. I know some people are camera shy, but I do hope that you have at least a decent microphone, not just like a laptop mic or something like that, right? Like obviously I don't want to hurt people's ears and laptop mics can cause a reverb and it's just not good. A lot of echo stuff. I'm trying to get another one of these for your $5. Thanks so much for the support, duck guy. We'll get you on here. I will contact you via Patreon to get that taken care of. All right, as I'm getting these shots ready to go, you're a member too, I know that. So yeah, well, I got you buddy. Thanks for reminding me too, because I don't think I have any, I think you're the only $20. Yeah, you're our only $20 member. Literally our only $20 member on Patreon. So just so you're aware, you're the only one, which would explain why I didn't even know you were there because literally everyone else is like a dollar. We got like a couple tens in there, but most people are just a dollar. So thanks man for supporting the podcast directly. I do appreciate that, especially not the podcast is on its own channel. It was actually more important than ever for the podcast itself to really push the Patreon because it's a completely separate channel now. That being said, Twig E says I'll be drunk by the end of the night. Twig E, if all I'm doing are beer shots and these tequila rose things, I won't even feel like I had anything to drink. Plus I got this giant thing of water. So yeah, it probably won't be happening. It would probably take several really expensive super chats to bust out the Don Julio for me to even feel it tonight. For those that are unaware, I have a very high alcohol tolerance. I wish I didn't. I wish I could get drunk for cheap. Trust me, it would have saved me a lot of money throughout my 20s, but that's just not the way it is. Our long time people who watch Know What's Up, they know it takes quite a bit to get me there. All right, let me shout out everyone who's here tonight. We have 61 plus people live and growing by the minute. So thank you guys for all that. We have, let me get the shout out of the way though. I haven't even done one yet. One of our members of the board of directors here is here in Natsu, which by the way, if you wanna become a member of the board of directors, you just gotta hit that join button. We do have a special giveaway when we hit 200 members. Let me give you an updated member count right now. Usually I had this ready ahead of time, but I was busy with upsetting some people in my Madden League. It was fun. All right, let me, I don't even think they were upset. They just thought they were yanking my chain. Let's see here. Where is the monetization memberships? All right, our total member count at the moment is 155 members. So that would mean we are what, can I math 45 members short? So 45 members short of our member goal. So if we get 45 new members somehow tonight, that'd be insane if we got 45 new members tonight. But if we do, there will be a special members only giveaway. Yeah, it'll be nice. I've been waiting for this one. I haven't already taken care of. It's ready to go. It's extra special. It's actually probably one of my most meaningful giveaways that I have done to date. But that's, we're 45 members away from that. So we'll see what happens. We have been over 200 before, but then we got hacked. The hacking really screwed us. We were on our way to 250 and looking to 300. We haven't really bounced back from that because we're not really reaching anyone other than current subscribers right now. So thank you guys, by the way, for watching all my content and helping keep them the views up high. You guys are awesome. Welcome Super Tech Tricks as well. Another member of our board of directors as well as Crazes Cough, another member. Speaking of members, Seahawks24 rule is here as well. He's also a moderator. So welcome, man. We got Yokuda Mehicicic, I can't pronounce that. But welcome, man. We got Don Lewis here who wanted to note that today, March, what would have been Satura Owada's birthday. Sad day. I mean, good day, but sad day. Thinking of the former president, rest in peace, man. Stream element spots doing some work here. We got B Maverick is here. How's it going, man? Second one, the Pikachu fan is here as well. We have another member here of the board of directors in bed or electrically. How's it going, buddy? Another member is here as well and Jamie Bell. How's it going, man? We got Bison here. Charles Trudell is here. Jamie Bell, who's another member of the board of directors. How's it going, Jamie? Parker is here. Let's see here. Jesus Calderon is here. How's it going, man? I've been so bored. So thank you for live streaming. Bored, bored, you say. Hmm, hmm. Oh, Jesus Calderon thinks he's bored, but now he's here and he's no longer bored. I honestly don't even know if the voice mod is working, so let me know if that was even popping off right there. We could have just been super embarrassing otherwise. Dark Frosty 101 is here. How's it going? Says how do I feel about the Switch? Good question. We will get to those responses in a moment here. I'm just saying hi to everyone. The Elemental Hero of the Shadow Link, Dragon Wolf King is here. How's it going? Again, one of the longest user names on YouTube. Twig E is here. It says Mr. Rubbleman's. I haven't had a Rubbleman in a long time. It's Nathaniel David Rumpful Jans, J-A-N-C. J-A-N-C, so like pants, but with a J. J, J, except it's J-A-N-C. It's a really weird pronunciation, but yeah, that's my actual name and it's hyphenated. Well, David's my middle name. I usually don't mention my middle name too often, but Rumpful Hyphen Jans, that's my last name. How's it going? Anonymous? All right, I get it. I get what you're doing there. Taylor plays as well. So we got Switchinator here. Nintendo, Reconnect. How's it going in the chat? We got Callinance is here, welcome. Trucker is here, how's it going? Scrolling on Dark Frosty, 101 is here. Duck Guy, obviously, welcome in. Another member of the board of directors is here. Let's see here, scrolling down. Christopher Colazo is here, how's it going, man? Isaac Shook is here, although he retracted his message. Hopefully it wasn't too bad. Scrolling down here, we got E-primely. E-primely is here, Harman Rebal is here, JPG is here. Carla Mar is here, how's it going, Carla? I don't know if I've seen you in a little bit. Welcome. Electro TDS is here, Gaming Videos is here. Speaking of people who are here, we got Justin Meazel. What's up, man? Thank you for the 499, it says Breath of the Wild, two of the Game Awards. Yeah, we'll see, baby. We'll see, there's no guarantee that Breath of the Wild two is gonna be there, but we'll see, I have hope. All right, get your shot, Portia. This might be the last one of these I have. So now, all $5 in undershots are just beer. You gotta get the 10 bucks to get to the real booze now, because I'm all out of those. But thanks so much for the $5, man, I appreciate it. Super Tech Tricks is here, another member of the board of directors. He says, 155 members, that's good. Yes, you're right, it's not too bad. Again, 45 away from our big giveaway goal for our members, but that's all right. We got Dane P19 is here. How's it going? Mayjo Oryzen is here. How's it going? Gaming Videos is here. What an interesting name. Welcome, we got Harman Rebel is here. Let's see, scrolling down more. Probably not to let it jump, because it likes to jump sometimes, and then I miss people. Scrolling down, Jamie Bell, I think. I think Jamie Bell, give you a triple shout out. Scrolling down, Yvonne Francoise is here. I'm pretty sure I pronounced that right. Another member of our board of directors is here, and deadly creature. How's it going, man? I hope your weekend was great. You didn't get much done. It was a busy weekend. We had a parade that we took the kids to, a winter parade. At the field, Santi Claus on Saturday. Sunday was a lot of running around with the kids. We've got an issue where our youngest has been waking up at like 3 a.m. It's been really crazy, but I think we have it sorted out for tonight. We'll see. I'm kind of crossing my fingers. I don't have to wake up super early. Ideally, I don't want to wake up to like 5 36 to get my kids ready for school. But, you know, we'll see what happens. Life of a parent. But yeah, my weekend was all right. Lots of homework. Yeah, it was interesting. I'm not gonna say it was bad. It was just an interesting weekend. Here. Oh, I'm scrolling on that. I think I've almost got Clayton Miller is here. How's it going? B James is here. No Breath of the Wild 2 at the Game Awards? Not happening. Hey man, that's all right. Who knows? None of us know what's gonna be there, although it does seem like Sonic might be there. And there's supposedly a brand new Sonic game coming next year, officially announced. And there was some teasing happening on Twitter where the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account was asking Jeff Keely if there was room for them to be at the Game Awards. And Jeff Keely said, absolutely. So, you know what that is. That's marketing. They're marketing the fact that Sonic is going to be present at the Game Awards. Now, it could just be a trailer for the new Sonic movie, of course. Can't dismiss that. That might be what it is. We obviously have to have hope for the game, as well. Let's see here. Brian Fox is here. How's it going, Brian Fox? K-Dog is here. What's up, K-Dog? That is actually the incorrect spelling, Charles Trudell, but it was a very good attempt. And you're really close. But I'm not gonna correct you. Let's see here. Paul Gale Network is here. How's it going? I know Paul Gale Network, as a matter of fact, is a member of our Patreon supporting that podcast. Thanks so much for that. Let's rally for Metroid Dreg. Gotta get in those votes for the Game Awards. It's currently fifth. Top five events. Yeah, so what Paul Gale's talking about is there is basically a fan vote for the top fan game of the year, basically. That's not what it's called, but it's basically where it's a separate award from all the rest. That's just what's the top voted game by fans. Right now they're into the top 10 and they're trying to narrow it down to five in the second round of voting. And the third round of voting will be taking that top five. Fans vote on that. And then Bada Bing, Bada Boom, you end up with the fan winner. And right now Metroid Dread is right on the cusp of making that top five, which I guess I'm not really surprised that it's on the cusp. Like it's right there at number five, but really close to dropping out. Metroid's not a really popular series, especially compared to some of the games it's up against. I will be surprised if it can win the fan vote because there's just not a lot of Metroid fans out there. That's just the reality of the situation. That's why it's best hoped to win an award is actually the real game of the year award at the game awards because it's not based on a popularity vote. See, this is where there's some people out there, I see that are actually really upset that fan voting only comes for 10% of the overall vote tally for all the awards. And this is where I say that's actually a good thing. I'd rather fan votes not be counted at all because all that is is a popularity contest. Metroid is not a game that has 20 million people that play it. So it's not gonna have a chance to win against something like Halo Infinite. Halo Infinite's in that fan voting poll. Halo Infinite's clearly gonna get more votes than Metroid Dread. Far none, I can already tell you. Metroid Dread has no possibility of winning that fan poll. And that's the problem. Why you don't want fan voting to actually be the determining factor of all of these awards at the game awards because it's just gonna show extreme bias towards specific IP. See, the bottom line is there's a much higher chance that a panel of people, which are, yeah, they're all from the media or various YouTubers, have actually played almost all of the games that are nominated. Whereas most of the fans voting have not. Most of the fans voting for Halo Infinite have not played Metroid Dread. A lot of the people voting for Metroid Dread have not played Halo Infinite. See, this is the problem with relying on a fan vote. It's no subjectivity or no objectivity, I guess. It's completely bias. Bias, bias, bias, bias, bias. And whatever franchise is most popular is going to win. Period. That's just how fan votes always go. It's always based on which IP is most popular, not necessarily which game is better. This is why I kind of wish fan voting didn't count for any of the awards. Because fan votes are nothing but IP popularity. Not actually based on any opinion on the quality of the games against each other. So this is why I actually like the game awards over fan polls. As an example, any fan poll I do on my end, on my channel that takes Zelda versus any other franchise, Zelda wins by a landslide. Now, does that mean that it's the best? Every time? No. Does that mean it should win the poll every time? No. What does it mean? That on my channel, I have a really, really big fan base of people who like Zelda more than anything else. So Zelda wins all the polls. But is that fair? Is that really a good gauge of what games are best or what are the most anticipated? Probably not. Probably not. It's dealing with an extremely biased selection of fans. So the thing is, everyone is biased in some ways. But at least we can look at certain media outlets and go, well, hey, IGN reviewed all these games. So them having to say, probably is going to be a better option than me having to say that didn't play all those games. Kind of funny, played and reviewed all of the games that were nominated this year. They're probably gonna have a much better stance at what's better or not better than I will, than you will. That's why I actually like that the media outlets for all the don't trust the media and all the crap out there, hey, put a line is they have more experience and a more of a right to vote in this than we do. Because we're not gonna objectively look at any of this. We're gonna vote for the game we like the best and it's probably the only game we played. Nintendo fans are gonna vote for Nintendo game, Sony fans vote for Sony games, Microsoft fans vote for Microsoft games. It's not rocket science. And the game awards knows it. That's why the fan votes only 10%. Because they don't want it to be a popularity contest. They want things where Psychonauts II could actually win some awards. Where it takes two could actually win some awards. Where Metroid Dread could actually win some awards. Because they probably all deserve to win awards. But if it's just a popularity contest, they won't. They'll lose out to more popular IPs. But that's why I like the way that Jeff Keely does it. Not everyone does, but I like the way that he does it. All right, I think that's almost everyone that I saw in the chat. Doggie's here as well. Another member of the board of directors, of Nintendo Prime. I also love some of the opinions that the game awards are a joke. I think it's interesting when, because obviously game awards are gonna be a big topic all week. We'll be talking about it again on the podcast. Obviously we have the game awards on Thursday. It's really interesting when we think about, you know, about awards in general. Like, you know, when you see a comment that says, oh, the game awards are a joke, why? What about it makes them a joke? Is it just because it's mostly media voting? Well, I just explain why that's actually a good thing. Because if it's a fan vote, then it's no different than just holding a popularity contest. It's not, no one's voting based on the quality of the game. They're voting based on what's their favorite game. That's not what the awards are. The awards aren't about what your favorite is. It's about which game is the best in comparison to the other games. And if you didn't play those other games, you can't actually compare them. You're just gonna vote for the one or two games that you did play. See what I'm saying? So, sure, you cannot like the way the game awards work or the way the game awards are set up or how the awards are announced and how some of them get rushed through. Maybe you just don't like Jeff Kealy. And that's totally fine. There's a whole bunch of reasons to be critical of the game awards. But I don't think how the games are voted for, I think is one of them. Because how else would you like it done? Oh, you want it to be developers voting for it. They have the Game Developers Conference Awards. They do them every year. Game Developers do get to vote for awards for a game. So you already have that. Oh, you want it to be fan votes. Okay. Guess what? The Game of the Wards has a fan vote. It's going on right now. It's in round two. I don't know what we really expect from awards. Now, if you're just someone who doesn't care about awards in general, that's a whole different topic. Because obviously, who cares then? But, cheers. Doggy says, I just don't like the procedures of how games are nominated and rewarded. The media is deeply flawed just like the fans are. Your opinion is the media is deeply flawed. You don't necessarily have the proof to back it up. You see, this is the part that's really interesting when people are critical of anything. Even of media, some media today drops some nines for Halo Infinite. And some people that don't agree with that assessment will go, bias, bias, bias. Oh, you're just got checks from Microsoft. You're just sucking on the game past heats. But you don't have any proof of any of that. It's just built on a bunch of assumptions that don't actually have the evidence out there to prove your stance on that. So like, when you talk about the media being biased, everyone's biased. We're all humans. None of us don't have opinions. That having an opinion alone makes you biased. So we're all biased. But I can tell you right now, I already know what game is winning the fan vote for Game of the Year based on the games that the fans nominated. I already know what's gonna win because I already know what the most popular IP among all of those games are. So I already know what's gonna win. And I ain't Metro Dread. So I look at this as, there is no perfect system because people are flawed. People are biased. So all you can do is take a panel of people that have actually played the games that are nominated and have them be the deciding vote. Because at least in the context of, hey, if you're gonna have a deciding vote on what's gonna win each award, you probably should have played all the games that are nominated for that award. And the media are much more likely to have done that than a game fan. Because most gamers don't play all platforms. They're not playing PC, mobile phones, Switch, Xbox and PlayStation. They're just not. That's the reality of the gamer situation. But when you work in the industry, when it's your job, you are much more likely to form more well-rounded opinions. And you can say, hey, you don't have any proof of that. Sure I do. Because all these outlets have actually played and reviewed these games. That's the proof. The proof is publicly available that the outlets involved in this have actually played the game. I have no proof, as an example, that if, I don't know, let's just say, to Luigi's therapist out there in the chat. If Luigi's therapist is a deciding vote, a vote that holds a lot of weight, say 15% of the weight volume is based on his vote, I have no evidence that Luigi's therapist has played any of the games nominated. There is no public reference of anything saying that Luigi's therapist has a legit right to have that kind of power in the votes. Whereas with the media, you can hate them, you can disagree with them. But what you can't disagree with is these outlets have all reviewed every single one of these games. So they've played every single one of these games. Which means they have more of a right to this vote if we're just looking for the best possible way to come up with the right answers than others. Now, you could bring up situations where you disagree with the final results. Like when a lot of people said, oh yeah, Death Stranding was easily called for Game of the Year because of Jeff Keely's relationship with, what's his name? Kojima, Jeff Keely doesn't have a vote. He didn't decide to nominate that game. That's not how the Game Awards works. While it's Jeff Keely's show, he's not actually part of the game nomination panel. He does not make the decisions on what's nominated. The panel of media makes that decision on what's nominated. Now, you can argue he does get to choose who's on that panel. But at least the panel is publicly available. We know every outlet that's involved in the vote, every single one. We can track those outlets. So like, it's easy to say Death Stranding in an example shouldn't have been Game of the Year, but also it was one of the highest rated games of that year. That's just a fact. It literally was one of the highest rated games of the year it came out. Maybe you could argue predictable, but that's what a lot of people really like Kojima Game. Who knew? Kind of like, I can tell you right now, Breath of the Wild 2, if it releases in time next year, it's probably gonna win Game of the Year. It's the sequel to the best-selling Zelda Game of All Time, a prior Game of the Year winner. Sure, there's a bunch of big names coming out next year, or big games coming out, a bunch of them. Horizon, Forbidden West, right? Halo Infinite will be part of those awards next year. There's a bunch of big titles coming out between now and the next Game of the World. And I guarantee you, if Breath of the Wild 2 releases in time, it's gonna win Game of the Year. And why is it gonna win Game of the Year? Not because I want it to, although I probably will want it to. But because it's very clear the media loves Zelda, as much as I do. Because Zelda games keep getting rated in the 90s. So Breath of the Wild 2 is probably gonna win. Okay, so predictable. Sure, wrong? I don't know, I can't tell you. Cause I'm not them. I didn't play all the games. I can't tell you if it would legitimately be the better game out of all the games that come out next year. So I don't really like the premise that the media is this horrible evil thing. And it's funny, cause obviously I make fun of the media sometimes, right? Especially general media like CNN or Fox News or something, when they cover games, it's always laughable how unknowledgeable they are on this stuff. But even like Kotaku, right? Like we've made some fun of Kotaku at times. But reality is, in general, I think most of video games media is fine. I don't think it's really as bad as a lot of gamers make it out to be. Now you could argue one thing that is bad is sometimes they drag politics into their news coverage. And yeah, that bothers me. But setting aside that, when we're just talking about most of the game reviews, I read a lot of game reviews. They don't really seem that bad. I watch a lot of reviews on YouTube. They don't really seem that bad. I think we just have our own bias against the media. We've been taught for a year, especially if you're someone watching YouTube, you're watching my live stream, right? You've been, you have been told forever, for, I don't know, this was existing when I was a kid. As soon as social media came around, you can't trust the media. You can't trust IGN. Oh, look, Phillip Muson three plus years ago plagiarized. So because of that, all of IGN's a piece of shit. Nevermind that he was actually a Nintendo YouTuber and he kind of just made YouTubers like me look like a piece of shit, not IGN. Now you could argue he made IGN's hiring practices seem interesting because they didn't catch the plagiarism ahead of time. But nobody caught the plagiarism ahead of time, including the wider internet. So, yeah. And then you have to get, then I always consider, well, IGN's also navigating new territory for hires. Normally you would be looking for people who are fresh out of college, have a journalism degree, have a passion for gaming, have worked maybe for free, voluntarily on your wiki for a while, while also, you know, having some experience in journalism at a newspaper or other websites. And then all of a sudden you hire them based on their experience and their college. That's traditionally how IGN is hired, but they also know the landscape is changing in personalities and internet personalities are becoming a bigger and bigger part of what gamers are paying attention to. So, yeah. Of course they look to YouTubers for hires that maybe don't have those same kind of experience and credentials, you know? So how do you handle that situation? I don't know. They obviously made a bad hire, but they could have made a better one. Let's say Beat'em Ups was hired instead. Would have that been a bad hire by them to run their Nintendo podcast and new reviews of games? Probably not. Most people would probably think that would have been a great hire. No, would Beat'em Ups have taken the job? Well, I mean, not at this point. Obviously probably makes significantly more money off YouTube than he does, you know, than he would be offered by IGN. But still, it's one of those situations that if you would have caught him at the right time before he ascended, yeah, he probably would have been a good pick. It's kind of a crapshoot. It's hard to vet, it's hard to vet this stuff. It's not like there's a database out there. Like with college papers, there's databases you could search to find out if someone plagiarized. It's really hard to do with video content. Very hard to do with video content. Because you need full transcripts. And what are you going to do? Hire someone that's going to spend, you know, three months transcribing every video a content creator has ever made to find out if they plagiarized? And even then, what if they plagiarized from another video, not from a written source? See, that was the bad thing about Phillip Muson is he plagiarized from written reviews. Imagine if he plagiarized from non-written reviews. Which, again, when he got busted for was actually a non-written review. So, yeah, it's a lot of, it's hard. I feel for them. I really, really do. I really feel for them. Because when it gets to the point that I have to hire somebody besides Eric, I have no idea what I'm going to be doing for that process, you know? Do I hire someone who's graduated college with a video editing degree and has all this experience but probably wants to get paid, you know, 100K a year, which, that's a lot of money. Or do I go with someone who's just freelancing, learned video editing on their own, has edited, has their own YouTube channel, I just like the way they edit things. And then I hire them for half that money. And then, you know, what happens if I find out, oh man, they've actually been like cheating with their edits and stealing, you know, I don't know, assets and stuff like this, right? Like, that happened. And you don't want that to come into your video. You don't want stolen content to end up in your edits. So there's just a lot of, a lot of navigating in this new age world that isn't cut and dry unless you just go with a traditional, hire a college grad who worked at a traditional company. And we keep saying, well, you can learn all that stuff without going to college. Yeah, then you gotta take a chance. When you take a chance, you're gonna get burned. So there's a really high chance you're gonna get burned. So yeah, I got no problem with the media in general. I, the gaming media, I have a problem with the generalized media that doesn't understand gaming. But the IGNs, the game spots, the game informers, even Kotaku, although I have my issues with some stuff they do sometimes. Polygon, I have some issues with stuff they do at times. Those two outlets in particular are the ones that really bring a lot of politics into their stuff. So that's what really irks me about those places are the politics they bring in. But the IGNs, not really, if you actually listen to IGN's podcast and you actually read their articles, they really don't bring politics into stuff. If you listen to game spot stuff, if you listen to, I don't even know, venture beats, gaming stuff, they don't really bring a lot of that stuff in either. Like, a lot of these places are just fine. Nothing wrong with them. They're really no different. Like you think of, oh Nate, you're a really trustworthy YouTuber, am I? Am I really more trustworthy than these other people? Not really. The only reason you feel that way is because you get the chat with me on a live stream like this and in the comments and I respond to you and you don't always get that kind of connection with the others. It's not always easy to talk to someone like Peter Snyder from IGN. You can message him, he might get back to you, but he's so big. You know, and that happens sometimes once content creators get too big. Feed him ups is now at that level, I can't even get a hold of the damn guy. Him and I used to talk every week in DMs. Him and I wouldn't, I haven't talked now in probably a year. He got big. And it's not that he's trying to ignore me, it's that he's got so many people trying to talk to him and get a hold of him and DM him and message him and email him and trying to find out his phone number and text him. He's just gonna ignore pretty much everyone. Because if he didn't, he won't have time to make the content he's making. He doesn't want to ignore anyone, but he's at that point that he's just too big to realistically pay attention to most people. Yeah, he'll shout out donations and stuff like I do, but he can't literally pay attention to everybody. So I don't blame him for not talking to me much anymore. He's got nothing against me, I'm sure. Just like Bob Wolf. We used to talk to Bob Wolf all the time. Now I can't even get him to respond to, I got a sent to my message like last week, I can't even get him to respond. The last time he responded to me was when I responded publicly on Twitter to something and then he DMed me some details that I asked him about in private. And even then, he just sent the one DM to me and then he vanished and didn't respond to anything else I said. Because he's busy. He knows who I am, he'll help me out. He's not the only in the off chance that he catches it and probably only if I say something publicly because he's ignoring his DM. So yeah, I think I got no problem with it with the general media. I think a lot of us are a little too unfair because we grew up being told you can't trust them, trust the social media influencer, trust the TikToker, trust the YouTuber. They're more authentic. They're more this, are we really? I'm not so sure anymore. In fact, it's almost getting to the point that I think you got to start questioning a lot of the YouTubers that you're trusting because all the crap that we used to say you couldn't trust other YouTubers or other media for. Can't trust IGN to review Call of Duty when they're being sponsored by Call of Duty. Well, can you trust player essence when he's doing live streams with employees from Nintendo? How can you trust anything he says about Nintendo games? He's literally teaming up with Nintendo and doing live streams with Nintendo employees on his channel. So how can you trust there? Ain't no inherent bias there. Every time he talks about Nintendo games. Isn't that more fishy than some, I don't know, what do you call them? Those ads that they put on the websites that most of the employees have nothing to do with. Totally separate people that deal with those ads. Player essence is directly talking to employees at Nintendo. Directly having them on live streams. By the way, I'm not saying that you can't trust player essence, but shouldn't that make you question? Why are we not questioning people like us? But, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Some person at IGN had Bill Trenning come on and did a little interview on a podcast. Oh no, we can't trust their reviews of Nintendo games. They're biased. It's like, well, one, everyone's biased. And two, how are content creators any better on YouTube? By the way, I don't follow player essence for doing stuff with Nintendo. Heck, if Nintendo wants to get ahold of me and partner up for some live streams, that'd be sweet. They want to send me review copies of games? Sweet, save me a little money, I guess. I'd buy the games anyways, but sure, save me a little money, whatever. But shouldn't that make you question the authenticity of the content you're getting? And if you're not questioning it, then why are we holding that against the media? I'm just throwing that out there. Like, why are we holding it against them but not holding it against people like me? Now, hey, Nintendo doesn't sponsor me. I haven't got a review copy from Nintendo since Skyward Sword back in 2011. So Nintendo ain't got shit to do with me. Probably because I'm sitting here dropping swear words on live stream and doing shots. So Nintendo don't want much to do with me. But, I mean, there's things you should question, right? During E3, I told you we had a bunch of partners for stuff we gave away. Hey, gave away a bunch of Ubisoft games. Should you trust me when I talk about Ubisoft games? I partnered with them to give away, like eight copies of $60 game. So should you trust me? I could tell you reasons that you should trust me but the skepticism should always be there because I'm just asking you to believe me. I can't prove to you that there's no inherent bias. Am I only excited for Sparks of Hope because they gave me a bunch of games to give away to you guys? I could try to convince you otherwise but just do you trust me or do you not trust me? Should you trust me? If you just trust me blindly, that's when things get in trouble, right? I want people to always question me, question the companies I partner with, question my integrity for partnering with those companies. Should always question. Don't just question the big boys. Because guess what? The YouTubers are becoming the big boys. What this channel makes on YouTube over the last year is literally what an entry-level employee at IGN. I know this because I've talked to an entry-level employee at IGN to find out what their salary was. Now, differences, that was their salary, they all on top of that got benefits, health insurance and all that and I don't get any of that. So technically they still were getting a better deal. But this channel makes what an entry-level IGN employee doesn't? Yeah, I end up giving most of it away but still I'm not even that big of a YouTube channel. So imagine what the big boys are making. I'm just just imagine if I'm telling you around the ballpark that this channel makes. Imagine what, you know, a 300K channel that's getting, you know, 40, 50,000 views of video. You know, imagine what, you know, beat-em-ups is making. By the way, no problem, get that bag, make your money but just gotta think, gotta think. That's why I think it's too, or too critical of the media. Too critical of the game media who mostly wouldn't be doing it if they didn't enjoy it and they won't know why they wouldn't be doing it if they didn't enjoy it. I don't really make a lot of money. Jeff Grubb is an example, right? He's a journalist for VentureBeat. Has his own little thing he does on his own with his own little live streams, the Nintendogs and the game mess that he does, right? And then he has some work now that he does a giant bomb. He doesn't actually make that much money. He's been in this industry for like 20 years. He's not making a hundred thou. He ain't making that much. But if he was doing the same journalistic work for CNN, Fox News, he'd be a million. I just want this to be put in perspective. Nobody's working at these video game websites because they just want the paycheck. Just like nobody's developing games because they just want the paycheck. You can make more money with that skill set in other fields. Same thing with journalism. Same thing with YouTube content. Hell, I make Nintendo content. I can make way the hell more money if I decided to be a vlogger instead and do crazy stuff and bury myself alive and just do all the challenges that pop up every week. I can make way the hell more money doing that shit than I could doing Nintendo. You got to think about that too as well. Like, you know, they're not taking the jobs because they're making lots of money. They're taking the jobs because they have a passion for games. Phillip Muson's one of the rare examples where he doesn't seem like he had a passion for games. I think he just got caught up in the opportunity. That's why I take on the Phillip Muson's story. I think he just got caught up in the opportunity and he just really enjoys video editing. And so he just kind of did his thing. But, Bob Wolf's a good guy. From everything I know about Bob Wolf, he's a pretty good guy. I've met him before. I mean, he's a nice guy. And he's always been nice to me. That's all I can only tell you from my experience with Bob Wolf. My experience with Bob Wolf is that he's really nice. Swiggy likes SwitchForce more. So he says, true, I do watch Spawn Wave, RGT, SwitchUp, SwitchForce, SomeRowNation, and sometimes Venus, but some of his stuff is cringe. SwitchForce is cringe too, but more tolerable for me for some reason. I mean, that's all personal taste, right? Like, I think SwitchForce is super great. But like you, it doesn't bother me that much. Now, I can tell what he's doing. He's catering to a younger audience. I don't have metrics for his channel, but if I had to guess, the average age of his audience is between 13, because that's the lowest he goes on YouTube, 13 and 30, let's say somewhere in there. I would say that's a big stretch of 17 years. So like, that's probably his primary audience. Mine's 25 to 45. That's why I could do things. I do shots on streams. And you know, cuss and all, because my audience is mostly older. We have hardly any children that watch my channel. Oh, there are some, but we have hardly any children that watch my channel. Hardly anyone under 18 watches my channel. And that's a massive audience of Nintendo fans that I'm just not catering to. And that's okay. I'm cool with that. I like the audience I have. Oh, I got a $5 Super Chat in from Ducca. What's up, Ducca? I thank you so much for the $5. I just watched part of your hacked video and wanted to apologize. Did you ever find the culprit or have you kind of intel? Update on the hacking situation. No. Long story short, no. Nothing happened. I mean, a lot of stuff happened to the channel. We still are feeling the after effects since then. I know viewership wise, you guys can look at my channel and go, but Nate, your views are really well. Your live streams are doing all right. I got 116 live. How many of you guys have never seen my... In fact, I want to see this in the chat. How many people watching my live stream right now? This is the first time you've ever seen a video of mine. How many people... I want you to go in the chat right now and you don't have to do an emoji. Just type the number one. If this is the first time you've ever seen me, right now, tonight, if this is the first time you've ever seen me, might be a bit because I forgot to set my stream to ultra low latency. So there's going to be like a 40 second delay. But I'm not expecting to see too many ones. You're a bird, man. You're a moderator. Yep, first time I've ever seen your videos. Well, like, do you see my point? So we got funk. We got funk. There's one. Four or 20. You guys are hilarious. See what I'm saying though? Like, that's the way my crowd is. Oh, greetings for Riga Lafya. Hey, but did I say that right? Riga? How Americans would pronounce that? That might not be how it's actually pronounced. But Lafya, I'm pretty sure I pronounced that right. Welcome funk. So yeah, like, look, we had one person in the chat say that this is the first time I've ever seen my video. Before I got hacked, it was roughly 40% of all viewers were brand new first time. According to the metrics since then, less than 4% of my viewers per video and per live stream are new. Literally, the bar just stays flat. Like it says zero. You have to literally zoom in to find out that it's even at 4%. Almost every viewer, well, pretty much every viewer I get are people that have viewed me before. Now you might go, but Nate, your subscriber count's growing. Sure. And my subscriber count is growing from people who have viewed my channel before and either unsubbed or viewed my channel before and never subbed in the first place. They're just being recommended or being sent notifications for my video because they've watched my videos before. I'm not actually being shared to new audiences. That's the scary thing. On the positive side, I'm doing really good viewership wise and that's without being shared to new audiences. So how well would I be doing if I was shared to new audiences? Man, maybe my views would be double. I have no idea. But that's one of the major pitfalls of that hacking is we're not reaching people who don't know who I am anymore. We're not finding new audiences. That sucks, because we definitely were finding new audiences in October, not anymore. And I don't know if and when that's ever gonna fix. I just keep marching on, doing my thing, hoping that the channel makes enough and that we're doing well and you guys keep wanting to tune in. And thankfully I have a really active community that's very supportive and tries to show up to every video. I asked this question on my Discord the other day, hey, how many people watch my videos all the way to the end? And almost every single person on our Discord server said, yeah, I always watch it at the end. Maybe they skipped the last 20 seconds, which is the end of the video. But yeah, they stick around throughout the most, 90% of the video. That is awesome. That's how great my community is. They either wanna do it or they do it because they know it's good for the channel. Either way, I don't really care why they do it. But we have amazing community support. My channel is lifted with community support. So thank you guys for that. You guys are the reason that some of my fear after we got hacked are alleviated. One of my fears was that the revenue at the channel was gonna go shh. And if the revenue goes shh, I have to spend less time doing it. So I have to do more time at other jobs. So you guys made sure that didn't happen last month. Now, what you guys did is unsustainable. I will say that you guys were insane last month. Half, literally 50% of the money made last month on the channel from you guys watching, all the super chats and all the members. Those super chats and members make up 50% of the revenue my channel made last month. It's never been that way, by the way. In October, before we got hacked, it only made up 15% of the revenue. The rest was ad rev. Now the channel is being lifted by you guys. Is it gonna continue to be lifted like that? Is Birdman gonna come on like crazy and drop two, 300 bucks on another live stream like he did last month? Probably not. I don't think Birdman's ever dropped that kind of money before. Like that's the kind of crazy support we were getting last month. Is that gonna continue? No, like this month, we're off to a really bad start compared to last month. What are you gonna do? Just keep pressing forward, keep doing the best we can and keep hoping that YouTube eventually picks us back up. Until then, thank you guys for all your support. You guys are awesome. How you guys feel about Switch, by the way? We're five years in. How you guys feeling? How you guys feeling? How you guys feeling? You guys doing good? So I'll tell you quick my thoughts on Switch. Nearly five years in. We're not at five years yet, but nearly five years in. My opinion is Switch is in a very good place. Not with everything, it's not perfect. I'm not one of those people that thinks Switch is just God's gift to gaming and the greatest things in slice bread. It's got issues. Nintendo Switch Online is obviously one of the biggest ones. Obviously we can get into, oh, it's a weak system. I don't like to talk about that. I think a lot of gamers focus too much on specs, less on quality of game. Or I think they tie quality of game to specs. Like, oh, this game's in 4K 120, so it's a great game. No, it doesn't make a game break. At all. Literally a game could be in 720p running at 15 FPS and actually be a better game. Now, I'm not saying that game running at 720p and 15 FPS wouldn't be even better at 4K 120, it probably would be. But just being high resolution, high frame rate, just being extremely pretty looking doesn't make a game good. So I try to be careful that I'm not necessarily complaining too much about the power even though I would like more power. I mean, literally I have a $2,200 desktop PC that I use for all my editing. It's an editing and streaming PC. But yeah, because it's an editing and streaming PC it can game like a champ. It's got a 5900X in there, it's got a 6700XT. It's a decently beefy computer. Not like top of the line, we're not talking 6900XT, 3090 Territory, 5950X, which is just like a step up from what I have. Or obviously using the most recent, the Kaby Lake or whatever, the 1,200K. Obviously there's better stuff than what I have out there. But I mean, it's still some pretty high end hardware. I love it, I game on it. I put Age of Empires 4 on it a lot right now. I game on my Xbox. Switch is exactly what I want it to be right now. It gives me a lot of games that I can't get anywhere else. That's obviously a bonus. I enjoy a lot of those games, double bonus. And some of the games I can get elsewhere, I just don't have other convenient ways to play them whenever I feel like it. Like right now for PC games, I don't have a Steam Deck, I don't have an INEO right now. So I can't play my PC games anywhere. I have to be somewhere I can hook up my laptop or my desktop. Whereas I can be sitting on the toilet and be playing, I don't know, what's a game? I have a Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, I guess, which I'll be, by the way, playing right here, live tomorrow. I told you guys, every Tuesday we're playing Pokemon Brilliant Diamond until I beat it. Beat the main story, anyways. We're not gonna like 100% get all the shiny. I'm not that crazy. But yeah, we'll beat the main brux of the game together for the first Pokemon game that I have beaten since I was a kid. Basically what it's gonna amount to. I mean, technically I beat Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, but I'm not counting that because it's just gen one again. So even though it was a lot of fun, it was just gen one again. So like there was a lot of nostalgia affecting the fun I had with that game. I don't have nostalgia for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond. I never played Pokemon Diamond in Pearl, ever before. Never played it. So I don't have that nostalgia factor here. So yeah, we're gonna beat that game and play it every Tuesday until I beat it. But yeah, I just really enjoy Switch for what it is. It's quickly climbing up the ladder of my favorite Nintendo systems. It's not ahead of the Super Nintendo yet. That's my all-time favorite Nintendo platform as Super Nintendo, but it's right behind it. We'll see if it can pass it. I think Super Nintendo had less issues for its time. But that's only because Switch is more capable, like online wasn't a thing you worried about on Super Nintendo. So like, you know, if I eliminate online on Switch, well, I mean, yeah, it's still pretty damn good system. But I mean, that's part of the package now. And so now we're stuck comparing at the PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and it's like, is that really fair? I wanna compare it to prior Nintendo systems. And hey, some of the prior Nintendo systems, I mean, we, you had fricking voice chat for crying out loud, let alone, what do we have? Didn't use friend codes. So that was nice, no friend codes, thank God. And obviously we had Miiverse as I think it up. Which again, Miiverse was flawed as well. And I mean, it's a hell of a lot better than not having it at all. Plus we had local voice chat. So like, yeah, there's things Nintendo's done better. Some people think virtual console was better. I personally, I've always been an advocate for a subscription service for their classic game. I literally was an idea I have before Nintendo ever announced it. Unfortunately, Nintendo obviously didn't execute it the way that I wanted them to, but what else does it do? Nintendo not executing online features who, who could have saw that one coming? Only like, literally everybody. Come on, bucks close out this game. They're up seven. Had to double check because I can't see. Oh, I guess if I lean this way, I can see the score of the cab. I still gotta get that TV raised up. It's blocked right now by my desktop computer. I mean, I had to figure it out by my desktop computer, but no, I like looking at the pretty lights. And the water cooling in that. All right, so let me, let me read some of your guys' thoughts here. Sab Vasquez says, Switchbroke brought me back into gaming. I love it. I have a family and being able to play during my breaks or late night and handle this key. The games look fantastic, feels nostalgic and new. Even still, five years in. That's amazing that it could feel that way. Shiny Pearl is very, very difficult to deal with. I'm not worried about dealing with it before, man. Knowing me, I'll either try to, I'll either go into the Elite Four and I will just try to power bomb through it and probably fail. Or I'll just max level whatever team I want. Once I figure out at least one Pokemon that works really well against each member, I'll probably just max level and just OP it or something. I have no idea. I have no idea. I haven't actually been there. I have no idea if it's any different than the kind of Elite Four I played when I was a kid, on Gen One, Gen Two. Last year, Age of Calamity was a great game. Yeah. The DLC for it's pretty good too. I need to finish Age of Calamity, DLC. That's on my to-do list. Before Breath of the Wild 2 drops, I haven't played any of the Age of Calamity DLC. So I need to get that DLC and actually beat it. It's literally on my to-do list. I'm kind of sort of waiting to find out when Breath of the Wild 2 is gonna come and then I'm gonna kind of like play that DLC leading into it just in case there's some sort of connection which I don't know if there will be, but just in case. I wanna make sure that I experienced it at first hand. I know I can just look up videos online. You know what's interesting? When I look up videos online, like say I look up all the cutscenes for the Age of Calamity DLC. So I get the gist of the story. I still feel like I gotta play. And maybe that's just me, but I feel like just watching the cutscenes getting the gist of the story doesn't replace actually experiencing it yourself. So like I can watch it all, but then still have to play it. Like maybe that's why spoilers have never bothered me because I've never felt like a spoiler makes me feel like I don't have to play the game anymore. But usually the spoilers just make me wanna play even more. So I'm gonna be weird that way. Some other stuff in the chat here. The elemental hero of the Shadow Link, Dragon Wolf King says, do you think there's going to be Easter eggs at the game awards? So what would they be? I have no idea, man. That's a really loaded question. I don't know. Can I invite ReviewTechUSA to the podcast? Same thing SSRCR85 that I said about beat him up and Wolfden applies to ReviewTechUSA. He's been invited several times. Doesn't respond. I've even emailed him. Doesn't respond. Kind of like RGT85. You know how many times I've invited RGT85 onto my podcast and that he's never responded? Now he'll randomly show up in my live streams and start shooting the shit. Like he was in a live stream last week or something. He showed up to one of my lives and was shooting the shit. Heck, maybe he's watching right now in the background. I have no idea. But every time I DM or email, nobody responds. So it's like, they know who I am. They acknowledge me. They might even subscribe to my channel. Heck, ReviewTechUSA has literally mentioned me in like three of his videos. I can't get him to actually talk to me, you know? Like, it's weird. Maybe it's because I drink. I don't, although I don't think ReviewTechUSA would have any problem with that. After all, they're just busy getting baked on streams. But I don't know. You know, it's one of those situations that I don't think that there's any ill intent. I think they just don't see the communication, you know? I don't have people's phone numbers. It'd be different if like I had their phone numbers, but I don't. So like the same way that you guys can contact them is the same way I can. I can call them out publicly and hope they respond. Usually never works. I can DM them just like you guys can. Usually it doesn't work. I can email them just like you guys can. Usually it doesn't work. Like that's the reality is like a lot of people that you guys want me to get on the podcast. The only ways I have to ask them to come on are the same ways you guys have to ask them to come on. And because of that, they usually don't get the messages and don't respond. Now, I've had some shocking responses lately. You know, we got Thomas from Switch Stop On last week. I didn't think he was gonna respond and he did. So kudos to him. And now I have a way to talk to him privately. So that's cool. And I got Tim from Kind of Funny Games to respond. Now I've tried to get Greg Miller before he wouldn't respond. But Tim responded. And he's coming on the podcast this week. So some people have surprisingly responded, but most don't. So it's really hard for me to get some of those guests that you guys want. Not because, by the way, I don't think Rich would be opposed to coming on my podcast. I don't think RGT-85 would have any issue coming on my podcast. I know Bob Wolfe doesn't have a problem being on my podcast because he's been on it before. Beat him up. So it'd probably easily come on a podcast sometime. It's just, I can't get a hold of these people. I don't have a magic button to get a hold of these people. Like, I think there's a presumption that because I'm a YouTuber that I have the ability to just get a hold of people, I don't. Now, I'm part of Screenwave Media. Screenwave Media also represents, I think RGT-85, Wolfe then, Beat Him Up, Spawn Wave, etc. Basically all that kind of crew of people, they represent them and now they represent me. And they do host events. And VIP passes at certain events. So for me to network and get private contact details with these people, I need to start going to these events. The problem for me to go to these events. I'm in Wisconsin. None of the events happen near me. Oh, Retro Palooza. Yeah, that'd be great. Almost all these guys go there and get VIP passes and have a private Screenwave Media room in the back. That's great. I can't just willy-nilly go to stuff like that. That's gonna cost me, you know. I probably won't be willing to go all by myself. So I'll have to bring Yulia with or Eric with. So that's gonna cost probably $1,200 to $1,400 round trip just for flights. Then you got the hotels on top. And before you know it, I spent two plus grand just to network. With no guarantees that I meet anybody in the networking world. Like it's hard because of where I live. I just don't live. Now, have a yacht to that. We go to E3 every time there's an E3 in person. There might be some networking opportunities because of my MCM, because of us going to E3 whenever there's an E3 in person. But, so that might change. I might be able to network at like next year's E3. But yeah, until then, I got no way to get ahold of all these YouTubers. They just don't respond. I got no way to get ahold of them. There are some that I know will respond. Some people, like I'm trying to get some people on from easy allies as well. And some of them do respond to the DMs. Isla, as an example, formerly Ian Hink. She responds to DMs. Brandon Jones, I can't get the respond. Just fine. Michael Damiani doesn't respond either. And I used to know Michael Damiani. Like, legit knew him back in the day. But I can't get him to respond to anything either. So, it's just how it goes, you know, guys? I don't have, I don't have access. I think that's a bit, I don't have access. A lot of people presume that I do, I don't. Funnily enough, there's a much higher chance I can get someone from Capcom to respond to me than a fellow YouTuber. Isn't that funny? So, I can reach out to multi-billion dollar companies and they'll respond to me. Or if I reach out to a fellow YouTuber, maybe one out of every 15 that I contact gets back to me. How is it easier to, it's because they have entire teams to deal with all that shit. And us YouTubers are usually all by ourselves. That's the real reason. Like, beat em up doesn't have a whole team of people dealing with all this DM. Sort through it. So, like, that's the reality. These companies have people they pay to respond to people like me. Alexa TDS sent me a song. That's cool. You expect me to play it or something? I probably won't. Not to be mean. Not to be mean. I do song requests sometimes for Super Chats. But it has to be like Nintendo music, stuff that isn't copyright claim. The Elemento Hero the Shadow Link Dragon Wolf King says, Nintendo Prime mentions everyone's name. Everyone. Did someone mention our names? We would love to dream of it. OJ Man. Mods, don't delete this comment. I'm gonna show it. So, OJ Man, 654 is up in here saying, Switch sucks, switch sucks, switch sucks. Okay, what's your preferred platform? I'm serious. What's your preferred platform, OJ Man? Do you play PlayStation? Xbox, PC? You like to play on your phone, maybe? Do you have like a controller attached to your phone? What do you like to play, man? It's all right if your opinion is the Switch sucks. Don't bother me. What do you like to play, man? I play everything. I'm literally sitting here drinking booze. Well, this is actually booze, this is water. You can even hear the ice, hear that? Ice water, baby. You know. I'm sitting here drinking booze, watching the Bucks game, shooting the shit with people. Now, what do you like to play, man? What do you prefer? By the way, we're on our road to 80K, baby. I would love to hit 80,000 subs before the end of the month. I don't know how we're gonna do it when we're not reaching new audiences. But I did a call out for it today. I said, hey, man, dude, I really wanna hit like 80,000 before the end of the month. And suddenly we gained like 70 subs. Maybe the key to hit 80,000 is to just ask kindly in my videos, hey, we're on our road to 80,000 subscribers. I would really appreciate it if you just subscribed. Apparently that just works. So, cool. Good to know. Lock that one into that memory. Sometimes if you just ask people, we'll do it. Just gonna ask nicely. Not like I shouldn't have known that. Oh, I was checking some of me. Oh, I can hear the ice cubes, good sir. I know. Oh, are you sure? Are you sure? Remember, you're supposed to be able to hear and feel the ice cubes when you shake them with your Joy-Con. Anyone remember when Nintendo was talking about that? You could feel the ice cubes as they're like jerking off a Joy-Con by their. You can hear. It'd be fair you could feel them, but like it wasn't like as impressive as they made it out to be. It was neat at the time, but I've felt better rumble since then. Thanks, Twiggy. Oh, I asked to share with some friends. Who are the Bucks playing? Cleveland Cavaliers. They're up 109-100 right now with a minute 30 to go. So they're probably gonna win. I'll be very shocked if they lose. Well, now they're up 109-102. Listen, I'll be very shocked if they lose because Giannis is back. This is the healthiest the Bucks are gonna be until Brook Lopez and Dante DiVincenzo come back and they're both gonna be out for like two, three months. So, Brook just had back surgery. Dante's recovering from ACL. Oh, Giannis took a three and Giannis hits it. Giannis out to the combo with the dagger three. Seriously, everyone says the boy can't shoot and all he does is keep shooting. Love it. Is that like the first three he made today? No, he's three for three. Three for three. Perfect from the three point line, baby. Love it. Gotta love it. Also gotta love it when the Bucks big three all are over 20 points. That's usually a good sign they're gonna win. Is he about to shoot another one? I think Giannis wants to shoot another three. Oh, he got around him. Oh, he got fouled. Oh, no. They called Giannis for a swim move. Damn, that's a game's over anyways. Justin! Basil! What's up, Justin? Basil with the nine, nine to nine. When you get over one million dollars, I'm sorry. Sorry. I forget I'm old now. People might not get that reference. Let me get up the mallet. We have our first legitimate over 20% alcohol shot, baby. And Bucks win 112, 104. All right, because when you get over one million subscribers and Nintendo makes you change your channel name, I could see your new name would be Nate Price. They're not gonna make me change it. So I can already tell you they won't make me change the name. We're all good. They won't. They won't. If I can run Zelda Informer up to like, you know, 50 million views a month, if I can create a Facebook page called Zelda Informer that was at a million followers, if go Nintendo can be as big as they are, Nintendo life can be as big as it, no. Nintendo doesn't care. They only care, I would say, if you're a channel that is probably be smirking them. Like if we were an ironic Nintendo name, or really the point of our channel is to just make fun of and bash and attack people. Then Nintendo might take issue. But I mean, yeah, just cause they won't work directly with me doesn't mean that they have a problem. It's more so their image, trying to keep it squeaky clean, you know, and I'm not squeaky clean. You know, pretend to be squeaky clean, and that's okay. And there's room for all of us. Nintendo's gonna leave it alone. We're all good, but it won't be Nate Prime. Won't be Nate Prime. You like the bucks coming out the east? I mean, they're my team, so they just won the title. So of course I like them coming out the east, but we'll see. We'll see, long season ahead. Gotta knock on wood and hope everyone stays healthy. The bucks have not been healthy this year, so could probably foresee it since they had like the shortest off season in NBA history. But then the Suns are doing really well and they were in the finals too, so. Hello, Nate. What do we think of the game awards? Do we think Breath of Wild 2 will be there? Trailer and release date? I don't think release date. You might get a trailer. I don't think release date. I think that's asking too much. Malibu! I think he's not sure that Malibu, that's what first, like. Oh, hair on chest shot tonight. Good game. Your team, the bucks, four calves. Yeah, I mean, the calves have some pieces. They're not horrible. What's their record now? I mean, they're over 500. They got a better record than the next. They're 13 and 12. The calves got some pieces. Whether or not they ever put it together, I don't know. The ownership Dan Schneider is not, if he didn't look into LeBron James, I'm not so sure that the calves have a title. So, it's one of the, I mean, the buck, I mean, the buck's looked into Yanis. So, I mean, I might want to talk. It's just, we didn't have an owner that felt like a piece of shit. That's the problem. Dan Schneider kind of feels like a piece of shit. The buck's ownership group, you know, it was Herb Cole before, now it's an ownership group of three people or four people or whatever, because I think Aaron Rodgers is part of that group now. They don't feel like pieces of shit. So, well, a lot of people don't like Aaron Rodgers now. What is over my table? It is, okay, so it lines up here, but back here it is now half an inch lower. I am confused. I'll have to figure that out later. That is not right. That's bothering me. Little OCD bothering me. Hey Nate, how was your day? You just got two teeth pulled. I've been there. I had five teeth pulled once. Four wisdom teeth and then another tooth next to one of my wisdom teeth because I got cracked by my wisdom teeth. Sucked. I had a drink like, I had a drink. What was it? Basically nothing but shakes for like a week. It sucked. You think we'll get an official title review? We'll see. Again, I don't know if we're going to get anything, but as I like to tell you guys, what do you gotta do? Hype responsibly with the game awards. Hype responsibly. I am not going to be disappointed if Breath of the Wild 2 is not at the game awards because I'm hyping responsibly. I'll be thrilled if it is. I just expect something from Nintendo. Don't know what, but something. Otherwise, I'm there, I'm going to enjoy the awards. I'm going to enjoy all the other stuff showing off, I'm sure. Enjoy some third party announcements. It's going to be a good time. It's going to be a good time. I usually enjoy the game awards every year. So I'm critical of the game awards, but I usually enjoy it. I'm critical because I enjoy it. If that makes sense, I hope that makes sense. I legitimately hope that makes sense. If it doesn't make sense, I apologize. But I really hope it does. I haven't been around lately. Trial has been off, then on again for my cousin. Oh, jeez. I can't, I'm not going to say that word because YouTube would get mad at me, but jeez. I'm sorry you're going through that, Carla. I mean, I know it's the reality for some people. They obviously have to go through that stuff. There's nothing we can do about it, but I hope everything goes the way it should. Guess that's pretty much all I can do. Everything goes the way it should. I'm fine if there isn't any Zelda. I'm only halfway through things Awakening and I still have to play Skyward Sword, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Cruisin' Blast, Tony Hawk, I've got a lot on your plate. I enjoy TGA, but I'm extra hyped for this year because I won't be alone. Aw. Right here. We're putting on a show. Oh, did you guys see what I linked? Go to our community posts. We have a special giveaway during the game award. I have three of these cards to give away. Obviously they're a play on Pokemon cards, but it's a King K rule card, and it's made by Gamerlot. They're really cool, and we're giving away three of them. They sent them to me specifically for the game awards, the giveaway, so shout outs to them. They're really sweet. I should go look at that. So we're gonna be giving away three of those. Anyone who won something during Prime Giving? No worries. I think I'll have everything shipped out by the end of this week from Prime Giving. So look towards your emails. I got some emails I still need to respond to from that to get some shipping information, but I think things should be going up at the end of this week for that. What about a Golden Sun Surprise trailer? Why not? You like E3 better than the game awards? This E3 was okay, no? Okay. Did you watch the same E3 I did? I'm not gonna let that comment go. This, you like E3 more than the game awards. Fair. This year's E3 was not even remotely okay. It was the worst E3 of all time. There was more time spent talking about Verizon 5G than video games. Just wanna let that sink in. There was more time between that, between the guy who runs Gearbox, walking around a set for a Borderlands movie that nobody gave a shit about and wouldn't shut up and wasn't allowed to show anything and none of the actors seemed to even wanna talk and it just was a huge, huge wasted chunk of time between some of the talking panels they had that didn't really even talk about games. It was bad. E3 this year was an embarrassment. It was an embarrassment. Sure, we had some Nintendo stuff, we had some Microsoft stuff, we had some Square Enix and Ubisoft. Like there were some stuff, but it sucked for the most part. Like yeah, Breath of the Wild 2 was great, but Metro Drive was great, but overall E3 was a shit show this year. The Digital Devolver event that was part of Summer Game Fest was better than the entirety of E3. That single event was better than the entirety of E3. Let alone the whole of Summer Game Fest were just sat there and just kept dropping piles of shit on top of E3. That's how much Summer Game Fest was better than E3 this year. The Game Awards, the Game Awards are gonna shit all over E3 this year. E3 was an embarrassment. And if it's all digital next year and that's the kind of show they're gonna give, I'm not even sure if I'm covering it. It was that bad, horrendous. One of the biggest waste of my time in my entire life. Now, the show was a waste of my time. You guys weren't. Without you guys, I wouldn't have got through E3. But, man, yikes. E3, I hope it can get back. To at least be an in-person so I could play some game demos. Oh, you have some people coming over that side. Dang it, that's who I thought you were gonna be. We'll be alone, we'll be with Nintendo Prime. You actually have friends. Good for you. I won't be alone either. Eric will be here for the Game Awards. He'll be sitting right in this chair over here. I got SpongeBob behind me. We got Mr. Pumpkin down here. I won't be alone. My kids will be sleeping upstairs, eventually. TGAs always lands at a weird time for me. My oldest kids have a Christmas concert. The same, like, while the Game Awards is going on, that I'm not going to. Which makes me, you could say, Nate, that makes you a bad dad, right? You're choosing to do this stream for the Game Awards over going to your kid's Christmas concert. And to that I say, tut, tut, tut. My kids put on two performances of their Christmas concert. I am going to the first performance as at 12.30. I just am not going to the night performance. It's the exact same performance, the exact same stuff. My mom's taking them to that one. I'm bringing them back. I'm not skipping their performance. I'm just going to the earlier show. That's all. So, for anyone who says, God, you're such a bad, no, I'm not. You don't know the situation. Same thing true tomorrow. I literally, I'm not gonna sit there and stream a game over going to my kid's Christmas concert tomorrow. I'm just going to their first showing with Yulia. Yulia works at night. So, what happens is I'm going to the day performance with Yulia tomorrow as well for our youngest son. And then my parents will take them to the night performance, because that's the one they're going to. Not a big deal. Did I catch the new Matrix game? I caught the announcement. There's nothing to catch game-wise because we still don't really know what it is. No, I don't think it'll be on switch. I'm pretty sure it's been advertised as a next-gen experience. It's not gonna be on switch. So, that Matrix game is not, and by the way, the Matrix game is not meant to be a full game. In case people are confused, this Matrix game is going to be like PT. You guys remember PT? Anyone in the chat remember PT? That little silent hill-like demo? That's all this is going to be. It's an ad. It's an ad for the movie. There is not a full-blown game. It's not being developed as a full-blown game. It's not being advertised as a full-blown game. It's being advertised as an experience, which means it's a glorified ad for the movie. Sure, there'll be some real gameplay, but it's a glorified ad for the movie. That's all of it. It's an excuse to get Keanu Reeves on stage at the Game Awards, and because people think Matrix is cooler or something. That's all of it. It's just an ad. It's an ad. Don't view it as anything other than that. That's all of it. You ain't got to explain yourself to anybody we know you're good at. To be fair, Anthony Riley. To be fair, you don't know that I'm a good dad. I want to make this clear. None of you guys know what I'm like behind the scenes. This is something we have to be careful about. And this is what I talked about before, where some people were criticizing unfairly media websites and not criticizing YouTubers enough. You had no idea what I'm behind. For all you know, I'm a wife beater. How would you know? You ever see Yulia on camera? How would you know? You had no idea what I'm like behind the scenes. Oh wait, this isn't me saying I'm a wife beater. This isn't me saying that I'm a bad dad. This is just me saying, you have no idea. Don't make presumption. Don't pretend that you know something you don't actually know. My private life is my private life. Yeah, I'll talk about my children once in a while. I'll talk about Yulia once in a while. You guys don't know what's going on. You don't know what's going on with my family. This is like, keep it private. For all you know, I'm a piece of shit. That's what I'm saying. You don't know. I'll be careful about making presents. I know you like me. You like what I do on the channel. You like my personality on the channel. You like the energy I bring on my live streams, the shots. You like all the rawness that you feel out of this. But, this is just part of me. Like, I'm a YouTuber. I do this stuff. This isn't all that I am. There's way more to my life than this. And you guys aren't part of any of that. You're not part of my schooling. You're not part of me as a parent. You're not part of any of my family stuff. You're not part of me and Yulia's relationship. You're not part of my other job. You're not part of anything other than this slice of my life. Yeah, I'll be careful. You don't actually know. And maybe because, maybe because the funny thing is, the funny thing is, and Anthony Rowley, you're fine. The funny thing is, me being honest like that just makes people trust me even more. Because the people that tend to usually end up being the pieces of shit don't talk so openly like that. Right? The ones that end up being the really bad child beating parents and the wife beaters, and the ones that get physical, like literally eventually get caught on live stream, like some streamer did a few years ago. Like, they're not transparent like that. So the ironic thing is, me just even acknowledging that you don't know just makes people think I'm even more genuine. It's insane. That's the thing about content creators. If you don't talk about any of that stuff and you just accept the compliments, sweet. You admit, hey, you don't know anything, people just trust you. It's like you can't do anything wrong when it's a content creator. You can't do anything wrong until something comes out about your private life that's wrong. Right? It's funny. It's just funny the way the internet works. By the way, I love how trusting you guys are. Just be careful. I'm not saying you need to be careful with me. You be as careful with me as you think you need to be. Just be careful out there. Don't start idolizing us. We're just gamers. We're just people like you. We're flawed. We're extremely flawed in some way. I'm extremely flawed in some way. Or purely as the wife beater. Does that make me the wife? I mean, I probably am the bitch in the relationship. I just to be clear, I'm basically the bitch in the relationship. But then do you get someone that sexy if you're not the bitch when you look like me? I don't know. I think I pretty much am in the bitch in every relationship I've ever been. That's just what I am. That's just me. Definitely the bitch in my... I mean, I'm not even ashamed of it. You know, it's cool. She listens to me. I mean, on the things that really, really matter, I do get a lot of say. On the things that really, really matter. The bills as an example and money man. I get... I pretty much get the final say on that stuff. Because, you know, I'm just better at it than she is. She likes to spend, spend, spend, and I like to go, it's cool to spend. I'm doing giveaways all the time. I wouldn't like to talk about spending. But I am the one that manages and makes sure every bill is paid. She doesn't even know what the bills are sometimes. So it's always one of those, yeah, but I always know what's going on in the overall financial scope of the thing. And even with the kids. She'll push back with the kids, but there'll be things that's like, yeah, she knows I'm right with the thing. And we get there. So we work together. So like, yeah, I'm the bitch. But also, she knows when I'm right. She knows when I'm right. So, it's all good. Relationships are give and take. This has to be where this should be. If it's just take, take, take, or just give, give, give, any good. You need a give and take relationship. It's gotta be 50-50. So yeah, I might be the bitch, but I'm also right on a lot of stuff and get my way in a lot of things. As an example, I get to be in Madden leagues. I get to take an hour like every other day and play a Madden game. And you might be like, but Nate, don't you get the game? Yeah, I get the game upstairs on my Switch around my kids. I don't ever get to like sit down and console game and PC game, except Julia knows that me being in the Madden leagues gets me away from things. So, while I'm still down in here, in this studio, I'm not working. And I'm not like, when I play Switch, oftentimes I'm like, okay, well I should play something that's relevant to my YouTube stuff, right? And that's the weird thing about Switch is I really enjoy it, but also a lot of what I play feels like it's relevant to what I'm doing, which of course it is, because I'm a Nintendo YouTuber. But when I play Xbox, that's just for me. When I play PC games, that's for me. I don't cover that stuff here. It's for me. It's me just being a gamer. Me just escaping being a parent and worrying about YouTube all the time. You know, when I'm on my phone, I probably spend probably 70% of the time I'm on this phone checking stuff related to YouTube. You know, one of my most used apps is the Stupid YouTube Studio app. Here it is, YouTube Studio app. It's open all the time on my phone. Look, I just refreshed it again for like the 50th time today. Now we're at 76,514 subscribers. Oh look, the revenue just updated. Oh look, now here I am in the middle of a live stream, curious about what my video's made. So I'm going back to my videos and checking the revenue. Like, look what this 12,000 view video, 12,300 view video from Saturday, that was a really short video make. How much money did that video make? Oh look, it made $53. It got me 16 subscribers and has 12.3K views. Cool. How about that video yesterday then, right? Didn't do very well, 2.8K views. Only three minute watch time, 4.3% click-through rate. I actually, it actually cost me subscribers. So that video gained me a net negative two subscribers, but it did make $18, which isn't terrible. That's way, you know, but we're also in the middle of the holiday. By the way, add revenues higher per video right now because of the holidays. That $18 will be like $4 in the end. It's insane to drop off. The video today, I have no idea. It's at seven and a half thousand views. You guys can't see the updated numbers. You guys get delayed. It's like delayed by like an hour and a half for you guys. But yeah, it's at seven and a half thousand views. It'll probably, it might hit 10K by tomorrow. We'll see. And it's a longer video. But you might go, it's a longer video. So it has five minutes and 54 seconds of watch time. But it's a 16 minute video. It's not even 50%. So like, it's not great. But I'm always looking at that or I'm always like, here's my email app open. So I'm always checking all my business emails or I got vidIQ open, which I might be getting rid of after this month. It's almost all related. Or I have my fantasy team over, where I'll check the score on my fantasy team. So I'm really, it's mostly work that I, or YouTube that I use my phone for. And then the rest of the time will be like when I'm watching a show or something. Like when I'm laying in bed, which is weird because I have a TV in my room. For some reason, based on whatever angle I'm laying at, I'll watch it on my phone sometimes. Isn't that weird? Like, is anyone else, is anyone else that way? Do you have like a TV in your room? But you catch yourself watching shows on your phone because of the way you're laying. It's just more comfortable. Am I the only one that does like, I still watch movies and stuff on my TV. But like, there's still a lot of times I don't find myself like turned a certain way and I just watch on my phone. Cause I don't want to turn and I don't want to move. I don't want to prop myself up or I don't want to lay a certain way. I don't know, maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm just the insane one that has like a TV in the room, but then still uses their phone to watch stuff. How do you keep the romance, Nate? That's a tough one. That's a tough one. Keeping the romance in relationships, I would say. We've been together 10 years. I'm not an expert. But you got to do things. We have three kids. So the biggest killer are any romance in relationships, kids. Kids are like anti-romance. Work is anti-romance. It can be hard to keep the romance going. So definitely there is a lot less romance 10 years in with three kids than at the beginning. Not because I don't want to, but because there's less time for it. Less time for me to think about it. But what you got to do is you got to remind her in unexpected ways that you love them. That's the least what I find works for us. So yeah, sure, around Valentine's Day or around your anniversary date or maybe on birthdays or something like, yeah, those are all the expected times that they expect some flowers or chocolates or a dinner date or something like, okay, those are expected. That's like forced romance almost at this point. So it doesn't really feel that romantic because it's expected and because it's expected, it feels forced. So what do you got to do? Every now and then you got to surprise it. Last year, I surprised her with cruise tickets. For this year. Unfortunately, we didn't get to go on the cruise. We had an issue with passport, which we technically don't need, but because she's been adopted, there's a whole, it's weird. Anyways, so it was disappointing and we didn't get to go on the cruise. That sucked. We did end up going to Vegas instead and Vegas was fine for a couple of days. But you know, Vegas is expensive and that wasn't the plan and I didn't get a refund from the cruise. So like, I'm instead, you know, last minute changing our entire cruise plans to go to Vegas while I still have three grand wrapped up in cruise that I can't get back. Now we have three grand in cruise credit that we can use next year. But it's like, it was an all expense paid cruise. We had everything taken care of. And I don't have that money back. So I had to do a vacation with just the spending money. I was going to have with them the cruise, which I didn't really need to spend any money on the cruise, right? Like I got to change my flights and then I had like a thousand bucks and I had to somehow try to turn a thousand bucks into a whole week at Vegas. That's really hard to do. So yeah, it was not, it was not good. Not as good as it could have been. So then what else do you do? Still got a surprise. It was just three weeks ago. I sent her flowers that were, I had a delivery service come and drop off a bouquet of flowers and not just roses. Her favorite flower is the sunflower. So I had them drop off a bouquet of sunflowers. Never in my life have I bought her sunflower. We never talk about it. But I know her favorite flower is sunflower. She's never had one. I've never seen her grab one. I've never seen it one in our house. I surprised her, didn't tell her. The moment she left the house, I knew all day I was going to do it. The moment she left the house, whoop, got on my computer, made the order because you had, because basically you got to have the order in by four or they won't deliver it same day. And she leaves at 3.30. So I got like this half hour window to get the order in. Sent her flowers. Yeah, it wasn't cheap. Getting same day delivery on flowers within a half hour is not cheap. But I had flowers into it. Just a nice gesture. And the card included with it, I wrote her a poem. And the poem lasts longer than the flowers. She still has the poem. She keeps it in her car. Right up at the, you know, like the sun thing you bring down that has a mirror. You open the mirror of the cards right there. She has a stuck right there. So every time she opened the mirror to like check her makeup, you can read the poem. You got to do a little stuff like that. It doesn't always cost much of money either, right? That was just what I did. You got to do a little stuff like that. Like every now and then I'll leave her sticky notes in places that she doesn't know. Like on the steering wheel. Or maybe I slip on it or make a bag on whatever her, you know, cover up or whatever she uses, right? Like maybe I'll slap a sticky note on there. And it'll be one of the reasons that I love it. Like, you guys got to do it randomly. It can't be something that like, you know, you just do only on special occasions. It's stuff you just got to sporadically do throughout the year, every year. And now you might go, what does she do for you? I mean, we still have sex. So I mean, it's not like that's dead. So now she shows me in her own ways. She's never been, she loves being romance, but she's never been the type to romance back. If that makes sense. She bought me the Zelda tree back here this year. That's the first Christmas present she's bought me. Five years. That's her way of saying I love you. Yeah, it's just little things. But again, everyone's different. That's just what works for us. Give and take, my number one. Like surprise my wife in taking a day off randomly and doing whatever she wants to do while our son is at school. I like showing her time, yeah. Like today, today it was just a little thing. So I got my YouTube video out. I was doing some work. I went and took a shower. And then Yulia was gonna leave and go, my youngest son is up. Hold up guys, I will be right back. I don't know if I'll be right back screen yet. So I will be right back. I'm gonna slap the intro screen on and play some. Actually, no, we'll just play some music. I'll be right back. I gotta get him to bed. I think he, I don't know why he's, I think he's thirsty. All right, I'll be right back. Oh boy, we're back. Yeah, he just needed some water. I already had some ready for him, but he didn't know where it was. My children are cute things, yeah. I tried not to let him on video. I know they've slipped in before. He just stood off-screen, it was all good. Who dropped a $100 Super Chat, what? Sorry, I was just scrolling up. Yulia's dropped $100 before, I know. She's crazy. Anyways, okay, anyone wonder what this cup is? This is a Batman vs Superman back in 2016. Movie theater cup, baby. Boy, was that movie not that great. It was fine. There is Nate taking his shirt off. Ooh. You guys got any questions? It's Q&A time, it's been Q&A time for a while, I suppose. Just at me in the chat. Didn't your kids accidentally go live once? More than once, it's like three times. Aiden in particular likes to ask that. Now, I don't have a go live button on here anymore. Last time it was my daughter who hit the go live button on my stream deck. Because of that, there is no longer a go live button on my stream deck. So that's why it takes me a bit longer to end streams now, because I can't just hit a button to end the stream. You gotta do what you gotta do. So, your kids. Protect the kids, more than anything. Always gotta protect the kids. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Da, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Man, how about some old school music popping in my head? That Final Fantasy, right? Battle music? Or Victory music, that was Victory music. Old school Final Fantasy victory. Did I see the vice president of PSN got fired? Now I can talk about it too much. Team's pretty guilty about the public. Assuming, assuming that the people who made the video didn't lie about how they met him and how they presented themselves. Because the story basically is this YouTube channel that tries to bust pedophiles. Went on Grindr, which, now I can't get too much into what Grindr is. You guys can Google it if you're curious. Anyways, went on Grindr, pretending to be a 15-year-old boy. And I'm not clear if they reached out to him or if he reached out to them. I'm not sure how they started talking on Grindr, but it doesn't really matter who reached out to who in the case of an adult talking to a minor. And if it was just about, if it was just talking, it's not a big deal, but it was, it got into an invitation to come to his house for sex. Obviously sex with a minor is a problem. And on video, it very much looked like the DC. Like, it's pretty hard to deny that that was the VPN video. Standing outside wearing a PlayStation 5 shirt, waiting for the kid. Of course, they showed up in the not kids. And they say, hey, do you want to talk or do you want us to call the cops? Now I don't know if any lawsuits or anything are going to get filed officially, but obviously that video made it back to the upper echelon of Sony and they immediately turned me. Not even caring, obviously, if the story is true or not, because it doesn't matter. It's an accusation and they're on video waiting outside for somebody. Sony's like, yeah, we ain't messing around, you're done. Now, in the back of my mind, I'm always hoping in a situation like that, that it was the first time, right? Like, usually it's not the first time. But like, you like to think that that guy has never had sex with a minor ever in his life. Except when he himself was maybe a minor. Like, if he was 15, that's been what? But like, you would like to think that's never happened at all in his life, or at least not happened at certain ages. Like, again, the whole sex with minor thing is really weird. If you're 18 and have sex with a 17-year-old, you can get labeled as a sex offender. So like, let's just say if the age gap is at least five years, trying to think of like, what's a good age gap where it would bother people? Like, kind of like, if you have sex with a 15-year-old but you're 18, people frown on that. Is it really that bad? If you think about it, it's like a 21-year-old having sex with a 24-year-old. Is it really that bad? Well, like the 18-year-old's really that much more responsible than the 15-year-old. I'm just being honest. I was 15, I was 18. I wasn't any more responsible at 18 than I was at 15. In fact, I was probably more responsible at 15 than I was at 18. I was making way dumber decisions than I was at 15. But whatever, whatever age gap you think it becomes wrong. Bottom line is he's like almost 70. So chances are this was not his first time. High likelihood this was not his first time. Just his first time getting caught. So I don't know. I don't know. It sucks, but at least Sony did the right thing. Not even worrying about it. No, oh yeah, we're gonna do an internal investigation. Nope, you're gone. Just gone, bye, we're done. We don't even want our name associated with this story. We're done. So about the Switch, it's okay. But Nintendo Switch Lite is better. It's like playing a PSP, interesting. I can see the form factor is kind of like a PSP. It's staring at a Switch Lite right now. Kind of like a PSP, the form factor. But I don't agree that they're really the same, but that's okay. If that's what you like, it's what you like. What's up, Brian C? Welcome to the stream. My boy. My boy. My boy. You're my boy, Blue. He went eight times, baby. Got any good old question. Is anyone trying to get a hold of me? They're playing my Madden game? I don't think so. I think I'm gonna get a force to win this. So I just saw a Metroid Dread Theory video that makes a lot of sense. There are ships in the service area before the final loss and they're gone after. Where did they go, right? Have you seen it? I have no idea, man. I missed your question, Electo. Let me... You're going to bed, something, man? Later, man. You missed my question. Let me know. Try to scroll off, Electo. I don't catch everyone's question. I try, but if you want to hear bad music, listen to my first song ever, it's terrible. Is that a question? How did you enjoy Thomas on your podcast? Oh, from Switchstop. Yeah, he was nice, man. We'll probably have another episode. It was a good podcast. He had a good time, we had a good time. So yeah, he'll probably be on another episode. From the little bit we've talked since, he'll probably come on another episode. Just a matter of fitting in a schedule and all that. I don't know if there'll be another one before the end of this year because obviously we're already in December. If I guess this week, there's like what? Two podcasts left after this week. So I don't know if it'll be again. No, but maybe in January or February. Well, we'll get them back on. Trying to get a guess through a week. Are you streaming on Friday as well? So it's five streams this week. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I might take Friday off. So I already, my streaming schedule already has like four streams a week. And if you've noticed, I basically usually end up cutting out one of those streams and just doing three. It's just, it's basically do I cut out my Monday stream, Tuesday stream or Friday stream? The Wednesday stream, the podcast always happens. But usually one of the other streams gets cut out. One week I cut out the game stream. One week I cut out the Friday stream. So last week was the Friday stream got cut out. So I already usually don't end up hitting my exact stream schedule. That's cause school is getting crazy. I need more time this week because of the game awards. Cause Thursday has always been my guaranteed. I don't stream on Thursdays, but we have the game awards on Thursday. So obviously I'm streaming on Thursday. So it's possible I don't do a Friday stream or it's possible I say screw it. And we just stream all five nights, Monday, Friday, and yeah, baby. So what the hell do I know, man? Well, probably end up streaming all five nights cause screw it. I'm already going to be foreign role. Why not make it five in a row? And then next week maybe we cut out Monday or something, right? Like just skip Monday. I'm going to need to give myself some sort of streaming break in there. So we'll see. Or not. I don't know. I can't tell you. My streaming schedule is Monday, Tuesday, Friday, podcast Wednesday, but we'll see what happens. My finals happen the week of Christmas. So like Christmas is on a Saturday, my final is due that Thursday. If you think Friday off, yeah, I have no idea. Let's see how I'm feeling on Friday. I mean, right now it's been kind of a light night in terms of super chat. So like, it feels like I haven't had anything to drink. Like at all. Kind of sad. But a little too sad. Dude, I still remember what was it, two Mondays ago? Birdman, was it two Mondays ago that you just, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Man you got me that night man. I was feeling it when I went to bed that night. Holy crud, was I feeling it. To be honest it felt kind of great cause I haven't been that buzzed in a long time. A long time. That's because we got into that tequila and we still haven't cracked, look at this, brand new. Can you guys see the plastic on it? Brand new. I'm not sure how well it shows on camera. Brand new, never cracked. Don Julio. This is what replaced after that stream. Brand new. I have no idea when this is going to get cracked. I have zero idea when Don Julio gets cracked. So we'll see. Oh, Nintendo Prime. You want me to do a vodka shot? Is that what you're calling for? Okay. Okay. Vodka shot it is. Finally, almost out of the vodka. Then I can reorganize my boo shots. Yeah. Yay for new tequila. First new bottle since like May. I mean it's $100 shots. So like, it's very, usually pretty rare. It wasn't rare two Mondays ago. But it's usually pretty rare that we bust into tequila. I'm going to be pretty excited for the first time we cracked this. I've never had Don Julio. Full disclosure. I've never had Don Julio. So I have no idea how smooth this is. Or maybe it's not smooth. Maybe it's shit. Doesn't really matter. All tequila to me is shit. But buying himself drinks for twice the price. That's not twice the price. It's $20 to do a vodka shot. I'm paying the same price you guys got to pay. Then you can say, well, yeah, but you also bought the booze. Well, no shit. But obviously at the prices I charge, the booze pays for sale. Basically. And then some. Like, you know, this was like a $60 bottle. I mean, and I'm charging $100 a shot. And there's probably off $100 a shot. There's probably at least $1,000. At least 10 shots if not more. So it's obviously more than going to pay. I mean the first shot, even after YouTube's cut, basically pays for the bottle. The first shot it takes. But the idea is obviously, the idea of the $100 for the Don Julio isn't really about the money. It's because tequila is like a punishment for me. Because it gets me really drunk. And I don't like the taste. So if I'm going to get really drunk, we need to make it more expensive. Technically it's less alcohol than the $25 shot. In terms of alcohol percentage. But tequila just hits me in a certain way. And that's why it's so expensive. So I don't do it so often. We used to not be super expensive at one point. And I found out quickly that that was a mistake. So that's why it's so expensive because I found out how bad it was for me to not have it be expensive. So let me get this vodka out of the way. Nintendo just added a new feature on the eShop, baby! Sort of. Yeah, they added the ability to refund. In Europe. That's the new feature. Oh, you didn't like my title today? I thought my title... Yeah, you're damn cookies. I know Birdman, okay? You're not the only one. You're not the only one, Birdman. I owe three people some cookies. You gotta tell me what kind of cookies you want. You gotta DM me the cookies you want. I can't... Remember, it's supposed to be a choice of cookie. I don't know what cookie you want. What kind do you want? You gotta DM me. Don't do it in the live chat here because I'm not gonna remember. You gotta DM me it. I am shipping out all of the Prime giving stuff by the end of this week. It'd be a great time for me to send out the cookies. So, you know, maybe you want Christmas cookies. Some sort of Christmas cookies. I have no idea. What do you want? You gotta DM me. Let me know. What? You mean a new feature was just added? Technically, refunds... A one-button-click refund option was a new feature. In Europe. Was there another one? Are you serious? I miss this play. Ha ha ha ha! So, Giannis! Giannis, not just as a cupo, is amazing. I can't show you the play because it will get me in trouble with the NBA will basically copyright strike my channel. But Giannis today, in the second quarter while I was live streaming, he... Euro stepped, right? He did his Euro step drive from the three-point line. But he was quadruple team. Okay? So, obviously he should have probably passed into the corner it looks like. That would have been the play he should have made. But he, instead, invented a brand new move. He Euro stepped towards the basket, was not going to be able to dunk it or get a finger roll or anything, right? He was a little bit too far away. He started his Euro step right inside the three-point line so he wasn't going to quite get to the rim. So he Euro stepped and then when he went to shoot, he really wasn't trying to shoot. He threw it off the backboard so he could put two feet down on the ground, run up, grab it and jam it down. He basically passed to himself. Now, this is a completely legal move in the NBA, by the way. He's not the first person to have ever passed to himself off the glass. But to do the Euro step into the pass and then the slam, that's a new move. That Giannis clearly remeditated and I've never seen him do before. That's insane. I'm just literally staring at this on repeat. That is insane. Hot damn, wow. I mean, I don't know how you defend that. You have to commit or he's going to make the finger roll and then if you commit, he'll just pass to himself off the glass. I don't know if the pass off the glass comes as a shot or what. I'm not really sure how that works. It has to count as a shot. I'm out the scorekeeper. That's insane. Oh my God. I'm just avoiding. I paid for this vodka shot and then I'm just avoiding it because I know how bad vodka tastes. I'm getting ready to chase this bad boy down. Water, it turns out. I need some flavor in that water. What is going off on my desktop? Is my audio working? Does my audio is working? Is this working? Hmm. It looks like my mic must have crashed for a moment and now it's back. All right. What is your confidence over Get Breath of Wild 2 Trailer Game Awards? I'd say 15%. Again, I'm hyping responsibly. I'm hyping responsibly. 15%. Oreos are trapped. Have you ever dipped an Oreo milk? I've dipped a lot of cookies in milk. Oreos are the best milk dip cookie of all time. Don't add it. You saw it on GameXplain? That was it just said? I'm going to go check GameXplain. I went on Twitter. The whole reason I saw it at Yannissing is because I was trying to find that story. Usually it's all over my Twitter. Let me go to GameXplain here and see what they said. Nintendo Switch eShop adds a new feature. What is it? Most played section. Interesting. That's interesting. That will definitely be in my news video tomorrow. That's interesting. I'll have to go record some footage for it. Interesting. Not really a new feature. It's just a new section. They're trying to add organizational methods that aren't real organizational methods. Instead of actually overhauling and fixing the eShop, they're just going to make it more confusing. Hey, we already have featured. We already have bestselling. We already have latest release. Now here's most played. That's not what we want, Nintendo. It's not what we want. How hard is it to build a recommendation system based on the games you played? How hard is it? What we want is a recommended section that is customized based on the gameplay time you have spent with various games you already own. How hard is that? I have not dipped it in coffee, but I don't like coffee. That would just ruin the cookie. Some people like chocolate and coffee. For some people, it's probably really good. But I don't like coffee. Hope you're doing good tonight. I was wondering if you sent all the eShop gift cards from E3 because I didn't get one. Jake Hill. Let me open my document. I think I still have the document. Come on. E3 document, open up. E3. Just open the damn thing. Are you Sport and Glowy? Wait, what was your username? Jake Phillips. Are you at Sport and Glowy on Twitter? Sport and Glowy, right? Sport and Glowy? That's the only Jake I have. That's why I'm wondering. I mean, you might have had a different username. That's the only Jake I have listed. If that's you, then no, I haven't sent you yet. You're the only person that hasn't been sent to you. If that's not you, I'm going to go DM you quick just so you pop up to the top of my DM. Sorry about that. E3 was crazy, man. And it took me forever to get everything shipped out. Wait, wait. Oh, wait, is your account suspended? Is your Twitter account suspended, man? That's not good. I just like legit, is your Twitter account suspended? Here's the thing. I can't confirm anything without being able to look at the Twitter account. Can you get it back? Here's the problem, Jake Hill. It's not that I don't believe you. It's that we did all of our verifications for this through Twitter. So I have to be able to verify with the original Twitter account or I can't, in good faith, send you a code. That's kind of like the thing. I can't, in good faith, send you a code without being able to do it through the original method because that's the only way I can be 1,000% sure I'm sending the code to the right person. It's one of those... I just have to stay consistent because I haven't said anything about this yet. We've sent you through, we've given away a number of eShop gift cards in our live stream, right guys? Like a number of them. Two people in the last month got away with a successful scam. One of them robbed a $50 eShop gift card and another robbed a $20. So I was out 70 bucks because obviously the real winners were going to get their gift card and they did. But I got scammed and I fell for it. So I have to do original methods. It's just, it's money, I don't get back. Like that cost me money. That was not planned giveaway money. And extra 70 bucks had to be spent out of my personal funds to cover that mistake that I made. I made the mistake because people are always trying to scam on these wins. So as much as it's like I really, really want to believe you, it's also, that's how we verified everything so if I can't get a hold of that account, I can't in good faith give you that gift card. Not trying to be a dick. It's just, I literally just recently got scammed out of 70 bucks and I don't want to deal with that again. Literally, some of the biggest bullshit of my life. Just be transparent. Some of the biggest bullshit of my life. I usually, my methods for verification are usually super secure. I have rarely had issues. This is a time when I did. It was a very, very well done Photoshop job. A very well done Photoshop job. Sorry, this is a business text. From someone who helps me with some stuff on the channel. I was just texting them back. Yeah, I don't ignore my business texts. I got a good working relationship with a couple of partners behind the scenes. I got to keep it real with them. So I really hope, yeah. Jake, I just really hope you understand like if you legitimately are the part, I deeply apologize. It's just I literally just got scammed. I just don't want to, we verified it a certain way and that's the only way that I can re-verify it. And I know it was with Eric's Twitter again but I can't contact that count. You know what I'm saying? It's just, oh, it's, this is me. This is me being careful. Okay, being very careful about it. I have to be, I just don't want to risk losing anything. Again, do another scan. I'm not saying that's what you're doing. I really want to believe you. What's up Gamerlot? Hey, by the way, shout out to Gamerlot. So, remember those cards I linked in my community profile? The Kinkai rule cards that were given away during the Game Awards? Shout out to Gamerlot. They were provided by Gamerlot for the Game Awards. What's wrong with Gamerlot? Do you run like a card making business? Because I noticed on the back of the cards, right? It had a really professional looking Gamerlot thing going on. Is that, is that like a business you do? Do you have like a card, like a, you know, a fake card making business? Like that? It's really cool. Kinkai rule. It's like a Pokemon style card. It's not like pretending to be a real, you know, card. Like it's trying to fool people. I'm actually curious because I was looking into maybe adding a few more things to the giveaway during the Game Awards. That's why I was wondering if it was a real business or something. Maybe something I might want to look into. Maybe not for the Game Awards because you sent us some stuff, but maybe like for future giveaways if people, if people really, really dig those cards. And I'd like to tell people where they can get them themselves if it's an actual business. So I'm pretty sure you're the one who sent it. At least that's the, that's the name on the back of the card. I could be wrong. Maybe you're not the one who sent it. How real do you think the curvy Air Ride 2 League is? I think it's fake. I can't confirm to you it's fake. I do think it's fake. I think it's a little too convenient to have basically a title splash screen with new music. The music is unique. I don't know the title splash screen. So someone mentioned in the comments that it might be art from one of the Kenna art people who posted an art station and they were supposed to go dig up the art for me and they couldn't find it. So I don't know. Like, I don't know. I think it's probably fake. I can't definitively say. The whole reason I showed it today is because, one, it's really good. If it is a fake, it's a really damn good fake. I love, like, I know this is weird to say because like nobody wants to be duped, right? But I will say this. If I'm going to be duped or like if there's going to be a story that ends up being not true. At least this one has a lot of effort put into it, right? Like, this is a high effort fake if it is fake. And I have an appreciation for people that go the extra mile. It's one thing to go on 4chan and post some anonymous shit, but like to actually make something tangible like this. That to me is awesome. So even if it is fake, it's a damn good one. But I think it's fake. And something tells me they don't have like a Kirby air ride to in the works while Kirby, you know, forgotten land is in the works. I just don't see that happening. It's possible by the way, but I just don't see it. I don't know. That's the thing. I can't definitively tell you it's fake. I can tell you my opinion is that it's fake. But I have no idea. Either way, it's really damn cool. That's why I made it in the video today. I wish crap like that if it's really cool. Like when I did that 4chan video back on Friday, which you guys know, I barely ever talk about 4chan stuff. It was only because it was such a cool idea. I thought it was a really neat idea. That's why I made a video on it. If it wasn't a neat idea, I would have never made that video because I'm like 99.9% sure it's fake. But it's a neat idea. So like when something is really cool, I'll talk about it even if I think it's fake. Just because it's cool. Notice, it wasn't like something I didn't try to build my headline off of it. It was just kind of a story I put in there. I built the headline off of the lawsuit leading to a refund feature being added to the eShop in Europe. That's what I built my title off of. But I threw that story in there because it's just such a cool story. Like such a cool even if it is fake. It's a nice thing. I like it. It was uploaded on ArtStation a few hours after the leak. Wait a second. Wait a second. So it's confirmed fake, but it was on ArtStation after the leak? What? So how'd they get their hands on the art? Unless, I wonder, hold up, hold up, hold up. Was the fake done by the artist? It had to have been, yeah. The artist themselves must have made the fake but that's again, I like the effort. It's just good effort. I was pretty sure it was fake anyways. Leaks like that are so rare from Nintendo that you get a title screen leak like that. Especially for an unannounced game. But like that that was a good fake. I like that. I'm not even mad. I said during the video that it can be fake. I'm not even mad and I hope people then feel misled. It might be true but also hey, I don't know who this person is. It could be fake. I have no idea. Here's why it might be real. But probably fake. I was trying to see who I played. Play the sink. I want to see the sink, guys. She wants to get his game. I'm trying to see if this guy wants to get the game. I'm in a couple of little leagues that I got to try to get my games in while I can because I'm streaming every night this week. So I might difficult play this Madden game if this guy wants to play. He's not even online right now. So it's probably not going to happen. That's the indication. Cool fakes like that I'm okay with. I made it in the report but I always knew it was probably fake. It's cool though. It was a really good fake. We'll talk about that tomorrow. We'll talk about that tomorrow. For sure. How am I doing tonight? It says pine cone 531. I'm alright. It's a busy week this week. Busy week. I have to get a video done in the morning for the channel before I go to my children's or my youngest child's Christmas concert. I got that going on. And then he actually comes home after the concert and then I have to obviously be a dad all day. And then I got another game stream tomorrow. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond stream for you guys. And then Wednesday bit of a normal Wednesday I suppose. We have the podcast. I have to do another video but there's no kid event happening that day. But then I have a kid event Thursday plus the game awards. And then kind of a normal Friday I hope. It's just a busy week and I got to start one of my finals. I have a two and a half week final project for one of my classes that starts this week. So there's that plus work. So I'm just it's very busy. Any week that my kids have events going on whether it's sporting events or in this case two different Christmas concerts it's it's busy. It's very busy very stressful week. Let's just say there's a reason that I bought myself a vodka shot earlier. It's fricking busy. I need I need I'm going to need you guys to be hitting me with the shots all week. I'm just telling you right now I'm going to need the shots all week. It's a lot of stress. It's a lot of busy. It's a lot of I need my end of day chill. That's what I get with you guys. Plus the shots. Try to chill. Not by the way I'm not trying to get you guys to guilt trip into buying shots or anything. I'm just saying it's okay you don't do it. I'll buy myself some shots but I need it. The dog that's a whole other thing. He's not feeling well. I might have to take him to the vet this week. He's just been throwing up a lot. Now I it could just be that he ate something he shouldn't but we have snow on the ground now so I don't even know I don't know. If he keeps throwing up I'd say the next two days if he just keeps throwing up I'm going to take him to the vet and just make sure nothing's wrong. There's going to be ulcers or anything crazy going on. But that's a whole other thing. Like my dog for the first time really ever is having some problems just puking. He's not doing it all the time but yeah. I just want to make sure that nothing's wrong. As I said it could have just been the ate something because it started this morning could have just been the ate something last night that he wasn't supposed to whether it was outside or in the house kids could have left something out. So he could just be having a bad reaction to something he ate. Maybe it's a moldy food or whatever the kids left out I have no idea. So it could just be that and he'll end up being fine and his body's just kind of processing and dealing with that. That's why I said I'll give it a couple days until you can. Then I'm going to take him in. I just want to make sure even though taking him in just to get him seen costs like $200 I need to my dog I'm not going to look at my children. I'm not going to risk anything. I'll give it a couple days to see if it clears up but if it doesn't or gets worse I got to take him in. Which is again not a bill I was planning for. So Yay me with surprise bills in December. Surprise bill we have to our car is being taken in on the 15th for what's likely going to be a $1,500 repair which we did not obviously plan for now. I budget for car repairs. My car our 2013 Dodge Deringle has 150,000 miles on it. So it's at the point that it's going to need regular maintenance. So I do budget out like 300 to 500 bucks for maintenance whether it's oil changes whether it's saving up for tires which we actually just got new tires on a bit ago so we don't have to worry about that for a while or it needs to break lines or new spark plugs we got ball bearings replaced not too long ago. So it's at the point that so I have a budget for it but the issue it has now just blew past that budget. So not happy about that this is all happening before we've even bought Christmas presents. We still have to buy presents for children for my parents her parents, the grandparents we have a gift exchange thing on the 18th with the part of the family another gift exchange on Christmas Eve and then more gift stuff on Christmas Day I don't know why it seems to happen every year in December that we just get hit with these unplanned expenses out of nowhere we came into this month feeling very good about all the holiday stuff and then the car hits and now we're going to have to do that and it just something happened every December it's like we're cursed November was fine if Christmas would have been in November no problem it always happens in December and you could say just do your Christmas shopping earlier and you're right to a point but we usually wait for things to play out and then get things on the list that other people weren't willing to buy for others like if my parents had a Christmas list like if other people got certain things we want to kind of get the things that other people weren't willing to get so like it's whatever I'll be fine it's just I hate this unplanned shit worst case scenario Christmas wise I could take out a loan if I need to for Christmas presents I really don't want to take out a loan but I mean I can that's like the absolute last resort option is taking out a loan for my Christmas presents but well the loan would be paid off by like March so it's not like we'd even have the loan that long and pay that much interest on it but you know that's always the last resort option you obviously would like to not have to do that but the car repair thing really gets me that and don't worry it doesn't affect the giveaways again I have a job this is money the money for YouTube is completely separate so like don't you have to worry about anything good boy crap like all the money for shipping you know what's cool all the money to ship all the prime giving stuff came from you guys buying t-shirts we sold enough t-shirts in the last four weeks when we launched our new t-shirts which god we haven't even had them up that long on stream elements I think no no not stream elements t-spring we sold enough products on t-spring to get about a hundred bucks we just cashed out and that is how I'm shipping all the items from prime giving is paid for by you guys by a merch pretty cool pretty cool Christmas is a really big like like Rios says I don't buy Christmas I don't accept them Christmas is like a really big thing for my family it always has I'm not going to be the one that's like oh yeah I'm not doing presents this year not accepting I'm not going to it's always been a really big thing with my family it's just the tradition we're just going to keep it going um that basket talking about stuff he's got going on his channel nintendo who is ready for the legend of zeal the breath of the loud too and the zeal through his we'll see I don't know okay I want to temper expectations on this so the reason that we expect zelda 35th anything at the game awards is because the samus hunter now samus hunter has been really reliable but she didn't specify what it was going to be because she doesn't know so I want to clarify for the zelda 35th anniversary we might just get a medley by the orchestra I just want to be careful here like yeah expect something for the 35th anniversary because she's trustworthy but also it could literally there's an orchestra there it could literally just be a medley by the orchestra and that could be it that could be all we get so I want to temper those expecting like hype responsibly expect the bare minimum and then be surprised if it's beyond that the bare minimum is a celebration of zelda musically well bare minimum it's not there at all but if there is anything that's the bare minimum and then anything beyond that's kind of a bonus so you can speculate but temper the expectations down otherwise here's what happens if you expect the sun the moon the stars you're going to get disappointed we're not going to get like the wind waker and twilight princess hd annals and breath of the wild 2 trailer release date title and then also like get metro prime 4 stuff like at the end you're just going to set yourself for discipline and that just is a disservice to the great announcements that are going to be there right abama what's abama hut says at nintendo prime just got back from work and notice your stream happy to catch the stream live once again that is a vote no it's not a bucket that is a malibu shot thank you so much man I appreciate the $10 Aussie I appreciate scrolling up here there was something I missed earlier somebody renewed their membership and I forgot to damn it it's not showing up well whoever renewed their membership and did a message because you get one message per month when you renew thank you for the renewal and I'm sorry I missed that message earlier that happened like a long time ago like over an hour ago but thank you so much whoever that was for renewing your membership and I'm sorry I didn't read your message it was probably in the middle of that that rant I went on earlier which by the way happens every Q&A stream there's always like one thing that goes on like a little bit of a rant and I was talking to the media and the bias that is maybe not necessarily fair against gaming media and how we're giving all this benefit out to content creators that are often times just as questionable you know if not more so um the devchill says I don't know it would be pretty shitty if they only did an orchestra and that's it I think they'll either have a game to show or nothing at all so think about this devchill this is what we have to consider about the game awards the game awards is Jeff Keely's show okay so let's say that he thinks it's important to recognize the Zelda 35th anniversary right he thinks it's important but Nintendo doesn't so Nintendo doesn't actually have anything there for the 35th but Jeff Keely thinks it's important to recognize it well what can Jeff Keely control he can get an orchestra to play a medley Nintendo what's Nintendo going to sue him? Nintendo is going to leave it alone so this is what you have to remember this is Jeff Keely's show the only thing Jeff Keely can control are things like music he can't control who's willing to show it he can't control who wants to show stuff so you say it'll be it would be disappointing or if that's all there's going to be then there'll be nothing that's all Jeff Keely can guarantee it's up to Nintendo if they're born nobody said by the way what's her name? Nintendo was showing 35th anniversary stuff it just said 35th anniversary something will be happening at the Game Awards very much can just be that and by the way as Nancy said a Zelda orchestra would be pretty hype like anytime Zelda has orchestrated music it's awesome and it's very rare that we hear Zelda orchestrated music live like if you didn't go to the symphony of the goddess back in the day for the 25th or had a couple shows I don't remember but like if you missed that and didn't see it live there was like no shows of it online so like orchestrated Zelda music immediately being played is amazing even if it's not what we ideally obviously we'd rather have gaming out but if that's all we can get it's still pretty damn awesome man Zelda music's baller you guys hear this crap right? I'll just imagine like all that dunt is actually violins going and like oh my god you know all badass a Zelda medley could be with an orchestra like every time I play these Zelda beats that I play I imagine them in an orchestrated form because this isn't an orchestrated form it's digital and it's like oh my gosh how amazing would that sound with an orchestra you guys get excited when I play and I don't understand a YouTuber but in a sense a bigger event than me live streaming dude I love Zelda music so much dude I be hyped just an orchestrated Zelda medley obviously I want more but we'll see wow your son's into PvP what? oh talking to somebody else to say my son doesn't do PvP well shouldn't say that he does do PvP in Roblox maybe he isn't into PvP um dude yeah orchestras are great and we already know there's going to be an orchestra there like that's already been confirmed there is an orchestra at the game award so that's awesome that's the one thing the one thing I'll say I don't know if I care about the sting performance or if I care about the Imagine Dragons performance and I understand that they're actually performing some gaming related stuff but I do I have always loved when he's included in an orchestra I always thought the orchestra was very fitting for the game awards I'm not always so sure when he gets these big name artists out there that it's fitting but I'll deal with it by the way I've been talking to the game awards and they've been trying to assure me that nothing will be copyright claimed or if I get any strikes that I need to contact them and they'll take care of it we'll see we'll see I've never gotten anybody to remove strikes and stuff off my channel so we'll see I guarantee that my stream is getting copyrighted it happens every game award so they keep trying to promise me it won't but they're usually wrong I mean the music is fire Nintendo won't only do an orchestra but that's all Jeff Keely can control so if Jeff Keely wants to recognize the anniversary but Nintendo won't then that's all that can happen that's kind of what I'm saying that's what I'm saying, temper our expectations to yeah, Nintendo might not be showing anything that Jeff Keely can do is music but we'll see again, it's on Thursday and you guys know we're going to be talking the game awards again on Wednesday at the podcast so we have Tim from Kind of Funny Games coming on and I already have one question I want to ask Tim about the game awards Kind of Funny Games is part of the voting panel for the game award, I don't know if you guys know that we're having someone on who's part of the voting panel for the game award I want to ask him how that works like is it the same as us publicly like is it just like a separate like we have our public place that we go and pick our votes, are they sent like a different link that's basically the same thing and then you know it is sent to like select staff members and then each of those staff members does it is there like one vote from the entire outlet for each category and then they have to like debate behind the scenes on what their company is going to vote for like how does it work I'm very curious and if he's allowed to because of NDAs he might not be allowed to even say how but I'm going to ask I mean I don't think he can blame me for asking of course I'm going to ask and it could be something they've talked about publicly I have no idea I'm going to be they did a podcast on game awards prediction like last week so I'm going to go watch that just to make sure they didn't already talk about it and even if they did I'm still going to bring up the question for our audience but I'm going to make sure that if they've already talked about it that I you know make sure that I mentioned that yeah I know I heard if I can you explain it for our audience but that is something that I am going to ask specifically you know because I think we all I think we all have a general curiosity behind the scenes of how that kind of works you know and like do they have any idea like if different outlets are weighted more than others like Metacritic on Metacritic different review outlets are weighted differently than others so like is that how it works or is each outlet given the same amount of weight like it's kind of funny their vote worth the same as IGN you know or do they not know maybe they don't even know because one thing I do know is the outlets don't know who's going to win till it's announced that I know from talking to someone a few years ago who got a vote on the game awards told me that they didn't know who was going to win until it was announced so that's kind of cool too for the voting outlets they don't even know they submit their ballots and they're voting they don't know you know I think they get to see it after the fact but like yeah I don't know cool yeah literally Thursday dude it's a busy month so I got like three different Christmases or four different Christmases to deal with with different family my daughter's birthday is on the 17th we're actually doing a kid birthday party at Christy Mountain on the 18th which is like a tubing skiing place and that same day on the 18th at 5pm is one of the Christmas parties so like we're doing the tubing thing at like 10am being done by like noon or one things like an hour and a half away we have to come all the way back here somehow the kids need a nap or something Christmas craft to do the summer is so busy but then it eases up in January right like you get your new years which I really want to go out on New Year's Eve because New Year's Eve is a Friday it works on Fridays you make an under them there I really want to go out New Year's Eve and then um yeah after New Year's Day which is like my grandma's birthday and then it kind of frees up from there in January it's usually pretty chill you been to Christy Mountain? it's fun there it's not like the greatest place but I mean it's fun we usually go at least once a year I want to get, yeah a lot of people go tubing there the tubing is pretty fun there I want to get my kids into like snowboarding or skiing at some point I know how to ski Yulia knows how to snowboard now Yulia hasn't snowboarded since she was in high school so she will see how she does I haven't skied in a while either it's probably been 12 years for me but I wasn't in high school 12 years ago so I have skied since high school I don't know if it's quite like riding a bike but I'm pretty sure you know even though I'm older I'm pretty sure that I can for what I remember it was skiing it wasn't too bad it doesn't mean I'm doing black diamond I don't want to die but I mean I could probably work my way up to going down the blue hills yeah it's a lot I have a huge family game a lot and then my daughter has a December birthday so like it's just I'm overwhelmed I love Christmas but sometimes it gets to be too much my family is so the thing is I'm just talking about my side of the family Yulia's side of the family wants us to come over on like the 26th so like that's a whole nother it's just a lot I love them all and like usually once we're there I'm good like at the actual family gatherings it's really not that bad as long as the kids are behaving it's not that bad but it's like after like you get worn out from the one event and then we still have finals and everything else going on so we're already worn out then we get more worn out and then more worn out and then before you know it there's another event and oh we're having a good time at the event but we're worn out this is the month that Yulia and I because our jobs don't stop oh the kids don't have school the kids get two weeks off of school wonderful we don't get off of school until they're going back to school so our time off of school off of college begins once they're back in school they're home while we still have college to do we still have to work like it's insane it just doesn't stop doesn't stop it's just so busy we get worn out happens every year we get complete by the time we get to like December 26 I mean we're ready for someone to take the kids for a week we're just done it's just so much um it's not you don't have to pray for me guys it's a good life I have a good life, I have a wonderful family it's just a busy month it's just a lot at once like okay we had Halloween fine okay a month later you end up with Thanksgiving like one big thing a month is fine but when Christmas gets turned into like a five day thing then my daughter's birthday and then the Christmas concert and we have our school with finals and it's just it's just because work it's just like when I like I'm getting stressed just thinking about it which you know what that means it means I need a shot don't worry I got it this time I need a shot shot shot shot everybody I got it I got it Christmas was awesome when we only had like one kid even though it was Malady who had the December birthday it was still awesome and easier and I wasn't in college at the time it was a lot more enjoyable I got it we got our Malibu shot here don't worry I told you guys I got it I got the shot but I enjoy Christmas like I'm not really complaining I like Christmas it's just is it sad to say I like the moment I didn't have kids it was just less work that's all it was less work Christmas feels like work it's like having another job audio working there was a crash there for a second with it wait maybe I don't know what's going on I must have bumped the cord the power cord is not like forced in like it used to be your birthday is technically tomorrow can you please wish me happy birthday hold on I'll do something better than that one second I don't have it set up like I used to I used to have a birthday button but I'll do I'll do one better than that ready here we go oh and we're one up in that don't worry here we go I can't sing the actual tune because of copyright claims here's what you get happy birthday eat fry me bye happy birthday eat fry me fry oh happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday eat fry me fry eat fry me fry hopefully that auto tuned I have no idea it better of auto tune because like if I sing the real happy birthday song without auto tune you do get copyright claim it's stupid you would figure that would be like public domain at this point but it's not alright I hope you enjoy that no problem man hopefully it was enjoyable man enjoy your birthday tomorrow um your birthday was this past Saturday gotcha gotcha in reverse happy birthday bird man happy birthday bird man oh happy birthday happy earth day oh happy birthday belated bird man I had to stop it it was about to play again I forget that it plays on repeat if I don't hit the button lots of birthdays and why I super chatted myself to say happy birthday to you both I have no idea I guess I just wanted to vodka shot that bad so it was kind of an excuse look at my excuse to super chat I'm just trying to finish this vodka there's still a shot left at this vodka I'm trying to get rid of it yeah I try to be kind guys you know you did super chat who's got a super chat for me to say happy birthday man I try to do the best I can I try to get everybody I hope that even when I am like I'm if I ever get to become like a super massive successful creator I hope I still take the time to say happy birthday to people I hope that I still take the time out of my stream no matter what I'm doing to do that I'm doing it for as long as I can until it gets to a point I can't read the chat anymore and even then maybe I'll slow mode it up enough I have no idea Logan Long says hey guys Nate sorry had homework to do now let's party nice nice thanks for being up in your membership for another month and using your free message you get which is a cool thing they're doing so thank you I'm going to do my $20 vodka shot I just bought Birdman did something I have no idea what there it is Birdman did the $199 so that's a beer with the sticker I hope you were grinning while I did it and I hope that your parents were in the room or your friends are around or your girlfriends or boyfriends so they can either smile with you or you could be a little rosy cheeked a little embarrassed but maybe you just were grinning in your tear I like to show appreciation to everybody I don't care like Birdman's a mod it doesn't have to be someone it could literally be and I've never seen this E prime person like E prime if I I don't know I've ever seen that person in a stream before in my life now that they haven't been there but I don't remember them doesn't matter I try to recognize everybody Logan the block with the dollar okay that's two beer shots let me get my vodka one let me get the vodka one down the trap first oh that one did that one to stay down Justin what do we have the dollar trains hold up hold up hold up I mean we're clearly putting on some tea pain that's right we go into the dollar store maybe so thank you so much to Justin Basil and Logan the block each for your one dollar man for the two dollar sticker now E prime if I I do not want you to feel sad because one dude Nintendo Prime to sing you happy birthday I just did a shot in your honor what more do you want me to do kiss the ring here I'll kiss my ring here's the thing I don't mean any offense when I say I haven't seen you in a stream it doesn't mean that you haven't been in a stream what you need to understand is that like we have 67 people here now we were at like we peaked at like one 15 120 or whatever earlier my streams average a thousand different viewers every time I don't know everybody in the stream now you're on the discord server that's why our discord server has like 2500 people I don't really pay as much attention as you might think I do that doesn't mean I'm out there doesn't mean I don't chat sometimes everyone knows I do chat once in a while it's just it's hard for me to know each person individually I just got to tell you how busy my month is let alone trying to find time to chat to people I don't know on discord you know so it's not an offense that I don't recognize you don't feel bad now you might go but you recognize all your members you know like doggy, Logan LeBlanc, Justin Basil, deadly creature, Carl Shroofers here of course I recognize them because one they're at almost every stream and two their names get highlighted in green because they're members so because they're members it's just easier for me to recognize them in the chat like when I look it on the chat and I see the green names they stand out the other names don't stand out as much it doesn't mean you matter any less it's just a memory trick I'm really bad with names so I'm not even saying maybe I've even shouted you out before ePrimify I probably have I just don't remember I'm really bad with names the members I will admit there's a little bias in me towards remembering who the members are but that's because they pay money every month to be members so I feel like I owe it to them to remember who they are the weird thing to me is like when there's someone who I thought was a member but then maybe was a member and then became not a member and cancelled their membership and then I see them in the chat as non-members and I'm like what the hell like Ddub I'm pretty sure Ddub has been a member before maybe I'm wrong on that front I know Ddub on my Twitter sometimes as well but like I distinctly remember Ddub was a member at some point I think when the Pikachu fan was a member at some point and isn't now maybe not say when the Pikachu fan I don't know there's some other people that have been members that aren't anymore so like I kind of sort of remember their names but yeah so I'm not I hope that you don't feel bad now one thing that's cool and I think this is launching in 2022 YouTube is adding the ability to gift memberships which is something you can do on Twitch so what's cool about that is I can gift memberships as well as I just said I tend to remember members more so that's going to be kind of cool that you have to have chills at your first time but yeah, gifting memberships is a thing too so even though you might not be able to afford a membership in the future someone might gift you one that's like a cool feature coming I mean it's going to be kind of cool when if it gets to a point that people like gifting memberships like as I said we're trying to hit a 200 member goal you know how much easier the 200 member goal would be if people could gift memberships I guarantee you like I don't want to be presumptuous but members raise your hand use one of your custom emojis you get from being members use one of your custom emojis I don't care which one if once they launch the gifted memberships if you would be someone who's going to gift memberships to others who can't afford to be a member and I'm not saying this for my benefit I genuinely think we have a number of members who would love to gift memberships right now if they could I swear our members are amazing I guarantee they'd want to buy like 5 memberships 3 bucks pop 15 bucks or whatever I guarantee you we have members that would love to gift memberships to others if they could not Natu I'm not surprised that you'd be willing to gift memberships Justin Basil maybe the right day, right money situation Logan LeBlanc again would gift from when he kept Birdman might be willing even though Birdman you know what's ironic Birdman you donated all that money you're not actually a member right now now you're a mod obviously you stand out for different reasons but I mean look at that some are saying they consider it they might not do it but the bottom line is we don't even have all our members here we have 155 members so who knows what's going to happen and this is not a colony the fact that instead of buying super chats I spent like 50 bucks tonight on super chats I would just spend that on membership gift membership because there is a benefit to me gifting the membership it's the same amount of money to me either way but members one get their names highlighted and two they get access to all these emojis and you can use these emojis in the comment section on my channel and then if you want to keep that membership after a month it's up to you so yeah twitch is an amazing feature of twitch but youtube is adding it um when is youtube launching that feature when is youtube launching gifted memberships they announced that they're adding it but I'm not sure when youtube gaming is going to launch gifted memberships and live redirects so live redirects are raids so like we could what's cool about how raids work on twitch is that you can say okay guys we're going to raid this person and then I type a command in chat and it sends everybody who's currently in the chat to that other stream so we can raid them and what's cool about that is it shows support you're showing support to fellow content creators um and they're adding that ability to youtube they're adding that ability to youtube um as well so they're basically taking the best features of twitch and adding it obviously they can't add the amazon prime membership free thing because that's amazon own split the youtube gaming is going to launch gifted memberships and live redirects uh in 2022 youtube global gaming head Ryan watt teased some features sometime in 2022 hopefully early 2022 sometime next year we'll have gifted membership and obviously the ability to do a more organic raid by the way we probably should raid someone tonight if there's anyone I know who is streaming on youtube um and I'll look even if it's someone I don't know I might look up like a really small streamer oh camelot is streaming so when I end my stream you can maybe go raid camelot he's a good dude I'm gonna try to get him on the damn podcast that bastard he knows we'll raid him at the end basically I'll just link to his channel and say hey let's go raid him quick we'll even stay live while we do it you guys just open a new tab or something but raiding is fun it's a way to support uh new content creators and yeah most of the people who raid don't stick around but some do so it helps content creators grow and find new audience well I raid your stream uh that's your tds when when raiding is a thing officially sure you know I'm I like paying it forward sometimes we'll raid big creators like camelot is a bigger creator we're gonna raid camelot today he's a bigger he's bigger than me so we're gonna raid him today because he's the only one that I'm subscribed to that that's streaming right now but sometimes we'll also raid small creators help them out we used to do this when I was streaming on twitch for a few weeks um I was really pushing twitch and we'd have like 50 plus watching on twitch I'd be like hey let's go raid some of these people that only have like one or two people watching like let's make their day and like I would literally raid their channel and then I would donate to them like five bucks and they would just flip their shit you'd be surprised how many people would raid on twitch that would only have like you know one or two viewers that like one we provided them their first real audience and two that five dollar donation it's just five bucks it made their fucking day like they were more happy over that five dollars that they have to split with twitch or no they'll fight all donation they don't split but like they got the fight up they were so happy over that five dollars like it literally probably made their entire week you know crazy and I feel like that's what it's gonna be like on YouTube once we're able to do official raids that are easy to do right like it's really gonna make people today so and I love supporting small creators I mean like you know I know he actually gets quite a few people for his podcast but like I'll just restart he's smaller than me he doesn't get nearly the viewership I do he can pull on a live stream on a live stream he can pull a hundo he can pull a hundo he can pull 120 and it's like yeah so can I and I have a lot more subscribers than him but I can also do streams it's like significantly bigger than he does I can say we're giving away a switch OLED for Christmas which give away one for Christmas and have 500 live maybe 1000 maybe 1200 we had 1200 for one he's not able to pull that kind of stuff he could give away something and maybe pull 200 but he ain't pulling 500 1200 etc that's just the size of my channel my channel is big enough that it can pull in really big like I can do E3 and have 900 live all throughout E3 like I can do that you know that's the power of the size of my channel yet my average live stream might be right now be 70 to 120 viewers but on special events like the game awards I can pull and I can pull in ways that smaller channels and that's the same thing like you know Nintendo directs we're always pulling like 300 plus on it's insane like there's no giveaways Nintendo direct you don't have to watch it with me but people always keep choosing to watch it with me it's awesome so yeah it's one of those situations where I'm just really excited to help all smaller creators I just restart one of them we helped out what's his name Nintendo Academy he gained like 700 subscribers off of us like you guys are awesome thanks for subscribing to this channel hope you enjoy this content like I like helping smaller creators because I was a small creator once like I still consider myself a small creator but I'm I recognize am I really a small creator when I look at the super chat revenue and we're at $95 granted I paid for most of that like over half but like when my channel is making you know I'll just say like over a thousand a month you're still small but you're not like the tiny $500,000 you know or like the $1,000 $2,000 subscriber channels they're not pulling that kind of money they're maybe making a couple bucks so it's one of those I recognize that while I am small I'm not like nobody people have heard of me if I go to E3 somebody recognizes me every time whereas like Seb, Seb Aska's in the chat right he's got a channel with like 23,000 subscribers if he goes to E3 he probably won't get recognized one he's not on camera but even this voice won't get recognized but when I go I'll be recognized by you know a couple dozen people which means I'm still small I can still walk around comfortably and not get crowded by people but I'm not like massive I can still live a normal life I don't have to worry about going out in public I don't know if I really want to get to the point that I have to worry about going out in public I don't know how PewDiePie does it I don't know if I ever want to get to that point that I have to worry about going out in public but well it'll probably happen if I ever have to worry about going out in public because I'll just move to a country where I don't have to where nobody knows who I am like Norway or something just just get the hell out of the US yeah don't got to worry about anyone in Norway Ddub says you could do raids now you just always say buy a piece of well the buy a piece of very abruptly is basically I glance at the time I realize oh shit I still have to clean the house before Yulia gets home I need to end the stream so it's more so because I'm not watching the time I end up in an oh shit situation oh shit oh shit that that that that's the truth it ends up in an oh shit I don't want it to end up I hear about RKSV and League Justin Basil did a $2 suit I missed it I wasn't caught up with the chat the mic yeah my mic is having weird blips right now I think the cord over there isn't fully plugged in I'll fix it later cheers to Timothy oh Timothy oh Timothy what's up Justin Basil thank you so much for the $2 cheers to Timothy I don't know what happened what I missed I have no clue my chat wasn't caught up thanks for introducing us to the Nintendo Academy I've been enjoying this video he's a genuine guy there's some things he needs to work on Nintendo Academy if you're here a few tips I always have some tips for fellow creators I'm not the most successful creator in the world so don't mimic me don't be doing shots on stream and mimicking me I used to get compared to Attica even though he was way more successful than I was a wrestling piece man I used to get compared to a lot of people even HMK he gets drunk on streams on Twitch he's a good dude I can't get a hold of it pretty much anytime to be on the podcast love that guy I think that Nintendo Academy is very genuine and he dreams big guys remember we had him on for prime giving he donated a couple items for prime giving it was awesome but the thing is he made a bet with me that in five years on prime giving we will be giving away a house to a homeless family like an actual family a mom, a dad, kids, etc and like for him as a channel with 7000, 8000 subscribers that's a pretty big financial because he said 50-50 so that's a big commitment and for me in five years my channel is big enough like let me just look at the stats how many subscribers have I actually gained this year I don't look at this enough I probably should look at this more so I go to overview let's go from custom date January 1st to today so let's go 01 I hate the date thing so 01, 21 December 5th, 2021 so I have gained 14,000 and 300 subscribers total this year right? man that's a lot of revenue man that's the most the most money my channel has ever made insane you guys are awesome I wonder what the revenue breakdown is super chats and it'll tell me maybe it'll tell me I've never actually looked at the full year stats before that revenue starts you guys want to know how much you have donated and super chatted and how many super chats and memberships you guys have done in terms of revenue it makes up by the way 40% of the revenue made this year so still a majority made either youtube premium or ad revenue which is just youtube revenue because youtube premium is just people who pay to not see ads well you get some other features but for the year you guys have either super chatted or became members for a total of 8,850 test test test I don't know what happened there my sound equipment crashed that wasn't software that was hardware I hope this isn't failing right before we're about to do the game awards I don't have a backup well okay that's not true you guys saw me turn on the wireless system this is my backup this is my backup audio it's not on right I don't have it turned on for you guys to hear it my backup audio system is the wireless system I really hope my audio interface here isn't dying my amp and preamp here's hoping that it's going to be fine I know it's working right now I can see you guys can hear me again 8,858 dollars over the last year it's not a majority of the revenue but that's not insignificant fan support you guys are awesome and insane absolutely insane now remember I give away pretty much everything I make and then taxes that would suck dude if my main audio interface is dying I haven't even owned this for a year it might be under warranty if it's actually failing it could just be the cord too I am using a third party extender so it could be the extender although I don't know it's working fine for a while so I don't know why the cord doesn't need to be bad but whatever it's working now so I'm just going to have to pay closer attention to see if it keeps having this issue all week because if it has this issue on the podcast and we got Tim on that's going to piss me off that's really going to piss me off we'll see what happens let's see here we back we're good see I knew the audio crashed it wasn't one of those you guys started telling me I knew it crashed I just didn't know why it crashed because this was still on but it wasn't recognized in any signal and it wasn't showing up in my computer despite doing the duh like oh it's connected but it's not recognizing and it was weird so that's why I don't know what to do I thought the cord was loose over there because it's an extender cord it wasn't loose well bare minimum I could go in here I could unmute the camera mic which this is hooked up directly to the camera and then I could just do the wireless you know like but not today by the way you wonder why we're not using lav mics right now like oh man Nate why are you moving this not only is this better audio on the podcast to use these mics another reason why I'm using these right now is because you see this these are my really good lav mics those really expensive $150 lav mics nothing wrong with the mic works fine notice there's no clip this mic uses a really thick clip the problem they don't sell the clips the clips broke Eric broke all three of them so we got the three mics here Eric broke all three clips I don't know how he did it it wasn't intentional but he broke all three clips and the problem is we can't find them anywhere we literally cannot find the clips so we can't use them because we can't find clips that work with them isn't that fucked up like to me like that's just so fucked up that we can't find clips they don't sell so to get new clips you have to buy new mics that's so dumb so I don't know at least like the wireless system one it uses a metal clip but even if this metal clip somehow breaks which I don't think it will like I can lose it like this I don't think it will it looks like it's a standard size and I have a bunch of extra standard size clips they're plastic but I've got like a hundred of them so even if this metal one which I don't think it's going to break anytime soon but if it did break I'm pretty sure my standard clips would fit on the wireless system it pisses me off so anyway that's not why we switched I was already debating on going back to these for the podcast it'll be like this for the podcast but the reason I'm going back to these is because I wanted higher quality now that we're now that we're doing our own podcast channel I really wanted to focus on increasing the audio quality because the podcasts are like an hour and a half two hours, two and a half hours long they're long so I wanted to make sure the audio was good for the audio if you guys wonder why we haven't been doing audio versions of the podcast up on iTunes because it hurts when I listen to it audio only no video I can't imagine what it's like for people trying to listen on iTunes so I wanted to make sure we went back to increasing the audio quality we ask our guests to have good audio quality but then they have better audio quality than us when Tim comes on, he has a really nice microphone it's pretty shitty when our guest has better audio than we do especially when we already have the equipment to do better audio so that's but still I'm using a lav mic right now my old lav mic, this is one of my cheapies it works, it's fine it's not as good as the other ones but our other cheapy lav mic is completely broken the mic itself doesn't work so it doesn't matter with the clip, the mic doesn't work so I've got these three lav mics at work that are high quality that I don't have clips for and then I got this one that I got a bunch of clips for but it only really works for just me equipment man equipment issues better light, better light better light, like it's holiday but it's got Christmas tree and presents um bless those pirate pots alright so some of this is okay so e-prime you're talking about shotgun mic so I don't have any shotgun mics currently but it's not for lack of effort so I have rented three different shotgun mics one of them was like super expensive like it's like a $3,000 mic I rented it for like $100 for a day or a weekend or something I can't remember the other ones I rented were more budget friendly $150, $200 ones which again, not cheap but relative for shotgun mics not that big a deal, plus I have a road shotgun mic that I can put on my camera um the camera is too far away for the road shotgun mic that's built for the camera to matter because it's literally just too far away like it's gonna get echoes and background noise and if it catches anything because I had to turn the game up so much it's not whatever so I have played around with shotgun mics so you said for your set right here the best mic you can do would be a shotgun mic like you could mount it down here you know, you could put it down here angled up so it stops like right here right off camera, can you see my hand here right below that, you could have the shotgun mic right there you could, and if you wanted to be really good you could have a three mic setup this is, well it'd be a five mic setup if I include Eric, but for the podcast we'd still use our stand alone mic maybe a three mic setup so what do you mean by three mic? you'd have one shotgun mic here you'd have a shotgun mic ceiling mounted right up here off camera another one right up here off camera, which they'd be way off camera, it had to be like an arm that moves like this because I'd have to be able to move them out of the way for what I'm standing up back here to make the set more flexible but, here's the thing I obviously never tried the three mic setup which is what someone suggested that I'd try three shotgun mics which I can hook up, I do have the hookups for three but I tried one and the only one that sounded good was the studio grade nearly three grand one and I sat there and I go, okay, yeah obviously this is what movies use, right, they use shotgun mics movies, by the way, don't use lapels they obviously don't use those they use shotgun mics that's their entire bit the problem is shotgun mics work best if they can be put in the ideal situation at all times that you're in for those who don't know in movies, most shotgun mics are held by a human they're held by a human so they can always be in the best ideal place just out of frame to get the best audio and you might go, but neat you're set a stationary it is, I'm not stationary I move I'm going like this, I'm going like this I'm spinning around, I'm dancing, I'm doing this and the problem is it doesn't pick up the cheaper ones, the $150 $200 ones, doesn't pick up enough of my audio to keep it at the same volume so let's say I'm doing a live stream and I'm using this mic I'm like, hey everyone, how's it going you guys are awesome in everything let's move it down here, be more realistic let's say I'm talking, how's it going everyone you guys are doing great this is the podcast, we're having a good time but if I talk over here the volume drastically changes if I talk this way or I talk this way I don't talk directly into it, you need to base all your movements around the center point to the best audio, if you go over here if I turn towards Eric and I don't turn towards him like this hey Eric, see now I'm still talking to the mic or if I turn towards Eric and I go like this hey man, how's it going it's going to cut out that was happening with the shotgun mics now they have a wider area they can get an area like this when I set it down here it was like this you're like, oh that should get you sure, it does if I stay in this area if I'm like, oh yeah like suddenly I would cut out so the shotgun mic didn't work because it was stationary it needed to be held by a human because I moved too much now a lot of channels use shotgun mics PewDiePie uses the shotgun mic you can see it, he literally has it like he uses it in the way you use this except it's like over here it'll be like his shotgun mic will be like right here and he'll just talk and I'll pick him up the space for it goes like this so he's right in it picks him up you can see it but it's not covering him and it picks him up it's a situation that it's hard for me to set the mic up just right because I moved too much man I'm a mover on my most recent video I asked you guys did you prefer the better audio that I get with this for my normal video my podcast videos I'm using this regardless because I'm worried about maximum listening for headphones and stuff like that so I'm worried about best audio so I'm switching to that anyways but I asked you guys what was better that or this this is my wireless this isn't cheap there's cheap wireless systems you don't want to buy the cheap shit the cheap shit sounds like crap this doesn't sound great it sounds okay this is like a $250 wireless system it's a two pecs Eric and I can both use one I got this one because we can use it at E3 and other events also we can unscrew this and I can plug in a different mic I can use other lavalier mics I might be playing around with this I have other normal lab these are XLR labs here's one I don't have a clip on it right now but I have extra clips here's a normal lab mic which is basically what this is I have some normal lab mics that might be better than this one that might give better audio or the audio is just distorted because it's wireless I have no idea the Sennheiser ones are the best for a single person the point I'm making though is that people said I should use this and why did they say I should use this over that one, some people just didn't like that that was covering me at all any part of my face they don't think it's worth it two, they notice in my videos I move a lot that I'm turning that I'm sometimes going like this and like literally talking away from where that mic would be if I had one talking back here or I'm dancing or I move I move a lot I am an expressive talker I'm sure you guys have gotten that by now I'm a very expressive talker because of that I need a mic that moves with me and the nice thing about labs is that they're here no matter where I move it moves with me and that's what's nice about the wireless system I'm not tethered in such a certain way it's going to yank the cord and then it can break the mic that's how we actually broke the other one of these, I'll show you guys quick so we have another one of these and I broke it doing a stand up video because the cord yanked when I turned and that's why we got the wireless system so I can have freedom of movement now you can say Nate just teach yourself not to move so much like hey spawn wave he just kind of I'm right here alright guys hey guys welcome to news wave today we got a bunch of stories for you we got some switch stuff we got some xbox news maybe a little bit of halo infinite yeah so let's get right into that news today oh hey everyone so halo infinite actually reviewed very well today on metacritic and he stays right in here he stays right in this zone now why does he stay in that zone he's using a shotgun mic shotgun mics are great if you stay in a small zone he doesn't move he'll move his hands he'll do some expressions with his hands not as much as I do but he'll do some but his head and his body stay in this same little zone so because of that the shotgun mic works very well very very well I don't know if he has it set up down low or up high he has an actual like a literal a separate studio building away from this house so he can have it down here off camera he might have it above his head it doesn't really matter you can angle the shotgun mic one way or another but if you stay in that certain zone oh my god the shotgun mics are great but in movies there's a reason that they're held by a human because you need to move the mic as the person moves now in really bad movies you sometimes see the mic hop in from the top in some scenes it's funny in some of the really bad movies where the sound guy didn't do a good job keeping himself out of frame he's got to know the exact distance at all times to stay out of frame it's really hard to frame it out sometimes in post editing but yeah that's why they manned by a person they got to react to how the actors are acting keep the audio levels great which yeah they mess with the audio levels in post but to keep it at the highest quality they can when you're a solo creator like me I don't have someone to hold the mic ideally someone is over here holding a pole with a shotgun mic and they're just moving as I move that's just how it works so like it works really good to stay within a certain zone that's why I don't use it it's too restrictive for me as a solo content creator it's more freedom than this it is because this I got to talk like this if I back up this doesn't pick me up but the shotgun mic still will if I talk like this the shotgun mic still picks me up this shotgun mic still picks me up I talk like this the shotgun mic doesn't pick me up anymore so it offers more freedom than this but you still have to stay in the zone and that's why I brought a swan away for a moment if you watch him he doesn't move side to side he doesn't turn his head he stares directly into the camera and he just stays in this zone and he just talk I don't know if he has a he might have a teleprompter or a screen with notes also whenever he has to read a quote you'll notice it's like even if it's a small quote like a sentence you'll notice he cuts away why do you think he cuts away? some people someone mentioned today they don't like that I look at my phone to read my notes like oh yeah that's distracting that you're looking at your phone to read your notes you're right in an ideal world what I do in that situation you know I don't even grab the phone on camera well I grab it on camera but I cut it out so I'm like oh yeah so here's the deal and then I would cut away to gameplay or I would cut away to an article or I cut away to quotes and I'd still be reading off my phone but it would never be on screen for you the swan way very much might be reading off a phone or off a computer or something but you wouldn't know because he cuts away a lot swan wave cuts away a ton which to me tells me he's reading off his phone or reading off maybe not paper notes but off a monitor or something that you know where he's not looking directly at the camera you never get a shot of swan wave not looking at the camera because anytime he's got to quote something he cuts away there's a reason for that because it does look unprofessional for me to whip out my phone by the way people thought that it took me multiple takes to flip my phone in the one video it ain't that hard look at this I'm staring at you guys and I'm catching my phone look how many flips look at this how many flips till I drop not that hard at least not for me maybe it's hard for you guys but um yeah like I know it's distracting for me to be like always reading off his phone it doesn't look professional I know I should cut away it's just hard time every time to like edit in a quote like that you got to create a separate image file you got to type out the quote manually you got to make sure it looks good you got to make the background look good even if it's just gameplay you got to blur that gameplay it's not difficult it's only like an additional 10 minutes of editing but when you have an hour and a half after you're done doing research to record transfer the footage from the micro sd card to the computer because you never want to edit the micro sd card directly ever ever you never want to just drag the file into your editor off the micro sd never that is horrible practice literally you can destroy your micro sd card this is all your progress no you always want to take the footage off the micro sd card to a local storage drive or even your main hard drive on your computer before you edit so you got to transfer that that can take 5, 8, 10 minutes depending on how big the files are my files are 10 gigs for every 10 minutes it's a gig a minute and I usually have about 30-ish minutes I usually have about 30-ish minutes of footage I throw out a lot of it but I have about 30-ish minutes of footage because you might go like cut but you don't actually walk over and stop recording you just kind of regather your thoughts you got all this dead air you got to cut out it's pretty normal in the film industry but like I'm one person so you transfer all that over and before you know it you're looking at man I only got about a half hour left to edit and then upload 10 minutes to add in moving graphics quotes manually typed out 10 minutes I got it's either I get the video out as is or I don't get the video out and that's the reality of a solo content creator who isn't doing this full time now if I'm doing this full time that's different because then I can be like oh I got way more than 90 minutes I got 4 hours I can literally take my time and do it right and make it fancier like I keep telling people if I get to the point that I can do YouTube full time it's over but we got to at least double the current income of the channel or consider doing YouTube full time which means we probably have to double the size of the channel and we probably have to double the viewership of the channel so right now we get about 250 to 300,000 viewers a month so I need to get anywhere from like 550 to 600,000 views a month and I probably am going to need about I don't know 150, 160,000 subscribers to do that which doesn't seem that far off when you think about it, if we hit 80,000 this month which I don't think we will I mean 100,000 could happen next year I told you guys, we only hit 14,000 subscribers so we would have to increase our subscriber growth after this year but can we? maybe? it's not possible to think well if we got 14,000 this year can we do 25 next year maybe? so that's kind of the ins and outs giving you some background behind YouTube yeah so ePromify says that's one of the things I love about being an editor it's finding those little spots and cutting them out yeah it's like you cut out the dead air but then on top of that there's like okay you'll cut out the video part but the audio is great like there's many times I'm editing the video and I go man this is the perfect time to do a sweet transition into this very specific moment I know exist in the game that I don't have a recording of yet but like I gotta go play the game to get to that point to get that specific recording or in a pinch you can borrow it from somebody else's video and then just give credit down in the description for borrowing like a 10 second clip or something like it that's not frowned upon by the way as long as you give proper credit and you're not using the entire video you can pretty much use any clip I mean literally it's a feature on YouTube if you're a YouTube premium member you can clip videos so like it's totally allowed and legal so if you don't have time to record your own stuff or it's in a really weird part of the game it's hard to just get to but even then it's like okay even if it's not a clip like okay I know it'd be really cool if I had this one motion graphic and I did this one sort of transition I typed out this text and I get 10 minutes 20 30 minutes edit that would be really cool for like I don't know a 15 second spot in the video that would make it look so much better and grab attention so much better and be so much more professional I know these things I've done these things any of our longtime viewers know I have done some very highly edited videos they had some really cool shit going on I've had flames I've had shit flying across the screen I've had myself flipping around in the 360 in one video I've done some cool ass shit and I know how to do a lot of it not all of it I'm an expert but I know how to do a lot of it but the way that I do it is so time consuming that's a part time YouTuber doing this when I have spare time hard to squeeze that in you know very hard to squeeze it in so we just make do and do the best that we can that's why I tried that's why one I love practical sets practical sets require this editing like having to use a green screen by the way people wonder do you have a green screen get this up high enough yeah that's a green screen my entire the original plan I was being stupid I was being stupid with my original plans for the set so when I built this set we have this giant green screen that can like cover a huge wall and I put it connected to this desk thinking that I needed the green screen so I can key it out to put in a ticker remember the ticker I used to do before I realized I don't need to key out a fucking ticker the ticker can go in front of the video why would I key out for a ticker that's stupid the only reason to use a green screen is to be in the background you don't need it in the foreground you can put anything in the foreground without a green screen I can literally not have a desk here but put in a desk in the foreground I don't need a green screen for that screen screens are only good for the background or beneath you or above you foreground doesn't I was just being dumb and it's been there ever since now I technically have an entire room that's a green screen that I don't use right now but yeah I don't know I like practical sets I like my set I know some people get annoyed that I don't always put the TV in full frame on my videos the reason I don't put the TV in full frame is because I look really tiny it's a big TV I look really small next to the TV so like if I had to blow it up anyways so I am in frame and looking great I know a lot of stuff man green screen use is also pain in the ass sometimes key even if you get the perfect key which like is perfect to give me the perfect key also limits your wardrobe like you can't have something that's too teal because it'll get keyed out you can't have something you can't wear green anything so Zelda as an example my favorite franchise is Zelda a lot of green involved with Zelda I can't wear any of my Zelda shirts or any of my Zelda stuff because there's green on it now you go put a blue screen up so I got blue eyes I know to you guys you might not be able to tell but when I'm editing and it's a blue screen it takes out the iris of my eye really weird it looks so weird in the iris of my eye bandages so like I'm just at one of those moments I wish I had brown eyes like give me the shit eyes man give me the shit eyes so then I can not worry about that but yeah I like practical sets I have fallen in love basically because I watch a lot of lioness tech videos I have fallen in love with practical sets practical sets are my jam so I think that's also a differentiator in the gaming news opinion space I think a lot of people do one of two things they either green screen their videos or they put their gaming collection and by the way I have some gaming stuff back here I don't like their entire background a gaming collection I don't like that I got a screen that I can change the imagery and videos on I've got Xbox and play you know that no one's ever once complained that I'm a Nintendo YouTuber and yeah prominently I've got playstation and Xbox prominently displayed on a Nintendo channel no crazy that is that nobody's once complained that I have Xbox and playstation prominently displayed in like every video by the way the shit eyes is just a reference to the color again nothing wrong with brown eyes but try the blue screen and let us know why your iris looks so bad it's so bad like if I look off access it doesn't key out but if I key out the blue just right like my iris van it's hilarious I do it way back in the day I have a portable green screen by the way too I sometimes bring it to E3 when I'm doing a live stream at E3 I don't always like the hotel beds being behind me so like I do have a portable green screen and sometimes we use the blue screen side and what I do during that is I put colored contacts in which the thing is I have to work well I don't have to work contacts technically it kind of also gives enough glare that it doesn't get out but then that's glare so that sucks I don't know I'm kind of crazy as a content creator I'm doing things well above my pay grade that's probably why they suck dang it now he's not streaming anymore I don't have any one of my subscription feeds streaming that's alright we'll kind of call that a stream it's almost midnight and I do have to tidy up a little bit it's actually not that bad upstairs but I have to pick up a few things Yulia might have been texting me she hasn't actually texted me in a while I hope she's okay she doesn't ignore me this long Yulia are you watching my stream hey baby are you there hello the gaming collect dude everyone does that gaming collection I did it right Ddub do you remember when I used to have the shelves with the gaming collection I still have those shelves and it still has my gaming collection just in a different room do you remember man I did the gaming collection thing because everyone was doing it it's just so played out man those cards are being given away during the game awards man not tonight the game awards but yeah man gaming collections are completely played out let me flip this on I gotta do a shot can't hold it here super chat coming in from taker 610 thank you so much man by the way that uh super chat got us $99 and 97 cents am I gonna leave it at that or am I gonna donate the dollar to push it to 100 it's an OCD thing $99.97 are you kidding me 3 cents short I think it's because of that $10 Australian conversion because it doesn't convert exactly to like a strict dollar amount $99.97 thank you so much man cheers taker uh ps5s are still going for a thousand plus yeah man I noticed the prices well I knew the prices were gonna go up during the holidays you're gonna take a shot baseman man nice man yeah dude I do shots for every this is a beer shot for the cheap ones obviously I'm not gonna go and I would get hammered if I was doing like real shots for the cheap ones RGC doesn't really even do a game shelf now at his new house it's interesting his setup now it's so casual now which I mean it's fine I think it's good like he was using green screen for a long time too someone donate 3 cents I don't think you can donate 3 cents I think you have to minimum a dollar well 99 cents if you use an apple for life um margarita mixer oh that's what you're having you're having a margarita mixer as a shot that's legit margarita mixer can be tasty you'll do a shot too nice dude we all gotta do a shot we all gotta do a shot what kind of shot do I want to do I'm gonna pay for the shot what do I gotta do you guys tell me what should I do there's beer obviously but then we got vodka that's $20 we got malibu strawberry that's our $10 shot we still have cannon blast that's a $50 shot um technically we haven't busted into the Don Julio yet but I'm gonna feel really bad if I pay $100 to bust into the Don Julio like how lame is that if we crack our Don Julio $100 shot off of my own donation like I feel like this is disqualified off of me doing it like that's just not possible hold on can't forget hold on forget tonight we got the butterscotch these are $25 this is 99 proof $49.5% alcohol these are $25 shots so basically between $25 and $49 dude I can't I can't pay to crack the bottle of Don Julio that the chat told me to buy the chat told me my next bottle should be Don Julio we voted on it Don Julio won I've never had it I can't crack that myself this is $25 obviously we got the cheap stuff and then I told you the price oh you can't do 99 cents anymore only no you can if I grab my iPhone if you do a dollar super chat on your iPhone if you have one it'll do 99 cents I don't have Crown Royale I don't have Crown I've got straight vodka I got one shot of that left that's $20 I got the Strawberry Malibu that's $10 and this is only $50 because it's heavily fermented I probably have half a shot left but it's heavily fermented it's way more than 50% alcohol I'm telling you it's worse than Everclear and I've drank Everclear straight this is $25 this is a butterscotch liquor not even sure what liquor it is but it's 49.5% alcohol and then we got this you lived in Wisconsin 39 years in Wisconsin I started to drink that's why I can drink so much some people just off what I've had tonight would just be under the table and I'm like I don't even feel it I don't know what a humbrae blend is what's a humbrae this is all the alcohol I have I don't have anything else other than this is all I got for booze I think that's just more the butterscotch this is what I got for booze I don't have mix them all one fourth each no no that would be more than $100 cause that's like vomit city that that that hold on what hold on let me see how high the super chats go I don't 500 is a max I won't say that's a $500 super chat that's insane I'm gonna say that's at least a 200 it would have to be at least at least two hundo to do a mix like that if I take the big four which god I guess Malibu would be out on the big four these would be the big four that would be a $200 mix chat that's a $200 mix chat that's insane I don't know if I could just justify two hundo for that just to try a mix of the four big ones of the four big ones as I'm checking my bank hmm you know I might as well take the dog to the vet but you know what's a better idea spend that two hundo on a chat you'll get most of the money back in a month actually right now it would be February 1st you'll get most of the money back or February 3rd we gotta clear the bank first just cause that's when the payment gets sent the next 48 hours to clear what did I receive I had a deposit on this account from what oh I mean in theory the money exists the money does exist I'd have to split it between two payments on two different cards put the monies there the monies there the money is there I could do it it would be it'd be one 70 on one and then 30 on another technically the monies there how about this how about this if it people really want me to do one fourth of each in a shot vet I'll do you one better I have a double shot last so we can do a double shot one fourth I'll find it it's not on the floor I know Eric used it last time and he probably didn't put it back whatever I'll do two shots of it I'll pour it in like a cup here like I'll mix it tell you what I will I will do a hundo if the chat can come together and do the other hundo I will mix it together I'll mix it up I will do a hundo if the chat combined there doesn't have to be one hundo donation if everyone in the chat combined can do the other hundo I will do the I will do the four mix I will do the four mix my hundo covers the cracking of this bottle and then you guys get the red and now again that's my challenge I'm waiting because there's a there's actually a delay I didn't spend any more money on booze so if the chat can come together for the one hundo 10 people with 10 10 people with $10 I will do the other hundo and we'll make this happen I ain't just gonna do some risky shot like that for nothing I gotta make it worth my while over here so I'll wait a moment because there's a chat delay can the chat come to an agreement boundaries do need to be set sometimes if you have a problem and you might not think it's a problem but if your wife thinks it's a problem Julia knows I don't have a problem like literally this vodka was bought for her she ended up not drinking it this is from four years ago um this I mean god I got like five bottles of these for like six bucks crazy how much alcohol is in these little bottles so you know this was expensive but I haven't bought to keep it like my bottles last while this Malibu is still like up to here actually it's down to here it's halfway that's halfway gone holy shit that's the quickest but even then that wasn't that expensive like 20 bucks the basement man did his five dollar ho! hold up game or not it's not a hundo it's everyone in the chat combined can equal to a hundo I will spend the other hundo and we'll do it so the basement man making for the five dollars that's five dollars there so 95 more to go so 95 dollars to go can the chat come up with 95 I will donate the other hundo and we will mix the four big liquors I have into one shot you're not doing good financially dude I hear you man I'm gonna be hurting at the end of this month but then um YouTube money comes in on the first or third for me and that's gonna help replenish some of the money I'm using on giveaways and stuff this month is coming out of my personal funds so I get to pay myself back so uh I get my poison from Costco 10 to 20 Costco is nice we don't have one near us but like sometimes we'll drive like 40 minutes out to go to a Costco a double shot um I'm asking Nathan to be your wife um I'm not married is that like a dowry is that a dowry and you say I'm only worth like $100 is that what it's come down to I'm only worth $100 I mean I think I could be chopped up by a cannibal and you get more than $100 with a meat out of me that's just like my physical body is that considering my mind entertainment value I know you're just obviously joking I hope you're joking hope you're not offering me a dowry to become your wife or you're my wife I think you want to make me the bitch right other than Madison dude yeah Madison dude Madtown is I've partied twice in Madtown it's insane Madtown knows how to party Milwaukee knows how to party too um Minneapolis they got some good clubs but I wouldn't say the people in Minnesota know how to party as well as Wisconsin people you're worth the entire Nintendo Corporation I am engaged I am engaged but I'm not married this really makes people think I'm married but I'm not I'm actually just engaged we are getting married next year I guess unless I get married to you do I have to get the party started I have to get the party started don't I look I'll hold up my end of the bargain I got it I got my there you go there we go it'll hit in a moment I'll hold up my end of the bargain that's 105 especially I don't want to crack the Don Julio off my own donation right now it's just a beer shot and some Don Julio give it a few minutes I'm waiting I've got maybe three minutes I can give you I know I probably just play myself I'm getting ready to crack it because I did the hundo at least buy some merch it's on an automatic the tab ripped off dammit alright alright there's more plastic holy shit there's a lot of plastic on this that's what happens with the tab ripped off man it's really been like 30 seconds is the last chat my bottle has not been cracked yet I'm just ripping the plastic off you just take the reins and make your own decision take the reins and make your own decision you mean donate another hundo actually 95 I always make my own decision man whatever that's the cap that's a cork cap sweet I thought Diego bear you wish you were here huh why you wouldn't get a shot not unless someone else donates 100 might as well crack it it's officially been cracked yes I have poured the bottles like this although it didn't have a real cork it still looks like it hasn't been opened there's so much in here nope I stick to Ddub how long have you been here I stick to my own rules even for myself obviously I can drink whatever I want to drink but if I'm doing that I'm not doing it on a stream I'm like I'm not going to say I never have any of this alcohol off stream that's only when I'm partying with Yulia putting this all away because it's clear we're not going to get the rest so I'm not going to have to mix anything although there's a beer shot owed for the basement man I'll just take a chug right out of the what's nice about these cans I don't have to waste the beer I can just kind of put it back seal has been broken Don Yulia perfect alright ready my first shot ever of Don Julio when I don't like I don't like remember this booze was suggested by you guys well I can say this safely there will be no more $100 donations from myself the rest of this week so all the rest of my streams if we bust out the Don Julio it is not because of me although I might return the $100 overall goal you guys remember we used to do like if we hit our first $100 in super chats like in total I would do a shot of it that used to be something we did I might bring that back just for this week because it's game awards give me as smooth as you want I don't like tequila don't smell it just do it don't smell it don't smell it just drink it you gotta go you gotta pick up the towels upstairs your kids left towels in the hallway there's three towels sitting in the hallway because my kids don't know how to pick up after this one two three oh that did not sit well that did not go down well that was worse than the cocktail it's like sucking the you might be better chilled put it in the fridge wow it's like sucking the saliva out of my mouth so that's smooth huh that's smooth huh that was worse than the cocktail no I'm not gonna puke there was a moment you guys saw it it kind of like went down halfway then I had a gag reflex I told you tequila is like poison for me so it went down to like right here at the Adam's apple and then I had a gag reflex and it came back up into my mouth and I'm like fuck you and I put it back down can I smoke a fat blood no I am probably gonna go have an edible here in a bit but um you see the salt and lines with tequila yeah you'll kill me if she found I did that with salt and I um why must these streams always involve drinking um because I have a stressful life and I need to unwind sometimes I'm actually fine I'll be alright I mean the tequila might hit me here in like 40 minutes usually takes about a half hour 40 minutes then the tequila shot hits me and then it's like whoa you guys are awesome thank you for tuning in I had a good time you guys are amazing um thank you for those who did super chat by the way I can't thank all of you because I don't have notifications for everyone I'll think the ones I can see right now we have Bama Hut with $10 Australian um we had Logan Leblanc re-upping his membership we have Birdman with $199 Logan Leblanc with a dollar Justin Basil with one Justin Basil with two Taker with two um and uh the basement man with five I also gonna give a special shout out I can't say who this is um that $100 didn't actually come from me I'm gonna admit something to you guys the moment that I can't I can't say the name my channel has a private backer um that private backer technically owns five percent of the channel um so basically a five percent of the revenue at the end of the road um in exchange for that five percent you guys ever wonder how can we go to E3 they pay for it they pay for the flights the rental car and the hotel now they don't play like if we have to the gamer pass they don't pay for that ticket I gotta pay for that but they pay for the flights hotel and uh if you wonder why we go to E3 that was like the agreement um they also help buy equipment sometimes now I buy a lot of the equipment because I tax write-offs and you know money and stuff like that but uh if we have a private backer that I'm not I'm not allowed to disclose who it is uh that private backer sent me is watching the stream and sent me the money to donate to my so they technically did the donation there they will not speak up there's no point in figuring out who it is you guys wouldn't know them you've probably never heard of them they've been a private backer now for over two years so if you guys ever wonder like oh my god why is he super chatting to them it's not really it's them but they can't have their name attached so whenever you're like why is he super chatting to himself it's not I was at Miyamoto, can't say this is Sakurai I can't say is it Shintaro for Akawa himself I can't say so people always think it's crazy but it's like there's a method to it but yeah and a lot of it's just he's investing the money he's gotten from the channel because he believes in the growth of the channel he believes in um where the channel is going to go and he believed in me back when we only had like 30,000 subscribers like he's legit he's an amazing person he's invested quite a bit in my channel so thank you so much for everything you have invested you know how much I'm thankful for you won't out you because there there's some other things reasons why he can't be outed but I appreciate the support you guys are awesome have a good day and I'll catch you in the next stream peace out