Airing Our Grievances About Mario Kart World - Kinda Funny Games Daily 06.26.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

Episode: Airing Our Grievances About Mario Kart World
Release Date: June 26, 2025

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1. Introduction

In this engaging episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily, hosts Blessing Adeoye Jr. and Snowbike Mike delve deep into their frustrations with the latest updates to Mario Kart World. Alongside, they explore other significant gaming news, including insights into Death Stranding 2 and the exciting developments at Republic Games. The episode is peppered with lively banter, listener interactions, and thoughtful critiques that cater to both casual gamers and industry enthusiasts.

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2. Grievances About Mario Kart World

Patch 1.1.2 Changes:
The primary focus of the episode is the controversial Mario Kart World patch 1.1.2. Released on the Nintendo Switch, this update introduced significant changes to the game's matchmaking system, which have left players disgruntled.

• Matchmaking Adjustments:
  Players have reported an increase in "intermission races," where instead of standard three-lap races, drivers transition through an open map with single laps on new tracks. This shift has reduced the frequency of traditional races, disrupting the classic Mario Kart experience.

  Blessing Adeoye Jr. [16:02]: "Patch 1.1.2 makes it more difficult to have the standard three lap race when playing online with friends... Now intermission races have become more prevalent since the patch was pushed out."

  Snowbike Mike [16:47]: "It's crazy because when you kick on an online lobby, you don't choose a Grand Prix. Why is Grand Prix not an option?"

• Lack of Customization:
  Another major gripe is the limited customization options for game modes and character outfits. Unlike previous iterations, players cannot easily select specific Grand Prix settings or fully customize their characters beyond the default offerings.

  Blessing Adeoye Jr. [21:49]: "In Mario Kart World, there's no point in playing some characters besides liking them because half of the new roster lacks additional outfits."

• UI/UX Design Flaws:
  The hosts criticize Nintendo's user interface and experience design choices, arguing that they complicate what should be straightforward options for players.

  Snowbike Mike [20:18]: "You know, the menu is hiding the map selection behind a plus button and then you have to navigate through 200 maps. It's bad UX."

• Lack of Crossplay and Cross Progression:
  The absence of crossplay and cross progression limits the multiplayer experience, frustrating players who wish to enjoy the game across multiple platforms seamlessly.

  Snowbike Mike [31:42]: "They need to fix that. Got to fix that."

Listener Feedback:
The episode features several listener super chats airing their grievances:

• Kebab [24:25]: "Mario Kart World is aggravating because there are so many sandbox racing games in the past 20 years. Burnout, Forza—they didn’t learn from any of them."

• L2 Larson [63:12]: "Suggestions on retro game/card shops to visit while in SF."

These interactions highlight a community that loves Mario Kart but is passionate about seeing improvements that honor the game's legacy while embracing modern enhancements.

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3. Death Stranding 2 and the Pandemic's Impact

Development Challenges:
Hosts discuss the recent release of Death Stranding 2 and reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic nearly halted its development. The game's creator, Hideo Kojima, shared his anxieties about the project's completion during these unprecedented times.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [38:39]: "Kojima revealed that during the pandemic, there were moments when he genuinely feared they might never complete Death Stranding 2."

Player Experience:
Upon its release, players have embarked on new adventures across Australia, uncovering hidden cutscenes and Easter eggs, such as the rumored appearance of Nintendo in the game's credits.

Snowbike Mike [41:02]: "A lot of us also feared during the pandemic that a lot of things weren't going to happen. So I totally get where he's coming from."

The episode praises the game's universal critical acclaim, boasting a Metacritic score of 90, and celebrates its successful launch despite the hurdles.

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4. Chris Avalon's Move to Republic Games

New RPG Project:
Exciting news comes with Chris Avalon, a renowned writer and designer known for his work on titles like Fallout: New Vegas and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, joining Republic Games. The studio, founded by Adam Williams (ex-Quantic Dreams), is set to develop an ambitious, handcrafted dark fantasy RPG inspired by the Golden Age of RPGs.

Victoria Phillips Kennedy at Eurogamer [46:25]: "Chris Avallon has joined Republic Games to work on a handcrafted, dark, mature fantasy RPG... Players can join competing factions, allowing full freedom to create their hero or anti-hero."

The hosts express enthusiasm for the project, anticipating a rich, story-driven experience that promises meaningful choices and diverse narrative paths.

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5. WE News: Quick Gaming Updates

FBC Firebreak Milestone:
FBC Firebreak has surpassed one million players, marking a significant achievement for the developer.

Industry Layoffs:
Unfortunately, Noted Game Developer Don't Nod is undergoing layoffs, a somber note amidst the episode's content.

Sonic and McLaren Racing Partnership:
SEGA announced a multi-year partnership integrating Sonic with McLaren Racing, although the hosts humorously speculate about internal conflicts limiting further collaborations.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [58:33]: "Even though I feel like they have beef."

Upcoming DLCs and Collaborations:
Announcements include Chained Echoes DLC launching on August 7th and the addition of Ninja Gaiden characters like Ryu and Hayabusa to Warriors Abyss on July 4th. Additionally, Abiotic Factor is set to launch on July 22nd.

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6. Community Engagement and Events

Game Showdown Parade:
A special highlight is the upcoming Game Showdown parade in San Francisco, celebrating a championship run. Hosts and listeners are encouraged to attend and join in the festivities.

Snowbike Mike [48:38]: "This is a big deal for you as well. Bless. Like, yeah, you're going to be there."

Listener Suggestions:
Listeners provided recommendations for retro game and card shops in San Francisco, sparking a discussion on the availability and accessibility of such stores in the Peninsula.

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7. Conclusion

The episode wraps up with heartfelt thanks to the community, encouragement to support the podcast through memberships, and a teaser for upcoming shows like Gamecast featuring guest Jack Quaid. Despite airing numerous grievances, the hosts maintain a balanced perspective, celebrating the joys of gaming while constructively critiquing areas needing improvement.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [65:00]: "Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch, and on podcasts around the globe."

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This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily offers a comprehensive look into the current state of Mario Kart World, enriching the conversation with listener feedback and broader industry insights. Whether you're a dedicated fan or a casual gamer, the hosts provide valuable perspectives that resonate with the gaming community.

Transcript

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Today's stories include Mario Kart World's update ruins the game a little bit. The pandemic nearly stopped Death Straining two. And a Quantic Dream Rider is giving us an ambitious rpg. We'll have all this and more because this is kinda funny. Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to KindFunnyGames Daily for Thursday, June 26, 2025. One of your host Blessing Ad OA Jr joining me is the master of hype, Snowbike Mike, my main man.

[Snowbike Mike]

Bless. Happy Thursday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Happy Thursday.

[Snowbike Mike]

How are you, big dog?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm doing well. How are you doing?

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm all right. Everything's going well, you know, playing some video games, getting to hang out with you. How was volleyball?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Volleyball was good.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like giving the updates. I want to know all about it. What's the record? What's the team growth? How are you doing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A lot of good team growth.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not going to share the record with the, with the.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, that's all right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's going to share this is. What I'll say is I think there is a cursed side of the court. In the, in the volleyball court? Yeah, in the volleyball court that we're playing there. There's one side of the court that always wins. It's the one on the far side.

[Snowbike Mike]

What's up with that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because like they got a little incline, a better end. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There is a.

[Snowbike Mike]

Lighting is okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There is a basketball hoop that is like not high enough. And if you hit the hoop, like you have to either play off of it or it's out, depending on like how it goes. And so like they won't push that hoop any further up. And I think it's up people. I think maybe it's stopping more serves, but like we go in and the. It's best out of three games. First game, we get demolished, we switch sides, we demolish the other team.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Then we switch sides again and they win the last.

[Snowbike Mike]

So you're starting underneath the hoop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

So you got, you got to just establish dominance, go to the other side. That's where you warm up for sure. Oh, we'll start here for sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cuz like when we had a flow. Oh my God, we had a flow.

[Snowbike Mike]

How you doing? How's your, how's your setting? How's your spiking setup?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think the thing is we're getting better and better. Like we're practicing. We have Meg on the team, who. Meg is like hardcore competitive and she's also like played Volleyball in high school. And so she's tried and I think successfully has whipped us into shape as far as, like, being more disciplined with the bumping, setting, spiking. I've not gotten as many spikes in as I'd like to.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And, like, I'm waiting for it. I want to get those opportunities. I think for. At first, I was starting off polite with it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know where, like, she would set me up for it, and I'm like, I'll do, like, a tip. Or, like, I try to change directions. I try to do, like, a cheek. Like, a cheeky situation. It makes like, bless. I want you to spike that. And I was like, all right. Say less. And I did it. It felt so good.

[Snowbike Mike]

Are you streaking to the net?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, are you making it clear to her of, like, I'm about to bring it right here. You take two strong steps. Rise above.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, she's positioned us where she is. Like, hey, I'm closest to the net. I'm the setter, Y' all two take steps back and, like, get ready to. Yeah, do those steps. Just jump and bang that. And I've been banging that lately. Let me tell you.

[Snowbike Mike]

You've been watching the volleyball anime to get it. Get hype.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. Which one is that? Is that. Is that hike you?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes. You brought up Blue Lock yesterday for soccer and rematch. It's like, are you watching the anime Volleyball one to get excited?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't. I. I watch. I think it would surprise people how much anime I don't watch. I watch anime less than you would think. But, like, yeah, I've never watched Haikyuu. In fact, I gotta catch up on, you know what?

[Snowbike Mike]

Watch, like, five episodes of hiking. I don't have time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't watch. I've not watched any show in the last. Well, that's a lie. I've been watching Black Mirror, the new season. Oh, have you seen the new season?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, I've never watched any Black Mirror. Too freaky. Too freaky for me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It is freaky.

[Snowbike Mike]

It reminds me, you know, I've never watched Black Mirror, but when you say it to me, I think it is. What's that scary hotel show from FX that had Lady Gaga? They were changing that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know what you're talking about. Horror story.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. I was like, no, you know, too scary for me. And then Black Mirror gives me that vibes of, like, I don't know if I can watch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, it's not. I mean, it is freaky in ways, but it's definitely. It's Definitely freaky in different ways.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And like, I'm just a black mirror. I love Black Mirror, even when it's mid. And so far I think I've watched three episodes of maybe four episodes of the season and they've all been like, fine to fine to good.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The one I watched yesterday, starring Isso Ray. Great, great episode. It's made the. That's the thing is Black Mirror always has one episode that makes the whole season worth it for me. And the Issa Rae episode made it all worth it for me. I really.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like that. All right, well, he's. He's busy. You're a busy guy. I also, you know, since we're doing a little bit of housekeeping and just hanging out. Well, not a housekeeping yet, but we're just vamping for a little bit. Not much news.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not much.

[Snowbike Mike]

I see you got a little stream YouTube channel over here and I wanted to highlight some streams you've been playing because I see you've been playing the altars.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I have been playing the altars.

[Snowbike Mike]

You're on part two of the Altars, Day two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

How is it going?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's going good. I've been. I'm trying to save it because I think we might do a review or we might do an impressions, but like to give you the, like, setup for it, right? Like, I saw one during the review season of Dest Training 2. Yeah, I'm in like, some discords of like, reviewers either like hanging out with like the friends for second people or like other people, right. That like, review games and like, I'll be like, looking for questions of, hey, have you guys hit this part of Destroying two? Trying to figure out a thing or they'll say other thing. And as I was talking to somebody about Death Training two, somebody else popped up and they were like, yo, this game, the alters, like, it's pretty good. Pretty good. And I was like, oh, interesting. And then the reviews came out, pretty good reviews for it. The premise of it is really cool. You, like, crash land on like a planet in outer space. And you're there, you're hired by a corporation to essentially mine a specific resource called Rapidium.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And when you crash land, like, you get notifications in your helmet screen that like the whole crew is died. Like, everything's gone to shit. And so it's just you that has to work out of the space station.

[Snowbike Mike]

And.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And the. Basically the. The resource Rapidium allows you to create clones of yourself. Like, that's like the whole thing is that it accelerates time and like it does weird shit to create clones. And so now you're doing this strategy like management thing where you're in a base and you're creating clones of yourself that have had different life paths. And so like you might make it make a version of yourself that's a technician because he made a different decision back before college to like stand up to your dad or whatever and like that then sent him on a way different path or you know, you might have stayed in college. And so now like you have a version of yourself that's a scientist because you went to school and all this shit, right? And so you're creating these versions of yourself to like manage things that have the different, their different strengths. And it's narrative based. It's really cool.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm very interested in that. And like Paris brought it up and I know you've been playing it. How do I choose that next altar of myself? Like you bring up, oh, this person maybe didn't go to college and became technical on that side. Like, is this a, a reading thing? And I'm picking different dialog choices. Is this, I'm building the character. How do I choose what the next person is?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They have a timeline strand, okay? So it's actually really fucking cool. So basically you early on in the prologue in the game, you go to the quantum computer is what they call it, okay. And when you open it up, it shows you your full timeline of your life up until now. And it starts from like when you were a kid and. And then like it shows major life events. And like I sat there for probably about 20 minutes and read every single life event. There's probably like, I don't know, 20 to 30 different things on there notes. And then like later on when I wanted to make my clone, it brought me back. And they were like, all right, make this specific clone. Because at this time you're like I said, right? You're. Instead of, you know, not standing up to your dad, you're going to find a clone that did stand up to your dad and he went on this life path that, that gave him technician abilities. Cuz he became, we need this guy, we need this guy. And so you choose him. Last night when I was playing, I, I was just looking for like somebody who could like be smart. I was like, I was like, I was trying to solve a problem and, and this solved a different problem. But I was looking for like somebody who's smart. And so I found the scientist guy who decided to stay in school instead of dropping out of school and like it basically you have to find the part of the timeline and it'll tell you, hey, this is where the scientist is, this is where the technician is. This is where the engineer is. This is where like that's essentially how you choose and it's situational of maybe what resource you want.

[Snowbike Mike]

So I'm choosing these alter jabronis.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

But like then what happens? Am I, am I like playing as them and then I die and then I come back as the new one and that guy's kind of doing his thing or like do. Am I always my one guy? What?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How does I think you're always your one guy? I'm still pretty early in it, but right now in my base it is, it's me and his name is Yawn. So it's just regular Yawn. J A N is his name. And then I have two other dudes which is Jan Technician.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And yon scientist. Okay.

[Snowbike Mike]

And they're just hanging around the base.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I've assigned, I've assigned Yawn Technician to mine metals for me.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then yon scientists. I told him take a nap but then he didn't want to take a nap. It's like Sims, they also have temperaments.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so if you say the wrong thing to them, they might get a bit more agitated or they might like you more and like you kind of have to manage those relationships while also like assigning them and do all. But I have not gotten that far to where I'm really interested in.

[Snowbike Mike]

Does this game have the hooks in you to keep coming back to number 3, 4, 5 of keep playing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, for sure. Okay. Yeah, I, I think the story is really engaging. I like the world, I like the visuals of it. It's a really cool looking game. Also look how cool that base looks. Basically it's mobile, so it's a big wheel. And then inside there you have all your modules that you're building and, and like you can customize. Like I'm going to put the, I don't know, I'm going to put the workshop over here. I'm going to put the, you know, the bedroom over here and like kind of customize how the base is. Really cool game. Really, really cool game. It's on PC and consoles. I'm playing it on PC.

[Snowbike Mike]

They will be a hidden gem of the year. Yeah, I think a lot. I think it got good review scores. I just don't see a lot of people talking about it right now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I could see like this one of.

[Snowbike Mike]

Those of like, everybody was so busy they forgot to check this announce. Yeah, Like, a lot of people are hyping it up at the ones who do play it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It came out at a kind of weird time. And then also it's a very specific kind of game. I'm not a strategy management person typically, but like, I've said this before, that if you give me a banger in any genre, I'll try it out. Aside from maybe like an RTS, even though. No, I liked 13 Sentinels and that had some RTS elements to it too. So you give me a banger in any genre.

[Snowbike Mike]

Do I try it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll try it out. It alters, I think is a so far, with my experience so far banger already. I'm enjoying it. I mean, I'm having a good time with it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike, enough about the altars. Like you said, it is a slow news day.

[Snowbike Mike]

Slow news day, chat. I had to pad it out a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Little bit and I appreciate that. What I want from chat is I want you guys to air your grievances in your super chats. All right? This is going to be an episode of airing your grievances. But, Mike, I know usually you're a very positive person. I need you to put that to the side. I need you to get negative today, all right?

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you do that for me?

[Snowbike Mike]

I will. I will get negative.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Think about something for you. We're gonna have some fun today, okay? Because remember, this is kind of Funny Games daily, each and every weekday, we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify and Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live, and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Some of your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Housekeeping for you. Mike and Roger are embarking on the biggest stream Kind of Funny has ever done. They'll attempt to play the entirety of Death Straining two while Mike goes step for step with Sam Porter Bridges on a treadmill with a couple of surprises that might change everything. With your support, they're determined to make it past KHD on Monday and of course, order a lot of food tomorrow. Exclusively on Twitch tv. Kind of fun and games.

[Snowbike Mike]

Can we get a vibe check? How we feeling? You ready for this weekend?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, first of all, why are you asking me?

[Snowbike Mike]

You know What?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, how are you feeling?

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm asking the world, where's the vibe check right now?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The vibe check, everybody. Where we at, bro?

[Snowbike Mike]

Vibe check of like, I have the live audience with YouTube and Twitch. Can I get some ones in the chat? Are you ready for Friday's marathon stream walkathon stream with Mike and Roger? Because, like, it's been a long week. Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Uhhuh.

[Snowbike Mike]

We've had some great guys, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's not, it's not heat wave going, going on and it's like, what's the.

[Snowbike Mike]

Vibe for tomorrow and this weekend? Are we going to bring it? Are we going to have some fun or what?

[C]

Yeah. Or we just not going to have any fun chat. I don't see enough ones in the chat. I don't see enough excitement from y' all.

[Snowbike Mike]

I just needed a quick vibe check. And of course, for all of you watching and listening later on on podcast services, this is a big deal. Roger got real creative. Roger's working with Kevin, with Nick. He's writing sponsorship deals to people. Like, we're taking this stream to the next level. Okay. I got something in the fridge from two mega celebrities that you wouldn't even believe. Okay. Two mega celebrities sent me and Roger a care package that you won't believe. Okay. It's like a mad.

[C]

It's like a Mad Libs for sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[C]

And my favorite thing about this stream is that of course I've been doing a lot of emails, not a lot of responses. So we get to read all of the emails of like the, the, the, the other world, the, the alternate universe where we could have had all these sponsorships and you get to see my business skills there. So get excited everybody.

[Snowbike Mike]

And so, yeah, we just wanted to get a quick vibe check because I know Roger's been out of town, but we're back now. Of course, if you missed it, you can go to Greg Way right now. The start of the week. Mike and Roger have a 40 minute vlog where we go out of the office and we go try to buy a treadmill. We're looking for the perfect treadmill. Bless.

[C]

Yeah, I think we might have found it, everybody. We're going to announce it today.

[Snowbike Mike]

We're going to announce it today.

[C]

Yeah, we got to record something.

[Snowbike Mike]

Wow. Okay, Big deal. Big deal. Be ready. And so, yeah, it's a good time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very good time. Remember, we're in 11 person business all about live talk shows. So today after kfgd, you're going to get Gamescast, which is us Hanging out with the one and only Jack Quaid from the boys.

[Snowbike Mike]

That one's going to be really cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Have they talked about like. Oh yeah. Greg talked about his video game photography obsession and so it's going to be really cool. He sent in a bunch of pictures and the boys are just going to talk to him about his new passion and all the cool photos he's taking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm excited because I don't think I've been on content with Jack Quaid before. Oh cool. So I get to hang out with Jack.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I haven't been. He seems like a really nice guy. I know he did a stream with us recently, you know, in the past two years or whatever, but seems like a great guy. Love his stuff. Novocaine, Recent Ocean.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, the movie.

[Snowbike Mike]

Recent movie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think I'm thinking about the Frank Ocean.

[Snowbike Mike]

But really Blessing, really quick, give me a game that you got obsessed with the in game photography with Ghost of Tsushima. Nice.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Me and Washy, we loved Legends because you could do it multiplayer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Would take photos of me and him in Ghost of Tsushima. It was awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Dude. Ghost of Sushi was sick. That was my photography. I think I did more photography than actual combat in that game. I was just in there taking pictures.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes. That's great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then after Gamescast is Superman 3 in review. And then there's no stream after as we get ready for Death Stranding 2 streaming all throughout the weekend. If you're a kinda funny member, you can get today's Greg Way. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by Cash App and Mood, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today. Baker's dozen starting with our number one. A new Mario Kart World patch is driving players up a wall in a bad way. This is Jason Finelli at GameSpot. Patch 1.1.2 for Mario Kart World hit Nintendo Switch 2 consoles recently and with it came a few minor adjustments to tracks like Boo Cinema and Dino Dino Jungle. However, many players have taken to Reddit and other Internet sounding boards to voice their displeasure with the match as it seems to have made some unwelcoming changes to online play. Displeasure with the match? With the match, it wouldn't be the update. I don't know. I digress.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Multiple users have revealed that patch. Oh, with the patch. That's what they meant with the patch.

[Snowbike Mike]

Patch match got him mmp.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They're next to each other. They're definitely not. Multiple users have revealed that patch 1.1.1.1.2 makes it more difficult to have the standard three lap race when playing online with friends. Matchmaking, it seems, prefers what have been dubbed quote intermission races or races where drivers must instead ride through the open map from one track to another and then run a single lap on the new track. However, before each race, players were allowed to choose a track and it was discovered that the quote random option would always choose a track for a standard three lap race. Until this patch changed it. Now, while the random option still sometimes offers a three lap race, intermission races have become more prevalent since the patch was pushed out. Mike, are you familiar with this whole thing?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. I watched Jeff grubbing the crew over at Giant Bomb earlier this morning, so I got kind of caught up on what this is and it. If you've been playing multiplayer, which I know you joined the crew on Friday. Last week when we joined Alana, you saw this frustration. You've already known this. This sucks. Bless. This is weird. Nintendo decisions at play. This is the tweet that we sent out after the launch of the game where I was voicing my frustrations of multiplayer in 2025. I praised Nintendo and Mario Kart World on a lot of the growth that they've had, but also still gave it to them of it's 2025 and we got to do better. It is crazy that when you kick on an online lobby, you don't choose a Grand Prix. Why is Grand Prix not an option? It's just races three. And you're like, what does that mean? Like, just give us Grand Prix, Single track race and Knockout Tour. That should be three.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There should be a setting option in the way that Smash Brothers has Battlefield or Final Destination. Like, we can take a thing and then you know that you're getting those stages because those are the things that the hardcore people want. Mario Kart should have a. A ticker that just says, hey, I want to play three lap races. That's not even that. That's not even like a crazy like thing either. You know what I mean? Like, it's not even like I'm doing the final destination of Mario Kart here. I just want to play the tracks that you guys have built for me to play Crazy I On video Games Chronicle, they do a tally because there's a total of 232 courses.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In Mario Kart world, Mike. And that's obviously including all the intermission courses on course 30 of those are traditional three lap ones.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so if you're doing a random.

[Snowbike Mike]

Whole game mode, it can be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you're doing a random. On like picking Mario Kart courses now, like, there's. I'm not going to do the statistics on that, but there's a larger chance, I'll say, that you're going to pick an intermission course.

[Snowbike Mike]

You also saw that when we were doing it on Friday with the big crew. It is not the easiest to find those maps. They suggest, hey, you're in this area. Here's the quick 44 to keep it simple. Or you can zoom out and click on any single of the 200 maps. Right. And so it's like there's Nick Scarpino, who in the 15 second intermission is smashing a bunch of Doritos. Hasn't has it. Doesn't have his hands on the controller, is not ready and you're yelling, we want to do this map. Or please don't pick an intermission map and he's going to mess it up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Make it easier. There should be more power in the hands of the. The room owner for me to just control what we're doing. It's messed up that we have to continue to give 24 options and it's all randomized. I'm the room owner. I choose where we play. I choose the road. Yeah, that's that we're not at that point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's bad. It's. Here's the thing, there is weird Nintendo decisions, which this is a very weird Nintendo Nintendo decision. And then it goes beyond that at points because that sometimes I'll like read into weird Nintendo decisions and I'm like, okay, Nintendo wants to control the user experience. Okay. Nintendo has a vision for how they want you to experience the magic or they want to protect the children or XYZ thing. This is just straight up bad ux, bad UI design. It is the thing of. You're talking about the Nick Scarpinos of the world, right? And then also like, yeah, I saw somebody earlier, earlier in chat that was like, oh, just choose the map. And it is. It's the bad UX slash, bad UI thing of. All right. You wouldn't know to do that unless you saw the little thing in the little icon in the corner that says choose map.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I'm bad at the game. I don't know where the map is located. Remember, you'd have to be like, it's on the southeast side. Now Nick is. Me and Nick are trying to figure out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the other thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, it's this logo. I don't know what logo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So you learn that it is. Press the plus button if you want to actually choose your course. And then you have to find the course on this map because you don't have it listed out. And then you go to the thing and it's like, all right, here's a list.

[Snowbike Mike]

Bunch of map names.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's where. It's where I come back during the review of Mario Kart World where I said the, the best and the worst thing about Mario Kart World that they've added is the open world. Because Knockout Tour is so good because of the intermission tracks and how that brings everything together and how that allows you to do these long races that have these intervals that makes it so fun and so engaged and like the dialing in of losing out on like a number of players each lap to really dial in on the top four. Such a genius addition. And I understand Nintendo wanting to get the bang for their buck because in order to do that he, you have to make it an open world. You have to like create all these routes to make all that stuff work. Which also comes back to me being like, why can't I customize my route for Knockout Tour? But I digress.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, what you can pick on that. That's another one of like, it is 2025. Why am I not designing my own Knockout Tour? We had Mario Maker 1 and 2. Nintendo has done things like they have the tools in there, created incredible games and incredible tools. Why can I not pick this Blast Mike?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You click on, you go to Versus race and you click on a map and it shows you that it can make a, a, a route from any map that's like close. Any maps that are close to each other make natural routes to each other. So why can't I go? I want to go from Boo Cinema to this place, to this place to this place. Uniquely, you have the tools. You can make it happen.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's a. It's a weird one. Bless. It's really weird. And gone are the days of the traditional Grand Prix. Of course, Baron talked about that, right? Grand Prix. Now we. When you do the single player Grand Prix, you see that the intermission courses are laid out in the Grand Prix. So you only do the traditional three lap race once or twice in a Grand Prix as the other maps are now staggered in there in part of that. Just call it classic Grand Prix and just put the 33 map tracks as an option. There should be three game modes. It should be classic Grand Prix. These are just the four, three lap races stacked together. Then there's single races. You can choose 3, 4, 5, however many you want for the lobby and just let us go crazy with what. With what we're doing right now. And then the final one is Knockout mode.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Those should be the three modes that when I click on online, I can cycle through Y. And then, of course, battle mode. But, like, it's crazy that we live in 2025 and Nintendo is giving you just half stuff. Just half stepping.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, of course. I asked the audience right in with their grievances. We got a lot of super chats for you. Kebab says Mario Kart World is aggravating because there are so many sandbox racing games in the past 20 years. Burnout Forza, and didn't learn from any of them. I. I still think that, like, they're. The thing that I do give a little bit of grace on is it's very obvious that they didn't want to make a Forza. You know what I mean? Like, I think we all wanted a Forza open world Mario Kart thing, but, like, the way that they've. The way that they always presented it, even in Nintendo Directs, where it felt like an afterthought. And also they put the open world, like, thing at the bottom of the menu in a way where they're like, hey, this isn't a. A main mode. It's just a thing that we have. Like, we have this open world anyway, so we want to do more stuff with it. Again, I. I look at it as them getting trying, wanting to get the bang for the buck. Right. Or get the bang for their buck. Like, we did all this work on this world here. Roam around it. Because we know that you would complain that you can roam around it if we didn't include it anyway, kind of thing. That said, a Mario Kart Forza game would be fucking perfect.

[Snowbike Mike]

Very cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Be really cool.

[Snowbike Mike]

It would be very interesting to see if it ever goes into that. But it. It's Mario Kart at its core, and that's what this is. Mario Kart didn't have to change. Just like we'll talk about later on Super Smash Bros. It doesn't have to change. When you're on the top of the mountain and you're looking down and Nintendo continues to rule. We're not changing the formula. We're not changing the DNA of Mario Kart. Right. We're Going to try new things, maybe add it in. But we're not making a Forza. We're making Mario Kart. And that's what you're going to get. And that's what we got here. It's Mario Kart. It's good. It has its problems. But you know what? At least they tried a little something different.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sometimes looking at some more super chats.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because I got more. I got more grievances about Mario Karter. Yeah, give the super chat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, all right, well, let me keep it all.

[Snowbike Mike]

Keep going.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mellow fellow writes in and says, how's Nintendo fumbling so hard with Mario kart world. Yet FromSoft is. Is just now dabbling in multiplayer. Listens to his players. Much, much better. Already shaking my damn head.

[Snowbike Mike]

I got weird Nintendo decisions.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. Here's my thing with the FromSoft thing. Tell me, is I technically From Soft's been doing multiplayer for a very long time, if you want. If you want to get technical about it. And so, like, I think they had. And granted, Nintendo's also been doing multiplayer for a long time, so I don't want to give either bail in that sense.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Elden Ring Night Rain also, I think, launched with a lot of, like, a lot of things that it could have gotten better. And to their credit, they have been making learning. They're learning, they're growing.

[Snowbike Mike]

But also, like, 90% of the audience groaned and moaned when they saw that first trailer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right?

[Snowbike Mike]

Night Rain and this one on Switch, they're like, no, I just want single player stuff. And it's like, well, you got to let them try new things. Maybe you'll like that. And like, now look at us. A month removed. A lot of people like that. They thought that was a fun little awesome side, you know, little dish to their main entree. That's single player big stuff. So, yeah, you gotta. You gotta give them room to try. Nintendo stuck in their ways.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's it for Mario Kart World. Before I start reading other grievances.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, more Mario Kart World.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's up?

[Snowbike Mike]

Come on. You add in all these cute animals as, like, half of the main roster. None of them have outfits. Bless a couple of these jabronis only have one or two outfits, and Mario's got about seven. I know he's the mascot, but, like, let's make outfits for everybody. Why is the little crab man. Why doesn't he have a little pirate hat and a beard? He should be a pirate crab. There's. So why am I not getting outfits for the 90% of these characters.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike, I'll do you one further. Little crab guy shouldn't even be in the game. I mean, little crab guy shouldn't even be in the fucking game.

[Snowbike Mike]

I just.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where's Toadsworth?

[Snowbike Mike]

I just. We have half of the lineup, or 40% of the lineup are these new, cute little animals that you find in the Mario Kart world, which is great and exciting. I love that we kept it on theme, like we talked about in the review, and we stepped away from having the. The. The animal crossing and Zelda. But, like, it's crazy to me that 40 of these characters don't have any extra outfits. There's no point in playing them besides. Oh, I like that. But like, you're telling me, Moo Moo Cow. We couldn't put Moo Moo Cow in a moomoo. A little bright yellow mumu dress like Homer Simpson. Come on, let's have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love that you're calling him. Calling the cow moomoo, because Nintendo just called it cow, which is another level. Which is another one of my. Give it a name. You can't just call it Cow. It's been. It's been in the franchise since the beginning. Give Mumu the name Mumu. He's earned it.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's crazy that outfits are lacking on too many of the characters, especially the fun new ones that you think Mike and the kids and everybody's going to look at and go, oh, I want to be that weird little ladybug character. Like, yeah, give me two outfits for him. Then on top of that, the carts stop with the stats or elevate the stats. What are we doing? We talked about a lot in the review. I'm so sick of going into Cart Maker and not understanding what stats are. What. And then all of a sudden getting out there and the stats clearly aren't messing with what it is, because I could go two cars that look at the exact same stats, and they're going different speeds, they're going different accelerations. What are we doing here?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel you, man.

[Snowbike Mike]

What are we doing here? Bl.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Would it surprise you to know that I have a Google Doc here titled Mario Kart World's Perfect Roster that I made? All right, let me give you. Let me throw some things at you. All right? All right. And this is going to make you mad. I just so you know, this first part is going to make you mad.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Metal Mario. Give me a Metal Mario.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, that could have been Tanooki Mario. Could have been an outfit. Could have been an outfit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Elephant Mario from Mario Kart or not. Sorry. From Mario Wonder.

[Snowbike Mike]

Could have been an outfit Mario.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Elephant Mario, I think, would be a different character. Because I want it heavy. I want. I want it to be Bowser weight. You know what I mean? Elephant Mario. Yeah. Heavy Mario.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gooigi. You know Gooigi?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, of course. I love Gooigi.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let me drive his Gooigi.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, it should be an outfit instantly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wrote down dry Bowser. I forget. Dry. Dry Bowser's not in there. Right. That's like dry bones, but Bowser.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like one of his form.

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if he's in the game. I've seen that, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wrote Toadsworth Paratroopa. Do you know the difference between Koopa Troopa and Paratroopa? Paratroop of Flies. And he's in also Mario Kart Double Dash. Okay, so he was a character in the series before. Bring him back in here. I got more. I can.

[Snowbike Mike]

I can stop characters. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The entirety of the Koopalings. Do you know the Koopalings? That's Larry Morton, Wendy, Iggy.

[Snowbike Mike]

They were in the last one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They were in the last one, and they're in Smash. Like, even if they're one character with different costumes.

[Snowbike Mike]

Give me the. Replaced by Ladybug, Cactus, Coin purse, Moomoo and the Crab. They got replaced.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Petey the Piranha. I got that written down here.

[Snowbike Mike]

They got a piranha plant.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want Petey.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, they got Chad. Okay, they got Chad this time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I don't think they have the p. Do they have the piranha plant? I think that's the item.

[Snowbike Mike]

No, the plants in there. Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, you're right. I think they do have a regular.

[Snowbike Mike]

They got the little leaves that go. Go up on top of this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want Petey.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's my guy.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Professor E, you know about.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

King Bob, omb.

[Snowbike Mike]

A blessing. These are all great opportunities.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm just saying, there's so many characters in the Mario universe, and you just leave them.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, well, you know, that's it. I don't know what to say. It's fun to play Knockout Tours. A breath of fresh air that kept me coming back. Grand Prix are good. Not great because they're not the traditional four, three lap races anymore. They have the intermissions in the middle of them kind of taking you to the next one. It's just a really good game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know.

[Snowbike Mike]

Nintendo gets a Pass. Because it's so good. But there's a lot of questions where you're like, what? What are we doing in there? I need to meet the person doing the multiplayer stuff. I need to talk to him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the. That's. That's why I want to end the Mario Kart conversation is like, I fucking love Mario Kart. I love this game. I love this video game.

[Snowbike Mike]

The problem is it's good.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So it's that thing where you love something so much that you want it to be better. It's when you have a child that is getting straight Cs and you're like, you have B potential.

[Snowbike Mike]

What do you want me to say? B, what do you want me to say? It's a good time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I will hop into some super chats now. Also for all the people in chat that are like, slow news day, huh? Bad news day. We already told you it's a fucking slow news day.

[Snowbike Mike]

Told you from the news. Who said that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm doing my best here. Please. Hopping into super chats. I mean, Alex Raer says, where is Captain Toad? I think Captain Toad is a costume in there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ze says Skill up called this out. Open world version is a disappointing backstep. Diddy Kong Racing did it better. Diddy Kong Racing did have a really good open world mode. Let's see here. Calvin Perez says, also mad at night rain. I was in matchmaking, trying to find one more person for a boss search for an hour with no luck.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's tough. Is. That's a tough one. That's also leading to. That needs to have crossplay. We talked about that idea. That doesn't have crossplay. That's why you're being Left on red. Aka being stuck in a 2 out of 3 person lobby. Because there's. We should be speaking to the world here. They know that though. They got to fix that. Got to fix that. Rematch has got to fix that too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They don't have matchmaking. Yeah, they got. Oh, a little crossplay.

[Snowbike Mike]

Got to have crossplay. We talked about this. 2025.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Got to have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It seemed like something happened at the last minute because they did sound in their kind of communication about it. They sounded like they really thought it was going to be in there by launch. So, like, hopefully it's there soon. It does need it though. And not just that I want cross progression. I'd be going back and forth to my PlayStation and my PC if it had cross progression.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm always surprised. Nice. I'm always surprised at how that doesn't click so much of like, you're encouraging me to possibly buy your game on multiple different storefronts because I wanted to travel with me. They should figure it out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, I think it's the work involved because. And this is the one thing I will shoot bail for. In order to have cross regression, you have to have a separate account. Like, that is special account. Yeah. That's like tied to your like data that is outside of just like, yeah. Your Steam or whatever it is. And so then the account, then they had to make slow clap. The slow clap user experience or whatever that I understand. But yeah, it's your point figured out, though.

[Snowbike Mike]

Figure it out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's.

[Snowbike Mike]

Figure it out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

More grievances for you. Chronic writes in and says people crying about game costs plus dev crunch in the same breath, whining about artistic integrity but demanding changes, not talking about books.

[Snowbike Mike]

Wow, that's a big one. Yeah, that one. We'd have to put a fork in and really talk about us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right. That's the thing is like, there's layers to it of. Because I, I'm. I, I hear what they're saying as far as, like, oh man, why do games cost more while also being like, devs should be treated better and paid more and all. All this stuff. But also there's the layer of, well, is the extra cost actually going to the devs or is it going to the people at the top? Is it going to the shareholders?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But also, video games are even becoming more expensive to make. They take longer to make, which cost more money because guess what? Keeping people on a project for years longer than it. Than it has taken in the past naturally costs more money. There's. We got to get. This is what we need. Mike, we need four people here. All right. We need to get Matt Piscatella, my man. We need to get a CEO of a big games business. Let's think is I want one of each kind of person. I need a, like a developer who's like, like hand, like a hands on. I work on the dev team or I work on like somebody who's like getting their hands dirty.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right. As a third person.

[Snowbike Mike]

And then you to moderate.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

You to all moderate. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Podcaster.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I need four people to just have a good conversation about this.

[Snowbike Mike]

That seems like it could be a really dope PAX panel.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

PAX mainstage. Let's get into the video game business. Yeah, let's talk about it. Let's have an open fireside chat. Blessings hosting it. We got Three big time guests.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think we can make that happen? Do you think we have the platform? You got to call something. You got to call Jeff Keeley.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, how many.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you know a CEO that would.

[Snowbike Mike]

Sit down with us, let's call him CEO Mike would probably be like, hey, I'm trying to stay guarded. I'm not going to open up like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, they.

[Snowbike Mike]

You got to get an ex CEO that's willing to burn it down, Sean.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, like, you need an ex.

[Snowbike Mike]

CEO that's like, I'm willing to bear it all. I'll be open with you, the good and the bad. Cuz like, if you come to CEO Mike who's like currently in the business, Absolutely not. We're not saying, yeah, I'm giving you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Don'T think we can get Randy on here, Randy Pitchford on here to sit down with us and have an open conversation about why. Why aren't employees getting paid more? Another grievance for you. Ebos22 writes in and says, grievance Andy not playing more games with his bff.

[Snowbike Mike]

It hurts, you know. There I was last night. Dunan. Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're doing what?

[Snowbike Mike]

Duning and gooning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Duning.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay, dude, bless. You got to get back on Dune.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

This game, this game's the real deal, okay? There's layers to it, okay? And I peeled back a layer last night with Washi. We got in the buggy, Bless. And next thing I know, we're deep. We're deep in the desert and I'm talking down, okay, we're into the caves now. Bless. And I'm mining with a laser beam as Washy's driving the cart, all of a sudden you get the alerts, hey, game's going down for maintenance. And they give you some crazy time. 7am UTC. And you're like, what the is that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where is UTC?

[Snowbike Mike]

I don't know what UTC is. So now you're panicking. You're like, we got 60 Minutes. We gotta hustle. You know, this game, this game's too good. This game rocks.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gonna read one more super chat. This is even a griefing one. This is a shout out from AJ Kelly 7, who says wanted to give a shout out. And congrats to KFBF and my real life bf, Reuben and Erica for getting married this past weekend. Congratulations.

[Snowbike Mike]

Congratulations. That's lovely. Hey, shout out to those two and thanks for the nice shout out to put them on stage. That's great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And we're back with story number two. Kojima says the pandemic nearly stopped Death Straining two from happening. This is Sam Sepul at Insider Gaming Death Training two on the Beach. Fans are on the are on Cloud nine as the game has finally been released today. However, Kojima has just revealed that there are times during the pandemic when he thought the game would not be released. Death Stranding 2 players have already begun their new adventure across Australia, sharing their experiences and discoveries along the way. Some have pointed out a special birthday cutscene that Kojima has planned for years, and another has pointed out Nintendo appearing in the game's credits rule. However, we may never have seen these discoveries if the game hadn't been released today. As soon as death rating 2 went live globally, Kojima posted on Twitter to share some of his thoughts on this momentous occasion. Kojima started off by revealing that quote, it's raining today where he is. And that maybe because he regards himself as the rain guy, he expressed. Wait, I'm going to read that sentence again. Kojima started off by revealing that it's raining today where he is, and that's maybe because he regards himself as the rain guy. So he's saying because he's a rain dude that it's raining where he is. There's a couple of training.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's rain guys in my life, you know what I mean? Like a rain guy. Like, I like the moody vibes. Cloudy. I like the rain.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'll be honest, I'm a rain guy.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like the tippy tap on the roof.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's why I love Seattle.

[Snowbike Mike]

But it's also the rain maker, you know what I mean? That's when you let it rain from deep. And Hideo Kojima always lets it rain from deep. Okay? He takes shots and you're like, I don't know if you should be putting up that shot. It seems kind of deep. And then it usually goes in. You're like, that's a great shot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, what the are you talking about? Right? What the are you talking about right now? Nothing to do with anything. He's talking about how he loves the rain. And that is raining.

[Snowbike Mike]

Where he could be a rainmaker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're calling him Steph Curry. That's not what he's fucking referring to here. He expressed his hope that everyone enjoys the game and shared his thoughts on the development of DS2 during the pandemic. Kojima shared that during the pandemic, there are Moments when he genuinely feared they might never complete death. Straining to reflecting on the journey, he found it overwhelming to reach the launch day finally. Fortunately, Death Training two on the beach has received universal critical acclaim with a Metacritic score of 90. Cool. I'm glad it came out.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. I think a lot of. I think a lot of us also feared during the pandemic that a lot of things weren't going to happen. So I totally get where he's coming from. I'm glad to see that his art, his team's hard work made it to the finish line. You know, I think we all can have that feeling of like, man, this is pretty amazing that certain things made it through the pandemic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Because it was a tough time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My question is, Chat, do you want that new story or do you want us to air our grievances? Because I feel like the airing the grievances had more meat to the bone on it. All right, cool. Story number two, Kojima didn't think the game might not come out during the pandemic. Like, everybody thought their projects weren't going to come out during the pandemic.

[Snowbike Mike]

I could just imagine Kojima, it's a rainy day, unreleased day. He's got his hand up next to the window and he goes, man, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know if I can make it.

[Snowbike Mike]

This game almost didn't make it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, man.

[Snowbike Mike]

Send the tweet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you remember the pandemic, dude?

[Snowbike Mike]

Last. It was a crazy time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Crazy time.

[Snowbike Mike]

It was a crazy time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We were inside for years.

[Snowbike Mike]

We never seen it anything like that. In my 35 years of life, I never expected us ever to have a global shutdown, where all of a sudden, on a March Tuesday, it's like, hey, leave work. And guess what? A week later, you're never coming back to work. Oh, also, can you stay home?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And you're like, can you keep staying home? It's like, we're supposed to be here for two weeks.

[Snowbike Mike]

You know, none of us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's 2022. Why am I still at home?

[Snowbike Mike]

Greg, none of us knew this would ever happen. And, yeah, I mean, I think a lot of us are thankful that our friends and families hopefully made it through safely and healthy. A lot of us didn't get that. And it's a really hard time. And to have people who are making art, video games, movies, TV shows, art, just trying to live, getting the job. Yeah. We're just thankful to be making it through. We're thankful to be here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jordan Nellums writes in and says grievance just beat Final Fantasy 13 for the first time and the combat was boring. I get it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Beat Final fantasy. Which one?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

13. Have you played 13? You probably haven't played 13, right?

[Snowbike Mike]

No. Oh, third. Is that lightning? Yeah, I. I'm starting it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're playing Final Fantasy 13?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, I started it. I'm three hours in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No way.

[Snowbike Mike]

And they didn't like it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, they said the combat was boring. Final Fantasy 13 I think had like mid reception to it and then they made things. Then they turned into a trilogy. I. I start. I started 13 in like 2010 or some and I didn't get that far into it. I probably played like a good eight hours or something and then fell off. But like I remember. I remember liking the vibe. I remember being like this is a visual spectacle.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like the vibe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The music is. Is great.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Music. The vibe. Troy Baker, he's dating his. He's dating the sister. But then the sister died or became a catalyst and then they got to become friends, you know what I mean? Because they were kind of like not friends but they were friends because he was dating my sister. Pretty cool vibes at the beginning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm trying to think of the combat. Was it active time battle?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was like. Because like it was a form of active time battle.

[Snowbike Mike]

X2 it goes from we're waiting on the bars to fill up and it's kind of a lot of motiony to. To 13 which was. I was waiting on the bars but I'm also attacking at the same time. Similar to Final Fantasy 7 Remake, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't say similar Final Fantasy 7 remake in the sense that like it's.

[Snowbike Mike]

Super hacky slashy with.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Whereas 13, you're. You're still picking the moves from a menu. Yeah, but it was like real time. You got to be locked in because like if you just sit and wait, you're just going to die kind of thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. It's still turn base is what people.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay. So you're just waiting on the bar to fill up?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I guess. Yeah. You're just waiting on the bar to fill up.

[Snowbike Mike]

No problem with that. I mean I guess I'm coming hot off paradigm shifting where I was doing a lot of just sitting and waiting anyways with turn based.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

So I'm not really mad at waiting on the bar to fill up. It still was very turn based to me. That's no problem.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number three, Chris Avalone joins former Quantic dream writer at Republic Games to work on ambitious project inspired by the Golden Age of RPGs the this is Victoria Phillips Kennedy at Eurogamer Games. Writer and designer Chris Avalon, whose previous credits include the likes of Fallout New Vegas, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, has joined up with Republic Games to work on the studio upcoming release. Republic Games was set up last year by Adam Williams, the former lead writer for Quantic Dreams, Detroit, Become Human and Star Wars Eclipse, with backing from Crafton. At this time it was revealed that the team was working on a handcrafted, dark, mature fantasy rpg. Now announcing Avalon's new position at Republic Games, Williams said the studio was, quote, very excited to work with Chris and has shared a few more details on what players can expect on the game's upcoming arrival. Quote as you'd expect from the team, our RPG will be feature rich, will feature a rich, interesting story with lots of meaningful choices, branches and endings, williams told Eurogamer today. He continued to quote our world will feature a totally totalitarian regime seeking to crush a rebellion with competing factions and allegiances. The players can join, giving them the full freedom to create the hero or anti hero they want to be, end quote. Well, for now, further details on Republic Games upcoming RPG remain under wraps. Last year, Williams confirmed Brian and Amelia D. Shart the chart. The chart. I'm going to say the chart. I like Uncharted the chart. Who are part of the main cast in Detroit Become Human are planning to appear in the upcoming release. Cool.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, that's just one of those of like, hey, best of luck to you. Sounds cool. Look forward to where you're at whenever this comes out. You know what I mean? This is a very early of like, hey, we got some cool talent coming over here. That's what this is to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I. I'm always here for new teams being formed. Of course it's a scary and turbulent time for a lot of new teams being formed because funding is getting more and more difficult as time goes. But like I said, I also at the same time want to see different games come out from not just the big Jesus Christ, Tim's not even here. Why? Why would he be doing this on this episode?

[Snowbike Mike]

That's the champion right there. He can do it whenever he wants. Three times Blue Team Leader the counter.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Said you're coming in late.

[E]

Pretty late, isn't it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not supposed to be here. You're supposed to be here at 11. It's 10:47.

[E]

Well, I was in my car, my Mini Cooper.

[Snowbike Mike]

All right.

[E]

Tim could never.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, you got, you got grievances there.

[E]

I do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[E]

First and foremost, there's two on the list. Blessing. And Mike said he got a lot of stuff going on this weekend. I gotta listen to this 20 minute diatribe from Mike and Roger about staying up late, eating pizza, doing whatever, playing death stranding. Not one goddamn mention of the championship parade. San Francisco, 10am Saturday. Meet in front of the Ferry Building. Walk the goddamn Embarcadero as we go up to Square Pie, guys, and celebrate my game Showdown championship run. Three time. Three time. Three time Team Blue champions here. All right. The three Pete. Saturday, 10am San Francisco. Buy your shirt.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm going to be there.

[Snowbike Mike]

This is a big deal for you as well. Bless. Like, yeah, you're going to be there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm going to be there.

[E]

Good news for you. We're taking over your stream too.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh yeah?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[E]

We're going to send the video feed to you.

[Snowbike Mike]

Send it to everybody.

[E]

Freak that, freak that, freak that.

[Snowbike Mike]

Ron.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like I got to go to a game showdown parade. You.

[Snowbike Mike]

This is partially your.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, I hope they produce the show. And it's like if I don't go, even though it's being. This parade's being thrown on such a crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

You'll learn, right? Like, it wasn't about Regis back in who Wants to Be a Millionaire? It was the Jabroni who won. You're right, that's who.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're 1,000% correct. Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

When they talk about Jeopardy. They talk about that Jabroni who can't stop winning Jeopardy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

They don't talk about the host, Rip.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

They talk about. They talk about fucking Greg Miller.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come through the parade. It's going to be a fun time, hopefully, or a disaster. I think either way, that'd be fun.

[Snowbike Mike]

I can tell you this right now, no matter where you are, around the globe, around the bay, if you have the opportunity on Saturday to come down, great opportunity to get some San Francisco sunshine on your face, hang out with the kind of funny crew. Blessing will be there. Tim, Greg, I think Joey's going to be there as well. So a great opportunity just to hang out with the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim's playing Pokemon Go. I don't think he's actually like at the parade, but I think he'll be.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, he's there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He'll physically be there, but he won't be part of the parade. He'll just be playing Pokemon Go.

[Snowbike Mike]

And so it's just like a fun time to be able to hang out and enjoy some time with the kind of funny Crew your kind of funny best friends. Maybe grab a slice of pizza. Yeah, square pie, guys. Best wings in the city.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now big bad beluga in chat said, is the parade legal? Like, did y' all inform the city? Story number four, Dune Awakening Dev Funcom is already testing a radical change to the PvP deep desert experience. This is from Vicky Blake at IG. Now, have you gotten to the Deep Desert yet?

[Snowbike Mike]

No, that whenever we get to this, I'm going to say, man, I can't wait to get to the Deep Desert story.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The story goes like this. You may remember that Funcom recently assured Dune Awakening players in an AMA that it was already formulating a plan to improve PvP in the deep desert, which players have previously branded as toxic due to griefing. Even after patching out the ability for players to squish other people with their ornithopter.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, shit, that's something I would be doing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got a question, but here's the thing. I'm going to put a pin in this because I want to come back around to this and ask the question. Yeah, isn't. Isn't that the whole point of PvP?

[Snowbike Mike]

It's crazy when you say it's previously branded as toxic and you saw me smile immediately because, like, that's what it's supposed to be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought, like, is it? Yeah. Is it? Like, isn't the whole point of a PvP zone is to fudge over other people and attack them and annoy them.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, what do you want? Here we go into a zone. I'm going to find your base. I'm going to destroy your base. I don't want to make your life a living hell every time you're in here because the goal is to fight each other.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, the only. The most hours I've spent in a like, MMO adjacent kind of experience has been GTA Online. And I would never log on to GTA Online and go, man, I hope I don't get blown up by a random player's rocket launcher today. Or ran over. It's like, no, that's part. It's part of the experience. I'm not. If I'm not getting ran over, I'm not playing.

[Snowbike Mike]

What a. What a weird sentence that is. Put a pin and we'll circle.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Put a pin in it.

[Snowbike Mike]

Put a pin in it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In a candid letter, creative director Joel Bilas said, quote, we want PvE players to be able to play the end game and have access to the content of the end game, insisting, quote, our goal is not to force PvE players to interact with the PvP system that they may have no interest in. We still believe in the core concept of the deep desert and an endlessly renewing location that resets every week and creates an activity loop for great rewards. The tension of heading out there, head on a swivel, eyes peeled for foes, as you enter the most dangerous part of the most dangerous planet in the universe. Our wish was that players would embrace this loop forming guilds to work together to overcome the bleakness of the deep desert. End quote. Bylas admitted that the extremely competitive nature of the deep desert was forcing players to engage when they may prefer PvE. And consequently some areas of the deep desert will now be flagged as partial warfare PvE where players can grab rare resources without getting ambushed. The largest spice fields, shipwrecks and lands lands rad control points will remain War of assassins or PvP as high reward, high risk areas. And now, just two days later, Funcom's already testing some radical changes. It all comes as Dune Awakening unveils its public test client where players can try out the latest patch and features in exchange for accepting that builds may have bugs or be a little bit unstable. As part of efforts to make the end game more enjoyable, the pve area near the shield wall has been expanded to cover row ABCD and half of E within the deep desert. Compare that to PvP and PvE are balanced now where only row A is PvE. And that's essentially switching half of the deep desert from PvP to PvE. I don't, I don't know.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's a lot of change.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't know what any of those words.

[Snowbike Mike]

They break it down to a grid map. This big PvP area called the deep desert.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

And at the start of it made the first think battleships, right? The first row here on that was all PvE, meaning, hey, here's a safe spot for you to venture into the deep desert. Kind of get your feet wet, understand what's going on here. And then the rest of the grid was PvP, where I was like, hey, when you get in here, it's all on, right? We're going to battle for the best resources. We're going to, we're going to bang into each other and you can come back in here and, and have the PvE experience. Now they want to expand that PvE zone because there's two things with this story, right? That's a PvP server. That's a PvE server. Maybe if players want that PvE experience, you should be on the PvE server also. That's up to the devs of like, hey, make it more really dialed in on this one, right? On those two categories, is there an.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Option for PvPve or is that just in, in, in the PvP?

[Snowbike Mike]

That's what we're getting into, right? It's like, I mean, well, PvP. Yeah. And E, because there's going to be NPCs running around and then Mike's going to roll up on you. But like, the problem is, I think here in the, the deep desert is that's where you're going to get a lot of end game resources and collectibles that you're going to want to get. And so right now you would have a tough time going in there if that's all you want. Because guess what, me and my crew are going to try to hijack your plane, take all your stuff and it's going to be a problem. So right now they got to work on how you better fix that. I personally think you just go with, hey, here's column A, here's column B. You're either in a PvE server or you're down for PvP. You know what you're going to get into. They got to find a better blend.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They got ABPP in there. I do.

[Snowbike Mike]

My favorite, I played Resident Evil 3 for the first time last night. Yeah, you ever see the spiders?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I've played that game Baby face hugging. Dude, it's been forever. I played that game. I, I played that game for one day because I beat it in a day in like 2020.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's crazy. That's like six hours.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's a short video. Like it's funny because I remember it was like Tim messaged me or Greg, one of them messaged me in like a day in 2020 where we're all working from home and Pandemic just started. Remember Pandemic? And they're like, hey, we got the code for Resident Evil 3. The review is tomorrow. Do you mind like taking, taking off kfd, gamescast and just like playing this all day to review the game? And I was like, that sounds like a tall task. I'll do it. I'll attack it by 3:00pm I was like, oh, credits. That's crazy. That's insane. Yeah. How's this game over already? It's a fun time. Are you playing the remake?

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah. Halfway through. I'm really, really enjoying it. Oh yeah, this one's awesome. This one is different than a lot of the other ones. I know a lot of people want that kind of slower vibe to it. They want to have more puzzles, kind of really hang out in a lot of the areas. I like the go go go nature. I like that it feels more like a movie and a shorter experience of like, hey, we're not going to do like four puzzles in an area. It's just going to be like one, maybe two maximum. Let's get you in and get you out. I wouldn't even call them puzzles. It's very much like, hey, just go find that battery pack so you can unlock this door.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It really is like that.

[Snowbike Mike]

And that's all.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like barely a resident Ev.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's no, you know why I take back. There's no puzzles at this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's like a standalone dlc and I like it.

[Snowbike Mike]

I, I like the vibe of this. I think it's different. I think it's totally okay then like, yeah, I, I know Resident Evils. This one's nice. A little like, hey, this a little bit different vibe. I'm enjoying it. Jill. Very cool. This big guy that's chasing me, he's got to get off my back and leave me alone.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Carlos with the good hair. Watch out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Now you got. Who's the big guy? Was the big guy's name Nemesis now? And how big is he?

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, he's easily 7 8, 4, 2 5.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, you know, bless.

[Snowbike Mike]

I would take you to our last news story, the WE News Channel, where we cover all the small items you need to know about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Story number five is WE News. FBC Firebreak has surpassed one million players. Let's go.

[Snowbike Mike]

Congratulations to them. Trying something different. Small team. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

In a report from game developer Lost Records, developer Don't Nod is making layoffs. Oh, sad.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's too bad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

SEGA announced a multi year partnership between Sonic and McLaren Racing.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's an insane sentence right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Chained Echoes DLC here's the thing, Mike. At some point you be. When you're a Sonic fan.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not surprised by any collaborations anymore.

[Snowbike Mike]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sonic will hang out with anybody.

[Snowbike Mike]

He's pretty cool like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like, he's that cool guy in your high school or college that has like multiple friend groups and like you could see him at any party on the weekend and like, how did you get here? And it's like, oh, no, that's just our buddy Sonic. And you're like, that's my buddy Sonic. He hangs out with Jeremy over there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sonic.

[Snowbike Mike]

Sonic's hanging out with Britney today.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He'll hang out with anybody except for Sonic. Drive. Drive in. Like the restaurant. Oh, which is crazy.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's crazy because they have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They sell chili dogs.

[Snowbike Mike]

You sure they've never had a collab? I bet you they've had.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They've never had a collab. Check me from wrong.

[Snowbike Mike]

Sonic have never had a collab. In all the years of Sonic and.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sonic existed, I'm fairly sure that Sonic and Sonic have never collabed. Even though. Even though I feel like they have beef. I feel like either. I feel like either the restaurant or the hedgehog. I think one of them. It might be self conscious around like sharing the name and wanting to create either too much confusion.

[Snowbike Mike]

Maybe they sued each other way back in the day and like now there's. Now they got bad blood like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wouldn't be surprised.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's like, hey, we went through a long legal battle. We're never speaking again. Like, you hurt me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's probably what it is, cuz.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's like. It's bizarre that they haven't done it. Chained Echoes DLC Ashes of Elant launches August 7th. Ninja Gaiden characters are joining Warriors Abyss on July 4th. And those will be Ryu, Hayabusa, Ayane, Rachel, and Mommy.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, that's cool. Yeah, that's a cool little. Okay, okay. I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then abiotic factor launches July 22nd. And that is it for We News. Hopping into. You're wrong real quick.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, that's a good game. Which abiotic actor? Oh, that. Me and my boys. That's a good game. If you got a crew and you're looking for one of those like fun, dumb kind of party multiplayer games with your friends, that's a good one. Peak content warning. That's what this is. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then people in chat are telling me that, yes, through a Google search. Sonic the Hedgehog has never collabed with Sonic the Restaurant.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's impossible.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sonic has collabed with ihop, but IHOP is also one of those ones that'll collab with anybody.

[Snowbike Mike]

IHOP collabed with Xbox.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I got. I got an IHOP Xbox controller at home.

[Snowbike Mike]

I love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Xbox also a collab with anyone?

[Snowbike Mike]

Bless. You know what you should be?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Huh?

[Snowbike Mike]

You could become the Sonic Sicko that brings these two together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't. I don't think, like, what if I don't think I have that kind of power?

[Snowbike Mike]

How about I hook you up with My buddy, Games Cage, AKA Fidel. Fidel bring the energy. Two young dudes just bang. Bringing these two companies together, I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

First of all, that was a crazy way to put it. Second of all, I. I feel like it would. I think you're right that they have beef.

[Snowbike Mike]

They got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No pun intended. I think they have. Sorry, pun intended. I think they have beef because I. And I don't want to be that guy that's like, yo, you know, Riley, Jessica, Like, y' all should. Y' all should talk to each other. But they've already talked and it went awkward. And now I'm trying to like, link up two people that are like, don't fuck with each other.

[Snowbike Mike]

Sonic and Squad. Sonic and Sonic have squashed the beef in this brand new Smash Patty Burger available now at Sonic Drive Thrus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That goes so hard. That goes so hard. But it has to be chili dogs. It has to be chili dogs because it's Sonic.

[Snowbike Mike]

But like, I couldn't squash a chili dog. Okay, get this, huh? Sonic and Sonic have squashed the beef with the brand new Smash Burger Chili Dog available at Sonic Smashburger Patty drizzled.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That sounds disgusting. That sounds gross.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm trying to put them together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's take a look at some super chats real quick and then get out of here. Zeke Speak says bless. Are you still thinking of picking up some media crit slash literature crit classes, unrelated grievances? Just curious. This is a thing that I floated a while ago. Okay. But I thought about like going to like a meet. Like, like, like a media critic class or something. Because I wanted to get better at talking about. I like that class. Games and movies and all this stuff. Not that I feel like I'm terrible, but I would like to grow. I would like to get better. I've kind of shelved the idea because I don't know, man, time has gotten away from me. Like, as the days go, I just get busier and busier just doing shit. And so it's hard for me to like build in time to do that. But like, I don't know. I think it'd be cool too.

[Snowbike Mike]

What if we made it a piece of content? We found a teacher come in one hour classes for a month, once a week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

And we do. We do it over four weeks, once a week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So what? Four hours of media starts and then.

[Snowbike Mike]

If you really love it, you can go get. You can go get more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, I need more than four hours.

[Snowbike Mike]

Never know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I need, like, I want a semester.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm just trying to Light your spark.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[Snowbike Mike]

And I'm also trying to do it during work time so you have more free time in your life, like, because you're very busy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Housing. If you can give me like an hour a day. An hour a day or four weeks. Get some real. And like, do the. Do the stream thing where we put in a small box during KHD or something. Or during the stream, just me in front of a chalkboard learning from a teacher, and they're teaching me these things. Think about it. Let's do one more super chat because we really do got to get out of here, man. You got a lot of good stuff in here too, man.

[Snowbike Mike]

Rapid fire. Just hit him. Just rain it. Rapid fire.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's the thing is I like, I jumped around and so, like, I've done half of these and so now I'm like. I'm trying to read into them to see which ones I've done, which ones I haven't done. I mean, Kebab says nest the character costumes together. What the fuck, man? That. That's also like another good grievance in Mario Kart. Why is every character costume its own character slot? That's fucking weird. So don't do that.

[Snowbike Mike]

What are we doing?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're not fooling anybody. L2 Larson says suggestions on retro game slash card shops to visit while in sf.

[Snowbike Mike]

Ready? You gotta go across the Bay Bridge over to our buddy at the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know what you're talking about.

[Snowbike Mike]

Game progression, cross play, save point. What is that, Kid?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I see them on.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's fantastic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I see them on Instagram all the time.

[Snowbike Mike]

Game share.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I got experience here.

[Snowbike Mike]

Experience. Experience here has a great. Here's the problem with San Francisco. You want to pick the bone of San Francisco. No retro game shops at all in the Peninsula. With all these people, we can't get an old school used game shop. That's crazy. Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's expensive.

[Snowbike Mike]

Shout out to game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Share Experience. Share.

[Snowbike Mike]

Experience Share. Across the Bay Bridge. Great shop in Emeryville. Is that what it's called?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it? I thought it was in. Man. Where is this place? Because I've been there. Alameda. Is it Alameda?

[Snowbike Mike]

Alameda might be. This might be the name of it. I don't know. But it's right across the Bay Bridge. You gotta go there. Really disappointing that all of the Peninsula has nothing. I mean, you gotta go to, like, Santa Cruz to go find one. It's really disappointing. So there you go. That's what you need to know about card shops. I'm a big Anime Imports fan over in Pacifica. Big shop overlooking the beach. Easy to get to. I like that one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Shout out versus Games versus Games and Gamelandia if you're trying to go down south. Palo Alto Palo Alto Game Landia is.

[Snowbike Mike]

Game Landy is clean. It's nice. A lot of board games there, which is cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If you're looking for a spot where you can play games, order food, have like a really fun laidback environment for like casual games of friends. Oh game parlor in Sunset I love. That's a place that I I go to all the time. At least I tried to. I've been there less lately but some.

[Snowbike Mike]

Good hits for you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Game Power is awesome. Mike that's it for kfgd.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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