Last of Us Over After Next Season?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.02.26

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily – February 2, 2026

Episode Title: Last of Us Over After Next Season?!
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr. and Andy Cortez
Core Topics: The Last of Us HBO series' uncertain future, major MMO studio collapse, Highguard multiplayer shooter changes, gaming and pop culture news

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Episode Overview

Blessing and Andy dive into the hottest topics in gaming news, anchored by reports that HBO’s The Last of Us series may end after season 3. The episode oscillates between detailed commentary, pop-culture asides, and coverage of trending industry news (including a Kickstarter MMO meltdown and shooter Highguard’s rapid pivot in response to player complaints). Interlaced throughout are humorous tangents, listener interactions, and the duo’s signature laid-back and irreverent banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Last of Us HBO Show Could End After Season 3

[09:39–23:15]

• News: Casey Bloys (HBO boss) hinted that Season 3 might be the last for the show, despite previous comments from showrunners suggesting four seasons.

  • Source: Andy Robinson at VGC
  • Mixed feedback on season 2 and Neil Druckmann's departure from future production cited as reasons.
  • Season 2 viewership dropped 55% from season 1’s finale ([12:33]).

• Blessing’s Perspective:

  • Points out that if the show's popularity matched Game of Thrones, HBO would be pushing extended or spin-off content regardless of completed game stories:
    “Where there is money, money will dictate where the art goes for corporations like this.” ([12:16])
  • Feels season 2 was less successful due to writing, not performances, and that the game’s narrative is tougher to adapt to TV:
    “Last of Us Part 2 is better told as a video game.” ([15:04])
  • Wishes for a concise wrap:
    “Don’t stretch it out… let's have an ending here.” ([22:11])

• Andy’s Reflections:

  • Marvels at the unusual back-and-forth behind the scenes:
    “I've never heard of a TV show that has gone… this much back and forth between what they're trying to decide on.” ([11:14])
  • Suggests lower excitement and controversial content shape HBO's caution.

• Casting & Character Debate:

  • Audience super chats question Bella Ramsey as Ellie; Blessing feels she was great in Season 1 but miswritten in Season 2:
    “I think that character was badly written… I should not feel that way about Ellie… Ellie's not dumb.” ([17:41] & [19:29])
  • Andy notes Bella’s youthful look undermines intimidating aspects of Ellie for S2:
    “I think too much time. There was too much of a time gap and not enough aging for sure.” ([20:34])

• Potential for Standalone Episodes:

  • Hosts would like to see “one-offs” akin to S1's Bill & Frank (Nick Offerman) episode; suggest deeper dives into Seraphite culture or side characters like Isaac ([23:15]).

• Will the Show Help the Game?

  • Both believe TV exposure can only benefit the franchise when Part 3 launches, regardless of the show's end ([29:16]).

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2. Kickstarter MMO 'Ashes of Creation' Studio Implodes

[31:23–36:53]

• Raised $3.2M on Kickstarter (2017); launched Early Access Dec 2025; now facing leadership upheaval and mass layoffs.
  • Studio director Steven Sharif resigned, citing “unethical” board decisions.
  • Developers plea for sympathy from fans who lost jobs:
    “Please be kind to the developers. We are people who have families who have just lost our jobs after pouring our hearts and souls...”
• Blessing: Reflects on the risk of Kickstarter, empathizes with high-dollar backers seeking refunds ([35:27])
• Andy: Speculates layoffs and board shifts likely due to monetization conflicts or potentially automation/AI:
  “You gotta assume it may have to do with microtransactions... or some sort of AI thing.” ([34:48])

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3. Highguard Makes 5v5 Mode in Response to Complaints

[36:53–47:38]

• Situation: PvP shooter Highguard launched as 3v3, but players criticized maps as too big; concurrent players have dropped since launch.
• Dev Response: 5v5 limited-time mode added just days after release; recognized for rapid responsiveness.
• Andy:
  “It's clear that when you are your own independent team, you could say, ‘Yeah, let's put out this new mode now.’” ([39:00])
  • Discusses importance of content roadmaps, responding to player complaints swiftly.
• Blessing:
  “...Very impressed overall with the packaging of Highguard and how they presented it... They're being this responsive... five, five. Boom.” ([47:17])
  • Wishes more indie studios could pivot this quickly, but worries the game won't maintain audience traction.

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4. Super Mario Medley Wins Grammy (and Video Game Music at the Awards)

[50:23–54:42]

• 8-Bit Big Band wins Best Arrangement (Instrumental or Acapella) for “Super Mario Praise Break” jazz/gospel medley.
  • Also previously won for “Meta Knight’s Revenge.”
  • Notable: Video games increasingly present at mainstream awards.
• Austin Wintory’s “Sword of the Sea” wins Best Soundtrack; hosts debate the opaque process for Grammy game nominations and joke about the prevalence of cinematic IPs among nominees.
• Blessing celebrates the inclusion of gospel in game arrangements, recommends Kirk Franklin to Andy ([57:01]).

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5. Other Notable News (WE News Channel Segment)

[57:46–61:08]
Bite-sized items covered:

• Switch 2 controller with GameCube-style layout teased on Kickstarter.
• Sony patents touchscreen controller with customizable buttons.
• Neo 3 PS5 console exclusivity to last only 6 months—Xbox and Switch 2 versions likely.
• First 3 Alone in the Dark games are free on GOG.
• Tekken 8 S3 roadmap: Kunimitsu, Bob, and Roger Jr. coming (leads to a comedic tangent dissecting who/what Roger Jr. is; [62:08])
• WWE 2K26 launches March 13; EA shutting down Apex on Switch 1 August 4; Game Awards dated for December 10th, 2026.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [11:14] Andy:
  “I've never heard of a TV show that has gone... this much back and forth between what they're trying to decide on.”

• [12:16] Blessing:
  “Where there is money, money will dictate where the art goes for corporations like this.”

• [15:04] Blessing:
  “Last of Us Part 2 is better told as a video game.”

• [17:41] Blessing (on Ellie’s TV portrayal):
  “I should not feel that way about Ellie... Ellie's not dumb.”

• [23:09] Andy:
  “If you have gold like [the S1 Nick Offerman episode]... then go ahead and cook, Craig Mazin and crew, because y’all have showed me you have the stuff for it.”

• [34:48] Andy (on MMO board drama):
  “You gotta assume it may have to do with microtransactions... or some sort of AI thing...”

• [39:00] Andy (on independent dev speed):
  “When you are your own independent team, you could say, ‘Yeah, let's put out this new mode now.’”

• [47:17] Blessing (on supporting devs):
  “I want the consumer friendly games to be successful… I want the developers that are doing things right to be rewarded for it.”

• [57:01] Blessing (recommending gospel):
  “You ever listen to Kirk Franklin? … He has a song called ‘Smile’ that’ll legitimately make you smile. Like, it just fills your heart with joy…”

• [62:08+] Comedic Roger Jr. Tangent:
  Andy and Blessing are humorously baffled by the character “Roger Jr.” in Tekken, who is a kangaroo with a joey in her pouch, leading to jokes about the baby getting more credit than the adult:
  “That's misogynist, bro... we don't even know her name.” ([74:20])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening/Chatter: [00:22–09:39]
• The Last of Us S3 News & Deep Dive: [09:39–23:15]
• Ashes of Creation MMO Implosion: [31:23–36:53]
• Highguard 5v5 Update & State of Modern Shooters: [36:53–47:38]
• Super Mario Medley Grammy / Video Game Music Discourse: [50:23–54:42]
• WE News Channel (Quick Hits): [57:46–61:08]
• Tekken/Roger Jr. Tangent: [62:08–74:25]
• Super Chats / Closing Q&A: Intermixed throughout, especially [25:20+], [61:08+]

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Tone and Style

Relaxed, comedic, and insightfully conversational. The hosts freely intersperse news with personal anecdotes, light jabs, and cultural commentary, making even dense industry developments accessible and entertaining.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode is a snapshot of the big talkers in gaming at the start of February 2026, balancing major industry shifts (adaptation challenges, MMO struggles, live service pivots) with signature Kinda Funny charm and relatable pop-culture asides. The hosts’ critical yet optimistic hope for consumer-friendly trends—coupled with open, at times hilarious reactions to news—make this an engaging listen for dedicated and casual gaming fans alike.

Transcript

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Host/Announcer]

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[Host/Announcer]

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If you wanna get our shows ad free and our exclusive shows go to patreon.com kinda funny. Today's gaming news stories include Last of us. HBO might be done after season three. A hugely successful Kickstarter MMO just had its studio implode and highguard makes huge changes to counter complaints. Well, all this more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Monday, February 2, 2026. I'm on your host, Blessing Adioye Jr. Joining me is the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Good morning. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Morning, Andy. How's it going?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm doing great. A little bit earlier you were talking about how you're a different person without your coffee.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I am, yeah. And is that a Mountain dew?

[Andy Cortez]

Mountain Dew. Zero.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's 1002am and do zero. I mean, I mean, what does a zero do? This is less calories, right?

[Andy Cortez]

That's just zero calories. Zero calories.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Zero.

[Andy Cortez]

Zero calories.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That is how that works.

[Andy Cortez]

Zero calories, zero sugar.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, but does that change the fact that you're having it for breakfast or I guess breakfast time?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, you know, if I'm on here with an energy drink, you know, how different is that?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know, you know, that's fair. I mean, I also don't do energy, actually. No, that's a lot. I guess I started this morning with a Celsius, so.

[Andy Cortez]

But you're in the gym getting. Getting gains, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was in the gym getting.

[Andy Cortez]

But without it, you are weekends at Burnsing Weekend.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I said I'm weekend. I think I first said I'm weekend Zing at Bernie's. I was like, no, that's not what I mean. I'm Weekend at Bernie's myself.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When I don't have coffee to start my day, I'm just a fucking husk of a human being.

[Andy Cortez]

And for the four people under the age of 25 that listen to this show, Weekend at Bernie's is a movie with a guy who died and they had to pretend that he was alive the whole time. Did they have multiples of those?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Multiple Weekend at Bernie's because that body's.

[Andy Cortez]

Got to decompose, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, multiple bodies.

[Andy Cortez]

No, multiple. Like Weekends at Bernie's movies.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It would. No, because, like. Yeah, how would you do a multiple? Because you would have to have another guy named Bernie die.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So, like, it would have to be called Weekend. Weekend at Paul's.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Oh, maybe I'll get Sasha's. You know what? I think I'm mixing it up with.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There was two. Somebody said two.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. That body's gotta smell like in part.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. How did that work?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, decomposing. Hey, I was thinking of Ernest. Ernest Goes to Camp goes. Ernest Goes to Christmas.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Would you imagine that Weekend at Bernie's, too. They use the Roman numeral, too, not the Arabic numeral. Yeah, Weekends at Bernie.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow. I, I. You can't do that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You.

[Andy Cortez]

You deserve, like, you have to be a bit more of a respected franchise to use the Roman numeral to.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

How long do you think the second movie took place after the first movie?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

After taking place a few days after the first film, it tells the story of Larry and Richard, once again ending up with their late boss's corpse, which is targeted by a voodoo queen hired by mobsters who want to find the $2 million that Bernie embezzled. Okay, interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

I won't watch that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This everything got a sequel back then, huh? Yeah, that's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Everybody's getting funding back then.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let me tell you. I. Speaking of weekends, this last weekend, I booted up this game. I'm sure you haven't heard of it. Cairn.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, booted up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Karen.

[Andy Cortez]

Karen.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I. Here's one of my first world. The most. The most first world problems. But for us, in the job that we do, trying to figure out what games to play as they're coming out. Even more importantly, figuring out what games you want to play before they come out for reviews so that we can talk about them. Man, I wish I picked up Karen. Man, I wish I picked this game up and was there for, like, the review period, because playing this game during the weekend, I was like, I'm having the feeling of, like, oh, this is immediately special. I've only played two hours, and I'm locked in. Into Cairn. What's this? What's going on here? Well, it's just.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a great meme. Is this from the subreddit? Where is this from? Yeah, this is from the subreddit.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a king of the hill meme of, like, you know, if those kind of funny members could read, they'd be very upset.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, this goes back because I can't.

[Andy Cortez]

Read well, because I, you know, when we started the show, I believe on Friday and Greg was saying Karen and I was like, that is okay. You've been saying Karen. And Mike and during all the, the meetings talking about the streams we were planning, kept saying Karen. I was like, I don't think it's Karen. But yeah, we found out that it was being mispronounced for a couple of weeks or whatever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Is that, is it a mouth feel thing?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I think it was just a dyslexia that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You think, you think. Oh, you think they switched around the R and the I?

[Andy Cortez]

They did at one point for sure.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, that's worse.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I thought it was just they couldn't say the word.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it, it was them saying Karen like C A R I, N. That's pretty, I'm pretty sure that's what it was. But I agree. Dude, I played it. I've been, I'm about two hours in, maybe close to three hours. Been playing a bit on. I tried playing on Steam Deck. It doesn't run so great on Steam Deck. And apparently what Roger was telling us as he was playing on PS5 that even on PS5. Oh yeah, it kind of chugs and is a bit unoptimized. But I played on GeForce now and that made it a lot easier to, you know, sort of deal with, you know, no bugs and no like slow down or whatever. And it ran great. It was awesome. Felt all the tension. Like this game I was telling, I think I was telling Greg about this, but in the way that people say Death Stranding is just a walking simulator. Yeah, like that. I think that's the easiest comparison to this to say. Like, yeah, it's like that's for climbing, but it's really not that. It reminds me a lot more of what Baby Steps was doing with how precise you have to be and how, you know, careful you have to be with each grab and each know make your foot be on that foothold or whatever. And dude, like the tension you feel. Oh the, the, your heart dropping and the, the adrenaline you feel when you're close to kind of cresting over that peak. But you feel like your character, you know, the screen starts to dim a bit, the controller starts to vibrate. It's like, oh my God, she's. She's going to die right here. Yeah, AA's going to die.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's funny playing this right after Alex Honnold. Is that his name? The dude climbed Taipei 101. It's so fun playing this after that because I'm like, damn, that dude was just like, was risking it. All right. Doesn't have the harnesses, doesn't have the gear. He's just free soloing that thing. I'm like, man, that's crazy. Playing this game and kind of feeling the tension that they're able to kind of convey through.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The breathing is crazy. I don't know if this is something that we need to talk about end of the year for performance of the year, because it's kind of a weird one. But just the way that she's breathing and struggling and you hear it and it's making me anxious as I'm playing it.

[Host/Announcer]

So.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well done.

[Andy Cortez]

I had a couple of falls just like, yeah. Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Going crazy in the studio.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel awful.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I post this on Blue Sky. That's bsdm that I went bouldering for the first time probably about three months ago. I got a friend that took me bouldering and I immediately was digging it because it feels like such the combination of, of course, this physical thing that you're doing, trying to maintain energy, trying to, like, you know, be strong is doing. But then also it kind of scratches the puzzle solving itch that I have in my brain where I'm like, all right, if I put my left hand here, I can probably get my left foot here. And I'm like, just trying to get to right there. You know what I mean? I'm just trying to get to that one top spot on this climb video Gamifying. And they found I. I think they do such a great job of. Yeah. Gamifying that experience and making it feel accurate to what that feels like. It's so good that I'm. As I'm playing, I'm like, oh, I got to show this to my friend I went bouldering with. Like, they're going to fall in love with this even though they're not that into video games.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I'm hoping that the story kind of goes in cool places and hits emotionally in some spots. But I'm thinking I'm.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

One of the reasons I'm sad I didn't play it earlier is that now I'm like having to juggle this in other games that we're playing for review and games that are coming up. And Karen is the kind of game that I wish I had nothing else. And I could just play this and focus on this for two weeks or whatever. But I digress. Let's talk about some video game news because Remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com kind of funny games just like the Portland Kevin did. Who says love you both. Bless and Andy, thank you so much.

[Andy Cortez]

Love you too. Thank you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And then heroic headgear who says birthday tax, thanks for what y' all do and for the community you have built. Thank you. Heroic headgear. And Then also like Dante064 he says John Cena looks like a buff Ernest. Damn Interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the. That is one of the. That's like saying that Troy Akman looks like a white Jay Z. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn, that's a good one. Remember, we couldn't do this, man. And really it's. It's the space between the nose and the upper lip. They've got that very. They've got a long space between the nose and the upper lip.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. I didn't see it until. Until Barrett pulled up.

[Andy Cortez]

That's insane.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I thought that was John Cena for half a I was like, what was John Cena?

[Andy Cortez]

That's really good. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We couldn't do this without our Patreon producers. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm twining for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have seven stories today, a baker's dozen, starting with our number one. Season three of the Last of Us Could Be Its Last HBO Boss hints. This is from Andy Robinson at Video Games Chronicle. The live action the Last of Us show could conclude with its upcoming third season. HBO boss Casey Bloys has hinted the future of the Last of Us has been unclear following mixed feedback to season two and the departure of game creator Neil Druckman from future production. However, it was the it was thought that the show would last at least two more seasons. The first season of the show covered the events of the first game, but the Last was is a substantially shorter game than the Last Was Part two. Previously, showrunner Craig Mason had suggested that the HBO show would last for at least four seasons, telling Collider last year that there was no way to complete this narrative in a third season.

[Andy Cortez]

Quote.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think there's a decent chance that season three will be longer than season two just because the manner of that narrative and the opportunities it affords us are a little different, he said. However, it appears that Mason might not get his chance. Speaking to Deadline, HBO boss Bloys was asked if the Last of Us next season would be Its last quote. It certainly seems that way, he replied, but on decisions like that, we will defer to the showrunners, so you can ask them, end quote.

[Andy Cortez]

I've never heard of a TV show that has gone. There's been this much back and forth between what they're trying to decide on. Yeah, like initially it was three seasons. Three seasons. And then you start hearing murmurings from Mason and the crew and maybe even Druckman at some point, but saying, yeah, could go four, you know, you know, this. The final section could be 4. And then to now have this sort of come back down to three. And I wonder if that's due to enthusiasm, because I feel like if they felt the juice was worth the squeeze and if they felt that they could come up with a couple of new stories to fill in these gaps that they would like. I don't. I don't really know of a whole lot of companies that go, no, we actually prefer less. You know, every other studio, every other company and organization out there, the NFL wants more games like every. Everything needs to be longer for more money. And I wonder if this is at all. If the enthusiasm of the show at all is affecting their decision making.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, to your point, I think of something like Shogun, where Shogun was supposed to be a one and done season and Shogun has been greenlit for season two because season one was so successful. Where there is money, money will dictate where the art goes for corporations like this.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And like you might say, that's unfortunate. It's whatever. Right. That's a whole different conversation, I think, of Last of Us was the new Game of Thrones. Oh, yeah, we're going to see Last was they were. They would get to the end of Last was Part two and be like, all right, let's figure out more content. Like, we don't give a fuck that a new game and out. We don't. We don't care that there's not more story here. We're going to create story to keep this thing going. I think that's where the conversation would be if Last of Us was hitting that level of popularity and viewership. As we're talking here, I was trying to find any sort of reports about the viewership of Last was season two specifically. The only thing I can find so far is an article from the Rap that says that viewership for the season two finale was down 55% from season one. I look at that, I look at the conversation around season two, which wasn't as favorable as season One just based off of I think multiple things, but a lot of the decisions around, I think writing characters and stuff like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And yeah, I think they're in such an awkward place. Neil Druckman also left the project as well. So it's like, I wonder what those behind the scenes convers conversations were slash are, especially with Neil leaving. Does Neil leaving take out some of the passion and fire that's behind it? Does the reaction to season two take out some passion from Craig Mason even or whoever where they're like, oh, season one, we're winning awards, we're doing the thing, we got the viewership, hell yeah, this is going to be the next big thing. And then coming into season two, we're like, season two is a bit more controversial, you know, and even when you look at the rest of the game, it's like it's going to continue to be controversial. You know, I don't think you're going to steer the ship back to where you were for season one because of what the content is.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So yeah, I think we're just in.

[Andy Cortez]

A weird place where, where did you net out near the end of season two?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I did not like season two that much.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Obviously I don't think it was horrible or anything like that. I think the, the quality of the, I want to say filmmaking, but it's not a film. The quality of the television making for season two is too high as far as production and set and budget and all these things that I can't sit here and be like, oh, that was a terrible watch by any means. I think the writing and I don't want to put it on the performances, I think just the directing overall took a step down from season one. And part of that, in my opinion is that Last of Us 1 is an easier story to tell through a non video game adaptation than season two. I think season two slash Last Part two is better told as a video game.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think being able to control those characters and you know, be in the shoes of Ellie and actually like being the one to carry out all of the killing and having more time for that stuff to develop works way better in game than I think a truncated season of tv. Did you watch season two?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I did not. I did put up a poll though on Twitch asking, do your non gaming friends love the Last of Us on hbo? That's a good question because my, my parents still very much enjoyed season two. I didn't fully finish season two. I didn't watch all of it. A lot of that comes down to just being busy with other things. But I, I was somebody that felt my interest waning a bit and, you know, maybe wasn't in love with the decisions that were being made. But a lot of it is just, I got shit to do and I'd rather be playing video games. But I do know that it seemed like there were maybe two different schools of thought between the people who play the games and know them and love them and, and the people just experiencing it as an HBO show. And it seemed like every sort of issue that people had with the show were from people that have played the game and were, you know, criticizing certain decisions that were being made in the show. And I feel like I heard a lot less of that on the non gamer side of things.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Interesting. I could see that because I. The question I'll throw to you is you play Last of Part two.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

How would you describe Ellie in that game for Last of Us two? What adjectives would you use?

[Andy Cortez]

Fucking pissed. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What other adjectives?

[Andy Cortez]

Gay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know what, they capture those things.

[Andy Cortez]

Very well in the TV show. Oh, okay. Murderous.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think for me, I think for me, I look at the character of Ellie as, you know, a bit scary, a bit of a force, you know, a bit somebody who when they come through, they're going to like. Almost like a Oneman army type.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, right. Yeah. When you are playing as Abby, it is a horror movie.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

When Ellie is hunting you down, it feels scary.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't feel that at all. In the TV show for season two, Season two, and a lot of people were mentioning they think Bella was miscast. And I'm, I, I don't know either way. What I do know is that I think that character was badly written. If you're going to, if you're going off of who that character is in the game, because there comes a point in season two where Ellie feels so incompetent and what's his name, Dina's partner, that she was saying Jesse. Jessie.

[Andy Cortez]

Nailed it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Jesse comes in and it almost feels like, oh, thank God there's an adult in the room. Like, thank God somebody's coming in to save the day. And I should not feel that way about Ellie.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

And to a similar degree, and this is the only like, you know, conversations I've heard from normies who don't play video games. Were interested in the Last of Us Season one because they've heard, you know, dorks like ourselves talk about this game and seeing it adapted. You know, Pedro Pascal is barely in season two. And I think for Some normies out there or get a lot of. A good amount of normies. Once Pedro Pascal becomes not as a force in that season two, and it's. Then the rest of the season has to be carried out by these other actors. I think a lot of people stopped being engaged by it. And I don't know if that's just because of the star power that Pedro Pascal has, whether it is maybe the newer cast and these younger, younger people not being as much of a force to carry people through.

[Andy Cortez]

But.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

But I. That was like, some of the conversations I was hearing.

[Andy Cortez]

That's why I stopped caring about Godzilla 2014. I'll tell you what.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Bless what happened in Godzilla 2014.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean. Oh, was that the dude I just love, you know, here I am, hot off of, you know, several years after just being obsessed with Breaking Bad.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God. Brian Cranston going to be in a movie. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What is it?

[Andy Cortez]

Godzilla. Godzilla is kind of whatever for me. But, yeah, I'm gonna go watch it. Dude dies in the first 20 minutes, and I'm like, well, I've lost all connection to this because the best part of this movie is now gone.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And that sucks. You know, so I.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

It was up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I think for. To bear this point. I think with season two, it kind of sucks when that happens. And I think Bella Ramsey's Ellie should have been able to fill in that role of, okay, here's the character that is that this whole thing is centered around. And we can root. Not even root for this character, because Ellie's not necessarily. Ellie's not meant to be the hero of Last of Us too.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But it's a character that you could at least invest yourself in and be engaged watching. And here I'm like, ah, there's just too many things where I'm like, that's dumb. Ellie's not dumb. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't. When I look at some of the criticism from the casting, I think it's perfectly valid to think that Ellie was miscast as Bella Ramsey because Bella Ramsey looks like a kid. And in the same way that if I'm hiring a role for a mob boss, I wouldn't get Tom Holland to be the. You know, like, I. I don't have that level of fear or intimidation now. You could always, like, you know, kind of do A. A 180 and kind of, like, really catch people off guard when the first time you meet Gustavo Fring. And again, going back to Breaking Bad. Yeah. Of like, oh, this guy just seemed Like a totally chill dude, and now we're kind of seeing what he's capable of. I just, when I look at Ellie, she just still looks like a kid. She doesn't have, like, I, I think too much time. There was too much of a time gap and not enough aging from for sure.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's why I struggle. I struggle a little bit with the miscasting, only because I think she was well cast for season one.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And then, like, once we get into season two, it's the problem that you're talking about, and I wonder if that is, like, hey, again, we're talking about video games versus tv. You're able to age up a character in video games in a way that you don't. You can't really do for TV unless you recast or do something like that. Maybe it is. You needed an actress that could evolve. You know what I mean? Like, somebody who can transform from season one to season two dynamically where you're like, damn, all right, time has passed. This character is going through something. This character is changed. And they don't. I don't think they do that enough. But I blame more so the script. I think if you put a different actor in there and you keep the same script, it still sucks.

[Andy Cortez]

It's also hard to be on that side because you're. You're trying not to align with the. Oh, they should have cast someone hotter. And it's like, okay, you want this? 13.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I would. During season two, I. I kept opening up Reddit and, like, there are multiple Last of Us 2 Reddits. Yeah, there's an evil Last of Us 2 Reddit, and there's a regular one.

[Andy Cortez]

I.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I kept getting posts from the evil one. And I didn't know until, like, a few weeks in to where I was like, man, every single thing here is negative. And I look up and I'm like, oh, no, this is the evil people.

[Andy Cortez]

This can't be the only subreddit there is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm like, does this game not have any fans?

[Andy Cortez]

Reddit Just really showing you where they, you know, where all the engagement is, all the angry people. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But, yeah, I'm. I'm down for them to end it with season three. You know, it feels right. It feels right, you know, where season two ended in a place where it's like, yeah, you should be able to land this plane in season three. And also, you know, don't stretch it out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, let's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's have an ending here.

[Andy Cortez]

Now, where are you at with that? With the rumors and possibilities of it being a bit of a longer season.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm down for that.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think with the amount of stuff that's left as far as content and stuff that they've set up and even the epilogue of Last was two and all that stuff, I could see you having a few extra episodes. They're able to cover everything. Yeah, I don't think that's crazy at all.

[Andy Cortez]

Do you think that there is room for the one off episodes like the Nick Offerman episode of season one? Because that's, that's really good question. That's the only sort of, you know, timeline that I could see where I'd be totally okay with extending the seasons. If you have gold like that. And we have this banger ass episode that was not in the video game, but it is centered around these two characters that were maybe briefly mentioned here and there. Maybe that it was a supporting actor, but we're getting more in depth background on them. Yeah, because if, because at that point it's like, okay, well then go ahead and cook Craig, Mason and crew because you all have showed me you have the stuff for it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I could see a standalone Seraphite episode.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like an episode that goes deeper into like you know, maybe a one off scenario to explain this. These people better explain this side of or this faction better. I could see a Jeffrey Wright standalone episode just because like you have such a powerful actor here. Jeffrey Wright is amazing and of course he's reprising Isaac. We've seen him already in season two. I could see that. I don't know where you. I don't know what it would be, but I think it would be fun to ride around. So yeah, I'd be down for that for sure. We got more on Last is Part two and this is very sad news. Actually this is more about Catherine o' Hara because story number two, Katherine o', Hara, who you might know from Home Alone and Schitt's Creek, has died at age 71. I'm reading from Alex Williams and Riley Kirk at the New York Times. Katherine o', Hara, the Emmy award winning comic actress who endeared herself to audiences blending a maternal every woman quality with a sly touch of the surreal as showcased in blockbusters like the Home Alone films as well as offbeat fair like the hit TV series Schitt's Creek, died on Friday at her home in Los angeles. She was 71. Creative Artists Agency, which represented her, confirmed her death in a statement which did not cite a cause, saying only that she had been Briefly ill. Despite her knack for the quirky, Ms. O' Hara's biggest screen achievement came with the 1990 Christmas film Home Alone, directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes. Catherine O' Hara was born in Toronto on March 4, 1954. She had the good fortune, she often said, to be born into a family, into a family in which humor was at a premium. Quote. There's no better survival instinct, she told Parade. Quote. You're so lucky if you're raised with it. It's one of God's greatest gifts because life is full of dark. And the light, you gotta look for the light. My parents are both really funny and a sense. And a sense of humor was always appreciated. Laughing and being funny was highly encouraged at our table. End quote. And yeah, the reason I put this after the last was story is that she played a character In Lasso Season 2, the therapist character, which was, which had some really good moments.

[Andy Cortez]

She was awesome.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Season two. Yeah, that, that's.

[Andy Cortez]

I think right after those episodes is where I may have fallen off. But yeah, those performance, seeing her opposite of. Of Pedro Pascal was really magical stuff. Yeah, very, very sad loss in the acting world. But also just, you know, a bunch of clips that I'd seen surface after the death just made me especially sad just seeing like, man, what a solid.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Human, you know, 100%. Hopping into super chats, talking more about Last was season two because a lot of people have things to say. I want to bring in one from the Portland Kevin597, who says, Long before season one aired, I thought Caitlyn De would have made a better Ellie than Bella Ramsey. I think that casting hurt the show in season two. I don't disagree. I, Caitlyn De, I think, is playing a great Abby so far. I would have, I would have liked to see what that time I would have looked like if she played season two Ellie. But again, it's a tough thing because I'm like, I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to take away Bella Ramsey. Season one.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. I think she's so good in season.

[Andy Cortez]

One, but I do not disagree there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Super. Oh my glob 89 writes in and says the first few episodes of Last of Us was okay. The second season was badly spoiled that I never went back. Damn Internet. I mean, if you played the game, you had the exact same experience.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe they. Yeah, maybe they came from a standpoint where it wasn't spoiled or where they didn't know the game. Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know, interesting. I mean, if you if you watch and listen to this show, like kind of funny games daily, I'd be surprised if you didn't know the story to last was too.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, possibly. But sometimes you have a brain like me where, you know, facts just can kind of go in your brain and out and, you know, absorb everything.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What happens at the beginning of this game you're watching, you're like, fuck, dude, that's crazy. The golf club. Damn, that's nuts. Matt Kaladonna writes in and says, birthday tax. KF rocks. Ice stinks. Thank you so much, Matt, for that.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you, Matt. Happy birthday.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kobe aren't writes in and says, I also feel the way they wrote Dina in in the season matched the cadence of Ellie from the game rather than Ellie herself. Interesting. I might disagree a little bit. I love Dina in season two, though Dina might have been MVP character of season two for me, great performance.

[Andy Cortez]

It felt like they favored her more as a character in season two. Kind of the parts that I watched, giving her a bit more evolved in a role, kind of splitting things up in a way that, yeah, you know. Yeah, I did feel like, okay, they're going to give her a lot of love. She's going to get her own big standalone episode, you know, again for a.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Season that, you know, we're losing. Pedro Pascal's character, at least his presence, I think filling in that gap with Dina and the actress that played Dina, I think the writing and her performance.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think lived up. Yeah. I want to bring in another one, actually. This is. I'm going to keep with the last one. I'm going to come back around to this one about marathon jumping over to Nicola. No, Nick. Nick Olay at night. Nikolai at night. There we go. Do you think getting space away from last was HBO show will be a net positive for the franchise if they were ever to. If they were ever able to develop a part three.

[Andy Cortez]

Ooh, that's a tough one. I. I don't know if it's a. Well, it depends on what standpoint you're looking at it from. Like whether whether you're the gamer who cares more about the game universe or whether you are a casual person who couldn't really care less about what happens in the game. I. I don't know if like, I think that it will always be a net positive that the show exists and I don't think creating more space in between the two things really matters a whole lot. Like, I. I think that the game will always benefit from the TV show universe.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I mean, I agree with. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I, I think the popularity of the Last of Us TV show is only good for the game. My Last is Part three is going to sell more with this TV show being out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Than it would have otherwise if there was never a Last was HBO show like the Last was still going to sell because it's Last of Us.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I think the TV show only adds to that. So no, I don't think it matters whether or not they're separating themselves from it having more time since the TV show or not.

[Andy Cortez]

And it all depends on whether you're making quality products anyway. When you talk about something as loved as those first several seasons of Game of Thrones and the first several books of Game of Thrones at the time it was yes, there's a lot of differences between the two, but they're both good. So who gives a shit, Right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And we're back with story number three. Steam MMO that raised $3.2 million on Kickstarter. Kickstarter implodes just two months after launch. This is from Ethan Gotch at Kotaku Ashes of Creation is living up to its name. The fantasy MMORPG came to steam in early access on December 11th. Less than eight weeks later, its future is in complete limbo amid staff resignations and reported layoffs. The Intrepid Studios made Open World game raised over $3.2 million on Kickstarter back in 2017. Now its director claims that board control of the company has been stolen away from him and that those who seized it are trying to do unethical things. Quote I can make a limited statement in my personal capacity and not on behalf of the company regarding the situation, director Steven Sheriff wrote on Discord on January 31st via PC Games. End Quote Control of the company shifted away from me and the board began directing actions that I could not ethically agree with or carry out. As a result, I chose to resign in protest rather than lend my name or authority to decisions I cannot ethically support. End quote Sheriff does not get into what specific things the board was trying to do, but said other senior staff resigned along with him and that the company is currently moving forward with mass layoffs. Intrepid is based in San Diego, California where companies must give notice before laying employees off, but the state's database doesn't yet show any updates for the studio. Still, the reports of sudden chaos were backed up by by another former employee. Studio Communications director Margaret Cron recently posted on LinkedIn that they've left the company as well. Quote I gave everything I had and my end did my very best with what was within my power. They wrote. Quote and I ask one last favor of you. Please be kind to to the developers. We are people who have families who have just lost our jobs after pouring our hearts and souls into Ashes of Creation. The message continued Quote as for how this all ended, I don't really have the words. It wasn't what I expected, but I'm holding on to the to the good because there was so much of it. End quote Ashes of Creation was pitched back in 2017 as a factions based MMO that would askew pay to win macro transactions. Backers who collectively contributed millions have now been waiting nearly a decade for launch. While it finally came to steam Early Access in December, some backers are claiming that doesn't count as a full 1.0 release and are demanding refunds instead. Early Bird Backer wrote one of them, quote Extremely disappointed with the behavior of this company and yes, I will be pursuing a refund. Another wrote quote refund my $500 please and quote Crazy. Are you familiar? I wasn't familiar with this game, Ashes.

[Andy Cortez]

Of Creation, it was only something I was tangentially aware of because of people like CO Carnage and a lot of other content creators that are big into fantasy MMOs and fantasy RPGs and things like that. So I was never fully, I never opened up the Steam page or anything like that, but I did know, oh, a big MMO like is finally coming out. A lot of people are looking forward to it now. Right now it would be pure speculation to just wonder what are these unethical things that are, you know, trying to be put into place? And you got to assume it may have to do with microtransactions or things of that nature.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, my mind went to AI because everybody is doing that.

[Andy Cortez]

But yeah, possibly, but I don't know, it just feels like, okay, well, this game coming to Steam and finally being available for a lot of the backers, I just assumed it would be, okay, how are we, hey, we've had a lot of time into this. Our money is down. How do we get that money back up quickly? Or, yeah, you're not wrong. Maybe it does have to do with some sort of AI thing, and maybe we could lay people off and, you know, replace the workforce with something that AI could possibly do. But, man, I don't know. This all just, this all just sort of stinks. And I, I kind of want to just wait to see exactly what will come out from all of this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I, I, this is one where I feel for, Obviously I feel for, I feel for the developers. I also feel for the people who backed the game on Kickstarter. Of course, that's the risk when it comes to supporting something on Kickstarter. But to, for the person who was like, yeah, I backed with $500 for whatever perks they probably were getting with that and because they probably saw potential in the game to then get to a place where early access is out and, and not even the 1.0. Right. We're just at early access and it seems like shit's going downhill. I feel for the people that are in that position.

[Andy Cortez]

It's tough because you don't really have a whole lot of games that could fill this void. MMOs have been so hard to develop in the last decade plus because people have their games. And it's only gotten more difficult because of how splintered fan bases are, especially a game that needs to continually run and needs a player base and things of that nature. And how do you monetize something that needs to kind of continually run? And so when this game first sort of comes out, I go, oh, finally a dub for the MMO community. They haven't had one of these in a while. If you're not already a World of Warcraft fan or Guild wars or something like that. And yeah, to see this news was quite a bummer because you feel for not only just the fan base of people who have been looking forward to finally having a game like this in a long time, but yeah, this. I mean, hearing those words from the team, just going, yeah, all that work gone crazy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Upsetting store number four just four days after launch, High Guard gets a 5v5 limited time game mode to counter those 3v3 complaints, this is Wesleyan Pool at IGN Highguard developer Wildlight has announced a 5v5 limited time game mode available to all players starting today. Of course, I'm pulling this from Friday. It will run through the weekend. The free to play PvP raid shooter launched this week and immediately met with a mostly negative user review rating on Steam, although that has improved in recent days to mixed. Meanwhile, Steam concurrents have fallen after a peak of nearly 100,000, sparking questions about Highguard's future. Chief among the criticisms from players is that the size of the map feels too big and empty for a 3v3 competitive shooter. You're able to summon a mount to get about faster. The mounts are one aspect of highguard that players seem to universally like, but some thought a 4v4, 5v5 or even 3v3v3 mode would have been a better fit. Now, just four days after launch, Highguard has a 5v5 mode, albeit for just a few days. Today's update also introduces a brand new base called Soul. Well, we heard your feedback for the weekend. We're experimenting with a 5v5 raid mode. This is a separate playlist not meant to replace threes. 3v3 raids are still there for people who for people who enjoy it. The lobby has been updated to allow for parties of five while the mode is live, grab four friends and jump into some hectic raids. They also add some dev notes here. Dev Note 1 as most of you know, we're working on optimizations across the game. Many are in this patch and 3v3 should be good improvements, but adding four more players to the game is not going to improve performance, right? Please keep that in mind as you try 5v5 and then they add one more dev note saying that firing range doesn't support 5v5 at this time. Of course, by the time people are hearing or watching this, this is all probably over, but wanted to include this just for a conversation of high guard. One week later, right? The game has been out. We've seen people jump in. I've been very fascinated with how the Internet's reacted to it because I feel like I've seen an ebb and flow a little bit. Mostly negative, but. But I feel like 5v5 brought people back a bit.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think, you know, it kind of solidifies something that we asked them during that little event that we went to, the press event where we asked them, does being independent really help with. Does it actually help with being a mobile team? A team that could kind of, you know, get together and go, hey, we should fix this immediately and not have to worry about a lot of oversight and a lot of, you know, worry about the, the red tape from up, up on high. And yeah, it's clear that when you are your own independent team, you could say, yeah, let's put out this new mode now. You know, was this mode already something that was kind of in the waitings? Who knows, right? But the fact that they were that quick to get to it and not only address concerns, but say, hey, would this be more feasible? Is this something that's more attractive to you all as the player base? I think it's awesome. I think it's great that, you know, this team can be that mobile and get on it already and say, yeah, let's maybe try to fix what some people are talking about while addressing other concerns about the game. Will that help the long term player base? I mean, I think it's a yes and no thing. I think that, I think that people who are into it are more likely to stick in that world if they see, wow, the devs are listening and they're kind of acting on things already, which is awesome for the player base.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I want to see them pull this off just in the sense of I want to see more independently owned studios come through, be able to launch a multiplayer thing and also be able to do what you're talking about. Hey, yeah, we got an update here. We've heard you guys talk about wanting a higher player count. Boom, five, five in less than a week. I think that's an amazing response time to seeing what people are asking for and want them talking about the optimizations. Like, I came out of that preview event we went to being very impressed with how much they had prepared. Like, it feels like, you know, when we talk about Batman with prep time type shit, right? Where it's like, all right, I got a contingency plan for all these things. You know, we asked them about Roadmap. They had an answer, they had the breakdown, they had the slide being like, yo, yeah, we're doing this, this, this, and this because we learned from Apex. There's kind of. There's a passion behind this game from the team that I want to see them be able to pull it off. I worry that they're not going to. I. I wouldn't be surprised if a month from now we're talking about, all right, High Guard's gone, like, it's offline because it couldn't maintain a player base or whatever. I open up the Steam DB. Right now we're talking about 5,639 people in the game on Steam specifically, of course, cross platform, all that stuff. But I worry a lot about this one. You know, like, the weekend seemed good with the 5v5 stuff, but, yeah, like, it seems like people did not react favorably to this one.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think a lot of it just stems from people wanting to hate on something and wanting. Wanting to be right in them calling the shot that something would fail. Yeah, I think a lot of that just comes down to, you know, can I dunk on this thing? And can I get, you know, Internet likes for it or whatever. Very bizarre with how hated this game was and has been treated. And it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense because this, you know, this. It'd be one thing if the devs were like, you know, the most outspoken. We. We feel this way politically or whatever, and then you see either side go, well, fuck that game. I'm boycotting. It was just like a game that, you know, showed off a trailer. And maybe a lot of that hate stems from Jeff Keighley spoke too favorably about this for too long. And I don't like Jeff Keighley. Therefore, I needed to fail in order to have this personal win for myself or whatever. Very odd the way people are acting nowadays, but I. I feel like it could still do well in the survivability aspect when we talk about what the content roadmap looks like. In addition to them being quick on their feet with releasing more fixes and adding things so they have their content roadmap, which is, you know, every month or so, new character, new map, new base or whatever. I don't know exactly how that content looks like, but it's. They're consistently doing stuff for the rest of the year. If they could stick to that schedule while also going, Hey, 4v4 is now a mode. This is a new map that's smaller there's more crystals to mine. Or we added little fucking minions to shoot at to get you more of the Vesper, which is the in game sort of currency. If they could be mobile in that aspect as well, I think could prove really massive for the people that say, here's my complaint. Oh, my complaint's been addressed in the, you know, in the last three days. Shit, I want to go play that now. Yeah. You know, and I think it also helps that a lot of the other big multiplayer games aren't in the most favorable spot because of just, you know, people being mad about whatever they need to be mad about. Like there isn't the big multiplayer game except for, I'd say Arc Raiders. That's kind of dominating where people go, oh, that's all I want to play right now. I don't feel like there is a multiplayer game that's pulling people in that way.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I saw somebody in chat was wondering if we've gone back to High Guard. I wish I was in. I wish I could have more time to play High Guard. Yeah, that's one that I played the. I played one 5v5 match on Friday and I was like, okay, I'm gonna go home, probably play some more 5v5 high guard and end up picking up care. And I was like, all right. And then I just ran out of time. And like I. For me, it's like the nature of our jobs where I have. I'm streaming Final Fantasy 10, which I guess isn't for this job, but that does take up time. I'm reviewing a different game and then between that I'm like, man, if I could choose two games to play, if I could clear everything out, it'd be Karen Highgard. But yeah, I know I've not been able to get back to it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it all comes down to just. It all comes down to time and how that's like the high. The. The most valuable commodity. And I am many, many an hour into Neo3 reviewing that. I started the Witcher over the weekend, which certainly didn't help High Guards chances. And about once every two years I get really, really deep into Overwatch. And it's just so unfortunate for High Guard that I am so into Overwatch right now to the point where, you know, I played off stream last night for several hours after my 10 hour Witcher 3 stream, played more Overwatch. Like as soon as the stream ended, it's like, let's play some Overwatch right now. I'm just really, really back into. Into playing it. So yeah, that does kind of suck because in any other, at any other time, if this game to release, I am not even thinking about Overwatch and I am playing High Guard because of how much I actually enjoyed it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Money in chat also said, stop the cap less and here's my thing. Right? And somebody else was like, you know, you want this game to be successful, but you don't want to take 30 minutes out of your day. I was too busy going outside. You know what I mean? I was too busy going out Friday night hanging out with Barrett, celebrating his birthday, grabbing drinks. I was too busy on Saturday going over to Oakland because I'm always in Oakland.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I mean, playing Match, Always going to Oakland.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Always going to Oakland, hanging out with friends. So, yes, like, to Andy's point, it is a time thing. And yeah, I'm sorry, I can't spend hours every day playing every video game that exists. Even the video games that I would like to play, not having the time for it. I think then you're not allowed to.

[Andy Cortez]

Say you want games to succeed.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Then bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm not allowed to be like, man, I hope this developer pulls something off that they're very passionate about. And also mainly for the reason why that I want the developers that are doing things right to be rewarded for it. Not saying that High Guard is the greatest multiplayer game ever. It's not right. Not saying that High Guard couldn't use some improvements. It probably could more so that I was just very impressed overall with the packaging of High Guard and how they presented it. And of course, marketing and game of the game awards reveal aside. Just for the fact that they're being this responsive, the fact that they turn around, they're like five, five. Boom. Here you go. Hey, season one or whatever with a new new hero is going to come out two weeks after. Hey, it's launching with cross play, right? Hey, you don't have to buy new heroes. Everything gameplay wise is free. We're only selling cosmetics. Even that feels like such a step beyond what you get from any other. Apex didn't do that, right? Rainbow Six Siege doesn't do that. The biggest multiplayer games in the space don't give out free heroes. Except does Overwatch give out free heroes? I think they do.

[Andy Cortez]

I think now they do. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. I think that right there is very consumer friendly. I want the consumer friendly games to be successful. That way we could save money, you know, that way we can get better experiences and we can have that competition. I'm not going to sit here and ask for the death of A game just because what, I don't like multiplayer? No, that I'm not going to play multiplayer games if that's the case. Right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But a lot of people don't think like that.

[Andy Cortez]

You got to not look at it. Chat. That's why. That's why I know sitting here tilted me. That's why I love tilted me. That's why I love sitting here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I let them do it. Story number five, Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live. This is from Sean Hollister at the Verge. Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Jeffrey Epstein from its online gaming platform? I'm gonna pause there and say, no, it wouldn't surprise me. Article continues.

[Andy Cortez]

I will say my favorite takes over the weekend were. Man, you had to have like really said some to get banned back then.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, actually they explain it here. As spotted by Xbox Air, the latest batch of Epstein's emails show that in December 2013, he was permanently suspended due to harassment, threats and or abuse of other players. But it appears the real reason may be simpler. A second email from Microsoft to Epstein the very same day shows he was banned because he was a registered sex offender and. And because Microsoft was among the companies that agreed to purge registered sex offenders from their systems.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, good for them.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

While Epstein became a registered sex offender years earlier, another email shows he may not have joined Xbox Live until October 2012. Microsoft joined New York, New York State's initiative to purge sex offenders from online platforms where they might bump into children back in April 2012. So it seemed it didn't ban his account for over a year. It's not clear if Epstein played Xbox himself, though. In July 2014, he asked his executive assistant, quote, do we have an Xbox360 Connect? And in a 2016 email, there appears to be a discussion of buying an Xbox as a surprise as a surprise birthday gift for a boy in 2019. A message reads, why is there a $25.24 charge on my Xbox? End quote. It sucks that like, for how funny some parts of this are. You then get to that really dark part of oh yeah, he wanted to buy it as a gift for a kid. It's like, damn up. Yeah, super up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. This whole weekend was a. A whirlwind.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

It was not, not even the cr. Like, like some of the crazy stuff to come out about the industry with.

[Andy Cortez]

The Epstein files as well regarding Bobby Kotick and, well, Leslie Benzies. Oh, Leslie.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, the rock star dudes. Yeah. This is one that I was gonna put in the show. I'm waiting on more reports to come out of it.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Just because no one's, no one's commented on it past the initial documents.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, obviously like there's million. There's so much to dig into there and so I'm waiting for like all this shit to come out so we can get all the information at once. But yeah, it's been a, it's been a weird dark weekend.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

For this shit.

[Andy Cortez]

So we voted for this, we wanted this. Yeah, we want the guy defending all these people.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Some good news though with story number six. The Super Mario medley just won a Grammy Award. This is from Andy Robinson at Video Games Chronicle. An instrumental medley of Super Mario music was among the Grammy Award winners on Sunday alongside the prolific game composer Austin Winery. Eight Bit Big Band, a 30 plus member jazz orchestra based mostly in New York City won the Grammy award for best arrangement instrumental or acapella for Super Mario Praise Break. The arrangement features instrumental covers of the Super Mario Brothers theme, Bob OMB Battlefield from Super Mario 64, Gusty Garden Galaxy from Mario Galaxy and Athletic Theme from Super Mario world. It's the second time 8bit Big Band has won a Grammy for their video game covers after their version of Meta Knight's revenge from the 1996 SNES title. Kirby Superstar won the same award in 2022.

[Andy Cortez]

Ben Miller was popping off of that one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh yeah, big Mennonite fan. Last year the group was nominated in the best. I don't think it was live.

[Andy Cortez]

He's thinking about it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Lastly, the group was nominated in the best arrangement instruments in vocals category for its cover of Persona 5 track Last Surprise but failed to win the award. 8 bit Big Band wrote on social media quote we just won our second Grammy. Thank you to everyone who listened and supported all of our new releases and huge congrats to my co arrangers on the now Grammy winning Super Mario Praise Break. The incredible friends and musicians Brian Carter and Matthew Whitaker. End quote. The winner for best game soundtrack at this year's Grammys was Sword of the Sea composed by Austin Winery. Winery was previously nominated for Stray Gods and Aliens Fire Scheme Elite.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's a crazy range right there.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's a crazy range. I do want. I do wish I could find out exactly how these soundtracks get recommended or how they're seen. I think Austin submit them right. I think, I think Austin Wintry already being one of these legendary composers is already in people's minds of the voting panel of like okay well what did he do this year? Because obviously he's been nominated several years in the past because. Mainly because I look at Aliens. Fireteam Elite is like, huh, that's an interesting choice. And I wonder what other games came out that year that you're like, why not any of these awesome soundtracks?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If I had to guess, I think he's just taking the initiative and possibly in submitting his stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, very possible.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

So I was interested to see what were the other nominees this year. Right. You had Helldivers 2, which is weird.

[Andy Cortez]

That came out Indiana Jones in the great circle.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

That being the end of last year.

[Andy Cortez]

I get what I hit the cut off. Yeah.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Star Wars Outlaws, Wild Card and whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Like DLC for Star Wars. Star wars.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The Star Wars Game and then DLC.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

For the Avatar Game.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's the other thing is that whenever we've done this year after year of looking at the Grammy nominees for video game stuff, and it's always video games that are adaptations of cinematic works. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And, and that's why I, and, and that's why I want to know exactly what this thing, you know, what the practice is. Because I think that the people may be voting or nominating and you mentioned a great point that maybe Austin winner is taking initiative to kind of submit stuff. But I think that they just kind of look at, well, what's at the very, very top. Yeah, you know what, what are the names that work an IP I recognize. Yeah.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Funny one though. For 2022, the winner was the DLC for whatever DLC came out for Assassin's Creed, Valhalla.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Again, really weird, bizarre, bizarre list. And yeah, I think a lot of them are also just cinematic sounding soundtracks, like big orchestral stuff. But yeah, to that point it's like, well, where is Clear Obscure? Yeah, like, why wasn't that either submitted or nominated? If it was submitted.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Why wouldn't they submit it? A lot of questions if you work on Clear Obscure. Did you submit the Grammys?

[Andy Cortez]

And it could be that just since we're this early into the process of it, people are, you know, maybe they got to work it into their marketing. You know, maybe they got to work it into their actual, like, what's my. What's my job? Comprised of, you know, for working PR or whatever. And maybe this is something that I could think about when, when we sell out the emails that are like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You.

[Andy Cortez]

Know, for your consideration for game awards or whatever or for your consideration for holiday shopping list, maybe it also becomes, hey, Grammy people. Yeah, this is what we're doing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, somebody in chat says Sandfall Melo fellow in Chess of Sandfall Dismit somebody says, also remember a Twitter post submitting it. I also think that to your point, Andy, there's an element of lobbying to the Grammys. I guess the. Yeah to your, you know, please consider X, Y, Z thing. But beyond that, I think I remember listening to a music podcast where they talked about how people. Artists will hire people specifically to lobby for them for the Grammy. You know, to like build that recognition, build the thing. Like let people know, hey, this is for real something that you should consider. And so maybe to your point, yeah, there should be more of that for video games. But also I kind of hate that. I kind of hate that that's a thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I mean, that's. That's the game though. I mean, that's. Whenever you hear about. For your considerations. The. It was always. It's always a joke where in. I forget what seasons. And this is like such a dumb reference. But whenever I'd be watching episodes of Family Guy or there's always an episode where they're like, is this not enough Golden Globes or Emmy's? Like, look at this joke. Is this, you know, are you not happy with this humor or whatever? Looking at the other nomination, seeing stuff like more popular things like God of War, Ragnarok model, Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2 in 2024, Hogwarts Legacy, which is, you know, I don't really hear anybody talking about the music in that game. But it's a name. It's Harry Potter. It's something people. I mean, it's an IP that people know. Marvel's Guardian the Galaxy in 2023.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I do love that.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

The remake of Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord won last year over.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

A bunch of other people that know people. There's somebody on the street, I have no idea. Dude, that has a homie that's like, hey, I do gravy shit. It's a remake from a game like 50 years ago or something.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's a DOS game. It looks like. Yeah, IBM. Whoa. Weird.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

OK. Wild. But hey, video games are present at the Grammy. And also 8 bit big band who did this Mario thing. First of all, I listened to a lot of that. Like, I forget when they released it, but when they first released it, I remember jamming out to it because, like, you don't talk about gospel enough. Well, a lot of people do, but you know, at this office, when we talk about gospel enough, gospel music, great. You know what I mean? Like, even I stopped going to church and I still listen to gospel music. Like, that's how Much. That stuff resonates with my soul. You ever listen to Kirk Franklin?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, man. Let me tell you about revolution. He has a song called Revolution. After this episode, I want you to.

[Andy Cortez]

Go to your desk, just sit in the car.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sit in the car and like, blast to the max volume or like, stomp or. He has a song called Smile that'll legitimately make you smile. Like, it just fills your heart with joy. You might not believe in Jesus, but you'll feel the.

[Andy Cortez]

But you will.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, Kurt, man, this is really okay. Kirk Franklin. Kirk, yes. Some really good gospel. Also, I can't remember his name. I'll send you a list of gospel artists.

[Andy Cortez]

Please do. Come on, make a little playlist for me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm gonna make you a little gospel playlist. I got you. Of course, that playlist is gonna be big because me a lot of songs.

[Andy Cortez]

On it says, y' all mind if I praise God?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Praise God. Real quick. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I needed to know about, where would I go?

[Andy Cortez]

You would go to their. Our last story, the WE News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Story number seven is we news. Starting from the Verge. Absolute's new Switch 2 controller is for all the die hard GameCube fans. Absolute, the company behind the M4 magnetic mobile gamepad, has announced a new pair of controllers for the Nintendo Switch 2, designed to replace the stock Joy Cons while playing in handheld mode. Both are launching soon on Kickstarter and a feature and feature a design where the Switch two docks to the controllers so they can connect to and draw power from the console's bottom USB port. This is what we envisioned when they first showed off the switch in 2017. Yeah, you know, even in 2016, I think when we got that first trailer, it's like, oh, yeah, we'll be able. They'll produce GameCube controllers and you just slide it to the side of them. And that never happened. Yeah, they also just look like, you.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Know, the mockups of like, early versions of, like, when we're talking about the nx, you're like, oh, man, that's what it's going to look like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. This is the fucked up thing that I want. I want that from vgc. Sony has obtained a US patent for a special controller with a touchscreen that lets players choose where the buttons should go. The patent was filed back in February 2023, but was issued last week and is described as designs and methods for a game controller. It sounds like maybe an Accessibility type thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe they finally like downloaded emulators and we're like, oh, wow. Buttons on the screen.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. This is neat.

[Andy Cortez]

That's why people have been doing this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I. I did the thing where when I was playing Lies of P late last year, I started experiencing controller drift.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And became a big problem. And I was like, man, I got to fix this. It was for my dualsense Edge. And so. Yeah. But I learned they make it real easy on the PlayStation website. They sell just the stick module. Oh. And it's really easy to like pop out and replace. And so I did that. It was extremely easy. I didn't. It's not like I screwed anything off or anything like that, but still, I.

[Andy Cortez]

Felt like I did something nice. Way to go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I fixed my dual sense. Edge is great. From ignition. Neo 3 is slated to release on Friday, February 6th on PC via Steam and PS5. But the game's latest trailer has revealed that Xbox and maybe even Switch two owners may not have to wait too long for a version of their own. According to the small print in the trailer, the PS5's console exclusivity period looks set to run for just six months.

[Andy Cortez]

You think you could change a tire right now if you need to? No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Really? Sadly. I mean, if you gave me the tools, I probably figure it out. If you give me the tools in a YouTube video and if it wasn't too cold that day, if the temperature is below like 45 degrees, I'm calling somebody up to do it.

[Andy Cortez]

Is there a puddle near my car?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. If it gets too uncomfortable, I'm calling up AAA.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

No, no YouTube video.

[Andy Cortez]

But you have cell service.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Us just strong enough to call like a close friend.

[Andy Cortez]

You can call me to like walk you through.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

A tire, like changing out a tire.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Ask me if my car has a spare tire available right now. There's like a 50% that doesn't. I just listen. I just ride close to the edge, you know? From vgc the first three games, the Alone in the Dark series, are currently free to claim and keep on gog. Tekken 8 season 3 has been revealed. In late spring, you're going to get Kunimitsu. In summer, you're getting Bob. Shout out Bob. That's my guy. And then on Autumn, you're getting Roger.

[Andy Cortez]

Jr. A lot more autumns being used. What's. What's happening here?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Feel it's more worldwide term, right? Like, what do you think they say in South Africa? I feel like they say Autumn over there.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I would be all for it. Don't get me wrong, I love the word autumn. It's way cooler than fall. But I just. I'm. I was just so shocked that, you know, what. What game reveal was it that we saw? The game was coming out in Autumn. Was it?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And Mike was like, oh, yeah, Autumn.

[Andy Cortez]

It was Fable.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Was it Fable?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, you saw Autumn.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Very British game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, very. And then some people. I think I saw some people confusing that. Right? But like our fall runs from this to this and their autumn runs. I was like, no, shut up. It's just a word replacement.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Just because, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Hold on, hold on.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm just a Flint Chat says plus does not know how to jump a car. I know how to jump a car.

[Andy Cortez]

I have.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Listen, I can jump a car. This is where gets kind of wonky.

[Andy Cortez]

I had to look up.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was like, oh, that's funny.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

We have a friend named Roger. Roger Jr. What does Roger Jr. Look like? Nothing could have prepared me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, you didn't know about Roger Jr.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Can you take a guess of what Roger Jr looks like?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know Roger Jr in Tekken?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I don't. I have no idea. Oh, and I. Oh, okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He's a kangaroo. Boxing gloves.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. And so the little guy in the joey also punches that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What they call that? Yeah, Baby kangaroos. A joey.

[Andy Cortez]

Karoos. A joey. Wow. So what. Why isn't he named Joey?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Roger Jr. Should just be named Joey, right? Who's the.

[Andy Cortez]

Who's the junior?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think the junior is the kid.

[Andy Cortez]

So he's Roger iii.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, I think the. I think the kid is Roger Jr.

[Andy Cortez]

I think the grown up Roger Jr.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Wait, can you just look up Roger Tekken? Because I never thought about this, but yeah. Oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

So Roger is.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Roger is just the kangaroo or. No. Oh, no, that's Alex. Alex is the little.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, look. Roger Senior Tekken Encyclopedia the fourth.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was right.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it is Roger Senior.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't. I think I didn't realize that these were different characters.

[Andy Cortez]

Fascinating. And like. No, that's actually not my child. That's just a growth. He just looks like a weird medical issue I have.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, we're learning things.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

WWE 2K26 launches March 13th on Xbox PS5, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC EA shutting down Apex on Switch 1. August 4th star Sand island has been delayed to February 11th. And finally, Jeff Keighley has announced a Save the Date for the game awards. Thursday, December 10, 2026 from the Peacock Theater in LA. And that is it for WE News.

[Andy Cortez]

You just immediately made me think that it Was August something like. I just thought, like, oh, damn, that's in a couple months.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, no. You thought August was. I thought we were in autumn.

[Andy Cortez]

I just. Like, I thought we were in autumn.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Thought we were in autumn.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Why? Does the spring have a fancy term to it?

[Andy Cortez]

Or does it's the only one that. No, autumn's the only one that has a fancy term.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Because, like, summer and winter, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Are like summer and winter.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I feel like those are already kind of fancy. I feel like.

[Andy Cortez]

What. What are you talking about?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Here we are, it's called spring and fall because, like, you're springing up in temperature and you're falling down in temperature.

[Andy Cortez]

Right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Did I make that up?

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like the leaves fall. I don't. Yeah, I don't know.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Maybe I made spring because, you know, spring represents, like, the movement of life. Trees coming back to life.

[Andy Cortez]

I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying, though. Two words are just basic ass.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, basic ass. Yeah. I'm not gonna let you get away.

[Andy Cortez]

From summer and winter are fancy words, though.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, what are we talking about here, Dude? No, cuz like, if we. If we didn't call winter winter, say we called winter cold freeze time. Freeze time, right? And then like in. In Europe, they called it winter. We'd be like, oh, that's some fancy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It'd be called summer, like hotness or something like that, right? And in the. And in Europe, in South Africa, they say. I don't know why I'm including. They say summer. We'd be like, damn, summer's kind of second top. Like, here's the thing. We would name our child Summer. We would name our child Autumn. You know what I mean? I know. I know people named Winter. I ain't know. I don't know anybody named Spring or fall.

[Andy Cortez]

Because they're just verbs.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Andy Cortez]

Jump.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's what I'm saying.

[Andy Cortez]

Huh? Rise.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Rise.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, they're just words. You're right. You're right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Winter and summer are fancy words. We're just used to them. Somebody in chat or. Sorry. Super chats. We're in there now. Zeke Speak writes in and says, bless. Look up Vernal. Vernal.

[Andy Cortez]

Is that another season.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Of in or appropriate to spring? Oh, Vernal. I don't like it. Claw Master writes in and says, I need Roger to dress as Roger junior. I can see it. Alec Bobco says, birthday tax from this past Saturday. Thanks for making my afternoons at work more tolerable.

[Andy Cortez]

Happy birthday, Alec Bobko.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Birthday, Alec Bobco. Kobe writes in and says, not sure if it was talked about, but it's important to note a major win for games and indie movies. Markiplier's game film adaptation iron Lung earned $21.5 million in its opening weekend. It's great. It's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

So cool. They could cost 3 million to make or something like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Very cheap movie to make. Yeah. Based off an indie game. Like, really, really cool stuff. Almost watched it this weekend.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it was in. They had an actual. Okay. But, yeah, but I. I just assumed it was, you know, limited only at this, you know, smaller boutique or whatever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It was one of those ones where this person was like, yo, we're gonna hang out tonight, right? I'm like, yeah, yeah, what do you want to do? And they're like, have you seen Iron Lung from Markiplier? And I had not heard of it until they said it. And I was like, I don't know if I want to watch this. Right. But then later on they're like, I got a headache. And I'm like, listen, we should just cancel, you know, I don't want you to push your headache staring at the screens or whatever. I was so happy.

[Andy Cortez]

Detrimental.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Been so happy for somebody to have a headache.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's. That's one of my favorite Larry David quotes of like, I'm never happier than when someone cancels plans on.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, dude. It was the best feeling. I was like, I do not want to watch this movie. Even though people. It sounds like it's.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, people. Yeah. People have been really, really digging it. I think there's a lot of friends of ours that are also in it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, you're right. Yeah. I saw somebody post a screenshot of the credits. I think Rahul might be in it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Avenuts writes in and says, if you're a hot dog, pure hot dog, would you eat yourself? What condiments would you use to eat? A hole or b hole. Indian bless. Of course that's a hole. I'm b whole.

[Andy Cortez]

Refuse to answer.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Would I eat myself if I was a hot dog? Probably not. That sounds painful. But if I. If I were some relish on there.

[Andy Cortez]

I still don't fuck with the hot dogs a whole lot.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Really? It's. It's.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll eat it, but it's not something that I'm yearning forever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What about. How do you feel about bratwurst?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, it's the same.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Oh, man, you're missing out. Yeah, I love a bratwurst really? If I was a brat, I would eat myself. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. Yeah, that might be the Midwest super.

[Andy Cortez]

Chat to their channel. That is the Midwest. And you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, dude, I love a bratwurst night. War 19 says are re 2/3/village. Worth it if I've never played. If I've never played before. Yes. In fact, playing that order, actually, no, add re4 in there. I would say start with re2 and then play re4 and then three and then village.

[Andy Cortez]

No, you should play three after two because three is happening at the same time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You're right. Three is more pro. And you can beat three in one sitting.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's like four hours, something like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Samson XP says, will Andy react to overwatch announcements on February 4th, 10:00am probably not.

[Andy Cortez]

No. We have. We have games daily.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, we might talk about it. Well, it's at 10:00am we'll talk about it on some games daily. Yeah, I don't know about that one, but we'll talk about it. Thwarted junk. 9685 says in game. Ellie seemed cold blooded in the show. I just remember Bella saying, I'm gonna be a dad. Also, I haven't seen anyone mention Catherine o' Hara being in Nightmare Before Christmas, which is crazy. Here's the thing that I'll say to the I'm gonna be a dad thing. I have some whimsy.

[Andy Cortez]

I hate the hate of that. Yeah, it's just a goofy fudgeing line.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You can say goofy lines in fiction.

[Andy Cortez]

Can we not say a goofy line?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, her character in the whole first season is reading from joke books. Like, yes, she's gonna make jokes. Yeah, it's her thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Professor Cat 99 says, just as a reminder that it is okay to start an affair with an ICE agent's wife. Oh, all right. I don't know if I want to do that, though, because she's probably not great either. She's married to an ICE agent.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah. No, and they're not the most, you know, they're not the most stable people.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What are you about to say? Well, it's because I'm just thinking the.

[Guest/Additional Commentator]

Amount of, you know, probably like, secretly, or maybe not so secretly, but secretly to the husband, unhappy, unhappily married wives in, like, the middle of America who have a lot of opinions on their, like, husband's opinions of, like, what's going on, and it doesn't always align. So I'm just. I'm just thinking more from that perspective.

[Andy Cortez]

You made your bed. Made your bed. And I'm sleeping In it, obviously.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Obviously, people change over time. Wait, what did you say? I missed the joke.

[Andy Cortez]

You made that bed and I'm sleeping.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's good.

[Andy Cortez]

I like that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I was gonna say people change over time and like that. And so, like, I kind of get on one hand, but on the other hand, like, man, you married somebody that ended up being an ICE agent. I feel like there's some seed in there, some way that when you first started seeing them, maybe you could have seen.

[Andy Cortez]

That's an immediate red flag.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I feel like that'd be right. Like, what. What did you miss in the first 10 dates? Yeah, we missed that coming up.

[Andy Cortez]

I have nothing nice to say, so I'm not going to.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Also, Kristoff in the chat says, who's married to an ICE agent.

[Andy Cortez]

Great point. That's true. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think that's it for. Oh, we have one more from Super. Oh, my Glob 89. It says. Actually, no, we already read this one. We have one more from Jeff Bull Jr. Says alien blast. Yes, it is. It is the year to get into Warframe. I just started a week ago and I've been having a lot of fun.

[Andy Cortez]

It has never been a better time to get into Warframe. And this is our year. And then also we need to check out how Soul Frame starts developing through the rest of the year. Because I feel like at the end of this year we may get a big Soul Frame. Like, like, hey, guys, big official type shit. Not just download our weird little launcher on our website that, you know, is it an official. I feel like maybe at the end of the year we'll get a kind of like a Steam demo. Steam Official. We're. We're announcing ourselves. Here's our beta. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I hope so. Let's hop into kind of fight dot com. You're wrong where you write in. Let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe, the friendly cellmate says he said Toronto. Wrong. The second T is silent. Just saying. From a Torontoian. Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

And the throw up. And the first T is kind of like a ch.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Toronto. Toronto.

[Andy Cortez]

Toronto.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Toronto.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There's no way they say that that's Toronto. That's how they talk over.

[Andy Cortez]

My ex girlfriend lived there and would always.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Toronto.

[Andy Cortez]

Toronto. Toronto. Toronto. It's never. It's not like a Toronto. It's not like a Toronto. It's a Toronto.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Toronto. Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like Louisville. Louisville.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's like Edinburgh.

[Andy Cortez]

Edinburgh.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Edinburgh. It's spelt Burg, though. Yeah, it's B U R G. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, don't get me started on Boston. You know, the amount of times people be like, no, that's not war. That's not Warcessor. That's Worcester. I'm like, well, then that's not it. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm like, sorry, I read the thing that's on the page.

[Andy Cortez]

You have a typo, then.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Not like. It's not like Karen. Like, I read the thing that's in front of me.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Warcester.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Chroma Kyra says for the Grammys, it's when the soundtrack or album is released, not when the game is released. Oh, there you go. Okay, Bander. I mean, I did this on purpose, but I'll read it. Baner says, bless said August was autumn, August is summer. He tried to sink that bias. I was trying to do the bit because I'm pretty sure Mike was the one who. Who said autumn was like summer to fall. And we're like, no, it's just fall.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a separate in between. It's the fifth season. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Rojas, the secret fifth one. Rojas sends me. Sends me two wiki articles. One for Roger and one for Roger Jr. They gave me the TLDR, which is the adult is Roger's wife. The Joey. The Joey in the pouch is Roger Jr. Though you're technically controlling Roger's wife, and the kid only gets a few punches in here and there. The character named Roger.

[Andy Cortez]

The character is named Roger Jr. From Nepo Babies.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We couldn't, like, give her a name. That's Roger's wife. I'm not gonna listen. Crazy. And she's the. That's. Listen. I'm saying that's misogynist, bro. Like, damn. You skipped the person that we're controlling to attribute more credit to the baby that's in the pouch that's only assigned to, what, like, right B or something?

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, this Roger's.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We don't even know her name. That's fucked up, dude.

[Andy Cortez]

This show's so fucking woke.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's great. No, like, is that not a little. Like, that's a little Saji. That's just a little Saji, is what I'm saying.

[Andy Cortez]

I've never heard Saji.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Shout out to the midnight boys. I stole it from them.

[Andy Cortez]

I like that. Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And that's not a year wrong. So he's wrote in about a thing about a hot dog, but it doesn't fit for this segment. But thank you so much for letting me know. And that is it for kind of funny.com you're wrong. That is it for this episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily. Remember, if you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show that is Greg Way. Enjoy the games cast next kind of feud after and a stream after that. But until next time, Game Daily.