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Manapert Mark asks for altruism. Garots! Then the guys gabble about gaming. Watchable Wade has ear excruciation. Is flummoxed by fecundity. Screams at cons and prophesies an RPG festival future. Blotchy Bob's bosom is a bulwark. He waxes hard, digs Dreamcast, but dogs doom. And BlizzCon. From oracle awareness to family massacres. Ha ha!

It's time for Gaming News. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hi, welcome to Distractible. Bob vanished. He was there and then he evaporated. And all you viewers are seeing this. The listeners, we're not gaslighting you this time. Bob is gone. Wait, is this thing on? Hey, who clicked record? Oh!

I don't know. It must have been the ghosts. I'm not even wearing my headphones properly. I had no idea we were doing this. You look so different. I didn't even realize it was you with your headphones half off. Yeah, the headphones thing just made me realize like how ubiquitous this look is for streamers and stuff and anyone that does content on the internet. Like we don't have ears. When I would do this, yeah, when I did this, everyone's like, oh!

Oh my god, it doesn't look right. What the fuck is going on? We should do an episode where we all just wear earbuds. And so we don't have... I look fucking weird on camera without the headphones. I mean, I can do it.

My head is like pointy. No, no. See, this is weird. This is not normal. This is not. If I change these headphones, my videos would fundamentally be different because I've had these for so long. These have been the headphones that I've used forever. Why isn't Sennheiser giving me money for that? Man, I really should. I really should hold that against them. Missed opportunity. Hey, Audio Technica, I see an opportunity.

And we're always fishing for more opportunities for money. But that's why this is distractible. The Money Focus Podcast. You want to get rich? Listen to us. You want to get poor? Listen to us. We will guide you on the ups and downs farther up and farther down than you've ever been in your life. That's why they call us the Jim Cramer of comedy stock podcasts. What are those? What are those?

For the listeners, Wade just gestured behind him. Yeah, the numbers, the stock numbers. Give us some stock numbers, Wade. Hit them hard. Oh, the NASDAQ is up 22. The NASDAQ...

The craft is looking steady. Would you say craft is mac and cheese right now? Making cheese? Making... Oh, I get it. I get it. That was exactly four-way. Come on now. Oh, come on. I would never tell a joke like that. I'll give you a half a point for the attempt. We aren't dialing out yet.

All right, so this is the podcast that you wanted. It is distractible, where we rotate out hosts depending on who won the last episode. I won the last one, which means that I'm the host, so I make up this episode, and I assign points to these two gentlemen, Bob and Wade, who are going to earn points through their wit and through their strength.

and their ability to pick stocks, apparently. Whoever loses the most money in the next hour wins! Every... A point for every $10,000 in debt you are. Spicy. If you're already in debt, I'll count those points. Wade. This is getting oddly personal. Wade. Those repairs have been adding up, haven't they? This isn't a fair episode. I've got out of state of trance. You rich bastards. I could never have the kind of debt that Wade has. Wade.

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So, before we get started with the main episode, which I'm going to warn you, you already know from the title, but I guess there's no real surprise here. So I guess sometimes I'm like, I shouldn't say what it is, but I guess it's for your benefit than anything. Anyway, let's get with the small talk. It's been not too long since we last spoke, but the world keeps spinning. I just want to say I got away with something and I want to brag about it. I got away scot-free. I got zero consequences.

It's been really hot. It's really hot in summertime. It's been like high 90s, which for Ohio is pretty hot because it's also like really humid and gross. But we went to the pool, which is fun. But I am like, my face is probably the tannest part of me. The rest of me is more like this color, which is just...

blindingly pale white. We went to the pool and I don't know why, but I put sunscreen on everywhere except my least tan parts. I like didn't sunscreen my torso. And we got to the pool and I was like, hmm, should I put sunscreen on now that we're here? Or should I just take my shirt off and jump in the pool?

Which I obviously did the second one. And I didn't get, I didn't even get more tan than I was. Like, I didn't get anything. I didn't get sunburned. We were in the pool for a solid hour and a half outside without a shirt. I don't know what happened.

Because I get sunburned sitting in a car sometimes. Was there sunlight? It was bright. It was the middle of the afternoon. It was like 94 degrees outside, super sunny. Nothing. Couldn't tell you what happened. Honestly, I got a little like my... You know when you feel that almost sunburned where you kind of feel... I got that on my cheeks and I was like, oh man.

I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night screaming in agony from this one. And then I woke up the next day and was as pale as ever. I don't know what happened. I'm just going to go out and say it. I think I've developed an immunity to the sun. I was literally writing that. Yeah, only on my torso. I don't know what happened. Immune to sun, which is really impressive. Science, please dissect that man and analyze him. I submit.

Would you, if you, okay, let's say for example, like you naturally had an immunity to almost every type of cancer, right? Like your body somehow naturally fights it off. I accept. Go on. Would you sacrifice yourself in the name of science so that they could dissect you and figure out how, I mean, they could probably draw your blood, but let's say that that wasn't a possibility. They tried. Assuming there was no way to do it other than to kill me and completely eviscerate me for whatever reason.

Since it's not a real scenario, I'm going to say, of course I would, Mark. What kind of monster wouldn't make such a meaningless sacrifice in the face of saving millions and millions of humans? Of course I would. Wouldn't even think about it. Sacrifice point. You get that. All right. As soon as I'm dead of natural causes, they can have me.

I hereby submit myself after death to whatever they want. They can't figure out the secret to your cancer immunity unless they kill you. If you die of natural causes, it dies with you. We need science to advance a bit before they're ready for what I got. You know, like I'm bringing it. All right. Let's say instead of cancer, you, Wade, have this natural ability where you just don't age, right? Yeah.

Oh. Clearly you don't have that, but hypothetically. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you watch yourself over there. Oh, okay. I can't hear you. What? Wade is suffering from an ear infection, apparently. Look, see it? Yeah, I have ears too, yeah. It's right there. It's in there.

Alright, a point for every year. You can't age, so you generally wouldn't die of what you would probably call a natural cause. Your heart won't give out, you're not gonna, you know, no cancers, like, you'll, you're gonna be fine. Would you submit yourself? Soon as I'm dead of unnatural causes that aren't murder or manslaughter, they can have me. What's...

Is a ghost going to kill you? Something better, and it better not be intentional to get my body. All right, so you could say you won't because it sounds like a no. What? No, the answer is yes. Asterisk. Terms and conditions apply, Mark. I'll give you a point. I'm going to put an asterisk and say terms and conditions apply. I'll take it. Wade, what's going on with you?

So listen, a week ago I had to go to the doc and I was like, hey doc, my throat's a mess, sinuses are bad, and I don't feel good. What's up? The doc's like, hmm.

Your left ear, not looking so good, but you know what'll fix you up? Some good old Moxacillin. You want the pretty drinky or you want the nasty pill pill? They're like, ooh, pretty drinky. They're like, all right, you get the pill. Okay. So took some of Mox Mox. Got all better. Got the clean bill of health. Went to Florida. Did some swim. Swimming. Had a great time. Flew back home of, what, four or five days ago. Was fine. Went to my mom's house. Jumped in my mom's pool. Got out. Agony!

Went back to the doc doc. Ooh, you got a little wah-wah. Better get you some drop-drops. So now I've got like swimmer's ear. What doctor are you going to? He still sees his pediatrician. Seeing the same seven-year-old pediatrician since he was six months old. Yeah, I have Molly put me in a really big carrier and I've got the bald head. So we just put a little blanket over.

You get pushed in on a stroller and your legs are displayed. I'm like, Dougie, my ear hurts. Oh. I don't know. I got a swimmer's ear and I've always thought that like, I don't know. I think I had it as a kid and I didn't remember it, but I was like, I have a little water in the ear. Wow. Big wolf. What's that going to do? It's not that bad. This is the most painful shit I've ever dealt with. It's fucking terrible. Like when you're trying to sleep, I don't know what it is about laying down.

But it's the most agonizing fucking thing in the world of when you wake up after like two hours of sleep and your just whole head is clogged and on fire. And I was looking through forums last night to make myself feel better. I was like, oh, maybe someone else has gone through this pain. Every forum was like, I've given birth 36 times, but nothing compares to swimmers here. And I said, that feels like an exaggeration. But also like...

ow it hurts how many times did they give birth oh 36 i don't feel like that's the same number that you just said but all right double want to check the vod haven't you seen that reality show mark stevie and jamie nicks plus 36 yep i gotta check that one 30 say so mom oh man

I don't even know what the record is for most kids, but I feel like that would break it for sure. But I am sorry about your ear. I got fleeced in ear-related news. What? Sorry, go ahead. I found the record for most kids. All right, well, let's get that out of the way. Let's see what that is before we all... This...

69 is the record, but there's no way that's true. What? Valentina Vasilyeva, the first wife of Russian peasant Fyodor Vasilyev. It had to be multiple like twins and stuff, right? 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Fyodor!

quadruplets? There's no way this is, this has to be a lie or a book or something. It's Guinness, so they kind of verify, don't they? 1765 was the last birth. 69. Nice.

1707. I mean, okay, this is hard to verify because it's so far in the past, but wow. That's... That's a lot of kids. Number three on the list is 55, and that was... 1981 was the last one. That's incredible. If that's true, that's incredible. 36 would be ninth on this list. Ninth? All right, okay. Maybe it's not as crazy as I thought. Unimpressive, huh? Yeah.

Yeah, now top that with whatever you were gonna say. Oh, you host a generous host So, I don't know if you guys are seeing there's a lot of people that were pushing this like ear camera thing to clean your ears and so all my life and this is a confession and I'm not saying people should do this is I take q-tips and I

clean my ears after a shower to get the water out. And I generally just like, it's something I do. It's a habit. Um, and I know that that has been said to be very bad and I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm not disagreeing with that at all. I have a certain technique that I do about it. Like I spin and twist as I, as I'm rotating around the sides, I'm not just slamming it in there. I spin and twist. I was like, Oh God, I bet I have earwax in my ear because of

My history of doing that for all my life I took that camera in my ear and I've seen the videos of the people doing it with their ears I don't know what they're putting in their ears. My ears were pristine Absolutely clean not even the tiniest speck of earwax and I stuck a camera in both of my ears and I looked and it was absolutely

utterly clean now i'm not saying everyone should start q-tipping because i have i have what 30 years of experience doing it in precisely the right way that i don't slam into my eardrums because i'm not doing that and apparently i've created a technique that can really work to my advantage in doing that but i'm i'm i'm also very curious of how other people's ears get so incredibly clogged

genetically i produce a lot of wax i i think we're actually ear twins mark yeah i have the exact same i have q-tipped since i was a kid i have never had issues my ears are pristinely clean i do produce a fair amount of earwax like every day i q-tip i get some out it's not like there's like days where it's like there's nothing right i

I make a lot of earwax. My theory is if you do it regularly and you do it safely, like you can absolutely damage your ear and cause problems with a Q-tip. But if you do it safely and carefully, I feel like it's the best way to do it. My ear canals are pristinely clean and I'm exactly right there with you. I swear to God, other people produce earwax that's like calcified. I don't know. Yeah, like it's chunky.

Which is not a thing I would ever describe. My earwax is always like soft and easily removed. Mine is cement mortar that exists and hardens and calcifies and mummifies and petrifies and stupefies. We have the good ears, Mark. Yeah, we got the good ears. And we're not saying everyone should start doing it because I feel like if someone hasn't done it and they have like...

A bunch of your wife, if they push it in, they will compact what's there. Like it needs to be, you need to get a professional cleaning or something like that and then maintain it. It's like flossing. If you haven't flossed in a while and you floss once blood everywhere, you've just destroyed your entire tooth structure. But now my teeth hurt just from saying that. No, I hate that. Thank you. Yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry, everyone. I'll deduct a point for myself. That was terrible. I apologize.

And we're not saying do the ear thing, but yeah. Yeah, I mean, probably if you haven't ever done it, you definitely shouldn't. But like, I'm with you, Mark. Everyone is always like, don't use Q-tips. It's so dangerous. I'm like, if I don't use Q-tips for like a few days, it gets really gross.

I want to keep it clean in there. They've got multiple ways of cleaning. If you just go to your general physician, they'll clean your ears. There's three different ways they'll do it. They have the scraper. They have the really loud suction machine. And then my favorite is the weird water bowl where they put water in your ear. And then you pour it back out and you make ear cereal.

I'm so glad I've cleaned my ears regularly throughout my life so I don't have to experience ear cereal. I clean mine too, but let me tell you, I produce a shit ton of wax. I don't have to go anywhere to get clean ears. I just do that at home. Oh God. The day after I get my ears cleaned, it's like... Does it affect your hearing? This is the thing I don't understand. It's like in those videos online where people's ears are like completely stopped up with wax. Isn't that just like wearing an earplug?

It can be, yeah. If my earwax was so thick and that it was affecting my hearing, I would be like, well, I should probably do something, not, oh, well, I have a lot of earwax. I don't know. Well, I mean, you would probably notice because it's like, you know, frog in a pot of boiling water. They don't notice the change because it's taking place over such a long period of time, probably. Yeah.

And then suddenly it's like, wow, I can't hear at all. No, it is like that for me with my buildup. Whenever I go get my ears cleaned, it's like, oh my God, I talk loud like after I get it done. And then that's so crazy. It's fearless judgy. I'm not at all looking down on people who have that

different kind of earwax or whatever but like that must be fucking weird to live with wade is wade's looking down on you oh there's nothing like focusing on all these different ear topics while mine is just pulsating and yeah how's your ear wade feeling good sorry i i have a few drugs in today and it's still not good don't think about flossing your ears don't think about that

It made my teeth hurt. It'll just make your ears hurt. Kind of a cool, like... I know that that's not how that works, but doesn't that seem like it would feel so good? No. Yeah. Because I know there's a brain in between. You just fish it in there and then you get out the other side and then you're just like...

Ah, yeah. No, it'd be like, you know, the thing that assassins, like the wire that people put around their necks, it'd be like that through your head and it would get coiled up and it'd cut your brain off from your brain stem. I don't want to do that. Well, wouldn't I feel better if I just cut my brain stem off? Then I wouldn't have to be conscious of anything anymore? Wouldn't that be good? If it gets stuck in your ear teeth and like breaks off, that would suck. Your ear teeth? What are you

Mark you wouldn't know because you don't know how you don't have to crunch up your ear bricks But how do you think ear brick people crunch up their ear bricks is where their ear teeth mark? And then you use your ear tongue to move them around and spit them out Like when you take a sip and an ice cube actually gets in there and you're all but I

No, no, no, no, no. I'll give a point to anyone that can't, that has a small talk that's not ear related. Well, my other ears don't agree. All right, let's move on.

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So, today's topic is something that we used to cover a lot, um, and I feel like we don't do it enough. We're talking about gaming news, because, ladies and gentlemen, we're on the cusp of a new generation. Shockingly. Switch 2 is out, PlayStation 6 rumors are swirling, the Xbox, whatever the hell they're doing is rumoring. Like, we don't even know what's going on over there. So I'd have PC and S tier. We were talking tier list, right? Mm-mm.

Okay, back to you. No, go ahead. Give me your tier. PC's up there. PlayStation's up there. Up where? Oh, S. S, S, S. Or Z. Xbox is like, you know, the good Xbox, that one generation that people liked. That can be like single S. Switch, looks like a C. Steam Deck, maybe a B. Switch 2. I don't have one, so I don't know where to rank it yet, but I'm just going to say...

B, I had this the Steam Deck and it was it was nice, but it was way too big. I was so used to being able to hold the switch that when it came down to trying to like play anything, I tried to play Elden Ring on it and it worked, you know, acceptable frame rates, not bad graphics, but, you know, just trying to

do the controls just was too big and unwieldy to do. I would have rather had like a laptop and a controller tied to it and just play that way as opposed to trying to do on a Steam Deck. But that being said, you know, I recognize what it's trying to do and I do appreciate it kind of started something cool there.

Even the Switch I got tired of holding. Really? Yeah, that week? Switch is too small for me. Somehow, I'm with you that the Steam Deck was too big, but then the Switch somehow is like, the ergonomics of it make it all so awkward for being small. I don't know.

I would like a handheld to be designed exactly to fit my natural body angles. How did you live in the Game Boy Color era? Yeah, did you have a Game Boy? Like, any kind of Game Boy that you played on? I didn't have a Game Boy until a Game Boy Advance. And I had the limited release... Well, not that special. But I had the fuchsia pink see-through plastic Game Boy Advance, which was sick.

See through purple Game Boy colors. Where was that? I also hated the ergonomics of that, but I was also in middle school. So I probably thought less about it than I do now that I'm old and my joints crunch. I stink. I'm sorry.

But anyway, we're approaching this next generation of gaming. And honestly, it's been an interesting year for gaming going from like PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 because I think PlayStation 4 was the last time that graphics did a giant jump and everyone's like, oh, it's amazing. Then went to 5 and it's like,

It's good, but and now we're going to six and so things are getting more powerful. What is I mean? What's the point literally? What's what's the point? What is what is the point? What's the biggest graphical jump we've had for me in my in my experience? It was PlayStation the PlayStation 2 I'd say two to three was a big jump Yeah, I was gonna say two to three era wasn't it? I mean one to two definitely big jump Xbox to 360 yeah

Yeah, that was quite a jump. Because then you went from Halo 1 to Gears of War when those Cinemax were coming out and the previews for that. And then you saw the game and it was like, whoa. I will say, I also went from having an N64 to the Dreamcast. Because we did have a Dreamcast at my house. That was an interesting switch. Because the Dreamcast was pretty idiosyncratic in how it looked. I don't know if it was the way...

the way the system worked or the whatever but I thought the Dreamcast was mind blowing when I got that jump back in the day but that was also a weird switch yeah that was an odd one kind of like slanted not quite up not quite to the side just off that way yeah so but Dreamcast was great I don't know why it failed I never know why these things fail I thought that was a cool system the little memory card slash Tamagotchis that you put in the controller those were cool it was so cool why did it how could it fail who could have failed

So anyway, general gaming news. What is going on in the world out there? Well, Warner Brothers is continuing to explode in different ways. It sounds like they're restructuring the way that they do video games. They're going to be focusing. What was it on Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, DC and Mortal Kombat as they like split up out

How they are handling gaming in general. It sounds like their main company is gonna focus on those like few IPs and I don't know what the other splits gonna be but Great good IPs to focus on it's a choice I feel like you're just limiting yourself so much by focusing on specific things like that How much did they spend on that Suicide Squad game? Wasn't it a lot? It was a lot. Was it good?

not that i heard and not a lot of people played it it's it's this problem where when when i read those ip lists i i can hear the boardroom of old businessmen trying so hard to make a movie instead of a game and they're trying so hard to apply everything that they think they know about entertainment to this other sphere and then you have that which is

which, you know, in any other context would be a fine game. But when people were doing graphical comparisons to previous generations, it was a downgrade to the actual like gameplay itself. It was a downgrade. And it's just like, I don't get how they have these other games that they've made and systems that they made for them. And every time they make a new game, they throw all that out and they just start over and they're rushed the next time. And I'm not running a game. This Games Radar reports that WBC

lost 200 million on the suicide squad kill the justice league that's not that they spent 200 million on development but that's like their reported loss on the game as a whole which implies they did spend a lot on development and that probably means they spend more than 200 million oh my

Oh my god, I can't even... Apparently Kings Road, Game of Thrones had a Kings Road game that came out a month ago. It's got mixed reviews on Steam. Is it a gotcha? There was a Game of Thrones game? Yeah, Kings Road. It came out May 21st. And they didn't call it Game of Game of Thrones? Game of Thrones, Kings Road. Momentum gates, multiple unnecessary currencies, limited daily rewards, unless you pay, loot locked behind timers, tiny inventory unless you cough up... It's a pay to...

Pay to win type game. Which mobile games, you know, they exist. They can be fun. But like, is that their only gaming IP? Do they have a game that's not a pay to win game? No. Because of course they don't. They don't because they don't understand anything besides that. And I think a counterpoint to their style of doing it and a recent success. I have not played this, but I've heard a lot of good things about it. Is Claire Obscure Expedition 33. Which I think is a really...

fascinatingly bad name for a game, but that's what I thought at first when I saw the name pop up on Steam or wherever I was looking. But it gets glowing reviews, and it's made by a small team that is offshoot of one of the big studios. I forget...

I don't know the full history of it, but people love that game. And it's made by a small team trying to really focus on making something that they wanted to play. It's so good to see a thing like that work to showcase now that all of the industry has matured and there's so many tools out there with like Unreal Engine, whatever you want to make it out of, like Unreal Engine or Unity or whatever. There are so many tools that are there for people to make games. And yet still billion dollar companies are churning out

garbage just garbage doesn't make any sense to me have you guys heard about that game yeah I've actually played it a bit it's it's very fun and it I think funny enough if I'm remembering correctly it's called expedition 33 I think the team had like 34 people on it which is

Pretty funny. But it did take six years to make. Guillaume Broche, I'm sure I said that wrong, had the idea in 2020 and started making sort of prototypes and stuff. And it took them until this year to get it out. I guess that's not six years, that's five years. But it did take a long time. But yeah, that's technically like a AA title. And I feel like that's one of the better received games I can recall in recent memory versus a lot of...

i can't really think of a triple a game that came out and everyone was like oh it's so good um i mean like the best case for triple a's right now is they come out and everyone's like yeah that's pretty much what i thought it would be one of the first spider-man game was pretty well received that's old i know that come out i don't know that that was beginning playstation of uh playstation 4 or no late playstation that was a launch title for ps5 wasn't it

Well, yeah, it was one of the ones that bridged. Like, it released late PS4 and then re-released early PS5. Would Elden Ring count as AAA? That would be AAA, I believe. Yeah, you would count that AAA. I think that one of the things that I see from... It's so simple because I look at gameplay of...

of these games and i can instantly tell that there is gameplay here and that's the biggest problem i see with games today and i i harp on this probably people think of broken record but i'm like they're trying so hard to make a movie and that's what i always see you can have cinematics in the game i like cinematics in the game i don't mind them at all i used to watch just cinematics of games but it has to have gameplay in between the cinematics and i can tell this game has a very tight game loop there's

a lot to play there like actually playing the thing so that's what i that's what i like to see and that's what you don't see out of i mean i looked at gameplay of the king's road of that game throne games and i'm like oh god just looking at it i can tell it's a guy running around he hopped over a log and they thought this was the best shot to put in the trailer this is so funny to me it

It makes me feel like maybe I'm out of touch almost, but I've had that same thing with the Dune, Dune Awakening. That's been so big. And I was at PAX East this year in Boston, and Dune Awakening had a big presence, if I remember. It's been everywhere. I've been getting advertisements for Dune Awakening aggressively. I couldn't really tell what the gameplay looked like until I actually just went and watched a streamer play it.

I don't, that seems crazy to me, but it feels like the advert, like it feels like they're doing it on purpose. Well, how could you advertise a video game? And the take, one of the main takeaways is not obviously, Oh, this is what it will be like to play that game. Even if it's wrong. Cause it's totally possible to make a trailer for a game and use footage and clips and things of

of like stuff that isn't representative of the main gameplay loop or stuff that is you know the coolest shit in the game is in the trailer and the rest you know that's maybe misleading but that's fine I feel like I didn't see a single piece of advertising for Dune Awakening where I came away and I was like oh it's

It's like this other game. It's like this kind of... How do they even do that? Because it's not like it's a gacha game. There is gameplay in Dune Awakening. It's like a survival crafting thing, right? Like there's... You wander around, you explore the world, there's like vehicles and shit. I hear there's a lot of PvP, whether you want it or not. Yeah, I've heard that too. I see that in the reviews. I'm not going to play it. It doesn't look that interesting to me, but I just thought it was crazy that until I just saw people playing it after full release, I still didn't have like a really good...

image of what the gameplay was what the game was going to really look like or be which made me just completely uninterested whether or not i was going to play it because of my personal preferences if i look at a thing i had the same reaction you did mark when i looked at clear obscure expedition 33 i just looked at the title and i was like oh and i was immediately like i'm not gonna i'm probably not gonna be interested in that but i am it's a good game like it's cool but the

There's a lot of these things that marketing people and the game developers are just making decisions that immediately are confusing, confounding to me. Very much so. And I think another example of that is, I don't know if you guys have heard of Mind's Eye. I have, yeah.

I don't think so. I know that because of the co-carnage thing that happened, but... The co-carnage thing? Is that where... He was on stream, and he was about to go into a sponsored... I think it was Mind's Eye. He was about to go into a sponsored segment. And he was literally like, alright guys, we're gonna play a new game. This game is called Mind's Eye. He was doing the preamble to, now we're gonna play this sponsored segment. And literally he was like, while he was doing that on stream, he was like, oh wait a minute.

Okay, while I was doing that introduction, I got an email and they have officially paused the sponsored segment I was about to do.

So... But I was like, live on stream as he was already live doing the... Anyway, it was... But I've seen a lot of people... There's other clips of streamers who are clearly like, they're doing a sponsored segment and they're like, playing the game and some terrible shit happens and they're like, don't forget guys, this is sponsored by MindsEye, so...

If you want to play this... It has mostly negative reviews right now, and it's a $60 game. There's just a lot of funny clips about it, but... The thing about it is, I bet it's a fine game, because it's trying to be kind of like GTA or Cyberpunk. It's like an open-city kind of game. There's been others besides those games that have been around. I think it's really the performance issues that I saw most of the reviews about. And I'm so curious how...

How these business decisions come down where they, there's an executive, right? And there's a game here that clearly is not ready. Like it's not ready, but the executive is like, we got a date to hit. We got to make it ready. Push, push, push. We can do it. They're probably thinking they're inspirational when in reality they would make more money if they had waited and allowed the team to finish it. Because I don't doubt that the team wanted to make it right. And all of them were ripping their hair out. Like it's not,

ready are they crazy and yet someone's cramming a deadline down their throats to get it out I don't know if that's the situation but I imagine because that that is a common thing that happens in gaming yeah I mean I do think that's a that that's not exclusive to gaming you can certainly tell that there are like other forms of media where

someone who wasn't in the creative process or someone who was just in charge of it was like, we got to get this deadline. And then they pushed it out before they push the movie out before it's done, before it's fully baked, or they push a TV series out when it's like, it would have really benefited from,

you know another six months or another year or something and it would it could have been really good and then instead it's this but i feel like the thing with video games is it is not the entire representative of the entire community but especially games like mine's eye where their marketing strategy involves streamers the community is much more like interactive around it right if you go and you see a movie that turns out to be because it was rushed out and you'll talk to your friends you might talk to people you know like if you're if your work

people you'll talk to them about or what but you're not like interacting with thousands of people live while you're watching the movie and being like oh my god guys this is so terrible but like when you they paid streamers to play their game and then apparently the co-carnage incident was only one of several where they literally while people were streaming tried to cut them off and were like stop broadcasting just to try and stop them from sharing their negative

impression of the game because like they were streaming the game sponsored segment and then it was breaking or I don't know the details, but like when you make that your marketing strategy, everyone gets to talk about in real time how shitty your thing is. It generates all these hilarious clips of streamers who are like, oh,

I don't know if I'd recommend buying this, but this is sponsored by Minds Eye. It's crazy to do the first part where you rush it out and then do the second part where you're like, and make sure everyone talks about it a bunch. That's a terrible idea. As of nine hours ago, it looks like they announced layoffs. No! God, that's not what they should do. Ugh.

I bet they definitely laid off the people at the top who caused this and not at all. Only the people who were making the game who had nothing to do with how it turned out and were forced to put this unfinished work out into the public. It's a formal consultation process that may result in redundancies. Oh my God. Okay, so it's layoffs.

Because they have the worst rated game of the year so far with a 2.6 out of 10 on Metacritic and a 38 out of 100 gaming journalist score. What I think they don't realize as a team, and because again, they're in movie mindset, is you can make the game better.

and gamers do appreciate that. No Man's Sky. No Man's Sky. Cyberpunk when it released was a goddamn mess. It's now one of the most successful games, incredibly well rated because they kept working on it. They just kept, you can make it better after that. People don't really want that to be the strategy but here's a review. Here's

Here's a review that someone wrote. This game reeks of mismanagement. This is someone that has 12 hours into this game. Not a lack of talent by the development team. I ignored all the initial reviews and actually enjoyed myself a fair bit, but I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone. I'd recommend they watch some gameplay and make up their own mind. It runs great on my 5090 and Intel i9 Ultra, but...

But DLSS and FrameGen needed to be active to achieve any kind of solid FPS. Bugs were few and far between, but they were there. Occasionally, AI would just freeze, and they're not particularly smart, but they're serviceable. It's pretty. It has issues with draw distance. It reminds me of like a B-Studio PS2 action game, linear, not a lot of variety, and the story's kind of forgettable, but it provides a dopamine kick.

Like, there's a game in here. There's a game that could be fun if they just spent even a fraction of the amount that they spent developing and just, like, let the team work on it to fix the bugs. Let them fix it and re-release every update as free. Don't make them pay for it again. Because I imagine some executives are like, I bet we could do that. Don't! How soon can we release a remastered version of this terrible flop we just shit out? Oh, God. A pre-mastered version. A pre-mastered.

It's not confusing because I feel like on some level I understand the mindset of the people who end up in charge of things like this. Like, I get what they're thinking, but I just don't understand why they're the ones who end up in charge of these decisions. Because there are clearly people who know how to take the time that it takes and...

know how to make good games and I think that includes probably people on the team that made Mind's Eye I'm sure a lot of them are great at what they do some of them are probably good at would have been good at leading this and getting a really good game out of the like assets that they have in the team that they have but not like I know anything firsthand about managing games but it is it is crazy even from our perspective

It feels like you can see, like, oh, well, that was a stupid call. But on the inside, no one is... I mean, maybe no one has the authority, and that's part of the problem. But no one ever saves these things. They turn out the same. And man, the layoffs. You guys want to talk about gaming news? It's layoff season, boys! Oh, why? Why are there so many layoffs? It's layoff season. Well, because AI is going to save it, right? I was like...

Trying to scan stuff and remember... Wade just flashed me his naturals. His big naturals. What? I missed it. I was trying to scroll headlines and remember the gaming news that I had sort of gone over in the last little bit. And all it was like, oh, EA, third wave of layoffs in two years. Microsoft planning major layoffs next week. BioWare scaled back after...

the Dragon Age, whatever it was called, the most recent Dragon Age was underwhelming. There was another one. Splitgate 2 developer 1047 games. Yeah, People Can Fly joins gaming-wide layoffs, industry-wide cost-cutting and cancellations. What are

What a rough time. Games do get shit on a lot and they sometimes deserve it, but it really does suck whenever you think about the fact there's people behind it that did put their heart and souls and they're usually the ones that pay the price. It's shitty that that is the case. And it's even worse because you know that the executives are pre-doing that in the time when everyone's doing it because they're like, well, we won't get bad press if everyone's doing it. So that's why there are layoff seasons. But now it's probably especially bad because all the executives are probably like, oh,

oh man, we'll save so much money with AI replacing all these actual humans. That'll fix it. Yep. And AI won't talk back and tell us that our schedules are too aggressive. They won't ask for sleep or food. Food.

Anyway, I'm really trying desperately to find some like good news positive Death Stranding 2 it looks like it's ready pretty well It comes out and like it will have been out for a little bit by the time this airs But it comes out in a couple days for a death stranding is that the one with the babies and the goop and the running across the terrain in the Norman Reedus that guy yeah, it what's this? Oh, what's his face? I haven't played the the original

Because again, I tried to get into Metal Gear Solid, which I believe it's the same developer as Hideo Kojima, I believe. They are, they scratch a very specific itch for a certain type of gamer. Unfortunately, I am not that type of gamer. So it's just not my type of game, but I would

never. Molly played it and she got super into the story. I don't know how she felt about the game as a whole. I had to ask her, but she got super into the story and the lore. It was like, even after finishing it, she was all into like the lore and stuff for weeks afterward, just like looking into stuff. So I imagine it's the perfect game for someone. It's a lot of walking, isn't it? Like you kind of walk a lot. I don't know. Death Stranding, definitely a lot of walking. Yeah. It's basically a walking simulator, right? Isn't that the whole thing? Intense walking. Wasn't there a walking, wait, by the maker of like, uh,

Getting over it. Didn't that guy make a walking game? They didn't make Baby Steps, did they? Oh, yes. Yeah, they did. That is their game. Okay, Baby Steps. Yes. Who's your daddy? That's a different game. I don't know that that was made. Yeah, Bennett Foddy's on there. Baby Steps. That just came out recently. It looks funny. It looks weird. It looks like Bennett Foddy had their fingers in it, but it does look pretty funny. I don't really think it's made for enjoyment, unless you like getting over it, which...

As I recall, Mark was a huge fan of or something like that. You played it a lot. Oh, my God. Yeah, I sure did. I sure did. What a meme. Great meme. I legitimately have not played much in terms of Rage games. The last one I did was when I was last year in Austin, still working on the movie.

which definitely not doing that now. It's all done. Yeah. Good thing that's done. Yeah. That came out like last spring. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Uh, but I was playing the climbing, uh,

uh offshoot of that one i forgot what it was called but oh i remember that it is bad for me it's just bad for me my blood pressure can't deal oh i can picture the game i can't think of the name of it we'd like swing and go up yeah yeah some climbing climbing horror climbing horror game difficult game about climbing

No, wait, didn't you play a climbing horror game? What was that called? White Knuckle? Oh, that was great. White Knuckle. White Knuckle. Oh, man, I can't believe I haven't talked about that. This is one of the few games that I played recently that has the tightest game loop. The actual gameplay, but it makes climbing the most fun of any game that I've ever played. That's all it is. It's just you're climbing no matter what. You're just getting out of this pit while this...

horrible amalgamation of nightmarish goop is uh rising below you and will absorb you into its mass uh and that's terrible but white knuckle as far as like gameplay goes it's awesome super fun it

It's just plain and simple fun. And the environment, the atmosphere all gels to it. It's the perfect distillation of when a game knows what it's about, really solidifies that funnel down into like its theme and everything about the theming fits in the world and the story into the gameplay loop. The entire world is built around verticality and the idea of climbing first out of the ground and then up this tower.

It's all about that. And it's just really fun. It's difficult, but it's fun. So I love White Knuckle. White Knuckle is great. 17 Precision Movement Mechanics. I'm reading the description about it. It says, ascend through the guts of substructure 17 using... Oh, substructure 17 using Precision Movement Mechanics.

It has 17 precision moving. You know, jump, small jump, left jump, yoinky-geet. Yoink and yeet. That actually is a really good strategy in that game. That's great. It reminds me of like old Doom and Wolfenstein graphics, but like better. It gives me that feel just looking at the screenshots and stuff. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it very much has a retro aesthetic, which is very common in indie games because it's easier to develop. Let's be honest. People love it, though. It's overwhelmingly positive. There's a lot of reviews. It's just really good. If you look at all the reviews, it's just the climbing is satisfying. It is satisfying. It's fun. It keeps you going. It is...

And it's at a right price point for that game. It's $13, I believe. $13. It was on sale when I first got it, I think. Whoa, whoa, whoa. $12.99. Sorry, $12.99. Not even $13. I know, I know. Under $13. Wow. I know I've made controversial statements about game pricing. And people assume that when I said, realistically, it could be this, that it should be that, is like...

There are different nuances to these things, but that's a good price for this game. It's made by a small team, but they work really hard at it, and it just works. It works really well, and I love it. What a positive thing. This might be a positive one, maybe. Wade and Molly might be excited about this one. Blizzard has apparently officially confirmed that in September of 2026...

there's going to be a revival of BlizzCon. Oh, okay. I mean, I've only gone once, but... I just, I know, I mean, you had a funny story about sneaking in past security guards and whatnot, but I know that... That was someone I knew. Oh, that's right, that's right. I think you're past the statute of limitations. Don't worry, buddy. Anyway, I don't really know any specifics about it, but, like, if we set aside the current...

more in recent history accusations about behaviors and interpersonal things and everything about Activision Blizzard that you might know. BlizzCon is a classic to me and conventions in general I feel like are part of the gaming community that I think is in a weird place right now. Like I said, I was at PAX East in Boston this year. It's the first one I had been to since I was at E3 2019 and I haven't been to a con since. And

apparently it's on a big bounce back, but like obviously the pandemic and the shutdowns and everything really put a damper on in-person conventions. But it was, it was, it felt like it was building. PAX felt like people were excited again. The, the people who, the guests who were there who were like attending and do it, it seemed like there was a lot of buzz and excitement. It seemed like it was in a path to like build back towards how PAX used to be, where it was huge. It was always this event, but also conspicuously, uh,

There were not many. There were none of the, like, big names that I was used to seeing at PAX, right? Imagine... You guys have been to plenty of these things. Imagine the floor the first time you look out at the floor of PAX. There's, like, a Microsoft booth and a Sony booth, and they're, like, huge. They're, like, this is this huge convention hall, right? But these booths are, like...

None of that shit. The only booth that had like a tall thing on it was the behemoth booth, which has been a mainstay at PAX for a long time. And it's the one where they have the big behemoth chicken and the, like the castle crashers guys and the big circular behemoth sign. All of the other booths were so toned down. It was weird as a group. We're getting older. I don't know if we're kind of over conventions a little bit, but like, it's an interesting part of the gaming community. Speculate for me. Sure.

Should they come back should blizzcon come back? Are they gonna come back like where are we wait? I'll let you let you take this one We went to conventions a lot before by we I mean Molly and I went to conventions a lot before we did the year welcome tour Which was what like 2017 so it's been eight years or so since we've really gone to conventions And I feel like the industry's changed a lot since then things are just done a little bit differently now, but

There was something to be said about going to a convention that had like, I remember going and playing Alien Isolation, like a demo for Alien Isolation the first time, freaking out and, you know, screaming like an idiot while everyone else was quietly just playing out the demo. And I got jump scared and let out a big scream. And it was funny. But walking around and seeing like the big, cool displays of things, Ark Survival Evolved had a really cool one back in the day. I remember they gave us a little stuffed poop when we went to see Ark Survival Evolved, but there

but there was something just awesome about that. I'm not a person who gets super into collecting things or I don't look into technology and gaming stuff the way you guys do. Like you guys always bring a lot of stuff to the table. I'm like, oh, I had no idea because I just don't keep up with that kind of stuff. But as a creator, it was awesome going. I

I am an attention whore and getting the fan experience I really liked I like meeting fans I liked having a safe and good venue for that where it wasn't like we were just doing a fan meetup out in the middle of the woods somewhere it's like okay this is a place where they've got security there's people that you know seen a lot of middle of the woods fan meetups

No, but it's hard. Like even 10 years ago, it was hard to like, Hey guys, I'm going to be at Kings Island. Want to meet up at Kings Island? And it was cool. But like also sometimes you just want to go to a theme park and enjoy the theme park. So it's like, it was, it was a different, it was an actual experience where it's like, okay, I'm here to look at games, but also like other people are here that are passionate about this and meeting fans while it was a, it was a fun combination of things I enjoyed.

And I wouldn't mind doing something like that again, maybe like once every year or two. I wouldn't ever go back to doing three or four conventions a year like I was doing for a while. But I imagine on the other side of it, for someone who's just really passionate about gaming or meeting content creators or both or whatever have you, those conventions had to have been pretty fucking awesome. Like they were busy, but getting to go play demos early and

especially the indie sections, the indie game sections were really, really shined for me because AAA studios as cool as it was to see their awesome big booths, you kind of got a feel for those things because they could afford to advertise and show things off. A lot of cool indie games. I don't think anyone would have known about if it weren't for the conventions and walking through there and like some of the people who made content being like, Oh wow, this looks cool. I'll play this. And then they play it. Someone else sees it. That's the way a lot of indie games. I don't know. They're probably still how they take off, but now they took off way back then. They're just a cool, a lot of cool things like that. Uh,

Some of the oh god what was the D&D show That always played at like PAX Not Critical Role it was uh What the hell was it called I can picture the bald dude With glasses but I can't think of the name of it Wade?

Anyway, they would do like a show. There were different other panels and things. We did a panel whenever we were together and whatnot. So there were a lot of cool things and things I enjoyed and things I'd like to experience again. But I don't think I could ever do it the amount that I did it back then because it kind of got redundant. If you went to four conventions in a year, 90% of what you saw was at each convention. It was the same thing at each one.

I mean, that's what they do. They run what's called the convention circuit so that the exhibitors can reach the most amount of people, assuming that people aren't going to travel outside of their local convention, unless it's like a mega monolith convention where, you know, a million people are going to be there.

What's the one that's completely gone now that was big back in the day? It was hosted in California. E3? Yeah, E3. I only went to that one time, but that one was a little bit different. E3 was cool. The one I went to, I spent a lot of time around the Mixer Hype Zone tent. Time to be alive. Oh, Mixer. Oh, I forgot about Mixer.

I think people are starting to really... This is not my concept, but I think people are really starting to come around on like, it's nice to do things in person. I think there's a lot of social anxiety still, and there's a lot like, I don't really like being in loud, crowded public places. But also...

There's just something about being in the same place as other people all sharing in something that you really enjoy. If it's like a concert or if it's like a festival downtown Cincinnati or if it's like a PAX or something like a gaming festival thing. I think people are kind of we're coming out of the funk, the post pandemic post lockdown funk still. And people are kind of like, man, I kind of fucking hate people, but also I

I kind of want to go hang out with people. I think it's an interesting time if you're like for these conventions, because I guess I'm optimistic. I hope that they continue to rebound. I hope people have a lot of interest, but there's no reason it has to be conventions. Maybe everyone's going to lock on to some other thing and that'll be where they all go hang out or who knows. But I think it's as good an excuse as any, because the problem with, you know, the COVID era stuff is you lost out on a couple of generations of a lot of things, but you lost out a couple of generations of people

people showing their friends what it is. And once that chain gets broken because of the people that were introduced to conventions were introduced by their friends or their family. And so it had, there had to be a first time for everybody, or maybe they found it on their own. But most of the time, I believe it was probably an introduction chain, but that chain got broken. So there was a few years where people weren't being introduced to the new experience. So that's a whole,

couple years of people that they have to catch up on of being like, oh, this is even a thing. There are probably people out there listening that have never been to a convention and aren't even really aware of how many occur around them. In your city, there's probably a convention every week for the most random things. I think we were in Austin one time and we were so curious about what this table of people were there. There was one guy and like

20 women and they all had lanyards and they were clearly there for a convention. And we were kind of like, why, what business is this where there's one guy and 20 women, right? And it seemed like he was the guy in charge because they were all trying to talk to him. And then we realized there was a wedding dress convention and it was just, it was very peculiar. There was a wedding dress convention. I'm like, I didn't even know that was a thing. But

But it's a thing! Look up conventions in your nearby area. It's not all about gaming, but there's tons of conventions. I get married once a year just to wear the new dress. You know, if I had it to do all over again, or even moving forward, if I end up transitioning away from gaming, I think I would just... I would do tabletop. It would be like D&D roleplay type stuff. Like, what Critical Role does, if I could do something like that, like three or four times a week...

and just have an awesome in-person setup, I think that would be like the end game for me. Like that's what I really enjoy and thrive in is like roleplay stuff. Like when I did GTA roleplay, I enjoyed that quite a bit. But even that was like somewhat constrained with what you can do. I don't know. I seem to remember Demon Elmo getting the posse together and then riding around doing murderous explosion things.

Seemed pretty unlimited from my perspective. Wade roleplayed Demon Elmo on the server. I was briefly on that server also roleplaying. Yeah, I drove you around. You were trying to join the legal team or something. It was a whole experience. Yeah, I was trying to be a lawyer. Well, my main dude was Norm L. Guy. Norm. But Elmo was like my, I want to be chaotic. I forgot about playing Elmo.

The good old days of GTA RP. Mark's right. Conventions. Check them out. There's probably one about a thing that you care about. Probably closer than you think. Role-playing conventions are a thing. There are a lot of tabletop conventions, yeah. Tabletop people love getting together and doing tabletop stuff. I'm sure people look into it. There's a lot of...

stores uh what are the little stores called where you buy like they sell like the warhammer figurines and tabletop books and all that yeah like like stores that also have like game session nights and stuff yeah they also have like game session nights or even if it's not like a dnd it's like board game nights and stuff like that a lot of places have those too anyway kind of got off topic there but yeah convention's great gaming great but i want dnd

All day, every day. Well, you could. Yeah, I could, but like, I don't know, a lot of people I play with are all over the fucking place. Do you want us to officially kick you off this show so you can spend more time doing that? Or...

No, please that would be terrible. No, I enjoyed my time here. If you say so. I don't know everyone I play with is like around the world. There's I don't have a local group I would play with. Pay for their moves. Buy them houses. They've got like families and stupid shit like that to stop them. Pay for their families. Have their families killed? Then they would need you. Oh.

Or you create a natural disaster in their area that sweeps away everything they have and their families and then only the people that you want to play and you have the natural disaster funnel them like if it's tornadoes, it's pushing them towards your place. Am I like a real life caster? I throw fireball at Massachusetts. Just donate to the Democratic National Committee. Get in on their weather control apparatus. Oh.

And then craft a series of weather events and natural disasters to funnel everyone that you care about to Cincinnati and kill everyone you don't care about. Boom. Instead of conjugal visits, I'll have tabletop visits. It's like, ah, guys, let's get a 20-minute session in. Hey, whatever makes you happy, man. Whatever makes you happy. All right, we're wrapping it. That was good gaming news, everybody. Thank you for participating and giving everyone an update on what news is.

Oh, the score, the score. Yeah, points. Was there a lot of points in that? There was a decent number of points. I'll start with Wade's.

Don't sound so disappointed. I'll start with Wade's. Well, he had to circle back to all the ear stuff, so he's probably really disappointed in general right now. Well, I'm not 100% sure what the first point is here, Wade. It's I wrote submit postmortem. Ah, for your body, your body. Oh, yeah, yeah. They can have me when I'm dead. You have a conditional point. I'm not sure how to work that is for terms and conditions apply to that point, so we'll

We'll see. Is it the same ones I applied? So do I have to be dead to get that point? Maybe, maybe. I have no idea. Yeah, a posthumous point down the road. One for ear teeth, one for ear infection, one for big naturals, one for broke into BlizzCon, one for fan meetups in the middle of the woods, one for role play dreams. So only a few of those are criminal. I did not break into BlizzCon. I was in BlizzCon and I broke into an Overwatch...

Competition. You evaded security, which is probably completely allowed and fine. I just went with the crowd of two and ignored the long line. The crowd of two. That's what they say, two's a crowd. I mean, I showed my badge, they let me in. Who's really at fault here, the deceiver or the fool? How many times did you fool them?

Only had to show the fake badge. Oh, he admits it. He had a fake badge. No, I just showed the back of it. We were with the other group. Sounds like fraud to me. So, Bob, you got half a point for mac and cheese, parentheses, making cheese.

I don't remember what it was related to, but I know that's the joke. The stock market. The craft. Craft is up 30%. It's mac and cheese. All right. You're immune to the sun. Meaningless sacrifice is what you called your sacrifice to science. Still sees pediatrician. That's for Wade, but you made the joke. Um...

one for ear twin uh graphical jumps in consoles co-carnage situation for mind's eye layoffs convention talk and then a point for desiring to be around people um so how much did i win by wait well we gotta spin wheels don't we wade i'll give you an option on the conditional point i'll allow you to spend that point whenever you want i'm not gonna tell you what the score is but then

But the next time that you're a participant and I'm the judge, anytime that I'm, you have one conditional point. I can't wait for the subreddit to remind me in three years that I still have that point that I've forgotten about. Yes.

You all know what to do. But you have to choose now before any wheels are spinning. Wait, yeah, wasn't the subreddit talking something about if Wade's house ever flooded, there was a win that you had to forfeit that went to me or something? And they were like, hey, his basement flooded. If my basement flooded, I had to forfeit a win? Something like that. Yeah, let's say that, yeah. I don't, I will,

hold on to that we'll put that one off too for now okay we're putting off the point and we're putting off the house flooding how many bonus points will there be oh there'll be three in there for me well there will be three it looks like that's not a strong start for bob this is serendipitous because it is literally by the slimmest margins possible for way to have the wind here i choose to use my point

If he'd have used the point, it would have... Shit! It doesn't guarantee anything. Alright. Let's add on...

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all right come on scottish accent come on i've been practicing ah got biggest laugh was it laughing at bob's joke that we didn't laugh at originally well bob made quite a few good jokes i really laughed at the pediatrician one i laughed at pretty hard at that one as you guys are funny but i think that one might go to bob yes

I don't remember anything, so I believe you. Man, that ear infection's gone all the way into his brain. Let's roll anyway to see what could happen. We could always get something else. Oh.

Who lost the most points? Mark? Neither of you lost points. Oh, I did. You're right. I lost points. You literally lost the points, so you would get that one. I mean, if you want to re-spin that one, that's fine, but you did lose the most points. Yeah. Look, it won't matter anyway, unless this next one's a whopper of a different one. And the next one is Bob Wins. Ah!

Mo self-sabotage. Also, Mark? I think I got that too, yeah. I'm the only one that lost a point, so... Man, I'm gonna get third place. Hey, man, I got a one on this one. Hey, not bad. Not bad, me. Good performance here. Alright, we're gonna close it out. With ten and a half points, Bob takes the episode. He did bring the most topics of conversation to the fore, so I think that makes sense. Wade, it's actually good that you didn't spend your conditional point, because...

the wheels were not in your favor anyway. Damn right. Bob, what's your winner's excuse? I didn't mean to. I didn't know what I was doing. I was just following Mark's instructions.

Uh, if you're gonna be mad at anyone, I think you should be mad at Mark about what happened today. That's my excuse. That was very good. That's good. Wade, what's your loser's excuse? You can see by the charts, I was moving up, up until the point where I opened my mouth and everything went downhill. But I think now's the time to buy your Wade stock. Buy, buy...

Bye, bye, bye. I don't think Jim Carrey rolls his sleeves up that far, but maybe. I don't have longer sleeves. Oh, you're rolling your sleeves up.

I can't roll up. Weren't the Jim Cramer jokes that we were doing before we hit record for this so that the context for that is outside of this episode? We were just talking and that was what we were talking about. I deserve to be at the bottom. Oh man, yeah, it has not been Wade's episode. That is really funny.

Look at the numbers. Was that before we started recording? What a callback. Listeners, you're not missing anything. All of you out there, we talked about Jim Cramer, the guy from Mad Money, before this episode, and Wade can't remember what happened when, so he's been referencing that the entire time. So you know. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

Alright, well, thank you guys. How's that? Alright, there he goes. That was an entertaining episode. Bob goes from not even being here at the beginning of the episode to taking it all, and I think that is... Hey, and Wade left. And now Wade's gone. It ends as it began. Thank you, Bob, who is also known as MySkirm on YouTube and Twitch. Wade, thank you, LordMinion777 or Minion777 on Twitch and YouTube. Bye!

I am Markiplier. This has been Distractible. Merch coming very soon, sooner than you think. Have a good day. Podcast out.