Welcome to Nintendo Prime Live, folks. Mostly just a Q&A tonight, although we do kind of have a main topic that sort of started off. We'll talk about my impressions on this in a moment. We're almost five years into Nintendo Switch. As of March 3rd, 2021, we will have reached five years of Nintendo Switch, which to me is just insane. But before we talk about that, how's it going? I want to say hi to everyone in the chat. I got my Bucks gear on today because Milwaukee Bucks are playing right now, and it's also, Yanis Atidakumpo's 27th. I don't think it's more than 27th birthday today. And he's back in the lineup after being out for a couple days. We have our first little super chat of the day that wasn't from Nintendo Prime. Here we go. Thank you, Taylor Plays, for the 499. Awesome, Taylor Plays. All the guys says, would there be a chance to see more Pokemon news besides Pokemon Legends Arceus at the Game Awards this Thursday? I can tell you this fairly confidently. I don't think we're seeing any Pokemon news at the Game Awards at all. Pokemon doesn't do these sorts of events. They've never been at the Game Awards in the last decade. So a Pokemon outside of obviously any nominations they might have been out for, Pokemon has not been at the Game Awards ever in terms of announcements. So I wouldn't think that's changing now. So yeah, I would not expect anything Pokemon related at the Game Awards. That being said, gotta get your shot rolling up here. Let me grab the good old Cardo Booze here. Don't forget, we do have some Don Julio here. This is the new Tequila shot, but these are $100 shots. And we don't bust out $100 shot. For those who don't know, my live streams, especially our night ones I should say, we do shots for all of our super chats and donations. Anything under five bucks, we just crack a Miller Lite here and do a shot of beer for the fives until I run out. We'll do some of this Tequila Rose Strawberry Cream, I don't know, 15% alcohol. Up from there, any $10 ones, we get out the Malibu Strawberry. 20 is a shot of Vodka. 25, an up or 30, an up or whatever you wanna call it, is this Butterscotch Lecour, which I still don't know if I figured out which booze this is, but it's 49 and a half percent. So it gets pretty crazy. Technically, we still have a Smidge, a Cannon Blast left as well. I'll save this for a $50 one. This is heavily fermented. It's like four years old, been open a long time. I got about a half shot left in here. That'll be a $50 one if we somehow get there. Otherwise, 100 bucks for the Don Julio or nothing. Nobody has to ever donate at all on my streams. I just appreciate you taking some time out of your day and spending it with me. So hopefully you guys end up having a good time tonight.  I'm sorry. I'm trying to be entertaining, but you know, sometimes I got it, sometimes I don't. Do we have another $5 one? Hey, we had another one. Hold up, hold up. All right, we got a duck guy up in here for the 49 and it says, hey, since I'm a $20 Patreon member, when or if do I get to be part of the podcast? Well, for starters, duck guy, thank you so much for being a member of our Patreon. I honestly have not looked at our Patreon in a long time. I was unaware we even had any active members on our Patreon. So that's on me. As for when you'll get to be part of an episode, let's say not this upcoming, not this week. We got a special guest on this week. So the next free week we have without a special guest right now, we don't have a guest scheduled for next week. So potentially if you have time, it could be next week that you can get on.  Used to be, we used to have like 100 plus patrons. It was insane. But now we kind of push our memberships instead. However, we still have it. It's still directly for the podcast. So I'm just trying to look at who we got here, patrons. Relationship manager. Let me see which person you might be in this tier. Oh, there you are.  You've been part of it for two months. Okay. I had no idea you even joined last month. I don't even get notifications anymore. So duck guy, I owe you two episodes. All right, duck guy. We'll get you on here at least once this month, if not twice, we'll see. All right, obviously I hope you have a good mic. You don't have to be on camera, by the way. I know some people are camera shy, but I do hope that you have at least a decent microphone, not just like a laptop mic or something like that, right? Like obviously I don't want to hurt people's ears and laptop mics can cause a reverb and it's just not good. A lot of echo stuff. I'm trying to get another one of these for your $5. Thanks so much for the support, duck guy. We'll get you on here. I will contact you via Patreon to get that taken care of. All right, as I'm getting these shots ready to go, you're a member too, I know that. So yeah, well, I got you buddy. Thanks for reminding me too, because I don't think I have any, I think you're the only $20. Yeah, you're our only $20 member. Literally our only $20 member on Patreon. So just so you're aware, you're the only one, which would explain why I didn't even know you were there because literally everyone else is like a dollar. We got like a couple tens in there, but most people are just a dollar. So thanks man for supporting the podcast directly. I do appreciate that, especially not the podcast is on its own channel. It was actually more important than ever for the podcast itself to really push the Patreon because it's a completely separate channel now. That being said, Twig E says I'll be drunk by the end of the night. Twig E, if all I'm doing are beer shots and these tequila rose things, I won't even feel like I had anything to drink. Plus I got this giant thing of water. So yeah, it probably won't be happening. It would probably take several really expensive super chats to bust out the Don Julio for me to even feel it tonight. For those that are unaware, I have a very high alcohol tolerance. I wish I didn't. I wish I could get drunk for cheap. Trust me, it would have saved me a lot of money throughout my 20s, but that's just not the way it is. Our long time people who watch Know What's Up, they know it takes quite a bit to get me there. All right, let me shout out everyone who's here tonight. We have 61 plus people live and growing by the minute. So thank you guys for all that. We have, let me get the shout out of the way though. I haven't even done one yet. One of our members of the board of directors here is here in Natsu, which by the way, if you wanna become a member of the board of directors, you just gotta hit that join button. We do have a special giveaway when we hit 200 members. Let me give you an updated member count right now. Usually I had this ready ahead of time, but I was busy with upsetting some people in my Madden League. It was fun. All right, let me, I don't even think they were upset. They just thought they were yanking my chain. Let's see here. Where is the monetization memberships? All right, our total member count at the moment is 155 members. So that would mean we are what, can I math 45 members short? So 45 members short of our member goal. So if we get 45 new members somehow tonight, that'd be insane if we got 45 new members tonight. But if we do, there will be a special members only giveaway. Yeah, it'll be nice. I've been waiting for this one. I haven't already taken care of. It's ready to go. It's extra special. It's actually probably one of my most meaningful giveaways that I have done to date. But that's, we're 45 members away from that. So we'll see what happens. We have been over 200 before, but then we got hacked. The hacking really screwed us. We were on our way to 250 and looking to 300. We haven't really bounced back from that because we're not really reaching anyone other than current subscribers right now. So thank you guys, by the way, for watching all my content and helping keep them the views up high. You guys are awesome. Welcome Super Tech Tricks as well. Another member of our board of directors as well as Crazes Cough, another member. Speaking of members, Seahawks24 rule is here as well. He's also a moderator. So welcome, man. We got Yokuda Mehicicic, I can't pronounce that. But welcome, man. We got Don Lewis here who wanted to note that today, March, what would have been Satura Owada's birthday. Sad day.  Thinking of the former president, rest in peace, man. Stream element spots doing some work here. We got B Maverick is here. How's it going, man? Second one, the Pikachu fan is here as well. We have another member here of the board of directors in bed or electrically. How's it going, buddy? Another member is here as well and Jamie Bell. How's it going, man? We got Bison here. Charles Trudell is here. Jamie Bell, who's another member of the board of directors. How's it going, Jamie? Parker is here. Let's see here. Jesus Calderon is here. How's it going, man? I've been so bored. So thank you for live streaming. Bored, bored, you say. Hmm, hmm. Oh, Jesus Calderon thinks he's bored, but now he's here and he's no longer bored. I honestly don't even know if the voice mod is working, so let me know if that was even popping off right there. We could have just been super embarrassing otherwise. Dark Frosty 101 is here. How's it going? Says how do I feel about the Switch? Good question. We will get to those responses in a moment here. I'm just saying hi to everyone. The Elemental Hero of the Shadow Link, Dragon Wolf King is here. How's it going? Again, one of the longest user names on YouTube. Twig E is here. It says Mr. Rubbleman's. I haven't had a Rubbleman in a long time. It's Nathaniel David Rumpful Jans, J-A-N-C. J-A-N-C, so like pants, but with a J. J, J, except it's J-A-N-C. It's a really weird pronunciation, but yeah, that's my actual name and it's hyphenated. Well, David's my middle name. I usually don't mention my middle name too often, but Rumpful Hyphen Jans, that's my last name. How's it going? Anonymous? All right, I get it. I get what you're doing there. Taylor plays as well. So we got Switchinator here. Nintendo, Reconnect. How's it going in the chat? We got Callinance is here, welcome. Trucker is here, how's it going? Scrolling on Dark Frosty, 101 is here. Duck Guy, obviously, welcome in. Another member of the board of directors is here. Let's see here, scrolling down. Christopher Colazo is here, how's it going, man? Isaac Shook is here, although he retracted his message. Hopefully it wasn't too bad. Scrolling down here, we got E-primely. E-primely is here, Harman Rebal is here, JPG is here. Carla Mar is here, how's it going, Carla? I don't know if I've seen you in a little bit. Welcome. Electro TDS is here, Gaming Videos is here. Speaking of people who are here, we got Justin Meazel. What's up, man? Thank you for the 499, it says Breath of the Wild, two of the Game Awards. Yeah, we'll see, baby. We'll see, there's no guarantee that Breath of the Wild two is gonna be there, but we'll see, I have hope. All right, get your shot, Portia. This might be the last one of these I have. So now, all $5 in undershots are just beer. You gotta get the 10 bucks to get to the real booze now, because I'm all out of those. But thanks so much for the $5, man, I appreciate it. Super Tech Tricks is here, another member of the board of directors. He says, 155 members, that's good. Yes, you're right, it's not too bad. Again, 45 away from our big giveaway goal for our members, but that's all right. We got Dane P19 is here. How's it going? Mayjo Oryzen is here. How's it going? Gaming Videos is here. What an interesting name. Welcome, we got Harman Rebel is here. Let's see, scrolling down more. Probably not to let it jump, because it likes to jump sometimes, and then I miss people. Scrolling down, Jamie Bell, I think. I think Jamie Bell, give you a triple shout out. Scrolling down, Yvonne Francoise is here. I'm pretty sure I pronounced that right. Another member of our board of directors is here, and deadly creature. How's it going, man? I hope your weekend was great. You didn't get much done. It was a busy weekend. We had a parade that we took the kids to, a winter parade. At the field, Santi Claus on Saturday. Sunday was a lot of running around with the kids. We've got an issue where our youngest has been waking up at like 3 a.m. It's been really crazy, but I think we have it sorted out for tonight. We'll see. I'm kind of crossing my fingers. I don't have to wake up super early. Ideally, I don't want to wake up to like 5 36 to get my kids ready for school. But, you know, we'll see what happens. Life of a parent. But yeah, my weekend was all right. Lots of homework. Yeah, it was interesting. I'm not gonna say it was bad. It was just an interesting weekend. Here. Oh, I'm scrolling on that. I think I've almost got Clayton Miller is here. How's it going? B James is here. No Breath of the Wild 2 at the Game Awards? Not happening. Hey man, that's all right. Who knows? None of us know what's gonna be there, although it does seem like Sonic might be there. And there's supposedly a brand new Sonic game coming next year, officially announced. And there was some teasing happening on Twitter where the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account was asking Jeff Keely if there was room for them to be at the Game Awards. And Jeff Keely said, absolutely. So, you know what that is. That's marketing. They're marketing the fact that Sonic is going to be present at the Game Awards. Now, it could just be a trailer for the new Sonic movie, of course. Can't dismiss that. That might be what it is. We obviously have to have hope for the game, as well. Let's see here. Brian Fox is here. How's it going, Brian Fox? K-Dog is here. What's up, K-Dog? That is actually the incorrect spelling, Charles Trudell, but it was a very good attempt. And you're really close.  Let's see here. Paul Gale Network is here. How's it going? I know Paul Gale Network, as a matter of fact, is a member of our Patreon supporting that podcast. Thanks so much for that. Let's rally for Metroid Dreg. Gotta get in those votes for the Game Awards. It's currently fifth. Top five events. Yeah, so what Paul Gale's talking about is there is basically a fan vote for the top fan game of the year, basically. That's not what it's called, but it's basically where it's a separate award from all the rest. That's just what's the top voted game by fans. Right now they're into the top 10 and they're trying to narrow it down to five in the second round of voting. And the third round of voting will be taking that top five. Fans vote on that. And then Bada Bing, Bada Boom, you end up with the fan winner. And right now Metroid Dread is right on the cusp of making that top five, which I guess I'm not really surprised that it's on the cusp. Like it's right there at number five, but really close to dropping out. Metroid's not a really popular series, especially compared to some of the games it's up against. I will be surprised if it can win the fan vote because there's just not a lot of Metroid fans out there. That's just the reality of the situation. That's why it's best hoped to win an award is actually the real game of the year award at the game awards because it's not based on a popularity vote. See, this is where there's some people out there, I see that are actually really upset that fan voting only comes for 10% of the overall vote tally for all the awards. And this is where I say that's actually a good thing. I'd rather fan votes not be counted at all because all that is is a popularity contest. Metroid is not a game that has 20 million people that play it. So it's not gonna have a chance to win against something like Halo Infinite. Halo Infinite's in that fan voting poll. Halo Infinite's clearly gonna get more votes than Metroid Dread. Far none, I can already tell you. Metroid Dread has no possibility of winning that fan poll. And that's the problem. Why you don't want fan voting to actually be the determining factor of all of these awards at the game awards because it's just gonna show extreme bias towards specific IP. See, the bottom line is there's a much higher chance that a panel of people, which are, yeah, they're all from the media or various YouTubers, have actually played almost all of the games that are nominated. Whereas most of the fans voting have not. Most of the fans voting for Halo Infinite have not played Metroid Dread. A lot of the people voting for Metroid Dread have not played Halo Infinite. See, this is the problem with relying on a fan vote. It's no subjectivity or no objectivity, I guess. It's completely bias. Bias, bias, bias, bias, bias. And whatever franchise is most popular is going to win. Period. That's just how fan votes always go. It's always based on which IP is most popular, not necessarily which game is better. This is why I kind of wish fan voting didn't count for any of the awards. Because fan votes are nothing but IP popularity. Not actually based on any opinion on the quality of the games against each other. So this is why I actually like the game awards over fan polls. As an example, any fan poll I do on my end, on my channel that takes Zelda versus any other franchise, Zelda wins by a landslide. Now, does that mean that it's the best? Every time? No. Does that mean it should win the poll every time? No. What does it mean? That on my channel, I have a really, really big fan base of people who like Zelda more than anything else. So Zelda wins all the polls. But is that fair? Is that really a good gauge of what games are best or what are the most anticipated? Probably not. Probably not. It's dealing with an extremely biased selection of fans. So the thing is, everyone is biased in some ways. But at least we can look at certain media outlets and go, well, hey, IGN reviewed all these games. So them having to say, probably is going to be a better option than me having to say that didn't play all those games. Kind of funny, played and reviewed all of the games that were nominated this year. They're probably gonna have a much better stance at what's better or not better than I will, than you will. That's why I actually like that the media outlets for all the don't trust the media and all the crap out there, hey, put a line is they have more experience and a more of a right to vote in this than we do. Because we're not gonna objectively look at any of this. We're gonna vote for the game we like the best and it's probably the only game we played.  It's not rocket science. And the game awards knows it. That's why the fan votes only 10%. Because they don't want it to be a popularity contest. They want things where Psychonauts II could actually win some awards. Where it takes two could actually win some awards. Where Metroid Dread could actually win some awards. Because they probably all deserve to win awards. But if it's just a popularity contest, they won't. They'll lose out to more popular IPs. But that's why I like the way that Jeff Keely does it. Not everyone does, but I like the way that he does it. All right, I think that's almost everyone that I saw in the chat. Doggie's here as well. Another member of the board of directors, of Nintendo Prime. I also love some of the opinions that the game awards are a joke. I think it's interesting when, because obviously game awards are gonna be a big topic all week. We'll be talking about it again on the podcast. Obviously we have the game awards on Thursday. It's really interesting when we think about, you know, about awards in general.  What about it makes them a joke? Is it just because it's mostly media voting? Well, I just explain why that's actually a good thing. Because if it's a fan vote, then it's no different than just holding a popularity contest. It's not, no one's voting based on the quality of the game. They're voting based on what's their favorite game. That's not what the awards are. The awards aren't about what your favorite is. It's about which game is the best in comparison to the other games. And if you didn't play those other games, you can't actually compare them. You're just gonna vote for the one or two games that you did play. See what I'm saying? So, sure, you cannot like the way the game awards work or the way the game awards are set up or how the awards are announced and how some of them get rushed through. Maybe you just don't like Jeff Kealy. And that's totally fine. There's a whole bunch of reasons to be critical of the game awards. But I don't think how the games are voted for, I think is one of them. Because how else would you like it done? Oh, you want it to be developers voting for it. They have the Game Developers Conference Awards. They do them every year. Game Developers do get to vote for awards for a game. So you already have that. Oh, you want it to be fan votes. Okay. Guess what? The Game of the Wards has a fan vote. It's going on right now. It's in round two. I don't know what we really expect from awards. Now, if you're just someone who doesn't care about awards in general, that's a whole different topic. Because obviously, who cares then? But, cheers. Doggy says, I just don't like the procedures of how games are nominated and rewarded. The media is deeply flawed just like the fans are. Your opinion is the media is deeply flawed. You don't necessarily have the proof to back it up. You see, this is the part that's really interesting when people are critical of anything. Even of media, some media today drops some nines for Halo Infinite. And some people that don't agree with that assessment will go, bias, bias, bias. Oh, you're just got checks from Microsoft.  But you don't have any proof of any of that. It's just built on a bunch of assumptions that don't actually have the evidence out there to prove your stance on that. So like, when you talk about the media being biased, everyone's biased. We're all humans. None of us don't have opinions. That having an opinion alone makes you biased. So we're all biased. But I can tell you right now, I already know what game is winning the fan vote for Game of the Year based on the games that the fans nominated. I already know what's gonna win because I already know what the most popular IP among all of those games are. So I already know what's gonna win. And I ain't Metro Dread. So I look at this as, there is no perfect system because people are flawed. People are biased. So all you can do is take a panel of people that have actually played the games that are nominated and have them be the deciding vote. Because at least in the context of, hey, if you're gonna have a deciding vote on what's gonna win each award, you probably should have played all the games that are nominated for that award. And the media are much more likely to have done that than a game fan. Because most gamers don't play all platforms. They're not playing PC, mobile phones, Switch, Xbox and PlayStation. They're just not. That's the reality of the gamer situation. But when you work in the industry, when it's your job, you are much more likely to form more well-rounded opinions. And you can say, hey, you don't have any proof of that. Sure I do. Because all these outlets have actually played and reviewed these games. That's the proof. The proof is publicly available that the outlets involved in this have actually played the game. I have no proof, as an example, that if, I don't know, let's just say, to Luigi's therapist out there in the chat. If Luigi's therapist is a deciding vote, a vote that holds a lot of weight, say 15% of the weight volume is based on his vote, I have no evidence that Luigi's therapist has played any of the games nominated. There is no public reference of anything saying that Luigi's therapist has a legit right to have that kind of power in the votes. Whereas with the media, you can hate them, you can disagree with them. But what you can't disagree with is these outlets have all reviewed every single one of these games. So they've played every single one of these games. Which means they have more of a right to this vote if we're just looking for the best possible way to come up with the right answers than others. Now, you could bring up situations where you disagree with the final results. Like when a lot of people said, oh yeah, Death Stranding was easily called for Game of the Year because of Jeff Keely's relationship with, what's his name? Kojima, Jeff Keely doesn't have a vote. He didn't decide to nominate that game. That's not how the Game Awards works. While it's Jeff Keely's show, he's not actually part of the game nomination panel. He does not make the decisions on what's nominated. The panel of media makes that decision on what's nominated. Now, you can argue he does get to choose who's on that panel. But at least the panel is publicly available. We know every outlet that's involved in the vote, every single one. We can track those outlets. So like, it's easy to say Death Stranding in an example shouldn't have been Game of the Year, but also it was one of the highest rated games of that year. That's just a fact. It literally was one of the highest rated games of the year it came out. Maybe you could argue predictable, but that's what a lot of people really like Kojima Game. Who knew? Kind of like, I can tell you right now, Breath of the Wild 2, if it releases in time next year, it's probably gonna win Game of the Year. It's the sequel to the best-selling Zelda Game of All Time, a prior Game of the Year winner.  Horizon, Forbidden West, right? Halo Infinite will be part of those awards next year. There's a bunch of big titles coming out between now and the next Game of the World. And I guarantee you, if Breath of the Wild 2 releases in time, it's gonna win Game of the Year. And why is it gonna win Game of the Year? Not because I want it to, although I probably will want it to. But because it's very clear the media loves Zelda, as much as I do. Because Zelda games keep getting rated in the 90s. So Breath of the Wild 2 is probably gonna win. Okay, so predictable. Sure, wrong? I don't know, I can't tell you. Cause I'm not them. I didn't play all the games. I can't tell you if it would legitimately be the better game out of all the games that come out next year. So I don't really like the premise that the media is this horrible evil thing. And it's funny, cause obviously I make fun of the media sometimes, right? Especially general media like CNN or Fox News or something, when they cover games, it's always laughable how unknowledgeable they are on this stuff. But even like Kotaku, right? Like we've made some fun of Kotaku at times. But reality is, in general, I think most of video games media is fine. I don't think it's really as bad as a lot of gamers make it out to be. Now you could argue one thing that is bad is sometimes they drag politics into their news coverage. And yeah, that bothers me. But setting aside that, when we're just talking about most of the game reviews, I read a lot of game reviews. They don't really seem that bad. I watch a lot of reviews on YouTube. They don't really seem that bad. I think we just have our own bias against the media. We've been taught for a year, especially if you're someone watching YouTube, you're watching my live stream, right? You've been, you have been told forever, for, I don't know, this was existing when I was a kid. As soon as social media came around, you can't trust the media. You can't trust IGN. Oh, look, Phillip Muson three plus years ago plagiarized.   Now you could argue he made IGN's hiring practices seem interesting because they didn't catch the plagiarism ahead of time. But nobody caught the plagiarism ahead of time, including the wider internet. So, yeah. And then you have to get, then I always consider, well, IGN's also navigating new territory for hires. Normally you would be looking for people who are fresh out of college, have a journalism degree, have a passion for gaming, have worked maybe for free, voluntarily on your wiki for a while, while also, you know, having some experience in journalism at a newspaper or other websites. And then all of a sudden you hire them based on their experience and their college. That's traditionally how IGN is hired, but they also know the landscape is changing in personalities and internet personalities are becoming a bigger and bigger part of what gamers are paying attention to. So, yeah. Of course they look to YouTubers for hires that maybe don't have those same kind of experience and credentials, you know? So how do you handle that situation? I don't know. They obviously made a bad hire, but they could have made a better one. Let's say Beat'em Ups was hired instead. Would have that been a bad hire by them to run their Nintendo podcast and new reviews of games? Probably not. Most people would probably think that would have been a great hire. No, would Beat'em Ups have taken the job? Well, I mean, not at this point. Obviously probably makes significantly more money off YouTube than he does, you know, than he would be offered by IGN. But still, it's one of those situations that if you would have caught him at the right time before he ascended, yeah, he probably would have been a good pick. It's kind of a crapshoot. It's hard to vet, it's hard to vet this stuff. It's not like there's a database out there. Like with college papers, there's databases you could search to find out if someone plagiarized. It's really hard to do with video content. Very hard to do with video content. Because you need full transcripts. And what are you going to do? Hire someone that's going to spend, you know, three months transcribing every video a content creator has ever made to find out if they plagiarized? And even then, what if they plagiarized from another video, not from a written source? See, that was the bad thing about Phillip Muson is he plagiarized from written reviews. Imagine if he plagiarized from non-written reviews. Which, again, when he got busted for was actually a non-written review. So, yeah, it's a lot of, it's hard. I feel for them. I really, really do. I really feel for them. Because when it gets to the point that I have to hire somebody besides Eric, I have no idea what I'm going to be doing for that process, you know? Do I hire someone who's graduated college with a video editing degree and has all this experience but probably wants to get paid, you know, 100K a year, which, that's a lot of money. Or do I go with someone who's just freelancing, learned video editing on their own, has edited, has their own YouTube channel, I just like the way they edit things. And then I hire them for half that money. And then, you know, what happens if I find out, oh man, they've actually been like cheating with their edits and stealing, you know, I don't know, assets and stuff like this, right? Like, that happened. And you don't want that to come into your video. You don't want stolen content to end up in your edits. So there's just a lot of, a lot of navigating in this new age world that isn't cut and dry unless you just go with a traditional, hire a college grad who worked at a traditional company. And we keep saying, well, you can learn all that stuff without going to college. Yeah, then you gotta take a chance. When you take a chance, you're gonna get burned. So there's a really high chance you're gonna get burned. So yeah, I got no problem with the media in general. I, the gaming media, I have a problem with the generalized media that doesn't understand gaming. But the IGNs, the game spots, the game informers, even Kotaku, although I have my issues with some stuff they do sometimes. Polygon, I have some issues with stuff they do at times. Those two outlets in particular are the ones that really bring a lot of politics into their stuff. So that's what really irks me about those places are the politics they bring in. But the IGNs, not really, if you actually listen to IGN's podcast and you actually read their articles, they really don't bring politics into stuff.  Like, a lot of these places are just fine. Nothing wrong with them. They're really no different.  Am I really more trustworthy than these other people? Not really. The only reason you feel that way is because you get the chat with me on a live stream like this and in the comments and I respond to you and you don't always get that kind of connection with the others. It's not always easy to talk to someone like Peter Snyder from IGN. You can message him, he might get back to you, but he's so big. You know, and that happens sometimes once content creators get too big.  Him and I used to talk every week in DMs. Him and I wouldn't, I haven't talked now in probably a year. He got big. And it's not that he's trying to ignore me, it's that he's got so many people trying to talk to him and get a hold of him and DM him and message him and email him and trying to find out his phone number and text him. He's just gonna ignore pretty much everyone. Because if he didn't, he won't have time to make the content he's making. He doesn't want to ignore anyone, but he's at that point that he's just too big to realistically pay attention to most people. Yeah, he'll shout out donations and stuff like I do, but he can't literally pay attention to everybody. So I don't blame him for not talking to me much anymore. He's got nothing against me, I'm sure. Just like Bob Wolf. We used to talk to Bob Wolf all the time. Now I can't even get him to respond to, I got a sent to my message like last week, I can't even get him to respond. The last time he responded to me was when I responded publicly on Twitter to something and then he DMed me some details that I asked him about in private. And even then, he just sent the one DM to me and then he vanished and didn't respond to anything else I said. Because he's busy. He knows who I am, he'll help me out. He's not the only in the off chance that he catches it and probably only if I say something publicly because he's ignoring his DM. So yeah, I think I got no problem with it with the general media. I think a lot of us are a little too unfair because we grew up being told you can't trust them, trust the social media influencer, trust the TikToker, trust the YouTuber. They're more authentic. They're more this, are we really? I'm not so sure anymore. In fact, it's almost getting to the point that I think you got to start questioning a lot of the YouTubers that you're trusting because all the crap that we used to say you couldn't trust other YouTubers or other media for. Can't trust IGN to review Call of Duty when they're being sponsored by Call of Duty. Well, can you trust player essence when he's doing live streams with employees from Nintendo? How can you trust anything he says about Nintendo games? He's literally teaming up with Nintendo and doing live streams with Nintendo employees on his channel. So how can you trust there? Ain't no inherent bias there. Every time he talks about Nintendo games. Isn't that more fishy than some, I don't know, what do you call them? Those ads that they put on the websites that most of the employees have nothing to do with. Totally separate people that deal with those ads. Player essence is directly talking to employees at Nintendo. Directly having them on live streams. By the way, I'm not saying that you can't trust player essence, but shouldn't that make you question? Why are we not questioning people like us? But, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Some person at IGN had Bill Trenning come on and did a little interview on a podcast. Oh no, we can't trust their reviews of Nintendo games. They're biased. It's like, well, one, everyone's biased. And two, how are content creators any better on YouTube? By the way, I don't follow player essence for doing stuff with Nintendo. Heck, if Nintendo wants to get ahold of me and partner up for some live streams, that'd be sweet. They want to send me review copies of games? Sweet, save me a little money, I guess. I'd buy the games anyways, but sure, save me a little money, whatever. But shouldn't that make you question the authenticity of the content you're getting? And if you're not questioning it, then why are we holding that against the media? I'm just throwing that out there. Like, why are we holding it against them but not holding it against people like me? Now, hey, Nintendo doesn't sponsor me. I haven't got a review copy from Nintendo since Skyward Sword back in 2011.  Probably because I'm sitting here dropping swear words on live stream and doing shots. So Nintendo don't want much to do with me. But, I mean, there's things you should question, right?   Should you trust me when I talk about Ubisoft games? I partnered with them to give away, like eight copies of $60 game. So should you trust me? I could tell you reasons that you should trust me but the skepticism should always be there because I'm just asking you to believe me. I can't prove to you that there's no inherent bias. Am I only excited for Sparks of Hope because they gave me a bunch of games to give away to you guys? I could try to convince you otherwise but just do you trust me or do you not trust me? Should you trust me? If you just trust me blindly, that's when things get in trouble, right? I want people to always question me, question the companies I partner with, question my integrity for partnering with those companies. Should always question. Don't just question the big boys. Because guess what? The YouTubers are becoming the big boys. What this channel makes on YouTube over the last year is literally what an entry-level employee at IGN. I know this because I've talked to an entry-level employee at IGN to find out what their salary was. Now, differences, that was their salary, they all on top of that got benefits, health insurance and all that and I don't get any of that. So technically they still were getting a better deal. But this channel makes what an entry-level IGN employee doesn't? Yeah, I end up giving most of it away but still I'm not even that big of a YouTube channel.  I'm just just imagine if I'm telling you around the ballpark that this channel makes.   By the way, no problem, get that bag, make your money but just gotta think, gotta think. That's why I think it's too, or too critical of the media. Too critical of the game media who mostly wouldn't be doing it if they didn't enjoy it and they won't know why they wouldn't be doing it if they didn't enjoy it. I don't really make a lot of money. Jeff Grubb is an example, right? He's a journalist for VentureBeat.   He doesn't actually make that much money. He's been in this industry for like 20 years. He's not making a hundred thou. He ain't making that much. But if he was doing the same journalistic work for CNN, Fox News, he'd be a million. I just want this to be put in perspective. Nobody's working at these video game websites because they just want the paycheck. Just like nobody's developing games because they just want the paycheck. You can make more money with that skill set in other fields. Same thing with journalism. Same thing with YouTube content. Hell, I make Nintendo content.   You got to think about that too as well. Like, you know, they're not taking the jobs because they're making lots of money. They're taking the jobs because they have a passion for games. Phillip Muson's one of the rare examples where he doesn't seem like he had a passion for games. I think he just got caught up in the opportunity. That's why I take on the Phillip Muson's story. I think he just got caught up in the opportunity and he just really enjoys video editing. And so he just kind of did his thing. But, Bob Wolf's a good guy. From everything I know about Bob Wolf, he's a pretty good guy. I've met him before.  And he's always been nice to me. That's all I can only tell you from my experience with Bob Wolf. My experience with Bob Wolf is that he's really nice. Swiggy likes SwitchForce more. So he says, true, I do watch Spawn Wave, RGT, SwitchUp, SwitchForce, SomeRowNation, and sometimes Venus, but some of his stuff is cringe. SwitchForce is cringe too, but more tolerable for me for some reason. I mean, that's all personal taste, right? Like, I think SwitchForce is super great.  Now, I can tell what he's doing. He's catering to a younger audience. I don't have metrics for his channel, but if I had to guess, the average age of his audience is between 13, because that's the lowest he goes on YouTube, 13 and 30, let's say somewhere in there. I would say that's a big stretch of 17 years. So like, that's probably his primary audience. Mine's 25 to 45. That's why I could do things. I do shots on streams. And you know, cuss and all, because my audience is mostly older. We have hardly any children that watch my channel. Oh, there are some, but we have hardly any children that watch my channel. Hardly anyone under 18 watches my channel. And that's a massive audience of Nintendo fans that I'm just not catering to. And that's okay. I'm cool with that. I like the audience I have. Oh, I got a $5 Super Chat in from Ducca. What's up, Ducca? I thank you so much for the $5. I just watched part of your hacked video and wanted to apologize. Did you ever find the culprit or have you kind of intel? Update on the hacking situation. No. Long story short, no. Nothing happened. I mean, a lot of stuff happened to the channel. We still are feeling the after effects since then. I know viewership wise, you guys can look at my channel and go, but Nate, your views are really well. Your live streams are doing all right. I got 116 live. How many of you guys have never seen my... In fact, I want to see this in the chat. How many people watching my live stream right now? This is the first time you've ever seen a video of mine. How many people... I want you to go in the chat right now and you don't have to do an emoji. Just type the number one. If this is the first time you've ever seen me, right now, tonight, if this is the first time you've ever seen me, might be a bit because I forgot to set my stream to ultra low latency. So there's going to be like a 40 second delay. But I'm not expecting to see too many ones. You're a bird, man.  Yep, first time I've ever seen your videos. Well, like, do you see my point? So we got funk. We got funk. There's one. Four or 20. You guys are hilarious. See what I'm saying though? Like, that's the way my crowd is. Oh, greetings for Riga Lafya. Hey, but did I say that right? Riga? How Americans would pronounce that? That might not be how it's actually pronounced. But Lafya, I'm pretty sure I pronounced that right. Welcome funk. So yeah, like, look, we had one person in the chat say that this is the first time I've ever seen my video. Before I got hacked, it was roughly 40% of all viewers were brand new first time. According to the metrics since then, less than 4% of my viewers per video and per live stream are new. Literally, the bar just stays flat. Like it says zero. You have to literally zoom in to find out that it's even at 4%. Almost every viewer, well, pretty much every viewer I get are people that have viewed me before. Now you might go, but Nate, your subscriber count's growing. Sure. And my subscriber count is growing from people who have viewed my channel before and either unsubbed or viewed my channel before and never subbed in the first place. They're just being recommended or being sent notifications for my video because they've watched my videos before. I'm not actually being shared to new audiences. That's the scary thing. On the positive side, I'm doing really good viewership wise and that's without being shared to new audiences. So how well would I be doing if I was shared to new audiences? Man, maybe my views would be double. I have no idea. But that's one of the major pitfalls of that hacking is we're not reaching people who don't know who I am anymore. We're not finding new audiences. That sucks, because we definitely were finding new audiences in October, not anymore. And I don't know if and when that's ever gonna fix. I just keep marching on, doing my thing, hoping that the channel makes enough and that we're doing well and you guys keep wanting to tune in. And thankfully I have a really active community that's very supportive and tries to show up to every video. I asked this question on my Discord the other day, hey, how many people watch my videos all the way to the end? And almost every single person on our Discord server said, yeah, I always watch it at the end. Maybe they skipped the last 20 seconds, which is the end of the video. But yeah, they stick around throughout the most, 90% of the video. That is awesome. That's how great my community is. They either wanna do it or they do it because they know it's good for the channel. Either way, I don't really care why they do it. But we have amazing community support. My channel is lifted with community support. So thank you guys for that. You guys are the reason that some of my fear after we got hacked are alleviated. One of my fears was that the revenue at the channel was gonna go shh. And if the revenue goes shh, I have to spend less time doing it. So I have to do more time at other jobs. So you guys made sure that didn't happen last month. Now, what you guys did is unsustainable. I will say that you guys were insane last month. Half, literally 50% of the money made last month on the channel from you guys watching, all the super chats and all the members. Those super chats and members make up 50% of the revenue my channel made last month. It's never been that way, by the way. In October, before we got hacked, it only made up 15% of the revenue. The rest was ad rev. Now the channel is being lifted by you guys. Is it gonna continue to be lifted like that?  Probably not. I don't think Birdman's ever dropped that kind of money before. Like that's the kind of crazy support we were getting last month. Is that gonna continue? No, like this month, we're off to a really bad start compared to last month. What are you gonna do? Just keep pressing forward, keep doing the best we can and keep hoping that YouTube eventually picks us back up. Until then, thank you guys for all your support. You guys are awesome. How you guys feel about Switch, by the way? We're five years in. How you guys feeling? How you guys feeling? How you guys feeling? You guys doing good? So I'll tell you quick my thoughts on Switch. Nearly five years in. We're not at five years yet, but nearly five years in. My opinion is Switch is in a very good place. Not with everything, it's not perfect. I'm not one of those people that thinks Switch is just God's gift to gaming and the greatest things in slice bread. It's got issues. Nintendo Switch Online is obviously one of the biggest ones. Obviously we can get into, oh, it's a weak system. I don't like to talk about that. I think a lot of gamers focus too much on specs, less on quality of game. Or I think they tie quality of game to specs. Like, oh, this game's in 4K 120, so it's a great game. No, it doesn't make a game break. At all. Literally a game could be in 720p running at 15 FPS and actually be a better game. Now, I'm not saying that game running at 720p and 15 FPS wouldn't be even better at 4K 120, it probably would be. But just being high resolution, high frame rate, just being extremely pretty looking doesn't make a game good. So I try to be careful that I'm not necessarily complaining too much about the power even though I would like more power. I mean, literally I have a $2,200 desktop PC that I use for all my editing. It's an editing and streaming PC. But yeah, because it's an editing and streaming PC it can game like a champ. It's got a 5900X in there, it's got a 6700XT. It's a decently beefy computer. Not like top of the line, we're not talking 6900XT, 3090 Territory, 5950X, which is just like a step up from what I have. Or obviously using the most recent, the Kaby Lake or whatever, the 1,200K. Obviously there's better stuff than what I have out there. But I mean, it's still some pretty high end hardware. I love it, I game on it. I put Age of Empires 4 on it a lot right now. I game on my Xbox. Switch is exactly what I want it to be right now. It gives me a lot of games that I can't get anywhere else. That's obviously a bonus. I enjoy a lot of those games, double bonus. And some of the games I can get elsewhere, I just don't have other convenient ways to play them whenever I feel like it. Like right now for PC games, I don't have a Steam Deck, I don't have an INEO right now. So I can't play my PC games anywhere. I have to be somewhere I can hook up my laptop or my desktop. Whereas I can be sitting on the toilet and be playing, I don't know, what's a game? I have a Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, I guess, which I'll be, by the way, playing right here, live tomorrow. I told you guys, every Tuesday we're playing Pokemon Brilliant Diamond until I beat it. Beat the main story, anyways. We're not gonna like 100% get all the shiny. I'm not that crazy. But yeah, we'll beat the main brux of the game together for the first Pokemon game that I have beaten since I was a kid. Basically what it's gonna amount to. I mean, technically I beat Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, but I'm not counting that because it's just gen one again. So even though it was a lot of fun, it was just gen one again. So like there was a lot of nostalgia affecting the fun I had with that game. I don't have nostalgia for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond. I never played Pokemon Diamond in Pearl, ever before. Never played it. So I don't have that nostalgia factor here. So yeah, we're gonna beat that game and play it every Tuesday until I beat it. But yeah, I just really enjoy Switch for what it is. It's quickly climbing up the ladder of my favorite Nintendo systems. It's not ahead of the Super Nintendo yet. That's my all-time favorite Nintendo platform as Super Nintendo, but it's right behind it. We'll see if it can pass it. I think Super Nintendo had less issues for its time. But that's only because Switch is more capable, like online wasn't a thing you worried about on Super Nintendo.  But I mean, that's part of the package now. And so now we're stuck comparing at the PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and it's like, is that really fair? I wanna compare it to prior Nintendo systems. And hey, some of the prior Nintendo systems, I mean, we, you had fricking voice chat for crying out loud, let alone, what do we have? Didn't use friend codes. So that was nice, no friend codes, thank God. And obviously we had Miiverse as I think it up. Which again, Miiverse was flawed as well. And I mean, it's a hell of a lot better than not having it at all. Plus we had local voice chat. So like, yeah, there's things Nintendo's done better. Some people think virtual console was better. I personally, I've always been an advocate for a subscription service for their classic game. I literally was an idea I have before Nintendo ever announced it. Unfortunately, Nintendo obviously didn't execute it the way that I wanted them to, but what else does it do? Nintendo not executing online features who, who could have saw that one coming? Only like, literally everybody. Come on, bucks close out this game. They're up seven. Had to double check because I can't see. Oh, I guess if I lean this way, I can see the score of the cab. I still gotta get that TV raised up. It's blocked right now by my desktop computer. I mean, I had to figure it out by my desktop computer, but no, I like looking at the pretty lights. And the water cooling in that. All right, so let me, let me read some of your guys' thoughts here. Sab Vasquez says, Switchbroke brought me back into gaming. I love it. I have a family and being able to play during my breaks or late night and handle this key. The games look fantastic, feels nostalgic and new. Even still, five years in. That's amazing that it could feel that way. Shiny Pearl is very, very difficult to deal with. I'm not worried about dealing with it before, man. Knowing me, I'll either try to, I'll either go into the Elite Four and I will just try to power bomb through it and probably fail. Or I'll just max level whatever team I want. Once I figure out at least one Pokemon that works really well against each member, I'll probably just max level and just OP it or something. I have no idea. I have no idea. I haven't actually been there. I have no idea if it's any different than the kind of Elite Four I played when I was a kid, on Gen One, Gen Two. Last year, Age of Calamity was a great game. Yeah. The DLC for it's pretty good too. I need to finish Age of Calamity, DLC. That's on my to-do list. Before Breath of the Wild 2 drops, I haven't played any of the Age of Calamity DLC. So I need to get that DLC and actually beat it. It's literally on my to-do list. I'm kind of sort of waiting to find out when Breath of the Wild 2 is gonna come and then I'm gonna kind of like play that DLC leading into it just in case there's some sort of connection which I don't know if there will be, but just in case. I wanna make sure that I experienced it at first hand. I know I can just look up videos online. You know what's interesting? When I look up videos online, like say I look up all the cutscenes for the Age of Calamity DLC. So I get the gist of the story. I still feel like I gotta play. And maybe that's just me, but I feel like just watching the cutscenes getting the gist of the story doesn't replace actually experiencing it yourself. So like I can watch it all, but then still have to play it. Like maybe that's why spoilers have never bothered me because I've never felt like a spoiler makes me feel like I don't have to play the game anymore. But usually the spoilers just make me wanna play even more. So I'm gonna be weird that way. Some other stuff in the chat here. The elemental hero of the Shadow Link, Dragon Wolf King says, do you think there's going to be Easter eggs at the game awards? So what would they be? I have no idea, man. That's a really loaded question. I don't know. Can I invite ReviewTechUSA to the podcast? Same thing SSRCR85 that I said about beat him up and Wolfden applies to ReviewTechUSA. He's been invited several times. Doesn't respond. I've even emailed him. Doesn't respond. Kind of like RGT85. You know how many times I've invited RGT85 onto my podcast and that he's never responded?  Like he was in a live stream last week or something.  Heck, maybe he's watching right now in the background. I have no idea. But every time I DM or email, nobody responds. So it's like, they know who I am. They acknowledge me. They might even subscribe to my channel. Heck, ReviewTechUSA has literally mentioned me in like three of his videos. I can't get him to actually talk to me, you know? Like, it's weird. Maybe it's because I drink. I don't, although I don't think ReviewTechUSA would have any problem with that. After all, they're just busy getting baked on streams. But I don't know. You know, it's one of those situations that I don't think that there's any ill intent. I think they just don't see the communication, you know? I don't have people's phone numbers. It'd be different if like I had their phone numbers, but I don't. So like the same way that you guys can contact them is the same way I can. I can call them out publicly and hope they respond. Usually never works. I can DM them just like you guys can. Usually it doesn't work. I can email them just like you guys can. Usually it doesn't work. Like that's the reality is like a lot of people that you guys want me to get on the podcast. The only ways I have to ask them to come on are the same ways you guys have to ask them to come on. And because of that, they usually don't get the messages and don't respond. Now, I've had some shocking responses lately. You know, we got Thomas from Switch Stop On last week. I didn't think he was gonna respond and he did. So kudos to him. And now I have a way to talk to him privately. So that's cool. And I got Tim from Kind of Funny Games to respond. Now I've tried to get Greg Miller before he wouldn't respond. But Tim responded. And he's coming on the podcast this week. So some people have surprisingly responded, but most don't. So it's really hard for me to get some of those guests that you guys want. Not because, by the way, I don't think Rich would be opposed to coming on my podcast. I don't think RGT-85 would have any issue coming on my podcast. I know Bob Wolfe doesn't have a problem being on my podcast because he's been on it before. Beat him up.  It's just, I can't get a hold of these people. I don't have a magic button to get a hold of these people. Like, I think there's a presumption that because I'm a YouTuber that I have the ability to just get a hold of people, I don't. Now, I'm part of Screenwave Media. Screenwave Media also represents, I think RGT-85, Wolfe then, Beat Him Up, Spawn Wave, etc. Basically all that kind of crew of people, they represent them and now they represent me. And they do host events. And VIP passes at certain events. So for me to network and get private contact details with these people, I need to start going to these events. The problem for me to go to these events. I'm in Wisconsin. None of the events happen near me. Oh, Retro Palooza. Yeah, that'd be great. Almost all these guys go there and get VIP passes and have a private Screenwave Media room in the back. That's great. I can't just willy-nilly go to stuff like that. That's gonna cost me, you know. I probably won't be willing to go all by myself. So I'll have to bring Yulia with or Eric with. So that's gonna cost probably $1,200 to $1,400 round trip just for flights. Then you got the hotels on top. And before you know it, I spent two plus grand just to network. With no guarantees that I meet anybody in the networking world. Like it's hard because of where I live. I just don't live. Now, have a yacht to that. We go to E3 every time there's an E3 in person. There might be some networking opportunities because of my MCM, because of us going to E3 whenever there's an E3 in person. But, so that might change. I might be able to network at like next year's E3. But yeah, until then, I got no way to get ahold of all these YouTubers. They just don't respond. I got no way to get ahold of them. There are some that I know will respond. Some people, like I'm trying to get some people on from easy allies as well. And some of them do respond to the DMs. Isla, as an example, formerly Ian Hink. She responds to DMs. Brandon Jones, I can't get the respond. Just fine. Michael Damiani doesn't respond either. And I used to know Michael Damiani. Like, legit knew him back in the day. But I can't get him to respond to anything either.  I don't have, I don't have access. I think that's a bit, I don't have access. A lot of people presume that I do, I don't. Funnily enough, there's a much higher chance I can get someone from Capcom to respond to me than a fellow YouTuber. Isn't that funny? So, I can reach out to multi-billion dollar companies and they'll respond to me. Or if I reach out to a fellow YouTuber, maybe one out of every 15 that I contact gets back to me.  And us YouTubers are usually all by ourselves. That's the real reason. Like, beat em up doesn't have a whole team of people dealing with all this DM. Sort through it. So, like, that's the reality. These companies have people they pay to respond to people like me. Alexa TDS sent me a song. That's cool. You expect me to play it or something? I probably won't. Not to be mean. Not to be mean. I do song requests sometimes for Super Chats. But it has to be like Nintendo music, stuff that isn't copyright claim. The Elemento Hero the Shadow Link Dragon Wolf King says, Nintendo Prime mentions everyone's name. Everyone. Did someone mention our names? We would love to dream of it. OJ Man. Mods, don't delete this comment. I'm gonna show it.  Okay, what's your preferred platform? I'm serious. What's your preferred platform, OJ Man? Do you play PlayStation? Xbox, PC?  Do you have like a controller attached to your phone? What do you like to play, man?  Don't bother me. What do you like to play, man? I play everything. I'm literally sitting here drinking booze. Well, this is actually booze, this is water. You can even hear the ice, hear that? Ice water, baby. You know.  Now, what do you like to play, man? What do you prefer? By the way, we're on our road to 80K, baby. I would love to hit 80,000 subs before the end of the month. I don't know how we're gonna do it when we're not reaching new audiences. But I did a call out for it today. I said, hey, man, dude, I really wanna hit like 80,000 before the end of the month. And suddenly we gained like 70 subs. Maybe the key to hit 80,000 is to just ask kindly in my videos, hey, we're on our road to 80,000 subscribers. I would really appreciate it if you just subscribed. Apparently that just works. So, cool. Good to know. Lock that one into that memory. Sometimes if you just ask people, we'll do it. Just gonna ask nicely. Not like I shouldn't have known that. Oh, I was checking some of me. Oh, I can hear the ice cubes, good sir. I know. Oh, are you sure? Are you sure? Remember, you're supposed to be able to hear and feel the ice cubes when you shake them with your Joy-Con. Anyone remember when Nintendo was talking about that? You could feel the ice cubes as they're like jerking off a Joy-Con by their. You can hear. It'd be fair you could feel them, but like it wasn't like as impressive as they made it out to be. It was neat at the time, but I've felt better rumble since then. Thanks, Twiggy. Oh, I asked to share with some friends. Who are the Bucks playing? Cleveland Cavaliers. They're up 109-100 right now with a minute 30 to go. So they're probably gonna win. I'll be very shocked if they lose. Well, now they're up 109-102. Listen, I'll be very shocked if they lose because Giannis is back. This is the healthiest the Bucks are gonna be until Brook Lopez and Dante DiVincenzo come back and they're both gonna be out for like two, three months. So, Brook just had back surgery. Dante's recovering from ACL. Oh, Giannis took a three and Giannis hits it. Giannis out to the combo with the dagger three.  Love it. Is that like the first three he made today? No, he's three for three. Three for three. Perfect from the three point line, baby. Love it. Gotta love it. Also gotta love it when the Bucks big three all are over 20 points. That's usually a good sign they're gonna win. Is he about to shoot another one? I think Giannis wants to shoot another three. Oh, he got around him. Oh, he got fouled. Oh, no. They called Giannis for a swim move. Damn, that's a game's over anyways. Justin! Basil! What's up, Justin? Basil with the nine, nine to nine. When you get over one million dollars, I'm sorry. Sorry. I forget I'm old now. People might not get that reference. Let me get up the mallet. We have our first legitimate over 20% alcohol shot, baby. And Bucks win 112, 104. All right, because when you get over one million subscribers and Nintendo makes you change your channel name, I could see your new name would be Nate Price. They're not gonna make me change it. So I can already tell you they won't make me change the name. We're all good. They won't. They won't. If I can run Zelda Informer up to like, you know, 50 million views a month, if I can create a Facebook page called Zelda Informer that was at a million followers, if go Nintendo can be as big as they are, Nintendo life can be as big as it, no. Nintendo doesn't care. They only care, I would say, if you're a channel that is probably be smirking them. Like if we were an ironic Nintendo name, or really the point of our channel is to just make fun of and bash and attack people. Then Nintendo might take issue. But I mean, yeah, just cause they won't work directly with me doesn't mean that they have a problem. It's more so their image, trying to keep it squeaky clean, you know, and I'm not squeaky clean. You know, pretend to be squeaky clean, and that's okay. And there's room for all of us. Nintendo's gonna leave it alone. We're all good, but it won't be Nate Prime. Won't be Nate Prime. You like the bucks coming out the east? I mean, they're my team, so they just won the title. So of course I like them coming out the east, but we'll see. We'll see, long season ahead. Gotta knock on wood and hope everyone stays healthy. The bucks have not been healthy this year, so could probably foresee it since they had like the shortest off season in NBA history. But then the Suns are doing really well and they were in the finals too, so. Hello, Nate. What do we think of the game awards? Do we think Breath of Wild 2 will be there? Trailer and release date? I don't think release date. You might get a trailer. I don't think release date. I think that's asking too much. Malibu! I think he's not sure that Malibu, that's what first, like. Oh, hair on chest shot tonight. Good game. Your team, the bucks, four calves. Yeah, I mean, the calves have some pieces. They're not horrible. What's their record now? I mean, they're over 500. They got a better record than the next. They're 13 and 12. The calves got some pieces. Whether or not they ever put it together, I don't know. The ownership Dan Schneider is not, if he didn't look into LeBron James, I'm not so sure that the calves have a title. So, it's one of the, I mean, the buck, I mean, the buck's looked into Yanis. So, I mean, I might want to talk.  That's the problem.  The buck's ownership group, you know, it was Herb Cole before, now it's an ownership group of three people or four people or whatever, because I think Aaron Rodgers is part of that group now.  So, well, a lot of people don't like Aaron Rodgers now. What is over my table? It is, okay, so it lines up here, but back here it is now half an inch lower. I am confused. I'll have to figure that out later. That is not right. That's bothering me. Little OCD bothering me. Hey Nate, how was your day? You just got two teeth pulled. I've been there. I had five teeth pulled once. Four wisdom teeth and then another tooth next to one of my wisdom teeth because I got cracked by my wisdom teeth. Sucked. I had a drink like, I had a drink. What was it? Basically nothing but shakes for like a week. It sucked. You think we'll get an official title review? We'll see. Again, I don't know if we're going to get anything, but as I like to tell you guys, what do you gotta do? Hype responsibly with the game awards. Hype responsibly. I am not going to be disappointed if Breath of the Wild 2 is not at the game awards because I'm hyping responsibly. I'll be thrilled if it is. I just expect something from Nintendo. Don't know what, but something. Otherwise, I'm there, I'm going to enjoy the awards. I'm going to enjoy all the other stuff showing off, I'm sure. Enjoy some third party announcements. It's going to be a good time. It's going to be a good time. I usually enjoy the game awards every year. So I'm critical of the game awards, but I usually enjoy it. I'm critical because I enjoy it. If that makes sense, I hope that makes sense. I legitimately hope that makes sense. If it doesn't make sense, I apologize. But I really hope it does. I haven't been around lately. Trial has been off, then on again for my cousin. Oh, jeez. I can't, I'm not going to say that word because YouTube would get mad at me, but jeez. I'm sorry you're going through that, Carla. I mean, I know it's the reality for some people. They obviously have to go through that stuff. There's nothing we can do about it, but I hope everything goes the way it should. Guess that's pretty much all I can do. Everything goes the way it should. I'm fine if there isn't any Zelda. I'm only halfway through things Awakening and I still have to play Skyward Sword, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Cruisin' Blast, Tony Hawk, I've got a lot on your plate. I enjoy TGA, but I'm extra hyped for this year because I won't be alone. Aw. Right here. We're putting on a show. Oh, did you guys see what I linked? Go to our community posts. We have a special giveaway during the game award. I have three of these cards to give away. Obviously they're a play on Pokemon cards, but it's a King K rule card, and it's made by Gamerlot. They're really cool, and we're giving away three of them. They sent them to me specifically for the game awards, the giveaway, so shout outs to them. They're really sweet. I should go look at that. So we're gonna be giving away three of those. Anyone who won something during Prime Giving? No worries. I think I'll have everything shipped out by the end of this week from Prime Giving. So look towards your emails. I got some emails I still need to respond to from that to get some shipping information, but I think things should be going up at the end of this week for that. What about a Golden Sun Surprise trailer? Why not? You like E3 better than the game awards? This E3 was okay, no? Okay. Did you watch the same E3 I did? I'm not gonna let that comment go. This, you like E3 more than the game awards. Fair. This year's E3 was not even remotely okay. It was the worst E3 of all time. There was more time spent talking about Verizon 5G than video games. Just wanna let that sink in. There was more time between that, between the guy who runs Gearbox, walking around a set for a Borderlands movie that nobody gave a shit about and wouldn't shut up and wasn't allowed to show anything and none of the actors seemed to even wanna talk and it just was a huge, huge wasted chunk of time between some of the talking panels they had that didn't really even talk about games. It was bad. E3 this year was an embarrassment. It was an embarrassment.  Like there were some stuff, but it sucked for the most part. Like yeah, Breath of the Wild 2 was great, but Metro Drive was great, but overall E3 was a shit show this year. The Digital Devolver event that was part of Summer Game Fest was better than the entirety of E3. That single event was better than the entirety of E3.  That's how much Summer Game Fest was better than E3 this year.  E3 was an embarrassment. And if it's all digital next year and that's the kind of show they're gonna give, I'm not even sure if I'm covering it. It was that bad, horrendous.  Now, the show was a waste of my time. You guys weren't. Without you guys, I wouldn't have got through E3. But, man, yikes. E3, I hope it can get back. To at least be an in-person so I could play some game demos. Oh, you have some people coming over that side. Dang it, that's who I thought you were gonna be. We'll be alone, we'll be with Nintendo Prime. You actually have friends. Good for you. I won't be alone either. Eric will be here for the Game Awards. He'll be sitting right in this chair over here. I got SpongeBob behind me. We got Mr. Pumpkin down here. I won't be alone. My kids will be sleeping upstairs, eventually. TGAs always lands at a weird time for me. My oldest kids have a Christmas concert. The same, like, while the Game Awards is going on, that I'm not going to. Which makes me, you could say, Nate, that makes you a bad dad, right? You're choosing to do this stream for the Game Awards over going to your kid's Christmas concert. And to that I say, tut, tut, tut. My kids put on two performances of their Christmas concert. I am going to the first performance as at 12.30. I just am not going to the night performance. It's the exact same performance, the exact same stuff. My mom's taking them to that one. I'm bringing them back. I'm not skipping their performance. I'm just going to the earlier show. That's all.  You don't know the situation. Same thing true tomorrow.  I'm just going to their first showing with Yulia. Yulia works at night. So, what happens is I'm going to the day performance with Yulia tomorrow as well for our youngest son. And then my parents will take them to the night performance, because that's the one they're going to. Not a big deal. Did I catch the new Matrix game? I caught the announcement. There's nothing to catch game-wise because we still don't really know what it is. No, I don't think it'll be on switch. I'm pretty sure it's been advertised as a next-gen experience.  So, that Matrix game is not, and by the way, the Matrix game is not meant to be a full game. In case people are confused, this Matrix game is going to be like PT. You guys remember PT? Anyone in the chat remember PT? That little silent hill-like demo? That's all this is going to be. It's an ad. It's an ad for the movie. There is not a full-blown game. It's not being developed as a full-blown game. It's not being advertised as a full-blown game. It's being advertised as an experience, which means it's a glorified ad for the movie. Sure, there'll be some real gameplay, but it's a glorified ad for the movie. That's all of it. It's an excuse to get Keanu Reeves on stage at the Game Awards, and because people think Matrix is cooler or something. That's all of it. It's just an ad. It's an ad. Don't view it as anything other than that. That's all of it. You ain't got to explain yourself to anybody we know you're good at. To be fair, Anthony Riley. To be fair, you don't know that I'm a good dad. I want to make this clear. None of you guys know what I'm like behind the scenes. This is something we have to be careful about. And this is what I talked about before, where some people were criticizing unfairly media websites and not criticizing YouTubers enough. You had no idea what I'm behind. For all you know, I'm a wife beater. How would you know? You ever see Yulia on camera? How would you know? You had no idea what I'm like behind the scenes.  This isn't me saying that I'm a bad dad. This is just me saying, you have no idea. Don't make presumption. Don't pretend that you know something you don't actually know. My private life is my private life. Yeah, I'll talk about my children once in a while. I'll talk about Yulia once in a while. You guys don't know what's going on. You don't know what's going on with my family. This is like, keep it private.  That's what I'm saying. You don't know. I'll be careful about making presents. I know you like me. You like what I do on the channel. You like my personality on the channel. You like the energy I bring on my live streams, the shots. You like all the rawness that you feel out of this. But, this is just part of me. Like, I'm a YouTuber. I do this stuff. This isn't all that I am. There's way more to my life than this. And you guys aren't part of any of that. You're not part of my schooling. You're not part of me as a parent. You're not part of any of my family stuff. You're not part of me and Yulia's relationship. You're not part of my other job.  Yeah, I'll be careful. You don't actually know. And maybe because, maybe because the funny thing is, the funny thing is, and Anthony Rowley, you're fine. The funny thing is, me being honest like that just makes people trust me even more.  Right? The ones that end up being the really bad child beating parents and the wife beaters, and the ones that get physical, like literally eventually get caught on live stream, like some streamer did a few years ago. Like, they're not transparent like that. So the ironic thing is, me just even acknowledging that you don't know just makes people think I'm even more genuine. It's insane. That's the thing about content creators. If you don't talk about any of that stuff and you just accept the compliments, sweet. You admit, hey, you don't know anything, people just trust you. It's like you can't do anything wrong when it's a content creator. You can't do anything wrong until something comes out about your private life that's wrong. Right? It's funny. It's just funny the way the internet works. By the way, I love how trusting you guys are. Just be careful. I'm not saying you need to be careful with me. You be as careful with me as you think you need to be. Just be careful out there. Don't start idolizing us. We're just gamers.  We're flawed. We're extremely flawed in some way. I'm extremely flawed in some way. Or purely as the wife beater. Does that make me the wife?    I don't know. I think I pretty much am in the bitch in every relationship I've ever been. That's just what I am. That's just me.  I mean, I'm not even ashamed of it. You know, it's cool. She listens to me. I mean, on the things that really, really matter, I do get a lot of say. On the things that really, really matter. The bills as an example and money man. I get... I pretty much get the final say on that stuff. Because, you know, I'm just better at it than she is. She likes to spend, spend, spend, and I like to go, it's cool to spend. I'm doing giveaways all the time. I wouldn't like to talk about spending. But I am the one that manages and makes sure every bill is paid. She doesn't even know what the bills are sometimes. So it's always one of those, yeah, but I always know what's going on in the overall financial scope of the thing. And even with the kids. She'll push back with the kids, but there'll be things that's like, yeah, she knows I'm right with the thing. And we get there. So we work together.  But also, she knows when I'm right. She knows when I'm right. So, it's all good. Relationships are give and take. This has to be where this should be. If it's just take, take, take, or just give, give, give, any good. You need a give and take relationship. It's gotta be 50-50. So yeah, I might be the bitch, but I'm also right on a lot of stuff and get my way in a lot of things. As an example, I get to be in Madden leagues. I get to take an hour like every other day and play a Madden game. And you might be like, but Nate, don't you get the game?  I don't ever get to like sit down and console game and PC game, except Julia knows that me being in the Madden leagues gets me away from things. So, while I'm still down in here, in this studio, I'm not working. And I'm not like, when I play Switch, oftentimes I'm like, okay, well I should play something that's relevant to my YouTube stuff, right? And that's the weird thing about Switch is I really enjoy it, but also a lot of what I play feels like it's relevant to what I'm doing, which of course it is, because I'm a Nintendo YouTuber. But when I play Xbox, that's just for me. When I play PC games, that's for me. I don't cover that stuff here. It's for me. It's me just being a gamer.  You know, when I'm on my phone, I probably spend probably 70% of the time I'm on this phone checking stuff related to YouTube.  Here it is, YouTube Studio app. It's open all the time on my phone. Look, I just refreshed it again for like the 50th time today. Now we're at 76,514 subscribers. Oh look, the revenue just updated. Oh look, now here I am in the middle of a live stream, curious about what my video's made. So I'm going back to my videos and checking the revenue. Like, look what this 12,000 view video, 12,300 view video from Saturday, that was a really short video make. How much money did that video make? Oh look, it made $53. It got me 16 subscribers and has 12.3K views. Cool. How about that video yesterday then, right? Didn't do very well, 2.8K views. Only three minute watch time, 4.3% click-through rate. I actually, it actually cost me subscribers. So that video gained me a net negative two subscribers, but it did make $18, which isn't terrible. That's way, you know, but we're also in the middle of the holiday. By the way, add revenues higher per video right now because of the holidays. That $18 will be like $4 in the end. It's insane to drop off. The video today, I have no idea. It's at seven and a half thousand views. You guys can't see the updated numbers. You guys get delayed. It's like delayed by like an hour and a half for you guys. But yeah, it's at seven and a half thousand views. It'll probably, it might hit 10K by tomorrow. We'll see. And it's a longer video. But you might go, it's a longer video. So it has five minutes and 54 seconds of watch time. But it's a 16 minute video. It's not even 50%. So like, it's not great. But I'm always looking at that or I'm always like, here's my email app open. So I'm always checking all my business emails or I got vidIQ open, which I might be getting rid of after this month. It's almost all related. Or I have my fantasy team over, where I'll check the score on my fantasy team. So I'm really, it's mostly work that I, or YouTube that I use my phone for. And then the rest of the time will be like when I'm watching a show or something. Like when I'm laying in bed, which is weird because I have a TV in my room. For some reason, based on whatever angle I'm laying at, I'll watch it on my phone sometimes. Isn't that weird? Like, is anyone else, is anyone else that way? Do you have like a TV in your room? But you catch yourself watching shows on your phone because of the way you're laying. It's just more comfortable. Am I the only one that does like, I still watch movies and stuff on my TV. But like, there's still a lot of times I don't find myself like turned a certain way and I just watch on my phone. Cause I don't want to turn and I don't want to move. I don't want to prop myself up or I don't want to lay a certain way. I don't know, maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm just the insane one that has like a TV in the room, but then still uses their phone to watch stuff. How do you keep the romance, Nate? That's a tough one. That's a tough one. Keeping the romance in relationships, I would say. We've been together 10 years. I'm not an expert. But you got to do things. We have three kids. So the biggest killer are any romance in relationships, kids. Kids are like anti-romance. Work is anti-romance. It can be hard to keep the romance going. So definitely there is a lot less romance 10 years in with three kids than at the beginning. Not because I don't want to, but because there's less time for it. Less time for me to think about it. But what you got to do is you got to remind her in unexpected ways that you love them. That's the least what I find works for us. So yeah, sure, around Valentine's Day or around your anniversary date or maybe on birthdays or something like, yeah, those are all the expected times that they expect some flowers or chocolates or a dinner date or something like, okay, those are expected. That's like forced romance almost at this point. So it doesn't really feel that romantic because it's expected and because it's expected, it feels forced. So what do you got to do? Every now and then you got to surprise it. Last year, I surprised her with cruise tickets. For this year. Unfortunately, we didn't get to go on the cruise. We had an issue with passport, which we technically don't need, but because she's been adopted, there's a whole, it's weird. Anyways, so it was disappointing and we didn't get to go on the cruise. That sucked. We did end up going to Vegas instead and Vegas was fine for a couple of days. But you know, Vegas is expensive and that wasn't the plan and I didn't get a refund from the cruise. So like, I'm instead, you know, last minute changing our entire cruise plans to go to Vegas while I still have three grand wrapped up in cruise that I can't get back. Now we have three grand in cruise credit that we can use next year. But it's like, it was an all expense paid cruise. We had everything taken care of. And I don't have that money back. So I had to do a vacation with just the spending money. I was going to have with them the cruise, which I didn't really need to spend any money on the cruise, right? Like I got to change my flights and then I had like a thousand bucks and I had to somehow try to turn a thousand bucks into a whole week at Vegas. That's really hard to do. So yeah, it was not, it was not good. Not as good as it could have been. So then what else do you do? Still got a surprise. It was just three weeks ago.  Her favorite flower is the sunflower. So I had them drop off a bouquet of sunflowers. Never in my life have I bought her sunflower. We never talk about it. But I know her favorite flower is sunflower. She's never had one. I've never seen her grab one. I've never seen it one in our house. I surprised her, didn't tell her. The moment she left the house, I knew all day I was going to do it. The moment she left the house, whoop, got on my computer, made the order because you had, because basically you got to have the order in by four or they won't deliver it same day. And she leaves at 3.30. So I got like this half hour window to get the order in. Sent her flowers. Yeah, it wasn't cheap. Getting same day delivery on flowers within a half hour is not cheap. But I had flowers into it. Just a nice gesture. And the card included with it, I wrote her a poem. And the poem lasts longer than the flowers. She still has the poem. She keeps it in her car. Right up at the, you know, like the sun thing you bring down that has a mirror. You open the mirror of the cards right there. She has a stuck right there. So every time she opened the mirror to like check her makeup, you can read the poem. You got to do a little stuff like that. It doesn't always cost much of money either, right? That was just what I did. You got to do a little stuff like that. Like every now and then I'll leave her sticky notes in places that she doesn't know. Like on the steering wheel. Or maybe I slip on it or make a bag on whatever her, you know, cover up or whatever she uses, right? Like maybe I'll slap a sticky note on there. And it'll be one of the reasons that I love it. Like, you guys got to do it randomly. It can't be something that like, you know, you just do only on special occasions. It's stuff you just got to sporadically do throughout the year, every year. And now you might go, what does she do for you?  So I mean, it's not like that's dead. So now she shows me in her own ways. She's never been, she loves being romance, but she's never been the type to romance back. If that makes sense. She bought me the Zelda tree back here this year. That's the first Christmas present she's bought me. Five years. That's her way of saying I love you. Yeah, it's just little things. But again, everyone's different. That's just what works for us. Give and take, my number one. Like surprise my wife in taking a day off randomly and doing whatever she wants to do while our son is at school. I like showing her time, yeah. Like today, today it was just a little thing. So I got my YouTube video out. I was doing some work. I went and took a shower.  Hold up guys, I will be right back. I don't know if I'll be right back screen yet. So I will be right back. I'm gonna slap the intro screen on and play some. Actually, no, we'll just play some music. I'll be right back. I gotta get him to bed. I think he, I don't know why he's, I think he's thirsty. All right, I'll be right back. Oh boy, we're back. Yeah, he just needed some water. I already had some ready for him, but he didn't know where it was. My children are cute things, yeah. I tried not to let him on video. I know they've slipped in before. He just stood off-screen, it was all good. Who dropped a $100 Super Chat, what? Sorry, I was just scrolling up. Yulia's dropped $100 before, I know. She's crazy. Anyways, okay, anyone wonder what this cup is? This is a Batman vs Superman back in 2016. Movie theater cup, baby. Boy, was that movie not that great. It was fine. There is Nate taking his shirt off. Ooh. You guys got any questions? It's Q&A time, it's been Q&A time for a while, I suppose. Just at me in the chat. Didn't your kids accidentally go live once? More than once, it's like three times. Aiden in particular likes to ask that. Now, I don't have a go live button on here anymore. Last time it was my daughter who hit the go live button on my stream deck. Because of that, there is no longer a go live button on my stream deck. So that's why it takes me a bit longer to end streams now, because I can't just hit a button to end the stream. You gotta do what you gotta do. So, your kids. Protect the kids, more than anything. Always gotta protect the kids. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.  Man, how about some old school music popping in my head? That Final Fantasy, right? Battle music? Or Victory music, that was Victory music. Old school Final Fantasy victory. Did I see the vice president of PSN got fired? Now I can talk about it too much. Team's pretty guilty about the public. Assuming, assuming that the people who made the video didn't lie about how they met him and how they presented themselves. Because the story basically is this YouTube channel that tries to bust pedophiles. Went on Grindr, which, now I can't get too much into what Grindr is. You guys can Google it if you're curious. Anyways, went on Grindr, pretending to be a 15-year-old boy. And I'm not clear if they reached out to him or if he reached out to them. I'm not sure how they started talking on Grindr, but it doesn't really matter who reached out to who in the case of an adult talking to a minor. And if it was just about, if it was just talking, it's not a big deal, but it was, it got into an invitation to come to his house for sex.  And on video, it very much looked like the DC. Like, it's pretty hard to deny that that was the VPN video. Standing outside wearing a PlayStation 5 shirt, waiting for the kid. Of course, they showed up in the not kids.  Now I don't know if any lawsuits or anything are going to get filed officially, but obviously that video made it back to the upper echelon of Sony and they immediately turned me. Not even caring, obviously, if the story is true or not, because it doesn't matter. It's an accusation and they're on video waiting outside for somebody. Sony's like, yeah, we ain't messing around, you're done. Now, in the back of my mind, I'm always hoping in a situation like that, that it was the first time, right? Like, usually it's not the first time.  Except when he himself was maybe a minor. Like, if he was 15, that's been what? But like, you would like to think that's never happened at all in his life, or at least not happened at certain ages. Like, again, the whole sex with minor thing is really weird.  So like, let's just say if the age gap is at least five years, trying to think of like, what's a good age gap where it would bother people?  Is it really that bad?  Is it really that bad? Well, like the 18-year-old's really that much more responsible than the 15-year-old. I'm just being honest. I was 15, I was 18. I wasn't any more responsible at 18 than I was at 15. In fact, I was probably more responsible at 15 than I was at 18. I was making way dumber decisions than I was at 15. But whatever, whatever age gap you think it becomes wrong. Bottom line is he's like almost 70. So chances are this was not his first time. High likelihood this was not his first time. Just his first time getting caught. So I don't know. I don't know. It sucks, but at least Sony did the right thing. Not even worrying about it. No, oh yeah, we're gonna do an internal investigation. Nope, you're gone. Just gone, bye, we're done. We don't even want our name associated with this story. We're done. So about the Switch, it's okay. But Nintendo Switch Lite is better. It's like playing a PSP, interesting. I can see the form factor is kind of like a PSP. It's staring at a Switch Lite right now. Kind of like a PSP, the form factor. But I don't agree that they're really the same, but that's okay. If that's what you like, it's what you like. What's up, Brian C? Welcome to the stream. My boy. My boy. My boy. You're my boy, Blue. He went eight times, baby. Got any good old question. Is anyone trying to get a hold of me? They're playing my Madden game? I don't think so. I think I'm gonna get a force to win this. So I just saw a Metroid Dread Theory video that makes a lot of sense. There are ships in the service area before the final loss and they're gone after. Where did they go, right? Have you seen it? I have no idea, man. I missed your question, Electo. Let me... You're going to bed, something, man? Later, man. You missed my question. Let me know. Try to scroll off, Electo. I don't catch everyone's question. I try, but if you want to hear bad music, listen to my first song ever, it's terrible. Is that a question? How did you enjoy Thomas on your podcast? Oh, from Switchstop. Yeah, he was nice, man. We'll probably have another episode. It was a good podcast. He had a good time, we had a good time. So yeah, he'll probably be on another episode. From the little bit we've talked since, he'll probably come on another episode. Just a matter of fitting in a schedule and all that. I don't know if there'll be another one before the end of this year because obviously we're already in December. If I guess this week, there's like what? Two podcasts left after this week. So I don't know if it'll be again. No, but maybe in January or February. Well, we'll get them back on. Trying to get a guess through a week. Are you streaming on Friday as well? So it's five streams this week. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I might take Friday off. So I already, my streaming schedule already has like four streams a week.  It's just, it's basically do I cut out my Monday stream, Tuesday stream or Friday stream? The Wednesday stream, the podcast always happens. But usually one of the other streams gets cut out. One week I cut out the game stream. One week I cut out the Friday stream. So last week was the Friday stream got cut out. So I already usually don't end up hitting my exact stream schedule. That's cause school is getting crazy. I need more time this week because of the game awards. Cause Thursday has always been my guaranteed. I don't stream on Thursdays, but we have the game awards on Thursday. So obviously I'm streaming on Thursday. So it's possible I don't do a Friday stream or it's possible I say screw it. And we just stream all five nights, Monday, Friday, and yeah, baby.  Well, probably end up streaming all five nights cause screw it. I'm already going to be foreign role. Why not make it five in a row? And then next week maybe we cut out Monday or something, right? Like just skip Monday. I'm going to need to give myself some sort of streaming break in there. So we'll see. Or not. I don't know. I can't tell you. My streaming schedule is Monday, Tuesday, Friday, podcast Wednesday, but we'll see what happens. My finals happen the week of Christmas. So like Christmas is on a Saturday, my final is due that Thursday. If you think Friday off, yeah, I have no idea. Let's see how I'm feeling on Friday. I mean, right now it's been kind of a light night in terms of super chat. So like, it feels like I haven't had anything to drink. Like at all. Kind of sad. But a little too sad. Dude, I still remember what was it, two Mondays ago? Birdman, was it two Mondays ago that you just, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Man you got me that night man. I was feeling it when I went to bed that night. Holy crud, was I feeling it. To be honest it felt kind of great cause I haven't been that buzzed in a long time. A long time. That's because we got into that tequila and we still haven't cracked, look at this, brand new. Can you guys see the plastic on it? Brand new. I'm not sure how well it shows on camera. Brand new, never cracked. Don Julio. This is what replaced after that stream. Brand new. I have no idea when this is going to get cracked. I have zero idea when Don Julio gets cracked. So we'll see. Oh, Nintendo Prime. You want me to do a vodka shot? Is that what you're calling for? Okay. Okay. Vodka shot it is. Finally, almost out of the vodka. Then I can reorganize my boo shots. Yeah. Yay for new tequila. First new bottle since like May. I mean it's $100 shots. So like, it's very, usually pretty rare. It wasn't rare two Mondays ago. But it's usually pretty rare that we bust into tequila. I'm going to be pretty excited for the first time we cracked this. I've never had Don Julio. Full disclosure. I've never had Don Julio. So I have no idea how smooth this is. Or maybe it's not smooth.  Doesn't really matter.  But buying himself drinks for twice the price. That's not twice the price. It's $20 to do a vodka shot. I'm paying the same price you guys got to pay. Then you can say, well, yeah, but you also bought the booze.  But obviously at the prices I charge, the booze pays for sale. Basically. And then some. Like, you know, this was like a $60 bottle. I mean, and I'm charging $100 a shot. And there's probably off $100 a shot. There's probably at least $1,000. At least 10 shots if not more. So it's obviously more than going to pay. I mean the first shot, even after YouTube's cut, basically pays for the bottle. The first shot it takes. But the idea is obviously, the idea of the $100 for the Don Julio isn't really about the money. It's because tequila is like a punishment for me. Because it gets me really drunk. And I don't like the taste. So if I'm going to get really drunk, we need to make it more expensive. Technically it's less alcohol than the $25 shot. In terms of alcohol percentage. But tequila just hits me in a certain way. And that's why it's so expensive. So I don't do it so often. We used to not be super expensive at one point. And I found out quickly that that was a mistake. So that's why it's so expensive because I found out how bad it was for me to not have it be expensive. So let me get this vodka out of the way. Nintendo just added a new feature on the eShop, baby! Sort of. Yeah, they added the ability to refund. In Europe. That's the new feature. Oh, you didn't like my title today? I thought my title...  I know Birdman, okay? You're not the only one. You're not the only one, Birdman. I owe three people some cookies. You gotta tell me what kind of cookies you want. You gotta DM me the cookies you want. I can't... Remember, it's supposed to be a choice of cookie. I don't know what cookie you want. What kind do you want? You gotta DM me. Don't do it in the live chat here because I'm not gonna remember. You gotta DM me it. I am shipping out all of the Prime giving stuff by the end of this week. It'd be a great time for me to send out the cookies. So, you know, maybe you want Christmas cookies. Some sort of Christmas cookies. I have no idea. What do you want? You gotta DM me. Let me know. What? You mean a new feature was just added? Technically, refunds... A one-button-click refund option was a new feature. In Europe. Was there another one?  I miss this play. Ha ha ha ha! So, Giannis! Giannis, not just as a cupo, is amazing. I can't show you the play because it will get me in trouble with the NBA will basically copyright strike my channel. But Giannis today, in the second quarter while I was live streaming, he... Euro stepped, right? He did his Euro step drive from the three-point line. But he was quadruple team. Okay? So, obviously he should have probably passed into the corner it looks like. That would have been the play he should have made. But he, instead, invented a brand new move. He Euro stepped towards the basket, was not going to be able to dunk it or get a finger roll or anything, right? He was a little bit too far away. He started his Euro step right inside the three-point line so he wasn't going to quite get to the rim. So he Euro stepped and then when he went to shoot, he really wasn't trying to shoot. He threw it off the backboard so he could put two feet down on the ground, run up, grab it and jam it down. He basically passed to himself. Now, this is a completely legal move in the NBA, by the way. He's not the first person to have ever passed to himself off the glass. But to do the Euro step into the pass and then the slam, that's a new move. That Giannis clearly remeditated and I've never seen him do before. That's insane. I'm just literally staring at this on repeat. That is insane. Hot damn, wow. I mean, I don't know how you defend that.  I don't know if the pass off the glass comes as a shot or what. I'm not really sure how that works. It has to count as a shot. I'm out the scorekeeper. That's insane. Oh my God. I'm just avoiding. I paid for this vodka shot and then I'm just avoiding it because I know how bad vodka tastes. I'm getting ready to chase this bad boy down. Water, it turns out. I need some flavor in that water. What is going off on my desktop? Is my audio working? Does my audio is working? Is this working? Hmm. It looks like my mic must have crashed for a moment and now it's back. All right. What is your confidence over Get Breath of Wild 2 Trailer Game Awards? I'd say 15%. Again, I'm hyping responsibly. I'm hyping responsibly. 15%. Oreos are trapped. Have you ever dipped an Oreo milk? I've dipped a lot of cookies in milk. Oreos are the best milk dip cookie of all time. Don't add it. You saw it on GameXplain? That was it just said? I'm going to go check GameXplain. I went on Twitter. The whole reason I saw it at Yannissing is because I was trying to find that story. Usually it's all over my Twitter. Let me go to GameXplain here and see what they said. Nintendo Switch eShop adds a new feature. What is it? Most played section. Interesting. That's interesting. That will definitely be in my news video tomorrow. That's interesting. I'll have to go record some footage for it. Interesting. Not really a new feature. It's just a new section. They're trying to add organizational methods that aren't real organizational methods. Instead of actually overhauling and fixing the eShop, they're just going to make it more confusing. Hey, we already have featured. We already have bestselling. We already have latest release. Now here's most played. That's not what we want, Nintendo. It's not what we want. How hard is it to build a recommendation system based on the games you played? How hard is it? What we want is a recommended section that is customized based on the gameplay time you have spent with various games you already own. How hard is that? I have not dipped it in coffee, but I don't like coffee. That would just ruin the cookie. Some people like chocolate and coffee. For some people, it's probably really good. But I don't like coffee. Hope you're doing good tonight. I was wondering if you sent all the eShop gift cards from E3 because I didn't get one. Jake Hill. Let me open my document. I think I still have the document. Come on. E3 document, open up. E3.  Are you Sport and Glowy? Wait, what was your username? Jake Phillips. Are you at Sport and Glowy on Twitter? Sport and Glowy, right? Sport and Glowy? That's the only Jake I have. That's why I'm wondering. I mean, you might have had a different username. That's the only Jake I have listed. If that's you, then no, I haven't sent you yet.  If that's not you, I'm going to go DM you quick just so you pop up to the top of my DM. Sorry about that. E3 was crazy, man. And it took me forever to get everything shipped out. Wait, wait.  Is your Twitter account suspended, man? That's not good. I just like legit, is your Twitter account suspended? Here's the thing. I can't confirm anything without being able to look at the Twitter account. Can you get it back? Here's the problem, Jake Hill. It's not that I don't believe you. It's that we did all of our verifications for this through Twitter. So I have to be able to verify with the original Twitter account or I can't, in good faith, send you a code. That's kind of like the thing. I can't, in good faith, send you a code without being able to do it through the original method because that's the only way I can be 1,000% sure I'm sending the code to the right person. It's one of those... I just have to stay consistent because I haven't said anything about this yet. We've sent you through, we've given away a number of eShop gift cards in our live stream, right guys? Like a number of them. Two people in the last month got away with a successful scam. One of them robbed a $50 eShop gift card and another robbed a $20. So I was out 70 bucks because obviously the real winners were going to get their gift card and they did. But I got scammed and I fell for it. So I have to do original methods. It's just, it's money, I don't get back. Like that cost me money. That was not planned giveaway money. And extra 70 bucks had to be spent out of my personal funds to cover that mistake that I made. I made the mistake because people are always trying to scam on these wins. So as much as it's like I really, really want to believe you, it's also, that's how we verified everything so if I can't get a hold of that account, I can't in good faith give you that gift card.  It's just, I literally just recently got scammed out of 70 bucks and I don't want to deal with that again.  Just be transparent.  I usually, my methods for verification are usually super secure. I have rarely had issues. This is a time when I did. It was a very, very well done Photoshop job. A very well done Photoshop job. Sorry, this is a business text. From someone who helps me with some stuff on the channel. I was just texting them back. Yeah, I don't ignore my business texts. I got a good working relationship with a couple of partners behind the scenes. I got to keep it real with them. So I really hope, yeah. Jake, I just really hope you understand like if you legitimately are the part, I deeply apologize. It's just I literally just got scammed. I just don't want to, we verified it a certain way and that's the only way that I can re-verify it. And I know it was with Eric's Twitter again but I can't contact that count. You know what I'm saying? It's just, oh, it's, this is me. This is me being careful. Okay, being very careful about it. I have to be, I just don't want to risk losing anything. Again, do another scan. I'm not saying that's what you're doing. I really want to believe you. What's up Gamerlot? Hey, by the way, shout out to Gamerlot. So, remember those cards I linked in my community profile? The Kinkai rule cards that were given away during the Game Awards? Shout out to Gamerlot. They were provided by Gamerlot for the Game Awards. What's wrong with Gamerlot? Do you run like a card making business? Because I noticed on the back of the cards, right? It had a really professional looking Gamerlot thing going on. Is that, is that like a business you do?  Like that? It's really cool. Kinkai rule. It's like a Pokemon style card. It's not like pretending to be a real, you know, card. Like it's trying to fool people. I'm actually curious because I was looking into maybe adding a few more things to the giveaway during the Game Awards. That's why I was wondering if it was a real business or something. Maybe something I might want to look into. Maybe not for the Game Awards because you sent us some stuff, but maybe like for future giveaways if people, if people really, really dig those cards. And I'd like to tell people where they can get them themselves if it's an actual business. So I'm pretty sure you're the one who sent it. At least that's the, that's the name on the back of the card. I could be wrong. Maybe you're not the one who sent it. How real do you think the curvy Air Ride 2 League is? I think it's fake. I can't confirm to you it's fake. I do think it's fake. I think it's a little too convenient to have basically a title splash screen with new music. The music is unique. I don't know the title splash screen. So someone mentioned in the comments that it might be art from one of the Kenna art people who posted an art station and they were supposed to go dig up the art for me and they couldn't find it. So I don't know. Like, I don't know. I think it's probably fake. I can't definitively say. The whole reason I showed it today is because, one, it's really good. If it is a fake, it's a really damn good fake. I love, like, I know this is weird to say because like nobody wants to be duped, right? But I will say this. If I'm going to be duped or like if there's going to be a story that ends up being not true. At least this one has a lot of effort put into it, right? Like, this is a high effort fake if it is fake. And I have an appreciation for people that go the extra mile.  That to me is awesome. So even if it is fake, it's a damn good one. But I think it's fake. And something tells me they don't have like a Kirby air ride to in the works while Kirby, you know, forgotten land is in the works. I just don't see that happening. It's possible by the way, but I just don't see it. I don't know. That's the thing. I can't definitively tell you it's fake. I can tell you my opinion is that it's fake. But I have no idea. Either way, it's really damn cool. That's why I made it in the video today.  Like when I did that 4chan video back on Friday, which you guys know, I barely ever talk about 4chan stuff. It was only because it was such a cool idea. I thought it was a really neat idea. That's why I made a video on it. If it wasn't a neat idea, I would have never made that video because I'm like 99.9% sure it's fake. But it's a neat idea. So like when something is really cool, I'll talk about it even if I think it's fake. Just because it's cool. Notice, it wasn't like something I didn't try to build my headline off of it. It was just kind of a story I put in there. I built the headline off of the lawsuit leading to a refund feature being added to the eShop in Europe. That's what I built my title off of. But I threw that story in there because it's just such a cool story. Like such a cool even if it is fake. It's a nice thing. I like it. It was uploaded on ArtStation a few hours after the leak. Wait a second. Wait a second. So it's confirmed fake, but it was on ArtStation after the leak? What? So how'd they get their hands on the art? Unless, I wonder, hold up, hold up, hold up. Was the fake done by the artist? It had to have been, yeah. The artist themselves must have made the fake but that's again, I like the effort. It's just good effort. I was pretty sure it was fake anyways. Leaks like that are so rare from Nintendo that you get a title screen leak like that. Especially for an unannounced game. But like that that was a good fake. I like that. I'm not even mad. I said during the video that it can be fake. I'm not even mad and I hope people then feel misled. It might be true but also hey, I don't know who this person is. It could be fake. I have no idea. Here's why it might be real. But probably fake. I was trying to see who I played. Play the sink. I want to see the sink, guys. She wants to get his game. I'm trying to see if this guy wants to get the game. I'm in a couple of little leagues that I got to try to get my games in while I can because I'm streaming every night this week. So I might difficult play this Madden game if this guy wants to play. He's not even online right now. So it's probably not going to happen. That's the indication. Cool fakes like that I'm okay with. I made it in the report but I always knew it was probably fake. It's cool though. It was a really good fake. We'll talk about that tomorrow. We'll talk about that tomorrow. For sure. How am I doing tonight? It says pine cone 531. I'm alright. It's a busy week this week. Busy week. I have to get a video done in the morning for the channel before I go to my children's or my youngest child's Christmas concert. I got that going on. And then he actually comes home after the concert and then I have to obviously be a dad all day. And then I got another game stream tomorrow. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond stream for you guys. And then Wednesday bit of a normal Wednesday I suppose. We have the podcast. I have to do another video but there's no kid event happening that day. But then I have a kid event Thursday plus the game awards. And then kind of a normal Friday I hope. It's just a busy week and I got to start one of my finals. I have a two and a half week final project for one of my classes that starts this week. So there's that plus work. So I'm just it's very busy. Any week that my kids have events going on whether it's sporting events or in this case two different Christmas concerts it's it's busy. It's very busy very stressful week. Let's just say there's a reason that I bought myself a vodka shot earlier. It's fricking busy. I need I need I'm going to need you guys to be hitting me with the shots all week. I'm just telling you right now I'm going to need the shots all week. It's a lot of stress. It's a lot of busy. It's a lot of I need my end of day chill. That's what I get with you guys. Plus the shots. Try to chill. Not by the way I'm not trying to get you guys to guilt trip into buying shots or anything. I'm just saying it's okay you don't do it. I'll buy myself some shots but I need it. The dog that's a whole other thing. He's not feeling well. I might have to take him to the vet this week. He's just been throwing up a lot. Now I it could just be that he ate something he shouldn't but we have snow on the ground now so I don't even know I don't know. If he keeps throwing up I'd say the next two days if he just keeps throwing up I'm going to take him to the vet and just make sure nothing's wrong. There's going to be ulcers or anything crazy going on. But that's a whole other thing. Like my dog for the first time really ever is having some problems just puking. He's not doing it all the time but yeah. I just want to make sure that nothing's wrong. As I said it could have just been the ate something because it started this morning could have just been the ate something last night that he wasn't supposed to whether it was outside or in the house kids could have left something out. So he could just be having a bad reaction to something he ate. Maybe it's a moldy food or whatever the kids left out I have no idea. So it could just be that and he'll end up being fine and his body's just kind of processing and dealing with that. That's why I said I'll give it a couple days until you can. Then I'm going to take him in. I just want to make sure even though taking him in just to get him seen costs like $200 I need to my dog I'm not going to look at my children. I'm not going to risk anything. I'll give it a couple days to see if it clears up but if it doesn't or gets worse I got to take him in. Which is again not a bill I was planning for. So Yay me with surprise bills in December. Surprise bill we have to our car is being taken in on the 15th for what's likely going to be a $1,500 repair which we did not obviously plan for now. I budget for car repairs. My car our 2013 Dodge Deringle has 150,000 miles on it. So it's at the point that it's going to need regular maintenance. So I do budget out like 300 to 500 bucks for maintenance whether it's oil changes whether it's saving up for tires which we actually just got new tires on a bit ago so we don't have to worry about that for a while or it needs to break lines or new spark plugs we got ball bearings replaced not too long ago. So it's at the point that so I have a budget for it but the issue it has now just blew past that budget. So not happy about that this is all happening before we've even bought Christmas presents. We still have to buy presents for children for my parents her parents, the grandparents we have a gift exchange thing on the 18th with the part of the family another gift exchange on Christmas Eve and then more gift stuff on Christmas Day I don't know why it seems to happen every year in December that we just get hit with these unplanned expenses out of nowhere we came into this month feeling very good about all the holiday stuff and then the car hits and now we're going to have to do that and it just something happened every December it's like we're cursed November was fine if Christmas would have been in November no problem it always happens in December and you could say just do your Christmas shopping earlier and you're right to a point but we usually wait for things to play out and then get things on the list that other people weren't willing to buy for others like if my parents had a Christmas list like if other people got certain things we want to kind of get the things that other people weren't willing to get so like it's whatever I'll be fine it's just I hate this unplanned shit worst case scenario Christmas wise I could take out a loan if I need to for Christmas presents I really don't want to take out a loan but I mean I can that's like the absolute last resort option is taking out a loan for my Christmas presents but well the loan would be paid off by like March so it's not like we'd even have the loan that long and pay that much interest on it but you know that's always the last resort option you obviously would like to not have to do that but the car repair thing really gets me that and don't worry it doesn't affect the giveaways again I have a job this is money the money for YouTube is completely separate so like don't you have to worry about anything good boy crap like all the money for shipping you know what's cool all the money to ship all the prime giving stuff came from you guys buying t-shirts we sold enough t-shirts in the last four weeks when we launched our new t-shirts which god we haven't even had them up that long on stream elements I think no no not stream elements t-spring we sold enough products on t-spring to get about a hundred bucks we just cashed out and that is how I'm shipping all the items from prime giving is paid for by you guys by a merch pretty cool pretty cool Christmas is a really big like like Rios says I don't buy Christmas I don't accept them Christmas is like a really big thing for my family it always has I'm not going to be the one that's like oh yeah I'm not doing presents this year not accepting I'm not going to it's always been a really big thing with my family it's just the tradition we're just going to keep it going um that basket talking about stuff he's got going on his channel nintendo who is ready for the legend of zeal the breath of the loud too and the zeal through his we'll see I don't know okay I want to temper expectations on this so the reason that we expect zelda 35th anything at the game awards is because the samus hunter now samus hunter has been really reliable but she didn't specify what it was going to be because she doesn't know so I want to clarify for the zelda 35th anniversary we might just get a medley by the orchestra I just want to be careful here like yeah expect something for the 35th anniversary because she's trustworthy but also it could literally there's an orchestra there it could literally just be a medley by the orchestra and that could be it that could be all we get so I want to temper those expecting like hype responsibly expect the bare minimum and then be surprised if it's beyond that the bare minimum is a celebration of zelda musically well bare minimum it's not there at all but if there is anything that's the bare minimum and then anything beyond that's kind of a bonus so you can speculate but temper the expectations down otherwise here's what happens if you expect the sun the moon the stars you're going to get disappointed we're not going to get like the wind waker and twilight princess hd annals and breath of the wild 2 trailer release date title and then also like get metro prime 4 stuff like at the end you're just going to set yourself for discipline and that just is a disservice to the great announcements that are going to be there right abama what's abama hut says at nintendo prime just got back from work and notice your stream happy to catch the stream live once again that is a vote no it's not a bucket that is a malibu shot thank you so much man I appreciate the $10 Aussie I appreciate scrolling up here there was something I missed earlier somebody renewed their membership and I forgot to damn it it's not showing up well whoever renewed their membership and did a message because you get one message per month when you renew thank you for the renewal and I'm sorry I missed that message earlier that happened like a long time ago like over an hour ago but thank you so much whoever that was for renewing your membership and I'm sorry I didn't read your message it was probably in the middle of that that rant I went on earlier which by the way happens every Q&A stream there's always like one thing that goes on like a little bit of a rant and I was talking to the media and the bias that is maybe not necessarily fair against gaming media and how we're giving all this benefit out to content creators that are often times just as questionable you know if not more so um the devchill says I don't know it would be pretty shitty if they only did an orchestra and that's it I think they'll either have a game to show or nothing at all so think about this devchill this is what we have to consider about the game awards the game awards is Jeff Keely's show okay so let's say that he thinks it's important to recognize the Zelda 35th anniversary right he thinks it's important but Nintendo doesn't so Nintendo doesn't actually have anything there for the 35th but Jeff Keely thinks it's important to recognize it well what can Jeff Keely control he can get an orchestra to play a medley Nintendo what's Nintendo going to sue him? Nintendo is going to leave it alone so this is what you have to remember this is Jeff Keely's show the only thing Jeff Keely can control are things like music he can't control who's willing to show it he can't control who wants to show stuff so you say it'll be it would be disappointing or if that's all there's going to be then there'll be nothing that's all Jeff Keely can guarantee it's up to Nintendo if they're born nobody said by the way what's her name? Nintendo was showing 35th anniversary stuff it just said 35th anniversary something will be happening at the Game Awards very much can just be that and by the way as Nancy said a Zelda orchestra would be pretty hype like anytime Zelda has orchestrated music it's awesome and it's very rare that we hear Zelda orchestrated music live like if you didn't go to the symphony of the goddess back in the day for the 25th or had a couple shows I don't remember but like if you missed that and didn't see it live there was like no shows of it online so like orchestrated Zelda music immediately being played is amazing even if it's not what we ideally obviously we'd rather have gaming out but if that's all we can get it's still pretty damn awesome man Zelda music's baller you guys hear this crap right? I'll just imagine like all that dunt is actually violins going and like oh my god you know all badass a Zelda medley could be with an orchestra like every time I play these Zelda beats that I play I imagine them in an orchestrated form because this isn't an orchestrated form it's digital and it's like oh my gosh how amazing would that sound with an orchestra you guys get excited when I play and I don't understand a YouTuber but in a sense a bigger event than me live streaming dude I love Zelda music so much dude I be hyped just an orchestrated Zelda medley obviously I want more but we'll see wow your son's into PvP what? oh talking to somebody else to say my son doesn't do PvP well shouldn't say that he does do PvP in Roblox maybe he isn't into PvP um dude yeah orchestras are great and we already know there's going to be an orchestra there like that's already been confirmed there is an orchestra at the game award so that's awesome that's the one thing the one thing I'll say I don't know if I care about the sting performance or if I care about the Imagine Dragons performance and I understand that they're actually performing some gaming related stuff but I do I have always loved when he's included in an orchestra I always thought the orchestra was very fitting for the game awards I'm not always so sure when he gets these big name artists out there that it's fitting but I'll deal with it by the way I've been talking to the game awards and they've been trying to assure me that nothing will be copyright claimed or if I get any strikes that I need to contact them and they'll take care of it we'll see we'll see I've never gotten anybody to remove strikes and stuff off my channel so we'll see I guarantee that my stream is getting copyrighted it happens every game award so they keep trying to promise me it won't but they're usually wrong I mean the music is fire Nintendo won't only do an orchestra but that's all Jeff Keely can control so if Jeff Keely wants to recognize the anniversary but Nintendo won't then that's all that can happen that's kind of what I'm saying that's what I'm saying, temper our expectations to yeah, Nintendo might not be showing anything that Jeff Keely can do is music but we'll see again, it's on Thursday and you guys know we're going to be talking the game awards again on Wednesday at the podcast so we have Tim from Kind of Funny Games coming on and I already have one question I want to ask Tim about the game awards Kind of Funny Games is part of the voting panel for the game award, I don't know if you guys know that we're having someone on who's part of the voting panel for the game award I want to ask him how that works like is it the same as us publicly like is it just like a separate like we have our public place that we go and pick our votes, are they sent like a different link that's basically the same thing and then you know it is sent to like select staff members and then each of those staff members does it is there like one vote from the entire outlet for each category and then they have to like debate behind the scenes on what their company is going to vote for like how does it work I'm very curious and if he's allowed to because of NDAs he might not be allowed to even say how but I'm going to ask I mean I don't think he can blame me for asking of course I'm going to ask and it could be something they've talked about publicly I have no idea I'm going to be they did a podcast on game awards prediction like last week so I'm going to go watch that just to make sure they didn't already talk about it and even if they did I'm still going to bring up the question for our audience but I'm going to make sure that if they've already talked about it that I you know make sure that I mentioned that yeah I know I heard if I can you explain it for our audience but that is something that I am going to ask specifically you know because I think we all I think we all have a general curiosity behind the scenes of how that kind of works you know and like do they have any idea like if different outlets are weighted more than others like Metacritic on Metacritic different review outlets are weighted differently than others so like is that how it works or is each outlet given the same amount of weight like it's kind of funny their vote worth the same as IGN you know or do they not know maybe they don't even know because one thing I do know is the outlets don't know who's going to win till it's announced that I know from talking to someone a few years ago who got a vote on the game awards told me that they didn't know who was going to win until it was announced so that's kind of cool too for the voting outlets they don't even know they submit their ballots and they're voting they don't know you know I think they get to see it after the fact but like yeah I don't know cool yeah literally Thursday dude it's a busy month so I got like three different Christmases or four different Christmases to deal with with different family my daughter's birthday is on the 17th we're actually doing a kid birthday party at Christy Mountain on the 18th which is like a t