Hey everyone, welcome to a brand new series here at Nintendo Prime. It's a Q&A series standalone video I go through some questions before I get into those questions I also just kind of give you guys like a state of Nintendo Prime address We just go over things that are happening at Nintendo Prime The stuff that's gonna affect the schedule for this week The first thing I actually want to get into is the actual schedule I'm planning to have a schedule for videos that I'm gonna be experimenting with this upcoming week for those Who don't know for the entire year and a half of the of this channel existing I have been just kind of winging it videos go up when they're done when I feel like it Or when I have time to make them instead what I would like to do is take videos and Have them come out on a more regular basis So as an example if I'm going to do Prime news whether it's three days a week or five days a week this upcoming week I want to have Prime news land at 3 p.m. Central every single day Monday through Friday or Monday Wednesday Friday depending on if I decide to go with a three-day a week format or if or everyday format That's just a good target for me. It lets me know okay from the time I wake up until about 2 p.m I need to have a Prime news done rendered finished ready to go and uploading by 2 So I can release it by 3 and the nice thing about that is it also gets it out before my kids get off the bus So that actually works out really well for me on a timing basis because then once my kids get off the bus It's time for me to worry about other things with my children Beyond that. I also want to get out a video every day All seven days of the week in the morning. I'm not sure what time works yet for that I've debated between maybe I should have it landed six or seven so people can watch it before school Maybe I shouldn't even worry about that and I should worry about spacing with the other video You know release it at like 10, you know go like a 10 a.m. 3 p.m. And then maybe do like a late-night video You know at 10 p.m. Or 11 p.m. At night or something, but that video in particular I'm looking to make it a more discussion oriented video So that's where I take a topic whether it was a news topic that we've talked about in the past that I want to expand upon maybe it's Something else entirely maybe it's just a question I have a question for you guys and I'm gonna talk about my opinion on that question I want to have those videos come out in the morning, so I'm gonna play around with different timings for that I am strongly thinking of about 10 a.m. Because that also gives me time if I didn't get the video down the night before To do it in the morning, but yeah, that's just what I'm thinking right now And I'm very curious what time you think might work best for you guys Beyond that I do want to get a third video out at least Monday through Friday that third video is Something that I don't want to guarantee is going to land But if it does come I wanted to land at a specific time I don't know what timing I'm looking at I don't know if I'm gonna try to drop it at like 8 p.m. Right before a live stream or if I'm gonna drop it You know late night, you know, maybe 10 or 11 p.m. I haven't really decided but that video is where I might do a standalone news video or Something maybe it's something more original. Maybe that's where we drop the podcast Actually, I can tell you right now. I plan to drop the podcast at 10 a.m. on Monday mornings But if I don't have it in time yet, then it probably won't be dropping until the nighttime slot But either way I want I want you guys to know three specific times that you can expect videos to come out now for weekends Things are a little different We're still gonna I still want that morning discussion video But the other content we release on weekends is going to be more of the original Variety not news related and stuff like that this series as an example Would be one of those weekend videos releasing at a specific time slot that I hope to release videos at on weekends all the time In addition This is just one video type. We also hit our $200 goal on patreon at patreon.com Session dinner prime so that is enable us to go back to making weekly op-ed Editorials and I feel like the weekend is a really good time to drop one of those so I can at least guarantee I have this video and that video for the weekend And if I could squeeze a second discussion video in I could do that as well now some people want to know things about the Livestream I don't really have a live stream schedule yet. It's hard I've had a schedule Monday Wednesday Friday with a bunch of random streams in between and it's difficult because I Have children that I have to put the bed and I can't stream until they're in bed And then I end up streaming really late and I don't like streaming super late. So I have to debate what I want to do about that I do know that Sunday night, so this should be tomorrow night. I will be doing a this week in review stream It went over very very well when I did this a couple weeks back And where I basically look back at all of the big stories from the prior week and I talk about them I take your questions on them and then we kind of you know Move on to the next top at the next top of the next topic It's usually about a two-hour stream and then we're done And I really like that it's short and concise at two hours And it enables me to just get through a whole bevy of news topics and discuss them with you one-on-one I think that's a very important thing to do It's different than I do with pretty much any other piece of content I have because I don't really do stream any other streams or anything else in particular to just specific news Unless it's like a special Nintendo direct stream or something like that Now you might be wondering another thing about streams is why haven't you been game streaming a lot lately?  It sucks that it died I am you know if you guys would like to contribute towards buying a new one I'm looking to get a proper one that actually does everything I want and I can use like this camera here That you're watching this on for live streams stuff like that. It's gonna be you know like a $400 purchase So if you would like to help support buying that that's fine. I'll have a donation link down in the description. No pressure At this point, I don't think I'll be able to pick it up until you know tax return season So if that's the case then that's the case I'll get it during tax return season and we'll just call it good But I am looking to get a specific capture card. I think the Elgato HD Pro I believe is the one I was looking at and then out of my own money I'm gonna be buying a stream deck as well the team with it But it's not anything you guys have to worry about or support But it does mean that there won't be any video game streams because I just don't have the ability to do video game streams Until I get that sorted out. So I'm going to have to start to sort out some different unique things with my streams I don't want each stream to be like the same thing, right? so Something I am looking at doing and I experimented a bit with this in our last live stream is Making one of the streams I do a week a quote-unquote workout stream And this is a stream where basically I'm just chatting with you guys and for every dollar that's donated or super chatted I'll do setups and push-ups and stuff like that. It went over really well for the brief period I experimented with it in the last stream and honestly It's a great way to motivate me to get me off my off my well, you know my fat arse and actually doing something positive for my health In addition to that I do want to do a cardio stream Once a week as well. That's not going to require donations and super chats That's just me hitting the gym or hitting hitting an exercise bike or something for a half hour and You know having having you guys streaming off of my phone. It's going to be a very Interesting-looking stream compared to the rest because there won't be any any special effects It's just you know streaming from my phone, but I do think that's going to Help motivate me as well to keep going the encouragement. I hope I get through that I'm sure I'll get tons of fat jokes as well. That's just the reality of dealing with the internet Yeah, I think that's really all I'm looking at when it comes to those streams now I still want to have a live Q&A session The this week in review You know, I thought about maybe pushing this week in review to Friday nights since I usually do stream Friday nights But we'll see I don't have any regular schedule for any of this yet So just kind of pay attention to our Twitter and our community posts on On Nintendo Prime here on YouTube because that's where I'll be announcing the schedule for that when I decide what it's going to be I plan to decide at least something for this upcoming week And we'll go from there I also want to note that the last 30 days have been really stunning At Nintendo Prime. We have gained almost 2,000 new subs over the last 30 days. So for starters Thank you guys so much. I hope you're enjoying the content I know a lot of you joined because of our obviously our Nintendo switch, you know Bundle giveaway, but a lot of people are like, hey We're really glad you're doing this giveaway because I've always wanted to subscribe to you and I just kept forgetting It's not something we all you know when you're watching content on YouTube You don't always think about subscribing even though in videos they mentioned to subscribe You hear it so often it just kind of drowns you out. So having that giveaway really reminded some people Hey, I'm not I'm not subscribed to him yet. Why am I not subscribed to Nate at Nintendo Prime? So 2,000 new subscribers over the past 30 days is just awesome By the time we do another one of these videos, which should be a week from now We might even hit 40k overall at the channel Which is just an amazing accomplishment and actually puts us a little bit ahead of last year's pace if we do that here in The month of November So that that's just exciting to me It shows we're on a positive growth path that what I'm doing here is working and I hope it continues to work Because I I love doing this and I want to keep doing it longer and longer and longer I'm sure by now some of you notice this long cord.  So this cable is like clothes lining my kids Let me see. Well, I'm just glad some I know if there's anything else I wanted to go over Health update so for those who don't know I tore my meniscus about Two nights ago three nights ago now In my right knee it's doing okay It is feeling a little bit better today just a little bit better today than it's felt the past few days So what that does mean is I probably will not need surgery on it, which is that's what we all want to avoid We don't want to have to have surgery. So it's still gonna be a two-month recovery process It's gonna get to a point where it's gonna feel like it's a hundred percent here in like a week or two But it's really not and I need to be conscientious of the fact that it's not 100% So I don't overdo it. You know start lifting things start running and jogging when I shouldn't be stuff like that, so Even when I'm doing cardio, I got to be really careful about it. There's certain motions. I'm not supposed to be doing So and you guys have probably seen it some of the live streams I have this big bulky leg brace on That I have to be on anytime I'm gonna be walking I Can't walk without it, but it's more so for my protection So I don't try to bend my knee while I walk which when you walk you you do bend your knees a little bit And that that could actually lead to me tearing my meniscus even further with the pressure applied for my weight And then you know, you know trying to take a normal step versus keeping your legs stiff So it's mostly there to remind me Hey, your leg needs to say stiff when you walk and I'm pretty good about remembering to do that But then you get the stairs and it's just all no stairs are not good Beyond that some upcoming content that I just want to briefly mention I'm looking at some discussion topics I do want to talk a little bit about My expectations and wants and desires for animal crossing. I want to do the same for the next Zelda game I want to do the same for the next Mario game I also want to talk about some of the games coming next year a band of three Metroid Prime 4 Although I don't know Metroid Prime 4 is actually coming next year But some things I would like to see from those and I kind of and those are kind of those discussion videos I was talking about dropping in the morning Or it's just me having a conversation with you guys and getting your guys's thoughts a little back-and-forth action on just debating on this stuff And and having some fun with it The last couple things I want to address just some comments that have come up throughout the week One of them is is weird. I've seen this come up a few times over the past month really is am I a corporate chill because I'm pushing for things like game streaming on switch I always think it's interesting when people do that because I'm I'm someone that I have a Has to be a unique viewpoint at this point I say a lot of controversial things apparently that I don't think are so controversial but apparently game streaming and my desires for it is Controversial because you know of all the benefits that that that these companies get and you don't own the games and blah blah But yeah, I don't own anything on Netflix and I don't find myself giving a crap about it So the thing is if I subscribe for say $15 a month to a game streaming service That's giving me thousands of new games adding dozens and dozens of new games a month Including the triple a variety and some new original titles and blah blah blah blah blah blah and yeah Even if some cycle out after you know a year Am I really going to care that much? I have so much content to play. It's it's it's actually extremely pro consumer Yes, you should still have the ability to buy and own those games And I don't think physical games and stuff are going anywhere Even if some certain games won't release on switch any other way but game streaming But I view it as a mostly pro consumer move. It's not really a pro corporate move because corporate They would prefer to just keep selling millions and millions and millions of digital copies of games because that's where they make Massive bank they don't want $15 a month when you can get a user to spend $300 a month on digital games. They would rather have your 300 than your 15 But that's why it's gonna be interesting when we do get a Netflix for game streaming That's when you're gonna start to see game streaming taking extremely seriously And who's gonna be the first company to successfully pull that off beats me But I know Microsoft's pushing hard for Google's pushing hard for PlayStation has it with their classic games Nintendo has it from certain third-party publishers in Capcom and Ubisoft So it's gonna be interesting to see where game streaming goes in the future. But yeah, I'm out of corporate chill I don't really as much as I want Nintendo to do well and companies that make games I like to do well. I want them to do well in so much that they can keep making games I like I don't really care if they make billions and billions and billions and make all of the money I've actually spoken out against some of the monetization methods that exist So I don't know I just thought it was really interesting to see me being framed as a corporate chill because you disagree And you're vehemently opposed to something I like It's okay to be opposed to it Also another comment that I just want to kind of address before we get to our questions is Some statements of people said that I only have my controversial views the most controversial recently probably my view on the Piranha Plant DLC That I only have those views to drive viewership right that I'm not actually I don't actually feel this way And even if I did I'm only saying something so I can get a lot of views and the thing is those videos when I say those Controversial opinions don't actually get that many views Just to be completely honest the videos that get the most amount of views for me are either When something really bad like factually has happened like Bendgate, you know Well that last year with the switch or when something very very good is happening like when a massive triple a game We never expected to be on switch gets announced for switch Those are the things that tend to perform really really well and then stuff like this community things original content original content Actually performs very well on my channel and is something that I want to strive to make more of So no, I don't have control of controversial opinions to drive views It doesn't actually work even if I even if that was the case. I feel like So some people try to make me feel like I have this obligation to represent a large audience of people right that like my opinions matter more than others because I have a platform and a following and Can get people to watch my content ergo I should be more responsible I guess with the opinions I have and I'm gonna always be at me Like disagree with that. I'm going to have the opinions in the thought process as I have you don't have to agree It's okay. If you think differently It's okay if the piranha plant stuff doesn't bother you even if it bothers me It's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of gaming.  I don't feel like I represent you I'm not a representative for you. I'm not a politician I'm a youtuber making the content. I want to make hoping that enough people care to watch it that I can keep doing it That's that's really it. That's that's what this channel is. It's me passionately making content I care about getting my viewpoint and my stances out there whether or not you agree or disagree so Um, definitely not controversy to drive views. Um, I know I if I just care about clickbait and views I know well, I have like 20 years of experience. I Know well how to do that, but that's not what I care about at my channel I care about the content I'm making and the message I'm sending All right, that means said uh, that's that's gonna end kind of the uh discussion about nintendo prime and all that stuff Let's get into your guys's questions first off We're gonna start with some a few questions we had off of twitter The first one comes from at say stuff and he says if you had one video game related wish anything goes What would it be no genie shenanigans? No limits That every game Made ever would be on every video game platform that is considered current generation So switch xbox playstation pc even our mobile phones that all triple a games all indy games all nintendo games All sony games all microsoft games are just playable on anything and at that point It's it's not about bragging rights over who has the best exclusives and more so How do you want a game? Where do you want a game? What's the most convenient way for you to game?   I don't have to sacrifice nintendo games and stuff like that like Having that this platform Agnostic dream that's never gonna be reality It's never going to exist and i'm sure that i just talked about controversial opinions This is probably a controversial opinion, but uh, you you did say, you know anything video game related You know one video game related wish anything goes what were to be that's it. I want platform agnostic, um For all of gaming unfortunately, that's never going to be the case. We know it's never going to be the case Uh, it's not even true in any other medium You know there's things that are on netflix that aren't on hulu that aren't on amazon prime like That's just how it goes exclusives are how you how you sell this medium, but Yeah, I just I wish that it was different because it would also get rid of console wars a little bit people would still argue over What's more powerful and blah blah like xbox one x is the best performer like people would still argue about all that But ultimately what matters is the games and the more people they get to play these games The better like having spider-man on switch or having um, you know unchartered over on xbox or halo Over on playstation like that would just all be amazing and it would expand the user base for these games greatly but um, that's just not the reality we live in and I'm sure you guys love your console exclusives a lot of people love their console exclusives That usually is the big reason you pick a playstation xbox or You know nintendo platform is because you're you're looking at exclusives or pc gaming But um, I like I like the idea of everything just being multi-platform and not having restrictions, but It's never gonna happen. Don't worry. No genie shenanigans The next question we have comes from at a dv media net over on twitter And he says why did you decide to transition from print journalism into youtube videos? Which do you like more? So for those that don't know I was doing print journalism for gosh 20 years Um, I mean I really started when I was 12, but probably not in a more serious capacity You know making money from it doing it, you know partially for a living until I was like 22 23 Uh, and then I did that up until you know why I've been doing that for like a decade. Uh I transitioned out of it. Um after I left zelda informer or after I was let go at zelda informer I transitioned out of it. So um See I could still do it and I still do it nintendo prime dot net. I'm still adding news here and there so I'm still doing some traditional journalism, but It's easy for me, right?  It was like second nature Um, and then last year as I was actually doing traditional stuff while making a few youtube videos here and there I started realizing that I actually enjoyed youtube videos more one because I don't know a lot about this space I might seem like I know what I'm doing But I don't like I have a mixer and like this mics and these cables running I have no I I didn't even know I knew what I knew what a mixer was But I didn't know how to use a mixer until you know late last year And even then I still don't know what 90 of the knobs on that thing do so I keep them off Um This camera, uh, I don't know everything about this camera and how to do There's a lot of things about it. I could be doing better. I could probably get the exposure better Yeah, I change up the lenses and get better like I just don't know enough But I like the challenge of learning to improve at this stuff video editing I'm not that great of a video editor like hands down. I'm just not I hope my content is good enough and that my editing is um, just slowly improving over time And I already know my editing has improved massively over what I was doing last year, but It's it's a challenge and I like challenges I like I like making content that I enjoy that's also challenging to do and makes me learn new things now It could be a point where I'm not learning any new things anymore making youtube videos, but I can tell you right now I am having more fun making youtube videos than I have had writing articles and news Um about zelda about nintendo about anything Over like the past 10 years This is more fun to me than at any point during those 10 years part of it's because i'm doing it for myself Right. I answer to myself. I'm my own boss. I don't have other employees. I'm necessarily relying on consistently Yeah, eric for the podcast and if he doesn't show up, I just go grab some other people I don't really have Anyone to worry about but me and my family. So it's been a great experience for me To do this youtube thing It's a little hard leaving the the print aspect behind But you know, I also have to talk a little bit about the money side of things all the money's in video It's not really in Print journalism anymore to to make money off of nintendo prime dot net You know, I have to be getting almost a million views a month Whereas to make and that's just to make like 500 bucks, right?  So there's that as well It's just a better, you know Monetary move if I want to do something like this for a career and it's amazing I lasted as long as I did doing the zealot informer stuff guys This doesn't mean I didn't ever have other jobs guys. Obviously I didn't always make enough money as zealot informer To do it full time.  I did it for full time. But um, yeah, I was obviously I had other jobs I still have other jobs. So um Yeah, but I mean that's the dream, you know, it's to be able to do this full time Without needing other jobs because the revenue is is doing well enough Thank you for your question Next up we have at spam. Oh man. Actually the next two questions come from him The first one says avengers versus smash bros who wins and why is it smash bros? For me avengers win, but this blasts me to say this on a nintendo channel, but avengers win What are you talking about? I'm a casual smash fan, but I'm really into marvel so for me Uh, the marvel movies and the avengers are a way bigger deal to me than smash bros I know I know sue me. We don't get smash bros as often should be a massive deal really excited for ultimate, but I can't help man. I'm a marvel guy Sorry dc. I mean, I like some dc characters, but ah, man And those 2000 subs that just gained went away Uh, then then spam where I wanted to ask do you think three houses you're referring to fire emblem three houses I will live up to the bar set by the previous fire emblem games The last few entries have been unbelievably good And returning to home consoles for the first time since radiant dawn is a pretty daunting task Um, I think it's gonna be good. Why don't they take in their time with it? After the success or the rapid fire success, I guess of awakening on 3ds Uh, there was a small little break because I think they were surprised at how well awakening did and then all of a sudden You know, we got echoes and fates and and those kind of came really close together And I know one's kind of like a remake of an older one But still we got this kind of rapid fire close together and yeah, they're really high quality games are really good I don't like some of the dlc practices in particular with echoes. I don't know what the hell they were doing with echoes Some paywall stuff in there that I disagree with a lot But besides that I really I really enjoyed the the fire emblem games. I didn't play a lot of fates I'm gonna be right up front. I played a lot of echoes played a lot of awakening played a lot of radiant dawn back on game cube But I didn't really play Much of the latest edition because it almost felt like more of the same right? I was ready for return to home consoles and so I'm really excited for three houses Will it live up to the bar? I hope it exceeds it I hope it sees the bar like awake like awakening kind of set the bar and then echoes and fates just kind of came up to the bar Right, they didn't really exceed it. They just matched it. Well, I want to see three houses Like here's the bar by awakening I want to see three houses up here and I think it's possible I I don't know if they'll do it with this game because it's the first return to consoles You know, I would love to see a breath of the wild, you know up the fire emblem games but I mean technically if you want to come fire emblem warriors, I guess we've had a fire emblem game on switch already But yeah, I I'm pretty excited about it. I think it's going to do really really well Um, I hope it continues to do really really well. I hope uh, they need to reveal more of it because At this time we don't we only know like the bearer essentials for it.  Hey, it's pretty. Hey, it's got a story It's like, okay, but let's let's get into some more depth And that's what I always like about fire emblem games is the Strategy in the battles and then obviously the story. I've always been loved that about fire emblem. So I mean with fire emblem heroes going off on phones The 3ds games going well. I don't see any reason we shouldn't expect an excellent fire emblem game on switch Even if the name sounds weird, then again, I've always thought fire emblem names sound weird like radiant on Okay Awakening All right, I guess fates Echoes, I mean, I guess they're going away from the the one word to two three houses Instead of just calling it houses are calling it three I don't know. Um Let me see here Uh, next question we have on twitter or the last question on twitter we have comes from uh, Cory underscore boom and he says top three things you would like to see with a switch revision Oh Top three things. I mean more powerful hardware Whatever that means However, they do it Um a 1080p screen Probably won't get it And man top three I'm debating between like a better design kickstand or Um better rails for the joycons so they don't get so loose now I don't actually have the loose joycon problem But I've seen enough people complain about it that I think um better designed rails To prevent that would be would be advantageous of nintendo to do So those are kind of my top three desires for switch revision. I know not very original but uh Can't help it. I guess I I like what I have in switch Um, unless we're unless we're counting os level things like better online service better this better that but They don't need a revision to improve that stuff. So All right, the next questions here come from patreon We got a little group of questions from edward norton on patreon. He says What's your favorite dc or marvel comic book superheroes that are in tv shows? It's interesting that he references tv shows now. I don't watch a lot of cartoon and anime tv shows So a lot of the animated stuff. I can't really comment on it's just not really been my thing So if we're talking about tv shows pretty much the whole arrow flash superwoman Isn't there another one in there? Anyways, all those kind of all those kind of shows are kind of like my favorites. I've seen and those are mostly this is a dc universe Um, I did like agents of shield, but not nearly as much as flash and arrow and all that stuff So, um, that's kind of where I'm going to stick my flag and be like, yeah, that's what I'm into Um, so there you go on that. Uh, he then says, um What are your tips to win an Age of Empires match versus mpc or real player? Uh, biggest tips is getting to know the ins and outs of your faction whatever faction you're playing with I mean knowing the ins and outs of all the factions is ideal, but knowing What uh, what advances and what technologies you want to learn first in order to build the units you want to build Or increase the food production you want to do or whatever is very key So basically getting to know the ins and outs of the factions Hotkeys, uh, when you're playing on pc you got a hotkey the hell out of it because you need to rapid build a lot um, and uh Making sure that early in the game you really emphasize getting a good economy going so a good a good A good, you know food influx for one is huge at first because that's how you build more peasants Um, and then making sure your your woodstone gold and uh, you know trying to Build your military around a very strong economy Is is the best way to go about it. Walls are basically useless um and and against players and I mean they're a little bit better against mpcs and mpcs will just walk around them But walls don't really serve too big of our purpose. There are Moments in gameplay where building walls is advantageous and even against real players But those moments are not really worth focusing on Um, that's that's a skill set you could pick up later So yeah hotkeys getting though the ins and outs of the factions building a strong economy early um are really the big key factors also Scoping the map out whether now if fog of war is off It's easier to scope the map if fog of war is on making sure you send send your scout out because you always start with one scout Uh, basically what you're trying to look for is one the position of the enemies Um, so you know where everyone's kind of building their base and then two where the next You know two to three gold and and stone piles are because those golden stone piles are going to be massive as you age up In the game because things are you know castles and units are going to become really really expensive late game um Let's see here What would you name your workout segment in live streams if I do it, you know, I don't know I think the one at When I go to the gym and do some cardio and I'm just streaming from my phone It would probably something pretty simple like you know You know a cardio stream, you know work or cardio workout You know stream one stream two stream three and just keep going from there So I actually could know how many times have I've been actually doing cardio this month or this year Um, and then the ones that the ones at home where I'm doing like the push-ups and the sit-ups for donations and stuff Uh, that would probably be I I don't know what I would call it probably just something like um Come come uh come help motivate me uh to work out or something like that Uh, and then I would just call it like stream one stream two stream three so I can keep track of that as well Um, and I know again It does sound kind of weird saying pay me money to do it, but it you guys don't know how It's so hard to motivate myself. Um, and yeah money's a good motivator. It just is Um, and when I'm doing cardio, you know, your guys's support just not even like super chats and donations when I'm doing that Just like encouraging me mean like we're so proud to see you You know working out and drinking water and and trying to improve the health So you don't tear another meniscus and stuff like that Um, it is something that is very very encouraging because the sit-ups and the push-ups aren't going to necessarily help as much That the cardio is really going to help with the weight loss the sit-ups and the push-ups We're going to help build my core backup, which I need to do anyways after my hernia surgery I need to rebuild my core around my hernia scar and then I need to You know just build some strength back up in general for other things in my life If I can get back to a time in my life where I can do monkey bars again Like I can't do monkey bars at all. I mean forget chin-ups. I'm just talking about doing monkey bars That that's like a goal. I want to hit is being able to do monkey bars again Um, we'll be awesome and I got away a lot less and be a lot stronger than I am now to do that um Let's see here. Uh, do I have one funny? Drinking story that involves my friends. There's a there's a lot of them Probably the one most relevant to the channel is uh A lot of parties we used to have uh that me and my friend Jason used to have at the house We lived in because we lived together. Uh, we do house parties about once every two weeks And uh, we would have a smash the drinking game um and Jason was really good at smash. I've never been like really I thought always thought I was good at smash But I'm really not that good at smash So he's really good at and he would beat most people But but we would always make like these rules.  I don't know why I don't know what it is about Smash bros that brings that out on me, but yeah um Let's see here Next up we have Um, what was your dream back when I was a kid to be a player in the mba? I really wanted to make it in the mba Didn't even get to start for my high school varsity team. So let's you know how far that dream came Just a little too short little it doesn't matter how good I could shoot. I'm just too short. I'm five five I'd be probably destroyed in the mba. I mean even al and iverson was bigger than me when he was you know becoming a thing so um The next question from a patron comes from yoshi Hi, yoshi. He says uh, what sports or activities did I do as a kid? Uh growing up. I played a t-ball then baseball um That was a big one when I was younger Uh that and I also did uh, you know pb football You know United States football and then uh, I continued to play football until my junior year in high school I started playing basketball around age eight nine something like that Uh, and I played that all the way until my junior year of high school as well. Uh, I started playing golf Um, and I was doing golf Uh, I did track for a while to track up until high school and then I decided I just don't like running that much anymore Which is funny because after I I quit football because uh, the new head coach basically told me I wouldn't even play a kickoff team even though I lettered and led the team in sacks on varsity my sophomore year So like being told that the beginning of the next year that I'm not good enough really felt weird So I uh quit football and I joined soccer So as I said ironically about not wanting to run, um, I ended up playing a sport that involved a lot of running I ended up being a goalie and I was actually a pretty damn good goalie I almost took us well not my team. We almost got to state while I when I was goalie So it was it was pretty fun a nice transition because I was really good with my hands I was really good at catching catching balls and stuff So it was really easy for me even though I'm short like I could jump really high And it was just it was a nice transition for me to play goalie Uh, but I still did all the jogging or all the running everyone else didn't practice So oh no, yeah, we did like eight miles today. I did those eight miles and it sucked what I did it um More than that Just kind of looking around at Um all the sports, you know by the time I I got by the time like my senior year in high school I was doing soccer golf Um, wasn't doing basketball anymore. I replaced basketball with uh school musicals So I was doing school musicals at that time not really a sport Uh, and then I was I'd always practiced with the track team in the spring But I wouldn't actually be part of the track team because I didn't want to do meets So that was kind of what I did. I always talk about being a four sport athlete I stopped doing baseball. I did travel team baseball up until I was 17 I never played for my high school, which was like the year before I graduated So I guess junior year through the junior year Um, when I continued to play basketball even after I was no longer on the team I would go to the ymca three days a week and do pickup ball uh with adults Um, and that and that was a lot of fun. So yeah I I just love sports I love sports It's sad that my favorite sports like basketball and football That somehow I wasn't good enough to actually get playing time Despite stats saying otherwise. So yeah, I guess that's that's really all I I have about that. Um And then he says, uh, what was your first nintendo console and the first game you got with it? Uh, and has that game built you into the game of york today? So the first nintendo console I owned was a game boy that I got as a president for my parents Uh, the first nintendo console I actually played and used regularly was the nes and it was my dad's Uh, the first game I played on it was punch out mike tyson's punch out Um, and I still love mike tyson's punch out. I still have punch out in general to this day So that kind of shaped my gaming because it went from punch out to things like dodgeball to uh tecmo super bowl To a couple sports games and then to mario brothers and duck hunt hogan's alley Um, you know balloon balloon fight Uh Battletoads like just everything back in the nes era Um, I just kind of started going nuts and so it all and it all started with mike tyson's punch out So a great game It started with me upsetting my dad because he was on mike tyson and he was going to the bathroom And so I started playing for him and I got destroyed and if you know anything about that game There's not like passwords and cheat codes to get back to mike tyson So I wasted all of his lives and he had to start over again He was not happy because it took him like all day to get to mike tyson. So and he had never beaten mike tyson. So I was uh I didn't get grounded but uh I wasn't allowed to touch the nes again for for a little while Track and field to all I remember I had birthday parties where track and field was like a game We made and we did competitions like who could get first in the hurdles and stuff like that Uh would would get prizes and stuff. That was really fun Um, all right the next set of uh questions comes from uh youtube Let's see here first one comes from fire falcon x and he says uh, what was the biggest tragedy you ever had? What was your first impressions on the switch and did you ever own a wii u in house life? Uh, biggest tragedy tragedy ever had is what happened last week when my grandfather passed away I haven't had anything remotely close to or comparable to that ever in my life Um, what was the first your first impressions of the switch highly impressed highly impressed You can go back and watch some early videos of the switch I was excited for it coming into launch my first impressions when they shorted off in october was Holy crap, nintendo did it That was that was my first impressions. Um, did I ever own a wii u sure did the entire generation? Um played all the exclusives. I think I played literally every single exclusive ever released on wii u Uh and house life Um, I mean toward my meniscus my grandfather died my other grandfather had a stroke Um, so I guess all things considered Based on that over the past two weeks life is okay. It's it's okay, and it's slowly getting better Um, the next question comes from Joel Salamba, he says what's your favorite console and game on that console of all time? My favorite console is still the super nintendo Switch has a chance to get there, but we're too early in the life cycle for me I have to reflect on switch once we're in the next generation So right now it's super nintendo and my favorite game on there is secret of mana Um, let's see here And the next question comes from scrub kid and he says how many houses can a warehouse wear if a warehouse could wear houses? three Whenever you don't know the answer the answer is three uh, lucas bradyll warder says uh What do you personally think of the pickman series? And when do you think pickman 4 is going to release? I think the pickman series is a very interesting strategy game Um, that's just different than everything else on the market It's got this appeal where kids like it adults like it Um, I've noticed a lot that female gamers Um, or uh, I guess gamers of the opposite sex of me Seem to be really interested in pickman Um, I enjoyed it. My my fiance loves pickman 3 I was her first experience of pickman and she played it all the way through. I wasn't even home I didn't even tell her to play it. She just picked it up. She was bored. She's like, oh my god. This is awesome Uh, so yeah, I'm really really into pickman Um, it's not like, you know, one of my top 10 franchises out there But I I pick it up every time and I love it to death As for when do I think pickman 4 is going to release? Um, I mean according to Miyamoto pickman 4 is done so I'm surprised it didn't come out this year. Honestly, they could have used it this year So I don't know. I don't know I honestly not sure what would make them want to bring it back if this year wasn't a good enough reason to bring it back so At this point maybe 2020 since we don't know, uh, what's coming yet in 2020 um The next question comes from Kelsey Desa and it says who is most likely going to sell the most consoles this holiday season? I have a hunch it could be definitely be nintendo. Well nintendo with pokemon and smash is kind of a nice one-two punch um, but It's still going to be the most expensive system out there besides like the xbox one x in the playstation 4 pro The xbox one x is already being discounted down to like 400. You'll probably see a couple flash sales for 300 And you're gonna see og xbox down at 150. You're gonna see playstation 4 down at 200 or under with games bundled in So it's gonna be interesting. Playstation 4. I think is clearly Imposition right now You know not just thanks to like red dead redemption. That's not everything but also thanks to spider-man and god of war It's in good position to actually sell really well this holiday As it's been in position its entire life to sell well on the holiday. So I think it's really between nintendo and sony I think xbox is going to do better than it's been doing but it's still going to be you know behind sony and uh, nintendo um, and obviously maybe the playstation classic ends up being the number one seller who knows but I do think it's between those two companies I think playstation is probably going to get a slight edge just because it's cheaper And uh, it being cheaper and it having the library of games it does is probably going to mean it's going to sell better But I think switch is going to move move better than last holiday last holiday. It moved between seven and eight million I think it might hit nine million this holiday. Our playstation 4 hits about 10 so That's just my my off the cuff prediction Um And who knows nintendo could easily take the lead because again, they do have a nice one-two punch I think if it was the new generation of pokemon and Smash then nintendo would win for sure But let's go peek at what's creepy. I don't think it's going to sell as well But we'll see um Next up comes next question comes on wrath of math He says hey nat two questions for you first It seems to me that a large chunk of the youtube personality community is taking metroid prime 4 in 2019 as a given I wince every time I hear this it reminds me of when everyone was saying. Yeah Nintendo says xeno blade is coming out this year But it isn't except now it's in reverse. Have you noticed this? When do you think metroid prime 4 will and should come out? So To answer your first question, uh, I don't think metroid prime 4 is coming out in 2019 I think it's 2020 title if you look at the lineup already for next year. It is packed I see no reason for them to bring metroid prime 4 out then also when they announced metroid prime 4 Um, you know a couple of e3's back. Uh, I was under the impression This is just the impression I got from interviews that they had only like just started development like That logo we saw was like the first thing they'd done so Uh, that to me told me metroid's three years out. So three years from 2017 would be 2020 So I fully expect to be 2020 I think people just assume 2019 because it's a game we've known about since 2017 But I don't think it's coming. I think bayonetta 3 has a much better chance of landing in 2019 than then metroid prime does Uh, plus there's already such a killer lineup. I mean we're getting animal crossing next year We're getting a new generation of pokemon. We're getting fire emblem. That's three major system sellers in 2019 I don't know that metroid is going to fit in there, but maybe it will Only nintendo really knows And I understand, you know getting I don't know I honestly don't know why the youtube community thinks it's coming out in 2019 on the whole But you know everyone's got their opinions, I guess and then his second question says What was your experience with mathematics and math teachers throughout your education? Mostly positive negative in between. Um, I'd say mostly positive I think the hardest thing for me with math teachers is that uh Through trigonometry and through, um, pre-calculus because I never took calculus Through pure like everything math came easy to me I was very good at math. I had straight as a math all the way through high school even doing pre-college courses Um, but the thing is I would always do it in my head. I was like a human calculator. So I mean, I wasn't exactly like a human calculator But but like I would literally solve everything in my head and the hardest thing was teachers want you to show Your work's in or you're not cheating So when I'm writing down the answers on a test and there's no work shown They just assumed I was cheating on that test and I'm like I didn't cheat So they'd have to like have me come in and retake the test after school to prove I wasn't cheating So that was when I supposed to be like the hard thing is having teachers think I'm lying Um, I remember in uh, was the eighth grade or something I was being told I wasn't smart enough to do the algebra class Which would have been a high school course, uh, that some kids were offered So on the algebra final, um, I asked the math teacher Hey, can I have the algebra final and uh, the algebra book, um, the mathematics book you have And give me the weekend and I want to turn in the test on Monday And I want you just to tell me we said I had a basketball tournament that weekend So I was busy that weekend So I basically only worked on the algebra test in the car ride to and from my tournament Um, and when I turned in the test, I got a hundred percent on it And first I had presumed I cheated and she talked to my parents and realized Oh, I didn't cheat and no I couldn't get credit for getting 100% on the final Because I didn't actually take the class And I'm just like math just came that easy to me So, um, today I'm not nearly as good today Uh, it's a it's a tool of mine that is super rusty It's something that I would need to practice and practice and practice Um, I could probably get back to that, you know that phase especially with algebra and trigonometry I was really good with that stuff, but um, you know today, I'm pretty rusty at it By the time my kids get to it in school, I'm sure after refreshing myself I'll be I'll be fine able to help them no problem Maybe not doing it all on my head anymore. I know I know how to write things out I didn't like writing out the problems because since I was always getting the right answer in my head Um, it just felt like a waste of time to write it down Another thing was I actually came up with an equation in algebra I don't remember what it is I haven't written down in a notebook that answered almost every single Algebraic formula that we did but I got it all simplified down to a brand new formula that never existed And the teacher kept getting mad at me when I used it because she's like, uh, this isn't what we're teaching You don't know it's gonna work 100% of the time. Like you're right. I don't know It's gonna work 100% of the time But what I do know teacher is I have straight A's in this course and I've only used this formula for every problem So I don't I probably could have in another life I probably could have went on and become like a mathematician or something but Just I didn't I loved math But I didn't have like the love of math that I saw myself doing it For a living kind of thing, but I was really good at math, which is probably why I Started going down with the video game programming route at some point because there's a lot of math involved in programming, believe it or not um, all right, uh next up we have uh Sonic ice 24 says do you like five night at freddy's and if so, which game is your favorite? Um, I have played a single five night at freddy's games. It was on my phone. I don't remember which one It was all right. Don't really have much to say about that franchise um Let me see uh, mic dude three two forces. Are you religious if this is personal? Don't worry about not answering understand now. We don't talk about religion and politics on the channel Um, but it doesn't mean I'll shy away from what like what my religion is. I'm a roman catholic I would not say i'm a practicing roman catholic. I do believe in god and jesus, but uh, it's not something that I Actively talk about much. It's too controversial. Um, I my kids go to private catholic schools um, so I obviously believe in uh, instilling some of Some of my religion and core values into them, but uh, you don't need religion to necessarily instill the core values, but Um, it helps. I think it helps anyways. It helped me growing up. So I hope it helps them as well Um, the next question comes from the mw experience. It says if you could pick any character to be in smash Absolutely regardless of likelihood. Who would you pick conquer? I always say mandrel kazooie, but i'm gonna go with conquer Um, I don't think he'll ever be in smash, but conquer from conquer's bad for a day that particular version of conquer Taylor bone says who had more power companies that make the console or third party developers third party developers. I hate saying that but There's always a new system that can come up if nintendo goes under if sony goes under if microsoft goes under Google will make a system microsoft will come up with another system because they're not going to go under as a company um you know amazon will come up with something Reality is as long as there's a demand to play games. There's going to be a platform to play games on so As much power as console makers have because they own these audiences If those console makers go away as has been proven in the past by the way atari went away someone else replaced him sega went away someone else replaced him like Console manufacturers can go away and they'll just be new ones So yeah third party developers have a lot of power a lot more power than I think all of us are comfortable with admitting They have because their games and games in general is why we buy platforms to game on so um The last question we get then it's from w james mci says it's already christmas yet Not really if you haven't done Thanksgiving yet inside he mentions i suppose you have Thanksgiving to first to worry about Yes, Thanksgiving is the next holiday up and then Christmas although Everything gets kind of melded together this time of year anyways like I Honestly, it's hard for me to tell the difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas because on Thanksgiving What happens we get together as a family we have a meal what happens during Christmas We get together as a family and have a meal it's like the same thing um At least in terms of how we celebrate it, but yeah, I I think it's um, you know an interesting time of the year Uh, I am not prepared for Christmas. I'm not ready for it. I'm not ready for the snow. I'm not ready for the presents I'm not ready for Um dealing with my kids during this time. I'm not ready for any of it I don't know last time I was ready for Christmas is probably when I was a kid so Um, but you know we get through it every year Christmas is like my least favorite time of the year Um, Thanksgiving. I don't mind Halloween. I love Christmas. It's just Especially now that I have kids. It's just it's a hassle. It's more of a hassle than an enjoyment And it kind of sucks because I mentioned earlier. I'm a Roman Catholic So technically Christmas is supposed to be about Jesus But less and less every year it feels like it's about Jesus thinks all commercialized it is and all the family stuff so It is what it is. Anyways, I think that's gonna do it for this new Series whatever I decided to call it. I don't know the name of it at the time of recording I want to thank you guys for tuning in. We'll be back again. Hopefully next week Saturday I plan to release this every Saturday by whatever specific time period this ended up coming out If you haven't entered yet, we have a gleam.io link in the description for a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch giveaway So you can go check that out Otherwise, hey, I'll just catch all of you guys in the next one