Crazy with my hair today, not wearing a hat. So sorry if things look a little messy in the head this morning. It is what it is, you know? I'm not here to necessarily impress you guys too much, although my tie isn't straight there. What the heck, Nate? How did you not straighten your tie? What is this? Nate, come on now. Come on now, Nate. It's a professional production reporting on here. It requires a tie that is straight but that can't get straight. Wait, goes this way, right? I don't know. It is what it is. What are you guys doing today? Hopefully you're gonna have some fun today. We have an animal crossing direct happening at the top of the hour. I have it open right here, ready to go for you guys. I'm pretty hyped for today. It is Friday. It is what it is. Hopefully we're gonna have a good time today. This is one of two live streams we have going on today. We have this stream. Let me have our normal news videos and all that kind of stuff happening later today. And then tonight we are going to also have a live stream as well. Now we do have a member goal up here. Right now it says 215 out of 200. It's supposed to be 215 out of 250. I said it wrong. So our next member goal is 250 members and then we will have another giveaway at that time. That being said, how you guys doing? Are you guys hyped for an animal crossing today? We have our first $5 Canadian super chat coming off. It comes in from Corey. He almost says, stay caffeinated. Grab a coffee from Brewster. We'll see what happens today with a good old Brewster. I do have a little bit of caffeine. We got some a Mountain Dew Zero Sugar Baja Blasks. I don't like coffee. So here's my coffee today. Should be good. Let me say hi to everyone who's here in the chat by the way today. We got Astolfo fan Sonny is here. Kukola L3. Blueberry Neubat. It's going on down here. We got Jesus Figueroa. William William. Jmeister Bro. Hyrule Warrior Matt Coutts. One of the members of the board of directors here in B-Leaf 789. Let's see here. We got Carl Struford here as well. Another member of the board of directors of the Nintendo Prime. Aubrey Jackson is here. Ragnarok Enroll. Another member of the board of directors of the Nintendo Prime. I appreciate you man. One of our members and moderators, Corey Boem is in the house. How's it going man? Kevin B is here. Hello is here. We have Donna Savoy. Another member of the board. Welcome. Let's see, Tyler Wrights is here. Robert Tolin is here. Yeah, cool dude here. Another member. Thank you so much man. Let's see here. We have trusty fly is here. Scrolling on down that list. Let's see here. Alstoffle Fansani is here. Charles Trudel is here. Carl Struford yet another member. Crazes Koth is here as well. Another member of the board of directors of the Nintendo Prime. I really appreciate you guys. Thanks for your support. We got Men Tendo Power. Men Tendo because we're men. We're manly men. Who gets that reference? Let's see here. We got Nintendo Plush videos 2021. Welcome man. Seguin the Pikachu fan is here. Welcome. We got trusty fly. Let's see here. The Elemento Hero. The Shadow Link. Dragon Wolf King. How's it going man? Robert Tolin. Oof is here. Logan LeBlanc. Another member of the board of directors. Welcome man. We got Derek Harmer here as well. Bedjita87 as well. Men and Titans. There it is. Love it. We got somebody got that reference. Sometimes I feel really like old when I make some of these references that I mean were even like hard references for when I was a kid because the video or the movies like actually sort of predated my childhood a little bit. It just happened to be I enjoyed it during my childhood. Anyways. SpongeBob movie. Let's see here. My YouTube family. My YouTube family. How you guys doing today? I'm really really excited. We have a lot to do. Man I cannot straighten a tie for the life of me. I think I'm just gonna give up on straightening the tie today. I did look in the mirror and it was straight and then I did a few things and now it's all messed up it is what it is. So let me see. Carrie.  Yeah man. Dude good movie. So how you guys doing today? I'm not even really sure what to expect for this Animal Crossing Direct today. I have not played Animal Crossing to horizons in quite some time. It's probably been a year at this point. I'm kind of afraid to see what my talent looks like. Also I need to get my talent transferred to my Switch OLED I haven't done that yet. Yeah I'm kind of afraid to see what's gonna happen. I've obviously, it's not that I don't enjoy Animal Crossing New Horizons I actually think it's quite good. I really enjoy a lot of the things I did with it. It's just, once you go through like a full year with the game you know you're kind of waiting for what's next for this game. And while they've added some little content here and there expanded the museum and stuff like that. You know we haven't had any, I would say massive new features really added in since diving right they added the ability to swim and dive and that's really neat. But since then we haven't really had any significant feature ads. I do find it interesting when some Animal Crossing fans note that Animal Crossing New Horizons has quote unquote less features than prior Animal Crossing games. I find this to be quite interesting because I don't think that's actually true. I think what's happening is they're discrediting the features this game has that other games don't have. Crafting as an example that wasn't present in Animal Crossing till this game. Terraforming again wasn't present till this game. Those are two massive features literally no other Animal Crossing game has and I kinda feel like Animal Crossing New Horizons gets a little bit discredited for having less features when it has literally major massive gameplay features that were never present in prior games. That being said that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be adding more. The game has 30 plus million in sales and prior Animal Crossing games had pretty frequent big edition ads. So it does feel like they're behind. But I also wanna know that I don't think it's fair to be upset at Nintendo and the Animal Crossing team for being quote unquote behind. Animal Crossing came out at the literal beginning of the pandemic. So the game was made entirely with people in house, in studio and then suddenly it comes out and magically everyone's working from home. That's a completely different work environment to transfer to from what the game was made to now and they've still been giving us some content along the way. So yeah, it was gonna take longer than we wanted for us to get massive new features added to the game. So I feel like Animal Crossing fans were just being a little bit too impatient and not giving any benefit of the doubt to Nintendo for how long it was gonna take for us to get our first massive edition. And now we have an Animal Crossing Direct today. So clearly with an Animal Crossing Direct that usually indicates we're about to find out major things about this game, major content editions, major character editions, et cetera.  I think we're just gonna sit back and enjoy the raw experience of whatever this Direct has to bring. And I'm very curious to see if enough happens or something new happens in this Direct that makes me wanna pick up my Switch and play Animal Crossing New Horizons all over again. Not really all over again, kinda continue where we left off. Probably a lot of cleanup to do in my town unless Yulia's been playing. She actually is a bigger fan of Animal Crossing than I am. So there's a chance that she's actually been playing this whole time and she's been sleeping the town up to date. I might come back and the town might look completely different. But we'll see what's happening. Let me see here. Let me see here. Oh Nate, your dog name again? White type is, oh yeah.  My dog walked in while I was recording a video yesterday. And so he had a cameo in my news video. He is a half great Dane, half lab mix. So yeah, he's got really giant paws but he's done growing according to the vet. So he has paws that makes it look like he should still be growing but he's not. He's still big.  He's a good dog. His name is Link. He's named after obviously the hero from the Legend of Zelda, not a sausage Link or anything like that or a URL kind of thing. He's literally named after a character from the Zelda series, the protagonist because by fiance Yulia, let me do it. She asked me what to name him and I said I always wanted to name a character after a Zelda character. So Link just made a lot of sense. So I'll name a character, name a pet after a character. So yeah, that's his name. He's a good boy. He's literally the friendliest dog you'll ever meet. In fact, he's so friendly. He kind of thinks he's a lap dog, even though he's huge.  He just, he's just, he's so friendly. I literally couldn't say anything nicer about my dog. He is, literally I have had four dogs in my life and while all of my dogs I feel like were friendly, this one's just at a whole different level of friendliness and it's cool. And it isn't even fixed. So like normally when you don't fix a dog, especially a male dog, they tend to have a lot of energy, I guess to put it mildly, a lot of energy. He's actually not that bad. He's pretty mild. I mean, he has energy of course when it's time to play. He'll play, he'll play hard. But around the house he's pretty mild. He doesn't sprint all over or act like nuts like some dogs do that have a lot of high energy. So man, I love that dog. Let's see here. Nice suit says Vegeta. Thanks. Yeah, I obviously got myself a suit jacket. You guys saw my suit during E3. That suit during E3 was a rental and it wasn't rented for E3. My sister was actually getting married. So it just lined up that her wedding was happening a week after E3. So I had my suit for the wedding. So that's what I wore. This suit jacket though is mine. I own this bad boy. I finally got one for myself. It's not like a perfect fit. It's not too bad, but it's not perfect. So yeah, might fit a little bit better. It's just a smidge snug, like great. Okay, so like, I don't know if you guys know this right here. I had a hernia, you can kind of see it split right there. I have a hernia that I had happen a couple of years ago. And when they fixed the hernia, what happened to my hernia is yeah, some of my internals obviously became, or internals became your externals, sort of. So they had to fix it. But also what happened is some of my hard fat that protects your organs. I don't know if people are aware of this. There's different types of fat on your body. You can obviously see the loose fat and all that, that you can lose your water weight and all that, Jeff.  So your organs aren't smashing into each other. Plus, if someone hits you, it offers a little bit of protection and cushion even when you're super in shape. Like you can be the skinniest person in the world with like a 1% body fat. That's not counting the fat that's actually between your organs.  It is not a fat your body breaks down very easily because it's not a fat that's meant to be broken down. And it's meant to protect your organs. So yeah, they messed up and never took it out. And because I was zonked out, right? I was, you know, they had me on, I think they had me on a morphine drip. And then they also obviously had me knocked out with the gas and everything. It led to a situation where I wasn't aware of what was going on around me at the time. And nobody said anything to the surgeon when I came out of surgery that, hey, why does it look like he still has a hernia even though you fixed his hernia? Why didn't you remove the thing that wasn't there before? Like why didn't you just take that out?  Why didn't you get rid of it? And I was so out of it. And then by the time I came off of, I wasn't viking in or wherever that they gave me for a week during recovery, I, you know, at that point it was kind of too late to get a fix that I talked to. I've talked to them several times about it and said I really want it to go away. It does add a little extra pain sometimes because there's extra pressure down there. And unfortunately it really affects the way clothes fit me because it adds an extra three inches at, like it kind of looks like my belly, which I have extra fat.  I know this. I've been losing weight, but I am a fat guy. It takes my belly from what normally might be sticking out this far to like, there's almost like a peak, like a mountain that comes out to like here. So I got like this extra three, four inches at the peak of my belly that just makes none of my clothes fit. And it sucks, including the suit. The suit jacket actually is my size. Because of that thing, it just doesn't fit quite right. And I'm not happy about it. And they want $3,000 to fix it because now it's considered a cosmetic surgery. And let's just say, probably not doing that anytime soon. That's a lot of money for me to justify spending just to make myself feel a little better about how I look. I'll probably get it done eventually, especially as I continue to lose weight. Today as an example, I am fasting today. There will be no food entering this body, some liquids, some caffeine to keep me going, some water and all that, but I'm fasting today. So as I continue to lose weight, it just looks worse and worse as I continue to lose weight because that fat's not breaking down all the fat around it is. I'll probably eventually get the surgery just because it's gonna look really, it's gonna look like I have cancer basically at some point. As I continue to lose weight and that fat doesn't go away. But it is what it is. I'll worry about that down the line. That is not a surgery that I am happy that I have to pay for because it should have been taken care of. I have a health insurance. They don't cover cosmetic. So it is what it is. Anyone remember old Warcraft series? Warcraft one, two and three? All the way, man. One thing I, that's the one thing I hated about World of Warcraft. I really loved World of Warcraft for like a decade plus, right? Had a lot of fun with World of Warcraft over the years. But after World of Warcraft came out, they stopped making the normal Warcraft games. And I thought that was a massive mistake. They did the same thing with Starcraft, by the way. They eventually did Starcraft II and that was really good. But look how long Starcraft II has been out. We haven't gotten a new one. I don't understand why real-time strategy games are taking so long between releases. Age of Empires III was ages ago. We're finally getting Age of Empires IV this month.  Like why are there such wide gaps in these releases of real-time strategy games? I don't get it. These games are awesome. See here, we got 23 minutes to go here. Blah, blah, blah, when to start. Wow. What time does this start? It starts at the top of the hour. Top of the hour. Look, I'll show you. I'll show you. Bam. There it is. We're waiting. We're waiting. It begins in, I don't know, does it even say the minutes there? Well, why is my mouse right there? Does it even say the minutes there? I don't even know if it says the minutes there. Let me refresh. Usually it tells you, you have, there we go. So the stream itself has started, but there's no music or anything playing. But yeah, it doesn't begin to the top of the hour. So we can full screen this and be good to go. But yeah, it doesn't begin to the top of the hour. So we still have a little bit of time. All right. Let's see here. Just found out your Xbox controller has drift and it's not under warranty. So, okay. I've noticed something with my, I've got two Xbox series controllers, right? I got a white one and I got a black one. I've noticed something with the controllers. Now I don't have drift. That's not a problem. A button, my mouse, okay. So I'm on a controller. You know, there's all these buttons, but there's one button I don't really use that often. Now you could argue it's right-clicking the thumb stick and you don't use that one very often. But I do use that occasionally. There is one button on a controller I barely ever use. And that button would be the left bumper. So I use the left trigger and the right trigger and the right bumper. I don't use the left bumper button very often. But I've been playing back for blood, back for blood on Game Pass because it recently came out October 12th. And it's actually a lot of fun. I wish there was couch co-op. That is something that I think is a massive oversight. And there's a few things in the menus about continuing a campaign with friends online that isn't obvious and you have to like search up online how to do it. You could do it. I just wish the game had a better system for it. It's really confusing. That being said, the game itself, once you get into it, once you get into multiplayer matches or you get into the campaign, it's actually a lot of fun. But there are parts of the game, because I don't play games like this very often, that you end up using the left bumper, especially during navigation. And for some reason or another, the Xbox Series controllers, both are the ones I have. It feels like the left bumper isn't really working that well. I have to sometimes like press it in really, really hard to get it to register. Whereas the right one's nice and clicky, no problem. You get to the left one though, and it's like, it's mushy. It's not clicking. I don't get it. And I tried Eric's controller and his has the same problem because he's got an Xbox Series X as well. I have tested controllers at Retails and they have the same issue. It's like, I don't know, I feel like I need to take apart the Xbox controller. Like there's gotta be something going on. The left bumper shouldn't feel any different than the right bumper, right? It should be the same bumpers. They should have the same material behind them. So why is that? I mean, it's possible by the way, that I didn't notice it, but the right bumper could have originally been this way on these controllers, but because I use it more often, I have worn the button in a little bit. So now it actually works correct. So it is possible that, you know, after using it a bit longer, it might wear in correctly and then, you know, be just fine. But usually you don't have to wear in controllers. You know, they're not like baseball gloves. You don't have to, you know, oil them up and wear them in and wrap a ball in it and stick it in an oven. And yeah, there's all these things you do to wear in a baseball glove to make it, you know, work the way that you want it to. You don't have to do that with controllers. So it's weird that I might have to do that with these or there's just a flaw or there's just a bad batch of them out there. But yeah, Drift, by the way, people got mad at Nintendo for admitting the truth. So there were multiple YouTube videos. I put a video out there that Nintendo addressed Joy-Con Drift because they did. But here's the thing. People said that's the exact opposite of what it said because Nintendo admitted after saying they made improvements to the Joy-Con joystick. They admitted that there will always be some form of wear down which will obviously the drift. They never used the word drift, but they admitted that there will always be some form of wear down at least addressed. So people are like, oh my gosh, let me report Nintendo is saying that there will always be Joy-Con drift. Yes, there will always be drift. There is no controller stick design that does not have drift, period. Xbox and PlayStation have drift. Drift has been an issue with game controllers dating back to basically the very beginning of game controllers when the Atari had just this little joystick that would drift. Drift happens because parts wear down. Nintendo was just being honest with people. Yes, they made improvements to the joystick supposedly according to Nintendo to make drift happen less frequently or not have it happen as soon. But people acted like Nintendo admitting reality was them saying, oh, we're never fixing Joy-Con drift. No, they're just admitting that it doesn't matter what they do, there's always gonna be some form of drift. Same is true with Xbox and PlayStation. There's a number of Xbox and PlayStation users that complain about drift on their controllers. Drift is not a switch exclusive problem. These Joy-Cons drift, absolutely. Even these new ones here, these white ones, they will drift someday, probably. So will your PlayStation 5 controller. So will your Xbox Series controller. All controllers have it because they use physical components that wear down. So yeah, Nintendo was just being honest. And I kind of hate that people twist that into the Nintendo saying, we didn't fix anything. No, they literally said in that article they fixed aspects of the joystick itself. They improved aspects of it. Well, what's the only thing wrong with the joystick? Drift. So if they improved aspects of it, they obviously were trying to adjust drift. Then they just admitted that even no matter how durable they make it, it will eventually do it anyways. Cause yes, every controller will. Even if you're someone who's been fortunate to never experience drift on PlayStation or Xbox, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You've just been very fortunate that your controller didn't wear in a certain way who caused drift to happen. But a lot of people, you can literally type Xbox controller drift into Google and you will find many, many stories and videos showing it, PlayStation controller drift. In fact, one of the controversies around the DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5 is that it's using the same control sticks as the DualShock 4. And the DualShock 4, before Joy-Con drift was a thing, it was the DualShock 4 that was known for drifting. It was one of the most common controllers in the world for drift. Then Joy-Con drift became an issue that was significantly worse than even that. So PlayStation used to have the reputation for the most driftiest controllers. Nintendo just took the crown, but all controllers are gonna drift someday. There are, some people pointed out that there is actually a new stick design out there that uses magnets that is far less likely to drift and that is 100% correct. It's also stupidly expensive to make, which is why nobody uses it. But there is a control stick design out there that uses magnets that alleviates a lot of this problem, but it doesn't get rid of it entirely. And you wanna know why? Magnets lose some of their magnetism over time. Eventually, those magnets just won't work. And then what do you think happens? Drift. So even those will drift someday. They just take a lot longer. So yeah, there is no perfect design. Anytime you're using physical components, there's gonna be wear and tear, and wear and tear leads to drift. Can we talk about the N64 stick, right? Oh my gosh, the N64 was bad. That was one of the worst sticks. Like people talk about, oh my gosh, drift. Have you used an N64 controller? Holy crap, not a third party one, a first party N64 controller. Oh my God, stick grind is what we call that. It basically means we broke the stick. If you ever saw a white powder on your N64 control stick, you broke the stick. That's what it meant. It meant that you broke the stick. You could still use it. You'd probably give it to your friend while you use the new controller. But yeah, that was bad. That was bad. That was maybe one of the worst joystick, or worst control stick designs ever. Nintendo really dropped the ball with that one.  What time is it in CST? It's 14 minutes from now, guys. The direct begins in 14 minutes. We are right on the precipice of a beginning. The stick gets limp. Yeah, it did that stick with a flopper. Oh my God. Yeah, it was, N64 stick was not a good stick. I'm hopeful that Nintendo knows it wasn't a good stick. So when they give us these N64 controllers for Switch Online, that the N64 controller just has the look of the old stick, but it's actually using a more modern one. That's the hope anyways. We'll see. Original PS4 controllers are better than the updated ones. Still haven't drifted. See, Claiborne Wubbs, when you say that, you're just talking about my original PS4 launch controllers haven't drifted. That doesn't mean none of them have. Again, Nintendo didn't say, oh my gosh, we didn't fix drift. They just literally said every controller is going to drift at some point, even if it's not at a point in which you are using it. Your original PlayStation 4 DualShock controller might have no drift now. Doesn't mean it won't next year, or in five years, or in 10 years, or in 20 years. There's, it will happen someday. Every controller will break down someday. And if it doesn't break down, it's because it's not being used. Like if it just, oh my gosh, a hundred years from now, my DualSense controller still didn't, I'm gonna try it, none of us will be alive then, but I shouldn't say that. Maybe there's some of you guys that'll be alive. I don't know, technology and medicine's always changing, but none of us are gonna be alive in 100 years. And when that happens, I would say it's pretty low chance that your controller won't be drifting at that point. But if it didn't, it's just because it wasn't used. Then it might get stiff too, because there might be other degradation that happens, such as just parts breaking down over time without being used, which does happen. Plastic even can break down. It takes a long time, but plastic can break down over time too. Just from access to air and molecules and all that bacteria and stuff. Nintendo had to give free gloves, right? What are you talking about? They didn't give free gloves. Let's see here. Pop, pop, pop, the new joystick, what the? Are there any updates to case options for the OLED? All my cases are too small and I'd like to be able to close it without scratching the side of my joy-con. I mean, you could fit it into a lot of cases, but obviously it's not ideal. There are some out there. Nintendo has an official OLED case you can buy online on like Amazon for like 20 bucks. It's not a great case, but better than nothing. I don't have a problem because I have the $40 Skulling Company combo pack with the Neo Grip.  So I don't have a problem because I have the Neo Grip combo. It's a $40 combo pack. It gives you the Grip, it gives you a tempered glass screen protector and it gives you the case that you could put the Switch and the Grip into. So that's what I use personally. There is not yet a lot of options for OLED specific cases out there. So it ends up not being a concern to me because I bought, I guess they sent it to me. I was going to buy it anyways, but I have a solution already. So the CoriBomb is going to bring up the Waterfuel cases. Waterfuel cases are really nice. They're also really expensive. You don't buy Waterfuel cases because it's a great case. You buy Waterfuel cases because of style. Which by the way, that doesn't mean it's not a great case. It just means it's not necessarily, I have seen some people with the Waterfuel cases and they're nice and they feel nice and they look professional. They're not necessarily the greatest cases. Just my experience. They're not the greatest cases. They're just nice looking. You get them because of style. You don't get them because it's the greatest case of all time. And they're really expensive. They use leather and stuff. I mean, no, it's going to be expensive. You use leather, kind of like. My earlier reply, I agreed with you all five of the new models. I have drifted with PS4 controls. I think Sony just got real lazy or cheap. Happens. Make your own case, maybe.  And it's not that simple. I know some people say it in jest, but it's really not that simple. The Beat'em Ups situation where he got that partnership was very unique, but also he has sold probably thousands of Satisfy grips in the past through sponsorships and partnerships and deals. So he has a working relationship with that company and he's got over a million subscribers. I don't have that much settling power. I can advertise things like I did with Into the AM during E3 and sure, we did sell some shirts. We sold, we factually, us and Aiden into the AM partnered up and did sell some shirts. Well, they didn't sell. You notice how I haven't been sponsored by them since. It wasn't such crazy sales that the partnership continued, right? Then they have no problem with me. We work together fine, but bottom line is I'm just not a big enough channel to sell products to get companies to partner with me to make things happen. You might say, well, screw it, don't partner with companies, make it yourself. Yeah, let me get right to hand crafting cases for a living. I don't have the time. I barely got the time for YouTube.  You get off the old sewing kit, buy some leather and start making my own for all you guys. You pre-order the NeoGrip, I'm not sure when it'll actually ship out. Yeah, I don't know. It takes 10 days to arrive once it ships. So yeah, the NeoGrip and the Satisfy one because you can get either one and they have cases. They're all like pre-order. I was actually surprised that I got mine early because I was under the impression when they were gonna send me one, they were gonna send me it when it was available at retail but I suppose they wanted to get some of those pre-orders in because what happens is they wanna make a full production run. So that's kind of what's happening with the grips in those cases is that they wanna get enough orders in so they can just order like 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 of them at once because it makes it cheaper to make when you order higher quantities. That's all they're trying to do. I'm sure the one I got was just one of their samples, right? I mean, it was a retail sample but it was kind of like one of their, hey, this is just, we have like 100 of these made to send out to creators so they can show off the product. Which by the way, if you get your NeoGrip and it's not like what I described, let me know because I will be pissed off if I got sent a product that isn't representative of what actual customers get.  So as always, let me know. It's one of the few times I've gotten an accessory before it was publicly available. So I need to know if they're ripping people off which by the way, Skull and Company hasn't ripped anyone off before so I don't have any reason to believe they are as reputable as, you know, as satisfied. Like they literally have a really good reputation so I'm not worried that they're gonna do that but I do want to know. So if anyone who bought it, that happens, let me know. The ostrich did a super chat. So I questioned something here before I reacted to this. You know how many, okay, so there's been multiple ostrich accounts, right? One of them, like I feel like you are not the original, the ostrich account.  The reason I say you are not the original ostrich is because the ostrich I know has literally been blasting me personally and professionally on my channel for years.  Years. That out of nowhere there was multiple accounts popping up and I banned one, I banned the one that was insulting people, which was probably the original one that's been insulting me for two years and now here you are. So super chatting me. He would have never super chatting me. He would have never said anything positive and I've seen you make several positive comments which tells me you're not actually the original one that's been blasting me for years. So technically that makes you the fake one, right? I just don't care. As long as you keep it friendly and don't attack anyone I'm not gonna ban you. Thanks for the five dollars though. I appreciate the support. Yeah, Clyburn and Wubbs, they are pretty trustworthy. That's the only reason I agreed to it. I want to agree to it if it was any other company that I didn't know, but Skull & Company is some of that I have experience with in the past. So I have pretty good confidence that they didn't give me a product that isn't representative of what you guys are going to get. What time is the show? It's in four minutes. But what can we just flip over to it? You don't wanna miss anything. I do need to go adjust the volume sliders here. Turn down their stream, a smidge. Or I can turn myself down if you guys think I'm too loud during the stream. So basically ban myself. What, Charles is it you? Are you the other ostrich account? People really have no life.  I think people get off on putting others down. There's this person that I have muted on Twitter who like people were responding to today. I didn't really realize what they were responding to. But then I clicked on the thing and I saw, oh yeah, cause I can still view the tweets of people that are muted. I just don't get notifications for their tweets. You know, cause I put out a thing because the Krusty Fox on Twitter, I know such a weird name, whatever. It's just a username. So the video isn't clickbait just because it had a thumbnail or title that made you click it. That's effective design. If the content isn't there to back it up, then it's clickbait. It's the content that is there that you didn't, but if the content is there, but you didn't like it, that's just an opinion. And I quote to you to that and I said, this is literally the best process I've ever seen by this logic. I don't really clickbait not liking how a title or thumbnail looks because you don't like the content is not clickbait. Titles and thumbnails by design exist to drive interest. And I'm not gonna say I don't clickbait. I've had things like UI designs in my titles that weren't part of the story. So that would be what you call clickbait. SwitchForce does that as well. That's a little bit of clickbait. But oftentimes my thumbnails and titles are directly about the content in there, even if it's really vague. And this guy responded and said, I broke my switch to show you this is clickbait because you didn't even find anything we're showing or breaking the new OLED over. And people were responding like, what are you talking about? Like dude, I found out who made it. And like, I think that this guy's been super critical of me for a while because I broke my, I broke my switch, you know, cause there's ways that I could have took it apart without doing that. And it's like, yes, all that ended up happening when I broke my switch and found out the manufacturer and all the information on the panel is that we just had confirmation of prior reports. All we had known about the switch OLED panel until I took it off were rumors and reports. We hadn't actually seen it to confirm any of the information. So my video was a confirmation of information that yes, we technically already had and was already out there, but we hadn't actually confirmed that information was correct until my video. So there was something discovered. So I did break my switch to show you confirmation of what that panel was. So it wasn't clickbait, but the guy's just pissed at me. It's just the way it goes, you know. All right, a $2 super chat here. Oh, oh, and we're gonna stop. We got a direct baby. Let's go. It's here. Hello everyone. Thank you for tuning in to the Animal Crossing New Horizons Direct. Today, we'll be going over the details of the update for the Animal Crossing New Horizons game. Oh. The update is scheduled to be released on November 5th. November 5th, all right, version two. All right, big update. Let's take a look at the free content coming to your- Big update. November 5th, new spots and encounters. What? Something's coming to the museum. Is that a bush or the face? Hey, there he is. A cafe owned by the composed Brewster. Back and relax while Brewster serves you up a cup of his finest, pan-selected coffee. This is one we kind of knew was coming. Nintendo started to use Brewster. You might run into some island residents here. Using the Animal Crossing series Amiibo figures and Amiibo cards in the roost, you can invite characters of your choosing. Some of them may bring along company as well. Oh. Multiple players can also visit at the same time. Why not save her a relaxing cup of Joe together? This is Captain. You'll find him lounging around on your island's pier. Looks like he'll fare you to a destination via his boat, his pride and joy. It's worth the journey just to be serenaded by his sea shanties. Hopefully he's got multiple shanties. Thank you, trusty fly. Your destination is a hidden gem that only Captain knows about. You might dock at an island with mysterious Bora. Or an island with a different season. Or time of day. Hey, it's Harve's Island. As you may know, Harve runs a photography studio here. Now, the island's undergoing some changes. Looks like Harve wants to create a plaza with all sorts of shops, with a little help from his long-time friend Harriet. What? Consider contributing some bells to the cause. Of course, yeah, we gotta pay for all the shops. Eventually, familiar island visitors like Sahara and Kix will set up shop here. Nice. Reason Cyrus can help customize ready-made furniture that you can't customize on your own. In addition, Katrina will reveal your fortune for that day. Nice. Fortune.  Cool. Harriet might teach you some newly added hairstyles. Try out some simple stretches by participating in group stretching at the plaza. Group yoga sessions, let's go. All right. You can participate too. Lean in by using either button controls or motion controls with a Joy-Con controller. It's a way to get you kind of interactive. That's clever. Stretch it out together when you invite friends to your island, that's a kind of clever way to get people to be more active. The resident representative can now enact island ordinances. Take the early bird ordinance, for example. This will make all island residents awake and active earlier in the morning. Pick the ordinance that bests your island-like style. See, I like that because it enables you to kind of have your island more bustling when you are available as well. I like that. More exterior options are available. Oh, finally. You can modify your home's exterior to match your island's landscape. Also, storage and services just got bigger.  Home storage held up to 2,400 items.  With three more expansions, it now holds up to 5,000. 5,000?  Added redeemable items will be available for nook miles. Let's see what else you can do with your miles. Cooking is coming to DIY recipes. Yeah. Cooking, sweet. Combine ingredients like tomatoes. Wheat, sugarcane. We farm now. Potatoes. Can of milk. And more. Why not make a delicious meal for our bountiful harvest? You're cooking. Is there any like benefits you get from the cooking or is it just aesthetic stuff? Looks tasty. You can make all sorts of dishes to lay across the dining table. Bon appetit. Ah, pizza. Can you actually eat it? Cool. Cool. I like that. With a pro-decorating license, lighting and ceiling decor can be added to each room. Oh, we can add lighting now. Yes. I like that. So we can do hang stuff off the ceiling now. I can also be available to give a single wall a different pattern. Hey. We can customize each wall now. The options will be at your disposal. Hell yeah. The maximum number of bridges and inclines you can place on your island will increase to 10 each. Okay. Plus, It's good. Nine fence types, including part of fencing. There we go, new fence types. Block fencing. Ooh, I like that block fencing. And four gated iron fencing will be added, letting you diversify your island even more. Ooh, the log's nice too if you have like a cabin style going on. Ooh, that, oh nice. Frozen fencing. Some fencing can be customized too. Sweet, you can customize the colors. Okay, this is pretty good. The camera up on your nook phone is getting updated. When changing to a handheld camera mode, the view aligns with your eye level. Oh, that's cool. And if you change to a tripod camera mode, you can also be in the picture. I like it. We hope you can capture more memories than your perspectives and angles. As a YouTuber, it's like, yeah, okay, that's pretty bad. Reminds me of making vlogs. I don't do vlogs or items. I have to. You can now be worn or used as flooring and wallpaper, like custom designs. And in style with different hairstyles. 11 hairstyles will be added, including the ones that Harriet will teach you. Reactions like waving goodbye, stretching, bouncing to music are being added as well. Get communicating even more with these reactions. New reactions. Hey, I'm just describing. My new nook phone app, Islandlight 101 provides tips on enjoying your island. Rest assured, newcomers, you'll be able to ease into island living. Good. I'm glad that they put tips in there. I feel like my children don't always know, you know, everything when they're playing the game, so tips are good. I like some of these. When your pockets fill up from the day's activities, storage shed will come in handy. Hey, storage shed. Connect to your home storage and can be placed almost anywhere on your island. So use it to easily store items or take them out. That makes so much sense. This ABD should also come in handy. An ATM that's outside of Nook Shop. A slider who holds a live concert at the plaza every Saturday will release additional songs. Keep an ear out for 12 more minutes. New music. Oh, hey, look at that. KK Polka. Even enjoy them from this gorgeous sounding music box, a newly added furniture item. Nice. I like that. This is nice. Is it a fossil? It's a gyroid. When you find gyroid fragments and plant and water them, they'll mature into a lovely gyroid overnight. Gyroids have grown on your island. You may find more the day after it rains. Gyroids make rather interesting sounds. Experiment with different gyroid combinations or use them with music to bask in fresh harmonies. Gyroids can be customized to match a room's atmosphere. That's cool. Nook's Cranny will have newly added furniture types available like ceiling decor. Dude, streamer setup. Buy the streamer setup. Come on. I would totally bought that streamer setup. There's a new type of tool you can craft. You'll be able to permanently place ladders on cliffs with the ladder setup kit. Awesome. By the way, they didn't need to do this because you just carry around a ladder with you. But I like that they're having permanent ladders like that. It's just more options, you know, for mobility. You can customize in your island. I mean, sure. They could just let us walk. Dude. It's cool. We've all spent so much time together on the island. They may invite you over to their home or make a surprise visit to yours. What do you think? You might experience this new content in various ways. Some of them outside of what we've shown you today. This free update, version 2.0, launches November 5th. That, wow. I might actually have to start playing some Animal Crossing again. This will be the last free major pre-content update for Animal Crossing New Horizons. We hope you'll continue enjoying your island experience. Something interesting just happened. Something very interesting just happened at the end of this one. It can't be the end. What's going on? Something very interesting just happened. I want to go to work. Something new is on the horizon. I want to go to work. Is this full on sims now? We have jobs? Our destination is this archipelago made up of several islands known as a resort. This locale is popular among characters searching for their ideal vacation homes. Ooh, that's so good. This is Animal Crossing New Horizons. Happy Home Paradise. Hey DLC. There it is. After a reference from Tom Nook, the Ulysses Paradise Planning, a resort developer in designing vacation homes. Through your work, you'll be in charge of coordinating dream lifestyles for characters. That's very, that is a cool addition to Animal Crossing. It makes so much sense. Like you're always designing what you want but now designed for others. They're dream vacation homes. This just makes sense. Come to visit the office on this island. I've never seen anything make more sense to add Animal Crossing on this field. Our dream vacation home is filled with lots and lots of bears. Let's make her dream a reality. First, select the island on which the vacation home will be built. Each island has distinctive features. Yards, for instance, may differ from island to island. Island that best matches the request, then head on over to the site. Once you arrive on the island, take a tour of the home. Place the designated furniture requested by the client. After that, everything else is up to you. I mean, yeah, this just makes so much sense.  But now you can like do all these little mini, like these mini sections for these characters and like making, literally, this is one of the most brilliant things I think I've seen in Animal Crossing you've ever put together. Like, why is this not been in Animal Crossing before? It just makes so much damn sense. Seriously. This is- It looks fantastic. I don't know what they're gonna charge for this DSC, probably 20 bucks or something. Why not suggest ideas for the yard? That's awesome. Not only can you place furniture, you can also build fences, plant trees, and create paths. The home's location and exterior can be modified, too. We're fully customized, obviously. And with the ability to modify the season, time of day, and weather, you can bring a design to life that's in perfect harmony with nature. Things like the client is pretty happy. Yeah, yeah. It's like a happy home designer sequel is what it is. But it's within the main Animal Crossing game. That's what's so bad-ass about it. Happy home designer, it wasn't a bad game but it was kind of like, it just, it felt half-baked because it was kind of its own. It just didn't feel quite right. By modifying its winter length, you want to create a design option to be able to make it. And this is way more feature-rich than the original happy home designer. I mean, look at this. In addition, you can use partition walls to divide the space. Partitions, like, this is so much more in-depth than happy home designer ever was. And pillars that support the ceiling. Each can help change how the home is structured. This makes so much sense. Hot, damn. It's going to be at least 20 bucks. Still. I'm already sold. And I'm not even like a massive Animal Crossing guy. I enjoy Animal Crossing. Finally. But this is like some next level. Finishing touch to the interior design. Polish your furniture with care and some effects may be added. Why not give your furniture a new flourish? After a hard day's work, head back to the office to get compensated for your efforts. A shop space within the office sells rare furniture that may be hard to find on your island. Once purchased, you can take it home with you. As you receive more requests, more furniture will become available. Why not visit clients you've helped out before? It might be good to suggest remodeling their vacation home with different furniture. With your recommendation, two clients can share a vacation home. We hope they love sharing their new piece of paradise. The island on which Lottie's Paradise is located has a lot of vacant buildings. That way you don't just walk in with bells and just buy everything. To make the island even more robust, they make you actually have to earn, take school store example, design one by drawing inspiration from your own memories or craft the school of your dreams instead. Now we can design a school. Other facilities such as a restaurant can also be developed. You may be delighted.  Using the facilities you've designed. I mean, restaurants, schools, hospitals, the vacation homes you design are captured in photos. I don't even then recorded in the Paradise Planning portfolio. To view the portfolio, use this nook phone app. Now, it's why it's paid. This is like from the app. You can visit the homes of. It's like adding a whole new game to the game. Awesome. By connecting like I already thought the 2.0 update was really good. This is the next level. Follow the designers you like. Oh, you can follow the designers. And view their designs to spark inspiration for your own. Cool. Use the Animal Crossing series, Amiibo figures and Amiibo cards to invite clients of your choosing and discuss their ideal vacation homes. Sure. With Amiibo, you can design vacation homes for these busy individuals. The vacation homes you design for them will hopefully make them very happy. Design techniques acquired while working with a Paradise Planning team can be used on your island. Experiment with partition walls. Ha, there we go. So you'll be able to you'll be able to bring some of these new features to your home once you once you've learned and used. And soundscapes. Nice. Good. So it's not like just exclusive islands. You can bring the stuff back to your home. Use your island. Perfect. I was a little worried that we're going to restrict it to just the DLC. No, you can come back to the island. They may become interested in what the archipelago has to offer. They may even ask you to design a vacation home for them. The Mad Lads did it. This was worth the wait, folks. I don't know when this DLC is coming, but this was worth the wait. All the bitching. I don't want to hear anybody bitch ever again about waiting for major content for a Nintendo game.  What do you think? Turning every character's dream into a reality with thorough and creative design. That's the work of very good timing. I mean, this is literally going to make this the best Animal Crossing game in the room I made. Literally, I already had high thoughts on Animal Crossing New Horizons. This DLC and the free update. And it's also available same day. 25, I mean, sure. Animal Crossing New Horizons. Same day, November 5th. Yes. Pre-orders begin October 29th on Nintendo Shop. I'm literally, I mean, I can't pre-order right now, but I would pre-order today. You can purchase Animal Crossing New Horizons Happy Home Paradise on its own or experience the paid additional content as part of Nintendo Switch Online Plus expansion pack. The new membership plan for Nintendo Switch Online. Please visit the official website. There's the, there's the pricing! Switch Online Plus expansion pack.  In addition to the series of the Animal Crossing Amiibo cards, I see what you did there on Nintendo.  Will be released at the same time as the update. Oh, we gotta talk about that pricing. Series five of the Animal Crossing Amiibo cards. Did you guys see the pricing? Will be released on November 5th. Did you see the pricing? $50 for a year, an individual membership. Did you see that pricing? Now, don't get me wrong. If you're excited for Animal Crossing content, thanks for watching Animal Crossing New Horizons.  We helped you save our even sweeter island life and relish in the new design experience. That, I mean, you could buy it on its own, but that price point. See you on November 5th. Yes, if you're an Animal Crossing fan, you're not gonna think that price is that bad. You already paid 20 bucks for the year, paid extra 25 for the DLC, five extra dollars to get N64, and Genesis. That sounds not bad if you're an Animal Crossing fan and you care about those other systems.  Okay, so let's go back to that pricing quick. Hold on, whoops, whoops, no, I didn't mean to drag you. All right, let's go back to that pricing quick. Come down here, Nate. Come on, Mouse, cooperate with me. Come on down, there we go. Let's go back to that pricing quick. Nintendo just snuck in there. All right, this is a problem. This is a problem, so look. They're pushing Nintendo Switch online. I don't blame Nintendo for pushing Nintendo Switch online. And I was initially, when that graphic first popped up, I was like, oh, you could buy it on its own or you could just get the online pass and it's just part of it, that's cool. So spend $25 or get it at a discount. This does not seem like a discount. Take a look at this. Remember, it's $20 for 12 months of the normal Nintendo Switch online for extra 30 bucks. That's what's gonna cost you in 64 Genesis and then the Animal Crossing DLC. 30, and I get it, it's only $5 more. But for anybody who does not play Animal Crossing but wants to play Nintendo 64 and Genesis, they have to spend $30. Family membership from 35. Oh, they didn't just double the price. They added $10 on top. Remember when we were talking about the pricing rumors before? This is war. There's more here. But if you are not a fan of Animal Crossing, this is a ripoff. This is a ripoff if you are not a fan of Animal Crossing.  Let me read the fine details a little bit. At the Nintendo Switch online plus the Switch membership required to access, yeah. At no additional cost. So this is official. This is the pricing. It's $50. Now, we don't know about month to month or three months. I have a feeling the Expansion Pack might only be available in year memberships. I think seeing this tells me the Expansion Pack is only available in year memberships. Wow. What I wonder, I do have a question about this. This is beyond being shocked at this pricing for anyone who's not an Animal Crossing fan. This is a ripoff. But setting that aside, say you are an Animal Crossing fan, like I am. I'm probably gonna get that individual $50 membership. I already have the $20 one. I was already gonna buy the DLC for 25. I'll pay five extra bucks to get N64 and Genesis, right? So I'll get the individual membership because I'm an Animal Crossing fan. My curiosity is what happens if I cancel my membership? So yeah, like right now if you cancel your Nintendo Switch online membership, you can't play Switch games online and you lose access to NES and SNES. The app just won't work. What happens to Animal Crossing? Happy home. Do you keep it if you cancel? If you pre-bought a year membership and you cancel, do you get to keep the DLC? If not, kind of a ripoff then because you could buy the DLC, because like even for Animal Crossing fans, you could buy the DLC standalone for 25 and you just own it. If you buy this for one year and you don't own it if you cancel and they get rid of the DLC content, they block your access to it. Even if they let you keep what you learned and use on your island, you can't go back to the DLC islands.  I need to know. I don't wanna buy that individual membership for 50 if you don't get to keep the Animal Crossing. I got questions. Nintendo, we need to talk. I got some serious questions about this.  Two, if you buy the individual membership, do you own that DLC? Or is it only if the membership is active? If you own it, then you just did an excellent promotion to get people to spend an extra five bucks. Great promotion then.  Go to the website listed for more details. Sure, I don't have my keyboard on me. I'll bring up over here. Let me see here. The website of the list, nintendo.com.switch.online, nintendo.com.switch.online. All right, additional details. Let's see here. Expansion pack, I'm just scrolling down the main page. Yeah, so let's go to the expansion pack. They don't have it, the main page hasn't changed. Let's go to the expansion pack page. All right, so there's N64, okay, Genesis. They haven't updated it. The main page has no updates. There's no pricing details. The Animal Crossing stuff's not listed here. So the website does not have any updates on it at this time. They've not updated the pricing or the Animal Crossing content. Now look, maybe there will be an option. No, there's just not. There's just not, because I thought maybe like, okay, maybe there's an option to get the expansion pack without that Animal Crossing DLC for cheaper, like $5. But it does say an active nintendo.switch.online plus expansion pack membership required to access DLC. And it says that DLC's at no additional cost, which means this is the price of the expansion pack. It's going to cost you an extra 30 bucks a year or a family membership and extra $45 a year, which is just, oh my God. There's not even monthly or three month options. It's Nintendo. We need to have a talk. We need to have a talk right now. An honest conversation. You are about to tell me that for $50 a year, I get access to the following. A couple dozen NES games, a couple dozens NES games, a dozen N64 games, maybe a dozen or two Genesis games, and I get Animal Crossing DLC, okay? That's what I get for $50 a year. On Amazon right now, I can buy, well, let's just go with Games of Gold, because that's the system I have right now. I can buy Xbox Live Gold for $45 on Amazon right now. Yes, it's technically MSRP for $59.99, but everyone knows you can get these year passes for Xbox and PlayStation for $45.  You can get them for $45 at multiple places. So I can spend $45 cheaper than yours, and I get modern games every month. Three to four modern current generation games every month. That's the pricing you have now put this at. You have now made this price competitive with other systems giving you full AAA games every month as part of their service that I've released within the last few years. And the only modern thing you're offering is Animal Crossing DLC. Now, I will say this. Nintendo might have a long haul plan. It's possible all future paid DLC could be part of the expansion pack, right? So this year, they have Animal Crossing. Next year, let's say there's Mario Party DLC or Breath of the Wild 2 DLC or something, right? Like it's possible that there is a brilliant idea brewing here of charging you $50 a year, but that includes all future paid DLC from Nintendo games. Okay, that's unique. That's different. That's me giving you benefit of the doubt that this is even something you're contemplating. Because if that's the case, then this $50 value has almost infinite value because you'd be spending it every year, but you would be getting access to Nintendo paid DLC from every game they release every year. Okay, and you could have started by saying, hey, all former paid DLC for things like Breath of the Wild, it's in here. Age of Calamity, it's part of this. The fact they didn't do that kind of makes me feel like they're not going to, although it could be for future games, not current ones, because they were on a different structure. But that's a massive assumption on my part to assume Animal Crossing won't be yet, you'll add other paid DLC within this $50 membership. That would be different, that would be unique, and that could make this worthwhile. But Nintendo didn't say they're doing that. Here's what I also hate about this. Nintendo, you just had the best Animal Crossing direct. I think I've ever seen, at least, especially for DLC. Like the content you showed looks amazing, and you know what the conversation is going to be all day today. This. What, this? Yeah, this, right here. This is going to be the conversation today.  Because, yeah, I talked about a possibility there where, yeah, maybe, maybe Nintendo has something. Maybe they do. Maybe, but that's a presumption, no guarantees.   With no guarantee that you even keep the DLC if you cancel.  As currently constructed with currently available information. Let's see what the chat says. Let's see what the chat says about this.  I can anytime with George's Mask. I have some more games like Nintendo 64, SNES, SNES, okay. There's going to be DLC for Shimagami Tensei 5. Yes, there's going to be, yeah, here's the thing. As I said, if this is a future value proposition, if Nintendo's going to give us all future DLC included in this price point, great. Then I won't have anything to complain about. I think that's actually kind of a really cool thing even though then you're still holding Genesis and then 64 ransom, still okay. I could see some justification. I can actually see some value. As currently constructed, we don't know if there's any value because you might be paying 50 bucks a year.  When you could have just bought the damn DLC for 25. But no, I got to spend another extra $30 so I can still have access to something that only costs 25 on its own. You know what I'm saying?  That's the problem with this as currently constructed. People say, I never want to hear from anybody that I am not critical of Nintendo. I hear this all the time.  No, I call Nintendo out when they deserve it.   I'm super excited for this content. N64 controller is available right now. I don't even care. I don't even care. This makes me not want to give Nintendo any more money right at this. I'm going to buy Nintendo games I still enjoy. I'll probably buy the DLC.   The thing is, I know I'm going to buy the DLC on its own, at least. This is... Let us keep the DLC. Mario123. If you bought this $50 or say if you went to the family membership, $80 thing, and they told you if you buy this at least one time, at least once of course, then this would explain why it's not available in the monthly or three months because they need to get the full value of that Animal Crossing DLC payment. So if you buy this for one year and never renew after or you downgrade the just and online subscription so you can play games online, if they did that and then said, if you cancel and don't pay for year two, you get to keep that DLC. It's a slightly different conversation. Then what we're really bitching about is for one year, it's $5 to get N64 Genesis, which I don't think...   I still can't defend it because even then, if you are not a fan of Animal Crossing, yeah, I know there's 30 plus million, there's a hundred million switches out there, 70 million people on Switch are not playing Animal Crossing. They're not gonna wanna pay $30 for N64 and Genesis. So even given all the benefit of the doubt to Nintendo, it's only $50 because of that DLC.   Go pirate and emulate right now.     Seriously, who thought this was a good idea? Who sat in a board room and said, hey, you know what's a good idea?  Oh, it's a value because we were gonna charge you $50 anyway.  At least for $20, you get the NES and SNES, but you also got Tetris 99. You also got Patman 99. You also got access to Super Mario 35.  So there's additional value in that $20 beyond the NES and SNES app.  What? I'm going AliExpo, I'm going Amazon right now and buy an Android-based device for less than $30 that'll have more games than are available on Nintendo Switch Online. Yeah, it's illegal, technically. Not for me, but for the company doing it. What are you doing? And if this was the price, by the way, to get Genesis, let's say this price has nothing to do with the animal crossing DLC. Nintendo's throwing that in because they knew people would be mad, right? Let's say Nintendo knew people were going to be mad about this price, so they're throwing the DLC into it to try to make people less mad. Let's say Nintendo's going to lose money on this proposition.  That's the only thing I think of is if they had to make a $30 because Sega wanted so much damn money for Genesis to be on Switch, then you don't add Genesis to Switch.  But I just don't think that's what's happening here. Again, this is giving too much benefit of it out to a company that like all other companies is for profit and trying to do everything they can to squeeze every dollar out of us. And I don't mind giving them the money when it's something that I feel is worthwhile. This does not, this does not feel worthwhile. I guarantee you, Eric is never getting this. He was so interested in playing N64 games online. You guys have seen him on the podcast. He has talked at length to how excited he was to finally play N64 games legally online.  He's going to freak out.  Sorry, end of my rant. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, I know, I missed some super chats. I'm aware. I know, I was actually just now surfing through the chat to get to him. Thanks for reminding me though. But yeah, I was already surfing the chat. I know I missed some super chats in there. So I was really angry. I'm still not happy about this. The DLC is amazing, but what are you doing? Let's just say we have a lot to talk about on tonight's live stream.  It deserves separate attention from this overall live stream. All right, let me scroll up. Playboy 182. On top of that, the controllers are $50 each. I was okay with the $50 price point because they're wireless controllers. I assume they're using more modern parts. There's some retro capabilities to them. I was kind of okay with that price point. If you go look at second hand controller for N64 and Sega Genesis, they can be a bit pricey. So to me, the price point didn't bother me for those controllers. But I mean, it's still money. I mean, by the way, you don't have to buy the controllers. Sega Genesis and N64 will be fully playable without the controller. So they're optional too. So that's another thing. I don't get as mad about optional accessories like that. But thanks to the $2 Playboy, scrolling up, we had our taker's extended and we thought the price was only double. Remember when people were getting mad when we thought the price was only double? It's worse. Oh my gosh. We had a renewal by Brian C for 15 months. Thank you so much. It could become a good value at the end. Yeah, yeah. As I said, there is one possible saving grace and that is that this has future value added with DLC. I did say that's like the one thing that could justify this price is that you're not buying the N64 Genesis. You're buying this because all future paid Nintendo DLC will be available in this way. But if that was the case, just tell us that. They want your money now with no promise. Guys, they're asking you to spend this money within a month. Less than a month from now, they want you to spend this money with no promise that's what they're going to do. Even if I give them that benefit, why not tell us that? You don't have to announce what that DLC is. You just say, oh, you get this and all future Nintendo game DLC. Then we have a different conversation. This is a positive conversation and that might be what this becomes. But we can only work with the information available, which right now, that ain't it. Let me see, me, Tendall Power said, this just went from new horizons to infinity and beyond. Thanks, man. Damn, what's Nintendo doing? I love how they snuck this. They're trying to hide this, by the way. They knew if they announced this on its own, like if they did a separate announcement that they were going to get so much blowback, they're still getting blowback. Guarantee you there's already articles and videos and streams going on right now with more people pissed just like me. Like they're going to be getting extreme blowback anyways. I think they thought they could lessen the blowback by pairing it with good news. This pricing structure was paired with factually good news. The Animal Crossing free update looks really, really damn good and already looked really good. And then they added DLC which basically took Happy Home Designer, cranked it to frickin' 11 and it's handing that to SS paid DLC and I find that to be utterly fantastic. The content being added to the Animal Crossing is mwah. And I think they thought they could lessen the blowback by saying, hey, it's $25 or hey, look at this, it's only $30 more and you can get there's no 64 in Genesis with no promise you own this DLC when you do that. Oh and by the way, yeah, we're just trying to lessen the blow of the blowback of the price point of this anyways because by the way, that Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer isn't why this is $30 more. Oh no, no, no, it's just free. We were gonna charge you this anyways. It's just included for free. It's not free when you gotta spend money. Nintendo, you can't go like this and this happens all the time. This isn't just Nintendo, other companies do it. Oh yeah, get games with gold and you get free games. It's not free when you pay for it. These companies need to stop using that word free. It's not free when you pay for it, okay? Active Nintendo Switch Online Plus Expansion membership required to access DLC at no additional cost.  It's about 50 bucks. 50 bucks or 80 bucks. You have to spend a lot of money to get this no additional cost addition. All that tells me is it was gonna cost this anyways so we threw this in here to lessen the blowback except it's not gonna lessen the blowback because there's no justification for that price point without including that DLC. And then if you don't even own the DLC, there's zero justification. Oh my God, man. Nintendo, it's sort of the price. That's a nice follow up. That's a nice follow up. And so did the price. Thanks man, I appreciate the support. Oh, I'm so mad. I have not raged this hard at Nintendo in a long time. I probably woke Ueli up. Let me check my phone. Oh great, my phone's not on me.  They posted a video on Twitter. Let's see. I'm sure they did.  Nintendo America, let's see here. All right. So let's see. Now Switch Online plus Xbox Badge Pass, launch at 10.25. Okay. They did a full video on Nintendo Switch Online. I'm going to, can I use a virtual keyboard? No. All right, I didn't grab my keyboard. One second, I am going to go pull the stuff so we can watch it together. All right, guys. I got my keyboard here. Let's pull this up and watch it together. Let me flip over. Let me flip over to this. Come on, come on. All right, so let's go to Twitter. Let's watch this together. Because maybe there's additional details in here. See? So stop, so see it says. You know, what, F11 here? So see it says, Nintendo Switch Online plus Xbox Badge Pass launches at 10.25. So you can gain access as of 10 days from now. Gain access to a library of N64 Sega Genesis game, Animal Crossing New Horizon, Happy Home Paradise at no additional cost, all other benefits. So it doesn't sound like anything else, but they did a video. So let's watch this video together, shall we? Shall we? Here we go. Maybe. Twitter, Twitter. Come on, Twitter. Really? Really?  Is my whole stream down? No, I know it's working.  Switch Online offers five benefits that level up your gaming experience. With online play, NES and Super NES games. There better be additional details here, or. The Nintendo Switch Online. My stance is in check. Expand it further with the Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pack membership, which includes even more benefits. Let's check out what's included with Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pack. Play games from the Nintendo 64 system, which gave many players their first gaming experiences in 3D environments. Everybody, stay alert. With Nintendo Switch, you can now play these games featuring- I'm not even excited right now. Remember when this announcement came out and it was like pretty fire? This isn't even exciting at the moment. This isn't even exciting. To spend points, let you save your game whenever you'd like, so you can play for a bit, even when you're short on time. You can also play multiplayer games locally or online with up to four players. I mean, yeah, GameCube games, Wii games, that would justify this kind of price. More games will be added in the future. We hope you look forward to seeing which games will be coming next. Players who have the Animal Crossing New Horizons game can enjoy the paid DLC. Animal Crossing New Horizons Happy Home Paradise at no additional cost. Expand your horizons and help design vacation homes for clients on just extra 30 bucks when it's only 25 on its own. No additional cost, no big deal. I can't even get nostalgic for the Sega thing. I usually love that Sega thing. I can't even be excited. I can't be excited. This whole thing has been ruined. More Sega Genesis games will be added in the future. We hope you look forward to seeing which games will be available starting at the pricing options shown here. Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pack adds the three benefits we previously introduced, starting at this pricing plan. If two or more people will be using this new membership plan, the family membership is the most cost-effective option. Current Nintendo Switch Online members can change over to Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pack at any time and receive a pro-rated discount based on the number of days remaining in their current membership. Please visit the official website for more details. Okay, so I saw someone say, I saw someone say, um, oh, so if you're a Switch Online member, you get a discount. No, it's not a discount. Here's what they're telling you. I have an individual $20 membership, by the way. So here's what they're telling me. However many days are left in this membership. Right? I can add on a $50 membership. They will discount the remaining days of my current membership I already paid for from that price point. So let's say I have three months left.  It's not a discount. It's not a discount. It's money I already spent being applied to a new purchase. That's not a discount. They're calling it a discount. Actually they're not. They're actually calling it for a pro-rated discount. Pro-rated discount is actually the correct legal terminology to use. It is technically a pro-rated discount. That is what it is. So I don't fault Nintendo for that, um, phrasing that is the legally correct way to call this. It's a pro-rated discount. But it's still money you already spent just being applied to a new purchase. That's all it is. It's money you already spent being applied to a new purchase. Basically they're saying, we don't want you to wait until you're done with your current year membership. Oh no no no. However much of that membership is left, we will take that and apply it to your new purchase.  It's not actually a discount to you. You're not actually saving money. If you want to upgrade to this and you already have a $20 membership or a family plan and they give you a discount, it's not technically a discount.  It's not confusing. Okay so it's not manipulative confusing jargon. It is what it says it is. Pro-rated discounts are money you already spent being applied to a new purchase. That's exactly what pro-rated discounts are. Pro-rated discounts are not legal mumbo-jumbo to confuse people. This is common. This is very common.  Okay.  They're usually a positive thing. I'll give you an example. I have a $2,500 monitor coming my way. A $2,500 monitor. $2,500. I think it's insane. It's insane. And I'll tell you, I didn't pay $2,500. Because I didn't. But I still paid like $2,000. One, there was a discount applied.  But technically, I did because what happened is we spent $950 on a monitor two years ago. That monitor broke within its warranty date. Unfortunately, they don't make parts for that monitor anymore. So what Samsung did is they said, look, we're sorry we can't fix it. We'll send a guy to come pick it up. But yeah, we can give you an EQPON to put towards a new product. So they gave me a $950 EQPON. So my thought, and we talked about it with my fiance, is we'll get the latest model of the monitor because they should at least, the model just came out in August. They should have parts for it for at least the length of the warranty. But here's the thing. To get that model, I applied my $950 coupon. All that is, is a prorated discount. But it's not technically a discount because it's money I already spent in the past. So it's just taking money I already spent applying it towards a new purchase and then I got to spend money on top of that. So you're not really saving any money. I'm still spending after taxes $2,100 for this monitor. It just doesn't feel that way to the customer because the money we're talking about that discounted it is money you already spent. So the $950 I spent two years ago was already spent. That money was already spent and already gone. So it makes it look like to consumers that you're saving money. So it's like, oh, I got this $2,500 monitor for $1,000. But that's not actually what happened because it was money I already spent on a product that they couldn't fix being applied to this new product and actually getting more money out of me. So this is very common.  I'm not upset because they don't have to offer it, by the way.  They could do that. That's the ultimate greed. They could not give you this pro-rated discount. The pro-rated discount is like the bare minimum they could be doing. Is there anything else to this video? Is that it? No, that's it. That's it. So, yeah. It's like the bare minimum they could be doing. So I don't consider it scummy. But it is a way, whoops, it is a way that makes people think they're getting a deal that they're really not. It's a marketing tactic. It's kind of like when you walk into coals and everything's on sale. Look how cheap this comforter is. Yeah, because everything's always on sale there. The price you see, just consider that to be the price that's being sold at. It's not actually a sale. Now, if you have additional coupons and other sales that you can reply on top, that's a sale. That's a discount. The price you see listed on the shelf, that's just what the item costs. Coals actually tried at one point to eliminate all of the sales and just charge the listed price. So like, let's say you go in and it lists a comforter at $100, but they're selling it for $65. It says on sale, $35 discount. They tried getting rid of that sale price and just charging you $65. And they just listed it at $65 and their sales went down the toilet. Because mentally, you don't think you're getting a deal. So since you don't think you're getting a deal, you no longer think $65 for that comforter is worthwhile. Now, that isn't to say you're not getting a good deal at coals and it's very possible that comforter, if you bought it at another place, might be more expensive.  Oh, look at how much money I save here. I want you to look that money up on Amazon. Look that money up on your phone and actually see what it costs elsewhere to get before you think that sale price is a good price. Another example, our bed upstairs. We needed to get a new bed frame and everything. So we got a really nice one from Ashley Furniture. We spent about $1,100 on it.  It has a headboard and everything, but anyways, we spent $1,100, but we went to a lot of places and we found that exact one that we wanted at seven different furniture stores, all of them wanting $800 more than what they charged at Ashley Furniture. Now, it isn't Ashley Furniture product that's being sold at other stores, but they were charging $800 premium and all of them listed them as on sale for $500 off when you could just go to the Ashley Furniture store and just get it for its normal list price of $1,100. That's why you gotta be careful when you see sale prices. This isn't Nintendo necessarily being shady. It's just something that every company does that makes people feel good when really you're just repurposing money already spent. Call it like a repurposing of money is what it is. So I don't consider it shady what Nintendo is doing here in terms of the, you know, pro-rated discount. It's just, it's a way, it's a fancy terminology that makes customers feel like they're saving money. Really, they're just gaining access to something a smidge earlier than they would if they waited for their membership to renew. That's really what you're getting. You're getting it earlier is all that's happened. But $25 for that DLC isn't a bad deal. $25, I mean, that DLC looks substantial. It's like a whole new game. Will we be able to do the expansion subscription month to month? It definitely appears not. This video is literally the one we just showed you on Twitter was just Nintendo Switch Online. It doesn't look like the expansion is available month to month nor is it available every three months. I think what may lessen blowback, which it doesn't really because you're going to end up spending more money in the long haul, is if they would have made say $5 additional just to get Genesis and N64 for like a one month plan make it $5 more technically Nintendo still makes more money because right now it's $4 you would be spending $9 a month then just to have access to Genesis but instead of it being $50 a year Nintendo would get what 9 times 12 they would get 118 bucks a year out of your pocket or something like that over $100 out of your pocket that's a lot of money versus so Nintendo could have did that and that still wouldn't have been any better so I don't get this I have other content I need to make and other things I need to do today so I can't I can't sit here and livestream this all the time but it's on the site now let me refresh let me refresh the online services see if there's any possible additional information here I keep hoping to see something that's going to make everything I said seem stupid so here's the information kind of switch on line plus expansion pack get everything included in the switch on line plus expansion pack for one Nintendo account holder for 12 months and 50 bucks or a family membership for 89 companies there's no nope there's no it is what it is exactly what Nintendo told us is what it is all the details we got during the Animal Crossing Direct are exactly what this is there's no details yeah I mean Brian see I could at least see that okay so like I think it's bullshit either way but there's at least potentially value for Animal Crossing fans that we're going to buy the DLC anyways to instead get a one year membership pay the extra five bucks get access to your especially if you're already an online member get access so this presumes you already pay for Nintendo Switch online for a year or on a family membership for a year and you were going to get this DLC anyways so it's already 25 bucks and then you're paying that extra little amount to gain access to Genesis and N64 okay for an Animal Crossing fan that can seem like a good value presuming that once you cancel that membership after a year you maintain access to the DLC if you don't if you don't that's a shit value even for Animal Crossing fans and Nintendo has not guaranteed that you maintain access and we have to presume and you can call me an idiot for presuming this but as things currently are constructed if you don't have an active subscription to Nintendo Switch Online you don't have access to any of the things available through Nintendo Switch Online so we have to presume that if you don't have the expansion pass anymore you won't have access to that DLC we just have to presume that's how it works because literally everything else works that way and Nintendo has not told us any different so if everything else works this way we have no reason to really believe that this DLC does not work that way now I think it might be really hard and then to turn off the things you learn that you brought back to the island I don't know if Nintendo can turn that off they can turn off your access though to the extra islands and all that stuff so I don't know I don't think this is a bad look the thing is whether your Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft they view an online subscription as something that you don't cancel that's the thing they will incentivize you to re-up again oh what will happen is you get to the end of your one okay I'm going to cancel and then you find out oh when you cancel you lose access and have to spend $25 to buy the DLC oh well then I might as well re-up again and that's it Nintendo Microsoft and Sony once you subscribe to their stuff they do everything they can to make you not unsubscribe in this case Nintendo is not going to want people who bought it for a year to unsubscribe so they're going to probably keep it behind the service and say nope oh look now you got to buy it for $25 if you're going to keep the online access it's only an extra $5 and then you got to think about those that don't even give a shit about online access what about those people what about those people that don't I guess you know if you don't here's the thing if you don't care about online I guess there's no real reason to the bitch I suppose if you're someone who doesn't already use Nintendo Switch Online there's not really any reason to complain nothing really changes for you the DLC is still available on its own Nintendo Switch or doesn't pay for Nintendo Switch Online already you still don't have a reason to so I mean maybe you were hoping the price point for Genesis and N64 would be reasonable enough to make you dive in but um Natsu says even if they do add future DLC this works under the presumption that Nintendo is going to add all future game DLC to this expansion pack it's possible not currently announced um it doesn't stay if it doesn't stay for the first year eventually Nintendo will stop support for the Switch if they do you would have to buy a shit ton of DLC if you want yeah well that's the thing too is they consider even if it includes all future DLC um you know if it's not something you keep once you cancel your subscription once Nintendo moves on to their next platform you know what happens then when they stop supporting the Switch what happens then now I would hope Nintendo is gracious enough maybe it's even called graciousness to just let us keep access to things we've been paying for um where they just let you download that DLC but I don't know and the last Animal Crossing game lasted 8 years so I have a feeling this Animal Crossing game will be cross compatible with whatever Nintendo does next and it'll be a non-issue uh but I don't know again that's still working with the presumption big question what would be included in the expansion pack in the future literally nothing promised alright we're gonna leave it at that we can go back and forth on this all day I'm gonna clip out my thing I'm gonna upload it uh I'll probably work on a news video later today uh where we'll probably recap some of this stuff I won't spend a ton of time recapping it since we already did the live stream but I'll at least mention a few of the key points um to remind people and then we have other Nintendo stuff I need to talk about today too and then we do have a live stream tonight so if you guys want to bitch more about this tonight we can definitely do that together um otherwise folks I'm gonna catch you guys later I got other things to get to today you guys are amazing love you all and uh yeah literally I will catch you later peace out please don't upload it it's embarrassing Simon May it's not embarrassing to chastise Nintendo see here before I close out here there's no embarrassment to be had by being critical of Nintendo when they're doing something absolutely asinine and stupid that's what they're doing they're doing something that's asinine it's important that content creators like me that cover them criticize that and make sure that criticism is heard I'm not embarrassed by that reaction if you saw how I reacted and you go how childish how embarrassing I'm a guy in his mid 30s with three children I have a full time job I'm in college full time I got a lot of stuff going on in my life if that's how I reacted imagine how people who are actually like really really invested in this stuff as their sole form of entertainment the only thing they have to look forward to every day imagine how they're feeling right now I'm like a microcosm how those people are feeling a grown man reacting like that is definitely embarrassing a grown man reacting passionately to something embarrassing news at 10 imagine imagine a situation where when you become an adult because let's just say a lot of us are probably adults right where you become an adult and you decide it's no longer worthy to be passionate about anything to the point where you can actually get upset get upset in a way that makes you angry passion has no age limit there's not a certain age you hit and suddenly you're no longer passionate because you know what happens people don't get mad at others when they show this same sort of anger and passion about politics the same sort of anger and passion about religion the same sort of anger and passion about doing the correct thing about culture or supporting lgbt q plus ai whatever the hell it is all now nobody has a problem when adults show passion and anger about all of that but because this is a video game related thing it's considered to be embarrassing which is absolutely asinine because then it suggests that video games are for kids and if video games are for kids then why the fuck are you here bottom line is bottom line is passion drives reactions things you are most passionate about get the strongest reactions sports fans you'll sometimes see sports fans go a little bit crazy because they're super passionate about sports that's just how it is I don't feel any shame or embarrassment at showing anger towards what nintendo is doing there is nothing shameful the shamefulness is on nintendo nintendo should feel shame for what they're doing not me, I'm good you don't like it, there's the door I say this because this isn't the only time I've had impassionate anger towards nintendo this isn't the only time I've had impassionate love towards things as well my passion is going to come through in my content if you don't like it there's the door I'm not saying that to be mean I'm not saying that because I can't take criticism I'm saying this is who I am and if you don't like who I am they can go watch somebody else because I'm not changing for anybody much love everyone take care of themselves take care of your mental health, all that jazz I really appreciate everybody here including that person being critical of me but hey I just accepted a long time ago not everyone is going to like me I'll catch you later, peace out