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I gotta stop doing it Uh, I end up wasting like an hour of my day just reading them responding to comments So I'm sure a lot of you guys appreciate but uh It also takes away from content creation Yeah, like I like having a community because like Here's the thing the number one reason I really love this podcast is I like creating a conversation Um, I my channel and the youtube that's on a prime thing. Yeah, we report news We do all the stuff we have editorials and opinions, but I'm all about the conversation Like it's not just what I feel I want to know what other people feel that they disagree with me That's fine. There's plenty of people that disagreed on a recent video. I did Uh about what our first topic is going to be which is the voice chat stuff Um, and there's a lot of people that said oh, I overreacted over that and we'll get into that here in this topic About my feelings on that your guys's feelings on that um But uh, it's nice hearing that you know the other side of the coin The people that don't think things are such a big deal as I do are the people that think that apparently I'm doing it For the hit the views for some reason That that I that apparently I can't be passionate unless it's for views It's weird to me. Um, but anyways As always I'm mr. Eric more with me and joined by 5j gaming yet again. So Quickly becoming a regular Hey, that's the plan. Yeah, no, no, we love having you. No, you have some you have different opinions than I do So I like avenue You're wrong and everything Okay, so let's just This is some fox news where we agree on everything all the time, but I'm Donald Trump.  No, so this first topic is something obviously I've talked passionately about on the channel. I just brought up the video I did about it. Um, the voice chat situation On nintendo switch Now the app has launched at the time we're recording this Uh, I don't have just have any of us do any of us own a copy of this platoon 2 right now. Yeah No, I don't have an early copy. So what tomorrow? Yeah tomorrow. Yeah, so So we recorded this on thursday. So we're recording this literally like hours before the game comes out So we personally have not gotten to test out the app at this point So this is just full disclosure in case things change between now and the time you hear this We're basing this on what we have seen and what we know now Not what has happened since now, you know, if there's patches and updates to it, you know by the time you hear this episode um Just for full clarity, but here's what we know Uh, you can download the app right now in ios or android. Uh, it's you can't really find it if you search for it So you kind of kind of find a link to it online That's probably going to change when the game launches here in a few hours because that's when nintendo is going to want it to be available in searches Uh, it it might have a homepage thing on like yeah store Maybe it'll it'll probably be front page for a little bit anyways, so i'm thinking uh, so they The app is needed to Have voice chat. That's the big thing with the app is that it is the only way to voice chat at least officially voice chat Uh with your friends on nintendo switch. Obviously, there's always been third party options You've always been able to use discord and skype and google voice and anything like you can always do that I can call eric up on the phone. Yeah through verizon and you know Whatever we're just talk through verizon to each other. It doesn't cost us anything. I'm limited to talk. Yeah, but uh That's obviously never been the ideal way to communicate with games because people have friends list as an example Uh, I'm like switch. You can see what games your friends are playing. I'm like that's stuff I can't really necessarily do very well on discord because discord can't track anything on switch right now um So like there's not an easy way to do it outside of nintendo so Right now you essentially only one game supports it. Uh, we assume there's going to be updates for future games potentially arms and Mario kart 8 deluxe could eventually get added to the service But right now it's just supporting splatoon 2 And it's like an app within an app if it makes sense So they have the nintendo switch online app is what it's called And then within that app after you connect your nintendo account It has like mini apps for each game and right now obviously Switching to is the only one see a splat net 2 and when splat net 2 so What's interesting about that is that this is just how splat net 2 works. It doesn't necessarily mean this is how it's going to work for every game So that's something to keep in mind great, right? Um another A question I have is is it going to be only nintendo? Games that are going to be able to use this app I assume you know come little indy studio that has a multiplayer racer, you know Be able to put the map in there. Yeah, I assume That and this is the weird thing about it. Like I assume that nintendo is going to let their like triple a third parties be able to use it Um, especially for games, you know if call of duty ever comes to the platform Like and obviously they're gonna want voice chat and nintendo is not going to be like no you can't do that Um money does talk so yeah, uh, you know in terms of letting indies and stuff do it I have no idea if that's like nintendo chargers for it or if they just let them do it for free using nintendo servers I have no clue because nintendo isn't telling us basically. We don't know a lot officially about the app Um and about how online functionality is going to work beyond how it works in splatoon 2 Uh, and that's really crazy I know some people will say it's a beta. It's beta. It's beta that that's fine. Uh, nintendo is not calling it a beta No, why would they um nintendo like everyone you can add that gets a beta because we're not paying for it yet Uh, and that I guess you can consider that Legit, but I mean then people are telling me. Yeah, but you're not really paying for voice chat You're also getting online servers. Well, guess what? We already have those now Uh, and you're also getting uh the game, you know, you're getting that that free nes game of blah blah blah And it's like, yeah, okay. So your argument then is that You are getting other free stuff. So it's not about the app. So then the app really isn't beta. This is what the app is um now This is getting ahead of ourselves because obviously I have some strong opinions on this um So essentially you access the the the splat net thing through here You're able to create a lobby in splatoon 2 that kind of shoots over once you create the lobby it shoots over to your phone Uh, where you can have your buddies come in and before you even start a match You can just sit in a lobby forever Um in game and just chat with your friends. You don't ever even need to start a game But once you start a game, uh, it'll split you off You know, if you're on different teams, it'll split you off To that games you can only chat with your teammates and then bring you back in um And this is all fine Like that that's I mean outside of the fact that I think all of us would prefer to have it natively on the console Whatever, that's fine that how the app handles that seems fine um What's interesting about that to me is that unlike other voice chat platforms where it's just hey Here's a voice channel and it just happens all the time. This seems to be intimately connected to what's happening in the game at the time So while you're when you have your phone open and while you're playing your game You must be sending data to nintendo on your account that hey, I'm now in this room with these other people And it sends it to your phone. I mean wow, it's That's a pretty active connection to the voice chat and and really it can do something cool with it so The red flags start popping up Uh with the voice chat part specifically because there's other things the app does Uh that we haven't touched on much like you can track your stats Your friends can look at your stats. They can look at replays of your like your best match from that day Um, like like like there's some like oh, that sounds fine Like that's what a companion app usually is like it gives you additional information about your gameplay sessions That you can't typically get through your console because for whatever reason Um, you know, maybe it's just because they don't want to over complicate the menu in spittoon 2 Uh by having all this extra tracking stuff, but hey on an app, you know right at your fingertips You can track it when you're not even at home Uh, that's fine. Like that companion app stuff is fine. I have no complaints about that like that It's 2017 like nintendo needs something like this the competition has it Yeah, I mean it's time to catch up. So that's that's fine I don't care about the companion app stuff because they did that right so far with spittoon 2 But the voice chat stuff And because this is the only way you can voice chat and because technically they will be charging for this next year If you'd have access to even do this Um, there's a lot of issues that are cropping up now that they better damn well fix before they start charging uh Put it this way I don't even know a better way to say this to properly voice chat in spittoon 2 The app must hijack your phone Mm-hmm You literally cannot do anything else on your phone But have that app open if you and on if you swipe your notification menu from like on my iPhone I swipe it from the top it kicks me out of voice chat if I Uh get a text message and tap on that notification to quickly reply to someone I'm kicked out of voice chat if my phone Goes into idle mode and turns off the screen it kicks you out of voice chat It's ridiculous. Uh now obviously some people said oh, it doesn't really kick you out And I think that's because the other players still see that you're in the lobby This almost makes it worse. So the other players still see that you are in the lobby Yeah, but they don't know that you can't hear them right Oh Yeah, it's awful. Um and that and I know someone said that that maybe they can hear you but you but That it's possible they can hear you but you can't hear them either way There's no communication there that informs anyone that that's happening. Yeah, it almost like it goes into standby mode Yeah, it's like a bog or something. I don't know. It's like someone didn't think I think it's just what they've designed it on I think it's the I can't remember what I read the one article And uh, I can't remember what it was built on but I think it has to something to do with The way it was built. Yeah, then it it's not really a bug. It's just The platform it was built with Which that's dumb right. Yeah, it's called bad design. Oh, that's what makes you actually scared that they can't fix this stuff Maybe because I saw some people say that like iOS has Like this thing with iOS where they don't allow multiple apps and you see this like on my iPhone when I whenever I switch between apps They usually go into this like idle sleep mode thing where they're not really running They're just kind of loaded in the ram and they just sit there Um and computers do this all the time like this is how PCs handle a lot of things They pause a lot of apps when you have them minimized but it There are apps that work that work around this like discord you could still chat with people while you're using other apps You know skype you could still do that The only thing that really gets interrupted is like a voice call or not a voice call.  They just can't see you anymore So like it doesn't stop you from chatting with someone Uh, and that's what's so weird about in 2017 But by the way, android doesn't have any restrictions for multitasking For different apps. So it's not even issue with androids. I was specifically and I did to release an app in 2017 That is has voice chat as a primary function But Can not work on your phone unless it is the only thing running and on your screen at all times draining your battery There was a 15 minute video done by game explain and one of the guys in there had their battery drained 45 percent in 15 minutes What 45 max and and and he said in the video it is the only app he has running Oh, yeah, and you also can't have power save mode on either. Oh, you can't have that on either. Oh my god See, yeah, at least that I'm fairly certain on that one Yeah, and to make matters worse and this is where some people have been continuing with me under the video I made about it is On the support site it says that that the app cannot stream audio from the switch That basically means that that little splatoon 2 headset we saw before with the dongle Is basically how they expect you to get game audio and voice Through the same headset. Yeah, um And yes, I know those workarounds for it. Yes I know some people just like putting an earbud in one ear or having those headsets that have one thing on one ear And then you listen to the game audio from the tv and that's fine I'm glad that that works I'm glad that is an option for people who like it that way But I'm not one of those people Yeah, basically it's just like a splitter and I think then if logic Holds up here. I think then this means you could also just be using discord and then get your game audio through that same splitter And it will work the same way as the nintendo app does but better because it's discord Yeah, it's just it's a really strange. Um And the thing is is I don't See you want to play your game that way. That's fine But like I've been pc gaming a long time getting my game audio and my voice chat through the same headset on my pc And I now I do an xbox one in PlayStation 4 because they the thing is those systems might default like xbox one comes with Just a one ear headset Like my default But the thing is is that's just an option. You could still do it the way that I want to do it Uh, and I know some people say well, you know Why complain about it because you could do this on every other gaming platform by nintendo And those other gaming platforms charge for it And our nintendo is going to charge for it. Yes, they're charging significantly less But they're not necessarily providing as much value anyways Um, and they don't have the track record to back it up so I know I've talked a lot so far What do you guys think about what the heck nintendo is doing with this app and this online infrastructure just right now I was platoon 2 Go ahead 5j. I'm trying to see if I can find the one article 5j, did you die? I think it's audio cut out again He's checking settings or something So I guess we'll just keep that conversation rolling. Yeah. Um, so I I know I texted you the one the one thing um That uh, hopefully we're not it's a message to me on discord. Oh nice But I can't see from you. Yeah, right.  Yeah I was just coming to check you have fun editing this by the way, man This section is going to be all this though. I can still hear the whole time. So I didn't talk Okay, it's it's okay. All right So 5j, what do you think about the online app situation? Yeah, uh, what I was saying earlier when we were having those audio problems is um It's still it rings of the sort of what's been happening of the whole lifetime of the switch so far It just feels Like they are rushing rushing rushing to put this thing out and and things just aren't complete yet And uh, it's not up to snuff yet. But at the same time, uh, you know, there's so much good content out there that it's It's not really a deterrent yet But it is frustrating to get bad news after bad news after bad news and The app like you said, yeah cool companion app. Maybe I mean, I haven't used it as a companion app yet because I don't have any game yet Right with it So in theory, it sounds like a good companion app Well, we'll see and then the voice chat obviously everyone's, you know, talk that to death. It's a bad physical hookup and it's a bad software Experience So it's it's not great. I'm glad they're doing it But I really hope that it's upgradeable and this is version point one and one day We'll get version 1.0 that we should have got now. Yeah, it's uh See a lot of the complaints I have It's not that I don't I don't necessarily think it's unfixable Uh, but it's the fact that they've launched it in this state in the first place that I kind of take an issue with Because as much as people want to tell me it's a beta and I'm sure nintendo internally views it as a bit of a beta since it's for free Before their paid service launches and they say it is limited functionality Whatever that's supposed to mean because they still aren't telling us what that functionality is supposed to be I assume it's things like being able to message your friends That's a feature that's missing right now. Yeah Being able to voice chat one-on-one outside of games being able to voice chat with people who are in other games So you guys go like I could play breath of the wild And you could play fast racing rmx and we could still talk to each other. That would be cool I have expected to be the the meverse replacement sort of a nintendo social network Maybe I don't I think nintendo's given up on that. Um Maybe but they put in a weird um image posting thing in in swatoon too. Yeah, and I think that's just because they like that art Yeah, I think they just like that art thing. I think they think that fits with swatoon a lot, which it does. Yeah I see I really that's the thing. I loved meverse. It was like I I wish they would have carried that over So unique. Um, there's nothing like it. Yeah, I mean, I don't nintendo is trying to remember his facebook and twitter and stuff more But um, they didn't they still could have had meverse But yeah, I I think nintendo can fix all this stuff But then again, I don't know like eric was just bringing up it might just be How the specific thing was programmed and it's like well if that's the case They almost need to recreate the whole app to fix some of these problems and nintendo might not even view it as a problem Yeah, right. I don't remember where exactly I read that but Yeah, see the question is does nintendo actually view these things as issues Do they view the fact that people don't want to run chords all the way across their living room to get audio from their switch as a problem? I mean, do they think that that's even an issue? Right because as people say Oh, well, I could just put a single earbud in with a mic and and just get my audio like I do on other platforms But ignore the large consumer base that likes to have all their audio coming through high quality headsets There's people who only play their games with headphones Great um another thing I got One of the article one article pulled up. Where's this from? Kentucky, okay, um and uh One of the other fun things apparently, uh Volume is not controlled through the app. How do you control the volume your phone? the volume on the mic the Uh, we'll love to see more controller voice Voice volume within the app Then a single mute button all volume functions are handled by the phone or the headset the player is using But worked well enough until they started playing Because then so monkeying with So you can't mute individual people is what it sounds like. Yeah, you can only just mute them all. Yeah You mute them all or terrible Yeah, this is sounding like these are coming from people that are that are using it. So right, you know I've seen this app in action in several videos now it You can't mute individual people. I don't mind necessarily controlling the volume of like The overall like the the master volume. That's fine The volume of individual people I would like to control because anyone knows the voice chat Sometimes you need to raise and lower people because it's going to depend how far away are they from their microphone? What kind of mic are they using? Uh, these are these are factors that I can't control how what other people are doing But I would like to control their volume on my end So I can get a better experience and actually hear what they're saying We'll have one person not drown out other people as right, but the only the one problem I see what that is is It you're gonna have to start if you don't like the volume during the game Either you're gonna have to start monkeying with either your headset or you're gonna have to press your volume buttons on your phone That's a pain in the ass too Well, yeah, I don't necessarily view that as the fact that can't adjust the individual people on mute So that bothers me. Yeah that really and I understand like oh right now you can only really lobby with your friends So I guess you know, they're they're not concerned. Oh, you would want to mute someone individually Well, you might because what is someone's in there? And they don't realize like me that my kids are screaming in the background or they do realize it But I forget to mute my microphone. Yeah, so everyone else is dealing with that And they don't want to kick me from the group because they still want to communicate with me But they just don't want to hear my screaming kids or you have that one friend who's sold here in hell And you just want to mute. Yeah, just for a moment. Just for a moment So then you could pop back a little bit by the way, I have no idea what you said last time Yeah, just turn on you quick Yeah, I mean I understand some of the functionality doesn't so exist in other consoles Like it's a lot harder to adjust individual levels on people But if you're managing it through an app, it makes sense to do that It feels like a natural functionality. The fact you can't mute individual people that really sucks Even though right now it's just with your friends They don't have like, you know, like you're not getting with random people and Mario Kart 8 and then everyone's talking to each other They don't have that kind of support right now, which some people could argue. That's a missing feature Not having individual game lobbies for everyone And I know some people argue it's to protect the children. I'm like, isn't that what the parental app is for? Right, exactly. They already have a solution. And by the way, you can't even use this app unless you're 13 and older So we're talking about teenagers and adults Right and maybe well, I'm just saying legally if kids if kids under 13 are using it just like kids under 13 Using facebook. Well, guess what? That's the that's the fault of the parents They're the ones that legally in trouble when that kid does something they're not supposed to do Right the kid that I mean yay kid. You're not legally responsible for anything before you're 13 on facebook congrats Right But it doesn't mean you should be posting porn because then your parents get arrested But yeah, it's It's just a mess a big big mess that I don't like the only nice thing I'll say about this app is How it handles feedback is pretty cool There's a section in there when you go to settings that has a feedback option and through the app you can actually leave feedback to Nintendo about the app And that's Like there's people I've seen I've had like a half dozen petitions under me. Hey, can you share this petition? Can you talk with this petition? I'm like Why are we petitioning when Nintendo is already publicly stated several times?  They're done They're listening to you they want they want actual constructive feedback So don't just be like hey this app sucks like that doesn't help them be like hey We feel like the app is missing these features We would like these features because That's the way to do it And I know some people who have done it and I highly suggest our audience if you don't like the way the app is working right now Go to that feedback thing and suggest because here's the thing They still have five or so months to try to get it cleaned up before 2018 Or even longer because they just did the launching in 2018. We don't know I mean we would love for it to be January 1st, but it's not They're gonna keep pushing it back if there's problems Um, so we need to give them this feedback right now because if you want to argue This is a beta program then fine. Let's treat it like a beta program and tell the agenda what we want Um, yeah, were you guys club nintendo members? I was yeah I think you were at one point. They had you know, it was basically a giant survey program to earn your points Answer these questions and give us the feedback we want. Yeah, so they took that away and this sounds like Sort of the replacement for that. Hey, we need a new approach to this Why don't we make it easier as simple or we're not asking them pointed questions? Just whatever you want to tell us. It's really easy to tell us just put it right here. Yeah, it's That's the one thing I really like Now obviously we have to see something come of it. Um That that's kind of the one thing like yeah, it's nice to have it But if nothing actually changes then you know if nothing changes between now and when they launch the paid version Besides adding features that are missing, you know, like direct messaging or whatever Then you got to start looking at okay. They're obviously not listening So it's like you just have that in there, but no one's checking the inbox. That's not cool And I I wish nintendo this is this is something I I really want them to take from Discord and there's other there's other Apps out there that do this They have a community where you can suggest a feature That the community then upvotes or downvotes and the stuff that gets the most upvotes is the stuff that That company looks at adding to their app. It's like a smash bros character vote Yeah, like the smash bros character vote except in this case, we're talking about base features for an app so it's like It's brilliant, but discord doesn't discord has added so much new functionality because of it And then and they're looking into adding more like actually discord working natively on nintendo switch Is actually one of their highest board of things right now and discord is actually talking to nintendo to try to make it happen That was nintendo going to let it happen I would assume no, but nintendo is also letting pc streaming happen. So I yeah, right i'm like Leave that though when it actually lanes. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean we'll see if that if that ever comes out But they've been approved. Anyways, we'll see right, it's What if you read that What also being highlighted about our segment is what nintendo mentions in its support. I think Voice chat is unable to run in the background while using your phone for other purposes. Yeah, I think I think it's because of the that Our Technia or whatever that but they're using Well, no, yeah, that's what we were talking about before you can't do anything else on your phone It literally hijacks your phone period And I brought up a scenario that someone that someone someone was making fun of before because I said So I have to choose whether to hop out on my voice chat to check a text message from my girlfriend about my children And You know and I brought up, you know, it could be a life or death situation And someone's like, well, it's a life or death situation. Of course, you just put the voice chat and deal with it I'm like that but you're missing my point I wouldn't know if it's a life or death situation because I have to choose to read the text message to find out What's going on or voice chat? I can't do both Right like it could be nothing. It could just be a quick. She's just sending me a winky face Means nothing. She's just being silly. She's just being playful She's just telling me a joke. I can respond to that later. I'm in the middle of a match But nope in the middle of the match I gotta go glance up because I because she's the mother of my kids I gotta go glance at it to see if it's serious or not Uh, and that's going to kick me out of the chat Which is dumb and I know like I brought this up before I really finished the point about how some people say Oh, you're still kind of connected people just can't hear each other or whatever What's weird about it is when I watch the videos on it and people Go into something else and then go back to the app You could see it reloading and re-initializing and reconnecting you to the to the chat Meaning that in some ways it has disconnected you just because it shows you still in the lobby Doesn't mean you didn't actually physically disconnect your chat connection Because it definitely it's not like you go back in and it instantly works again. No, it's re-initializing and reconnecting So it's I was already against this app Oh, yeah Um before when they even mentioned it I I prayed it was just an option that it would be available natively And in fact if this becomes available available natively on switch Then I guess I'm not gonna care how the phone part works because I'm just gonna use it on switch anyways And I pray to god I can use it in the background of a game Yeah No, you can't play a game. You can't play a game. You can voice chat or game can't do well. Yep, um But But I mean whatever that I hope happened someday a lot of people hope that but Nintendo is consistency No, what phone app phone app phone app phone app And they said, you know smart devices and and I think what's makes me upset about the phone app besides the fact that it's the only option is It feels so behind the times in 2017 if you're going to make it all phone app exclusive Then why don't you remember that this isn't a dedicated device to chat on? This is a smartphone It's literally built like I had so much. Oh who multitask is on their phone who doesn't Right who doesn't have text going web browser facebook all that stuff, you know force facebook Yeah, like just you know switching between all the time who isn't doing that I mean that that's like the hallmark of a smart device If it couldn't do that you would just have individual devices to do all that stuff so That's what I feel weird about why it hijacks your phone right now And my argument is even if this is a beta this is clearly not Like consumer friendly They should just not release it right now until they had it in a better place Even if even if they plan to fix this and they know they're gonna fix then don't release it now And I know the people well, what about voice chat and splatoon too and we didn't have voice chat and splatoon We can wait. I bet you anything though that has a big impact on why they're releasing it now And on the day of the release of splatoons. They had as much time as possible I suppose they released it like a week early. Yeah, but I don't But the thing is we didn't have voice we didn't have voice chat and splatoon So it's like people aren't gonna miss what they've never had If you just wait to release it till it's ready But they wouldn't be mad because they did pester and Nintendo so hard about it Yeah, but that's fine.  So what's it matter? Exactly Kinda Yeah, and and and you're still gonna use the score.  They could have launched the companion part right now Yeah, they can just say look, we're still working on voice chat. We'll get back to that later It'd be a nice data display Yeah Yeah, I just use it as that and the fact that while your voice chatting it uses that much battery And I understand we don't know what setting this brightness was that we don't know how old this phone was We don't know what model it was their battery issues, etc. But My experience is When you have an app that's transferring a lot of data like that Um, that's for space balls an example that transfers a lot of data back and forth from servers It trains your battery the more data you're transferring back and forth And because this is a multi chat thing it doesn't transfer data like a normal phone call does It transfers it's even got visual indicators and cues and pop-ups happening You know who's talking and floating heads and all this stuff So all this visual stuff going on plus all the data being moved around And that's going to drain your battery It's going to be like those apps that when they're super high active apps They drain your battery now like a facebook feed where it loads one thing at once and then you get to read that So you get to a certain point and then it loads again like facebook saves on data by just loading everything one time and then waiting Great, um until and to see if you want to load anything else This game can't preload like this because it's a live chat thing So it drains battery Which I guess is to be expected. I expected that it was going to be a battery drainer The a way to save on that is to be able to do lots in sleep mode I can have my screen off. I don't need the visual indicators going nuts So easy so simple every other voice app in the world does it? Well, no, and I I misspoke earlier It it reading the reading the article again. It's a power saving sleep mode So not not the whole power saving. Yeah, so it's It's not a good situation I I wish nintendo would have just waited until they had something better Because even if this is a beta and even if everything gets better, it's leaving a bad taste in people's mouths right now And usually you don't get a second chance to make a first impression with something And that's the sad thing is that the switch has so many great things It does It does. Oh man. So many people think I'm hating on the switch right through that love switch I've been missing on how many consoles now And uh, they had to screw it up again on a console that has a nice upward trajectory Will it start to make the console falter now? Could it be something that drags it down? I don't know. I mean ultimately I say no Because I think this is gonna be another topic later that this is the switch Someday is gonna be primarily viewed as a portable gaming device Uh, some people already primarily do is that but there's some yet there's some so many people though that leave it on the dock All they play is in dock mode Uh, but I think long haul it'll be viewed as mostly a portable device that you can easily dock if you want And it might even be sold eventually without the dock since they sell the dock separately already Um, just so they can come by you know, and you know, they sell it at 200 dollars. You know, no dock Yeah, okay. Yeah, I mean that's that's gonna hit that's gonna be mass market and I think they do that in a future topic will get too soon, but uh It's when it hits to that point Yeah, voice chat's not gonna matter as much because How many people care about voice chatting on 3ds 3ds even has a mic and can technically voice chat But who doesn't who voice chat's on 3ds who cares about voice chatting on 3ds?  Mm-hmm Like let's be honest. Oh, but portable. I'm like, but people don't really voice chat portable Because you're not playing online matches on your switch on the bus And you know another thing is uh, I don't have a lot of adult friends that play 3ds games Especially competitive online 3ds games. Yeah, we want to chat with each other You know the scenarios are so limited where you would even be in a case We would want to voice chat on a 3ds. That's just not the same for the switch We're talking about things like rocket league coming. Yeah, you want some voice chat? Yeah, you do. It's just I'm hoping I mean, I'm hopeful that nintendo gets it right, but I hate It just hurts me that said a first impression on something this big Is a bad taste in people's mouths It might not even matter if they get it right by the time they charge for it Because most of the switch audience at that point will have at least tried it out when it wasn't back When it wasn't right and they might not give it a second chance In fact, they might not even be willing to pay for online play It might even make look, I don't even want to play online anymore.  Um Anyways, well, I got one last thing. Sure. Um How about the people how about like actual iPhone users who have to have Even more chords and more donnels and more Stuff iPhone 70 to be specific. Yes, right. They might be fixing an iphone 8, but What when they took away the Which by the way, they're skipping 7s this year. They're going straight to eight because it's an anniversary. Oh, okay But yeah, how about those people? I feel bad for those people Yeah, I'm glad I skipped the seven. I'm hoping the eight has the headphone jet back. Yeah, um If it doesn't Then I would like to see them include the airpods in with it. Yeah, right if they include it in with it, then okay Uh, anyways, and I know you can use other bluetooth heads. That's what they're doing Right, right, right, but I mean people like people like throwing just those cheap I mean 90 of headphones out there aren't bluetooth and use the same audio jack side Right anyways, but yeah


Saudi Arabia said to host a peace conference on the Ukraine war. Strangely enough, Russia is not a part of it. What does this mean? It has been three years since the horrific explosion in Beirut's port, which led to over 200 deaths. To this day, no one in the position of authority has been held accountable. Why is this so? And finally, the past few days saw yet another instance of mob violence in the state of Haryana in India. What led to this horrific violence? We will be looking at all this in this episode of daily debrief. But before we get on with this show, don't forget to hit that subscribe button. A summit to discuss peace in Ukraine is scheduled to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia this weekend. Both western countries and some from the global south are invited, but there is one notable exception. One country which is not invited to the talks and that is Russia. Now if you're wondering how peace talks for the Russia-Ukraine war can take place without Russia, you're not alone. So let's go to Abdul for the details. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. A very curious peace conference, so to speak. I mean, the two countries that are fighting, Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine, of course, is part of it. Many other countries are part of it, but Russia is not part of this peace conference. So could you tell us about the genesis, so to speak, of this idea of a peace conference in the first place? This, the genesis is very simple. When Zelensky went to US in 2021, 22nd December, he basically proposed a so-called peace deal in which basically he demanded that Russia should not be part of any negotiations because Russia is responsible for the war. And that basically is the basis. So it has three basic points. That Russia should first withdraw from all the territories, which basically it has captured since 2014. It means the Crimean Peninsula is also part of it. Then it says that Russia should be ready to pay war compensation for whatever losses Ukraine has incurred and should be ready to face a trial in international court for the quote-unquote war crimes it has done in Ukraine. Until it does all those three, it should not be included. It agrees to do all those threes. It should not be part of any peace negotiation. And this was the, basically, of course, this proposal was rejected by Russians and most of the countries which have proposed negotiation, negotiated settlement between Russia and Ukraine find this idea absurd. Still, Western countries, particularly the US and European Union, have pushed this particular proposal and have tried to mobilize support for behind Zelensky's so-called peace proposal. And they had a first round of negotiation in Europe. This is the second round, which is going to happen in Saudi Arabia, maybe on Saturday. This will start. And for two days, as you rightly pointed out, Russia has, again, has not been invited. And there is no attempt to basically bring in Russian perspective into it. This is basically a larger attempt to mobilize opinion among the countries which so far have remained neutral or considered not taking position on the Ukrainian war. The way West is proposing asking them to take position to basically rally behind Ukraine and rally behind the Western stand, again Russia, and to follow the sanctions which are imposed on Russia by the US and European Union. Right, Abdul, of course, interesting to also remember that there were actually talks which took place at the beginning of the war, which were then sabotaged according to reports because of Boris Johnson's intervention. But there have also been other proposals, if I'm not mistaken, the African Union leaders at some point had raised something, there have been others. So is there, what is the fate of some of those proposals? See, China had given a proposal, a very serious proposal. Then African Union and some African countries individually also gave certain proposals. There are numerous other proposals according to Russia. There are around 300 of different kinds of proposals which Russia has received, some from individuals, some from countries, some from the group of countries. And all of them basically talk about negotiation between the parties, means Ukraine and Russia together. As you rightly pointed out, there were negotiations on the similar lines in the beginning of the war, which was in March and April in 2022. Those talks were sabotaged by the Western intervention. There were, now it has been confirmed. In fact, Vladimir Putin during his meeting with the African leaders last month had basically claimed that, in fact, the Ukrainians also had agreed on broader idea of peace. All the proposals were by and large negotiated. But at the last moment, when the final proposal was sent to Ukrainians, they did not respond to it. And that basically happened primarily because of the Western attempts to scuttle the negotiation. So, all these peace proposals, which of course, which were scuttled in April 2022, Istanbul peace process and the other parties like African peace proposal or the Chinese and other individuals who have proposed basically talk about bringing both the parties together. That is the basic thing. Nobody is, of course, dictating what should be the outcome of the negotiation. But if you see this particular proposal, which is going to be discussed in Saudi capital, not Saudi capital, sorry, in Jeddah, basically talks about already dictating the terms to one of the parties of the war and saying until it agrees to these proposals, there cannot be any settlement. This peculiar idea of peace is strange and which basically, of course, also seals the fate of this kind of exercise. And I think other peace proposals were rejected primarily because the US and the European Union, the Western powers which are vacuuming Ukraine did not want to end the war at this moment. They want, it seems, that the war should continue. And that is why they are continuously rejecting and pushing a particular peculiar idea, which is not acceptable to Russia. And so one should understand the larger political intentions behind the fate of the other peace proposals, which are there on the table. Well, Abdul, thank you so much for that analysis. We'll come back to you probably on Monday to get your evaluation of what really transpired in Jeddah. But as of now, it seems quite, I don't know the word, maybe curious, strange, intriguing, whatever, where there's a peace process without one of the parties involved. But thank you so much for talking to us. But do stay back because we are coming back to you for another story from West Asia. On August 4, 2020, a huge explosion rocked Beirut port. The damage was catastrophic. Over 230 people died, 6,500 people were injured, and the economic impact continues to haunt the country to this day. However, how many people, especially those in positions of power were held accountable? The answer is zero. To understand this failure, let's go back to Abdul. So welcome back, Abdul. Of course, a horrific incident that took place in 2020. The visuals at that time were stunning. And it's, I guess, one of those accidents, if you can call it an accident, which has had such a catastrophic impact, not just then, in terms of the lives lost, in terms of the injuries, but is actually, you know, had dealt a huge blow to the entire economy of the country, lasting even now, and very few incidents of that sort in recent memory. So three years down the line, why is there such lack of accountability for what happened considering its impact? This has primarily to do with the peculiar political culture, you can say, about Lebanon. Of course, the Lebanon is completely divided. The current Lebanon politics is completely divided between the parties, which are basically pro-external interventions, and there are parties which are completely against all kinds of intervention in the Lebanese politics. So, following the blast on August 4, 2020, there have been two inquiry commissions constituted. Both of them, if you see a section of the Lebanese political group, have basically released that both the inquiry commissions have been biased, politically biased in particular. And they have used the blast, the tragedy which happened and the aftermaths of it, basically to settle certain political scores, and to basically promote a particular narrative of politics. And that has been at the root of the disagreement which basically has led to the resignation of the first, basically dismissal of the first inquiry commission, and the second inquiry kind of, you can say, a complete stagnation in the process of the inquiry in the second inquiry commission. And one should, it is difficult to basically take a position at this moment, who is correct and who is not, but the primary reason behind the lag in which there has been no finality of setting in accountability, who has been responsible for the blast, and to kind of bring justice to the victims and their families is primarily because of this peculiar political situation, and this disagreement between all the political parties in Lebanon. And that is the only thing which can be said at this moment regarding the inquiry commission, and its inability to bring closer to the events of August 4, 2020. Ranabil, you make a very interesting point which is that the inquiry into a port blast is actually very closely connected to the extent of the political crisis in Lebanon itself. And it is very difficult to sort of separate the two. But ex-elaborating on that point a bit further, could you maybe take us through what is right now politically happening in the country. We do know that elections were held, but then no government was formed. The president's term expired. So there was at some point, I mean even now I believe there is neither a president nor a proper parliament, nor a prime minister or a properly elected prime minister. So what has been happening in recent times in the country politically? Well, the Lebanese parliament is meeting for maybe 16th time to elect president, which is the post of the president is vacant since October 2021. When Michael on the president, his term got over and he resigned. And so there is no president in Lebanon for a very long time now. And parliament has, despite the fact that there was elections, there were elections a year back. Those elections have created a hung parliament. And all the parties have failed to come to a consensus to form a government. And that government cannot be formed as per the Lebanese constitution until there is an election of the president. So the parties completely disagree on who should be the president. And every time there is a candidate decided the election either do not happen because the quorum is not fulfilled or when it happens the votes are so divided that nobody is elected. So that has been happening for almost a year and a half now in Lebanese politics. And that basically also hints towards the state of the Lebanese politics, which we were referring to when we were talking about the blast inquiry. That there is a group which basically thinks that it is necessary to form a government in Lebanon which basically carries forward quote unquote to its closer links with France or to US and basically pursue the policies they want to pursue in Lebanon.  And that basically is reflected in both the inability of the parliament to decide on a formal government in Lebanon and also many other matters including the inquiry of the blast because that also has links with the final outcome of the inquiry. So all these things basically, that's what this basically complicates the understanding of the politics in Lebanon because of the external, continued external interventions and the attempts to resist it and the complete division among the political groups in Lebanese politics. Thank you so much, Abdul. We'll hopefully come back to you when there are more developments in Lebanon as well. Thanks so much for speaking to us. And finally over the past few days, religious violence broke out in the northern Indian state of Haryana. The violence began with the religious procession taken out by the Hindu right-wing organization the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and this led to clashes. These clashes spread and at least five people died in related events. This incident is once again raised the key question of whether governments are doing enough to stop the activities of vigilante groups and mobs. Now these groups are often responsible for such incidents. We go to Pragya for more. Pragya, very shocking reports coming from the northern part of India. Of course the incidents in the new district being the focus but also reports of some of these incidents spreading to other parts as well, generally a rise in tension between religious groups. And as far as I understand this tradition of processions leading to violence has actually become quite common in the recent past. It is always there but it has actually become a bit common as well. So maybe could you explain first the dynamics of this specific region where this violence took place? Yeah Prashanshu, so in one large part of Haryana relatively prosperous state, you have one of the poorest districts of India and that is where the right-wing Hindu nationalist groups decided to take out a procession on a rather large scale and before the procession they released these video messages which were insulting and can be seen as also threatening by two figures in particular who are known, considered culprits of killings and lootings in that region known as Mivad. So the moment those videos were released, there was a count a series of counter messages on social media released by the locals of Mivad and this is something that the police, the administration, the state government actually should have picked up, even the center could have picked it up and it was being noticed on a wide scale but it wasn't. And so this procession was carried out whether those two figures arrived at the scene of the procession, the religious processions that they wanted to bring out it's not clear but if you don't know yet but the point is that the very fact that they would be there led to this kind of anger because they are part of these organized groups which are known to have state backing and they are armed and the people of Mivad are the most impoverished Muslim population of India, it's a predominantly Muslim district, there's a roughly a 60-40 breakup of Muslims and Hindus but where the Muslims live there are also Hindu religious sites, there's this temple there. People have been visiting that temple, it's a rather grand temple, this is the first time that there has been violence there, the result of that violence what the reports are telling us is not only that six people have died, there's been large-scale burning of vehicles over there and the tension spread over to nearby districts Gurgaon which is known as a millennium city which is where the India's information technology services exports take place from where cars are manufactured and so on so it's a deeply ironic thing that primordial identities are being stoked and you know people are being made to fight over things which are essentially within the ambit of law and order. Absolutely Praki that's a very interesting point you make the fact that and I think there are a number of people who over the years have commented that any instance of religious violence could be quickly controlled if the state takes a decisive measure and often it does not and that's what many critics are saying about this at this point but also I just wanted to talk about we discussed the violence in Manipur also some days ago when the Manipur state in northeastern India we discussed that as well and generally there is a sense that there has been an you know a larger increase in right-wing fundamentalism of the vigilante variety you know it's been going on for many years groups taking like you said taking law and order into their own hands and creating situations which are you know which are in various ways provocative then there's often a response from the other side at which point things just escalate and then you know all this violence happens.  Yeah Prashant it certainly seems to be escalating and you know you mentioned Manipur that's a state in the northeast where people have been two ethnic groups have been literally at war and saying that they are at war with each other over again an administrative issue an issue of whether of how one group should be represented in the constitution or not whether they should be entitled to certain benefits or not again this is something for the government governments in India have sorted out these problems for better or worse since the country gained independence so if people are warring if this is a trigger for you know armed battles and complete separation of people then yes I would say especially with Manipur with Mewat in Haryana which we just discussed happening at the same time and people dying definitely it anybody would be right to conclude that this is escalating and it is escalating it it's happening at a rate now for example just on the same day as Mewat erupted in violence there was a individual who shot at people a soldier who shot at people in a train and people are connecting that with the overall atmosphere in the country you know that this this man a railway protection force official might or might not have had a mental condition which you know made him do what he did which is essentially but he identified people for their religion and then he killed them later he shot a video which essentially included the political slogan of the ruling Hindu the right wing Hindu nationalist party so what are what are we supposed to conclude as journalists what are we supposed analysts supposed to conclude that yes it's escalating and it's escalating also because as the critics say what are the efforts being made to ensure this doesn't happen again and that you know there is no there is no solution which you're going to find only in policing we all know that in India India has to be socially managed there are conflicts which exist there are rifts which exist which you have to ensure don't keep widening and that's that's exactly what the government doesn't seem to be doing right thank you Pragya so much for I think giving us a larger picture analysis of what is happening this is just one incident but there have been many incidents similar incidents in recent times as well so important to take note thank you so much and that's all we have in today's episode we'll be back tomorrow with another episode bringing you news from across the world so do tune in for that as well go to our website peoplesdispatch.org where you can read many of these stories and also don't forget to hit that subscribe button


And I believe this is a really, really big injury. James Paxton underwent a microscopic lumbar disectomy with removal of a paradiscal cyst. Did it today. His approximate timeline to return to Major League Baseball Action is three to four months. Here's what I don't get about that until we get all the information. He hasn't pitched yet in spring training. I don't even know if he's down in Tampa, probably not yet. So this is an injury that was pre-existing. Why did you wait until February 5th to have the surgery? And now he's gonna wait for, I guess what the answer would be. June, they'll be in June return. The answer will be this. Well, we were treating a conservator to see if it got better and it didn't. Unless is this around the time where you get your physicals before the start of the season? Maybe it was something that was just discovered. Well, remember he had that problem on his upper buttocks or whatever last year. This sounds like that's what it's from. So again, I don't wanna play doctor here on the radio, but you can't say that's not an insignificant blow because remember down the stretch he was 10 and 0 last year. He was really good. But you're getting him back in June. So what does your rotation look like now? You've got Cole at the top of your rotation, right? Right, Tanaka. Tanaka. Severino. Now J-Hap and Jordan Montgomery. All right, I mean, you're okay. You're okay until June. I don't care.  Let's say they're 15 and 30 in June. You can't blame that on Paxton. You should be able to survive it. Montgomery is a guy that belongs in this rotation as a fifth starter. You should be able to survive it. You tell me he's out for the year. I could see you're a little concerned about it, but if he's pitching in June, which means you're gonna have him healthy for the entire second half of the season. And then you'll also have Domingo Hermon join the rotation. We don't, do we know? At some point, I mean, he's gonna, they've given a suspension, right? How long was it? A couple of months. And so he's gonna join somewhere in the middle of the season. You have Davey Garcia. But if the Yankees had plans to trade J-Hap, though, to get under that third luxury tax threshold now, you can't really trade J-Hap. Fans don't seem to care about that. I mean, the current roster seems to be pretty set. I mean, you gotta be able to- So Hermon, 63 games left in his suspension. So that's about two and a half months. If you're a baseball team, Michael, you have to factor in injuries to your starting rotation. It just makes sense. I mean, how often do you go through the entire year without somebody of your top five and the rotation going down and growing under the table is for a significant amount of time? So it just happens that it's gonna be at the start of the year.  Now you don't have the CC factor. Now, let me be honest, though. Your fourth starter would have been either Tanako or Severino. That's a big difference between J-Hap and your fifth starter would have been J-Hap and that's a big difference between J-Hap and Jordan Montgomery. With their offense, I get what you're saying. It shouldn't be something that derails them, but you can't say it's an insignificant injury. It's significant. Well, it's significant seems strong, Michael, because you're gonna lose guys in your rotation. You can't expect everybody to go out there and make 30 plus stars. You don't expect to lose them in spring training. But I'd rather lose them, I would rather lose them till June than find out in September. I don't have them for October and a playoff run. I mean, I think the Yankees, listen, you never know, obviously that the raise might actually be better. Maybe Toronto gets there a year earlier than we expect, but this is a team that I think is the odds-on favorite to win the division. You can't let, what would he have been? Your third starter? Who? Paxton. You guys- The second or third? The second or third starter, sit there and say significant means that it's gonna hurt you. You're not gonna be where you wanna be in June because of that loss. And I think that that's a little bit of hyperbole. I think that they can survive this easily. They've got an offense that should be able to win some games. If you told me he's not available for the post-season, then that's significant to me. If I have him pitching for me in June, I'm good. I think you're underselling it because if he misses half the season, right, three months. Well, that's not- But now you're extending it. But no, that's three to four months. So you- So three to four months from now, June 1st. But he's gotta get ready too. So let's just say a liberal interpretation what he's gonna be come back mid-season. Okay. So he's gonna miss 15 starts. So those 15 starts are now being taken up by Jordan Montgomery, who's a nice pitcher. He's not James Paxton when James Paxton's dealing. That's a big deal, I'm sorry. No, because how many starts are we talking about? 15. All right, that's exactly- They make 30 starts a season. What can Paxton be in those? What will the Yankees' record be with Paxton making all 15 of those starts? Christina, no. No, I know. 13 and two, 12 and three. All right, so 12 and three. So what would their record be with Montgomery making those 15 starts? Maybe nine and six. That's three games. Three games to be is not significant for a team that many expect to win over 100 games again. We had the same conversation when we thought Dee Dee was gonna be out for half the year. Did they miss them? That was- And that's an everyday player. There's two ways to look at this. There's, oh, here we go. The Yankees are gonna miss games.  And Don and I are hearing everyone get worried again. There's nothing to worry about. Then there's the flip side of here we go again. This is the first injury. What if it's like last year? What if all of a sudden you're going, well, this isn't that big a deal. And then before you know it, you turn around and you have many. Like just the fact that we're talking about an injury already that you hadn't heard of at all. Right, nobody stepped on a blade of grass yet. That's problematic in the sense that they're coming off a year where every possible injury seemed to happen. So it's not ideal, but I'm kind of with Don. I don't see this being something that derails the season.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. That's me coming at you with that right there. 2019 Panini Prism Football, five box Ram Team Break number four. This is mega box edition. I guess the rookie autographs Prism Neon Green are your mega box exclusives. There's an early bird special right here. So first 10 spots have a chance at an extra spot, that 16th spot, and then we'll double that list up. So let's use a new list right here. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Snake Eyes, name on top after two gets an extra spot. One, two, easy. Boom, Matthew Shearer, there you go. You are the early bird that catches the extra spot, the worm. So now there's 16 right here. Let's bring that list in there. So one spot, it gets you two random teams, no vet commons ship as you saw. So let's, oh, double up, oh, oh. And, new dice, let's roll it, randomize it five into three eight times for names and teams. One, two, and eighth and final time after eight we've got Raymond down to Brandon. Let's use this other tab here. All right, eight times four teams. Eighth and final time, good luck. We got the Niners down to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right, so, look at this. I haven't finished this part right here. Four, 2019, Panini prism football. It's just 2019, right? Yeah. All right, so, Raymond with the Niners, Thomas with the Vikings, Robert with the Seahawks, Matthew with the Ravens, Eric with the Broncos, Charles with the Saints, Jesse with the Panthers, Charles last spot, Mojo, Philadelphia Eagles, Seth, Jaguars, Cowboys, Chiefs, Charles Titans, Robert Bears, Matthew with the Rams, Scott with the Packers, Jesse with the Dolphins, Scott with the Bills, Eric with the Colts, Matthew with your early bird spot, the Lions, Thomas with the, Las Vegas, I guess it's Oakland Raiders for 2019 stuff, but Las Vegas Raiders now, Seth with the Bengals, Brandon with the Falcons, Raymond with the Chargers, Thomas with the Texans, Charles with the Cardinals, Brandon with the Browns, Thomas with the Giants, Brandon with the Redskins, Scott with the Jets and Steelers, Matthew, your other last, last one, your other early bird spot, Patriots and Brandon with the Buccaneers. Let's get all that on one screen. Feel free to trade if you'd like. So, we're gonna pause the video and we're gonna see if there's gonna be any trades when we come back. So, stick around. All right, and we are back. A little bit of trade chatter, but in the end, no deals were done. It's all good. Final printout, hot off the presses. Right here, there we go. Random team four. And I believe this is the last five boxes from that mega case that we opened up. All right, good luck, everybody. Please check the schedule for it. I just dropped it into the chat. Oh, nice, and a mosaic is full. All right, perfect. We can do one of those little packs, too. Help give away some spots for tomorrow. Nice, thank you, James. That'll happen. We'll get that, what time is it right now? We'll get to that in a few hours. All right, good luck, Corey. All right, we got Brett Rippin. Is our first autograph? Yes. So, I guess it's these green ones that are exclusive to this set, which I always, I like this pattern and design, that'll be for my rivals. The Broncos, that's gonna be for Eric M. Per usual for breaks like this. The veteran commons won't ship, but obviously rookies and parallels like this will ship. Rookies, of course, will ship. And that's considered a parallel, that silver, so that will ship as well. And inserts like this unstoppable will also ship. Right, that was box one, box two. This mega box is, crack me up.  I'm a Raiders fan, James Johnson. It'll be interesting to see how this season goes. I got a lot of weapons on the team, a lot of new young weapons on the team for Derek Carr. It'll be good for him to see what he can do with that. Got a good random, got a good random assortment of defensive players as well. That's what the Raiders really need to work on. This is Patrick Goodwin's team right here. There's Caleb Wilson, that's a catch. Nick Stover, that is very optimistic, thank you. Schedule is in, you gotta read the schedule, Corey. That'll probably answer your question about Noir. There's Miles Boykin. Please read that schedule, folks. It's in the chat, I'll be frequently dropping that so you're up to date on what's happening here. Nick Stover was saying that Raiders will win a, he's a Bares fan, but he's saying Raiders will win a Super Bowl in the next three, four years. That was very optimistic, but that would make me very happy. I think it's a big test for Derek Carr. I think he's finally got some consistency in coaching, you know, and coordinators and whatnot, because he's had a few in his career, many in his career. So that can't really help. Now he's got some weapons, he's got a good running game. The defense is a problem, you know, so they've certainly got to improve there. And then just put, you know, four quarters of the game together, what's the old coaches' cliches? They need all facets, offense, defense, and special teams to work together for four full quarters and then try to beat Patrick Mahomes for the next 15 years or something like that, and go from there. So we'll see. But good news is the Raiders have been, since Gruden came aboard, they've deconstructed the team and now they're reconstructing the team. You know, and that meant getting rid of guys like Clio Mack, but it was a full tear down and rebuild. So I don't know, I'm optimistic, Super Bowl. And I feel like Mahomes will win a Super Bowl, another one in the next three or four years. All right. And there's Anthony Johnson, that's a catch. That's for the Buccaneers, that'll be for Brandon Walker. James is in DC, so the skins are about to be re, are you a red skins fan? If you are, do you have a preference, we were talking about this earlier, you have a preference on what the team name will be? A realistic team name? Oh, you're not, okay. Let me pull that Kyler Murray on. I know that's not a silver, but it was rookie partisan. There's Darius Geis for the newly renamed team. We don't know what the red skin's gonna turn into. The Washington Trumps. What if it just changed with the president every year? Just whoever the president is, the name just changes. I'd like to see, like, and I mentioned this before, but I'd like to see sort of an old historical kind of name, like the senators, right? This is basically what I'm thinking of. I know those are baseball team names, but that has history with the district, so I think that'd be kind of cool. Ooh, that's interesting. Change the city name to DC, something or other.  DC Sentinels. Yeah, actually that's nice, that's one I haven't heard. That sounds kind of cool. There's Devin Bush, nice Steelers. That'll be for Scott and the Steelers. Ben Clark, who hails from down under. I like the alliteration there. Washington Wombats. NFL just cornering the, Dance Nighter cornering that Australian NFL market. There's Lance Johnson. That's for the Texans. Charles says, figure out what the most used high school football name is and change to that, so it fits in. That sounds boring. When they have an opportunity to really rebrand, I would assume it's some bird or a cat. There's Drew Locke Silver, nice. That'll go to the Broncos, my rivals. I'm nervous about the, see, the AFC West is gonna get tough real quick. That's why I was, so I'm saying it's optimistic for the Raiders. They gotta, I mean, who knows? He's got weapons too. They've got a good defense already. I mean, Patrick Mahomes is gonna be tough to beat. Yeah, Sean, we do personal seven nights a week. Jason's just snacking on some dinner really quick and then he'll be back live. How do I think Joe Burrow will do in his first season with the Bengals? Poorly. It's not a very good team there, right? I think he might individually do well at times, you know, which I think will be, which will be good. But even Kyler Murray struggled. Kyler Murray struggled, you know? Usually those number one picks are going to bad teams, so it can be tough for those quarterbacks. He's gonna end up like RG three. Yeah, I don't know. Hopefully the short, short that offensive line maybe. All right, and the last box, we got Darwin Thompson. Darksiders was just saying about the Chiefs. He doesn't see any other teams really coming out of the AFC until Mahomes and Lamar Jackson are out. I don't know, you could get lucky one year. Joe Flacco won a Super Bowl against a lot of odds. Eli Manning won two. There's Tyler Eiffert speaking of the Bengals. That goes to Seth. Long-term though, listen, if the Bengals play their card drive, they might have a franchise quarterback for the next, you know, 10, 15 years. And I mean, that would be huge. And that, Josh Jacobs at the back, that my friends is that. That was a quick little five box random team break of prism football. We haven't done a football break in a minute or two. So good to chat about that. Random team number four in the books on a Thursday. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time on jaspyscasebreaks.com.


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel Critical Overlord here, talking about Halloween ends in this video here again today, going over the supernatural topic surrounding Michael Myers. Now should Michael Myers be supernatural going into Halloween ends and should that be something I think gets revealed? Me personally? No, I don't want to see anything like that again. I would rather them continue to stick to what they've been telling us they were trying to do when they set out to do this trilogy, which is go back to what John Carpenter's original iteration of Michael Myers was intended to be. Although again, I see where many people are coming from how they kind of have already stepped out of that with what they depicted in Halloween kills. So you might as well make him supernatural or give some supernatural background. That's how some people think and I can again understand where you're coming from because of the stuff that he did endure and managed to survive at the end of kills when he was attacked by that mob. A lot of that while I will say that's something that someone can survive. It's just that the way in which is being depicted and how it's happening one after the next and this man is still alive. It's like, okay, you're losing some of your target audience with that depiction of how you're saying he's not supernatural, especially considering I think at the at one point prior to that, Karen had stepped on the man's neck and he was still just fine after that. So I get it if you think that they should just make him supernatural again, given how they depicted him in kills, but I'm like, you know, just just rock with it. Just continue to say he's not supernatural and rock with it. But I did want to go over what somebody over on Reddit shout out to you called imagery if you're listening to this had to say about them wanting to see a supernatural explanation in Halloween ends and get your guys's thoughts on this. So they said they wanted supernatural explanation in Halloween ends for why Michael is so powerful. They said we should come to see that Michael Myers is possessed by real evil, but it's never revealed to us whether it's the devil himself, a legion or some or one single demon so that even though we're given some context to his nature, he remains an enigma. Now I like their thought process there with that ultimately. You can tell us he's supernatural, but you're not explaining the source of it like how Halloween kills not kills, but Halloween six, the curse of Michael Myers tried to do. And I think they, it was pretty much a mess, honestly, Halloween since the curse of Michael Myers and how it executed trying to give an explanation pretty lackluster to me. And I know for a lot of others, they thought it was lackluster to, but the person continues on to say one thing we can confirm is that every time Michael Myers dies, he gets stronger. That's why when Frank Hawkins rammed Michael Myers or ran Michael Myers over with the squad vehicle in Halloween 2018, it's shown to us that Frank had actually succeeded in killing Michael. However, we soon discovered that Michael's evil has always had the ability to jump from body to body momentarily during his deaths. This is how Dr. Sartain got possessed by evil in the first place. They're going into a theory at this point. They said we're revealed that this is why Sartain stabs Hawkins in the neck contrary to the belief that it was due to his morbid obsession with the mystery of the shape. So I kind of like that, that type of perception they have that Hawkins wasn't obsessed as much as he was possessed by whatever evil had overtaken Michael.  It's disclosed to us that Michael will always resurrect somehow some way. The deeper metaphor here is that evil is eternal and cannot be killed. But what if we also discover that anything Michael picks up can too become an extension of his evil? His mask or knife, whatever he touches, this would bring more clarity to the final shot of Halloween 2018. When we see Allison holding the knife and the final shot of Halloween kills. When we see Laurie holding the knife or the bloodthirsty town people killing an innocent man, what the shape comes into contact with ultimately becomes corrupted. Again, I'm liking their thought process so far, even though I'm not someone who would like to see this, I like the thought process.  So after the townspeople massacred Michael at the end of Halloween kills, his soul wandered into Karen. I think it would be a bold and risky explanation if Karen was the lone killer that slaughters all the townspeople and not Michael as we were tricked into believing we only saw it as Michael doing the killings because that was what Karen was seeing. Shortly thereafter, Michael fully recovers his strength to reanimate his original body. He then hunts down Karen and kills her. Now some wishful thinking for my ideal ending is that Michael eventually kills Laurie at the epic showdown in the kitchen from the trailer. As he's stabbing her, Laurie removes the mask which Allison later finds and puts on. The final act should be a masked Allison stalking Michael to avenge Laurie.  The movie then concludes with Allison wearing Michael's mask and holding Michael's knife. The circle, the cycle never stops, credits roll, the main theme, halloween ends. They go on to say the message of the franchise should be the unshakable and uncomfortable feeling that evil is deceptive and it is forever. It's an ending that keeps you guessing whether Allison is now entirely possessed by the ghosts of Michael Myers or is he dead at last. I'll leave a link to this discussion they put on Reddit down in the description. What do you guys think about this? Again, I'm not saying I agree with, you know, doing this. I don't want to see this. I am intrigued though by the thought process behind this and how if they were to go in a supernatural route, I definitely would prefer it's done in a manner where you still have so many question marks surrounding the character of Michael Myers. You're not telling us it's it's source. You're not telling us it's related to the source of thorn.  You're not telling us that he is or possessed by a specific demon. You're not telling us all the specifics. You tell us just enough to establish that it's supernatural, but you still, can I guess in a way respect what Michael Myers was or John Carpenter set out for him to be as far back as that original movie again, I would prefer they don't really touch on it at all. But if they were to touch on it, this is this is along the lines of what I think I would prefer. If you have to dive back into that supernatural stuff and give some type of minor explanation, I'm all for that. As long as a lot is still left up in the air. So that way it doesn't completely step on and add to any, you know, add a lot of controversy or add a lot of confusion to the story that's been told so far. And again, end up being like another curse of Michael Myers, where a lot of stuff for a lot of people doesn't make sense, leave a lot of stuff unanswered and, you know, just becomes this big. Well, what about this? What about that? If you're evil enough vague and just say enough that's minor to get people understood of what direction you're trying to go in. That's probably best instead of just diving all the way into a complete full 100% answer of what's wrong with Michael Myers and why he is the way he is. But again, I prefer they don't touch on the supernatural stuff at all. But let me know what you think about that down in the comment section below. If you haven't already, of course, make sure you subscribe, turn on post notifications. You never miss a video in the description. I'll have links to all my social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can message me there. And of course, let me know if there are any movies, news or views like me to cover in the future. And with all that in mind, guys, I will see you in the next video.