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And now, let's get back to the tales of the Texas Rangers. And now, from the piles of the Texas Rangers, the case called Address Unknown. It is just before noon on a hot day in August 1940. In the Big Bend country of Texas, 40 miles northeast of the Mexican border, a poorly-dressed woman trudges along a dirt road. With one hand, she leads a four-year-old boy. In the other, she carries a cheap cardboard suitcase. How far we gotta walk, Mama?  Now you come on, Tommy. Give me a hand. I'm hungry. Oh, I bet y'all at that. I reckon I could use a bite of food myself. What we got to eat, Mama? We'll go over across the road to set under that tree. Give us a little bit of shade anyhow. And we'll use that old flat rock for a table. What we got to eat? Well, it sounds good. What? Sandwiches. We got some nice side meat. I want peanut butter. Tomorrow, Tommy, when we get to Aunt Josie's, we'd better make it too thirsty to dine on this hot sun. I want a drink, Mama. Well, I ain't gotten on Tommy left the house so fast this morning. I clean forgot about bringing a jar of water. But I'm thirsty. Tommy, we're just gonna have to...  I'm thirsty. Tommy, I need to see that house down the road. Uh-huh. Well, you just walk down there and ask them if they got a tin can. They can give you some water. It's so far. Well, I'll be watching you. Now go long now. All right, Mama. Mind you don't stop to play now. Just get the water and bring it right back. All right, Mama.  My mother. My sure, Sonny. Where's she at? Over there. Back on the road? Uh-huh. We're going to Aunt Josie's. Is that so? Now, what's your name, Sonny? Tommy. Well, Tommy, you come right on out back and we'll see what we can do about getting you some water. We got chickens and a horse. Yeah, now. What kind of horse is he? His name's Robin. Robin and Tommy, huh? Yeah, I bet you make quite a pair. Now, here's a cup full of water for you. There. Now, I reckon we can put the water for your mama in this pail here. You and your mama live around here, Tommy, do you? Now, we live home. Huh? Uh-huh. There you are. Now, there. You want some more water? Uh-uh.   Come on now, Tommy. Mom and me are on the car this morning. Is that so? Did you come first? I don't know. In you go, Tommy. Now, slide all the way across. Now, we just put this pail in the middle here. Headed a long time, too. Where'd you leave your mama? Over there. We got side meat sandwiches. But they're good, too. Your face looks funny. Huh? Oh. You mean my whiskers, huh? Well, that's what happens when you don't shave for a couple of days. I don't got no whiskers. You'll get whiskers soon enough, Tommy. And when you do, you wish you didn't have them. This where you left your mom? Uh-huh. All right. Come on, Tommy. Come on. There. There we are. My mama is here. Where's my mama? Oh, she's around there somewhere. Suitcase, lunch, you're sitting there. Where's my mama? No, no, no, Tommy. She'll probably be right back in a minute. I'll give her a call. Let her know that we're here. Lady! Oh, lady! I want my mama! Lady, I got your little boy here. Did half an hour for the boy's mother to appear. He took Tommy back to his house. Then he phoned Texas Ranger Company headquarters, located some 30 miles to the north. Rangers Jace Pearson and Clay Morgan arrived an hour later. They went with the rancher and the boy to the spot where the missing woman had last been seen. There, Ranger. Suitcase, lunch, spread out on that they're off. Mine just can't figure it. Everything's gonna be all right. Oh, my mama. What's your other name, Tommy? Tell me what. Tommy. Oh, that's not run away. Hey, take a look around. See if you can find anything. Show it, Jace. What's that? Oh, that's my badge. What's it for? Well, uh, where? Tommy, where's your daddy? Did he come with you? My daddy's in heaven. I see. Where do you live, Tommy? Home. I don't know if it'll help any, Ranger. But he said they lived in the place where there were chickens and they have a horse named Robin. Uh-huh. Well, did you walk over here from your house, Tommy? Yeah. We got thirsty. He said they rode in a car this morning. Well, I'd have got to lift Parkway. Where were you going, Tommy? To Aunt Sophie's. Jace! Now, what is it, Clay? Come on over here a second. Can I go with you? Oh, you stay here, Tommy. I'll be right back. Yeah, Tommy, uh, you stay here with me. And if you're real good, I'll let you ride one of my horse. What's your fine? Some tracks here, lead into the brush. Yeah, let's see where they go. I figured a woman could have run off and left the kid. Maybe. Doesn't seem likely she'd take off into the brush like this. Yeah, you're probably right. She left her suitcase, too, or she... Hey, Jace, look at that. Yeah, another set of tracks coming in at an angle. Much heavier than the ones we've been following. Could have been a man. Looks like he was moving pretty fast, too. Come on. Tracks are starting to overlap. Maybe the second set was made by somebody coming along after the woman already passed. No path going through here. Out if anybody'd come this way unless he had some special reason. Yeah, I wonder why... Clay. Huh? Over there to the left. All that torn brush piled up. Looks like it's covering something. Let's go have a look. And pull the brush aside. Yeah. Here she is, Jace. Dead? Yeah, strangled. Beaten up first. Pretty powerful man from the look of those marks on her face and throat. There's a little purse in the pocket of her dress. Anything in it? $12 and a comb. I reckon we can rule out robbery. Uh-huh.  It's times like this when I wish I'd never seen a badge. Are we going to tell him about this? I can't for a while. The thing we have to do is keep his mind off his mother until we find out more about him. I guess you're right. Well, it looks, Jace, to kill it didn't go any further into the brush.  Let's see if we can pick up his trail. We found the trail. The tracks came out on the road 50 feet from where the dead woman's suitcase had been left. We checked the suitcase without finding any identification. Then we called for the justice of the peace and I waited while Clay took Tommy Wilkes back to our headquarters. After the JP arrived, we took the woman's body into town. It was 4.30 when I walked into the office where Clay was talking to Tommy. All right, Tommy, you just play with these while I go and talk to Major Pearson for a minute. Hi. How are you doing? Been trying to keep him occupied. Maybe those handcuffs will keep him busy for a while. That's the one you didn't give me your pistol. Maybe you think he didn't ask for it. He's a swell kid, Jace, but I'm worn out. He's got more energy than a two-year-old Bobcat. Did you have him photographed? Yeah, we had to practically chain him down to keep him still. See, you got him some ice cream. Yeah, he was hungry. He's already eaten over half of it. Come, you got so much. I tried to get a pint. All they had left was corks. Find out any more about his family? No, maybe you better have a try at it. Mm-hmm. How's everything, Tommy? Fine. You just sit and talk a while, huh? Can I have some ice cream? Yeah, I think you had enough, Tommy. Oh, it's some ice cream. Well, all right. Clay, put a little more ice cream in that dish. Sure. Tommy, you said you were going to your Aunt Josie's. Uh-huh. Here you are, Tommy. Will you fix it for me? What's he mean? He likes it stirred up. Oh, need it unless it's like soup. All right. Now, let's see. You like ice cream? Yeah, sometimes. Here you are, Tommy. Is that better? Uh-huh. Tommy, did you ever go to your Aunt Josie's before? Uh-uh. How long were you and your mama walking on the road? I don't know. Did you eat breakfast at home this morning? Uh-huh. That could narrow down our area some, just... Yeah. Tommy, when did you... Wait a second.  Here, I'll wipe it. Oh, what's the matter? It hurts. Where? Here. Just let me pull that sleeve back and take a look. Hey, that's a ugly-looking black and blue mark. Don't you get this mark on your arm, Tommy? George did it. Who's George? Is he your brother? No, he's George. Where does he live? At our house. Why'd you do it, Tommy? He said I was bad. I wasn't bad. Is George a little boy or a man? You tired, Tommy? I want my mama to put me to bed. We'll put you to bed, Tommy. Nice, big bed. I want my mama.  Will you play? Sure. Come on, Tommy. Let's go. You gonna take me to bed now? Sure. I want my mama to put me to bed. Our play was putting Tommy to bed. I checked by phone with the two post offices within a 30-mile radius of the spot where Tommy's mother had been killed. Nobody but the name of Wilkes was listed in the entire area. We sent Tommy's picture to all newspapers in the vicinity. The next morning, Clay and I took Tommy in the car and started combing the countryside in the hope that he would recognize some landmark. By noon, we'd accomplished nothing. You getting a little hungry, Tommy? Yeah. We'll see if we can't find some kind of store soon. We'll all have lunch, huh? Can I have peanut butter? Yeah, if you want. Mama gives me peanut butter at home. I don't like side meat sandwiches. Mm-hmm. You like side meat? Oh, there's Pedro. Who? Pedro. He comes to see George. You mean that man on the burrow we just passed? Yeah. I'll back up. Are you sure you know him? He's Pedro. Hey, senior, hold up a minute. Call me, senior. Yeah, am I coming back here? Come out here, Tommy. That's a boy.  Your name, Pedro? Pedro Sanchez.  No, I never see him before. Pedro? Just a minute, sir. He says he knows you. Told us your name was Pedro. Sir, many people have that name. I know you, Pedro. Oh, little boy, you make a mistake. Maybe it's the mustache you make him think he know me. You sure you don't know the boy? Maybe he's seen me somewhere, senior, but I don't remember him. Tommy here says you've been to his house. Says you visited somebody there by the name of George. George? No, senior. This little boy, he made a mistake. You know how it is with these small ones. Sometimes they have a large imagination. You live near here, Pedro? Yes. Maybe seven, eight miles by the river. On the border? Yes. All right. Sorry, we troubled you. Any time, senores. Any time at all. Oh, by the way, is that general store down the road still open? Maria Store? Oh, yes. It's open. Thanks. De nada. Adios, senores. Arre, colchita. Arre. Bye, Pedro. Tommy, you sure that's the man who come to see George? He comes to our house and sits at the table and talks to George. I don't know. What do you make of it, George? Maybe a mistake or Tommy's imagination. Then again, it's just possible our friend Pedro is lying. In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jase Pearson. Have you ever left home, locked the door behind you and had the uneasy feeling that you left a burning cigarette behind? Next time, you'd better go back and check because every 20 seconds throughout the year, a fire breaks out in the United States through carelessness.  Protect your home from fire by following these simple safety precautions. Don't smoke in bed or throw away lighted cigarettes. Clean out closets, attics, basements, and any place or old newspapers, magazines, and inflammable materials are liable to accumulate. Repair defective electric equipment and replace worn or frayed wiring. Use cleaning fluids that won't burn and be careful with matches. Keep them out of the reach of children. Fires in the home, your home, can and must be prevented. Remember, don't gamble with fire, the odds are against you. And now back to the Tales of the Texas Rangers. We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and our authentic story, Address Unknown. After we left Pedro, we drove down to Maria's general store. We took Tommy inside with us. One corner, two men sat playing checkers and arguing in low voices. A large woman sat behind the counter, swatting as many flies as she could reach from where she was sitting. Buenas dias, señores.  Buenas dias, señora. Heat comes over the flies. To kill one fly, you get tanned in his place. We like to get some lunch. See, señores, I have some cheese in the ice box. If you got the time, I can make chili tacos. How about peanut butter? See, see, I get it. One bottle of peanut butter. Anything else, señores? Yeah, a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk. Oh, see. Here's the bread and peanut butter. I get the milk in a minute. Her name's Maria. What'd you say, Tommy? Her name's Maria. You remember my name? You know this boy, señora? Oh, see, he comes here sometimes with his mother. Tommy, suppose you go with that candy case and pick out something you want. We'll be right over. You know where this Mrs. Wilkes lives? Wilkes? There's a senora, the senora who bring a little boy here. She's not named Wilkes. Her name's Collins. Collins? Are you sure that's her name? That's what she calls herself, señores. That's what I call her. You know where her place is?  After maybe half a mile you come to her house. Is she and the little boy the only ones who live there? Oh, no. She's your sugar husband. Husband? His name's George, by any chance? Yeah, George Collins. He's the one. He come here sometimes to drink beer. Hmm, sounds like Tommy's mother must have remarried. Mm-hmm. And look at that bruise on Tommy's arm. I'd say George Collins isn't a very affectionate stepfather. Senora, do you know a man named Pedro Sanchez? Oh, see? He was here today just a little while ago. Have you ever seen him with George Collins? Well, sometimes they are together here drinking beer. Thanks. Let's get Tommy, Clay. We're going to pay George Collins a visit. We went to the Collins house. It was empty. We guessed that nobody'd been there that day. We're pretty sure now that George Collins was involved in his wife's murder. But before we could look for him, we had to get Tommy taken care of for the night. On the way back to town, we radioed Austin for a make on Collins. After we made arrangements for Tommy, we went to headquarters and found a mug shot of Collins that had come in on the wire photo together with his record. He'd served a two-year sentence for car theft. Our problem was to find him. We had an idea that Pedro Sanchez, the man we'd met that morning, knew more than he'd told us. After getting directions to his place from the general store, we took horses and started out. It was nearly eleven that night when we rode along the bank of the river and started up a rocky slope. That should be it, Chase, up there near the top. I'll still be awake. Leonard's burning in his window. Why do you figure he lied to us this morning? The only thing I can think of, he knows where Collins is and doesn't want us to know. Nice view of the river from here. Yeah, a little cooler, too. Whoa. Whoa, Charlie. Whoa, dad. Whoa, boy. Chase, you reckon Collins is hiding out up here with Sanchez? Maybe. I'm going to take this long to find out. Don't make so much noise. You want to have some hope. Oh. Can we come in, Pedro? Yes, yes. Come in, señores. Can we wake you up? Yes. I was sleeping. Are you lantern lit? I must have got to pull it out. Maybe if I move it from the windy table, we can see better. Are you expecting somebody? Me? No, sir. I want to give you that idea. I kind of thought that lantern in the window might be some sort of signal. Sí, señor. You make a mistake. Come over here by the light, Pedro. Look. Do you recognize the man in this picture? No, señor. You should. We understand he's a good friend of yours. His name is George Collins. George Collins? I don't know such a man I never seen before in my life. Why, you look so at me, señores. I tell the truth. You always tell the truth, Pedro? She always. This morning you said you didn't know the little boy we had with us. He's George Collins' stepson. It's the truth, señores. You make a mistake. I don't know him and I never see this George Collins. Maria, but the general store says you have.  Say, if anybody's lying, it's you, Pedro. Señor, I know her. Are you sure that lantern in the window wasn't a signal for Collins? No, señor. Then put it back in the window, Pedro. All right, señor. Then go out and move the horses, Clay. Collins is going to show up. We don't want him to know he's got a reception committee. I'm sleepy, señor. It's how much longer I got to sit and wait. Your Collins gets here. Señor, I tell you, this Collins is not common. You're wasting your time. Maybe sure. Hold it, Clay. Somebody's coming. Yeah. When he comes, I'll get the door. Don't you make a sound, Pedro. Are you here? Señor, I'm here. Put down that chair, Pedro! This little old chap. I got his shoulder still breathing, though. Must have just knocked him out.  It's not Collins. Well, then who is it? Wait a minute. He must have been carrying this package. Heroine. Pretty good-sized batch of it. So that's Pedro's racket. Narcotics. Where's Collins fitting to this deal? Why'd Pedro lie about him? I don't know. But I think Pedro's going to give us the answer. We took Pedro and the man we'd shot back to town. After we put the wounded man in the hospital, we drove Pedro to headquarters and began asking him questions. His calmness had us puzzled. We want to know why you lied to us about Collins, Pedro. I have nothing to say. Is Collins mixed up in this narcotics racket with you? Why do you ask me questions, Señor? Send me to jail. I stayed there five years. How do you know it's only five years? I got a friend. First time he got caught, he'd go to jail. Five years. Where's Collins, Pedro? I don't know. Now, look. Wait a minute, Clay. I've got an idea why Pedro isn't talking. Maybe he thinks as soon as he gets out of jail, he'll be able to go right back into the narcotics business. And he figures Collins will be waiting for him. Is that right, Pedro? I've got nothing to say. Dave, that's what you think. You're wrong. Because when we catch Collins, he's going to be held for murder. Murder? What do you mean? I'm pretty sure Collins killed his wife. Sooner or later, we'll find him, Pedro. And when we do, you'll go on trial with him. Me? I don't know what to do with the killing. You've got plenty to do with it. If you know where Collins is, then won't tell us. Oh, senior, you've got to believe me. I didn't know he's mixed up in this. You want to tell us what you do know he's mixed up in? See, senior Collins is the man I've been working for. When the stuff come from Mexico always before I take it to his house. Where were we supposed to take it this time? Two days ago, senior Collins come and he say he must go away. He say I have to bring the stuff to him in San Antonio, to a hotel there. Which one? The Park Hotel. Senior, I've got nothing to do with this killing. You've got to believe me. Come on, Clay, let's lock our friend up and get moving. It's a long drive to San Antonio. We reached San Antonio at 10 that morning. The Park Hotel was a run-down establishment that advertised rooms from a dollar up. The desk clerk told us Collins had left word that if anyone came for him, he could be found in a barber shop down the street. We left the hotel and started looking for it. That must be it down there, Jayce. It's the only barber shop in this block. How do you want to work it? We go in and get him? Probably better wait until Clay, the man coming out of the barber shop. That's Collins all right. Jayce, he sees us. He's running. Come on. He's ducking into that restaurant. Get around to the rear entrance, Clay. I'll go in the front. All right. Be careful, Jayce. Yeah. You'll come no closer, Ranger. Drop that gun, Collins. You're going to make me? There's a lot of people in here, Ranger. You wouldn't want me to get hurt, would you? Now look, Collins. I'm no closer. You're doing our start shooting and I don't care who I hit. You've got an narcotics and a murder rap already. You want to make it worse? How can I make it worse? I got nothing to lose. Now I'm going through this kitchen door. Don't try to come after me unless you want someone out there to get hurt. Drive him, Clay! You lousy...  Come on, Collins. You were going on out the back. Let's keep right on going. It's all her fault. She shouldn't have poked her nose in my business.  Come on. Try that little brat's and her husband's going to learn something bad from me. Since you was going to the cops... Is that why you killed her, Collins? I had to call a force. She ran away.  Crazy woman. Come on. Keep moving. Great pushing. I think it's the mistake I ever made was marrying her. I never should have married her. That's one thing we agree on, Collins.  In just a moment, we will tell you the results of the case you have just heard. Today, two new shows join the NBC Entertainment lineup. Next on this station, you'll hear The Chase. And then stay tuned for your all favorite, The First Nighter with Barbara Lutty and Olin Suley, the original stars of the series. Later today, it's Theater Guild on the Air. Listen to this preview of today's show. We haven't far to go. If we can just reach the longboat, we'll have a chance. Wait. There's someone in the shadows. Good morning, Mr. Van Viten and my dear young lady. I'm sorry to be such a spoil sport, but you see, it's quite impossible to escape from my ship. And if you move one step closer to the longboat, I shall be forced to shoot you both. This is Margaret Phillips. You have just heard a scene from The Seawolf, a dramatic production in which I have the pleasure to co-star with Barbara Scarlet from Burgess Narratives. This evening on Theater Guild on the Air, an NBC. Hear The Seawolf today on Theater Guild on the Air. And now, back to the conclusion of today's tales of the Texas Rangers. And now, here are the results of the case you have just heard. Tommy Wilkes was taken to the home of his aunt, who identified him through a newspaper picture. George Collins revealed the two other men who completed the narcotics ring. They were picked up by Texas Rangers, and all four men involved were given prescribed jail terms. George Collins was found guilty of murder with malice and the sentence to life imprisonment at Huntsville. Joel McCray and another authentic re-enactment of a case from the files of The Texas Rangers. It will soon be seen in San Francisco's story, a Warner Brothers release. The cast included Tony Barrett, Lillian Bias, Dick Beals, Leo Curley, Herb Ellis, and Don Diamond. Technical advisor was Captain M.T. Lone Wolf-Gonzalez of The Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted by Charles E. Israel, and the program was produced and directed by Stacey Peach. Hal Gibney speaking. Next, it's The Chase on NBC.


I'm David from Teen Gaming Club, I'm here with a Game of Thrones the board game strategy guide. I have a couple friends I play the board game with and they were having trouble learning the strategy of the board game. Also I couldn't really find any strategy guides on YouTube for it, only Let's Plays and this is not Let's Play, let's be clear with that it's just the strategy of the game not really how to play it. Hey guys this is the starting board, it's all set up. You have the martels right in there down in Dorne, the Tyrells, the Baratheons, the Lannisters, the Greyjoys, and the Starks. Here is the starting position for those groups, the Baratheon is the yellow stag, the Lannister is the red, the white grey piece is the Starks, the piece with the golden sun on it is the martels, the squid on black is the Greyjoys, and the rose on green is the Tyrells. Starting with the martels, they start down in the south where there is four main castles you have the one at Sunspear, the one at Yornwood, the one at Starfall, and the one at Old Town. As you can see here they are surrounded pretty much by the Tyrells and the Baratheons, they can't really move that far without having a conflict with them. Starting down here the first thing I would do is capture Starfall in Yornwood and try and muster up a force so you could take on and hold back the forces of Tyrell and Baratheon. Also I try and get your ship out of the Sea of Dorne down into the East Summer Sea to make it more difficult for the Baratheons to come down and invade. In the early turns you will mainly be mustering so you won't do much, you will probably have a couple battles with the Tyrells and the Baratheons but not much besides that. Most of the castles are farther north as you can see. So you really have to make a push later in the game to get those. The Tyrells start up in Highgarden. Their main problem is they are surrounded. To the south you have the Martells, to the east you have the Baratheons and just north of them you have the Lannisters. You have to be very warlike or very defensive to play this part. Because you are surrounded and you have very few castles in the area you really have to move out. Most likely to the north to get this row of castles over here or possibly to the south capturing Old Town, Starfall, Yornwood, Sunspear and Storm's End as well as the Reach.  So you can have very large armies because of all the barrels in the region, all the supply you have. The Baratheons need to have an alliance early on. They are also going to be bombarded from all sides. You have the Starks just north of them, the Martells just south of them, the Tyrells and Lannisters to their west. There's not many castles but there's a fair enough amount that you could capture and start mustering forces. The Storm's End, the Reach, King's Landing, Crack Claw Point and the Erie nearby as well as your starting location at Dragonstone. You really need to start off with an alliance with either Stark or Martell or else and then have to be at war with the other one. If you can capture the five castles along the coast plus one more then you can win. Also the Baratheons have very little supplies nearby. They have to go far to get supplies to muster larger armies. Next we have the Lannisters over at Lannisport. They have a fair number of castles and strongholds around them and a fair amount of supplies just to their south but again just like the Baratheons they are surrounded. Greyjoy's right at their door as well as the Tyrells in their south. Also the Baratheons can be a problem if they try and go in across to grab Heron Hall and River Ronten the game. For them it's best to make an alliance with either the Greyjoy's or the Tyrells so they just have a little bit of a buffer zone and a little bit of help in combating the others. Greyjoy's have the advantage of being an island and can have a very strong navy but you cannot depend on this navy. You have to have a strong army to go with it. Their best tactic is to gain the entire west coast of the board game with their ships. Gain all this season in the west so they can move people from their hub here at Pike, move large armies across the board very quickly into good locations to get very key strongholds such as you can take Lannisport, Old Town, High Garden and even White Run. They again have very few supplies nearby and really have to get off that island quickly because if not the surrounding area can be filled up with strong armies and they are stuck there for the rest of the game and doomed to lose. Alliance with the Lannisters or Starks could be there helpful for them and also help them gain the neck. The Starks have a huge problem. They're stuck up in the north and if someone takes Moat Kylan then they can be stuck up there all game. Their first move almost always has to be move all their troops available down in here to gain away into the neck. If not they can be stuck up there all game and again just like the Greyjoys doomed to lose. Again they should make an alliance with either Pike and the Greyjoys or Dragonstone and the Baratheons. Both could help them greatly. The one perk that the Starks have is they have ports on both sides. They're the only ones that can muster ships on both sides of Westeros so they can be a huge naval power if they want to be and that could really help them get out if they do get stuck with a large opposing army in Moat Kylan. Now to the influence tracks. The Iron Throne track is key to hold. Anyone who holds it can have a huge position as the first person to go which always helps because it's the difference between getting attacked and being the attacker which can be huge in many battles especially if you have the plus one special martial order. Moving down to Fiefdoms it's not key to have it unless you're going to be extremely war like or extremely defensive. In that case you're really going to want to be high on it. Also holding the sword does give you that extra perk of plus one in battle. The Messenger Raven track or the King's Court track I don't feel as if it's that as necessary the Messenger Raven itself doesn't have a great perk to it but you really do need those stars to get those special orders which do really help so for them I'd say you don't need to throw all your power tokens into it but just try not to be one of the last two that get stuck with no special orders. The cards in this game are very important and can really help a lot in battle. For the Martell family your better cards are not the ones with the higher points the higher combat strength they're the ones down here that have the really good text abilities especially the leader of your family Doran Martell I think that's how you pronounce his name with awesome ability to immediately move your opponent to the bottom of an influence track of your choice that can devastate them. Also especially when you're holding a stronghold Irene Martell if you are defending and lose the combat your opponent may not move their units into the battle area they must return from the area which they marched your own units must retreat that is huge because that keeps them out and especially if you hire them on the uh Iron Throne influence track you can move in again before they can the next turn. That's huge I think these are some of the better cards in the game. The Tyrell cards are again extremely powerful but this time some of their better text features also come with high combat. So our Laurent Lawrence Tyrell if you are attacking and win the combat move the march order token into the conquered area instead of discarding it that march order may be resolved again later in the round that is huge especially when you're attack you're on the attack. That means that you can keep moving with a strong force. Mace Tyrell the leader of the family immediately destroy one of your opponents attacking or defending footmen that's huge because that has them lose one point one combat point. The Baratheon cards are again very powerful the best text features I feel or patch face who at the end of combat you may look at your opponent's hand and discard one of their one card of your choice that's huge especially when you're going up against a house that has powerhouse text cards. The next one that's huge especially in naval battles is Sallor San. I hope that I'm pronouncing that right if you're being supported in this combat the combat strength of all non Baratheon ships are reduced to zero again huge especially in naval battles they can really turn the tides. The Lannisters have some great cards as well. My two favorite and I think the more powerful ones if you're attacking all of your participating footmen including your supporting footmen gain two combat strength instead of one combat strength and also again going up against powerhouse cards you may cancel your opponent's chosen house card and return it to his hand he mustn't then choose a different house card to reel. If there are no other house cards in his hand he cannot use a house card in this combat that can get rid of some of the more powerful cards that the opponents have it's very useful. For the Greyjoys their two good house cards are Balin Greyjoy the printed combat strength of your opponent's house card is reduced to zero that really helps especially when going up against a house card with very high combat and then Victorian Greyjoy if you were attacking all of your participating ships including supporting Greyjoy ships add plus two combat strength instead of plus one again huge especially with Greyjoy's supposedly great navy again you really need a great navy to play as Greyjoy and last of all the Starks again some pretty good house cards all the houses have some pretty nice house cards the two big ones the blackfish you do not take any casualties in this combat from house card abilities combat icons or tide or tides of battle cards huge because you don't lose any men and your other big one if you win this combat you may choose the area in which your opponent retreats you must choose a legal area for which your opponents loses the fewest units that's Rob Starks that means if your opponent is surrounded by enemies you push them right into another enemy and have them go to battle that's nice also that means you can push them out of your way if you're trying to get past them and conquer another area if you found this helpful please like and subscribe comment below if I did anything wrong and think some other strategies have worked better for you in the past also please tell me if you guys like what I'm doing because if you don't I shouldn't really be doing it for you and tell me what you guys want me to do also please suggest other board games for me and the team gaming club to play in the future see you guys later


Hey, everyone, welcome to a special video here at Nintendo Prime. We have a little discussion video for the weekend. As you can already see on your screen, it's featuring Mr. RGT-85, Sean himself. How's everyone doing? Hope everyone's having a good weekend. If that's when you're watching it or whenever you're watching this video, I hope you're having a nice day.  Oh, we've got to bring some changes to the table. I feel bad throwing shake because like it's been 50 years since we won a title. So like now that we've got one, you know. No, I mean, you've got a well built team. None of that. I want to go play with my friends, Nonsense, which I hate teams like that, like your Lakers and stuff like that. It's a well built team, you know, lucked in the honest. Yeah, the key to everything because he's not a I don't he stayed and said screw it. I don't want to leave and play with other people. So I mean, even Middleton like Middleton was a G League. It was a G League player. And then he, you know, he got bumped up to an NBA team. So no, I respect the Bucks. I like watching them just not when they play the next. Obviously, obviously, we didn't have to see you in the playoffs last year because you guys couldn't. Well, we won't go through that again. All right, guys. Well, we're here today to talk about the game awards because obviously if you guys could, I know we have several people that watch both of our channels. We aren't kind of opposite sides of how we feel about the game awards. This year and probably just in a more general sense because I feel like I don't know about you, but a lot of times I see like kind of the same reactions to the game awards every single year. People just don't like it. It is what it is. They don't like the way it's set up. Sometimes there's a couple announcements that care about like, oh, it was cool. You know, like Nintendo fans are probably all happy when Breath of the Wild was shown back in twenty sixteen and twenty fourteen. And then when it won game of the year in twenty seventeen, I'm sure they were all happy then. Nintendo fans, they were happy with Sephiroth last year, but then they probably hated the rest of the game awards. Xbox fans were probably happy back when the series X was announced with Hellblade, and then it's kind of sort of one of those things where I think a lot of the reactions to the game awards come down to. Did they give me what I wanted? And if they didn't, then the strangeness of a lot of the other stuff happening really stands out. So on my end of things, I think it starts with how I approach the game awards. One, I approach as a Jeff Kealy event because those are always different than everything else in the industry, for better or for worse, because he very much likes his music. I could do without sting. I could definitely even like I was a pseudo sting fan. I don't think I've ever heard a sting song in my life that was intentionally listened to. The police were good. I like the police, which he was the lead singer of, you know, message in a bottle, walking on the moon, rock sand. Those are good songs, but that's not what he was playing. Yeah, solo stuff. I think it gets too weird. Yeah, see, I grew up. I was a nineties pop boy, so like Backstreet Boys. Even like where are you really? Yeah, totally, totally. And then like even today now, like, seriously, I was just listening to like Jason Derulo earlier and I'm like, how old am I right now? Like, I don't know. I don't know who that is. But I'll assume it's. Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying. You don't know who it's again.  And basically, if you ever go to a club or a GT, I don't know if you've been to one. It's kind of like the music they play there. Well, I mean, there's there's variants of clubs. I like, like the fancy clubs. No, I won't be there. I'll be at the CD clubs.  Let me guess, are you going to like one of those country ho-down clubs? No, no, none of those, none of those. I did, I have, I do know that Copperhead Road is a very popular song with the, with the white women who are a bit Southern because I used to live in the South and me and my buddy used to DJ. Yeah, that's a popular one. Yeah, we would do like weddings and stuff and like most of the weddings are cool, but some of them were like real dirty South weddings and it was like Skinner'd and like that and stuff. I mean, those, those were the easy events though because you literally just hit play like you're not trying to mix anything or anything or like, you know, trying to get people where all of them are just letting people dance. But yeah, no, I, I, not my cup of tea. That's all right. So obviously, you know, we get our music performances that and Imagine Dragons and all that. And honestly, I personally don't care about that. I do like the orchestra. I think the orchestra is obviously more fitting because orchestrated music is actually part of like most video games or AAA games these days. But, you know, I know I watched your video. You could give or take on orchestrated music. Not really your thing, but it's not like you were saying, Oh, just don't have it. Just, hey, I just don't really care. So I guess for me with the game awards, my whole approach to why I think it's actually fairly decent is unlike all the other events of the year, because I feel like all of us as gamers already sort of have the events we want. Like Nintendo fans, we have directs throughout the year. So many fans of state of play, you know, and so on for Xbox as well. PC really only has like, I guess the PC gaming show at E3. Whatever. I mean, every game from Xbox goes to PlayStation or to PC. So PlayStation games go over as well. So I guess you could say that's arguably PC related as well. But we have all these other events. We have obviously E3 as well, which is really just taking those individual events and just slamming them really close together. Other events, PlayStation experience. I don't know. There's a whole bunch of these things. We all know about it. But there's also other award shows. We have like the BAFTA Awards. We have the Game Developers Conference Awards. And there's one other I can't remember. But on all three of those, and I can think of our streamed online. Yeah, DICE Awards, DICE Awards. Yes. And most of these awards, not every year, but a lot of years are our streamed online and basically do not get covered by anybody. Right. IGN, I think, puts up one post about who won. Yeah, there's, you know, us.  Unless it's a particular favorite game of ours that happens to win a major award, we probably don't even bring it up. Right. But at the Game Awards, we do bring it up. And it's interesting because I think I believe you're on record that you just don't care about the awards themselves. Well, I mean, it's not that. I mean, for me personally, like it because of who is on the panel, you know, some of these people I don't think should be on the panel. I don't think Newsweek. I don't think Entertainment Weekly should be on the panel for this. So because of that, I feel like it sort of dilutes, you know, the value of the awards. Now, I could understand just that that's just me outside looking in. Personally, it does nothing for me. However, a game developer, you know, a sound technician, you know, a Q&A tester, if they win something, I could definitely understand why that's important to them, because those people don't get seen. Those people don't get heard. Nobody knows who those people are. They're essentially the faceless people behind the games themselves. And to be a game award show and going back to the orchestra to music, we had literally five minutes of orchestrated music for all of the Game of the Year nominees. And then for the Game of the Year winner, we had 50 seconds of speech time. Yeah. That to me is completely out of whack. Yeah. That part I do agree with in general. I think there was a pacing issue. And I don't know it's weird because it's live stream. So I'm not really sure why they have to stick to a strict schedule and couldn't just gave them like five minutes to talk. But I don't know what's going on behind the scenes. There's obviously some sort of strict schedule time limit they have to stick to. I don't know what it has to do with or what penalties they are if they go over time because obviously Paris was well aware of the time limit because he went up there and literally brought up the fact that he Hey, we're at like the time limit.  Oh, I'm not going to cuss. It's like it's okay. We swear on my channel. We're all good. Okay. I try not to say the F word on my channel. That's the only one I know.  This is this is my moment. Who are you and things like that bother me? I actually, I don't know if you saw this today, but Jeff Keeley was doing a Twitter Spaces and I have no idea what Twitter Spaces was. Yeah, I've never used it before. It wouldn't like would hit me up and he was like, dude, you won't join this. And I was like, we have to explain what it is first.  It's like a discord point. So I was like, I'll go in there.  And I was like, sure, I'll tell Jeff exactly what I always say. And so I called in and he actually took my call and we talked to like probably a good five, ten minutes about my grievances about the show.  But yeah, but I mean to be respectful. I just told them what my quips were, what my problems were. I don't need Hollywood infiltrating the game awards when the video game industry is bigger than Hollywood. And these are the people that and the music industry and the movie industry, every aspect of Hollywood is not as big as the video game industry. That's that's the King of the Mountain right now. As far as revenue is concerned, I don't like the fact that the show was, I mean, if you're including the pre-show, which they had announcements in, they had trailers in and they even gave away awards in it. I don't like the fact that the show was almost four hours long. There's no, there's no need for that. And I understand, I told them, I understand the business aspect of it, that, you know, how the, how the ads work and how, you know, companies submit their trailers and they want to be featured on the show so on and so forth. He explained, you know, there's tons of trailers that got cut, but I think when you look at this game awards, the main thing I took away from this was Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo pretty much no showed it. Sony showed another horizon trailer. Okay, we've seen that game. We know that what that game is bringing to the table. Microsoft showed a Hellblade 2, which was announced at the Game Award. So it's like, well, that shouldn't be a huge surprise. And still, it was mostly an in-game cut scene or an in-game engine doing a cut scene more so than what you'll actually be playing. And Nintendo didn't show up at all.  Like this is a great action adventure game.  Like even when he's not on camera, he's very like, he's very timid. Yeah, he's very timid. He's not a very good public speaker.  That one guy for GTFO. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I was so nervous. And I get that, but it's like, I feel there needs to be a better balance between the awards themselves and the show, you know, the entertainment aspect of it because I don't need staying. I don't need Imagine Dragons. I don't need Hollywood people doing a I forget the gentleman's name because I don't follow modern films with a guy with this phone. He was like, oh, sorry, I'm watching Halo on Twitch.  And I was like, yeah, but that's cool. But that that bit was longer than the people that got up there to talk could talk for. And you know, things like fighting game of the year, how are you just the fighting game genre is massive. It's absolutely massive. Why are we just skipping past these things? I think Jeff is a decent person. I always say that in every video where I criticize the game awards or talk about the game awards or just talk about Jeff himself, I always say, I feel he's a decent person. I understand that there's a balance because he asked me, he was like, well, how would you do the show? What would you do? And I was like, dude, I mean, that's a huge undertaking. You know, I would come up with some ideas, but I understand what you're saying with that. But at the same time, it's like, if you shortened it up, you got rid of most of the Hollywood stuff. You can still have a little things here. If it's tied into gaming in a realistic way, like Keanu Reeves. OK, he's an O.J. He gets a pass like that's fine. Plus they have a bad Matrix demo thing. And I don't think that should have been the final announcement, even could be already knew that should have been earlier in the show. But that's another thing that was the big bomb show was that now granted. Have you played that? Yeah, it's pretty intense. Grant, after 30 minutes, you're like, all right, I'm done with this. But those 30 minutes, you're like, it's really good. I don't actually think it even showed that well there. To be honest, it's when you put it on your system. It's like, OK, OK, I don't know why they didn't do a better gameplay cut for this, because this is actually really cool. And then you just I'm ready to go. The first few times you crash your cars after that, it's like, OK, I'm good. Yeah, I mean, my whole thing about the Game Awards is it's not the worst thing on the earth. But Jeff himself, I know you were comparing it to other game show awards, but Jeff himself always says he doesn't want it to be like those. He essentially on this spaces call, somebody asked him, you know, how he positioned this, how he sort of viewed it, and he essentially said that he sort of viewed it as a winter E3, as far as things like announcements and, you know, things of that nature. And I feel like the quality of the announcements was definitely lacking, especially compared to years past, no matter what platform you had, no matter what what, you know, system you champion for. It was just like there was a lot of fluff. There was a lot of filler. And it honestly felt like a waste of time to some degree because you could have skipped that show and you wouldn't have missed anything. There was no real grab. Yeah, I got you a moment. It needed one big moment and that moment never came. It could have been from any developer, you know, any sort of exclusive thing. But I mean, what was the takeaway from that show? Sonic Frontiers of CGI, you know, it wasn't it was an actual gameplay. Granted, we did learn more about it. And a little more after the show, too, of course. Yeah, I mean, that's just my feeling. It's not it's not the worst thing in the world. It's fun. Jeff Keely is like is a lot like the New York mix, you know, you think of basketball, you think of the next probably because they're one of the most talked about franchises because at one time they were a prominent franchise.  They're the big, you know, dog in the world.  Get out of here, little man. I don't have time for you. But I mean, I definitely respect that aspect of it. But I just think that the show could be a lot better. That's fair. I mean, I always thought I've had the same criticisms of the show every single year. The only thing they did technically do better this year. I don't really like to give credit for it. But it is one of my main complaints was, okay, they're going to rush through some categories. I don't like that they do that, but at least this year they actually showed all the nominees before announcing the winners in years past. They would just announce the winners and now who the nominees were. It's only a smidge better by the way, Jeff Keely. It's not exactly what we wanted, but at least we got to see them on screen like here's the nominees. Okay. And then here's the winner. It's like, well, okay. It's a little bit better. Yeah, but there was like two segments that happened within like a 30 minute timeframe where it's like you got five winners and then you got five more winners. And I was like, I remember sitting here with my with my co-host and I was like, so according to Jeff Keely's time, we only got like 10 minutes left and there's still like seven awards that haven't been announced. So what's happening all of a sudden here's Jeff Keely rapid fire like five awards and two minutes. And I'm like, okay.  I also one thing I did tell him because I had an email exchange with him after the show because I was talking to their co-streaming person about my show getting blocked by WB or whatever everyone's got blocked by WB and he was like really, really overwhelmed and somehow accidentally tagged Keely in it. He did it.  Man, here's some notes for you. And he actually responded. And I mean, you can get especially me anyone the time of day, but he was super nice in that email response. And my big thing was the show. I feel when I when I say it's good, I say it's good because Jeff Keely has this vision of it's an E3 event that also celebrates and recognizes developers and tries to make this different than E3, which by the way, I don't know about you. I did a big live stream event for all of E3. So like 12 hour days, four days in a row.  I think everyone can mostly agree with that besides Microsoft and Nintendo did all right, but everyone else just I could have did with pretty much with nobody else summer game has helped a little bit because like we saw developer digital that they were part of some summer game passing stuff. Well, I think Sony not being at E3 definitely hurt. That's hurt. That's really hurt over the years. You know, we have one of the big three not there and it's one of the big three that happens. I have a lot of exclusives.  Um, but I sat there and I'm like, you know what? Um, I just recounted again just to make sure there were 43 games talked about at the game board. Um, of those of those games, uh, it was 18 of them were games that we had either never seen before or had never seen gameplay before and saw first gameplay. Um, the rest of them were either like horizon or you know, Elden Ring stuff like that. Uh, and then obviously bunch of CGI trailers that don't really tell us much. Just like the Wonder Woman. Okay. The game exists. Hey, I hate those reminds me of Metro. Okay. Metro Prime forward exists. Cool. I hate those so much, but I also look at it. I don't blame the game awards for those. Now you could argue those should be the ones cut, but also I don't know what ones got cut in comparison. Like, you know, he's trying to put the biggest ones in there. Um, and maybe the ones that got cut weren't a bigger deal. I have no idea what I do know is when I, because I rewatched the show today because before I made my video, because I really wanted to get a good grasp without reacting to it without me worrying about my kids bugging me and having to deal with that in the middle of the stream. What are my real thoughts on this? And I came to the conclusion that the show itself is trying to appease the whole of gaming while also for some reason dragon and Hollywood and I'm all with you. They can just forget Hollywood. I think that has to do with trying to get mainstream acceptance. I don't know if Jeff Keely's realized this yet. Gaming is more mainstream than Hollywood. And I know it feels weird like the rock and all these other big people, the big actors, Chris Pratt, spoon Mario. Fine. If you're going to have the Mario trailer, like, okay, it made sense to have Jim Kerry say a thing. It made sense because Sonic's there and they're doing the Sonic movie and I was fine with the Sonic movie being there. No problem with that halo. That's based on the video game. Yeah. The halo TV series. No, no problem. Like, I actually thought there was going to be more of them. I thought we're going to see like last of us another trailer for that movie or something. Like, I actually was surprised there wasn't more of those movie ones, but cool. I was fine with that. My, my, my thing is in watching it all. I realized looking through all the game list because I was actually curious like how much of the game list that was shown is people just not really knowing what these games are versus the games not actually being good. Because I mean, I went through rewatching them and the problem is there were a lot of CGI trailers, which is really hard to judge games on, but like the ones that did have gameplay, almost every single one of them looked really good. Even if it wasn't something I was interested in, I get the appeal and I get the kind of audience that it's shooting for. And between that, between the awards themselves, which to me, whether or not gamers care about the awards, which gamers never cared about any of the other award shows. So I don't know why they care more about these ones. The awards are for the developers and everybody knows this. This is the way it should be. This is even if the developers aren't mentioned on stage. It goes on the resume, gets them jobs. So it's really important to them and important to the studios. Even if it's rushed through, sucks, but it still matters. So that's what the awards are for. The awards are for the industry that makes the games. The showings are for the fans, but the problem is the fans that he's trying to talk to now, he's got this worldwide audience. Like he did that. Cabo is that the Doka dancing anime thing a pop thing. Yeah, like that was not for us. Five minutes of that, by the way. Yeah, that was but wasn't for us. And I kept thinking, you know, I didn't I didn't enjoy that part of the show, but then I started realizing I started doing some research.  And China has over 20 million people watching the game awards according to the official stats from last year. And I don't know what the stats were for this year yet. But I'm like, okay, well China probably wasn't interested in 99% of these Western games that were shown.  And it made me realize that he's trying to cater to everyone. And the problem when you're trying to cater to everyone is you end up not really catering to anyone specifically. Right. And I think that's why people get bored with the show. But I also think that's what makes the event different unlike all the other events that cater to each audience. Even E3 has individual events that cater to each audience. This is one event that caters to everybody, which doesn't really end up catering to anybody besides the developers that obviously get happy with winning awards. So my takeaway was it's just a Jeff Keely event. This is what he does. He tries to smash as much in as he can. Honestly, looking back through all the trailers. Honestly, they all kind of look pretty good. I can't pick out any game on that list that I can like definitively look at and go, yeah, that's a bad game. Well, I mean, a bad game. Well, I mean, that's that's a subjective thing. But I know it was subjective, but all the complaints I see are that the big names weren't there. But like we had a brand new Star Wars game announced. But that's a big deal. Now, granted, it was CGI. It was CGI. Right. What kind of game is it? Well, the thing is we assume it was CGI. We have no idea. No, but I mean, is it an action game as an RTS? Yeah, I know, I know, I know that was the problem. That's that's a lot of these things I would rather have because you said there was the 40 some odd games that are 18 that we got a first glimpse of. I don't care about quantity. I care about quality. You know, if you could take away some of the show length by getting rid of these Wonder Woman announcements that tell me absolutely nothing. Even the Star Wars announcement, it told you absolutely nothing about what this game is going to be. And when you look at the pedigree of the company behind it with games like Detroit Become Human, that doesn't answer any sort of question for you. So I would rather see a less quantity with a better quality of the games, a better quality of the of the trailer itself. You know, less CGI actual looks at the game. And if the game isn't ready to be shown, what's the point of talking about it? If we're at such an early state of development where we can't even show any sort of gameplay whatsoever, why are we even bringing it up? What's the discussion point around here? You know, especially on a stage like this and the whole appealing to everyone thing, like I see that's one thing I don't like. I don't think we need it needs to appeal to everyone because the thing about video games is you're you're going to find something that interests you.  I mean, that was five minutes of nearly four hours.  You're better off watching the highlights. I think some of the problems inherently come from Jeff going, this game's going to blow your mind. We've been working on this trailer for 74 years. This game is going. This is going to be the biggest show ever. He is an overhyped kind of person. And you have to do that to make people more interested to some degree. But at some time, you also have to keep it real because you can only fool people so many times before they start to snap back at you. What do you say for Elden ring level things? I didn't count for it, to be honest. But there was a classical. What did you mean by that? What did he actually mean by for Elden ring? Like like Elden ring wasn't announced at the game awards. It was first gameplay. Right. And then at this, we got a trailer for the story which showed absolutely no gameplay. But once again, that's a game that's coming out in February. Like, well, they had a beta for it, though. So people have actually played it. All right. What I'm saying is at the game awards we were presented with. Yeah. Just a cinematic. A cinematic story trailer. That's an industry wide issue in every event, though. Did I? But well, besides credits in Nintendo, they usually don't do it. Although technically twice in a row for Breath of the Loud to maybe gameplay. I don't know. Was it canned because 2014's Breath of the Wild that gameplay was just a canned thing. So I find it interesting because you brought you brought up that point. But at least it's in game. Yeah, it's in game. That's why I was fine with Hellblade because I understood that, you know, it's not actual gameplay, but that's the in-game engine. That's what it's going to look like. So I don't mind in-game. And you played the first Hellblade, right? Yes. Yeah. So it worked very much like that, too. It's like a transition seamless the gameplay. So it's a little hard to get upset at the developers for that because that's sort of how the game works. But the industry has a larger I think larger problem with the CGI trailer disconnect between that and gamers. I think a lot of gamers prefer gameplay, obviously, over anything. Or if you're going to have CGI fine, do the CGI lead-in to gameplay. And that's not really a game awards issue. That's just an industry issue. E3 is chock-full of this stuff. State of plays are chock-full of this stuff. Xbox's shows are chock-full of this stuff. It's I don't know why they keep doing it. The only thing I can think of is every game that seems to get these CGI trailers. A lot of them end up selling really well. So there must be something to the way that these companies have figured out because all the companies are basically doing it. That this version of marketing that well, we might complain about it. Maybe the more general consumers out there, like the Star Wars eclipse thing. It's got four plus million views on the official Star Wars channel, which is more than the subscribers they have. I know I can't tell the dislikes because there's dislikes are just right.   And I sat there and I go, you know, for the general consumers, I think they kind of like the CGI thing. Even if I don't. I think you think that do you think if they showed off? OK, I see what you're saying with that. It's not for us. We want gameplay, but like. But in general consumer cares. But in the same breath, do you think that if they actually did gameplay of the game, do you think it would have gotten the same amount of views or still I think so? I would assume so. I would say yes, but there's a caveat because it depends, which brings everything full circle on what type of game it is. If it's a Star Wars action game, sort of like Jedi Fall in order. OK, you're going to get people's attention. If it looks like Command and Conquer, you're not going to get as many people's attention with that game. All of them. And that's the problem with these things. And yes, it is rampant in the industry. But you know, I still think speaking up about it helps because people don't want this. The general the general video game population doesn't want this. And yeah, you're going to try to appeal to everyone. You want that that coveted casual market, but that casual market is going to do whatever they want to do. They're not going to do things based on trailers, in my opinion. Animal Crossing didn't sell over 30 million copies because of a trailer of the game. It sold over 30 million copies because people were talking about it. People bought it. People played it. People shared it with their non gaming family. And that's what made it popular. So, you know, in that sort of respect, it is an interesting litmus test. But I would like to see a company like try it both ways and see which is better in the public eye because, you know, you could do focus group. And I know this is kind of off topic, but like the whole thing about focus groups is it drives me nuts because if everything was contingent on focus groups, every single product that was ever made would be the most popular product and sell phenomenally because in focus groups, you always think you have it figured out. You think you have the product. You think you have it the way you want it. And then if it goes to market and it flunks, it's like, what do we do with these focus groups? What was the point of that? So, you know, that's just, that's just my opinion. I think, like I said, the game awards isn't a terrible show. I just want to see it more concise. I want it to be quicker. And like you said, gamers in general don't necessarily care about the other award shows. But that's because the other award shows don't promote themselves like the game awards does. The game awards goes out there and says, this is the award show. This is the show you need to watch. This is the big to do. And then to not do things that the other shows do. Yeah, the other shows don't have the big reveals and things like that. But I feel like there's a better balance that can be found. Sure. And I want to be clear because there were a couple of people I mean, there's always negative comments in every video.  I was watching the show and I was critical while watching it live on live stream. It's not perfect. It has a long ways to go. And I don't know if it'll ever get there because a lot of the complaints are the same complaints for seven to three years. Rushing through awards. Not always given enough time like, you know, like we just had Tim from kind of funny games on and he brought up Greg Miller's speech back in 2015 and it's like, I don't remember the last time there was a speech like that. Right. That was back in 2015. But we haven't had those kind of moments. Like, I guess the closest we have was Jeff Keely speaking out you know, speaking out at the very beginning of this show but then wasn't willing to actually name the company which upsets some people. I don't know. I think he's just trying to play both ends of the stick on that when I can't blame him. He's not trying to burn any bridges. It's a business. It's a business. Yeah. And I'll always say this that website that ran the whole because he actually talked about that on the spaces. Good. And that was actually what I started. So busy. That's what I said.  It's like an hour long. I hop in around the 20 minute mark, I think. But that was the first thing I said to him because he actually had brought up how he had given the interview and then a propaganda became out of it by by a tabloid like gaming website and I was like, oh, I like that. So when I got on there, I was like, I was like, you know what? They did you dirty. Like they they took you out of context and it's ironic that that website, which we won't name that website will still I guarantee you they're going to have Activision reviews. They're going to have Blizzard reviews. They're going to have reviews from Riot Games. They're going to have reviews from Ubisoft, but they just feel high and mighty and they could just pay. I can't stand mindsets like that. But that was how I started out with because he was like, I saw you made a video. It was in my feed, but I haven't watched it. I was like, I might want to skip that one. Jeffrey might want to skip that one.  I think today showed, you know, he's willing to talk to whoever, even detractors. I mean, we we've gone back and forth on Twitter before like over the sting thing. Like and, you know, I just like to I just like to do it in jest. I think he understands that it's not real hatred. I just would like to budget those quoted tweets from him over the last 24 hours.  And it was hilarious. The girl, the girl who said, uh, uh, when I die, I want Jeff Kility about my funeral. So you can lower me down one more time or something. Like, that was awesome. That was bad. So you responded that one. Yeah. And you have to have a sense of humor. I don't think anyone, you know, is the whole thing of it is, is that people can disagree on something and they can see things differently, but they can still be, you know, amicable with people. The social media has created this thing where it's like, if two people disagree with on something, it has to be a beef. There has to be an argument. Like every week I'm in a new beef with somebody on the spawn cast.  I wasn't calling you out. I was just saying, I want to talk.  And I'm like, yeah. Well, they like, you know, people like drama and people like to drum up stuff. I get it. But to bring it back to the game awards, my whole thing is it just needs, it needs a better balance. There have been years where I've actually enjoyed the show, but I think this year, what year did you enjoy it? I'm just curious. God, you're putting me on the spot now. There's seven of them. Yeah, but unless you want to go back to the spike TV days, but let's forget those haven't existed. And I don't even know why G4 TV is back anymore. But anyways, um, I didn't watch one episode of Attack on the show since it came back. It was all right. See, I don't have the nostalgia for that. And when that when, when, when G4 was on like, whatever channel it was on, I knew it existed, but I was doing like other things in life. A lot of people were, it was a very small crowd that was watching G4 back then. So, you know, it's like the attack of the show. The reason I know about it, because it actually wasn't a G4 show originally. It was a tech TV show before G4 bought tech TV. Um, and I was a big PC hardware person. So that's why I know that show very well. X-Play, I don't really care that much about, but. I would say, I guess it would be 2017. The one that had, cause they did Breath of the Wild there. And then they, the DLC, and then they did the bayonet of stuff there. Yeah.  You know, it felt like, part of the problem I feel like is that the companies themselves are carrying less and less about it. The actual gaming companies, and it's more becoming influenced by things like Hollywood, influenced by things like the mobile gaming industry, which is fine, you know, it is a part of gaming, but yeah, it's huge. But if you want to do stuff like that, have your own, have your own mobile show because evidently mobile gaming is so big, you would think that a million billion trillion people would watch that, right? No, because it's a different, it's a different market. The mobile, they don't care. They care, they want to see what's on their phone. So I, I used to think like that too. And then so when you think eSports, what games do you think of? I don't. I don't know anything. I don't know anything. Well, a lot of people will say like big elections and stuff like that. I was going to say like Street Fighter. The fighting games and stuff like that as well, right?  And now we're getting a Smash League or whatever officially. That's kind of cool. We'll see whatever happens with that. But all the melee nerds, one of the biggest eSports, like this was just like three years ago. One of the most watched eSports in the world was Candy Crush in America or worldwide in America. It was televised. I can't forget what channel it was. And it was averaging numbers that NFL playoffs average. It was it was insane and nobody really knew what to do with that. They didn't know how to hand like the TV companies like they we didn't expect this. I don't know where the viewers came from. Maybe they're all pirated streams and other countries. I have no clue. I just know when they posted the numbers, it was like, okay, well, you know, that's a whole part of the industry that I don't pay attention to anybody. Like how big it like, I know there's a lot of people who play phone games. How's your it's a billion? That's a that's an eSports league built on a candy. Okay, that I was not aware of that. Yeah. So one thing I've always said about the game awards just to give like my criticism of it is. Yeah, it's long. I always expected to be it's always three to three and a half hours. That's just what it is every year. I know that it's been that way for seven years. Well, one year and actually four and a half. That was I don't like to talk about that year. But you mentioned something interesting that your favorite year was 2017 and you feel like the companies are carrying less and less. I don't know that it's maybe this is where I come from in that I'm a lot more fair over the last two game awards. Can you remember what was probably the last big game awards? Probably like 2019 when we got the Xbox Series X unveil at the game awards like that was that was a big deal. A big get you got a brand new generation system announced a year early at your show. That's pretty cool. You show off one next-gen game and there were some some other games there as well. Nintendo even had some stuff there. But since then we had a pandemic. Lots of games are in the late push like oh horizons the game they showed. Well I mean horizon was supposed to come out this year. Probably went to I mean like like as an example I've seen a number he'll bring up Sony only brought Horizon so forespoken wasn't a thing that was shown like again. I know it's again. It's a lot of games getting shown again and I think it's because everything just keeps getting delayed and we're kind of in this all virtual last year new consoles launching like what can you really show and new consoles are launching and they don't have games ready yet you know because everything's being pushed and then this year yeah we know about a lot of games coming next year supposedly.  Hellblade 2 didn't Hellblade 2 is probably how play to and Sonic Frontiers were probably the two most interesting things for me. Sure. Hellblade 2 didn't have any sort of date. Sonic Frontiers at holiday 2022. It's not like you have to put a I bring this up because as an example Nintendo has been very close to the vest and not showing things until we're actually going to think about releasing the same thing which is why we've seen Splatoon 3 twice now. Obviously we presume hope that Breath of War 2 actually lands next year history is all the games always delays so we'll see what happens. But I think in the back of my mind watching E3 and watching Summer Game Fest and going back to last year when there was no E3 and there was a couple of events here and there are no Nintendo Directs they made me realize that I just think companies aren't comfortable showing anything of substance at this moment because they're not back to normal like a lot of Japanese studios are all still working at home like they're still on lockdown in Japan in a lot of areas and that's obviously affecting you know games or there's people that were at the game awards that weren't actually at the game awards because of travel restrictions that's why they did some of those video segments because they couldn't get there because of restrictions so we're very much living in this world where of the last decent good quote unquote good game awards was 2019. Well look at what's happened to the world since then I don't really know what to expect because nobody's been putting on good shows since the pandemic started at least in my opinion. I know yeah some Nintendo Directs have been solid obviously you know getting Splatoon 3 announced obviously Metroid Dread or E3 but that's because Nintendo seems to have found a way to get back into the swing of things a little bit at least it seems we'll see 2022 is going to be telling if they can actually get all these games out that they're promising that's just what we know right now but I look at it as maybe I'm just more forgiving because I looked at that game list and I looked at those trailers and like you know like with the Suicide Squad and we saw some actual gameplay and I thought it actually looked kind of good actually mentioned that game even though it didn't interest me I was like that was one of the better trailers at this event but it's a game play and it's like the gameplay didn't look bad even if it's not something you're into you know. Like I get what you're saying and I do understand you know the world isn't definitely in a different place than it was in 2019 but I have a solution I have a solution on how you can make the show more interesting even in lieu of a lot of companies not being able to have things there or have things ready to show you make the damn thing shorter I don't need three and a half hours of that if you would have made it hour and a half two hours tops not funny my solution is actually to make it longer but to not have it be one day so as an example esports is huge you don't know much about it but esports has millions and millions of millions of people that watch commentate play it's a really really big arena that is not covered properly by the game awards it has a bunch of awards for it and that's pretty much yet you don't really hear anything else with the esports there esports should have its own night it's big enough to have its own night it should have like a two-hour event its own night and you know what Jeff Keely go ahead and steal this idea have esports be its own night and actually do some live esports tournaments right there that are just small segments like little quick matches for like 15 minutes you know oh league one the best worlds thing do bring in the two top teams from that world thing and have them rematch each other right there on stage you know how big that would be for esports that would make esports more personal and then you have to have obviously all the people there on stage to accept esports awards hopefully or through video if travel restrictions that they can't get in that's the esports section the rest obviously if you eliminate the esports part of it that obviously gives more time for all the other awards to potentially get more airtime like it does feel weird because one thing I do think Jeff Keely is I don't know I see I don't want to see he's out of touch with it because I think he's actually more aware than people give him credit for every time he's in an open conversation on podcasts talking to people like you it's very clear he's a very much aware yes definitely I'll definitely give him that yeah I think there's a perception out there that Jeff Keely doesn't know what he's doing he's very aware of all the criticism he's very aware that people want like some categories that gamers consider a big deal that are rushed through he's aware that gamer is considered a big deal and I think sometimes and I don't know that this is the case and it's something that I would love to ask him if I get the opportunity is when there's a big category and I probably would have picked one from this year and asked him directly is the reason that this big category that gamers rush through and that we care about because you couldn't get them to come in and accept the award because you have to mail it to them because if you were to do this big thing and you want them to come on stage or you want them to do a video presentation and they just didn't do it it might be a big deal to us and they won the award but you can't do anything with it there's no presentation you can do with it you could do like Jim Carrey did though and send it a pre-recorded response again but this is and they've done that in the past actually but I'm saying in the case the studio isn't sending you a recording and won't be there it's like that kind of sucks because maybe if one of the other games won they would have but you don't want to bias the whole thing towards you know having to determine if the person is going to be there or not or be able to do a video and now that again that's a question I can't answer that's something that I'm very curious because he's made it he said in the in the past that he's aware that there's some categories they've rushed through that he knows gamers think are a really big deal best fighting game as an example yeah he talked about that today but like you know I'm wondering what the reason is that he rushes through those awards and doesn't seemingly have anyone there to accept him because like honestly I'm this is just me I'm very curious for the action adventure award that Metroid won like if Nintendo wasn't there that went to been a non-stage event I don't know I mean Nintendo you would presume all the nominees for the game of the year awards are going to be there but I'm saying like say it wasn't nominated for that and it was only in that one category and Nintendo sent zero representatives and said you know what we're dipping out this year I think there's a heads up I don't think there's definitely a heads up because they're all prepared with stuff so they know already ahead of time if they want you know yeah so there was an ongoing joke throughout the whole show because Jeff Kiliman said like we're not letting Joseph Harris on Mike this year and it's like right it's like okay well he's clearly you're not you're not serious and I kept the end of the god the game of the year I was like no way I kept thinking about my mind is this is where he's gonna get on Mike because he won game of the year and it's really interesting do because I almost wish that he would talk more to Joseph Harris about the show because clearly he keeps saying F the Oscars F the Oscars he hates the Oscars he thinks the game awards are better fine the Oscars wouldn't recognize them so I can't blame him he's got kind of a he's kind of a jaded against the Oscars but also all these other award shows that give a lot of time to the awards are losing viewership so I don't so I have a lot of ideas on how I would run an award show I don't know that I have the capability to pull it off but Jeff Keely maybe maybe has the capability to pull it off I just think that I try to look at the game award show since it's trying to be this all-encompassing thing I'm trying to be mindful that I've seen a lot of people excited for each individual announcement like if you go to the individual trailer uploads on YouTube you'll see a bunch of people really excited in the comments for each one of these games so I sit there and I go are we being like just for the game announcement part alone pacing and all that I think everyone agrees we could fix that we can reorganize that we can I don't know maybe chop down on the number of games put more awards on I don't know whatever I think that's a general criticism every year but a lot of people that I see on the internet are disappointed because the things they wanted to see weren't there and then the things that were there they didn't care about but a lot of people did care about some of these things the audience isn't growing every year because people don't care so I feel like some of the disappointment that a lot of gamers feel every year is because we're inherently selfish people and we only care about what we're interested in and if it isn't there it's a bad show and I'm kind of like on the opposite end of that where I go I already had no like 12 to 15 games I'm buying next year I don't need the game awards to convince me to buy more games I'm already like my pocket book is already going to be running thin and my time is running thin and that's before we even get to 2022 so I look at it as well and I'm reading these comments I'm going well these people are excited about this like this is a good thing yeah okay I want that Star Wars trailer to have gameplay but look at all these Star Wars games hopefully they don't get let down please don't let them down we don't know what they're hyped about because I don't know what game they're getting like I'm really confused or what they're but I think they're just hyped because it's a non EA Star Wars game coming out I get it that's probably why they're hyped we already knew it existed we just haven't seen it so I'm still technically haven't seen it but I think I'm trying to be mindful of I can be happy that other people are saying that's why I'm not that critical of it because I go look at all these people that are happy look at all the people that are angry all the angry people are saying the same thing all the happy people are just going man I'm really excited for this I mean that's that's fair yeah but I can only really speak for yourself and my enjoyment and so and you know that no shade of you by the way I already know but but I mean I understand that mindset and like I said there are people who are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on video games and you know making this industry grow and propelling this industry to new levels I don't think they should be forgotten about either and it seems like every year it strays a little bit more away from us and a little bit more towards someone else who may or may not exist but it's what the story is and it's what the story is and it's what the story is and it may not exist but it's what the suits think it's it and that's a whole other that's a whole different debate the pop the circumstance of the show and it's like it's video games like do we need this whole but like I said that's a whole big thing but you know at the end of the day I don't hate Jeff I don't hate the show I would just love to see the show try at least give me one year where you try something that a lot of people that are vocal like to see if it flops it's not going to hurt your pocketbook Jeffrey I know I know how much you're making off of this stuff you'll you'll be just fine he's doing good but you know I would just like to see you know try it you can even I guess you couldn't really try it because of the award aspect of it but just just try something different and you know at the end of the day it's his call it's his money it's his business it's his LLC it's his property what the hell he wanted that all we can do is is just share ideas and share areas of criticism and I think he does listen to it to some extent I mean he listens to what I have to say and I'm just a random idiot on the internet so you know we'll see we'll see I mean you're a Knicks fan so that that says how much we should pay attention I'm just a depressed Knicks fan for my entire life I totally get where you're coming from the game awards are what they are because it's been seven years of this I've reached the point that I just know what the show is every year I'm critical of some things but I get it and I always go if people want things a certain way well Jeff wanted things a certain way so he did his own show someone else needs to step up then and create a new like you know E3 was bombing out so well Jeff Keely stepped up and started making Summer Gamefest and some people like that some people don't well if we want something different that's not ran by Jeff and not ran by the usual and Jeff has to do it and I don't know anyone else in the industry that's really willing to put that kind of risk because it was a risk when he originally did it's not a risk anymore but it was a riskier one and I don't know anyone else that's willing to do that like a lot of youtubers I'm always like well why don't youtubers all get together and throw a big event well we're all busy we don't have time we don't have the money we don't have the backing the LA money the LA money is pretty insane I can't live in LA guys I'll tell you right now if I was a LA youtuber I wouldn't be on youtube I would never move to LA that's not a very smart business decision unless you're very fortunate but I'm not I live in Wisconsin so cheap living anyways well thank you so much for coming man I really appreciate taking the time I know it's been probably a little bit longer I wasn't even looking at the time that's whatever man alright cool well you guys should go check out RGT channel I'll have his channel with a sub link a direct sub link down in the description as well to be nice to anyone who comes on here go check him out by the way a lot of people always think I'm RGT Junior I think it's because remember I used to be clean shaved and now I have it grown out we look too similar we both wear flat bill sports hats I guess there's only like one certain style of person allowed per thing on the internet apparently anyways man well thanks for coming on hopefully we can get you on one of our longer podcast segment shows someday otherwise I think this is the first time I've spoken to you since like spawn wave ages ago it's been a minute for sure it's been a hot minute well I'll let you go man just one last thing I want to mention that Twitter video you put up of you dancing in your little arcade room I kind of felt like you were just trying to one up me I actually there's one dating website that I use for dating that they allow you to upload a video and I put that on there because how'd that go for you a lot of people like it they're like oh you're funny you're confident I don't care I don't really care what the hell comes up on the internet about me you get thick skin after a while doing this alright man have a good night man alright broski you 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