Critics SLAM The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.01.26

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I've because usually you start reading the headline. You're like that. This is stupid. This is April Fool's. You know what I mean? I don't know. Do you care about it? Do you find any enjoyment? I think since starting this job, no, because my job is to compile news. Yeah. And so when I'm compiling news on April Fool's Day, it actually makes my job harder. Like one of the ones that did get me as I was putting together KHD was IGN's April Fool thing. Oh, I haven't seen it. What is it? It's pretty good, actually, because honestly, it's one of those ones that actually tricks you. It's not like, you know, the live action Zelda thing where it's like, if you know PlayStation announces a project, Playmo. Yes. Next gen dual sense. This one. A little trickery, you know, PlayStation has got a lot of bad ideas. So that does make sense. Yeah. And like, I think this is like loosely based off of patents that had. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so as I'm reading it, I'm like, oh, shit, it's happening. And then I get halfway through and I was like, no, this, this can't be real. And then I remembered what it was. Oh, I can't do it. They definitely got me on this one. Yeah, I don't know. I feel it's hard to tell sometimes. Is it just that just because of April? April Fool's in general. Is it just a not even a young person's? Is it am I jaded by just wanted to do my job and the world being as bad as it is that I don't need a bad April Fool's Day jokes? Or is it what it was, was that companies caught on to the fact that they could do April Fool's jokes and with the internet and social media and all that stuff, more and more companies jumped in. And it's like, it's like when you have a meme, that's funny. The first day. Yeah. And then by day three, you start to see a company accounts jumping in on the meme and it's like, OK, well, now it's not funny anymore. Yes. I think right. We're like, and I don't I can't. I worked there many years after I worked there for many years after and participated in the April Fool's. But I also just feel like it peaked with the Zelda trailer at IGN when they did the live action Zelda trailer and everybody thought it was real and it was like a huge deal. And then I didn't always chase to that high. Even when I was there and even that was like a little bit of like, I don't know what I mean. Like, yeah, it's cool. Yeah. Optimist Prime and Titanfall. OK. Yeah. Yeah. 100 percent. Yeah. I will say like the Playmo thing. Like I think this year's I jams joke is good, but it's just that I'm tired. Yeah. And you know, I blame the holiday more the quote unquote holiday more than I blame the lack of effort from my. Oh, yeah, yeah, this is in us. Not although I like here's the thing, right? Today, would you other live action trailers for IGN? Yes, we followed up when I was there and I say we like I had anything to do with I didn't. But Nick was the director on the Halo Bollywood shoot where they did a halo live act. They did the whole thing with Halo Bollywood. That was one of them. That was live action. I think that might have been the only other live action that jumps to my mind. But Jackie, to be honest on that, I forget if I'm wrong about that. Because my thing is if they stuck to, hey, we're not even like doing, we're not trying to trick people. It is just right up every year. We're just doing another fake live action trailer. Yeah. Movie. I think that could just be a fun tradition. That said, now we're in the age where every video game is getting a live action movie. So it might just now be confusing if they did it. I don't know. But happy April Fool's Day, Greg. Happy April Fool's Day, Voss. Let's get into the actual real news. Because remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. Remember, we couldn't do this without our producers. There was a Harry Potter or trailer as well. Harry Potter. What now? Orers orers. A U R O R S. I this is like, OK, why did this one? It was just like, yeah, who's that deep in Harry Potter bullshit? Nick was really goddamn Harry Potter. Like, golly. Patreon.com is kind of funny. Shout out to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The song twining for now. Let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today. Because doesn't. Starting with our number one, we got a Mario Galaxy review roundup. They're all great. The Mario. I'm sure they're all highfalutin good scores. Right now on Rotten Tomatoes, Mario Galaxy is sitting at a forty four Metacritic, the Mario Galaxy movie is sitting at a thirty seven. Let's start off with one from Clint Gage at I. Jan, who gave it a six out of ten and says the Super Mario Galaxy movie ditches an engaging story in favor of a pipe bursting amount of Easter eggs. But that's not an altogether bad thing. I'll jump. I got like more reviews than general or than usual. OK, review roundup, because there's a lot of shit people have to say about this movie. Let's hop over to Owen Gleberman at Variety, who gives it an unscored review but says not a single one of these characters, including Mario and Luigi, occupies the center of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. And that's because the movie has no center. Helen O'Hara at Empire gave it two out of five stars and says the moments of fan service might keep the hardcore happy. But for everyone else over the age of five, it's just a succession of loud, bright things happening with without any real point. New York Times, I just took the headline from the New York Times review. Where they just said it's a man. That's really good. Really, really good. That's really good. I like that. Kevin Mayer gave it a crazy one. All right, this is Kevin Mayer at the Times. They gave it zero stars, which I didn't know was a possible thing. They titled their review. The Super Mario Galaxy movie review is this the end of cinema. Wow. It's a supremely vacuous and time movie that climaxes with a sequence featuring full screen Nintendo gameplay as if to remind us of the levels of rancid commercial whoredom we've reached. The film is torturous to sit through and for me, provoked periods of actual physical discomfort. I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract from the howling distress. It's that bad and that offensive. It was Hitchcock who said, always make the audience suffer as much as possible. I don't think he meant it like this. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but Kevin, really, Kevin, let's swing back to a more positive direction. I'll close this one from Glenn Garner at Deadline. He says you're watching a movie, Kevin. You're watching a movie. He was being tortured. He was in a torture chair. Go play a game you hate for 80 hours. A deadline. Glenn Garner at Deadline says, overall, the Super Mario Galaxy movie is a fun sequel of full of nostalgic references, all star voices and epic animation grounded by the father son story of redemption for Bowser, a Jack Black and a sisterly origin story, Princess Peach. You know, I see a sisterly origin story, Princess Peach, both of which paved the way for more video game adaptation fun. Greg. Yes. Is the movie as bad as they say? No, I mean, yes, no, I mean, I came home and shut the door and Jen's like, how is the movie? And by the way, of course, tomorrow we return to in review for Super Mario. You'll have myself. You'll have blessing. You will have Tim. You will have Nick. You will have Andy. So there's full team there to go through and do our usual thing where we we recap rank it against the other Mario movies, etc. Etc. You know, in review, please come watch even though you can hear about me. Plus talk about came home last night or two nights ago, whatever it was, Monday night, shut the door, Jen's like, how is the movie? And I'm like, I remember and I was like, listen, I remember leaving the original Mario movie and being like, that was a collection of scenes that happened back to back to back. There wasn't really a narrative to it that much. I mean, there is, but not really. It was colorful. I wasn't I didn't stab myself in the hand with a pen, but it wasn't peak cinema or anything like that. But the more I watched it, especially the more I watched it with the bet with bet with the band with the band with Ben. I was like, I, you know, this is more enjoyable than maybe I originally thought in the theaters and I'm the exact same way with this one, where I left that one and I was like, this was a collection of scenes. Did I not off at the final battle? I did. I was very much like, all right, we're just doing a thing here. I think personally I'm more of a mushroom kingdom New York. I like that mashup more than we're in space and anything can happen as I'm not the space person, usually sometimes, you know, I don't know that still holds true. But like what I said, I was talking to another reviewer who were there who will remain nameless and he was like, that was a lot worse than I thought it was going to be. And I'm like, listen, I said everything I just said. And I'm like, but here's all I know. Tim and blessing are huge Mario fans and they were talking about how much they enjoyed it and I know how much my four year old is going to enjoy it. So Nintendo is pretty happy they hit the target market on this. What did you think? Yeah, I mean, I got to sit on it for a while, right? You know, in review, I think I'll be able to spill my full thing. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, you just let a little steam out of the kettle. Yeah, let a little steam out, right? Like I enjoyed it for what it was. I'm not mad at the bad reviews for it, because I totally see where they're coming from. I think plot wise, character development wise, like there are so many better written animated movies. I look at like peak Pixar. I look at peak Dreamworks. I look at the post and boots movie from a couple of years ago and I'm like, damn, this got me emotional. And these are all kids movies. Yeah, I am sure one of the pieces of defense that people will throw at this thing throughout the critics, right? It's like, it's a kid's movie. How seriously would I take it and all that stuff? But they're great kids. And that's my thing to jump in. I want to let you keep going. I'm like, if somebody who watches so many kids movies, the amount of times Jen and I walk to the kitchen crying over and I always say he doesn't know how good he has it. I remember when our movies and TV shows are just nonsense. Now they're actually amazing. Good. Yeah. And so like for people who are coming at it hard for the story, for there, I totally understand. And honestly, I agree, even though I enjoy the movie, like my enjoyment of the movie comes purely for me as a Nintendo adult. Yeah. Right. Like I grew up on Mario. I am even for this thing as a like hour and a half collection of random colorful scenes, right? I'm watching it and I'm like, oh, that's from this. Oh, that's from Mario three. Oh, that's from a lot of member. Very, lot of member. So many. The whole movies member. Barry's. Yeah. They then that's the amount of times Chad that Tim went and I was like, oh, there's a song or something's happening that he recognized. I'm just like, Mario's doing things. The biggest compliment in the biggest insult I can I can give to this movie is that the entire movie is member. Barry's, which is bad. If you're coming to this movie for an experience that is a moving plot or something that's that you're going to leave and be like, damn, there was substance in how they built Bowers character. There was substance. Yeah. They built this relationship between Rosalina and other characters and all this stuff, right? No, like it was so so much that stuff is so paper thin. But I didn't leave that upset about it because, you know, if I was Mario upset level about it would be that I think they flirted with it. As a, as somebody who I enjoy playing Mario video games, but I'm never into the Mario story of the video games, right? Because we're not doing anything ever really with them, right? We get to, I mean, one of them calls out this Bowser Bowser, Junior thing. And then some of the stuff with Peach in there and some of her relationships where I was like, Oh, are they about to? Okay, no, they got they didn't even get to the, they didn't tow the line. They saw the line. We were close. We were in the same room as the line of doing something different. Interesting. So it's like, Oh, I would have rather seen them commit to this. I really would have seen rather than do that. But like, no, it's not on my list of grievances. It's just a movie. One of the, an argument that me and Tim have had before on the show, right? Was talking about Zelda, Breath of the Wild and Here's the Kingdom and how like one of my one of the one of the complaints people will give to reviews of those games that annoys me the most is they say, if you remove the Zelda brand from these games, these games would get reviewed way worse. And I'm like, y'all, the games themselves are good. Like I told I push up, I push against that for this movie, for the Mario Galaxy movie, if you remove the Mario, anything that's like Mario brand, Mario IP from this movie, it's like still white screen. It's just like it's absolutely nothing. Like that's all thin. Some of the plot is here. And yeah, like I think that's again, that comes back to my biggest complaint about it is that like you're waving lights in front of me and I'm like, hell, yeah, I'm Mario man. And so I love this shit. Right. But for anybody else, like there's way better kids moves out there. 100%. Yeah. And I think, you know, like in terms of the plot being thin and all this stuff, I think I always love it when there's a movie that calls itself out for that, I feel like. But there's one line in this where when they show up with Yoshi and Toad's just like, oh, so now the dinosaur is part of the group. It's like, yep, that's all it took. We met Yoshi and now he's the stickest things with everybody. Like, all right, nobody's wondering about. OK, cool. He's just here. That's what it's all about. More on the in review. But there's a certain character who has like this flip flop character development of like, I'm on this side now. Now I'm on this side. And I'm like, y'all did not. You guys aren't giving me any reason for why he feels this way, this way, this way. Right. Like it feels, it does feel a little bit insulting at times. Even two kids. Um, that said, like zero stars. Let me jump in there. OK, if you don't mind. And I know you're hosting the show. So I hate to do this, but there's a super chat from Matthew Pontan who says, isn't it hypocritical to hate on the movie reviewers disliking the Mario movie while also defending games journalists that dislike the Crimson Desert, dislike Crimson Desert? And I think that is a straw man argument here, Matthew, where you're you're stripping out all of the context where you're just saying, well, you you said it was OK for games journalists not to like this, but you're mad at movie critics. I don't. And none of the reviews we read for Crimson Desert did Jeff Grubb say I had to stab myself repeatedly in the hand with a pen to distract from the howling distress. I never saw anyone say that. It might have been like, yeah, I didn't like playing this. Oh my God, it was annoying. No, it's no one's stabbing themselves to focus on their job for 90 minutes. The last time I've heard something like this was funnily enough from someone else named Kevin, who broke out in highs because of how much he hated the last Jedi. That's the last time I would get like have an extreme reaction to a movie. And it's like. And I'm all right. Come on, man. I got two things here, right? One, I don't think we're hating on anybody. Maybe the closest we're getting hating on somebody is like the Zero Stars. But we call that Kevin, my name, I did say Kevin. Yeah, but I'm not even I'm not starting my hating on that yet, because like my hitting on that is that me. I have a friend named Lexi and every year Lexi likes to put on a movie marathon and the movie marathon is always with bad movies. And so the last one she did, she put together four really bad animated movies. And when I tell you that's I can't remember the name of it. There was some movie chat. Somebody's going to know it, where all the characters are based off of like brands that you find at the supermarket. And it was a movie that like struggled to get made. The animation fucking terrible, right? It eventually came out. Animations terrible. The characters, nonsensical story, weird, right? That's a one star movie, right? I've there are zero star movies out there. Mario Galaxy is not one of them. Yeah. And that's the extent of like, quote unquote, hate, I'll give. That's the other thing is to your point. The Matthew Ponton, right? Like I I don't think the hypocrite hypocrisy comes into play, because I don't think any of us would say, hey, you have to agree with every reviewer out there. You know what I mean? Like I've read Crimson Desert reviews that I disagree with. And I would talk about those, right? But I'm not over here being like, damn, Paul Tassie sucks. He has a different opinion. Like no, he's allowed to like people are allowed to have different opinions on things. Yes. Food fight. Thank you, Christ. That's a real movie. Food fight is an actual movie that my friend Lexi forced us to watch. Lexi. No. And when I tell you this was a little bit of a sunk his tuna guy and the Vlasix pickle. Hillary Duff was even long, gory. I want to watch it now. Legendarily bad movie. I'd recommend it. It's a fun bad watch. Your eyes will start to hurt. How? When did it come out? It was 2010, I want to say. Oh, nine. So we watch the trailer, we get clipped for it. Yeah, we will. Damn, that sucks. But again, like I just don't hypocritical to hate on. It's like, well, no, again, every review in opinion is a persuasive essay. And I don't think in granted the paragraph I've read here, Kevin's backing it up enough that he just stab himself in the hand to keep watching the movie. One blue sky put up yesterday as the movie reviews were coming out was that movie reviews will really remind you how nice video game reviews are. It was kind of refreshing reading a bunch of a bunch of reviews coming in that it's like, damn, y'all all hated this movie that I totally thought was just fine. Yeah. And like. It had me being like, man, we got to explore the scale more because motherfuckers are given this thing fucking three out of ten. You know, I mean, I get we were zero. It was a week. I've never seen a zero before in my life. If anything, video game reviewers need to get meaner. Like that's why I come out of this thing feeling like, you know what I mean? You want to know, I think so much that comes back to is that the difference in the product and what you're doing. Again, I've said this, I think recently on Greg Waves, I'm sorry if I said it here of like I had a conversation around the Oscars with Jen, I'm just like, can you imagine how nice it would be to be like, all right, well, this weekend, we're going to play all the game of the years. Candidates, you know what I mean? Like you can sit there and legitimately watch all the Oscar films in a three day period. Right. Yeah. Granted, that's a lot of movies. But again, it's doable in a way just these aren't. And so my personal interpretation on this is somebody who granted professionally reviews video games, but, you know, right. An amateur level, right? You know, I'm a capstone for college. I had already done my journalism degree. My last class was working at the magazine insert in the newspaper and I reviewed movies there, right? And so it was this idea of like, I feel like movies and this is not an insult to their work at all are so for the writer to a degree disposable. And if that's too negative, you get so many more at bats. You know what I mean? Yeah, I get I could you could legitimately if you were working as a full time movie reviewer online or anywhere, right? Watch a movie that night. Do you know, do the review during the day? Watch a movie that night. You got five pieces in a week versus video game reviewing. That's probably hopefully if you're doing five days of gaming, maybe two games to play, depending how big they are. This that the other where I think when you're invested in something so long, it's easier to be like, well, I want to give credit for this. It wasn't the worst thing in the world. Yeah, I didn't like Crimson Desert's story, but the combat is there. The I found the fun by finding the open world, whereas you can go for 90 minutes be like, I fucking hated this and here's all the the bile and hate I have for it. I'm going to put out and I'm going to move on to the next thing and review something like that. Yeah. And I think it comes better. We've talked about this before, right? One of the replies to the BS that's a blue sky, Tim, that I got from the host is people saying that like, yeah, like movie reviews will explore the one through 10 scale, but like a lot of video game reviews feel like they're exploring the five through 10. And one of the added things to that is just the fact that there are so many. There's so many video games and they're so long and we have to pick and choose based off of what do people care about the most? Turns out that the things that people care about are probably going to be the better games that are out there. We talk about, yeah, the investments right from publishers where, yeah, the games that are going to be put out by Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo, right? Are you generally going to be hopefully in that five to 10 range? And even like the third parties are indies, right? The ones that you like, y'all care about a mix tape. Y'all care about a pepper grinder is my brain. I think we talked about it. They didn't really care about it, but yeah, a little bit about a pepper grind. But even then it's like, there are so many ones out of 10s, two out of 10s, three out of 10s out there. We never bring them up because they just like one, the marketability is not as easy for those games. Yeah, like those games don't show up in a state of play. It's harder to like surface those games. And why do we, what would be what even surface those games? And then also like we can't headline a thing that's that's we can't headline an episode of Gamescast that is us reviewing a three out of 10 game that you've never heard of. Yeah, if you've heard of it, you'd be back to the fact of the time commitment as well. Right. Yeah, it is that idea that, yeah, I'm sure there the Steam store is littered with one out of 10s, but it's that idea of to do that. We have to suspend playing the game you really care about to get to it, to make it be the content nobody cares about. Our time is limited is what you're back to the argument, right? Of the benefit of a newspaper or a dot com that is all about movies, right? Where you can put in the thing that isn't the headline grabber that doesn't need the attention that is going to be there, right? That somebody who is think of, you know, when back in the day, when even you'd buy an EGM, you know, EGM in the review crew could review so many things. Now granted, far fewer games, but they could review so many things. They had multiple opinions. They could give you that, hey, I played eight hours of this and it fucking sucked and here's my 2.5 out of 10 out of this and move on. Yeah. What's up, Barrett? Yeah, I was bouncing off of your points, blessing of just like the how rare it is for big games to pop through that have that kind of marketing buzz that comes out and we're all just collectively like, what the fuck was this? And one of those games, not to get too out of it is is our story number two. Oh, we're going to transition you. He's trying to fucking host the show. I know, right? You push the fucking boss basis. All right. Nice shirt, though. But yeah, real quick, I'll push the button to make bless transition right now. I got it secretly. Oh, but I want to shout out like one of my favorite reviews I've done recently was for Romeo's a dead man, which I gave a five point five out of 10. And that's a rare game that I get to get. Like I was excited to give a score that low, even though like I enjoyed the game, but I'm playing and I'm like, yeah, no, this is not a good. I forget what five is on our scale, but this is mediocre. This is met whatever it is, right? Like this does not live up to me being able to say this is a good game. And it was fun to explore the scale. But also, yeah, like that's the game I had to make time for, even with the idea of like, hey, nobody might care about this game. But I care. And so I get to put in the time to play this. But yeah, it's harder to find time in our schedules to like get into the bag and I had deep to play something that might score that low. Yeah, a hundred percent. And that's your own enjoyment too. Right. We work at such a different company than a major dot com, if those still exist, where you're given an assignment and this is your assignment to go do. It can be that you walk in like, yeah, we put that on the counter for next week, but I don't like that I'm not going to play. Okay, cool. It's not worth a review. Okay, cool. Strike it. We'll put some. Exactly. Let's talk about a game that probably would have came in at under a five out of ten. Story number two, new Mind's Eye Mission will reveal evidence. The game was sabotaged. I'm reading from Rebecca Valentine at IGN. Kind of funny games daily award winner. Build a Rocket Boy CEO, Mark Gerhard says that the studio is preparing to add a new mission to its game, Mind's Eye, which will include evidence supporting his repeated claims that the game was sabotaged by bad actors. Speaking to Gamesbeat, Gerhard claims that the new mission will be called Blacklist and will feature a female playable character. Well, we're also using that to share some of the evidence of the sabotage with the community. He did not provide further information as to what this would entail. However, he previously told Insider Gaming that the studio was also planning to use the names of people who had committed the alleged sabotage in the new mission. Well, and let's have some fun with it, he said at the time. Let's tell the community the story before it even plays out in court. So, you know, I think I think this is not us being the victim. We've taken a couple of punches. We've kept turning the other cheek while we got our house in order. And now it's time to start doing this right back at them. And, you know, so let's have some fun with it. At the end of the day, we're storytellers, we're game makers. And quote, the sabotage Gerhard is referring to is his claims over the last year that there was a concerted effort to trash, sorry, to, no, to trash the game studio or the game and the studio by both internal and external saboteurs. He claims that the saboteurs paid off influencers or paid for spam bots to denigrate the game on social platforms. Gerhard has yet to provide evidence to back up these claims. And former publisher IO Interactive has denied their merit. In the same in the same games be interview, Gerhard said that authorities in both the US and UK were investigating what he believes to be criminal, corporate espionage. Yes. Gerhard does admit that the game launched in a messy state with numerous bugs and crashes. He tells games beat that these issues are on us and that the team is continuing to invest in the game and improve it. Gregory, looking forward to this DLC. See what you got to say. No, no fucking joke. I am there day one. Yeah. When they're like, we are dropping it. I that's a stream. I want to see this fucking incoming cease and desist court order that they will be getting as they hear the fucking that the mission is going to be stealing the fucking things for Bill the rocket. We stay like, what are we doing? Sounds insane. Yes, let's go. I love using like the actual names of people. Like, what are you doing? Do it, man. Tell the story. Asking to get all of your money taken from you, man. The court won't have anything to say about this. You know, we want to give it to the people before we talk about it in court. I love that. I love that. I love it. It's fucking insane. I love you to that they're saying that, like, oh, yeah, social media influencers were paid to say bad things about the thing. But then later on, he goes on to say, like, oh, yeah, the game launched in a messy state. That's honest. Brother, which is it? Hey, there was corporate espionage going on. All right. And we're going to get to the bottom of it in the DLC. What do you think? Meta. They got into the game plus and last minute changed the entire game to be so boring. And that's how they did espionage. I was going to say, what do you think he means by corporate espionage? Because that implies that, like, they bugged them or something. Yeah, they have, you know, somebody on the inside. Yeah, there's an inside person. That's what you got. I got to imagine. That's what this mission is, right? Yeah, the new mission will be called Blacklist and feature a female playable character, which I got questions. I want to share some of this evidence and sabotage of sabotage with the community. He did not provide further information with detail. However, he promised that it was a studio's plan to use the names of people who committed the alleged sabotage in the new mission. Let's have some fun with it. Like. You've got to be playing as. The role of the woman who in real life found this information, right? And so you're going to go through and find that person X was the one emailing Corporation Y, all of your secrets and all these different things to screw over the game. And then this is your chance to alternate reality, stop it and bring justice to them. I love it. That seems fucking nuts. It does. This seems like something that's going to blow back on them. So it's one of those where, you know, minds eye was such a is this game real? What is it? OK, it's just. Vaporware. Then it came out. It didn't do this. The IO interactive publishing drama. Them then the saying, you know, we're no longer doing this. You can take the rights back and then this and just mark like at every point where Bill the Rocket Boy CEO, Mark Gerhard can act like. He's not crazy. He doubles down on being crazy and it's working for me. You know what I mean? Like we don't have we don't have these kind of people anymore in the industry. All right, I really don't. We really everybody's hiding behind a corporation for their stock holders. Right here, Mark is out here being like, I'm going to take these motherfuckers to task and I don't know, but I love it, Mark. I love what I'm seeing out of you right now. And I'm playing this day one. All the crazy corporate people, I feel like I have to be crazy behind closed doors now. You're right. It is rare that we get somebody who's outwardly. He's just saying it. I'm going to make a. Do you see? I mean, this is the second number two. The close number two is Randy Pitchford. Oh, Randy Pitchford. Yeah, but he's a different kind of unhinged. Like this is again, like Mark is talking like he's the former CEO of Bill the Rocket Boy. This is the kind of shit you usually see people tweeting in the middle of the night, but I've been out of the industry for five years. Mark's like, no, no, I believe in my vision for this game. We got fucked and I'm going to take people down with it. I'm like, inside the game. Fuck yeah, I'm down, Mark. Whoever the man, Mark, come let us do the exclusive stream of it. When is the mission ready? I want to play whoever the lady is that the main, the protagonist is based off of what if it's like, what if we're wrong and instead it's like totally like her name is Liberty Justice? Liberty Justice is hilarious, but also like I have the end of like social. I never got your last name. It's justice. Social justice. That's actually a good one because I like because my thing is I don't I don't get the vibe that they're like, yo, we want to add in more diversity into the game, so we're going to have a few more protagonists to me. They're saying something. My immediate read is like, oh, some you felt you feel wronged by some woman and you are. But she's got to be the hero, right? Well, see, I'm you think we're playing as the bad guys. I think we're breaking into a place that is a stand in for Bill the Rocket Boy and we're stealing things and we're going to head back into our base called. Stone Hero, I don't know. What's another word for Rockstar? No, you lost. Yeah, I'm back on it. Oh, did they they imply that Rockstar is the one? I thought he did it. So because they were like, yes, yes, I remember this now because, yeah, Rockstar really scared by this game. Oh, yeah, I'm sure Rockstar's Rockstar was terrified by by Mind's Eye. I lost the chat, but someone did bring up a great point. How far into the game do we have to get to play? Sova J Hawkins super chatted in and says, can you reach the DLC before the two hour mark on stream? Like, yeah, how far do we have to get into this game? I hope it's on the main menu. Just to bring it all up here, I'm going to instant gaming.com who's got the summation of what was going on at that Rockstar thing. OK, during the first mixed previews for Mind's Eye, Bill the Rocket Boy felt that someone had paid these critics to give a negative review of the game. Without saying so, the studio accused Rockstar games of corruption. IGN interviewed Hakan Abrak, CEO of IO Interactive, the publisher that distributes Mind's Eye, and he countered the studio's claim, stating that no one paid for negative reviews. Quote, I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I just think the game should speak for itself on June 10. It's fair to say it has spoken for itself, playing by books, any of the other. So that was to bring back the Rockstar part of it from these former Rockstar people. Yes, that was the idea. So yeah, so now I'm going to be, OK, so I'm the person coming in to get the information for Rockstar. You're the saboteur. You're the saboteur for Mark. I fucking love it. I love it. You're like a jail if you do that, though, like maybe not jail, but you're going to get fine. Yeah. But what do they have to lose anymore? You know what I mean? Because here's the thing, right? They said they're using real names. So like you can't do that, right? If this is based off a real person and you call, let's say her name is Leslie. I've got the thing you wanted. I'm bringing it over. My name is Jessica Smith or whatever. If you're Jessica Smith and it's like, oh, that's me. You're playing as me. Certainly, you're going to get a lot of money. I think what it would be personally, my thoughts would be. It's going to be more. The evidence is going to be documentation. I think of it in the Bethesda. I'm finding a note, right? I'm getting a data file. I'm hacking a terminal and I'm seeing literally emails that whoever Mark thinks wrong, them sent to Mark or what? You know what I mean? Like we're publishing our evidence in the game that you're stealing and getting imagine being the game designer and what Mark Gerhard right comes in and he's like, hey, this is what I need. Like and you're the one who have you're an artist or a character designer. It's like, all right, I guess I'll make your vendetta DLC. Like I'm going to make these real people. Like that's a crazy position to be in as a designer. Yeah, but you know what? You crack that beer and you say, let's go. Let's do it. Let's get a message under anyway. Listen, it's the year of our Lord 2026. Aren't we sick of seeing video game drama play out the same way all the time? You know, we're getting something brand new in the industry where we're taking the fucking shit to the game. Mine's I really innovating the industry here. No jokes. I'm going to be watching this with bated breath. I can't stress this enough because like for the last two stories, people have been asking about both of them being April Fool's joke. This came in yesterday. I'm like 90 percent sure this is not an April. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is a red valentine. She wouldn't do that. And then I yeah, this died from my jet. And then the zero the zero star review from Variety that popped at embargo of the Mario Galaxy review. That's not an April Fool's joke either. These are real guys. That's just how crazy the video games industry is. That's so cool. That's so cool. Because it's just like I'm reading from the IG article, right? Back to Mark here, right? Quote, we've got strong evidence of this and can and conducted quite thorough investigations over the months since launch. We've identified parties involved and now it's with the authorities, both UK and US to deal with. I can confirm that they're assisting us with this investigation, but it's also in their hands now. We'll leave them to do what they do, make their arrest, or any announcements in due course. I think we're not saying anything further at this stage on that. We'll just let the natural course of justice take its path. That quote will also put the evidence in the game. We're going to do it. I mean. Go get them. Go get them, Bill, the Rocket Boy. This is so fun. I it's like one of those things that just like it again. I have been wrong. Yeah, we don't believe you. I'm going to put the receipts in the fucking game. You're going to believe it then when you're reading the goddamn emails from Rockstar, be like fucking sick of sick of that's a level of spite that I aspire to man, because like how many people are going to play the DLC? One, I'm in like who the idea, the concept of Mind's Eye DLC alone. It's fucking insane when you think about it, but you're, you're putting it in there for somebody like you're not. We're putting it in there for some reason, I should say. And that reason is purely just spite. Despite just spite. How much are you going to sell off the DLC? How much you charge for the DLC? Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, is anybody buying Mind's Eye DLC? Maybe this is what turns it around. You know what I mean? I might buy my. Yeah, right. If this is actually what it is. Go get a mark. We got a lot of super chats to read. OK, but before we get there, I want to tell you about Patreon.com slash kind of funny and YouTube.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. And speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors. You finally sit down to game. Just you, your controller and zero responsibilities. 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Visit nocd.com and book a free call with their team. That's nocd.com. And we're back. Bear, you said you got something for me. Yeah, you remember the horrors of the mega evolution or what have you for Starmie? Oh, yeah, we can. Long Starmie. Yeah, it stands upright. Yeah, did not like that. Nintendo is streaming a 10 hour looped video of Long Starmie running at you. So there you go. Oh, that's a good. That's a good April Fool's bit. That is a good April Fool's bit, but I also don't like it to my library. Oh, shit. Minds eye. I'm ready. Whenever you're ready, Mark, I'm ready. Let's hop into some super chats. I guess I have a lot to say between this and the previous story. So let's get in there. Silver J Hawkins writes in and says, I truly want to see this play out as if they're completely totally fake and a joke, or it turns into a self report on the guy making the claim. Yeah, I'm so fascinated by what the conversation is going to be in court when these of Neville get brought up of like, so what's up with these real names and these real people you put into the game. They, you know, this is how it is. This is just how it is. It's like, oh, there can't be two Jessica Smiths. And it's like, well, you're you're suing one of them. So those are public documents. You're public documents. Short changed hero writes in and says this is either pure drama or it's the most insanely smart strategy because it's going to spike in sales and in player count. But like, will it because like maybe for me and Greg and for like a handful of people that are watching the show that are also similarly morbidly curious about what's going on, but I don't I don't know if it's going to be enough to be like, yeah, we're going to risk legal trouble. You know, I get some DLC. I mean, like it's one of those. What do you got to lose? I think a lot. I mean, but I mean, we don't know anything. We know minds. I did not launch well. I can't imagine it sold well. I can't imagine it made a lot of money. I can't imagine the studio and company are in good shape. So what's going to happen? We're going to put this out, at least get the good will of like, see, we were fucked over and then you get sued into oblivion and you file for a bankruptcy and the thing that was already on the ropes is dead. And so like, does it end up just being a thing for like the business taking? Because I guess I think about Mark Gerhardt, the person of like your personal now you're getting into a libel, right? Of like what he's going to say and what's going on. So that's a different thing of how you're using it inside the game. Sure. Sure. And that's where we get into a hinky. We need an actual legal expert on here. How do you figure that out? Oh, what's the spirit? I was what I mentioned. Yeah. Oh, they they ended their hit. I didn't realize the end of their hitman club. Oh, yeah. And I got out. Yeah. So I'm shocked they're ever in. That was such a weird. We got to look back at that sometime and be like, what happened here? Yeah, because it was immediately weird when they said I want to react to his pub is publishing Minds Eye. They had a really good snake oil salesman. That was so that was like a bizarre. Everybody got the corporate espionage. You know what I mean? Yeah. Aaron Lyme writes in and says there hasn't been something this better since Kojima and ground zeros in the fallout with the former Konami CEO. Remember that? I do remember that. I do remember that. Cartel Dell writes in and says, have we ever seen anything this as meta as this before? I mean, I guess the Kojima thing that we just read about. Mr. Hawks writes in and says, as someone who platinum Minds Eye and knows how bad it actually is, I cannot wait for this DLC. It's going to be bad and I'm so excited. This is going to set things right. With who? You know, talking about, you know, no, man, Sky 2.0, cyberpunk 2.0, cyberpunk 2.0, Starfield 2.0, Minds Eye 2.0. This will be the one that we all come back like, hey, man, this game came a long way. How's it going? I'm Cohen writes in and says, we need Mike and Nick to investigate this Minds Eye DLC. I listen, I don't know if Nick, well, I was going to say, I don't know if Nick will have the context to like, no, he has no. Well, they, they, I feel like you would be two hours. Yeah. That was the whole thing where they played the first two hours on stream, but just under two hours enough to refund it. So refund it on steam. I see. I see. This is transitioning back into our reviews conversation. When it comes to the Mario Galaxy movie, Kyle LaBuff writes in and says, reviews have become too closely tied to the marketing cycle of games and movies. This makes it difficult to differentiate between hype and opinion. Thrill click bait on top and it makes it super messy. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like critical reviews, if you're doing it right, should not be tied to hype whatsoever, right? They should just be tied to how is this thing? What is my critical opinion of this thing? Right? You put it out there, but that can't come in with the, it didn't live up to expectations. It did live up. Sure. Yeah. I guess that makes sense, right? Of like, I'm super underwhelmed by this thing. I assume Kyle's leading into though. And again, I don't mean this nefariously, but leaning into embargoes, all lifting at the same time, pre-orders go a lot. You know what I mean? Or like riding that wave of the game image, the movie image with all the stars and all the things and the five out of five is in 10 out of 10. I guess. Here. Aaron Lyme says, nobody's clicking on a review for tentacle, tentacle group three or NFT clicker seven on steam. That's a two out of 10 games are more of an investment time than two hours max. Yeah. And yeah, that goes what we say, right? Like I'm not going to play. What was it? Tentacle group three, just so I can give a two out of 10 score. Yeah. And be like, cool. There was five hours of my life that I spent devoted to this thing. It's like, no, I'm a place for me, boy, 3D and then get really mad about it. You were so mad. I've never been. Oh my God, I was so mad. You were so mad on that stream here in the other room. I don't like being fucked with is the thing. Yeah. Well, and Roger and Mike like fucking with me. I think fucking with people. But yeah, but also like. It really came downhill for you when you were stuck on that first boss for a good 10 minutes at least. Yeah. You know, so I would say it's like they were just icing on the cake. Oh, yeah. Cake was just, you know, but it was the thing where I told Roger before the thing. I was like, hey, are you sure it should be me on the stream? Because Mike is beating the game. I've not beaten the game. I think Barrett should probably take my spot right because Barrett's beating the game and Roger looks at me. He says, you're a draw. You're a draw. And again, whenever he says something like that, when you bring up a good point, 100% of the time that is them trying to distract the way, distract from the fact that Mike doesn't want real competition. Like just a fair fight is all I ask for. No, they won't give it to Mike. It was scary because then what would you get to say? Like, don't don't don't fuck with me. Oh, I kept threatening to choke Roger. Yeah, I feel like ever since we had the HR meeting, the physical violence. This company has gotten more violent with their threats. Yeah. Watch that Super Meat Boy by the way. It was amazing. Oh, yeah. Techie Haas writes in and says, just wanted to shout out my country's soccer team for qualifying for the World Cup after a 40 year wait. Let's go, Iraq. We needed this hell. Yeah, that's super cool. I was at a concert last night. Yeah, a rapper named Dave. He's a British. He's like a UK rapper, right? From London. Sure. I've never seen so many soccer jerseys. Oh, yeah. One location. I went in and I was like, damn, if I got the memo, I would have wore my Chelsea jersey. Yeah. Yeah. And so shout out soccer. Nightlife 2025 brings one in and says the Guardian says Super Mario Brothers Galaxy is worse than AI. I saw that one making the rounds as well. Yeah, that one is like, again, I feel like I'm not trying to hate on reviews. I'm going to hate on that review. That one is a bit much. I wouldn't. But I could see the angle. I could see the angle and I would love to read it is like something this hollow was actually spent time on by people. Whereas AI, which is a hollow piece of art, is no time and made by robots. So we expect that of AI. But like this, I can see that. I can see that. And I did read more of the review. I didn't just read the headline, right? I actually went in and I read more of it. And like that is the angle that I think they were aiming at, which is to say, like in a world where AI is doing this, like, how are we having humans make a thing that feels like it's spitting out? Yeah, it feels soulless. So I get that. But saying it's worse than AI. For me, it's just that I've seen the movie and I'm like, all right, guys. AI couldn't even dream to make Mario. You know, I felt after that embargo for Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. So what movies do people watch? Yeah. Let's hop into story number three. The stellar blade developer, ShiftUp acquires Shin Shinji Makami's new studio. This is Sophie McAvoy at gamesintree.biz. South Korean developer ShiftUp has acquired Unbound, a new studio founded by industry veteran Shinji Makami. ShiftUp said the acquisition will strengthen its global PC and console publishing capabilities with unbound's upcoming titles. In an announcement video, Makami shared that Unbound is developing a fairly large game and aims to create a masterpiece. Quote, I've come to see my vision and ideals more clearly, and I don't think I've ever been in a situation where as a creator, our wavelengths and direction align this closely, said Makami. Well, so for as long as my career continues, I'd like to keep working together. For the first time in a while, I'll be fully involved on site to work on a fairly large game and I'm looking forward to it. To all the gamers waiting for this, I hope you can wait a little longer for it's release, end quote. As part of the acquisition, ShiftUp will publish Unbound's upcoming titles and support the studio in building its own global service capabilities. Quote, I find it deeply meaningful to join forces with Unbound, which brings together a world-class development team led by Shinji Makami, said ShiftUp's CEO, Youngtae Kim. Quote, this acquisition will serve as an opportunity to deliver the best gaming experience to users worldwide and further solidify ShiftUp's global development competitiveness. End quote. Makami added, quote, I am very pleased to be partnering with Kim and all the employees. I sense strong synergy with Kim, who is also an active creator. And I believe this is an ideal partnership that allows us to focus on creativity. We'll do our best to create fun games so that both companies working as one can meet our fans' expectations. End quote. Reports of Makami forming a new studio began circulating last month, although Unbound's website had been live for some time. The developer was founded in 2022 and began operations in 2023. Makami also established another studio, Kamoi, in 2024, after leaving Tango Gameworks in February 2023. Really interesting one. Yeah. Sum it up. The Stuller Blade developer has acquired Shinji Makami's new studio. Shinji Makami, of course, formerly of Tango Gameworks, made Hi-Fi Rush, but then if you're stretching back, right, creator of Resident Evil. Evil within. Evil within. Resident Evil 4. There's another major calm game. Dino Crisis, I think he did as well. Dino Crisis, yeah. DMC at all? What'd you say? Did he work on DMC at all? Oh, DMC. He's listed as executive producer on Devil May Cry. I heard Deepsea and I was like, what's a Deepsea? Did he work on Echoed It Off and it's crazy. Interesting stuff. Yeah. Cool. I mean, the way they're talking about it, it sounds like a beneficial thing for both parties. And we talk about how hard it is to be a developer and like be an independent developer and do all this stuff yourself, right? So if you can find another studio that is willing to take on that stuff for you. Hell yeah. Yeah, exactly. I think that's the biggest takeaway from it. You know, obviously we'll wait and see how this all plays out. Obviously acquisitions get a bad rap a lot of times. Yeah. Hopefully this is one that's more in line with what they expect out of each other, right, in terms of what he's looking for as a publisher, what a publisher is looking for as a creative. And that's, I think more than anything, what's good about this is that so many independent studios come around and then flare out before they ever get to that first game. So, or, you know, they're big game or whatever. So to have Unbound be created, have it immediately snapped up, have this level of talent with it, you hope for the best. Yeah. 100%. And yeah, like I say the hell you add to it mainly because this isn't like a PlayStation acquires a new developer or like Microsoft or Embracer acquires a thing, right? It's for adopting you into a bigger corporation. Yeah. Shift up, you know, I don't actually don't know the size of the shift up, but presumably very much smaller than a PlayStation or like a big corporation. This seems like it's a, Hey, I fuck with you. Y'all fuck with us. Like let's do work together and hopefully make something special. And I hope fingers crossed that happens because I like Celeblade and Shinji Mikami. Yeah. Legendary developer. Story number four, US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's patent on summoning characters to make them battle. Yay. This is Chris Scolion at VGC. The United States patent and trade office, aka the US PTO has revoked a patent. It granted Nintendo last year based on a gameplay mechanic used in other games. Last September, Nintendo was granted a US patent, which covered the action of summoning another character and making them battle on the player's behalf. Two months later, US PTO director John A. Squires personally ordered a reexamination of the patent the first time since 2012 that a US PTO director had personally done so without another company officially getting involved, citing previous patents, which might have made it invalid. Now, as reported by Gamesfray, the US PTO has decided to reject all 26 claims made in the patent, meaning it is now being revoked. This is a non-final decision. Nintendo now has two months to respond or longer if it asks for an extension. And there can be an appeal made to the federal circuit if it doesn't agree with the decision. I know oftentimes you do required reading. I'm putting in an optional reading. You don't have to read it, but you can, if you're more interested, go to the Video Games Chronicle article, because it goes way longer talking about some of the details of the other patents that got in the way of this patent. And why was it John A. Squires? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I nailed it. John A. Squires wanted the reexamination of it because it basically conflicted. And like he's like, these two things can't coexist in the way. Got it. So VGC is where you can find more of that. But yeah, hell yeah, for patents. Yeah, when this one got announced, we were all like, that's a really dumb patent to give out and it's way too broad. And we understand you want to protect Pokemon because people like Power World keep ripping off Pokemon, but there's got to be a better way than this. Again, would Nintendo wield it like a scalpel or would they wield it like a gigantic, you know, swinging sword and taking everybody? You can't work. It's you can't have one without the other. Both. Yeah. Once you open that door, you can't close it. It doesn't even matter what they would do in the short term with it versus the long term with it. So I thought it sounded like bunk before and I'm glad they're reexamining and dialing it back. Yeah. Uh, Greg, this. Revocation. That's a word, right? Yeah, this revocation of this patent. That's a big deal. It is. It's big word. It's a big word for Elmo. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about. Where would I go? You go to our last story, the Wii news channel, where we tell you all the tiny news items you need to know about. Story number five, we news. Is it raccoon? Yeah, like raccoon. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Raccoon has already sold over a hundred thousand copies. You can get Lucy James's preview on the kind of funny games cast from Monday. I have a feeling it's going to sell a lot more. I agree. I mean, that's going to be one that like gains ground as it goes. Yeah. That feels like it's going to have that viral like people telling everybody else and by this time in two weeks, we're going to be talking about a million or something. Yeah. I think it'll have like a certain amount of money. I think it's going to have like a slower build than Bellatro, but I think it's going to have like a similar type of like people getting more and more addicted to it. Yeah. Especially I think it was the big man, Jordan Mindler, who said once it's on mobile, it's over. Have they announced it for mobile? No. But it's one of those that like it can probably work on mobile. Pokemon home is getting Pokemon Legends Z. A integration April 2nd. There you go. Now you're all set. Yeah. Pokemon champions right around the corner start bringing them over. Give me leaf green though. I don't mean to get it. Let's get us there. PlayStation Plus essential games for April have been announced. You're getting Lors of the Fallen Tomb Raider one through three remastered and Sword Art Online fractured daydream. Crimson Desert has sold over four million copies. Nice try at Roger. Come on. Roger can't wait for that pizza. We have two games that have gone gold. Soros and Pragmata. Pragmata. Both gone gold. Pragmatic. I'm not going to be used to Pragmata. I was we Stigmata. We said it for so long. We just don't know. Super exciting. I'm Jesus Christ. Dude Minos is how I'm going to pronounce this. M I N O S launches April 9th. This is one that I saw this trailer and kind of kind of excited for this. Oh yeah. It's a maze building roguelite where you the fabled minotaur must defend your sanctuary from bloodthirsty adventurers. So here it looks like you're building a maze and building a bunch of traps to like not let adventurers get through the maze. Seems super cool. Seems super fun. And it's from Devolver Digital as well. So, you know, they put out they got the quality they're looking for out there. Yeah. Minos table flip simulator launches May 21st for PS5, Xbox, Switch and PC. And then finally, Pragmata is a Mega Man game. This comes directly from a tweet. If I can open up the website, the website can look quicker. Actually, I got the thing here. This comes from at Pragmata game where they tweeted out. Pragmata is a Mega Man game. April Fool's hashtag Pragmata Moonbytes part six. I don't know what that is, but they posted a video of the guy from Pragmata in a Mega Man outfit. I believe his name is Hugh. Uh, how long until we're getting that outfit in the game? Oh, so quick. Yeah. You think that's like, is that at launch? Is that DLC? Is that a special unlock? Just remember, I remember playing Dead Rising, right? And it was always so fun to go with the Mega Man stuff and run around to that. And clearly, if you've gone to the, that looks pretty great. That looks really great. It's got a movable faceplate. That's a real costume, I would assume. So how are we getting that in you? I'm going to say it's either, we got two options. It either happens. Either happens. Well, New Game Plus is my secret third option. Either happens within the first week or happens next April Fool's. Thank you for the update. Okay. 2027, April Fool's and they're like, oh, that last April Fool's joke. That's crazy. I feel like that always happens where like video game companies will do an April Fool's joke, realize that people want the thing. It'll take them a year. I just think it looks too good. Like it looks, it looks like obviously they already spent time on it. Yeah. Look at the, yeah, look at the texture there on the, like the padding on the front of the helmet. But for sure, we're going to be using that at some point. Also, never stop with the kids drawings. They're so fucking funny. Yeah. I can't wait. I'm feeding for this game a little bit. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. We like everything we've played from it. I'm ready to try a deep dive with it. Do you think, well, that is it for We News. Do you think, what do you think your game of April is going to be? Let's say we're doing game of the month. Do you think Soros or Pragmata, or is there another one that you think is going to be like, are we allowed to say the Starfield DLC? No. Okay. Soros, I think Soros. I think Soros is going to have the, and I, you know, yeah, you haven't played either, obviously, Indian Raj have. I think Soros, from everything they say, you know, of like, it's going to have the juice of return, but then also not be as punishing and also have a better story. Like, or better, maybe this isn't the right word, but more focus on a story. Like that sounds like my fucking jam. Like I'm very excited for Soros because that Pragmata, I think has really great moment to moment gameplay. I love the hacking. I want to see how that expands and goes on from there. But am I going to connect with the story of Pragmata? Pragmata. Madda. Madda. Madda. Madda. Madda. Madda. I'm with you, but mainly because Returnal was my game with the year 2021. So Soros is just such an easy slam dunk for me. The thing I'll give to Pragmata is that is still somewhat of an unknown quantity. 100%. And like, I can be kind of a freak a little bit when it comes to games that just are not something I've experienced before. Oh yeah, for sure. Pragmata brings enough fresh shit to the table. And if Soros is like, oh, I played this, I can just play Returnal. But I could see Pragmata like sneaking through and end up being a game that I fall in love with a little bit more. But okay. Soros, of course, has the juice for me, right? Yeah. Let's hop into some super chats, Greg. Super chats. We got a birthday tax from the stoner sensei who writes it and says birthday tax. Yes, my birthday is actually April fools. My whole existence is a joke. Smoking a bone while I watch along with you boys for my 35th. Please keep plowing that chicken into eternity. Jesus Christ. Happy birthday. There was a lot to unpack in there, but happy birthday. The Daniel. The Daniel. The Danish. And then it cuts off the Danish G.H. writes it and says, bless, are you excited for the new Strix Haven set? Also, how many commander decks do you have? And which is your favorite? So I have, I have a lot of commander decks. Mainly like the pre-con ones. I never use them though, because I like making my own commander decks. And so I have one that is my girl. Why can't I think of her name? Simone, Simone, the black blue one that gives counters every single turn. That's one of the commander decks. That's like my most powerful one. I have another one that's a shadow of the hedgehog commander. Nice. I love that. That's like my trickster commander deck. I love using it. And I'm excited for Strix Haven, although I know very little about it. I know news is breaking this morning as far as some of those details. So I'm going to check those out later. Mike, like music writes in, it says CDPR is April Fool's joke. Today is hilarious. I missed this one. Did you see this one? There, can you see if you can find CD project Reds, April Fool's thing? And then Aaron Lyme writes in, it says, bless is pressed about the near joke. Me too. I don't know what the near joke is, but I'm scared. I'm scared. We got another one from La La Drona, who says, would y'all rather eat a really good sandwich or a really good soup? Come on, be brave. Give me an answer. I'll give you one better. It can be the best soup in the world and I'll take the really good sandwich. I agree. I 100% agree. You know what I mean? Yeah. What am I in Russia starving in 1942? One better. What am I thirsty? I want to fucking food. I want to eat something. Soup sucks. Yeah. Y'all eat now. Of course. Fo is great. Fo is great. Fo is great. Yeah, I love fo. Yeah. Fo. Sorry. Yes, I'm sorry. I'm in the middle of talking about a lot of things. Yeah. Well, what are my favorite soups? Like, yeah, ramen. You can have a soup that's hearty and good like a fo. No, I'm good. Yeah, I'm straight. I like fo, but I still like the sandwich more probably. Yeah, give me a sandwich. Give me a. Yeah, I was literally, I had this decision yesterday where I was at a, oh, what's it called? On there. What up? Panera. No, it was at a ramen spot yesterday, really close to Fox Theater, where I saw Dave and I was looking at the menu and it's a ramen spot. So I'm like, I could order the ramen, but then I saw they had a, a burger. Yeah. With the, it's like a pork burger. And I was like, I mean, that burger bro burger. I ended up ordering either though. I thought about the burger and then I was like, but they got a same in three way rice bowl. Okay. One with that. Rice bowls are good. But I almost went with the burger. Sure. Fair enough. Was never going to go with the ramen. No. Yeah. They've been a mood. You gotta be a soup mood. I gotta be ready to sweat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, let's bring in one from Foxy Steve who says, just wanted to say that as a partially disabled man working out can be demotivating, but bless your gym gains encourage me to continue going. Thank you so much. Foxy Steve. I posted a story up today in the gym. I get very, not self-conf... I'm not great at posting selfies. I don't like posting myself. Sure. You know, I don't know. I feel like I'm doing, I feel like I'm being corny when I do it or cringe. Okay. Fair. But I don't think you are. I'm trying to like get the confidence. Don't worry. I thank you. I'm going to do it. Okay. Good. Do it for me. Every day. Do it and say this is for Greg. Really confused your audience. And then we got one from Corey. You got all these DMs like your boss can't ask for selfies. I don't know. I didn't read that in the handbook. Corey C307 writes in and says, I don't get to watch all lives very often due to my work schedule, but I'm off today. So here I am. Love you guys and keep up the great work. We love you. Thanks for hanging out. Thank you so much for hanging out, Corey. And I packed lunch. Now I really want a really great sandwich or even a mid sandwich, a very good sandwich. Yeah. What about like a really good soup? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You know how like I'm not, I'm not a fucking 75 year old tourist at pier 39. He might have to clam out the mountain bread factory. I got a bread mold clam chow down. You know, you order a grilled cheese and it comes with a tomato soup. What are we doing with that tomato soup? I pour it on the ground. Spitting it. What? Not a year. What's wrong? I'm here for the grilled cheese, bro. You're not dipping that into the tomato soup. I mean, I'm a blessing, but I'm not doing it every time. I've never been more angry. I never asked for this tomato soup, but just came with the thing. Khababs referring to Mario Galaxy says, sounds like it's the Pokemon Z. A of movies. I disagree. But I mean, I guess I can see your your take on there. Z.A. was a great game. Silver J Hawkins says, the only way I'm watching this Mario movie is unless it's retold, someone vaguely backed me by Greg. She didn't for an interview. Am I the one who recapped Mario? Oh, yeah. Mario recap. Are you going to be able to recap? No. We are a liminal faces as moving too fast, which they did Mario World first. I mean, we'll talk about it in review because I have thoughts. I have some thoughts there. And then fuck, I am talking a lot. Nash says April fools should be misinformation and awareness day. I agree with you there. It sounds like you're doing the recap. That's bad. Good luck. Maybe the Wikipedia is up. Yeah, I don't like doing that. I'll give you my spotty recollection. To be fair, there's not a lot of details. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be pretty simple. Let's hop into your wrong. Were you right in? Let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong. So we can correct it for those watching later on YouTube. Control F soup and just delete them all because they're all around. Now you've never had soup from here. This soup's great. Grezik writes over the good one. Minos is how it's pronounced, not minos. Minos, I assume because of Minotaur. Yeah, that's what I thought too. But Minos. But again, the language is in the vocal chords of the beholder. So if we say Minos, Minos, whatever we say is what it is. Back to Pragmata, you know what I mean? We made that. We made that. That's how it is now. Potato, potato. Exactly. You don't like it. You should have had a microphone in front of your face, Grezik, instead of fucking doing real work over there. Jet244 says not really a year wrong, which I almost just stopped reading there. But just a friendly gotcha. Greg says he avoids early access games, but skate is an early access game that he puts in his top 10 last year. Yeah. And that is how many other early access games did I, you know what I mean? It's the no homers club. I can have one. And here's the thing. Skate early access is the closest it's going to get to one point. Oh, stay. That's all be honest. Skates never getting out of the crib. All right. EA's already got the pillow on its face right now. Greg, that brings us to the end of this episode of... Wow, what an episode. I hope we have a banger gamescast after this. What is that gamescast? How to fix X-Box. Oh, that's got to be a banger. Oh, yeah, it's going to be people may add. Paris Lilly's calling you. Oh, tune in for that right after this and all this stuff happened. And after, of course, this has been kind of funny games daily. If you love what you do, remember, support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show. Sassy, Sassy, Sassy Soothsayer says as a soup hater, stay strong boys, you're on the right side of history. Hell, yeah, all these fucking soup people. You know what I mean? You gotta have a conversation about the soup people. Just like, what do you do for nourishment? If you're just drinking water for a while? There's kind of people you can't trust in a bathtub because they'll just start drinking it and get a soup. You know what I mean? These psychos, these fucking psychos. Enjoy the gamescast next day and everything after. But until next time, game daily.