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TechLink was the world's first link type Channel

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and now GameLinked what does that mean what game length is the world's second

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linked type Channel shout out to my boy hideo Kojima

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well whatever linked whatever TechLinked or GameLinked is now there's

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there's two of them basically yep yeah you guys might have noticed if you watch

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techlinked the channel this video is going up on that we launched GameLinked

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uh recently it's been a few weeks I

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don't even know yep I think we have eight episodes that's before well there

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will be one more by the time this goes up on Monday but anyways uh and you

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might have noticed I mean we've didn't really address it on this channel that

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much we did a community post we did

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there was an LTT video that's true so here we are if you guys were wondering

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what the heck is up with GameLinked what kind of content

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um you can expect I mean clearly you know we've done some videos already but

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we have ideas plans

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and if you're wondering about the uh the background and how it came to be that's

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what this episode's gonna be so stick around and the reason we're here today

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doing a talk land is because of you know we had LTX people work throughout the

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weekend we're taking today Monday off so we recorded this before LTX to publish

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instead of a regular TechLinked we recorded this in the past you're

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watching it in your present tell let us know let us know how it

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feels is everything cool I'm here with Jacob

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Rush the guy who was hired to write game

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linked yeah in October last year in October of last year only to wait how

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long months but I mean many months like

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eight months or something eight months no really eight and a half oh June 30th

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also be wrong I don't I I just switched to Windows 11 and I don't know where

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that's that's fine the calendar is the point is it was months first of all how

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did that feel being hired for something that didn't

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exist okay now to be clear you were hired as the TechLinked and games right

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yeah yeah well but then you were hired and you were like no games yeah that was

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that was the weird thing is like spelled a-e-m-z no games no games so

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my first day you and James pulled me into a conference room you guys go hey

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remember GameLinked it's not happening uh not yet

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so you're writing for Mac Address no I

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remember I remember James literally said he's like so I guess we're just gonna have to find some Disney work for you to

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do on Tuesdays and Thursdays okay

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sweeping the floors yeah picking up

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people's empty coffee mugs uh boosting

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Linus so he can grab the top shelf

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yeah um yeah I'm sorry about that we've

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talked about this yeah there are a bunch of reasons why it didn't launch right

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away number one is because you know we've already we're TechLink was already

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on a one day one video A Day schedule and we were doing it three times a week

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yeah a channel launch where we do another episode on Tuesday and Thursday

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would mean you know a video a day five days a week

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yeah and Edsel and Nicole who are are

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editing people uh they they leave the editing department they were like we

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just don't have the bandwidth for that you know LMG how many channels do we

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have I don't even know seven seven functioning channels so they

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needed to hire another editor they did that I think in in the fall I

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think they hired one before Christmas and then I'm like all right we hired an

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editor can we uh when can we launch and they're like we need to hire another one

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editor two came on board same problem uh

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but at that point it was kind of like all right we need to get a new set we

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need to we can't film GameLinked on the tech link set do you remember what some

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of the ideas were for the game length set early on

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yeah I mean I designed a few of them like I was going for like a vaporwave

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outrun this is the whole thing that was the whole thing because we went through

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a whole set design process where well it

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us we were making Pinterest boards we made a Pinterest board for inspiration

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yeah and then I realized okay this is kind of messy honestly I don't

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understand how people use Pinterest it's like all over the place it's a lot it's

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nice if you want absolutely everything in like a big internally scrolling thing

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let's not go on a Pinterest engine I want this to be a Pinterest review

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episode does anyone use Pinterest I'd like used

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paint I spent like 20 to 30 minutes in paint

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yeah you do this like because we so the

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idea one of our ideas was to have uh

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The Talk The the TechLinked set and the game length set kind of be like

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reflections of each other or be like connected we were going to have a

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physical set and have one half of the set be tackling to one half of the set

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be game LinkedIn you could kind of like see a bit of the other set in the other

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in the in one of them you know what I mean um so you came up with this like split

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logo thing yeah because I figured like vaporwave which is inspired by like

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early 90s would really fit in with techlinked because like you know you're

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that sort of fits and then outrun is supposed to be inspired but it's the

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this retro futuristic 80s inspired thing and that's makes sense because it's you

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know that's around the time of the big boom of like gaming like like gaming consoles yeah we were I mean we were

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thinking about it yeah we went deep we went deep into our minds and into the

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internet then it was decided we're actually going

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to do a virtual set yeah it was revealed to us you know edzel had this idea to to

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have a virtual set within Unreal Engine so which is kind of cool because it's a

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gaming channel yep but we'll I mean quote unquote gaming channel we'll get

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to that yep um so I mean you know all these details

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are in the LTT uh video If you haven't guys haven't watched it uh it's a good

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one because they go over the whole technology about how we're doing live uh

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we don't take the green screen footage and we put it in the computer and then process it it's processed in real time

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as we film and then it's like sent right to the the editor in its current state

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with the background already baked on so that's pretty cool I mean it's basically you know basically laptops are doing

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this PCS are doing this with like you know streaming software

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um but it's like that but way higher Fidelity I mean

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if you guys have seen any of the videos you might be able to tell please watch

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our videos Around the Edges there's some please watch imperfection but anyways if

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you're interested in the technical details there's the LTT video for that but what we wanted to talk about on this

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video was kind of like the channel itself game-linked content and what

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regard so one thing that we noticed when we launched the first video was people

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kind of being confused about the format or the content uh let us know in the

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comments if you were confused because some people thought that when Linus who

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talked about this channel way before he was supposed to talk about it on wancho

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when he mentioned it he kept calling it a gaming channel and so people were like

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oh are you gonna be playing games on the on the channel and maybe we will I don't

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know I I've that's not in the cards right now I mean even before that the

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first day I started uh one of the colleagues at Labs Tim he said he said

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and he's like yeah I thought you guys were gonna be doing gaming reviews

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yeah and I guess I guess probably what happened is in the years since uh in the

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year since TechLink was first announced like not the the people that were there

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for it were the ones the game like no TechLinked people who were there for

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they're the ones that are actually watching Tech link whereas the LTT audience at large there's a large

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proportion of that audience that isn't also a TechLinked audience so they

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probably just saw like oh there's a tackling Channel there's also a gaming

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channel maybe they're related in some way and then when they hear Linus saying

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oh it's a gaming channel 15 times they're like oh so they're gonna be

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doing like game reviews they're gonna be doing like all these other things like like all this gaming stuff finally LTT

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is breaking into gaming which is you know

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people wanted something like GameLinked LMG

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has kind of dipped its toes into gaming content at various times but it doesn't

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seem like this is what one of the weirdest things about about you guys the

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LTT slash LMG audience

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uh ostensibly supposedly the reason why

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you're interested in all this like gaming PC Hardware is because you play

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games but for whatever reason every time we

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like made gaming content on LTT or you

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know on on techlinked we made we had like gaming content as the we

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experimented with having gaming content as the thumbnail a few times and the

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videos didn't do very well and we're like it just seems like the LMG audience

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even though they're all Gamers they must be they don't want to see gaming content

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from us so I kind of you know people had

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the idea in the company to to start game link they're like when are we gonna get

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gambling started you know and I was kind of like I don't know because it seems

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like every time we've done gaming stuff it hasn't really done very well and you

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know LMG does let us pursue passions uh

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they you know Linus let me do two Tech loggers that took ridiculous amount of

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time but at the same time we have to be data driven yeah and it was kind of like

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it's a business but for whatever reason

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right we're gonna do the GameLinked it's time oh really that was one yeah okay in the summer I remember James

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sitting me down in one of my uh one of my check-ins and he's like

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so we're doing tackling and I'm like you mean game like game liked and I'm like

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okay uh we're doing tackling I haven't been doing that for years well and so

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here's why when you're like I was hired as the game-linked guy I'm kind of like

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because the launch of GameLinked was also an excuse to hire you and to you

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know hopefully hire people to kind of flesh out the news team as we're calling

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ourselves so from the get-go the the

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there was a desire at LMG to launch a gaming channel yeah

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and I think that no one really knew exactly what that would look like and we

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are still kind of figuring that out so we can talk about some of our like

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content ideas none of these have been approved by the way uh at this point we

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don't even have approval to tell you guys about it so what you need to do

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after you hear this is just bombard every LTT video comment section yes yeah

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I mean what we're really trying to do is obviously what we've started with on

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to keep doing that because we know that that's what we can do and we're pretty

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good at it um so we're going to keep doing that on Tuesdays and Thursdays but you know long

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later but gaming reviews are also something

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you know it's it's tough you know we talked about this a little bit yeah we have to

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spend time playing the game like and like a lot of games now are open world

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games and they're just massive and then you have to decide what what do I need

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entire thing and 100 again yeah like Gerard the completionist you were you

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were assigned the idea to come up with some content ideas yes I was so why

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don't we why don't we talk about some of those because you know if you guys hear

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any of this and you're like well that's something I would tune in for yeah maybe we'll maybe we'll

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do it and maybe we'll do none of it and

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we'll have to see this video doesn't have quick bits but

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links below the first one I started with it's kind of a staple of like gaming

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don't this is probably the least feasible of all of them because it

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requires like a three-hour commitment yeah

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any like the YouTube landscape is so interesting you know this this goes back

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audience one that would watch Let's Plays I don't even know if Let's Plays

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big channels that do big channels that do it I think it's harder maybe for newer let's players to break into the

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space but um a lot of people still like I I get

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recommended uh videos a lot that are like very few views but they're people

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playing games um so it's still something that's very much happening in the YouTube landscape

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I mean we have people meeting here every once in a while to play games I would

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love to DM you and maybe like James like a lot of

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the personalities I think there would be something really interesting in that you

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just want to suck me into your fantasy world I just like doing voices and

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creating worlds you just want to bring me into the world and then you would just like immediately kill you turn the

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turn the whole world against me everyone hates Riley Murdock give me the

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game wait a dice all right all right I try to cast a spell and rebounds and

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kills my wife all right I think I think we're done I think we covered that all

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right so the other one the other one is uh something like my favorite game which

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is just like getting different people from the company to uh talk about their

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favorite game and maybe get uh the host or the cop like a colleague like maybe

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one of us to like play one of their most memorable moments from that game that's

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pretty cool yeah I think there's um like my favorite game is Fallout New

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it's Vault 11. there might be one Quest that makes you go to it but you don't

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even have to go to it you can go to any of the other vaults it's not a required

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location to go to but if you go there the story

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that you experience is fantastic I'll destroy you and make you cry I mean that

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philosophical the other one is the unwritten rules of game design I kind of

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gaming space and and is so familiar because I've been gaming since I was a

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there but there's a lot of things that game designers use to communicate

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certain things that we take for granted because we automatically know what they

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are but someone who's maybe more new to right gaming would be confused by them

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there's actually a really great uh video a Rasputin it's called what games are

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like for someone who doesn't play games oh save that video yo I think I started

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watching it it's very interesting to watch um I so I kind of was inspired by that

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and I thought it would kind of be cool to like maybe talk about things that you

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know from games but you didn't actually know so kind of like a series talking

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about elements of games that uh you know

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non-gamers might not be super familiar with yeah so the next one uh uh is sort

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of inspired by something I wanted to do streaming actually but it's called

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humble beginnings where basically we discuss and demonstrate the earlier games in a what is now an iconic

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franchise so games that uh generally

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inspired or or spiritual successors that became iconic

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France prizes so like Fallout one and two uh I mean it's weird to say they

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inspired Fallout 3 but like they're very different games in terms of gameplay and

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stuff uh Baldur's Gate one and two both inspired Dragon Age because BioWare

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worked on those games System Shock inspired Bioshock uh Eco inspired Shadow

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of the Colossus Devil May Cry and piano3

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it's both inspired Bayonetta so there's a lot of different games that actually

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have some sort of inspiration either something that the Creator had worked on

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earlier that uh spurred them to create

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this new thing that became a phenomenon and I think that's kind of a cool place

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to explore is to go back to those original games see what's similar see

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why maybe they didn't get the recognition that they deserved if they

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didn't or or why they did get the recognition they deserved in their time

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I can see this kind of being a part of maybe a broader series doing sort of

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like an investigation I mean like one one game longers well

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so game longer than Tech longers take a

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long time to make that's true however I feel like there might be space for like

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a Techquickie style gaming thing where you know we aren't doing like the

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deepest dive ever and going and interviewing people and like taking

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months to do like investigative reporting like we just kind of you know

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we write like a tech Wiki where John makes three in a week we'll call it game

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lengthy game lengthy yeah you know it's not longer but it's a little lengthy

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game girthy oh the other the other thing is is uh you didn't even hear that game

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girth you know I heard it okay thank you it was beautiful thank you rally you're

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beautiful stop okay next one the other one is uh game First Impressions so I

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think it'd be cool to like either take someone who's gamed a lot in in one

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specific genre like they have like one genre that they're very familiar with or just people who haven't gamed a lot at

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all and get them to spend like five to

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ten hours in a game and then have like a little talk with them like a talking

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style yeah this is kind of the thing that maybe could

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fill in this like reviews uh pocket that people are you know

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people thought we were going to do game reviews we're probably not going to do

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full game reviews where it's like here's

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our definitive take on the subject but what we might do is you know this kind

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of like Diablo 4 launches a bunch of

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people in the office are gonna be playing it uh a lot at home so then once

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they've put in a certain amount of hours we can all kind of like get together and like have like talk about it maybe talk

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about our experience I I think there's kind of two prongs to go about it so

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there's one where you're talking to people who actually know a lot about the about that game and then I think would

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be cool to also have someone who's like never played the game before and like

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there's a place completely different genre of games or doesn't play games

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yeah that could work really well and have them kind of talk because you can

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have one person really nerd off and one piece person be very confused and be totally looking for answers after their

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five to ten hours of whatever confusion confusion can be very entertaining yes

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here's the last one that I finally kind of came up with it's kind of I've kind

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of got two names for it uh flawed reviews slash review reboot

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so flawed reviews is I'm trying to think of a way that we can sort of do reviews

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but it still sort of fits into the comedic flavor of of linked channels

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while also fitting within a time frame what it's time to Troy Baker okay we'll

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get to that so like I was thinking either like one hour two hour reviews

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where we literally just review the first one to two hours of the game which would

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be really funny for games that have like really in-depth uh character creation we

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could have uh so this is what he was talking about previously the old man

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Murray throwback they had they had a they had a really strong critique of

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game design in like the late 90s where everyone just had crates so they

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developed this this start to create Magic old man Murray so there were

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online uh website okay uh and they don't

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know yeah and so uh they would basically count the number of seconds it would

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take for you to run into your first crate or Barrel and that was that was your that was your

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start to create score but I thought maybe we could update that for like modern game tropes like uh time to

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tutorial screen that pauses the game so time to Troy Baker is because Troy Baker

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is in almost every game the man is the

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man does work so we're gonna have to like look up who if if Troy Baker plays

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a character in the in the game and then see how fast we encounter that character

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yeah basically I mean think think think of the freaking

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like series and he's he's probably voice a character and it's it's almost

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certainly yeah uh time to actual effing game yes which is uh you know games that

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start with a barrage of cut scenes games where you're supposed to be this cool

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character in a mystical world with magic but for the some reason the first 45

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minutes of gameplay are you walking through an apartment building trying to find a cat for some reason that's the

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worst anyway uh can you make a monster which is basically we judge the

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character creation based on how far how much we can offend god with our

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creations now that that is like a let's play

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concept that I think could work where where there you know we're basically

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doing like Mario Party mini games where we're we're in one part of a game and

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we're trying to see who can do a certain thing first and then uh my my last idea

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was does it have couch Co-op and if not zero out of ten uh so the whole idea of

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like what uh review reboot because I was kind of thinking I didn't bring this up

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to you but so I had the flawed reviews idea but then I thought of like what if

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we just for fun decided that every

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different review we would be reviewing that game on a completely different

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metric that was somewhat arbitrary reviewing it on like view distance yeah

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like just like just like everyone had like like a very specific verticality

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yeah like some sort of very specific metric that only applies to like that

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game tears of the Kingdom would win on that one yeah so so like that would be

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like one like it would be like you can fall for like 10 minutes or something okay so I mean if any of those if any of

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those Concepts uh tickled something in inside of you in a totally platonic

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Wireless way uh let us know and leave a comment

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some more stuff with it other than just news maybe uh again this is all very

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speculative but we basically want to know what you guys want to see uh so we

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for now 100 what we're doing is gaming news yeah

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and then in the future you just let us

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know how you want these monkeys to dance I

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I take offense uh to that

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I don't dance and I'm not a monkey ape

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um sorry we're good these Apes can Boogie all right so that's all the time

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we have for today thanks for watching guys this is I mean this is sort of a

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physically can't go and upload a regular tackling episode but uh subscribe uh let

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us know if you want to see more of this let us know what you want to see on gamelink and uh we'll see you soon and

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