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I wanted to talk about Game with the Year stuff, knowing that, like, we're always really bad at this.

I did ask Troy for his input, and he listed The Bear and Balders Gate 3, which I felt were very good picks.

The Bear in Boulder's Gate 3. which I felt were very good picks. The bear in Boulder's Gate 3. That too.

He was referring to them separately, but why not both?

I like that.

Have you guys seen the bear?

No, but Troy has also recommended it to me.

I will get to it, I promise, eventually.

It is very good. It's just for me, it's one of like, get to it, I promise, eventually. It is very good.

It's just, for me, it's one of those ones of, like, after a long, stressful day of running a kitchen slash game company, it really worries me, like, going, and, I don't know, I just want to watch, like, Darth stuff at the end of the day.

It's very, um, warming, though. You're, like, you watch, you know, these people in their kitchen,

these little artists and level designers in their kitchen

really blossom.

And it's really, really well.

I do have one guy who works for me,

one guy who works for me used to work in a kitchen,

and he does occasionally say yes, chef to me,

and it makes me happier than anything else that happens to he does occasionally say yes chef to me and it makes

me happier than anything else that happens to me. That's really good. I love it. I love it.

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