8-4 Play 5/30/2025: SWITCH 2 COMETH

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4.6 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

With The Second Coming upon us, Digital Foundry’s John Linneman joins us for an exhaustive chat through the tech driving Nintendo’s new hardware, including a few key lingering questions…

Time — Topic Discussed

00:46 – Nicknames
18:56 – Switch 2 Talk
1:04:16 – FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time
1:13:08 – Luigi’s Mansion 3
1:14:33 – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
1:16:27 – Blue Prince
1:21:34 – Doom: The Dark Ages

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the next episode of the 8-4 play podcast, your first only greatest hope for talk about Japan and games and Japanese games.
0:41.9	I am your host, Mark Gieneming Justin McDonald.
0:45.1	With me, I have a very special pre-Switch 2 launch lineup.
0:51.3	Customated in the works for months here, people.
0:54.2	Months. We lined up everything. Don't works for months here, people. Months.
0:55.5	We lined up everything.
0:57.0	Don't say we don't love you.
0:58.4	That is starting off with our first special guest, semi-special guest, semi-regular.
1:04.2	That is one Mr. Roy herbs and shit Blakely.
1:08.4	That's me.
1:09.7	Which I believe is what you mentioned you're growing right now on your balcony.
1:14.1	Yeah, yeah, like my my my laundry drying balcony like I try I try to reserve a little bit of
1:19.0	space for it to grow grow like herbs and stuff because I did it last year and it was super
1:24.0	rewarding.
1:24.6	I know it's like I think a lot of people have already probably figured this out but but I'm like just discovering it. So it's like, you can actually cook with it.
1:30.8	You can actually use it and cook with it and it actually makes the difference to your, well, I'll
1:35.7	be honest, I don't use it probably as much as I should. I kind of just get let it grow really
1:39.9	big and then like give a bunch to people or dry it and then just it hangs around which i'm a like
1:44.1	parsley rosemary basil was was my my prize crop last year okay this year i've got i've got some
1:50.7	tomatoes uh but i've so one thing i'm on the fifth floor of my apartment okay so like
1:58.6	it's it's nice i need to worry about like rodents getting in there and eating them or whatever.
2:02.6	You know, like if it were America and I had like a backyard, that would be my concern.
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