I'm going to, Mark, Gaming Justice McDonald, and the clouds have parted.

The rains have swept away.

The typhoon has left us here in Japan as we're recording this.

All rainbows.

Yes, Typhoon of the season hit just as Sony's state of play was also hitting.

So we're not going to talk too much about the former except to say that that's why there might be a little bit of some recording snafus and sound quality might be, you know,

what, and there might be some weird gaps and stuff like that because, yeah, some of us had to

stay home because schools were closed.

There was people batten down all of the hatches, but that has now cleared.

And the latter, the state of play, we are going to talk quite a bit about

because we're actually once again flirting with relevancy.

That's right.

FWR, as we call it here.

A very rare thing for our 84 play podcast.

So I introduced myself. I am remote, also remote. That is

Tina BitTrip Runner, Cartier. Hi. Freshly back from, well, I guess it's been a week now, or two.

As freshly as it could be for the program.

Back from the old Bit Summit show there in Kyoto, which the Indie Games Summit,

which had a record number of visitors.

Were you there for any of the public days?

I got out before the public days, but apparently there was quite, quite the line and quite the crowds.

Yeah, I was there, I was there for one public day, and that was a foolish mistake that I will not make again, because there was so much stuff to see, and I just didn't have enough time to see all of the stuff.

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