Pickax.

Five, four, three, two, live, Michelle.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to episode 915 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast.

I'm with your host, Michelle Madison.

And I, of course, am your John Jacobson.

And I am Generation Rye. What's

going on? What's up? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait. You have another nickname? I bet.

No, that's my, that's my, uh, my online persona. When you presented yourself,

Michelle and you blacked up seven. When he presented himself, he was trying to get us to do the Rye thing. And now he snuck in something else on top of it. I think I've had a different starting name every week. So I figured I'd stick with that and just change it up. Michelle, I'm not comfortable with this. I usually say Michelle Madison, Gamer Ted Coastal, Michelle. So, you know, I don't always save the same thing either, John. What's your deal? I need to accept Rye first. Then we could add something new. But my name doesn't end with Sun, so it doesn't work. I have to like come up with something fancy every time. No, just be you, Rye. We appreciate it. So yeah, we were off last week. Of course, John, you and I did a bunch

of bonus stuff that we put out for people if you support us. And thank you to those who have

from the beach. Yeah, from the beach. You called me on the phone and, uh, yeah, talked about,

who knows what, your seafood. About lobster rolls. Yeah, lobster rolls. Stuff, cohags. Yeah, a bunch of stuff I didn't understand. I smiled and nodded. But yeah, that's up. If you want to support us, you can do so now on Supercast. Lipson's being phased out. Our app is going bye-bye. So support us on Supercast at videogameoutsiders.com for weekly bonus shows, the back catalog. That's right. And add free V VGO. Yeah. And to sub to that, it's easy. Just go to video game outsiders.com. Now listen,

that red dripping button still applies here. Okay. It's the same button. It looks visually.

It looks the same. Okay. It's different underneath the hood. We added some extra juice to it that you can't see until you click it.

Yeah, because there's extra shows now on Supercast.

So if you want to support us, that's great.

Also, this week in Discord, we're giving away a copy of Destiny to The Edge of Fate from our friends at cdkees.com. You can save a few bucks there or win games with us in our Discord every week from them because we got Mafia keys coming up for next week.

We're doing a big roundtable.

We're doing an Italy episode, right? Battlefield. That's right. Forget about it. Forget about it. We're all Italian, so we get to embrace it for one week. You have to deal with it. We'll be talking pasta and garlic bread. No, we're going to talk about mafia. I'm hesitant about Maf. I've been watching some trailers, so we'll see. We're going to give you our honest review next week. Well, the last game was not great. Yeah, but this one... But I have to ask a question, though, because I can't tell you that I've ever been like a giant fan of Mafia. Mafia, too, is great. I liked it. I liked it more of in GTA at the time. But since then,

I haven't loved it. It's always been a little mid, though, right? It's always been a bit mid. The last one, I feel like they just released it for the sake of the name. Like, they needed to get a game out and that was what they came with.

Yeah.

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