Hello everyone and welcome to the first ever recording of the FireScape cast. I'm Mike

Mahardi. You might know me from GameSpot, Game Informer back in the day when I was an intern.

Now I work at Vox Media and I currently work with Polygon and a few projects. I'm here with a few friends.

Mike, it's a trailer. It's like you know when you say it's the first recording, I think you're

raising the expectations here. Anyway, hi, I'm Dan Reichert. It's just a trailer. It's like, you know, when you say it's the first recording, I think you're raising the, the expectations here.

Anyway, hi, I'm Dan Reichard. It's just a trailer, folks. This is going to be a few minutes. Don't get too excited. I'm Dan. I used to work at Game Informer magazine. I used to write for a newspaper in Lawrence Kansas. That's probably the lead here. And then I worked at Giant Bomb.

You might have heard me on the Giant Bombcast or the Beastcast.

And now I got a little Twitch channel where I play the video games for the folks at home. Hi, I'm Mary. I was on GameSpot. And then I went to Twitch. And I live stream on Twitch all the time and hang out with some friendos there. And I've been hanging out with these Joe Shmows for a while, too.

Welcome to the last ever recording of the Fire Escape cast. We'll be recording much more. The trailer and the finale at the same time. This is it. Yeah. We decided to go for a one fur here. Yes. Well, we've kind of had some like prequels to this because we've all gotten together a couple times for very...

It seems like more

because both of these

were like eight hours long,

but we did some long

video game discussions

on my... prequels to this because we've all gotten together a couple times for very, it seems like more

because both of these were like eight hours long, but we did some long video game discussions on my Twitch channel for like Game of the Year stuff and kind of a check-in last year. And it turns out we really like talking about video games with each other. It's inspired by the Fire Escape is all about the fact that we used to just always hang out late at night at bars and

kind of shoot the shit for such a long time. And this is kind of our way, our love letter of doing that

again. And we don't need a Pax, although that would be nice. But we don't need that to hang out and

talk about video games ever at all or other things that we want to talk about. We all used to work in

like traditional games media, always in each other's orbits pretty

much all the time.

But now we don't.

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