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This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Oh, Nick I don't want to waste too much time I feel like when a new podcast launches

I hit new podcast launches they just waste a bunch of time fiddly farting around.

Oh yeah this whole like preamble like getting way to like let's not build it up let's just get

right into it. Right I don't want people I don't want to assume that this is the

only episode of this podcast that people ever

listen to. And that we have to like get a bunch of stuff out of the way. I want us to like get to the

meet the heart of the matter. We can introduce ourselves. I'm Griffin McElroy.

I'm Nick Robinson. We work for Polygon, but we're getting into a new business now.

We're not just like looking at playing, talking about games and then shitting all over them.

No, we are shitting on them way earlier in the process now.

We figured we could cut out the middleman.

Well, I think it would be helpful for us in our career as critics to create the things

upon which are shitted. That's true. We don't really have any point of reference for how hard it is to conceptualize and really create a video game.

But my assumption is it's wicked easy.

That's what I mean, based on just the suggestions we've already gotten, I'm feeling like it's not going to be too

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