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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson joins Greg to talk about today's surprise Nintendo Direct Mini, Epic publishing games from a bunch of devs you love, and more! Support MinnMax at http://www.patreon.com/minnmax! Time Stamps - 00:06:20 - Housekeeping We’re streaming Animal Crossing this afternoon! At 2 p.m., come see my island, Joey’s island, and whatever Andy and Blessing have been up to. It’ll be on YouTube.com/kindafunnygames later. Mohammed Mohammed, Justin Toft, Das Bear Jew, Black Jack, Jarrett Brown The Roper Report - 00:10:00 - Nintendo Direct Mini 00:33:10 - What can people do to set their expectations at the correct level for Nintendo Directs, and other gaming events? - Best Friends Q: ArkWing 00:36:40 - Epic Games Partners with Remedy, Playdead, and Design 00:47:12 - Fallout 76 Wastelanders DLC Delayed 00:52:40 - QUIP 00:53:55 - ExpressVPN 00:55:35 - Out today Reader mail - 00:49:50 - At this point, does Naughty Dog & Playstation look to intentionally delay The Last of Us II to a later date of when society is in a better state, so that the game would be more welcomed? - Branddnh 01:01:50 - The Division 2 because it's too close to reality right now. As somebody who's had the exact opposite reaction, who's been playing games like The Division 2 and reading every article remotely related to COVID-19 because it's so close to reality, I wanted your takes. How do you react to our modern day situation? Hide away in a fantasy world to escape? - Gondors Condor 01:06:02 - Squad Up: Luuc from the Netherlands(Pokémon GO) - 9743 5822 0485 01:07:00 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: Greg & Blessing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games, daily for Wednesday, March 26, 2020.
0:13.2	I'm Greg Miller, alongside the founder of MinMax, Ben Hansen.
0:17.5	Hello, thank you for having me, Greg. I appreciate a lot, man.
0:21.0	I'm so glad we were able to make this happen. Of course, you were one of the many GDC guests
0:24.8	that were supposed to roll on through and do stuff with us and then everything had to go to hell.
0:29.2	That was bizarre. I had somebody podcast lined up and they all just started dropping.
0:32.4	I was like, okay, kind of funny is the last one.
0:34.2	Is it worth going out to San Francisco just to be on kind of funny?
0:36.7	And I was on the fence, Greg, because also I had friends and stuff like that.
0:39.6	And then finally, yeah, I had to let it go. But thank you.
0:41.9	I appreciate you making time for me.
0:43.5	No, I'm glad we could. Ben, if for some reason people do not know you, who are you?
0:48.2	Describe yourself to the kids. Oh, man.
0:50.3	So I was at Game Informer for nine years.
0:52.8	Started there at 2010. I was the video producer, like the first full-time video hire at Game Informer.
0:58.2	And so then, you know, I went on 80 cover story trips, which is a great Game Informer phrase.
1:03.4	I know not everyone's used to, but so we had to do a cover story.
1:06.0	Go out there, spend two days at the studio shooting stuff, like a lot of rapid fire interviews
1:10.0	is kind of what became known for later on.
1:12.8	And then eventually hosted the Game Informer Show podcast started out with Tim Turrey.
1:17.9	And I think we had you as a guest early on.
1:20.3	Yeah, it's probably like 2015 or so.
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