Our AI Savior, Pokemon | The Grinding Gear Podcast #142

The Grinding Gear Podcast

Garrett Weinzierl and Kyle Fergusson

Nexus, Games, Video, Ffxiv, Gaming, Pc, Games & Hobbies, Diablo, Warcraft, Blizzard, Ff14, Final, Starcraft, Mmo, Console, Hots, Fantasy, Video Games

4.9 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Will Pokemon save us from the Ai? Stormgate, you remember Stormgate right? Tim Morten had a rather honest rundown of where he feels the post-Blizzard design team went wrong and brings up the changing landscape of Venture Capital. The episode can’t help but get real on the eve of Pokemon’s release. Love em or hate em, Nintendo is about to drop another massive Poke’drama’pocalypse into the world as reviews come in around 8/10. Xbox continues its cursed run by talking about an upcoming “ad supported” tier of Xbox Game Pass. We’re both playing Megabonk. Emails and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right.
0:22.8	I just made a break in the audio recording because that all kind of felt like pre-show.
0:26.5	Now you're talking, you're talking Pokemon.
0:29.3	Oh, yeah.
0:29.8	I kind of want to just make this part of the show.
0:32.4	So hello everybody to a conversation somewhat in progress.
0:37.3	That will just be the beginning of the latest edition
0:40.7	of the Grinded Gear podcast.
0:42.0	Hello, we are back.
0:43.5	Last week, it was Roundtable.
0:44.8	Hope you all enjoyed.
0:46.9	It's me and Kyle.
0:48.6	The boys, the men.
0:57.0	The oscillating between I love being
0:57.8	a denizen of the internet
0:58.8	and please I just want to
1:00.6	disappear into the wilderness
1:02.7	for a few days
1:03.8	human folk
1:05.9	get lost in the crunchy roll
1:07.8	that's what I did this
1:08.6	or like me
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