Slay The Spire II, DLSS 5 Outrage, Portal Writer Erik Wolpaw

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 188 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jacob Geller, and Janet Garcia are joined by legendary game writer Erik Wolpaw (Portal, Portal 2, Psychonauts, Half-Life: Alyx) to celebrate the release of Mega Crit's Slay the Spire II and explain how it's the incredible sequel to one of the greatest games ever made. Then we talk about Janet and Jacob's trip to the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, follow up on Mewgenics, revisit The Division II, and share some final (spoiler-free) thoughts on Resident Evil Requiem. After that, we answer your community questions including NVIDIA's divisive reveal of DLSS 5 technology and its impact on Grace's face and dive into why Wolpaw can't stop thinking about moving Valve to Duluth, Minnesota. You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:38 - Slay the Spire II

00:47:09 - Visit Pocahontas County, Iowa

00:49:03 - GDC 2026

01:09:33 - Wolpaw on why AI can't write games

01:26:47- Mint Mobile

01:28:34 - Mewgenics

01:40:46 - Tom Clancy's The Division 2

01:43:48 - Resident Evil Requiem final thoughts

01:48:13 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:49:37 - Community questions

02:15:26 - DLSS 5 discussion

02:29:44 - More community questions

02:57:29 - Get A Load Of This

Leo’s GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/manton.bsky.social/post/3mgqaogbisk25

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UfrzDKrhEc

Erik's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2K9ccMREOI

Hanson's GALOT - https://youtu.be/eAgK1QaBOOs?si=5Yg4O_-Y9osNwBiP

Janet's GALOT - https://www.instagram.com/p/DVcXK7nj4Fs/

Community GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dZFAazL6Q

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Mid-Mags show,
0:05.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of The Midmax Show,
0:23.6	place about games, friends getting better.
0:25.0	I'm Ben Hansen, joined by Janet Garcia.
0:27.4	Hello.
0:28.0	Joined by Jacob Geller.
0:30.1	Huge week for the Janet and Jacob fans.
0:32.5	It really is.
0:33.2	You guys are everywhere in a good way.
0:35.1	Joined by Leo Vader.
0:37.0	I'm getting over being sick and I didn't sleep at all,
0:39.1	but I'm still looking forward to giving a fantastic podcast performance today.
0:42.6	Great. Look forward to it, everybody.
0:44.4	Also, we're honored to be joined by the one and only, the writer of portal,
0:49.4	co-writer of Portal 2, co-writer of psychonauts, a million other things from Valve,
0:54.4	Eric Wolpa! All right, a million other things from Valve. Eric Walpaw!
0:57.0	All right, you don't have to do that.
0:58.8	As I mentioned, I'm just finding out that I have a big
1:01.7	scar down my face.
1:04.9	Makes you look grizzled.
1:06.6	Makes you look cool.
1:07.8	Yeah, compared to the beard, it's probably not
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