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Ryan Bernie. Well, it's supposed of the patch. It's a mouse. It's brought to you, or it's brought to you, starring Gus.

Ryan. Bernie. Well, it's supposed to be Bernie, but Ashley. Yeah, there you go. And Gus. So, there goes, start the time. Look at that. You got a lot of shit for forgetting that. I know. I get shit for doing it and shit for not doing it. It's a no-win scenario.

That's because you're on the Internet.

I know.

That's right.

So this week, a bunch of topics, a bunch of very controversial hot button topics. Some sad. Some sad. So I think, you know, obviously the big one that happened this week just happened the other day was the shuttering of Irrational Game Studio.

Wait, so is the studio shutting down or is it just reducing to 15 people?

Sort of shutting down, but it's actually reducing to 15 people, but it's essentially shutting down because they're offloading all of their people and their games.

Yeah.

All the IPs moving on.

Yeah, it's basically like Ken Levine said, hey, I want a new studio. I want to do this whole new thing. But instead of leaving and starting a new thing with 15 dudes, you just laid everyone off. Yeah. In the nicest way possible. In the nicest way possible. Like everyone still has, you know, access to the studio and they can put their portfolios together and irrational in 2K and take two.

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