Hello, fellow gamers and welcome to the video gamers podcast.

Gaming evolves over time and can change quite often.

Sometimes we're in the glorious days of great releases

and other times we're stuck with It Takes 2 as Game of the Year.

Today, we're going to be checking in on the state of gaming as a whole

from what we've been playing, the emergence of indie devs,

what games the future holds, and more. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh. And joining me,

he's had his eyes open to an entire universe of gaming. He didn't know existed prior to this podcast and well

you got to give him credit like charmander evolving into charizard this man has evolved into a

higher form of gamer is ryan are you talking about indies are you talkingies, man? Because I don't know if that qualifies, because I have advanced, but I don't know if I've advanced. I feel like you're evolving, man. Thank you. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it. Okay. So, see, here's the problem, right? I try to give Ryan a nice intro, and then he questions me when I just did.

I'm not used to it, man.

It's not, it's just to feel real. He's like, okay, yeah, you're right. No, I feel like you got some sort of underhanded thing you're going to do. So, like, I'm like, I'm ready. I even made a Pokemon reference for you. Yeah. Man, man, now you know what?

That's the last nice intro you get right.

You know what's out state of this gaming?

Charzard was a jerk. Yeah. Man, man, now you know what? That's the last nice intro you get right.

You know what's out of the state of this gaming. Charzard was a jerk. Like poor ash, dude. Charzard was a jerk. Wait, want to go like Squirtle to like blastoys or something? No, squirrels the squirtle squad? There we go. I don't. Oh, no. You don't even know. I don't know.

I don't do Pokemon, man.

I have to look up what the evolution of Charzart is.

Hold on. I don't, oh no. You don't even know. I don't know. I don't do Pokemon, man.

I have to look up what the evolution of Charzard is. Hold on, nope. Wait, pause. No, I did. Because I did not know. What's the middle, what's the middle evolution, Ryan? Charmilian. Yeah. Okay. I knew you. Charmander Charzorzard. You want you want me to do the 151?

Dude, I could do it.

Like, no problem.

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