Xbox's Handheld, Ball X Pit Review, Absolum Rules
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, married man Jacob Geller, and special guest Chris Plante from The Besties and Post Games break down their love for the new rogue games Absolum, Ball X Pit, and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. They also go back in time to re-review Super Mario Galaxy 2 now that it's on the Nintendo Switch 2 and share thoughts on the powerful ROG Xbox Ally X handheld. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! 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
00:01:32 - Welcoming Chris Plante from Post Games
00:05:37 - Give To The Max charity stream this Saturday
00:07:52 - Get a Steam code for Promise Mascot Agency
00:09:04 - Absolum
00:23:21 - Super Mario Galaxy 2
00:37:09 - Hello Fresh
00:39:02 - Ball X Pit
00:54:16 - ROG Xbox Ally X
01:06:07 - Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
01:16:34 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/
01:19:22 - Community questions
01:56:40 - Get A Load Of This
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Minmag Show, |
| 0:24.1 | place about games, friends, getting better. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello, my name is Ben Hansen. |
| 0:27.2 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm joined by Cala Hilliard. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello. |
| 0:31.0 | And returning champion as a married man, the return of Jacob Geller. |
| 0:36.2 | Hello. |
| 0:37.3 | Unfortunately, he married his cat. |
| 0:40.8 | That's a joke for the video watchers. |
| 0:44.0 | Worldwind tour of Europe over there, Jacob. |
| 0:46.5 | You feeling refreshed? You feel like a new person? |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, I'm feeling like we need to build some goddamn trains in this country. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, it's just being impressed with trains. |
| 0:54.0 | I took so many trains, and they were all great. I love trains. |
| 0:59.2 | No, Joe Biden over here. Yeah, I can't imagine. Except he didn't build any, Chris. He thought about it. |
| 1:05.6 | I just think about your beautiful bride looking longly in your eyes and all you want to talk about is public |
| 1:11.2 | infrastructure on the entire news. This was not just me. Our honeymoon was designed around a train |
| 1:17.9 | ride. We worked in either direction from wanting to take that Swiss Alps train. And it was a |
| 1:24.1 | great decision. That sounds great. I'm sure we'll cover it in a bonus pod the entire big journey for you, but we don't have time today, Jacob Geller, because of course, we're joined by the one and only Chris Plant, ladies and gentlemen. Hello. Hi, welcome. It's so nice to be here, fart night. I'm here to talk about my favorite new game, fart night. He's got comedy, everybody. You might not know from his tone of voice and his opening joke, but he hosts post games, which is a very, very smart, good podcast about video games. We didn't interview not too long ago talking about the launch of this whole thing, former editor-in-chief of Polygon, of course, and co-host of the besties. That's the way you like to put it, right? Co-host of the besties? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I mean, you could call me the host and everybody else could just be, you know, the hangers-on. That's where I like to think about the Macroy brothers. They've been holding me back for far too long. What have been for us lately? Congratulations on post games. I kissed your butt a lot in the interview. But there's a good new crop of video game podcasts out there where it's just like, if you listen to post games, you will have a better, more well-rounded approach, you know, and viewpoint on what's happening in games, the history of games, the current landscape. It's just, it's a type of gaming podcast that you listen to. And it's like, by God, I got something out of that. And so thank you for your hard work over there. Thank you. I mean, that's a very nice thing to say about a show that already has three episodes about porn games, which is really just the show that I'm making at this point, but I appreciate it. |
| 2:54.3 | Do those get more downloads, genuinely? |
| 2:55.3 | Is that like a... No, they really don't. |
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