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Submit Your Question For The MinnMax Show Podcast (Patreon)

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This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Leo Vader, Kyle Hilliard, Haley MacLean, and guest host Kyle Bosman! It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.

On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...

Our favorite Switch games

Arc Raiders

Puffies

Skin Deep

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Travis in Fargo

What’s your stance on bumper stickers?

Christian Hall

Hey MinnMaxers! Is Cow tipping something people actually do? Apart from the logistical complications of having enough people who are willing and able to tip a cow, where is the joy in tipping a cow? Thanks for your insight!

Neal McMahon

Hey all, What would be a bigger acquisition by Sony: Capcom, From Software, or Square Enix? Personally while I think no one can deny the hot streak that Capcom and From soft have been on, from a pure library and IP perspective, I think Square has them beat. What are your thoughts?

Matthew Hornyak

Hello cohorts! Since we’re talking about our favorite switch games are there any eshop exclusive hidden gems you know of/have played? The eshop has always been overloaded with junk but there’s so much of it there has to be a diamond in the rough somewhere!

Ari

What video game world would be the smelliest?

RickyWinterborn

Do you think developers intentionally keep photo modes out of games at launch even if they are ready just so they can add them a few months after launch for a pop of news coverage?

Stephen Woodson

What are your go-to indie split-screen games? My friend group just moved closer together so we're always looking for more. Cheers! (Our usuals are Invisigun, Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime, Conduct Together, Screencheat, and of course Overcooked)

K-Ham

As the Switch approaches the end of its lifecycle, have you noticed your docked vs. handheld habits shift? In the first few years, I was nearly exclusively a docked player. But in the Switch's twilight years, I've shifted very heavily towards handheld and only use docked for select games with the Pro Controller.

Travis in Fargo

A lady in my hometown owned a bakery, and she made lots of cakes for weddings, graduations, and other special occasions. After several years in business, it came out that she was just using Betty Crocker for her baked goods. This scandal shook my hometown to its core (not really). Did your hometown, neighborhood, or circle of friends ever have a similar D-list scandal?

Bloody Waffle

Kyle Bossssss, what can of contract work do you do now other than the Game awards/Summer Game Fest if any? And who would you love to work with and why?

Floof Queen Emily

With all the fantasy jargon in Expedition 33 just actually being real words in French, what are some of your favorite fantasy terms used in any piece of media?

Mike Lynch

Did you play dodgeball in school? I've heard people say they love it, but also alot say they hated it. Which side did you fall on?

Jacob Mazanowski

Do you think sites like metacritic or steam should show user reviews? I feel like non critics don’t know how to review something and take their biased out of it. When a review is something like “I booted up the game and the tutorial was boring - don’t recommend” who is that helping? Reviews are suppose to help the consumer and i think most non critics don’t know how to properly review something

Cody A

What tv gameshow do you think you have the best shot at winning?

Infinite

The scripted show New Show Pluses have been my favorite MinnMax content of recent memory. It was a side splitting delight. The fact that you all know each other so well, cadence, mannerisms, etc made it even better. What cadence or mannerisms that came out were most surprising to you all? Ben saying things get done “in a big bad way” was my favorite. Love the show!

AnAttackCorgi

With the shadow-dropped Oblivion Remaster dwarfing Clair Obscure in the cultural zeitgeist, what other games did this to another title? I’m probably nuts, but I maintain Medal of Honour: Airborne could’ve been a hit if Halo 3 hadn’t released later in the month.

Adam Castellanos

I recently went on a deep dive on the Beatles discography and I don’t think I ever really knew what they sounded like out side of their hits. What is everyone’s touchstone to the Beatles?

That's Mildly Raven

When Mario throws Cappy onto something, his mustache appears on it to let us know that Mario is in control. If you threw Cappy at something, what feature of yours would appear on it? Be as abstract as you want, we don't all have the obvious option of prominent facial hair.

Elias Armendariz

Hello Maxminners! Speaking of going backwards, Open world games seem to be getting bigger and filled with tiring tasks. Is it possible to go back and make open worlds smaller? *Added context does not need to be read.* I just got the platinum to Ghost of Tsushima. I was exhausted of finding shrines, hot springs, haiku spots, etc. even with fast travel it was exhausting and tedious. I'm a huge FromeSoft fan and after Elden Ring, can they go back to something smaller like BloodBorne?

Forrest With Two Rs

How do you guys think you would feel if you were driving and you splatted a bug on the windshield it was obvious that it was some kind of advanced, tourist bug. Like it leaves a little bug sized paper map and shoes with its splat

BEEFCAKE

Rank types of pasta.

Fancygraham

Sprint is L2 in Blue Prince, but is R2 in Clair Obscur. Which is better?

Loud EEL

Recently after watching things like the Switch 2 Direct and the NFL Draft I dwelled on my immense excitement that built up during the countdown. Do you have any compelling countdown anticipation experiences lately? Boring old New Years Eve, the microwave? 3, 2, 1 go!

RynaGoGo

Howdy Cohorts! Have you ever broken a bone? I haven’t and stumbled across the subreddit aptly named NeverBrokeABone. Turns out there’s also a theory going around that if you haven’t broke a bone then you are destined to face significant trauma in your future. I guess that includes breaking a bone?

Andrew Barnes

I went to Playstation: The Concert in London this past weekend, and listened to an amazing live performance of some popular playstation music from games like Horizon, The Last of Us and God of War. What video game soundtrack would you love to hear live in concert?

Devin B

It's acceptable to say you've "read" a book if you listened to the audiobook. So can you say you've "played" a game if you watched someone else play through it?

Grumbus

I just got a car for the first time. I'm not afraid of dying in a ball of steel and fire, but I am afraid of parallel parking on my narrow european city street. Is driving a pleasure for you, or a necessary evil? Do you think videogames have improved your spacial awareness and reflexes when driving, or do you find videogames have actually instilled false preconceptions that you need need to shake off each time you get behind a real steering wheel? How come in my real car when I push the brake while stopped I don't go backwards??

Eliinspace

I was watching Ghostbusters recently and it got me wondering does the MinnMax crew believe in ghosts or have any good ghost stories?

Victor Pham

Why do people have to believe that everything Final Fantasy VII Rebirth did was exemplary? It's okay for a game to be great and not be best in class at everything it does.

Sam Worms

What videos are your go-to feel good watches? Whenever I’m down, I watch the clip of Conan playing olde-time baseball to cheer me up.

LlorchDurden

Mr Bosman, since you've landed so far your predictions on Digimon AND DK, what do you think about Prime 4? is it the year of Samus, just like it is the year of Donkey? is it going to be better than 3 (Kyle Hilliard's best btw) are we bananas if we think it could be better than 2?

Eric Newman

Each cohort finds themselves in a Japanese convenient store but can only grab one item… what are you picking

Memory Card

What are your thoughts on the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) boycott against Microsoft and Xbox in particular? It's incredibly easy to not buy an Xbox game, but what responsibilities do you think outlets have when covering businesses with a direct throughline to...you know, war? Kinect has famously been used in Army training programs for instance.

Aging_Poorly

In honor of Clair Obscur’s French j’RPG-ness, what’s your dream culture+genre mashup? Downton Abbey version of Urbz: Sims in the City? Oregon Trail-era survival horror?

resnet

Hey MinnMax! You woke up in a cruel world where video games were never existed and never would. What would you do with those extra hours not spent gaming?

Daniel Doran

What's the deal with these extraction shooters? Does "extraction" mean "the latest way for videogame companies to extract the money out of our pockets"? Battle Royale made more sense to me because you had a really clear mainstream success to copy...but extraction shooter...really!?

Travis in Fargo

This is an audio time capsule. Each of you, please speak to put one thing into it: a song, a thought, a memory, a sound, a bit of wisdom. I will “bury” it and message back in 1 year so you can “dig it up” and revisit what you deposited today. Thank you for participating in Audio Time Capsule (TM).

Lamb Dance

Hey, since we have double Kyle's on the show this week - have any of you ever been in a group with someone who had the same name as you, and ended up with some type of nickname to differentiate you? Did you embrace it or hate it?

MarcusAuralius

What is the best-looking “modern retro” game from the OG Switch era? I personally lean toward Streets of Rage 4 and Sea of Stars, which both meld modern tech such as directional lighting with the look of classic pixel art.

Chandler

Hi Do you guys ever think about Star citizen? Isn't it weird that there's this massive public money sink?

Tom Rickard

Hey Minnmax! After the success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 do you think Square Enix will take any lessons from it to use on the next Final Fantasy? They’re obviously moving away from turn based gameplay but it feels like Sandfall found a happy medium with it. Thanks for all you guys do!

thejjuan1

Hello minnmax crew. How long does it take you to do laundry? And this from taking the dirty clothes to wash. Folding them up and hanging them. A hour, a whole day? This was inspired by Janet’s Bluesky post. It apparently takes weeks for hers. lol sorry to blow your spot.

dmoreno

Name the game your studio would make. Do not describe it. Optionally, Let the cohorts describe it. Super Optional, Kyle Bosman has to score it.

SlyCut

Hello all, Whenever I am drinking from a bottled beverage, I always have to have the front of the label facing me. I will turn it to face me before taking a sip. I've done this since I was a kid. I don't even think about it, I just do it. Am I weird? Do any of you have a similar quirk?

Andrew Danglis

Greetings Best Kyle, I have a question for…the other Kyle. Hilliard! Stop dodging my calls! I’m going to keep asking until you finally “man up” and watch The Tale of the Princess Kaguya! Have you watched it yet, and what did you think of it?

Brian Ventura

Hi MinnMax, Would you ever consider ranking your own personal top 50 games of all time? I imagine you'd use passion as your compass quite like MinnMax's Two Tens. At which rank do the 9/10 or 10/10 personally rated games run dry? Does that level of passion begin to fizzle out after a select group of games or does it go surprisingly far?

Arturo Perez

Hello minnmaxers! Do you have a favourite sound/sound fx in games? I'm really loving the way perfect blocks sound in MH wilds, a good sound sometimes is all the reward I need.

Surells

To make Ben cringe when he listens to this podcast, let me ask his nightmare question. What is everyone's favourite thing about Ben?

Bob Buel

Who has the best posture of all the cohorts? And, as this question was asked, did anyone readjust their posture? I’ll take my answer off the air.

BenMan

Let's get a little bit nasty. Sometimes beloved internet personalities just disappear or YouTube groups have a big split. This is obviously the best time to go to forums or subreddits to get some juicy fan speculation. What are your favourite internet dramas to revisit? Bonus points if what happened is still unknown or if fans are still speculating years later.

Martin Glowacki

Hi all! During long road trips, my wife and I play a simple little made-up game to pass the time called Yellow Car. If you spot one during the drive, simply yell "Yellow Car" and score a point. However, if you yell it at a pickup truck, taxi, or motorcycle, you lose a point. We've observed that yellow cars are a lot less common than we thought. A typical 2 hour drive could see a score of 4-3 for example, so it's just infrequent enough to not be distracting during a drive, but engaging enough to pass the time. Do any of you have any simple little time waster or road trip games?

Duderado

Is there a community question so bizarre that you've never stopped thinking about it? Once someone asked about what you do with the "water" in a cup of yogurt and I kept screaming "it's whey, you mix it in!" and now it bothers me that there may be people out there straining their yogurt like a can of tuna.

Swansonge

Your discussion of Clair Obscur’s soundtrack last week really piqued my interested. I’ve been listening to it the past couple days and now I really want to play the game. Along those lines, have you ever been interested in a game, just because of the soundtrack?

Rikimaru

Hi MinnMax! Ben alluded to it at the start of The Deepest Dive, that Clair Obscur is the most French game. What is the most American game made by a studio in the US? Or that isn't GTA I guess. What does it say that the most "American" games are not made by a studio in that country? Thanks!

Victor Hensley

Have you ever seen the same movie in theaters more than once? If so, what was it & why? My partner & I have gone to the movies to see Sinners twice over the past couple of weeks — a rarity for us. And we’d probably do it a third.

Victor Hensley

When you’re in a social setting where someone has the same name as you, do you feel that you have an underlying bond with that person because you have something in common, OR are you secretly trying to outdo them so you aren’t seen as the lesser version of your name? As someone who has never been in the same room as another Victor, I’m intrigued. (And yes, this may have been inspired by the Kyles this week).

Anna Ratliff

Hi MinnMax! Which cohort member do you think has played the most video games?

Tess

Hey MinnMax! Is there a best month to release a game in? Do you just enjoy games more during certain time periods? I looked at the data Geoff Keighley's Game Awards to see if there's anything interesting. The Month with the most Game of the Year winners was March, with 3, but 8 out of 11 winners released between February and June. If you just want to get nominated, its completely different though. October nabbed the most nominees with 11, despite no game coming out in October ever having won. March and September tie for second for nominees with 9 each. Do better games get released in March, or is it just the right time to fall in love? Full Data January: 0 Wins, 3 Noms February: 1 Win, 5 Noms March: 3 Wins, 9 Noms April: 1 Win, 2 Noms May: 2 Wins, 6 Noms June: 1 Win, 4 Noms July: 0 Wins, 3 Noms August: 1 Win, 4 Noms September: 1 Win, 9 Noms October: 0 Win, 11 Noms November: 1 Win, 4 Noms December: 0 Win, 2 Noms

Jerry Young

Hi MinnMax! I know some of you are big tabletop fans, im curious if you have any experience with the licensed games that have come out? Slay the Spire, Dead Cells, Apex Legends, Cuphead and Worms are a few that I own and absolutely love! I know there are a ton of others as well. They aren't perfect recreations but it is really cool to see video games making their way into the board game space.

Catpurrnicus

Hi Kyle! When do you think was the first year that people recognized as a distinct named year?

Jonathon Flaman

Hey Minnmax, not a question but just a follow up to the "pinball is too complicated now" topic from last week. There's actually a reason for this. Stern Pinball released stats saying that they control 90 percent of the pinball market. And of those 90 percent 75 percent are home owners. Way higher than you'd think. So when someone said "if it was free it would be much more enjoyable to learn and dive deep into the rules", that's what most people are doing. And when the price of a single game is between 10-15k, there better be a lot to keep you busy! If anyone needs help with pinball rules check out Flip n Out Pinball on Youtube. They do quick tutorials on almost every modern game. Love the podcast. Cheers

CrabPalace

We all loved The Beatles Rock Band. What other franchise would be a great fit for a spin off featuring those loveable European lads? I'm thinking The Beatles Spiderman simply NEEDS to happen!

a mouse trying to get the cheese in your foreskin

Howdy hey gang. With skin deep being released I'm thinking back on how much I love immersive sims and how hard it is to explain what they really are. Is there a good way to explain the genre or is it something you have to experience to understand?

Bryan Tylec

Hey everyone, are you guys the type to store your egg shells in the container, I assume as a warning to the other eggs, until the entire dozen has been cracked? Or do you throw them in the trash as soon as the egg is outta there? I recognize that eggs cook really fast and it would make things a lot easier if I just stored them in the container while I'm cooking but I just can't bring myself to do it. It really grosses me out, for some unknown reason.

Neal McMahon

What is the best quality of life addition in a game? I’ve been playing fallout new Vegas recently, and I think an ingenious, very small quality of life thing that they have is the ability to see what containers are empty. I can’t imagine the amount of time I’ve saved with that. What are things like this that you can think of?

Frostphorus

Just wanted to thank Jacob for shouting out Smart Start cereal. That stuff is my jam and I'm always worried there going to stop selling it because no one knows about it.

Booher

I am very behind on my podcasts and just heard the episode where Kyle talks about ordering McDonald’s for his daughter. My wife is also vegetarian and loves her “cheese sandwiches” from there. I too know the feeling of explaining multiple times to someone that we want the cheeseburger minus the meat, only to open the bag and find a box with just a slice of cheese or even just the meat. Does anyone else on the podcast have any experience with having uncommon food orders?

mantaguy

With all the talk about Clair Obscur making turn based JRPGs "mainstream" again, I thought it weird that no one brings up Pokemon in these discussions. That series has been essentially indoctrinating at least three generations of kids into turn-based combat while most of the rest of the industry moved on to real-time combat, and it never seems to get any credit for it. Any of your thoughts on this? Also, please don't sleep on The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. It's essentially "What if the creators of Daganrompa and Zero Time Escape teamed up to make 13 Sentinels.

Chris Pelley

There's gotta be a way to get Bosman and Haley ranting about Pokemon, but I'm not the person to get that done. Sorry everyone.

Tokyo Game Life

Question for Haley: thoughts on Mary Brown’s chicken?

CaffeineDad

Hey yall! It’s finally time to ask you the classic Letterboxd question: what are your four favorite movies? Mine are Everything Everywhere All at Once, Back to the Future, Booksmart, and Ladybird.

WeGoGiant

Hi cohorts. If you could place a wacky, inflatable, arm waving, tube man anywhere at any point in history where and when would you place it?

Francis Brenner

Which video game has the best character names? Hideo Kojima gets a lot of love for his naming conventions. But I personally love Final Fantasy for bringing us "Sephiroth", which is objectively the coolest name.

pork bun powered

Hi MinnMax, LaNeysha Campbell has a great piece on ButWhyTho (friends of the show) about great media to pair with Sinners, such as South of Midnight. That got me thinking, what are some game pairings that come to mind? For example, Brotherhood of the Wolf is a delicious pairing with Bloodborne.

Bayleaf Moon

Hey goobers! I just started watching this years season of AFL (Australian Football League) and have been so entertained that I’ve been to every game in my state for my team (Go Richmond!!) When was the last time you started something new and get super invested straight away? Thanks!!

Fachasaurus

Have you ever noticed or experienced something in a video game that you then saw in real life later with a whole new level of appreciation for it? Years ago, I remember when playing Drive Club I noticed how incredible the dynamic rain physics were in the game - actually floored at the time. Before that game, I would drive around in the rain and not think anything of it whatsoever - but now - I am in absolute awe at how individual raindrops falls on to the windshield or pools up and slides around the hood or brilliantly swishes away with each swing of the wiper blades. Something so mundane but I would never have thought twice about it without being enamored by the physics they implemented in that game.

Travis in Fargo

Would you please rank yourselves from “best” gamer to “worst?”

Travis in Fargo

How would YOU make filling out paperwork fun?

Mike Chase

Are Super Mario Bros 1 and Super Mario Bros 3 Rouge-likes? Branching Paths? Failure resets the run? ...Aren't most NES game rogue-likes in this way?

Sam Kennedy

Why didn’t Funko Fusion make it on the two tens last year?

Stevelution

Who would win in a fight: one Kirby or one hundred Haley’s?

Jeorin

Hi MinnMax crew and Kyle two! I've been enjoying Oblivion Remastered. The dungeon design feels so much more natural to me than modern Bethesda works, and I realized it was because they didn't make looping shortcuts to get you out of every location. Instead of being playgrounds for the player, they are hostile environments where you are not at all welcome. It's great! What modern convenience or feature would make games more fun for you, if removed?

Josh Johnson

Imagine a world where game developers could "cover" video games similar to how artists cover songs. What studio would you want to cover what game and why? (What flair or style would they add to it?) I'd like to see rockstar make breath of the wild. Or team asobi to make super Mario 64

tuxpeng

What do y'all think is the most searched gaming-related question/thing ever? Curious whether it's a myth, a guide, a scene, song, etc.

Brad Beyer

Another console launch is nearly upon us! What is your favorite console launch story from your gaming history? I remember missing preorders for the Wii because I didn’t realize they would sell out so quickly because I was young and naive. I ended up camping outside a Best Buy all night long before launch day and although it was frigid in Southern Michigan mid November, it turned out to be a really great time. Chumming with 80 other hardcore Nintendo fans, drinking Mountain Dew, sitting for hours in a folding chair under the emergency blanket from my car while we excitedly waited for the doors to open was a unique and enjoyable experience that I personally think everyone should get to have at least once. When I finally got it home however I was totally exhausted and not even launch day excitement could keep me awake so I decided to get in at least a few hours of sleep when I got home. However when I woke up I remembered I was already committed to attend a concert for a friend that afternoon so it wasn’t until late that evening that I actually got to set the console up and try out Wii Sports and Twilight Princess with my college roommates, which soon became a nightly ritual for the remainder of the school year. In retrospect I obviously could have planned that out a little better but it still stands in my mind as of my all-time favorite gaming-related memories.

Graham Jones

Hey crew, Star wars outlaws gave us the right thumb stick press and Hades gave us the right bumper to interact which both feel so good! I feel like button control layouts are an underrated part of making gameplay more fun and engaging. What are some of your favorite non traditional button control layouts and how do you feel they changed the game experience for you?

Joe Kafchinski

I didn't get a chance to start Clair Obscur before the Deepest Dive, but I did catch a lot of the launch-window marketing, which largely focused on the voice actors. That led me to a bit of an uncomfortable question: Now that we're almost two years out, is it safe to say that Final Fantasy 16's only enduring cultural legacy was introducing the world to Ben Starr?

Jarell Pryor

Hey Kyles and friends, What's a studio or game series that has you loyal to a fault? Where even if you bounce off one or even two of their games, you'll still insta-buy the next one? For me, Hazelight is up there. I think my wife and I are falling off of Split Fiction, but I have no doubt I'll pick up whatever they release next anyway. Just love their focus on couch co-op experiences!

Brett N

To the Dark Prince of Nerd Media and the Cohorts, What are your thoughts on some of the discourse around Clair Obscur Expidition 33 and its touted small team size? While Sandfall themselves is small team of full time developers, alot of outsourcing was used to make the game happen (which to be clear is totally not suprising or a bad thing). Is it disingenuous to say this game was made by 30 people and create unrealistic expectations on what a small team should be able to achive? Could it reinforce the "lazy dev" narrative you see so much on the internet? And finally do you think it obscures just how important the work of those contractors and outsource company's are?

Juz10

Hi everyone, In what ways do you think the world would be different if poop didn't smell nasty and gross? What do you think the biggest changes would be if instead poop suddenly gave off the most beautiful smelling scent ever?

Vilis

Bonjour Cohortes (yes, it's French!) So I was thinking about something. We have a fair number of critical darlings made by small teams in distinct parts of the world which really draw on... almost inside jokes? Certainly a deep love and understanding of their own culture. Tchia, Clair Obscur, Thank Goodness You're Here, etc. all soaked and marinated in that special sauce only they can produce. On the other hand, we have something like Assassin's Creed which has mass appeal and critics are like "Yeah, I mean, it's good as expected." and feels more like a museum or history book is telling you about the culture, or you're on a guided tour of the place and time, but it feels.... broad appeal. So my question is, Haley, when is Canada gonna have an indie darling moment in the sun and what would be in it that you would say "Ahh, they nailed it!" Merci beaucoup! (Fun fact: the image in my profile image is from a medieval French town which I forget the name of because I took the picture 20 years ago)

SuperThisWay

Hey cohorts! So I was pretty meh to parrying but in the past few months, I’ve played Nine Sols, Stellar Blade, and now Clair Obscur and I’m now really into it. Has there been a specific game mechanic you didn’t like until you played the “gateway drug game” that got you hooked on it?

Trapezoid

After last weeks discussion of Oblivion Remastered, I got to thinking: why do certain studios seem to get a pass when it comes to releasing buggy games? Every Bethesda release seems to be riddled with bugs initially, and everyone seems to collectively say “oh, those rascals at Bethesda, at it again!” While other studios seem to get much more crap for releasing buggy products.

Brent Carroll

Howdy cohorts! With Arc raiders and Marathon on the horizon, everyone’s talking about extraction shooters but I always found it interesting how games media talks about it being the hot new trend despite hardly any extraction shooters being on the market? Hunt Showdown is a good time, and Tarkov isn’t even on Steam, why do you think so many people have declared the genre D.O.A?

Evin Watson

Cohort homies! I have two questions for Haley. 1. What was her reaction to last week’s episode when Ben read a question from someone named BMO and he read it as B.M.O not BeeMo from Adventure Time. 2. I was thinking about Tabletop Simulator. Can she explain why that product is allowed to support titles that take advantage of board game IP? Thanks BBQXMAS

Luca Alberti

Hello MinnMax crew and Kyle (the Dark Prince)! Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Switch 2 event in Milan and got to play Metroid Prime 4, a game I've been waiting for since I was 17 years old. What was the game you had to wait the longest for before you could finally play it and was it worth it? For those wondering the highlight of MP4 was surprisingly the HD Rumble, best rumble I've felt in any Nintendo game.

Joshua H.

Haley! From last weeks bonus pod episode, I gotta say I appreciated the WKYK reference. You did the “water gun!” Every time me and buddy says nail gun you just have to do that inflection. Anybody else have a good pop culture verbal must when they say something?

Joshua H.

What’s your favorite Switch game you like to play in handheld? That go to game you never want to put on the big screen cuz it’s just so good in your hands.

Beau Bakken

Hello Minnmax. In which communication do you think you make the most grammatical errors; texting, or daily speaking? If you could sign up for some form of live spell checking by way of a chip in your brain or mouth for your in person talking, or "speak check" as it may be called, would you do it?

Kevin Kuper

Hello all, I really enjoyed Doom Eternal and am one of the freaks that liked the platforming as well as the superb combat and I need it to be reevaluated! What's a widely unpopular game mechanic that you really enjoy or think is underrated?