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Where’s the pomp? The circumstance? Did anyone think to tell Amazon?
- 0:00 – I sang on RafScrap’s cover of “Be Prepared”! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhtEkcbuMw
- 2:22 – Wait… the Nintendo Switch 2 comes out in less than two weeks?!!!
- 11:47 – Games aren’t expensive enough, says totally real gamers who don’t have a stake in game sales
- 30:34 – The history of Benny Bear
- 35:04 – After logging hundreds of hours over the past few months, some gamers have stopped playing Monster Hunter Wilds
- 47:11 – My thoughts on two recent Star Wars shows: Andor and Tales of the Underworld
- 56:42 – Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii may give you a bit too much freedom
If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night!
Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “To the Top” by Silent Partner. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
7:02 PMenjoy switch 2 for those buying it7:02 PMwill not be me7:04 PMI’m trying to take a night off from work to go to the midnight release.7:04 PMbad nintendo fan you are, forgeting about the switch 2, for shame andrew7:05 PM /s7:05 PMI mean there is nothing really to say tbh
7:07 PMI might try to sneak a purchase for one but I’m not sure, I hadn’t really committed to buying one day 1
7:07 PMhello7:08 PMI dont play my switch one much, im a pc gamer for the most part, and kinda been that way since 20107:09 PMribit ribit, someone has bunny’s on the brain lol
7:09 PMHiiiiii ^^, one question. When are you reacting to the winner of Eurovision 2025? By the way, there was a new winner last Saturday. 👀7:09 PMAmazon can’t do preorders for Nintendo anything.7:10 PMnintendo and amazon has had a rocky relationship for sevral years7:10 PMI remember this all the way back in the 3ds lol7:10 PMI think Amazon used to sell and ship games ahead of street date maybe?7:10 PMI think it is due to street date violations7:11 PMYou can’t even buy eShop currency on Amazon.
7:12 PMYo Andrew7:13 PMThe Switch 1 pro controller is compatible. It just won’t wake the Switch 2 up from sleep mode.7:13 PMI feel like anyone who claims games should cost more are trolls.7:13 PMOr are somehow employed by gaming companies.7:13 PMbasicly trying to self razationlize why nintendo charginge $80 not being a rip off lol7:14 PMjust go gety expedition 33 for $50 lol7:16 PMyeah! looking forward to the “Be Prepared” BTS video ♥7:18 PMOh wait, I think Amazon had that program a while back where you could preorder games for 10% off and I wonder if that was it7:20 PMfor the price on video games these days and you don’t even get to own a physical copy of it.7:22 PMYeah, I’m going to much more selective going forward on which games I’ll be buying.7:24 PMMy backlog will last me the rest of my life.
7:24 PMAndrew, do you still follow your $50 rule from back in the day? Are you skipping Switch 2 for now?7:25 PMShow and Tell time7:25 PM8just play thia year’as goty for only $50 lol. intreasting fact 3 of the four big games this year (split fiction, expedition 33, and oblivion remastered) all being $50 lol7:26 PMwith only mh wilds being $707:26 PMDoes that mean you’re going to have to get stoned to voice the hyena?7:27 PMYou should show off all the artwork wit you in it7:29 PMI’ll consider the follow up to the Switch 2, but the next PS and Xbox will be a hard sell for me.7:30 PMYou bought Monter Hunter Wilds. Wasn’t that like $70? I’m sure that was worth the exception.7:31 PMIt appears to be more powerful than the Xbox Series S.7:32 PMAll plushes were hand caught in the wild and personally stuffed7:32 PMYou mean you don’t want to play Welcome Tour on Switch 2? It’s only $10!7:33 PMSo Benny Bear is aging like a live human? He’s shrinking and got a new nose?7:33 PMMelanoma gets us all in the end, even Benny Bear ellipsis7:34 PMOkay, that’s a precious story.7:34 PMI still have my childhood teddy bear as well.7:42 PMNext, Nintendo will do a video game about the bright lights warning on certain games.7:44 PMdid you punch the face?7:44 PMSo you and Rean have a similar backstory, huh7:44 PMI would if anyone threw my stuff out the window
7:46 PMeeyyy its Andrew xD7:47 PMStray dog thought it was a chew toy and ran off with it.7:50 PMBro its been forever… i remember the video that made me sub to you… That Tera video… “Buy them a bus ticket to travel across the country and play COOP” xD7:53 PMJedi Care Bear xD7:58 PMAndor depressed me even further after the Mandalorian failure…8:01 PMGot high expectations for Fallout S28:03 PMaw no watch it all, it gets much better8:04 PMlater dude