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Sega and Paramount can breath a sigh of relief.

• 7:40 – Two grown men seriously discuss Detective Pikachu
• 41:01 – Minecraft Earth has a bad trailer and who ever made it should feel bad
• 51:35 – Nintendo’s voucher program is very Nintendo
• 1:05:05 – Epic should know that gamers don’t take kindly to idea of buying your way to success

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 on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:48 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone!

6:56 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:00 PMotritzu​Evenin’ guys.

7:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Saw John Wick 3 this weekend. Really enjoyed it.

7:01 PMLegend 935​Good evening…

7:03 PMLegend 935​The Aladdin film is gonna flop… my god… will Smith’s CGI mug creeps me out

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​most likely sadly

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​who the fuck asked for a live action aladin?! btw? not me

7:11 PMaddictedtochaos​Speaking of Arnold did you see that someone drop kicked him. He barely flinched all things considered.

7:12 PMAndrew Eisen​I’d not heard, no.

7:16 PMmatthew wilson​avrage budy cop movie, but pokemon fan service all over, and that is why I went to see it

7:16 PMNightmare Ninja​The good thing it’s in the Pokemon World

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​I will admit I liked the pokaball scene at the start, brought back game flash backs

7:18 PMNightmare Ninja​yeah

7:18 PMNightmare Ninja​They even used the Pokemon’s backstory

7:18 PMNightmare Ninja​Mr Mine was great

7:19 PMNightmare Ninja​The director wanted to cut it

7:19 PMmatthew wilson​w/e you think of the story, its clear the show runners understand pokemon the ip of pokemon

7:19 PMNightmare Ninja​yeah it does have pros and cons

7:20 PMmatthew wilson​if they do more movies, story will inprove, but I cant understate how good it is they understand the ip

7:21 PMNightmare Ninja​He’s in a baby chair lol

7:22 PMNightmare Ninja​It feels like they did that for non fans

7:23 PMNightmare Ninja​I love that was cute

7:25 PMNightmare Ninja​well the VA of the Pokemon was used when people that is not Tim

7:26 PMNightmare Ninja​Ikue Ōtani

7:27 PMNightmare Ninja​The director wanted him to be Ryan

7:27 PMNightmare Ninja​well himself

7:28 PMNightmare Ninja​it’s not the Pokemon coming to our world because of a portal or some shit

7:29 PMNightmare Ninja​I love that Cubone

7:30 PMNightmare Ninja​It made Bill a Pokemon fan

7:30 PMNightmare Ninja​scene

7:30 PMmatthew wilson​also 20 years after red/blue officially, they outright say it in the movie

7:30 PMNightmare Ninja​Oh yea

7:31 PMNightmare Ninja​I didn’t mind Gangar

7:31 PMotritzu​Gengar is a ghost type, they’re all sorts of F’d up.

7:32 PMNightmare Ninja​I rather have Hunter in that scene

7:32 PMotritzu​It is made up of the same stuff as Gastly…just concentrated enough to appear solid.

7:33 PMotritzu​Dex says they’re at least 28′ in length.

7:33 PMmatthew wilson​like the magicarp joke

7:33 PMNightmare Ninja​same

7:34 PMNightmare Ninja​Pangoro?

7:34 PMNightmare Ninja​oh those

7:34 PMNightmare Ninja​People think it’s Red

7:34 PMmatthew wilson​my fav pokemon model from the movie was grininja

7:34 PMotritzu​Onix and Gyarados are some of the biggest (length) pokemon in Gen 1

7:34 PMmatthew wilson​\they pulled off the whole frog/ninja thing well

7:34 PMNightmare Ninja​Growlithe’s ecolved form

7:35 PMaddictedtochaos​You’ve lost me. The extent of my Pokemon knowledge is what is in Smash Bros. Lol.

7:35 PMmatthew wilson​what did you 2 think od the dito? creapy

7:35 PMNightmare Ninja​​People think it’s Red in the video

7:35 PMmatthew wilson​sparow?

7:35 PMNightmare Ninja​braviary

7:35 PMNightmare Ninja​That was a braviary

7:37 PMNightmare Ninja​It felt like Alians

7:37 PMNightmare Ninja​Aliens

7:38 PMmatthew wilson​I doubt ether of you picked up on it, but I love the inclution of things like the Silph Co logo

7:38 PMNightmare Ninja​really?

7:38 PMmatthew wilson​thats such a subtule refrence

7:38 PMNightmare Ninja​I didn’t notice

7:39 PMmatthew wilson​they could have used real world logos, and I am 100% thankful they didnt

7:40 PMmatthew wilson​there are roumers of a red/blue movie in the same style

7:40 PMNightmare Ninja​the writers want to d a jigglepuff movies

7:40 PMNightmare Ninja​movie

7:41 PMNightmare Ninja​he wanted to impress a female Meowth

7:41 PMotritzu​He learned to talk in exchange for his ability to use most of his high level moves.

7:42 PMNightmare Ninja​The writer used A Star is BORED

7:42 PMNightmare Ninja​Born

7:42 PMaddictedtochaos​Surprised we never got an Ozzy biopic.

7:43 PMNightmare Ninja​There was adult jokes

7:43 PMNightmare Ninja​Tim ah okay

7:48 PMaddictedtochaos​That should be that tag line for all things Microsoft right now. “Eh, it’s not bad.”

7:51 PMaddictedtochaos​Xbox is still recovering from the reveal.

7:52 PMmatthew wilson​my guess we will see it at e3

7:55 PMmatthew wilson​the 100 nintendo lvls is the least intreasting part of mario maker 2 to me. I want to play the bat shit wilde lvls players make

7:57 PMmatthew wilson​I will likely be buying 2, mm2, fire emblem, astral chain, and pokemon, so I will save $40

7:57 PMScottyJayMan​no. Mario maker had the 100 Mario challenge, which strings together 16 levels from random levels

7:57 PMotritzu​Full price or better. When a game’s on sale you can’t use the voucher on it.

7:58 PMmatthew wilson​nope its every nintendo first party game

7:58 PMmatthew wilson​fire emblem and astral chain, both not out, are on the list too

7:58 PMaddictedtochaos​This is worthless for me. I’ll just buy the games at the store, or I already own them.

8:00 PMotritzu​It’s a bonus for those of us, like me, who already have it.

8:00 PMNightmare Ninja​Yeah

8:01 PMotritzu​I don’t have a nearby game store so they’re handy for me.

8:02 PMScottyJayMan​micro SD cards are cheap

8:02 PMmatthew wilson​I mean who has a switch, and no sd card for it?

8:02 PMotritzu​I snagged a pretty big micro SD card when I bought my Switch

8:03 PMaddictedtochaos​I got a 128GB at Christmas for $20.

8:03 PMotritzu​I’d always planned to buy mostly digital

8:03 PMaddictedtochaos​I buy physical almost exclusively.

8:04 PMScottyJayMan​if you’re all digital, its a good deal. if you’re physical, it’s not.

8:04 PMmatthew wilson​again most people taking this deal, already have online, and own a sd card

8:05 PMmatthew wilson​I mean the switch is mostly a nintendo console for me, 3rd party is pc for me

8:05 PMotritzu​The deal felt almost tailor made for me.

8:05 PMaddictedtochaos​Nintendo games only drop when they make them Nintendo Selects.

8:06 PMaddictedtochaos​Are you going to get Astral Chain?

8:07 PMNightmare Ninja​more info at E3 I hope

8:07 PMaddictedtochaos​E3 right around the corner

8:16 PMotritzu​Agreed Zach.

8:20 PMScottyJayMan​Valve should reduce their revenue split

8:20 PMScottyJayMan​Noone talks about that

8:22 PMotritzu​China might be using TenCent to take over games distribution.