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Make it stop.
- 1:16 – I have identified the worst Christmas song
- 17:04 – Encanto and how it took me two whole days to check my privilege
- 23:29 – YouTube’s admits Content ID has, at minimum, got it wrong at least 2.2 million times in the last 11 months
- 41:28 – The Game Awards: a completely botched acknowledgement of publisher abuse is better than no acknowledgement at all, right?
- 1:05:30 – Let’s see how many of the upcoming titles premiering at The Game Awards featured actual gameplay in their presentations
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 “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
6:59 PMHey7:00 PMlol7:00 PMOk let me hear worse Christmas song7:04 PMoh gosh7:05 PMDo you need anger management? Lol
7:07 PM😗7:07 PMlawl7:07 PMYeah it wouldn’t sound good to me either7:08 PMglad I already finished mah tea!7:09 PMThat kind singing be more of a bedtime music7:10 PMThey didn’t like that either lol7:14 PMYeah
7:14 PMThe sexual Christmas carol7:15 PMwhat in the blue bells is a sexual Christmas carol?7:15 PMHave you heard people was fighting over Spider man tickets?7:18 PMYeah7:19 PMIt’s gonna be tough avoiding spoilers for spider man. People won’t be able to help themselves7:21 PMDon’t Spanish people have there own version?
7:23 PMHello all7:24 PMhey chaos7:24 PMI’m going fall asleep lol
7:24 PMI come in and Andrew is singing Christmas songs7:25 PMAlso, hi
7:25 PMSufjan Stevens has a version of it that is phenomenal.7:25 PMI just woke up, don’t put me back to sleep
7:27 PMHello 🙂7:31 PMThere’s lots of YouTubers that get reported but they still aloud to say
7:31 PMWhat about a Elvis version7:32 PMCompletely off topic, but is anyone else sick and tired of trying to get a next gen console?7:32 PMshow n tell time!7:32 PMBing white Christmas movie haven’t have him sing slow though7:32 PMBring out those barbershop videos!7:32 PM@chaoa I’ve been on and off with caring7:33 PM@chaos I want a ps5, but I just can’t be bothered
7:34 PMim not sold / i block that from being sold to me7:35 PMi got a switch7:35 PMI’ve always preferred my Christmas music to be instrumental.7:35 PMPs5 still being stolen7:36 PMI don’t need an Xbox Series X, but I want one.
7:36 PMNew owners? That is absolutely terrifying.7:36 PMim just waiting for exclusives to die7:36 PMI speak through experience.7:36 PMI’d take barking over babies7:37 PMI’ve gone through that three times. This last time the owner passed away and his 20 something year old is in charge now. eep.7:38 PMbabies have a future dogs dont7:38 PMGet sound proof headphones then7:39 PMYou could bake special dog treats and hand them out. That should mellow them out.7:40 PMYou look like a robber7:40 PMBeard that covers your nose. That’s one bushy beard.7:40 PMRaises hand7:41 PMu look like a bandit7:41 PMI’ve forgotten the mask and tried to drink from a straw through it.7:41 PMI know how to control my sneeze without blasting away so I’m good : D7:41 PMLol7:41 PMPhyre: lol7:41 PMYeah, never thought I’d go into a bank wearing a mask and ask for money.7:43 PMOnly thing interesting to me was the sonic game, and the movie trailer7:43 PMmeh7:45 PMKelloggs is other company7:46 PMPeople said they won’t buy Frosted Flakes until Kelloggs treats the works better7:48 PMHow you remember all that?7:52 PMI don’t care7:53 PMnot a priority7:53 PMThey need to tone things back actually7:53 PMnot even on the list7:53 PMI want the industry to much as much as I want lootboxes7:54 PMi would like innovation7:54 PMnew technology7:54 PMthats growth7:54 PMI meant I want it to GROW as much as I want lootboxes7:58 PMAll of Activision’s dev studios are COD devs.7:59 PMu should look to limit toxicity not eliminate (dont think its possible to totally remove)7:59 PMJust like Kelloggs did8:00 PMLike that company that fired 900 people over a zoom call before the holidays. That’s a company I also never want to do business with.8:03 PMThey actually all are COD devs or COD support studios.8:05 PMi believe that u should set achievable goals8:07 PMso start with actavision stuff8:09 PMGame rewards was a flop. Mostly I was interested in was sonic frontiers and the sonic 2 movie trailer8:10 PMlost ark is a korean mmo8:10 PMMaybe Cuphead dlc too8:11 PMJeff Is slipping. It’s not as good as past8:11 PMJames Marsden8:11 PMCyclops was James Marsden.8:12 PMEven I can hear the dogs barking8:12 PMOh yeah, I can hear the yapping8:12 PMyeah its loud lol8:12 PMNew owners changing things up quick.8:13 PMoh its8:13 PMThe dogs might belong to the new owners8:13 PMis8:14 PMdo u like cats8:14 PMor pppets8:15 PMMy dog doesn’t bark8:15 PMNot all dogs bark. Because one we haven’t doesn’t8:16 PMThat’s right. When I click on YouTube for trailers, I want it read out to me by an announcer8:19 PMI’m glad I got quite dog8:21 PMJeff needs to up his rewards if wants me interested8:24 PMA lot of these trailers just seem like they’re meant to tease people and get the hype going8:27 PMYeah8:31 PMit takes two8:31 PMIt Takes Two won game of the year. I was actually playing that with the friend while the award show was going on. pretty good8:31 PMMetroid won best action/adventure. It takes two won GOTY8:33 PMtales won best rpg8:35 PMTales was my GOTY8:36 PM100% completion on Xbox and PS5.8:37 PMuve also said that u dont like good amount the of the tales of games8:37 PMThere might be another box in that second box8:37 PMthey had to get the Amazon logo on it8:37 PMYou got sent nesting boxes8:38 PMprotection8:38 PMLOL you had me for a second Andrew8:39 PMThis is why Christmas Lists are important.8:40 PMthis song is gonna get stuck in my head for the rest of the day 😕8:41 PMOMG! LAWL8:42 PMIf you want a good Christmas song look up Carol of the Bells by The Piano Guys.8:44 PMSometimes you just gotta rant8:44 PMand vent8:45 PMand punch your chair8:45 PMStaged, but entertaining8:46 PMSmall victories