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@plinko:

Certainly, I know he wouldn't mean it in bad taste, especially since he explained it straight away. My issue is more with how he's repeatedly seen Shulk throughout the years, particularly when he would keep on joining the Smash quick looks (despite having no interest in them over and over) and seeing Shulk and making the same joke about "is he a Fire Emblem?" My hazy memory tells me he may even have made a similar "didn't realise Shulk was a guy" joke on one of those quick looks, I'll check later today to be sure.

It's just that for some reason, Xenoblade is and has always been a weird point of utter disinterest for the entire staff, even though on an academic level about the game's production and journey from Japan to Europe and America (Journey to the West, if you will) it's quite fascinating, whatever else you think of the game itself. I've always been surprised that none of them ever found it an interesting story to look into, about a game that was one of the last big titles for the Wii and got localised on the back of a fan campaign. Instead we get that reduced to "it's got those wacky British voices in it because America didn't localise it and I don't like how much they talk".

Wow, Giant Bomb actively not knowing anything about Xenoblade, once again, bordering on a transphobia joke. Couldn't have seen that one coming.

Brad figure out that pushing your horse too hard makes it slow down challenge.

Classic fans of Giant Bomb will recognise this modern flavour of "Brad's quitting", now packaged as "Abby's getting fired".

Giant Bomb: "No game will be forgotten!"

Ace Combat 7: "Am I a fucking joke to you?"

BTS! I love when Vinny pulls back the curtain.

"Now this is television!"

Single lines send garbage to the opponents if you are targeting attackers and have two or more players targeting you, since Attacker targeting carries a multiplier. And even without any multiplier on the garbage, single line combos still help clear garbage.

Brad and Ben, multiple times, directly to Rorie: "It has a feature called 'Slick Mode'."

Rorie, five minutes later after careful inspection of the box and seeing the feature in action: "That button is called Slick Mode!"

@brad On the topic of Windows messing with the sensitivity of the microphone, you might find that it's randomly adjusted the level of the mic in the old-school Sound window ("Open sound settings" from the system tray and then "Sound Control Panel" on the right-hand side of the following window). Mine would occasionally drop down to 40 or 50 without me touching it or disconnecting, so it could have happened for you as well?

I also just run everything through Voicemeeter and hope for the best.