EA Sports

NHL 27 is, is the, the, the development team, basically.

It's the AHL team for EA Sports.

Yeah.

It is.

You have to make it tough for Florida.

Otherwise, EA Sports doesn't include you in their preseason top 20 toughest stadiums.

Yeah, and I tell you what, I've been a lot of Auburn-Florida games down there in that stadium, and I know you have too, Landrum, and I think that's why the ticket price is so high, Pat, because Florida's going to bring a ton of people.

It's going to be a great game.

360 no-look pass at the sideline that he completed, that was one of his 13 completions on the night.

EA Sports got to fix that, man.

Yeah.

So we don't know.

... gonna, gonna-

I mean, have you seen their EA Sports headshots? They're fine.

They're young.

[laughs] They're, they're just fine.

You wanna go first? I can go first.

Oh, okay.

Um, my chirp, in the year of our Lord, 2026, how can the technology to do face scanning be involved and it turn out so poorly? So for those of you who don't know, EA Sports, uh, they create, uh, NHL and then the year that they're on.

So this would be, uh, NHL 27 that they're on.

At this point with technology where it's at and how powerful gaming systems are, the idea is to create simulated version of watching an AHL game to the best of your ability.

And EA Sports has been releasing the same game with the same clunky slow menus year over year over year, eroding the fan base confidence.

It's as I'm sure you've seen, it's just getting absolutely flamed online.

And that picture of Michael Backlund beside Michael Backlund is absolutely it's a microcosmic example of just how terrible the attention to detail is and how these people clearly don't watch hockey, are not hockey fans.

I know it's just a video game, but I mean, the NFL series has a great deal of detail.

2K, which does the WWE games, had so much backlash after, oh, I forget, was it 2K22 maybe? They actually took a year off to improve the product and it's been much better since.

And that is exactly what EA Sports needs to do.

Yeah, I don't know how you take a step backwards like that.

Not really a computer game guy, but I do own a Switch.

And my FIFA 2024, not FIFA, my football game, what's it called? EA Sports, was not connecting to the servers.

So I was like, ah, I want to play a game.

So I asked AI, what games can you get on a Switch in Japan that are in English? It gave me some suggestions and they were all like 5,000 yen.

And then it says downloading.

Then it sort of starts a very long downloading process.

Then in the interim period, the servers for the EA Sports game came back online so I played that for about 10 minutes until I got a phone call saying ah take the car to the garage right now so all fun was halted at that point I'd already walked into town for the awkward meeting at the place and then I had to and then I had to walk back from Nonoichi anyway I'm not complaining not complaining um lots lots has happened since I last spoke to you I've been to a festival in Fukui it was amazing really good one park festival I saw soil and pimp sessions it was great they were great my daughter Stinky fell asleep on my head I may post a picture of that.

I'm on the bridge now, as you can hear.

miserable.

The enticement was that it was at EA Sports.

Yeah, the

headquarters.

And that it was going to be a cool experience

because

it was at EA Sports.

And I was like, well, that...

favorite course i've ever played probably gonna have to say wolf creek uh mesquite nevada nevada

just because just because you know if you were an ea sports guy 2005

tiger woods i just you know playing that over and over as a kid on my playstation and then doing it in real life it just it meant a lot to me

nice yeah that on the video game is the only time i've ever played it so all right what uh what course is at the top of your bucket list