Can, can you talk us through why, why was the state so interested in, in taking this step, in allowing this to be covered through Medicaid?

Yeah.

So I think it's really important, like you mentioned, to, to look back and, and see how Washington has handled this issue of long-term care, right? Like, we were very much an outlier starting in the '90s when we started to really do a lot of reforms and change how eldercare was funded through the state.

It used to be that most people would use Medicaid to subsidize living in a retirement home or assisted living community, right? But Washington realized in the late '80s and then early '90s that, one, that was really expensive.

It's really expensive to send people to, uh, to long-term care facilities.

And two, most people actually didn't like that.

Most people want to stay home.

Yeah.

So in your piece, you talk to a bunch of local stores about their reactions to this news, these big companies saying that they're not going to produce discs anymore i mean what did you hear from them who did you talk to and what did you hear

yeah i i don't think it can be overstated how frustrating the news was coming across to them about what's going on with gta6 um You mentioned it before, but to even drive the point home even more, there's been some additional analysis that's come out that suggests in its first opening week, the game could sell 51 million copies, which would make it the 11th best-selling game of all time.

And that's just in its first week, right? And so I spoke to Cody Spencer, who is a part owner in Pink Gorilla.

They have a bunch of... locations in and around Seattle.

I spoke to Joshua Silas, who opened up Third Emerald, which is a new game store in West Seattle.

And I spoke to Harrison Montgomery, who was doing most of his used game sales on Facebook Marketplace, and they just opened a new location.

And that store is called Reloved.

Do you get a sense that these companies are going to be affected at all by at least some of the grumbling that has been coming out after their announcements?