Patrick Lemieux

If I was willing to press that button, does that mean I was not playing a game this whole time? If there was more efficient means available to me in a video game and I would just take any of them, does that mean that I'm not playing? That seems absurd to me to try to recommend that because why am I even sitting down to do this in the first place? But I think under this definition, if I am the type of asshole who's just willing to take that type of efficiency shortcut the moment it's available to me, arguably I'm not playing a game at that point, right?

Okay, so I have a secondary reading I'm going to bring in here, which someday we'll talk about on this show properly, but I want to talk about metagaming by Stephanie Bollock and Patrick Lemieux.

Friends of the show, Stephanie Bollock and Patrick Lemieux.

In metagaming, Bollock and Lemieux argue that basically there are like They're arguing about video games.

We're talking about video games here.

That won't be anything huge.

But joined by the usual suspects, Mark Matthews, Pat Lemieux, and Talbot Cox.

Mark, how are you doing today? A

little bit fragile.

But then now we have like all these World Cups, the bunch of challenge races, and then the T100 still has like three races left.

Yeah, but like at least you've been professional, which is how this podcast gets delivered, right? Like Pat delivers sponsorship, which enables us to do the cool stuff.

Talbot delivers the crazy creative ideas that enables us to launch things like the ProTry News and Kona weekly series.

And Kyle, your day in, day out, like die hard professionalism is the one that drags us all on.

But the problem is you're too likable to ignore for too long.

So here we are.

So I believe all we're going to do is dive into Pat's birthday yesterday.

And then it's like hot text, right?

So what

was Pat Lemieux doing wearing jeans? Like that was like, I have

no idea.

so we were joking I don't you can't see it but I have on these orange wind right shorts and I was joking to him like he was looking in the orange shirt I'm like you need these and he's like I can get you the shorter version he's like exactly what I need