This Week in Switch 2 - Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Preview & gamescom Opening Night Live Reaction · This Week in Switch 2 · Radar

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It just looks so weird.

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I'm sorry.

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Donovan looks normal.

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David looks normal.

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I'm like...

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Look, the paleness...

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I've been pale in the past.

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It's the cue.

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It's like a very... yellowy jaundiced

David CraddockHost

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john's gonna say jaundiced it's a jaundiced

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tone of my skin here and it's it's off-putting even to myself so andrew if you want to leave this in i i guess go for it or you can like do that thing

David CraddockHost

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where it's like

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hey shackers welcome back to this week it's switch to i'm your host awesome cod i'm not sick I'm telling you, I'm okay.

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I am the CEO EIC EIEIO here at Shaq News.

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That stands for Extremely Intelligent Extreme Intelligence Officer.

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In a time of AI, I have created EI to make line go up.

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And earlier today in Japan, Nintendo stock was back above 9,000 yen per share.

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So it was over 9,000.

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But then it went back down.

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So I don't know about this whole EIEIO thing.

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I am joined by my usual co-hosts who are back in their regular locations.

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Our audio should be better.

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I'm really sorry, folks.

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The audio situation since I got to Japan has been all sorts of fucky.

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But yeah, we have head of log reads and managing editor David Craddock is here.

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Hello.

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Hey.

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I'm also tarnished.

David CraddockHost

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Very, very tarnished.

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David Craddock tarnished edition.

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That's right.

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And then we have the guy.

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He's our Pokemaster.

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He's our news editor.

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He's never going to finish reviewing Pokeopia.

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It's Donovan Erskine.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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It's true.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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I'm about to become an even greater level of Pokemaster very soon.

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Oh, that's right.

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You're going to Pokemon Worlds.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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Yeah.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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Is this your first

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Donovan ErskinePanelist

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First Worlds, first any big Pokemon event IRL.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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I've never been to any.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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I remember they did it in Washington, D.C. about 10 years ago, and I only found out about it as it was happening, and I was like, oh, I should have probably tried to go to that.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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Yeah, it's my first one.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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I'm excited.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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I'm pumped.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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I cannot wait.

Donovan ErskinePanelist

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I will be there by the time people are listening to this, probably.

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Cool, cool, cool.

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Yeah, we got a bunch of news.

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This is still the summer of Jeff, but it's also JeffCon.

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Right? In Cologne, Germany.

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And because it's Jeff Com, he does this thing called Opening Night Live, where he kicks off Gamescom for the rest of Europe with a two-hour presentation at three in the morning in Japan.

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So that was super cool.

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So we'll get to some of our favorite news hits from that later.

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