This week, John and Niki are joined by Jesse Vitelli, fresh off a five day subathon on his Twitch channel after being laid off at Restart.Run. Together, they take a hard look at Matt Karch's history of odd behavior, Netflix's most recent studio closures, and Star Wars Zero Company.

00:00:00 Intro & Raising Cane's talk

00:11:25 Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch did something very weird and has done many weird things previously to this new weird thing

00:34:14 Netflix closes Night School, Moonloot, and lays off others

00:41:35 Restart.Run's remaining leadership releases a bizarre statement

00:48:23 Pokémon Pokopia sold five million copies

00:54:00 Take-Two looks to be getting deeper into simulation sports

00:56:00 Wolverine & Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave previews dropped

01:11:20 South of Midnight now listed as self-published, but is that the whole story?

01:12:55 Esoteric Ebb serves the best of Disco Elysium without some of the baggage

01:20:30 Knytt Classic is a faithful update of a 2006 freeware standout

01:23:27 Niki's in the Splatoon Raiders endgame now

01:26:55 Star Wars Zero Company is a lot more than a new XCOM

01:47:00 HIVE QUESTIONS

02:20:55 Outro

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