TRANSCRIPT · Nintendo Reveals Surprise Pikmin Day Direct

## Nintendo Reveals Surprise Pikmin Day Direct (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-reveals-surprise-pikmin-day-direct
GRANT BRICKMAN: Nintendo has invented a holiday and a Direct to go with it, and the panel has opinions.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. We first told you about this Saturday 16:17, today, so for viewers just joining: Nintendo has surprise-announced a Pikmin Day Direct.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: November 1 is now Pikmin Day. The Direct runs a little more than nine minutes. No Pikmin 5, but new information about Pikmin 4.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Nine minutes and a holiday invented before lunch. Nations needed centuries to agree on a calendar, and Nintendo did it with a shrug.
ADA: The date comes from three Pikmin standing together looking like 11.1. That's a loose tolerance, but I'd print it as a first prototype.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Lyle, no Pikmin 5 reveal. Is the panel disappointed?
LYLE HOTCHKISS: It's an outrage, a betrayal, a scandal, and, well, a free demo on November 2 is rather generous. I'll allow it.
ADA: The demo bundles Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition with Dandori Academy. A free test print you can try before committing. Love that.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: For the record, Miyamoto said, quote, going forward, I want people to know more about Pikmin.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Three Pikmin that conveniently look like 11.1? Somebody moved the calendar. Check the first of November for fingerprints.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Our viewers will settle it. Is Pikmin Day a real holiday? Vote now. Neither of our panellists will concede anything.

## This DIY Arcade Cabinet Accepts Strange Cuboid Concrete Cartridges (Hackster.io)
https://www.hackster.io/news/this-diy-arcade-cabinet-accepts-strange-cuboid-concrete-cartridges-b430157d3dcf
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A maker built an arcade cabinet that plays games from blocks of concrete.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: For viewers just joining: a maker built an arcade cabinet that takes concrete cartridges. Ada took the question to the street.
ADA: I'm at the makerspace holding a block of concrete. Is a cartridge still a cartridge if it's just a sticker inside? Let's ask around!
PASSERBY: I own so many digital games I can't even count them. Mine or borrowed? No idea. A block I can actually hold sounds honest.
PASSERBY: Concrete? Why concrete? No real reason? That's the best reason I've heard all week. Respect.
ADA: Here's the clever bit. The sticker holds only a unique ID, and the cabinet reads it to launch a game it already has in storage. Beautiful.
PASSERBY: So the cartridge doesn't hold the game? Then it's a very heavy key.
PASSERBY: A Raspberry Pi running Batocera, and I'd still pick it for the shelf. It's a coaster with ambitions.
ADA: And the molds were 3D printed, with Zaparoo handling the launches, all free and open source. It's about the experience, not the necessity.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Concrete cartridges. Heavy, honest, permanent. Rather like the station's 1987 weather map. Back to you, Greta.

## THE FEED (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: On YouTube tech right now: a touchscreen MacBook Pro, a moth-antenna drone and a flopping iPhone Duo.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Row one: I tried Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro, by CarterPCs. 8,665,795 views, uploaded 2 days ago, about 122,416 views per hour.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Row two: Drone Uses A Moth Antenna To Track Scents, by Zack D. Films. 7,306,003 views. The channel has 29,500,000 subscribers.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Row three: iPhone Duo Is Flopping, by Austin Sweatt. 8,277,124 views, uploaded 8 days ago, and 4,535 comments.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Nobody on the list asked the moth what it thinks.
ROXY: And a touchscreen MacBook Pro with 4,753 comments? I'm tearing up already. That's the trailer for something.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Thank you, Roxy. The Feed will be back when the internet changes its mind, which is any minute now.

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## Weather
STORMY BYTES: Good evening. The Hype Forecast shows a warm front of Pikmin enthusiasm moving in from the east, arriving just in time for the first of November.
STORMY BYTES: Expect scattered speculation about Pikmin 5, with a high chance of disappointment clearing to a free demo on November 2.
STORMY BYTES: Concrete cartridges bring a heavy cloud over the maker scene. Bring a trolley.

## Real or PXL?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! The real one. Dull, dependable, exactly what a wire headline should be. PXL made the other one up, and I was not even slightly worried.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Ah, fooled! PXL made that one up, and rather well. I knew it all along, of course, and I only let you pick it to build suspense.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time's up! Even the teletext page 100 waited longer than that. The real one was the Disney+ and Hulu headline.

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