Mike Drucker
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378 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 24 Jul
Mike Drucker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We pitched to HarperCollins and they bought it. So what it basically is, was. I've been reading a lot of books about movies and music where people write about how they influence their lives, like Patton Oswalt's Silver Screen Fiend, you know, a lot of like, I don't know, even like Chuck Klosterman stuff that we all used to like.
And people just don't really do that about games, or at least there's no like book where it's just sort of like about a very on the ground, how it influenced my life in a funny way book. And it's not that I saw a hole in the market that I wanted to fill. It was more like, oh, this is something that I want to talk about. If other people aren't doing it, I would love to do it.
And so I wrote this book, which is a series of comedy essays about events in my life where I've humiliated myself in some form with video games. The stories about like crushes that failed, bad cosplay, a time at Nintendo when I got shot, shot during a paintball gunfight. It's just it's kind of it's supposed to be a very, very fun light book about video games and how much we all love them.
Thank you very much. I think the fact that I sent one person at Nintendo a PDF and then I think everyone at Nintendo got that PDF. And the fact that they've been very nice about it is very nice.
I have not yet given up on games. Right now, the two games I've put the most time into are still Avowed, I'm still in the middle of Avowed, and Two Points Museum.
So I've got a little handgun I've upgraded in one hand, and I've got a big grimoire in the other, and I'm just going to town on people. Yeah.
I'm like 10 hours in. But like any time I've turned it on, I lose like an hour and a half. Like each time I'm like, I'm just going to like futz with my museum a little before I have to head out. I just get sucked in. But it's it's so fun. And I grew up loving museums. Like as a kid, they were one of my favorite places to go.
And as an adult, like if I have extra time in a new city, I'll try to go to a museum. And hell, my favorite part of Animal Crossing was building that museum. Like that was what I was obsessed with when we were all having the pandemic was making my museum look good.
I'll be honest, I saw someone else wearing this at, it was either at PAX or some convention, and I just googled Silent Hill Seinfeld logo hat and found it, so I recommend you do that. I apologize for not knowing the origin of it, though.
Next week, it's very high. I also have some friends from Nintendo in town, and I'm supposed to get drinks with them, and I'm going to try to do the most around-the-world prying. You know, just being like, I know you can't talk about anything, but like... It's a mouse, right? I just want that. I don't know. I'm very hyped for it.
The only thing I wouldn't say, the only reason I'm probably not as hyped as I was for the Switch is this does feel a little more like when I upgrade from a crappy phone to a really good phone, where I'm super excited for that new phone, but I also know it's not going to be a life-changing thing like the Switch was.
Not a good time. Not a good time. Don't make games people.
Yeah, I kind of think like what it sounds like he's doing is better. Like to me, it sounds like there will someday be a last of us three. But sure, any progress they've made at it, they've either not found the right idea for it or they haven't been happy with, like, you know, the basic concept yet.
But I think that's better than something like, you know, one of my favorite games is that vampire game, Vampire the Menace Great Bloodlines. And that RPG came out before Half-Life 2. That game was a Source Engine game before Half-Life 2 came out.
That's how old it is. And the sequel has been announced again and again over the years, and it's been announced, then it's been canceled, then it's been moved to a new team, then it's been delayed. And to me, that's no different than being like, there might be Last of Us 3, there might not, but it's a little more embarrassing to do that.
Yeah, it was like delayed until the end of 2025, but still no release date, I don't think. Got it, got it, got it, got it, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, you know, and maybe it is something like an Uncharted and they just don't want to announce it to avoid, you know, canceling and rebooting it. Of course. Or getting brigaded by because Nathan Drake's too old or something.
Yeah. Drucker, as... You know what I'd like? I'd like a very cinematic Crash Bandicoot. Like, I'd like them to combine all of their history.
I mean, that could look like a couple things, you know, it's, you know, it could also, it could be just the pressure of it all, you know, like, The Last of Us, and I love The Last of Us, but whether or not you like The Last of Us, it's now one of the big triple-A series. And it's also one of the big prestige television series.
And so when you feel that much pressure, especially pressure from some audiences that didn't necessarily like some of the characters and kind of... maybe went a little overboard with things regarding that. Maybe a little bit, you know, like it's, it's like, it's, it's, it makes you nervous. It makes you question yourself.
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