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The Zelda movie cast announcement brought out some wild takes — and when I said Christ was never part of Zelda’s official lore, fans lost their minds.
This video dives into Nintendo’s real mythology, the Bible censorship claims, and the full meltdown that followed. Spoiler: I was right.
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So, I said something totally normal like
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Christ is king. However, Hyrule is
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fictional and they have the three
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goddesses who made Hyrule. There isn't
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Christ in the game. Never was. And
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somehow that turned into a full-blown
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meltdown. John F. Trent from Phantom
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Pulse accused me of gaslighting, moving
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the goalpost, and lying about Nintendo
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scrubbing the Bible from the original
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game. And to make things even dumber,
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this all started because of a simple
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casting announcement. Nintendo posted
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the Zelda movie cast and Trent replied
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with this. Will Link be a practicing
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Christian in the liveaction film? I
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thought that was a little cringe of a
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thing to ask. So I quote tweeted it with
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that Christ's king line to acknowledge
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my own faith, but also to remind
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everyone that Zelda has its own
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mythology. I didn't expect to get
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dragged into a religious lore war over a
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pixelated video game from 1986. If you
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played any Zelda game past Ocarine of
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Time, you would know that the lore
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centers around the three goddesses who
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created the world of Hyrule. They gave
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birth to the Triforce and they kicked
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off this whole hero of time cycle.
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That's the canon. All right. That's what
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the games have reinforced again and
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again. From Skyward Sword to Breath of
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the Wild to Tears of the Kingdom, you
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name it. So, when I said there isn't
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Christ in the game, never was, I wasn't
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saying Zelda never had religious
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imagery. I was saying Christ as in
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Christianity isn't part of the Zelda
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mythos. But Trent jumped on that tweet
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like I personally insulted the Pope. So,
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he posted this screenshot of this Bible
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item from the original NES Zelda, the
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Japanese version, and said, "You're
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wrong. The Bible is clearly in the game
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and was scrubbed by Nintendo of
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America." And that's where the firestorm
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began. Here's the part that makes zero
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sense. I actually agreed with him. I
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said, "Yeah, early Japanese versions of
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Zelda did have Christian references.
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Basically, the Book of Magic, which is
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what it was changed to in North America,
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was a Bible in Japan. It even looks like
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a Bible. There's crosses on Link's
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shield. There's crosses on headstones.
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All of that. But that doesn't mean
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Zelda's story was ever about
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Christianity. That was just early 8-bit
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fantasy design. And that's a trope that
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lots of Japanese games had at the time
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back then. So I said, "Hey, the current
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accepted Zelda mythology essentially is
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based on the three golden goddesses that
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canon has been solid since the N64 era.
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I mean, we're going nearly 30 years of
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canon, and that's not a dodge, okay?
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That's literally what Nintendo has
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committed to. Every major Zelda game,
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every major timeline explanation, even
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the Hyrule Histori, the actual book
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itself, backs that up. But that wasn't
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enough to him. He decided to get snarky
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with me, which is surprising. I've
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always had good conversations with John
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F. Trent. He flat out just goes, "It was
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the Bible. Do not gaslight me. do not
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move the goalpost. Like, I'm out here
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running some kind of Nintendo deep state
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conspiracy theory. Right? So, I clarify
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Nintendo moved the goalpost, not me. The
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item has literally been changed. It's
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now just called the Book of Magic. And
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there's no change in that. So, he fired
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back again saying, "I'm being dishonest
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and that the Bible was scrubbed to
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remove Christianity from the franchise
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essentially." which yeah, Nintendo had a
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lot of western localization policy back
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in the day. That was before the set lore
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was even created in 1986. There was no
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background. There was no story about
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triforces and golden goddesses and
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whatever. Okay, they didn't have a set
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lore. So, at this point with the way he
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was acting, I realized that this isn't
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about the game anymore. He doesn't care
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about Legend of Zelda. This is about
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narrative control, just like the whole
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GoGate conspiracy that him and his
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friends went all nutto over. I tried to
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be fair and I said, "Yeah, okay,
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stylized." Right? I said stylized in my
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original tweet. And maybe that wasn't
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the perfect word, but the point stands,
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right? That specific Bible item is gone.
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It's not canning. It's not canon. It's
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not canon. It's not part of Zelda's
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modern mythology. Instead of
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acknowledging that nuance though, he
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tells me that I'm being dishonest, that
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I can't even be honest with myself, and
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that there's nothing further to discuss.
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And then he rage quit the entire
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conversation and ends up unfollowing me.
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Big yikes. Dude went from is Link a
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Christian to you're a liar who hates the
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truth in under an hour. Like, this was
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literally like a 10-minute conversation.
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What blows my mind is I never even
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attacked his religion. I never
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disrespected his beliefs. I literally
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even said Christ is king and
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acknowledged that Jesus is my savior.
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And I literally agreed with part of what
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he said that it was a Bible and then it
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was changed and it's no longer canon. I
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wasn't just going to sit here and
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pretend that Tears of the Kingdom is
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secretly a Bible study tool. But here's
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why I think this hit a nerve, right?
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Because this is part of a bigger thing
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that is happening in gaming right now.
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People are trying to rewrite the past to
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fit an agenda. You know, whether it's
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denying early Christian elements ever
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existed or pretending modern Zelda is
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secretly Christian lore, it's all the
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same energy. All right? It's not about
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what's in the actual game. It's about
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who controls the interpretation of it.
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Nintendo has been very intentional about
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the Zelda mythos, guys. They built their
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own creation story with the three
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goddesses. They made their own gods,
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their own heaven, their own
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reincarnation cycles. It's not
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Christian. It's literally fictional
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religion. That's the whole concept
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behind The Legend of Zelda. Now, that
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doesn't mean that Christianity was never
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visually referenced. Okay? We literally
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have crosses on The Shield, on the Book
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of Magic, on headstones, but it does
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mean that it's not canon anymore. It's
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not coming back. And if they shoehorn
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that into the movie, that's a massive
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lore break, which was my whole point.
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And it won't just upset atheist or
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non-Christians if there's some kind of
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Christianity reference in there. It'll
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upset actual Zelda fans who care about
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the source material, who care about the
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story that they followed for decades.
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So, here's where I'll leave it. Yes, the
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in the original Zelda, at least in the
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Japan version, the Book of Magic was
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literally called the Bible. That's real,
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but it's not anymore. Nintendo moved on
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quickly from that. They made a
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consistent mythology that lasted 30 plus
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years. That's not censorship. That's not
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scrubbing Christianity.
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That's storytelling. So, the only person
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moving goalpost here in the situation
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wasn't me. It was John F. Trent. So, let
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me ask you these guys. Should the Zelda
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movie to bring back that old Christian
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symbolism and and make Link a practicing
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Christian like John F. Trent wants or
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would that completely shatter the canon
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that they've built since then? I I think
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it'll shatter it. And there's nothing
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wrong with that. That doesn't mean that
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I don't believe in Christianity and I'm
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a liar and I'm I'm not facing the truth
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like John F. Trent tried to paint.
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That's almost unhinged of him. That's
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Mercante levels. Dude, do journals do
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this type of stuff all the time. Twist
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people's words. Comment down below. Like
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the video if you're tired of people
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rewriting gaming history. And subscribe
7:26
for more real talk like this. And if you
7:29
haven't seen it yet, go watch my last
7:31
video where I break down how a used copy
7:33
of Bayer 3 permanently banned somebody
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Switch 2 from going online. Yeah, that's
7:38
a whole different level of insane.
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Anyways, I'll see you on the next one,
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guys.
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