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…Last question. What topics and ideas do you plan on covering next? I think that I’m still really fascinated by the idea of looking at real stuff in video games, but in some sense, I think I’ve shot myself in the foot because now I’ve leaned so far in that direction that, like we were talking about, to me, that’s second-order purpose, and it’s gotten so much . . . because one of my short-term goals is to change the whole way that we think about video games via YouTube. I’ve started to see tons of other YouTube channels approaching video games in the same way that I do. The thing they’ve latched onto, which is always the case when people copy you, is the initial interpretation. There’re tons of other people going, “What are the housing prices in this game? What’s the economy like in this game?” Whatever. I need to find a way to shift a little bit away from that and rebalance away from that being what people think the point is, and shift a little bit more towards we’re just trying to — like I said — trying to learn how to think, trying to learn how to be analytical. Yes, it’s about video games. Yes, it’s about infrastructure, but it’s not necessarily the point. Can I ask you one question before we wrap up? Absolutely.…

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