I Love The Wii Library! (Day 3706 - 1/17/20)

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Stephen, Mallory, Emile, Masae, and Dan are having lunch at Kaminsky's New York Deli. Stephen got the Montauk sandwich which he says is one of the best sandwiches he has ever had.

Back at home, they have their annual gift exchange. Mal told Emile and Masae to just pick any of the gift wrapped boxes on the table, and they will tell them if the gift is for them or not. Emile picks up a box and Mal immediately tells him that it's not for him. Emile picks a different box and it's a dash camera for his car. Mal tells him that he can sometimes get money off his car insurance if the insurance company knows he has the dash camera. Stephen says that this dash camera also has a rear camera which Emile says will be useful for backing up his car.

Masae receives a cat piano which scares Kepler. She tells Stephen that he's going to regret giving this to her so early on in the trip since she's gonna be playing it a lot. She mentions that Reese (or Lucahjin) had given her a dog guitar a couple of weeks ago. So, now she has an otamatone, dog guitar, and cat piano. Stephen says that she could start her own animal-based band. Mal says that when they went to go pick up the cat piano at the store, the cat piano was on and making noise in the bag. The lady handing the bag told them that at least they know it works. Mal told the lady that she hopes that it at least stops working for the 20 minute ride home.

Masae gives them toast kitchen sponges. Emile says that the sponges are the indoor toast that will match their yard toast. The next gift is for Stephen, but there wasn't enough room on the gift tag so it just says "Steph". It is a box full of 38 Wii games! Stephen says that he has never even seen some of these games before. While taking out the Wii games, Stephen comes across Gummy Bears Mini Golf which he wonders why it even exists. Stephen was disappointed that the game called Deer Drive wasn't about deers actually driving. Mal is really wants to try playing Let's Tap since she used to do tap dancing. Emile says that this game was directed by Yuji Naka who produced Sonic. He also explains that to play the game you put the Wii remote face down on a cardboard box and tap the box to control the game. Mal says that they have the perfect boxes for that purpose which are the boxes that the cat food comes in.

Emile thanks Kelsey Lewen at Pink Gorilla for helping him find Wii games for Stephen. Kelsey and her husband had recently purchased the inventory of a game store chain that was going out of business. So, she compared her original inventory and the inventory that she just purchased with Stephen's spreadsheet in order to find the games he didn't have yet. Stephen says that he loves the Wii library and embraces that fact that there is so much shovelware. He says that there will never be another system that will have some of these games.

The next gift for Emile and Masae is a DND Essentials Kit. Emile says that he has a lot of tabletop games that require a group of 5 or more people, but he can never gather enough people to play them. For the next gift, Stephen says that whoever wants it can fight over it. Emile grabs the box and looks at Masae as Pokemon battle music starts. Masae then says that she knows that she can take on Emile if she really wants whatever is in the box. Both of them like plushies and Stephen's thing is "bread". So, they got them a giant baguette pillow. Emile says they stored the pillow in a "bag"uette and Masae proceeds to smack Emile in the face with the pillow for his bad pun.

Next, is a present with a gift tag that says "...en!" which has the rest of Stephen's name that couldn't fit on the other tag. It is a Wii game called Cyberbike Cycling Sports which is one of the rarest of all Wii games. Stephen says that he has never seen a physical copy. It is a game where you stick the Wii remote on the pedal of an exercise bike in order to play the game. Masae gives Mal a box with a subscription to meowbox and a framed picture of the Dusty Dunes from Earthbound with the White Sesame Seed and Black Sesame Seed next to each other. On starmen.net, Mal's user name was White Sesame Seed and they made a joke that Stephen was the Black Sesame Seed. They are never seen together in-game. Masae had a lot of trouble making it since the glue she was using was melting the printer ink. Stephen received a green dice tray, a green dice bag with compartments, and a green 20-sided metal dice.

Emile gave Mal a Nintendo Switch. Mal thought that he might have reused the packaging since he already gave them Switches on vlog Day 2987. Stephen thought that Emile forgot that he gave them Switches. This Switch is a higher performance model that has a battery life of 4 hours. He gave it to Mal since she tends to carry it around, while Stephen tends to leave it plugged in. Emile says that he also bought it last year and says it's good for flights. Mal says that this is great because she often finds her Switch out of battery when she wants to play it.

After the gift exchange, they play Pandemic the board game and ended up losing the game. They go to have dinner with Dan at International Kitchen. At the restaurant, Stephen suggests that Emile and Masae try the pickle soup and pierogies. Back at home, they do a Grand Theft Auto V stream with Emile and Masae who are playing it for the first time. There is then a clip of Emile speeding through the streets on a motorcycle in GTA 5 and then crashing into a truck. Emile's character jumped off the motorcycle and was run over by a dump truck after Dan told him to press "Y". Emile also punched an NPC so hard that they flew into traffic and got hit by a car. On Masae's turn, she had been trying to get on a plane for so long and Dan gave her explosive hands. So, Masae accidently punched the plane and it exploded.

During the stream, there were a lot of technical issues. The controller wouldn't pair with the computer, they got signed out of RockStar 3 times, OBS wouldn't record the game audio, and the uninterruptible power supply started letting out a wailing sound. Stephen restarted the stream box which fixed OBS, but after Emile started playing for the 2 seconds the wailing sound happened. They figured out that the sound happened when too many things were on the screen which was causing too much power to be pulled in. Emile ran to an area with few things on screen and it stopped. They ended up moving the computer to a different wall outlet which fixed the issue. They plan to play board games all day tomorrow and Lindsey will be coming over to join them.