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Episode Date: July 7, 2025

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So what the f*** happen with this? One thing I never had on the bingo card for 2025 is Ready or Not being downvote brigaded by their own community. Oh. At a time during the Steam summer sale where Ready or Not is 50% off on Steam, you'd think we'd see a lot more eyes on their title leading up to their console launch on July 15th. And for transparency sake, I have a pending deal with Ready or Not to celebrate their console launch. They wanted me to jump in.

Good for him. That was going to be some sports. sponsored content for Void Interactive. And as you guys can now see from this chart, things aren't looking very good. It seems like for the last few days, people are getting a little pissed off. Articles being written about how controversial

shooter, ready or not drops to mix reviews as community slams dev for censorship. First person shooter, ready or not, drops to mixed reviews as community slams the developers for censorship. What does this all mean? Let's talk about it. or not will be censored before launching on consoles and it could even affect the PC version.

Now, this article was published two days ago. It has now been confirmed this is happening to the PC version as well. And we're just going to go to the source here and read through what's actually going on. Console rating content changes throughout the console port process we've done our utmost to only make changes when they're flagged as absolutely required by our first party partners. Our age rating as it stands for consoles, ESRBM rating, Peggy 18, USK18 to give an idea. Still, there are other game content requirements that console platforms have in order to exist

on their systems. And a portion of these changes will be visible on the PC version. See, that's what's going to piss people off, right? Is like if you're getting your game censored just to make Sony happy, of course that's going to make the player base mad. If you look at it from the perspective of a PC player, your game is now being changed. because of something that has nothing to do with you in order for the company to make more money.

Yeah, obviously they'd be fucking mad. Like, I mean, you take away the reason and you take away the purpose and you just say, we're changing the game entirely in order to make it more accessible for consoles. Yeah, and we're going to censor it because of that. That would make anybody mad. Shit. Jumping into that, they go in and explain the reasons why.

There are two main reasons that these limited asset changes may be visible on the PC version as well. Well, maintaining multiple versions of the game with different assets and system mechanics increases the likelihood of bugs to appear in future updates. So because this game is cross-platform when it comes to consoles, things have to have parity. If the in-game assets were not the same, it would make cross-play unusable. And because people want cross-play, both games have to remain the same. That's true.

So what does that mean? It means we're losing a lot of gore and dismemberment. Player-induced dismemberment still has a large presence in the game, but is a little more limited. I heard that Japan's perspective on dismemberment is a little bit more conservative than ours. That's at least my understanding about it. I could be wrong. And I think there's always the historical example that a lot of people know about this famous, really,

that in World of Warcraft, they're not allowed to show skeletons or bones. And so they have people whenever they die, they put a tombstone down instead. When it occurs. That's China. Are they both China? Are they both China? Are they both China? However, once I thought that dismemberment was also seen as problematic in Japan also.

I could be wrong. You're dead. No, no further dismemberment occurs. No, the level of dismemberment itself, when it occurs, was not actually toned down. Ultimately, we consider this an okay compromise, considering our gameplay design already dissuades use of lethal force anyway. So if you have somebody on the ground, you shoot them with a shotgun and when they're already dead, they're no longer being dismembered. Lastly, some characters are involving torture. were tuned down slightly to be less over the top.

For example, the tortured police informant on narcos is still missing fingers, eyes, and covered in fresh wounds and blood, but a little bit less so. So it's just been toned down just slightly. Plus, some instances of explicit nudity for a handful of civilians and one suspect have been covered up a bit more. Can't show tithies. It's consoles, they're babies.

Explicit representations of violence and mistreatment against children. Although we already make a substantial effort to present mistreatment against children in the game in a responsible way, we made slight thematic expansions of this philosophy in order to better meet certification standards. For example, the child on Twisted Nerve has an animation change to be unconscious or sleeping instead of previously convulsive animations. So remember that kid in the top floor of Twisted Nerve who was like convulsing on the bed because she was left by her parents, probably induce something we didn't really know. That's no longer the case. This is the same team that staring down the barrel of a gun from all of the media journalists who were shitting on them for creating a school shooter level, they came down and said, fuck that, we're going to do it with respect, we're going to do it right, and we're going to do it whether you like it or not.

I think this is a really good parallel, which is the Baldersgate 3 bear sex scene. People don't really care about whether you can have sex with a bear in Baldersgate 3, but it represents a level of creative and artistic freedom. that makes people think that they're really playing a art piece and they're playing something that has escapism rather than something that's made for a mass audience or made for commercial appeal. And I think that when you have games that exercise censorship in these ways, what happens is that the game loses that sense of escapism and authenticity.

And I think that's really kind of the parallel that I'm drawing between these two circumstances. art? Well, yeah, yeah. And so, like, and I'm just using this as a broad term. But what I mean is that, like, for example, this is just me. But when I see a video game and it's using something that's different than male or female, I immediately think to myself, oh, my God, it's one of those again. Oh, geez. It's one of these, like, weird games where it's like some weirdo made this game and they want to make it like. And so it takes me out of the game because I'm thinking to myself, I'm not thinking. thinking about being part of the game world anymore. I'm thinking about about the game world being inauthentic at this point because it's being created in order to, in order to push a certain narrative. Eldon Ring had body types, though. I didn't say it's a make it or break it. I just said I don't like it. I didn't say I hate every game that has that, but I mean, I think it was stupid when Eldon Ring did it too. I don't understand your point. Like, yeah, and so immersion is key. Yeah. And so

that's really my point of real life cause and also it breaks the immersion so i think that's the reason why people are unhappy about this is that they view that this game is it's it's made in a certain way and it's really brutal it's super gory like for example like think about a movie like fight club or send city or something like that that's like a really brutal gory movie or like 300 and then think about how much it would be how annoying it would be if it got censored or toned down in order to appeal to another group of people. I think that's what's frustrating for a lot of people about this. It's not even necessarily the content itself. It's what the changes of the content represent, which is the fact that you're having your game be altered away from

the developer's original vision because of a publisher trying to exercise censorship and control over that game. Now, whether you think that's fair or not, that doesn't really matter. I think it's very evident that there's a lot of people that don't like that. Berserk is a good example. Yeah. In that like Berserk, there's a number of examples, you know, like the obviously like the Eclipse example with Costco and then also you have, you know, guts as a child. These are very important parts of the story. and if they were taken out of the story, I would be upset as a fan of berserk.

Does that mean that you like that kind of content? No, but it means that you value the authenticity of an author's work and you don't want to see it be censored by a third party that is trying to exercise creative control. And I think that's kind of what's really happening here. It's not about the changes specifically. It's about why they're happening. But when you have platforms that are telling you that you need to change the contents of your game

to be less violent, to be less explicit, to show less titties or whatever, you got to play by their rules. The changes with the console version are small enough that most people here would notice if we didn't say anything, but we want to be trans- As a child, you mean Griffith? Both. Look it up. Parent, it's largely just evidence and nudity that's altered, and the texture changes don't affect the PC version. In conclusion, they're looking forward to their console launch and relieved to be fully finished with all of their console launch certification processes.

And as you probably know already, this has pissed off a lot of people. The first comment on this post is huge respect for creating one of the standout games in its genre and keeping the experience alive and thriving years after release. I got to say, on one hand, I actually agree. And as you can see, the clown emojis are being thrown out. You're censoring the game. Yeah, that's just people that don't like them. Yeah. Not a fan.

These ones are getting upvoted. Loving the new animations, but toning down the graphic themes of the game is a bit questionable. I actually agree. It's one of the main reasons why we all got excited about this game. I don't think that, like, and this is another thing that a lot of people might not really understand is that I think that in a lot of cases, a game like this, a tactical shooter game where you're going in and killing people and like holding them down with a shotgun and blowing their face. off. Do you want to know who plays those games? Young guys, teenage guys, like the ages of 13 to 40-year-old men. That is, in my opinion, probably like 98% of the game's audience. Guys like that don't want

to have their game censored in order to appeal to an audience that doesn't even want their game. That's the reason why it's just, it's literally just guys. So what's the problem? Well, the The problem is that they're removing and toning it down in order to make the game more agreeable with consoles. And I think that the reason why PC players are upset about this is because now the PC version of the game is being affected to. So now you bought this game and now your game is being changed because of a console. Of course that's going to make you mad. In 2017, when we first started seeing these concepts come to like, the school shooter level.

Like I don't think anybody criticizes Blizzard for making a Chinese version of Wow where they don't show corpses because it's not in actual like Western version. But when you have the whenever you force like for example, if the Chinese version of the game was forced on all players, I think you'd see people be very frustrated. Like concept trailer where they show the officers opening up the shipping container and there were kids in there being traffic and you rescue them. Those themes are what sold us on the game in the first place.

And like this person points out, it was either that, the censoring of the game, or they get an adult's only rating, which is basically commercially non-viable. So here we are. We're sitting here at the cusp of a concert release, and we have people now downvoting the game because they're not a fan of the censorship that is inevitably going to be coming to the PC version of the game. Now, here's the thing for the console crowd, if there wasn't crossplay and they wanted to down-tone it, like it is what it is.

The fact that people... Yeah, I don't think people would really care if they toned it down on the console-only version and the PC version wasn't changed. I've already purchased the game. Most likely based on some of those themes that you guys show off in the screenshots, in the trailers, and in videos that we have already made on this channel in the past,

the fact that that now is being changed after a purchase for somebody is kind of a shitty thing to do. I understand not wanting to go adults only... Especially when... that's being changed in order to appeal to an audience or a group of people that you're not even a part of. If you're putting all of these resources together to make a console version for the console crowd, you want to make as much money as humanly possible to make that money back. I totally understand the business side of why you want to go down this road.

The fact that it affects the PC release when it's already been out in the open for years on end is questionable. and it just downright fucking sucks. Awake here points out. Here we go again. All PC players suffer. Yeah, I think people just don't want censorship, period. There's no, like, fine print to this. They just don't want censorship in games.

They don't want to have some corporate guy up there telling somebody that's making a game, no, you can't do this. This isn't allowed. This is bad. Or give players a choice. Yeah. As of console players. No one ever asked for censorship.

The players never asked for censorship. Now, here's the thing. I don't know. know if I'm personally, like, upset enough to want to refund the game and say, fuck it. Ready or Not is one of the best indie shooters that we have covered on this channel. They started off really, really rough, and they made their way to, again, one of the best releases that we have seen in a long time. But as the next comment points out, he believes that censoring certain aspects of the game

is compromising the core identity of Ready or Not. And it's unfortunate that it has to be this way and the developers have to compromise. I'm sure they're not happy about it. at all. I'm sure they would have loved just a one-to-one parody of whatever's on the PC version. That's also another good point to keep in mind is that the devs don't obvious, like, why would the devs want this? But they're just capitulating to the developers because they want to make more money. It can be on the console version. Probably would have made their lives a lot easier. But if I could give the developers a little bit of advice, you do not want to jump into a thread

like this with this response. For clarification, the changes aren't extensive. They're only minor skin changes with the most significant change being that players lose the ability to desecrate corpses. Well, I mean, again, the thing is that this is, I think, one of the worst arguments that somebody can make is that it's really small so it doesn't matter. Because it can be easily reversed back onto the developer or the person making the change. So, like, if you're complaining about something and then somebody tells you, oh, well, this shouldn't matter to you, it's just really small. well, okay, well, if it doesn't matter to me and it's really small, then why does it exist? Why are you making, why are you doing it if it doesn't matter? Which I know for some people is like, yeah, big deal, but read the room.

There's so many pissed off people. Gerard's gilly just goes down a little. It's not about the change. It's about why it's happening. Further, the woman on port gained tattered clothes instead of being nude. Small changes like that. Yeah, people don't like that. Guys don't like that.

They want to watch gritty, brutal, savage, awful games. That's what they like. Look at all of the really, really popular guy movies over the years. They're all absolutely fucking brutal. Look at Mortal Kombat. So a million fucking examples of this. This isn't what guys want. You got to read the room.

That's it. I think this comment really just sums up how I feel. Look, I get the overall challenge with the porting process, but that doesn't make the force them. clients of a console port censorship guideline on us feel any less icky. As somebody who backed this game back in 2000, I think it was 2017, 2017. Yeah, John Wick, exactly. It kind of sucks to see the neutering of that atmosphere happen because they want to put it on consoles.

I totally understand the console crowd has been begging to the, the console crowd's been begging for fucking anything with a gun on it for years on end. I totally get it. But it does kind of suck. And as you can see, their community hub is being more desecrated than the corpse can be now. So many people complaining. I was about to buy this game. Fuck censorship.

Crossplay was a mistake. If they censor, we should all mask downvote the game. That's what's happening now. But the thing is... No, they should. I totally support the community in this. And the reason why is that if enough people complain about censorship, you have to keep in mind why censorship happens.

So censorship happens because of the premise that some people will be offended and the amount of people that are offended will be a larger group of people than the people that want the change. And so the change is made in order to appeal to the largest type of audience. So the way that you fight against censorship is you come together and you show that this censorship actually is more alienating to do than not to do. So that's the way that you fight directly against censorship is that you have to figure out why does censorship happen.

It happens to make people happy. So if censorship happens to make people happy. people happy and then you see people that aren't happy, then the censorship loses its purpose and the censorship doesn't happen as much. That's the reason why I totally support them. It's because I don't want to see this happen to my games. I saw a World of Warcraft get censored a lot. You had, you know, like these photos, like these, not photos, these like pictures that are made of like these like, you know, characters in a game and like bikinis and stuff. And they got rid of that and they replaced them all with fruit. Well, I don't like that. It's a lot. It's

Is it because I'm some kind of gooner that wants to see these characters be, you know, like some like girl in a bikini? No, I don't care about that at all. It doesn't really matter. But what does matter is the fact that it matters to them. And the fact that it matters to them and they want to push it into that and they want to make me and change my media and change my game because it makes them uncomfortable. I think that as players, we need to push back against this in general. We need to push back against having games censored in order to appeal to a small minority of people who in a lot of cases aren't even interested in the game in the first place.

And so if you can get enough people together and you can get people angry enough about this, you can reverse these types of censorship changes or you can punish a company and damage a game so much that it kills the company and it kills the game and it serves as an example for future developers to not make that same mistake. And I think that's the way that you have to do it. Because ultimately, we are the customer, and the consumer is always right in matters of taste. And, like, look at Concord.

We killed Concord. That's it. You don't see a lot of Concord's coming out anymore. That's it. It's dead. Yeah, Hell Divers 2 boycott. Yes, exactly. They shut down discussions tab for the game to shut people up.

It's blank except for pens now. Yeah, because they're afraid. Destroying your reputation in a game to sell a few copies on console, smart. Exactly. And so the reason why they do this is because there's not a counterbalance for people that are able to advocate to not have media and content censored. And ultimately, I think that's what matters the most, is that it's not about whether you can dismember somebody in this video game or not. It's about whether you want to have some corporate decision maker that goes through seven different levels of HR make that decision for you. You want to have the individual director or artist make that decision on a personal level.

Now, the consumer is always right matters today, so you get horrible wateredown culture that America has now. Our music is shit. Our movies are shit. I don't think that's the reason why. But anyway, and that's the way that you fight against censorship is that you openly, you are as loud and as negative about it as you possibly can be. And if you do that enough, that censorship goes away. Because censorship is done out of fear. And so if you make them more afraid of you than they are of the people that are looking for censorship, then they won't do censorship. That's how to solve the problem. You pressure people and you put the pressure on a lot and that gets things to change.

And I understand this might sound like kind of a McEvillian way of doing it. And it is. It works. Do you want to do the thing that will create things? outcome that you want. I do. And that's how to do it. This is mass downvotes.

I guarantee you. I guarantee you. It's only going to get you so far when you look like the game's sitting at the last 30 days. Gained up. It went down. Came up. I'm guessing that has a lot to do with the team summer sale. Right now there's 12,000 people.

Yeah. And the way that you, the way that you stop tone policing is you actively push against it as loudly and as openly as possible. And you don't support people that support it at all. That's how you push it down. That's how you get rid of a Karen strategy, loud and annoying. Exactly. And the thing is that you should never be afraid to use tactics that other people would use against you. Whenever you're looking to achieve a goal, the only thing that you should do is look at how can I get to where I'm at, how can I get to where I want to be, and not build up a bunch of rules in your mind of how to talk

and justify the means. I don't think that it's really an end. justifying means. I think it's totally fair to do this. What am I saying here? I'm saying expressing displeasure that the commercial product is being changed in a way that you don't like. I'm not saying to burn down a building. I'm not

saying to go out and commit crime. I'm just saying, hey, tell people that you don't like this and that you're not going to buy a game because of it. I can't desegrated dead body tantrum. That's right. And again, if enough people complain about that, they're going to let you do it. Keep it in mind. It's the principle that matters. At the end of the day,

I, and I think a lot of other people, don't want to be told what I can and can't look at and what I can and can't see. It's that simple, period. It doesn't matter what the context is or anything else. Of course, there's some exceptions, but this isn't one of them, especially when I paid for it. Yes. They don't have the condescending chatter language? Well, it just doesn't work on me. What if you want to desecrate corpses?

What if you want to, what if you want to dismember them and, like, pull their arms off? Why shouldn't you be able to do that? It's only a video game. Who cares? Really? Like, it doesn't matter. Nobody's dying. Nobody's getting hurt by this. It's not even real. Who cares? Online, which the game doesn't seem to be losing Steam at all.

When you look at the charts for 2025, like the game was kind of losing steam trickling down, 7,000, 6,000. You shouldn't even say this? You know, we hit the end of the month here in June. Steam Summer Sale starts and starting to climb right back up to around 11,000. It's not at its highest peak by any stretch. So while it's down a little bit from where it started at the beginning of the year, where it was hitting, you know, peaks of around 20,000. Yeah.

It hasn't dropped enough to really, probably make a difference to the developers. I think they can clearly tell that a lot of people are pissed off with this change. And it's tough because I completely understand both sides of the coin. The developers want to get this into many people's hands as possible. People have been begging for them to do it, and this is the compromise that they have to make to be able to pass those certifications. But I also understand the gamer side of things.

I don't think the console crowd actually cares about it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm misreading it. I think the console crowd is just going to be psyched to have a tactical shooter that they can play on a controller, on their TV, in their fucking living rooms. I think the biggest problem is the PC people who have paid for the game already and now have to suffer those changes. But I can completely understand it from both perspectives, but I want to know what you guys think down below. I have a feeling that a lot of you are going to be upset at those content changes and the censorship for the console crossplay parody.

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I see what people like. I see what people watch. I see the kind of content that people consume. It's just simply not real. The only people that are pushing this are weirdos that want to tell everybody else what to do. That's really all there is to it. It's a false narrative. Yes, this is a false narrative that's being put forward by people that don't play these video games that want content and media that they don't even consume to fit into their worldview. And I think it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. If you, want to dismember people blow their face off, cut their arms off, or do anything like that, I think that's totally fine because it's a video game and nobody cares. Nobody's getting hurt. There's no evil that's happening. There's no violence that's occurring. It's not real. And so the entire premise of this is ridiculous. It's a ridiculous problem. And nobody should take it

seriously at all. Nobody should take people to complain about this seriously at all. And you see people that are like, where was the guy that I was talking about? Like this guy right here. And you're acting like this is some kind of a big thing or like, oh, well, ask other people what they think about this. Well, I don't care what other people think about this. I care about what I think about this because it's my fucking game. I don't need the approval of somebody that doesn't even play.

Like, why would I want the approval of somebody that doesn't consume the media that I'm interested in to tell me that it's okay to be. To consume this media. It's so cringe. Oh, would you look at that? Military sim people proving they need to be put on a domestic terrorist watch list with some of their ridiculous toxic behavior. In case you're ill-informed, the game Ready or Not is a military sim on Steam who recently censored a couple aspects of their game so they get it approved to be put on console. And it is now being absolutely review-bombed with military sim people freaking out.

What level of censorship are we talking about, Jordan? Military Sims should be hyper-realistic. Listen, we are talking about extremely minor tweaks to some of the most grotesque things I've ever seen in gaming personally that I can't actually talk about explicitly here on TikTok because I will ban. But suffice to say, trust me. Trust me that I'm right, but I can't tell you what I'm right about? That's not a good argument. Go look it up.

It's really not that big deal. Okay, I'll watch a video on this. But you know what is a big deal? I was going to watch this. How obsessed military sim people are with these specific. extremely grotesque, brutal parts of the game being censored. They are so fixated on it. They look like disgusting perverts who should be, like, put in a psych work.

Like, you care that much about seeing that level of brutality. What is wrong with you? If you are one of the people review bombing it for this situation, I want you to do an exercise with me. Go to a family or friend, someone who doesn't play military sims or doesn't play video games. Explain what the game censored and then explain. Well, how would that make any sense? Like, so if you... So you should base what you like about video games on people that don't like video games?

Like, I don't even understand that. Like, so, wait, what? Why would you ask somebody who doesn't like what you like to tell you what you should like? Blame that you want that specific part uncensored and why? And just see their reaction. Military simulator. I think this is a really good example of the stuff that I talk about a lot, where You have a lot of people like this.

I think this is a very weak form of thinking. And I think that it demonstrates itself as being weak because it's so vulnerable to consensus of thought. His entire justification for why something is good or why something is bad is based off of whether other people like it or not. This is what herd animals do. you're literally just making an appeal to consensus that's like that that is the lowest form of self-esteem that you can possibly have are supposed to be about realistic shooting mechanics

and realistic physics they're not supposed to be a point no of course it is why would you the thing is that if you want something in a game why should you have to look to somebody else's opinion why is your value system up for debate? Why is it that you have to justify what you like and don't like? Who decided that?

Who decided that your opinions and your values and what you like is accountable to anybody else in the world? Probably these are changes. Odd damn PTSD simulator, all right? If you want that, go join your country's military. go experience that level of brutality. Otherwise, at the end of the day, even if it is a simulator, it is supposed to be a game.

It's so fucking cringe. And it's these weird tone policers that want to tell everybody else what to do. Wasn't there a case in Starbraid censorship with outlets, outfits that got a lot of backlash? Yeah, then they changed it back. And that's it. The White Knights, in case you're ill-informed,

it proceeds to call it a military sim and suggests you join the military. Dude doesn't even understand the difference in military and tactical police unit. I don't know. I mean, that's probably true. He's probably just an idiot. But I don't usually say this.

You can practically taste a soy in his voice. Well, there's a lot of, there's a lot of kids like this on TikTok that, you know, have like this, like, what's the word for it? Like this patronizing, like, I'm better than you. I'm on the right side of history, like mindset. And I think it goes really well on TikTok because these types of people, like the videos are like a minute and a half long. And so it's something that a stupid person that doesn't really think about it at all can just immediately process and be like, yeah, this is so wrong. That's so bad.

But yeah, it's just that's it. Stop tasting people's voices. Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying, right? Dean Parker, I'd say kids are smarter. Maybe, right? But I think that's, yeah, the good boy mafia. The hell does that mean? What I mean is that so when you have a small, whenever you have a small form of media, you're not really discussing the entire idea of a topic. And also, you're not exploring any other perspectives other than your own. And so because of that, this is the reason why, for example, a lot of people don't want to do podcasts. This is why people criticize other politicians for not going on Joe Rogan, because you can't maintain and defend a lot of ideas on Joe Rogan. It's like the Kamala Harris thing. She didn't go on Joe Rogan. Well, yeah, because she'd look like a

retard. That's the reason why. And so that's the thing. And short-form content's bad for brains. Yes. It's a society where virtue is a social currency. Don't be surprised where you can't reach the bar. They set up a tie for a while. Yeah. No, I think so. Not enough time to really fully explore the idea. Yeah. No, I think people like this are super cringe. There's a lot of TikTokers that are like this. It's pathetic, but, you know, it's not really that big of a surprise. This guys can get it. He thinks people want disturbing content, but it's more trusting creators to go to the places people won't. Yeah, exactly. Like, I think people, it's the same as the Baldersgate bear sex scene. People didn't like it because of the bear sex.

They liked it because it indicated that the developer is willing to do whatever the fuck they want. And I think that people in general are tired of censored and neutered media in order to appeal to certain demographics that aren't even interested in the content to begin with. That's the real reason. That's the actual underpinning of this. It has nothing to do with the content itself. and it has everything to do with why it's happening and the people that are pushing it. So yeah, it's that simple.

And my female friend loves it. Yeah, well, she's probably got a lot of books like that. Didn't Oblivion censor? Yeah, they did a little bit. And it was bad. But yeah, that's the way I see it. Weird as shit. The content's optional for those interested.

Exactly. Yeah, people can do whatever they want. And I don't see the problem with that at all.