It is a huge week for Nintendo as the Switch crushes the Xbox One's sales numbers world wide, Fornite hosts a Star Wars Event, Indie Showcase brings us tons of games, and more Pokémon!

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• Everything We Learned From Nintendo's Indie World Showcase
• All the winners from The Game Awards 2019 - Polygon
• Former Nintendo Of America President Reggie Says The Future Of Games Is In The Cloud - Nintendo Life
• Nintendo Switch Outsells Xbox One Worldwide - VGChartz
• Switch Estimated To Have Sold More Than 50,000 Units On Launch Day In China - Nintendo Life
• Random: Upset By eShop Discoverability Issues? Spare A Thought For Chinese Switch Owners - Nintendo Life
• Jeopardy Puts Up Pokémon Category That's Somehow Even Easier Than Pokémon Games
• QubicGames Is Giving Away 10 Free Nintendo Switch Games: Today's Game Is Puzzle Book - Nintendo Life
• My Nintendo is offering a seven-day free trial for Switch Online through January 31
• Star Wars took over Fortnite to reveal Rise of Skywalker footage - Polygon
• The Seven-Year Saga Of Shovel Knight Is Finally Over

We are back for our 18th installment of lightning topics! We cover several topics each covered in 5 minutes. This week we cover more DevOps, large PRs to Xamarin, System.Threading.Channels, GPUs, and what the next thing in tech is.

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Links:

• An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels | .NET Blog
• Mobile DevOps | Tags | Channel 9
• Azure Windows VM sizes - GPU - Azure Windows Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs

Hop on your Peloton for a whole mess of segues this week! We talk some news, some interesting internet reactions to commercials, and talk about football! But not in a fun way, in a Michael Vick sort of way. This is kind of a part 1 because there's more to come on the same topics next week.

Warning to everyone, we do get into some heavy talk of animal cruelty.

Dani and Katt are vegans. They take a not-too-serious look at being a vegan in the real world, making jokes, puns, segues, cat sounds, and the occasional good point along the way. If you're a vegan or veg-interested, they're here to help and entertain. Updating every Friday.

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Links:

• Why The Humane Society President Changed His Mind About Working With Michael Vick | HuffPost
• The Humane Society of the United States and Convicted Dogfighting Kingpin Michael Vick - HumaneWatch
• Michael Vick Pro Bowl captain: Ben Watson is defending the NFL's decision | Boston.com
• How Michael Vick’s dogfighting case changed animal welfare - Washington Post
• Petitions demand Michael Vick be removed as Pro Bowl captain - The Washington Post

As the holidays get closer things start to get a bit crazy, especially when you order a Switch and you get a laptop fan cooler... We have all the news including the launch of the Switch in China, Sword & Shield updates, and Zelda in Mario Maker 2.

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Links:

• Amazon apologises for sending shopper batteries and condoms - instead of Nintendo Switch - Mirror Online
• The Nintendo Switch finally launches in China on December 10th | Engadget
• NES & Super NES - December Game Updates - Nintendo Switch Online - YouTube
• 'Super Mario Maker 2' update adds Link from The Legend of Zelda | Engadget
• Japanese Charts: Pokémon Sword And Shield Is Still Flying Off Shelves As Switch Dominates - Nintendo Life
• Pokemon Sword and Shield to get a GIANT Pokedex update on Nintendo Switch | Gaming | Entertainment | Express.co.uk
• After Claiming 95% Of All Hardware Sold In Japan Last Week, Nintendo Apologises Over Ring Fit Adventure Shortages - Nintendo Life
• New Pokémon Sword And Shield Galar Plush Release Next Month, Including Wooloo - Nintendo Life

After a year of gathering data in his apps, Frank finally sat down to analyze it all. Did it answer his questions? Did he make changes to the app? Did he rip the telemetry out completely? Tune in.

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This week a very sick Michael discusses the most wanted games this holiday season, the Pokemon Companys lawsuit against leakers, Bowsers favorite video game, a big update to Stardew Valley, Elder Scrolls: Blades Nintendo Switch port delay, Pokemon Sword and Shield raid exploit, Metroid rumors, this weeks best sellers, and the new games coming out!

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James sits down with the legendary Mads Torgersen to talk about how the team at Microsoft builds C# and works with the community to plan out and iterate on new features.

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Special Guest: Mads Torgersen.

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• What's new in C# 8.0 - C# Guide | Microsoft Docs
• dotnet/roslyn: The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
• (4) Mads Torgersen (@MadsTorgersen) / Twitter
• Use C# 8 In Any .NET Project Today - James Montemagno
• Microsoft Ignite Podcast Sweepstakes

Dani and Katt are vegans. They take a not-too-serious look at being a vegan in the real world, making jokes, puns, segues, cat sounds, and the occasional good point along the way. If you're a vegan or veg-interested, they're here to help and entertain. Updating every Friday.

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It is all things DevOps for mobile apps this week. We try to get Frank inline with figuring out continuous delivery with several different products including App Center, Azure DevOps, Bitrise, and more.

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