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Welcome back to the show. So I've been testing out the new x cloud. And I will have to say I've tried different concepts here to really make it jive and work well. And what I found out is it's best to play off your phone, I tried playing on a Chromebook, which probably wasn't the best choice. And I just was getting some little bit of chop there. But I have found that if you put it on your phone phones are a lot more powerful these days that it does give you that extra jump. And I think that's a lot to do with the ram in the phones in comparison to a Chromebook, which could be lacking in that category. And that wasn't always the case when it came to phones, but x cloud, the experience has been off and on. So I started on day one, just kind of try it out, I was really excited because it hadn't played Halo in a while. So that was kind of my buy into x cloud. And I got in there and I immediately fell into reach, played that. And it was okay, a lot of stuttering, they kind of have this window wiper thing when it comes to x cloud. And really, it wipes away the graininess when it becomes too much. So if you're in a really bad connection area of your house, for instance, or maybe your Wi Fi doesn't reach out that far, you will end up getting a ton of wipes and it can kind of just make gameplay impossible. So I'd recommend you just stay close to your router, if you're going to go off of an other neck cord when it comes to x cloud. But I will say this wrong, the it's been a couple of days now that x cloud has been going. And I will say this that it is continually slowly growing. From that standpoint, I feel like the quality has gone up a little bit since I've started it. I think the first day obviously your servers are going to be overwhelmed as people log on and start using that service. But over the past couple days as I've tried out x cloud, I played through the entire reach game to really get an idea of what x cloud has to offer. And I will say it is definitely the future of gaming, but there's a long way to go before the fidelity is actually there. I feel like most of the time feels like you're playing on an Xbox 360, which is fine if you just want to play the games just to play the game. So if you're someone who doesn't care about graphics, let's say you're and this is really for that niche market, and you have a decent internet connection. You don't care about graphics, then x cloud is an awesome thing. Just want to play the games. I really do think this is a stroke of genius, because what it does is it put Microsoft on mobile. And a lot of people are not really thinking about how x cloud helps Microsoft in this fact. But when you log into the app, and it starts loading up x cloud at first off, it says beta so it makes you think, okay, maybe the quality's not going to be there right now. But in the future, this is where they want to go. And I can definitely see if the if they really improve the service. And then you can't tell I mean, I attained EP, I would I would buy it, just to play the games at a little bit lower quality, and out to fork over as much money and just pay $15 a month. That is a service I would pay for if I knew I could play new games. So Cloud does have that advantage there you have new games on the service, which is not really unheard of. And really is it an advantage actually has me thinking to just stay subscribed to x cloud, even if I don't get an Xbox while having a PlayStation five, or just going the other route with going have the Xbox, the next gen version. So I mean, there are advantages to this x cloud service in the amount of games you're going to get, you're going to not have any issues or have a lot of content to play even coming, I was alive for kind of a lifelong PlayStation or jumping over to x cloud going into that definitely sees see the advantage there when it comes to the service in general. So it's a growing service, it will continue to gr