#225 - He Lost His Entire Audience Twice?! (Ft. Driggsy)

**Mike Kim** (0:00)
Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 225 of the Nzxt Podcast, the official podcast of the Nzxt community. This podcast will be live on Fridays at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on the official Nzxt Twitch. It's available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud and available for replay on YouTube. My name is Mike Kim, and before I introduce our very special guest today, I want to give a quick shout out to Intel for helping us sponsor the Nzxt Intel Club. As you can see, we're wearing our Nzxt Intel Poochy and Chippy shirts. If you guys go to nzxt.co. slash club or SMH point club in chat, you guys can enter the Nzxt Intel Club.
All you have to do is just do quests. Very simple, very easy. You guys can then earn Poochy points, which is our mascot right here. And you can see them in the background of Driggsy right there.
You guys can enter the giveaway and then you guys can win shirts, plushies, which is a plushy set, chippy and Poochy right here. And the best one of all is a monthly Intel PC. A couple of people, I think, one or two people in chat here may have actually won one, so that's super, super dope. So please go ahead and take a look at the Nzxt Intel Club, and thank you again, Intel, for helping us sponsor.
I think that's it for me. So let me go ahead and introduce our very special creators today. Introducing a creator whose entire bio is just three words. I like tech. He's been on camera since the Vine days through Mixer, through Twitch, and now to more than 100,000 people who trust him to say what's actually worth buying. He's a setup perfectionist. He's a 3D printing problem solver and even a paintball champion. All the way from Boston, everyone, please welcome Driggsy to the Nzxt Podcast. Driggsy, please introduce yourself to our audience and tell us what you're all about.

**Driggsy** (1:56)
Wow, that was a killer intro, Mike. Oh my god.
Yeah, thank you so much for having me here. Huge thank you to Intel and Nzxt as well. What's up, guys? My name is Driggsy and I see a lot of familiar faces in the chat. I just want to say it's so dope to see you guys in there. This kind of makes me feel like I'm streaming again. It definitely makes me miss it. But yeah, I think we're going to have a really sick episode today and I'm really excited to just talk about it.

**Mike Kim** (2:22)
Yeah, no. So everyone, like, please take a look at Driggsy's like channel. I have his socials. I think it's xmox.driggsy in chat.
Probably one of the cleanest like content creators out there for tech. It's so clean. It's so good. But before we get into all of that, we love I love to start at the beginning where pretty much everything started. So first of all, where did you grow up and what got you into gaming?

**Driggsy** (2:55)
Yeah, so I grew up in a really small town called Blackstone, Massachusetts. It's a dot on the map. So pretty much whenever I tell anyone that I'm from Massachusetts, I just say Boston, just because that's the easiest way to vocalize it. And I owe my introduction to gaming to my older brothers. If it wasn't for them, who knows when I would have got introduced to gaming. But the very first game that I ever played was Super Mario Brothers on the Super Nintendo. And I watched my brothers play games as I grew up. They played everything from Star Fox 64 I remember my brother geeking out about it way back then because of the fact that it had a huge leap in graphics. Because that was one of the first ones to have a dedicated... Was it a dedicated hardware on the cartridge itself, I believe?
So that was really cool. And then eventually we got a Sega Genesis, but then my brother returned it because he wasn't a fan of the Genesis. And then N64, Dreamcast, PS2. And then by that time, it was the 360 days. And that's really kind of where I took over as being like the gamer of the family because my older brothers kind of grew out of it. But for me, it stuck with me my whole life. And so ever since the Xbox 360 days, dude, I've just been glued to the sticks.
Then I transitioned it to PC gaming more and more.
Even up until recently, when I started getting back into console gaming, when I recently got the Switch 2, because it kind of sucked me back in with what do you call it? Tears of the Kingdom.