Fifteen Minutes of Perfect Chaos

MTV Germany gave Budi and Simon fifteen minutes. That’s the entire runtime of GameOne—a quarter-hour squeezed between music videos and reality television garbage—and somehow they made it the only thing on the channel worth watching. I can’t fully articulate why, except that their energy is completely unhinged in a way that feels completely genuine. The ideas, the lines, the bits—I lose it every time. Want-to-throw-myself-out-the-window laughing.

I’m not as deep into gaming as I used to be. At some point the obsessive edge wore off. But with these two, whether I actually care about the games being discussed is almost beside the point. They could review garden furniture and GameOne would still be the best show on German television.

Summer hiatus just hit, which means it goes dark for a while. Fans always knew to head to Budimon.de in the meantime, but now there’s also GameOne.de—their own proper site, with a name so obvious it almost reads as a creative statement. They’re on Twitter too. I’ve been following both of them longer than I’ve followed most actual friends. They can have my attention for as long as they want it.