"You've probably heard that Minneapolis could use some help right now," MinnMax host Ben Hanson said in the most recent episode of gaming podcast The MinnMax Show.
Despite inspiring the pun in MinnMax's name, the city that many of the channel's contributors live in is not their usual topic of discussion. That would be videogames: MinnMax's near-11,000 Patreon members and 70,000 YouTube subscribers most often tune in for rapid-fire questions with a Ghost of Yōtei developer or a behind-the-scenes interview with a former games journalist or multi-hour discussions about a single game. But talking about games becomes increasingly difficult when your neighbors are being abducted from their homes and federal agents have executed two people in the street, with videos of the killings spreading across social media like a conflagration.
