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Fellas, fellas, fellas, I am hearing you in HD.

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This is the Melomancy Podcast episode 125, and my name is Dylan.

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No, no, I'm Rick.

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We did it together.

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I'm leaving that in.

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Infuge.

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Yeah, it is.

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So let me explain.

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So I have, I went on a bit of an adventure this last weekend.

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So for those at home, maybe listening to our podcast, like some kind of godforsaken time capsule to the year 2026, it is currently the 29th of May in the year of our Lord, 2026.

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It's almost June.

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There's almost news, but we're not there yet.

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The year's halfway over.

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Hell yeah.

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The Summer Games Fest and all the important shows are like right around the corner.

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I can't fucking wait.

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But this last weekend was a holiday weekend.

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It was Memorial Day, right?

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So we had three days off.

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You know, my kids had a day off from school.

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I had a day off from work.

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It was nice.

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But you know what I decided to do on those three days?

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Did you decide you got this motherfucker on NBA Jam?

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No, no, no.

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So I bought a new music player.

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I decided it's time to finally start

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Spotify cord cutting adventure.

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And I actually monologued my adventure

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on Ship Poster World.

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If anyone wants to actually go read it,

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I'll link it in the show notes.

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But I had this tub full of CDs, music CDs.

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and I ripped every last one of them to my computer.

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Now, some of them were already there,

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copied from time in memoriam as I go from computer to computer.

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Hold on a second, Dylan.

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We might have some zoomers in the crowd.

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You don't know what ripping a CD means.

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Oh, fuck.

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You're right.

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Shit.

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Okay.

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So back in the day...

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Man, you should find a filter to play overlay during this part.

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oh you know what i forgot to turn on the fucking soundboard i'm gonna do that right now

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hold on we're good all right so yes so there i was on friday night i got the bin out of the garage

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i started um that bell ringing lasts a really long time with the uh anyway i ripped every one

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of those cds and what ripping a cd really means is like for the for the youngins in the audience

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that's where you plug a cd a compact disc right those little circular things that uh video games

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sometimes come on if you uh have a ps5 uh or an xbox series x right uh or whatever they have in

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your time um and we used to get music on those and we had these things called cd players that

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would just play it for you into your headphones uh those were superseded by mp3 players which is a

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really specific file format which was then replaced by the ipod which then was superseded by the

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iphone right and then androids are a thing don't worry about that but we're big a cd is when you

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you uh you take the music off of the cd and turn it into a file and it's like that's dumb why don't

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you just copy paste it like a usb stick it doesn't fucking work that way because it's an image it's

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like a literal picture like a disc image like literally all the weird little etches that are

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invisible to the naked eye that is on the back of a dvd or a cd that is the image of the cd and

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getting the files out of that is a complicated process that the software handles for you

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similarly if you have a rewritable disc and you want to put something on that disc it's called

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burning a cd and it does not involve actual fire it involves lasers

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exactly if you've ever seen how a vinyl record is made it's like that but instead of

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razor blades it's lasers but unlike vinyl records cds degrade they do not last forever

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and there was a couple cds uh specifically uh destiny cds from a long time ago like the lizzie

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mcguire soundtrack that did not unfortunately work but damn unfortunate so unfortunate um but

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no i have i have quite the collection and it didn't stop there so like and i'll get to why

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in a minute but uh if i if i go like i have like uh i had a few machine supremacy albums i had

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oh fuck i didn't know they even did physical yeah i had some old ones damn okay i had a couple

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albums from metallica i had the n-e-r-d cd which you may know from that one song from need for speed

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uh yeah um i had a combi christ album i should listen to some need for speed uh like uh videos

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on youtube again because uh fucking forza it made me feel nostalgic oh yeah i have forza installed

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on my xbox i haven't tried it yet but like it's on games pass i was like fuck i mean don't you

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want to race a gundam i do it looks fun but the steam version of the game is vorked at hell and

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back and i can't play it so it's gonna rot my steam library i guess as is tradition we have to

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have uh at least one bork launch for all video games these days uh one platform can't work i

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know i'm i know i'm tangenting a tiny bit here but what is up with the steam releases of games

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lately being like either entirely missing the point like uh i would throw peewee 2 into the

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bus a little bit here.

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They did the preload

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an hour before launch, which is

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enough time if you get a decent computer, decent

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internet, or you woke up

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in enough time.

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you could torrent

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the launcher off their website

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two days early, and on

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consoles, they had a preload that was three

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days early. It's like,

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bro, Steam literally

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just made a tool for this.

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What the fuck are you doing?

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sorry but like pre-loading digital downloads this this this past weekend i went on a bit of a trip

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you know to the old school way right but i'll let you get back to steam in a second but like

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like hear me out so i'm gonna let you finish in a second taylor i'm gonna let you i'm gonna let

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you finish but uh so i um you might be wondering why the hell am i ripping all this music all of a

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sudden well one spotify right so i used to be a big fan of spotify on this very podcast i would

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sing its praises and be like i think it's worth paying for right i i've changed my mind right

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like it's uh the quality's gone down the lossless audio that they rolled out isn't really lossless

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the files take way too much fucking space on my phone when i save them and they keep jacking up

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the price and not only that like some bands have left the platform in protest now it's not anything

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I listen to, I guess the most prominent

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band that's left in protest is probably

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King Gizzard the Wizard Lizard.

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King Gizzard the Wizard Lizard leave Spotify,

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a AI-generated

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mockery of that band has taken

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its place and is being advertised

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to its former listeners.

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It's not being disclosed that it's AI.

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I mean, it probably is somewhere.

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Actually, that's the problem I'm having

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with Spotify right now, is they do not

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disclose if something is AI or not.

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You do not have to.

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and okay like we're not giant ai haters here you know i love ai no but like i'd like to know

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yeah but it's like it's one of those like buyer beware moments it's like sometimes that music

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like sounds like shit and if i end up liking a song because you know some ai music is fucking

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awesome and then i go to listen and i realize every fucking track this band has is the same

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and because i liked one now it's going to recommend me all of them and now i'm fucking

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stuck with that my recommendations for like a month or two and it's like god damn it man

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i actually i keep getting this uh i'm gonna i'm you know what i don't even give a shit i'll i'll

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name drop them do it there's a a band a guy named dsym d-s-y-m i think it was or d-y-s-m something

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and i think for a little bit his music wasn't ai and then he started using ai to like do vocals

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over his music and now he's doing it for his guitar riffs i started to realize like i listened

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to some of his early shit i was like oh god this is awesome this is amazing and even some of the

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vocal stuff was kind of neat i was like oh this is different and then all of a sudden it fucking

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he starts pumping out full-blown albums every week and i'm like all right brother there's something

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going on here and then all of the music from that point on just started this like every album started

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sounding the exact same i'm like this is just boring to listen to but because i'd already liked

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some of his earlier shit now you fucking spotify fucking and it just is like ah come on this just

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sucks now it's like god damn it yeah it'd be nice if i could be like yo please don't recommend me ai

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music and if i find it on my own whatever and i like it if i like it whatever but spotify doesn't

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have any tools for that they just genuinely don't which you know speaking speaking of steam steam

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having those is nice yeah i'll bring that up later i have actually an anecdote about that

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spot spotify does have like so few tools for actually filtering things that's true yeah i uh

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Well, like I have an actual anecdote that goes along with this.

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So I was clicking on a, well, clicking, you know,

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that's the thing we do with the mouse,

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but I guess with my finger on the phone, whatever.

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I was tapping.

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That's the word I was looking for.

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Tapping on my playlist, which was the only thing,

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because you know how it's got like the little two columns

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at the very top of the app of things you've most recently listed.

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So that was the only thing up there.

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and then it started auto playing a podcast destiny not not your you know not the one that we know but

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the other one oh the one the the guy the one that yeah yes the one that uh uh got briefly unbanned

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for all of like six hours or whatever with the allegations yeah yeah yeah i was like i've never

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once listened to a podcast on spotify why would that be the thing that you think i want to play

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i know and why that guy like what the hell well because they are signal boosting him uh basically

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they're trying to ride the coattails of the fact that he's got an audience even though he's banned

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from twitch i guess yeah and and well whenever his name is in the news he gets pretty popular too

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yeah that's kind of unfortunate um but yeah long story short spotify fucking sucks now

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and I've been using it for so long

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it's like kind of hard to break the habit

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like I've been really fortunate

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to already have a sizable CD collection

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and also some downloads

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that I've picked up over time like I was a big fan of

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OC Remix back in the day I still am

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right and all of their music is free

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and so I have a bunch of

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OC Remix tracks as well and like you put

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these things together and it's a pretty sizable library

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but there's still some stuff that I discovered

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on Spotify that I never had the physical

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copy of and so to rectify this uh i did two things first i went to barnes and noble i don't know if

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they have those in canada victim it's like a bookstore okay okay well it's the only bookstore

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in america yeah they made sure of that all the other ones went out of business uh well actually

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they didn't make sure of it right um and so at barnes and noble they they have everything there

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it's not just a bookstore it's primarily a bookstore but uh they had a cd rack and uh i

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picked up i mean it's mentioned in the thread that i'll link in the show notes but i picked up

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like the first three sleep token albums of the four i i got um like a shaggy album i got uh

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yeah i got a fleet whip mac album or two i don't recall um and a few others that stood out uh which

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you know fantastic right but then the day after uh i i put a cart together which i ended up

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finally purchasing like the other day but like i put a cart together on band camp

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of about 180 worth of music um which was mostly stuff that i would listen to on spotify that i

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just did not have before uh like uh several albums of buried alive i got the risk of rain

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two soundtrack from Chris Christodolu. What else did I get? I got, uh, some Pachinko songs, which

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if you know their story, it's really funny. They're just this band that, uh, got famous

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without knowing that they were famous. Cause it was like a one and done experimental album thing

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at a local store. And, uh, then they went on with their lives and then somebody uploaded it to 4chan

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and I was like, what is this melody? It's so beautiful. What is this band doing now? And then

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they found out they were famous later and they started touring again. Lovely, crazy, uh, crazy

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thing so i got their albums there's two of them because they made another one when they returned

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and then i got i i feel like i got one other thing and i cannot fucking remember what it was

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um but like 180 later i now have a sizable collection of the stuff that i used to listen

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to on spotify as well as my own cd collection which is a lot of the stuff i listen to on spotify

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anyway by those powers combined i have a sizable collection and then uh the reason i did this last

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weekend is because the weekend prior i got some devices in the mail that i had ordered so for

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destiny i ordered the inio asus y1 which for all intents and purposes looks like an ipod right like

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it just it looks like one but it's really thin it's got 128 gigs of onboard storage which is

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pretty good for an ipod right and it has usbc which is you know the golden standard um i'd be

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pretty unhappy if it wasn't usbc and then the device that i'm using to listen to you right now

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is the Snow Sky Echo,

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which kind of looks like a cassette player.

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But what's cool is that it doubles as a DAC,

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a digital analog converter.

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So what's going on right now is

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I have a USB-C cable going from my computer

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to the Snow Sky Echo.

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And then I got some new headphones,

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in-ear monitors is what they're called.

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They're basically earbuds, but they're fancy, right?

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I got the Moondrop Aria 2.

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It's that brand that has the cute anime girls

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on all their boxes.

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and holy shit it sounds so fucking good it's like i i have like the bass that i've come

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used to from like sony headphones and the nothing headphones uh but like there's lots of treble as

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well it's like it's very balanced so like i i can hear other parts of music that is normally kind of

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muffled um it's really lovely and uh i use it almost exclusively now to listen to things like

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uh i i still have my wireless um nothing earbuds which is good for my phone because uh i can't

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use the DAC on my phone for some reason.

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That's my phone's fault, not the DAC's fault.

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It's a nice little setup.

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I've got new headphones in my ear.

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You guys are coming through in HD.

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It's got the gigantic balance cable

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that's got the four rings on it.

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It's actually got an interchangeable tip.

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I could use regular, but

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there's two audio jacks on the

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Snow Sky Echo, so I'm like, hell yeah, I'm going to use

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the balance cable.

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It's just

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I'm hearing it a better quality than Spotify

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ever gave.

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and uh now i own all my music and i'm basically clear to uh reduce my spotify to the free tier

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because uh they're just gonna jack the prices up anyway and uh now i i don't need it on the go

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and if i'm at my desk like why even use spotify when there's youtube anyway right or yeah like

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or just pump my own tunes in the in the damn echo i i'm living the good life now with the audio

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and uh that is it took all three days of the holiday weekend to actually rip all that music

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I got pictures in my thread on Shitposter World where the stack on my desk, and I think, Rick, you actually saw the stack developing in person briefly.

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Yes, I did.

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Last weekend when you came over, that stack got a lot taller before I was done, and there were four stacks.

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It's finally over, and I can just listen to music now.

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The only thing that pisses me off is that I went through and I favorited a bunch of songs on the Snow Sky Echo because it has a certain UI, right?

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Because it looks like a cassette player, so it has to match the buttons.

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I made a bunch of favorites, and then when I downloaded those songs on Bandcamp and added them to my device, it wiped my favorites.

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I have to go re-favorite a bunch of songs, and that sucks.

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Well, at least part of the Spotify experience is still there.

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But the Ineo Asus Y1 is a real champion.

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Destiny's pretty happy with it.

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We got it paired to her car for Bluetooth,

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but it also works with her headphones.

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And it had enough space for all of our music

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with lots left over.

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And also the UI, like it's just Rockbox,

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which is made for iPods.

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Like they forked it and they made it for the Y1 as well.

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So if you're accustomed to the customized iPod experience

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with Rockbox, you're going to get that all the same

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with the Y1.

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And it has the scroll, like with the circular motion as well.

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Like other iPod knockoffs have that too,

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but like you click the button,

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you don't actually do the spin.

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This one does the spin.

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All your stuff is so fancy now,

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Dylan.

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Like Steve jobs intended.

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May he rest in peace.

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And yeah,

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enough about music.

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How you guys been?

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All right.

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Uh,

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we finally got a house to move into.

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Really?

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Uh,

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and now I'm fucking worried though.

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Cause I only got two outlets.

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Oh shit.

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Oh man.

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So I gotta forget that one.

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Well, one of them will be your power strip and the other one will be your through the wire ethernet, right?

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That's the hope.

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That's the plan.

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When are you planning on getting the move done?

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I think we don't have to technically be moved in until July early.

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Probably somewhere in July, the first and the fifth probably.

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Sounds like you might miss some episodes.

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Maybe.

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What are we going to do without Vic?

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We'll be fine.

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I'll probably only be out of commission for like a couple days, but.

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Oh yeah, fair.

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It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to miss a day.

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I don't know.

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That's pretty awesome though.

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But yeah, I have a bunch of other topics to go over though, thankfully.

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So I don't have a segue, so I'm just going to pick one.

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Sounds good.

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Let's talk about the Steam Deck.

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So as you know, the Steam Deck is not, well, I can't even say that.

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I was going to say it's not sold out anymore because they added them back,

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but they like raised the price by like almost double because if you recall the steam deck was

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an affordable device like the cheapest model was like 500 and then the other ones were slightly more for more storage well now the one terabyte model more expensive to a whopping American which is like Canadian dollars right

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A lot of money.

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That's a lot of money, right?

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And I thought the story was going to be, wow, I can't believe Valve did that.

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The market is really that rough.

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Maybe they should have just kept it off the shelves.

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People are, you know, worried for their reputation or just calling them out.

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those motherfuckers sold out anyway.

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They're sold out again.

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There were enough people lined up to pay that price for a Steam Deck.

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It's like Gabe knew.

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It's like he knew.

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And you know what?

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I kind of get it.

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It's a really good device.

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I love mine.

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I use it all the time.

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But like, I would not buy a Steam Deck at that price.

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I have a lot of thoughts on that.

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Because like, yeah, sure.

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It's a capable handheld Linux computer.

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That is like kind of worth it all on its own.

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Right.

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but like at that price especially with all the moves that xbox is making right now you would

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have been better off with the xbox rog ally x now on this very podcast i bitched and moaned about

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how difficult it was to set up an xbox rog ally not the x version for my son uh that's mostly

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windows just being a piece of shit right but like yeah after i got it going it's really premium

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and it's it plays steam all the same it does steam chat steam voice um i bet you could install

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discord on it it would be all the same but i i'm not going to do that to him but like the device is

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fine it's absolutely fine and then the the the souped up version has better like stats than the

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steam deck but like it's a thousand bucks already but that's just 50 bucks more than the one terabyte

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model for the steam deck now so now they're comparable in price whereas before it's like oh

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my god get a steam deck the xbox rock ally x is so expensive now if we're saying they're the same

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price it's like the rock ally x is a better deal straight up and uh that hurts to say it really

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does it's kind of wild i mean i get it i mean realistically the tech market's fucked up right

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now regardless of anything right but yeah i i'm surprised steam of all people i mean i guess it

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really just shows how bad it is i know it's like they're probably they're probably doing this as a

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test run to see about uh delaying the steam machine even further because like if the reaction

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is really negative even if they sold out if the the pr is that bad maybe they'll keep delaying it

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right yeah because like think about it this way right like a lot of the people that bought it may

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have been people that bought it like the fomo right they already knew it sold out before it's

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gonna probably do it again oh shit it's it's way more expensive ah fuck whatever i'll throw it on

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the credit card and just bite the bullet you know like how many people were like that um and now

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they're still pissed off even though they did buy it they own one they like it but they're still mad

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there's still a weary or otherwise right so it's really unfortunate um and i i still don't know

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what i'm gonna do like uh well i know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna wait right because uh

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the beginning of june is next week it's right around the corner we're gonna have you know the

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new e3 the summer games fest as well as an xbox showcase playstation showcase and probably some

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other shit right i am expecting the xbox showcase or summer games fest to reveal the the new xbox

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console right they keep teasing it i think they're going to give us an announcement here

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i i i want to know more about it because it's like do i wait and get one or is it so unaffordable

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and uh not an improvement enough that i just get the series x and wait because i would like

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a blu-ray player in my living room i have moved the ps5 it's not coming back in fact i think i

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should sell it like i i'm i'm considering selling the ps5 because i i don't want to use it anymore

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my son doesn't really care about it i mean i moved it into his room because he cared about it

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more than the xbox but like turns out that wasn't a platform problem that was more of a distance of

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the tv from his bed problem and he just didn't know how to tell me um and so it didn't really

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get much better by putting the ps5 in there so i would like to get some kind of new xbox for the

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living room whether i wait for project helix or i get the series x is to be determined uh but then

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I'll put the series S in his room and then we'll just be all Xbox for consoles.

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And,

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uh,

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I,

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I really want to know if the Helix is just a windows PC for gamers that has

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steam.

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If it is perfection,

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I'm getting one,

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right?

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If not,

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it's got to have some really good features to justify because honestly,

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graphics is such a diminishing return.

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The series X is the only thing you need like power wise.

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Like it can handle anything you throw at it.

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Just like my computer,

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which is more powerful than the series X.

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so it's like with the power of the steam deck i can just stream or i can just play on my goddamn

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computer uh but like for the living room the xbox experience is pretty sweet i've covered it before

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on this very show but like i would like a beefier one that has a disk drive so i can watch blue ray

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movies again and also i want to hit up garage sales and retro game stores and buy physical

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copies of old xbox games that way i could then play on the series x because it's backwards compatible

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so there's a lot to look forward to

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but like all I can do right now is wait

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but this news with Steam does not bode well

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it does not bode well

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I am just not on it with the segues today

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it's a bad segway day

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speaking of not boding well

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IGN has delivered another 10 out of 10 score

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but it looks like a good game

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what is this world that we're living in

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so last episode IGN had just given out

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a 10 out of 10 score for this bullshit video game mixtape

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that we covered in our last episode, right?

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But like, we expect that kind of bullshit from IGN.

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Recently, from the developers of Shovel Knight,

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a new game, Mina the Hollower, came out.

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IGN gave it a 10 out of 10.

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But this game actually looks fun,

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and it's like obviously a game.

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And I've seen really obnoxious discourse online

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about the game, right?

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Like there's some people who just are like,

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oh yeah, IGN gave it a 10 out of 10.

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I guess it sucks, I'm not buying it.

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And it's like, I understand that IGN is the enemy.

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Right?

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But like, if you look at Mixtape,

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and you look at Mina the Hollower,

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and their scores, and you're like,

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ah, these are not video games.

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You are so lost.

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Mixtape is obviously bullshit.

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It's obviously not a game.

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Yeah.

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Mina the Hollower is such a video game-ass video game.

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I'm kind of surprised IGN scored it well.

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It looks like something they would give a bad score to.

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Yeah, well, I think one of the things

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that we gotta keep in mind, right,

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And I think this is a solid rule of thumb.

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And obviously, I'm not expecting people to go fucking read

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which IGN reviewer they picked for which game all the time anyways.

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But it's something to keep in mind,

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is that you can't take the scores at face value

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when they're negative or positive

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because they have different people reviewing these games.

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Truth be told, just fucking forget that IGN exists.

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Don't let their scores influence you one way or the other.

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That's the real moral of the story.

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I know.

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And people like to point that out, though.

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I'm not watching these individuals for their reviews.

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I'm watching IGN for its review, right?

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Yeah.

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There should be some kind of standardization because it's being published as this big,

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credible organization that has a bunch of employees, right?

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It's like, if I'm watching Skill Up, for example, right?

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It's like, oh yeah, I have a good idea of what he likes and doesn't like.

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And I've called him out on this, on this very show for some of that bullshit, right?

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And like, if there's something that he doesn't like,

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and it's in line with my expectations of him,

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I don't really think twice about it.

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Right?

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But IGN is a collection of people that rotate.

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And they hire and fire people all the time

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because it's a blog, right?

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Yeah.

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So it's like, all I have to go on is the IGN brand.

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They should have some fucking consistency.

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But they don't.

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They really don't.

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Yeah, honestly, I think that's just the issue

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of trying to make something like that

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into a fucking...

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uh i guess like a product or like a like a lot like a big scaled business it's like game journalism

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probably just was never meant to be that or if it is you at least hire people on with different

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tastes and different like like genre and like spread your spread your wealth that way but then

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that would require one of these companies to actually like you know pay attention to who

460
00:27:08,764 --> 00:27:14,384
they're fucking hiring which they're not going to do that yeah they're too busy chasing like uh the

461
00:27:14,384 --> 00:27:20,424
next like uh hot button issue story right and and causing you know all this drama and cringe because

462
00:27:20,424 --> 00:27:27,384
they are really bad at it and that actually brings me to another topic um so there's this game that

463
00:27:27,384 --> 00:27:34,544
released on steam right it's called librarian uh this game right it's like a i have i have it on

464
00:27:34,544 --> 00:27:39,784
screen i'm gonna put it in the show notes it's like it's like a five dollar six dollar game right

465
00:27:39,784 --> 00:27:41,804
the premise of the game is

466
00:27:41,804 --> 00:27:44,064
you're in some kind of arcane library

467
00:27:44,064 --> 00:27:46,124
and the books are all on the floor

468
00:27:46,124 --> 00:27:47,124
and you need to put them away

469
00:27:47,124 --> 00:27:48,604
that's the game

470
00:27:48,604 --> 00:27:51,984
it kind of reminds me of like Goblin Cleanup

471
00:27:51,984 --> 00:27:53,424
or Visceral Cleanup Detail where it's like

472
00:27:53,424 --> 00:27:55,884
you're cleaning a place but instead of

473
00:27:55,884 --> 00:27:57,904
cleaning literal stuff

474
00:27:57,904 --> 00:27:59,964
off the ground you're picking books up and organizing them

475
00:27:59,964 --> 00:28:00,804
like a librarian would

476
00:28:00,804 --> 00:28:04,244
that's kind of neat, cute little indie game

477
00:28:04,244 --> 00:28:05,644
six bucks, you know

478
00:28:05,644 --> 00:28:07,024
not controversial in the slightest

479
00:28:07,024 --> 00:28:08,624
and

480
00:28:08,624 --> 00:28:19,244
it opened to very positive reviews currently numbering at 6,349 now on twitter uh there was

481
00:28:19,244 --> 00:28:27,424
i saw at least one tweet there are multiple tweets but the one i saw first it had 19,000 views 337

482
00:28:27,424 --> 00:28:33,784
likes 15 retweets which isn't a whole lot in the grand scheme of twitter but like pointing out that

483
00:28:33,784 --> 00:28:41,324
this game has ai in it right and they're not hiding it there's an ai disclosure on steam i want to read

484
00:28:41,324 --> 00:28:50,144
it to you right tell me uh if this sounds uh awful ai generated content disclosure the developers

485
00:28:50,144 --> 00:28:57,224
describe how their game uses generative ai content like this quote the the four assets this work

486
00:28:57,224 --> 00:29:12,864
Sorry. The four assets in this work, one UI component and three landscape paintings, as well as wall decorations, frames not included, were produced using additional AI for refinement.

487
00:29:13,544 --> 00:29:16,584
None of them were created by AI from the ground up.

488
00:29:17,404 --> 00:29:23,384
AI helped with grammatical corrections for in-game text, which were then carefully reviewed and adjusted by hand.

489
00:29:23,384 --> 00:29:26,144
we only consider AI to be a supportive tool.

490
00:29:26,804 --> 00:29:29,284
Every detail is meticulously crafted with human intent

491
00:29:29,284 --> 00:29:32,104
as our creative process is still firmly anchored

492
00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:33,564
in manual craftsmanship.

493
00:29:34,364 --> 00:29:35,804
Where are the hit pieces?

494
00:29:36,244 --> 00:29:37,524
Sounds like a decent game.

495
00:29:37,864 --> 00:29:41,924
Where's the proactive award show cancellations on them?

496
00:29:42,844 --> 00:29:45,164
They have more AI than Expedition 33.

497
00:29:45,904 --> 00:29:47,284
More than Crimson Desert.

498
00:29:49,584 --> 00:29:51,144
But they don't even have,

499
00:29:51,144 --> 00:29:54,524
I can't even find a single negative review that's about that.

500
00:29:55,424 --> 00:29:57,184
In fact, the only negative review I can even find

501
00:29:57,184 --> 00:29:58,684
is from a colorblind person

502
00:29:58,684 --> 00:30:00,944
who's bitching about not being able to play it

503
00:30:00,944 --> 00:30:03,084
because the books are color-coded.

504
00:30:04,864 --> 00:30:05,784
Honestly, fair.

505
00:30:06,404 --> 00:30:07,164
That is fucking fair.

506
00:30:07,284 --> 00:30:08,064
Yeah, it's fair.

507
00:30:09,684 --> 00:30:10,524
We're allowed to laugh.

508
00:30:10,804 --> 00:30:11,844
My dad's colorblind,

509
00:30:11,944 --> 00:30:15,144
and we have a friend who's colorblind, so...

510
00:30:15,144 --> 00:30:17,704
That's just fucking wild.

511
00:30:18,224 --> 00:30:18,804
But it's like, you know,

512
00:30:18,804 --> 00:30:20,984
that's the kind of shit I would expect IGN to report on.

513
00:30:21,144 --> 00:30:36,224
But like, I haven't even heard anything about this. Now, it's possible that they are avoiding covering a game like this that has a positive and seemingly ethical, if you can even claim that, use of AI.

514
00:30:37,244 --> 00:30:42,584
Because that would draw attention to the game and get its sales and signal that this is okay, right?

515
00:30:42,984 --> 00:30:50,324
Now, I think it's obviously okay. I don't even think AI is that harmful. I think a lot of the environmental concerns are just fear, uncertainty, doubt, and misinformation.

516
00:30:51,144 --> 00:30:52,544
Uh, but what do I know?

517
00:30:52,604 --> 00:30:53,904
I, I only work in the industry.

518
00:30:54,044 --> 00:30:54,364
Right.

519
00:30:54,584 --> 00:30:58,824
Um, but you know, people are going to believe what they want to believe and they think AI

520
00:30:58,824 --> 00:31:01,124
is the work of the devil or maybe the Catholic.

521
00:31:01,384 --> 00:31:05,384
I was going to say, you know, it's weird that they're, you know, you talk about work of

522
00:31:05,384 --> 00:31:11,464
the devil because a lot of the crowd is always, you know, like the Reddit atheist equivalent.

523
00:31:12,104 --> 00:31:17,364
And so the, uh, it's like they're, they've turned their own personal, like trauma beliefs

524
00:31:17,364 --> 00:31:27,404
into a per like a religion of sorts like that same level of dogma yeah um yeah it's interesting

525
00:31:27,404 --> 00:31:33,744
so anyways uh i mean you know it's weird i'm sure i mentioned on the show before but like i'm old

526
00:31:33,744 --> 00:31:42,464
enough i remember like when digital drawing tablets where the like how dare you not draw

527
00:31:42,464 --> 00:31:48,824
things by hand like yes you can erase lines that you fuck up without leaving marks on the screen

528
00:31:48,824 --> 00:31:55,684
i know like it's not real oh it's a fill tool how dare you like because really when we think

529
00:31:55,684 --> 00:32:02,504
about it like tools are supposed to just increase your like efficiency realistically because you

530
00:32:02,504 --> 00:32:09,244
like going back to paint with the fill tool right like you could fill each individual pixel

531
00:32:09,244 --> 00:32:12,784
with a color or I hit the fill button.

532
00:32:13,204 --> 00:32:13,504
I know.

533
00:32:13,724 --> 00:32:19,964
And it's like, I remember when I was in college, because I'm not quite old enough to remember

534
00:32:19,964 --> 00:32:24,684
this firsthand, but I remember when I was in college, I had a professor that recalled

535
00:32:24,684 --> 00:32:29,024
his recent time in the industry where that kind of same thing was happening with the

536
00:32:29,024 --> 00:32:29,564
drawing tablets.

537
00:32:29,564 --> 00:32:30,884
But it wasn't about drawing tablets.

538
00:32:30,884 --> 00:32:33,844
It was about Google, like search engines, right?

539
00:32:33,844 --> 00:32:40,364
it's like yeah why would you look it up on a search engine and read somebody's blog post that's full of

540
00:32:40,364 --> 00:32:47,624
who knows what when you could go look it up in a textbook you know and it's like it's lo and behold

541
00:32:47,624 --> 00:32:52,164
we found out textbooks weren't very level i believe it oh yeah well there's some difference

542
00:32:52,164 --> 00:32:58,764
well some some i i the joke being but yeah well you see most american textbooks were made by a

543
00:32:58,764 --> 00:33:05,344
company called mcgraw hill uh which was owned by this lovely man named robert maxwell uh who had

544
00:33:05,344 --> 00:33:11,264
a daughter named gisley and never mind it's a long story maybe they aren't that trustworthy

545
00:33:11,264 --> 00:33:18,704
well and then the other group were uh all texas instruments really southerners uh-huh in canada

546
00:33:18,704 --> 00:33:24,844
when we were growing up i think every textbook was at the minimum 20 years old oof i remember we

547
00:33:24,844 --> 00:33:29,764
would learn we'd learn something in a textbook i'd go home and on the news i'd get the exact

548
00:33:29,764 --> 00:33:34,904
opposite response or it or when we're in high school and youtube is starting to become like a

549
00:33:34,904 --> 00:33:39,604
big thing all of a sudden you know i could go look up anything i was learning at school and realize

550
00:33:39,604 --> 00:33:44,044
that it was so out of date they might as well not be fucking teaching us it well there's definitely

551
00:33:44,044 --> 00:33:50,644
some like um you know something always but yeah yeah i don't know how to describe it exactly it's

552
00:33:50,644 --> 00:33:58,304
like this um honestly it's just like there's like this need to be right even if it doesn't make

553
00:33:58,304 --> 00:34:06,504
sense like to definitively say that oh yeah what i'm saying is correct yeah um and and so we end

554
00:34:06,504 --> 00:34:10,704
up with this like weird like dichotomy where i don't know it got away from me guys i'm sorry

555
00:34:10,704 --> 00:34:15,844
you're fine yeah but we just end up with this weird like dichotomy where we got like the blog

556
00:34:15,844 --> 00:34:19,944
post thing that you know we were talking about with like the search engine stuff versus the

557
00:34:19,944 --> 00:34:27,304
textbook and nobody wants to admit that they might have the wrong information it seems like

558
00:34:27,304 --> 00:34:33,384
i remember the textbooks when i was in school what's it called for social studies uh once we

559
00:34:33,384 --> 00:34:37,244
you know finally got through enough of american history that it was like somewhat modern day

560
00:34:37,244 --> 00:34:41,244
i could tell the books were old because they talked about bill clinton like he was just elected

561
00:34:41,244 --> 00:34:49,864
and i'm just like that was the 90s this is 90s it didn't go any further well yeah and then there

562
00:34:49,864 --> 00:34:54,184
and you know having older textbooks in at that point in time i don't think was as big of a deal

563
00:34:54,184 --> 00:35:01,064
too to be fair because information just didn't move as quickly right like you didn't have uh

564
00:35:01,064 --> 00:35:08,764
a twitter where our our literal sitting president is uh trading jabs with other world leaders

565
00:35:08,764 --> 00:35:13,344
yeah i just didn't play out that way you know other people in the country he's running

566
00:35:13,344 --> 00:35:19,644
like he said some like and i'm not never a dull moment yeah i was gonna say he said some pretty

567
00:35:19,644 --> 00:35:24,104
deranged things like no matter what you think about the guy he they really got to take twitter

568
00:35:24,104 --> 00:35:32,444
away from him he is i think quintessentially an old man very like he he embodies the okay grandpa

569
00:35:32,444 --> 00:35:39,624
i'm sorry i made you a twitter account yeah dude he he they gotta get him off yes grandpa

570
00:35:39,624 --> 00:35:43,124
I do know where these viruses came from.

571
00:35:43,364 --> 00:35:45,044
And yes, I won't tell grandma.

572
00:35:45,904 --> 00:35:46,224
I know.

573
00:35:46,444 --> 00:35:50,224
At least, you know, the administration before him,

574
00:35:50,264 --> 00:35:52,904
they had the decency to like have some young people post for him

575
00:35:52,904 --> 00:35:56,064
because he was too senile and old to work a phone.

576
00:35:57,104 --> 00:35:59,384
Well, I think that one was a different problem.

577
00:35:59,664 --> 00:36:00,044
Yes.

578
00:36:01,004 --> 00:36:02,704
Can we just get like a normal leader?

579
00:36:03,084 --> 00:36:03,724
Just once.

580
00:36:04,124 --> 00:36:04,404
Never.

581
00:36:04,904 --> 00:36:06,244
We don't do that around here.

582
00:36:06,244 --> 00:36:12,384
yeah hey if he's too normal i don't know if i can trust him yeah look what happened to canada

583
00:36:12,384 --> 00:36:17,884
yeah i mean he was just a normal frat burrow that they that uh went super liberal

584
00:36:17,884 --> 00:36:22,964
he kind of he's just a regular everyday normal guy and then it's like oh wait

585
00:36:22,964 --> 00:36:28,324
my family lives in america and i'm a banker oh yeah i don't know you guys just can't win

586
00:36:28,324 --> 00:36:33,264
win and like oh anything either that's what we get for voting a cuban in

587
00:36:33,264 --> 00:36:39,044
that's a deep cut not everyone's gonna get that reference yeah well they actually just had a

588
00:36:39,044 --> 00:36:42,484
fucking thing about that again where uh i think it was fidel castro's daughter

589
00:36:42,484 --> 00:36:47,724
made a comment about it or she's like yeah we're pretty certain we're pretty certain

590
00:36:47,724 --> 00:36:54,424
that i think everyone suspects might be true that's hilarious i was like i'm sure she's

591
00:36:54,424 --> 00:37:10,628
fucking just fucking around but it on like an official like interview she says that that beautiful He living his best Cuban life right now right Isn he like like dating carrie perry or something like no i think they broke up i think i think that old news though yeah she gonna write a song about him no that taylor swift

592
00:37:10,628 --> 00:37:19,168
oh speaking of musicians so this is kind of pop culture-y uh speaking of musicians that had uh

593
00:37:19,168 --> 00:37:25,808
or that are getting around right now billy eilish uh she james cameron and her directed a billy

594
00:37:25,808 --> 00:37:31,908
eilish tour movie not even joking what that's a bit like out of james cameron's wheelhouse too

595
00:37:31,908 --> 00:37:39,828
isn't it yeah billy eilish oh come on search engine just do the thing i want you to do

596
00:37:39,828 --> 00:37:44,968
there's been enough cautionary tales about directors and younger women well don't worry

597
00:37:44,968 --> 00:37:50,488
she's an adult we know this because she immediately when she turned 18 she immediately released a

598
00:37:50,488 --> 00:37:58,048
blowjob video i didn't see that i think it was i did not know i'm 99 sure it was like uh if if i

599
00:37:58,048 --> 00:38:03,748
remember correctly it was like subway and she may or may not be have been 18 in the video

600
00:38:03,748 --> 00:38:10,788
oh please don't look it up guys it's not like this this is legitimately this is a legitimately

601
00:38:10,788 --> 00:38:16,208
i heard this and i have not looked myself because there's no there's no world where

602
00:38:16,208 --> 00:38:22,868
anybody looking at my search history at billy eilish blowjob video may you barely legal gonna

603
00:38:22,868 --> 00:38:32,028
be good right even if it is me looking yeah even if i am just looking for like yeah no anyways so

604
00:38:32,028 --> 00:38:38,568
yeah here we are from cinemark.com billy eilish hit me hard and soft the tour oh my goodness

605
00:38:38,568 --> 00:38:46,908
directed by billy eilish and james cameron it's a 3d concert film oh yeah james cameron and some of

606
00:38:46,908 --> 00:38:52,868
the uh some of the behind the scenes was just talking about how much he thought wow this is

607
00:38:52,868 --> 00:38:58,088
just such a new place for me to you know like i never would have thought about you doing music

608
00:38:58,088 --> 00:39:03,948
as a medium kind of thing it's like dude please stop like what are you come on grandpa it's like

609
00:39:03,948 --> 00:39:06,448
I had no idea music was art this whole time.

610
00:39:06,948 --> 00:39:08,028
Well, it wasn't quite like that.

611
00:39:08,108 --> 00:39:08,988
It was like...

612
00:39:08,988 --> 00:39:09,668
Well, okay.

613
00:39:09,848 --> 00:39:12,888
So back in the olden days,

614
00:39:13,148 --> 00:39:16,508
bands would do tour videos, right?

615
00:39:16,548 --> 00:39:17,748
Like they would do video,

616
00:39:17,948 --> 00:39:18,988
like movie length,

617
00:39:19,228 --> 00:39:22,068
feature film length videos of their tours.

618
00:39:22,688 --> 00:39:23,288
Kiss did them.

619
00:39:23,988 --> 00:39:25,688
I'm pretty sure Metallica did them.

620
00:39:25,928 --> 00:39:26,488
I'm pretty sure, yeah.

621
00:39:27,468 --> 00:39:28,588
Aerosmith probably did it too.

622
00:39:28,708 --> 00:39:29,828
Basically, if you're a rock band

623
00:39:29,828 --> 00:39:30,988
about that time, you did it.

624
00:39:31,248 --> 00:39:33,928
Honestly, if you're just a bit older than that,

625
00:39:33,948 --> 00:39:38,268
Lincoln Park used to do, like, I think every fucking tour they did, they turned into one.

626
00:39:38,868 --> 00:39:40,728
Oh, sure, but they weren't releasing them on V.A.

627
00:39:40,728 --> 00:39:42,768
This is, like, really trying to...

628
00:39:42,768 --> 00:39:49,048
I think this is really trying to harken back to, like, the older things that James Cameron no doubt had in his home,

629
00:39:49,228 --> 00:39:52,228
or via his own or his parents.

630
00:39:53,468 --> 00:39:57,128
Like, that's the thing about it where I was just, like, watching, like, the director comment.

631
00:39:57,128 --> 00:39:58,508
Like, again, that commentary.

632
00:39:58,528 --> 00:39:59,168
And how...

633
00:39:59,168 --> 00:40:01,788
Jesus Christ, he's had five wives.

634
00:40:02,188 --> 00:40:03,748
I was about to say, like, how...

635
00:40:03,948 --> 00:40:08,968
like in the like under the rock does he have to be i'm gonna sit in the closet oh he's canadian

636
00:40:08,968 --> 00:40:13,748
oh that's the problem how under the fucking rock would you have to be for that because like

637
00:40:13,748 --> 00:40:18,108
i'm just thinking back like i never used to watch them because i mean watching a full tour

638
00:40:18,108 --> 00:40:23,008
video fucking it's not it's not fun i'd rather just go listen to the fucking album which i

639
00:40:23,008 --> 00:40:28,848
probably already owned or i had other ways of finding or whatever right but like it's not like

640
00:40:28,848 --> 00:40:30,168
I didn't know they existed.

641
00:40:31,048 --> 00:40:32,488
And he's in the industry.

642
00:40:33,128 --> 00:40:36,148
I could understand watching a behind-the-scenes tour video

643
00:40:36,148 --> 00:40:38,728
of a band that is either not very public

644
00:40:38,728 --> 00:40:40,828
or doesn't say a whole lot on social media.

645
00:40:41,388 --> 00:40:43,908
Because for Billie Eilish, I don't fucking get it.

646
00:40:44,268 --> 00:40:45,288
Even if...

647
00:40:45,288 --> 00:40:47,008
Maybe if you're a Billie Eilish super fan.

648
00:40:47,248 --> 00:40:48,748
Probably just super fans, right?

649
00:40:49,008 --> 00:40:50,808
Well, the worst part is,

650
00:40:51,188 --> 00:40:53,248
this released...

651
00:40:53,248 --> 00:40:55,908
Also, you know it's absolute shit.

652
00:40:56,248 --> 00:40:58,068
Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 97.

653
00:40:58,848 --> 00:41:00,348
on Rotten Tomatoes.

654
00:41:00,608 --> 00:41:01,488
90-fucking-7.

655
00:41:01,608 --> 00:41:04,168
This is like fucking...

656
00:41:04,168 --> 00:41:06,768
Actually, didn't Taylor Swift's thing that she did

657
00:41:06,768 --> 00:41:09,128
a couple years back also get really, really high scores?

658
00:41:09,588 --> 00:41:10,048
Absolutely.

659
00:41:10,928 --> 00:41:12,288
That's got to be artificial.

660
00:41:12,508 --> 00:41:12,988
That's got to Google.

661
00:41:13,348 --> 00:41:15,808
They didn't watch it, but otherwise just love her music.

662
00:41:15,808 --> 00:41:17,328
Out of 500 votes.

663
00:41:17,868 --> 00:41:19,748
500 votes, 97%.

664
00:41:19,748 --> 00:41:21,288
They refuse to believe this.

665
00:41:21,668 --> 00:41:23,088
Anyways, this released

666
00:41:23,088 --> 00:41:26,208
on February 17th,

667
00:41:26,208 --> 00:41:28,328
actually, according to this.

668
00:41:28,328 --> 00:41:33,768
but that doesn't i was watching i don't know i don't know when it actually i don't actually care

669
00:41:33,768 --> 00:41:38,908
basically this is competing with the michael jackson movie which i do actually want to talk

670
00:41:38,908 --> 00:41:43,928
about that because that thing that okay actual release date was made for this so yes this is

671
00:41:43,928 --> 00:41:48,868
literally competing with the with uh what's his name or with michael jackson wasn't the michael

672
00:41:48,868 --> 00:41:55,168
jackson movie like uh well received by audiences and not by critics yes basically it's uh the usual

673
00:41:55,168 --> 00:42:03,168
thing um but i want to so this thing kit the michael jackson movie i want to be specific

674
00:42:03,168 --> 00:42:11,548
kicked ass right um they did they did tone down a lot of the um at home abuse that his dad had

675
00:42:11,548 --> 00:42:15,728
because you know what they're not looking to they're not looking for that this is about michael

676
00:42:15,728 --> 00:42:19,888
this isn't about how shitty his dad was um they they make sure they get it in there don't get me

677
00:42:19,888 --> 00:42:21,068
wrong. We do see

678
00:42:21,068 --> 00:42:23,968
a five-year-old Michael get his

679
00:42:23,968 --> 00:42:25,788
ass beat with his dad's belt.

680
00:42:26,208 --> 00:42:27,488
That does happen in the movie.

681
00:42:28,488 --> 00:42:29,908
But yeah, it's

682
00:42:29,908 --> 00:42:31,948
a fantastic movie. They did a great job with

683
00:42:31,948 --> 00:42:33,648
the sound mixing when they do the song.

684
00:42:33,708 --> 00:42:35,828
We got two or three

685
00:42:35,828 --> 00:42:38,028
full-length songs in the

686
00:42:38,028 --> 00:42:39,848
movie, so it kicked ass, like I said.

687
00:42:40,468 --> 00:42:42,048
And it's actually done so

688
00:42:42,048 --> 00:42:44,068
good. Michael Jackson

689
00:42:44,068 --> 00:42:45,948
is literally in the grave, has been

690
00:42:45,948 --> 00:42:48,008
in the grave for like 20 fucking years,

691
00:42:48,248 --> 00:42:49,368
right? And

692
00:42:49,368 --> 00:42:54,048
he is topping charts yeah i would have been young at the time i believe i don't remember how young

693
00:42:54,048 --> 00:43:01,688
but in 2009 dylan that's when he died yeah 2009 so 17 i apologize yeah i was off by three years

694
00:43:01,688 --> 00:43:07,248
in my just rough guesstimation because his music's that good and i mean he's topping charts again

695
00:43:07,248 --> 00:43:12,428
dude because yeah i was gonna say i i found well i mean okay that's a weird way to say that

696
00:43:12,428 --> 00:43:19,208
i i never really listened to michael jackson when i was growing up and then later on after hearing a

697
00:43:19,208 --> 00:43:25,608
couple of like uh like edits probably or something the videos on on social media news i was like you

698
00:43:25,608 --> 00:43:29,008
know what i actually kind of like this fucking music and then i started listening to him like

699
00:43:29,008 --> 00:43:33,928
probably like 10 years after he died i i listened to a lot of michael jackson when i was a kid my

700
00:43:33,928 --> 00:43:42,088
my stepdad had really good taste in music so i i so okay april april top 10 billboard golden

701
00:43:42,088 --> 00:43:49,108
huntrix fair enough fair sign of the times harry styles that's because of the movie the um that is

702
00:43:49,108 --> 00:43:55,148
literally off the soundtrack of the movie number three billy jean then we go down to zoo by shakira

703
00:43:55,148 --> 00:44:05,408
from zutopia 2 next uh number five beat it michael jackson number six soda pop saja boys number seven

704
00:44:05,408 --> 00:44:10,848
don't stop till you get enough michael fucking jackson which list is this billboard this is

705
00:44:10,848 --> 00:44:16,728
billboard but which one billboard top 10 top 10 from last month because they haven't done this

706
00:44:16,728 --> 00:44:23,268
months they'll do this months in two days basically i'm what i'm pointing out is of the top 10

707
00:44:23,268 --> 00:44:30,788
michael jackson's five fucking songs on the list yeah one oh four sorry four one two three four my

708
00:44:30,788 --> 00:44:36,168
bad sorry i i thought i counted five originally i'm like on their website and i don't know where

709
00:44:36,168 --> 00:44:39,528
to look you'll have to send me a link to that later well i'll just do it right now it's easy

710
00:44:39,528 --> 00:44:47,648
we have the technology dylan we have the power there you go it's in the it's in our discord

711
00:44:47,648 --> 00:44:54,888
bam yeah you're gonna scroll down a little bit it's about um halfway down okay um but yes

712
00:44:54,888 --> 00:45:04,768
michael fucking jackson is killing it pun kind of intended in 2026 that's hilarious in a way i so i

713
00:45:04,768 --> 00:45:09,068
had suspected i haven't seen this movie and i saw the dichotomy of the reviews between audiences

714
00:45:09,068 --> 00:45:14,448
and critics and you know what i assumed tell me if i'm crazy right i assumed the critics were going

715
00:45:14,448 --> 00:45:21,248
to pan this movie either way because they don't want to admit their complicity with slandering

716
00:45:21,248 --> 00:45:28,728
michael's character while he was alive well he was weird fucking do yeah he was weird but but we

717
00:45:28,728 --> 00:45:32,868
found out he wasn't in the fucking files he wasn't like there's a reason he's not in the files because

718
00:45:32,868 --> 00:45:38,488
he was an opponent for jeffrey epstein like he was against those people he tried to expose those

719
00:45:38,488 --> 00:45:43,808
people and they probably silenced him that's probably where all the early pedophile uh

720
00:45:43,808 --> 00:45:47,928
allegations came from if you think about it well no i think it's because he liked hanging out with

721
00:45:47,928 --> 00:45:53,968
children he just also was mentally still a child like that that's the exception like in 2026 a man

722
00:45:53,968 --> 00:46:00,748
like michael jackson would be very well understood but in the 90s in the 2000s yeah yeah that's fair

723
00:46:00,748 --> 00:46:07,508
we would like we that's what we assumed predators behaved like and some predators do i have no doubt

724
00:46:07,508 --> 00:46:14,028
but yeah michael jackson just really was like a child in a man grown man's body also i i'm kind of

725
00:46:14,028 --> 00:46:19,468
i'm kind of shook to see what is one two three i mean there's a ton of demon hunter songs yeah

726
00:46:19,468 --> 00:46:26,688
four demon hunter songs yes top 10 as well that's kind of crazy like yeah really well from the movie

727
00:46:26,688 --> 00:46:32,088
one of them sasha to be fair it's not even the well i mean it's not that soda pop's not good

728
00:46:32,088 --> 00:46:37,148
but it's not the better one the better like they their other song was better yeah i don't even

729
00:46:37,148 --> 00:46:41,208
remember what it was fucking called but yeah that one just kicked ass but you know what that's why

730
00:46:41,208 --> 00:46:48,388
you don't remember the name oh man that does bother me but yeah uh but in fairness to soda

731
00:46:48,388 --> 00:46:53,148
pop that's more for girls i think the other one was more for everybody there's somebody that's

732
00:46:53,148 --> 00:46:58,808
that's listening to this right now in late 10 years in the future typing a comment to me right

733
00:46:58,808 --> 00:47:04,848
now how dare you not know our demon overlords music i had to look it up it's your idol your

734
00:47:04,848 --> 00:47:09,748
idol yes exactly i didn't know it either i'm sorry i like that song better than the other one

735
00:47:09,748 --> 00:47:13,928
i do like it better but i think in fairness it's darker and such so i think your idol's gonna

736
00:47:13,928 --> 00:47:19,648
go better with the boys where soda pop is gonna go better with the teenage girls that you know

737
00:47:19,648 --> 00:47:25,148
are their target audience it's more like everybody can enjoy soda pop uh but you're not gonna enjoy

738
00:47:25,148 --> 00:47:29,728
your item unless you watch the goddamn movie that's also true that's part of the problem i feel

739
00:47:29,728 --> 00:47:39,308
yeah um but yeah anyways music movies are doing good um as long as they're good and you know to

740
00:47:39,308 --> 00:47:45,888
be fair to billy eilish you know for the fans of earn stuff they absolutely got uh what they

741
00:47:45,888 --> 00:47:53,188
what they came for you know 10 million dollars uh box office right now as of like this week

742
00:47:53,188 --> 00:47:57,108
here's my take on the whole super fan thing like i'm gonna i'm gonna compare two bands

743
00:47:57,108 --> 00:48:00,028
or multiple bands that I like, right?

744
00:48:00,268 --> 00:48:03,948
Let's say some director is out of touch

745
00:48:03,948 --> 00:48:05,948
as James Cameron or whoever it was, right?

746
00:48:06,228 --> 00:48:06,868
Who was the director?

747
00:48:07,008 --> 00:48:07,548
Was it James Cameron?

748
00:48:08,008 --> 00:48:08,188
Yeah.

749
00:48:08,588 --> 00:48:08,768
Okay.

750
00:48:09,208 --> 00:48:11,208
I thought I was getting confused for a second.

751
00:48:11,308 --> 00:48:11,408
No.

752
00:48:11,548 --> 00:48:14,128
So let's say James Cameron wanted to do more of these

753
00:48:14,128 --> 00:48:17,348
and he had a bunch of them in the works or something.

754
00:48:17,348 --> 00:48:18,988
And so one of my favorite bands,

755
00:48:19,228 --> 00:48:21,248
of course, Sleep Token, right?

756
00:48:21,588 --> 00:48:22,648
They are super mysterious.

757
00:48:22,808 --> 00:48:24,688
Their social media is completely in character

758
00:48:24,688 --> 00:48:28,168
and they don't talk outside much at all, right?

759
00:48:28,448 --> 00:48:29,888
They've done one paper interview

760
00:48:29,888 --> 00:48:31,408
and one Dremio interview.

761
00:48:31,828 --> 00:48:32,208
That's it.

762
00:48:32,708 --> 00:48:34,588
I would absolutely go to a theater

763
00:48:34,588 --> 00:48:36,368
for a behind the scenes show of that.

764
00:48:36,828 --> 00:48:39,388
But like, let's take Mander James Keenan.

765
00:48:39,508 --> 00:48:41,488
He's the singer for Tool, Perfect Circle and Pusiver.

766
00:48:41,648 --> 00:48:43,248
I'm actually wearing a Pusiver shirt right now.

767
00:48:43,788 --> 00:48:44,968
I love that band, right?

768
00:48:45,308 --> 00:48:46,808
I don't know if I would go to the theater

769
00:48:46,808 --> 00:48:48,448
for a behind the scenes of those three bands,

770
00:48:48,508 --> 00:48:49,848
even if they're an all in one movie,

771
00:48:50,008 --> 00:48:52,728
because I could just go watch Joe Rogan.

772
00:48:52,728 --> 00:48:59,248
mander james keenan has been a guest like four or five times three hour episodes like there's not a

773
00:48:59,248 --> 00:49:04,528
whole lot more to gain right so it's like on depending on the situation i could totally

774
00:49:04,528 --> 00:49:11,048
understand but like well billy eilish is an awful fucking lot a lot yeah like she she's pretty

775
00:49:11,048 --> 00:49:16,548
infamous for not shutting her fucking mouth yeah big uh well i mean it could be worse it could be

776
00:49:16,548 --> 00:49:21,388
like chapel rome right like well isn't i was gonna say isn't uh billy eilish that you can't

777
00:49:21,388 --> 00:49:28,148
be illegal on stolen land bitch she did say that okay and she lives in a mansion on stolen land

778
00:49:28,148 --> 00:49:33,968
which is really funny well yeah she's uh she's essentially a nepo baby right like she's never

779
00:49:33,968 --> 00:49:39,768
known struggle in her life chapelle rhone is so much worse because she grew up basically rich but

780
00:49:39,768 --> 00:49:43,588
lies about it she was like oh i grew up in a trailer park but then people found out where

781
00:49:43,588 --> 00:49:50,008
she grew up and it's like this really lovely like uh like six bedroom house oh oh like uh

782
00:49:50,008 --> 00:49:51,548
what is she fucking AOC,

783
00:49:51,688 --> 00:49:52,148
but music?

784
00:49:52,548 --> 00:49:52,848
Yeah,

785
00:49:53,048 --> 00:49:53,448
basically.

786
00:49:53,448 --> 00:49:53,928
It's like,

787
00:49:53,948 --> 00:49:54,688
she actually grew up,

788
00:49:54,708 --> 00:49:55,008
you know,

789
00:49:55,208 --> 00:49:56,368
relatively wealthy,

790
00:49:56,748 --> 00:49:59,128
took yearly vacations to Italy.

791
00:49:59,608 --> 00:50:00,048
Right.

792
00:50:00,768 --> 00:50:01,128
Um,

793
00:50:01,128 --> 00:50:02,408
really fucking funny actually.

794
00:50:03,168 --> 00:50:03,648
And,

795
00:50:03,728 --> 00:50:04,648
um,

796
00:50:05,068 --> 00:50:06,948
but she'll go on and say a bunch of dumb shit.

797
00:50:06,948 --> 00:50:07,228
Like,

798
00:50:07,228 --> 00:50:07,508
uh,

799
00:50:07,508 --> 00:50:08,348
men can't make art.

800
00:50:08,348 --> 00:50:09,108
And it's like,

801
00:50:09,508 --> 00:50:09,828
lady,

802
00:50:10,248 --> 00:50:12,748
your entire aesthetic is drag,

803
00:50:12,928 --> 00:50:14,528
which is a male aesthetic,

804
00:50:14,808 --> 00:50:15,048
you know,

805
00:50:15,068 --> 00:50:15,968
and I don't know women,

806
00:50:15,968 --> 00:50:16,548
but like,

807
00:50:17,388 --> 00:50:17,468
well,

808
00:50:17,508 --> 00:50:17,628
yeah,

809
00:50:17,628 --> 00:50:18,068
it's male,

810
00:50:18,348 --> 00:50:19,868
but still drag queens.

811
00:50:19,868 --> 00:50:25,908
understand that you can't just throw on a fucking dress and call it good like a men man wearing

812
00:50:25,908 --> 00:50:29,828
dresses have to spend a little bit more effort making it look right because they're not shaped

813
00:50:29,828 --> 00:50:33,268
to their fucking body but i don't think she cares about that nuance because she doesn't

814
00:50:33,268 --> 00:50:40,468
think men can make art so like yeah she's a fucking retard yeah absolutely anyway um

815
00:50:40,468 --> 00:50:46,268
speaking of retards we should talk about destiny too it's finally shutting down oh

816
00:50:46,268 --> 00:50:54,548
so uh i forget the name of bungie's ceo the guy with all the sports cars um i don't give a shit

817
00:50:54,548 --> 00:50:58,668
he's all out of sports car money they're not making any more expansions for destiny 2

818
00:50:58,668 --> 00:51:03,868
and i don't think he's gonna sell sports cars no he's gonna get himself a happy golden parachute

819
00:51:03,868 --> 00:51:11,208
window when uh well i i don't know what their fucking plan is is it's really unclear like right

820
00:51:11,208 --> 00:51:16,808
well so they don't have destiny 3 in the pipe right they don't have anything in the pipe other

821
00:51:16,808 --> 00:51:23,328
than more marathon which is going free to play next week for a week for their new season so i will

822
00:51:23,328 --> 00:51:28,468
bite the bullet everybody i'm gonna announce yeah i'm gonna commit here right here in the podcast

823
00:51:28,468 --> 00:51:39,008
i'm going to put at least 10 hours into desk or fuck uh marathon marathon i went to say destiny

824
00:51:39,008 --> 00:51:47,608
three and then i was like no and i wanted to say concord three no so um yeah marathon uh i'm gonna

825
00:51:47,608 --> 00:51:52,508
put at least 10 hours into marathon next week um assuming my eyes don't bleed from all the neon

826
00:51:52,508 --> 00:51:57,048
fucking green oh my god i i looked at the steam beach db chart for marathon and zoomed out to the

827
00:51:57,048 --> 00:52:03,928
max oh my god that is a curve yes that is a bad curve well it gets worse when they're killing

828
00:52:03,928 --> 00:52:08,348
destiny well not destiny they're not killing destiny that would imply that you know destiny

829
00:52:08,348 --> 00:52:13,768
wasn't already on the chopping block like let's be realistic sony wasn't making that making destiny

830
00:52:13,768 --> 00:52:19,648
die because marathon did poorly their destiny would have died either way get your hands off

831
00:52:19,648 --> 00:52:25,548
my wife bungee yeah it's such a funny topic and it released on her damn birthday too it's the

832
00:52:25,548 --> 00:52:32,008
funny thing i've told that story i was gonna say she's outlived it she was here before the franchise

833
00:52:32,008 --> 00:52:37,228
and well now she's gonna be here after it did not stand the test of time so uh for the dear

834
00:52:37,228 --> 00:52:42,088
listener at home may be listening to our podcast as a you know a time capsule again marathon are

835
00:52:42,088 --> 00:52:51,048
launched on march 5th 2026 to 80 000 86 000 concurrent players which for a multiplayer pvp

836
00:52:51,048 --> 00:52:56,548
only game is an important metric right this is not a game that you buy and put in your backlog

837
00:52:56,548 --> 00:53:06,808
right it is a multiplayer only game so on steam 88 86 000 at launch and we we heard from an insider

838
00:53:06,808 --> 00:53:11,768
leak in some article somewhere that i'm not going to go find that steam is the majority right yeah

839
00:53:11,768 --> 00:53:16,848
it's 70 according to their insider i think it was a jason schreier article so we can trust it

840
00:53:16,848 --> 00:53:22,908
yeah point is is that they're not recouping this in the console market right and now so 88 000 not

841
00:53:22,908 --> 00:53:30,028
86 88 was their max their peak and right now there's 11 000 people online oh yeah it's not

842
00:53:30,028 --> 00:53:38,188
good and you know they also one thing that companies have to start doing i i think is

843
00:53:38,188 --> 00:53:46,628
punishing the dipshits for speaking like uh so i don't know if you're if your company does uh my

844
00:53:46,628 --> 00:53:52,708
company does uh but does your company have a rule about your social media presence oh absolutely

845
00:53:52,708 --> 00:54:02,228
yeah yeah several and some dipshit it does not have like these these companies do not have

846
00:54:02,228 --> 00:54:07,728
social media rules clearly otherwise dipshit or like they might technically but there's no real

847
00:54:07,728 --> 00:54:12,548
punishment otherwise dipshits wouldn't keep doing this where they go on social media and they say

848
00:54:12,548 --> 00:54:18,868
dumb shit that directly affects the company right like so happened to high guard like well high guard

849
00:54:18,868 --> 00:54:20,348
I don't remember

850
00:54:20,348 --> 00:54:22,708
well Highguard said I think it was Highguard

851
00:54:22,708 --> 00:54:24,088
but I also think it was echoed

852
00:54:24,088 --> 00:54:25,608
by a Bungie developer

853
00:54:25,608 --> 00:54:28,348
saying that oh player counts don't matter

854
00:54:28,348 --> 00:54:30,508
they absolutely fucking matter

855
00:54:30,508 --> 00:54:31,568
right

856
00:54:31,568 --> 00:54:34,088
maybe if you're like an indie developer

857
00:54:34,088 --> 00:54:35,388
building a passion project

858
00:54:35,388 --> 00:54:38,508
and it only costs you like your time

859
00:54:38,508 --> 00:54:40,488
mostly like at that point yeah sure

860
00:54:40,488 --> 00:54:42,048
maybe but not for

861
00:54:42,048 --> 00:54:44,048
the kind of dev these guys are

862
00:54:44,048 --> 00:54:46,668
well okay if you're building yourself

863
00:54:46,668 --> 00:54:48,808
a happy little Stardew Valley

864
00:54:48,808 --> 00:54:55,108
right player counts don't actually matter if you're building yourself a live service massively

865
00:54:55,108 --> 00:55:01,628
multiplayer game player counts back like the day that planet side 2 dips below like you know like

866
00:55:01,628 --> 00:55:06,788
50 players at peak they're gonna have to look at shutting down the game they just will like the day

867
00:55:06,788 --> 00:55:12,108
that it like that's like their three-month consistency is like 50 players peak they're

868
00:55:12,108 --> 00:55:17,468
gonna have to look at shutting down the servers because it won't be able to sustain itself it has

869
00:55:17,468 --> 00:55:21,348
nothing to do with making money at that point because i don't think planet side 2 makes money

870
00:55:21,348 --> 00:55:29,108
but there's no reason nobody's there right it's like right like the game doesn't function as a

871
00:55:29,108 --> 00:55:40,992
single player game it doesn function as a hell it doesn even really function as a fucking museum no like like there wouldn be much to go back to otherwise right right and same thing with

872
00:55:40,992 --> 00:55:49,812
like marathon so marathon player counts 100 matter also you know i'm i'm gonna explain it in a like

873
00:55:49,812 --> 00:55:58,352
in a way that i think that men specifically can understand being seen with an attractive woman

874
00:55:58,352 --> 00:56:03,192
makes you more desirable in the same way that higher player counts make the game look more

875
00:56:03,192 --> 00:56:09,212
desirable to the audience like if i go to a game and i'm like man that game looks cool it's got some

876
00:56:09,212 --> 00:56:14,052
mixed reviews let me see how many people are regularly playing it do i if it's a multiplayer

877
00:56:14,052 --> 00:56:19,092
game that's what i'm going to look at because i'm going to look at that's how i pick if i'm looking

878
00:56:19,092 --> 00:56:26,112
for like mmos so when we went the each time we went back to new world if the player count didn't

879
00:56:26,112 --> 00:56:28,212
jump on a release, I probably would have been

880
00:56:28,212 --> 00:56:29,832
like, ugh, guys, let's maybe

881
00:56:29,832 --> 00:56:31,192
let's not do that.

882
00:56:31,932 --> 00:56:34,052
Which is almost never not going to happen,

883
00:56:34,092 --> 00:56:36,192
but the point was that, like, I know

884
00:56:36,192 --> 00:56:38,152
that, I know well enough

885
00:56:38,152 --> 00:56:39,912
that if people didn't go back,

886
00:56:40,032 --> 00:56:42,012
I'm only going to be playing with the guys that

887
00:56:42,012 --> 00:56:43,692
you know, stuck around

888
00:56:43,692 --> 00:56:46,112
for whatever ungodly reason, stuck around

889
00:56:46,112 --> 00:56:48,092
for as long as they did, and I know better.

890
00:56:48,332 --> 00:56:49,832
I just know better.

891
00:56:50,032 --> 00:56:50,632
I ain't doing that.

892
00:56:51,032 --> 00:56:53,652
Yeah, and, like, you know, it's not

893
00:56:53,652 --> 00:56:55,092
that I necessarily

894
00:56:55,092 --> 00:56:57,252
I understand that

895
00:56:57,252 --> 00:56:59,952
it's really below a certain

896
00:56:59,952 --> 00:57:00,952
number, right?

897
00:57:01,772 --> 00:57:03,552
That's why I use PlantSide as an example.

898
00:57:04,352 --> 00:57:05,852
10,000, 11,000

899
00:57:05,852 --> 00:57:08,232
well, it's not going to keep the lights on on Bungie

900
00:57:08,232 --> 00:57:09,872
because in the broader

901
00:57:09,872 --> 00:57:11,312
aspect, that's what we're talking about.

902
00:57:11,912 --> 00:57:14,072
Destiny 2 shut down. They kind of

903
00:57:14,072 --> 00:57:15,772
released some vague

904
00:57:15,772 --> 00:57:17,212
we got something in the pipe

905
00:57:17,212 --> 00:57:19,072
kind of sound in Twitter posts.

906
00:57:19,532 --> 00:57:21,932
And then when Jason Schreier dug underneath

907
00:57:21,932 --> 00:57:22,492
he's like,

908
00:57:22,492 --> 00:57:29,412
he's according to him his bungie insider they have nothing in the pipe no like they killed all

909
00:57:29,412 --> 00:57:33,452
i think they had like a couple of destiny 2 expansions that were just silenced or something

910
00:57:33,452 --> 00:57:38,272
like that don't quote me on that i could be wrong no destiny 3 in the pipe no other projects in the

911
00:57:38,272 --> 00:57:44,392
pipe this season 2 of marathon is basically all they've got right now because sony has no faith

912
00:57:44,392 --> 00:57:49,252
in bungie and hasn't greenlit a single fucking project for the past like two three years like

913
00:57:49,252 --> 00:57:55,412
marathon like marathon was in the tube for like five or six years some bullshit like that

914
00:57:55,412 --> 00:58:01,272
what a coincidence i don't have faith in sony either well i was gonna say well no we don't

915
00:58:01,272 --> 00:58:05,592
right like you mentioned that with sony earlier on like you know maybe selling your playstation

916
00:58:05,592 --> 00:58:13,772
like unironically xbox has gone from in the grave to clawing their way out of the grave

917
00:58:13,772 --> 00:58:16,612
and kind of standing on top of Sony

918
00:58:16,612 --> 00:58:18,372
in a, what, month?

919
00:58:18,792 --> 00:58:19,392
Two months?

920
00:58:19,652 --> 00:58:23,452
I forget when the new CEO got hired to the job.

921
00:58:23,452 --> 00:58:25,872
But basically, they got rid of the jackass

922
00:58:25,872 --> 00:58:26,492
that was in charge.

923
00:58:26,592 --> 00:58:27,272
Was that Phil Spencer?

924
00:58:27,712 --> 00:58:29,432
Yeah, so they got rid of Phil Spencer,

925
00:58:29,952 --> 00:58:32,152
who was, I don't know,

926
00:58:33,052 --> 00:58:37,272
huffing glue between lines of blow.

927
00:58:37,592 --> 00:58:39,612
They got somebody in there who's like,

928
00:58:39,732 --> 00:58:41,432
all this AI shit's got to go, dude.

929
00:58:41,972 --> 00:58:43,592
We got to make our games affordable again.

930
00:58:43,772 --> 00:58:51,452
She does that and immediately just does nothing else and lets Sony continuously shoot themselves on the foot.

931
00:58:52,032 --> 00:58:53,792
Sony overspent on Bungie.

932
00:58:54,132 --> 00:58:56,812
They're in the red for them.

933
00:58:57,072 --> 00:59:00,372
They got a bid tax windfall over it, basically.

934
00:59:00,692 --> 00:59:03,892
But that's not the answer you actually want.

935
00:59:04,992 --> 00:59:13,672
The actual answer you want when you buy property or a product as a company is for the product to make you money or in some way be a net positive.

936
00:59:13,772 --> 00:59:22,552
bungie was three fourths of a million what is it uh 765 765 million dollar deficit basically like

937
00:59:22,552 --> 00:59:30,172
that's insane i like yeah i'm so thankful that xbox is turning it around at this current moment

938
00:59:30,172 --> 00:59:36,152
because think about it i was gonna lose faith in sony either way there's no coming back if xbox was

939
00:59:36,152 --> 00:59:40,312
still in that same rut that they were in like a couple months ago what alternative would i have

940
00:59:40,312 --> 00:59:46,052
for a living room console i'd probably have to get a switch too which or you'd have to get an

941
00:59:46,052 --> 00:59:51,532
older you you could have gotten a used older like xbox because i think xbox firmware pretty much

942
00:59:51,532 --> 00:59:57,872
works indefinitely in perpetuity right like yeah but like i wasn't thinking about that until they

943
00:59:57,872 --> 01:00:02,252
started turning their image around right because like i don't currently own any physical xbox games

944
01:00:02,252 --> 01:00:06,092
it would be easy for me to leave them behind whereas i already have a collection of switch

945
01:00:06,092 --> 01:00:12,412
games right honestly i you know you could have done something like an uh stuck with an older ps4

946
01:00:12,412 --> 01:00:19,172
or even downgraded to a ps3 that just be a dvd machine right i mean yeah but or a blu-ray machine

947
01:00:19,172 --> 01:00:26,652
i guess sorry sometimes the old uh verbiage slips out at that point i might as well just get a blu-ray

948
01:00:26,652 --> 01:00:33,632
player that doesn't do any games i mean yeah well i mean you might like or hookah well i mean for a

949
01:00:33,632 --> 01:00:37,772
little while i don't know if you still got it out there i haven't looked at what's in the you know

950
01:00:37,772 --> 01:00:43,052
in your entertainment center but like you had that uh cheap uh computer out there that could handle

951
01:00:43,052 --> 01:00:52,572
most of the things true um and that would probably be a more a more appropriate thing to do um if you

952
01:00:52,572 --> 01:00:58,172
needed to you know build a build a cheap computer out of spare parts you've got lying around it's

953
01:00:58,172 --> 01:01:02,092
definitely on my mind because like with all these parts getting more expensive it's like i i look at

954
01:01:02,092 --> 01:01:07,312
that old pc and i'm like i should fix that honestly i kind of think about it too because

955
01:01:07,312 --> 01:01:13,552
like i've got my last computer right like i'm like it's not that broken and really the most of it's

956
01:01:13,552 --> 01:01:19,412
just general maintenance you know cleaning it out reapplying thermal paste uh maybe uh replacing a

957
01:01:19,412 --> 01:01:24,752
few of the fans you know really basic shit but i remember i was i was talking this over with a

958
01:01:24,752 --> 01:01:30,692
friend of mine uh in person the other day um and it's like when it comes to the switch to i i

959
01:01:30,692 --> 01:01:36,892
honestly completely honest i totally understand how a nintendo only gamer might live a full and

960
01:01:36,892 --> 01:01:42,492
satisfied life with video games now that switch 2 is out it really does do it all i mean obviously

961
01:01:42,492 --> 01:01:47,712
besides a blue-ray player but like that's not really video game related but like i get it uh

962
01:01:47,712 --> 01:01:51,492
this friend of mine that i was talking to recently acquired a switch 2 and has been really impressed

963
01:01:51,492 --> 01:01:56,372
right and it's very premium i've helped i felt in my hand like my son has one um so like i could

964
01:01:56,372 --> 01:01:58,732
I could totally understand like why I might've gone that route,

965
01:01:58,732 --> 01:01:59,852
but again,

966
01:01:59,852 --> 01:02:04,492
with Xbox coming out of the grave and deciding they want to be competitive

967
01:02:04,492 --> 01:02:04,972
again,

968
01:02:05,292 --> 01:02:05,552
uh,

969
01:02:05,552 --> 01:02:05,972
I am,

970
01:02:06,072 --> 01:02:10,512
I'm waiting with great anticipation for their announcements next week.

971
01:02:10,652 --> 01:02:12,172
They might not even announce their console.

972
01:02:12,172 --> 01:02:12,772
And I might,

973
01:02:12,832 --> 01:02:14,672
I might just go get a series X and wait because,

974
01:02:14,952 --> 01:02:15,072
um,

975
01:02:15,452 --> 01:02:16,332
it's probably going to be expensive.

976
01:02:16,852 --> 01:02:20,272
I am interested to what project Helix actually is,

977
01:02:20,272 --> 01:02:21,552
or it's Helix,

978
01:02:21,632 --> 01:02:21,752
right?

979
01:02:21,812 --> 01:02:22,292
Not Helios.

980
01:02:22,512 --> 01:02:22,752
Sorry.

981
01:02:23,292 --> 01:02:23,692
Okay.

982
01:02:23,832 --> 01:02:24,432
I was like,

983
01:02:24,432 --> 01:02:32,032
both of them are appropriate uh for me to you know praise you know my fossil but yes that that's a

984
01:02:32,032 --> 01:02:38,452
meme that will never die not as long as i'm alive no i don't know that you know that was such an

985
01:02:38,452 --> 01:02:43,412
interesting time in life like not uh not to derail us too hard but let's hear it let's hear it like

986
01:02:43,412 --> 01:02:49,092
the twitch plays pokemon yeah like that was such an interesting like time of life because the novelty

987
01:02:49,092 --> 01:02:53,932
wore off pretty quickly right like twitch plays pokemon you know it was back in what 2015 2014

988
01:02:53,932 --> 01:03:01,072
something like 2014 yeah yeah it would have been 2014 maybe even 2013 whatever it was a long time

989
01:03:01,072 --> 01:03:06,472
ago the before times back when life was simpler well before twitch had really popped off right

990
01:03:06,472 --> 01:03:11,212
like i mean it did during that make no mistake but it wasn't like that was one of the bigger

991
01:03:11,212 --> 01:03:18,352
events of the time yeah yeah and you know for those who aren't aware is basically it was an

992
01:03:18,352 --> 01:03:24,952
old red versus blue uh emulated and uh twitch chat entered commands there were some rules around

993
01:03:24,952 --> 01:03:29,172
it i'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty and pokemon doesn't have any terminal states there's

994
01:03:29,172 --> 01:03:36,652
no go back to main menu button like right you can wipe out and you'll revive so yes um so like

995
01:03:36,652 --> 01:03:44,132
basically you they were trying to see if twitch cat chat and its insanity could brute force its

996
01:03:44,132 --> 01:03:50,732
way through pokemon and it did uh more or less like the again i'm not gonna get in the gritty

997
01:03:50,732 --> 01:03:58,552
of it it will just say it did it did brute force its way through and the party makes sense the uh

998
01:03:58,552 --> 01:04:04,872
a lot of important pokemon were like go um all the pokemon were nicknamed like gibberish and

999
01:04:04,872 --> 01:04:11,312
there was a following outside the game like on there was an absolute following um you know reddit

1000
01:04:11,312 --> 01:04:17,132
was not quite accessible yet so you know it had its thing and you know they went through some other

1001
01:04:17,132 --> 01:04:21,772
generations some other iterations of it and all that there were some other attempts at twitch plays

1002
01:04:21,772 --> 01:04:28,152
um i think there were some before pokemon too but pokemon was the where it popped the fuck off

1003
01:04:28,152 --> 01:04:35,372
oh yeah and it was an event you know i'm uh the government's not gonna get me for this one i was

1004
01:04:35,372 --> 01:04:42,892
like skipping out on work to watch it dude well it was important to me right like right i bought

1005
01:04:42,892 --> 01:04:49,372
into the memes like i was drinking the kool-aid with how ridiculous it was how uh you know i was

1006
01:04:49,372 --> 01:04:55,492
i was in the chat participating at the very end i was there when uh they beat the elite four and uh

1007
01:04:55,492 --> 01:04:59,932
whatever we called uh i think we actually all were too because i think i think we were sitting

1008
01:04:59,932 --> 01:05:05,272
in discord i wasn't sitting actually that might have been before discord i think no it was during

1009
01:05:05,272 --> 01:05:11,392
my work day yeah discord was 2015 so this was before that yes uh this was uh this was during

1010
01:05:11,392 --> 01:05:15,792
my work day i would not have been this was before don't quote me on it because i'm sure some people

1011
01:05:15,792 --> 01:05:20,852
like with jailbroken phones could do it but i'm pretty sure like iphones and such couldn't uh

1012
01:05:20,852 --> 01:05:27,012
didn't have any like like uh team speak or anything like that access yeah i mean obviously

1013
01:05:27,012 --> 01:05:34,172
everything's all cell phone based now but this is 2013 2014 not ever like the internet traffic was

1014
01:05:34,172 --> 01:05:40,412
not designed for cell phones yet not completely like we were in that we were in a weird gray space

1015
01:05:40,412 --> 01:05:45,552
where some websites were seeing the future and some websites were not and so yeah they you know

1016
01:05:45,552 --> 01:05:50,352
it was interesting um but yeah it was such a cultural thing because like we you know we're

1017
01:05:50,352 --> 01:05:56,972
canonizing almost literally right like we were literally making like religious level like religion

1018
01:05:56,972 --> 01:06:03,712
level mythos around uh everything and it was just kind of like loosely tying it all together it was

1019
01:06:03,712 --> 01:06:04,892
It was a fun time.

1020
01:06:05,092 --> 01:06:06,472
Yeah, like, you know, we had,

1021
01:06:06,672 --> 01:06:09,392
when we released a shit ton of Pokemon,

1022
01:06:09,532 --> 01:06:10,472
we called it Bloody Sunday.

1023
01:06:11,892 --> 01:06:13,372
Because it happened on a Sunday.

1024
01:06:14,572 --> 01:06:16,372
Yeah, no, it was, you know,

1025
01:06:16,452 --> 01:06:19,612
and second generation, I think, went really well, too.

1026
01:06:19,892 --> 01:06:22,552
Because one of the neat things that they did

1027
01:06:22,552 --> 01:06:25,172
in their emulator is,

1028
01:06:25,172 --> 01:06:26,332
a guy went through the code,

1029
01:06:26,712 --> 01:06:30,632
and he made the red team.

1030
01:06:30,632 --> 01:06:32,852
because in Gen 2

1031
01:06:32,852 --> 01:06:34,692
you beat the Elite 4

1032
01:06:34,692 --> 01:06:35,792
you get access to

1033
01:06:35,792 --> 01:06:38,312
the previous area and then

1034
01:06:38,312 --> 01:06:40,772
at the very end of it you could go fight

1035
01:06:40,772 --> 01:06:42,492
Red or whatever

1036
01:06:42,492 --> 01:06:44,732
and so we went and had a battle

1037
01:06:44,732 --> 01:06:47,012
with ourselves basically from the first one

1038
01:06:47,012 --> 01:06:48,792
including the team that he had

1039
01:06:48,792 --> 01:06:50,892
at the time. Honestly, it's such a cool

1040
01:06:50,892 --> 01:06:52,752
idea. I don't think he told

1041
01:06:52,752 --> 01:06:54,972
anyone he was doing it either. It just happened

1042
01:06:54,972 --> 01:06:56,432
and people were like, wait a minute

1043
01:06:56,432 --> 01:06:57,932
It was such a hype fight

1044
01:06:57,932 --> 01:07:00,852
I think we raffle stomped ourselves

1045
01:07:00,852 --> 01:07:02,532
but you know that is what it is

1046
01:07:02,532 --> 01:07:04,892
at times the breaks

1047
01:07:04,892 --> 01:07:06,852
it was not a great team all things

1048
01:07:06,852 --> 01:07:09,072
well yeah in Gen 2

1049
01:07:09,072 --> 01:07:11,072
I think our team was significantly better

1050
01:07:11,072 --> 01:07:12,992
I think we managed to keep our starter

1051
01:07:12,992 --> 01:07:17,192
we did not manage to keep our

1052
01:07:17,192 --> 01:07:18,012
starter in

1053
01:07:18,012 --> 01:07:21,592
it was pretty early on

1054
01:07:21,592 --> 01:07:22,612
she was still Charmeleon

1055
01:07:22,612 --> 01:07:24,732
Abby

1056
01:07:24,732 --> 01:07:26,492
Abby the Charmeleon

1057
01:07:26,492 --> 01:07:30,492
Well, I think it was A-B-B-B-B-B-B, so we just nicknamed it Abby.

1058
01:07:31,012 --> 01:07:31,312
Yes.

1059
01:07:32,652 --> 01:07:36,752
Like ATV the Venomoth, All-Terrain Venomoth.

1060
01:07:36,932 --> 01:07:38,892
All-Terrain Venomoth, oh my fucking god.

1061
01:07:39,372 --> 01:07:48,552
Yeah, ATV the Dragon Slayer, because Lance's Dragonite fell to ATV's Poison Powder, I think.

1062
01:07:48,552 --> 01:07:50,832
Because ATV had no offensive moves whatsoever.

1063
01:07:50,832 --> 01:07:58,332
so atv basically just sat there and let dragonite uh slowly bleed to death fundamentally and so yeah

1064
01:07:58,332 --> 01:08:02,492
we had uh i have such a faint memory of twitch plays pokemon but this is all coming back to me

1065
01:08:02,492 --> 01:08:07,292
like i feel like i knew this great i feel like i knew this but i couldn't recall it myself like well

1066
01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:14,232
i well i would yeah and actually uh on my phone up until the uh everything failed for the website

1067
01:08:14,232 --> 01:08:18,072
there was basically a Magic 8-Ball website

1068
01:08:18,072 --> 01:08:22,392
that had the button inputs

1069
01:08:22,392 --> 01:08:24,472
plus Magic 8-Ball

1070
01:08:24,472 --> 01:08:28,192
for any question you ask it was consult the fossil

1071
01:08:28,192 --> 01:08:31,452
and so you'd be like hey am I going to get a promotion at work?

1072
01:08:31,452 --> 01:08:31,872
Up!

1073
01:08:35,592 --> 01:08:36,772
Fucking excellent.

1074
01:08:37,112 --> 01:08:42,472
So yes, anyways that massive tangent was just so we could relive history real quick.

1075
01:08:42,472 --> 01:08:48,912
because honestly a lot of things are super fucking depressing with like i'm just talking

1076
01:08:48,912 --> 01:08:53,612
about media stuff i'm not even getting into like geopolitics right like star wars not even

1077
01:08:53,612 --> 01:09:00,152
not even pedro pascal can bring it back from the deep end i know like it's so funny so i saw that

1078
01:09:00,152 --> 01:09:05,852
movie right and i've seen like a couple advertisements for the movie saying it's the

1079
01:09:05,852 --> 01:09:11,172
number one movie in the world but like i i nobody's talking about that movie on the internet i refuse

1080
01:09:11,172 --> 01:09:16,172
to believe it's the number one movie in the world i think michael jackson is still beating it it's

1081
01:09:16,172 --> 01:09:20,152
like now to be fair when i went to go see it in the theater it was full it was a packed theater

1082
01:09:20,152 --> 01:09:25,032
right and it was just last weekend that it came out right i saw it on monday i was just ripping

1083
01:09:25,032 --> 01:09:33,412
cds the whole time right now i will say uh my kids loved it right uh because the scenario that

1084
01:09:33,412 --> 01:09:39,132
they go through involves lots of droids as enemies so they just they just let the mandalorian go full

1085
01:09:39,132 --> 01:09:45,212
doom guy he's the doom guy for robots and my kids were enthralled they're like oh my god he's so cool

1086
01:09:45,212 --> 01:09:49,732
look at him shoot stuff right like they didn't really care like they didn't see the whole show

1087
01:09:49,732 --> 01:09:52,732
they only watched the first couple episodes i couldn't get them to pay attention to the whole

1088
01:09:52,732 --> 01:09:58,472
show but they were fine with the movie the movie explains what's going on well enough that you don't

1089
01:09:58,472 --> 01:10:01,932
need to have really watched the show except for the first couple episodes to be like why does he

1090
01:10:01,932 --> 01:10:07,512
have a baby yeah right and as long as you know that you're good because the they've got a lot

1091
01:10:07,512 --> 01:10:13,552
of member berries in there i've heard i was i i heard the same thing and i went in expecting

1092
01:10:13,552 --> 01:10:18,632
member berries but there wasn't that many i gotta admit i expected more like there was a part where

1093
01:10:18,632 --> 01:10:22,312
i'm like hey this would be a really good time for like a force ghost yoda to show up and talk to the

1094
01:10:22,312 --> 01:10:28,712
kid didn't happen no no no it's only of uh it's only of felonies characters like like it's pretty

1095
01:10:28,712 --> 01:10:35,752
it's been pretty well documented at this point because uh of uh felonies uh but you you love

1096
01:10:35,752 --> 01:10:40,252
of his own characters i guess but they were they were minor characters like for example we had zeb

1097
01:10:40,252 --> 01:10:44,912
who was uh that was steven bloom's character from rebels but like he was already in the show

1098
01:10:44,912 --> 01:10:49,952
right so it's like it wasn't that weird to see him have that was not in mandalorian and grogu

1099
01:10:49,952 --> 01:10:56,172
or mandalorian sorry he wasn't three he was oh sorry i forget that season three even happened

1100
01:10:56,172 --> 01:11:02,832
honestly season three was pretty bad uh but he was in it uh he cameoed in it and they they knew

1101
01:11:02,832 --> 01:11:09,772
each other so it wasn't that weird uh that zeb was along for the ride um but he was more of a

1102
01:11:09,772 --> 01:11:16,752
chauffeur but like you you think if david filoni is doing all that you you would expect to see like

1103
01:11:16,752 --> 01:11:21,412
ashoka at least right because that's like his favorite thing in the wrong uh galaxy right

1104
01:11:21,412 --> 01:11:27,532
she is so she did not appear in the movie um there are rumors that he tried to get her into

1105
01:11:27,532 --> 01:11:32,632
the movie and then the other the other execs said no but that's probably not true i don't really

1106
01:11:32,632 --> 01:11:37,032
know that for sure i would believe it though it's very other the other john fravor is like

1107
01:11:37,032 --> 01:11:43,252
stop being a retard but like uh david baloney made several cameo appearances as well as x-wing

1108
01:11:43,252 --> 01:11:50,332
of fire pilot um but like otherwise it's mostly just droids like oh like literal battle droids

1109
01:11:50,332 --> 01:11:54,232
from clone wars were there and they look so much more intimidating when they have fucking cloaks

1110
01:11:54,232 --> 01:11:59,812
like not not turn invisible cloak i mean like like they look like they just came out of game

1111
01:11:59,812 --> 01:12:06,132
of thrones dun dun dun dun dun they can't feel the the the temperature but like they're they

1112
01:12:06,132 --> 01:12:09,532
they wear them to because they're on a muddy planet they don't want to get their shit all

1113
01:12:09,532 --> 01:12:15,372
gunked up right well it makes sense they've got to still move they look fucking cool and um they

1114
01:12:15,372 --> 01:12:20,012
had super battle droids you know you know watch those wrist rockets you know those were there

1115
01:12:20,012 --> 01:12:23,512
those are not david flooney's characters so those are in the prequels just straight up yeah but that

1116
01:12:23,512 --> 01:12:26,392
You and I, you know those don't count.

1117
01:12:27,092 --> 01:12:29,912
It's his characters that are the darlings.

1118
01:12:30,372 --> 01:12:31,172
Don't get me wrong.

1119
01:12:31,272 --> 01:12:34,352
I'm not saying you can't have your darlings, right?

1120
01:12:34,372 --> 01:12:39,672
I'm just saying it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be for the member berries, right?

1121
01:12:39,752 --> 01:12:39,872
Good.

1122
01:12:40,552 --> 01:12:42,952
I was pleasantly surprised that there was a lot less of that.

1123
01:12:43,092 --> 01:12:45,632
Now, there was one character that I did not recognize.

1124
01:12:45,752 --> 01:12:47,292
It was a bounty hunter that was chasing him.

1125
01:12:47,292 --> 01:12:51,912
It ended up being a major antagonist whose name is never said, and he's got a funny hat.

1126
01:12:52,352 --> 01:12:53,372
It's not the blue guy.

1127
01:12:53,512 --> 01:12:54,452
That guy died in the...

1128
01:12:54,452 --> 01:12:55,512
Yeah, I was going to say...

1129
01:12:55,512 --> 01:12:56,092
I don't know...

1130
01:12:56,092 --> 01:12:56,632
Oh, wait.

1131
01:12:56,752 --> 01:12:58,072
Do you think it was...

1132
01:12:58,072 --> 01:12:59,812
Was he tall and lanky?

1133
01:13:00,192 --> 01:13:00,392
Yeah.

1134
01:13:01,072 --> 01:13:01,672
Oh, yeah, yeah.

1135
01:13:01,872 --> 01:13:04,892
That's one of the famous bounty hunters from the Bounty Hunter crew.

1136
01:13:05,032 --> 01:13:06,812
I'm trying to remember his name off the top of my head.

1137
01:13:07,972 --> 01:13:10,032
Yeah, he can Kung Lao his hat.

1138
01:13:10,272 --> 01:13:11,152
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1139
01:13:11,152 --> 01:13:11,472
That guy.

1140
01:13:11,732 --> 01:13:12,512
It's Captain American.

1141
01:13:12,812 --> 01:13:13,772
Yeah, he can...

1142
01:13:13,772 --> 01:13:14,452
That's also...

1143
01:13:14,452 --> 01:13:15,232
That's David...

1144
01:13:15,232 --> 01:13:17,452
That's Dave Filoni's favorite bounty hunter.

1145
01:13:17,852 --> 01:13:21,152
He should have died like a thousand times in the Clone Wars series.

1146
01:13:21,932 --> 01:13:22,932
And just refused to die.

1147
01:13:22,932 --> 01:13:28,532
like he literally gets into a fist fight with uh mall's brother with nothing but his hat

1148
01:13:28,532 --> 01:13:35,392
so that guy that guy was in the movie and he he was really cool oh but like i didn't know who he

1149
01:13:35,392 --> 01:13:40,432
was my stepdad was with me uh i i leaned over like who the hell is that and he's like oh he

1150
01:13:40,432 --> 01:13:45,572
was in the clone wars i'm like okay whatever like we just moved on from there and it didn't bother

1151
01:13:45,572 --> 01:13:53,332
me after that but like it was okay like they went out of their way okay like it's like they went out

1152
01:13:53,332 --> 01:13:58,612
of their way to not it up they took no risks with this movie and it was fine

1153
01:14:00,852 --> 01:14:05,812
he's never going to kill imbo imbo is i think imbo is more of his darling than

1154
01:14:05,856 --> 01:14:13,296
uh ahsoka that's hilarious uh but he did kung lao that hat like oh absolutely no no he's literally

1155
01:14:13,296 --> 01:14:18,656
like in the in the like the series there there's been more than one time he like

1156
01:14:18,656 --> 01:14:25,936
arrests his mid-air forward momentum to do a spin and swing the hat like if he doesn't he's

1157
01:14:25,936 --> 01:14:34,336
he has to have the force like there's no way he doesn't it's gotta be um but yes imbo no imbo

1158
01:14:34,336 --> 01:14:40,356
is absolutely his darling he's like the only one that's never truly been at threat uh out of all

1159
01:14:40,356 --> 01:14:44,576
the bounty hunters like he never really cared like there's there's that whole bounty hunter

1160
01:14:44,576 --> 01:14:51,516
crew that boba fett ends up uh taking over uh in uh in the clone war series yeah imbo's part of that

1161
01:14:51,516 --> 01:14:58,196
okay okay but all of them are pretty much immortal like i don't i literally think none of them ever

1162
01:14:58,196 --> 01:15:06,096
really get shot even like they're yeah part of the problem too is sometimes they're up against

1163
01:15:06,096 --> 01:15:11,456
like the like obi-wan and anakin so it's just like a oh isn't this a little fun you know way

1164
01:15:11,456 --> 01:15:15,736
to kill time for a bit because they're you know they're you know they're up against each other

1165
01:15:15,736 --> 01:15:21,856
um but this is back in fairness though there is a sense of danger because this is back in the era

1166
01:15:21,856 --> 01:15:28,136
of like hondo being an actual threat and not a campy fun loud guy and they do so many weird

1167
01:15:28,136 --> 01:15:32,976
things in star wars they they do it's kind of hard to keep up and it's like disney is still

1168
01:15:32,976 --> 01:15:36,436
trying to salvage i i think they might have made their money back at this point

1169
01:15:36,436 --> 01:15:45,516
but it's like it's such a mess like they they have more work to do to explain how the sequels

1170
01:15:45,516 --> 01:15:49,876
are canon right and a lot of the stuff that they've been making lately has been in service

1171
01:15:49,876 --> 01:15:53,816
of exactly that like that's the reason why the mandalorian show and a lot of the other stuff

1172
01:15:53,816 --> 01:15:57,816
that they've made is between the sequels,

1173
01:15:58,316 --> 01:16:00,056
or sorry, the original series

1174
01:16:00,056 --> 01:16:02,016
and the beginning of the sequels.

1175
01:16:02,396 --> 01:16:04,376
Like, they have a lot of explaining to do

1176
01:16:04,376 --> 01:16:05,376
in that part of the timeline

1177
01:16:05,376 --> 01:16:07,396
for the sequels to even remotely make sense.

1178
01:16:07,656 --> 01:16:09,256
And I think they're going to be catching up forever.

1179
01:16:09,956 --> 01:16:11,976
Like, at some point, they need to fork it,

1180
01:16:12,116 --> 01:16:13,916
and they need to come up with some timeline bullshit.

1181
01:16:15,436 --> 01:16:17,496
But the original actors are all dying off,

1182
01:16:17,556 --> 01:16:19,516
and the only one left is Han and Luke, right?

1183
01:16:19,636 --> 01:16:22,316
Like, they can't do another one.

1184
01:16:22,316 --> 01:16:27,596
yeah i don't know if you want to i don't know if you want to use mark hamill anymore either

1185
01:16:27,596 --> 01:16:32,276
no mark hamill is like another man who he's really obnoxious on the internet with his with

1186
01:16:32,276 --> 01:16:38,636
his uh commentary you should retire yeah yes another person another old man who needs to

1187
01:16:38,636 --> 01:16:45,676
fucking retire dude yeah i don't understand it genuinely i don't understand every like everybody's

1188
01:16:45,676 --> 01:16:51,036
idiocy he has a he's famous and has a platform so he's going to use his voice and he opens his

1189
01:16:51,036 --> 01:16:59,176
mouth and nothing intelligent comes out many such cases that would be good episode title many such

1190
01:16:59,176 --> 01:17:06,916
cases i like that yeah so yeah anyways uh we're having a lot of fun here guys yeah so i wanted a

1191
01:17:06,916 --> 01:17:12,776
short episode uh especially uh because it's a holiday uh for victim is uh what's it called uh

1192
01:17:12,776 --> 01:17:18,236
path of exile day right um what is that even like uh why do so many people log in for path of exile

1193
01:17:18,236 --> 01:17:24,396
when new seasons start like what is the significance so i think the best way to explain it is the

1194
01:17:24,396 --> 01:17:30,196
people have to call the arpg genre i'm i'm old i like to call it a dungeon crawler even though

1195
01:17:30,196 --> 01:17:33,816
someone's gonna be like oh but you rarely go through any dungeons i don't give a fucking shit

1196
01:17:33,816 --> 01:17:41,196
all right god damn it okay old man victim here um no but either way but you know the diablo ones

1197
01:17:41,196 --> 01:17:44,236
Diablo 2's Sacred Divinity

1198
01:17:44,236 --> 01:17:46,276
all those old ARPGs

1199
01:17:46,276 --> 01:17:47,416
were beloved

1200
01:17:47,416 --> 01:17:48,256
people loved them

1201
01:17:48,256 --> 01:17:51,296
you don't really get that anymore in the modern day

1202
01:17:51,296 --> 01:17:53,216
and to be fair with the Path of Exile 1 and 2

1203
01:17:53,216 --> 01:17:54,476
aren't quite that

1204
01:17:54,476 --> 01:17:57,096
but they kind of sit in this weird in-between

1205
01:17:57,096 --> 01:17:58,536
where they're not Diablo 3

1206
01:17:58,536 --> 01:17:59,796
they're not Diablo 4

1207
01:17:59,796 --> 01:18:02,136
and they're not like any of the Torchlight

1208
01:18:02,136 --> 01:18:04,456
or not any of the really modern

1209
01:18:04,456 --> 01:18:06,796
ARPGs that are like

1210
01:18:06,796 --> 01:18:08,836
kind of garbage honestly

1211
01:18:08,836 --> 01:18:10,816
I know there's a lot of fans of Torchlight

1212
01:18:10,816 --> 01:18:13,176
but even that was not a great game, honestly.

1213
01:18:13,936 --> 01:18:16,756
I hear Minecraft Dungeons, oddly, is not that bad,

1214
01:18:16,936 --> 01:18:18,456
but I've never played it, so I can't say.

1215
01:18:18,636 --> 01:18:20,376
I have played it. It's okay.

1216
01:18:20,396 --> 01:18:21,956
I played it in the arcade, and it's fine.

1217
01:18:22,356 --> 01:18:34,262
It very clearly there to take your money though Well the console release is not like that There are several differences from the arcade I played both But I not interested in Minecraft Dungeons

1218
01:18:34,342 --> 01:18:36,102
but I hear a second one is coming out soon.

1219
01:18:36,162 --> 01:18:40,982
I might get that because there's this sort of missing out bit

1220
01:18:40,982 --> 01:18:43,402
of not having played at launch because it's one of those games

1221
01:18:43,402 --> 01:18:45,382
that gives you, I guess, kind of like Path of Exile.

1222
01:18:45,502 --> 01:18:49,262
It gives you something to come back for and play.

1223
01:18:49,662 --> 01:18:52,182
And it's just like I missed the boat on Minecraft Dungeons.

1224
01:18:52,402 --> 01:18:54,782
And my kids are interested in Minecraft still,

1225
01:18:54,902 --> 01:18:56,362
so it's like, oh, maybe Minecraft Dungeons 2

1226
01:18:56,362 --> 01:18:57,942
would be something good to get into at day one.

1227
01:18:58,762 --> 01:19:00,542
But Path of Exile, tell me more.

1228
01:19:00,962 --> 01:19:02,582
Yeah, but so by the way,

1229
01:19:02,582 --> 01:19:04,422
it's still in early access.

1230
01:19:04,782 --> 01:19:06,582
This is actually the last early access

1231
01:19:06,582 --> 01:19:08,622
patch before the launch, and they decided

1232
01:19:08,622 --> 01:19:10,142
to just drop a fuckload of shit.

1233
01:19:10,422 --> 01:19:12,442
I'm still quite pissed off with the game because

1234
01:19:12,442 --> 01:19:14,562
there's a lot of optimization and a lot of

1235
01:19:14,562 --> 01:19:16,782
weird bits and bobs

1236
01:19:16,782 --> 01:19:18,642
that have been broken since early

1237
01:19:18,642 --> 01:19:20,602
access launch that they just haven't fixed.

1238
01:19:20,602 --> 01:19:25,842
and like one of our friends is just constantly crashing and apparently there's a new bug this

1239
01:19:25,842 --> 01:19:30,982
patch where if you crash it may just straight up corrupt your game files and you have to reinstall

1240
01:19:30,982 --> 01:19:36,202
that sounds awful it's like there's a lot of hiccups there's a lot of bullshit but i will say

1241
01:19:36,202 --> 01:19:42,102
i grew up being a diablo 1 and diablo 2 fan i really really hated diablo 3 and i actually

1242
01:19:42,102 --> 01:19:47,262
really hated path of exile 1 uh and i put 200 hours into path of exile 1 so i'm allowed to say

1243
01:19:47,262 --> 01:19:48,042
I didn't like it.

1244
01:19:48,662 --> 01:19:51,482
I put one minute into Path of Exile 1

1245
01:19:51,482 --> 01:19:53,122
and I'm going to tell you I didn't like it either.

1246
01:19:53,362 --> 01:19:55,402
Yeah, it's just one of those ones where the complexity

1247
01:19:55,402 --> 01:19:56,822
is fine. In fact,

1248
01:19:56,982 --> 01:19:59,842
I have been making my own builds in Path of Exile 2,

1249
01:19:59,962 --> 01:20:01,522
so if you need an

1250
01:20:01,522 --> 01:20:03,502
example here, that wasn't ever my problem.

1251
01:20:03,862 --> 01:20:05,402
My problem was just that it was a very

1252
01:20:05,402 --> 01:20:07,622
fireworks-y game. A lot of the times

1253
01:20:07,622 --> 01:20:09,482
damage came from fucking nowhere

1254
01:20:09,482 --> 01:20:11,182
in certain boss fight cinemas

1255
01:20:11,182 --> 01:20:13,522
where it became

1256
01:20:13,522 --> 01:20:14,382
more of a

1257
01:20:14,382 --> 01:20:21,002
you need to trial and error this enough times uh you need to read a guide because if you don't you

1258
01:20:21,002 --> 01:20:25,882
just like some things just didn't work together and you would never figure it out unless you trial

1259
01:20:25,882 --> 01:20:30,162
and errored it but then oops your character's borked because it costs a fucking arm and a leg

1260
01:20:30,162 --> 01:20:34,502
to reverse any fucking things you did do it or at least back in the day i know they made it a

1261
01:20:34,502 --> 01:20:39,242
little better later on but but by the result too they did a lot better with that you just need

1262
01:20:39,242 --> 01:20:43,762
fucking gold which is pretty much the only thing you fucking use gold for is respecging

1263
01:20:43,762 --> 01:20:51,582
so it's like really nice it's they fixed a lot of that uh fucking i don't know i could go on for

1264
01:20:51,582 --> 01:20:56,762
a long fucking time probably about like what's bad and what's good but i think realistically

1265
01:20:56,762 --> 01:21:03,142
path of excel 2 i think is just becoming more of a it's more of a deliberate game like i know

1266
01:21:03,142 --> 01:21:07,822
what's attacking me i know what i'm attacking i get it even if sometimes they're they call it

1267
01:21:07,822 --> 01:21:09,822
screen cancer where like certain

1268
01:21:09,822 --> 01:21:11,862
builds just have so much fucking going on you can't see

1269
01:21:11,862 --> 01:21:13,722
what's going on. I like to call it the

1270
01:21:13,722 --> 01:21:15,542
Happy Fun Time Fireworks builds

1271
01:21:15,542 --> 01:21:17,302
where they're meant to

1272
01:21:17,302 --> 01:21:20,102
satisfy kids with ADHD.

1273
01:21:21,882 --> 01:21:23,522
Yeah, I don't know. I guess that's kind of

1274
01:21:23,522 --> 01:21:25,102
where that sits. It's like

1275
01:21:25,102 --> 01:21:27,762
I guess if there's anyone out there that's still

1276
01:21:27,762 --> 01:21:30,062
on the fence, it's a fun game.

1277
01:21:30,462 --> 01:21:31,742
Just be, just honestly

1278
01:21:31,742 --> 01:21:33,782
probably do some research on your machine and what parts

1279
01:21:33,782 --> 01:21:35,882
you got to make sure they don't

1280
01:21:35,882 --> 01:21:37,562
somehow conflict

1281
01:21:37,562 --> 01:21:39,902
like my 9070, my RX

1282
01:21:39,902 --> 01:21:41,942
9070, if you

1283
01:21:41,942 --> 01:21:43,782
run Vulcan, the shaders will corrupt

1284
01:21:43,782 --> 01:21:45,342
themselves and you just can't play the game.

1285
01:21:47,782 --> 01:21:49,762
Which apparently isn't entirely

1286
01:21:49,762 --> 01:21:51,762
the game's fault, but it's just one of those moments where

1287
01:21:51,762 --> 01:21:53,882
if I had done my research, I would have known how to

1288
01:21:53,882 --> 01:21:55,822
fix that ahead of time, which I guess

1289
01:21:55,822 --> 01:21:57,862
is just bumping to DX12.

1290
01:21:58,762 --> 01:21:59,862
But either way, it's

1291
01:21:59,862 --> 01:22:01,822
fun. Yeah, Vic, how could you not know how

1292
01:22:01,822 --> 01:22:04,062
to play your game? This is your fault, actually.

1293
01:22:04,362 --> 01:22:05,602
You know, the curse of PC.

1294
01:22:05,602 --> 01:22:07,822
I know better because there was another game

1295
01:22:07,822 --> 01:22:09,542
that we tried to play recently that had

1296
01:22:09,542 --> 01:22:11,962
an issue with 9070 and Forza 6

1297
01:22:11,962 --> 01:22:13,662
I mentioned earlier

1298
01:22:13,662 --> 01:22:15,742
apparently the issue I'm having is

1299
01:22:15,742 --> 01:22:17,542
also my 9070

1300
01:22:17,542 --> 01:22:19,662
so it's just one of those moments where

1301
01:22:19,662 --> 01:22:21,762
I probably should know better at this point

1302
01:22:21,762 --> 01:22:23,742
that it's such a weirdly cutting edge

1303
01:22:23,742 --> 01:22:25,862
card that these studios just haven't

1304
01:22:25,862 --> 01:22:27,682
caught up with and I should

1305
01:22:27,682 --> 01:22:29,622
probably just do my fucking research first now

1306
01:22:29,622 --> 01:22:31,702
for at least a couple months

1307
01:22:31,702 --> 01:22:32,962
to a year I'd say

1308
01:22:32,962 --> 01:22:37,962
Yeah. Well, you know, my card will be here eventually in my nine. It's my 9070.

1309
01:22:37,962 --> 01:22:54,988
Oh okay Well yeah I guess my my warning is it is a little bit too new infrastructure wise and not a lot of games have fully caught up because it works It works differently than other amd cards right yeah i was gonna say but how how can we be behind like it

1310
01:22:54,988 --> 01:23:00,868
not too new it shouldn't be too new it's not like they've already had the next uh next generation

1311
01:23:00,868 --> 01:23:07,488
haven't they not for amd but i mean for oh like uh because they am like this was uh

1312
01:23:07,488 --> 01:23:10,348
competition with the 40 series, right?

1313
01:23:10,948 --> 01:23:11,788
Well, I mean, who knows?

1314
01:23:11,888 --> 01:23:12,768
Like, I know today,

1315
01:23:13,068 --> 01:23:14,348
NVIDIA, Microsoft,

1316
01:23:14,608 --> 01:23:16,188
and a couple other accounts associated

1317
01:23:16,188 --> 01:23:18,228
have posted cryptic messages

1318
01:23:18,228 --> 01:23:21,408
about some new age PC announcement soon.

1319
01:23:21,908 --> 01:23:22,748
And it's probably going to be

1320
01:23:22,748 --> 01:23:24,228
some obnoxious, like,

1321
01:23:24,288 --> 01:23:26,088
I can't believe it's a real PC,

1322
01:23:26,288 --> 01:23:27,268
like lightweight bullshit

1323
01:23:27,268 --> 01:23:28,848
that with the internet connection

1324
01:23:28,848 --> 01:23:30,868
connects you to a powerful AI cluster.

1325
01:23:31,508 --> 01:23:32,468
I suspect.

1326
01:23:33,108 --> 01:23:35,088
NVIDIA just partnered with a company

1327
01:23:35,088 --> 01:23:37,128
to put fucking data centers

1328
01:23:37,128 --> 01:23:41,668
outside people's homes little mini data centers oh yeah they look like uh little fans kind of like

1329
01:23:41,668 --> 01:23:46,608
on my the heat split that i have at my house i saw that that's an interesting concept if it's true

1330
01:23:46,608 --> 01:23:51,148
if it's everything they said is true it's actually kind of interesting because apparently they're

1331
01:23:51,148 --> 01:23:57,528
going to pay you and all they're using is your extra electricity i assume only obviously this

1332
01:23:57,528 --> 01:24:05,888
fucking uh honey but uh microsoft i know yeah nvidia honey right there dude oh yeah i just

1333
01:24:05,888 --> 01:24:08,528
I understand the power draw concept.

1334
01:24:08,708 --> 01:24:10,088
I understand why they would want to do that.

1335
01:24:10,408 --> 01:24:12,128
But how are they networking them together?

1336
01:24:12,348 --> 01:24:16,388
If they're using RDMA, they would have to be connected with some pretty fast fucking internet cables.

1337
01:24:16,608 --> 01:24:17,488
Yeah, I don't trust this.

1338
01:24:17,988 --> 01:24:20,768
Also, I don't want them to have a direct line to my goddamn house.

1339
01:24:21,488 --> 01:24:24,168
I know they already technically do, but you know what I mean.

1340
01:24:24,868 --> 01:24:26,288
It's a little far-fetched.

1341
01:24:26,428 --> 01:24:31,348
I could see it working if certain things were true, but I don't know enough about how they're doing it.

1342
01:24:31,588 --> 01:24:32,788
It could be done, is what I'm saying.

1343
01:24:32,888 --> 01:24:34,128
It sounds a little crazy.

1344
01:24:34,128 --> 01:24:41,588
yeah you know an open what is it an open mind is like a gate with its uh or fortress with its

1345
01:24:41,588 --> 01:24:46,548
gates unbarred and it's uh i forget what the quote is damn it the librarian from uh dawn of war

1346
01:24:46,548 --> 01:24:52,908
open mind is like a fortress with with its doors unbarred and its gates open or something like that

1347
01:24:52,908 --> 01:24:58,368
it's something great but yes also i like the it's that same principle though right like you know

1348
01:24:58,368 --> 01:25:04,048
if i've got like i don't mind again like it goes back from back to the thing it it makes sense

1349
01:25:04,048 --> 01:25:06,208
if you have the stuff for it and all that,

1350
01:25:06,268 --> 01:25:08,568
but it just feels not good

1351
01:25:08,568 --> 01:25:11,188
to have somebody be like,

1352
01:25:11,428 --> 01:25:12,428
oh yeah, you know what?

1353
01:25:12,488 --> 01:25:14,168
I'm not using my computer right now.

1354
01:25:14,628 --> 01:25:17,028
Why don't you, company that I totally trust,

1355
01:25:18,128 --> 01:25:21,428
utilize my computer while I'm at work or something?

1356
01:25:21,908 --> 01:25:24,368
Back in my day, we called that folding at home.

1357
01:25:26,108 --> 01:25:28,208
And it was for cancer research.

1358
01:25:29,028 --> 01:25:32,888
Or searching for fucking new stars or some shit.

1359
01:25:32,888 --> 01:25:37,608
and now it's to power you know people's ai girlfriends or whatever the fuck right oh well

1360
01:25:37,608 --> 01:25:42,588
yeah that's because that's what it's going to be for it's going to be for basically their ai needs

1361
01:25:42,588 --> 01:25:47,528
yeah and you know everybody totally just uses ai for normal research methods

1362
01:25:47,528 --> 01:25:55,868
there isn't a growing uh growing uh catalog of people utilizing ai for literally uh everything

1363
01:25:55,868 --> 01:26:02,148
else the most ethical way to consume porn yeah i will say though if it if it ends up not being

1364
01:26:02,148 --> 01:26:06,908
too much of a hitch because realistically let's be real how are they gauging what's my extra

1365
01:26:06,908 --> 01:26:12,168
electricity that that scares me out a little bit and also there's the issue of is it gonna

1366
01:26:12,168 --> 01:26:18,608
actually work for them are they gonna go back on it in a month also the idea is that they will pay

1367
01:26:18,608 --> 01:26:23,988
you money to have it like you it costs you nothing to own i mean so long as the additional power draw

1368
01:26:23,988 --> 01:26:29,128
i know it says extra but like yeah i'm assuming there'll be some additional power draw on your

1369
01:26:29,128 --> 01:26:33,788
power bill and yeah so you probably pay for it a little bit in your power bill but then apparently

1370
01:26:33,788 --> 01:26:40,208
uh i again i have no idea how true any of this is the chart that was provided was like them giving

1371
01:26:40,208 --> 01:26:44,368
like 22 000 to to the household over the over like i think it was a year

1372
01:26:44,368 --> 01:26:52,968
22 000 okay well you know what i'm all all on board now yeah i might have the number a little

1373
01:26:52,968 --> 01:26:59,108
wrong but the idea was that it more than offset the extra cost me well 2200 would be offsetting

1374
01:26:59,108 --> 01:27:04,148
the cost 22 000 would be enough money that you can no longer be on food stamps if you're

1375
01:27:04,148 --> 01:27:17,934
in a yeah i was about to say to be fair that that does sound like a bit of a ridiculous number move over andrew yang here comes nvidia with ubi i mean basically that would be hilarious it just a little tick for tack but

1376
01:27:17,934 --> 01:27:23,534
like that's a life-changing amount of money for nothing but either way though the point though

1377
01:27:23,534 --> 01:27:31,014
is it's just like it sounds really too good to be true it does and i bet you it's also something

1378
01:27:31,014 --> 01:27:34,854
that i didn't see them talking about it's probably only available to certain communities

1379
01:27:34,854 --> 01:27:36,434
probably more than likely

1380
01:27:36,434 --> 01:27:38,534
the tech giant cities.

1381
01:27:38,734 --> 01:27:41,134
Like you're probably not gonna go get this out

1382
01:27:41,134 --> 01:27:43,094
and fucking somewhere in the middle of Alabama.

1383
01:27:43,774 --> 01:27:45,494
Yeah, no, city of industry, California.

1384
01:27:46,094 --> 01:27:46,754
Shit like that.

1385
01:27:46,874 --> 01:27:48,374
Actually, actually.

1386
01:27:48,974 --> 01:27:51,274
Or Washington or Seattle.

1387
01:27:51,434 --> 01:27:51,814
Well, no.

1388
01:27:52,654 --> 01:27:55,254
They're building data centers in bumfuck nowhere.

1389
01:27:55,494 --> 01:27:56,694
As long as you're close to one,

1390
01:27:56,874 --> 01:27:57,734
that's probably a qualifier.

1391
01:27:57,734 --> 01:27:58,634
Oh, you know what?

1392
01:27:58,714 --> 01:27:59,434
That's a good point.

1393
01:27:59,514 --> 01:28:00,134
That is a good point.

1394
01:28:00,394 --> 01:28:01,074
But either, well, okay,

1395
01:28:01,134 --> 01:28:02,554
that's the issue there.

1396
01:28:02,654 --> 01:28:04,574
You have to be close to one of these data centers probably.

1397
01:28:04,854 --> 01:28:10,414
Yeah, I was going to say, no, energy costs are too damn high in our state for them to be doing it here.

1398
01:28:10,614 --> 01:28:12,394
Dude, I'm so glad I got solar panels when I did.

1399
01:28:12,674 --> 01:28:13,054
Goddamn.

1400
01:28:13,334 --> 01:28:15,134
My power bill last month was $30.

1401
01:28:16,034 --> 01:28:17,414
The month before that, $200.

1402
01:28:17,834 --> 01:28:18,934
Before that, it was $400.

1403
01:28:19,954 --> 01:28:20,314
Yeah, dude.

1404
01:28:20,994 --> 01:28:23,314
Yeah, no, the energy companies are...

1405
01:28:24,034 --> 01:28:25,474
Next month, it'll be zero.

1406
01:28:25,974 --> 01:28:29,234
Yeah, I was going to say, so listeners, so you understand what's happening in our community,

1407
01:28:29,234 --> 01:28:35,914
is uh well the statewide community not just the community that like the neighborhood or whatever

1408
01:28:35,914 --> 01:28:42,354
they um the the powers that be the private company that owns all of our power infrastructure

1409
01:28:42,354 --> 01:28:47,494
uh has decided that they're going all green this was the year that they're doing it however

1410
01:28:47,494 --> 01:28:54,114
in this magic thing of going green they don't have the infrastructure to support it so in the rule of

1411
01:28:54,114 --> 01:29:00,434
supply and demand uh supply has hit the floor demand is unchanged yeah therefore everyone is

1412
01:29:00,434 --> 01:29:07,194
paying extra several hundred on their power bill yeah yeah it's an incredibly stupid plan i was sold

1413
01:29:07,194 --> 01:29:12,534
solar panels by a traveling salesman who said hey the the private company that that uh has a monopoly

1414
01:29:12,534 --> 01:29:16,614
on power in this area is going to go green and it's going to fuck everyone over you should get

1415
01:29:16,614 --> 01:29:20,634
a solar panel also there's a tax break that you could take advantage of that makes it almost free

1416
01:29:20,634 --> 01:29:22,634
And I was like, that's a great idea.

1417
01:29:22,754 --> 01:29:23,614
And then I did it.

1418
01:29:23,714 --> 01:29:25,674
And then I got a $20,000 tax return.

1419
01:29:25,674 --> 01:29:30,334
And then I only spent like 4,000 of it on the solar panels and, and pocketed the rest.

1420
01:29:30,334 --> 01:29:35,394
And then I had to pay it off later with money I didn't want to spend, but they're paid off.

1421
01:29:35,394 --> 01:29:36,214
And yeah.

1422
01:29:36,794 --> 01:29:42,394
And from now until probably February, my power bill will be zero because the days are longer

1423
01:29:42,394 --> 01:29:43,414
in the Northern hemisphere.

1424
01:29:43,654 --> 01:29:48,274
As we go into summer sunsets at 10 PM, I'm generating power.

1425
01:29:48,554 --> 01:29:49,794
Fuck everybody else.

1426
01:29:49,794 --> 01:29:57,494
sorry rick i live in an apartment well i guess yeah the cost is distributed but yeah well also

1427
01:29:57,494 --> 01:30:03,994
more specifically like i would argue they should invest in solar yeah but you know what do i know

1428
01:30:03,994 --> 01:30:09,234
the the residents are going to be on the roof it doesn't need to look nice well also solar panels

1429
01:30:09,234 --> 01:30:13,534
don't look like shit or anything like they get the nice all-weather covering right like the black

1430
01:30:13,534 --> 01:30:19,954
the black covering looks fine and then you can put them on every building and you can generate

1431
01:30:19,954 --> 01:30:24,994
enough credits with the power company that you can just offer free electricity to all your residents

1432
01:30:24,994 --> 01:30:30,494
and you can mark it up on their rent as an amenity yep absolutely which is what they would do which

1433
01:30:30,494 --> 01:30:35,294
is kind of greedy but it is they would make more money out of it but i don't particularly care you

1434
01:30:35,294 --> 01:30:39,314
wouldn't have a power bill you'd probably save money yeah i was gonna say if they make a little

1435
01:30:39,314 --> 01:30:41,334
bit more money and you only spend

1436
01:30:41,334 --> 01:30:42,654
and you're

1437
01:30:42,654 --> 01:30:44,434
at the end of the day net

1438
01:30:44,434 --> 01:30:47,434
like comparison you're paying less

1439
01:30:47,434 --> 01:30:49,054
money and why the fuck not

1440
01:30:49,054 --> 01:30:51,214
I mean everyone wins

1441
01:30:51,214 --> 01:30:53,314
technically well but that would

1442
01:30:53,314 --> 01:30:55,334
be too easy it would be all

1443
01:30:55,334 --> 01:30:55,934
too easy

1444
01:30:55,934 --> 01:30:59,354
so I promised it'd be a short episode and I

1445
01:30:59,354 --> 01:31:01,234
want Vic to get back to his religious holiday

1446
01:31:01,234 --> 01:31:01,754
of

1447
01:31:01,754 --> 01:31:05,374
Path of Exile Day so I think

1448
01:31:05,374 --> 01:31:07,174
I'm just gonna end it there hoping and praying

1449
01:31:07,174 --> 01:31:08,134
the game doesn't crash

1450
01:31:08,134 --> 01:31:13,974
hoping and praying so uh that being said if you'd like to send us a boostagram i did check they

1451
01:31:13,974 --> 01:31:18,714
weren't any to read check us out on fountain fm uh that is my podcasting app of choice and it's got

1452
01:31:18,714 --> 01:31:22,994
this wonderful feature called boostagrams but that's actually part of the podcasting 2.0

1453
01:31:22,994 --> 01:31:26,994
initiative there's plenty of podcast apps that will actually do that feature if you're interested

1454
01:31:26,994 --> 01:31:31,374
so uh check it out uh otherwise that's all folks have a rest of your day