Fable, an AI startup, has created the
showrunner service, which has been
described as Netflix
for AI, allowing users to effectively
generate AI TV shows
based on some set parameters.
Yeah, they're just like
Rick and Morty rip offs.
Morty, the AI is coming.
It's coming for you, Morty.
Oh, that's good.
It's pretty much what they, I watched a
couple of clips and I
was like, like, it all just
looks like other stuff.
That's, that's basically Donald Trump
right there in the front row too.
I saw a clip from that show and it was
just Trump and the Elons in it too.
Oh my God.
In the Zuck.
Yeah.
Is that supposed to be Elon there on the
second from the left?
That's Elon.
And then Zucks in the middle.
I thought his left was on
the left there, the far left.
Oh, yeah, right.
You got me.
Welcome to Off the
Console, the hottest new podcast.
That's all about gaming,
tech news and anything nerdy.
This week we're covering the biggest
news, including children
being, I guess, made safe,
but you know, we'll see what happens
there if they're truly
safe or just being overly
protected.
Then we also have additional information
on the payment
processor bans going on and so
much more.
I think there's even one
that I want to talk about.
We have an editor yet, which is a Gabriel
buying a yacht company.
That one's an interesting other yacht.
A yacht company.
Jot company.
So, oh, got to talk about gaben.
So with that being said, I'm here with my
co-host Gardner and high
tech and also a special
guest, Jimmy.
Do you guys want to say hi?
Hey, guys.
Hey, what's up?
Hello.
Glad to be here.
Yes.
Thanks for coming and talking with us
about all the fun tech stuff that we do.
Tech and games.
So, like every episode, we'd like to
start off with a little
bit of banter about what
we're doing or what we did the last week
or what we've played.
So since you're the guest, Jimmy, would
you like to just would
you like to just what
have you been up to
playing whatever it is?
It doesn't have to be.
Oh, OK.
Too crazy.
Well, I've been I've been working a lot.
I've been making videos.
But yeah, I've been playing a lot of this
racing sim called
Automobileista 2 on my wheel
and they just added
new DLC with new track.
So I've been playing that.
And then every night
forever I play Hunt Showdown.
So I'm trying to get my
key up above one point.
It's a very difficult game.
It's I'm at like point nine
and I started at like point six.
So I've been creeping my way up and still
making my way through Elden Ring.
So I just bounced between stuff a lot.
And then yeah, just making videos.
I'm running like four channels right now.
So I do two videos a day on PS.
Well one video a day on
PS Ready and Deck Ready.
Then at the end of the week
I do my two horror channels.
So just burning at both ends over here.
Nice.
Well, we usually do
maybe towards the end.
But you want to shout out those channels?
The one favorite for that.
And it's fine.
I'm curious now.
You got your background has got me really
curious on those videos.
Yeah.
So I actually started
YouTube as a like horror YouTube.
I had a channel where I was like
reviewing horror movies
and then I did a news video
on when they revealed the
mask for Halloween 2018.
That like took off.
So then I just kept doing it.
So then I did a channel about the
Halloween franchise and
then did PS Ready then Deck
Ready and then I started a deeper dive
horror movie channel called Real Ones.
So yeah, but I started
talking about Halloween.
I do like a weekly episode where I'd
cover all the Halloween news.
So I do want to say Jimmy
has a pretty sweet last name.
Like that's actually
your last name, right?
Yeah.
A lot of people don't know that and they
think it's like a stage name.
It's not.
It's my real name.
There's no G in it.
Jimmy Champagne sounds like a crazy name.
I would have thought it was a stage name.
It totally sounds like one.
I get it.
My brother is Edward
Champagne and people believe that one.
Like Edward.
No one.
No one would make a stage name.
Edward.
You looked out like Jimmy.
Yeah.
Jimmy Champagne.
Great.
Your Destiny for greatness.
Mr. Champagne.
Yes.
We'll see about that.
I'm a big fan of horror by the way.
So cool.
And especially horror games.
Yeah, me too.
I do like I do like good horror.
We should have Jimmy back
on for a Halloween special.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
100 percent.
OK.
Gardner, what have you been up to?
Dude, I've been playing with this.
Well, the start 64.
Oh my God.
What is that?
Like it's a I can't get it in the center
for some reason
because it's backwards on my
screen.
It looks like a flash.
Yeah.
It's a flash cart.
It's open.
So cool, dude.
And it's it's really neat.
I really love it.
And I have this shitty light because I
don't have light on my desk right now.
But yeah, no, dude,
this thing is really sick.
And I've been playing Smash Remix.
Guys, if you haven't tried it, Smash
Remix is basically if
you take Smash 64 and turn
it into melee, it's freaking awesome.
That is pretty cool.
And it has a ton of extra characters.
I'm Scott ton of extra characters, new
stages, all kinds of stuff.
It's really great.
I'll have to try it out sometime.
So you just shove that
thing in an N64 or it goes.
Yeah, like it's literally
that's what it looks like.
Literally an N64 cartridge.
I can get back on.
So does that have like a SD slot?
Yeah.
Right on the side there.
Oh, yeah.
And it's almost like
my mom to get my huh.
You like you should be able to load up
multiple Rob's, right?
Oh, yeah.
There's a 32 gigabyte
drive in SD card in here.
My fat fingers literally it's impossible
to get them in here.
But like Emily can like my girlfriend can
just pop it out and I
have to get her to do
it for me.
But yeah, I know it's
really, really cool.
And like I said, it's open source.
So like you can I could flash this with
different firmware and do
different stuff with it.
It's pretty nice.
Interesting.
That's interesting.
I do need to get an N64 and do that
because I do like doing
those like especially going
back in time and doing
some of the old mods.
Oh, yeah.
Systems.
It's like this is I mean, if the if the
ROM that you have is
compatible with the hardware,
then it'll work on this.
It's pretty nice.
And I only paid like
$45 or something for this.
So that's cheap.
Yeah, that's nice.
That's awesome.
Hi, Tech.
What have you been up to?
As you know, ready for a big trip.
I am not getting ready for the big trip.
I am.
I've started my big trip.
I am stuck in an
airport in Houston for now.
I'm supposed to be
boarding in about an hour.
So there's a good chance I won't be
staying for much longer.
As for playing video games, you know, the
new Shinobi Art of
Vengeance just got a demo
release the other day.
So I've been playing
that and it's it's it's it.
I'm curious what do you got
geared up on your steam deck?
Are you taking your steam deck?
What are you playing on this trip?
Well, I have a bunch of games that I
loaded up and one of them
happens to be Super Mario
Wonder.
And so I'm heading to Kyoto.
So what I'm thinking about doing is
taking my steam deck to
Nintendo HQ and you know,
oh yeah.
Show it off.
Oh yeah.
Show it off in front of Nintendo HQ.
Taking that photo up.
That is the plan though.
But I don't actually know if that'll
shake out as much as I'd like to do that.
You'll get arrested if you do that.
Yeah, we might be we might
be looking for a third host.
They're going to turn
on that giant Gundam.
Oh yeah.
We will.
We'll be in the counter
region of Japan as well.
I'll tell you all about it when I've
actually finished the trip.
Oh, it's time to go on the plane.
I'll see you guys later.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Thanks for joining us, man.
OK.
So what I have been doing is being
jealous about high tech going to Japan.
It's been a long time
since I've been to Japan.
So it'd be it would be nice to go back
and get some Gundam curry.
So it's just gimmicky.
Like you go to like a
lot of places in Japan.
It's like gimmicky stuff you can buy that
looks like stuff from
animes or whatever it
is.
So fun stuff.
What I have been playing, I've been
playing a couple of things.
I've been playing a lot more games
lately, actually, which has been nice.
But abiotic factor has been one that's
been very interesting
for me because it's very
half life coded and
I'm a huge half life fan.
And so Gardner, you might
actually like this game.
Abiotic factor.
Yeah.
You might want to check that out.
Like they took heavy inspiration from
half life and even the
graphics and like you're
a scientist and you're supposed to be
it's like melding of a
bunch of different games,
it feels like, but like at its core,
graphically and inspiration
wise, it's definitely like.
Half life based, but then it has crafting
added into it and some other stuff.
So not sure if you're like big into
crafting Gardner, but it
has a lot of new stuff added
to it to into like an half life kind of
esque world to really
make it interesting.
Oh, it just came out.
It came out like a week or two ago and
really good reviews.
It is I think it's
four players, six player.
I can't remember co-op.
So definitely one that I'm probably going
to be playing with my
server, but one I've
been playing with people from my channel,
like server wise, is
been peak, which is another
really fun game where you
have to climb up a mountain.
It's essentially just a rock climbing
simulator, but in the
goofiest way possible.
So it's it's really fun, especially when
you play with other
people because they have to
they can help you up or you can watch
them just fall down as
they get to the almost to
the top.
They'll fall all the way down.
You got to laugh
because everyone does it.
Everyone falls eventually.
So that has been what I'm up to.
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Now with that being said, let's let's
continue on with our first topic.
Killing the Internet for the sake of
children, which is a very
this has been a developing
story over the past what week?
Yeah, couple weeks that I know of.
Yeah.
So just to give some context, the UK
recently passed a law that
effectively forces online
platforms to block access to.
Sorry, I'm going to cut off for a second.
I need to share my screen.
Let's see here.
OK.
So I'll just start it over.
The UK recently passed a law that
effectively forces online
platforms to block access to
content that may be harmful to children,
where children are
likely to access it with
companies being fined 18 pounds.
Is that pounds or is it only 18 million?
Oh, 18 million or 10 percent of their
annual turnover, whichever highest.
It's also it also allows the UK's Office
of Communications to explicitly block any
website they want.
The US is reintroducing a similar law
called the Kids Online Safety Act.
One common theme is the idea that they
need to protect children
by forcing adults to submit
verification to these companies.
This is this also affects gaming.
Xbox in particular already has a blog
statement about what this
means for gamers in the UK.
Players who claim to be over 18 will get
consistent, constant
nagging notifications
asking them to verify also all social
features on Xbox Live
will be limited to those who
actually verify their
age starting next year.
If you do not comply by then, then you'll
be limited to friend
only interactions on Xbox.
Spotify has also implemented age checks
for content marked at 18 plus.
YouTube has also joined in this bandwagon
to and will implement
this starting August 13th in
the US as well.
So is YouTube dead?
Is the Internet dead?
Is the question asked by I'm assuming
high tech because you wrote the notes.
So is the Internet dead?
No, I think the Internet will adapt and I
think that there will be
VPNs and other technical
measures to get around these kind of
checks, at least for the time being.
Yeah.
I saw that the UK was saying that they
might ban VPNs and I
was like, like, good luck.
I don't know.
Like, it seems a
little crazy if you ask me.
Like, I would probably stop using my Xbox
if I had to keep
uploading a picture to it.
I saw people were getting past it with
the death stranding photo mode.
They were like using Norman Reedus's face
in the Discord picture scanner.
And then it would be like, oh, make open
your mouth for the next picture and you
can make him do that.
So that was working.
And then I saw people were using the F.
God's name, the old guy from Half Life 2.
I guess in Gary's mod, you can make him
do different faces and
that was working as well.
So it doesn't seem like the most advanced
photo scan tech out there.
Yeah, I mean, if so, the burden shouldn't
be on private companies.
Right.
Because if the UK wants to do this, then
the UK needs to come up with the
technology that is like the baseline and
then everyone else has to just ping
against the UK's tech.
Because if you make it so that private
companies have to do this, every single
company is going to have to come up with
their own answer or they're going to have
to use a third party.
And like, it's just, you know, none of
the implementations are going to be any
reliable in any way, I think.
So I don't know, it just feels crazy to
be implementing things the way that it's
been working right now.
Like you were saying to me, it's like,
how can you expect to...
This is literally everyone in the entire
world versus these three companies or
whoever is implementing this stuff.
And it's like, you don't think that
there's going to be clever people out
there who are going to be able to get
around this stuff really quickly.
How are the bots going to do it?
To log into Twitter, you know, like
there's going to be so many unforeseen
that get this like in the news repeatedly
over and over again for
the next however many years.
But this is just stupid.
Yeah.
I mean, when I was in high school, they
had like the or even in middle school,
they had like the little watchdog.
I don't know if I can't remember what it
was called, but it was like, you know, it
would you couldn't go
to certain websites.
And very quickly I figured
out a way to get around it.
And then I told my friends and then all
of my friends were like, oh, yeah,
Gardner told us how to
do it when we got caught.
And so and so I don't know, but it's like
very simple, like to get
around a lot of these things.
And it's there's going to be monetary
incentive to like have an
A.I. that you can install.
And then it can generate reliable video
feeds that can bypass.
Oh, yeah. I didn't even think of that.
That's like this is so
easy to get around right now.
Like you can just use mid journey and
like, yeah, generate a
quick video, some check.
This is this is the point is
to make our kids smarter. Yeah.
It's yeah.
I mean, to figure out how to tinker with
stuff to get around things.
I mean, right. I just see this as a way
to make kids smarter.
But in all reality, like it
will stop some, but not all.
Most probably.
I am curious, though, like I do think
having some safety for
kids online is important.
I just don't know what would be the right
route to go about implementing this.
I think they're definitely going very.
Hard in the paint online.
One option that just makes it more
difficult, I feel like, for
people that would
consume the content typically.
I mean, I don't know if you guys have
like thought about this much, but like,
what would they be able to do to actually
implement a system
that would protect kids?
Or what should they?
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, I've thought of my pets illegal
until they're like five.
I've thought about this to some degree.
And like there there isn't I don't think
that there's like a layer
seven way of doing this.
Right. Like, you know, the OSI model of
the Internet layer seven
is like the HTTP protocol.
Is that right?
Yeah, I think that the app, whatever.
I don't think that there's a way that
that the current Internet
can reliably be used to like
filter out children in situations where
they shouldn't be
access accessing content.
Right. Like, I think that there needs to
like if they if they're
actually intent on doing this,
there needs to be a distributed and like
revamped HTTP or whole
like OSI stack in order to
accommodate something like this, because
I don't know, I feel like
if you're going to use the
Internet and they want this to work, then
then you would have to like
have an individual license
for every individual. Right. Like and and
it would have to be
authenticated at a lower layer rather
than at the application layer, maybe at
the HTTP layer, who knows.
But it would have to be embedded
in the Internet. It can't be tacked on.
And you would. And the
way I would do it, honestly,
is you would go to your town office or
your city hall and you
would get a license to use the
Internet and it's tied to your real
identity. And you wouldn't
actually send your credentials
through the Internet to whatever services
you're using. You would send
them to you would send like
a hash that can just be validated against
like a government
organization that would be in charge
of doing the licensing. Dude, if they
made people get a license to use the
Internet, can you imagine
how much like better the Internet would
get overnight if you had to
pass like a basic literacy
test to tell me about it? Right. Like
like and here's what the
here's what the licensing would
would require. You have to know how to
use a password manager.
Right. You have to know how
to do like secure things. And people
scoff at this idea. Right. I've thought
about this for a while,
actually, just having a license to use
the Internet. But it's
like what's more dangerous,
like driving a car or having your banking
and personal information
leaked online? Like I think
they're almost equally dangerous in
different ways. And it's
like, you should have to prove
that you know what the hell you're doing
on the Internet and that
you're a real person. And then
I don't know, there could be ways of
like, authenticating like
bots to act on your behalf
or whatever. But then it would be tied to
an individual license
that could be revoked. And
like, oh, you're spamming people get the
fuck off the Internet. You're done.
Sorry, you don't get to
come back for 10 years if you're spamming
people in an awful way. I
don't know. I think that there's
value in that. But also I can see why
that would be terrifying as well. So
yeah, I'm not advocating
for it necessarily. It's an interesting
option. I definitely think
to at least have access to
certain parts of the Internet would be
nice to have it licensed.
Like with with guns, I think
gun ownership should come with a license
like with training. Like you should be
able to at least know
what you should do with and what your
your rights are. I think
similar with the Internet. But
I and I say this more for like, let's say
games. And we've talked
about this before where
I would be fine submitting my ID to a
universal system that's like
government based to allow me
to get into lobbies and play games with
people that are just not
assholes. Oh, my God. I have to
really show that they were who they are.
Like in Hunt Showdown, man,
I want to be in lobbies where
people don't use Prox Chat like that
would be so great. And it would be nice
if they could use it
to actually make the servers like region
locked because they're not
at all in these games. It's
annoying. Do you solo hunt showdown or do
you have a group you
play with? I do play solo a
little bit, but I usually like if I'm my
buddies aren't on, I'll
like cue into like a like Trios
lobby. And then I have like one guy I
play with a lot and they have
duos mode. So we usually just
play duos. Yeah, because it's it's you
can do by yourself duos or a
three person team, right? Yeah.
Yeah. So there's another mode called
bounty clash, which is like one area from
the map. And then the
boss is already dead. And it's 10 minutes
that you can't solo queue
in because it's like not the
lobbies are totally open. So like you
could be put up against a
three stack. And so it's like
lopsided. But you can set yourself as a
solo and get a perk that
lets you revive and stuff for
the regular mode and everything. But
yeah, it's like absolutely brutal. And
then when some guy's
yelling at you in like Chinese, it just
makes it 10 times worse. Yeah, it's
definitely not like some
people have a lot of fun. Just rage
raging at other people or rage baiting.
Yeah. In games, I do
not know. I'm there just to have a fun. I
played siege for like six
months during COVID with my
buddy. And that game just brings brings
it out to you, man. If you've never
played it, it is the
most toxic game I've ever played. Like
it's just adrenaline. It's I stopped
playing it because I
was like having heart palpitations. I was
like, this is too much
siege. That sounds so familiar.
Oh, Rainbow Six Siege. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Yeah.
Yeah, I heard an interesting term for the
first time this week. Friend slop.
Oh, yeah. That's I let that's why I
laughed when he brought
up. He was playing peak.
I that's what I call my buddies love
those kind of games.
Yeah. Like the five dollar
AC or like not really asynchronous, but
like five dollar co-op game
where it's got Prox chat and
then the A.I. monster that just kills you
one hit. They're called
like friend slop on Twitter.
I thought that was funny. But yeah, peak
is peak is a good one. I like peak.
I haven't played it. I don't
think I've even heard of peak.
Yeah, it's it's one that came out in the
past week or two to.
Oh, really? Dude, I'm so disconnected. I
think of myself as a
gamer, but I'm literally just
playing like retro shit like I don't I
don't play still a
gamer. You're still a gamer.
Well, just like when I was younger, when
I thought about like a
gamer, it's like, oh,
I watch E3 and I got, you know, all that.
Yeah. And I'm like
connected. I know what's
going on in the gaming industry. And like
now I'm like, dude, just
give me summer car 64 or like
I have a I have a game boy advance flash
cart that I have in my game
boy player on my game cube.
And it's like. It's like, that's my shit.
Like I want to play that.
I don't want to play modern
games. I find modern games boring. Well,
you might like abiotic
factor because it is definitely
reminiscent of like multiple genres and
the eras of gaming. Yeah,
no, I looked it up. It looks
really, really cool. I'm definitely going
to check that out. Yeah,
like it's it's it's I have I
stream every week on my games reveal
channel just to chat with everyone on
there. And they're the
ones that tell me about all the stuff and
then they want to play
in the server games. And I
usually like to jump in and play stuff
with them every once in a
while. So that's how I keep
informed that and we do our streams here
to where we watch news. So
plus kids, my kids would like
love peak. So I don't have a choice. I
get to learn about all the
stuff. All the kids in my life,
like my nephew, my niece, my nieces and
my friends, kids are like,
they're like, dude, oh, man,
among us. And like all these like, I
think among us probably counts as
friends, but like they just
want to play all these games. And I'm
like, and they want to play
with me. And I'm like, I have
to work for a living. I don't have time
to play video games like
that. Yeah, my my little cousins
play the college football game. They're
really into that. Oh,
nice. Dude, I think I think
football video games peaked at Madden
2003. That's where it
peaked. Probably. I mean,
I haven't bought one in so long. I bought
the new F1 and it's fine.
It's like I just think I
haven't played enough one game since
probably like twenty two or twenty three.
And then I gave it a
few years and I was like, it's the same
game every time they got me again. Same
time. So like sports
games, I kind of went through my phase
with sports games and I'm just kind of
over it. Yeah. I played
those back 15, 10, 15 years ago. They
haven't improved. So kind
of done even Counter-Strike.
I'm kind of over with like eSports. Yeah,
it's been probably 10
years since I've touched
Counter-Strike, besides like when they
released Counter-Strike 2
and I kind of played it for
like five minutes to see what was
different. Not a whole lot surprisingly.
Like it's still fun,
but it was just I was a little
disappointed how similar it still was. I
was interested about the
in Counter-Strike 2's like graphical
upgrades and some of the more
technical details. But beyond
that, I just the only thing that really
got my attention was the
volumetric smoke stuff. And even
like me.
Pretty cool. But yeah, it's I'm not
playing games. I mean, I'll play like
single player games for the
technical side of stuff, but I'm not
going to keep on playing online games
weirdly enough. And this
probably shows how brainbroken I am
sometimes, but I do like I
still do like what it's called
um League of Legends.
I has a really bad like rap. I haven't
played in a while, but
like that's one that if I get
a group of friends together, that's one
I'll play. But that one's if
you don't have a group, it is
it's probably some of the worst people.
Yeah, I played that in college and my
friends were part of
the worst people category
in that game. I'm looking at what I
played recently. A
multiplayer wise Elden Ring Night
Rain. I forgot I didn't mention that
earlier, but I have like a
hundred hours in that now.
And I just want more content. I've done
everything. So that game's good.
Nice. Yeah, so damn, I have to try that
out. I'm not usually the
biggest Elden Ring fan,
but it's still fun. To kind of bring this
back though, like with kids,
we can move on to the next topic, but
soon, but I just really
curious how UK is going to pass the
like actually going to make this work.
And I just don't think it's
going to be very successful.
So are they going to just get more
intense with their law? Like I'm fine
with them trying to put
laws in. It's when they try to enforce it
in ways that are like,
okay, you going to throw
the kid in jail or the parents in jail
because they went on to
YouTube or watch a YouTube video.
That's not appropriate. Like, like, I
feel like I grew up just
fine and I watched somewhat
inappropriate stuff when I was in my
teens. So yeah, they, they
have all sorts of laws over there
about like what you can tweet and what
you can post and they will
throw you in jail for it. And
I saw there was a big controversy because
they flagged like some US
citizens tweets and tried to
extradite them to try to like put them in
court for tweets. And
it became a big thing,
which they like opened up a lawsuit from
them for them from the US government. So
like, yeah, I'd like to see them try to
enforce that overseas. But
I think it's going to come
here because I saw Spotify this week was
implementing the same thing in the United
States. I'm pretty sure. And I use Apple
music, but like, if I
have to scan my face
to use Apple music, like I'm just like at
that point, I'm going to
be like Kojima and buy the
new Walkman and just download my music.
It's not like worth it.
Yeah. Or you could be like
gardener and get a zoom. Oh, you have a
zoom. Which one? Oh, that's
awesome. Dude, this is the
original 30 model. And that's sick. I use
it all the time. Did you
have to replace the battery or
anything? Not yet. Oh, that's cool. I
want to. And I want to get
like a like a SSD drive in it
because it's still spinning drive. But
yeah, I have an iPod
classic and I did the SSD swap and
it's so good. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I
just I just wish it had Bluetooth because
like I like, you know,
I like having the headphone port, but
like if I could solder, I
would solder on a Bluetooth
adapter thing and then just use my
freaking Sony air airbuds. Yeah. So it
has Wi-Fi in it. And so
that makes me think that it's possible to
do Bluetooth, but there
is no Bluetooth setting.
And unfortunately, the the zoom hasn't
been like successfully
hacked. So you can't do custom
firmware and shit. So I think I said last
week, like if someone if I got 1000
bucks, I'll put down
this right hacking the zoom. Like if
someone would be cool to
actually earn some money. But
yeah, I have a scraper like this this app
that runs on my MacBook
that like when I add a song
to a playlist on Apple Music, it just
scrapes it and downloads it
with art and everything. So I
have all my stuff backed up. Nice. But
yeah, like, you know, I'm not scanning my
face to go listen to
freaking music at the gym. Like, get out
of here with that. Yeah.
You might you know, who's not
going to to follow this law, the pirate
bay. Yeah, right. Exactly.
Torrin clients. Thank you.
Well, I'll go back in time to like high
school. Yeah. Lime wire is
coming back. Oh, my God. No.
So I don't think app I think Apple has
enough information that
they can just age gate it,
at least for like everywhere else except
for UK. But meaning I'd be
shocked if certain places just
had you check every time. That's kind of
as nine. I'm hoping that if
they do, I'm okay if I have to
check and like put in some ID or
something like that for one time
personally. But I'm also at the
stage in my life where I'm just like, you
know, like all my info is
out there anyway. Who gives a
I know it really is like that. As long as
I my bank account doesn't
get leaked leaked again.
I'm fine with whatever. So you want to
know it's sure I got to pay a mortgage
man. You can take my
wife. I mean, you want my kids. Which
one? Which one does it take
to get access to the Internet?
Put the price in the back. Yeah. At some
point, though, I really do
think we need to have like
a discussion as a culture about the
importance of the Internet.
Like I know, like it's it's
infiltrated everybody's like most
intimate daily activities. But is it
fucking worth it? I say this
as a content creator. I know. I don't I
just don't feel like it contributes
enough value to my life
personally, like professionally. I do
this stuff and it does like pay the
bills. But on the other
hand, I just it sucks. I hate the
Internet. It's terrible. I do too. I like
I like you too. I like
watch. I don't really I watch movies,
obviously, but I don't watch
TV. I'm just out on TV. No TV.
So I watch a lot, just mostly YouTube.
I'd like to have YouTube and like a
couple online games. But
outside of that, I could do without the
rest of it, honestly. Yeah. I
love it. I love the Internet,
but I also don't like dealing with like I
don't do social media that much. Yeah.
And that's the part where I'm like, I do
kind of just want I'm tired
of social media is what I'm
saying is just the amount of either like
unverified news that
just because I live in Utah,
the amount of people that get tricked by
the by the news, you know,
fake news and all that is just
crazy amount. I'm just tired of it. I
want some regulations into
what people can say and like
actually pass around. But well, here's
the thing. It's like, what
is actually going on here with
this bill? The the it's like they're
trying to protect kids from,
you know, sexual content or
violent content or extremist content,
whatever. But it's like,
what if we look at it from a
different angle? What if we regulate what
kinds of websites are allowed
to exist and not worry about
the kids that are online? Right? Like
just social media as it as it stands is
entirely it's just one
big dark pattern, right? It's designed to
keep you online, keep you
addicted, keep you scrolling,
keep showing ads to you. And if we say as
a as a society, we don't
want that to exist anymore.
That is valid, right? Like, we're not
curtailing speech at that
point. We're not like having to
talk about licensing to get on the
internet or whatever, or validating who
you are. We're talking
about this product is detrimental to us
as a society, as a species
even, and it should not exist.
And therefore, we're making it illegal.
That is okay. In my book,
like that is something that
governments are supposed to do. And it's
not a speech issue. It's,
it's a culture issue. It's a,
it's a matter of, you know, decency. I
don't know. I really don't think we're
gonna ever be able to
get social media fully banned. I think
our best bet is to slowly
worm in some protections. And
that's about, I think all we can really
do. I mean, look at TikTok
alone, it was supposed to die off
and it didn't. Yeah. I don't, I don't
like TikTok anymore. I
like Instagram reels.
Is that where you get your buzz from your
social media buzz? Yeah.
You're high. It's such a like
wild shit from TikTok. Cause it goes from
like, you know, like dogs
and chicks dancing to like
people crashing their car, jumping off
roofs. Then it's like
acoustic covers of songs. It's
just totally crazy stuff. Instagram. Like
that's how the feed works. I
mainly use Instagram partially
because my wife does. And so she'll send
me stuff all the time. And I'm like
there, there for a while,
I was really bad at just logging on and
every day and just looking
at it for like an hour or two.
Now I just don't. Instagram ads pull from
like Etsy. So like, it's so
funny. I'll get ads for like,
you know, this high produced t-shirt or
something. And then the next
one is like old cigarettes.
Cause it just like, it's definitely like
listens to you talk and like
scans your texts and stuff.
So it's like, you might be interested in
these cigarettes from
1960. And I'm like, I kind of
am like, I can't even grab those. That's
really funny. You know what?
I'll have to say this right
now. I'm just glad that someone listens
to me. Maybe we shouldn't
stop these dark patterns.
Cause you know what? I need, I need like,
whether it be an entity, AI,
whatever, just listen to me.
Yeah. Instagram ads. They're fine. They
get me all the time. It's
not even like an ad. It's just
like reminding me to buy stuff. Like if I
tell my wife, oh man, I need to get
propane. Like I'll see
a propane tank pop up on Instagram reels
and I'm like, Oh yeah, I
gotta go to the gas station.
Dude. I, the, the, I only have like a
couple of apps installed on
my phone. Like, um, I don't,
if I want to use Instagram or Facebook or
anything on my phone, I
literally go into my web browser
and open the page there. Old school. I
won't, I will not install it.
Um, because they listened to
me and I hate it. I want to be left
alone. I don't want anyone
to listen to me. We, we could
be a study gardener. You'd be the, like
the, on the extreme side
of like being very privacy
oriented. And then I'm going to be on the
other side of being open
completely. And they're going
to have to do a study on us to see like
our brains later on. See what, see if,
uh, it feels like my
brain's already starting to calcify. I'm
36 and I'm like, I just am
witnessing myself becoming
dumber and dumber every day. And I'm
like, what is going on? I
don't, I don't even think it has
anything to do with like, uh,
smartphones. I only use my phone. Like,
you know how, like it has a
digital wellness stuff on, on phones.
Mine says like, let me look at mine. What
does it say right now?
Uh, I don't even remember how to find it.
Well, while you're finding that Annie is
making me smarter. So as you're
classifying, I'm using AI to make myself
smarter. Which one is Amy?
She's the, uh, grok bot that Elon Musk
released that the one
chick with the, uh, pigtails.
Dude. Okay. So I saw it. I used my phone
for an hour and 30 minutes.
And that was because I was playing music
when I was driving,
uh, yesterday. So like,
I probably only use it for 45 minutes.
Like actually looking at the screen.
I don't want to see my
uses. I don't want to see that.
I used Instagram reels probably for an
hour on the treadmill yesterday.
Then I was waiting for a video to export
and I played car X street for an hour.
Nice.
I know I did that. That's multitasking. I
think that's well
deserved. Yeah. Breaks. Definitely.
Oh God. My average this week is eight
hours. On your phone?
Yeah. But I use my phone for like
listening to podcasts while I
work. And I use my phone for
like everything. No judgment here. I'm
not trying to make you
feel insecure about that.
No, I should feel bad. I
should feel bad about myself.
And, um, I don't see an average. I have
an Android phone, but so one
hour and 30, two hours and two
hours and 30, one hour and 10. Yeah.
You're just playing your N 64, right?
Yeah, dude. And 64 arm working on videos
or doing stuff for my
clients or whatever. Like,
yeah, I never, I just don't, I hate my
phone. I don't want it.
So I use mine for like, I like podcasts.
I like to listen to like
what's going on either news wise
or entertainment. Well, especially while
I'm doing chores and
doing stuff like that. Uh,
I watch YouTube videos all the time on
it. Yeah. Um, I, the
majority of the time on my phone is
when I'm watching videos, but when I go
for runs, I literally take my zoom with
me and I'm listening.
Like I don't, I don't want to use my
phone. Yeah. I know I'm
weird. I'm a weirdo. I know.
No, I, I'm kind of like that with social
media though. Like I
don't want to use it and I do
especially like it's really hard. Cause
if you want to grow a
brand, you really need to use it.
And I just so resistant. Yeah. But it
will be interesting to
see how this all goes with
the, um, with the children. Well, well,
somebody think of the
children and I mean, if you're
blocking, like, is that going to be even
be news? Like, Oh, you can't
hear about what's going on in
like, let's say not to get too political,
but like Gaza or
something like that. Like,
can they not learn about that? Can they
not learn about, uh, things
going on in the world? So I'm
really curious how they're going to
filter out different aspects for
children. They're, they
might as honestly, they probably be
easier for them to just be like, okay,
here's your little safety
browser. This is the only thing you can
use and just be very
limited. I think any other thing
else is going to be really hard. All
these kids are going to
be on telegram. Oh God.
Well, that's, if you want to leak your
information and then you
go on telegram. Yeah. So
telegram is not as secure as people think
it is. That's the thing
that, uh, that's another reason.
I think I kind of play the whole, like, I
just assume almost
everything's insecure. So yeah.
I'm just assuming whatever I'm doing is
going to probably be leaked.
So yeah. Yeah. No surprises.
I'm not going to be any in any Epstein
list or anything like that.
Okay. Let's rein this back in gamers. So
let's go to, let's get
into the, uh, the next topic.
So gamers working together to reverse
payment processor bands
is an interesting, uh,
it's been interesting to pass two weeks
with this payment
processor stuff. Yeah. Both like,
I think our opinions on here and just
what's been going on. So
gamers have been in a frenzy ever
since payment processors and collective
shout decided to go after
adult games on steam and
itch.io. Some gamers have even gotten
responses from visa where they claim as
long as said material
being transacted is legal, then it's good
to go, which is so bizarre.
I, and it's bizarre that they
went after steam and itch.io, but there's
like so many other places
that you can buy games. Yeah.
Did you see that GOG did that bundle of
like adult games for
free and 12 games for free.
They had like a tutorial on how to hide
your games in your library,
but it's like, I'm not adding those to my
account, but like, I
respect the idea. I guess
I think it's cool. Interesting. I find it
suspicious whenever like these like, uh,
organizations or whatever go after steam
and not Microsoft with Xbox or
PlayStation, because it's
like, is this like an end to like a
secret industry lobby,
like that's trying to like
unseat the, you know, valve from the
throne. You know what I'm saying? Like
it's gotta be. And then
it's weird because Nintendo has a ton of
lewd games on there. Like
they're up, there's like AI
slop uploaded all the time. That's like,
you know, school girl surprise puzzle
game or whatever. Like
if you ever go through the new section on
the eShop, it's crazy.
Well, they don't want to go
after Nintendo. Nintendo sues, they bite,
they have a bite. Yeah. I
feel like valve also could
get pretty litigious if you push them
hard enough, which I guess would be, it'd
be interesting. I was
going to say nice, but if they lose the
lawsuit, then that could be
bad overall. Yeah. They could
be gearing up to maybe a lawsuit or
something. All I know is,
um, this is why you don't want
non-governmental centralized processing
systems like this, where
you don't really have a say.
This not, it's not like you could, uh,
petition your local
government to change things. It's,
you're just beholden to what a
corporation wants to do. Yeah. It's just,
it's crazy that like a bunch
of, you know, I don't, I can't, I was
thinking I ran through like
every insult in my head that I
was going to say, but we're on YouTube.
So I won't say it was just like a bunch
of fucking, you know,
hags sitting around in Australia, just
being like, I don't like this. And that
they're getting this
much stuff taken down. Like that's crazy
that they're able to do
that. Yeah. They're living
good right now. There must be on a high
getting all that power.
It's, this reminds me of the
nineties and the two thousands. Once
again, like we went through stuff like
this before. Um, I've
seen it because, uh, just kind of where I
live, I've saw firsthand
people trying to stop stuff
like this, but it's definitely like with
GOG, um, and some of these other
companies, even itch.io.
Uh, I can't remember if we talked about
this is looking into, um,
different payment processing
systems like, uh, stripe. Yeah. Well,
stripe still has to use
stripe will use multiple different
methods. You can use like visa and
mastercard, but yeah, it will be, um,
they have additional,
it's just interesting that mastercard and
visa, cause it's both of
them, right? Like mastercard
and visa are both doing this. Um, is
there like, are they going to
merge one day? Is there, are
they owned by the same parent company? I
really don't know. Like it's really
weird. Cause it seems
like every time stuff like this happens,
they're kind of lock and
lock step. Like they're doing it
together. It's they, they took on some
horror game called vile
exhumed. And that pissed me off.
I was like, like the, I care obviously
like about the adult games. I'm like,
let the Gooners play their stuff. But
like it didn't really affect me. And then
seeing a cool new horror game get taken
down is kind of crazy. And
the funny thing is the game
that got taken down and vile exhumed
deals with a lot of the stuff that this
collective shout group
is upset about. So it's like, it's kind
of hurting the games that
they'd probably enjoy playing the
most. Like it's weird, very not thought
out. Yeah. I definitely
think like some of the games that
were taken down for off steam, I'm just
like, well, I don't know.
Like there's, I think they
more were, should have been on an adult
only site, but that's
just what it is. You know,
whatever. Like there's a, there's a place
and companies can choose
to remove the games that
they want, but this has gone beyond that
and it's getting worse. So it's funny
when you uncheck that
filter on steam and look at the top
sellers. Cause it's like, Oh,
people are buying this stuff a
lot. Yeah. Well, that's why it hasn't
been removed before that. Right. Right.
Yeah. I go back and forth
on the whole steam thing. They do, they
do like protected enough,
but there are just certain
topics where I'm just like, I'd prefer
that to be on an adults only
website. Cause my kid is on
steam and if they find a way to unlock
it, yeah, I don't know what
it is. I guess. Um, so yeah,
any last thoughts on this, uh, payment
processing stuff we've kind of covered
it. You guys covered
this a lot. Yeah. We talked about it both
last week and the week
before. Um, I guess the one
thing that I will say, and this is
something that I have strongly believed
for awhile is this like
any industry that through their marketing
positions themselves as
freedom, right? Like if you buy our
product, you become free is a load of
horse shit. Right. And so like
with, when every time valve is
like, Oh, we're protecting free speech on
our platform. I think that
that's a bunch of bullshit.
Like I just don't, it's because like,
it's clear that they, they
actually do have certain things
that they don't want on their platform.
Uh, and it's arbitrary, right? So, uh,
with this, it's just,
you know, valve's not, I mean, Gabe's not
going to be able to buy
another yacht company. If he,
if he removes, uh, whatever, like, uh,
porn games from his website or from
steam. So it's like,
I don't know, this could be like a
roundabout way of like
getting those things removed,
but I don't, I don't think he even wants
that. It's just so weird. I, I just,
it's so gross. The world
we live in makes me sad.
Oh, there's a lot, there's a lot of good
stuff. You gotta look
at the bright stuff,
but, uh, unfortunately, you know, those
incest games got gave
his, his, uh, last yacht. So
that's one of the bad, one of the goods
is maybe some of the good
games are getting him in the
company. Uh, which we can talk about that
later, but man gave in
man. Um, so talking about slop
and everything earlier, the new age of AI
slop, Amazon invest in
fables show runner AI streaming
platform, which is that's a thing. I
never thought I would, you know, say a
phrase, whatever. So
fable and AI startup has created the show
runner service, which has
been described as Netflix for
AI, allowing users to effectively AI
effectively generate AI and
a TV shows based on some set
parameters. They are also in talks with
major Hollywood studios
and companies like Disney
to license IP for use in these show
runner AI in the show runner
AI platform. Some have posted
clips of AI generated episodes on
YouTube. Uh, and this is from
high tech. So he's, he's given
us something from beyond the, well, he's
still in Houston. I was
going to say beyond Japan, but,
and let, uh, let me tell you, they do not
look good. Uh, yeah,
they're just like Rick and Morty
ripoffs. Morty is coming. He's coming for
you, Morty. Oh, that's good.
It's pretty much what they,
I watched a couple of clips and I was
like, I'm checking out. I
don't really watch TV anymore,
but yeah. Surprise. That's okay. Star
Trek. You got North pulse
South park. I don't know.
I, it's like AI isn't even at the point
yet where it can do this even like
marginally well, like
it does. It's still, it's still lacking
like the context window
to be able to write a whole
episode of a show, let alone a season of
a show. So like, I dunno, they're just,
they're just in this
to get views and to get clicks and shit.
But I mean, I, I, it's just
not going to be good at all.
I can't even fathom why they're doing
this. It's gotta be training
the model, having people make
their garbage through it. Yeah. Oh yeah.
At the end of the day, this
is, so for people like me,
I find this stuff entertaining, but not
in the way that you'd think. It's like
last week when we did
the AI Jason for he's a dating chat that
we did. It was, it was fun.
It was, it was so it wasn't,
it was a chat. It was a chat bot
essentially. So like a text based chat.
And yeah, he, you know,
we got a little, where's my mom? Oh, he
Jason was like a caressing
James's face and being like,
you're a good victim. And then James was
like, yes, daddy. Yeah.
I'll have a short up on it
shortly. And if you watch the beginning
of our last episode, Jimmy, you'll, um,
it's a cold opening that Gardner did. So
I watched it. Oh,
that's the stuff I enjoy.
I like, I like doing the little stupid
edgy stuff sometimes. Um, and
so I can have fun with this,
but if you're replacing your regular TV
watching with this, like
your, I think your IQ is pretty
low. So I don't know. Like, yeah. Yeah.
If you're, if you're not
doing, if you're doing ironically,
like, Oh, I want to watch my own show on
exit Valley, um, and make
my own thing and just like,
okay. But you gotta realize the part of
the fun of like consuming
games and other media is what
other people imagine, not just what you
can imagine. If you can imagine
something, you create
it for other people, not usually for
yourself. So I'm curious
to see how this all goes.
Because I see AI being used as a tool,
but you're trying to
replace like whole industry.
Yeah. I don't know if it's going to end
well. This just isn't
going to make money. There's
literally no way. I agree. I don't think
it's going to make that
much money. It's probably,
I can't remember which one of you said
it, but it's probably
going to be for training the AI
more than anything. So interesting, but I
get, man, I mean, I look at this stuff.
None of looks interesting to me. No, no,
like it all just looks like other stuff.
Yeah. And not even in a good way. Yeah.
There's ways to make it look good. That
might make it look, you
know, might be interesting, but
I just, oh man. Got a little bit of
uncanny valley, uh, which
is weird for like a cartoon.
Just seems off. Yeah. Well, I mean,
scroll up like to the top.
That's a, that's basically Donald Trump
right there in the front row too.
Oh, I saw a clip from that show and it
was just Trump and the Elan's in it too.
Oh my God. In the Zuck.
Yeah. Is that supposed to be Elon there
on the second from the left?
That's Elon. He looks like he's wearing
like a Star Trek enterprise.
And then Zucks in the
middle. That's Zuck? No.
Yeah. They made him look more human. I
thought that was on the
left there. The far left.
Terminator. Yeah. Right.
He got me. No, he needs to be a lot wider
and more robotic. Yeah.
I think the Terminator
might be more human than he is.
Definitely. A little brutal, but man,
that guy. What a journey he's taking.
So yeah, I do think.
I'm not going to like, say,
like, like, propose something.
Like propose a band, this type of stuff.
But if these companies
think they're going to like fund
it, they're going to be putting money
into it and then when it fails and
they're, what are they
going to do? Just lay off a bunch of
other people on their actual good TV
series. Because that's
what Netflix tends to do. Like, so is
Amazon going to be doing
that? Are they going to be laying
off people from actual good TV series to
just continue this law?
That's what it seems like
in other industries is happening. So I
think that's the worst
part about all this. And I
about ready to cut the cable on some of
these companies. They
just sometimes bring out
Amazon, Netflix and all that always have
like one TV series that I
like, which makes it hard.
So I just don't. Okay. To
any of them. They're all trash.
Well, they have some good stuff like, um,
we don't need to get into it, but
they all have some decent. I'm very
selective. I don't have like a TV
package. I usually have
streaming packages for stuff that has,
um, services that I find interesting.
Usually more about like
a comedy or horror person. So, um, but,
uh, get into the next
topic. Sony sues 10 cent for a
blatant horizon knockoff. This is a very
interesting, uh, topic
that I'm curious if, um,
how it's actually going to go because
we'll see. Sony's, I mean, Sony's big,
but 10 cent is massive.
So, uh, 10 cents light of Motrium is very
evocative of Sony's horizon
franchise from the robotic dinosaurs to
the ancient futuristic civilization,
to the juxtaposition of depicting
indigenous lifestyles, man, high tech
picked up a dictionary
to set or this to set science, a sci-fi
element. Sony is suing
10 cent with claims that
the game is such a blatant ripoff that
it's actually confused
people into thinking that
it's the next horizon game. What is worth
mentioning is that 10
cent apparently does not
have shares in Sony in any capacity. I
mean, not shocked there.
Um, both really big companies.
Yeah. You know, I need to, I need to go
take some, uh, Motrium light. My
stomach's a little upset
right now. Wait, Carter, you don't play
new game. Have you seen how,
uh, similar this is to horizon?
Cause it's like blatant ripoff. Oh, it's
like one to one. I mean, it
doesn't have like a reputation
of just ripping off other games. Yeah.
Yeah. And like the other half of the
story is that they, uh,
went to Sony and they were like, Hey, can
we make a horizon game set
in China? And so he was like,
no. So then they just made it anyway and
changed the name. Oh my
God. So that's like why I think
people like on the legal side think this
is going to work out for Sony is because
like 10 cent directly said they were
going to make a horizon clone and then
did when they were told
not to. But like the key art and
everything like on the store page is the
exact same. Pretty much
like the characters all wear the same
little outfits. Like
it's, it's pretty, it's pretty
egregious. Like usually I'm like, I don't
know. Like, yeah, it's
left five dead of really that
similar to left four dead. And that, but
this is like, it's so
funny. This, yeah, this is pretty
blatant. The, uh, that little drone
though, kind of looks like a destiny.
Destiny. Yeah. Yeah. But
yeah, no. Oh yeah. They got the elephants
and the, and the bull ox.
Oh, that's a little different.
I don't know if they had pelicans. Yeah.
And the second one, cause you
go to San Francisco. So they
Oh, I haven't, I have, I just bought it
during the sales list.
Um, a couple of weeks ago, I
haven't played it yet. Did I buy it then?
I don't know. I haven't
played it yet. I own it,
but I've beat the first one, which I
actually really, I really did like the
game. Um, conceptually,
um, and somewhat technical, but yeah.
Yeah. The story's predictable as hell.
They definitely could have gone, um,
certain routes to just not
make it feel so much like
the other one. Like the, is this even
going to be a good game?
That's the thing. Once you
clone it so close, is it even a, it's a,
it's a soul's like I saw
gameplay of it. It's like a,
it's a soul's like gameplay style. Well,
you lost me. Yeah. Not a big souls
person. Sometimes, but
I mean, gameplay can't be, uh,
copyrighted like, you know,
genre and stuff, but like this looks like
the art style. Yeah.
Yeah. And if they also have like, um,
evidence to say that they
essentially were copying as
much as they can, they intend to. Yeah.
Yeah. That's not the
intention is a big part of it.
It's not good. If they didn't have any of
that stuff, they're just like, yeah,
we wanted the kind of like, we really
liked the genre and we wanted
to make it, um, seem good and
just end up being similar. They might be
able to get away from it, but it is
pretty close. I don't
know. Why can't human beings kill God? I
mean, that is different. I don't think
there is anything with.
Huh. There are parts that
are different. It's just
the general art style is the same. Yeah.
They should have done a couple of things
to just make it a little different.
Like the robots themselves, like the
animals and everything. They're so close.
Yeah. Oh, that's, that seems different.
It's like Doon. Yeah. They're just like,
take a couple of different
games and then copy them, but
I don't know.
Scorpions. Okay. I mean,
you know, I hope Sony wins.
That's pretty much all I am. You're not a
fan of the legal documents.
It's funny. They like have
left and right side columns with like
their game are gay. And it's like, not
only is the art style
one-to-one drop, but like their press
materials, like their screenshots and
everything, they lay
them out the same, put the characters in
the same spot and
everything. They're like,
they're just using our shit. I mean, I'm
seeing some stuff that's
different. So it's really
unfortunate that they went the route they
went. Yeah. Because they
could have actually, like the
more I'm watching the more I'm like,
okay, this is actually a
little bit more interesting, but,
they unfortunately, they went too close
to the, yeah, but Verizon
zero, Don's are our style and
design. It's going to get them in
trouble. They could have, they could even
started building this
out that way and then changed out our
assets if they really
wanted, but now they're just going
to end up in legal trouble and probably
having to pay, whether it be like
royalties or something.
We'll see what Sony decides during the
lawsuit, but yep. Wow.
Dude, if you just look up,
light of Motrium horizon zero, Don,
there's like the box art
comparison. It's just wild.
Like they're basically the same. So is it
going to be like, I got
your game or something where
you're just going to have to probably
pay? Yeah. Man, it definitely doesn't
have my interest. I'm
not a fan of those types of games. Unless
you bring in like,
like if Half-Life did it,
I would do it, but I don't think Valve
would ever do that. I
have my weaknesses. Okay.
So let's get on to the next topic here.
This has been fun enough,
but 10 cent, you're screwed.
On to the next thing, Duckstation dev,
Sten-Zek to cancel
Linux support for emulator.
So Sten-Zek is fed up with the arch old
users and has had it with the complaining
to him, even though it's clearly user
errors. Step one was refusing
to build an arc environment.
Step two is outright refusing to build
and Linux support hasn't
happened just yet, but it's high,
highly disappointing to see Duckstation
going this route. This is interesting.
Yeah. I mean, I feel, I'm just worried
about Sten-Zek, man. I'm
like, are you okay, buddy?
Like he's just made some very strange
decisions over the last little while
about about Duckstation.
Like it's no longer open source, right?
Like that was the, that was
the big thing a couple of months
ago. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think you're right.
It's, it's, uh, let's
see. Um, the license is
attribution, non-commercial,
non-derivative. I guess
it's creative commons now,
which is not technically open source.
Yeah. Interesting. So
yeah, creative commons. Okay.
So, uh, but I mean, people could, uh,
fork it before if they
wanted before the, um, license
change, right? So people could always do
that, but it sounds like
getting pretty defensive on this
game. Um, sounds like, I mean, there are
some really annoying
Linux users, but if you were,
yeah, what are people like bugging him
about? Uh, it sounds like,
um, the way certain distros
are packaging Duckstation, it's causing,
um, errors with, with
Duckstation and that leads to
end users complaining to Sten-Zek about
it, but it's out of his
control because the maintainers
are passing through. I get it. Okay.
Yeah. So I see that that's a
bummer. This is the main PS1
emulator that Emu-Duck uses. Yeah. Yeah.
Is there another one? Um,
there are a few others. Um, yeah.
And honestly, I mean, Duckstation has
really great compatibility and
everything, but like,
uh, what's the other one? Mednafen has a
good, um, PS1 emulation
stack. Oh, cool. So that,
and I believe you can get that in
RetroArch, so it
shouldn't be that difficult for
everyone to adapt to. It just doesn't
have a good GUI as far as I know. Like,
God, you just have to use
the built-in RetroArch one.
Are you the reason why Duckstation is
dropping the Linux now, Gardner? You just
complained too much about it. Oh yeah,
no, I've been complaining
for years about how awesome
Duckstation is, but I actually really do
like Duckstation. I think
it's great. It has a good,
I mean, if I'm wrong, I believe Stenzak
was involved in, um,
PPSSPP's development too.
Oh, no, I know. Similar. Yeah, yeah. I
could be wrong about
that, but I know, um,
I don't think he's involved with it
anymore if he was, but, uh,
I know that there's like some overlap
between PPSSPP and, or there was Duck,
and Duckstation, so,
um, or maybe Stenzak was like part of
Dolphin and Left or something. I know
that there's like one
developer who's common between other
emulators. Um, but yeah,
it's, I really like Duckstation.
Their interface is great. It's very
user-friendly, and so it sucks to see this.
Yeah, it's, man, there's always been, uh,
uh, rife and stuff going on with the
emulation world, so.
I mean, Nintendo Switch just, you know,
just having the Switch emulators die off,
and now this, um, luckily everything's
open source, so, I mean,
that's one of the nice things
and important things about open source is
that if, uh, something
happens, like with this Duckstation,
someone can still fork it, at least at
one point, or, I mean,
it's creative comments,
they can still fork it and make sure that
it's supported on Linux, right?
Yeah, I mean, you could go back, you
could roll back to a
previous one that was licensed
openly, and, uh, yeah, and you could do
that. Um, but, I mean,
there's other PS1 emulators, and
I just, you know, it is nice to have a
variety, but, like, at
the same time, I think Mende
Fenn's PS1 emulation is really great. I
don't remember exactly
which, if they use a different
core or something, but,
um, I'm gonna look it up now.
Yeah, yeah, Mende Fenn actually supports
multiple, uh, systems, so
they have, uh, PS1 support,
but they also have, uh, Sega Saturn,
Master System, Genesis,
Game Gear, um, they also have,
like, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, NES
and Super NES, so, um,
um, some- it's good to have, like,
dedicated ones, but at the same time,
I think Mende Fenn is
pretty great for what it does.
It's good to know. It's good to know.
Yeah, it's- I can- I
can definitely say, like,
I've supported some open source software,
and it is annoying
sometimes to hear, like,
because you got a lot of really good
voices, and then you also have people
that are just cynical.
Yeah. And so they just-
[Sigh]
Well-
I'm always scared to ask-
Or give feedback on this stuff, because
it's like, "Ah, this
guy took all his time,
he made it for free, I don't want to
complain." So I usually
just look for other people
who have the issue I have. I don't like
putting myself out there
like that, I don't- I don't want
to ruin anyone's day. Yeah, absolutely. I
mean, the thing is, like,
StenZek isn't, like, totally in
the wrong here. Like, this is a common
complaint, especially from emulator
developers, where packaged
maintainers- or, you know, distro
maintainers will package emulators wrong,
and they just don't work.
I think Dolphin was complaining about
this, like, two years ago. But the
difference is how they
react, right? Like, the difference is,
you know, you- Dolphin
started doing flat pack packaging,
and they're doing it themselves, right?
So the reason that
they're doing that is because
the native packages on Ubuntu and a few
others were just, like,
broken. And so they'd get all
these, like, things that were not- it
wasn't the fault of Dolphin that the
packages were broken.
So now they're just recommending, "Hey,
we have a flat pack,
we have an app image,
that's how you use it. Don't package this
in your distro." Some
distributions don't listen,
but it sounds like this was even just,
um, not even arch
packaging it wrong. This was, like,
the AUR packaging it, which is just a
distributed thing, like,
anybody can do. Um, so, who knows,
man? I mean, I get being frustrated, but
I don't think this is the right move.
Yeah. Yeah, removing Linux support
entirely is crazy. Yeah. That
is a crazy step, where there
are ways to, like, remedy it or even push
it off onto maybe someone
else if they really wanted
asking for help, even. It's open-source.
Well, it was
open-source, but near open-source.
So, yeah. Um, our next topic, uh, so the
top 20 Japanese game
studios by average salary, uh,
like, um, a report came out from, uh, you
know, at least this is, uh,
where we're getting is from
Gamer Braves. And so, um, a new study
reveals which Japanese game
companies pay their employees
the most with some surprising results.
Sony, Sony topped the list
while gaming giant square
enix didn't even make it into the top 20.
Just crazy. That is nuts.
Yeah, it is really crazy.
Like Konami's in there. Konami. Sorry.
How are you going to
say get Konami's in there?
Sorry. Keep cutting. Yeah. Japanese
software company sells
now looked at average yearly
salaries at domestic game companies from
June, 2024 to June, 2025.
They used data from cells.
Now DB, which tracks information on about
5.4 million Japanese
companies. The database pulls
from official sources like business
registries, tax records, and
government reports. Those some
numbers might be different from what
companies officially
announced. So we don't need to read
much more. We can talk about this though.
What do you guys think?
Well, Sony's at the top, right?
$75,000 a year, right? 11 million yen.
Uh, and notably square enix
is paying less than 42,000
because they're not even on this list.
Right. That's crazy. Um,
also, I know high tech probably
has heard of every one of these
companies, but I know Sony,
Bandai, Sega, Capcom, uh, Konami
and Nintendo, of course.
DNA makes mobile games.
Koei Tecmo does like Ninja Gaiden. Oh
yeah. Okay. I've heard of Koei. Yeah. Um,
Nexon does like free to play garbage. I'm
pretty sure. Oh yeah. They're,
they're mostly like gotcha stuff, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I never
heard of digital hearts or
colloquy or imagineer. They seem like so
fake. Yeah. But yeah, I
don't know what the average
salary is in general in Japan, but I know
it's lower than everywhere
else. So is there anything?
Doesn't seem too bad. I don't know. Um,
it makes sense. Sony's
got hardware in addition to,
you know, games. Yeah. So the average
salary in Japan is
45,000 USD. So you're a top,
you're a top earner. Yeah. If you're
working at Sony or Bandai. I mean,
video games. That's crazy that Bandai is
that high, right? Like, you know,
yeah, they got Elden Ring. They got Dark
Souls. They got armored core. That's
keeping them trucking
along. And now they're doing those ports
of a defunct Sony IP,
like hot shots, golf, and
pad upon. I don't know how those are
selling, but Namco gets like, kind of
gets away with being one
of the biggest publishers, you know, like
no one really talks
about it. Yeah. Well, I mean,
I know that like when they were doing
like all those Pac-Man
revival games, like 10 years ago,
I was here for it. Whoa. What was that
one called? The really
good one that was on the 360.
Oh, Pac-Man championship edition. Yeah.
Yeah. That was awesome. Oh my God.
Championship edition is
awesome. And then they also had, um,
Pac-Man 256, which was like a mobile
game, but it was addictive
as hell. Yeah. That was the Crossy Road.
People's game. That game
was really good. Oh, so good.
Yeah. I'm glad Capcom's up there. Even
though Monster Hunter wilds was
disappointing to me,
Resident Evil is my favorite series. So
I'm glad they're up there,
I guess, paying people well.
Yeah. No, it is. It is interesting
because I, from my
understanding, like game developers and
game comp like is a little bit more
prestigious, at least in Japan. Yeah.
It's one of their biggest
exports of the video game. Yeah. And so
it's nice to see that they get
paid well. Um, but I do think
there's still like, from my
understanding, there's still some pay gap
issues in Japan with certain
game companies. So it's nice to see like
some of, you know, so maybe
some of our favorites on here,
at least don't follow that trend. Cause
there are same like it
mentions earlier, uh, that, um,
the square Enix doesn't even hit the top
20, which is not good cause
Square Enix makes some good
stuff, but that means they pay horribly.
Um, and I'm, and they, they
sell a ton of copies. Square
Enix sells a ton of games so they can
afford to pay their
employees better. And usually from my
understanding to like Japanese,
especially if they're Japanese
companies, they don't tend to
pay their CEOs like they pay them decent,
but they're not like
American CEOs, right? Where
it's a lot of a hundred times more than
like maybe even a thousand
times more than the lowest
earner, which is crazy. Um, so then
they'll even take pay cuts if
they did bad enough. So, um,
there's some respect there. Yep. Yep. But
then you have like people
that are killing themselves
almost literally to, to release games
that are below that 20 that
ranked 20. So like they get
paid a lot less to work on godly hours to
release stuff. Cause they
release a lot. Japanese,
Japanese companies, especially game
companies that release a lot of games.
It's crazy what their turnover is. So I
know I was just talking about this on
deck ready, but like from software is
crazy. Like they put out
in the past couple of years,
like armored core, the Elden ring DLC,
night rain, and then they've got
either new armor core or dark souls three
remaster next year.
Like they're killing it.
From softwares not even on here though.
Yeah. Their parent company is Kudakawa,
but Namco publishes all of the from
software games. Oh, that's right. That's right. I'm thinking
studios and okay. No, I think they're
just like, uh, I don't think
they like do anything. You know,
like I think from software does its own
thing and just has a parent company.
Yeah. That's what it
seems like too, is that they kind of just
have their own direction,
but Namco pays people well
and they publish all those games. So
that's good. I would like to see, well,
so in Japan too, a lot
of like essential services are paid for.
Um, they have universal
healthcare. This is important. I
think when you take this into account,
like with these salaries, there's also
other things that are
taken care of for them. And from the
Japanese side of things are
like from the government. So, um,
they got a pretty close off economy too.
Like, yeah, that's what,
whenever anyone goes there,
I just hear how relatively cheap it is
to, you know, get food
and travel and stay there.
Travel and stay there. It's just the
plane ticket that costs the most.
The plane ticket costs a lot. The hotel
rooms and living can
cost, like if you're used to
American like size stuff, you're going to
be paying a lot for that
in Japan. But if you can
get away with just a nice two bedroom
apartment, it's pretty cheap. The food
though is definitely
decently priced. Um, I think even for,
um, Japanese people, because I think
they definitely are a worker, uh, like
kind of a worker first
culture where everyone works. So
they don't usually get to pack their own
food oftentimes. So they
eat out a lot. Um, and so
very balanced system in some ways, but
you know, with all this,
there's the, the grime underneath,
but we don't need to talk about that.
It's good stuff though. Uh,
Gardner, you need to go to
Japan. Have you been to Japan, Jimmy?
Nope. I would like to go.
Yes, you go. It's, it's really,
even from like, um, cultural side of
things, it's really
fascinating. Cool. Like it, um,
you definitely from a cultural and, and
everything is just, you learn a lot.
Yeah. I've always wanted to
go to Japan. I just haven't
got to write it off, man. Gardner, you
gotta go to one of the
events. Just write the whole trip.
Yeah. TGS. Oh man, that'd be great. They
had a steam deck booth there.
You cover like all Linux though, right?
Like, yeah, not just
steam deck. Cool. Yeah.
My, my Linux, my Linux videos do far
worse than my steam deck videos. So I
have a bit of a focus
on steam decks though, but yeah, yeah,
smart. Yeah. Yeah. They same.
I don't do Linux is that much.
I'll talk about it, but then people,
their eyes glaze over if
I'm on stream or something.
But well, with that being said, let's,
uh, this is, it's just a fascinating, um,
view into all this. I would love to see
comparisons between, um, different
countries and what the cost
of living is it calculated into this?
Maybe, maybe I'll create it. Like I'll
have AI. This is a great
thing that AI can do is that you can have
it do research mode, like
with chat GPT and have it do
like a huge list of like cost of living,
um, what industries are, uh, making on
average and depending
on country and stuff like that. So it'd
be a fun one to cover. Maybe
I'll do that next week. Um,
cause I'm really curious, uh, some, we
talk about how game
developers get screwed over,
but I'm really curious about like how
screwed over because I
don't think they're pay raised
much, even though game companies are
charging drastically more
and have a lot more cells.
So yeah, I know Square Enix sells a lot,
but they spend a lot too on
games. Like they have been in
trouble for awhile, like rebirth and
seven remakes, like seven remake did
well. And then rebirth bombed
and final fantasy 16 bomb pretty hard.
And that's what they're sinking all their
money into. So like,
maybe it's like a talent thing. Like they
just don't pay well
enough so they don't get enough
good talent. And then it's like, yes,
that is a big part of the problem. I
think valve has a good
process of where they have exceptional
talent. They don't have a
whole lot of it and their average
I think is what 400,000 for employees.
Yeah. Like if you look
at the average pay for,
we threw valve into here and it's like
super high. Actually it's
more than maybe more than
400,000. Is it like a million? I don't
remember. It's like, I think I heard
600,000 per employee
on it. Yeah. And they get
that trip to Y every year. Yeah.
On like a yacht speak. No, I don't know
if it's on a yacht, but that's
what gave should do. Speaking
of that, let's go into our next thing.
Cause that's what did. It
makes me want to go work for
Gabe cause I would love to be a Butler on
one of those yachts. Yeah.
Gabe Newell acquires yacht
company building the 400 million ocean
fortress. He'll pick up later
this year because he respects
the sea, which is interesting. So I've
been a little critical. I
love Gabe. I'm a little critical.
How much he spends on yachts. Like you
have one. Okay. I'll forgive
you. You have a couple more.
I'm like, you can only really use one at
a time unless you have
like a support frigate,
I guess. But then we're talking about,
you know, insane. That's what I think of
it. Support frigate.
And so I don't like it cause the type of
excessive wealth is just, while other
people are suffering
in the world, I just, I'm not a fan of
it, but, uh, I guess at
least he's buying a company that
builds them. So maybe he'll save some
money and maybe even hire some more
people. I don't know,
but it's an expensive to staff. That's
for sure. You gotta pay
people salary pretty much,
even when they're not driving your boat
or like cooking for you or whatever.
I think Gabe's a maid man. I think he
does it all himself. He
knows what he's doing.
I could just imagine all I know is, uh,
this picture of him and
what he is, looks like now
he has lost some weight. He's on, he's
been scuba diving. It's
been scuba diving. This is
Mozempic. Yeah. Yeah. He's wearing it.
He's got a beard. He
doesn't have a Mozempic neck.
Can't argue if he does, you can't see it.
That's true. That's true.
It doesn't matter. To me,
I think Mozempic is good for people if
they need to get
healthier, but yeah, no, he's scuba
dive. Like the interview you, you saw the
interview, right? Jimmy or
Reddit or whatever, like, um,
he, he, his work, he says he's retired.
He works seven days a
week. And then in between, um,
I'm assuming he just does a lot of
meetings in between his
meetings. He scuba dives one,
two, maybe even three times a day, which
is crazy. He's living the dream, man.
I wish I could imagine having to take a
shower, go scuba diving,
take a shower, scuba dive,
take, you know, I, like, I'm, I'm
assuming you're, you're showering after
that, even if you're
wearing a whole suit, like crazy. It's
too much work for me. I do
it once a day. Yeah. And that
still seems successful. Take my kayak out
pretty much once a
day. Really? Yeah. Nice.
That seems like so much work. I do it
like once a week. I'm so,
Oh, like my community has a park so I
could just drive down there
and there's a kayak rack. And
then you just, it has a launch. So you
just get in, do your
kayaking, pull it out. You're out of
there in like two minutes. It's kind of
great. That's not too bad,
actually. Yeah. There's a
couple of places around here to kind of
like that. Um, but they're
like 15, 20 minutes away.
I have a pool I can walk to in like three
minutes and I only go
to that like once a week.
My community pool, my girlfriend's aunt
lives on a lake, which is really nice,
but we only go there
like once a year because she lives way
too far away. That's cool.
I'd visit a lot. That's lives
on a lake or by a lake lake. Her
property, she has an easement
that gets you onto the lake.
That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. I'm
down for that type of stuff.
But I, it's interesting that Gabe does so
many, he has his, um,
hand in so many different pods. Like he's
doing so many different
things. Um, that it's crazy that,
I mean, this, he is living the dream.
Like I don't mind working
even into my old age. Um,
as long as I love the work, right? Yeah.
Like I think content
creation is really fun. I could
see myself doing this for a very long
time. Yeah. It gets a little frustrating
though. Right. When,
you know, there's not a lot of good news
or you work really hard
on the video and it doesn't
do as well as you're open. Yeah. That is
the toughest part or like
trying to make something
interesting, I guess that's seems boring
on the surface. Yeah. I
edit everything. You guys have
editors? No. Yeah. One man shows. That's
the hard part is like
editing and getting it all done.
I would rather just be editing and not be
on camera at all. But, um, I
don't want to pay someone to,
to, to be, to be a host. I like the
writing and I like the editing, but I
hate the performing.
Interesting. Yeah. I like researching. I
don't like writing a
script. I do usually do talking
points oftentimes, or I do talking points
mixed in with some a
little bit of AI to just help,
uh, bring my ideas into like a better
format. And then
recording recordings for me. Like,
I like recording. I've recorded videos. I
haven't edited like that. I
recorded like six months ago,
just because I recorded them and like, I
don't know if I liked how that was.
And then I just don't do it because
apprehension. I'm off the cuff, except on
my real ones channel.
That's all scripted. And I don't, I like
editing for real ones, but
the news videos, I'm like,
I've done so many of them at this point
that it's like, it's hard to find
anything new to do on it.
So it's just kind of rinse and repeat.
Yeah, for me, the news videos I'm trying
to get away from because I
find them so tedious now. Like
you were saying, it's kind of like just
rinse and repeat and they don't really
have a lot of staying
power, you know? So like they don't
really go in. They're relevant
for like a week and then, and
then it's, you know, they don't, they're
not evergreen for sure.
Yeah. So I'm trying to move
over to something else now, but I've kind
of trained my audience or
actually maybe I've trained
YouTube to, for the wrong audience,
maybe. Because I've been moved doing
different types of videos
and they're not getting any traction. A
lot of people just do that
and then get scared off by
one not taking off. But if you keep doing
them, it'll try, it'll
try with all of them to find
the right audience. And then it'll pick
up on the fact that you're
sticking to like a weird little
schedule and it'll feed it out to more
people. But that's like,
yeah, I had a horror channel and
then I wanted to do longer horror videos.
So I started a second
channel just so I would get a fresh
batch, you know? But it's so hard to
start another channel and
then juggle. You juggle so much,
Jimmy. I don't know how you do it. I
don't know how you do it. It
was my job for a while. Like
when I didn't own the channels, I
basically would just drive
out to an office and then
film. And then I would edit some. We had
an editor and then
someone launched the video. So
I only had to worry about the filming.
But yeah, when I moved back
to Michigan, I was like, well,
because I guess I'm doing everything
myself. And then now I own
it, which is great because I was
doing most of the work at that point. But
yeah, I don't know. It seems
a lot bigger in your head to
have four different channels, but you're
really doing the same thing just more.
I just have multiple profiles and Safari
or whatever. That's smart. Yeah. And then
having Gigabit is like the game changer
because you can just
upload a video like a minute,
load in the description, load in the ads.
But yeah, I do batch shooting. So like,
I do one PS ready, one deck ready a day
for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Nice. I tried doing batch shooting and
then I just kind of ADHD out.
Yeah, I have to take a break sometimes.
But yeah, it's like my
job. So like, it's not,
I don't have anything else going on. I
can just spend all day on
it. Yeah. I'm like juggling
like client work. I do websites and other
video production stuff. So
yeah. And that's where I make
almost all of my money now. Because yeah,
I'm sure it's
screwing me on. Yeah. CPMs on
PC content specifically are really low.
Like on movies, they're
insane. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah.
I think last month I made like 580 bucks
from like a quarter of a
million views. And I was like,
yeah, the CPMs are super low. And then
everyone, I noticed that
like people who watch YouTube
think everyone gets paid the same across
YouTube. And it's like, no,
not at all. Like even like the
PlayStation channel I do, I do three
videos on each channel each
week. And the PlayStation one
makes like, probably like 30% more than
the Steam Deck one and
they get about the same views.
And it's just like a
total crapshoot. Yep.
Junk. Yeah, you got to do sponsors at
that point. I know. I
hate doing sponsors.
Hey, I can't, I can't do sponsors. I try
to do it. And then I just,
like there's something about it that
viscerally pisses me off.
Yeah, I've done it. I've done it twice.
I've done two
sponsors. One didn't pay me.
That's good. Yeah.
You signed a contract?
No. But I was also like, I'm still like
super small. So it's one of
those things where I'm like,
it was a learning thing. I didn't want to
really deal with it. The
other one I did sign a contract,
the one I like a real brand. And so that
one paid me. But the
other one I just was,
it was more like, I was curious. And
yeah, normally I would if I definitely
expected a lot too from it.
But yeah, it's fine. It's fine. It's fun.
I treat this a little bit
more as like a hobby, but
I really do like doing it. Yeah. If I
don't treat it like a hobby,
it feels too much like work. And
I already have a nine to five. Yeah. But
I want to do it. I want to
do more. It's just, yeah.
It's a little stressful. Yeah. What
really irritates me is
like, when I upload a video,
I also upload it to my peer tube and my
peer tube gets consistent views. No
matter what I'm talking
about. It's usually, it's, you know, I
don't remember exactly how
many, but I have a couple
thousand followers on my peer tube and
each video in the first day
gets like 130 views. Right. Which
it's very consistent. It almost never
deviates. And YouTube, it's like up and
down and ridiculous.
And it's like, I know the algorithm is
just so skewed and I just hate it.
You just need to start doing family
vlogging. Dude, that's where the
adopt a kid. Yeah. I'm going to adopt
adopt a kid. Exploit them for cash.
Hey, that's at least one thing that
California does well. They
have laws against that. So
because if in California, you have to,
what, like a certain
amount has to go to the child
to a, like a trust. Yeah. Yeah. Man. I
mean, speaking of that, like Utah
produces some of the
worst, uh, family vloggers. I mean, you
got secret lives of Mormon
wives. My wife watches that
and I'm like, this is, this is a wild
show. That's wild, but
you gotta go watch. Um,
oh, what is her fricking name? There's
two women that were doing a vlog, uh,
family vlogging one.
Well, it was a family. Then they turned
into two women and it's just locked up
their kids in a safe.
I heard about that. I heard about that.
That's crazy. I was like,
wait, you're not supposed to
put your kids in a safe. I gotta talk to
my dad. No, I'm just gonna.
Hey, you made it out alive.
Gotta talk to your therapist. It's fine.
I liked it. I called it quiet time.
I felt like I was in half white or, uh,
fallout, you know, putting
the ball. Oh geez. Okay. We're
going to go into the vault for a little
bit. Yikes. Remember you
can't come out or else you're,
you're going to get
poisoned by air. Okay. By the air.
Geez. Uh, yeah. Good times. Yeah. Is that
the time slate? Sorry, go
ahead. No, you go ahead.
I don't remember what I was going to say.
Yeah, no, it's, uh, I
think we're pretty much out of
topics. Usually we have a little bit
more, but, um, yeah, this is a
particularly slow news week.
Yeah. I was like, yeah, really stretch
it. I, uh, talked to
about, talked about junk store.
Oh yeah. Try to try that out. That was
pretty interesting. I
don't play a lot of epic games,
you know, so it doesn't have a ton of
utility for me, but it
worked well for what it does.
Yeah. Oh yeah. I interviewed, um, him on
my channel a couple of
weeks ago. He seems like a
really nice guy. Yeah. I've been, have
you tried brains? His
last name is brains, right?
Yeah. That's junk store. 1.0. He's got a
new version and it's like standalone.
Oh, so it has the same UI as, uh, the
like game mode and steam OS, but it
categorizes all your
third party launcher games.
It's pretty, it's pretty cool. Try and
think what else I talked about.
I mean, yeah, interesting. I just
created, I totally skipped
the news video this week.
Cause there was nothing to talk about.
Yeah, I did. Oh, I talked
about the steam UI update.
That was, you know, bottom of the barrel.
Oh, the Xbox R G ally
price. A little crazy,
a little crazy. Yeah. We talked about, I
think then we talked about
that like a week or two ago.
Like that's, you guys probably definitely
already knew about nested desktop, but I learned about
that. And I was like, this rules. Have
you used that on steam deck?
No. So if you like go to the
desktop side and then click the steam
logo on the bottom left and
then go to lost and found,
there's a thing called nested desktop and
you add it to steam and it
lets you open the desktop
in game mode. What? You can't like file
transfer, but you can
like use the browser.
You can like open discord, you can
multitask. So, and then you can like,
let it run. Does that eat up resources
though? If you're like
downloading files, it does. But if
you're just like, you know, taking notes
or like having a YouTube
video playing in the background,
I tested it out and it doesn't screw with
anything I'm playing. Yeah.
What? Yeah. I never heard of it.
And then I just, I saw someone tweet
about it and I was like, what
the hell is this? It's so cool.
Nested desktop. So yeah, once you add it to steam, then go back to game mode.
So yeah, once you add it to steam, then
go back to game mode. If you open it up,
it just like instantly opens the desktop
and it's faster than
switching to the full desktop.
Right. Yeah. Well, I'm going to talk
about this. Yes. It's
good. It's interesting. Cool.
Then, uh, yeah, Ninja got in rage bound,
played that, that game's good.
Yeah. It was a light week. Yeah. I don't
know. It sounds like a
heavy week. I just don't,
I used to do so many steam deck videos
and I just, it's so hard
to keep up with the news
on the steam deck because some, some
weeks is so bad. I, your
videos, Jimmy, I don't know how you
do it. You, I actually am just like very
passionate about the steam deck
specifically. Like I really
like it. Yeah. So it's, I read that stuff
anyway. Um, if it was like about Xbox or something,
I'd be like, Oh, the UI got updated. You
know, like it's not
interesting to me, but the steam
deck's like just genuinely interesting to
me. What's your favorite
thing about the steam deck?
So like the, the fact that I can just
play my steam library and the saves
transfer, I really like
when I can just bounce between like this
PC and the deck, you know,
seamlessly. Um, the anti-cheat
thing is annoying. Obviously it's just
like pure luck that I don't
play any of the games that
really use it. Um, there's like a few
games I wish worked on
there, but overall I'm just
really happy with the form factor. I like
the OLED screen on the
newer one, just ease of use type
stuff. I like that the offline mode just
works even though you like
it. If you think about it,
it is kind of crazy that this digital
storefront lets you just like be offline with the game.
Completely. It's pretty cool. Have you
tried the official dock?
Yeah, it sucks. Oh, you don't like
it. Well, mine always break. So maybe I
need a new one, but like
every time they update it,
I don't like that you have to unplug
everything to update the
firmware, which is, that's like my
one major annoyance, but I was using it
as my USB-C hub because I, I game on a
laptop. I have like a
razor blade. So like I have my keyboard,
my mouse, my monitor, and I have my laptop. So like,
my monitor and my headset all plugged
into a USB-C hub. And that's
why I was using the deck dock
for. And then one day it just stopped
working. So I unplug
everything, update the firmware,
and then it like deleted a bunch of my
resolutions. So like, maybe I
just got a bunk dock because
everyone I talk to when I'm like, I have
massive problems with it.
It's like, Oh no, it's great.
I really love mine. And I use it all the
time, but I do have problems
with other docks. Like I have
this one, which I thought one too. That
one's a mess for me. Yeah.
It's an absolute mess. If I
leave it plugged in for a couple of days,
it just glitches out and
then it won't work anymore.
But I love the idea of the form factors.
So good. Yeah. I wish
that there was more reliable.
Do you use your steam deck as like a,
like a full desktop style
thing? Like when you dock it,
are you playing games on it? Most of the
time when I'm docking it,
it's to capture footage.
So like, you know, I have like my mixing
board and everything and I just,
I'll have this plugged into my mixing
board and then I'll run
the USB cable and then I'm
just playing a game for footage. But I
do, I kind of like the
built-in steam recording that they
added. So I've used that. I don't really
like the capture quality.
Like it doesn't quite match what
I want. And then sometimes I'm trying to
capture like the actual
steam UI and the, oh, right. That
is the worst part. Yeah. Yeah. It's
helpful for games, but if
you need to do any tutorials or
anything, right? Yeah. Especially if it's
like I'm caught, if I'm
like trying to talk about,
oh, like I'm in this game and I want to
customize the controls or
I want to change, you know,
a setting or whatever. That's really when
capturing the video
output comes in handy.
For sure. And also when you capture with
an external card, it's 16
by nine rather than 1610.
That's interesting. Yeah. I use OBS in
desktop mode for tutorials mostly.
Oh yeah. It's like fine. Like it works.
Yeah. I'm kind of a snob
when it comes to like the video
quality, like the capture quality. It's
not that good. Well, OBS, you
can get it up, but then you're
like eating the resources. Yeah. It's
eating into your
resources where this, it's like,
it's just outputting the signal and then
I'm capturing it raw on
my, uh, on my ATEM here. So
it's nice. Yeah. I usually capture it
through a capture card too
with a doc, but I don't do
tutorials as much anymore. I got really
like, they got repetitive
after a while and I'm just like,
I can't do this. I love following, like I
follow Steam Deck news on
Reddit and some other places,
but it's always like anxious to try to,
cause I'd usually cover it.
Like when I, when I learned
about it, I'd get a video out instead of
doing like a weekly thing.
Steam Deck HQ does a pretty
good job keeping up with it. Yeah. Yeah.
He does a really good job of
keeping up with it. I just,
I'm not built that way. It gives me
anxiety for some reason.
Yeah. I totally understand that.
I just started doing like more tutorials.
Um, and I'm doing like a
series of shorts on them.
I'm going to compile them into a single
like long, long form video.
That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. I did
a few, I bat shot like probably 10 or 12
shorts in one day just to
see, and they get good views.
It's just like the money is so bad. Yeah.
Like I had one get like
400,000 views and it made like
40 bucks. Oh my God. It was like, really?
They don't make good
money, but they're good for,
they can be good for growth because
YouTube does favor if you
do them. The sub engagement.
I'm not kidding. I recorded 40 shorts
yesterday or the two
days ago. That's cool. Yeah.
So instead of making like a news video, I
just recorded 40 shorts.
What kind of shorts are they news? No,
they're, they're
tutorials. They're going to,
they're, it's like, they're hidden
features of the steam deck
or, or steam OS. Oh, that's fun.
Those will do great. Yeah. Yeah. The
first two have done all
right, but they're not like,
great, but I use this camera most now I
have an eight seven three, but like I
just got sick of it.
So it's like a DJI Osmo. So it's got a
gimbal. Nice. Which got
like, like smooth motion. But if
you shoot shorts, you can put it into
like 3k mode and go
vertical. So it shoots vertical.
And that, that made it way easier. Nice.
That's awesome. With, with
mine, I'm just like shooting
in landscape and then I'm cropping it to
portrait. And then I'm
going to uncrop it and put it in
as like the full video. Like when I'm
done, that video is
probably going to kill people.
Love those tips videos. Oh man. And I
have a few, like, I have a
few actual banger tips. Like,
sorry about that. But yeah, I know, like
I've got a few really,
really cool things that I don't
think anybody knows or very few people
know about. And that's the
desktop now. Huh? And the nested
desktop now. Oh yeah. That's gonna,
that's on my list. Cool.
Yeah. Thank you for that,
by the way. I didn't know about it. For
sure. Got some live news
from Jimmy. Yeah. Yes. Cool.
Don't have to watch your video now. Dang.
Okay. Well, with that being
said, I think we've pretty
much hit our limit. We get to sign off
your gardener? I think
so. Yeah. Okay. I know high
tech would bring up the news, but yeah,
he'd go trolling Reddit for
more news. Trolling Reddit.
So with that being said, Jimmy, do you
want to shout out any
additional like channels,
anything else you would like to shout
out? Check out Deck Ready for
Steam Deck News and real ones
for horror movie deep dives. The next one
is why there hasn't been a
Friday the 13th and 16 years,
which is, I just finished editing it last
night, so it should be up soon.
Nice. That's awesome. Nice. How long are
those videos typically?
They're all over the place. I have, this
one was 18 minutes.
Okay. Nice. But I did,
I did a couple really long ones. Like I
think the longest one is on Jason Blum.
And that one was 34 minutes. That's the
longest video I've ever edited. Nice.
I'll just go check some of those out
because I am, I'll, I like
horror movies quite a bit,
but I have not seen enough of the cult
classics. So, um, or just
enough of them. I, I'm definitely
much bigger into horror games. So I need
to, I want to get into
some more horror movies. So
I'll see some of your stuff. Cool. I'd
appreciate that. Yeah.
Okay. With that being said,
any last words you guys want to say
before we head out? Jimmy,
thanks for being here. I love
your stuff and it's been a pleasure.
Yeah. I remember when I
like started the channel, you,
you, I was like, Oh, this guy's the
veteran. Cause I was just like, cause I
got into Linux. I like
tried installing arch on my razor blade
that I had back then. And
that was really fun. And I
think I use one of your videos or
something, but so yeah, I subbed back
then and I still watch
your videos all the time. Thanks man. I
watched yours too. Hell
yeah. I watched both of you guys.
Yeah. I got to sub to your channel. I
didn't know it, but I see
it. I don't name. I just
found it. Yeah. It's good. I, I released,
um, I, I used to do a lot of videos,
almost a video every
day when the steam deck first came out.
And then the past year and a
half, I've just been a little
bit more like I've had like long COVID or
something with vitamin
D deficiencies and stuff
like that. And then, um, asthma has been
acting up here more in
Utah. So it's just been all over
the place, but at least I've been able to
consistently do this
podcast, which has been
really fun. Awesome. Yeah. So it's good
stuff. I love chatting
about tech and all that. So
well, with that being said, let's, uh,
let's head out. You guys,
uh, uh, make sure to, uh,
everyone that's watching, listening, make
sure that you do
subscribe, like, follow, do all the
stuff, whatever platform you're on. It
helps if you can do, if
you're on Apple podcasts, go over
to YouTube and you can watch some of our
weird, uh, maybe habits
that we have on, on a video and
you can, you can have a fun time. I guess
I don't know. I'm assuming
that I'd be interesting to
watch from just a weirdness standpoint,
but thank you guys for watching and
listening. Catch you guys
next time. Peace out. See you.