Well, I'll buy Han, but not to derail
your conversation, but
apparently sadly, it's Bradley
posted steam machines.
Welcome tour was added to
steams back in last night.
Oh, welcome tour steam machine.
Welcome tour.
Yeah.
Is it going to cost $10 like this switch
to welcome toward it?
Vow is a little more generous than that.
Yeah.
Welcome back to off the
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That's all about gaming, tech news, and
anything nerdy this week.
We're covering the biggest news items,
including steam
decks, massive price hike.
It came out of nowhere, slapped us in the
face and we're not happy about it.
Tim Sweeney tries to shit on valve.
I thought they weren't.
So we'll figure out how wrong I got.
And then, uh, yeah, all sorts of other
things, a Bellotto, compute,
uh, comp techs, uh, compute
x and, uh, more.
So this week I am joined by my co-host
Gardner and high tech.
What's up?
Uh, you can't get started it.
You're going to get high
tech to do it every time.
Uh, yes.
Uh, so yeah, thanks for being here guys.
Uh, we had a great week last week.
I think we're going to have just as good
of a week this week.
Um, but as always starting off, what
Gardner have you been doing this week?
What have you been playing?
What is, uh, what have been driving you?
I've been playing some more Forza Horizon
six, which has been fun.
Uh, it's not really my cup of tea.
I like racing games, but I'm more of an
arcade eraser and that's same.
Um, but it's, it's fun.
And nonetheless, it's, it's held my
attention, I will say.
Um, and I have also been doing a lot of
client work and I
haven't had a ton of time to do
the stuff I wanted to do.
Um, but you're playing games.
Hey, hey, this is a win.
It's better than the segment.
Yeah, it's better than my, uh, previous,
you know what I'm saying?
Right?
Like, oh yeah.
Whenever I get on, you
guys asked me what I'm doing.
Like I haven't had any time to play, but
I have been playing some stuff.
Oh, I also wrote, uh, a guide to PSP
emulation on SteamOS,
which is up on the Brite review
and it's, people seem to
be really enjoying that.
That's awesome.
Yeah, dude.
Hell yeah.
Indeed.
I should start doing, I've done some, I
don't, I try not to do
emulator videos that much
these days, but I should do some of that.
Yeah.
Maybe.
It's fun.
Maybe.
It is fun.
That's the thing is it's fun, but I just
don't like the controversy of it, uh,
which is unfortunate,
but, uh, the website's a
great place to do that, Gardner.
Like that's, you're pretty safe there.
So yeah, it's, it's one thing if you
know, you're on a
platform like YouTube, which has
arbitrary rules that
change under your feet.
Um, you're still quite upset about the
Steam Machine media center video.
Yeah.
I never got uploaded.
That was bogus, man.
Yeah.
It's on the internet archive by the way.
Yeah.
Oh, hell yeah.
Watch it.
But I still have a warning on it.
Despite the, the stuff, despite the like
strike falling, I still
have a warning on it and
I can't do anything about it.
Wow.
I think what's
annoying is I have streams.
Sometimes I keep up, I should probably
sunset them after a
little bit because it doesn't
help the channel, but like I have streams
from like a year or
two ago and all randomly
they say, Oh, this is not monetizable.
Suddenly like, okay.
Like no one's watching those now, but
like this has been two
years, like, and you just
marked it as not being
able to be monetized.
Like that's so bizarre.
Yeah.
YouTube is such a weird, weird place.
Um, but talking about weird places, high
tech would have you been up to?
I don't know.
That was a horrible segue.
I'm so sorry.
Roasted dude.
Yeah, that's so mean.
No, no.
Speaking of weird places though, I'm
playing double Oh seven first lights.
I am man.
I'm going to tell you right now.
I've never played an IO interactive game
before, but I might be a fan now.
Mm.
That's all their games.
Have they made again him?
The hip.
And I know they made hit man.
Yeah.
And that's basically all that.
That's all I know them for.
They've done all theirs.
I just can't remember.
But yeah.
And like, that's interesting.
Like a James Bond.
They make sense that they could probably
make a pretty good James Bond.
All right.
So literally on steam, the only games
they even have on steam
are the hit man games and
some game for 2003
called freedom fighters.
Oh, that's right.
They did freedom
fighters, but mostly hit man.
And now double Oh seven.
It's a great game by the way.
So they've got to like this.
So they've got like the
story missions, right?
So it's not so it's
not an open world game.
Thank God.
It's like a open ended game where levels
have like kind of vague
objectives and it's up
to you to figure out what to do.
And I like that the game isn't holding
your hands for that stuff too.
And then they also have.
Then they also have the VR.
I say they're not VR mission sailing.
They're like, that's what they that's
what Metal Gear calls them.
But like they have like missions that you
do to like, I guess
the post game missions
on the entire issue.
But oh, they did.
Can't lunch.
Yeah.
Oh, and whatever many ninjas is.
But hit man's are bread and butter is
definitely the bread and butter.
I I don't know.
I feel like it'd be very refreshing to go
away from that into double seven.
So if you've been unless.
Yeah, they all really like doing it.
And so like, you know how most James Bond
games just focus on
the fact that he's really
got shooting things and
sometimes you get to use his gadgets.
So they so there's plenty of that.
But there's also there's also playing
into the, you know, guile
of James Bond being able
to be the suave smooth talker guy that
can talk his way out of situations too.
And there's a lot of that, too,
especially in the first
level when you're the I think
they showcase the hotel mission like one
of the trailers back
and that's like the first
real level you get to.
But yeah, there's also a scene where
there's like the training
montage and it's basically
the tutorial.
But it's but it does like hard cuts like
as if it was a movie.
So yeah, it feels snappy.
It feels really good.
It feels like you're playing a James Bond
movie like the full
experience of just like
playing double seven.
Yeah.
I think been one of my problems with a
lot of the older James
Bond games because I've
played them on and off like probably I
wouldn't be shocked if I
played most James Bond games
just because I grew up.
That's my mom loves James Bond.
But they never felt like James.
They just felt like
shooters, typically, like you said.
Yeah.
This one makes you feel like James Bond
and you also get to shoot things too.
Of course, does this also part of what a
lot of what he does to blows shit up.
Yeah.
I've been I've been eyeing that over.
I want to I want to play it.
But going into what I have been doing, I
have not been playing pragmatic.
I have not finished.
I really do like that game a lot.
I have been busy.
I mean, hacking.
Yeah, I've been packing, fixing stuff up.
What in new floorboards or baseboards
because water damage and stuff like that.
Just kids put towels next to them.
And these are particle wood.
So they swell up, but doing lots of
different fun stuff
like that, researching
NASA stuff, because I really want to do
that, going through
some of my CDs, because I'm
going to I want to get the NASA with the
drive that then I can
back up my stuff so that I
can serve all my media going down
strategies like that.
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that we're going to be
talking about it soon.
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And then now speaking of concepts of
plans and I wonder if Valve
has any, you know, because
the Steam Deck dropping for, you know,
going up in price, that
is by almost like what,
at one, like $300?
Yeah.
$200 or $300.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's what's their plan here, guys?
Well, they sold out
after this massive increase.
And but it looks like
they're back in stock now.
Yeah.
I don't know what the
hell Valve's plan is.
I think that their plan is to sell
hardware and that's what they're doing.
I mean, I think the Steam Deck
was out of stock for how long?
Like two or three months.
Right.
Yeah.
And because they couldn't like apparently
like I'm kind of
reading tea leaves here, but
it seemed like they couldn't source the
material to actually
make more Steam Decks.
And so they had to raise the price.
And and it sucks because now the Steam
Deck is not the great
value that it used to be.
And it's not the best-known game anymore.
Right.
It is a horrible deal on us.
Well, people say there are a few things.
Yes.
People say this.
But like realistically, the top played
games on the Steam Deck
are mostly indies and a
few older AAA games.
And those are the games that people want
to play and they're
still buying them even at
the $300 price point.
So I mean, I agree with you.
If you want to be able to play games like
the most modern AAA
games on a handheld, this
Steam Deck is not the thing for you and
you can pay about the same
price for better hardware,
marginally better hardware.
But I mean, people still are
voting with their wallet here.
Oh, yeah.
This will still sell out.
And I gosh, my YouTube feeds and X and
everything with the amount
of people just dooming this.
But at the end of the day, I do think
Valve would do better if
they I don't know if they
need a PR team
because those get so scummy.
But just do more interviews to explain
what's going on because we
have a lot of assumptions
going on.
But honestly, I think what just happened
is one supply and demand.
People forget about this rule.
If you don't have the supply or the
demand's high, you don't have the supply.
Usually up the price and say, I don't
like it necessarily that way.
But that's just how you do it because I
think there was more and
more people also starting
to scalp to sell it and everything.
So I think this is kind
of a curtail that to two.
If people really want the Steam Deck,
they could pay a little
bit more, but they can
have that option to get it.
Don't like that.
But it could also just be tariffs are
fighting catching up trade deals that
they had or hardware
like after a while, if you're creating
hardware for a while and
the demand, especially for
these types of chips, aren't being met,
they cost AMD more and
more to keep those facilities
to keep that system going.
And so it could also just be AMD is kind
of tired of creating
these chips after so many
years when there's a lot of newer chips
that they want to create.
That could be it.
So if they sold in mass like the
PlayStation and Nintendo
Switch, they'll sell in mass.
So there's always need for those when
there's so that's why they
can usually even go cheaper.
As materials usually go cheaper.
But this is a very
really weird world we live in.
It's really hard to
figure out what's going on.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, shit, man.
I think the only I think the biggest
concern with us is that
Valve didn't communicate this
ahead of time.
I think if they like even Plex, fucking
Plex of all companies
communicated a 300 percent
price increase and they
even gave you a little time.
I get it.
I don't know if Valve would have been
able to do that given
they literally didn't have
stock, but they could
have taken reservations.
The last few reservations for an
affordable steam deck, right?
I mean, there was no winning scenario
here, I don't think like
they didn't have any in
stock.
You're absolutely right.
If they had and they announced a price
hike coming, you know,
upcoming price hike, then
that would have just
sold out immediately.
Right.
But they didn't even have that.
So they couldn't do that.
I just think they're either way it was
going to suck and they
just had to rip the band-aid
off and do it.
But I also think that this price hike
kind of illustrates
where the steam machine is
going to be in terms of price.
Like I think we're going to be it's going
to be at minimum on
par for storage options.
Right.
Like a lot of people are saying it's
going to be more
expensive just because it's more
powerful.
But there's a lot of considerations that
can sit like people are
just ignoring the fact
that the steam deck has a lot of
considerations that the
steam machine doesn't.
For example, a weight and ergonomics is a
lot of research and
development and trying
to like get that and shave that down.
B a battery.
That has a lot more
components than a steam machine.
People on the screen, the sheets were
like, well, the costs
and all this, but they're
using old stuff.
It's like, OK, cool and all.
But those don't like the steam machine,
your price, like they go
and price them too, based
on like what the hardware is
not based on bulk and all that.
Yeah.
Like there's a reason why laptops are
more expensive than
like equivalent desktops.
There's a reason why that's the case.
And this is just no exception, even
though it ends up being
more expensive than a laptop,
because of a more niche use case than say
laptops like these
for literally anything.
Right.
I mean, even the APU in the
steam deck is semi-custom.
Right.
It's like this is it's not an off the
shelf component where I
think most of the stuff
from the steam machine is going to be
like mostly off the shelf.
Am I wrong about that?
I think they're like few like I think the
GPU was like a fused off version.
Like I think there are batches that are
not necessarily the best condition.
I mean, OK, that's like the only reason
I've even selected the
GPU for the steam machine.
Right.
Got it.
And I think that's how much they should
be able to get it from
a mass produced source
like AMD source.
You know, like it's not like it's custom
where they have to create.
It's just yeah.
Like I mentioned, like if you're doing
something custom and
there's not demand, AMD is not
going to want to.
It's just going to cost more typically
when you're not mass
producing stuff is just how
it works with mass
production with the steam machine.
They are using parts that are mass
produced for the most part.
They have a higher demand, right?
They're still being used
and everything, hopefully.
I think the GPU is an
interesting one, though.
But for the most part, I think the GPU
and the GPU are going
to be one of the cheaper
parts comparatively
to the storage, right?
Ram and the like that's what's going to
probably jump that price up.
Yeah.
So and and valve has been having a hard
time getting whole
like, you know, storage ram.
So I would be shocked if it was more than
the steam deck, in my
opinion, in the sense
of like or a thousand dollars, I'd be
shocked if it was more
than a thousand dollars.
Yeah.
I think people are saying
it's fifteen hundred dollars.
But I'm like, you guys like there's no
way I could easily see
the frame being fifteen
hundred.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
The frame, I think the frame will
probably be around twelve to thirteen.
And I think the machine could be like the
low end storage option
for the frame without
a controller could probably
be like seven hundred bucks.
For the machine.
Yeah.
I I don't know, man, it's so hard because
I still want to believe
that the steam machine
would be between seven
and eight and a thousand.
But the steam frame has a couple other
things going forward to to
help with mass production
of the arm chip is not custom.
It is a standard arm chip.
Stump dragon, right.
And so the RAM, there's a little bit less
RAM in it because you don't.
It's unified 16 gigs and
then storage wise, I don't.
What was the store or are they going to
be similar storage
options like 512 and one
terabyte? I don't know if they've said.
I know, but I think
there's a lot of leaks.
Excuse. I thought there were.
I don't remember.
Speculation, man.
You're getting we're getting into the
trap of speculation of
just wait and find out.
There's they're going to hit
a spot where it will sell out.
I think people are a little naive because
like there's so many
people saying, well, it's
dead on arrival. No
one's going to buy this.
It's not. You know,
it's going to sell out.
I do like hearing a lot of people's takes
on the steam deck,
namely how it's over or
how it might still be worth it.
Remember, I remember the general
consensus used to be
just by a steam deck.
And now we have to consider the fact that
a steam deck is almost as much as an ROG
Ally X. Right.
But how much better is an Ally X?
Like realistically, it's the Ally X's
performance is like
it depends on the game.
You can get up to 50 percent better
performance depending on the game.
And that meaning it can
play about any triple A title.
Steam Deck can do that now.
But.
If you're playing indie games or playing
a lot of the games, like you mentioned,
Gardner, maybe someone
for like it doesn't matter.
You don't I mean, forts are like forts
are like in six works on the Steam Deck.
Yeah. Like, yeah, it does.
Brand new brand new game.
Yeah, I think I think
every triple A by saying a lot.
There's a lot that don't work on the
Steam Deck very well.
Or you sacrifice more like like there is
like a threshold of where
I mean, even with Pragmata, I would I
don't want to play it on the Steam Deck,
but on the Legion go to
which has the same processor.
I like it. I like it quite a bit.
I mean, I think there's something to be
said for having a
standard piece of hardware
that developers if I mean, and not every
PC game developer is going to target
the Steam Deck, but a lot of them do.
And they should they should target the
Steam Deck, though. Yeah.
And that's kind of where my head has
always been at with the Steam Deck.
And I think the Steam Machine
is going to come in and also be
that baseline performance for PC gaming.
And that's very exciting to me.
So I and like you said, I
think that the Steam Frame
and the Machine are going to sell out
like almost instantly.
As soon as they're available, like I
think there's going
to be preorder or like,
you know, backorder queues and shit for I
mean, just like there
was with the controller.
It's just I don't know how many
Steam machines will
they actually manufacture?
I think they're kind
of waiting to to see.
Only time will tell.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, man, I'm standing
in my steam controller.
I wanted to see if my steam
controller was available yet.
I still haven't got it. Oh, no.
No, not the steam controller.
Yeah, I still don't
have the steam controller.
And I want to know you want
you want to see someone do.
I'd like to see someone
take an existing Rg Xbox
Ali X and then take out the controllers
and replace them with
the steam controllers.
And just make a jerry-rigged steam deck.
The Ali X has really
good controllers, though.
Yeah, but like.
But if it doesn't have dual trackpads,
it's not really the same thing.
I do want to try to do it more and more.
That's another reason I want the steam
controllers really try to.
I mean, I said that about steam deck, but
I know I'll be honest,
like this like the Ali X's controllers
are the best in the game.
But that's depending on like I think the
steam decks are good.
Like I wouldn't buy the Ali
X because of the controllers.
I would buy the steam deck to let's say
like, you know, you have an Ali X2
and a steam deck to
come out at the same time.
And the only real
difference is the controllers.
I'd still get the steam deck, too.
Hmm. I don't think the controllers are
good enough to
replace the steam deck ones.
I think the steam deck ones are good.
And you get options.
It makes sense, absolutely.
So it makes hopefully it makes sense or
I'm not going crazy here, but
you might be going a little crazy.
I'm going a little crazy, but it's it
also comes down to preferences, too.
Like like steam deck is still.
Yeah, if you're a say you're a console
gamer, you're coming over.
I'd probably still
recommend the steam deck.
Yeah, I'd have to I'd have to reconsider
my I'd have to reevaluate
my position on the steam deck because of
the price, because I think a lot.
I mean, this might be a hot take, but I
think a lot of the theme decks
success came from the relatively low
introductory price of $400.
Yeah, yeah.
I think most people would not have given
it a chance, especially given,
you know, it has Linux.
Not saying that Linux was a negative, but
I'm saying I don't think people
were given a Linux handheld.
That's worth a thousand dollars a chance,
especially if it was the
first month, right? Right.
No, I agree.
I agree. And the thing is, like, there
could be some strategy to this.
Who knows? I just don't.
I think there's so much
assumptions going on with all this.
We'll see.
Hopefully this is not a
set in stone kind of thing.
Steam deck two is going to be a thousand
dollars or, you know,
because we got to remember, like,
inflation takes into a part of this,
tariffs taken to a part of this, even
though they're not
supposed to be happening.
They could be
affecting things and who know?
Like, it's a shit show there.
And the Ally X could be sitting on a huge
amount of stock still,
and they're going to sell
at the price that they can.
But once that stock runs out, is the Ally
X going to go up in price?
We don't know yet. The Legion go to is.
So, yeah, it will be interesting.
This is too short
term to say this is over.
We'll have to see what
the next year or two goes
and what the next team deck
two does. So or what? Yeah.
So we've heard a lot of people talk about
the steam deck, but.
You who do you who I
don't want to hear from.
Disney, Tim.
Yes, Disney, Tim, sweetie.
So you guys saw the tweet, right?
Let me go ahead and
read that tweet. Yeah.
So I should have saved
the actual tweet itself.
Hopefully didn't lead it.
Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everyone's being too harsh here.
There has been a significant
rise in the cost of components
that steam customer spending ultimately
funds and economic trends
created disrupt severe disruptions in the
component parts supply chain
for mega yachts. Listen.
So the last thing I want to hear
is some fucking mega
billionaire, some multi-billionaire
espousing some eat
the rich rhetoric. Yeah.
That's why I called him Disney Tim, dude,
like he's got Disney money now.
Like he's dude. Shut the fuck up, Tim.
He's very rich.
And yeah, thinking that this is going to
go supply the mega yachts he has.
I know it sounds like
he's got rich boy blues, man.
He's like, I don't
know for the mega yachts.
Well, here's the funny thing.
Tim Sweeney isn't the same like.
Isn't the same financial
bracket as Gabe Newell. Yeah.
Yeah, I think Gabe Newell may have like a
few more billions, but like
that's you can still once you get to a
billion, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
I well, I am curious, though, because
Gabe Newell's is liquid.
He doesn't. It's not tied up in stock.
Like Tim Sweeney's is
probably a lot of us.
Maybe that's why he's jealous.
Yeah, he just can't liquidate it as easy.
No, well, maybe he should just sell all
of his stocks and liquidate.
Yeah, his position's so fine.
Well, it's so pretty.
He sells you. Yeah.
If he sells, he could lose control. Yes.
Of the of the company. Yeah.
Let him lose him.
I don't. He doesn't
want to lose control, dude.
If and if he lost control of the company,
do you know who would have the majority
stake? Fucking Tencent.
Yeah. Yeah. It's going to probably die.
Yeah. If he sells anymore, as much as as
you guys don't like Tim Sweeney,
I am indifferent.
Epic would get worse, I think, if he lost
control of it at this point.
Yes, I agree.
So but I also wish you'd just stop
complaining and stop doing these
like weird billionaire feuds, which is
like, guys, come on, just stop.
You guys can just come
by our kind of stuff.
Like he has a successful steam client and
you're jealous and you want to make that.
OK, cool. It's not maybe.
No, sorry, go ahead.
No, go continue.
I just pressure it.
I don't know, man.
Tim Sweeney should not.
It's it's kettle calling.
I like listen like like I get it.
I don't really like billionaires all that
much, but I can respect when they stay
in their lanes and don't pretend like
they're one of us pours.
I just very it just doesn't.
Yeah, it shows cases like once you get to
a billion, your mindset is really warped.
So you don't really
have a really hard time.
It's just. But I mean, and this is weird,
too, like it's wild that a PS5 Pro
is cheaper than a one terabyte OLED
version version like what?
This has a whole built in thing system.
Is it as powerful as a PS5 Pro?
No, but like the PS5 Pro does not.
It's three times the size, so it's easier
to cool and everything.
So you can have the better hardware.
It doesn't have a screen with it.
The we're comparing apples to oranges at
times on these things.
The switch is an arm
based chip that is very much.
I don't think it's
the same build quality.
I think it the I don't like the
controllers as much even on the switch to
it's more comfortable, but like if I'm
going to pick something up,
it's going to be the steam deck.
So what is the tens
of thousands of games?
Yeah, I mean, dude,
like the fact that the one.
So is that PS5 Pro is that also a one
terabyte model even?
I think the PS5 Pro starts
at a terabyte one terabyte.
OK, I don't know, dude, like
this is such a silly thing.
Also, like what is
the reader context here?
He's clearly mocking the management
decision of Valve about price
increases of the steam deck to gain
engagement while Epic Games
under his leadership has faced repeated
mismanagement, major layoffs
of almost eight hundred and
thirty staff in twenty three
at over a thousand more in March to 2000.
That is true. That's brutal.
She laid off a total of like maybe.
I mean, eighteen hundred people valves.
Yeah, six valves. Yes, exactly.
Yeah, like that one has like what, three
hundred like actual employees there.
Yeah, I mean, he's he's he is
if he wants to complain
about valves mismanagement,
then it just makes him look even stupider
because Businessbro doesn't know how to
business as well as Gabe does.
I have I struggle with both their models.
I really I know that if
you're if Valve has so much money,
you're supposed to use it to create jobs
like in a capitalistic world.
And they are just not.
They're paying free software
engineers to make free software.
They do. They do. Don't get me wrong.
They do a good job.
I just I don't know. No, I agree.
It's not like pool a lot.
I just started to pull more.
But I think like we're
seeing some fruits from that.
And I also am very much
opposed to like, you know,
the idea of like just
letting money just sit there.
It just doesn't go back
into circulation. Right.
It's just pooling. It's just it doesn't.
We don't need to get into all that.
It's a spicy episode, but like
it's just it's just it's not even like
Gabe Newell's talking about.
He's like, whatever.
Like it's always Tim Sweeney just
shouting at the myth.
Who knows? I'm sure Gabe Newell sees it,
but you probably just
laughs on his yacht.
You know, it's just like, right.
You're yelling at the clouds, old man.
Dude, Gabe Gabe doesn't
have to post publicly to X
because he is like in private
communication with Elon Musk.
And it's not a flex.
I know I'm roasting
him. I'm roasting him.
That's bad. OK.
Not be. Well, I will say that.
I will say the game.
Newell doesn't pretend
to be one of us pours.
No, he's not from the fact that aside
from the fact that he plays Dota 2.
Right. Which is like
the poor man of the game.
He doesn't he doesn't have to
pay to say he's good to like.
Exactly. Yeah.
Yeah. And honestly, he doesn't even
pretend he doesn't even pretend to be
like good all the time.
Sometimes he he claims
that sometimes he loses.
Which is what I mean.
What explain sometimes
you lose that video games.
You know, not all
people are so are so humble.
Now all people are so humble.
Some people like to claim that they're
like the best Dota and not.
Some people explain that they're the best
Diablo, the best path of exile.
You know, they're the
best players on the planet.
They're also
attending government meetings.
Dude, so stupid.
I kind of want to see what Tim Sweeney's
top games are played.
I kind of want to see what these
billionaires and these people
that are so loud on their
like what their top games are.
Probably be kind of
weird, embarrassing, but.
Yeah, Tim Sweeney, I want to see what
your favorite game is.
I want it's not tax.
I don't want to see your taxes.
I want to see your top played games and
how much time you put in the stuff.
Yeah, there'd be nothing
there in his taxes anyway.
Tax simulator.
Oh, we're going to get ourselves in
trouble if we don't move on.
I'm going to start going down a bit, go
down a different route.
That's for the spicy episode.
OK, moving on. No, thank you.
Computex 2026 preview.
Nine big reveals we expect
at Asia's largest tech show.
So spoiler alert, we got to see some of
those reveals already.
Some of them have to do with more
handhelds, but this
time powered by Intel.
That's another thing I didn't mention,
like I want to mention,
actually, with the with the steam
machine, I think Intel's going to
I really think they're actually might
have a good comeback with all the stuff
because Andy and Nvidia are
just really not doing anything.
But yeah, sorry.
I mean, I hope so. I
hope Intel does something.
I I'd hate to see the third player lose.
I'd hate to see us not
have a third player at all.
Someone needs to keep
Intel and me in check.
I'm not sorry.
I tell this to Nvidia and AMD and India.
Yeah, yeah.
So, too, obviously, for the X86 market.
No. Well, I do.
And I would be here
for if the steam deck to
had an Intel GPU and CPU.
Like I've heard Intel based graphics are
not so great on Linux, though.
Well, I mean, if Valve put the investment
into it, it would be
obviously do drivers for
they could pay for the driver.
Yes, that's another thing
that they probably would do
if they're going to go that route.
And Valve, I mean, I believe Valve is
actually like hands on
with kernel development
for the steam deck hardware.
Like they are the ones
doing the drivers for the GPU.
Well, I mean, hopefully Intel, hopefully
Intel works with a valve,
because that's still like something that
has to be done there, right?
Yeah. I think it would be cool.
Because I know Intel is still in bed with
Microsoft over Windows.
Well, yeah, yes.
But also Intel open
sources, most of their drivers,
at least historically,
they must fair enough.
I mean, hopefully, I mean, hopefully.
We'll see some good Intel support, and
then maybe I might be able to afford
buying a building, a junkyard steam
machine, as I like to call it.
I've I still I still cannot
find a decent junkyard that has
all like good PC parts.
I was going to go and the junkyard down
the street and I couldn't.
It's not down the street.
It's like a couple of times over, but I
just forgot to do it.
Damn. So don't worry.
I need a piece of guard cells.
Are you still going to do a gardener?
Yeah, I don't have
time next week, though.
I'm literally looking at my calendar
right now and I'm flat out.
Damn. Well, that's fair enough.
If I lived in Maine, I'd go in our stead.
But since I don't live in Maine, I don't
know where anything is.
It only takes one trip
to fix that high tech.
Yeah. Come come visit high tech.
As much as I'd like to, I'd
have to find the time to do so.
And I have I have a big job to deal with.
True. You have work.
Yes, I know. I'm not a full time content
creator as much as I'd like to be.
We can fix that one day. We'll fix that.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe want to hit like 100,000
subscribers in like thousands of weeks.
You got diversified.
You got to have the blog.
You got to have you
got we got the podcast.
You got the channel. Get
diversified these days.
Oh, yeah. But I mean,
it looks like I will.
And going back to the article, it looks
like they're starting to diversify
a little bit, getting
cheaper cores chips that is.
And so to compete with MacBook Neo.
Oh, that's interesting.
So sorry, that was a horrible
segue back into it. But it's
it'll be interesting to see, like, and
we'll talk about actually, let's see.
It's expensive.
Yeah, well, we're going to
be talking about the Intel
arc G3 some more in a little bit, but
it will be interesting to
see as these chips get cheaper.
They're more powerful to like every year.
Like I think like
we're hitting these limits on like the
most powerful CPU and GPUs and APUs.
But I feel like the lower
ends are getting better.
So we're kind of like really
closing that gap to where soon you'll be
able to get these entry level
or even throw them into the steam deck to
and you'll have a pretty powerful machine
for, you know, hopefully
affordable prices, right?
Right.
And so.
So there's a lot more to this.
There's the nine big reveals.
The next one's Nvidia is finally
launching a laptop sock.
This is probably the year.
And is this the year?
Haven't they been saying
this for a few years now?
Yeah, but it seems this is a topic later
on, but Intel arm and I mean,
I tell sorry, Nvidia arm and Microsoft
are teasing something.
So we can talk about it.
OK, we can. Wow.
It's all these in the same thing. Yes.
Yeah, we'll get to the A.I.
Big iron phase two of the artificial
intelligence takeover.
Yeah, man, skip that.
I mean, I don't want to
hear about more A.I. stuff.
New desktop CPUs, cheap, cheaper memory,
probably not in type A.
Yeah, it's.
Yeah. Well, how's that?
Is that is that is that
a is that a jam module?
Looks like it.
Oh, fuck.
Yeah, that looks pretty sick, actually.
You know, framework implemented these cam
modules in their framework pro
the new devices, right?
Oh, I don't know that.
Yeah, it has a
greater bandwidth rate like.
Yeah, it's like near its near soldered
levels of performance.
That's pretty awesome. Yes.
I mean, I mean, there's still at least
some exciting things going on.
And even if we get a little depressed in
the mobile land or like Steam Deck,
and all that, there's still some cool
tech coming, hopefully.
Yeah, let's go down.
Agentic A.I.
And the agent computers as big glow up
will be center stage.
So is this like personalized agentics,
which I'm actually more for.
There's still some
other issues with it, but
I'm getting tired of the centralized.
The the problem is if they like
give us the, you know, client side A.I.
Then they can't control it.
And they're no longer like operating as
the priesthood of A.I.
And they won't allow that.
She stood of A.I.
I could go into all
sorts of more of a joke.
I'll avoid it for now.
Man, right.
Rise and A.I.
Halo, what the hell is that?
It says just announced.
Just announced right here.
Yes, that.
It's preorders for the AMD's
thirty four thousand dollars.
So she writes a Halo.
It's the DGX Spark.
Yeah, I'm better.
Is it X86?
Is.
Yeah, I think so.
Oh, wait, it's a it's just.
I'm not going to say it's
just, but like it's an A.I.
It's literally an A.I.
Yeah, use of the A.I. Max 39 is nothing
different than what we've seen.
I thought it was like a new it's a four
thousand dollars steam machine.
It's it's cool and all.
But like if you're if this is for A.I.,
you got to up that memory.
Hmm. Yeah, it's really expensive.
You just got to have
more memory in order.
Yeah.
Let's what else is there, though?
Surely it's going to be something else.
Six gaming handhelds.
Intel's ArcG series will
throw hands at AMD, Rise and Z.
Oh, yeah, we that's in the next article
that we're going to look at after this.
Hmm. Should we go?
Oh, my gosh, this is all just teasing us
for what we're going to be talking about.
Yeah, because Computex is next week, but
you know, also next week
the summer games first. Oh, yeah.
Hmm. This makes me kind
of excited for Computex.
Oh, dude, next
episode is going to be sick.
It's going to be half Computex half.
That's going to be our
entire show, isn't it?
Half the time we talk
about Computex, half of them
talk about Summer Games
Fest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That'll be a big
that'll be a big episode.
We might. I don't know.
Yeah, we might just
have to like, I don't know.
PC storage. It's it'll
be all about enterprise.
Then it's not PC.
Pass. Personal computing storage is not
about enterprise, but OK.
It's computing, but it's not personal.
Well, that's the point is this.
They're not equivalent.
That's the complete different things.
They want to pretend
like it is, but it's not.
But PC DIY dreams will
the RAM shortage crush them?
Don't count on it. I mean,
I'm not hopeful, but
we'll see what enough.
Those are cases. Yeah.
Well, we're getting
some more futuristic cases.
That's interesting. Yeah.
I like I think I'm I think I'm a big fan
of my aquarium style case.
I don't need to worry
about anything else, but this
is.
Height makes some pretty good cases.
Yeah. Yeah.
I have the one in the
middle on the left there.
Right here. Yeah.
It's the most that scream that no, it
doesn't have the screen,
but it has its glass, but it's like that.
And I hate it.
You do the screen.
No, no, like the case
because the only full size
PCI slots have to be
have to have a riser.
Like they, the other
ones are all like short,
like the half height PCI slots.
What?
Dude, it's insane, man.
I'm like--
It's not designed for showcasing.
Yeah.
I think it's designed
for, these are like,
if you like, this is like art,
a artisan kind of style of cases.
They're gonna be expensive,
but they're meant to be like,
you want to showcase
your PC, which I'm all for.
Like I think it's really cool.
Yeah.
But also like, if you
don't care about that as much,
it's gonna be a pain in the butt, right?
Yeah.
Man.
These are kind of interesting though.
I'll have to say, I like this concept.
It feels futuristic, it feels different.
Yeah, this one looks interesting.
That was a case I was considering,
though I ended up going
with Lee and Lee's cases
because they're, Lee and
Lee's pretty good on things.
Lee and Lee is, it's good, yeah.
There's a lot of
good, like, I don't know,
dude, this is another thing,
like Amazon's just
failing all the way around.
If you try to look on
cases like on Amazon, it's...
It's just trash.
It's so sad, it's so
trash, and it really is.
They have become just the
trash market of the world.
Like they're gonna be worse than
AliExpress and all that.
So, our Teamu, they're
gonna be beat out by Teamu soon,
if they're not.
I've been calling Amazon
Jeff's Refuse with my friends.
(laughing)
Speaking of AliExpress though,
they sell those weird motherboards
with the soldered memory CPUs on them.
I wonder if that's something we could do.
They also sell those BC 250 boards
that are basically just cut down PS5s,
if you've heard about those.
Yes, yes, yes.
Interesting.
Oh no, they've jumped up in price.
They're not worth $300.
Yeah.
Demand, man.
Supply and demand.
Apparently, it's just being
sold for $75, but not anymore.
Cool PC.
One of these days, maybe
I'll make a custom art C PC,
one of these days.
I still have to.
I'm not bored enough
with the projects I have,
actually having a better NAS project.
I like the sentiment, but
at the same time though,
I'm more interested in using
my computer than building it.
Yeah, there's a lot.
Yeah, there's a lot of truth to that.
It's sometimes kind of difficult.
Yes, I don't know how to segue into this,
but Acer expands gaming portfolio
with Predator Atlas 8
handheld powered by Intel.
Hi tech, what is this about?
This looks like new handheld stuff.
Yes, so Acer are making two handhelds.
One's a streaming handheld that only has
one gigabyte of RAM.
Not worth talking about.
What did you get by
the RAM for streaming?
Yeah, streaming to it
from like your main PC.
Yeah, if one gig
doesn't, that's not enough,
but oh yeah, sorry, I did.
Yeah, but this is the
one we're talking about.
Predator Atlas 8, it comes
with Intel's new Arc GPUs.
I mean, CPUs, which has B390 graphics.
I don't really know too much about this,
but Russ from Retro Game
Core put out a video about it,
so I'll have to watch that a later time.
But it seems pretty nice.
The problem is how
much is this gonna cost?
Does it say in here?
Probably not.
And honestly, I probably would say--
It doesn't say until
like the last minute.
Yeah, usually it doesn't say.
Like when it comes to this level,
like this is being shown in
case like at these events,
they don't say what the cost is.
Probably be a little
pricey though, right?
24 gig, I mean, I'm
liking up to 24, oh, okay.
I was gonna say, like
if that's the default,
I'm liking those defaults, but.
So there's gonna be two modes or models.
Yeah, well, like you said,
there are gonna be two models, right?
So there's gonna be the streaming one
and there's gonna be the
one that can play on its own.
So hopefully the one--
Yeah, so this, yeah, so I mean,
well, the one that streams is not a
predator, so to speak.
Oh, so it's not, this is--
It's another Acer, but this is,
there's two of these, Alice Eights.
But yeah, I mean, it looks pretty nice.
I'm curious what the
performance would look like
until our B390 graphics.
Yeah, that would be,
I mean, to be honest,
like for Acer, I would not get an Acer,
I've had one Acer product
and I was not happy with it,
but it doesn't look too
bad for an Acer product.
It says it should be around 10% faster
and on average than an RTX 4050.
So let's see, high settings, 1200p,
no upscale and no ray tracing.
The Cyberpunk benchmark
gave him around 53 average FPS.
What was the preset to,
was it like low, medium?
He says high.
He says high, that's pretty good.
I wanna know if he
can sustain that though.
That's one of the
problems with the Steam Deck,
it doesn't sustain the,
even on the ROG Ally X,
it has sometimes a
problem with sustaining
and so you'll get large
dips that will cause issues
with the performance or
like, it just doesn't feel good.
Makes it feel laggy, but
even though it might not be
hitting below 30 frames, but yeah,
I mean, that's impressive actually.
And they're catching up to
AMD, like this is pretty much,
we'll see when AMD comes
out with their next one,
but I feel like this
might be them being caught up.
This is what we need, AMD's
been resting on the laurels
so far too long, they
used to be the underdog now
with their APU dominance.
In the APU world, yes,
and so now we're gonna have
some competition and
Vidia's joining it too,
we'll see how Nvidia does,
but theirs is such a weird
architecture that it's
gonna be hard, these are X86
architectures, but
Valve's even kind of fixing that
for ARM, right?
So next time that
could be an ARM based one.
I think an Intel based
Steam machine may be the play,
that depends on the price though.
I mean, hopefully
Intel's not gonna charge an ARM
for the gaming GPUs,
but who knows really?
Yeah, I don't know, I
think it's up in the air.
I think Valve, depending on
what AMD's doing with Valve,
maybe that's one of the
reasons they had to prop up
their prices even more, was
maybe the APUs are costing
more, we'll have to see, it
just really depends on what
Valve, because it sounds
like they have a good rapport
with AMD, they might
just stick with that,
since they have good relations, but.
I mean, I'm hoping there
isn't something preventing them
from working with Intel on
getting Intel drivers up to par
for Steam OS, because
the idea is that Steam OS
is eventually going to
be a general purpose OS
for almost every piece of hardware.
I mean, even if they don't do Intel for
the next Steam Deck,
they should make sure
that all the architectures
are supported by Steam OS.
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, speaking of which, I did find those
airing motherboards,
the ones that come with
the soldered memory boards.
None of the AMD ones
come in mini ITX though.
What are the
capacities, what are the prices?
You know what, I'll just
send you the link to the search.
Here, you can click on it too.
Here you go.
I'm just searching for Airing AMD.
So this company, Airing, they sell,
oh, they sell motherboards.
You have to text an
unusual driver from your network.
I mean, I do think I have a VPN,
like Apple has a VPN on my thing, so.
Oh, just try
AliExpress.us, like by itself.
Oh, by itself.
Yeah.
Ah, there we go.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my God, what the hell?
They're body suits.
At first I was like, what the fuck?
Oh my God, yeah.
All right, Airing, E-Y, E-R-Y.
I-N-G.
Yeah, motherboard, right?
Yeah, I just typed in AMD
because I'm looking for the AMD one
specifically, but yeah.
God damn it.
All right, I guess we
may not be able to show it.
Let's see if this works this time.
It could also be my ad blocking maybe.
Yeah, so as you can see, they sell,
they sell these
motherboards with soldered memory,
soldered mobile GPUs, which I mean,
I think is perfectly fine for
some of the Gistine machine.
Yeah.
I think it's perfectly fine
for most desktop uses too,
to be honest.
But why soldered though?
Faster.
Does it make it, like
the reason I'm asking is,
you can't upgrade it at that point.
Well, I think it's because...
Does it make it cheaper?
I think it's because the
CPU's themselves are not,
are like BGA soldered.
Like you have to, like
you'd either have to A,
solder them to like a BGA substrate,
or B, it'd probably be cheaper
just to solder onto the board directly.
Materia Skya.
Like I don't know why
this is written in Russian.
Why is that written in Russian?
I, you think it'd be in Chinese?
Ah.
Okay, we're, you really love it.
Like this is interesting.
If it's a good price, okay.
Like, but AliExpress is so weird.
It takes so long to get stuff shipped.
If you've bought anything from there,
it can take weeks
because it's going to China.
Yes, yes.
Though, I mean, given the rate of the
junkyard steam machine,
it may take weeks,
months to even get that done.
True, true.
And by then they might even
have a real steam machine.
I don't know, man.
They're so quiet where it hitting,
like we're getting really
close to the quarter being done,
the first half of the year being done.
Oh, they said it's not
happening this quarter,
the beginning of the year now,
it said sometime in 2026.
That's true, that's true.
(sighs)
It'll be interesting to see what happens
with everything because everything,
they're still releasing,
like Intel's still releasing it
with some of the companies handhelds.
We'll see how the RAM market goes,
we'll see how the prices go up.
Like, I don't know.
I think this is all going to
extinguish a little bit of the excitement
for all this with the prices.
Mm-hmm.
So, because me personally,
like I was buying them more
when they were around five,
600 dollars, maybe a little bit more.
I can't, like as an average
person that buys this stuff,
I can't buy,
I can't justify buying more than one
every few years now.
So.
Yeah.
I think it's crazy.
Oh, by Han.
Not to derail your conversation,
but apparently sadly it's Bradley posted,
Steam Machine's welcome tour
was added to Steam's back end last night.
Ooh.
Welcome tour?
Steam Machine welcome tour.
Yes.
Is it going to cost $10 like
the Switch 2 welcome tour did?
Mm.
(laughing)
Val's a little more
generous than that, I would say.
It's $25 now, inflation.
Damn.
This is so sad.
It's a good thing they posted,
it's a good thing he
posted this when he did.
Otherwise we would
have missed this episode.
Missed on this episode.
Yeah.
Oh, interesting.
Shit.
So it's basically just the same thing
that the Steam Deck has.
Yeah.
But.
And the Steam Controller too actually.
In fact, they uploaded this,
if you recall they uploaded that to,
they uploaded it to Steam
like a few weeks before the Steam
Controller pricing came out
and then the controller subsequently,
I'm not saying the Steam
Controller's coming out soon.
I'm not saying the Steam
Machine's coming out soon.
That I'm gearing up for it.
But I'm thinking it's coming out soon.
I mean, Steam Framework,
Steam Machine they're gearing up for.
Like we've seen the
records for it, it's just win.
Soon. And will I be able to buy one?
Because I'm really
worried I won't be able to get.
I'm hoping it's a reservation
and then I get one in like a month.
Mm-hmm.
Soon TM.
Because of buying a house.
Okay, well the Bellatral publisher,
Playstack is being sold to GameSpot
and Fandom Parent Company, which is,
yeah, okay, GameSpot, huh?
Yes, I am not a fan of GameSpot.
This is weird, what a weird sell.
Right, so for those who don't know,
Playstack publishes a couple of games,
including 2024's "Indie
Darling Child" Bellatro.
Yeah. Which I,
I'm still waiting for the update to drop
so I can 100% the game.
Mm.
But essentially, oh yeah,
they also published "Abiotic Factor 2."
Oh, I do like that game a lot.
But essentially,
Playstack may be sold to IMC
and they, wow, they own
Screen Junkies 2 and Fanatical?
Oh my God, dude.
Dude, everything is just being bought up.
So, wait, who owns Playstack now?
What the hell, who the hell is Trufane?
I'm about to find that out.
Trufane, hm.
It looks like, is it private equity?
Everything is private
equity at this point?
Everything, if it's being bought up,
like a lot of companies are underneath it
and it's being bought up,
it's almost guaranteed private equity.
Or something similar.
They're based in the UK, makes sense.
And if you look at Trufane's website
under the Playstack area,
Bellatro is shown
prominently front and center
because that's like the one
game that made gangbusters.
Who invested in them though?
We have to, I don't know, man,
I'm not trying to
figure out who Trufane is,
but they're trying to sell Playstack.
Yeah.
Why is this happening though?
Oh, I mean, I hope, I hope
local Sunt gets his payout
because he deserves it, honestly.
Oh man.
I don't know, like I'm a
little worried about all these,
every time this happens,
it just kind of
destroys the IP eventually.
Yes, it will.
There's gonna be like
Bellatro board games
and all kinds of shit
coming out after this.
Bellatro the physical card game.
(laughing)
Bellatro the physical card.
They're gonna turn
around and start suing any
like poker tournaments
for infringing their IP.
Dude, that'd be so
funny if that happened.
I'd be all for it.
That is not even a joke,
like that's going to happen
because that's the world we live in now.
Yeah.
I hope not.
Okay, I wanna go onto
something a little bit different.
Let's go to stop killing games,
just pass the floor vote in California.
Sorry, that was, that
just gonna get me more upset
dealing with all this.
So, yeah, stop killing games,
just pass the floor vote in California.
We might, I didn't think
we would be getting this
this so quick in the Americas.
In the United States that is, so.
Yeah, but they've
reached the hardest part,
the Senate, the
California Senate anyways.
And as we know, as we go up the ladder,
we start to see more
things like more lobbying.
True.
Our favorite L word
of the day, lobbyists.
Lobbyists.
So it will be interesting.
So yeah, this is a good milestone though.
This is still good news,
even if it doesn't pass.
Shows it's got momentum here, right?
And so this is really good.
And if this doesn't get through the
Senate in California,
then it's pretty much going to take place
in the country, right?
Like if you wanna sell in California,
it's just easier to just.
Yeah, like you would be
significantly missing out on,
you'd miss out on a
significant chunk of gamers
if you were to be like,
oh, you can't play this game
if you live in California, right?
Yeah.
Like it'd be like stupid
to not just comply with California laws.
They'll make so much more money.
Only the private equity and the ones
that really don't
care too much will scoff
and really shoot themselves in the foot.
Everyone else that
cares about actually making,
and this is what you'll probably see is
if you see a company that
does not wanna comply with this,
it usually means they're
just spoiled rich people
as opposed to just doing a
little bit extra to make sure,
because this is an
interest of the gamers.
It's not like this hurts
the developer much, right?
Typically, like if
you're a smaller developer,
it could be a little
harder, but for any big company,
this does not hurt them.
But, this is a good sign, guys.
This is a very good sign.
Also with California,
I'm speedrunning these now,
I saw the tide.
California, though, moves to exempt Linux
from its upcoming age verification law
after backlash over
foreseeing operating systems
to collect user ages amendment proposed
by the same lawmaker who
wrote the original law.
This will be an amendment.
Like why, they should
have thought of this, yeah.
Well, I take exception
with the title of this article,
because the amendment was
proposed by the same lawmaker
who wrote the original law.
It is very clear to me that
the person who wrote this law
was handed this law
from some lobbying firm,
because it's almost
identical to the letter
as the Colorado law that
was very similar to this.
So, let's not try to give them credit
because this was, dude, this is insane.
They could have also seen this happening.
The Linux community
is not one to set back
on something like this, so.
Yeah, I mean, I also
don't wanna give them,
I don't wanna say
that this was inevitable
because this took
people getting angry and loud
to make this happen.
I've speculated as to why
the age verification things
started happening and
there was such a unified push
for it in the United States.
And I think it's
because the fascists know
that they can get
away with this shit now.
And it takes exceptional
effort on the part of the public
in order to prevent this
kind of stuff from happening.
So, we need to be loud and stay loud.
Yeah, let's keep it going.
The age verification
system, it's a weird one anyways
with the way they're trying to do it.
I don't think that's the right way.
If they cared about children,
they would make laws
that protect everyone
from social media and not just kids.
Yeah, exactly,
there's other ways to do it
than at this level.
It's really weird,
because even at this level,
kids can get around
it if they really want.
If they really cared about children,
they'd be doing other things
that would be more
politically charged too.
Yeah.
A lot of other things
they could be doing.
You can do two things at once,
but there's a lot of other
things they could be doing
way before they'd ever hit this level.
Right, so the concern
though is that SteamOS
may still be affected due
to how deeply tied SteamOS
is to Steam itself, you know?
It's still by fault.
Well, it is a proprietary one, isn't it?
Like SteamOS is not fully open sourced.
Right.
So that could be a part of the problem.
These people don't really know anything
about this stuff anyway,
so they're going to write laws
that are arbitrary and hard to enforce.
I think realistically,
SteamOS might fall under it
because SteamOS, like Android and iOS,
has an integrated store,
and that would probably
qualify it anyway, right?
So that's just based on
my lay reading of the text,
but I don't know, dude.
You know, Gardner.
Yeah.
Have you considered being a politician?
I have thought about
running for local office,
but I've been on the internet so long
that I feel like I
would have a lot of shit
that people would use against me.
I don't think that
matters in today's world.
Honestly, I think Trump
kind of killed all that.
The problem is, James, I have shame,
and I have said
stupid things in the past,
and people will probably use--
And he's not Trump.
Yeah.
Well, and I just--
I could teach you to ignore the shame.
Oh, dude.
Ignore the shame.
It didn't happen.
Shame keeps people honest, in my opinion.
Well, it's a double-edged sword.
Sometimes shame is brought upon
because people want to control others
with a very arbitrary system, but yeah.
My shame keeps me honest, I'll qualify.
It can keep people honest.
Like shame, certain
norms and stuff like that.
Yeah, I agree.
No.
But then, if you don't fall in line,
people will also try to shame you too,
with things that do matter.
You can just apologize,
just say you're sorry.
No, you don't ever say you're sorry.
No, you never apologize.
That's the world we live in now.
You can't say you're
sorry, which is like--
Oh, true, oh shit.
See, the problem is, my
instinct is to apologize.
And I just don't think
I'd make a good politician.
I know this stuff too well,
and I also call out people
regardless of my own well-being
or financial stability.
(laughs)
So yeah, I don't feel like
I'd make a good politician.
I'll be the politician.
I'll be the first
honest politician in history.
Yeah.
(laughs)
I believe that, I take it.
Man, yeah, running for
office would be very difficult
in today's world.
Yeah, I would not want to.
You just have to be really good at
ignoring the comments.
You just gotta practice,
you practice on YouTube.
You just don't engage with the haters
and you're on your way, man.
Gross.
(laughs)
Speaking of gross.
Gross, yes.
And Vinnya and my, yes.
Have you guys seen the tweet?
No.
It all says the same thing.
New era of competing or something,
a new era of PC.
ARM also posted a very
similar tweet as well.
So it's an Nvidia CPU.
I'm not interested.
The Cabal's real, they
all did it at the same time.
What do those numbers mean?
25.0528?
I believe, so someone put it in
and it's coordinates to Taiwan.
Computex.
Oh, wait, okay.
(sighs)
Okay.
Well, guys, let's hope
that the new era for computing
is much like the new
era that they ushered in
with Windows 8.
Just a nasty UI overhaul.
Powered by Nvidia.
This is interesting, yeah.
Windows on Nvidia ARM-based chips.
I don't know, Windows
isn't even the greatest.
It's gotten better,
but it needs to improve
their ARM support.
This is, yeah, they
tease it, we'll see it.
So next week we'll see
something that's gonna...
Going to wow and amaze us.
Wow, yeah, wow and amaze, I guess.
It'll be interesting to see support too,
because on Windows, ARM,
there's not a lot of game support, right?
Like...
Well, yeah, games just, oh shit,
games just don't run that well on ARM.
Whatever Microsoft is using is not it.
Their translation system
is not great for games,
so if you're gonna be
doing ARM-based gaming
that you need some translation layers,
you're just going to
be going somewhere else.
Yeah.
Now Steam, because now they support
that type of stuff more,
so it'll be interesting.
I'm curious what
Nvidia's gonna deliver though,
because if it doesn't have any,
if it doesn't have any
graphics capabilities,
then what the hell are
they even doing, really?
I don't know, that's the thing,
this'll be interesting.
So there might be more to it,
they might have maybe a
whole new translation layer
for gaming, because that's what,
I mean, if it's Nvidia,
if it's like equivalent
to an RTX 5070 class GPU,
then that means that they're gearing up
for something big for
gaming on ARM-based Windows,
is the only way that
they can go about this
not being a flop, if it
doesn't, it's a huge flop.
Like a massive flop if this can't play,
only can play a few games, you know.
So, we'll see.
We'll see, we will see.
Because at the--
We shall see.
Even for AI, like you
wouldn't do something like this
for AI, this is a gaming-based release.
And so we'll see in
what, in a week or two,
if the show, if they, if
the full reveal happens
and they do have a bunch of
games, part of the showcase,
then it could be a
success, else it's just a failure,
I think an automatic failure.
Just like Rocket
League, automatic failure,
when it's sold over to Epic.
Now, this is, what a weird way to like,
they're moving to Unreal Engine.
So Rocket League on Unreal Engine 6
announced at Paris Major.
So, it is weird to do it so soon,
but I guess Epic does
like to showcase their games
and sometimes they'd
like to upgrade into it.
And so, interesting.
What's this about, high tech?
So, Rocket League still
runs on Unreal Engine 3,
which is already
outdated when it came out.
All three, I think it's four.
No, no, four was the latest one
when Rocket League
came out, but it's on UE3.
So, they are upgrading
it to Unreal Engine 6.
Oh, and they also
announced Unreal Engine 6.
See, yeah, that was interesting, yeah.
Ah, man, Unreal Engine
has gotten a lot of flack
as of recently because a lot of games
just are not optimized,
whether it's developers or Epic's fault,
it does not really matter at this point.
It's a mixture.
I think people cry a little bit too much
about the Unreal Engine 5, but yeah,
it'll be interesting.
I mean, like I said at this point,
it doesn't really
matter whose fault it is,
what matters is it's a consistent pattern
and that needs to change.
Whether Epic needs to
fix something on their end
or if Epic just needs to
provide better documentation
for the engine.
I mean, they are
doing that more and more,
but yeah, they have some major,
maybe we'll see with
maybe Unreal Engine 6
is kind of get behind
the Unreal Engine 5 debacle
and issues, maybe
they're gonna be unreal,
when they release this fully,
they're gonna have all
that, like you mentioned,
maybe it's gonna be better optimized
and better tooling to kind of force
developers to optimize.
So, it'll be interesting to
see where they go with this.
Trust, yeah, I mean--
They do incremental
updates like this all the time.
Like we're on UE6 now,
I mean, every half a
decade, they upgrade it.
You know, I'm curious as to how
they're gonna develop UE6
since they laid off at
least close to 2000 people.
I don't think they were,
were they part of the engine?
I don't think they
were, I don't think they do.
I thought they were
part of the Fortnite team.
Yeah. I thought it was like a mixture.
Could have been a few,
sometimes companies
will like, people forget,
but like big companies will
do layoffs every year or two
years for underperforming employees.
People usually, they
still hire back on some,
but Fortnite just,
they're way over bed on Fortnite
and that's where a lot
of their layoffs were.
Yeah, well, maybe Unreal
Engine 6 will be better.
We don't know much about it
besides Rockin League's gonna be UE6.
It might even be the
first UE6 game altogether,
but I've heard some
rumblings that they're moving it
towards a more quote
metaverse system, so to speak.
But I don't know much about that.
I really don't know.
I'm all for this.
I'm excited for it,
depending on what they're doing.
I haven't been, I've
been doing more Godot stuff,
but I am excited to see
what they were gonna do
with the Unreal Engine 6.
I just hope it isn't what you're saying.
Yeah, only time will tell.
Maybe I am completely wrong.
It'd be, sometimes.
I really hope you are
because that will
probably solidify it just like,
the downward trend of Unreal Engine.
Well, sometimes being
wrong is not such a bad thing.
I don't like being right.
I don't like being right all the time
because I'm kind of a pessimist.
(both laughing)
It's easy to become a
pessimist in today's world,
I think, so.
Yes, indeed.
So, speaking of being a pessimist though,
Marvel, Stan Lee resurrected through AI.
For commercial use.
He lives. That's not okay.
I'm curious as to who
sold his likeness though.
His estate, his kids.
Estate would have to be, right?
The estate most likely owns it somehow.
And it's so weird that like, you die
and then this estate can tell the kids
or the state can say
what they can do or do,
not do with your likeness, your history,
you as a person, it's weird.
Oh, it's very weird.
I might understand
games, modeling a character
after Stan Lee, I can
understand the estate
getting involved in that.
But-- But if that's his wishes,
and that's the thing,
if they wanna come out
and like, this is what he said,
and we have it on
recording so they can't fake it
or anything, cool.
Like, I'm actually okay.
Like, if he wanted this, exactly,
I don't care if that was his will,
but it definitely seems a little saucy.
No, the estate's not
gonna just keep on making
a lot of money off him.
Or the estate or who, you know, Disney,
or whoever owns the estate at this point.
That's what it feels like.
I don't know, like, hmm.
Let's see, so, let's
see what this guy says.
Stan always believed in meeting his fans
where they were in the pages
of the comic at a convention
or in a quick onscreen
cameo, says Chaz Rainey,
a lawyer and board member
of the Stan Lee universe,
the company that
currently owns Lee's image.
Yada, yada, yada.
A little dystopian.
Did Stan Lee approve of it, though?
That's the thing.
Like, is it in his will somewhere that
he's allowed to do it?
That we're allowed to
make use of his voice
for shit like this?
So, I don't know, it's
just to make money, man.
If they want to be like,
okay, well, this is his will,
we're gonna use his
estate funds to then voice this
and it doesn't cost
anymore, you just get the comic
and you get his voice
reading the comic, cool.
But it really feels like, let's see,
Los Angeles Comic-Con
saw a technology company,
Proto Hologum charges between $15 and $20
for a three minute chat
with Lee's AI likeness.
It's just a money grab.
Yeah.
Like, that's crazy.
So, I think now's a good time to mention,
would you guys want
companies to use your likeness
to be recreated in AI?
No. Yes.
I'm gonna be
controversial here, no, I don't.
Maybe, but maybe.
Depends.
So, Stan Lee unfortunately died before AI
was really a thing.
Like, how long ago?
It's almost a decade ago, honestly.
Oh, was it?
It says he died in 2018.
Oh, that's crazy.
I remember when that happened.
Yep.
Damn, lots of things happened.
Stan Lee died, Iwata
died, dude, Iwata died.
Even my dad told me that,
like, President Nintendo died.
That was crazy.
That's how big of an impact it has.
Yeah.
So, I think at this point though,
we're gonna have to write in our wills
whether or not we want
to explicitly be used.
Like, I know Gardner just said no,
but I think you're gonna
have to put that in writing.
Oh.
Like in your will.
I don't know, I'm worried that
they won't even enforce that.
Like, Meta will just be like,
no, we're just gonna use you on Facebook.
If it's in your will, like,
what are you gonna do about it?
I don't know, have your estate sue,
and then they make a shitload.
If your estate has any money to do that.
Right.
Well, hopefully, we just
build a mistake then, eventually.
I don't know why I would do this.
I know, I'm sorry, I'd be
a really pessimistic here,
but it's like, yeah, you have
to also be famous enough too,
I guess, so you should have the money.
Yeah.
For them to care about it.
I mean.
That's crazy.
What kind of world are you living in?
It's gonna get worse, I don't know.
I'm really worried
that like, in 20 years,
once a lot of the action, like,
there's a lot of people we've been
watching for decades,
they're gonna start
getting too old to do the work,
and then are they just, or they die,
and they're just gonna digitize them,
and we're just gonna
have movies with them.
Because they cannot,
they have such a hard time
getting new talent for
movies and all this stuff, but.
And is it?
Yeah, because no one wants to be under,
like, fucking Harvey Weinstein anymore.
And multiple different ways.
And like, all the
disgusting Hollywood like shit.
Yeah.
Hollywood's lost all of its like,
a lure to a lot of people.
Especially since people
can just be content creators,
they can just be influencers,
and they don't even
have to move to California.
Yeah, time's changed too,
that's the thing that
people forget, like,
it's not like Hollywood's been
around for hundreds of years.
So.
Maybe 800 years at most.
Yeah, like generations change things.
Yeah.
Who even wants to be a celebrity more?
We've seen the crazy shit
that happens to celebrities.
Like, even like niche
micro celebrities like us
get a lot of shit too.
Sometimes I'm justified.
There's a dude on Reddit
who has made it his personal mission
to like get the Bryant Review
banned from every subreddit.
What?
Oh yeah, you haven't seen that?
I thought I dropped the link
in the chat, but yeah, dude.
You probably did, I probably like,
juggling so much this week.
It's hilarious if it
wasn't so sad and pathetic.
Has he succeeded in
getting banned anywhere?
It's hilarious because
it's sad and pathetic.
Yeah, no, this guy is like,
larping like I have a
coordinated team of like,
you know, people who are
spamming all the various subreddits
with links to my website.
And it's like, bro, if you
think I have the kind of money
that that would require,
you're fucking delusional,
first of all.
Well, I don't know.
Have you shown us your AI bot?
Have you shown us
your strike team, Jardin?
Right, well, man, it's like,
I have like metrics that back up like,
that people are using the share button.
Like people are using the
share button on my website
and people are using like,
people are just sharing links.
I have, I can't control what people do.
That's what natural growth looks like.
People don't understand this sometimes
if they like you enough,
they like to share your stuff.
Like my videos get shared
on Facebook all the time
from some fans I've had.
Like it happens.
That's what a community, a healthy
community looks like.
They want to share the stuff they like.
Oh yeah. Absolutely.
They might not know what that is, but.
Right, and if any of you guys out there
like this show, you can share it.
Because we- Like and subscribe.
We have fun, yeah, exactly.
We have fun here, like and subscribe
so you can have fun with us.
(laughs)
Hell yeah. Yeah.
Gotta get those calls to action in there.
(laughs)
Gotta get them in there.
And we have a lot of
fun in the bonus episode.
Just because they're a
little spicier for YouTube
and maybe sometimes a little political,
we throw them in there to
just make nice with everything.
Yeah. But they're good,
they're good.
Definitely go on over there.
Yeah, this is pretty much it.
I mean, I gotta get doing some stuff too.
I hate to say that this is
gonna be shorter episode,
but I think next week
we're gonna have a pretty,
try to have a pretty
long one though, right?
So we're gonna have
so much to talk about.
I wonder if it's gonna eat
into our bonus level time
because of just how extensive it is.
Oh, it's probably
gonna eat into it somewhat.
So we'll probably be a
two-parter into the bonus.
So we'll see that. True.
All right. True that.
True that indeed.
Thank you guys for joining us.
Thank everyone for
watching to this point,
for following whatever, if you can do so,
subscribe, like the video, share it.
Because sharing is like, honestly,
I think sharing does a really good job
of propagating to the systems.
So hey, this is a hot
thing to watch slash listen to.
So yeah, please do so.
Yeah.
Get us a dedicated fan on
Reddit to ban off the console.
Yes, exactly.
The hate fan. You know you've made it.
The hate fan.
The hate fan, you know you've made it.
So yes, once again guys, thank you.
Anything else you wanna end on?
I think you covered it.
We enjoy doing these
videos for you guys every week.
We're just shooting the shit.
Shooting the shit,
talking about the good stuff.
Sometimes they're not so good stuff.
Yeah.
Oftentimes they're not so good stuff,
but sometimes that's fun to talk about.
I mean, sometimes we
have to enjoy everything
falling apart or something.
Like you can't just
be, if you're cynical,
then you're just not
gonna have a fun time.
We have at least have a fun time
while things burn around.
So if you want to continue having that,
then tune in next
time to have a good time
while things burn down.
With that, peace out guys, later.
See ya.