1 00:00:01,710 --> 00:00:05,081 Welcome to off the console the hottest new podcast. 2 00:00:05,081 --> 00:00:10,974 That's all About gaming tech news and anything nerdy this week. 3 00:00:10,974 --> 00:00:22,479 We're covering the biggest news items including Apple is getting knocked out by Epic Games finally a win for us uh Gamers and developers, I guess I don't know. 4 00:00:22,479 --> 00:00:29,804 It's a big win against Apple and that's it's gonna be it's gonna be fun ride Also, your shit is getting more expensive 5 00:00:29,804 --> 00:00:38,049 Xbox is increasing their prices, but Also, the trifecta is fighting against the tariffs. 6 00:00:38,049 --> 00:00:54,138 So we're gonna get into all these big topics and more in today's episode so please welcome in high-tech lowlife and also myself and There is no gardener today. 7 00:00:54,198 --> 00:00:57,600 He has important business and 8 00:00:58,554 --> 00:01:00,965 He just has somewhere, he has somewhere better to be, right? 9 00:01:00,965 --> 00:01:04,896 And so, he, I'm sure he will. 10 00:01:04,896 --> 00:01:08,368 He's having a good old time and we all need time off at times, so. 11 00:01:08,368 --> 00:01:17,751 Okay, speaking of time off, kinda, but Derek, like, so how was your week the last week that you weren't recording shit? 12 00:01:17,751 --> 00:01:20,842 You, what have you been doing, Hi Tech? 13 00:01:21,710 --> 00:01:27,614 ah while I have been playing video games and working and working on videos. 14 00:01:27,654 --> 00:01:29,396 Same show you do every week. 15 00:01:29,396 --> 00:01:31,096 I also got a new phone by the way. 16 00:01:31,757 --> 00:01:35,350 nice, yeah, you had issues with your last one with the fold. 17 00:01:35,350 --> 00:01:42,053 so my folding phone, the hinge started messing up so I had to get... 18 00:01:42,934 --> 00:01:45,134 I'm switching back to a regular phone, man. 19 00:01:45,134 --> 00:01:45,895 I'm sorry. 20 00:01:45,895 --> 00:01:49,136 I really wanted to like those smaller flip phones. 21 00:01:49,136 --> 00:01:52,157 Flip phone style folding phones. 22 00:01:52,538 --> 00:01:56,119 But I guess the whole concept of folding phones just aren't for me. 23 00:01:56,159 --> 00:02:03,142 I mean, I could totally get over the crease that's forming in the middle. 24 00:02:03,170 --> 00:02:08,214 but it's the hinge and the durability issues that really get at me, because that was like my second replacement. 25 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:09,826 And I'm just over it. 26 00:02:09,826 --> 00:02:11,418 I got an S25 Ultra. 27 00:02:11,418 --> 00:02:12,839 It's been pretty nice. 28 00:02:12,839 --> 00:02:17,234 It's nice having a really nice phone in my hand again. 29 00:02:17,234 --> 00:02:20,266 And I don't know what, I'm not sure what else to say besides that. 30 00:02:21,935 --> 00:02:24,515 I am waiting for Apple to come out with their foldable. 31 00:02:24,515 --> 00:02:25,995 They're going to do it. 32 00:02:26,535 --> 00:02:28,216 All the rumors are pointing towards that. 33 00:02:28,216 --> 00:02:30,528 gonna invent foldables and do it right. 34 00:02:30,583 --> 00:02:32,624 Well, here's the thing. 35 00:02:32,624 --> 00:02:38,769 Sometimes it's really annoying how behind Apple can get, especially if you're stuck in their ecosystem. 36 00:02:38,769 --> 00:02:41,710 But when they release stuff, it's usually decent. 37 00:02:41,710 --> 00:02:46,394 um Just saying, like I'm not going to say that it's going to be the best or whatever. 38 00:02:46,394 --> 00:02:48,719 And I will see if I buy one. 39 00:02:48,719 --> 00:02:54,649 I love phones, but they've just gotten so iterative over the years that. 40 00:02:55,918 --> 00:03:02,378 I mean, I mean, realistic, like I got, I got my flip phone in 2023. 41 00:03:02,458 --> 00:03:12,118 Had it not started exhibiting multiple times, durability issues, had it not been exhibiting that, I probably would have kept it for like another three years. 42 00:03:12,118 --> 00:03:14,038 mean, I don't really replace my phone. 43 00:03:14,038 --> 00:03:16,618 I don't really need to replace my phone all that often. 44 00:03:16,618 --> 00:03:20,294 And like phone gaming kind of sucks, to be honest. 45 00:03:20,387 --> 00:03:27,632 I'm just, okay, the type of games I play on the phone are the ones that will play on something probably from 10 years ago almost, depends. 46 00:03:28,132 --> 00:03:32,236 Hearthstone, I've been playing Hearthstone on phones on and off for years. 47 00:03:32,236 --> 00:03:38,451 uh I don't play them very much these days, but like certain types of card games, Plants vs. 48 00:03:38,451 --> 00:03:41,743 Zombies, just games that are a little bit more simple. 49 00:03:41,743 --> 00:03:43,544 That's all, if I do. 50 00:03:43,785 --> 00:03:47,127 But there's, yeah. 51 00:03:47,298 --> 00:03:58,691 I mean a lot of games are real like I know Apple was trying to put push publishing major AAA games on like iPhone like the Resident Evil 4 remake. 52 00:03:58,691 --> 00:03:59,752 Remember that? 53 00:03:59,752 --> 00:04:01,414 That's on like the iPhone 16. 54 00:04:01,414 --> 00:04:01,948 uh 55 00:04:01,948 --> 00:04:05,841 And honestly, you can hook it up to a TV and play it with a controller and it's not bad. 56 00:04:05,841 --> 00:04:10,764 yeah, it's really for a phone. 57 00:04:10,764 --> 00:04:11,755 Like, I don't know. 58 00:04:11,755 --> 00:04:22,712 I really like how Apple's pushing that stuff because it adds more support for Atom processors, which is important because if, I don't even know if we have it on here, but 59 00:04:22,712 --> 00:04:29,987 like a bunch of rumors going around about the Steam Deck potentially having a processor that is. 60 00:04:30,107 --> 00:04:35,523 not going to be AMD is rising, like the rumors of that are rising. 61 00:04:35,523 --> 00:04:39,303 not AMD as in like Intel or like not AMD as in like not x86. 62 00:04:39,303 --> 00:04:40,684 not AMD. 63 00:04:40,824 --> 00:04:49,121 So they're, I think they're exploring Intel and also they're exploring Qualcomm. 64 00:04:50,228 --> 00:04:51,439 Intel? 65 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:53,701 Intel's an interesting choice. 66 00:04:53,701 --> 00:04:57,164 You know, I mean, I figured Qualcomm would like be a natural. 67 00:04:57,164 --> 00:05:04,890 If they were going with ARM, I would have expected them to go Qualcomm since they're still like at the top of the game when it comes to non-Apple processors. 68 00:05:06,172 --> 00:05:08,337 Non-Apple A and ARM processors. 69 00:05:08,337 --> 00:05:14,721 thing too they could have hinted at that and but AMD is working on Adams is tough too and so. 70 00:05:15,823 --> 00:05:26,711 Sorry I'm arm I say I mix those up so much I hate it so much yes arm Adam is Intel's old processor. 71 00:05:26,882 --> 00:05:33,217 Yes, I have nightmares about an old Adam laptop I owned, like, many years ago. 72 00:05:34,049 --> 00:05:41,902 I was able to play World of Warcraft in college class uh on an old Adam laptop netbook I had, so good memories for me. 73 00:05:41,902 --> 00:05:49,162 uh I wonder if Gardner owned an Atom laptop? 74 00:05:50,140 --> 00:05:52,166 Probably, maybe, I don't know. 75 00:05:52,166 --> 00:05:58,501 I'm not gonna defend it, but I'm just saying I've had good times with that and also an AMD APU netbook that I had. 76 00:05:58,582 --> 00:06:06,837 Yeah, that said, recent atoms have been surprisingly decent for NAS usage, I have a NAS setup. 77 00:06:06,837 --> 00:06:09,315 It's a LinkStation N1. 78 00:06:09,315 --> 00:06:12,289 It's an all SSD NAS. 79 00:06:13,150 --> 00:06:19,124 They sent it for, yeah, not sponsored by them today, but they did send me a unit to review. 80 00:06:19,124 --> 00:06:25,317 think uh the company is Link Plus, L-I-N-C Plus. 81 00:06:25,317 --> 00:06:27,558 uh 82 00:06:27,930 --> 00:06:35,896 I've been looking into doing some reviews on some of those because I want to build an app and I love the idea of an all SSD or like all NVMe. 83 00:06:36,172 --> 00:06:44,573 Yeah, so it has four NVMe slots and two SATA slots for like 2.5 inch SATA drives. 84 00:06:45,155 --> 00:06:53,406 And so I'm using some SATA SSDs that I had lying around and I've just been uh editing off of those. 85 00:06:54,219 --> 00:06:55,841 Oh, nice. 86 00:06:56,263 --> 00:07:06,702 I have like four NVMe drives lying around that I wanna figure out how I can plug into my um network or into my Macbook or my Mac Studio. 87 00:07:06,702 --> 00:07:12,180 honestly that's probably it also comes with a key it also comes with an unraid license too 88 00:07:12,545 --> 00:07:13,706 Yeah, that's what I've heard. 89 00:07:13,706 --> 00:07:21,175 so, uh, yeah, I just got, got to get off my butt and get onto content and get some of those review units. 90 00:07:21,937 --> 00:07:22,937 I know. 91 00:07:24,020 --> 00:07:25,622 I'm having too much fun. 92 00:07:25,622 --> 00:07:26,964 Gardener's not here to make fun of me. 93 00:07:26,964 --> 00:07:29,286 I'm having too much fun with vibe coding. 94 00:07:31,031 --> 00:07:32,273 Vive coding? 95 00:07:32,273 --> 00:07:34,036 Dude, you forget that I'm here too, dude. 96 00:07:34,036 --> 00:07:35,257 uh 97 00:07:35,257 --> 00:07:44,173 but you're not gonna make fun of me as much as gardener is but vibe coding is okay and to be fair I Am NOT I'm just having a vibe code like out stuff. 98 00:07:44,173 --> 00:07:57,672 I don't want to do I'm making it like be my workhorse because Like if I had an intern or like a junior engineer, this is what I'd be having them do anyways, so It's just fun to 99 00:07:57,672 --> 00:07:58,560 tell to do stuff 100 00:07:58,560 --> 00:07:59,321 coding onto them. 101 00:07:59,321 --> 00:08:02,083 That's so managerial. 102 00:08:02,725 --> 00:08:04,014 That would be hilarious. 103 00:08:04,014 --> 00:08:05,215 the prompt I need you to give it. 104 00:08:05,215 --> 00:08:06,095 Okay. 105 00:08:06,216 --> 00:08:08,077 I just micromanage them. 106 00:08:09,012 --> 00:08:13,646 Dude, transitioning from a ground level employee to management. 107 00:08:13,646 --> 00:08:14,947 Love to see it. 108 00:08:14,947 --> 00:08:18,400 You're C-suite exec material, dude. 109 00:08:19,405 --> 00:08:27,929 Yeah, well yeah, and then that junior developer like, okay, you're a senior developer because you have now the AI developer, that's your junior. 110 00:08:27,929 --> 00:08:29,471 That's how you get a raise. 111 00:08:30,498 --> 00:08:35,758 Oh man, but yeah, I mean, I don't know what to make of it. 112 00:08:36,418 --> 00:08:37,278 AI... 113 00:08:37,992 --> 00:08:39,462 is overblow. 114 00:08:39,462 --> 00:08:42,513 I think some people give it too much shit, like vibe coding. 115 00:08:42,513 --> 00:08:45,194 I think other people blow up too much about it. 116 00:08:45,194 --> 00:08:50,776 I only say it a little bit mockingly, because it's funny to say like vibe coding. 117 00:08:51,016 --> 00:08:58,618 Unless you're a developer or really want to dig into things, because you're still going to have to learn a bunch of shit. 118 00:08:58,828 --> 00:09:00,234 You have to debug yourself, dude. 119 00:09:00,234 --> 00:09:02,733 You can't trust an AI to debug your code. 120 00:09:03,259 --> 00:09:11,579 If you're really, really precise with your prompts, and that's where it all comes down to, are you good at being detailed and creating a plan? 121 00:09:11,979 --> 00:09:20,259 You can do, you can get 90 % of the way through, but then the last 10%, you better know what you're doing to get that thing launched. 122 00:09:20,259 --> 00:09:25,576 And I think a lot of people are really shooting themselves in the foot because they're trying to release stuff without knowing what they're building. 123 00:09:25,576 --> 00:09:32,097 Dude, we need to release a supercut of you mentioning Vibe Code in every episode of the podcast. 124 00:09:32,799 --> 00:09:39,190 Dude, we should do that, make supercuts of us mentioning common themes and shit. 125 00:09:39,526 --> 00:09:40,619 yeah, I'm down for that. 126 00:09:40,619 --> 00:09:42,918 Oh, vibe coding. 127 00:09:42,918 --> 00:09:46,633 It'll be surprised him when he watches this episode. 128 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:53,008 Dude, I do, like I mentioned last week, I really do feel like I'm villain maxing right now. 129 00:09:53,008 --> 00:09:56,452 Because with all the kids are saying with the maxing stuff. 130 00:09:57,174 --> 00:09:58,896 Apple, I'm Apple now. 131 00:09:58,896 --> 00:10:01,499 I'm vibe coding. 132 00:10:01,860 --> 00:10:03,742 I'm giving into AI. 133 00:10:03,901 --> 00:10:06,873 goddamn Apple evangelist. 134 00:10:08,882 --> 00:10:14,996 I honestly, I think I'm just done with Microsoft shit is I think kind of kind of what it is. 135 00:10:14,996 --> 00:10:24,910 Like I don't mind their Xbox brand so much because I think they've done a lot of good in the sense of opening it up to Steam more and like Windows are like meaning gaming that is 136 00:10:24,910 --> 00:10:30,572 like I don't have to buy an Xbox to play Xbox games, which huge win for me. 137 00:10:30,572 --> 00:10:37,155 ah But I really like Windows is just feeling like a clown car right now. 138 00:10:37,709 --> 00:10:42,966 every little product they just shove into there and I just don't know when they're all going to pop out but 139 00:10:43,820 --> 00:10:55,432 dude I mean there's so much change going on in the world of AI no one no one knows what's going on you know my sister's a doctor and she and you know apparently she's been talking 140 00:10:55,432 --> 00:11:05,463 about how all the doctors have been concerned that AI is gonna take their jobs too and like doctors are like known for having financial security like that's like the one thing 141 00:11:05,463 --> 00:11:06,784 people like 142 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:13,005 think they want to be a doctor for is to have a really high paying job that you're not going to get fired from, most likely. 143 00:11:13,005 --> 00:11:14,048 At least that's... 144 00:11:14,048 --> 00:11:14,550 yeah. 145 00:11:14,550 --> 00:11:16,491 those doctors are, I won't go to those. 146 00:11:16,491 --> 00:11:18,982 I want to go to ones that want to be there for the patient. 147 00:11:19,643 --> 00:11:21,944 I am kidding, though, partially. 148 00:11:22,004 --> 00:11:25,486 But there are some asshole doctors that just don't care about the patients. 149 00:11:25,486 --> 00:11:31,109 ah And it's just about paycheck for them, which I guess, whatever. 150 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:33,935 I just don't want to die under those guys. 151 00:11:33,935 --> 00:11:39,388 well, I mean, like you can't even make it through med school if you don't at the very least want to help patients. 152 00:11:39,388 --> 00:11:44,552 It's just probably just years of seeing a bunch of shit happen and then like... 153 00:11:44,552 --> 00:11:49,116 Technically some, I think also lose the, they burn out too. 154 00:11:49,116 --> 00:11:50,897 Yeah, that's a whole other thing. 155 00:11:50,897 --> 00:11:53,158 That's where AI could actually help doctors. 156 00:11:53,158 --> 00:11:56,861 They could help them diagnose and then they can be the second opinion kind of thing. 157 00:11:56,861 --> 00:11:58,482 Like, okay, here's the diagnosis. 158 00:11:58,482 --> 00:12:01,243 They go through and they're like, I'm not sure about that. 159 00:12:01,324 --> 00:12:04,146 And be the reasonable guide. 160 00:12:04,146 --> 00:12:06,057 It's just like with engineers right now. 161 00:12:06,057 --> 00:12:09,009 Like lot of companies are replacing engineers. 162 00:12:09,009 --> 00:12:12,451 And I think that's even happening in the game world a little bit. 163 00:12:13,165 --> 00:12:20,040 with AI or at least reducing their account, but they're gonna have to realize like, they're gonna have a lot of spaghetti code that they're gonna have to be cleaning up. 164 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:26,234 And so there's a potential reduction of developers, but I do think it might rebound. 165 00:12:26,234 --> 00:12:31,728 I was a little hesitant about this, but I think it might rebound back up when they have to fix a bunch of spaghetti code. 166 00:12:31,728 --> 00:12:42,294 um Because really AI should be used as a tool, at least for the next while to um help engineers not to replace them. 167 00:12:42,294 --> 00:12:44,876 Yeah, I mean, who knows? 168 00:12:44,876 --> 00:12:46,026 We'll see how it shakes out. 169 00:12:46,026 --> 00:12:51,880 AI is still very much in development and it's still improving day over day. 170 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,301 We have no idea where it's going to go next. 171 00:12:53,301 --> 00:13:04,257 Honestly, when I hear AI revolution, I kind of think of like the Matrix where like we get into a massive like final war against the AIs and then the AIs win and then they like 172 00:13:04,257 --> 00:13:09,662 enslave us, us into batteries or like Terminator 2. 173 00:13:10,031 --> 00:13:15,186 where they're still in a final war against Skynet or whatever. 174 00:13:15,767 --> 00:13:18,789 It's going to take a while before we get there. 175 00:13:20,790 --> 00:13:25,247 The general artificial intelligence or is. 176 00:13:25,627 --> 00:13:29,095 Yeah, like a sentience level is, I think we're a ways away. 177 00:13:31,087 --> 00:13:33,958 It would be and there's usually. 178 00:13:35,141 --> 00:13:35,932 governors on them. 179 00:13:35,932 --> 00:13:41,039 So governor would be essentially, hey, you can't go outside, like you can't hurt a human. 180 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:44,313 You can't go out the side of the sides of these bounds and everything. 181 00:13:44,313 --> 00:13:47,767 And AIs already kind of have that. 182 00:13:47,789 --> 00:13:50,793 law of robotics are meant to be broken, dude. 183 00:13:50,793 --> 00:13:51,954 Obviously. 184 00:13:52,698 --> 00:13:57,540 I mean, it will happen, but that's why you have good robots to go against bad robots. 185 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:00,635 Dude... 186 00:14:01,070 --> 00:14:03,141 know what this reminds me of? 187 00:14:03,423 --> 00:14:04,805 Mega Man X. 188 00:14:06,150 --> 00:14:08,002 yeah, you ever played Mega Man X? 189 00:14:08,002 --> 00:14:09,579 I've played the Mega Man's. 190 00:14:09,579 --> 00:14:10,724 I haven't beat. 191 00:14:10,724 --> 00:14:15,098 I don't think I've beaten one, but I don't think I ever understood the stories because I played them so young. 192 00:14:15,098 --> 00:14:18,518 classic Mega Man is just like, oh, good robot fights, bad robots. 193 00:14:18,518 --> 00:14:27,438 But in Mega Man X, it's kind of more like Blade Runner, where you have Mega Man X and Zero going against their Maverick hunters. 194 00:14:27,638 --> 00:14:34,098 And then they fight against Reploids that have become Maverick for number of different reasons. 195 00:14:34,098 --> 00:14:44,218 They're either like political enemies going against humanity or like they've been infected by the Sigma virus and so they just go crazy and kill everyone. 196 00:14:44,716 --> 00:14:45,949 It's kinda like that. 197 00:14:47,380 --> 00:14:49,921 You should play the Mega Man X games, they're pretty cool. 198 00:14:49,921 --> 00:14:51,495 do this. 199 00:14:51,495 --> 00:14:53,689 Is there a collection on Steam that I could play on Steam Deck? 200 00:14:53,689 --> 00:14:56,323 Okay, there you go. 201 00:14:56,323 --> 00:14:57,245 I'm gonna have to pick them up. 202 00:14:57,245 --> 00:14:58,158 I do like the Mega Man. 203 00:14:58,158 --> 00:14:59,007 Those are fun games. 204 00:14:59,007 --> 00:15:00,820 are, and that'd be a good game to play on the Steam Deck. 205 00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:02,091 That's why I ask. 206 00:15:02,393 --> 00:15:03,118 Okay. 207 00:15:03,118 --> 00:15:05,718 Oh yeah, they're all pretty good to play on the Steam Deck. 208 00:15:05,898 --> 00:15:08,698 Even the newest one, Mega Man 11. 209 00:15:09,765 --> 00:15:10,765 There you go. 210 00:15:10,765 --> 00:15:12,017 It's a lot of games to kill. 211 00:15:12,017 --> 00:15:13,617 my gosh, there's so many games. 212 00:15:13,677 --> 00:15:14,667 That's OK. 213 00:15:14,667 --> 00:15:22,465 What I've been working on is setting up my I mounted my uh Mac studio under my desk. 214 00:15:22,465 --> 00:15:23,495 So I 3D printed. 215 00:15:23,495 --> 00:15:24,586 don't I forgot to show it. 216 00:15:24,586 --> 00:15:27,728 ah 3D printed amount. 217 00:15:28,149 --> 00:15:32,852 That can go under the desk and the screws in under the desk and my Mac studios down there now. 218 00:15:33,273 --> 00:15:36,705 It barely produces any heat. 219 00:15:36,892 --> 00:15:40,632 It is very quiet like I've never heard it. 220 00:15:40,632 --> 00:15:43,672 I just it's like the perfect workstation. 221 00:15:43,672 --> 00:15:55,832 And then I have my Windows machine over there that I'm redoing with my one terabyte NVMe to then and I have a KVM and I'm just going to switch between the two. 222 00:15:57,152 --> 00:16:05,551 And so that or that's the first thing and then I'm going to eventually network like I've talked about in the past, but. 223 00:16:05,551 --> 00:16:09,755 Yeah, I remote into my MacBook for work. 224 00:16:09,755 --> 00:16:13,377 It is like, I have almost the perfect setup. 225 00:16:13,377 --> 00:16:22,285 ah So it's getting there and it's all to prepare, because I need to get this done this weekend. 226 00:16:22,285 --> 00:16:29,411 It's all to prepare because there are so many fucking good games on Microsoft's Game Pass right now. 227 00:16:29,411 --> 00:16:33,094 It is not, like we should probably talk about this too. 228 00:16:33,094 --> 00:16:34,135 I'm gonna throw this in. 229 00:16:34,135 --> 00:16:34,995 m 230 00:16:35,943 --> 00:16:37,694 because it's such a good deal right now. 231 00:16:37,694 --> 00:16:46,169 I don't usually go this route because I usually want to buy games, but I think just to save money so I can buy more shit, uh like more hardware. 232 00:16:46,169 --> 00:16:57,375 getting getting ready for the eighty dollar video game shit spoiler alert we're gonna talk about the eighty dollar video game in this video in this video too or in this episode so 233 00:16:57,375 --> 00:16:59,136 I can't believe you spoiled it. 234 00:16:59,136 --> 00:17:01,037 We have to start over, okay. 235 00:17:01,137 --> 00:17:02,057 Wrap it up guys. 236 00:17:02,057 --> 00:17:05,239 Okay, let's wrap it up and get into the topics though. 237 00:17:05,239 --> 00:17:07,439 So a little bit of call to action. 238 00:17:07,439 --> 00:17:11,121 You guys have been uh loyal listeners for now for months. 239 00:17:11,121 --> 00:17:14,682 Maybe not years yet, but hopefully years. 240 00:17:14,703 --> 00:17:17,514 If you have not done so, make sure to subscribe on YouTube. 241 00:17:17,514 --> 00:17:23,346 Even if you listen on the audio podcast, it helps us on the YouTube circuit too. 242 00:17:23,346 --> 00:17:25,819 And sometimes it's just good to... 243 00:17:25,819 --> 00:17:35,779 to watch these on YouTube as opposed to 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253 00:18:20,923 --> 00:18:32,302 Once something affects me or we affect other people like I think it's fair game to talk about and I don't think this is a sides issue I don't think anyone except for Maybe some 254 00:18:32,302 --> 00:18:36,535 people that just don't understand or refuse to understand tariffs want tariffs. 255 00:18:36,596 --> 00:18:40,859 No one wants tariffs There's a lot of advocate like on both sides. 256 00:18:40,859 --> 00:18:44,262 No one wants almost no one wants tariffs that knows what they're talking about. 257 00:18:44,262 --> 00:18:50,867 So Yeah, why don't you why don't you lead into this a little bit high-tech with the like explain what's going on here? 258 00:18:50,912 --> 00:18:57,870 The government has become a Godzilla-sized threat to the point where the video game Avengers have assembled. 259 00:18:57,870 --> 00:19:04,878 You have Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all teaming up against the Trump administration. 260 00:19:04,878 --> 00:19:12,426 And one has to wonder, how bad does it have to be to get Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft together to do anything together? 261 00:19:13,423 --> 00:19:26,249 The funny thing about this actually is that I think they have gotten together before and part of the reason they do this is that it makes their statements so much stronger to say, 262 00:19:26,249 --> 00:19:27,749 hey, we're together, right? 263 00:19:27,749 --> 00:19:30,170 ah Let's move this down to here. 264 00:19:30,466 --> 00:19:32,987 yeah, absolutely, absolutely dude. 265 00:19:35,148 --> 00:19:38,279 if one of them just did it separately, then it seems kind of petty. 266 00:19:38,279 --> 00:19:39,379 They just want more profit, right? 267 00:19:39,379 --> 00:19:47,212 But all of them are doing it together, and it makes a bold statement that no one in the games industry wants this. 268 00:19:47,212 --> 00:19:51,734 The only way this could get any better is if Valve were actually part of this letter too. 269 00:19:52,380 --> 00:19:57,127 I don't think it affects Valve as much and that's why they should be a part of it, but maybe... 270 00:19:57,145 --> 00:19:58,649 right, yeah, because Valve doesn't... 271 00:19:58,649 --> 00:19:59,590 Well... 272 00:20:00,655 --> 00:20:02,340 Yeah, yeah, they do the CMake. 273 00:20:02,340 --> 00:20:02,815 Yeah. 274 00:20:02,815 --> 00:20:08,686 said, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, have done joint lawsuits before. 275 00:20:08,886 --> 00:20:12,787 And so maybe they already have a team up here, so I'm not shocked. 276 00:20:12,787 --> 00:20:14,587 But I will say one thing. 277 00:20:15,248 --> 00:20:24,730 To bring this into the world of games a little bit, this quote, I believe this is from Forbes, is, it's not often Mario, Master Chief, and Kratos agree on something, but 278 00:20:24,730 --> 00:20:27,586 apparently, tariffs are their final boss, which is cheesy but fun. 279 00:20:27,586 --> 00:20:32,154 did someone should someone should like draw a picture of that happening 280 00:20:32,482 --> 00:20:33,080 They should. 281 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,666 That'd be a fun t-shirt, actually. 282 00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:36,527 Dude, that would be so awesome. 283 00:20:37,909 --> 00:20:38,568 Final... 284 00:20:38,568 --> 00:20:40,026 Dude, we should do that. 285 00:20:40,026 --> 00:20:41,412 We should make... 286 00:20:41,412 --> 00:20:43,513 Dude, write that down. 287 00:20:43,513 --> 00:20:44,634 Write that down. 288 00:20:46,252 --> 00:20:47,574 Okay, I wrote it down. 289 00:20:47,697 --> 00:20:48,698 I need it. 290 00:20:50,457 --> 00:20:51,415 I'm writing it down now. 291 00:20:51,415 --> 00:20:53,185 ah 292 00:20:53,185 --> 00:20:54,116 yeah. 293 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:57,249 Sorry for the throat clearing. 294 00:20:58,167 --> 00:20:59,647 No, you're good. 295 00:21:00,807 --> 00:21:02,627 yeah. 296 00:21:03,647 --> 00:21:05,327 What else do you think of this? 297 00:21:05,547 --> 00:21:06,747 do you think is gonna come up with this? 298 00:21:06,747 --> 00:21:08,267 Do you think it's gonna work? 299 00:21:08,686 --> 00:21:10,506 I don't know. 300 00:21:10,546 --> 00:21:17,546 And honestly, don't, I mean, I don't know what to make of it besides the fact that it's happening. 301 00:21:17,666 --> 00:21:20,786 It's a little too soon to say if it's going to work or not for sure. 302 00:21:20,786 --> 00:21:23,686 But there are some very important statistics to look at. 303 00:21:23,686 --> 00:21:24,986 mean, look at this. 304 00:21:25,466 --> 00:21:29,806 It says 99.7 % of all video game consoles. 305 00:21:31,226 --> 00:21:33,446 Hold on, no, I'm reading it wrong. 306 00:21:33,446 --> 00:21:38,506 99.7 % of all video game companies are quote unquote small businesses. 307 00:21:39,614 --> 00:21:43,797 That's something I never thought about. 308 00:21:44,038 --> 00:21:50,603 If you look at it, there are like a billion different game studios out there that are really small. 309 00:21:50,803 --> 00:22:01,842 Sometimes they're like small indie devs, sometimes they're like small support studios that are nowhere near the size of your major AAA, but there are very few major AAA publishers 310 00:22:01,842 --> 00:22:04,064 out there in the wild, or developers out in the wild. 311 00:22:04,064 --> 00:22:06,426 it's because it's really hard to get up to that point. 312 00:22:06,426 --> 00:22:15,063 I think this is a very funny statistic because I bet you they even included anyone that's incorporated them or that has a business license that says they build video games that 313 00:22:15,063 --> 00:22:16,494 maybe never released anything. 314 00:22:16,494 --> 00:22:17,492 ah 315 00:22:17,492 --> 00:22:20,433 probably be kind of a small business. 316 00:22:21,077 --> 00:22:32,832 Heck my bunny strike might even con as that too because it's technically licensed for that so Yeah, it's just kind of funny they put it this way but I think it's to help really win 317 00:22:32,832 --> 00:22:40,022 the argument I think at the end of the day like No one wants their shit to be more expensive for no reason like 318 00:22:40,022 --> 00:22:44,304 is another statistic down, Olivia, scroll down a little bit. 319 00:22:44,304 --> 00:22:45,425 It'll tell you. 320 00:22:46,406 --> 00:22:53,069 In 2018, over 96 % of all video game consoles were from China. 321 00:22:53,069 --> 00:22:57,771 They were made in China and imported, which is insane. 322 00:22:59,012 --> 00:23:00,433 Which is an insane amount. 323 00:23:00,433 --> 00:23:03,575 It makes sense though, but it's an insane amount. 324 00:23:03,575 --> 00:23:08,007 Imagine how bad things would, I mean, tariffs on video games. 325 00:23:08,007 --> 00:23:09,738 Everything is gonna go up in price. 326 00:23:10,096 --> 00:23:17,579 Some companies have been off-shoring to other countries for seeing some of this issue with China. 327 00:23:17,579 --> 00:23:27,292 I think Nintendo, uh Apple, and I think maybe another company has been doing more business outside of China just to circumvent this, but. 328 00:23:27,292 --> 00:23:29,283 I know Samsung's been... 329 00:23:29,283 --> 00:23:31,103 Samsung moved over to Vietnam. 330 00:23:31,103 --> 00:23:31,804 Both of... 331 00:23:31,804 --> 00:23:36,665 All of them actually moved to Vietnam because the labor's cheaper there, you know, believe it not. 332 00:23:36,665 --> 00:23:49,220 That was the original goal, but now that these tariffs are happening, Nintendo is opting to ship all their Vietnamese Switch 2s to America, whereas everyone else gets the Chinese 333 00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:50,030 ones. 334 00:23:51,524 --> 00:23:54,125 inferior Chinese switch twos. 335 00:23:54,846 --> 00:23:59,788 No, it's a joke by the way guys, like I really don't know. 336 00:24:00,309 --> 00:24:11,635 don't, something just doesn't sit right with me by uh doing this whole exploiting another country to get cheaper labor. 337 00:24:12,315 --> 00:24:19,438 Usually lends to poor environmental and workers rights just being decimated but. 338 00:24:19,438 --> 00:24:23,398 I honestly that's kind of how we get all of these. 339 00:24:23,678 --> 00:24:25,698 That's probably how we get all of this. 340 00:24:25,698 --> 00:24:36,455 I don't want to say this is very cheap, but imagine how much more expensive it would be if this were a a country with actual workers' rights like America. 341 00:24:36,455 --> 00:24:39,995 so here's the thing, if it was built in America, it would be a lot more expensive. 342 00:24:39,995 --> 00:24:40,895 But. 343 00:24:41,935 --> 00:24:47,135 I do think there is a little bit of a lie between profit margins with some companies. 344 00:24:47,135 --> 00:24:53,135 I think they lie about their profit margins and saying, well, we have to do it this way. 345 00:24:54,295 --> 00:24:58,935 When look at how high how much money these come like, how much are these companies worth? 346 00:24:58,935 --> 00:25:01,995 How much do they make off all these and these divisions and stuff like that? 347 00:25:01,995 --> 00:25:06,041 And so I do think there's a little bit of lies within the. 348 00:25:06,041 --> 00:25:09,524 the truth um and what's recorded. 349 00:25:09,524 --> 00:25:11,656 So I don't know, it sucks. 350 00:25:11,656 --> 00:25:19,553 It sucks because at the end of the day, I don't necessarily think we need to manufacture our own game consoles. 351 00:25:19,553 --> 00:25:20,604 It's not like it's a necessity. 352 00:25:20,604 --> 00:25:25,608 I think we should have our own stuff for manufacturing necessities here. 353 00:25:25,608 --> 00:25:28,000 But beyond that, it is what it is. 354 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,648 It's just, it's a... 355 00:25:29,648 --> 00:25:35,544 as a necessity here though, that you wouldn't be able to man, you wouldn't already be the manufacturer here, like. 356 00:25:35,544 --> 00:25:49,721 So manufacturing or production of like food, housing, anything that, like drugs that are life-saving, medical, like the coronavirus or the coronavirus pandemic and stuff like 357 00:25:49,721 --> 00:25:53,953 that, kind of showcase some of the things that were more vital. 358 00:25:54,034 --> 00:25:56,295 That type of stuff I think is more important. 359 00:25:56,295 --> 00:26:04,499 But at the end of the day, like these tariffs just don't have a meaning behind them because they cannot, 360 00:26:04,741 --> 00:26:07,655 It's not like with the game, like let's bring this back into the game industry. 361 00:26:07,655 --> 00:26:13,923 ah It's not like they can ramp up a facility to start making Xboxes here anytime soon. 362 00:26:13,924 --> 00:26:22,668 It is gonna take them a year at the least, and that's if they're cutting corners to get like a facility up and developing Xboxes here. 363 00:26:22,668 --> 00:26:29,568 I've seen estimates point more towards it potentially being like five years before they're up and running. 364 00:26:29,667 --> 00:26:42,890 because, well, I'm saying if they cut corners, that's, know, I am being a little bombastic here, but we have silicon, we have ways to make stuff. 365 00:26:42,890 --> 00:26:45,774 It's just, we don't have very good silicon production. 366 00:26:45,774 --> 00:26:51,077 So if we imported some of the items and they assembled them here, we could do it in a year or two. 367 00:26:51,077 --> 00:26:54,438 But that's the problem though. 368 00:26:54,438 --> 00:26:57,435 Like tariffs are going on now. 369 00:26:57,435 --> 00:26:59,235 you don't do tariffs like this. 370 00:26:59,395 --> 00:27:01,115 You just don't do it like this. 371 00:27:01,115 --> 00:27:04,295 It doesn't help anything for where we're at now. 372 00:27:04,295 --> 00:27:07,335 So if there was a purpose, maybe like a VAT tax, I could agree with that. 373 00:27:07,335 --> 00:27:11,375 Like, we're going to be funding health and health care and some other stuff. 374 00:27:11,375 --> 00:27:13,415 Like where it's a value added tax. 375 00:27:13,435 --> 00:27:14,475 Sure, whatever. 376 00:27:14,475 --> 00:27:16,955 These are just regressive taxes at hand. 377 00:27:17,895 --> 00:27:19,535 The poor middle class pay for them. 378 00:27:19,535 --> 00:27:25,095 And I really, if you're in that realm, you're just getting a tax. 379 00:27:25,369 --> 00:27:28,629 I don't understand how people don't understand that this is just a tax. 380 00:27:28,629 --> 00:27:30,836 And that is not a very big political statement. 381 00:27:30,836 --> 00:27:33,633 I don't think most people want their taxes to be raised. 382 00:27:35,509 --> 00:27:36,419 I certainly don't. 383 00:27:36,419 --> 00:27:43,559 I like purposeful taxes and this is not a purposeful tax. 384 00:27:44,056 --> 00:27:53,029 So I will, yeah, so on a kind of unrelated video games, but TiMu has actually stopped taking shipments from China. 385 00:27:53,069 --> 00:27:54,739 And that's like their entire business model. 386 00:27:54,739 --> 00:28:01,992 Like TiMu is gonna die in a year if this keeps going on, which I mean, some people really don't like TiMu. 387 00:28:01,992 --> 00:28:05,112 And I mean, I'm not super big on TiMu myself. 388 00:28:06,073 --> 00:28:09,734 I did a video once cause TiMu wanted me to... 389 00:28:10,222 --> 00:28:21,682 showcase stuff so I think so my video was pretty honest though I got a few electronic knickknacks but mostly a bunch of random stuff and let me tell you I wouldn't buy like I 390 00:28:21,682 --> 00:28:28,807 said I even said in my video like you get what you pay for and it's really cheap well I mean what more can you say right anyways 391 00:28:28,807 --> 00:28:33,567 a few things that you can get from TeamMu that's okay and then everything else. 392 00:28:35,167 --> 00:28:44,376 It's just a cheaper version of Walmart and Walmart already is a dystopian hellhole for me sometimes when I go there where I'm just like, this is gonna fall apart in like a month. 393 00:28:44,376 --> 00:28:49,097 Like, I wouldn't buy anything video game related from Team EW unless it was like a carrying case. 394 00:28:49,097 --> 00:28:50,719 It's hard to mess that up. 395 00:28:51,262 --> 00:28:53,526 I wouldn't buy anything electronic, basically. 396 00:28:54,905 --> 00:29:01,413 I will even say like, Timmu and AliExpress or whatever it is. 397 00:29:01,538 --> 00:29:03,458 was a Shane as well. 398 00:29:03,458 --> 00:29:05,118 S-H-E-I-N. 399 00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:05,838 Sheen or whatever? 400 00:29:05,838 --> 00:29:06,738 don't know. 401 00:29:06,738 --> 00:29:09,118 It's like a clothing store or something. 402 00:29:11,533 --> 00:29:12,016 It sounds... 403 00:29:12,016 --> 00:29:15,776 and it's like super cheap clothing or something. 404 00:29:15,776 --> 00:29:17,640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is Super G clothing. 405 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,556 You know, my parent, my sister was talking about it too. 406 00:29:20,556 --> 00:29:21,497 Same sister. 407 00:29:21,497 --> 00:29:22,309 Hmm. 408 00:29:23,060 --> 00:29:24,082 Okay. 409 00:29:24,207 --> 00:29:25,169 I 410 00:29:27,107 --> 00:29:34,231 All I gotta say is every time I've bought something for super cheap, I've got what I paid for, which was not good. 411 00:29:35,092 --> 00:29:42,277 Typically, there is usually a uh ceiling to this, but you get what you paid for. 412 00:29:42,638 --> 00:29:50,222 you're, and people might not like the D brand kill switch, but I really like the kill switch and I've bought it twice. 413 00:29:50,343 --> 00:29:55,766 And I've also gotten two kill switches for free for reviewing. 414 00:29:56,678 --> 00:29:59,292 But I liked it so much that I've bought them too. 415 00:30:01,110 --> 00:30:02,873 Oh shit, dbrand. 416 00:30:02,873 --> 00:30:04,936 That's what I should do with this phone. 417 00:30:04,936 --> 00:30:06,991 I should get a dbrand skin on that. 418 00:30:06,991 --> 00:30:07,991 You should. 419 00:30:09,334 --> 00:30:14,779 You should, can you still get the Linus big face skin? 420 00:30:17,963 --> 00:30:19,294 You know what I'm talking about, right? 421 00:30:19,294 --> 00:30:21,706 His enlarged face. 422 00:30:22,070 --> 00:30:24,278 Linus big face skin. 423 00:30:24,278 --> 00:30:27,148 No offense to Linus, but no. 424 00:30:27,597 --> 00:30:31,055 fine, you'll just stick with your underwear that you got a couple of months ago. 425 00:30:31,055 --> 00:30:32,056 I get it. 426 00:30:32,999 --> 00:30:36,685 I think there's underwear of it too, but it might be a prank more than anything. 427 00:30:36,685 --> 00:30:39,189 definitely a prank. 428 00:30:39,189 --> 00:30:45,748 Dbrand and Linus have a kiss-kiss-slap-slap relationship. 429 00:30:45,748 --> 00:30:48,953 Ah man. 430 00:30:50,476 --> 00:30:52,258 Love-hate relationship. 431 00:30:52,452 --> 00:31:04,675 well, you wanna know, you wanna know who else has a love-hate relationship, but not really, like, I think they, it's a hate-hate relationship now. 432 00:31:04,675 --> 00:31:15,168 It's Apple and Epic Games, and here's a, this is a good thing, I think, for developers especially, and I was kinda hoping for this, even though, do I buy into the Apple 433 00:31:15,168 --> 00:31:15,738 ecosystem? 434 00:31:15,738 --> 00:31:18,639 Yes, but do I think Apple also needs to be, 435 00:31:18,939 --> 00:31:23,542 put, you know, like, needs to be fought sometimes, of course. 436 00:31:23,542 --> 00:31:30,136 I think every big company, even Epic Include, needs to be kind of put in their place when they really fall out of line. 437 00:31:30,136 --> 00:31:35,489 And I think the iOS app store is a prime example of this. 438 00:31:35,489 --> 00:31:38,651 So do you want to, you want to fill us in on this? 439 00:31:39,148 --> 00:31:47,284 So the Apple versus Epic lawsuit has been going on since before this podcast ever started. 440 00:31:47,284 --> 00:31:57,270 the whole idea was that Epic Games wanted to implement an alternative payment system outside of the App Store because Apple takes 30 % of all payments. 441 00:31:57,911 --> 00:31:59,492 And Epic wasn't trying to have that. 442 00:31:59,492 --> 00:32:02,354 They were trying to bypass it. 443 00:32:02,574 --> 00:32:04,216 And Apple banned them for that. 444 00:32:04,216 --> 00:32:05,856 And then Epic sued. 445 00:32:06,097 --> 00:32:07,557 And now... 446 00:32:08,898 --> 00:32:10,839 there have been multiple counts. 447 00:32:11,959 --> 00:32:24,625 This is kind of a crazy lawsuit, So as you know, Apple is the master of malicious compliance where they will comply, but they'll make it really sting. 448 00:32:24,625 --> 00:32:28,627 And the courts have found that Apple is the master of this. 449 00:32:28,627 --> 00:32:32,408 And so they have laid down the law pretty hard on them. 450 00:32:32,949 --> 00:32:36,290 So Apple earlier, 451 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:45,117 gave developers the ability to link to alternative payment methods, but they would also charge a 27 % fee on developers that would do that. 452 00:32:45,979 --> 00:32:51,024 They've ruled that this is not legal and that Apple has violated multiple court... 453 00:32:51,024 --> 00:32:56,719 uh multiple court orders and it's pretty serious stuff. 454 00:32:56,719 --> 00:32:57,856 You can't do that. 455 00:32:57,856 --> 00:33:05,989 It's dull, it's serious because it's a there are I think someone Apple is getting uh federal charges and so 456 00:33:05,989 --> 00:33:07,011 it's not just that too. 457 00:33:07,011 --> 00:33:14,873 They're also looking to see, they're also potentially looking to seek criminal charges against Apple as well. 458 00:33:14,873 --> 00:33:15,364 That's it. 459 00:33:15,364 --> 00:33:22,334 Well, and so there's a good chance if it's criminal charges and it goes through like that, that dude's in jail. 460 00:33:22,716 --> 00:33:27,823 Like I think the guy that's over it, I don't know if there's gonna be multiple people, but yeah. 461 00:33:28,492 --> 00:33:31,029 I wonder if Tim Cook is gonna be liable too. 462 00:33:31,420 --> 00:33:33,841 ah Usually not. 463 00:33:33,841 --> 00:33:48,484 ah And here's the problem with, when you get trillion dollar businesses, ah yes, you need to blame the CEO at times, but there are a lot of um departments and depending on how CEOs 464 00:33:48,484 --> 00:33:59,627 let their, I think a good CEO usually lets departments run themselves to a point and they kind of just make sure everything is running smoothly and chime in when they need to be. 465 00:33:59,627 --> 00:34:01,083 So there's a good chance that 466 00:34:01,083 --> 00:34:08,203 iOS department has just been running on their own and it has been pretty bad though. 467 00:34:08,703 --> 00:34:17,103 So I'd love to see the iOS department get what they deserve in that these fees and everything is just, they make so much money. 468 00:34:17,103 --> 00:34:20,483 The thing is, if they could argue like, hey, we're losing money on this. 469 00:34:20,483 --> 00:34:30,117 No, they are making hand over fist of money and it's very, in some forms predatory, especially the sneaky 27 % fee where I get it. 470 00:34:30,117 --> 00:34:43,452 people trying to get around the fees on Apple is kind of sneaky on itself, I've worked with companies that are like, well, we gotta use Stripe, and we're gonna use a web portal 471 00:34:43,452 --> 00:34:44,430 to get around these fees. 472 00:34:44,430 --> 00:34:50,115 I'm like, well, we could get to a happy medium of like 10%. 473 00:34:50,115 --> 00:34:57,538 It's not like serving up these apps and handling the app store and all that costs like the same as Steam. 474 00:34:57,538 --> 00:34:59,545 Steam probably costs 475 00:34:59,545 --> 00:35:03,036 drastically more to run than the App Store does. 476 00:35:03,036 --> 00:35:12,120 um But here's a quote, and I don't know which source it's from, but Apple's idea of following keywords is like patching a broken server by yelling at it, right? 477 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:18,122 Like they just, they don't actually fix anything, they just get mad and yell at it. 478 00:35:19,202 --> 00:35:21,783 So that's kind of my take on this. 479 00:35:21,863 --> 00:35:26,687 So I really was hoping that we would get the alternate... 480 00:35:26,968 --> 00:35:31,352 So you know in Europe you can get alternative uh app stores, right? 481 00:35:31,713 --> 00:35:37,382 I was hoping we'd get some of that action here with this lawsuit, but I don't think that's happened just yet. 482 00:35:38,621 --> 00:35:44,490 I don't know if I would gain anything from that, me personally, but I agree to a point. 483 00:35:44,512 --> 00:35:49,069 It's just like with the Android, do you ever use an alternative app store? 484 00:35:51,009 --> 00:35:55,468 no, but I do sideload apps, so there is that. 485 00:35:55,616 --> 00:35:57,157 you side load, okay. 486 00:35:57,718 --> 00:36:02,160 You can jailbreak iPhones and side load, but that's a whole other. 487 00:36:03,021 --> 00:36:04,662 That's a whole other thing. 488 00:36:05,442 --> 00:36:06,803 But you do lose security. 489 00:36:06,803 --> 00:36:12,136 And with some users that do that, they're just not smart enough to do it themselves and they get screwed. 490 00:36:12,136 --> 00:36:12,892 I. 491 00:36:12,892 --> 00:36:15,237 yeah, it's a good thing it's disabled by default. 492 00:36:15,237 --> 00:36:15,877 Yeah. 493 00:36:15,877 --> 00:36:16,548 I agree. 494 00:36:16,548 --> 00:36:18,330 And that is one of the nice things about Android. 495 00:36:18,330 --> 00:36:20,092 I used to side load and do all that stuff. 496 00:36:20,092 --> 00:36:21,734 I just don't care anymore. 497 00:36:21,734 --> 00:36:25,397 um All my stuff's on the computer now. 498 00:36:25,867 --> 00:36:26,946 And so... 499 00:36:26,946 --> 00:36:30,086 too much you need to sideload these days. 500 00:36:30,086 --> 00:36:35,846 But there are some very useful utilities, like for example, there's a moon... 501 00:36:35,846 --> 00:36:37,626 You know of Moonlight and Sunshine, right? 502 00:36:37,626 --> 00:36:40,526 There's a fork of them called Artemis and Apollo, right? 503 00:36:40,526 --> 00:36:41,686 Do you know those? 504 00:36:42,206 --> 00:36:48,926 So basically, the main difference is that Apollo, it's the Sunshine fork. 505 00:36:50,450 --> 00:36:53,932 it comes with a virtual display driver. 506 00:36:54,132 --> 00:37:02,017 so what I found, you know how like Moonlight's kind of weird with like multiple monitor setups or like unusual aspect ratios? 507 00:37:02,017 --> 00:37:05,679 So this is how they resolved it. 508 00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:17,004 They made it so that you can actually have a virtual display pop up at the same resolution, same refresh rate, same aspect ratio as whatever device you're streaming to. 509 00:37:17,390 --> 00:37:19,788 And then you can have it set to where 510 00:37:19,788 --> 00:37:30,010 whenever that virtual uh display pops up, which is it pops up when you start streaming, it turns out you can have it set to the turn off all of your other monitors. 511 00:37:30,291 --> 00:37:32,534 And so it'll become like a headless display for a little bit. 512 00:37:32,534 --> 00:37:36,458 And then when you exit streaming, your monitors will go back to normal. 513 00:37:36,508 --> 00:37:38,248 That's a really good idea. 514 00:37:41,908 --> 00:37:54,448 A lot of remote software does stuff like that, which is really important if you're gonna be using, like playing games, is to be able to adapt to the resolution and to the scenario 515 00:37:54,448 --> 00:37:57,848 that you're streaming, like what you're streaming on from. 516 00:37:57,848 --> 00:38:00,028 And so, okay, that's really cool. 517 00:38:00,028 --> 00:38:02,128 So why do you have to side load that though? 518 00:38:02,714 --> 00:38:08,662 Um, well, the other one, Artemis, is a fork of Moonlight. 519 00:38:09,384 --> 00:38:10,445 And that's not on the app. 520 00:38:10,445 --> 00:38:15,071 And Moonlight, it works with regular Moonlight, but it works better with Artemis. 521 00:38:15,132 --> 00:38:17,495 And that is not on the Play Store just yet. 522 00:38:17,495 --> 00:38:19,878 So you do have to sideload that. 523 00:38:20,173 --> 00:38:21,895 Okay, like here's the thing. 524 00:38:21,895 --> 00:38:22,831 I wouldn't sideload it. 525 00:38:22,831 --> 00:38:25,438 I'd probably well since it's open source. 526 00:38:25,438 --> 00:38:26,180 I should be fine. 527 00:38:26,180 --> 00:38:29,067 Just I could probably just pop 528 00:38:29,118 --> 00:38:30,730 and then you install it. 529 00:38:31,953 --> 00:38:33,218 That's side loading. 530 00:38:33,218 --> 00:38:34,650 just not signed. 531 00:38:35,774 --> 00:38:36,636 It's assigned? 532 00:38:36,636 --> 00:38:37,999 Is it officially signed? 533 00:38:37,999 --> 00:38:40,623 Like, meaning, does it give you any warnings? 534 00:38:41,058 --> 00:38:41,917 Hmm 535 00:38:42,881 --> 00:38:47,258 It's not on the App Store, yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah. 536 00:38:48,845 --> 00:38:49,500 I mean. 537 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:51,123 you can have a signed APK. 538 00:38:51,123 --> 00:38:53,417 Can you even have a non-signed APK? 539 00:38:53,417 --> 00:38:54,149 We don't need to into this. 540 00:38:54,149 --> 00:38:57,401 It's been a while since I've done unsigned APKs. 541 00:38:57,401 --> 00:39:00,772 if you're concerned, and that is on the Play Store. 542 00:39:01,633 --> 00:39:04,304 But they say that eventually it's not gonna work with the... 543 00:39:04,304 --> 00:39:12,710 If they say eventually it's not gonna work with regular old Moonlight, so you're gonna have to download Artemis or whatever, and that's not just on... 544 00:39:12,710 --> 00:39:13,588 I don't know, man. 545 00:39:13,588 --> 00:39:18,120 I don't know why they're disabling support for regular old Moonlight later. 546 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,150 They must be adding some sort of new feature. 547 00:39:20,150 --> 00:39:21,562 Alright, well, we're getting off topic. 548 00:39:21,562 --> 00:39:22,842 We're getting off topic. 549 00:39:23,176 --> 00:39:29,250 No, but this is interesting because I it will fix one of my biggest problems with with that whole setup. 550 00:39:29,250 --> 00:39:29,691 OK. 551 00:39:29,691 --> 00:39:30,823 The virtual display thing. 552 00:39:30,823 --> 00:39:33,137 Yeah, I it fixed my biggest issue, too 553 00:39:33,942 --> 00:39:40,269 So I'm probably going to try that, but I'll just release my own version of the app so I don't have to sideload. 554 00:39:42,693 --> 00:39:44,745 I have an Apple account and everything. 555 00:39:44,745 --> 00:39:54,970 The only real caveat though is that there is no Linux version of Apollo, the hosting software. 556 00:39:54,970 --> 00:40:00,613 of the way Apollo currently does it, know, virtual display drivers, I wouldn't know how it works on Linux. 557 00:40:00,833 --> 00:40:03,054 That's probably more of a Gardner question. 558 00:40:03,835 --> 00:40:05,376 So it's Apollo and Artemis. 559 00:40:05,376 --> 00:40:06,870 Apollo and Artemis. 560 00:40:09,027 --> 00:40:10,671 It just says two twins. 561 00:40:11,262 --> 00:40:14,551 Dude look at look Apollo Artemis streaming. 562 00:40:14,633 --> 00:40:17,641 They're named after they're named after Greek gods. 563 00:40:17,686 --> 00:40:18,788 know what they're named after. 564 00:40:18,788 --> 00:40:20,212 I'm just messing you. 565 00:40:20,212 --> 00:40:20,878 Sorry. 566 00:40:20,878 --> 00:40:21,512 it. 567 00:40:25,186 --> 00:40:26,514 There we go. 568 00:40:26,743 --> 00:40:31,047 so I just had to give some humor while I was looking for it. 569 00:40:33,490 --> 00:40:34,010 So... 570 00:40:34,010 --> 00:40:37,608 familiar with Sunshine, the interface is very similar. 571 00:40:38,317 --> 00:40:39,368 That's good to know. 572 00:40:39,368 --> 00:40:40,469 That's really good. 573 00:40:40,469 --> 00:40:42,090 I really like so. 574 00:40:42,131 --> 00:40:43,772 Is this so this is a fork. 575 00:40:43,772 --> 00:40:46,924 So this is a completely different developer set that's doing this then. 576 00:40:47,202 --> 00:40:48,081 Yeah. 577 00:40:48,891 --> 00:40:49,691 It's a force. 578 00:40:49,691 --> 00:40:51,611 This is a fork, but they didn't actually fork it. 579 00:40:51,611 --> 00:40:53,931 They just copied it. 580 00:40:53,931 --> 00:40:54,691 Interesting. 581 00:40:54,691 --> 00:40:57,171 Because usually if it's forked, it will say if it's forked. 582 00:40:57,171 --> 00:40:59,331 It doesn't say so. 583 00:41:01,531 --> 00:41:02,431 Interesting. 584 00:41:03,431 --> 00:41:05,711 Well, now I got something to play with. 585 00:41:05,711 --> 00:41:07,331 I'm going to set my windows with this. 586 00:41:07,331 --> 00:41:07,831 Thank you. 587 00:41:07,831 --> 00:41:09,171 Well, look at the audience. 588 00:41:09,171 --> 00:41:16,371 If you guys want to be able to stream your games to another room, another device, whatever. 589 00:41:16,911 --> 00:41:18,038 Here you go. 590 00:41:18,038 --> 00:41:19,498 Yeah, I have a video... 591 00:41:20,499 --> 00:41:21,700 I do have a video on this. 592 00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:33,165 uh Retro Game Core has a video on this as well, as does uh some of the other handheld guys, like uh Joey's Retro Handhelds. 593 00:41:33,565 --> 00:41:34,486 Is that his name? 594 00:41:34,486 --> 00:41:35,586 I don't know. 595 00:41:36,507 --> 00:41:40,528 Sorry Joey, or Josh, or whatever your name is. 596 00:41:41,178 --> 00:41:43,210 I sound like a dick right now, dude. 597 00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:43,888 I'm not gonna lie. 598 00:41:43,888 --> 00:41:44,299 a dick. 599 00:41:44,299 --> 00:41:45,962 No, no, it's okay. 600 00:41:45,962 --> 00:41:48,596 It's we can't all remember names and everything. 601 00:41:48,838 --> 00:41:53,859 I'm lucky to remember my name Whatever 602 00:41:53,859 --> 00:42:02,263 so we should mention that supposedly Epic wants to Apple, I mean Fortnite back to iOS. 603 00:42:03,604 --> 00:42:04,274 How long has it been? 604 00:42:04,274 --> 00:42:06,385 Like five years? 605 00:42:06,386 --> 00:42:07,406 Shit. 606 00:42:07,905 --> 00:42:10,999 It's been a couple of years. 607 00:42:10,999 --> 00:42:16,167 they hit a, I think they took a big hit by removing Fortnite from Apple. 608 00:42:16,167 --> 00:42:22,555 But it was to prove a point, because at the end of the day, were they making, yeah, was the cut, like a 30 % cut going to Apple? 609 00:42:22,555 --> 00:42:25,270 Yes, but they were still making a lot of money from 610 00:42:25,270 --> 00:42:26,557 No, Epic didn't remove it. 611 00:42:26,557 --> 00:42:27,871 Apple removed it. 612 00:42:28,633 --> 00:42:32,638 That was because Apple, um, Epic refused to. 613 00:42:33,260 --> 00:42:36,222 Yeah, it was a breach of contract or something like that. 614 00:42:36,222 --> 00:42:48,600 They uh were offloading um their costs away from the app store. 615 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:56,764 So when they would buy, I think, loot boxes and stuff like that, they were circumventing the system. 616 00:42:58,086 --> 00:43:00,086 once again, here's the thing, though. 617 00:43:01,049 --> 00:43:11,987 If you're gonna use the iOS services and use iOS, like, I do think that iOS deserves a cut if you're utilizing their services that cost money. 618 00:43:11,987 --> 00:43:14,629 It costs money. 619 00:43:14,629 --> 00:43:17,331 30 % is ridiculous though, and I still will stand off. 620 00:43:18,318 --> 00:43:29,918 So I will say, there has been, I will say though, Epic seems to have no problem with the console manufacturers charging $30 for a cut. 621 00:43:29,958 --> 00:43:32,003 30 % for a cut, sorry, 30%, yes. 622 00:43:32,003 --> 00:43:33,012 charge 30 %? 623 00:43:33,012 --> 00:43:38,873 I think they have some agreements with consoles though, unless I'm mistaken on this. 624 00:43:38,873 --> 00:43:41,657 agreements that Epic has. 625 00:43:42,550 --> 00:43:47,722 I think all big companies have contracts with console makers too. 626 00:43:47,722 --> 00:43:56,442 That's usually, that's probably what they're mad about with Apple is that I think usually how this goes down, people don't realize, but once you get big enough and you're working 627 00:43:56,442 --> 00:44:04,066 with business to business, like when you're working with other big businesses, you usually enter into a contract that is beneficial for both sides. 628 00:44:04,987 --> 00:44:05,756 Usually. 629 00:44:05,756 --> 00:44:06,366 usually. 630 00:44:06,366 --> 00:44:13,164 guess, I mean Netflix has a con- I Netflix has a contract with Apple, but I guess uh, Fortnite wasn't relevant enough. 631 00:44:13,745 --> 00:44:15,517 Is Fortnite still super relevant? 632 00:44:15,517 --> 00:44:16,068 I don't know. 633 00:44:16,068 --> 00:44:17,867 I don't have the data numbers. 634 00:44:17,867 --> 00:44:20,967 is, but I think it's probably plateaued. 635 00:44:20,967 --> 00:44:21,930 I wouldn't be shocked. 636 00:44:21,930 --> 00:44:24,853 um I just don't know what else has been taking it over. 637 00:44:24,853 --> 00:44:28,621 Like, Roblox is getting big, but I think it's plateaued. 638 00:44:28,621 --> 00:44:36,141 I think a lot of these services are kind of plateauing because there's just a lot of, I think there's a niche for everyone. 639 00:44:36,141 --> 00:44:38,803 And so people are just kind of getting into their niches now. 640 00:44:38,978 --> 00:44:41,322 I mean, COVID time's over now. 641 00:44:41,322 --> 00:44:44,266 Video games have to compete with people just going outside now. 642 00:44:44,655 --> 00:44:46,816 Well, people gotta get back to work. 643 00:44:46,876 --> 00:44:49,438 No, but you're right, you're right. 644 00:44:49,438 --> 00:44:55,321 COVID times are over, people need to start getting back to going out, and it's a good balance. 645 00:44:55,321 --> 00:45:05,106 At the end of the day, these companies need to realize, companies, period, need to realize, if you have a flat year, that's fucking fine, especially if you're making how 646 00:45:05,106 --> 00:45:07,447 much Fortnite's making. 647 00:45:07,447 --> 00:45:10,709 You're still making so much money, it's ridiculous. 648 00:45:11,089 --> 00:45:12,490 And like pocketing it. 649 00:45:12,490 --> 00:45:14,701 It's not going back to developers or anything. 650 00:45:14,701 --> 00:45:16,643 Is Epic publicly traded? 651 00:45:17,926 --> 00:45:20,250 Yeah, so I don't think they have to worry about that. 652 00:45:20,250 --> 00:45:25,658 I mean, and I don't think Tencent is super, I don't think Tencent is super concerned either. 653 00:45:26,715 --> 00:45:28,536 No, and that's the thing. 654 00:45:28,716 --> 00:45:36,020 don't, the thing I like about Epic is that they aren't publicly traded, just like Valve is not publicly traded. 655 00:45:36,020 --> 00:45:51,648 They have a little bit more leeway of not having to be uber profitable every year, but they still do have stakeholders and um owners of the company that they still have to 656 00:45:51,648 --> 00:45:52,729 report to. 657 00:45:52,809 --> 00:45:56,636 So, yeah. 658 00:45:56,636 --> 00:45:59,306 Tencent and whatnot. 659 00:45:59,310 --> 00:46:00,191 So. 660 00:46:01,889 --> 00:46:02,880 This is a good thing. 661 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,561 think at the end of the day, this is a good thing. 662 00:46:04,561 --> 00:46:10,486 think Apple needs to kind of be put in its place, especially for playing dirty how it has been with this. 663 00:46:10,526 --> 00:46:16,611 And this has been a thing that I've been really frustrated with Apple for a while, but Android does the same thing. 664 00:46:16,611 --> 00:46:17,772 They're 30%. 665 00:46:17,772 --> 00:46:29,702 I don't know if they are as big into trying to charge you if you try to get out of the Android store like Apple, but they're still like, both of them are very similar. 666 00:46:29,702 --> 00:46:31,195 uh 667 00:46:31,195 --> 00:46:33,475 I know that, I like that. 668 00:46:33,475 --> 00:46:42,455 And here's the thing, I'm glad that we're aligning a little bit more with Europe on this, because Europe tends to be the only country, the only place that actually gives a fuck 669 00:46:42,455 --> 00:46:54,835 about us as a consumer, because they usually roll on the, on populist side where it's like, what's going to affect the, like everyone more than just the business and so. 670 00:46:55,793 --> 00:47:02,259 The European Union has a great history of being consumer friendly, even with video games too. 671 00:47:02,259 --> 00:47:04,080 Remember loot boxes? 672 00:47:04,140 --> 00:47:07,703 They're technically banned in uh Holland or some shit like that. 673 00:47:08,845 --> 00:47:10,626 Like, completely banned. 674 00:47:11,415 --> 00:47:20,558 Which is it's not a bad thing, like once again, I'm a little bit on the fence on that loot box stuff, but I definitely think it needs to be put under an 18 plus because it is a form 675 00:47:20,558 --> 00:47:24,052 of gambling and one, especially if it's for money. 676 00:47:24,754 --> 00:47:25,255 But. 677 00:47:25,255 --> 00:47:29,001 uh the big question now is will Epic actually... 678 00:47:29,422 --> 00:47:31,847 Apple says they want to appeal this decision. 679 00:47:31,847 --> 00:47:32,887 And I think... 680 00:47:33,234 --> 00:47:34,402 Yeah. 681 00:47:34,538 --> 00:47:41,183 I have a feeling because the way that this is ruled that they're not going to win that appeal, but I think they're gonna appeal it. 682 00:47:41,183 --> 00:47:43,946 I think Apple's losing money by doing this though. 683 00:47:43,946 --> 00:47:52,932 And they're losing, hopefully they just eat up the, just eat the loss because it also hurts their image. 684 00:47:54,614 --> 00:47:55,695 And they're just losing money. 685 00:47:55,695 --> 00:48:01,301 By not having Fortnite on their service, like, and, 686 00:48:01,301 --> 00:48:11,447 know, Fortnite, I think what they need to do is come to a conclusion of like, Epic needs to give Apple some money for running on their services and then just get it over with. 687 00:48:12,238 --> 00:48:13,118 Hmm. 688 00:48:13,340 --> 00:48:14,741 Yeah, man. 689 00:48:15,438 --> 00:48:18,392 I don't like how anti-consumer Apple is sometimes. 690 00:48:18,392 --> 00:48:23,034 I also really hate how Apple killed the headphone jack. 691 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:25,422 I hate the headphone jack. 692 00:48:25,422 --> 00:48:30,678 um 693 00:48:30,678 --> 00:48:32,049 my phone right now. 694 00:48:32,210 --> 00:48:33,912 My S25 Ultra. 695 00:48:34,233 --> 00:48:36,916 There is a slot for the S Pen. 696 00:48:37,338 --> 00:48:41,623 But there is- but there is no fucking headphone jack in here. 697 00:48:41,704 --> 00:48:44,307 And it's thick enough to accommodate one. 698 00:48:44,689 --> 00:48:45,488 What the fuck? 699 00:48:45,488 --> 00:48:46,308 that. 700 00:48:46,328 --> 00:48:52,790 The headphone jack is more susceptible to being like for water damage. 701 00:48:52,790 --> 00:49:05,603 So it's much easier if you get rid of any of the ports to make it waterproof, ah which in turn makes the phone more durable, which then in turn makes uh less people angry at these 702 00:49:05,603 --> 00:49:08,554 device makers than they don't get a bad rap. 703 00:49:08,554 --> 00:49:10,655 I think that's kind of the realm of it a little bit. 704 00:49:10,655 --> 00:49:12,011 ah 705 00:49:12,011 --> 00:49:16,933 The pen slot, from my understanding, the pen slot doesn't need to be open in any way. 706 00:49:16,933 --> 00:49:19,594 I think it uses wireless charging in there. 707 00:49:19,835 --> 00:49:24,477 And so once it's inserted, or at least it uses just like a little single pin that's really easy to waterproof. 708 00:49:24,477 --> 00:49:28,738 ah I think headphone jack could, I don't know. 709 00:49:29,159 --> 00:49:29,749 I'm... 710 00:49:29,749 --> 00:49:32,409 sure headphone jacks can be waterproofed. 711 00:49:32,409 --> 00:49:33,881 They can, they have been in the past. 712 00:49:33,881 --> 00:49:38,405 I just think it's harder and they can't get a higher rating with them. 713 00:49:38,405 --> 00:49:51,822 I think Apple also wants to get rid of um USB-C jacks, but I am not in favor of that unless they have a really good um solution that's alternative. 714 00:49:51,822 --> 00:49:52,722 What... 715 00:49:52,722 --> 00:49:56,482 I mean, what is the solution to that though? 716 00:49:56,482 --> 00:49:59,582 They'd be killing off, I mean, like MagSafe? 717 00:49:59,582 --> 00:50:00,482 Oh god. 718 00:50:00,482 --> 00:50:01,962 Oh god. 719 00:50:03,162 --> 00:50:08,242 Oh god, imagine if they did it and then everyone else followed suit. 720 00:50:08,242 --> 00:50:09,602 That would, like... 721 00:50:09,602 --> 00:50:10,202 Oh my god. 722 00:50:10,202 --> 00:50:11,622 That would be like... 723 00:50:11,736 --> 00:50:15,841 It will probably end up going that way eventually, so I'd be prepared. 724 00:50:17,561 --> 00:50:23,542 What's the benefit of, I don't fully understand, I don't fully understand the headphone jack thing. 725 00:50:23,542 --> 00:50:31,885 Because you can get a little bit better quality, but if Bluetooth and everything keeps on getting better, why do I want a fail point of a cord? 726 00:50:34,233 --> 00:50:37,044 I know we're getting into like debates and stuff like that. 727 00:50:37,044 --> 00:50:45,288 I want everyone to have the option to have a headphone jack, but at the same time, I don't know. 728 00:50:46,589 --> 00:50:50,208 Oh, it's the op, yeah. 729 00:50:50,208 --> 00:50:58,450 I have a lot of really nice- I have a decent amount of really nice headphones that I can't use on my phone, because I don't have fucking headphone jacks. 730 00:51:00,091 --> 00:51:03,412 Yeah, I could get a Bluetooth headphone jack. 731 00:51:03,412 --> 00:51:06,153 I certainly do have a few Bluetooth headphones. 732 00:51:06,473 --> 00:51:09,305 But like, Bluetooth- 733 00:51:09,305 --> 00:51:11,383 adapter so you could use those nice ones. 734 00:51:11,383 --> 00:51:13,774 It still diminishes the quality. 735 00:51:13,774 --> 00:51:15,234 of like both worlds. 736 00:51:15,234 --> 00:51:16,334 What the... 737 00:51:16,334 --> 00:51:21,514 I mean, it certainly is a real possibility. 738 00:51:22,214 --> 00:51:27,514 But like at that point, I may as just get a nice set of Bluetooth earbuds or headphones. 739 00:51:27,897 --> 00:51:28,968 I agree with that. 740 00:51:28,968 --> 00:51:30,549 That's what I've been rocking forever. 741 00:51:30,549 --> 00:51:32,051 I'm not an audiophile either though. 742 00:51:32,051 --> 00:51:35,434 Like I just need my music to sound good enough and that's it. 743 00:51:35,434 --> 00:51:43,791 ah Like I've destroyed, like I've been on Bluetooth for 20 years almost for audio. 744 00:51:43,791 --> 00:51:44,791 do get it. 745 00:51:45,532 --> 00:51:49,775 is the future, or it can be the future, but I also... 746 00:51:50,636 --> 00:51:51,476 But I really... 747 00:51:51,476 --> 00:51:55,999 But I have some really nice IEMs I want to use on my phone, and I can't even do it... 748 00:51:56,900 --> 00:52:00,493 Because my phone doesn't have a headphone jack. 749 00:52:00,493 --> 00:52:04,796 Well, some companies, like why don't you buy an Android phone that has a headphone jack? 750 00:52:05,982 --> 00:52:07,788 I think a couple of them do, don't they? 751 00:52:07,788 --> 00:52:12,459 But like, what really nice phone has it? 752 00:52:12,459 --> 00:52:14,261 And isn't like a budget phone? 753 00:52:14,782 --> 00:52:16,322 That's what I wanna know. 754 00:52:16,983 --> 00:52:20,045 I don't want a budget phone! 755 00:52:20,045 --> 00:52:26,858 I use my phone a lot, so it makes sense to spend a lot more on like a device I'm gonna be using basically every day. 756 00:52:26,858 --> 00:52:31,531 And I remember like really old phones. 757 00:52:31,531 --> 00:52:34,372 I remember how slow like some of the budget phones are now. 758 00:52:34,372 --> 00:52:35,853 I'm not going back to that. 759 00:52:35,853 --> 00:52:37,736 I'm never going back to that. 760 00:52:37,736 --> 00:52:39,143 nightmare again. 761 00:52:40,587 --> 00:52:46,678 Yeah, no, an Android has some of the worst too, where it's just like, it's almost better just buy an old phone than a budget phone. 762 00:52:46,678 --> 00:52:51,641 Yeah, buy like a old, like last generation's flagship, honestly. 763 00:52:51,663 --> 00:53:00,128 Yeah, no, here's another thing with the Jacks, just to kind of end it on this, because we derailed. 764 00:53:00,188 --> 00:53:02,429 They get jammed with so much crap. 765 00:53:02,429 --> 00:53:06,232 ah I've had to go and help my dad out to the ranch and stuff like that. 766 00:53:06,232 --> 00:53:07,392 And I've had to do a lot of stuff. 767 00:53:07,392 --> 00:53:08,173 I go hiking. 768 00:53:08,173 --> 00:53:10,334 I'll bring my phone everywhere I go. 769 00:53:10,414 --> 00:53:12,465 And it gets jammed up with stuff. 770 00:53:12,465 --> 00:53:18,679 And eventually, that port's not going to work anyways, ah which is annoying, especially with the old iPhones with their. 771 00:53:18,679 --> 00:53:20,853 with the way that they did their ports sucked. 772 00:53:20,853 --> 00:53:25,410 So USB-C is definitely much better than the old ones. 773 00:53:25,410 --> 00:53:30,097 Because my last iPhone, the port stopped working because it got jacked up. 774 00:53:31,025 --> 00:53:34,693 One thing I really like about the headphone jack is that it swivels around. 775 00:53:37,007 --> 00:53:38,716 You mean like it turns? 776 00:53:38,964 --> 00:53:39,620 Yeah. 777 00:53:39,620 --> 00:53:52,244 Like, I'd be okay with USB-C being a replacement if A, there was a second one so I could charge and listen at the same time, and B, it swivels around. 778 00:53:52,244 --> 00:53:55,673 But obviously USB-C is not designed to do that, so like... 779 00:53:55,673 --> 00:54:08,534 you're not gonna like this ah there's an accessory for that do you can Know I'm pretty sure you can get one that's a splitter on it that can charge and also listen I'm pretty 780 00:54:08,534 --> 00:54:09,296 sure there is 781 00:54:09,296 --> 00:54:11,038 it's one of those dongles, 782 00:54:12,144 --> 00:54:12,905 Yeah. 783 00:54:15,461 --> 00:54:16,313 but it's an option. 784 00:54:16,313 --> 00:54:17,456 It's what you get. 785 00:54:17,456 --> 00:54:21,152 Like you can get it and then it will still kind of turn a little bit maybe. 786 00:54:21,152 --> 00:54:24,395 Man, this podcast is making me sound really entitled. 787 00:54:25,002 --> 00:54:25,918 But you know what? 788 00:54:25,918 --> 00:54:35,699 the no this is making me sound like a frickin Everyone can fuck themselves except for you know people that Don't want any port 789 00:54:36,376 --> 00:54:42,029 Dude, Apple better not remove the USB Type-C port. 790 00:54:42,029 --> 00:54:46,009 That's like the one good thing they did, like, em for phones. 791 00:54:46,009 --> 00:54:46,491 Sorry. 792 00:54:46,491 --> 00:54:50,335 here's the thing, either you have the USB-C or you don't have it at all. 793 00:54:50,335 --> 00:54:55,739 And I know they almost didn't do it, but now I'm like, the MagSafe has been such an awesome way to charge. 794 00:54:55,739 --> 00:55:00,323 I've been doing, and the wireless, um I don't know how they do it. 795 00:55:00,323 --> 00:55:09,080 It must be a Bluetooth, a mix between Bluetooth and WiFi, but like AirDrop, I'll record stuff on my phone and drop it on my studio and it's just work. 796 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:09,721 It's just seamless. 797 00:55:09,721 --> 00:55:10,842 Like I'm not gonna lie. 798 00:55:10,842 --> 00:55:14,765 I'm so fed up of tinkering to get things working. 799 00:55:15,279 --> 00:55:18,750 that it's nice to just have things work and it works fast. 800 00:55:18,853 --> 00:55:21,099 And I don't usually have to plug it in. 801 00:55:21,144 --> 00:55:22,805 Yeah, but here's my thing though. 802 00:55:23,086 --> 00:55:24,747 What about CarPlay? 803 00:55:25,809 --> 00:55:31,397 There's no- as far as I know, there aren't any MagSafe, like, CarPlay thingies. 804 00:55:31,397 --> 00:55:36,057 think CarPlay needs wired. 805 00:55:36,057 --> 00:55:41,044 like, my car is carpooled and it needs to be wired, to my understanding. 806 00:55:41,044 --> 00:55:43,561 but I don't, I think they're getting away from this. 807 00:55:44,246 --> 00:55:46,176 I mean, my car is... 808 00:55:46,176 --> 00:55:48,749 it's a company car by the way, I should mention. 809 00:55:50,170 --> 00:55:51,821 My old car doesn't have car... 810 00:55:51,821 --> 00:55:55,013 my actual car doesn't have CarPlay or Apple... 811 00:55:55,013 --> 00:55:56,454 Android Auto or whatever. 812 00:55:56,796 --> 00:55:59,536 Mine doesn't either, but my car right now doesn't. 813 00:55:59,536 --> 00:56:01,136 It has a lot of good hookups. 814 00:56:01,136 --> 00:56:06,296 It has all of the stuff built in, I wouldn't mind getting a car at play. 815 00:56:06,296 --> 00:56:08,569 there are wireless CarPlay adapters? 816 00:56:08,569 --> 00:56:10,441 Oh that's right. 817 00:56:11,439 --> 00:56:14,344 There are, but I think they're also going away. 818 00:56:14,344 --> 00:56:18,150 I don't know if it's out yet, but I think they're eyeing over wireless. 819 00:56:18,672 --> 00:56:22,018 I don't know. 820 00:56:22,018 --> 00:56:25,113 I want to get in my car and not plug anything in. 821 00:56:27,803 --> 00:56:29,603 Which I do already. 822 00:56:29,603 --> 00:56:30,323 Sorry. 823 00:56:31,003 --> 00:56:34,243 I'm sounding entitled because I just want things to be easy. 824 00:56:34,243 --> 00:56:35,143 Okay. 825 00:56:36,443 --> 00:56:44,643 Well, talking about entitled, I think everyone's about to feel a little less entitled maybe because they won't be able to afford an Xbox. 826 00:56:45,283 --> 00:56:47,827 Because them prices, they're going up. 827 00:56:48,174 --> 00:56:56,974 Do you think Microsoft is entitled to an additional $80 to $130 of your hard-won cash for any of these devices? 828 00:56:59,157 --> 00:57:09,481 I mean, I don't think they're doing well enough, like their sales are doing well enough to actually warrant a price hike unless this is tariff related. 829 00:57:09,602 --> 00:57:11,384 And I really wish, 830 00:57:12,576 --> 00:57:14,558 This is almost certainly tariff related. 831 00:57:14,558 --> 00:57:16,928 I'm like almost certain of it. 832 00:57:17,467 --> 00:57:18,967 Yeah, it probably is. 833 00:57:18,967 --> 00:57:22,447 just, I don't know if I didn't read everything. 834 00:57:22,447 --> 00:57:33,107 Maybe I should have read the article better, but I've been seeing this all over the place that prices are going up and it's like, but it doesn't feel like it's enough. 835 00:57:33,107 --> 00:57:38,147 Meaning once the tariffs go into play, I think we're going to see them hike even higher. 836 00:57:38,147 --> 00:57:46,267 Cause this is only like what $70 added, which doesn't seem like it's going to, they're going to be making some losses on this, I think, but the way tariffs are working. 837 00:57:46,267 --> 00:57:46,674 So. 838 00:57:46,674 --> 00:57:56,514 I mean, the way I'm thinking it, I'm thinking Microsoft understands that they're going to be making losses on these, but they also would like people to buy them. 839 00:57:56,514 --> 00:58:03,374 So they're not raising as high as they probably could, or probably should, given, you know, tariff calculations. 840 00:58:04,294 --> 00:58:08,614 And even then, like, let's look at the Series S. 841 00:58:08,894 --> 00:58:12,314 It used to be $300, now it's $380. 842 00:58:12,674 --> 00:58:16,114 That puts it above the original Switch. 843 00:58:16,438 --> 00:58:17,779 the Switch OLED. 844 00:58:17,779 --> 00:58:19,500 It's more expensive. 845 00:58:19,541 --> 00:58:24,404 And honestly, with these prices, man, people are saying Nintendo is the cheap option now. 846 00:58:24,404 --> 00:58:28,788 Remember how we were talking about how the Switch 2 was expensive as hell? 847 00:58:29,930 --> 00:58:33,853 And now it's looped around into being the cheapest? 848 00:58:33,933 --> 00:58:39,638 okay, if and when Sony raises the prices of hardware... 849 00:58:39,757 --> 00:58:44,688 It's gonna, Sony's, all of these companies are gonna have to if tariffs go up enough. 850 00:58:44,728 --> 00:58:53,651 They, or else they're, I think they also have like, I think this is preemptive, meaning I think they have a surplus and I've talked about this. 851 00:58:53,651 --> 00:59:06,654 You probably won't see all these consoles go up in price until officially, unless they're doing preemptive to make some money on it, to maybe hopefully help pad in after they're in 852 00:59:06,654 --> 00:59:09,815 a surplus, then import some more. 853 00:59:10,181 --> 00:59:14,350 they'll eventually all have to up their prices once the surplus is over. 854 00:59:14,350 --> 00:59:18,370 Yeah, and let's look at the most expensive Xbox. 855 00:59:19,090 --> 00:59:25,130 So the normal Xbox Series X went up $100, so to $600. 856 00:59:26,998 --> 00:59:31,500 And then the 2TB Galaxy Special Edition version went up $130. 857 00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:37,182 That's more expensive than a PlayStation 5 Pro. 858 00:59:37,563 --> 00:59:40,104 And it's definitely not worth it at that price. 859 00:59:40,104 --> 00:59:44,962 Especially when you can buy a PS5 Pro for that much, and I'm not even a fan of the PS5 Pro. 860 00:59:45,908 --> 00:59:50,989 Here's the thing, these are meant for X, like they're not really meant for us. 861 00:59:50,989 --> 01:00:03,532 They're Xbox X Galaxy Special Edition and also the PlayStation 5 Pro are meant for fanboys that want the best even if it's just a little bit more. 862 01:00:03,532 --> 01:00:11,034 And a few hundred dollars for people that if this is what you're doing every day, like you're an Xbox gamer, it's not a big deal for them. 863 01:00:11,034 --> 01:00:14,415 It still is annoying in the sense of like it is a big deal, but it's not a 864 01:00:14,685 --> 01:00:17,676 If this is their main device, it's like, it is what it is. 865 01:00:17,886 --> 01:00:18,948 And it is what it is. 866 01:00:18,948 --> 01:00:20,230 You know, it's funny. 867 01:00:20,732 --> 01:00:25,340 It's funny that my brother's Xbox went up in value. 868 01:00:25,381 --> 01:00:30,129 He's actually one of the few people that owns an Xbox Series X. 869 01:00:31,535 --> 01:00:34,477 That is really funny actually. 870 01:00:35,055 --> 01:00:41,715 In all this, think used devices are gonna go up and, my gosh, it's only gonna be for a little bit. 871 01:00:41,715 --> 01:00:47,151 don't, some people I could see them like trying to buy up used stuff now for cheap and then selling it later. 872 01:00:47,151 --> 01:00:50,774 They don't expect these price hikes to last forever. 873 01:00:50,774 --> 01:00:51,875 But then again, 874 01:00:53,006 --> 01:00:57,079 But honestly though, there hasn't been a good reason to buy Xboxes in a long time. 875 01:00:57,079 --> 01:01:00,471 mean, every Xbox game is coming to PC nowadays. 876 01:01:00,592 --> 01:01:06,635 Except for like some of the old ones, like Halo 5, surprisingly enough, is not on PC. 877 01:01:06,996 --> 01:01:10,318 Every other Halo, but Halo 5 is on PC. 878 01:01:10,786 --> 01:01:21,216 I mean, technically Halo 5 has like a Forge mode that you can like do in like custom lobbies you can do, but like the full Halo 5 experience, the like campaign and stuff, 879 01:01:21,910 --> 01:01:25,528 which I probably wouldn't play anyways, is not on PC. 880 01:01:28,171 --> 01:01:42,731 I Would buy an Xbox series X if PlayStation Just didn't they just have so many exclusives that I like and so I I'm usually a PlayStation Boy And then a steam, know, I buy most my 881 01:01:42,731 --> 01:01:53,771 games on Steam and then I buy exclusive for a PlayStation Xbox just doesn't have it for me even though it is nice to kind of just have a little console to play games at At my TV, 882 01:01:53,771 --> 01:01:54,757 but I'm trying to 883 01:01:54,757 --> 01:01:58,124 get away from that and doing more streaming for my PC and stuff. 884 01:01:58,124 --> 01:02:03,678 Yeah, but like, here's the thing though, Xbox games are coming to PlayStation now. 885 01:02:03,818 --> 01:02:12,364 Like, we've had Forza Horizon, and I think Sea of Thieves came to PS5, is that correct? 886 01:02:12,925 --> 01:02:14,386 They haven't seen Halo yet! 887 01:02:14,386 --> 01:02:16,547 They haven't seen Halo just yet! 888 01:02:16,787 --> 01:02:18,828 They haven't seen Halo just yet. 889 01:02:19,189 --> 01:02:23,452 But I'm certain at this rate Halo's gonna come to PlayStation. 890 01:02:23,452 --> 01:02:26,434 That's something you would've never seen 20 years ago, remember? 891 01:02:26,614 --> 01:02:30,875 Remember how Sony was trying to fund all of these Halo killers? 892 01:02:30,875 --> 01:02:34,624 Because Halo was the killer app of that decade. 893 01:02:35,297 --> 01:02:38,730 Yeah, yeah, it's so interesting. 894 01:02:39,711 --> 01:02:44,075 I don't know if I would have predicted exactly how Xbox turned out. 895 01:02:44,728 --> 01:02:47,314 They're going the way of Sega and honestly that's not a bad thing. 896 01:02:47,314 --> 01:02:48,906 Let's look at Sega. 897 01:02:49,108 --> 01:02:54,117 They're making buttloads of cash and they're making great games too. 898 01:02:54,939 --> 01:02:57,399 Heck, they even have some decent movies. 899 01:03:00,459 --> 01:03:02,659 But they're still decent. 900 01:03:04,999 --> 01:03:10,327 It's not a Halo TV series that doesn't do this. 901 01:03:10,327 --> 01:03:14,482 my god, don't even bring up the Halo TV series. 902 01:03:16,366 --> 01:03:17,781 uh yeah. 903 01:03:17,781 --> 01:03:18,973 a better one. 904 01:03:18,973 --> 01:03:20,019 uh 905 01:03:20,654 --> 01:03:26,094 Dude, they should have gotten that guy that made District 9 to do it. 906 01:03:26,114 --> 01:03:30,834 Apparently District 9 started out as the Halo live-action movie. 907 01:03:30,834 --> 01:03:35,754 And he even directed one of the trailers for the live-action ones. 908 01:03:37,866 --> 01:03:38,966 as a test. 909 01:03:38,966 --> 01:03:44,994 It was marketing for Halo 3 but it was also secretly test footage for like how a Halo live action would turn out. 910 01:03:44,994 --> 01:03:46,795 And it looks awesome. 911 01:03:46,796 --> 01:03:48,918 Too bad they never went with that though. 912 01:03:50,384 --> 01:03:51,264 Yeah. 913 01:03:53,888 --> 01:03:59,332 Well, and there's a, I don't know, like, which is worse, that or the Borderlands movie. 914 01:03:59,553 --> 01:04:02,616 I love Borderlands, but that movie was pretty bad. 915 01:04:02,644 --> 01:04:04,896 I still enjoyed it, but it was bad. 916 01:04:04,896 --> 01:04:08,352 The entire- my god, I haven't seen that movie. 917 01:04:08,352 --> 01:04:12,239 I've heard so many bad things about it though. 918 01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:16,446 And I mean, looking at it, the cast does not- I mean, come on dude. 919 01:04:16,446 --> 01:04:19,180 The cast- the cast like the wrong people. 920 01:04:19,695 --> 01:04:31,191 they should have gotten more people that are just either really good for those types of roles or just people that weren't so like, cause they almost got it based on just name 921 01:04:31,191 --> 01:04:32,783 recognition, recognition. 922 01:04:32,783 --> 01:04:34,445 And it's just like, okay. 923 01:04:34,572 --> 01:04:35,442 Well... 924 01:04:36,483 --> 01:04:38,554 And they have Kevin Hart as Roland. 925 01:04:38,554 --> 01:04:39,405 That's... 926 01:04:39,465 --> 01:04:40,246 I mean, that's... 927 01:04:40,246 --> 01:04:40,946 They're all... 928 01:04:40,946 --> 01:04:41,967 Okay, hold on. 929 01:04:41,967 --> 01:04:44,888 You have to pull up the casting, because I can't remember, like... 930 01:04:45,229 --> 01:04:48,330 I think Cate Blanchett is, like, Lilith. 931 01:04:49,611 --> 01:04:50,952 I don't think... 932 01:04:50,952 --> 01:04:52,733 She's a great actress, by the way. 933 01:04:52,773 --> 01:04:56,715 But I think it's a terrible uh casting situation. 934 01:04:56,946 --> 01:05:01,038 speaking of live-action movies, do you know they're making a split-fiction live-action movie? 935 01:05:01,810 --> 01:05:02,988 Oh, interesting. 936 01:05:02,988 --> 01:05:06,829 Yeah, they confirmed it when they said that Sydney Sweeney wants to be part of it. 937 01:05:09,533 --> 01:05:10,519 What? 938 01:05:10,519 --> 01:05:11,234 The whole point? 939 01:05:11,234 --> 01:05:13,093 Okay, that's interesting. 940 01:05:13,244 --> 01:05:17,337 But apparently Sydney Sweeney wants to be the live-action Gundam movie, too. 941 01:05:18,499 --> 01:05:20,204 Okay, that's interesting. 942 01:05:20,204 --> 01:05:21,623 Yeah, I mean... 943 01:05:23,958 --> 01:05:28,708 I don't know what to make of Sydney Sweeney though, I don't think I've ever watched any of the stuff she's in. 944 01:05:28,708 --> 01:05:30,331 Except for Madame Webb. 945 01:05:30,331 --> 01:05:32,254 And Madame Webb was pretty bad. 946 01:05:34,789 --> 01:05:35,550 Yeah. 947 01:05:35,550 --> 01:05:37,430 due to Dakota Jackson though. 948 01:05:37,430 --> 01:05:41,090 No, actually no, the whole movie was bad because... 949 01:05:41,090 --> 01:05:42,590 everything about it was bad. 950 01:05:42,670 --> 01:05:45,810 No offense to the actors and actresses that were on the... 951 01:05:45,810 --> 01:05:47,750 10 %?! 952 01:05:47,750 --> 01:05:49,212 That's really bad. 953 01:05:49,212 --> 01:05:54,992 Here's the thing, I enjoyed the movie, but I also expected it to be bad. 954 01:05:54,992 --> 01:05:59,492 So when I watched it, was like, okay, like this is bad, but I still had fun. 955 01:05:59,492 --> 01:06:01,352 I don't know if I'll ever watch it again. 956 01:06:01,372 --> 01:06:11,652 I mean, it might end up being one of those like bad, cool, I know it's not gonna be a bad, cool classic, but yeah, cause you got like Cate Blanchett, you've got Jamie Lee Curtis, 957 01:06:11,652 --> 01:06:16,292 who I actually think, I think, yeah, I think she did okay as Tannis. 958 01:06:16,412 --> 01:06:17,672 It's just. 959 01:06:18,231 --> 01:06:21,213 It felt really weird to have her be in that type of position. 960 01:06:21,213 --> 01:06:23,134 I thought she did pretty decent though. 961 01:06:23,574 --> 01:06:29,438 But it's just, it doesn't feel like people really match their roles. 962 01:06:29,438 --> 01:06:33,480 Like you're right, Kevin Hart as Roland just didn't make sense. 963 01:06:34,902 --> 01:06:35,842 Yeah. 964 01:06:36,623 --> 01:06:37,368 I mean, they don't. 965 01:06:37,368 --> 01:06:39,345 Man, what the hell? 966 01:06:44,495 --> 01:06:45,334 Thank you. 967 01:06:45,334 --> 01:06:54,745 If you want a good, bad movie, you a good, bad video game movie, all-time classic bad movie, you should watch Street Fighter the Movie. 968 01:06:56,603 --> 01:07:03,379 Street Fighter the movie, the, oh, the one from the 90s, yeah, it's. 969 01:07:04,169 --> 01:07:11,351 think Guile was played by Jacques-Claude Van Damme. 970 01:07:12,072 --> 01:07:18,825 It was the most baffling casting decision because Guile is this very American character. 971 01:07:18,825 --> 01:07:23,507 He's like the embodiment of the American for the most part. 972 01:07:23,507 --> 01:07:25,318 And he's played by this like... 973 01:07:27,522 --> 01:07:29,612 What is John Claude Van Damme? 974 01:07:31,336 --> 01:07:32,229 he's... 975 01:07:32,229 --> 01:07:35,557 I don't know where he's from is what I'm saying. 976 01:07:36,504 --> 01:07:42,029 I don't know, I don't, that's something I always ask my wife about, because she's the movie expert. 977 01:07:42,029 --> 01:07:44,050 I don't remember that type of stuff. 978 01:07:44,851 --> 01:07:48,333 But yeah. 979 01:07:48,814 --> 01:08:02,543 To kind of bring this all back into the Xbox prices, I want to know, I'm going to ask people, do you think this is going to affect if you're going to buy, 980 01:08:02,543 --> 01:08:11,536 I bet you everyone that's listening for the most part is like, bought an Xbox that wants one, or if they don't want one, they're probably not going to get one. 981 01:08:11,536 --> 01:08:19,908 So I don't know if this is gonna affect everyone here, but do know that if you're planning on buying like another handheld, if you're planning on buying a PlayStation, this is a 982 01:08:19,908 --> 01:08:23,389 precursor to all those other things going up most likely. 983 01:08:23,389 --> 01:08:31,331 Like if they don't raise their prices and they run out, like that's, if they don't raise their prices, that means they haven't run out of their surplus. 984 01:08:31,513 --> 01:08:42,866 because how an import tax works or how a tax works is that on import, ah when it comes from the other country to yours, you pay at that port. 985 01:08:43,107 --> 01:08:53,730 Where if you have a surplus, that means you've already had stuff brought in before the import tax or the import tariff that is, and you didn't need to pay that because you 986 01:08:53,730 --> 01:08:54,220 already have it. 987 01:08:54,220 --> 01:08:57,371 It's the surplus that's in your warehouses, like let's say in America. 988 01:08:57,371 --> 01:08:58,131 So. 989 01:08:59,237 --> 01:09:07,129 That's why I think that's gonna be really important because I think people are gonna think that this is like the tariff stuff's a lie when they don't see some stuff go up in price, 990 01:09:07,129 --> 01:09:09,030 but it's gonna be surplus. 991 01:09:09,030 --> 01:09:20,547 And it could be that some of these companies really had a big surplus, but I'm wondering if Xbox is either capitalize on this now and just raising prices and maybe they'll keep, 992 01:09:20,547 --> 01:09:22,733 like it will be like another pandemic raise, right? 993 01:09:22,733 --> 01:09:27,034 Where that was with our groceries and everything and they didn't go back down even though they should have. 994 01:09:27,375 --> 01:09:28,923 Are we gonna see a big impact 995 01:09:28,923 --> 01:09:39,415 uh I'm curious. 996 01:09:41,826 --> 01:09:44,013 if they're going to use this as an excuse. 997 01:09:45,082 --> 01:09:51,742 goal was to upgrade my PC before the Tarif set. 998 01:09:52,182 --> 01:09:56,842 I'm hoping I'm slowly gonna do so before the time comp. 999 01:09:57,702 --> 01:09:58,182 Before... 1000 01:09:58,182 --> 01:10:01,282 I mean, graphics cards are like a... 1001 01:10:01,282 --> 01:10:02,862 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1002 01:10:02,862 --> 01:10:05,722 mean, could upgrade everything else I could upgrade. 1003 01:10:05,742 --> 01:10:09,182 And then get a gra- I could transfer my 3070 over. 1004 01:10:09,622 --> 01:10:11,102 That's still a decent card. 1005 01:10:11,298 --> 01:10:13,105 but everything else has started to age. 1006 01:10:14,561 --> 01:10:16,774 My computer just runs hot. 1007 01:10:16,815 --> 01:10:19,258 And yeah, I really hate it. 1008 01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:21,012 Well... 1009 01:10:21,540 --> 01:10:22,542 Dude... 1010 01:10:22,688 --> 01:10:23,800 That sucks. 1011 01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:34,035 I need, my 3090 is going to do just fine for another few years, but it needs, I need to dip it in a pool of like mineral water or something. 1012 01:10:34,286 --> 01:10:35,366 Dude, what a... 1013 01:10:35,366 --> 01:10:42,026 I think Linus Tech Tips, or actually Luke had a computer once that was mineral oil cooled. 1014 01:10:43,146 --> 01:10:49,726 Yeah, just submerge your entire PC in like a fish tank full of it and then... 1015 01:10:49,726 --> 01:10:50,127 yeah. 1016 01:10:50,127 --> 01:10:51,401 of caveats to it, though. 1017 01:10:51,401 --> 01:10:54,090 It's not as simple as that, but yeah. 1018 01:10:54,090 --> 01:10:55,503 It gets oily, for one. 1019 01:10:55,503 --> 01:11:02,707 And you still need to add a heat sink to it, And a fan, I think? 1020 01:11:02,707 --> 01:11:04,771 I don't know how that's... 1021 01:11:04,771 --> 01:11:06,693 I need to watch that video again. 1022 01:11:06,902 --> 01:11:08,924 Is my room gonna smell like oil? 1023 01:11:09,686 --> 01:11:13,268 I don't know what mineral oil smells like, so maybe. 1024 01:11:13,937 --> 01:11:15,789 how expensive is that going to be? 1025 01:11:15,943 --> 01:11:21,359 I think I'm just going to go with the idea of sticking in the closet or my kids room and just let them deal with it. 1026 01:11:22,287 --> 01:11:26,053 Dude, you're torturing your kids. 1027 01:11:27,369 --> 01:11:29,030 I only slightly kid. 1028 01:11:29,692 --> 01:11:30,772 Like they... 1029 01:11:32,435 --> 01:11:33,306 I only kid. 1030 01:11:33,306 --> 01:11:34,758 I'll put it into my dog's room. 1031 01:11:34,758 --> 01:11:36,512 ah like my dog has a room. 1032 01:11:36,512 --> 01:11:36,843 No! 1033 01:11:36,843 --> 01:11:40,415 Alright, I think I... 1034 01:11:43,104 --> 01:11:46,110 Okay, let's go on to this bungee stuff. 1035 01:11:46,110 --> 01:11:47,534 What is up with this bungee stuff? 1036 01:11:47,534 --> 01:11:52,934 So I've played quite a bit of Destiny 2, so I'm a lot more familiar with this than what you might expect. 1037 01:11:54,514 --> 01:11:55,834 here's some background. 1038 01:11:55,934 --> 01:12:03,374 So, Destiny 2 released, and it used to have a campaign called the Red War, which was part of the $60 video game you used to buy before it went free to play. 1039 01:12:04,314 --> 01:12:12,174 So, quote-unquote vaulted it, meaning you can't play the original campaign you paid $60 for. 1040 01:12:12,558 --> 01:12:15,238 and also the first two expansions. 1041 01:12:15,238 --> 01:12:16,258 They've been removed. 1042 01:12:16,258 --> 01:12:18,398 Like, you can't do anything from them. 1043 01:12:18,478 --> 01:12:20,658 And they had to retool the game to... 1044 01:12:20,658 --> 01:12:25,678 They had to basically retool the game to work around the fact that you can't do those anymore. 1045 01:12:26,718 --> 01:12:32,818 But basically, a writer is suing Bungie because of alleged plagiarism. 1046 01:12:33,418 --> 01:12:40,038 And Bungie literally does not have access to this version of the game anymore, supposedly. 1047 01:12:40,218 --> 01:12:41,408 They claim that... 1048 01:12:41,408 --> 01:12:43,552 it's not in a playable state anymore. 1049 01:12:45,192 --> 01:12:45,793 and that... 1050 01:12:45,793 --> 01:12:48,045 and here's what their defense was. 1051 01:12:48,045 --> 01:12:57,506 defense was pulling up a bunch of YouTube videos from third-party content creators that have footage of the actual game itself and also like lore dumps, lore explanations from 1052 01:12:57,506 --> 01:12:59,538 YouTubers. 1053 01:13:02,023 --> 01:13:04,986 And the court is saying that's not a valid... 1054 01:13:05,087 --> 01:13:07,871 that's not valid because like it's a third party source, right? 1055 01:13:07,871 --> 01:13:12,698 Because it could be like third party interpretations or Bungie's lore or whatever, right? 1056 01:13:13,477 --> 01:13:14,283 bright. 1057 01:13:15,084 --> 01:13:22,926 Yeah, like, they would need to have the game up and playable to show to the court. 1058 01:13:23,448 --> 01:13:27,464 And they don't, supposedly, because they content vaulted it. 1059 01:13:30,356 --> 01:13:33,277 and it would be really funny if Bungie lost because of this. 1060 01:13:33,696 --> 01:13:35,586 Yeah, it would be kind of fun. 1061 01:13:35,586 --> 01:13:38,236 It'll be interesting to see how this all goes. 1062 01:13:40,496 --> 01:13:51,806 Really, like honestly with Bungie stuff, like I've always respected them as a developer and I've enjoyed Destiny, but I just haven't been able to keep up with everything that 1063 01:13:51,806 --> 01:13:52,446 Bungie does. 1064 01:13:52,446 --> 01:13:59,244 But, so you think that, do you think Bungie's gonna lose this? 1065 01:13:59,244 --> 01:14:15,234 I don't know for certain, because I don't necessarily agree with what the author is saying, because it's going over a bunch of tangential bullshit like space roam, because a 1066 01:14:15,234 --> 01:14:19,206 bunch of the characters in Destiny from the uh 1067 01:14:21,494 --> 01:14:22,927 I can't even remember their race. 1068 01:14:22,927 --> 01:14:24,134 ah 1069 01:14:25,423 --> 01:14:26,198 so racist. 1070 01:14:26,198 --> 01:14:30,300 have uh Roman-inspired names. 1071 01:14:30,942 --> 01:14:31,782 Like, Gaul. 1072 01:14:31,782 --> 01:14:35,785 uh Dominus Gaul, believe, was the main... 1073 01:14:35,785 --> 01:14:38,657 The guy that's in the picture right there, his name is Dominus Gaul. 1074 01:14:38,657 --> 01:14:41,569 He was like, the first villain you fight. 1075 01:14:41,569 --> 01:14:42,850 And then there's also... 1076 01:14:47,419 --> 01:14:47,859 It's... 1077 01:14:47,859 --> 01:14:49,179 Space Rome. 1078 01:14:49,259 --> 01:14:58,530 Like, soon over Space Rome is kind of funny because I feel like there's a lot of games probably before this that has concepts of like a little bit of a Roman Empire in space. 1079 01:14:58,530 --> 01:15:06,669 Yeah, and then there's also like, I believe one of the other things they sued over was like, the idea of fate, and the idea of like... 1080 01:15:09,038 --> 01:15:18,973 being able to change like fate and stuff I don't know it's a real I don't remember the details but from what I remember it was a really stupid lawsuit I really almost 1081 01:15:18,973 --> 01:15:21,715 I really don't like lawsuits of this. 1082 01:15:21,715 --> 01:15:30,383 Unless it's blatant where it's like they still, 90 % of the everything is just barely try to, I don't know. 1083 01:15:30,504 --> 01:15:31,425 It seems stupid. 1084 01:15:31,425 --> 01:15:35,649 Concepts aren't really copyrighted. 1085 01:15:35,948 --> 01:15:44,992 Yeah, that said, Bungie did delete all of the content from their own game. 1086 01:15:45,615 --> 01:15:49,059 Like, they said they can't even access it internally. 1087 01:15:50,551 --> 01:15:56,874 That is probably going to really hurt them in the lawsuit though. 1088 01:15:56,874 --> 01:15:59,029 I do think so, yes, for sure. 1089 01:15:59,157 --> 01:16:09,494 You can't just, like that almost proves that you're in at fault if they do that. 1090 01:16:09,494 --> 01:16:12,976 Yeah, it makes it sound like you're trying to delete the evidence. 1091 01:16:13,839 --> 01:16:17,344 Yeah, it's admitting fault where you have to be careful with that. 1092 01:16:17,344 --> 01:16:20,423 could, yeah, I don't know. 1093 01:16:20,423 --> 01:16:22,788 it long before the lawsuit even occurred. 1094 01:16:22,788 --> 01:16:24,621 It's been a couple of years at this point. 1095 01:16:26,988 --> 01:16:27,689 I 1096 01:16:29,184 --> 01:16:36,399 I haven't played Destiny since uh I played like the last expansion, they released the final shape. 1097 01:16:37,060 --> 01:16:41,324 I really liked it, but I was just done with it because the story was over for me, dude. 1098 01:16:41,324 --> 01:16:43,926 The light and dark saga concluded. 1099 01:16:43,974 --> 01:16:44,937 It was a good ending. 1100 01:16:44,937 --> 01:16:47,268 In my opinion. 1101 01:16:48,010 --> 01:16:48,870 We win. 1102 01:16:48,870 --> 01:16:50,571 We beat the Witness. 1103 01:16:51,032 --> 01:16:53,779 We saved humanity. 1104 01:16:53,779 --> 01:16:55,131 you spoiled it. 1105 01:16:56,595 --> 01:16:58,119 No, hey, at least there's an ending. 1106 01:16:58,119 --> 01:17:00,524 I have a lot of games that I like that have not ended yet. 1107 01:17:00,524 --> 01:17:03,727 And so unless you have something else to say, I. 1108 01:17:03,744 --> 01:17:08,058 The problem though is that the game technically hasn't ended because guess what? 1109 01:17:09,501 --> 01:17:11,513 They're making an expansion. 1110 01:17:11,513 --> 01:17:12,699 They're expanding the story. 1111 01:17:12,699 --> 01:17:14,156 It's a new saga now. 1112 01:17:14,361 --> 01:17:23,678 Yeah, I mean, what story ever technically ends, but yeah, like, but you have an ending to like with Mass Effect one, two and three, there's an ending to the arc. 1113 01:17:23,678 --> 01:17:25,779 So there's just new arcs, right? 1114 01:17:26,340 --> 01:17:30,062 So humanity continues to fight on. 1115 01:17:30,062 --> 01:17:31,684 That'll be interesting to see how that all goes. 1116 01:17:31,684 --> 01:17:42,053 But I kind of wish they would go through a remaster uh both Destiny one and two into a more condensed down. 1117 01:17:42,053 --> 01:17:44,861 campaign before they did all this because I wouldn't mind playing through it. 1118 01:17:44,861 --> 01:17:48,489 just it feels very like it takes a very long time to get through. 1119 01:17:48,618 --> 01:17:51,898 And it's very expensive to go to play through all the story content. 1120 01:17:51,898 --> 01:18:00,024 Yeah, so if they want to do a remastered uh version that's maybe a little bit more condensed, might actually go and then release it for. 1121 01:18:00,876 --> 01:18:02,011 That would be pretty sick. 1122 01:18:02,011 --> 01:18:02,914 PC. 1123 01:18:04,699 --> 01:18:05,520 then I might play it. 1124 01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:17,920 uh But yeah, talking about like, stories that at least the arc ended, uh Titanfall, we're not gonna be seeing anymore. 1125 01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:19,625 I don't think we're gonna see a Titanfall 3. 1126 01:18:19,625 --> 01:18:23,154 don't, maybe, but I don't think so. 1127 01:18:23,154 --> 01:18:26,327 So EA cancels new Titanfall, lays off hundreds. 1128 01:18:26,327 --> 01:18:33,819 And I think this is actually, I think we knew that this was coming or maybe they did, this is another layoff, but. 1129 01:18:33,819 --> 01:18:41,519 Anywhere from 300 to 400 positions have been eliminated with an estimated, let me switch over to the proper thing. 1130 01:18:41,659 --> 01:18:42,599 Sorry. 1131 01:18:43,239 --> 01:18:45,899 Ah, the articles. 1132 01:18:46,879 --> 01:18:47,739 Okay. 1133 01:18:49,039 --> 01:18:57,879 With an estimated 100 or so being in respawn, also worth mentioning is that this Titanfall project would have been an extraction shooter in the universe. 1134 01:18:58,019 --> 01:19:00,939 Unknown if this meant to be Titanfall 3 or not. 1135 01:19:00,939 --> 01:19:03,319 An extraction shooter really is not, 1136 01:19:03,515 --> 01:19:07,635 That would actually be kind of a cool concept in the Titanfall universe. 1137 01:19:08,335 --> 01:19:12,455 So an extraction shooter is essentially you do a bunch of different objectives and then you have to extract out. 1138 01:19:12,455 --> 01:19:19,015 And oftentimes you're fighting against other players in the process while you're also fighting NPCs and stuff. 1139 01:19:19,415 --> 01:19:24,095 if you haven't played Titanfall 2, right, Hi-Tech? 1140 01:19:24,935 --> 01:19:26,575 Oh, you have, okay, okay. 1141 01:19:26,575 --> 01:19:28,495 The multiplayer, that's it? 1142 01:19:28,895 --> 01:19:33,168 Dude, the single player is so good for Titanfall 2 and... 1143 01:19:33,168 --> 01:19:34,148 you really should play the title. 1144 01:19:34,148 --> 01:19:39,149 Like the multiplayer is really good too, but the single player is just so fun. 1145 01:19:39,149 --> 01:19:42,430 Cause you essentially have your robotic friend that you get it. 1146 01:19:42,430 --> 01:19:46,251 And it's very different than any other type of mech game I've played. 1147 01:19:46,251 --> 01:19:52,552 And I just, think we need, I think that's what's, I've played other mech games. 1148 01:19:53,073 --> 01:19:57,574 I've played a lot of mech games growing up, but like a lot of the newer ones are great. 1149 01:19:57,574 --> 01:20:02,745 just, after playing Titanfall, they fall short cause I want to jump out and do like some shooting with my 1150 01:20:02,745 --> 01:20:07,815 my person and jump back in and play some more with my Titan. 1151 01:20:07,815 --> 01:20:12,771 I really wish they would expand on this world more in that realm. 1152 01:20:12,771 --> 01:20:15,022 think that they're losing out on a really... 1153 01:20:15,022 --> 01:20:16,883 ah 1154 01:20:18,617 --> 01:20:23,794 really good amount of profit by not expanding into this area. 1155 01:20:23,794 --> 01:20:25,716 But I don't know. 1156 01:20:26,038 --> 01:20:27,579 What do you think on this? 1157 01:20:28,332 --> 01:20:29,362 Dude... 1158 01:20:30,823 --> 01:20:38,465 I don't know how I feel about an extraction shooter, because like, a lot of the extraction shooters are really focused on infantry-based gear and stuff. 1159 01:20:38,465 --> 01:20:49,608 I couldn't imagine how you would be able to fit like, mech parts, or mech blueprints, or I guess mech scrap all in your backpack. 1160 01:20:49,688 --> 01:20:53,049 Realistically speaking, I don't know how they would have done it. 1161 01:20:53,129 --> 01:20:57,530 Or might have been like, kind of like Apex where there are no mechs. 1162 01:20:58,036 --> 01:21:00,379 and it's just in the Titanfall universe. 1163 01:21:00,379 --> 01:21:04,653 And that's the problem, I played Apex and it's like, it's not quite the same without the Max. 1164 01:21:04,653 --> 01:21:09,476 Like it's still fun, but it's, it just, I couldn't play it for very long. 1165 01:21:09,476 --> 01:21:11,961 Cause I just, I wanted Titanfall 3. 1166 01:21:11,961 --> 01:21:13,070 Made me sad. 1167 01:21:13,070 --> 01:21:20,298 uh And yes, as stated before, don't know if this was Titanfall 3 or if this was just a spin-off game. 1168 01:21:20,395 --> 01:21:29,959 I highly doubt an extraction shooter like this would have been Titanfall 3, but it could have been like a Titanfall or an Apex like spin-off, because I know they wanted to do more 1169 01:21:29,959 --> 01:21:32,020 on that universe. 1170 01:21:32,020 --> 01:21:38,423 honestly, so EA cancels the new Titanfall and lays off, you know, hundreds. 1171 01:21:38,603 --> 01:21:45,726 This could still, they could still regroup and make a Titanfall 3, we'll just see, I guess. 1172 01:21:46,666 --> 01:21:48,707 It doesn't give a lot of hope. 1173 01:21:48,825 --> 01:21:52,383 Maybe they're gonna lay people off and then rehire for the new Titanfall project. 1174 01:21:52,383 --> 01:21:54,477 I don't know, but like, it doesn't give me a lot of hope. 1175 01:21:54,572 --> 01:21:57,855 You know, the internet talks a lot about how great Titanfall 2's campaign is. 1176 01:21:57,855 --> 01:22:03,050 I'm surprised no indie has tried to make Titanfall, but at home. 1177 01:22:05,531 --> 01:22:13,351 I agree with that, because the thing is, it is a really, really good meta, or really good play style. 1178 01:22:13,471 --> 01:22:18,291 Jumping in and out of a of a mech, and it really worked really well. 1179 01:22:18,291 --> 01:22:20,811 I really liked it. 1180 01:22:20,991 --> 01:22:21,971 Yeah. 1181 01:22:22,891 --> 01:22:24,271 It's awesome. 1182 01:22:24,631 --> 01:22:33,523 You have your mech fight in one area, you get off, and then you can go around and then fight something else, and your AI's talking to you, like your freaking... 1183 01:22:33,555 --> 01:22:35,756 is very much the same way. 1184 01:22:35,756 --> 01:22:38,598 You can leave your mech and it fights. 1185 01:22:38,598 --> 01:22:42,671 Though your AI is not as good as if you were in there. 1186 01:22:42,671 --> 01:22:49,646 Obviously if your AI mech were to go against a player that was inside their mech, they would lose like 9 out of 10 times. 1187 01:22:50,683 --> 01:23:01,983 true, but what you do is you can get out and then you can sneak around and potentially use like an anti-titan missile or weapon or something like that. 1188 01:23:01,983 --> 01:23:06,353 There's ways to potentially use it as a strategy, but I think people don't typically. 1189 01:23:06,353 --> 01:23:09,981 them and like destroy the titan, like sabotage the titans. 1190 01:23:09,987 --> 01:23:10,989 Yep, yep, yep. 1191 01:23:10,989 --> 01:23:18,499 And so, it brought a lot of really fun strategy to first-person shooters that I really liked. 1192 01:23:18,499 --> 01:23:20,402 And so I really want them to bring it back. 1193 01:23:20,402 --> 01:23:24,512 I don't think Titanfall 2's multiplayer has been quite the same for a while, so. 1194 01:23:24,512 --> 01:23:25,813 No, it hasn't been the same. 1195 01:23:25,813 --> 01:23:34,511 A lot of people I believe moved to the North Star client because the like actual Titanfall 2 was infested with hack. 1196 01:23:34,511 --> 01:23:37,626 It became infested with hackers like most multiplayer games do. 1197 01:23:37,711 --> 01:23:38,693 Yeah. 1198 01:23:38,956 --> 01:23:44,524 If you don't have any like any real funds going into preventing that, then they just kind of die. 1199 01:23:45,740 --> 01:23:53,497 But what I will say is some enterprising indie developer should just make Titanfall the campaign. 1200 01:23:54,719 --> 01:23:56,240 They should just make their own version of Titanfall. 1201 01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:56,621 Do it. 1202 01:23:56,621 --> 01:23:58,222 Do it, indie devs. 1203 01:23:58,785 --> 01:23:59,466 do it. 1204 01:23:59,466 --> 01:24:03,922 And there could be already, I don't know, but I bet you it's mechanically going to be a little difficult. 1205 01:24:03,922 --> 01:24:10,189 But ah yeah, do it and make it a subscription because those are those are going up, right? 1206 01:24:11,436 --> 01:24:13,844 Mmm, quite the opposite, really. 1207 01:24:16,249 --> 01:24:17,020 which way are they? 1208 01:24:17,020 --> 01:24:18,482 They're plateauing. 1209 01:24:18,482 --> 01:24:21,146 uh Like all good services. 1210 01:24:21,146 --> 01:24:27,075 Over time, you can't expect anything to be like good and last forever. 1211 01:24:27,182 --> 01:24:31,862 Well yeah, there's only so many people in the world at a time. 1212 01:24:31,982 --> 01:24:32,942 can't have... 1213 01:24:32,942 --> 01:24:36,802 there's only like 6 billion people in the world right now. 1214 01:24:36,802 --> 01:24:38,902 What happens if you... 1215 01:24:38,902 --> 01:24:39,742 what are you gonna make them... 1216 01:24:39,742 --> 01:24:42,002 are you gonna make people sub twice? 1217 01:24:42,462 --> 01:24:44,002 You gonna make people sub multiple times? 1218 01:24:44,002 --> 01:24:46,062 Is that how you're gonna exponentially grow? 1219 01:24:46,659 --> 01:24:48,119 Well, and here's another thing. 1220 01:24:48,119 --> 01:24:53,391 um Costs of living has gone up drastically over the past few years. 1221 01:24:53,391 --> 01:25:04,305 so on top of that, like they should be lucky that it's flat and not just like nose diving because I'm sorry, if I have to decide if I'm going to be eating for a week for like a few 1222 01:25:04,305 --> 01:25:07,146 days to a week or a subscription service. 1223 01:25:07,146 --> 01:25:11,852 mean, I think it's pretty easy to decide on which one I'm going to be choosing. 1224 01:25:11,852 --> 01:25:18,272 Yeah, you're gonna choose the subscription service because you're not a true gamer if you don't give up food and water and shelter and clothing. 1225 01:25:18,563 --> 01:25:24,183 Nah, can never give up my Doritos and my Code Red. 1226 01:25:27,317 --> 01:25:31,302 Yeah, subscriptions are not doing so hot. 1227 01:25:31,302 --> 01:25:42,734 There was a small 12 % boost thanks to the new COD, launching in-game pass, but no real growth otherwise, and the analysts are starting to up hope. 1228 01:25:43,916 --> 01:25:46,258 They're giving up hope on these subscriptions. 1229 01:25:47,249 --> 01:25:49,341 I think here's the thing. 1230 01:25:51,636 --> 01:26:02,682 They, Microsoft's interesting, because I do think they're hurting their, I think sometimes these companies think, a subscription is better than them just buying a product outright. 1231 01:26:02,682 --> 01:26:11,467 Well, if they're buying a subscription just to play that one game in a month and they cancel, you're getting drastically less money for that subscription or for that game than 1232 01:26:11,467 --> 01:26:12,987 if they would have bought it right outright. 1233 01:26:12,987 --> 01:26:18,550 Like for me, I'm going to be picking up, and this is a good way, maybe a little segue into, I'm going to be picking up. 1234 01:26:18,550 --> 01:26:20,367 um 1235 01:26:20,367 --> 01:26:23,187 the Xbox Game Pass again, even though I've on and off use it. 1236 01:26:23,187 --> 01:26:38,045 I like it for testing usually, but ah to kind of just cut back on some of my spending on games, because I bought it, I was forced to buy an expensive ah Mac Studio. 1237 01:26:38,045 --> 01:26:43,291 I'm gonna be uh playing some of these games, I think on the Xbox Game Pass on my Windows machine. 1238 01:26:43,291 --> 01:26:44,091 So. 1239 01:26:44,142 --> 01:26:47,596 gaming darling child clear obscure Expedition 33. 1240 01:26:47,635 --> 01:26:48,956 I want to play this so bad. 1241 01:26:48,956 --> 01:26:49,934 It looks so good. 1242 01:26:49,934 --> 01:26:51,535 it does look really good. 1243 01:26:51,535 --> 01:26:53,895 But I'm already committed to- what? 1244 01:26:53,916 --> 01:26:54,816 I haven't played it yet. 1245 01:26:54,816 --> 01:27:01,498 No, I'm- I'm playing another GIPG that released around the same time, the 100 line, uh, Last Defense Academy. 1246 01:27:01,498 --> 01:27:06,020 And they both propped each- on Twitter, they both propped each other up, the developers of both games. 1247 01:27:06,020 --> 01:27:13,018 So now I'm expecting some sort of crossover between what is essentially Danganronpa at home with, uh, Expedition 33. 1248 01:27:13,947 --> 01:27:15,187 So I'm gonna be playing Expedition. 1249 01:27:15,187 --> 01:27:16,947 Oh, I still to finish Indiana Jones. 1250 01:27:16,947 --> 01:27:18,767 I have Expedition 33. 1251 01:27:18,887 --> 01:27:27,467 I wanna try out the new Oblivion Remastered to see, you know, to see what's changed, if I have the horse armor or not. 1252 01:27:27,487 --> 01:27:31,807 But this is my number one game coming out. 1253 01:27:31,807 --> 01:27:37,047 I don't know about, Half-Life 2, because there's some rumors of Half-Life 3 that is dropping. 1254 01:27:38,247 --> 01:27:42,264 I know, but like the play, like we've never gotten. 1255 01:27:42,264 --> 01:27:50,029 Rumors like play tests that where they're in their final it's in its final form That is big deal 1256 01:27:50,210 --> 01:27:53,401 Are you thinking they're just gonna Shadow Drop Half-Life 3 on us? 1257 01:27:53,532 --> 01:27:56,132 No, well I shouldn't say it's final form. 1258 01:27:56,132 --> 01:28:07,672 I should say like they're in the later parts of development, meaning I don't think they're gonna be doing what before they've been working on Half-Life 3 on and off for decade plus, 1259 01:28:07,832 --> 01:28:12,272 but they always get to a certain point and then they like kind of shelve it. 1260 01:28:12,332 --> 01:28:19,632 It sounds like right now they could still like change some parts of it, but it sounds like they're more in the later parts of development of like a Half-Life game. 1261 01:28:19,632 --> 01:28:22,072 I don't know if it's Half-Life 3, but it's a Half-Life game. 1262 01:28:22,317 --> 01:28:31,562 And so if that drops this year, because I could see Valve being like, okay, sometime this summer, it's going to be coming this winter and then dropping in November because they 1263 01:28:31,562 --> 01:28:34,467 like to do Half-Lifes in November. 1264 01:28:34,467 --> 01:28:37,494 I can see them doing that, giving them a couple of months for marketing. 1265 01:28:37,494 --> 01:28:40,566 ah But could also come out next year. 1266 01:28:40,566 --> 01:28:41,516 Who knows? 1267 01:28:41,577 --> 01:28:44,048 All I know is if Half-Life comes out, that'll be my most anticipated. 1268 01:28:44,048 --> 01:28:47,112 But if not, Doom the Dark Ages, I'm so excited for this. 1269 01:28:47,112 --> 01:28:48,142 Dude. 1270 01:28:48,903 --> 01:28:53,005 It's gonna be hard coming out next year next to fucking GTA 6. 1271 01:28:53,005 --> 01:28:54,986 This isn't a topic by the way. 1272 01:28:55,186 --> 01:28:59,328 But GTA 6 recently had its release date announced. 1273 01:28:59,669 --> 01:29:00,689 For... 1274 01:29:00,709 --> 01:29:03,056 It was May the 26th I believe. 1275 01:29:05,093 --> 01:29:06,184 This year? 1276 01:29:10,915 --> 01:29:12,909 They're pushing it off another year? 1277 01:29:12,909 --> 01:29:16,615 Dude, if it was this year, that would be insane. 1278 01:29:16,615 --> 01:29:18,608 That would probably be our headline topic, be honest. 1279 01:29:18,608 --> 01:29:20,987 If it were coming out this month. 1280 01:29:20,987 --> 01:29:21,687 I agree. 1281 01:29:21,687 --> 01:29:23,107 That's why I would just tell us like, wait a sec. 1282 01:29:23,107 --> 01:29:25,667 What month is it? 1283 01:29:26,007 --> 01:29:26,807 Huh? 1284 01:29:27,207 --> 01:29:32,987 I think half why dude if half life comes out the same year as Grand Theft or yeah, Grand Theft Auto, I don't think it's gonna matter. 1285 01:29:32,987 --> 01:29:35,047 I don't think it's gonna hurt it sells in any way. 1286 01:29:35,047 --> 01:29:38,627 I don't think they're gonna be I don't think they're gonna compete much. 1287 01:29:38,927 --> 01:29:40,439 I think if they came out of this. 1288 01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:43,802 grand theft auto- I mean, what half-life is. 1289 01:29:43,802 --> 01:29:44,503 That's my point. 1290 01:29:44,503 --> 01:29:47,715 don't like, well, actually you'd be shocked. 1291 01:29:47,715 --> 01:29:59,824 There's a lot of, it might run into, I think maybe you get into that realm, it might be into the autism spectrum, but there's a lot of kids that like pick it up for one reason or 1292 01:29:59,824 --> 01:30:00,124 another. 1293 01:30:00,124 --> 01:30:03,465 Maybe I, I don't know. 1294 01:30:03,465 --> 01:30:04,546 Toilet. 1295 01:30:05,490 --> 01:30:09,298 They certainly know Skibity Toilet, but they don't know where that's from. 1296 01:30:09,298 --> 01:30:12,843 They don't know who G-Man is or what his relation to the story is. 1297 01:30:12,843 --> 01:30:18,795 gonna, if they market it with such a way to use the skippity toilet in the marketing, they've won it. 1298 01:30:19,234 --> 01:30:23,240 Dude, it's just gonna be some guy's decapitated head in the toilet. 1299 01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:26,745 That's what we saw! 1300 01:30:27,427 --> 01:30:32,507 Environmental story telling, that's great. 1301 01:30:32,507 --> 01:30:33,327 I don't care. 1302 01:30:33,327 --> 01:30:38,707 Like if you're a teenager and Half-Life 3 drops, you're going to know what Half-Life 3 is for the most part. 1303 01:30:38,707 --> 01:30:39,859 If you're a gamer. 1304 01:30:40,566 --> 01:30:42,431 Yeah, because everyone's gonna be talking about it. 1305 01:30:42,836 --> 01:30:44,616 All of the older generations. 1306 01:30:44,616 --> 01:30:45,046 about it. 1307 01:30:45,046 --> 01:30:48,077 they won't, like if you're a gamer in any way, you're gonna just see it everywhere. 1308 01:30:48,077 --> 01:30:49,598 So you're gonna have to know about it. 1309 01:30:49,598 --> 01:30:52,099 That being said, do I think GTA is gonna do better? 1310 01:30:52,099 --> 01:30:53,700 Yeah, I do. 1311 01:30:54,561 --> 01:30:58,102 But I don't think it's gonna do, yeah, I don't think it matters. 1312 01:30:58,102 --> 01:31:02,805 Like I don't care if GTA makes double the sales of Half-Life. 1313 01:31:02,805 --> 01:31:05,245 Half-Life will still be super successful. 1314 01:31:06,226 --> 01:31:08,397 Like there's just. 1315 01:31:08,799 --> 01:31:11,153 be game of the year that year if it releases? 1316 01:31:11,803 --> 01:31:13,323 That is the funny part. 1317 01:31:13,323 --> 01:31:22,563 actually, if given between GTA 6 and Half-Life, the chances of which one would be game of the year, think Half-Life would be game of the year. 1318 01:31:22,634 --> 01:31:27,039 It would stand a better chance unless Half-Life 3 sucks. 1319 01:31:27,039 --> 01:31:29,581 That's a very scary thought. 1320 01:31:29,742 --> 01:31:33,345 Like, people are concerned about if it's gonna release, but I have a scarier thought. 1321 01:31:33,345 --> 01:31:36,728 What if Half-Life 3 sucks and you've just been waiting for nothing? 1322 01:31:37,069 --> 01:31:38,290 Less than nothing. 1323 01:31:38,465 --> 01:31:39,726 You know what? 1324 01:31:39,987 --> 01:31:41,750 Some people are on the opposite end of this. 1325 01:31:41,750 --> 01:31:45,395 Me, I'm like, the least it dropped and then I got it Half Life 3. 1326 01:31:45,739 --> 01:31:47,370 At least it dropped. 1327 01:31:48,302 --> 01:31:53,734 I would, my mantra is I'd rather have more of something I like than not. 1328 01:31:53,734 --> 01:31:57,334 But other people are like, well, I wanted to stop at being good. 1329 01:31:57,354 --> 01:32:00,775 But I do agree to that point. 1330 01:32:00,775 --> 01:32:04,734 Let's say Simpsons, like, it needed to end a little while ago. 1331 01:32:04,734 --> 01:32:11,338 But I like getting more of what I like, but there is a limit, like three or four games, sure. 1332 01:32:11,378 --> 01:32:14,719 Half-Life could stop at three, maybe four, and I'd be fine. 1333 01:32:17,403 --> 01:32:17,870 uh 1334 01:32:17,870 --> 01:32:21,815 uh I hear the Simpsons ratings are going back up, but uh... 1335 01:32:21,815 --> 01:32:23,859 I've heard that too actually. 1336 01:32:27,523 --> 01:32:35,510 With this subscription, you think, so to kind of get back into this, do you think the Xbox Game Pass is going to go away? 1337 01:32:35,510 --> 01:32:40,033 uh Or like, they're gonna stop releasing so many games on it? 1338 01:32:40,434 --> 01:32:44,737 Or they're gonna redo it? 1339 01:32:44,737 --> 01:32:47,259 How do you think they're gonna get away from this? 1340 01:32:47,787 --> 01:32:55,721 Probably by raising the prices to be honest That's like the met that's like the subscription matter right now Get people locked in so that they basically can't live 1341 01:32:55,721 --> 01:33:00,010 without it and then raise the prices so that they have to pay them, right? 1342 01:33:00,133 --> 01:33:01,207 To be fair. 1343 01:33:03,263 --> 01:33:12,563 I don't see anything too wrong with that because if you're gonna be, let's say if you play a couple of games a month off this, you're saving money already, even if they raise it up 1344 01:33:12,563 --> 01:33:16,137 to the price of a game every month, if you're playing it enough. 1345 01:33:16,137 --> 01:33:18,191 But I don't know if it's gonna help their growth. 1346 01:33:18,191 --> 01:33:22,624 Like it will help probably their profits, but their user base will probably go down. 1347 01:33:22,624 --> 01:33:26,067 they'll probably, profits will go up, but their user base will go down. 1348 01:33:27,666 --> 01:33:40,000 Dude It's a I don't know what to do with these subscriptions because I mean I I think we could all agree that online subscriptions to like play games online on your consoles. 1349 01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:42,542 They need to die yesterday 1350 01:33:42,914 --> 01:33:44,684 Yeah, I think 100%. 1351 01:33:44,684 --> 01:33:46,725 um Yeah, I don't like it. 1352 01:33:46,725 --> 01:33:52,418 I know some of the services cost money, but they make the money up, I think, by their uh licensee fees. 1353 01:33:52,418 --> 01:34:00,651 So in order to release a game on the console, the console makers get a cut of the game, right? 1354 01:34:00,651 --> 01:34:02,291 Or they have to license it. 1355 01:34:02,651 --> 01:34:08,813 And so they're already making, I think, enough money to run those services because I don't think those services are the most expensive. 1356 01:34:09,514 --> 01:34:11,034 So, yeah, I don't know. 1357 01:34:11,235 --> 01:34:11,905 I agree with that. 1358 01:34:11,905 --> 01:34:12,919 I really hate it. 1359 01:34:12,919 --> 01:34:16,672 Steam has a great model and it seems to be doing fine. 1360 01:34:17,472 --> 01:34:20,192 Yeah, well, I don't know, man. 1361 01:34:20,192 --> 01:34:21,035 We'll figure it out. 1362 01:34:21,035 --> 01:34:23,412 At least Valve doesn't have a subscription yet. 1363 01:34:25,024 --> 01:34:26,234 I don't think they will either. 1364 01:34:26,234 --> 01:34:28,479 I think their 30 % covers more than plenty. 1365 01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:32,795 mean Gabe Newell can have like what 8 megayachts or something so 1366 01:34:32,972 --> 01:34:35,387 Gabe Newell should come on this show. 1367 01:34:35,387 --> 01:34:37,710 That'd be so awesome if we could get him on here. 1368 01:34:39,309 --> 01:34:50,252 I okay, I will only do it if we get to go on one of his super yachts to Do the podcast I'm kidding by the way 1369 01:34:50,252 --> 01:34:56,010 Dude, that'd be so awesome though, but anyways, talking about CEOs. 1370 01:34:58,705 --> 01:34:59,968 Yeah, what is this? 1371 01:34:59,968 --> 01:35:01,571 What is this topic? 1372 01:35:01,710 --> 01:35:03,090 I don't know, just thought it'd be... 1373 01:35:03,090 --> 01:35:07,350 I don't know, it's an article I saw about how gamers, although you talk... 1374 01:35:07,350 --> 01:35:15,970 they don't talk about the merits of games anymore, they talk about player counts, use Steam charts, they don't even talk about if a game's good or not, they just talk about if 1375 01:35:15,970 --> 01:35:18,970 a game fulfills their agenda by having enough players. 1376 01:35:19,150 --> 01:35:21,310 And I just wanted to rant a little bit. 1377 01:35:21,310 --> 01:35:26,950 My personal thoughts are that talking about player counts on a single player game is stupid. 1378 01:35:27,693 --> 01:35:29,014 I agree with that. 1379 01:35:29,014 --> 01:35:32,595 Like, multiplayer games, I kind of understand. 1380 01:35:32,595 --> 01:35:37,797 Like, it makes sense because if there's less players in a multiplayer game, you can't... 1381 01:35:37,797 --> 01:35:41,598 At some point, you're gonna be bringing the same people over and over again. 1382 01:35:41,738 --> 01:35:44,098 And it's not gonna be very good experience. 1383 01:35:44,098 --> 01:35:47,659 Fighting games are kind of different though, because they're always gonna be niche. 1384 01:35:48,100 --> 01:35:51,994 Because people are afraid of playing fighting games for some reason. 1385 01:35:51,994 --> 01:35:53,201 I don't think it's that bad. 1386 01:35:53,201 --> 01:35:54,061 Just... 1387 01:35:55,322 --> 01:35:56,522 Like, okay. 1388 01:35:56,854 --> 01:35:59,979 What are your thoughts on- like you've played a fighting game or two, right? 1389 01:36:01,016 --> 01:36:04,271 Yeah, I don't I don't play much but now 1390 01:36:04,271 --> 01:36:06,767 on motion inputs like a Hadouken motion? 1391 01:36:07,069 --> 01:36:09,174 You know how to do one, right? 1392 01:36:09,947 --> 01:36:14,390 Uh, years ago, I don't remember. 1393 01:36:14,782 --> 01:36:24,486 Oh, but like, you don't think, like, you don't think, like, a lot of players are worried, are afraid because they don't know how to do special moves. 1394 01:36:25,167 --> 01:36:28,528 And like, I don't think it's that big, I don't think it's that serious, dude. 1395 01:36:28,528 --> 01:36:38,853 A lot of what makes fighting games great is not necessarily how mechanic-y complex your execution is or combos and whatnot, it's about the interplay between you and the other 1396 01:36:38,853 --> 01:36:39,773 player. 1397 01:36:40,013 --> 01:36:42,054 Like, fighting, cause, you know. 1398 01:36:42,708 --> 01:36:46,715 Even if you were playing the same character, they can be played different ways depending on who you are. 1399 01:36:46,715 --> 01:36:49,289 That's just kind of the way it is. 1400 01:36:51,331 --> 01:36:53,572 Okay, yeah, no, I get that. 1401 01:36:53,572 --> 01:36:58,883 just had I haven't played fighting games a whole lot against other people. 1402 01:36:58,883 --> 01:37:06,030 I mean, my wife got really big into a few and I beat her and then eventually she got good enough to beat me. 1403 01:37:06,030 --> 01:37:11,214 So yeah. 1404 01:37:11,214 --> 01:37:19,930 games there are some great you can like look up on facebook your local fighting game like locals and go over there and play against like people in your area 1405 01:37:20,087 --> 01:37:21,407 I think that's the way to do it. 1406 01:37:21,407 --> 01:37:29,676 And that might be why player counts are like reflective, maybe as much because, yeah, with a fighting game, I'd much rather play with someone face to face. 1407 01:37:29,676 --> 01:37:33,170 Yeah, it's a lot better that way. 1408 01:37:33,231 --> 01:37:39,038 As good as fighting game Netcode has gotten, still doesn't hold a candle just playing in person. 1409 01:37:40,034 --> 01:37:47,637 Yeah, and I think that's my difference is like, don't like I if I'm teaming, let's say League of Legends, I'd rather have people on my team that I know. 1410 01:37:47,637 --> 01:37:50,768 So I like to play with people I know, but I don't need to be in the same room. 1411 01:37:51,009 --> 01:37:58,512 But with a fighting game, if I'm fighting with or get like if you're doing a team based one or you just fighting one on one, like I still would rather be in the same room. 1412 01:37:58,520 --> 01:37:59,571 for sure. 1413 01:37:59,994 --> 01:38:02,380 But yeah, just a little thing I wanted to add. 1414 01:38:02,380 --> 01:38:04,965 We don't need to talk about this in too much depth. 1415 01:38:05,913 --> 01:38:07,505 I think it's an interesting idea though. 1416 01:38:07,505 --> 01:38:12,851 Kill the CEO in your head, high profile failures in the video game industry have changed how we talk about the big games. 1417 01:38:13,612 --> 01:38:26,540 I think just how we talk about games gets a little wonky on, we get so critical about the stupidest things on games and just stop enjoying games, I think sometimes. 1418 01:38:26,540 --> 01:38:32,160 Yeah, like what really matters in a video game is not how many copies have been sold. 1419 01:38:32,181 --> 01:38:36,488 I mean that kind of matters because you want to get a sequel to a game you really like. 1420 01:38:36,710 --> 01:38:37,915 But what really matters is... 1421 01:38:37,915 --> 01:38:41,516 us, I do think it matters for us to talk about it. 1422 01:38:41,616 --> 01:38:49,799 But at the same time, I think an average gamer should not be as concerned and maybe we shouldn't promote it so much. 1423 01:38:49,799 --> 01:38:52,059 But the point is like what you're saying. 1424 01:38:52,719 --> 01:39:04,463 If it gets enough sales and enough player count that shows a return on investment, then you're most likely going to be getting another version of that game. 1425 01:39:04,523 --> 01:39:07,444 or, know, like a, you know, another sequel. 1426 01:39:08,204 --> 01:39:13,166 And so, but for the average person, sometimes you guys just need to enjoy your games when you're playing them. 1427 01:39:13,166 --> 01:39:18,308 Like if you buy a game, don't go look to see how everyone else is enjoying it in the moment. 1428 01:39:18,308 --> 01:39:21,489 Play the game, enjoy it, and then find a community that agrees with you. 1429 01:39:21,489 --> 01:39:23,630 If you want to have like. 1430 01:39:24,470 --> 01:39:27,022 Feel good and not be so worried about it. 1431 01:39:27,022 --> 01:39:37,542 But I needed to as a consumer that I made the right choice in buying this $80 video game and I didn't just spend my money on an IGN 5 out of 10. 1432 01:39:38,971 --> 01:39:46,011 I know that's the thing if you that's why I try to say like if if Borderlands movie do I feel like I wasted my money? 1433 01:39:46,011 --> 01:39:46,571 Not really. 1434 01:39:46,571 --> 01:39:47,751 I knew what I was getting into it. 1435 01:39:47,751 --> 01:39:48,431 I enjoyed it. 1436 01:39:48,431 --> 01:39:56,588 It was a 10 % rotten tomatoes, but I enjoyed it because it had elements of a game I like but I knew what I was getting into with that. 1437 01:39:56,588 --> 01:40:06,105 Yeah, like honestly, there's a huge culture on watching bad movies, but there really isn't that same culture for video games. 1438 01:40:06,105 --> 01:40:09,908 People really do get really upset when a video game is bad. 1439 01:40:09,908 --> 01:40:11,729 Like really bad too. 1440 01:40:11,729 --> 01:40:15,211 Like people can't enjoy bad video games. 1441 01:40:15,211 --> 01:40:16,672 At least that's what I've observed. 1442 01:40:16,672 --> 01:40:19,294 Maybe I've just been looking at the wrong people. 1443 01:40:19,312 --> 01:40:31,241 In past, I think we appreciated a little bit more, but now that we're so inundated with just so many games that we can be very picky about it. 1444 01:40:31,241 --> 01:40:41,238 And I still think there is a little bit of that, but people are so critical and we are so in need of connection that we watch YouTubers that they shit on everything and negativity 1445 01:40:41,238 --> 01:40:45,291 sells well, because people want to, you know. 1446 01:40:45,839 --> 01:40:53,662 feel like their opinions are heard and then they hear theirs and then it's just like a, it's a whole freaking clusterfuck of like a, of a system we've kind of created. 1447 01:40:53,782 --> 01:41:00,715 And I only shit on stuff that really like tries to, I don't know. 1448 01:41:00,715 --> 01:41:05,928 Maybe I shouldn't get on a soapbox, but like, I like Epic Games to a point. 1449 01:41:05,928 --> 01:41:08,279 I think they help a lot of gamer, game developers. 1450 01:41:08,279 --> 01:41:14,271 have grants for game developers, but they still do. 1451 01:41:14,573 --> 01:41:16,450 other shit that's annoying. 1452 01:41:16,450 --> 01:41:17,543 So I don't know. 1453 01:41:17,543 --> 01:41:20,918 I'm kind of going around in circles on this topic, but yeah. 1454 01:41:20,918 --> 01:41:28,618 you can't trust most gamers' Like, I know user reviews are super valuable and whatnot, but most users are... 1455 01:41:28,618 --> 01:41:31,638 Like, let's think about Sturgeon's Law. 1456 01:41:32,678 --> 01:41:34,958 90 % of things are bad. 1457 01:41:34,958 --> 01:41:37,258 Like, 90 % of movies are bad. 1458 01:41:37,258 --> 01:41:39,998 90 % of video games are bad. 1459 01:41:40,078 --> 01:41:42,935 90 % of user reviews are bad. 1460 01:41:42,935 --> 01:41:49,715 I think I'd flip that 90 % of media is not gonna be amazing. 1461 01:41:50,015 --> 01:41:53,195 Or you can say 10 % of media is amazing. 1462 01:41:53,195 --> 01:41:54,735 That's actually the best way to put it. 1463 01:41:54,735 --> 01:41:58,455 10 % of media that you're gonna find is gonna be amazing. 1464 01:41:58,455 --> 01:42:01,035 The rest is gonna be good to bad. 1465 01:42:01,035 --> 01:42:04,795 I think it's not fair to call it bad. 1466 01:42:05,995 --> 01:42:10,125 I think it's, oh my gosh, I'm going all, I'm all over the place, but yeah. 1467 01:42:10,125 --> 01:42:10,974 can be... 1468 01:42:10,974 --> 01:42:12,507 I mean, not Occam's razor, sorry. 1469 01:42:12,507 --> 01:42:16,080 Sturgeon's law can be adjusted to, I guess, multiple scales. 1470 01:42:16,080 --> 01:42:16,880 It could really be... 1471 01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:20,422 It could really mean 10 % is exceptional and 90 % is... 1472 01:42:21,144 --> 01:42:22,545 Okay, good. 1473 01:42:22,545 --> 01:42:23,705 Passable. 1474 01:42:23,705 --> 01:42:24,946 Below exceptional. 1475 01:42:25,739 --> 01:42:26,179 Yep. 1476 01:42:26,179 --> 01:42:26,919 And I agree. 1477 01:42:26,919 --> 01:42:28,859 I'd a hundred percent agree with that. 1478 01:42:28,859 --> 01:42:30,639 And that's just the nature of things. 1479 01:42:30,639 --> 01:42:36,879 Like you can't have just amazing every like, that's just not how this all works. 1480 01:42:36,879 --> 01:42:41,399 And we wouldn't be able to play that many games and niches are exist too. 1481 01:42:41,399 --> 01:42:47,139 Like there's a lot of games I love that you and Gardner are just don't care about, which is fine. 1482 01:42:47,139 --> 01:42:48,219 And vice versa. 1483 01:42:48,219 --> 01:42:51,299 It's just, but I respect that there's a lot of good games. 1484 01:42:51,339 --> 01:42:52,279 So 1485 01:42:52,653 --> 01:42:59,631 I think with, when it comes to content creators, find the content creator that you kind of like jive with, that's fine. 1486 01:42:59,952 --> 01:43:08,812 But if they're always just shitting on other games, then I would probably find someone else to listen to because they're like, I'll give a couple exceptions. 1487 01:43:08,812 --> 01:43:10,163 think, uh 1488 01:43:11,116 --> 01:43:12,334 Listen to us. 1489 01:43:12,481 --> 01:43:14,112 No, well, what's his face? 1490 01:43:14,112 --> 01:43:16,615 ah Angry dude. 1491 01:43:16,615 --> 01:43:18,256 What is his? 1492 01:43:18,256 --> 01:43:19,477 Soul Brent. 1493 01:43:21,399 --> 01:43:22,229 No. 1494 01:43:23,702 --> 01:43:24,842 Angry Joe? 1495 01:43:25,037 --> 01:43:26,208 Angry Joe, yes. 1496 01:43:26,208 --> 01:43:27,348 Like his whole brand's on that. 1497 01:43:27,348 --> 01:43:30,841 Now that being said, I like watching this stuff sometimes. 1498 01:43:30,841 --> 01:43:37,214 Sometimes I just don't, cause it does get grating to just always watch something be, someone be pessimistic about stuff. 1499 01:43:37,374 --> 01:43:37,998 But, 1500 01:43:37,998 --> 01:43:39,380 I he's not always pessimistic. 1501 01:43:39,380 --> 01:43:43,033 He does give good rating reviews to games that are, like, good. 1502 01:43:43,033 --> 01:43:45,279 his brand is usually that. 1503 01:43:45,302 --> 01:43:50,189 Well yeah, mean his is like an artifact of like the old angry gamer from like... 1504 01:43:50,471 --> 01:43:55,008 Like back when AVG, everyone was trying to be like the angry video game nerd. 1505 01:43:55,770 --> 01:44:03,539 Yeah, and I like angry Joe's stuff sometimes, but yeah, it's just one of those things where I don't know. 1506 01:44:03,539 --> 01:44:04,270 It's hard. 1507 01:44:04,270 --> 01:44:06,022 It's hard to have things be negative all the time. 1508 01:44:06,022 --> 01:44:11,299 And I know I'm probably a little bit too negative on this podcast on itself, but like tariffs are annoying. 1509 01:44:11,299 --> 01:44:11,980 So. 1510 01:44:11,980 --> 01:44:20,155 I I liked his content too, but I stopped watching it around the time he reviewed the Suicide Squad, the first one. 1511 01:44:20,576 --> 01:44:23,217 The first movie, the David Ayer one. 1512 01:44:23,217 --> 01:44:25,718 And he gave it a pretty high score. 1513 01:44:25,850 --> 01:44:28,981 And like, I don't agree with that. 1514 01:44:28,981 --> 01:44:31,162 So that's kind why I stopped watching him. 1515 01:44:33,133 --> 01:44:34,143 I don't agree with everything. 1516 01:44:34,143 --> 01:44:36,895 like watching the stuff that's like more relative to what I like. 1517 01:44:36,895 --> 01:44:40,498 And so I'll watch this stuff when it's relative to what I'm kind of interested in, which is fine. 1518 01:44:40,498 --> 01:44:41,118 I think that's. 1519 01:44:41,118 --> 01:44:41,558 yeah, yeah. 1520 01:44:41,558 --> 01:44:45,659 Well, at the very least, I don't really enjoy his movie takes, I'll say that. 1521 01:44:45,659 --> 01:44:47,785 Ah, yeah. 1522 01:44:47,785 --> 01:44:49,487 Okay, I get that. 1523 01:44:50,599 --> 01:44:51,499 I... 1524 01:44:51,499 --> 01:44:52,567 Yeah. 1525 01:44:52,974 --> 01:44:55,654 But, I mean, I do respect him as a creator. 1526 01:44:56,354 --> 01:45:01,154 I don't think he's listening to this, but if he is, I just want to let you know. 1527 01:45:02,648 --> 01:45:06,651 Yeah, no, I don't think anything poor of him. 1528 01:45:08,973 --> 01:45:17,970 There is a point where I just don't watch him as much because of just certain topics he covers that I'm just not as interested in. 1529 01:45:17,970 --> 01:45:20,202 So it is what it is. 1530 01:45:20,383 --> 01:45:22,508 Guess who's gonna be poor after this? 1531 01:45:23,013 --> 01:45:23,773 Us. 1532 01:45:24,119 --> 01:45:29,006 a bit because they don't have any they don't they don't ship anything 1533 01:45:29,050 --> 01:45:29,691 they're not... 1534 01:45:29,691 --> 01:45:30,772 oh no... 1535 01:45:30,772 --> 01:45:31,482 8bitdo is like... 1536 01:45:31,482 --> 01:45:36,917 honestly one of my favorite like controller manufacturers 1537 01:45:37,123 --> 01:45:37,985 I agree with this. 1538 01:45:37,985 --> 01:45:39,739 actually have come to really like their stuff. 1539 01:45:39,739 --> 01:45:42,850 Like I have that keyboard that, you know. 1540 01:45:42,850 --> 01:45:44,493 Wait, you have their keyboard? 1541 01:45:45,318 --> 01:45:48,142 Aw, dude, that looks pretty sick. 1542 01:45:48,142 --> 01:45:49,763 love this keyboard. 1543 01:45:51,185 --> 01:45:51,986 It's a little dirty. 1544 01:45:51,986 --> 01:45:55,359 I need to clean it up or else I'd show up more. 1545 01:45:55,359 --> 01:45:56,159 I love. 1546 01:45:56,830 --> 01:46:02,435 No, I I have a Logitech mouse that I really like. 1547 01:46:02,602 --> 01:46:09,350 It's time to throw that logic mouse away and get the 8-bit Dove mouse, the one that looks like an NES-like mouse. 1548 01:46:09,836 --> 01:46:10,536 Oh, that one? 1549 01:46:10,536 --> 01:46:11,269 No, that. 1550 01:46:11,269 --> 01:46:12,640 Like, no way. 1551 01:46:13,885 --> 01:46:15,488 It looks so uncomfortable. 1552 01:46:15,488 --> 01:46:15,788 No. 1553 01:46:15,788 --> 01:46:19,315 um 1554 01:46:19,356 --> 01:46:27,542 Yes, but uh, yeah, I mean, it's pretty clear why they're not they're not shipping things from China to the US, right? 1555 01:46:28,453 --> 01:46:31,268 just to give a little bit of context. 1556 01:46:31,268 --> 01:46:36,005 they have an Xbox looking one now that looks a lot less uncomfy. 1557 01:46:36,315 --> 01:46:45,167 It looks like an old-school Microsoft laser optical laser mouse that they came out with like 15 18 years ago or 20 years ago 1558 01:46:45,167 --> 01:46:46,260 mouse too. 1559 01:46:48,399 --> 01:46:49,914 They don't look comfortable. 1560 01:46:51,362 --> 01:46:55,175 Dude, your hands are a small sacrifice for greatness, 1561 01:46:56,059 --> 01:47:01,833 I guess I could do these ones, but that. 1562 01:47:01,833 --> 01:47:05,039 actually look like a mouse and not like that one. 1563 01:47:05,950 --> 01:47:08,567 Or you can use a Switch 2 Joy-Con as a mouse. 1564 01:47:08,567 --> 01:47:09,769 That'd be funny. 1565 01:47:10,651 --> 01:47:12,831 Switch to, God. 1566 01:47:13,611 --> 01:47:14,671 Okay. 1567 01:47:16,331 --> 01:47:18,431 That would be horrible. 1568 01:47:19,911 --> 01:47:32,091 So, the gaming controller company, 8BitDo, is suspending shipments from its Chinese warehouse to United States based customers per a notice on its website. 1569 01:47:32,091 --> 01:47:39,811 The temporary pause on shipments to the US is due to the Trump administration's new 145 % tariffs on imports from China. 1570 01:47:41,779 --> 01:47:48,326 That I don't know how Xbox and all these companies like Xbox is just raising their prices just by how much they are. 1571 01:47:48,326 --> 01:47:52,250 And I think it is to they have a surplus like I mentioned. 1572 01:47:52,511 --> 01:47:57,039 And then after that, I think we're going to see a huge increase in Xbox's prices. 1573 01:47:57,039 --> 01:47:59,350 Xbox's, buy it now probably. 1574 01:47:59,350 --> 01:48:04,404 If you want to buy 8-bit dough controllers, probably buy it now as well. 1575 01:48:05,205 --> 01:48:08,567 I mean, I don't know what more to say about this than this sucks. 1576 01:48:08,567 --> 01:48:09,948 No one wants this. 1577 01:48:09,948 --> 01:48:17,753 And I'm sure 8-bit dough is far from the only controller manufacturer, like third party Chinese controller manufacturer that's going to stop shipments to the US. 1578 01:48:17,934 --> 01:48:23,558 Like I'm sure GullyKit is one other company that does that. 1579 01:48:23,558 --> 01:48:24,518 uh 1580 01:48:24,970 --> 01:48:30,318 GameStar does too and actually they made one of my favorite controllers, the GameStar Tarantula Pro. 1581 01:48:30,318 --> 01:48:31,640 I got it for review. 1582 01:48:31,640 --> 01:48:33,832 Look it up, look it up, it's really cool. 1583 01:48:34,933 --> 01:48:36,076 What is it? 1584 01:48:36,096 --> 01:48:38,781 It's called the GameSir Tarantula Pro. 1585 01:48:39,799 --> 01:48:41,386 I don't know, Gamester? 1586 01:48:41,386 --> 01:48:44,277 Oh, Gamester. 1587 01:48:44,588 --> 01:48:46,165 Like SIR. 1588 01:48:48,824 --> 01:48:50,251 Tarantula Pro. 1589 01:48:53,211 --> 01:48:54,114 I'm not. 1590 01:48:54,114 --> 01:48:59,284 we're typing this in and looking up on the uh 1591 01:48:59,284 --> 01:49:01,819 to look at all the stuff they do and we're going to find it. 1592 01:49:03,184 --> 01:49:05,024 Hey, that's actually kind cool stuff. 1593 01:49:05,024 --> 01:49:08,093 Yeah, so they do make a lot of mobile controllers, yes, but 1594 01:49:09,125 --> 01:49:10,680 game plates and everything. 1595 01:49:11,815 --> 01:49:12,226 So. 1596 01:49:12,226 --> 01:49:16,186 I'm talking about is a TMR based controller. 1597 01:49:16,186 --> 01:49:20,246 So instead of Hall effects, they have TMRs, which are supposed to be... 1598 01:49:20,246 --> 01:49:26,166 It's also a different style of magnetic determination. 1599 01:49:26,606 --> 01:49:28,466 And it's supposed to be more power resistant. 1600 01:49:28,466 --> 01:49:31,646 It's supposed to be more power efficient compared to Hall effects. 1601 01:49:31,646 --> 01:49:32,406 There, right there. 1602 01:49:32,406 --> 01:49:33,526 Tarantula Pro. 1603 01:49:34,831 --> 01:49:35,374 Which one? 1604 01:49:35,374 --> 01:49:52,038 up the one that's $70 $69.99 right there it's the bit right it's the fourth it's the fourth one it's the fourth one you can fully see that one yes 1605 01:49:52,738 --> 01:49:54,222 I'm seeing trans- my gosh, I'm sorry. 1606 01:49:54,222 --> 01:49:57,068 I'll overplay something today. 1607 01:49:57,090 --> 01:49:57,654 Okay. 1608 01:49:57,654 --> 01:50:06,157 So what's cool about this one is that it can actually switch, the buttons can actually switch like their legends depending on if you're on Switch Mode or Xbox Mode. 1609 01:50:06,538 --> 01:50:10,479 So like the ABXYs automatically switch around. 1610 01:50:10,619 --> 01:50:18,062 I mean to be honest I don't really have an issue with that because I know a lot, but I know a lot of other people tend to have issues with that for some reason. 1611 01:50:18,319 --> 01:50:20,833 That's really cool. 1612 01:50:20,833 --> 01:50:21,988 That's so weird though. 1613 01:50:21,988 --> 01:50:22,528 feels nice. 1614 01:50:22,528 --> 01:50:25,176 It also just really feels really nice in the hand. 1615 01:50:26,362 --> 01:50:29,309 And the buttons feel nice too. 1616 01:50:32,667 --> 01:50:36,509 70 bucks I mean that's like the same price as a regular controller so 1617 01:50:36,598 --> 01:50:41,510 Yeah, and you can get a version that comes with a charging base as well. 1618 01:50:41,510 --> 01:50:43,054 I happen to have that version. 1619 01:50:43,054 --> 01:50:45,137 They sent it to me for review. 1620 01:50:46,651 --> 01:50:49,891 for the price of a Nintendo game. 1621 01:50:50,572 --> 01:50:52,701 The price of an Xbox game too, no doubt. 1622 01:50:52,901 --> 01:50:55,030 Yeah, yeah, that's true. 1623 01:50:55,276 --> 01:50:55,830 Ugh. 1624 01:50:55,830 --> 01:51:01,949 But yeah, I'm willing to bet all of these companies are going to be feeling the pinch. 1625 01:51:02,393 --> 01:51:11,420 they're either gonna stop shipping, because it's just not gonna be worth it, because they don't want, know, they feel like they might not even sell and they'll probably, there's a 1626 01:51:11,420 --> 01:51:21,519 good chance that they're gonna try to maybe do some deals in other countries, like maybe they'll lower it like by $10 just to get some good sells and they'll clear out their 1627 01:51:21,519 --> 01:51:23,700 inventory in other countries. 1628 01:51:24,381 --> 01:51:27,563 So we'll see, we'll see what happens. 1629 01:51:28,304 --> 01:51:31,967 We're gonna fill the pinch I think for a few months until, 1630 01:51:32,140 --> 01:51:33,160 We'll see. 1631 01:51:33,721 --> 01:51:42,226 I still say like I don't trust that Trump is not gonna just give in I think he's gonna give in eventually I think he's gonna be super stubborn, but I think um Once there's gonna 1632 01:51:42,226 --> 01:51:52,552 be like uh just a myriad of shelves to have it like images of shelves being empty on social media I Think it's gonna be downhill from there I just don't think there's any 1633 01:51:52,552 --> 01:51:59,580 defending that even though he's already trying to say that but it's Biden's fault and it's not it's not how that works when you implement it 1634 01:51:59,580 --> 01:52:09,120 Yeah, it's Obama's fault and some people are saying that but When you implement a tariff like this, you can't blame anyone else except for yourself as this is how tariffs work 1635 01:52:09,120 --> 01:52:19,890 This is every economist even Even you know, they're far right economists are gonna sit for the most part some of them are not because they play Kate but yeah, they're gonna say that 1636 01:52:19,890 --> 01:52:22,482 this Tariffs 1637 01:52:22,482 --> 01:52:24,806 gotta watch it with the politics talk. 1638 01:52:24,806 --> 01:52:26,418 We're gonna get some more comments. 1639 01:52:27,051 --> 01:52:33,608 I mean, think I don't think that's a very like I think that's pretty objective in my opinion. 1640 01:52:33,608 --> 01:52:37,852 it ah is a I don't think it's opinion based. 1641 01:52:37,852 --> 01:52:42,977 You can go look it up like to see how many economists actually don't like tariffs. 1642 01:52:44,613 --> 01:52:45,424 so 1643 01:52:45,934 --> 01:52:53,474 But, speaking of opinions, do you think this is an accurate assertion? 1644 01:52:53,474 --> 01:52:56,454 I do think it is, in a way, accurate. 1645 01:52:56,603 --> 01:53:05,222 CD Projekt Red shares more Cyberpunk Switch 2 footage, says it's the best way to play it on the go. 1646 01:53:06,783 --> 01:53:08,463 Is that the footage? 1647 01:53:08,583 --> 01:53:10,155 Like, is this it right here? 1648 01:53:10,155 --> 01:53:11,556 Yeah, I guess so. 1649 01:53:11,980 --> 01:53:14,665 It's part interview, part gameplay footage. 1650 01:53:15,048 --> 01:53:16,552 So you can skip to where the... 1651 01:53:16,552 --> 01:53:17,984 I cannot hear it now. 1652 01:53:18,075 --> 01:53:18,924 Okay, good. 1653 01:53:18,924 --> 01:53:20,755 I don't want it to be a... 1654 01:53:23,864 --> 01:53:24,806 Yeah, that's- 1655 01:53:25,067 --> 01:53:27,283 We can talk about it though while it's playing. 1656 01:53:27,283 --> 01:53:32,862 Yeah, they say that it's the best way to play on the Switch 2. 1657 01:53:33,309 --> 01:53:35,721 They say the Switch 2 is the best way to play Cyberpunk on the go. 1658 01:53:35,721 --> 01:53:41,437 And yes, that includes devices like the Steam Deck, the RGLIX, etc. 1659 01:53:41,437 --> 01:53:42,458 etc. 1660 01:53:42,539 --> 01:53:50,046 And it's not that big of a surprise given that this is a fully, presumably optimized port, right? 1661 01:53:50,199 --> 01:54:04,203 I know it is like any like usually this type of stuff gets ported over and it's optimized and Nintendo Xbox PlayStation they usually get the full love but they also a lot of these 1662 01:54:04,203 --> 01:54:16,739 companies have metrics of like like standard metrics usually especially probably with with cyberpunk because it flopped it was so bad on PlayStation 4 they probably yeah 1663 01:54:16,739 --> 01:54:20,501 I'm sure Nintendo's like, it's got to, you got to optimize this as good as possible. 1664 01:54:20,501 --> 01:54:33,278 uh I'm curious to see how well this plays on my MacBook Pro because they're also, think when this comes out for the Switch, they're coming, it's coming out for the Mac, for Mac, 1665 01:54:33,278 --> 01:54:34,709 for Mac OS that is. 1666 01:54:35,530 --> 01:54:36,470 Yeah. 1667 01:54:36,470 --> 01:54:39,112 And if it, like my Mac Studio is a beast. 1668 01:54:39,112 --> 01:54:45,172 And so if it's optimized for my Mac Studio, there's a good chance it's going to beat my 3090, but we'll see. 1669 01:54:45,172 --> 01:54:48,783 Oh shit, those are big, those are fighting words. 1670 01:54:50,244 --> 01:54:55,905 But, I mean, yeah, it's not that big a surprise that it'll run better on this than it probably would on the Steam Deck. 1671 01:54:55,905 --> 01:55:03,655 mean, the biggest issue with the Steam Deck, aside from anti-cheat and stuff, is the fact that, you it's just running PC games. 1672 01:55:03,655 --> 01:55:07,909 You don't get games very often that are optimized for Steam Deck. 1673 01:55:07,909 --> 01:55:12,290 The most Cyberpunk did, the most CDPR did for Cyberpunk was like... 1674 01:55:12,416 --> 01:55:16,494 make a Steam Deck preset and that's not really the same thing as optimizing it, really. 1675 01:55:19,096 --> 01:55:21,657 Yeah, no, yeah. 1676 01:55:21,778 --> 01:55:31,745 It optimized the settings and maybe they added a little bit of something in there, but it's not truly optimizing assets, doing full run throughs. 1677 01:55:31,745 --> 01:55:37,890 Like there's a whole optimization workflow that needs to be done to really get this to work. 1678 01:55:37,890 --> 01:55:45,735 I am curious though with this to see if maybe some of the optimizations they did for the... 1679 01:55:46,137 --> 01:55:55,046 for the Switch could come back to handhelds in textures and stuff. 1680 01:55:55,046 --> 01:55:58,279 Well, the optimizations are gonna be for like a different architecture though. 1681 01:55:58,279 --> 01:56:04,364 So some low level uh optimizations probably won't, but some higher end ones might. 1682 01:56:04,364 --> 01:56:07,978 Yeah, so here's what I know. 1683 01:56:07,978 --> 01:56:13,905 I know that Valve has an option for you to um make set up depots. 1684 01:56:15,027 --> 01:56:24,477 It's an internal steam term for different uh repositories that have different contents based on a number of different categories, uh criteria. 1685 01:56:24,718 --> 01:56:33,778 Like, for example, there's like some games have a repo for like the Mac version of a game or like the Windows version of a game or like a Linux version of game or they may even 1686 01:56:33,778 --> 01:56:36,818 have repos for like different versions of the game too. 1687 01:56:36,818 --> 01:56:40,178 Like for example, like beta versions, stuff like that. 1688 01:56:40,618 --> 01:56:47,818 One criteria that you can actually categorize a repo by is if they're downloading it to a Steam deck or not. 1689 01:56:48,838 --> 01:56:54,818 you, so developers have the ability to set up repos where 1690 01:56:55,018 --> 01:57:00,122 It downloads low resolution assets, more optimized assets. 1691 01:57:00,122 --> 01:57:04,985 Heck, you can even make a completely optimized version of the game. 1692 01:57:05,225 --> 01:57:06,876 It's not just assets. 1693 01:57:06,876 --> 01:57:09,228 You can do an entire binary too. 1694 01:57:09,498 --> 01:57:12,290 An entire Steam Deck optimized binary. 1695 01:57:12,700 --> 01:57:14,882 yeah, here's, and this lies within the tools. 1696 01:57:14,882 --> 01:57:22,828 I'd love to say, and I know Epic, they needed to get their shit together and just not fight so hard against a Steam Deck and against handheld gaming. 1697 01:57:22,828 --> 01:57:24,849 They really need to get on the bandwagon. 1698 01:57:25,751 --> 01:57:36,269 So the Unreal Engine and Unity and Godot all could end up with pipelines that could build, when you do a build, and usually they have like, 1699 01:57:36,783 --> 01:57:39,395 different platforms you can build for that are optimized. 1700 01:57:39,395 --> 01:57:45,911 I'm curious if they could add into that pipeline like a Steam Deck-esque version, that'd be cool. 1701 01:57:45,911 --> 01:57:51,275 Or there might be some third party tools that could also optimize assets, but I'd love to see that. 1702 01:57:54,616 --> 01:58:03,185 The issue though isn't that the tools don't exist, it's that the developers, at least on PC, won't make use of them. 1703 01:58:03,515 --> 01:58:13,534 Well, the tools don't, I'm saying like very specific tooling for this could really help with this because when you're making a game, there's so much already going into it and 1704 01:58:13,534 --> 01:58:24,213 there's so much stuff when you're doing builds that the easier you can make it for uh up and coming like Steam Deck, I think the more likely of a chance you're gonna get people to 1705 01:58:24,213 --> 01:58:25,453 port it over. 1706 01:58:26,114 --> 01:58:28,696 And so, yeah. 1707 01:58:29,897 --> 01:58:31,638 That's just my opinion on it though. 1708 01:58:31,639 --> 01:58:32,659 I could be wrong. 1709 01:58:32,910 --> 01:58:39,110 That's true, It's hard to know what's going on in the developers' minds. 1710 01:58:39,890 --> 01:58:43,890 A lot of indie developers are trying to optimize for the Steam Deck, I will say. 1711 01:58:43,890 --> 01:58:47,370 So I'm not saying no developers do, thankfully. 1712 01:58:48,150 --> 01:58:51,470 But it's just the big developers aren't. 1713 01:58:51,630 --> 01:58:58,210 Not only are they not optimized for the Steam Deck, they're not even really ensuring the fact that the games even run on Steam Deck. 1714 01:58:58,250 --> 01:59:02,644 Like, and heck, I've even seen some games that are Steam Deck-verified that... 1715 01:59:02,644 --> 01:59:05,098 straight up do not run well on Steam Deck. 1716 01:59:05,098 --> 01:59:10,486 Like, we've seen this happen multiple times with The Last of Us Part 1. 1717 01:59:10,486 --> 01:59:16,544 I think that got patched up in his work, but Ramnet 2 was one such a game as well. 1718 01:59:19,961 --> 01:59:22,032 Yeah, there's... 1719 01:59:23,314 --> 01:59:24,034 I just want... 1720 01:59:24,034 --> 01:59:30,239 We've talked about this so much that I just really want to see like really good standards for Steam Deck. 1721 01:59:31,726 --> 01:59:46,186 Maybe some sort of like, Panic Button Studio does some of these switch ports, What if we made like a panic button equivalent, but for Steam Deck? 1722 01:59:46,186 --> 01:59:48,626 Steam Deck optimization services. 1723 01:59:48,926 --> 01:59:53,006 You pay a fee and you give us access to some of the source code. 1724 01:59:53,006 --> 01:59:57,166 You give access to some of the source code and then we port it over. 1725 01:59:57,852 --> 01:59:59,633 It's not a bad idea actually. 1726 02:00:00,934 --> 02:00:03,436 You have to get really good at optimizing though. 1727 02:00:03,436 --> 02:00:04,814 And I don't know if I'm that good at it. 1728 02:00:04,814 --> 02:00:09,240 I know like some techniques that could be used, but I'd be shocked if they're not using it. 1729 02:00:09,240 --> 02:00:16,325 But if they just want to like, just cause they don't want to think about it and they just want to push it off, I could definitely think of a couple of things. 1730 02:00:16,345 --> 02:00:19,086 Some compression techniques and some other stuff, but yeah. 1731 02:00:19,086 --> 02:00:21,146 Yeah, I mean, it doesn't even have to be us. 1732 02:00:21,146 --> 02:00:22,306 It can just be anyone. 1733 02:00:22,306 --> 02:00:24,606 Any enterprise and developer does not want to do it. 1734 02:00:24,606 --> 02:00:26,426 You just need to have... 1735 02:00:26,426 --> 02:00:26,846 You just need... 1736 02:00:26,846 --> 02:00:29,206 Unfortunately, you just gotta have the reputation. 1737 02:00:29,266 --> 02:00:30,006 Well, if you want... 1738 02:00:30,006 --> 02:00:31,166 If you're up for it, you should... 1739 02:00:31,166 --> 02:00:32,471 You should totally do it. 1740 02:00:32,471 --> 02:00:33,523 gonna ask ChatGPT. 1741 02:00:33,523 --> 02:00:38,991 Hey, how can I vibe code my way into optimizing? 1742 02:00:41,557 --> 02:00:45,443 Into an optimization studio, okay. 1743 02:00:47,266 --> 02:00:48,547 But yeah, I mean... 1744 02:00:49,971 --> 02:00:51,393 Well, what about Gardener? 1745 02:00:51,634 --> 02:00:52,025 Don't... 1746 02:00:52,025 --> 02:00:52,345 Don't... 1747 02:00:52,345 --> 02:00:53,998 Don't expect Gardener. 1748 02:00:54,095 --> 02:00:55,916 Garner doesn't want a vibe code. 1749 02:00:58,439 --> 02:00:59,450 I'm not going to exclude him. 1750 02:00:59,450 --> 02:01:01,512 I'm not, I'm just excluding him because he's not here. 1751 02:01:01,512 --> 02:01:02,522 That's it. 1752 02:01:03,654 --> 02:01:12,174 And then, I mean, I'm not sure what else to say about this besides Cyberpunk 2077. 1753 02:01:12,394 --> 02:01:17,874 It probably is going to run the best on the Switch 2, but then we're going to get the next generation of handhelds. 1754 02:01:17,874 --> 02:01:18,854 Hopefully. 1755 02:01:18,984 --> 02:01:24,308 as good as it shows here, if this is it, I'm honestly, it's a selling point for me. 1756 02:01:24,308 --> 02:01:27,530 It probably is using some type of DLSS, right? 1757 02:01:27,530 --> 02:01:33,104 uh Yeah, but I can live with DLSS. 1758 02:01:33,104 --> 02:01:34,175 I'm fine with that. 1759 02:01:34,175 --> 02:01:36,677 For my stuffed on to go, I'm fine with that. 1760 02:01:36,677 --> 02:01:40,459 But if it looks as clear as this and it's DLSS, and this is what it looks like. 1761 02:01:42,171 --> 02:01:51,551 I'm not going to kill myself to find a Switch 2, but I might have my eye out later on when tariffs are done and they're available. 1762 02:01:51,551 --> 02:01:53,851 it might take me up to, who knows? 1763 02:01:53,851 --> 02:01:58,891 We'll see how Nintendo does, but it could take me year or two, but this might be a selling point for me. 1764 02:01:58,891 --> 02:02:02,091 I'm gonna get it for my kids, but this might be a selling point for me. 1765 02:02:02,291 --> 02:02:04,471 Because I like cyberpunk a lot. 1766 02:02:05,311 --> 02:02:10,151 And every time I tried to play it on the Switch 2, it sucks. 1767 02:02:10,491 --> 02:02:12,091 And not Switch 2, God. 1768 02:02:12,949 --> 02:02:14,872 The switch, it sucks. 1769 02:02:16,589 --> 02:02:17,872 Not the Switch, the Steam Deck. 1770 02:02:17,872 --> 02:02:18,764 Damn it. 1771 02:02:18,764 --> 02:02:24,585 Okay, I'm a little tired, but like, the Steam Deck, just doesn't play well on the Steam Deck. 1772 02:02:26,276 --> 02:02:26,976 In my opinion. 1773 02:02:26,976 --> 02:02:37,185 I really wish more games, like, more big-budget games optimized for Steam Deck besides just having a Steam Deck preset or having the Steam Deck controls show up in the loading 1774 02:02:37,185 --> 02:02:38,656 screen or something like that. 1775 02:02:39,777 --> 02:02:40,404 It's good. 1776 02:02:40,404 --> 02:02:41,294 start. 1777 02:02:41,455 --> 02:02:43,496 And I think for some people they're fine. 1778 02:02:43,496 --> 02:02:49,442 just, I can't do Steam Deck um Cyberpunk. 1779 02:02:49,442 --> 02:02:53,365 It could be because I played it on the 3090, you know. 1780 02:02:53,365 --> 02:03:00,311 And so going from a 3090 to a Steam Deck, I was just used to having 60 frames plus almost maxed out. 1781 02:03:02,171 --> 02:03:02,609 Yeah. 1782 02:03:02,609 --> 02:03:02,989 man. 1783 02:03:02,989 --> 02:03:06,926 And I think, oh yeah, Proton. 1784 02:03:09,499 --> 02:03:11,319 This is our last topic. 1785 02:03:12,439 --> 02:03:18,199 Proton 10.0-1 beta. 1786 02:03:18,819 --> 02:03:20,719 What's up with this? 1787 02:03:21,106 --> 02:03:23,957 Um, well, it's the newest version of Proton. 1788 02:03:23,957 --> 02:03:26,308 It jumped up an entire number. 1789 02:03:27,089 --> 02:03:31,131 And now, plenty of games are considered playable. 1790 02:03:31,131 --> 02:03:35,583 Many of these games required Proton experimental, but now they've been folded into a stable version of Proton. 1791 02:03:35,583 --> 02:03:38,102 Or, well, it's a beta version of Proton. 1792 02:03:38,102 --> 02:03:39,206 gives me a lot of hope. 1793 02:03:39,206 --> 02:03:41,231 I really wanted this to work. 1794 02:03:41,595 --> 02:03:42,710 The Arkham Asylum. 1795 02:03:42,710 --> 02:03:46,136 Wait, did Arkham Asylum not work on Steam Deck? 1796 02:03:47,380 --> 02:03:48,142 Really? 1797 02:03:48,142 --> 02:03:49,484 How come? 1798 02:03:49,484 --> 02:03:50,816 I never knew that. 1799 02:03:52,888 --> 02:03:54,663 Arkema's, well. 1800 02:03:56,900 --> 02:03:58,521 I think Arkham Asylum didn't. 1801 02:03:58,521 --> 02:04:00,382 I'd have to double check that. 1802 02:04:02,243 --> 02:04:03,263 Maybe I'm getting my version. 1803 02:04:03,263 --> 02:04:04,944 This is the first one, right? 1804 02:04:05,965 --> 02:04:06,785 Yep. 1805 02:04:07,486 --> 02:04:08,166 Yep, okay. 1806 02:04:08,166 --> 02:04:09,306 Yep, it didn't. 1807 02:04:09,687 --> 02:04:12,578 Even in Experimental, up until recently, it didn't work. 1808 02:04:12,578 --> 02:04:20,092 And I think Experimental's been more of a recent thing, because therefore, a little bit, it kind of worked with a workaround, and then it stopped. 1809 02:04:20,092 --> 02:04:25,711 But I like this game a lot, and it's a good Steam Deck game, if you can get it to work. 1810 02:04:25,711 --> 02:04:29,784 but it would run into some dependency issues with Windows. 1811 02:04:29,784 --> 02:04:33,736 so, yeah, it didn't work very well up until now. 1812 02:04:33,736 --> 02:04:36,859 it needed codecs from windows or something like that is that what's going on 1813 02:04:36,859 --> 02:04:45,943 it was yeah, it was some weird arbitrary probably window like Windows live service or whatever Windows live, you know There it was probably some stupid dependency thing. 1814 02:04:45,943 --> 02:04:54,847 I can't remember all I remember is that it was really annoying that you couldn't get it to work unless you went and Did a bunch of extra work to get it to work? 1815 02:04:54,847 --> 02:05:00,650 um And I reformatted my drive and lost that I just didn't want to bring it back up. 1816 02:05:00,650 --> 02:05:03,411 So um 1817 02:05:03,426 --> 02:05:05,367 Well hey, now it works. 1818 02:05:05,367 --> 02:05:05,918 Now it works. 1819 02:05:05,918 --> 02:05:15,077 think that's the biggest one on this list too for me because I think people, if you want a really good game that's on the go, and I think it holds up graphically well too. 1820 02:05:15,077 --> 02:05:16,337 Go play that. 1821 02:05:17,179 --> 02:05:18,940 I think it holds up really well. 1822 02:05:19,201 --> 02:05:21,183 Play style sometimes is kind of weird. 1823 02:05:21,183 --> 02:05:25,819 it's a little bit of a brute in it, but it's still a good game. 1824 02:05:25,819 --> 02:05:27,060 so Proton does have... 1825 02:05:27,060 --> 02:05:31,064 so Proton 10 is mostly fixes for games. 1826 02:05:31,064 --> 02:05:33,645 Like sometimes there are specific fixes. 1827 02:05:33,966 --> 02:05:36,408 There aren't too many feature ads, but there is one here. 1828 02:05:36,408 --> 02:05:42,734 uh Added support for game mods that load via custom D input 8.dll. 1829 02:05:43,295 --> 02:05:51,448 If you scroll down, it's right under the one that says fixed rivals of Aether 2, Stalker 2, yada yada yada. 1830 02:05:51,448 --> 02:05:53,482 crashing with Intel's GPUs. 1831 02:05:53,654 --> 02:05:56,110 that's another thing we could talk about, Intel GPUs. 1832 02:05:59,313 --> 02:06:01,616 Am I at the right spot? 1833 02:06:01,616 --> 02:06:02,496 I'm... 1834 02:06:03,318 --> 02:06:04,318 Okay. 1835 02:06:04,859 --> 02:06:05,900 I'm not gonna be... 1836 02:06:05,900 --> 02:06:08,179 I'm not good at parsing text right now. 1837 02:06:08,179 --> 02:06:11,872 So added support for game mods that load via custom D input DLL. 1838 02:06:11,872 --> 02:06:18,367 So a lot of game mods, they inject code via a DLL. 1839 02:06:19,508 --> 02:06:30,238 And on Windows, it's as simple as downloading that, like copying that DLL over to your game directory and just running it that way. 1840 02:06:30,238 --> 02:06:31,630 on... 1841 02:06:31,630 --> 02:06:34,330 Steam Deck, have to enable support for that. 1842 02:06:34,330 --> 02:06:43,310 There are some command arguments that you have to type into your game entry to let the deinput8.dll hook into the game itself. 1843 02:06:44,070 --> 02:06:53,090 It's not hard to do, yeah, it's something that, yeah, now it basically is automated. 1844 02:06:54,370 --> 02:06:59,470 It hooks into games and then you can load game mods onto it. 1845 02:06:59,606 --> 02:07:02,647 Very rare are the mods actually loaded into the DLL itself. 1846 02:07:02,647 --> 02:07:06,409 It's mostly like typically it's a mod loader that's loaded onto the DLL. 1847 02:07:06,699 --> 02:07:07,911 Interesting. 1848 02:07:07,911 --> 02:07:08,844 Okay. 1849 02:07:09,238 --> 02:07:11,139 That's generally what happens. 1850 02:07:11,539 --> 02:07:14,320 It's lot easier than having to modify the EXE itself, that's for sure. 1851 02:07:14,320 --> 02:07:18,732 uh Let's see if there's... 1852 02:07:18,732 --> 02:07:21,383 see, so they mentioned Intel GPUs. 1853 02:07:22,204 --> 02:07:26,325 I don't really know all that much about Intel support on Linux, to be honest. 1854 02:07:26,866 --> 02:07:29,107 And that sounds like a Gardener question. 1855 02:07:30,227 --> 02:07:31,868 I have too, but I feel like that's a... 1856 02:07:31,868 --> 02:07:33,549 Damn it, that's a Gardener question. 1857 02:07:33,549 --> 02:07:35,009 He knows about Linux. 1858 02:07:35,270 --> 02:07:36,223 We're missing... 1859 02:07:36,223 --> 02:07:45,283 I think he said that Intel GPUs are better on Linux than they are on, than like Nvidia is. 1860 02:07:45,671 --> 02:07:47,803 I'm not surprised to be honest. 1861 02:07:48,635 --> 02:07:51,955 That's interesting, on Intel GPUs. 1862 02:07:51,955 --> 02:07:53,035 It's interesting. 1863 02:07:53,435 --> 02:07:54,535 Yeah, sorry. 1864 02:07:54,535 --> 02:08:01,881 is, our Intel GPUs a viable option for like a bazite like HTPC? 1865 02:08:01,881 --> 02:08:03,013 That's a good question. 1866 02:08:03,013 --> 02:08:06,819 I don't know if they even support Intel GPUs. 1867 02:08:07,462 --> 02:08:08,232 Do they? 1868 02:08:08,232 --> 02:08:17,629 the thing with Bazite, the thing with Bazite and Nvidia is that Nvidia does technically work, but I remember reading a lot about game mode issues. 1869 02:08:17,653 --> 02:08:18,194 bundled. 1870 02:08:18,194 --> 02:08:22,585 The thing is you can get builds of AMD or Nvidia. 1871 02:08:22,585 --> 02:08:25,712 So when you're getting the ISOs, I don't know if they have Intel or not yet. 1872 02:08:25,712 --> 02:08:27,074 That'd be interesting. 1873 02:08:27,343 --> 02:08:32,892 I to ask Kyle, I'm from Kyle Gaspenetich. 1874 02:08:33,534 --> 02:08:35,937 He's the lead guy behind Bazzite. 1875 02:08:38,715 --> 02:08:45,213 where you just, I mean, they could say it all they want, if they don't offer it, this is where you can find it. 1876 02:08:45,213 --> 02:08:46,134 So. 1877 02:08:50,213 --> 02:08:51,585 say desktop. 1878 02:08:51,807 --> 02:08:53,290 Yeah, they support Arc. 1879 02:08:53,290 --> 02:08:54,194 Look at that. 1880 02:08:54,194 --> 02:08:55,594 good shit. 1881 02:08:55,994 --> 02:09:01,114 We just need to know if ARK works with game mode, because I know Nvidia's had issues with GameScope. 1882 02:09:03,107 --> 02:09:04,804 Yeah, I'm kind of curious. 1883 02:09:04,804 --> 02:09:05,818 hold on, it says multiple. 1884 02:09:05,818 --> 02:09:07,627 Wait, go back to Intel Arc. 1885 02:09:11,141 --> 02:09:13,712 So they have modern GPUs and they even support older. 1886 02:09:13,712 --> 02:09:16,647 And it's because there's already those GPUs that they just fold it in. 1887 02:09:16,647 --> 02:09:23,596 They have a build process where they build out the ISO and they include the drivers that need to be installed a part of the build process. 1888 02:09:23,596 --> 02:09:23,846 yeah. 1889 02:09:23,846 --> 02:09:24,982 ah 1890 02:09:24,982 --> 02:09:25,903 Yeah. 1891 02:09:26,205 --> 02:09:28,599 And see, there's also a number of other fixes too. 1892 02:09:28,599 --> 02:09:32,867 I'm trying to see if there are any super relevant fixes that we can think of big ones. 1893 02:09:32,867 --> 02:09:47,085 I mean, these are all, like, you can think of these types of especially big increases like this that they're going to, oftentimes help individual games, but as a whole, everything's 1894 02:09:47,085 --> 02:09:48,276 gonna become more stabilized. 1895 02:09:48,276 --> 02:09:55,740 So maybe some games that they fixed issues with, uh those fixes could affect other games that were even more minor. 1896 02:09:55,740 --> 02:10:00,353 ah This is always a good thing to see these, like, big updates. 1897 02:10:00,353 --> 02:10:11,419 know, speaking of which, they also, it also mentions included initial work for speech synthesis requires manual installation of proton voice files confirmed to work with the 1898 02:10:11,419 --> 02:10:15,071 thief, the witch, the toad and the mushroom. 1899 02:10:15,071 --> 02:10:17,312 Wait, that, that, wait, is that one game? 1900 02:10:17,713 --> 02:10:19,354 Is that the name of just one game? 1901 02:10:19,354 --> 02:10:20,574 Let me look that up. 1902 02:10:21,749 --> 02:10:23,261 I know I doubt it. 1903 02:10:23,805 --> 02:10:26,351 The thief, the witch, the toad, and the mushroom. 1904 02:10:26,351 --> 02:10:26,652 What? 1905 02:10:26,652 --> 02:10:29,939 uh 1906 02:10:30,522 --> 02:10:32,544 game, I've never heard of this game before. 1907 02:10:33,246 --> 02:10:36,751 It almost looks like a book, so to speak. 1908 02:10:37,894 --> 02:10:42,201 But anyways, voice synthesis, so like Microsoft Sam, is that what it's getting at? 1909 02:10:42,201 --> 02:10:43,382 Probably, right? 1910 02:10:46,964 --> 02:10:48,551 That is weird though. 1911 02:10:49,408 --> 02:10:54,557 added hack to allow Steam Overlay to function with EAC EOS games. 1912 02:10:55,738 --> 02:10:56,560 So. 1913 02:10:57,174 --> 02:10:59,211 Epic Online Services, I believe it was. 1914 02:10:59,211 --> 02:10:59,492 m 1915 02:10:59,492 --> 02:11:00,845 a lot of niche things. 1916 02:11:00,845 --> 02:11:06,715 Do you want to point out anything else or should we wrap this episode up? 1917 02:11:06,715 --> 02:11:07,086 the bottom. 1918 02:11:07,086 --> 02:11:09,369 There's some things that might be worth mentioning. 1919 02:11:09,369 --> 02:11:19,122 Lots of driver updates, upgrade DXVK, VKD3D proton, Wine Mono, Wine 10. 1920 02:11:19,200 --> 02:11:21,662 It's moving over to Wine 10. 1921 02:11:22,455 --> 02:11:28,686 What uh, it's probably basing it because proton's based on wine so 1922 02:11:28,686 --> 02:11:34,052 there's a lot of, and shit, has its own massive change log of fixes too. 1923 02:11:35,749 --> 02:11:41,743 yeah, Wine is more just all around software and Proton is more dare towards games. 1924 02:11:41,983 --> 02:11:44,545 And so you can kind of think of that. 1925 02:11:44,545 --> 02:11:45,986 So it's a subset. 1926 02:11:46,226 --> 02:11:50,009 they're probably, maybe they even try to keep their releases similar. 1927 02:11:50,009 --> 02:11:51,249 I could see that. 1928 02:11:51,550 --> 02:11:51,950 So. 1929 02:11:51,950 --> 02:11:53,491 ah 1930 02:11:54,548 --> 02:11:56,860 I mean, I'm not sure what to make of it besides... 1931 02:11:56,860 --> 02:11:59,502 Added Steamworks SDK support, interesting. 1932 02:11:59,502 --> 02:12:02,365 So yeah, I mean at the end of the day, this is really good. 1933 02:12:02,365 --> 02:12:09,531 uh I think if you have some more obscure games and some other uh weird glitches, it never hurts. 1934 02:12:09,531 --> 02:12:21,762 Let's say you had a game that you've been wanting to play on Steam Deck for a while and you just didn't play quite right, go get the newest version of Proton, download it and see 1935 02:12:21,762 --> 02:12:22,374 if it works now. 1936 02:12:22,374 --> 02:12:24,216 if they mention any games I know of. 1937 02:12:24,317 --> 02:12:26,418 Gal Gun 2 is in here? 1938 02:12:26,714 --> 02:12:31,803 Oh no, you can't mention this game in the changelog. 1939 02:12:32,445 --> 02:12:34,246 It's one of those games. 1940 02:12:36,790 --> 02:12:37,737 Look at that. 1941 02:12:38,501 --> 02:12:40,691 Galga on here. 1942 02:12:44,364 --> 02:12:48,717 It's a weird ass Japanese game. 1943 02:12:48,717 --> 02:12:50,592 Yeah, isn't it a... 1944 02:12:50,592 --> 02:12:52,853 I'm pretty sure you've heard of it. 1945 02:12:52,889 --> 02:12:54,504 Yeah, I've heard of Galgon too. 1946 02:12:54,504 --> 02:12:57,080 I've heard of Galgon, but yeah, there you go. 1947 02:12:57,394 --> 02:13:07,174 played some of the games in that universe too, like the GalGuardians games are like 2D action games that are set in the same universe somehow. 1948 02:13:07,934 --> 02:13:11,854 It's got a 9 out of 10 on the Steam, the audience knows what they want. 1949 02:13:12,635 --> 02:13:15,797 It's a very niche product, so I'm assuming it would do really well. 1950 02:13:18,780 --> 02:13:22,158 Well, I hate to say this, Hi Tech, but I think we should call it. 1951 02:13:22,158 --> 02:13:23,938 I think we should too. 1952 02:13:23,938 --> 02:13:26,258 It's been a good episode. 1953 02:13:26,678 --> 02:13:30,438 Regardless of whether or Gardener wasn't here or not. 1954 02:13:31,104 --> 02:13:32,723 RIP Gardner. 1955 02:13:32,723 --> 02:13:33,886 At least. 1956 02:13:33,886 --> 02:13:36,642 this man, we know that we love you, man 1957 02:13:38,331 --> 02:13:54,541 uh Yeah, so I'm gonna unless tariffs, okay, I think next week or the next few weeks if tariffs come up it has to be because like a major thing like Xbox again I Need to stop 1958 02:13:54,541 --> 02:13:57,013 talking about tariffs because I get so angry about it 1959 02:13:57,441 --> 02:13:58,365 Dude. 1960 02:13:59,355 --> 02:14:07,001 uh because I feel like it's layoffs, tariffs, and something else that we're going on. 1961 02:14:07,001 --> 02:14:11,044 I'm going to bring some good vibes, think, with some games. 1962 02:14:11,185 --> 02:14:15,569 In the next two weeks, I think I'm going to be playing a bunch of games on Microsoft service. 1963 02:14:15,569 --> 02:14:18,996 I'll bring some good vibes and some good news on those, I hope. 1964 02:14:18,996 --> 02:14:21,033 Dude, I sure hope so too, man. 1965 02:14:21,179 --> 02:14:29,201 ah So yeah, with that, thank you guys for watching, listening, wherever you're at, whatever you're on. 1966 02:14:29,201 --> 02:14:35,064 Make sure to, if you're on YouTube, make sure to like, subscribe, bash the bell with your crowbar. 1967 02:14:35,245 --> 02:14:43,168 If you're on podcast service, make sure to follow along so you don't miss out on all the goodies every week. 1968 02:14:43,168 --> 02:14:50,587 And so just let us know what, also, yeah, let us know in the comments, like any topics we missed that we should maybe bring up next week. 1969 02:14:50,587 --> 02:14:55,643 uh I'm yeah, I'm not gonna apologize for other comments. 1970 02:14:55,846 --> 02:14:57,931 We try to do our best, but you know. 1971 02:14:59,501 --> 02:15:00,272 in a way I guess. 1972 02:15:00,272 --> 02:15:01,133 Let us know what you think. 1973 02:15:01,133 --> 02:15:02,393 We can always try to improve. 1974 02:15:02,393 --> 02:15:09,099 ah And with that, let's head out unless you have anything uh else to say, high tech. 1975 02:15:09,550 --> 02:15:11,050 Stay safe everyone. 1976 02:15:11,050 --> 02:15:13,382 I don't have much else to say besides that though 1977 02:15:13,509 --> 02:15:14,573 Don't get tariffed to death. 1978 02:15:14,573 --> 02:15:15,159 Peace out. 1979 02:15:15,159 --> 02:15:15,763 Later. 1980 02:15:15,763 --> 02:15:16,623 bye.