Yo, you ought to be sick.
What?
We should put like a trigger warning.
Has politics at the
beginning of the video.
Mmm.
Hey, that could be our cold open.
Cheeky.
You brought up the Trump phone.
If you bring up the Trump
phone, it's over for me.
Yeah.
We have to talk about
that. It's so stupid.
It is so stupid. It's
such a good content.
Welcome to Off the Console, the hottest
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And it's been a while since we've had all
three of us on air at some point,
because I think I went to Japan, and then
the week after I went to Japan, we just
didn't have an episode.
And then last week,
Gardener's Internet went out.
Welcome back, my little Gardener.
Thank you. It's good to be back.
And now this is the first
week where we've had everyone.
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So what have you guys
been playing this week?
Go ahead, please.
That's a good question.
What have I been playing?
I played more of the Half-Life clone.
It's not really Half-Life
clone at all, but Abiotic Factor.
Abiotic or whatever it's called.
Abiotic?
Yeah, and it's fun. I really like it.
I need to... I'm going to start playing
with some people soon.
Probably my son, but that
is what I have been playing.
It's been fun.
Dude.
Imagine if we had...
Imagine if we all had the game.
It's a little pricier for the type of
indie game it is, but it's like 37 bucks.
Have you guys tried it at all?
No.
No. It sounds pretty cool, though. I've seen
some people play it.
I really like it.
It has that...
For some reason, because it's a very
different game than Half-Life,
it still has that Half-Life
feel to it, and I love it.
That's totally valid, man.
Half-Life feel mixed with maybe some Deus
Ex or something like that. I don't know.
Some building.
That's awesome. Building like Minecraft
building or building like...
Like a survival... Like...
70 Days to Die kind of thing, but not
quite to that level or Minecraft level.
It's not like you mine for anything, but
you can harvest computers
for equipment to put together.
You're a scientist, so you have to put
together gadgets to
progress in the story.
So you can't terraform the
Earth, is what you're saying?
No.
But maybe... I don't know. I haven't
finished the game. I'm only
probably a third through it.
But you can... There's security robots
that will patrol at night,
and they'll attack you too.
And you can go after
those and harvest them for...
See, that's one thing I want
in the Power World to do too.
Is the ability to dig into places to make
better bases and whatnot.
Because one of the things that really
annoys me is sometimes I have to start...
It's really hard to find a good place to
build a base in Power World.
There are plenty of flat areas, but at
the same time though, I'd like to have my
own flat area instead.
I don't know, man.
Power World would be
better with that, I agree.
A Biotic Factor is definitely not that
type of game, because you're
in a Black Mesa-like facility.
So it's not like you're on
ground or anything like that.
You're in a facility and it's massive,
and there's different
research wings and stuff, so...
Oh, that makes more sense.
Yeah, it's a very different type of
survival-style game.
It makes sense. What about Shoe Gardiner?
What have you been playing?
I have not been playing
anything. I have been very busy.
So you mentioned that I lost internet.
I'll tell that story real quick.
So I think it was
Thursday or Friday morning.
I woke up at my normal time, like 5-ish,
and I'm on my phone.
And then all of a sudden, maybe 15
minutes after I wake up, a little Android
notification pops up and says,
"Heavy Element, my Wi-Fi
has no internet access."
And I was like, "Oh, that's weird."
And come to find out, the entire town,
the neighboring town to the south and the
neighboring town to the west,
have completely lost internet.
And I was like, "What the hell?"
So I ended up calling...
Oh, it might have been... I don't know,
it might have been Saturday even.
I'm not exactly sure what day, but I had
no internet for four days.
I also have a static IP address, and my
static IP address was not reassigned when
the internet came back up,
because my ISP hadn't documented that I
even had a static IP address.
So I lost my static IP, and while
everyone else of my neighbors around me
got their internet back,
because my router was set to have a
static IP at the WAN level,
my internet didn't come back.
Oh, no.
So I was out without
internet for about 32 hours,
and then when I finally realized to
change the router to DHCP,
then I had internet, but I still didn't
have any of my home lab services,
which we're using to do the podcasts, to
do the show notes and stuff.
Long story short, I think it was Tuesday
or maybe even Wednesday morning when I
finally got my static IP address back.
Yeah, super annoying. But what I have
been doing is I've been playing...
Can you see that?
I have been messing around with this for
the last few hours. I did a live stream.
It's very out of focus. There we go.
It's even got that CRT scan to it.
Yeah, dude. It is a CRT, so...
Man, I've been messing around with this.
It is frozen right now. I
don't know why it's not.
I tried to load apple.com
from my retro proxy instance,
which would load it for a specific date.
So I set it to August 22, 1998.
And so if it had loaded, it would have
been cool to show you what the website
looked like at the date of
this machine was manufactured,
but it didn't load in time.
So have you tried
playing any games on it?
So here's the deal. I think something is
wrong with it because I can't unpack any
stuff at archives and I can't...
I tried installing... The only thing I've
been able to install
is Netscape version 7.
Everything else I
haven't been able to install.
So I have iTunes, I have KidPix, I have
Boom, and a few other things that I'm
trying to get working on here.
Very retro, very nostalgic apps and
games, but I have not been able to get
any of them to work.
And there was this whole ordeal. I
livestreamed for probably four hours, I
think it was, last night
as of recording this video.
And the archive, the VOD,
is available on my channel.
And I had to like... When I got this, I
was told that this worked flawlessly, but
when I turned it on, it
made this god-awful noise.
It was just this like... kind of noise
that lasted for maybe 30 seconds.
Long story short, I have this old one
here that I got from somewhere else.
And when it came in the
mail, it was fully destroyed.
So I had to salvage the hard drive from
that so I could put it into this one.
So my livestream was... I
covered a lot of bases in that.
Wow, shoot man, maybe one day you can
play Marathon, the
one from the old Bungie.
Yes, Marathon, the good Bungie, yeah.
That's definitely on my
list of games to play.
I want to do Myst and Myth and Halo
Combat Evolved, which I think I'd have to
upgrade this to Mac OS X to do Halo, I
don't know for sure.
Wait, was Halo on Mac?
Yes, it was, my dude.
Oh shit, I didn't realize.
Yep, Halo Combat Evolved.
Microsoft fucked up letting that happen.
So do you know the
whole story about that?
Yeah, I know that Halo was supposed to be
on the Mac originally.
So they had to make a... when Microsoft
bought Bungie, they had to honor the
previous contract with Apple.
And so after like a year or so of it
being on Xbox, it came to Mac OS.
Yeah, well funny enough too, Microsoft
owned a portion of Apple too, so it's not
like they don't have
some interest in there.
Right.
That's why everything on... that's why
everything Microsoft makes
somehow ends up on Apple stuff.
Mm-hmm.
I had Internet Explorer up on this
machine when I showed it to you, so...
Internet Explorer, I hate, I
hate that so much, I hate it.
To be honest, on this machine, Internet
Explorer is the best you
can do for a retro browser.
No, I get it, I just had a job, one of my
first programming jobs was I had a
support IE8 and I hated it so much.
Oh, it's trash.
Dude.
Well, I have a lot of... well, as for me,
I've been sorting through my Japan
footage, Japan photos, and
there's a lot going on in Japan.
Certainly Japan loves their mascot
characters that much as non-negotiable.
And I was surprised, but I was surprised
at what they... what
mascot characters they like.
So, of course, they have their anime
girls as mascots, but they also quite
like Snoopy as well.
I saw no less than three Snoopy stores
all selling, like, Snoopy branded
chocolate and stuff like that.
Whoa.
Yeah, that was pretty cool.
And I also got to visit
the giant Gundam in a...
Yeah, you sent pictures of it.
Yeah, and coincidentally, there happened
to be an idol show there, too.
Like, look. Look at this giant Gundam.
And look what's happening over there.
Wow.
It's the cra... it was like
the craziest coincidence ever.
Let's see what else they
were... let's see what else...
Damn, there's so much. I really have to
just look at everything in the process of
it, because it just kind of happened in
the... it happened really fast.
I wish I spent more time there, but...
I only ever get... I only
really get two weeks off the year.
But aside from Japan,
I've been playing games.
There was this one FPS game called the
Beyond Citadel that I've been playing,
and it's pretty sick.
But it's also, like, especially gory.
To, like, a disgustingly, like, detailed
degree, so it's not for everyone.
Nothing wrong with a little gore.
I'll have to try it out, I guess.
It's just a machine.
Have you guys ever seen that Quentin
Tarantino clip where he's being
interviewed by, like, a local newscaster?
And she's like, "But why is everything so
violent and gory in your movies?"
And he goes, "Because it's fun, Jan!"
Because it's fun.
I'm surprised she didn't question him
about his foot fetish.
His well-documented foot fetish.
You heard it first.
Garner says it's fun.
Why else would you do it, you know?
True to that.
But you know what
else is fun? Video games.
And you know what else
is fun? New video games.
And Gamescom has a bunch of announcements
for games that have
already been released.
And some new releases, too.
Some of the stuff that
I liked, though, were...
I don't know if this was necessarily
Gamescom, but it kind of
happened around that time.
Helldivers and Halo ODST.
Wow.
I saw the crossover.
It looked pretty sick.
Let's see. Halo...
And then let me find a picture of it.
There we go. There we go.
You guys see it?
Nice. Yeah.
You get... Not only do you get the ODST
armor, but you also get a recon as well.
Something Bungie used to not give you
until the very end of Halo 3's lifespan.
And it has... I can has recon.
So, I mean, this was pretty cool.
Another really cool announcement was that
Silksong is releasing
sometime next month.
In fact, not just next
month, but like in two weeks.
Yeah.
That was my pick for most exciting news.
That was pretty... Yeah,
Silksong's gonna be pretty cool.
I mean, there are some aspects of the
original Hollow Knight that
I didn't like all that much,
but I still thought it
was a pretty good game.
Yeah.
But one has to wonder if a seven-year
developer cycle for
Silksong did it any favors.
I mean, they had the capital to kind of
sit back and take
their time and do it right,
so I'm hoping that it's gonna be awesome.
I hope so too, man, because the one
question no one on the
internet is asking is,
"What if Silksong sucks?"
Yeah, we'll see. I think that they'll get
it right. I have confidence.
Yeah.
They also announced an
anime series based on Sekiro.
And have you guys played Sekiro?
I have not.
I don't remember if I played it, but I've
seen a lot of gameplay on it.
I've beaten the game. It's awesome. You
guys should definitely play it.
I know you guys are probably sick of
Souls-like, but I would go as far as to
say it's not a Souls-like.
Anyways, here's the anime series. You
know, there was some
controversy surrounding it.
Suppose there were some accusations that
they were using
generative AI to make the anime.
The studios come out and say that they're
not using generative AI.
It just looks vastly different compared
to every other anime out there, which I
think threw people off.
I hate this timeline so much because
people say everything's generated.
There's so many people just accusing
everything because it's just a little different.
And there's a lot of animes that are very
different these days because
they have to stand out, right?
I hate this timeline.
That said, the anime studio behind the
Sekiro anime has been quoted as saying
that they work in AI at some point.
But they came out and said that
specifically for Sekiro, the anime, they
are not using generative AI.
They're being hand-drawn.
Yeah, the thing about something like
this, if it's done with AI, you can tell
because there's no
consistency between the shots.
Characters look vastly different if they
are generated with AI.
And everything in that trailer looked
consistent to me, so it
doesn't smack of AI to me.
Plus, they have veterans in the anime
industry working on this.
For example, they have...
It's being headed by
production I.G.'s Shin Fukudome.
The I.G.'s known for
Fuli-Kuli, F-L-C-L, some call it.
And there's some animes that they...
Let's see what else.
We have Takuya Sato, who did Steins Gate,
Faith's Day Night, Haikyuu.
Kaito Moki, who did My Dress Up Darling.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5, and art
director Yuji Kaneko, who did Trigon
Stampede and Heavenly Delusion.
I don't think any of those creatives
would want to willingly go behind a
company that uses anime.
Not anime, sorry, uses
generative AI for anime.
Yeah, right.
But anyways, there's also LEGO Batman. It
looks like an Arkham game, but like LEGO.
And I'm pretty sure Bat... I know
Batman's not supposed to kill, but it
looks like in this game
he's just killing dudes.
He blows off their LEGO heads.
Their LEGOs. They don't die.
LEGO, there's no violence in LEGO.
Yeah, okay. There's no violence in LEGOs.
There's also the new Bubsy game, which
looks like a movement motion, like
momentum based platformer.
What could possibly go wrong?
Let's see what else. We got the He-Man
beat him up, which looks pretty cool.
Resident Evil Requiem, which looks okay,
I guess. Pretty decent.
What? No, that's what I'm most excited
for. That one in Helldivers 2.
I'm really excited for Resident Evil. It
looks like it's going to have
a different take on things too.
I think the one I'm most excited for was
Ninja Gaiden 4, which is
coming out in two months.
I take it back. My
most excited is Bubsy 4D.
Man, Gamescom is like... There's so many
things going on right now,
man. I could not keep up.
I might have been able to keep up had I
not been on VK, but yeah.
Thankfully, someone did that for us.
And it's not Noah from Steam
Let Hell Loose Vietnam, Edge of Memories,
Den of Wolves, Skate.
Let me know when you want to click on a
trailer specifically.
1348, Exavoto, Resident
Evil 4, Hell Loose Us.
I'm just going to
keep going down the list.
Until I find something super interesting.
Oh, Domekeeper. What
was that? Domekeeper.
Multiplayer mode.
Oh my god.
Dude, when that comes
out, we got to do it.
Co-op and PvP.
Ooh.
PvP.
Dude, that... I can't
believe I missed that.
That's super exciting.
Things are happening so fast, man.
Dude, I don't think anybody in the
audience truly comprehends how good that
game is if they
haven't played it already.
I think all three of
us have loved that game.
Gardner, I think it's time for you to
make a dedicated video on it.
I should. Yeah, I should.
Let's see.
We've got Star Fox inspired Wild Blue.
I like Star Fox.
I do too.
But inspired in what way?
Oh, right. The gameplay, of course.
And also the furry characters.
Let's see what else.
Windstorm. I don't know what this is.
Base building, farming, and bounty
hunting in Bounty Star?
I mean, it's alright, I guess.
Let's see.
Ah, Phantom Blade Zero looks pretty sick
though. I do want to play this.
I know you guys are sick of Souls-likes,
but I don't think this is
a Souls-like, to be honest.
It doesn't look like one.
Yeah, I think it
looks too fast to be one.
Yeah. I'd play it.
Some Snussels-like.
Yeah. But then again, people don't know what they're talking about.
People kept saying Black Myth Wukong is
no Souls-like, but it's
definitely a Souls-like.
Whoever says it's not a
Souls-like is just wrong.
That's interesting.
Pragmata is an interesting one.
It's a Capcom third-person shooter, but
there's an emphasis
on hacking mid-combat.
Okay.
So you gotta do this little mini song and
dance to actually do
decent damage to enemies too.
Why does that read to me like Death
Stranding? Like the graphics?
Ah.
Because you're carrying
stuff on the back, on your back.
Oh, there's a person on the back.
Yeah. Yeah. There's like a
little Android girl on your back.
Ah.
And she's the one doing the hacking.
Yeah, no, this sounds interesting. I'm
gonna put on my wish list.
Is that your telegraph going off?
No, that's my phone.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
Let's see.
Halloween. Oh, they should have announced
this when y'all had Jimmy on there
because he's a horror guy.
Halloween?
Halloween, yeah. It's a single-player and
multiplayer stealth horror game.
Hmm.
I'm interested.
Wait, so you get to
play as Michael Myers.
Yeah.
Mmm. That's pretty sick.
You should play the trailer for a second.
Yeah, I think I will. Let's see. Let's
skip to the good part.
The killing?
Yes.
Do you have to have the lead up?
No.
Dude, where? Dude, obviously we're
catering to the TikTok generation, man.
Are we?
A two-hour long
podcast caters to Zoomers.
All right.
With a grumpy millennial who hates every
new video game? I don't know about that.
Dumpkeeper's new? Her?
Dumpkeeper, well, yeah,
but that's an indie game.
Look, it's Michael Myers.
And up until that thing comes out, the
expansion comes out, it doesn't have
multiplayer, so that makes it good.
So the big question now is, how can
Michael Myers then kill
anyone in this trailer?
Yeah.
Man.
Disappointed.
Riff off.
Lame.
There's another article for another event
that happened at Gamescom too.
Uh, see.
Dying Light the Beast, whatever this is.
Ugh, EuroShooters.
DaviexJones.
Den of W- wait.
Hey, hey, didn't we already see this in
the other article? Whatever.
XOborn.
Dune Awakening.
All right.
Ah, here it is. Here it is. Gamescom.
Black Ops 7.
Lords of the Fallen 2.
Securino Defeat.
LEGO.
Uh, Warhammer 40k.
Moths on our Wilds.
Oni- oh, Oni-Musha. I forgot about this.
That's one I keep forgetting about.
It's because Capcom doesn't-
It's because Capcom keeps-
doesn't remind me every so often.
I'm keeping it-
Got that- I've got- I've gotten that low
attention span even
though I'm not a Zoomer.
Fallout.
Fallout Season 2.
I'm excited for that.
Oh, they're making a video game based on
Fallout the TV show?
I'm waiting for that.
That was a joke.
It's the Indiana Jones
and the Great Circle.
World of Tanks 2.0.
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando.
Wait, what is this?
Toxic Commando.
Oh.
Let's see, Death by Scrolling.
Rogue-like vertical scrolling RPG.
Eh.
Hmm.
The Zero Parades CRPG from the
guys that made Disco Elysium.
Hmm.
Huh.
It's hard to tell what's going on without
sound, but it looks vaguely interesting.
Ah, Ninja Gaiden 4, man.
This is gonna be Game of the Year.
For me.
Probably.
Dude.
I'll have to try it out.
I have liked Ninja
Gaiden in the past, but...
Hmm.
I like Ninja Gaiden on the NES.
Have you played the new 2D Ninja Gaiden?
Ninja Gaiden Ragebound?
I have not.
I didn't even know that was a thing.
It is.
And it's on GOG too if you're interested.
Oh, nice.
I played...
The last Ninja Gaiden game I played was
Ninja Gaiden Black for the Xbox.
Yeah.
Ragebound is being developed by the same
guys that made Blasphemous too.
Or it was developed by the same guys that
made Blasphemous rather.
It's pretty good.
You should try it out.
Let's see.
MMO shooter.
Ahh.
Pfft.
Free to play hero shooter.
Pfft.
Silent Hill F.
Looks vaguely interesting.
That's one that I'll probably play.
It's being written by the
guy that wrote Higurashi.
When they cry.
It looks interesting to me.
We'll see though.
Silent Hill is one of those
series that's always good.
It's not always good.
There have been some pretty big stinkers
in the Silent Hill franchise.
Yeah, but that's...
I don't...
I enjoy horror for also the B.
Like the B style.
It's not even B style.
It's like C style maybe.
Okay.
You see Italian...
Italian action RPG.
You know what this kind of looks like?
It looks like Soulslike again.
Maybe.
I'm not seeing...
The way the character is moving super
slowly makes me think Soulslike.
It might be, but honestly they'll have to
show us more differentiating features.
Like for example, they'd be able to jump
or like do air combos.
Kind of like Ninja Gaiden.
Shit.
Why don't we just make
more games like Ninja Gaiden?
This one I'm really excited for.
What is this?
Chronos.
The new Dawn.
It is...
Wait, hold on.
They get a guy on stage in Armor?
That's pretty sick.
We don't see that too often these days.
That was pretty cool.
I didn't...
Yeah, this is one that...
It's like a Dead Space
Time oriented horror game.
It looks really good.
We've seen it multiple
times when we've done these...
When we've done live streams of these
shows, this is the one
that's popped up once or twice.
Yeah, we didn't do a live
stream with this, did we?
Not of this one, no.
We...
Yeah, this snuck up on me.
Yeah, same.
It's the Outer Worlds 2.
The video game that
dropped in price, that's...
I'm really excited for that one too.
Enzoy.
Craft.
Okay.
Yeah.
Hey man, they're taking that...
Hey man, they really are like The Sims.
They're taking after EA's model of
selling a billion DLCs.
Oh wait, no, this is free DLC.
Sorry, big difference.
You gotta get the first DLC out for free,
just to get them addicted.
Then you charge.
Dude, this guy... this
guy... this guy deals.
Let's see, Moonlighter 2...
Hey man, I'm not gonna lie to you.
I thought Moonlighter was kind of like a
knockoff of Resettier in item shop RPG.
Have you guys heard of that game?
It's really old at this point.
It's like one of the first
third party games on Steam.
It's this one right here.
They're making a
remaster of it, but like...
Oh, I think you told us about this.
Yeah, so...
Oh yeah.
It was also the source for...
I'm kind of curious what the Steam ID is.
Like in the URL, I can't read it.
It's 70400.
Oh wow, okay.
That's higher than I thought it would be.
It was... man.
It also gave birth to like...
one of the funniest comics.
Related TF2.
I think you know which
one I'm talking about.
Yeah.
It costs $400,000 to
fire Sasha for 12 seconds.
That's $800 per bullet.
Where have you been buying your ammo?
Yeah.
The game's motto is "Capitalism" though.
Man.
It's such a good game though.
You guys need to play it.
There's so many games.
I haven't even gotten
Doom Dark Ages finished yet.
I'm two thirds through it, but...
other games keep on popping up and I keep
on playing everything else.
How do you feel about it?
I want your honest
opinion, Doom the Dark Ages.
It's not nearly as good as Doom Eternal.
Yeah.
But I started Dark Ages and then I
realized there was
some missing story for me.
So I went back to Doom Eternal's DLCs.
Because I finished the
game before the DLCs came out.
And so I played those.
And so definitely the graphics are a
little better in Doom Dark Ages.
The play styles are just...
The most annoying thing is the play
styles are so different.
When you jump back and
forth between the two,
honestly Dark Ages is still a rhythm
style in my opinion.
You have to really...
I don't know about rhythm because the
music's not nearly as good.
But it's very...
combo based.
You have to know your combos.
Yeah.
It's good.
But it's not as good as Doom Eternal.
Yeah.
It's not my favorite thing.
No.
It's...
Let's see there's...
Yeah.
It's starting to get
kind of boring, honestly.
But...
Yeah.
Let's see what else we've got.
We've got Age of Empires IV.
We've got a Eastern expansion.
We've got Deliverance II, DLC.
We've got Cult of the Lamb, DLC.
I'm excited for that one.
I think that one brings more multiplayer
or something like that.
I don't know.
We have...
We have a WoW expansion.
We have a new game.
It doesn't even have a real name yet.
Project Spectrum.
Let's see.
WoW of Tanks Heat is a...
more arcadey style tank game.
So I don't know what to make of that.
But...
It seems pretty...
It could be vaguely interesting.
You might need to watch more of the
trailers if we're...
If we're gonna be able to...
Summise what's going on.
But...
I mean World of Tanks is World of Tanks
and this is just a different...
Yeah.
Slightly less realistic World of Tanks.
Yeah.
Man, if you get the tanks running World
of Tanks, man, someone's gonna leak some
government documents in your forums.
Or was that War Thunder?
I forget which game that was.
Gonna skip over Resident Evil, I see.
I think World of Tanks.
Yeah, we talked about
Resident Evil already, dude.
You didn't watch anything on it, though.
You said one thing that
you were not interested in.
And we moved on.
This is...
Resident Evils are so
classic and they're so...
This one, you're following someone that's
an introvert, though.
Or you're playing as
someone as an introvert.
It will be interesting to see how this
plays differently than 7 and 8.
So I'm definitely excited because it's
definitely gonna have
a different feel to it.
Yeah, it's back to third person, too.
Yeah.
Honestly, man, I would like
to play as Leon again, though.
Too bad they didn't make
Leon the main character.
But I also read the article where they
said they couldn't figure out how to make
games featuring Leon scary.
Because he's like this big
action hero in Resident Evil.
Yeah, and they want... I agree. I wanna
play more Leon, but...
I think they could figure it out.
But it might have to be a different...
Oh, and they saved the
big announcement for last.
New Black Myth game.
Black Myth is on Kui.
Hmm.
So I think they made it known in the
beginning that they wanted to make games
based on various
Chinese myths and novels.
And of course they
made Black Myth Wukong.
Now they're making one based on Zhong
Kui, who I'm not super familiar with.
Taoist deity in Chinese mythology.
Vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings.
So he's like a... ghost slayer.
Or a demon slayer. Maybe not necessarily
demons, I don't know.
But you get the idea.
Is it made by the same
studio that did Black...
Black Myth Wukong? Yes.
It's in the same series.
And I mean...
I don't know what to make it... Oh, wait,
they're still doing more livestreams for
Gamescom? It's not over yet?
Oh, well.
Oh, well, we got some footage of Sonic.
Oh, I think most... I
mean, come on, dude.
Mario basically made...
There's a lot of cart
razors coming out of...
Pretty extreme, like this one, of course.
But also there's
Garfield Kart 2 coming out.
Garfield Kart 2?
Yeah, Garfield Kart 2.
And Garfield Kart's surprisingly fun.
Interesting. I... I'm really just Mario
Kart. It's kind of classic for me.
Oh, here's Silent Hill F.
Well, I don't think it's Silent Hill F. I
think it's called Silent Hill Forte,
because it uses the
lowercase, like, italicized F.
Like, you wouldn't even think...
So I'm gonna call it Silent Hill Forte.
I mean, that F kind of looked like the
function F, right? Am I wrong about that?
Oh. You're not wrong.
Huh. I wonder what the
F actually means then.
But... this one looks a little...
So you're essentially a Japanese high
schooler destroying baddies?
Dude, that's like every Japanese game.
Yeah, but she's got like her traditional
high school outfit on. That's like... a
little different. That's interesting.
Yeah, I think this takes place in like...
the 80s or some shit.
Yeah.
I think it's like...
I think it's like... I think it's like... I think it's like... I think it's like... [sigh]
But yeah, Gamescom happened. I know we
kind of missed out on streaming Gamescom,
but again, they're also doing multiple...
They're doing multiple shows. Heck, this
is still going on technically.
Like, we're back to Sonic again.
But I think it's time for us to move on
from Gamescom. Do you have any final
thoughts on Gamescom?
Or the gaming conventions as a whole?
A lot of games coming out. There's a lot
of games coming out and
at least there's some...
I think with all of this, there's at
least some interesting stuff like...
Resident Evil, Tell Divers, Ninja
Guidance kind of stuff.
And so, I think we'll be pretty good next
year as we get some new games.
I agree, I agree, man. That's sad.
I want more indie games.
Yeah, I mean, Gamescom's not going to be
the place for indie
games. I think your best bet...
Yeah, I mean, your best bet would be that
Triple-I initiative that they
did earlier a few months ago.
That has some nice stuff.
There's a lot of indie games coming too,
so I think it's going to
be a pretty rich next year.
But, this isn't the last major gaming
expo this year. As you know, Tokyo Game
Show happens sometime in September.
So, we should probably cover that
sometime in September as well. I don't
know if we'll do a livestream or not
because, you know...
Tokyo Game Show, they're
like 11 hours ahead of us, so...
It might not be
necessarily possible, but we'll see.
But, you know what is possible?
The PlayStation going
up in price in the US.
Yeah.
So, similar to many
global businesses, says Sony.
Now, I think we can all pinpoint one
particular reason why the
price has gone up so much.
Well, 50...
$50.
It's gone up from...
Every single SKU
basically has gone up $50, so...
This used to be $500, now it's $549.99.
This one went up $50 as well.
And yes, the PS5 Pro went up $50 as well.
Yeah, it's tariffs.
Yeah.
And it's flat out tariffs. They're
starting to really hit
the companies, and so...
Xbox did a preemptive
raise in their prices.
Switch did one earlier last... Like, was
it last month? I believe.
They raised the original Switch.
Like, not even like the
new Switch too, but they...
The first Switch, they raised price.
This... I don't...
Has there ever been a time where consoles
have gone up instead of down?
I don't know if I've ever been...
Yeah.
Seen it.
Well...
Price gouging. It's
just price gouging too.
I mean, they're using tariffs as an
excuse, which they probably...
I mean, tariffs are definitely raising
the cost of goods sold in the US,
but also it's just
price gouging and greed.
If it doesn't go down, I definitely agree
with that, because the thing is,
every time they raise
prices with stuff like this,
once the tariffs go away,
will they drop it? Probably not.
So, it is a mixture, I think, of both.
It is...
Tariffs.
And it could get worse. It could get
worse depending on how tariffs go, so...
Fucking Nvidia, man.
I'm still pissed off that they raised the
prices of GPUs due to crypto.
Mm-hmm.
And then crypto basically died out.
You can't mine Ethereum
anymore, I'm gonna believe.
I think it went to proof of stake, not...
Proof of stake.
Yeah, not proof of work.
Yeah. So, you effectively
can't mine Ethereum anymore.
Even before it was starting to get to a
point it was getting harder.
And Bitcoin, you can't even mine anymore
because it's so difficult.
It's designed that way, though.
I mean, yeah, man.
I mean, I don't know what
to make of it besides...
Greed.
I mean, some...
I mean, realistically, Sony could have
taken the tariff hit.
They just chose not to.
I agree with that, but...
It's a really easy excuse for them to
say, "Hey, we're gonna raise it,"
because they are getting charged more.
They've probably been getting charged
more for a little bit now.
I mean, look at how much Trump has
collected in tariffs.
It's not that much, but
it still is something.
So...
It's actually one of the cases where I'm
like, "Okay, it makes sense
that they're raising the price,
and it could be worse,
but I've never seen..."
And I don't think this is a very bad
sign, I think, for the economy.
It is consoles going up, and even the
original Switch, where you
know that one's a greed one.
That's a... I agree with Gardner, though.
With at least the Switch, that is purely
greed. It has to be.
But to be fair, though...
To be fair, though, Sony also raised the
prices of the PS5 in other
regions that aren't the US.
Which tells me that
it's almost entirely greed.
They could still be a...
Well, no, it could be a greed there.
They could also be there being assholes
and just spreading the tariffs,
because $50 doesn't seem quite right for
how big the tariffs are.
They could also be just
making other people suffer.
But making other people in other
countries suffer for the US's...
Potentially. Potentially.
That's fucked up.
It's all fucked up. It's... I...
This is why I think we are in a
post-capitalism era.
Because it's not... Prices aren't based
on what it costs to manufacture.
It's based on cronyism
and who's at the top already
and how much they think
they can get out of a product.
I mean, this is... endgame capitalism is
really what a lot of people
like to say, in my opinion.
Post-game capitalism?
It's what happens when you have
unfettered capitalism.
It's Soviet capitalism.
That's definitely not Soviet capitalism.
That's completely different.
So there is one silver lining.
Apparently, PlayStation 5 accessories
won't increase in price
and they have no further price changes to
announce at this moment.
Yet.
Yet. It could happen, but it hasn't.
I mean, is there any reason to own a PS5?
Honestly...
Astrobot?
Yeah, Astrobot is really good.
That's not on PC?
Not yet.
No.
The hard part is that it
requires a PS5 controller,
which they could bring it out on PC if
once that happens...
Yeah, they could just
make it happen, man.
They could just make
Astrobot work on an Xbox.
Or they could just mandate
that you need a dual-sense 5.
But you've got to understand that
PlayStation is already
releasing a lot of their games on PC.
They might be holding back on this one,
kind of like their
flagship Mario-style type of game.
You don't see Mario on PC, but you don't
see any Nintendo games.
Oh, I thought you were talking about
their flagship game,
the Demon's Souls remake.
That at one point said that was going to
be on PC, but still
hasn't released on PC.
They might treat it
the same, unfortunately.
Oh, no.
Sony, Sony, Sony, Sony, if you want to
make your money back on tariffs,
just release Demon's
Souls and Astrobot on PC.
Yeah, they didn't need
to up the price, right?
Just release games on PC.
There.
You'll make more money
in a less shitty way.
It's also probably a little bit about
Control, making sure that they have
long-term, well,
short-term, long-term control.
Come on, man.
They lost at the
moment that they released.
What was their first
PlayStation game on PC?
Was it God of War or Horizon?
It was one of those two.
It might have been Horizon.
They didn't lose it.
They just wanted more money, but they're
going to still control it.
If they really wanted to, they could have
released almost all those
games on PC really fast.
Yeah.
Because the hardware that they're all
based on is AMD GPUs.
It's not hard to get
that to work on a PC.
I mean, the biggest hurdle with
PlayStation games on PC is porting it
from Orbis OS to like, you know,
because they have, don't they have their
own proprietary graphics API?
Yes, they do.
I think that would be the biggest hurdle,
but they're able to do it.
I mean, they could make a toolkit that
would work just fine.
It's a hurdle for sure, but I mean, Sony
has access to A, Nix's, B, the source
code to the games,
and C, a lot of capital.
So it's less a matter of is it possible
for Sony and more a matter
of if they'll even do it.
I don't know, man.
Sony increased the prices of consoles.
It's a little crazy to me that everyone's
done it, even the intent
of on the original Switch.
How old is the Switch
for like 10 years now?
Almost.
It's like eight years now.
Twenty seventeen.
Yeah.
So honestly, Matt, it's crazy that this
generation of consoles.
It's not.
It's not a good sign.
And I honestly think them doing this and
all these companies doing it will
eventually hurt them
a lot in the long run.
Like I thought like consoles was a good
idea given how
expensive PC gaming has gotten.
But now you're telling me consoles are
getting fucking expensive too.
Do the PlayStation 5 Pro alone indicates
how expensive they are?
Yeah.
When they came out with
that price, I was shocked.
I know inflation over the years, but
compared to what consoles were like 20
years ago, I don't think
inflation quite adds up.
It's a little bit of greed inflation
mixed in with they just know that they're
they've they have brand loyalists.
And from what I understand, some games on
PS5 Pro don't look that much better.
In fact, I've heard in some cases, Metal
Gear Solid Delta games look worse on PS5
Pro than they do on PS5,
which is just a crazy thing to me.
But I mean, they look if you have the
hardware for if you have
the TV, they look better.
But yeah, only the die hard should ever
do like switch over.
That's also that's all
someone plays is PlayStation.
Like it's not that expensive.
I spend a lot more on my PC habit, my PC
gaming habits hardware wise,
game wise, I make up for it.
Yeah, I mean, the
games are cheaper on PC.
I think I think it evens out.
And plus, you don't
have to pay for online.
Agreed. And I can play my
games forever, essentially.
Yeah, you have near
infinite backwards and padability.
Yeah. And you might have actual infinite
backwards of padability with, you know,
fixes the games or like compatible layers
like on Linux or maybe
even like, oh, I don't know.
The only big downside
really is you have to.
It's getting better, but you have to
adjust the game depending
on what hardware you have.
If you have like a steam deck and you're
trying to play some games,
they might not play well.
There's always the
question on that type of stuff.
And console kind of is always solved that
where I can stick it in, I can play it.
That is true to a degree.
But like if you wanted to play like, I
don't know, Mach 100 World Wilds like
five years from now or maybe even 10
years from now, you there's a good chance
that, you know, PC is
like a decade later.
We'll probably be able to run it
justified without needing to upscale any.
Yeah, but I mean, scale or like rate or
even like frame generate to.
Yeah, but these people hold
on to their consoles, right?
And so they'll still have a plan as long
as they have the console.
I'm not trying to say I'm just saying
some people get consoles
because the ease they should.
I definitely try to
promote PC gaming over it.
Yeah, there is a reason.
But at the same time, though, we've kind
of lost that ease, to be honest,
especially in regards to consoles,
because like a you have to you have to
register for an account to
like play most games nowadays.
B, you have to like install the game,
like even if you buy a disk, you have the
physical copy, right?
But like you still have to stick it in
and install the game and like wait for it
to install and then you play it.
It's going to be really hard to ever be
console like experience
when it comes to ease.
The steam deck does that for the most
part because it has a simplified UI and
it has a list of recommended games.
It's getting there, but the PlayStation,
I mean, you're just you're it's going to
be really hard to beat a console when you
have hundreds and thousands of
different varieties of games.
And varieties of different PC hardware.
But I do think there are there is a
subset of gamers that really don't need
like I would say most people don't really
need the thousand dollar gaming PC to
play a lot of the games they like.
Like let's look at let's look at like the
most popular games right now.
I mean, League of Legends, for God's
sakes, is still really popular and that
doesn't need a 50 90.
I don't even think it needs a 50 70 or a
50 60. You could probably
get away with like a 50 50.
Yeah, 100 percent. Yeah, it doesn't need
a whole lot, but that's a completely
different style game than a console
player would typically play.
But but speaking of this, I'm sorry.
I'm going to the Val
Fremont emerges again.
And I think it's it's looking like and a
lot of the rumors are saying that that,
you know, it's a desk or a console made
by Valve, essentially.
So, right. Yeah. So here are the here is
the Geekbench results.
It's just CP right now. But as you can
see here, it's got a single core 24 12
multi core score of
seventy four fifty one.
I do find it interesting that the Val
Fremont uses when they used Windows 11
Pro to run the benchmark
as opposed to like Steam OS.
Right. Because you can run you can run
Geekbench on Steam OS,
right? Yeah. No, maybe.
No, I'm pretty sure you can run it on
Steam OS. I mean, I think I've
done it on a Steam OS as well.
But I mean, maybe the Steam OS, maybe
Steam OS isn't ready for Fremont yet.
It could be that it could be them testing
stuff. There could be so many different
reasons why this is a thing.
But thanks to this little test, we got
some specs. We've got a custom CPU.
We've got six cores, twelve threads.
Interestingly enough, it comes with what
looks like eight gigabytes of the of just
regular RAM instead of 16.
And to that point, suppose they're
suggesting, I think, sadly, as Bradley is
suggesting that Fremont is going to come
with a dedicated GPU.
It's not an APU. It's
going to come with a 7600.
Interesting. I don't actually know how
powerful the 7600 is to be on.
Like a 5060 or 4060? 5060?
It's between those two, I think.
So it comes with eight gigs of dedicated
VRAM, but I do find it interesting that
they're deciding to
remove eight gigs effectively.
Once again, I think this is too early to
speculate on some of those stuff.
I think the eight gigs is definitely
like, hmm, that sounds off, whether or
not it's real or whether or not that's
actually what they're going to use.
That's just way too low. Yeah, it does
sound way too low. Yeah.
I would imagine at minimum we'd have 16
gigs of RAM. So that's the bare minimum.
Yeah, that's like the bare minimum these
days. That's if it's not
shared VRAM. So, in my opinion.
Yeah, if it if it if it sticks to an RX
7600, like sadly, as Bradley has been
saying, then there's a solid chance that
I mean, it'll be 16 gigs.
And then they just has eight gigs of
dedicated VRAM for the GPU.
So it'd be comparable to the PS5. So
yeah, or maybe a little bit
more than the PS5 36 cues.
So it has supposedly has less compute
units than the original PS5.
Well, that's a 76. Didn't they say it's a
7700? No, it's a 7600.
Like, okay, I thought I was going crazy.
I mean, here, look, dedicated 7600 GPU,
no shared RAM as per Bradley.
Yeah. I mean, that said, though, the PS5
is based on our DNA, too, right?
And the RX 7600 is our DNA three, right?
Yes. Yeah, I think so.
So I think it should still be more
powerful. Oh, it should be. Yeah.
With SteamOS, it would really be
interesting to see how this goes.
Yeah. So I pulled a random steam deck
benchmark, the
original steam deck, mind you.
And I compared it against
the Fremont results we got.
So as you can see here, it's got about a
55 percent increase in a
score, a better score overall.
And it's got a pretty hot and it's got a
much better multi-core score, of course.
But this is for the CPU. Yeah, this is
just for the CPU, which is yeah, which is
good, which is good.
But it's definitely not going to be this
until we have it paired
with the GPU or whatever.
You know, they say 7600, but it might be
a customized version of it paired with it
because Valve likes to customize their.
Yeah. If it's customized, is the GPU
going to be built into the motherboard or
do you think it's going
to be a discrete card?
I don't see it being a discrete card.
Yeah, it's probably going to be built in
kind of like a mobile CPU, almost.
That's what I was thinking, too.
That would be cool if it was kind of like
a removable mobile GPU or something.
But yeah, or if it has
expansion anyway, that would be sick.
That would be sick. But of course, we've
yet to actually see what this frame out
looks like, unfortunately.
So we still don't
really know what the deal is.
The rumor mills are going, though, like
when this released, people like they're
going to pair Half Life 3 with it.
They're going to like because they do
like to release hardware with some type
of even if it's just a
demo version of their IPs.
Dude, Aperture Desk Job 2. I'm calling it
to go with the new team controller.
Oh, yeah, dude, that would be amazing.
But I want it to be a full experience. I
don't just want it to be a tech demo.
Agreed. Yeah, I mean, who knows?
Maybe Valve's turn a new leaf and they're
finally making Half
Life 3 or Half Life 2.5.
Oh, yeah. 2.5. Half Life 3.
Half Life 2.9999 repeating.
How sick would it be if for like, you
know, if Half Life 3
launched alongside Fremont?
Did not. With a steam
controller, too, that would be sick.
I could see it. I can see it.
I could definitely see it. And there's
like the rumor. Like there's so many
rumors about people playing a half the
Half Life X project.
Do you have friends and family kind of
stuff? So what if it was called Half Life
X? That would be sick.
It'd be like Mega Man X.
Such a different type of game series,
though. No, but what I'm wondering is the
X makes it sound awesome.
Does it?
I was going to say, it sounds like
something Elon came up with. Yeah.
Don't shoot me. Elon, too.
He has to name everything X because it's
cool. No, I mean, if you're going to do
Half Life X, might as
well do Half Life X, X, X.
So. But the X X X.
There's plenty of Half Life X X X
already, probably. Oh, God.
If it's Half Life, E.C.K.S.
Then I don't know. I don't know what to
make of it. Half Life, this Half Life
that Silksong came out.
So I think Half Life 3. Oh, Silksong is
coming out supposedly. So maybe Half Life
should come out. Half Life 3.
OK, to be fair, Silksong has not been
like it has been it's taken a
while, but it's not that long.
It's not like a Duke Nukem or something.
Yeah, it really has people were like,
yeah, it really hasn't been that bad.
It just got pushed back by a couple
years. Seven years,
though, right? Yeah, it is long.
But compared to OK, to be fair, there has
been a Half Life, Alex. So
there has been a Half Life out.
But Half Life 3 has been rumored and been
well, it's been in works for
since Half Life 2 came out.
We got Silksong before we got GTA 6.
I think GTA 6 has been works longer than
Silksong, hasn't it? I mean, probably.
Well, GTA 5 came out
before Hollow Knight. So.
But that but they did. But we did have we
did have Red Dead Redemption 2.
So it's not like they weren't. It's not
like they spent all
their time making GTA 6.
They have multiple studios, right? And so
I guarantee they've been
working on GTA 6 for a while.
I mean, do they have multiple studios
anymore? I mean, like, I think the same
studio that makes GTA
is also making Red Dead.
Right. So if they haven't had a date like
when's the last time we've seen a red a
rockstar game that wasn't
GTA or Red Dead Redemption?
Well, I'm talking about internally, they
might have multiple teams internally.
It's kind of more or less what I'm
talking about. Meaning in a lifecycle, if
they're doing it right at a company,
they're going to have like the concept
artist is not going to be working on a
game, the full lifecycle.
They're probably going to be working on
the next game for a while. So each role
is going to be playing is going to be
doing things in a different lifecycle.
So I thought something interesting here.
Someone under the comments of PC Gamer
mentioned that they might be running
Geekbench, the Windows version of
Geekbench through Proton.
Oh, yeah, that could. Yeah.
Which seems kind of odd, though, because
I ran like a Linux version of Geekbench
on on Linux, like in desktop mode.
I'm curious how optimized the native
Linux build of Geekbench is because it
could be like they were
getting lower results.
And also who produced this? Like was this
done internally at Valve? Like we don't
know who submitted this, do we?
I mean, it must have been. I mean, unless
unless unless one of those friends and
families accidentally fucked up and gave
us a Geekbench score.
That's the case. That means it's coming
much sooner. But bring his studios get
his hands on a prototype.
That'd be cool. We should try to get
bring us on the show,
but he'd be a great guest.
Let's do it. We got to do it. Like, I
don't know. I don't know. Do you have
contact with him?
Because I certainly don't.
I don't. Well, figure out a way. I
appreciate it. Gardner, you're depressed.
We're going to try to
get bring us in here.
I got mood of horror on the show. I could
probably get bring us to. Yeah. And we
were and we were discussing
another guest behind the scenes.
But she'll be a surprise for later if she
if we actually get her on.
In the meantime, though, speaking of
bringing things on,
splitgate two will live on.
It'll live on in the form of being able
to play player hosted matches.
So stop killing games has has is bearing
fruit, even though it's
not officially law yet.
Good job, Ross, for for stopping this
game from being killed, at least.
So, I mean, splitgate one was pretty fun.
I'm glad this is happening while
splitgate two has failed
to make FPS is great again.
And splitgate one was pretty fun. So
here's what they're doing there. In
addition to making the game playable,
they're also going to add multiple maps
that were work in progress. Some of them
ended up being maps in splitgate two.
They're also adding an unreleased map and
everyone gets access to
all cosmetics in the game.
A player will host a match and act as a
server. Other players will view the game
in the server browser and join from there.
If the host has saved custom maps and
those maps will be playable for the
lobby. So, I mean, that's
about as good as it gets, right?
Games playable.
Yeah, that's all we can ask for. I mean,
as long as they don't take it down, you
can buy it or get it and
you can keep on playing it.
Well, I mean, the fact that they actually
went through the effort of like,
decoupling the game from its online
servers tells me that they
probably plan on keeping it up.
Yeah.
And it's not like Valve charges you a
monthly fee for taking up
space in their servers, right?
No.
Yeah.
I don't think so, but they don't.
Yeah, that's part of the fee of when you
buy the game, I think, is how they
calculate all in. But, yeah, I mean, I think they're going to be able to get the game.
I don't really think it's that hard to do
the decoupling. It's based on if they
just will, companies will do it.
And they did it. I mean, I'll give them
credit where it's due. I know SplikA2
wasn't the game they thought they, they,
I gotta stop making the stupid FPS, make
FPS's bid again, Jake, cause
it's getting old at this point.
Well, it's such a stupid thing that they
did because FPS's
never stopped being good.
And this is definitely
not the game to do that.
If you want to make, if you want to play
a game in FPS, that's great. Ultra kills
the way to go. It's not a multiplayer
game, but it's pretty sick.
But you need like, you need like, zoomer
hands to play that game. And I mean, I
can play it, but like, it's, it's pretty
hard if you don't know all the tech or
how to execute it all.
You should see some like, high rank S
like, P rank gameplay in
the Ultra Kill. It's insane.
I think I think Gardner would like it. I
think I really think
you would like Ultra Kill.
Ultra Kill? Oh, probably. I've seen some
footage of it. It looks, it
looks kind of retro, right?
Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's kind of retro. So
they say it's a boomer shooter, but it's
actually more like Devil May Cry with
guns. Wait, Devil May Cry.
Okay. Devil May Cry, but
that's a first person shooter.
Interesting. And I know you don't like
the slower pace of Doom Eternal. And so I
think this is much
faster than Doom Eternal.
Doom Dark Ages, but
yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.
I have played, I have played Ultra Kill.
I need to, I played a little bit of it.
It was really fun. I just never, there's
a lot of games I start up and
I forget to continue playing.
Well, I mean, if you wait a little
longer, it seems like they're going to
release the last, the last circle of hell
at some point. They're on like, I think
the seventh one, which is violence.
How many circles of hell are there? Are
there seven or is there eight? There's
nine. There's nine. It's like, dude, it's
like, it's like the
Inferno. Dante's Inferno.
The Divine Comedy. Yeah. The Divine
Comedy featuring. Have you seen that
picture? It's like, it's like the cover
for the Divine Comedy.
This is so, dude, I don't
know why this is so funny.
I'm like, what, what am I missing here? I
see featuring Dante from Devil May Cry.
Dude. But yeah, I'm glad Split Gate 2 is
going to live on. And speaking of games
that are living on, Marvel Rivals is
living on, but not in the way that we
expect. So apparently, Marvel gave the
Green Knight to Netty's to just make
original characters.
What are your thoughts on this? I know
you guys don't play Marvel Rivals, but
you guys know Marvel Comics. No, I don't.
Oh, I don't know Marvel. I don't know
anything about Marvel.
Oh, so Marvel. So Marvel Comics has like
a billion characters and Netty's wants to
make original characters for some reason.
I mean, here's, here's the thing. That's
a game developer. I get it.
Because they want to be able to do maybe
some of their own creations. They have
their own ideas of what would be kind of
cool. And given how Marvel and DC works,
they're making new superheroes all the
time in their comics. So and villains. So
I don't know. What's another few that you
just don't know of except for in the
game? I don't know if
it's going to be that.
I'm sure that Luna Snow was actually from
a different Marvel game as an OC, but
made by Koreans instead of,
you know, instead of Netty's.
Hmm. Yeah. Why Luna Snow's Korean.
But I do think it's interesting that they
could that instead of pulling characters
from Marvel Comics, they're just making
new characters. Like I get I also get it
from like a gameplay design. But like
they've also drastically
changed how characters like.
Be I don't want to say how they behave,
but like how they would normally function
like Magneto like, you know, who Magneto
is, right, Gardner?
I'm sure you know him.
He's the master of magnetism.
He's the man I know. Is he from X-Men?
Yes, he's from X. He's the main villain.
Yes, I know. I know. Like when I was a
little kid, I had X-Men and Spider-Man
comics. Spider-Man Marvel, right? Yeah, Spider-Man's also Marvel.
And that's a that's about the extent of
my knowledge. Yeah. So like Magneto,
master of magnetism. Would you would you
ever imagine him as a tank character?
No, but I mean, to be fair, I mean, I'm
not saying these guys into like a PVP
kind of style game is so hard. Yeah,
like, I mean, I'm not saying it's a bad
reimagining reimagining as like a tank
style character instead
of honestly, I like it.
Yeah, but I mean, they already like twist
how some Marvel characters work to like
fit their roles. So it's
not so it's very comic.
It's very comic book based to the like
how many different comic books go off and
just change that like in a different
universe. Right. Of how characters are
so. Right. So I don't see why they
couldn't just do that instead of making
new original characters.
They're doing both. Yeah, like why not?
Not only like they have more than one
Spider-Man now, right? Like everyone
knows Peter Parker, Spider-Man, but also
everyone knows Miles
Morales, the other Spider-Man.
So like they could just pull alternate
versions of characters. They could, but I
just don't want to create
one Thor. Yeah, they can.
There's a lot. There's a lot of doors,
but why not have something original? I
don't know, man. I think the main draw to
Marvel Rivals are the Marvel Comics
characters. Yeah. I'm curious to see how
well the originals will work. Maybe it'll
be a good maybe not.
Or like I like the idea of originality,
though. Yeah. That said, if I had to
guess if they're making original
characters, then Marvel's probably just
going to make comics based on those
original characters. Yeah.
I don't know, but I feel like the main
draw is wanting to play as your favorite
Marvel characters like Wolverine and
Spider-Man. You can already do that in
Iron Man. Yeah. I mean,
you can already do that.
They already have almost all
the top tier heroes in the game.
Almost. Yeah.
There's always if you get into a big
comic book nerd, they're probably going
to have, you know, maybe missing a few
for them. But I mean, they've also had
some pretty good picks.
Like they added Blade recently.
Yeah, that'd be a good one. I haven't
played. I haven't played in a while, but
I have played it is fun. Not really my
type of game, but it's fun.
Blade the vampire guy. Yeah.
Yeah. Like Wesley Snipes. Yeah, he's
marvelous. Snipes is basically. Yeah. The
what's the site movies are based on
Marvel Comics. Yeah.
But like imagine I'd be kind of like
imagine I could imagine people being kind
of pissed if like they could have put
Deadpool instead of like an OC.
Go touch grass is what I tell them. Go
fucking touch grass because it is a
fucking game. And if the developers want
to play around with a few characters,
just let them do it. Sorry.
I'm that's my take on this.
Yeah, I'm in agreement. It's like, you
know, if if the gameplay demands it to
change, like, whatever, like the canon
powers are for a character,
just do that. I don't care.
Well, it's not so much changing canon
powers as much as it is introducing like
totally original totally original. Oh,
right. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
I think, yeah, like if you had to choose
between putting Deadpool in or putting
someone else that's not a
Marvel Comics character.
I don't. I'm not the
biggest comic person, but.
I if it's a cool character, I don't care.
As long as the characters like fun, it's
cool, whatever. It's what I come for. And
if they can add to the universe in their
own way, which I could. That's why I'm
saying I'm just trying to
see this from their aspect.
That would be really cool to try to
influence the Marvel universe and have
your own character injected into it.
Yeah. Check out this comment. Check out this comment right here.
Of course not. I don't want another
Overwatch with 9 0 3 8 8 9 4 3 2 Chinese
Korean Japanese characters. I would leave
Marvel Rivals for good if they dare to
give us a roster made up of K-pop lunas.
Hey, they can go play something else.
He's a fucking racist. He is.
You're not even. It's not
even that many of those.
Wow.
He hasn't even played Overwatch.
His name was Richard, by the way. I just find that hilarious. Your racism
is showing. Richard turn off Fox News.
Go touch grass. Luna
snows already in the game.
This is the problem. You're never going
to appease them. Just do what you want.
Nettie's like just do what you want.
You're not going to appease. You're going
to have someone mad because there's no original character. You're going to have people that are mad because they're.
The way you're doing the powers. Comic
book fans are some of the most toxic fan
base in the world. So my my only concern
with this right is how are they handling
licensing? Because if they're like if Marvel is allow it is like like get some stake in these characters and and Nettie's get some stake in the characters.
That gives like I don't know. Nettie's is
Chinese right. They're part of Tencent.
Yes. Yeah. So that that that's gives me out. That scares me because it's like it's I don't know. I just don't like the whole.
But I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I don't know. Nettie's is Chinese right.
They're part of Tencent. Yes. Yeah. So
that that that's gives me out. That
scares me because it's like it's I don't
know. I just don't like the whole private
public nature of that company. Marvel's
already crossed that line a long time
ago. I know they have. I know. But it's
still. Well let's see what happened with
Luna Snow since she was in OC for a
different Marvel game called Marvel.
Future Fight. And see what let's see what
happened there. So if I had to guess
based on this I think it's possible that
Marvel just owns the character outright.
It really depends on. Yeah. It depends on
how they do the whole thing. But I can
see Marvel wanting original characters so
that they can farm more comic books and
other stuff off. And this is a way to get
into the new generations to get them
hooked on their product. So yeah.
I mean I don't know man. I see it only as
a bias for Marvel. If I had to get some
if they wanted some really off the wall
pics they could do the Amalgam comics
which is like it's when DC and Marvel
crossed over and made characters that are
composites of like both DC and Marvel's.
I mean I think for example you have here
this one who's supposed to be based on
Superman and Captain America combined
Wolverine and Wolverine and Batman. And
these look these look atrocious. But to
be fair just do costumes. Just wait is
that Howard the Duck.
Yeah. Combined with Lobo from Howard the
Duck Marvel. Yeah.
Howard the Duck is Marvel.
What the hell dude. I don't know. Pretty
much comics man. It's DC or Marvel.
Comics are insane. I can't follow comics
because there's just too much crap going
on with comics. But like yeah it's kind
of amazing to read some of the crazy
bullshit that happens in comics.
Devil bow is no way this is real. Fucking
Daredevil and Green Arrow. Why didn't
they combine Hawkeye and
Green Arrow is my question.
That's too. Why? It's the same person.
It's the same person.
They already have that. It wouldn't
change at all. You'd look the same.
All right. The cat the Captain America
Superman amalgam is called a soldier. I
guess that makes sense. S.S. That's
that's great. That's great stuff. Speed
demon. Is this the flash combined with
guest writer. That's crazy.
I think it is. That is actually really
cool. That this one's pretty cool but. X
Patrol. Are you are you fucking serious.
So comics are comics are weird and you're
going to like have so many.
So I don't do comic books very well. I
just I did too much.
Yeah. The only thing I know about comic
books is DC. I'm kind of a nerd about DC.
I don't really care for Marvel that much.
True true. But I also don't like the
Snyder era of DC movies and shows. Not.
That's only valid to to I Randian for me.
I did. So I did watch Superman a couple
of weeks ago. Gardner. It was really
good. Wasn't it dude.
Maybe so happy. It was. I'm not a fan of
Superman almost at all but that made me a
fan at least of this. Yeah. Version of
him. Like I really liked it.
You know what is a really good DC show.
Doom Patrol. Doom Patrol. I've seen a
couple episodes and I need to watch it
somewhere. It's pretty interesting.
It reminds me in tone of Farscape. But
it's like like just in tone. Not in any
other way. It's just wacky and weird and
out there and fun. And I love it.
Farscape is so weird.
Yeah I can see that.
All right. So I think the consensus is
that comic books are weird. You know what
else is weird. Gamers Nexus being being
copyright struck by Bloomberg.
Which is why we're watching this on the
internet. Which is why we're watching
this on the internet
archive instead of YouTube.
So this is Gamers Nexus investigating the
black market that's been happening in
China. Because officially China can't get
access to some of these
like A.I. cards right.
But they've been getting access to many
ways because like you know they can just
buy them in other countries
and ship them over to China.
Or they just they make them in China.
Yeah. Come on. They can easily steal a
couple when they make them there. Like
they I'm sure I'm sure they do. But they
probably don't do too much.
They got to keep it all in the right. You
know they keep it all official quote
unquote right. Yeah China's they're
probably over producing and then just
taking a piece of it
from these factories.
But yeah essentially officially speaking
Nvidia is not supposed to be exporting
these to China officially.
Aren't they being created in China or are
they creating them in Taiwan. I think the
chips themselves are being created in
China. I mean Taiwan.
OK. But then they're assembled in China
right. I would imagine. I really hate the
concept that you can create something in
a country then it has to
be exported to that country.
Is that even a thing. Like I don't know.
I don't know. Fucking create it somewhere
else than if. I mean I don't know. It's
so weird. But anyway.
But anyways Bloomberg copyrights
copyright struck gamers nexus because
they use because they use in fair use.
They used footage of I think their
interview with President Donald Trump.
Which I think is crazy
that they can do that.
The dawn. No they died. How much of the
footage they use. That is
fair use. They can't do that.
Let me pull up the gamers nexus. Right.
If I'm unless I'm mistaken they they
really can't do that. I don't know how
much. I mean it's a three hour video.
Fair use is a legal defense.
And so they can do that. But he has to
now prove like gamers nexus now has to
prove that it was fair use and operates.
Right. That's my that's my point though.
Like if it's fair use they can't like
they'll get they get they can get
counterfeit and stuff
like that. Yeah. It's.
I mean you can do
about anything but there's.
Yeah I don't know how much of that clip
they used but I can't imagine it being
too much given that this is a fucking
three hour long video.
Which is kind of an. I need to find time.
I need to set aside time to watch these
videos because man three
hours is just a long time.
Probably I like to work or something.
Investigating smuggling corruption
government. Good black
market. I'm kind of curious.
I'll have to watch it but I don't know.
Gamers Nexus is kind of giving me a sour
taste on some of his stuff in the past.
For what it's worth I do think gamers
nexus does do good work when they really focus on like the corporate side of things or like shit like this.
And less when like Linus tech tips is
involved. No I don't know. They have like
really. Yeah they've really sullied their
reputation for me with the drama bullshit
that they've engaged in.
I haven't I like literally stopped
following them because of like the stuff they were dredging up with.
But at the same time they have done some
good work in the past and it's why I did
follow them. So yeah same.
Like I've enjoyed some of his videos
their videos and but I just don't like
the drama. It was just like there was no
point when there's so much other like
this like this is a good a good thing to go after I think but.
Like I think he had some valid points in
the lines tech this video is talking
about how Linus now does like leaves
errors in videos knowingly though I think
he could she should have just addressed that behind the scenes he'd like you know like DM Linus behind the scenes.
Oh I noticed that yada yada yada in this
video wasn't correct could you I think
you should change that and if Linus
doesn't then I think I guess I don't know
if that'd be probable for making a drama
video but like I don't
know if it's that big a deal.
That's the point like it just feels like
trying to just split the community and we
already don't need that to be fair though
there was a video at Linus.
There was a video at like LTT Expo where
one of the guys at LTT was saying on that
gamers Nexus we we run the numbers every
single time we do the tests.
So I think maybe they feel they felt
slighted by that clip of
someone saying that LTT Expo.
Once again I don't know the drama between
the two I don't know how long it's been
going on some of it
could be behind the scenes.
I don't like it if LTT did the same thing
went after gamers Nexus really hard and
not in a recent like in a counter
response I wouldn't like that either.
Yeah it really sour me and I've already
been soured with LTT a little bit so.
LTT has some good video ideas that aren't
like straight benchmarking like I like I
like their video with I
like a scrapyard wars.
Scrapyard wars is so good.
There's so that's gonna be so hard.
They made a new script. Yeah they made a
new scrapyard wars where it's not just
building a PC this time it's also
building an entire
like home theater set up.
Yeah which includes
speakers in like a display a TV.
They soured me on that one because they
got too competitive on it and got and
tried to go too weird on like it's
supposed to be just for the fun of it.
Almost feel like they
were cheating at times but.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah I think it's I think it's
terrible but hey the videos on on the
archive and also Billy Billy.
And you know it's some shit when Billy
Billy lets you keep it
up on the fucking YouTube.
So.
It just goes over the black market stuff
that's just like right anything like
really shocking out of it but you haven't
watched the whole thing.
No and I don't know if I'll be able to do
so. I mostly covered the I mostly want to
cover the DMCA takedown from Bloomberg.
Since Bloomberg is one
of the biggest media.
Companies in the world.
And I would imagine if someone else
quoted them and like give them proper
credit I don't think they would go after
them but they went after
gamers Nexus for some reason.
Which I think is super interesting to me.
I heard that Bloomberg was scared of the
Trump interview being used and so they
that's why they did it.
I bet that's what it is. No.
I mean do you see how many companies and
that are just bowing the knee now.
Like it's really bad after.
It's just so many. There's so many
companies and it's because Trump keeps on
suing everyone and people settle and
stuff like that gives them more
presidents to keep on winning stuff.
It's crazy. It's a crazy
timeline for companies to.
So you know you know if they bend the
knee to the fucking Chinese government
then you know they'll get they're going to bend the knee to Donald Trump.
And you know letting companies be that
deeply involved with Chinese come with
with the Chinese
government has led us to this point.
That's like that's the point I was trying
to make earlier. Right.
Like right. Marvel stuff.
It's like you know we've been letting it
happen for way too long and these
business leaders have become acclimated
to fascistic regimes.
And so they're willing to do it here. I thought we weren't
doing politics this episode.
We weren't. We didn't talk about that.
I thought we have the new
Trump photo in the in the dock.
We do have that. Yes yes yes. But I also
one thing I do find interesting about
these black markets is that they'll make
customized versions of existing GPUs by
soldering on new RAM chips and flashing
the hardware to like make a new chip.
The hardware to like make higher VRAM
versions of like a 50 90 because 32 gigs
of VRAM sounds like a lot
until you want to do AI work.
It's very little. Yeah. So that's why
they've been soldering chips onto 50 90s
and making higher VRAM
versions of them in China.
I mean to be fair do
it. And video deserves it.
I know I would do. I. They should do that
for like a lower end GP.
Oh my God. What the hell is going on
outside. What are you doing over there.
Hi tech. Do you have a bunch
of bike like bikers outside.
No no I'm not part of a biker gang but
the way you deliver that makes me think.
You are. Yeah. He's a he's a card
counting biker gang guy.
Now this is canon. This is this is
podcast lore now. Lots of podcasts lore
kind of like how there's a lot of Intel
lore now as you can see here.
So speaking of. Yeah you didn't want to
talk about politics and half of this is
politics. I know right.
So the White House wants to invest in
Intel because Intel is basically dying.
And oh look recent update. He days ago
they want to acquire 10
percent stake in Intel officially.
The press secretary said the president
wants to put America's needs first but
from a national and economic perspective.
Wait where's the article.
There's like no text on here.
What the fuck. What happened to Tom. Is
it. Is it behind the is it behind a
paywall. Oh what the fuck.
Oh they're starting to do.
Subscriber exclusive content. Oh yeah.
And I really like Tom's hardware too.
Maybe if only because they featured me on
Tom's hardware at one point.
Yeah. Yeah.
So this so the government governments all
the time subsidize
industries all the time.
I and we already had a subsidy for chip
manufacturers. Intel was already taking
up some from the previous administration.
I wonder if this is kind of a pointed to
take on like saying hey we're going to
allow that and we're just going to claim
that we're helping because that's if
there's one thing that this current
administration likes to do is take credit
for things they don't do.
I'm just calling it out. You can be upset
or whatnot. It's just it's interesting.
Yes. Oh yeah. Here's that Tom's article hardware I was featured in.
Yeah. But anyways the White House isn't
the only entity that wants to invest in
Intel soft bank who owns majority of arm
wants to invest in Intel as well.
I'm surprised they're not trying to get a
merger or like acquire or something like
that. A dying company.
The US government would never let someone
else just absorb Intel.
They're too important.
I'm sure of that. And I'm surprised they
let soft bank invest two billion in Intel
given that soft banks not American.
OK. There's one thing the government is
going to do what they think is best for
them right now. Like the administration
is not truly America first to their money
first. So I don't know. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes. It's really interesting. It's really weird.
Yeah. So for those who don't know soft
bank is like one of the biggest companies
and it's like the fourth biggest company
in Japan behind Toyota
Mitsubishi and Sony in that order.
And so they own majority of arm who do
all of the chips that are I would say arm
is doing a better job of killing off Intel than AMD is to be honest.
Oh yeah. Arm is doing is honestly arms
great for mobile devices and stuff like
that. And we also have a pretty good
relationship with Japan too. So we might
not be going as hard into
some of these other companies.
So yeah that is true. That is true.
Yeah. But I'm not shocked. I do think
it's interesting that the company that
owns most of arm is
interesting. Is that it's interesting.
It's investing in Intel as well. Almost
as if they know or maybe they want
Intel's fabs given that Intel is like one
of the companies that can actually
fabricate their own chips.
It could be a play to an acquisition
merger. I don't. I'm just saying it could
be a play on that. It could also be if
they noticed the government's going to be
investing more into them.
They could also be. Well OK. This could
be a little bit of a cash cow of getting
some of that. There's the company
politics is complicated by
companies do things they do.
It's an interesting. It's an interesting
conundrum being an Intel's position where
what would happen if Intel died though. I
am curious as to what would happen
because Intel owns like half of the X86
spec with the other half
going to AMD of course.
I wouldn't notice. I don't
get Intel really anymore.
Well the big question is would this make
AMD the sole proprietor of X86 64 or
would or would this like open up to
basically anyone like
could anyone just make an exit.
Well should anyone be
making X86 anymore at this point.
No I don't know.
I mean it's super power inefficient
especially compared to like you know arm
and wrist five and stuff. Yeah. The
problem is it's so deeply entrenched and
not just like desktop but server space.
I don't see it going anywhere for a long time.
Backwards compatibility is why we still
use it honestly. But we've we've we've
switched before. And so we I don't know.
This could be the catalyst to
cause that maybe I don't know.
Like there's more and more devices
supporting arm. Yeah. And honestly we're
getting to the point where X86 emulation
on arm is pretty good.
Well for our for like gaming purposes and
whatnot not necessarily for like server
tasks or like anything like serious work.
Like you probably could I could see most
of it just being servers
for X86 for a while. Yeah.
It's not like arm hasn't been working
towards making making server chips work.
I mean there are armed there are armed
based servers with like the high core
accounts that you would expect from X86
like the Z ons and whatnot.
Oh there's. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm curious
if it's more to emulate and do certain
tasks than it is to actually do it be
pure servers like web or whatever.
I don't know. I don't. Yeah. That's
interesting. I. I don't know. I think
it's Intel just they've been floating on
their success for a very long time. And I
don't know if they have anything truly in
the works in the future. That's why
they're slowly dying.
Their innovation arm is
kind of not going well.
Yeah. So they have a lot of patents. They
have a lot of a lot of stuff that other
companies might want to like a reason to
like either acquire you know stake in
them whatever it is. There's reasons but
it's I wouldn't be buying Intel stock right now.
Personally. So soft bank also owns quite
a few companies or has staking quite a
few companies in the tech sector as a
whole. Yeah. Yeah. They do a lot of
investing. So it is worth
mentioning that as well.
So maybe this is that long Japanese when
that American companies were so worried
about back in the 90s.
I don't know. But what we do know is that
technology marches on with or without
Intel case in point this
micro SSD or many SSD rather.
It's about the size of a mini micro SD
card but it's certainly three times
faster than micro SD Express. This is
what the switch uses.
Theoretically it could reach up to
37,000, 3700 megabits per second or
megabytes per second and 3400 megabytes
per second right speeds.
And so I just want to talk about this
because the GP D when five will be using
this and honestly it's it looks pretty
awesome to be honest.
Yeah. That is pretty exciting.
That about time. I mean we had there's so
many different tech that we just need to
like get to a certain point and we'll be
good for generations and I
think SD cards is one of them.
So this is supposedly a size comparison
between your average micro SD card and
the buy when it's a standard. I think
they developed by when many SSD and the
mechanism to insert in kind of looks like
how you would insert a SIM
card into your cell phone.
Almost. It's got a little pogo. It's got
a little pin that you have to push with
that game. Some injector tool.
I'm assuming it's maybe a little bit not.
It's not designed to be taken out too
often. It's not really. It's
just to expand your memory.
I mean I could see that
being the case for sure.
That looks really cool though.
I mean I'm wondering if that's going to
be a standard in like high end video cameras at some point too.
That's a great question because I think
video cameras are still stuck doing like
UHS 2 micro SD cards.
Yeah. My well all every camera that I
have uses the UHS 2 or UHS 3 that has the
extra set of pins on the underside.
But yeah and they're not micro SD. You
can't do micro SD in my
cameras. They're all standard size.
Yeah I mean there's not much to say here
besides the fact that this mini SSD.
It's not to change things for the Chinese
handhelds. The big question is if the
standard is really is open for like
anybody to use because if it is then I
think the steam deck
should use one of these.
Yeah.
I heard a lot of the Chinese tech like
this typically open. I don't
know. I just know that like.
Yeah the Fox mentioned this in his video
about the GPD Win 5. He mentions it as
more of like being backup storage. Like
you stick it in there and then I guess
you just have access to it.
I don't think it's really meant to be hot
swappable like Gardner said. You see by
the fact that it's difficult to kind of
difficult to take out without
like a same ejector tool here.
Yeah it looks like it's an expansion slot
more than it is a swappable storage. So
you'd install it and use it.
I mean heck I'll take it. I'll take it.
Yeah. If it has big enough.
What are the sizes for these?
Well I see a one terabyte right there and
a 512 gigabyte right there. So that's.
If it's one terabyte or more than that's
totally like a way I'd go.
I mean heck apparently this says two
terabytes right here. There you go.
Well yeah I think this might be the
future now if they could make it a hot
swappable version. A hot swappable
version like a I don't know make it like
a micro SD card but like this.
That'd be even better but
honestly I can't complain.
I don't swap my depending on the device I
use I don't hot swap stuff very often. If
it's a camera maybe.
I mean even with a camera I shut my
camera off before I pull an
SD card out. Yeah that's true.
Well the only thing I would really want
like with this current design is like a
way to pull it out with my hands instead
of having to carry them instead of having
to carry like a semi
ejector tool with me at all times.
Yeah I'm curious if like the structure of
the card itself just can't support
physically being pushed in to then have it pop out you know.
That's honestly the pins on the bottom a
bunch of it's just it looks like it's not
meant to really be
removed like an SD card.
Yeah it makes sense I guess. I mean in
its current form I wouldn't I mean I
guess I don't mind that much. I just want
an easier mechanism to take this card out
besides using like a semi ejector tool.
I think that's the point they don't want
it to be easy because it obviously has
some downsides to doing that. That's
probably what they're
fair enough. No fair enough.
It's not meant to be removed often. Still
though it's very cool. Like it's a mini
SSD right. Who the
fuck made this thumbnail.
JAT GPT. God damn it.
But guess what it's not going into a
switch to because it doesn't because it
doesn't have the slot.
But you know but you know valve if you're
making if you're actually making a steam
deck to you which I know you are.
I think it's time for you to add one of
these to the steam deck to.
Why you're at it add to for me.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean the GPV win five has
both one of these and a
micro SD slot suppose.
I'd take both. Yeah. I mean
let me look at the specs again.
See.
Okay.
Wait. Genki has this on there on a blog.
Let's see storage.
On they said a new slot for it's not a
new swap kind of like
swapping out game cartridges.
But yeah they have both micro SD and
that's that new slot.
But wait.
What does the GPV win five support micro
SD express like the switch to you or does
it support like just you wish us one.
It just says standard micro SD which
tells me that it's probably just you
which has one and not
like my rest express.
Whatever but anyways
this new SSD is very cool.
Please other companies adopt this tech.
I agree. I am back and forth on like
agreeing with you on making it easier to
put it like making it more cartridge even
if it's a little bigger
having a protective casing.
But on it.
Maybe not make it easier but
make it tool list at least.
Yeah.
I want to make it so I just I'm curious
those pins are the bottom
portion scares me a little.
That I'd want if it.
Yeah I don't know.
It's interesting I like
it as an expandable option.
Oh we should ask the Fox
about this and see has one.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. By the way you know how
last episode I said that I
would that I would ask the Fox.
About if it's pocketable.
No I asked him.
He responded after the show after we
recorded but unfortunately it's about the
size of an ROG ally.
So now it's not possible unless you like
have to have your pants or whatever.
Where cargo pants.
I don't think he
wears cargo pants though.
Well he could.
He could.
Yeah.
And.
But yes because skill issue speaking of
things that are pocketable.
The trump phone is pocketable.
But it looks like there might be lawsuits
happening more
specifically with speaking.
Because if you zoom
in here in this image.
You can see their logo like right in the
middle of the U.S. flag right here.
The United States of speaking.
Yeah I say it's a speaking.
I love it.
It's a Photoshop.
It's not attacking S 25
ultra with a speaking case.
And this isn't even the phone itself.
It's just an S 25 ultra
which by the way I do have.
Wow shit.
I have an S 25 ultra.
Does that mean I have the trump phone.
You have the trump phone.
I have the trump phone.
Wow.
Shame on you.
And it's made in America right.
Sure.
I'm.
Yeah.
How could the how could the trump phone
not be made in America man.
But really though it's so tacky.
The last time I saw anything the last
time he saw anything like this.
Was probably the Pablo Escobar phone if
you guys remember that controversy.
What was that.
I was a couple of years ago.
Yeah.
So they sent they sent like gold wrapped.
Like Samsung phones to like a PhD.
Mr. Who's the beast.
Not Mr. Beast.
The box.
Yeah.
Mr. Who's the boss.
And other like phone guys.
And all of them noted that they were all
in fact Pablo Escobar.
They were not Pablo Escobar phones.
Still probably better than this.
Like I don't know.
I just don't know what they're thinking.
Well if you're going to grift at least
grift a little better.
Yes.
The point of a grift though is
to get the low hanging fruit.
The less work you do as a grifter by
attracting the low hanging fruit.
The better the more profit you make.
Right.
I mean like that's why.
That's why all those like scam emails
like that are like hello dear you know
like and then with all the misspellings
and everything they intentionally put the
misspellings in there to like weed out
the smart people who are
going to waste their time.
It also makes it sound
like it's from a person too.
Yeah.
I don't know man.
I feel like they could have used they
definitely didn't use generative AI.
I can tell you that.
Better.
It would look better.
That's how bad this is.
Yes it's a four.
Yeah.
Poorly photoshopped American
flag over this speaking logo.
It's kind of a shame too
because speed makes good cases.
I have a speaking case too but
it's not a gold one like this.
Is that photoshopped.
It has I mean I don't know.
It could be also laser etched.
They could have gotten a speaking case
and just laser etched it.
But it's not even a but
it's not even like the phone.
No it's the case.
They got a case and they think they they
spray painted it and
laser etched it or something.
I don't even think they actually took
this picture themselves to
be honest but that's just me.
You're probably right.
I don't know.
It looks so bad.
It looks so yeah like shit man.
It's really low quality too.
Look at how tacky this one here looks.
It's like a one but with a bunch of stars
and that's super fucking tacky.
Yeah I thought it was
like a tie at first.
I was like why is there a tie there.
T.I. No T1.
I don't know man.
Terminator.
The T1 Terminator.
I meant like a necktie.
I thought the one looked like a necktie.
Oh.
Well that's also steep.
Yeah fucking.
Trump can design good logos.
Or hire people to do good logos.
I don't know man.
We've talked about we've talked enough
about politics but I just can't stop.
T1.
T.I.
Yeah.
So Trump Mobile or it is a trade.
Probably I bet you there's so many potential losses.
But we'll see if they go
through because everyone is just.
Oh let's see what
Trump Mobile dot com says.
Now you're just gonna get ads.
Hey that's not Mr.
That's not the president.
I don't want his face on there.
47 50 plan.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. 47 50 plan.
Yes.
Is that.
Yeah this kind of looks like Pewds.
PewDiePie.
I can't believe he would do this.
Pewdiepie.
Is that Pewds.
Man that's crazy.
Hey you know how you can
tell this is a Trump website.
Because how shitty it is.
No there's there's there's no people of
color as the models.
I don't know she looks like she could be.
A person of like vague color.
Vague vague ethnicity.
Yeah ambiguous ambiguous ethnicity.
The logo is bad.
That's how you know if
it's a Trump product.
It's the branding is bad.
Oh you could be the sites fine.
Oh you could be a dealership.
You could be a Trump.
Dude guys.
Guys should we should we become Trump
dealers here on the podcast.
That would be so that would be so crazy.
That's our side hustle.
I mean honestly it'd be nice to make some
money off of some stupid people but.
I don't know if actually
anyone's gonna buy it though.
I doubt we'll get any
phones to sell people anyways.
What is the forty seven plan.
Forty seven forty five.
Forty seven is the forty seventh
president and then forty five is he was
the forty fifth president.
Now he's the forty seventh president.
That's the whole
point behind the pricing.
All right.
I remember we talked about this.
I still think that's stupid.
Yeah.
Why on earth would you be
the forty seven president.
Could it could it not just go back to
being the forty fifth president.
It's kind of how it works though.
It's stupid.
It's not stupid.
I don't know it's just how it works.
I think that's how it's worked before
because we've had presidents stop being
president and be president again.
This is Trump's not
the first one to do this.
And so that's how we did it before.
Forty seven presidents.
That just means we have like forty five.
No forty like three
presidents I think probably right.
I don't know how many
presidents did this.
Yeah it's based on term though.
So that's how many terms we've are.
Wait no.
Not terms I guess I should say.
But how long would.
It would be administrations.
Yeah.
Fucking hell man.
Whatever.
Anyways unlimited talk texting
data yada yada yada bullshit.
I mean you can get plans that are
probably cheaper than this.
Yeah look it's not even the same phone.
Look this is the T1 that
they have on their website.
Yeah we've talked.
This is when we were
originally talked about it.
This is what we talked about.
And now that they're
really seeing the Samsung one.
The Samsung one.
None of this stuff is made in America by
the way because you truly can't.
But none of the stuff is really made
either because these aren't real phones.
But just photoshopped iPhones.
No they're real phones.
They're just not real cases.
Real real bullshit.
It is real bullshit.
How about we how about
we buy some Trump coin.
That's how that's how I see that's a
little easier than
trying to be a reseller.
You know that reminds me I wasn't I
wasn't there for my
layover from to and from Japan.
And I saw them advertising Texan Texas
coin in the airport of Houston.
Oh my God.
It's really yeah.
My thoughts exactly.
Yeah I hate I.
I'm a semi advocate
for crypto to a point.
But there's only a
couple of viable options.
Everything else is just.
Well I was crypto was what is that it's
coolest before like people start
investing in it like crazy.
Like back when like you could buy pizza
with like 50,000 Bitcoin.
That's not cool.
I'm not gonna lie.
I would bother me the rest of my life if
I bought a pizza with 50 Bitcoin.
Not 50 Bitcoin like thousands and
thousands of Bitcoin.
One Bitcoin would bother me.
Let's just say that.
Yeah.
Imagine how much worse
it would get when on.
I got to see how many
Bitcoin that pizza costs.
If it's thousands they spent essentially
like half a billion on it
and maybe not a half a billion.
So it wasn't like 50 couple of me like
10,000 and it'd be worth 1.1 billion.
Yeah.
You paid 1.1 billion for Papa John's.
That has to be the worst
trade in the history of mankind.
Oh that's horrible too.
It has his name.
Oh God.
When I was a kid I bought like a lollipop
for like 99 cents and now that's probably
worth like 15 20
bucks something like that.
OK.
Well you didn't spend you didn't spend
10,000 bitcoins on a
fucking Papa John's pizza.
Yeah.
They were like it was
worth 41 dollars at the time.
Wait so you got expensive for that time.
Well how.
Wait how much was.
No that sounds about right.
Papa John's is kind
of expensive for pizza.
Oh it's not.
Not back then man.
Like back then it was like
15 bucks for a large pizza.
Maybe.
Maybe he ordered unless he unless he
bought like a bunch of stuff like it like
15 bucks for like a large.
Yeah.
If he bought three pizzas
that 41 would make sense.
Yeah that would make sense depending on
how many but I don't know.
He bought two.
He probably bought like extra large as of
like all the toppings on it.
All I know is Papa
John's held on to that man.
He said he has no
regrets about his exchange.
That is a fucking lie right there.
It is a lie.
But in order to like save face a little
bit I think you have to.
You have to be in denial.
Or else you go crazy.
Yeah I'd be crazy too.
He spent a hundred
thousand Bitcoin on pizza in 2010.
Oh my God.
Hey he had the makings to
be a billionaire though.
Yeah.
Not that smart.
I think the other major use for Bitcoin
was buying shit off of
the silver in the dark web.
Yeah.
Man that's better than
what Bitcoin became now.
Which is basically unusable currency.
Well it's unusable.
It's usable.
Just depends on where you're using it.
All right.
Well it's usable on the Silk Road.
True.
Or whatever is taking its place.
All right.
But here's.
Yeah.
So speaking.
Trump phone.
Bad.
Speaking good.
I have a speaking case of my phone.
It's pretty good.
It served me well.
Not this one though.
Mine mine has like a design in the back.
That doesn't look tacky.
You should get a gold one.
You just paint a gold.
And just pretend like it's the.
That's the grip right there.
You just sell phones that
have the case to paint a gold.
Just say it's a Trump phone.
Dude that'd be so crazy.
Or sell the cases that say Trump.
And just grip off it.
Sorry.
Okay.
All right.
I think we beat this topic to death.
Yes.
Now it's time for us to talk about the
worst movie of this year.
War of the Worlds.
So it's based on the H.G. Wells.
The classic H.G. Wells comic.
I mean novel.
And I mean it's got Ice Cube.
I know it's good.
Hey man.
Ice Cube is fun.
Ice Cube is pretty funny.
Even if it's in a shitty movie like this.
But like.
Have you seen 21 Jump Street?
That's such a good movie.
Yeah.
Isn't he like somewhat of a Trump guy?
Is he?
I don't know.
I'm a follow celebrities.
Most of the time
celebrities make it easy to.
Separate the art from the artist unless
you like Kevin Spacey.
There's a couple.
There's like.
You can't really separate.
There's the guy that played Superman back
in the 90s who joined ice.
That's an interesting one.
What?
Oh yeah.
What?
Hold on.
What a weird.
That's such a weird one.
Why would he join ice?
He's a celebrity.
He makes.
He could probably make a shitload of
money being in movies.
I thought celebrities were all about.
He doesn't.
He know.
After that role, I think he directed like
puppy movies or something.
Maybe something like that.
I don't know.
We're not even.
I just it made me think of that.
Especially ice being an ice cube.
Yeah.
No, but like I'm going to correct you a
little bit on this high tech.
From my understanding, this is the worst
rated movie of all time.
Of all time.
I think so.
Damn.
As of right now, but that could change.
You know, it must be a
banger that we have to watch it.
It's bad.
Do you know how it works?
How it plays out.
So watch ice cube react.
Essentially, it's for
everyone that likes react content.
React to the end of the
world through a monitor.
So it's like that one movie.
Unfriended, whatever.
It's like a horror
movie that takes place on.
I'm afraid it's much better.
That's I'm just telling you.
It's much better.
You call it that much better.
Damn.
This must be a really bad.
This really must be that bad.
It's it's pretty bad.
Now we have to watch it.
It's crazy, man.
I've seen some clips of it.
It's hilarious.
Watch.
You can just if you can save your soul,
man, it's actually a really long video.
You can watch Papa meets video on it.
It's like 40 minutes, though.
That's cray cray.
But apparently this
was made during COVID.
So it's a fucking it's a result of COVID
that this movie is like this.
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I'm sure.
Sure, whatever.
Like there's a lot of movies that came
out because around COVID after COVID that
didn't look like this.
So I'm sorry.
But I don't care if that's what they want
to use as an excuse.
I mean, I want that shit, man.
It's one of the it's one of
the greatest bad movies ever.
It's probably going to go
down in history like the room.
It's going to be a cool classic probably.
So maybe we do need to watch it.
But it's this is how bad it is.
One of the main characters that he's like
is that's dating his
daughter is an Amazon driver.
And he uses tape to save someone.
He utilizes his Amazon driving skills to
save the day and stuff.
It is that bad.
Hey, man, that's just
added to the Amazon experience.
They make you they make you still work
even when there's an alien.
Yeah, it's bad.
It would have been more realistic if the
Amazon driver had to save the world by
throwing her piss bottle at the robots.
That would be like
make a ball of cocktail.
No.
And maybe you should write
the War of the Worlds to dude.
I will.
Don't even try.
Don't even tell me.
And I think this movie
is on Amazon Prime too.
So yeah, it's all fucking it's an Amazon.
It's an Amazon movie.
Yeah.
Amazon.
So I think it's right.
It was released by Universal
Pictures on Amazon, I think.
But I think Amazon is it's an Amazon
commission or something like that.
I don't know.
It has a main character
that's an Amazon worker driver.
And it's very much it's it's Scream
sponsored by Amazon.
The best film ever made.
I watched that new War of the Worlds.
That everyone likes.
Yeah.
Everyone likes how terrible it is.
I think we have to watch it now.
I think it's impossible to ignore.
I'll watch it while I work on something
because it's not going to take a whole
lot to concentrate on it.
It's a very second screenable.
I think that's what the Netflix guys say.
It has to be second screen content.
Is that a thing?
I do that.
I do that a lot.
So basically there was an article like a
while back about how Netflix, the guys at
Netflix were telling showrunners to make
this make the shows
more second screenable.
Which me which translates to dumbing it
down so that you can hear all the
characters explaining shit instead of
just showing it on the video.
I mean I watch shows over and
over again that are comedic.
So if they make more comedy shows, I
second screen those types of things.
That makes sense.
I mean but they were telling everyone on
Netflix and do that.
Like so yeah.
Netflix Netflix Netflix.
But at least but Netflix will never make
a movie as great as War
of the Worlds 20 to 25.
I more celebrity should just take more
schlock jobs and just do it.
Just send it.
You get masterpieces like this.
Hey I'm not I'm not against
getting some good classics.
I'm not against either.
I don't know.
This one is a pretty bad one.
We have so we got to
watch it at some point.
The hacking in it pretty much it
showcases that like we're in a severe
surveillance system where he's just taken
over everything with his computer.
He has his daughter's fridge.
Yeah right.
Yeah I saw a clip of him like in the look
like his daughter's fridge
like it's got like the A.I.
Is like you know how like A.I. software
has like boxes over things and
identifies what that thing is.
It's like that.
There's also a you
know what I did recently.
I'm sorry.
I took a so I had I worked with chat GPT
to get recipes sometimes
just because it's fast and easy.
I it I asked it for like a little meal
plan of what I have in
my pantry and fridge.
I took pictures and I made one.
It recognized the stuff in my fridge and
my pantry and no way.
I was shocked.
That sounds like video content.
You know what you should do.
Make a video about you
doing that on games review.
Maybe on my my secondary channel.
What if you told A.I.
to tell you what to play.
You make a gaming plan for me.
Chat GPT.
Just take a picture.
Honestly.
I have thought about doing also a dark
channel like a dark clone channel where I
have I compute against.
I do the same topic on mine and I have
like a shadow version of my channel.
That's just all A.I. and
just see how it performs.
I think I'd cry though because it would
probably perform better.
I don't know.
Maybe maybe people would accuse your
shadow channel of plagiarizing you.
Maybe.
But it'd be interesting.
Well I mean I tell people about it.
Well maybe I don't know.
Don't tell me about it.
It's got to be.
It's an idea.
Yeah.
It'd be fun though.
Just don't sue yourself
and then you'll be fine.
A.I. Chat GPT sues me.
All right.
But yeah that's the worst.
That's the worst movie of the year.
I think we're going to
watch it at some point.
But it's not the worst thing
that could happen this year.
The worst thing that could happen on the
Internet is that
Adblock is declared illegal.
In Germany at least.
Gartner you should test it
out when you go over there.
Has it been declared illegal yet?
No there's a legal battle law.
There's an ongoing legal battle law.
Oh my gosh.
Dude I will test it.
It's between Axel Springer and Ayo who
creates Adblock Plus.
Which by the way you
shouldn't be using Adblock Plus.
You should be using U-Black Origin.
Yeah.
So that's besides the point though.
Axel Springer says that Adblockers
threaten its revenue generation model.
Like how it makes money.
And it's copyright violation basically.
It's in no way copyright violation.
There's literally no defense for that.
Yeah definitely not that but I'm very
split on Adblockers.
I don't think they're very ethical.
Especially with content.
If they're trying to monetize.
Someone's trying to
monetize their content.
And you're blocking that
and you're just kind of.
It's a little bit of a parody thing.
I'm also.
Yeah.
No I think we've
talked about this before.
I just have a different take.
I get what you're saying.
But at the same time though the
advertising industry.
Is out of control.
Yeah it's out of control. And they've made the internet basically
unusable with Adblock.
The FBI.
Yeah.
Sorry go ahead.
The FBI recommends you
use Adblocking as well.
Yeah.
Basically here's the thing.
If an industry cannot afford to exist in
an ethical way then it
does not deserve to exist.
And so yes I make some money from
advertising on YouTube.
But I actively encourage my viewers to
use Adblock because the industry is
completely unethical.
And yeah.
It's it's.
I.
Yeah.
I see it as both unethical.
Both sides are unethical on this but.
Well I mean if they.
At the end of the day.
If the advertising industry.
Didn't exist.
Through like what is equivalent to a
digital panopticon then I
would say you have a point.
And that it would be unethical like but
it is all surveillance based and they and
it will never stop being surveillance
based until something changes.
And what that is is that
these companies need to be.
We need to hold them accountable and by
doing using Adblock I think we're trying
to hold them accountable.
I think it's going to come down to legal
and it's coming right here.
Like it's going to either you're going to
have to have protections or you're going
to have them sued and make
it illegal to have ad block.
So this is all going to
accumulate down to legality.
Like you're going to be handling this in
the courts and stuff.
Well what right.
Here's I mean this is
like a legitimate question.
I don't know the answer to but what right
does a website or or any other company or
service have to use my electricity and my
bandwidth to show me
ads from your service.
You can fuck right off with that.
I'm sorry.
I mean I agree but then
don't use the service.
Right.
But literally they all are doing it.
I know they're all doing it.
That's what sucks.
Like I that's the hardest part about all
this is like if you want capitalism
that's how capitalism works.
You're supposed to have competition and
go somewhere else that
doesn't do it as much.
And that's why paid it's just really hard
because no one wants to pay for content
or anything on the Internet anymore.
They just want to sell themselves that
like that is their fault for giving
everything away for free
like and relying on ads.
So it's not for free.
It's an exchange like
Google costs something.
These services are
something like the perception.
Yeah.
It's free and that's the way they yeah.
Facebook can shape people's expectations.
These these companies can shape the
expectations of what it means to have a
website to use a service whatever.
They're they're they give stuff away for
free in exchange for ads.
But like the the when it comes right down
to it these companies are like using
unethical means to collect way more
information than anyone should be
comfortable with more than they need.
And it's the fuel dark
patterns more than anything.
I agree with the gardener.
I think both are a little
I think both are unethical.
I definitely think it comes down to the
like I definitely think these companies
are more unethical and it
depends on like where you're going.
Like if it's Facebook sure whatever I
kind of just look at like content
creators and stuff like that.
I feel like they get screwed over more
and more if they're trying to rely on
that on that ad
revenue and being blocked.
And I don't think a lot of
ads are that bad on YouTube.
But then there's also
some it's just yeah.
Well I'm talking well when I say here as
I'm talking less about
YouTube ads like okay.
Yeah I don't like YouTube ads either.
But people block them
all the time and they can.
Yeah.
What I'm talking about are like the
golden age of adware
on on fucking computers.
You don't talk about the pop ups the no
website nigh unreadable like all that
shit that especially on
mobile dude you go to like wiki.
What's the one.
What's the wiki.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's one of the reasons I use chat GPT
for recipes sometimes because if I try to
use a website for it.
It now that being said they trained off
of recipes that are whatever.
We don't need to get into
that I guess that part of that.
But web like a lot of recipe websites are
really bad with their ads.
I can't do it because they'll pop in and
out like what I'm trying to read.
And I just I can't use
the recipes on there.
Wait is that chat GPT is ploy all along
to cut out all the ads.
So you just have your website.
Well maybe there's it's also an article.
There's a kernel of truth there high tech
the the the AI like the ploy of these AI
companies is to like supplant every other
alternative and then serve you ads like
and their their own ads like the you know
they're trying to disrupt every market.
With their with their services.
It's a very much.
It's a power play Amazon's been doing it
for decades where they'll make things
cheap or free and then they
kill out all the competition.
And so I it should be
using more ethically.
I and I can technically with my computer
but sometimes chat GPT is
easier because you can you.
Well I shouldn't say there's like it'd be
nice to see it more open sourced in a way
that where you could utilize some of the
stuff but at the same time it's still
trained in an unethical way.
Well hopefully by the time we get by the
hope of by the time we get to the point
where chat GPT just
starts having ads in there.
People will have enough computing power
to run their own like a eyes like it'll
be more accessible to run
like deep seek or whatever.
Because right now you know running deep
seek and any of those still requires
quite a bit of power and you know it's
quite expensive to get
those servers up right.
If I get ads in my chat GPT and done I
have other options I can use.
I thought that they
were already doing ads.
No I have no ads I haven't.
I do know that some of my.
They don't have the really.
They don't have the
really shitty ads yet.
I don't know that they were doing like
built in like what's the word like they
were like sponsored like
responses or some shit.
I've yet to get anything like that.
Yeah same.
So now I don't.
But the thing is with all
these companies with like.
I don't think there's any way to avoid
this stuff unless you leave you put
regulations in the maybe the opposite a
little bit of what Germany is doing but
you got to regulate stuff.
Our data and stuff and that's that's how
you that's the only way to win this.
I don't think you can win it through
people using ad block and all that
because it will eventually get to the
point where companies will start suing
like this and then you might make it like
illegal to even have ad block.
Well that's what that's what's happening
in Germany right now they're trying to
establish that it's so this whole the
whole case is based on this idea that
HTML and CSS is protected software.
And the ad blocking intervenes and in
memory execution of these which I mean it
is true it does intervene but so funny
really though because
okay wait so it's so stupid.
Well they have to. Well they they're
having to go through the idea that we
still haven't proven that HTML slash CSS
is protected because it really isn't.
It's over if they if
they win this it's over.
Frankly that doesn't make any sense
because like like if you go back to
Nintendo versus glue like Nintendo was
trying to claim that like if you used the
game genie you were creating a derivative
work of their game which is absolute
fucking nonsense and the court held that
it was not copyright infringement.
Now that's the US not Germany but it like
this is not any kind of copyright
infringement. This is not a derivative
work and they have no like there's
literally no way that this can pass like
that as a as an argument for I just can't
like it doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make sense like as a developer
right. It doesn't make sense.
So are they saying that they own like the
HTML and CSS right. That's what that's
what they're saying. Yes I think that's
what they're arguing that they're saying
that you can't modify
it to modify either.
Right. But what. But here's the thing. So
if they're saying that they only the HTML
and the CSS that's fine and they
definitely probably they
definitely do own the output.
But do they then own the DOM like the
parsed document object model that's
running in your system in your browser. I
mean that because
that's it's its own entity.
I think that's what they're arguing.
They then then at that point I'm not ever
going to use the Internet again if they
actually do own that shit.
Like I'm that's insane.
I'm sorry but I own my computer and I
have the right to compute the way I want
to and I will not use services like that.
We need protections for being able to
modify it because there's a lot of stuff
that can modify this.
You can have maybe even accessibility
tools being modifying DOM and when sites
are running real time.
So this is stupid territory. We'll see
how if they win or not.
How it cascades out but
I don't think yeah it's.
So let's look into this company that's
soon them. Axel Springer.
Sounds like a guy. Sounds like a douche
but is actually but
is actually not a guy.
It's actually a company based in Germany.
So they do all sorts of stuff. They do.
They were publishing house basically.
They probably do
newspapers and shit right.
Sounds like it. They come
right after World War Two.
I think they came. It looks like they
came. Well it's a third up like industry.
Oh no. Oh no.
That's funny. Yeah no.
Oh man it's it's crazy to
me that this is happening.
I hope that Germany does the right thing
and just throws this case out.
But. See. So this is not the sea.
So if it's deemed illegal there's a lot
of things that could happen.
It could change the Internet
fundamentally forever.
Well for Germans but it could have.
It could have rippling effects.
They might be part of Europe. I think it
would especially Europe because they'll
give them presidents and they'll probably
go and try to take it to higher courts
and and I Europe is definitely much
better than like we are with protecting
the rights of the people
as opposed to companies.
So it'd be interesting to see how this
plays out. I just don't see them winning.
I see this being an intimidation lawsuit.
Yeah I mean I see the same way too. But I
don't know. I mean I don't know.
I mean ad blocks software gets sued all
the time right and gets their try.
People don't think it's all the time. I
think they're always
trying to get taken down.
There's so many different. I don't know
about suede but they're always there.
It's a very I would not want to own an ad
blocking company or software or create it
because I'm sure they get so
much flack from everything.
See from like you know if they're trying
to say that ad blocking at the browser
level is against the law then what about
like a pie hole you know where you're
like trapping DNS
lookups and stuff like that.
It's not modifying the DOM. You know
you're not modifying the Web site. You're
just you know making intelligent choices
about which kind of
network requests you allow.
Darnard don't you know. Darnard don't you
know you don't own any of that shit dude.
Obviously that's their
data. That's their data.
I own my own DNS lookups my guys. Not
anymore. That's what you think.
Oh man I'm angry. I don't know if you can
tell. Yeah I think I can tell man it's
it's really it's it is
some bullshit. I agree.
I think you know if stuff like this
passes we just need to do a
hard reset on the Internet. Yeah.
You need to go to the library to get your
Internet card. So you're saying that.
Yeah well dude you know I actually came
up with a really good
idea to fix the Internet.
It's a dude to fix the Internet. I
actually posted a blog post about it. Let
me bring that up real quick.
Basically we make data cost money. We
impose taxes on like collecting data.
Right. So like Facebook Amazon Netflix
right. We say if you're going to store
data on your users right.
It's going to cost a dollar twenty five
per user account. Right. And then other
types of more sensitive
data will cost more. Right.
Yeah. And then and then they're screwed.
They have to delete everything or else
they're going to pay through the nose
like you know I don't
know if I'd go deaf.
I'd make it really hard on them and then
pay for all the services that need to go
into like mental health services. No dark
patterns stuff like that.
I think that's a progressive tax. I'd
consider their progressive tax. Yeah.
What you said when you said make data
cost money I thought you were talking
about like make us pay by the gigabit. I
was like dude we are.
Yeah we already know.
No no. You got to put it on the on the
companies because otherwise nothing's
going to change. Yeah. Also one thing
that I also had the idea of we brought up
at one point on a previous episode we've
talked about having like license to have
people be licensed to use the Internet.
Yeah. But I think what we should do is
also force companies that hire I.T. to
like have licenses for their for you know
you have to be licensed
to be an engineer. Right.
You have to be licensed to have to be a
fucking barber. Right. So why don't why
shouldn't you have to be licensed to work
in I.T. like seriously.
I mean you kind of I mean do you not you
got you got to get your certifications.
Yeah but that's that's all private
regulation certification. It has nothing
to do with like you don't even have to
really. That's just one
that they impose. Yeah.
You don't need to get like clearances and
I don't know about licenses for like
governmental work but yeah. But that's
different. That is a little different.
I definitely think there's better ways to
improve all this. But yeah. And
definitely I feel like we're going the we
just have lawmakers that just don't
understand how it all works. I think
we're kind of going the opposite end.
Yeah. Because they're all like pushing
80. It's ridiculous. Yeah. They're all
pushing it and they're like well you have
to use your photo I.D. which they're easy
to circumvent. Right. To get into sites
and it's like maybe make
the sites more accessible.
Or you know try it from the other end.
Tax them for certain things that they do.
That's unethical. Yeah. Or a lot. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean I definitely think
taxing is the way to go because that
would be much easier way to pass than
trying to outlaw dark patterns.
Yeah. And you can sell it to all the
business bros as like this is a way to
consolidate your power and then you screw
them over. Because like regulation like
lobbyists would get in the way of it. But
you know it's got to happen. Like I
there's just literally no way to do
anything otherwise. Lobbyists can get in
the way but I mean the 80 year olds have
to die off sometime.
So maybe we'll get some fresh blood
eventually. Yeah. Unless they be unless
it's like a Futurama kind of thing or
they're going to just be putting frickin
head jars. Right. Yeah. Could you see
that happening. Oh my gosh. If it was
able you know all those politicians in
their 80s would be doing that right now.
Yeah. Yeah. Because there's no reason
that are still there. They should just
retire. There's no reason to
be in there once you hit 70.
Well you know that government paycheck is
too good man. It's like a. But that's the
thing. They have retirement. They can
just retire and I think they still make a
lot of that money. Their pensions are
hot. They actually have them. So there's
really no. And most government like most
like senators and all that they they
would be most of them
leave with millions.
And they can go right into lobbying jobs.
Which they do. It's just sketch. It's so
sketch. It's all sketch. Oh well. Oh wow.
I think this is the most politically
charged episode we've ever done. Yeah.
But I mean these are like I think
lobbying is one that everyone agrees
with. They don't like. Right. I think
we've the only thing we tackled I think
is partisan is like Trump.
Yeah. But yeah I do apologize. It's just
the type of world we live in right now.
It'd be easier if we were talking about
the next Halo and how bad it was. But you
know. They're not even making halos
anymore. That's a sad. No they're not.
That's the problem. See if the next Halo
is going to be on Mac.
Yeah. You ought to be saying. We should
put like a trigger warning has politics
at the beginning of the video. Hey that
could be our that could
be our cold our cold open.
Yeah. If people have listened to us
already a couple of times we talk about
at least once or twice and I apologize.
It's just you brought up the Trump phone.
If you bring up the Trump phone it's over
for me. Yeah. We have to talk about that.
It's so stupid. It is so stupid. It's
such a good content. Yeah. Well this is
that time guys. I think it is.
Yeah anyways. So yeah. Any last any last
statements before we
close off this episode.
You know what. I want to see Germany
passes. I want to see what happens. I
want to see the world burn. See what
happens. I want to do it right when
Garter is there. Gartner is going to be
in a German jail doing his YouTube
because you know it's going
to be easier over there right.
Could you imagine potentially like if
they make like what type of I doubt it's
going to be a fine. It'll probably like a
ten dollar fine. But if they start
putting people in jail because you have
an ad blocker. That's
dystopian right there. Sorry. OK.
That's my last thought. It's not an ad
blocker. It's antivirus. It's my
antivirus software. You block origin. It
blocks the viruses. Yeah. Antion malware.
Anti crapware. I mean you're using the
Internet so that's your fault. Yeah. Just
I'm just kidding. True that. True that.
We need more websites that are ethical.
It just doesn't pay. It's really hard.
Yeah. Anyway. That's what I've got. I
don't know. I think I've
been saying to be honest. Cool.
Let's let's peace out then. Yeah. Peace
out guys. Later. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for watching. Thanks.