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Welcome to Off the Console, the
hottest and oldest… No, it's not

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the oldest, but the hottest podcast
out there about, all about gaming,

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tech news, and anything nerdy.

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This week we're covering a couple
of interesting topics, including

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Grand Theft Auto being s- uh,
Netflix stealing the limelight there.

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Uh, and also we have Xbox
increasing prices and, uh,

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other places are increasing…
I mean, it's just price, price.

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That is what the news is now, it's just
increasing prices, uh, and decreasing our,

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uh, love for expensive things, I guess.

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So with that, covering all this
is HiTechLoLife and Gardiner.

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Welcome, guys

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Good to

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Thanks for having us

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Yeah, yeah.

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No, thanks for joining my podcast.

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That's what you meant to say.

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No, but, uh, but yeah.

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No, it, it's, it's been a,
it's been a good past week

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for, I think, uh, some of us.

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Some of us I think have
had a, a rough time.

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Gardner, how's your last week been?

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Dude, my week has been bananas as usual.

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Uh, been doing a lot of, uh, uh, tech
triage as my, I had a power surge

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here, and it destroyed the power
supply in my PC, and it's caused

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a lot of weird knock-on effects.

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and also my home assistant went down,
and yeah, a bunch of annoying crap.

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Also, not annoying, I got the Pebble
Time 2, and I reviewed it on The

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Bryant Review and on my YouTube
channel, and it's a really cool watch

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I did see that, yes.

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It look, it does look pretty cool

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It's like the, the, the, um, uh, the
operating system is entirely open

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source, which is super neat, and so is
the, uh, companion app on your phone.

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Um, so lots of really cool
stuff you can do with that

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Nice.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I'm not really a smartwatch kinda
guy, but I do think it's pretty cool

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My favorite thing about this is
that it's barely a smartwatch.

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It's just a watch with a nice screen
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Do you run apps on it?

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and stuff?

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It has a, a heart rate s- uh, reader
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uh, pedometer and was the other thing?

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But, and sleep tracking.

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So it can do those,

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Okay

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like they're, it's kind of
like consumer grade stuff.

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Like I, I use it just to keep me
motivated when I go for runs and shit,

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but like for the most part it's, it's
just a cool watch that have some like

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customizable s- smart complications
on the watch face that I like

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It's just simple.

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It's not like any of those… It's, I, I
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I have a different smartwatch.

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It's a Fitbit Sense 2, and that thing
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all, like it's very locked down and
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that I would want from it, but also
it's like way more complicated than

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I want, and this is just much simpler

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Yeah, I have the Apple
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There's just

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or two things I wish I could change,
but It just simplifies my life though.

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But it is annoying that I
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If only.

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I'll have to g- give it a try sometime

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It's a good watch.

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I like it

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But yeah, no power s- dude, I had my
power supply go out years and years ago.

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This is like 20 plus years ago on my,
like, because of like p- a power surge,

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and it, same thing happened back then.

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Like it, it just f- it just screwed
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Yeah, dude, it was crazy 'cause I was
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smelling like some, uh, something
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and then I heard just this pop.

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It was the loudest pop I've ever heard.

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And I, you know, I, I'm a gun enthusiast.

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I go shooting.

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Um, louder than a gunshot, and I'm
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And I was sitting h- right here, and it
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minutes of, of that bang, I, I mean, a
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the s- my screen was all screwed up.

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I had in, and it, um, it, like
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think it might have been undervolting
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causing it to screw up, but

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some issues to the motherboard too.

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You might need to replace the motherboard
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Well, it's working now.

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I'm using my computer now, so
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I just know from power surges
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Just be aware of that

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Yeah, I'm keeping an eye on it.

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Like my motherbo- heck, the
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power… Actually, I did have a
power surge a couple of years ago.

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It destroyed my, um, what are those?

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UPC whatever they are, the

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UPSs?

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UPSs.

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And, um, yeah, it destroyed it, but it
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3090 just hasn't been the same.

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Like, the Wi-Fi just does not work
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that's actually-- To kind of go
into what I'm gonna be doing, and

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then we'll get to you, HiTech.

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Sorry, this is just a good segue.

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Is I'm building a Steam Machine
killer while I-- It's still gonna

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be, you know, $1,400 instead
of $2,000 when prices go up.

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uh, I'm ripping out 32 gigabytes out
of this, uh, my main PC that I don't

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u- I ha- Dude, it's been like, um,
doesn't get used for the past few months

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uh, I've been gaming on the Legion
Go 2 and, uh, on the go, moving

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and everything, and then I've
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MacBook, so it just doesn't get used.

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So, like, getting the Ma- the Steam
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used less because it's just the Steam
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this, every time there's something wrong.

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It runs games well enough still,
but it just overheats the room.

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It's, it's just too much.

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I'm gonna rip 32 gigabytes out of
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calling it kind of like the Franken
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the ashes of old equipment of building
my Steam Machine killer, uh, codenamed

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the, the Franken Phoenix, and it's

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gonna have 32 gigabytes of DDR4 in it, so.

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I even got the… It's a little
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see it probably right there.

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I, I got

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M- man, do you have a Franken deck?

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Do you have a Franken
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Like a Steam Machine and a … Well, my
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so I'm building this for them for now.

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We'll see though, 'cause I bet you I get
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I'm gonna put it down here, and then I'm
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like, "Where's my- where, where's our PC?"

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I'm like, "Sorry guys, I need both now."

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Uh, but I have a bunch of hard drives.

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I- it- it's just gonna
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I'm gonna try to price it out for
people on couchtrig.com s- too.

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You can, you'll be able
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But, uh, yeah, that's also what I've
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Still not ready to re- like fully
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but like I still need to get images and
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I've been busy with other stuff,
including buying the parts for this.

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Um, yeah man, pulling the trigger
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I've never had to go back in
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Like, feels wrong to buy like parts
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Dude, that's… Yeah.

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oh, don't worry, we'll be talking
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RAM in this episode, let's just say.

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What, uh, no, oh my gosh.

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going on his villain arc. Hey,
what have you been up to, man?

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Uh, messing around with my Steam
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I haven't really f- I haven't really
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session this week, 'cause I just
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You know, fucking real world
responsibilities and all that shit.

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Been filming my Steam Machine master
class, and I also ordered a new t- I

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ordered a new tool set because, uh, the
one I used to have I can't find anymore.

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And I need a torque security bit or some
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Well, I mean, I really like my
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Hasn't failed me yet.

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I also… They have really
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They're like little packs that
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screwdriver things in them.

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They're like 40 bucks, 30 bucks on Amazon.

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They're pretty good too.

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that's what I use more than
my… 'Cause it, I don't know.

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I'd have to showcase this maybe next time,
'cause I don't think I'll explain it well.

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But, um, HiTech, have you
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I think, don't, I have put probably
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So I haven't started from start
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finished a few of my backlog games.

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honestly, man, I need

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I need to f- I need to finish more games.

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I have a lot of games.

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I also need to stop buying games

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no, no, that's, okay, let's
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Like, you can still get games,
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I don't wanna… I, I, there's
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in the next year, and, um, I, I
know I have to get through it.

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And the Steam Machine's perfect
'cause I can sit down, I have, I

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d- I take a break from work, I can
sit down behind me and just play.

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you can see, like, the, I did just, I
have that, the love sack or the, you know,

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that's what I, that's what the brand is.

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We talked about this a few episodes ago.

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But it's where I make love to my
beauti- beautiful, beautiful games.

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Um, but yeah, it's… I beat the
newer, I, I don't remember what the

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name of the, like, it's an alien
game that's like a single player

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one that's like 10 hours, 12 hours.

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I beat that.

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I've put 30 hours into Baldur's Gate 3.

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I've not be- um, pl- yeah,
I, I don't know, man.

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High Deck, it is, I, I'm liking it
a lot more than I thought I would

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Ballers get three of those Steam Machine

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Steam Machine.

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Baldur's Gate three is pretty
good too, but it's really, it's a

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lot, 'cause I was playing it on my
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don't like it with a mouse and keyboard.

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With the Steam Controller,
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So I definitely, I'm really
liking the Steam Machine.

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That being said, anyone can have one.

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Like, you can build your own Steam Machine
and have it be very similar, right?

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Or take some old hardware.

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It's just, it's nice.

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It just, the box sits there.

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It does a good job of I press the button,
turns the TV on, just starts working.

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It's really nice, it's more powerful
than the Steam Deck, and that's

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my problem with the Steam Deck.

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I really like it, but the Steam Deck
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can use lossless, you can do some other
techniques, but it just doesn't It's not

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I wouldn't say it's amazing, but have you

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to your Steam Deck, HiTech?

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My Steam Machine, you mean?

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Yeah, from your Steam
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I have not, but I mean,

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I'll… Yeah, I can imagine.

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I would hope it works really well.

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It, it's

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I'll have to, I'll have to do that,
I'll have to do that at some point.

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The only thing I would want
though, for that particular

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use case, is like wake on LAN.

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Like I send a magic packet from
the Steam application to wake up my

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Steam Machine and it just plays, and
hopefully CEC doesn't fucking turn

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my TV on when I tell it to turn off.

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Hmm

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That's the one.

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That, the… But I think Valve may
have covered that at some point.

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But yeah, I've, I've been messing
around with my Steam Machine.

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But I think it's time for us
to get to the main episode

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Sorry, I'm gonna nerd out about this.

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It's just, it works so well.

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Like, I have the PlayStation Portal and
the PlayStation 5, and I think the Steam

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Machine so far has been doing better job.

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So, I think the time to switch from
PlayStation to Steam is, is, is now.

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Um, especially… I mean, it
is now, but… Our first topic.

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So, with that, let's, uh, let's move
on to the GTA VI kind of stuff that's

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going on that… Exclusives, man.

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That's, that's what it feels like.

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GTA just loves to do
exclusives everything.

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And with this first one, High
Tech, w- w- we have a very, I don't

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know, it's a very weird exclusive.

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What's this about?

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Right.

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So this is Grand Theft Auto VI.

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Exclusive- the, the, the first
gameplay trailer, presumably.

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Suppos- supposedly, according
to some data miners, it's

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supposed to be 30 minutes long.

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It's coming to Netflix
first for six hours.

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Like, what the fuck?

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That's crazy.

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The way our unlocking new
biblical levels of greed

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New biblical levels of just
like, I don't give a shit guess.

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Because if you can't wait
six hours, come on guys.

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Like I know people are
really excited for this.

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Now if they wanted to do their own
like playthrough series on Netflix,

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I think that would've been better.

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But no, it's just six hours to get
the gameplay that This game comes

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out in a couple of months, guys.

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And this is the first gameplay video?

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Yeah, but James, it comes
out in a couple months.

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They can't wait that long.

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They have to… They
can't even wait six hours.

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They have to see it now

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To be fair, some of the trailers I've
seen, it does look very impressive.

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From a technical standpoint,
I do wanna buy this.

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From a, me not wanting to
support sh- the shit that's

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going on, I don't wanna buy it.

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a very I don't know.

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It'll be interesting.

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So I guess I can wait until the
27th and we'll figure out, uh, we'll

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find out how good the gameplay is if
they've been hamming it, you know.

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like, there's gonna be like three
characters on screen with the PS5

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'cause that's all it can handle.

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I don't know.

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We'll see.

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It's gonna be like Cyberpunk
all over again on PS4

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Which that was pretty bad on the PS4.

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It was hilariously bad.

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Man, that feels like a
whole other lifetime ago

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a whole

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Man

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ago

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Time really does fly by.

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So, so GTA VI, I mean, realistically
I would say I hope the game fails,

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but like, I don't think any-
I don't think it's gonna fail.

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Unless it sucks ass, like really badly

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I

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Like, unless it's like, unless it's like
ha- unless it's like saddled with the

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game sucking or there being like massive
performance issues or bugs and shit.

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If it's really buggy, I could
see there being problems.

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But like, fuck man

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I'd be hard-pressed to admit

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I don't know

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It's, it's hard to say.

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I mean, I don't… I, with the
amount of time that they've spent

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building this game, it's like
it feels like it has to be good.

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But also, like, GTA's gameplay hasn't
really meaningfully evolved in f- uh, like

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since GTA San Andreas probably, right?

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It's gotten better.

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Like, when you go to and try to
play some of those older games, you

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can definitely tell that they've
improved a little bit with every game.

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But

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But, but I mean, the difference
between like Call of Duty 4…

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Right, but like the d- yeah, like the
difference between playing like Call

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of Duty 4 versus like even the modern
remake of Call of Duty 4, right?

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It's like they're, they're
night and day differences.

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I, I

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Right

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It just, it doesn't feel like
it's really evolved that much

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Well, I

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mean,

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they

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makes sense though.

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the open world

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So here's my,

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yeah

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so here's my thing though.

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With the old GTA games, you had
to mash like X on place- or A or

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X, you know, whichever the bottom
button is on your controller, right,

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Угу.

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to sprint.

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Dude, imagine if they kept that.

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You know how pissed off people would be

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Я.

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Yeah, it'd be, it'd be bad.

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It would be

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Dude, I don't know, man.

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I, I, I don't fucking know, man.

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So we can watch this on the 27th, which
is a Thursday, and that's like tw- Man, l-

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the time we'll, we'll be recording the
show that week, it'll be on YouTube.

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That's true, so we can react to it.

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Yeah

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I've heard Take-Two is actually
quite litigious in terms of,

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like, using gameplay footage
from their videos for some reason

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Yeah, 'cause they don't
like free promotion.

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The, the

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the people that run these computer, they,
these companies are just idiots, dude.

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Well,

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about biblical levels of something.

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alone.

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Apple, Take-Two, I've done both.

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I've covered both and a couple
other ones on my channel, like

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trailers and promo, promo stuff.

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Like stuff that's not like, "Oh,
I'm playing the whole game and

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ruining everything," whatever.

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What, uh… was just stuff that
they're getting free promotions, right?

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Yeah.

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ca- they will, um, do,
uh, claims and stuff.

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It's just so, so annoying

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Yeah

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Man, I, I don't know, man.

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Th- this is some crazy shit, man.

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I don't wanna… I, l- like, okay, I
don't wanna say I, I don't wanna say

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I want to see GTA fail, but at the
same time, though, I think it has to

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fail b- because, like, let's look at
all the things GTA's introducing us.

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It's introducing this
shit right here, right?

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Ne- like, six-hour Netflix promos.

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By the way, it's not like it's
free on Netflix's servers.

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No, you have to pay for, you have
to pay for, like, a month of Netflix

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at least for this bullshit, right?

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Igen

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Second off

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I think, I honestly, if people
are doing it and they're getting

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Netflix just for this, like I think
that also says there's a societal

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problem of you can't wait six hours

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Yeah, it, it, I mean, yeah, it is
a societal issue, but fuck, man.

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What the hell?

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It's just weird that they think they can,
like, the… I don't know, like, what

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did Netflix pay for this exclusivity?

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It's not even worth it.

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Whatever they paid, if it
was $5, it's not worth it.

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For

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No

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hours of, of just, like,
exclusivity is just bonkers.

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I,

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Um

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I could not tell you what's,
I couldn't tell you what's

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going through Netflix's mind.

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Oh, man, what, what do you, what,
what is happening in this world?

403
00:20:01,470 --> 00:20:04,110
Wh- why is this even,
why is this even a thing?

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Imagine if like a Nintendo
Direct was behind a paywall.

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Or like imagine if E3, like watching
anything on E3 was a, behind a paywall.

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You know how fucked up that would be?

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00:20:16,214 --> 00:20:17,794
yeah, but this is a little different.

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But yeah, it's

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I mean, is it though?

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paywall that a lot of people ha- Like,
no, because it, it's, it's similar

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to, like, uh, cable deals in the past.

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A lot of people have Netflix, and
it's a promo wa- Uh, like, just going

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back to this is how people make money.

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They, they have exclu- like,
stuff that people want, and then

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you pay for the subscriptions.

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I think it's just, I'm more shocked
that it's a six-hour exclusive.

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I, and, and also, like, I don't know
what it is, but GTA VI just does not

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wanna give anything out for free, or…
Uh, uh, stuff that should be free.

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Like, it's releasing only on
consoles day one, which is bizarre.

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I mean, it's what past GTAs have
done, but it's just like, why?

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And then it also, you know, they're
gonna standardize, I think, $100 games

422
00:21:06,358 --> 00:21:09,648
soon, because it's $80, but to get
the, the good edition, the, the good,

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the edition that has everything that
you'd want, you have to pay $100.

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It, it's… I don't know.

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00:21:16,238 --> 00:21:18,618
They're doing a lot of
stuff that's really weird.

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So

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It doesn't make sense to me.

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00:21:22,710 --> 00:21:26,880
I mean, like so much of Sorry.

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00:21:26,900 --> 00:21:29,600
So much of what they're, what
they're doing now is, is just

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to like squeeze every single
potential penny out of everyone.

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and, and I mean, that's kind of
like the end game of, of the,

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of what they're playing, right?

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00:21:42,310 --> 00:21:49,290
Like, know, they can't even allow like,
indie developers, you know, who are not

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even building… They're building stuff
for free for community members, right?

435
00:21:54,150 --> 00:21:57,440
And they won't, the, they won't
allow like community-made mods

436
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,270
of, of GTA III and shit to exist.

437
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,840
Like they, you, you have to pay
for the, Steam version of the

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remake of GTA III or whatever.

439
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,680
It's like the definitive edition,
that's the word I was looking for.

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00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,870
They just, they just have to, uh, just
squeeze every penny out of everybody

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00:22:16,058 --> 00:22:19,588
They make… And I, I, I think what
really pisses me off about a lot of

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these studios, they act like they're
not making enough money when if they

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just held onto their money, if they
didn't weird reinvestments into it,

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00:22:28,538 --> 00:22:33,108
they'd be just sitting on top of
billions and billions of dollars.

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00:22:34,458 --> 00:22:38,658
And it, it's just bonkers how
much money these companies make

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while acting like they're poor.

447
00:22:40,228 --> 00:22:43,748
It's like the Hollywood edit- uh, like
Hollywood accounting thing all over again.

448
00:22:43,748 --> 00:22:46,968
They really act like things
don't go as well as they say,

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and they just do really well.

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00:22:50,518 --> 00:22:55,328
And then they just… J- I think it's just
so that they can take more from people.

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They're like, "Oh, well, we have
to charge more for this." I don't

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00:22:59,108 --> 00:22:59,458
Now,

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it

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is gonna, this is gonna be a head-ass
take, but I think GTA VI has to fail to

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maintain the soul of the gaming industry

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00:23:09,288 --> 00:23:10,178
I don't think it's going to.

457
00:23:11,066 --> 00:23:14,436
I don't think… No, I'm not saying it,
I don't, I'm not saying there's a chance

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it'll fail, but I'm saying it, it has to,
but I, I am, like, this close to giving

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up hope on the entire games industry,
especially given what fucking Epstein

460
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Island visitor Strauss Zelnick is saying

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Yeah

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Who is Strauss Zelnick?

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Take-Two CEO, the parent
company of Rockstar Games.

464
00:23:39,010 --> 00:23:44,040
So he's saying a bunch of crazy shit about
how, A, physical disks don't make sense

465
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:48,920
for consumers, you know, in response to
the whole Sony bullshit, and also the

466
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,290
fact that GTA VI doesn't come with disks.

467
00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:58,320
And B, the fact that, uh, well,
simply put, he thinks streaming's

468
00:23:58,350 --> 00:24:00,780
gonna be the future in three years.

469
00:24:01,190 --> 00:24:01,680
Remember that

470
00:24:03,362 --> 00:24:04,372
Three years, huh?

471
00:24:04,750 --> 00:24:06,402
He says in three years.

472
00:24:06,702 --> 00:24:07,112
Wow.

473
00:24:08,290 --> 00:24:11,900
Remember, I, I feel like Google Stadia
was around for a little longer than

474
00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:14,660
three years, and they never really
made the same… They ne- they never

475
00:24:14,660 --> 00:24:16,210
really made the impact they wanted to

476
00:24:16,772 --> 00:24:17,602
That's Google though.

477
00:24:17,632 --> 00:24:21,182
Like, Google's not good
at that type of stuff.

478
00:24:21,352 --> 00:24:21,542
If

479
00:24:21,612 --> 00:24:21,782
Dude

480
00:24:21,872 --> 00:24:24,082
held out a little longer, I
think they would've been fine,

481
00:24:24,102 --> 00:24:25,552
and they just gave up on it

482
00:24:26,344 --> 00:24:31,994
think, I, I have been saying since Google
announced Stadia that, like, Stadia was,

483
00:24:32,384 --> 00:24:35,684
uh, just an excuse to do AI build-out.

484
00:24:35,734 --> 00:24:39,564
Like, to, to, you know, put it,
to mark it down on their books to

485
00:24:39,564 --> 00:24:41,714
build, like, AI data center shit

486
00:24:43,946 --> 00:24:47,006
Yeah, they repurposed it because
AI denter- data centers and, and

487
00:24:47,006 --> 00:24:49,736
the GPUs would've been much more
profitable with that than Stadia

488
00:24:51,750 --> 00:24:54,020
Right, so he says we're at
the advent of streaming.

489
00:24:54,020 --> 00:24:57,070
It's right around the corner in
terms of having something that's low

490
00:24:57,070 --> 00:24:59,530
latency and works well for consumers.

491
00:25:00,140 --> 00:25:04,550
It may be, may, it may be if you live
in, like, Japan or something where

492
00:25:04,670 --> 00:25:07,900
there's fucking high-speed internet
everywhere and it's a small land

493
00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:10,490
mass, but not in fucking America

494
00:25:11,446 --> 00:25:14,466
Uh, I, mm, I mean, d- that
means there's a data center

495
00:25:14,466 --> 00:25:16,806
going into your neighborhood, so

496
00:25:18,726 --> 00:25:20,956
Well, the problem is that not ev-
well, the problem is they're gonna

497
00:25:20,956 --> 00:25:26,026
put data centers in, like, places that
people have shitty internet in, though.

498
00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:27,428
No,

499
00:25:27,466 --> 00:25:28,786
There are, like, a lot of different

500
00:25:28,908 --> 00:25:31,698
shitty internet, they don't
have money, so they, screw them.

501
00:25:32,578 --> 00:25:36,978
This, uh, uh, d- if they move more
and more, let's say they even do

502
00:25:36,988 --> 00:25:41,478
exclusivity stuff for streaming, this
is just gonna hurt poor people more

503
00:25:41,498 --> 00:25:43,938
becau- and, and poor communities.

504
00:25:43,998 --> 00:25:47,118
P- communities that can't won't have,

505
00:25:49,268 --> 00:25:51,428
high-speed internet or
data centers near them.

506
00:25:51,438 --> 00:25:53,588
That's just gonna hurt 'em more,
and that's what's gonna happen.

507
00:25:53,658 --> 00:25:53,908
So

508
00:25:54,208 --> 00:25:54,548
Mm.

509
00:25:54,628 --> 00:25:54,978
don't know.

510
00:25:55,688 --> 00:25:56,358
I don't like it.

511
00:25:57,088 --> 00:26:00,538
Rural people, people that, like
farmers, whatever it is, like,

512
00:26:00,988 --> 00:26:05,478
uh, we are not centralized enough
to have this be the main thing.

513
00:26:05,778 --> 00:26:09,318
If w- people want the option of
streaming, I'm fine with that.

514
00:26:10,048 --> 00:26:12,998
I don't like the idea that
they want to do this all…

515
00:26:13,008 --> 00:26:16,958
Like, it almost feels like they wanna
do an all-in ga- gamble of like, "Well,

516
00:26:16,968 --> 00:26:20,858
eventually we're just going to only have
stuff on streaming." So if you wanna

517
00:26:20,858 --> 00:26:25,968
go this streaming service, that's the
only way you can play the game, that's

518
00:26:25,968 --> 00:26:27,908
what I'm not, I'm not a fan of that.

519
00:26:28,078 --> 00:26:31,048
I'm a fan of choice, both choices,

520
00:26:31,450 --> 00:26:31,790
Hmm.

521
00:26:32,018 --> 00:26:32,348
so

522
00:26:32,630 --> 00:26:36,250
Well, you know, we, thankfully
at Xbox we have an option for

523
00:26:36,250 --> 00:26:37,370
people who wanna play offline.

524
00:26:37,370 --> 00:26:42,540
It's called the Xbox 360.

525
00:26:43,390 --> 00:26:44,250
Dude, ugh

526
00:26:44,828 --> 00:26:46,538
Wait, wait, you skipped the EA one

527
00:26:46,652 --> 00:26:46,832
it.

528
00:26:46,842 --> 00:26:47,462
We'll, we'll move it.

529
00:26:47,462 --> 00:26:48,932
We'll, we'll go, we'll go into Xbox.

530
00:26:48,952 --> 00:26:49,282
Okay.

531
00:26:50,312 --> 00:26:54,902
So yes, Xbox console price increases
in Europe and UK fully revealed

532
00:26:54,902 --> 00:26:57,252
with Series X now costing €200

533
00:26:59,722 --> 00:27:00,042
more

534
00:27:01,185 --> 00:27:01,665
Dür

535
00:27:03,708 --> 00:27:07,978
Yeah, so I, we, I have a decent, I have
a chart here for all the original prices

536
00:27:07,978 --> 00:27:09,928
and all the prices that they are now.

537
00:27:10,558 --> 00:27:16,108
And the most expensive SKU, the Xbox
Series X one terabyte with a disc

538
00:27:16,108 --> 00:27:23,458
drive, it costs close to ni- it costs
over $900 US in Europe and the UK.

539
00:27:23,938 --> 00:27:24,828
Is that not crazy?

540
00:27:25,388 --> 00:27:27,058
That's more than a PlayStation Pro

541
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:28,030
Hmm.

542
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,960
That's crazy, dude.

543
00:27:32,380 --> 00:27:37,350
It costs almost as much as a
Steam Machine, but with less of

544
00:27:37,350 --> 00:27:41,720
a library because no one releases
games on Xbox anymore, and Xbox

545
00:27:41,730 --> 00:27:43,270
releases their games on Steam

546
00:27:45,820 --> 00:27:46,190
Wow

547
00:27:47,516 --> 00:27:53,056
so the past 30 years when consoles
come out, they almost always

548
00:27:53,066 --> 00:27:55,236
have a big price reduction.

549
00:27:55,906 --> 00:27:57,606
We're seeing the reverse of that.

550
00:27:58,736 --> 00:28:00,966
And if you wanna talk about it, like
hear us talk about politics a little

551
00:28:00,966 --> 00:28:03,866
bit more, it, it does mirror a little
bit of the politics, but also it's just

552
00:28:03,896 --> 00:28:07,686
a RAM cri- crisis, which I think could
be solved on the politics side too.

553
00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:11,526
But guys, this is not what we're used to.

554
00:28:11,736 --> 00:28:20,766
We- the Xbox Series out years ago
and is going up exponentially in

555
00:28:20,766 --> 00:28:22,406
price every year, I feel like.

556
00:28:23,066 --> 00:28:23,296
It's n-

557
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,090
We're on the cusp, and we're on the
cusp of a new console generation.

558
00:28:27,354 --> 00:28:27,764
Yeah

559
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:30,710
pretty soon, like in a few years,
we're gonna see the PlayStation

560
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,490
6 and Xbox Helix or whatever

561
00:28:34,072 --> 00:28:34,352
I,

562
00:28:34,425 --> 00:28:34,685
Я

563
00:28:35,052 --> 00:28:37,322
think console gamers are gonna
be really cooled off by this.

564
00:28:37,342 --> 00:28:40,012
I don't think people are,
are really happy with this.

565
00:28:40,042 --> 00:28:42,312
Um, I think they're buying what
they can now, so they might see

566
00:28:42,312 --> 00:28:47,702
some price hikes, uh, or, uh,
increase in purchases some way.

567
00:28:47,782 --> 00:28:50,392
They, they might track that
as, "Oh, well, it looks like…

568
00:28:50,432 --> 00:28:53,132
See, people, we raised the prices,
people are still buying it." I

569
00:28:53,142 --> 00:28:56,082
think people are kinda buying
just to hold out for a long time.

570
00:28:57,180 --> 00:28:57,950
Yeah, like

571
00:28:58,122 --> 00:29:00,682
That, that's what I'm getting
from the industry, is that

572
00:29:00,682 --> 00:29:03,002
people are just over this

573
00:29:03,849 --> 00:29:05,289
Угу

574
00:29:06,354 --> 00:29:08,564
let's look at what, let's,
let's, let's imagine this.

575
00:29:08,774 --> 00:29:11,944
They put themselves in a no-win
scenario with the pricing of the

576
00:29:11,944 --> 00:29:16,544
Xbox Series X, 'cause, like, let,
let's look at Xbox Project Helix.

577
00:29:17,084 --> 00:29:22,344
If it costs close to an Xbox One
X, uh, Series X today, people

578
00:29:22,344 --> 00:29:24,934
are gonna be pissed, especially
those that bought an Xbox Series

579
00:29:24,934 --> 00:29:26,564
X, like, around this time, right?

580
00:29:27,354 --> 00:29:32,004
Or, you know, if the Xbox Helix is,
like, 2000, is like 1,500 or whatever,

581
00:29:32,014 --> 00:29:34,504
then people are gonna be mad that
the Helix is so expensive, right?

582
00:29:36,324 --> 00:29:37,644
It's a no-win scenario

583
00:29:37,970 --> 00:29:42,230
I don't wanna buy, I don't wanna
put $1,500 into a locked ecosystem.

584
00:29:42,230 --> 00:29:45,630
I think that's the thing I hate the
most that people don't understand.

585
00:29:45,630 --> 00:29:50,320
Like, okay, if it's $500 and you're
locked into the ecosystem, you're not,

586
00:29:50,540 --> 00:29:55,950
what, you know, it's not that bad on the
m- on the cost of, of side of things.

587
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,780
your games are gonna cost more than Steam.

588
00:29:58,790 --> 00:30:01,600
Like, I, I think just all this
needs to go into a pro- like, a

589
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,510
value proposition, uh, with Steam.

590
00:30:04,580 --> 00:30:09,720
Like, your games are gonna cost more
because there's only one store, and

591
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,480
this is for PlayStation and Xbox, right?

592
00:30:11,490 --> 00:30:15,180
Like, if you buy one, into one,
there's one store, so they can

593
00:30:15,180 --> 00:30:16,990
control whatever the cost is.

594
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:17,760
Hmm.

595
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,163
consoles are, let's say $1,500.

596
00:30:20,163 --> 00:30:21,110
That's the price of a PC, so just get

597
00:30:24,210 --> 00:30:27,000
a PC at that point 'cause
then you can do more with it.

598
00:30:27,770 --> 00:30:29,610
And what's the benefit?

599
00:30:29,650 --> 00:30:32,180
Like, with Steam we get amazing deals.

600
00:30:32,210 --> 00:30:35,670
Like, and yeah, does the
Steam Machine cost $1,000?

601
00:30:35,670 --> 00:30:38,390
But it's gonna be able to, b- because of
FSR, you're gonna be able to play games

602
00:30:38,390 --> 00:30:40,440
for the next 10 years fairly well on it.

603
00:30:41,580 --> 00:30:46,220
you are going to save hundreds of
dollars just by switching to Steam as

604
00:30:46,220 --> 00:30:48,100
opposed to being on Xbox or PlayStation.

605
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:49,600
I don't think people understand that.

606
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,600
Like, even if, let's say the Play-
like, this Xbox costs, yeah, let's say

607
00:30:53,630 --> 00:30:58,710
800, 600, whatever it is, if it's, if
it's still less than the Steam Machine,

608
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,510
you're gonna save s- if you just buy
a couple of games, you're gonna be

609
00:31:01,510 --> 00:31:07,660
saving that money, um, uh, on Steam,
and it's gonna work in the future.

610
00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:11,170
Who knows what Xbox and PlayStation's
gonna do with backwards compatibility, so.

611
00:31:13,090 --> 00:31:15,180
Tyr- uh, my, my, my rant over a little bit

612
00:31:18,186 --> 00:31:22,596
Dude, what the f- what is going on, man?

613
00:31:22,916 --> 00:31:23,726
I don't understand

614
00:31:25,954 --> 00:31:30,204
I, I… Now, if the costs were
going to help with workers' rights,

615
00:31:30,594 --> 00:31:31,844
whatever it was, okay, cool.

616
00:31:31,844 --> 00:31:34,384
Like, work- no workers' rights in the
sense of, like, they get paid more

617
00:31:34,384 --> 00:31:39,364
'cause we use… of the reasons why
things go down is 'cause we use world,

618
00:31:39,444 --> 00:31:43,964
uh, countries and other s- like, we
use countries that are developing

619
00:31:43,964 --> 00:31:45,054
countries, I should say, not third world.

620
00:31:45,244 --> 00:31:48,524
We use developing countries and
their labor where they kinda get

621
00:31:48,524 --> 00:31:52,044
abused in the labor market to
build stuff and make it cheaper.

622
00:31:52,294 --> 00:31:54,784
It's a very neoliberal,
neoconservative thing to do.

623
00:31:54,794 --> 00:31:56,804
But this isn't doing that.

624
00:31:56,814 --> 00:32:02,044
Like, this is just going to sto- like,
to… Oh, it's being r- hiked up, and

625
00:32:02,054 --> 00:32:04,854
the only pe- like, the RAM companies
are making a lot of money off of it.

626
00:32:05,434 --> 00:32:07,164
I think it's gonna destroy
them in the long run.

627
00:32:07,578 --> 00:32:07,938
Yeah

628
00:32:08,884 --> 00:32:11,704
stockholders are making a
lot of money, potentially.

629
00:32:12,074 --> 00:32:12,714
Potentially, I don't know.

630
00:32:12,714 --> 00:32:13,474
We've seen it drop.

631
00:32:13,914 --> 00:32:19,184
But, like, it's not actually
going back to the production

632
00:32:19,194 --> 00:32:20,644
or anything, so I don't know

633
00:32:23,066 --> 00:32:27,426
It's… Ugh, I hate, I hate th-
I hate this timeline so much.

634
00:32:29,526 --> 00:32:29,986
normally

635
00:32:30,074 --> 00:32:30,414
Yeah.

636
00:32:31,366 --> 00:32:36,366
a g- uh, uh, the, the market would
self-correct, but we're just, we can't.

637
00:32:36,984 --> 00:32:38,564
Well, we don't have a market anymore

638
00:32:40,412 --> 00:32:40,902
Yeah.

639
00:32:41,114 --> 00:32:42,444
the Saudi government.

640
00:32:45,392 --> 00:32:45,782
So

641
00:32:48,044 --> 00:32:48,494
it's not,

642
00:32:48,602 --> 00:32:48,882
ugh

643
00:32:49,024 --> 00:32:49,384
not true.

644
00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:50,814
It, it's a bunch of different players.

645
00:32:50,814 --> 00:32:57,324
But, like, this EA thing, I was hoping
that it was going to be a good thing.

646
00:32:57,714 --> 00:33:00,834
Now I'm… Like, in the sense of, like,
it's better than what was ever happening

647
00:33:00,834 --> 00:33:03,374
with EA at, at, you know, the past decade.

648
00:33:03,384 --> 00:33:08,444
Like, but I don't know, there's some
bad news on the horizon for developers

649
00:33:08,674 --> 00:33:13,654
at EA. Hi Tech, do you have some…
I, I, I have some thoughts on this,

650
00:33:13,654 --> 00:33:15,464
but, like, um, this is your topic.

651
00:33:15,464 --> 00:33:17,784
What, uh, do you wanna give us a,

652
00:33:18,460 --> 00:33:19,090
Yeah, sure.

653
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:24,260
So if you guys recall, uh, they were
in talks with, uh, being bought out by

654
00:33:24,270 --> 00:33:28,740
the Saudi government through their PIF
and Silver Lake, who's r- that's, uh,

655
00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:34,980
run by, uh, Jared Kushner, and Affinity
Partners who, um, I don't actually

656
00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:36,420
know what they do, truth be told.

657
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:40,070
Oh, wait, no, they, uh, wait, no,
Affinity is Jared Kushner, and Silver

658
00:33:40,070 --> 00:33:43,740
Lake is, uh, the guys that run US TikTok.

659
00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:44,870
But

660
00:33:44,909 --> 00:33:46,220
ー ん。

661
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:51,950
deal was also financed by, uh, JP Morgan,
and from what I understand, their debt

662
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,170
went up in a whole order of magnitude

663
00:33:55,714 --> 00:33:58,254
So we're never gonna see
Command & Conquer again.

664
00:33:59,610 --> 00:34:01,620
Well, it seems like, it seems
that they're selling off.

665
00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:04,870
It seems like rumors have it
they might be selling off assets.

666
00:34:05,068 --> 00:34:05,818
Oh, really?

667
00:34:06,530 --> 00:34:07,940
EA selling

668
00:34:07,952 --> 00:34:08,222
it could be

669
00:34:08,268 --> 00:34:08,468
Oh.

670
00:34:08,552 --> 00:34:09,732
but who's gonna buy it?

671
00:34:09,782 --> 00:34:10,612
So that's the

672
00:34:10,618 --> 00:34:11,028
Petroglyph,

673
00:34:11,042 --> 00:34:12,142
is who's gonna buy it?

674
00:34:12,408 --> 00:34:14,408
Petroglyph should buy Command & Conquer

675
00:34:15,552 --> 00:34:16,102
Do they have

676
00:34:16,438 --> 00:34:16,528
Who w-

677
00:34:16,828 --> 00:34:17,602
money to do it

678
00:34:18,378 --> 00:34:19,648
who is Petroglyph?

679
00:34:20,124 --> 00:34:24,494
is the company that a, a bunch of
ex-em, uh, Westwood employees that went

680
00:34:24,494 --> 00:34:29,658
and started their own, another studio
after they got acquired by EA. They

681
00:34:29,958 --> 00:34:30,118
I c-

682
00:34:30,418 --> 00:34:32,284
they've made so many great games.

683
00:34:33,134 --> 00:34:36,754
Uh, and the, all the names are
escaping me right now, but one…

684
00:34:36,784 --> 00:34:40,234
Oh, they made Star Wars: Empire at
War, which was fucking incredible.

685
00:34:41,804 --> 00:34:45,074
and they did the remake of the
Comma- original Command & Conquer

686
00:34:45,074 --> 00:34:46,854
games that came out a few years ago.

687
00:34:47,734 --> 00:34:48,608
Yeah, they're fantastic.

688
00:34:48,908 --> 00:34:51,858
mean, if they can get like a
loan or if they have the money

689
00:34:51,858 --> 00:34:53,458
to buy it, I'd be for this.

690
00:34:53,528 --> 00:34:53,878
Like,

691
00:34:55,928 --> 00:34:57,848
And Dead Space is another
one of those ones where I'm

692
00:34:57,932 --> 00:34:58,202
Oh, yeah.

693
00:34:58,238 --> 00:35:03,438
love… I- this is really weird, I'd
love to see Capcom take on Dead Space

694
00:35:04,382 --> 00:35:05,462
dude, that would be sick.

695
00:35:06,990 --> 00:35:07,720
Dude, make it…

696
00:35:07,922 --> 00:35:08,852
it and everything.

697
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,980
Dude, just make it canon
to the Resident Evil series

698
00:35:13,462 --> 00:35:15,302
Can… Dude, that would be great

699
00:35:16,140 --> 00:35:18,980
That'd be kinda hilarious,
but I don't know, man.

700
00:35:18,980 --> 00:35:23,560
Fucking EA, EA being bought out by
the Saudi government for $55 billion.

701
00:35:23,910 --> 00:35:27,910
It's not as, it's not as much as
the Activision buyout, but that's

702
00:35:27,910 --> 00:35:30,460
still, like, very close to it.

703
00:35:30,510 --> 00:35:32,330
It's an insane amount of money to spend.

704
00:35:32,390 --> 00:35:35,450
I, I couldn't fathom… What
would, what would, what could,

705
00:35:35,460 --> 00:35:39,410
what could we, what could we even
do with 55 billion all together?

706
00:35:39,450 --> 00:35:41,190
'Cause I'm struggling
to come up with things.

707
00:35:41,310 --> 00:35:44,010
Like, I thought about buying a few
yacht- maybe, like, a yacht or two,

708
00:35:44,010 --> 00:35:49,326
a mansion, a Ferrari, but, like,
that's still, like, not even a billion

709
00:35:49,626 --> 00:35:53,606
Dude, all I'm, all I know is we
need the off the console yacht.

710
00:35:53,786 --> 00:35:54,506
That's what we need.

711
00:35:55,292 --> 00:35:57,372
And then we just invite
people onto our yachts.

712
00:35:57,606 --> 00:35:57,976
Yeah.

713
00:35:58,346 --> 00:36:01,126
Uh, uh, we should ask Gabe if he
has, is, if he's gonna decommission

714
00:36:01,136 --> 00:36:02,256
like a yacht anytime soon.

715
00:36:02,556 --> 00:36:04,422
Yeah, if he can just give it to us,

716
00:36:04,506 --> 00:36:04,876
yachts.

717
00:36:04,886 --> 00:36:05,216
We'll take it

718
00:36:05,282 --> 00:36:05,822
that'd be nice.

719
00:36:06,232 --> 00:36:06,592
Right.

720
00:36:06,952 --> 00:36:09,302
yeah, donate it to a
content creator in need

721
00:36:10,746 --> 00:36:13,216
Dude, do you know how much that's
gonna cost to just park and have

722
00:36:13,216 --> 00:36:14,386
permits and everything for this?

723
00:36:15,242 --> 00:36:15,992
would be crazy

724
00:36:16,678 --> 00:36:17,178
Dude, just live o-

725
00:36:17,418 --> 00:36:19,968
just, just live in the ocean, dude.

726
00:36:20,188 --> 00:36:22,518
Live in the high s-
uh, sail the high seas.

727
00:36:22,856 --> 00:36:24,046
the high seas

728
00:36:25,258 --> 00:36:26,138
Oh, man.

729
00:36:26,138 --> 00:36:30,048
But really though, this
whole EA business is insane.

730
00:36:30,128 --> 00:36:32,128
I, I don't think we've s-
I don't think we've seen a

731
00:36:32,148 --> 00:36:34,938
company as big as EA go private.

732
00:36:35,404 --> 00:36:39,404
Mm-hmm.

733
00:36:39,704 --> 00:36:40,664
BioWare, right?

734
00:36:40,694 --> 00:36:41,114
It has

735
00:36:41,414 --> 00:36:41,424
Mm-hmm.

736
00:36:42,074 --> 00:36:45,804
Dead Space, it has Command and
Con… It has so many IPs, but I

737
00:36:45,804 --> 00:36:49,324
don't know if the IPs are worth $50

738
00:36:49,822 --> 00:36:54,072
none of those IPs are worth
nearly as much as EA Sports

739
00:36:54,624 --> 00:36:56,354
I was gonna say EA Sports

740
00:36:56,654 --> 00:36:56,974
Yeah

741
00:36:57,064 --> 00:36:58,264
probably why they're buying it

742
00:36:59,258 --> 00:37:05,598
Dude, I mean, I, d- realistically, I
think Saudi Arabia's goal is to buy EA

743
00:37:05,828 --> 00:37:08,378
and then just do mostly sports games.

744
00:37:08,768 --> 00:37:11,608
I mean, what el- I mean, they,
they don't even… They don't have,

745
00:37:11,608 --> 00:37:13,198
like, the Star Wars license anymore.

746
00:37:13,198 --> 00:37:14,358
What else do they have?

747
00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:14,768
Like

748
00:37:15,674 --> 00:37:18,384
Well, they could sell, uh, they
could start by selling literally

749
00:37:18,384 --> 00:37:23,034
every studio aside from, uh,
whoever makes the EA Sports games

750
00:37:23,722 --> 00:37:26,312
I, I hope they go that route instead
of doing massive layoffs, 'cause right

751
00:37:26,312 --> 00:37:30,352
now, from my understanding, they're
gonna be doing massive layoffs 'cause

752
00:37:30,382 --> 00:37:34,952
EA is, has a lot of debt apparently,
and so partially because this acquis-

753
00:37:34,972 --> 00:37:37,772
This is another thing with private
ac- acquisitions, like there's al-

754
00:37:37,812 --> 00:37:39,082
they always front load it with debt.

755
00:37:39,112 --> 00:37:40,162
Like, people don't understand this.

756
00:37:40,162 --> 00:37:42,602
Like, it's just all broken system
that it's even allowed to work.

757
00:37:43,362 --> 00:37:45,272
And I don't know.

758
00:37:45,302 --> 00:37:50,322
I, I hope that they do the right thing
of either, like… I ki- I mean, the

759
00:37:50,332 --> 00:37:54,292
best-case scenario is that a company wants
to buy the IP, like let's say Dead Space.

760
00:37:54,292 --> 00:37:59,412
I'd rather a, a legitimate company,
like a tr- a double A or someone that's

761
00:37:59,412 --> 00:38:04,802
backed enough, or like Capcom, be
able to buy the IP for an okay price

762
00:38:05,222 --> 00:38:08,502
and keep on building than have the
Saudi government build Dead Space.

763
00:38:08,502 --> 00:38:15,472
I, I… Not gonna get in any jokes
there, but I just rather see that happen.

764
00:38:16,262 --> 00:38:18,792
But what we're probably gonna see
happen is they're probably gonna

765
00:38:18,802 --> 00:38:23,572
inject the prediction markets into,
uh, uh, into the sports games.

766
00:38:24,314 --> 00:38:24,634
Yeah

767
00:38:25,022 --> 00:38:27,662
I hope that doesn't
happen, but w- ugh, man.

768
00:38:28,518 --> 00:38:32,308
Just what I needed, sports
betting in my sports games with,

769
00:38:32,368 --> 00:38:33,818
uh, sports betting already.

770
00:38:34,232 --> 00:38:35,522
You know it's gonna happen

771
00:38:35,930 --> 00:38:36,250
Yeah.

772
00:38:38,076 --> 00:38:41,796
It'll je- uh, well, depending on
how the ESRB handles it, they may

773
00:38:41,796 --> 00:38:44,836
either keep it rated E for everyone,
'cause gambling's okay for everyone.

774
00:38:45,242 --> 00:38:47,482
It's, it's okay for sports games.

775
00:38:47,482 --> 00:38:48,302
We've already know that.

776
00:38:48,312 --> 00:38:49,672
We already know that, so

777
00:38:50,726 --> 00:38:51,346
Yeah, man

778
00:38:51,682 --> 00:38:54,892
they won't have any problems 'cause
it's so, makes so much money.

779
00:38:54,972 --> 00:38:55,482
I don't know.

780
00:38:55,898 --> 00:39:01,138
It's, it's rated E for sports games, but
it's rated adults only for a Pokemon game.

781
00:39:02,798 --> 00:39:03,658
You guys remember that?

782
00:39:04,076 --> 00:39:04,496
No.

783
00:39:05,158 --> 00:39:11,078
So Australia, uh, so people were
criticizing, uh, Take- Australia's

784
00:39:11,078 --> 00:39:16,418
government for letting, like, the Take-Two
games, the, the NBA games, be rated E

785
00:39:16,418 --> 00:39:20,038
despite literally having, like, a slot
machine in it for, like, the gacha pulls

786
00:39:20,038 --> 00:39:21,566
for your, uh, basketball characters.

787
00:39:21,866 --> 00:39:22,246
Mm-hmm.

788
00:39:23,088 --> 00:39:26,818
But then, and then people were like,
"Well, if that's the case, then

789
00:39:26,818 --> 00:39:29,638
Pokemon should be rated adults only."
And you know what Australia did?

790
00:39:29,978 --> 00:39:35,758
They retroactively made Pokemon, 'cause
Pokemon, uh, first gen has the game center

791
00:39:35,926 --> 00:39:36,336
Mm-hmm.

792
00:39:36,408 --> 00:39:38,246
you play, like, slot, where
you play, like, slot machines,

793
00:39:38,546 --> 00:39:39,136
Oh, yeah.

794
00:39:40,138 --> 00:39:42,928
and they made that, they
retroactively rated it adults only

795
00:39:43,386 --> 00:39:44,376
That's awesome, actually

796
00:39:46,136 --> 00:39:47,396
I mean, it, I don't know, man.

797
00:39:47,406 --> 00:39:49,106
Going adults only is crazy, but yeah

798
00:39:49,810 --> 00:39:54,670
think gambling mechanics should, like
any, even like anything that even

799
00:39:54,690 --> 00:39:58,450
has a sniff, a whiff of, of gambling
mechanics should be adults only,

800
00:39:59,526 --> 00:40:00,456
What about Bellatro?

801
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:01,710
Balatro, yeah.

802
00:40:04,376 --> 00:40:04,856
Fair enough.

803
00:40:05,496 --> 00:40:09,426
At least, Garden, I don't know if I
agree with Bellatro being that, but at

804
00:40:09,426 --> 00:40:10,976
least you're consistent with your morals

805
00:40:11,162 --> 00:40:11,482
Yeah.

806
00:40:12,442 --> 00:40:12,822
I mean,

807
00:40:12,822 --> 00:40:12,942
Yeah, I

808
00:40:13,242 --> 00:40:18,222
Balatro, dude, I… Balatro's like
its own thing, but it's still, it

809
00:40:18,232 --> 00:40:21,732
f- it has like gambling, gambling

810
00:40:21,756 --> 00:40:22,266
Steam.

811
00:40:22,352 --> 00:40:22,712
so

812
00:40:23,196 --> 00:40:24,646
Yeah, I mean, that makes sense that-

813
00:40:24,772 --> 00:40:30,032
literally has a, the veneer of gambling
because poker is a gambling game, so

814
00:40:30,251 --> 00:40:34,656
problem is, is does it have… So the,
the, the problem with, uh, gambling

815
00:40:34,666 --> 00:40:38,696
is it increases the dopamine and it
gets you addicted in that way, where

816
00:40:38,696 --> 00:40:42,426
it's like, "Okay, this is exciting.
I'm winning." If it has that type of

817
00:40:42,446 --> 00:40:46,546
mechanic in it, which I don't think
Balatro does, then yeah, we, we've

818
00:40:46,546 --> 00:40:48,026
got, we, we have some serious issues.

819
00:40:48,026 --> 00:40:50,846
But if the other ones are just
mimicking kind of what gambling

820
00:40:50,846 --> 00:40:54,016
is, maybe then it… I don't know.

821
00:40:54,456 --> 00:41:00,986
I think 17 is fair, or we, like,
re- Like, it has themes of gambling,

822
00:41:00,986 --> 00:41:02,016
but it's not really gambling.

823
00:41:02,016 --> 00:41:05,786
But once you have it, like, be, let's
say, sports betting, but it's not

824
00:41:05,786 --> 00:41:08,626
real money, but, you know, sports
betting in, in a sports game, I'm

825
00:41:08,626 --> 00:41:13,066
like, okay, that, you can say that
y- you have to be 18 or older, right?

826
00:41:13,426 --> 00:41:20,006
But… Or heavily regulated, 'cause
that's not healthy to… Like, I

827
00:41:20,006 --> 00:41:21,586
don't even think… I don't know.

828
00:41:21,616 --> 00:41:24,996
You might have to, with gambling, with
when it, when it introduces too many

829
00:41:24,996 --> 00:41:30,446
real concepts of r- of gambling, real
gambling into it, in the sense of not

830
00:41:30,446 --> 00:41:35,766
real money, but, like, the mechanisms
that drives gambling, you might need

831
00:41:35,766 --> 00:41:37,636
to have it be, like, 24, 25 plus.

832
00:41:37,656 --> 00:41:47,186
Because you know how many kids 18 to
almost 30 that are… When I say kids,

833
00:41:47,196 --> 00:41:51,486
young adults, th- that are just getting
it… Like, they have of dollars of

834
00:41:51,486 --> 00:41:54,626
credit card debt because of, uh, gambling.

835
00:41:54,626 --> 00:41:55,426
It's crazy

836
00:41:55,776 --> 00:41:56,146
Yeah

837
00:41:59,130 --> 00:41:59,950
It's a blight.

838
00:42:00,130 --> 00:42:00,720
And so,

839
00:42:04,140 --> 00:42:10,290
And it's a, it's a blight just like
literally the, all of 2027's memory

840
00:42:10,290 --> 00:42:11,720
has, you know, has been booked out.

841
00:42:12,590 --> 00:42:16,420
our, have a memory issue, and we've
talked about this a few times now,

842
00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:22,360
but, like, this is, this is crazy,
guys, memory capacity for all of 2027

843
00:42:22,370 --> 00:42:26,340
has reportedly been booked and sold
with no more DRAM or HBM available.

844
00:42:26,340 --> 00:42:29,450
And I think that Valve hinted
at this a few weeks ago, right?

845
00:42:29,518 --> 00:42:29,620
And

846
00:42:29,818 --> 00:42:30,198
Yeah.

847
00:42:31,180 --> 00:42:31,880
screwed.

848
00:42:32,358 --> 00:42:32,848
Mm-hmm.

849
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:38,590
Like, if anyone wants to get into this
market, like, if you If let's say the

850
00:42:38,590 --> 00:42:43,640
RAM sells out on Amazon at Newegg, all
that, Best Buy, it's e- they, they can't

851
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,700
restock if they don't have any more

852
00:42:47,132 --> 00:42:47,952
Dude, it's over.

853
00:42:48,452 --> 00:42:49,582
Like, seriously.

854
00:42:50,172 --> 00:42:50,342
If

855
00:42:50,342 --> 00:42:51,912
you, if you don't have,

856
00:42:52,264 --> 00:42:52,714
at this rate.

857
00:42:53,682 --> 00:42:57,232
if you don't have hardware
today, then you're too late.

858
00:42:57,392 --> 00:43:00,402
I mean, it's like buying…
It's like the housing market.

859
00:43:00,402 --> 00:43:01,812
You should've bought a house 20 years ago,

860
00:43:02,224 --> 00:43:02,444
Mm-hmm.

861
00:43:03,442 --> 00:43:03,782
right?

862
00:43:03,834 --> 00:43:04,104
Yep.

863
00:43:04,302 --> 00:43:06,192
Now, yeah, you should've
bought a house 20 years ago.

864
00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:09,062
Oh, you should've bought
a gaming PC 20 years ago.

865
00:43:09,992 --> 00:43:11,172
Now you can't afford it

866
00:43:11,244 --> 00:43:12,884
is more affordable than RAM.

867
00:43:13,114 --> 00:43:13,694
Oh.

868
00:43:15,112 --> 00:43:15,502
Okay.

869
00:43:15,762 --> 00:43:16,192
Okay.

870
00:43:17,292 --> 00:43:18,072
Hold on now

871
00:43:21,932 --> 00:43:22,622
I'm sorry.

872
00:43:22,822 --> 00:43:23,542
I had to say it.

873
00:43:24,512 --> 00:43:25,882
It's more usable than RAM.

874
00:43:25,902 --> 00:43:30,672
RAM is very useful, but the prices that
I'm seeing is just out of this world.

875
00:43:30,882 --> 00:43:32,972
Isn't it like $1,000 for 64 gigs?

876
00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:33,920
Hmm.

877
00:43:34,772 --> 00:43:36,992
That's, crazy, guys.

878
00:43:38,862 --> 00:43:39,602
It was like, what?

879
00:43:39,662 --> 00:43:42,282
200 f- 200, 250 a year ago?

880
00:43:44,472 --> 00:43:44,882
Ah

881
00:43:45,650 --> 00:43:45,880
It's

882
00:43:46,104 --> 00:43:47,644
Man, I, I, I don't know.

883
00:43:47,684 --> 00:43:49,494
I, I don't know what the
hell's going on, dude.

884
00:43:50,124 --> 00:43:53,104
I couldn't tell you why this is
happening, but it is happening.

885
00:43:53,594 --> 00:43:54,934
2027, you're screwed.

886
00:43:55,404 --> 00:43:55,644
Oh,

887
00:43:55,694 --> 00:44:00,984
because three companies that
create, uh, RAM, and they're

888
00:44:00,984 --> 00:44:02,284
not increasing production.

889
00:44:02,894 --> 00:44:04,224
They have all the IP.

890
00:44:04,564 --> 00:44:08,334
Uh, we're sanction- We're, we're trying
to sanction China for having a c- There,

891
00:44:08,334 --> 00:44:12,304
there's a company or two over there trying
to, you know, inc- uh, produce more RAM.

892
00:44:12,314 --> 00:44:18,514
Like we… A, a, a smart, healthy
capitalistic society would've saw

893
00:44:18,534 --> 00:44:22,434
the predictions in the future and
would've, um, adjusted for it by now.

894
00:44:22,474 --> 00:44:26,114
And we, like in the sense of
adjusted where there's facilities

895
00:44:26,114 --> 00:44:29,384
going up to increase production,
and we're not seeing that.

896
00:44:29,724 --> 00:44:33,124
That's why I say this is kinda like
an end, like a big smell of end

897
00:44:33,134 --> 00:44:36,154
game of capitalism where it doesn't
function how it's supposed to

898
00:44:36,602 --> 00:44:36,892
Yeah.

899
00:44:37,202 --> 00:44:39,312
Well, I mean, I've been
saying it for a long time.

900
00:44:39,342 --> 00:44:41,912
Like, we don't live in a
capitalist society anymore.

901
00:44:41,962 --> 00:44:43,392
Like, we, we haven't…

902
00:44:44,128 --> 00:44:45,188
and that's very different

903
00:44:45,252 --> 00:44:45,542
Yeah.

904
00:44:45,562 --> 00:44:48,482
It's w- I think we live
in a leveraged society.

905
00:44:48,522 --> 00:44:51,832
Like, the only thing that matters
is not capital, it's leverage.

906
00:44:51,872 --> 00:44:57,822
Like, having, being a debt
owner, and collecting rent.

907
00:44:57,912 --> 00:45:02,812
Those are-- That's the kind of,
uh, economy that we live in,

908
00:45:02,822 --> 00:45:08,002
and it's very clear that that
of economy is not sustainable.

909
00:45:08,102 --> 00:45:09,952
That's what we… Yeah.

910
00:45:10,052 --> 00:45:12,882
That's where we're, we're
at as a society right now.

911
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,480
I definitely wouldn't place my
bet on, uh, the US coming out

912
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:17,880
of this unscathed 'cause we're,

913
00:45:17,984 --> 00:45:18,344
No.

914
00:45:18,430 --> 00:45:20,110
gonna look well in the

915
00:45:20,204 --> 00:45:21,554
No, it will not.

916
00:45:22,044 --> 00:45:24,544
Yeah, I mean, the whole reason why
this thing even happened is because

917
00:45:24,554 --> 00:45:27,744
we've gotten our- we've gotten
ourselves into an AI arms race.

918
00:45:28,014 --> 00:45:28,474
Mm-hmm

919
00:45:29,754 --> 00:45:30,574
And like

920
00:45:30,874 --> 00:45:35,684
one too in a lot of ways, where our
companies are building everything and then

921
00:45:35,684 --> 00:45:37,404
China just builds their models off ours.

922
00:45:37,464 --> 00:45:38,264
So it's like…

923
00:45:40,874 --> 00:45:42,284
Yeah, we

924
00:45:42,284 --> 00:45:43,324
could have slowed it down a little bit.

925
00:45:43,324 --> 00:45:45,044
I don't think China would have
surpassed us 'cause they're just

926
00:45:45,044 --> 00:45:51,054
cha- training off of our, Amer- like
American-based company, AI companies

927
00:45:52,074 --> 00:45:52,844
Yeah, I mean

928
00:45:56,542 --> 00:45:59,022
Th- this whole thing's, this
whole situation's messed up.

929
00:45:59,022 --> 00:46:01,972
I can't even… I can't… Like, why?

930
00:46:02,032 --> 00:46:04,512
Why did, how did things
get so bad so quickly?

931
00:46:04,562 --> 00:46:06,812
I don't think we've ever
seen anything this bad before

932
00:46:07,468 --> 00:46:10,798
I don't even know if demand
'cause, like, I don't see outages

933
00:46:10,798 --> 00:46:12,768
with Anthropic or, or OpenAI.

934
00:46:12,798 --> 00:46:14,548
I think it's artificial demand too.

935
00:46:14,548 --> 00:46:17,248
Like, I think they say they,
there needs to be more data

936
00:46:17,248 --> 00:46:18,228
centers, all this other stuff.

937
00:46:18,228 --> 00:46:22,128
I'm sure it would drive down the cost
of these models and stuff so it makes it

938
00:46:22,138 --> 00:46:27,428
more affordable, but, like, I don't think
we need more data centers at this point.

939
00:46:27,428 --> 00:46:29,968
I think we're pretty
sustained right now, and

940
00:46:30,013 --> 00:46:32,393
Угу

941
00:46:32,848 --> 00:46:37,048
They're, they're… When we've, we've
talked about articles or, um, where

942
00:46:37,058 --> 00:46:40,238
they're buying up RAM just so that
their, it hurts their competitors

943
00:46:40,238 --> 00:46:42,568
or hurts other companies are AI.

944
00:46:43,726 --> 00:46:44,616
I'm hoping…

945
00:46:44,916 --> 00:46:45,798
which is crazy

946
00:46:46,296 --> 00:46:49,546
I've made a note of every data center
I have in my state so I can see if I

947
00:46:49,546 --> 00:46:55,436
can try to fleece some when the, when,
when the AI data center bubbles, I can

948
00:46:55,436 --> 00:46:57,346
fleece myself some cheap server hardware

949
00:46:59,074 --> 00:47:00,004
I think the

950
00:47:00,156 --> 00:47:00,536
smart

951
00:47:00,714 --> 00:47:04,224
the bubble will really pop
to where that happens is if

952
00:47:04,354 --> 00:47:05,864
it becomes more democratized.

953
00:47:06,684 --> 00:47:09,104
And I think the only way that's
gonna happen is because of China.

954
00:47:09,544 --> 00:47:11,564
So we'll see

955
00:47:12,678 --> 00:47:14,718
Man, it always comes back to China.

956
00:47:14,828 --> 00:47:17,728
I swear we've talked about China
a lot these last few episodes

957
00:47:18,050 --> 00:47:22,300
I, also wa- this is a little
conspiratorial, but like I also wonder

958
00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:25,370
if they're trying to eat up as much
RAM so consumers can't have as much.

959
00:47:25,370 --> 00:47:32,620
Because right now with the, um, DeepSeek-V
and with Kimi 3, you c- it, they have

960
00:47:32,650 --> 00:47:39,210
open models, and it, they are just
as good not better at like coding and

961
00:47:39,210 --> 00:47:41,030
doing some other stuff than Anthropic.

962
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:46,800
if we, if you had 1.5 terabytes, which
a year ago wouldn't be that crazy, like

963
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,220
it would be like, yeah, that's a lot.

964
00:47:48,220 --> 00:47:54,140
But, um, if you could've bought,
let's, let's say Mac came out with

965
00:47:54,140 --> 00:47:57,100
one, you know, with their Mac Studio,
'cause they had one that was like

966
00:47:57,110 --> 00:48:00,920
750 megabytes or something like that.

967
00:48:00,970 --> 00:48:03,550
And, but if they could've come
out with 1.5 terabyte, yeah,

968
00:48:03,550 --> 00:48:04,800
it would be $10,000, yeah.

969
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,840
But you'd want to… It's,
it's, uh, $10,000 once.

970
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,930
You don't have to keep on re-
you know, paying for usage.

971
00:48:12,630 --> 00:48:13,900
Uh, RAM could've gone down.

972
00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:14,260
I don't know.

973
00:48:14,260 --> 00:48:17,760
They're eating up RAM, and we
can't have our own models now.

974
00:48:17,930 --> 00:48:19,460
It's a lot harder, that is, I should say.

975
00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:27,650
So, it's so that consumerized or
democratized uh, is kind of less of a

976
00:48:27,650 --> 00:48:34,730
thing now 'cause we can't even afford
to build a, or buy gaming hardware.

977
00:48:35,590 --> 00:48:36,850
So, I don't know.

978
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,910
This is, definitely does not ma- it
makes… I'm glad that I, I bought some

979
00:48:41,930 --> 00:48:46,600
s- hardware before everything went up, but
now it's just what happens if it breaks?

980
00:48:46,620 --> 00:48:49,514
Like, what if my MacBook or
my Mac Studio dies, you know?

981
00:48:49,814 --> 00:48:49,934
Hmm.

982
00:48:51,752 --> 00:48:53,602
Dude, then you're, then
you're gonna be homeless.

983
00:48:53,622 --> 00:48:54,662
I mean, computer-less.

984
00:48:55,588 --> 00:48:56,028
Well,

985
00:48:56,124 --> 00:48:57,224
be un-computered.

986
00:48:58,068 --> 00:48:58,488
my compu-

987
00:48:58,492 --> 00:49:00,482
You're gonna be unplugged from the Matrix.

988
00:49:00,868 --> 00:49:01,858
I don't have a job

989
00:49:02,154 --> 00:49:02,394
Yeah

990
00:49:02,582 --> 00:49:04,362
You're gonna be unplugged from the Matrix

991
00:49:05,986 --> 00:49:11,506
What happens when, uh, Elon Musk
uses his, uh, his space laser to, uh,

992
00:49:13,496 --> 00:49:18,816
get, like remove, uh, just do an EMP
or something and destroy hardware?

993
00:49:19,706 --> 00:49:23,110
Maybe he did that already
with my, with my CP-

994
00:49:23,410 --> 00:49:25,570
He knew He knew, you
were a threat, Gardner.

995
00:49:25,590 --> 00:49:26,190
I'm sorry.

996
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:27,920
You've been, you're, you're

997
00:49:28,116 --> 00:49:32,466
I've been advertising, uh, my, uh, how
much of a threat I am on my website.

998
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,470
You've been musked.

999
00:49:37,270 --> 00:49:37,880
He got ya.

1000
00:49:38,334 --> 00:49:39,684
He got you with his musket

1001
00:49:40,650 --> 00:49:40,770
With his

1002
00:49:40,876 --> 00:49:43,296
His musket, his space musket

1003
00:49:43,940 --> 00:49:46,000
he would call it a space musket too

1004
00:49:47,812 --> 00:49:53,992
Dude, but speaking of space muskets, let's
talk about Roblox getting the space musket

1005
00:49:56,856 --> 00:50:01,136
Ah, there might be hope for
the new generation after all

1006
00:50:03,544 --> 00:50:05,334
Just want more RAM.

1007
00:50:07,264 --> 00:50:08,854
Not… Yeah.

1008
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:14,460
70% bill- sev- a $70
billion valuation loss.

1009
00:50:15,010 --> 00:50:16,170
That's 70%.

1010
00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:22,120
They were valued at $100 billion
because there are more pla- there are

1011
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:26,300
more people on Roblox than literally
every other sector of gaming combined

1012
00:50:29,236 --> 00:50:29,396
That's

1013
00:50:29,498 --> 00:50:32,938
And like, you can't even pull,
you can't even pull kids off

1014
00:50:32,938 --> 00:50:34,848
of Roblox with good games too.

1015
00:50:35,918 --> 00:50:39,158
And I, I'd be willing to bet you there
are plenty of teenagers that would like,

1016
00:50:39,218 --> 00:50:42,918
that aren't willing to pull themselves
off of Roblox to play Grand Theft Auto

1017
00:50:44,186 --> 00:50:45,966
I mean, they have their community there.

1018
00:50:45,986 --> 00:50:49,796
Like, they're… Roblox I think gets a
little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but it

1019
00:50:49,846 --> 00:50:53,116
reminds me of the good old days of, like,
modding communities and stuff like that.

1020
00:50:53,116 --> 00:50:54,906
It's just they've monetized
it, unfortunately.

1021
00:50:54,906 --> 00:50:59,536
And I think maybe of the
rare, uh, people out there.

1022
00:50:59,566 --> 00:51:02,626
I liked that, and w- and that's
a whole other debate, that Steam

1023
00:51:02,626 --> 00:51:05,276
was gonna come out with p- with,
uh, paid mods and all that.

1024
00:51:06,436 --> 00:51:06,866
But

1025
00:51:06,972 --> 00:51:08,302
Yeah, I remember that

1026
00:51:08,376 --> 00:51:12,176
the extreme of it is all
controlled by Roblox.

1027
00:51:12,196 --> 00:51:13,396
The economy is controlled by that.

1028
00:51:13,396 --> 00:51:17,836
Yes, people… A- a- and they have
so much gacha stuff in there, and I

1029
00:51:17,836 --> 00:51:20,916
have to… Like, it's a way that I'm
teaching my kids how, yeah, don't

1030
00:51:20,916 --> 00:51:23,096
waste your money on these gachas.

1031
00:51:23,126 --> 00:51:24,256
Oh, I wanna resurrect.

1032
00:51:24,306 --> 00:51:27,256
I can pay this much Robux
to resurrect in the game.

1033
00:51:27,976 --> 00:51:30,076
Essentially pay to win kind of
stuff, and it's just like…

1034
00:51:30,102 --> 00:51:30,482
Mm-hmm.

1035
00:51:31,292 --> 00:51:32,962
Teaching kids how to pay to win

1036
00:51:33,466 --> 00:51:36,426
there are a lot of games that are
free, so you can go, and I've played

1037
00:51:36,436 --> 00:51:40,936
games with my son, uh, where, uh,
99 Nights in the Forest, I think you

1038
00:51:40,936 --> 00:51:44,586
can pay s- for it, but you don't…
You can have a fun time without it.

1039
00:51:44,836 --> 00:51:48,506
It's just essentially you're going around
collecting resources, putting them onto

1040
00:51:48,506 --> 00:51:53,036
the, uh, uh, like wood to, to build the f-
campfire up to protect your base, and then

1041
00:51:53,036 --> 00:51:55,346
you go and you explore areas and build up.

1042
00:51:55,346 --> 00:51:56,706
It's a, it's a fun mechanic.

1043
00:51:57,166 --> 00:52:00,736
Um, and it's one that I haven't
quite played anywhere else in another

1044
00:52:00,756 --> 00:52:02,916
game, so it's unique to Roblox.

1045
00:52:03,556 --> 00:52:09,726
Uh, but yeah, like there's a lot of other
games that are not, that are predatory,

1046
00:52:09,736 --> 00:52:14,396
like we talked about in the bonus
episode where, uh, there's predators

1047
00:52:14,396 --> 00:52:18,886
there, and Chris Hansen's, uh, uh, is
a hunter or at least was in Roblox.

1048
00:52:18,896 --> 00:52:20,786
But man,

1049
00:52:21,448 --> 00:52:24,788
It, yeah, the game that we saw and
that Chris Hansen got banned from,

1050
00:52:24,798 --> 00:52:28,258
well, he got banned from Roblox as a
whole, but the one he was, like, on,

1051
00:52:28,458 --> 00:52:30,068
it doesn't… It's not even a game.

1052
00:52:30,068 --> 00:52:31,378
It looks like Omegle.

1053
00:52:31,978 --> 00:52:35,978
Mm-hmm.

1054
00:52:35,988 --> 00:52:39,548
Omegle, and it's, I, I… Fuck, man.

1055
00:52:39,548 --> 00:52:40,208
What the hell?

1056
00:52:43,528 --> 00:52:43,878
Dude.

1057
00:52:47,028 --> 00:52:47,578
I don't.

1058
00:52:47,648 --> 00:52:48,938
I just don't anymore.

1059
00:52:52,186 --> 00:52:58,686
Yeah, it's, it, I mean, it, I just
think this is kinda cr- I don't know.

1060
00:52:58,786 --> 00:53:05,036
I- being worth $100 billion as a game
company that has one game is kinda crazy.

1061
00:53:05,276 --> 00:53:10,136
Being, even dropping down to 30, and
they still have a huge revenue, is

1062
00:53:10,210 --> 00:53:13,730
And people s- people
say Valve has a monopoly

1063
00:53:16,058 --> 00:53:16,558
Yeah

1064
00:53:16,618 --> 00:53:20,428
There, is a, is a complicated
one, but yeah, Roblox,

1065
00:53:21,998 --> 00:53:23,318
people don't have to play it.

1066
00:53:23,688 --> 00:53:25,848
They can, like, all the
games are kinda like,

1067
00:53:28,298 --> 00:53:31,468
kinda copied based off of other
games, but in very poor amount

1068
00:53:31,498 --> 00:53:33,158
of, uh, in a very poor way.

1069
00:53:33,158 --> 00:53:35,558
But people c- they can go
and scroll through and easily

1070
00:53:35,558 --> 00:53:36,738
get in and try new games.

1071
00:53:36,738 --> 00:53:38,938
There's a, there's a whole
reason why it works well.

1072
00:53:38,948 --> 00:53:41,498
But definitely th- I don't know.

1073
00:53:41,528 --> 00:53:44,228
I do think Roblox might need to get
regulated a lot more, 'cause I think

1074
00:53:44,228 --> 00:53:51,738
some of the, the mechanics in it
still aren't very good for, like I

1075
00:53:51,748 --> 00:53:55,648
think those gotcha ones for, let's
say, pay to win, uh, how it treats

1076
00:53:55,658 --> 00:54:00,978
money is a little bit gambling-esque
to me, and should be regulated

1077
00:54:04,412 --> 00:54:05,302
Yeah.

1078
00:54:05,662 --> 00:54:06,762
Yeah, I agree, man.

1079
00:54:06,792 --> 00:54:08,972
It … But Rolex isn't gonna do that.

1080
00:54:08,972 --> 00:54:10,862
They make 80% off of these developers.

1081
00:54:11,012 --> 00:54:11,202
No,

1082
00:54:11,262 --> 00:54:11,932
Like, even, like

1083
00:54:12,072 --> 00:54:13,592
get super defensive too.

1084
00:54:13,772 --> 00:54:16,852
Like when Chris Hansen comes on and is
like trying to catch predators, which,

1085
00:54:16,852 --> 00:54:18,782
you know, it's like, okay, if you
don't have a predator problem, then you

1086
00:54:18,782 --> 00:54:20,012
wouldn't have a problem having him there.

1087
00:54:20,012 --> 00:54:22,752
But no, you don't want him there 'cause
you know he's gonna catch someone

1088
00:54:23,465 --> 00:54:23,925
Угу

1089
00:54:24,968 --> 00:54:26,058
He caught multiple people.

1090
00:54:26,098 --> 00:54:29,448
Well, I gue- he, I guess he didn't
really catch them per se, but he ca-

1091
00:54:29,466 --> 00:54:29,556
the

1092
00:54:29,856 --> 00:54:32,228
definitely came acro- Yeah,
he c- definitely came across

1093
00:54:32,238 --> 00:54:34,868
a few creeps on Roblox.

1094
00:54:36,528 --> 00:54:39,588
I don't know, man, but dude, I, I, f-

1095
00:54:39,816 --> 00:54:40,206
I just…

1096
00:54:40,778 --> 00:54:44,848
My hope is that kids eventually
outgrow Roblox and, you know, I'm not

1097
00:54:44,848 --> 00:54:49,188
saying they have to play real video
games, but at the very least I think

1098
00:54:49,198 --> 00:54:52,468
they should outgrow Roblox and that
they want something more meaningful.

1099
00:54:52,788 --> 00:54:57,428
Like, 'cause like Roblox… Like, listen,
listen, I'm sure there are some fun games

1100
00:54:57,428 --> 00:55:00,498
on Roblox, but like there's m- there's
more… Like, none of those games I

1101
00:55:00,498 --> 00:55:02,918
would consider to be art per se, right?

1102
00:55:04,090 --> 00:55:05,010
It's creativity.

1103
00:55:05,090 --> 00:55:08,730
I'd call it more cr- uh, like it's
the creative aspects of art where,

1104
00:55:08,770 --> 00:55:10,120
um, it takes some creativity.

1105
00:55:10,130 --> 00:55:12,560
Some of them are built by just kids too.

1106
00:55:12,570 --> 00:55:18,940
Like, it's Legos but online,
but has been ve- I don't, I

1107
00:55:18,940 --> 00:55:20,350
don't like what Roblox is doing.

1108
00:55:20,350 --> 00:55:23,210
I think it needs to be, regulated more.

1109
00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:27,420
Um, I think Minecraft, if
you want to replace Roblox,

1110
00:55:27,420 --> 00:55:28,450
Minecraft's a better way to go.

1111
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:29,614
So

1112
00:55:29,914 --> 00:55:30,224
Yeah.

1113
00:55:30,944 --> 00:55:36,474
mean, do you, you heard about, uh,
what, uh, Xbox is doing, right?

1114
00:55:36,474 --> 00:55:39,504
Like they have like a bunch of pie
in the sky ideas, but like their,

1115
00:55:39,754 --> 00:55:43,984
their number one idea is to make
Minecraft the number one platform.

1116
00:55:44,672 --> 00:55:46,572
They wanna make Minecraft Roblox,

1117
00:55:46,864 --> 00:55:47,324
Yes.

1118
00:55:47,472 --> 00:55:48,132
what I'm worried about.

1119
00:55:48,382 --> 00:55:49,492
So I

1120
00:55:50,114 --> 00:55:50,624
I can see it.

1121
00:55:50,694 --> 00:55:50,854
I-

1122
00:55:51,072 --> 00:55:51,272
Ugh.

1123
00:55:52,132 --> 00:55:55,242
I will say I think, like,
I've never played Roblox.

1124
00:55:55,302 --> 00:55:58,372
I, I don't have kids, so I don't need to.

1125
00:55:59,332 --> 00:56:06,512
like, dude, legitimately, Minecraft
seems just on the surface level a much

1126
00:56:06,532 --> 00:56:09,882
better platform than Roblox to me.

1127
00:56:10,682 --> 00:56:11,172
It is.

1128
00:56:11,532 --> 00:56:11,812
Yeah

1129
00:56:12,362 --> 00:56:15,642
you know how kids are, even when you get
into teenagers, they do their own thing.

1130
00:56:15,652 --> 00:56:18,352
They have their own
what's in their zeitgeist.

1131
00:56:18,362 --> 00:56:20,272
So what's the cool thing?

1132
00:56:20,282 --> 00:56:25,102
Like, so it's really hard to say like,
you know, you've gotten older, "Oh,

1133
00:56:25,102 --> 00:56:29,472
well, they should be like, they should
be liking what I like." Well, it, it

1134
00:56:29,472 --> 00:56:31,042
just happens with every generation.

1135
00:56:31,192 --> 00:56:34,932
It's just, it needs to be regulated
though, and, and because some parents

1136
00:56:34,932 --> 00:56:36,362
just don't know what's going on with it.

1137
00:56:36,362 --> 00:56:39,182
It's just brain-rotting their kids, so

1138
00:56:41,804 --> 00:56:42,174
I don't know.

1139
00:56:42,854 --> 00:56:43,614
It's, it's hard.

1140
00:56:43,814 --> 00:56:48,074
Roblox is a really thing in my
f- I, I don't wanna crap on it

1141
00:56:48,074 --> 00:56:51,904
too much 'cause my kids love it,
but like it's, it's a hard thing.

1142
00:56:52,984 --> 00:56:56,664
They get… Y- you can definitely see some
of the mechanics are a little addicting,

1143
00:56:56,664 --> 00:56:58,504
and so we've had to ban certain things.

1144
00:57:01,174 --> 00:57:02,922
But yeah,

1145
00:57:03,222 --> 00:57:03,632
Wild

1146
00:57:04,814 --> 00:57:06,124
it, it, it, it's, it's real.

1147
00:57:06,124 --> 00:57:07,094
It is, it's crazy.

1148
00:57:07,564 --> 00:57:08,174
Um

1149
00:57:11,332 --> 00:57:14,152
Well, I don't have any segue
for this next t- next topic.

1150
00:57:14,362 --> 00:57:18,842
The PSA Marvel Token Fighting
Souls has day one issues on PC

1151
00:57:20,850 --> 00:57:27,620
I wanted to play Marvel Tokan on my
Steam Machine, and well, A, they won't

1152
00:57:27,620 --> 00:57:32,970
even let me have that, and B, it runs
like shit on PC anyways for some reason.

1153
00:57:33,020 --> 00:57:36,970
I like… It's, it's like,
it's, it's a fighting game.

1154
00:57:36,990 --> 00:57:39,080
Fighting games don't tend to
be super graphic demanding.

1155
00:57:39,090 --> 00:57:42,500
Even something like Street Fighter 6,
which has like fairly realistic graphics,

1156
00:57:43,090 --> 00:57:46,180
isn't super graphic demanding compared
to like a bunch of other games, right?

1157
00:57:48,636 --> 00:57:50,986
So like, I don't know, man.

1158
00:57:51,326 --> 00:57:54,706
I just wanna play this on my fucking
Steam Machine and Steam Deck.

1159
00:57:54,716 --> 00:57:56,446
Is that so hard, Sony?

1160
00:57:57,666 --> 00:57:58,316
Ugh, I don't know.

1161
00:57:58,326 --> 00:58:00,670
I, I just wanted to add this
'cause I wanted to bitch about this

1162
00:58:00,970 --> 00:58:04,540
wasn't Sony like one of the
biggest champions of the

1163
00:58:04,540 --> 00:58:06,000
Steam Deck in the early days?

1164
00:58:07,524 --> 00:58:08,224
Yes.

1165
00:58:08,294 --> 00:58:08,764
Yes.

1166
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:10,930
dude, it's so disappointing.

1167
00:58:12,254 --> 00:58:14,524
Well, it's 'cause they saw the
Steam Machine as a threat, a- a-

1168
00:58:14,550 --> 00:58:14,940
Yeah.

1169
00:58:15,444 --> 00:58:18,034
and as they should
because of this bullshit

1170
00:58:20,358 --> 00:58:21,388
Goddammit, man.

1171
00:58:22,578 --> 00:58:25,218
Couldn't they have waited till
after Till Con released to make

1172
00:58:25,288 --> 00:58:27,308
s- to, like, stop doing this shit?

1173
00:58:30,266 --> 00:58:32,856
So it just, it doesn't play well at all?

1174
00:58:33,246 --> 00:58:33,616
Or does it

1175
00:58:33,848 --> 00:58:35,718
it does- it, it doesn't play at all.

1176
00:58:35,868 --> 00:58:37,838
Like, it's blocked on the Steam machine.

1177
00:58:37,848 --> 00:58:38,778
Like, you can't run it.

1178
00:58:38,858 --> 00:58:42,988
It says, "Easy Anti-Cheat
blocked," yada, yada, yada.

1179
00:58:42,988 --> 00:58:47,118
"No anti-cheat module." It's blocked
on Steam OS and Linux as a whole.

1180
00:58:47,496 --> 00:58:47,766
Yeah

1181
00:58:47,868 --> 00:58:52,988
On PC, there's, like, weird stuttering
issues and other… And, you know,

1182
00:58:53,058 --> 00:58:56,598
on a competitive game where 60 FPS
is not only the standard but also

1183
00:58:56,598 --> 00:59:00,938
straight up mandatory for things like
frame data and whatnot, it matte-

1184
00:59:01,008 --> 00:59:02,788
it, it matters a great deal having…

1185
00:59:03,748 --> 00:59:04,928
It's the one genre where…

1186
00:59:05,008 --> 00:59:05,618
worthless

1187
00:59:07,318 --> 00:59:10,948
Well, it's not worthless on
PlayStation, but, like, fuck that noise.

1188
00:59:10,948 --> 00:59:12,438
I'm not buying this game on PlayStation

1189
00:59:13,722 --> 00:59:15,292
Isn't PlayStation Linux-based?

1190
00:59:15,292 --> 00:59:16,172
So they do like

1191
00:59:16,364 --> 00:59:16,644
No.

1192
00:59:16,672 --> 00:59:17,192
Linux.

1193
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:18,944
It's not, it's BSD.

1194
00:59:19,892 --> 00:59:20,842
Oh, it is BSD.

1195
00:59:20,872 --> 00:59:21,462
Okay, yeah.

1196
00:59:21,772 --> 00:59:22,332
You're right.

1197
00:59:23,724 --> 00:59:24,524
They're cousins.

1198
00:59:25,372 --> 00:59:25,812
Yeah.

1199
00:59:26,072 --> 00:59:27,182
It's not quite the same thing.

1200
00:59:27,182 --> 00:59:27,982
I always mix that up

1201
00:59:30,810 --> 00:59:31,510
Yeah, there you go.

1202
00:59:31,670 --> 00:59:35,970
So Sony s- uh, Sony was
on such a good track.

1203
00:59:36,430 --> 00:59:41,490
Like, I feel like we were on such
a good track, and then some orange

1204
00:59:41,490 --> 00:59:45,840
head dude had to f- screw the whole
thing up a year and a half ago,

1205
00:59:45,890 --> 00:59:47,690
and now I feel like everything's

1206
00:59:47,738 --> 00:59:47,958
I,

1207
00:59:48,630 --> 00:59:48,690
I

1208
00:59:48,718 --> 00:59:51,278
I feel like peop- the comments
are gonna talk about how

1209
00:59:51,278 --> 00:59:52,878
political this episode has gotten

1210
00:59:53,818 --> 00:59:55,988
This w- said some orange-haired guy.

1211
00:59:56,028 --> 00:59:59,418
Like, it's on you if you think of
someone specific, that's your fault.

1212
00:59:59,714 --> 01:00:02,104
Wait, Co- how did Conan
O'Brien screw this up?

1213
01:00:03,736 --> 01:00:05,696
He made fun of the other
orange-haired dude.

1214
01:00:06,046 --> 01:00:15,966
So, um, no it's more or less I just, I
don't know, everything trends to where…

1215
01:00:16,066 --> 01:00:18,806
I, I know that, like, the Sony thing
doesn't relate, probably doesn't relate

1216
01:00:18,806 --> 01:00:23,066
much, but I don't know, a couple years
ago Sony was on a good track record.

1217
01:00:23,076 --> 01:00:28,396
We were getting amazing games from Sony on
Steam, and now they're just pulling back.

1218
01:00:28,406 --> 01:00:31,716
And I know it's more because, you know,
Steam Machine and some other stuff,

1219
01:00:31,716 --> 01:00:32,626
and they wanna be more competitive.

1220
01:00:32,926 --> 01:00:36,086
They want to own their franchises
again on their, only their

1221
01:00:36,666 --> 01:00:38,356
devices, but, ah, it just

1222
01:00:41,604 --> 01:00:43,494
We're getting a big
retraction in PC gaming.

1223
01:00:43,494 --> 01:00:46,854
PC gaming was doing so well and now
the, the retraction's happening.

1224
01:00:46,854 --> 01:00:49,014
And it's still gonna be
the best platform to be on

1225
01:00:49,434 --> 01:00:49,754
Yeah.

1226
01:00:49,948 --> 01:00:50,288
Yeah.

1227
01:00:50,308 --> 01:00:50,748
Basically

1228
01:00:50,748 --> 01:00:50,878
you

1229
01:00:50,878 --> 01:00:53,458
shouldn't you shouldn't buy
a console for anything except

1230
01:00:53,468 --> 01:00:55,238
for exclusives, let's just say

1231
01:00:55,504 --> 01:00:55,974
Well,

1232
01:00:56,100 --> 01:00:56,300
will

1233
01:00:56,444 --> 01:00:58,304
shouldn't buy a console for any reason.

1234
01:00:59,424 --> 01:01:02,090
Like PC gaming is just the best option

1235
01:01:02,390 --> 01:01:02,770
It is

1236
01:01:02,790 --> 01:01:03,240
Okay.

1237
01:01:03,250 --> 01:01:03,700
one.

1238
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:07,170
You're not gonna stop people from
buy- you're not gonna stop people

1239
01:01:07,170 --> 01:01:10,460
from buying the Switch 2 for
the next Super Smash Bros., dude

1240
01:01:11,460 --> 01:01:11,880
Yeah.

1241
01:01:12,210 --> 01:01:13,230
It's, it's really hard.

1242
01:01:15,014 --> 01:01:15,474
I bought a

1243
01:01:15,590 --> 01:01:15,970
of

1244
01:01:16,054 --> 01:01:16,824
PS4 for Bloodborne.

1245
01:01:17,214 --> 01:01:18,014
Oh, go ahead.

1246
01:01:18,544 --> 01:01:19,334
Speaking of

1247
01:01:19,788 --> 01:01:24,408
speaking of Nintendo, the US
government's Mario, Pokemon, and

1248
01:01:24,408 --> 01:01:29,188
Naruto meme posting could damage
these franchises, officials warn.

1249
01:01:29,248 --> 01:01:32,768
So they're finally g- and it's weird
that it's the Japanese government

1250
01:01:32,768 --> 01:01:34,788
now coming in for this company.

1251
01:01:35,728 --> 01:01:36,478
Oh.

1252
01:01:38,056 --> 01:01:41,896
Well, N- Nintendo, um, I think Nintendo
distances themselves from this.

1253
01:01:41,996 --> 01:01:45,356
I think every, almost everyone distanced
themselves from this officially speaking.

1254
01:01:46,456 --> 01:01:48,196
I think the Pokémon company did.

1255
01:01:48,806 --> 01:01:54,096
Uh, the US government recently,
uh, recently posted a Spider-Man ad

1256
01:01:54,406 --> 01:01:58,806
though, where Spider-Man's webbing
up all of the illegal immigrants.

1257
01:01:59,116 --> 01:01:59,756
You guys see that?

1258
01:02:00,394 --> 01:02:00,924
No

1259
01:02:01,884 --> 01:02:05,844
They posted that just, it's AI slop
obviously, they posted that just in

1260
01:02:05,844 --> 01:02:10,654
time for, um, just in time for the
Spider-Man movie to big, to break

1261
01:02:10,664 --> 01:02:13,324
movie box r- uh, box office records

1262
01:02:15,258 --> 01:02:17,068
So wait, was it the White House?

1263
01:02:18,364 --> 01:02:21,274
It was either the White House or
like the department or some, some

1264
01:02:21,274 --> 01:02:22,814
government account, let's just say

1265
01:02:22,924 --> 01:02:28,734
White House one is become, uh, it's
crazy how d- like political it's…

1266
01:02:28,754 --> 01:02:32,714
Like, in, in, like, political
as in it's p- uh, it's partisan.

1267
01:02:32,724 --> 01:02:33,814
Like, it's crazy.

1268
01:02:35,294 --> 01:02:37,964
Um, it's not ever been treated that way.

1269
01:02:39,224 --> 01:02:39,674
Huh.

1270
01:02:40,644 --> 01:02:41,834
I'm sorry, I'm getting
a little political here.

1271
01:02:41,834 --> 01:02:42,954
I'm trying to find that

1272
01:02:43,996 --> 01:02:46,826
The Spider-Man ad?
The… You j- I can, I…

1273
01:02:46,984 --> 01:02:47,314
right

1274
01:02:52,610 --> 01:02:55,050
I'm just gonna say, from a
political side, I don't want e-

1275
01:02:55,070 --> 01:02:56,500
either side to be doing this stuff.

1276
01:02:56,530 --> 01:03:01,070
I don't want anyone to be utilizing
these IPs for political reasons

1277
01:03:01,710 --> 01:03:05,550
See, I'm trying to find it.

1278
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:11,470
Oh, it was an Instagram
post, yada, yada, yada.

1279
01:03:11,470 --> 01:03:13,700
Let me see if I can, let me
see if I can't find that image.

1280
01:03:13,850 --> 01:03:14,870
Ah, I found it.

1281
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:20,250
I'm gonna post it on our, uh, Discord,
and you can share it with everyone

1282
01:03:23,132 --> 01:03:24,092
Oh.

1283
01:03:25,404 --> 01:03:26,734
Yes, this is the ad

1284
01:03:27,382 --> 01:03:28,002
Let me get it up.

1285
01:03:31,992 --> 01:03:32,602
Uh,

1286
01:03:36,322 --> 01:03:37,712
see if I can get it to come in.

1287
01:03:37,762 --> 01:03:38,122
Okay

1288
01:03:42,458 --> 01:03:42,572
Yeah.

1289
01:03:42,872 --> 01:03:43,442
Oh yeah, you can

1290
01:03:43,488 --> 01:03:46,428
is now deporting people, even though
like co- like the, the craziest

1291
01:03:46,458 --> 01:03:50,138
part about this is that comic
books are always very progressive.

1292
01:03:50,218 --> 01:03:52,388
Comic book heroes' stories, progressive.

1293
01:03:52,428 --> 01:03:54,648
They're to push for a better society.

1294
01:03:55,198 --> 01:04:00,748
They're in no realm, unless it was
the d- like a dark of… 'Cause they,

1295
01:04:00,758 --> 01:04:04,778
they do like doing like the dark
chapters of s- heroes or doing like

1296
01:04:05,156 --> 01:04:06,446
Like alternate universes?

1297
01:04:06,446 --> 01:04:06,456
Like

1298
01:04:07,088 --> 01:04:10,698
And so unless it was an alternate
universe of like a darker

1299
01:04:11,008 --> 01:04:12,718
theme, this would never happen.

1300
01:04:12,718 --> 01:04:13,558
This is crazy

1301
01:04:17,406 --> 01:04:21,946
Dude, ah, what, what the f- dude,
what, why, why is this even happening?

1302
01:04:22,926 --> 01:04:26,366
We used to live in a sane society
where even the right-wing guys in

1303
01:04:26,366 --> 01:04:31,446
the past didn't post Spider-Man
promotional pictures or, like,

1304
01:04:31,896 --> 01:04:35,796
pictures of Ash catching illegal
immigrants in a Poké Ball or some

1305
01:04:35,796 --> 01:04:37,846
bullsh- wh- what happened to shame?

1306
01:04:38,728 --> 01:04:39,948
Like, even if it… Like

1307
01:04:39,972 --> 01:04:40,072
Yeah

1308
01:04:40,218 --> 01:04:43,968
I- don't get me wrong, some immigrants
and so- like, some undocumented

1309
01:04:43,968 --> 01:04:45,278
immigrants and stuff like that need to go.

1310
01:04:46,148 --> 01:04:49,658
Like, but that's, that's a
whole other thing, you know?

1311
01:04:50,008 --> 01:04:52,908
Uh, like especially ones that, you know,
commit like really atro- uh, atro- uh,

1312
01:04:53,648 --> 01:04:55,038
atrocious crimes and stuff like that.

1313
01:04:55,398 --> 01:04:59,328
But like, all this does is I
feel like it just dehumanizes.

1314
01:04:59,328 --> 01:05:00,358
It's like these are not humans.

1315
01:05:00,358 --> 01:05:01,858
This is Nazi shit.

1316
01:05:01,888 --> 01:05:05,088
Like, and I'm just gonna say it, like
this should've been more for the bonus

1317
01:05:05,088 --> 01:05:11,428
maybe, but the number one way that
fascism like rises is by having an enemy

1318
01:05:11,428 --> 01:05:13,258
and you dehumanize them especially.

1319
01:05:13,258 --> 01:05:15,398
If like… how, that's how it is.

1320
01:05:15,408 --> 01:05:18,938
Like you g- If you guys, if anyone on
the internet wants to argue with me,

1321
01:05:18,938 --> 01:05:20,528
go for it 'cause you're gonna be wrong.

1322
01:05:20,538 --> 01:05:22,058
Like, that is how it is.

1323
01:05:23,378 --> 01:05:26,008
So I will get off my soapbox.

1324
01:05:26,694 --> 01:05:27,964
No, you're 100% right, man

1325
01:05:28,758 --> 01:05:33,628
yeah, get onto something more
fun I guess, and that is Valve's

1326
01:05:33,638 --> 01:05:35,148
official 30th anniversary.

1327
01:05:35,248 --> 01:05:39,458
It was Monday, which I think might
correlate with something else

1328
01:05:41,126 --> 01:05:42,816
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

1329
01:05:44,794 --> 01:05:45,464
Yes.

1330
01:05:45,524 --> 01:05:47,414
Steam Deck Two announcement.

1331
01:05:48,824 --> 01:05:49,894
Oh, you mean Steam Machine?

1332
01:05:49,924 --> 01:05:50,984
Or I mean Steam Frame?

1333
01:05:52,908 --> 01:05:54,448
I was thinking Half-Life 3.

1334
01:05:55,054 --> 01:05:56,244
Oh.

1335
01:05:56,314 --> 01:05:57,114
would like to see

1336
01:05:57,498 --> 01:05:58,528
three zero

1337
01:05:58,784 --> 01:06:00,434
I was not thinking anywhere that

1338
01:06:01,550 --> 01:06:03,640
James has really lost his way.

1339
01:06:03,682 --> 01:06:05,380
a fucking Half-Life fan.

1340
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:07,620
James has lost his way, man.

1341
01:06:07,630 --> 01:06:11,220
He used to, he used to think
Half-Life 3 was coming to every event.

1342
01:06:11,230 --> 01:06:13,600
Now, look what Valve has done to James

1343
01:06:14,106 --> 01:06:15,396
They, they've ruined me.

1344
01:06:16,982 --> 01:06:17,372
Uh

1345
01:06:17,576 --> 01:06:20,586
I can think about now with a Valve is
like, "Okay, when's the Steam Frame

1346
01:06:20,586 --> 01:06:24,596
coming out? When is Gabe Newell gonna
finally accept my resume to be on one of

1347
01:06:24,596 --> 01:06:27,466
his yachts?" And yeah, stuff like that.

1348
01:06:28,946 --> 01:06:29,086
I

1349
01:06:29,180 --> 01:06:30,200
For shame.

1350
01:06:30,456 --> 01:06:32,816
They wouldn't… It would be denied,
but I should do it just for fun.

1351
01:06:32,956 --> 01:06:33,506
Um

1352
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:34,420
Do it, do it.

1353
01:06:37,820 --> 01:06:39,080
Valve needs more people
there, to be honest

1354
01:06:39,122 --> 01:06:40,082
write that resume.

1355
01:06:40,222 --> 01:06:41,362
Okay, sorry

1356
01:06:42,018 --> 01:06:43,098
Valve needs more people though.

1357
01:06:43,098 --> 01:06:44,458
W- w- you'll figure that out.

1358
01:06:44,458 --> 01:06:48,538
But essentially Gabe Newell,
uh, 30th anniversary.

1359
01:06:48,538 --> 01:06:53,408
This is the… August 24th was the day
Mike Harrington and, uh, Gabe Newell

1360
01:06:53,408 --> 01:06:56,568
left Microsoft to found Valve, and then
they would cha- they would eventually

1361
01:06:56,578 --> 01:07:02,688
change the course of gaming forever,
uh, come the early 2000s with Steam.

1362
01:07:03,968 --> 01:07:05,578
It's not Steam's 30th
anniversary, by the way.

1363
01:07:05,578 --> 01:07:07,898
I should mention that, uh, viewers in case

1364
01:07:08,002 --> 01:07:09,742
it's the company that, and the,

1365
01:07:10,108 --> 01:07:11,058
It's the company

1366
01:07:11,112 --> 01:07:15,252
Valve changed a lot of gaming, the
gaming industry no matter what.

1367
01:07:15,522 --> 01:07:19,062
Same thing with Doom, like, um, it
unfortunately got gutted, but like

1368
01:07:19,102 --> 01:07:23,792
it changed a lot of how gaming…
Like, it, uh, made it so that

1369
01:07:23,792 --> 01:07:25,412
first person shooters were a thing.

1370
01:07:25,882 --> 01:07:31,472
Valve came around and, you know, it w- it
d- uh, grew on top of that whole trend.

1371
01:07:31,472 --> 01:07:36,772
So like they're a huge part of why,
uh, like, why we… mean, heck,

1372
01:07:36,792 --> 01:07:41,202
Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam,
so much stuff in the PC gaming

1373
01:07:41,202 --> 01:07:43,482
world is, is, uh, affected by them.

1374
01:07:43,502 --> 01:07:51,052
And I, now that you s- it has 30 in
the name, Valve could release the

1375
01:07:51,912 --> 01:07:58,562
new orange box with Half-Life, oh,
oh my gosh, I'm… Half-Life 3, Left

1376
01:07:58,562 --> 01:08:02,362
4 Dead 3, Portal 3, we've talked
about this before on the podcast.

1377
01:08:02,372 --> 01:08:04,428
Like, oh, it's the perfect timing

1378
01:08:04,728 --> 01:08:05,098
Yeah.

1379
01:08:05,834 --> 01:08:06,334
30

1380
01:08:07,028 --> 01:08:07,508
Right

1381
01:08:07,790 --> 01:08:12,450
30. But three, 'cause that's got
three in the na- in the thing, right?

1382
01:08:12,650 --> 01:08:12,760
I

1383
01:08:12,848 --> 01:08:13,060
Yeah.

1384
01:08:13,588 --> 01:08:19,828
Dude, if Valve did Half-Life 3
and the Steam Frame all at once,

1385
01:08:19,878 --> 01:08:21,298
that would be fricking cool.

1386
01:08:21,388 --> 01:08:22,228
That's all I'm gonna say

1387
01:08:22,956 --> 01:08:27,626
Dude, Half-Life 3 as a Steam Frame
game, as a… I wonder how…

1388
01:08:28,116 --> 01:08:31,646
Dude, the internet would explode
if Half-Life 3 was a VR game.

1389
01:08:31,836 --> 01:08:33,694
Let's, l- l- let's, let's be real

1390
01:08:33,994 --> 01:08:35,554
specifically that it's not

1391
01:08:35,574 --> 01:08:38,484
going to be, but

1392
01:08:39,516 --> 01:08:44,736
Yeah, but, you know, Valve, Valve
Time, they say, they said the

1393
01:08:44,736 --> 01:08:46,916
Steam Deck was gonna be out early.

1394
01:08:46,936 --> 01:08:49,364
They said the Steam Machine
was gonna be out early 2026

1395
01:08:49,664 --> 01:08:54,874
Okay, I- to be fair, Rampocalypse
really effed with all that

1396
01:08:54,938 --> 01:08:55,498
Yeah

1397
01:08:55,578 --> 01:08:58,968
Dude, the rat apocalypse
fucked with Half-Life 3 too.

1398
01:08:59,962 --> 01:09:01,122
Yeah, probably.

1399
01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:02,578
Probably

1400
01:09:03,022 --> 01:09:04,632
Yeah, there's a… my gosh.

1401
01:09:06,462 --> 01:09:10,512
I, I, I'm not gonna get my hopes
up too much, but it's gonna happen.

1402
01:09:11,648 --> 01:09:15,768
Dude, Half-Life 3 is literally
around the corner in two weeks, dude.

1403
01:09:16,762 --> 01:09:16,972
That'd

1404
01:09:17,028 --> 01:09:17,498
In two…

1405
01:09:17,652 --> 01:09:17,832
that's

1406
01:09:17,858 --> 01:09:18,138
In…

1407
01:09:18,322 --> 01:09:19,012
not this Monday.

1408
01:09:19,112 --> 01:09:20,542
For some reason I was
thinking this Monday.

1409
01:09:20,752 --> 01:09:21,062
Oh

1410
01:09:21,502 --> 01:09:21,922
Yeah, let's

1411
01:09:21,938 --> 01:09:22,198
That…

1412
01:09:22,362 --> 01:09:23,792
another week already.

1413
01:09:23,872 --> 01:09:26,372
I'm, this, my year has gone by too fast.

1414
01:09:27,908 --> 01:09:28,568
Dude.

1415
01:09:29,648 --> 01:09:31,078
Wait, so, all right, hold
on, hold on, hold on.

1416
01:09:31,108 --> 01:09:35,658
So in two weeks we're getting
Valve's 30th anniversary and

1417
01:09:35,668 --> 01:09:37,458
Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay?

1418
01:09:37,608 --> 01:09:38,358
Oh, no.

1419
01:09:39,598 --> 01:09:42,718
Oh, no, they're pitting GTA… They're
pitting Half-Life 3 against GTA VI.

1420
01:09:43,448 --> 01:09:44,388
This is crazy

1421
01:09:46,010 --> 01:09:46,790
You know what?

1422
01:09:47,610 --> 01:09:52,670
I think GTA VI would outsell Half-Life
3, but if any game has a chance to like,

1423
01:09:53,860 --> 01:09:59,300
like not be affected by GTA VI, I think
Half-Life 3 would sell just as much if

1424
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,680
it was sold the same day as GTA VI as

1425
01:10:02,740 --> 01:10:02,840
Yeah.

1426
01:10:02,860 --> 01:10:03,480
wasn't

1427
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,880
Well, I mean, like, I mean,
like you said earlier, GTA VI

1428
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:08,960
is coming only to consoles and

1429
01:10:09,210 --> 01:10:09,510
Yeah.

1430
01:10:09,884 --> 01:10:10,714
Ha- Half-Life

1431
01:10:10,900 --> 01:10:11,110
would only

1432
01:10:11,324 --> 01:10:14,444
3 certainly, yeah, it would be PC first

1433
01:10:14,744 --> 01:10:20,310
even if it wasn't that way, I think
Well, the, the they're two different,

1434
01:10:20,380 --> 01:10:23,140
um, fans and communities, right?

1435
01:10:23,706 --> 01:10:24,066
Yeah

1436
01:10:24,090 --> 01:10:27,070
with some of the overlap, I think
people would probably just buy both.

1437
01:10:27,780 --> 01:10:32,440
Um, Half-Life 3's such a big
deal, would be a big deal.

1438
01:10:32,790 --> 01:10:33,520
I don't know.

1439
01:10:34,420 --> 01:10:35,530
I just want them to do it, honestly.

1440
01:10:35,530 --> 01:10:37,670
That's why I'm just, I'm just coping here

1441
01:10:39,810 --> 01:10:40,860
Getting my hopes up now.

1442
01:10:41,166 --> 01:10:42,576
James, put your fanboy away.

1443
01:10:42,576 --> 01:10:45,486
It's kind of, uh, it's
making me uncomfortable.

1444
01:10:45,510 --> 01:10:48,310
No, no, let him, let him,
let him, let him fanboy.

1445
01:10:48,330 --> 01:10:49,000
Let him cook.

1446
01:10:49,086 --> 01:10:49,300
yeah.

1447
01:10:49,516 --> 01:10:50,206
No, I'm just kidding.

1448
01:10:50,636 --> 01:10:51,016
I'm just teasing

1449
01:10:51,100 --> 01:10:55,460
got a … He's been
waiting 20 years or so.

1450
01:10:55,500 --> 01:11:01,000
How long… Wait, when was Half-Life, uh,
when was the last, like, console Hal- like

1451
01:11:01,220 --> 01:11:02,360
was the last one.

1452
01:11:02,428 --> 01:11:02,748
Yeah.

1453
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:03,280
people would

1454
01:11:03,458 --> 01:11:04,168
All right.

1455
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,350
2, but Half-Life: Alyx
was really good, and that

1456
01:11:06,438 --> 01:11:06,488
It

1457
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:06,770
out,

1458
01:11:06,808 --> 01:11:07,508
was so good.

1459
01:11:08,238 --> 01:11:08,418
it's

1460
01:11:08,558 --> 01:11:09,108
Well it's almo-

1461
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:09,840
10 years ago?

1462
01:11:10,238 --> 01:11:11,048
almost a decade.

1463
01:11:11,088 --> 01:11:11,738
Holy shit.

1464
01:11:11,858 --> 01:11:13,388
Alyx was almost a decade ago?

1465
01:11:13,518 --> 01:11:13,978
Fuck

1466
01:11:17,740 --> 01:11:18,260
So…

1467
01:11:18,278 --> 01:11:19,798
was thinking 2017 for some reason.

1468
01:11:20,272 --> 01:11:23,618
because it was, uh, it was during
the pandemic when it came out.

1469
01:11:23,918 --> 01:11:24,208
Was it?

1470
01:11:24,342 --> 01:11:25,382
yeah, I was playing it.

1471
01:11:25,602 --> 01:11:28,482
Or it was just before the
pandemic, 'cause it came out around

1472
01:11:28,482 --> 01:11:30,152
the same time as Doom Eternal

1473
01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:31,346
Hold on, hold on.

1474
01:11:31,346 --> 01:11:32,396
I need, I need to check.

1475
01:11:32,726 --> 01:11:33,896
Half-Life.

1476
01:11:34,298 --> 01:11:36,958
and I was playing Doom Eternal
on my living room gaming PC,

1477
01:11:36,958 --> 01:11:39,998
and I was playing, um, uh,

1478
01:11:40,666 --> 01:11:41,246
2020

1479
01:11:41,728 --> 01:11:41,998
Yeah

1480
01:11:42,770 --> 01:11:44,500
feel like it came out in like '98.

1481
01:11:45,356 --> 01:11:46,006
Alex?

1482
01:11:46,870 --> 01:11:47,234
Yeah.

1483
01:11:47,534 --> 01:11:48,584
Okay, okay, James.

1484
01:11:48,614 --> 01:11:48,854
Uh,

1485
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:49,640
sorry, 2020.

1486
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:50,970
Sorry, 2018.

1487
01:11:51,030 --> 01:11:51,200
'18.

1488
01:11:51,500 --> 01:11:53,340
I thought it was 2017, to be honest

1489
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:54,110
Yeah.

1490
01:11:54,756 --> 01:11:55,676
No, it was 2020

1491
01:11:56,650 --> 01:11:58,050
I don't do dates very well.

1492
01:11:59,820 --> 01:12:00,120
Ugh,

1493
01:12:00,516 --> 01:12:04,786
I am s- like really like
scary good at dates.

1494
01:12:05,476 --> 01:12:06,006
don't know why.

1495
01:12:09,146 --> 01:12:10,906
So is my wife, but she's a historian.

1496
01:12:10,916 --> 01:12:11,156
like,

1497
01:12:11,166 --> 01:12:15,456
she, like, she went… Yeah,
she's got that stuff locked down.

1498
01:12:15,486 --> 01:12:18,006
I am always leaning on her for dates

1499
01:12:21,338 --> 01:12:24,338
This still look, uh, for a
VR game, it looks amazing.

1500
01:12:24,790 --> 01:12:25,130
yeah.

1501
01:12:25,410 --> 01:12:26,970
Dude, Alex is amazing.

1502
01:12:27,170 --> 01:12:28,710
HiTech, you need to play Alex

1503
01:12:30,692 --> 01:12:33,612
I'll get Half-Life: Alyx when…

1504
01:12:33,778 --> 01:12:34,358
look at that

1505
01:12:35,622 --> 01:12:37,592
I'll get it when the
Frame is out, all right?

1506
01:12:37,592 --> 01:12:39,522
I'm not trying to play
this shit on my Quest 2.

1507
01:12:39,548 --> 01:12:41,218
be able to afford the, the frame?

1508
01:12:41,218 --> 01:12:42,448
Like, ugh, I'm

1509
01:12:42,622 --> 01:12:43,632
Don't worry, enough

1510
01:12:44,328 --> 01:12:46,698
the chips are going up,
it's gonna be like $1,500.

1511
01:12:47,772 --> 01:12:48,432
Dude, don't worry.

1512
01:12:48,822 --> 01:12:49,872
I've saved up money.

1513
01:12:50,858 --> 01:12:51,198
Okay

1514
01:12:51,222 --> 01:12:54,782
have, I have a bunch of money just
in the bank, in the bank right- I

1515
01:12:54,792 --> 01:12:56,942
could buy, I could buy… I don't
know how much the Frame is, but I

1516
01:12:56,942 --> 01:12:59,702
could probably buy it today if they,
like, announce the price today.

1517
01:13:00,472 --> 01:13:03,072
Or they could just delay it a little
more and I save a little bit more money

1518
01:13:04,294 --> 01:13:04,724
Yeah.

1519
01:13:05,532 --> 01:13:06,412
And then, you

1520
01:13:07,964 --> 01:13:10,154
I, I mean, as much as I hate to say it, I

1521
01:13:10,242 --> 01:13:10,262
know

1522
01:13:10,334 --> 01:13:12,874
I could wait until the beginning
of next year for the Steam Frame,

1523
01:13:12,874 --> 01:13:16,914
save up a little bit more money
'cause I've bought so much stuff.

1524
01:13:16,934 --> 01:13:22,554
But I, I do have it set aside to where
if it comes out, I could get it, but I'm

1525
01:13:22,554 --> 01:13:25,524
hoping to get on s- on, like, the wishlist
and, like, in a month I'll get it, so

1526
01:13:27,930 --> 01:13:29,530
Uh, so much stuff going on.

1527
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:33,320
But if it's $1,500, I'm not
gonna lie, like it's gonna be

1528
01:13:33,498 --> 01:13:34,548
a, it's a tough sell.

1529
01:13:35,810 --> 01:13:37,020
And I hate Meta so much.

1530
01:13:37,060 --> 01:13:37,450
A Meta

1531
01:13:37,586 --> 01:13:37,786
Bro,

1532
01:13:37,908 --> 01:13:38,798
Well, don't worry.

1533
01:13:39,228 --> 01:13:42,838
I'm sure that, I'm sure they'll go up
in price too, the Meta Quests, 'cause

1534
01:13:42,838 --> 01:13:44,468
they also use Qualcomm chips too

1535
01:13:44,972 --> 01:13:45,892
They do.

1536
01:13:46,702 --> 01:13:50,172
M- Meta, AKA Facebook, is a
weird company though when it

1537
01:13:50,172 --> 01:13:51,142
comes to that type of stuff.

1538
01:13:51,142 --> 01:13:52,822
They… It's already subsidized.

1539
01:13:55,036 --> 01:13:57,356
It could … OLED can subtilize
it so much, I would imagine

1540
01:13:58,476 --> 01:14:00,126
I, they can only do it so much, I agree.

1541
01:14:00,166 --> 01:14:03,436
But like that's, their
whole VR is all subsidized.

1542
01:14:05,266 --> 01:14:07,376
Um, yeah.

1543
01:14:07,806 --> 01:14:13,066
I, I'm, 'cause I collect everything, I,
there's like no chance I'm not gonna, I'm

1544
01:14:13,066 --> 01:14:19,146
gonna pass up on like a Steam frame, but
it's getting to the point where I n- I

1545
01:14:19,146 --> 01:14:22,366
wanna play some more VR games and I don't
wanna set it up in my new house because

1546
01:14:22,366 --> 01:14:24,056
it's kind of awkward, and I don't know.

1547
01:14:24,356 --> 01:14:24,766
Hmm.

1548
01:14:24,816 --> 01:14:25,606
Have you tried this?

1549
01:14:25,876 --> 01:14:28,606
How well does a Steam
Machine run Half-Life: Alyx?

1550
01:14:29,416 --> 01:14:33,696
you even r- wait, can you even run
s- uh, VR on, on the Steam frame?

1551
01:14:35,238 --> 01:14:39,436
I'm sure Valve has made some improvements
to let VR run a little better.

1552
01:14:39,736 --> 01:14:40,276
Yeah

1553
01:14:40,818 --> 01:14:45,068
' Cause they, they mention using the Steam,
they mention using the Steam, at least in

1554
01:14:45,078 --> 01:14:49,588
the, like, trailer, they mention using the
Steam Machine to stream to the Steam Frame

1555
01:14:52,570 --> 01:14:55,730
Yeah, but I'm talking about
like hookups li- wise.

1556
01:14:55,740 --> 01:14:57,060
Like what does it require?

1557
01:14:58,380 --> 01:15:00,280
It's a USB like… Yeah,

1558
01:15:00,342 --> 01:15:00,612
The

1559
01:15:00,620 --> 01:15:00,870
I

1560
01:15:00,926 --> 01:15:01,096
The…

1561
01:15:01,180 --> 01:15:01,580
think it…

1562
01:15:01,696 --> 01:15:02,626
Wait, are you talking about the frame?

1563
01:15:03,440 --> 01:15:04,210
uh, 4.

1564
01:15:04,260 --> 01:15:04,660
Okay.

1565
01:15:04,770 --> 01:15:05,540
Uh, yeah.

1566
01:15:05,716 --> 01:15:06,196
The frame?

1567
01:15:06,196 --> 01:15:06,216
The frame?

1568
01:15:06,216 --> 01:15:08,206
Y- yeah, I'm pr- yeah.

1569
01:15:08,466 --> 01:15:08,716
Oh

1570
01:15:09,310 --> 01:15:12,440
I know that the Steam Frame is gonna
work, but the Steam- or the Valve

1571
01:15:12,440 --> 01:15:15,700
Index, I probably didn't say that all
right, but like I'm curious if the Valve

1572
01:15:15,700 --> 01:15:17,870
Index works with Steam Machine well

1573
01:15:18,884 --> 01:15:19,824
I, I don't know.

1574
01:15:19,864 --> 01:15:24,864
The Index has like, uh, you
need a USB port and you need a

1575
01:15:24,914 --> 01:15:28,194
DisplayPort available for the Index.

1576
01:15:28,238 --> 01:15:29,224
the Steam Machine has

1577
01:15:29,524 --> 01:15:29,904
Okay

1578
01:15:30,524 --> 01:15:34,394
Yeah, the Steam Machine, the real Steam
Machine has a display port, 1.4 I think

1579
01:15:35,810 --> 01:15:41,050
but the… Well, yeah, and, and it sh- so
it should work, but the USB… That would

1580
01:15:41,060 --> 01:15:44,320
be probably the better option, 'cause
it's just got USB 2.0 on the back and

1581
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:49,530
then USB, um, 3, uh, USB 3.0 on the front.

1582
01:15:49,730 --> 01:15:52,140
And so you're gonna have to
do some, like, weird hookups.

1583
01:15:52,140 --> 01:15:53,350
It's stupid,

1584
01:15:53,626 --> 01:15:54,106
Yeah

1585
01:15:54,620 --> 01:15:56,280
You could use the USB-C port in the back

1586
01:15:57,034 --> 01:15:58,414
You could.

1587
01:15:58,784 --> 01:16:02,794
You'd have to get a converter thing
for it, but… 'Cause it's USB-A.

1588
01:16:03,274 --> 01:16:06,654
But yeah, it's, eh, mm. That's another
thing with the Steam Machine that I, it

1589
01:16:06,654 --> 01:16:10,224
kinda pisses me off, is that I just wish
they would've modernized all the ports

1590
01:16:10,234 --> 01:16:14,524
a little bit more and not go so, like,
save a penny, is literally what it feels

1591
01:16:14,524 --> 01:16:15,624
like sometimes with the Steam Machine.

1592
01:16:16,954 --> 01:16:17,414
Yeah

1593
01:16:18,124 --> 01:16:21,284
I'm like, "I'd pay 10 cents
more," or whatever, 50 cents

1594
01:16:21,294 --> 01:16:23,274
more to have, uh, better ports

1595
01:16:26,710 --> 01:16:28,380
Uh, what- whatever, I guess.

1596
01:16:28,500 --> 01:16:32,160
Um, yeah, so… Oh man,
Half-Life: Alyx is so good

1597
01:16:34,172 --> 01:16:36,252
Yeah, thir- Valve 30th anniversary, man.

1598
01:16:36,622 --> 01:16:37,702
Keep that marked in your calendar.

1599
01:16:37,702 --> 01:16:41,232
It'll be the same week we talk
about Grand Theft Auto VI's

1600
01:16:41,312 --> 01:16:43,802
stupid Netflix, uh, exclusive

1601
01:16:44,676 --> 01:16:46,626
He's gonna, you're gonna come back
and you're gonna be like, "Dude,

1602
01:16:46,906 --> 01:16:50,336
Grand Theft Auto's the most amazing
game ever. I'm a believer now."

1603
01:16:53,128 --> 01:16:55,738
I'm, I'm willing to wa- I'm willing to
watch the trailer to give it a chance

1604
01:16:55,968 --> 01:16:58,658
six hours after the fact on YouTube, but

1605
01:16:59,866 --> 01:17:00,346
Yeah.

1606
01:17:01,256 --> 01:17:01,606
Yep.

1607
01:17:01,936 --> 01:17:04,336
So, well, we'll see.

1608
01:17:04,396 --> 01:17:08,026
I'm hoping that they do like th- they
did with the hardware announcement,

1609
01:17:08,026 --> 01:17:10,186
but they usually like doing
announcements later in the year.

1610
01:17:11,096 --> 01:17:13,996
But I'm hoping that they do some type of
announcement for like a couple of games.

1611
01:17:13,996 --> 01:17:16,946
Even if it's not Half-Life 3, if they
just have some like cool new games

1612
01:17:16,986 --> 01:17:19,886
that they're coming out with, like,
"Hey, here's, for our 30th, here's a

1613
01:17:19,886 --> 01:17:23,276
couple cool things we're com- we're
working on." That's what I hope they do.

1614
01:17:24,876 --> 01:17:27,646
Hope… 'Cause I, w-
hardware-wise, we're satiated.

1615
01:17:27,656 --> 01:17:31,056
Like, we, we just need the Steam Frame to
come out, and we're gonna be eating well

1616
01:17:31,066 --> 01:17:34,256
for Steam hardware for the next few years.

1617
01:17:34,636 --> 01:17:36,116
But we need some games, man.

1618
01:17:36,506 --> 01:17:38,216
S- Valve needs to give us some games

1619
01:17:39,336 --> 01:17:39,876
I agree.

1620
01:17:40,602 --> 01:17:41,082
' Cause there's

1621
01:17:41,226 --> 01:17:45,816
games are so good compared to like
most other games, in my opinion.

1622
01:17:46,116 --> 01:17:47,122
Well, and they're unique.

1623
01:17:47,446 --> 01:17:47,816
Yes

1624
01:17:48,116 --> 01:17:53,682
company, dev studio really makes like
stuff like h- Portal 3, Half-Life, all

1625
01:17:53,682 --> 01:17:55,242
these games that are just so unique.

1626
01:17:56,832 --> 01:17:57,102
So

1627
01:17:57,402 --> 01:17:58,682
Dude, Portal, oh man.

1628
01:17:59,682 --> 01:18:02,012
I could just, dude, we could
just, we should just start another

1629
01:18:02,012 --> 01:18:06,232
podcast called Valve Fanboy, and
we just fanboy on Valve games.

1630
01:18:07,726 --> 01:18:11,676
That would be very… We'd have to,
it'd have to be NSFW on that one, but…

1631
01:18:13,170 --> 01:18:14,636
Put it on OnlyFans

1632
01:18:14,936 --> 01:18:19,226
OnlyFans, Valve podcast
on- only on OnlyFans

1633
01:18:20,088 --> 01:18:23,208
Only fans of Valve may
listen to this podcast.

1634
01:18:26,522 --> 01:18:27,072
There you go.

1635
01:18:28,948 --> 01:18:29,138
And it

1636
01:18:29,310 --> 01:18:29,960
Man, wow.

1637
01:18:31,512 --> 01:18:32,872
Includes feet pics.

1638
01:18:32,872 --> 01:18:32,982
Oh,

1639
01:18:33,260 --> 01:18:37,900
And dude, not the feet, not the feet, bros

1640
01:18:39,546 --> 01:18:39,721
Eh, well, if it pays the bills,
I'll do about anything these days.

1641
01:18:39,721 --> 01:18:39,789
To get that Steam Frame.

1642
01:18:39,789 --> 01:18:39,815
Yeah, exactly.

1643
01:18:39,815 --> 01:18:39,842
Oh, updates.

1644
01:18:39,842 --> 01:18:39,923
There are updates coming out, man.

1645
01:18:39,923 --> 01:18:41,126
I have a couple more, uh, articles
for us to chat about 'cause

1646
01:18:41,126 --> 01:18:41,196
we have a little bit more time

1647
01:18:44,060 --> 01:18:45,520
It'll pay for your Steam frame.

1648
01:18:48,150 --> 01:18:49,100
All right, well

1649
01:18:58,282 --> 01:18:58,822
Nice

1650
01:18:59,356 --> 01:19:00,066
Yes.

1651
01:19:00,356 --> 01:19:04,856
And this is just a small little
update for the Steam, uh, Steam

1652
01:19:04,856 --> 01:19:07,556
Deck and Steam Machine, Steam OS.

1653
01:19:07,576 --> 01:19:09,306
There are a couple of things actually.

1654
01:19:09,396 --> 01:19:17,686
Um, for example, we have a little fix for,
um, for HDMI-CEC sometimes bugging out.

1655
01:19:17,726 --> 01:19:21,286
If you guys recall, HDMI-CEC, you're
supposed to be able to control

1656
01:19:21,286 --> 01:19:23,626
your… You're supposed to be
able to control your TV with the

1657
01:19:23,626 --> 01:19:25,326
Steam Frame, I mean Steam Machine.

1658
01:19:26,676 --> 01:19:31,436
But sometimes when you put it to
sleep, it'll just inexplicably

1659
01:19:31,496 --> 01:19:33,364
wake up, which is bullshit

1660
01:19:33,664 --> 01:19:33,984
Hmm.

1661
01:19:34,342 --> 01:19:35,282
bad too

1662
01:19:36,060 --> 01:19:36,560
Yeah.

1663
01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:39,550
And have, Gardner, have you
figured out HDMI CEC yet?

1664
01:19:39,724 --> 01:19:41,814
I have not even attempted it yet.

1665
01:19:41,894 --> 01:19:44,384
It's on my to-do list, unfortunately

1666
01:19:44,764 --> 01:19:47,784
There's supposed to be, there's
supposed to be a, uh, UGREEN adapter

1667
01:19:47,784 --> 01:19:53,494
you can use, like a US- like a UGREEN,
uh, DisplayPort to HDMI adapter

1668
01:19:53,818 --> 01:19:54,128
one.

1669
01:19:54,188 --> 01:19:55,758
There's a couple other
ones that you can find.

1670
01:19:55,808 --> 01:19:59,808
I'll have, uh… I have one I
haven't bought yet, but I wanna

1671
01:19:59,808 --> 01:20:03,148
build a computer first and then I'm
gonna be running a, uh, an adapter.

1672
01:20:03,338 --> 01:20:04,248
I'll let you guys know

1673
01:20:05,820 --> 01:20:06,450
Yeah.

1674
01:20:06,532 --> 01:20:09,102
an adapter and I have not tried it yet.

1675
01:20:09,172 --> 01:20:11,562
Like it's, I've been so busy this week

1676
01:20:13,780 --> 01:20:14,050
Dude

1677
01:20:14,350 --> 01:20:15,096
I'd do the same.

1678
01:20:15,416 --> 01:20:18,396
I mean, my parts are right here
and I'm gonna probably stream

1679
01:20:18,396 --> 01:20:25,076
to put together my Steam Machine
killer, but, uh, I also wanna just

1680
01:20:25,086 --> 01:20:26,226
build it and start playing with it

1681
01:20:27,740 --> 01:20:28,490
It's time.

1682
01:20:29,940 --> 01:20:31,410
It's about time, James.

1683
01:20:32,346 --> 01:20:32,366
It

1684
01:20:32,430 --> 01:20:32,810
Let's see,

1685
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:33,100
So

1686
01:20:34,476 --> 01:20:34,686
So

1687
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:35,330
right, so let's see.

1688
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:36,036
Yeah

1689
01:20:36,336 --> 01:20:39,896
thing though that they're fixing things
and, and that's like… I'm gonna have my

1690
01:20:39,896 --> 01:20:45,186
review out sometime soon, like full review
of the Steam Machine but, it, it, it

1691
01:20:45,340 --> 01:20:45,990
Same.

1692
01:20:46,076 --> 01:20:47,246
all over again, right?

1693
01:20:47,701 --> 01:20:47,961
Угу

1694
01:20:48,296 --> 01:20:51,966
it… With the Steam Machine feel…
And, and this is nice that they're at

1695
01:20:51,966 --> 01:20:54,706
least coming out with, with updates
and everything and fixing it, and

1696
01:20:54,706 --> 01:20:56,276
that's the thing I usually tell people.

1697
01:20:56,286 --> 01:21:00,466
It's like if you hate it now or if,
like these things are really annoying

1698
01:21:00,466 --> 01:21:05,386
for you, they will fix a lot of the
big ones, so in the next few months.

1699
01:21:06,908 --> 01:21:07,438
Yep

1700
01:21:07,676 --> 01:21:11,366
the fix out yet, so I don't- we'll see
if it does fully fix it, but we'll see

1701
01:21:12,576 --> 01:21:16,076
Yeah, I've been messing around, dude,
and I'm getting some new tool- I should

1702
01:21:16,076 --> 01:21:19,536
be getting my new tools today, so
maybe eventually at some point I may

1703
01:21:19,536 --> 01:21:22,296
be able to finally replace that SSD.

1704
01:21:24,356 --> 01:21:28,056
'Cause I have a two terabyte in my
original LCD Steam Deck that's just not

1705
01:21:28,056 --> 01:21:32,166
being used right now, and I'd like to
harvest it and, like, actually use it

1706
01:21:32,477 --> 01:21:34,858
Угу

1707
01:21:35,170 --> 01:21:36,550
So yeah.

1708
01:21:37,830 --> 01:21:40,850
Yeah, no, I, that's what I, I
swapped over and I have four

1709
01:21:40,860 --> 01:21:43,070
terabytes in that Steam Machine.

1710
01:21:43,070 --> 01:21:43,870
It's awesome.

1711
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:48,650
But it eats s- I'm shock- I'm still
shocked at how much games eat up

1712
01:21:48,660 --> 01:21:50,970
space though, 'cause I have like
100 games on there, and that's

1713
01:21:51,310 --> 01:21:54,640
about, um, 150 games on there.

1714
01:21:55,050 --> 01:21:58,900
But I have a lot of AAA stuff too on there
that are really eat up a lot of space.

1715
01:21:58,930 --> 01:21:59,180
But

1716
01:21:59,868 --> 01:22:00,508
Yeah

1717
01:22:03,108 --> 01:22:07,148
Good news, bad news, whatever you
wanna say, but for like this next

1718
01:22:07,148 --> 01:22:11,668
thing is… Well, we can go to the
actual like one of like PC Gamer one.

1719
01:22:11,718 --> 01:22:17,238
Um, Machine reservation queue should be
caught up by the end of 2026, Valve says.

1720
01:22:17,832 --> 01:22:18,342
Nice

1721
01:22:20,098 --> 01:22:20,768
good news.

1722
01:22:20,848 --> 01:22:26,078
So for those people that have been
waiting, like, um, so the, yeah, the

1723
01:22:26,078 --> 01:22:31,438
queue is… It sounds like by the end,
everyone that's on the list or that's

1724
01:22:31,448 --> 01:22:35,488
queued up should having a Steam Machine.

1725
01:22:35,488 --> 01:22:36,458
Is that what I'm thinking?

1726
01:22:36,458 --> 01:22:39,438
That like there's no more queue
system, you'll just be able to buy one?

1727
01:22:39,458 --> 01:22:44,188
Or that everyone on the queue will be
able to be put, uh, will be put on the

1728
01:22:44,188 --> 01:22:46,408
list to eventually be able to buy one?

1729
01:22:46,438 --> 01:22:48,778
I'm not quite sure if
I understand this, but

1730
01:22:48,858 --> 01:22:53,378
The way I understand that, just
my interpretation would be that

1731
01:22:53,388 --> 01:22:57,348
whoever is in the queue now will
get theirs by the end of the year

1732
01:22:57,754 --> 01:22:58,474
by the end of the year

1733
01:22:59,644 --> 01:23:01,574
Yeah, that's on, that's
what I'm thinking too.

1734
01:23:01,954 --> 01:23:05,764
But people have been getting moved up to
the, uh, from the wait list to the queue.

1735
01:23:08,324 --> 01:23:08,994
So

1736
01:23:09,026 --> 01:23:09,616
Oh, okay.

1737
01:23:10,426 --> 01:23:10,876
yeah

1738
01:23:11,072 --> 01:23:14,012
Uh, they are… Yeah, it,
it will be interesting.

1739
01:23:14,152 --> 01:23:15,262
So I, I think it is.

1740
01:23:15,262 --> 01:23:18,532
Anyone that's really wanting a, uh, that's
on the wait list now that they, that

1741
01:23:18,532 --> 01:23:20,782
they're thinking of it will probably end
up being in the queue by the end of the

1742
01:23:20,782 --> 01:23:22,612
year or potentially even have theirs.

1743
01:23:23,032 --> 01:23:26,312
I think there's a lot of people that don't
end up buying the Steam Machine 'cause it

1744
01:23:26,312 --> 01:23:30,632
is a lot, and they got put on the, on the
queue, and they're like, out, hold out."

1745
01:23:30,662 --> 01:23:34,192
I know a couple people that, um, they
h- they held out, and once they got

1746
01:23:34,192 --> 01:23:36,822
the email, they're like, "I just,
I don't wanna afford this right

1747
01:23:36,822 --> 01:23:39,092
now," and so they didn't get it.

1748
01:23:40,562 --> 01:23:44,402
So I think we'll get through the
queue much faster, and that's

1749
01:23:44,402 --> 01:23:45,532
probably why they're saying this.

1750
01:23:45,542 --> 01:23:47,562
Like, yeah.

1751
01:23:47,622 --> 01:23:52,672
So hopefully we go into 2027 and people
can just buy the Steam Machine, but…

1752
01:23:53,772 --> 01:23:55,872
And not have to wait, but we'll see.

1753
01:23:55,942 --> 01:23:56,442
I don't know.

1754
01:23:56,652 --> 01:23:58,712
The prices helped cool
it down, I think, a lot.

1755
01:23:58,802 --> 01:24:02,732
People don't… Like, the deal--
Like, if this was, came out for

1756
01:24:02,732 --> 01:24:06,882
$1,000 a year, like a year ago,
people would've just gawked at it.

1757
01:24:06,902 --> 01:24:08,522
Like, that's a horrible deal, right?

1758
01:24:08,841 --> 01:24:09,062
Угу

1759
01:24:09,452 --> 01:24:13,852
But… 'Cause a year ago it should've
been like $600 in my opinion.

1760
01:24:14,542 --> 01:24:18,282
think it's still a little over, uh, it's
just a little more than it should be, but

1761
01:24:18,542 --> 01:24:23,372
I think it's to help accommodate for price
hikes too and the RAM and issues that

1762
01:24:23,372 --> 01:24:25,972
are going on, and RAM is super expensive.

1763
01:24:26,792 --> 01:24:31,412
And this thing has 24 gigabytes of RAM in
it between the system and video memory, so

1764
01:24:34,786 --> 01:24:36,516
At the end of the day, go
get on the wishlist now.

1765
01:24:36,516 --> 01:24:38,646
If you d- if you were a little afraid
that, hey, you're too late to the

1766
01:24:38,646 --> 01:24:41,596
party, I'd go get on the wishlist
now, and then you'll probably get

1767
01:24:41,596 --> 01:24:42,566
queued up by the end of the year.

1768
01:24:43,326 --> 01:24:45,286
So go do it now before it's too late.

1769
01:24:46,276 --> 01:24:46,652
Um,

1770
01:24:46,952 --> 01:24:47,582
Absolutely

1771
01:24:47,882 --> 01:24:49,246
yeah, it, it's definitely worth it.

1772
01:24:49,246 --> 01:24:52,866
I think if you d- unless you have a
really powerful machine, you don't

1773
01:24:52,876 --> 01:24:56,606
have any use for the Steam Machine, I
get it, but, like, for most people you

1774
01:24:56,606 --> 01:24:57,926
could find a pretty good use for this.

1775
01:24:57,976 --> 01:24:58,426
I love it

1776
01:25:00,900 --> 01:25:04,530
What I don't like is that
we're going back in time.

1777
01:25:04,620 --> 01:25:05,500
Did you guys see this?

1778
01:25:05,510 --> 01:25:06,810
That, like, the new

1779
01:25:08,482 --> 01:25:09,172
I did

1780
01:25:09,310 --> 01:25:12,360
9050 cards are gonna be four
gigs and eight gig variants.

1781
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:14,190
Like, four gigs is, me

1782
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:14,500
Yeah.

1783
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:16,530
We did talk about this last week, I think.

1784
01:25:16,540 --> 01:25:16,930
But, and

1785
01:25:16,930 --> 01:25:20,690
we, and we, yeah, we f- and we
determined… Well, a website

1786
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:23,430
tested it, and it seems like it's
weaker than the Steam Machine.

1787
01:25:24,770 --> 01:25:28,650
Both the four, both the
four and eight gig models

1788
01:25:29,142 --> 01:25:32,652
I was gonna say, like, that four gigs
gonna super… It's gonna limit it.

1789
01:25:32,662 --> 01:25:35,642
You're gonna get much better
fidelity on the Steam Machine than

1790
01:25:35,652 --> 01:25:37,352
you will with this with four gigs.

1791
01:25:37,672 --> 01:25:39,522
Eight gigs is matching it, right?

1792
01:25:40,422 --> 01:25:41,122
crazy

1793
01:25:42,518 --> 01:25:45,098
I, I, I don't know, I, I
don't know what AMD's doing.

1794
01:25:46,488 --> 01:25:48,368
The, the, well, you know what
they're not doing, they're not

1795
01:25:48,378 --> 01:25:49,718
being competitive against Nvidia

1796
01:25:50,348 --> 01:25:56,198
No, they, they, th- they're… once
again, uh, like this capitalistic broken

1797
01:25:56,198 --> 01:26:00,578
system where like in the past AMD would've
been like, "Oh, we got the he- we're

1798
01:26:00,578 --> 01:26:04,418
getting ahead of things because price."
Or they usually would try to get ahead.

1799
01:26:04,428 --> 01:26:08,598
Each one would try to
leverage and, be a leader.

1800
01:26:08,598 --> 01:26:11,768
And now it's just like, "Okay,
well, we'll raise our prices

1801
01:26:11,768 --> 01:26:13,648
once Nvidia raises their prices."

1802
01:26:13,658 --> 01:26:15,558
Like, so you don't have
to raise your prices.

1803
01:26:15,558 --> 01:26:16,898
You're just doing it 'cause of Nvidia?

1804
01:26:20,306 --> 01:26:20,526
Yeah

1805
01:26:20,570 --> 01:26:23,770
Instead of just being like
produce a lot more, sell more if

1806
01:26:23,770 --> 01:26:25,010
you can afford it at this price.

1807
01:26:25,290 --> 01:26:27,400
You don't-- If you don't raise
your prices, then people are

1808
01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:28,340
gonna buy your cards more.

1809
01:26:28,350 --> 01:26:33,340
Like, I would r- I'm already recommending
people buy AMD over Nvidia, but if

1810
01:26:33,670 --> 01:26:37,840
Nvidia keeps on upping their prices on
everything, I'm-- like, there's no reason

1811
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:39,740
to get an Nvidia card, in my opinion.

1812
01:26:39,770 --> 01:26:44,260
I think a mid-range AMD card is
totally worth it, especially 'cause

1813
01:26:44,260 --> 01:26:45,460
it supports Steam OS so well.

1814
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,970
I mean, I'll, I'll test out the one I
have and let people know, but that's

1815
01:26:49,020 --> 01:26:50,930
on paper it looks really good, so.

1816
01:26:54,876 --> 01:26:56,136
Kind of my, my say on this.

1817
01:26:56,136 --> 01:26:57,726
I know you guys talked
about it last week, but…

1818
01:26:58,080 --> 01:26:58,530
No, you're,

1819
01:26:58,742 --> 01:26:59,132
Yeah.

1820
01:26:59,242 --> 01:26:59,792
You're good.

1821
01:26:59,812 --> 01:27:00,472
You're good.

1822
01:27:00,502 --> 01:27:01,062
You're good

1823
01:27:02,386 --> 01:27:03,016
So yeah.

1824
01:27:03,336 --> 01:27:04,086
Um,

1825
01:27:06,456 --> 01:27:07,186
that's pretty much it.

1826
01:27:07,186 --> 01:27:09,116
That's all the topics I have
unless there's anything else.

1827
01:27:10,118 --> 01:27:12,638
I don't think there's much, I
don't think there's much else.

1828
01:27:12,918 --> 01:27:14,428
We did talk about a lot this week

1829
01:27:15,332 --> 01:27:15,802
We did.

1830
01:27:16,692 --> 01:27:16,852
did.

1831
01:27:16,872 --> 01:27:19,972
But we're hitting, we're… This
episode is only gonna be 100, or

1832
01:27:19,972 --> 01:27:22,442
not 100, an hour and 20 minutes, so

1833
01:27:22,858 --> 01:27:23,208
Hmm.

1834
01:27:24,138 --> 01:27:25,118
I think that's probably fine.

1835
01:27:25,174 --> 01:27:25,634
not that bad.

1836
01:27:26,244 --> 01:27:26,718
that's fine.

1837
01:27:27,018 --> 01:27:30,678
Yeah, there's a whole other episode
over on the bonus o- on our Patreon

1838
01:27:31,114 --> 01:27:37,084
If you want more, you can go over and
subscribe or, you know, to Patreon.

1839
01:27:37,714 --> 01:27:42,064
Become a Patreon, um, me- uh, member
and you get, like, 50 minutes.

1840
01:27:42,064 --> 01:27:44,644
We have a 50-minute, uh,
long episode over there

1841
01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:47,420
Hell yeah, man.

1842
01:27:47,980 --> 01:27:49,060
It's spicier there

1843
01:27:49,636 --> 01:27:50,016
Oh yeah.

1844
01:27:50,146 --> 01:27:52,366
It's like way too hot
for YouTube this week.

1845
01:27:55,054 --> 01:27:58,344
Heck, we even went a little crazy in y-
in the YouTube episode, and you can just

1846
01:27:58,344 --> 01:28:00,664
imagine what the other episode looks like.

1847
01:28:00,976 --> 01:28:01,246
Yeah

1848
01:28:02,854 --> 01:28:03,184
yeah.

1849
01:28:03,304 --> 01:28:05,444
So with that, thank you
guys for joining us.

1850
01:28:05,454 --> 01:28:07,684
Thanks everyone for
listening, watching, whatever.

1851
01:28:08,014 --> 01:28:13,014
Go to offthecuffsel.com to find the
other ways that you can support us and,

1852
01:28:13,414 --> 01:28:15,174
and/or just w- watch or listen to us.

1853
01:28:15,174 --> 01:28:16,014
So yeah.

1854
01:28:18,138 --> 01:28:18,758
See you later

1855
01:28:19,704 --> 01:28:20,634
See you later.

1856
01:28:20,885 --> 01:28:22,165
Ich sag euch später.

1857
01:28:23,284 --> 01:28:24,034
Bye