Hey everybody, welcome back to Off the
Console, the show where we
talk about all the fun nerdy
things that we do in the week and all the
news that's happened in
the tech world. My name is
Gardner, I'm here with my friends Hi-Tech
and James are the brink,
right? You go by the brink?
Whatever you want to call me.
Games revealed, that too.
That's coming soon.
James revealed, just
stick with the crunch code.
Dude, this week we have a good show. I'm
actually really
excited about this. We have
some news regarding the Switch 2's
pricing changing, but it's
weird, we'll talk about it.
PS5 is also having a price increase in
the UK and EU and
Australia. What else we got? We got
the new Chinese HDMI and DisplayPort
competitor, which is kind of
interesting. I found it a little
titillating. 4chan was hacked, we're
going to talk about that too. There's a
whole bunch of stuff,
so stick around through the whole episode
here because we've got
some fun things that we're
talking about. We like to start off the
show each week with talking about the
stuff that we've been
playing and working on. So Hi-Tech, why
don't you start us off?
What have you been playing this
week? Well, I just beat Rise of the Ronin
and I thought it was a
pretty good game. I don't know
why it got so much flack. Well, I mean,
it had performance
issues on PC, which is fair,
but it was a PS5 exclusive, so I don't
know why it had so much flack during
that. I guess it was
because people don't really jive with the
whole historical Japanese
theme. So it's like, you know,
it's a game about Samurai and the Boshen
War right before the Meiji Restoration.
Back when you had American ships coming
over, stuff like that. Yeah.
I, it sounds really interesting. It's
something that I've been
wanting to check out, but
so many other things. I'm wondering if
that's just, it's a fatigue
thing for people that like,
I can either have fun or learn or do
both. I guess I just want to not think.
I find it weird that there's been so much
backlash for the
historical fiction set in Japan,
specifically. Like, I don't know what
that's about. Content for
these grifters. They just need
content, honestly, and it's low hanging
fruit. Kind of. I don't know that much
backlash. Certainly,
no Assassin's Creed shadows levels of
backlash, but it didn't do too well.
Like, review score wise.
And I don't, I don't see why, to be
honest. I thought the game was fine.
Except for the performance
of PC. Yeah. I mean, performance on PC is
always a contentious topic. Yeah. It
really is hard because
do you review the performance and the
game? Like, it's so hard because with
reviews, I'd prefer to
rate, when I've done reviews in the past,
review the content, the
play style, you know, just the,
how well it plays, the gameplay that is.
And then like, performance is a little
bit more towards the
end. And I'll still knock it a little
bit. Like, but hey, if you up the
performance, I might change
my score. And so, because it's something
they can fix. Just knock it
so that it hurts them a little
bit, but they need to fix it. Yes. And
also, I mean, this is
just me, but I've very rarely
found games that are like 10 out of 10,
but run terribly on PC.
This is my personal opinion.
Cyberpunk. Okay. I'll say Cyberpunk was a
10 out of 10 for me and it
ran horrible, but I had a 3090,
so I powered through it. Okay. That's
like you did. That is me.
That is me. I think Cyberpunk
eventually became like a nine out of 10
in my book, but it's a big
sci-fi and Cyberpunk style
fan. So yeah, speaking of when I, when I
like played Cyberpunk
for the first time, I was,
you know, I've always been a Linux guy
and so I tried it on
Linux and it was even worse.
You know, PlayStation four, whatever. And
I had no NPCs. Dude, and
the NPCs were falling through
the street and like they would like into
the street and fall
through. It was hilarious. I
did a line stream of it and I was like,
yeah, I'm going to get a
refund on this. That's crazy.
I want that mode. I like playing through
stuff like that. I don't
want to play through the whole
game, but that'd be fun. I want to move
down. So speaking of
Cyberpunk, they just announced a new
Ghost in the Shell anime and it looks
like the manga, the manga's
art style as opposed to like
the one from the nineties
that everyone knows about.
Yeah, that's an old manga too.
Yeah, it's really, yeah, it's quite old.
Honestly, man, Cyberpunk at
launch was like at most an
eight out of 10 and that's before you
take into account any of the bugs and
shit that happened on
everything back in the end.
I didn't have that many issues. Honestly,
like it worked pretty good
for me. There's a couple of
bugs, but if you're going to knock that,
then you need to knock all the Grand
Theft Auto's that have
released pretty much every game that's
open world that's released,
you have to knock because some
people forget open world games tend to
come fairly buggy almost.
I agree. I agree with that statement.
Yeah, I don't, I don't,
Grand Theft Auto's are super
buggy. I do remember it. And people, but
people tend to forget
that stuff because, you know,
they're also super detailed as well. Like
Red Dead Redemption 2,
people can still consider
to be some of the greatest games ever
made, but it's also still a
little buggy in my opinion.
A little buggy.
It's open world is such a hard one to
fine tune. And every once in
a while I'll see a game that
does a pretty good job of not having too
many bugs, but it's really hard,
especially if you're
running your own engine, which most of
these places tend to do.
Yeah.
James, what have you
been playing this week?
I played on the plane. I loaded up my
steam deck because I went
on a work trip to Atlanta.
And I loaded up my steam deck with all
these games I was going
to play. And then I like
remembered I needed to do my taxes. So I
played the tax game and I
did those while I was on my
four hour of height. I got it.
Oh, no. You gave on your way back at least.
Um, yes, I played. What did I play?
I don't even remember. I've been playing
through a couple of different games, just
more, more or less like having fun
testing them out on the steam
deck. And I just can't remember
what I played. So that wasn't a bad job
of saying what I played.
Was it an indie game you played or a
triple A game you played?
Oh, well, I died. I'm drawing a blank.
Obviously, it wasn't that memorable.
What was it?
Yeah, I don't know. I'll remember
eventually. But yeah, no, I did that.
What was probably because I was watching
something while I was
playing. So I was distracted.
Were you watching an
airplane movie or something?
No, I never watched anything on screen. I
always bring my iPad or
my phone or something.
Else I have cashed. So I don't remember
what I was watching.
Damn. Must have been a hell of a trip.
Well, yeah, I didn't get the best sleep.
Yeah, I mean, this shit
sounds super stressful.
We can't even remember what you watched
or played, to be honest.
It's not stressful. I'm just still
recovering from the trip.
And I didn't get good sleep last night.
Damn.
But yeah, it is what it is. It was it was
a fun week for, you
know, besides, I guess.
I have to do taxes.
Yeah.
So my accountant had to file extensions
for my taxes because, you know,
when you work for yourself,
it gets really complicated.
It does. I have both a W2 and then I also
had a bunch of other
1099s and stuff because I do
also side work and I've had clients
forever. And that gets
really messy between those two.
Now.
So what did you so what
did you play, Gardner?
So I have been playing some Nintendo
games for an upcoming
video that I'm working on.
It's going to be very different. I showed
these guys a preview of it.
And it's very different from anything
I've ever done, wouldn't you say?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It looked interesting.
It was exciting.
It's going to be a fun ride.
It will. It's more of like a kind of a
contemporary video essay style.
And I'm super stoked about it.
So I've been capturing
some footage for that.
But I also have my little my
old IBM app Tiva down here.
You can barely see it, but
this is an old Windows 98 PC.
It's got an AMD K9 and I've been playing.
Well, I actually haven't
been playing anything on it.
I installed an app for a different video
that I'm working on.
And the app is called
Mastodon for work groups.
What?
Dude, it is awesome.
Let me tell you, I've had
trouble getting it working.
But essentially, it's a
Mastodon client for Windows 98.
And it's so cool.
Windows 98.
That's crazy.
Holy shit.
And it required it required setting up
some other infrastructure on
my home lab in order to get it
working on on on the actual 98 PC.
And I've had trouble
capturing footage from this, too.
So I also installed it
on an 86 box emulator.
But it didn't work at all on the emulator
for some reason, but it works on this PC.
So I'm trying to figure out how to
actually like capture footage from it,
because I'm excited to
show people this this app.
But yeah, it's been
it's been a lot of fun.
I've been I've been
having a good time this week.
Now I want to know what it would look
like like Mastodon would
look like on an MS-DOS.
There is a DOS emulator.
A DOS client for Mastodon.
And there's also there's
also one called Maxedodon.
And I have a classic G3 Mac iMac out
there that the bezel is
smashed like the inner bezel.
And I tried to 3D print a
replacement bezel for it.
And that ended up like
releasing from the print bed.
And then I ended up getting a blob of
death on the inside of my print head
because I like went to bed.
So I got to fix that
before I can show off Maxedodon.
But it's it's pretty neat, though, like
these clients for
Mastodon are just awesome.
And it's going to be a big, big, big
video when I get it done.
Oh, dude, I'm going to awesome.
I'm working on a video, too.
Yeah, it's about the
Steam Deck's biggest problem.
Anti anti cheat games.
Yes.
Ooh, that is.
Yeah, that's going to be a good video.
Bungie's new game marathon.
This is not topic, by the way.
But it's new game marathon has been
confirmed to use Badly.
And as we know, Destiny 2 does not
support Steam Deck despite the fact that
I think it'd be a good fit.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I kind of have come
full circle when it comes to
the to the anti-cheat thing.
And we don't have to talk
about this if you don't want.
But I don't know.
I have I have different opinions than I
used to about anti cheat on Linux on
Steam Deck specifically.
Yeah.
Well, what's your opinion?
What's what's changed?
I know, like you like and I and the DRM.
Well, OK, so there's a couple of things.
So the first thing is that it's not it's
not really as simple as
just checking a box in the
back end of these any cheat systems to
enable it for Linux.
Like there's actual work
that developers have to do.
And I and it costs them
money to actually support Linux.
So I understand like if if these any
cheat solutions aren't
up to snuff on Linux,
which doesn't sound like they are.
Most people, most companies
are saying that I don't know.
I don't know who to believe about it.
But I'm telling I do know that it's not
as simple as I used to think
it was for for them to support
Linux. So I understand not doing it out
of fear or whatever.
I mean, I think the blame should I think
in this case, the blame
lies on Valve for because they
they put they wrote in their blog post
about this, that developers
just need to click a switch and
then it just works all of a sudden, which
I mean, I guess in a technical sense,
in a quote unquote work, but like you
still got to do a lot of work to make it
optimized for Linux.
And yeah, I mean, if this many developers
are saying that it's weak
and that there's a bunch
of like Linux cheaters and
they can't all be wrong, right?
It's I honestly think they should just
split them up if you
really want to play it safe,
either go the route of not have a big
cross platform in the
sense of Linux and Windows,
and at least go off that and then or and
or open up some type
like, maybe we need an open
sort more of an open source anti cheat
client for Linux and then
let everyone that's Linux
play with each other. I think there's
options. There's ways
that we can go about it.
But it I'd like to see more companies
invest in it and know
that this is kind of like
this would open up and it'd become less
of a problem over time
as more and more people
game on Linux. And at the end of the day,
they'll probably end up
with a more secure platform.
But yeah, I hear it's it's there.
There's two things that I think right,
like some of the blame
does lie at Val's feet, right?
Because they're providing proton and
that's like Linux support
for Windows clients, right?
But the big problem lies with the actual
vendors of the anti
cheat software itself,
because they're providing the you know,
it's like it's like
easy anti cheat for Linux,
but it doesn't actually behave the same
way. It's like there's it's not feature
parody with Windows. So like it's is it
false advertising? I don't
know what the word would be.
But like they're I mean, and even Tim
Sweeney has said, like easy
anti cheat on Linux, you know,
is not good enough for us to release
Fortnite on Linux. So therefore, you
know, we're not going
to do it. But it's like, that's your own
product, my guy, like you're
going to bad mouth that, you
know, it's their fault. It really is, you
know, they could just check
a box. They could make it as
easy as checking a box in their back end
to allow developers to
support Linux through proton or
whatever. But they don't. And it's in I
think part of it is like, at least
incompetence on some
level, like they, you know, it's hard for
them to find developers who
actually know enough about
the Linux kernel, and can afford to work
at the lower price point in
the games industry than they
would making it, you know, as a server
admin, you know what I'm
saying? Like, I don't know,
some of it is that but also some of it
is, I believe it's epic,
just wanting to sabotage Linux,
because it's valve. Yeah, but yeah, that
makes sense. So that's
where my head's at. So I think
the ultimate blame lies with the cheat
makers and the guys who pay for cheats.
Because you're always gonna have that
though, you're always gonna have it. Yes.
But I think I think really, like, we're
like, you, it does fall on the cheat
makers, right? Like,
they're the problem. But the problem
really comes from the fact that that's
always going to exist,
right? And these companies are trying to,
like, make these games that
where they're always going
to have that, like, malicious force on
the earth, like this
malignancy on the periphery of their
games. And that if they don't continue to
invest tons of money, and
lock down systems and invest
and invest and invest in like, combating
them, then there won't be a
player base for their game.
And I just I think that it's
unsustainable. Like, I
honestly think that online games,
the way they exist now are completely
unsustainable. And that's, I think that's
where my head has gone
from before it was like, we just need to
support all the platforms
and including Linux. And now
it's like, now we need to be done with
online games as they exist
today, because it's just not going
to work. Yeah, from my understanding, a
lot of those anti cheat
programs, the vendors, they're
not actually that great anyways, like,
no, they're always like, the end, these
companies will go with
the cheapest option. So it's not like
it's doing the best anyways. Yeah. I
don't play a lot. Yeah.
And frankly, the fact is, these these
vendors of these end cheat
software, you know, the only
power that they have, I mean, it's clear
to me, the only power that
the energy vendors have is
because they their software exists at the
kernel level on Windows.
That's the only reason that
they're effective at all, because they
don't exist at the kernel
level on Linux. And they're
they're junk on Linux. So it's like,
they're not doing anything
special. It's just that their,
their app has higher privilege. That's so
and it can only escalate
from there, right? Like,
there is no going back to, like, low,
like user space level
privileges for any cheat, where the
cheating software can interfere with the
anti cheat. It's just
going to continue escalating.
And that's why I think it's
unsustainable. That is fair. I mean,
we've gotten to the point where
we have two computer cheating, where, you
know, on one computer, you
have the game running on the
other. And on another computer, you have
a software essentially
doing the work. That reminds me,
that reminds me, I was following a
project by a YouTuber, I
can't forget his I can't remember
his name, but he essentially started up
something called Waldo anti
cheat. And it's powered using
AI, instead of, you know, instead of
whatever, however, regular
anti cheat works nowadays,
embedding themselves in the system,
instead, they use AI to determine, you
know, player behavior in
comparison to what should be possible in
game. Nice. And you know,
I know, I know we like to
rag a lot on on AI in their usage,
generative AI, but I think using this
like pattern recognition
for anti cheat is objectively a good
thing. It's one of the good uses for AI
can think of in video
games. And doing it at the server level
rather than on the client
side makes a lot of sense. Yes.
Like doing it on the client is always
going to be inherently less secure. And
yeah, I don't know. I
agree with you. But I take it. They're
just yeah, adaptive programs. I mean,
this is, there's a lot
of you like, I think too many people
scream about AI being like garbage,
whatever, but it has a lot
of, well, we don't even have
traditionally, it's not even real AI. But
you know, the AI that we have
is not, it has a lot of good purposes.
Yeah, once it starts taking jobs or
stealing to, you know,
in order to like, you know, like art,
let's say art, it has to
build off of someone else's and
that's essentially just theft. And so you
have to be right, right, you have to be
careful with it all.
I mean, in my opinion, I think I think
this is okay, because it's
not like you have employees at
like Epic or wherever watch every single
Fortnite match, right? You
don't have like a referee.
Whereas like an actual like sport, you
would have like a referee determine
things. So like having a
sort of AI, having a sort of AI referee
for each match in a game,
I can see it. I can see it
actually doing something. Some cheats and
some hacks are so
sophisticated, meaning they,
it's hard for the, I think a human
detective. So even if they had like a
human referee for each
match, I think a lot, I think it's still
slipped by at times.
Having an AI I think makes a lot
more sense to combat it. Yeah. Yeah. I
mean, it's like how like
sometimes sports you have guys use
steroids and it slips by every now and
then. Yeah. Yeah. Unless
you do like mandated, mandated
testing beforehand. And I kind of want
that to I want the AI side on
the server, maybe even like a
little bit on the on the client. But I
want it to be I would like the option
when I'm playing a game
to just opt in with a universal passport
of this is my identity. I
have one, you know, one identity.
And if you get caught hacking or
cheating, you're done. You can't play
with other people that have
that same identity. We've talked about
that before. Yeah. South
Korea does this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You have to use your social. Back in the
day, you had to use your
social security number to,
you know, even make an account for a
game. So and I mean, the good news is
that they don't have to
use anti cheat software like a I think.
Well, I think Lost Ark is
one such a game where like
the Western version uses easy anti cheat,
I believe. Whereas the
like Eastern Korean version
has no anti cheat software and they're
less cheaters because, well,
you know, if you get banned,
you can't play the game at all. Yeah.
It's a spicy topic to start saying
introducing, let's say, a passport or
identification. I know
a lot of people don't like that. And I
mean, it's something that
doesn't have to be governmental.
That could be an ESRB thing and it could
be opted in from like game
studios when they publish their
game. Like, frankly, like that does not
have to be government level,
right? Like you would it could
be a private thing which has its pluses
and minuses. Right.
Yeah. Right. But a government
level would be interesting to them to
just get that involved. I
would want probably a funded
nonprofit by multiple entities that have
like Goodwill, which I
don't know how that works. But
you know, I don't I don't know the ESRB
is very we've talked about
many a time how certain games
get preferential treatment as opposed to
others like Bellotto. I
mean, yeah, that's fair. But
the same time, though, you could spin
this around. I mean, this is going to
protect their interest,
which is maintaining a player base
because, you know, cheating
does damage a player base. People
stop playing games because of cheaters.
So in a way, I can yeah, I
think the USA could very well
do this. I mean, they're not good. I
mean, they haven't yet. I
don't know if they even care
enough to do it yet. But that's something
they certainly could do
if they just realize how
important this is, like a central
database where every game developer
shares game, like shares data.
And if like you get banned in one game,
you can't play anyone else's games.
That'd be kind of interesting to see.
Like if we're really talking about like
open ID, like it doesn't
have to be that, you know,
egregious or whatever. And you would you
would then attach it to
your actual identity. But that
real identity doesn't go out to any other
like party. It stays with
the central authority for
the service. And then that's what keeps
you from like making a new
account with a different identity
or whatever and circumventing a ban.
Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I
don't know. I really I like that
idea. But we have other topics we want to
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Yeah. Yeah. Because like it was we had it
up on Apple podcasts
for a while. And then
like there was a stupid thing that they
sent to my Apple ID
email, which I don't use.
And it was like, hey, by the way, you
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I don't either. But thank you. One person
said, yeah, thank you very
much for for that because
I would have kept saying it's on Apple
podcast when it wasn't. I
said it too, dude. Don't worry
about it. Yeah. So the first story this
week, Sony is hiking the cost of the PlayStation five
by 25 percent in the UK, Europe and
Australia. High tech. What
is this about? So as it says,
so it's only the low end one, the all
digital version of the PS
five that's getting a price
increase. But it's going up by the
equivalent of like twenty
five dollars like USD. It's
I don't know. It's not even in the US as
well. And some theories
suggest that they're doing to
quote unquote protect the US market where
like, you know, if the
tariffs do go through and I mean,
it seems like at the very least the
Chinese ones are going through, then, you
know, the prices are
almost certainly going to go up. And
rather than just raise the prices in the
US, they're going to
raise the prices everywhere else as well. And this is this is a very interesting question.
And this is this is this is an aspect of
the tariffs that people
don't typically talk about
because, you know, a lot of people,
especially abroad, think
that tariffs are just going to
affect the US. And in many ways they do.
But at the same time,
though, some companies,
Sony in this case, will raise the prices
for everyone just to
maintain price parity.
Regardless, it makes me think that
they're kind of trying to go
after just making more money,
not necessarily any other reason I don't.
Yeah, certainly. Price
parity, they use different
currencies in us. What the hell? That's
not even the thing. They already are
like, with games alone,
let's say games, they'll be cheaper in
other areas just so that
they know that you can get
sales. Like, I know this is hardware a
little different, but I don't
believe it. It's Christopher
Drings. He's the editor of chief of and
co-founder of the game business. And
that's his speculation.
And he also says the era of consoles
going down in price as a
generation goes on is over.
I mean, that's kind of been over for a
very long time. We have
inflation alone that will
naturally cause that to rise. So that's
an interesting statement
because I don't know if
they've ever, have they ever really gone
down over generations ever since?
Factor inflation, I think that they have.
Well, I think also just the
price, they also just lower
the prices of the consoles to in many
cases, meaning like, oh,
yeah, like, over time and
current in the current generation, it
goes like the PS4 did that
like the base PS4 like that in
price, like after a couple of years
because yes, to them. I think it's a
little preemptive to say
that they're not going to lower prices on
the generation over
time. If their cells slump,
they'll do stuff like when people are
dealing with price issues
like right now in the States,
people are having to deal with high cost
of living period with
everything. They're going to,
you know, they'll be choices made.
They'll probably lower the
prices again. Like I just don't,
I don't see these companies preemptively
say or like, or not
preemptively saying, but just not
lowering prices over time to in order to
sell more consoles
because then they make a lot off
royalties when they do sell a console.
Well, it does make the, it
does make the regular version
with a CD with a disc drive in more
appealing offer by the
other version being a much worse
offer. And also even makes the PS5 Pro
look good offer too in comparison.
I think it's wacky that they are like
that. Both Sony and
Microsoft offer like the lower
and the higher tier, like it splits your
player base. It changes the
specs. Like I, I just don't
understand why they do it that way. Like,
especially when like they
raise the price of the lower tier
one and it makes the higher tier one look
like a better value, but I
don't know. What do we know?
Like, like what the ratio of low to high
tier sales are.
Unfortunately, I don't know where I
could find that information. There's a
lot of it. A lot of it is just like
bundled. It's all PS5
sales, not PS5 digital or PS5 physical
sales. Also worth mentioning is that
prices of PS7 going up,
at least in Canada, $15 for the like the
base version of PSN and then
$35 for the other two tiers.
Wow. That wasn't in the topic, but that
also was just posted yesterday too. So
yeah. So PlayStation
five going up in price, PlayStation
network to play online and
going up in price on and like
console players do get kind of pissed off
when we say just build a PC because like
PCs are expensive upfront and stuff like
that. And yeah, I mean,
yeah, PCs are expensive upfront
because of the fucking Nvidia. Yeah, but
yeah, why don't you build a PC? But at
the same time though,
well, there's, there's cheaper options
coming out more and more. And
thanks to, I think the mobile
play, like a lot of companies going more
into handheld, that is not
phones, but has been helping
with APUs getting stronger. And they're
pretty capable nowadays.
We've talked about this multiple
times. Like you, like this next
generation coming up should be a fairly
close to at least PS4,
but maybe even get encroaching on PS5,
like level performances.
If you tweak things, right.
Now the games are optimized as much for
this. That'd be a nice
feature, but just know that
building a computer nowadays, you can
start with an APU and still
have some, if you get the right
one and not be into the thousands, you
could be under a thousand and
have pretty good performance
with your games. Yeah, absolutely. And
you could get one of
these, I love this mini,
minis forum, AI, whatever it is. How much
is that one? It was like,
it was just under a thousand
for that. But like, I think it was like
eight, eight, 99 or
something. But it has like excellent
performance. It's not upgradable, right?
Like you could build a cheaper PC
yourself. But if you're
a console gamer and you're coming from a
console experience and you
don't have the, you're not
comfortable building a PC, something like
that would be great for
you. Does it support eGPUs?
Yeah, there's a, there's a display link.
That's right. That's
right. So it is like,
technically it is upgradable for probably
a little while. I mean, display link, I
don't have a display
link hub or whatever you call it, but my
understanding is that it display link. I
thought it was Oculink.
That's what it is. Oculink. Yeah.
Oculink. I don't have one of those. So I
haven't tested it, but
my understanding is that it, it, it, it
can become a bottleneck on
high-end GPU's like through.
Yeah. You're so, yeah, I get that. Yeah.
You're definitely going to
hit limits with the like,
let's say 40 or 50, 80 and 90. You're
going to be hitting like
some limits at that point.
You'll still get a little bit, but
there's a bandwidth plus
latency issue going on. It's
definitely upgradable though. Like
anything below that, which I think you're
still going to have a
really good time. I am curious to see
with Thunderbolt and some
of these other, like we're
going to talk about a little later, some
of these other display
display and also other
waste connectivity, waste connectivity
options to increase that
bandwidth to have better,
you know, upgradable. I just really like
eGPs. I'm going off on a
tangent now because I like the
idea that I can get a small little device
and upgrade it over time.
So hopefully we continue
down that route. Yeah. You know, the Fox
doesn't have a gaming
desktop anymore. He's
given up that entire setup and tired to
go full in on Oculink and all that
modularity. Like he has,
if I were last time I recall talking to
him, he had a, he uses a
GPD Win Mini as like his main
computer and he plugs it in via Oculink
to game on the desktop. So
anyways, back to PC gaming,
there are two main strengths I consider
when it comes to PC
gaming. First and foremost is
near infinite backwards compatibility. So
you want to play that
X-Box 360 game from like
10 years ago that you loved back in the
day. You can still do
it. Most of them still,
most of the PC games from the 360 era
still run to this day.
I'm actually 20 years ago. And there's
decent 360 emulation now too. Yeah. Yeah.
Emulation. Oh yeah. Oh, that makes three.
That means three strong
points we have. We have near
backwards compatibility with all like PC
games. We have emulation,
which is great for back,
for game preservation, for like games
that you basically can't
find physical copies of anymore
for the offices you can't find. Yeah. And
finally, no online fees. Like are you
already pay your ISP?
Like I don't know how much you guys pay
for internet, but I pay like
$80 a month for my internet.
And like, I pay like 50. I need to do
another, um, I need to do
another video on this where
the price comparison of what you get with
a console, as opposed to,
um, a PC over like a one
or two year period, you're going to save
a lot more going with the
PC. Um, just be if you're
buying a lot of games, if you're buying
one game, let's say FIFA or something
like that, you know,
like a sports game, you're, cause there's
a lot of, uh, console players that are
just like really big
into like one or two games, then you're
not going to save much. But
if you're big into any other
type of game, the sales, the, um,
especially if you're online, like the
online fees, everything,
you're going to save a lot of money going
with the PC. Yeah. Yeah.
But it's years down the line,
not, you're not going to sit, you know,
it's, it's kind of like,
it's kind of going solar.
Like it's going to cost a lot going,
going up front, but like
down the line, your investment's
going to pay off. It, no, it can be a
year. You'd be shocked at how much you
can save by going with
sale, like steam cells and some other
cells. Um, if you're not buying like the
brand new game right
off the bat. And even if you are places
online will sell up for about
10 to $20 cheaper, partially
because they don't have to eat that
royalty fee that PlayStation
has or Xbox, because they have
what is like 10, $20, uh, fee to sell
games on their devices. So I
think people would be shocked
at how much they save just going to PC.
Yeah. And if you're coming
from like the Nintendo space,
like Nintendo always keeps their, their
first party titles at the
maximum, like their high,
like, like their brand new, even, even
though they've been out for fucking 10,
13 years or whatever.
And speaking of Nintendo, uh, the switch
to pricing has updated. And, uh, this is,
this is interesting. If we, if we go to
their blog post, it says, Nintendo
maintains Nintendo switch
to pricing retail pre-orders begin April
24th for the U S but that
is like the most disingenuous
title that because while the switch to
itself, the console is
staying the same and the game prices
are staying the same. Uh, they they've
like, they're increasing the prices for
all the accessories.
Uh, high tech will give us the details on
this. So Nintendo doesn't
tell you what the old prices
are, but some Redditor compiled some
prices and I, I've put the, uh, I put a
chart, I put a little
Excel chart in our, uh, document here and
you can see most of these
went up by like $5, but some
went up like $10 in the joy con to strap
one up $1. Is this what
you're talking about? Yeah.
That's the one I was talking about. Yes.
Yeah. So yeah, the switch,
the switch to pro controller
has gone up $5 that joy con to
controllers have gone up $5.
Uh, so has the charging grip.
The strap has gone up $1. The wheel has
gone up $5. Yes. And man, that's just
crazy. But the wheel,
the joy con to wheel is that literally
like the we like we wheel. Is it just
a piece of plastic? Oh, yeah.
God, you should do, you
should three print one of those.
Oh my God. And charge myself $5 for it.
Um, yeah, these prices don't
even reflect how much tariffs
have gone up. These are like, this is
preemptive stuff. I don't
think they're being charged yet.
Cause I think they're like what we're
being told and what's
actually happening with the
administration. I think are two different
things. I don't think
bravado kind of going on right now,
but if they actually go fully into
effect, this would be, this
is child's play increases.
They're going to be double this if the
tariffs actually go through
and not like double the increase, right?
Like this, this would be double the
actual price that you're
seeing on your screen. I don't want to
pay 240 for a fucking
Nintendo switch to doc.
Yeah. The doc said is the doc said is
$110 was already $110.
How much was the, uh,
I don't remember the switch one doc being
that much. Let me see.
The doc, the first doc was like
$60 MSRP. Actually, that's a lot more
expensive than I thought it was.
Wait. So what's our double the price? So
the doc is double the
price of the original one.
Well, this new doc comes with a fan.
Okay. Okay. It comes with a fan.
Okay. They must've put like a knock to a
fan in there for it to cost that much.
This is just despicable. So are you ready
to buy, are you ready to
spend almost a hundred dollars
on joy cons when you're inevitably stick
drifts? I'm not buying a
switch to. Oh, this is for the
audience. But I know you're not buying a
switch too, but I know
that. Well, I don't think it's,
I don't think it's fair to say that
there's going to be stick
drift. I would hope because they,
they had to eat so much shit with the
original and having, I think they had
class action lawsuit
that made it this. So they had to do
repairs. I don't think
they're going to make that same
mistake. Um, but we'll see. Like I don't
think it will. I think
they're going to test the durability
and I think they'll last a lot longer. If
that doesn't mean that
they're not going to have stick
drift in like three years, but two years,
but I think they're going
to be passed a warranty and
pass some other, um, uh, class action
lawsuit, uh, danger zone there. So, um,
you know, I did a little
bit of, um, a little bit of math, cause I
don't know exactly how
long I've played on my switch,
um, with the joy cons, but I've only
played, uh, Mario
Odyssey and I've only played
Metroid dread on, on the switch in joy
con in handheld mode, right?
Every other game I've played
on my switch, I've played with, uh, a pro
controller on a TV, right?
And so, and if you look at like
how long to be, um, this is something
that's coming up in my next
video. If you look at how long to
beat for those two games, it's like, you
know, 18 hours or something
like that. And then you add on
at least 10 hours because I'm, I'm like
really bad at video games. And, and I
have stick drift on my
sticks, right? Like, so it like 32 hours,
maybe total of, of, you
know, 38 hours, maybe total of
gameplay on my switch, um, on my joy cons
and, uh, like they're bad
and Emily has done way more
gaming and her drift is way worse than
mine. So it's like, I don't
know. It's a thing that affects
pretty much everybody. Even if you don't
really use the joy cons that
much, it's, it's crazy to me.
How old are the joy cons? Oh, they're
launched day. I mean, I,
okay. Yeah. I bought them. Uh,
I bought this, well, I guess they're not
launched day because I bought it like
right after the, um,
like the, the, the hack, the hardware
hack came out. Okay. So
it was like eight months.
Yeah. Any period within like a year of
those controllers coming
out, they could be longer.
I'm just giving you like an arbitrary
date to just make it easier.
You're going to end up with
that strict stick drift on most of
controllers event. Like that's, that's
why there was such an
easy, that's why they had to handle it.
They had to handle all the
stick drift and have a whole
system to replace controllers because it
was such a bad problem.
Um, I can definitely say that
I I've had multiple controllers,
partially because my kids
are hard on their controllers
since day one to over the past few years.
And the newer ones do the
last law law. I have not had any
stick drift on the newer ones, but that's
saying I, I'm not gonna, we
don't play it as much now,
but it definitely has more hours than the
older ones. But I not
saying that there's not going to
be a stick drift issue. I just, I, I
would not see it happening within the
first years. I think
Nintendo at the very least learned their
lesson from that. I would hope so too.
I would hope so too. We'll see. Cause
they're going to lose a
lot of money. Like why, why,
why lose the money? Fix it in the R and D
and on that level, that
side, or else you're just
going to be paying a less shitload more
money. Maybe that's why
the switch too. So expensive
because I lost a shitload of money from
joy. They're bitter.
They're like, you sued us. We're
going to, we're going to get it back.
Yeah. That'd be hilarious.
Um, yeah, the price increases is
great. Like I, I shocked that they were
actually smaller. Like that's why I'm
saying like, I think
these are preemptive, but they're smaller
than they technically
should be to match in, uh, what,
uh, tariffs are, but still crazy to see a
price increase right
before launch like this. And I
don't think they want to, I think they're
doing it here and not
touching the console itself.
Cause they know if they touch the console
too much, it's going to
hurt their cells a lot.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. For sure. I mean, uh,
what, what's like the average
increase like percentage here? Um, is it
like around five or 10% maybe? Um, um,
Oh, yeah. That's for most of these. Yeah.
It varies. It's not, it's not one set
percentage increase. Yeah. It's really
hard. They're just like,
Hey, let's slap this up.
Uh, you know, five, $10. Yeah.
Yeah. They, I think they, they ran the
numbers and they were
like, if we increase the prices
on all the other things, we'll make up
whatever we might lose, uh,
from the bad press of, you know,
yeah. Yeah. So also one more thing too,
the joy con to charging
grip is $40. I saw a Twitter
post from J socks. If J if you guys
remember J socks, their,
uh, premier steam deck, uh,
accessory manufacturer, J socks is making
a charging doc of their
own, like not charging
that sorry. The, uh, controller grip
grip. Yeah. Charging grip of
their own. It's like 20. Yeah.
And also it doesn't look half bad. Is the
charging grip like the joy con, uh,
grip thing. Um, so like it's not so
controller rather. Yeah. So
rather than being like a big
square, like the Nintendo one is instead,
it's like split and
angled out a little more,
but look at that. It's called the joy
verse, uh, series dual
by J socks. It actually
doesn't look half bad.
Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. So yeah. So the,
like the switch ones was
also kind of like a big square.
Yeah. Huh. That doesn't look super
comfortable. Look at
the J socks one. Yeah.
Yeah. I've never been a big
fan of this, even though it is
nice sometimes to be able
to combine them. It's just,
yeah. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, what I
really don't like is the
fact that the deep, I don't
like the deep pad. I understand what
Nintendo did here, but I don't like when
deep pads are separate
buttons. It just doesn't feel right. It's
not right. Yeah. I don't
even know if you can call
that deep pad. It's not the pad. It's
what they call a deep pad
because as arrow keys, I know,
I know it's just directional button,
directional buttons.
Is this what you're talking about right
here? Sure. Yeah. That
that's what I'm talking about.
I mean, that looks more comfortable. It
definitely looks more comfortable. Yeah.
It also charges. You can also charge your
controllers using that too.
Interesting. So I haven't noticed on the
joy cons, like, uh, how
they're actually like getting power
from the, is it like a, there's a
charging kind of thing or what? No,
there's, there are pogo pins
in the controller. Yeah. It's like, it's
like that. You can't see
them in these photos, but
there are some pictures of the joy cons
where you can see like
the pogo pins and the, uh,
actual switch unit itself, the switch to
unit $20 to like, yeah, I'd much rather
go with this option.
Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sure there are plenty
of other accessories too,
that are a lot cheaper too.
Like a, uh, a dock that's probably a lot
cheaper and it has a
fan. And let's just say,
whoa. I just like tried to go to like,
uh, to the joy con
listing, the joy con to listing on
Nintendo's website and it's not
available. Oh, that's weird. I, I just
click their link on the
duck that go here. Weird. Anyway. Yeah. I
mean, this is, it's very strange. Uh,
this behavior is, is it's just clearly
anti customer and I don't like it at all.
I agree. Um, wait, how
much is the racing wheel?
The racing wheel. Um, according to this,
the racing wheel is a 25 bucks now. Oh,
oh, the JSX one's more expensive.
Nevermind. Don't get the
JSX version of that accessory.
If you're going to get a racing wheel,
dude, just 3d print one. It's just
plastic. I'm imagining.
Is it better though? And that's my thing
at the end of the day,
which one looks more comfortable
or better. And that's, uh, I don't even
know what the actual one
looks like to be honest.
So this looks like your standard, like a
steering wheel for a car. The JSX one
kind of looks like a
steering wheel for like a Ferrari. Where
it's like, what's the point of this? Um,
like my kids would like it. Like, it's
interesting. Like, I like the, this, the
wheel because they're
just kind of fun. Um, but yeah, I mean,
it did. It's the one thing
I'm seeing it doing is it's
adding buttons. Like it's adding like
levers that will like shorter
buttons. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
which that can be useful, but, uh, to be
fair, that looks actually
much more useful and much
better than the original. It does. I will
admit in the past ones, much better.
Yeah. So look at the
JSX one though. There's a whole, they
have a whole section of
switch to accessories. We can
actually look at all of the wall, the
ones they have. All right.
Um, yeah. All right. Let's
we're not sponsored by JSX by the way. I
should probably mention that we're not.
I have, I do want to disclose I've had a
relationship with them
in the past, but I don't
anymore. This right here. Yeah. I've,
I've had some stuff from
them too. Yeah. Um, yeah. So,
okay. That one looks more like a $27.
That just looks like a grip. I mean,
it's not really a wheel. Well, yeah. It's
like one of those, it's like
one of those Ferrari racing,
like Ferrari, uh, steering. Yes. Yep. I
can see that. Okay. It's a
two pack though. At least it
comes with two. Oh yeah. Wait, does the
switch one not come with
two? They both come with two.
I'm just saying at least it comes with
two. I do like them.
Yeah. I did a little better.
I think I'd rather go with the switch
one. The Nintendo version.
I mean, yeah, it's cheaper.
For partially just cause I think my, what
I'd be getting it for my kids to be fair.
And I'm just going to have fun every once
in a while with it. If
I seriously getting this
for racing, then I'd get this one
probably cause it just, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Hmm. I mean, Hey, I like that charging
station. That's the RG. Oh,
that does look pretty sick.
Well, this one in the numbers while you
have to, you can see
the portable gardener.
Yeah. Right there. The what? The, like
pins in the center of
like the slot. Oh yeah.
In the center. Yeah. Oh, I like that. All
right. That was like, uh,
are those pogo pins or are they, um,
something else? I think that's the
insert. I think that's,
uh, that's the, um, that goes into the
controller. I'm not
entirely sure what it is for sure.
Okay. Oh, Hey, neat. The battle armor
protective case for switched to that
actually doesn't look
too, I don't like the way it looks
necessarily, but it looks
like it'd be comfortable.
It kind of looks at the mod case that
they have for those. Yeah.
And I've never been a big fan
of the way they designed it, but dude, is
that AI generated Pokemon?
Lossed incoming. Oh yeah.
Dude, legally distinct Pokemon.
Yeah. As long as you put that in the AI
prompt that generated it,
it's fine. It's fine. There's
no AI copyright issues at all. Now they
checked with their, their
legal team, which is just AI.
Is this legal? That reminds me. There are
two like big
YouTubers that use AI for like
legal consultancy. One of them was, uh,
have you heard about Carl
Yopst's, uh, legal suit against
Billy Mitchell? I mean, yes, I have.
Yeah. So, uh, Billy Mitchell
sued Carl Yopst because Carl
Yopst insinuated that, uh, he, that, uh,
Billy Mitchell caused the
death of another of like a
contact. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. I've heard
this. Yeah. And Carl Yopst
put all of the facts inside
AI and asked who would win. And it said
Carl Yopst win and he lost.
Uh, and there was another one, uh, there
was another one who
pride himself on being a, uh,
hunter of terrible people. Um, I'm not
gonna say, I mean, probably the worst
people you can think of.
I know who you're talking about. Mama
Max. And, uh, it was
discovered that he's been
using chat GPT for actual legal advice.
Dude, I want, I, I was watching this
podcast the other day
and this guy, I don't know. I don't
remember who it was, but he
was like, all right, we need to
ask chat GPT for something that you
should just Google. And it made me so
crazy angry. I was like,
why are we asking chat GPT when you can
just Google it and they'll
come up with a better answer?
I don't remember. It was something, but I
remember it made me angry.
I will have to admit, depending on what
it is these days, I've been using chat
GPT more. Like I had,
I always forget how to get the YouTube
API from Google. Um, and
I'll Google for that. Like,
instead of Googling for it to find an
article, because whatever
chat GPT just has it like,
listen for me. It's really easy. It's so
hard. Chat GPT. Why does
Gardner Brian hate you so much?
I think at least answer it. It might not
be truthful, but yeah, it wouldn't know.
Google nowadays. It's a shit show of if
you're going to get what
you want. Yeah. That's why you
go is well, duck, duck, go. Yeah. Is, is
better. But even then, like, you're
dependent on articles
that are also AI generated sometimes. I
don't know. It's
interesting, which I'm not against
AI generated articles. Actually,
technically, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
but they better be at least they tell me
what's going on. Oh my
God. No, he's not doing it.
Replace hate you with hate at GPT.
Dude, this is what the podcast is all
about. Hey, I'm down for
this. This is a fun journey.
Did it lose the what was what's the
company? What company do
you hate the most? That'd be
a fun one, too, though. Nintendo. Yeah.
They're like the most
litigious company in the world
outside of like, I don't know, the church
of Scientology or
something. Well, you know,
I think it would come up with an answer
if I said Microsoft.
That's a crazy statement.
That they're on par with church of
Scientology. I said
they're like the second most like
I know, but they kind of are, though.
Yeah. Crazy. I love how it's
pulling this from my website.
See, why does he hate Microsoft so much?
Yeah, they had a he has
not publicly expressed hatred
towards Microsoft. That's not true.
That's not true. He has a need to start.
Hi, here. I know the podcast. Let's see
how however he's been involved
at accuracy preference for Linux over
Windows. OK, true game development.
In an interview, Bryant mentioned that
while his lead developer used
Windows for debugging purposes,
he personally prefers Linux as his
operating choice. Is that
true? Is this something you
said in an actual interview, Gardner?
Yeah, I mean, wait, he
personally prefers Linux as
his operating system of choice. I mean,
that's true. But like I and I did say
because he's mentioning the interview I
did with our casters
notebook about dude links.
And I was talking about how Ethan, one of
the developers I had on my team,
was using Windows for for it. But I was
using Linux. Let's see. Also,
no, the export process of his game,
doodlings was
straightforward on both Linux and Windows
platforms with no
significant issues reported on either.
Brian Stance aligns with a broader
community of developers who favor Linux
for its open source nature, customization
options and developer friendly tools.
Yeah, I mean, I do hate Microsoft,
though. It's just
saying, I don't know. I think,
honestly, this is like chat GPT and
yourself is more
pathetic than Googling yourself.
That's so funny. Yeah, chat GPT me chat
GPT me say who is
high tech little like you
get spelled correctly, though. I think
it's fun. Like that. Yeah, like that.
Oh, no. Oh, see, I couldn't find you. Who
was high tech like the YouTuber?
Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna put your name in
quotes, too. Oh, my God. Come on.
This is proving how bad of a type I am as
well. I've seen worse.
Stay like that. Yeah.
Okay. So it knows who you are.
See, he's telling me that always BS
polishes some of the
bigger tech influencers. Wow.
Wow. It's not citing that. That's just
hallucinating. I think
your videos are great.
Wow. Exactly. That's why it's reading.
It's reading comments or something.
Oh, my God. Now you need to see what it
says about me based on the
comments I get on my videos.
I think, yeah, games are unique enough
name that he may not need quotes.
Yeah, I think games are available to pull
up something. But it's going to be like,
in a little bit. No space.
Just put a space. It'll make it easier. I
don't I can't remember
if I put a space or not.
I do that sometimes. Wow. Wow. You've got
quite the resume. You even
have bullet points for your
for your summary. Honestly, I think it
pulled a lot of that stuff
from my description of my
YouTube channel. So wow. Let's see what's
going on there. Games
revealed. The game reviews. Game
reveals and trailers. Wait, what? Oh,
yeah, you did do
that. I see industry news.
Does this sound like the
channel you were thinking of?
It does. Yeah, does it sound like you? It
follows it, but I don't do
all that stuff very much.
OK, I need to. I do steam deck more than
anything, but I think
I agree. I don't know.
It's not going to be. It's not fully
accurate. But we should ask.
It's close. We should ask about some of
our friends, like our good friends.
But ask you to tell us about the cast of
the nerd nest podcast.
Tell me about the cast. Oh, my God.
Of the nerd nest podcast. All right.
We're going to be we're going
to move on after this. Yeah.
Holy shit.
Oh, my God. It is also
going to. Wow. That is fully.
It is fully hallucinating. That is
awesome. This needs
to be its own separate.
Oh, my God. Oh, dude, that is. I love it.
The cast of the nerd nest podcast is a
gaming and pop culture.
Wait, the nerd nest podcast is a gaming
and pop culture podcast that covers a
wide range of topics,
including gaming news, reviews, pop
culture discussions and
occasional deep dives into
specific subjects like anime, movies and
tech. I've never seen
them talk about anime.
I don't think so. I haven't. We talk
about it more than they do.
And and then it says that I'm like the
main host. I'm also
known as high tech or life.
So also the bill we have
to send this to Bill. Yeah.
And then it says Megan Bryant. Megan is
another regular of the nerd nest podcast.
And she proves a provides a balanced
viewpoint, often contributing a more
thoughtful and analytical
perspective. Her contributions help round
out the discussion,
encourage ensuring Megan Bryant.
Yeah, I was hoping it would be like
Gardner's wife or something.
This is just ridiculous.
Who's J? They don't have a J.
Maybe it's a J station. J station.
Well, there's wow. And yes, hosts. It
doesn't specify any get it says
developers, creators and fans.
Yeah, and fellow game fellow gamers to
see. That's hilarious,
dude. We should look at.
Yeah, I think we're done with this,
right? Or do you want
to come off the console?
It won't know off the console. Let's move
on. Let's we've spent some time.
Yeah, but it's so good.
We just like destroyed half of the Amazon
by googling that shit on there.
Dude, it was worth it for it to fight. We
finally know who high tech low life is.
Yeah. Yeah. I've never seen
you and me in the same place.
Yeah. Never seen you in real life high
tech. I Gardner's really
good at throwing his voice
or something because I now I'm thinking
you guys are the same person.
Dude, yeah, I'm just a
massive sigh up on you, dude.
Yeah, I'm really good. I James, I've I'm
the one who organized the whole podcast.
It wasn't it wasn't my alter
ego. My high tech low life.
Man, we're going to start finishing each
other's sentences like that.
You're really messed with me.
That's going to take too much. That's
going to take too much work to actually.
Yeah, that's like part of we
need to come up with like a
lore wiki for the for the podcast. I
think that would be pretty cool.
That'd be fun.
High tech is Gardner.
All right, let's let's move on. I'm going
to do this next one in
the voice of strong bad
from Homestar Runner and video GeForce
RTX 50 60 T I 16 gigabyte review.
It's not very good. All right.
That was good. I like that
was good. I like high tech.
Me. Go ahead and tell
us about this story here.
So the 50, 60, 60, 60, and the fit in the
two 50, 60s came out and
for some reason, the 50, 60 T.I. has more
VRAM than the 50, 70.
It's like it has 16 gigs of VRAM, whereas
the 50, 70 has 12 gigs.
And I don't know why Nvidia did this. I
don't know how I just don't get it.
They plan these many months in advance.
Yeah.
And and the 50, 60 has you can get an
eight gigabyte skew.
I think that's you know, people in my comments were I was like,
comments were I was talking about this in
a video yesterday and people were saying
that eight gigabytes is more than enough
VRAM. But is it really?
I mean, 1080p barely
in today's world. No.
But you're right. If it's 1080, like
you're definitely OK.
If you're playing Counter
Strike, go. You're fine.
But if you're trying to play anything
that's like has any serious textures,
like you're screwed.
Yeah, it's honestly a joke nowadays.
How little VRAM we have
and it's not increased much.
That's because they're afraid that, you
know, if they put too much VRAM,
like they're going to we're going to
cannibalize the enterprise sector.
And I think that's partially it.
Yeah, because like a 50 or is expensive,
but it's also a lot cheaper than
the enterprise side of Nvidia. If they
had if they had like 30,
that like 64 gigs of VRAM that I'm sure
many companies probably
would probably buy that
instead of, you know, well, whatever the
enterprise version is.
Oh, like they just need
more unified RAM, I guess.
I don't know more APUs like AMD just lean
really heavy into APUs
that have unified RAM.
But then again, you've run
into issues with that, too.
So supposedly the 5060 Ti is supposed to
be quite a bit better
than the 20, the 4060 Ti.
But I mean, not as really matters because
you're not going to be able to find this
and you're certainly not
going to be able to find an MSRP.
Yeah.
I my friend asked me to like put together
a gaming PC build for him.
And he said his budget
was like a thousand bucks.
And I was like, it's going to be it's
going to be hard if
you want to dedicate GPU.
Get him an AP bill.
Yeah, that's what I was that start out.
You and then you upgrade them into it.
That's how I would do it.
Yeah.
Upgrade into a GPU later
on if you have a budget.
Yeah.
Yeah. But you'd be hard pressed to find an APU
like CPU that wouldn't
actually I don't know what
the I don't know what the desktop side
looks like when it
comes to APUs, to be honest.
You have to look more into that.
But 5060 it's out.
Apparently we should try looking for some
like let's go on a new egg and see if we
can hit find any hits.
5060.
Yeah.
Well, let's see 5060 TI because that's
the more desirable one.
Look at a stock out of stock.
Yeah, this one's in stock.
Yeah, but that's also what?
That's five hundred and forty nine bucks.
Yeah, that's that's
definitely not MSRP price.
But you know, MSRP is supposedly four
hundred and twenty understanding.
Newegg is raising their prices on select
models of like Nvidia GPUs
by like up to four hundred.
I've heard that's yeah,
that's what I've heard too.
And so but you know, they'd have to be in
stock in order for you to like matter.
Yeah, I mean, all of
these are out of stock.
Yeah. I just just fuck them like a fuck it like
it's going to be this.
If I can't buy something off the shelves
after, you know, a month or two,
why does it why do I why
do I even care anymore?
Like I hate it.
There's they have two and this they have
two that are in stock and
this one is four ninety nine.
That's from from NSI.
Yeah.
Okay.
Listen.
I used to have one of
their graphics cards.
It took me six months of just our main
shit back and forth.
And I and this is before I
became a content creator.
I had I've never told the same one.
I've had the army six months back and
forth to the point
where by the time my 20 70,
I got working 20 70 and they upgraded me
to 20 super, by the way.
Mm.
Because I like demanded they do so I
channeled my inner Karen to do so.
But by the time I got a 40 80 super that
was in working condition,
the fucking 30 series released.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I have a 30 70 now.
Thank God.
But like I was I was not happy with MSI.
No, because they kept sending you lemon
after lemon somehow.
Yeah.
I mean, that that sounds you know, the
thing is, MSI to me has always stood for
mindless self-indulgence, which is a band
I used to listen to when
I was just in high school.
Nice.
Yeah.
So I don't I don't really like the MSI
stole my favorite band
when I was like a teenager.
Their acronym.
No, I think I still think I still think
my self-indulgence is
much more popular than
Micro Star.
Whatever the I stands for, you know.
Speaking of GPUs, though,
China has a new HDMI competitor,
GPMI.
This is interesting.
I'm just going to share
the doc here for this.
Yeah, we've got a nice table here.
What do what do what do what do what do?
What do what do we got here?
What's going on with this story?
So I say before a consortium of 50 or so
Chinese companies came
together to come up with
GPMI or general
purpose multimedia interface.
Media interface.
That sounds yeah, it sounds right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So oh, we're spoiling the next topic.
But that's okay.
We'll talk about that later.
But anyways, there's
two different versions.
There's a type B and a type C version.
The type C version goes over.
It goes through, you know,
standard USB type C interfaces.
And the type V version is
a proprietary connector.
It's it's like it's been described as
looking like a sort of
elongated USB C port.
Oh, yeah, I should
pull up a picture of that.
Which I'm down for.
Like, honestly, just stick with these.
I don't think there are
any actual pictures of this.
It's just been described as such.
Oh, really?
Okay.
By really?
I swear.
Oh, I think there's nothing but there
wasn't one on Tom's hardware.
But yeah, I'm sure there
probably is a picture somewhere.
But if you look at it jumps out to me,
the most is like I
feel like it's just too.
Why do they call it type B anyways?
But there's it is just two types.
He's joined together.
Oh, so double the wattage, double
essentially double the bandwidth.
That is very interesting to me.
It's insane.
But the cool thing, like with the max
with the max stuff that I have,
you like if you have a MacBook, you can
power your MacBook through
your monitor and just have
one cord going through everything.
Like I my my desk so cluttered right now,
I do like that they're
offering more wattage
through this.
So if I had, let's say, an APU based
based desktop, that's just much smaller.
Like I could power it
through this would be awesome.
So does that that looks reversible?
If it's reversible, it'll
instantly be better than HDMI.
Yeah, but it's just too.
It's essentially just
think of it as two types.
He's joined together.
Dude, that's sick.
I forgot about the fact that HDMI sucks
because of this because I don't like to.
But dude, that's sick.
I want to be in the US.
It's going to make me sound like a sort
of a traitor to the US, but I don't care.
Well, HDMI is such a shitty thing anyway.
Like it's fully like encumbered with
patents and like natural property.
And it's so it's so stupid.
Like I actually hate HDMI.
So I don't think it makes you a traitor.
I take no, we need to switch over to
something that's universal like this.
That's that just makes sense.
The the issue that I have with this is
this is yet another
instance of a different
like standard using type C, and it's just
going to make things even
more confusing with type C.
Because it's you know, there's USB and
Thunderbolt, which are both like
inter operable as far as I understand it
to some degree, right?
It's it's ratings and it's Thunderbolt
has its patents under it.
That's why they're probably making this
is that this is comparable to Thunderbolt
four or five.
I think five.
And I bet you it's just to get around the
patents for Thunderbolt.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Did I what did I say?
Did I say Thunderbolt?
I feel like it's.
Okay, you did.
I don't know.
But this this is just is GPMI going to
support USB for as well
or is it just going to be
dedicated for the GPMI interface?
Honestly, I mean, I don't know.
I think I think only time will tell.
But yeah, I mean, I it's interesting.
I like this.
I think this is neat.
And as long as it's not like encumbered
with patents and IP, I think
I'd like to see this come to fruition.
But the thing the other thing that I was
thinking is like these
are going to be hefty
cables, right?
I mean, it's going to be I'm imagining if
it's two USBCs
together, it's going to be like
double the the conductors
in the in the cable, right?
Yeah.
So with this like narrow looking thing,
I'm worried about like
stress, like pulling the,
you know, on the connector itself.
I am a little bit worried because I'm
looking at that connector.
I'm a little worried that they could
easily bend and break if
they don't have a locking
mechanism, a good locking mechanism.
But yeah, like the geometry of an HDMI
and a an HDMI port, it
feels like it's secure.
Like even if you have a hefty cable
coming off of it, it's
going to stay in there.
I just play boards, do a pretty good job.
They also have a locking mechanism in it,
which is sometimes really annoying.
But yeah, they let me know.
But I still would rather have something
like this and have a
more universal like go away.
Fuck HDMI display.
Just everything.
Let's just slowly go to it more unified.
Honestly, I'd prefer them just do two
types, these together in
one cable that has to be
plugged in just so that we stick with a
universal connector.
Connector, but I get why they're going
the other route and it
looks like it's a little
bigger than a type C, so it might have
room to grow with bandwidth and stuff.
It'll be interesting.
Yeah, so I mean, 480 watts is quite a bit
like entire computers
can be powered through
480 watts alone.
Yeah, but if you have a 5090, if you have
a 5090, it won't even power the 5090.
I mean, OK, not not a computer with a not
a computer with a dedicated GPU, but like
your computer with a dedicated, it could
still do depending on which one it is.
Yeah, but the power delivery is probably
the most interesting aspect because
I don't think I've ever I don't think
I've ever thought of a
essentially what it says,
display cable providing power.
But now that that's the case, I mean,
what possibilities could we have?
Can we power our PS5s
from just the TV alone?
That'd be crazy if that was true.
Yeah, the TV or yeah, so
they did it back in the 90s.
Like there were a couple of Macs that had
just a single cable
coming from the from the
like tower or whatever.
Max still can do that.
If my Mac studio, if they had this
connector, could do it
like it doesn't consume enough
power to hit 480.
But the Mac book I have, yes, it is
designed to be able to be
powered off of like a Mac
studio or whatever they are, the Mac
displays or third party displays that
have power throughput.
So you don't you get a lot
of like you get a lot of USB.
You just you get a
lot of benefit from it.
It's pretty cool.
I just I'm getting tired of cables.
And so it'd be nice
to have just one cable.
Yeah, here's a question.
So they have type C, which is like a USB
type C and they have type B,
which is, you know, I would I don't like
I don't care for this
naming convention here
because like what's type A, right?
Like the existence of type C
and type B implies a type A.
And also like the USB standard used to be
like like type A was for
the for the host and type B
was for the client or
whatever you would call it.
Right.
Like it was a host.
So I don't know that naming convention,
especially sticking with
the naming convention that USB
set up, it seems a little weird.
I don't know, man.
All I know.
All I know for sure is
that it's a standard.
We don't know if it's going to be open
source, to be honest.
But given that it's being made by the
Chinese like a Chinese consortium,
it might be more open source, not like a
not like a traditional like
it's on GitHub sort of deal
open source.
But they do tend to publish specific
documents in regards to these,
at least from what I
understand, like for everyone to access.
Yeah.
So there's a good chance that
this might be a new standard
that we're seeing, like the birth of a
new standard that
might not die immediately.
Yeah, I'm interested to
see where it goes for sure.
Speaking of something that recently died.
For Chan is still down, right?
Is it still down?
You should check.
Yeah.
Okay.
How do I check for Chan?
Go over whatever.
That word.
Yeah.
For chance.
A website.
Oh, God.
Nope.
No, that's an Apache
error right there, too.
They're going off of what?
A 10 year old version of PHP.
I think so.
I think there's a lot of stuff.
I watched.
What's that guy's name?
I watched a guy who like went through
like the source code leak
and he was like showing how like every
issue with the code.
And it's pretty bad.
It's like it's a perfect
example of was a PHP spaghetti.
Was a mood.
A heart from some ordinary gamers.
No, it's a blonde guy.
I'll find him.
Oh, I mean, that sounds like something
ordinary gamers would do.
Diamond the source code for four Chan.
Yeah.
But I mean, four Chan's an old like an
old like dinosaur at this point.
It was like basically
bored of the internet.
It was birthed by a guy named Moot who
then sold it to the Japanese.
And the Japanese has
had it for like 10 years.
Oh, really?
I didn't realize it was Japanese owned.
That is crazy.
Well, it's Japanese owned now, but it
used to be home to American.
American.
There's another example of Japanese like
American jobs going to Japan.
But I digress.
But four Chan is not the website.
I mean, four Chan has a very like has no
notoriety or surrounding it.
Given how much of given how much of the
internet comes from four Chan,
like your modern day Twitter users.
But for what's interesting is that it was
not only was it hacked and taken down,
but personal information was leaked,
especially of the
Janis janitors for short.
Those are the moderators.
Some people were genuinely surprised to
find out that four Chan has moderators.
Of course, they have moderators.
There are a website in the clear net.
Yeah.
And why?
But what I found surprising was that many
of them used dot edu emails
to register for four Chan,
which is like the dumbest
thing you could possibly do.
But there is also a bunch of dot gov
email addresses as well.
Did you hear about that?
I did hear about it.
I didn't know if that was real or not.
I heard I heard some people say that was
fake, but oh, really?
I mean, I don't know.
It might have been.
I just heard it on it
was low level learning.
This guy here.
This is who I follow for
like hacking news and stuff.
He's pretty good.
I like mental out for hacking news.
But yeah.
But yeah, four Chan
was taken down, hacked.
Personal information was leaked.
Some of them were I don't know if they
were professors at some
universities or perhaps
some students.
Four Chan's not the
website it used to be.
Let's just say.
Four Chan was never a good website.
And I can tell you how I know this
because when I was
probably 18 or 19 years old,
I for like a week, I was like on four
Chan and I was like, oh, my God,
this is some of the funniest shit I've
ever seen in my whole life.
And then I discovered Reddit and I was
like, oh, my God,
this is 4chan for adults.
Kind of.
Yeah.
And yeah, honestly, though, four Chan's
been defanged for a long
time or the claw defanged.
Decapitated.
But the point is that, I mean, honestly,
Reddit, I mean, not Reddit, sorry.
Twitter has been a lot has been worse for
a long for a longer time because, yeah,
yeah, occasionally you'd see like the
occasional swastika on four Chan.
But like there are like accounts
dedicated to it on Twitter.
And I think, yeah, I think a lot of the
people that were like really spicy,
really like just horrible
people moved on to other places.
Like they moved on to Twitter or they
moved on to a chance and some other ones.
Yeah.
A chance.
Not even on the clear anymore.
I don't think I think that's I think it's
all dark net dark web now.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Yeah, that's crazy.
It was I don't know.
So yeah, 4chan was founded, inspired by
the Japanese to Chan,
which is still on the Internet.
And that's why.
Oh, really?
Yeah, that's that's
that's why it is the way it is.
It was totally anonymous image board.
And then they're not being sold to the
guy that created to Chan.
Mm hmm.
Moot sold it to the I can't remember.
I can't remember the
name, but that's crazy.
Yeah.
Didn't work for Google for a while, too.
I think he did.
Yes.
Yeah.
I don't know.
4chan couldn't happen to a
nicer website getting taken down.
Love it.
Agreed.
I'm a big fan.
I think it's a boxing.
I don't like doxing.
I want to say that.
But, you know, fuck 4chan.
It's a piece of shit.
Yeah.
But this is how do you not
upgrade your system that long?
Well, a lot of Japanese websites nowadays
still look like they're
running off of like 90s tech.
Yeah.
You can still upgrade
the security, though.
Like it doesn't necessarily mean that if
it looks old school, that
it needs to be insecure.
I don't know, man.
I don't know how no one got the idea of
hacking 4chan either, to be honest.
But.
Yeah.
How did it last this long?
That's what I also am curious about.
How did it last this long?
You have to ask professional 4channers.
You could probably
email some of the emails.
But, you know, that'd be
like accessing the doc.
No, we shouldn't.
You shouldn't do that.
No, that's just going
to be on Twitter or X.
I'm good.
All right.
But in the meantime, yeah, but.
It's also it also happened the same week.
I think one of the most famous like
Vtuber's decided to
retire and graduate, they say.
Gao Gurra.
The like Shark Girl.
People are saying that people are saying
that's what happened.
She retired and 4chan also
got taken down the same day.
Oh, my gosh.
They're making conspiracy
theories, but, you know, it's.
Yeah, conspiracy theories.
It's 4chan.
Oh, yeah.
That's what they're known for.
Oh, yeah.
I think one of my
favorite 4chan incidences,
incidents was when they tricked Apple
users into microwaving
their phones by saying that
Apple implemented a new feature.
They put it they put a new feature where
you can charge a phone
by putting in a microwave
and people and people did that.
Yeah.
And then I.
And they also said they also tricked them
by saying that people
added that Apple added
waterproofing via software update.
And this is before
phones were like waterproofed.
Now that you have so people people tried
it and their phones
got destroyed as well.
No, but my favorite one was when they
convinced the they convinced
the world that Justin Bieber
had cancer and had to go through chemo.
Oh, that's right.
And then he went and
then like he went bald.
So they started hashtag bald for Bieber.
And so you had and then you had a bunch
of like teenage girls
shaving their heads bald.
Because of this.
Dude, I seem to remember at one point,
like, I don't know if it was true or not,
but they like had convinced everybody
that Taylor Swift was a 4channer.
I remember seeing that, too.
Yeah.
Because because it was a stream of
coincidences that led
people to believe that because
apparently she wanted to name her cat
something and the
post that got trip digits
said Meredith, and that was
apparently her cat's name.
Interesting.
I don't know.
Well, I remember seeing pictures like I
saw at least two
different pictures of Taylor Swift
that seemed to come from like a laptop
webcam that was posted on 4chan.
And it was like, hey, be I'm here to do
I'm I'm a I'm a popular singer or
something like that.
I don't know if it was true or not, but I
remember seeing that
and I was like, whoa,
whoa, so Taylor Swift's a 4channer.
She just like one of
us for real for real.
Yeah.
I don't know.
For real, for real, for real.
But I mean, everybody that was on 4chan
and I moved over to to X.
And speaking of X, our next topic
actually comes from from there.
Gross.
I hate going to this website now.
Yeah, the Internet Archive.
But what I hate more is
click on the change dot org.
I probably should link that instead.
Oh, dude, you need me to go to.
You did that on purpose.
All right.
Yeah.
So so Internet Archive is being sued.
What is going on with this?
This this is.
Oh, this is gross.
This reminds me of Napster days.
So they're being sued by the music
industry for seven
hundred million dollars.
It's like a pocket change for them.
But for the Internet Archive, they met
very well means death.
So the record industry Association of
America, the RIAA, which
includes big record labels,
like the big three, like UMG, Capitol
Records, Sony,
Concord, Bisel Assets, CMGI.
They're all they're all
collectively suing the archive.
And if you have the big three, then it's
going to be a huge deal.
I don't think a petition is going to do
anything, period on this,
because these guys don't care what what
has what would the only way to save it
would be on a governmental
level, which we're fucked on.
So I'm not very hopeful, but I definitely
think this needs to be like promoted more
and more to maybe then we can, because I
think they're very important service.
And it just sucks that it's come to this.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, I think signing petition
is better than doing
nothing in this day and age,
because I mean, we need to agree.
We do need to show
support for the archive.
So if the Internet.
So if the news, if the
record label industry wins,
then I think this spells the death of the
Internet Archive as a whole,
not even just in our archive, but the way
back machine, for example,
is once a service they offer that is
going to go away forever.
And the Internet Archive was just
recently hacked like a couple of months
ago, if I'm not mistaken,
right? Yeah.
Yeah.
So I mean, there's so much stuff on the
Internet that's lost these days.
I know people say, you know, people used
to say that, oh, if you post something
in the Internet, it's
on the Internet forever.
And I mean, that's in a way that's kind
of true, but at the same time, though,
it's not really that true, because
there's a lot of lost
media on the Internet
that cannot be accessed anymore except
through the wayback machine.
And if they die, then we just lose
probably half of the archived Internet.
Yeah.
I mean, and the problem is like, you
know, Wikipedia was also
getting attacked recently.
And so I went and downloaded the entire
Wikipedia archive, right?
Because it's like the English archive is
a couple of terabytes.
It's not very big. Oh, OK.
With or without?
You can't with with
images and media and stuff.
And if you just download the text, it's
only like 28 gigabytes.
Like it's not very big at all.
So and you can do that with the English
Wikipedia, but you cannot
like archive the Internet
archive like it is so massive.
It's just it's crazy to think that like
the Internet archive
is like under attack.
And it has been for a while now.
And I kind of wonder why, like, why are
they being targeted?
And I think that it has to do with the
fact that they actually
care about preservation.
And it's like they're
they're truly interested in like
being like a source of
information that can be referenced.
Because right now,
information is a threat.
And well, information is getting taken
down on a governmental level, too.
Like there's there's a lot of
organizations and like people on Reddit
there's a couple of groups on Reddit that
are all about preservation.
And they're downloading government
websites because they're
they're just destroying
like important information there. Yeah.
Which is crazy.
And so I think the best way to actually
combat this is a decentralized way.
I actually this is Torrance
or whatever you want to do.
Like I don't know if that's quite the
right technology, but like
decentralized. I think if they move to a
technology that's more decentralized,
where multiple places are hosting it, I
think it will help save it.
I think that's maybe another way we could
save it is by changing the way that we
consume it slash host it.
Honestly, man, I would hate for the
Internet archive to go under.
Honestly, I can see the Internet.
I can see the Internet archive going
exclusively on the dark net.
If this were to come to pass, maybe.
Even if they I mean.
I think that there's such like an
important institution that
like they need to move defensively
to like spin off the way back machine or
something into its own
nonprofit or something.
Because they the Internet archive is just
being attacked so egregiously
that maybe the Internet archive should
just be a sacrificial lamb.
Like I hate to say that, but like the way
back machine is so critical.
I don't know.
I yeah, I think we have
technologies to save it.
It's just and it will be up to the.
The people that hosted and take care of
it to decide on which way they go,
but I don't think it's going to be what
like this is going to be.
Detrimental and.
I I I just don't I don't I think they're
going to lose the lawsuit, but we'll see.
I hope so.
Yeah, I mean.
You hope they lose it.
No, I mean not in the archive.
I hope sorry I came out wrong.
I hope I hope they win the lawsuit and
that the record labels lose, but I mean.
Oh, I do too.
It's just.
It's the record label.
They have so much money backing them.
The the the record labels are just
notorious for this type of shit and they.
It could be just maybe they they take
down whatever they
want them to take down,
which are they like are there.
Records were like music being hosted.
So they're targeting the Internet
archives efforts to preserve and provide
access to historical
78 RPM records and it's about
early jazz gospel blues folk.
That's the great 78 project.
The grace of a project interesting so.
They could always I wonder if they could
spin that off and try to
save it on a different.
Um like not like not.
Or anything else.
Yeah, I mean if it's the same people then
I think they're still going to be.
Targets regardless.
I know, but it could help not take down
the whole thing and maybe
decentralized it some more.
Anyways to into projects, but.
So how old are these that's the thing
like there there are limitations on
copyright like yeah.
I mean if they were if if the stuff that
they're archiving was like
new releases back then then
anything on 78 should have fallen out of
copyright according to like
traditional copyright law.
Not like the modern bullshit.
Okay.
But like I mean Star Wars should have
been out of copyright
already and it's not so.
So so it's records
from 1898 to the 1950s.
Jesus fucking Christ dude.
So we have we have records from over
literally over 100 years ago.
Yeah, I think if they just tone that down
by like 1020 years I think the.
Disney how they fucked up the copyright I
think will be fair use so
they just tone it down a
little bit and just wait a year like 10
years to just re upload
them will be fine, but.
This is still crazy that
they're going after this.
It's insane dude.
Well the problem what I don't think well
I don't know man it's the
music they're notorious for all
the sorts of things they've changed the
landscape they've changed
the landscapes of entire like
platforms to like YouTube used to be like
this wasteland of you
could listen to whatever you
want and do anything like.
But now if you like put in more than 10
seconds of a copyright
song you're gonna get.
You're gonna get obliterated.
Dude I get fucked if it's just like a
second I feel like and
they can detect it like it's.
Yeah Google's Google systems have gotten
a lot better and I
detect the stuff because.
Of like the legal love because of all the
stuff from the music industry.
Yeah.
And twitch too actually.
Because people used to stream whatever
music they wanted and
listen to it at the same time
talking but but then the record label
industry hit and then yeah a lot of those
bonds are in danger.
But on the flip side I think the the
artists need to get paid
like I think it's really.
The artists need to get paid but guess
who isn't paying them yeah
exactly that's what I'm saying
at the end of the day I'm for all that
and I'm for actually some
like you just can't play
an artist on YouTube that's just messed
up but and not pay them
but yeah it's it's really
they're they're getting so like artists
at the end of the day are
the ones getting screwed the
most out of all this.
Well yeah that's why I mean it's it's
basically common also at
this point a lot of artists have
to go out and perform concerts and all
that stuff to make a buck to
like make more than a dollar
per sale.
Yeah well and none of the artists that
they're trying to protect in the in the
78 project are alive for the most part.
So yeah in pretty.
Yeah concert tickets have gotten out of
control as well like yeah
ticket master and all those
they're really expensive they were always
really expensive like even before this
the recession but now honestly people
just aren't gonna see it
you know like you have a
you have Beyonce at a concert and it
doesn't matter no one's
gonna want to see her because
she's a fucking expensive her concerts
are so expensive right yeah
and I don't know man it's.
Yeah I mean look if you believe like I'm
talking to the audience here
if you guys believe in what
the internet archive does you can donate
yeah and and make it a
monthly donation because what
they do here is critical work and they
need they need support right now.
Yeah and they are a non-profit charity
legally speaking they have
they you can look up their
tax you look at their tax information
because they provide their tax ID number.
Right there yeah so they're very
transparent about what they do
they're going to save
history we'll just say.
Yeah I mean archivists and journalists
always get attacked.
And it's important to know to understand
the history and that's what they're
that's what they're doing nine they have
over 99 petabytes of data.
That's so crazy yeah damn and I see you
know people like Linus
Tech Tips they only have
one petabyte of storage let alone 99 of
those like holy shit.
That's crazy you really couldn't archive
the internet you'd have to like split it amongst
multiple different like people if like
the data servers won't handle them I
don't know it's crazy.
Yeah I mean literally attacking attacking
the internet archive to me
is almost as bad as burning
books like in some ways it's it's worse
because I think you'd books are are
physical you're going
to find some of those physical books
eventually but digital
archive like I guess maybe some of
it split off but it's so we kind of have
of some of these
services that's all there is.
Yeah this is it's a preservation of
culture and you know attacking them is
the erasure of culture
I mean just think of like just think of
the video game industry
and how like critically awful
the video game industry is when it comes
to preservation and
then the RIAA is worse like
orders of magnitude worse um they're
going after them for
hundred-year-old recordings
like this is insane I'm literally live it
I need to move on because
I'm going to like my blood
pressure is going to Scott keep going
through the roof goes
completely against what patents and
copywriter for that's what it is what it
is it's completely against
it yep yep let's move on so we
have a more lighthearted topic at hand 19
of Japanese people in
their 20s has spent so much
on gotcha that they've struggled to cover
living expenses survey
reveals this is crazy uh what it
what's going on with this so why for the
audience if you're
unfamiliar with the concept of what a
gotcha is it's basically like the
original gotcha before video games came
out were like little
vending machines with little capsules and
you get toys out of them
I'm sure you've seen them
here in the US as well right guys oh yeah
but in this case
gotcha games are games where
you know characters items means of
progression are locked
behind having to roll the gotcha
and they're they make a shitload of money
if you if you make it big
you'd make a shitload of money
but if you don't then you're fucked let's
just say quick question
is this like gotcha like
G-O-T-C-H-A or is that or is this like a
Japanese it's a Japanese word it's a
gotcha pond for short
actually all right but uh essentially if
you look at the data
there's all this data right here they
spent this is shocking
20 like almost 20 of all people spend too
much on video games and
they can't cover basic living
this is Japan by the way not the US I'm
sure and only 30 and all in
only like 24 percent of them actually
regret this decision only 24 percent
yes that one is yeah it's saying if you
people that regret yes
that's crazy spent money okay so
spent money on uh in-game purchases to
the extent of not being
able to cover living expenses
and that's 18.9 percent of all like both
men and women yeah yeah it's
a sample and the regretting
spending money it was a sample size of a
thousand people yeah yeah and
then and then the percentage
of all men and women in the study who
regret spending that much
money on in-game purchases
is only 20 or 23.9 percent um I'm sorry
but that just doesn't that
just doesn't add up to me like
if you can't cover your living expenses
and you don't regret it like what is
wrong with you it's a
it's it comes down to I think a mental um
mental illness or like an
issue on like uh that needs to
be resolved but like 76 percent of these
people have some kind of
mental issue no 76 is no so
that means they don't yeah that means
they don't regret it so I mean
part of it is also that maybe
those aren't the some of those people
aren't the people that
spent like a thousand dollars on
rolling my favorite life oh I see yeah
like I so so like I spent
like 20 on the character they
don't regret it I mean 20 is still a
little bit too much for my opinion oh
this is like including
all the thousand okay yeah yeah yeah I
was misunderstanding yes that makes sense
spending money on in-game purchases 20
but that's still like yeah
okay that I wanted to see the
correlation on the people that actually
are spent like their
living expenses are are
shot now I want to see what the
percentage there don't worry I mean
there's more like the the 18
so it's almost 19 percent of people spent
more than they should have
yes and over 20 so a greater
percentage of the people who spent any
money are regretted yeah
like I probably like I probably
wouldn't like I wouldn't I probably
regret spending a hundred
dollars on the character
but at least I'm not broke that's
probably the sentiment that's going on
there yeah I'll also
mention a thousand for sample size is not
very good no yeah it's not
it's not a very big sample
in these be much much people it should be
much bigger but yeah
continue so here is the survey
here's some more stuff here so they ask
us every year yeah I'm
willing to pay to have an advantage
in-game 2024 survey all all men and women
12 in 2024 17.9 in 2025
interesting yeah so and then
I can't enjoy the game if I don't make
in-game purchases in 2024
all respondents said 18 percent
in 2024 in 2025 it was 20.8 percent so it
sounds like the the
gacha market is actually like
influencing people in a negative way
that's what it sounds like to me it
certainly does and I'm not
sure if it's because and the second the
second graph in particular
I'm not sure if that means that
oh the game's just not fun if I don't
spend because I just I'm
weak and you know a lot of
gacha games they make free characters not
nearly as strong as like the
characters you can like roll
or uh that tends to be the case uh but
I'm not sure if that's
what it is or if maybe like oh
this 60 game doesn't have any
microtransactions I can't enjoy Bellatro
without spending a dollar
for another hand like I don't know if
it's that I don't know
if that's the case either
I don't see that being the case but you
know someone had to say it
right I mean yeah there yeah I think
there are two ways to
look at it you're right um
it's interesting though I mean why why
would you even want to
play a game like this if if
there are people if you know that they're
fucking scamming you
like so maybe I'm just
addictive play addictive play you're
getting deeper and deeper
you're like well I want to be
the best uh it works like I said it works
like it's not like some
intense mental illness thing
it's just working I shouldn't you know
it's gambling it can work
off similar things to gambling
um yeah so I think that you're gonna win
so I will confess I do
sometimes imbibe in the gacha games
I don't pay for them because yeah I just
know better and also I
have impeccable gacha luck
that's what they all say and then they're
paying I'm not paying
I'm free to play baby
but uh let's see what let's but what's
this last one here I should
see what this is let's see
it's the uh amount of
money spent it looks like see
I've spent
Yeah, from last year because it's down
like almost a thousand yen
Spent I think part of that has to do with
the fact that the yen is so
weak nowadays to be honest
Hmm. Yeah, I mean is that is that a lot
that doesn't as far as I know that's not
Like it's like ten bucks like
Probably five or six dollars now
Is that like average purchase price or is
that like over a time span or I mean, I
mean it looks like it's
Average per month
Okay
So, I mean, you know if you're spending
ten dollars a month, that's not like
gonna impact your
finances too bad, right? Yeah
But of course you have famous stories
like how someone spent like forty
thousand dollars a year on
Maybe in order. Let me pull
up. Let me pull up that story
I mean, you know high tech you do have
pretty good luck though. I mean you've
told us stories about
how good luck you have
Born lucky
Speaking of which I only play one gotcha
game nowadays and that's uh, I think
you've I think you've
guys see me talk about it
I mean, I mean, I mean I've seen my videos and some of the people that have
seen my videos talk you talk about it
It's a blue archive. I'm max level in it
And I have some of the best units in the
game because I just have impeccable luck
See me but I
Mean be careful I might I
Need I want some of
that luck. It's not fair
Hey, man, it's not my fault
I can just get things I want for free
You know, what's funny I actually have
pretty good luck too
But like I have like this hyper. I don't
know like almost
supernatural sense about luck
I you guys want to buckle in for a long
story or should we not I mean down
So it's actually not that long but I went
to this like Christmas party with my
girlfriend at the time
at her work and she worked at this like
elementary school and
Like all down the main hall of the
elementary school there were tables set
up with door prizes
and it was ten dollars
For each ticket to enter a door prize and
they'd give you a ticket and you could
walk down the thing and put it
In any bowl on any table and
then they draw a door prize
From the bowl on each table, you'd win
that prize. So I ended up
Like telling my girlfriend I was like we
need to buy two tickets and
that's it and she's like no
I'm gonna get like four or five. I'm
like, no, we only need two. Oh
Dude I'm telling you and
so we bought two tickets
One was for me one was for her. We walked
down the thing and I was
like this tablet right here
And I don't have it right here, but I
have a tablet that I
won from this door prize
Okay, I was like I'm gonna win this
tablet and she's like no
And then we walked around and I had a
feeling that there was like this
Basket with
It was like an Easter basket,
but it had like dolphins like
Memorabilia in it like the football team
and I was like put your ticket in here.
You're gonna win this
She's like, I don't want that. I'm like,
I don't care. It's Christmas time. You
can give it to your dad or something
You're gonna win this she didn't do it
and then she didn't see
anything else that she wanted
So she just threw it in there as a lark,
right and she's like you're full of shit.
You're not we're not
gonna win either of these
Dude, I'm telling you we drove three
hours down to see our friends
and then she got a phone call and she had
won the the dolphins basket and
Then like the next day I was like shocked
that they didn't also say that I won the
thing and then the next day
They called and they were like, oh by the
way Gardner won that too
So dude, how wild is that? I can I do
that all the time to like when
I know I'm gonna win something
Yeah, you know, you should be Gardner
You should look at a little experiment
where you try pulling you pick a gacha a
random gacha game of your choice
And then you just keep playing you play
it for like a month or so
and you see how lucky you are
Yeah, well the weird thing is it doesn't
work with gambling like it only works
with like door prizes and like
Like those, you know jelly bean like
raffles and stuff like
that's where it works
It never works when I'm like it never
works when I have a feeling I'm like, I
should get like a mega bucks
or powerball or whatever
Dude. Yeah, if you did do that, you
probably wouldn't be on the internet
anymore. I certainly wouldn't dude
If I had if I had like a powerball
Winnings, I would like retire like I
wouldn't do I wouldn't do anything
games all day
Yeah, no, I mean I probably you know,
honestly I say that but I would not be
able to not work like
I have to be working
I'm like a sheepdog. Yeah, but like you
could you do like your
super big passion project
You do. Yes. Oh, yeah,
dude if I had tons of money
I would go around and make documentaries
about Linux like I'd go around and like
meet luminaries and like
interview them and do cool
Shit like that. That's
what I do Linux Torvalds
Yeah, I it would be an honor to meet
Linux Torvalds in person
You could meet Linus
Linus it just sounds similar Linus
Linus I think it wasn't
that
He I remember watching an
interview with him and he said
that in English his name is Linus in and
Finish his name is Linus and that's where
the name comes from. Yeah
Linus we also beat Linus tech tips
Yeah, that'd be cool. No, you're very
cool. That would be cool
All right, we should
move on we've digressed
Next up maple story classic world. I
don't know anything about maple story.
What is it? What is this an MMO?
Do you know what Wow is? Oh
Yeah, I know. I know. You know how Wow
released a classic Wow version
It's like that but maple story
Gotcha so maple story is an
old-ass game like really old
Yeah, the name like rings a bell from
like when I was in high school like 2005
Oh, this looks super
familiar actually. Yeah
It's it's that's
basically classic maple story
Yeah, it's like a to the platformer MMO
game and let's just say it's super grindy
Because that's what
Korean MMOs are back in the day
Mmm
But I mean, I don't know to
make I mean, it's pretty cool
I just find it interesting that MMOs are
resorting to go back resorting to going
back to like the classic era of MMOs
How fortnight even did
this to at one point?
Yeah
Well, I mean World of Warcraft classic
was such a cool idea
like I went and played it a little bit I
wish I had more time to play more of it
because it brings me back to
the
before they
Not that I'm against what it is now
I just haven't I just don't have the time
to play it and or what
to see what it is now
But it is funny and then this knowledge
nostalgia trip to go back
and play World of Warcraft
Wait, wait garden and go back like go
back like to era like go back like like
10 seconds. I'm more
On the cause air father. Oh
No, you have to pause at that chat
window. Hold on. Give
it a sec. It's really
Oh my god, this is what is
for did wait, is that what LF?
Arrow bracket. Yeah looking for
Looking for and then it's whatever need
you could like you could like look for
items or in this case. He's
looking for a girlfriend or
Husband so long since I played me. I'm
sorry. I don't remember if
GF stands for anything else
Probably girlfriend probably girlfriend
Probably I think it's better. That's what
it is. I've seen runescape and people's
I've seen images of people on runescape
looking for girlfriends
on runescape
That makes me sad
Do it's a common MMO trope dude, it's
just it's the classic but yeah
Mmos are
Interesting could be a role-playing
server like, you know, yeah
People get married so also why do why are
all of them named CW
player number? I'm pretty sure I
Don't know. Maybe it's like some sort of
beta. I don't know
some sort of beta tester
Maybe they're just saying I
love Gia for the fun of it
CW player 20 is classic world, right? Cuz
this is classic world.
So this is like, yeah
Yeah, so this is a lark probably like
they're making a joke it
probably is it's a layer
It's still a layer because you would you
definitely unironically see that
Yeah, but uh speed we get the weight
speaking of which a classic Wow is
introducing expansions. Does that not
defeat the purpose of classic?
Wow
What happens when classic Wow reaches
like what Wow is right now?
Do they just they reset again just make
classic classic Wow? I
Don't understand why they don't like have
different servers you
can play on with whatever
Expansions you want I agree with that
Probably because they want everyone to be
in parody and they want people to keep
paying or some shit like that
It could be that too
Like maybe there's not enough people if
you have classic to play and so they make
it a big ordeal and you jump on and do it
And then what what happens is that then
they add on like I think every year to they add on a new expansion
But yeah, I think yeah
Hmm
Weird
But yeah, that's one
thing that's one of the videos
I linked in this topic because I just
want to talk about random gaming trends.
I noticed another
there's another video, too
and this one
It's a Diablo crossover with berserk
Have you guys read the manga for berserk?
No, not much, but I've seen the
Anime for the most part. Yeah
The ant then the like newer 2000s anime
is really rough because it's
all CG and it's terrible CG
The 90s anime is really good though
So like seminal like dark fantasy
They they say Dark Souls is heavily
inspired by berserk. Let's just say
Really? Yeah, this makes sense. This
makes sense for a
crossover. I'll be like I really
It does make it does make sense. But at
the same time though, a lot of people are
starting to get kind of
Tired of it. So he looks like Kratos. So
that's in this so that's a Diablo
character. That's not guts
Gus
Pull of it. You can look and pull up a
picture of guts right now. He doesn't
look anything like that
For instance, he's
not bald or has a beard
Guts guts from berserk. That's his name
He wields the dragon slayer sword and
it's a giant piece of it's still yeah,
it's a giant sword that
Yeah. Yeah, that's guts right there
Hmm so he has a mechanical arm because in
the golden age he had to cut his arm off
to try to save casca because of
Some terrible. It's not appropriate for
kids. We'll just say berserk
And it's not just and it's
not just a blood and gore
Hmm there's every
suggestive theme I feel like in that
It's not played for
What a modern anime is it's dramatic and
it's terrible and it's treated such to
But it's a really good series if you're
interested like dark fantasy
The original author died like last year I
believe for two years ago. Mm-hmm
And so they're still carrying it on I
haven't read it since
then to be honest, but I
Didn't mean to dive into it one these
days. It's just haven't I just haven't
yet. I've had too much other stuff
Yeah
It's good stuff now, but
unexpected crossovers I
For with fortnight gets it kind of makes
sense because like
fortnight is just fortnight
But like how do you feel
about called duty having?
Anime girl guns and
like squid games crossovers
Like I think people don't like that.
Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Honestly,
that seems like a Bobby Kotak decision
Yeah, I'll release a Bobby Kotak style of
decision because I mean, yeah, right
What I mean because
there's nothing there's no way
There's like no real correlation between
squid games and also
Call of Duty supplies despite, you know
Except for the fact that you know, some
of the guards and squid games uses guns
to kill people. That's like the only
real connection I think
Yeah, I mean the only connection that I
can think of is Microsoft's gonna buy
Netflix pretty soon. That's a joke
That's a joke
I haven't heard any rumors
Don't put that out there. Don't say that
shit. Don't say that shit man. You're
gonna be like the modern day Cassandra.
It's a Cassandra. Yeah
No, I just Microsoft buys everything
they're evil they are evil to a degree
they're all the company
everyone's evil to some degree
Oh, yeah, they're all they're all bad
Before we before we wrap this episode up.
I want I think we
should take a moment and
and
And recognize the the
people who have left comments on
the on the last episode
This is something we've been promising we
would do for a few months
And finally there have been comments that
we can respond to on the air
This is this is pretty cool we had bill
on the last episode from nerd nest and
he's just an awesome guest to have and
A bunch of people were commenting
Nerd nest and off the console are two of
my most watched podcasts
and are part of the reason
That I have moved to Steam
Deck and PC gaming and us
How many a hearted that
because it made me happy?
And then it is surreal that to see my two
favorite podcasts are coming together
That's pretty awesome. So
it's really cool. Hell. Yeah
And
Then phaser shifter
3120 says I'm running bas light with an
RTX 3080 had it running fine for months
without issues switched to Windows
But could not stand it and finally
switched back to bad light had a few
issues now. Oh now it's fine
That's interesting. Awesome. Hey, if it's
working great go for it. Yeah, like bas
light was great. I liked it
I just yeah, it was crashing too much.
And so I'm gonna go
back to it a little later
Yeah, a 3080 is like kind of like the the
30 series is kind of the bare minimum for
Using Linux with the Nvidia card like the
20 series and the 10 like
We're not that great
So it's good. It's good that you are
having fewer issues. It sounds like with
Linux than with Windows
Yeah, yeah, I mean Windows I was having
issues with the windows and I had a
completely wipe my my
drive and reinstall up from
like a clean
Bootable drive like it that was the only
way I got it to kind of be fixed and I
Want to I can't wait till the day that I
just switch over fully
Mm-hmm
Yep, hopefully we'll
do it soon. Hopefully
Hopefully what happens in but who knows?
Oh, hey, look you're getting what you're
getting the lot show view
you're getting the lot
show videos again because
I guess you must have decided blush of
these aren't actually 18 plus anymore. Oh
Yeah
And this is like a brand account where
I'm logged in as off the off the console
right now. So oh very nice
Must be because we talk
about a lot show all the time
Probably do you guys do either of you
watch like content on this profile cuz I
don't I I I try not to I
Probably did once on accident and it was
probably like it was
probably Linus or something
It was so it was real
relative to what we do
Yeah, I don't try to do it. I mean, I
think it happened. I don't either I
Have a I have my workspaces
segmented out and I think I was
working on the
Editing the video and then I was I think
I wanted to watch something or I was
maybe pulling up some
videos for it or something
Like that night. Mm-hmm, but not much
Yeah, oh
Cool well, is there anything else? I
think that's that's
everything we have in our dock. Yeah
Yeah, I don't know if there's much else.
Let's see if there's
any last-minute stories. I
I didn't make a video yesterday because
I've been working on my next one. My next
one is gonna be huge
I've probably spent like
two maybe three days on it
Like writing and editing so far and I
have two more days
left. I can almost guarantee
So that's gonna be cool. But I like I
didn't make a video yesterday because
there wasn't a whole lot of
Like Linux gaming news to cover so I
mean, I don't think there was that much
gaming news period besides, you know
Everything going up in price as a whole
Yeah
Awesome. Well, hopefully we don't see
that it next week and every week we have
higher prices due to terrorists. Yeah
Maybe I'll be wrong. Hey, you know what
bring it on. I already got all my stuff
I got my max studio. So I'm
good. I have I have my 3090 PC
I can weather it but you need a 5090 dude
You're 30 90s. I know anymore
FOMO dude, I know I have after signals
I I thought I would have more foam on I
usually do but like after seeing the
prices and how hard it is get and
Like I think AMD is
doing an okay enough job
And I'm just I think I'm gonna go for a
mid-range card eventually
But fuck this like the high range like go
high end go with a battle mage card
If you don't buy a 5090 for 2000 right
now the 69 is gonna be
Three thousand dollars four thousand
If you don't it's just gonna push me
More to just whatever else is there. I'm
not gonna I'm not
playing that game right now
True that true that I wouldn't want to
play this thing in the past
actually, the only reason I have a 3090
is because it's what
I could get during the
What is it the cryptocurrency era where
everything was sold out and I like 30 80s
were so I wanted it at 3080
but I
Could only get a 3090 because 30 80s were
just better at that mining crypto
You could only get a 3090 that sounds
like the most
ridiculous. They've ever heard but
Shit, man. Well, I mean I remember that
that was a terrible era for yeah
I see maybe I could have gotten something
that was much like like a
3050 or 60 or something like that, but I
didn't want that I wanted something like
a I wanted 70 or higher
And that's all I could get was at 3090
Yeah, I know it sounds
ridiculous, but it's what it is
And it overheats my
room so much. I hate it
Yeah
Well guys, I think
that's it for this episode
Two hours and 13 minutes
where we're right on time
Thanks everybody for watching. Yeah, we
had we had fun today. Oh
good good times good times. Yeah
I'm a bit lower energy today, but or at
least now but I think it was cuz it's
like my blood pressure like shot to
The roof with that in an archive story
Cool. All right. Well everybody take care
and we'll see you
guys in the next episode
Peace out. Yeah, see you see a high tech
See you later James and myself, okay
Man
That's a GP