Imagine the storm of Elon Musk actually
makes to the top of the leaderboard. I'm
not here for this reality
Dude, I know what is this?
He's ruining every aspect of
my life. I can't buy any cars
You can't ride on airplanes but for a
different reason at least I have my
single-player games
and my Xbox right Gardner
Exactly, dude. Exactly. Dude. He's gonna
he's gonna try to buy
Microsoft and make it the Tesla box
It's gonna be the XX box. Come on, dude.
Did just that moment. I can see X X X box
Don't give him ideas. He loves X so much.
That's all that that seems like it
Something you do is he'd buy Xbox. Good
morning everybody and welcome to off the
console with us your
your weekly guides into the
weird
nerdy
Linux and gaming and the weird news
I'm not going on the script today because
I had no sleep last night.
We're gonna be talking about
Microsoft Muse which is their generative
AI thing that they released and we're
probably gonna talk
about the backlash as well
We're also gonna talk about Microsoft's
new state of matter that
they claim to have invented
Which I would think would be a discovery
rather than an invention,
but we'll talk about that
And we're gonna talk about a lot of other
stuff. We have Team Fortress 2
Does the
Source code update I'm very excited about
all this. So let's just jump into it.
What have you guys
been playing this week?
This is gonna be a surprise
Astrobot
They keep on updating it and
So they have a whole new galaxy that
they've updated that they're updating
like the new worlds over
the next I think few weeks
Yeah, so and it doesn't doesn't cost
anything like a DLC kind of
thing, but they just pops up
We DLC in the time current year
It's a place like
PlayStation's flagship right now game
I feel like and they're doing it right
meaning it's a love letter to their fans
It doesn't cost them extra and it's
really well polished and my kids love it
The reason I keep coming back to it is
because my kids keep on
playing it like my son
Who's four years old?
Can it could probably beat the game now
even though he'll ask for
help getting certain things
I have never seen anyone adapt to a game
so well as my four-year-old is shocked
That's so he loves it. And so it has the
challenging parts for like adults, but
also has like a lot of fun
easier things for kids to do so
He keeps playing and then asking me and
then the world's pop-up
and then we're like, oh well
It looks like we need to beat the game
again because well, you
know not play it over again
But continue playing it because there's
more to it. So I'd love to see other
Publishers and developers do this where
they just add a little
bit of extras over time
It doesn't have to be like a ton but just
a little bit it gives
It makes you feel if you get a little bit
more bang for your book
and I like that oh
Yeah, man
Sorry about that
Yeah, so I've been playing Marvel Rivals.
I've been driving my way up. I
made it to plat to platinum to
solo queuing
For the most part and I've also been
getting I've also been getting into Ender
Magnolia. I'm still I beat the game
But I haven't gotten the real ending yet.
So there's still some
work to be done that regard
and
And I haven't given up on 100% in
Bellato. I'm just putting on pause until
the game gets its update
Let's say sounds like he gave up
Going to Marvel
Well, I've been playing Marvel and I've
been going Marvel for quite some time
now, I think uh, yeah
Yeah, they just released new characters
the thing and the human
torch the last two fat
Fantastic four members didn't get a lot
of ass. So the thing
Is there some pretty cool co-op abilities
between the Fantastic
Four like the whole group?
So yeah, they do yeah, okay. Sorry. Yeah,
so if you have Sue storm you
need to have her on the team
Any of the other Fantastic Four members
get new ability where they like generate
shield based on missing health. Oh
That's cool. Yeah, that's one of the
things that I like about that game is
their their compound
abilities between characters
I like that a lot. Yeah, man a store and
storm and the human
torch have a really crazy
Synergy where if they both
use her ults at the same time
The human torch can like ignite storms
like tornado ultimate where she in like
it turns into like a firestorm
And they'd like eviscerates all the
healers I fucking hate how powerful the
healers are the game
nice
No, that's not that it's a it's a game. I
still need to get into
I'm just kind of over a superhero stuff
because like the movies were so good up
to a point and then it's just I
Don't know
It's doesn't Marlin of it
It's good Marvel doesn't know what to do.
I mean like I think I
think we can all agree that
Superhero media kind of peaked with
endgame because that was like the grand
finale of the MZ at that time, but right
They had a vision
It wasn't cookie cutter it like meaning
like they were kind of
getting more cookie cutter
I guess up to that point, but they had it
it was it was fun is exciting to follow
the whole story and then
Yeah, it kind of just fell apart as
everything just became
Even more cookie cutter. They're like,
okay, we got to release this this and
this and it doesn't
feel like anything is very
Fresh and new and it's oh
Well, gardeners he hasn't watched it and
have you like not what you haven't
watching the Marvel movies or just like
ending in particular
I saw the first Iron Man
And I saw like the
spider-man movies way back in the day
But I'm not I don't really care for
superheroes that much. Yeah, that's fair
enough. So I'm just
gonna be a brief summary
The it's like a it's
like a near 20 year arc
Starting with Iron Man the first Iron Man
movie and it culminates with
Them fighting fighting the it was
essentially at that point
the final boss of the MCU
And it was it was pretty it
was pretty epic. I will say
Now there are some now. I won't miss on
like the perfect. It's not like
It's not like a
Martin's. It's not like well
What's a what's a movie that people like
to like scream is a great
just like it's not citizen Kane
Mmm, but it's it's it's an exciting. It's
a it was a pretty fun time.
I think the problem is that a
Some of the most iconic superheroes are
either dead or retired along with their
actors. They're not doing Marvel anymore
Indeed not all they have are like
Everyone else like characters that people
really don't care that
much about like Ant-Man
Yeah
What's his name the guy Paul Rudd?
Like Paul Rudd. Yeah, Paul Rudd. Yeah,
they have a they have an interesting
habit of getting comedic
actors into superhero roles
Yeah, I
Think it works. I
Like certain super. I'm not the I'm not
even the biggest superhero fan
but
It worked and now that they're doing I
don't know what it is
Like it's just the newer
movies just aren't as fun
But on top of that I'm just not the
biggest superhero fan
either, but I did enjoy the
20-year run, you know,
like high-tech was mentioning
It was fun to follow a lot of those stuff
even though I didn't watch almost I
watched almost all of them
But didn't quite it was fun, but I want
to see them do
something else like a different
Ark, that's not superheroes per se like
the industry that is not necessarily
Marvel, but I don't know
I'm more of a Star Trek fan. So I don't
What's the lesson they made a Star Trek
movie or like anything structure related
Well, there's like a whole bunch of TV
shows on Paramount Plus, but oh the only
one that I really like of those is
I
Like season 3 of Picard, but season 1 and
2 were terrible and then
what was the other one?
Be on there. They did the Star Trek
Beyond movie back in like
2016 and I really enjoyed that. I know it
was very divisive, but I don't know
I'm like a TNG era
like deep bass 9-track guy
Did I'm such a nerd
Hey, I've watched all the Star Trek
except for the newest
Series yeah if you so
if you like the episodic
Star Trek stuff check out strange new
worlds because it's pretty good
It's not great, but like it's episodic
rather than like a like
a long series drama thing
and it's like Pike and Spock and
number one I
Can't remember her name up my head, but I
haven't watched the new season
But it's good at least we all agree that
the between the Star Trek a little better
than what Disney's been with Star Wars
Yeah, yeah, I would I don't know if I'd
say much better, but they're
definitely treating it better
They're like like Paramount Plus is is
where all the new Star Trek's are right
and so it's really kind of weird
How they're hiding it they're almost
hiding it in some yeah,
isn't that where the Halo show is
Yeah, I haven't watched that
I I heard I really wanted it to be good
And I heard that it was not and it didn't
have any respect for the source material
So you have to watch it did you have to
watch them how bad it is some people like
bad things come on man
I can't enjoy bad things it makes me sad
Enjoying bad movies is an art form. It's
like watching the room
You know what I find I
watch red letter media
And I enjoy their joy if that makes
sense, but I can't I can't actually watch
that dude when I was a kid
I'm not saying this is bad
But like when I was a kid I couldn't
watch Zena warrior princess or and or
shows like of that direct
Descendication caliber for some reason it
just like watching it made me feel sick
And it might have been like the frame
rate like of the camera or something
I don't know
But something about it just was off and
it made me feel sick
And I feel that way about a lot of like
like bad movies like the soap opera
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
like the soap opera effect
Yeah, I don't know why those are filled
that's such a high frame rate compared to
everything else
whatever yes, I don't know
Interesting
Is you know warriors definitely one of
those that I couldn't get into either
yeah, I couldn't get into it
I've never watched it. I know where this
I've seen like maybe an episode or two,
but never like
actually sat down and watch it
Yeah, I definitely has not aged well. I
will say that a hundred
percent will say that yeah
Maybe you've been playing anything or
doing anything like Gardner. Oh, man.
Yeah, so I've been playing
original Xbox quite a bit
I had a I had my friends over and we
played four-player Halo and on
Blood Gulch yeah
That was fun
original Halo or Halo
2 original Halo damn
Yeah, and I also I was playing
Halo 2 on insignia, which I don't know if
you guys have heard of insignia
Yeah, it's the replacement
Xbox Xbox alive service for
Safe it would be cool. I I have a look
all of the online play that I've ever
done was on the original xbox
Like I don't play
online games whatsoever today
Yeah, there was something magical about
it back then and I was
a teenager so I did but
Yeah, and then also I've been I've been
like benchmarking this I gotta be careful
Can you see that? Ah, is that the thing?
Is that the thing you alluded to that
went up the off off
the camera? Yes earlier
Yes, it is. Hold on. Can you see it? I
can I can see it. Yeah, it's what
Would you be was that it's a?
Rx
6600 XT so it's not like awesome, but
it's pretty good. You know, I want you
what I'd like to see, huh?
And a 50 90 in there and
if it melts the connector
Don't think a 50 90 is compatible with
this because this only has two PCI
six pins
I think the I don't know for sure but I
would guess that it's like it
takes three six pins, right? I
Don't know I was 59 I think
it I think it takes four four
A lot it takes a lot. Yeah, it's like two
of their custom or the
Like the larger pins. Yeah, Jesus
It's insane. I can't that's
unjustifiable well, you know, I
Don't know man and video has got to sell
like a hundred GPUs to like a hundred
suckers out in the world
So like, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean they
have the FOMO for it
Dude, the nice thing about this is like
well, I'm not gonna spoil it because you
guys got to watch my review
It's coming out on Monday, but
Man this thing is so cool and it doesn't
work the way you expect it to work. I'll
tell you that much. Oh
All right. Well, okay. All right. We'll
check it out on Monday
Let me just so
This is the box or
the sleeve for it PCI 16
Yeah, like 16
Like a full 16 like yeah, I think
technically it's actually 17 lines
I'll just say that
That's good. That's good. That'll be
interesting. I'm wait. You
won't have to review his review
It's really cool.
It's and it's got like a
What is it? It has a
I
an i9
13
13 900 HK processor in it. So I mean
dude, I'm super stoked about this. This
might become my like
living room theater
PC
Hmm with the GPU
attached to it, sir. Yeah. Oh
I need one of those too. It's pretty
nice. It has dual to 2.5 gigabit nix in the back. It's it's sick
Yeah, because I
believe arcade box with it. I
You know, actually I think that would be
a great application for this thing
because like it it doesn't have an
enclosure for the GPU
so if you put it in like a
You know my biggest concern about having
this sitting out in my living room is
like it just gathers dust and
You know it needs to be constantly
cleaned and stuff or like having my
friend my friend's four-year-old over and he just sticks his finger
in the fan or whatever So I think a
Arcade camera would be
actually a great idea for this
Yeah, I mean hey man, they do sell uh,
you can either out on a buy like an old
Pacman machine or whatever
the fuck or you could like
They have kids where they they cut out
all the wood such for you already
And they also like stick the vinyl on for yourself. You just have to assemble it with screwdrivers and such. Mmm
Or you'd like do it yourself, you know,
you do have a 3d printer
after all. I don't know how many
parts you would have to 3d print
Probably fewer than you would imagine
that thing is enormous. It
has a huge build volume. Oh
Yeah, but I think I'd
want an authentic like
Authentic like melamine build, you know, I got you know
My uncle built me this desk and I'd have
him help me build the arcade
I did it. But anyway, let's let's move on
to the stories of the week. Shall we I
tend to go off the rails when it comes to
I'm doing this. So it's good stuff
Yeah, before we get into it though. I
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Alright now that we've gone through the
the the spiel, right? So
the first story this week
What is this Microsoft Muse? It's a generative AI
For gameplay ideation. I have to admit I
saw this and kind of laughed at it
I check you want to take it. Yes, so
This is an AI model designed for what
they call gameplay ideation
So they've trained on one of Ninja
theories actual game
releases like four years ago
It released called
bleeding edge and essentially here
So I don't know why we can't maximize it Here so I don't know why we can't
maximize these this is kind of bogus
Yeah, so there's a bunch of different
examples so this is actual human gameplay
Like this is the actual game itself
You can see it looks like a game because
you have players running to walls and
stuff and it doesn't like
Glitch out like an AI would
Now this is a team whatever I guess
This is like
The gameplay this is
actual gameplay right here
Whatever
Now this they say he
generated by news with over
206 million parameters condition on one
second of actual gameplay in nine seconds
of action. Wait, what?
One second of gameplay nine seconds of
actions. What the
hell's that supposed to mean?
Can anyone coefficient with
AI tell what that that means?
One second of real gameplay I'm imagining
that might be footage and nine seconds of
action might be like the
Actions leading up to the footage maybe
So this is so like as you
can see he just kind of like
I don't know what's happening here
And
Looks like you know those old AVI
pirated videos you download and
one way
Lime wiring it would like break the mpeg
encoding and then just yeah. Yeah looks
like yeah, whatever man, so
it's
Consistency diversity improves see
consistency. I don't
really care about this
I just want to say this is steaming. I
think the actual story that we want to
talk about though was
Microsoft's unusual claim
with
AI
namely, for example
they want to do
backwards compatibility
So let's see. Here's here's the exact
quote today countless classic
games tied to ancient hardware
No longer played by most
people thanks to this breakthrough
We are exploring the
potential for me is to take back over
Back catalog games from our studios and
optimize them for any device
We believe this could radically change
how we preserve and experience classic
games in the future and makes it
accessible to more players
First and foremost we already have
something about guess what it's called
emulation
and emulation
Is pretty fucking good, and it's not
backed by any major
corporation for the most part
Yeah
I mean
Why why do we need this?
Like I just don't understand like there's
the fact that they're using like
backcompat to be an excuse for it for
This it's just kind of like why like what
they they want to push this stuff so
hard, and I just don't understand why
But what does backwards about even mean
for this case because it's from what we
can see news is just
Generating like gameplay ideas and stuff
Oh, is I think just enough AI generate
gameplay of older games
that is that how it's gonna be?
Like you want to play Halo 1 I just kind
of have to imagine how an
AI hallucinates a little one
Yeah, just describe
Halo 1 to chat GPT and have it output a
series of frames for you
David saw it like it's like it's like
it's like all those have you seen those
videos of AI generated do
Yeah, it doesn't yeah
So
My deal with this whole AI game
development thing my whole
Problem with it is like kind of what
gardeners asked why?
What is the point? What is the customer
gonna get from this I get it's fun like I
like it as a research thing
I don't want to see companies you try to
use this to make games
Ever honestly because here's the thing
game de Val developers like their jobs
They'd like being creative in a world
that's gonna be dominated
by AI in the next few decades
There they should be taking jobs that we
don't want to do so that
we can do creative jobs
That's if you want to be idealistic about
all this they should be
doing we should be having them
You know do better job
at picking crops of food
Doing a lot of different things that were
either not as good at or just don't enjoy
so that we can focus on creativity or
Like just a lot of different things like
it should be helping us
not replacing the fun jobs
And that's the problem with this
Flat out is why is it gonna be more
creative not anytime soon?
Is this and my fear is like I like seeing
stuff like this because it's fun to see
like a computer do something
But my fear is that why is a company that
is seeks profit, you know above all else
Doing this is it to replace the game
studios that they have or the workers at
the game studios. Yeah, it is
I mean if you like the number of
people it takes to employ to make games,
you know, like it's so expensive and
they that's why Microsoft wants this to
be the the future of the
way they make games is because
It's like if they could cut out like a
couple billion
dollars from their you know
Employees they would they'd save a ton of
money and make a bunch
of money doing it, too
Hey Microsoft, you should hire me. I am
the world's most powerful idea guy
I can use AI to make games better than a
committee of like
hundreds of developers at once
So totally man like I don't know man.
There's something with
Microsoft's like like I get it
They invested in open AI like
a shit ton of money in open AI
But at the same time though, like that
doesn't mean you have to like try to
shove AI everywhere like
we'll took a Microsoft co-pilot
That's every way now and hell
It's in notepad. It's in fucking notepad.
You have to sign in to use
co-pilot notepad I
Didn't even know that it was an old pad.
That's crazy. I have not been using
I have not been using Windows a whole lot
these days. I only use it for games and
that's about it and so
AI and notepad that's I didn't I
Don't know why it's a note like yeah, I
might understand if you put it in like
word because like you're making documents
But they tried that in the 90s and clippy
sucked. So I don't know why they're
trying to get well, hold up
We're still talking about
clippy. How bad could it be?
Dude, I don't know. I I'm so skeptical of
AI. I think that it is
nothing more than Bitcoin 2.0
Like I really don't see how this tech can
evolve beyond a chatbot or
like
You know beyond like the smoke and
mirrors of like oh we we
taught it out of how to do math too
And it's like yeah
But that's probably just some program
taking over from the
chatbot. Like I just don't see how
It can evolve beyond where it's at more
than maybe two or three years ago. Well,
I think Bitcoin is useful
I think decentralized
systems can be useful
But they're overplayed oftentimes
especially from companies that want to
make a lot of money which they do
Yeah, I think like machine learning. I
think has some very valuable
Applications right like folding at home
that that's machine learning and it's
done at scale and it's done using
Donated CPU time that's great, you know
They and and stuff like that in medical
applications in scientific applications
Sifting through massive data sets. I
think that that machine
learning makes a lot of sense
I don't see a lot of practical
applications for LLMs. I
I
Just don't see it. I don't like it's fun
to play around with
sometimes. I just don't get it
Yeah, I listen to Bitcoin. Bitcoin was
kind of cool back in the day because it
was kind of under the ground
It was decentralized and you can use it
for a lot of cool underground
Transactions like stuff that you probably
shouldn't because it's
highly illegal like the Silk Road
dark web
Like there are a lot of like there's a
lot there's like it was it used to be an
actual currency that you could like
Pay for goods and services withheld
remember when valve used to
support Bitcoin. Yeah. Yeah
Obviously they stopped because the prices
of Bitcoin kept fluctuating and as such
they just kept having to
like either refund money or
Like demand or like ask for more money
and it just became a huge hassle
Yeah, that's the problem with Bitcoin
it's become a little bit more stable in
some form of fashion
But it's not a great currency for
payments right now. It's more of a I
would put it behind like a
gold standard in some ways
where
You put in store there for a while and
it's there in case of a merge. I don't
know it's a whole thing with Bitcoin
Yeah, it's like for me. I'm
not like poo-pooing Bitcoin
But I'm but it is I see AI like the the
trendiness and like the frenzy around AI
To be on par with like
the frenzy around blockchain
Right like when when
companies that were listed publicly
renamed themselves to have
Blockchain in the in the name their
company just so that
they could get investors
I mean this AI frenzy is ridiculous, and
I just don't see where LLMs are gonna go
But I do see
applications for machine learning
I think you're gonna change your mind
when the next Halo game is
made by AI and it's gonna be good
So you'll be like this is not good. It's
gonna look like cel shaded mpeg garbage
No, it's gonna be amazing and you're
gonna be shocked. No
Who knows but I will say like blockchain
has its place is overblown if it's useful
But people don't understand why it's
useful like and that's the problem is
that there's so many
people that kind of got into the
It's the almost the charlatans
All right
the business people that really don't
understand the tech that then try to use
it to make money as like
blockchain like and like
So like Bitcoin has
its use as like a gold
Standard you want to say in the in the
tech world then you got I have worked in
this industry before
There's a reason I'm not in
it anymore, but and then they
There's other blockchains that are very
useful for processing data at a cost like
is to help decentralized
They've not found the perfect balance it
and everything but you know, there's
there's points to it
Where I see game AI
Not like this type. I
don't see a point to it
but AI I will I will I am a hundred
percent behind AI to as a
tool to help so and
You know AI is not really technically a
right it's and they're trying to change
the definitions on this
which is fine. Whatever
It's just mostly
LMs and you know
machine learning stuff. So
It's very useful. So like for game
developers, it could be very useful as a
tool to help them maybe
Fast track building texture or something
like that. There's there's a lot of
different things that they could do to
help but to replace people I
Especially like a lot of people I think
Microsoft is gonna be in for a rude
awakening if they're
gonna ever try that and a
Lot of companies that are doing it right
now because there's a lot of companies
doing it meta included
even though, you know
But
Because that's a whole kind of worms, but
I think they're gonna regret it when they
eventually don't have
the people and the domain knowledge to
keep on running their products
So I I do think there's gonna be this is
where in the honeymoon period of AI and I
think there's gonna be a period
of regret I
Don't think it's a bad thing to invest in
but it doesn't need to be injected in
every aspect including notepad
It could be used for a lot of different
things, especially
very repetitive reusable
Instances heck farming can it can be a
great way to do it. There's AI projects
open source AI
projects for running a garden
That's really cool. But there's some
There's there's some and that's been
going on for years like there's some
really cool stuff that
people will blast by because
the
Try to get the bad culture right now
that's going on and I'm just worried that
it's gonna bleed into
the games where people like
I'm a business person
I'm gonna make this
YouTube channel and I'm gonna
You can make a game that will make you a
million dollars because look what I'm
doing and when they don't really do it
I it's the whole
Sorry, just going down the hole. Yeah.
Well, it's the it's the tech bro grift
again. That's what I'm skeptical
Yeah, it's like Jensen
Wong and his you know
GPU Charlotte and crew
like I just don't I have no
Respect for it and you know, like you're
saying James, there are
practical applications
I hadn't heard about the gardening thing,
but it makes total
sense like you can have
There's there are like open source
projects for maintaining gardens
like with a traditional program and if
you could take that
information and pipe it into a
Machine learning algorithm that can you
know help optimize your layout in your
garden? I think that makes a lot of sense
but it is like it's the tech bros that
are coming in and like
seeing this as a cash cow and
And and a way that they can grift people
and it sours everyone
on it. Honestly to me
It's it's also simply
reminds me of how Nintendo
Shoehorned in the we mo waggle bullshit
into all their games and it ruined
motion control for
Everyone for decades. I mean still like
there's a lot of like people who hear
motion control and they say oh
I hate motion control when really like
you play the steam deck right now with
the gyro aiming and stuff enabled
It is a transformative experience when
you're playing games
But because Nintendo shoehorned waggle
control bullshit into their games
It ruined it for a lot
of people for a long time
Nintendo
I
Like motion control
I liked it, but you didn't need to be in
everything right and you have to be
Optimized and that's the problem like you
shove it like shove into
everything and it's not optimized
You're gonna eventually you know
Piss off potentially your customers and
stuff like that. There's a place an
evolution of
technologies that need to occur
Yeah, Mario Galaxy has great motion
control. I think right,
but then you have like
New Super Mario Bros. We were in order to
like do this stupid like
twirl effect in the air
You have to shake
your controller like that
It's so silly
And it's unnecessary. Yeah, I mean, I
think yeah, I think gyro
I think people like are dismissing gyro
because it's kind of like
the same class of controls
it's a motion control so to speak and
people just kind of dismiss it because
You know well because of Nintendo the bad
reputation motion controls. I ended up
having to I don't know man. That's
AI is just kind of
Like it'll probably take a couple of
years to discover an actual good use
I think I feel like if
open the I just kind of like
Kept this under the hood for a little bit
You know kept doing research kept things
about hand closed doors for a little
longer and then unveil a
couple of great uses for AI
I think I think it wouldn't be so it
wouldn't be received so badly
You know I'll be it you know I think the
artists are always going to be kind of
against it given the nature of
generative AI
Yeah, and I actually got an email from
affinity the other day.
Do you guys know affinity?
You don't mind me who they are yet?
They do they make like affinity photo and
affinity designer, and
they're like a big night
They're there. You know
they're a big competitor to
Photoshop Adobe and a couple of months
ago. They they were like we'll never have
machine learning stuff in our products
And I got a new one from yesterday saying
hey, we're rolling out machine learning
stuff in our products
I
Don't know I don't get it
It's hard. I don't think it's a bad
thing. It's just it's got to be done
It has to be done right
and it can be done worst
Ethically and and that's a big problem
because oh you guys I don't think this is
on this list did we talk about?
Facebook torrenting a bunch of books we
have not we have not
We did talk about
Facebook's like fake AI profiles
remember that remember were they pretend
like they made a profile that was like a
Like a black queer mom or some something
like that and like no you're none of
those things you're not
even human you're an AI
That's a human experience
Yeah
I don't know we don't need to go into
that, but we can yeah
We can move on to the to the Microsoft's
new state of matter
thing, but I don't know I
Hi tech, what's this about?
Microsoft claims to created a new state
of matter. That's neither
solid liquid gas or plasma
They call it the topological qubit and
all of this is to fuel
a quantum computer now
I don't know about you, man. I don't know
that much about quantum computing
I've never seen what I'm pressing before
to be honest, and I'm not entirely sure
what sort of work they do besides
Quantum computing I guess you could say
But a new story of matter
sounds kind of insane because a
There are like there are three primary
states of matter that everyone knows and
there's plasma of course
But even then like what could it really
be that's the that's what
I'm trying to figure out
Yeah from from my understanding
the the peer-reviewed
journal that they published this in
there's been a little bit
of backlash about it because
Microsoft hasn't
actually proved that they've
Created a new state of matter. They're
just claiming they have
They haven't published how they're doing
it so other people can't check it. That's
that's my understanding anyway and I
Don't know dude. I don't trust any
anything Microsoft says
as far as I can throw it
Well dude, it's a
proprietary state of matter menu
Yeah, if Microsoft you can't do it just
Microsoft Microsoft's afraid to go and
fringe on their trademark state of matter
or some bullshit like that
Right
Yeah, like I said in the beginning. I
would think this would be
discovered not created, right?
But they can't claim a
patent on if they discovered it
That I hate patents so much
There's the likelihood of them creating
matter like a new form of matter is
probably pretty rare
especially at this point in time, but
discovering for sure and I
I think they're gonna have a hard time
with us and I think
they're just trying to
like claim to quantum computing because
quantum computing is
along with
Fusion reactors and some other stuff
They're all on the verge and it's just
taking a very long time of B breaking
into I don't know if I'd say mainstream
because quantum computing
Wouldn't necessarily be used for
something like games at least at this
point and quantum computing like
programming. It's very very different
It's very early on it is very good like a
couple of things that quantum
computing is good at is like
cryptography
like once you have a decent running
quantum computer like
no password safe up to
Let's just say you're gonna have to have
quantum base like quantum encryption
Yeah, and so it's it's gonna be
interesting and there's no way that
you're gonna see a quantum computer and
like someone's house anytime soon
So services like Microsoft might want to
be like well, we can make you a password
or encrypted password now
That's you can still use your old
password, but it's gonna be encrypted on
the server with our new server system
You know, there's there's I have a
feeling that's what
they're playing. Yeah, and so
Just stick quantum for everything there
there we have a quantum AI
Yeah, it's useful that most people don't
know what quantum means
like
You know what I'm saying?
Like is it quantifiable?
Yeah, I don't know my understanding is
like yeah, it's good at like
Anything that has to do with probability
like quantum is good at solving
like
You've probably heard like you can't
brute force this password
in in you know a hundred billion years
with a traditional
computer because it's so
Encrypted but like with a quantum
computer you could you could brute force
the password like that in a flash
because what it's capable of is like a
qubit can exist in any
state between zero and one and
Because of that
You can have all of the states like if
you have a massively
parallel qubit array or something
You can actually have them
all exist in a superposition
And then when they find the solution they
all just collapse down into the solution
That's my understanding and then there
and then you have the resulting
Whatever result you're looking for if
it's cracking a password or whatever
I'm not an expert on it though. So no
you're you're you're right on with that
Like I think that's a good simplified
version. Yeah, that is about as far about
as far as I know too
So but I would imagine Microsoft's actual
motivation for
inventing a new state of matter
For it isn't quantum supercomputer
It's for AI. That's why that's why I
think it was really gonna happen here.
Yeah, they would make some sort of L on
that's optimized for their
For their new a the new state of matter
CPU or whatever the fuck honestly, man, I
don't know that much about
quantum computing because
Never really matters if it's not my house
or if it's not usable for like a service
that we can actually access
it's all for like
scientific research anyways, so
Yeah, I just thought it was
pretty cool to talk about I
Mean it is cool and tech wise like this
is gonna be a big deal
I and I think you're right on I think AI
will also be a big part of this because I
think it would actually benefit
from a from the
probability aspect, but it's
It'll be interesting to see where it goes
and how Microsoft's gonna use it
Like I said Gardner you're gonna be
enjoying a halo of the next halo
AI
Created with a quantum with this quantum
state matter specifically to quantum halo
Enjoying is a strong
word my friend quantum halo
Halo Infinite calling Quantum Edition.
There you go.
It's going to be the best thing you ever
played and you're
going to hate your life.
The next tech bro, Grift, is going to be
Quantum Computing Bro.
It's going to be instead of like AMD is
going to call there's like calls there's
a rise in the AI plus right now.
They're going to call the
Quantum Ryzen AI plus plus.
Yeah.
See.
Okay.
We've had a we've had a hard time
changing from x86 to x64.
We've had a hard time just switching that
level of instructions and all that.
This is a whole different paradigm like
Quantum Computing is like don't expect
this type of stuff like if it ever became
mainstream to just work right off the bat
on with any other software we have.
So I think it's really hard to say that
this is going to be compatible with
anything anytime soon or have anything
that's going to be
consumer facing for anytime soon.
Yeah.
To be fair, Quantum Computing will never
replace traditional
computing as far as I understand it.
It's more like an ASIC, right?
It's more like an application
specific integrated circuit.
You're going to have a quantum module in
your smartphone, in your desktop when it
becomes a thing and it's going to be
dedicated for one specific thing, right?
Like the high
probability, high entropy stuff.
You know what?
You know what I'm more interested in
though is and this isn't on the list
because this is kind of an old thing.
But like have you heard of
superconducting FETs?
I can't say I have.
They're like they're they're
superconducting field effect transistors.
These are basically
zero energy transistors.
These are transistors that don't create
heat and they use
essentially zero energy.
It's like a hundred femto amperes.
Very, very tiny amount of energy is
actually being used.
And because of that, you can stack them
vertically and horizontally because they
don't produce heat and therefore they're
scalable in three dimensions.
I'm more excited about that in terms of
like where computing is going next.
There's a lot of compounding things and
we have hit certain limitations, right?
In our computing.
So like there's a lot of promising things
that will probably
compound in the next few decades.
I'm curious to see how it goes too,
because as long as you
know, they're not trying to.
And video doesn't get a hold of the tech
and you know, their patent is like, OK,
we're going to release the actual real
bump up in 10 years from now.
Once we get through our other lists of
sequential upgrades that are not really
revolutionary so we can
keep on making the money.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll see.
I'm excited that that
does sound interesting.
So you're saying these transistors use
nearly 100 percent efficient or nearly
100 percent efficient.
Yeah. So what happens is the entropy of
like it's the entropy of converting like
data between the zero and one
state where it's irreversible.
Right. So like when you put data in, you
can't necessarily start with
the output and work backwards.
Right. Right.
And it's that entropy that you're
introducing into the universe.
It's actually creating heat. Right.
And so what the what these
superconducting FETs are doing is it's
reversible computation.
And so because you're not introducing
empathy, entropy, it actually these
transistors are not
creating heat that way.
So you can take the output
and reverse back to the input.
And so it's very it's
that's my understanding.
I mean, I've watched a couple of videos.
I've read a few articles and it seems
very interesting to me.
And yeah, they don't they
basically produce zero heat.
Yeah, it's my bread. That's about right.
It's very minimalistic.
That does sound
interesting. Yeah, for sure.
They're a lot slower than regular
transistors, but you can scale them in
three dimensions and not have to worry
about extracting heat and cooling things.
They'll be essentially on par with
traditional transistors.
Interesting. So, yes, very
speaking of scaling up things.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And
Amazon. What is this about?
We never violated our core assumptions
before investing heavily into solutions.
So that is a quote from an Amazon exec.
So essentially, this story is that
essentially many, many years ago, Amazon
tried to take on steam.
They had a code name
vapor or some shit like that.
They essentially tried to
make a game store like steam.
But here, former Amazon executive Ethan
Evans took the LinkedIn to recall the
company's attempts to
disrupt the steam disrupt steam.
So here's what they said. They said at
Amazon, we assume that size and
visibility would be
enough to attract customers.
But we underestimate the power of
existing user habits.
We never validate our core assumptions
before investing heavily into solutions.
The truth is that gamers already had the
solution to their problems and they
weren't willing to switch platforms just
because a new one was available.
So the idea was that Amazon just wanted
to make things bigger or I don't know, I
wouldn't say better necessarily,
but they certainly want to make things
bigger and more ambitious than steam in
the hopes of attracting people.
But I mean, the problem is
that steams aren't existed.
They have their steam libraries already.
And like at this point, I
don't feel like changing launches.
Hell, I don't feel like changing launches
to Epic either, to be honest.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
I don't think I would ever full time
switch to Epic games unless like I'll do
something drastic, which I mean, as of
right now, I don't see that happening.
I don't put anything. I feel like today
in today's world, anything's possible.
Yeah, like at this point, I don't think
Epic would be more compromising.
Yeah. Well, I don't think I mean, I don't
think Valve will do
anything with current management.
Now there's no telling what will happen
after Gaiman retires.
But I sure hope that whoever Gaiman
grooms. Oh, wait, I
can't use that word anymore.
Shit. Wow. That is.
Wow. You're talking about him being a
groomer, huh? Well, this is news.
I got to let me rephrase that. Whoever
Gaiman selects to be his successor in
Valve, I would hope that Gabe instills
about those values onto him or at the
very least points out the fact that
they've been printing money and there are
no stupid investors or like advertisers
that they have to appeal to anymore.
They don't even like really add like
when's the last time you've really seen
an ad for steam, like
just steam by itself?
They don't really have
to. Yeah, we don't have to.
Valve doesn't do ads much.
Yeah. And that's the end.
That still prints money. Like you would
think like you would think a company like
Coca-Cola is like ubiquitous.
Like you wouldn't need advertising for a
cook, right? But like they they still
advertise their basic products every now
and then for whatever reason.
Yeah, because if you go to like a theater
and you're like, well, I'm not thirsty
now, but then you see the ad and you're
like, oh, I'm thirsty. I
might go get the Coke now.
Like that's going to be just trying to
get you to drink Coke
as often as possible.
If you're going to play a game like on
the PC, you don't really need to think
twice. You're going to steam.
This is happening now. Yeah. I mean,
you're right about that.
I just it's crazy to think that Amazon
would try to do this.
Well, it's not that crazy.
Everyone wants a piece of steams pie. And
honestly, that's probably why we don't
see steam keys from Amazon Prime.
Like do you guys have Amazon Prime? Yeah.
So you guys know how you can get free
game keys from Amazon.
Free a lot of a lot of free geogies. I
might add to that. I think
that's a pretty good value.
But I agree with that. But then epic
games and sometimes
games from Amazon themselves.
What you never see any steam keys from
Amazon now, I am
curious as to why that is.
That's probably because they hate valve.
And I mean, who would
their director better?
Yeah. Who would hate valve at this point?
Valve makes all the money. They have.
They also have all the loyal followers
and they have a lot of die hard fans.
I would basically never switch off of
steam unless they died. Right.
Yeah. You know, I think it's pretty it's
it's shockingly self-aware that this
quote where it's like we never validated
our core assumptions before investing
heavily in solutions.
If that's not the epitome of C-level
executive, that then I don't know what is
right. Like that's just like I mean,
that's that's the decision making.
That's how decision making happens at
corporations. That's how I've always seen
it. Like they don't think about things
like they are so far disconnected from
everyday people that they
make these decisions like.
Oh, and then and then everybody's like
circle jerking about. Oh, we made we made
this awesome thing. Why is it not
working? What's going? What are what's
wrong? Pour more
money on it. That's fine.
Oh, let's fire that division. Yeah, let's
give us let's give us a raise. We had the
perfect idea. We blame
the we blame the engineers.
Hey, hey, Amazon. Hire me as VP of Amazon
Prime Gaming. I can make boneheaded
decisions without thinking thinking it
through. And then I can also fire entire
divisions just to just
to make everyone's pay.
I can do that to hire me. Amazon make me
filthy fucking rich. It's a it's a it's a
club and there and it's very nepotistic
club. It's it's like with meta meta laid
off what 10 20 percent of
their work or their engineers.
And then all the sea level execs are
getting they usually get a 75 percent
bonus. They get a 200 percent bonus this
year. And so it's just it's like
literally evil. It really is poorly evil.
No, that's not evil. It's them doing
their job. This is their job. Their job
is to hire and fire people at will. I
think they're doing great. They deserve a
500 percent pay bonus.
It just makes it me more and more like
every. OK. I was like a year ago. I was
like, I want things that
will be as easy as possible.
I'm so like an apple. And so I'm still
sticking kind of with Apple, but I'm also
getting more and more into like Gardner's
world. I better just start doing my own
stuff like I'm kind of just done.
I've been done with Facebook for a while,
but this last year has just made me like
that has to meta. I just test them in a
lot of ways. And so it's pushing me more
and more to eventually I will be fully
set up on the Fed of Earth.
Some like as like an Instagram
replacement, but I just got to get my
wipe over to it. Yeah, she keeps sending
me stuff. Yeah, I'm setting up. I'm
setting up a pixel fed and a mastodon.
The instance for for Mainers. I'm pretty
excited for it. That's awesome. Honestly,
man. Yeah. Vacation land social and
vacation land picks.
They'll be available shortly.
I get them set up. That's awesome. I want
to see the only reason why you have a
Facebook anymore is because a my pants
would be like, well, why do you do? Where
are you? Did you delete your Facebook?
And they would
certainly do that for sure.
And be Facebook marketplace. It's super
useful. I will admit.
Dude, I had an idea for Facebook
marketplace before Facebook marketplace.
I was like, what if you could tie your
your like your selling profile like an
eBay profile, but you could tie it to
your Facebook or your social media
profile. I think that'd be sweet.
It'd be really good. It'd be way to build
replicate reputation. Dude, even if he
did act on it, Facebook would just steal
it. Oh, yeah, of course. Like they stole
those books. And also, and I'm sure they
stole face of marketplace from somewhere.
I remember there used to be a lot of
other. Yeah, there was Craigslist. There
was a offer up. There were a couple
different platforms, I think.
And when it comes to like their UX, I
hate I hate I hate Facebook. I hate it.
So I can't stand getting on there. The
only reason I saw Facebook and it's I
don't post on. I don't do anything on it
really is because of Pete, like friends,
family, people that I don't
really know any other way.
Like if I deleted my Facebook completely,
I would lose contact with them. A hundred
percent. I got to figure out a way to
because that's honestly not sustainable.
That's a really bad way to run your life.
If you're losing like half your
connections in your life or ways to
connect to our contact people because of
one service, that's probably toxic.
So there are a few businesses around here
that don't have websites. They don't have
landline phones. They have Facebook. And
the only way to like schedule an
appointment is to use Facebook Messenger.
Oh, my dude, I'll never patronize your
business. I'm sorry. Talk about losing. I
hate messengers so much. Messenger sucks.
And like, dude, I have one friend. I have
a Facebook profile because I have to
manage like some business profiles for
some companies of mine, some clients of
mine. And I have one friend who still
uses Facebook Messenger. And it's like,
have you tried using Facebook Messenger
through the web recently?
I haven't.
Dude, I don't have the app on my phone. I
won't install it. Yeah. And but if you go
in and try to use the web version, like
no matter what, because I'm on Linux, I
think on Windows, it wasn't doing this.
But when I log in through Brave on Linux,
it always asks me to retype my pin to
like do like an encryption.
And then when I do that, it won't load
the encrypted messages until I like log
out, log back in and then type in my pin
again. It's like, what is happening right
now? Like, everything
seems broken on Facebook.
Facebook was built on a on a pipe drain
button by a guy that dropped out of
college. So but did he drop out of
college? I don't know.
I can't remember, but it was, you know,
it was just a Facebook didn't start
ethically either. Really? No. Yeah. I
think they stole the idea from like, you
guys seen the social media. I don't know
how accurate it is, but like the social
network, the social network. Yeah, sorry.
Yeah, that was pretty. That
was pretty okay. I dug it.
Yeah, you know, they should. You know,
they should do though. I've heard that.
I've heard that thinking about making a
sequel to that. Maybe the social network
to man. That would be so crazy given how
how much like Facebook
meta has changed altogether.
And then Mark Zuckerberg do it. And then
Mark Zuckerberg obsession with AI and the
metaverse. So that'll be interesting to
see. Yeah, they should call
it the anti social network.
That would be that would be good. And
it'd be interesting. The anti social
network come to theaters this summer.
Watch it. I'm X. Right. It would document
basically it should document the the
death of of meta, right? Yeah.
You know, and it'd be cool if it came out
around the same time that meta officially
dies, which I feel is impending. And
speaking of death, the death of the
double a market for games.
Former president of Sony interactive
entertainment. Is it Shuhei Yoshida?
Yeah, yeah. Spoke spoke about the death
of Sony's former Japan studio.
What he chiefly attributes the death of
the studio to evaporating double a market
for AAA games got bigger and bigger and
Indies came in to fill the void. Are
double a games truly dead? Is
the middle class of the dead?
That's a hell of a way to pose that. So
you think high tech so much like the
economy itself, the middle
class of gaming is dying.
And so here. So for those who don't know,
the gaming industry used to not be so
like worked up on the triple a games
like, you know, like the
developers like what's a good one?
What's a good one? But yeah, Capcom,
Capcom is doing a good example. He used
to make the like they made Resident Evil
games. I would consider those triple a
even though the class of the I would
consider those like triple a.
But they also made a bunch of like other
experimental double a games like Okami,
which is getting a which is getting a
sequel actually pretty soon.
And then they also made a like lower a
lot of like lower budget games as well.
They also made like the Mega Man Zero.
They used to make portable games. You
guys remember like back in
the old days of portable gaming?
Like they had to make bespoke versions of
games or just whole new games just for
those platforms because like nowadays,
you know, everyone just releases the same
version of the same game, but like with
slightly worse graphics
on like the switch, right?
But like back in the day, like it would
be a totally different game on the game
like on the Game Boy Advance.
Like you're getting it, right? Yeah. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. So like I think like I'm
inclined to believe that because the
because that portable market sort of like
doesn't exist anymore.
That's double a gaming has just died in
general. So and because of that, triple a
games have been getting bigger and bigger
and any games have become more and more
plentiful to fill in the void.
That said, I do believe there are some
double there are still some there are
still plenty of double a games games that
you know, aren't any games for sure. But
you know, don't really fill in the vault.
Don't don't really qualify as a triple a
game like the Disgaea games. You guys
ever play that you
guys ever played the sky?
Yeah, the Disgaea game. So I guess I'm
guessing Gardner has a play that.
I mean, it's a lesson time. So Disgaea is
a strategy is a strategy RPG kind of like
fire fire a little more a
Final Fantasy tactics almost.
And for the most part, it's pretty well
balanced up until like the end of the
main campaign. And then it goes insane
balls of the wall. There's balls.
It's it is grindy, I will say, but there
are multiple ways to optimize whatever
you're grinding for the maximum level
being level nine hundred and nine nine
thousand nine hundred nine nine.
When you beat the game
at like around level 100.
And there's a lot of different avenues of
power and here's a fun
part. Here's a fun mechanic.
So in order to get sometimes you can get
new features for new like
or characters to create.
You have to go through what is called
what is typically the
Dark Assembly, which is like.
Cons, which is like basically Congress
and and you know, some of them will vote.
Yes, some of them. No, it really depends
on whatever bill you're trying to pass.
You can bribe them with items that you
find or if the bill fails to pass, you
can just fight them and
they're all and it's an advice.
And then this is going off of a tangent
at this point. You
should check it out, though.
It's an interesting series for sure. It
is. Yeah, there. But expect to put a lot
of time into it. It's
super Japanese, I'll say.
And so is that classified as a triple A
then or I mean a double A. I would say
so. Yes, because it's certain. It's certainly not triple A.
It's always felt like where
do I place these games and.
How do you categorize, you know, indeed,
double A, triple A quadruple and it's
always the you know, people have their
different definitions
for this type of stuff.
But yeah, what measures in the et cetera
seat when I think of like double versus
triple A, my mind goes back to like the
PlayStation era when like the original
PlayStation when you would
have like crash team racing.
And that was double A to me. And then
triple A would be like the crash series
or or like or you know, Mario 64 would be
triple A and then Mario
Party would be double A. Right.
That's kind of where my head's at like
the spin off series that they don't put
all the big budget into and they give it
to an outside studio or
like a second party developer.
That's kind of where my head's at with
what a double versus triple is.
I mean, I mean, I think the definition
gets it can also get a little muddled to
you because I think about Pokemon like we
would we can all agree Pokemon is a
triple A franchise, right?
Yeah, but Game Freak themselves are a not
owned by Nintendo. They're an independent
studio. They are now I guess in certain
classifications you can consider them
being in the studio, so to speak.
And sometimes they release games on
Steam. You guys know this. Game Freak
sometimes releases games on Steam.
What games?
There's like a puzzle like platformer
like action game called Giga
Wrecker and that's on Steam.
And then what else? There's another game
on Steam. It's kind of rare that they
make it. It's not that they do make games
that aren't Pokemon sometimes.
Right. Yeah. But like the big question.
But like that's an interesting one
because they have access.
They also partially own one of the
biggest franchises in the not probably
the biggest franchise in
the world right now, Pokemon.
But then they also like are in the like
in the I guess they could categorically
be considered in these developer.
I don't know. It's weird. There's no real
definition. There's no real good
definition because I mean who
did they who develops Hades?
Is it Supermassive or Supergiant or
there's so many names. Supergiant does
Hades. Yeah. Supergiant.
Like they're still considered there in
the studio, but like they're big and
popular enough to where
they like put an eight.
They tried to put a ton of money into
Hades like two. And it makes me wonder if
maybe they are even still
really indie, so to speak.
I mean, I think the studio would qualify
as indie because they're not owned by
like a big publisher or something.
But I would say that the games that
Supergiant makes are double A. Like
that's kind of where modern
double A lives in my mind.
They still have like an independent
spirit. They still are a nimble enough
and have small enough
budgets where they can make.
They can take risks in their game design.
You know, yeah, but by that definition,
Game Freak is an indie studio, too.
They just happen to have access to like
the biggest franchise in the world. And
they also probably own it, too.
Yeah, I think there has to be some kind
of financial constraint on what you
classify as indie as well, because it's
not like it's not like it's not like the
Pokémon Company and Nintendo aren't
financing the development of Pokémon
games like they are.
So like an independent studio has to also
invest their own money into the games
that they're developing. I think that
that's kind of a
critical component of it.
That is fair. Yeah, it's I don't know,
man. It's it's a crazy
it's a crazy world out there.
You know, this reminds me of this reminds
me of that debate with Joff Keighley and
whether or not Dave the Diver should be
classified as an indie game.
Remember that. Remember that. I think
that was before. Was that the last game
award? Or was that the one before that?
I think it was the one before because
Dave the Diver has been
out for a little while.
Yeah. So David. Yes. So David Diver was
nominated for best indie game. Naturally
didn't win with the sea of stars won.
But David Diver was classified as such
despite the fact that it was a not an
indie studio. It was like it's a it's a
subsidy. It's a subsidiary of Nexon and
Nexon is a big company.
They make games like MapleStory and
MapleStory is still pretty big today. So
they're there by no
means in indie studio.
I don't know. The definition. We need
concrete definitions for classifications.
And I mean, let's look at GTA six. Like
GTA six is classified as a triple A game.
But they spend the way more money.
They probably spend way more money on
like the budget than anything else that's
existed like forever. Right.
Like we can all agree that it's going to
be like one of the most
expensive games to be made. Right.
I would imagine. Yeah. I would imagine
though. It's going to be the most
expensive. Yeah. To be
made in probably a long time.
Yeah. Like should we not have a separate
quadruple a category for that?
I would say no, but only because of
principle. Like that's just marketing
jargon to me now. Like, you know, because
I who who was it that we covered a couple
of weeks ago that was like
it's the first quadruple a game.
Ubisoft Ubisoft. Yeah. I mean, it's silly
to call it quadruple. But no, I mean, I
take your point, though. Hi, tech. I
think like, you know, there should be
like echelons of that.
That that titles get ranked into and that
developers get ranked into. And there
should be like clear definitions for
those things. I agree with that.
Yeah. I mean, without that, I mean, what
really is a double a game, but a triple A
game with less of a budget, right?
Right. We need. Yeah. There should be
some like actual. Is it taxonomy for game
development? Like I think that that would
be useful. We should. We should. Yeah. We
should do that. We should make. We should
be the standard. We should make our scale
and then make it official.
Yep. I agree. Let's make a website about
it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's
brainstorm this off screen and we'll talk
about this later when it's right. All
right. Oh, probably. I'm game. So do you
agree with Sony, though? The former head
of Sony Entertainment, Shuhai Yoshida.
That the double a market is dead. Yes, I
don't think so because like I think I
think that there is the possibility that
a double a game can be produced by like
an indie studio. Like I don't think that there's a lot of.
What's the word? There's not a lot of
like massive publishers that are
investing in double a games, but like you
said earlier, high tech, the indie market
has been coming in to
fill that double a space.
Especially as they succeed and get
bigger, they'll eventually create
publishers that then do the double a and
I think we've especially with.
Is it D. D. Revolver? Devolver. Devolver.
That's what is. They're just the way that
they've kind of crashed over the past few
years. They do a lot of crash like meaning they they didn't.
They got rid of a bunch of devs or at
least games, right? Supporting games. And
so and I'd consider them more of a double
a because they do a lot of indie level,
but funded games that are double eight.
This is my. Yeah, that makes sense. I
guess the judge is considered a need, but
like at the same time, though.
It's published by Devolver and kind of
kind of defeats the purpose of being an
indie developer, right? Especially if you have a publisher, right?
It adds safety. So there is a point to
have a publisher if you're trying to make
this a job and you don't want to put a
lot of like Gardner like even myself,
like I would not put my faith in my
skills right now to release a game that
would be able to support me and my family for a while.
And so unless I had funding, but then
even if the game fails, at least I got
paid up to that point. Yeah, so there's a
point to publishers. I think people
sometimes I'm not saying they shouldn't
take it. I mean, that's the word
investors. Yeah, that's a great. Yeah.
And that's the that's the greatness of
double A is that there's a lot of good
games that we are missing out on because
of this perception of the double A
industry is dying. Yeah.
We're triple A. I would say is more dying
than double A. I would agree. Yeah, I
think I think the big differentiator
between what's an indie game and what's a
double A game is is there a publisher involved?
If there's a publisher involved, then
it's a double A game. Probably. If there
isn't, then it's an indie game like
braid. I don't was there a publisher for
braid when it first came out? No, I
believe it was self published. Yeah, I
know. Back when that was back like before the indie label publisher.
Before like Devolver or like Critical
Reflex and some of the others that come
out as a bracelet. Yeah, to me, it's
like, you know, if it's Adult Swim games
or humble had their publishing arm for a
while or Devolver. There's a bunch of
like or big mode from what's his name?
Donkey. The big game. Donkey. Like those
are all double A publishers to me. Like
those would be who I would go to to pitch
an idea and to get funding for a game.
And then if I did that, it wouldn't be an
indie game. It would be a double A game.
Hey, Gardner. Speaking of which, if a big
triple A company like let's say Sega came
to you and wanted to make a sequel to
Doodlings, but was triple A, would you?
Triple A? No. Double A. Yeah. Double A.
Double A. I get the plays the same, but
has better graphics and
like a bunch of sonic cameos.
Dude, I've thought about like what a what
a like a next step for Doodlings would
be. And I actually think it's a pretty
cool idea. So if Sony or or not Sony, but
Sega or any double A publishers wants to
wants to do it, I'm game.
I'll take your money. Yeah, I think
that's a great thing about Sega, too.
Sega is like reinvesting into the like
Capcom is to look for a little bit like
they made. Yeah, they
didn't come to Gani.
They didn't sell nearly as well as like
they're like big triple A games. But I
mean, they still like took the risk. They
made a wholly totally new IP that plays
like nothing else that they made so far.
And Sega is reinvesting back into the
double A market, too. They made like
Streets of Rage 4. They're
making the nation a game.
And even Tecmo Koei is making the new the
2D Ninja Gaiden game, Rage Band with the
guys behind Blasphenous. And honestly, I
think I think there is starting to see
like a return to form
for like older franchises.
And then you speak of Ninja Gaiden, too.
Ninja Gaiden, like Ninja Gaiden. We can
agree it's a triple A franchise, right?
Yeah, would you say? Yeah, I would say
so. At least the main like the main the
main the mainline games. Yeah. But like
we can also agree that it probably
doesn't have nearly as high of a high of
a buzz. Just like some of the other
triple A games out there like Resident
Evil. Certainly not. Right. Right. Yeah.
Yeah. But yeah, that's that's why I was
thinking. Yeah, that's why I'm going back
to like, there needs to be like specific
like defined categories of like triple A
budgets like what qualifies. And I think
budgets are good one
for certain. I don't know.
I think there's a lot. I think I think
double A games are starting to see a
resurgence despite the fact that
something killed off the Japan studio. I
think that was a big mistake. And I think
many of those guys went on to make a SOTY
games who made James favorite game right
now. Astrobot. A lot of those
guys wanted to make Astrobot.
Yeah, I mean, I think this all like the
killing off of like the double A studios
really goes back to what the Amazon
executive said. We never validated our
core assumptions before, you know, making
decisions like that's kind of where the
double A, the triple A studios are at
right now. They're that is such a that is
such an apt and good quote. We should like frame it somewhere.
That should be like we should start each
episode with that quote. It's funny
because I wanted to say this back on that
topic that that's how Amazon works. Yeah,
even to this day, they still they might
say that and have some awareness, but
they still act in a different way than than that than that assumption. Well, so you know that that guy was thrown out the window. Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah, that carmer VP of Amazon.
Prime gaming. That's what I'm saying. He
was thrown out the window. And so
election after you after you've come off the high of whatever drugs you were on as a exact. That's yeah, exactly. That's how Amazon works is that they are they reinvest to take over markets.
Yeah, to be fair, you do have to be kind
of hooked up to run a company like
Amazon. Oh, yeah. I would imagine. Speaking of cooked up all the people who won't leave Windows 7 behind. It's not a great transition, but we'll go with it. I actually agree with that.
Dude, you have to be kind of crazy to keep running Windows 7 kick and do a network, though, like for real. Yeah, I agree with that. I agree to move on. Just move on to Linux. Yeah, for real. Let's switch over to Linux, guys. Yeah, for real.
Or use a version of Windows that nobody's
targeting with viruses like 98
Did I have to target in Windows 98 all
the viruses are still
there from like the 90s
Have you seen that Mac casee video where
he tried to get infected with a virus on
Windows 98 and he couldn't
What yeah, I have a disc of viruses that
would probably work. Oh, do you really
okay? It's an old one from Russia
nice
But I know that's really weird
Why do you have a list of viruses from
Russia who said it D the KGB?
Uh, let's just say that I have enemies no
When I was in Russia because I think I
mentioned this a few times
But like I lived in Russia for a few
years and when I was there I would you
could go into their software stores
So which had
This is I don't think they well honestly
okay funny enough in the 2000s
They had pirated like if you wanted to
get a game. There's only one way to get
everything pirated. Yeah
so there's tons of games and there are
tons of movies everything that has like
Pseudo covers that aren't official but
like try to be as official as possible
Then they went away from that and then
I'm sure that's where they're back to
again because they even
have copy McDonald's but
Like when they took over the McDonald's
that's what that's what yeah
I went into one of those and they and
they had a disc full of foul like those
like two three thousand viruses
I'm like I have to buy this even if I
don't put it in anything
I have to buy this and I was planning on
putting it into like
Peter with a VM at connected
So it'd be
Deconnected from everything else and just
see what happened to the VM. I haven't I
just never took the risk
You know you know it's sitting there
somewhere. You know you should deal. Oh
You should connect a CD drive to your
steam deck and then
put it on the esteem deck
That'd be that'd be content
What would it what would the content be
I'm gonna copy this okay
With a shitload of viruses from Russia,
and you have to put that in that you have
to put that in the title
Infecting my steam deck with mysterious
not worth this from Russia. It's probably
not gonna do anything come on
Dude, no the content the angle is how
Truly compatible is proton with Windows
applications cuz I mean
If they can run Windows viruses, that's
pretty compatible my guy
Lock some old KGB Soviet Union virus on
it or something you have
to do you have to do that
It's going it sounds
like it's going to be
I have a very funny story about this
actually when maybe back in 2012 or
something I installed
Ubuntu on my dad's
computer. He had a laptop, right and
He he didn't know
anything about computers
He's a complete Luddite and then I he's
like he called me up. He's like gardener.
I need you to come fix my computer
I don't know what's going on with it and
I got there and my dad had
installed wine on his computer
And he had installed some
Chinese like flirt with you
lady e lady
application
Yeah, like it was like it was like a chat
with Asian women like and
App on his computer. It was Windows only
so he someone told him how to do this
Application and then he got a Windows
virus in wine and I was like, I don't
think this is even possible
I don't believe what
I'm looking at right now
And I just like nuked and paved his whole
computer because I was like and then I
said you cannot install
Chinese applications on your computer dad
like you're gonna keep getting viruses.
He's like I still need to
talk to them virtual women
Yeah
Dude to be honest man
That's why I don't that's why I don't
bother installing Linux for anyone else
in my life because I don't
want to be their IT monkey
Yeah, it's true
Just give a Mac OS and
then just call it a day
Well, I say it if my friends and family
now, I'm like, I'll give you
the friends and family discount
It's an additional 50%
Like because Pete my friends
and family are like, you know
Oh you charge, you know 70 bucks an hour
or whatever for your
work and I'm like, yeah
But for you, it'll be
120, you know, like I
Do not want to do this for you guys
because you always call me to do it
That and you don't want to find out what
your what your
friends are into or anything
Your dad ruins relationships. Yeah
Well, yeah, we actually we haven't
actually even talked about that actual
topic at hand. So this
This here is a VX kex next so
For those who don't know it's a set of
API extensions for Windows 7 that allows
support for some windows 8 8.1 and 10
exclusive applications
to 1 7
So there so as you know, there are plenty
of programs nowadays that do not support
Windows 7 like most notably steam
if you're a PC gamer
You cannot be able to 7 period
But with this
You can run steam on Windows 7 now
I don't know why in earth you would want
to use this over just
switch into Windows 10
I mean like fuck Microsoft gives you a
free copy of Windows 10, but even then
You can just switch the Linux instead to
Linux is actually free
free and open source and
you can just install like
Like bad side like you know, like you
know, that's not has a
desktop version you can install
It doesn't have to be like steam OS you
can like install a desktop version of
bass. I end up and
still be quite usable. I
Have the desktop version of bass. I on my
mini PC here. It's great. Oh fancy. I
will say though that
Now that we've
explained what this actually is
I can see some value in this being able
to if you have like a dedicated
Windows 7 gaming PC box like it's just
for playing Windows 7 games and
and
You know wanting to be able
to access your steam library
Makes a lot of sense especially with like
some of the older games that are in some
steam libraries that people have now
Like I can see this being useful
But I don't know if I would do it myself
At least not not the
thing though is that steam
Mostly requires the internet and I
wouldn't wanna I wouldn't
trust a Windows 7 PC on my network
anymore at this point
We'll put it on a VLAN or something
Yeah, but that also work what that also
requires setting up a VLAN but it also
requires getting a Windows
7 PC to even do this with
It won't matter once I send you that
steam that compromise steam deck to your
computer to your house you'll be fine
But I mean it is cool technology don't
get me wrong I am care
it is open source to you
So I'm curious to see
if any of this could be
Ported over to proton or wine or even if
any of if anything from this
To make it over to wine I am serious I
Mean this seems like kernel X right like
which is the is it called kernel X the?
With current essentials
No, no, no like um oh
My god, what's the word? I'm looking for
like Windows 98 you can
actually install something
I think it might be called kernel X it
might be called something else
But it lets you run NT applications like
Windows XP applications or
Windows 7 applications on 98
So this seems like kind of
the same idea as that also
I'm looking at the
Repository here for VK and KEX VX KEX
And I don't see a license
where is there a license? I?
Don't know there might be in the original
VX KEX because there's
actually two on LinkedIn there
There's a VX KEX next which is like a
child again enhanced
Chinese version of VX KEX and
There's also VX KEX like the actual one I
Don't see a license in the
original one either license
Probably ask the developer
I
Mean it would be cool
to see some of this stuff
Become useful to lots
of lots of folks, but I
Don't know if you're running Windows 7
and you install this on it
I just I would I'm I'd be kind of
skeptical for running that machine on my
network, but that's just me
Yeah, I mean. I just yeah
People can't let things die people love
Windows 7. It's like I get it
it was like an amazing
operating system, but
It's not getting updates
It's right next to the
also had Cortana which
Was terrible I like a little bit alive
that here a little bit of
a fight there. I liked it
It made it fun, and then they just went
to the legs stingy dusty
old whatever I don't know
Now at least I had some fun installing
stuff. Yeah, whatever man
I mean yeah, VK next
VX kex next what a weird name so it does
have the source available, but speaking
of something else was source available
Team Fortress 2 they valve updated the
source SDK
To now include the entirety of Team
Fortress 2 source code
What do you guys think about this?
the source engine
source source source engine
Some some of these why don't they name
the engine source I mean
come on man. It makes it so hard
It goes way back
I don't know what they're what's their
play with this because there's not too
many they don't really
Not too many games are coming out that
are on source these days
I don't even know if source 2 is
available is it yet to anyone that's
Well remember we
talked about in gaming folk
No, you talked about this like I don't
know if I was last week
or a week the week before
Yeah, source 2 isn't technically
available, but thanks to
Jerry Newman from a face punch in his new
game supplement even sandbox
Source 2 will effectively be available
before anyone to use
Okay, yeah, then then this is useful.
That's the thing like I
if valve would have done
Right by that engine and actually really
put a lot of
resources into it and actually
making it open to everyone to use more
easily like source 2 and did some
services kind of like
Epic Games has been doing with unreal I
Would be that would be my engine of
choice would be the source
But I'm using the other one and I'm kind
of stuck on it for now. I
Would like to see valve do really put a
lot more resources into it
But that would require them to probably
hire more people. I don't
know if that's gonna happen
But this is a good direction so it's
really cool that they're doing that
Yeah, I think that this is pretty neat
just the fact that
Team fortress 2 has been overrun by
cheaters a lot like that's my
understanding. I haven't played it, but
So the fact that valves now releasing the
source code and letting the community
Kind of handle some of
that is gonna be pretty great
because there's a ton of dedicated team
fortress 2 fans yeah, so
Hopefully and then also this is just
gonna enable lots of mods and like total
conversions and new games to be
You know developed
But this also includes like some of the
half-life 2 anniversary updates if I'm
wrong am I right about that I?
Think it does. I'm not double check. I
don't think I don't think they mention
anything about that in the
The blog post for that,
but we'll see what else
We're doing a big update all over back
catalog source games
by 64 bit binary support
Yada yada, I think some of those that
yeah, they're adding some of the like
half like to enhancements
They're adding to like their other games
But I don't know if it necessarily means
that yeah half-life 2 like we're doing in
the half like 2 anniversary updates
Yeah, I know that this that that
half-life 2 source
code is available as well
It might be the the actual
Multiplayer for half-life 2 but there but
there were a lot of updates to this repo
Or maybe this is just a brand new repo
I don't know, but I I don't know I was
under the impression that this contained
a lot of updates for other
others source games
Oh, man, I think it's a
My email gaben
This says if you look at the read me it
says contains the game code for half-life
2 half-life 2
deathmatch and team fortress 2
Yeah now included team fortress
Yeah, I gotta say man. I mean here so
essentially the terms are a
you you can publish the game
But it has to be free you cannot make
commercial games with their SDK
Or were like an open source
version of the TF2 basically
You can also publish on Steam it's like
their own game so to speak like you can
do like oh like team fortress 2 classic
Remember when Val took that down?
Yeah, they could do that and
then just publish on Steam. I
Think that was the original plan anyways,
and now they now they can
do it like for real for real
It's been like four years since they took
it down right they promised like four
years ago that they were
gonna get this out and then
Four years later they did
Valve and valve time, you
know still a thing for sure
But yeah, no, I mean this is pretty neat
I think this is a good move, but I think
it's important to note that this is not
technically open source
this is source available because
Open source software necessarily means
you can do whatever you want with the
code that you produce
Or derive work from that includes
commercial sale which you
can't do with under this license
I am pretty sure that
if you create a game and
You you know distribute it for free and
then you go to valve and you're like hey
Can we can we get a different license
valve would probably accommodate you?
I can't say that for sure, but that's you
know, just kind of my understanding of
how valve works. They would probably
More than likely I think
do that but I just yeah
I think they would because a Titanfall
one and two are based on modified
versions of the source engine
Yeah, and those are there's a ton. Yeah,
then those are commercial games
I can't think of any others recently
besides. I don't know half-life Alex that
are based on any source engine
I
Wasn't Call of Duty like
based on source engine. I
thought it was based on a
like quake the quake sent him they'll pop
the call the games ah
Maybe I could be wrong about that, but I
feel like it's still based on like
Call of Duty
Yeah, cuz if I'm not mistaken
But I think the history was a EA
Wanted to make an FP a black FPS and they
wanted in to make metal honor
But it didn't have the time right now,
but they recommended a studio that would
eventually become infinity Ward
Mm-hmm
Yep. Okay. I was wrong. It was a it tech
free. Yeah, so quake
would that be quake three?
Nice
Imagine so sort of crazy amalgamation of
source to in in text latest engine
That'd be awesome
Dude I'd be here for it. I mean yeah, the
thing the thing that I
Like about the id tech is that it's
always it uses Vulcan and it's like
Vulcan first, you know
This Vulcan is a much better API
It's one a real crack team of engineers
in tech is where it's at
right now. Well, I'm Val
It takes always been really good. Yeah, I
Like they're essentially technically the
ones invented the first-person shooter.
Yep. I mean, yeah, I would
and
Speaking of creating things
Yeah, Grand Theft Auto
6 is it the next big?
creator platform
I'm gonna I'm skeptical of this
So for those who don't know what a
creator platform is think of games like
roblox or fortnight where?
There's more use like fortnight has a
main game the battle royale
mode and also save the world
But like on fortnight, there's also a
bunch of like user
created content that you can do
I haven't really explored
any of that
But like roblox I've seen dick in roblox
you can make all sorts of games in roblox
I've seen people make sonic games in
roblox and it's not like sonic is black
You anything like in roblox? No, they
made like they use like an actual sonic
model in the roblox engine
I don't know what the hell's going on
with roblox, but they
can just make full-on games
It's crazy
Yeah, and I've seen like a see it like a
counter-strike roblox. I don't
There's a lack of out
there. The idea is that
Rockstar supposedly isn't talks with a
lot of creators from the likes of
you know people creating these fortnight
and roblox experiences and
big speculation is that
Grand Theft Auto they want to make Grand
Theft Auto that sort of game as well a
Crew like a user generated like
wonderland of content
Monetizing the mod community because I
was pretty big with mod community. Well,
yeah, they made a 5m
and they bought out 5m
As long as they don't ban mods or really
go hard into that type of stuff
Which I think they've on and
off tried to do in the past
I am totally behind I'm fine with them
doing that as long as
there's also free mods
As long as they don't ban it well, you
know, I'd be much more
Bullish on this idea
if take two and rockstar
Wasn't actively hostile to their
community. I mean like the their fans
they I mean their fans were working on
You know open source versions of
Whatever they were brought the Grand
Theft Auto one and and or
GTA 3 and Vice City, right?
And then they're they sent an army of
lawyers to DMCA the gig the
get repos for those projects
And it's like it's not like they were
distributing copyrighted material
right, they were just
reworking an engine and
These frickin I don't know I have I if
they're gonna be hostile
to opens projects like that
Then I'm not gonna support them any in
any way shape or form
Yeah, yeah
I mean, what are they gonna do with this
once they get enough because they're yeah
I think they've gotten a little on the
greedy side in the sense of
all their plays have been lately and
Once this comes out and it
starts making a lot of money
What are they gonna do to try to make
sure they make even more money the next
year like it's I mean
They're very little to just much like
Nintendo like I edited a fan the deck
video fun sack by the way
I did I added some fan deck
videos back in the day and
I wanted to include footage from Red Dead
Redemption because there was a news story
in regards to that
getting a new port or whatever
I guess what?
You can't use
Footage you can't use trailer footage
Every other game play trailer. I was able
to use just fine, but not
fucking Red Dead Redemption
and
And when that happens that really pisses
me off because I'm like you guys don't
want like this is almost giving you free
Marketing like Nintendo doesn't even do
that shit like I can use
Nintendo trailers just fine
I've had issues with the past to that too
I mean too much not as not like Rockstar
like it is guaranteed with Rockstar
Like in my years ago
Nintendo was was like DMCAing
Like videos from that use their trailers
But now they're they've or they were like
requiring people to join
their MCN so that they could
Revenue share when you're using their
stuff now, they don't do that
But still like that it still chaps my ass
when I think about like how
greedy these companies are
Sorry, I cut you off. Yeah, no, that's
fine. So anyways, yeah
So the idea behind this creator platform
is that well the difference between the
modding community and something like this
is that Rockstar would inevitably
Take money off of this and you know,
let's look at roblox rates
I believe the last known rate I had heard
was that roblox takes 80% of revenue from
the creators and the recreated get 20%
Wow, I mean even Google has a better
revenue but split than that on YouTube
Like I think things have changed. I'm not
entirely sure because
there's been a lot of
crises surrounding
The potential for child labor laws to be
violated since you know,
some of these creators are kids
Yeah, well and that's the biggest problem
with them going after roblox is that some
of them are kids some of them are
Going after kids in a in
a very predatory way. Oh
Oh
Infamous there's a reason why I would
never let my kid play roblox and it's
because they have been
notoriously bad at actually
punishing and vetting out a lot of the
Potential pedophilia and
all that goes on or like this
Predator I should say predators more than
that. Yeah, but like
predators. It's crazy. Jesus Christ
Anecdotally, I know someone's kid that
was targeted by one slides
And almost met up with
them if it would have been
Are they okay? Yeah, they're fine.
They're fine, but it was
It was close
That that that that
was painful then like I
I
Think bad and so they
didn't meet up with them
But I did with side if they like did
things that they would
probably regret in the future
and they have not done anything to really
To really take care of it. Like they'll
do little things but nothing like
Yeah, just nothing real like
worthwhile. It's disgusting
There's a pretty good documentary about
this like the about like the
roblox and their weird like
Moderation that doesn't really exist. I
think it's from people make games
Have you guys seen that they did like a
two-part investigation?
It might have been three-part
investigation about like roblox. It's
actually really
really good and terrifying
but I actually
Sent it to one of my friends who has like
a 13 year old daughter, but at the time I
think she was probably
seven or eight or nine
something like that so
And I was like don't let your kids play
roblox, dude. Like it's not good
if they're not going to take the extra
measures to vet this type of stuff and to
work on all the and even even that like
Sir, like I don't know if kids should be
accessing that type of
thing. So early on to like it's
It's
Roblox is fucked up. It's crazy to
because I remember hearing about
roblox wanting to make a dating like that
dating like thing a dating
experience in roblox and like I
Get it. They have one. They have a really
that like this that can like
restrict age restrict things
They're supposed to be 17 plus or
whatever but like that's kind of
inappropriate for something like roblox
Which is primarily seen as
like a kid's game, right?
Yeah, yeah, like it's one thing if you do
that shit in Grand Theft Auto 6, right?
Like that is an M rated game like as M
rated as a game can get
Yeah, but it's another thing. Yeah
Like I mean even with rockstar. I feel
like moderation would be fairly lax
Like they probably wouldn't
allow like egregious stuff
But I would bet that like they'd have a
special like ESRB label saying like user
generated content is
not rated by the ESRB
And that's their get out of
jail free card. I know yeah
Yeah online interactions are
not are not rated by the ESRB
They hit that does exist like you could
play like Smash Bros and someone all like
curse and like call you a bunch of slur
racial slurs it
happens in the party animals
Yeah, you have you
guys play party animals?
No, it's like you have
you guys play gang beasts?
No, our gang beast was fun
It's like a newer like almost next
generation version of
gang beasts think of it
But instead of like ragdoll guys
It's a bunch of like ragdoll like animals
and stuff that you can fight and play
like a bunch of minikit
It's really fun
But what's really but what's even funnier
is are the amount of sweaty people on
there that are trying that like
Will get really pissed off if you like
like destroy them or some bullshit like
that and it's super toxic
It's like an E rated game. It's so funny
That's a perfect way to describe it dude
Yeah, I
Don't know. I I just like I just see like
There's a potential for extreme toxicity
with using user-generated content in GTA
6 like, you know, it's a game about like
stealing and murder
What are people gonna use take that for
inspiration and make awful shit, I don't
know I just I don't know
But I am skeptical I mean that's probably
what it's gonna be let's be honest
Yeah, I mean like it's probably gonna
happen. But at the same time though
It will be interesting to see what
creators create in GTA 6.
I'm not sure if I'm never gonna
Buy it, especially if it's a fucking
hundred dollar video game
remember that but you know
I'll also only buy it if it's $120
Just up just so that I can spend more and
I'll buy three copies
just for you guys, too
Also, also the game being is speculating
to have a bunch of two billion dollars a
Budget of two billion dollars. Yes, I
Hope that this destroys. I hope that
nobody buys this game and that it
destroys take two. Yeah, that's not good
It's not gonna strike you
it's gonna destroy rockstar
They only off everyone at rockstar and
like really off a bunch of other studios
and the executive and give
themselves a $200 pay bonus
200% pay bonus
Yeah, well, okay the layoffs maybe but
actually, I don't I don't know if I've
heard of rockstar being
too bad on that front but I
think they've already made over a few
billion off of just GTA 5 and it's
Online GTA 5 online stuff so or at least
with GTA 5 and the online. I think
they've already made
multiple billions. So it I
They it's not gonna break them. I don't
think so. And I don't think it's gonna I
think it's gonna be a success
It I don't know have to be some sort of
unforeseen natural disaster that like
make GTA 6 fail in my opinion. I
Mean
There are there's a couple happening
right now and a couple of things
happening this year that could like maybe
there'll be a software tariff
Who knows on like domestic?
But yeah
Yeah, I don't know. You never see
question is can they sell do can they
sell GTA 6 in China?
I feel like they would
need the Chinese market
At this point, I don't know
not to charge 120 bucks a copy
Not charging her 20 bucks. That's just
what I'd be willing to
More out of likes I'm not I'm not willing
to pay under 20. I'm not willing to pay
$100. No, I'm not willing to pay
$60. I'm gonna wait till it's on sale. So
Dude, it's gonna go on sale from 120
dollars to $60 in like three years
My monkey brain will say yeah, that's a
good deal. I'm gonna buy it
and I'll probably you know
Here's the most perverted
thing about all of this even if
GTA 6
Like sells poorly or even like has almost
no sales. They can just
fall back to GTA 5 online
Yeah, no, they they
have the money they have
The biggest thing is like with
user-generated content, how are they
going to like vet it for cheaters?
You
Know like I just like cheating in in GTA
6 online with UGC. I feel
like is gonna be inevitable dude
Obviously, they're just gonna ban Linux
players. Don't you know
all the explicit cheaters?
Yeah, we'll see I
Hypothesize that they're going to allow
Linux and support it for a
couple like a year or two
Just so that they can scapegoat Linux
users down the line. Yeah. Oh my gosh
Anyway speaking of cheaters epic versus a
cheater does the
punishment fit the crime?
High-tech you were briefing us on this
before we started the
podcast. What's this about?
So this prominent fortnight content
creator. Let me see what
his name was again. Sorry. Um,
His name was repulse
he
Cheated in fortnight by letting someone
else take control of his account to
qualify for the
fortnight championship series
And I guess he won or something like
that. I don't know. But the point is that
they caught him with his pants down and
they and they took him to court and the
epic one and here were the things they
They were there were his demand that
there were ethics to
dance. So first and foremost
They banned his account and they banned
him from ever competing in a fortnight
tournament ever again like
an official epic one-on-one
and Then he had to donate all
of his winnings to charity
and
then finally
they made him upload a video on his
YouTube channel like
admitting guilt admitting fault and
Let's go over what the video says. Right?
So there's no there's no sound that's
what it says. Hey
everyone, this is repulse guide
I
Shared my epic games account with another
user Forbes to qualify for the 2023
fortnight
championship series grand finals
My actions violated ethics rules and I
was disqualified from the tournament
Epic to the legal action against me and
now I'm banned from participating in
fortnight tournaments forever
I also did have to pay monetary
settlement, which includes the prize
money I received but did not win fairly
Which edit will donate to charity?
I
She
Ruins the fun for all the players who
earned their spot in the tournaments and
I apologize to the
fort making me be for my
Actions, I want every cheat and format
again. Oh, so that's
the end of the video now
so
first off he won the tournament of what
so was he just not it was
he disqualified because like
Region or what? Why was he not? It sounds
like he was good enough to
win the actual tournament
He shared his account with someone else
to win the tournament I guess to qualify
and also in the end what and then
Okay, and then yeah, so the name account
sharing is a pretty bandable offense
Like first and foremost most most of the
time you will be banned. Yeah for doing
that if they catch you doing it
Which why?
Sorry, but
No, it's okay
Why wouldn't they then the
second place winner get the?
become the first like they should have
just done that like why
didn't they go back and like I
Get like donating the winnings to charity
is great and all but that second place
Well, I should have the second place
play. I think he did get a prize. I mean
there was a second place like but
Yeah, but he was actually the he was
actually the winner of the whole
tournament. So I don't know
I don't know man. I think I think there
was a I don't like how epic handled it
either, but you know
It's pretty crazy. Yeah, so don't don't
cheat I guess don't she especially
Why do that though? Like why do it that
way? So here's my so here's the question
Do you think the posture was too extreme?
Do you think make the
public a humiliating?
Was too extreme or is it a thing?
Sorry, go ahead or is an
effective form of anti-cheat. I
Think there isn't enough shame in the
world and I'm gonna stand on that
I think that that is a universal truth
and there needs to be more
public shaming of stuff like this
Public shaming is it the most effective
anti-cheat ever and devised?
I don't think so
I don't know about that
But I mean the fact that like I think
that some of the most effective
anti-cheat is to let cheaters cheat
Find them detect them let them cheat and
then do a massive bandwidth
Like and just like, you know, you're a
cheater and you go on
and you say or or like or
companies that do like anti
piracy stuff where it's like
Like subtle little things in the game
that people then go on the forums and
they're like what's going on
Why is this happening to my game and
they're like because you pirated our game
like I think those are good
It's funny and it works. It's funny and I
such a troll move. I do like
that type of thing with the anti
Yeah, see stuff
but
with the humiliation stuff
This one's crazy
I've never heard of like a
court or like a judge deciding
Case like this like okay. You have to go
on your YouTube or Lee. I'm
sure it was like epic wanted it
But to say that you know that he cheated
on his YouTube channel, which is crazy. I
that's the only part where I don't know
how I feel about that, but
Yeah, it's
That's this is such a
crazy case and I do think
Humili, I honestly like instead of
banning people that they should just put
them all in the same game
so anyone that's a cheater has I guess
Mm-hmm pitted against other cheaters
And so they're all cheating and just keep
them just pinned over there because
they're gonna buy another account
Whether you if you do humiliation it
could help but a lot of
people are private enough
to where they just create
new accounts like you just
You're never going to
Stop it the way we're
going right now. Hmm
You know, I I checked out like this guy's
channel and he doesn't
like he doesn't do any voice
over it's it's all like montage of
him playing fortnight and
He only has 50,000 views, you know on his
most recent upload before
this which was three years ago
And he's only got 38,000 subscribers. So
honestly, I feel like this isn't enough
of an embarrassment like
Honestly, although this video that he
where he announced it that he's a cheater
has three hundred and four thousand views
So people just love
the clap on other people
Yeah
So is he making money from this? Is that
video monetized? You know
that would be so funny if it was
That's funny, you know this kind of
reminds me of a case back in Destiny 2
I used to play a lot of destiny I quit
when the last expansion came out because
that was basically the end of the story
It's kind of like the Ebb's
how the MCU ended with Thanos
Back to that
But here's the thing, though, on Twitter,
he complained about being banned for
basically no reason.
And then later on, he kept arguing with a
destiny like community manager.
And then the destiny manager got approval
from the security team to explain
publicly why that guy got banned.
For cheap. And it was so it was so crazy.
It basically destroyed his YouTube career
because I mean, he was a pretty big
destiny content creator at that point.
Hmm. Yeah, I mean, I don't I don't get
why people they feel emboldened.
That's the problem is people feel
emboldened or not enough.
Awareness that what
they're about to do is stupid.
Yeah, like even like, you know, like you
and some people brag about cheating, too,
like, like the you see,
you see, you see sports
guys bragging about steroids.
Oh, dude, I am so juiced up on those
steroids today, man.
They're making me so
they're making me game better.
Like some cheaters actually believe that
the cheaters are making the game like
themselves better at the game, too.
No, it's the fucking tools is
the fucking aim by wall hacks.
It's bizarre. Yeah, it's bizarre.
And the crazy part is I've seen this.
Some people will actively buy multiple
copies of a game just so that they can
keep cheating after they get banned.
It like is that not like
the definition of insanity?
Like I've seen this primarily with CSGO
back when CSGO used to be
a paid game, by the way,
see, like they would stockpile multiple
keys, multiple CSGO keys.
And then when they get banned, they just
gift another account, a copy of CSGO,
and then they would just continue playing
about the other account, too.
I think you got to the point where Valve
made it so that you couldn't
gift CSGO to other players.
So if you like had a stockpile of CSGO
keys in your Steam
inventory, you couldn't like.
Train them. I don't know.
It's it's it's pure insanity.
Yeah, it really is.
That I also want to mention some of the
comments on here are awesome.
Oh, this guy's video.
Yeah, you agree.
You should.
Well, you should full
screen. I want to see these two.
Oh, yeah. Here.
I won't ever cheat in Fortnite again.
No shit, bro. You bad.
Chat GPT wrote my Fortnite apology.
Do you?
This should be a
loading screen in the game.
The people are so good
at roasting it's unreal.
Yeah, this was my favorite.
Bro got told by the teacher to
apologize to the whole class.
I love it.
I think just this
roasting in the comments
might be sufficient for to satisfy my own
personal sense of justice.
I agree with that.
Remember, remember, kids, if you're
watching this, remember, if you get
if you cheat in Fortnite and Epic catches
to you, they will like drag.
They will drag you.
They will like.
Imprison you and like
drag you across town hall.
Oh, my gosh.
Mm hmm.
They don't kill you.
Is is the stocks.
They won't kill you.
They'll just kill your social life.
Yeah, I mean, far be it for me to defend
Epic because they are particularly
litigious as well, but I will say that
this kind of stuff I think we need more
of. We need more people to just get
roasted in the comments for being a
cheater. I just you
know, it's it's funny.
I'm not saying we're abdicating bullying,
but I am saying I don't feel
signs of the cheaters.
Well, look, if you deserve it, like if
you deserve to be bullied because you
like were literally you were doing it to
other people like by cheating,
you're robbing other people of victory.
You're you're I don't know
who's the guy from a musket?
No, there's a guy.
Well, I mean, he deserves to get bullied.
But like the man, why
does kids, you know, right?
Where he they they had a thing about like
kids need to get bullied.
Like some kids need to get bullied.
I don't know. I
thought that was hilarious.
They did.
So yeah, he's been a lot.
How's why hasn't GGG banned
him from path of exile to you?
I mean, I'm sure if someone else were
sharing path of exile to accounts,
they would probably be banned.
Why not fucking on Musk?
Well, because Elon Musk
is the ultimate whale.
Yeah, yeah, he's he's one of the whole.
He pays other players of the play, not
fucking GGG for whatever reason.
It's it's huge
publicity for them to probably.
To keep these companies.
Well, yeah, I mean, these companies have
like a pros versus cons like,
you know, should we ban them workflow
that they run through?
I bet you that every single one of them
does because it's like,
should we ban Elon Musk?
No, because he brings in enough money
that it justifies the bad publicity.
Dude, imagine the shitstorm
of Elon Musk actually makes
to the top of the leaderboard with his
army of ghost players.
Yes, army of ghost players
like like a ghost writer.
I'm not here for this reality.
Dude, I know what is this?
What?
He's ruining every aspect of my life.
I get my cars.
I can't play any games now.
You can't ride an airplane
before a different reason.
I can't ride. Oh, my gosh, that's bad.
Oh, well, at least I have my single
player games and my Xbox.
Right, Gardner?
Exactly, dude.
Exactly.
He doesn't want to buy
Microsoft and make it the Tesla box.
Oh, my gosh.
No, he's going to make it
illegal to play old games.
No, it's going to be the
it's going to be the X Xbox.
Come on, dude.
Did just have more access to X X X box.
Don't give him ideas.
He loves X so much.
Oh, that that seems like
something he'd do is he'd buy X box.
Look, it's it's formerly Microsoft who
are notoriously bad at naming things.
And it would be the fifth
version of the Xbox. Right.
So it would be the X X X X Xbox.
Come on. So, yeah, so I
will say this, though.
Or or to make it shorter, it
would be the triple X Xbox.
No, no, it would be the triple X X X box.
The quintuple X box.
Yeah, quintuple X Xbox.
Because you got to get five.
Oh, yeah, you know,
quintuple X. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, quintuple X five.
Yeah, it's I don't know that.
Just right here right now, what we're
doing is more thought than Microsoft
put into naming the Xbox
series than than what we did.
We did more work.
Just David.
So apparently the story behind why they
didn't name it the Xbox to you
is because PlayStation
was on the PlayStation.
I think we talked about this, didn't we?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know. It's crazy.
There's a lot of crazy shit going on.
And to be honest,
man, I'm not all for it.
Like, what was.
I don't know.
There's just so much going on these days.
And I don't know what I
can't keep up anymore.
There's so much.
It's why it's why you sit in a dark room
and play original Xbox,
GameCube and PS2.
The dark room, what they want.
Why don't you have like a neon Xbox logo
like flat like in the background?
Well, here's the deal.
So I was playing original Xbox.
I was playing Halo on my CRT over here.
And I had to close the window because the
screen was just not bright enough.
And I couldn't like even with the
flashlight on in the game,
I couldn't see some of
the dark stuff going on.
So I closed the window.
But also because you don't need to see
outside of for playing video games.
You do. You can sit in the dark.
It's the other CRT.
Hell yeah, brother.
I have a Sony Trenatron
Vega, which is like the premium.
Dude, it's a it's a wide screen flat
screen CRT HD up to 720p progressive
and then 1080i.
And it's integrated interlaced.
That's what it is.
And I have a I have a retro tank 5x and
all of my analog consoles plug into that.
And then they all get
piped into HDMI into the TV.
Is that TV not super
expensive these days?
Holy shit.
I got it for free on
Craigslist five years ago.
It's awesome. No fucking way.
You got that on Craigslist for free.
I got it for free.
It was Craigslist.
He had to pay something.
Nope. I got it for free, dude.
Oh, yeah, I get what
you're saying. But no.
The payment was he gets shouted out in
your video on your YouTube channel.
Yeah, you get paid the exposure.
I went I went I drove like
three hours to pick this up.
Right. And the guy like
when I got there, he's like,
you look really young.
How old are you?
I was like, I think I
might have been 30 at the time.
And he's like, why would a 30 year old
want a TV like this?
And I was like, because video games, man.
And he's like, oh, and then he like came
back a couple of minutes later.
He's like, I'm still giving you this for
free, but I should have sold it to you
because I guess he had like looked it up
online and it was worth like, you know,
120 bucks or something.
You should just say, oh, I like
collecting old junk.
Yeah, I should have said that.
You would have spared
him the pain and agony.
Yeah, it's a it's a
really nice TV, though.
I highly recommend
everybody get one of if you can.
It's 2006 was like the last.
What last one Sony ever made.
How do you consider
plugging your steam deck into it?
I have. I have a I have a
dedicated mini PC plugged in
that I can play games through it as well.
With Chimera.
Do you have you
considered plugging in a Mr.
Board to it?
Dude, I have a Mr.
Board plugged into it.
Oh, shit. And I have a PlayStation four
and I have my switch, which dude
playing Mario Odyssey
on there is amazing.
And I have what else I got?
A Super Nintendo Classic Edition, Mr.
Board, many PC and 64 GameCube.
We Xbox, PlayStation two.
Yeah, a bunch of stuff.
It's pretty great.
You know, you should do
that for your next endeavor.
You should build a fight stick.
Like an arcade stick.
Have you ever done that? I've done that.
It's really awesome.
Yeah, I want to build a fight stick and
have like an arcade cabinet built in
like building an arcade cabinet. Yeah.
I think that might be an extra.
Yeah, I built.
I mean, I haven't built an arcade cabinet
with it, but I have built a fight stick.
I've used a you can buy
the individual buttons
and the actual joystick itself in places.
And you can also in as for
the layout, you can either
you can choose like a standard layout
like I think you choose
like the set, the Namco layout, which I
think is the standard.
Like, you know, four buttons on top, four
buttons at the bottom.
You know, for fighting games and such,
you can wire it in such a way
that it like is compatible
with modern systems as well.
Like I have a I have a
brush UFB in my custom
fight stick and that supports PS4, PS5,
Xbox, Switch, PC, all that stuff.
And I also and I mean, as for the
buttons, you can use whatever you want.
I mean, a lot of people nowadays, they
use like a lot of
like stick manufacturers.
They use a somewhat parts.
I think you've probably
heard of that term, right?
Oh, yeah, I've parted
out a song on build.
Yeah, I use save me two buttons and see
me to joystick because
I'm a grappler player.
And there's a there's a there's a there's
a little trick you can do.
So grapplers on like street fighting like
those fighting games,
you have to do a 360 motion to execute
their grapples, right?
But you can actually like you can like
actually like flick the stick
and it like hits all the
all of the like directions
to do like a like an
almost instant grapple.
It's called the high G.
Screw, I think it's called.
It originated from Japan, the technique.
And it was actually shown in an anime
about fighting games
called a high school high score girl.
Oh, I got I got I
actually got to show you.
It's actually really cool.
One. So, well, a little
about us for all of the YouTube,
all the guys watching this on YouTube,
not saying, not saying that
the guys on the audio missing out, but
they're kind of missing out.
Let me let me slow that
down for the audience.
Playback speed.
They're one to five.
That's so cool.
It's really hard to do.
I can't do it
consistently, but I also haven't been.
But I'm also not like some of the things
I'm super turbo like, like,
I'm not old enough to like have played
super turbo in its heyday.
Yeah, those fight of a man
techniques and stuff like that.
And those types of games are crazy.
And plus, there's a reason why most
fighting games are
played on a fight stick.
And it's because think
about it like your face buttons.
They're all you use your thumb to like
press all four of those buttons, right?
But on a fight stick, each
finger gets its own button.
So automatically it makes things easier
for like button combinations
or piano, piano, king buttons
for taking things like that.
Mm hmm. All right.
That's the end of my lesson.
That's my notes on that note.
I think we've covered all
the stories and we've gone off
on our retro gaming
tangent, which we often do.
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I got I got to run because I
got some chores I got to do.
My bed calls. I'm so tired.
Yeah, I might take a nap
before I do the chores, honestly.
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