Good morning, everybody. Welcome to
another episode of Off the Console.
My name is Gardiner and I'm here with my
friend James, aka The Brink.
How's it going, James?
It is going good this morning.
Usually it's a three-man crew here on the
show, but Hi-Tech is off this week.
Hi-Tech, we can't wait to
see you next week, my friend.
We're gonna be covering a bunch of stuff
on this show. If you
don't know Off the Console,
this is our gaming and tech news and
anything nerdy show,
where we just kind of hang out and talk
about the things that are interesting to
us over the last week.
This week, we've... yeah, do
we have some interesting stuff?
We've got... we're gonna talk about all
the things that Nintendo mentioned in
their Nintendo Direct this week.
Maybe not all the things, but the stuff
that's most interesting to us.
We're gonna talk about how game def...
I have slowly converted my channel over
to a Mac only channel. No, I I
Am I'm working on on April
Fool. I love April Fool's videos
I'm gonna do one of those and so but I've
also been obsessing over the Mac
for stupid reasons
because you know reason but I
I just want to simplify my life and so
I've been obsessing over that and also
like smaller form factor
Um
PCs just
My room over heats with my 3090 and so I
just want something that's
not gonna overheat this room
So I'm looking at like
a my they say 40 90 m
3090 whatever. Mm-hmm, but there's a 40 I
I watched a video on the 40 90
eGPU
So it's like a mobile chip in it
I'm curious how well that runs like our
heat wise and so that
I'm have my eye on that
To then maybe build out
I don't know build out my
gaming system. I'm having fun. I
still playing
I'm not playing Astro bot right now
But
It takes two with my son still playing
that we're slowly getting
through that. That's really fun
I played it on bad side and I have to
switch over to back over to
Windows to play it because it
crashes at the same spot
Mm-hmm, and I think it's I don't think
it's bad as its fault per se. I think
it's in videos graphics drivers
Oh my god, don't get me started on any
videos graphics drivers
Yeah, I'm gonna have to
switch back over to Windows
Yeah, I think I'd have a better time
emulating this game. Honestly, I actually
would play fine if I if I had like
my MacBook
With a cross fire or something like that,
but we can that's a whole other
can of worms
That's what I've been doing nice
Nice, I've been doing doing a lot of
work. I've been getting ready for a big
project with my client
But I also have been playing
a
Classic an absolute classic. I don't know
if you know this about me James, but I
really love racing games
Which I find interesting because I don't
really like cars, but I love racing games
and I've been playing
I'm need for speed 3 hot pursuit
Which I have a big box version out in
there out in my game
shelf and
Oh my god, it is so much
fun. I'm playing through proton
And and it is sick. Yeah, it's so good
Didn't they remake it or is this
something else? I'm
thinking of I don't know
Uh, maybe they did is this the older one
like in that what wanted
to come out? Oh my gosh
2000s need for speed
3 I'm thinking like 98
Okay, it's that one. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I
never play that one a lot. Oh man. I
played so much of it
So much and and like and
the music is so nostalgic
the gameplay is
It has an aged super great, but there's
still like this like
dedicated community around it
And and I just enjoy it. It makes me it
takes me right back to being a kid
I'm gonna have to pick that back up
because I played it a ton as a kid
There's a there's a community patch that
you can get through Lutris
And it works really well and it makes
everything you can like run the game in
widescreen. I'm running it natively at 4k
I'm gonna try it on my steam deck and
probably I'll make a video about it, too
It's a lot of fun. That is that is fun. I
really like the need for speeds
I like arcade racers a lot more than
realistic ones. That's me, too
Yeah, they
Burnout the entire burnout franchise.
Love it burnout paradise, but
specifically is great
It's so good and I'm so like I am shocked
that as a franchise
that did not continue on
Yeah, tell me about it
because they you know
They didn't didn't it didn't do well
enough and so didn't they put them on
like a different project or
something like that the devs
I can't write here. I think so. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's what happened. But
burnout series is amazing. It's I like it
Weirdly enough. I like it a little more
than need for speed
because you have all the crash
Physics and everything
like that's really fun. Mm-hmm
I think the newer need for speeds have
that too for the most part,
but it's not quite the same way
Yeah, I honestly I think need for speed 3
the one that I've been playing is the
only need for speed game I've ever played
Really? Yeah. Yeah, I really like I to be
honest when I was growing up
My cousin had like a really nice PC
gaming setup his dad did and
so I played whatever he had so
Unreal tournament I
played at his house. I played
Duke Nukem command and conquer these kind
of games over there need for speed 3 that
was the only one I ever got access to
but
And then and then like I never was
interested in the
console stuff. So I don't know
For example, like the other kind of
racing games cart racers, obviously, you
know, you got to have
like Mario Kart in there
You got to have crash
team racing in there
So those were the kind of games that I
played like on my own time like when I
wasn't visiting my cousin so
Need for speed most wanted like I think
it's kind of like a
remake off of need for speed
3 or just like the
need for speed most wanted
Yeah, that probably it's
I think pretty fun. He had
Cops in it if I remember correctly cuz I
remember getting yes over when I was a
kid and I think most wanted was was also
like cop based
Yes, yeah, yes
Like some of them are really fun. Some of
the need for speeds are just in
Yeah, Oh also dude links is officially
open source now source codes available
Which I'm really happy about you can go
get it. You can download it. There's a
demo available of for doodlings
You can download that
as well. It's on steam
But yeah, I
James I don't know about you, but I'm
interested in knowing what the audience
has been playing this week
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With that out of the way,
let's get into the first topic
Nintendo Direct
March 27th, Nintendo Direct
So I know we were talking off the show
about neither of us are
super into a lot of these games
But like did anything stick out to you?
A
Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD remake maybe I do
like Dragon Quest games
I just haven't played him in a long time
and yeah, I I don't tend to play those
types of games as much these days
Unless it's a it has
to be like a really big
Really like has to be a
Premium release of like an RPG or
something like that because I just don't
have the time and I'd
rather put my time into like
Horror horror games and stuff like Silent
Hill 2 remake. I just got it. I'm gonna
be playing that soon. I
Like a little bit shorter games or very
specific types of games
And so even though I
like all sorts of games
I have to limit my my list down and
that's the only
problem with Nintendo Direct
Is that a lot of these games are just not
games. I'm as interested in
Albeit, I'd love to play some of them. I
just don't have the time. But yeah,
that's definitely one
that popped out to me
Yeah, I like how this looks.
Yeah, it looks kind of cool
It the the name of it the the actual full
name is Dragon Quest
1 plus 2 HD 2d remake
Is that right? Am I reading that
correctly? I think
which I think is hilarious
But it's it's kind of got some cool
It's got a nice aesthetic like the
sprites are 2d and it's almost like Paper
Mario sprites in a 3d world, right?
which I think
Looks pretty neat. I haven't I don't
think I've ever played a
Dragon Quest game, honestly
But I do think this looks pretty cool
I'm gonna I'm gonna scroll past a lot of
these titles here and
I know that people are gonna
shout at me in the comments
But like the only the only ones that
really stuck out to me
pat upon one and two replay
Do you know why this is
super freaking interesting?
James, I don't know
This is a Sony game
This is Sony
So Sony's going around a Microsoft
everything's a PlayStation
Yeah, I guess I mean the thing is like I
believe they partnered with Namco Bandai
on this and they they licensed
Pat upon which was a PSP exclusive
and
Yeah, yeah, and they licensed this here
and now it's coming to switch
which hey, that's kind of neat
I I play I would buy this on PC Pat upon
was a super fun rhythm game
that I played all the time on my
My PlayStation my PSP
This bad boy right here. In fact, I love
I love the PSP play all the time
And I think that's pretty cool so
Maybe maybe Sony's trying to like get in
there and because honestly the like the
switch is not really a
competitor to the PlayStation
right like they're
Most people who have Playstations have
switches. I would imagine anyway, I
Buy stuff like for me. I buy stuff based
on what games they have
So now PlayStation I have all the
playstations for the most part because
they have series that I really like
Same thing with Nintendo devices. Yep
Yeah, and if I if I get a switch I'm
gonna get mine second-hand
because then I'm not gonna be
supporting Nintendo
But yeah, I don't know. I I think this is
pretty neat. The other thing is
Metroid Prime 4 Beyond
I'm a huge Metroid fan
I've been playing Metroid games for as
long as I can remember in fact and
Metroid Prime 4 Beyond looks pretty neat
and
I'm not really a story guy when it comes
to video games. I don't
really care that much about story
but
It but Metroid games
I actually really kind of enjoyed the
simple story that goes on in the you know
on the side when you're playing
But one thing at the end of this trailer,
which I don't think is gonna play for me
because IGN videos never play
At the very end of the trailer
There's like an alien speaking
In an alien language and he refers to
Samus as the chosen one
And it's like can we not do that?
Like how many how many sci-fi games have
to have a chosen one or sci-fi
franchises, you know, I
Think pretty much say how many games do
we have that have a chosen
one? Yeah, that's a pretty big
one for fantasy
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah
What do you what do you think the story's
been going on for so long that yeah,
unfortunately you have to
hand it off to additional
Writers and and yeah, it
always runs the risk of
Really going a different direction than
maybe what the original writers wanted
I don't know if the original writers are
still on it, but I'm assuming not I don't
believe so and it's evolved so much over
how long is I
Mean is this like a 30 plus year
franchise? I believe the
first Metroid came out in 88
So
We're coming up to what 40 40. We're
heading towards
heading towards it 86 my dude
It's almost 40 years old.
It is the same age as me
Wow
Yeah, I I was born in 88
So I ain't much
younger than you. Yeah and
Wowsers, I'll tell you what I like I
said, I've been playing Metroid for as
long as I can remember like
Super Metroid specifically was my first I
Played it, but I
played it for the gameplay
I don't remember that any story whenever
it was very little the story in Metroid a
super Metroid was super atmospheric like
Like the I don't know if
you remember like the intro
Like before you even start the game
Like it's like this mode 7 like it's
zooming in and stuff when I was a kid
I didn't know what
the hell it was going on
But like there are dead there's like dead
scientists on the ground right there like
they're dead people laying on the ground
And and then there's
like a Metroid with a broken
Containment
That or something, you know, and it's
like you when I look at it now, I'm like,
whoa, dude. This atmosphere is like
Super dense and really great. The only
the only real story beats
that I remember is when it's like
The last Metroid is
in captivity the galaxy
That's right is at peace right and then
it has like text on the screen
was Sam is giving an intro log
And I believe there's a little bit of a
thing at the end too, and that's it
Everything else is done environmentally
and I love that though.
That's the kind of game
Storytelling that I want, you know
Half-life does similar stuff. They have
some narrative. Yeah, but it's it's not
you know, I think it's
similar in some ways, but
Yeah, no, I remember the game being like
Just real atmospheric is I think the
correct word like for
what it was and what it is
Like I it's it's very like
Definitely
Just primo, yeah
Yep, yeah, that's the thing I like about
Video game storytelling is you get to
experience the story at your own pace and
it really bothers me when
the game like rips control
Away from you to tell you a story. It's
like no, I don't want to
if I wanted to watch a movie
I put a put a blu-ray on you know, like
I don't mind it depends
at all depends on the game
Yeah, if I'm expecting it in the game fine
If I'm expecting it in the game fine if
the franchise changes how
they do it gets annoying
Yeah, like honestly if they did that in
half-life, I think I'd be
very annoyed me too. Absolutely
so I
Know what to expect if as long as I know
what to expect with my game and they
don't change it too much
Throughout the years that I'm fine with
that like if I'm playing an uncharted
game. I expect it's gonna be very story
Driven very heavy. Yep
So
This is interesting. I I guess I missed
this when I looked through Monument
Valley one two and
three is coming to oh, yeah
That's kind of neat. I'm I
Like of all the games I've played on
Android, which isn't many
Monument Valley is like the best
Is a good one. It's on
Let's see, it's on Android iOS and
Netflix
Yeah, it's on Netflix
That's interesting. Is that pretty sure
it's on Netflix. Is that why YouTube
rolled out like those?
cut the rope games on YouTube because
Netflix has games on
it now, I'm sure it is I
You know if people enjoy that go for I
Don't play those types of
games if I'm gonna play a game
I want to download it and not have it be
integrated with my videos
Yeah, if I'm on YouTube or from Netflix,
I'm watching stuff. I don't want to play
now that being said I
Don't mind it being like if people are
enjoying it go for it
It's just don't you know if
it fails don't get mad at me
Which I feel like is more
and more the answer to every
C-level execs like well is the it's the
Consumers fault it's full even in the get
like in the game industry to like they
should have liked it
It's like no, you should
have made something better
Or just top lame us that they call that
victim blaming. Yeah
Though though I think the one last thing
I want to talk about
With the Nintendo Direct is the virtual
game cards thing. Have
you heard about this? No
So essentially now what you can do is any
game that you have installed on like like
as a as a downloadable game
you can eject from your steam from your
from your switch and then you can log
into another switch and
Insert that cartridge that's a cartridge
or is it as it's virtual. It's not
there's not actually a cartridge
But how do you inject it
just by like you download it? Oh
Yeah, you can't lend it to other family
members, too. So like I
Love the concept. I'd like it even more
if I could actually like download a game
and then they sell like either
Cartridges that I could write to or just
SD card that I'd be like the perfect set
up that it's very unique if Nintendo like
Did like if Nintendo create came out with
like their their own Meg cartridge?
You know where you could load
Games that you downloaded onto it and
pass that around that'd be cool
This is all done digitally. There's no
physical physicality to it at all still
Very cool that they're at least doing
this. This is very
feels very consumer friendly
Yeah, they're there are like some stupid
like weird stipulations
Like you can share it with your family
members, but I believe you can only share
it for like up to 14 days
Which is just interesting valves doing
this. Why can't you do it right you know?
Valve does it in a way to where I think
if the real login on the
computer if you're sharing so
Right unless they switched it
Val, so now the way it works is you can
share your games with
anyone living in your household
Yeah
Like my brother lives here my girlfriend
lives here, and the three of us are
sharing all of our libraries
And I I haven't logged into well
Maybe I did log into
Emily's steam deck to do it
But I don't think I logged into my
brother's computer to do it hmm
I'm I know that yeah
It's just accounts like you just log in
or you just share it with an account
Well, that's how it used to be and I just
have I don't know if I've
set up the new way of doing it
Or maybe I have and I just don't remember
but yeah the new way to do it
It's still not just with it, but it is
definitely I think pretty solid yeah the
new way to do it is a lot better
I know people complained about it when I
was talking about on my channel because
They used to be like oh my brother who
you know my brother who
lives like 40 states away
Like I used to share
my collection with him
But but now we can't do it, and it's like
dude. That's not what it was meant for
like why are you you know?
I don't know and then you could you'd be
locked out of your entire library if your
brother played one of your games
You know I mean it's just a lot better.
It's for families that live together like
this. Yeah, probably more for like
You know it's for you and your kids 20
maybe in the 20s and stuff like that is
kind of what it's meant for and I will
say this right now like I
Do think it's a little silly to get upset
about this type of stuff because a
Lot of games are so cheap
just by the by the damn game
I know it's maybe a privilege for me to
say that or whatnot, but by the damn game
support your the the developers we
So many people have so many games on
their account just play the games you
already have I guess
I don't know, but this is just a nice
little icing on the cake for me. It is
not something I use very often
sometimes my
My wife uses my like sometimes we'll buy
a copy of an indie game
or something like that
And we'll share play in that but usually
it's annoying enough to
because it at least in the past
You know I couldn't play anything else on
my account while
she's playing so sometimes
I'll just buy a copy for
just depends on what it is right
Yeah, yeah, I I don't know I I think this
virtual game card
thing here is pretty neat
I think it's cool. I like and like I
think it's a pro consumer move
Yeah, I like that and this works not only
on the current switch
But it will work on switch to my is my
understanding so
that's that's pretty cool
Okay, I'm down for that yeah
Um all right, let's do is there anything
else you want to talk about
in this no no poor high tech
This is probably his highlight
I'm sure he would have loved talking
about all these we would have
talked if high tech was here
We would have talked about every single
one of these games, and I've never heard
of like five of like
So I would have learned a
lot from this one yes me too
This is this is why I miss high tech when
he's not here because I learned so much
Alright alright, so I think the next
story we should talk about is
Ubisoft is
Spinning off assassins
Creed and a couple other
studios or
Franchises I should say into its own
Business unit, and it's getting a cash
infusion from Tencent
have you heard about this?
No, I've only read the article
Okay, somewhat and so
It's interesting. It's interesting choice
so three of their biggest franchises
assassins Creed Far
Cry and Rainbow six are
Becoming their own
subsidiary of Ubisoft and
according to this Yahoo Finance article
It it's valued at four
billion dollars, which
Really four billion for those three
franchises honestly. I thought it would
be more because those are
may get franchises
With how many assassins creeds there are
how many fire cries
there are and Tom Clancy's?
Well, it's Tom Clancy rainbow six, but
like if it was all
the Tom Clancy's mm-hmm
That's a lot if it yeah if
they're moving the IPs over there
and it sounds like Ubisoft is gonna
become more more of a
holding company or like
They're gonna become more like Tencent is
what I it's what this is a kind of look
at and this is a say
Probably to save their asses because
yeah, they've made so many mistakes. I
could see I
Could see the Ubisoft starting to go the
route of becoming like more
of a holdings company, which
Just let Ubisoft die in my opinion
I mean, what do they have like they have
I mean they have those three games
But if they were spitting those off into
its own thing, then what do they have
left like Splinter Cell?
This they have stuff. They actually have
quite a bit of IPs that they don't do
anything like Rayman
They if they make another rhythm
Man those are fun. Yeah, like those are
really fun. Those are the type of like I
loved Rayman is a legends
Yeah, love it. That was really good. That
was like one of the only good
You saw if games are played in the last
decade, you know, oh, you know, what else
was really good was was it grow?
or grow home
grow, um
It was like you were a red robot and you
it was like an indie style
game and you climbed a beanstalk
That was so much fun. I haven't played
it, but I've seen it and
it does look fun far cries
I love the far cry series, but they just
released him in such a weird way that
there's like two of them
I haven't played and I don't know
It I played the first far cry at my
cousin's house on PC and that was not a
Ubisoft game at the time that was
That was cry cry tech, right?
maybe it was published by Ubisoft, but
like Ubisoft ended up
buying far cry from cry tech and
Interesting. So and I played that and I
remember being like being graphics will
never get better than this
Agreed like water ice the amount of time
I spent optimizing my computer
overclocking and everything
Mm-hmm to get far cry to look just better
was
stupid I
remember
Crawling through the grass like I was
prone in the grass with my gun and I
could see the individual blades of grass
Casting shadows on the gun and I was like
What dude that's incredible and it was it
was so much fun and then I
never played another one I
Think I played them on the console they
were okay like because I worked at
GameStop at the time
And so they came out for the consoles
like I think was far cry 2 & 3
No, no, they were it was far cry. It was
like it wasn't even far
cry 2 & 3 it was I don't know
I've played half the games if it's
interesting enough. I will play it like
the doomsday one was interesting
Was a far cry 5 I think is what it is
It's the one where like there's a cult
leader and your wonder is it's pretty
good. I actually like that one
But it became more of like
Situation like far cry 3 is really good
one. Actually. I definitely
recommend playing that one
but it's like the Assassin's Creed series
like fun, they pumped them
out too much and they weren't
The gameplay just was too similar between
each one and the story just was good
Usually that's the type of games. I love
to play. I just didn't get
into them until black flag
and then I just that's
the only one I've beaten but
this is
Definitely an interesting direction for
them to take and I really do think it's
because they want to save their asses
Like I said, like I think we've seen it
like they're failing more and more
And in order to like save the least the
sea level execs there like we're gonna
Set up this new
Subsidiary and then they're gonna I think
they're gonna start probably either maybe
setting up multiple subsidiaries
And then you just become more of a
holdings company like Tencent and then
just work with other
companies to save themselves
I can see that it's kind of like how the
game industry is going right now
which
Could end up being good short-term for
these companies to be a subsidiary it
could really actually help
It's has to create far cry
to Tom Clancy rainbow six have
Being a focus of that company that are
gonna be part of
instead of a huge conglomerate
Could help them
But it could all it will most likely be a
double double-edged sword with these
types of holding companies
Eventually it will they will get sold off
or pieced apart. We'll see I don't I
don't have a lot of hope and stuff
Like this right now. No, I mean, I don't
have any I didn't have any hope anyway
But like I mean cuz Tencent already owned
like 10% of Ubisoft, right? Yeah, but now
they're going to acquire
25% stake in
This new entity here. Yeah, so that's
like whoa this article says it's one
point one six billion euro
to acquire 25% of this
company, which is just bonkers and
I
Mean that means like
Tencent is like involved in
So many like different
publishers right like Tencent
There it's interesting because Tencent.
I'm sure they have a little bit of a say,
but I don't know if they directly
influence too much
But they own a
Big chunk of probably most
Okay
At least well, I shouldn't say a big
chunk like as a whole games, but like
individually they
probably own like a quarter
At least a piece of a quarter of the
games out there. I would I wouldn't be
shocked if they don't have some
I mean, yeah, they own like a
Minority stake in epic. Yeah, they own
like a ton. They own so much.
It's it's very concerning why
Legends I think they do too. Oh, yeah,
they I think they fully own League of
Legends like the whole studio. Yeah
But the studio still or like the company
still I think acts more on
a creative level on its own
I don't think it's not like Ubisoft where
I feel like Ubisoft gave too many
directives and then
kind of like destroyed them
I I will have to give this to Tencent and
I could be wrong people could let me know
in the comments or just let
us know somehow
But I don't know if Tencent is as direct
but that doesn't mean they couldn't be or
that they're behind the shadows
Being more direct and I'm not saying that
this is a good thing. It's just
Interesting. Yeah, it's very interesting.
Oh my gosh. They're the
Tencent headquarters is
Bazaar, it's bizarre. What is a company
that looks that is like like
The owns like a quarter of the world
What is it? What are their
headquarters building look like?
Oh my gosh, why why would you want your
building to look like
that? I like unique stuff
I think it looks interesting
But yeah, it is
weird. That is very strange
And even has connections between the two
towers. So yeah, that's yeah.
There you go. That's Tencent
They probably don't produce any products
in there. It's all legal and
Business people that thing
Fascinating
Makes me feel weird, man
It it's fascinating how many companies
own
They don't do any like how many companies
own games or game
companies that don't do then
Their headquarters is drastically
different. They can go to the game studio
very different than if
you went to the business
District that we don't need to get into
that crap. Yeah, what's this next thing?
The next thing is there's a bunch of
publishers who want to delay their games
so that they don't compete with GTA 6
What do you think what do you think about
that headline first of
all first impressions?
Yeah, they're right like
you'd be an idiot to release
Honestly, you'd be an idiot. They should
be avoiding this year period probably
um
Especially if GTA 6 is gonna be $300 like
people are saying and I'm just gonna no
one's saying that but they might as well
I'll keep on upping that. Um, I
Because I don't care about that game very
much. I'm I'll
eventually play it or buy it
I don't know when but it would be
fascinating to see if they charge like
$500 see how many people would actually
buy it for like a year early
access more or less just to see
Because I'm you know, let's say a mask is
or something like that, but
Yeah, I mean within a month you probably
don't want to release within a month's
period of this game coming
out not even the same week
Yeah, dude, I mean I
did I release my game
the same day as Hades
2 stealth dropped and
My game sold nothing like it was so bad
So I like GTA 6 is poised to be like
probably one of the biggest launches of
any media anything ever
And so I don't blame
people for wanting to avoid it
This cut this report comes from the game
business, which I don't think I've ever
heard of the game business calm
and
According to this article three major
video game publishers
have told the game business
They are ready to delay their games to
avoid Grand Theft Auto 6
Rockstar's first GTA game in 12 years is
due for release at the end of
2025 and game companies are holding off
confirming their q4 release slate until
the developer makes its move. Yeah
Yeah, I don't there's been
Multiple games that have released during
a very popular game.
Let's say Call of Duty
There's been multiple really good games
have released and very around very
popular game releases
and and because of that
Done very poorly and I don't think it's
because of marketing or anything else. I
think it's because of that and so I
Will I and I we've said this in the past.
I will say this again
I think it'd be hilarious just to see the
half-life would lose but I want to see
half-life 3 dropped the same week
Just to see yeah. Oh,
yeah half-life would lose
But at least I'd have some of the plates
and not I probably won't I just don't
want to be tempted to buy this
The week of I'm and I probably will
From dude for me. There is literally zero
temptation like I have no
interest in playing this game
I have FOMO all the time. Oh, so I get
bad FOMO depending on the game
And if this game has like really fun
things to do in it, I
don't care about the GTA story
I don't want to be a bad guy
Personally, but I love running around and
doing and finding all
the cool stuff to do in GTA
That's the thing I like about GTA
As long as they don't lock that out and I
can just go cruise around even though I
don't want to go to Miami
I think that's where it's at, right? It's
like it's in Florida somewhere again.
Yeah something like that
It's not what it's called, but that's
what they base it off of
Vice City Vice City. Yeah, I
It'd still be fascinating to go around
and just see what they've added. Yes
That's why I'd get it. I mean that the
only appeal is that for me
like I don't I have no interest in
For me it's like this
is the thing that's like
For me, I don't care about like
supporting Rockstar. I don't want to
support them in anything. I hate Rockstar
They're unethical the way they treat
their employees blah blah blah the list
goes on and on so I
don't want to support them
Also like the last
good GTA was GTA Vice City
I think like GTA 4 was okay
But like Vice City was like the only one
that I really or the last one that I
enjoyed I didn't care for
San Andreas I didn't care for GTA 4 that
much and I definitely didn't like GTA 5
So I'm just I'm just not interested. I
don't know I like the Red Dead Redemption
series, and so I will say that
They're good. They're good. Yeah
but
Yeah, their GTA series is just okay like
they have other franchises that I like
more. Let's just say that hmm
because they have like
Max Payne series
bully
they have
Bullied on I I remember playing bully
that was that was pretty good. Yeah, they
Forgot about Red Dead revolver the heck
they had to read it read it revolver and
so they have some good stuff I
Just yeah, just not as interested. Yeah,
I haven't even put eight hours into GTA 5
Honestly that could be more than I put
into it really I think
GTA 5 is I don't know I probably put
around that just well
I just I spent time wandering around and
just having fun hmm. That's it, and then
I'm sure I played something else
Yeah, the thing is I like the driving
mechanics in a lot of GTA games. I
Yeah, like I said at the top of the show.
I like driving games, but
the getting out of the
car and like shooting and
Beating people up and stealing shit and
whatever I don't I just don't it was
But it was fun and novel when it was
naughty for a kid to be
playing it, and I'm not
I'm saying yeah, no I hear yet. I like
the watchdog series more for this type of
stuff where it feels
Slightly more ethical
But teach their own I guess I like the
the the watchdog series, but yeah
I think I played a little bit of that
what that's a Ubisoft game
It is a Ubisoft game, and it is actually
another series. I Ubisoft sounds a couple
of series. I really like my wish I
Wish they weren't so
tied up with everything
else
so
Yeah, so one thing about this it looks
like one of the games
That's good. That's probably gonna get
delayed is the new battlefield or the
battlefield relaunch. I should say
Battlefield relaunch
yeah, I'm a bit heard of that
I hadn't heard of that either are they
like relaunching the whole series because
they fucked up so bad
with the last one probably
dude, I bought I
reserved that one and I didn't
It was so I played the beta. It was fun
enough, but I'm like
okay. There's some big bugs
Hopefully they fix up
my time it comes out
I reserved it because I was super excited
about it because it's a little bit more
futuristic just a little bit and they
I like those types of battlefield games
I want them to do another like I wanted
them to do a like a
real futuristic game, but
besides the point and
I wasn't able to return it because I
waited too long because I didn't even
play it I didn't even play
Because it had such bad
reviews when it first came out
And I just have such a bad taste about
all that and it was it's my
fall at the end of the day, but
They're gonna have to do a lot to redeem
themselves because their last game was
performed and looked
worse than their previous two
Like you I don't know what you have to do
the royally fuck that bad
Just use this you could use the same like
you're using the same engine. Yeah, how
do you just screw it up that bad?
Oh
Only in the video game industry right
that's what it feels like sometimes they
release a new like I
Don't get it. I don't get I don't I don't
get just use the same assets and
Just work off of that don't I don't know
what they were doing
But it just ended up being drastically
worse, and it didn't look as good and
everything else like yeah
Well, we'll get to reusing assets in a
minute. There's another story. We're
gonna talk about in a minute
before we get to that though game stop
Plans to close a significant number of
stars and invest in
Bitcoin because it's 2018
I honestly haven't read this article of
you. Have you read this article? I
Have not they have been in the end
And an FT stop they've done on an NFT.
They've done the crypto stuff before
It is interesting that the reinvesting in
a Bitcoin. Maybe it's because
The US government is attempting to divest
into Bitcoin, which is a bizarre thing
Yeah, I don't know it could like if they
invest now and then the US government
Invest in and then they could then they
could rugpole and then they'd make at
least survive a little longer. Yeah
Dude I have you been
to a game stop recently
Yeah, oh my gosh. I there's a game stop
about 20 minutes from my house
And I went in there
Just because I was like in the area and
I'd get like a sandwich
at this shop next door
And I was like I was like what's been
it's been like two three years
since I've been to a game stop
Let's go in there, so I
went in there with Emily
And it was depressing it was
Depressing it was like
there were there were patches of
Like physical media on the walls, right
and then there were
empty shelves in between
So like there was the Xbox section and
then it was mostly empty shelves
And then it was the PlayStation section
and then it was mostly empty shelves and
then in the center of the store
It was like the kind of stuff that you
would have got from
ThinkGeek like, you know
15 years ago or whatever
it was like a bunch of like
plushies and
Like nerdy like trinkets and stuff and I
was like this sucks
like this is really sad
Um
My my kid really did like it
My son he was he was pretty like when we
went in there's a lot of cool stuff
Honestly, I've been I live probably 30
minutes away from you know
10 minutes to 30 minutes from like four
maybe five game stops like where I live I
can get to them pretty quick
Some of them are very depressing and some
of them are okay like
the one I went to was okay
The problem was is like
they didn't have split fiction
New which is and they came out that week
which I think it just did well enough to
where it was sold out
Which I've just never heard of a game
selling out in a long time
Back in the in the 90s and 2000s. You had
to reserve games and
they could sell out. Yeah
Nowadays because the digital and
everything I just don't
hear a game selling out. So I
Wasn't able to pick that game up at the
GameStop, but I picked up
some I don't do this very often
But I picked up some used ps5 games there
one of them being watchdogs
Lee, I think it was like legions or
something like that,
which I haven't played yet
But I picked up for five bucks make sure
why not like this is a
series. I really like
It wasn't bad and they had a lot. They
actually had quite a bit of a selection
which is not typical
But it's definitely not the same as it
used to be right? They get
Going downhill
Unfortunately, yeah, and I say that
because if I go to a mall
I there's not a whole lot
I'm gonna be doing at a mall. I want to
game stop right. Oh, man. I
haven't been to a mall dude
There's a mall like 40
minutes from my house
It's in Bangor in Bangor, Maine and
they I keep getting like email note or
not emails, but like
push notifications from the
from the newspaper because I'm a
subscriber because local media and
I
keep getting emails like the city of
Bangor has decided to
Like use eminent domain to take the mall
Like it is it's dude like it is like
collapsing in on itself
Like that bolt two of the three anchors
are gone. Like it's
just it's bad. It's so bad
And like people Walmart walk mall walkers
are like not going in there anymore
Because like it's so bad like and when
you lose the mall walkers you
you've lost the plot as a mall
It's what's that?
Funny enough like the closer you get to
like art the denser parts of our
metropolitan area here in Salt Lake City
Like it's the moles are
much fancier much like nicer
Yeah, no further you get away from that
and more into like more libertarian areas
I will say this but it is
like that like there's one
South of me that is
Half of it. It feels like
they're trying to set it up to be
Almost like what is it? I don't even know
what the word is in English
Because I know it in Russian but
It's like third-party markets where
people like kind of like it sound like
what you were saying
So you I went in like I've never heard of
any of these stores.
They're set up in a very weird
Mmm, almost third world away in some way.
I don't know. Yeah, it's
not it wasn't third world
Obviously, but like they're knockoff
generic brand right is bizarre
Yeah, and I'm just like this is this is
unfortunate because
it's a nice two-story mall
Yeah, don't get me started cuz I do like
it pisses me off when I go
on like Amazon and it's like
You know you search for like something
whatever Kleenex and it comes up with
dinger bring
brand
Kleenex tissues and I'm and you're like
what what does dinger bring mean?
What does that even have like there's you
know, at least with Kleenex. It's
inferring an idea of
like cleaning your nose
Whatever. Hey, oh man it so that kind of
stuff that happens at arm all up here,
too. It's it's oh, yeah it is
Amazon's almost getting unusable. It's
going the way of like Google
yeah, search in some ways because you go
to Amazon and you type something in and
you're gonna get all the
Chinese knockoff or
Yeah, it is
You're not gonna get exactly what you
want and because it's cheaper people you
tend to buy that but
it's cheaper for a reason
so
man
So I want GameStop to survive I
It's unfortunate. I want I honestly I
want malls to survive so that they can
compete with Amazon. I just don't know
What yeah, I mean
Here's the thing and this is getting into
like my own politics a
little bit, but I'll tell you this
I want malls and Amazon to disappear. I
think the only like real competition that
you can manage against Amazon is
Local Main Streets, right? Like malls are
a completely unnatural
And so fun economic like sink they don't
they don't belong like they're there
They're like a cancer in my opinion and I
think that Amazon can only exist
Because of the culture that malls created
but that that goes that goes on to it
Like malls here like in the winter time.
I don't want to walk the streets to go
shopping at a strip mall or a strips
Street, I don't want to walk the the
malls are nice. You go in nice pleasant.
You can get yourself
Some food walk around when to shop a
little bit then go in like I'm not like I
wish malls had more stuff for me
Like I'm not as big into like
shopping for clothes, but I'll go with my
wife and it's it's it's nice to walk
around and then they have
They'll have events there they have
trains like it's fun,
but I agree like it can I
Don't know. It's a hard one because my
whole thing is it's private property
That's owned the and I don't like that
Aspect like you in order to go into any
of these shops you have to
first go into private property
I do like that it's walkable, right?
But it also means you have to in most
places you have to drive your car and
park in order to walk the mall
Which dude, we should just have like
walkable cities right walkable town. Oh,
I agree with that and so
And like if you wanted to go protest at
the mall, you can't protest at the mall
You can't you can't like interesting
because it's private property. They can
control who can and can't be there
And but if you wanted to like make a
statement out on Main Street
You can get people's attention and you
can actually do it. I don't know if you
protest, but I worry about these things
Yeah, you could you could
Convinced me to like more of a public
style mall for like each city, but
That would be interesting to yeah
I just like it would be Main Street. I
Know but I wanted to be indoors because
yeah here in Utah it gets
really hot or gets really cold
And I don't like dealing
with Main Street or walking
House I like doing I was
like in downtown Salt Lake
There's a mall and I'm not gonna get be
down behind the religious portions of
this mall, but it is
It is really like I love what humanity
can build like I love cruises. I love
yeah big massive things. I just like
Big structures yeah, but the top portion
can open up in the summertime
And then it closes in the wintertime so
that it can stay heated and that is
awesome now the problem is it's all super
expensive luxury items for
The elite religious
people around here, but yeah
It's dope cool. That
is I mean it sounds cool
the reason that I
The reason I brought any of this up was
like when I moved I lived
in Kentucky for a while and
There was like nowhere to walk like just
to walk by shops and businesses
Unless it was in a mall and
when I came back to Maine I
I
Realized how much I missed the Main
Street right like
because the town I grew up in
You can walk down Main Street, and
there's 70 businesses. They're all small
businesses their own
Locally many of them are producing their
own products right right here in Maine
Great, but and that's how it is in many
of the towns especially along the coast
right you go to Bar Harbor
You go to Rockland you go to
Portland I mean there's so many really
nice Main Streets and even
inland at the end in Bangor
There's a really great Main Street
But like down in Kentucky like there was
nowhere to walk around and meet people
and do things and then
I think that's my lucky
issue I've been to a
couple of different places in
South and and other parts of like I
Yeah, because like so on the west coast
and in like here in Utah
We have both we have a mix of both we
have a Main Street where?
like the one I was talking about
Like the GameStop we have GameStops that
are outside you have to walk to it
You have to walk to the target yet the
walk like we have a mix of both the
problem more than any of the time is
Half our walkable stuff
outside is yet across the street
And you have a bunch of assholes here
like we have so much
road rages that we we have
This is going way off topic
campaigns for
People do not shoot each other when with
road rage because we've had so many
incidents. Oh my gosh Wow so a
Mall feels a lot safer for my kids do not
get rent over or shot so yeah
Well yeah, and that leads me to wanting
to ban cars, but that's
just I'm an extremist I
Can be an extremist too sometimes I want
walkable cities to with you
I'm with you on that one because it's
honestly if you go to a city
that is walkable or
That has really good public
transportation.
That's clean and everything
you're
You change your mind. I think I think
people just need to go do that more
because you'd be shocked at
how pleasant it can be and
I agree with you on that there's a town
This is the last thing I'll
say about this there's a town
About an hour from here where like at a
certain point in the day
Traffic is completely closed on on most
of its main roads like
it downtown and and like
when when traffic closes
people go out in the streets and
and and it's and it's not like you know
there's just a few people walking down
the street while you're
driving right you see just a
handful of people they
close the streets and
People flood the streets and it's like
where are all these people like when cars
are in play right there?
They're they're trapped in their private
little cars, and they
don't they don't go out
They don't spend money at the local shops
It's crazy to me like I don't understand
why we do shut the way we do here
It's a whole go like there's a lot of
documentaries. There's a lot of stuff on
this on the whole car
Lobbyists like people are more
brainwashed and more
Trained to do this than they realize it's
kind of hilarious actually, but yeah
Did we have a similar
like where I grew up in st.
George we had this we have the same thing
like they'd close down Main Street
That concerts and stuff and you could
walk around and I think they did it in
the summer time to do it every week
I think yeah
So yeah in the summer
Yeah
it's like I think I think they're
planning on closing one of the streets
like permanently over the summer and
Just letting people park a couple blocks
away and walk and there's
more cities doing that yeah
Which is good needs to
happen it needs to happen yeah
But
I like seeing game stops when I go to
malls or go to strip like when I go to
place like that because it's fun at
Least isn't a place I can go to yeah
While my wife goes and shops for
something like else that I might not be
as interested in yeah
And I can go do some window shopping is
and I don't know also I
worked at the game stops
So it's nostalgic for me kind of just
yeah thing I want to say on that
Yeah, I mean it's it's sad because I
think about game stuff like
when I think about game stop
I'm like man that you know I remember
going to game stop
and it was an experience
You know I told that story about like
when my brother like we did the midnight
Halo reach launched
together, and that was so much fun
So it is nostalgic and and it is sad that
they're closing how many stores that they
don't even say it's just the
There they're still significant stores.
It's gonna keep on happening. They've
almost like they've almost
gone on over multiple times
It'll be interesting to see how they're
in they invest in Bitcoin
I'm not against a changing our global
Currency or even going to
something different. I just I
Just don't know I'm a little turned off
by Bitcoin right now, but we'll see I I
Do think that another reason game stops
also not doing as well as
physical media is not as popular
People also hate their like you they're
like well if I trade
something in it's not as you know I
Get screwed on I'm like yeah
Well, then don't trade it in like this
the only option you have or you can sell
it on Facebook
marketplace like that's okay
Capitalism works you're not gonna get the
best deal every time and I
think people have a bitter
You know experience from that but yeah,
yeah, I don't know I
Whatever let's move on
I know it's it's depressing if I'm gonna
buy physical media anyway. I'm gonna go
to bull most music
which is a locally owned oh
Music and game and movie plays so anyway
I
Gg
They're reusing assets in like a dragon.
I told you we'd get to this
They're defending their their rationale
and honestly like I think we're using
assets in games make sense
I like I don't I haven't read this one.
This was put in here by high tech, but I
Don't know the the fact
that they're reusing assets
Means that they get to put more time into
other things like if if that's actually
what they're doing. I don't know
But like make from like if
I'm if I made a new game and
And it made sense for me to include some
assets from doodlings. I would do it. Why
not it's already made
So this debate has been going on for a
long time of reusing assets
Some games have reused too many where you
see a game come out too
soon. I think Far Cry 5's
What is it there's a game that came out
right after Far Cry 5
that was because I'm
spoilers if you if you don't
know how Far Cry 5 ends, but
Nukes do land which is a little annoying
you do all the work and the the freaking
person still wins at the end
And then the next game
that's like it's like a spin-off
You play in the post-apocalyptic area
They were used a ton of the assets, but I
don't think it was like
$40. It wasn't $60 game
That's a little bit
pushing the line where
90 like it feels like 80% of the game
wasn't was the same but at the same time
I
Think more studios need to reuse assets
But then make sure they
inject a lot of new stuff
So you make they feel like a new game as
long as you're making
it feel like a new game
That is totally fine to reuse assets. You
just got to make sure you have some
unique new assets to add to it
Yeah, I agree it there has yeah you get a
feel it out. You
gotta like make sure that
It's not just a complete asset flip
But also if you own the assets and you're
not like buying them from somewhere else
like a third party then it's totally cool
I think I'm just even fine with third
party if you you can modify those things
And like it's a rock. It's a rock yeah
There's certain things that are fine, but
yeah if you're going to
make it look and feel generic
It's just gonna sell like a generic so
yeah better be careful with that right
I mean like that kind of goes back to
when we were talking about like
So many Unreal Engine 5
games look and feel very similar
And it's cuz they're using
like the Nana the Nanaite
Not Nanaite. What's the thing like the
there's luminous then I there's
Well, it's like the
assets from that. Oh the mega
It's now called a fab store um yeah,
yeah, I don't know they they oh you run
the risk when you use
Yeah, or reuse assets that your games
just gonna look like everybody else's
they're all using the same rock textures
They're all using the same
trees. You know you can well
Here's the here's a little trick if
you're building a game
And you get those which I do I do use
some of those assets you
modify them you change them up
I'm not a 3d artist, so I can't you know
recreate all this other stuff
But you can get them and you can modify
textures you can modify a lot of
different things that make them your own
That's the trick you
got to make it feel not
Generic and with the Unreal engine
I don't I don't agree and I think you
gardener and like most the industry
Do feel this way with the Unreal Engine?
I feel like it is a developer issue if
you're unreal 5 game
feels the same as another one
That's not a developer issue not a
Engine issue per se they just made it
easier, and then people
are being lazy I guess yeah
I
Can see that one one thing too about this
is like they fully acknowledge that they?
Reused assets and unlike
a lot of other companies
In our studios in the
in the industry you know
RGG studio has been one of the few that's
like releasing games
Pretty frequently you know
And it takes time to develop new like
assets, so if you can reuse stuff. I
think it makes sense
Just make it feel different just make it
hard a certain amount
make sure it feels different
I
Don't I don't have much else to say you
have anything else about that
one. That's that's it like I I
It's interesting these types of stories
will pop up all the time like they'll pop
up every few years on
Asset reusing like using reusing assets
and so just do it right it's
a balancing game, man. Yeah
So Cristiano Ronaldo. I
don't know who that is
is
Now in a fighting game I?
only slightly know
It's a dude
Was the fighter chiseled draw yeah, so
Yeah, I
Mean
There's more more
celebrities partnering up like
How what is his face?
He does man. He lives
actually here in Salt Lake
but
The celebrity there's a
celebrity that is here. He's a senior
and he's partnered up with
Like three or four different
companies like game companies
To do just DLC's and stuff for so it's
it's interesting how it it's becoming
more and more of a thing
It's like a four is like fortnight
I think fortnight started this trend to
start including more and more
celebrities. How do you feel about
celebrities entering the gaming world?
I mean, I liked it back in the day when
Jack Black was in
That double fine game I
Can't remember the name of it on which
double fine game was
he in he was it a voice
He's been in a couple of them. Yeah, he
did um. Oh he voiced it
It wasn't his like him as well character
though Jack Black double fine
Cuz I've played a few
double fine, and I'm
What is this one oh?
Yeah, see this makes so much sense like
this is brutal legend. Oh my god. I can't
put a legend couldn't think of the name
Yeah, yeah, so that 100% makes sense it
makes like honestly even with this
fighter one the
fiddle fury it makes sense
I don't know how I feel about this
Fully it makes sense, but especially if
you want to try to capture
a whole new crowd of people
Mm-hmm you could drive cells really well,
but it it can come off. It's very cringe
if not done. He's a he's a footballer
Yeah, he's a it looks like
he's not yeah, yeah, okay
Well, I mean a footballer in a fighting
game and fatal fury well
at the end it showed the his
Old or something like that whatever it
is. I'm not I haven't played Phil for a
long time, but he kicked the soccer ball
Yeah, yeah, okay
Yeah, little cringe to me, but yeah well
dude I kind of like the either play like
any of the NBA games
like from like the mid
2010s where they had like the actual NBA
players come in and do the
voice overs yeah for the story
And it's like hey, man
You know time to get a thing done
It's like just puts an
effort in man, but uh yeah
I don't know I feel like that's I kind of
got those vibes here from from his acting
Like where was it? He's like looking like
oh geez. Oh, no big cartoon, man
It's they have their skill sets that
they've trained their whole
life for and it's definitely not
Yeah, some of the stuff that is
definitely not voice
acting that's for sure
It is interesting though like I
Like they there's a lot of people that
are entering the world like a lot of
actors entering the world of being
modeled inside of games,
which I think is interesting I
Don't want it to eat into
voice actors themselves though
I don't want them to lose a job and these
people like I don't know I just
It runs the risk of just
reusing the same person it
The same person over and over again, and
it's like Jack Black right now is
starting to feel very fatigued like I
Seen him in Minecraft. I'm just like not
interested. That's the
part I'm interested about
I'm just like dude, okay, you don't need
to be in everything dude
like yeah, it's starting
I want some fresh blood. I
want a new talent. I want a
Difference in my media. I don't need the
same person right like
Yeah, I mean for for me
It's like it was it's it's fun when it's
novel and it's and and it's it's fun when
it's unique and
interesting and makes sense
And as soon as that's any of those three
Cease to be the case. It's I'm not
interested anymore. You know like
Keanu Reeves in
Cyberpunk I was just kind of
like now we don't need that
But see that's the part that's the one
where I actually liked it. I actually
really liked his character in sight
I haven't I haven't played I don't know
And that's fine. There's a lot of people
that didn't that though
there weren't fans of that
And Keanu Reeves is not in too many video
games, so he's not right used too much
But I for some reason he
just did a good job in that I
Like Keanu Reeves. I think he's great as
neo. It's he's funny in Bill and Ted
But I just I was like I just don't see
the point of bringing in celebrities like
I don't know the time
Typically would say that but if that was
like right at the beginning of when I was
kind of done with celebrities
I agree when I saw cyberpunk. I was like
I don't know about this with Keanu Reeves
But then he plays certain characters so
well, and he was an
anarchist essentially an anarchist
And just the way
Keanu Reeves played it
I think lended very well to that and I
would have been curious to
see if someone else would have
Been able to pull that off as well as he
did but once again, you know
I don't want him to be in every video
game either like that'd be really
annoying Mark Hamill
I think is a good one
though because he does the
He does the Joker and the Batman Arkham
series and he does a great job
See Mark Hamill
Okay, like he's Lou Skywalker, but he
disappears in his
other roles like he's like
you know
He's just a he's like he's a character
actor and and and he's a voice actor
Before I even think of him as Luke
Skywalker, so I'm cool with
Mark Hamill showing up anywhere
I don't care about that and he's also he
was also doing it with like Wing
Commander in the frickin early 90s
So like I'm I don't have a
problem with him. He's an og
He's an og and he does a lot of voice
acting where it's not
his face in there. Yes
So yeah, there's times where I could I
agree with that but it they're injecting
celebrities like this
More more and I am I really I've been
trying to this I've been stolen this
whole time to try to figure out who
I'm thinking of cuz I don't
Damn it Indiana Jones
No, Indiana Joe. So
the new Indiana Jones has
Is it's no a mill in north right or is it
Troy Baker? It's Troy Baker.
I think he does an amazing job
He's I mean that the thing with that I
actually kind of am on
board with that because
There is only Indiana Jones
right like it's not it's not
Harrison Ford he's he is Indiana Jones
and so you have to have
Indiana Jones look and sound
like him. I'm cool with that
especially because they're not bringing
in Harrison Ford and
then scanning him and then
De-aging him in the in the geometry and
the textures and shit
like it's I don't know
I like that I'm fine with that. He's such
a grumpy actor these days that he does a
good job in some stuff
But as Indiana Jones, I just think he's
it's just kind of over and
if you tried to voice act
Indiana Jones, I think it
would have not ended well. Yes
Yep, anyway, I don't know is there you
have someone in mind. Yes, I'm trying to
What does it's such a weird one
I
Usually let my brain doesn't work
sometimes and so I I look I work off of
Susie my wife and so she'll know what
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. It's just
there's a lot of celebrities being
injected into more and more
and I think it's because of
Fortnight which is fine
But I don't mind fortnight like if people
want to go that route go that route
I'm not gonna play it but I
I am a little worried about
Up and coming dogs and up and coming
voice actors are gonna get replaced by
just more of the same
celebrities that already have more
Work than they need in my opinion. Like
yeah, I want a diversity and I don't want
companies to play it safe by just
Utilizing the same, you know dozen
Actors and where voice actors need roles
to right? That's my my thing. Well, um
what?
Hellblade
Like she's an amazing actress right from
no blade. I can't remember her name
But like you if they were all just
getting getting like big celebrity names,
we would have never met that
Actress, you know
Truth. I don't know. I yeah video games.
I don't think we need to have more
celebrities. We need to get more
Folks undiscovered talent. I like that
All right, hunt showdown is what it is
hunt showdown had post Malone
That's what it is post Malone
has been in multiple games now
But there's a new one and we I think they
did an announcement when we
watched it for the game awards
but post Malone, yeah, which
He's fine. I it's that
he just loves the game
but
Yeah, I heard what we have a to had like
Ethan and Eli Klein from h3h3
You remember that and I even that I was
like in why paid in payday they had DLC
I did not know that that is
Bizarre what a bazero. Why would you add
h3h3 people into that?
I don't know like I
like h3 like they're funny
But like I was like dude that just
doesn't feel right to me
Like crazy, but yeah, they died through
them are actors either. I was like why
no, why are we doing this?
But that is a bizarre. That's
a bizarre choice. That's yeah
Okay, that that's a choice that that's
what I don't understand and even with the
post Malone. I'm like
He I don't know if he's a good enough
actor to but because it is hunt showdown
He might roll. Okay in that
because it is a very gritty game
Mm-hmm, but I haven't played it. I just
yeah, I know I've never
heard of hunt showdown
Hunt showdown is a really fun
get it's a you can do solo duel or or
or
A trio and you go in
and it's like back in 18
80 what is it 18 something?
1896 and has guns and it has
Monsters that you're essentially hunting
down, but you're in a squad and you have
to you can take out other squads
Then you have to take down the monster
and then you have to extract. It's an
extraction kind of shooter and
It's unique. It's fun
But it is definitely different. So yeah,
I don't need to go much
further into it. It is
unique the last thing
I'll say about any of this is
We need to go back to
a time when video games
Couldn't incorporate
the lifelike likenesses of
Celebrities because
that's when games were more fun
And that way we can just get
around this. Yeah, that's you
Anyway, like ps1 graphics from now or use
like a beat like use an
up and comer if you want
There's a couple up a comers that they'll
do sometimes do that
Yeah, video games were better when when
tails in in sonic adventure
was voiced by an actual child
Who was not an actor at all?
Do you remember that?
Yeah, I
think that's a good I think that's
There comes some labor law issues because
yeah child actors don't end up doing very
well in life. But yeah, yeah
No, it's I agree it's all interesting but
You're interested in what I'm an interest
in this next topic
though. Oh, yeah, me too
Game informer is back and they've hired
the entire team again and
I I mentioned double fine
Earlier, and I think if I'm wrong, I
think I'm right about this
The guy who founded double fine is one of
the sponsor like one of the guys behind
bringing this back. What's his name?
Oh, I don't remember his name. So I like
double. No. Yeah, I like I
like double fine quite a bit
It's owned by Microsoft
now though. So poo-poo
so
No audio just just going through this.
They're hiring the entire
team again is what they said and
I was sad when game for
a shutdown because like
games journalism is really important and
The fact that they've
been around for so long
I mean, I remember reading
game informer when I was a kid
I read game informer and PC
gaming or PC gamer and yep
Like and then I had like subscriptions
here and there to like PlayStation
underground and
Xbox whatever that
one was I had maximum PC
PC gamer which is now just incorporated
into PC gamer. Mm-hmm and
Game informer because partially because I
worked at GameStop. So I'm just I make
sure I always have a subscription
Yeah, I mean it's good stuff and I agree
with you with journalism stuff
like journalism period in the world is
dying and you know, it's unfortunate and
It leads to a lot of bad things now.
Luckily we're in the this
is the game industry. So
it's not as
It's not as
Consequential as the real world where
journalism is dying there, too. Mm-hmm,
but it still sucks
because you're gonna get
Less good takes on the industry on the
how the industry is going and kind of
calling out the bullshit of the industry
This is this is interesting. Have you
watched this video? I
Have not actually seen the video. I just
heard and read a little bit on this
Yeah, so essentially what
they're talking about here
I believe is called Godzilla are the the
company behind bringing this back and Tim
Schafer. That's his name
Tim Schafer is part of
Godzilla. There he is right there. Yep
Um, and so they're bringing this back and
it's gonna be an independent
Entity from Godzilla is not part of it
and they're going to be doing
the same kind of like content
production and the same like
Articles that they're writing for their
website, but they're also bringing back
the print magazine. Oh
Oh
Yeah
That's very exciting because I'm gonna
sign up for this like if I
have some disposable income
I think I might just do it just because I
like physical media.
I like print magazines
I think well as long as they're in my
wheelhouse, you know, and uh, I don't
know it's pretty it's
pretty cool to see I
Was I was bummed when they
announced they were closing. Yeah
There's like an end
to an era kind of thing
It was the same thing for me with maximum
PC when they went away.
I really like maximum PC
I still have some of the magazines from
them. Yeah, dude. I would love to work
for them. Honestly, like
Game informer. Yeah, man, like I
Love to write. I don't know if you've
seen my blog like I just I've been
blogging the heck out of my
My heart and soul
I don't I don't read blogs very much
these days. Yeah, well listen to things
You know why I'm such a huge
enthusiast for the feta verse
Is because I post something and the
people who follow me see it
Yeah, like I post I post my blog articles
and they get thousands of views
There you go, like I mean depending on
what I'm talking about
some people don't read it
but like I post my articles over there
and people like actually click it and
actually read it and
then I get comments and
And that's why I like
the feta verse so much
So okay, I post a video on YouTube and
it's rolling the effing dice man, like
whether anybody's gonna watch it at all
Yeah, I'll be honest. I really want a
competitor to YouTube to
pop up. Yeah pure tube. I
Know but it's so
expensive. It's really not
I mean it like it it's more expensive
than not having a peer tube yourself
But it's really not that bad, especially
if you can turn on some of
the bandwidth saving stuff
It's it's actually pretty great. Oh, I
need to look into it
But I just well, I just want to I don't
know if you want to post
your videos on my peer tube
I'll let you how's that? I
Need to come out of it. I've been very
yeah behind the scenes on other projects
lately and I need to get back into it
Yeah
Cuz it's fun. Oh
Dude, so much fun making videos
Yeah, dude, I don't know I'm very excited
about this though like Game Informer
again, like I think I've kind of like
played my hand that I don't really like
the modern game
industry very much like I'm
Boring into the retro stuff
But like it just it makes me happy that
Game Informer is back and
they're talking about cool games
Because there are
cool games that come out
recently, you know
Yeah, no there
There I think the game industry is just
morphing and it's getting bigger and
there's more for everyone
and I don't know why people
have an opinion and
This is not to throw anyone that's
listening or anyone that's under the bus
or anything like that
I just I think people have an opinions on
games that they really shouldn't have
opinions on because
they're not their type of games
It's not like game for you
so let other people enjoy it now if you
find a practice that is a
Nefarious like loot boxes you can you can
comment on that type of
stuff like that's fine
But like I feel like some games people
just have opinion on like that doesn't
sound like it's a game for you
Why do you care?
Yeah, for me like it doesn't criticism. I
don't care from
assessment screens typically
Yeah, I just so I'll still comment on it
sometimes but I'm not gonna be like hate
commenting on everyone's videos
Right
Like I'm more than happy to like
to like
Throw shade it like epic and stuff, but
like if you enjoy fortnight, I'm not
gonna crap on you for it
You know, I don't get it. Yeah, I don't I
really don't understand
Like I understand that people like
playing games online, but I don't
understand why people
like playing games online
I really don't get it, but I'm not gonna
like make fun of you for for doing that
You know like that's yeah, no you know
If you don't like seeing a practice by
like a game company or and you can make
you can still make fun of the game
that's fine, but I think some
people go a little too far and
Really make fun of people that play for
tonight. I'm like why they enjoy it like
it's just a game man, right?
I don't get why people watch football at
all. I don't get it. Yeah
Oh, see I love football. I don't yeah
I would much rather watch Starcraft 2 or
an eSport than I would a sport
well, I enjoyed basketball back in its
heyday when I feel like
My team the Jazz was doing
okay, but now they're yeah
so
Yep, hey person you want you there's an
actual really cool sport. I think you
might like it's called
competitive chase tag
Have I told you about this? No. Oh dude
Competitive chase tag.
There's a there's a small arena
with like tons of like
Like obstacles and stuff and
Two teams compete
One-on-one one one person versus one
person to to chase and
evade the other person right?
It's super cool. And it's like it's
there's like some really great rules and
it's basically like improvised parkour
Competitive mode. It's awesome. I love it
Anyway, well
Yeah, no, it's
huh
See the thing is I would play that I'm
much more into playing
sports than I am to watching
I don't like watching sports period. Yeah
Um
For the most part cuz
I just rather play him
I play I don't play him as much nowadays,
but I'd just rather play him
I also skateboarded a lot growing up too
and that's also my kind
of gem more. Okay weekend
Game of former being back is amazing. I
think is good. I think we
need more game journalism
That isn't just like I G and
PC gamer and a couple other ones
Yeah
And then being print is all I'm really
curious how much it's gonna cost because
I also am curious to pick one up
Yeah, a subscription just because it
sounds like they're
gonna be more independent
They're gonna be they've cut ties with
GameStop and if they are more independent
and can do really what they want
I am down for that. Yes, I agree
Japanese gaming is back on the rise
This is a high another high-tech
submitted story five out of eight major
companies reported record profits
In 2024 looks like or maybe
this quarter. I don't know
Five out of eight of japan's major
publicly traded triple-a gaming companies
have seen share prices reach all-time
highs in the past two months
People are divesting from the united
states. Yeah, it's really it's probably
partially what it is
Yeah
interesting
Sony nintendo kunami capcom and bandai
namco are the are the
major companies here
so
That's
Interesting because kunami like what have
they been coming out with that would
warrant such a bump.
I know capcom pachinko
Okay, there's that that's true capcom
Whether I know some people are are kind
of frustrated with them, but like they
have some pretty interesting
IPs yeah
but
Yeah, no, this is I think this is good
for I think they deserve it because I
think a lot of their
like especially like I
Think capcon sony those are like I really
like a lot of stuff they come
out with I think they've been
Doing better and and I think the japanese
triple-a market is
releasing better games these days
Um, but they also
release a lot of games. So yeah
Uh sega's not on this
list is sega publicly traded
um
I think
I don't know. I think they might be
Held by a different company now. I don't
know if they're they they
themselves are publicly traded
I'm gonna google it
But I i've lost track of
like who owns sega these days
sega sammy holdings
Oh, okay
interesting it was a merger in
2004 I guess all right
Okay, well there you go what I know
um
Cool. I mean this is this is pretty neat.
They they've got some uh
What is this kunami had
silent hill two driving silence
Which yeah, I mean, yeah, that does help.
Silent hill two was a uh a banger and I
haven't played it yet
But it does look good
Yeah, kunami had monster hunter wild
Um
Let's see
Yeah, yeah, I mean this is neat it's good
to see uh, you know in a in a
Era at least in the west where lots of
studios are closing and there's huge like
massive layoffs and stuff
It's good to see that the games industry
in japan is still going strong
And I I hope they're treating their
workers. Well, because sometimes it's a
mixed bag with that but right silksong
This is this is another high tech
Uh one of his special interests. I
actually really love holla night. It was
really fun. I'm a metroidvania
fan
And uh, apparently they
changed their copyright from 2019
to 2025
uh
And this is this is a huge deal because
people have been talking about how
silksong is never going to
come out and blah blah blah
so
This is this is a neat little update
It's like half-life three, you know, it's
a meme. No, no, it's
not. No, it's not not for us
But for no, I know
high tech for some folks
and and susie like uh
She my wife really
likes holla night. Yeah
It's really hard game, but she really she
would I think be really excited for
something like this. So yeah
I have a little grub
plushie from holla night
There you go. Do you
remember the the indie box?
It was like a they would ship you like
indie games on a little usb
stick
And it would come in a
box like a custom box
And uh, the one sounds
cool. It was it was neat
It was really cool and I had I
ordered a whole bunch of them
So I have like limited edition runs of a
bunch of indie games in physical
Boxes that is why I really like that
concept. Yeah, some of them came with um
Like limited run plushies or
other felis to go along with it
Uh, I have a super meat boy one. Um, but
the one that I that I was
most impressed with was uh,
Uh holla night. It was really nice
Nothing to do with this
but dead space had their uh,
So the the ea had a big sell on dead
space merge and I love dead space. So I
got like a dead space skateboard
Hell yeah, dude
That's awesome
I also I got a couple
other things but we don't
Good I I like collecting stuff. What's
that? This is from um axiom verge
It's very dusty, but this came in one in
my axiom verge limited edition box
Oh, and it's like this
really beautifully sculpted. Yeah
Uh thing it's really cool. That's the
I love collector's items that they do in
these things that uh
Like when a game releases or
even if it's on a merch store
Like if you make it
premium enough go for it
I don't like it when they do
it as a cash grab where you get
Not like the what was it? Was it a
fallout one where they got like a burlap
sack or something like that?
It wasn't much
It was like shittier than I think someone
had a moldy one and everything. Yeah
Oh, dude, like yeah the the cash grab
bullshit. I hate but like
Indie box was cool
Like they stopped doing it because nobody
like what they would do
is they would do like a big
Indie game that everybody wanted and then
they would do like a indie
game that nobody had heard of
And then and they people would be like
what what is this game?
We don't want that and nobody
would order the the next one
so then they'd go back to doing a big
game and then they'd come
out with a small one and
The way they were doing
it didn't seem sustainable
Yeah
But it sounds like you need to do all the
big ones and then once
A small one gets big enough or you do
like little micro ones of it and then you
can promote it as a you know
Yeah, unfortunately, that's just kind of
how the industry is. That's how
capitalism kind of works. You can yeah
I
Have too many flops, but
no, this is good. This is good
I mean, there's not a whole lot more we
can talk about it because it's just a
date change, but it's literally
Just a diff right here
But it's a we've had a couple of long
conversations about just
diffs on this podcast. So
This very promising look for
uh people of the hollow night
Yes, I am happy. I I love
hollow night. It was a good game
um
HP doesn't want windows on uh
on their steam deck competitors
Have you did you hear about this? I
talked about this on my um on my
show this week, uh
so according to uh
Gaming on linux. I saw them reporting on
this. Uh, apparently
the uh one of the product managers
Josephine tan at hp was on xda developers
and um
Josephine was complaining about how bad
of an experience windows is on handheld
and
Josephine was basically saying hey like
we'd love to do a handheld at hp
and uh
We but it's not going to have windows on
it if we did because I
don't know what to do with
If I don't like it, I don't know how to
do a product for it and that's she's
talking about windows there
Well, there's also that and they don't
have uh, I don't think that hp has a uh a
game client like the
um
Asus armory
So the aceus's armory system is like
really decent but they've
been working on it for years
I don't think hp has anything like that.
And so without armory and
if I was on windows like
Fuck that like i'm not using
Windows on a handheld without some type
of additional software
so I can see why like
all
H I don't want to hp handheld though. I
don't want to hp computer period
Well, okay. I there were I talked about
this on my on my news
video last uh yesterday
And there was a bunch of people who said
basically the same thing
like I don't the hp sucks
and I don't want
anything to do with them, but
When hp launches a product with window
with linux on it.
It's actually pretty good
Like okay, uh, I have the hp dev one
Um, they sent it to me to review it and
it's it's a linux laptop first. It
shipped with dude. It shipped with pop os
With it with pop. Okay
And I was like interesting for this i'm
here interesting choice. They worked with
Uh system 76 to be able to
distribute firmware updates
Through the built-in
pop os firmware updater
When they do linux they do it, right?
so
Uh, I know that they when they ship like
windows handhelds, they ship
it full of bloat and garbage
But like it's a business oriented. Yeah.
Yeah full business oriented
Right, but they but the people at hp who
give a shit about linux
Know how to make a
product with linux on it
And that's pretty cool
I say I don't want to hp handheld
But i'm always with any of these
companies always willing to be proven
wrong or be um surprised
I if they drop one and it's amazing sure
i'm i'm not gonna not get
it because it has hp on it
right, uh per se
uh, it's just
Yeah, I mean I want more I want more
competitors, but the
market's already kind of saturated
So i'm really curious to see
what they're gonna do with this
Well, here's the deal. This is the thing
that I don't quite
understand like what valves play is
um, yeah
like I mean valve makes
Like for example if hp
shipped a steam os powered handheld
Valve would make money off
of every sale of games off
other that system, right
um, so that's valves play
But I just don't see how
having a hyper saturated market
like a critically
saturated market makes sense
For handhelds like I
just valve does it the best
uh
and and honestly, I feel like the way
microsoft is going to enter the handheld
space is going to try to
Be so loud and bombastic
and oversaturate everything
That it's just going to drown out like
the quality stuff. Yeah,
like microsoft. Did I not say
Sorry, I was thinking mintell for some
reason. Okay. Oh, sorry. Yeah. No, no,
you said you said it
right. I was just like
I zoned
um
Sorry continue. What's your thought?
I mean, I don't I don't
remember exactly where I was going
but I just it like microsoft has always
had the strategy of like be
loud and be the only option and
um
And and right now it it is it's one of
the only options
except for the steam deck
You know
I don't know go ahead
My opinion with this whole thing is I
want competitors, but I want competitors
to think things through I want uniqueness
Yeah, the legion go while I didn't
approve like when I did my review of that
i'm like, not really for me because
windows
Because of windows like and their
software for windows sucked. Yes
but
I really like the device itself. I like
that. I had a bigger
screen. It was unique
Give us unique options that people want
And you'll do a little better and you'll
have a niche of the market
but
Like with the ally they came out first
and they kind of own the market of an
alternative to the steam
deck of a similar form factor
But for windows and it's
a little bit more powerful
They kind of own that now and other I
think other handhelds that have come out
that kind of compete with
that haven't done as well
just because
Asus
Got into the market much
quicker these other companies
I don't know what they were thinking or
what they were doing and why
they decided to come in so late
but a lot of these companies came in like
Years later than they needed to be like a
year or two later. And so
HP thinking about entering
it now is kind of a bizarre
Time, but if they do
it, right i'm down for it
but
If it's going to be similar to like if
it's going to run steamo lessons
It's going to be similar to the steam
deck. Why not just get the steam deck?
Unless it's that much more powerful
That's interesting. I the thing
Yeah, I think the point I was trying to
articulate and failed before
What you just said kind of informs this
Is How do I put this valve
selling the the
steam deck
Uh at a subsidized cost
They can recoup that right
by selling games on steam
I don't understand
how any company
Aside from valve or
microsoft can make money
selling
more, uh
handhelds because the cost you have to be
cost competitive with
What is currently one subsidized device?
or
Cost competitive with two when the x when
the microsoft xbox
handheld whatever comes out
And I just like and then and so you're
gonna have to cut costs somewhere to make
a cost competitive device
That's but then I just don't I just don't
get it. Like so there's two there's
There's kind of two things going on here
one. I think valve is
either lying or being
Untruthful, which I get the same thing. I
don't think they're losing money. I don't
think they've ever lost money
But business people will throw this out.
Like if you're not making enough margin
They will pretty much say they're losing
money because it's not really worth it
I think I just don't think like
especially now after a few years. I don't
think even though they've said it
I don't believe them.
Okay. Uh, yeah, I'm I
I'm not saying you're
lying either. No, no, no
This is my whole thought process when I
say subsidized device
They're like I think like the low-end
steam device, especially the original lcd
model. That was 64 gigabytes
That was there so that they could have
The the loss leader to get people to go
that looks like a great deal
But that's an even better deal and they
go up to the next one, right?
So I think they were definitely losing
money selling the 64
gigabyte version because
Like I just think that that was like to
get people in the door
So I mean I priced it out
Back when it first came out. I did a um a
stream and I priced it out and
and looked at parts and stuff
and now i'm not an expert in this but
I still don't think that was a loss
leader even though they said it was like
I said, I think they
um
Manushed things but you're right. They
they priced it at a low price like that
probably didn't make much
Because I still don't think they lost
they said they didn't they they lost
money. I still don't know
Um, but then again, they're also entering
the market in a very like
they're new to the market
So that is a little different asus and
all these other companies have been doing
this for decades. They have
much better margins and much better
Um
uh ties and even direct ties to
manufacturing that they probably can do
this cheaper than valve
So that could be that's kind of my second
point. That's could be what they're doing
Um people do forget this sometimes that
yeah, these companies
been doing this for decades
I I don't think
What val what gabe said was that pricing
the steam deck was painful?
I don't think they ever said that they
were losing money on it. Yeah,
but a lot of us inferred that
Um, but yeah, you're right. I think like
the fact that they ever lost money. No
And I still think they would even if the
lowest end version was losing
Just a handful of cents or whatever
They made it all back by selling the
actual by selling games. Yep. Um
But like I just there
isn't that like aftermarket
attachment thing for any other vendors
like none of these other
vendors are going to be making
a rotten cent from you after you have
bought the hardware and
even if they have like the deals with
manufacturers and they they you know
things are cheaper for them because they
of their volume like
It just doesn't seem to
make sense to me like like
Aeneo releases two or three devices a
year because they don't make
like
You know, they don't make the margins
after sale like it's all on the hardware
and I don't know it's that's
why hp sells you laptops with
Bloated ad like malvertizing wear on it,
you know, like because
it just doesn't make it
I don't know. I think that's what we've
been led to because they have a whole
Death make more and more every year. I
think that's what we've been led to
believe. I think they
do make money. It's just
The problem with these these margins is
if there's a major like let's say steam
deck. Let's say they had a
major failure in the in the
um
In steam decks that they
had to recall half of them
That would be a major
loss leader at that point
So the dangers of some of
these hardware releases are there
Meaning if there's enough
if you don't
Produce a good enough cheap product you
could end up losing a lot
of money in the long run. Um
From recalls and from
warranties and stuff like that
Yeah, I
I I think they're making
Enough money, but I
don't it's definitely not
Probably good margins. I wouldn't be
shocked. It was good
Accessories though if they started doing
a little more accessories, but what do
you like they'll need to start doing
much better job with accessorizing their
Devices, which I just
don't see them doing much like
Have a dock for that specializes and
looks the same as it have all these other
things and accessorize and
that's where you get your
Money typically and that's
where like with playstation
Xbox they get a lot of money from their
accessories and I don't know why these
other companies aren't doing that
I just don't think they have a good game
plan. I think that's
where you're I think, you know
Yeah, what are what are they doing here?
Right, I I don't know
Ayaneo has a huge chinese market
That they're surviving off of so I
thought they would have gone on there a
while ago, but I think
they have a pretty big
chinese market and we just get like the
Not the spillover, but like we
get access to those things too
Because they sell well
enough in china. Yeah
so
Yeah
It's interesting it will be interesting
to see hp enter the market if they are
right
uh, one thing I do want to note about
this story too is that when uh
Josephine tan here was asked if they'd be
interested in making a handheld running
steam os her response was a very quick
and very simple. Yes
Yeah
Which is I mean i'd like to see what they
come up with I don't I don't know if
they'd be able to execute
But again, I I do have more faith in in
their linux side of stuff
I think that they'd be able to do it
better than than like the regular
consumer handheld or business side. Um
Also fun fact this is uh from the way
back machine because this article no
longer exists on xda
Oh
Really? Yeah, so uh, maybe somebody got
in trouble for it or said something they
shouldn't have said to the
but uh
Very interesting, isn't it? Very very
interesting interesting
Yeah
All right. This is this is your story.
Tell tell me what's going on here
so
um
Apple's good. No, i'm just kidding
So google is
And the fear here is they're like they're
doing closed source development
of
android now
meaning
Up until it is ready to be released or
whenever they think they could there's a
lot of things that could change here
But we'll talk about that. But google is
making android development private
Um, but they will make the um, once they
release they will make the os
Open source is what's going on here. So
The releases are going to be open source,
which is at least that's that's good
enough typically for me. Um, I think
that's how unreal engine works
Um, maybe they might actually also
I don't know if they have closed source
development, but I do know that
You can get access to the source code for
epics, um unreal engine
It's not it's under a different license
Yeah, it's not but it it's it's source
available, but the development is going
on in private. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah
Which people are people fear google's
going to be doing
here with android, right?
And they've been shutting off
From I listen to a thing on this and
they've been shutting off more and more
features. So like their pixel phones have
Um software and features on
it that they do not open source
Um to stay competitive i'm
assuming and so here's the thing
I
Don't trust google
I use a closed source system. I use apple
stuff for business and a
lot of other things. So
I would be a hypocrite if i'm like, yeah,
I don't like this but
I don't
Like that they're
depending on a lot of third-party
Companies in the beginning and then they
started doing their own because the third
parties weren't doing well enough
and then they're just going to close it
off and eventually with fuchsia or
Who knows what?
Is it fuchsia whatever it is like their
next um, yeah their next
operating system i'm curious what?
They're going to be doing and I just
I know as a hardware developer or if I
was these other companies, I wouldn't be
trusting them at this point
I wouldn't be trusting them to not cancel
anything at this point. They've cancelled
so much stuff. Yep. Um
So
I'd rather just jump over to a closed
source system if it's going to go that way
Well, I mean
Yeah, I think we should go to like um
Sailfish that's where
we should be going like
Have you heard of sailfish? I i've heard
of it. I haven't used it. I haven't
looked into it too much. Yeah
I like selfish. Um, but
also I read that there's like a
A port of ganom to android
have you heard about that?
I was kind of interested
in checking that out, but
Anyway, yeah, google google sucks.
They're they're bad. They're they're
they're literally evil at this point
Um, they will be making like if they
follow the licensing for the linux
kernel, they have to make
Most of this stuff open
source at some point. Um
Making it fully private
This just seems like something that they
are doing out of desperation like they
they see the writing on the wall
And they're shaking down the couch
cushions for pennies, you know, like
that's what this feels like to me like
They realize that making this
making uh things open source
While it's the ethical
and the moral thing to do
It is not good for business for their
business the way they want to run it
Uh, and so they're
they're backpedaling on it
Um doesn't work very well for it if you
have to keep on making
short-term gains every year
Which is a stupid business
It's it's just stupid that we're in this
Realm of short-term gains that kind of
destroy long-term
viability of a product. But yes
Yeah
um
Like I I invest like my company's money
into open source, right? Like I I
sponsored developers
of projects that I use
Because it makes sense for my business to
it's ethical to that I rely on
Yeah, if you want something to survive
you got to fund it. Yes, exactly
um
And that's why like I don't ever want to
work for or be involved with publicly
traded companies because
like they just don't have
the the right motivations
Um, it's all about shareholder dividends
I definitely don't man.
It's a hard one. Yeah, I
Have I worked for I don't know if i've
ever worked for a publicly traded
But yeah, I worked for
home depot for a while
And they I guess game stop I did. Yeah,
but that wasn't yeah
before before the meme stock
So
Like okay, so i'm in the apple ecosystem
i'm in as close to off as
as it can be but it all works
So well together. Yeah, i'm okay doing
that but I am also
putting in backup plans
For any if anything
happens and I also I do do stuff
That's not I do a lot of stuff. That's
open source also, especially
on my apple devices. I just
I'm tired of like google canceling
things. I know
apple's not going to cancel
Uh, let's say the simple note app that I
use sometimes or the
reminders or certain things
I just know apple's not going to cancel
because they have a track
record of not doing that
And I can rely on it where with open
source I can rely on
that stuff to a point
But in my day to day nowadays, I just I
gotta have things that work
and work well enough
for
And i've mentioned so many different
times but for business oriented stuff
To uh, my my typical
Like emails and everything like that
It's nice. I've been i've been going to
um, the mail client on on ios and apple
The the here's the here's the plus of the
apple ecosystem now i'm
gonna show for them a little bit
And i've been doing this i've been I do
this every once in a while and then I get
mad and I get mad at apple but
I don't have ads. I don't have anything
going on with my mail
client. It is simple
It still has a lot of powerful stuff that
gmail has but it is simple
Where I go back to gmail
and i'm like, oh my gosh
Why is there so many tabs here and there
and I don't know dude gmail on
android is garbage. Oh my god
Yeah that too and it I feel like it did
On android or ios. Yeah, so
I'm just kind of over that now. Um and
Apple you when you buy their products
it's expensive, but they don't have ads
and they don't do tracking
on their
first party uh software
Um
and they're very direct
like if any app is going to
Do any type of tracking
you have to allow it to
so um
I'm not as big into
the privacy thing, but
nowadays I might be because
of the way trends are going in
this united states but uh
Let's just say if you're a green card
holder in the united states don't leave
right now because you
might not be coming back
um
And that that comes in the privacy.
That's the one that we
didn't put on here if
You go to the airport
Um, if you're flying back in they might
take your phone and just scan it nowadays
They've done that multiple times and
they've detained people that have said
anything that was contradictory to
um
Pal uh, palestinian or
anything like that. Uh, like or
Israel which is crazy. So i'm becoming
more and more of an of getting into that
maybe privacy things
right where
Be careful guys
And maybe it is time to really start
thinking about your privacy
And this is coming from someone who's
been very laxatasical
about it
So yeah
No, no, I mean I agree with
you like it's definitely worth
um
Thinking about you know, the the thing is
I don't trust google with
uh
Privacy stuff. I don't I don't
I don't completely distrust
apple like they at least have
uh
a marketing interest
in maintaining the the
veneer of privacy, right of being focused
on privacy so they they at
least have a little bit of like
Financial something nobody takes google
seriously when google's like oh we we
care about your
privacy. No, you fucking don't
but
Apple at least has to
pretend they do which they have
Yes, they've had leaks
They and they but they have a business on
this if every time they have issues their
stock will drop like yeah, they have
somewhat of a privacy
aspect to them that they promote right
part of the premium package
I commend them for that and especially
like going to bat against like the uk
Uh for their secret court thing court
order to like give them backdoor access
um
And they yeah, I I commend them for that
too. But like at the end of the day
At some point they can
just change their mind
Yep, and and then suddenly oh, we're not
going to go to bat and defend
Our customers rights because
it will cost us too much money
And that's why I like having my own
self-hosted open source stuff where I can
audit it and make sure
that it's actually working
For me and not for anything else
so
Yeah, that is what i'm doing right now is
i'm divesting stuff i'm using i'm gonna
be using a lot of apple stuff
But I like i'm gonna have backups
on my um
I'm gonna be creating a
home lab lab this year
partially for fun, you know
It's super fun and i'm gonna be
simplifying like my desktop like i'm
probably gonna get a a max studio
And start doing game development on that
and and just kind of having that be
my main system
And then run windows parallels if I need
to run windows stuff and all that because
it's running really well
I really really do like the mchip
It is amazing at how much they get
performance without having
to up wattage like nvidia
and i'm also kind of just over this
nvidia and even amd sometimes like
Um not be able to get graphics cards like
it's been a cluster fuck this year
uh like in last time too nvidia is just
like it feels like nvidia is just
Screwing us over and we're just allowing
it and i'm kind of just done with that.
So i'm going towards
Um, it won't be as powerful
but i'm going towards well
Mac studio is really good at doing like
video editing and some other stuff
um gaming i'm not as much but
I want to dive more into especially for
gaming into the linux world and having
fun there and so i'm
And i'm talking about those multiple
times. I want to keep
The things like if I if my flow my
workflow gets disrupted too much
That's why i've been making videos as
much because my windows
Machine started acting up big time and it
was not a hardware issue. It
was a it was a windows issue
And I had like I finally
because I kept on refreshing it
Off of the windows that was included on
it. I finally just did a full just delete
it and it seems to be running better now
But i'm just not gonna i'm once you
disrupt my flow enough i'm
done. Um, google did that
windows did that I have to have like
my um
I have to have things run well
For certain things i'm doing now when i'm
tinkering that's fine
with gaming. That's fine
I'm I can keep on
reinstalling games and everything but
I gotta have my flow work fine. Uh, well
for work stuff or else my
brain my adhd brain is going to
Self-destruct and so and it's it's hard
to like gardener like open source is is
fun. It's it's awesome
I love it. I've contributed
to open source stuff before
but
It's really hard to have like an open
source phone and have a lot of things
work on it really well because
It does take a little it takes a lot of
work to get that stuff in there
And so i'm just wondering
what the answer is going to be
for the future of like
Android if it's going to go closed source
I'm going to treat it and I think
everyone should treat
it that it's going to be
closed source in the
future in the sense of
android itself probably won't be and
there'll be um, maybe there'll be branch
like we can branch off and
um do uh clones of it, but
Expect continual updates to be moved over
to something else that is closed source
Yeah, so the the thing with with phones
particularly is that
With android too android like the core
operating system is open source
but
most of the drivers that you get for
Devices like this a smartphone are closed
source. They are binary blobs that have
been incorporated
into the linux kernel and
That has the benefit of
Like harder manufacturers actually
producing drivers for that hardware, but
it also has the drawback
That you can't study it. You can't
Figure out what's going on with it. You
can't fix issues yourself
And it also means that the that the
firmware of these drivers
or these devices is also
completely closed so
There aren't many great options in terms
of of like having a
truly open source phone
Uh, and a lot that's because there's a
lot of industry collusion
uh to keep things proprietary
Not the least of which is the mobile
operators like verizon won't allow you
To run a rooted phone on their network
anymore. Um, and it's like
Like I have two devices that I really
want to be using but I also
don't want to pay 130 a month
to atnt for shit service
Around here where I literally literally
if I wanted atnt here
I'd have to drive to the end of my
fucking street to make
a phone call, you know
What are you what's the price you're
willing to pay for open source gardener?
I think we're finding
out. That's the thing
I'm kidding. By the way. No, you're
absolutely right. It's like I I
am
It's like what is the price that oh there
is a premium to having privacy?
Uh to maintaining your privacy and that
sucks because if you're aware of all the
shit that's going down
uh
Like all of the actors that want your
information and i'm not even talking
about like governments,
right? Like this is this is um
Advertisers it's advertisers
It's your insurance companies. It's all
of these other things
The insurance one is that's another one
where i'm starting to get
more and more like okay, dude
Yeah, people people always, you know, you
talk about privacy and people make fun of
you. It's like, oh, yeah
Put your tinfoil hat
on it's like no, dude
Do you want your insurance premiums to to
to be jacked up on
you because your phone?
Says like the telemetry on your busted
ass phone says that you were driving
faster than you actually were
No, you don't want that and so like yeah,
it's this isn't paranoia
This is these are like actual things that
are actually happening
I mean, there's been a lot of even um
lawsuits over the years and stuff. Yeah.
No, I I hear you on this like I it's it's
unless we um
Legitulate this like unless we put laws
and regulations in yeah, um
You have to then put it into your light
into your own hands. It's
in your own hands. That's why
as much as um
You know, you might not like apple or
whatever like your options are
Android is a freaking clusterfuck of a
mess with privacy period. We know that
like there's been
multiple issues over the years
Apple has had some slip-ups
And this is how I see it either you have
an open source device
or apple
If you want at least a
little bit of privacy
I'm yeah
That's the option
There is a device that i'm excited about
and I can't remember the name of it, but
it's like not a smartphone
It's like an it's like a linux
computer. That's in your hand
And I wish I could
remember the name of it, but uh
But it has like a you can attach a rate
like a cell radio to it
And you can use it as a phone and i'm
thinking about doing that like
legitimately a ham radio
uh
phone
No, no, it'll look
legit like it's a legit 4g
Yeah, i'm i'm kidding
It's it will be interesting to see how we
go with all this. It is definitely one of
those things where right now
I don't think the average person
Yeah can
Even like it's really hard to do open
source and to debug this stuff or
especially an average person. I mean
dude
There's no way. I don't even know if I
can get my parents to go over to like
iPhone from an android device because
they're so embedded and
it's just easier for them
I don't know if I could get them to go
over to something like this. No, this is
not for normal people
Like this is for nerds dude, like like
this looks fun. It has interchangeable
Uh, yeah face plates on it
and this one's like a gpio
You know this one is a uh
You know this gamepad there's a keyboard
Um, and they actually just re like
redesigned how these connect
I generally try to steer clear of
kickstarter stuff now, but
like this this looks really neat
It's called the mecha comet for anyone
who's listening to the
thing instead of watching
Um the mecha comet and it's only 159
dollars. This is not going to actually
replace a smartphone
You're not going to be
able to get android apps on it
Yeah, it's a it's a it's a almost uh a
dumb phone or going back
in time. It feels like right
But it also will have like basic phone
functionality, you know
Like you could i'll bet you you could
probably run signal on this and that's
really what I care about
Interesting. Yeah
so anyway
Yeah, that's my lecture on privacy today
I think it's important and i've always
been I've been one of those guys like
Your privacy's already especially if
you're an average person's already
compromised to a point. Oh, yeah, and
Either you either worry about it or don't
but expect
consequences. I guess the thing is
Yes, your privacy is already compromised,
especially if you
haven't been aware of it
But the industry is designed in such a
way that it requires it thrives on
A constant feed of fresh data and if you
don't true you're not providing that
Then you can quickly regain your privacy
Um, and this is something that I actually
teach a class about this
like I go around and teach
Like give this presentation. I have a
whole slide deck and everything
um, and I love teaching this class and
it's it's super rewarding because
People are interested in this and I get
to help them on this
journey and it's super fun
um
I
Yeah, you're definitely
the expert on this area
Because i've been one of those
lackadaisical people where
i'm like, it is what it is like
I don't have time for this i'd rather be
tinkering with something but
With the way the world's kind of going
right now and just being able to be
detained and have your phone searched
Right now is is this is happening to
average people. So
just be a little careful
like
Free speech isn't as
free as it used to be
Um, don't if you have
telegram delete that shit right now
Oh, yeah telegram is definitely like we
talked about that a few weeks
ago. Yeah, it's bad news bears
Dylan yeah 100%
But and I honestly I think
the best way to also see this is
Nothing is truly private
You just have layers
of privacy like meaning
person to person
Is almost as private as it
can get but you can still have
Especially back in the good old days of
like wiretaps and stuff
like that. There's still ways
Wiretaps not necessarily like but like
listening devices in the room
Don't be paranoid about that. Obviously,
but like well, I mean, maybe with your
phone. I don't know but
Just be careful with being the paranoid.
There's the there's the
Paranoid to lose your life kind of
paranoid where you just don't do anything
except for being paranoid and then
there's the paranoid of like
Maybe just watch a little bit of what
you're doing and see what you can do to
sure it up every day, right?
And
I would that I think that's probably I
think that's all the
stories we have right?
That is all the stories. I think um, let
me check one thing real quick
If you want a good
deal on a four terabyte
4 terabyte nvm drive,
uh, samsung 99 the 990 pro
Is on sell for 279 dollars
at amazon. Oh, really? So
I figured I'd throw that
out there. It's not a bad deal
um
For four terabytes, but it's not for it
is the full sized so it
won't fit into the steam deck
without modification
Um
Figure I just throw that out
Oh marvel's spider-man 2 loses steam deck
verified rating. This
is from uh, noah on st
Steam deck hq. So it's another
game that's losing its uh
Verified rating now, I don't know why
it's losing it but just interesting that
that's happening. Yeah
Um, I did want to mention
There's a comment from ben betton
4 506 on on youtube. Oh, okay. Ben said,
uh, I can't find this on apple podcast
um, and if you go to
Podcasts subscribe to me
You should see a link
to apple to apple podcast
Right here on the on the right side. If
you click on that, it'll take you right
to it. Oh my god. Did they remove us?
I'm let's see
The page you're
looking for can't be found
I
They might have
Um, we were on there. I had the link set
up and everything i'll get that fixed
That's a good call out. Yeah. Yeah
I was confident that we
were on there. All right
We we were at one point and I excited
pretty sure I was subscribed because I
use I use apple podcasts
and uh, yeah
Once again, it's just a cleaner interface
and doesn't have a bunch of other like
they're not data mining me
because they already paid
I already paid for the product. Right?
Okay. At least I I mean they're still
doing some telemetry, but
No, well i'll get that fixed and you'll
find a link on our page. Um
Yeah, no, thanks
Yeah, honestly those types of comments
are really helpful. Thank you. Yes
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Cool
So I think that's
pretty much everything man
What do you think that's it?
Let's wrap this up
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