Welcome to Off the Console, the hottest podcast all about tech,
gaming, and anything nerdy.
And, uh, I don't have the rest of my script, so week
with me is High Tech Low Life.
Welcome, welcome, man
Thanks for having me, man.
You know, it's been quite an interesting day.
It's been quite an interesting day, you see
It, it has been very interesting.
Uh, we just got done with the bonus episode, so if you want more content
after watching this or even spicier takes, some of the topics that we
talked about over there are, like, the D-Flock stuff going on with Darth Vader.
We also talked about Wi-Fi being able to identify you.
Maybe, maybe there's gonna be a collab between D-Flock… not D-Flock, sorry,
Flock cameras and Wi-Fi networks.
We, we don't know.
It's a horrible collab.
But I do know is that today, for the main episode, we do have GTA
VI and all its leakage, and then we have Valve and its 30th anniversary.
Uh, I mean, anniversaries can count to three, I mean, even if it is 30.
But we'll see what else we get from them on that this coming week.
And then a bunch of other stuff, including Bazzite updates.
Good stuff, good stuff this week.
Like always, though, we go into, uh, seeing what, what each one
of us are doing, what's going on in our lives, what we're playing.
Unfortunately, Gardner is not with us today.
He had important other things to take care of, and so, uh, he is missed
this week, but he will be… He should be here next week for sure.
So, uh, yeah.
With that being said, what have you been up to, HiTech?
Well, I've been exploring… Well, I've been finishing up my Steam Machine
review, and it's out on YouTube right now.
It's doing pretty well.
I've given my thoughts.
You know, someone said that I spoke, I said the same thing word for word Gardner
said, but you know what they didn't know?
I wrote the article for that on Gardner's website as well
Yeah.
Oh, so they're like, "We read his article." They don't r- Do they not
realize that Gardner has editors?
Well, I, like, I wrote the whole article.
editors, but
wrote
I mean, um, yeah, no, you're, you… It's not like there's ghostwriters.
You're one of the, uh… What are, what is, what am I thinking of?
yeah.
You,
Yes.
You,
Yes.
did everything.
Yes
Gardner has multiple people that do that, so
Gar- Garner didn't buy a Steam Machine, uh, in case you guys didn't know.
He, he made his own Steam Machine.
And, uh, it'll be interesting hearing his thoughts on that.
Uh, but in the meantime, though, aside from that though, I also published it
on Bilibili as my first Bilibili video, because I was exploring that as well.
Because, uh, I'm not sure if you know this or not… I don't know if you
know this or not, but Bilibili is opening up to the rest of the world now
Yeah.
Billy Billy.
It's an interesting name.
I hate writing it out though, but it's interesting.
Yeah, so it's, ye- yeah, so it's spelled B-I-L-I-B-I-L-I
Mm-hmm
And it's gotten, uh, it's actually gotten 39 views, which is great
'cause I haven't advertised it at all.
I've written, I, I wrote, I also wrote an article about that on Gardner's site,
but, uh, it's not released just yet.
Dude, you're a beast at writing articles.
I need, I need to learn.
I've been writing other stuff, but we can get into that when
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's just about getting the right inspiration.
It's been a while since I've written anything on Gardner's site
I don't know.
You've been, I think you've been killing it.
Seems like you average like what?
One or two a month and you're, it's not even, you know, you're a, a guest writer
Yeah, I am a guest writer.
But yeah, that's my week.
Been playing, been fucking around with the, the Steam Machine.
Been messing around with game streaming to a, to and from the machine as well.
Have you been liking that?
I, I actually have.
Steam, Steam Remote Play has improved drastically.
Agreed
Like I almost, like I almost feel no difference between that and Moonlight now.
Yeah.
historical- Yeah
think it, at least from my experience, it's been a little better than Moonlight,
but, um, I'm in a different house.
Same network, but a different house, so it could also be something to do with that
Ah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, both of them are hooked up via ethernet, so it makes it a much,
much, much, much better experience.
I'm sure… I still need to do more extensive testing with, like, my Ayn Thor
Hmm.
and my Steam Machine, 'cause I've got that set up too
Have you done the Steam Deck then?
On
I've also… I mean, I could do that pretty easily
do actually, is I, like, my Steam Machine is on ethernet though, so
I don't think… I haven't tried it without, with just Wi-Fi with the Steam
Machine, but the Steam Deck is Wi-Fi.
I haven't, like, I was playing it, um, on my second story, uh,
Yeah.
was playing it,
I'm also
and it was, it was pretty good actually
I've also enabled PoE as well
Hmm.
Is
Yeah
setting you have to enable?
Uh, so yes and no.
Yes, you have to enable in the BIOS, and then yes, you have
to set it up in command line.
So there's a bit of, there's a bit of tomfoolery that has to
be done, but it's not too bad
I wonder if, if anyone's really interested, I'll make
a script and I'll have that.
'Cause I, I've done scripts in the past, I just know if people care or not.
'Cause I might, ah.
can't create a script for the BIOS though.
But
That's, yeah, that's the thing.
You're gonna have to … Well, it's a, it's a pretty simple, uh, you just
turn on, you just turn on S4, S5, uh
S4, S5 wake on, wake up, and it, it just works.
So you abbreviated, so this is wake on ethernet or wake on LAN,
Yeah, wake on LAN, yes
Yeah.
So,
I don't know if Wake- I don't know if Wacom, I don't know if Wacom LAN works
outside of your home network though
No, not without… You, you could set it up to work though.
I, I can almost guarantee that, but you're gonna, it's gonna be a whole
other system that you'd have to in.
There's, I'm sure there's software for it.
I, in fact, I think
Oh.
is, I just haven't
Yeah.
um, I haven't
So
it in for a
yeah, so Steam, so Steam Link automatically attempts the wake on LAN
situation first before you, uh, before it actually starts to stream, you know?
Yeah
if you go to Steam, if you go to Steam Link and then just try to connect to
your, like, Steam Machine or Steam Deck or whatever, it'll wake it up first and
then connect, and that's pretty cool.
There is one caveat, though.
If you have HDMI CEC enabled, it also turns your TV on,
and that's super annoying
I'm wondering if that's why they have it turned off for now in, in… Oh man,
that seems like such an, like… It's interesting that they have it… So I
know I'm jumping back, uh, uh, all over here, but like Valve could implement
a new firmware update or a BIOS update and have that enabled by default.
So they could do that in the future.
I'm, I'm curious why they didn't do it.
Maybe they didn't wanna deal with the CEC automatically turning on
the TV, but that seems like a signal that they could also control, right?
They, they wouldn't need-- They could control whether they fire that
signal from my understanding, so,
I think they c- I mean, they might be able to.
I don't, I don't know for certain
to, unless it's, it's unless, their, 'cause their CEC is like a little
bit of a custom one version, right?
So,
Yeah, I don't, I
don't know, man
Yeah, it, it, it's … I'm try- sorry, I'm trying to solutionize
here, but that's really interesting.
I, I… The, the script for doing it in the, in the terminal is
one I could do for people, but the BIOS would be a harder one.
Um, yeah, so that's what you've been, you've been pretty busy, man.
Yeah, I have.
I have.
Now what about you though?
Uh, me.
Yes, you
been writing in a different sense.
I have promoted my AI Claude to be a manager over me and l- and manage my life.
No, I'm just kidding.
Just I… Uh, I've been writing a lot more software though.
I know.
Uh, and so I tend to… 'Cause I'm, I'm an engineer.
I've written software for 15 years.
I tend to gravitate towards writing software and code more
than I do writing articles.
I don't mind writing articles, it's just I have a hard time focusing on that,
where code is in much smaller blocks.
Um, but yeah, I've been writing a lot more, updating.
Um, I have, like, six projects going on right now.
I, I know.
It's just how my brain kinda works, but thecowtrick.com is coming along.
Um, I have updates out for, my load kit and some other stuff
that I'm working on I, that I'll, uh, talk about later the road.
Off The Console will probably have, you know, some new updates, too.
Um, uh, eh.
working on my game work, uh, playing Baldur's Gate 3, pushing
off my review of the Steam Machine because I've been enjoying the Steam
Machine too much, which is bad.
Like, I really do like the Steam Machine quite a bit.
Uh, high tech.
Like, it's, it's a fun little device.
I didn't think I was gonna like it so much.
I was a little worried.
I'm like, "Well, this is not as powerful as, like, as…" Heck, I even
have an older Windows machine now.
I'm like, "It might be about as powerful as that," but I'm really liking it.
I think FSR has done a great job.
So,
Dude, it's only get- but g- it's only about to get better 'cause I think
FSR 4.1 or whatever is enabled in, uh, Proton experimental, is it not?
Yeah.
It is.
I don't know how that works.
I-- From my understanding, it's, like, defaulted, so anytime that you select
FSR, I can't remember if it's two and three or if it's just three, but
every time you select one of those in a game, it will override it, and it
will use F- uh, FSR 4.1, I believe.
I don't know if it's a setting that you can disable/enable or if it's
just baked right into it, but that's, from my understanding, how it works
I don't know, I don't know for certain either.
But-
another thing is that I've written a script that puts my that I'm
working on, it's in an Unreal, onto the, onto the Steam Machine and
onto the Deck for auto testing.
So my game is gonna be … I'm testing it on these devices, so curious.
I'll, I'll, I'll r- in the future I'll report back on how well development
and, uh, with Unreal, and how easy it is to optimize Unreal 5 games
is Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
'Cause I, I It, it's an interesting dilemma that people always think
that Unreal is really bad for lower powered devices, but we'll see
I mean, like most other things, it depends on the developer
Uh, that's it, and also the technology you enable and
optimizations and stuff like that.
It's-- It'll be interesting to see, um
And I mean, it's mostly not Unreal, it's mostly like just Lumen, right?
Well, Lumen is Unreal.
Uh,
Well one
it's n- uh, I'm, I'm assuming Nanite can be also an issue in it too.
It's these powerful systems to where they're very, very, they are very
powerful, but if you into it and have a dual system set up and switch
between them, then it, it should be easier, but it, it should be easier.
That being said, you're gonna throw off the atmosphere of
your game, so I don't know.
We'll see.
I'll, I'll report back as I work on it more.
Right now, though, I'm in the, uh… 'Cause I've been working
on my games on and off for years.
Um, I've gone back on one of the games, restructured it and redid it, I'm in
the beginning portion of it, and I'm, I'm taking it from a need to test on
Deck Steam Machine-oriented stuff.
Um, I've also been playing around with the AI integrations with MS,
uh, with MCP, uh, with it, and
it's interesting 'cause you can import and manage assets much easier
with, with Claude, which is nice.
Just as a… I know, I'm sure a lot of pe- uh, listeners and viewers don't like AI,
but it is interesting as like that helping tool of I don't wanna manage the assets.
I can have it even manage and optimize the assets for me and, remind…
Like it's, it's, it's a really nice tool for that type of stuff.
So I think if game developers use it in the future for like optimizations
and stuff like that, we could have much better, uh, optimized games, even
if we just had kind of like a little cl- uh, a tool that helped with that.
I don't know
Yes.
Yeah.
I think, uh… I mean, I don't… I'm not, I'm not really sure
what to make of it anymore.
I mean, if it helps you guys, it does, but we can't trust just…
You're an experienced coder, so you know what's going on.
It's mostly the vibe coders that don't know anything about
coding that are the problems
Well, and they vibe code stuff that, like, takes credit cards, all of the
other stuff where I'm like, "Okay, guys." So, like, I joke about being a vibe
coder, but I read the code, I understand the code, and I, I will say this and
people are n- not gonna like what I'm gonna say, but Claude and AI is getting
drastically better every year at coding
Is it good at, like, guessing what you want?
Not nec- no, you have to be very descriptive.
You've got to, to review stuff.
It's going to go off on different paths.
You have to work with it, um, depending on how you do it.
Or you have it build out the templates system, like that's how I'm doing it more
is I build out, uh, the systems and, and do the stuff I just don't wanna deal with.
And then I still, like, do a lot of editing.
but it's becoming less and less, guys.
Like, it's really good.
It's also really funny 'cause with the e- uh, I know we need to get on with the
topics, but with the MC- like, with the, with where it tr- uh, thinks it will place
stuff into the world, 'cause I'm like, "Okay, put this into the world, into where
you think it is, and then I'll rearrange and, and I'll, I'll fine-tune everything."
And it gets it r- it gets it wrong so much.
It's so funny.
It inverts so much stuff.
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Yes
speaking of loving doing and keep on doing, um, that people love
hacking GTA but Take-Two also loves destroying people for hacking it.
So it's a, it's a give and take situation here
So for those who may not have seen the news this week, uh, G- Rockstar
has suffered a GTA VI leak, of which we don't know the full extent of.
There's a lot of, there, there's a lot of speculation as to what it is.
At first people thought, oh, it's just leaked internal footage of the game,
but then the guy uploaded a video of him shooting his name, Leak, on the, uh…
'Cause it's spelled like, his name is Cyber Leak, like leek as in,
like, the little onion things, right?
L-E-E-K.
He took a gun, he spelled out the word leak with, like, shooting it, and then
that's when people knew it was real shit.
It was some real fucking shit.
And oh, no, i- it's, it's been one hell of a time, man.
It's gotten to the point where, uh, Take-Two has actively gone out
and subpoenaed both Microsoft and Discord, so yeah, if you're o- if
you live in one of those countries that has forced identification,
they'll have your ID soon enough.
Hopefully they, hopefully Cyber Leak wasn't dumb enough
to live in a country like that
Here's the thing with leaking and all that, like, it's like with Valve all over.
So Half-Life 2 was leaked years ago.
They really, like they… And that whole thing, like to capture the leak, the,
the, the hacker was interesting too, but From a developer side, they wanna release
it in a, in a package that they want.
They wanna see it, they wanna be excited, they want control over their own product.
I get it.
I don't condone hacking, and even with GTA, but, like, I actually
have a hard time feeling bad for Take-Two and, and for GTA.
It- this is… There's no way that this is really gonna hurt the game
sales, I guess the game's really bad.
But I don't, I haven't been watching the leaks or anything like that,
so I cannot say if it is or not.
But, it does suck to get that out of your control, where you're like,
"This is, we've worked on this. This is a, this is pa-" Like, and a lot
of engineers and a lot of people have worked on GTA VI over the years.
So it does suck to have decade-plus worth of work kinda feel like it goes
out of control, and you don't have control of how it gets introduced
into the world, even though you spent all this time on it, right?
I just… GTA is like Nintendo in a lot of ways, where I-- so
litigious, they're so crazy about it in some form or fashion that…
I would say they're even more litigious, 'cause if you guy- 'cause if you
guys recall, there was actually a decompilation project for, uh… Not a
decompilation project, an open source re-implementation of the old Take,
uh, Take-Two engines for the, uh,
Да
PS2 era GTAs.
They didn't come with any, you know, source code from the games.
They, yeah, they were, legally speaking, they would be in the clear.
Whereas, like, Nintendo hasn't taken down, like, the N64 ones, like for
Super Mario 64 or, uh, you know, God forbid, Ocarina of Time, you know,
those PC recomps, or decomps rather.
Mm-hmm.
Take-Two did
Y- okay, so I'm gonna reframe all this.
Fuck Nintendo.
Fuck Take-Two.
Right
I say this because they have taken down my videos and stuff where
I've given them f- uh, free p- um, like, on some of their stuff.
Like, I've, I've streamed watching trailers for some of the
GTA stuff or, uh, in the past.
Same thing with Nintendo, and I've b- I've had my stuff struck.
I hate that.
I hate it.
So, uh, fuck them.
That's the, that's my take on this.
In the sense of, like, I'm like, okay, if you, if, if you wanna be
a little litigious, cool, it's your product, whatever, but like, uh…
They're, they're way overdue it.
the same way, so F them too, because I just, I hate that, like, you have
this promotional ad stuff where it doesn't hurt you to have an-
uh, else talk about it, really.
It can only help.
G- it gives you essentially free advertising almost, depending
on how they talk about it.
And they, you know, they'll fricking kill your stream or they'll kill your video.
It's just weird.
Nintendo, yeah, I don't know.
But yeah.
So what, so what, what more do we need to go on this?
Like, there's so much more with, uh, this GTA VI stuff, isn't there?
Right.
Like, so probably one of the biggest, uh, plot twists here is that s- apparently,
and the leak.
yes, apparently there's more, there's more, there's more too, there's more too.
So they announced two, they announced two accounts, uh, Discord accounts.
They wanna figure out who Cyber Leak, Cinematic Rockstar, and Surfer24k are.
And these are Discord accounts too, so Discord may find out soon
enough unless, you know, he- they've gone out of the way to secure
themselves before any of this, right?
Yeah
Uh, but also there's a contingency plan in case they do get caught.
Allegedly, word has it, you can pull up that article I,
uh, linked to you by the way.
This is the one we're gonna go over it together
They, it's an active GTA 6 build, and apparently copies have already
been distributed worldwide, and the public release has to be canceled
manually each day, meaning if Cyber Leak were to be caught and apprehended,
the public release would go out
Of this, uh, of this leak.
You know how crazy that would be if that were the case?
I mean, that is a great way to protect yourself.
I- we'll see, though.
I think they're willing to burn down any… Sometimes when, uh, companies
and people get in these type m- type of mindsets, they're willing to destroy
everything um, to achieve an, a goal.
So they'd burn down everything to have that control instead of having it go out.
So
Right The big question though is how can they, once it's on the internet,
how can they possibly contain the raging wildfire that is the GTA leak?
I think it'd
this is all, assuming this is all real, that is
true.
if he's playing the game and has the source code for it, I'd be shocked if
he doesn't have an easy way to do it.
Potentially.
It really depends on how he's deciding to, like, I'm assuming
torrents and all that, but yeah
Well, I mean, if he were s- I mean, he has… It looks like
he has a contingency plan.
Of course, us at Hi- us at Off The Console probably will not be showing
any footage of the leaks, definitely.
We don't wanna get our asses, uh, nuked from orbit by Take Two.
And as, as tempting as it would, it would be to show off the GTA VI leak
on a Steam Machine, I don't know.
I don't think we're gonna be doing that.
Wait,
like having a YouTube channel
is this leak that runs on the PC?
Uh, yes, uh, allegedly.
This is a P- this is the PC leak
The PC doesn't come out for a year
Well, I mean, that doesn't mean they haven't developed on the PC
No, well, of course it's gonna work fine.
Eh, hmm
Remember, Rockstar only delays it so they can have people
who are impatient double down
I know, but there's no way they're handing out, uh… There's no way this is leaked
from a, from a dev- like, uh, from an ear- uh, an early access review copy.
This has gotta be a
No, no, I…
or something
Absolutely.
It probably is an evolved rebuild
It probably came from some of the people they pissed off, from
some of, some of the developers.
They probably leaked it somehow
Yeah.
Ima- dude, imagine if the source code got leaked.
That would be insane.
I mean, you couldn't do anything with it legally speaking, but still
I
Ay, ay, ay
I don't know.
I, I really have a hard time… Like, I, the more and more, like, I hear
about how Rockstar, I should be, it's more Rockstar than any- I should-
not Take-Two, but Take-Two obviously.
But Rockstar, the more I hear about how they treat their employees, how
they just do, they just care about the cash money, it feels like more
and more, and the way they treat just everyone else, I just don't care.
I just don't like Rockstar.
I don't like… I'm not excited for GTA VI.
I'm, I'm not their right demographic, I always pick up a GTA because I
like to play around with it for about 10, you know… I don't even
play the story, I just like to play around in the world for hours on end.
Um, I, I just, they've killed so much of the hype for me, where I'm
like, "Eh, maybe, maybe I will get it day one." I, there's so many
other games that came out this year that I'd much rather play, including
Half-Life 3 coming out soon, right?
I mean, the ga- I mean, the gaming industry was very, very
different when GTA V came out.
Like, it, that was over, it was over a decade ago, and
like, the industry's changed.
Uh, there used to not be
V came out?
Haven't they, hasn't it been released like multiple times now?
Yeah, we'll, we'll stick with the original 360 release the first time it came out
Wait, GTA V came out on 360?
That's
PS3, 360.
Yeah, it was a Xbox 360 era game, yes.
Yeah.
The game, the games industry wasn't a… Dude, the PS4 didn't have a GTA game.
Is that not crazy?
Didn't they
I mean
it for the G- for the PS4?
But it
th- they did, they did, but not, not like a brand new… No,
not a brand new GTA game, no.
Pe-
That's
And this is, like, the end of the, this is, like, the end of the fifth generation,
uh, the PS5 era of consoles I should say
I say it's crazy is that they have the money to do it, that they could
release a little bit more often.
I really think they were just cash cowing the, uh, GTA Online.
Like, they make billions off that every year
Yes.
And now they get to make billions off of this.
Now, I don't really think the leaks will greatly affect sales, and if anything,
I'm guessing it's gonna butter it up.
Remember there's still that, uh, there's still that, uh, gameplay,
extended gameplay release on Netflix.
Remember that
How did that go?
I didn't watch it
Um, that's not until Monday
Oh, I thought it was already happened.
Oh.
Well,
No.
Every-
but, but, no one, no one gives a fuck 'cause everyone watched it on, uh,
everyone watched the leaks already
Yep.
I,
They did
I don't, I don't know.
Like, don't get, yeah, don't get me wrong.
I don't… Like, for me, it's, I think they're hurting their game sales,
I think, on the PC side of things, 'cause I think the PC gamers care more.
I think console gamers, I think this will sell, like, crazy.
Well, yeah, of course
of course, you know, but, like, I, I don't know if this is
actually gonna hurt their sales.
Which is kinda funny too that they're being so litigious about it.
I don't think it's gonna hurt their sales.
I think if anything, unless, yeah, unless, unless they did the… Unless Cyber
League did the, the incre- like something crazy like spoil the ending of GTA VI.
'Cause
it would ruin it
I think if he, I think if they, if, I think there were like work
in progress cut scenes with like voice acting, I think it might.
'Cause I think a lot of people would… Like, 'cause we don't know what, we
don't know what kind of build he has.
It could be a, it could, for all we know, it could be a vertical build, right?
It could be a vertical slice.
It could be a vertical slice, which
But it could also, but it could also be like a, but it could, but it
could also be like in a pretty far in development version of GTA VI.
Maybe not like a, maybe not like a fully polished one, but like a feature
complete version of the game almost.
Should I ask Grok?
No, I'm just kidding
If, if that's the case, then he would probably have access
to the story missions, the cut scenes, et cetera, et cetera.
And if it got leaked, then like I, I, I would be, I would be willing to bet you it
would impact the, uh, sales significantly, especially if people hated the story.
Like remember, remember, um, The Last of Us Part II had story leaks,
significant cut scene leaks, and it turned out they were all correct.
It turns out it played out almost exactly the same as it did, uh, in the game
Mm, yeah, but a lot of the people, like a lot of the narratives going around was
like, uh, there's a trans person, but all this other stuff where it's like, no.
Like, the, the, the worst part about, uh, um, The Last of Us II was
all the misinformation around it.
you're not wrong, like, uh, but the leaks were also correct, but then
pro- propagated it out with tons of misinformation, and I think that
did hurt sales, um, on of Us II.
I don't think it hurt it enough to, like, not make a third.
Um, Last of Us Part II was really good, actually, just some annoying parts to it.
But yeah.
B- yeah, but GTA,
it,
It it's a different
story with GT.
This is, this is Grand Theft Auto.
This is not The Last of Us
This is not The Last of Us.
I don't think there's gonna be… I think both people and bigots are going to be
buying this for, 'cause they're, what, don't they have, like, pride parades?
I think one side's gonna be murking everyone, the other
one's gonna be participating.
I think, I think everyone's gonna be buying this that are console gamers,
people that don't really care, right?
Even if they see the ending, whatever.
I think people play Grand Theft Auto partially for the world,
the world-building, um, not necessarily for the story.
So even the, if the story's bad, won't ruin it.
Where Last of Us Part II is very atmospheric and it ha- it's
very world-building, but is, uh, essentially a f- a little bit
of a fancy movie at times, so
So I have seen some of, I, I have seen some of these leaks, and I will say
they look… It, it kind of just looks like GTA V but with better graphics.
I'm sure people like G- I mean, people like GTA V, but it doesn't look like
it's a cataclysmic shift in gameplay
Well, well the trailers made it look like.
The trailers?
We haven't seen… Nah.
Well, I don't know
gameplay, but I'm saying trailers make it s- feel and s- seem like they're gonna be
I, no, I, well, I think, well, I think that's mostly just other people
AI generating, like, a fucking life sim, 'cause people are probably
walking in thinking that this is gonna be some sort of crazy life sim.
It's not.
It's just fucking Grand Theft Auto.
That's
And I,
I mean,
and I'm
could do that, I might be down for a GTA VI.
I want something that's like GTA V but just it is next level.
But I don't want, I don't like, I don't mind saving and then
doing, you know, destroying half the city but then reloading.
Like, uh, you know, we all did it as teens in GTA, but
I think this is gonna be the first… This is gonna be the, the, the
expectations are fucking sky high, man.
Like, like, the, like, the, this is gonna be the next best… This
is gonna be the best thing to happen since fucking sliced bread.
This is the most hyped game in a long time
Like, like I remember the la- the last game I heard this much hype over
was fucking Halo 3 back in the day.
It feels like Halo 3's coming out again
I think, I don't know, in my realm of the world, I think this is, uh,
like Half-Life 3 kind of levels, but Half-Life 3 has never been fully
confirmed it's being worked on, so
It's been confirmed that it's been canceled a few times,
I,
it's Half-Life 2: Episode 3
and hopium that's doing it, and it's a m- smaller group.
GTA has been announced.
It's, they've been talking about it.
although they've been really bad at actually showcasing
anything about the game.
Um, it's interesting.
I mean, there's a reasonable… I mean, we still don't know
anything about HLX, I think it was, that we're looking at, right?
HLX, uh, Half-Life,
Or Half-Life, or Half-Life, you know, Half-Life X
Half, the Half-Life X, which is could be gr- uh, Half-Life 3.
It's a co- I think a code name right now, but yeah
I mean, I don't know.
I don't, I don't, I don't know what it's gonna be because quite
frankly they've given us nothing.
We- So it's hard to say it's Half-Life 3 levels of hype because we don't know
if it's even a thing really for certain.
It's not like, it's not like Silksong where Silksong was definitely confirmed
Yeah.
and definitely was said to be in…
Yeah, there, there was a lot of hype around that.
If fe- But like genuinely speaking, this is like a massive multi… Everyone
wants to get away from fucking GTA VI.
Get
And like, in terms of like release dates, 'cause everyone's fucking
releasing on their own date.
Like,
they're bl-
I can almost guarantee, I'd put good money that this will be the biggest
release date or release of any game ever
Absolutely.
I think so.
This is giving, like this gives me the same goosebu- like fucking Iron Man.
Oh man, Halo 3 was like the shit, man.
You guys reme- you guys remember the Halo 3 launch?
Yeah, it was,
I was
it launched on 360?
It was 360 exclusive, yes.
Obviously
it, 'cause Halo 1 and 2 were on Xbox, right?
And then the Xbox 360 was 3?
Yes
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, I played it.
Um, I played it I think we got authorization to play it like an hour or
two before it released it at the mall.
I worked at a GameStop and so
Wow, you lucky son of a bitch
It was cool.
Dude, it, it was… Dude, it's giving me g- Like, GTA VI gives me the same
vibes, but, like, that it's gonna be like a fucking midnight release kind
of party, you know, Halo 3 style.
I
But
Halo
I,
We
wish… Yeah.
3
Dude, we do need a new Halo 3, man.
Fucking 343 fucked up everything.
I,
I mean sorry Halo Studios fucked up everything
I don't think was doing a great job with it either, so
Well, I mean, Bungie did their own thing.
They wanted to do something else, and I think that's perfectly fine
I'm just saying, like, I don't know if anyone was gonna
pick that up well enough and
I think
beat expectations.
I think it was a really hard IP
I think Bungie might have had a better shot.
I mean,
but
they, but they w- ended up making
that they made?
Wasn't it Four, or am I… Oh, no, that was…
No, that was
It was 343.
No, the fir- last one they made was Halo Reach
The last one was Reach, which
made Halo 1, 2, 3, 3 ODST, and Reach
They really went weird.
Like,
Yeah.
mm, yeah.
l- I appreciate Halo, but I honestly, story-wise, I don't know.
I'd never finished Halo 4,
I
mean, they don't need it
that much different than 3, but
I mean, you're on YouTube, man.
If you have the ma-
very blasphemous.
Dude, if you have the Master Chief Collection, you already have one of the
greatest trilogies in gaming and Halo 4
And
actually, and Halo.
Yeah, 'cause yeah, it's in there.
It's Halo 1, 2… It's all the games I mentioned and Halo 4
So it's all okay.
I don't think I, I have
Everything, everything before Halo 5.
And honestly, I, I kind of, this is gonna sound blasphemous too, but
I kinda like Halo 5's multiplayer.
The, uh, single player was ass, don't get me wrong.
The single player was horrible, though easily the worst Halo campaign of all time
Oh, look at that.
Yeah, it is everything.
I didn't even, I don't even think… I thought it was just the three games.
I have not beat the collection yet.
I
yeah, so they add, they a- they added Halo ODST and Reach after the fact.
Oh.
So it
used,
it used to be just it used to be just the four games, Halo one through four
I've always been w- uh, like Halo is my multiplayer LAN, like my LAN like days.
Like we'd, we'd hook up all like Xboxes or 360s and we'd play Halo.
That was
Yo.
for me
Ah, well, I don't know, but there's gonna be new games being announced
sometime very soon, in fact
New games being announced for Halo?
No, at Gamescom, it's in three days
Wait, we're talking about Gamescom?
You know what you, the…
were talking about the
I thought you, oh, you skipped it.
Uh, well, I was gonna say Gamescom comes out in three days.
We don't know who's gonna be there, or actually we probably already do, but
we don't know what's gonna be there.
It's gonna be sick.
Three days.
We're gonna talk about it next week for certain, and our
favorite announcements there.
But, uh, I mean, that's basically all the news there is about it right now.
Let's go on to the other big news that's happening on Monday,
Wait, what's
Val.
Sorry.
What?
Legends Retold, is it like a remake or is it…
I think it is a remake.
Uh, it came out already, I think
Rayman Legends, yeah.
Oh, so the Retold al- already came out.
I, I know that Rayman Legends, like I love that game, but yeah.
Huh
Yes, but
Okay
I think this news is more pertinent to you, my friend
I know.
I, I apologize for throwing off your groove.
Okay.
Oop.
Valve's 30th anniversary
Valve is turning 30 and they don't look a day over 20
Gabe Newell doesn't look a day over 60.
He looks qu- he looks quite good.
Look at that
Dude, look at, dude, look at…
I know.
Look at the comments on YouTube.
He's,
like 63.
in his 60s?
Yeah, he's in his 60s.
He's, he's still got some life left in him,
Yeah
and he looks good.
He's gone, he's
I know he's been working out and everything, but there's als- yeah
Yeah, he scuba dives every day, man.
That shit, that shit ain't easy
That's true.
He scuba- like his work, work is he gets up, does stuff that he needs to
do for work in the morning, 'cause he's always on his, his flotillas.
He goes scuba diving, maybe he goes scuba dive in beginning, and then he takes
a break at lunch, goes scuba diving,
I think he plays Dota
Yeah, he plays Dota 2
2. Dude, it's cr- Dota 2's the game he plays.
That's insane to me
I think it is too, and I, and then this is part of the reason
maybe I'm a little jealous.
Like, I feel like it's the child that gets all the attention is Dota from him, where
I'm like, "No, no, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta take care of the
other children." Portal, Half-Life, we, we have other children being neglected,
Counter-Strike is neglected compared to Dota 2, let's be honest
I like Counter… Don't get me wrong, I like Counter-Strike, but I'm kinda over it
Right.
So you c-
I don't know
So it looks like they're always hiring, evidently
N- they, they are always hiring because what, how they, how Valve
works is that look for the best, and if they feel like… 'Cause
they, they have so much money.
They, if they feel like you could be an asset on the
team, oftentimes hire someone.
Now, ooh, this is gonna-
I could be an ass in Unvalve.
I can be the best.
I'm hyper-competent.
That's all you need to know, Mr. Gabe Newell
It's, I mean, I, been an engineer for 15 years.
Uh, albeit I'm only, I only do game development on the side, and maybe once
I have my first game released maybe.
But like, I do not feel like I'd be competent enough to… That's why
I've not applied at Valve before.
maybe there's been one time w- a long time ago.
Like, I feel like I would do better if I was working on his, uh, and
we've mentioned this joke a lot, but like on his yachts as a janitor
I feel like I'd be more qualified
Dude, come on, man.
Have faith in yourself, man.
Apply to Valve, get hired, and don't forget about us when you do
if, uh, if I went and worked at Valve, this is the big part of it,
is like I could probably work really hard, get a good portfolio maybe.
'Cause that's what it really takes, having a really good portfolio, having,
uh, really show that you're passionate and that you know what you're doing.
I think a lot of people could get there.
It just takes a lot of work.
My problem is if I did that, I'd have to drop everything else I'm working on.
So multiple Deck
I mean
working on, multiple games I'm working on.
Uh, I don't think, I don't know if I'd be able to do this podcast because it
would require so much dedication, I think.
I'm not saying that they'd overwork me, but oh my gosh
Well, we shall see.
We shall see what happens, uh, if you were to, say, be hired.
Honestly, man,
Maybe I should try it
you should try it on your own time.
So we do have to talk about the 30th annivers-
I can't do it right now?
Wow
no, we got a podcast to do
Okay, let's get back to it
So you got a 30, you got a… So what do you think they're gonna do
for the 30th anniversary on Monday?
Are they gonna re- are they gonna announce Half-Life 3?
How to fish?
What the fuck is that?
You sh- you sh-
I just got Worf
yeah, let's see.
Half, oh, Half-Life 3.
Nothing.
Half-Life: A Place
A Place in the West, Chapter 3.
What the fuck is that?
I don't know.
It's, there's a lot of different indie games that are allowed
to use Half-Life, I think.
S- this is probably, let's see.
In a devastated America, sinister commandos are kidnap-
oh my goodness, children
Is this even…
to
Hold on.
It's not even a game, it's a fan comic, and it's on Steam
Interesting.
I wonder
it's definitely the Half-Life universe
I wonder if anyone's taken a crack at making a Half-Life fighting game.
That
do
would be interesting.
It's… But the problem with Half-Life fighting games, like, creatures,
these guys would be OP, and Freeman
it'd be it'd be,
his suit, and guns
Dude, no, it's called balancing, man.
You think, you think Batman w- you think Batman would beat
Superman in a straight fight?
Yeah, but they, their balancing was everyone got special Superman
powers for those games, right?
Right.
All right.
Well, let me, let, let's do, let's do Marvel.
Do you think Captain America would ever beat Thor in a f- in a straight fight?
Uh, yes, no.
No, you're, you're not wrong, but at least there's, there's
like some equivalencies there.
The, the, I'm … Don't get me wrong, it'd be fun.
I'm down for it.
I'll stop, uh, spoiling your fun on this.
I, I'm down.
Let's do it.
I, any- anything to get more Half-Life
And also, also speculation suggests that we may be getting a Frame
announcement on that Monday as well
I think that's pro- I mean, I feel like it would kinda spoil it 'cause, like,
it's, it's Valve's anniversary, right?
It's not Steam's, it's Valve's.
It's a game company.
Doing it based off of hardware seems a little eh, but I'll
take anything at this point
They could, I mean, they could do multiple things.
They could give us a free copy of Portal and Half-Life
True
the Steam Frame all in one day, and the reviews could come out.
hoping they do that.
I, I am with you on that
I'd be down for that.
Now,
be a little sad if they didn't have like some type of 30th
anniversary s- uh, thing going on.
Like e- even if it's a Play Store, or if, not Play Store, if even if it's the
store, like a store sale like that they have all the games that supported them
over the years, that would be cool.
Uh, with the Steam Frame a- announcement or like, "Hey, Half-Life 2's on
Steam Frame," and just showcase that.
Doing something like that's what I want to see.
wanna see them just drop St- Steam Frame, "Oh, you can reserve it now,"
and that's pretty much it, with a maybe a little 30th anniversary.
Th- this
And a,
billions of dollars
and a plethora of reviews from like Linus Tech Tips and whatnot
Yeah
I don't know, man.
I think, I think this is, this is gonna be an interesting week to watch out for,
'cause, you know, we have the Take Two, we have the, we have the fucking GTA VI
gameplay reveal, official gameplay reveal.
Yeah
have, have Valve's 30th anniversary, and we have Gamescom all in
the span of this coming week
So this week isn't super interesting in terms of news, but next week sure will be
Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting, uh, yeah, and Gardner's gonna be here.
Yeah, and Gar's gonna be here too
n- he at least is not gonna miss out on much this
Hopefully, but
We gotta talk about some stuff too.
Namely, uh
How are you?
about, I know my stuff's all messed up.
W- FCC abolishes is this one that was supposed to be in there?
Yeah.
Uh, so essentially for those who don't know, the FCC, uh, the FCC used to
have a plan to get gigabit ethernet worldwide, um, countrywide, nationwide,
and now they don't, which is bullshit because gigabit ethernet is so good.
So,
Like
yeah, c- continue.
Sorry
N- well, uh, that's all I have to say for now
I, I'm gonna say this, and people don't like pol- politics and
all that, but politics like you.
Like, they affect you, and this is why I get more and more involved with it, 'cause
guys, we don't have r- like, we… You think the RAM crisis would be happening
if we had a competent government?
Like, I don't think so.
I think we would have more regulations or have other ways
to subsidize and everything.
Like, I don't think a lot of the stuff that's going on if we had
a, a, a, a functioning government.
So the Biden administration, uh, so yeah, like last week eliminated
the gigabyte speed goal established during the Biden administration.
Pretty much if it has Biden administration attached to it, this
current administration is gonna kill it.
Now, I, it's just… And, and, and this, and this is crazy.
FCC decides one gigabyte is too fast, standard must be technologically neutral.
I don't even… What does that even mean?
that means that they want this most likely what this means is that they
want, like, this could be an Elon Musk kind of thing in- in- interfering.
it, it probably affects, like, who's getting, um, payouts.
So like if, um, let's say Comcast or whatever, uh, wants more money and they're
like, "Yeah, we're, we're putting in more gigabyte," they're prob- they could
probably get more subsidies 'cause that, that everything, our internet, our, our
backbone for, uh, landli- uh, for the internet and everything, like all, all
the fiber optics and all that is, is subsidized heavily by the government.
Right
not realize that, and so getting contracts probably was tied to that, making sure
that everyone was getting faster internet.
bet you it was the redirect to Elon Musk's satellite system
because it doesn't do gigabit
Yeah, and well, first and foremost, fuck Elon Musk for if that's, if this is true.
Not that he hasn't done anything, not that he hasn't done anything bad, 'cause he's
done,
done
Yeah, it, it's, it's speculation.
It, it's… And also FCC was gutted and everything.
Like, there's so much that goes into all these news articles, it's
Like, God damn it.
Like, faster internet should be a priority for the country because
as it stands right now, they wanna make everything in the data centers.
But, like, if you look at the Midwest, they, they fair- they barely have
fucking internet to begin with
Mm-hmm
How are you gonna, how are you supposed to serve all those people, right?
Yeah.
I mean, once you get the backbone in, and if we do … Like, like gigabit
would last for a good long while.
Don't get me wrong, I think, like they're putting in three gigabit in places now.
Um, like it's, it's, it's, it's cool that they're increasing in some areas,
especially denser areas, but like this is a standard that would last
for decades, maybe even 100 years.
This could last for a good long while to service a lot of communities and
would be very good infrastructure.
Now, if they were going … Like, if they wanted to say, "Hey, FCC,
we're…" Like, if the FCC's like, "Well, we, we're gonna cut back on our
budget here so that the," Who takes care of the roads and everything?
So they can build, like fix the bridges so that infrastructure's actually fixed,
but that's a whole other topic maybe.
But I don't f- just think they're being lazy and they're, and they're trying to,
it's probably lobbying from Elon Musk and from … And I'm being very speculative,
but I'm not gonna be generous either.
Like, is happening for a reason.
Um, it could
Dude, our ancient
Biden's name or s- you know,
Dude,
our ancient
infrastructure, our ancient infrastructure needs some serious upgrading.
Like, seriously
I, if you're in newer area, like where I'm at in Utah, everywhere
has gigabit that's in the cities.
But go just a little bit further out and there's nothing.
They have to rely on satellites, which they already are.
Okay.
But I don't, and so I'm just really curious why they
would just stop doing this.
It didn't seem like it was a problem up until now.
So
I, I, I, I don't get it.
Like, I just don't get why they would cancel all this, and maybe someone can
let us know in the, in the comments.
But honestly, this just feels like, uh, corruption kinda winning
over, as opposed to, you know,
I can't think of any justification that would make sense
Oh, well, it's definitely not gonna be like make sense justifications, right?
It's g- it's, it's definitely… That's why I'm thinking that there's
corruption going on here, but
I think, I think, uh, Gardner m- mentioned on this one that we
should ban the internet, didn't he?
We should just get rid of it in the Discord, but l-
little bit of tidbit from him.
I, it, yeah, I… It's just so stupid.
can't have good infrastructure.
So like infrastructure at least is the core part of like a government, right?
And this is, internet, no one can like disagree that the internet is a crucial
part of their infrastructure nowadays, whether it be, from managing businesses,
from managing whatever it is, the internet is a core part of connecting the rest of
the s- the, the country and the world.
And we should be pushing for better, uh, um, satellite, f- uh,
landline, or cellular internet.
And they should be distinct too.
But this just, I think, just hurts us no matter what.
And, and saying it's too fast and it could hurt, uh, it, we
need it to be more technol- uh, technology neutral is kind of weird.
Um, m- it's also kind of a weird way to say FCC abolishes gigabit, but goal.
But like if they wanted to, they could rephrase it, "Well, we're gonna
have three different goals for three different ser- uh, technologies to help."
Maybe, but I didn't see any of that.
I think they just said that we're not doing it, and that's
all the explanation we got.
Well, there is some good news though
there is always some good news when it comes to, uh, Gardner's, uh, articles.
And so he's been working, uh, with Bazzite a lot lately, and, uh,
Bazzite's an awesome distro by the way.
Has he been working with Bazzite?
yes, I think, uh, I think, yeah, he has been working with Bazzite.
Um
Well, he has interviewed, uh, Kyle Gospenetic.
Uh, he's spoken with him a few times, so that makes sense.
Um, but essentially, for those who don't know, Bazzite is a
Linux distro, uh, specifically made for the purpose of gaming.
It's built off of, uh, Universal B- Fedora Universal Blue, and so essentially
what it does is it provides that sort of immutable operating system experience
while giving you some leeway in regards to customization and whatnot.
Uh, so Bazzite just got its recent update, and there are quite a
few things worth considering.
First and foremost, it's got that new VRAM management system
that, uh, that Steam OS now has.
You guys heard about, you hear about that, James?
Do, uh, no, I have not
it's the one that prioritizes games over like background processes,
making your games not necessarily crash when you run out of VRAM.
So that's been in Steam OS for a little bit now, but now it's in Bazzite.
Uh, we've got HDMI 2.1 support, improved multi-GPU support for
like laptops that have that
Interesting
They've also reworked the Deck image.
They've got a new G- uh, uh, GUI updater.
They've increased a new version of Baza- Bazaar, which is like, like,
you know the Discover apps… You know the Discover app on, uh, Steam OS?
Yeah
It's kinda like that,
Hmm
but, like, Bazzite.
Uh, and apparently there's some Blu-ray playback functionality.
I don't, I don't know very much about this.
Uh, but Gardner lists it, like, towards the end of his article
Yeah, it has a bunch of stuff.
He's CEC mode selection, AMD VRR toggle.
That's awesome.
NVIDIA Flatpak runtime update, which is also awesome.
Um
Yeah.
I mean, I did, I did a Bazzite, uh, video, Bazzite versus Steam OS like
10 months ago, and it did really well.
I need to do some upd- in fact, I have a couple of updates for more
Bazzite and some, and Steam OS, uh, versus modes, or videos in the future.
But, like, this is looking good
Now, what if you, hear me out, what if you installed Bazzite on your Steam Machine?
I… So funny enough, I think you were a part, I, I think you joined
my, uh, live stream when I did that.
So it, it didn't work.
I needed to reformat it 'cause I had it installed on my Legion Go, and I
Your
over and it just didn't work.
So one of these days I will Bazzite on it
Your real, like your real Steam Machine or like a home brew one?
S- my real steaming machine.
When I put the four terabytes into it, it had a Windows and
a, it had a s- uh, Bazzite,
install on it from Legion Go 2, which obviously, you know, there's gonna
be driver issues and everything.
The Windows actually booted up.
I just couldn't get in because, um, I, I think it was, it was, it
was hardware locked, and so it just wouldn't let me l- log in fully.
then, uh, Bazzite just didn't load, so
Hmm.
Well, you know, now that there's a new Bazzite update
that's… I need, I'm gonna install it.
I'll, I'll get back to people on that 'cause I, I do have plans
to installing, uh, Bazzite on it.
I'm kinda curious, Bazzite versus Cachy also, Sorry, could,
uh, could I, I, I cut you off.
What?
Well, now that you have the Bazzite update, you know what you could do?
You could try reinstalling Bazzite on your Steam Machine
again and seeing what happens
Well, like I was saying, I, the way I did it was probably what broke it.
I'm pretty sure Bazzite will work on the Steam Machine before.
I just, I gave a very useless example of Bazzite not working on the Steam Machine.
So yeah, I'm, I'm pretty sure it works fine on it.
Uh, I'll try it again, though.
It's just Steam OS does such a good job, and it's so
console-like, it's, it feels so…
I, I haven't done it yet because it feels like a shame to, um, something
else on it besides Steam OS.
I'll get… I w- I really wish I had two Steam machines because
I really want this machine.
I wanna tinker with it, but I wanna tinker with it by not replacing
the operating system, but I'm gonna have to do it, so we'll get there.
I'll,
You could buy it.
You could try buying off of eBay.
It looks like the eBay prices for these secondhand ones are
starting to go down a little bit
What is it, $2,000?
Well, actually, you know what?
Let's find out.
Let's find out right now.
Pull it up on eBay or Facebook Marketplace
I'm sure you'll, you can get a couple of really good deals where people are like,
"I just don't want this anymore." Right?
I mean, that's not horrible.
That's still a huge markup
It is a huge markup.
I bet you you could find something even better on Facebook Marketplace
But then I had to touch Facebook Marketplace
Yeah, that's like the only reason they use Facebook, to be honest
Dude, this is… There's so many Steam Machines on here
Let's see how much a Steam Machine is in my area.
1,600. Dude, no one's gonna buy that
They've got the BC 250… Someone's got a BC 250 for 440?
Fuck that.
If I have to pay more than, like, 200 for it, fuck that noise
It's crazy
I mean, not a lot of people are selling Steam Machines in my area it seems
I don't, I'm not gonna get on Facebook Marketplace on here.
Oh yeah, don't, do not do that.
Do not do that
I will dox myself so hard.
Um, or at least expose a lot of stuff.
Nothing nefarious, by the way, just it's personal.
Um
Yeah, this is, I mean, heck, the first one that popped up, this
one seems reasonable after looking at everything else, which is sad.
There's a lot of people building them.
Ooh.
A pre-built for $1,500, this, um, small form factor PC right here.
It's, now
that's got…
smaller
And yeah, but it's also got Nvidia too.
Uh, as far as I'm aware, that still doesn't work on Steam OS
No, it doesn't.
I think, um, they have it… I could be wrong.
Let's… I, I'm kind of curious now.
Um, Steam OS NVIDIA, They're working, like they're, I think they're
working with… No, I don't think.
I know that they're, we know that they're working with NVIDIA to make drivers for
Steam OS and that they're gonna have it out by the end of the year, at least
some support from my understanding, at least in, in the interview.
Um
Yes, sir. I, I mean, honestly, man, I can't wait for them to support
it, man, because that'd be awesome.
Uh, the question now is will NVIDIA do their part?
'Cause Valve could easily do their part with NVIDIA's coo- cooperation.
I mean, all, all of this I believe hinges on NVIDIA, right?
I think yes and no.
It depends on if… I, I'm, I'm hoping if NVIDIA wants to, to at least
save some face, they would allow, um, Valve to be able to work on the
drivers themselves potentially, or be, um, heavily involved in getting the
drivers and then just improving them.
'Cause that's the biggest problem is that they're just, they're very
rough, NVIDIA drivers are on Linux.
So if they work tightly enough or if they hand off the reins enough to v-
uh, to Valve, which I think they have a big open source team that they would be
able to tackle it, um, that I, I think we, they would turn out really well.
Um, the way AMD works though, their, their drivers are working great.
I'm sure Valve gives them plenty of data, plenty of bugs for them to fix, and so
if, if NVIDIA works the same way, great.
We m- honestly, I think we're seeing the dawn of like Linux
royally
this really… Dude, are you saying this is the year of the Linux desktop?
I think next year will be
Hopefully next year
I think once people can get more Steam Machines in their hands, I know it's, it's
more console-based, it is also very… It can be used v- honestly, that's one of the
things that Linus, I think, I didn't watch the video fully, but, like, he mentioned
it's a really good desktop, didn't he?
So
He did, but I mean, a lot of it is more so the whole KDE experience
rather than, you know, it being intrinsically part of Steam, the Steam
Machine, you know what I'm saying?
No, but it's really hard.
Like, there are companies, but, and they tend to be a little
more expensive or whatever.
Like, to get pre-built Linux desktops is not a big thing right now.
Where if you go to a, like whatever it is, like you can get on anything right now.
Windows dominates because when you go get a laptop it…
So, like for the common person, it's not like you have the choice.
You just, you either get Mac or Windows.
the, this, like with the Nvidia side of things changing and SteamOS or Bazzite
and all this other st- like maybe more companies and more of these like laptop
companies, uh, PC companies and all that will start shipping more with Linux
distros that are more friendly to users.
Don't know.
All I know… And that could, I think, really help open it up, but we'll see.
I think 2027 is gonna be the year of the Steam desktop experience, whether
it be through Bazzite or SteamOS.
So, we'll see
Yeah, man.
You know what it's not gonna be the year of?
Year of Supreme.
Uh-oh
at that.
Dude, have you seen this?
Uh, so a
for the
branded analog Pocket is coming this fall and in 24 karat gold
So for those who don't know, Supreme is a brand best known for,
um, being s- insanely overpriced
S- i- isn't it more of a Asian luxury, brand?
I don't even… No, it's not Asian.
It's, uh… No, it's not Asian
it's a Middle… Uh, I'm saying like, I, I swear there, is it Middle Eastern, Asia?
I can't, I can't remember, but I swear there's a
No, it's Naam, man.
That's from New York
I'm not saying that's what, no, that's, that's… I'm saying who like I see
consume it more, but I could be wrong
I, I don't, I don't know who consumes this shit.
I, I don't, I haven't met a single person in real life that wears Supreme stuff
The only time I've ever seen it is, uh, brought up in more, uh, Asian countries.
That's why I was asking.
But essentially, uh, and oh yeah, for those who don't know what Analogue
is, the Analogue, Analogue is a company that makes recreated consoles
using, uh, FPGA hardware emulation.
And the Analogue Pocket is basically like a small little, uh, Game Boy, uh, Game
Boy Color essentially, but it plays a lot of games on it too, which is pretty cool.
Uh, so basically, basically what it is is a… And they collaborated somehow.
And Analogue Pocket has like a million different SKUs of
this thi- of this damn device
And it's fucking expensive as hell, man.
Let me get y- let me tell you that.
Well, maybe not expensive as hell, but it is pretty expensive.
Analog stuff is all pretty expensive, let's be honest
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
It is, and it's getting probably more expensive too as it's
just not as prevalent, right?
But yeah, there's a lot of different colorways that you can't buy anymore.
Uh, they still have their black and white models, but they used to
have, like, atomic, atomic purple.
They don't have that anymore.
And now they have this red s- red Supreme.
Dude, it has a Supreme logo on the, like, device itself.
That's kinda tacky
They have a Supreme Dyson.
They have… Is
Dude, who the…
Cross?
That is a Supreme cross
Crossbox logo.
Jesus has been branded as Supreme.
That's interesting
But I feel like that would be sacrilegious for them.
Sacrilegious
What is that?
Is that, is that an actual, like, old school film camera?
Yeah
No fucking way
It looks like it's, it's old school and also new school.
Interesting.
That's cool.
I like that.
Like, uh, obviously they like to put their brand on a lot of different things.
They do collabs with other brands.
Uh, but yeah, this one is silly.
The 24 karat, how much is it gonna cost, do we know?
Uh, we don't know.
Uh, we certainly don't know how much the, uh, the red one's gonna cost,
'cause that's definitely not, uh, that's definitely not four- 24 karat gold.
But I could probably make an estimate as to how much the
24 karat gold one would cost
That'd be it.
Yeah, just what, how much does it normally cost or if we know what the, this Su-
uh, 'cause you probably gotta tack on, oh, this is Supreme brand, then tack on
the 24 karat, how much the t- 24 karat gold is gonna co- like would be on its
own, and then probably up it by 20%.
But that's gotta be heavy then, right?
I guess you get it not to play with though.
You get it as a showcase item
Dude, yeah, you gotta tell about f- yeah, 'cause like ca- like, 'cause
gold is pretty l- pretty malleable.
You'll probably like, you'll probably like cave it in if
you're actually playing it, right?
Cave it in?
Yeah, 'cause gold is, gold is very malleable.
It,
like, bends
that 24 karat, I'm curious how malleable that is as opposed to,
having a more specialized alloy
Hmm.
I don't know enough about the 24 carat, or the, the carat system on
how much this is, uh, could be mixed with another alloy or something
like that, but, or how pure it is.
But yeah, I, if it's pure gold, it is, it, it's, it probably isn't, um,
meaning it's, well, uh, yeah, I, I just don't know how the system works.
It would be pretty, like you said, pretty malleable.
It, it would, it would easily bend in and, um, depending on how thin it
is, it, it, it would be easy to dent.
Be very heavy, though
Gold is
Dude.
dense.
It's very heavy
Dude, like honestly, man, if you wanna buy an Analogue Pocket, the
red one doesn't look half bad.
I think the, I just think the logo being there on the back and
the front is kind of obnoxious
I think it looks super cheap, personally.
The, like the red color or like
makes me think just Temu every time I see it.
I'm just like, "This looks… I don't know."
It's a, it's a visual thing for me, though.
I've-
But the regular Analogue Pocket look, does look quite nice though, I will say.
The regular version that's not red or gold
yeah, definitely looks nicer
I don't see myself getting one of those, uh, truth be told.
N- not even the, uh, not even the special edition one, just like the regular one
Yeah.
Uh, I'm n- I'm not… It's just not my thing.
I have other ones I'd rather get before I get that.
I still have to get a second Steam Machine and, you know, $2,000 is gonna cost a lot.
I'm not getting another… I, if, if anything, I wanna get
another Steam Controller, but I don't wanna pay $200 for it
I wouldn't wanna do that either, dude
What a supreme way to end this all.
Unless you have anything else to bring up, I think we're pretty much done, guys.
It's a little earlier than normal, but we did have a longer bonus episode.
It's almost an hour, so you can always go over there.
and we just didn't, we didn't have Gardner to, to come in with his, uh,
his, his amazing takes on GTA or some of the other stuff that's going on.
But, um,
Don't worry, we'll get his opinion next week 'cause there will be GTA gameplay
That's, that's, that's right.
I'm out of- I- we'll see if I even end up… Well, I'm gonna see it no matter
what, 'cause I, I, I browse social media enough to where I'll see the GTA stuff.
I just… ' How long's the exclusivity on Netflix for GTA VI, do you remember?
six hours actually
yeah, even like I'll, I'll see it before the next… I'm just not gonna go out
of my way to watch it on, on Netflix.
Absolutely not, man.
You should not be buying a Netflix subscription to b- to watch GTA.
I have one.
I have
I'm not, I like, like,
' like
there's
if you ar-
things I like to watch
All right, like if you already have a Netflix subscription, it's whatever.
Take advantage of that.
But I'm telling people not to go out of your way to get a one-month Netflix
subscription to watch GTA gameplay.
It's stupid.
I don't
It's
I'm gonna flip on the other side.
Are you enough of a fan of GTA to buy a Netflix account or a subscription?
Are you though?
I don't know.
Some people, maybe they just don't have enough loyalty to them.
I don't know, man.
I am curious, though, I don't think Netflix would give out that data,
but I'd be really curious to see what signups are like for that.
they see, like, an uptick on the day of or when the announcement was made to
see if there was actually… Like, if there were people signing up for Netflix.
The Deck
hours is stupid.
If you can't wait six hours, th- there's something wrong with you
Absolutely, man.
You know, you know, definitely just, I don't know, do whatever.
It's your money.
We're not your parents.
But just know that we'll judge you if you do.
I'll judge you.
I mean, there's plenty wrong with me.
If they were doing it for… Like, don't get me wrong, I have the, the, the
sickness when it comes to Half-Life 3.
If Half-Life 3 was a six-hour window, uh, you know, uh, or, you know, exclusivity
on Netflix, I would… I didn't have a Netflix, I'd probably buy one.
Did ab
I have the sickness, but at least it's for a tasteful game.
I'm sorry.
Ah, man.
I don't know, man.
I'm, uh, th- this is, th- th- there's so much been ha- so much business been
hacking, happening this week, man.
I might just need to take a nap after this podcast
gotta take, yeah, gotta take a nap.
You gotta get all rested, HiTech.
Get ready for next week 'cause, you know, Half-Life 3 coming out.
We've got the, uh, Steam Frame.
We've got, The, uh, the bro- I don't, not Gold.
What would be, like, the, the platinum box coming out?
I don't know.
So what, some color box coming out that Half-Life will g-
Half-Life 3, Portal 3, you know.
Orange Box Two
No, no, that would be really cheesy.
I think they'd have to name it something else, but
I could see… I think it'd be funny if they did that
Orange Box Two.
Yes
But it has all three's games in it
Dude, yes.
And then they'll never release an Orange Box 3
Why?
I guess.
I don't know.
All I… Ah, man.
knows how to give us a good deal.
Like, The Orange Box was probably one of the best deals
in gaming that type of stuff
Oh, they sure do.
They sure do know how to give a good deal, you know?
Hopefully the Steam Frame's a good deal.
We'll see.
So with that, we'll see you guys next week.
We'll let you know if there's an announcement, and we'll
see what the price is.
We still don't know, so we'll see if Valve is willing to give us a good
deal on the Steam Frame at least.
Um, I will say the Steam Machine, when I first saw it, I'm like,
"Ugh, it's not a good deal."
After buying it for $1,000 and how everything else is going
up, I think it's okay deal.
I d- I definitely think it's, like, getting better and better, but do you.
All right, you guys take care now.
No.
No
All right
Peace out, guys.
Later.