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Welcome to Off the Console, the hottest podcast that's all about gaming, tech news, and
anything nerdy.
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And then plus some specially in the bonus episode.
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This week we're covering the biggest nude, including n nude?
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The biggest nudes ~ on the newest
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no, the biggest news.
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Dude, I love stuff like that.
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what high tech does behind his avatar.
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of the biggest yeah, that's the biggest news this week.
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~ not Bioware going under, not ~ consoles being a thousand dollars plus, not Sony, the
inventors of the Blu ray player getting rid of it.
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It is it
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is high tech.
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What does he do behind that?
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Ma Avatar.
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Revealed, not high tech revealed.
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Yeah, we we've played that that one too much.
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Like
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I I'm revealed.
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I'm right here.
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If I need to take my shirt off for this episode, we can do it.
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But that's a bonus episode topic, so maybe in the bonus
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~ thanks for being here, guys.
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high tech and gardener.
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be here, man.
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yes.
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Good to be here too.
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Thank you, thank you.
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let's start off with high tech.
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What have you been doing this week?
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~ recovering from sickness but also playing some Next Fest demos, despite my the fact that
I published an article basically ambasting the use of AI and it so I think I mentioned
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this in the article, but you know Valve's promo video for the Next Fest features game
doesn't feature any AI games?
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Interesting.
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So it looks like Valve themselves are wary, but I don't but they I think they're also
aware that they can't exactly put that genie back in its bottle.
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Mm.
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one that I think is gonna have to be regulated.
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I don't say this maybe a lot, but it's gonna have to be regulated by the markets.
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good old capitalism.
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You're gonna I think it's just they're not a lot of are not gonna get bought.
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It's just gonna be kind of ~ crappy for a little bit, but people will exhaust themselves,
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Or it get better.
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I understand that that, the people aren't gonna buy it probably, but the fact that it's
clogging up my next fest, I do like to I do like to look for some of the more obscure
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stuff I will say.
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so the fact that it's impeding on my ability to do so really pisses me off.
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I will say Next Fest has always been a little I I really hate to say this.
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I I like the indie community and all that, but like it's for years now, it's it's turned
into more of like it feel they feel like more more like mods because gaming is ~
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developments become easier than ever.
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They feel like th they should have been more like mods back in the day.
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Not a bad thing.
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I j and I just don't have the time as much as I used to for mods.
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how I feel.
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~ it it's interesting.
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I've gotten a couple of really good games from Next Fest.
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But I I think what they need to do better is really I I would like to subscribe to more
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And not I don't want to really see any other genres.
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I want to see like horror, some action, maybe one or two others and that's it.
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I don't want to see a bunch of the other ones.
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And that's what clogs it up for me.
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Yeah, it's the stupid fucking vampire survivor likes.
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Exact I don't wanna I I I have my one.
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It's not Vampire Survivors, it's the ~ the dwarf one, but done.
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Yeah, I ~ I have ~ I maybe have ~ a one Vampire Survivor's like per next fest limit that I
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I I've I've made a I've made an unofficial rule.
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I never cover Vampire Survivor's likes 'cause it I've alright, so they piss me off on many
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First and foremost is that they're like the easiest fu I mean, I'm not gonna say it's easy
to make, but it's like the easiest fucking game to make in the world and like they're
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If they don't have the sauce.
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off, somehow, they managed to infiltrate two of the genres I really like.
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They infiltrate fucking Bullet Hell, which I kinda it kinda makes sense that it would be
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I'd meet some fucking schmups, man.
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I like meet some fucking like you guys ever
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play like Raiden, like back in the day?
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Well, the types of games I'm talking about, right?
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Yeah, you're like you're in a sp you're it's a spa a vertical space shooter, something
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but then I look at fucking Vampire Survivors likes and then I'm like, But not only that
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like games like Final Fight.
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ca or Castle Crashers.
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you've played Castle Crashers, Gardner, I know you have.
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the the fucking vampire survivor likes managed to infiltrate that genre of games somehow.
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okay, but like There is a I think there's a natural evolution of a game like vampire
survivors into a game like double dragon or fucking ~ Whatever right golden axe those kind
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of that to me that seems like a natural evolution and
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game where all these enemies are coming at you from all around.
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there are hard ~ there are hard genre lines that have to be defined, in my opinion.
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should be able to meld ~ meld into them and all, but there's so many options.
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just wa I just want easier ways to filter out.
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tech.
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I want to filter out anything that touches Vampire Survivor.
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So if they're like they're gonna meld them together and it still has like a vampire
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But ~ I I I d and I think melding chord game types can be very beneficial in how we
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that's what I wanna stick with for a while
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~ The way I see it though, the c the actual moment to moment gameplay is very different
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'cause you have multiple options for attacking in castle crashers that all require like
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in Vampire Survivors it just attacks for you all the time.
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real the only real challenge is picking and choosing upgrades and like moving around.
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it's not real it's not really Yeah,
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it's it's it's not really the same.
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I get what you're saying though, Gardner.
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And I feel like a Castle Crashers light game with like the anim enemy density of like a
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That's what I was thinking.
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what you were saying was inspiring to me in a way.
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~ I can understand what you mean though when you say like if it was Castle Crashers but
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that tiring as shit.
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But I think there is something to what you just said like like a game like Castle Crashers
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~ James, I'm going to
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ask you to cut all of this because I want to make that game now.
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Dude, dude, dude, dude.
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Alright, I'll dude, I'd love to help you out.
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Dude, high tech.
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Whoa.
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Castle Crashers, but like, enemy density.
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~ Vampire Survivors.
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I'm I'm mixing up.
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I genuinely think there is something to that, Hi Tech.
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We should...
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have I I do wanna say it could be worse.
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It could be it could be Vampire Survivors cozy ~ mashup.
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So at least we don't have that yet.
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How?
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okay, so I love games
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and so I love thinking about games the thought that just jumped out to me when you said
that James is to say is like There's like an area where it's like a cozy game But in a
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side-scrolling castle crashers format and then you
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leave your town and it's castle crashers And you're just you're being attacked and you
have to go collect
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before we move on from high tech, I just wanted to say high tech.
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That article that you wrote was amazing.
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you did a great job with that.
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A very well
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argued position, I think.
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And and Jason Evangelos, ~ formerly of Forbes fucking dot com, said as much in a a Macedon
tweet.
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So, dude, good job.
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Nice.
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it.
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Dude, good job.
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Speaking of good jobs,
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Gardner.
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Yes.
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How's your job been this week?
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Has it been good?
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Has it been easy?
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on a cracker, dude.
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~ this
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week has been absolute misery.
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~ anyone who doesn't know, there was like this huge ~ AI assisted vulnerability thing
discovered in PHP and holy crap.
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just, like I had,
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I spent at least...
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at least 10 hours on Wednesday when the patch was released.
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I think it was Wednesday.
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And then again, another six or seven hours on Friday ~ trying to like implement the
mitigations that they recommended.
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And then also dealing with the knock-on effects of legacy code bases that were written in
PHP5 ~ like from like 15, 16 years ago.
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Holy shit, it was just absolute misery.
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It was so bad.
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And I'm so grateful that Hi Tech and ~ many other people contributed articles to the
Bryant Review this week because I didn't have any time.
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~ Yeah.
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Dude, it was, yeah.
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But other than that, dude, okay, and this is something I wanted to get to and didn't have
time to.
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It's time for Gardener's Show and Tell.
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This is the SeedSense, ~ the SenseCap solar node.
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This is a Meshtastic node that you
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can like mount on your roof.
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Doesn't require any power.
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You just point the panel at the sun.
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It's battery powered and it like is configured to run as a repeater.
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So all it does is listen for Meshtastic traffic and then rebroadcast it from a higher
vantage point.
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And if you guys don't know what Meshtastic is,
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It is a, ~ a decentralized way of communicating.
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And I talked about it a little bit a couple of weeks ago, but basically you just get a
little radio.
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You can connect it to your phone via Bluetooth, or you can get ones that just have like a
keyboard with a screen and you can, then you can just send decentralized message traffic,
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~ up to like line of sight, nine kilometers.
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It's fucking crazy, dude.
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It's text messaging.
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nine kilometer distance, incredibly cool technology.
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So I bought this so I can set up a little mesh testing network here in my town.
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Yeah.
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And I'm going to be, I'm going to be, ~
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hosting like a mesh tastic party where I feed people some fun little, ~ hors d'oeuvres and
teach them about mesh tastic and why they should buy a little radio.
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That's yeah.
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~ man, I there's so much stuff to tinker with these days.
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I
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I I've been so deep into just soft for myself.
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Yeah, so what I've been doing this week this last week is ~ kids had ~ time off, so I
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going through Allen Wake 2 again 'cause I beat Control
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Resident and I I just loved Remedy Universe.
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~ and so going through that on the Steam Machine
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~ it it sucks because you know you have to install it through heroic or you know, it just
it just takes a little bit more to set up, but at least it runs pretty well.
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Like I've I've had to have put like 300 hours of at least plus of gaming into the Steam
Machine since I got it.
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Enough to where I haven't even I haven't even finished my review for it.
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It's just gonna
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be at at one point it's gonna be five hundred hours review of the steam machine.
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So my my my review is gonna be like long term usage, which tends to be how I do my reviews
anyways, because I get so caught up in using the devices, but yeah, it's ~ it's going
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pretty good.
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Working on some software.
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~ working on I I working on some like revealed ~ social networking software and just
seeing how
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'Cause decentralizing has its own issues, but also centralizing things is also putting to
maybe too much power into ~ into one's hands because we can see it with the social media,
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like Facebook alone, has a lot of power
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in how they ~ don't regulate misinformation or almost prom like allow Russian bots maybe
stuff for the bonus episode topics, but it's
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Got me thinking a lot, so playing around with some ideas and maybe maybe something will
come out of it, maybe something won't.
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But I know we've talked about it, Gardener.
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Mm-hmm.
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stuff, but
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I'm playing around with software to maybe help with that, but I don't know.
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And at the end of the day, it's one of the my side projects.
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I'll announce it.
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I'll announce anything I try to I'm trying to be better at announcing things when they're
just pretty much ready.
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Or else if I announce it too early, then it just takes like it just takes a long time for
me to get stuff out.
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So
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Plenty of stuff cooking
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that I will announce in the future.
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Well, dude, you mentioned
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you mentioned that there there's so much out there that ~ that you could tinker with.
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And I think ~ one of my guiding principles lately, within the last couple of years, it has
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~
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~ what is going to maximize a positive effect on the world by my tinkering?
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And that's why I'm interested in these solar nodes.
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It's why I'm interested in mesh-tastic.
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It's why I'm interested in self-hosting ~ and why we talk about the things we do on the
Brian review, right?
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It's like, I just want to make a positive impact in the world.
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And if we can all do that, I think we'll make it, I think we will achieve that aim.
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Yeah, that's one of the hard things too, 'cause like with my ~ with the app I'm working
on, I was doing self hosting on a VM I was renting and now I went to Cloudflare Compute.
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And I don't want to bore people, but it's just because of the the bot attacks, I just
wanted to go more secure route.
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It's just it's so crazy.
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Like I
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had I had revealed news, which is an aggregation
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client that take it it takes and aggregates a bunch of news articles into one and says hey
these are the different points ~ it has a summary and then you can go like if you want to
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do a different ~ take on it like here's which source you should go to and that was getting
inundated by like bot attacks for the form since I had to put some protections
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on there.
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Like they were doing signups it was it was starting to drain some of my email usage and it
was like I was getting hundreds of signups from a bot and so
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just to stop that, but it's just interesting.
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~ Cloudflare helped a lot with that though.
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Just for anyone that does anything, I guess, software related.
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Cloudflare can help a lot with bot attacks, but
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Mm-hmm.
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yeah, that's what that's what I've been doing.
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Not to get bor let's let's get less boring and less like I find it fascinating, but people
might not find it as fascinating.
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So what they will find fascinating is going to off the console.com.
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and finding all our past episodes, ~ signing up for a membership over at the Patreon.
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Soon we will have s you'll be able to sign up for a membership on off the console.com
itself if you want.
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~ I'm gonna be having
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I so one of the things actually I've been working on, I forgot to mention, is that I'm
working on a combined feed.
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So like if you like running your own ~ podcasting s software, so which I know some people
do in the community I've talked to, you I I will make it so that you can get a token there
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if you ~ get our membership and then you can use that to get all your member all your
content into your feed.
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So I'm working
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on that.
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So I think people will really like that.
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~ a com a combined ~ I mean people even if you don't pay for the membership, you you can
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get that feed and get everything besides the bonus content, paid content into your feed.
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So So
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yeah.
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It's a f it's a fun project.
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So that it kinda goes along with the s the social thing I'm playing around with.
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That I'll reveal one day.
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But yeah.
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Off the po
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Off off theconsole.com.
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Go there, all the good stuff.
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It look for updates and stuff coming soon.
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Follow us there.
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~ that will be that's kind of our hub for now.
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So with that being said, you could also like the
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Fediverse is there.
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You all our links are there that I that we usually promote is all there.
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So if you like the Fediverse, we have stuff there.
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We have the RSS feed there.
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All the good stuff there.
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~ and now let's get into the depressing I maybe I just don't want to get into the
depressing news because I have to admit that one of my favorite franchises a little bit
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later on is dead.
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what
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also is kind of dead is maybe my want to buy the next console, and that is because
next-gen consoles are looking like they're gonna be a thousand dollars.
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High tech.
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Why did you do this to this and explain.
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~ well something put, I wanted more money.
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I'm a greedy fuck.
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ha.
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I've decided I can't be an ethical billionaire, so I gotta be an unethical billionaire and
charge up the ass.
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Yeah.
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but real talk though.
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This
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You're the most honest
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one at least.
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Honesty is my only policy.
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Now, speaking of now, speaking of honesty, let's honestly think.
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This is $680 for the materials alone.
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This doesn't take into account labor or any of the other parts, too.
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At least for PlayStation, this is just the RAM and SSD.
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And some further reports suggest that the PlayStation 6 is gonna be $1,200.
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And of course, PlayStation's not the only one who may have a price hike.
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Let's talk about Xbox, the crazier one where it's like a range of twelve hundred to
eighteen hundred dollars.
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Hmm.
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Would you buy an eighteen hundred dollar Xbox?
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No.
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Course not.
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I really hate this because I might I know it's just railing.
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~ I might if it is let's say one point five times better than the Steam machine, there is
a slim chance I might.
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If RAM prices and everything else don't go down.
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s slim chance if it could play all my games, like Steam and ever.
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But at the same time, I I I I just
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don't want I don't know.
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Probably not.
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If the difference between the Xbox series and the Xbox helix was like a comparable ~
feature gap between the NES and SNES, it might be worth that jump in price, but it's not.
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There's almost, there's
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going to be almost no like honest way to justify.
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this if you buy it, you're going to be doing mental gymnastics to justify your purchase
when it's not even going to be like the sorry, the train's going.
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But ~ the like you're to have to do a hell of a lot of mental gymnastics to justify this
kind of purchase.
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It's like ~ or GTA seven is only available on Xbox or PlayStation six.
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It's like, give me give me a break.
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No, I know.
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on that generation.
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Yeah, right.
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And the difference between GTA 6 for Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 versus Xbox Helix or
PlayStation 6 is gonna be fucking minuscule.
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I mean, even the difference between like Xbox 360 and Series, or not Series, but Xbox One,
like there was that big jump.
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between GTA V on the two different generations, there was a huge jump, right?
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Meaningful.
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Here there won't be.
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There's not gonna be any difference.
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And I just, as someone who has been a console skeptic for ages now, I will never buy this.
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I don't know, I feel like consoles are over, man.
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If they if they end up being eighteen hundred dollars, like these are just rumored prices.
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Consoles could be more.
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And I've
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gonna be more.
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There they're they're they're
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gonna ha th there's no way it could be more than two thousand dollars.
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if it's over two thousand dollars it's over.
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Like period.
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I I
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can safely say that.
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We're it entering the thousand dollars is already a super grey area and will probably be
the worst selling systems of all time.
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Mm-hmm.
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~ I don't think people I think we're at the tail end of what people can afford.
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I I don't
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I I don't even think people are gonna get be able to get loans out because they're gonna
be maxed out from just surviving and from polymarket.
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Right.
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When PlayStation released the whenever PlayStation has released a console that's way too
expensive, it's always backfired in there at face.
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Xbox hasn't quite gone that route until this next gen, and I think it's I think we're
screwed.
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And I think the worst I don't know.
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I also don't I I'm kind of bitter on these companies ca and i because there's tariffs.
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They're not even like Valve is to do on this.
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Like they got tariff refunds.
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What did they do with them?
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Captain.
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They kept them.
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Profit.
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They upped the prices and they kept the the and so they're just gonna keep on the I don't
know, ~ are
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are they s just keeping cause they upped the prices and some of it was because of tariffs.
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Are they just now not gonna lower them and just gonna keep them at the prices?
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I know NAN's expensive, but like
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Like we said in the bonus episode, socialism for me, but not for thee.
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~ this is, that's what it is, man.
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It's, that's what it is.
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I'm tired of of companies.
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I and maybe it is we just need to reset.
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And I don't I hate to say it because I really do like a lot of these companies.
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I don't want the I the the thing is, I don't necessarily have I I the PlayStation 5
controller is amazing.
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That's about all I like about the PlayStation 5.
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Everything else can die, ~ for all I care.
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~ I just really like how innovative it can be with like some games like Astrobot.
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But maybe we just need it
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them to just do this and just die off.
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And they'll complain.
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They'll say, ~ they always make all these juvenile ~ excuses why they're not doing well.
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And then they'll just die off.
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I I I I think if it's over a thousand dollars, there's a good chance that these companies
will stop doing well.
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And we'll see.
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Maybe
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they'll innovate and go to a reasonable price and and subsidize because they do make mu
they make most of their money off of the games, not the console.
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So them trying to make money off a console is honestly kind of ~ crazy now, in my opinion,
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because they charge so much.
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And Valve is I give them a lot of gr like grief too.
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They charge just as much or more for their take, and they only ~ support infrastructure,
they don't subsidize their hardware.
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So I don't know.
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Like this is I'm kind of just upset because inflation has caused these numbers to go so
high.
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But not really, because inflation has only gone up so much and these are way past
inflation numbers.
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And I know ramp a calypse, but rant over.
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I'm just I don't know, man.
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I might and that's the sad thing.
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I might still think about getting one of them if it's in the thousand dollar range, but
we'll see.
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We'll see.
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I I they have to be pretty fucking innovative this time around to to win my dollar.
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'Cause I didn't even buy the newest Xbox and I've I've had every generation of console.
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Every generation of console.
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And the the Xbox series I have not bought one because I just didn't need to.
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If PlayStation doesn't give
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me a reason, ~ I think the only thing I'm interested in the next gen is a PlayStation
handheld and that's it.
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No, I'll just say that.
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Hmm.
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~ yeah, it's a thousand dollar PlayStation handheld.
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Well, how much do you think?
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So I've heard rumors that the PlayStation 6 is going to be a handheld.
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How much do you have of like?
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Like the price comparison for like a, you know, a handheld PC versus a PlayStation 6, do
you think that would factor into pricing?
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~ I would imagine it would factor quite a bit, 'cause they have to do lot more R and D to
try to optimize for power usage and all that stuff.
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The the kind of stuff that the fact that Valve released a Steam Deck for four hundred
dollars was ~ insane, truth be told.
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Mm-hmm.
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I don't know if we're ever I don't know if we're gonna get a four hundred dollar Steam
Deck too.
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We c w we could if we wanted.
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we can get there.
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~ that's the thing.
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They did it.
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We're able to.
467
00:27:17,129 --> 00:27:19,621
I don't necessarily want a four hundred dollar Steam Deck too.
468
00:27:19,621 --> 00:27:21,513
I want it to not be old tech.
469
00:27:21,513 --> 00:27:23,354
When it comes out I want it to be a little bit newer tech.
470
00:27:23,354 --> 00:27:27,137
They the L C D and they've even replaced that since.
471
00:27:27,137 --> 00:27:36,055
So that the L C D, the chip, a bunch of things were older, so they got good deals on
That's a big part of the reason why they were able to get hit the the the price point they
472
00:27:36,055 --> 00:27:36,245
did it.
473
00:27:36,245 --> 00:27:36,806
And it was good.
474
00:27:36,806 --> 00:27:39,550
Like and w we should like
475
00:27:39,550 --> 00:27:53,445
The next Steam Deck or the next like it once tariffs and tariffs and the NAN stuff's over
with, we sh they should not n inflation should not or d like according to how inflation's
476
00:27:53,445 --> 00:27:56,646
going, sh all the stuff should be under a thousand dollars.
477
00:27:56,646 --> 00:27:57,546
So
478
00:27:58,207 --> 00:27:59,567
we should not be seeing
479
00:27:59,567 --> 00:28:02,868
anything after those two things break and if
480
00:28:03,581 --> 00:28:11,807
And if you we really want to try to see things get back to an affordable place where we're
not taking out loans, because we're we're starting to get into car loan territory here
481
00:28:11,807 --> 00:28:12,077
with
482
00:28:12,077 --> 00:28:13,408
some of these prices.
483
00:28:13,408 --> 00:28:17,191
~ for gaming, which is crazy.
484
00:28:17,191 --> 00:28:18,822
We we shouldn't buy buying this stuff.
485
00:28:18,822 --> 00:28:23,015
We should be holding on to what we have and try to just like the indie market's really
good.
486
00:28:23,375 --> 00:28:26,287
Try to get yourself a homemade steam machine if you can.
487
00:28:26,287 --> 00:28:30,078
Because at that, like make a steam machine or buy a steam machine or
488
00:28:30,078 --> 00:28:34,197
Make a homemade one, that will suffice for a long time with all the games coming out, so.
489
00:28:34,197 --> 00:28:34,608
Thank
490
00:28:34,608 --> 00:28:35,367
crazy that
491
00:28:35,367 --> 00:28:36,157
Ugh.
492
00:28:36,260 --> 00:28:41,146
Well Nintendo though I hate to say it, man.
493
00:28:41,146 --> 00:28:44,489
Remember when we thought the Switch 2 was a bi a bit overpriced?
494
00:28:45,672 --> 00:28:47,073
Yeah, good times.
495
00:28:47,095 --> 00:28:58,354
Well, you know, if you can't afford a PlayStation 6 or Xbox Helix ~ and you can't afford
to build a PC, you can always do what they're doing in France, which we talked about in
496
00:28:58,354 --> 00:29:00,406
the bonus episode.
497
00:29:00,406 --> 00:29:04,729
~
498
00:29:05,441 --> 00:29:07,159
~ my
499
00:29:07,159 --> 00:29:08,454
just borrow a little bit of RAM.
500
00:29:08,454 --> 00:29:09,919
They they don't need it right now.
501
00:29:09,919 --> 00:29:12,859
Yeah, yeah, just yeah, borrow.
502
00:29:13,448 --> 00:29:16,494
How how can you have a game tournament during a riot?
503
00:29:16,494 --> 00:29:16,834
Right?
504
00:29:16,834 --> 00:29:17,852
They're not using it.
505
00:29:17,852 --> 00:29:18,693
Yeah.
506
00:29:22,804 --> 00:29:31,268
I honestly more and more I I think the consoles are kinda killing themselves off and maybe
it's a little bit on purpose because they want to promote their online services, but I
507
00:29:31,268 --> 00:29:37,440
think it's just and we are we're getting really good decompiling ~ projects, right?
508
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:43,373
Like Astrobot's gonna be playable on the Steam Machine any d any month now, I think.
509
00:29:43,373 --> 00:29:51,896
And so I unless and and who knows, like if if we can control the the legal side of this
510
00:29:51,966 --> 00:29:53,920
I think the the consoles are done.
511
00:29:53,920 --> 00:30:00,385
My recommendation would be just like, yeah, you can buy the game but then dec decompile it
and put it on your steam machine, you know.
512
00:30:00,385 --> 00:30:01,273
Mm.
513
00:30:02,653 --> 00:30:03,413
I
514
00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:04,114
Yeah.
515
00:30:04,114 --> 00:30:08,897
If you could buy a Blu-ray player, which we'll we'll talk about that very soon.
516
00:30:09,238 --> 00:30:11,879
~ Yes, and speaking of
517
00:30:11,879 --> 00:30:21,305
Game Pass and software and all that, like ~ report next gen Xbox Project Helix Targets
2028 release could cost wait, this is the same okay, this is sorry.
518
00:30:22,246 --> 00:30:24,628
This is a continuation of what we were talking about.
519
00:30:24,628 --> 00:30:31,188
I didn't realize that we had two articles here, but yeah, seeing it on in like if you're
watching, like seeing this just
520
00:30:31,188 --> 00:30:38,771
The numbers on screen makes it even more real real of ~ damn that's so expensive.
521
00:30:38,771 --> 00:30:39,967
It's crazy.
522
00:30:43,292 --> 00:30:45,739
What's even sorry?
523
00:30:45,797 --> 00:30:47,550
Nah, go go on, go on.
524
00:30:48,626 --> 00:30:49,556
Yeah.
525
00:30:50,636 --> 00:30:52,249
Is this is this the right one?
526
00:30:52,249 --> 00:30:53,599
the video.
527
00:30:53,639 --> 00:30:54,359
No, okay.
528
00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:59,622
So Exodus Nexus, launcher for Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass now with experimental Steam
Deck support.
529
00:30:59,622 --> 00:31:01,123
Yeah, this is nice.
530
00:31:02,184 --> 00:31:03,474
I ha
531
00:31:03,881 --> 00:31:05,305
Yeah, this is good stuff.
532
00:31:05,305 --> 00:31:07,069
I've tried this out actually.
533
00:31:08,296 --> 00:31:09,329
do you like it?
534
00:31:10,259 --> 00:31:11,789
It works as expected.
535
00:31:11,789 --> 00:31:13,472
~ for the most part.
536
00:31:13,472 --> 00:31:21,978
There are some weird bugs where I I I so I got myself a cheap Game Pass ~ month to try
this thing out.
537
00:31:22,099 --> 00:31:23,520
It is pretty sick.
538
00:31:24,081 --> 00:31:29,915
~ but I will say there are some unusual bugs with it that I experienced this past week or
so.
539
00:31:29,915 --> 00:31:35,230
~ namely in regards to down giving you the option to download games that aren't out yet.
540
00:31:35,230 --> 00:31:39,643
Like ~ Persona 4 ~ Revival is not out yet.
541
00:31:40,073 --> 00:31:44,665
And also Stranger Than Heaven, but I think that's just probably just a n it's probably
just a bug.
542
00:31:44,788 --> 00:31:48,026
And you said it's letting you download or just it shows up?
543
00:31:48,179 --> 00:31:51,681
It shows up, I press download, and then it airs out.
544
00:31:51,681 --> 00:31:52,048
Hmm.
545
00:31:52,048 --> 00:31:53,660
~ but it's not released yet, right?
546
00:31:53,660 --> 00:31:56,895
So it's just like a it's it's it's a but it's a but
547
00:31:56,895 --> 00:31:59,563
it's a benign bug that could be easily patched.
548
00:31:59,563 --> 00:32:00,534
Yeah.
549
00:32:00,909 --> 00:32:04,571
It'd be insane if you could it wouldn't let you download and play those games.
550
00:32:04,723 --> 00:32:07,413
I mean that wouldn't be the first time Microsoft
551
00:32:07,413 --> 00:32:09,917
left the floodgate open like that
552
00:32:09,917 --> 00:32:13,651
I would totally I would totally make a video about that if that were the case.
553
00:32:14,558 --> 00:32:15,348
Yeah.
554
00:32:15,708 --> 00:32:21,500
~ I I could add so I've been building a launcher too for years on and off.
555
00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:23,270
And I have what it's called Load Kit right now.
556
00:32:23,270 --> 00:32:26,281
And it it does it's what I play on the Steam Machine.
557
00:32:26,281 --> 00:32:28,012
So I have Alan Wake on there.
558
00:32:28,012 --> 00:32:31,068
I ha I'm adding mod support, so I'm playing like the They Hunger.
559
00:32:31,068 --> 00:32:34,793
I and I'm just adding like that's why I haven't announced or released it yet.
560
00:32:34,793 --> 00:32:37,424
But this would be fun to add to it.
561
00:32:37,424 --> 00:32:41,635
It's just I'd have to get the Xbox Game Pass again.
562
00:32:41,635 --> 00:32:44,476
And I kinda regret getting it the past because
563
00:32:45,664 --> 00:32:51,866
~ I I beat actually ~ a couple games on Game Pass, right?
564
00:32:51,947 --> 00:33:02,991
But then they removed those games and like, okay, cool, like ~ Expedition 33 is one I
beat, and they've removed it recently, or they're about to.
565
00:33:03,051 --> 00:33:12,065
~ and I don't know what happens to my saves, but I know there's tools to I go ~ before all
this happened, like with Doom, Dark Ages and and with that, I removed the saves and put
566
00:33:12,065 --> 00:33:15,636
them into Steam and had them down, like I used a tool.
567
00:33:15,658 --> 00:33:16,388
that you can find.
568
00:33:16,388 --> 00:33:23,690
I can't remember what it's called, but you can transfer your Xbox ~ saves over to another
like another platform.
569
00:33:23,930 --> 00:33:26,911
Not the most intuitive piece of software, but it was I I did that.
570
00:33:26,911 --> 00:33:31,751
And now I'm like I'm afraid to play any games on Xbox because I'm like, what if I don't
have the subscription?
571
00:33:31,751 --> 00:33:33,083
I'm not gonna pay for it every month.
572
00:33:33,083 --> 00:33:34,733
~
573
00:33:34,733 --> 00:33:36,784
nowadays, especially as it's gonna go up in price.
574
00:33:36,784 --> 00:33:42,305
And I I'm also because it's going up in price and because what they've been doing, I
didn't I don't want to support that.
575
00:33:42,305 --> 00:33:44,966
I'll I'll support individual developers, but
576
00:33:46,292 --> 00:33:47,333
This is really cool.
577
00:33:47,333 --> 00:33:48,935
I love that we have this.
578
00:33:48,935 --> 00:33:53,138
But I think I've gotten more onto the bandwagon of hating the Game Pass.
579
00:33:53,179 --> 00:33:54,019
And
580
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,912
people don't don't need to at me in the comments.
581
00:33:55,912 --> 00:33:57,217
Like, I get it.
582
00:33:57,217 --> 00:33:57,764
I i if
583
00:33:57,764 --> 00:33:59,425
it's for you, go for it.
584
00:33:59,425 --> 00:34:04,490
I just don't wanna like I'm personally not putting my eggs in that basket anymore.
585
00:34:04,490 --> 00:34:06,702
I'm just gonna buy the the games outright.
586
00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:10,383
I've come to the realization that most tech
587
00:34:10,383 --> 00:34:18,089
now like consumer tech is built on wage theft and ~ For for like
588
00:34:18,089 --> 00:34:19,210
for YouTube.
589
00:34:19,210 --> 00:34:23,894
It's it's like ~ propping up big names like ~ Mr.
590
00:34:23,894 --> 00:34:32,261
Beast and making YouTube seem glamorous and then you know not actually paying creators who
you know make
591
00:34:32,457 --> 00:34:34,399
ton of money for YouTube.
592
00:34:34,399 --> 00:34:37,551
~ AI is the same thing.
593
00:34:37,551 --> 00:34:40,403
It's like ripping off creators to replace them.
594
00:34:40,444 --> 00:34:46,368
And with Xbox Game Pass, it's ripping off studios and not actually paying them.
595
00:34:47,509 --> 00:34:54,534
And so like everything like for me, Game Pass has always been that I just didn't have the
term wage theft
596
00:34:54,848 --> 00:34:55,692
Mm-hmm.
597
00:34:55,696 --> 00:34:56,717
to describe it.
598
00:34:56,717 --> 00:34:58,118
But that's what it is.
599
00:34:58,118 --> 00:35:01,760
So I've always I'm glad you're on board with me, James.
600
00:35:02,238 --> 00:35:03,248
I've only
601
00:35:03,248 --> 00:35:05,009
pla okay, well that's not true.
602
00:35:05,009 --> 00:35:12,901
I was gonna say I've always played just their first party games on there instead of paying
them and that the ~ paying for I like to try and call duty.
603
00:35:12,901 --> 00:35:14,591
There's a couple of games I like to try on there.
604
00:35:14,591 --> 00:35:17,432
So to be fair, I was never gonna buy the game.
605
00:35:17,432 --> 00:35:27,875
I was using it more as a demo for a lot of the times 'cause I always kinda didn't like
tying up my my saved and after doing expedition just going full hog expedition and and
606
00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:30,964
doom dark ages, I like there's new
607
00:35:30,964 --> 00:35:32,098
DLC for Dark Ages.
608
00:35:32,098 --> 00:35:35,239
I'm like, I'm not gonna go back and play that anytime soon.
609
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,021
I don't even know if
610
00:35:36,021 --> 00:35:37,767
I have the save for it now.
611
00:35:37,767 --> 00:35:38,578
But
612
00:35:40,316 --> 00:35:44,138
I the big dogs I I think it paid okay.
613
00:35:44,138 --> 00:35:46,090
Like if is right, it's all balanced out.
614
00:35:46,090 --> 00:35:49,381
But anyone that's small enough, they get kind of screwed over.
615
00:35:49,762 --> 00:35:50,902
Luckily,
616
00:35:50,923 --> 00:36:00,528
Expedition, even though they did get screwed over by this deal, maybe that's why they're
leaving, they made I think four hundred million dollars.
617
00:36:01,469 --> 00:36:03,340
But that was probably from other cells.
618
00:36:03,340 --> 00:36:04,591
They're also game of the year, so I'm
619
00:36:04,591 --> 00:36:06,202
hoping that they would.
620
00:36:06,417 --> 00:36:06,897
Right.
621
00:36:06,897 --> 00:36:07,888
And I agree.
622
00:36:07,888 --> 00:36:12,920
Like, totally ~ the fact is Expedition is like one of the exceptions to that.
623
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:13,581
Right.
624
00:36:13,581 --> 00:36:14,095
Yeah.
625
00:36:14,095 --> 00:36:17,866
made some good money from this, but it probably didn't l make as much as it could have.
626
00:36:17,866 --> 00:36:21,531
But it it also did help that people could try it out.
627
00:36:21,531 --> 00:36:23,982
So like I think game demos are also a big deal.
628
00:36:23,982 --> 00:36:28,595
Like make more game demos de developers, like that's also very useful.
629
00:36:28,595 --> 00:36:35,233
So if it's a game people don't want to risk, then you know, let it let us try it out.
630
00:36:35,233 --> 00:36:36,039
Mm.
631
00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:37,109
Mm-hmm.
632
00:36:38,010 --> 00:36:38,770
Yeah, man.
633
00:36:38,770 --> 00:36:42,192
It's I I think it's great that this is happening.
634
00:36:42,192 --> 00:36:48,464
by the way, the Exodus Nexus project is separate from the Exodus Project, which as we
know, the Exodus project
635
00:36:48,464 --> 00:36:51,395
was ~ created by Lingwin.
636
00:36:52,155 --> 00:36:53,556
And Exodus Nexus
637
00:36:53,556 --> 00:36:54,696
is not.
638
00:36:55,057 --> 00:36:56,908
You know, Lingwin, the guy that made Hero Games launcher.
639
00:36:56,908 --> 00:36:58,838
We had him on the pod for those that don't know, we had him
640
00:36:58,838 --> 00:37:00,989
on the podcast ~ a while ago.
641
00:37:00,989 --> 00:37:05,553
~ but it's impressive that this is actually working and
642
00:37:05,553 --> 00:37:18,937
While I'm not too I'm not too keen on Game Pass myself, I think it is worthy of mentioning
because like this is a way to break away from I've known people that can't move away from
643
00:37:18,937 --> 00:37:22,493
my from Windows because of Game Pass and now they can.
644
00:37:22,493 --> 00:37:26,290
I haven't encountered any bugs just yet, but I also haven't tested it that much.
645
00:37:26,290 --> 00:37:30,131
So I mean, I'm sure we'll see some more news about that.
646
00:37:30,530 --> 00:37:31,951
Anytime we get something
647
00:37:31,951 --> 00:37:35,913
additional for Linux, I like support like this, like I think it's a win.
648
00:37:35,913 --> 00:37:42,300
Even if we might not like the whole thing, ~ g like the game pass per se.
649
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:47,604
Like I think this is still a huge win for people to just be able to play the game t the
way they want to play it, I guess.
650
00:37:47,604 --> 00:37:56,951
~ on the system that we like on Linux and SteamOS, but ~ Yeah.
651
00:37:57,232 --> 00:37:58,052
It's
652
00:37:58,059 --> 00:38:00,181
It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft does anything about it.
653
00:38:00,181 --> 00:38:01,302
And I I'll have to give kudos.
654
00:38:01,302 --> 00:38:05,516
If Microsoft doesn't do anything, like to attack them, then I'll give them kudos.
655
00:38:05,516 --> 00:38:09,729
~ they're only helping l Xbox to be fair.
656
00:38:09,729 --> 00:38:13,993
And any like ~ Micr Microsoft and Xbox is by doing this.
657
00:38:13,993 --> 00:38:21,239
Just giving them free ways for people to play and have and maybe buy their game pass and
actually use it on the device that they want.
658
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:22,641
So but you just never
659
00:38:22,641 --> 00:38:24,712
know sometimes with these game companies.
660
00:38:25,205 --> 00:38:32,516
I'm sure Asha Sharma recognizes that they're not in the big the best of positions and you
know, they haven't for two generations in a row.
661
00:38:32,516 --> 00:38:36,261
I mean yeah, that doesn't mean that doesn't mean they couldn't attack us at any point in
time.
662
00:38:36,261 --> 00:38:37,851
shoot themselves in the foot all the time.
663
00:38:37,851 --> 00:38:43,197
~ PlayStation shooting themselves in the foot so many times this year.
664
00:38:43,197 --> 00:38:44,373
just this year alone.
665
00:38:44,373 --> 00:38:45,666
That's crazy.
666
00:38:45,666 --> 00:38:46,687
They are
667
00:38:46,687 --> 00:38:50,979
they they ~ all these companies had like I don't know, it's control, obviously.
668
00:38:50,979 --> 00:38:54,011
It's it's it's a balancing act between control and profits.
669
00:38:54,071 --> 00:39:02,596
And so because they're exercising this control, their profits are gonna hurt and then so
they're gonna have to hurt us again in another way, to get their profits up, so
670
00:39:03,257 --> 00:39:09,264
It's will be interesting to see what the ramifications from PlayStation's horrible
policies will ha have.
671
00:39:09,264 --> 00:39:10,436
We'll we'll see.
672
00:39:10,529 --> 00:39:11,517
Mm.
673
00:39:13,053 --> 00:39:14,333
Yeah.
674
00:39:14,333 --> 00:39:16,244
You know what else Sony did?
675
00:39:17,684 --> 00:39:18,423
What?
676
00:39:18,423 --> 00:39:21,153
killed off Blu-ray players.
677
00:39:21,153 --> 00:39:22,750
Ugh, dude.
678
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,403
They invented the Blu-ray, right?
679
00:39:27,403 --> 00:39:28,064
They're they
680
00:39:28,064 --> 00:39:33,736
own the patent for this, the tr and the et cetera, et cetera.
681
00:39:34,012 --> 00:39:36,156
It was a fight against Blu-ray and
682
00:39:36,156 --> 00:39:37,176
~
683
00:39:37,786 --> 00:39:41,177
H D D V D or D V
684
00:39:41,177 --> 00:39:42,282
D H D or some shit like that.
685
00:39:42,282 --> 00:39:44,003
It was HD DVD.
686
00:39:46,084 --> 00:39:47,064
Dude.
687
00:39:48,205 --> 00:39:49,205
Okay.
688
00:39:49,425 --> 00:39:52,246
Do you guys remember when Sony was cool?
689
00:39:53,167 --> 00:39:53,987
Like Sony,
690
00:39:53,987 --> 00:40:07,393
dude, so like before the PlayStation, I mean, even like the original PlayStation, Sony was
like the fucking company you went to to buy premium equipment to rip
691
00:40:07,393 --> 00:40:10,314
music from the over the air radio.
692
00:40:10,366 --> 00:40:10,886
they were,
693
00:40:10,886 --> 00:40:15,968
they were the company that was behind Blu-ray, or not Blu-ray, but ~ CD burners, right?
694
00:40:15,968 --> 00:40:19,150
~ they invented, they co-invented the CD, right?
695
00:40:19,150 --> 00:40:29,313
And ~ Sony was like the like wink and nod piracy advocate for a long time.
696
00:40:29,374 --> 00:40:34,185
And then they ended up buying Columbia Pictures and came up with the PlayStation.
697
00:40:34,185 --> 00:40:37,857
And I think that actually ruined their company, if I'm completely honest.
698
00:40:37,857 --> 00:40:38,697
Like.
699
00:40:38,721 --> 00:40:46,251
~ when they bought, I think it was Columbia, and they became like content distributors and
publishers.
700
00:40:46,251 --> 00:40:48,693
That's what actually ruined Sony.
701
00:40:49,595 --> 00:40:51,497
Is that crazy of me to say?
702
00:40:51,669 --> 00:40:52,440
I don't think so.
703
00:40:52,440 --> 00:41:02,368
No, I think you're I think you're totally right on that, 'cause Sony didn't have a I don't
yeah, I mean I I wasn't around when Sony was best known for that.
704
00:41:02,368 --> 00:41:06,631
I'm pretty sure Sony bought like Columbia many, many like decades ago.
705
00:41:07,101 --> 00:41:12,442
It was around the time PlayStation 1 launched Sony pictures.
706
00:41:12,442 --> 00:41:13,419
I'm looking it up now.
707
00:41:13,419 --> 00:41:13,989
it?
708
00:41:13,989 --> 00:41:14,549
I don't know.
709
00:41:14,549 --> 00:41:20,521
Anyways, regardless though, Sony Sony for a for a time, they were the Apple of Japan.
710
00:41:20,521 --> 00:41:21,421
And
711
00:41:21,421 --> 00:41:25,052
in many in many regards, they still carry themselves as the Apple of Japan.
712
00:41:25,052 --> 00:41:26,032
Even if
713
00:41:26,153 --> 00:41:30,194
that I don't know if that's even really accurate anymore, but whatever it is.
714
00:41:31,614 --> 00:41:38,156
~ but Sony do so Sony outside of PlayStation does still do a lot of cool tech.
715
00:41:38,156 --> 00:41:38,696
Like they
716
00:41:38,696 --> 00:41:42,537
still have some of the best camera gear around.
717
00:41:43,083 --> 00:41:45,589
They still have some of the best audio gear around.
718
00:41:45,589 --> 00:41:46,398
Mm-hmm.
719
00:41:46,398 --> 00:41:54,811
~ really Aside from fucking PlayStation and like the film, they they still do a lot of
great stuff.
720
00:41:54,992 --> 00:41:55,543
And they're still
721
00:41:55,543 --> 00:41:57,373
cool in that regard, but yeah.
722
00:41:57,373 --> 00:41:58,535
Yeah.
723
00:41:58,595 --> 00:42:01,741
was purchased by Sony in 1989.
724
00:42:01,741 --> 00:42:02,974
I didn't know that.
725
00:42:04,386 --> 00:42:10,049
Alright, so not as far back as I was I was thinking maybe the seventies or some shit, but
~ I don't know.
726
00:42:11,582 --> 00:42:12,668
interesting.
727
00:42:13,683 --> 00:42:20,722
So I do like Sony's audio gear and I at some point I am gonna buy their latest ~ AirPod
like device.
728
00:42:20,722 --> 00:42:23,605
The WF they need to name those things better.
729
00:42:23,605 --> 00:42:24,016
I'm sorry.
730
00:42:24,016 --> 00:42:27,189
Sony has terrible naming schemes for their audio products.
731
00:42:28,973 --> 00:42:29,874
Hey.
732
00:42:30,417 --> 00:42:32,282
Once they change that, you know it's gone.
733
00:42:32,282 --> 00:42:34,377
Sony's not their same self.
734
00:42:34,377 --> 00:42:36,191
They have to have the terrible naming.
735
00:42:36,203 --> 00:42:36,924
They have they have
736
00:42:36,924 --> 00:42:41,928
to name it the the model number, not the the fucking catchy name.
737
00:42:41,928 --> 00:42:42,279
I will
738
00:42:42,279 --> 00:42:44,815
say I I do l hate that.
739
00:42:44,957 --> 00:42:51,325
The first time I ever heard the name PlayStation, my cousin was like, hey, Gardner, we
just got a PlayStation.
740
00:42:51,325 --> 00:42:52,496
I was like, cool.
741
00:42:52,496 --> 00:42:56,170
Is that ~ one of those little plastic kitchenettes?
742
00:42:56,311 --> 00:42:58,343
~ that's literally
743
00:42:58,343 --> 00:42:59,164
what I thought it was.
744
00:42:59,164 --> 00:43:03,879
Like one of those little kitchenettes for kids to like pretend they were playing house.
745
00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:04,859
Well
746
00:43:04,859 --> 00:43:06,071
now now it's
747
00:43:06,071 --> 00:43:11,381
a little plastic device that you use to pretend like you're Crash Bandicoot.
748
00:43:11,381 --> 00:43:12,602
Yeah.
749
00:43:12,602 --> 00:43:17,704
the the pretend nowadays nowadays it's a device to pretend like you own the game.
750
00:43:18,163 --> 00:43:18,561
Yeah.
751
00:43:18,561 --> 00:43:19,126
true.
752
00:43:19,126 --> 00:43:19,986
True.
753
00:43:21,094 --> 00:43:22,368
All make believe.
754
00:43:22,431 --> 00:43:23,410
Yup.
755
00:43:23,602 --> 00:43:29,329
But it seems like retro media has gone up in ~ in sales, according to this article.
756
00:43:29,329 --> 00:43:30,390
It says here that C Ds
757
00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:31,311
and vinyl went up.
758
00:43:31,311 --> 00:43:33,025
Especially vinyl too, I will say.
759
00:43:33,025 --> 00:43:33,981
Mmm.
760
00:43:33,981 --> 00:43:36,577
Like a I'm not gonna lie, I've never
761
00:43:36,883 --> 00:43:40,078
Suzy, my wife, loves vinyls and so I buy
762
00:43:40,078 --> 00:43:40,458
for her.
763
00:43:40,458 --> 00:43:45,254
She she loves collecting ~ especially game soundtracks that way.
764
00:43:45,254 --> 00:43:49,727
Yeah, dude, I have, ~ vinyl on the wall here behind me.
765
00:43:49,727 --> 00:43:53,359
I have a huge collection of vinyl out on the bookshelf out here.
766
00:43:53,359 --> 00:43:54,740
Like, I love vinyl.
767
00:43:54,740 --> 00:43:55,881
And CDs!
768
00:43:56,317 --> 00:43:57,760
I'm not gonna lie.
769
00:43:58,164 --> 00:44:01,192
I've never listened to music on a vinyl before.
770
00:44:01,649 --> 00:44:02,936
It's fun.
771
00:44:03,264 --> 00:44:04,307
It's fun.
772
00:44:04,585 --> 00:44:06,526
It's a it's a it's a very tactile experience.
773
00:44:06,526 --> 00:44:07,619
That's what makes it so nice.
774
00:44:07,619 --> 00:44:13,726
This is just it like on the computer, yeah, I listen to music all the time, but like s
like sometimes you just want a tactile feel.
775
00:44:13,726 --> 00:44:16,640
You just pop it on, start it starts
776
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,112
going, you hear everything.
777
00:44:18,112 --> 00:44:20,304
It's so satisfying.
778
00:44:20,331 --> 00:44:26,474
Dude, I'm surprised no one's ~ you know Laserdisc is apparently still popular in Japan for
like the karaoke places.
779
00:44:26,474 --> 00:44:27,407
Mmm, yeah.
780
00:44:27,407 --> 00:44:28,188
Dude, I can't think
781
00:44:28,188 --> 00:44:36,025
of I can't think of Laserdisc without thinking about that episode of the regular show
where they have the format wars and all of the my god.
782
00:44:36,025 --> 00:44:37,466
Have you guys seen the regular show?
783
00:44:37,466 --> 00:44:39,310
Have you guys
784
00:44:39,310 --> 00:44:39,442
it.
785
00:44:39,442 --> 00:44:40,753
I haven't seen that.
786
00:44:40,839 --> 00:44:44,122
This it's the funniest show ever, man.
787
00:44:44,122 --> 00:44:47,838
It's from like Cartoon Network like maybe a decade ago.
788
00:44:47,838 --> 00:44:48,295
Yeah.
789
00:44:48,295 --> 00:44:48,856
It's fucking
790
00:44:48,856 --> 00:44:49,377
awesome man.
791
00:44:49,377 --> 00:44:50,049
You guys should watch.
792
00:44:50,049 --> 00:44:51,152
I think you would like it.
793
00:44:51,152 --> 00:44:52,159
I think you both would like it.
794
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:54,838
I know James probably likes it.
795
00:44:55,842 --> 00:44:56,924
I think Gardner would like
796
00:44:56,924 --> 00:44:57,825
it though.
797
00:44:57,841 --> 00:45:03,725
Saw like some clips of that episode where they were making fun of Billy Mitchell Yeah
798
00:45:03,725 --> 00:45:04,856
a good one too.
799
00:45:04,856 --> 00:45:06,438
~
800
00:45:06,438 --> 00:45:07,438
man.
801
00:45:07,859 --> 00:45:13,945
But yeah, the format wars it's basically like the laser disc like and then they become the
laserdisc guardians.
802
00:45:14,767 --> 00:45:17,077
And man.
803
00:45:17,077 --> 00:45:24,512
you, physical media is where it's at, ~ I just love collecting physical media.
804
00:45:24,512 --> 00:45:25,934
I collect books too.
805
00:45:25,934 --> 00:45:28,315
I have an e-reader and I collect books.
806
00:45:28,956 --> 00:45:29,606
Like, I just
807
00:45:29,606 --> 00:45:30,452
love it.
808
00:45:30,452 --> 00:45:38,409
now some on the internet may ask why we love physical media and we claim to love physical
copies of games, yet we buy games on Steam.
809
00:45:38,409 --> 00:45:40,933
And ~ what are you guys' response to that?
810
00:45:42,933 --> 00:45:43,966
Well, I don't,
811
00:45:43,966 --> 00:45:45,314
yeah, go ahead, James.
812
00:45:45,381 --> 00:45:46,002
Two things.
813
00:45:46,002 --> 00:45:51,725
One, there's not really an easy way to to buy physical media for game like PC gaming.
814
00:45:51,725 --> 00:46:02,211
Two least with Valve or with Steam, I can back those up and then if they ever go under,
then I'm sure there'll be some type of hack to hack those, right?
815
00:46:02,211 --> 00:46:02,971
to get rid of
816
00:46:02,971 --> 00:46:04,972
the DRM to where you could play it, so
817
00:46:05,546 --> 00:46:12,790
Yeah, mean, my game is on Steam and you can play the game without Steam open.
818
00:46:13,351 --> 00:46:16,233
Like Steam is not necessarily DRM.
819
00:46:16,443 --> 00:46:22,106
And there already are Steam emulators that will let you launch games that just use Steam
820
00:46:22,106 --> 00:46:27,559
as a vague, ~ you know, you need to have Steam open and be logged in to play it.
821
00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:31,261
You can get a Steam emulator that will do that.
822
00:46:31,642 --> 00:46:37,685
The flip side of that is I haven't bought a game on Steam in over a year.
823
00:46:39,305 --> 00:46:50,476
~ I don't, I I went to Goodwill and I bought nine PlayStation One discs and I've been
playing those.
824
00:46:50,476 --> 00:46:53,278
Cool Borders 2000, my dude.
825
00:46:53,339 --> 00:46:55,801
I found that at Goodwill a couple of weeks ago.
826
00:46:55,801 --> 00:46:57,703
~
827
00:46:57,703 --> 00:46:59,080
dude, it's awesome.
828
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,181
Valve
829
00:47:00,222 --> 00:47:04,510
Valve favors those who buy gate that's that must be why I got the Steam frame.
830
00:47:04,510 --> 00:47:06,975
I buy so much stuff on Val on Steam.
831
00:47:06,975 --> 00:47:07,787
Man, that's
832
00:47:07,787 --> 00:47:08,389
not fair.
833
00:47:08,389 --> 00:47:10,776
I buy games on Steam too.
834
00:47:10,776 --> 00:47:11,847
But anyways.
835
00:47:12,851 --> 00:47:14,783
I'm sorry, it's been nine months.
836
00:47:14,783 --> 00:47:21,150
My brother-in-law essentially bought me a Steam gift card and I ~
837
00:47:21,150 --> 00:47:24,953
spent $23 of it last Christmas, so it's about nine months.
838
00:47:25,489 --> 00:47:30,134
~ to be fair though, if it's a Steam gift card that you didn't buy, does that count as
839
00:47:30,134 --> 00:47:31,281
you buying it?
840
00:47:31,429 --> 00:47:32,230
No.
841
00:47:33,663 --> 00:47:35,529
When's the last time you spent your own money?
842
00:47:35,529 --> 00:47:37,077
I was going to look that up, I don't know.
843
00:47:37,077 --> 00:47:38,905
~
844
00:47:39,741 --> 00:47:41,402
I don't know, r regardless though, I think
845
00:47:41,402 --> 00:47:51,077
the point is that you could, like in theory, yeah, you you could argue that buying games
on Steam is just as bad as what Sony's doing right now.
846
00:47:51,077 --> 00:47:52,647
But at the same time though,
847
00:47:53,468 --> 00:48:04,733
I mean, the fact that somehow this digital only platform is more game preservation
friendly than fucking a Blu ray disc is kind of telling, right?
848
00:48:04,747 --> 00:48:05,505
Mmm.
849
00:48:06,505 --> 00:48:07,459
Yeah.
850
00:48:09,243 --> 00:48:17,272
I I just worry because I want to start back like I want to start buying more of my media
on Blu-ray because there's a couple of shows I really like and I want to buy them and put
851
00:48:17,272 --> 00:48:18,865
them on my NAS drive.
852
00:48:18,865 --> 00:48:28,116
I'm just afraid that this is gonna start get making it more difficult to do that and
you're gonna have to I'm gonna have to start finding other ways that
853
00:48:29,696 --> 00:48:37,400
~ that breach the unethical where I don't want to necessarily break laws to get the media
that I want and pay for it.
854
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:42,419
'Cause I want to pay the the creators, but they're making it difficult.
855
00:48:43,433 --> 00:48:45,849
And the we sorry, go ahead.
856
00:48:45,849 --> 00:48:55,139
just wanted to mention ~ the last time I spent my own money on steam was when I bought
Animal Well May 19th, 2024.
857
00:48:56,203 --> 00:48:57,687
Damn, two years.
858
00:48:57,687 --> 00:49:01,799
Gardner's really What would make you buy another game on Steam?
859
00:49:02,485 --> 00:49:04,866
Well, there'd have to be something I want.
860
00:49:05,167 --> 00:49:06,828
that's the problem.
861
00:49:07,128 --> 00:49:20,157
so much of like, well, the purchases that I have on here ~ since then are all from ~ my
brother-in-law giving me $100 of Steam credit every Christmas.
862
00:49:20,157 --> 00:49:24,320
So it's like, all of these are from my wallet.
863
00:49:25,281 --> 00:49:29,263
so I did buy a Steam control.
864
00:49:29,263 --> 00:49:29,634
That's right.
865
00:49:29,634 --> 00:49:30,504
I did.
866
00:49:30,504 --> 00:49:31,806
That is not a game.
867
00:49:31,806 --> 00:49:33,367
But that's okay.
868
00:49:34,690 --> 00:49:35,770
I don't know.
869
00:49:36,111 --> 00:49:36,291
You
870
00:49:36,291 --> 00:49:37,052
know?
871
00:49:37,993 --> 00:49:41,025
If I had to make a suggestion for a game you buy this year,
872
00:49:41,025 --> 00:49:41,913
Mm.
873
00:49:42,258 --> 00:49:45,161
get Mega Man X legacy collection.
874
00:49:46,964 --> 00:49:47,926
Yeah.
875
00:49:48,586 --> 00:49:50,473
You really want to play Mega Man?
876
00:49:50,773 --> 00:49:52,673
Dude, I want you to play Big Man too.
877
00:49:52,673 --> 00:49:53,117
You don't
878
00:49:53,117 --> 00:49:54,539
have played Mega Man.
879
00:49:55,224 --> 00:49:56,767
I've never beat it though.
880
00:49:58,528 --> 00:49:59,409
I missed this one.
881
00:49:59,409 --> 00:50:02,390
Gears of War Reloaded last year, August 29th.
882
00:50:02,390 --> 00:50:05,561
So that's the last one that I paid my own money for.
883
00:50:05,561 --> 00:50:07,552
And I paid full price for it too.
884
00:50:07,552 --> 00:50:08,054
So,
885
00:50:08,054 --> 00:50:08,773
that's fair.
886
00:50:08,773 --> 00:50:09,633
yeah.
887
00:50:10,476 --> 00:50:13,069
I've been picking up games from different studios.
888
00:50:13,069 --> 00:50:15,601
They've been sending me keys to try out games.
889
00:50:15,601 --> 00:50:15,901
There's
890
00:50:15,901 --> 00:50:17,242
a very interesting one I've tried out.
891
00:50:17,242 --> 00:50:19,124
I'll have to talk about that later though.
892
00:50:19,124 --> 00:50:20,385
In a video.
893
00:50:21,146 --> 00:50:25,290
Now let's now I mean Wait, what topic are we on even?
894
00:50:25,290 --> 00:50:26,591
~ the fucking
895
00:50:26,591 --> 00:50:29,197
Sony Man, I've
896
00:50:29,197 --> 00:50:35,008
Well, with that type of segue, let's go let's leave Sony behind and go to Nintendo.
897
00:50:35,571 --> 00:50:37,114
With the Switch 2
898
00:50:37,114 --> 00:50:38,406
being hacked.
899
00:50:38,559 --> 00:50:43,459
I read that as the Sims 2 is now hacked, but it's not, it's the Switch 2.
900
00:50:43,849 --> 00:50:45,730
Yeah, so the Switch two
901
00:50:45,730 --> 00:50:53,633
so the Switch two was opened up with a per with a little game that you could buy called
Smile Basic four.
902
00:50:54,454 --> 00:50:59,136
And it's and it's gotten to a point where you could jail break it.
903
00:50:59,136 --> 00:51:08,200
And heck, you if you full screen that video, I don't know if you can or not, but
essentially they were made they managed to mod in characters into Super Mario Kart ~ super
904
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,407
Mario Kart world.
905
00:51:09,407 --> 00:51:11,594
does it pop up full screen for you guys?
906
00:51:12,301 --> 00:51:12,612
Okay,
907
00:51:12,612 --> 00:51:12,862
cool.
908
00:51:12,862 --> 00:51:18,226
So as you can see they modded the bird from Angry Birds and ~ Hatsunimiku
909
00:51:18,847 --> 00:51:25,411
and Peter Griffin, not shown in this video, but and Cinnamon Roll from ~ Sanrio.
910
00:51:25,952 --> 00:51:29,334
These are this is offici this is Mario Kart World, by the way.
911
00:51:30,275 --> 00:51:31,475
So yeah.
912
00:51:31,596 --> 00:51:33,615
Yeah, mods are already a thing.
913
00:51:33,615 --> 00:51:34,711
this is what people want.
914
00:51:34,711 --> 00:51:36,327
People want a mod stuff.
915
00:51:36,607 --> 00:51:37,458
Dude.
916
00:51:38,341 --> 00:51:39,102
Modern Mario
917
00:51:39,102 --> 00:51:41,145
Kart world sounds kinda lith, I'm not gonna.
918
00:51:41,355 --> 00:51:42,807
Hmm.
919
00:51:42,807 --> 00:51:45,348
So, ~
920
00:51:45,609 --> 00:51:49,573
I mean, it would be cool to mod Mario Kart World to make it fun, wouldn't it?
921
00:51:50,297 --> 00:51:51,035
yeah.
922
00:51:51,625 --> 00:51:54,472
I played Mario Kart while I was not impressed.
923
00:51:55,274 --> 00:52:01,679
It's the fu it's the the ~ they do they have so many of those stupid fucking traversal
maps where you have to ~
924
00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:02,970
travel from one place to another.
925
00:52:02,970 --> 00:52:03,961
Alright.
926
00:52:03,961 --> 00:52:05,142
But in a straight line.
927
00:52:05,142 --> 00:52:11,691
It's there's ~ it doesn't have a lot of the classic style of ~ racing maps, you know what
I'm talking about?
928
00:52:11,691 --> 00:52:12,444
Yeah.
929
00:52:12,788 --> 00:52:19,202
The tran they have a lot of transitionary levels, I think they call ~ But I'm not the
biggest fan of those.
930
00:52:19,202 --> 00:52:21,815
I do like the actual levels though that they have.
931
00:52:21,815 --> 00:52:22,285
When they're
932
00:52:22,285 --> 00:52:25,357
not when they're like in an enclosed racing loop.
933
00:52:26,249 --> 00:52:28,493
And not just traveling on the stupid highway.
934
00:52:28,875 --> 00:52:32,296
~ it looks like they modded in Moo Moo Ranch in there too.
935
00:52:32,296 --> 00:52:33,917
I don't think that's in the Mario Kart world,
936
00:52:33,917 --> 00:52:35,040
if I'm not mistaken.
937
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:35,684
Mm-hmm.
938
00:52:35,684 --> 00:52:36,606
don't think that one is.
939
00:52:36,606 --> 00:52:44,791
'Cause that one looks like it's Yeah, now that you're thinking about ~ it doesn't look
like the same graphical fidelity, it looks like the Switch.
940
00:52:45,305 --> 00:52:45,913
Mm-hmm.
941
00:52:46,377 --> 00:52:46,688
Yeah.
942
00:52:46,688 --> 00:52:47,449
Damn.
943
00:52:47,449 --> 00:52:48,667
Who'd have thunk it, right?
944
00:52:48,667 --> 00:52:51,371
They moderated an actual good map into Mario Kart world.
945
00:52:51,371 --> 00:52:52,316
Hahaha.
946
00:52:52,362 --> 00:52:54,503
They have they have good maps, but yeah.
947
00:52:54,672 --> 00:52:59,461
there's yeah, th there are some, but it's a lot less than Mario Kart eight.
948
00:52:59,461 --> 00:53:01,459
~
949
00:53:01,459 --> 00:53:02,206
dude.
950
00:53:02,206 --> 00:53:04,266
every map in Mario Kart 8 is a banger.
951
00:53:04,266 --> 00:53:06,071
I love Mario Kart 8.
952
00:53:06,901 --> 00:53:08,430
There are no bad maps.
953
00:53:08,430 --> 00:53:10,204
Even Baby Park's a good map.
954
00:53:10,204 --> 00:53:11,650
dude, Baby Park's one of my favorites.
955
00:53:11,650 --> 00:53:13,545
It's so chaotic, dude.
956
00:53:15,738 --> 00:53:17,484
one actually plays that map for fun.
957
00:53:17,484 --> 00:53:19,508
They actually just do it to troll people.
958
00:53:19,594 --> 00:53:24,482
Well, I think that it is genuinely fun to troll people, so...
959
00:53:24,643 --> 00:53:25,784
Touche!
960
00:53:26,028 --> 00:53:26,689
Dude.
961
00:53:26,689 --> 00:53:29,152
Garner would make a good invader in Dark Souls.
962
00:53:30,033 --> 00:53:31,178
my gosh.
963
00:53:32,178 --> 00:53:36,687
Dude, my favorite part about trolling
964
00:53:36,687 --> 00:53:41,325
people is when they're sitting on the couch right next to you and you pick baby park and
they get pissed off.
965
00:53:41,325 --> 00:53:45,152
~
966
00:53:45,330 --> 00:53:46,450
Yeah.
967
00:53:46,490 --> 00:53:49,902
So unfortunately though, you can't buy Smile Basic four anymore.
968
00:53:49,902 --> 00:53:51,313
That's been delisted.
969
00:53:51,313 --> 00:53:54,554
I learned about the exploit too late.
970
00:53:54,554 --> 00:53:58,466
But apparently there's another game that they're looking into to potentially hack it.
971
00:53:58,466 --> 00:54:05,560
And it's a it's a bunch of games powered by what they call the Artemis engine, which is a
visual novel engine.
972
00:54:05,669 --> 00:54:12,866
And so I had to make a ~ Japanese Nintendo account to ~ get the demo for that game.
973
00:54:12,866 --> 00:54:15,019
I forget the name of the visual novel.
974
00:54:15,220 --> 00:54:17,983
I'm not even gonna bother since I can't read it anyways.
975
00:54:19,142 --> 00:54:30,790
Well, now that it's been busted open and they have access to ~ do they have ~ readable
access to the, ~ to the ~ NAND and stuff with this hack?
976
00:54:30,872 --> 00:54:35,730
So apparently someone was able to brick their s switch too.
977
00:54:35,730 --> 00:54:37,233
So yes.
978
00:54:37,864 --> 00:54:38,454
interesting.
979
00:54:38,454 --> 00:54:48,308
Okay, so with access to that, if they can dump the NAND and feed that to Claude, you know,
that would be, that would be, Yeah.
980
00:54:48,501 --> 00:54:49,983
It'd be fucking over.
981
00:54:50,229 --> 00:54:51,509
And you know what?
982
00:54:51,509 --> 00:54:52,700
I am okay with that.
983
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:54,851
I'm okay with it.
984
00:54:54,851 --> 00:54:58,512
Nintendo, you're a bad company and you believe bad things.
985
00:54:59,332 --> 00:55:01,415
So I'm
986
00:55:01,415 --> 00:55:03,478
so I this is a developing story right now.
987
00:55:03,478 --> 00:55:04,452
We don't have
988
00:55:04,452 --> 00:55:09,366
I mean it's a developing story, like they literally just hacked it like a few days ago.
989
00:55:09,928 --> 00:55:13,472
And apparently Deltarune for the Switch 2 got dumped.
990
00:55:15,270 --> 00:55:17,486
We're getting game dumps now.
991
00:55:17,486 --> 00:55:18,007
Holy shit.
992
00:55:18,007 --> 00:55:20,582
This happened like only a few hours ago.
993
00:55:22,831 --> 00:55:23,466
That's crazy.
994
00:55:23,466 --> 00:55:24,408
That's actually
995
00:55:24,408 --> 00:55:25,733
homebrew already.
996
00:55:26,180 --> 00:55:28,832
awesome I love it
997
00:55:30,778 --> 00:55:34,159
I wish I had got smile to smile basic four.
998
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:35,099
It's too
999
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:41,547
with it like when if they say smile basic is that ~ basic programming language?
1000
00:55:43,546 --> 00:55:44,591
I I think so, yes.
1001
00:55:44,591 --> 00:55:45,685
~ let me see what it
1002
00:55:45,685 --> 00:55:46,547
is.
1003
00:55:46,670 --> 00:55:48,234
Myobasic
1004
00:55:51,055 --> 00:56:01,214
So apparently it is a pro y you can program games and shit on it if you'd like.
1005
00:56:01,254 --> 00:56:03,616
And not just games, but like other stuff too.
1006
00:56:03,616 --> 00:56:05,598
And you can even share them with your friends.
1007
00:56:05,598 --> 00:56:08,180
That's how that's how it works, apparently.
1008
00:56:08,941 --> 00:56:09,562
But
1009
00:56:09,562 --> 00:56:16,808
you can't buy it anymore and it was never a physical game, so you couldn't you can't just
buy go out and buy a physical unpatched copy either.
1010
00:56:16,808 --> 00:56:17,664
Mm-hmm.
1011
00:56:18,664 --> 00:56:27,278
~ and apparently and apparently a lot of this was assisted by AI, though it seems like
Claude is starting to ban people that want to reverse engineer shit.
1012
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:29,182
Yeah.
1013
00:56:29,508 --> 00:56:29,870
Well,
1014
00:56:29,870 --> 00:56:31,598
time to use the Chinese models.
1015
00:56:31,598 --> 00:56:33,302
DeepSeek, come on.
1016
00:56:34,309 --> 00:56:38,881
Yeah, the oligarchs can allow for you can't ruin their products.
1017
00:56:39,335 --> 00:56:39,859
Right.
1018
00:56:39,859 --> 00:56:49,387
You can't be competitive with AI even though they wanna it's it's really weird how they
want and I know that this is like a blanket statement how I'm saying it, but like they
1019
00:56:49,387 --> 00:56:53,429
wanna remove all the workers from their products so they don't have to pay anyone and make
all the money.
1020
00:56:53,429 --> 00:57:03,954
But if you if one of those workers went and let's say, I want to reinverse an engineer and
then create something that's even better using the same, you know, tech, they get upset.
1021
00:57:03,954 --> 00:57:04,495
Mm-hmm.
1022
00:57:04,495 --> 00:57:06,379
And that's crazy.
1023
00:57:08,427 --> 00:57:09,259
Double standards once
1024
00:57:09,259 --> 00:57:09,885
again.
1025
00:57:09,885 --> 00:57:14,159
dude, the fact that we're getting game dumps is insane.
1026
00:57:15,602 --> 00:57:15,995
Dude.
1027
00:57:15,995 --> 00:57:16,796
I'm not shocked.
1028
00:57:16,796 --> 00:57:21,071
I think and especially with AI, I think it's gonna be easier and easier to find exploits.
1029
00:57:21,071 --> 00:57:30,471
I I I th these companies could use AI to help protect it, but I think there's always with
software there's always gonna be some way to to find an exploit ~
1030
00:57:30,471 --> 00:57:31,702
and find ways to do this.
1031
00:57:31,702 --> 00:57:38,018
Like I I think it's a losing battle every time they put so much resources and financial
power against it.
1032
00:57:39,196 --> 00:57:41,485
Dude, it's only a matter of time, man.
1033
00:57:41,485 --> 00:57:44,634
Emulate switch two emulators coming soon, baby.
1034
00:57:44,742 --> 00:57:46,394
That's what I want dude.
1035
00:57:46,535 --> 00:57:48,879
That's the only way I'll ever buy a
1036
00:57:48,879 --> 00:57:54,428
Nintendo game again and I will only buy them from eBay secondhand.
1037
00:57:54,428 --> 00:57:59,915
It's like if I can play it on my computer because I'm never gonna buy a Switch 2.
1038
00:58:00,049 --> 00:58:01,029
Yeah.
1039
00:58:01,112 --> 00:58:04,394
this might be an unpopular thing, especially with the Nintendo.
1040
00:58:04,394 --> 00:58:10,876
if you're a Nintendo fan, you're gonna s think differently, but I don't think they still
have any very good games on Nintendo Switch two.
1041
00:58:10,876 --> 00:58:11,126
On the
1042
00:58:11,126 --> 00:58:12,096
Switch two.
1043
00:58:12,097 --> 00:58:14,998
I have one I I need to dust it off.
1044
00:58:14,998 --> 00:58:16,537
It hasn't been used in months.
1045
00:58:16,537 --> 00:58:16,818
I need
1046
00:58:16,818 --> 00:58:18,339
to get my kids playing it.
1047
00:58:18,339 --> 00:58:22,536
~ but like Mario Kart, the Donkey Kong game, those are some of the fun ones.
1048
00:58:22,536 --> 00:58:24,061
There's like one or two other ones.
1049
00:58:24,061 --> 00:58:27,282
Maybe they'll get some games for Christmas, but like there's just not.
1050
00:58:27,943 --> 00:58:28,923
I don't know.
1051
00:58:29,126 --> 00:58:33,119
Yeah, the Donkey Kong ~ game looks great.
1052
00:58:33,119 --> 00:58:34,540
I haven't tried it.
1053
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:38,443
I really want there to be like a Mario Odyssey 2 or something.
1054
00:58:38,443 --> 00:58:39,444
That would be fun.
1055
00:58:39,444 --> 00:58:46,829
~ And the Star Fox game looks pretty cool, but I haven't like seen much about it.
1056
00:58:46,829 --> 00:58:50,992
~ But even like I did watch the Metroid.
1057
00:58:50,992 --> 00:58:52,794
Was it a there a Metroid trailer recently?
1058
00:58:52,794 --> 00:58:56,696
I feel like I watched a Metroid trailer, ~ but.
1059
00:58:57,032 --> 00:58:59,981
That didn't really interest me either, and I'm a huge Metroid fan.
1060
00:59:01,150 --> 00:59:01,774
Mm.
1061
00:59:01,774 --> 00:59:04,870
Metroid Prime or Met the new Metric Ravenous?
1062
00:59:04,870 --> 00:59:05,905
ravenous.
1063
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:12,188
Mm, well, ~ maybe another trailer would change your mind, but I'd be interested
1064
00:59:12,188 --> 00:59:15,394
in man, I can't wait for the Switch two emulator to come out.
1065
00:59:15,394 --> 00:59:17,314
It'll be so fucking cool.
1066
00:59:17,314 --> 00:59:17,995
It will be.
1067
00:59:17,995 --> 00:59:22,032
~ Dude.
1068
00:59:24,427 --> 00:59:25,970
~ until they threaten.
1069
00:59:25,970 --> 00:59:26,911
I don't know.
1070
00:59:26,911 --> 00:59:31,477
I think this this last thing might have killed emulation a little bit.
1071
00:59:31,747 --> 00:59:35,195
I think dec decompiling might be the way to go, but
1072
00:59:35,195 --> 00:59:37,145
I completely disagree.
1073
00:59:37,526 --> 00:59:57,632
See, the problem with decompilation is that it requires the same skill set ~ for making an
emulator as it does to make, or a similar complexity of skill set, even with AI tools.
1074
00:59:59,973 --> 01:00:01,254
But the problem is...
1075
01:00:01,254 --> 01:00:01,831
yeah.
1076
01:00:01,831 --> 01:00:04,684
And here, is my argument against decomps.
1077
01:00:04,684 --> 01:00:06,625
I love decomps, they're fun, they're cool.
1078
01:00:06,625 --> 01:00:20,517
But in order to get a decomp, you need someone with that same level of complex skillset to
dedicate at least a year, even with AI tools, it still takes a long time to decomp a game
1079
01:00:20,517 --> 01:00:24,921
and then to take that and turn it into a PC client.
1080
01:00:24,921 --> 01:00:28,564
And that's one game versus an emulator.
1081
01:00:28,700 --> 01:00:41,424
that is capable of emulating the majority of retail releases for a system, it's like, you
know, it probably, does take longer to get that far with an emulator, but I just feel like
1082
01:00:41,424 --> 01:00:41,664
it's a
1083
01:00:41,664 --> 01:00:43,348
better time investment.
1084
01:00:43,348 --> 01:00:51,170
the way the tools are working though lately is that what they're doing is that they're
developing the ~ the libraries and like and matching the library APIs.
1085
01:00:51,170 --> 01:00:53,811
So ~ that's what they're doing more and more.
1086
01:00:53,811 --> 01:00:54,691
That's what I've seen.
1087
01:00:54,691 --> 01:01:04,754
And so with that that tool i with every time they improve and add in a a missing API, ~
more and more games are compatible.
1088
01:01:04,754 --> 01:01:09,775
So it's this it's similar to a s to an emulator, but you don't need to run the emulation
software.
1089
01:01:10,095 --> 01:01:13,656
you decompile it based off of what's known from the toolkit.
1090
01:01:13,656 --> 01:01:18,258
So as more and more games are supported, more and more it's it's kinda like Proton in a
lot of ways.
1091
01:01:18,258 --> 01:01:23,961
As more of it's mapped, more of it is available more games are compatible.
1092
01:01:23,961 --> 01:01:25,121
So that's how I see it.
1093
01:01:25,121 --> 01:01:32,864
A decomp then allows you to do a lot more customization to it and allow you to run it n
more natively.
1094
01:01:32,864 --> 01:01:37,306
It has, I think, better performance and it can and better performance optimizations.
1095
01:01:37,306 --> 01:01:39,135
That being said, I
1096
01:01:40,070 --> 01:01:46,212
They should like with these d D Comp stuff, they should be making be able to make
emulators then too, if they want.
1097
01:01:46,212 --> 01:01:48,660
It should be able to be shared off of each other.
1098
01:01:48,660 --> 01:02:02,795
I just a little worried that and I don't know I I don't I'm sure Nintendo will go as hard
at a DComp tool as they would an emulator, but like emulators released for Nintendo are
1099
01:02:02,795 --> 01:02:09,879
just so sour and I don't think people really want like I just don't see Switch emulation
coming back do
1100
01:02:09,879 --> 01:02:11,260
Yet, have we?
1101
01:02:12,241 --> 01:02:15,083
So I
1102
01:02:15,484 --> 01:02:19,036
I I don't think we've seen it come back in.
1103
01:02:19,036 --> 01:02:28,343
I I think these comp like the emulators are kinda died off and you kinda kinda get
remnants of them and use them, but they haven't ex gotten any better after Nintendo went
1104
01:02:28,343 --> 01:02:30,595
really hard into them.
1105
01:02:31,595 --> 01:02:31,884
Hmm.
1106
01:02:31,884 --> 01:02:32,825
don't know.
1107
01:02:32,825 --> 01:02:34,157
There was also ROM sharing.
1108
01:02:34,157 --> 01:02:37,982
There's a lot of stuff that was going on in Discord that wa that caused it to die too.
1109
01:02:37,982 --> 01:02:45,330
So maybe you just gotta get a new group cut to come back and do it and just be more
ethical about it so they can't get trapped like that.
1110
01:02:46,345 --> 01:02:50,679
Well hopefully this new group will learn from their mistakes.
1111
01:02:50,679 --> 01:02:51,600
But
1112
01:02:53,685 --> 01:02:54,721
Wow, holy shit.
1113
01:02:54,721 --> 01:02:55,376
What time is it right now?
1114
01:02:55,376 --> 01:02:56,680
It's twelve fifteen.
1115
01:02:58,293 --> 01:03:02,243
Damn, so I don't know how to transition to this.
1116
01:03:03,498 --> 01:03:04,123
yeah.
1117
01:03:04,123 --> 01:03:13,480
we've got a little bit of time to jump into yeah and there's some more of that into your
favorite topic that we already talked about, right?
1118
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,582
The next fest AI slot.
1119
01:03:15,582 --> 01:03:21,141
We can ~ we don't have to talk about it because we basically covered the gist of it.
1120
01:03:21,141 --> 01:03:22,054
Mm-hmm.
1121
01:03:22,462 --> 01:03:24,291
We could look at a little bit of it.
1122
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,322
yeah, we should look at the next vest.
1123
01:03:26,322 --> 01:03:28,178
James, you should pull the next vest.
1124
01:03:29,834 --> 01:03:32,447
I really h let's see.
1125
01:03:32,447 --> 01:03:33,758
I, yeah.
1126
01:03:34,599 --> 01:03:37,962
Again, I want to reiterate how great your article was about this.
1127
01:03:37,962 --> 01:03:45,489
Like you really argued your point well and you provided like some excellent screenshots to
shore up your examples.
1128
01:03:45,489 --> 01:03:48,852
~ Man, I really, yeah,
1129
01:03:48,852 --> 01:03:49,692
it was great.
1130
01:03:49,692 --> 01:03:51,796
Appreciate the kind words, Gardener.
1131
01:03:52,681 --> 01:03:53,768
Absolutely,
1132
01:03:54,529 --> 01:03:55,359
All right.
1133
01:03:56,359 --> 01:04:01,722
I don't know if we can go by charts because it tend the people tend to gravitate towards
the non AI bullshit.
1134
01:04:01,722 --> 01:04:02,516
Mm.
1135
01:04:02,735 --> 01:04:04,238
What if we go by genre?
1136
01:04:05,005 --> 01:04:14,598
I think what's also bad is that every it's really bad because I think there's games that
are not AI based, but if they are seem a little off to people, they they shout it.
1137
01:04:14,598 --> 01:04:17,658
And I I do think there's a little bit of toxicity going on right now where the people
1138
01:04:17,658 --> 01:04:24,450
will lambass games that are and things that are not AI based or like they might have used
it for some coding.
1139
01:04:24,450 --> 01:04:27,571
It wasn't for the assets, it wasn't for a lot of the other things, and like it it
1140
01:04:27,571 --> 01:04:28,972
it's it's very toxic.
1141
01:04:28,972 --> 01:04:30,972
I that's the part of a I don't like.
1142
01:04:30,972 --> 01:04:34,763
It's like if you don't like it, buy don't buy it.
1143
01:04:35,141 --> 01:04:43,717
I've seen so many people, not just, not about this, but like on the Bryant Review saying
like, ~ Dash's articles are AI generated.
1144
01:04:43,717 --> 01:04:46,629
And it's like, ~ no, they are not.
1145
01:04:46,629 --> 01:04:53,094
And what they say is like, well, Dash uses like three examples separated by commas.
1146
01:04:53,094 --> 01:04:54,725
And I'm like, that's just good writing,
1147
01:04:54,725 --> 01:04:56,597
you fucking illiterate.
1148
01:04:56,597 --> 01:04:58,004
Like, dude, so.
1149
01:04:58,004 --> 01:04:58,678
~
1150
01:04:58,678 --> 01:05:00,812
dude bikini island
1151
01:05:00,812 --> 01:05:06,523
cricket dude that looks that looks i don't know i don't
1152
01:05:06,523 --> 01:05:08,877
know yeah that's i almost said
1153
01:05:08,877 --> 01:05:15,666
d I don't think this is AI generated, but I it looks worse.
1154
01:05:15,666 --> 01:05:16,367
it looks so bad.
1155
01:05:16,367 --> 01:05:18,150
It looks so bad.
1156
01:05:18,150 --> 01:05:21,684
There you go, people, if you need some nudity in your game.
1157
01:05:21,684 --> 01:05:24,228
scroll up a little, be billionaire.
1158
01:05:24,228 --> 01:05:26,740
I don't know why, but that feels a little like.
1159
01:05:27,238 --> 01:05:27,630
Click on it.
1160
01:05:27,630 --> 01:05:28,738
Let's see if it's AI.
1161
01:05:28,738 --> 01:05:30,884
I feel like the logo's AI for sure.
1162
01:05:30,884 --> 01:05:31,708
Yeah, the logo.
1163
01:05:31,708 --> 01:05:32,654
Yeah.
1164
01:05:34,820 --> 01:05:36,120
it's is that VR?
1165
01:05:37,382 --> 01:05:39,047
~ I think it is.
1166
01:05:39,047 --> 01:05:39,915
Scroll down though.
1167
01:05:39,915 --> 01:05:41,459
it has to be VR.
1168
01:05:42,459 --> 01:05:43,476
Maybe not.
1169
01:05:43,915 --> 01:05:48,394
Mm, maybe we only use AI for store
1170
01:05:48,394 --> 01:05:49,958
page assets.
1171
01:05:50,958 --> 01:05:53,413
It says we only use AI for store page assets.
1172
01:05:53,413 --> 01:05:55,979
So I think he's talking about ~ the fucking logo.
1173
01:05:55,979 --> 01:05:57,172
Dude, don't
1174
01:05:57,172 --> 01:05:58,838
use AI for the logo.
1175
01:05:58,838 --> 01:05:59,801
If you went
1176
01:05:59,801 --> 01:06:01,989
worst thing you can actually do.
1177
01:06:02,497 --> 01:06:03,298
~ literally,
1178
01:06:03,298 --> 01:06:10,739
if you actually went through all the effort of making the game from scratch without using
any AI, then why would you shoot yourself in the foot?
1179
01:06:10,739 --> 01:06:12,412
No, you shot yourself in the fucking face.
1180
01:06:12,412 --> 01:06:13,345
That's what happened.
1181
01:06:13,345 --> 01:06:16,257
Yeah Dude
1182
01:06:16,257 --> 01:06:17,879
care that much.
1183
01:06:18,113 --> 01:06:24,342
Well, it's like it dude there's so much anti AI sentiment that if the logo smacks of AI
1184
01:06:24,342 --> 01:06:27,812
people are gonna assume the whole game is AI and they won't play it
1185
01:06:27,812 --> 01:06:29,794
~ more on the AI side.
1186
01:06:29,794 --> 01:06:37,780
I'm like I I'm not going to be jumping like if it doesn't look fun, if it's I don't know.
1187
01:06:37,780 --> 01:06:39,462
Like this game looks basic.
1188
01:06:39,462 --> 01:06:42,241
It looks interesting, but it
1189
01:06:42,241 --> 01:06:42,702
I don't know
1190
01:06:42,702 --> 01:06:47,471
if this game is really worth it to me, but I'm just giving feedback as a random user.
1191
01:06:47,471 --> 01:06:48,242
too.
1192
01:06:48,429 --> 01:07:03,249
a youtuber who ~ as someone who ~ produces videos and like puts all of my creative effort
into making a video and then I go to upload it and I'm like I have to make a thumb
1193
01:07:04,889 --> 01:07:07,049
catchy title and a description.
1194
01:07:07,049 --> 01:07:08,693
I cannot almost understand it.
1195
01:07:08,693 --> 01:07:16,640
It's like you've been in development for like a year or two years or whatever and then
you're like, now I have to come up with a logo and write the shit for the stupid store
1196
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:17,421
page.
1197
01:07:17,421 --> 01:07:25,449
Like I can almost understand it, but like, man, if you've gone that far, you are, it's
absolutely a foot gun.
1198
01:07:26,533 --> 01:07:26,834
Dude.
1199
01:07:26,834 --> 01:07:29,509
Let's see if there's anything else though on the list.
1200
01:07:29,509 --> 01:07:30,029
I I just
1201
01:07:30,029 --> 01:07:39,430
have a hard time like ~ if the game itself is not AI or you know, they put a lot of
creativity and there's a lot to it and it makes sense, I don't
1202
01:07:40,215 --> 01:07:40,948
Mm.
1203
01:07:41,015 --> 01:07:42,186
I don't care.
1204
01:07:42,186 --> 01:07:46,970
And if they want to use it to write that 'cause I would use it to honestly I'd use it to
write the description stuff.
1205
01:07:46,970 --> 01:07:48,911
I hate doing that type of thing.
1206
01:07:48,911 --> 01:07:58,398
I wouldn't do I would to be fair, I would still write out a thesis and stuff, but I'd use
it to like build up and and explain things better and clean it up.
1207
01:07:58,398 --> 01:08:01,000
But that's usually how I write things.
1208
01:08:01,961 --> 01:08:03,903
I logo wise, yeah.
1209
01:08:03,903 --> 01:08:11,068
I mean it is It doesn't look any better than any other logo though, of this type of genre.
1210
01:08:12,150 --> 01:08:13,173
So I they
1211
01:08:13,173 --> 01:08:15,749
don't need a logo in fact I think the problem is they don't need a logo.
1212
01:08:15,749 --> 01:08:18,554
Why did w they should have just not made it?
1213
01:08:19,438 --> 01:08:22,294
I think the background on its own would have been fine.
1214
01:08:23,071 --> 01:08:25,881
I think you have to have a logo for Steam.
1215
01:08:26,990 --> 01:08:27,891
Yeah.
1216
01:08:29,091 --> 01:08:38,147
Yeah, 'cause no one's 'cause if you look at your ~ Steam library and it just shows this
without a logo, then you're not gonna know what game it is.
1217
01:08:38,147 --> 01:08:38,646
Yeah,
1218
01:08:38,646 --> 01:08:40,983
What do you t they have the title right there, don't they?
1219
01:08:40,983 --> 01:08:41,580
Or
1220
01:08:41,580 --> 01:08:49,236
but also you have to have a ~ logo with a transparent background in order to publish your
game now.
1221
01:08:49,236 --> 01:08:50,930
So in game mode...
1222
01:08:50,930 --> 01:08:53,124
see what yeah, but that type of logo could be
1223
01:08:53,124 --> 01:08:54,645
just ~ yeah.
1224
01:08:54,786 --> 01:08:56,758
Doesn't have to be too crazy.
1225
01:08:56,771 --> 01:09:00,586
Yeah, they can just do ~ Ariel or Times New Roman.
1226
01:09:00,586 --> 01:09:01,520
Yeah.
1227
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:06,909
is trivial to create in something like Photoshop or ~ whatever.
1228
01:09:06,909 --> 01:09:10,173
it's so, I know.
1229
01:09:10,290 --> 01:09:13,802
Maybe it is they maybe they did make it and it's just the assets.
1230
01:09:13,802 --> 01:09:15,993
Like that's the that's the only problem is like and you guys,
1231
01:09:15,993 --> 01:09:18,895
like you said, it is like a foot gun, but we
1232
01:09:18,895 --> 01:09:20,625
don't we don't know what how much
1233
01:09:20,625 --> 01:09:23,359
like this ~ Bikina Island cricket game.
1234
01:09:23,359 --> 01:09:24,160
That's a crappy
1235
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:25,447
logo if I've ever seen one.
1236
01:09:26,305 --> 01:09:27,200
It could still be AI.
1237
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:27,871
with the
1238
01:09:27,871 --> 01:09:31,456
art style here, it looks intentionally bad.
1239
01:09:32,599 --> 01:09:34,796
It might even be intentionally bad too.
1240
01:09:34,796 --> 01:09:35,678
Yeah.
1241
01:09:36,728 --> 01:09:37,598
Yeah.
1242
01:09:38,459 --> 01:09:41,749
Is there anything else we should talk about though?
1243
01:09:41,749 --> 01:09:43,638
Let's see what else we got here.
1244
01:09:43,638 --> 01:09:45,391
~ wait that wait go up, go up.
1245
01:09:45,391 --> 01:09:46,981
I saw something crazy.
1246
01:09:47,302 --> 01:09:52,043
~ that that D builders, that looks AI as fuck.
1247
01:09:52,802 --> 01:09:58,495
It's even got like the like it's even got like the little slight yellow shading.
1248
01:09:59,638 --> 01:10:00,451
Yeah.
1249
01:10:00,451 --> 01:10:02,663
Yeah.
1250
01:10:02,663 --> 01:10:08,107
Man, I hesitate to call that one completely AI, but it looks...
1251
01:10:09,088 --> 01:10:10,129
I don't know.
1252
01:10:10,209 --> 01:10:11,650
I think the...
1253
01:10:13,452 --> 01:10:15,714
Yeah.
1254
01:10:15,714 --> 01:10:22,380
Yeah, I mean, the D-builders itself, like the logo looks AI to me, but I don't know if the
characters are.
1255
01:10:22,380 --> 01:10:24,281
It's hard to say.
1256
01:10:24,281 --> 01:10:25,784
I don't mean to offend.
1257
01:10:25,784 --> 01:10:30,946
It's just that if you make a game look extremely generic, people are just gonna call it
AI.
1258
01:10:30,946 --> 01:10:31,733
Yeah.
1259
01:10:32,844 --> 01:10:33,654
And that's the problem though.
1260
01:10:33,654 --> 01:10:38,677
That's like that's that's why I say modding the easy it's easier to make games nowadays.
1261
01:10:38,677 --> 01:10:45,810
This is a losing battle, I think, by I think people are in a losing battle when they're
gonna be calling things AI, because I think we're gonna just destroy
1262
01:10:45,810 --> 01:10:47,791
things that are not AI and things that are AI.
1263
01:10:47,791 --> 01:10:49,141
I think it's a losing battle.
1264
01:10:49,141 --> 01:10:49,902
I don't think it matters.
1265
01:10:49,902 --> 01:10:52,793
I think what matters, did you make a good game?
1266
01:10:53,213 --> 01:10:58,996
~ and it's really even with AI, it's really hard to make a good game.
1267
01:10:59,277 --> 01:11:00,688
Yeah, I agree.
1268
01:11:00,688 --> 01:11:09,982
mean, dude, almost like my game has almost universal ~ positive reviews and it sold maybe
a thousand copies.
1269
01:11:09,982 --> 01:11:11,062
Not even.
1270
01:11:11,382 --> 01:11:13,183
Yeah, it's unique.
1271
01:11:13,223 --> 01:11:14,643
It's fun.
1272
01:11:14,864 --> 01:11:20,546
And I think just publishing your game on Steam is a losing battle, whether it's AI or not.
1273
01:11:20,546 --> 01:11:21,917
Like, that's what it feels like to me.
1274
01:11:21,917 --> 01:11:24,488
That's why I've only published my games on my website now.
1275
01:11:24,488 --> 01:11:25,668
~
1276
01:11:25,668 --> 01:11:27,711
It's because it's just like, dude,
1277
01:11:27,711 --> 01:11:28,431
What?
1278
01:11:28,431 --> 01:11:31,093
How are you going to get other people's attention?
1279
01:11:31,093 --> 01:11:33,373
You can participate in next Fest, but guess what?
1280
01:11:33,373 --> 01:11:35,875
It's flooded with fucking AI shit.
1281
01:11:35,875 --> 01:11:40,627
And it's like, you can participate in, ~ you know, bundles, right?
1282
01:11:40,627 --> 01:11:42,748
There's like a whole website that like they reached out to me.
1283
01:11:42,748 --> 01:11:47,160
They're like, Hey, well, it's like Tinder, but for other game studios.
1284
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:47,970
And you can like,
1285
01:11:47,970 --> 01:11:56,524
yeah, dude, it's, it's kind of neat, but it's like, I can't figure out how to actually
communicate with other studios.
1286
01:11:56,524 --> 01:11:57,564
And so it's like, it's
1287
01:11:57,564 --> 01:12:02,868
~ here's a game and it's like, it has similar Steam tags.
1288
01:12:02,868 --> 01:12:07,592
can swipe right to if you wanna like bundle with them, you can make bundles.
1289
01:12:07,632 --> 01:12:09,134
And I'm like, that seems really cool.
1290
01:12:09,134 --> 01:12:10,134
And I tried it.
1291
01:12:10,134 --> 01:12:12,777
And then when I sent people messages, nobody replied.
1292
01:12:12,777 --> 01:12:17,420
I'm like, okay, so this just does not seem to be being used, but it's such a fun idea.
1293
01:12:17,420 --> 01:12:21,304
~ But like you gotta be really innovative.
1294
01:12:21,304 --> 01:12:24,646
And by the time you've finished your game,
1295
01:12:24,898 --> 01:12:33,869
It's like you have no creative energy left to ~ you know, do all that extra marketing and
it's just, it sucks, dude.
1296
01:12:33,869 --> 01:12:34,409
The video
1297
01:12:34,409 --> 01:12:38,452
games industry is a huge gamble, let's be I'm gonna be completely honest with you.
1298
01:12:38,452 --> 01:12:38,922
~ there
1299
01:12:38,922 --> 01:12:45,956
is no single known way to sell games besides just have an ex existing reputation, like
Call of Duty.
1300
01:12:47,797 --> 01:12:55,501
Like quite literally, being a triple A game with a massive budget isn't even a guarantee
that your game will sell at all, let's be honest.
1301
01:12:55,642 --> 01:12:57,863
Nor nor is the advertising too.
1302
01:12:57,863 --> 01:12:59,926
I mean heck, let's look at Concord.
1303
01:12:59,926 --> 01:13:00,969
Remember that game?
1304
01:13:00,969 --> 01:13:02,558
Haha, yeah.
1305
01:13:03,063 --> 01:13:05,156
That game got marketed hell and back.
1306
01:13:05,578 --> 01:13:10,135
It wasn't some game that no one knew about, it was a game that people knew about and hated
already.
1307
01:13:10,147 --> 01:13:13,372
Well, let's be fair, got marketed to hell and it stayed there.
1308
01:13:13,921 --> 01:13:16,241
D ~
1309
01:13:17,504 --> 01:13:18,543
It began.
1310
01:13:18,543 --> 01:13:19,689
What is this?
1311
01:13:19,689 --> 01:13:30,290
think ~ no AI actual gameplay developing about I think the this is AI though, the let's
see, developer described how their you know AI was used for creating capsule of the Steam
1312
01:13:30,290 --> 01:13:31,200
page.
1313
01:13:32,422 --> 01:13:34,369
And the last case scene video.
1314
01:13:34,369 --> 01:13:36,441
wait, vo AI voices.
1315
01:13:36,622 --> 01:13:39,545
We are playing Alright, so here's my other thing too.
1316
01:13:39,746 --> 01:13:44,661
If what if you just didn't use AI voices?
1317
01:13:44,661 --> 01:13:46,653
You could just not have voice acting.
1318
01:13:46,682 --> 01:13:47,602
Mm.
1319
01:13:49,394 --> 01:13:51,451
~ actually I'm kinda curio
1320
01:13:52,076 --> 01:14:01,035
And ~ I'm also curious about do you still need the AI disclaimer if you used as a
placeholder in the game and then you successfully remove them?
1321
01:14:03,086 --> 01:14:03,867
Yeah
1322
01:14:05,612 --> 01:14:06,472
This is why I'm saying
1323
01:14:06,472 --> 01:14:07,293
it's a losing battle.
1324
01:14:07,293 --> 01:14:08,383
I think it's a losing battle.
1325
01:14:08,383 --> 01:14:17,926
I don't want people to like I I I think a ~ the game industry, even before AI, was already
in dire straits of ~ oversaturation.
1326
01:14:17,926 --> 01:14:18,926
But what are you gonna stop?
1327
01:14:18,926 --> 01:14:27,359
I think this is a creative world where it's a gamble if you're going to make enough money
to support yourself or not.
1328
01:14:27,359 --> 01:14:29,440
And I I just don't know.
1329
01:14:29,440 --> 01:14:31,220
I think people definitely need to stop.
1330
01:14:32,258 --> 01:14:37,499
Betting themselves that they're going to be able to make money off of their one game.
1331
01:14:37,499 --> 01:14:38,690
this is your first game.
1332
01:14:38,690 --> 01:14:41,791
You're not going to be able to live off this.
1333
01:14:41,791 --> 01:14:44,381
Now, can you use it to springboard off and make other games?
1334
01:14:44,381 --> 01:14:44,831
Maybe.
1335
01:14:44,831 --> 01:14:48,132
Can you use it to maybe do some other content creation?
1336
01:14:48,132 --> 01:14:48,502
Maybe.
1337
01:14:48,502 --> 01:14:54,734
~ it is very difficult to do anything.
1338
01:14:54,734 --> 01:14:56,685
Even in the software world, it's oversaturated now.
1339
01:14:56,685 --> 01:14:57,695
Like AI is not
1340
01:14:57,695 --> 01:15:00,816
helping it in any way, but I don't.
1341
01:15:01,892 --> 01:15:13,718
No if I think it's a really big losing game when we re microjudge some of these things
where it's like, they're this thing was made with AI so it ruins the whole thing.
1342
01:15:13,718 --> 01:15:15,699
It's like, I don't know.
1343
01:15:15,699 --> 01:15:17,820
That's just my that's my take on it.
1344
01:15:18,646 --> 01:15:35,806
when a business presents themselves using AI, they create AI flyers on their store page on
Steam.
1345
01:15:36,426 --> 01:15:36,806
I'm
1346
01:15:36,806 --> 01:15:39,919
like, well, dude, if you don't give a fuck about that.
1347
01:15:39,919 --> 01:15:42,500
then you clearly don't care about my business.
1348
01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:50,003
~ I'm not going to patronize companies that present themselves so lazily, right?
1349
01:15:50,003 --> 01:15:51,444
That's the problem.
1350
01:15:51,444 --> 01:15:57,997
It's, you know, if you like, dude, I'm not opposed to like, see, I think we've got it all
inverted, right?
1351
01:15:57,997 --> 01:16:10,212
It's like, if a studio uses the like AI coding tools to assist them with coding, or if
they include like a small language model to do
1352
01:16:10,212 --> 01:16:12,423
Like bespoke things in a game.
1353
01:16:12,423 --> 01:16:24,341
I am like, okay, that's fine Like that's kind of the world that we live in now, even
though you know, there's like the ethical issues of labor theft and ~ Whatever That's
1354
01:16:24,341 --> 01:16:24,631
kind.
1355
01:16:24,631 --> 01:16:25,842
That's just the world we live in.
1356
01:16:25,842 --> 01:16:36,249
We're not putting that Pandora's box, you know, we're not closing that Pandora's box again
But like when it comes to the marketing and the creative part here.
1357
01:16:36,249 --> 01:16:39,092
I'm like, dude, I can't
1358
01:16:39,092 --> 01:16:40,932
get past that.
1359
01:16:41,784 --> 01:16:42,686
I don't know.
1360
01:16:43,650 --> 01:16:44,320
I think that's the risk
1361
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:45,251
of using AI though.
1362
01:16:45,251 --> 01:16:53,485
That's why I'm saying, it wouldn't for me, it would not prevent me from buying a game if
they use some AI assets, ~ or whatever.
1363
01:16:53,485 --> 01:16:57,788
It depends on how the game is, a bunch of other things.
1364
01:16:58,608 --> 01:17:04,211
But it definitely doesn't help too, 'cause some of ~ are just not that good.
1365
01:17:04,312 --> 01:17:04,672
Yeah,
1366
01:17:04,672 --> 01:17:05,289
But
1367
01:17:05,289 --> 01:17:05,693
Yeah.
1368
01:17:05,693 --> 01:17:06,583
It's like
1369
01:17:06,844 --> 01:17:13,729
the problem is is like AI is a tool that can augment creativity, right?
1370
01:17:13,729 --> 01:17:14,759
But most people
1371
01:17:14,759 --> 01:17:24,366
are just using it as a replacement for creativity and and I yeah, and it's like in a
medium of video
1372
01:17:24,366 --> 01:17:27,938
games creativity is kind of the most important fucking part.
1373
01:17:27,980 --> 01:17:28,630
and I just
1374
01:17:28,630 --> 01:17:31,402
won't, I won't play a game if they present themselves.
1375
01:17:31,402 --> 01:17:32,553
I'm not even gonna try it.
1376
01:17:32,553 --> 01:17:39,617
If there's a free demo, if they present their entire like initial presentation is AI
buddy.
1377
01:17:39,617 --> 01:17:42,098
I'm like, dude, I'm not gonna mess with it.
1378
01:17:43,049 --> 01:17:43,571
No, the
1379
01:17:43,571 --> 01:17:47,475
most important aspect of video games is making a shitload of money
1380
01:17:47,475 --> 01:17:49,673
and nickel and diming art users.
1381
01:17:49,673 --> 01:17:50,659
Yeah, yeah
1382
01:17:50,659 --> 01:17:52,350
But that's the what these guys aren't doing.
1383
01:17:52,350 --> 01:17:57,273
They're just trying to make a game that some of are just making games for fun, even if it
is.
1384
01:17:57,273 --> 01:18:01,836
some of maybe think that they're gonna be the next millionaire f project.
1385
01:18:01,836 --> 01:18:02,312
Maybe.
1386
01:18:02,312 --> 01:18:05,538
I it's it's just a mix of a d bunch of different people.
1387
01:18:06,549 --> 01:18:08,857
But Yeah.
1388
01:18:08,857 --> 01:18:09,497
Hi-Tech
1389
01:18:09,497 --> 01:18:16,673
wasn't wrong, you wouldn't see all the clones of vampire survivors, right?
1390
01:18:16,673 --> 01:18:18,104
Like that's kind of the
1391
01:18:18,104 --> 01:18:19,405
problem, yeah.
1392
01:18:20,236 --> 01:18:24,428
I don't see any clones in here of vampire survivors in this group.
1393
01:18:24,428 --> 01:18:26,930
What I'm I am seeing some clones of some other
1394
01:18:26,930 --> 01:18:28,731
games or ~ even this one.
1395
01:18:28,731 --> 01:18:30,342
This one feels like a mod.
1396
01:18:30,402 --> 01:18:31,282
It feels like
1397
01:18:31,282 --> 01:18:40,648
there's a lot of these games where I'm like, I don't have problems with these types of
things, but they're very, very early indie style of like.
1398
01:18:41,108 --> 01:18:46,791
I would have seen a game like some of these, like, 10, 15 years ago in the modding
community.
1399
01:18:46,832 --> 01:18:47,349
So
1400
01:18:47,349 --> 01:18:48,001
real quick.
1401
01:18:48,001 --> 01:18:50,383
There's a game called Texas dominoes.
1402
01:18:50,444 --> 01:18:52,332
That's completely AI
1403
01:18:52,332 --> 01:18:54,274
That's a hundred percent AI.
1404
01:18:54,274 --> 01:18:55,744
there's no way that's not AI.
1405
01:18:55,744 --> 01:18:58,033
Dude, like, holy fuck.
1406
01:18:59,905 --> 01:19:02,666
Scroll down to the AI ~ disclaimer.
1407
01:19:03,877 --> 01:19:07,970
All music was composed the music wasn't AI.
1408
01:19:07,970 --> 01:19:11,411
Too bad he's associated with an AI game, sadly.
1409
01:19:11,412 --> 01:19:12,932
That's another thing too with the use
1410
01:19:12,932 --> 01:19:23,589
of AI, is that once you associate yourself with an AI project, even if you're someone that
can like compose music without the use of AI, you're just labeled as an AI like glazer
1411
01:19:23,589 --> 01:19:24,519
forever.
1412
01:19:24,923 --> 01:19:25,553
And that's me.
1413
01:19:25,553 --> 01:19:27,044
That's maybe that's why I defend all that.
1414
01:19:27,044 --> 01:19:29,996
~ I defend it because I use AI in my
1415
01:19:29,996 --> 01:19:31,197
software development and stuff.
1416
01:19:31,197 --> 01:19:35,250
So But I've been doing this for
1417
01:19:35,250 --> 01:19:37,331
I've been doing using this for a fucking decade.
1418
01:19:37,331 --> 01:19:40,053
I've over 15 years as I've been a developer.
1419
01:19:40,053 --> 01:19:47,878
I I know what I'm doing, but I also just I don't know.
1420
01:19:47,878 --> 01:19:49,979
There's some things to get tired of writing.
1421
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:50,490
I
1422
01:19:50,490 --> 01:19:52,120
get tired of it so much.
1423
01:19:53,322 --> 01:19:54,140
So
1424
01:19:54,140 --> 01:19:55,712
I don't know.
1425
01:19:55,712 --> 01:20:03,138
I don't agree that I just don't think these people are gonna be making the next big game.
1426
01:20:04,961 --> 01:20:06,546
so I just don't know where they're going with it.
1427
01:20:06,546 --> 01:20:12,896
I if you're using AI in this way and and you're really using it to replace your
creativity, you're screwed, but
1428
01:20:12,896 --> 01:20:13,720
Mm-hmm.
1429
01:20:14,350 --> 01:20:15,351
I don't know.
1430
01:20:15,451 --> 01:20:18,574
I have not heard any AI music that's good though.
1431
01:20:18,638 --> 01:20:19,924
no, yeah.
1432
01:20:20,273 --> 01:20:20,829
Yeah.
1433
01:20:20,829 --> 01:20:21,931
music is
1434
01:20:22,187 --> 01:20:23,287
ew.
1435
01:20:24,700 --> 01:20:25,491
But
1436
01:20:25,491 --> 01:20:28,772
I also have heard a lot of people say certain things are AI music and they're not.
1437
01:20:28,772 --> 01:20:38,344
So that's I think where I'm getting at this is that I think we've pretty much screwed
ourselves over on what we're gonna be able to next year or two, we're not gonna it it's
1438
01:20:38,344 --> 01:20:40,129
not we don't know if it's gonna be AA or not.
1439
01:20:40,129 --> 01:20:46,542
Like obviously they're gonna have to label it, but even if they don't you're not gonna
know.
1440
01:20:46,542 --> 01:20:49,294
And so it's just g but the problem is I think it's just more and more slop.
1441
01:20:49,294 --> 01:20:53,606
It's just more and more people are able to build games, more and more people
1442
01:20:54,182 --> 01:20:56,838
I've worked on games for years, they're finally coming to fruition.
1443
01:20:56,838 --> 01:21:00,004
~ these games do take a while, even if it's AI, but
1444
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:08,326
Yeah, I think Valve should perhaps raise the barrier to entry on Steam.
1445
01:21:08,587 --> 01:21:11,369
Like, you know, it costs a hundred
1446
01:21:11,369 --> 01:21:18,014
bucks to get your game on Steam and you make it back when you make back like your first
hundred bucks.
1447
01:21:18,014 --> 01:21:23,037
But like there's so much crap on Steam now.
1448
01:21:23,038 --> 01:21:25,759
I think they might need to raise that.
1449
01:21:27,027 --> 01:21:30,171
Know if that'll alleviate it, truth be told.
1450
01:21:30,171 --> 01:21:36,445
A lot of these guys are just banking on people like mistakenly buying these AI games and
1451
01:21:36,445 --> 01:21:45,347
yeah, but like dude, so the average like indie game on Steam brings in $3,000, right?
1452
01:21:45,387 --> 01:22:00,911
so it's like, it's like an actual financial risk, you know, if it costs $4,000 to put your
game on Steam and you don't actually make that back, I don't know.
1453
01:22:01,031 --> 01:22:05,112
Like, dude, I feel that would be.
1454
01:22:07,210 --> 01:22:09,455
a decent way to start controlling this.
1455
01:22:10,846 --> 01:22:11,650
Hi.
1456
01:22:12,647 --> 01:22:15,189
I do think that would affect Elite Controller, though.
1457
01:22:15,230 --> 01:22:16,070
One has to wonder
1458
01:22:16,070 --> 01:22:21,152
how the this would sting like actual developers, actual indies that aren't just
1459
01:22:21,152 --> 01:22:24,813
how many of these guys are actual developers, right?
1460
01:22:24,813 --> 01:22:26,394
Like that's the problem.
1461
01:22:26,654 --> 01:22:36,877
It's like so many of these guys are like, they're bedroom coders and they don't, they're
not like, ~ it's trivial, it's like a hundred bucks, who cares, right?
1462
01:22:36,877 --> 01:22:39,072
Like I'm gonna risk it.
1463
01:22:39,072 --> 01:22:47,820
~ It's like if there was less competition in Steam, more people would get to see more
games.
1464
01:22:48,276 --> 01:22:52,265
that are higher quality from people who actually believe in what they're doing.
1465
01:22:52,265 --> 01:22:56,332
A lot of the games that are on Steam right now belong on itch, not on Steam.
1466
01:22:57,340 --> 01:22:58,096
Yeah,
1467
01:22:58,096 --> 01:22:58,992
I I actually
1468
01:22:58,992 --> 01:22:59,899
agree with that.
1469
01:22:59,899 --> 01:23:01,578
I do agree with that.
1470
01:23:01,578 --> 01:23:14,814
think that if the barrier to entry was slightly higher, still accessible to people who
think that their game is actually going to turn a profit, ~ it's worth getting it in front
1471
01:23:14,814 --> 01:23:15,955
of people.
1472
01:23:16,156 --> 01:23:19,479
That's a whole different ball game at that point.
1473
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:23,161
I don't know.
1474
01:23:23,422 --> 01:23:24,452
But people are
1475
01:23:24,452 --> 01:23:26,246
gonna call me elitist for that.
1476
01:23:27,142 --> 01:23:31,542
I just think we have an oversaturation, even if you filter out all the AI.
1477
01:23:31,671 --> 01:23:35,897
But this is what I've thought about every f Game Fest or Steam Fest.
1478
01:23:35,967 --> 01:23:40,395
Even if the games are quality, there's still an oversaturation of games.
1479
01:23:40,967 --> 01:23:41,827
Yeah.
1480
01:23:43,248 --> 01:23:53,752
Which is I don't know I don't know what the right answer is, but I definitely think I
think AI tooling and and w how we think about some of the designs are gonna be changing
1481
01:23:53,752 --> 01:23:54,632
and
1482
01:23:55,653 --> 01:23:58,073
~ we just I don't know.
1483
01:23:59,854 --> 01:24:10,278
~ do not know because I do see it mistakenly like so many projects get mistakenly labeled
as AI and it's just it's not
1484
01:24:10,536 --> 01:24:11,417
Hmm.
1485
01:24:12,083 --> 01:24:12,428
Yeah.
1486
01:24:12,428 --> 01:24:15,900
just I know this is this is a topic we could talk about forever.
1487
01:24:15,900 --> 01:24:19,211
I I don't know where the right answer is.
1488
01:24:19,211 --> 01:24:29,312
I think how ~ how Steam has been kinda doing is that I get the big dogs up front and then
they sprinkle in some indies as I go through.
1489
01:24:29,312 --> 01:24:31,787
I don't I don't have too many issues.
1490
01:24:31,787 --> 01:24:33,048
It's just the next fest.
1491
01:24:33,048 --> 01:24:38,570
~ where I see a lot of the ~ extra
1492
01:24:39,634 --> 01:24:39,864
Games.
1493
01:24:39,864 --> 01:24:45,956
So it's already been fla they they let them exist on here, but ~ it's just it's really
hard.
1494
01:24:45,956 --> 01:24:47,735
You have to have a really good marketing campaign.
1495
01:24:47,735 --> 01:24:49,697
You have to f like it costs money.
1496
01:24:49,697 --> 01:25:03,321
Any honestly, any I don't know, guys, like I I think it's getting harder and harder to
break out and just make money, period, in as a individual or you know, like indie, whether
1497
01:25:03,321 --> 01:25:07,002
it be games, software, whatever it is, I think it's it's just getting harder and harder.
1498
01:25:08,750 --> 01:25:14,394
And I don't know if I I don't know.
1499
01:25:14,394 --> 01:25:17,716
I'm I'm I'm putting my thing.
1500
01:25:17,716 --> 01:25:27,671
I'm not gonna s it's not gonna stop me if AI is used, but it's definitely I think people
like if you're listening, if you use AI to develop, you better be making sure everything
1501
01:25:27,671 --> 01:25:29,222
is really good.
1502
01:25:30,803 --> 01:25:32,144
Because you're already
1503
01:25:32,144 --> 01:25:33,685
like you're pretty much screwed.
1504
01:25:33,685 --> 01:25:35,336
Cause if you AI label it,
1505
01:25:35,336 --> 01:25:36,327
People are gonna filter it.
1506
01:25:36,327 --> 01:25:40,637
It's just I can't control what the popul like the what the popular opinion is.
1507
01:25:40,637 --> 01:25:44,723
But ~ have fun, I guess.
1508
01:25:44,723 --> 01:25:45,944
AI again?
1509
01:25:47,599 --> 01:25:48,688
dude, this sucks.
1510
01:25:48,688 --> 01:25:51,323
no, not bioware.
1511
01:25:52,665 --> 01:25:55,377
I thought this was a j I thought this was a joke or something.
1512
01:25:55,377 --> 01:25:58,407
I it n never did I think
1513
01:26:00,690 --> 01:26:03,393
EA is is out of control at this point.
1514
01:26:03,393 --> 01:26:10,041
Like Bioware is I know it's been going downhill over the years, but like they destroyed
Bioware.
1515
01:26:10,041 --> 01:26:11,289
They they got rid of it.
1516
01:26:11,289 --> 01:26:12,253
Like it's gone.
1517
01:26:12,253 --> 01:26:12,403
It's
1518
01:26:12,403 --> 01:26:13,144
closed.
1519
01:26:13,144 --> 01:26:14,145
This is
1520
01:26:15,825 --> 01:26:23,502
They have some of the biggest RPGs ever made in the sense of like popularity.
1521
01:26:23,502 --> 01:26:30,539
Mass Effect alone was just amazing series.
1522
01:26:30,539 --> 01:26:33,301
Like it is so good.
1523
01:26:33,662 --> 01:26:42,159
And they have the trailer leak that of the next trailer they're gonna release, and looked
really good, and it made me even more sad of like.
1524
01:26:42,841 --> 01:26:45,234
Unless they can sell the IP to someone that cares.
1525
01:26:45,234 --> 01:26:53,506
Honestly, I think s C D Project Red, I don't know how their finances are 'cause they they
overspend on their projects, but ~ I think
1526
01:26:53,506 --> 01:27:00,135
they would be the perfect company to pick that up and then bring back some of the gang
into Mass Effect and make the next Mass
1527
01:27:00,135 --> 01:27:00,875
Effect.
1528
01:27:01,131 --> 01:27:06,684
Yeah, and it wouldn't be buggy as shit, Well, actually, cyberpunk
1529
01:27:06,684 --> 01:27:07,986
was pretty buggy.
1530
01:27:09,554 --> 01:27:11,015
making it okay.
1531
01:27:11,516 --> 01:27:13,547
Despite pot like people don't understand
1532
01:27:13,547 --> 01:27:21,154
open world games are really hard to make and are gonna be intrinsically buggy because
yeah, they are so massive.
1533
01:27:21,154 --> 01:27:21,884
You're just not gonna be
1534
01:27:21,884 --> 01:27:26,168
able to get rid of every We're doing better, and honestly, it's been better than it was.
1535
01:27:26,168 --> 01:27:27,231
People don't understand this.
1536
01:27:27,231 --> 01:27:34,575
They have rose colored glasses, but like Mass Effect had its fair share of bugs, but then
got patched out.
1537
01:27:34,575 --> 01:27:36,387
But C D yeah, so perfect.
1538
01:27:36,387 --> 01:27:37,237
I I
1539
01:27:37,871 --> 01:27:39,107
It's a it's a perfect pairing.
1540
01:27:39,107 --> 01:27:39,849
Mass Effect's had
1541
01:27:39,849 --> 01:27:40,891
its bugs.
1542
01:27:41,496 --> 01:27:44,195
CD port object red's had its bugs and fixed them.
1543
01:27:46,333 --> 01:27:50,394
Yeah, ~ Well who's that?
1544
01:27:50,706 --> 01:27:53,769
Sorry, kids broke the lamp in the hallway.
1545
01:27:53,769 --> 01:27:56,792
~
1546
01:27:57,253 --> 01:27:58,694
yeah, so
1547
01:27:58,815 --> 01:28:00,095
Mass Effect.
1548
01:28:00,216 --> 01:28:01,157
RAP.
1549
01:28:01,314 --> 01:28:03,536
Mass Effect was awesome.
1550
01:28:03,658 --> 01:28:06,122
Star Wars, Knights of Old Republic was awesome.
1551
01:28:06,122 --> 01:28:14,693
~ I'm not really a fantasy guy, so I never played their other games, but yeah.
1552
01:28:14,693 --> 01:28:17,433
Age was the first two were really good.
1553
01:28:17,433 --> 01:28:21,562
I couldn't get into three or the fourth one.
1554
01:28:21,562 --> 01:28:22,384
too.
1555
01:28:22,494 --> 01:28:24,283
Yeah, I never get into that either.
1556
01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:25,864
Empire was really good.
1557
01:28:25,864 --> 01:28:28,740
What was what was Bio what was Bioware's last game?
1558
01:28:28,740 --> 01:28:30,537
Was it Anthem I think it was?
1559
01:28:31,309 --> 01:28:31,830
No.
1560
01:28:31,830 --> 01:28:34,732
Bioware's last game was ~ Dragon Age.
1561
01:28:35,053 --> 01:28:35,614
V
1562
01:28:35,614 --> 01:28:36,164
Valegard.
1563
01:28:36,164 --> 01:28:39,211
It did it it didn't do very well.
1564
01:28:39,211 --> 01:28:39,792
I forgot
1565
01:28:39,792 --> 01:28:42,054
that game existed, I'm not gonna lie.
1566
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:43,224
Mm-hmm.
1567
01:28:43,437 --> 01:28:44,946
It didn't do very well.
1568
01:28:44,946 --> 01:28:46,603
Emily really liked it.
1569
01:28:48,729 --> 01:28:49,810
I didn't look that bad to me.
1570
01:28:49,810 --> 01:28:51,971
It looked better than the one before it.
1571
01:28:52,452 --> 01:28:53,402
Didn't look that bad to me.
1572
01:28:53,402 --> 01:29:04,320
They they they the problem is that with every Dragon Age release, I think they were
pissing off the fans of the original and the ri like the first Dragon Age.
1573
01:29:05,241 --> 01:29:10,284
And like the differences between the Dragon Age one and four are s pretty big.
1574
01:29:10,284 --> 01:29:11,205
So
1575
01:29:12,060 --> 01:29:12,526
Right.
1576
01:29:12,526 --> 01:29:17,029
it's Where Mass Effect, you have Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3
1577
01:29:17,226 --> 01:29:20,854
And I will say this, and people are, I think, fundamentally wrong.
1578
01:29:20,854 --> 01:29:23,601
I think Andromeda was a pretty decent mass effect.
1579
01:29:23,601 --> 01:29:25,445
It's just they had
1580
01:29:27,922 --> 01:29:28,503
I I don't know.
1581
01:29:28,503 --> 01:29:29,905
I played it on a higher end system.
1582
01:29:29,905 --> 01:29:31,037
I didn't have any issues.
1583
01:29:31,037 --> 01:29:35,754
So maybe it'll lead us for me, but ~ I liked Mass Effect Andromeda.
1584
01:29:35,754 --> 01:29:37,327
I think it was a really good one.
1585
01:29:37,327 --> 01:29:41,035
really bad on console too though?
1586
01:29:41,035 --> 01:29:42,597
Like it wasn't just PC.
1587
01:29:42,639 --> 01:29:43,149
it could have
1588
01:29:43,149 --> 01:29:43,299
been.
1589
01:29:43,299 --> 01:29:44,139
It had a couple bugs.
1590
01:29:44,139 --> 01:29:45,660
They did patch them.
1591
01:29:45,660 --> 01:29:52,762
~ not saying that it should have it sh they should have waited just a few more months and
patched them out, but it was just a bad release.
1592
01:29:52,762 --> 01:29:56,864
But if that was the case, Fallout New Vegas is a piece of garbage.
1593
01:29:56,864 --> 01:30:01,025
~ a bunch of other classic games that we've gotten in the past are garbage.
1594
01:30:01,046 --> 01:30:04,437
I just think people have gotten more cynical over the years and fuck them.
1595
01:30:04,437 --> 01:30:09,773
Like they I think they're part of the reason why games are getting like we're also getting
less games, so
1596
01:30:09,773 --> 01:30:11,795
I I I'm a little bitter because the
1597
01:30:11,795 --> 01:30:12,248
what way?
1598
01:30:12,248 --> 01:30:15,675
'Cause I think I would argue we're pretty cynical ourselves.
1599
01:30:17,455 --> 01:30:18,015
More cynical
1600
01:30:18,015 --> 01:30:21,147
when I get together with you guys, but I'm very allowing
1601
01:30:21,147 --> 01:30:24,448
of of bugs and Cyberpunk 2077, yeah.
1602
01:30:24,788 --> 01:30:25,938
Did it have a bad launch?
1603
01:30:25,938 --> 01:30:28,710
Should have not gone gone that route, of course.
1604
01:30:28,710 --> 01:30:31,190
But they patched, they fixed it, everything.
1605
01:30:31,511 --> 01:30:40,935
But like Fallout New Vegas was unplayable for fifty percent of the user base for the first
two weeks and a and a p a moder fixed it for most of them.
1606
01:30:40,935 --> 01:30:47,387
So you had to buy an ~ a or not buy, you had to download a maw or a a patch that was made
by
1607
01:30:47,690 --> 01:30:51,078
~ a moder to to get Fallout New Vegas.
1608
01:30:51,078 --> 01:30:56,310
~ I wasn't able to play it on PC until I got that patch.
1609
01:30:56,392 --> 01:30:56,833
So
1610
01:30:56,833 --> 01:30:59,365
you still can't play it without that patch.
1611
01:31:00,263 --> 01:31:01,554
What are talking about?
1612
01:31:02,716 --> 01:31:03,627
Fault in Vegas?
1613
01:31:03,627 --> 01:31:04,468
No, you can you
1614
01:31:04,468 --> 01:31:04,979
can play it.
1615
01:31:04,979 --> 01:31:05,930
You can play without that patch.
1616
01:31:05,930 --> 01:31:09,625
This is a day one patch 'cause it was broken for fifty percent of the users.
1617
01:31:09,625 --> 01:31:11,006
They patched it.
1618
01:31:11,908 --> 01:31:13,590
So I don't know what you're
1619
01:31:13,590 --> 01:31:16,453
talking about, high tech, but it's it's playable.
1620
01:31:18,174 --> 01:31:20,398
It's been a while since I've played it unpatched.
1621
01:31:21,022 --> 01:31:22,705
So perhaps maybe yeah.
1622
01:31:22,705 --> 01:31:23,190
I don't know.
1623
01:31:23,190 --> 01:31:24,478
I don't know I don't know, man.
1624
01:31:24,478 --> 01:31:34,445
about maybe like all bunch of the different mods to make it look prettier to whatever, but
no, you can even on the Steam Deck you can pull up st Fallout New Vegas on it and play it.
1625
01:31:35,928 --> 01:31:43,619
man, but th I anyways, there's a bunch of crazy sh the gaming industry is just what is
going on?
1626
01:31:43,619 --> 01:31:50,919
I'm sure part of this has I'm sure part of this is fueled by the fact that EA is owned by
private equity aka Saudi
1627
01:31:50,919 --> 01:31:51,890
Arabia.
1628
01:31:53,503 --> 01:31:55,089
private public equity.
1629
01:31:55,498 --> 01:31:56,339
private pub.
1630
01:31:56,339 --> 01:31:57,259
Yeah.
1631
01:31:57,419 --> 01:31:57,679
Well
1632
01:31:57,679 --> 01:32:00,891
it's the w it's it's unfortunately not the the good kind in my opinion.
1633
01:32:00,891 --> 01:32:03,890
It's the it it's just a big fun.
1634
01:32:03,890 --> 01:32:04,863
It it's just a big
1635
01:32:04,863 --> 01:32:06,537
pri it's private equity.
1636
01:32:06,537 --> 01:32:10,786
~ th what they care about is grabbing IP, grabbing what they want.
1637
01:32:10,786 --> 01:32:18,050
They're repurposing EA into a different system and all the IP might be good for them.
1638
01:32:18,151 --> 01:32:18,851
Might not be.
1639
01:32:18,851 --> 01:32:23,133
But the the devs are are
1640
01:32:23,525 --> 01:32:24,707
~ too heavy.
1641
01:32:24,707 --> 01:32:27,450
Like they're they're too much of a burden so they have to get rid of them.
1642
01:32:27,450 --> 01:32:33,197
Like h ~ you know, heaven forbid they make video games that'll make the money, but you
know.
1643
01:32:35,026 --> 01:32:36,266
Yeah, ~
1644
01:32:36,787 --> 01:32:42,178
the worst part about this whole situation is that EA still owns all the Bioware IPs.
1645
01:32:42,178 --> 01:32:58,623
They still own Mass Effect and there's a I I mean, given how poorly Andromeda did, and
also how poorly Vail Guard did, relatively speaking, I wouldn't imagine them touching any
1646
01:32:58,623 --> 01:33:00,874
more Bioware IPs in the future.
1647
01:33:03,089 --> 01:33:03,958
Yeah.
1648
01:33:04,754 --> 01:33:05,715
Yeah.
1649
01:33:06,099 --> 01:33:07,263
I could s I think
1650
01:33:07,263 --> 01:33:12,418
BioWare's ~ games are just dead dead in the
1651
01:33:13,979 --> 01:33:14,549
We'll see.
1652
01:33:14,549 --> 01:33:20,151
There could be a slim chance it's happened in the past that the IPs get sold off.
1653
01:33:20,151 --> 01:33:23,712
Cause if they if they s it depends.
1654
01:33:23,712 --> 01:33:33,695
Private equity will sometimes want to keep it no matter what, because it's a good
portfolio stack and never touched again, which is broken.
1655
01:33:33,695 --> 01:33:35,735
Broken world we live in with that.
1656
01:33:35,735 --> 01:33:41,468
Or they could be like, if there's someone that's like, hey, you know what, we really wanna
buy this
1657
01:33:41,468 --> 01:33:46,920
And they get enough ~ funding, let's say a bunch of old bioware people come back.
1658
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:54,783
cause I think a lot of the seniors, a lot of the leadership left and built some new
companies because they were getting tired of what was going on.
1659
01:33:55,103 --> 01:34:06,708
Maybe they could get enough equ ~ enough of a loan or you know, get enough startup funds
to just grab a mass the Mass Effect one, maybe.
1660
01:34:06,788 --> 01:34:08,389
That's the one I care about the most.
1661
01:34:08,389 --> 01:34:09,659
Mass Effect.
1662
01:34:09,659 --> 01:34:11,890
Dragon Age kinda killed itself off over the years.
1663
01:34:11,890 --> 01:34:12,840
They've still great.
1664
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:20,173
~ I think Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic would also be another really good one to p
maybe pick up, but Mass Effect's where it's at.
1665
01:34:20,173 --> 01:34:29,926
And that's that has such a unique universe that I just don't think anyone else is gonna be
able to to produce a sci fi game like Mass Effect ever again unless we have that IP
1666
01:34:29,926 --> 01:34:30,976
somewhere else.
1667
01:34:31,557 --> 01:34:32,787
With the right team.
1668
01:34:32,787 --> 01:34:33,627
right.
1669
01:34:33,627 --> 01:34:35,786
So that that brings me to my next point though.
1670
01:34:35,786 --> 01:34:39,741
A lot of the people that made Bioware what it was, they left a while ago.
1671
01:34:39,741 --> 01:34:45,694
They're not they haven't been with Bioware in quite some time now, and honestly, Bioware
1672
01:34:45,694 --> 01:34:52,377
even like even as it died, it died as a shell of its former self instead of the company
that was.
1673
01:34:52,738 --> 01:34:53,919
Like all the bioware
1674
01:34:53,919 --> 01:34:59,837
talent ex that a lot of the bioware talent left a while ago, right?
1675
01:34:59,837 --> 01:35:01,048
Yeah, 'cause they were pissed off.
1676
01:35:01,048 --> 01:35:04,019
if leadership w like this is a leadership restructuring thing.
1677
01:35:04,019 --> 01:35:14,785
If if they did it right, they would be like, Okay, we're getting rid of a lot of l the the
leadership at the ver like, probably an EA or somewhere else that caused these exits and
1678
01:35:14,785 --> 01:35:16,155
then bring back some of the talent.
1679
01:35:16,155 --> 01:35:20,468
I guarantee some of the talent would probably come back or reform a new studio.
1680
01:35:20,468 --> 01:35:23,710
I don't they they could have made it work, I think.
1681
01:35:24,030 --> 01:35:29,769
But you know, whether it be hu hubris or whatever it is
1682
01:35:29,769 --> 01:35:32,901
It made it not happen, so I'm mad because I
1683
01:35:32,901 --> 01:35:34,232
want more Mass Effect.
1684
01:35:34,673 --> 01:35:35,623
I wanna give them money.
1685
01:35:35,623 --> 01:35:36,694
This is this sucks.
1686
01:35:36,694 --> 01:35:39,255
I wanna give them money and they they don't want to take my money.
1687
01:35:39,835 --> 01:35:40,906
Well, dude, all they're
1688
01:35:40,906 --> 01:35:45,538
going to do with EA now is sports wash.
1689
01:35:45,979 --> 01:35:47,901
Like, that's really what it is.
1690
01:35:47,901 --> 01:35:50,863
It's going to be and it's going to be Sims
1691
01:35:50,863 --> 01:35:51,813
washing too, man.
1692
01:35:51,813 --> 01:35:59,789
It's like the Sims and what they're going to remove LGBT representation from the Sims.
1693
01:35:59,789 --> 01:36:04,051
They're going to ~ they're going to they're going to.
1694
01:36:04,969 --> 01:36:10,059
may have Saudi business interests in sports games.
1695
01:36:10,081 --> 01:36:13,598
It's like, dude, that's all it's going to be.
1696
01:36:14,417 --> 01:36:16,896
That's why they killed Bioware.
1697
01:36:16,896 --> 01:36:17,296
Mm.
1698
01:36:17,296 --> 01:36:19,852
of their stories have gay characters in it, so
1699
01:36:19,914 --> 01:36:20,706
Yeah.
1700
01:36:21,957 --> 01:36:22,754
Can't have that.
1701
01:36:22,754 --> 01:36:30,823
Joff Keeley was especially saddened about this too, given that Joff Keeley went on Fox
News to defend gaming.
1702
01:36:31,434 --> 01:36:33,626
You guys rem you guys remember that?
1703
01:36:34,555 --> 01:36:35,822
When was that?
1704
01:36:36,318 --> 01:36:37,602
was ~ fucking twenty years ago.
1705
01:36:37,602 --> 01:36:40,350
They were talking about the quote sex box.
1706
01:36:40,350 --> 01:36:41,734
And they were talking about Mass Effect
1707
01:36:41,734 --> 01:36:43,999
One because you could see someone's ass.
1708
01:36:45,357 --> 01:36:47,938
Yeah.
1709
01:36:47,938 --> 01:36:49,278
Fox News.
1710
01:36:51,099 --> 01:36:56,071
Yeah, twenty years ago, man, all the head people were frickin' sexual harassers.
1711
01:36:56,071 --> 01:36:57,582
So I mean all those people that were
1712
01:36:57,582 --> 01:37:05,445
at Fox News back then are gone because they w they needed the look inwards, not towards a
video game.
1713
01:37:06,069 --> 01:37:06,830
Yeah.
1714
01:37:07,314 --> 01:37:09,776
Yeah, man, Joff Keely was a is a trooper man.
1715
01:37:09,776 --> 01:37:19,062
I know I I know I have a lot of disagreements in regards to things like the definition of
an indie game and shit like that, but ~ I can't fully hate him for that.
1716
01:37:19,423 --> 01:37:20,197
Hmm.
1717
01:37:20,313 --> 01:37:23,355
At the end of the day, I think we are maybe too critical at times.
1718
01:37:23,355 --> 01:37:24,954
We're too pessimistic.
1719
01:37:24,954 --> 01:37:35,804
I I think a lot of it comes from we get mad at everything, maybe put too much ~ hatred
into everything when really we're just upset with ra like the RAM prices of stuff.
1720
01:37:35,804 --> 01:37:39,826
I I I think sometimes we get a little bit too petty on like, I hate this game.
1721
01:37:39,826 --> 01:37:43,408
This sh game should not exist, where it's like, Okay, don't fucking buy that game then.
1722
01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:44,259
but
1723
01:37:45,523 --> 01:37:50,343
People to see it as an opportunity cost, though, which ~ in a sense makes sense.
1724
01:37:50,343 --> 01:37:52,072
let's look at GTA six.
1725
01:37:52,214 --> 01:37:57,621
Rockstar has a bunch of other IPs that they could be making, like Bully, Manhunt,
1726
01:37:58,183 --> 01:38:00,406
~ Max Pain.
1727
01:38:01,077 --> 01:38:03,192
that ping pong game that they had.
1728
01:38:03,192 --> 01:38:05,625
~ yeah, rock star ping pong.
1729
01:38:05,666 --> 01:38:05,996
They
1730
01:38:05,996 --> 01:38:07,428
the way the way that these
1731
01:38:07,428 --> 01:38:15,458
people see it is that the fact that they're spending all of their time and resources on
GTA six means they're not spending time on the other thing they may like a little.
1732
01:38:16,161 --> 01:38:19,933
Rockstar doesn't I don't think Rockstar ever made Max Payne.
1733
01:38:19,933 --> 01:38:22,404
They just did it in conjunction with Remedy.
1734
01:38:22,404 --> 01:38:24,434
So Remedy's working with them to redo all the Max Pain.
1735
01:38:24,434 --> 01:38:24,555
So
1736
01:38:24,555 --> 01:38:26,165
we are getting Max Pain's.
1737
01:38:26,525 --> 01:38:30,537
Rockstar is a bad example 'cause they're a bad company.
1738
01:38:30,537 --> 01:38:38,650
They only are for profit now, instead of any of their like actual like 'cause they still
and they're only for the maximum profit.
1739
01:38:38,650 --> 01:38:45,301
They could hire more devs, they could hire another studio to see if they and and do some ~
1740
01:38:46,373 --> 01:38:48,806
Just s what is the word I'm looking for?
1741
01:38:48,806 --> 01:38:56,305
Essentially some projects to see if that Dev Studio does well in taking up, let's say, the
next Red Dead Redemption.
1742
01:38:56,305 --> 01:38:57,536
They take their time though too.
1743
01:38:57,536 --> 01:39:01,170
So once GTA comes out, they'll be back onto the next Red Dead.
1744
01:39:01,170 --> 01:39:07,017
~ maybe, but they're also really into the GTA online 'cause it's just it's a money
printer.
1745
01:39:07,017 --> 01:39:07,767
So
1746
01:39:08,042 --> 01:39:08,857
Yeah.
1747
01:39:09,830 --> 01:39:10,913
I'm sure it is the
1748
01:39:10,913 --> 01:39:13,044
~ money printer of choice.
1749
01:39:13,044 --> 01:39:13,711
Mm.
1750
01:39:13,711 --> 01:39:18,033
And and those types of people that play those types of games don't get mad over this type
of stuff.
1751
01:39:18,033 --> 01:39:26,977
We just the the type of people that would buy the next Mass Effect are the ones that end
up getting really upset and then we end up losing everything, I feel like.
1752
01:39:26,977 --> 01:39:28,007
I don't know.
1753
01:39:29,168 --> 01:39:30,729
I I'm not trying to blame
1754
01:39:30,729 --> 01:39:36,751
people fully, but I Mass Effect Dramata was not a bad I beat that game almost twice.
1755
01:39:36,751 --> 01:39:38,312
~ it's not a bad game.
1756
01:39:38,312 --> 01:39:40,623
Is it the best Mass Effect?
1757
01:39:40,623 --> 01:39:41,283
No.
1758
01:39:41,467 --> 01:39:43,284
I think it's on par of Mass Effect One.
1759
01:39:43,284 --> 01:39:47,069
It's more fun than Mass Effect One by far, but I
1760
01:39:47,069 --> 01:39:51,602
I think the problem is that people are really missing the force for the trees.
1761
01:39:52,043 --> 01:39:52,613
Like people
1762
01:39:52,613 --> 01:39:59,818
like it they're like nitpicking like crazy when it comes to video games and they think
that all of the nitpicks
1763
01:39:59,818 --> 01:40:08,114
just add up, but like I can overlook a lot of nitpicks, ~ if a game is that good, let me
just say.
1764
01:40:09,201 --> 01:40:10,802
Yeah, no, I that's the only thing.
1765
01:40:10,802 --> 01:40:11,183
I
1766
01:40:11,183 --> 01:40:23,203
I think a lot of content creators have also destroyed a lot of these too, out of just
getting the the the biggest loudest splash of ~ drama is gonna drive up these views.
1767
01:40:23,203 --> 01:40:27,356
And unfortunately some of these games I think were in the crosshairs just don't deserve
it.
1768
01:40:27,997 --> 01:40:35,001
People are gonna probably disagree with me, ~ maybe in the comments on like the the the
DramaD thing, but I don't know.
1769
01:40:35,001 --> 01:40:37,885
If you go pla if you go load it up right now, it is
1770
01:40:38,373 --> 01:40:39,713
It is still fun.
1771
01:40:40,374 --> 01:40:43,815
The problem is it's just it's it was a new dev studio getting their footing.
1772
01:40:43,815 --> 01:40:45,715
That's why they chose Andromeda.
1773
01:40:46,275 --> 01:40:55,738
Mass Effect Andromeda 2 could have been maybe a lot better because they had like it it was
and this is I think the best way to put it.
1774
01:40:56,098 --> 01:40:59,399
Mass Effect 1, if you go back, it was very flat in a lot of areas.
1775
01:40:59,399 --> 01:41:03,900
It was good, but it is not the same as Mass Effect 2 or 3.
1776
01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:05,251
Andromeda is the same way.
1777
01:41:05,251 --> 01:41:06,491
I think if they would have given
1778
01:41:06,491 --> 01:41:19,905
them a chance to make Andromeda 2 and to be able to have this new dev studio that was
working on it because it was a new dev studio, new a lot of new fresh blood to better f ~
1779
01:41:20,145 --> 01:41:21,055
improve their skills.
1780
01:41:21,055 --> 01:41:26,967
We could have gotten ~ maybe closer to a Mass Effect 2 with Andromeda 2, but that was not
the case.
1781
01:41:27,267 --> 01:41:32,758
Both EA didn't want to take the chance and I think people too many people were just
destroying it.
1782
01:41:32,758 --> 01:41:35,099
So it just it had no chance.
1783
01:41:35,579 --> 01:41:43,558
And I I it does piss me off 'cause I do think the fans dish also are a part of the reason
why some of these IPs are dead.
1784
01:41:44,729 --> 01:41:45,749
So
1785
01:41:47,687 --> 01:41:56,649
I think there's a ~ bit of blame for publishers and studios too because yeah.
1786
01:41:56,649 --> 01:41:58,769
I said it's a part of the reason.
1787
01:41:58,769 --> 01:41:59,362
it's a partial.
1788
01:41:59,362 --> 01:42:01,745
It's a like it probably a fourth of the reason.
1789
01:42:01,745 --> 01:42:04,227
The r most of it is on the publishers.
1790
01:42:05,049 --> 01:42:06,190
I'm in a I
1791
01:42:06,755 --> 01:42:08,197
genuinely, I think like
1792
01:42:08,197 --> 01:42:23,894
so much of it comes from the fact that ~ publishers have been overextending, like they've
been trying, they've been like pushing for higher graphical fidelity and live services and
1793
01:42:24,035 --> 01:42:24,493
yeah.
1794
01:42:24,493 --> 01:42:26,939
you live service is the reason why everything's dead.
1795
01:42:27,302 --> 01:42:28,310
They over gambled.
1796
01:42:28,310 --> 01:42:33,067
literally a microcosm of late stage capitalism.
1797
01:42:33,531 --> 01:42:34,301
Yeah.
1798
01:42:34,521 --> 01:42:35,562
A hundred percent.
1799
01:42:35,562 --> 01:42:37,722
And it's a creative wor it's a creative area.
1800
01:42:37,722 --> 01:42:41,363
You can't do that in creative ~ ventures, I think.
1801
01:42:41,363 --> 01:42:44,244
Because you you can't you gotta have money, don't get me wrong.
1802
01:42:45,444 --> 01:42:50,266
And but people will, like people will buy the shit out of a good mass effect, just to
bring it back.
1803
01:42:50,266 --> 01:42:51,446
Like they will buy a good one.
1804
01:42:51,446 --> 01:42:51,967
You just
1805
01:42:51,967 --> 01:42:52,426
Mm.
1806
01:42:52,426 --> 01:43:02,199
gotta re reiterate, have play sessions, bring fans in, do a lot of good you know good ~
PR.
1807
01:43:02,199 --> 01:43:03,439
I don't know, like
1808
01:43:03,889 --> 01:43:15,515
But there's also a lot of publishers that have been forcing d developers to put live
service in, put do a lot of stuff, and that also causes a lot of these issues.
1809
01:43:16,016 --> 01:43:19,657
And they deserve all the hate.
1810
01:43:20,318 --> 01:43:28,362
But at the end of the day, we gotta be a little bit more graceful with our hate for some
of the developers.
1811
01:43:28,362 --> 01:43:33,815
And I th and I I only put this out because I think Mass Mass Effect Dramata just doesn't
deserve it.
1812
01:43:34,258 --> 01:43:35,679
I think it got too much.
1813
01:43:36,378 --> 01:43:39,662
~ hate from the from people.
1814
01:43:40,003 --> 01:43:41,704
But it is what it is.
1815
01:43:41,704 --> 01:43:45,587
~ they could have also maybe spent some more time and built a better game.
1816
01:43:45,587 --> 01:43:48,379
So bad talent could
1817
01:43:48,379 --> 01:43:49,630
have also killed it.
1818
01:43:50,271 --> 01:43:53,513
~ yeah, so my rant's over.
1819
01:43:53,714 --> 01:44:00,199
We can get into some Peggy begins moving existing digital only games with loot boxes up to
a 16 plus rating.
1820
01:44:00,199 --> 01:44:02,081
Or sixteen yeah, sixteen plus rating.
1821
01:44:02,081 --> 01:44:03,151
Which is good.
1822
01:44:03,828 --> 01:44:04,388
Yeah.
1823
01:44:04,388 --> 01:44:07,624
about I think it's Gar it's about Gardner's time to leave, sadly.
1824
01:44:07,624 --> 01:44:09,153
Yeah, I do gotta go.
1825
01:44:09,202 --> 01:44:10,093
But let's get some
1826
01:44:10,093 --> 01:44:14,138
final thoughts on ~ let's get Gardner's thoughts on this refor before he leaves.
1827
01:44:14,138 --> 01:44:17,771
dude, this is what we've needed for ages and ages.
1828
01:44:17,771 --> 01:44:31,000
Like ~ gambling mechanics in games, ~ I'm not gonna say there's a ~ causation, but like
there is a line, like a straight line that you can draw from.
1829
01:44:31,566 --> 01:44:34,802
kids being exposed to gambling mechanics to polymarket and shit.
1830
01:44:34,802 --> 01:44:38,688
~ it's just an unhealthy thing for kids to be exposed to.
1831
01:44:38,688 --> 01:44:42,223
And frankly, it's an unhealthy thing for anybody to be exposed to.
1832
01:44:42,223 --> 01:44:43,976
And I just don't think that it's good.
1833
01:44:43,976 --> 01:44:46,119
So this is cool that they're doing this.
1834
01:44:47,666 --> 01:44:48,809
Yeah.
1835
01:44:48,809 --> 01:44:52,978
It's it's a it's a bad time to be a gamer.
1836
01:44:53,282 --> 01:44:54,163
Yeah.
1837
01:44:54,984 --> 01:44:55,798
Alright, well you
1838
01:44:55,798 --> 01:45:00,170
you have fun with your ~ your birthday ~ thing that you're going to.
1839
01:45:00,170 --> 01:45:01,161
Thank you.
1840
01:45:01,463 --> 01:45:03,860
Enjoy this last conversation.
1841
01:45:03,860 --> 01:45:05,871
See you guys next week.
1842
01:45:06,065 --> 01:45:06,955
Letterman.
1843
01:45:06,955 --> 01:45:07,787
Bye.
1844
01:45:07,787 --> 01:45:08,988
Bye.
1845
01:45:10,042 --> 01:45:10,577
So
1846
01:45:10,577 --> 01:45:11,444
Hmm.
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high tech and gardener.
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be here, man.
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yes.
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Good to be here too.
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Thank you, thank you.
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let's start off with high tech.
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What have you been doing this week?
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~ recovering from sickness but also playing some Next Fest demos, despite my the fact that
I published an article basically ambasting the use of AI and it so I think I mentioned
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this in the article, but you know Valve's promo video for the Next Fest features game
doesn't feature any AI games?
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Interesting.
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So it looks like Valve themselves are wary, but I don't but they I think they're also
aware that they can't exactly put that genie back in its bottle.
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one that I think is gonna have to be regulated.
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I don't say this maybe a lot, but it's gonna have to be regulated by the markets.
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good old capitalism.
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You're gonna I think it's just they're not a lot of are not gonna get bought.
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It's just gonna be kind of ~ crappy for a little bit, but people will exhaust themselves,
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I understand that that, the people aren't gonna buy it probably, but the fact that it's
clogging up my next fest, I do like to I do like to look for some of the more obscure
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stuff I will say.
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so the fact that it's impeding on my ability to do so really pisses me off.
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I will say Next Fest has always been a little I I really hate to say this.
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I I like the indie community and all that, but like it's for years now, it's it's turned
into more of like it feel they feel like more more like mods because gaming is ~
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developments become easier than ever.
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They feel like th they should have been more like mods back in the day.
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Not a bad thing.
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I j and I just don't have the time as much as I used to for mods.
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how I feel.
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~ it it's interesting.
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I've gotten a couple of really good games from Next Fest.
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But I I think what they need to do better is really I I would like to subscribe to more
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And not I don't want to really see any other genres.
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I want to see like horror, some action, maybe one or two others and that's it.
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I don't want to see a bunch of the other ones.
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And that's what clogs it up for me.
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Yeah, it's the stupid fucking vampire survivor likes.
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Exact I don't wanna I I I have my one.
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It's not Vampire Survivors, it's the ~ the dwarf one, but done.
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Yeah, I ~ I have ~ I maybe have ~ a one Vampire Survivor's like per next fest limit that I
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Mm-hmm.
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But that's but no.
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I I've I've made a I've made an unofficial rule.
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I never cover Vampire Survivor's likes 'cause it I've alright, so they piss me off on many
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First and foremost is that they're like the easiest fu I mean, I'm not gonna say it's easy
to make, but it's like the easiest fucking game to make in the world and like they're
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really boring.
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If they don't have the sauce.
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off, somehow, they managed to infiltrate two of the genres I really like.
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They infiltrate fucking Bullet Hell, which I kinda it kinda makes sense that it would be
categorized as that.
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I'd meet some fucking schmups, man.
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I like meet some fucking like you guys ever
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play like Raiden, like back in the day?
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I don't think so.
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Well, the types of games I'm talking about, right?
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Yeah, you're like you're in a sp you're it's a spa a vertical space shooter, something
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but then I look at fucking Vampire Survivors likes and then I'm like, But not only that
though, they managed to infiltrate the fucking beat up genre.
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like games like Final Fight.
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ca or Castle Crashers.
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you've played Castle Crashers, Gardner, I know you have.
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the the fucking vampire survivor likes managed to infiltrate that genre of games somehow.
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okay, but like There is a I think there's a natural evolution of a game like vampire
survivors into a game like double dragon or fucking ~ Whatever right golden axe those kind
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of that to me that seems like a natural evolution and
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game where all these enemies are coming at you from all around.
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A game like ~ Castle Crashers, a Castle Crashers game, but with like the mechanics of ~
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there are hard ~ there are hard genre lines that have to be defined, in my opinion.
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should be able to meld ~ meld into them and all, but there's so many options.
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just wa I just want easier ways to filter out.
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I want to filter out anything that touches Vampire Survivor.
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So if they're like they're gonna meld them together and it still has like a vampire
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But ~ I I I d and I think melding chord game types can be very beneficial in how we
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that's what I wanna stick with for a while
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Damn dude.
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~ The way I see it though, the c the actual moment to moment gameplay is very different
between ~ Castle Crashers and Vampire Survivors.
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'cause you have multiple options for attacking in castle crashers that all require like
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in Vampire Survivors it just attacks for you all the time.
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real the only real challenge is picking and choosing upgrades and like moving around.
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it's not real it's not really Yeah,
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it's it's it's not really the same.
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I get what you're saying though, Gardner.
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And I feel like a Castle Crashers light game with like the anim enemy density of like a
vampire survivor's game would kinda go hard.
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That's what I was thinking.
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what you were saying was inspiring to me in a way.
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~ I can understand what you mean though when you say like if it was Castle Crashers but
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that tiring as shit.
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But I think there is something to what you just said like like a game like Castle Crashers
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That's kind of where my head was at too.
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~ James, I'm going to
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ask you to cut all of this because I want to make that game now.
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Dude, dude, dude, dude.
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Alright, I'll dude, I'd love to help you out.
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Dude, high tech.
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Whoa.
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Castle Crashers, but like, enemy density.
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~ Vampire Survivors.
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I'm I'm mixing up.
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I genuinely think there is something to that, Hi Tech.
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We should...
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feel like we've only been talking about me though.
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have I I do wanna say it could be worse.
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It could be it could be Vampire Survivors cozy ~ mashup.
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So at least we don't have that yet.
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How?
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okay, so I love games
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and so I love thinking about games the thought that just jumped out to me when you said
that James is to say is like There's like an area where it's like a cozy game But in a
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side-scrolling castle crashers format and then you
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leave your town and it's castle crashers And you're just you're being attacked and you
have to go collect
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before we move on from high tech, I just wanted to say high tech.
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That article that you wrote was amazing.
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you did a great job with that.
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A very well
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argued position, I think.
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And and Jason Evangelos, ~ formerly of Forbes fucking dot com, said as much in a a Macedon
tweet.
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So, dude, good job.
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Nice.
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it.
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Dude, good job.
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Speaking of good jobs,
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Gardner.
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Yes.
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How's your job been this week?
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Has it been good?
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Has it been easy?
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on a cracker, dude.
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~ this
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week has been absolute misery.
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~ anyone who doesn't know, there was like this huge ~ AI assisted vulnerability thing
discovered in PHP and holy crap.
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just, like I had,
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I spent at least...
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at least 10 hours on Wednesday when the patch was released.
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I think it was Wednesday.
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And then again, another six or seven hours on Friday ~ trying to like implement the
mitigations that they recommended.
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And then also dealing with the knock-on effects of legacy code bases that were written in
PHP5 ~ like from like 15, 16 years ago.
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Holy shit, it was just absolute misery.
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It was so bad.
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And I'm so grateful that Hi Tech and ~ many other people contributed articles to the
Bryant Review this week because I didn't have any time.
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~ Yeah.
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Dude, it was, yeah.
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But other than that, dude, okay, and this is something I wanted to get to and didn't have
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It's time for Gardener's Show and Tell.
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This is the SeedSense, ~ the SenseCap solar node.
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This is a Meshtastic node that you
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can like mount on your roof.
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Doesn't require any power.
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You just point the panel at the sun.
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It's battery powered and it like is configured to run as a repeater.
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So all it does is listen for Meshtastic traffic and then rebroadcast it from a higher
vantage point.
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And if you guys don't know what Meshtastic is,
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It is a, ~ a decentralized way of communicating.
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And I talked about it a little bit a couple of weeks ago, but basically you just get a
little radio.
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You can connect it to your phone via Bluetooth, or you can get ones that just have like a
keyboard with a screen and you can, then you can just send decentralized message traffic,
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~ up to like line of sight, nine kilometers.
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It's fucking crazy, dude.
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It's text messaging.
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nine kilometer distance, incredibly cool technology.
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So I bought this so I can set up a little mesh testing network here in my town.
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And I'm going to be, I'm going to be, ~
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hosting like a mesh tastic party where I feed people some fun little, ~ hors d'oeuvres and
teach them about mesh tastic and why they should buy a little radio.
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That's yeah.
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~ man, I there's so much stuff to tinker with these days.
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Yeah, so what I've been doing this week this last week is ~ kids had ~ time off, so I
spent a lot of time doing stuff with them and doing Halloween stuff, but like ~ I've been
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going through Allen Wake 2 again 'cause I beat Control
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Resident and I I just loved Remedy Universe.
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~ and so going through that on the Steam Machine
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~ it it sucks because you know you have to install it through heroic or you know, it just
it just takes a little bit more to set up, but at least it runs pretty well.
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Like I've I've had to have put like 300 hours of at least plus of gaming into the Steam
Machine since I got it.
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Enough to where I haven't even I haven't even finished my review for it.
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It's just gonna
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be at at one point it's gonna be five hundred hours review of the steam machine.
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So my my my review is gonna be like long term usage, which tends to be how I do my reviews
anyways, because I get so caught up in using the devices, but yeah, it's ~ it's going
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pretty good.
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Working on some software.
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~ working on I I working on some like revealed ~ social networking software and just
seeing how
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'Cause decentralizing has its own issues, but also centralizing things is also putting to
maybe too much power into ~ into one's hands because we can see it with the social media,
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like Facebook alone, has a lot of power
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in how they ~ don't regulate misinformation or almost prom like allow Russian bots maybe
stuff for the bonus episode topics, but it's
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Got me thinking a lot, so playing around with some ideas and maybe maybe something will
come out of it, maybe something won't.
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Mm-hmm.
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stuff, but
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I'm playing around with software to maybe help with that, but I don't know.
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And at the end of the day, it's one of the my side projects.
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I'll announce it.
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I'll announce anything I try to I'm trying to be better at announcing things when they're
just pretty much ready.
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Or else if I announce it too early, then it just takes like it just takes a long time for
me to get stuff out.
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So
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Mm-hmm.
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Plenty of stuff cooking
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that I will announce in the future.
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Well, dude, you mentioned
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you mentioned that there there's so much out there that ~ that you could tinker with.
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And I think ~ one of my guiding principles lately, within the last couple of years, it has
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~
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~ what is going to maximize a positive effect on the world by my tinkering?
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And that's why I'm interested in these solar nodes.
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It's why I'm interested in mesh-tastic.
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It's why I'm interested in self-hosting ~ and why we talk about the things we do on the
Brian review, right?
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It's like, I just want to make a positive impact in the world.
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And if we can all do that, I think we'll make it, I think we will achieve that aim.
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Yeah, that's one of the hard things too, 'cause like with my ~ with the app I'm working
on, I was doing self hosting on a VM I was renting and now I went to Cloudflare Compute.
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And I don't want to bore people, but it's just because of the the bot attacks, I just
wanted to go more secure route.
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It's just it's so crazy.
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Like I
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had I had revealed news, which is an aggregation
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client that take it it takes and aggregates a bunch of news articles into one and says hey
these are the different points ~ it has a summary and then you can go like if you want to
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do a different ~ take on it like here's which source you should go to and that was getting
inundated by like bot attacks for the form since I had to put some protections
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on there.
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Like they were doing signups it was it was starting to drain some of my email usage and it
was like I was getting hundreds of signups from a bot and so
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Mm.
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just to stop that, but it's just interesting.
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~ Cloudflare helped a lot with that though.
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Just for anyone that does anything, I guess, software related.
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Cloudflare can help a lot with bot attacks, but
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Mm-hmm.
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yeah, that's what that's what I've been doing.
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Not to get bor let's let's get less boring and less like I find it fascinating, but people
might not find it as fascinating.
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So what they will find fascinating is going to off the console.com.
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and finding all our past episodes, ~ signing up for a membership over at the Patreon.
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Soon we will have s you'll be able to sign up for a membership on off the console.com
itself if you want.
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~ I'm gonna be having
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I so one of the things actually I've been working on, I forgot to mention, is that I'm
working on a combined feed.
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So like if you like running your own ~ podcasting s software, so which I know some people
do in the community I've talked to, you I I will make it so that you can get a token there
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if you ~ get our membership and then you can use that to get all your member all your
content into your feed.
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So I'm working
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on that.
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So I think people will really like that.
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~ a com a combined ~ I mean people even if you don't pay for the membership, you you can
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get that feed and get everything besides the bonus content, paid content into your feed.
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So So
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yeah.
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It's a f it's a fun project.
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So that it kinda goes along with the s the social thing I'm playing around with.
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That I'll reveal one day.
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But yeah.
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Off the po
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No.
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Off off theconsole.com.
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Go there, all the good stuff.
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It look for updates and stuff coming soon.
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Follow us there.
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~ that will be that's kind of our hub for now.
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So with that being said, you could also like the
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Fediverse is there.
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You all our links are there that I that we usually promote is all there.
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So if you like the Fediverse, we have stuff there.
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We have the RSS feed there.
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We have
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All the good stuff there.
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~ and now let's get into the depressing I maybe I just don't want to get into the
depressing news because I have to admit that one of my favorite franchises a little bit
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later on is dead.
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But
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what
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also is kind of dead is maybe my want to buy the next console, and that is because
next-gen consoles are looking like they're gonna be a thousand dollars.
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High tech.
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Why did you do this to this and explain.
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~ well something put, I wanted more money.
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I'm a greedy fuck.
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ha.
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I've decided I can't be an ethical billionaire, so I gotta be an unethical billionaire and
charge up the ass.
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Yeah.
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but real talk though.
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This
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You're the most honest
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one at least.
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Honesty is my only policy.
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Now, speaking of now, speaking of honesty, let's honestly think.
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This is $680 for the materials alone.
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This doesn't take into account labor or any of the other parts, too.
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At least for PlayStation, this is just the RAM and SSD.
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And some further reports suggest that the PlayStation 6 is gonna be $1,200.
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And of course, PlayStation's not the only one who may have a price hike.
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Let's talk about Xbox, the crazier one where it's like a range of twelve hundred to
eighteen hundred dollars.
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Hmm.
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Would you buy an eighteen hundred dollar Xbox?
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No.
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Course not.
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I really hate this because I might I know it's just railing.
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~ I might if it is let's say one point five times better than the Steam machine, there is
a slim chance I might.
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If RAM prices and everything else don't go down.
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s slim chance if it could play all my games, like Steam and ever.
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But at the same time, I I I I just
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don't want I don't know.
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Probably not.
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If the difference between the Xbox series and the Xbox helix was like a comparable ~
feature gap between the NES and SNES, it might be worth that jump in price, but it's not.
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There's almost, there's
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going to be almost no like honest way to justify.
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this if you buy it, you're going to be doing mental gymnastics to justify your purchase
when it's not even going to be like the sorry, the train's going.
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But ~ the like you're to have to do a hell of a lot of mental gymnastics to justify this
kind of purchase.
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It's like ~ or GTA seven is only available on Xbox or PlayStation six.
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It's like, give me give me a break.
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No, I know.
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on that generation.
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Yeah, right.
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And the difference between GTA 6 for Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 versus Xbox Helix or
PlayStation 6 is gonna be fucking minuscule.
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I mean, even the difference between like Xbox 360 and Series, or not Series, but Xbox One,
like there was that big jump.
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between GTA V on the two different generations, there was a huge jump, right?
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Meaningful.
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Here there won't be.
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There's not gonna be any difference.
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And I just, as someone who has been a console skeptic for ages now, I will never buy this.
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I don't know, I feel like consoles are over, man.
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If they if they end up being eighteen hundred dollars, like these are just rumored prices.
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Consoles could be more.
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And I've
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gonna be more.
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There they're they're they're
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gonna ha th there's no way it could be more than two thousand dollars.
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if it's over two thousand dollars it's over.
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Like period.
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I I
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can safely say that.
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We're it entering the thousand dollars is already a super grey area and will probably be
the worst selling systems of all time.
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Mm-hmm.
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~ I don't think people I think we're at the tail end of what people can afford.
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I I don't
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I I don't even think people are gonna get be able to get loans out because they're gonna
be maxed out from just surviving and from polymarket.
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Right.
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When PlayStation released the whenever PlayStation has released a console that's way too
expensive, it's always backfired in there at face.
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Xbox hasn't quite gone that route until this next gen, and I think it's I think we're
screwed.
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And I think the worst I don't know.
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I also don't I I'm kind of bitter on these companies ca and i because there's tariffs.
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They're not even like Valve is to do on this.
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Like they got tariff refunds.
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What did they do with them?
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Captain.
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They kept them.
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Profit.
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They upped the prices and they kept the the and so they're just gonna keep on the I don't
know, ~ are
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are they s just keeping cause they upped the prices and some of it was because of tariffs.
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Are they just now not gonna lower them and just gonna keep them at the prices?
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I know NAN's expensive, but like
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Like we said in the bonus episode, socialism for me, but not for thee.
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~ this is, that's what it is, man.
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It's, that's what it is.
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I'm tired of of companies.
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I and maybe it is we just need to reset.
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And I don't I hate to say it because I really do like a lot of these companies.
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I don't want the I the the thing is, I don't necessarily have I I the PlayStation 5
controller is amazing.
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That's about all I like about the PlayStation 5.
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Everything else can die, ~ for all I care.
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~ I just really like how innovative it can be with like some games like Astrobot.
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But maybe we just need it
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them to just do this and just die off.
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And they'll complain.
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They'll say, ~ they always make all these juvenile ~ excuses why they're not doing well.
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And then they'll just die off.
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I I I I think if it's over a thousand dollars, there's a good chance that these companies
will stop doing well.
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And we'll see.
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Maybe
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they'll innovate and go to a reasonable price and and subsidize because they do make mu
they make most of their money off of the games, not the console.
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So them trying to make money off a console is honestly kind of ~ crazy now, in my opinion,
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because they charge so much.
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And Valve is I give them a lot of gr like grief too.
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They charge just as much or more for their take, and they only ~ support infrastructure,
they don't subsidize their hardware.
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So I don't know.
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Like this is I'm kind of just upset because inflation has caused these numbers to go so
high.
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But not really, because inflation has only gone up so much and these are way past
inflation numbers.
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And I know ramp a calypse, but rant over.
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I'm just I don't know, man.
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I might and that's the sad thing.
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I might still think about getting one of them if it's in the thousand dollar range, but
we'll see.
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We'll see.
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I I they have to be pretty fucking innovative this time around to to win my dollar.
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'Cause I didn't even buy the newest Xbox and I've I've had every generation of console.
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Every generation of console.
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And the the Xbox series I have not bought one because I just didn't need to.
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If PlayStation doesn't give
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me a reason, ~ I think the only thing I'm interested in the next gen is a PlayStation
handheld and that's it.
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No, I'll just say that.
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Hmm.
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~ yeah, it's a thousand dollar PlayStation handheld.
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Well, how much do you think?
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So I've heard rumors that the PlayStation 6 is going to be a handheld.
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How much do you have of like?
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Like the price comparison for like a, you know, a handheld PC versus a PlayStation 6, do
you think that would factor into pricing?
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~ I would imagine it would factor quite a bit, 'cause they have to do lot more R and D to
try to optimize for power usage and all that stuff.
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The the kind of stuff that the fact that Valve released a Steam Deck for four hundred
dollars was ~ insane, truth be told.
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Mm-hmm.
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I don't know if we're ever I don't know if we're gonna get a four hundred dollar Steam
Deck too.
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We c w we could if we wanted.
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we can get there.
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~ that's the thing.
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They did it.
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We're able to.
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I don't necessarily want a four hundred dollar Steam Deck too.
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I want it to not be old tech.
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When it comes out I want it to be a little bit newer tech.
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They the L C D and they've even replaced that since.
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So that the L C D, the chip, a bunch of things were older, so they got good deals on
That's a big part of the reason why they were able to get hit the the the price point they
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did it.
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And it was good.
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Like and w we should like
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The next Steam Deck or the next like it once tariffs and tariffs and the NAN stuff's over
with, we sh they should not n inflation should not or d like according to how inflation's
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going, sh all the stuff should be under a thousand dollars.
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So
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we should not be seeing
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anything after those two things break and if
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And if you we really want to try to see things get back to an affordable place where we're
not taking out loans, because we're we're starting to get into car loan territory here
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with
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some of these prices.
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~ for gaming, which is crazy.
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We we shouldn't buy buying this stuff.
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We should be holding on to what we have and try to just like the indie market's really
good.
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Try to get yourself a homemade steam machine if you can.
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Because at that, like make a steam machine or buy a steam machine or
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Make a homemade one, that will suffice for a long time with all the games coming out, so.
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Thank
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crazy that
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Ugh.
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Well Nintendo though I hate to say it, man.
493
00:28:41,146 --> 00:28:44,489
Remember when we thought the Switch 2 was a bi a bit overpriced?
494
00:28:45,672 --> 00:28:47,073
Yeah, good times.
495
00:28:47,095 --> 00:28:58,354
Well, you know, if you can't afford a PlayStation 6 or Xbox Helix ~ and you can't afford
to build a PC, you can always do what they're doing in France, which we talked about in
496
00:28:58,354 --> 00:29:00,406
the bonus episode.
497
00:29:00,406 --> 00:29:04,729
~
498
00:29:05,441 --> 00:29:07,159
~ my
499
00:29:07,159 --> 00:29:08,454
just borrow a little bit of RAM.
500
00:29:08,454 --> 00:29:09,919
They they don't need it right now.
501
00:29:09,919 --> 00:29:12,859
Yeah, yeah, just yeah, borrow.
502
00:29:13,448 --> 00:29:16,494
How how can you have a game tournament during a riot?
503
00:29:16,494 --> 00:29:16,834
Right?
504
00:29:16,834 --> 00:29:17,852
They're not using it.
505
00:29:17,852 --> 00:29:18,693
Yeah.
506
00:29:22,804 --> 00:29:31,268
I honestly more and more I I think the consoles are kinda killing themselves off and maybe
it's a little bit on purpose because they want to promote their online services, but I
507
00:29:31,268 --> 00:29:37,440
think it's just and we are we're getting really good decompiling ~ projects, right?
508
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:43,373
Like Astrobot's gonna be playable on the Steam Machine any d any month now, I think.
509
00:29:43,373 --> 00:29:51,896
And so I unless and and who knows, like if if we can control the the legal side of this
510
00:29:51,966 --> 00:29:53,920
I think the the consoles are done.
511
00:29:53,920 --> 00:30:00,385
My recommendation would be just like, yeah, you can buy the game but then dec decompile it
and put it on your steam machine, you know.
512
00:30:00,385 --> 00:30:01,273
Mm.
513
00:30:02,653 --> 00:30:03,413
I
514
00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:04,114
Yeah.
515
00:30:04,114 --> 00:30:08,897
If you could buy a Blu-ray player, which we'll we'll talk about that very soon.
516
00:30:09,238 --> 00:30:11,879
~ Yes, and speaking of
517
00:30:11,879 --> 00:30:21,305
Game Pass and software and all that, like ~ report next gen Xbox Project Helix Targets
2028 release could cost wait, this is the same okay, this is sorry.
518
00:30:22,246 --> 00:30:24,628
This is a continuation of what we were talking about.
519
00:30:24,628 --> 00:30:31,188
I didn't realize that we had two articles here, but yeah, seeing it on in like if you're
watching, like seeing this just
520
00:30:31,188 --> 00:30:38,771
The numbers on screen makes it even more real real of ~ damn that's so expensive.
521
00:30:38,771 --> 00:30:39,967
It's crazy.
522
00:30:43,292 --> 00:30:45,739
What's even sorry?
523
00:30:45,797 --> 00:30:47,550
Nah, go go on, go on.
524
00:30:48,626 --> 00:30:49,556
Yeah.
525
00:30:50,636 --> 00:30:52,249
Is this is this the right one?
526
00:30:52,249 --> 00:30:53,599
the video.
527
00:30:53,639 --> 00:30:54,359
No, okay.
528
00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:59,622
So Exodus Nexus, launcher for Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass now with experimental Steam
Deck support.
529
00:30:59,622 --> 00:31:01,123
Yeah, this is nice.
530
00:31:02,184 --> 00:31:03,474
I ha
531
00:31:03,881 --> 00:31:05,305
Yeah, this is good stuff.
532
00:31:05,305 --> 00:31:07,069
I've tried this out actually.
533
00:31:08,296 --> 00:31:09,329
do you like it?
534
00:31:10,259 --> 00:31:11,789
It works as expected.
535
00:31:11,789 --> 00:31:13,472
~ for the most part.
536
00:31:13,472 --> 00:31:21,978
There are some weird bugs where I I I so I got myself a cheap Game Pass ~ month to try
this thing out.
537
00:31:22,099 --> 00:31:23,520
It is pretty sick.
538
00:31:24,081 --> 00:31:29,915
~ but I will say there are some unusual bugs with it that I experienced this past week or
so.
539
00:31:29,915 --> 00:31:35,230
~ namely in regards to down giving you the option to download games that aren't out yet.
540
00:31:35,230 --> 00:31:39,643
Like ~ Persona 4 ~ Revival is not out yet.
541
00:31:40,073 --> 00:31:44,665
And also Stranger Than Heaven, but I think that's just probably just a n it's probably
just a bug.
542
00:31:44,788 --> 00:31:48,026
And you said it's letting you download or just it shows up?
543
00:31:48,179 --> 00:31:51,681
It shows up, I press download, and then it airs out.
544
00:31:51,681 --> 00:31:52,048
Hmm.
545
00:31:52,048 --> 00:31:53,660
~ but it's not released yet, right?
546
00:31:53,660 --> 00:31:56,895
So it's just like a it's it's it's a but it's a but
547
00:31:56,895 --> 00:31:59,563
it's a benign bug that could be easily patched.
548
00:31:59,563 --> 00:32:00,534
Yeah.
549
00:32:00,909 --> 00:32:04,571
It'd be insane if you could it wouldn't let you download and play those games.
550
00:32:04,723 --> 00:32:07,413
I mean that wouldn't be the first time Microsoft
551
00:32:07,413 --> 00:32:09,917
left the floodgate open like that
552
00:32:09,917 --> 00:32:13,651
I would totally I would totally make a video about that if that were the case.
553
00:32:14,558 --> 00:32:15,348
Yeah.
554
00:32:15,708 --> 00:32:21,500
~ I I could add so I've been building a launcher too for years on and off.
555
00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:23,270
And I have what it's called Load Kit right now.
556
00:32:23,270 --> 00:32:26,281
And it it does it's what I play on the Steam Machine.
557
00:32:26,281 --> 00:32:28,012
So I have Alan Wake on there.
558
00:32:28,012 --> 00:32:31,068
I ha I'm adding mod support, so I'm playing like the They Hunger.
559
00:32:31,068 --> 00:32:34,793
I and I'm just adding like that's why I haven't announced or released it yet.
560
00:32:34,793 --> 00:32:37,424
But this would be fun to add to it.
561
00:32:37,424 --> 00:32:41,635
It's just I'd have to get the Xbox Game Pass again.
562
00:32:41,635 --> 00:32:44,476
And I kinda regret getting it the past because
563
00:32:45,664 --> 00:32:51,866
~ I I beat actually ~ a couple games on Game Pass, right?
564
00:32:51,947 --> 00:33:02,991
But then they removed those games and like, okay, cool, like ~ Expedition 33 is one I
beat, and they've removed it recently, or they're about to.
565
00:33:03,051 --> 00:33:12,065
~ and I don't know what happens to my saves, but I know there's tools to I go ~ before all
this happened, like with Doom, Dark Ages and and with that, I removed the saves and put
566
00:33:12,065 --> 00:33:15,636
them into Steam and had them down, like I used a tool.
567
00:33:15,658 --> 00:33:16,388
that you can find.
568
00:33:16,388 --> 00:33:23,690
I can't remember what it's called, but you can transfer your Xbox ~ saves over to another
like another platform.
569
00:33:23,930 --> 00:33:26,911
Not the most intuitive piece of software, but it was I I did that.
570
00:33:26,911 --> 00:33:31,751
And now I'm like I'm afraid to play any games on Xbox because I'm like, what if I don't
have the subscription?
571
00:33:31,751 --> 00:33:33,083
I'm not gonna pay for it every month.
572
00:33:33,083 --> 00:33:34,733
~
573
00:33:34,733 --> 00:33:36,784
nowadays, especially as it's gonna go up in price.
574
00:33:36,784 --> 00:33:42,305
And I I'm also because it's going up in price and because what they've been doing, I
didn't I don't want to support that.
575
00:33:42,305 --> 00:33:44,966
I'll I'll support individual developers, but
576
00:33:46,292 --> 00:33:47,333
This is really cool.
577
00:33:47,333 --> 00:33:48,935
I love that we have this.
578
00:33:48,935 --> 00:33:53,138
But I think I've gotten more onto the bandwagon of hating the Game Pass.
579
00:33:53,179 --> 00:33:54,019
And
580
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,912
people don't don't need to at me in the comments.
581
00:33:55,912 --> 00:33:57,217
Like, I get it.
582
00:33:57,217 --> 00:33:57,764
I i if
583
00:33:57,764 --> 00:33:59,425
it's for you, go for it.
584
00:33:59,425 --> 00:34:04,490
I just don't wanna like I'm personally not putting my eggs in that basket anymore.
585
00:34:04,490 --> 00:34:06,702
I'm just gonna buy the the games outright.
586
00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:10,383
I've come to the realization that most tech
587
00:34:10,383 --> 00:34:18,089
now like consumer tech is built on wage theft and ~ For for like
588
00:34:18,089 --> 00:34:19,210
for YouTube.
589
00:34:19,210 --> 00:34:23,894
It's it's like ~ propping up big names like ~ Mr.
590
00:34:23,894 --> 00:34:32,261
Beast and making YouTube seem glamorous and then you know not actually paying creators who
you know make
591
00:34:32,457 --> 00:34:34,399
ton of money for YouTube.
592
00:34:34,399 --> 00:34:37,551
~ AI is the same thing.
593
00:34:37,551 --> 00:34:40,403
It's like ripping off creators to replace them.
594
00:34:40,444 --> 00:34:46,368
And with Xbox Game Pass, it's ripping off studios and not actually paying them.
595
00:34:47,509 --> 00:34:54,534
And so like everything like for me, Game Pass has always been that I just didn't have the
term wage theft
596
00:34:54,848 --> 00:34:55,692
Mm-hmm.
597
00:34:55,696 --> 00:34:56,717
to describe it.
598
00:34:56,717 --> 00:34:58,118
But that's what it is.
599
00:34:58,118 --> 00:35:01,760
So I've always I'm glad you're on board with me, James.
600
00:35:02,238 --> 00:35:03,248
I've only
601
00:35:03,248 --> 00:35:05,009
pla okay, well that's not true.
602
00:35:05,009 --> 00:35:12,901
I was gonna say I've always played just their first party games on there instead of paying
them and that the ~ paying for I like to try and call duty.
603
00:35:12,901 --> 00:35:14,591
There's a couple of games I like to try on there.
604
00:35:14,591 --> 00:35:17,432
So to be fair, I was never gonna buy the game.
605
00:35:17,432 --> 00:35:27,875
I was using it more as a demo for a lot of the times 'cause I always kinda didn't like
tying up my my saved and after doing expedition just going full hog expedition and and
606
00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:30,964
doom dark ages, I like there's new
607
00:35:30,964 --> 00:35:32,098
DLC for Dark Ages.
608
00:35:32,098 --> 00:35:35,239
I'm like, I'm not gonna go back and play that anytime soon.
609
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,021
I don't even know if
610
00:35:36,021 --> 00:35:37,767
I have the save for it now.
611
00:35:37,767 --> 00:35:38,578
But
612
00:35:40,316 --> 00:35:44,138
I the big dogs I I think it paid okay.
613
00:35:44,138 --> 00:35:46,090
Like if is right, it's all balanced out.
614
00:35:46,090 --> 00:35:49,381
But anyone that's small enough, they get kind of screwed over.
615
00:35:49,762 --> 00:35:50,902
Luckily,
616
00:35:50,923 --> 00:36:00,528
Expedition, even though they did get screwed over by this deal, maybe that's why they're
leaving, they made I think four hundred million dollars.
617
00:36:01,469 --> 00:36:03,340
But that was probably from other cells.
618
00:36:03,340 --> 00:36:04,591
They're also game of the year, so I'm
619
00:36:04,591 --> 00:36:06,202
hoping that they would.
620
00:36:06,417 --> 00:36:06,897
Right.
621
00:36:06,897 --> 00:36:07,888
And I agree.
622
00:36:07,888 --> 00:36:12,920
Like, totally ~ the fact is Expedition is like one of the exceptions to that.
623
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:13,581
Right.
624
00:36:13,581 --> 00:36:14,095
Yeah.
625
00:36:14,095 --> 00:36:17,866
made some good money from this, but it probably didn't l make as much as it could have.
626
00:36:17,866 --> 00:36:21,531
But it it also did help that people could try it out.
627
00:36:21,531 --> 00:36:23,982
So like I think game demos are also a big deal.
628
00:36:23,982 --> 00:36:28,595
Like make more game demos de developers, like that's also very useful.
629
00:36:28,595 --> 00:36:35,233
So if it's a game people don't want to risk, then you know, let it let us try it out.
630
00:36:35,233 --> 00:36:36,039
Mm.
631
00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:37,109
Mm-hmm.
632
00:36:38,010 --> 00:36:38,770
Yeah, man.
633
00:36:38,770 --> 00:36:42,192
It's I I think it's great that this is happening.
634
00:36:42,192 --> 00:36:48,464
by the way, the Exodus Nexus project is separate from the Exodus Project, which as we
know, the Exodus project
635
00:36:48,464 --> 00:36:51,395
was ~ created by Lingwin.
636
00:36:52,155 --> 00:36:53,556
And Exodus Nexus
637
00:36:53,556 --> 00:36:54,696
is not.
638
00:36:55,057 --> 00:36:56,908
You know, Lingwin, the guy that made Hero Games launcher.
639
00:36:56,908 --> 00:36:58,838
We had him on the pod for those that don't know, we had him
640
00:36:58,838 --> 00:37:00,989
on the podcast ~ a while ago.
641
00:37:00,989 --> 00:37:05,553
~ but it's impressive that this is actually working and
642
00:37:05,553 --> 00:37:18,937
While I'm not too I'm not too keen on Game Pass myself, I think it is worthy of mentioning
because like this is a way to break away from I've known people that can't move away from
643
00:37:18,937 --> 00:37:22,493
my from Windows because of Game Pass and now they can.
644
00:37:22,493 --> 00:37:26,290
I haven't encountered any bugs just yet, but I also haven't tested it that much.
645
00:37:26,290 --> 00:37:30,131
So I mean, I'm sure we'll see some more news about that.
646
00:37:30,530 --> 00:37:31,951
Anytime we get something
647
00:37:31,951 --> 00:37:35,913
additional for Linux, I like support like this, like I think it's a win.
648
00:37:35,913 --> 00:37:42,300
Even if we might not like the whole thing, ~ g like the game pass per se.
649
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:47,604
Like I think this is still a huge win for people to just be able to play the game t the
way they want to play it, I guess.
650
00:37:47,604 --> 00:37:56,951
~ on the system that we like on Linux and SteamOS, but ~ Yeah.
651
00:37:57,232 --> 00:37:58,052
It's
652
00:37:58,059 --> 00:38:00,181
It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft does anything about it.
653
00:38:00,181 --> 00:38:01,302
And I I'll have to give kudos.
654
00:38:01,302 --> 00:38:05,516
If Microsoft doesn't do anything, like to attack them, then I'll give them kudos.
655
00:38:05,516 --> 00:38:09,729
~ they're only helping l Xbox to be fair.
656
00:38:09,729 --> 00:38:13,993
And any like ~ Micr Microsoft and Xbox is by doing this.
657
00:38:13,993 --> 00:38:21,239
Just giving them free ways for people to play and have and maybe buy their game pass and
actually use it on the device that they want.
658
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:22,641
So but you just never
659
00:38:22,641 --> 00:38:24,712
know sometimes with these game companies.
660
00:38:25,205 --> 00:38:32,516
I'm sure Asha Sharma recognizes that they're not in the big the best of positions and you
know, they haven't for two generations in a row.
661
00:38:32,516 --> 00:38:36,261
I mean yeah, that doesn't mean that doesn't mean they couldn't attack us at any point in
time.
662
00:38:36,261 --> 00:38:37,851
shoot themselves in the foot all the time.
663
00:38:37,851 --> 00:38:43,197
~ PlayStation shooting themselves in the foot so many times this year.
664
00:38:43,197 --> 00:38:44,373
just this year alone.
665
00:38:44,373 --> 00:38:45,666
That's crazy.
666
00:38:45,666 --> 00:38:46,687
They are
667
00:38:46,687 --> 00:38:50,979
they they ~ all these companies had like I don't know, it's control, obviously.
668
00:38:50,979 --> 00:38:54,011
It's it's it's a balancing act between control and profits.
669
00:38:54,071 --> 00:39:02,596
And so because they're exercising this control, their profits are gonna hurt and then so
they're gonna have to hurt us again in another way, to get their profits up, so
670
00:39:03,257 --> 00:39:09,264
It's will be interesting to see what the ramifications from PlayStation's horrible
policies will ha have.
671
00:39:09,264 --> 00:39:10,436
We'll we'll see.
672
00:39:10,529 --> 00:39:11,517
Mm.
673
00:39:13,053 --> 00:39:14,333
Yeah.
674
00:39:14,333 --> 00:39:16,244
You know what else Sony did?
675
00:39:17,684 --> 00:39:18,423
What?
676
00:39:18,423 --> 00:39:21,153
killed off Blu-ray players.
677
00:39:21,153 --> 00:39:22,750
Ugh, dude.
678
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,403
They invented the Blu-ray, right?
679
00:39:27,403 --> 00:39:28,064
They're they
680
00:39:28,064 --> 00:39:33,736
own the patent for this, the tr and the et cetera, et cetera.
681
00:39:34,012 --> 00:39:36,156
It was a fight against Blu-ray and
682
00:39:36,156 --> 00:39:37,176
~
683
00:39:37,786 --> 00:39:41,177
H D D V D or D V
684
00:39:41,177 --> 00:39:42,282
D H D or some shit like that.
685
00:39:42,282 --> 00:39:44,003
It was HD DVD.
686
00:39:46,084 --> 00:39:47,064
Dude.
687
00:39:48,205 --> 00:39:49,205
Okay.
688
00:39:49,425 --> 00:39:52,246
Do you guys remember when Sony was cool?
689
00:39:53,167 --> 00:39:53,987
Like Sony,
690
00:39:53,987 --> 00:40:07,393
dude, so like before the PlayStation, I mean, even like the original PlayStation, Sony was
like the fucking company you went to to buy premium equipment to rip
691
00:40:07,393 --> 00:40:10,314
music from the over the air radio.
692
00:40:10,366 --> 00:40:10,886
they were,
693
00:40:10,886 --> 00:40:15,968
they were the company that was behind Blu-ray, or not Blu-ray, but ~ CD burners, right?
694
00:40:15,968 --> 00:40:19,150
~ they invented, they co-invented the CD, right?
695
00:40:19,150 --> 00:40:29,313
And ~ Sony was like the like wink and nod piracy advocate for a long time.
696
00:40:29,374 --> 00:40:34,185
And then they ended up buying Columbia Pictures and came up with the PlayStation.
697
00:40:34,185 --> 00:40:37,857
And I think that actually ruined their company, if I'm completely honest.
698
00:40:37,857 --> 00:40:38,697
Like.
699
00:40:38,721 --> 00:40:46,251
~ when they bought, I think it was Columbia, and they became like content distributors and
publishers.
700
00:40:46,251 --> 00:40:48,693
That's what actually ruined Sony.
701
00:40:49,595 --> 00:40:51,497
Is that crazy of me to say?
702
00:40:51,669 --> 00:40:52,440
I don't think so.
703
00:40:52,440 --> 00:41:02,368
No, I think you're I think you're totally right on that, 'cause Sony didn't have a I don't
yeah, I mean I I wasn't around when Sony was best known for that.
704
00:41:02,368 --> 00:41:06,631
I'm pretty sure Sony bought like Columbia many, many like decades ago.
705
00:41:07,101 --> 00:41:12,442
It was around the time PlayStation 1 launched Sony pictures.
706
00:41:12,442 --> 00:41:13,419
I'm looking it up now.
707
00:41:13,419 --> 00:41:13,989
it?
708
00:41:13,989 --> 00:41:14,549
I don't know.
709
00:41:14,549 --> 00:41:20,521
Anyways, regardless though, Sony Sony for a for a time, they were the Apple of Japan.
710
00:41:20,521 --> 00:41:21,421
And
711
00:41:21,421 --> 00:41:25,052
in many in many regards, they still carry themselves as the Apple of Japan.
712
00:41:25,052 --> 00:41:26,032
Even if
713
00:41:26,153 --> 00:41:30,194
that I don't know if that's even really accurate anymore, but whatever it is.
714
00:41:31,614 --> 00:41:38,156
~ but Sony do so Sony outside of PlayStation does still do a lot of cool tech.
715
00:41:38,156 --> 00:41:38,696
Like they
716
00:41:38,696 --> 00:41:42,537
still have some of the best camera gear around.
717
00:41:43,083 --> 00:41:45,589
They still have some of the best audio gear around.
718
00:41:45,589 --> 00:41:46,398
Mm-hmm.
719
00:41:46,398 --> 00:41:54,811
~ really Aside from fucking PlayStation and like the film, they they still do a lot of
great stuff.
720
00:41:54,992 --> 00:41:55,543
And they're still
721
00:41:55,543 --> 00:41:57,373
cool in that regard, but yeah.
722
00:41:57,373 --> 00:41:58,535
Yeah.
723
00:41:58,595 --> 00:42:01,741
was purchased by Sony in 1989.
724
00:42:01,741 --> 00:42:02,974
I didn't know that.
725
00:42:04,386 --> 00:42:10,049
Alright, so not as far back as I was I was thinking maybe the seventies or some shit, but
~ I don't know.
726
00:42:11,582 --> 00:42:12,668
interesting.
727
00:42:13,683 --> 00:42:20,722
So I do like Sony's audio gear and I at some point I am gonna buy their latest ~ AirPod
like device.
728
00:42:20,722 --> 00:42:23,605
The WF they need to name those things better.
729
00:42:23,605 --> 00:42:24,016
I'm sorry.
730
00:42:24,016 --> 00:42:27,189
Sony has terrible naming schemes for their audio products.
731
00:42:28,973 --> 00:42:29,874
Hey.
732
00:42:30,417 --> 00:42:32,282
Once they change that, you know it's gone.
733
00:42:32,282 --> 00:42:34,377
Sony's not their same self.
734
00:42:34,377 --> 00:42:36,191
They have to have the terrible naming.
735
00:42:36,203 --> 00:42:36,924
They have they have
736
00:42:36,924 --> 00:42:41,928
to name it the the model number, not the the fucking catchy name.
737
00:42:41,928 --> 00:42:42,279
I will
738
00:42:42,279 --> 00:42:44,815
say I I do l hate that.
739
00:42:44,957 --> 00:42:51,325
The first time I ever heard the name PlayStation, my cousin was like, hey, Gardner, we
just got a PlayStation.
740
00:42:51,325 --> 00:42:52,496
I was like, cool.
741
00:42:52,496 --> 00:42:56,170
Is that ~ one of those little plastic kitchenettes?
742
00:42:56,311 --> 00:42:58,343
~ that's literally
743
00:42:58,343 --> 00:42:59,164
what I thought it was.
744
00:42:59,164 --> 00:43:03,879
Like one of those little kitchenettes for kids to like pretend they were playing house.
745
00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:04,859
Well
746
00:43:04,859 --> 00:43:06,071
now now it's
747
00:43:06,071 --> 00:43:11,381
a little plastic device that you use to pretend like you're Crash Bandicoot.
748
00:43:11,381 --> 00:43:12,602
Yeah.
749
00:43:12,602 --> 00:43:17,704
the the pretend nowadays nowadays it's a device to pretend like you own the game.
750
00:43:18,163 --> 00:43:18,561
Yeah.
751
00:43:18,561 --> 00:43:19,126
true.
752
00:43:19,126 --> 00:43:19,986
True.
753
00:43:21,094 --> 00:43:22,368
All make believe.
754
00:43:22,431 --> 00:43:23,410
Yup.
755
00:43:23,602 --> 00:43:29,329
But it seems like retro media has gone up in ~ in sales, according to this article.
756
00:43:29,329 --> 00:43:30,390
It says here that C Ds
757
00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:31,311
and vinyl went up.
758
00:43:31,311 --> 00:43:33,025
Especially vinyl too, I will say.
759
00:43:33,025 --> 00:43:33,981
Mmm.
760
00:43:33,981 --> 00:43:36,577
Like a I'm not gonna lie, I've never
761
00:43:36,883 --> 00:43:40,078
Suzy, my wife, loves vinyls and so I buy
762
00:43:40,078 --> 00:43:40,458
for her.
763
00:43:40,458 --> 00:43:45,254
She she loves collecting ~ especially game soundtracks that way.
764
00:43:45,254 --> 00:43:49,727
Yeah, dude, I have, ~ vinyl on the wall here behind me.
765
00:43:49,727 --> 00:43:53,359
I have a huge collection of vinyl out on the bookshelf out here.
766
00:43:53,359 --> 00:43:54,740
Like, I love vinyl.
767
00:43:54,740 --> 00:43:55,881
And CDs!
768
00:43:56,317 --> 00:43:57,760
I'm not gonna lie.
769
00:43:58,164 --> 00:44:01,192
I've never listened to music on a vinyl before.
770
00:44:01,649 --> 00:44:02,936
It's fun.
771
00:44:03,264 --> 00:44:04,307
It's fun.
772
00:44:04,585 --> 00:44:06,526
It's a it's a it's a very tactile experience.
773
00:44:06,526 --> 00:44:07,619
That's what makes it so nice.
774
00:44:07,619 --> 00:44:13,726
This is just it like on the computer, yeah, I listen to music all the time, but like s
like sometimes you just want a tactile feel.
775
00:44:13,726 --> 00:44:16,640
You just pop it on, start it starts
776
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,112
going, you hear everything.
777
00:44:18,112 --> 00:44:20,304
It's so satisfying.
778
00:44:20,331 --> 00:44:26,474
Dude, I'm surprised no one's ~ you know Laserdisc is apparently still popular in Japan for
like the karaoke places.
779
00:44:26,474 --> 00:44:27,407
Mmm, yeah.
780
00:44:27,407 --> 00:44:28,188
Dude, I can't think
781
00:44:28,188 --> 00:44:36,025
of I can't think of Laserdisc without thinking about that episode of the regular show
where they have the format wars and all of the my god.
782
00:44:36,025 --> 00:44:37,466
Have you guys seen the regular show?
783
00:44:37,466 --> 00:44:39,310
Have you guys
784
00:44:39,310 --> 00:44:39,442
it.
785
00:44:39,442 --> 00:44:40,753
I haven't seen that.
786
00:44:40,839 --> 00:44:44,122
This it's the funniest show ever, man.
787
00:44:44,122 --> 00:44:47,838
It's from like Cartoon Network like maybe a decade ago.
788
00:44:47,838 --> 00:44:48,295
Yeah.
789
00:44:48,295 --> 00:44:48,856
It's fucking
790
00:44:48,856 --> 00:44:49,377
awesome man.
791
00:44:49,377 --> 00:44:50,049
You guys should watch.
792
00:44:50,049 --> 00:44:51,152
I think you would like it.
793
00:44:51,152 --> 00:44:52,159
I think you both would like it.
794
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:54,838
I know James probably likes it.
795
00:44:55,842 --> 00:44:56,924
I think Gardner would like
796
00:44:56,924 --> 00:44:57,825
it though.
797
00:44:57,841 --> 00:45:03,725
Saw like some clips of that episode where they were making fun of Billy Mitchell Yeah
798
00:45:03,725 --> 00:45:04,856
a good one too.
799
00:45:04,856 --> 00:45:06,438
~
800
00:45:06,438 --> 00:45:07,438
man.
801
00:45:07,859 --> 00:45:13,945
But yeah, the format wars it's basically like the laser disc like and then they become the
laserdisc guardians.
802
00:45:14,767 --> 00:45:17,077
And man.
803
00:45:17,077 --> 00:45:24,512
you, physical media is where it's at, ~ I just love collecting physical media.
804
00:45:24,512 --> 00:45:25,934
I collect books too.
805
00:45:25,934 --> 00:45:28,315
I have an e-reader and I collect books.
806
00:45:28,956 --> 00:45:29,606
Like, I just
807
00:45:29,606 --> 00:45:30,452
love it.
808
00:45:30,452 --> 00:45:38,409
now some on the internet may ask why we love physical media and we claim to love physical
copies of games, yet we buy games on Steam.
809
00:45:38,409 --> 00:45:40,933
And ~ what are you guys' response to that?
810
00:45:42,933 --> 00:45:43,966
Well, I don't,
811
00:45:43,966 --> 00:45:45,314
yeah, go ahead, James.
812
00:45:45,381 --> 00:45:46,002
Two things.
813
00:45:46,002 --> 00:45:51,725
One, there's not really an easy way to to buy physical media for game like PC gaming.
814
00:45:51,725 --> 00:46:02,211
Two least with Valve or with Steam, I can back those up and then if they ever go under,
then I'm sure there'll be some type of hack to hack those, right?
815
00:46:02,211 --> 00:46:02,971
to get rid of
816
00:46:02,971 --> 00:46:04,972
the DRM to where you could play it, so
817
00:46:05,546 --> 00:46:12,790
Yeah, mean, my game is on Steam and you can play the game without Steam open.
818
00:46:13,351 --> 00:46:16,233
Like Steam is not necessarily DRM.
819
00:46:16,443 --> 00:46:22,106
And there already are Steam emulators that will let you launch games that just use Steam
820
00:46:22,106 --> 00:46:27,559
as a vague, ~ you know, you need to have Steam open and be logged in to play it.
821
00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:31,261
You can get a Steam emulator that will do that.
822
00:46:31,642 --> 00:46:37,685
The flip side of that is I haven't bought a game on Steam in over a year.
823
00:46:39,305 --> 00:46:50,476
~ I don't, I I went to Goodwill and I bought nine PlayStation One discs and I've been
playing those.
824
00:46:50,476 --> 00:46:53,278
Cool Borders 2000, my dude.
825
00:46:53,339 --> 00:46:55,801
I found that at Goodwill a couple of weeks ago.
826
00:46:55,801 --> 00:46:57,703
~
827
00:46:57,703 --> 00:46:59,080
dude, it's awesome.
828
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,181
Valve
829
00:47:00,222 --> 00:47:04,510
Valve favors those who buy gate that's that must be why I got the Steam frame.
830
00:47:04,510 --> 00:47:06,975
I buy so much stuff on Val on Steam.
831
00:47:06,975 --> 00:47:07,787
Man, that's
832
00:47:07,787 --> 00:47:08,389
not fair.
833
00:47:08,389 --> 00:47:10,776
I buy games on Steam too.
834
00:47:10,776 --> 00:47:11,847
But anyways.
835
00:47:12,851 --> 00:47:14,783
I'm sorry, it's been nine months.
836
00:47:14,783 --> 00:47:21,150
My brother-in-law essentially bought me a Steam gift card and I ~
837
00:47:21,150 --> 00:47:24,953
spent $23 of it last Christmas, so it's about nine months.
838
00:47:25,489 --> 00:47:30,134
~ to be fair though, if it's a Steam gift card that you didn't buy, does that count as
839
00:47:30,134 --> 00:47:31,281
you buying it?
840
00:47:31,429 --> 00:47:32,230
No.
841
00:47:33,663 --> 00:47:35,529
When's the last time you spent your own money?
842
00:47:35,529 --> 00:47:37,077
I was going to look that up, I don't know.
843
00:47:37,077 --> 00:47:38,905
~
844
00:47:39,741 --> 00:47:41,402
I don't know, r regardless though, I think
845
00:47:41,402 --> 00:47:51,077
the point is that you could, like in theory, yeah, you you could argue that buying games
on Steam is just as bad as what Sony's doing right now.
846
00:47:51,077 --> 00:47:52,647
But at the same time though,
847
00:47:53,468 --> 00:48:04,733
I mean, the fact that somehow this digital only platform is more game preservation
friendly than fucking a Blu ray disc is kind of telling, right?
848
00:48:04,747 --> 00:48:05,505
Mmm.
849
00:48:06,505 --> 00:48:07,459
Yeah.
850
00:48:09,243 --> 00:48:17,272
I I just worry because I want to start back like I want to start buying more of my media
on Blu-ray because there's a couple of shows I really like and I want to buy them and put
851
00:48:17,272 --> 00:48:18,865
them on my NAS drive.
852
00:48:18,865 --> 00:48:28,116
I'm just afraid that this is gonna start get making it more difficult to do that and
you're gonna have to I'm gonna have to start finding other ways that
853
00:48:29,696 --> 00:48:37,400
~ that breach the unethical where I don't want to necessarily break laws to get the media
that I want and pay for it.
854
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:42,419
'Cause I want to pay the the creators, but they're making it difficult.
855
00:48:43,433 --> 00:48:45,849
And the we sorry, go ahead.
856
00:48:45,849 --> 00:48:55,139
just wanted to mention ~ the last time I spent my own money on steam was when I bought
Animal Well May 19th, 2024.
857
00:48:56,203 --> 00:48:57,687
Damn, two years.
858
00:48:57,687 --> 00:49:01,799
Gardner's really What would make you buy another game on Steam?
859
00:49:02,485 --> 00:49:04,866
Well, there'd have to be something I want.
860
00:49:05,167 --> 00:49:06,828
that's the problem.
861
00:49:07,128 --> 00:49:20,157
so much of like, well, the purchases that I have on here ~ since then are all from ~ my
brother-in-law giving me $100 of Steam credit every Christmas.
862
00:49:20,157 --> 00:49:24,320
So it's like, all of these are from my wallet.
863
00:49:25,281 --> 00:49:29,263
so I did buy a Steam control.
864
00:49:29,263 --> 00:49:29,634
That's right.
865
00:49:29,634 --> 00:49:30,504
I did.
866
00:49:30,504 --> 00:49:31,806
That is not a game.
867
00:49:31,806 --> 00:49:33,367
But that's okay.
868
00:49:34,690 --> 00:49:35,770
I don't know.
869
00:49:36,111 --> 00:49:36,291
You
870
00:49:36,291 --> 00:49:37,052
know?
871
00:49:37,993 --> 00:49:41,025
If I had to make a suggestion for a game you buy this year,
872
00:49:41,025 --> 00:49:41,913
Mm.
873
00:49:42,258 --> 00:49:45,161
get Mega Man X legacy collection.
874
00:49:46,964 --> 00:49:47,926
Yeah.
875
00:49:48,586 --> 00:49:50,473
You really want to play Mega Man?
876
00:49:50,773 --> 00:49:52,673
Dude, I want you to play Big Man too.
877
00:49:52,673 --> 00:49:53,117
You don't
878
00:49:53,117 --> 00:49:54,539
have played Mega Man.
879
00:49:55,224 --> 00:49:56,767
I've never beat it though.
880
00:49:58,528 --> 00:49:59,409
I missed this one.
881
00:49:59,409 --> 00:50:02,390
Gears of War Reloaded last year, August 29th.
882
00:50:02,390 --> 00:50:05,561
So that's the last one that I paid my own money for.
883
00:50:05,561 --> 00:50:07,552
And I paid full price for it too.
884
00:50:07,552 --> 00:50:08,054
So,
885
00:50:08,054 --> 00:50:08,773
that's fair.
886
00:50:08,773 --> 00:50:09,633
yeah.
887
00:50:10,476 --> 00:50:13,069
I've been picking up games from different studios.
888
00:50:13,069 --> 00:50:15,601
They've been sending me keys to try out games.
889
00:50:15,601 --> 00:50:15,901
There's
890
00:50:15,901 --> 00:50:17,242
a very interesting one I've tried out.
891
00:50:17,242 --> 00:50:19,124
I'll have to talk about that later though.
892
00:50:19,124 --> 00:50:20,385
In a video.
893
00:50:21,146 --> 00:50:25,290
Now let's now I mean Wait, what topic are we on even?
894
00:50:25,290 --> 00:50:26,591
~ the fucking
895
00:50:26,591 --> 00:50:29,197
Sony Man, I've
896
00:50:29,197 --> 00:50:35,008
Well, with that type of segue, let's go let's leave Sony behind and go to Nintendo.
897
00:50:35,571 --> 00:50:37,114
With the Switch 2
898
00:50:37,114 --> 00:50:38,406
being hacked.
899
00:50:38,559 --> 00:50:43,459
I read that as the Sims 2 is now hacked, but it's not, it's the Switch 2.
900
00:50:43,849 --> 00:50:45,730
Yeah, so the Switch two
901
00:50:45,730 --> 00:50:53,633
so the Switch two was opened up with a per with a little game that you could buy called
Smile Basic four.
902
00:50:54,454 --> 00:50:59,136
And it's and it's gotten to a point where you could jail break it.
903
00:50:59,136 --> 00:51:08,200
And heck, you if you full screen that video, I don't know if you can or not, but
essentially they were made they managed to mod in characters into Super Mario Kart ~ super
904
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,407
Mario Kart world.
905
00:51:09,407 --> 00:51:11,594
does it pop up full screen for you guys?
906
00:51:12,301 --> 00:51:12,612
Okay,
907
00:51:12,612 --> 00:51:12,862
cool.
908
00:51:12,862 --> 00:51:18,226
So as you can see they modded the bird from Angry Birds and ~ Hatsunimiku
909
00:51:18,847 --> 00:51:25,411
and Peter Griffin, not shown in this video, but and Cinnamon Roll from ~ Sanrio.
910
00:51:25,952 --> 00:51:29,334
These are this is offici this is Mario Kart World, by the way.
911
00:51:30,275 --> 00:51:31,475
So yeah.
912
00:51:31,596 --> 00:51:33,615
Yeah, mods are already a thing.
913
00:51:33,615 --> 00:51:34,711
this is what people want.
914
00:51:34,711 --> 00:51:36,327
People want a mod stuff.
915
00:51:36,607 --> 00:51:37,458
Dude.
916
00:51:38,341 --> 00:51:39,102
Modern Mario
917
00:51:39,102 --> 00:51:41,145
Kart world sounds kinda lith, I'm not gonna.
918
00:51:41,355 --> 00:51:42,807
Hmm.
919
00:51:42,807 --> 00:51:45,348
So, ~
920
00:51:45,609 --> 00:51:49,573
I mean, it would be cool to mod Mario Kart World to make it fun, wouldn't it?
921
00:51:50,297 --> 00:51:51,035
yeah.
922
00:51:51,625 --> 00:51:54,472
I played Mario Kart while I was not impressed.
923
00:51:55,274 --> 00:52:01,679
It's the fu it's the the ~ they do they have so many of those stupid fucking traversal
maps where you have to ~
924
00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:02,970
travel from one place to another.
925
00:52:02,970 --> 00:52:03,961
Alright.
926
00:52:03,961 --> 00:52:05,142
But in a straight line.
927
00:52:05,142 --> 00:52:11,691
It's there's ~ it doesn't have a lot of the classic style of ~ racing maps, you know what
I'm talking about?
928
00:52:11,691 --> 00:52:12,444
Yeah.
929
00:52:12,788 --> 00:52:19,202
The tran they have a lot of transitionary levels, I think they call ~ But I'm not the
biggest fan of those.
930
00:52:19,202 --> 00:52:21,815
I do like the actual levels though that they have.
931
00:52:21,815 --> 00:52:22,285
When they're
932
00:52:22,285 --> 00:52:25,357
not when they're like in an enclosed racing loop.
933
00:52:26,249 --> 00:52:28,493
And not just traveling on the stupid highway.
934
00:52:28,875 --> 00:52:32,296
~ it looks like they modded in Moo Moo Ranch in there too.
935
00:52:32,296 --> 00:52:33,917
I don't think that's in the Mario Kart world,
936
00:52:33,917 --> 00:52:35,040
if I'm not mistaken.
937
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:35,684
Mm-hmm.
938
00:52:35,684 --> 00:52:36,606
don't think that one is.
939
00:52:36,606 --> 00:52:44,791
'Cause that one looks like it's Yeah, now that you're thinking about ~ it doesn't look
like the same graphical fidelity, it looks like the Switch.
940
00:52:45,305 --> 00:52:45,913
Mm-hmm.
941
00:52:46,377 --> 00:52:46,688
Yeah.
942
00:52:46,688 --> 00:52:47,449
Damn.
943
00:52:47,449 --> 00:52:48,667
Who'd have thunk it, right?
944
00:52:48,667 --> 00:52:51,371
They moderated an actual good map into Mario Kart world.
945
00:52:51,371 --> 00:52:52,316
Hahaha.
946
00:52:52,362 --> 00:52:54,503
They have they have good maps, but yeah.
947
00:52:54,672 --> 00:52:59,461
there's yeah, th there are some, but it's a lot less than Mario Kart eight.
948
00:52:59,461 --> 00:53:01,459
~
949
00:53:01,459 --> 00:53:02,206
dude.
950
00:53:02,206 --> 00:53:04,266
every map in Mario Kart 8 is a banger.
951
00:53:04,266 --> 00:53:06,071
I love Mario Kart 8.
952
00:53:06,901 --> 00:53:08,430
There are no bad maps.
953
00:53:08,430 --> 00:53:10,204
Even Baby Park's a good map.
954
00:53:10,204 --> 00:53:11,650
dude, Baby Park's one of my favorites.
955
00:53:11,650 --> 00:53:13,545
It's so chaotic, dude.
956
00:53:15,738 --> 00:53:17,484
one actually plays that map for fun.
957
00:53:17,484 --> 00:53:19,508
They actually just do it to troll people.
958
00:53:19,594 --> 00:53:24,482
Well, I think that it is genuinely fun to troll people, so...
959
00:53:24,643 --> 00:53:25,784
Touche!
960
00:53:26,028 --> 00:53:26,689
Dude.
961
00:53:26,689 --> 00:53:29,152
Garner would make a good invader in Dark Souls.
962
00:53:30,033 --> 00:53:31,178
my gosh.
963
00:53:32,178 --> 00:53:36,687
Dude, my favorite part about trolling
964
00:53:36,687 --> 00:53:41,325
people is when they're sitting on the couch right next to you and you pick baby park and
they get pissed off.
965
00:53:41,325 --> 00:53:45,152
~
966
00:53:45,330 --> 00:53:46,450
Yeah.
967
00:53:46,490 --> 00:53:49,902
So unfortunately though, you can't buy Smile Basic four anymore.
968
00:53:49,902 --> 00:53:51,313
That's been delisted.
969
00:53:51,313 --> 00:53:54,554
I learned about the exploit too late.
970
00:53:54,554 --> 00:53:58,466
But apparently there's another game that they're looking into to potentially hack it.
971
00:53:58,466 --> 00:54:05,560
And it's a it's a bunch of games powered by what they call the Artemis engine, which is a
visual novel engine.
972
00:54:05,669 --> 00:54:12,866
And so I had to make a ~ Japanese Nintendo account to ~ get the demo for that game.
973
00:54:12,866 --> 00:54:15,019
I forget the name of the visual novel.
974
00:54:15,220 --> 00:54:17,983
I'm not even gonna bother since I can't read it anyways.
975
00:54:19,142 --> 00:54:30,790
Well, now that it's been busted open and they have access to ~ do they have ~ readable
access to the, ~ to the ~ NAND and stuff with this hack?
976
00:54:30,872 --> 00:54:35,730
So apparently someone was able to brick their s switch too.
977
00:54:35,730 --> 00:54:37,233
So yes.
978
00:54:37,864 --> 00:54:38,454
interesting.
979
00:54:38,454 --> 00:54:48,308
Okay, so with access to that, if they can dump the NAND and feed that to Claude, you know,
that would be, that would be, Yeah.
980
00:54:48,501 --> 00:54:49,983
It'd be fucking over.
981
00:54:50,229 --> 00:54:51,509
And you know what?
982
00:54:51,509 --> 00:54:52,700
I am okay with that.
983
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:54,851
I'm okay with it.
984
00:54:54,851 --> 00:54:58,512
Nintendo, you're a bad company and you believe bad things.
985
00:54:59,332 --> 00:55:01,415
So I'm
986
00:55:01,415 --> 00:55:03,478
so I this is a developing story right now.
987
00:55:03,478 --> 00:55:04,452
We don't have
988
00:55:04,452 --> 00:55:09,366
I mean it's a developing story, like they literally just hacked it like a few days ago.
989
00:55:09,928 --> 00:55:13,472
And apparently Deltarune for the Switch 2 got dumped.
990
00:55:15,270 --> 00:55:17,486
We're getting game dumps now.
991
00:55:17,486 --> 00:55:18,007
Holy shit.
992
00:55:18,007 --> 00:55:20,582
This happened like only a few hours ago.
993
00:55:22,831 --> 00:55:23,466
That's crazy.
994
00:55:23,466 --> 00:55:24,408
That's actually
995
00:55:24,408 --> 00:55:25,733
homebrew already.
996
00:55:26,180 --> 00:55:28,832
awesome I love it
997
00:55:30,778 --> 00:55:34,159
I wish I had got smile to smile basic four.
998
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:35,099
It's too
999
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:41,547
with it like when if they say smile basic is that ~ basic programming language?
1000
00:55:43,546 --> 00:55:44,591
I I think so, yes.
1001
00:55:44,591 --> 00:55:45,685
~ let me see what it
1002
00:55:45,685 --> 00:55:46,547
is.
1003
00:55:46,670 --> 00:55:48,234
Myobasic
1004
00:55:51,055 --> 00:56:01,214
So apparently it is a pro y you can program games and shit on it if you'd like.
1005
00:56:01,254 --> 00:56:03,616
And not just games, but like other stuff too.
1006
00:56:03,616 --> 00:56:05,598
And you can even share them with your friends.
1007
00:56:05,598 --> 00:56:08,180
That's how that's how it works, apparently.
1008
00:56:08,941 --> 00:56:09,562
But
1009
00:56:09,562 --> 00:56:16,808
you can't buy it anymore and it was never a physical game, so you couldn't you can't just
buy go out and buy a physical unpatched copy either.
1010
00:56:16,808 --> 00:56:17,664
Mm-hmm.
1011
00:56:18,664 --> 00:56:27,278
~ and apparently and apparently a lot of this was assisted by AI, though it seems like
Claude is starting to ban people that want to reverse engineer shit.
1012
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:29,182
Yeah.
1013
00:56:29,508 --> 00:56:29,870
Well,
1014
00:56:29,870 --> 00:56:31,598
time to use the Chinese models.
1015
00:56:31,598 --> 00:56:33,302
DeepSeek, come on.
1016
00:56:34,309 --> 00:56:38,881
Yeah, the oligarchs can allow for you can't ruin their products.
1017
00:56:39,335 --> 00:56:39,859
Right.
1018
00:56:39,859 --> 00:56:49,387
You can't be competitive with AI even though they wanna it's it's really weird how they
want and I know that this is like a blanket statement how I'm saying it, but like they
1019
00:56:49,387 --> 00:56:53,429
wanna remove all the workers from their products so they don't have to pay anyone and make
all the money.
1020
00:56:53,429 --> 00:57:03,954
But if you if one of those workers went and let's say, I want to reinverse an engineer and
then create something that's even better using the same, you know, tech, they get upset.
1021
00:57:03,954 --> 00:57:04,495
Mm-hmm.
1022
00:57:04,495 --> 00:57:06,379
And that's crazy.
1023
00:57:08,427 --> 00:57:09,259
Double standards once
1024
00:57:09,259 --> 00:57:09,885
again.
1025
00:57:09,885 --> 00:57:14,159
dude, the fact that we're getting game dumps is insane.
1026
00:57:15,602 --> 00:57:15,995
Dude.
1027
00:57:15,995 --> 00:57:16,796
I'm not shocked.
1028
00:57:16,796 --> 00:57:21,071
I think and especially with AI, I think it's gonna be easier and easier to find exploits.
1029
00:57:21,071 --> 00:57:30,471
I I I th these companies could use AI to help protect it, but I think there's always with
software there's always gonna be some way to to find an exploit ~
1030
00:57:30,471 --> 00:57:31,702
and find ways to do this.
1031
00:57:31,702 --> 00:57:38,018
Like I I think it's a losing battle every time they put so much resources and financial
power against it.
1032
00:57:39,196 --> 00:57:41,485
Dude, it's only a matter of time, man.
1033
00:57:41,485 --> 00:57:44,634
Emulate switch two emulators coming soon, baby.
1034
00:57:44,742 --> 00:57:46,394
That's what I want dude.
1035
00:57:46,535 --> 00:57:48,879
That's the only way I'll ever buy a
1036
00:57:48,879 --> 00:57:54,428
Nintendo game again and I will only buy them from eBay secondhand.
1037
00:57:54,428 --> 00:57:59,915
It's like if I can play it on my computer because I'm never gonna buy a Switch 2.
1038
00:58:00,049 --> 00:58:01,029
Yeah.
1039
00:58:01,112 --> 00:58:04,394
this might be an unpopular thing, especially with the Nintendo.
1040
00:58:04,394 --> 00:58:10,876
if you're a Nintendo fan, you're gonna s think differently, but I don't think they still
have any very good games on Nintendo Switch two.
1041
00:58:10,876 --> 00:58:11,126
On the
1042
00:58:11,126 --> 00:58:12,096
Switch two.
1043
00:58:12,097 --> 00:58:14,998
I have one I I need to dust it off.
1044
00:58:14,998 --> 00:58:16,537
It hasn't been used in months.
1045
00:58:16,537 --> 00:58:16,818
I need
1046
00:58:16,818 --> 00:58:18,339
to get my kids playing it.
1047
00:58:18,339 --> 00:58:22,536
~ but like Mario Kart, the Donkey Kong game, those are some of the fun ones.
1048
00:58:22,536 --> 00:58:24,061
There's like one or two other ones.
1049
00:58:24,061 --> 00:58:27,282
Maybe they'll get some games for Christmas, but like there's just not.
1050
00:58:27,943 --> 00:58:28,923
I don't know.
1051
00:58:29,126 --> 00:58:33,119
Yeah, the Donkey Kong ~ game looks great.
1052
00:58:33,119 --> 00:58:34,540
I haven't tried it.
1053
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:38,443
I really want there to be like a Mario Odyssey 2 or something.
1054
00:58:38,443 --> 00:58:39,444
That would be fun.
1055
00:58:39,444 --> 00:58:46,829
~ And the Star Fox game looks pretty cool, but I haven't like seen much about it.
1056
00:58:46,829 --> 00:58:50,992
~ But even like I did watch the Metroid.
1057
00:58:50,992 --> 00:58:52,794
Was it a there a Metroid trailer recently?
1058
00:58:52,794 --> 00:58:56,696
I feel like I watched a Metroid trailer, ~ but.
1059
00:58:57,032 --> 00:58:59,981
That didn't really interest me either, and I'm a huge Metroid fan.
1060
00:59:01,150 --> 00:59:01,774
Mm.
1061
00:59:01,774 --> 00:59:04,870
Metroid Prime or Met the new Metric Ravenous?
1062
00:59:04,870 --> 00:59:05,905
ravenous.
1063
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:12,188
Mm, well, ~ maybe another trailer would change your mind, but I'd be interested
1064
00:59:12,188 --> 00:59:15,394
in man, I can't wait for the Switch two emulator to come out.
1065
00:59:15,394 --> 00:59:17,314
It'll be so fucking cool.
1066
00:59:17,314 --> 00:59:17,995
It will be.
1067
00:59:17,995 --> 00:59:22,032
~ Dude.
1068
00:59:24,427 --> 00:59:25,970
~ until they threaten.
1069
00:59:25,970 --> 00:59:26,911
I don't know.
1070
00:59:26,911 --> 00:59:31,477
I think this this last thing might have killed emulation a little bit.
1071
00:59:31,747 --> 00:59:35,195
I think dec decompiling might be the way to go, but
1072
00:59:35,195 --> 00:59:37,145
I completely disagree.
1073
00:59:37,526 --> 00:59:57,632
See, the problem with decompilation is that it requires the same skill set ~ for making an
emulator as it does to make, or a similar complexity of skill set, even with AI tools.
1074
00:59:59,973 --> 01:00:01,254
But the problem is...
1075
01:00:01,254 --> 01:00:01,831
yeah.
1076
01:00:01,831 --> 01:00:04,684
And here, is my argument against decomps.
1077
01:00:04,684 --> 01:00:06,625
I love decomps, they're fun, they're cool.
1078
01:00:06,625 --> 01:00:20,517
But in order to get a decomp, you need someone with that same level of complex skillset to
dedicate at least a year, even with AI tools, it still takes a long time to decomp a game
1079
01:00:20,517 --> 01:00:24,921
and then to take that and turn it into a PC client.
1080
01:00:24,921 --> 01:00:28,564
And that's one game versus an emulator.
1081
01:00:28,700 --> 01:00:41,424
that is capable of emulating the majority of retail releases for a system, it's like, you
know, it probably, does take longer to get that far with an emulator, but I just feel like
1082
01:00:41,424 --> 01:00:41,664
it's a
1083
01:00:41,664 --> 01:00:43,348
better time investment.
1084
01:00:43,348 --> 01:00:51,170
the way the tools are working though lately is that what they're doing is that they're
developing the ~ the libraries and like and matching the library APIs.
1085
01:00:51,170 --> 01:00:53,811
So ~ that's what they're doing more and more.
1086
01:00:53,811 --> 01:00:54,691
That's what I've seen.
1087
01:00:54,691 --> 01:01:04,754
And so with that that tool i with every time they improve and add in a a missing API, ~
more and more games are compatible.
1088
01:01:04,754 --> 01:01:09,775
So it's this it's similar to a s to an emulator, but you don't need to run the emulation
software.
1089
01:01:10,095 --> 01:01:13,656
you decompile it based off of what's known from the toolkit.
1090
01:01:13,656 --> 01:01:18,258
So as more and more games are supported, more and more it's it's kinda like Proton in a
lot of ways.
1091
01:01:18,258 --> 01:01:23,961
As more of it's mapped, more of it is available more games are compatible.
1092
01:01:23,961 --> 01:01:25,121
So that's how I see it.
1093
01:01:25,121 --> 01:01:32,864
A decomp then allows you to do a lot more customization to it and allow you to run it n
more natively.
1094
01:01:32,864 --> 01:01:37,306
It has, I think, better performance and it can and better performance optimizations.
1095
01:01:37,306 --> 01:01:39,135
That being said, I
1096
01:01:40,070 --> 01:01:46,212
They should like with these d D Comp stuff, they should be making be able to make
emulators then too, if they want.
1097
01:01:46,212 --> 01:01:48,660
It should be able to be shared off of each other.
1098
01:01:48,660 --> 01:02:02,795
I just a little worried that and I don't know I I don't I'm sure Nintendo will go as hard
at a DComp tool as they would an emulator, but like emulators released for Nintendo are
1099
01:02:02,795 --> 01:02:09,879
just so sour and I don't think people really want like I just don't see Switch emulation
coming back do
1100
01:02:09,879 --> 01:02:11,260
Yet, have we?
1101
01:02:12,241 --> 01:02:15,083
So I
1102
01:02:15,484 --> 01:02:19,036
I I don't think we've seen it come back in.
1103
01:02:19,036 --> 01:02:28,343
I I think these comp like the emulators are kinda died off and you kinda kinda get
remnants of them and use them, but they haven't ex gotten any better after Nintendo went
1104
01:02:28,343 --> 01:02:30,595
really hard into them.
1105
01:02:31,595 --> 01:02:31,884
Hmm.
1106
01:02:31,884 --> 01:02:32,825
don't know.
1107
01:02:32,825 --> 01:02:34,157
There was also ROM sharing.
1108
01:02:34,157 --> 01:02:37,982
There's a lot of stuff that was going on in Discord that wa that caused it to die too.
1109
01:02:37,982 --> 01:02:45,330
So maybe you just gotta get a new group cut to come back and do it and just be more
ethical about it so they can't get trapped like that.
1110
01:02:46,345 --> 01:02:50,679
Well hopefully this new group will learn from their mistakes.
1111
01:02:50,679 --> 01:02:51,600
But
1112
01:02:53,685 --> 01:02:54,721
Wow, holy shit.
1113
01:02:54,721 --> 01:02:55,376
What time is it right now?
1114
01:02:55,376 --> 01:02:56,680
It's twelve fifteen.
1115
01:02:58,293 --> 01:03:02,243
Damn, so I don't know how to transition to this.
1116
01:03:03,498 --> 01:03:04,123
yeah.
1117
01:03:04,123 --> 01:03:13,480
we've got a little bit of time to jump into yeah and there's some more of that into your
favorite topic that we already talked about, right?
1118
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,582
The next fest AI slot.
1119
01:03:15,582 --> 01:03:21,141
We can ~ we don't have to talk about it because we basically covered the gist of it.
1120
01:03:21,141 --> 01:03:22,054
Mm-hmm.
1121
01:03:22,462 --> 01:03:24,291
We could look at a little bit of it.
1122
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,322
yeah, we should look at the next vest.
1123
01:03:26,322 --> 01:03:28,178
James, you should pull the next vest.
1124
01:03:29,834 --> 01:03:32,447
I really h let's see.
1125
01:03:32,447 --> 01:03:33,758
I, yeah.
1126
01:03:34,599 --> 01:03:37,962
Again, I want to reiterate how great your article was about this.
1127
01:03:37,962 --> 01:03:45,489
Like you really argued your point well and you provided like some excellent screenshots to
shore up your examples.
1128
01:03:45,489 --> 01:03:48,852
~ Man, I really, yeah,
1129
01:03:48,852 --> 01:03:49,692
it was great.
1130
01:03:49,692 --> 01:03:51,796
Appreciate the kind words, Gardener.
1131
01:03:52,681 --> 01:03:53,768
Absolutely,
1132
01:03:54,529 --> 01:03:55,359
All right.
1133
01:03:56,359 --> 01:04:01,722
I don't know if we can go by charts because it tend the people tend to gravitate towards
the non AI bullshit.
1134
01:04:01,722 --> 01:04:02,516
Mm.
1135
01:04:02,735 --> 01:04:04,238
What if we go by genre?
1136
01:04:05,005 --> 01:04:14,598
I think what's also bad is that every it's really bad because I think there's games that
are not AI based, but if they are seem a little off to people, they they shout it.
1137
01:04:14,598 --> 01:04:17,658
And I I do think there's a little bit of toxicity going on right now where the people
1138
01:04:17,658 --> 01:04:24,450
will lambass games that are and things that are not AI based or like they might have used
it for some coding.
1139
01:04:24,450 --> 01:04:27,571
It wasn't for the assets, it wasn't for a lot of the other things, and like it it
1140
01:04:27,571 --> 01:04:28,972
it's it's very toxic.
1141
01:04:28,972 --> 01:04:30,972
I that's the part of a I don't like.
1142
01:04:30,972 --> 01:04:34,763
It's like if you don't like it, buy don't buy it.
1143
01:04:35,141 --> 01:04:43,717
I've seen so many people, not just, not about this, but like on the Bryant Review saying
like, ~ Dash's articles are AI generated.
1144
01:04:43,717 --> 01:04:46,629
And it's like, ~ no, they are not.
1145
01:04:46,629 --> 01:04:53,094
And what they say is like, well, Dash uses like three examples separated by commas.
1146
01:04:53,094 --> 01:04:54,725
And I'm like, that's just good writing,
1147
01:04:54,725 --> 01:04:56,597
you fucking illiterate.
1148
01:04:56,597 --> 01:04:58,004
Like, dude, so.
1149
01:04:58,004 --> 01:04:58,678
~
1150
01:04:58,678 --> 01:05:00,812
dude bikini island
1151
01:05:00,812 --> 01:05:06,523
cricket dude that looks that looks i don't know i don't
1152
01:05:06,523 --> 01:05:08,877
know yeah that's i almost said
1153
01:05:08,877 --> 01:05:15,666
d I don't think this is AI generated, but I it looks worse.
1154
01:05:15,666 --> 01:05:16,367
it looks so bad.
1155
01:05:16,367 --> 01:05:18,150
It looks so bad.
1156
01:05:18,150 --> 01:05:21,684
There you go, people, if you need some nudity in your game.
1157
01:05:21,684 --> 01:05:24,228
scroll up a little, be billionaire.
1158
01:05:24,228 --> 01:05:26,740
I don't know why, but that feels a little like.
1159
01:05:27,238 --> 01:05:27,630
Click on it.
1160
01:05:27,630 --> 01:05:28,738
Let's see if it's AI.
1161
01:05:28,738 --> 01:05:30,884
I feel like the logo's AI for sure.
1162
01:05:30,884 --> 01:05:31,708
Yeah, the logo.
1163
01:05:31,708 --> 01:05:32,654
Yeah.
1164
01:05:34,820 --> 01:05:36,120
it's is that VR?
1165
01:05:37,382 --> 01:05:39,047
~ I think it is.
1166
01:05:39,047 --> 01:05:39,915
Scroll down though.
1167
01:05:39,915 --> 01:05:41,459
it has to be VR.
1168
01:05:42,459 --> 01:05:43,476
Maybe not.
1169
01:05:43,915 --> 01:05:48,394
Mm, maybe we only use AI for store
1170
01:05:48,394 --> 01:05:49,958
page assets.
1171
01:05:50,958 --> 01:05:53,413
It says we only use AI for store page assets.
1172
01:05:53,413 --> 01:05:55,979
So I think he's talking about ~ the fucking logo.
1173
01:05:55,979 --> 01:05:57,172
Dude, don't
1174
01:05:57,172 --> 01:05:58,838
use AI for the logo.
1175
01:05:58,838 --> 01:05:59,801
If you went
1176
01:05:59,801 --> 01:06:01,989
worst thing you can actually do.
1177
01:06:02,497 --> 01:06:03,298
~ literally,
1178
01:06:03,298 --> 01:06:10,739
if you actually went through all the effort of making the game from scratch without using
any AI, then why would you shoot yourself in the foot?
1179
01:06:10,739 --> 01:06:12,412
No, you shot yourself in the fucking face.
1180
01:06:12,412 --> 01:06:13,345
That's what happened.
1181
01:06:13,345 --> 01:06:16,257
Yeah Dude
1182
01:06:16,257 --> 01:06:17,879
care that much.
1183
01:06:18,113 --> 01:06:24,342
Well, it's like it dude there's so much anti AI sentiment that if the logo smacks of AI
1184
01:06:24,342 --> 01:06:27,812
people are gonna assume the whole game is AI and they won't play it
1185
01:06:27,812 --> 01:06:29,794
~ more on the AI side.
1186
01:06:29,794 --> 01:06:37,780
I'm like I I'm not going to be jumping like if it doesn't look fun, if it's I don't know.
1187
01:06:37,780 --> 01:06:39,462
Like this game looks basic.
1188
01:06:39,462 --> 01:06:42,241
It looks interesting, but it
1189
01:06:42,241 --> 01:06:42,702
I don't know
1190
01:06:42,702 --> 01:06:47,471
if this game is really worth it to me, but I'm just giving feedback as a random user.
1191
01:06:47,471 --> 01:06:48,242
too.
1192
01:06:48,429 --> 01:07:03,249
a youtuber who ~ as someone who ~ produces videos and like puts all of my creative effort
into making a video and then I go to upload it and I'm like I have to make a thumb
1193
01:07:04,889 --> 01:07:07,049
catchy title and a description.
1194
01:07:07,049 --> 01:07:08,693
I cannot almost understand it.
1195
01:07:08,693 --> 01:07:16,640
It's like you've been in development for like a year or two years or whatever and then
you're like, now I have to come up with a logo and write the shit for the stupid store
1196
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:17,421
page.
1197
01:07:17,421 --> 01:07:25,449
Like I can almost understand it, but like, man, if you've gone that far, you are, it's
absolutely a foot gun.
1198
01:07:26,533 --> 01:07:26,834
Dude.
1199
01:07:26,834 --> 01:07:29,509
Let's see if there's anything else though on the list.
1200
01:07:29,509 --> 01:07:30,029
I I just
1201
01:07:30,029 --> 01:07:39,430
have a hard time like ~ if the game itself is not AI or you know, they put a lot of
creativity and there's a lot to it and it makes sense, I don't
1202
01:07:40,215 --> 01:07:40,948
Mm.
1203
01:07:41,015 --> 01:07:42,186
I don't care.
1204
01:07:42,186 --> 01:07:46,970
And if they want to use it to write that 'cause I would use it to honestly I'd use it to
write the description stuff.
1205
01:07:46,970 --> 01:07:48,911
I hate doing that type of thing.
1206
01:07:48,911 --> 01:07:58,398
I wouldn't do I would to be fair, I would still write out a thesis and stuff, but I'd use
it to like build up and and explain things better and clean it up.
1207
01:07:58,398 --> 01:08:01,000
But that's usually how I write things.
1208
01:08:01,961 --> 01:08:03,903
I logo wise, yeah.
1209
01:08:03,903 --> 01:08:11,068
I mean it is It doesn't look any better than any other logo though, of this type of genre.
1210
01:08:12,150 --> 01:08:13,173
So I they
1211
01:08:13,173 --> 01:08:15,749
don't need a logo in fact I think the problem is they don't need a logo.
1212
01:08:15,749 --> 01:08:18,554
Why did w they should have just not made it?
1213
01:08:19,438 --> 01:08:22,294
I think the background on its own would have been fine.
1214
01:08:23,071 --> 01:08:25,881
I think you have to have a logo for Steam.
1215
01:08:26,990 --> 01:08:27,891
Yeah.
1216
01:08:29,091 --> 01:08:38,147
Yeah, 'cause no one's 'cause if you look at your ~ Steam library and it just shows this
without a logo, then you're not gonna know what game it is.
1217
01:08:38,147 --> 01:08:38,646
Yeah,
1218
01:08:38,646 --> 01:08:40,983
What do you t they have the title right there, don't they?
1219
01:08:40,983 --> 01:08:41,580
Or
1220
01:08:41,580 --> 01:08:49,236
but also you have to have a ~ logo with a transparent background in order to publish your
game now.
1221
01:08:49,236 --> 01:08:50,930
So in game mode...
1222
01:08:50,930 --> 01:08:53,124
see what yeah, but that type of logo could be
1223
01:08:53,124 --> 01:08:54,645
just ~ yeah.
1224
01:08:54,786 --> 01:08:56,758
Doesn't have to be too crazy.
1225
01:08:56,771 --> 01:09:00,586
Yeah, they can just do ~ Ariel or Times New Roman.
1226
01:09:00,586 --> 01:09:01,520
Yeah.
1227
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:06,909
is trivial to create in something like Photoshop or ~ whatever.
1228
01:09:06,909 --> 01:09:10,173
it's so, I know.
1229
01:09:10,290 --> 01:09:13,802
Maybe it is they maybe they did make it and it's just the assets.
1230
01:09:13,802 --> 01:09:15,993
Like that's the that's the only problem is like and you guys,
1231
01:09:15,993 --> 01:09:18,895
like you said, it is like a foot gun, but we
1232
01:09:18,895 --> 01:09:20,625
don't we don't know what how much
1233
01:09:20,625 --> 01:09:23,359
like this ~ Bikina Island cricket game.
1234
01:09:23,359 --> 01:09:24,160
That's a crappy
1235
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:25,447
logo if I've ever seen one.
1236
01:09:26,305 --> 01:09:27,200
It could still be AI.
1237
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:27,871
with the
1238
01:09:27,871 --> 01:09:31,456
art style here, it looks intentionally bad.
1239
01:09:32,599 --> 01:09:34,796
It might even be intentionally bad too.
1240
01:09:34,796 --> 01:09:35,678
Yeah.
1241
01:09:36,728 --> 01:09:37,598
Yeah.
1242
01:09:38,459 --> 01:09:41,749
Is there anything else we should talk about though?
1243
01:09:41,749 --> 01:09:43,638
Let's see what else we got here.
1244
01:09:43,638 --> 01:09:45,391
~ wait that wait go up, go up.
1245
01:09:45,391 --> 01:09:46,981
I saw something crazy.
1246
01:09:47,302 --> 01:09:52,043
~ that that D builders, that looks AI as fuck.
1247
01:09:52,802 --> 01:09:58,495
It's even got like the like it's even got like the little slight yellow shading.
1248
01:09:59,638 --> 01:10:00,451
Yeah.
1249
01:10:00,451 --> 01:10:02,663
Yeah.
1250
01:10:02,663 --> 01:10:08,107
Man, I hesitate to call that one completely AI, but it looks...
1251
01:10:09,088 --> 01:10:10,129
I don't know.
1252
01:10:10,209 --> 01:10:11,650
I think the...
1253
01:10:13,452 --> 01:10:15,714
Yeah.
1254
01:10:15,714 --> 01:10:22,380
Yeah, I mean, the D-builders itself, like the logo looks AI to me, but I don't know if the
characters are.
1255
01:10:22,380 --> 01:10:24,281
It's hard to say.
1256
01:10:24,281 --> 01:10:25,784
I don't mean to offend.
1257
01:10:25,784 --> 01:10:30,946
It's just that if you make a game look extremely generic, people are just gonna call it
AI.
1258
01:10:30,946 --> 01:10:31,733
Yeah.
1259
01:10:32,844 --> 01:10:33,654
And that's the problem though.
1260
01:10:33,654 --> 01:10:38,677
That's like that's that's why I say modding the easy it's easier to make games nowadays.
1261
01:10:38,677 --> 01:10:45,810
This is a losing battle, I think, by I think people are in a losing battle when they're
gonna be calling things AI, because I think we're gonna just destroy
1262
01:10:45,810 --> 01:10:47,791
things that are not AI and things that are AI.
1263
01:10:47,791 --> 01:10:49,141
I think it's a losing battle.
1264
01:10:49,141 --> 01:10:49,902
I don't think it matters.
1265
01:10:49,902 --> 01:10:52,793
I think what matters, did you make a good game?
1266
01:10:53,213 --> 01:10:58,996
~ and it's really even with AI, it's really hard to make a good game.
1267
01:10:59,277 --> 01:11:00,688
Yeah, I agree.
1268
01:11:00,688 --> 01:11:09,982
mean, dude, almost like my game has almost universal ~ positive reviews and it sold maybe
a thousand copies.
1269
01:11:09,982 --> 01:11:11,062
Not even.
1270
01:11:11,382 --> 01:11:13,183
Yeah, it's unique.
1271
01:11:13,223 --> 01:11:14,643
It's fun.
1272
01:11:14,864 --> 01:11:20,546
And I think just publishing your game on Steam is a losing battle, whether it's AI or not.
1273
01:11:20,546 --> 01:11:21,917
Like, that's what it feels like to me.
1274
01:11:21,917 --> 01:11:24,488
That's why I've only published my games on my website now.
1275
01:11:24,488 --> 01:11:25,668
~
1276
01:11:25,668 --> 01:11:27,711
It's because it's just like, dude,
1277
01:11:27,711 --> 01:11:28,431
What?
1278
01:11:28,431 --> 01:11:31,093
How are you going to get other people's attention?
1279
01:11:31,093 --> 01:11:33,373
You can participate in next Fest, but guess what?
1280
01:11:33,373 --> 01:11:35,875
It's flooded with fucking AI shit.
1281
01:11:35,875 --> 01:11:40,627
And it's like, you can participate in, ~ you know, bundles, right?
1282
01:11:40,627 --> 01:11:42,748
There's like a whole website that like they reached out to me.
1283
01:11:42,748 --> 01:11:47,160
They're like, Hey, well, it's like Tinder, but for other game studios.
1284
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:47,970
And you can like,
1285
01:11:47,970 --> 01:11:56,524
yeah, dude, it's, it's kind of neat, but it's like, I can't figure out how to actually
communicate with other studios.
1286
01:11:56,524 --> 01:11:57,564
And so it's like, it's
1287
01:11:57,564 --> 01:12:02,868
~ here's a game and it's like, it has similar Steam tags.
1288
01:12:02,868 --> 01:12:07,592
can swipe right to if you wanna like bundle with them, you can make bundles.
1289
01:12:07,632 --> 01:12:09,134
And I'm like, that seems really cool.
1290
01:12:09,134 --> 01:12:10,134
And I tried it.
1291
01:12:10,134 --> 01:12:12,777
And then when I sent people messages, nobody replied.
1292
01:12:12,777 --> 01:12:17,420
I'm like, okay, so this just does not seem to be being used, but it's such a fun idea.
1293
01:12:17,420 --> 01:12:21,304
~ But like you gotta be really innovative.
1294
01:12:21,304 --> 01:12:24,646
And by the time you've finished your game,
1295
01:12:24,898 --> 01:12:33,869
It's like you have no creative energy left to ~ you know, do all that extra marketing and
it's just, it sucks, dude.
1296
01:12:33,869 --> 01:12:34,409
The video
1297
01:12:34,409 --> 01:12:38,452
games industry is a huge gamble, let's be I'm gonna be completely honest with you.
1298
01:12:38,452 --> 01:12:38,922
~ there
1299
01:12:38,922 --> 01:12:45,956
is no single known way to sell games besides just have an ex existing reputation, like
Call of Duty.
1300
01:12:47,797 --> 01:12:55,501
Like quite literally, being a triple A game with a massive budget isn't even a guarantee
that your game will sell at all, let's be honest.
1301
01:12:55,642 --> 01:12:57,863
Nor nor is the advertising too.
1302
01:12:57,863 --> 01:12:59,926
I mean heck, let's look at Concord.
1303
01:12:59,926 --> 01:13:00,969
Remember that game?
1304
01:13:00,969 --> 01:13:02,558
Haha, yeah.
1305
01:13:03,063 --> 01:13:05,156
That game got marketed hell and back.
1306
01:13:05,578 --> 01:13:10,135
It wasn't some game that no one knew about, it was a game that people knew about and hated
already.
1307
01:13:10,147 --> 01:13:13,372
Well, let's be fair, got marketed to hell and it stayed there.
1308
01:13:13,921 --> 01:13:16,241
D ~
1309
01:13:17,504 --> 01:13:18,543
It began.
1310
01:13:18,543 --> 01:13:19,689
What is this?
1311
01:13:19,689 --> 01:13:30,290
think ~ no AI actual gameplay developing about I think the this is AI though, the let's
see, developer described how their you know AI was used for creating capsule of the Steam
1312
01:13:30,290 --> 01:13:31,200
page.
1313
01:13:32,422 --> 01:13:34,369
And the last case scene video.
1314
01:13:34,369 --> 01:13:36,441
wait, vo AI voices.
1315
01:13:36,622 --> 01:13:39,545
We are playing Alright, so here's my other thing too.
1316
01:13:39,746 --> 01:13:44,661
If what if you just didn't use AI voices?
1317
01:13:44,661 --> 01:13:46,653
You could just not have voice acting.
1318
01:13:46,682 --> 01:13:47,602
Mm.
1319
01:13:49,394 --> 01:13:51,451
~ actually I'm kinda curio
1320
01:13:52,076 --> 01:14:01,035
And ~ I'm also curious about do you still need the AI disclaimer if you used as a
placeholder in the game and then you successfully remove them?
1321
01:14:03,086 --> 01:14:03,867
Yeah
1322
01:14:05,612 --> 01:14:06,472
This is why I'm saying
1323
01:14:06,472 --> 01:14:07,293
it's a losing battle.
1324
01:14:07,293 --> 01:14:08,383
I think it's a losing battle.
1325
01:14:08,383 --> 01:14:17,926
I don't want people to like I I I think a ~ the game industry, even before AI, was already
in dire straits of ~ oversaturation.
1326
01:14:17,926 --> 01:14:18,926
But what are you gonna stop?
1327
01:14:18,926 --> 01:14:27,359
I think this is a creative world where it's a gamble if you're going to make enough money
to support yourself or not.
1328
01:14:27,359 --> 01:14:29,440
And I I just don't know.
1329
01:14:29,440 --> 01:14:31,220
I think people definitely need to stop.
1330
01:14:32,258 --> 01:14:37,499
Betting themselves that they're going to be able to make money off of their one game.
1331
01:14:37,499 --> 01:14:38,690
this is your first game.
1332
01:14:38,690 --> 01:14:41,791
You're not going to be able to live off this.
1333
01:14:41,791 --> 01:14:44,381
Now, can you use it to springboard off and make other games?
1334
01:14:44,381 --> 01:14:44,831
Maybe.
1335
01:14:44,831 --> 01:14:48,132
Can you use it to maybe do some other content creation?
1336
01:14:48,132 --> 01:14:48,502
Maybe.
1337
01:14:48,502 --> 01:14:54,734
~ it is very difficult to do anything.
1338
01:14:54,734 --> 01:14:56,685
Even in the software world, it's oversaturated now.
1339
01:14:56,685 --> 01:14:57,695
Like AI is not
1340
01:14:57,695 --> 01:15:00,816
helping it in any way, but I don't.
1341
01:15:01,892 --> 01:15:13,718
No if I think it's a really big losing game when we re microjudge some of these things
where it's like, they're this thing was made with AI so it ruins the whole thing.
1342
01:15:13,718 --> 01:15:15,699
It's like, I don't know.
1343
01:15:15,699 --> 01:15:17,820
That's just my that's my take on it.
1344
01:15:18,646 --> 01:15:35,806
when a business presents themselves using AI, they create AI flyers on their store page on
Steam.
1345
01:15:36,426 --> 01:15:36,806
I'm
1346
01:15:36,806 --> 01:15:39,919
like, well, dude, if you don't give a fuck about that.
1347
01:15:39,919 --> 01:15:42,500
then you clearly don't care about my business.
1348
01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:50,003
~ I'm not going to patronize companies that present themselves so lazily, right?
1349
01:15:50,003 --> 01:15:51,444
That's the problem.
1350
01:15:51,444 --> 01:15:57,997
It's, you know, if you like, dude, I'm not opposed to like, see, I think we've got it all
inverted, right?
1351
01:15:57,997 --> 01:16:10,212
It's like, if a studio uses the like AI coding tools to assist them with coding, or if
they include like a small language model to do
1352
01:16:10,212 --> 01:16:12,423
Like bespoke things in a game.
1353
01:16:12,423 --> 01:16:24,341
I am like, okay, that's fine Like that's kind of the world that we live in now, even
though you know, there's like the ethical issues of labor theft and ~ Whatever That's
1354
01:16:24,341 --> 01:16:24,631
kind.
1355
01:16:24,631 --> 01:16:25,842
That's just the world we live in.
1356
01:16:25,842 --> 01:16:36,249
We're not putting that Pandora's box, you know, we're not closing that Pandora's box again
But like when it comes to the marketing and the creative part here.
1357
01:16:36,249 --> 01:16:39,092
I'm like, dude, I can't
1358
01:16:39,092 --> 01:16:40,932
get past that.
1359
01:16:41,784 --> 01:16:42,686
I don't know.
1360
01:16:43,650 --> 01:16:44,320
I think that's the risk
1361
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:45,251
of using AI though.
1362
01:16:45,251 --> 01:16:53,485
That's why I'm saying, it wouldn't for me, it would not prevent me from buying a game if
they use some AI assets, ~ or whatever.
1363
01:16:53,485 --> 01:16:57,788
It depends on how the game is, a bunch of other things.
1364
01:16:58,608 --> 01:17:04,211
But it definitely doesn't help too, 'cause some of ~ are just not that good.
1365
01:17:04,312 --> 01:17:04,672
Yeah,
1366
01:17:04,672 --> 01:17:05,289
But
1367
01:17:05,289 --> 01:17:05,693
Yeah.
1368
01:17:05,693 --> 01:17:06,583
It's like
1369
01:17:06,844 --> 01:17:13,729
the problem is is like AI is a tool that can augment creativity, right?
1370
01:17:13,729 --> 01:17:14,759
But most people
1371
01:17:14,759 --> 01:17:24,366
are just using it as a replacement for creativity and and I yeah, and it's like in a
medium of video
1372
01:17:24,366 --> 01:17:27,938
games creativity is kind of the most important fucking part.
1373
01:17:27,980 --> 01:17:28,630
and I just
1374
01:17:28,630 --> 01:17:31,402
won't, I won't play a game if they present themselves.
1375
01:17:31,402 --> 01:17:32,553
I'm not even gonna try it.
1376
01:17:32,553 --> 01:17:39,617
If there's a free demo, if they present their entire like initial presentation is AI
buddy.
1377
01:17:39,617 --> 01:17:42,098
I'm like, dude, I'm not gonna mess with it.
1378
01:17:43,049 --> 01:17:43,571
No, the
1379
01:17:43,571 --> 01:17:47,475
most important aspect of video games is making a shitload of money
1380
01:17:47,475 --> 01:17:49,673
and nickel and diming art users.
1381
01:17:49,673 --> 01:17:50,659
Yeah, yeah
1382
01:17:50,659 --> 01:17:52,350
But that's the what these guys aren't doing.
1383
01:17:52,350 --> 01:17:57,273
They're just trying to make a game that some of are just making games for fun, even if it
is.
1384
01:17:57,273 --> 01:18:01,836
some of maybe think that they're gonna be the next millionaire f project.
1385
01:18:01,836 --> 01:18:02,312
Maybe.
1386
01:18:02,312 --> 01:18:05,538
I it's it's just a mix of a d bunch of different people.
1387
01:18:06,549 --> 01:18:08,857
But Yeah.
1388
01:18:08,857 --> 01:18:09,497
Hi-Tech
1389
01:18:09,497 --> 01:18:16,673
wasn't wrong, you wouldn't see all the clones of vampire survivors, right?
1390
01:18:16,673 --> 01:18:18,104
Like that's kind of the
1391
01:18:18,104 --> 01:18:19,405
problem, yeah.
1392
01:18:20,236 --> 01:18:24,428
I don't see any clones in here of vampire survivors in this group.
1393
01:18:24,428 --> 01:18:26,930
What I'm I am seeing some clones of some other
1394
01:18:26,930 --> 01:18:28,731
games or ~ even this one.
1395
01:18:28,731 --> 01:18:30,342
This one feels like a mod.
1396
01:18:30,402 --> 01:18:31,282
It feels like
1397
01:18:31,282 --> 01:18:40,648
there's a lot of these games where I'm like, I don't have problems with these types of
things, but they're very, very early indie style of like.
1398
01:18:41,108 --> 01:18:46,791
I would have seen a game like some of these, like, 10, 15 years ago in the modding
community.
1399
01:18:46,832 --> 01:18:47,349
So
1400
01:18:47,349 --> 01:18:48,001
real quick.
1401
01:18:48,001 --> 01:18:50,383
There's a game called Texas dominoes.
1402
01:18:50,444 --> 01:18:52,332
That's completely AI
1403
01:18:52,332 --> 01:18:54,274
That's a hundred percent AI.
1404
01:18:54,274 --> 01:18:55,744
there's no way that's not AI.
1405
01:18:55,744 --> 01:18:58,033
Dude, like, holy fuck.
1406
01:18:59,905 --> 01:19:02,666
Scroll down to the AI ~ disclaimer.
1407
01:19:03,877 --> 01:19:07,970
All music was composed the music wasn't AI.
1408
01:19:07,970 --> 01:19:11,411
Too bad he's associated with an AI game, sadly.
1409
01:19:11,412 --> 01:19:12,932
That's another thing too with the use
1410
01:19:12,932 --> 01:19:23,589
of AI, is that once you associate yourself with an AI project, even if you're someone that
can like compose music without the use of AI, you're just labeled as an AI like glazer
1411
01:19:23,589 --> 01:19:24,519
forever.
1412
01:19:24,923 --> 01:19:25,553
And that's me.
1413
01:19:25,553 --> 01:19:27,044
That's maybe that's why I defend all that.
1414
01:19:27,044 --> 01:19:29,996
~ I defend it because I use AI in my
1415
01:19:29,996 --> 01:19:31,197
software development and stuff.
1416
01:19:31,197 --> 01:19:35,250
So But I've been doing this for
1417
01:19:35,250 --> 01:19:37,331
I've been doing using this for a fucking decade.
1418
01:19:37,331 --> 01:19:40,053
I've over 15 years as I've been a developer.
1419
01:19:40,053 --> 01:19:47,878
I I know what I'm doing, but I also just I don't know.
1420
01:19:47,878 --> 01:19:49,979
There's some things to get tired of writing.
1421
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:50,490
I
1422
01:19:50,490 --> 01:19:52,120
get tired of it so much.
1423
01:19:53,322 --> 01:19:54,140
So
1424
01:19:54,140 --> 01:19:55,712
I don't know.
1425
01:19:55,712 --> 01:20:03,138
I don't agree that I just don't think these people are gonna be making the next big game.
1426
01:20:04,961 --> 01:20:06,546
so I just don't know where they're going with it.
1427
01:20:06,546 --> 01:20:12,896
I if you're using AI in this way and and you're really using it to replace your
creativity, you're screwed, but
1428
01:20:12,896 --> 01:20:13,720
Mm-hmm.
1429
01:20:14,350 --> 01:20:15,351
I don't know.
1430
01:20:15,451 --> 01:20:18,574
I have not heard any AI music that's good though.
1431
01:20:18,638 --> 01:20:19,924
no, yeah.
1432
01:20:20,273 --> 01:20:20,829
Yeah.
1433
01:20:20,829 --> 01:20:21,931
music is
1434
01:20:22,187 --> 01:20:23,287
ew.
1435
01:20:24,700 --> 01:20:25,491
But
1436
01:20:25,491 --> 01:20:28,772
I also have heard a lot of people say certain things are AI music and they're not.
1437
01:20:28,772 --> 01:20:38,344
So that's I think where I'm getting at this is that I think we've pretty much screwed
ourselves over on what we're gonna be able to next year or two, we're not gonna it it's
1438
01:20:38,344 --> 01:20:40,129
not we don't know if it's gonna be AA or not.
1439
01:20:40,129 --> 01:20:46,542
Like obviously they're gonna have to label it, but even if they don't you're not gonna
know.
1440
01:20:46,542 --> 01:20:49,294
And so it's just g but the problem is I think it's just more and more slop.
1441
01:20:49,294 --> 01:20:53,606
It's just more and more people are able to build games, more and more people
1442
01:20:54,182 --> 01:20:56,838
I've worked on games for years, they're finally coming to fruition.
1443
01:20:56,838 --> 01:21:00,004
~ these games do take a while, even if it's AI, but
1444
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:08,326
Yeah, I think Valve should perhaps raise the barrier to entry on Steam.
1445
01:21:08,587 --> 01:21:11,369
Like, you know, it costs a hundred
1446
01:21:11,369 --> 01:21:18,014
bucks to get your game on Steam and you make it back when you make back like your first
hundred bucks.
1447
01:21:18,014 --> 01:21:23,037
But like there's so much crap on Steam now.
1448
01:21:23,038 --> 01:21:25,759
I think they might need to raise that.
1449
01:21:27,027 --> 01:21:30,171
Know if that'll alleviate it, truth be told.
1450
01:21:30,171 --> 01:21:36,445
A lot of these guys are just banking on people like mistakenly buying these AI games and
1451
01:21:36,445 --> 01:21:45,347
yeah, but like dude, so the average like indie game on Steam brings in $3,000, right?
1452
01:21:45,387 --> 01:22:00,911
so it's like, it's like an actual financial risk, you know, if it costs $4,000 to put your
game on Steam and you don't actually make that back, I don't know.
1453
01:22:01,031 --> 01:22:05,112
Like, dude, I feel that would be.
1454
01:22:07,210 --> 01:22:09,455
a decent way to start controlling this.
1455
01:22:10,846 --> 01:22:11,650
Hi.
1456
01:22:12,647 --> 01:22:15,189
I do think that would affect Elite Controller, though.
1457
01:22:15,230 --> 01:22:16,070
One has to wonder
1458
01:22:16,070 --> 01:22:21,152
how the this would sting like actual developers, actual indies that aren't just
1459
01:22:21,152 --> 01:22:24,813
how many of these guys are actual developers, right?
1460
01:22:24,813 --> 01:22:26,394
Like that's the problem.
1461
01:22:26,654 --> 01:22:36,877
It's like so many of these guys are like, they're bedroom coders and they don't, they're
not like, ~ it's trivial, it's like a hundred bucks, who cares, right?
1462
01:22:36,877 --> 01:22:39,072
Like I'm gonna risk it.
1463
01:22:39,072 --> 01:22:47,820
~ It's like if there was less competition in Steam, more people would get to see more
games.
1464
01:22:48,276 --> 01:22:52,265
that are higher quality from people who actually believe in what they're doing.
1465
01:22:52,265 --> 01:22:56,332
A lot of the games that are on Steam right now belong on itch, not on Steam.
1466
01:22:57,340 --> 01:22:58,096
Yeah,
1467
01:22:58,096 --> 01:22:58,992
I I actually
1468
01:22:58,992 --> 01:22:59,899
agree with that.
1469
01:22:59,899 --> 01:23:01,578
I do agree with that.
1470
01:23:01,578 --> 01:23:14,814
think that if the barrier to entry was slightly higher, still accessible to people who
think that their game is actually going to turn a profit, ~ it's worth getting it in front
1471
01:23:14,814 --> 01:23:15,955
of people.
1472
01:23:16,156 --> 01:23:19,479
That's a whole different ball game at that point.
1473
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:23,161
I don't know.
1474
01:23:23,422 --> 01:23:24,452
But people are
1475
01:23:24,452 --> 01:23:26,246
gonna call me elitist for that.
1476
01:23:27,142 --> 01:23:31,542
I just think we have an oversaturation, even if you filter out all the AI.
1477
01:23:31,671 --> 01:23:35,897
But this is what I've thought about every f Game Fest or Steam Fest.
1478
01:23:35,967 --> 01:23:40,395
Even if the games are quality, there's still an oversaturation of games.
1479
01:23:40,967 --> 01:23:41,827
Yeah.
1480
01:23:43,248 --> 01:23:53,752
Which is I don't know I don't know what the right answer is, but I definitely think I
think AI tooling and and w how we think about some of the designs are gonna be changing
1481
01:23:53,752 --> 01:23:54,632
and
1482
01:23:55,653 --> 01:23:58,073
~ we just I don't know.
1483
01:23:59,854 --> 01:24:10,278
~ do not know because I do see it mistakenly like so many projects get mistakenly labeled
as AI and it's just it's not
1484
01:24:10,536 --> 01:24:11,417
Hmm.
1485
01:24:12,083 --> 01:24:12,428
Yeah.
1486
01:24:12,428 --> 01:24:15,900
just I know this is this is a topic we could talk about forever.
1487
01:24:15,900 --> 01:24:19,211
I I don't know where the right answer is.
1488
01:24:19,211 --> 01:24:29,312
I think how ~ how Steam has been kinda doing is that I get the big dogs up front and then
they sprinkle in some indies as I go through.
1489
01:24:29,312 --> 01:24:31,787
I don't I don't have too many issues.
1490
01:24:31,787 --> 01:24:33,048
It's just the next fest.
1491
01:24:33,048 --> 01:24:38,570
~ where I see a lot of the ~ extra
1492
01:24:39,634 --> 01:24:39,864
Games.
1493
01:24:39,864 --> 01:24:45,956
So it's already been fla they they let them exist on here, but ~ it's just it's really
hard.
1494
01:24:45,956 --> 01:24:47,735
You have to have a really good marketing campaign.
1495
01:24:47,735 --> 01:24:49,697
You have to f like it costs money.
1496
01:24:49,697 --> 01:25:03,321
Any honestly, any I don't know, guys, like I I think it's getting harder and harder to
break out and just make money, period, in as a individual or you know, like indie, whether
1497
01:25:03,321 --> 01:25:07,002
it be games, software, whatever it is, I think it's it's just getting harder and harder.
1498
01:25:08,750 --> 01:25:14,394
And I don't know if I I don't know.
1499
01:25:14,394 --> 01:25:17,716
I'm I'm I'm putting my thing.
1500
01:25:17,716 --> 01:25:27,671
I'm not gonna s it's not gonna stop me if AI is used, but it's definitely I think people
like if you're listening, if you use AI to develop, you better be making sure everything
1501
01:25:27,671 --> 01:25:29,222
is really good.
1502
01:25:30,803 --> 01:25:32,144
Because you're already
1503
01:25:32,144 --> 01:25:33,685
like you're pretty much screwed.
1504
01:25:33,685 --> 01:25:35,336
Cause if you AI label it,
1505
01:25:35,336 --> 01:25:36,327
People are gonna filter it.
1506
01:25:36,327 --> 01:25:40,637
It's just I can't control what the popul like the what the popular opinion is.
1507
01:25:40,637 --> 01:25:44,723
But ~ have fun, I guess.
1508
01:25:44,723 --> 01:25:45,944
AI again?
1509
01:25:47,599 --> 01:25:48,688
dude, this sucks.
1510
01:25:48,688 --> 01:25:51,323
no, not bioware.
1511
01:25:52,665 --> 01:25:55,377
I thought this was a j I thought this was a joke or something.
1512
01:25:55,377 --> 01:25:58,407
I it n never did I think
1513
01:26:00,690 --> 01:26:03,393
EA is is out of control at this point.
1514
01:26:03,393 --> 01:26:10,041
Like Bioware is I know it's been going downhill over the years, but like they destroyed
Bioware.
1515
01:26:10,041 --> 01:26:11,289
They they got rid of it.
1516
01:26:11,289 --> 01:26:12,253
Like it's gone.
1517
01:26:12,253 --> 01:26:12,403
It's
1518
01:26:12,403 --> 01:26:13,144
closed.
1519
01:26:13,144 --> 01:26:14,145
This is
1520
01:26:15,825 --> 01:26:23,502
They have some of the biggest RPGs ever made in the sense of like popularity.
1521
01:26:23,502 --> 01:26:30,539
Mass Effect alone was just amazing series.
1522
01:26:30,539 --> 01:26:33,301
Like it is so good.
1523
01:26:33,662 --> 01:26:42,159
And they have the trailer leak that of the next trailer they're gonna release, and looked
really good, and it made me even more sad of like.
1524
01:26:42,841 --> 01:26:45,234
Unless they can sell the IP to someone that cares.
1525
01:26:45,234 --> 01:26:53,506
Honestly, I think s C D Project Red, I don't know how their finances are 'cause they they
overspend on their projects, but ~ I think
1526
01:26:53,506 --> 01:27:00,135
they would be the perfect company to pick that up and then bring back some of the gang
into Mass Effect and make the next Mass
1527
01:27:00,135 --> 01:27:00,875
Effect.
1528
01:27:01,131 --> 01:27:06,684
Yeah, and it wouldn't be buggy as shit, Well, actually, cyberpunk
1529
01:27:06,684 --> 01:27:07,986
was pretty buggy.
1530
01:27:09,554 --> 01:27:11,015
making it okay.
1531
01:27:11,516 --> 01:27:13,547
Despite pot like people don't understand
1532
01:27:13,547 --> 01:27:21,154
open world games are really hard to make and are gonna be intrinsically buggy because
yeah, they are so massive.
1533
01:27:21,154 --> 01:27:21,884
You're just not gonna be
1534
01:27:21,884 --> 01:27:26,168
able to get rid of every We're doing better, and honestly, it's been better than it was.
1535
01:27:26,168 --> 01:27:27,231
People don't understand this.
1536
01:27:27,231 --> 01:27:34,575
They have rose colored glasses, but like Mass Effect had its fair share of bugs, but then
got patched out.
1537
01:27:34,575 --> 01:27:36,387
But C D yeah, so perfect.
1538
01:27:36,387 --> 01:27:37,237
I I
1539
01:27:37,871 --> 01:27:39,107
It's a it's a perfect pairing.
1540
01:27:39,107 --> 01:27:39,849
Mass Effect's had
1541
01:27:39,849 --> 01:27:40,891
its bugs.
1542
01:27:41,496 --> 01:27:44,195
CD port object red's had its bugs and fixed them.
1543
01:27:46,333 --> 01:27:50,394
Yeah, ~ Well who's that?
1544
01:27:50,706 --> 01:27:53,769
Sorry, kids broke the lamp in the hallway.
1545
01:27:53,769 --> 01:27:56,792
~
1546
01:27:57,253 --> 01:27:58,694
yeah, so
1547
01:27:58,815 --> 01:28:00,095
Mass Effect.
1548
01:28:00,216 --> 01:28:01,157
RAP.
1549
01:28:01,314 --> 01:28:03,536
Mass Effect was awesome.
1550
01:28:03,658 --> 01:28:06,122
Star Wars, Knights of Old Republic was awesome.
1551
01:28:06,122 --> 01:28:14,693
~ I'm not really a fantasy guy, so I never played their other games, but yeah.
1552
01:28:14,693 --> 01:28:17,433
Age was the first two were really good.
1553
01:28:17,433 --> 01:28:21,562
I couldn't get into three or the fourth one.
1554
01:28:21,562 --> 01:28:22,384
too.
1555
01:28:22,494 --> 01:28:24,283
Yeah, I never get into that either.
1556
01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:25,864
Empire was really good.
1557
01:28:25,864 --> 01:28:28,740
What was what was Bio what was Bioware's last game?
1558
01:28:28,740 --> 01:28:30,537
Was it Anthem I think it was?
1559
01:28:31,309 --> 01:28:31,830
No.
1560
01:28:31,830 --> 01:28:34,732
Bioware's last game was ~ Dragon Age.
1561
01:28:35,053 --> 01:28:35,614
V
1562
01:28:35,614 --> 01:28:36,164
Valegard.
1563
01:28:36,164 --> 01:28:39,211
It did it it didn't do very well.
1564
01:28:39,211 --> 01:28:39,792
I forgot
1565
01:28:39,792 --> 01:28:42,054
that game existed, I'm not gonna lie.
1566
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:43,224
Mm-hmm.
1567
01:28:43,437 --> 01:28:44,946
It didn't do very well.
1568
01:28:44,946 --> 01:28:46,603
Emily really liked it.
1569
01:28:48,729 --> 01:28:49,810
I didn't look that bad to me.
1570
01:28:49,810 --> 01:28:51,971
It looked better than the one before it.
1571
01:28:52,452 --> 01:28:53,402
Didn't look that bad to me.
1572
01:28:53,402 --> 01:29:04,320
They they they the problem is that with every Dragon Age release, I think they were
pissing off the fans of the original and the ri like the first Dragon Age.
1573
01:29:05,241 --> 01:29:10,284
And like the differences between the Dragon Age one and four are s pretty big.
1574
01:29:10,284 --> 01:29:11,205
So
1575
01:29:12,060 --> 01:29:12,526
Right.
1576
01:29:12,526 --> 01:29:17,029
it's Where Mass Effect, you have Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3
1577
01:29:17,226 --> 01:29:20,854
And I will say this, and people are, I think, fundamentally wrong.
1578
01:29:20,854 --> 01:29:23,601
I think Andromeda was a pretty decent mass effect.
1579
01:29:23,601 --> 01:29:25,445
It's just they had
1580
01:29:27,922 --> 01:29:28,503
I I don't know.
1581
01:29:28,503 --> 01:29:29,905
I played it on a higher end system.
1582
01:29:29,905 --> 01:29:31,037
I didn't have any issues.
1583
01:29:31,037 --> 01:29:35,754
So maybe it'll lead us for me, but ~ I liked Mass Effect Andromeda.
1584
01:29:35,754 --> 01:29:37,327
I think it was a really good one.
1585
01:29:37,327 --> 01:29:41,035
really bad on console too though?
1586
01:29:41,035 --> 01:29:42,597
Like it wasn't just PC.
1587
01:29:42,639 --> 01:29:43,149
it could have
1588
01:29:43,149 --> 01:29:43,299
been.
1589
01:29:43,299 --> 01:29:44,139
It had a couple bugs.
1590
01:29:44,139 --> 01:29:45,660
They did patch them.
1591
01:29:45,660 --> 01:29:52,762
~ not saying that it should have it sh they should have waited just a few more months and
patched them out, but it was just a bad release.
1592
01:29:52,762 --> 01:29:56,864
But if that was the case, Fallout New Vegas is a piece of garbage.
1593
01:29:56,864 --> 01:30:01,025
~ a bunch of other classic games that we've gotten in the past are garbage.
1594
01:30:01,046 --> 01:30:04,437
I just think people have gotten more cynical over the years and fuck them.
1595
01:30:04,437 --> 01:30:09,773
Like they I think they're part of the reason why games are getting like we're also getting
less games, so
1596
01:30:09,773 --> 01:30:11,795
I I I'm a little bitter because the
1597
01:30:11,795 --> 01:30:12,248
what way?
1598
01:30:12,248 --> 01:30:15,675
'Cause I think I would argue we're pretty cynical ourselves.
1599
01:30:17,455 --> 01:30:18,015
More cynical
1600
01:30:18,015 --> 01:30:21,147
when I get together with you guys, but I'm very allowing
1601
01:30:21,147 --> 01:30:24,448
of of bugs and Cyberpunk 2077, yeah.
1602
01:30:24,788 --> 01:30:25,938
Did it have a bad launch?
1603
01:30:25,938 --> 01:30:28,710
Should have not gone gone that route, of course.
1604
01:30:28,710 --> 01:30:31,190
But they patched, they fixed it, everything.
1605
01:30:31,511 --> 01:30:40,935
But like Fallout New Vegas was unplayable for fifty percent of the user base for the first
two weeks and a and a p a moder fixed it for most of them.
1606
01:30:40,935 --> 01:30:47,387
So you had to buy an ~ a or not buy, you had to download a maw or a a patch that was made
by
1607
01:30:47,690 --> 01:30:51,078
~ a moder to to get Fallout New Vegas.
1608
01:30:51,078 --> 01:30:56,310
~ I wasn't able to play it on PC until I got that patch.
1609
01:30:56,392 --> 01:30:56,833
So
1610
01:30:56,833 --> 01:30:59,365
you still can't play it without that patch.
1611
01:31:00,263 --> 01:31:01,554
What are talking about?
1612
01:31:02,716 --> 01:31:03,627
Fault in Vegas?
1613
01:31:03,627 --> 01:31:04,468
No, you can you
1614
01:31:04,468 --> 01:31:04,979
can play it.
1615
01:31:04,979 --> 01:31:05,930
You can play without that patch.
1616
01:31:05,930 --> 01:31:09,625
This is a day one patch 'cause it was broken for fifty percent of the users.
1617
01:31:09,625 --> 01:31:11,006
They patched it.
1618
01:31:11,908 --> 01:31:13,590
So I don't know what you're
1619
01:31:13,590 --> 01:31:16,453
talking about, high tech, but it's it's playable.
1620
01:31:18,174 --> 01:31:20,398
It's been a while since I've played it unpatched.
1621
01:31:21,022 --> 01:31:22,705
So perhaps maybe yeah.
1622
01:31:22,705 --> 01:31:23,190
I don't know.
1623
01:31:23,190 --> 01:31:24,478
I don't know I don't know, man.
1624
01:31:24,478 --> 01:31:34,445
about maybe like all bunch of the different mods to make it look prettier to whatever, but
no, you can even on the Steam Deck you can pull up st Fallout New Vegas on it and play it.
1625
01:31:35,928 --> 01:31:43,619
man, but th I anyways, there's a bunch of crazy sh the gaming industry is just what is
going on?
1626
01:31:43,619 --> 01:31:50,919
I'm sure part of this has I'm sure part of this is fueled by the fact that EA is owned by
private equity aka Saudi
1627
01:31:50,919 --> 01:31:51,890
Arabia.
1628
01:31:53,503 --> 01:31:55,089
private public equity.
1629
01:31:55,498 --> 01:31:56,339
private pub.
1630
01:31:56,339 --> 01:31:57,259
Yeah.
1631
01:31:57,419 --> 01:31:57,679
Well
1632
01:31:57,679 --> 01:32:00,891
it's the w it's it's unfortunately not the the good kind in my opinion.
1633
01:32:00,891 --> 01:32:03,890
It's the it it's just a big fun.
1634
01:32:03,890 --> 01:32:04,863
It it's just a big
1635
01:32:04,863 --> 01:32:06,537
pri it's private equity.
1636
01:32:06,537 --> 01:32:10,786
~ th what they care about is grabbing IP, grabbing what they want.
1637
01:32:10,786 --> 01:32:18,050
They're repurposing EA into a different system and all the IP might be good for them.
1638
01:32:18,151 --> 01:32:18,851
Might not be.
1639
01:32:18,851 --> 01:32:23,133
But the the devs are are
1640
01:32:23,525 --> 01:32:24,707
~ too heavy.
1641
01:32:24,707 --> 01:32:27,450
Like they're they're too much of a burden so they have to get rid of them.
1642
01:32:27,450 --> 01:32:33,197
Like h ~ you know, heaven forbid they make video games that'll make the money, but you
know.
1643
01:32:35,026 --> 01:32:36,266
Yeah, ~
1644
01:32:36,787 --> 01:32:42,178
the worst part about this whole situation is that EA still owns all the Bioware IPs.
1645
01:32:42,178 --> 01:32:58,623
They still own Mass Effect and there's a I I mean, given how poorly Andromeda did, and
also how poorly Vail Guard did, relatively speaking, I wouldn't imagine them touching any
1646
01:32:58,623 --> 01:33:00,874
more Bioware IPs in the future.
1647
01:33:03,089 --> 01:33:03,958
Yeah.
1648
01:33:04,754 --> 01:33:05,715
Yeah.
1649
01:33:06,099 --> 01:33:07,263
I could s I think
1650
01:33:07,263 --> 01:33:12,418
BioWare's ~ games are just dead dead in the
1651
01:33:13,979 --> 01:33:14,549
We'll see.
1652
01:33:14,549 --> 01:33:20,151
There could be a slim chance it's happened in the past that the IPs get sold off.
1653
01:33:20,151 --> 01:33:23,712
Cause if they if they s it depends.
1654
01:33:23,712 --> 01:33:33,695
Private equity will sometimes want to keep it no matter what, because it's a good
portfolio stack and never touched again, which is broken.
1655
01:33:33,695 --> 01:33:35,735
Broken world we live in with that.
1656
01:33:35,735 --> 01:33:41,468
Or they could be like, if there's someone that's like, hey, you know what, we really wanna
buy this
1657
01:33:41,468 --> 01:33:46,920
And they get enough ~ funding, let's say a bunch of old bioware people come back.
1658
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:54,783
cause I think a lot of the seniors, a lot of the leadership left and built some new
companies because they were getting tired of what was going on.
1659
01:33:55,103 --> 01:34:06,708
Maybe they could get enough equ ~ enough of a loan or you know, get enough startup funds
to just grab a mass the Mass Effect one, maybe.
1660
01:34:06,788 --> 01:34:08,389
That's the one I care about the most.
1661
01:34:08,389 --> 01:34:09,659
Mass Effect.
1662
01:34:09,659 --> 01:34:11,890
Dragon Age kinda killed itself off over the years.
1663
01:34:11,890 --> 01:34:12,840
They've still great.
1664
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:20,173
~ I think Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic would also be another really good one to p
maybe pick up, but Mass Effect's where it's at.
1665
01:34:20,173 --> 01:34:29,926
And that's that has such a unique universe that I just don't think anyone else is gonna be
able to to produce a sci fi game like Mass Effect ever again unless we have that IP
1666
01:34:29,926 --> 01:34:30,976
somewhere else.
1667
01:34:31,557 --> 01:34:32,787
With the right team.
1668
01:34:32,787 --> 01:34:33,627
right.
1669
01:34:33,627 --> 01:34:35,786
So that that brings me to my next point though.
1670
01:34:35,786 --> 01:34:39,741
A lot of the people that made Bioware what it was, they left a while ago.
1671
01:34:39,741 --> 01:34:45,694
They're not they haven't been with Bioware in quite some time now, and honestly, Bioware
1672
01:34:45,694 --> 01:34:52,377
even like even as it died, it died as a shell of its former self instead of the company
that was.
1673
01:34:52,738 --> 01:34:53,919
Like all the bioware
1674
01:34:53,919 --> 01:34:59,837
talent ex that a lot of the bioware talent left a while ago, right?
1675
01:34:59,837 --> 01:35:01,048
Yeah, 'cause they were pissed off.
1676
01:35:01,048 --> 01:35:04,019
if leadership w like this is a leadership restructuring thing.
1677
01:35:04,019 --> 01:35:14,785
If if they did it right, they would be like, Okay, we're getting rid of a lot of l the the
leadership at the ver like, probably an EA or somewhere else that caused these exits and
1678
01:35:14,785 --> 01:35:16,155
then bring back some of the talent.
1679
01:35:16,155 --> 01:35:20,468
I guarantee some of the talent would probably come back or reform a new studio.
1680
01:35:20,468 --> 01:35:23,710
I don't they they could have made it work, I think.
1681
01:35:24,030 --> 01:35:29,769
But you know, whether it be hu hubris or whatever it is
1682
01:35:29,769 --> 01:35:32,901
It made it not happen, so I'm mad because I
1683
01:35:32,901 --> 01:35:34,232
want more Mass Effect.
1684
01:35:34,673 --> 01:35:35,623
I wanna give them money.
1685
01:35:35,623 --> 01:35:36,694
This is this sucks.
1686
01:35:36,694 --> 01:35:39,255
I wanna give them money and they they don't want to take my money.
1687
01:35:39,835 --> 01:35:40,906
Well, dude, all they're
1688
01:35:40,906 --> 01:35:45,538
going to do with EA now is sports wash.
1689
01:35:45,979 --> 01:35:47,901
Like, that's really what it is.
1690
01:35:47,901 --> 01:35:50,863
It's going to be and it's going to be Sims
1691
01:35:50,863 --> 01:35:51,813
washing too, man.
1692
01:35:51,813 --> 01:35:59,789
It's like the Sims and what they're going to remove LGBT representation from the Sims.
1693
01:35:59,789 --> 01:36:04,051
They're going to ~ they're going to they're going to.
1694
01:36:04,969 --> 01:36:10,059
may have Saudi business interests in sports games.
1695
01:36:10,081 --> 01:36:13,598
It's like, dude, that's all it's going to be.
1696
01:36:14,417 --> 01:36:16,896
That's why they killed Bioware.
1697
01:36:16,896 --> 01:36:17,296
Mm.
1698
01:36:17,296 --> 01:36:19,852
of their stories have gay characters in it, so
1699
01:36:19,914 --> 01:36:20,706
Yeah.
1700
01:36:21,957 --> 01:36:22,754
Can't have that.
1701
01:36:22,754 --> 01:36:30,823
Joff Keeley was especially saddened about this too, given that Joff Keeley went on Fox
News to defend gaming.
1702
01:36:31,434 --> 01:36:33,626
You guys rem you guys remember that?
1703
01:36:34,555 --> 01:36:35,822
When was that?
1704
01:36:36,318 --> 01:36:37,602
was ~ fucking twenty years ago.
1705
01:36:37,602 --> 01:36:40,350
They were talking about the quote sex box.
1706
01:36:40,350 --> 01:36:41,734
And they were talking about Mass Effect
1707
01:36:41,734 --> 01:36:43,999
One because you could see someone's ass.
1708
01:36:45,357 --> 01:36:47,938
Yeah.
1709
01:36:47,938 --> 01:36:49,278
Fox News.
1710
01:36:51,099 --> 01:36:56,071
Yeah, twenty years ago, man, all the head people were frickin' sexual harassers.
1711
01:36:56,071 --> 01:36:57,582
So I mean all those people that were
1712
01:36:57,582 --> 01:37:05,445
at Fox News back then are gone because they w they needed the look inwards, not towards a
video game.
1713
01:37:06,069 --> 01:37:06,830
Yeah.
1714
01:37:07,314 --> 01:37:09,776
Yeah, man, Joff Keely was a is a trooper man.
1715
01:37:09,776 --> 01:37:19,062
I know I I know I have a lot of disagreements in regards to things like the definition of
an indie game and shit like that, but ~ I can't fully hate him for that.
1716
01:37:19,423 --> 01:37:20,197
Hmm.
1717
01:37:20,313 --> 01:37:23,355
At the end of the day, I think we are maybe too critical at times.
1718
01:37:23,355 --> 01:37:24,954
We're too pessimistic.
1719
01:37:24,954 --> 01:37:35,804
I I think a lot of it comes from we get mad at everything, maybe put too much ~ hatred
into everything when really we're just upset with ra like the RAM prices of stuff.
1720
01:37:35,804 --> 01:37:39,826
I I I think sometimes we get a little bit too petty on like, I hate this game.
1721
01:37:39,826 --> 01:37:43,408
This sh game should not exist, where it's like, Okay, don't fucking buy that game then.
1722
01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:44,259
but
1723
01:37:45,523 --> 01:37:50,343
People to see it as an opportunity cost, though, which ~ in a sense makes sense.
1724
01:37:50,343 --> 01:37:52,072
let's look at GTA six.
1725
01:37:52,214 --> 01:37:57,621
Rockstar has a bunch of other IPs that they could be making, like Bully, Manhunt,
1726
01:37:58,183 --> 01:38:00,406
~ Max Pain.
1727
01:38:01,077 --> 01:38:03,192
that ping pong game that they had.
1728
01:38:03,192 --> 01:38:05,625
~ yeah, rock star ping pong.
1729
01:38:05,666 --> 01:38:05,996
They
1730
01:38:05,996 --> 01:38:07,428
the way the way that these
1731
01:38:07,428 --> 01:38:15,458
people see it is that the fact that they're spending all of their time and resources on
GTA six means they're not spending time on the other thing they may like a little.
1732
01:38:16,161 --> 01:38:19,933
Rockstar doesn't I don't think Rockstar ever made Max Payne.
1733
01:38:19,933 --> 01:38:22,404
They just did it in conjunction with Remedy.
1734
01:38:22,404 --> 01:38:24,434
So Remedy's working with them to redo all the Max Pain.
1735
01:38:24,434 --> 01:38:24,555
So
1736
01:38:24,555 --> 01:38:26,165
we are getting Max Pain's.
1737
01:38:26,525 --> 01:38:30,537
Rockstar is a bad example 'cause they're a bad company.
1738
01:38:30,537 --> 01:38:38,650
They only are for profit now, instead of any of their like actual like 'cause they still
and they're only for the maximum profit.
1739
01:38:38,650 --> 01:38:45,301
They could hire more devs, they could hire another studio to see if they and and do some ~
1740
01:38:46,373 --> 01:38:48,806
Just s what is the word I'm looking for?
1741
01:38:48,806 --> 01:38:56,305
Essentially some projects to see if that Dev Studio does well in taking up, let's say, the
next Red Dead Redemption.
1742
01:38:56,305 --> 01:38:57,536
They take their time though too.
1743
01:38:57,536 --> 01:39:01,170
So once GTA comes out, they'll be back onto the next Red Dead.
1744
01:39:01,170 --> 01:39:07,017
~ maybe, but they're also really into the GTA online 'cause it's just it's a money
printer.
1745
01:39:07,017 --> 01:39:07,767
So
1746
01:39:08,042 --> 01:39:08,857
Yeah.
1747
01:39:09,830 --> 01:39:10,913
I'm sure it is the
1748
01:39:10,913 --> 01:39:13,044
~ money printer of choice.
1749
01:39:13,044 --> 01:39:13,711
Mm.
1750
01:39:13,711 --> 01:39:18,033
And and those types of people that play those types of games don't get mad over this type
of stuff.
1751
01:39:18,033 --> 01:39:26,977
We just the the type of people that would buy the next Mass Effect are the ones that end
up getting really upset and then we end up losing everything, I feel like.
1752
01:39:26,977 --> 01:39:28,007
I don't know.
1753
01:39:29,168 --> 01:39:30,729
I I'm not trying to blame
1754
01:39:30,729 --> 01:39:36,751
people fully, but I Mass Effect Dramata was not a bad I beat that game almost twice.
1755
01:39:36,751 --> 01:39:38,312
~ it's not a bad game.
1756
01:39:38,312 --> 01:39:40,623
Is it the best Mass Effect?
1757
01:39:40,623 --> 01:39:41,283
No.
1758
01:39:41,467 --> 01:39:43,284
I think it's on par of Mass Effect One.
1759
01:39:43,284 --> 01:39:47,069
It's more fun than Mass Effect One by far, but I
1760
01:39:47,069 --> 01:39:51,602
I think the problem is that people are really missing the force for the trees.
1761
01:39:52,043 --> 01:39:52,613
Like people
1762
01:39:52,613 --> 01:39:59,818
like it they're like nitpicking like crazy when it comes to video games and they think
that all of the nitpicks
1763
01:39:59,818 --> 01:40:08,114
just add up, but like I can overlook a lot of nitpicks, ~ if a game is that good, let me
just say.
1764
01:40:09,201 --> 01:40:10,802
Yeah, no, I that's the only thing.
1765
01:40:10,802 --> 01:40:11,183
I
1766
01:40:11,183 --> 01:40:23,203
I think a lot of content creators have also destroyed a lot of these too, out of just
getting the the the biggest loudest splash of ~ drama is gonna drive up these views.
1767
01:40:23,203 --> 01:40:27,356
And unfortunately some of these games I think were in the crosshairs just don't deserve
it.
1768
01:40:27,997 --> 01:40:35,001
People are gonna probably disagree with me, ~ maybe in the comments on like the the the
DramaD thing, but I don't know.
1769
01:40:35,001 --> 01:40:37,885
If you go pla if you go load it up right now, it is
1770
01:40:38,373 --> 01:40:39,713
It is still fun.
1771
01:40:40,374 --> 01:40:43,815
The problem is it's just it's it was a new dev studio getting their footing.
1772
01:40:43,815 --> 01:40:45,715
That's why they chose Andromeda.
1773
01:40:46,275 --> 01:40:55,738
Mass Effect Andromeda 2 could have been maybe a lot better because they had like it it was
and this is I think the best way to put it.
1774
01:40:56,098 --> 01:40:59,399
Mass Effect 1, if you go back, it was very flat in a lot of areas.
1775
01:40:59,399 --> 01:41:03,900
It was good, but it is not the same as Mass Effect 2 or 3.
1776
01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:05,251
Andromeda is the same way.
1777
01:41:05,251 --> 01:41:06,491
I think if they would have given
1778
01:41:06,491 --> 01:41:19,905
them a chance to make Andromeda 2 and to be able to have this new dev studio that was
working on it because it was a new dev studio, new a lot of new fresh blood to better f ~
1779
01:41:20,145 --> 01:41:21,055
improve their skills.
1780
01:41:21,055 --> 01:41:26,967
We could have gotten ~ maybe closer to a Mass Effect 2 with Andromeda 2, but that was not
the case.
1781
01:41:27,267 --> 01:41:32,758
Both EA didn't want to take the chance and I think people too many people were just
destroying it.
1782
01:41:32,758 --> 01:41:35,099
So it just it had no chance.
1783
01:41:35,579 --> 01:41:43,558
And I I it does piss me off 'cause I do think the fans dish also are a part of the reason
why some of these IPs are dead.
1784
01:41:44,729 --> 01:41:45,749
So
1785
01:41:47,687 --> 01:41:56,649
I think there's a ~ bit of blame for publishers and studios too because yeah.
1786
01:41:56,649 --> 01:41:58,769
I said it's a part of the reason.
1787
01:41:58,769 --> 01:41:59,362
it's a partial.
1788
01:41:59,362 --> 01:42:01,745
It's a like it probably a fourth of the reason.
1789
01:42:01,745 --> 01:42:04,227
The r most of it is on the publishers.
1790
01:42:05,049 --> 01:42:06,190
I'm in a I
1791
01:42:06,755 --> 01:42:08,197
genuinely, I think like
1792
01:42:08,197 --> 01:42:23,894
so much of it comes from the fact that ~ publishers have been overextending, like they've
been trying, they've been like pushing for higher graphical fidelity and live services and
1793
01:42:24,035 --> 01:42:24,493
yeah.
1794
01:42:24,493 --> 01:42:26,939
you live service is the reason why everything's dead.
1795
01:42:27,302 --> 01:42:28,310
They over gambled.
1796
01:42:28,310 --> 01:42:33,067
literally a microcosm of late stage capitalism.
1797
01:42:33,531 --> 01:42:34,301
Yeah.
1798
01:42:34,521 --> 01:42:35,562
A hundred percent.
1799
01:42:35,562 --> 01:42:37,722
And it's a creative wor it's a creative area.
1800
01:42:37,722 --> 01:42:41,363
You can't do that in creative ~ ventures, I think.
1801
01:42:41,363 --> 01:42:44,244
Because you you can't you gotta have money, don't get me wrong.
1802
01:42:45,444 --> 01:42:50,266
And but people will, like people will buy the shit out of a good mass effect, just to
bring it back.
1803
01:42:50,266 --> 01:42:51,446
Like they will buy a good one.
1804
01:42:51,446 --> 01:42:51,967
You just
1805
01:42:51,967 --> 01:42:52,426
Mm.
1806
01:42:52,426 --> 01:43:02,199
gotta re reiterate, have play sessions, bring fans in, do a lot of good you know good ~
PR.
1807
01:43:02,199 --> 01:43:03,439
I don't know, like
1808
01:43:03,889 --> 01:43:15,515
But there's also a lot of publishers that have been forcing d developers to put live
service in, put do a lot of stuff, and that also causes a lot of these issues.
1809
01:43:16,016 --> 01:43:19,657
And they deserve all the hate.
1810
01:43:20,318 --> 01:43:28,362
But at the end of the day, we gotta be a little bit more graceful with our hate for some
of the developers.
1811
01:43:28,362 --> 01:43:33,815
And I th and I I only put this out because I think Mass Mass Effect Dramata just doesn't
deserve it.
1812
01:43:34,258 --> 01:43:35,679
I think it got too much.
1813
01:43:36,378 --> 01:43:39,662
~ hate from the from people.
1814
01:43:40,003 --> 01:43:41,704
But it is what it is.
1815
01:43:41,704 --> 01:43:45,587
~ they could have also maybe spent some more time and built a better game.
1816
01:43:45,587 --> 01:43:48,379
So bad talent could
1817
01:43:48,379 --> 01:43:49,630
have also killed it.
1818
01:43:50,271 --> 01:43:53,513
~ yeah, so my rant's over.
1819
01:43:53,714 --> 01:44:00,199
We can get into some Peggy begins moving existing digital only games with loot boxes up to
a 16 plus rating.
1820
01:44:00,199 --> 01:44:02,081
Or sixteen yeah, sixteen plus rating.
1821
01:44:02,081 --> 01:44:03,151
Which is good.
1822
01:44:03,828 --> 01:44:04,388
Yeah.
1823
01:44:04,388 --> 01:44:07,624
about I think it's Gar it's about Gardner's time to leave, sadly.
1824
01:44:07,624 --> 01:44:09,153
Yeah, I do gotta go.
1825
01:44:09,202 --> 01:44:10,093
But let's get some
1826
01:44:10,093 --> 01:44:14,138
final thoughts on ~ let's get Gardner's thoughts on this refor before he leaves.
1827
01:44:14,138 --> 01:44:17,771
dude, this is what we've needed for ages and ages.
1828
01:44:17,771 --> 01:44:31,000
Like ~ gambling mechanics in games, ~ I'm not gonna say there's a ~ causation, but like
there is a line, like a straight line that you can draw from.
1829
01:44:31,566 --> 01:44:34,802
kids being exposed to gambling mechanics to polymarket and shit.
1830
01:44:34,802 --> 01:44:38,688
~ it's just an unhealthy thing for kids to be exposed to.
1831
01:44:38,688 --> 01:44:42,223
And frankly, it's an unhealthy thing for anybody to be exposed to.
1832
01:44:42,223 --> 01:44:43,976
And I just don't think that it's good.
1833
01:44:43,976 --> 01:44:46,119
So this is cool that they're doing this.
1834
01:44:47,666 --> 01:44:48,809
Yeah.
1835
01:44:48,809 --> 01:44:52,978
It's it's a it's a bad time to be a gamer.
1836
01:44:53,282 --> 01:44:54,163
Yeah.
1837
01:44:54,984 --> 01:44:55,798
Alright, well you
1838
01:44:55,798 --> 01:45:00,170
you have fun with your ~ your birthday ~ thing that you're going to.
1839
01:45:00,170 --> 01:45:01,161
Thank you.
1840
01:45:01,463 --> 01:45:03,860
Enjoy this last conversation.
1841
01:45:03,860 --> 01:45:05,871
See you guys next week.
1842
01:45:06,065 --> 01:45:06,955
Letterman.
1843
01:45:06,955 --> 01:45:07,787
Bye.
1844
01:45:07,787 --> 01:45:08,988
Bye.
1845
01:45:10,042 --> 01:45:10,577
So
1846
01:45:10,577 --> 01:45:11,444
Hmm.
