NZXT PODCAST - #097 - The News

Episode Date: July 18, 2021

This week on the podcast we talk about the news! Join us as we discuss hardware shortages, bowling, and handheld Steam consoles. Listen live to the NZXT 💜 CLUB CAST on our Discord server at discord.gg/NZXT every Thursday at 10AM PT and submit your questions to [e-mail]!

Three, two, one. Hello and welcome everybody to episode 97 of the NZXT Clubcast, the official podcast of the NZXT community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time and the official, this puts us back up. Why not? The official on N60s Discord server is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. My name is Dennis, and with me as always is based Ivan. What's up, Ivan?

What's up, man? How you feeling? Good. You're feeling right. I've been feeling a little under the weather for the past few days. Yeah, me too. Ever since I went bowling. Mine's ever since I went to that rally.

I'm kidding. Yeah, a stupid pandemic, man. Like, just as things that, like, just when you think, things are getting back to normal. All of a sudden you turn the news that it's like, not so fast. Hold up there, gamers, Delta variant coming at you. That's okay.

I'm not affected by the delta variant because I am a alpha male. So obviously alpha is like three steps of, three steps ahead of like Delta. So I feel like I'm pretty safe. Have you heard of Sigma males, by the way? No. So supposedly Sigma males is stark contrast to alpha males, but it's not a beta male.

And supposedly a Sigma male, I don't know who came up with this. It's just people making stuff up. But apparently, a Sigma male is someone who doesn't care about the opinions of others, and they do their own thing, right? And they're very independent, and they may seem like they're really, like, introverted, but actually, they're in the own world. Sounds exactly like you. It sounds like someone's self-reporting.

he's like telling them themselves it's hilarious yeah um uh yeah how you do and ivin how you feeling besides feeling sick yeah like you i also feel a little bit sick but probably not as bad as you do you know i didn't take any any time off from work or anything like that um i just feel like like i just have a scratchy throat and i'm a little tired but nothing too crazy I'm hoping it's just like a little bug. I think I'm all right, man. Happy to be back in the office. I've been coming pretty consistently for the last couple of weeks now.

Yeah. Sorry, I was reading the comment. Someone said, Shrigma Mill is the new thing. It's like, stupid. So dumb, dude. I hate the internet. I forget what I was watching the day that made me remember. why I dislike the internet so much, just like inherently.

Oh, here's actually a good question for you. Have you seen Bo Burnham's inside yet? No. I highly recommend it. Do you, are you aware of who Bo Burnham is? You have to be, right? He's like, sounds familiar. Okay, so he's this dude who started as a kid.

He was doing, like, little, like, comedy songs from his room, like, on a piano. And then he got really big. And he's done like a thing two specials. And he basically stopped doing things for like five years. And then he was working on a new special when the pandemic hit. So he's like, well, this is sucky. Because apparently he was having like a lot of like really serious like mental health issues. And he was like, you know, I need to take a step back.

You need to work on myself. So the minute he basically decides that he's going to get back to doing, you know, something in the public, the pandemic hits, right? Which is like, you know, someone up above is telling you don't do this stuff. but then so he started working on the special throughout the pandemic where he's basically in a room the entire time just him and he's doing everything the the lighting the the production for the music just everything's him in this one room and the songs range from super goofy to like we need to get kids off the internet kind of stuff it's it's it's really really good I would I would say that

it's it's almost like a work of art like I really highly recommend watching it um you know a It just, you know, it has to do with stuff like, you know, just like how, you know, how capitalism is super crazy, how people like get to, like, woke, right? And, like, you know, how just people in general need to like to take, like, take a step back and, like, reevaluate basically, like, the entire way of thinking. I know it sounds super grandiose and it's not like that, that, it's not, quote, unquote, that deep, but it kind of is. But I don't want to say anything because I don't want to spoil it. All right. I'll check it out. Yeah, but it's, it's, I would say at the very least, it's like a very impressive watch.

But I also don't know if I'm like, I'm like the perfect demographic, you know, to like watch this thing. I was going to say, it sounds like all this stuff you've been telling me these last couple of weeks. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. The internet sucks. Get off the internet, everybody. Stop listen to the podcast. Go touch some grass.

That's what we're telling you right now. I don't think the internet sucks. I just think it's easy to to let the internet like really mess you up in a lot of ways. And it's because of the people. because of the technology. Just got to be careful. Got to be like, you know, control over consumed, basically. Yeah, so like, so my issue with the internet is just, honestly, I think that what was I watching?

I was watching TikTok, and this guy was saying that it doesn't think the internet is bad, but he thinks that we are in this current climate of humanity where we've had more information at our fingertips. than we've ever had in our, in our history, right? Yeah. And that there's a lot of people, right, particularly older people who can't handle that. And they can't critically, well, it's a lot of people, to be honest, right? Not just older people. It's, you know, I've seen some young people say some dumb stuff too.

But particularly, like, there are a lot of people who can't handle that amount of information and don't know how to parse it correctly and don't know how to differentiate what's good or what's bad, right? Like, for example, if I get a, like, spam email, you know, I've kind of trended myself to kind of think critically and now, this is a spam email, I'm not going to click on it, right? But people are cleaning on these things all the time, right? You always hear stories about some grandma getting, like, scanned for hard many dollars or, you know, or whatever. Like, I was told in high school, don't use Wikipedia as a source, right? You know, Wikipedia is a really bad source. Don't use it for your essay, blah, blah, right? And then the same people are,

like linking you this like really weird like a page from Facebook and they're going to tell you about how shoes are actually like fake or something right like yeah and that's what I mean it's like you just have to be careful so what you said is true you know it's like this is the first time in history where all the information in the world it's seriously at your fingertips you know you can just Google anything and find out like instantly but because of that I feel like it's super important that you're controlling where you're getting that information from. Because I think people don't. That's the thing. Yeah, most people don't.

Most people get their news on Twitter or Reddit or some other website, you know. Like, it's not like before where you have to like, you know, get a quarter and pick up a newspaper and then wait until the next day to get the news and things like that. Like there's, I don't think people take the time to not just consume, like, from right sources, but just even like when it comes to sharing information. Like you see like a title on Twitter and you don't even read the article, but you like and retweet it before you read it.

And who knows what's in there and what information you're spreading. It's really funny to say that because if you try to retweet something from Twitter and you haven't read it or whatever, it'll actually say, oh, hey, it looks like you're going to retweet this article. Have you read it yet? It'll actually ask you if you read it

and you want to retweet it. That's actually really good. Because people do that crap, dude, it's so bad. It's just like, the amount of, like, misinformation is ridiculous.

Uh, Kerbong, uh, care ban, ban, you guys need to get some more easy names. You said that, uh,

confirmation, or they said that confirmation bias is, is more prevalent than ever, which is super true, right? Super true. There's something that, like,

I've, I've spoken to, uh, with the community several times, like on our Discord, right? Well, they'd be like,

like, hey, it seems like you guys have a lot of issues with your computers because people come here all the time. I'm like, well, no, duh, right? Like, if I'm happy with my product, I'm not going to hop into a company Discord, go through all that effort just to say, hey, everything's working great and then never come back again, right? But people will do that if they're upset. Same thing with like Yelp, same thing with like, you know, any reviewing platform.

You know, there's a, you know, you have to, you have to look at, like, trusted reviews and, like, trusted sites and then just go based on just everything that you see, you know? And like, this is not me saying that like our products are good or bad in any way should perform, but just that like if that's all you're looking at is, oh, people on Discord are complaining. Well, no doubt it's what people do on Discord or people on Reddit are complaining. Well, yeah, that's what, you know, that's what Reddit's for. Reddit's the customer service complaint section of the internet.

Yeah. Man, like, I feel like every, every business has bad experiences, right? Yeah. Every business, not just NZT, but I think what's important is like if the majority of people are having a good experience, you know, that's what's important, but those are the people are not necessarily going to go out of the way and like, like you said, go on a Discord server and just say like, hey, I'm just stopping by to say everything went according to plan. My computer's working perfectly. No issues whatsoever. Thank you, NZT. Like that doesn't happen. You know, it's like if, you're not going to plan. You know, it's like if. It's usually when there's a problem, I guess. Yeah, and then, like, when you have this already, like, predetermined thought that, like, you know, that this thing is one way, you'll start looking for that information and kind of confirm that, right? Which is where you get the confirmation bias, right? Where you, like, you know, I don't know. So I'll do the same thing, but in a different way with, like, video games, right?

So I'll get a game and I'll enjoy it, right? I'm like, this was a good game. I really like this game. Let me look at reviews now so that someone can tell me that I'm right pretty much. So you're right, reviewer. This game was good because I just played it. It was something that I totally do, but I am very aware that I do it. So I don't feel like it's that bad because I'm like, I'm like, you know, consciously going and looking for it and just like seeing like, you know, if, like the things that I'm experiencing are things that other people are experiencing or if they saw something a little different.

But anyway, when I hear to talk about how terrible. I was going to say, how do you think of discussion? I don't remember. We started talking about internet and stuff. But, so we're trying a little something different today, folks. Something that we've never done before. And let us know how you like it. We're going to be talking about some tech stuff, sort of.

So we've never done, like, news or anything, right? We never really looked into, like, what's going on in the world. Because, to be honest, like, there's so much going on, like, we really care. There's a much of different podcast. But, you know, I figured why not, right? Let's talk about a couple things. Let's, you know, I've selected three. amazing articles off the internet, and we've all read, totally read the entire articles,

and I just looked at the headlines. So, amazing segue. So this is the first one, right? This one comes from Tom's Hardware, actually, which I actually do read it every now and then on my own time. And this was from a day ago from Anton Shilov, and the title is PC Gaming, Hardware, market recovering, supply improving. So this is something, this is actually, this is actually, I'm not a,

Thank you, right. Thank you, Alan. Finally, a podcast to talk about tech, right? We're the first ones to do it. Like and subscribe. But basically, the entire article just kind of goes into like manufacturing methods and how, you know, a lot of these, a lot of these hardware companies are kind of reviewing their strategies for manufacturing to kind of meet the crazy demand that we have going on right now. And it's actually something that like we've been noticing, right? Kind of a interesting related aside. is, you know, we just announced, like, a couple days ago that we're back to doing two-day turnarounds, right, for custom builds on our PCs. And, you know, that's, it's no surprise, right, that it has to do with, you know, the, like, steadily increasing supply for hardware, you know. What bums me out, though, is, like, the prices are still pretty high. Yes. There's more supply, but the prices are still, like, not going down to what they used to be. Also, apart from, I guess, manufacturers keeping up with the demand now, there's also been, like, a huge crackdown in China with... I was going to say that, too. Yeah, I was going to bring that up.

So I'm pretty sure that that had something to do with it as well. I'm just hoping that the price of stuff goes down because it's still pretty expensive, man. It's not cheap. Yeah, I was reading that I think that China is, like, slowly increasing their crackdown to different provinces of China. So, like, they're kind of, like, taking it down, like, one by one. Yeah, I'm not, like, I'm not sure it has, like, that immediate of an effect, but I'm sure it does have so kind of effect, right? Because especially, you know, if you're, like, you're, like, mining at such a large scale,

you're probably buying, like, a ton of hardware, right? There's no way that you're not. Well, China has a lot of people. I have no idea how many people in China were mining. Everybody. Every man-in-child was allotted one GTX-30 series card so they can mine. One billion miners. Do you imagine if every single person in China was mining?

What would happen? I think the world is imploded itself from the use of energy. How many people live in China? I think there's a billion, right? There's over a billion people, China. There's over a billion people in China and over billion people in India. Right? 1.39 billion people in China. 1.36 billion in the U.S. in India.

Let's say how many. And then 382 million in the U.S. where we are. Yeah. That's a big difference. Yes. It's crazy. I know it's ridiculous. Sam, what was I going to say?

I'm totally blanking right now, dude. You know, that's a lot of people. I can't, um, do you think that, like, maybe, maybe this is, like, all the ploy to just, like, deplete the world of its resources? I think Bezos is behind this, to be honest. suddenly tells me that he wants all this money and all this Bitcoin so he can go to the moon and then leave leave Earth and never come back

I fully subscribe to that conspiracy I don't think so I don't think we're that crazy yet I don't know that I mean this is like the the age of like the almost like mad

scientist Tony Stark-esque type of dude, right? It was like, I'm going to make flamethrowers. I want to make rockets and let's go to the moon and I'm going to amass a ridiculous amount of wealth. And who knows where it's going towards, right? I would argue that was more like the 50s and 60s, to be honest. Yeah, it was like the invention of like the nuclear bomb. That's when we actually did go to the moon, 1969.

Supposedly. If you believe a man, right, we went to the moon? Oh, I mean, yeah, depends what you believe. Do you see that video? Was it Buzz Aldrin who like, punch that dude who was, like, telling him that, like, he was a liar and a fake. I didn't see that. So he was, so I guess, I guess him and this guy have this, like, history, right?

And, uh, and, like, he would, like, follow him around and be like, you know, you're a liar, you're a fake, you know, you didn't go to the moon. And he just gets fed up and he just decks him in the mouth. And I'm not advocating for violence, but if you went to the moon, like, actually went through all the effort to the moon, like the Super Danger's mission, and then this guy's chasing you around telling you that you didn't do it, you know, you know, I would not be surprised if you got hit. At a certain point, like, what are you going to do, right?

So I'm not a moon landing denier, but I am a moon landing questioner, I guess. Because a lot of it does not make sense to me. Like, the fact that we haven't been able to go back since then, that's kind of weird, right? I don't think it's that we can't go back because there's nothing there. Is it literally just a lot? It's kind of weird. Like, you know, big old fuss to get there and we go once. like, all right, we're done.

We're ever coming back here again. Well, like, the only reason we went there was just to go. Like, it really wasn't like a, there's an important resource or something to discover. Like, we already been knowing what's on the moon. It's just, it's a giant rock, right? It just sits there. And it just helps us with like our, our, with like our gravity and stuff. Well, have you heard about the hollow moon theory?

No, it's a hollow moon theory. The hollow moon theory is that it's not a giant rock, and it's actually like a big space station, like a dead star and I forget who it was I don't know it might have been was Aldrin and Neil Armstrong like apparently when they landed on it like it echoed like a bell forever like some some astronauts were saying that it's like it was echoing like a bell like that it sounded hollow yeah so I don't know that's true or not like I said I'm not a I'm not a moon hoax guy but It is just kind of weird. Okay, I got one.

Let me see if this works. Okay. In theory, every theory is a conspiracy theory. Ivan, are you ready for a reenactment? I want to try something. Sure. Okay. Commander Ivan, we're about to land.

We're about to land. Please put down the landing feet for the aircraft. Roger, N.F. over. What was that? The moon is hollow. I'm sorry. I had to try that and see if that work. There we go, guys.

Can you imagine, though, if, like, the moon just opened up one day and there was, like, spaceships in there? What kind of spaceships? Or, like, if there's, like, a giant guy with, like, a remote control. He's like, I've been controlling you this entire time. He just, like, turns off the waves. the oceans. That's the way it was.

This is the moon. We haven't done it. But yeah, so this all just goes back to tell you that, you know, that's where all the 30 series cards are.

They're on the moon. You know? That's what happened. We back to the moon. Yeah, but like, I think that, yeah,

I think there's nothing there, you know? It's like, it's like, you go to like, you go to like, Bakersfield and there's nothing there and you just don't really

go back, right? It's kind of the same thing. Right? There are certain cities in the U.S. that people know about, and then you go, and there's something there. And you're like, well, there's no reason for me to ever come back, and you just leave. You know, it's like going to like Six Flags. You go, there's nothing there, then you leave.

Yeah. I don't know if you've ever been to six flags. I have. I'm sure you have to, right? Yeah. Yeah, but I just hope that now that we get in supply, prices go down, and hopefully we don't have to go through this whole pandemic thing again, you know. because this delta variance kind of, it's kind of scaring me a little bit.

Is it really? I freaked out. I'm not scaring me, but it's like you look at the numbers. Like here in Los Angeles County, something crazy. Like cases are up like 500% this week or something like that from last week. And, yeah, like, there's people that are not vaccinated walking around without masks. You know, and they're saying most of the people that are getting sick are the unvaccinated. But still it's like, I just don't want to, you know, go through it again, man.

Because the last year and a half, it was pretty bad experience to go through, I think. I mean, yeah, it's super traumatic. I don't think anyone wanted to do that. No, I had plans for last year, dude. I had a lot of plans. And those were just, those got relegated to sit at home and work and play video games. And some other things happen in between there that we can talk about later. but yeah.

Yeah, I think from when I read, we're like relatively safe, right? Like if you're vaccinated, you're good to go. And I think that the, the most of the transmission is from unvaccinated to unvaccinated person. So, I mean, you know, and I think the unvaccinated are like a couple camps, right? One is like people who just don't believe it's a thing, which is always hilarious to me. The other are people who have a distrust. I think it's a lot of like marginalized people who have a distrust for the government in general, which is, I think, from what I've been reading, pretty like, you know, what's the word, like, understandable,

and then those who are unable to get vaccinated, right? So, yeah, you know, it'll be a while before we're, like, 100% and no one gets anything from anything, right? But we'll see. Okay, so next article I got here. This one's a little bit more fun. than hardware prices. Fortnite is putting LeBron James into the game. What do you think about that, Ivan?

Well, I'm not a Fortnite player and I'm not a big basketball guy, but I love it. I'm surprised you're not, especially living in LA. Well, I'm more of a baseball guy than a basketball guy. The reason I don't like basketball is because I feel like every basketball game ends the same way,

whether it's like the first game of the season are the NBA finals, the last five, 10 minutes of every basketball game is just people getting followed. Like, it's really boring to watch. And it lasts, like, the last 10 minutes last, like, 30 minutes because of that. But anyway, I do think it's cool that there's, like, more integration with sports and video games, because I know for a fact, athletes play video games. A lot of athletes, play video games. Yeah, we are very, yeah. When they're traveling, when they're in their hotel rooms,

before the game, after the game, I'm sure some even when they're injured. And, you know, like, it's very prevalent for video games to be in the athletic world. So I think it's cool that they're kind of merging the two. And I would like to see more of it, I think, like from other sports, if you're cool. Like, I love that, like, yeah, there's game I like it's not available on PC unfortunately MLB the show like the

commercial is cool like they have a Fernando Tate's Jr. in there and he's like the best baseball player at the moment and he's just like they're talking about video games and the script sucks the the commercials aren't that great but I just think it's cool that you know like someone like him you know like a real famous athlete is talking about a video game so So I think it's cool that LeBronze and Fortnite. And I also went to, I never go to McDonald's, but for some reason I went to McDonald's the other day. And I've never given my daughter a happy meal,

but I got her a happy meal. Never. So I got her a happy meal and there was a space jam toy in there. It's the roadrunner dribbling the basketball. So I've been having fun with that. Oh, and also fun fact, I found out recently last week when Andy was here that NZXT is actually in the space jam movie apparently.

What? Yeah. It's like we were moving some computers around and he goes, oh, I think this is the space jam PC. I'm like, what are you talking about? It's like, oh yeah, we let him borrow a computer when they were filming because I guess there's a scene in there. Oh, spoiler alert. I guess there's a

scene there where it's either LeBron or his son like they're a part of like an e-sports team or something or they're playing a video game. I don't know what the, I haven't seen the movie or don't know anything, but don't we know this i i feel like we should have like a photo of this we can post it somewhere well i think i think they filmed a years ago oh is that what it is yeah like maybe like two years ago or something oh geez and you just remembered and told me and i didn't know i think i might have heard

rumblings about it i just never you know like two years ago like if you guys want to be in a space jam maybe that comes out in 2021 sure you just kind of forget about it i guess that's Kind of actually cool. I know that. So, do you think Death Rage in Chat, or someone in chat, was saying that they put LeBron in Fortnite because Ninjas in Raid Shadow Legends? So, real talk, real talk. I played Raid Shadow Legends. It's not that bad.

It's not that bad of a game. They just have a huge marketing budget because it's a gotcha game and, you know, they basically just print money, essentially. Yeah. Speaking of Ninja, did you see someone got a ninja tattoo on their neck? No, what? Yeah, drop a link there. Ninja tattooed. Ninja posted it on Twitter.

But yeah, some guy said he decided to get his hero tattooed on his neck. No way. Ninja. I gotta pause this. No, he did. What the heck? I think. That was an experience.

Oh, my God, dude. And he's also wearing ninja colors, too. He's got the headband out and everything. Oh, my Lord. Would you ever get someone, would you ever get someone's photo on your, no, no one? No famous person at all? No.

No. Prince, James Hetfield from Metallica. You're asking a guy who would literally not bow down to the queen. She would not. She would make you bow down to the queen. She has power over everyone around her. So if she tells them to make you bow, they'll make you bow. Easy.

It doesn't look like ninja. No, it does not look like ninja. That is, I'm assuming it is an interpolated impression of ninja, and that's supposed to be a portrait, but good portrait artists will make it look like ninja. Just ask any foo who has their daughter or something tattooed on their arm. They can look pretty good. You know what that tattoo looks like?

Here, let me send you a picture. I think you know what you're going to send me. It looks like... It looks like this guy. I don't know. To me, it looks like this. It looks like Spock's what it looks like to me. I can't help make fun of this, dude.

Like, I would not... Yeah, I don't think there's anybody that I would enjoy that much to have a portrait, I picture them on my neck. There's no way. Was this like an actual Xbox ad? Yeah. The great thing about the 60th is being the games. It's showing everyone online that I did.

And then there's a meme called Show Them Online. This is old boomer memes. And this is a great, this is a great radio, by the way, if you can't see this, but I don't really care. So this is like the, And then they started editing it to make it into all kinds of stuff. So they did like spy from TF2 and Solid Snake is a version of him. It's all kinds.

Like any character, they've done it. There's Hank Hill. A couple of freaking news. Alan who just dropped a link that Valve announced the Steam Deck handheld. What? Yeah. Remember that? Everyone thought that they were going to announce that at E3 a couple weeks ago. Switch-like Steam console coming in December. Oh, no.

It seemed like a new handheld device for PC games. Valve announced Thursday. The Nintendo Switch-like device is capable of playing Steam games on the go and set for release December 2021-39. Is this like a streaming thing or what is this? Portable console, triggers, don't care. APU by EMD. CPU is based on company Zen 2 Microarchitecture, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 7th screen.

That's 16 gigs of RAM. Okay. It's more than... I mean, it's definitely way better than a switch. Yeah. That's, um... So, you know, it's really funny. I was, I was gonna put that here as like a news item,

but I feel like, I feel like people already spoken about it so much. I don't want to hear us speak about it, but what do you think about the switch all LED? It's like, you know... Super disappointing. Well, it's like, if someone who has a switch, like, I would never want to buy that. I wouldn't really care.

I bought my switch, like on launch, like launch day or the day after launch or something, I forget. I just went to like a Walmart, like, hey, y'all got that switch, that blue and white one, and they're like, yeah. And then what is that? Is that a Photoshop team? Oh, that's from the actual article.

It's funny. It's funny they would show a hitbox, too. It was really interesting. About the fighting stick with the buttons. I would get this, to be honest. I have, so the only game I really play is super mega baseball, and I have it for PC and switch, but man, that game is like super unplayable on the switch. Is it really?

Yeah, like, at least for me, because there's lag and I can't see the ball. It's like super tiny. I think this is probably like a little bit bigger, it looks like. Yeah, I, um, I, so I think that, I think there's two things here. right when it comes with the switch the new all ed one first off nintendo never confirmed anything right it's all speculators people like you know it's like Bloomberg and a lot of people saying that oh hey there's a new switch it's going to be powerful it's coming it's coming right but nintendo never said single thing right so we can't really be disappointed you know we literally cannot that being said

the fact the fact that they announced anything and that's what we got is like super disappointing it's like what's the point right like it has a cooler stand I guess, it has a little more storage, it has a better screen and better speakers. Okay, cool. Who is this thing for? Like, who's going to buy this when the original Switchword exists? You know, it's for the people that want to play those Nintendo games, basically. That's what it's for.

I mean, that's the advantage Nintendo has over PC, Xbox, PlayStation, you name it, because they have those, like, Nintendo games. That's literally the reason why I got my Switch because I wanted to play Mario game. But I mean, if you already have a Switch, who would buy the Switch? If you already have a Switch, then only a Nintendo fanboy, like Andy, who told me he's going to get it. Like Andy has a Switch, and he himself even said, it's not that great, but I'm still going to get it because I'm a Nintendo collector. And there's tons of people like that. Like, I just collect Nintendo stuff.

I used to kind of collect some Nintendo stuff until you ran out of space. but yeah i i don't imagine it's going to be this like mind-blowing thing you know but i i do think people will buy the new switch i i reload the people don't like i want them to not buy it it's it's it's it's a pointless revision in my opinion like i don't i i don't see the point there do i think people will still buy it if i had my switch since 2017 right is i want to launch and i've i was really playing it yesterday i was uh i hop back back on back on on Zena Blade Chronicles too because I was out six

You know what do you do is you lay down on the couch You know and you just play video games And yeah I mean There's like some like talk about how You know that they were planning on releasing a higher A more powerful or a more upgraded switch But you know due to the shortage of like everything right now They just like you know they guess I guess they're supposed

they're supposedly waiting and think like next year is when we're getting like the new switch. But yeah, if they don't release something upgraded soon, I mean, I don't know. I mean, even on launch, right, there are a lot of games on launch. There are Nintendo developed that still run like crap. They do not run well, right? Like, Breath of the Wild lags like a mother. Up here, Monster Under Stories 2 runs pretty poorly on the switch in some instances. And like if you play it on PC, it's like a,

crazy different like experience. I can imagine. The Steam deck also functions as a normal computer, allowing players to install and use PC software. For instance, users will be able to browse the web and watch streams as well as play games. That's pretty cool. I think for streaming is pretty cool.

I think for streaming that makes sense. Are you really going to hop on and do like Word or something? You do like Google Docs on your 7-inch? Probably not, but I'll definitely. I mean, okay, so why not go on Discord or why not watch Twitch, you know, all the things you can't do on the Switch, right? Do you watch Netflix on the Switch now, right? What? Do you do Netflix on the Switch, right?

I don't think they have Netflix. They have YouTube. Oh, YouTube? Okay. Yeah. I'm sure they can figure out Netflix if they really wanted to. I mean, obviously it's not going to be better than a laptop. Yeah.

But I think it's pretty, for watching consuming content, I think it'll be cool. Like, to, you know, even like Discord, like, Google Discord and chat with your friends on there and hop on some games. I. People can listen to the podcast with their portable Steam deck. Honestly, I don't really know who this is for because if you're, if you have a pretty decent PC, right? Well, okay. So maybe it's for people who don't have a PC rate, I guess. But for that price, you might also buy like an iPad, right?

I can't imagine this hardware is very powerful or that it's going to look very good or it's going to run very well. I'm going to get it just so I can play Super Mega Baseball on the go, basically. It's putting a switch. No, it sucks on my switch because the hardware sucks and I hate the controls. It's tiny. I don't like it on the switch. You got to get that Horry split pad pro. That's what I got.

For those who haven't seen it, split pad pro is, unfortunately it's not wireless, but I never use the thing wireless anyway. But it's this sucker. It's like, it's actually kind of chunky, but it feels super nice.

And it is a great addition to any person who's playing their switch portable. When I was at the doggy hospital for like five hours, waiting for them to look at my dog, and I was sitting in my car. I had this thing, and it was a very,

comfortable experience despite all the worrying. But it was, it was a, it's a nice pat. I'm glad I bought it. And I'll probably be using it when I go pick up my parents in TJ this coming weekend to be there and be in Mexico for like five hours. The other, the other cool advantage I think the Steam deck has over the switch is like, if you're like me, you probably have a bunch of games in your Steam library. Right. And you don't have to like buy the games.

again. Where on the Switch, I did. Like, there's a lot of games I have on my PC that I wanted to play on the go. And I just bought them again on the Switch. Like Super Mega Baseball 3 being one of them. But there's a couple out there. Like Hotline Miami, I think I bought twice.

Doom. Even I think Among Us also, I barely play it. So yeah, I think it's cool. man, I'm not, I'm not hating on it. I like it. Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to think, like, I feel like, I feel like Steam should do something or about should do something similar-ish. I mean, not a whole, you know, a whole ass, you know,

handheld console, but, like, at the very least, like a, like, a different take on, like, getting people on PC with, like, the Steam machines thing that, like, never did anything, right? I just, I don't know. I just, like, I'm trying to think, I don't, I don't have any, like,

I don't know, it's a thing, right? It's like to say, it's a thing that you're doing. I guess we'll have to see what's up with it. But if I know anything about PCs in general, or like PC hardware, is that for some reason when you try to make it small,

it just like, it just never works out as well as it should. I don't think this is a PC replacement at all. And I imagine the people who are going to be buying this are PC gamers who would like to take their game on the go who aren't necessarily Nintendo fans which I think exists you know like for me I have PCs but the whole reason I bought a Nintendo switch in the first place is just for the Nintendo games that I can't play on PC right like Mario Kart for example yeah things like

that so but I know there's tons of people out there who who play on PC it would never consider a Nintendo switch because you know if you're not Nintendo if you don't want those Nintendo games that or want to play on the go then you know it's kind of sucks. Yeah. Not like it's like this like revolutionary thing. Yeah, no, for sure, for sure. Yeah.

We'll see how it goes though. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see what's up with it. It wasn't an article that we were talking about, but definitely interesting. I have a polygon, huh? I had to start flexing my, my news searching muscles. I don't really look for news. I just like, I just get it, quote unquote, organically from the internet as like I browse, right?

Like I'm sure I would have seen this eventually. granted that this was posted like an hour like an hour ago so I'm not putting out that link to the game shout out to Alan Discord chat here for dropping the link I do All right last article

And this is going to be Before we play this I have to Here I have to play this I have to play this for everybody Everyone please stand up A moment of silence Is this it right here

Here we go This is it Okay So Twitter has officially killed fleets. Well, they're going to kill fleets. Fleets on Twitter will no longer be a thing. Let us play? I don't hear anything.

Rest in peace, we hardly knew ye. 2020 to 2021. Yeah, it's enough of that. So, yeah, do, do, do. So for those that don't know what fleets is, because I'm seeing some questions in the Discord chat, fleets are were

are they still this is still a thing for now right they're gonna remove them eventually okay August yeah so fleets is basically

Twitter's uh stories copy Instagram stories copy everyone and every social platform is copying everybody else

which stories is Instagram Snapchat copy yeah pretty much yeah it also it was Snapchat like everyone like one snapshot

took off then then then then Instagram got in print stories and then TikTok copied that but it all started with Snapchat. Yeah, I think, I think that for Instagram stories made sense because, you know, it's a photo,

well, it was a photo sharing platform. We can talk about that in a second. And I think like kind of sharing little snippets of like life stuff, which I feel like that's what kind of Instagram very much is, right? So it's a very like lifestyle-focused platform, you know, makes sense. stories on Twitter never made sense to me because I think the whole the whole purpose of Twitter is to kind of like be there in the moment as things are happening right like like there's something that like you and I have spoken about in in the past and so that you know that Twitter is a very in the moment platform right like news breaks on Twitter world events kind of get talked about on Twitter in real time people like you know like you know like tweet about you know Loki or the newest Marvel movie they're both Marvel things right I don't know like games coming out you know

like I know the election is happening right there's a lot of people talking about on Twitter I never and I still don't really see

the purpose of fleets and like we tried using fleets right for NZXT and one thing that we noticed is that the features on fleets is nowhere near

comparable to the features they have on stories right the features were pretty bad like you could literally do nothing other than just fleet, you know, post, I guess, I don't know, but I'm just sad because now

when I'm on Twitter mobile and I click on someone's profile, and I want to see their picture, I won't accidentally see a fleet. Yeah, that's definitely great. I think I, and this is also something that I'm kind of glad that they're going to this feature because I'm really kind of over the idea of having mobile exclusive features for these platforms,

especially as someone who works social media and does social media every day for a job. If I could not be on my phone, that'd be great, right? But for me to do a fleet, I have to be on my phone. You have to post a fleet or fleet a tweet or tweet a fleet of fleet from your phone. You can't do it from your PC. It's really annoying. And like we, I mean, I guess we'll also go dumb with it, right, you know, before it goes.

But there's this feature, this is this thing you can do where you can hit the share button on Twitter and then post that fleet to, sorry, post that tweet into a fleet. And then if you go to the fleet, you can actually post that fleet as a tweet. And I'm curious how many, like, if that does anything like you just go back and forth and just keep tweeting and fleeting the same thing.

I just try it today. So the way I see it, Dennis, not to get into your little rabbit hole there of how to do you want to think, but going back to like the whole just idea of fleets, I even though it was limited in terms of like what you can and can do compared to stories or even Snapchat for that matter I think I think they're they're cool like I think it's cool that like for some people at least not for everyone like but if I'm like a let's say a Twitch streamer or content creator right and I'm posting videos on TikTok you know it'd be cool to just get more eyeballs on those things and just I can put the same video I posted on TikTok on my Instagram

stories and my Twitter fleets. The disadvantage on Twitter though is that you can't link to anything on there. So it's just kind of like you have to hope that, you know, if you're posting a TikTok video, someone sees your handle and opens up another app and types that name correctly into the search field and all that. But I think honestly like the reason why I think fleets failed or I don't know if it failed, well, I guess it failed, right? You can say it failed.

It's failed. It's because what you said earlier about just Twitter in general and how it's used, like, Twitter, what they do in terms of like just being in the moment, breaking news, you know, the way you're allowed, you're able to just like insert yourself in any random conversation in the world about any subject that is being talked about. That's something that you can't do on Instagram. You can't do that on Facebook. You can't do that anywhere else.

You can only do that on Twitter. And I think because of that fact, you know, people don't want to, like, not do that when they're on Twitter. Like, that's literally the whole point of being on Twitter is to do those things, right? And there's no reason to, like, start doing something that you can do on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok or Snapchat or whatever because the reason why the stories idea works on those other platforms is because it is kind of boring to just post pictures on your on your feed right yeah it is and you can't really just go into like any random conversation and start

chatting it up with people not the same way you can with twitter at least so i feel like that's the reason the reason it failed man it's not that it was like necessarily bad it's just that the other aspect of twitter is really really good and you know hopefully they never bring fleets back again Just one extra thing we got to do, I guess. Or we don't have to do it, right? I mean, there's no one saying that we have to use these features. There's a quote here from, I think it's Ila or Lila Brown, Twitter's Vice President of Product, saying that we hope fleets would help more people feel comfortable

joining the conversation on Twitter, but at the time since we introduced fleets to everyone, which apparently was eight months ago. Apparently it's been over eight months, and I feel like he just launched yesterday. We haven't seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation with fleets like we hoped. So I'm not sure what they mean by that or like how they're how how it was supposed to introduce people into the conversation. But yeah. So you know, that's, I guess fleets didn't do what they wanted it to do, which you guys inspire people to do more things on Twitter, which I'm not surprised because what the hell is the

fleet supposed to do about anything, right? It's just like, oh, it's like stories, right? Like, if I look at a story or looking at stories, I don't comment on a react. I don't just scroll. Okay, cool, cool, cool. And that's nice. That's cool. Oh, that's cute picture of a dog. And then I'm done, right? Like, I don't do anything after that. It doesn't, it doesn't lead me to do anything, you know? And especially when they're missing features. So, for example, on Instagram, you can do something where you, you ask a question in like a little box, right, called a sticker, right? You choose a sticker and it's like a poll and you can ask, you know, do you like chicken or do you like beef, right? And then people can answer it and then you can swipe up if you're the person

who posted that story, look at the replies, and they could post a reply as a story. It's going to show people, hey, people are in this conversation. You can't do that with fleets. When we posted fleets, people could do one or two things. They gather to react to it, which no one else sees, right? So that's kind of pointless. Or they can respond to it, but it responds in a DM. And then the conversation goes there. So if you're like, you know, an account, you know, like ours who has 100,000, thousand people like or 900,000, 900,000 people, I'm not going to go through the DMs and respond to everybody because I posted you like chicken or beef, right? It's like, it's, it wasn't the easiest thing to use. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, why would you put, so, so first of all,

the feature has been out for eight months, right? Like, I said, I had no idea has been out for eight months. But second, like, I don't think we've seen any changes really in the fleets for those entire eight months. Like, it's largely been the same. So, like, you know. I did see changes, though, in the way people were using them. Yeah, yeah. But not, like, the feature set, you know.

Yeah. I think they did add stickers in semi-recently-ish, but not to the extent that they had them implemented on Instagram. And I think that was part of the problem, right? Like, I think if they kept iterating on it and, like, making it more Twitter-esque or something, that'd be kind of cool, you know? Kind of like how, like, on TikTok, You can stitch or you can duet, right?

Maybe that would be something you can do on Twitter, right? You can duet someone's fleet or stitch someone's fleet or like, you know, reply to someone's fleet and then post it on your own fleet as a fleet. It's freaking, like, so many damn times. But yeah, like, if they're saying that it didn't spur conversation, well, you didn't make it do that. Like, no part of that feature set had anything to do with conversation.

It was like, to me, the most useless thing in the world. Yeah. So yeah, I don't like fleets. I also don't like spaces. I don't like Clubhouse. I don't like any of these audio things. Stages is interesting for Discord because it kind of makes sense a little bit, right, since people were to have voice channels and, you know, maybe for like announcements for

like communities, I think makes sense, right? You know, like a roundtable, but like I'm not going to hop on my phone to listen to some dude talk about, you know, this week in e-sports on my phone. I just like, you know, I have podcasts for that, right? And, you know, I'm not going to hop on and do that. the way, guys, log in next week while we do our podcast all through space.

I know. But it's just, like, I do think it's interesting, like, that audio now is, like, what you think.

Yeah. It's like, like, how did that become a thing again? Right. You know what it is? I think it's just a novel idea, to be honest.

I, I, as someone who can, who can say that they know at least a little bit about social, right? It's because,

you know, I spend a lot of them my time thinking about it. We see this a lot, right, where something, quote, unquote, new, but old comes along, and people are like, oh, yeah, this is a thing, right? And they do something that used to be a thing, but in a different way. And then everyone starts kind of, like, looking at it and copying it. And I think that's what's happening, right?

I think that, you know, Twitter is copying Clubhouse, and then Discord is kind of-ish copying Twitter and Clubhouse. Because it's a thing. We don't know if it's going to be, like, big, and it's going to lead to anything huge. So we might as well throw in something new. now before we, like, fall behind, right? But you think it's kind of a problem? Yeah, you'd be right.

Yeah. I don't know. I'm not, I'm not going to happen to a space. I think I listened once, and I was like, this is annoying. It's like if you walk into, like, a seminar or something, and you're like, all right, and you just leave, you know? Or, like, I don't know, you get invited to, like, to like an engagement or something, and he just bounce.

all right so that's what we got for the news if you guys have any cool news things you want to you want to talk about throughout the week shoot Yoshoki on the NZXT Discord a DM

and we'll maybe talk about it if we think just something to talk about there but we do have some community questions so number one question is Truggles where's the B-cast soon T.m

Second question from Allen. Why was Discord not the top option on the community survey when asked about where you listen to the club cast? I don't know. Ask Amanda. Ask her. She's the one who's she's the one who's in charge of that stuff. I'm not. Death rage. Do you know that Coca-Cola is changing his flavor again? I did not know that. Did you know that? I think it's just I think it's Coke zero though. I don't think it's like the entire Coke family. I think it's just Coke Zero, which if you're drinking Coke Zero, you deserve to get the flavor changed on you. Because why would you drink that in the first place?

Because it's zero calories. Well, you drink water. Well, I want the flavor. Water is a half flavor, and I want the fizz. It's two things you can't get with soda with water unless you start carbonating your water, then you add some cola flavor. See, Coca-Cola said Tuesday that it's changing its Coke Zero's flavor to make it taste more. like regular Coke. The product scan is also undergoing a facelift because it's simply red instead of red and black.

Change is not always gone over well for Coca-Cola fans, yeah. Do you ever try Coke Zero, Ivan? Was that the thing? I have. I don't like it. I haven't tried any of the other weird Coke flavors. I've tried Pepsi. Crystal Pepsi.

Crystal Pepsi? How was that? Is that any good? It looks cool, you know? It's a cool idea. Like, just the name is awesome, right? Crystal Pepsi? but at the same time it's a it's a very um it's very um it's very like uh like 80s super consumer type of name right crystal pepsi or something like that yeah it is a funny name it's like a god what's that music genre that's like vapor wave vapor wave that's

It's like a very, very vapor wave type of aesthetic, right? Crystal Pepsi. Super, super consumery. Now that I'm back in the office here, the first thing I discovered is we have a soda machine now. Yeah. It's super dangerous because they have my go-to. They have ginger oil in there. So I've been treating a lot of ginger ale, man. Is it a, is it Cigrims or?

Seagrams. Cigrums? Yeah. I'm not Canada dry Nah Seagrams No not about it Nature's healing

I like that That's a good one That's going out Alan just Just linked a picture of Topochico I like Topochico Yeah

I like mineral water I think mineral water is great I like Perrier I like whatever whatever other brands It's anyone that I ever see That's someone that I buy but yeah, I like it.

I think it's good. I think it's delicious. Let's see here. Next question is, do you like eating ice? I like chewing on ice. Someone linked me a picture of a chewable ice maker for your house, and I kind of wanted it. Like the really good, like, pellet-y, you know,

what's that at a restaurant? Chick-fil-A, right? They have the really good chewable. ice. I wanted it as expensive. It was like $500 or something for that stupid machine. But imagine though, dude, it's having all the chewable ice you ever want. That'd be delicious. That'd be great. Mevrick wants to know what NZC products do you use. Evan, you go first.

Let's see. I use a lot of NZXC products, but I think my favorite one is probably my my number one of 150 limited edition NZXT Ducky Shine 3 keyboard Hey let's go That's probably my favorite one I also have a puck I have a crack in Z I have my case here is a SG40

covered in stickers By the way do you hear all this noise in the background Yeah a little bit a little bit I think the builders are having free lunch or something over here Oh, yeah. Tell them to be a shusher. Hey, we're recording over here. Yeah.

I mean, I pretty much have like every N60 product, I think. I'm just too lazy to upgrade a lot of times. Like, I'm definitely too lazy to just take everything out and, like, put in a new motherboard. I'm like, I'm not going to do that. I would just leave it. How about you, Dennis?

What do you got? I don't know I blinked out so I'm using a I'm seeing here I'm looking at I'm looking at my computer right now I have a H510 Elite that has a Crackin

X62 in it because I like having fat control on my Crackin with four Air RGB2 fans one two three strips obviously all plugged into a

smart device V2 with a puck on the front. It's currently holding my rocksmith real-tone guitar cable right now. I have it nestled in there, which is very nice, so it doesn't hang in the cat

and the dog don't eat it. And then I think that's it for the NXT stuff in here. Yeah, I don't have the headset anymore because I'm using my Sony XM-Fours. I'm trying to think, like, what else do you have N-XT-wise? I was wearing an N-Z-60 hoodie

this morning when I went to go take the dog out to go potty. at five in the morning. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, I have a lot of N60 products. I like my NXC stuff, you know. It works.

I have no problem. Cam's always working for me, you know. I don't have a problem with Cam. I don't know. You know, it's all good in the hood here. It's all good in the hood over in NXT land. Okay, Munchy wants to know, do you want a QP-P-P-like-Trogles and Gumby?

I like my gorgy from natural selection too. Now, every wants to know, for Poppy, as a dad, when do you feel comfortable giving your daughter her own PC? At what age do you feel comfortable removing her your supervision? Never, dude. It's a good question. I haven't thought about that, actually. Really?

No. It's the first thing you think about now with having a kid? No, definitely not the first thing I think about. Besides, you know, like, I don't know. I guess I'll definitely get her a computer as soon as she needs one, which is probably when she's like, you know, elementary school and she's do her homework and things like that. But I'll probably have like parental controls on that thing as long as I possibly can. Maybe when she's like a teenager, I'll probably take them off.

13 sounds like a good age. The things that I saw on the internet when I was 13, 14, I would not. I was on the internet before like the the large commercialization of the internet right when it was still like a pretty quote-unquote free platform right like you know like when it was like Yahoo chats and like blogs were actually like a thing that people read and like RSS feeds were still being used and stuff like that like I think the current like iteration of the internet now like whatever like web 2.03.0 is is like super super algorithmically driven to the point to where like it's kind of scary and I don't know if I very much like it. I mean, this is what we're talking about

earlier today, right? Like, you don't really have control over what you see. Like, you think you do, but you really don't, right? Like, I was talking to Talley about this and we were talking about, like, you know, like viral content, right? You know, and like, you know, how do we get on the pulse as NZXT on what's happening in the world, right? And I told her that, like, you know, for myself, like on my own personal social media accounts, I, like, heavily curate them, right? I don't follow accounts that I don't like on Twitter, right? I don't, you know, I specifically seek out and I'll subscribe and I'll like and I'll comment and I'll like try to game the algorithm as much as I can for my own social feeds so that they

serve me the stuff that I want to see. Because like, you know, I don't care about like everything is going on in the world, right? I care about a few number of things and I want I want to see more stuff about that. And anything else I try my best to kind of keep myself away from. Like, for example, like, you know, like a, like a, the best. biggest TikTokers, right, you know, like Bella Porch and what was the names like Addison Ray and all those people who dance and stuff, if you never told me that they didn't exist, right, and you were just looking at my feed, you would never know that there were things.

They're not on my feeds at all. They don't exist for me, right? And I feel like children don't know what an algorithm is and how it works, right? And I feel like before I were to put my kids on the internet, I'd have to give them a really big education. Like really set them down on like how the internet works, what the purpose of the internet is, right? What the internet wants from you, right? And how to safely navigate these spaces because you can get thrown into like really, really scary dark places, right? And like this have happened, you know, like when I was a kid, like, you know, like a live leak, right? Like when that was a thing, right? And like early days of Fortune, like, it was a wild, wild west internet,

And I feel like it's almost kind of worse in a sense. Like I saw some really messed up stuff on the internet. And I feel like that is not as scary as the stuff that you can see now on the internet. You know, like every now and then I'll like, I'll like be browsing hashtags and end up on like super conservative, scary. You know, the government's going to steal your dogs, TikTok. I'm like, these people are literally freaking insane. Like, I'm so glad that I'm not one of that, dude. Yeah.

It kind of goes to what we were talking earlier, though, right? All about controlling the content we consume. So I guess it's just on me as a dad to teach my daughter early on. Like, you know, the internet's messed up and you've got to be careful. Yep. There's a lot of cool stuff on there. And there's also a lot of bad stuff on there. And then there's a lot of in between that's kind of like, who knows?

Captain Cheese wants to know What are your favorite movies? I've been a favorite movie Or some of your favorite movies Let's see If I had to pick my favorite movie Of all time I feel like this answer changes

Every time I think about it I'm probably going to have to go with Like Back to the Future Probably Or I really like old mafia movies I like

You know Goodfellos and Godfather as well all that. But probably back to the future. I mean, I could probably watch Back to the Future One, Two, and Three, like back to back to back right now. It was on. I've done that multiple times. I think I told you that the other day, right? Oh, no, I talked about Rocky. Yeah, yeah. Rocky, I watched Rocky 1 through 5 on the same day twice in my life. That was pretty, it's like, it's good and bad because you literally sit on the couch for like 12 hours, but Rocky's good as well.

I would say one movie that I can always watch and I'm always down is Friday. Oh, that's a good one. I've seen Friday so many times where I'm not saying I can quote the entire movie, but I can quote a lot of that movie.

And yeah, I think that's one movie I can always watch. Trying to think about the movies I like rewatch all the time. It's hard to say some movies are for my favorites if I haven't seen them in like a while, but there are some movies that I just think are super, super awesome that, like, everybody should watch. Like, Demolition Man, right? Stallone and Snipes.

It's really, really good. If you guys don't know that movie, please go watch it. The premise is there is a cop who is the most badass cop in the world, and there's his criminal, who's the most badass criminal in L.A., and he's destroying everything. And they both, the villain finally gets captured, and they're experimenting with a new system of, of jailing where they freeze people for like 25 years or some crap like that, right? I forget it is for like a lot of time, right? That's like every sentence, you're just frozen, like cryogenically.

And then they also freeze the cop, I think. I forget what he does. He does something and they freeze him too, right? So this guy's sentence is up, right? The villain. And, you know, in this future, everybody's nice, right? It's like a super nice future. Crime isn't really a thing anymore.

supposedly, right? So they unfreeze them and he starts causing havoc and they don't know how to deal with it. So what they do? They bring back the demolition man. The guy who brought it back in the first place. And it's really campy 80s, I think it's 80s, right? 80s or 90s? I think I want to say 1992.

Demolition, Demolition, man. 93. I'm pretty good with those dates for some reason. Yeah, it's weird. You're right there, 93. If you were to ask me any movie, like I can get pretty close to the date for some reason. We're going to test that.

I don't know why. We should test that. Okay, okay. What year did, okay, so is this any movie or is just, or is just like older movies? Well, I mean,

like any, like, big movie, I'm like, you know, the demolition man, I remember watching that in theaters. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

What year did, I'm trying to think of a really good movie that, like, that age. Well, you're did Last of the Mohicans

come out? Last of the Mohicans. You remember that one, dude? Actually, yeah, I do remember and it was around the same time as Demolition Man. So I'm going to say

92, 93. Last of the Mexicans came out in 92. God damn. There you go. Okay. That was a good movie. Well, actually, I don't know if it's a good movie,

but I remember watching it was lit. It's got 93 around Tomatoes. French didn't anymore I should rewatch that I remember the last like bit of that movie had like a really amazing like score

these dudes is like running through it's like beating people up and just like yeah that movie was lit okay what year did Pirates of the Caribbean come out you had to have seen that one

that was a huge idea that was I came out later in my life I believe the first one like I was already in college when that came out. So I'm going to say

2002-ish, 3-ish, 4-ish around there. So give me to not IMDB. Let me find it. The heck. Internet. So dangerous. 2003.

Can't be beat. Okay. Have you seen a goofy movie? A goofy movie? Yeah. Like the key character from Disney? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like cartoon. No, okay. What's another big blockbuster? Okay. Oh, when did Twister come out? Ooh. That's a good one. That came out when I was in high school.

I want to say I was either like a freshman or sophomore, so 95, 96. 96? Holy crap. Okay, okay. Well, you did signs come out? You were signs? Yeah, I do remember signs. So signs was also when I was in college.

it came out kind of I think he came out right around the same time as parts of the Caribbean so I'm going to say 2002 or three 2002 there you go see I'm telling you man I'm good at you

okay okay last one the sixth sense oh that came out this is crazy dude you know what the sixth sense came out I think

because I also saw that one in theaters and I vividly remember it was my senior year of high school. Shout out to Magnolia High School Class of 99. Let's go. So it came out of 99. I got more. Okay. Pretty positive on that one actually.

99. Science. Because I remember it was the summer I graduated. I saw that movie in theaters. 2002. The sixth sense? Oh, my bad. I had a list here.

Actually, no, I thought I had it pulled up. Sixth Sense Fishing, if you Google it so it comes up. I'm not spoiling sixth correctly. There we go, six cents. 99, yeah. God damn. Okay, okay. Actually, I have a list of a blockbuster movie,

so I'm going to go through these. Independence Day. Ooh, I also said that one in theater. Well, Smith. Who didn't do? That movie was so good. It's still really good. That one.

That speech at the end? I was also in high school. And I remember I bought the VHS when it came out. It was really, really good. So I'm going to say that one came out. This is a fun game. Ninety-nine. 96.

Close. Yeah, I'm usually like a year or two off for some reason. I relate the movies to like a movie. to like a moment in my life. Yeah, that makes sense. All right, Jurassic Park. All right, Jurassic Park. That one...

Jurassic Park came out when... I believe I was also in high school. But that one, the first... Oh, no. It was when I was in junior high school. So what year was I in junior high school? How old are you when you're in junior high? like 13 14 I'm gonna say 1994 duck him out in 93 that was close really close okay um Titanic

oh I also saw that one in theaters I was also in high school late 90s a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett don't forget you she's not too yeah I'm gonna say I think the bad guy from The Mask is in my movie, too, isn't he? I'm not sure. 1997. Yeah? 97. Okay.

Maybe this one, the Masked Azora. Do you remember this one? With, what's his name? Anthony Banderas. And his old guy, Anthony Hopkins. I actually came out around the same time as Titanic, if I remember correctly. He thought some great movies, dude. Yeah, I mean, the best movies I feel like are definitely not happening right now, with the exception of F9, which is brilliant.

Mask of Zorro. Oh, yeah, Captain Zeta Jones, dude. How can you forget? You know, it's funny, she's actually not top build. I think at that time she wasn't as big as she was. What year did I say, Titanic, 97? 97, yeah. I'm going to go with the same year.

98. That's close. Yeah, can we talk about F9 real quick? Yeah, I don't spoil it. I haven't seen it yet. I'm not going to spoil it, but I have never seen a Fast and Furious movie in my life. Like, it never once interested me because I watched that movie Triple X with Vin Diesel. And I hated it, and I hated him. And I was like, I'm never going to watch a Vin Diesel movie for the rest of my life.

So I just avoided the Fast and Furious franchise. Really? But then, yeah, because of that. But then my brother-in-law, he was visiting from Nashville, and he's a huge Fast and Furious fan. And the theaters is just like fast cars. I had like not gone to a movie in like two years or something like or even more like three years since before my daughter was born. So I was like, ah, screw it, why not? Let's go watch a movie.

And I don't know it's because I haven't been in a movie theater for three years or just the fact that I was in a, you know, inside a movie theater like after being locked up for a year. and a half but I love the movie it was really entertaining none of it made sense it was totally ridiculous off the wall but it reminded me of being a little kid playing with little toy cars and just making them do a ridiculous thing like you know you make your cars like fly yeah and jump off the wall and like do flips and like blow up and then all of a sudden like a helicopter swoops down and picks up your car and like takes it up a mountain yeah and that's literally how they film those movies. So it was really fun. I liked it. It was cool. That's good. I'm sorry, Vin Diesel, if you're listening. I will go back and watch all the Fast and Furious movies.

So I've always liked Vin Diesel because he's like a certified nerd. Like, um, like he, he put up a lot of money for like the Chronicles of Riddick movies, which like aren't like necessarily good movies, but they're like, supposedly they're like based on his like own personal D&D campaign or something. He's like apparently like a super big nerd. So, uh, I've, I've always have a little bit of a liking for Vin Diesel because I think he just likes doing cool things that he likes to do. And I think that's part of the reason why I enjoy the stuff that he does because there's like, you know, he's like, he doesn't come off as like a pretentious guy, right? He's just, he's just been diesel. It just does Ben Diesel things, which is why, like,

I can't really hit on him for it. It feels like Ben Diesel, but he's also talked about, like, really dumb stuff, then it'd be a little weird. she she she kethynes jones and alicia cuthbert were my favorites growing up Alicia cuthbert oh she died apparently I don't know where she's from what does she do what's so what's so apparently she's dad which sucks that's that's a big rip according to i don't know he's according to the search here no she says she's still alive what the heck when you google her name the phrasing pops up is Alicia cuthbert dead and I'm like oh okay

you gotta be again right you're gonna be careful about the internet you like you literally it'll just tell you that you think somebody's dead uh film what was she in um nica unicorn airspeed believe who are these movies love actually

girl next door oh is that her house of wax these aren't these are not very good movies gune the last of the enforcers eat weedies is the new one she's on TV a lot I guess okay let's go back to the game because this is actually pretty fun

okay really yeah no this is this is awesome dude okay saving private Ryan classic classic you keep naming all the movies when I was literally in high school so it's not that hard okay that's probably like 99 98 okay here's a little bit of a different one Batman returns

cool that one I remember watching that when I was about 10 years old with my neighbors, Eric and Edgar. So if I was 10, it must have been like 91, 92 around there. Hold up about it here for a second. I just accidentally closed out of it. 92. Yeah, there we go.

Okay. The dark night. that one came out way later we're mixing up a little bit but you apparently know this is where it gets harder because I feel like like the 2000s

like mid 2000s till now it's just been like one long one long year but I definitely came out like in the 2000s for sure I'm going to say just Right in the middle. I'll just say 2005.

Dark Night came out in 2008. Okay. Gladiator. Are you not entertained? So that's another movie that came out. Came out when I was in college. But I didn't watch it when it came out because I didn't like Russell Crow. I remember.

Russell Crew. 2000. two-ish 2002 2000 okay last one scary movie

before they made 50 million of them that came out after screen screen came out when I was in high school I love screen I love your thought process

dude it's so funny well it's like I tell you it's like you keep naming movies when I was in high school or like college or

I I'm going to say that came out in the year 2000 It did What do I win Dennis You win a Handshake

Okay Let me Let me throw you for a loop here On this one They said that was the last one I know But I want to see if I can If I can find something

A little like trip you up a little bit Okay You had they seen this one Inception Oh yeah I love that movie That also came out in the 2000s.

And I remember I watched that movie on a date with my current wife. Oh. When we first started dating and we first started dating in the year 2010. So I'm going to say 2010. Yeah, 2010. Look at you. That's crazy. That's funny.

Okay. I don't think I have any more questions. Do we have any more questions? We just move on from that. Okay. last one, last one from Rooptop. Are you guys watching any indie games? Any indie games?

Any indie games? Yeah, any indie games are we looking at. Steam just updated their web page, by the way. Their Steam client, there's a big old Steam deck banner now. Cool. We should sell the Steam deck on BLD. There you go. Steam deck.

Buy this or buy a computer. Slap a crack into the Steam deck. We should do that, actually. We should have someone who's really good at Modding his modest team deck and throw cracking on there for no reason. You probably wouldn't even need that much, like anything, like cooling or anything like that.

Indie games. Indie games. It's going to hard what I would consider to be an indie game because, like, gaming is going to be right now, but I would say if there's a game, oh, damn it, they pushed it back. Oh, sorry. Sorry, I just saw it. Okay, so the only game would say that it's like an indie game that would consider it be indie game that I'm curious.

I want is a Warhammer 40K Dark Tide from Fat Shark. So if you've never played, if you know what that is, it's basically from the Finn developer who did Warhammer Vermin Tide 1 and 2. And Vermin Tide 1 and 2 is a four-player co-op, like hoard game. So think like Left for Dead, right, whereas four people going through like a map and finding a bunch of enemies and doing an objective to get to the end, right? And it's set in, and, uh, Burmintet 1 and 2 is set in the Warhammer fantasy universe, where their next game, Dark Tide is set in the Warhammer 40K universe, which is sci-fi.

So that's what I'm excited for it, because I like Warhammer 40K. Uh, I like the, the, the aesthetic, I like the IP. I like the, the, the, the, just the lore and all the cool stuff of, like Warhammer 40K. okay. So that's like the one game I'm really kind of looking for right now that I'm really interested in. I think there really isn't much else though. I care that's an indie game. I'm looking through my list here on Steam and I don't see anything else. It's weird because a lot of indie games fall in this weird like indie non-indy kind of space, you know? Like for example, you could say that the Volvo Digital is probably not a indie,

publisher anymore. I mean, they're pretty big, you know. They put out games that are huge, but they work with a lot of smaller developers, but pretty much make them huge, if that makes sense, you know? Yeah. Yeah, I think that's, I think that's like the one game I'm really looking forward right now. Because, like, I mentioned this earlier. I went back to playing Natural Selection 2 last week, and because, like, I'm bored of

everything. There's, like, nothing good right now. Like, there's nothing good coming out, you know. Like, I've been going back and forth to see, like, a bunch of games because, like, there's nothing interesting that's, like, different or new, or hits, like, that, like, special spot. And NS2 is, like, such a unique game that never got the recognition or doesn't get the recognition that it deserves for being such a, like, innovative mix of, like, first person and, like, real-time strategy. It's super, super fun. It's, like, 10 bucks on Steam.

I don't know if I'd recommend it, to be honest, to a new player, because, there's like, I think like peak players like 500, right? And when I say that, I don't mean that as like a bad thing. I mean it as like a, the community has been playing this game for 10 years now, right? The game came out in 2012 on Steam. And this game came out before early access was the thing, right? Like you just had to give them money and hope that the game would come out through their own website.

There was no Kickstarter or no like platforms for you to like back games or there were, there were in development. So, you know, the game's been around for a bit, and the people who are playing it are pretty good, you know, like they know what's up. And I want to say the community is toxic, but there is not a lot of patience for people who are new who don't know what they're doing.

Like, I see people get yelled at all the time. You go, what are you doing? Go build a res node. Go kill the phase gate. Like, these things mean nothing to people who don't play, right? But it's kind of like how I can feel. I've been playing natural selection since NS1 when it was a Half-Life mod

before they even had the ability to sell something and make money off of it. But, you know, if you're willing to put up up with a little bit of abuse, you know, it's a cool game. It's really, really awesome. I recommend it. If you want to know more about it,

hit up you Shoki on Twitch. Because I'm actually streaming right now, and there's like a pretty niche, friendly community on Twitch who watches the game and gives pointers. And I'm super down for people to tell me what to do because I suck at game. So, yeah.

That's, yeah, that's it. That's my indie game that I'm looking forward to. Not just looking to. Because it's coming out with an update. The game's still being updated. The developers no longer actively work on the game, but they turned over development of the game to the community.

So it's all community developed now. Any updates? I love that. Yeah, it's great. The developers, of NS2 is unknown worlds entertainment and they did some they did a subnotica so yeah i know it's really really crazy they went from that to to subnotica um so yeah um check it out through me because i want those views uh Ivan you're looking you're looking for anything um well my favorite game is

technically an indie game but they just got bought by EA I was going to say. I was going to say, like, yeah. I'm just looking forward to them, hopefully not ruining the game, like they've done with other titles in the past. Skateberg? Supermaic. Oh, Skateberg, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Skatebird's an indie game, I think, right? Yeah. Getting anything else. Not, I mean, not really looking forward to any game in particular at the moment. Would you say Warfram is indie? I guess it really depends on what you would consider to be an independent developer, right?

If independent developer literally means you're self-published and you have no company behind you, which I don't think they do. I think they have Tencent, right? I think I'm pretty sure Warfarm is bought by Tencent or something. Foreman is Tencent. It has to be. There's no way. Yeah, they did.

That one's everything. Yeah, they were bought by Tencent in 2014, which, oh, it was only two months ago? Yeah, I don't, I still don't trust Tencent. I still don't trust Tencent at all. I think even though they, from what I've seen, have been pretty supposedly hands-off with all the millions of developers and companies that they own, like Epic and, you know, and who the hell else do they own? Fucking everybody, dude.

Riot games and whatnot. TikTok. Yeah, TikTok. right. Your car's extended warranty is actually I wouldn't buy 10 cent. I still don't trust them. I don't trust any company that has that much

of a grip on any industry. But like when you look up information on like what they've done, like there really isn't, like they really don't seem to do anything. They just inject capital and then just sit there, right? As far as I can tell.

But who knows, right? Who knows? I'm not, you know, it's like any company, right? It's like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, I have very little trust for any company that's that big. Just inherently, right? Like, no one man, you know, as Kanye said, no one man should have all that power.

I trust everyone. I trust Kanye. Okay. I think that's it. Ivan, any cool news? Any cool N-ZX-tier or community news that we got out here? Yeah. So we just launched a,

new survey role and survey on the server. So you want the details. Amanda posted this, all the instructions and the announcements channel. So please go do that. If we get I think 1,400 or 1,500 people participating in the survey, it unlocks a giveaway. And we're almost there. So yay. Yay. Go do that. Yay, free stuff. And then I guess the only other real news update is kind of what you talked to in the beginning of the show. with the first news story. So PC hardware supply is getting somewhat back to normal. So that means our shipping times are also getting back to normal.

And for the first time in a long time, our custom bills are now shipping in 48 hours. So that's pretty cool. Is that for everybody or is that just US and Canada for now? I know for sure US and Canada, but I don't think the shipping times were as impacted like ours were here. so I don't I don't think it's going to be any much different elsewhere around the world. There we go.

Cool, cool. And yeah, I'm trying to think of anything else we got going on. I think that's it's. Yeah, if you have questions about the other regions and ask us, we don't know anything. We should. Yeah, but I think that because we launched like Germany, Australia, you know, France, Italy, so and so forth, like just recently, the volume isn't as high right now, so they're just fast in general, right?

Because part of the reason why we were so impacted during COVID is because everybody was buying computers. So, you know, we went from like, it's just like, hypothetically there aren't real numbers, right? Fifty orders a day to like 500 orders a day, right? So we had to adjust a lot for that. Then the pandemic and stuff like that, right?

So, yeah, fast shipping is back, guys. Get your custom PCs, lickety split. This is not an ad podcast, which is giving you the news. I don't care what you buy or where you buy it from. I mean, it's big news because people have been asking about this for... That's true, yeah. Wow.

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