Tech Over Tea - #47 Parler, Gaming & Japanese - feat Nephitejnf

Episode Date: January 20, 2021

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Welcome to episode 47 of Tech of a Tee, I'm as always your host Brodie Robertson, and I have no idea how to do an intro today, so welcome to the show Nephite. Whoa. So, uh, I don't know where we're going to go with this actually, I genuinely have no idea what we're going to do for topics. Um, I guess we can continue what we were just talking about then, how you were saying about library. Yeah, so, I joined back when it was kind of cl clunky back when lunduk was first talking about it so it was still kind of clunky i just feel like they've dropped some of their like payment stuff yeah with like the library coin more recently because i've noticed it's been like 0.25 that they've been getting versus the one yeah or whatever in between so yeah um with the view

tips at least i don't i haven't been paying too much attention to actually watching content but view tips have come way down when i first joined the platform i think you would get like five to ten per view and now it's come all the way down to like 0.8 or so but i've also got um different tiers as well so some channels actually make even less than that. Yeah, I know I had hit a point because I was like putting five library coin for each upload I was doing. And I just ran out really quickly.

And I went back again. I'm like, oh, wait, I don't have to add anything. And that's right. Yeah, yeah. Which I don't... I definitely think it's a good thing they have lowered it down because the problem with the pre-mine think it's a good thing they have lowered it down because

the problem with the pre-mine is it's going to run out and i want them to have a replacement before it runs out yeah i know they're working on stuff but it's still very much a work in progress like they want to do uh the reason why odyssey basically exists is because that's going to be like the more advertiser friendly platform so yeah yeah it's the more web accessible one i know but they also that's the platform where they also may act more like youtube so on that one some content will get blocked because it might make more sense for advertisers but then you have library where that's basically a free-for-all um yeah it'll work out i've been using the odyssey front end more right now recently when i've been going there so yeah i have as well i i usually just go there to just upload stuff because right now my uh my desktop client's not actually working i'm talking with uh with one of the

devs about it and trying to get it back to a working state. My problem is my wallet's really, really big. And this is a problem that a lot of people are going to start to experience at some point. Yeah. And that'll sink between the two, I think. Yeah, it does. But my wallet has 3,800 pages of transactions. So they need some... I don't know much about blockchain

tech but i imagine they would need some way at some points like migrate the channels to a different wallet because say like pewdiepie joined the platform for example he would instantly have way more transactions than i have and it would basically become uh become completely unusable uh-huh it yeah it would slow it down i know recently there have been a couple other sites that have been slowed down just due to the immense amount of traffic that they've gotten recently so yeah um well like mastodon i noticed have been getting a lot more users recently, and obviously, you had what happened with Parler, and now Gab's also getting a lot of users because Parler's down.

Yeah. Gab was slow for the last day and a half, and it finally picked up again, so. I was actually able to open the login screen, because I'd sit there, like, sign in, and I'd sit there for, like, half an hour and still nothing. I went to Gab, I think, like, two or three days ago, and I realized I'd never actually posted on there, but I had, like, four or five followers. I've never felt like using the platform because at the time, I don't know, I probably should have. I'm just really lazy when it comes to, like, doing microblogging. If it's not going to sync over, I don't know, I probably should have. I'm just really lazy when it comes to, like, doing microblogging. If it's not going to sync over, I don't care. That's why I just use Twitter and Mastodon.

Because I just post on Twitter and it goes to Mastodon. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, what? Gab. I was on it back when, like, Flat Earthers dominated my feed and it was really clunky. They'd basically just barely forked, like, Mastodon and done a my feed and it was really clunky they'd basically just barely forked like mastodon and done a couple things and that was it they seem to have now done away with the activity pub api stuff so you can't access it in any other client it's not

entire like the activity pub stuff isn't entirely gone you can actually still export your data as activity pub okay which is kind of weird because i imagine there's some sort of marker on there that says it's from gab and if you try to upload that to like one of the main instances i can't imagine that would let you do that yeah i just noticed that like husky and fetty lab never worked with gab like it just stopped out of nowhere so yeah they yeah i remember those uh those clients were like nah you're not you're not happening here this is not yeah i everybody's like no i don't know how much of gab is still mastered on at this point i imagine they've probably

forked enough away from it that you can't like even if you made a mastered on client and you didn't care who actually you connected to you you probably couldn't use Mastodon at this point. But I haven't checked it. Yeah. I haven't been able to search for stuff on Gab for my Pluroma instance. So it's been kind of a bummer that way, but it's whatever. Yeah, it's not that big of a deal. I think it makes more sense for Gab to be its own thing anyway.

Mm-hmm. Because it then allows... The only issue... Yeah, sorry. The only issue, like, other people have talked about is it's kind of centralized. They do have their own servers, but if something really bad does come down,

they can still be shut down. Yeah, I don't know how they haven't been shut down. I know they are doing their own hosting, but they still have... Like, their... Their, but they still have their internet provider could still shut them down or any other number of people

up the chain could shut them down. I don't know how DADS manages that. I mean, they've got their own servers that they run, so they're their own provider, basically. But they still have to rely on an ISP. That's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah, that would do it. I don't know, maybe they've managed to rely on, like, a ISP. That's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah. Yeah, that would do it.

I don't know. Maybe they've managed to find someone who doesn't care. Because there are some hosting providers out there. Apparently, I don't know if this is actually true, that are clamoring to get Parler on them. I don't know. I haven't heard anything from my hosting provider. And they've got a Discord server.

But he really doesn't seem to care because i know the uh the ceo of parlo was like oh yeah there's a bunch of vps providers that are really trying to get us on their on their platform and i can think of a few who might want to do that like epic seems to not really care who uses their stuff yeah just as long as you're not posting porn i didn't know epic was against that i don't know it's the first i'd really heard of it but i haven't really worried about reading that tos because most of it is like be a decent person that kind of thing i kind of skim through it it's like okay that that that that okay cool i'm good yeah that makes sense uh Uh... Ooh, little words.

Conversation just derailed. Speaking of Parlor and all that, did you see what, uh... Did you see the data leak that happened? I haven't looked about at it. I did hear a little bit about it, so... I'll bring it up. Why is my keyboard doing that? Parler data leak. Because Chris Titus posted about it on Twitter, and

honestly, I'm actually impressed that they managed to basically that's showing the wrong screen. I switched over my view that's supposed to show my web browser, and it's showing your face instead. We'll fix that. That one.

There we go. 70 terabytes of Parler users' messages and videos posts leaked by security researchers. Jesus. Security researchers that Amazon let in. Yeah. researchers that amazon let in yeah i have definitely heard um some theories about how this actually happened yeah well some people are saying that when amazon took it down they didn't fully take it down which is the only way that they could have gotten that stuff

post um amazon shutting them down so but i heard there's some i don't know pretty like uh pretty crazy data in here because parlor had their like verified uh account system yeah uh and for that you needed to upload photos of your government issued id such as a driver's license. I don't think I ever verified. I don't think I cared enough to do that. I had like 10 followers on the platform. I didn't care. Yeah. But I mean, they got my stream promo links.

That's about it. But then you have a lot of the big right-wing guys who, their home addresses are now public information yeah which is not good no but you know i don't know i don't know how parla's gonna recover from this i imagine i don't know maybe there's gonna be a lawsuit for amazon someone definitely pointed that out a couple days ago i can't see that happening because amazon's yeah they've got way too many lawyers yeah well i mean there are a couple ways that they could go about it but we'll just have to wait and see

the problem is actually proving that amazon would be the cause there but it could very well be the the fact or very well be the situation that, yeah, Parler just didn't secure their stuff properly. I don't know. I don't know enough about the situation to say one way or the other. Yeah, I haven't looked into it enough to really say. I mean, Amazon's Amazon, so they do what they want, just like everyone else.

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I don't exactly understand why, like, Gab, actually, no, was Gab originally on Amazon? I think so. Yeah, I know Library is on AWS right now, Parler's on AWS, what are you doing? You know they're gonna shut you down. Yeah, well, that's the thing, I'm sitting there there like did we not all see this down the road that like with amazon hosting that they would get ousted yes like did they not see that like of all the places you could go there are so many hosting providers out there who would instantly accept you and you're like nah let's go with just the biggest tech imaginable literally the biggest tech company escape big tech by going to big tech apparently um jeremy the ceo of library does have

like a contingency plan when aws does eventually shut them down but i don't know what exactly that entails yeah i'd say um the best thing would be to migrate over like now's no a better time than any rather than waiting for them to shut you down because that's like downtime that you end up like sacrificing for who knows what yeah there's a couple of people who've been advocating for this to happen for a very long time. We don't know why they're still on AWS. It's just a bad idea. But, yeah, there's only so much we can really do. It's up to library in the end when they actually want to move. Yeah.

I mean, the migration could be somewhat quick from place to place if they do it early before amazon shuts them down yeah and that means they don't really suffer that same downtime that parlor's going through right now well yeah what they could do if because the way library works they have different um i guess node clusters in different regions just shut regions down one by one and migrate over that's all you need to do yeah yeah i know frantech the hosting service that i have right now they've got like oh a server center in luxembourg new york nevada or las vegas yeah, and they're still expanding and upgrading their stuff, so. Hmm. Hmm. It's not like they have to go with just one company. Yeah. Well, the problem with a lot of hosting providers, even if you try to escape from AWS, a lot of them are just AWS. Yeah.

Well, they have their own hardware, so, and they've been posting pictures of them upgrading their hardware. So they're actually a proper hosting provider. That's good. Yeah, they are. They do go through Cloudflare and a couple other DDoS mitigation services. But other than that, they're their own hardware. It's kind of hard to escape from Cloudflare. That's a difficult one.

I don't know of any alternatives that exist right now. Besides doing it yourself. Well, there is, what is it? There's this one called Path, apparently. So they were having a DDoS attack, what was it, the 2nd of this month? And the dude basically signed on with Path, onboarded with them,

and told the script kitties to go by. Hey, if it works, it works it works i guess i haven't actually heard anything about those guys might have to look into them at some point but i networking in and security are one of my very weak points i i'm not the person to go to if you want to know about that stuff yeah well i did do a little bit of network plus in high school but that's kind of most of it other than that it's stuff that i've come across from here and there so i actually don't know what like your programming or linux background actually is oh so the reason i got into linux was because vista and parental controls my parents were like we're going to install this on, you're going to have like time limits, this, that, and the other.

I'm like, no, none of that. But it eventually turned into now I am the Wi-Fi gatekeeper and everything else. Yeah. That's one way to get around it, I guess. Yeah, I know. hey that's one way to get around it i guess yeah i know it really turned into a thing where like i kind of like what one of the things is like yeah everybody looks at gaming like first thing when it's like linux no gaming no it's way easier now than it was in 2007 2008 trust me yeah if that seems to be the case i've had no trouble running pretty much anything at this point.

Yeah, because I mean, what? Looking at it now, it's pretty surprising that like the games that I did play worked as well as they did online back then, considering all the updates and changes that have happened now. So I'm pretty happy with how far it came. now so i'm pretty happy with how far it came back then it was just like play on linux and even then it was debatable whether um play on linux had something for your game or not and now it's just like oh steam lutris play on linux maybe gamehub and everything else there's so many options like for for the most things though you can just like

run it through proton and it's probably gonna do something unless it's got some weird launcher or some weird drm in there yeah homeworld remastered collection is kind of that way where it's really weird there was a script someone made that got it to work but it's marginal now whether it works or not i haven't had it work recently my favorite uh my favorite broken game was um borderlands pre-sequel because it's been broken for six years and i don't know how it works on windows because it when it installs it has the launcher file named wrong so steam doesn't know what the launch is called interesting so you have to rename there's a file in there called borderlands and rename that to launcher and then rename the

launcher to like launcher.backup or something and then it just works and i don't know how it works on windows unless it just installs differently when you install the windows version on linux for some reason it probably does because i installed pre-sequel and it worked just fine i kind of got it up i didn't do the full 1080p resolution but it seems to run just fine so oh yeah it also didn't care at all what my uh my graphics card could do it was like you know what literal minimal settings it will be 640 by 360 or 640 480 sorry 640 by 480 lowest possible settings i crank it all up it works fine it just didn't know what the hell to do when i first launched it yeah um what was when i first launched it was really small It basically all looks the same. Well, I bumped it up to 1440x900, I think.

Or was it 1600x900? And then I just left it at that, and it runs smoothly pretty well. I think it's mostly on medium settings to high settings. But other than that, it runs fine on a laptop 1050. Okay. I've heard that there's an Ultra HD texture pack, and that apparently is a little bit buggy, but I haven't tried it myself. Yeah.

I mean, I haven't installed HD textures for Skyrim either, so... Yeah, the last time I played Skyrim was on a PS3, so anything would look better than that. Yeah. And, you know, not having two-minute load times when going into a cave. That'd also be nice. Just got to play it on an SSD, that's all.

Yeah, I had a PS3 that had a mechanical hard drive in it, and, yeah, it's just not a good experience at all. Yeah. Maybe I'll go back and say skyrim at some point but i played so many hours that game i don't know how i would make it fun besides just modding the crap out of it yeah um i'd have to go back and look how many hours i have and i do have over 100 i think so i would definitely have much much more than that I would have to say at least three or four. Yeah.

And what was it? That was when I would play it on Windows exclusively. It has gotten better in Proton, though, so... That's good. Yeah, I haven't actually... Let's see what the rating is on ProtonDB, actually. Oh, God. Let me see. No, it broke my window.

Damn. I've got... by default awesome has window snapping turned on which is annoying yeah i need to disable that because it uh when i uh have a browser open during the podcast i have it as a floating window and then if it snaps it breaks the size completely which is not fun fun. Okay, ProtonDB. Which version of Skyrim are we going with? Because there's a couple of them. It would be the original one, not the special edition.

Okay. So, okay, Skyrim base edition has a gold rating. Yeah, that seems about right. And then the special edition also has a gold rating okay and then the vr also has a gold rating okay skyrim actually runs pretty well yeah i know a few couple people that run vr on their linux setup now too so

why is it yeah i've noticed in like discord it's like, yeah, you're playing another VR game. I see that. I don't know what it is about. I need to work out why OBS is doing this. But when I focus on a different window, it might change my window source inside of OBS. That's weird. I don't know why. I haven't had that problem but then again i've usually got one window for each program open most of the time right so yeah it that it might just be the case that it's switching based on it being the same type of window because it happened when i have

a pop-out window for the chat as well. So it might switch over to my window that I have stream labs open in. Rather than being on the chat window. I don't know. Yeah, I haven't run into that. I've mostly had issues with it. Like taking a second to pick up a window. And then render it into the stream. Yeah.

Yeah, also occasionally it'll just forget that I have a transition there and just instantly switch over i don't have transitions well okay sometimes you what not even the fade transition just get rid of the transition altogether yeah i i just don't really use a transition. I don't think it really fades around. I haven't really looked and paid attention that much. It probably is and is not paying attention. Yeah. Uh, is it set at that? We're gonna find out right now, are we? Yeah. Since it's got 150 millisecond fade, so yeah. Oh, yeah, there's a fade then. Yeah. Since it's got 150 millisecond fade, so yeah.

Oh, yeah, there's a fade then. Yeah. I think- It's probably barely noticeable, though. Yeah, at 150 it's gonna be basically instant. Mine's at, uh, 300. And then for the streams I have, like, this fancy fade. Yeah, that... accordion cordy type one yeah yeah i think i paid 50 for all of those uh all the layout and all that stuff okay i got it from um what's the site called i don't remember now there's a site that i should remember the name of that sells a bunch of Twitch overlays and stuff. Okay. And during Christmas, they did a 50% off sale or something.

No, Halloween. Halloween, they did a 50% off sale. I'll find what it was called. It doesn't actually matter. Is it locally hosted, or do you have to use some web overlay with it? Oh no, all of those are just loaded into OBS. Yeah, because I know I picked up a bunch of royalty free music from a Humble Bundle for

like 25 bucks that I've been using now. So whenever I'm like loading up something like Morrowind or whatever on stream and I'm just sitting there in like the starting screen I'll be like okay music MPD go yeah yeah that's uh with uh my my stream music that's all in MPD and all of that's from uh all of that is from stream beats yeah I think I've used stream beats for like one or two streams and that's it I might look at some other stuff but I like stream beats

what it is the recent one I've been using is like what was it is that it oh Is that it? Yeah, let's go to... Oh. Okay, I muted myself, maybe. Yeah, you did.

Yeah, I have, like, Windows M set to, like, the MPCD menu script, and I guess it, like, okay. Wait, did... Pulse Audio decided to reset my mic again? I... what?

How? I don't know how long it's been like that for. Yeah. So, Dark Fantasy Studio has some royalty-free music, and they've got, like, this Black Sails album that I've been using for pre-Morrowind stuff. Hmm. What about that one?

Yeah, I'll have to have a look at that one then. What did you say it was? Dark... Dark Fantasy Studio. Dark Fantasy Studio. There we go. Dark Fantasy Studio. Okay, if we transition into that one... Here we go. Dark Fantasy Studio. Okay, for transitioning to that one.

Here we go. Okay, yep. Cool. Found it. Let's see. Yeah. They had like a whole fat Humble Bundle from them that they had for like $25 for a lot of their albums oh wow yeah let me see how many there was in that one because i basically bought the top tier in it and they did it they sell their stuff on itch.io as well yeah let's see how much is it

stuff on itch.io as well. Yeah. Let's see, how much is it? Okay. And they're doing a sale right now by the looks of it. I feel like they just always have stuff on sale. That's one way to do it, I guess.

Yeah, there's always a sale going on. And it's showing the wrong screen again. It's showing your face. Stop doing that, OBS. Why are you doing that? You know, I like OBS, but then other times I'm just like, just stop.

Just stop. Why does it have to break all the time for me? I've never had anyone, like, everyone else tells me it's a great experience, and then for me, it just breaks all the time. I don't know. I don't really do very much with it per se, but... Hmm. I use it for, in a very simple, like, no-frills way.

Yeah, yeah. And that's about it. And it hasn't really broken too much for me, but I know people don't like it because the ui is kind of clunky the ui is definitely i mean if you've played dwarf fortress then clunky ui is nothing yeah that humble bundle had like 30 um albums in it oh wow okay how much did you pay for that one 20 25 dollars even if most of the music is garbage i think you can find 25 dollars worth of music in there yeah yeah i have i've used like their um chiptune pixel album whatever and then like that black

sales one i've still got to go through like all of it and download it all yeah and figure out what i want to use out of it i might take a look at that one then i don't think the humble bundle well no not the humble bundle like i might take a look at some of the albums okay yeah god why pulse Audio just changed my levels again! Maybe it's a Jitsi thing, I dunno. Maybe you just need to move to Ardex. Maybe. It'll just move to Gen 2.

It'll fix everything. Then Mental Outlaw will come on. I literally just changed it and it just changed it back. How does it keep doing that? Okay, it's changed it back. How does it keep doing that? Okay, it's fine. Okay. Don't change.

Maybe. I don't know. I do want to find some way to get in contact with him because I think that would be a fun podcast. And people keep bothering me about it. Have him on. What about Luke? Luke! Yeah, there's a lot of people. Especially after the DT episode and people found that I had a podcast.

Yeah, it's just like, hey, get Luke on the show. Get this person on the show. Someone asked me to get Muda Ha from Some Ordinary Gamers. Like, mate. No, it's not happening. That'd be awesome. Who do you think I am?

Not there yet. Not there yet, no. I should just not even bother touching this- This level, cause it's just gonna keep changing. It just went up to 91%, now it's at 98. Does it do this on you with everyone else? Uh, maybe you're just controlling my system. Oh, it's 87 now.

Hands right here. I don't know. What would be nice is when I don't have to touch this input and I just have my mixer board and can just do it on the mixer board. That's true. So you can sit there and adjust for when it decides to change. Because I've ordered the mixer board the mic i wanted to get was the um the audio technica at 2035 but that wasn't in stock

so uh they decided to change it to the um atg p120 so it's not a super expensive mic or anything. I just wanted something that was XLR. Yeah. I mean, blue microphones aren't that bad, but sometimes you just need something a little bit different. I need something that's not a USB mic. Well, I'm still on a USB mic, so... I want to play with the Mixerboard, and the Mixerboard I'm going

with has a built-in effects knob as well There's like 24 effects come with it Yeah, you're definitely gonna get better quality with like having something that isn't USB to so plus it's gonna let me blame anyone It has like an echo setting on there, which you know, that's already enough a reason that's already enough of a reason i what is it people do some funny things with the voice effects too and it's yeah yeah everyone just goes with like a go xlr though but the problem with the go xlr is it's basically a expensive brick if you don't have the drivers yeah i think you can do like maybe messing with like audio levels but you can't do any effects or anything like that uh which is really annoying oh is that windows drivers or drivers period

there are only windows drivers i don't think there's even mac os drivers at this point really maybe someone's working on open source drivers I haven't seen anything about it but If not then it's basically A useless brick Even on Windows if you don't have the drivers installed It just doesn't do anything They don't send the driver's CD with them anymore I think

Maybe it does come with a driver's CD I don't know why things still do that I don't even know Yeah most of them Just send the little manual It's like go to here for your drivers I don't know why things still do that. Like, I don't even know. I don't know. Yeah, most of them just send the little manual. It's like, go to here for your drivers. I've seen, I think my, the Wi-Fi card I bought came with a driver CD, and I don't know why. Who has a CD drive at this point?

I know. I mean, when someone builds their desktop, they might add it. than that every laptop doesn't yeah maybe and even every laptop now doesn't have a cd drive you've got to get like one of those goofy usb cd drives and even that's debatable the only people i know that have cd drives at this point are the people who want to go and play retro games. Yeah. Not really much of a reason besides that. Yeah. Think, yeah, the last laptop I had had a CD drive and that was about it.

Other than that, they've all turned into mega big netbooks. I think, what was the last one I had on the CD drive? My 2012 MacBook. Yeah. Makes sense. The one that I... Wait, did I... No, I didn't have that when I started the channel. I'd already got rid of it by then.

I had my... This one here. This shitty Acer thing. See, I had an Acer a while ago, and it just, like, it was really good until it wasn't. What was it? I paid, like, 300 for it. It ran Fallout New Vegas okay on Windows,

but then once I started streaming on it, it really just died. Yeah, that video rendering, I think, is what killed this thing. As soon as I started doing that, that's when the performance just dropped through the floor, because it's not supposed to run that hot for that long. Yeah. Especially rendering things like the podcast. Yeah, I don't think it really spun the fans up all that bad

either which is kind of sad so now it's just kind of like a heap of like a shell with like a keyboard on it and whatever else pulled out the ram that i'd bought otherwise and it just left it off to the side yeah uh this thing the uh the trackpad doesn't work anymore. For whatever reason, the front of it's lifted up a bit, and now you can't click. So I have to either use a mouse with it, or I just do key bindings for everything, which is fine, because I mainly use a window manager anyway.

Yeah, external mice. I needed the wireless one because the cord i have too many cords yeah i've got this uh it was gonna focus on it i got the really ugly version of it oh oh i ordered the black version and amazon was like hey did you mean the blue version like no like i went back and checked my order on amazon just to make sure that i didn't order the wrong one i did order the black version they just decided to send me the wrong one yeah i picked mine up at walmart so yeah that's fair yeah it's fine it it like it's under my hand all the time so yeah i mean if they sent me the wrong mouse that would be different but if you're

just gonna send me the ugliest color scheme, sure, whatever. Yeah, the only problem I've had is, like, sometimes I accidentally hit the DPI button, so when I'm in the middle of a game, like, can she also have my mouse go in erratic? Like, wait, what? Oh, wait.

I tapped that again. Yeah. I don't know. I have the DPI on the one setting I like, try to never touch it, but I have occasionally hit it when I'm scrolling. Yeah. That's usually when I hit it is when I'm scrolling.

So I'll sit there and, like, be furiously scrolling because I've got a couple games like that. And then it just, like, oh, DPI again. Shoot. I also have these two buttons on the side. I don't know if there's a way I can bind them to anything in Linux, but maybe. I'm sure you can. Somewhere in the XOR config it should let you do that.

But those are the back and forth browser buttons. Yeah, that seems to be all they do right now. Yeah. You could just bind them to something in the window manager 2 or something just like remap them with um or find whatever key uh key they're bound to and then just remap that to do some other action yeah yeah that way then then they're actually useful for something the problem that i've noticed because i actually had um caps lock and escape swapped around uh when i do stuff with fcitx when it switches between the um japanese and the english layout it um it just breaks everything fcitx wants to take control over

like how stuff like that happens okay so i don't know if I can find a way to make them interact nicely with each other. I don't know. It's fine. I don't know. Maybe if you get a different keyboard that lets you like refresh the firmware. I know with the ErgoDocs Easy and the configurator, they added Japanese support to it recently. And so you can do that. And you can actually set up

a Japanese layer, I guess. I haven't quite tried it. I've kind of played around with it a little bit but I don't have the input method stuff installed right now. I keep hearing about the ErgoDocs. I've never considered buying one but

I've heard the people who like them just really, really like the ErgoDox and it's on the wrong one again let's switch over to the proper one people just get to see your face lots of times today here we go ErgoDox anyone who doesn't know what an ErgoDox is basically it's a it's one of the very the very many ergonomic keyboards ah you're using one yeah yeah it's what i've been using i've got um a couple wrist pads for it in the mail that should be delivered today or no some other day because i've been using rags as wrist stress it's about time i switched it out if it works it works

yeah i don't know you i don't know if you've seen what my setup looks like, a lot of my stuff is sort of hacked together. Yeah. I mean, my cousins look at me, it's like, you've got all kinds of weird tech and stuff, it's like, no, I've got cool tech. Your keyboard doesn't let you do a special gaming layout, mine does. Yeah, that does sound pretty useful. Yeah. Your keyboard doesn't let you do a special gaming layout. Mine does. Yeah, they're pretty useful.

It's nice because some people were like, when I first ordered it before it arrived, people were like, how can I set it up so that I don't have to remap keys in all my games? And it's like, well, it's really easy. You just set up another layer and go from there. I mean, there are a couple games that don't quite work with it, like postal uses like some of the older style stuff where you like use like K and a couple other things on the other side of the keyboard. But most keys are on the left side of the keyboard and modern games. Hmm. That's weird. K. Yeah.

So K is suicide in Postal 2. Uh-huh. Yeah, it brings up this thing like, do you want to wuss out or do you want to go through with it? I've never actually played the Postal games. Yeah. Postal 2 is pretty light, and they actually have a linux native version of it so and it works decently enough in a window manager it's just sometimes you just gotta

refulse screen it manually once the mouse leaves the window what if i just kind of what if i just run it through wine is that gonna work better it'll work fine but i mean what it'll probably be about the same okay sell me on the postal games why should i play postal well if you're gonna go with postal 2 which is kind of the finished one there's a lot of mods it's based on old unreal it's an old clunky game that doesn't care and it's probably banned in australia honestly i can't remember uh i'm pretty sure it is i recall uh i recall something like that postal 2 uh yeah australia oh let's see list of banned games in australia yeah yeah you can get your hands on it

yeah well so they did some development on postal. They basically finished it with like their Apocalypse Weekend expansion. Then Postal 3 was basically outsourced to a Russian company. And then after that, after everybody like crapped on Postal 3, they made another expansion for Postal 2 called Paradise Lost, like 12 years after like the last update to Postal 2 and basically dogged on Postal 3 through it oh that's great

it was pretty funny maybe I do have to go and look into that then yeah it was pretty good yeah and then there's some glitches you can take advantage of and yeah they didn't fix a there's some glitches you can take advantage of. They didn't fix a lot of the glitches.

There are a couple things that they did fix to make it crash less, but other than that, they left a lot of stuff in. That's always a good place to start with. Yeah, well, they still have issues. Usually it's like some entity couldn't map itself or get in the right spot and everything. I've had a couple streams where it's like some entity couldn't like map itself or get in the right spot and everything. So I've had a couple streams where it's like, oh, look, there's the Unreal Crash screen again. I love these old clunky games. A lot of people look at the older games like Rose Cloud and Glasses,

but there's a lot of just broken stuff that people just forget about. Yeah. but there's a lot of just broken stuff that people just forget about. Yeah. And I mean, it's understandable because sometimes you get them playing in like a modern engine of an old game. And what ends up happening is they're used to that modern engine. And when they go back to playing the classic engine,

they're just like, I don't remember it being this clunky. But I'm speaking of clunky games i saw something that i didn't know why it existed um did you know there's a modding community for simpsons hit and run i did not i haven't really played it so okay um i saw this video pop up on my YouTube the other day Someone took the Simpsons hit-and-run map and then basically just made a continuous version of the map rather than having different levels in it Let's see if we can find it Simpsons hit-and-run Map mod. I yeah, I don't know why there is a why there is a

modding community for a game like this. I don't understand, but I think it's cool nonetheless. And switch over to that one. Basically it just, yeah, it just takes the entire game world and just connects it all together

so it's all continuous rather than like loading and teach so hmm yeah pretty much but um the point i was trying to get out here was i kind of love what the modding communities can just they just come up with nonsense like this like Does a game like this need a modding community? No. No, it doesn't. But people love the game, so why not? Yeah. And what is... In Daggerfall Unity,

that's an old clunky game that people are still playing and modding. So... With the Unity engine, modernizing it, they can their hd stuff and everything you've got marwen that has the same thing still pretty active what and total annihilation i don't know if you've heard of that it's ringing a bell it's an old strategy game from the 90s that that's kind of a game that like worked pretty well in wine back in 2008 that

surprises me now oh it still has a pretty active modding community and everything too even though the company went bankrupt like three years after the release of total annihilation i just uh i i accidentally minimized the window and it broke all the cameras for a second. It's fine. Total annihilation. That is definitely ringing a bell. Annihilation.

I can't spell. What is this one? Ah, yes, yes, I have seen this. I've never played it, because RTS things, like, RTS games are not my thing. Yeah, I spent hours growing up playing it, so it's kind of one of those nostalgia things for me. Do you actually remember the, like, the first game you ever actually played? Um... I think it was the Nintendo 64 title. Mm-hmm.

No, wait. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was one of those edutainment games. It's... I can't remember which one, but I want to say Reader Rabbit. Could be worse places to start, I guess. Yeah, well, like I said, it was one of those edutainment games, and we had a whole library of them.

In fact, I've got a CD wallet with a bunch of them right up here. Let's see. where did I stick that it's there it is now it's stuck under stuff I'll pull it out later maybe I've got like a yeah I've got a shelf up here

that like covers everything I had to adjust the laptop screen so the camera didn't catch like half the camera view with the wood border up top yeah you managed to eliminate most of it but I don't know maybe it frames the shot I guess it's not that bad

just a little bit I think for myself the first game I ever played maybe there was for myself, the first game I ever played, maybe there was something earlier, but the first thing I can recall is there was a PS2 title, Spyro Enter the Dragonfly. Okay. Which was not a very good Spyro game.

Yeah. But. Yeah, much of my childhood was spent with like strategy games for a lot of it there was one game paint brawl 3 was basically one of those paintballing games that was another one that i spent a lot of time with paint that yeah that definitely does not ring a bell yeah uh it it was kind of one of the um permissible first person shooters that parent might allow back in the 90s so because it was paintballing not like shooting to kill everyone yeah i think that by the time that i discovered fps games my my parents just didn't care yeah well my parent my mom particularly was one of those that's like no pokemon like

certain tv shows and whatnot she eventually like started giving up so yeah yeah i don't recall anything like that i i think my parents were sort of very lenient in that regard yeah i mean other parents around us really didn't care that much per se but yeah we were homeschooled at the time too so yeah i mean that might make a difference but generally not because there were other family homeschool families that didn't care so yeah well the other primary school i went to had uh i think it was 60 people there so it wouldn't be much different to do a homeschool at that point yeah i mean what was it when looking at it let's see kindergarten i was in a private school then my mom decided homeschooling and then it was about sixth grade

time frame we got put into public school so yeah i've kind of been around the block on that one yeah private kindergarten that's one i haven't heard before it's so what it was i guess is the person that started the private school their kids were getting bullied and i guess they decided they wanted to start a private school so their kids could be top dog i wish i had that much money that'd be nice yeah the problem is when um you have that attitude and you make it a church oriented private school, it kind of is counteract counter intuitive. Cause it's like, you're do it teaching, like from scripture in here that says like,

be nice to everyone. But then you had the attitude of like, I don't like my kids getting bullied, but I want them to kind of be like top of the food chain but i don't know all i know is that i wish i had enough money to just be like i want to start a school if i had enough money to do that i'd probably do something else with the money oh yeah sure I just want the money to say I could do it. I don't know what I would do with it. Maybe, like, I don't know,

buy a full original set of Pokemon cards or something. I don't know. I've got a few decks of original Pokemon cards. A couple of them are still, like, unopened. So... Yeah, I've seen, like, how expensive some cards in the original set can get yeah i still holding on to it still haven't opened them for the most part so it's like you're staying right there yeah i don't know i never really got super into Pokemon, but I know, or the trading card game at least, the video games, another story, but the trading card game, I think around my school, Yu-Gi-Oh was much more popular. would make sense because i know pokemon for a little bit it was kind of earlier in the 90s than yugioh later on early 2000s late 90s was kind of yugioh yeah but yeah magic the gathering

has always had that kind of undercurrent when it comes to trading card games so like anybody gets into a trading card game i think at this point eventually they find magic the gathering and that's it yeah i have a uh a mate who always carries around his magic deck i don't know why it's not like you're gonna need it just randomly but no it's always with him yeah i've got like three boxes of magic cards at this point i don't know if you've seen like the deck builder's toolkits. Got three of those boxes with just magic cards in them. There are a couple times I was able to pick up

bricks of cards, and like two of those bricks I picked up, half of them were Japanese cards. So like, well, okay. Cool. Can't read them for now, but I got them on hand they're an excuse to learn to read

there it is yeah my Japanese is it's going slowly very slowly but it's going yeah well I think I've brought it up a couple times on discord but i have like

pokemon generations one and two in japanese in cartridge like all games from them and i bought it for like only 50 bucks and i sat there looking around and even a couple stores in my area they like have a japanese crystal cartridge that sells for like 40 bucks i know that at least a couple of years ago there were some retro game stores around my area but i don't know if they're still open i should probably go check them out yeah other than that um what some people might suggest is you get one of those flash cards like the sd card ones if you order from china they usually come chucked full of games so and those are like 30 bucks 35 bucks a pop us dollars i've actually considered doing um like just downloading a rom of like pokemon yellow or something in japanese and just

playing through that on stream is just a way to practice yeah the only issue that you're going to run into is the fact that it's all in kana there's no kanji whatsoever so you're going to have to kind of figure out based on context what the word is yeah which can be kind of fun because i remember doing that on my game boy and just like sifting through Akabe searches and being like, As long as I can work out where the particles are, I think I can kind of guess the rest, maybe. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of where like,

I was glad I went through like some of the grammar guides, like Taikin's guide to Japanese grammar, because it's like, it kind of points out a lot of the particles and all that. Yeah, that was the- So it's a lot easier to tear it apart. When I absolutely first started going to, like, Hiragana and Katakana, the problem I had with just reading anything is I had no idea where the hell word borders were. Yeah.

Give me a second. Let me turn the light on. All good. Yeah, then I won't get that screen in my face. Because it would be uh, we started when it was 4pm for him, so it would, being winter there, it would probably be getting dark. I noticed I was having like that Colored screen coming on Because it's getting darker now Yeah yeah What time is the sunset there?

Um Right now Because I know it would be winter there wouldn't it? Yeah it is Probably around 6.30, 7 o'clock ish okay but yeah surprisingly late it's like yeah five o'clock right now so okay because it might be a bit earlier i haven't really paid attention much to when it does yeah i've been inside a bit too much

recently uh because it's been getting it's been pretty hot here lately like 37 38 degrees celsius and i'm just like i want to go outside it's too hot makes sense but um yeah it's been pretty it's been pretty nice we've got like some of the snow cover i mean it's been kind of like frozen hard for the last couple of days but you can walk outside and it's like decently okay temperatures i have with the sun shining i've never seen snow in person oh i could go to like tasmania in uh in winter and it does snow there actually it also snows in the middle of summer as well which was really bad like december there was like a couple of days where it snowed i think we've only had one snowfall that i've seen that happened in june or july

so yeah so it's not a very uh snow snowy area then there then um well i mean june or july is summertime oh right yeah of course um yeah i forgot that's how that works isn't it equator and all that yeah must be really nice for those people along the equator yeah i don't know maybe but you, when it's not, like, 37 degrees, it's nice. Like, after that, after, like, period of really hot days, even just a relatively warm day is kind of nice after that. Yeah. Well, I... Yeah, this past summer was pretty hot,

to the point that nights were hot that it was hard to sleep. Yeah, that's not fun. Luckily, I have ducting air conditioning, so I can just leave that on all night. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't think... We didn't really turn ours on all that hard. Because when you're working outside and you walk in with a sudden temperature change, it can cause problems. Because I guess there are people, it's like, you get that sudden temperature change and, like, they go into a heart attack, so.

But they can. That's a problem. Yeah, maybe that would be a bit of a problem then. Yeah. I usually just don't turn the air conditioning on. It's my housemates that turn it on. Like, I'll sit in here while it's, of a problem then. Yeah. I usually just don't turn the air conditioning off. It's my housemates that turn it on. Like, I'll sit in here while it's, like, really hot. Yeah, yeah.

And you probably notice, like, during videos, you get really shiny. Yeah, the window opens at night, and then, like, during the day, it normally closes. So, even during the winter. But... Yeah, luckily, my room specifically stays pretty cool because i usually only get the uh the afternoon sun so uh sun would be setting over this direction

and yeah come straight through the window and that's really the only sun i get here which is nice in summer in winter it means the room's always cold but yeah my window faces northwards so the sun never really directly shines in so that that's a nice feature it is nice um because i had to get these uh well it's not actually a curtain it's actually just a uh bed sheet that i've hung from my curtain rod i had to get that because in the afternoon it just got way too bright and there'll be light coming like between the blinds okay yeah yeah i don't know curtain curtains and my curtains are basically like these camo pattern fleece like homemade curtains in essence so all right then yeah that uh that works if it keeps the light out i guess yeah i mean one of them is tied up because the window generally opens all the time

so and it gets in the way of the fan when it's on. But before you left, we were talking about Pokemon in Japanese and Taikin. Yeah. I haven't actually looked at Taikin's stuff yet. Yeah. There is an app on the Android Play Store. He does have his guide to Japanese grammar. Oh, web- based as well. So there are those options. But basically,

he kind of breaks it down into like beginner, intermediate and advanced grammar. And then he kind of breaks everything down that way. When he translates his sentences, he actually does it in kind of like a broken Japanese English way. So it kind of fits with the Japanese style of grammar. Right. But you can still kind of figure out what it means. Yeah, that makes sense. Because I've noticed a lot of other places, they will translate it into a sentence to really make sense in English,

which sort of breaks the way that the grammar actually functions. lot of other places they will translate it into a sentence to really make sense in english which sort of breaks the way that the grammar actually functions and you sort of have to piece it back together yourself yeah i want to say i believe he does like include some of the cautions about certain things that like a lot of textbooks wouldn't include like you don't use watashiwa all the time and things like that. You mean that Duolingo isn't the be all and end all source? I guess not. I want to do a Duolingo at some point.

When I get to the point where I'm actually like relatively okay, I would love to do Duolingo just to make fun of it. Yeah. okay i would love to do duolingo just to make fun of it yeah i mean i've used duolingo duolingo a couple times but then it dropped off eventually it was mostly for the words because i know it's got like a lot of bad habits and things it puts in yeah but the other one that i've used is called clothes master it it's basically you a fill in the blank for like various languages and they've got japanese as one of theirs okay it's spelled c-l-o-z-e c-l-o-z-e yeah uh i that one i have not heard of uh yeah okay cool they basically use um sentences native sentences and you basically fill in the word in the context of that sentence and supposed to kind of get you to recognize the context and everything else with it

so they've got multiple sentences per word and then you go through and drill with the sentences that way yep because i haven't done well outside of my little bit of particle knowledge i haven't really done any grammar stuff yet i've just done um kanji pretty much which you do um i'm doing it with our oney and you do vocab with that as well yeah i know there are a few people out there that say like if you're gonna learn the kanji kind of do it in context i can't remember how oney conny does it uh yeah it's kind of like yeah it does it does do it um it does do it in context i've i know what you're talking about you're probably talking talking about Matt vs. Japan's content on it.

Because I know he was a big proponent of RTK a couple of years ago. I don't think so. There are a number of places I've come across that do that. So you've got Yuta Aoki that kind of talks about more of the colloquialisms with japanese and then you've got who else was there i can't remember yeah because i know i kind of went through a lot of the grammar first to kind of figure out how it worked and then from there it's like okay i just

gotta like figure out what words i want to use in these contexts and then go from there yeah which i've still been kind of bad at because the other than that sorry huh not just going other than that um there's also the nhk easy japanese app that uses news articles written in Japanese, and they've got like the audio video and everything else too. Okay. Got a built-in dictionary and everything else, so. Yeah, I need to act like I've- I need to spend more time actually practicing using what I'm learning as well. Yeah, I know. That's um... It's all well and good to, know learn the vocab but you have to actually make sure you're using it so you can actually ingrain the knowledge

well and that's kind of where like the nhkc japanese might be good is because you're actually reading the words and using them in that sense versus just like drilling the words into your head. Yeah. Well, one, he kind of does it through, um,

SRS and that's only so useful. It's, it'll help you remember stuff, but it might sort of slip by if that word actually shows up in a proper context. Yeah. Yeah. But see, yeah. Yeah. That that so with like spanish when i was doing that it was kind of helpful because when you've got someone that you're speaking with or that you're listening to

you start to recognize where the words pop up so oh it's kind of the reading and everything else in that regard um it's actually like i've i'd never thought of playing vr chat before but vr chat honestly seems like one of the best ways to practice a second language yeah i can see that because there are so many rooms that are just dedicated it's like hey we're a spanish speaking room we're a japanese speaking room and they're just native speakers just hanging out there yeah that would help with the speaking a lot yeah speaking and listening yeah i can't speak but i'll just stand there just listening to people. Yeah. Just like,

Sugoi! That's what you get from me. Samoi! Kuso. There you go, that's the extent of my Japanese. Well, I guess that's the important ones. Look, that's all you need to know to be able to play mario kart with japanese speakers and also just one yeah one interesting thing i did find with like japanese pokemon is the translation differences that they went with yeah so like

you've got like the campers in it. And in Japanese, they're Boy Scout and Girl Scout. Uh-huh. And then the last is actually like translated as miniskirt. I'm sitting there like, that's very clever. Because I know that the Japanese Pokemon names are already just weird enough. Japanese Pokemon names are already just weird enough, but it makes sense that the trainer names and the trainer types would also be weird as well. Yeah.

Well, I mean, you're sitting here looking at like, okay, Nintendo, we got to make it safe here in America. Nintendo of Japan, it's like, yeah, it's fine. Do you know the... I assume you've seen the lyrics for the other japanese version of the original pokemon opening yeah i've come across it i will bring them up on the screen um uh japanese pokemon i've come across a translation it's very very interesting completely different from what it is in English let's see

Mizase Pokemon Master yes that's the one I'm looking for and ah here we go and we're showing your face again okay yay yay okay so this is from AnimeLyrics.com Oh, here we go. And we're showing your face again. Okay. Yay.

Yay. Okay, so this is from animelyrics.com, the most reputable source for anime lyrics. So the English translation, I'll get you, Pokemon, for example, in fire and water and grass and forest and earth in clouds in that girl's skirt. Which is just lovely. fire and water and grass and forest and earth in clouds in that girl's skirt which which just well and then they took out her scream as well in the opening credits too and then it repeats that again a bit later in the song um once again uh in that girl's skirt and then after the instead of a scream this time she says you're persistent

I love Japanese Pokemon so much missed out on it's kind of the debate between subbed and dubbed anime which one is better subbed anime is better but listening if you can understand the original japanese that's even even better well there are some series that i think actually make

more sense to be in english like bakano bakano just makes more sense in english or yeah tell me that the english version of hellsing isn't better than the japanese version i haven't really looked at it watched it so i know there were with dragon ball there were things that they removed and the english dub or like changed around which was kind of think yeah i only watched dragon ball in japanese so i couldn't i don't i don't know the difference as well i'm like as a kid um at least in australia dragon ball wasn't actually airing here which is kind of weird because i know a lot of people who have seen dragon ball as a kid so i don't know where the hell they saw it of weird because i know a lot of people who have seen dragon balls as kids so i don't know where the hell they saw it yeah so like for example bulma when she gets caught on like the branch

on the side of the cliff she's like i peed and like in the sub version it's i can't remember what they did but they just kind of left it out and got rid of it and then there's a part where um goku is like laying down like he's um sleeping the way he was with gohan and he's like kind of pets bul what and he like because he takes her underwear off that kind of leads to the section where like master oshi gets the bloody nose calling her one of those peachy peachy girls oh lord yeah um there's definitely been some changes in some of the older anime, that's for sure. Yeah. But... I don't know, it leads to some fun when you finally discover it.

Yeah. Like, everyone talks about... A lot of stuff removed. Hmm. You always hear people talk about, oh, here's what was changed, but like, the 4Kids versions, but it's not here's here's what was changing like the four kids versions but it's not just four kids that was changing stuff yeah like uh obviously everyone knows about like jelly doughnuts yeah there were some things they felt like toning down

well i think yeah even sailor moon had the same deal going on. They had to remove the gay references from Sailor Moon and all. Yeah, that would not go down well today, would it? No. I had to take it out. No, you put it back in. You have to make it more. Yeah. Oh, Lord.

I think there are cases where they did with Crunchyroll in a couple's anime. I don't trust Crunchyroll to do any subtitling at this point or any... I just don't trust Crunchyroll. They could be changing meanings left and right. I don't know, I haven't watched anime through Crunchyroll in a while so all I know is about when they change stuff I don't use Crunchyroll I just you know acquire stuff through other means yeah that's my normal way it's like other people it's like disseminates information it's like okay cool it'll make its way to a discord or twitter at some point if it's important enough for me to see yeah

otherwise it makes it to twitter and someone on discord posts the link to that tweet yeah pretty much now the conversation stopped again I love it let's see Now the conversation stopped again. I love it. Let's see.

Oh, here's one thing. A lot of these open source games, like Assault Cube and Urban Terror and things like that, a lot of them, I had no idea they were open source games when I first heard about them, because back in my high school, we would always try any like any way we could play games in class and these just were the first things that came up because they're free and everyone can play them so i've already had experience with a lot of them and i i do love the idea of getting back into them that's for sure yeah i think that's a lot of the way it is with a lot of things like i i'm sure firefox early on people are like i didn't know it was open source or that not but yeah games were

kind of one of the first things that i looked for when i moved to linux it was kind of a bit of a bumpy road so i had a computer teacher that had like an old suza disc that some student had bought for her from best buy because they did that at one point but i eventually moved to ubuntu which had the old gt gnome 2 like double bar top and bottom of the screen and i kind of what i stuck with for quite a while but they had synaptic and then they introduced the oh ubuntu software center and that's i kind of went through like all the games and just kept looking and yeah there were a lot of them that there was what was it battle for wesnoth was kind of one of the earlier ones that they had in there that i had tried out um armageddon i believe was in there too I remember

spending I'd spend a few minutes every so often playing that just because Tron and Light Cycles oh yeah no I was trying to work out what that one was yeah I have played that one as well yeah

yeah I remember this I think it was easier to have all those games because there was a fork of Ubuntu called Ultimate Edition that basically was a fat like

live CD distro that you could install that came with like every app under the sun pretty much pre-installed including that came with like every app under the sun pretty much pre-installed including compas with like the wobbly windows and everything oh god which i mean on the crappy laptop that i was running it was kind of fun to have like it work like that maybe i should set up an armageddon server and play that on community game night that might be fun yeah package sorry so good that that's my pine phone protective stuff ah no not yet they've got to ship it out it's gonna be part of the next batch coming

so yeah did you see the other pine phone scalpers no i did it oh wait no yeah someone did post it it's like what 300 in bids really uh pine phone manalpers. Yeah, so if people don't know, the PinePhone is a Linux phone. And every so often they will basically release different versions of it. The last version they had was the Manjaro version. And, yeah, for some reason, people are going onto eBay and selling the Manjaro version for way above msrp can we yeah what they said it the pine phone's gonna be 300 retail and right now they're doing it for 200 during the whole like build up to daily driver yep so it's like why i don't know some people are complaining

that it's going to be like oh by the time like daily driver and like the full version is released like the hardware is going to be out of date it's like it's a phone that you can upgrade you can switch out the motherboard and have an upgraded pine phone for way cheaper than buying a new phone. You can switch out the motherboard, can't you? Yeah. I did not know that. I don't really know much about the Pine phone. Yeah, well, you can buy Pine phone parts,

and if you really wanted to, you could build your own, but... That seems like too much effort i just want a phone yeah apparently they were kind of reluctant to do the branding on the backup phone for each community edition so they sell like a backplate replacement backplate without the branding at all on it i like that it's awesome Yeah I would like to look more into the Pine phone It just

I'm just not much of a phone guy in general Yeah I mean I've kind of like I used to use my phone a lot For a lot of things, but like now it's just Kind of sits there And it's like one of my viewers

on twitch is about it what are you uh what are you using now it's an lg x venture it's one of those rugged phones so it's been really beat up over the last few years that i've had it i haven't been able to install any custom firmware on it as much as i'd like to so it's one of those phones that's kind of like flown under the radar of like all the like custom firmware stuff i'm just running um the can we focus on it all right there we go real me five no it didn't focus on it whatever um yeah it's a oppo sub-brand. And, you know, sell all my data to China and all that. Whatever.

Yeah, I mean, it's just an LG, so it's going to Korea that's all, maybe. But, like, it works. It's got the fingerprint scanner too, so. I didn't think I would care about a fingerprint scanner until I got one. And then, yeah. Yeah. I mean mean it makes things really convenient except for when you have to reboot or like it

fails like three times in a row so yeah this thing i think every three days it's like hey you can't uh you can't use the fingerprint scanner you have to use your pin code i'm like oh okay that's annoying yeah see my this one when i at first early on it had issues with a sim card like not connecting for some reason even though it was like firmly in there and what all and then i hadn't had it for quite a while i had installed f droid and a bunch of other stuff and then i go to work for UPS. I install their spyware. And all of a sudden, it's giving me SIM card trouble again. Like, what the heck, guys? I install your VMware spyware,

and now my phone's having issues again. And after I uninstalled it, it hasn't had a problem since. Big UPS is trying to take over your phone. Well, the issue is they're using Microsoft VMware stuff to kind of make sure your phone is secure. Right. And it's like, okay, your whole infrastructure is all Microsoft, including the web stuff, I can tell.

Because they're using Microsoft a Microsoft login and everything else and I'm like so if you get hacked that's how many hundreds of thousands of phones that the hacker now has permission to factory reset what a great system yeah

so UPS get your stuff put together but hey it's Microsoft, Microsoft will never have a data leak ever so UPS get your stuff put together but hey it's Microsoft Microsoft will never have a data leak ever no especially now that they're spying on people's desktops

is that happening is that a thing I know they've done like ad pop-ups for stuff like apps and stuff like they put links in for like apps on their store or whatever in your start menu it doesn't surprise me and yeah it's just like no please no a desktop is not mobile phone and even then people complain when it's a mobile phone because i know when my phone is an unlocked phone and I did that on purpose

and all of a sudden AT&T starts installing their apps on it when I'm not looking, I'm like, no, I got an unlocked phone for a reason. Yeah. It's actually pretty easy to get yourself an unlocked phone in Australia. I hear about people in the US talking about like,

oh, my phone's locked to a cell carrier, but unless you go specifically to a cell carrier here, basically everything's going to be unlocked. Yeah, my phone I picked up at Walmart. So, I mean, they do offer the carrier-only phones, but I'm like, unlocked section, thank you. Yeah, I don't buy expensive phones so i can just buy them outright i don't understand the point of a phone plan

yeah i know it's like so you're gonna pay bring your phone bill up for you to just like have a phone that you can borrow that that you're going to upgrade later on, that you're really not going to own later on down the road. But don't you want a $1,000 phone? I could care less. I don't understand the need for having, like, the most up-to-date phone every single year. I think... I don't know who popularized it but like they've got problems yeah like imagine

people acted like that with their car like if instead of having a car loan where you loan to buy it it was like you rented a car and then every year you just got a new car yeah well that's basically don't take that as a good that was not a good idea car industry don't take that as an idea well i mean there are some people that already do that they get a car and then they upgrade to another car a few years later i guess so but just imagine if that's just still working on payments just imagine if that was just the norm. You just never owned your car. It was just always renting, pretty much. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's basically leasing at this point. I don't think many people end up paying off their loans anyway, so...

It's a bit harder to do with a car, but the car I have right now I bought in cash. That makes it sound like i have like lots of money it's like a three thousand dollar car it's not that expensive yeah see there it is you just save up a little bit and buy it it's like and there are a number of sites that you can look at whether it be local or whatever that you can find that'll have cars for sale that way yeah i don't like i'm probably that way. Yeah. I don't like, I'm probably going to sell this thing. Maybe,

I don't know, maybe this year and upgrade a little bit. Basically I'm just going to take whatever my sale value is and then just add three grand onto that and like, okay, I'll get a slightly better car this time. Yeah. It works.

So normally there'll be about... Newer cars will be about the same price as that car might have been like a few years ago too. So it's not like you're really paying anymore. Well, yeah, this one's like a 2001 model. So it's already a pretty old car. And I've been looking at some prices around the place and I can get myself a bit more of of a like a newer like ford focus for like six or so grand so it's not that expensive yeah they have bluetooth too so

my uh my car when i bought it it was it it was a a budget car when it was new, so it still had a cassette player in it. I was like, okay, I need to replace this serial and get something I can actually use. It didn't have aux or anything. It was CD and cassette, and that's what you got. Yeah. There are some people that DIY a Raspberry Pi into their car for a radio instead.

Oh, that's awesome. They set up Android Auto to work with it, and it's just instead. Oh, that's awesome. And then they, like, set up Android Auto to work with it. And it's just like, oh, that's cool. Yeah, that is cool. If I knew what the hell I was doing with electronics, that would be an awesome project. Yeah.

I feel like I would just, like, fry my car or something. Or fry myself. Yeah, I mean, unplug the myself. Yeah, I mean... Unplug the battery. Yeah, that's a good start. Yeah, please don't work on electronics with your car battery plugged in.

But if you do, you're living on the edge. I have been electrocuted a few times before, but those were my fault. Yeah. As a kid, I put my finger in a light socket. Because I, yeah, I don't know why. I wanted to check if there was a light bulb in there, and I think I took it too far.

And the other time was in science class. We were making kettles. It was just like a chemistry class, like show how, I think it was, yes, show how like electricity heats up water or something. I don't remember the exact thing it was just like a chemistry class like show how electric i think it was yes show how like electricity heats up water or something i don't remember the exact uh thing it was and uh it was taking a long time and we didn't think it was working so i like i touched the the metal thing and you know yeah it went well it's not sensation it is and then i had like this big it actually was really hot i had this line on my finger for a couple of months where it burned in my finger dang yeah there's all you always get those kids that have those like fork in the outlet stories

yeah the uk does a good job with that where they actually have it so you actually don't get any electricity until the ground plug goes in it's like basically locked until that happens that's interesting yeah australia actually do i have a plug around here yeah here we go here's what australian plugs look like okay yeah one of those ones oh the uk does it better um we don't actually have locks on it. So the UK, the way they do it is the ground pin here, until that actually goes into the socket, it has basically locks over it, and you can't stick anything in. So the kid would have to stick one thing into the top

and one into the ground. And if they can do that, that's pretty impressive for a kid. Yeah. Oh, I remember my parents, they got sick of us because us kids because we always got around the parental controls it got to the point to where they took the electric plug and they basically um disconnected it and put on like one of those like plug disconnectors from like a hardware store onto it so they could take the end of the plug and they left the female end

on the tv well we as being smart kids figured out like hey we can take a couple wires stick it in here and stick it in the outlet and working tv oh my god i was not that uh that ingenious as a kid. That's a great solution. But to be, to be fair, my parents also just didn't worry about parental controls because they wouldn't understand it themselves. Yeah. Well, I mean, it kind of like parental controls got a bit more complicated later on down the road.

So my parents eventually got sick of it so like my uh i remember having to teach my mom how to send an email because uh i think it got to the point where her work decided that they only wanted like they weren't going to send pay slips um like through the mail or give them out at work and they were only being sent online and she also had to like submit her time sheet online as well and she was like i have no idea how to send an email i can't do my job and she's like freaking out about it it's like it's an email it's very simple luckily i've never had that problem but now she's like she uses her phone more than I do, so I guess I did something.

Yeah, I mean, I grew up with a dot mail email for a little bit too, so. My parents knew how to use email because for some reason the military decided that they'd get on email pretty quickly. Yeah, my family came from a rural area though, so we had dial-up. And they just... Until, I think, 2004 or so, we just didn't even have an internet connection. Because there was just no point. Yeah. I remember at one point, we had a dial-up. And I think my mom was connecting. And somehow, she had accidentally dialed my uncle, who was out in our driveway working on our truck at the time uh-huh so like he answers

it and you hear this hello from the computer oh i wish i was just a little bit older to experience dial-up like i was there at just like the the last stages of it yeah well i mean i didn't really experience dial-up all too much because when i kind of really touched the internet is kind of when like dsl was really hitting so yeah the first point where i was like really interested in the internet was uh was when i moved back to south australia got a dsl connection and i was my cousin told me about this new website that had just came out called YouTube, where you could watch all of these videos online. So this was like 2006.

I think it was before the Google acquisition even. Yeah, it would have been. Yeah, it would have been. See, old YouTube was really interesting. See, I know some people, I know... Is my mic being weird? No, my housemates are awake. Oh.

So, I know, remember early on before YouTube had ads? Like, when they had all kinds of that stuff on it, that like, there was eventually a point where you had like some of these channels, they literally had sponsorships before any sort of YouTube monetization. So you had like the DIY channels, you get like, Kip K and it's like, well, this video is sponsored by Suguru. Let's show you what you can do with that and stuff like that I know some people are worried about monetization right now it's like well you get your stuff up big enough and like that same thing will happen again yeah I haven't I've

had a a few companies come to me um one of them uh I I had to tell them, like, no, because it would have been a massive conflict of interest. Yeah. Because right now I'm working with Linode. I'm not going to say the other company that came to me. There was another VPS company that came, though. And I guess I just hadn't seen my recent stuff, because I'm like, I can't be working with two VPS companies.

That's not happening. Hosting here and hosting here. Maybe someone will do that, but I'm not going to... I can't, in good faith, recommend two companies at the same time that do the exact same product. Yeah. But hey, if Dollar Shave Club wants to come to me, I'll take that. Actually, Manscaped's the big one that everyone's into now.

So Manscaped, hit me up. Or then there's, oh, what was it? The earbuds, Raycon. Raycon. They sent me their E25s, everyday wireless earbuds. They're so wonderful. I'll take them. I kind of want some new wireless earbuds. I don't even care earbuds they're so wonderful i'll take them i kind of want some new wireless earbuds i don't care if they're very good like these i don't care about audio quality

these uh these earphones are what are they they're sennheiser cx 3.0s they are 40 australian which is probably like 20 us they're fine they play audio yeah but they're not good for doing audio work which is something i probably should be doing yeah um if you go check out dank pods channel he has okay i'll check out dank pods channel he He does a bunch of, oh, um, iPod and mp3 player stuff, but he has a few videos talking about different headphones and like what he recommends for like different things. So what was it? I can't remember which one he said for like audio editing that a Sennheiser brand is what it was, I believe. One of the Sennheiser headphones. I don't know.

But yeah, he's an Aussie too. Oh, okay. Yeah, I actually did recently buy an MP3 player because I just want something where I can just, this is something from watching Matt vs. Japan. I just want something where I can just have Japanese audio playing all the time and just, you know, when I have free time

just stick that in yeah, makes sense that good old listening yeah other than that I've just gotten these Skullcandy wireless headphones they're not like some of the other ones they've looked at,

where they let you use one earbud solo, but they work. It just sucks because the right ear is the only one that works that you need to have out. What do you got on right now? They're a Sony pair. they do um do bluetooth as well i just use the wire all the time because i mostly have it on the computer and that's it yeah so they do pretty decently i'd like to kind of see like some of the open earphones and see how they sound with it though so my only problem with doing open back

is if i was living by myself it'd be fine or i was living with people who just don't make noise it would be fine but yeah yeah well i mean today i'm going there alone again okay whatever i live with well well my problem is sometimes i get people that want to talk yeah and like they'll sit at the door, and it's like, hey, you. Hey. Hey, you. Oh, someone's there.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just, when my housemates want anything, I just knock on the door, so it's fine usually for me. Yeah. My only other earphones... Can I reach them? Yes, you can. I've got a pair of Jaybirds here that I bought years ago I don't

know what model they are I don't know but they have wires on them which is you can back when this see I've got back when this was a wireless earphone I remember these days yeah I've got a pair when this was a wireless earphone, I remember these days. Yeah. I've got a pair of Skullcandy also like that, that have the one wire that are Bluetooth, that for some reason it took like two seconds and it would like fade into the audio of whatever I was listening to. Uh-huh. And it's like, why?

And sometimes it wouldn't even work with new pipe i'd have to sit there play and pause the video again to get it to work or like reconnect the headphones to get it to work or something else so but i mean it would be nice because then i could switch ears whenever i am using only one ear. Hmm. But I kind of want to get, like, proper wireless earphones as well, because I just want... At work, they don't care if you wear earphones,

but these ones sort of get caught on my shirt sometimes. Yeah. Also, they've got foam tips. This is how old these are, okay? You can see the foam tips. The is how old these are, okay? You can see the foam tips. The foam tips are, like, falling apart. Oh, God.

Don't focus on my face, damn it. There we go. Yeah. That's bad. Yeah. They still sound fine, but the foam tips are a bit gross. Yeah. I mean, all of the ones that I have are basically like the silicon rubber ones.

Yeah, I use, like these are silicon as well, but I just wanted to try out foam tips. And they're okay, I guess. Yeah. A lot of people say go with Beats, but when it comes to wireless headphones, Beats are not the best, even though they're the most expensive. Who says go with Beats? Apple fanboy. Oh, right. I forgot they're an Apple company, aren't they? Yeah, they're an Apple company, but...

I've never... Actually, no. I think I've used Beats once. And I was like, okay. But they're like on-e't they at least they were when i used them not over yeah they're basically over ears oh they are over ears okay yeah they're kind of like these ones for the most part i don't get the on ear thing those are weird i don't know sometimes for some people like having something sticking in their ear is irritating, so... Mm-hmm. Having something that they can hook around that way makes it so that they're not irritating their ear, but they're not having something big and clunky.

Mm-hmm. But, um, no, I think the part that is unacceptable are the people who get the, like, earphones that don't have, like, the tips on them. They're just, like, the plastic things that don't have the tips on them. They're just like the plastic things that just sit in your ear. Like the old AirPods used to be. Okay, yeah, those ones. Yeah, those are weird. I think basically no noise cancelling with them.

They just always fall out. I don't get it. Yeah, I don't know. See, these Skullcandy ones, they kind of have a habit of trying to fall out on me when i'm eating or talking too much so i've got to kind of be careful otherwise i'm tilting my head i think i might have enough actually wait do i have another pair of earphones around here maybe um i did but they're not there anymore. I just have another pair of these ones, because I'd lost a pair of these, and they showed up, like, under my couch,

like, a year later. Which is the nice thing about having cheap earphones, you just don't care. Yeah, I had a pair, I have a pair of earbuds that I use with my Switch most of the time. So when I'm, like, going to sleep, I'll put like one ear in and like YouTube. I know it's bad, but.

I've considered buying a Switch and I'm just like, I don't have time to play more games. I know. I've got like my Steam library set up with a category for backlog games. That it's like okay i have to work through some of my backlog i i don't know about you but i only play games while i'm on stream so yeah well that's where most of my play time is spent otherwise it's like spent like doing stuff in between streams so that i can be at a point to where i'm not like just mindlessly boringly grinding right on streams so i guess i don't play any games that are really grindy like that like i'm playing through bastion which is always story uh borderlands

pre-sequel which you can go and grind for if you want to grind for weapons but yeah it's fine. Um, Hades, which if you cut out the grind in Hades, you cut out the game and yeah. Um, Oh, I'm going to start playing doom soon as well. And okay. Yeah. I mean,

the only weird one where I've had like anything where I've been like grinding that people actually come and see is like pokemon oh yeah well yeah if you got what i don't know what it is if you cut out the grind in in like pokemon you cut out the game it's like what are you just gonna show the gym battles nothing else no but uh i don't know i'm gonna go back and play some more pokemon i miss pokemon yeah i mean there was a point where i kind of got sick of pokemon because like i was doing articles for like my cousin's site for reviews and stuff oh wow and

then like playing it on stream and so i had hours and hours of pokemon so i'm like so i had like what six months where I decompressed from like Pokemon. I mean, it hurt some things because I wasn't doing Pokemon because that's what everyone was used to. But like doing Morrowind at the same time kind of brought other people in. Yeah, yeah. I think the last Pokemon I played was black and white yeah yeah yeah i i i got basically to the point right before the e4 and then like the story diverted it's like you can't go see the e4 it's like i am so done with you. I don't even think I made it, like, the second gym.

I was like, I don't want to play this. Yeah, it's just, like, why? And then, like, so many of the features, like, from, like, Gen 3 to that, it's like, what? Hmm. I think the game I had the most fun in was probably SoulSilver. Yeah, I haven't really played that. I mean, I've played a ROM hack that implements some of that stuff into it for like Pokemon Crystal, but that's kind of about as close as I've gotten to like

later generation Pokemon and really getting into it is a ROM hack. Actually, no, besides that, Platinum. I did enjoy Platinum as well. I've heard a lot of good things about Platinum in Gen 4. Yeah, if you're going to play Gen 4, then don't even bother with Diamond and Pearl. Platinum is just the better experience. Because basically it takes everything that is the other two games. It's like the Emerald experience again.

It just takes the other two games and does it does it a bit better yeah i haven't really played through emerald to see the difference between that and like sapphire so i know ruby and sapphire have some weird things where like they change up the story in the maps based on which version it is yeah they have different like for those people sorry yeah for those people that were decompiling the roms we're really interested in that because it's like how did they do that because i know they well i know like the obvious difference is like they have um the different team that you're working with and yeah but i don't know maybe there's something interesting there yeah i know when it comes to like the different versions for

the game boy ones they basically have different tables set up but i haven't looked at it the decomp to see like how they did the difference between ruby and sapphire but it would be interesting to look at yeah there's a really a really dedicated community for pokemon rom hacks yeah just even i i've seen a couple of videos on um a couple of of the Nuzlockers who did a Nuzlock of Emerald Kaizo and then hated his life. Yeah, yeah. Anything with Kaizo like in it at all is just like, yeah, we ramped up the difficulty for you. Go have fun. I might just play one of the Ka the kaizo games just normally i've

never done a nuzlocke before so i might save that for like a regular pokemon game but i might play like emerald kaizo or something and see what it's actually like yeah i mean there are a few romhacks that are built like kaizo from the get-go so like what is it? Pokemon VEGA I believe is one. Clover is definitely another. And I think that's all about it off the top of my head. But then you also have some other ROM hacks where it's just like why did you even bother making this? Yeah, yeah. It's like this is just a meme or it's just like super lazy like why i think one that was interesting was um it seems lazy at like at the face of it but i think it's still an interesting concept. Basically, they took out the entire game and just made it the battle tower. Oh.

I think I've heard about that one, yeah. It's, like, some gold, I think. Mm. Or whatever. Yeah, I don't remember the name of it. It's come up a couple times. I think it's an interesting concept for sure yeah and then you get those that remove the battle tower

the battle tower missing was one of the things i didn't like about um sapphire and ruby okay yeah i know people criticized crystal clear for a little bit after Battle Tower got removed, but then it got replaced with, like, the Underground. So you can sit there and almost battle like it, but at the same time it's got, like, a lot more options to it and better prizes. Oh, that's actually one of the things that makes, um... I think it was Platinum really good? Platinum had the Battle Tower. Or was it... I think it was plat platinum really good platinum had the battle tower or is it

i think it's platinum yeah and what would make sense once you get to that point of the game it's fun i i don't know it's just fun doing those battles yeah someone's gonna roast me in the comments if it's not actually platinum and i was thinking of another gen 4 game but i think it was maybe it was heart gold and soul silver maybe that would make sense actually yeah because i know heart gold and soul silver i guess implemented a bunch of like features that crystal had so i think the reason that definitive edition with, like, different changes at the same time. I think one of the things I loved about those games were they were basically the only Pokemon games we could have, until, I guess, the new ones, we could have a Pokemon following you. Yeah. And you could have literally any Pokemon following you. You could have, like, Giratina alt form following you.

But it was only limited to the first Pokemon in your party. Yeah, sadly. Now have your entire party following you around. I'm sure that would go well on the DS. Yeah, I mean, there are RPG Maker fan games that do that, but RPG Maker.

RPG Maker, yeah. That's just all you need to say there. But it did slightly bother me that you could have any Pokemon following you and no one would question it. Like, you have Mewtwo following you. Nah, it's fine. You have, like, Lugia or Ho-Oh. Nah, nothing.

Yeah. Sadly. you have like yeah lugia or holo not nothing yeah sadly that it would be cool if sometimes there would be like npcs who did say something different like what what why is this here what and then there was no like follower interaction with like the area you were in uh it's like okay what do you mean huh what do you mean as in like talk to your pokemon and like some like little special like little dialogue thing pops up for like maybe being at pokemon tower or whatever so oh yeah well those basically all they did was occasionally would pick up items and that was basically it it's an item grabber, okay. Yeah. And I think, obviously, then

if you had, like, a Linoon or some other Pokemon that had a special pickup, it would do something different with the pickup or something. I haven't played it much, so... It's been a long time since I have played it, so I could be getting the details a little bit wrong.

It's been a long time since I have played it, so I could be getting the details a little bit wrong. I'll be back in just a sec. Okay. So, this is my phone. Ah, I locked the screen. Majora, you know, clock, that kind of thing. You can get it. It's really cool. Just get the Majora Clock, it's really good that way. I can't take control of this- wait. Quake 2 guys.

Nintendo 64. I was gonna cut that- Don't worry I was just showing- If you're gonna entertain people, that's fine. See? Look, Quake 2. Oh, nice! See, the really weird thing about the version for the Nintendo 64 is, like, the various different control schemes that it has.

Mm-hmm. How would that be? So, like, it's got, like... That'd be funky with it yeah the default well the one that it was selected for it was like using d-pad for move and joystick for look

but other than that like I found like even down at the lowest sensitivity it was still like super sensitive for it it's like uh then anything else played like you're playing doom on the nintendo 64 basically right okay that would be okay i guess maybe they did use z button for shoot and the weird d-pad one though hmm i never owned an n64 i yeah i've played it at other people's houses but the ps2 was my first console yeah i had one nintendo 64 a jungle green

one that i tried i did a half portable with yeah I post pictures of it and everybody's like that poor jungle green Nintendo 64 but I've got another jungle green one so I basically got like luck of the draw having two of them those are the really expensive ones but all it is

right now is a Nintendo 64 with the controller built in. Why? I was on a couple portable-izing forums and I didn't have, like, all the materials I needed to, like, build a portable so I did the best that I could. And, like, when I brought it to school

to show it off everybody's like wow i mean that it's one of those things where it's like everybody looks at you like a god when you bring certain things in and it's kind of one of those things that people don't quite understand somewhat in some other places so you kind of have to like tone everything down when people are like bumping you up that way what a what a weird what a weird project there there's some i did not even know those portabilizing forums that existed that's it that's's a new thing to me. Let's see.

World's smallest Nintendo 64 portable. Let's hit enter. So this is kind of a more recent one that someone's done. So the Nintendo 64 can actually be trimmed down pretty tiny, but the Wii can be trimmed down way smaller. Okay, we'll bring it up on the screen. Um... Video view, showing your face, switch over... There we go. Yay! God, I don't know- I really wish OBS would stop doing that. That would be lovely. I don't know why it's having issues on me. Wow! Okay.

That's- what? That's insane, how smart did you get? Oh, no, no. Weep portable, what was it? It's insane. Oh, no, no. Wii Portable. What was it? It's the... Anyone watching the... Anyone listening to the audio version, this is basically an N64

the size of an... basically an N64 cartridge. Let me see if I can get an image of like the Wii. Because you can get the Wii motherboard trimmed down pretty small like the size of your palm and it'll still work.

What does the rest of the motherboard do then? It's most of its traces, but when you're only using that portion of it, you're basically cutting out the WiFi and I think Bluetooth from it for the most part. Huh. But yeah. So, and then the other parts of it, you're basically soldering directly in all the other traces for like the controller and stuff. Right, okay.

Right, okay. And then they've got, like, programs and hacks that you can use to use the GameCube controls as if you had a Wiimote connected so it would move the cursor around rather than having to rely on a Wiimote externally. That is awesome. There's even one, oh, interface for using touch screen with the Wii called Touch Me. Coaster is! Oh, there is some really awesome stuff out there. That's crazy there's a reason I still have

like a Gamecube or two that's kind of torn apart in my box of treasures yeah that's just cool I wouldn't even have any idea where to start with that that's just not the skill set I, but I can definitely respect people who do have that knowledge. Yeah. When I stumbled upon this, it was kind of really cool.

I learned a lot from it about electronics, and it's kind of actually one of the reasons that I worked on my electronics badge in Scouts. So it kind of helped me... made it easier to do that in quick, short order. Mhm. So... and then it also makes like some other stuff easier, because it's like I know a bit better what I'm doing, rather than like going blind into like re-soldering my like Game Boy batteries. Yeah, that's not a good idea to do that blind.

Yeah. I mean it's a pretty simple job but it's still good to kind of have that base ground to work from. Well it's not like there's a, uh, just an undo button, so. And yeah, if you fry your board it's kind of done yeah yeah with these trimming things

they recommend that you do have like a backup board or something else in case you do fry it or just to learn off of so speaking of uh of old games um the first Pokemon title I got was Fire Red, and I bought it second-hand. And I should not have... Looking back on that, that was probably a really, really expensive save file that was on there, because it had, like, it had a Mew,

it had... It had some... I think it had a Celebi on there as well it's like oh god the thing you'd have to look out for is whether it was an event Mew or whatnot because there are some things you can look for I don't remember anything about them being

legitimate event Pokemon or not but if they were that's not something that should have been reset yeah i know i my japanese cartridges i was kind of scoping scraping through the um saves and one of them had a mu in it and i'm sitting there like okay this is one of two things because it it was Pokemon, which one was it? I think it was the blue. No, it was Pokemon Green that had the Mew in it. So either A, it's an event, one that they got from like an event in Japan, or they glitched it in.

So I went and double checked and I'm like okay none of the like event stuff checks out so i can get away with erasing this so that there were a couple of those so it's like i don't quite want to get rid of that just yet until like i can back up the save yeah yeah yeah i was just a kid though i didn't know anything about what was on there i was like oh it's level 100 pokemon they've already finished the game but yeah yeah there was about what was on there. I was like, oh, it's all level 100 Pokemon. They've already finished the game. But, yeah. There was definitely a Mew on there. Yeah, luckily nowadays there are places you can check to reference to see if it's that expensive or not.

Because we just picked it up at like just some random second-hand store. Oh, yeah, it's Pokemon. Yeah, my first Pokemon cartridge was actually pokemon blue second hand so it's also kind of one of the reasons why i'm like more biased towards gen one and two but yeah once i figured found out that there were glitches on that thing there was hardly any save went without a duplication master ball was always saved for like once i hit cinnabar island i've never actually gone back and finished a gen 1 title um i've played them and then i'm like wow there's no running this is really annoying so if you pick up one of the more recent rom hacks that yeah they do add running to it so it's pretty standard like running is like a

if it doesn't have you don't add running to it it's not a rom hack at this point it's just needlessly slow without running. Yeah. What was it? Red Star, Blue Star adds running, but it's basically rudimentary double speed. So you can have double speed on your bike as well. Oh, God. Yeah, it was pretty fun when I figured that out.

But yeah, Gen 1 is pretty easy and quick to go through. All you do is you pick up a male Nidoran and you basically go and grind up to Nidoking from there. Once you do that, you just like, Nidoking is the end all be all of like, you're getting stomped whether you like it or not. Because Gen 1 didn't make a distinction between special and regular attack did it not really it was based on the typing so like certain attacks were a special attack other attacks were physical so you it was kind of based on that so ghost type were a physical attack for example right weirdly enough yeah and then psychic would be like a special water special fighting oh physical and i like that

yeah they didn't do the physical special split until i think it was gen 4 gen 5 so uh no i think gen 3 had it no it didn't didn't it no it didn't okay maybe i'm just remembering it wrong yeah their rom hacks have implemented those so okay but did gen 1 also just had some weird problems just all around the place like a hundred percent act or 100 actually was not a% accuracy, because of the way that, uh, Yeah. numbers were calculated. There was always just this- Yeah, you had the 1 in 256 glitch thing.

Mm-hmm. But then if you, like, tossed on an X accuracy onto your Pokemon, it basically got rid of it. Yeah. But, um, I know about that one, because there's some ways you can softlock your game involving that.

Yeah. But basically, you would have to defeat... I think it's like you'd have to defeat a trainer, but you could only... Oh, no, you have to... I don't remember the exact way it worked. There's some stupidly complicated softlocks that you can do involving that nonsense. Yeah. stupidly complicated soft locks that you can do involving that nonsense. Also, there was, like, the AI in the first gen was fairly basic as well. It was pretty much just typing.

So that would always go super effective. Yeah, so, like, you could get that recovery soft lock? Yeah, that's a soft lock I have seen, yeah. Whereas, like, you basically just give yourself nothing but, um, yeah so you basically just give yourself nothing but like

leer and things like that basically stat reduction moves and then you're stuck in a recovery lock yeah yeah it had some really dumb things but there were some really cool things with it too I think the best one was always

like that east side of cinnabar island it's like oh yeah i went to the safari zone then i came back i should go back and play them i definitely should i was at one point playing through crystal uh i just gave up on that though because I just had other things to do, but it was... What I played was good. Yeah. I mean, things happen. I think I had an emulator on my phone, and just...

I was playing it on the bus to uni, and just after a while, I stopped doing that. But I'll go back at some point. Maybe I'll get another drive stick like um retroarch or something on there yeah retroarch does really really well so if you put it on your phone and you connect a controller to it it'll actually for the most part recognize the controller and have a mapping for it that's cool so yeah that

was one of the things that also bothered me when i did do emulation stuff in the past playing pokemon on a keyboard just doesn't feel right yeah i there was a point where i was playing minish cap and i had basically beat the whole thing but i had beat it on an emulator playing it on keyboard so like i could this like an xbox control is probably the minimal i could accept it'd probably be better if i went and bought like a snes controller or something but this would be playable at this point yeah Yeah. I do have a couple USB SNES controllers. Other than that, for the most part, I use, like, my Steam controller. Oh, you have one of those?

Yeah. Um, the Steam controller app that I've been using for, like, mapping it has been kinda weird. But I can still map, like, stuff for, like, like my snes controllers and for the 8-bit doan 30 plus and all that too as well so how is the same controller i've never used one myself it's really it's it's nice it's sad that it didn't pick up because of the touchpads and the way it worked i don't know if you've been into the Steam API to look at that. Not really, no. So you can do menus, whether it be radial or what all. Or you can use it as a trackball

mouse. So for first person shooters you can have that trackball accuracy, or mouse-like accuracy without having to fight with a joystick. That's kind of cool. And then it's got the gyro on top of it as well. Are they still being sold, or have they just discontinued them? No, they kind of gave up on it. They basically sold off the rest of their stock of Steam controllers for five bucks or so less a pop,

and then that was it, because it just didn't take off too bad but now people are like oh steam controller what was it i walked into a game store and they literally had a steam controller there for like 70 or so bucks i'm like those things sold for 50 bucks they're now retro i got yeah i got mine like the christmas after they released and it's like why why now because they added what is it so if you've got a game that only does like controller inputs they've got that mouse like joystick thing that basically emulates the joystick but it kind of does like a weird mouse thing. So you can sit there like you're rolling a trackball mouse and it acts like it

but it's receiving joystick inputs. That's cool. Maybe Valve will eventually bring them back or I don't see anything but Maybe. They've got something else up their sleeve. Yeah, I don't know what Valve's doing, to be honest.

They just do whatever they want. It's like, ah, everyone loves us. That's the problem. Yeah, Valve literally just... I don't know how it's still at the point where everyone still loves Valve after all of the things they've done. Valve's just great. Valve's perfect. after all of the things they've done.

It's not Valve. Valve's just great. Valve's perfect. I mean, they've done some questionable things, but they've also been kind of the best when it comes to their game library. Yeah. I guess that's the reason why everyone still loves them. It's just like, they're still the best choice

if you want to do any gaming on PC. Yeah. I mean, some people have brought up, like, well, Valve is implementing these Chinese things. It's like, well, at the same time, are they forcing that Chinese stuff on you? Mm-hmm. So it's like, it's kind of one of those things

that they do to operate within China, but they're not doing it to you. Mm. I mean, it would be preferred that they left it open, honestly, for everyone, including those in China. But if they want to keep the user base, okay. But they've kind of separated between the clients for China and everywhere else, for the most part.

Yeah, it's not the worst thing that could be done, I guess. Could it be better? Could be, yeah. Could China not be horrible? Yeah, they could do the thing like GOG does, where it's not DRM, and we don't need the Steam client to install. That would be nice. That would be, wouldn't it? Gaben, please? Yeah, it's not gonna happen um i've never actually bought anything from

from gog i've got too big a library on there let's find out let's find something i want to i want to buy it's definitely expanded the library since i last looked at it because when i first looked at yeah that yeah it was just there's hardly anything wait stardew valley has a multiplayer yeah that's news to me 221 games on GOG. Oh, wow. A lot of them are DOS games, too, though, or older games that way. Yeah, that's what it was originally all about, wasn't it? Yeah. They basically rebranded it.

It's like, good old games, and then they kind of like... Yeah, we're doing indie stuff, too, and all that, and our own thing, too, as well. And then also Cyberpunk, but... Yeah. It's like, oh, we're doing indie stuff too and all that, and our own thing too as well. And then also Cyberpunk, but... Yeah. It's like, oh, we're just anything now, we're just a game store. Well, I mean, they did make Cyberpunk.

Oh, right, of course it is, yeah. That is their game, yeah. I completely forgot about that. I forgot the company that was behind it. That, yeah, ignore me. I have no idea what I'm talking about apparently. Okay, well, yeah. I don't know, it, it, maybe I should buy some more stuff from there, but I like Steam sales. Yeah. Steam sales are nice.

Well, I mean, I prefer GOG because one, no DRM, and two, no taxes charged. All right. Right. Like, okay, it's that much. I know I'm paying that much. Cool. Right. I've got the, it's a weird situation in the US.

Because here we have like anything that's sold in Australia,ia the gst is automatically added onto the price like the price that it shows is the price plus gst yeah what was it here in the state of utah i think it was last year um the governor had basically barely had talked with oh amazon about automatically taking out taxes so people don't have to think about it it's like look at how much more money we were how much money we were losing and now we're getting it back into the government it's like maybe people bought off of amazon for a reason yeah there's a lot of um a lot of sites that recently have actually added GST for Australian purchases. Like, when I bought stuff from, like, AmiAmi, when I was buying any anime figures, for the longest time, they didn't have GST on there, so everything was just way cheaper.

And there's some bookstores that I was buying from that didn't have GST on them, and now all of them have GST on them. Like, ugh, really? Yeah, I don't think GOG is big enough to where it matters but you know i think they went after amazon because it was so big and it's like hey come on yeah amazon's not gonna get away with doing something like that they'll get away with doing something like that. They'll get away with other things, but not ignoring that part of their taxes. Yeah. They'll just write... It kind of...

It slightly does bother me when people say things like, oh, Amazon's horrible because they don't pay any taxes. Like, they do their taxes correctly. They just write off literally everything. Yeah, yeah. See, and that's the thing the thing usually most of the time when people are arguing taxes they're coming from a point to where they're paying like one kind of tax and they aren't dealing in the other kind of tax or they don't have it or they have a tax

accountant but the tax accountant doesn't explain anything to them they just kind of do their taxes and go yeah yeah so because like if amazon wasn't paying their taxes properly they would be getting audited like you're not going to just let a company like that just get away with not paying their taxes but the reason why they can afford to basically replace all of their staff with robots is because they just write it off on their taxes well and i think yeah that's kind of the for the most part because i know depending on your arrangement too you can get a business account with some places and they won't put that tax on top of it because it's like oh depending on your state or what all um they don't charge taxes for a

business that's buying business material right they kind of charge taxes on sales tax itself yeah australia doesn't care it's just gst everyone pays it yeah it makes it much easier but yeah i mean at the end of the day if you do pay sales tax on a business expense then you do get it back so it's also a good way to like stay under like some of the tax brackets it's like making a bunch of business purchases yeah yeah i i don't make as many enough where i can i can do that but i definitely... That is definitely tempting. There's a couple of purchases I've made this tax year. I've got the new mic coming.

I've got the soundboard. I've got the camera. I bought a new monitor. I've got some new lights. Yeah, there's other Hawaiian shirts. There's a lot of things I could write off on taxes this year. Yeah, and then with streaming, it's other Hawaiian shirts. There's a lot of things I could write off on taxes this year. Yeah, and then like with streaming, it's like games. I had to buy the game to figure out if I wanted to play it on stream.

So I had to try it out. If I want to have something in my background, maybe I could put some anime figures back there. Sadly, I don't really pay that much in taxes. Not sadly, don't really pay that much in taxes where not sadly i don't pay that much in taxes how do i pay that much where it's gonna be that much of a deal yeah i did have an 800 bill last year but ignoring that yeah because um i just didn't pay i didn't pay any tax on the business income that entire year so i did it at the end that's why yeah yeah i got it some people do that i know depending on

the person they'll like save it up and do it quarterly otherwise yeah they do it one lump sum at the end of the year yeah i might do it differently with this tax round, I guess. But we don't do our... Our end of the financial year is in July. So I've got a while to deal with that. We've got a weird fiscal year. Yeah, I don't know why it's in July. Because what is it in the US?

Like... So... It's not different by state, is it? It's like March in the u.s like so it's like it's not by state it's like march in the u.s okay but at the same time we're only counting the taxes in the calendar year right so like tax season happens in like march april right but that's filing taxes for like everything you spent in the calendar or the year of the previous year right okay huh which is kind of weird no i guess that makes sense because we do it um when it's july then you do it for from the previous july to the like the date you're on now. That's how that works. Well, the government fiscal year kind of starts in, like, March, April.

Right. And I guess that would be why is they can check their stuff for those people that file early and then have that all in before, like, they start up another cycle. I've noticed that here we've been sort of taking in a lot of the um like the american like sales so we've got black friday here now it's only recently started here cyber monday it's nice i i kind of enjoyed it like two years ago because that was sort of the first year it happened and i went and bought a new tv then the sales rep didn't even know what the sale was called

he was like friday black or something i don't know hurrah for depression commemoration but um yeah now it's slowly turning into like us black friday like there's people waiting at the door when the store opens there's fucking stampedes going through so i've switched to doing it online now so i'm yeah i mean a lot of online places move to doing it i know especially in china they've been doing that for a while so it's just it's i think it's mostly due to the internet that everybody does the black friday stuff well if the u.s is going to be doing it then people are just going to buy from the u.s anyway so you sort of have to lower your prices to compete with them yeah yeah but i i enjoy that i don't want i'm really sick of australians trying to bring in halloween

i don't want it to happen you guys can keep it we don't need it you don't like kids knocking on your door asking for candy no no i don't i think it's like 10 of people celebrate halloween here it's always weird when people do it yeah like i remember in um in high school if you celebrated halloween here it's always weird when people do it yeah like i remember in um in high school if you celebrated halloween you'd be bullied that was fun i miss those days all good silence again lovely okay uh what are we at we're at geez we're at two hours and 20 minutes um i guess we can start to wrap it up then because it's getting to lunchtime here and i want to go

eat something uh so let's usually at the end of the podcast i'll just say uh let's let's shout shout out a channel you've been watching um so have you heard of seth scene tach no he does a bunch of gaming review videos uh how do you spell that name s-s-e-t-h t-z-e-e-n-t-A-C-H. Okay, yep, it showed up. Yeah, I would not have even remotely guessed that. I'm just guessing this is the one? Yep. Yeah, okay, cool. Fix that. Cool, okay, cool. Uh, and fix that.

Cool. Okay, now, why should- Yeah, he does a bunch of weird gaming review videos. Yeah, they are, they look it, for sure. He has a bit shoot for a reason.

Ah, okay. Okay. Oh, lord. Okay, yeah, I'll reason uh okay oh lord okay yeah i'll i'll check this out i guess i'm just looking at these thumbnails and i don't know what to even say here yeah these are these are amazing yeah it's mostly been like background noise and i've been doing other stuff i'll check it out for sure um as for me uh there is a really really good channel that does um these animated skip videos uh i think i've mentioned it on the Discord before. Sorry, this one. Here you go. The channel called Joel Haver.

Yeah, he mainly does his weekly animated shorts as well as some other weird shorts as well. But he's got this series he's been doing about just when you play it like just playing an rpg and not having any any idea about the story so the first one in the series was um this dude was very excited to play the rp play the game was like adventure awaits and like he goes and kills everything in his way. There's a rat on the ground. He kills the rat.

There's a goblin-looking dude. He kills the goblin. When he gets to the first town, he finds out that the rat was actually the town's mascot, and the goblin-looking guy was actually the mayor's kid. And he gets real depressed that he's ruined his experience in this game. That's basically the definitive.

I just mashed A through all the dialogue play. Well, I recommend checking this channel out. I love skit comedy, and, yeah, he's got some of the weird ones as well where... Yeah, just... I can see that. One of the ones that got really popular was tailing NPCs... Tailing missions from the NPC's perspective. And the dude just crashes into the wall, and the NPC's like,

What was that? And just keep going with their day. Yeah. I think I've seen one or two of those type videos pop up in my recommended stuff. He's had some of them go very, very viral, so it's very possible. Okay. Besides that, where can people find you?'m on twit youtube bit shoot i do have a library channel um i do have my peer tube instance as well and then i there's pleroma got my website that i'm still working on um oh also d live africa tv

there's like a fat list of stuff that i've set up or trovo.live okay sure i should get a uh d live account set up and just restream to it that'd be just yeah i i've been using restream for that they like you do like a freak of tv, DLive, Twitch, YouTube all for free. Yeah, I thought it was paid to do it. No, it's just like Facebook and custom RTMP that's paid. Yeah. Actually, if you wanted to stream to PeerTube, you would have to pay for it because it wouldn't be on there yet. You would have to go get the custom RTMP. have to pay for it because it wouldn't be on there yet you would have to go get the custom rtmp yeah i i've kind of looked at stuff there is like a couple projects that i've seen that does

restreaming so like satyr is like a live streaming one that mirrors to twitch i kind of whispered that to donald because i know he's working on his own restream undercutting thing. So it does do the chat unification as well between Seder and Twitch. And it does IRC and a couple other things too. Oh, nice. I'm like, there's this cool thing here. So it looks pretty simple to add other stuff too. So I'm looking at that.

Hopefully Peertube gets a plugin that does restreaming soon as well. Yeah, that would be nice. I should look at peer tube more like i'm happy where i am but maybe i'll add peer tube to my list of things yeah so as for me though oh do you got something else you want to say i was gonna do my outro no i i think i've given like a good portion of my comprehensive list off okay there'll be links to all of them down below just send them on discord or something any of any of the ones you think are important and i'll include them uh that all yeah cool uh as for me if you want to check out my main channel, that is just Brodie Robertson, available on Library,

Odyssey, and BitChute. If you're listening to the audio version of this right here, you're listening to the audio version of this right here, it's available basically, no, if you're listening to the audio version, the video version, yeah, that's how this works. The video version is on Odyssey, Library, and YouTube,

and the, for the video guys, the audio version is available basically anywhere. Also, I'd like to thank my supporters, so a special thank you to Chris, Joachim, Donald, Michael, Andrew, Nathan, David, Monsar, Will, Brennan, Chico, Bento, Jamie, Joseph, Mitchell, Peter, Tony, Tushar, and all the $2 supporters.

Nephite is one of them over on Subscribestar. The one person on Subscribestar. Get on Subscribestar. I'm there too i should include i keep saying i include a link to it and it's not actually in my description i should do that um that's a complaint i've seen so yeah i should do that also libra pay um besides that i don't have anything else to say give us give us an outro everybody have a good one all right then that'll work easy enough talk to you guys later