Tech Over Tea - #63 Finally Have Some Free Time For Gaming | Solo

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening, and welcome to episode 63 of Tech of a T. Yeah, 63? Yeah, it is 63, because I did actually have, um... So, okay. So I was planning to not do a solo episode today. My plan originally was to have a guest on, and that guest was going to be the same guy I have on every seven episodes. Super Cosman, Conno, good mate of mine. Now, we had everything planned out to do today, I don't know what time we would have done it, probably around like I don't know, 11, because that's the normal time

we typically do the podcast we had that all planned out, and then he remembered that he was actually busy today, and that's fine he was only free on Saturday, now, for me, I'm usually not busy on Saturday, so I was like, okay, yeah Saturday might work, and I realised that I actually am busy this Saturday because one of my mates is

back in town for the first time in a couple of weeks. And we're going to play some golf all day. And I like golf. Anyway, so we don't have a guest on today. That's going to be the 64th episode. And I guess we'll continue it on from there from like 7 onwards I don't know, I'll work that part out in the future, all I can say now is next week's episode is the episode that is going to have a guest on it, there will probably be some other

guests that I arrange at some point but the nice thing about having these solo episodes like this is I can talk about really anything that I want and I don't have to deal with the fact that you know someone I have on may not have anything to actually say about what I'm trying to talk about so I could talk about things like say the new headphones I bought and even though like whoever I'm talking to really wouldn't be able to give any input on these

specific headphones I can still talk about these in a way that would actually like, you know, keep a conversation going. I feel like, I think I've talked about this before, actually, when you have a guest on a podcast or any sort of discussion like that, even in like a real life discussion, if you're trying to talk to someone and that person isn't, I guess, I guess holding their weight in the conversation. They're basically just, you know, listening to what you're saying and then when the topic ends, they don't really have anything to say after that.

When you talk to someone like that, it's very difficult to keep a conversation going. But when you know you're talking to a brick wall, in this case, a camera, I find it much easier to keep the conversation going. Like, when there's no one here, it's easier than talking to someone who has no input. I don't know why. It's like a weird, there's probably like some neurological, social nonsense answer for why that is the case. And I don't particularly care. If someone knows, do let me know. I don't really care though,

particularly care, if someone knows, do let me know, I don't really care though, so I'm not going to look it up myself, but if someone else happens to care, I will happily take their input, but yeah, I was saying about these headphones, so I mentioned these in the live stream I did earlier today, I was going to get a package at some point, it said between 10.15 and 12.15. Now, this was literally the time that I was doing the podcast, or the, the, uh, the live stream, sorry. So, by the time I walked outside, this was, uh, sitting in a box on my doorstep. So, if you're curious what they are, they are the Samson SR850s. Now, there's a very good reason I bought these headphones. Firstly, I wanted a pair of reference headphones. So, these... These are reference headphones.

That's... Checkbox 1, that's ticked. They also open back headphones. So, you get, like, a, you know, nonsense... Bigger soundstage, whatever the audiophiles like to talk about. They sound really good. I don't understand, like, the technical reasons for why they sound good, all I know is these sound really good, um, yes, anyway, so these specific headphones, if we look at the SR, the SR850s, I believe there's a couple of,

um, fairly, fairly reputable tech, uh, journals have labeled them as the best headphones under $50. Now, that's under $50 US. I was going to say Australia. If they're under $50 Australian, they'd probably be absolute garbage, because then it'd be like $20 US. But best headphones under $50. Best headphones under $50. And they definitely sound really good for $50 headphones in the US. So I paid $80 for these because the Australian dollar is absolute garbage. Now, I've never actually owned a pair of good... like these aren't good if we're talking about like the how high you can go up in the high end of audio gear but they're still like the

first good pair of headphones I've actually bought. Like prior to this the only headphones I've ever bought were, like, Turtle Beaches, I bought, like, um, some other random gaming headsets, basically, the only headphones I've ever owned are gaming headsets, I've never actually owned, like, a pair of just dedicated headphones, and you know what, when you get away, or when you get rid of the, um, the microphone you just put all the build cost into just the headphones, you can get really good sounding headphones for really cheap. So I didn't expect them to show up this quickly. I think I ordered them like on the weekend maybe.

So the fact that they're here now, honestly, I don't know what Australian Post was doing, but they actually did their job well for once, uh, I was testing these out earlier, I got them just after the stream, and while they're not described as like, you know, bass head headphones or anything like that, they do sound, like the, the bass sounds really crisp with these, I'm not a big fan of like the, I guess, you know, like, the, the Beats style of bass, I've used Beats before, never owned a pair, and it's like, like, smashing into your eardrums, this sounds like how the music is supposed to sound, um, and I, I'm liking them so far, now, I've only tried them out for a couple of hours, so I can't really talk about like the longevity of them or anything like that, but they do have some nice creature comforts that

certainly gonna make them more comfortable. So the previous headphones I've owned have all had like the fake leather ear cups. Now, there's two problems with fake leather ear cups. Firstly, fake leather ear cups are very, very prone to damage. So if you leave them anywhere that's like really hot and that you get them slightly wet and they sit there for a while, they tend to sort of, they tend to fall apart very quickly. And that's the exact sort of environment you have when you wear these headphones or when you wear any sort of headphones in summer in Australia.

Because you're going to have a lot of sweat there, especially if you don't have, like, a fan on or anything like that actually cooling you down. So these don't have that fake leather earpad. They have a velour earpad. And the other problem with the fake leather is when it starts to damage, it starts to get, like, get like really i guess gets like sharp edges like i don't know if i can't really show you my seat if i point the camera down like i yeah i can't i don't think i can point the camera down low enough anyway my uh my arm rest of my

chair has the same sort i don't know if it's fake leather or actual leather but it's starting to peel and when any sort of like leathery substance does that it starts getting sharpish edges and having sharpish edges around your ear cup or around the your ear around the ear cup around the ear cup of the headphones around your ear it starts to make them really uncomfortable after long sessions like wearing them for more than an hour or two, especially if you slightly jolt them around, ends up being really, really uncomfortable. So, this doesn't have that problem. I presume there's going to be some issue down the long run with the velour. But I don't know.

Apparently, they're better. They may be an issue in summer. I don't know. Right now, we're going into autumn and winter in Australia. So, we're in autumn. We're going into winter, whenever winter starts. So, it's fine for now. But we'll see how they go in the future.

Also, I've already tried headphones before that have like a plastic band at the top. And because they have a plastic band, they usually have some sort of padding. Now, this one doesn't. So, this one just has like a plastic band at the top and because they have a plastic band they usually have some sort of padding now this one doesn't so this one just has like a I think it's I don't know if it's like actual leather or like fake leather it just has like a strap around the top so it like sits on your head and there's a metal bar over the top to like readjust it oh that's another thing the way that this readjusts is also really fancy as well. It's not that fancy. It just seems fancy in my head. So, the other headphones I've had,

you've had to manually readjust. But with these ones, they're never actually locked in place. So, they'll always have these little springy mechanism here. And whenever you actually put them on your head, they will actually just readjust themselves. Now, in my case, they actually just stay at the smallest size because I have a fairly small head. But if you have a really big head, they will sort of just stretch into where they actually need to sit, which is really, really nice.

Now, obviously, being cheap headphones are areas where there is some obvious parts that were cheaped out on like around the um the joints for like the the ear cups like this is all plastic here there's no removable cable so down the line that might be an issue um obviously these ones aren't because there is only like a fully attached cable. They're not wireless headphones. I didn't want wireless. If I wanted wireless headphones, I could have got the, I think they're the SR950, if I'm not mistaken.

Um, give me one second. I'm pretty sure they're 9, they're the 950s. No, no, 950s are the closed50s. No, 950s is a closed back one. I know Samsung does have a open back wireless headphone. I'm not sure what one it was.

But the reason I didn't go with the wireless headphone, or any sort of wireless headphones, because there are some pretty good reference wireless headphones now. Mainly because Bluetooth is kind of trashy on Linux. Like it's pretty bad on everything, but Linux especially, it has quite some issues. And the other problem with wireless headphones is I would be prone to forgetting to charge them,

so that would be a problem, and if I needed to use them for like a gaming stream or something, I want to know that if I plug these in, they're just going to work, uh, I guess a lot of wireless headphones, if you can plug them in and use them while like they're being charged, that's sort of the purpose of having wireless headphones, if you're charging them while they're being charged. But that sort of defeats the purpose of having wireless headphones if you're charging them while you're using them. But this doesn't have that problem, being the fact that they are fully wired. Now, I've just got the little 3.5mm jack here. But it does come with a quarter-inch adapter plugged into it. So I can actually plug it into my...

Wait, can you see it, I don't know, no, oh, yes, there you go, so I can plug it into, like, there's a monitor section on my soundboard, so I could do that, I was trying to get it working earlier, I couldn't, I couldn't work out how to get the audio to route through that. I'm probably just doing something really obviously dumb. Maybe it's the fact that on Linux you don't actually have access to the

Yamaha drivers. That could very well be the case. Jesus Christ, this is squeaky. I've definitely considered replacing this arm. Like, it's a good arm it's a perfectly good arm if you're never going to move the mic but

it I guess I could fix that problem with WD-40 but there's other things like the the way it sort of handles adjustment that isn't the best and that could be addressed by getting not like a obviously a super expensive arm that's dumb but there are good slightly more expensive arms that would work and i wouldn't get

rid of this because these are really good for just attaching other things to as well like if you need to attach a like a light to it that's actually what i'm using for the light that's yeah there you go the light that's right in front of my face i guess off to the for the light that's, yeah, there you go, the, the light that's right in front of my face, I guess, off to the side, the one that's, the one that's close to in front of my face, that's, that's actually, uh, what I'm using for that, I've considered, hmm, I haven't considered actually moving that light, though, but that's a whole nother story, yeah, where was I going, right, arm, speaking of arms, not speaking of arms, speaking of mics, I also want to replace the wind guard.

Let's see how the mic normally looks. I actually haven't run it like this before to see how it would actually go, but I've considered actually replacing the wind guard because this is the one I had on my Blue Yeti, and it fits basically perfectly. There's a little bit of an overlap. It's slightly longer than it should be, but besides that, it works.

It works and does the job basically as well as I could ever want it to. But, I've considered getting a different coloured one, because right now, my setup is getting My setup is very very black like my chair is black my shirts usually black obviously my hair is black and all of this gear

Is as well. I Kind of want to add some like more color but the nice thing about having all of my gear being like this very very neutral color like this is I don't have to worry about any weird with see I have to worry about any weird with i don't have to worry about synergy or anything with colors i all of this stuff like just fits in with any other color scheme like if i was to go and say get like uh actually let's go to ebay and see what we can find it's been a while since we've done a um an ebay an ebay shop live on uh live on the podcast, hasn't it? I think the last time we did it

I was looking for lights or something. Blue Yeti Wind... Windguard? No, Windguard is a slightly different thing. Pop Filter. Yeah, Pop Filter is's gonna do it, here we go, okay, technically, that's not a pop filter, but sure, whatever, um, that, this, this is a pop filter, but there, those are black ones Let's see if we can find... Colour.

I know that you can get coloured ones. The question is whether I'm going to be able to find them when I actually... When I'm trying to look for them. The answer is no. The answer is no, I'm not going to be able to find them when I'm looking for them. I did actually buy a replacement windscreen for this. I bought one that was too small. Okay, so the one I bought was for a...

It was for, like, a small handheld microphone. There's, like, a standard size, like, if you care about microphone sizing. I can't remember what the sizing was, though. And I bought the wrong one. Whereas what I was supposed to get was the sort of one that fits on something the size of Blue Yeti, so that one's still sitting in my drawer, just in case I ever need to use it, which I probably won't, um, I've also considered getting rid of this altogether, and actually replacing it with, like, just, just a pop filter, to see if there's,'s like much of a sound difference. I haven't actually um, I haven't really experimented with like the you know The wind guard on the wind guard off and then like with a pop filter without a pop filter what actually sounds

the clearest I presume that I Presume a pop filter would sound Better because having something like this on obviously is going to muffle a lot of the noise and might muffle more of the noise than i'd really want to i don't know how it's going to sound so i'm going to put it back on because i know how it sounds and i don't want to go and like stop the recording and check it out so i will probably check this section afterwards or something i don't know but i want to I want to experiment with more stuff like that, I'm not going to spend $20 on a pop filter, you can get ones that are much cheaper than that,

okay, maybe we can't right now, because some of them are going to be considerably more expensive, I don't want to pay $30 for it, god, god knows, and I love, okay, so here's something I, I love, I, I, I recognize straight away when someone has this exact same microphone arm as me. And when someone is just as cheap as I am. So there is so many YouTubers who have like, you know, hundreds of thousands of subs. Who I know have this exact same arm. They may not have bought it on eBay. They may have paid more than they should have paid for it.

But you can get these on eBay for like $20. I know you can get them on Amazon for a bit more and usually whenever like any of these Chinese products show up on Amazon, there always will be like a bit of a markup. It's not always like that. Some things I have noticed are a little bit cheaper on Amazon, but usually I'll try to go with eBay for stuff like this. And, hmm. Wait, some, I'm sorry, someone's selling a replacement. Is that a, wait, that's not a pop, wait, what is this?

Oh, it actually is a pop filter. Oh, oh, it's just like That's a weird mounting mechanism. What the hell does that mount to? I have no idea. I think that's some like proprietary mounting mechanism because I don't know what that is Maybe that bolt in the center there is a standard microphone camera mount? But I don't know what these are here. Like, I have no idea. Like these are little thumb screws. Maybe it's like a locking mechanism. Actually, that could be it. So you screw it on here and then you have like a locking mechanism or something?

I don't know. Someone just messaged me on Discord. Why did someone message me on Discord? You know what? I'm going to check my Discord right now and it's going to be nothing that we care about. Let's see. I don't think you would have heard a notification. No, because I've got my Discord actually, my audio muted. So, should be fine. Actually, I also didn't have a Discord open, so it'd be fine anyway, now, why did someone ping me, I think it was Will that pinged me, oh, okay, well, I was, so, okay, I was talking about some, actually, takes us into one of the topics I want to talk about, so, it was about a thing i posted about snapchat in the discord

i was about how there's a lot of devs i know who do work uh making snapchat lenses who get paid exorbitant amounts of money because companies have no idea how little work it actually takes to make a snapchat lens so there's a program called Snap Studio. That is like the development environment you actually use to make a Snapchat lens. I used to do some stuff with it. My problem is that I don't really have that many ideas and not having ideas,

it makes it very difficult to do something creative because the development side is just piss easy. There are people on there who basically have one template of what they do and then just replace new assets in, and those are someone like the, um, the official Snapchat Lens creators, I think

oh no, I did have Jai on here before, um, Jai way back uh, way back early on um, is one at least he was at the time, I don't know if he still is Snapchat, Snapchat official lens creators, let's see if he's, I don't know if he still is, he, I presume he is,

let's see, oh yeah, most of these, like, most of these ones in here are just asset flips, so they'll, or not asset flips, asset replacements, so they'll have, like, one template they do, especially anyone who's, like, a 3D artist or animator, uh, anyone who's not a developer usually will just make one thing and then just replace the assets in there and, you know, people, people love it, because no one really, like, thinks about how much work it actually takes to make a lens. They just want something that's actually kind of cool. Is he still an official lens creator? They've got a lot of creators.

There he is. There is Ginny the Woo. He is a living meme, a VFX artist, and a programmer. Yes. Wait, why does it show two different pictures? I'm sorry. Okay. Explain this website to me Snapchat.

So he has a profile picture here. And then if you go onto his profile. The profile picture is different. Sure. Whatever. But yeah. What I was basically talking about in the Discord. Was that like Jai here make a lot of money from companies who don't know how much or how little work needs to be done. And that takes us into this right here.

Snap can be sued for fueling a fatal car crash with its speed filter. Now. That does sound bad. Like someone died in a car crash. Do you want to know why? Why this happened? So, here we go. Where is it?

The parents claimed many teenagers believed, and that Snap knew they believed, they'd get a secret achievement for hitting speeds of 100 miles per hour. So, this fatal car crash was caused by the fact that there were some dumb teenagers who thought that if they went 100 miles per hour, they would get an achievement on Snapchat. Now, obviously, very bad thing that people died. But I don't think Snapchat's in the wrong here. I don't think Snapchat's in the wrong

for people spreading a meme on the internet and then someone doing something absolutely insane with it. But I honestly didn't realise how many people still use Snapchat. Like, I don't really know anyone who still uses it. The only people I know who actually use it

are developers who make these lenses. I don't understand who still uses Snapchat. It baffles my mind that people use this server still. I've used Snapchat in the past before. As I said, I was a lens developer for a while. But I used it as just like a regular person. The thing that made me quit was when Snapchat introduced the Snap Map. The Snap Map was the absolute most insane form of

public tracking I've ever seen. So I'm going to show you what the Snap Map was. map was, uh, here we go, so snap map is a, is a feature that Snapchat had, or I guess still has, where it will show people who you're friends with where you're located, so that's fucking, no, that's... That was... It was such a dangerous feature, and I believe it was on by default as well. So if, say, you had... You know, maybe you had a stalker on... On your friends list.

They would know exactly where you were, assuming you had Snapchat installed. Obviously, within the... The... What's the word? the margin of error that GPS has, so within, like, a couple of meters, but they would know at least enough to say that you're not at home, for example, like, if, if it shows that you're, you know, in the next town over, you're obviously in the next town over, so someone would know you're not at home if they had you on, on Snapchat and you had this, this feature enabled.

That was when I stopped using it. But even before that point, I never, honestly, I never really got the point of like, hey, look, you can send a thing. And then it just gets deleted within a couple of seconds, except that there are ways to not delete stuff. Like you can, hey, you can't take screenshots, you know, unless you run Snapchat inside of a Android emulator, and you just take screenshots from your system like that,

so even though you can't take screenshots, or you can't record video, you can still, you could still always do it, it was such a, such a weird, weird way of marketing, and, you know, people still still people still use this service but the whole thing with the um messages get deleted like that just makes conversations difficult to have so there would be times where i would be talking to someone and they sent something i didn't see it for like a couple of hours i then replied at that point and they had no idea what the fuck i was talking about because they couldn't remember what it for like a couple of hours. I then replied at that point and they had no idea what the fuck I was talking about because they couldn't remember what they'd sent a couple of hours ago.

So it just made having a conversation way harder than it ever needed to be. It was perfectly fine if you wanted to do like the the like Instagram thing like hey look I'm out hanging with my friends. Oh that's cool you're out hanging with your friends. What a great night. That that was fun. If you wanted to just, like, you know, do the stories thing, stories sort of

make, that made sense to, to an extent, that made sense, and it makes, it makes about as much sense now that it's on things like YouTube and Instagram, but the whole, like, messaging, and the messages get deleted, it just, except they're not deleted because snapchat keeps records and you can save stuff easily um that part just baffled me even though like this isn't like oh i'm just like out of touch because like snapchat was big when i was in high school so like this it was like in the the perfect i guess i was in the perfect age group to be using this service, and I just didn't get it for Honestly years the only reason I used it is because I had a group of friends who only talked on snapchat To be fair if they weren't talking on snapchat

They were probably gonna be talking on like Facebook Messenger so not exactly much of an upgrade But at least on Facebook Messenger even though your data is still being harvested, you can at least like have a conversation that has some level of continuity in it, rather than just like, you know, making stuff up as you go and trying to hold a conversation. God. These Zoomer services. Speaking of... I guess we're going to... This is just going to be like a news episode.

And there's going to be news from like weeks ago. News that just catches my eye. Because that's what happens. And because, you know, tech sites love to talk about social media. I guess there's going to be a lot of social media-y news. Social media-y. Social media-y, social meatery, that's not a good idea, social meatery, it's a social network where you share meat, not your personal meat, but like, the food you're eating, people are going to share their meat though, Anyway, moving on from sharing your meat.

Twitter is introducing a, I guess they're testing in iOS and Android, a new feature known as Tip Jar. Now, what this basically is, is the ability to, I guess, send money to your favorite creators. Basically like a super chat for Twitter. Now, why? Send money to your favourite creators. Basically like a super chat for Twitter. Now. Why? Who the fuck cares what someone on Twitter has to say? There's going to be people that make a lot of money from this.

Honestly, there's going to be so much money made from this. Elon Musk, for example, is going to have a lot of people sending him money. If you're going to send your money to anyone, don't send to fucking Elon Musk. Elon has, he's at the point where like, he's the only CEO who took a pay cut because he has too much money. Don't, if you're going to send money to people on Twitter, don't send it to like a billionaire, anyone else, like a charity or something. Like I can understand that, but that's not how it's going to be used. So Twitter started rolling out a new chip jar tip jar feature on

its Android and iOS apps, which as rumored will allow users to send money directly to their favorite accounts. Tip jar sports, variety payment method, payment options and links, band camp cash app. Okay, that actually is useful. So, a musician could have their Bandcamp linked to their Twitter.

That actually... That is the one thing I'll give you that is useful. All English language Twitter users can send tips starting today, but only a select group including creators, journalists, experts, and non-profits. Journalists. Yeah, I'm sure journalists definitely are. It's going to be the journalist class, not like journalists. Anyway, here we go. I want to see, I want to see what people left actually have to

say about this. Please tell me you're using other money sharing services as well. Something that's more universal perhaps. There is more to the world than the USA. PayPal and Patreon seem pretty worldwide. Patreon's a weird one though. I don't know why you'd have Patreon there. Patreon's not a good way to send people money.

The fees on that are way too high. But PayPal I get. Twitter, promote my music. Okay, this is very much Twitter. Can you... Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! Um...

I'd give you doge. For anyone who wants to sprinkle some teacher appreciation, here is my cat. Oh, it's going to... It's going to be people who are grifting. Yes. Yes. The Twitter grifting is getting stronger.

Okay, if you don't know what I mean about the Twitter grifting. Anytime there is like any big event and it's tweeted about. Whether it's like, hey, look, some sports event happened. Hey, look, there's some like crisis that happened. Hey, look, there's this. Hey, look, there's some like crisis that happened. Hey, look, there's this. Hey, look, there's that. Anything where there's like a lot of attention to it. There's going to be people.

I can't just cut out for a second. There's going to be people in the comment section who are just. Who are just like, hey, here's my cash app. Give me some money. Pay my rent. This is so great for artists. Actually, I'll give you that one. Yeah.

That actually is a nice feature. Artists and also musicians. Any sort of like creators who use Twitter as a way to like, I guess, promote their content. I actually can see. But most people are probably going to be sending money to like, you know, their favorite Twitter personality. Yay. Also, accounts with dogs, um, cash app, uh, doesn't change the fact that we still don't have an edit button, I still, okay, yeah, that's a, that's a good point, a couple of people have been asking about this in here as well, how old is Twitter at this point, how many years has Twitter been out? It's been out for a long time, I'm pretty sure.

Twitter launch date. 2006. 15 years. And there's no edit button. Why is there no edit button on Twitter? Yeah. God, this website's garbage. But yeah, so Twitter is testing out a tip jar feature

because they already... The owner of... Well, Twitter already owns Cash App. So it just sort of makes sense they would integrate them together because, you know, if you own two big companies, you can't just have them as, like, separate entities.

You're always going to merge them together. Facebook and WhatsApp, for example. Huge heads up on PayPal Twitter tip jar. If you send a person a tip using PayPal, when the receiver opens up the receipt from the tip you send, they get your address. Oh, my Lord, that's hilarious, oh, no, so they're not actually setting it up properly, they're treating it, it as if you're

a merchant, oh, oh, that's great, don't eat yellow snow, exactly, um, this is going to be abused so bad, oh, my god, I can't wait for the next like... Okay, does anyone remember the um... The Bitcoin scam that happened on Twitter a while back where a lot of the um... The check mark accounts got hijacked. All tweeted out the exact same thing. Basically doing like a runescape scam. Being like, hey, if you send me some Bitcoin, I will double it. Literally a runescape scam. People fell for it. Wait until this happens again, where some more

verified accounts get hijacked and like, hey, send money to my cash app built into Twitter. Send money to my tip jar. I'll double the money you get back. And people are going to do it. People are absolutely going to do it. I think this is a cool feature, but it are going to do it. People are absolutely going to do it. I think

this is a cool feature, but it's going to be abused. It's going to be abused, and it's going to be hilarious. Ultimately, also, I can't imagine that Twitter's not taking a cut. Apparently, it doesn't take a cut. Okay, it doesn't

take a cut, but it also does own Cash App, which is how a lot of people are going to be sending their money. So, Twitter doesn't take a cut, but it also does own Cash App, which is how a lot of people are going to be sending their money. So, Twitter doesn't take a cut, but like, technically they do. Heck, yeah. And I imagine the reason why they have these services here, Twitter has enough weight

at this point where they can sort of push around the services they don't own and be like, hey, we'll integrate your service if you give us a cut so Twitter's going to be probably taking a cut somewhere obviously from Cash App being the obvious one but I imagine they probably have some behind-the-door deal or behind-the-door? Back... Behind-the-scenes deal I imagine they probably have some behind the door deal or behind the door, back,

behind the scenes deal, behind the scenes deal where they are using these services because they are taking a cut from them rather than taking an extra cut on top. I don't know. That's just me, me speculating. Uh, something that isn't me speculating though is, what do we want to talk about? Um Oh! This actually happened like today. Today as in recording today. Not today as in when you're seeing this. I cannot record stuff in the future. Um

So, Audacity pull request to add telemetry. So, this is a... 5,000 lines of code were added, okay? To implement the network layer libcurl is used to avoid issues with the built-in networking of the WX widgets. Universal Google Analytics

is used to track the following events. And then they're tracking this stuff with Google Analytics. They also assign session IDs. And we use Yandex Metrica to be able to correctly estimate the daily active users correctly.

So they are trying to work out daily active users of an application that you have installed on your system. We use Google Analytics, known to have really tight quotas, blah blah blah. Also record the IP address that the things are coming from. And as you can probably see, 25 upvotes. 1800 downvotes,

16 laughs, 2 cheers, 16 laughs, 2 cheers 324 confused and 50 looking questionable eyes um now we go down a little bit oh my god

313 hidden items holy shit this has gotten so much more popular oh god currently okay now this is just people, this is actually people talking about the actually getting it built in. Okay, let's keep scrolling down to the point where, wait, what was it 99, currently over 99.97% of the reactions to the original comment are negative.

Clearly the users are overwhelmingly opposed to it. If it gets added, that will be a massive middle finger to people who have used Audacity all these years. And will most likely result in a loss of users. Now, I don't have a problem with applications bringing in some form of telemetry. It should always be opt-in. 100% of the time, it should be opt-in. I don't care. Firstly, it's a waste of development time.

But if you're going to waste development time, at least make it opt-in. This, what they should have done is made an issue about it and be like, Hey, is this something that you would be happy if we brought in? Not gone and written all of this code first and then people are gonna be like, no that's fucking stupid, what are you thinking? I know me leaving a comment is not going to stop this feature being included in Audacity, but I want to voice my opposition to this change. Anyway, feel free to ignore me if my opinion is inconvenient to you. Yeah, basically everyone in here is saying the exact same thing where it's just like tracking bad.

Stop doing that. Also, you may want to think about the GDPR. Google isn't known for respecting it and although it only applies to personal information, the definition of it isn't really precise and an IP may be considered personal info that's a good point fucking that I didn't even thought of that tracking it our tracking users just opens yourself up to a lawsuit because of things like GDPR so just not tracking people seems like a much a much better plan to take.

There are two separate issues. Telemetry itself and the sharing of user data with Google Analytics, Yandex, or other third-party for-profit ad-oriented companies. I can imagine... Yeah, that's actually a fair point. If they were just doing telemetry with their own proprietary telemetry system and not integrating with Google Analytics, obviously people would be still rightfully angry about this, but I feel like the reason why they're so angry is because they're integrating things like Yandex and Google Analytics. So they're not keeping the data for themselves, they're passing the data on to these external services where we're not really sure what google analytics actually does with the data

internally they can certainly tell you what they do um but that's about as far as you can go now i know that unfar tweeted i tweeted i'd be Twitter too long. I know Unfar posted on here, and I'm not seeing it because there's a shitload of comments, and not all of them seem to be loading. How do I, wait. I know Unfar commented on here. I don't know why it's not showing his comment. It doesn't show there's extra comments to see either. So I'm not sure what's going on with GitHub here.

Because he actually had a really good comment. He actually had to say about it. Where he was basically saying, I thought this was a joke. I can't believe this is actually doing it. Yandex seriously like a KGB front? A KGB cyber front? Yeah, I don't a KGB front? A KGB cyber front? Yeah, I don't think Yandex is a KGB cyber front.

But, um, sure. Uh, where did Anfa's comment go? Yeah, the whole argument here is like, why does a program like Audacity need telemetry? Like, I get you want to do things like user reporting. That's all well

and good. If you want to find out, or if you want to do things like user reporting. That's all well and good. If you want to find out, or if you want to have a system where if the application crashes or some issue occurs, then you want to be able to report a bug in the application. That, I think, no one would complain about, and anyone who didn't want to use it would just ignore it, basically.

But in this case you don't need to collect things like user IDs or you don't need to make user IDs and then assign IP address or collect IP addresses and whatever other information they decide they feel like they need to capture.

Session start and end errors including errors with that usage of effects, sound generators, analysis tools to prioritize future improvements, usage of file formats, OS and Audacity versions. While that's nothing like super personal, so it's not like they're getting like your host name and things like that, like that that would be completely different. That's still enough information where I can fully understand that people would be completely against what's happening here. I love this change. This is a great change that happened. So they've renamed it from Basic

Telemetry for Audacity to Basic Telemetry for Audacity, but they spelt Audacity with a capital. Great change guys, great change. I don't know what happened to Anfer's comment. I really don't. If you don't know who Anfa is, Anfa is a Linux YouTuber who does audio work. Really good. He actually does professional audio work with Linux. Way outside of my knowledge space to say

whether the software he's using is actually good. But from what it seems like, he's doing really good work. So I do respect his opinion when it comes to things like this. I really do hope the devs of Audacity actually do, like, change their mind with this, because it clearly, like, the users don't want this. this like maybe there's going to be the regular users who don't really care about this but the people who actually contribute to your project and the people who actually uh are really really involved in it clearly don't want this outside of a very small group of maintainers and that seems like a good enough reason, if any, to not introduce this feature.

Obviously, there's times where you have to ignore what people are saying for the good of the program and the good of the users, but in this case, when basically no one wants this feature here, I think it's fair enough to say that you probably probably should I guess double think back on trying this I realised why I couldn't see Amphaz comment

it's because there was actually more hidden comments it just puts the hidden comment list in a weird spot I don't know why because GitHub's weird like that I don't usually see threads with over 300 comments, so I see that GitHub just doesn't really know how to handle them properly. Disabled by default? Yes, it should be.

A user must manually and without nagging explicitly opt in to telemetry themselves. This is what GDPR demands. This is what I expect. Now, I don't know enough about GDPR, but all I know about GDPR is that people have fucking got sued into the ground because of this, uh, this European legislation.

So, I wouldn't fuck with it. That's, uh, that's what I would say. And Audacity is a big enough project where you might get some attention on this. So I would recommend against doing things like that. There was actually another issue that happened recently as well that I want to talk about. This was related to the Kitty project. So this one didn't get anywhere near as much attention. Because the...

Partially because the... The maintainer of Kitty decided that he wants fucking nothing to do with the discussion here. He's just like no. So Kitty has this feature where... By default I think it's every 24 hours. I think that's what the 24 stands for. It will check for an update. Now, it doesn't install updates.

It will just be like, hey, server, do you have an update? No? Okay. And someone was like, okay, this probably shouldn't be here. And if someone wants to have automatic update checking, that should be an opt-in feature. That's perfectly reasonable. I don't see any reason against having that as an opt-in feature if you want to opt into it. So this person was going to fix that with their pull request here. They were like, hey, I believe that any kind of opt-out mechanism that connects to a remote resource is an anti-feature. Automatic updates or update detection

is a useful feature, but is only a feature and users should be aware of its existence if it is turned on. And then they were saying that this is normalizing surveillance in GNU slash Linux software and, you know, it should just be disabled by default. And the maintainer of this basically

acted like a bit of an asshole about it. So, what he had to say is, I disagree. Oh, and for future reference, if you're going to make such poor requests to other projects, kindly refrain from using the term surveillance and misleading.

Surveillance and misleading, they are beyond offensive. And people are like, wait, Kitty opens up network connections without my knowledge? And how are these terms offensive? Sounds like you're trying to use other terms to shift the focus from any sort of issues in relation to such. And

pretty much what he had to say to this is you don't like the fact that it has functionality to notify you of updates that are done by default? Go use something else. Go use something else and stop wasting my, go use something else, and stop wasting my time, and next time, uh, spend two minutes to google the issue before posting duplicates, and wasting hard work maintainer's time, now, this thing about posting duplicates is, uh, he's full

of shit, because there isn't actually a duplicate issue, there is no other issue related to fixing this, this is the first one that exists. So this is him just trying to like shift people's focus away from it. Because that's not a real thing. At all. But this is not how you like how you talk to users who

are potentially suggesting fixes to your software. It would be one thing if this guy was demanding this being changed without actually providing a fix himself. He wrote the code. This is a pull request, not an issue. The stuff to fix this is already done. And this guy's like, no. Basically, fuck off pretty much. Fuck off without as many words, basically. Fuck off without as many words, basically.

And to be fair, you know what? Don't use kitty. It's a shit terminal anyway. Use something like, I don't know, alacrity. Because alacrity is quicker. Even though the kitty devs like to talk about how kitty is so much faster. It may be faster on paper, but it certainly doesn't feel faster. That's for fucking sure.

And this is on, like, a 3600X and, what, a RX 580? This is a pretty decent system. It feels, like, Kitty feels noticeably slower for me. They can write down on paper, like, hey, look, the, what is the, the latency is 15 milliseconds faster. Okay, but like general usage feels slower in KITTY, so what, what is, what does that matter? If, if you can show me that it, it, okay, if, if ultimately your metric for speed still ends up in the application feeling slower,

I don't care about your metric for speed. It's as simple as that. But yeah, this is not how you act. I hope the Audacity maintainers have a better way of addressing this. Maybe they post a community post or something like that and actually talk about this, you know, see what the users actually have to say rather than going ahead and merging all this code. Now the

fact that they've already written five and a half thousand lines does make me believe that they're very likely just going to push it through because once you've written that much code just throwing it away is unlikely to see but considering the GDPR implications this might have it probably is

for the best that they do throw it away to be completely frank in the Kitty case while people were calling it surveillance it wasn't surveillance they were just like pinging a server it wasn't collecting any data so that's a very very different situation yeah um I've been talking too much today. I always... I don't know what it is. I keep ending up doing the...

Ending up doing. Ending up doing the podcast on... On, like, Fridays. And I usually do a live stream on Friday as well. So, it's like a weird time where, like... Right now, I'm doing this podcast at 18pm and we started about 50 minutes ago so we started around like 7.30

and I don't mind I actually like doing the night podcast it gives me time to like plan stuff out, like when I do stuff in the morning occasionally I'll miss like really cool topics that happen but if I do it at this time anything that sort of like happens today

it's probably going to be done by the time I do this because when I'm recording it's like the morning in the US so any of like the day stuff has already sort of passed any of the news that would have come out has already out and I can like

I can sort of bring all that stuff together with plenty of time to work it out uh i may end up doing the um put my mic up there so you got so you can still hear me i may end up doing the the clips tomorrow though because it's gonna be like 9 30 by the time i finish this and i don't particularly want to do clips into the night especially because i've got stuff to do um stuff to do tomorrow by stuff to do i mean play golf um stuff to do but anyway i actually i was doing um my my gaming clips earlier what what gaming clips did i actually put together so all right so i've got one on my Dead Cells run that I did earlier where I actually finally cleared I finished my first run. It's taken a while, but I finally did it

I did another clip on Hololive because I You know whenever Ranzan's in the chat like Hololive always comes up pretty much no matter No matter what I'm talking about like at some point hololive or VTubers in general are probably going to come up and that's a good thing because I love talking about VTubers there's always something I can I can sort of talk about for like multiple hours I've done one on ah had one on tech naming so talking about how like the naming schemes of you know tech is really bad so things like the nvidia cards amd cards intel cpus monitors things like that where there seems to be

like seemingly uh my camera cut out again seemingly no no sort of logic in the way they do it. Because they'll have some sort of framework and then decide they don't like that framework after a generation and then do something completely different. And I also did one on my last Valorant stream where the game was completely fucking breaking. It was... I know what the cause was. There was some issue with the specific version of Mesa I was running, and when I updated to

a newer version, it was perfectly fine. I guess they'd updated something inside of Veleron that relied on a newer feature and it just didn't work properly. When I went back and tested it afterwards, though, after the actual stream, it... It worked out well.

And I'll definitely be doing another Veleran stream in a couple of weeks, testing out whatever new features actually get introduced because they... they do a lot of dev blogs, like a lot. Let's actually go to it. So every single week, they release a lot of dev blogs, like a lot. Let's actually go to it. So every single week, they release a new blog talking about like what they've done. This is a project that's like really working hard. It's genuinely impressive seeing that they're just this consistent.

Like a lot of, not just open source gaming projects, like projects in general that are in development don't keep a like keep a I guess a log of what they're doing a blog you may say don't keep as good

of a log of what they're doing oh my god they have they have... They have waypoints! Finally! Oh my god! Finally they have waypoints, lovely! I'm so excited for that, that's awesome. And waypoints now... Or the waypoints show their position on the map in coordinates. Thank you. But yeah, they... Oh! They have mountain names and they show you how like high mountains are and

they named the lakes and stuff. Oh, that's so good. What is this? What are you doing here? Oh! I don't know what happened here. Wait, there's... Wait, there's mounting mechanics? Hold up. Oh, that's cool. You can like... Huh, that's cool. There's just, yeah, there's just a lot of cool stuff being done. And you can always see what these guys are doing. And if you want to see, they do everything with Open Collective, so you can see where the money's actually going. I personally have

donated a bit to this. I wonder if you can see it in here. Wait, I wonder. There you go. $50 I've donated to the project. Actually, no, you can't see $50 I've donated the project, uh, actually no, you can't see it, because I've full screened eh, where's my thing eh, where's, where's

Brodie Robertson okay, it's not showing it, because of the weird the weird way this site does ah, here it is honestly, I'll probably donate more to the project. Because I really, really do like this. Also, they have 69 contributors. Veleron is what I wanted CubeWorld to be.

Even though Veleron is still very much alpha software. Unlike Cube World, these guys are like always on point with making sure you know what's being added. Like last week, they added fucking birds to the game. Why did they add birds? I don't know. Birds are cool though.

There's a phoenix. That's cool. And is that a dragon? Also, they completely redid the way that that gliding works, so now it's like I Guess gliding mechanics actually feel like you're using a glider rather than I guess being a plane I think it's a really really big improvement The I've talked to some of the devs and the way they do their gravity is really complicated, they actually try to simulate

gravity to some extent, obviously full gravity simulation would be too difficult and would be way too resource intensive but do it in a way that actually makes it feel relatively good they're working on

improving towns, they're doing a quest system, they've got, uh, the one thing they actually did do that wasn't there last time I played, oh, sorry, last time before the last time, um, they now have NPCs that come and, like, travel through the town, like, actually visit the different towns, you can, like, follow one of the NPCs to somewhere else, they'll be like, hey, I'm going to this town, you want to tag along? And you just follow them. They'll walk down the path. They'll go all the way there. It's really, really cool.

I don't know what they ultimately have planned with this. I'm sure I could go and find out if I really wanted to. But I am excited to see where this game goes. I want it to get more attention. And I hope at some point, like, someone outside of, like, the open source world actually does, like, someone big outside of this world does actually cover the game.

Like, people have obviously covered the game. If you go look up Veleron on YouTube, um, okay, Mantle Outlaw has the biggest, or has the top video on it. And I've actually got a couple of videos on it as well. Um, that's a, okay, so

this guy has, 10 months ago, this guy did it, I don't know who you are, PaulsSaurusJr, 1.5 million subs, but that seems to be, like, one of the only, yeah, the, most of the other videos in here are from tiny channels, obviously me again, Okay, that's sure, whatever. And, yeah. I would like to see, like, some really big channel do, like, a Veleran Let's Play at some point. That would be cool.

Maybe do some Veleran streams and things like that. Get this game more attention, get more money flowing to this game, and getting it developed even further. That's what I want to see. That's what I want to see. It would be, it would be really, really cool to see, for sure. But we'll see where it is in like three or so weeks. Probably gonna have some other really

cool features added into it. I don't know what they're gonna be, but they'll be there. Hopefully, um, hopefully more work gets done. Oh, one thing that was worked on was, uh, there was a lot of work done on the music and the, uh, the sound design. So there's a lot of sections, there still is a lot of sections of the game, that don't have any sound effects. Like the menus have no sound effects, for example. Which goes to show that it's alpha software and there's lots of areas where there can still be a lot of polish to be done but there's been some work done on like attack sound effects and enemy sound effects and music in different areas and the music in the game is absolutely amazing i wonder if i can i'm pretty sure it's

amazing. I wonder if I can... I'm pretty sure it's Creative Commons? I don't want to play it just in case... just in case there is any reason why I can't. Give me one second. Checking their wiki. Music. It uses original music and graphics. Yeah, okay. I know it's original, but... Can I...

How is it licensed is another question. Do not play that. Thank you. No, that is not at all what I clicked on. I'm not seeing it. But just go download Velerin. Go listen to the soundtrack. I recommend going and finding a desert. A desert has really, really cool music.

Dungeons also have really good music as well. But the desert... The desert is really impressive. There was one section where I was staying in the desert. Looking over a lake. like the clouds going by. It's very peaceful. One thing I do hope Vellorn does get is fishing. Now if the game gets fishing, I will do a two-hour livestream where I do nothing but fishing. This is why I shouldn't play things like Stardew Valley because I have played...

I've played Stardew Valley and done nothing but fishing for like multiple in-game days Up to the point where I was doing it for like two hours real-time Just trying to get rare fish, rare bigger fish because you get achievements if you get bigger fish It's like hey your record is is now like a 6 inch mullet or whatever. Oh now you get a-inch mullet or whatever. Oh, now you get a 7-inch mullet. Wow!

Wow! That probably peaked, I'm sorry. But yeah, if the game adds fishing, that will ruin my life. Even if the fishing doesn't do anything. If it has fishing, please add fishing. I might suggest it to them.

I'm sure someone already has. Fishing would be cool. The trading system needs work, though. The current trading system with Veleron, it's like an MMO trading system, but you do both sides of the trade. So if you want to buy something from a merchant, as if trading like WoW or RuneScape or anything like that. You would take the thing from the merchant's inventory. Put it into their trade section. Take the thing from your inventory.

Put it into the trade section. And then a trade is done. I hope they do. I don't know why they built it like that. It's so bizarre. So I hope they do sort of work on improving that. I don't know how to improve it. But I hope they do something of work on improving that I don't know how to improve it but I hope they do something because their trading system uh it's actually kind of nice in a way because it does

it based on gold value so you don't have to say give the trader x amount of gold to buy a staff you can give them you know let's say the staff costs 10 gold you can give them, you know, let's say the staff costs 10 gold, you can give them 60 gold and then 40 gold worth of potions, for example, and it just does all the maths for you. Compared to something like, say, an Elder Scrolls game, where if you wanted to buy something,

you would have to sell your gear first and then buy it. It just makes the trading a little bit easier in a way It's just the other parts of the trading system a little bit funky. I did notice they actually did fix the potion glitch from last time though where potions were effectively free So the problem was they had just introduced the trading system when I did that stream And I guess it was still in its testing phase, just make sure stuff, like, could be bought and sold, but the price of the potions was, like, a fraction of a gold,

so small that you could buy, I think you could buy, like, 20 or 30 potions, uh, with a single rock, and rocks have a value of, of like a tenth of a gold. So that's how cheap it was. Because I don't... I think it was so small that no matter how much you actually put in there, it wouldn't actually be... I don't think a merchant could hold enough

in their inventory to actually go over the value of a rock. That's how cheap they were. I think now... I think now potions are like, I think the base ones are like five gold or something, and then like the obviously bigger ones go more expensive, like the medium potions might be like 20 gold, and like large potions are 50 or whatever, whatever it ends up working out to be. Um, it's not balanced, obviously, but it's, it's set up so they can do balancing later,

because, god, RPG balancing sounds like an absolute fucking nightmare to deal with, to be completely frank. Speaking of bad segues, um, what do I want to talk about? I don't know, what do I want to talk about, I don't know, what do I want to talk about, oh yeah, uh, I guess we can talk about a bit gaming stuff, so I mentioned earlier that I had just finished my, oh, because I mentioned the clip, didn't I, that I had just first, finally finished my first actual run through Dead Cells, so the way Dead dead cells works is very similar to hades um in this one specific aspect where basically you run through all the areas killing enemies as you go and when you defeat the final boss it sends you all the way back to the start of the game and once you

defeat the final boss uh basically it unlocks a more difficult version of the game. Now Hades, you raise the difficulty for a different reason. Hades, you raise the difficulty because you want to get more crafting materials. And the only way to get those materials besides wasting shitloads of time farming out gems. Which is, you don't want to do it. This takes too much effort. farming out gems, which is you don't want to do it, this takes too much effort, you want to raise up

the difficulty so you can actually get those new items from actually defeating the bosses and dead cells, you raise the difficulty because you're not a bitch basically, that's pretty much the reason why, so as you actually raise the difficulty in dead cells

at least raising it once, what it does is it reduces the uh the number of um potion poles that exist so the way that uh you can restore your health in or the way the way that the break sections between areas work in uh dead cells is in easy mode i guess normal mode whatever you want to call it, um, every time you finish an area, you get your health fully restored, and your potions fully restored, that's not how it works once you go up the difficulties, after you get past easy mode, then, like, maybe every second area or so is going to actually have a potion pool. So it makes you actually have to, or not prioritize,

makes you actually have to, I guess, more manage your health and you have to be a bit more strategic. Or you can just get good and stop taking damage. That's the correct way to do it. Because ultimately in Dead Cells like the end game strat of dead cells is you play the game with the cursed sword the cursed sword i believe is the hardest way the hardest way to play the game because ignoring all the difficulty spikes from actually defeating the final boss and putting in more more stem cells they're called. People usually refer to them as boss cells. But the game calls them stem cells.

For whatever reason. The curse sword. Is a fun weapon. So. What a curse is in Hades. In dead cells. Is basically. At least the basic kind of curse I understand.

I don't. Okay no, it seems to be, that seems to be the only curse, anyway, you die in one hit with a curse, uh, and when you're cursed, yeah, you, you're gonna, you're gonna fuck up, you're gonna fuck up somewhere, any sort of, uh, any sort of, um, damage will kill the player. Whether that be trap damage or enemy damage, you just die. And the cursed sword is a weapon where you're always cursed. So normally cursed, the way it works is you will... So the way cursed normally works is you will, say, open a cursed chest. Now a cursed chest is a box

that will give you some nice upgrades. It'll give you like some stat boosts. It'll give you some nice drops and then you'll be cursed until you kill 10 enemies. Or if you go and break one of the golden doors which you have to pay to unlock, you'll also be cursed for 10 enemies. This one though

yeah no. It's just always cursed. There's no way to get rid of it, from what I understand. So basically, you're free to pick up as many cursed chests as you want, and just get as much gear as you want. And there's a run that you can go find on YouTube, where someone's actually using this and just fucking running through the entire game. It's insane how good you can get at this game because I make dumb mistakes constantly.

And this guy was running a shield as well and I've been trying to learn how to parry. Ah, the thing about running the shield though is you can't take... Or you have to do parries with the shield. Because if you block with the shield and you don't parry you take damage. So that means you die. So you have to make perfect parries and get through the entire game without taking hits.

And that seems fucking insane to me. Because there's some bosses like the Concierge, which have really weird attack windows, where I find it very difficult to dodge. Like, the Concierge, for example, has this red electric force field, which you can get through if you dodge at the perfect frame moment to dodge it. I can't get my timing right on it, though.

And I don't know how this guy managed to get through it with the Cursed Sword. I watched't get my timing right on it though and I don't know how this guy managed to get through it with with the cursed sword. I watched him do it and it just baffles me how he got through the attack. But you also get an achievement for completing the game with this and it's probably the hardest achievement in the entire game to get. The weapon's curse mechanic remains active even if it's merely held in the backpack. Huh. Jesus Christ.

Oh my Lord. This is, yeah, this is just an insane insane weapon. Insane way to play the game. But, hey, if you have multiple thousands of hours of if you have multiple thousands of hours of... If you have multiple thousands of

hours in the game, you've got to keep challenging yourself somehow, and this certainly seems like a way to do it. But yeah, you can still get cursed from other things, but because you're instant death anyway, it genuinely

does not matter, to be honest, but you can also, um, I guess there's also, like, things that synergize with it as well, uh, alienation makes it so decreasing the curse counter restores 5% HP. Okay, that's useless. Consuming food curses you. Also useless. Okay. I thought there might have been synergies with the cursed sword. It doesn't seem like...

Yeah, it doesn't seem like there are. Okay, so the only thing that's not a one-hit kill is the darkness in the Forgotten Sepulcher. So, the Forgotten Sepulcher is a fucked area. It's not that difficult, actually. It's pretty easy once you know what you're doing. So, the Forgotten Sepulcher has this mechanic where if you stay in the darkness too long, you just start having your health drained. I don't know if it's supposed to be like insanity or what it is,

but if you're in the darkness too long you start losing health. That's the only thing that doesn't insta-kill you because holy shit getting through the Forgotten Sepulcher... getting through the Forgotten Sepulcher if that did do it would be fucking insane. It's like... it's pretty easy to get through it without taking... taking darkness damage even so, if you even slightly fucked up and took the tiniest millisecond of a hit, yeah, it would kill you. Or at least it would if they didn't have it fixed.

Lightning Bolt is a ranged weapon which deals more damage if it's channeled for an extended amount of time and also damages the player if used for too long. That's actually kind of cool. You also unlock like new weapons as you go throughout the game as well. Drops from inquisitors. I haven't got that drop. Drop chance 1.7%. Drop chance 1.7%. Game, don't give me drop rates like that. So just random weapons like this are just dropped by enemies.

I think there's two bosses in the base game I haven't seen yet. So what bosses have I seen? So what bosses have I seen? First bosses, the Concierge, Conjunctivitis and Mummatick. I fought Mummatick before but not beat her. Timekeeper is the second boss. That's a boss in one of the DLC. The Rise of the Giant DLC, which is the free DLC. I haven't fought that one yet. I haven't fought this boss yet, Eye of the Scarecrow. Third

boss is the Hand of the King. Oh, there's bosses after? Okay, so the fourth boss... Huh, okay. But you need to have five boss stem cells to get that one. Jesus! Okay, sure, that's gonna take- that's gonna take quite a while to get to. Uh, yeah. Jesus Christ. Okay, um, also there's plenty of areas I haven't gone to. Because I haven't actually played the DLC yet. So I need to actually go do that as well. And some areas, I guess, you can't get to. Unless you have more boss stem cells.

Huh. Okay. Anyway. Dead Cells is a really fun game. I highly, highly recommend it, I'm very happy for Ronson that he told me about this game, like, I love Hades, Hades is fun, I want to go back to it at some point, but I definitely prefer Dead Cells, my problem with Hades is it's a bit too, bit too visually active for me, I find myself losing focus of where my

player actually is, but I don't have the same sort of problem when I'm playing when playing Dead Cells because Dead Cells is it's a 2d side-scroller whereas Hades is it's an isometric game. So also Hades has it's prone to becoming a bullet hell which makes it very difficult to understand what's going on. Whenever I play a bullet hell, I notice my eyes tend to drift looking at the bullets, rather than looking at where my player actually is. Speaking of bullet hells though, there actually is a game I want to try out on my main channel. I heard about this on Gaming on Linux, which is a great website if you want to find games and have too many games to fucking play. Way too many games to play. That's my

industry. Wait, I know I looked this up. I'm gonna see if I can find it, because it's not in my history for some reason, gaming on Linux, uh, let's, surely it'll come if I look up this, yeah, here it is, so this is, um, Taisei, which is a, a Toho, uh, Toho fan game, and being a Toho fan game, it's a bullet hell, it's a fucking bullet hell, I want to play this on stream, um, I haven't played it yet, and I've only played, uh, I think the only Toho game I've played is Embodiment of, what is it is it embodiment of Scarlet Knight is that it is that what it's called Toho 6 what is Toho 6 embodiment of something Toho 6 Scarlet Devil not Scarlet Knight I know Knights in one of the names but embodiment of Scarlet Devil that's the only one I've

played I hear that's the hardest one. I'm also bad at it. For obvious reasons. So, this will be fun to play. Go to the official site. Apparently, you can play it in your browser as well. I wouldn't want to do that. That sounds like a terrible idea. Actually, that sounds like a really, really terrible idea, to be honest.

I would want this to be as as, as performant as possible. The web port is experimental. Yeah, I, I wonder why. I've got my, uh, my, my desktop audio muted just in case, um, just in case there's some, some audio that shouldn't be heard. Holy shit, that's fucking loud. I'm gonna turn this down. Uh, Jesus, that's fucking loud. I'm going to turn this down. Jesus,

that's so loud. Yeah, this is certainly a game in your web browser. Wow. Let's go into hard mode. I'm going to play this for like two seconds. And just see. I thought the game froze for a second. Yep. Ah, also because it's in my web browser, my

plugins are going to break it. Oh, it doesn't seem to have a... I wonder where the hitbox in this one is actually. I don't know where the hitbox in this one is, actually. I don't know where the hitbox is. So, I think, wait, it might be in the dead center. So, okay, here's the thing with Toho games, and bullet hells in general. Usually there is a... Usually you can get hit for most of your character model, but, like, there's one section of it where you can't get hit. So, it'll be, like be usually the center of the character.

And a lot of the time, it'll actually be marked. In the older Touhou games, it wasn't. Yeah, in the older games, it definitely wasn't. And there's mods for some of them. To actually you know fix that bug. Because it's. It's really annoying to play. Any sort of bullet hell. When you don't know where your.

Where your. Your hit point is. Because when you first play it. You usually assume like oh. Yeah you're going to have. Like. The entire model being hit. Because most games that you play are sort of like that.

It's just a very different way of playing through a game. It takes a while to get used to. And I'm definitely not used to it. But if you watch some like high... Actually, I might show you. Obviously, this isn't going to work for the audio guys. But let's say Toho 6 Lunatic. Toho 6 Lunatic. I wasn't actually clicked on the thing.

Lunatic no death. Like this is how stupid this game can get. I'm just going to skip ahead to a random point. Nothing happening there. Skip ahead to a random point. There's nothing happening there. Let's go ahead and do a boss. Ah, no that's fine. Oh, here's a boss. Okay, here we go. Just like, what am I looking at here? This is why I find it difficult to work out what the hell is going on in the game like this, because there's just like too much visual noise. Like, way, way too much.

I don't know how well it would work as a stream game to be honest. Maybe it would be kind of difficult. Because I would have to pay quite a bit of attention. I wouldn't exactly be able to look at chat. But I would like to try it out at least. To see sort of how it's going to go. And the other thing with a game like this. Is you're very easily. It's very easy to get yourself trapped.

So you want to make sure you're not, you're not getting stuck at the bottom of the screen when you need to escape from there. Um, and for obvious reasons, yeah, you can get yourself stuck if you don't know what you're doing, there's usually a path out no matter what you do, uh, most of the time, bullet hell that's well made is gonna have, always gonna have a path if you're, you're good at, good enough at the game, you're never actually gonna be stuck unless you really, really fuck up, um, but it's easy to really, really fuck up, to be completely frank, especially when you're bad, like I am, anyway, that looks fun, uh, this is open source, because why not, uh, there's another game that I was looking, that someone else mentioned to me as well. It was a Sonic fan game. SRB... SRB2. I think that's what it was? Yeah, Sonic Roboblast. Sonic Roboblast 2 is a... it's a Doom mod. Because... Because sure why not? I see if I can find it actually

Or find video of it There should be video yeah here we go Do I still hate Sonic Robo blast to show me you're gonna tell me you're gonna show me some gameplay not just complain about it Here we go So like it's... It's a Sonic game, basically. It's a 3D Sonic game, so take it as you will.

But it's a Sonic game nonetheless. And it's made in the Doom engine, which is fucking crazy. The Doom engine, honestly, is a really, really powerful engine. I'm genuinely surprised, like, what it's actually capable of. Like, obviously, there's been some amazing games made with it. And a lot of, like, a lot of the really popular esports games

came from mods of games from a similar era. So, obviously, it can do a lot but I'm I mean I'm surprised you can build a Sonic game in it like a 3d Sonic game with an engine like that it just yeah it's crazy what what it can do so this might be played on stream at some point as well the one problem with doing Sonic Roboblast 2 though is it doesn't have original music. It uses music from existing Sonic games. Which should be fine. I don't know though.

There may be some weird copyright issues with that. So I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure about whether I'll play that. But I would like to. I would like to at least try it out. But I'll definitely be trying out the Toho 6 fan game. And there's plenty of other stuff I'll be trying out. And if anyone actually has any suggestions for main channel games.

So main channel, I'm just going to be doing FOSS gaming. I know. People would be probably happy with me playing something else, but I want to dedicate the main channel to just be generally FOSS content. And if I'm going to be playing games, I should probably be giving a spotlight to some of the really cool FOSS games out there. Veleron being one, the Open Spades being another, things like that. I think that yeah, they deserve,

they definitely deserve attention. And this seems like an obvious way to give more attention to games like this. It just wouldn't really get any attention any other way, really. While I don't have the biggest channel out there, I have enough of an audience where I can give some attention

to these projects and if someone wants to go help out, maybe they have some development skill or maybe they want to donate to the project or maybe they want to promote it themselves, then this is a very easy way to actually, um, you know, get some attention onto it, um, yeah, that, I think is enough talking about FOSS games for now, uh, one thing I do want to talk about is, I have, I wonder if it's still here, actually, is it still here, show me, yes, it is still here, it's not showing me the list though. Why doesn't it show me the list inside of that version of the screen? Anyway, I can show you it like this. It's slightly off the thing.

I'll move it over. So, if we look at ProtonDB, there's one game on the top list here which really really really seems out of place so you've got things like counter-strike go dota 2 uh pub g apex legends rust things like that but then there's then there's this random ass chinese game and it's got two reports on on proton DB and I have no idea what this game is now I'm not saying it's like a problem there's a Chinese game here my confusion here is that there's this one random Chinese game like it it would be one thing if like you know there's the steam top list had a bunch of Chinese games and a bunch of other

games from other regions but the fact that it's just this one really really confuses me i have no idea what this game actually is um it's called tale of a mortal i've looked at like pictures of the gameplay and i've seen the game actually happen i have no idea how the how the game actually happened. I have no idea how the game works. Also, it's an early access game, but, like, it's at the top of, of, uh, of ProtonDB. It's been here for a while. I have literally no idea why it's here. Clearly, it's a popular game. Um, there's no English version. You can only play it in Chinese, but like. Clearly it's a popular game. But I just. I just don't know why there's this one Chinese game here.

That's what's confusing me. Like I'm sure there are other games in China. And you know. Other Asian regions. That are probably pretty popular. And probably would make the top of this list. But. If anyone has any information about this game, do let me know, because I, I would like to know about it, um, that's really all I have to say about that, it's been on my list for,

for quite a while, I'd sort of assumed that, like, it would disappear off the top list at some point, no, it's just stayed here for, like, a month or so, so clearly it's a popular game. I don't know what it is, though. Speaking of popular games, that I do know what they are,

I've been noticing that fucking every VTuber has been playing Pokemon Snap. If I look at Pokemon Snap. So, okay. We're not seeing any VTuber clips here. Of course, we're not. Because we're not seeing VTuber clips when I want to.

But, like, everyone in Hololive. A lot of the V... I'm pretty sure a lot of VShojo girls as well. but, like, everyone in Hololive, a lot of the, the V, I'm pretty sure a lot of V-Shojo girls as well, and, like, independent VTubers, all playing Pokemon Snap, I don't know why, like, I'm sure it's a good game, I'm guessing, I don't know, maybe everyone's just, like, suddenly really excited about Pokemon again. Like, I know this didn't happen when Sword and Shield came out. Like, no one really cared, to be honest. Like, a couple of people played it, but like, did Pokemon Snap always have like this much of like a cult following? Maybe it did, and I just didn't know about it, because I, I personally

didn't ever play the original Pokemon Snap, so, when did it actually come out, actually, actually, actually, Pokemon Snap, uh, not the new Pokemon Snap, new Pokemon Snap, and I are hurt by Joy-Con Drift, Oh yeah, there's also issues with Joy-Con Drift on the Switch. 1999 on the Nintendo 64. Wait, I want to see how this game looked on the N64. Yeah, that looks like an N64 game. Actually, it looks pretty good for an N64 game, to be completely honest, actually looked really, really good for an N64 game, wow, okay, forgot the N64 did, uh, 3D graphics,

they weren't that, as many games with 3D graphics, like, 2D stuff was still very popular at the time, but, you know, it was PS1 era, so obviously, um, obviously you're gonna have to push 3D onto it, anyway, but this, this new one is on the Switch, and obviously, being on the Switch, the Switch is a fucking powerful machine, like, really powerful, and hey, stuff looks, it looks pretty, still don't know why everyone suddenly is in love with Pokemon Snap, but hey, if that's what people, if that's what people want to do, then that, that's cool, I actually don't own a Switch myself, I think it's the only console that I could buy if I wanted to, to be completely honest, like, you still can't buy PS5s and Xbox Ones, but how much would it cost me to get a Switch?

Nintendo Switch production could be hit by global chip shortage. Okay, we'll take back what I said. Maybe it will be difficult to buy it soon. But for now, I can buy a Nintendo Switch at Big W. What do we get with it? We get the Switch and Big W. What do we get with it? We get the Switch and nothing else. Let's see if we can find

a Switch bundle. Nintendo Switch. I guess EB Games. Surely there'll be some bundle we can get. Consoles always have bundles. Or we could buy... Wait, why would I buy a refurbished version for- a refurbished pre-owned version for $3.98 when I could buy a new version at EB Games for $10 more? I don't know why. I guess you can buy- wait, does this- okay, so there's a... Okay, yeah, okay, you do get it.

Cool, so the Monster Hunter Edition version, you do get a copy of Monster Hunter with it. I was gonna say, if you didn't, that would be really strange. I guess there's not that many bundles. That's odd. Huh. Okay, like with, with like a lot of other consoles, you get more bundles. Okay, so here we can get, hold up, so there was a, a Animal Crossing version of the Switch, but you didn't get a copy of Animal Crossing with it. So strange. What a, What a strange time to be living in. I remember like back when I bought my PS3. I got a bundle with that. With like two other games. I got a control and two games with it.

I think the way they did it was like. You got to pick the game. So it was like a couple of different. There was like a couple of options. So I think I got like Assassin's Creed Revelations and, like, Battlefield 3 or something, but I guess, I guess things, I guess, I guess times have changed, it's now much harder to get it, much harder to get bundles and stuff, maybe it's just Australia, maybe, like, in the US, there have been more bundles, but at least here, seems like, seems like there's not really that many,

that many going on. Um, there's been a couple of games I've considered getting a Switch 4, but I already have so many games I don't have time to play anyway. That's my whole big problem with it. Like, I could get it, but like, I have a wall of PS4 games I haven't played, I have a Steam library I haven't played, there are games I'm getting recommendations for that I just haven't played, um, so adding more to that just, yeah, it would just be, it would just make it harder to play even more. Oh, damn. Okay. I kind of wanted to play Persona 5 Strikers, but it seems like it's forked, maybe, possibly. You can... It's playable if you disable the cutscenes.

Yeah, I want to play a Persona game without the cutscenes, of course. I know that... Persona 4 Golden is only a silver rating. Damn. Hmm. Oh, on that note, there's actually a... There's actually a Steam sale going for a bunch of, um, a bunch of anime games right now, I don't know when the sale finishes, so it may be over by the time you see this, but as of recording, I, I believe it's going, I'll, if it's not going by the time this, um, this goes up, we'll just skip over the topic. But I'll just double check now.

I'm trying to open up Steam and it's taking up fucking fair time. Fair share of time to open. Usually Steam sales go for like a week or so though. A minimum. There should be another big sale coming up soon though, I believe. Call of Duty sale, don't care about that, Devolver Digital, don't starve, um, wait, did the sale already end? Hold up, I saw this sale this morning,

wait, wait, is this a, Surely the sale's not already over. Wait, it might already be over. Oh my god. Oh lord. Okay, well, ignore everything I just said then. That sale that, um, that I was gonna check out, I guess, I guess it is, is done, possibly, huh, all right, oh, wait, no, oh, okay, so, no, it, so, it, it's a, it is the Anna May sale, uh, it ends, okay, ends on the 11th, okay, well, that's, that's no use for you guys. But there's some cool stuff in here. That you won't be able to buy anyway. Because it's going to... Well, yes, you can buy it at full price. Wow, I could buy SAO Lost Song for $7.

Which one even is that? Is that one of the shit ones? Actually, what am I saying? All the SAO games are shit. On that note, actually, do the SAO games run well on Linux?

It's really weird with Bandai Namco games. A lot of them don't run that well, but it's very, very hit and miss. Sort out, online, Gold for Hollow Realization, wow, okay, Lost Song has a silver, Re-Hollow Fragment, which one's Hollow Fragment, Hollow Fragment, is that one, is that like the first game? The really shit one?

Oh no, this isn't the first one that's really shit. This is- Oh no, this is the first one that's really shit. Sorry, my bad. Yeah, uh... What am I saying? All the SAO games are shit, but... Oh wait, no, no, sorry. This is like the second game. Wow, the art style really... Or the art really improved between the games. And there wasn't even that much time between them. Like, look at this. This looks absolutely terrible. Like, look at this.

I think... What was it called? Like, the, uh... The Dark Repulsor. That's what the... That's what that sword was. Um, that's that one. I think the newest game is Hollow Realization. That's the it was. Um. That's that one. I think the newest game is Hollow Realization. That's the game based on. The Alicization arc. And like.

It doesn't look amazing. By any means. Actually looks really shit. For the most part. But it still looks. Oh no. Hollow Realization isn't the newest one. My bad.

Sorry. Um. They all have very fucking similar names. What is the newest SEO game? Give me one second. I just realized you're seeing the complete wrong screen. Okay, you're seeing my upload screen. Well, whatever. My bad. I'm sorry. You get to see the video that's going to be out by the time you see this.

Sword Art Online games. What is the newest game? No, not a weird VR game. Alicization Lycoros. God, that fucking name. Lycoros? Okay, here we go. Oh, I just realized I was trying to show you my Steam client and you can't see it. Um, because, because I'm not sharing that part of my screen. Oops. uh, properties, there we go, now you can see it, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm good, good podcaster, it still looks pretty fucking bad, but, like, I guess I can, oh, I'll show you how hollow Fragment looks then. There we go.

But like... Here we go. Here's how Hollow Fragment looked. Hollow Fragment looks like barely a PS2 game. I believe this was actually a... I don't know what this was on, actually. I don't believe it was... Might have been a PSP game or... No, it was a PS Vita, sorry.

Yeah, it was a PS Vita game. So to be fair to it, it is a Vita, sorry, yeah, it was a PS Vita game, so, to be fair to it, it is a Vita game, but, like, it's still a pretty shit, the SRO games are really weird, though, um, because they sort of throw the entire Sword Art Online story out the window, like, they'll follow it for, like, a tiny fragment of the game, but then it's just like, hey, we don't like this, we want to do other things, like the, um, I think it's, it's hollow realization, hollow realization is set in, in SAO, and, um, just continues on from where they left, it's just like, okay, well, Heathcliff isn't the final boss.

We're just going to continue on. Or, um, Alicization Lycoris? Lycoris? Whatever it's called. It's just like, yeah, I guess, um, I guess Eugeo just didn't die. It's like, okay. Okay, then. Well, sure.

Sure, if you say so. Oh, okay, so Eugeo, Alice, and Kirito are just, like, chilling together in a party, that's cool, oh, we have Kirito just working with the Integrity Knights, and they're just, like, all friends, okay, sure, if you say so, but then there's, like, still fights with the Integrity Knights, like, they, they half try to keep it with the um the like mainline story and then half try to keep it with their weird story it's very strange how they try to manage it at least like the the naruto games make more sense in that in that way where the naruto games are basically just like fancy adaptations of source material. And most of the Naruto games work relatively well. I guess the newer ones work relatively well on Linux. Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution is a bronze,

but most of them are at least a silver. Like, Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja i i love i love the naming for the ninja storm games it's great like these games look really good actually they get the styling down very well and the combat system looks pretty awesome and maybe i'll play a ninja storm game at some point but like i i haven't finished watching Naruto, to be completely frank. I've read up until the War Arc. And I've watched up until like 20 episodes into the first series. I need to go back and actually watch all the way through Naruto.

It's one of those things that I started doing and then just stopped. Because I realised Naruto is very long it's a very long series same with like when I was reading One Piece it's like One Piece is quite long it's quite long and takes up a lot of your time and especially if you get like really

into something like that yeah that becomes problems there, where you will just keep watching and watching, and when there's 500 episodes, or 300, or however many episodes there are in Naruto, you can just keep watching all day, and you won't catch up. At least with a 12-episode series,

you will finish the series, and then you can stop. But something long-running like this, if you don't control of wanting to watch it, then you'll just keep going and going and going and going and going and bad things will happen. But I don't know. Anime's fun. Oh, I saw this... We're getting close to the end of the podcast, but I saw this fairly recently. So, Dark Souls 2 is a video game that has some very questionable level design. So, okay, Dark Souls 1 was really, really good,

where it managed to seamlessly make the world flow together. Like, you never felt like, you know, the areas were disconnected. If you went from, like, the main hub area to Blighttown, like, it, sorry, if you, you'd go through, like, the Dra, what is it, Valley of the Dragons, and then into Blighttown, like, all of that, like, flowed together, it's not like the sky suddenly changed colour or anything, or, you know, you had, like, a lava castle next to, like, a forest, things like that, which Dark Souls 2 actually does, um, this scene right here sort of just shows off, like, a weird part of the, just the weird part of Dark Souls 2 level design, so here we go, there's a castle in the background here, it, it's night time, I guess, yeah, it's night time, but the sky is fairly clear, now, when this person goes through this cave here, and we can see, like, you know, sky looks fairly normal.

We go through the cave, and this is, like, there's no teleportation here, it's just walking through a cave, and the sky looks completely different now. It's like, it's the middle of the night, it's raining, and he

walked, like like 10 meters. Dark Souls 2 is really bad when it comes to its level design. I'm very happy that DS3 did fix that. At least what I've played of it. I haven't actually finished the game. But the parts I've played, Dark Souls 3 does have a more flowy, connected world. Where you feel like you're actually exploring this world. Dark Souls 2 feels more like you're exploring a bunch of levels

that are connected together. Like that example with the Lava Castle, for example. Like, that's actually something really bad. It's literally next to a forest. Like, what? There's no, like no light you can see over the mountains or anything like that. It just doesn't make any sense.

It would be one thing if they took, like, say you were in a hub area and you teleported somewhere different. If that's how they wanted to handle it and things were just disconnected like that, that would make way more sense. I could fully understand that. But when you have these connected worlds and things just don't make any sense, it really

breaks the flow. The best one has to be going from prison tower into the lava castle, yes. The tunnel is basically a loading screen in disguise. Yeah, loading screen, bad level design. Effectively the same thing. Like, I don't hate Dark Souls 2. Dark Souls 2 is a fun... Sometimes fun game. Fucking has its moments where it's not fun.

Where it has, like like bullshit boss mechanics. I don't hate it. If you play it without patches it's broken. Because there's like there's one of the bosses that will attack you through a wall and things like that. Yeah, you're not even in the boss room yet. You just die. It's like, okay, well how do I

beat this? We don't. You get lucky. It's like, okay, well, how do I beat this? Well, you don't. You get lucky. That's how. You get lucky and the enemy just decides to be on the other side of the room when you walk in. That's the only way you could win that fight before they patched it. But there's also like the... I think it's like the Rat King, where if you get hit at the start of the fight, you just die. Because you get toxic. King, where if you get hit at the start of the fight, you just die, because you get toxic.

And at the point of that game, at that point in the game, there's no way to clear toxic. So you die. There's nothing you can do about it, because once you're toxic, no matter what you do, you burn through all of your Estus and you're still toxic, and you die. That's as simple as it gets. Not to say Dark Souls 1 is perfect because Dark Souls 1... I think it was Resistance. Resistance was actually broken. So if you leveled up your Resistance stat, what Resistance did was made it so you are hard as a poison. But Resistance wasn't coded properly. So what happened is

resistance wasn't coded properly so what happened is you had a gauge on how much poison you could have and when that gauge cleared out you were no longer poisoned right when you leveled up your resistance it made the gauge bigger but that also meant you could take on more poison so if you leveled up your resistance it took longer to fully poisoned you but it also took longer to fully poison you, but it also took longer for the poison to go away. So the mechanic just didn't work. So it was sort of a joke with Dark Souls 1 that like if you level up resistance, you don't know how to play the game. Dark Souls 1 resistance. Resistance build. I think it was resi- I'm pretty sure it was Resistance.

Uh, was it, no, sorry, it might have been Endurance. My bad. Was it Endurance? Um, oh, no, it actually was Resistance. My bad. Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay, it was Resistance, Where, yeah, it just didn't work. I believe they fixed it in the later games. Because it wasn't difficult to fix. You just had to make it do its job. At all. But you always sort of have these problems with, like, the first game in the series.

Like, the first Pokemon game, for example. Because of some weird integer maths. I think so on the Game Boy, you could store, I think there were 8-bit numbers, 8-bit numbers? Yeah, 0 to 255. And they did their check wrong. So there was 1 in 256% chance. 1 in 256%. Yeah, no, that's correct. 1 in

256% chance where a 100% accuracy move would hit. Would miss, sorry. Which shouldn't happen. It was just a problem with the game design. And first games in any series always have these sort of like teething problems Resistance is a problem with Dark Souls

that could have been patched and they just never patched it so they just left it broken the entire lifespan of the game and even in the remastered versions the problem's still there yeah the consensus among Yeah. The consensus among Dark Souls players is that it is a waste to put souls

to level up this stat as doing so doesn't provide enough benefits. Any. Any benefits. At all. At literally literally a single benefit. Also, resistance is not factored into soul level for starting classes. Ah, that's cool.

Yeah, um... Dark Souls 1 is fun though. Dark Souls 1, even though the mechanics were a bit dicky in places, like you had a, you had the ability to wield two weapons, but dual wielding wasn't really planned in the game, so dual wielding weapons just made you weaker, to be honest. Just completely weaker. They fixed that in two where they actually added in dual wielding, then three where they added in sword skills.

But I don't think dual wielding ever really made much sense. I guess you could make it work, but there were better ways to play the game. Like, you should just be using sword and a shield and then just parry strats. Or, if you're going to be using no shield, use, like, a Zweihander, because the Zweihander was broken in every game.

Or in the first game, like, Moonlight Greatswords was also pretty good, but I think they nerfed Moonlight Greatsword in the later games. You could still get it, even though... Lore-wise, it didn't make as much sense. But I think it was still... Yeah, it was definitely still there in 2. Whether the Moonlight Greatsword was in 3, I believe...

I actually don't know, because I didn't finish 3. Not because I don't like it. Just because I was playing it during the time I was at uni. And just didn't get around to finishing it. not because I don't like it, just because I was playing it during the time I was at uni and just didn't get around to finishing it Moonlight Greatsword, Dark Souls 3 yes it is in Dark Souls 3

where to find crafted via soul transposition with the soul of consumed Osiris Osiris whatever You get 12,000 souls if you eat the soul cool Lovely, uh, we can make the white dragon breath or moonlight greatsword hmm

Amidst the breath of Seath the scaleless breath or moonlight greatsword? Hmm. Amidst the breath of Sith the Scaleless. Are the dark... You know, Dark Souls lore is one of those weird things. Like, I don't really... I like my lore to be told to me. I don't like to have to, like, deal through...

Dig through... Dig through... Like, item descriptions and things like that to understand, like, deal through, uh, dig through, um, dig through, like, item descriptions and things like that to understand, like, the lore of your game, just, just, just give me, like, a book that tells me the things, or better yet, have a dumb character there that explains, that has stuff explained to them, that, that's great for me, I, I've never cared much for the Dark Souls lore, luckily Dark Souls has an amazing combat system, Because otherwise, I would have less of a reason to really care about the game. But I think it doesn't really matter if you don't know what's going on in Dark Souls. Because the combat is fun enough as it is.

And I think that's a... My camera's cut out again. I think that's a sign for a good game. Same with Dead Cells. Like, Dead Cells does the same thing where it doesn't hold your hand through the story. You can, like, work it out through, like, item descriptions and stuff. And, like, little things you find throughout the area. I don't care.

I really don't. But if you want me to sit through, like, a 20-minute cutscene, well, I might do that. That sounds kind of fun. It wouldn't be super fun for a stream. I would make it work for a stream. I'd probably just comment over, I'd commentate over it, uh, annoying people in the process, but what are you gonna do, uh, we're getting close to the end of the, um, end of the podcast now, we're closing in on two hours,

I wasn't thinking of doing this one for two hours, but it sort of just happened, I guess, um, yeah, I did have some other things I wanted to talk about, like, I wanted to talk about Iron Mouse's new costume that got announced, or not announced, that she revealed, like, a week before she was supposed to reveal it, um, I guess I can Iron Mouse Demon Form. Iron Mouse Demon Form. No, definitely don't show me Iron Mouse porn. Where is... Here we go.

It's with... She was showing it in a stream she was doing with Anthony Padilla. From Smosh. Because Anthony Padilla is now a VTuber. Anyway, whole other story there. Iron Mouse, the new model, is adorable. And I love all the new models that

a lot of VTubers have been getting recently. Hollow Life's been doing Costume Week. Iron Mouse has a new costume. There's been some new costumes in V-Shojo besides Iron Mouse. It's been a good time to be just generally a VTuber fan, and liking, like, new stuff like this coming out, so, yeah, um, I'm not going to get into VTubers here, maybe I'll do it in a later episode, I'll probably do it in a later episode, I will do it in a later episode, or just come over to

one of my live streams, where I'll absolutely be talking about VTubers. Because that's what I do. Anyway. Before I go. As always. I like to give a shout out to a random channel. Because we are talking about VTubers. This guy doesn't just clip VTubers.

He clips many things. Mainly SeadogVA. And IronMouse. And also I guess Nyan is as well. But go check out Jonathan Gustian aka the fastest clipper. He will clip stuff as it's happening. He doesn't even let Connor finish what he's trying to say he will literally clip it as it's happening, put it up on YouTube

he does god knows how many clips a day I don't know what this dude does for a job if he's like unemployed, if he's a kid that just lives at home or what he is, but he's clearly constantly watching live streams, constantly clipping stuff, and if you want to just see

what's happening on Twitch without being on Twitch, hey this is a good way to do it especially if you like you know Connor or you like Iron Mouse or you like Nyanas or more Connor or more Iron Mouse or Annie. Annie's great actually. Yeah go check out go check out Jonathan. Cool channel. Yeah so think that's going to be pretty much everything then, there'll be a link to Jonathan in the description if I remember, may remember, may not, I don't know, uh, I'd like to say, or, no, don't open Caden live, that's not what I wanted to say, I just accidentally hit my key to open Caden live, um, what I, what I want to say is, before I go,

What I want to say is before I go, I would like to thank my supporters. So, a special thank you to... Where's my list? Special thank you to... There's actually a couple of new names on that list. I think last week, like, three new guys joined the Patreon. So, big thank you to those guys, big thank you to everyone else who's been on the, the list this entire time, even the $2 guys, like, $2, I, I, I appreciate, like, any amount that people want to give me,

that's awesome, like, I don't know why you guys do it, but I, I appreciate it nonetheless, I know, now that I've said this, y'all can be gonna send me another message, be like, this is why I give you money, like, I, I know why you give me money, I mean, the that I've said this y'all can send me another message and be like, this is why I give you money I know why you give me money I mean the rest of them anyway, that's pretty much it check out my main channel if you're not already watching it I do Linux-y stuff there will be news-y videos

that come out at some point when I get news, and there will be other videos like software videos when I feel like doing software videos gaming channel, I do gaming stuff I'm thinking of renaming it I don't know And there'll be other videos. Like software videos. When I feel like doing software videos. Gaming channel. I do gaming stuff. I'm thinking of renaming it. I don't know what I'll rename it.

But I want to rename it something shorter. I'll work it out later. And... This channel. If you're watching the video version. The audio version is available. Wherever you can find podcasts. Look up Tech of a T. It'll probably be on a podcast app near you. If it's not there. Hit Look up Tech of a T. It'll probably be

on a podcast app near you. If it's not there, hit me up on Twitter, Discord, Mastodon, wherever you want to talk to me and I will get it onto your platform. If you are listening to the audio version, the video version is available on YouTube and Odyssey. I guess

it's on other places like Facebook. I think it's still on Dailymotion, but it may not be. That account might have got banned. I don't know. Because Dailymotion doesn't like bot posting. Even though they don't say they don't like bot posting in their rules. Anyway, that's going to be pretty much everything for me.

I am going to go upload tomorrow's videos. And probably watch some some seasonals like Higehiro and what else is on my list? I actually haven't watched many seasonals recently because I've been watching uh, watching sort of online. Uh, Kyukoku Shinka and Koe to Yobu and

Fumetsu no Anata e and Super Cub and Osano Najimi ga Zettai ni Makenai no Nabu Kome. Uh, yes! So I going to go watch some stuff. I'm going to go. Thank you guys for watching and as always, I don't know why I'm saying it like that. I'm out.

God, I don't know how to end stuff. 63 episodes. Still have no idea how to end a podcast.