Tech Over Tea - #67 Why Are People Online So Awful | Solo

Episode Date: June 9, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I'm, as always, your host, Brodie Robertson, and if I don't sound as high energy as I normally do, it's because I'm kind of sick. So I'm, like, on the recovery side of being sick, and before someone asks, because I know someone's going to, no, I don't have Rona, it's just a winter cold because it's winter in Australia, and Australians are very bad with the cold. in Australia and Australians are very bad with the cold uh it's not like it's super cold in Australia but like Australia cold it's enough where you're just like you know what when it's when it's summer and really hot uh you're sort of more used to that let's see what is the weather today it is current I don't care what it is in New South Wales give me the weather in South Australia. Not South Wales. South Austra- Jesus Christ. Google, I use you once and you decide not to actually work. Actually, you know what?

Maybe it's for the best that I actually am sick because the plans that I did have today probably weren't going to work out super well if I did go and try to do them. So my initial plan, one of my mates, I mentioned it before, I've done live streams with him in the past. The guy I was live streaming with when I did the Borderlands streams, he's back in town for the week.

Most, yeah, week, week it is. No, whatever. He works on like a two week cycle, I think nine days on, five it is, um, no, whatever, it, he works on, like, a two-week cycle, um, I think nine days on, five days off, something like that, anyway, uh, he's back in town, and we were gonna go golfing, uh, that's the same guy I went and did, uh, rock climbing with the other week, so golfing is a bit harder, rock climbing, if it's raining, that's perfectly fine because you're doing it inside anyway. We're not obviously actually rock climbing. We're doing like, you know, indoor rock climbing

where people who have literally no experience will be fine and won't die. But golfing's outside. Obviously, you could do like mini golf and there's like indoor mini golf places, but like actual golfing, yeah, if it's raining, obviously you can still golf. Like they hold tournaments in the rain. I would just rather not. The other problem is that if we did go golfing,

I'm likely to get him sick and I don't exactly want to be responsible for him not being out of work. He'd probably still go to work anyway but I'd just feel kind of bad if he did get sick because of me so those plans are postponed at this point

we might go before he goes back because he goes back on Tuesday morning I believe so we could still go over the weekend depending on how I feel but it's raining all weekend. It's winter right now.

Winter's a mess for doing anything outside. So, yeah, that's probably not going to happen. I guess next time he's down, we can go do something. I was considering, there's actually a place in Adelaide, I believe, actually in the Adelaide i believe that yeah actually in like the adelaide city not like the surrounding suburbs where you can actually go fire pistols i'll see if i can find the name of it uh if you look up adelaide pistol you should be able to find it uh marksman

indoor firing range yeah so this place from what i heard in the past it was actually really really good uh but because of new regulations that came in, because guns get really heavily regulated here, they have to lock the guns into this I guess... Let's see if I can find a picture of it, actually. It's like a mechanism that makes it so you

can aim where you need to aim, but you can't move the gun around as you would like to move it around. Let's see. is that going to show me the picture yes it is okay so you have like this the gun's locked into like this metal bracket and you can move it up and down and you can like angle it but because in the uh i think a couple of years back someone went there and then shot themselves, like, trying to kill themselves. Um, yeah, new regulation came in because as soon

as anything bad happens with guns, there's going to be, like, a snap lockdown, there'll be a snap, um, change in regulations on how it works, and, yeah, now, I, I didn't go before this happened, but from what I've heard from people who did, it's far, far less

fun the way it's set up now which like obviously the bad thing someone tried to kill themselves there but I don't really think that doing this makes sense it sort of makes more sense if you're gonna have how you should probably have more people watching each other, or more staff watching the people actually firing, rather than sort of taking away a lot of the fun that the range actually had. Because ultimately, I'm not going to get too deep into this, ultimately if someone wanted to kill themselves, like, you're in Adelaide, there's a highway, like, outside.

So, yeah. Anyway, I'm not, that's enough for that. Um, God. Okay. Hopefully this, hopefully this podcast doesn't make my throat feel worse. Yesterday, I wanted to record another video. I'm probably going to push that back to next week now. Uh, I was a video ahead because of the video I did on free nodes.

So I only need to record five videos this week as opposed to six so next week i'll do seven instead of the normal six i do and then i'll i'll be i'll be uh completely caught up then so what i'll probably end up doing after this before i do the um the kingdom hearts live stream which will happen tonight at this stage i'm probably going to go and maybe plan out one or two more videos, just so I can take some of that time away, so I don't end up falling behind further because of, uh, because of the recording, basically just making sure my week doesn't, or my following, following week doesn't become an absolute fucking mess, it'll still be a mess, because my sleep's still not great. It's better in some ways, but the problem I have right now, like, while I can get to sleep just fine,

the problem I have is I keep getting woken up way earlier than I normally should, because I have a fucking housemate who, she's not here right now, and she's literally never gonna watch this. I have this fucking housemate who for some reason at like seven in the morning rather than just having an alarm like you know a normal person what she has is like her stereo just comes on at seven blast music to wake her up and i don't know why and she's been doing this for like the past year or so and she's like oh i don't have an alarm at seven o'clock in the morning. Like, what do you think that is?

That literally is your alarm. It comes on at the exact same time. Even there was like a week last year where she wasn't home. And it came on at the exact same time. So if that's not an alarm, I don't know what is. It's very obviously an alarm. Like, this place is better than my last place. Like, my last place was... I've talked about it before, my last place was an absolute

fucking, absolute fucking mess, where my, I guess you'd consider him the landlord, so I was in a place that was being sublet, basically where you rent a place and then you rent it out to other people, technically it's illegal but, you know as long as the actual landlord is getting their rent.

Most of them don't really care. But the point I was getting at here was. That guy. He acted as if he owned the house. And acted as if he was the only one who actually lived there. And that's the sort of person that is kind of a mess to live with like it's fine to live like you usually have two kinds of people you have the people who think they're in a share house and acknowledge the fact that other people

are there and the people who think they live by themselves and act like they live by themselves and this guy would like throw parties at 2 in the morning, and then blast music that would shake the house until, like, 6 or 7 a.m., which is absolutely fucking insane. Like, it's one thing, you know, to have something going until midnight, and then if it's going to keep going,

you talk to your housemates, like, hey, we're going to do this, uh, just to warn you, this guy never warned anyone, though, like, I would be falling asleep just fine, and then two in the morning, the entire fucking house shaking, feels like we're gonna, so we're on, like, this, this hill, feels like there's gonna be a fucking mudslide that happened because of all this noise, that was, that place was an absolute mess, here's generally better and the worst besides the waking up at seven in the morning thing the worst thing i had to happen is the other night uh they came home and they were like yelling as they're walking the door because they're absolutely fucking drunk and i think that went to like 12 30 or

something like that not super late later than I would like it to go because, you know, I want to be asleep by 12.30. I'm usually climbing into bed by 11.30, try to go to sleep at 12. That's my general schedule. It doesn't always work out like that. Like if I work a midnight shift, for example, obviously I climb into bed about 12.30, gets bed about 1 or so. But when I do a normal shift or I don't work, yeah, that's my usual go-to. And I was surprised. I was really annoyed that night.

Like, why the fuck are you making so much noise? One of them did apologise to me, like sorry we made a lot of noise last night was that a problem? I was like it's fine, apology that's literally all I'd wanted and you know what

I changed my opinion on that one person that was making a lot of noise the others, well haven't heard anything from them. I guess they just don't really care. Sharehousing is a bit of a weird one. It's a great way to save money if you get really good housemates. Or if you obviously go and pick people for yourself that you know. Or that you at least give them time to show they're actually decent people.

Share housing can be a great way to save a bit of money. But if you have housemates that are not great, it's going to be an equally not great experience. But the sort of people that I like are the people who either keep to themselves or acknowledge the fact that you want to keep to yourself. I think that's a good way to put it. So the original guy I live with, besides the shit kicker that was always partying, the original other housemate I had, he basically just sat in his room all the time, we actually worked together as well until he got fired

that's a story I'll get into in a bit actually so we worked together when he was at home though, he basically just sat in his room and the only time he came out was to smoke and if I saw him outside I'd usually chat with him for a bit and then go back to my room

chill dude, That was cool. The guy who replaced him after that was, like, a big old fucking gym bro dude who took, like, way too... He actually did take testosterone. He took, like, way, way too much fucking testosterone, though. He was, like, one of those absolutely fucking... Like, absolutely hyped gym bros, dude. Awesome guy, though, I think he also, he also, like, calmed it down by, like, smoking lots and lots of weed, uh, I will neither confirm nor deny

my consumption of illicit substances without a lawyer, um, you can work it out for yourself, chill dude, though, he did come out of his room a lot more, but he acknowledged the fact that, like, yeah, if I don't... I'm not going to come out that much. I'm going to just sit in my room, be doing my own thing. But if someone wants to chat,

like, I'm more than happy to chat with them. Those are the people that are good to live with. I did actually run into him not that long ago. I think, actually, I say not that long ago. I think, actually, I say not that long ago. I think it would have been about a year now. He went from being like a big jacked gym bro to being like a skinny running bro. I don't know why.

I guess he wanted the change from like smashing out weights all the time. I don't know. Either way, he's in a much fitter condition than I am. I've sort of let my fitness deteriorate since I left that place, because that was the place where I recorded in the

shed. The shed that had a couple of pieces of gym equipment. I didn't realise how much having gym equipment in your house would encourage you to actually use it. By having something that close, like going to the gym is all well and good, but by having gym equipment literally in the same place as your house,

it makes you more considering to go there. Like even five minutes down the road is still, it's still enough to convince you that you don't want to do it, but it's much harder to convince yourself that you're too lazy to go do it when, yeah, you know, you can just walk like 10 steps to do it. Ultimately though, I'm sure that some people would still find ways to not work out, and there were plenty of days where I did as well. Like, I've been trying to work out more, not, like, gym stuff, but I'm trying to at least go outside and go for walks. Most days I'm kind of trying to get out.

My excuse to myself, though, that I need to deal with is the fact that at work I walk around a lot, so it's not like I'm kind of trying to get out. My excuse to myself, though, that I need to deal with is the fact that at work, I walk around a lot. So it's not like I'm just never, you know, walking around. I work usually three to four days a week. And at my job, I'm packing shelves. And doing that,

you need to like walk around a lot. You move your arms a lot. And, you know, you're still getting some sort of workout. But getting out into the sun, I think it's less the workout part that I think is important. It's more just being out in the sun because winter is especially bad for this.

Winter, even in Australia, like you still don't get a lot of sun most of the time. There are occasional days where you get like blue skies, but usually the weather is going to be more like what we have this week where it's like rain oh i guess it's a thunderstorm on tuesday yay i hope that doesn't knock the power out that's my main recording day um but yeah this is the usual weather you get when you have um when you have winter here so getting sunlight is getting sunlight when you can is for the best,

even though you probably should be, uh, supplementing vitamin D, which I do. Uh, it's, it's still best to like, it,

it's not healthy to be locked in a box all the time. That's the point here. You need it. Everyone needs to get outside. I don't know how anyone would be able to stand doing like a, an office job where you don't have, you know, windows, for like if I if I was working in an office I would like to be one of the people that are as close to the window as possible even though

You know out the window you're probably gonna see if you're working the sea you'll see fucking nothing it's not as bad as like US cities, but In Australia, yeah, it, there's still going to be tall buildings, um, and it's not a great view, but it's still light that isn't, like, you know, artificial light, like, you know, these. I was going to change my light colours

before I started recording. I just didn't do it. Purple and green? Let's see what we can do. How's that going to... How's that look? That's not bad. We'll do it like that for the rest of the episode. This control is very convenient. Even though

the light recreation or the colour recreation is not at all representative to the icons you see on here. Like, if I press, I think it's the orange one, or like one of the orange ones, you get, like, a pink. This is what I get when I buy shit off of eBay.

Anyway, I wanted to get into the guy who got fired. So, this guy actually was a pretty cool dude. And I don't know if he was... I don't know if the firing was justified. I know his side of the story. I know the other side of the story,. I know his side of the story. I know the other side of the story, like the store side of the story. And I still don't know who ultimately was lying about it.

So basically what he, what the reason why he was fired, whether it actually happened or not is we have these. So when you work in a supermarket and you are an employee to buy stuff there generally they'll have some sort of sticker or some way to mark that an employee has purchased that product or the store has purchased that product so that if you know you go and use that product they they don't think you're stealing it so at my store we have these like bright orange things called check seals you stick stick them over the barcode,

and you get whoever's working at the counter to sign it and say, hey, look, this was actually purchased. Now, what supposedly happened is he grabbed a seal for himself. He was actually carrying a roll of seals himself, which I find very unlikely. But he took a seal and then put it over, I think it was, I don't know, an ice chocolate or something like that. Some sort of like chocolate or coffee drink. Nothing really that expensive, like a, at most like a $3 drink.

Not like, you know uh i don't know say we're doing a thing where we were selling air fries for example like 50 to 100 products no it was like a three dollar drink uh and supposedly he was caught by the manager of the checkouts and obviously then taken to the big bosses and dealt with like that. But the reason why this story was kind of weird. And I wasn't sure who to actually believe. Is the guy who reported him never actually liked him. And sort of wanted him to be fired for a very long time. That's why it felt kind of weird to me.

Like it would be one thing if some, like, random person he'd never met at the store was the one that reported him, but the fact that this manager sort of had a vendetta against him in the first place made it kind of weird. Now, I might just be speaking from a biased position. It's definitely a biased position

because I was friends with the guy who did get fired. Um, but it, that, like, if, if, okay, just think of it like this. If you're working a job, and the guy who, and you're reported by, oh, we'll step back a second. If you're a manager,

and someone reports another employee, and that person never liked that employee before, I would take what they're saying with a grain of salt. Now, there are cameras in the checkout area, so ultimately they could check the cameras. I'm sure they would have, hopefully, but I don't know if the... I'd heard mumblings that the manager who also fired him never liked him either. So it's this weird situation of people who don't like each other

reporting each other. I don't know. Work politics are weird. That's what I have to say about work politics. Like, it's... It's bad enough when you work in a supermarket where everyone makes minimum wage. And I'm sure that only gets multiplied more and more

as you go into, like, higher-paying jobs where there's more of a corporate ladder where, you know, there's actually a way to be promoted. Like, if you work in a supermarket, the only real promotion you have is you can go from lowly grunt to manager of lowly grunts and maybe if you're lucky you can go to the manager of the manager of lowly grunts and that's about as far as you get

if you're actually no there's one more step maybe if you're really lucky you become the the store uh the store manager of the manager of the manager of the lowly grunts. At that point, you actually do get paid a lot. I'm not knocking anyone who actually is a store manager or upper management in a supermarket. They actually do get paid a lot. But the point is that there's not really a ladder to climb.

Most people stay the lowly grunts because they have the job while they're in university or high school or something like that. At most, maybe they'll become like the manager of the grunts. But take that and then put it into like, you know, a Microsoft-like company or, you know, any sort of company that has like a big corporate ladder

where you can go from being someone very low to like the manager of them and the manager of those the manager manager manager and all these levels up the management eventually gets like the board of directors and the ceo i can only imagine like how much like backstabbing and how much lying and and just being deceitful to try to get up that ladder because it's it's one thing to say hey look these people are my friends and i'm sure there are definitely good people who work in that corporate space but i don't think you could be a good person and climb that ladder because ultimately if you want to climb the ladder you're going to have to make someone else

not be able to climb. And. There will be people who. There are bad people out there. Who will do anything in their power. To make it so you cannot climb. Uh. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe I'm just talking out of my.

Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass. Maybe I've watched too much TV but there are definitely bad people out there who will do anything they can to make as much money as possible even if it's not just like in a legitimate

position like that, if you go look at like you know you go look at like the scammer space on Instagram and Instagram is actually a big one for scammers right now. You'll have a lot of these Forex traders and crypto bots and all this stuff, which there are legitimate things in that space.

But when someone's like, yes, we will give you 500% returns within one month. Uh, yeah, you can clearly see that that's the kind of person who would be the kind of person who would backstab you to get a promotion i think i did yeah i did talk about how i was watching a lot of coffee zilla two weeks ago i think yeah because last

week was the vtube episode i have no idea how well that's going to perform uh it's gone up live the day that this is being recorded. So, I don't know. It seemed like it was doing relatively well when I checked it before. But most things on that channel do relatively well at the start. Holy shit. It's actually doing relatively...

What the fuck? It actually is doing really well. Okay, sure. it's my second yeah it's in second place right under the system 76 made a keyboard maybe it's because i put vtuber in the title that could very well be the case maybe i'm getting people who aren't fans of vtubers or aren't fans of my channel actually watching it that could be the case. Maybe I'm getting people who aren't fans of YouTubers, or aren't fans of my channel, actually watching it. That could be the case. Maybe that video in, like, a year would just magically explode. I know

that YouTube's weird like that. I got a recommendation for a video that, I don't know how it happened. Let's see. Something about the metric system. I think it's metric system 101 or something. Let's see. We just the metric system. I think it's metric system 101 or something. Let's see. If we just look up metric system, I'll probably find it.

No, it's just called metric system one. This is the second episode of it. Basically, it's explaining how the metric system works and why the US customer units

no that's not what it's called the US system of units is absolute gibberish basically it goes into how everything in the metric system is based around the meter so if you have you know a meter by meter by meter

cube of water that works out to be a thousand kilograms and all the all the different conversions you can have in so enough yeah a thousand kilograms and a thousand uh a thousand liters as well and all of the uh all of the i, units in the metric system all flow together like that in basically a way that you can very easily understand in your head. He went into some examples like, okay, so let's see why the, I guess, some call it imperial system.

I guess the US system is not technically that. There's like variations of the system, but generally it's called it imperial system. I guess the US system is not technically that. There's like variations of the system. But generally it's called the imperial system. Anyway. He went into like okay. So how many feet are in an inch? And how many inches are in a yard? And how many feet are in a mile?

And I'm sure if you live in the US system. Most of those things probably make sense but there's no I guess relationship between you know if we have a feet by feet by feet tube of water

that doesn't really relate to anything meaningful if you then convert that into pounds and you convert it into gallons I don't fucking remember the uh the imperial measurements but it's not like that metric system and among other reasons part of the reason why it's better i i understand partially why um why people like the why people like Fahrenheit I

didn't really see the point of for a while but after people sort of talked about why it's useful I sort of I sort of have a bit of a soft spot for it even though I have no interest in actually using Fahrenheit.

I'm sure this is going to be really obvious to the Americans listening but for anyone in a sensible country that uses Celsius the advantage of Fahrenheit is that in the ranges of temperature you care about it's much easier to discern the difference. So you can't really tell much of a difference between like 32 degrees Celsius and 33 degrees Celsius. It doesn't sound like much.

Obviously, you can feel the difference, but it doesn't sound like that big of a difference. But if you go from 89.6 up to 91.4, there's a bit of a bigger gap there. That's not, that's probably not the best example. Let's go in. I think it makes more sense in like the mid range. So 25 to 26.

Actually, no, I was wrong. It makes more sense in the upper range. Or like the difference between like 33.5 and 34 like that's a that doesn't really mean that much I guess is probably a a simple way to look at it but if you have those bigger ranges I I guess, I guess this, it provides more meaning to the way that people actually think about temperature, I guess. Even if we're doing things like, you know, boiling water, it's gibberish. Uh what? is 100 is 100C cold or I'm sorry, what?

is 100C cold or hot? what? the fuck are we looking at here? okay, what is this? minus 30, that is 30 degrees below zero, ice, freezer very cold if you're outside in this temperature, unbearable to most, yeah, that's, uh, that's, that's the temperature you probably are going to die at, uh, negative 10, ice, very cold, but, but bearable in lots of warm clothing, like, what am I reading here? Okay, zero, water freezes, ice melts, um, no, ice does not

melt at, what? Wait, hold up, hold up a second, ice does not melt at zero, ice melts above zero, what okay okay thinkmetric.uk you literally do not understand how water works okay good to know uh four degrees fridge cold water has its smallest volume at this temperature that actually is a good point so when you have a um a meter by meter by meter cube of water, and that's going to be 1,000 kilograms. Yeah, 1,000 kilograms. That is assuming the water is at 4 degrees Celsius where water has the smallest volume. Yeah, because otherwise you can't actually fit a kilogram into that box.

10 is cool. Sorry, 10 is cold. Yeah, okay. Yeah, some people disagree, but as an Australian, I very, very clearly, very clearly agree with that one. 15 is cool. 20, room indoors warm. Okay, this is definitely based around the UK, isn't it?

Yeah, think metric UK. 20 is warm. Okay, sure. 25, warm room, warm to hot. Typical maximum temperature for British summer. Wow, the British are very weak creatures. Actually, to be fair, I don't want to be in zero, so they can accept the cold.

I'll just take the heat. That's good. Let's see. 37. Body temperature, very hot. This is the average human body temperature. Is it 37? Okay.

Actually, I always forget what that number is, which is probably bad, considering that, you know, it's probably useful to know if you're sick. 40. Washing machine setting for normal clothes. Very hot. If you're outside in this temperature, you will feel hot, but more so if humidity is high. Wouldn't you feel cooler if the humidity was high? If your internal body temperature reaches this level,

you're in danger of death. I actually wash my clothes with a cold wash. Yeah, I cold wash everything because I don't want my inks to run. I'm too lazy to separate stuff. Anyway, there you go.

You learned something about me. 50. Extremely hot. Not many places get this high in temperature and this heat you would need to find shade drink water and stay cool uh where does get I'm gonna guess like India gets to 50 I know India gets to

mid 40s in summer India temperature uh, summer let's see 40s in summer. India temperature. Summer. Let's see. 41. Summer's hot and dry.

Daytime temperature is around 41C. That is horrible. Maybe in like the Sahara desert or something. I don't know. There will be places that get to 50. If we're going by this chart actually being correct. 60. Washing machine setting for hot wash. Too hot to live in. Most bacteria die at this temperature. I am gonna have to fact check that with my sister. Let's see. 90.

Washing machine setting for hottest wash. Why would you ever wash clothes like that? That seems like a bad idea. Too hot to live in. Humans cannot survive high temperatures. Uh-huh. 100. Water boils in the kettle. Water turns to steam. But I thought steam would also turn to water back at this. If we're going by the fact that at zero,

water freezes and ice melts. Whatever. You're just going to forget about that. 1000. Lava from a volcano going to forget about that. A thousand. Lava from a volcano. I'm sure that would differ, but yeah, sure, we'll go with that. Melting point of iron. 1535.

At this temperature, iron will turn into liquid form to be used in industrial manufacturing processes. I thought it was more... My brain just assumed there was more to that sentence and just didn't know what to do. 2750. Bo thought it was more. My brain just like assumed there was more to that sentence. And just didn't know what to do. 2750. Boiling point of iron. The temperature at which iron boils and vaporizes. Their chart's a little broken here.

But look. Why are there words across two lines? What? 15. 5500, sorry. Surface of the sun. And then, what is that? That's 15 million core of the sun.

Okay. Huh. Why did I read that? I genuinely don't know why I read through all of that. Alright, I was looking at boiling temperatures and stuff. Yeah, that and why Fahrenheit sort of made a little bit of sense. Hmm.

I guess. Whatever. Whatever. Um, thinking of things, I realise my room is actually quite dusty. I was, um, I, like, lined my finger along my soundboard, and holy crap, I don't know if you'll be able to see it. Let's, let's, let's see. Can you see it? Uh, no, not really. Um, yeah,

there's a lot of dust on it, so I think I'm gonna have to clean up my, my room this weekend. I've been putting it off for a couple of weeks because I'm an adult and I'm too lazy to do my chores. Most of my room is fine. If we look at my floor, my floor is generally clean except the fact that it really needs

a vacuum. But the dust is the big problem. I did actually go and clean my monitors the other week though. I think I've had these for close to a year now. And I don't think I've cleaned them once. So, there was a lot of, like, finger marks on them. And, you know, the sort of...

And, like, occasionally, like, you know, you'll speak. And there'll be, like, a little bit of spit that comes out. And it gets stuck on the screen. Stuff like that. And it didn't feel... Like like as I was cleaning it, it didn't feel like it was getting that much cleaner. But once you see a monitor that has been cleaned afterwards, it definitely is a bit of a difference.

And especially in situations where I have this window open, so usually when I'm not recording, the window will be open because I actually, you know, like to have light, um, and when it's open, there's gonna be a bit of glare, even though these screens are in a relatively decent spot to make it so it's not a massive deal, it's still enough of a problem where I don't want to deal with it, so clean those up, less specs on the screen, we're good. I haven't touched the TV behind it. I've considered getting rid of the TV.

Like, I don't use it that often. Mainly what I'm using it for right now is as a glorified teleprompter. And if I'm going to do that, I might as well go and buy like a second hand, like 13 inch monitor and put it on a monitor arm. Let's see. Monitor. Let's see. What can we find? I don't want to pay a thousand dollars.

Here we go. Like something like this or a 22 inch BenQ monitor for $80. That's actually, I don't even know if it's any shit and any shit. I don't know if it's any decent, it probably isn't, but if it has a vase amount, do you have a picture of the back? This would do, you don't, of course you don't, uh, that would do just fine. I actually have considered putting all of my monitors on monitor arms, because that would give me a couple of... Obviously, getting rid of the TV first. That would give me a couple of things I could do. Firstly, I could shift the camera back a little bit further

so you get a bit more of my room, which will actually be very useful once I get my new lens because that's going to be a... It's going to have a slightly higher crop factor, I believe, or slightly higher focal length. Focal length? Focal length. Is that it? It's going to be a 16mm lens rather than a 15mm lens.

So it'll be slightly more cropped in. And having my camera back further will be able to alleviate that. But, hmm. Monitor arms are expensive. At least good monitor arms i know you can get like really cheap ones but if i'm gonna get monitor arms i'm gonna get something actually decent like something that i can buy and then i can just like you know have basically forever like an ergotron arm for example that's probably where I'm gonna end up going and Ergotrons are

Ergotrons are a little bit expensive. Let's go to the multi monitor mounts and ooh three monitor arm. Wow Let's see this one how much is this? Shop online this is probably going to be very expensive uh, oh, not that bad actually, $330 but, an Ergotron Ergotrons are absolutely amazing these are like all metal construction

like, something that's going to actually last you a while, and I would put my main monitor and my secondary monitor on that, and then I would get another arm and put the um put the other monitor like probably I would probably have to put it slightly above the camera but I might have it like slightly below so like I don't need to see the entire thing so have like the bezel behind the camera or something like that. Hmm.

Future problems, basically. Future problems. I don't want to get rid of this TV because it is a good TV. I paid a couple hundred dollars for it and it's not like amazing, but like, it's a couple hundred dollars. I want to waste some money just because you know, I want to... Anyway. I might just send it up to my parents' place.

That's not a bad idea because my room up there doesn't have a TV in it and I'm already storing a ton of my junk there anyway so maybe I'll do that hmm I might ask them about it and see what they say they'll probably say yes they don't really care if I store my junk up there I've already got their shed so when i moved out of my parents place uh i had a bunch i they like my mom just left most of the stuff there so i've got like a bunch of like dinner sets and stuff just all packed up

into boxes i need to go up there at some point and you know kind of clear out what was put in there because i basically boxed everything up without really considering what to throw away and i'm sure there is a ton of junk in there that i just don't really think i'll ever use like you know who needs like three dinner sets for example or there might be some actually i honestly don't even know what's in there I genuinely don't know there's so much stuff because basically it was whatever was left in the house after my mum left I've talked about what happened

it's not like she just abandoned me even though she kind of thinks she does every time she fucking talks to me but what was I saying right she went to go live up there with her boyfriend, which is cool because he's a cool dude.

It did mean me and my sister did have to find places within like two months, which was less fun. She's living in a shed. In her boyfriend's... Not her boyfriend's shed. Her boyfriend's parent's shed, which is even better. So I feel like I'm in a better place in life.

I don't know. Maybe I'm not. Maybe the share house is the worst place, but I don't know. I'm just happy to have a roof over my head. That's ultimately all that matters. At the end of the day, the fact that I'm not

sleeping at a petrol station I think is a good plus. Yeah. I don't know where I was going with that. Anyway. Junk? Yes. Something. I need to clear out the junk in this room as well.

I've got, so, someone suggested the other day, because I was talking about, like, how my bed takes a lot of space, they were like, hey, why don't you get a, uh, a Murphy bed, if you don't know what a Murphy bed is, because Murphy bed isn't a term used in a lot of places, um, Murphy, but not Dan Murphy's, that's, that's a very different story, a Murphy bed is a, uh, a wall bed, bed is a wall bed. So, let's see. One of one of one of the, yeah, it's a very simple example.

One of these guys, where the bed folds up into like, you know, into the wall. That one actually doesn't take up that much space. Mmm. You can get real fancy ones like they have your cabinets and all that stuff in there. Or you could go very simple. Why is that three and a half

thousand dollars though? Three and a half thousand dollars basically for a blank cabinet that has a bed inside of it. Um. I think I think that might be a little bit expensive. That's the one, that's one of the other problems with Murphy beds. It would save me a lot of space. I would better have this all like packed up when I record.

But, yeah. Uh, very expensive. how much is this one this actually that would work kind of well that's a different angle I didn't even consider one like that that is yeah once again two and a half thousand dollars still very expensive but the other problem I have is that under the bed there is my storage space. This is sort of the case when I was at my, at my parents' house as well. But even so,

even more so now, anything that I want to make sure doesn't get disappeared by housemates, because whenever you live with other people, some of your shit is just going to go missing. Anything I want to make sure doesn't go missing lives under the bed because if it's in shed yeah just don't put things in shed storage space because people are gonna think it's their stuff take it and whatever um but there's a lot of junk under here that i probably could chuck out like i don't know what i know there's like boxes of cables and stuff under

there and i've got a drawer now where I put all my cables so it probably makes sense to put stuff in there and I've got like I think I've got like a collection I'm not going to throw this out because I kind of want to keep them a collection of all of my old IDs so not just like my my original driver's license but also my like uh high school ids as well i might show you those at some point uh have i mentioned the school i go to it's probably fine it's probably on my linkedin um but yeah i i basically look the same as i did in grade 8. So that would have been when I was 13. As I do now. Except for the beard.

Basically, I'm just less babyface now. But there's other junk under there that I just don't need. That I've just kept around because... You know, it's the sort of... Everyone... Everyone sort of has a bit of a hoarder mentality, even if they don't think they do. Why am I getting messages? What is this?

This is not a number in my phone book. What is this? What are you messaging me about? Summer bodies are made in winter with 48 clubs in SA. Now is the time to try Anytime Fitness. All right. I gave Anytime Fitness my phone number a couple years back. Don't give businesses your phone number because they'll keep trying to, like, get you to join them.

But anyway, I need to check whatever's down under here. Get rid of it. Some of the stuff can go up in the... I've got, like, not loft space. I've got, like, a shelf in my closet that I can put stuff up there. And some stuff probably makes more sense to put up there. I actually should check up there and see if there's anything

I need to chuck out from up there as well. Maybe I could wait until spring cleaning to do it or I could stop being fucking lazy. Spring cleaning is one of those things where people just put off doing any big house cleaning because spring cleaning is when I'm

going to do it. I do take advantage of that spring cleaning energy as well, but I try to make sure I'm still keeping stuff generally clean before that. That'll be a fun weekend when I do go up there and actually deal with that stuff.

It'll be a fun weekend when I just go up to my parents' place and actually see them there. It's not like I don't see my parents. Okay. It's not like I don't see my mum. I haven't seen my dad in a very long time. Whole nother story there. Not getting into that one. That's, that's...

Yeah, not dealing with that. Maybe one day. But... When I go see my mom and my stepdad, usually they're the ones coming to see me because they live rural. And whenever they want to go do any, like, you know, they want to go, I don't know, I don't fucking know what they're shopping.

They like, they like going shopping a lot. And there's a lot of shops that are just not out there. Like they want to go to places like Anaconda. Which is like a sporting. Is it a sporting goods store? Wait no camping store. Sorry. Anaconda is a camping store.

Yeah. Anaconda is a camping store. And there's some like tool stores they want to go to. That they just don't have any branches out that way. And they're usually here like every weekend or every second weekend so when my mom's like oh when are you gonna come see us like mate i fucking see you like every two weeks but i do need a holiday i genuinely do i was thinking it last night i haven't had you know a good time off in a while, like, I've set it up now so I get my

weekends off, so, or at least I get my Sunday off and most of my Saturday off, but I still haven't had, like, a, you know, a week off or two weeks off where, I don't know, I go, I go somewhere, I go, I go holiday somewhere, maybe I go down to the beach for like a day or so, and then go somewhere else, I, I haven't, I don't think I've ever actually gone on a holiday by myself, I think since I've left high school, I, whenever I've had time off, I've always basically just been at home, or I'd have like a weekend thing where I'd go up to my parents or I'd go see some mates or something like that. I haven't actually gone

on an actual holiday. I'm 23. 23. Uh, I really should. And I was thinking last night that I maybe I should just do a little bit

of extra work get myself so i i can still get like the keep the channel running over that week have like an extra six videos like backlog for that and then just have them scheduled to come out during that time maybe have no podcast podcast. Podcast isn't a big deal. There wouldn't obviously be any streams. Turn my Wi-Fi off and just go places. I don't know where. I know my parents do like to travel a lot more, so I might ask them where would be a good place to go.

I know they were down at Middleton. The other weekend. Middleton is. Beach area. And good place for fishing. That would be fun. That would be fun. But.

I'm probably not going to do it until the. The weather gets a bit nicer. I don't want to exactly go on like a holiday. In the of winter and then be able to do nothing because you know it's raining the entire time so uh i don't know why i switched back to that one also if you look at middleton you basically just find nothing but kate middleton i don't fucking care i literally do not care about royals i've talked about it before i i i couldn't care less about what the royals are actually doing um and now that i have a bit of extra disposable income going on a holiday would be a bit easier because i was already paying the bills just fine with just the um the channel money

but now that i've got some i made a quite a bit of money from the crypto boom uh and i've also got the channel that's bringing money as well i can justify spending a bit extra to go go chill out somewhere even if i don't have an extra money i've been working basically non-stop long enough where it feels like i am basically in need for a holiday. Because normally around this time of the year I would be going to like Avcon and doing things like that but I didn't go this year because Avcon is

sort of a mess. That's the anime and video game convention. Big convention in Adelaide. Not a big convention anywhere else. I say big but it's like really small compared to like actual big conventions. Anyway, not the point. So the, the sort of holiday stuff that I would normally be doing, I just haven't been able to do this year.

So maybe, maybe doing a touristy thing would be fun. I don't know. I've, I've never done it. So, and, you know, leaving the country right now is a much harder process to do. So that one's I think we can flatten that one

out a bit more. Flatten that one out? We can bookmark that one. Yeah, we can bookmark that one, we'll say, and come back to it later. Because at some point, I do want to go fly to Japan. Go to Japan for, like, I don't know, a week or so. Let's see. Maybe two weeks.

I don't know. Can you even fly to Japan right now? I don't even fucking know. Yes, you can. But you need a two-week quarantine. Like, that's what I mean. Like, there's no reason to no reason to to go on a holiday outside of your country

if you have to have a two week quarantine, that's insane you'd have to have at least a four week holiday then which would just not work and also apparently the cheapest flight on cheap flights is $10,000

alright And also, apparently the cheapest flight on cheap flights is $10,000. All right. Yeah, let's not do that one. Oh, my Lord. Yeah, one day, one day I would like to do that. Oh, this one's $2,000. Yeah, no. My first flight in a long time is probably going to be to, like, Melbourne or something. Because Melbourne's much cheaper to fly to.

Can't do that, though. Because they're in another extended lockdown. Because Melbourne is a little bit fucked. There's two, okay, Melbourne is like, Melbourne is like Australia's attempt at a American city where you have too many people living in one place. And when you have that many people in one place and you have a, you know, a disease that's going around, turns out being in somewhere that has a lot of high density cities a, you know, a disease that's going around. Turns out, being in somewhere that has a lot of high-density cities,

bad idea. This is why Adelaide's doing so well. Because nobody fucking lives here. Uh, yeah. The Adelaide population is very small. Very, very small. Actually, let's go South Australia.

South Australia population. Very, very small. Actually, let's go South Australia. South Australia population. 1.7 million. Ah, yeah. There's no one here. It is a pretty big state, and there's only that many people. Actually, wait. How... I don't know how big South Australia is relative to

some of the states in the US but if you look at it like that I'm pretty sure we have less population than a lot of the states and more land space yeah I think that works out

something like that speaking of things that work out let's move to another topic and i want to talk about i want to talk about capitalism not really i want to talk about i want to talk about the new mcdonald's meal the mcdonald's bts meal so i didn't even know this was a thing that existed until I saw Critical's video on it. And you know what? He convinced me to try it. Not because he convinced me that it was going to be good, but because he convinced me that it was going to just,

it was just going to be some maccas. And you know what? It was just some fucking maccas. So basically, if you were living under a rock and you somehow never saw the ads for it, the BTS meal was large fries, a drink, Cajun and sweet chili sauce, and also 10 nuggets. Which isn't a bad meal.

I think I paid $12.45 for it because Australia fast food is very expensive. I tried the new BTS meal at McDonald's. Here's why it's great. I'm going to be the exact opposite of this. I tried the new BTS meal at McDonald's. And it was very, very, very fucking boring. It literally...

It's not like... These aren't like special nuggets or anything. The only thing that's special are these sauces. It's not like these aren't like special nuggets or anything. The only thing that's special are these sauces So if you expect anything crazy from it don't As soon as I saw that critical video though, I actually did start getting ads for the BTS meal. So I bought it You know what Cajun sauce? It's it's it's it's pretty if Like, it's... Okay, when I see Cajun and I see a big fire emoji on your sauce,

I had expected that would mean, oh, it was going to be spicy sauce. It wasn't spicy. It wasn't spicy at all. I don't know what this sauce is made of, but, like... It's just... I don't know what this sauce is made of but like it's just it's just I don't know what it's not spicy at all we immediately tried the sauce of course and it made the McDonald's nuggets

taste like something I wasn't ashamed of eating okay so this person does acknowledge the fact that the Cajun sauce was not good enough for us spice loving taste buds it's hot mustard taste sure whatever

sweet chilli sauce though now I am a big connoisseur of sweet chilli sauce I don't know if you know this about me but I fucking adore sweet chili sauce. It is objectively the best sauce. On the planet. I don't care what you have to say about ketchup.

Or mustard. I don't care. Sweet chili is where it's at. Now this sweet chili sauce. Was spicier than the Cajun sauce. I don't know how they did that. I guess they just didn't make the sweet chili sweet enough. That doesn't mean the sweet chili was bad, though.

That honestly made it better. I kind of wish they just got rid of the Cajun sauce and just gave you two sweet chilies, or maybe a sweet chili and an actual chili or something. I don't know. But when Critical said, oh, the sweet chili sauce was kind of spicy, I didn't think he was actually onto something. I thought he was just a bit of a bitch.

No, it actually is a little bit spicy. Not like, you know, it's really spicy. This is so bad. But spicier than you would generally expect from a sweet chili sauce. I kind of hope that, I know they won't do it because I've worked at Mac's before and I know how they do stuff. I kind of hope that they keep the sweet chili sauce around. What they usually do though is whenever they have special sauces for whatever deal they're

doing, the special sauces are there for the extent of the deal. They used to have a I think it was a Chipotle sauce? Yeah, Chipotle sauce that had like a spicy sauce. They've had some, actually some really good sauces in the past and they just get rid of them after the deal's

over. Which is kind of annoying because the one thing that Macca's does have over KFC is that most of their sauces are better. I don't know what sauces KFC has in America. But here we have sweet chili, supercharged, which is their spicy sauce, barbecue. I was going to say sweet and sour, but that's one of the things that KFC is missing.

Sweet and sour is so fucking good at Macca's. And I always miss it whenever I can go and buy anything from KFC. I feel like that sauce would go really well with their chicken. But sadly, they don't have it. You bought three of them. For under $20. I wish that fast food was that cheap. Actually I don't wish it was that cheap.

Because then I'd probably eat it more than I actually do. But ultimately at the end. The BTS meal is. It's Macca's. It's fucking Macca's. It's just some chicken nuggies, isn't it? Whatever. I didn't expect too much from it after Critical's very middling review.

But I still wanted it. I still... I still... I still... What's the word? Partook in capitalism is one way to put it. I'm not going to suggest that anyone gets it, but if you happen to be at Macca's and you want to try new sauces, I guess,

and you like chicken nuggets, which everyone should, I guess buy it. Actually, one thing I, one problem I had with the Maccas I got it from is they just, like, left everything open. So, they left the nuggets

open, then just put the, like, fries just laying down on top of it. So, by the time I got home, all the fries were, like, in the nugget box. And because the box was open the nuggets had also cooled down a bit as well, so I just chucked it in the microwave heated it back up, it was good

Macca's is one of those few one of those few few brands if you chuck in the microwave, I think it gets better, KFC I don't know what the fuck they make their KFC chicken out of, but it's quite questionable

how it tastes after a microwave. If you heat it up just a little bit, just a little tad bit, it's okay. Any more and you're kind of screwed. It's so weird that people were freaking out about this BTS meal, though. It's... Yeah that people were freaking out about this BTS meal, though. Like, it's...

Yeah, there's no actual merch. One commenter asked. It's just chicken nuggets. I think in some places there were, like, actual merch you got. Like, maybe in Korea or something. I don't know. But, yeah, in Australia there was no merch or anything. It's just... Oh, yeah, also, we didn't... I don't know. But yeah, in Australia there was no merch or anything. It's just...

Oh yeah, also, we didn't... I don't think we had a special box. I think... Oh no, we did? Is this the Australian one? I guess we did have a special box and just didn't pay attention. Or maybe they had run out of the BTS meal boxes and just gave me

a regular box. Because I don't recall seeing a special box. Because I don't recall seeing a special box. Hmm. I don't know. I feel like KFC would have done a deal like this better, because they're happy to bring in new shit, and then get rid of it within like a week. So they'll have things like their Zinger meals.

Sorry, Zinger... What were they called? zinger no zinger zinger wrap? it wasn't zinger wrap or is that a anyway KFC brings in special items for special occasions Macca's is fucking lazy they're like how do we put the bare minimum

effort into doing anything we want to do this this right here. This is how. This is how you put in bare minimum effort. Macca's did bring in like special burgers occasionally, but the problem with doing that is no one buys them, because if you go to McDonald's like you want cheap food, and whenever they bring in a new burger it's always some like gourmet burger that's so expensive and you know there's no reason to ever buy it buy a burger that expensive at macca's because it's just a bunch of kids working there and they're gonna fuck it up anyway so no one buys them like i think when i was there when we had like i think it was like a spicy grilled chicken burger or something like that.

And the grilled chicken stuff was always never ordered. Because it was always very expensive. And the chicken tasted like nothing. Because it's grilled chicken that was just previously frozen. It's the most bare minimum grilled chicken you could ever have. Like there's no seasoning on it. It's just grilled chicken. So it's like you're, you know, having fucking grilled chicken and broccoli.

And you're trying to like lose as much weight as possible and go to the gym every day. Like it's that sort of chicken. And yeah, no one bought them. So whatever. I don't know how i talked about that for that long i was probably just rambling about i was like stumbling over my words and saying the same thing a bunch of times which is unsurprising uh but because we are talking about the bts meal i want to talk about something that goes along with the BTS meal, and that is a chicken nugget. A special chicken nugget. That is the Among Us chicken nugget, found in a BTS meal, and

fetching $35,000. Do they have a link to the... to the deal, or would the deal have already run out? Mate, this is like... This is... absolute perfection of timing. I call bullshit

they ever got this from a BTS meal. I have a feeling they just, you know, made it themselves. But the BTS thing happening and then you have... You have Among us happening boom It'll be like if you like I know though I know fortnight nugget or something set in like the peak of fortnight is the exact same thing

you combine like these two massive things even though the people who Care about among us and the people who care about BTS probably don't overlap You know as much as you would think. It's just got that many tags on it that people are going to look at and people are like, yes, I want this to actually be a thing that exists. Now, the funniest part about this is

what the person said. So, the guy who was selling it said, I have realistic expectations. I had figured it would get around $50, but nothing like this. Mate, you don't understand how much people care about BTS and Among Us. At the end of the day, there are some people out there who would pay an absurd price for a McDonald's chicken nugget,

but I don't think the final bidder will actually go through with the purchase, as there are a lot of people who bid on things like this for the memes. That is absolutely the case. There's no way... There's no way it actually sold... When did this article come out? Yes, two days ago. I wonder if it sold. Wait.

Maybe it sold already. BTS, Among Us, Among Us Nugget. Did it sell? There is a bidding war at $50,000 now. I don't think it's sold yet. Do you have a... Here's the listing. Okay.

Okay, so it sells in a day and four hours. Currently, $51,000 US. Which... currently $51,000 US which why did I have a picture of a bunch of Szechuan okay this person's fucking with you guys this person's actually fucking with you are you dumb okay I I was kind of convinced that

I've seen some weird shaped nuggets when I was working at Macca's. And seeing something like this wouldn't be that strange. But the fact that he posted a bunch of fucking Szechuan sauce in here... I think you're being trolled. I don't think the nugget doesn't exist. I think that they're playing a bit of trickery here. Maybe they made the nugget doesn't exist. I think that they're playing a bit of trickery here Maybe they made the nugget themselves or something. I don't know. Or maybe this is just like an edit or something

Or maybe they just got it from a different meal and they're like, oh, yes. What's the big thing right now BTS? Mmm. What's another big thing among us? Oh, it looks like um, it looks like the Amogus character Well, gotta put them both on there if they didn't have the picture of the Szechuan sauce here, I would've possibly believed them but since they do

um yeah, do note this food product has an average expiration date of 14 days and will be delivered prior to expiration. I do wonder if... Actually, I don't know how eBay handles fake bids. Let's say the $51,000 is a meme bid.

Does the person who actually has a meme bid. Does the... Like the person who actually have a real bid then get the product? Even if it's like 10 bids down? Is that the person who's actually going to get the product? I don't know how that works. I've never actually...

I've never bid anything. The starting price... Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 99 cents to $11,000. Okay. Bids retracted. Not a registered user.

Yeah. I do wonder if any of these bids are real. Surely at least one of them is going to be. Like, I don't think someone with an account that has this many stars is going to risk their accounts functioning by, you know, giving a massive fake bid like this. So, hmm. I hope this person makes some money,

and I hope they do something productive with the money. Maybe, I don't know, donate to charity or something. But it's their money, they can do whatever they want. Hmm. Yeah, it's weird. People are dumb. But, unsurprisingly, there will be someone who pays for it. Maybe it's only $10,000, but there will be someone who pays for it. Maybe it's only $10,000, but there will be someone.

Speaking of dumb people, I'm still waiting for a reply video from a fun troll that I had in my Discord server yesterday. He got so fucking angry when I banned him from the Discord.

I'm going to be doing a hate comment video coming soon and he absolutely helped me out with this so I'm gonna show you some of the amusing comments this guy left me let's see what we have uh let's go to comments and mentions this is a guy called Nerve Gorilla and I'm gonna tag this clip with his name, just so he sees it. Let's see, his original comment. Here it is. This video doesn't need to be 14 and a half minutes.

It's a one minute video at most, big mouth. And that was my video I did on the Audacity telemetry where, you know,'t exactly talk about that in a minute if you think you can you're an absolute fucking idiot I wanted to actually explain what was being done Why it was being done from their perspective and why I think the community was having a massive uproar about it I didn't just want to say hey look audacity has telemetry audacity bad Like if you want to make a video like that be my fucking it. I didn't just want to say, hey look, Audacity has telemetry. Audacity bad. Like, if you want to make a video like that, be my fucking guest. I don't care. But, I don't

want to make videos that are just misleading people because, ooh, you're a big mouth. Fuck off. I want to actually make sure people are being informed when they're watching my content. So, I replied by saying, hey, have you heard of Context? I'm not just trying to send a witch hunt after Audacity.

Here we go. The truth is you want double the ad revenue. So you... He complained about the way that I speak while also having no fucking grammar skills. about the way that I speak while also having no fucking grammar skills. The truth is you want you you want double the ad revenue so you like every other big mouth here meanders and adds fluff to get your videos longer. The internet wasn't full of guys like you in the 90s. People definitely didn't create websites full of fluff in the 90s no no no definitely not let's just

forget the 90s uh i'm not sure you understand how ad revenue functions yeah i do and it violates the spirit of the internet if you continue being defiant this is where i got fun i will get in discord voice and give you the what for oh my god that was that was when he got very salty so i was like hey uh you're clearly very deranged you need some help i can i can say i i can show you where to get people to help you with your mental problems because if we go over to his channel this is where it gets really funny so normally you expect the channel maybe to have a couple of videos that are disliked and if you're just listening to the audio version here all of his videos for the past two years yeah past two years have a majority dislike like a at most 56% likes which is massively massive massively small really small

very small very small is a good way to put it but for the most part like 12% 7% 25% likes like really really bad and the reason why his like dislike ratio is this bad one is because his videos are horrendously boring Two because he goes around to other people's channels doing exactly this he'll just go to people's channels be like you're a fake gamer you're not a real gamer you are you're a you're the scum of the earth and you you just you fleece people for money and he came into my discord doing the exact same thing he was saying in the comments and then tried to like play the victim as if he had done nothing wrong and i'm just like i'm a horrible person who just bans people from my discord when they disagree with me this guy

banned you from his discord if you say things he doesn't like. A real walking turd. Uh, I'm gonna show you because he's obviously not going to be truthful. Uh, I'm gonna show you some of the some of the comments he left.

Let's see. Uh, alright, here we go. here's a fun one. If I just drag them on my browser, there we go, cool. So, why are you blocking private messages? Gamers never did that in the 90s and 2000s.

Uh... Yes they did actually. As soon as blocking has existed, people have been blocking messages. I have some things to say to you regarding your condescension earlier. I'd rather do it in voice, but I'm at work. Look at this self-promotion. This absolutely sickens gamers.

I like how he assumes that, like, I'm running a gaming channel. Like, what the fuck do you want about me? My gaming channel isn't my main focus, and you're commenting on my Linux channel. Are you fucking dumb? So I have to get in voice. Is that it?

Oh, man. Are you sure you want to turn my hobby into garbage with your affiliate contract swill? Oh, you're just as funny as I expected. You don't like games. And if you got into voice, I bet you couldn't answer the most basic gaming question. Admit that you don't like games right now. What you like is easy money. And you're using my hobby to do it.

Once again, terrible grammar. I'm not running a game. My gaming. Right. Okay. I know. I know you're going to fucking see this. Right.

Okay. My gaming channel doesn't make any money. You're literally commenting on, like, you found my channel through my channel where I don't play any I play games and streams like once every couple of weeks.

It's not a gaming channel. Are you fucking stupid? And I responded by saying, if I liked Easy Money I'd be doing Amazon dropshipping because, you know what? I think that's fair. Like, being a YouTuber is not easy money. Like, most channels make fucking nothing.

And the amount of money I make on my channel, going by the amount of hours I put into it, is not worth it. I'm making under minimum wage by uploading videos to my channel. So if I wanted Easy Money, no, I would do fucking Amazon dropshipping. into it is not worth it. I'm making under minimum wage by uploading videos to my channel, so if I wanted easy money, no I would do fucking Amazon dropshipping, I would run a scam forex bot or something like that. That's what I would do. See folks, if a guy like this ever got his hands on an unreleased prototype of any game on any console, you know what he'd do? He'd try to make as much money as possible with it. He couldn't, uh, he wouldn't release it to the public, free, uh,

he wouldn't release it for- I can't fucking speak. You know, I probably shouldn't criticize people's grammar. I take that back. Your grammar's fine. My speaking is just as bad. He'd try to make as much money as he could with it. He wouldn't release it for free publicly to gamers. These big mouths are lower than

whale dung. Do you allow scrutiny in interviews, Robertson? Because I want to call you in the morning. Why is he talking about video games? I never said a thing about fucking video games. Are you stupid? And he just kept going

on about this for like two hours. I don't know what he was on about then then the hilarious part is when he got like into talking about copyright that's when it got really really funny because he clearly demonstrated that he doesn't understand the law whatsoever so here is the best advice i can give you as someone on the internet since 1995 pay your isp and then put your money away never give money to anyone on the internet unless you're getting something in the mail pirate it all movies music tv shows audiobooks ebooks everything

and i was like okay uh sorry before before that he said you skip all this will these youtubers are such scum that if you did the honorable thing and re-upload their videos with this uh fluff cut out they'll copyright claim your video they actually think they own the videos they upload they do not understand this place called the internet and i responded by saying that's because you're breaking the law. Once you upload something, you no longer own it. Humans do. No. That's objectively not how the law works. I know your brain is too fucking small to understand how the law functions.

I think that piracy for doing things like, you know, game preservation, movie preservation, things like that, actually is a really good thing. But that doesn't mean you're not breaking the law. You can't just say, I'm not breaking the law, and then instantly assume that that's the truth. Just because you do not

understand the law, does not mean that the law does not exist. This is the exact same thing as those like fucking people of the land the the the living man kind of people the people who think that you know the the u.s law doesn't apply to them they they only abide by natural law like no that's not how that functions you're in the fucking united states you operate under united states law if you want to break the law that's on you but that doesn't mean you're not breaking the law because you don't know what the law is just not how that works you're fucking stupid and no i'm not going to debate you

so if you see this and you're like oh debate me on discord because i think it's 2014 and it's Gamergate again. No, I'm not debating you on Discord Mate I've been around on the internet longer than you think I have been I know you keep saying oh I've been on the internet since 1995 do you know what that means? That means that you're at least in your early 30s and Do you know what that means? That means that you're at least in your early 30s and You're an absolute fucking child who runs a channel where you play WoW and you whinge about people leaving Comments on YouTube videos you like it's one thing to play WoW. I don't care play WoW. That's all good WoW's cool game don't really care for it myself, but cool enough game But in these videos you just complain about people leaving comments on YouTube videos

That's all you do And we're gonna move on from this because I don't fucking care. I'm not debating you fuck off go I don't know go talk about how you think you shouldn't get fired for wearing Nazi tattoos on your face I don't care that actually is a video he did. Go watch Free Speech Hating Losers. It is hilarious. This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen. The rest of your content is really boring, but this video, it's real funny. I highly recommend it. Moving on from that though, I'm done with talking about this guy. If you want to hear me talk about him again in my hate comments video that'll be out at some point. Yeah, I'll probably mention him then because he gave me so, so much content. I don't want to make the entire video just focused on him.

I want to talk about other hate comments, but I got so many comments from him that it's kind of hard to find other stuff. Because one good thing about my channel is I've noticed I don't get that many hate comments. I'll occasionally get comments correcting me on stuff, and that's cool. I really respect people who want to put their time in and do that. I make mistakes occasionally. Like in my video uploaded today on PaleoFetch. I linked the wrong repo. So the repo I linked was one that was archived.

And that was the one... That was the one that I actually tested in my video. Hmm. Turns out there's actually a fork of it that was still being maintained. And there's actually forks for different distros as well. So someone pointed that out. That helped. Because I would never have spotted that myself.

But I don't generally get hate comments. The most hate comments I usually get... Like if I look at like... I search for beard, for for example in my comments uh here we go you're actually this isn't a hate comment i like this comment your beard looks like the name of a black metal band i don't know what that means but i i think it's a compliment i'm gonna take it as a compliment. I'm going to take it as a compliment. I'm very sorry but the beard does not look very good on you. Or actually put a very in there. I'm very sorry but the beard doesn't look good on you. And I'm like, that's fine.

No hate but with that beard you look like you aren't trying to get laid. It doesn't look like that. That's the truth. That beard is a crime against humanity. Good. Unix, hold my beard. That's a good one. I like that.

I want to shave that beard. Come on then. Beard in 4K. One day. One day. Bad beard bro. I get so many comments. Fix it. Use some beard products. You mailing us beard. You mailing us? You mailing us beard gang look bad.

I... I'll add that... I should add that one into my hate comments. Opsome guys asking you to cut your beard don't... Wait. Opsome guys asking you to cut your beard don't you like this? What? I don't know what that means.

Russian man who lives in Germany. Wolfgang makes a gentry ASMR while watching Australian man who has a beard and hair beard and hair that sums up most people in the world or most people in Australia sorry

most men in Australia that's the video I did on Luke's video on on DT. Great upload, Brody. Oh, this person has a beard in their name. Okay. Bruh, that beard is everywhere. Tame that monster.

Uh, dude, could I recommend you go to a barber and have them shave you a little- wait, shave- have them shave you a little- little to shape your beard. You'd look better. No offense, but having a little neck beard isn't a good look, nor is having a moustache without it going into your beard, you must be new here, whenever, I know that someone is new, because they mentioned the beard, your beard is so weird, shave it, 1998, that beard makes you look older, oh yeah, that's actually a compliment, I'll take

that one, um, my beard would beat up your beard. Okay, I like that one as well. Stupidest beard I've ever seen. Like, look at how many fucking beard comments I get. Oh, your thumbnail is fake advertising. I actually meant my profile picture. Your beard isn't coming in. Please try again in ten years. The beard, please no. Like, this person was obsessed with

the beard. Like, look how many fucking beard comments. Like, this goes back two years. Since the start of my channel. I've been getting beard comments. Oh. I switched off it. It's crazy. This is probably the most mentioned thing.

On my entire channel. What's this? Wait. Uh. Why isn't this channel more popular okay that's fair uh shave that beard xd oh pubic beard sorry pubic beard that's also a good one people say things like hot your beard looks like pubic hair as if i haven't heard that like 200 times like thank you uh-huh yep you're not being original this is one of the things about hate comments that most of them most of them that you get aren't original like once you start getting one sort of hate comment you're usually going to start getting the same sort

again and again like the few hate comments i do have are in the same sort of category usually it's either beard or you're like a really boring presenter which in in which case no one would watch the channel so yeah i have a feeling the fact that I have, you know, close to 17k subs and it's still growing indicates to me that I'm not that boring. Maybe I'm less boring than, like, Markiplier. I hope I'm less boring than Markiplier. That dude's been doing it for years. If I am, if I'm not less boring, I don't know, I feel, I'd feel bad for him. Like, he'd be having an off week then.

But, yeah, it's usually those sort of things. And once you hear the same sort of comment like that, it just has less meaning. I get the people who sort of get brought down by the hate comments and be like, oh, I feel so bad about it. I'm so sad about all the hate comments.

But there comes a threshold where once you get past that threshold, you stop feeling bad about it. And you just become numb to it. It's like with any sort of thing. If you say, go with an extreme example. Let's say you work in a morgue, for example. I'm sure the first time you see a dead body,

you'd probably be pretty shocked about it, but after you've seen you know 100 200 a thousand dead bodies You probably are gonna become far more desensitized to seeing that and see exact same with anything YouTube comments are no different. Oh, I went with the extreme example there just to show you like I Can't just defocus just to show you like what the I can't really just defocus, just to show you, like, what the body could, like, or what the brain can sort of deal with. YouTube comments are far less of a problem than seeing dead bodies on a regular basis.

Or, like, if you're, you know, in the police force, for example, seeing someone be shot. I'm sure the first time you see someone be shot, that would be, like, really disturbing. But after you see someone be shot, that would be really disturbing. But after you've seen 100 or 1,000 people be in that situation, it is going to have less

of an effect on you mentally. You probably don't want to have it be no effect. That's one of the things I feel like a lot of people misunderstand. There's a lot of people on YouTube who don't look at their YouTube comments we're going back to YouTube just because it's something I can talk about there's a lot of people on YouTube who don't look at their YouTube comments and I think that's when you get to the point where you start becoming

you start becoming sort of detached from what the people that are watching your videos are actually saying. It's one thing to not take every single suggestion seriously, because if I'm being completely honest, most people watching YouTube videos think they know what they want to watch, but don't actually know what other people want to watch. Like, I'll get suggestions for videos and there's literally no way i could make that entertaining like someone suggested a uh how do you install only them for example like you download the repo and you run the make file

that's that's literally all you do and there's no way I could make that entertaining. I know I've done that in the past with Suckless videos, but if I was to redo them now, I would probably do a complete guide to Suckless where I do patching and installing in the same video. Just because I know more about what's going on. I think I could

compress it down more in a way that still becomes very useful. But you'll get suggestions like that where it's just like, there's no way that a video like this could actually be fun, one, to make I don't know why I'm using my thumb lately, one, to make, or

two, to watch. And, while you do get good suggestions, like, the suggestions I usually get that are good suggestions are about news topics and about software to look at. A lot of the software I've been looking at recently has been suggestions from the YouTube comments. Because even if when it comes to like tutorial style stuff,

people don't know what they want to see. even if when it comes to like tutorial style stuff people don't know what they want to see i think for software there's a lot of software out there that is really really cool that a lot of people just don't know even exists and that's where that's where videos like this actually can be really useful people i've had a lot of comments in the past be like, or in your videos, you just look at the man page and you just say what's in the man page. Firstly, I don't do that. So fuck off with that. I compress what's in the man page down

into a form that, you know, makes sense for a video. But what do you expect from a CLI tool? Do you expect me to use options that don't exist? I have to talk about what's in the man page, because that's what the entire software actually is. But

that's not the point I was getting at there. The point I was getting at is a point that I forgot. Fuck, what was the point I was getting at? Something about videos being... Oh, right. Really cool software out there. GitHub has so many projects out there that have maybe one star, maybe five stars.

Five stars is actually a lot for a project. I know there's a lot of projects out there that have thousands, but most have none. And even if a project has no stars, that doesn't mean it's a bad project. It just means that no one's found it yet. Every project when it first comes out starts with zero stars. Audacity when it first

came out had zero stars. And maybe when it first came out, it wasn't as great as it is now. But with attention, a lot of software can actually become really good. Now I want to be in that position where I can give developers a lot more attention they were otherwise getting. Because GitHub doesn't really provide a way to, I guess, advertise your software.

The best way that people usually have to advertise right now is on forums. And yeah, on forums and yeah on forums so mainly reddit because reddit is the biggest forum in the world uh but you'll have people post stuff on like the arch linux forum and stuff like that that's those are the two i usually go to reddit and arch linux forums and i want to give those devs attention And if that means they can make something really cool in the future because they have more people helping them out, I think that's ultimately for the best. And in cases where devs are going in a direction

where I don't think it's productive, I think it's my job to sort of let them know that's the case. And I don't just mean in big situations like Audacity, Freenode, things like that, where everyone sort of acknowledges that it is kind of a problem what they're doing. I think even in smaller cases where devs aren't really listening to their other contributors

or the people who are actually using their software, because I think it's one thing if you don't take contributor feedback and contributor pull requests. If you don't do that, you just develop stuff yourself, people can get fucked. It doesn't matter what they have to say

about your software. If you don't take any pull requests, do whatever you want. But i think the second you start taking pull requests you sort of have a you sort of have a responsibility to make sure you're actually being a project leader i think is a good way to put it. Especially in cases of software. This is one thing that people are going to know with me. With the case of the kiddie terminal.

Where I was saying that the dev. Wasn't really. Wasn't really acting in a way. I think is healthy. To building a good community of users. Where he was basically. Just shutting down things that he was shutting the one he shut down was there was a all it was automatically turned on auto

updates and while that's not a bad thing by itself people especially in the foss world aren't exactly a big fan of their terminal making network requests they didn't tell it to make a big fan of their terminal, making network requests they didn't tell it to make. So having that turned on by default just didn't really make any sense. Someone tried to fix it, and they fixed it in a dumb way. So I called out both of them.

Like the dev was being very hyperbolic, using terms that didn't make any sense, calling it telemetry and calling it, I think, surveillance as well. Surveillance and telemetry. Calling it, I think, surveillance as well. Surveillance and telemetry, I think, might have just been surveillance. When it wasn't that. It was an auto-update. That's insane.

Explaining that in a way that sounds insane isn't going to get your point across. But the dev also didn't do a good job in explaining his position either. People were clearly in agreement with what this person was saying. And he just shut down. The entire conversation. He was just like nope. We're not listening to this. No conversations happening.

I don't want to deal with this. And I don't think either side of that is helpful. But I think as the maintainer of a project. You sort of have more responsibility. It's like how I can't go around, like, fucking, even though I'll do it on streams, um,

no, I don't, I guess cursing out everyone, everyone on the channel. If someone says something that I don't exactly like, I'm not going to go and, like, you know, like, oh, he's a fucking bad person. a fucking person. I don't. Do bad person. Like.

I. If they're actually a bad person. Nerve gorilla. I will curse them out. But if someone. Says something. That I'm not exactly in agreement with. Like.

I don't know. Someone does. Someone thinks my videos. Maybe could be shrunk down. Or. Maybe should be made longer. Even if I don't. I agree with them.

I think it's my position to. I think it's my position to. I think it's my position to. Take that feedback. And consider it in a rational way. I don't think all feedback. Does need to be handled like that. But if the person is coming to you. With a genuine concern.

And is trying to genuinely ask you. Trying to be genuine. In the way they're asking. is trying to genuinely ask you, trying to, trying to be genuine in the way they're asking and trying to actually understand from your position as well, I think it's only your responsibility to, I think it, I think it is your responsibility to make sure you actually consider what the person is saying, but like with the video ideas, in lot of cases the suggestions aren't great yeah one of them that I had I shut it down very quickly

because I knew it was not going to work someone suggested I only do one video a week and instead of doing you know basically keeping the content that I'm doing but only do it as one video a week. So having like a,

you know, hour, hour and a half long video where I do everything I would normally do. But I knew this just wouldn't work on YouTube because people, people don't watch long form content like that. And he brought up the example of, um,

a podcast, podcasts and saying oh people watch long-form podcasts and my my argument against that was that podcasts are a very different form of content like when you watch a podcast or when you listen to a podcast generally unless there's some example being shown generally podcasts aren't a very visual medium. If you watch my podcast as a video version or an audio version, there's going to be a couple

of little things you miss, like when I talk about the Among Us nugget, or if I show off any, like, if I show off Murphy Beds or something like that. You'll miss out on stuff like that. But, it's not like I'm talking about specific things I'm doing in a terminal or I'm showing off code or anything like that.

It's not like you're losing a great deal of the content. This is why podcasts mainly get consumed when you're out doing things because you can just listen to it while you're out for a walk or out for a run or on the train, things like that, where watching other sort of content may not be as easy that's not to say that all content on youtube is like that there's a lot of there's a lot of discussion or interview stuff that isn't in podcast format maybe it's a lot shorter or maybe it's maybe it's just more interview sort of stuff you know what i'm talking about um stuff like that i think still does work when you're just listening to or maybe it's comedy for example comedy i think works generally well this is obviously a physical comedy works generally

well enough if you're just listening to the audio version. The video in a lot of cases does add value because usually you have the person on stage doing something accompanying their jokes that sort of plays into it and body language does feed into how humor actually works. But my sort of content I don't think would function at all in a structure like that. No one watched the videos. Like maybe, I think, my guess is they'd probably be unpopular videos and they wouldn't have very high watch time either. So it's sort of counterproductive to merge it like that.

But I was still happy to have a discussion about whether it's going to be a good idea you just maybe heard my discord actually i'm going to remove it from the final version so you won't hear it why did someone ping me game stream cancelled uh okay i'll get back to that person afterwards yeah i was normally i'd do the game stream in the morning um but yeah podcast in the morning this time because i i was i wasn't sure what how i was gonna feel in the morning usually i schedule stuff uh are you lately i've been scheduling the gaming streams the night before so he's probably weirded out the fact that notification just never happened. So there will be a gaming stream tonight. When this comes out, actually, there will

be part two of the Kingdom Hearts series, assuming that nothing bad happens next week and I still have time to actually play it. I should. I should. I'm going to say that. That's what I'll say. I should have time.

But weird things happen occasionally time gets in my way life happens when you have two jobs uh things can happen and you just run out of time to do some things but i am so excited to start playing kingdom hearts again do i have a oh it's literally as far away as I could physically put it. So, I'll grab it. Grab a copy of it. So, I was testing this the other day just to make sure it worked. Because I bought it second hand.

My life is way up here now. So, it is a copy of... What is the name? Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 plus 2.5 Remix. Because Square is horrendous at naming stuff. So this is not Kingdom Hearts' story so far. Basically, it's everything prior to Kingdom Hearts 3. So, yeah.

Um. Yeah. Basically. I also got a copy of 2.8. Yeah, no. So, it's everything besides 3. 2.8. Uh, sorry. 2.8, yeah, no, so, it's everything besides 3, 2.8, uh, sorry, 2.8, yeah, the, the,

the Aqua prequel thing before 3, and, um, Dream Drop, yeah. But sadly, sadly, the, uh, the games that I really like, Recoded, and 358, are only

cutscenes, So those will be emulated when I play them on stream. But it has been so many years since I last played Kingdom Hearts 1. I love Kingdom Hearts 1. 2 has better gameplay. I think everyone

who cares about Kingdom Hearts will agree with me that Kingdom Hearts 2 objectively has better gameplay even if Reflect is really abusable and can basically win every boss fight um but I just I love the I guess I love the characterization of one is that the correct term I don't know I love the I love the way the characters are being built up in that game. I like the Riku story arc that was happening that Riku basically fucks

everything up by becoming... You know, I'm going to spoil a 19-year-old game. Riku is the reason why Xehanort is able to come back. Whoa, crazy. Riku's the cause of all of our problems. And I love one. One is fun. I love of our problems. And... I love one.

One is fun. I love all the characters in one. I love... One thing... Actually, one thing I don't love. I don't love that Mickey basically gets, like, shafted until the end of the game. He only gets, like, one scene.

Where he's like, I'm inside Kingdom Hearts! Woo! That's the worst Mickey voice you ever heard. That sounded more Mario to me. He's in Kingdom Hearts at the end of the game, and then you don't see him until Kingdom Hearts 2. I also like

the way the Colosseum worked in 1 as well. Even though the Colosseum world was very small, it was literally just the Colosseum. I still think it was a fun world I enjoyed the way the tournaments in that game worked

they were still good in 2 I don't know how the tournaments worked in 3 even if the tournaments even came back in 3 I presume they did but 1 I think had it done the best I think the Sephiroth boss fight I never actually finished the Sephiroth boss fight,

I don't actually... No, I never actually finished the Sephiroth boss fight. That was a fucking tough one. Sephiroth in KH1 is so much harder than KH2. KH2, you can really abuse the way his AI works and win that relatively easily. One, you can still abuse it. Like, you can beat Sephiroth with a level 1 playthrough.

But it's much harder. And if you make a mistake, you're dead. You're just straight up dead. Here's basically one-hit kill moves. I think if you don't have the ability to stay alive from one-hit kills, you die instantly. Like, there's some attacks that are so difficult to dodge that if you don't have that ability

on, no matter how good you are at the game, there's going to be a point where you fuck it up. Unless you get really lucky. Like some dream-level luck. You're kind of screwed. Mmm. So I'm definitely going to go back and play 358. Though 358 is the game where Roxas is the main character.

And it's Roxas' days. Roxas. Roxas' yalla. I love the way that Ansem the Wise says Roxas. Anyway, not the point. Grave of Eight is the one where Roxas is in the organization and you get to see Axel and Xion and Roxas all hang out together like the good buds they are.

Birth by Sleep? Birth by Sleep is... I think Birth by Sleep has the worst character development in the entire franchise. Like, there's... People have talked about this before, but... So, all of the Kingdom Hearts games are sort of based around, you know, this is our group of friends.

We're such good friends. And in Birth By Sleep, they do the exact same thing. But there's no, like, build-up to them being friends. It's just like, yes, hello, friends. We are good friends. I am going to go now hello friend no i hate you we are no longer friends like that's basically the sort of relationship you get in birth by sleep like some i think it's in radiant garden which in the later

games and the previous game any games later in the story becomes Hollow Bastion. But in Radiant Garden, Terra's running around doing Terra's things. And Aqua shows up. And Aqua's the one who's doing everything for her friends. And Terra's just like, no, we are not friends. And Aqua's like, no. Friend. Friend, come back, friend. We are such good friends.

Friends. Oh, no, I now hate you, friend. Like, imagine if Kairi, Riku, and Sora acted like that in the first game. That's not how friends act at all. Like, in the first Kingdom Hearts, they actually feel like friends. And because you get to see them, you know, just hanging out together before anything bad happens in Destiny Islands, you actually get to, you get to actually feel like they are friends. I feel like Birth by Sleep would be better if they started it a little bit earlier. So, Birth by Sleep starts off with the Mark of Mastery exam. If they had like a, I don't know, a chapter before Birth by Sleep started

I feel like you could actually acknowledge the fact that these people were friends but this is basically like if Kingdom Hearts 1 started from when Riku, Kairi and Sora were sitting on the Paopu tree

and then it just cut straight to Traverse Town Traverse Town to Traverse Town. Traverse Town? Traverse Town. Traverse Town, not Traverse Town. If it just jumped straight to that point, ignoring all of the build-up that was happening like in that time. Yeah, ReCoded is one of those games where I didn't like it that much when I originally played it, but looking back at Recoded, I realized how good of a game that actually was. So Recoded is the really weird remake

of a mobile Kingdom Hearts game, because mobile Kingdom Hearts games, just don't question it, they exist. So Recoded... Basically, what's a good way to put it? Recoded makes no fucking sense. Like, the rest of the Kingdom Hearts franchise

is nonsense. Like, no one's gonna argue that Kingdom Hearts actually makes any sense. But, Recoded, you're in, like, a data version of Jiminy's journal and you're like you're Datasaura not Realsaura and then at some

point in the game Datasaura somehow comes and like speaks to real Mickey because it turns out that Mickey's actually inside of the diary and then like Data Riku also comes as well but Data Riku's not actually Riku. Data Riku's actually just an embodiment of Jiminy's journal.

The longer that recoded goes on, the less sense it actually makes. And back when I played it, I sort of wanted my Kingdom Hearts games to make sense. I thought in my head, for some dumb reason, that Kingdom Hearts actually was a story that had any semblance of reason attached to it I was very wrong and as I got older I realized that when Kingdom Hearts is dumb that's when Kingdom Hearts is at its best so Recoded has had basically the same gameplay structures uh 358 where it had an ability grid rather than unlocking new abilities and then um you just equip the abilities in recoding 358 you would get a new ability or a new spell

and you had to decide like okay what am i going to sacrifice in my ability grid to uh so basically all of the things you wanted to equip they were like different squares and i think some were like bigger than others so it's sort of like inventory management in a game like Path of Exile where you had to decide like can I actually take this? Is this something that I can actually fit in my build?

And it made you actually be more strategic that's actually one of the things I do like about the side story Kingdom Hearts games because they all have better out... I guess better general gameplay. Better character... Character...

Better RPG mechanics than the mainline games does. I think 2 still has better combat. But... Better feel for combat, but having the ability grid in... In 358 and Recode, having the command deck in Birth by Sleep, and also those games as well,

having the... The... The duel... The battle dueling system in Chain of Memories. I think Dream Drop also... Dream Drop also has the command deck system. I don't know why they never brought the command deck into the mainline games. I get wanting to use these side games as a place to test stuff. But the command deck, honestly, it makes the combat more exciting.

Because in the mainline Kingdom Hearts, you can just spam reflect until you run out of MP, and then you win. But you can't do that in the side games, because it just doesn't work. You can't have that many reflects, because there's always going to be a reload time on them. And you also have Ragnarok and things like that in your command deck,

so you can use it at any point. Rather than the way it works in KH2. Where you have to hit a certain event. And then you can press triangle. And then it activates. And then if you have Sonic Blade and Ragnarok. Only one or the other will activate under certain conditions. So it gets really weird how it functions.

But when you have just the command deck, you're pretty much in control of when you use those abilities. And it gives you more time to be strategic, I guess. Even though the Kingdom Hearts games don't need strategy, it adds a new layer to the combat. I think the baseline Smashing X is still more fun than the Command deck, but I think that if you take the way the combat does flow in KH2, for example, and then combine it with a Command deck,

you would get something interesting. I think. I could be completely off, but that's how I feel about it. Yeah. We went through basically no topics today. Actually, I went through, like, some side topics that weren't actually on my list, but I went through basically none of the topics

actually on my list, which I think is fine. Actually, you know what? We're going to end it off with something funny. Have you guys heard about the Amazon box? Amazon creating their What's a good way to put it? Their suicide booths for their factories.

Let's see. Amazon, come on, do you know you want to show this to me? Amazon box. Here we go. Come on, do you know you want to show this to me? I'm a Zen box. Here we go. Amazon's mental health kiosk mocked on social media as a despair closet. Here it is. Look at this thing.

It is literally like the suicide booths from Futurama. If you've never watched Futurama before, first episode? Yes, first episode. Futurama. If you've never watched Futurama before, first episode? Yes, first episode. Futurama Suicide Booth.

In the first episode of Futurama, Fry is trying to make a phone call, and he didn't realise that the booth he'd gone into was a suicide booth rather than an actual phone booth. That's basically what this is because someone is going to go into this room because these are like completely soundproof it's like a soundproof room in here you're supposed to like you got to go in there and have time away from the noisy factory

someone's going to go in here and like and off themselves that's going to happen that's gonna happen I don't know who in their right mind thought this was gonna be a good idea and people sort of got like knocked this right on the head where just like okay why don't you just you know give people

livable wages and better working conditions rather than a despair closet for example which is another good name for this I don't know if they're actually going to roll these out than a despair closet for example which is another good name for this i don't know if they're actually going to roll these out or if they're going to stop they probably are going to roll them out but the problem the problem what i understand with amazon is even if they do have these booths it's sort of like how you know a dev company might have uh Like how, you know, a dev company might have something like a ping pong table or a foosball table. Or maybe they even have an arcade if they're being very exciting.

Do you think you're going to be allowed to use those? Do you really think so? Do you think your boss isn't going to be like, why is he not working? Why is he playing foosball? Obviously not. Maybe on your 15-minute break, you could. But on that break, you probably want to go eat some lunch. So things like this, they look good on LinkedIn.

Besides, this is the bad one. This one got mocked by everyone. But the foosball tables and stuff like that, they look good as ways to, you know, help your employees de-stress. But, in actuality, I can't imagine many bosses allowing

their people to go, like, especially with these ones, like, if you go into one of these, clearly you're having a very bad day, and I don't know how long you would sit in here for. Like you would. You would disrupt the entire way. The factory is running.

Because they're already running on like minimal staff anyway. So they wouldn't let you stay in here. For that long. Long enough to actually like. You know be useful. I. Anything less than like 20 minutes in here i don't think would be useful like five minutes isn't going to help you five minutes is like that's you going to

the bathroom and just you know sitting in there for a couple of minutes longer than you actually need to that's the basically the same thing um but someone also came with a good suggestion instead of doing this it would be more helpful if they just provided like portable toilets I've heard rumours I don't know if this is true Amazon certainly likes to deny them but I've heard rumours that

when you work at Amazon going to the bathroom is optional it is an optional requirement and especially in the case of their drivers where you have them having such strict uh such strict time frames they need to meet where you can't even stop to eat or take a piss you need to like piss in a bottle amazon amazon is a very weird company they think that think that they have a team of machines when they don't.

They have people working there. Amazon is going to be the first company that replaces their entire staff with robots. They already treat their staff like robots anyway. They would be more than happy to do so. The other funny thing is they... I wonder if it says it in here. Here we go. This is how they feel about people.

Leela Brown is the one who actually invented this, who has no experience working in a factory. The Zen booth is an interactive kiosk where you can navigate through a library of mental health and mindful practices to recharge the internal battery. Brown is giving away the game by using the language of machines.

A worker is not a robot with a battery that needs to be recharged. A worker is a human who needs things Amazon simply does not provide to its workers. Amazon drivers piss in bottles and shit in bags. Yes. Uh, yeah. Also, apparently in bottles and shit in bags. Yes. Uh... Yeah. Also, apparently they pay less than minimum wage. Alright.

Jesus Christ. Um... Yeah. Amazon is a questionable company, and the second that they can go and replace their entire staff with robots is the second that they do. Because imagine thinking that your staff have an internal battery that needs to be recharged like no they just they just want to sleep a bit they just want to you know not work at 120 percent every single day because that's not healthy like you need to have those days where you can be like

having a an off day you can have those days where things don't need to have those days. Where you can be like having a. An off day. You can have those days where. Things don't need to be absolutely balls to the wall. And Amazon could afford it. Like there's no reason why this. Factories need to be. As minimally staffed as they actually are.

They could very easily. Amazon's one of the most. The richest companies in the. Might actually be the richest company in the world. It might actually be the richest company in the world. It's certainly in the top five. But they could afford more employees. Oh no, it's going to cost them another $500,000 a year to hire a bunch of people. Oh no.

That's so sad for Amazon. They're now making half a million less dollars a year. Oh no. I'm so sad for Amazon. No. Treat your employees well. I think that's going to be pretty much everything for me. I'm going to give a shout out to a YouTube channel. So because I talked about Kingdom Hearts before, there's been

a channel that I've been watching a couple of videos from recently. This is a channel by the name of Ninten, who is a Kingdom Hearts channel. And nothing but a Kingdom Hearts channel.

I would go insane. I would go absolutely insane playing nothing but one game. channel. I would go insane. I would go absolutely insane. Playing nothing but one game. Like that's insane. Oh, I guess he played... He played Final Fantasy 7 for a bit. Not for very long. But mainly, yeah.

Mainly Kingdom Hearts. And he's been doing some like... Randomizer stuff. Chaos randos. Crazy stuff like this. Jiminy's Journal at level 1. I would hate to do that god playing for the game at level one would be hard enough can you beat kh2 rando without jumping your kh2 doesn't really have parkour the same way that kh1 does so i guess you probably could huh there's probably the

there's probably ways you can if you need to get a hype boost that you can get a hype boost with drive forms and things like that but I highly recommend this channel if you like Kingdom Hearts and you just want to like watch dumb Kingdom Hearts videos

and just have something on in the background he's a good channel. Highly recommend him. He also streams over on Twitch, so if you want to watch the stuff live, you can do that as well. I think that's going to be everything then. I am going to do my Patreon read,

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So that's going to be everything for me. And I'm out. I'm going to rest my throat for a bit and then we'll do a live stream later.