Tech Over Tea - #74 Valve Returns With A New Console | Solo

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I'm as always your host Brodie Robertson and today we have returned for episode 74 of Tech of a T. That is actually kind of insane. I don't know how we've managed to get to this point. It's been like what? What does that make it? A year and a half? I did take a couple of episodes off here and there so I reckon about a year and a half we actually doing this podcast. That is, that's kind of insane. Uh, I managed to fix my camera. I, I, I don't know what the, I don't know how the problem happened. Uh, I mentioned this during the sound check, but I'll, I'll go over it here as well. So basically what happened is somehow my shutter speed managed to change. Normally I I run my shutter speed at 1 over 60. So, I record at 30 FPS. Normally, your shutter speed for video is supposed to be double your frame rate. And somehow, my shutter speed changed from 1 over 60 to 1 over 40. And when you lower

the shutter speed, that obviously allows in more light. And when you allow in more light, obviously, that means that I can turn turn these lights down I think if we turn it down to where they have I think it was it like this point this is about where I had it where I had the shutter speed lower obviously like this is unusable as it is but yeah it'll have me to turn that down I don't know how that problem happened though because the controls for the camera are on the back of the camera, which I never touch. Like, I would have to reach my hand around to the back of the camera, somehow touch the shutter speed button, slide the shutter speed

control, like, only just a slight bit over, and then click out of the shutter speed. I have no idea how that happened. I don't know. Some sort of magic. I don't know. It's fixed now. So now we're back to the lighting looking the way that it should. Most people probably didn't even notice the difference. Maybe you'll notice the difference in like the background coloring.

That's probably the only spot where you could really tell because it kind of made the red and the pink light, like kind of, what's the word? I guess overblown. Overblown? Overexposed. Overexposed is the correct word. And it didn't look great. I could make it work, but I think for now, we'll keep it as it is. Maybe I'll tweak around some settings here and there to maybe have it so I can have my lights less bright. But I think for now, it's going to work basically as it is. At least until I replace the lens and change my f-stop. But until that point, we're going to keep it as it is, basically. So, I want to get into the main topic for today.

I want to get into the main topic for today. So, over last weekend, I'm recording this on Tuesday, which is a very early time for this podcast to be recorded. Over last weekend, there was an announcement by Valve. So, Valve announced a new console, a new console known as the Valve Steam Deck. So, basically what this is, is a little handheld PC. I guess the picture here is showing Stardew Valley. And yeah, it's not by no means like an original concept. Like, the idea of a handheld PC has been done before. It's been done hundreds of times. Like, if you go to YouTube, search for Linus Tech Tips, you'll find tons and tons of videos going on about these handheld PCs. But this is something actually by Valve and because it's by Valve and it's sort of the the spiritual successor to the Steam Machines, it's also going to be running SteamOS.

Unlike the older version of SteamOS though, this this one is now Arch-based rather than Debian-based, which doesn't make that much of a difference. Ultimately, like, as long as you've got all the drivers you need, it's going to be fine. I guess Arch is going to be a little bit smaller than Debian, but really, it's a minute difference. And I guess the way you, like, update packages. But I'm sure that in SteamOS, they provide some sort of like graphical utility to do that rather than having to do it through something like say Pac-Man. So the base doesn't really matter.

What has changed massively since the time of the Steam Machines though is basically the way that gaming on Linux actually works just as an idea in general. Back then Proton didn't exist. I don't think Lutris even existed. Wine obviously did. Wine's been around for a very long time, but it didn't work anywhere near as well, and you'd have to go and, like, configure games that don't work properly, like, as native binaries all yourself. You might be able to find, like, forum posts about it, but if you can't, you'd have to, like, work it out yourself. So you didn't have a big library

of games with the Steam Machines. This is part of the reason why they were a massive, massive commercial failure. Uh, I think, according to Wikipedia, they sold less than 500,000 units. I'll just double-check that number. I'm pretty sure.

Uh, do-do-do, Wikipedia. Yes, thank you. Uh, less than 500,000, but this number doesn't actually have a reference. I could absolutely believe it was that few units though. Uh, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Anyway, um, yeah, the, we all know that Steam Machines were a commercial failure, and no one really cared about them. They had no games, like, gaming on Linux just didn't really make that much sense back then. Nowadays, it does, though. So, most of the gaming I do,

I've talked about it before, I do on Linux. And while not everything works, like, some things you do have to, like, spend time actually tweaking and messing around with, like, different versions of Proton, maybe trying out Proton GE, maybe deleting some certain files, renaming stuff, changing around some Proton options, things like that. Maybe you will have to go and do that to make it work at all, or maybe even make it work better. But that is so, so different from back when the Steam Machines launched. Now, even if you, like, most games, even if you don't configure them at all, are probably going to work. So,

the top thousand games on, on, uh, ProtonDB are called, sorry, the top thousand games on Steam, yeah, okay, that's what I was trying to say. The top thousand games on Steam... Yeah, okay, that's what I was trying to say. The top thousand games on Steam have at least a gold rating on... I'm... My brain is falling apart. The top thousand games on Steam have at least a gold rating on Proton, according to ProtonDB. There we go.

We got there eventually. That was an absolute mess. So this is really good this means basically the game works basically perfectly the only rating above gold is platinum but playing a gold game playing even a silver game is perfectly fine once you get to bronze and lower actually below bronze is borked so just not working at all. But like anything below silver, yeah, that's when you start having trouble. Silver is playable if you do some tweaking and you get like a lucky hardware configuration. Gold is basically what you want though. Things like Doom Eternal, I believe has a gold rating. I don't think it has a platinum. I could be mistaken there, but

it doesn't really matter. What this means is that if you buy a Steam, I was going to say Steam machine. If you buy a Steam deck, most of your Steam library is going to work. Like you don't really have to think about it. I've talked about my library before, which I bought mainly when I was on Windows. Didn't even know Proton was a thing.

Most of the games on there work fine. I don't think I have a single game in my library that is actually balked. Yeah. Basically, the only games that are really, truly broken are the games that have really, really bad anti-cheat and DRM. I know that things like Apex Legends, PUBG, Destiny 2, a couple of the really big multiplayer shooters and other big multiplayer games like that don't really work because of their anti-cheat. I know that...

I think it's Persona 5 Strikers. That's the... Is it Strikers? What is it called? Strikers or Scramble? I'm pretty sure it's Strikers. I'm going to check. strikers, that's the, is it striker, what is it called, strikers or scramble, I, I always, I'm pretty sure it's strikers, um, I'm gonna check, I know that one also doesn't work, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the DRM, uh, is it called strikers, yes, it is called strikers,

I think, no, scramble was the, uh, previous time they did a, um, a thingy like that oh god i tabbed out of my screen uh yeah this game apparently it it's it's playable i guess but yeah this game is a mess it that's that's not the common thing you see though this is the common thing you see like most games just working working amazingly. So, I have a feeling that the Steam Deck is going to do considerably better than the old Steam Machines did. And I think part of the other reason for that is that it's a handheld console. Unlike the Steam Machine, where it was effectively just another computer. Like, at the end of the day, sure, like, you could just use it as a computer. And most people weren't really in the market to buy a second computer.

Especially when it had no games. This, on the other hand, is a handheld console. And a few years ago, I don't think anyone would have really cared about a random handheld system from Valve. about a random handheld system from Valve, but the Nintendo Switch has reinvigorated people's love for handheld consoles. I don't know how Nintendo did this, but they have brought back the love for handhelds,

and I think this is amazing, because I grew up playing on things like the GBA. I played the DS for years of my life. I didn't have a 3DS, but I played the DS for way longer than anyone ever should own a DS for. I had a DS Lite to be specific. So I got them fairly late. But anyway, I used it for a very long time. This has actually come out at a really cool time because everyone was expecting a Switch Pro

and Nintendo was like, hey, you know how you want a Switch Pro? Let's not do that. Let's give you a Switch with an OLED screen because everyone was asking for that. Whenled has some pretty severe problems that you wouldn't like oled is a the okay the problem with oled is the same problem that plasma had where they suffer from extreme burn-in you can burn in with a um an lcd screen i know people will say you can't but you absolutely can it's just much harder and you need a really shitty screen. But OLED has serious burn-in. So if you play a game that has a HUD, for example, well, that HUD, if you play the game for long enough,

is probably just going to be stuck on your screen. And that's a problem. So I don't really... Okay, one of the things with the Steam Deck is I don't really care about the hardware per se. So, I'm seeing a lot of articles out there having this, like, massive hard-on talking about, like, oh, it doesn't have the same level of performance as the Switch or, like, the Xbox Series X. Firstly, if you're saying it doesn't have the same level of performance as an Xbox Series X, that makes sense. This is a handheld. This is a hand.

You can sort of understand like how small this device is relative to an Xbox. So if that's your complaint, like I don't know what you're really really saying and making the argument that it costs the same amount as like a next gen or i guess they're not next gen i guess like current gen console like sure it it does but also like you're paying a premium because it's a handheld and when something small like that obviously parts are going to be more expensive like the switch for example the switch is also very expensive relative to like the power it can provide, but that's not the reason you buy it. The reason why you buy it is because it's a handheld. Where was I going with that? Right, handhelds are cool, and I like that they are back. It also has this really interesting feature that I didn't actually mention in my video. So if you remember the

really interesting feature, but I didn't actually mention in my video. So, if you remember the, um, the, the Steam controller. So, those things, the thing that had, like, the, the big touchpads on it. Is there a picture in this article? Yes, there is. So, this controller had, like, these touchpads on it. Honestly, I, I thought they were weird, but there's a lot of people that absolutely swear by them and say this controller is, like like the best controller they've ever used. Now, they're not bringing that back exactly, but they do actually have touchpads on here, like with the actual Steam controller. Yeah, like with the Steam controller. So it's got like your normal sort of stuff you'd expect. You've got your thumbsticks, you've got a D-pad, you've got your X, B, A, Y buttons, which is you know cool

There's a like the triggers you'd expect on the back. They're like what isn't a picture of it in here Is there a picture of the back of the control no there's not okay but you know how like with the the elite, like the Xbox Elite controller, how they have the flippers on the back. So this doesn't have flippers because if they did that, they would get sued. But they do have buttons on the back that can be remapped. And I think that's cool. Never actually used a controller like that. I am a player that owns like, you know,

a regular controller that has no flippers on it because I don't want to fucking pay $250 for a controller, um, but they're cool nonetheless, I've used one before, and it was certainly a good experience, so that actually does have these as well, basically this has everything you could possibly want from a game controller, uh, attached to a screen, and that's cool, that's cool, I don't know whether I'm gonna buy one, so this thing is $400 US, I was gonna say Australian, $400 Australian wouldn't be that bad, actually, so that's the base, okay, that's, that's the other thing, that is the base model, now, uh, the base model is 400 USD with 64GB of storage. Let's see if we can find the Steam Deck pre-order. Let's see.

Yeah, on the Steam Deck website. Cool. So 64GB is the base model. That comes with a carrying case. None of the other models actually have like Different levels of performance basically the only difference is The hard drive inside of them I guess okay There is some difference in performance and that is like in the the speed of the drive

But I mean in like you know CPU or GPU performance so next model up. I believe that was 529 USD I could be getting my number slightly off, but that sounds about right. Uh, 256, uh, 256 gig, you get a carrying case once again, you get an exclusive Steam community profile bundle, or you get some badges and shit. Um, and shit. I really don't care. Then the top model is $649 USD, which is a lot of money. That's 512GB, you get the fastest storage. Whoa, the fastest storage. That comes with a premium anti-glare etched glass. It's an anti-glare screen. Why that's not in the lower end models, I'm not really sure, but yeah, you don't get the anti-glare screen on these models, only with the top one. That's the only other difference besides the actual drive that's

inside of it that does exist. You get a different carrying case, or a different carrying case. You get an exclusive Steam community profile bundle. Oh, I'm guessing this is the same one as this. I'm not sure though. Also, oh, look at this. You get an exclusive virtual keyboard theme. That's crazy and certainly won't be ripped off the device and uploaded online on the first day.

Definitely not. Absolutely not. That's not going to happen. It's going to be online on the first day. Definitely not. Absolutely not. That's not going to happen. It's going to be online on the first day. If that's the reason why you're buying the top-end one, yeah, you're a bit dumb. So 64 gigs isn't much in the way of storage, but all of them do actually have MyQSD expandable storage,

which obviously isn't the fastest thing out there. But the fact that it exists is good. Because microSD storage is stupid cheap. Let's go to Amazon and find... You know what? Okay, I'm going to do a couple of price ranges. Let's go for 64GB. So let's say you just don't really care about

that much extra storage. You just want a little bit extra. That is also these are Australian prices. I'm gonna do US prices. So that they're actually about the same. So 64 gig, $11. That's not the greatest one. Okay, for an extreme one. Oh, extreme. It's very fast. Uh, $15. Okay, I can accept that. Let's go... Uh, let's go up to $256. So, $256 gig is gonna be $40 for the same one.

Okay, that's good. Sure, that's not that much money. Uh, let's go $512. $512 is going to be... There's not many in stock, but $85 for $ 512. 512 is going to be... There's not many in stock, but $85 for 512. Can we get a 1TB microSD? I wonder. I don't even know if these exist.

They do exist. $230. Okay. That's a little bit much. I would just go and buy two of... Oh, wait. I just... I could just click on this.

I didn't need a search for it. So you buy two of these, and then you're good to go. That's a terabyte of storage for $40 less. Sure, you have to swap out the drives, but not that big of a deal. So I would buy one of these and I would buy the the lower end version like the 64 gig save a bit of extra money. I

think you would end up saving about $40. The only downside of doing this is you don't get the NVME storage so booting up the device, loading games, things like that is going to be quite slow but if you're willing to do that to save a bit of money, I think it's worth it. I would not buy it right now. You can pre-order them. I think if you pre-order them now, you'll be put into the second batch, which will ship mid-2022, I want to say. It might be first quarter, but I want to say mid-2022. If you had pre-ordered a couple of days ago,

you would have got it by December, which is, hey, that's cool and all. I'm happy to wait, though. I don't care to pre-order it, though. So we can look at performance, and there is a video by... What's his name? Give me one sec. There's a video by Clicksphilip.

Let's see if we can find it. Steve Deck. Which channel is it on? It is on 2kliksphilip, where basically he sort of extrapolated out what the performance actually theoretically should be based on similarly CPUs yeah and how many compute units it has and things like that so this is the Steam Deck at here we go, Steam Deck at 1080p that isn't the

performance, oh that's not the the resolution it's running at though, it's actually going to be running at 800p or I guess you can call it 720p it's 720p 16x10. And I don't remember what settings he said his numbers were based around. I think he was saying Ultra or something like that, which is mental if that's the case. Yeah, I think he was basing his imaginary numbers around Ultra. Uh, let's see, this is Resident Evil 3, Fallout, yeah, okay, if he's pulling these numbers out, yeah, it's gonna be

based around Ultra. So, he has the, uh, 6700 XT here at 1080p, and then compares it, uh, with theoretically how the, uh, the Steam Deck should perform. And judging by his numbers, which are very theoretical numbers, these aren't like actually testing the system. This is like, this is just like running the numbers on paper and this is what it should do. You actually get, theoretically,

fairly good performance in a lot of very demanding games at high settings. But he, uh, extrapolates it out a bit further. So if we skip ahead a bit, I think he includes FSR numbers in here. Yeah, so if you, uh, if you use FSR quality, that is the, That is AMD's, I guess, answer to DLSS, the Deep Learning Super Sampling. It doesn't work as well, but the Steam Deck also has a 7-inch screen. So it doesn't really matter if it doesn't work that well. At 7 inches, you won't actually see any sort of uh any sort of problem there if these numbers actually even remotely align with the real world

like getting above 60 fps is all you need this is a 60 fps 60 hertz screen on it so if you can get that that's perfectly fine uh and even like cranks the numbers a little bit stupider and uses 7x FSR, which theoretically should let you do ray tracing Battlefield V at 120 FPS. Now, I don't know how well these numbers really extrapolate out, but that would be honestly hilarious if that's the sort of performance you can expect on this system. I will be waiting for independent benchmarks, seeing how well this

system actually works. Because you don't really need to run it at max settings anyway. You could run it at like medium or high, and it would still look really good once again because of 7-inch screen. If it works really well, I may consider actually getting one. I know it's going to be expensive, but I still think it would be a really cool device to own. I may not even use it for like for SteamOS. I may just install something else on it just to dick around with it and see what this device actually can do. Like, I think this is just a cool device in general. As I said though, it's not the first handheld PC. It won't be the last. Some of them, sure, might be better value, might be cheaper, might even have better performance. I

don't know of any that fit that last category, at least just yet, but there will be more in the future, because this isn't running the most cutting-edge hardware. It's running very modern hardware, but I believe it's running the, um, for its CPU, the, an AMD CPU from a generation ago, which isn't a bad thing. Like this system isn't going to be CPU bottlenecked at all. The bottleneck will be with the GPU, so that's perfectly fine. But I want these numbers to be real. If these numbers are even close to real, let's say at like FSR you get half this performance Okay, maybe not half maybe like maybe like 25% less because I realized half would actually be below Below the base numbers in some cases, but let's say like 25% less performance

It would actually be like a really good system I want to buy a switch and I'm still sort of keen on buying one, because the reason why I want one is because there are some games on the Switch that I can only play on the Switch. Buying something like this would be more about if I, you know, go up to my parents' place and I want to play some of the games that I have on my Steam library, actually I want to play some of the games. That I have on my Steam library. Actually being able to do so.

I usually take that time. To take a break from the internet. But let's say I want to play some games for example. That would basically be the use case for this. And also I guess. Laying in bed playing games. Would be fun. I haven't done so in a very long time.

I haven't owned a handheld in ages, so whenever I want to play games, like, I'm sitting in this chair. But it would be nice to have that option again. Uh, yeah, it certainly would be. Now, Valve claims that the battery life for this is going to be somewhere between two to eight hours that's of gameplay not just of the system running now what that actually means in real world performance i don't know because whenever you get numbers like in-house numbers they're always going to be a little bit wonky like best case scenario. I do like they gave like a massive range like that. That does indicate to me that maybe the numbers are actually relatively real.

Like no company is going to say, hey, here's my handheld console. It gets two hours of battery life. That's an insane number to make public if it's not actually true so my theory is it actually does get two hours of battery life if you're playing something like the witcher 3 if you're playing doom eternal if you're playing uh cyberpunk if you want to play cyberpunk if you're playing shadows of the tomb raider things that are actually like really demanding games. But if you're playing something less demanding, let's say you're playing, I don't know, maybe an Assassin's Creed game from a couple of years back, or maybe you're playing like not Shadows of the Tomb Raider, but the Tomb Raider game before that. Maybe you'll get more battery life, maybe closer to like four or five hours. I do hope that

you will see that eight hour battery life on more than just like really light indie games. I don't want to have to be playing like Stardew Valley or Binding of Isaac to actually get the eight hours of battery life. I do hope to see that in somewhat more demanding games. This does have a 40-watt hour battery. Once again, you can't really judge what that's actually going to mean without actually doing proper benchmarks. You can theorize based on similar CPUs and similar batteries, but the only way you can really get proper numbers is actually doing a real-world benchmark.

And at this stage, the only people that have had a hands-on with it were IGN. And, mate, the IGN article was fucking horrible. I will see if I can find it. First hands-on. Wait, no, that's the video. We want...

No, we want this one. Here's the article. This article is so fucking bad. Do not autoplay sound. Here we go. Here's my favorite line of the entire article. The OS is built on Proton, a version of Linux that supports both Windows and Linux games and applications. Now, if you know what Proton is, that might be the dumbest thing that you have ever read. What do you mean built on Proton? Proton isn't an operating system. Proton isn't a version

of Linux. Like, that literally does not mean anything. That is just, like, words put together in the form of a sentence. That is not a thing that exists. Also, you can tell they didn't actually properly research this because they

mentioned alt-tabbing, which you can't do on Linux unless, I guess, they set it up in KDE. It's possible they might have, but I have more of a feeling they just said alt-tab without really thinking about it. And there's just so many things in this article

which don't make any sense. It was a very, from what I can tell, a very sort of locked down hands-on experience. It wasn't like they got the system in their own office and were able to like properly test it. It was like, hey, you're in this locked room. You can use the Steam Deck in here. That's basically what you get. Oh, here's another fun one. So, because the system is built on Proton, once again, doesn't mean anything, this flexibility means you can do

pretty much anything on a Steam Deck that you can do with a regular PC. You mean on Windows. I really hate when people refer to Windows as PC. No, it's not, like, all of these are PCs. Like, a Mac system is a pc it is just running

it is just running mac os okay this is ignoring that uh connect a mouse and keyboard yep alt tab out of your games to a browser or video sure load third-party programs or even other game stores like origin uplay or the epic game store uh you're not doing that out of the box. None of these have Linux native clients and like having Proton there isn't gonna help you with that unless, here is the one exception, unless Valve is doing something they haven't done before and that is I guess decoupling Proton from Steam and effectively using it like a translation layer for all the Windows binaries you try to run on your system. There's no reason

why it can't do that. Proton is just wine with some modifications to make it work better for gaming. Oh, my camera cut out for a moment. Sure. They could very well be doing that. But from what I understand, they're not. And IGN literally just has no idea what they're talking about. Which, you know, doesn't surprise me. It is IGN, to be honest. It does really annoy me that IGN were the only ones to get a hands-on with this system. If someone who actually knew how to write had their hands- I had a hands-on with this, that would be cool.

Maybe someone who even just knew what Linux was, just even knew that Linux existed, would at least make this article better. But as it is, it's kind of a mess. And it's funny to see articles actually linking back to this article as if this is some, like, good source of information and not just, like, an absolute train wreck that should sort of be laughed at like the Verge PC build. I don't know. It's a cool system.

I'm considering getting one. Oh, the other thing that no one is actually talking about. So everyone is, all the articles are saying, oh, well, you don't have to run SteamOS. You could even go and install Windows on it. Now, that's technically correct. You can install Windows. You can install Windows Vista.

You can install Windows 7. You can install Windows 10. Windows 11, not so much. So, there's a slight problem this device actually has. It's actually not a problem this device has, it's a problem that... It's a problem that Windows 11 has. So I'll show you the spec sheet for Windows 11. Windows 11 specs. I believe we go to the Microsoft website, we should see them. So we all know about the TPM thing. The TPM thing is dumb, but this does have a TPM chip in it, so it doesn't matter. Or I think it actually

might support TPM in firmware. Doesn't matter. That doesn't really matter. Has DirectX support, sure. It's a modern CPU, uh, and a modern GPU. That's fine. This is where it gets interesting though, with the display. So a high definition 720p display, okay, we have that, we have an 800p display, perfectly fine. That is greater than nine inches diagonally. That's a problem. So the Steam Deck has a seven inch screen so is this a hard requirement is this going to actually stop you from installing windows 11 on this system it might it very well might i i don't actually know i don't know if you can get around this by maybe plugging in the external display and installing it like that, maybe it'll break after you've installed it.

I don't know, but this is a really weird restriction that Windows 11 does have. I fully understand not wanting to support devices that have a screen that is that small. If you want to have it just completely break, hey, that's cool. No one's installing Windows on an 8-inch device anyway. Except, I guess, with these handheld PCs. Which, if these handheld PCs actually become, like, a proper device class, Microsoft is

going to actually have to actually address that. Did I say actually, like, three times in a sentence there? I think I did. Yeah, Microsoft will need to properly address this. like three times in a sentence there. I think I did. Yeah, Microsoft will need to properly address this. I, like with the TPM thing, I don't

know how much of a proper restriction it actually is. While we can test it with the pre-access ISO, the leaked ISO that everyone is like, this is Windows 11. Look at Windows 11. It's basically Windows 10. It actually literally is Windows 10. It's actually running the Windows

10 kernel. It's not Windows 11. It's a very pre-alpha version. We can certainly test stuff with that, but I don't think that's a really fair way to assess what Windows 11 is actually going to be. You can't properly say whether this is actually going to work on Windows 11 until the ISO actually comes out. We can make assessments. We can say, oh, if we install this old ISO on old hardware, it's going to work fine. And that's what a lot of channels have been doing.

They've been milking the absolute hell out of saying, oh, it'll work fine on old hardware. You don't actually need TPM. But it's an early access ISO. So, or I guess an early leaked ISO. So we can't really properly say whether that's actually going to be true in the long run. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft

actually does make things like this a hard restriction. Even if it is actually going to... This one specifically is actually going to break some of their fairly modern devices. I think we can find it, actually. I'm 99% sure there's a bunch of Surface devices

that aren't compatible with Windows 11. Surface Windows 11. Surface, uh, Windows 11 compatibility. Uh, here we go. They're like older Surface devices, but older is a fairly relative

sense. They are perfectly valid computers, and there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to use it. Um, here we go. Older devices. The Surface... Oh, wait, sorry.

Sorry, this is one that can support it. My bad. So anything outside of this device range. So a 2017 or earlier Surface. 2017 is still a perfectly usable system. There's no reason why a system like that wouldn't actually work. But, nope.

Not gonna work. So that would be the original Surface laptop. It might be a couple of years old, but there's no reason why that wouldn't work. Why it wouldn't be a good enough years old, but there's no reason why that wouldn't work. Why it wouldn't be a good enough system. But, nope, not good enough for Windows 11.

Hey, maybe they'll just go down the Apple route and sort of expect you to upgrade to their newer devices. Regardless of whether you actually want to, if you want to use the new hardware, well, you got to do so. But considering the Windows 10 isn't going to be, isn't probably going to be EOL'd until 2025, that does give people enough time to upgrade to a new system. Sure, after like eight years, maybe it's time to upgrade your computer. I know there's people running like ancient ThinkPads who are going to tell me that that's a horrible thing I should be saying. And you know, you shouldn't ever upgrade your computer. Just stick with the oldest thing you can find. But if you do like running relatively competent hardware, sure, after eight years, maybe it is

worth actually doing an upgrade. Probably. Maybe after eight years you actually can buy PC hardware. That would be nice. It is getting easier to buy GPUs now. So I was looking at GPU prices before on PC case gear and it's still a mess. Like you're still paying exorbitant fees. If we go to... Let's go to the AMD section. I believe there's not really much you can buy in the way of AMD cards. So, the 580 sold out, then you can buy a 6700 XT for

$1100. That's a bit much. But, hey look, they're not sold out, which is a very, very big improvement a few well a few months back i guess when we scrolled through here everything was sold out like you couldn't buy anything at all but i guess it's it's getting better now if you're willing to pay a lot of money it's a little bit better on the nvidia side because nvidia does have like a

much bigger product range and nvidia cards weren't as crazily scalped with the uh the crypto boom but like you can actually buy mid-range and low-end cards like okay these cards don't count no one is mining on these cards they have have always been in stock, probably because this is the stock from when the device actually came out. But reasonable devices, things like a 1050 Ti, obviously that is getting a bit old right now, but it's still a perfectly competent card in stock. The 1650, in stock. The 1660 also in stock. Like, you can actually buy Nvidia GPUs now. I don't know what it's like outside of Australia, and I know these prices look

absolutely insane. Do keep in mind these are Australian prices, and Australian prices are always an absolute meme. These are still inflated anyway, but they're not as inflated. Like, you're not paying a thousand dollars for 1660, for example, um, 2060, 800 dollars, like, you can reasonably buy cards now,

3060, 999 dollars, I think in the high end, they are still a little bit scalped, like, okay, 3090 doesn't count, 3090 is supposed to be expensive, like, 3080, 3080 TI, like, okay, $39,000 doesn't count, $39,000 is supposed to be expensive, like, $3080, $3080 TI, $3600, uh, for the record, that's more than my car costs, so, let's try the regular $3080, uh, base $3080, there's some in stock here for 2800 jesus fucking christ that's insane but like you can buy them and that's that's i think i think at the end of the day that is a better situation than we were in uh a year back i still would like them to come back down to like you know reasonable prices but if you are in desperate need for a GPU, let's say you poured

a bottle of water on your GPU, you can get a replacement now I wonder what the second hand market is like in Australia, I don't ever check the second hand market let's go Nvidia GPU hand market. NVIDIA. Let's go NVIDIA.

GPU. There is a bunch of Quadro cards for $30 to $50. I'm guessing that someone emptied out their render station. $1660, $305. Okay.

1070 TI $305. Okay. $1070 TI, $405. A random Quadro for $160. Hey, that's cool. Yeah, okay, there's a reasonable second-hand market that exists now. I have a feeling some of these cards might be ex-mining cards. some of these cards might be X mining cards. Yeah, considering how many of the 60 tier devices I'm seeing, I have a feeling some of these are definitely X mining cards. 70 TI, that's a bit old at this point, but it's still a fairly competent card. Let's go the AMD side. Let's see what exists over there. AMD GPU.

$480, $580. $202 for a $580. Wow, okay. $460. I would not pay $250 for a $460 when you can get a $580 for $50 less. I think you need to update your price, man. Vega cards for $650. There's not as much on this side.

580, $540. Like, it's still expensive. But it's reasonably expensive where you can feasibly buy it. Oh, that's an old Fire Pro card for $54. Oh, Lord. Oh, wait, how? $30 for an... Hmm.

You know what? That might actually be worth it for $30. An HTC 6770. I think that was the... Wait, when did that card come out? I have a feeling that was like a top-end AMD card when I got into PC gaming.

Uh, HD 6770. That was from... Thank you, TechPowerUp. No. Okay, no. First released in 2011. So that would be when I was 13.

Yeah, that actually would have been like a new top-end card when I got into PC gaming. Oh my god. What was the card that everyone... If you bought an AMD card that you were going to buy, was the... Is it the HD7770?

Seven... Yeah, HD7770. Yeah! Yeah, that's the card. Look at this thing. Oh no. Actually, it wasn't even a top end card, am I just imagining? Uh, wait, no, no! It was the, um, the, oh, what was it called? It's the HD, oh, or was it the... the... Shit, now I'm

forgetting. Uh, it might have been the... HD70... No, it was the 78 series, wasn't it? It was the 7870. Yeah, yeah, that's the one I'm thinking of. Um... HD

7870? Yes? Maybe? I'm forgetting the old names GPUs. Oh no, this is the generation after. Look at this thing. Remember when GPUs looked like this? Now we've got all these

fancy metal designs. Man, I want my plastic shrouds back that look absolutely horrible. Like, why would you ever buy the reference the reference card like no one ever bought the blower designs because they just they just didn't make any sense they just blew hot air back into your system wait no sorry this fan sucked air and blew it out the back of your system didn't it yeah but it also would interfere with the rest of your cooling because you probably have your system set up for a

the regular fan design rather than like the reference design. Like these reference cards still exist, but they're better now. Back then? Man. Back then they weren't. And PC cases have definitely improved since then as well. I guess it wouldn't have been as big of a deal back then because things like Mini ITX and ITX just in general were definitely not anywhere as big. I think ITX did exist,

but it wasn't like we were seeing these really tiny form factor PCs like we see today. Like where you can have these, you know, these things that are basically in a shoebox and get desktop class performance without having to worry about cooling. That is insane. That just wasn't a thing back in 2011.

It's cooler than it is now. I like my full tower, though. It makes things easy to build in. Is it a lot of space on my floor? Sure. Sure it is. But, I guess, okay, I guess the mid tower, um, but still, takes up enough space, I don't really care though, because it's not really in my way, speaking of segues, um, let's get back to this steam deck for just a moment, so, um let's get back to this steam deck for just a moment so i don't know why this is happening um but there are steam deck reservations on ebay i wonder if i can find any i know that ebay was

actually cracking down on them which makes sense because stop the scalpers. Uh, let's see if we can find them. Steam deck. Oh, there's one right here. Oh, there's a couple of them. $1,200. Uh, $500. Why is your, oh, it's OBO. Right. That price is actually under the actual price of the pre-order. $4,000? Why is it $4,000? Why would you buy that? Who in their right mind? Okay, scalpers, right?

Okay. There are things you can scalp. Shoes. People will pay for that. You can scalp GPUs. People will pay for those as well. I don't think you should do it, but you can. Like, you will have people actually buy them.

Why are you scalping an open pre-order? Like, here's the thing, right? Why are you scalping an open pre-order? Like, here's the thing, right? There's no reason for anyone to buy this scalped Steam Deck because the pre-orders are still open. Like, you can order one right now. Like, as of the recording of this, as we are looking at people trying to scalp the device,

you can still pre-order it. Sure, you'll get it a bit later than everyone else, but, like, why, why are you scalping it? Like, who is, why is there 27 bids? Who is bidding on this? Like, I don't understand. I genuinely don't understand. Why is this $4,000? There's not that many here, but, like, why is anybody doing that how are you how is anybody this dumb and actually paying for this like if you want the 512 gig model you can get it like they're in stock you can literally still buy them how are they getting scalped this would be like i don't know let's say um you you i don't know let's let's think of something

dumb let's say you buy a loaf of bread right and you go to the store there's a shelf full of bread but then you see someone outside the store selling the bread for five hundred dollars now for $500. Now, would you give that person money? If you say anything besides no, you're a moron. Because you can just walk in the store and buy the bread. That's what we're seeing right here. This is the bread being scalped.

Why? Why would you spend $4,000 on this? I don't understand. Actually, better yet, why would you set the price to $4,000 on this. I don't understand. Actually, better yet, why would you set the price to $4,000? Maybe because they know they won't get $4,000. Maybe they're just willing to accept whatever the best value

they actually get from. That's possible. I could see that. But, like, this one. Why is there 27 bids? I don't understand. That's so stupid. If you are paying for this pre-order,

you need to be taken, you need to have your internet privilege taken away. You are actually a moron. Like, you are genuinely the dumbest person I have ever seen if you put money down on any of these scalpings rather than just buying it directly from valve i don't know what to say to you i i just don't i don't but let's see what pc gamer has to say uh when valve announced the steam deck yesterday it also built a plan to keep resellers from earning profits on them by taking advantage of limited supply which also doesn't exist uh because you

can just pre-order them and you just get it later anyone making a reservation must also yeah there's this as well so you need to have actually um you do actually have a steam account prior to june so if you make a steam account today and you make a purchase you can't actually pre-order a uh a steam deck which i think is actually. I think they should have made it longer. Like, make it so you need to have a Steam account for, I don't know, for at least four months. That I think is fairly reasonable.

Which is absolutely hilarious. But, hey, there's still some people scalping it. I just don't understand. One listing a 64 gig unit for instance has bidding started at 550 and a buy it now is 750. uh one unit has is this one still this one's probably still not listed no this was taken down um oh no it's it's sold, why did it sell, who bought, who, okay, right, well, okay, look, let me, let me just show you, right, like, this, okay, we can go Steam Deck pre-order,

right, okay, on Google, right here, we can go to... Okay, this is a start page. Steam Deck pre-order. Steam Deck pre-order. The pre-orders are open. Click this button when you're logged in and you can reserve one. So, someone spent double that price for no reason. Also, there is a reservation fee as well you have to pay like it's five dollars canadian but it's uh five dollars us so five dollars seventy canadian so probably like six dollars

sorry yes five dollars seventy canadian five US, probably like $6 Australian. But the reservation fee is actually a part of the cost of the device. So it's not an extra fee on top. $819 Canadian. Okay, I feel... Oh, no, I don't feel as bad. That's actually slightly better than the Australian price. So, like, yeah.

Okay, the only reason why people are pre-ordering it is because these are the only regions where you actually can pre-order. US, UK, EU, and Canada. So, if you're anywhere else, like, you can't pre-order it. But the pre-orders are... Here's the thing, right? Pre-orders are going to open up in these other regions.

It's just you'll get the device later. Not, not first day. Later. I don't know what's so, what's so difficult about that. Just wait six extra months. It's fine. You already don't have a Steam Deck. You haven't had a Steam Deck your entire life. You can wait a couple extra months to get one. This is dumb. People are dumb. Stop doing it. Scalpers, keep doing it because that makes you look really dumb and actually no keep scalping it because that means you won't be scalping things that actually make sense to scalp yeah so keep wasting your time doing that uh buying reservations for things that people shouldn't be buying. But, yeah. Steam decks.

I think that's as much as we can milk the Steam deck topic for at this point. We've been talking about it for almost an hour. Oh, I don't know how that happened. Um, yeah. What else do we have on this list? I guess we can talk a little bit about some more gaming. So I'll find the picture. But lately I've been streaming Ender Lilies.

But I had to stop streaming it. Because of a problem that I had with Proton. So normal Proton issues are things like. Oh, the game slightly broke. There's like a bit of lag. Maybe like a texture doesn't load. Uh, this is the first time I've seen a problem that is this bad. So let's see if you're watching the, if you're listening to the audio version, obviously

you won't be able to tell, but basically what we're seeing on the screen on my phone right here, that is my GPU driver completely crashing. So all three of my monitors basically completely died. Like, look at my back monitor there. It is just an absolute... Okay, it's actually looking real weird on the screen there. But, like, everything died. And that happened every time I tried to

fast travel. And Ender Lilies has a big map. So if you don't fast travel, basically getting around the map is going to take a while. So effectively the game is unplayable with the configuration that I have set up. I actually had it crash during a stream. So I was playing it. It crashed. Like okay sure. Maybe that's just a one-off thing. Games sometimes crash like that.

I try it again. It crashed again. So I just had to accept that it was broken. And do something else. So I ended up playing Hades for the rest of that stream. Which is fine. I love Hades. It's a great game. But I ended up playing Hades for the rest of that stream, which is fine. I love Hades. It's a great game.

But I wanted to play Ender Lilies. I am going to have to mess around with my Proton settings. Maybe try a different version. So right now, I think I'm running Proton GE 614 something. I think that's what it's running. But I'll tweak it around with different Proton versions. See if one of them works.

If they don't, I guess Ender Lilies is just going to be shelved for a while. At this stage, I am going to shelf it though, just because I don't want to have a problem where it breaks again. And I'm more than happy to play something new so i'm probably gonna start playing celeste on stream which is gonna be fun because i was talking to ronson and he was like oh i just died like 2 000 times it was a

4 000 correct me in the comment section how many times you died i think it was wait no i think he said 4 000 which reminds me very heavily of uh super meat boy i honestly lost track of how many times i died playing through that uh playing through that game but it's a platformer and that's it's a it's one of those it's one of those challenging platformers one of those ones where you are sort of expected to die and die and die over and over and over again so that's that's gonna be fun and if you want to see me rage quit a game um yeah that's gonna be the the one to show up for i bought it during the steam sale for a couple of dollars and look at this. Like, this just has the markings of this is a game that's going to make you suffer. It doesn't

look that difficult, but I imagine there's lots of things in this area that will just kill you the instant you touch it. I think these little blobs here probably will and like, I don't know how you'd get through that. Maybe like jumping above blobs here probably will and like I don't know how you'd get through that maybe like jumping above it or jumping through there and the spikes down here which will probably kill you as well. I wouldn't be surprised if this thing kills you and something else in here. It's one of those games. It's one of those games but it sounds like fun. I haven't played a proper difficult platformer in a very long time the last one I played probably was

Super Meat Boy, so years and years ago I have played some platformers since then but mainly they have been like platforming as a secondary thing or they've been mascot platformers and most mascot platformers aren't

that challenging because most of them are intended to be kids games. So you can't make the game that difficult, otherwise, you know, that's not going to go too well. Here we go, here's a great example of what Celeste is. So, spikes here, spikes here, spikes here, spikes here, spikes along the ground, spikes along the ground. So you have to somehow get from here over to here, going through these, like, spikes here, spikes here, spikes here, spikes along the ground, spikes along the ground. So you have to somehow get from here over to here, going through these like things here without dying. Uh, I don't know how they work because I haven't played the game, but it looks, it, theoretically, it should be easy if you know what you're doing, but that's the thing. I don't know what I'm doing. So it's not going to be easy whatsoever. I'm excited to play it though.

I don't know how long the game is. And how long. Okay. Actually no. There's two different questions there. I don't know how long the game is. And I don't know how long the game is going to take me to finish. Because I have a feeling.

Those numbers are going to be very separated. Probably in one very obvious direction. I am going to finish the game in considerably longer than it takes to actually finish, if you actually know what you're doing. Video games. Video games. I could fill the spot with something on my PS4. Like, I've got Cyber Dimension to play. I could play, like, Nioh. I could play, like, I don't know. I've got random stuff there that I could play.

But I kept saying I was going to play Celeste at some point. So, I will live by my promise. We'll finish this game and maybe go back to Ender Lilies and see if I can get it working, maybe go play something else yeah I don't know what I'm going to put in Kingdom Hearts' spot if I don't go straight into

into Rechain of Memories I'm going to say is the second game I think Rechain of Memories yeah I think it should be Rechain of Memories I'm gonna say is the second game I think Rechain of Memories Yeah I think it should be Rechain of Memories And then And then 2 I'm gonna check Kingdom Hearts Release Order

Actually Because I don't remember Kingdom Hearts Release Order I'm gonna play the games in Release Order I don't know I could play them In any order but we're gonna play them in release order so it's 1, Chain of Memories

okay, I was right 2, 358, Birth by Sleep Recoded Dream Drop and then Cross Cross, then Birth by Sleep, Fragmentary Passage then 3

Okay, yeah, that makes sense I do like Birth by Sleep It's a fun game Even though the trio in this game you know, is like discount first game trio but hey, Ventus is cool Ventus looks like Roxas, and that's cool

And he holds the Keyblade backwards, because I don't know he's an edgy boy or something Hey, Ventus is cool. Ventus looks like Roxas, and that's cool. And he holds the Keyblade backwards, because, I don't know, he's an edgy boy or something. I don't know. But yeah, I don't know what I'll fill that spot with. Maybe I'll even play something on Steam. I don't know. I've got so many games that I could play.

It's just a matter of deciding which one to actually play. That's the ultimate question, isn't it? Maybe I'll even go play like... I don't want to buy Ys IX just yet. I want to wait for the price to actually come down. Maybe I'll buy it during like the Christmas sale or something. But I will be playing Ys IX at some point. And I may play it on stream. Um.

I want to obviously finish Ys VIII first. But. You know. When I do finish it. There will be more Ys games on my channel. Uh. I guess I haven't even streamed this one. But.

Yeah. It will be on the channel at some point. Uh. Maybe I'll even go play one of the older games. Maybe like. Uh. I don't know. Ys VII or something. Y some point. Maybe I'll even go play one of the older games. Maybe like... I don't know. Year 7 or something. Year 6?

Maybe year 6. I don't know. I'll work it out sometime in the future. That's a... Yeah. That's a future Brody problem. But now I will just... I will just enjoy what I'm doing. Um, speaking of

enjoying what I'm doing, I got a amusing sponsor email, actually, I think today, I don't know what the date actually was on it, but I will check that. Uh, regardless though, we are going to read said sponsor email because man this company this company really really does know how to like how to how to market towards me that's that's for sure so this is from a company known as ambit vpn actually i will uh i will put the information uh in a spot where you guys can see it. So, if we copy that. Yeah, no, if we save that. And then I go into there and there. And is that it?

Wait, no, that's not the one. That one? Yeah, that's the one. There we go. So, you should be able to kind of read that, it's going to be a little bit small, but yeah, you can probably read it, um, if you can't, I'm going to read that anyway, so this is from a company known as Ambit VPN, now, I've made it very clear my opinion on doing a VPN paid sponsorship. And what I've

made clear is I'm not fucking doing it. You can go away with your VPN nonsense unless it's going to be something about like setting up your own VPN, you're hosting yourself. I want absolutely nothing to do with actually

to do with setting up or to do with being. To do with setting up. To do with being involved with a VPN. It's a way to lose your audience's trust. When there is a hack on it. And they lose their data. And all of it turns out. That even though they say they weren't keeping logs. They actually were keeping logs.

It's just a mess. And I don't want anything to do with it. But as for the email hi Brodie Robertson fairly businessy if we actually got my name correct that's an improvement over some of the emails I get I follow your channel

oh do you now we are a growing US veteran owned privacy company I don't know why they included US veteran. I'm not from the US. That's not going to pull up my heart strings like it would from someone in the States. But sure, okay.

You're a bunch of US veterans. That's cool. You're making something of your life after leaving the military. Presuming you're not claiming false honor, which as we go on with the email, you might see. We want to possibly work with you via our affiliate program or another deal structure. Are you offering me some sort of questionable paid partnership?

Like, what is this? Is it a affiliate program or is it not? Make up your mind. You're the one offering the deal here, so usually you set the terms and then we go back and forth trying to decide on what we can agree is fair. So you are an informed and sophisticated influencer

that values privacy and freedom. You lost me. The second you called me an influencer I stopped paying attention to what you're saying. But sure okay I am an influencer that values privacy and freedom. Sure okay. Would you be interested in discussing a paid promotional deal i'd be happy to walk you through what we do and why we think there would be a fit i didn't actually realize there was a mistake there okay actually it makes it even funnier i'd be happy to walk you through what we do and why you think there would be a fit what do you mean like why why I would fit?

like why your business would fit with my channel? is that what you're trying to say? there would be a fit are you guys going to throw a fit when you see this? maybe you will so ambitvpn.com does the following we will check their website in just a moment

because man their website their website also has some questionable things on it as well so their website in just a moment because man their website their website also has some questionable things on it as well so first point already has me like okay guys like if you're if you're trying to get me to actually work with you don't include this in your promotional email. So, the first thing it does is speed up mobile downloads. I call bullshit first off. A VPN is going to slow down your speed, but let's say, I don't know, you have a really bad DNS and usingabits in this test. So, for those of you out there who can't do maths, that would be over a 50x speed improvement.

Are you actually telling me that your VPN can offer me a 50x speed improvement? Even if it can do that, right? Let's say you've created some magical VPN that speeds up your connection. Even if it can do that, don't tell me. That just makes you sound like a scam. Don't tell me you can do that. That sounds ridiculous. Also, we have the general VPN stuff,

you know, stop data sharing when you visit websites. Even though you're going to have cookies and, you know, that's going to share information anyway. Hide your home phone... Wait. Sorry, home phone. Hide your home location from data sharing companies on the internet,

even though if you're using geolocation services, that's not going to happen, stop censorship by unblocking websites and geo-blocked video streaming services, okay, that's the first thing that actually is what a VPN does, this is the only thing that a VPN is actually good for, if you're using a VPN for privacy, you're an idiot. Like you're genuinely an idiot because what's going to happen is the VPN service you're using is keeping logs. They will tell you that they're not keeping logs, but they're probably keeping logs. And this has been true every time there's been a data leak from any VPN. If you're using it for anything where you actually care about privacy,

stop using a VPN and go and set one up yourself. If you care about watching American Netflix in Australia, or you want to watch something on the BBC and you live in America. In that case, yeah, a VPN is a really great service. Now, here's where we get to the next fun one. They're not Chinese owned. I didn't assume you were. Until you told me that, I did not assume you were a Chinese company.

62% of VPNs are secretly Chinese owned companies. I don't know where they got this number from. And secondly, if they're secretly owned, how do you know? Like, if they're secretly owned, how do you know that? Six Chinese companies own 30% of the world's VPNs. They should be using Amped VPN.

Yeah. Are you saying like the Chinese government should be? So here we go. They literally contradict their own point in the same line. 62% of VPNs are secretly owned by Chinese companies. Okay. So 62% are owned by Chinese companies. Okay. So 62% are owned by Chinese companies. Right.

Six Chinese companies own 30% of the world's VPNs. So is it 62% or is it 30%? Because these lines mean the same thing. So which one is it? thing so which one is it literally which one is it i don't understand like you're making numbers up out like firstly can you at least make your made-up numbers actually be consistent like i don't understand how this email is so bad. Ugh. Okay.

Let's go to the Ambit VPN website where, man, they get even more fun there. So, here's the first fun thing. So, it is a post-quantum encryption superior VPN performance, no backdoors, no logs ever. How many passwords do you need in a single sentence? Post-quantum encryption. What does that mean? What is post-quantum encryption? You've just made... Like made like i'm gonna look this up i've never heard that term before they could very well have made that up so post quantum oh wow there actually is a thing called post quantum encryption

post quantum encryption it just sounds like bullshit because the rest of this sentence is just like word salad. So, quantum proof, quantum safe, or quantum resistant. So this is I guess, I guess, encryption that is safe from quantum computing. Okay, fair enough. It just sounds ridiculous when you put it in a sentence like this. Superior VPN performance. Wait, superior VPN performance, no backdoors.

There's supposed to be a comma right here. No backdoors, no logs ever. When you say there's no backdoors, that makes me feel like there is a backdoor. Because, you know, we're not owned by China. Okay. Enduring digital privacy. As early as 2021. Where is this

linking to? I want to see. They link back to their own website. You can't use your own website as a source. Oh my god. they've got a quantum decryption will be available oh my god this is amazing so as early as 2021 quantum computers will decrypt traditional security tools ambit vp WireGuard, a new modern and secure network technology and quantum resistant cryptography

to prevent anyone from recording and decrypting your private information. We call this enduring digital privacy. Now, WireGuard isn't new. Like, WireGuard VPN, like like most of the big vpn providers use wire guard so uh you can look you

can literally get it with express vpn oh so here we go complete list of wire guard vpn providers uh so nord vpn mulvad pia strong vpn ivpn cyberghost azire viper vpn vpn.ac torguard mozilla vpn hide me surf shark ovpn and what are the other ones? Actus, WideVPN, and Winscribe. Literally every major VPN supports WireGuard. So, sure, okay. We're the only ones who do it. This is, I guess, did I say they're the only ones who do it? No, they just advertise themselves like they are the only ones. Right.

Post-quantum and non-TLS networking. Most market-leading VPNs use TLS. TLS is broken. This is why... No, they actually are claiming they're basically the only ones who do it. This is why Ambit VPN uses a modern networking stack based on WireGuard combined with modern NIST PQC candidate encryption,

our post-quantum solution will protect your communication and privacy for years to come. I have a feeling the other VPN providers are going to step up, if they haven't already, as we've seen by the fact that all of them already support WireGuard. Here we go. Unleash your true internet performance. AmbitVPN's network technology increases the performance of your devices. Users frequently report speed increases of 50 megabits or more. No they don't. That is a number that you have made up. That is not a real thing. You can't just

say that you get a 50 megabit improvement. That's not a real thing. Oh my god. Wait, what's the guy's name who contacted me? The guy's name is... Wait, the guy's name is

Lewis. Okay, now this is... They're their testimonials. I thought I was their team. Let's see. Uh... Why haven't they got a Vimeo? Let's go... Wait, they've got a GitHub?

Is that a GitHub? No, it doesn't. It doesn't. Wait, wait, wait. All of these buttons... Oh, wait. All of these buttons Oh my god, all of these buttons actually, wait, do they all link back? No, their Facebook and Twitter do link to their Facebook and Twitter but these two here

they've just included because it's a part of their template. I just didn't even bother removing them. Okay, let's go to the FAQs. Let's find out... Is there anything fun here? Okay, now this is all boring stuff.

My VPN stopped working on iOS. Yeah, that's boring stuff. No one cares about that. Let's go to... Made in the USA. Oh, look at this. There's an eagle. I wonder if they mentioned China or anywhere on here. Proudly based in the USA. Oh, look at this. There's an eagle. I wonder if they mention China

anywhere on here. Proudly based in the USA. The USA is the strongest record of individual free speech. Yeah, sure. Okay. They don't mention China here. Why are you not mentioning China? I want you to mention China. Wait, what is that?

Speed test? Okay. China. I want you to mention China. Wait, what is that? Speed test? Okay, this is not your tool. You link to open speed test. Oh my God. Okay. Beautiful. I love this. This is actually amazing. For the record,

if you guys are listening... I'm not going to work with you. I'm not going to work with a company that claims to provide a 50x performance improvement. I'm not going to work with a company that claims you can get upwards of 50 megabit improved on your speed. Those are lies. And you shouldn't have them in there. How much is it? It is $7 a month for the first 12 months.

That is really expensive for a VPN. Holy shit. Wait, am I just forgetting how much VPNs cost? Let's go check out VirtualShield. I think that is the that is the American price as well. Yeah, this is American pricing.

They don't actually have Australian prices listed. So, VirtualShield. That just happens to be what I'm currently using. Not because I care about VirtualSh Shield or anything and would recommend them. Pick a VPN based on the one you like. Yeah. Anyway.

Virtual Shield. Can we just see a price? Okay, Virtual Shield. Why do you make it hard to find a price virtual shield price okay maybe it's no okay i guess it is cheaper no okay yeah i'll give you that i just forgot how much vpns cost it's actually three dollars cheaper than a virtual shield and that's on the 12 month plan it's actually way cheaper on 24 month okay fair enough it's cheap but they also offer you

literally imaginary numbers I do like the quantum countdown though quantum countdown is certainly a fun one so apparently in 163 days we will hit quantum decryption.

Wait, as early as 2021. Do they know what year it is? Is it? Wait, hold up, hold up a second. How many days until the end of the year? Wait, I have a feeling. Uh, how many days until the end of the year? I have a feeling there's 163 days left.

Let's see. days left. Let's see. Let's let's see. There is a I know

what that clock is. I know exactly what this is. So what this is. So. What this is. This is a counter. That counts down to the end of the year.

And when the year ends. It's going to reset. That's cheeky. And I do like the fact that they say. That decryption is going to be broken. By the end of 2021. And then the graphic they show. Is 2025. So. decryption is going to be broken by the end of 2021 and then the graphic they show is 2025 so like is it 2021 is it 2025 like could you at least have found a picture that actually corroborates what you're actually saying sure we should be uh finding something wait what are you feeling lucky variational quantum

factoring potential decryption of all classical encryption worldwide four years sooner than expected but this also says here that it's going to happen in 2025 so this graphic is a fucking mess. So, Ambit VPN is a questionable VPN company. Hey, here's the CEO of

Bittrex, who is saying Ambit is going to change the world. I didn't read these testimonials. Who is this? The CTO of MyRepublicTelecom. For those who believe in the fundamental right of privacy, Ambit is the

only choice. Corey Franzmeier, an eight-year former Google executive. Free speech is truly free with Ambit. Oh speech is truly free with M. Oh, this is a good one. Co-founder and chief scientist at Remedy. This is the Berlin Wall coming down on the internet.

And here we go. Here's a retired Navy SEAL. Because as we know, retired Navy SEALs know a lot about computers. Not saying retired Navy SEALs are bad people, but I don't think that's their wheelhouse and what they're an expert in. M-Bit's breakthrough technology is bringing a global

declaration of independence to all of humanity. What does any of this mean? Oh. This is a mess. I love it. I'm going to show you what, like, a good sponsorship email looks like. This is from a company I'm probably

not going to work with. But this is, like, how you would actually do one. So, this is from a company called Deep Remix. Hey, how's things? Big fan of your YouTube channel. Great content. Firstly, you've never watched my YouTube content.

Otherwise, you would know that sending me that email wouldn't have mattered. But that's like normal PR speak. Everyone says that like regardless whether they actually even know what your name is. They can be like, oh, I love your content. Your channel is so great. insert name of influencer here uh i've seen emails like that so deep remix is basically going to be a program that lets you i guess remix audio with ai and other stuff and basically the email just goes over like what the does, doesn't give you any crazy ideas. It's not like oh, it will like

reproduce works of musical art for you. It's like, hey, for musicians and vocalists deep remix can also be used for learning practicing and performance purposes as you can isolate and mute any part in an audio file. Hey, that's cool. Free copies

can of course be provided. That's about what they'd be providing me to actually show it off. And then they have a bit at the bottom basically being like hey, this is what we do. This is how much it costs. This is what we're willing to offer you. That is a normal sponsorship

email. Ambit is a very interesting company. Sort of in the, I get the same vibes from them that I get from any of those emails I get from like sketchy Chinese key resellers where they're like, hey, would you like to get game keys for like $20 less than they actually cost? Even if that $20 is gonna mean that we're paying you to take the game keys they're so cheap we don't even want them like it's that same level of sort of scammy nature from them not

saying the amber is a scam but like those numbers and what they're showing they don't make you look good. They actually make you look way, way worse. If you just didn't say that altogether, it would look better. Drop the China stuff. You don't know that. You don't know that 62% and 30% of VPNs are owned by China. You just made that up.

You don't actually see people getting 50x performance by running your VPN. That is absolute nonsense. Stop it. This is a good email, though. More companies should actually properly contact people like this. Ever since I've been getting more and more subs, I've been getting more and more of these emails, and you start to notice, uh, you start to notice a very, very,

very common trend. Oh, here's one from, um, from iMyPhone. Here's another one which is a good email, I just don't really care about working with them. Um, they, uh, I do know this one is a good email. I just don't really care about working with them. I do know this one is a,

we don't actually know your name. We just sent this out to as many people as possible. Where is my, wait. Actually, I just realized that. Actually, no, no, I can take a picture of that yes i tried to take a screenshot and uh i copied the picture rather than saving it and i was like where did the picture go uh here we go now now we can do that properly uh that one okay that's actually very small and you can barely read it um dear sir which is always a good start, like, I don't know your name, Dear Sir. So, this is Denzi from iMyPhone, a company devoted to providing technical solutions for iOS and Android devices, Windows PC and Mac.

Firstly, I know that you don't actually know about my channel because your product isn't supported on Linux and you're trying to get me to do a video on it. Deeply impressed by your creative videos on... Wait. Yeah, here we go. Deeply impressed by your creative videos on... Insert creator name right here. I like how

they even bold it and make it italics just to make sure you know that I have no idea who you actually are. As we know you are a professional in reviewing products in this field, it would be our great honor if we could invite you to review our well-performed product, Filme Software and Exp it on your channel. Actually, it's called Filme. I'm guessing that maybe there's supposed to be an accent there. I'm just going to call it Film now.

Film is a smart software that helps the user to edit videos like a pro, making stunning slideshows with graceful templates, providing abundant effects and resources, filters, titles, animations, transitions, music, and more. And you can also share your unique moments, birthdays, weddings, travel festivals, and etc. You know, stuff that video editors do. Now, the one part I don't like about this email is how they end it. So, thank you for your time. Please kindly let us know your price for a full video

if you are interested. We know you're a professional in reviewing products in this field. Let us know your price. Uh, what you're asking for is a paid review, and that is illegal. So, uh, what you're asking for is a paid review, and that is illegal. So, um, no, no, I'm not doing that, but, like, this is another funny email, like, this,

emails like this are the sort of emails you start to get whenever you get a reasonably sized channel, and for the most part, you can just ignore them. In a couple of months, they'll contact you again and decide to send you the exact same thing. Maybe this time, they will actually have their formatting correct and not put a new line where your name is supposed to be. I love that that's there. That just indicates to me that a person didn't write this. That was an AI-generated email they just sent out to as many people as they could possibly find. Anyone like in the tech sphere probably got that email. Which is actually good for me if I'm being added into these lists.

That means that I might get emails from companies that don't make shit products, but you can always tell when you actually get a... That don't make shit products. But you can always tell when you actually get a. You can always tell when you get an actual. Real email. Because they'll say things like. Hi again Brody.

Do you have any questions about how blockchain domain NFTs work? We also have a affiliate program. If I'd be happy to chat about on a quick call. So this is someone trying to get me to like, shield their crypto domains or something, shield their NFTs, I don't know exactly what they're doing. But like, you can very easily tell when it's actually an email written by a person. It's very obvious. But they're sort of like the rarity like the Linodeal I got for example that was actually written by a person

they knew what videos I had actually made they knew videos they literally list out videos that related to their content and it's like okay you guys did your research you know that this is my channel you know what sort of videos I make you know why you would actually make sense on my channel That's the sort of company that I think actually is great to work with

Not ones that don't even attempt not not ones that don't even try anything at all I'm not that desperate for money where I'm willing to like shill all anything at all. I'm not that desperate for money where I'm willing to, like, shill all, like, shill just nonsense and just throw away any reputation that I could possibly have. Hmm. What is

this? I might reach back to, actually, no, that was like Oh, now looking at it, that was a month ago. Sorry, that was two months ago. Someone tried to get me to shield some domains. Maybe I should have contacted them, actually. That actually might have been a fun one to do. But we're here now, so...

So, yeah. I can honestly keep reading sponsor emails all night. I don't delete most of them. I kind of keep the funny ones around and just laugh at them from time to time. When I need to see something that is just genuinely dumb, I occasionally go and look at them. Speaking of dumb things. But this is actually a cool dumb thing. This is a.

I don't know why someone made this. And why it's a project going on. This is someone. Basically remaking Bloodborne. But as like. A PS1 art style. Like it's. Really cool. I wasn't

big on PS1 games. I played a couple of things like Crash Bandicoot, but I think this just looks cool. And I kind of want to play it. I actually haven't finished Bloodborne. I need to go

back and actually do that at some point but this just looks really neat I know it's still very much a work in progress so at some point it will be done but just look at this it's so cool

I just want to watch this video I know there's no audio here we go I'll play the audio bit even it has like he has one like audio on ps1 music as well what the hell is that Yeah, this is a project called Bloodborne PSX. And if you want to go support them, go and do so. Because I like the idea of fan projects like this being made. And hopefully FromSoftware doesn't go and do something stupid and be like, or, you know, we don't actually like this existing. Like, we're going to like DMCO this.

This is something we're going to DMCO. Because there have been some situations where that actually has happened. Here we go. Here's a fight with the Cleric Beast. Let me skip past this ad. Oh no, wait, that's the music, sorry. Here's the Cleric Beast fight. Here we go, that's what I want to show.

Look at it, it's just cool. Okay, there's clearly missing textures at this point, but early game. I want to play this. The more that I look at it, even though I actually haven't played through all of Bloodborne, the more I look at this, the more it makes me actually want to play this. It just...

There's something about the PS1 and 3D action games styled like that, or 3D action games actually were on the PS1 and like 3D action games like styled like a like uh styled like that or 3D action games actually like were on the PS1 that sort of have this appeal that we've lost over time we've sort of focused too much on having like high quality graphics that we've lost a lot of the charm that existed with a lot of these earlier games and there are a couple of games out there that try to like recapture the PS1 style. Some better than others.

But I think this one actually does it really, really well. And for a game like Bloodborne, I think it actually works quite well as well. Like the theme is something that you would have seen on a PS1 action game. You would have seen on a PS1 action game. Having something with like that dark. That dark sort of theme like Bloodborne does have. Sort of fit with the era. This is just cool though. I don't know how far it's actually progressed.

Is Bloodborne on PS1? No, that's not- That's not what- God, I hate Google's people also ask questions. Some of them are great, some of them are not so much. What is a Sony PSX? Oh, there actually was a thing called a PSX. Oh, there actually was a thing called a PSX. Okay.

I didn't know that was a thing. Anyway. Yeah, this is actually kind of cool. I did have something else on here I wanted to talk about. I think it was gameplay related. Sorry if I'm making throat noises. I'm actually recording this on Tuesday,

which is not normally when I record stuff. Usually I do it like Wednesday or Thursday. Tuesday, the problem with it is I record four videos on Tuesday. So by the time I actually get to doing the podcast, like my throat is already like, scratching and all that, you know, because I've already recorded like for six hours,

like speaking for six hours. That is too much speaking. So yeah, maybe I shouldn't, but this week is also kind of a bit of a mess because this is the only day where I'm not working my, um, my regular day job. So I kind of just wanted to get it done now because it would, uh, just, just make it a bit easier for the rest of the week. Um, I did find the thing that I was actually going to, uh, going to talk about though. So, this was a thing about the

DMCA stuff. Take2 has been issuing takedowns for GTA mods. Two mods were, two very popular mods were taken down. Vice Cry and GTA Underground. Now, I'm not into the GTA modding

scene, but hearing about what these mods actually do, makes me want to use them. And stuff like this is why I love the idea of game modding. So GTA Liberty City was a total conversion that brought the setting of GTA 3 into Vice City's engine. That is just cool. That is just really cool. Let's see if we can actually find pictures of... Actually, we can probably find videos of it, can't we?

GTA... Let's see. GTA Liberty City mod. Let's... Okay, that's not showing it up. GTA 3 in Vice City mod. GTA 3 Vice City mod. Here we go. Yeah, here it is. Here it is here it is

I'm not gonna play the ad you're not gonna see the ad because I don't want you to see it um don't play two ads what are you doing mate what are you doing um okay here we go

uh basically yeah it's it's it's What are you doing? Okay, here we go. Basically, yeah, it's GTA 3 in Liberty City, which, hey, is cool. Which makes the game look slightly better. It's still in the, I was just saying Liberty City. It's GTA 3 in Vice City. So it just makes the game look a little bit better, but it is still Vice City. So, like, you know, still Vice City. But the other one is actually an even cooler mod, and that is GTA Underground,

which combined the maps of not just GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, but also the mods for Bully, the maps for Bully, Manhunt, and Manhunt 2. Then added Gang Warfare, like, okay, sure. Gang Warfare was actually a really cool feature from San Andreas. So,

are the mods converting San Andreas into ports of console exclusives Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories and that's not all uh a GTA forums uh on a thread on GTA forums has been cataloguing the

removals as well as noting that Rockstar's statement on single player mods initially made during the back and forth over modding tool are open for in 2017 in which many modders have been assuming would protect their their work i was quietly updated in 2019 it now notes that it does not apply to either the use or importation of other ip including other rockstar ip or making new games stories missions, missions or maps. So. Your mods won't be protected.

If you make new games, stories, missions or maps. Missions and maps. And stories and games. That's literally saying. Your mods will not be protected. And we might DMCA them. Yeah. Oh, my lord.

That's actually really dumb. Let's see if we can find something about GTA Underground. Because that actually sounds really, really cool. GTA Underground. GTA San Andreas Underground gameplay. Here we go. But here's the thing, right? You can take these mods down on, like, the official channels.

But you can't take the mods down. They'll exist still. You can still find them on the internet. So this is inside the San Andreas map, which isn't, you know, that crazy. This is a San Andreas mod. Let's go to another city. So you just literally fly outside of the map and you can fly over to Vice City. That's so cool.

Fly over to Vice City. That's so cool. That is actually really cool. You can also fly over to Liberty City. So that's still Vice City there. We skip ahead. Now we are in Liberty City. That's so cool.

Like what the hell. And you can fly over to some of the other. Games in the Rockstar world. Basically making it so all of these games exist in the same universe. That's awesome. I don't know if it, like, adds any content that's worth actually playing. Or if it's just, like like having the maps in the same world i don't know much about the mod itself but just knowing that this exists is cool and like having something like this out there is cool like i i don't know why you would go and dmca a mod for a game that came out years ago. Like, the only reason that...

Yeah, I can't think of a reason why you would do that. Like, these mods are what keep people actually playing older games. Like, no one's buying San Andreas because they haven't played it yet. Like, maybe one person, but most people who are buying copies of San Andreas, copies of Vice City, copies of GTA 3, are buying it because of the modding scene, and actually playing these experiences they couldn't get

in the base game. Most companies seem to understand, like, if they have modding support, most companies seem to understand that modding is what's there to actually keep your game alive after you stop adding content. Bethesda understands this very well. They understand this kind of too well where they release broken games and then leave it up to the modders to actually fix the game. But like Skyrim, for example, while Skyrim does have a lot of content, that game's been out for a very long time.

The only reason people are still talking about Skyrim, though, is because the modding scene for that game is absolutely massive. Like, there are new mods coming out for that game every single day, and new experiences that just weren't possible in the base game, new experiences that weren't possible with the modding scene just a couple of years back. Bethesda understands this very well. They even provide things like modding tools that make it easy for this to happen. But not all companies are like that, and I guess Rockstar is going to be like that. I can only imagine what would have happened with modern Rockstar, I guess Rockstar is going to be like that. Like, I can only imagine what would have happened with, like, modern Rockstar if they acted the way that they're acting now, back when GTA San Andreas Online existed. So, I don't know if you even know about this.

So, back with San Andreas, there was basically a mod you can have that let you play San Andreas online. Which is crazy. That game was only... I guess it was intended to let you do co-op. But it was never really intended to do online multiplayer and have massive worlds. But you could. and you could have like custom maps and do all this crazy stuff that you can do inside of uh inside of modern gta online you can have like different characters basically it's it's a mod that sort of spawned what exists as GTA Online today.

If this didn't exist, I don't think GTA Online would have actually really been... Maybe it would have been a thing, but it certainly wouldn't have been a thing in the same sort of extent that it is today. This sort of set the groundwork for what GTA what GTA Online sort of really could be it's so cool that it exists and man I there's still wait what? there's still people playing it?

hold up there's 48,000 people playing it! Hold! That can't be correct! That is more than some modern games have that came out like last year. That is crazy! Wait, that means they're surely still people actually doing videos on it. I have to check this. That number can't be correct. GTA S.A.M.P. Two years ago, four months ago, two months ago. Yeah, there's...

There's clearly some people still playing this. Wait, what is this? This is GTA San Andreas with just insane mods. I have to see how this game looks. That's that's base San Andreas. We all know how this game looks. It looks dated. Whoa! What the hell? The car looks a little bit jank though. That does- doesn't look exactly like a modern car. A modern car in a game. Oh, there's also motion blur. Why- why did you add motion blur? That just makes the game look worse. What the hell? That looks- that looks too good for San Andreas. That looks way, way too good for this game.

The, uh, the roads are a bit sketch, but apart from that, let's look at this car. Oh my god. The, also, these roads, like, you can see the edges on the roads. Like like unless you update every single model in the game also wait okay they clearly didn't redo the uh the shape of the mountain that looks so out of place with these high-res textures like that is just like a jagged mountain oh wait let's don't show me what the hell like when you have textures this high resolution it makes the like low poly models look really out of place because clearly in this uh in this mod pack this guy's set up he doesn't update everything just updates enough where like most of it looks better, but like Like the- I guess the buildings look fine. You can sort of do buildings on like fairly uh Fairly low-end systems. Like that one, very jaggedy. That actually is a redone sign. Let's see if we can find some other weird parts.

uh let's see if we can find some other weird parts okay that that that's not a new texture right there that's the original texture there we go that that's another part where it looks really out of place like you have this super high-res car and then like this this is just like blur this is what modding makes possible all games like this like this is what's keeping a game like San Andreas alive. No one cares about San Andreas at this point. It's a very good game, but like, everyone's played it.

Three weeks ago, uh, okay, no, that's is that yeah, no, that's, um, GTA Online. Uh, not GTA, that's S-A-M-P. Oh, man. This kind of makes me want to go and actually play S.A.M.P.

It really does. If there actually is a player base that does still exist. Because I didn't actually get to experience playing it when I was young. I had San Andreas on console. And, you know, obviously... Yeah, obviously, I, I couldn't play it then, but I did watch videos of people playing GTA, SMP, and it just looked awesome. I liked the idea of having these custom maps, and being able to, like, do all these crazy jumps, and all this awesome stuff that you just couldn't do in the PS2 version.

Maybe I need to actually check if that 48,000 players actually is real. I find it hard to believe, but maybe. Maybe it is. Plus, you know, being such an established system, there is going to be a lot of content that exists, obviously there's a lot of content for GTA Online, but I, I, I can't imagine it's anywhere near the level of a game that has had, I don't even know how many years San Andreas has actually been out for, way, way too many years at this point like when did when did that actually come out gta sa uh that came out in 2004 holy crap so a game that's been out that long, there's just gonna be so much content you can experience,

and you'll probably never run out of content to actually play. And running a game like San Andreas can be done, I think you can probably even do it on a phone at this point. can modern phones do PS2 emulation? Uh, look, probably. Phone PS2 emulation. Well, there are ones available, but I don't know, like, uh, what, like, where in, like, the product stack you'd actually need to be to, like, effectively run something. You could probably run early PS2 titles without any challenge. The ones that came out just around launch. But maybe some of the later ones you would struggle with a bit. The ones towards the end.

Towards the PS3 launch actually do look quite good. Shadow of the Colossus, for example, really does hold up today. So maybe not that, but the early stuff, you might be fine. Some of the early Crash games that came out on the PS2, for example, you probably would be fine then. Or maybe some of the early Spyro stuff,

things like that. But ultimately, I have a computer, so I'm going to just emulate it on the computer. Speaking of emulation, if nothing else, the Steam deck is going to be an absolute killer for emulation. I don't know how much you do better

at how much you'll actually be able to emulate, but it's certainly going to thrash most things, and I might have to like. Go and maybe. Maybe I would install like. I kind of want to install like a.

Like a DS emulator. I know that a lot of games sort of. Going to require like the DS part. but like if you split that screen in half and you have like one side being the top screen the other side being the bottom screen you might be able to actually get something fairly good out of that i don't know i just want to go back and play um kingdom hearts 365 two days. And that gives me a good enough reason to do so. I'm going to be doing it on stream. But I don't know.

I don't know if it's going to be the same sort of experience if I play the game with an actual controller rather than playing on a handheld. I don't know. As I said, I'm excited for the Steam Deck, even if I don't actually buy one. But maybe I will buy one. Maybe I'll buy the Steam Deck when Steam Deck version 2 comes out. Let's say the Steam Deck becomes a massive, massive success,

and Valve basically starts up a new product class. Handheld PC gaming actually becomes like a proper thing people care about. Maybe when like the next generation comes out you buy like an older one, maybe a pre-owned one that would be a really powerful emulation machine. Like

genuinely enough to crush most games. I don't know, I think that would do PS2 perfectly fine. PS3 is a bit weird because of the weird architecture um and you may if you maybe if you like lower maybe you better do switch even i don't know like how demanding switch emulation is um but the switch does use Vulkan which is interesting because that makes it fairly easy to emulate on Linux

there is an emulator called Yuzu I don't know how well it works maybe I'll have to test that out at some point hmm maybe I don't know but that out at some point. Maybe. I don't know.

But we are closing in on two hours, so I think it's basically time to end off the podcast. I am genuinely surprised that the lights that I'm using actually lasted the entire stream. Or the entire podcast

because I actually didn't have them fully charged and obviously as I said earlier, I recorded videos earlier in the day so I sort of expected them to die or at least start dimming partway through the thing, but

they didn't. I... What was the name? Next week? the thing, but they didn't. I... What was the name? Next week, next week is going to be the Cyan podcast, which I am very excited for. She's going to be a very fun guest.

Yeah, so keep your eyes peeled for episode 75 of Take Over Tea. After that, I'm going to try to get a guest on i i know it's rare for me to have like different guests on and like new guests i know cyan i've had like in the works for a while but like after cyan it's not just gonna go straight back to like nothing but solo episodes i'm gonna try to get on for on. I feel like he'll do it. He shows my livestreams

occasionally. We talk on Mastodon occasionally. If I send him a message being like, yo, you wanna come on the podcast? Hopefully he'll say yes. There's some other people I wanna talk to as well. I will send them DMs and maybe we will start doing guest podcasts

and having fun like that. I don't know. Obviously, there's people I can bring back as well. So, that will be fun as well. So, the channel that you should go check out today. Who should you check out? That is a good question. Not IGN.

Definitely not IGN. I am going to say go check out... If you want to see random Kingdom Hearts videos, go watch Stickman Sham. Only has 43.7k subs. So still a relatively small channel. But he actually shows some pretty cool stuff about Kingdom Hearts that I didn't

know about, or stuff that I didn't realise how weirdly designed this game was. For example, there's in the Thousand Heartless fight, if you stare at the ground, apparently all of the Heartless just spawn directly on top of you.

And you can spam Magdega and everything dies. Obviously, you won't have it at that point, but if you, say, do a randomizer, yeah. Or, like, there's a rare reaction command that, like, apparently if Leon gets down during the, uh, the, uh, Hollow Bastion fight where you protect the gate,

there's a reaction command to bring him back up. Why that exists, I don't know. Have I ever seen it in actual gameplay? No. Will you ever see it in actual gameplay? No. You actually have to like force the game into position where it's actually gonna show you this. But yeah, here's really good videos and I highly recommend checking out his channel. Um, yeah. So that's gonna be pretty much everything for me. Uh, before I go,

I would like to thank my supporters. Before my, uh, my voice completely cuts out and I can no longer speak anymore. Hopefully we're fine by, uh, by tomorrow, uh, where I'm going to be recording, uh, some more videos. Maybe we'll do two, maybe we'll do tomorrow where I'm going to be recording some more videos. Maybe we'll do two.

Maybe we'll do three. I don't know. Anyway, a special thank you to Yoakim, Donald, Logan, Mike, Andrew, Mitchell, Nathan, David, Carl, Will, Brennan, Chico, Bento, Jamie, Joseph, Josh, Michael, Peter, Stephen, Tease, the Return of Tushar, and all of my $2 supporters. If you'd like to support Work The Blinks down below to my Patreon, subscribe, leave a comment, that sort of stuff. I've got my podcast.

I just realized that this is the I was doing my main channel outro. That's not what I'm doing here. The podcast as an audio form is available basically on any audio podcast platform. Search for Take Over Tea and you will find it. The video version

is available on YouTube and Odyssey comes out earlier on Odyssey. So if you want to see it before anyone else, go check that out. My main channel is Brodie Robertson, where I do Linux videos, upload them six times a week. And this week, I guess, actually, no, I can't say this week because this is going to come out a week after these videos come out. When this comes out, there will be videos. What the videos are, I do not know. And I also have a gaming channel that is Brody Robertson Plays where I live stream twice a week and upload five or so YouTube shorts. So, I think that'll be everything for me.

Yeah. So, I don't know how to end this. I think that'll be everything for me uh yeah so I don't know how to end this um yeah I guess I'm out or something end it now