Tech Over Tea - #76 Where Did All The Tech News Go | Solo

Episode Date: August 11, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I am, as always, your host, Brodie Robertson, and today, it is episode 76 of Tech of a T, and I am actually recording this, like, way, way earlier than I normally would. I know I've been starting to, like, record it earlier in the week, but I mean early relative to the previous episode I did. So, I recorded the Cyan episode on episode se- on on episode seven two days ago why did i say the episode number i recorded the cyan episode on august the first today is august the third basically the reason why i had to do that because like how late that went into the week and like if i didn't do this now it would have been like i'd be recording this way towards the end of the week it's just it'd be a big mess if i didn't do that so doing it would have been like, I'd be recording this way towards the end of the week. It's just, it'd be a big mess if I didn't do that. So doing it now to get myself like back into, back into the way it should be. And basically we'll just keep everything going from there.

Now, if you haven't seen the Scion episode yet, even if you don't really care about VTubers or anything like that, if you like this podcast, I really, really think you should go back and watch episode 75, because I genuinely think that was one of, if not the best episodes that we've done so far. I had so much fun recording that, Cyan seemed to love the experience as well, and honestly, it was just really wholesomeolesome and if you want to laugh a bit with all the dumb shit that was said I really recommend it we didn't say anything like that

that like intellectual, we didn't really talk that much about tech news or anything but I think that if you just want to see a fun podcast that's where you should go I'll talk a bit more about the Cyan podcast a bit later on, and sort of, sort of about, like, how her community has really reacted to the way, like,

to me, sort of, just, like, hanging out with Cyan a bit, because, honestly, like, that, that might sound like a bad thing, that's not a bad thing at all. I mean that in the, like, most positive way possible. I'll get into that in just a bit though. First up, I want to talk about something that I saw just before this. So I was looking for tech news topics like I always do, basically because that's usually a good set of baseline stuff if I can't fill out the topics with anything that's really been happening in my life or anything like that. And tech news is always fun to talk about because it makes sense to clip. And, you know, people want to see the sort of stuff that's going on right now.

But man, there is nothing going on right now. Like you have all like the general tech news. If we go to the Verge's website, for example, the Verge is one of like my go-to's to tech. Not because I like particularly like the Verge, but because they example. The Verge is one of my go-tos for tech, not because I particularly like the Verge, but because they just post a lot of shit. And when you post a lot of shit, there's a very high chance that there'll be something

interesting that actually happens. But most of these topics are just not interesting at all. It's like, hey, here's some MacBook deals. Wow, subscription service for college books. Oh, here's some Apple Watch deals. Oh, masks at Facebook.

Here's some AirPod. Like, what are these topics? These are so boring. Also, this topic was like a week old, but they only just wrote their article about it. So all of like nothing in here, nothing in here except like one or two things is even like remotely interesting actually that could be fun i might talk about that in a bit i didn't actually

see that just before anyway there was one topic that really did stick out though and as soon as i saw this topic I honestly I knew that I had to talk about it. Now where did I put it on my list? Let's see I searched for did I not put it on the list? Did I just send it to people

and not add it to my list? I might be incredibly dumb. Okay I'm going to go grab the topic and then we will talk about it. How did I not add it to my list. I might be incredibly dumb. Okay, I'm going to go grab the topic and then we will talk about it. How did I not add that? What am I doing? Okay. Here is an article from Reuters.

And that is on the wrong window. Okay. Here is an article from Reuters. Can we see it? Is it broken? It broke. Of course it broke. Why wouldn't it break? Let's go. Click on that one. Properties. That one. Why can

you not see it? Why did that break? Okay. So I had everything working just before, and now it has stopped. I'm going to pause for a second. Okay, so I had everything working just before and now It has stopped I'm gonna pause for a second. Okay, we're back. I don't know exactly what happened there for some reason. I guess OBS just Would not capture the window. I don't know OBS just occasionally breaks like that anyway

Tencent Vowels fresh gaming curbs after spiritual opium attacks and zaps 60 billion. So, basically what happened, I didn't read most of this, I just saw the title, I was like, I have to talk about this. Uh, Chinese, uh, China's Tencent Holdings Limited said on Tuesday it would further curb miners' access to its flagship video game hours after its shares were battered by a state media article that described online games as spiritual opium. Man, what a take on video games. Like, I've heard people saying, oh, video games are a waste. I almost spilled my tea. Video games are a waste of time and video games won't get you anywhere in life, but I

Don't think I've ever heard the term spiritual opium I guess what they're getting at here is that by playing video games basically you're I guess destroying your destroying your life destroying your personnel destroying destroying your wallet in some cases by personnel destroying- destroying your wallet in some cases by uh giving all your money to uh- to companies like this. So China's largest social media and video game firm saw its stock tumble more than 10% in early trade, wiping almost 60 billion dollars for its market capitalization.

The stock was on track to fall the most in a decade before truing losses after the article vanished from the outlet's website and WeChat account. Wait, what? They... Wait. So they deleted the article? Uh-huh. In the article, the newspaper singled out Honor of Kings as the most popular online game among students, who it said played up to eight hours a day. I'm guessing that game hasn't ever gotten an English release

because if it's such a popular game, presumably I would have heard of it. Otherwise, you know, I just don't pay enough attention to like... No, it does have an English release. Okay, forget what I said. I just don't pay enough attention to mobile games because frankly, I honestly don't pay enough attention to mobile games, because frankly, I don't. I honestly don't care enough about mobile games.

Anyway, spiritual opium has grown into an industry worth hundreds of billions. What a fucking good take. No industry, no sport can be allowed to develop in a way that will destroy a generation. Ah, ah, this is why they're

calling it opium. Right, okay. Opium became a sensitive subject in China after it ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain in perpetuity in 1842. At the end of the first opium war fought over the export of the drug to China, where addiction became

widespread. Right, so China has like a history with opium, so by using that term basically you're trying to like conjure up feelings of hatred that otherwise really wouldn't have been there. Child well-being. A separate opinion

piece published by the China News Service on its official Twitter-like Weibo account. Hours after the Economic Information Daily article took a different tone, saying that blame could not be placed on any one party, including game developers for child addiction to online video games. Schools, game developers, parents, and other parties needed to work together. That's actually, like, a good take.

Like, yeah, that's actually a good take. Man, spiritual opium? Nah, man. Be a good take. Man, spiritual opium? Nah, man. Be a parent. Basically. Chinese regulators have found since 2017 sought to limit the amount of time miners spend playing video games and companies including Tencent

already have anti-addiction systems that say CapY uses GameTime. That is such a weird idea. I can't even imagine the government getting involved with how much people are allowed to play video games. It makes sense if that's what your aim is, like curb addiction. but also it makes sense in a country where you really could apply restrictions like that. But think of that in like,

say, Australia. Australia is a pretty crazy country where we just regulate the shit out of everything, but even Australia wouldn't be like, yes, let's make it so your child cannot play more than, I don't know, pick a number. Three hours of video games a day. That's just not something that, like, would ever be a focus of, like, the Australian government. We're too focused on doing things like, hey, I don't like encryption. Encryption bad. Except if the government uses it. But we should build backdoors into encryption.

Except the backdoor should only be allowed to be used by the government uses it but we should build backdoors into encryption except the backdoor should only be allowed to be used by the government that's not how a backdoor works, you put a backdoor there everyone's going to use it but ignore the fact that that's how backdoors works, we're the Australian government and that's what we say you need to do that's what we're

more focused on and also like censoring video games even though like you could just give an 18 plus rating which is a thing we have like we added in an 18 plus rating for the purpose of games that could only be rated over 18 but we just honestly don't use it a lot. It's one thing for games not to hit that mark, but when you have a game that does, use it. And the

excuses... Have I talked about games that got banned in Australia? And some of the dumb reasons why. Let's see. Australia banned games. I don't think I have. I don't recall ever actually doing that uh let's see list of video games refused classification uh

let's see some of them you know i i think might be slightly reasonable but in the case of like hotline miami here um i think a hotline miami 2 also had a problem. So, originally rated MA15. Why did it break again? Now you can't see it again. Why is that happening? What is going on? There? We're good. Yes, we're good.

OBS! Okay. Originally related, uh, related, rated MA15+, on May 7, 2013, by the classification board. It was later re-rated R18+, on 28th of May, through the iARC system. On 13th, uh, on 13 June, 2019, it was refused classification through the iARC system after Devolver Digital attempted to get the game

reclassified for the release of the Hotline Miami Collection. You already rated it. Like, why are you changing it? That doesn't make any sense. Like, what? How does the game go from being an R18 rating, then you reclassify

it with the exact same video game, and then you reclassify it with the exact same video game, and then you change the rating. Also, there's nothing in Hotline Miami that really is any worse than what you would see in a movie. In fact,

I would argue that it's way less bad than what you'd see in some movies. Akatana Zero also refused ratingiding, because actually a big reason why a lot of games get banned in Australia isn't because of violence. There is some cases of that, but usually it's because of drug use.

Things like, say, Mortal Kombat. I don't think a single Mortal Kombat game is actually on here. Let me see. Mortal Kombat 2011. It was originally banned, but then we brought in the R18 rating. That's fine. R18 makes sense. Mortal Kombat is a very violent game.

It makes sense to have that as being like an over 18 rating. I don't have a problem with that. But like most of the games on here, it's because of like either something sexual or something, something drug related. I don't understand. I genuinely don't understand our rating system. I just genuinely don't,

especially when any of like the themes in these games that got them banned would be perfectly fine in the case of a movie. Maybe, like, I don't know, there's some, like, nonsense argument about, hey, if we, like, if we have, like, interaction, well, clearly,

that makes it worse somehow, even though you should have something, like, so, so much worse in a movie context uh like actually like actually genuinely bad uh here's a fun one actually uh here's two fun ones south park the stick of truth um so that got banned because of like some sexual violence stuff. Sure. Okay.

But they did end up re-releasing it. Oh, right. They, they allowed it through because of, because of the change they did. A version was released replacing said scene with a card humorously explaining what has been cut. I recommend going and watching the Australian censored version of that scene because it's absolutely hilarious. Saints Row 4 is also a really funny one. So Saints Row 4 got banned because of sexual violence and drug use, right? But what they ended up doing was cutting a mission involving alien narcotics. Alien narcotics is basically what got the game unbanned.

The original, like, they used the, like, sexual violence as, like, a problem to get it banned initially, but then when they reclassified it, it then wasn't a problem. Like, this is the other part of the problem with, like, the Australian classification board.

Like, they will reclassify stuff and the exact same elements that got it banned the first time won't be a problem the second time even though literally nothing was changed i but look you're in the internet so there are ways that you can get your game your hands on games that were banned it's not exactly very difficult uh i don't exactly need to explain how you would do it. Psychedelicraft mod for

Minecraft. Who tried to get a Minecraft mod a Minecraft mod classified by the Australian classification board? Who did that? What?

What? Wait, yeah, like someone actually tried to get it classified. Why? It's a Minecraft mod. I don't understand. I'm pretty sure... If I'm not mistaken, um... Hot Coffee is also on this list. Yeah, so... Uh... GTA San Andreas had its classification revoked on August 16, 2005, following the Hot Coffee controversy. Edited worldwide with this version of the game, also achieving an MA15+. But, like, this mod still does exist, and you can just install the mod. Like, there's literally nothing stopping you installing the mod. I don't understand.

Oh, then we also have Fallout, and the reason why the drug names in Fallout have like really dumb names. Where initially you're going to have things like morphine. And they changed it to like Med-X. And a bunch of the other drugs in the game originally had like actual normal names. And that's why now you have like the names that you would expect to see in Fallout. That I actually don't think is a bad change, to be completely honest. I think that actually just makes the game better.

Like, that's the one time a reclassification or a bit of censorship actually improves the game. I can't think of a single other time that it's actually happened. Oh yeah, I forgot that Left 4 Dead 2 was originally... Oh, this is the one game that I've seen that has been banned because of, like, bloody violence.

One of the very few games that this has actually been a problem for. Uh, also, just remember, once again, that Final Destination exists. And there's no problem with that whatsoever. Uh, yeah. That's enough talking about the Australian Classification Board being absolute, honestly absolute morons who have no idea what they're doing and can't even work out, like, what they actually want to censor.

But, hey, what are you going to do? Honestly, what are you going to do what are you gonna do you just got to accept that they don't know what they're doing and just live your life i guess yes um you know i'll get into the topic i i mentioned before so with, with the Cyan episode, I think why that episode was so fun. As I said before, really, really, really good episode. Highly recommend watching it. But I think what made that episode work

so well is the fact that even though Cyan was saying she's not great at holding a conversation for a really long time, I don't think that's what's really gonna hold up a podcast i think what really made that work is the fact that there was a lot of really good back and forth and she's really easy to like bounce topics off if i try to like set up a joke she would sort of pick up with where i was going or if she didn't pick it up she'd like somehow stumble into it and like that would sort of it would make that that segment

kind of entertaining plus as as you may have seen in like the australian bit uh if you don't know what i'm talking about there's a bit where where cyan didn't realize that that in the southern hemisphere where like summer and our summer is at the end of the year rather than the middle of the year that we don't actually change when Christmas is. We still celebrate Christmas in December. She didn't realize this

and that made for a really fun segment as well. And I think like I think that's part of the reason why it worked. She's also just really fun to as well and i think like i think that's that's part of the reason why it worked like she's also just really fun to just be around that that also i think that also really helped as well i've had some people come on who while they're good speakers like they don't really they don't really make for i good conversation, if that makes sense. Like, Scott Cunningham, for example. I think Scott Cunningham is an amazing speaker, and I would love to have him back on the podcast

if he ever wants to come back on. But I don't think he's great for a conversation. If you go back and watch that episode, I think he spoke probably, like, maybe an an hour of maybe like an hour and a half of that podcast. And I barely spoke. I just like queued up with a topic and he would just like keep going forever. And that's great for me because that means that I don't have to talk that much. But when it comes to like back and forth, it doesn't really work in that same way. Because if someone goes on like a 10 minute tangent,

then like if I try to like say, you know, go back and talk about some of the things they talked about during that tangent, it's going to be very easy to forget the sort of topics they actually mention, especially when like you give them a starting point and they take it like a mile away from where you started. As I said, it's good for me, less talking. But maybe if I was just better at podcasting, I would be able to handle that better. But I think when it's sort of short bursts between two people, it ends up being a bit more fun.

And one thing I do do want to mention you may have noticed at the start like the conversation was real i don't know if it i really don't know if it came off in the recording but i felt like at the start maybe like the part the the first like half an hour 20 minutes or so it was a really like awkward sort of conversation because both of us were really really nervous while going into that i've talked to people like say distro tube for example and honestly i was less nervous doing the distro tube episode i was less nervous doing the hex dsl episode every episode that's come beforehand i was less nervous doing but i don't know for some reason i was really really excited

for that one to happen and maybe it's because i'm like actually just like a really big fan of what cyan does maybe that's part of it and i know that she likes my channel as well so like both of us had that exact same feeling where it's like oh my god we're we're both talking to someone that we're like both a big fan of and really like the content of i i don't know how this is gonna work work. But I think once we sort of settled down and got used to talking to each other, that's when we sort of started to get into like some, some of the really sort of fun banter.

And I think, I think the, like the Australian bit really did help out with that. Like before that point, I was really nervous. But once that happened, I sort of knew like what i was dealing with while i had watched her podcast i watched her live stream before and watched her talk to other people it's always very different when like you're actually communicating with that person and seeing like how they sort of how they sort of bounce off of your energy

and i i think that like i think that worked out really well, to be honest, um, and one other thing I do want to like, I do want to really talk about is the, like, how, how, how do I describe this? I guess, I guess the way like, her community is sort of, sort of, I guess, reacting to, to me, sort of, I guess, showing to me sort of, I guess, showing up and collabing with Cyan and doing all of this stuff. I honestly think, like, everyone I've

talked to so far has been, like, really, really supportive. I know that some communities out there are, I guess, really apprehensive to certain people joining, and especially in, like, with the VTuber world, because a lot of the VTuber world is very sort of tight knit and very much collab with VTubers and nobody else.

Like the VTuber world still exists in like this, this little bubble of its own thing. But everyone that I've talked to from Cyan's Discord and every time I pop into the live streams, everyone is just like really, really happy to see me there and really happy to chat and all of this sort of stuff. And honestly, it feels good. It really does. And

I've even had a couple of people like Jupiter, for example. Jupiter's just been drawing fan art for me and that I think is like really cool. And I was talking to Jupiter before and I think is like really cool and I was talking to Jupiter before and I was told like I was told that like he'd never done

any um I guess fan art of any like male VTubers or any male YouTubers or anything like that so it was really cool to find out that like I was the first person that like Jupiter had drawn any art for like that and that It was really cool to find out that, like, I was the first person that, like, Jupiter had drawn any art for, like, that.

And that's just kind of cool. I don't know. Maybe I'm just, like, really excited about the fact that I actually have someone actually drawing art for me. Maybe there's just that. But I don't know. I appreciate every little bit of fan art I get. And especially when it comes to, like, something that actually takes some, like, proper work. Even in cases of, um... Can I find it?

Even in cases of a, uh, a really questionable piece of art that I... I got. Where is it? Uh, if I search for... Wait, it's not... Where is it? If I search for... Wait, it's not... Where is it? Is it not there? Where is the made picture? It should have been here. Did I not... Wait, did I

not save it? Okay, I'm gonna get it from my Discord, I guess. I was sure I'd save that. But I guess I forgot to. That's fine. This picture, here we go. Like, what is this?

Like, it looks completely ridiculous. But I love it nonetheless. If you don't know the context for this, basically throughout the other podcast with Cyan she kept trying to like get me to I don't know, she wants me to dress up as a maid

just don't question why she wants me to dress up as a maid and she kept bothering me about it and then this art came into existence and you know what it honestly doesn't look as bad as I had expected And she kept bothering me about it. And then this art came into existence. And you know what? It honestly doesn't look as bad as I had expected. Maybe there's something there.

Maybe I should buy a maid dress and wear that on a stream once. Certainly not as we go into summer. But if I do it before summer, maybe. I love this. It looks so stupid and it's great. But I still really appreciate it nonetheless. So. Because of like how supportive people have been.

I'm honestly like. Even more excited now to. To do an actual collab. Not just like a podcast. But like an actual live stream collab. I don like a podcast, but like an actual livestream collab. I don't know. It- it- It's really not. It- like honestly like, I- I know I can't really like, word- word? I know- I can't really like, enunciate- enun- is that the correct- I- I can't really describe. We'll go with describe because i'm i'm not a uh dictionary for thesaurus

there's a dictionary for adjectives a thesaurus i'm not a thesaurus we'll go describe i can't really describe like how i like how how nice it feels to sort of have that but what i will say is it is really nice to have such a supportive community that isn't my own because my own community is honestly a bike I kind of expect it considering the fact that I am but a lot there's a lot of people are a bunch of ourselves and like that's what I want but it's an it's certainly a nice change that's for sure oh man so go watch the sign episode if you haven't seen it yet. And, yeah, that'll be out the week before this one. So, yeah.

Maybe by then we will collab. Probably not. I haven't sort of planned anything yet. And it's a matter of, like, actually doing that. That's the first big problem to actually get through. Work out when we are both free to actually do a podcast. I'm usually fairly free most of the time. It's just a matter of

actually planning something and then working out what we're going to do. That's the big part that actually is going to do. Yeah, that's the big part that actually is going to take some time. But I don't think there's really anything

else to say about that. Just watch it. I had fun. Everyone I've talked to so far who's seen the Odyssey version has had fun. Hopefully when people watch it on YouTube as well, they will think the same way. And I know that that episode got posted,

or I guess got posted, is going to get posted, got posted for you, going to get posted for me, on r slash vTuber. So, hey, if there's anyone new here who, you know, hasn't seen this podcast before and they just discovered it from that post, welcome, have fun. Maybe we'll bring some more vTubers on in the future.

And if there's any vTubers who are watching this, hey, I might check out your channel, and maybe we'll do something in the future. That would be cool. I will take over my position in the independent VTuber sphere. That's my goal. That makes it sound way worse than it actually is. I like the idea of VTubers, that's what goal that makes it sound way worse than it actually is i i i like the idea of vtubers that's what i'll say like the idea of vtubers and there are some really cool people out there who

would be more like would be a lot of fun to like chat with that's for sure um yeah anyway i want to move on to a bit of a gaming topic. Another, I guess another gaming topic? Yeah, another gaming topic. So, I don't know how many of you guys, uh, saw Charlie's first video on, uh, the Halo Infinite beta thingy, whatever it is. The, the, what, what people are calling it? They were calling it a tech demo. That's it. So, Charlie Moist Critical. Let's see. The first one, not the one that he did after that. So, he was playing the tech demo sort of thing and was really critical of the game. Haha, critical. Get it? His name's Critical. He was really critical of the game haha critical get it his name's critical was really critical of the game like how the game actually worked and i don't really care that much about halo i don't really care if the game's actually good or not i'm not probably gonna play

anytime soon maybe i'll buy it like on sale eventually but one of the things that i found really amusing about this is how many people were like being once again really critical of like how he was sort of talking about the game saying oh it's just a beta or oh it's just a tech demo and people couldn't actually work out whether it was supposed to be a beta or a tech demo and this kind of amuses me because of like how much like the game industry has really destroyed what the word beta actually means. And I think this has all started back since like Battlefield 3 and things like that. Ever since the point of like these quote-unquote betas that came out like a week before the game came out and were a completely finished build, people have got this completely wrong idea about what a beta actually is. So in the case of this Halo Infinite

tech demo, whatever you want to call it, this was apparently like a three month old build that was kind of buggy and all of that sort of stuff. Now, I know people are really confused about what a beta actually is at this point. But that's a beta. A beta isn't supposed to be a release build of the game that you play like a week before the game comes out. A beta is supposed to be like an older build. A build that's like stable enough where you can check out most of the features. But it's not supposed to be complete.

Like, for example, when Battlefield 3's beta came out, and you had Operation Metro, and I think you had the M16, and the AK... Whatever the AK weapon was in that game. I don't remember the exact one. Not a beta. What beta has sort of become to mean now is demo. Basically, what a beta. What beta has sort of become to me now is demo. Basically,

what a demo is, this is going to sound very similar to what a beta is in the modern sense. What a demo is is a stripped down version of the complete build that lets you demonstrate the game. That lets you see what the game is all about. Take a modern beta.

It's a stripped down version of the release build that lets you see what the game is all about. Take a modern beta, it's a stripped down version of the release build that lets you see what the game is all about. Not a beta. Look at something like say Minecraft's a bad example but we'll go with Minecraft. Actually no Minecraft actually is a good example because it demonstrates like what the difference between these different stages are. It just had like really long iterations of these. So if we take like Minecraft free alpha sort of stuff, it had like a concept of what the game actually is,

but barely worked. And a lot of the features that you expect to be there in Minecraft just simply weren't functioning. Then you take the Minecraft alpha. The Minecraft alpha still didn't have lighting properly at the start, and over time they eventually added that stuff in, and a lot of the features you'd expect to be there were missing. It had a lot of, like, lag problems, and overall it was still, like, a very flaky game. While it was, like, more than what was there for, like, the the initial testing as, like, a concept, it still wasn't a fully fleshed out game

that really made sense to really buy. People did buy it though, but that's because of how like insanely long those cycles were and it was still a good game nonetheless. Then the Minecraft beta came out. This was a much more complete version of the game, but still really lacking in a lot of the features you'd expect to be in Minecraft today.

Back when the beta came out, it didn't have things like sleeping, for example, one thing. It didn't have much of what was there in the nether. Basically, it was like netherrack and lava, and that was pretty much it. The end didn't exist. Food did exist. Hunger didn't exist. Oceans didn't exist. Enchanting didn't exist. Food did exist. Hunger didn't exist. Oceans didn't exist. Enchanting didn't exist. All of that stuff came towards like the end of the beta.

The end of the beta that was coming up towards like the actual release of the game. Betas are not what you've been told from like all of the game dev studios today. If it comes out a week before the game's coming out, it's not a beta. A beta is supposed to be buggy and it's supposed to be like missing all of the features. People got really confused with Halo Infinite because it was the actual first beta for a game that anyone has actually seen publicly in maybe like 10 years. Sure, it doesn't really make sense to really release a beta in most cases, because people now do expect an actual demo, but that's what it was. That's all it really was.

That's all I can really say about it. I really wish game companies didn't do this. Because it just makes things more confusing. I think the reason why they did it though. Is because beta makes it sound more exciting than demo does. Like demo just sounds kind of boring. But when you say beta. It makes it sound like it's this exclusive thing, it makes it sound like it's this exclusive

thing. It makes it sound like it's this thing that, like, you're not supposed to have and, like, you're checking out the game when it's still, like, not ready to be played. Like, it makes it sound more exciting than it really is. Even if it's just fundamentally not a beta. Because if the game's

like, okay, here's the point. If the game is literally about to ship like discs have already been sent to stores and like there's no way you can change the game without releasing like a day one patch if that is like what your quote-unquote beta is, that's not a beta. It's just not. Unless you intentionally release, in the case of Halo Infinite, an old build. Yeah. I saw this over on Reddit, I think. This is the Steam hardware survey.

Most of it's not that exciting. Like, you see the normal stuff that's been happening. Weirdly, there was a spike in Intel usage that completely dropped off. I don't know what the deal was there. Did people just have a bunch of Intel CPUs that died all of a sudden or something? I don't really know. It seems like there's a bunch of, like, weird dips in places, though. So, maybe there was just, like, weird collection in the data at that point. I'm not really sure.

Anyway, that's not what I want to talk about. If we go to the OS version, Linux has once again broken 1.0. It's not like a massive number. Like OSX is still way, way more popular. Even though I don't know who's playing games on their Mac. I genuinely don't. But that 1% is really, really big. Like, 1% might not sound like many people.

But if we go look at, like, how many people globally use Steam. Steam user base. There is approximately 120 million monthly active players. So let's say 1% of that, which is 1.2 million. Like, out of the entirety of Steam, it's still a very small number. But that's still, like, a lot of Steam. It's still a very small number. But that's still, like, a lot of people. And this number, I think, is only going to grow

over, like, the next couple of months. Once the Steam Deck drops, I don't know how popular it's going to be. But what I do know is that there's no way the hype doesn't play out in some sort of way.

Like, the Steam Deck has been so, so hyped up, and I know that, like, looking at pre-order numbers doesn't really matter in this case, because you could always cancel your pre-order, uh, at least in this case, pre-order numbers. I know there's been some numbers floating around like how insane how insane it was. In the first 90 minutes apparently there was 110,000 orders. I don't see

I don't know where I saw the numbers like how many potentially have been pre-ordered. But until like actual full sales are made, we can't But until like actual full sales are made, we can't really say like how many sales are made. But even so, even if just like, I don't know, 500,000 people buy this, that's already what? Half of the existing Linux user base added on top of what we already have.

That's really big. It's nowhere near like the user base of Windows. And I don't expect the Steam Deck to outsell Windows. That doesn't make any sense. I don't think that's going to happen at least anytime soon. Valve would have to really, really change up how well Proton actually works for that to reasonably happen and it's not just like a proton thing at that point you would have to have like the entire computing industry sort of

shift around linux and start putting an emphasis on it for this to really happen because people don't just buy a computer just for the sake of gaming they have all of this other stuff they they want to do that is going to be done on windows as well so unless all of that just suddenly just happened to be good on linux like that that wouldn't happen but even so i think there's still a lot of a lot of growth that's going to happen in this space come the release of the steam deck and then come the extra cycles that release after that because i think it's going to be like once a quarter until they start doing like actual full shipping i'm not sure when like actual you can just like buy one and it will ship in like a i don't know a couple of weeks will actually be but i presume that won't be until like maybe mid 2022 maybe maybe final quarter

2020 2022 or something i know when i looked like the second batch of pre-orders weren't shipping until second quarter i think so it would have to be some time after that that like you could just buy one whenever which that's going to be when i buy one because i'm not going to pre i maybe oh okay the only thing that will get me to pre-order it is if once the initial sales roll out it turns out it's actually really good because technically then it wouldn't be a pre-order it would be more like a reservation i don't want to pre-order something that no independent journalists have like had to or had the ability to properly test and i don't count fucking ign because they didn't test it what they had was they got to use it in like a closed off room and they honestly ign doesn't even know what they're talking about half the shit they said in

their article just didn't make any sense so i don don't trust IGN as far as I can throw them. I'm waiting for someone who I actually trust, like, I don't know, Digital Foundry or Linus Tech Tips to do their own look at it or Clicksphilip or someone like that. That's when I will make my decision on whether I'm actually going to buy one. How did I get here? Right, I was talking about Linux adoption on the Steam Hardware Survey. Fuck, that was cursed.

I just looked at a bit of fan art and it scared me. I'm going to show you it. I forgot this one exists. Why? Why did someone make this? They added shuples into my profile picture that doesn't have them. And it doesn't... It doesn't look right.

Maybe you could make it look right. But, like, what was done here... Doesn't. It really doesn't. I'm still excited for the Steam Deck. And so far, I haven't seen anything to really, really change that. Like, I... Yeah, I keep seeing articles about it every so often.

I know, like, FSR is, like, working nicely inside of Proton, all of that sort of stuff. Steam Deck, wait, AMD and Valve working on CPU driver that could boost Steam Deck performance. I didn't see this one until just now. According to a report from Pharonix, AMD and Valve are working together to design a better CPU scaling driver for Linux, targeting the Steam Deck console. Right? Valve has recently launched its Steam Deck gaming console that houses AMD's custom Ryzen APU

with embedded RDNA 2 GPU and Zen 2 CPU powered by Linux based Arch Operating System OS. That's redundant. Given that this system runs a Linux based OS, Valve has to optimize the software as much as possible to ensure a smooth and consistent gaming experience across various AAA titles. Well, not necessarily, but sure, it would help. According to the report,

Valve has been improving the CPU frequency scaling on Zen 2 cores in a joint effort with AMD. Steam Deck will obviously benefit from this collaboration, along with other AMD processors that run on Linux, which I run. That would be certainly nice to have. AMD's Zen 2 design now uses the ACPI CPU FREQ driver, which was not very performance-slash-power efficient for modern AMD platforms. This approach resulted in poor performance,

poor frequency scaling, and made it result- made it difficult, sorry I can't read, made it difficult for power limited solutions like the Steam Deck to manage the power-performance ratio to improve scaling. AMD has used the Collaborative Processor Performance Control, CPPC, a part of the ACPI specification, which provides a generic improvement for all newer Zen designs. However, if AMD decides to design a vendor-spec drive for Valve, it's possible that the solution

couldn't scale to other platforms and would remain exclusive to Steam Deck. Huh. I hope they'll do something for HDR support in Linux 2. I, I've, honestly, like, maybe HDR is very I hope they'll do something for HDR support in Linux too. Honestly, maybe HDR is very exciting, but I've never seen an HDR display. And because I haven't seen an HDR display, I can't really say whether I would care or not.

This is one of the nice things about not having nice things. When you don't have nice things, you don't know whether you're missing the nice things. I don't ever want to see an HDR display until I can, until I can, like, have a good HDR display. Because if I see one and it's good, that would mean that I would then have to go and buy one. Because it would bother me otherwise. Uh, given this system runs a Linux-based OS, that must optimize the software as much as possible. Sure, okay, that, right, oh, that's a reply to something in the article. Uh, Linux already runs really fast compared to Windows. Still, software should be as optimized as possible

when targeting specific hardware. I don't think you're even paying attention to what this article's about. This article's about, like, Proton and stuff running on it. So, yeah, like, Proton does have some issues in some places. But,

from what I've seen for the most part... What is this? From what I've seen for the most part, like with my personal experience on my rig, like it's been pretty good. I just saw an article from the TechRadar. From the TechRadar. From TechRadar.

Just like the Nintendo Switch, the Steam Deck is the result of failed hardware what is this about oh right okay right okay you're making the argument that the reason why the steam deck is going to work is because they made the steam machines in the past and steam machines were shit and the reason why the switch works is because the wii u was shit actually the wii u was a good console. It just didn't have games. And that was the problem.

Like, when you don't have games on a game console, like, why would anyone buy it? That's a... Yeah, there's no reason to buy it at that point. Mmm. Ah. Tea. I ran out of the normal tea that I drink.

I usually have Australian afternoon. I still had like a box sitting in my pantry and I thought there were tea bags in it. I could see like the tags for the tea bags. What was actually there were the tags for the tea bags with no tea bags attached. So I'm drinking our Lipton Black Tea right now. Still good.

I know someone is gonna argue, Lipton Black Tea, not very good tea. I don't care. I like the taste of it. I also like coffee with lots of sugar in it, so maybe I just don't have the best taste. Yeah, I probably don't have the best taste to be honest.

Speaking of things that are not good, I didn't get to talk about this last week because I had Cyan on the podcast, but I have to talk about it now because honestly, this is the fucking funniest thing.

Anyone listening to the audio version, this is a tweet from Pine64. Those guys who make like the Pine Phone and the Pine Books and the Pine Trees and the Pines. They don't make Pine Trees. That would be a natural thing. But all of the other Pine things,

the Pine Technologies, DHL sent all Pine Phones to New Zealand instead of their actual destination. How this happened is beyond us. This is a blunder on their part, but ultimately we're

the ones that got to apologize. This is a blunder on their part, but ultimately we're the ones that get to apologize to you. Very sorry about this. It will take approximately a week to sort out this situation now the funniest thing about this is even though like this happened i would still make the argument that dhl might be one of the like one of the best shipping companies that actually still exist like compared to anyone else all of the other companies that i've i've done anything with i've gotten like

damage packages and they've been like opened and all of this other shit but somehow dhl just always always just works out great the The delivery guys are always great. Like they will knock on the door and wait there for like 30 seconds at least before they leave. Everyone else, they knock on the door and they fucking sprint back to their car before you even get a chance to stand up. I don't know like how they're all so incompetent, but anytime anyone else, like, is delivering a package, they

always leave before I get there. And I am literally like, ten seconds away from the door. I don't know how this always happens, but DHL's always good. Like, sometimes they're getting ready to leave, but they'll still be standing there,

and when they see me, they'll turn back around, give me the stuff, rather than, like, you know, just continuing walking and going back to the fucking post office. I've actually, okay, that's one thing. I've had, like, Australia Post, for example, see me walk up the door and continue walking the other way like mate mate i'm literally here right now what are you doing give me my damn package oh god Oh, God.

We'll see. I've got some packages showing up at some point. So I've been reading Mushoku Tensei recently. This has a bloody fantastic anime. And I wanted to go and read the source material. And I've got the rest of the books on order from if you ever want books in Australia two good stores I would recommend

are Booktopia Booktopia is a really good one this one right here and also Book Depository both of these stores I really, really like. And Book Depository does free shipping if I'm...

Yeah, free shipping. Booktopia, I think, does free shipping over a certain price. The problem with Mushoku Tensei though, if you didn't see the anime, the anime for this is really good. And unsurprisingly, ever since that anime dropped, this has basically been sold out

everywhere. There were some cases where I was going to be like, hey, you want to wait two months to get a copy of this? I'm like, you know what? Maybe I'll just go read something else in the time being. But I think I've got volumes two, three, and four on order, which basically takes me up to where the first season of the anime finished. But there's something weird about this adaptation.

And I've never seen this in really any other adaptations that I've, or any other light novels I've read before. I just called this the adaptation. This is what I mean. So, it feels like the light novel, this might sound stupid. It feels like the source material is an adaptation of the anime. Maybe that doesn't make any sense, but what I mean is it feels like when I watched the anime, even though somehow it managed to adapt

four volumes, or three volumes? I think it was three volumes, actually, not four. Even though it managed to do that much content, it still felt like the anime somehow had extra details that were actually just missing from the light novel it's such a weird experience

to be reading something like this it's not to say that this is bad this is really good and I still recommend reading it but there are some scenes that like I'm almost 100% sure, simply just didn't exist in the light novel that feel like they should be. Like, they fit perfectly with the characters.

You know how you, like, you might watch something like Naruto, for example, and you'll have some, like, weird arc that comes out of nowhere that doesn't really make any sense. It's the exact opposite for this. The extra shit added into the anime feels like it should have been there from the start, and it's so weird when I get to some of those segments, and they're just simply not there. Like, there are a couple of, um, there are a couple of segments early on with Roxy, for example, who is the main character's magic teacher, which I thought were

in the light novel. Apparently they're not. Like, the, like, the, the, the big ones. If you've seen, if you've seen the anime, there's one scene with Roxy, um, definitely, definitely is in the light novel. It's much shorter in the light novel, but it, it, it's in the light novel. It's much shorter in the light novel, but it it's in the light novel. If you know the anime and you've watched the anime, you will know exactly what scene I'm talking about with Roxy when

Rudy catches Roxy late at night. That's all I'll say about that. But there's extra scenes where Rudy is just like being a weird Rudy's a very weird dude. Just being a weird dude having conversation

with Roxy, which weren't there at all. And I don't know if this is just a thing with the first volume or if that actually continues with the rest of the series, but I'm very intrigued to see, like, how that actually is handled. It's one thing for that to happen with there, like, obviously being less detailed, because this is a light novel, um, and not a manga, so obviously there'll be less detail when it comes to the fight scenes, but like just regular conversations,

usually you expect like lines to be cut in the other direction, lines to be cut from the light novel, rather than lines just not being there altogether. So the typical pace with anime adaptations now is usually about like three to4 volumes of a light novel for 12 or 13 episodes. That's the general pace we go with. And for anything else, like, when I

read, like, Rising of the Shield Hero, or like Death March, or Kumadeska, or Grimgar, or Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Every single case like that, there were lines cut. Even in cases like

how to pick up girls in a dungeon, which is only a, no, sorry, that is a four volume adaptation. I was gonna say it's not, but no. Even in cases like No Game No Life. No Game No Life is a, no, that's once again another three volume. Sword Art Online, there we go, there's. No Game No Life is a, no, that's once again another three volume.

Sword Art Online, there we go, there's one. Sword Art Online is a two-volume adaptation for 12 episodes. That is the old pace that used to be done. They don't do that anymore because in a lot of cases with light novel adaptations, nothing really happens in the first two volumes. In a lot of cases, you'll sort of have those be like the introduction, still introducing all of like the cast of characters. So doing more of that makes sense in that case, if you want to get like into the actual story, but it's worse because usually shit gets cut. Usually. Usually. Unless your name is Mushoku Tensei. Apparently. I don't know how they did it. Honestly, I think it's still... Wait.

Was it this? Wait. When did it come out? Was it this year or last year? I feel like it was winter this year. But I can't be sure. Mushoku Tensei. Came out...

Yeah, it came out this year. Wait, what did I just read there? Oh, I love it. I love Mao. Mao has some beautiful reviews on it. Right, here's the other thing. It did a three-volume adaptation

with 11 episodes. It didn't even have like 12 or 13. They managed to cut an entire episode out and still make it a good adaptation. It baffles me, Especially with things like. The adaptation for Kumadeska.

So I'm a spider so what. Where the adaptation was a fucking mess. I really like the light novel. That series is something where. You really need to get into like. The nitty gritty details of like the lore of the world. If you don't do that, shit later on simply doesn't make any sense. It feels like fight scenes are just like pulled together out of nothing.

The main character getting powers for absolutely no reason. But in the Light Novel, that doesn't exist. Everything's explained properly. Actually, that might be part of the reason why Mushoku's adaptation works so well. There's a lot less, I guess, a lot less explained through inner monologues with the character. That, yeah, that's a... I think that's it. A lot of what's explained in Mushoku can really be explained through action and really be explained through,. And really be explained through like.

Short dialogue conversations. I think that. I think that might be why it works. Yeah. That actually makes sense. So. Rising the Shield hero. Kumadesuka.

Basically like. Explain a lot of the abilities. The character has. And a lot of stuff like. Through. Conversations in their head but usually like you can't really just have you know a five minute monologue with the character talking to themselves that really doesn't make for good content when your explanation is something like

hey the character manages to like feel the the ability of the mana and somehow managed to cast the spell like that. Yeah. That makes sense. I've just unraveled the entire mystery right now. I recommend watching the anime and reading the light novel. If you don't want to read, just watch the anime. It's bloody fantastic. Probably still the best thing to air this year.

Even though there was a lot of best thing that aired this year. Even though there was there was a lot of good anime that aired this year. Like, Jujutsu Kaisen was also really good. Like, there was so much good stuff that came out this year. Honestly, it's gonna be kinda hard to, like, work out

work out what, like, work out what the best stuff of the year was. Was Mushoku really this year? That seems, like, so weird in my mind. Maybe I, wait, did I read the date wrong? No, I didn't. It actually did air this year. That feels like it was so long ago, though.

It honestly feels like it was so long ago. When you watch seasonal anime, you, like, really lose track of time. Just all together. Just lose track of all time. And shit just stops making really. Any sense. Oh the other thing.

That it um. It does that makes it work so well. Is the fact that it doesn't actually. Have like an opening. And an ending. Sorry it doesn't have an opening doesn't have an opening doesn't have an ending most anime the way that it works is you have a you have like an opening and a normal anime opening but there's a i don't know j-rock or something it'll be like the same the same segment the entire time this however does

it in a very different way what it basically did was it would sort of show off where the character is, it would explain a lot of what was going on with the world with like panning shots, and if like there's a segment of the first season where they're traveling through through the the the demon continent, whatever it's called, and they will will show a lot of that traveling during that segment rather than having it after it. So I guess you can also save a lot of time doing that. There are a lot of really good choices made to make it a really good series. Who directed it?

Have you directed anything? Okamoto Manabu did some stuff on Akame Ga Kill. The storyboard for Carol and Tuesday, directed Gamers... What? Gamers is a train wreck. I love it, but it's a train wreck. How? Yeah, directed something as mid as Gamers and then as beautiful as Mushoku Tensei. Mid as gamers. And then as beautiful as Mushoku Tensei. Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know how he's done it. This guy. This guy has managed to work marvels on that series. I know it's not a new series or anything like that. And I've probably talked about it on the podcast before. But. Reading this light novel really. Really did remind me of how good the series is.

And how much I think people should actually watch it. But moving on from that. We were talking about Pine before. So let's talk about something else Pine has done. This is also something that kind of fell under my radar for quite a bit. But we're here now. Pine 64's open source smartwatch goes on sale for $27.

I don't really care about smartwatches. I do have one. I do have one, but it's not... Oh, it's in rich. Here we go. Let's see if we can grab it without ruining everything.

Probably can. Here we go. Here we go. I didn't pay for it. That's why I said I don't really care about smartwatches. This is a Garmin watch. I got it as a Christmas present. I don't know how many years ago, actually.

A couple of years ago now at this point. And it's nice to have. But, you know, I wouldn't pay how much the Garmin bloody cost because I found it was very expensive when I got it. But this one on the other hand, not expensive. This one is

$27. You can now buy the Pine Time smartwatch pre-flash with Affinitime firmware. I guess if Affinitime is like a smartwatch firmware or something. Oh, it's a firmware specifically made for the Pine Time. Okay, I was going to say, who makes like firmware for smartwatches? But apparently Pine does. So they announced it back in 2019.

Though it's not an Apple Watch or a Fitbit rival, remember this thing is cheap, it's low price and open nature will endear it to the FOSS enthusiasts and Linux users alike. Although the Pine Time is designed partially to complement Linux smartphones like the

Pine Phone, it's totally open should people want to create apps that let the watch talk to iOS and Android devices. Some are already in development. Uh, it functions as a smartwatch, I guess. It has a 240x240 capacitive

touchscreen, which, honestly, for a display that small, doesn't really matter. Like, that sounds shit, but, like, when it's this big, like, I think it's smaller than... It's about this big from what I can tell, but square.

It doesn't matter. I don't know what the resolution on this is. I think it's higher than that, though. I don't know. Probably. It uses a Nordic semiconductor. I don't know what that is. I'm going to go past that. So, it uses Bluetooth 5ic Semiconductor. I don't know what that is. I'm gonna go past that. So, it uses Bluetooth 5, a motor for vibration,

a recently upgraded accelerometer, a heart rate sensor, so in theory it could be used as a basic fitness tracker. You mean what you're literally showing on the screen right here. Uh, and you can buy it from the Pine Store. For $27. What are people saying on the comments?

It seems similar to my Pebble Classic. Man. I'm actually really sad that Pebble went out of business. If you don't know who Pebble was. Pebble was like one of the. The first. One of the first smart watch manufacturers but the problem that the problem that pebble had is they sort of started in the market

a little before the market was really ready so they were a kick a Kickstarter company back in 2012. Jesus Christ, that was ages ago. And they were around for quite a while to be honest. Wait, hold up. Why are people talking about Pebble as if

they still exist? They didn't come back, did they? Wait, wait, wait. Or are people just, like, modding them still? Uh... Let's see. Wait. Uh...

Similar lacking features to the Apple Watch. That was the other thing. The Apple Watch eventually... No, okay, no, they did shut down in 2016. It's just that the people who own Pebble Watches are, like, still using them in 2020 even. Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure you can still buy...

We can't buy them from the company. You can still buy them on, like, eBay and stuff. Yeah. And they made a really nice one. The Pebble Steel, or whatever it was called. Here you go. Like, this is just, like, a really nice looking smartwatch but because they came out so early when the software wasn't really there then the apple watch started coming out and

apple sort of had like way better tech even the battery was bad they sort of just got like stomped by a big competitor but i i really did want a pebble watch when they first came out that was the only smart watch that i'd really cared about this is the other reason why i even though i don't i wouldn't buy this myself why i do like my garmin um because it actually functions as a watch the problem with a lot of smart watches even though they are getting better now is you have to charge them so fucking much. This thing, I can just leave on for like a week and it still has battery. That's what I want from my watch.

And I think it takes like an hour to charge. It doesn't do much. It's a fitness tracker. That's all it needs to do. It doesn't like let you take phone calls and all that stuff. I don't want to take phone calls on my watch anyway. But that's what a watch needs. It needs to have a battery that lasts.

Will the Pine Time run Ubuntu phone OS? No, it's not. It comes on OS like these on the picture, right? On that picture? That is such a basic... That is such a basic smartwatch interface. But hey, it's functional. And I presume the battery is gonna last fairly long because of it.

Let's see. Anything else of note being said in here? fairly long because of it. Let's see. Anything else of note being said in here? Shipping to US was just $11. Where the fuck is Pine located that's $11 shipping to the US? Wait. Would pay $27 for

just not making one. One more piece of e-waste. What? Do you own a PC and a phone? Sure I do. And they are some nonsense number more capable and useful than this e-waste. The thing is that you can buy a bunch of this fitness tracker smartwatch charge me all the time things for this kind of money. And probably every single one is better than this.

What? What smartwatch can you buy for $27? Shipping to Estonia is $60. Where the fuck is Pine located? What are they doing there? How are they doing their shipping? Shipping is this insane? I don't understand.

Okay, let's find out. I want to find out what country Pine actually is located in. Pine 64. Ah. They're a Hong Kong-based company. Now I see the problem. Wait, they were founded in California, but their headquarters is in Hong Kong. Right.

Fair enough. That would explain the shipping problems, though. $65 shipping for a device that is... $27. Jesus Christ. Oh my lord. Yeah, no, I can understand why that might be too expensive for you. Will I get one?

No. No, I don't usually wear watches in the first place. And if I do need one, I have my Garmin. But if you want a smartwatch, hey, maybe the Pine Time is a good one. Especially if you're the sort of person who likes to sort of hack around with stuff like that. Anyway, I don't typically care about hacking around with handhelds for the most part. Like handheld phone or smart devices. Like, I have my phone here. I could install a custom ROM in it, but like

I'm sort of lazy I've considered doing it in the past, back when like CyanogenMod was like the big thing that everyone did but yeah, since then I just got lazy, really now this isn't, I was gonna say speaking of lazy, but. Now, this isn't...

I was going to say speaking of lazy, but that's not a good segue. Segue. Emoji 14.0. So, if you don't know, emoji is part of, like, the Unicode standard. And every so often, there will be, like, new versions of the emoji standard that come out that come with like a bunch of new features if we go all the way back to emoji 1.0 for example uh we'll see things like you know all the stuff you expect to be there like grinning face and all that sort of stuff these were added back in like 1.0 you know like, like the OK hands-on. All of this cool basic stuff.

And then over the versions, for some reason they skipped from version 5 to 11. I don't know why. Over the years, new shit was added. This is the draft. The list of drafts, if I'm not mistaken. Oh no, this is actually what was

added. Okay. Okay. But 14.0 has not been a... Has not been a... Wait. Wait. Hold up. Is that an emoji? Okay.

I was going to say, you didn't make an emoji specifically for Rona, did you? Man, if they had done that, that would actually be peak comedy. But a lot of these, like, you know, the fairly normal sort of stuff that's being added into emoji nowadays. So things like, hey, here's the, what is it, right? Rightwards hand. So that's gonna be, like, handshaking, leftwards hand. So, like, you could do, like, handshaking, leftwards hand, so, like, you could do, like, a handshaking version, and, uh, with modern emojis, whenever there's, like, people

involved, they always release, like, what's, five or, five, six, I guess six different skin tones, they have yellow, and then, like, all of the different skin tones they have here, and, like, different variants of these, most of these are probably going to be added in, uh, what is this, heart hands, what is heart hands, oh, yeah, I can't see any reason why that going to be added in uh what is this heart hands what is heart hands oh yeah i can't see any reason why that wouldn't be added things like that that's all like fairly normal stuff um but there's a couple in here i specifically want to talk about so are you excited for the biting lip emoji? Oh, this is going to be added.

If you want to just get rid of like any sort of subtlety to sending emoji in like some sort of sexual way, are you excited for the biting lip emoji? It's probably going to be added. It's probably going gonna be added it's probably gonna be added and you know that people are gonna be using it in really dumb ways maybe there's gonna have to be a point where people like ban a specific emoji from like their twitch chat or something because stuff like this is gonna be abused so, so fucking hard. But there were some ones in here that I was actually kind of interested in as well. Things that weren't going to be really, really dumb.

Ah, saluting face. This one. That I'm going to use very frequently. If you don't know, I don't wave to people or anything like that. I salute everyone. Yeah. That's why I end anything like that. I salute everyone. Uh, yeah. That's why I end off my videos with the salute now. That's because that's... I actually just do that in real life as well. Like, it's just easy.

I don't know. I don't know how I started it, and then I just kept doing it. Face with open eyes and hand over mouth. I really hope they adjust the name for that one. That is a horrible name. That is a really bad name. Dotted line face. Sure. Um... What are the fun ones were there? There was a low battery one. How this one didn't already exist

actually does not make any sense to me. So if we go look up battery, Bataru, exactly Brody, Bataru. There's a battery one. How has it taken this long for a low battery? There's been like a low and a high volume for years. This, if this doesn't get added, I don't know how. If this existed, I would have used it for my, um, back when I was using i3 and I had emojis indicating things in my bar.

That would have actually been really useful for that. Uh, coral? Sure. Uh, empty nest, nest with egg beans beans just beans why beans i don't know like it's always fun to go look at like the emoji that get added sometimes. Uh, a wheel. Like, a car wheel. Emoji is

just an excuse to add, like, literally any pictures you want right now. What's the most heavy equal sign? What? What? Why? Huh? What? Why? Why is that a thing? From what I've seen, most of the stuff that gets suggested usually ends up being added.

That's from what I have seen with our previous ones. So you can sort of expect that what's on this list is going to be there in the next version. So, hey, if you want, like, I don't know, a bean jar, that you have a jar, and you have beans, or

pouring liquid. Pouring liquid is not going to be abused either. I can think of some fun ways to have fun with that one. Oh, emoji. Emoji make the world worst. Can we all just go back to using emoticons? Like, I miss those days.

Let's like equal sign and a bracket. That's all we need. That's all you need to tell a motion. This is too much imagery. Too much imagery we don't need. This is a problem with Unicode. Unicode is way, way too big of, like, a character space. And it allows for a lot of just nonsense

to be added. Like here's one Why is this a thing? Just like there's so many random like specific things. Here's a Japanese vacancy button Why? Like why is that

a thing? Oh my God. I don't understand. Oh, it's also just a bunch of, like, random... random Japanese emoji. Sure, okay. sure okay and i'm sure if i like i look for some other stuff in here you could find some other like really really dumb really dumb shit get ready for the not safe for work list of emojis to change when um when the new ones come out

and you have beans where you can just be like nut. Wait, is there a nut emoji? There presumably is a nut emoji. How is the... Oh wait, was there... Oh yeah, no. It is being used.

I feel like the pouring water one is gonna be on there for some weird shit as well. Um. Yeah. Yeah. That's enough talking about emoji. Why am I talking about emoji? What am I doing with my life?

Oh my god. What else do we have on here um oh yeah so spotify is testing out a uh new free tier now i i i i pay for spotify i'm well aware like i'm well aware that spotify is really bad for musicians. I know that like the rate they get is very low, but if I wasn't using Spotify, I probably just wouldn't be paying for music in the first place. So a low rate is better than no rate? Yeah, we'll go with that, I guess. There are other services that pay more, but Spotify is very convenient, and everything that I want to listen to is probably going to be on Spotify.

And I listen to, like, a lot of, you know, Japanese stuff. And it's rare to see a lot of that stuff appear on other platforms. But anyway, Spotify is testing a less restrictive ad-supported tier, costing 99 cents a month. It's currently not being rolled out to every user, but there's an interesting way they're approaching this. It costs money, but it's still ad-supported. So basically, it is a low-cost subscription tier

being piloted by the streaming service, which combines elements of its existing free tier and premium tiers. The plan still features ads like Spotify's free tier, but doesn't impose limits on any number of tracks you can skip per hour. Users are also free to pick which specific song they want to listen to, rather than mostly being limited to shuffling within albums and playlists. Uh-huh. So basically, it's like everything you get in the full paid version,

but you still get ads occasionally. At least one user has seen Spotify Plus being advertised at 99 cents a month, a tenth of the cost, but it's understood that Spotify's test involves offering the new plan randomly a variety of price points to gauge user interest.

Spotify's free tier existence, current form since 2018, doesn't let users skip more than 6 tracks per hour. What a fucking dumb restriction. It only lets them pick and listen to specific tracks from 15 select playlists. Why would you even use the Spotify free tier? Unless you have like the most fucking normie taste in music you could ever imagine.

Why? Just why? I don't understand. You could ever imagine. Why? Just why? I don't understand. Maybe that's why I don't know anyone who actually uses the free tier. However, Spotify cautioned there's no guarantee that the new tier will launch in its current form. Yeah, makes sense.

Honestly, what I expect to see come from this if this works is other companies sort of testing out the same thing i could imagine how much is a netflix subscription uh netflix sub us uh it is nine dollars a month in the u.s so don't show me the bloody australian prices show me the united states of the americas just because most of my viewers are american uh nine dollars for the basic tier 14 for14 for standard, $18 for premium. I could imagine Spotify doing the same thing. Offering like, I don't know, a $5 tier that still has ads, but allows you to watch HD stuff, for example. Maybe it'd be like, I don't know, maybe it'd be more.

Maybe it'd be like, maybe they would just turn the basic tier. Like get rid of the basic tier altogether. Like. And. Or make you watch. Or give you the ability to watch ads in this. Or give you the ability. Make you watch ads in this.

But then like. Have you get the. The advantage of standard for example. Like. I could see. I could see Netflix doing this. If like. If. This actually works out because companies are always looking for a great way to entice people to spend money who wouldn't have been spending money in the first place and i can't imagine many people would like drop down their tier

into the previous version just to save a bit of money. Maybe if it's like really cheaper, like in the case of Spotify, where right now it might be 99 cents. I could see people dropping their thing down by $9 and then listening to some ads. I could see that happening. Spotify free tier is so much worse than it used to be. It's basically gotcha. I don't know why you'd use the fucking free tier is so much worse than it used to be. It's basically gotcha. I don't know why you'd use the fucking free tier.

It sounds horrible. Just random music you don't care about. I... Yeah, I... I don't know how I feel about this going well. I... I like the idea of

more choice, but I also don't like the idea of more choice, but I also don't like the idea of encouraging companies to give you a paid tier that still has ads on it. Like, there was a time when if you had paid TV, for example, that paid TV didn't have ads because you were paying for it. But then over time, like, ads sort of became more and more accepted in it to the point where, Hey, it's just as many ads, regardless whether you pay for it or not.

And I think this could be like the beginning of that actually happening with the, the subscription services. So at this point, there's still the ability to actually like fight back against it but no one's going to no one's going to they're just going to go and let it happen and yeah just go about their life i guess and just just accept that the companies are going to nickel and dime them everything they could possibly get like Like, imagine getting to the point

where, like, you pay for the most expensive Netflix tier, and then you still get ads. That sounds ridiculous, but that could very well happen if this path continues to go down this route. Like, or if this

continues to go down this route. Do I see it happening yes yes it wouldn't it wouldn't be the first it would not be the first and i i wouldn't put it past companies to get that greedy um yeah if you can nickel and dime people you can nickel and dime people, you can nickel and dime people, uh, people, something, segue, trolling people, here's something I saw over on Reddit, there's your segue, uh, this is called toggle monitor grayscale, um, this script toggles your X.org monitors between color and grayscale. The DDC method works with Wayland.

It can be bound to a keyboard shortcut to easily toggle on the fly. Now, apparently there's like productive reasons for why you might want to do this. I don't believe it though. So what they say is, desktop try it you might be surprised grayscale can increase concentration and reduces distractions i've also found it to have a calming effect i don't know whether that is you know based on anything scientific i don't know but what i can say is the other reddit post that posted this had a couple people in there that were sort of coming up with a great use for this. Basically, it'd be a good way to troll people.

Because from what I've seen, you can do this with most systems. So if you have a compositor like Pycom or Compton, which I don't know why they say Compton is untested, because Compton is Pycom. Um, yeah. If you have those, if you have an NVIDIA card, and the proprietary

drivers, okay, that is a problem. Um, or if you're using Wayland, you can use DDC. I don't know what DDC is, but I'm guessing this is a protocol that is implemented under most versions of Wayland compositors. But this would be a good way to troll people.

You just go and set their computer to grayscale, and if they don't know anything about this script, well, they're not going to have any idea how to change it back they'll think their system is broken and that just sounds like a a fun way to bully people i guess maybe i'll do a video on this actually i'll test out if it actually works on my system otherwise you know no point actually doing the video but maybe it'd be fun just to like, dick around a bit. I have been doing, um, a couple of videos recently where I have been sort of like, trying to explore more stuff that I haven't really explored before. For example, I've, um, I recorded a video earlier today where I was

looking a bit into init systems, basically explaining like, what an init is like how they work what the what the real purpose of them actually is and uh one of the things i did during that video is sort of test out the like what happens if you set your init to things that are not actually designed to be an init because your linux kernel doesn't actually care what program it launches as your init. So if you want to go do something dumb, you very well could. For example, if you go and set your init to something like htop, it just works. Basically, htop will be the only process running on your system. And there's no reason to do it, but kernel doesn't care it just it just works or i don't know something like setting ranger as your init for example like ranger in the case of range you

actually could do something productive by having a key to open up a shell and doing stuff from there but the real reason why you'd want to set your init to a program sort of not designed to do it is setting your init to be something like a shell. So when you go and do this, what basically happens is you will be dropped straight into a root shell, regardless of if you set a password for your root account or not. It doesn't care about that. It just drops you straight in. So if you say say I don't know forget your password I had when I did my my Gentoo or when I said I lost the password to my Gentoo VM nobody pointed out that this was something you should

go and do everyone was saying oh you should go and like charoot into the VM or something like that and turns out you, just don't need to do that. You can just set your init to be a shell and just get around that altogether. Reset up your password and just be good to go. So I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of people who see that video and just don't know that was something you could even do because I can't imagine most people set their init to something that you know isn't an init.

Most of the time there's no reason to do so, but it is certainly nice to know about in those cases where something really severely breaks like some configs or you lose a password or anything like that. I do want to do more of these videos where I am exploring like what can really be done outside like the normal stuff you'd expect to see on Linux and exploring like licensing and things like that. I've mentioned that one a bit, but there's a lot of areas which are severely undercovered. The problem with those areas though is, even though I

think they're really interesting topics, nobody really watches them. I'll still do the videos regardless, but I did a video today about how a company purchases a, uh, a free software project, and it was a fairly middling performing video, even though I think it was one of the, like, the most interesting videos I've done in quite a while. Somehow, my video on Ulauncher is my most popular video of the past 10 video

period. With CBL Marina being the second one, I can understand that one. And then Valve doesn't care about native Linux gaming. Once again, I can also understand that one as well. But that's the one part that's kind of like

I guess downing? We'll go downing. It's kind of like, I guess, downing? We'll go with downing. It's kind of like a downer about making what I feel are more interesting videos. That they're probably just not gonna do well.

Like, there's cases where it's different. Like, there are, like, really interesting topics out there that simply haven't been covered, and you, like, they sometimes will do well, but, like, where it's different like there are like really interesting topics out there that simply haven't been covered and you like they sometimes will do well but like when it's something a bit more niche that you feel like people should know about there's there's a little a little bit there that's kind of disheartening ultimately though as long as the video like gets seen by people and the people who do see it do enjoy it, I think it's still a win in my books. As long as it doesn't completely bomb.

Like this video didn't bomb, it just didn't do as well as I had really hoped. I feel like the video that's coming out tomorrow might get a lot of views simply out of like hate watches because like people just don't want to hear what I have to say it's gonna be a video about forking an application the solution that's basically given to pretty much any problem that exists in the FOSS world and the video is gonna basically be uh basically gonna be me playing i guess the uh what's the word devil's advocate i guess saying or maybe maybe that's not even correct sort of explaining why i think that forking isn't always like the best solution to every problem that exists. Explaining like how saying just fork an application really doesn't actually achieve anything

in a lot of cases where an application fork is simply not viable. Like if someone, if you don't like the way that, I don't know, Firefox is going, for example, it's not really reasonable. To go and like fork that application. Like actually. Maintaining application like that.

Is very very time consuming. And very very difficult. So like while you can make the fork. Actually maintaining it. Is like a whole different story. And that's something that I don't think a lot of people consider like today the video that came out was about free software and like buying it and like one of the most like most like upvoted comments i got was oh we'll just fork it and i i have a feeling of people like that i i'm not gonna like to hear what i have to say and that's i think that's an area that that like really has some place to explore as well

not just making videos that get people angry for the sake of getting people angry i don't have any interest in doing that but like looking at those things that everyone knows is true, but doesn't want to acknowledge is actually the case. I think there's certainly a lot of room to put those things at the forefront and make sure they properly get addressed. Because you can't just keep ignoring the problems that exist just because those problems are inconvenient inconvenient to acknowledge. I think you have to deal with them at some point and

making that point as early as possible uh I think is something that I can I can hope to push ahead I think is something that I can hope to push ahead. Because these problems have existed since way before I've been making videos. They will probably exist way after. But if I can do just anything to make people even consider that these things might actually be problems that should be addressed, I think that I'm making some sort of difference. I hope. I hope at least. I hope it certainly doesn't come across as, like, I'm just trying to start arguments for the sake of it.

I think that I've sort of, like, built up that sort of trust with the people who watch my videos to understand that that's not what I'm trying to do. I like to sort of challenge the status quo that exists with how people look at these things and try to improve it. Because if you can't acknowledge your faults, there's really no way that you can actually improve upon them. I think that's the first step in actually dealing with that problem. And that got way more serious than I had expected it to.

So let's instead talk about something dumb. Which I'm not sure if it's a troll or not. But it certainly does read like one, or read like someone who just simply doesn't know what they're talking about. With a name like FamiliarAd 3884,

um, it certainly sounds troll-y. Anyway, uh, Linux Open source computer BIOS. If you read that and just had like a brain aneurysm, that's good because we're going to keep reading. In my humble opinion, I think Linux giving too much focus on the kernel and the success on the kernel development. If we translate that into English, I think Linux is giving too much focus on the kernel and the success of kernel development. Okay, what do all of you think if Linux start their own

Linux BIOS? A BIOS that can be flashed to desktop and notebook and importantly open source. The BIOS will have no problem integration with Linux kernel and distro. Whenever manufacturer only focus on making BIOS for Windows integration, the user like us have the freedom to flashing an open source BIOS based on Linux to the system. Now, if you know why that's stupid, um, that's good. Because there's already

a thing that is achieving this goal called CoreBoot and LibreBoot. So, I don't know what this person is trying to like get to exist um let's have a look at the comments though simply hell fucking no the damn bios just uh the damn bios used to just pass the hardware information to the os and that was it the os could not much less uh write to the bios it should have stayed that way it was The OS could not much less write to the BIOS. It should have stayed that way. It was much more secure

that way. So for me, Linux only want to focus on the kernel, not the whole OS ecosystem. FreeBSD, I think there are more folks on the OS, not just the kernel. FreeBSD is very different from Linux. Linux is just the kernel.

With so much documented notebook overheating, the OS can't truly function when manufacturer have different instructions ACPI than what Linux kernel read. Can't see CPU, GPU voltage, etc. Because manufacturer only make it easily accessible for Windows and Mac user to read. If it's accessible from these systems, it's accessible from Linux. Maybe a time for Linux, rather than just be a kernel,

start adding open source BIOS so that kernel and BIOS work without a single problem. And everyone in here is just like, you know that like, Orboot and LibreBoot exist? Like, like, I don't know like what this person is trying

to get at. It doesn't make any sense. What do you all think if Linux start their own Linux BIOS? As many have said, there is Core Boot and there is Linux Boot. You mean Libre Boot? I'm pretty sure you mean Libre Boot. I don't think a Linux boot exists. Maybe it does. The BIOS will have no problem integration

with Linux kernel and distro. I don't recall having integration issues already. Security maybe, but not integration. For bootloader, there is not much of a difference if it is Linux or Windows. Oversimplified, nits the hardware, loads kernels,els memory and passes control to it also there is a thing a secure boot which makes custom uefi impossible yeah that's also

another problem um even if like the linux foundation did make like i don't know a linux based bios or whatever that's supposed to mean um like flashing a new bios is or flashing a new BIOS is... Or flashing a new UEFI with modern hardware, like, is very difficult. There's a reason why the list of compatible hardware with things like Core Boot and Libre Boot is so minimal. And it's mainly older stuff because, like, that's just how hardware is made now like you you just you just can't do this that's the thing like as as funny as that sounds like this is just something that simply could not exist wait is this a comment somewhere else will will there be a steam game on free what are you saying I think this person might just

not be very smart maybe I'm bullying someone who's just not very smart um pretty sure proton kind of works on freebsd do not see the point slash appeal, to be honest. In my opinion, for a developer like Steam,

they're much easier for them to maintain the work and make it more faster in FreeBSD compared to Linux. Sony PS4, PS5 based on FreeBSD. I don't know what this person is doing. Like, are they a Linux guy? Are they a FreeBSD guy? I think they just like saying... Saying like streams of thought that don't make any sense.

I'm just scrolling through their comments right now. And I'm not seeing anything in here that makes even like the remotest Oh, here's something here's something that makes a bit of sense But oh They they're the person who posted this one When will Linux apply correct low-level hardware detection on all distro? It seemed all distro. I tried distro I tried from arch fedora Ubuntu there will always be a time the CPU voltage not shown GPU fan not detect rpm SSD temp

not correct wait is this why they came up with the idea of their like custom Linux BIOS I think this is where I think this is where it came from let's see what the comments said. There's nothing Linux can do. For Windows, the hardware manufacturers provide specialized drivers. There you go. It's drivers. Like, that's the problem.

It's drivers. Drivers are the problem. It's not a BIOS problem. Let's see. Did I say anything else dumb in here? You have all the sources Open an editor and start Fixing the problems that bother you That's the best way to solve your problems

I thought Linux is open source How can I get the open source? Sorry I'm still new to Linux Let's look up Linux source code open source. Sorry, I'm still new to Linux. So look up Linux source code. On Windows or Apple, I know because it's closed source, we need to install Drive, etc.

But Linux is open source. How to fix problem on voltage and what source are we talking about? It's like, this person literally just links to the source code. I always, like, I can't stand it when people ask, like, really dumb questions like that. Like, it's one thing to not understand something,

but when it's like, where can I find the source code? It's like, have you considered searching Linux source code? I guarantee on every search engine you use, it's going to be the first result. 100%. This is why sites like LetMeGoogleThatForYou exist. I can clearly tell this person is very new

to Linux, but I think they just might be new to the internet altogether. May I know why there is overheating issue with Linux kernel on laptop? On what laptop? What laptop? Laptop is not device. what laptop laptop is not device wait now that they're saying they're new to Linux but a week ago they were recommending

that people use Arch Linux what what I don't understand I'm so confused. Oh. I'm so confused here. I genuinely don't understand.

Oh my god. The internet has some fun characters, and Reddit especially. If you want to see the peak of human intelligence, I highly suggest just scrolling through the new posts on r slash Linux or r slash Ubuntu, anywhere like that. Better yet, doing it with an RSS feed so you can get stuff before the mods delete it. That's where you can see the extra humor that's just like, mate, I don't know how you even thought that posting this was a good idea.

If it's something that's so, so basic. Once again, not a problem if you don't know something basic, but when it's something that you literally search the title of your post and you find an answer, maybe you shouldn't have even, like, made the post. Like, I don't know. Maybe I'm being too harsh in that regard. But, like, if I can search your title and find it, like, why?

Yeah. I don't understand. Oh, lordy lord. I just read more of this. That's enough with those comments. I'm losing my limited intelligence as it is. That's enough.

That's enough reading those. Let's see. What do we have on here? Oh, yeah. This isn't much of a topic. I'm just really confused why they used a picture of Tokyo Ghoul. This is like a TV

backlight kit. I guess I've seen these things exist from time to time. Basically what they are is they hook into what your TV is displaying and then I guess bleed the colours along the outside and it's supposed to make it like a I guess like a more immersive like experience or something I

don't exactly know like the deal but I only mention this because for some random reason whoever like actually chose the pictures in this article, decided to use a picture of Tokyo Ghoul. Like, of all the things, like, if you're gonna pick an anime, like, why Tokyo Ghoul? Why not, you know, something of... And this is the first season.

I think this is the first episode of the first season. Like, why not something airing right now, or something really popular. Like, I don't know. Demon Slayer. And using, like, the... The...

What was the... Is it episode 21? Demon Slayer. Season 1. Episode... What was it? Uh... one episode. Was it? What? Uh. Uh.

Uh. What? No, it wasn't. What was the episode? What was the other? What was the episode? Um. What was the other... What was the episode? Let's go and find... Is there a list of fights on the wiki?

Not Hand Demon, no. Was it... uh, not hand demon, no, was it, ah, was it the, yeah, it was the Dewey fight, yes, I don't know why, like, you know, with Demon Slayer being, like, as popular as it, as it is right now, why not, like, you know, use, uh, use this, this absolute hype fight as, like, what you're gonna show off, or like, why is it, like, one of the most boring

scenes in Tokyo Ghoul? Or why not use, like, I don't know, Attack on Titan, or anything like that? I'm just, I'm just baffled. I'm just baffled that this is what they went with. Or even, like, if you're gonna do Tokyo Ghoul, like,

one of the, one of the interesting scenes in Tokyo Ghoul, like, I don't, I don't get it. I just, I just don't. But hey, if you wanna like, I don't know, have some LEDs behind your TV, I guess, like, this is a thing you to like, I don't know, have some LEDs behind your TV, I guess, like,

this is a thing you could do. I don't know if they make any sense to actually buy. I'm not recommending them whatsoever. But like, hey, that's a piece of technology that exists, I guess. Maybe it'd be cool. Maybe I would try them out. Like, they're only $75. Maybe it'd be cool.

Maybe I would try them out. Like, they're only $75. If I actually, like, you know, had space where my TV wasn't, like, literally sitting behind my monitor right now, maybe I would. But, yeah, that's something that's happening. So, yeah. Yeah. yeah um yeah because this week actually I'd planned out extra stuff last week to make it so this week when I was editing the podcast early

um I wouldn't like have issues getting stuff done on time I think I planned out too much last week and now my week is like really really open think I planned out too much last week, and now my week is, like, really, really open. Like, I planned out all of my videos for next week

on Monday. Podcast is done today. I'm not gonna edit tonight because it's, like, 10pm right now, and I wanna go to bed at some point. Uh, I go to bed at, like, midnight, but I'm gonna sit up editing this for, like, an hour or so. Um, I'll do bed at like midnight, but I'm going to sit up editing this for like an hour or so. I'll do that tomorrow. So tomorrow I will edit the podcast and edit the last couple of videos.

Then I'm basically done for the week. Then I've got two live streams and on Friday I'm going to do clips. Clips don't take that long. Thursday is completely open. So I might actually spend some time actually doing a bit of drawing. Seeing like the amazing art that Jupiter has been doing for me has really, I was already wanting to start doing more drawing anyway, but seeing the amazing art Jupiter has been doing really has inspired me to actually like properly put some time into it and actually like try to try to actually get good at drawing um i did mention some stuff i was buying i forgot that i bought this actually but i've actually got a um a tablet on order i i bought it because i wanted to play um i wanted to play osu with a

tablet but you know it's a drawing tablet, so maybe I should draw with it as well. Here it is. Is it this one? Yes. The very recommended tablet for us, the other one by Wacom.

I got the small version of it because it's fairly cheap, and it's apparently a good tablet, and the drivers The other one by Wacom. I got the small version of it. Because it's fairly cheap. And it's apparently a good tablet. And the drivers on Linux apparently are really good. But even if they're not. Like I could always just boot up my Windows system. And use it like that.

There's also another. Like Wacom is really weird with naming stuff apparently. So there's the one by Wacom. Which is their drawing tablet. But then there is also the Wacom's really weird with naming stuff, apparently. So there's the One by Wacom, which is their drawing tablet. But then there is also the Wacom One. Like, why do you name two devices exactly the same like that? This is a, like, actual drawing tablet, I guess. Like, it's a creative display. Yeah, there we go.

It's a creative display. Whereas the other one is, like, is like just like a replacement for your mouse That is much more expensive and you probably wouldn't want to like play us with this you'd like damage the screen and It's it's probably not the best to do that. Why the hell Of all the pictures you could show it off with why do do you show it off with the shitty corporate art style? Like that... What's the art style called? I've looked it up before.

I hate it. It looks awful. Corporate... Art... Style. What's it called? There's aikipedia page on it corporate memphis that's what it is you if you know what i'm talking about you you know exactly this art style you've seen it before it's that really like lifeless bland corporate style that makes it seem like you know the corporations are hip and cool look at this we've got like fun designs then there's people who take the piss out of it i honestly

like when you do it like this it actually gets like kind of fun god okay there's a couple of uh couple of uh yabe ones in here but this one this one i i i do definitely like i i company loves this art style but just stop please like this is the like it's the least creative thing i could possibly imagine every company looks the same maybe if like one company did it, it would be fine but like when everybody's doing it it stops being interesting and is the style of our tech

dystopia as some websites I'm scrolling past right now are calling it let's see if we can find some amusing some amusing some amusing Here's a good one. I've seen this one

a few times, but it still makes me chuckle a bit. No, flat design is terrible and lazy. Become flat design! Man. Please don't. Just don't draw this style.

Just let it die. Get rid of it. I would never, like, for any other art style, no matter how little I like it, I would never, like, say I just don't want this style to exist. But, yeah. I just can't.

I just can't with this style. I want it to go away. I want to have some creativity in the corporate world again. Even though it's like. Shield fake creativity. At least like. Companies were doing different things at one point. And not all having the exact. Same art style.

At least there was just that. That was I guess. One positive. I think surprisingly. I actually went through. most of my topics. There's a couple on here that I didn't get to, but some of those aren't super time sensitive that I really could put to next week, I guess.

Actually, one I do want to just briefly mention is this right here. This is so fucking dumb. Regulations against ransomware payment, not ideal solution. Ahhhh! Okay, so, with ransom attacks, uh, ransomware attacks increasing,

legislations have been mooted as a way to bar companies from paying up and further fueling such activities." Basically what they're saying is they want to basically provide a way for the government to fine companies that pay to get their data unlocked from ransomware. Like, this is such a backwards way of approaching the problem. Like, yes.

Um, I don't know. Murder is a problem. So, you know what? If you get murdered, we're going to fine your family. Like, what? like that doesn't make any sense I think you're punishing the wrong people

so the US pipeline operator paid up almost 5 million in rent some bulk of which was later recovered by authorities while the Irish health care operator refused to pay blah blah blah paying the ransomware paying the ransom can be less expensive

for cash strapped company than engaging in the painstaking task of rebuilding company system and databases yes I don't it's just like there's a lot to this article and I have no... I have no interest in reading all of it.

But, like, I had to just stop for a moment and, like, get away from the internet when I read that. It's just, like... Of all the... Of all the solutions... Of all the solutions to ransomware attacks, why is the one that like anyone even like

suggested as an idea regulate companies that get affected by it like that? This is this is this is why this is why the ANCAPs might have a point and on that note we've hit basically two hours. End caps might not be entirely wrong. End the podcast.

Sure, why not? What should you go and watch today? Let's see. Who should you go and watch? Now this is a very good question Because I didn't think of this before Ah, here we go Here's a channel that I just recently started watching

And have been like Binging a lot of stuff And a lot of like He's also done other stuff outside of his channel as well. So this is TheRixer. TheRixer is a speedrunner.

From what I can tell, like, mainly a Jack3 guy, but has interest in other games as well. And hey, if you like learning about speedrunning, this is actually a really good channel. Because a lot of well. And, hey, if you like, if you like learning about speedrunning, this is actually a really good channel, because a lot of channels that are, like,

about speedrunning are about specifically the speedrunning, but this is more a channel about, like, what goes on behind the speedrun, like, how, you know, we managed to be able to speedrun the, uh, the most infamous level in Jak 3 at a reasonable pace,

or why first levels in speedrunning sucks, or the history of different, like, glitches in the Jak series, things like that. I think this is a really good channel. He does still have, like, actual speedruns, like, on the channel, but, um, and it's not even, like, there's not even that much stuff on the channel, to be honest. Mainly he does stuff over on his Twitch. But the videos that are here are, like, really, really well-produced videos. So I

recommend absolutely going and checking them out. And somehow, he only has 52k subs. Like, I don't understand how. Maybe because he doesn't have that many videos, but even so, even so, like,

the videos that are here are quite good, and certainly quite worth your time. So, um, yeah, I think that's pretty much everything, actually. Uh,

yeah, I don't think there's anything else to say. That two hours went by actually surprisingly quickly, considering that I threw these topics together literally at the last minute. Like, I prepared all of my topics, like, just before I started. So I hadn't prepared, I hadn't, like, just before I started. So, I hadn't prepared, I hadn't, like, read anything or anything like that. So, the fact that it even slightly works is good enough for me. It's good enough for me at the end of the day.

So, before I go, if, I was going to say, I was going to read out my read out my patrons, but I actually stopped doing that in recent videos, because what's happened is the list has finally gotten to the point where it's a little too long to, like, feasibly read out. Because I think there's, like, close to 30 or something names on here. Yeah, there's, like, a ton of people at this point. Going across like my YouTube, on my YouTube members, Patreon, Subscribestar, and yeah, I think that's all the ones where it mainly is. I have people on Liberapay as well, but it doesn't tell me who actually sends money on that one, so I don't actually know how many people are there. Actually, no, I know how many people are there. I don't know their names, so I can't thank them directly.

But yeah, if you want to go and support the channel and you like my content, whether it's on this channel, the gaming channel, the main channel, any of the channels, do go check out my Patreon, Subscribestar, Liberapay, there's not really bonus content you get, I really should work on that, um, but I guess I upload my, uh, unedited faces, so if you want to make, like, dumb meme edits with the faces in my thumbnails, you want to have the full picture like that,

you can do that. If you join my YouTube membership, literally nothing at this point. I really need to get emotes done. But it's just a matter of getting emotes done. That's the big thing, just getting

the emotes done. At some point it will happen. Probably. And, uh, yeah. Gaming channel, I upload five or so YouTube shorts, do about two live streams a week. Main channel, upload six days a week, do a live stream on the 7th.

And if you're watching this on YouTube or Odyssey, where the video version is, there is an audio version. Basically, any way you can find an audio podcast. And the video version is, I said it already, on YouTube and Odyssey. So I don't need to repeat that. It's getting late and I've been recording for many hours today because it's a Tuesday. So I did four videos earlier in the day,

and now I'm doing a podcast, so I think I've, I've kind of spoken for, like, six, six, seven hours today, more hours than I should speak, so I'm gonna go not speak until tomorrow, where I will record more videos. Two more videos. That's four, Brody. Two more videos, and have the rest of the day off before we do podcasts. Before we do livestreams, sorry.

Yeah, so I'm gonna end it there. Be safe. Don't eat yellow snow or something. And I'm out.