Tech Over Tea - #77 I've Bought A Fun New Toy!! | Solo

Episode Date: August 18, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I am, as always, your host, Brodie Robertson, and today, it is episode 77 of Tech of a T. We're doing another solo episode. I do have a guest lined up for next week, so don't you worry about that. And I want to start asking more people to come on. So if you're sick of the solo episode, and you're sick of just hearing my voice, firstly, I don't know why you're watching this podcast if you're sick of the solo episodes and you're sick of just hearing my voice, firstly, I don't know why you're watching this podcast if you're sick of hearing my voice. That doesn't really make any sense. But if you're sick of just hearing my voice

and just hearing me go on random ass tangents by myself, next week there is a guest and I will probably ask someone who's come on previously before to come back on. I know there's a couple people who I absolutely could bring back on with no trouble whatsoever. So we'll see how that goes in the future, I guess.

In whenever I decide to ask them. If I remember. If I remember. But that's neither here nor there. Today, I have something new. I actually have a drawing tablet here. This is a One by Wacom. Not to be confused with the Wacom One.

Now, I'm going to show you this. I don't know who at the Wacom marketing team was like, yes, let's name the devices like this. So the One by Wacom marketing team was like, yes, let's name the devices like this. So the one by Wacom, this is a drawing tablet, right? Makes sense. It is this thing here. You can only get it with a red back.

I don't know why they made it with a red back. You don't ever look at the back. So it honestly doesn't matter. I would have just made it the same color as the front to just make it black. But then there is also the Wacom One. Now, the Wacom One isn't a drawing tablet. This is a drawing display, like a creative display. I don't, why is the website this broken? I can't scroll over to actually see the image. So you just kind of...

Oh, I know. You just have to see half of it. It's actually like a drawing... I keep saying drawing tablet. They're calling it a creative pen display. So we'll go with their description of it. I don't know why Wacom named these products basically the same. And it's not like they're similarly

priced or anything like that either. The Wacom One, I believe, is $500 Australian or something like that? Let's see if we can find it. Let's go to Officeworks. $576 Australian. I believe it's like $400 or something

in the US, but from what I hear, it's like it's a good creative display. Whereas this thing, this is the 1xWacom small variant. There's also a medium variant, which is, I think the medium is 9 or 10 inches. This one is 7 inches.

That one's like $80. So, completely different price classes. Very similar name. But there's two reasons why I bought this. I didn't just buy it because I just wanted to buy new tech and I'm just hoarding tech. I try not to do that. Usually when I'm buying something, I buy it for the purpose of actually using it for something. So, the first reason why I bought this is to play osu!

I've never done Tablo osu! If you don't know osu! is basically it is a um I guess a community-driven rhythm game would be the best way to put it. Basically uh you have this game as a base that provides tools to like create uh create maps and then the community creates the maps there's like a couple of like first party ones to like get you used to the game but the vast majority of the content is something made by the community and i used to play this game a lot so if we go to my profile i haven't been playing a ton recently, but, um, back when I was really into it, I'd played about a hundred hours, a bit over a hundred hours. Uh, so I've recently gotten back into playing it. There is now a, uh, a Linux client, I guess now it's also on Windows,

but it's also a Linux client. Um, it's, I think, I think they've changed the name from the... Yeah, I think they've changed it now. So previously it was being called Osu! Laser. This is their new open source client. But... Yeah, as Osu! Laser sort of... I guess... What's the word?

Becomes more established. It's sort of becoming merged into the stable version of the game. Um, that's enough explanation what the game is, though. You click circles and, yeah. And one of the common ways of, to play this game is with a, a drawing tablet, because it's typically much easier to actually, like, play the game. I'll show you why it's easy. It's not like, it's just like, oh, people just use a drawing tablet for the sake of using it. Uh, I will have to mute the audio because a lot of the music

for us is, um, very, very, very, uh, bad for DMCA. But like, you okay, ignore the fact this dude is just an absolute god. But basically, you track these circles around and you click them. So doing this with a mouse can be done.

There are high-level mouse players, but it is painful. It's very painful and a lot of people find it easier to use a drawing tablet. So I felt like, hey, this is one extra justification to actually get a drawing tablet. The second reason why I bought this though, I didn't just buy this for osu! I don't play it that much where I... it's not that expensive. I can justify the purchase, but I also want to start getting into doing digital drawing. So I've been drawing a little bit on paper, but I want to start getting into digital art and just sort of going and having

some fun with that. I've been meaning to start drawing a lot more for quite a while. It's just one of the many hobbies I have that I just always keep putting off. It's like, this is fun, but this other thing I have is fun, and this other thing, and this other thing. Most of the time right now, like, my hobby time is usually spent gaming and watching anime. But I want to do more things. I guess also learning Japanese.

But I want to do more things. Drawing is one of those things I've wanted to do for quite a while. And, yeah, that's pretty of those things that I've wanted to do for quite a while. And, yeah, that's pretty much the reason why I bought it. From my experience, things like pen pressure work exactly as you'd expect them to under Linux.

It's very hit and miss, like, programs that actually support it, but the programs you want to support it, things like Critterita for example, pen pressure works perfectly fine. And I actually, I've been messing around a bit with the the tablet drivers. So there's two main sets of tablet drivers you would use for the the Wacom tablet. So there is the Wacom drivers, which are the ones that come pre-installed with the Arch Linux kernel.

I don't know about other distros. Presumably they come with the kernel as well. But if they're not, you can always just go and install them yourself. And the other drivers are the OpenTablet drivers, which are an open source version of a really popular set of drivers people use over on Windows for playing osu! The problem I found with the open tablet drivers is I don't think they support pen pressure, at least the programs that I want to use them in, or want to use pen pressure in. I haven't been able to get pen pressure to actually work. So I basically just swap back and forth between the drivers depending on what I actually need. So,

if I'm doing, like, general drawing stuff, you know what, I'm going to plug the tablet in and hopefully my tablet area is set up properly and I don't have it going across two screens. Um, there's a Google drawing thing where it's like

gets you to train their AI. I'm going to bring it up. What's it called? I don't remember. Quick draw. That's what it is. There you go. Is it set up properly?

And it's not. Okay. So I'm going to have to draw with this half of the tablet. But, like, it's... God god this is actually really painful yeah this is really painful to draw with like the tablet not working properly anyway um i don't think pen pressure is even supported in this anyway so it doesn't really matter but i don't know why i went with that tangent anyway um yeah wacom i findacom, uh, drivers much easier to do drawing stuff just because of pen pressure support, but you cannot use the Wacom drivers, at least on, on Linux with

Osu! Laser. You have to use the open tablet drivers. Uh, so I'm pretty much forced to jump back and forth. Now, I haven't used really many... I can't think of a time I've actually used a drawing tablet before using this one, but

a lot of people complain about the pens that come with a lot of drawing tablets, because a lot of them tend to like, I guess be quite thick pens. This one on the other hand, this is... Okay, next to an actual pen, like, there's, there's absolutely no difference here. I would say, actually, this might be slightly thinner

than, yeah, it is a little bit thinner than this just random pen I have sitting around, and it is really lightweight, and I, apparently, some people don't like that. They like a bit more of a heavier pen. In my mind, if I'm going to have a drawing tablet, my theory from my very, uh, what's the word? Unskilled mind, is if I'm going to hold a pen, I want

it to feel like a pen. Yeah, that's sort of how I feel about that. So, I'm going to be messing around with this, and there's going to be some videos that come out shortly. I have a So, I'm going to be messing around with this, and there's going to be some videos that come out shortly. I have a video that I'm planning on planning. Yes, a video

I'm planning on planning for next week, where I go over both the Wacom drivers and the OpenTablet drivers. So, expect to see that. I also have, I'm going to be showing how to set them up and stuff. And maybe how to easily jump between them as well.

It's not like you really need to jump between them that often. It's not like I'm going to be going, Oh, I want to draw something. I want to do Osu! I want to draw something. I want to do Osu! It's not like I need to really jump between them. But the...

At least that much. But the setup that comes with the open tablet drivers doesn't talk about re-enabling the Wacom drivers. That was something I had to work out myself. And I've noticed that sometimes the drivers don't actually... don't actually stop when I tell them to stop sometimes. So what I mean by this is I will... I'll kill the daemon, I will kill the systemd service, and for some reason, something's still running. I try to start up the Wacom drivers, and the problem that you have when both the drivers

are running, uh, basically- actually, I can- no, you won't be able to see my- actually, you might be able to see my mouse, Basically, what you see happen is the cursor will violently shake back and forth between the screen because it doesn't really know which driver to respond to and it's trying to respond to both drivers at the exact same time.

It's obviously not a good experience. Once you work out the annoyingness of dealing with that, it's perfectly fine. I did actually consider just

doing drawing under Windows. But Critter, from what I've seen, seems to be a fairly good program. I am probably going to be playing Osu! under Windows though, just because of the problem with Osu! Laser, which still hasn't been addressed. So osu! has a ranking system. Basically as you progress through the maps you get points and those points increase your rank in like the world leaderboard.

For some reason osu! laser doesn't support ranked play. just doesn't so like no matter how good you play it it just doesn't just doesn't count people have been asking about this for a very long time osu! laser has been in development for about three or so years now and it's just still missing. Like now that osu! laser has its name changed to like osu! I feel like it should be coming fairly shortly I would hope. Judging by the fact they're changing the name makes me feel like they're getting close to making it the stable version of the game but as it stands like you just can't play ranked you can do like multiplayer and

you can do you can do basically everything else you want to do it's just ranked the one thing that like is sort of very important to the game actually being the game is missing. It would be like playing the first Doom game and you can't run really fast. Like yeah, technically the game is playable, the game is still there, but like do you want to play in that state? Maybe you really enjoy the core mechanic, but... maybe you really enjoy the core mechanic but I still want my ranked player and uh

I was just reading one of the blog posts there and I have been asked to actually join in on Cyan's multiplayer osu! streams it's just I haven't gotten around to it I have been asked to actually join in on Sion's multiplayer osu! streams. It's just I haven't gotten around to it. The problem is that when she

usually does the osu! streams, a lot of the time it's been when I have been streaming myself and then when I finish my stream, she'll usually still be going a bit after that, but I want to go eat some lunch and by the time I finish lunch, like, oh yeah,

time to end off the stream. So I haven't really been able to join on those. I would like to at some point and surely at some point I will do so, but as it stands, I haven't. Also, she's gotten much better at the game than I have, so I will probably be like at the bottom of the leaderboard because holy shit, I think she can actually play five star now and not fail, which is much better than I could. I can definitely do. I'm barely, now that I've switched over to pen,

I'm barely playing like three and a half on like a C rank, so I haven't gone back to completely being garbage. I can still like tap on the circles just fine. It's just My aim is pretty shit right now, which makes sense because I'm using a whole different Whole different sort of input system

Oh on that note when it comes to input the other thing I guess as like a tertiary thing that I bought this for I Didn't really buy it with this in mind. It's just I have the pen, so I might as well use it for this as well. Editing my thumbnails, I usually... I have a green screen. I don't have room to set it up, so I basically have to manually crop stuff out. I can use the fuzzy select tool for a lot of it, but it doesn't work that well because my background isn't as consistent as I'd like it to be and it's just a bit of a mess. So I've been doing that with

with the eraser, like clearing out the borders with the eraser. Previously I was doing that with the mouse but my logic is if I want to get better at like using the tablet as an input device I Probably should just use the eraser with a pen and because like I'm doing something akin to drawing it makes sense to like Use the tablet in this case While I could technically use the tablet for like any sort of input on my system. I think when it comes to something specifically related to drawing, it should help out with just generally making tablet input feel more comfortable, I guess.

I guess that, yeah, I guess that would be the best way to put it. Hmm. Yeah. So I'm not going to be good at drawing anytime soon, so I might as well just use one method to get it better. I know that if I spend more time actually doing it, I will get better anyway, but...

I feel like this should hopefully speed up the progress in some respect there. I don't know if you guys have been watching my, um, my live streams, but I've been streaming Spyro the Reignited Trilogy recently. If you don't know what that is, basically, I don't know how you missed it if you care about Spyro, but it's basically an HD remake of the first three Spyro games, um, and I didn't actually own the first three whenro games. Um. And I didn't actually own the first three when I was a kid. I did own the second game.

I only owned Spyro 2. So, when I played Spyro 1, I sort of went into this without having those nostalgia goggles that a lot of other people would have been going into the game with. And you know what? Spyro 1, it's an okay game. But I don't know if this is actually what happened, but it definitely feels like what happened. It feels like, so with the Reignited Trilogy, it's the exact same game, just redone in new graphics. So you still have the exact same level design problems and boss design problems that existed in that game.

It feels like towards the end of Spyro 1, the devs either had a deadline they had to hit or wanted to rush the game out. Or for whatever reason, it feels like the end of the game just isn't really polished. So I got to the final world where you fight the final boss, quote-unquote boss, Nasty Gnork, or if you're a different character in the game, Gnasty Gnork. I don't know what's correct. Characters say different things. And this boss fight, it might be one of the, I wouldn't even say worst boss fights, because that I think goes to Crystar. It is one of the most boring boss fights I've ever done.

So, you know, usually in a boss fight, there'll be like a health bar and you'll have to do things and, you know, like you feel like you're actually fighting something. The final boss in Spyro 1, so the first room, basically, the Gnasty Gnorc is standing up on this big ledge, shooting bolts of whatever at you, bolts of magic at you, trying to kill you. You can't hurt him in this stage. He will just keep attacking you, basically, until the end of time. There's nothing you can do there. What you actually have to do is there's these little dudes who run around who are like holding something. In this case, they're holding a key. So you chase this guy around, you grab the key.

Now that doesn't get you up to like where he needs to be. That unlocks the door to get the key from the other guy that's running around. Once you've gotten that key, then like you can jump up to where he is. Now you might think, okay, is this where the boss fight actually starts? Because so far there hasn't been a boss fight. No, it's not. So then what you do is you chase him out of the room and you do a lap around the map and nothing happens. And then you do a lap around the map and nothing happens. And then I thought the game

had softlock because I didn't think there was ever a final boss where all you would do is chase it. So I did another lap around the map. And then he stops moving. And you can blast him with fire.

This takes it to the final stage of the fight. Sorry, no. No, that is the final stage of the fight, yes. Yeah, it is. So then what happens... Is he takes you into this room that has lava in it. And there's a bunch of platforms you have to jump over. You know, it's a platformer.

So you do this basic platforming. It's also slightly timed. As you jump on the platforms, the platforms are basically moving into the wall. And if you don't jump fast enough, then you will lose the platforms and die. So you jump across this. Then you get to the final part of the boss fight.

And this is where the boss fight actually starts. So what you do is you hit him with fire and he dies. That's the end of the fight. That's the entire fight. Now, if at any point during this segment, this segment takes about five-10 minutes to do, depending on, like, if you know how this is supposed to work, you don't think the game is softlocked.

If you die at any point during that segment, which is, this is fairly normal for boss fights, you restart the boss fight. Now, that makes sense in games where there's a boss fight happening, Now, that makes sense in games where there's a boss fight happening. Where, like, there's a health bar and, you know, it takes some strategy to actually do. But in this case, you literally do nothing that's difficult. Except, I guess, that jumping puzzle at the end. Puzzle. That time jumping segment at the end that takes, like, I think it's nine jumps.

And most of the jumps are very, very easy. There's like two gliding segments, the rest of it is just regular jumps, and that's all you need to do. In regular boss fights, like in Spyro 2, for example, when you die, you restart. That's fine. There's a boss fight, but this is just dumb. I don't understand. I don't understand what the devs were doing there. My guess is they were rushed towards the end. That's the only thing I can possibly imagine for why

that boss fight was such a mess. But it did kind of bother me because up until that point, up until that point, Spyro 1 was like really, really good. And it's just that the last world was like... It's just like they just phoned it in, really.

And I don't think it's a problem with the Reignited trilogy. This is a problem that existed in the original game. Now, I actually did go and play a bit of uh spyro 2 now spyro 2 has gone by different names different regions so if you're in the us i believe it was called ripto's rage if you're anywhere else in the world it was called gateway to glimmer i played gateway to glimmer as a kid because i'm in australia and that's the version we had. There's no other differences between the games, it's just the name changed. It's like how back with Ratchet Gladiator, in some regions it was called Ratchet Deadlocked. I believe once again in the US it was called Ratchet Deadlocked. It's just a different name for whatever reason, maybe it was like licensing reasons, or

in, in the case of Ratchet and Clank games, maybe there was just like some, people found something offensive about the title, I don't know, games have different names sometimes, so I started playing, after I played a bit of Hades on stream, I started playing Ripto's Rage on stream, and this is the one I actually did play. And I love it. It's bloody fantastic. I think this is how people who actually played the first Spyro game felt when they played... Like, yeah, people who played the original Spyro game felt when they played the HD remake. I didn't have that nostalgia feeling playing the first game, but I totally get it once I started playing the second one.

The second one just, it just feels, it honestly just feels better to play anyway. I don't know if it's, if the like flight mechanics were modified or anything, and like the general move mechanics, because I feel like 2 just feels more fluid. Even though they're part of the exact same HD remake pack, it feels like 2 just

is slightly better in that regard. I don't know, maybe I'm imagining it. Maybe it's just that I really like Gateway to Glimmer and having that, like, just replaying that game just yeah, it feels like a nostalgia rush.

But there are some nice little tweaks, like, in Spyro 2, there is a hover ability, so if you glide, then the, like, at any point in your hover, you can press Y if you're using an Xbox control, and, like, gain a bit of height, that's something that didn't exist in the first game, and that gets really integrated into a lot of the jumping, being a game, game like made for kids, it's not like difficult jumping at the level of Celeste or something like that, but it does make the jumping slightly more complicated. The other thing with Spyro 2 is it's got Metroidvania-esque mechanics. What I mean by this is sometimes you need to come back to an area because you didn't have an ability when you were there the first time.

Things like you don't start the game with the swimming ability or you don't start the game with the climbing ability and some areas will have extra collectibles in those parts you couldn't get to. For example, literally the first area in the game has, uh, I think some gems, which are like the, the, I guess, very abundant collectible, and then it also has an orb up there. Orbs are, I guess you'd say, the way the game locks out areas. So sometimes you won't have enough orbs, and you can't go to the next area of the game Gems are usually used like unlock either abilities or unlock specific doors or bridges

You give a character called moneybags a bunch of these gems and you were like, oh, yes I will do this for you Spyro come back when you have more money Which is that's not even me exaggerating. Like that's. That's effectively. Like. That's effectively. Like his. His actual lines. Um.

But yeah. I'd never finished Spyro 1. Oh. Sorry. I never finished Spyro 2. Because I. Didn't have a PS1 memory card. And if you don't know.

The PS2 was a weird console. While it could play PS1 games. and you could plug PS1 controls in, and you could plug PS1, uh, what's the word? Memory cards in. If you didn't have a PS1 memory card, you couldn't actually save the content of PS1 games. I don't know why it was like this. I presume that it was some, was some technical reason for this being the case. I think there might have been

combo cards where you could save both data, but for the most part, the general cards, from what I remember, yeah, you needed a PS1 memory card to save PS1 data. I didn't know this, though, so I just played through PS1 games from the start

every single time. Like if I played Crash Bash, which I know Crash Bash is hated online, but I loved Crash Bash as a kid. If I played through Crash Team Racing, if I played through Spyro 2, I would always restart the game every single time I went to play it. So I've played a lot of, think up to like the second or third area in Spyro 2 before I would always like have to either restart the console go to bed or do something like that But I know that Spyro 3 adds in like a lot of extra mechanics like a skateboard mechanic or something like that.

But I've never played Spyro 3. So playing that is going to be a lot of fun. I don't know if I'm going to jump directly into Spyro 2 and then jump directly into Spyro 3 though. Even though I did play the opening segment. I don't know if I'm going to keep going with the game. Or maybe swap it out and finish out like Ender Lilies or finish Maybe start off a Kingdom Hearts re-chain of memories or something like that. I'm not really sure The problem with like my streaming schedule is I only stream twice a week

So I always get like extra suggestions like hey, here's a cool game you could play. Here's this thing. Here's curse the dead gods. Here's Remnants of the ashes, here's Diablo 2 And because I stream so few times a week Like it makes it really hard to fit all that stuff into my schedule I hope at like some point in the future I can Do the whole content creation thing full time or maybe like cut down my hours to the point where I'm primarily just doing this. That would be really, really cool. I could basically do it now, but I don't want to do it with basically jumping into, hey, you're going from a minimum wage job

where you work 15 hours a week to, hey, you're working a minimum wage job where you're working 40 hours a week making the exact same amount. Like, I don't want to do that. I want to wait until, like, maybe 50k or 100k subs to actually make that decision. I don't know if it'll ever don't know if it'll ever happen

if it does though yeah, I will certainly do that, or if like I don't know, a bunch of people suddenly decided to start supporting the Patreon or something like that, sure I would make a decision then, I think I've got it set to like

$1000 on Patreon or something like that, then i'll go full time but that really depends on like what i'm making for my other streams as well um but it certainly would be cool like sometime in the future i could also uh even with like my schedule i have right now rather than doing like an entire block where i play one game, split the block up in half, say, I play two hours of this game, I play two hours of this game, or maybe I actually set up, um, snacks during my stream, I keep, like, hmm, I keep getting, like, a, it, it sounds like feedback in my ear, but I think it's just because the earphone isn't sitting in my ear properly, and it, like, vibrates sometimes. And it's like, it sounds like a broken radio playing in my ear. Um, anyway. If I set up snacks for the stream, I could stream longer. That's the reason why I stop most streams.

Not because, like, I'm sick of streaming, or not because I'm sick of playing the game. It's usually because I'm hungry. Um, but that could be arranged by just, you know, having food. I'm sick of playing the game. It's usually because I'm hungry. Um. But that could be arranged by just, you know, having food. Having food near me that I could just eat. And I keep saying I'm going to do this. And then I keep not doing this.

Uh. Yeah. It's something I need to address. Maybe get some grapes or something like that. I don't know. Just something that I could snack on during the stream so by the time it hits 2 o'clock, I'm not incredibly starving.

Yeah. That's a good plan to take. I guess I could stream longer even so, but I feel like once I start getting hungry, that's when the stream quality starts to drop. And I don't really want to just keep streaming just

for the sake of getting my hours up. I'd much rather keep streaming, keeping the content actually being good. If the content's going to be shit, I might as well just bring the length of it down to a more manageable point. That's the same reason why I don't do like three hour podcasts now. While I can very well do them,

I feel like going for too long really does, unless I've really prepared like a good set of topics, really does end up just degrading what I'm doing. And that's only something I've just worked out fairly recently, like in the past couple of months or so. I'm still testing out what I want to do with my livestreams on the main channel. Because those ones... Because I usually, if I'm doing something more techy,

I usually have to think a bit more about what I'm actually doing. Those tend to require a bit more about what I'm actually doing. Those tend to require a bit more mental forte. No, a bit more brain power. They require me actually thinking. There we go. So I found for those ones, going much over three hours really doesn't tend to work. Especially in the drinking ones. The drinking ones is really bad. If I go over three hours in the drinking ones then I

will end up having too much to drink by some point. Or I will run out of drinks. Because usually for those ones I just buy like a four pack. I'm not a very heavy drinker so that's fine with me. I usually have, like, maybe one and a bit drinks an hour, so it works out well. I could certainly be, like, just downing alcohol the entire time, but I'd much rather not do that, because I'd be worried that I was saying... I'd say something, like, really, really dumb.

Like, dumber than I normally say. Alcohol-fueled dumb would be a good way to, a good way to put it, yeah, speaking of dumb, though, um, I did a video about, okay, I'm gonna show you the video that DistroTube uploaded, um, I didn't, I specifically didn't mention DistroTube in the video that I did because I did not want his video to get more attention than it's already getting because I think it's a really...

What's a good way to put it? A really dumb suggestion to say to new users. Basically, his idea was that also... DT, please buy a light. I don't know what, I genuinely don't know what he's doing with his lighting recently. He's trying new stuff

out, which is cool, but I, turn a light on. He's actually got lights, like sitting in the background somewhere, he's got lights that he could use. Basically, DT's whole idea here was that you should stop recommending stable release distros to new Linux users or just Linux users in general and instead we should be recommending rolling releases.

Now this is kind of funny because if we go look up DistroTube, uh, is it Mint? Here we go, here's, here's DistroTube's video on Linux Mint. Oh, also, two years, Wait, he didn't like Linux Mint at one point? Wait, what the hell? Wait, so he didn't like Linux Mint, then he started to like Linux Mint. Also, there's

a video, another video, where DT, I believe, is recommending... Here we go. So, this was like another, I think, three or so months earlier. So the cycle basically goes DistroTube hates Linux Mint, DistroTube recommends Ubuntu, DistroTube no longer recommends Ubuntu, now recommends Linux Mint, and now DistroTube doesn't recommend stable releases altogether, And instead now recommends rolling releases.

But I did a video on the benefits and the advantages of stable and rolling releases. This is a YouTube short that he made. It's not a short. I told him what a YouTube short is. This is not a short. This is a video that is under one minute long. A YouTube short, if you're going to tag it as hashtag shorts,

needs to be vertical video. There's no like, oh, I don't like vertical video about this. If you make it a short, it has to be vertical. That's not something you get to decide. But you can upload videos as like not shorts if you want to.

They just won't be in the shorts shelf, which is the only reason why you would make a YouTube short. But basically the argument he was making here was that you should be recommending rolling releases because things like GPU drivers are going to be available on those operating or on those distros considerably quicker. And that was one of his core arguments the problem with this though is that things like pop os exist

so what i've noticed is the idea of a stable release really has been starting to disappear like stable releases as they traditionally were like were a thing don't really exist anymore Most of the stable releases out there I think it's more fair to call them like a semi rolling release or semi stable depending on like the How you want to frame it so the idea of a stable release is that? Hatches only come out when there is a new minor version of the distro So if you have I know let's make something up, Debian 10. Then Debian 10 is the baseline. Then you have Debian 10.1,

and that's when you get patches for things like security and third-party packages. But you won't get things like kernel updates and core packages, so things like the GNU utils won't change. But then when you get, like, the next big version, that's when you get the kernel upgrade and the core util changes. But a lot of distros like Pop!OS now, and even Ubuntu to some extent, while they keep the kernel and the core utils the same, the third-party packages and the security patches and stuff like that tend to follow a more rolling release cycle. And on Pop OS, you're going to have, if not the latest,

very just before the latest drivers. So that just isn't an argument that really makes sense anymore with the state of what stable and rolling releases actually are at this point. Also rolling releases, the big problem with a rolling release is that they objectively will break more. Not to say that rolling releases are unstable, it's just that when you introduce more changes to your software, you introduce more opportunities for something to not be tested properly and for something to break your system. For example, with Arch

Linux recently, one of the the PGP keys needed to actually sign the packages in the repo had expired and by the time I realized it had expired, there was a update to a bunch of other packages. So I tried to do a system update, and when I did that system update, because those system updates relied on... So because the program that needed the PGP key was a part of that system update, that one program was stopping the entire system update from happening. And the error message you got, while being somewhat descriptive,

wasn't helpful because it was wrong. It told you the wrong thing. It said, hey, unknown trust, which is true. When the key is expired, it is an unknown trusted key. That's perfectly fine. But it also said the PGP signature was corrupted. But Pac-Man has a built-in way to check if a key has expired. So instead of saying it's corrupted, it should have said the key is expired. The key being expired is much more useful information than knowing the PGP signature has corrupted,

because that could be any number of other things causing that exact same issue. But problems like this are the big reason why I would not recommend a rolling release, especially a rolling release based on Arch. If it's something more semi-rolling like Pop! OS, yeah, I think it might be a bit safer there, and I don't know what SteamOS is,

is it called SteamOS? I don't know what SteamOS 3.0 is going to be like. While it is based on Arch, ChromeOS is also based on Gen 2, so you can't really make an argument based on what a distro is going to be like, based on what its base is. I said base a lot there. Based on what its base is, if the distro is going to be heavily, heavily customized. While in cases like Manjaro, it's a bit different because Manjaro is really just Arch with slightly different repos and a skin,

it's not always that simple. And problems like this are the big reason why I don't think regular people should be using rolling releases. I think rolling releases are perfectly fine if you're a more techie user. If you like programming, if you like messing around with computers, and you want your first Linux distro to be Manjaro, all power to you. I think that's a great idea. But if you're, say, looking to revive an old computer because you just don't want to buy a new one,

it's going to be used to do some like homework. Some uni work. Or you want to like put a Linux distro on a computer. For your grandmother or something like that. Or someone who just doesn't really care that much about technology. I think a stable release in that case. Is a much much safer bet to go with. Not like stable releases and rolling releases. Aren't objectively better or worse than each other. They have their different use cases and I

think you can't really narrow it, you can't really simplify the problem to rolling releases are better because newer software. It's frankly not that simple and DT knows this because he's done videos expressing exactly this. So I don't know if this video was for the purpose of like I don't know, testing the waters, trying to get some views. I don't know what exactly

like he was going for here but I don't know I don't know what he's been really doing with content recently. It seems like ever since he moved into the new office, he's been doing a lot of this very sort of hard stance stuff that didn't really make any sense.

Here we go. Here's a video or here's a comment someone says. Dude, you can't seem to make up your mind. In 2019, you did a video saying Arch was the ideal new user distro. Then earlier this year, May 18th, you did a video named, If someone asks you about Linux, tell them in which you say don't install Arch for new users. And now you are back to don't recommend stable distros, instead rolling like Arch, make up your mind. I had people saying, oh, he just like learnt new stuff about Linux and has changed his mind. I don't think like you can really jump back and forth

between the exact same positions just by learning a little bit extra. I think it's more like... honestly I think it's more like he's trying to just see what opinion gets the most views. I think that that's the most likely explanation in my mind, at least. Maybe that's not the case. Maybe I'm just reading too much into it. But, I really do feel like if you're jumping back and forth that much, you're

just trying to work out what can really get the most views out of it. And it makes sense why. Like, he's doing the YouTube thing full-time. And when you're doing YouTube full-time, I get that you have bills to pay. But doing stuff like this, I think is starting... At least judging by the comments I've been reading

on his comment section, it seems like it's sort of eating into a lot of the goodwill he's built up over the years of running his channel. Where it's just like people trusted his opinion on distros and on Linux in general, but because he can't seem to like hold a, hold any opinion without jumping back and forth, I'm noticing a lot of people

not really trusting what he's actually saying. And I don't, I don't want to see him like ruin the goodwill that he's built up, but that seems to be like what's been happening. Like. Wait, what is this? I don't understand why Linux users are so insistent on recommending Ubuntu to new users. It's like you want to put them off.

After 15 years occasionally installing Ubuntu on an old laptop, nothing would have ever persuaded me to install Bungie on my primary machine. But recently, I was having problems with the Bungie, so I tried a different distro. It took an Arch-based distro to listen to in two weeks, or... Okay, so you're someone who likes Arch. Okay, fair enough. Like, I'm not saying don't use Roland releases,

or don't use Sable releases. Use what you want, but... Yeah, I... It's not that simple and I really wish people didn't try to simplify this problem to under a minute long. Because I did like a 12 minute video on this and I didn't even cover everything. There was more things I could have talked about. minute video on this, and I didn't even cover everything. There was more things I could have talked about.

Like the fact that semi-rolling releases exist. I didn't even touch on the fact that semi-rolling releases are a thing. I actually might add a, um, I might make a video about that actually. Mmm. That's not a bad idea. That, I think, I'll put onto

the topic list. Um, but I'm not saying that DT's, like, destroying this sentiment just for no reason. He's got, like, another video that he uploaded recently as well. This one didn't get as many downvotes, but, honestly, it really should have, because it was really, really bad advice.

And it's really gonna get someone hurt. Um. This is a video titled, I Still Burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays, and You Should Too. Basically, in this video, he was making the argument that Blu-rays are the best form of archival media. Now, that is not correct. That is not just not correct, it is wrong. It is just objectively wrong. Firstly, the best form of archival media is tape drives. There's no discussion to be had there.

Tape drives are the best way to do long-form data storage. That is just, that's just how it is. That's why Disney uses them. That's why every single big production company that has data archives uses tape drives because they are just the best way to store data. They're the best way to store bulk data, they are very cheap per drive, it's just that the setup cost for tape drives is very expensive. Usually the tape drive readers are in the range of like $5,000. So

they're not exactly feasible for regular people. I think is the best way to put it. But, what about tape drives? Yes, what about tape drives? These comments are great.

But, basically his argument was that hard drives die within like 5 to 10 years, but Blu-rays last 10 to 20 years, and this is just also not true like, it's just not true stamped

okay, so anything I'm trying to say before I say it stamped Blu-ray discs, these are the discs that you buy when you buy like like, a game or you buy a movie. So, a stamped disc basically involves taking the data you want to put on the disc and effectively pressing it into the disc. And having, like, the data physically pushed into the disc. In the case of a burned disco, in the case of a burned disk

though, what you're doing is effectively burning a little, using little lasers to burn the data onto the disk. These disks aren't made to last anywhere near as long. While you can theoretically get 10 to 20 years from them, and from stamped disks you absolutely

can if you preserve them well. If you're living in a very humid environment or a very hot environment or a very bright environment or a very cold environment or anything that's really not like perfectly temperature controlled, really you can bring these discs lifespan down to the range of like three to five years without really trying that hard. But in the case of a hard drive, while, you know, five to ten years is fairly normal lifespan, this is fairly normal lifespan of actually using the drive. It doesn't really account for archival usage. When you use a drive

in a more archival state, it tends to last much, much longer. You could very easily get 10 years out of a hard drive that you're using just for the sake of archiving. But, the other problem I had with the whole Blu-ray is the best way to archive data, is that it's not because Blu-ray won't exist in 5 or so years.

Like, if you... I'm sure everyone watching this knows, optical media is dead optical media has been dying for many many years we now have game consoles that have cloud only diskless versions

whatever they want to call them where you can't put a disk in it you can only download games I feel like by the next generation of consoles after the PS5 and Xbox One Series X or whatever the fuck it's called, they will only have discless versions. I will be very, very surprised if we don't just have discless versions when those come out.

And movie sales have been dropping as well. And just the idea of using optical media, while it might be theoretically possible to get much longer lifespans out of it, it doesn't matter because the readers aren't going to exist in 10-20 years while you might be able to find some on the second hand market

there's not going to be any new ones made and the prices if they're still being used will just fucking skyrocket and disc production is going to keep going down. It's already really hard to, like, actually find, actually find Blu-ray discs relative to how it was, like, five years ago. The other problem with Blu-ray is Blu-ray was never a popular, a popular optical format anyway. DVDs still outsell Blu-ray. I know that sounds ridiculous, but

like, I'm pretty sure it's something like 95% of optical media sales is still DVD. Uh, let's see if I can find the number. DVD outselling Blu-ray. Um.

Um. Oh! DVD outselling Blu-ray. Oh, okay. So in some cases, it seems like it did swap. Let's see. Where did that number come from? Now I can't find the number. Okay, that's not a very good graph. The only number I can see is from CNBC.

But DVD sales on this graph are outselling Blu-rays. I don't have the numbers that I'm trying to find. But Blu-rays were never a popular optical media format anyway. Because by the time that Blu-rays became popular. Streaming services had already started to sort of take off. Because this is right here. Is where DVD sales had started to decline. This is around when Netflix started to appear.

And when Netflix started to appear. Like that's when optical media just basically died. As we can see here, streaming services, whoop! And that number's not slowing down. Like, as of this year, Netflix and other streaming services have just been growing because most people have been at home. So, this format is dying. I have, like, I'm doing a video very soon where my suggestion, basically, I have two suggestions. The first suggestion is,

if you want, like, a good way to do this, go and buy, like, a second-hand computer off of, I don't know, eBay, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, Cashies, if you live in Australia. Get yourself a shitty secondhand computer. Buy, I don't know, six hard drives.

Because six hard drives actually would be cheaper than buying the, uh, the archival discs that he also recommends. Actually, before we get to those, um, those hard drives. So, while Blu-ray discs themselves are fairly cheap, what he actually recommended was buying something known as M-Disc. Now, M-Disc is designed to last supposedly a thousand years, but obviously there is no way to actually test that because they haven't existed for a thousand years, but obviously there is no way to actually test that because they haven't

existed for a thousand years. So, it's really just up to them saying, and their testing saying, thousand year lifespan. Theoretically, they could. But these are $75 each. This is

for a five pack of 100 gig disks. So that's 500 gig storage 1 terabyte HDD $40 so if you wanted to backup 1 terabyte of data that would cost you $150 but that's not a backup. Like, if you want to have a proper redundant backup, you need at least two sets of these. So you need to pay $300.

So you could buy six of these hard drives and have money left over. Money left over to buy the computer, even. Put these drives basically into some form of RAID. A lot of people recommend RAID 5. Set up FreeNAS and have a network-attached storage that is basically never going to be run. You can turn it on when you need to back some stuff up and then turn it off after that.

It's not like this shitty computer that has horrible power ratings needs to be on all the time and you're racking up power costs. And then whenever a drive dies, every couple of years, you swap a drive out, put a drive in, data gets re-redundant-y? Re-redundant-ed. Yeah, we'll go with that. Re-redundant-ed.

Not a word, but I'll take it. And you're good to go. The other solution, if you don't want a good solution, one terabyte portable hard drive. These are fifty dollars for one terabyte. Buy three, buy six, buy as many as you want buy six, buy as many as you want and back it up to that

and the benefit, here's the benefit of using these USB hard drives or using internal SATA hard drives USB and SATA aren't dying like maybe they'll die one day and there'll be newer standards of SATA

or new standards of USB but they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Optical media is going to be gone in five years. I 100% guarantee in five years, we will still be using USB. Maybe it'll be USB 5 or USB 6. But we'll still be using USB. And the nice thing about USB is it's very backwards compatible. Up until

this point, there has not been a single standard of USB that has not been backwards compatible. You can go take a USB 1 thumb drive, plug it into a USB 3.1 port, and it works. It's fucking slow,

but it works. And I expect the exact same thing to happen. While there'll be new versions of SATA, and we'll have like, 3000 gigabit transfer speeds on high-end drives, you'll still be able to take your shitty SATA drive from 10 years ago, plug it in, and it will work.

If your archival system isn't going to outlive the data or if your archival system isn't going to outlive the method to actually read the data wait if your archival system is going to outlive the method to read the data

it's a bad archival system. This is why VCR was never a good archival system. Like, this is why VCR was never a good archival system. Like, there were so many home movies that were recorded to VCRs that there was an entire industry around converting VCR

into DVD. Like, that's... And I think these places, like, still exist now but with, like, getting it to, like, to be on, like on USB thumb drives. Uh, VCR data... Recovery... Let's see if we can find it.

Video restoration... Yeah, those like literally... Actually wait, this is just restoring it. Um... actually wait no this is just restoring it um um uh VCR data to let's see if there's a company that gets it to USB oh no there's just like guides

on how to get your VCRs into digital data and there's like little devices you could wait are you just using a capture card to record it? Oh, that's actually amazing. Yeah, literally just recording it with an Elgato capture card. Okay, that's actually a pretty hilarious way to do it. Yeah, I love that actually. When did this article come out? 2019, Wow.

Jesus Christ. You can still do this. But getting your hands on a VCR. Is getting more difficult. And it's going to get more difficult. As time goes on. And the exact same thing is going to happen. With Blu-ray as well. And I don't expect that to change.

I don't think Blu-ray is going to see a resurgence. Like we see with vinyl. Vinyl. It expect that to change. I don't think Blu-ray is going to see a resurgence like we see with vinyl. Vinyl, like, it has that nostalgia factor. And it actually has a productive reason to exist. Blu-ray doesn't. The reason why people like vinyl is because they have this holdover for analog audio. And I totally get that. for analog audio, and I totally get that.

There is a very, very understandable reason why you might like the sound of vinyl recordings. Blu-ray is just effectively a USB drive in a disc. I know it's more complicated than that, but it's just digital data. I don't think Blu-ray is ever going to see a resurgence. I expect the death of physical games to come very soon. If it's not in the form of

discs being basically phased out, I expect... Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if, like with the next-gen consoles, they go with a cartridge system like you see with the Switch, where instead of having

a disc, you instead have an SD card, or you have some sort of cartridge thing, or just a USB thumb drive, or something like that. I wouldn't be surprised if that actually did happen. Maybe I'm just like, maybe I'm thinking in a dumb way about it. Maybe that would

be more expensive to do. But I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Because flash storage is getting cheaper and cheaper every day. Yeah. Hmm. I would love to see a home console besides

the Switch in 2021 that used flash storage. That used cartridges. Obviously they're flash storage, that used cartridges. Obviously, they're little cartridges, but used cartridges nonetheless. That I think would be, honestly, I think it would be kind of funny. I actually do think it would be.

Will it happen? Probably not. More likely solution is the consoles after the ones we have will be totally online only and Maybe not online only maybe I feel like they'll be digital download only I find it hard to believe they won't be because while people can Cry about it right now, and they very reasonably should

If both of the systems next-gen do it, there's nothing you can really do about it. And I don't think it's going to affect their sales either, because in another 10 years, the internet speeds are going to continually improve. Sure, we're going to start seeing fucking terabyte games very soon, but... Yeah, actually, that's probably one of the bigger problems

with going digital only, because it removes any limitation for developers to cap the size of their games. The only size cap is, like, the data cap of the console. You're not going to want to go above that, because then no one will actually install it without getting, like, a bigger hard drive. But besides that,, actually even then, there are some games that have come out that you can't actually store on the, uh, the lower storage models anyway, like with the, uh, the PS4. So maybe that would happen.

Like, Call of Duty Ghosts, for example, is just like stupidly big. Like, a lot of the Call of Duty games and like Red Dead as well is all just stupidly big as well I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing terabyte games very soon I don't want to see terabyte games and it will just give you give me another reason among many just to play indie titles but yeah it it's probably gonna happen um since we're on the topic of games, let's actually go back to the past and talk about a company that you probably haven't heard of in a very long time.

Turtle Beach. Turtle Beach. You know that company that made beautiful headsets back in the Xbox 360 days? Turtle Beach. Xbox 360 headset. Oh yeah yeah also back in those days you had to get like specific headsets for the uh the ps3 and 360 because they didn't actually have normal connectors on them and the way they did their mics was dumb the company that made shit like this. Man, I miss the turtle beaches. They weren't good at all. They were actually

like really shit. But, and those ear cups were like uncomfortable as hell and that padding, it wasn't padding after like an hour of, especially this one, that padding wasn't padding after an hour of use. You just had this like

plastic band directly on your head. But Turtle Beach is still around, apparently, and they made this absolute abomination. I don't know what I am looking at right now, but this is supposedly an Xbox controller. I am doubtful of that, but that's supposedly what it is. Now, for the record,

this is what an Xbox controller would look like if not designed by Turtle Beach. See, look at this. There's like a normal amount of buttons here, and doesn't have like a bunch of like seemingly really shitty grip on the sides but what okay so what

actually is on here so we have these grips which hey they might be good i i know i'm trashing them actually no no i take that back because there's a bit here that's that's not um that's not wrapped around so you're gonna to have this lip. So I usually hold a controller, like a normal person, like this. So this lip in here is going to dig into your thumb. Why the hell that was a good idea is beyond me. But you've got all your standard Xbox buttons in the center here. And then you've got volume and chat.

So with the Xbox and the PlayStation as well you can you can route your your headphones you probably can't see it you can route your headphones like through the controller it's just the thing that game consoles do for some reason I guess I guess the reason why is because a lot of people have their console on the other side of the room. So plugging the headphones directly into the console might actually be kind of difficult. I guess that makes sense. But I guess this would be a volume and chat. So volume is for game volume, Chat is for obviously chat volume on like separate things. So rather than having to

like go into the settings to do it, you can do it from here. Then I don't know what this button is. Mode, select and mute. Okay, mute is obvious. That makes sense. Do you have a description of what the superhuman hearing

button. Which button is that I'm guess are that's that button there so so there's like an echolocation button effectively basically it I'm guessing what it does is raises the if it's gonna be raising up footsteps what it would be doing is raising up the base end of the audio spectrum. Which also includes gunshots. So, yeah. That seems like a good way to deafen yourself. Now, what is mode and select?

It does not mention in this article. Why would it? Not the slickest looking controller. Really? Okay, it does have one advantage. It has buttons on the back. Like the SCUF controllers do. And like what you probably would know is the steam deck

a lot of a lot of the like also the the pro controllers as well for the Xbox and PlayStation whether I have like these paddles on the back I've been noticing a lot of companies have been starting to do this. I personally haven't used them before but I can totally get why they would be useful. I use the buttons on the side of my mouse, so I totally get why this would be useful on a console as well. The last feature is called Pro Aim. Oh, that's what that... I guess that's one of these ones. So the Pro aim button.

What it does is. Lowers your sensitivity. So it lowers your sensitivity. At a hardware level. That's really strange. Because otherwise that wouldn't be supported. On every single game. That's actually strange. You can do that at a hardware level.

Huh. Uh, I have no interest in buying one of these. I wonder how much it costs. Wait, it's a- Hold on, hold on a second. It's a $60 controller. Okay, maybe those features actually are kind of cool. But, I also have

a feeling this would be kind of like... You know, you'd go to like a friend's house, or you have like a sibling and you would give them the shitty controller. So like, you take the the regular first party controller and... You know, then you would give them... What the fuck what the fuck is this i guess you could give them a chainsaw but you'd give them like oh here we go here's one um the you'd give them like a mad cat controller mad cat was around with the ps2 days wasn't it yeah you give them something like this you get the good one and they get they get fucking one of these things oh god i did actually own one of these as a kid

so no sorry it was this one i owned yeah Yeah, this one I owned. Not a good controller at all. Why they were ever made is beyond me. But that's what this is. If not to the same extent, this is probably usable, but it has like that same vibe to it. Like you're going to play some, you're going to play some FIFA with your mates. I will take this controller, and then you can take the Turtle Beach, and then you no longer have a friend anymore. Or you can also get it in white with grey grips, I guess. Actually, I wonder how that one looks.

Turtle Beach Recon White. Honestly, just stick with first party controllers. Like, they're just they're just better. Better for the most part. No, not the Recon headset. Okay, I literally look up Recon Controller and it only shows me the Recon headset.

When it literally said this was called the Recon Controller, and it only shows me the Recon Headset. When, it literally said this was called the Recon Controller, but sure. I'm not going to find what I want to find, apparently, because, why would I? Why, why, why would I, why would I find what I had searched for? Maybe that's

not a, uh, a Brave problem, maybe that's more of a, a general issue. Hmm. I have been messing around a bit with Brave Search recently. And it's actually quite good. I did a video on it as well. I honestly had expected this to be shit. But I was pleasantly surprised.

I was genuinely pleasantly surprised. It produces typically better results than um than duck duck doe does that's all i need really the only problem i have is that brave is really bad at marketing and they end up marketing in such a way where they effectively end up lying where they say things like oh this has a completely independent index and there's no way to use it. By default, it's going to take results also from Google and Bing and merge them together just to get the best results possible. And that's fine. But when you say you have a completely independent index, I expect to be able to use a completely independent index.

At least have an option there. I get it being use a completely independent index. It's At least have an option there I get it being like a setting to enable but have the option if that's how you're gonna sell it and They also market this is like one of the features of it. It's like no, it's not a feature when it doesn't exist Luckily, they haven't just thrown brave ads straight into without really really considering how to handle it. Right now, Brave ads aren't actually enabled in Brave Search, but they will be coming at some point

in the future, probably in the same sort of fashion that they exist with Google ads, where sometimes they'll be like, hey, this is a sponsored website or something like that. That, I imagine, is they'll be like, hey, this is a sponsored website or something like that. That, I imagine, is how they would handle that. But they don't know how they should be doing that,

how they should be doing the attention token revenue sharing, whether they should have, like, a ad-free model where you pay a fee and you don't get ads. I don't know what the fee would be like that's the other thing when it comes to the fee because would i pay a dollar to have ad free search maybe would i pay five dollars probably not yeah i probably wouldn't because there are so many other search engines there, and the ads don't really get in my way that much. Like, they slightly, slightly bother me,

but I'm not paying $5 to get rid of them, that's for sure. So if they do have that paid model, it's going to be very, very important how much it costs. Which I'm sure they're thinking about is part of the reason why they didn't actually launch it yet. But I hope they don't try to like, try to set it some dumb price. Someone will pay it if they set it to be a dumb price. But I think it's much better in their part to set it as low as they can reasonably get. Because in the case of ads, for an individual person, like an individual person is not

bringing in that much ad revenue. So setting it to be a dollar, I don't think would actually be that ridiculous to be honest. Like a dollar a month. Surely you're not going to be doing enough to actually fund over a dollar a month in ad impressions, I guess. But I don't know. Maybe you search a lot. Maybe they would account for the heavy whales or something. I don't know. Hmm.

But I will do a video. If they do roll that out, I will do a video on it, or if they just, like, roll the ads out, expect to see more videos about Brave Search as they test out new things like that, and if they do bring in a totally independent index you actually can use, then they're obviously, like, I will be making content about that, it's just that, as it currently stands, about that. It's just that, as it currently stands, um, yeah, it's just not a thing.

Speaking of things that are a thing, and shouldn't be a thing, um, Elon Musk is going to launch a satellite that displays ads in space. He is one of several billionaires investing vast

sums on the space race spacex will launch his satellite with a display screen in 2022 ad space will be bought using cryptocurrency like this is the most the absolute fucking most elon musk thing i have ever ever fucking heard of next he's gonna say oh oh, you can donate your, you can pay to have the ads removed from your chip implanted in your brain by donating Dogecoin or something fucking stupid like that.

I was told Space was the only place not corrupted by capitalism. You did not watch Futurama, my friend. Basically, what Elon Musk is doing is he's trying to create fucking Futurama. I think he just got like really stoned and just watched a couple of episodes and was like, yes I will do that. You know

how there's like, I think it's one of the first episodes in Futurama, they go to the moon and there's like a theme park on the moon. I'm honestly waiting for Elon Musk to announce that that's what his plan is. In his case it'll be on Mars. Like, yes, we will build a theme park on Mars.

And people are like, Elon, that's fucking stupid. And he'll be like, yes. But I'm gonna do it anyway because I'm a billionaire and I don't give a fuck. So, um, yeah, if you wanna, I don't know, advertise your YouTube channel or

I don't know, advertise something to the aliens, then, yeah, you could buy ad space from Elon. And presumably, now that Elon's planning to do it, that's not going to be the first or the only one that happens. There's going to be more ads in space. But apparently, this screen won't be able to be seen from Earth, so I don't actually know what the purpose is.

Ads in space. So, let's see, space, space advertising, wait, there's actually a Wikipedia article about this. Okay, okay, so this has been a Wikipedia article about this. Okay, okay. So this has been a thing for a while.

People advertising, like, Coke and stuff in space. Fair enough. This is just an extension of that with Elon. Here we go. The Hill. You better not play audio. Stop it. So, let's see.

One side of the CubeSat will use to promote ads, arts, and logos. People and companies will be able to pay to place their ads there, buying pixels on the display with cryptocurrency. Fair enough. This is a great article. But yeah, I did read a different article that said you won't actually be able to see it from, like, Earth. So, are you just advertising to the people on like the international space station

are you in like advertising to the aliens i don't i don't i don't know what elon's doing here i genuinely don't i honestly feel like this is just another one of those Elon has too much money and is bored moments. Like, why did Elon make the Cybertruck? Is it a good vehicle? Fuck no. But I am a billionaire and I want to do that. Hey, Elon, should

we colonize Mars? Doesn't matter. I'm a billionaire. I'm gonna do it. Honestly, I think he's one of the most fun billionaires. Of all the billionaires out there, if there's anyone I would like to sit down, like, have a beer with, it would be Elon Musk. Just, like, pick his brain, just to see what absolute insane shit this dude would actually say. absolute insane shit this dude would actually say because i expected to be pretty up there judging by like some of the crazy shit he said when he went on to joe rogan's podcast a very long time ago the other one where he smoked some weed and crashed the tesla stock price

um i can only imagine how much worse it would be if you got him like really drunk would be if you got him like really drunk so yeah ads in space get ready for that but no I do have a theory right so Elon Musk is actually this like crazy

super villain and he's trying to take control over everything so he's got a car company it's a shit car company but it's a car company he's gonna take control over space. So he's got a car company. It's a shit car company, but it's a car company. He's going to take control over space, right? He's going to put ads into space. Now, Elon also is going to be... He's going to have this chip you can insert into your brain, right?

This chip is going to be used to help with Alzheimer's and things like that. But at some point, he wants to expand it to be a way to communicate among the human race without having to actually communicate. So I imagine it's going to be very integrated inside your brain. Now, here's my theory. Elon Musk is going to set up a new revenue stream for his companies. He's going to have not just one satellite in space advertising, he's going to have a lot of them.

The regular people get to see these ads and always... At some point, the screens will be good enough where you can actually see them from space. So the regular people get to see these. But, if you don't want to see the ads, you can pay to have

adblock in your brain. Think about it. Adblock in your brain. Think about it. Adblock in your brain. And no, there's not going to... Elon doesn't care about free software. So before you say, oh, could we just have uBlock origin in your brain? I would love

uBlock origin in your brain, but Elon, judging by how Tesla acts when it comes to repairability, I find that very hard to believe that would be something that ever happened. But, you know what? Would I pay $15 a month to have ads blocked from my brain? Maybe.

Maybe. Am I just playing into Elon's hand here and making him a trillionaire at some point? Yes. Is Elon going to turn himself into a cyborg at some point and live forever Probably is this the whole reason why he's building these computer chips more than likely Elon is gonna upload his brain to the cloud and

Take over the world He will become like a com comical supervillain. A comical supervillain. This is the man that Elon really is. I see it now. Just mark my words. In 50 years. Elon is going to.

Elon is going to be a cyborg. I guarantee it. I don't know. What this fucking tangent I'm going on is, but, um... I'm only half taking the piss. Only half. A good part of my brain wants to believe this,

because honestly... Honestly, it would just be fun, to be completely frank. To be completely honest, it just... It just would be a lot of fun. terrifying, but a lot of fun, now, speaking of things that are terrifying, but not a lot of fun, uh, there is a lot of people out there who have it, like, have images online that they never really wanted to be out there. That they never really, or they're too young to really say that they actually

want those images to be out there. And they just sort of like, made their way out there. And then at some point, you know, you're like, that was a dumb thing I did as a kid. Maybe it should be taken down. But Google has taken a fairly hands-off approach unless you're a government, unless you're China or Russia or the US Australia, or literally any government in the world,

taken a very hands-off stance with moderating the images and the search results that actually show up in their search engine. But Google has said they will let minors request to have their pictures removed from image search. Now, in the case of them being minors, it's going to be their parents requesting it. But basically, the idea here is that you would be able... Like, if you're under the age of 18,

you would be able to request that these images of yourself, whether they're like, you know, indexed Facebook images or something like that, would be hidden from the search engine. I've had some people say, oh, this just isn't possible, there's no way you'd be able to do this, but Google already does this. Like, they do this for countries like China already. It's just not in the case of these images. It's just, you know, mocking statements of their political figures. But to be honest, I don't think this is actually a bad thing. There is one problem I do have with this

though. They want to do this only for people under the age of 18 i feel like this would actually be a really good plan that google will never implement to have as an option to everyone and if any place is going to force that through i feel like it's going to be like somewhere like europe where they have the gdpr i'm really surprised that the gR does not, does not sort of force companies like Google to actually already have something like this in place. But I would like the option for anyone to be able to do this and the reason why I say this is because there's a lot of people out there who will either be doxxed or for whatever reason just be getting harassed online for things they've done in the past and having the option to just basically not wipe yourself from the internet because

like google doesn't control every web server out there but wipe yourself from appearing inside of uh inside of search just that by itself is already enough to cut out a lot of what already would have been possible. Because sure, while someone could certainly dig for websites that does have that content still, it would be much, much harder to find.

And I don't think this is a bad thing. Maybe some will disagree with me saying, oh, Google's going to use this to censor other stuff, but the thing is they bad thing. Maybe some will disagree with me saying, oh, Google's going to use this for... to censor other stuff, but the thing is they already do. So if they're already going to be censoring stuff,

I don't think that expanding it in this way is necessarily a bad thing. And if what they're doing is just letting people decide they don't want to be on the internet, I don't think that's a bad thing. Like, Google... Yeah, I don't think that this is a bad thing.

However, there is another child protection thing that happened recently which I find much harder to stand behind based on a privacy aspect. So while Google in this case is doing something that, at least on the face of it, seems privacy protecting, Apple on the other hand, not so much. So you might have heard about Apple's plan to scan phones. Apple scan phones. Apple scan phones.

So, basically, the idea here is that if you... Apple says its system is secure. I'm sure it is, until someone leaks the data. So, the idea here is that if you store child material on your phone, you can expand that to me, like to understand what that means. If you store this material on your iPhone or in iCloud or you send these images over WhatsApp, basically their system would scan the device, determine if this is what, like this, this content that is illegal and what they do with that? Well, what they do with that is very much up in the air.

Probably report you directly to the police, which you probably should be reported to the police, but this is a very heavy-handed way of doing it. The reason I have an issue with this is because while we can find this one thing morally reprehensible and anyone who is trafficking this information absolutely should suffer all the punishment they possibly can, this will not be kept at just this. that has said, we will not unlock the phone of a serial killer. But now they're saying, in the case of this child material,

we will scan this information and we will determine what it is. So they're taking this one stance on this one thing that is morally reprehensible and this completely different stance on this other thing. And as I said before,

countries like China, like Russia, like the US, the US can pretend like they are this haven for freedom, but your country also has the NSA, which was caught spying on all their citizens, like every other country out there. While it might be enshrined in your law, if no one finds out, it's not illegal. This will be used to scan for other things. It will be used to scan for anti-government material. It will be used to scan for conspiracy content. All of this stuff, which

in a country that should care about freedom, sure, maybe it's not going to be used to do anything to prosecute people. But in other countries, like less free countries, for example, it's going to be a problem. Plus,

once you give a company like this the freedom to scan your device, you know that that's going to be passed on to the police. It 100% will be, and it will be used for other stuff. And while you can make the argument that, sure, it's fine if it's going to only be used for illegal stuff, it won't be just used for illegal stuff.

And that's the problem. And then once you start passing this information along, then you start opening up the opportunity for there to be vulnerabilities, and, yeah, all of that ends up just being a privacy violation nightmare, and I don't particularly want anything to do with it. I have said in the past that Apple is a company that, at least on the face of it, cares about privacy. They don't profit off of selling your data to the same extent

that a company like Google does. Google's entire business model is Is about selling your data. Apple on the other hand. Is about selling you expensive shit every year. But. With this. I don't think I can say that Apple cares. At all about privacy anymore.

Because. They just don't. Every single time. You try to bring in something. That is like a massive privacy violation or a massive violation of your rights, the way that you push it through is by saying the most

extreme thing possible. If you want to push something through about scanning devices, you will say it's to protect children. If you want to do something about um I don't know, if you want to check every single person that comes through the

airport, you're going to say it's something to do with terrorism. You're always going to use the most extreme example you can find to justify taking this action when it will always be expanded into other aspects that it that the regular person

won't find objectionable. Like, the regular person won't find the action objectionable. They will find the action of snooping into the action objectionable. But once you've opened up that floodgate, there's no way to really close it. But... The only answer here is just don't buy Apple stuff, really. Like, it's not like Google's much better, but at least Google isn't doing this publicly. I'm sure behind closed doors, Google is doing some fucky stuff as well.

I will find it very hard to believe that they are not, especially with Apple just opening up the floodgates to let it be okay. But ultimately phones are just bad. There's my boomer take for the day. Phones are bad. Don't use phones. People have asked me why I don't like use ungoogled um, an ungoogled Android fork, something like LineageOS. And the ultimate answer

is that even if I do use that, the phone is still a tracking device. At the end of the day, you still are connecting to the cell network and the cell network is still going to be able to use to be able to track you. Unless you're turning your cell network off, like your connection to it off,

that will still be used to track you. If you're using text messages, if you're making phone calls, none of this stuff is encrypted. None of this stuff is secure and it will be tracked. That's why I don't. Because I can't convince all of my family just to start using nothing but Signal, because most of my family don't care using nothing but Signal, because most of my family don't care. I can tell them why they should care, but at the end of the day, I'm- I have to at least use the things that

the people I know actually use. This is the reason why I don't use, like, XMPP. People have been like, why don't you use XMPP? It's so much better than Matrix. It might be, but XMPP? It's so much better than Matrix. It might be, but XMPP is like an MMO that doesn't have

any players. This could be the greatest MMO of all time, but no one's using it. And that's going to very much affect the experience. And in the case of XMPP, that means you have no one to talk to. I don't really

care to talk to people on 4chan. I want to talk to the people I know. That's sort of the important thing about having a communication tool. That's why I have a Discord server. Like, I still have a Discord server. Because even though even though Matrix is great,

people are on Discord. That's where most people are even in the FOSS world most people use Discord because most people aren't like as extreme as someone like uh Stallman for example

who just won't use who will try to use only free software but even Stallman even Stallman has to not go full Stallman because you know he has a bank account and stuff.

Like, you... I don't know how I got to this, but the idea of going full Stallman is just not feasibly possible. While you can aim to have as little proprietary software in your life as possible, if you're gonna have a bank account, if you're gonna have a bank account if you're gonna have a job If you're going to do your taxes like all of this stuff You'll be interacting with proprietary software whether you like it or not in your regular life You can certainly minimize it, but if that minimization ends up

affecting Affecting the software's usability like not being able to talk to people with a communication app. I personally can't justify it in my life. I fully respect people who want to do that. And if that's your thing. Go ahead. I think you should do it. But like.

There comes a point where. Functionality. I think overrides it, at least in my case. And I think that's okay. I think that's okay. I get that someone's not going to like that, but

I think you have to just accept that yes, sometimes there's people that you want to interact with. There's things you want to do that just can't be done with free software. Gaming, for example. Or talking to my Boomer parents. Both of those things.

Since we are on the topic of Linux, this isn't much of a long topic, but I just found out something really cool you can do. No, that's not the one I want to talk about. That's a different one. This is the cool one I want to talk about. Basically, what this person did is, instead of

installing the system from a VM and installing it on a virtual hard drive, they actually mounted their hard drive in the VM and then installing it on a virtual hard drive, they actually mounted their hard drive in the VM and then installed it, installed the OS onto that hard drive. This is not something I thought you could do. I didn't know this was a thing, but it makes a lot of sense. Like,

thinking about it, it makes sense that you can mount your hard drive into a VM, but it just didn't click with me that was even a thing. So basically, instead of having to like do everything completely from scratch, you can do this in a fairly safe environment because the other thing about just mounting the one drive you need is there is no way to accidentally nuke stuff because you've only given the VM the OneDrive it needs. So if it breaks, well, that's fine. Just restart the VM.

Obviously, it does require like extra hard drives, but as we established earlier, hard drives are like really cheap. Not just mechanical storage, like even SSD storage. Actually, let's go NVMe. So let's go one terabyte NVMe. Like just go balls to the wall with it. Holy shit, that's gone cheap. One terabyte of NVMe, a hundred and ten dollars. What the fuck? That's stupid. So yeah, go buy one of those. Obviously alongside your primary drive. Mount it in the VM and you can install stuff.

Gives you the opportunity to break stuff and I think it's cool. I don't know what they were using to manage this VMD, oh they're using VirtualBox oh, so you can just do it in VirtualBox oh, okay that's actually

really cool you can do this when doing virus scans on customers' computers huh why would one want to do this installation on older computers can be slow and if one want to do this? Installation on older computers can be slow and if you need to do a lot, it also distracts from current tasks.

That seems like a very stupid, convoluted, risky way to install Linux. What makes it risky? Oh, one thing you might want to avoid doing though, is um, doing things like installing your graphics drivers because unless you're using a distro let you explicitly say i want to install these drivers um yeah you're going to install the wrong ones you're going to install the vmware drivers not like the nvidia or amd or intel drivers and that could be a problem. Uh... Like this person did. It's not a big deal, like you can always just install the other drivers you need, but

I would suggest skipping the graphical environment step and just getting a working system and then booting into that one. Uh, why? Why not simply create a small partition for the ISO, boot from it, install, delete the petition later? Yeah, you could do that as well.

Like it's- there are plenty of other ways to install Linux, but it's just a cool idea that you can certainly do this. I might do this for a stream, to be honest. Maybe I'll buy, like, a cheap hard drive or something, and just mount that just for the lols, and see what happens. I don't know, it could be fun. Like, go buy, I don't know, how much is a

128, a 128 gig SSD? Uh, 128 gigabyte SSD. Probably, like, a couple of dollars. Uh, you can get them for $20. You can get one for $20. Maybe I'll do that and, like, do it for a stream or something. That could be kind of funny, actually.

Hmm. Most of the installation process would just be exactly the same. It's just like this one part that I think would make for an interesting thing to talk about.

Hmm. Yeah, I think that's cool. There's a lot of really cool stuff you can do with Linux if you like to dick around a bit. Like the thing I talked about last week where you could turn your init system into a shell, for example. Instead of using an init system, use a shell instead. There's a lot of really cool things like that you could do. Is this a good idea? I never ask questions I don't want the answer to. Why wouldn't you want the answer, man? You want to know this is an amazing idea. This is the best

way to install Linux. Everyone should install Linux like this. But what would be the use case besides being the one person without a thumb drive? Being able to browse the Arch wiki while installing... That right there. So I've had... Whenever I install Arch, I have the Arch wiki up on my phone. That's actually a really good point. I didn't think of that one. Yeah, that's actually really, really useful. actually a really good point. I didn't think of that one. Yeah, that's actually really, really useful. Maybe I do have to do this. I might go to, like...

Hmm, maybe I'll go to... I could go to, like, the local PC store, buy a cheap hard drive and try that out. Huh. That could be fun. I want to do that now. That's a stream idea that I have to do. Unless DT has once again tapped my, um, tapped my, tap? Bugged. Bugged my computer and is going to steal the idea before I actually do it. I've talked about this, this, uh, my conspiracy theory before, that DT has bugged my computer, because every single time I find a topic I want to do a video on,

if it's, like, a really, even in really obscure topics, the day before I upload my video, his video will be live, almost every single time. Maybe it's a coincidence, but a lot of these topics are topics I find on Reddit that were uploaded like five months ago. So it's not like it's, you know, the hot thing on Reddit right now. But somehow, there's always this weird clash that happens. I don't know how. I don't know how this coincidence happens so much. It's just with DT. Nobody else. So there's my conspiracy theory. DT has bugged my computer

or bugged my phone and is listening in on everything that I do. I'm watching you, DT. I'm watching you. Oh, so I was talking about this during the during the soundcheck, but my camera wasn't working.

It's a good reason why it wasn't working. So I've been messing around with virtual camera devices using a tool known as Where is it? It's V4L2 V4L2 Loopback. So V4L2 basically is the USB drivers used under Linux for cameras.

And V4L2 Loopback is the same idea as doing an audio loopback where basically you have the audio looping back into another device. So effectively creating a, in most cases, a virtual device. The problem with physical devices Under Linux every single device is represented as a file. The problem with these physical devices I don't know why it's like this, but in the case of a camera, if one program is using my camera, in this case, let's say OBS,

and then I was to go over to, I don't know, Discord, for example. Yeah, let's, I'm going to open up the Discord website. Am I logged into Discord? No, I'm not. Shit. Okay. Ignore that point. If I was to go into Discord, I wouldn't be able to use my camera under Discord. It just would not be there. And the reason for that is because of this process locking. And if I try to open up the camera in FFmpeg or something like that, it will

say, this device is currently busy. But, virtual devices, for whatever reason, don't have this limitation. So if I make a virtual device, I can have it in OBS, I can have it in Discord, I can have it in Jitsi, all at the exact same time, no delay or anything like that. It works exactly as you'd expect it. Basically, all of the devices are reading this, all of the devices are reading these all of the programs are reading the exact same device without locking it and This is really helpful One thing is like when I'm trying to capture stuff for my podcast when I have a guest on I want to be able to show My guest my camera and also record it so we can both have like the best quality version and so they can actually see me

we can both have like the best quality version and so they can actually see me This wasn't possible before I had to like capture my camera inside of OBS or inside of um Inside of the discord window or inside of the Jitsi window. So my camera looks kind of shit It looks as shit as the guest does but it I would like it to look better the other problem this causes is that I Sometimes want to have multiple instances of the same camera under OBS. Now you might not realize why that matters, but when you stream sometimes you want to do dumb shit. And one of those dumb things you want to do is sometimes you want to have like funny meme cameras so maybe i want to have a wide version of myself maybe i want to have a i like an enlarged version of the

the uh the video and you can do this the problem though is when you start doing this to one camera it is going to modify all of them that That's a problem. However, if you make distinct camera devices under OBS, effectively like they're all connecting to different cameras, it doesn't cause this problem. And the other thing is, if I

just have the one camera device, and then I replicate it, then I replicate it, then I replicate it so they're all linked to the exact same physical camera, I can't actually set different hotkeys. So if I want to have, like, I don't know, I think I've got 9 set to the wide

camera, 8 to the big camera on my streams, I can't do that with a physical camera. With distinct camera devices, though, that's something that actually is possible. And all it really needed was, like, running this kernel module and then running FFmpeg to loop back the camera.

That's all it needed. But the documentation on it is kind of shit, so I had to, like, work out a lot of stuff myself. I know Unfo was asking about this, like, a year or so ago. And people were telling him about V4L2 loopback, but they weren't really telling him how to actually do it. And the documentation on V4L2 loopback

does not tell you either. It gives a bunch of examples, but these examples aren't examples that anyone would actually use. Like, they're all things either that are built into OBS, like, hey, turning OBS into a virtual camera or like they're all they're all like things either that are built into obs like hey turning obs into a virtual camera or other like looping back into skype or something like that which like if you're

just looping into one program there's no reason to do that like none at all but i've got my setup working now it's not as jank as i'd expected the one bit of jank it does have is that under OBS, it doesn't happen under Discord or anything else. Under OBS, OBS refuses to acknowledge the camera actually exists. So it'll just show my cam link there and no other cameras. no other cameras. But, but this is one of the great things about having plain text save files. I can go into the OBS configuration file and I can change the camera device from being slash dev slash video zero to slash dev slash video five. Video five is my loopback device and it works. I can't change in OBS. If I change it back to the cam link, I can't change it back. I have to redo that same thing. But as long as I don't touch it,

it works exactly as I'd expect. And that's good. I wish I didn't have to do that. And apparently other people don't. It's just for whatever reason, my version of OBS is jank as fuck. But that's sort of what I'd expect. Because everything I try to do with my version of OBS seems to be jank as fuck so having

more jank as fuck does not surprise me like in the slightest but it gives me like the ability to do things that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise I can't think of any other reason why I would use the virtual cameras.

But just that feature by itself, honestly, is a good enough reason to spend. I think it was like the hour or something I spent trying to work it out. Not like it's that long, but... Yeah, I still had to sit there digging through bullshit to work it out. I think it...

You know what? I think it works. I think it's a good addition to the stream. Now I can be like, haha, funny meme streamers and do funny meme stuff. Oh, lordy lord. What else do we have on this list? I actually have a bunch of other stuff that... This is my problem. When I plan out topics for my stream, I occasionally

plan out a bunch of extra stuff that I never actually get to. And it just sits there. And in some cases, it's very timely stuff. So, I'm just going to briefly touch on it, and then I guess we can end off the

podcast. So, I don we can end off the. End off the podcast. So. I don't know how many people care. About Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. But you should. Because Jojo is a. Absolute. Absolute fantastic series.

And. Jojo part 8. Jojo. Sorry. Jojo part 6. Why did I say 8? 8 is Jojolion. Jojo part 6. Jojo. Sorry. Jojo Part 6. Why did I say 8? 8 is Jojolion. Jojo Part 6.

Uh. Stone. Uh. Stone Ocean. I forgot the name. Had a trailer. That came out very recently. And.

Man. I don't particularly care about Jolene. The. The main. Protagonist in Jojo Part 8. But. I. I'm actually excited now. I think that Jolene in animation actually is going to be a lot more fun

than she was reading through the manga. I don't know what some of the antagonist voices are going to be like. There is one very well-known protagonist known as Pucci. He is this beautiful man right here. We don't know how he's going to sound just yet. He wasn't in the trailer. But I'm

very, very excited to actually hear his voice. And I hope he ends up being as hype in the anime as he was in the manga I can't see how he won't be as long as they cast him well which most Jojo characters are cast well

he'll be pretty awesome now in the same vein of anime there was a new trailer for Boku no Hero Movie 3 In the same vein of anime. There was a new trailer. For Boku no Hero. Movie 3. I think it is. Yeah.

Movie 3. Not Heroes Rising. That or Two Heroes. Those are the old ones. What's the new movie called shit? I'm forgetting what the new movie called, shit? Uh, I'm forgetting what the new movie's called. Movie 3. It is called...

Give me a damn name. Wait, is it Heroes Rising? Wait, no, Heroes Rising... No, Heroes Rising was the shit one. No, that was the good one. Um, why am I... World's Hero Mission. World Heroes Mission. Yeah, that was the good one. Why am I... World's Hero Mission. World Heroes Mission. Yeah, that's what it is. I watched the trailer for this one.

Basically, the idea in this one, I guess, is that the main character, Deku, is being framed for a murder, which doesn't make any fucking sense, but all of the Boku no Hero movies don't make sense. They're all just, like, side story nonsense. He got framed for a murder, and, like,

the main antagonist group is called Humorize. So the idea in Boku no Hero is that everyone has, like, superpowers. Even just, like, regular people. Everyone in this world has superpowers. And I guess this group called Humorize wants people to, like, go

back to the state before they had superpowers. I don't know why they're called Humorize wants people to go back to the state before they had superpowers. I don't know why they're called Humorize. I get it. They're trying to turn them back into real people. But it's a fucking dumb name for an antagonist group. And every single one of the movies, the antagonist has been obsessed with these superpowers. Not like, oh, I can have any other motivation like, alright world domination, literally anything. It's just like, hey, I want to take your superpowers.

I'm an- I am evil. Let me take your superpowers. Like, is there any other motivation that someone can have in this series? Even the main antagonist in like, the main series has this exact same motivation it's like i am evil let me take your powers it's like stop boku no hero is good but man that that the motivation in the in the main series is good but then when everything else in the franchise has the exact same motivation it starts to get on my nerves a little bit. Just, just a little bit. If the series wasn't so well animated, maybe it would be a problem. But I hope this, uh, this movie does get screenings in, in

Australia, like the last two movies did, and I will absolutely be watching it the second that I can because I watched Heroes Rising in cinemas even though the story was fucking nonsense and it actually broke the entire canon it was fun it was well animated, the fight scenes were beautiful

the story made no fucking sense. And the story is actually better off without that movie existing. But it's still fun. And it's fun like the Dragon Ball movies are fun. Like, no one cares about biobrolling or cooler. But like, it's cool nonetheless that these things exist and i know like the new then like the newer dragon ball movies actually are good and i'm very oh that's another thing i'm very excited for the next dragon movie to come out as well that got a uh a cg teaser trailer

well i don't know what it's going to be about i know there's like some new antagonists in the manga but i don't know if it'll be manga stuff or side story stuff or what it's gonna be all I hope is it has really really badass action and that's all we need the Broly movie was very good

F was very good Super was very good anything in the previous sorry what's the first movie called Super? No Super was very good. Anything in the previous... Sorry. Was the first movie called Super? No.

Wait. No, the first movie was not called Super. Dragon Ball Super movies. Let's see. No, not Dragon Ball. Let me see. Wait, no, it was Battle of Gods. Yeah, that's what it was called.

It was Dragon Ball Super Battle of Gods. Yeah, yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, okay, that makes sense. All three of the Dragon Ball Super movies have been very good. Also, first, all three are the ones that are out. So I expect the fourth one to be hype as well. And you know what?

If Dragon Ball's good at one thing, it's good at making hype. That's the one thing that Super has been really, really fucking good at. You can, like, bash the writing all you want, and we can laugh about the 30-episode Frieza fight back in, like, Dragon Ball Z,

but when it gets into those fight scenes, the fight scenes are always really fucking hype. And I think that is as good a point as any to end off the podcast. Dragon Ball is hype. Boku no Hero is hype.

I forgot what else I was talking about. Jojo is also hype. And I'm excited for the next installment of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I don't like Jolene, but maybe the anime will make me like her more.

As for who you should go check out, who should you watch? Hmm. Oh, actually, you know what? I'm going to give a VTuber suggestion. I don't think she's streaming right now. No, she's not. If you want a fun streamer to go watch, I don't think she's streaming right now. No, she's not.

If you want a fun streamer to go watch, I suggest you go check out Moffinoo. She's one of Cyan's friends. I popped into her stream the other day, and yeah, she's a lot of fun. I highly suggest her content. She describes herself as not very chill. That one know i i i can definitely agree with not very cute i'm gonna disagree with that one not very smart that one's to be decided but judging by some of the some of the things she said during the stream um you know that one might

that one might be true as well but very hype and ready to pick a fight. That is actually a really good Twitch description. I need to work on mine, to be completely honest. Like, that's really catchy. Mine, I don't even remember what mine is. I don't even know if I have a Twitch description. I need to, like, redo my Twitch stuff. Like, seeing a bunch of VTubers that have been hanging out

in their streams recently. Seeing like their Twitch layouts makes me realize mine is like way over bloated and needs a lot of work. But yes, go check out Morphinew. Uh, she's cool. Uh, we think very similarly about how much to care

about like things in life. Just don't. Things happen. Just accept that things happen and move on with it. That's pretty much how it needs to go, I guess. Yeah, also she plays Genshin. I haven't played Genshin myself, but it looks like a fun game. Also, she plays Osu, which is already a good enough reason to watch someone.

And yeah. plays osu which is already a good enough reason to watch someone and yeah um i think that'll be everything for me then so before i go i would like to say if you want to support the channel and become one of the amazing people i don't have a layout for this one to actually show the patreon supporters but become one of the amazing people who support this channel, please go check out my Patreon subscribed Starly Berope, linked in the description down below. I've got a podcast called Tech... I know, that is what you're on right now. I'm doing

my main channel outro. Shit. This podcast, Tech of a T, is available anywhere you can find audio podcasts, and the video version is available on YouTube and Odyssey. I've got a main channel called Brodie Robertson Plays where I live stream twice a week. No, I've got a main channel called Brodie Robertson

where I upload Linux videos, and I upload videos about six times a week, and I live stream once a week, and I have a gaming channel called Brodie Robertson Plays where I live stream twice a week and upload five or so shorts a week. I know, it's a lot of videos, but in the case of the shorts, it's not that bad.

Yeah, I probably would have more free time if I just didn't have so many channels. But, where's the fun in that? So, that'll be it for me. I don't have anything else to say. I guess, be safe and

don't buy Turtle Beach headsets. Buy literally anything else. That's it for me. I'm out.