Tech Over Tea - #89 Finally The Podcast Has Returned!! | Solo

Episode Date: November 17, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I'm, as always, your host, Brody Robertson, and today we are back for, hopefully, episode 89. But if you don't know what happened last week, where there wasn't an episode, that's because all of my recording completely vanished. So, hopefully, hopefully that doesn't happen again. Hopefully, that doesn't happen again. My strategy this time is recording in 30-minute blocks. So you might notice that there's going to be four cuts throughout the recording or three cuts or two cuts. However long I record for, I'm going to break it up into 30 or so minute chunks. So if I lose one of those chunks, well, sure, I've lost 30 minutes of content,

but I don't lose an entire podcast. And that, I've lost 30 minutes of content, but, like, I don't lose, you know, an entire podcast. And that, I think, is much better. I could certainly break it up into smaller groups, like, you know, 10-minute blocks. One is just two fucking one-minute blocks. Every, like, sentence, I just break it or something stupid like that. But I don't want to waste my time. And I know that if I do that, like, you know, it's going to break up the way the conversation is actually working. But with half an hour blocks, that should be enough where any topics that I was doing are wrapped up.

And obviously, it's not going to be like perfect 30-minute blocks. Maybe I'll go 25. Maybe I'll go 35 or whatever, anything like that. It's going to be roughly 30 minutes. So that's just how it's going to work from now on. And yeah, let's actually get into the actual show. So today it is the middle of November. Okay. It's the middle of November. Keep that in mind. It'll be the middle of November when you're seeing this as well. It'll just be different middle of November. And in the middle of November, in Australia,

it's spring. Do you want to know what the fucking temperature is right now? So let's actually find out exactly what it is. Because I'm pretty sure it's like, yeah, it's 12 degrees Celsius. And it was 9 degrees overnight. Tomorrow it's going to be 15. Now this might seem normal

if you live in the northern hemisphere in places where you know the end of the year is cold. It's not cold at the end of the year here. It's supposed to be like mid 30s. It's gonna be cold all week. I don't understand. This does not make any sense. I don't know what is happening. I don't know. I'm just like, I'm dealing with this. I was wearing one of my jumpers before. I decided to take it off, but I may end up putting it back on afterwards. The only reason I took that off is because I was doing thumbnail pictures. And, you know, I want my thumbnails to look a certain way. I don't wear a jacket or a jumper during my thumbnails.

I have the shirt and the Hawaiian shirt, and you know what, wearing a Hawaiian shirt when it's 10 degrees outside, uh, isn't, is not the best feeling, oh god, but hopefully at some point it'll start warming up, and then when it warms up, I'm gonna just be complaining that it's hot all the time, so, you know, I'm never gonna be happy, I would just like consistent, I would like a season where it rises and it falls, you know, like nice, nice curves, because then I can like accept it, I can deal with it, not when it goes from like fucking 35 degrees back down to 15 the next day, that's annoying, but that's enough of me ranting about shitty weather. Let's actually talk about something that people might care about. One of those things is the PlayStation

5. So I was on Twitter the other day and I was like, why the hell is EB Games trending? EB Games, if you don't know, is the Australian branch of GameStop. I believe EB Games is also in Canada? I don't know. It's the branch of GameStop that exists in places that aren't America. And yeah, they were trending on Twitter. The reason they were trending is because... I wonder if I can still find it. The reason why they were trending is because they actually had PS5s available for pre-order.

But they were actually doing something really sensible. So normally when pre-orders go up for any shop, it's going to be, especially nowadays, it's going to be pre-orders online. And, okay, I was right, Canada does have, um, does have, uh, does have EB Games. But the, um, the pre-orders, right, normally they're going to be online pre-orders, and the problem you see with the PS5, this is the reason why it's, it's one of the reasons, obviously the chip shortage is going to lead into it as well, but one of the main reasons is people have bots set up to automatically buy them so they can scalp them,

uh, and the only way to compete with the bots who are scalping is by also using the scalping bots to out-scalp the scalpers, basically. In this case, though, if you wanted to pre-order a PS5 from EB Games, you actually had to go into one of your local stores and pre-order there. So you had to, like, actually go outside, there. So you had to, like, actually go outside, touch some fucking grass, so you can buy your console. Now, you can argue that, oh, you know, it's less convenient to do that or anything like that, but most people are probably not going to get a PS5 if they have to compete with scalping bots online. So, honestly, I think this is a pretty big improvement. I kind of hope to see other retailers basically do the same thing. If not for all of their pre-orders, maybe have like, I don't know, a couple of units per store where it's like, you can pre-order this,

but only if you actually show up at one of your stores. And hopefully you can actually get one. of your stores and hopefully you can actually get one uh in my case though i have um no interest no interest at all in buying one because in australia if you're not trading in a ps4 pro i believe it's like 750 dollars now that might sound like you know it's not too crazy because australian dollars it's it's still it's still a lot of money. It's I think more than the I think it's more than the equivalent of what it should be in

like, if you convert the price. Yeah, it's way more than it should be. So the disc model is $750 and then the digital only version is only $600. But either way, that's a lot of money

and I don't want to spend that. Because, look, there's... The only reason I would buy a PS5 at this point, because there's like two games I want to play on it. There's, um... There's Demon's Souls. For me, there's one game.

There's one game I want to play on it. Everything else I can either play on PC or it's available on the PS4. Like Tales of Arise for example, I can play that on Linux. It works perfectly under Proton or I can just buy it for my PS4 and it will be fine. Sure, it won't look as pretty

but it'll be fine. The only reason I would buy a PS4 is, um, oh, sorry, buy a PS5, not buy a PS4. Buy a PS5 is if you put in a PS4 game, because it's backwards compatible, the PS5 basically operates as a PS4 Pro, so any games that are Pro-enhanced are gonna be enhanced, basically, but I don't really care to spend, um, $600 just on that, so I'm gonna, like, hold off. The way I usually buy consoles, I think I've mentioned this before, is I will wait until, like, the generation's basically over. And then buy it then. I bought my PS4. I think two. About two years before the PS5 came out.

Probably going to do the same thing with the PS5. The reason why you do that. Is firstly games are out. There are games to play. Also when it's getting to the end of the console life cycle. You're usually going to have game bundles. Whether that's like. Oh you're going to get like. Or this game and this game and this game, or maybe you'll get lucky

and you can choose games out of this selection. And if you can choose games, you can actually usually get some pretty good choices. When I bought my PS3, for example, I think it was a choice of... One of the choices was Assassin's Creed... Brotherhood? No, not Brotherhood. Wait, what were the... Assassin's Creed. Assistance, no.

Assassin, no. Brotherhood was two, wasn't it? Assassin's Creed games. It was whatever number 4 was um was it Revelations? is that what it was called? um

main series Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed yeah Brotherhood was 3, yeah 4 was Revelations so one of the games you could select with it was Revelations, and that's what I got then. The PS4, did I get any games bundled with this one? Did I get any games bundled with this one? I don't remember.

Um, I'm looking at my list of games right now. I don't, I don't think so? Maybe Bloodborne was bundled with it? Maybe? I'm not too sure, actually.

I've had the console for a while now that I actually can't remember. But, yeah, look, I'll get a PS5 one day. Honestly, if I buy any console, it's going to be a Switch because there are actually games to play on the Switch. Like, I want to play Shin Megami Tensei V, and I want to play the new Pokemon games. I have some people bugging me to play Animal Crossing, because I know, look, I, I know that I'm gonna love Animal Crossing, and it's going to eat into a lot of my time. So, I will probably end up getting that if I get a Switch as well, but Shin Megami Tensei V, I think, is one of the games

that is sort of like, it's sort of like a killer game for the console that I want to play. Um, I still need to finish Shin Megami Tensei III, but V looks really good. Like, I, I, all of the, all of the SMT games, besides, like, outside the ones I've played, look good in their own ways, with the exception of 1. 1 looks... No. I have no interest in getting... No interest in playing

Shin Megami Tensei 1. You do things like, if you summoned your demons, it costs money every single step you took or something ridiculous like that. But, how much is a Switch?

Switch, oh, there's a bundle with a bundle with Animal Crossing. That is $470. So what, you would drop the price by like $70 and it's $400 for the console, and,

uh, for, yeah, $400 for the console, about $70 for the game, uh, or I could get a Switch Lite, but I don't, I know, obviously, like, you can't dock the Switch Lite, but I presume that it doesn't have HDMI out. And if it doesn't have HDMI out, then obviously I cannot record it. I'm actually not sure if it does or not. Because I know capturing a base model switch is very easy. All you do is you just take the output that was going to be going to the TV, and you just put it through a capture card like my, uh, my Ava Media, but I don't think the base, I don't think the light you can do that with, I could be mistaken, if someone knows, I'm happy to, happy to hear, but I'm not sure, With this Dialga and Palkia edition,

do you actually get the Pokemon game with you? Games sold separately. This is a... I hate this when they do a custom console, and you don't get the game that's associated with the actual console. That's...

Honestly, that's really mean. Like... Can you do it over USB-C? No or maybe, can you do it over USB-C, no, you probably can't do it over USB-C, yeah, like, it didn't used to be a thing back in the days of the DS, at least I don't remember it being, like, you'd get a Legend of Zelda DS, and you'd get whatever Legend of Zelda game it was associated with, and, or, like, a Pokemon-themed one as well, Legend of Zelda game it was associated with, and or like a Pokemon themed one as well. Um, this one I believe does come with the game, if it shouldn't? No, it does not come with

the game. Ignore everything I said. Well, okay, that's not cheaper. It's just the same price as a regular Switch. Can we stop? Can we stop doing this? If you're gonna do custom additions, actually bundle the game, please.

Just do that. But yeah, I'll probably end up getting base model Switch. Or I will... I could always find a second hand. You can actually find... They're not super cheap, but you can find second hand Switches

for relatively cheap. And, look, I probably don't really care about, um, about, like, you know, the handheld stuff. So if the Joy-Cons are a little bit jank, well, that's fine. I'm going to play it on my screen anyway. Uh, I, look, it's cool that you can carry around a Switch, but I like my big screens and capturing it. That's also that. So I'll probably end up playing it with whatever the...

Is it called the Switch Pro Controller or whatever it's called? Switch Pro... Yeah, it's called Switch Pro Controller. I'll probably end up getting one of those as well. And that adds more to the price. That's more things to worry about. So, hey, maybe if it comes down on Black Friday, I'll buy the Switch. It won't come down on Black Friday, though.

It's not going to do that. Yeah, that's not going to happen. We're just not getting a Switch. But hey, maybe. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. Black Friday is coming up soon. So I am interested in... There's some things I want to buy.

I cannot say words. But that's... I am looking at buying some things. That's where I'm going with this. Mainly the new lens that I want to get. And also I'm thinking of replacing my main screen. I talked about this in the episode that got deleted. Or got nuked.

So my current screen is basically... It's the cheapest 27-inch 1080p monitor I could find, because I wanted something 27-inch, and this is what they had. But, you know, there's better monitors I could get, so maybe I'll look into that if something nice comes down in price. If nothing comes down in price, I'm just, you know, not going to bother. But, maybe, maybe I'll be lucky and I'll actually find something that is worth buying. It's a possibility, I guess. Not holding out much hope, but it's a possibility, I guess.

And it won't affect you guys, but it'll be nice to have a nice screen as my main screen. And then a second screen that's not as shit. My secondary screen is not bad, but this is the cheapest. So we have a combination of the cheapest 27-inch monitor and the cheapest monitor I could find. So I'm not exactly working with the best visual hardware you could find but besides that the only other thing i'm considering buying for uh for black friday is going to be like christmas presents because at this stage i've i've got everything that i kind of want and i think I'm pretty good. Yeah, I think I'm pretty good.

Look, it's very likely that I'm just going to think of something. I'm like, yeah, no, actually, I kind of want that as well and I kind of want that. But at this stage, I don't have anything that's desperately wanting to burn a hole into my wallet. It's more like, hey, that might be cool to buy, and when it's, that might be cool to buy, I'm just gonna put it off for, like, two years, that's sort of why I put off, like, my mic upgrades and stuff, where, like, I don't need this microphone, but, like, it would be cool to have, and then eventually, I got around to buying it, and, you know,

it, it's cool to have. That's it. Like I wasn't wrong. It was going to be cool to have. But actually speaking of spending money on things you don't need, I was actually going thrift shopping the other weekend. I, shit, where did I put those? Give me one sec.

I'm going to see if I can find them. I bought some, I'll tell you the other cool thing I bought. I'll see if I can find the. Um, I bought some, I'll tell you one, the other cool thing I bought, I'll see if I can find the the, the, the, the, the not the not weeb trash thing that I bought. Um,

did I put them somewhere and then forget where I put them? That would be really dumb, wouldn't it? If you bought something from a thrift shop and then you forget where you put it, and it's just hidden around your house somewhere Hmm, where did I put them?

Is it over here? Yes, okay. We're good. I didn't lose the things that I bought So there is a shop in Australia called Savers. So Savers, unlike a lot of thrift shops, they're sort of more in line with like the Salvation Army and like charity shops where they don't know how much anything they own is worth

and they just sell it because people donate it to them and they just, you know, donate it to them and they just you know want to sell want to sell things at a not at a loss at at enough to cover their operating costs basically and i picked up something actually really cool so this is um i actually got two sets of these these were two dollars for each set this is a set of um so you can focus on it this is a set of, um, let's even focus on it. This is a set of, like, Australian-themed coasters. And honestly, I think they look they look really cool.

Um, this set is just a set of different hotels around Australia. So, that first one was the Empire Hotel in Koori Koori, uh, New South Wales. The second one was the Commercial Hotel in Braidwood, New South Wales. I guess...

Oh, I was going to say this one's focused around New South Wales. But no, this one is the Imperial Hotel in Ravenswood, Queensland. Then we have the Drover's Arms Hotel in Gornong, Victoria. There we go. The Maldon Hotel in, surprisingly, Maldon, Victoria. This one, which was not part of the set, but they just left it in there. I think someone stole this from a pub. And this one, which was clearly very well

loved, the Albion Hotel in Grenfell, New South Wales. So this set was, as I said, $2 for all of those coasters, and I feel like it's a pretty good score, to be honest.

As for the second set this was also two dollars this one was more of a a focus on like australian scenes and i can't read it because it's all written in really annoying cursive um and my cursive is not very good anyway uh here is the first one. I know this is probably not great content for the audio guys. Check out the video section for this section because these actually are like really cool. This one is down on his luck. Actually could read that one.

Then we have... Is this the drover? I think that's what it says. As you can see, there is obviously some damage to them. They're probably very well loved. They sort of just donated them because they didn't need them anymore. This one is... I have no idea what it says.

But it looks real cool. And then this is Winter Evening. And you know what? For $4 for all of that, I feel like that was a pretty good score. And actually kind of was fun going down doing some thrift shopping.

Just getting out and doing something that's not the same thing I always do. Like every single weekend is usually just me staying home, playing video games or doing something else like that. But I wanted to go outside and I wanted to go outside. First, full stop, I wanted to go outside. I wanted to go out and actually do something different for once. And actually enjoy the world. And that was one of the things I thought of.

And that's what I decided to do. But that was just at Savers. Now, I didn't just go to Savers. Savers was just where I started. Because I knew that Savers had a lot of... They're good for books. And for random shit like this. And for cutleryy and general house stuff.

Also, I got my, the other, I think it was a couple weeks earlier. Um, I got my MSI hat also from Savers. So, like, you know, already got this good score of five bucks. I've got to go back there again and see what else I can, uh, see what else I can score there. But I decided to go after that from Savers over to, uh, over to Cash Converters, better known as Cashies. Cashies is basically, Cashies is a pawn shop. Cashies is a pawn shop. It's a place you go because you have rent to pay and you got to sell some jewelry or you got to sell your console, things like that. And they're there to make money. So obviously you're not going to get crazy deals. Back in

the early 2000s, they didn't know what they had. So they you know really rare shit and really expensive shit for fuck all money because that was based on like what they thought it was worth and what it was sold to the map but since then like they've learned you know like ns nes games for example you can sell for hundreds of dollars and people will buy it um but at some of the stores I went to, it seems like there is a bunch of weebs who are offloading some anime figures. So, I'll show you one of them that I got.

Now, this should not have been at the price that I paid for it. this should not have been at the price that I paid for it. Because this thing has been out of production for a long time. And in the secondhand market, it's a bit closer to like $70 or $80. Maybe about $100. This is one of the Nendoroids from the original season of Love Live.

For reference, so this is Nendoroid 500. My Nekopara Nendoroids are at like 1,300, or 1,238 for Vanilla, oh sorry, 1,238 for Chocolat and 1,248 for Vanilla. So like, there's been a lot

more Nendoroids since then, and it wasn't just those figures, there was a lot of others. There was a, like, there's been a lot more Nendoroids since then, and it wasn't just those figures. There was a lot of others. There was a, um, there was a a, what was it? It was a K-On! figure. Like, one of the original K-On! figures. There were a couple of figures in there

that were in, like, the $200 or $300 range they knew were $200 or $300. So, I'm going, going like i'm not gonna go every week because that's dumb like you're not gonna have new shit shop then but i might go just look it's fun to just browse stuff even you don't buy anything and go down there like i don't know once once every month or so and maybe bring some uh bring some people along and just find some crazy shit there. Because even outside of my stupid anime figure collection.

Okay, so I mentioned to you guys that I use a Yamaha MG10XU. Yamaha MG10XU. So that is this. That is, the fuck was that, that is this mixer board right here, it's way overkill for what I need, but it's a really good mixer board, but this is not the biggest version that Yamaha makes, they also make a, like... I guess it'd be a concert version where there's, I think, like 20 inputs on it or something. There's, like, sliders for everything. It is massive. So the big brother of this thing,

it was at Akashi's. It was... I think... Yeah, here we go, it's the, it's the, uh, the 20XU, this guy right here, this guy showed up at a, uh, at a cashies, and I think they had, what, I think the price they had on it was, like, far, no, so $750, $750 is what they had on it, So $750. $750 is what they had on it. It's just like, Jesus fucking Christ. When it comes to audio gear, there is a lot of audio gear you can get there.

If you want a fucking blue Snowball, go to a cash converter. Because I think I spotted eight blue Snowballs. That is, if you don't buy a blue Yeti when you start doing youtube you buy a blue snowball that's that's sort of how it goes so eventually a lot of people offload them and they just show up in places like that i actually still have my blue yeti i might need to get rid of it at some point because it's it's just sitting there doing nothing i might as well sell it so uh you know i have i get some money off it, rather than just collecting dust, basically, but yeah, that was there, um, there was a lot of camera gear there, there was a lot of, like, six, seven hundred dollar cameras just chilling, there were a lot of, um, I actually noticed I had a bunch of camera lenses as well,

I was looking to see if there was anything that was catching my attention, I might need to take a, uh, a better look next time, and see if there are any lenses there, which, you know, might be worth buying, because while, okay, the problem they have is a lot of the lenses there aren't, aren't kept in the best condition, like, they'll be missing lens caps, they'll be very, very dirty. Like, not just, you know, the lens being dirty, but, like, the casing being dirty. So, clearly, it wasn't, like, kept in a good environment.

And I don't know the sort of quality the lens would be in. So, I don't know. It'd be weird buying a lens from a source like that. Like, if you want to buy a second hand lens there are stores that you can do that through that refurbish them and things like that I don't know if you'd want to go to a

thrift shop to buy yourself like a $600 or $700 lens, you could do it, and maybe you'll find a good score, like you know, the figure I found, like there are, these things are basically perfect condition you'll find a good score. Like, you know, the figure I found. Like, there are... These things are basically perfect condition. You can find good things there. It's just that there's going to be a lot of stuff there that's not.

Actually, at one of the stores, I was just, like, going through. And then I had to stop for a moment and sort of backtrack. And, like, did I actually see what I thought I saw? There was just a fucking katana just chilling in one of the cabinets. Like, why? Why is there a katana here? Who sold a katana? Is it a tin katana?

Is it a steel katana? Is it a steel katana? I have no idea. Why is it here? I don't understand. But cashies is fun. Honestly, just going to, like, going to random thrift shops is fun, it's not as fun if you go to some of the smaller ones, but I live fairly close to, like, the, um, I live fairly close to the city, so there's a lot of the bigger stores where they'll

have, like, crazy shit, obviously, the boring stuff, like, TVs. Hey, man, you want some fucking drills? You want some fucking drills? You want some drill batteries? Man, you can get yourself a fucking drill battery pretty cheap. Also, there's these... If you've ever... If you've ever been on a construction site in Australia, or you've been near someone who works on a construction site,

you have seen one of these things. I have seen so many of these fucking Makita Bluetooth radios. I think in one store, there was seven of them lined up next to each other. Never buy one of these at full price, because you can buy them second hand at like half the price, I don't know, like they don't sound good, the only reason you buy them is because they're made to be run over by a truck and continue working while they do that, like that's, that's why you buy them, um, but yeah, if you want one of these, hey yeah man, cashies,

cash is a good way to go. Or anime figures, apparently. Actually, pop figures. I hate, I fucking hate pop vinyls. But if you like your dumb pop vinyls, yeah, you can get pop vinyls there. Because, you know, when you collect shit like this, you're going to eventually run out of, you know, room, run out of space, and, um, yeah, eventually people are going to just offload them into a store like this, and they just crowd all the shelves, oh, why do they look so bad? Like, look, compare a Nendoroid. Compare one of these.

Okay? Compare this cute thing. This cute thing compared to this absolutely cursed being. Like, why? Why would you buy Funko Pops? I know that these things are more expensive, but like if you're collecting things like Surely you don't like every single one of the series you're buying right like I know people who collect Funko pops

not because they like the series that the Funko pops are from but because they just like the idea of Collecting Funko pops and if you want to collect figures Go to Japan Japan's got Japan's got some much better figures you can find. But, hey. It is what it is. Spend your money how you want to spend your money, I guess. I will laugh at you for it, but people will laugh at me for buying the anime figures in the first place. so I guess we're basically

in the same camp. So it seems like my strategy of breaking down the podcast into sections actually works out pretty well, because there was no problem with the audio there, so let's just keep going forward, and hopefully there's no problem with the audio this time, because

actually that reminds me of a dumb problem I had the other day so I was recording something I was recording clips for whatever video I was doing that day and I recorded the clip fine next one fine next one fine next one fine next one fine then it breaks I changed no settings nothing happened it just stopped working Why did it stop working? Well, oh no, I don't know. I got no idea. I didn't change anything. Nothing changed on my system. I restarted my mixer and everything was fine. So I don't know if it was the mixer board playing up or if it was my drivers playing up or if it was something else, it was OBS playing up, it was something playing up, and I, I've not really been able to sort of get down to the,

get down to the bottom of the problem. I sort of just have been trying to mitigate the effects of the damage, which is something I should have been doing, honestly, for a while. But, um, moving back to topics. Do you want a really shitty keyboard? Because I know I do. God, this thing is ugly. So for anyone listening right now, I'm sure you've seen these before. But it's one of those keyboards that have the circle keycaps.

They made sense on a typewriter because it was a very big unit. It was a very physical unit. This is just a regular keyboard, but it has circle keycaps. And... It's not even a good color scheme. So this is part of Logitech's

cutesy pop keys keyboard. I don't know what makes this keyboard cute. I'm actually unsure. It's... Okay, no. Forget everything I said. This keyboard's actually amazing. It has got hardware emoji keys.

It has got fucking hardware emoji keys. it has got fucking hardware emoji keys oh my lord okay you know what this is the greatest keyboard i've ever seen it's also a is that a 60 is that what it would be i guess it's modified 60 because you've got extra keys here for your emoji stuff. I think, yeah, I think you'd call this modified 60%. So because it's modified 60%, oh, it's also a Mac keyboard. Wait, I'm sorry, what?

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it a Mac keyboard? Wait, what? Okay, now I'm very confused by this keyboard. So it's designed to work on Windows and Mac, Wait, what? Okay, now I'm very confused by this keyboard. So, it's designed to work on Windows and Mac, but the... Like, the... The button prompts on it are Mac prompts.

Except where they're not. So, it's got... I hate that. Okay, so instead of having, you know, you have, words, you usually have the Windows key that has a Windows icon on it. And, you know, if you're using Mac, you're not going to... Or using Linux, for example,

you're going to see the Windows key. You don't really care about it. What if we change it from Windows to be Start? It's no longer a Windows key, is it? It's a Start key now. I guess, look, if you've got it running on Windows, it's technically not wrong. It is a Start key. It's just, I've never seen a keyboard that refers to the Super key as Start.

Could we just, could we just put Super on there? Like, just put Super on there. That'll be fine. I guess you could, like, make custom keycaps for there? Like, just put Super on there, that'll be fine. I guess you could, like, make custom keycaps for, like, a mechanical keyboard and do that, I'm sure someone has done that, but, like, just put Super there, not Start, or at least a Windows logo, at least a Windows logo, and I think we're good, um, but logic, wait, this is a mechanical keyboard, this is a mechanical keyboard, it's got, wait, it's got browns on it? Hold up, hold up. What the fuck is this keyboard? The more I look at this thing and the more I'm confused.

So it's got Circle keycaps, it's got hardware emoji keys, it has got a start button, not a- a Windows button, and it has got a start button not a uh a windows button and it's got brown switches what who okay who's looking for brown switches on a keyboard like this you know look some maybe someone maybe there's one person out there who wants a keyboard like this you know it's like some maybe someone maybe there's one person out there who wants a keyboard like this with brown switches but what the hell considering it's browns though you could swap out all the keycaps for sensible keycaps if you really wanted to for some reason

but i guess then it would just be a a 60 keyboard that has a shitty purple and baby vomit green as the background. This is such a weird keyboard. Also, I was going to say, I don't understand Logitech's logo, because they seem to have like three different logos they use at the exact same time. So this is my G305. That's the front of it. The back of it has a different logo. That one has one that says G and a Logitech. Then there's apparently one that says Logi on it. But there's also one that says Logitech

that still sometimes uses their old logo. And I don't understand Logitech's marketing department. You would think that you would want to um, you would want to homogenize. Yeah, that's the one. You'd want to homogenize your logo use and use one thing so that people know what you're doing. Um, but I

guess not. I guess like the G could just be for their gaming brand, I guess? Maybe? I don't know. I know that they still use their other logos for other things, like, their webcams will have a different variation

of the Logitech logo, so, like, I don't know. Man, I'm sure there's a reason for it. There's gotta be a reason for it, or they just, well, they're just trying to keep themselves in a job. There's gotta be a reason for it. Or they just... They're just trying to keep themselves in a job. That's also certainly an option. I could certainly

see that as well. In case you couldn't know, I... I'm not exactly planning to buy this. Oh, it's also $99. Yeah. So, like, the price of two of these...

Actually, how much is this one? I forgot how much my Cherry Stream was. Maybe it's one of the Cherry Streams. I do like my Cherry Stream. It is a beautiful keyboard. And people can bully me as much as they like for using a Scissor Switch keyboard, but it is a great keyboard.

Yeah, it's two of them. This is a $52 keyboard in Australia. It's So I guess you buy three of them then because if you go with the American price, yeah, it'd be much lower Mmm I like my keyboard. I'm not playing to replace it anytime soon. There's no problems with it It's doing everything it should do. It's got nice media keys on it. All of it feels lovely to type on. There were some issues early on with, I guess, buttons feeling a bit strange. But those were sort of, I guess they were sort of factory issues.

What I mean is sometimes you'll buy like a keyboard, you'll buy a car, you'll buy anything and after you use it for a while, it's going to operate a little bit differently. It needs to sort of burn in the, or burn in, burn out. It needs to like get used to actually being functioning. You don't want to like break off a little bit of extra plastic that's stuck on there there's just like you gotta you gotta make sure the the the key lube is being spread out all that sort of fun stuff um like when i initially got this some of the keys like squeaked a little bit but as i've been using it more like that problem has completely disappeared so at this point i i honestly i don't think I could use a different keyboard.

I feel like this is the best keyboard I've ever had, and it's $52. I've used multiple $100 mechanical keyboards before, and honestly, nothing lives up to my Cherry Stream. There's, um...

Build quality is, uh, you know, you can work on that one. But, as for the rest of it, I think Build quality is... You can work on that one. But as for the rest of it, I think this keyboard is the one I'm going to stick with. Now... Actually, that leads us perfectly into something. So I found this article over on The Verge.

And I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. So this is sort of a dumb story, and I don't know what to really say about it. Basically what happened is... Okay, it's not... Where is it? Let's see if we find typing. So basically there are trials that are going on.

And the judge that was there basically lectures everyone sitting in the public section that they are typing too loud. Basically, there are journalists. There are people who are at a trial, you know, trial people, whatever you want to, whatever people end up being at a trial, and, um, yeah, they're basically typing too loudly on their laptops, which laptops don't have, like, loud switches, you have to be typing pretty fucking loudly to be making noise with a laptop, loudly to be making noise with a laptop especially because a lot of these people are probably mac users as well and mac like the mac switches are notoriously light um but this is just such a weird story i don't really have anything to say about it all i just wanted to say is this is hilarious

that there's someone who's getting this angry about people lightly typing on a, um... on a, uh... thingy. On a laptop. Or you get a touch... Oh, this is not a good suggestion. Please never suggest

that someone should buy a touchscreen if they want to make their typing quieter. I'm sure you guys have, you know, used phones before, but have you ever used a full-on touchscreen keyboard? Something that is like a big piece of glass that you just type on like a keyboard. Because I have. They're fairly common if you have to like input stuff on a, um, on like a big big, um, tablet screen, for example, they're bad, they're very fucking bad, or, like, you go to, you know, McDonald's, and you want to

search up something on their, their, like, um, their, their, their, their self-order thing to, uh, put all of the, the, the wage slaves out of business. It's so bad. It's awful. It's such a bad typing experience. Why would you ever want to do that to yourself willingly? It feels like a kind of light torture. I would much rather just never type again rather than having to type on something as shit as that,

like, to be completely honest, like, I, look, I, I can just handwrite stuff the rest of my life, I don't need a type, I, I, I'm good here, I'm good, we can type and we can use voice, that's all we need, actually, you know what, voice might be worse. There's someone in my Twitch chat who shows up and does all of his comments while he's in his car through voice commands. Like, he will

use, um, what's the word? Is it voice transcription or whatever the feature is. Whatever you would call it, he converts what he says into text, whatever that thing is called, um, and god, the amount of mistakes he has, I don't know what's worse, to be honest, typing on a touchscreen, or not typing, and just using voice to type,

because I'm sure the idea of using voice to type can be good. It's just to make it good, you need incredibly complex and incredibly powerful AI models and they take up a lot of space and don't exactly fit too well on a phone, for example. Like they can, but they don't fit too well on a phone, for example. Like, they can, but they don't fit too well on a phone, and you end up getting these questionable,

questionable messages. Like, they're not bad, and they're probably fine if you have a fairly, a fairly clean accent, but judging by some of the comments I get, yeah, he doesn't. He does not, and, yeah, there's no way to get around that so like

stop just just stop watching my streams in your car like that's all you need to do i'll get the abort in your car but like there are other things you could do in your car rather than listening to live streams hopefully he's not actually watching them he's just listening to them uh if you're actually watching my streams please don't do that while you're driving. I highly suggest against doing that. That seems quite dangerous. But if you want to listen, well, look, I'm not going to judge you. I'm going to judge you for doing that, but I'm not going to say that you can't do that. Yeah.

I'm so fucking tired. I'm always tired. Can't do that. Yeah. Ugh. I'm so fucking tired. I'm always tired. Tired is my existence. Maybe when I move to my new place, I won't be tired all the time. I won't be tired all the time because I'll actually be able to sleep because I don't have a housemate

that wakes people up at 7 in the morning by playing a stereo every morning. I wish I was joking. That's actually what happened. My life is great. It could be worse. To be honest. I'm actually doing pretty good.

Besides that shit going on. I'm enjoying what's been going on with the channel recently. I've been enjoying making content. To be honest. I've enjoying what's been going on with the channel recently. I've been enjoying making content. To be honest, I've actually been enjoying making videos way more than I have in quite a while. Like, there are times where I feel like I'm in a bit of a rut, but the channel where it's like, I'm doing the same things over and over again, like, not obviously the exact same videos, but the same style of videos, like, it's always, oh, we're doing a, a news video, we're doing a Vim, I haven't done Vim videos in so long, maybe I should do that, actually, um, but, like, I'm doing, I'm doing

software showcases, and after you've done however many videos I've done, it does start to, it does start to drain on you a little bit, but I've been sort of experimenting with doing more, I guess, trying to add more humor into my videos, I think is a good way to put it, I think is a good way to put it where I'm I'm leaving in some mistakes that I think are funny I'm trying to set up comedic

bits to sort of engage the viewer more I'm trying to make my videos better than they are before because there are different ways I can make my video. Or I can improve my video. I can change up

my lighting and make that better. I can get a better lens. I can get, I can't really get a better mic. There are better mics, technically, but, like, I don't need a better mic. This is as good as anyone should sensibly go. But, like, that's the point I'm getting at. Like, there are physical things I can

do, and, but it becomes, like, a limitation like a limitation on how much you can improve the content like that. There's a lot of places where maybe not I can improve my videos, but there are obviously places where I can do that as well. But places where I can sort of change up the way the videos are structured to make them potentially more engaging. But it's sort of a lot of trial and error in that case. It's a lot of, hey, does this work? Maybe a little bit, but not as much as I would like.

Oh, maybe I can try this instead or this instead. Oh, that actually hit really well. Maybe that's what I should try doing as I go forward. And that's sort of what I've been doing recently, plus digging into things that I hadn't really dug into before. Things like digging into the Linux kernel, looking at different kernels, looking at why you might want to run them, testing out different kernels. My Zen video will come out when I stop being lazy and decide to do the data part of it. And yeah, I've actually been enjoying making videos much more than I have been for quite a while. It's not like I ever stopped liking them.

Like, that's not what I'm getting at here. Like, there's a difference between being excited to make videos and being content making videos. I think, yeah, that's a good way to put it. I think for something on, like, a long-run scale, you can't rely on excitement to be the thing that drives you forward. But being fulfilled, being content, feeling like you're actually doing something good

and that you are actually getting better. Things like this, I think that's what you need to focus on for more long-term engagement in something. Not just in content creation. That could be in a sport. It could be in some skill. It could be a hobby like woodworking, for example. in some skill. It could be a hobby like woodworking, for example. Like, if you hate the idea

of whatever you do, chiseling, cutting wood, whatever the fuck you do in woodworking, if you hate the idea of, like, if you hate the idea of the general grind, no amount of excitement is going to keep that being cool.

Because even if you hate the idea of woodworking, there would be certain parts of it which would be incredibly exciting. Or like working on cars, for example. I'm sure doing burnouts is a lot of fun. But if you hate the idea about, like if you just hate the idea of having to change tires,

having to like service your own engines, things like that, I'm sure you would hate the idea of being a car guy, but if you feel fulfilled by that, if you feel content by it, if you feel like you're actually doing something good, or at least you're... Maybe not... How would I phrase doing something good in a better way?

Doing something... Doing something that's leaving your mark on the world, I think is a good way to put it. I think that's what you need to make sure something is a long-term... A long-term... Project to focus on, I think. I could be talking out of my ass,

but that's the way I feel about it, and I think a lot of the psychology literature sort of backs that up as well. Something like excitement. Excitement, for for example or happiness or um joy things like that these are very these are very time specific emotions like feeling happy feeling joyful feeling excited or great things but you can't be excited 24. Unless you're some sort of absolute loony, most normal people cannot be excited 24-7. They're going to have, you know, those bits of excitement,

and excitement is going to be what ends up getting you to make a change in your life, and get started with a new thing. Like the first day you do. Taekwondo for example. Like when I did that as a kid. Sure it was really exciting. But I didn't really care. To keep it up. So even though there were bits of excitement.

Like the overall thing. Was not something I really cared to. Cared to keep up. Cared to like keep going to. But then there's YouTube, for example, where, sure, it's really exciting when I upload a video and it gets

10,000 views in the first 12 hours. First 10 hours, apparently. And it has a 10-minute minute average watch time and I'm getting 43,000 views in a 48 hour period like all of that's really exciting

but even when that's not happening I still want to I still want to keep making the videos. And I still feel like it's something that is... I still feel like it's something very important to me. And something that, even if less people are watching it,

it's still putting a positive mark on the world. Even if not everyone understands the points that i'm making uh for example in today's video which today is uh when i uploaded the the lightest tech tips video the first part of that so in today's video um i i added a lot of context to the way, to what Linus and Luke were actually doing as they were going through Linux. But a lot of people, I guess not a lot of people, there was a couple of people who perceived that as me being critical of the way they approached Linux, like this isn't the way that you should have been using it, like, that's not what I was doing at all, but what I had expected with that video is Linus and Luke were

gonna go through their things, and then Anthony was gonna add commentary to the video afterwards, Anthony didn't do that, so I sort of wanted to. I wanted to add that extra context there. To sort of explain. Why Linus and Luke. Did things wrong. Like what was wrong there. Why did it go wrong. How would you not do it wrong for example.

And I feel like by doing that. I can add. I can add a lot of. Positive information. To. to a topic that needs... It needs some... I can't say I'm unbiased. It needs some voices that are willing to accept their biases. I think is a better way to put it.

Because you can't say you're unbiased like it's it's very difficult to do something from a completely unbiased perspective you're going to have your innate biases that you cannot you cannot eliminate but you can be aware of your biases to make sure that your biases are not clouding what you're doing, what you're saying. And I think that's the way I wanted to approach that video. But because you're being critical of their favorite YouTuber, or it seems like you're being critical of their favorite YouTuber, there's going to be people who take that as a, um, take that as a personal slight against them, like, not just them as the creator, but them as the viewer, takes it as a personal slight against them, because they sort of base their entire personality around the, around the,

the creator's personality, around, they base their personality around the personality. Personality meaning the content creator. The influencer. Whatever you want to call them. Things like that. And when they see them being attacked. They feel like it's a personal attack against them. And you end up getting.

You end up getting people being defensive and not really paying attention fully to what you're saying, but even with people that were being defensive about that, I've noticed that if I sit down and just be like, yo, this is actually what I'm doing here, this is the way I approach this video. Every person I've talked to so far has been like, oh, that, you know what? That actually makes a lot of sense. I, I can see what you were doing there. That, that makes sense. I don't agree with all of the, um, all of the points that you brought up. Um, but I can see where you were going with that. I have had some people disagree with one of the points I brought up, though.

And been, I guess, willing to get into an argument about it. So, in one of the points that Linus made, he was saying that Linux articles, Linux journalists, basically have no idea what they're doing. And post a lot of information that sort of contradicts each other. And we all agree with that. Journalists, for the most part, are shit. And there's good apples among them. Most of them, though, you know, most of them aren't great at their job. There's too many of them.

And when you have that many people, you're going to have a lot of people who are kind of shit. There's a lot of people who are kind of average gonna have a lot of people who are kind of shit there's a lot of people who are kind of average but like a lot of people who kind of shit as well but what he said was uh in one of these articles it described ubuntu as easy to use and user friendly but then in the cons it said hard to or hassle to get gaming set up and my argument was that those things don't contradict each other in fact they can both be true at the exact same time but in Linus's video he said they seemingly contradict each other which I feel like is entirely inaccurate, because you can have something that is easy to set up, easy to use, and just generally 99% of the time is a great experience, but then you have 1% of the time that's the gaming, and you're like, okay, well, gaming is a hassle, but all of the rest of it

is perfectly fine. For anyone who doesn't, like Like anyone who. I'm sure most people get. Get what I'm saying here. I'm going to draw you a. I'm going to draw you a diagram. So. Let's say. We have. Linux.

I could make this bigger. But I'm not going to do that. This is Linux. Right. Right. This circle is Linux. And. Let's say that all of this, all of this colored in section is Linux being easy to use It is then not a contradiction to also say that Linux is easy to use but then

This section right here whether that is whether that is a gaming whether that is video editing image editing kernel modifications is a hassle and difficult to set up. All of this pink section is easy and that makes it an easy to use distro but this one little bit is difficult. I don't think that having those two statements being true at the same time is a contradiction. The point he was making was that these articles do have contradictions and that is true. But that point was a bad example. And I'm willing to argue that point as many times as people want, because I feel like I am completely right here. I can,

look, I have pictures. I can draw examples of why I'm right, but the point he was making was true, not the example, the point though, so there are, uh, articles that say that Manjaro is an amazing beginner's distro, and then you'll go to the next search result, and it'll say Manjaro is a horrible beginner's distro, and you'd never use it, so you'll still find these contradictions, it's just, I don't think the contradiction that he brought up was actually a contradiction. Moving on from that, I want to talk about my new mouse and I did talk about this during the Lost episode, but I feel like it's sort of better to talk about it now anyway, because during the Lost episode,

I actually hadn't had a chance to go and test it yet so right now my my MMO mouse this that's why I bought a new mouse this is a Logitech G 600 it's got three primary mouse buttons because this is a fucking weird mouse and it's got 12 buttons on the side because it's an MMO mouse, and I am honestly loving this thing, it is fucking great, so it was a bit of a pain when I first plugged it in, because I've never used an MMO mouse before, the most I've used, I think the G502 is the, yeah, I think that's the, the mouse I've used that has the most amount of buttons on the side. So I've never used an MMO mouse before.

This has been like a big learning experience for me. And as for the working with the buttons on the side thing, so I had previously watched Zeppelin's video where she reviewed the G600. That's one of the reasons why I bought this mouse. One of the things she did to improve her experience using the MMO mouse is change the way her hotbars were actually laid out. So normally when you lay out your hotbars, you're going to have bars that are 1x12.

So they're going to be these long bars that go across your screen. But you might notice that the button array on the side here is arranged in a 3x4 manner. So Final Fantasy XIV actually allows you to have your hotbars in the exact same layout. So what I did is did exactly that. So now I actually have three hotbars in the exact same layout. So what I did is did exactly that. So now I actually have three hotbars that are all laid out in that 3x4 manner rather than three 1x12 bars. And that makes it so even if I forget what button I need to press, I can map what I see on the screen to what is on the mouse. And it's made it so it's been so much quicker to actually learn how to use this mouse.

It hasn't been perfect. And even now, I've been using this for about two weeks or so. Even now, it's not perfect. I'm still making mistakes. But I feel like I'm already doing better than I was doing before. One of the

problems I was getting to with the with not having MMO mouse is I feel like as you get to higher and higher level content if you're great with MMOs I'm sure you can handle this but I'm not I'm still fairly new to the the hotbar style MMO. Having to hit buttons that go all the way across your keyboard is not a comfortable or a pleasurable experience. And getting to avoid that is great, because I was starting to get to the point where I couldn't keep up my abilities. I couldn't keep up my GCD abilities, keep up my GCD abilities my global cooldown abilities

But when it came to off global cooldown stuff there were Frequently times that I pressed the wrong button uses the wrong ability where I would think I just not hit the button quick enough and sort of waste time with getting my damage out, especially when it's a off GCD that's Not like a situational thing where it's a, um, an off GCD that's not, like, a situational thing, where it's, like, just extra damage output, so, obviously, it doesn't matter as much for your, actually, no, it kind of matters even more for your defensive stuff if you're a tank, um, because you want to make sure you're reducing damage to not put as much stress onto Onto your healer. But.

When it's like less situation. Or when it's more generally situation. At the point I'm at. A lot of my. Interrupts for example. Interrupts I don't need to worry about. Because there's just not really any situations. Where interrupts really matter. Like there are things I can interrupt.

To make it a little bit easier. But like you don't need to. But when I started using this mouse, holy shit, I feel like I, once I, I got used to it, I just went up, like, 10, 10, 10 levels of, of ability to play this game, because now I can actually use all my hotbars, because to actually access my other hotbars, use all my hotbars, because to actually access my other hotbars, rather than moving my fingers off of the movement keys, I now just hit my pinky on either my control or shift and access those bars. So I can actually keep my fingers on the movement keys and still, you know, use my abilities. So in the case of, let's say there's an Ao AoE. There's a, like, a red circle AoE or orange circle AoE. I guess it is in Final Fantasy.

You can move out of that AoE and also use abilities. That's something I couldn't do before. Like, there were maybe ways to do it by, like, leaning my thumb on the S key and, like, moving my fingers like that or something. I don't know. But combining getting the MMO mouse with moving over to the sensible,

the only correct movement, legacy movement, I have gotten so much better at this game and it's gotten more and more fun. If you don't know, basically in Final Fantasy, there are two styles of movement. There are standard and legacy, also known as legacy and wrong. So, legacy movement, actually, we'll start with standard. Standard is the style of movement

available in games like WoW, where your movement direction is based on the direction... direction your movement direction is how do I describe it? Your movement is based on your camera. That No, sorry. Your movement is based on where your character

is facing. Yeah, no, sorry. I got that backwards. Based on your camera is correct, it's based on where you're facing, so if you're facing forward, and you press forward, then you'll move forward, but if you're facing forward, but your camera is facing off to the right, you're still going to, you're now, you're now going to move to the right, like, to the right, based on where the camera is facing, so you have to sort of worry about where your character is facing, plus when you do standard movement,

you can't back up, you just, you press S, and you slowly walk backwards, because it's trying to do this, I don't know what it's trying to do, it's such a bad system, but you switch over to legacy movement, also known as, I play video games, and I know what movement actually is like, and the way that works is, like you're playing literally any other game, so it doesn't matter what way your character is facing, it's entirely based on the camera, so if you're facing an enemy right and you have the camera so you're facing an enemy actually no we'll we'll do like this yeah yeah you're facing an enemy that's in front of you the camera is over here so you as the player are looking like over in this direction when you press the w key you're going gonna move over here. You're not gonna move

in the direction you're facing. It's such a basic thing, and I don't know why it's called standard legacy. Legacy makes it seem like it's, you know, a deprecated thing, an old thing, a bad thing. It's called legacy because that's the way the old game used to work.

Like, that's how RPGs usually work. That's how the old Final Fantasy used to work. Like, that's how RPGs usually work. That's how the old Final Fantasy used to work back when it was shit. But, yeah, doing those two things, the legacy movement and the MMO mouse, has been absolutely great. I've been enjoying dungeon content way more. I'm slowly

playing through I can't lie I'm not playing through MSQ right now I'm actually doing gold sources stuff right now yeah I don't know why I discovered that gold sources was kind of fun and I discovered that platforming is kind of fun and now I'm doing gold sources

stuff for some unknown fucking reason, um, but I should go back and do MSQ, because I am in Realm Reborn, and, you know, there's, um, there's a few hundred hours before we get to the, like, the modern content, oh god, but one day, one day I'll finish MSQ, Oh, God. But one day, one day I'll finish MSQ. One day.

One day. Maybe, I don't know, will be two or three expansions after Endwalker by the time that happens. And maybe by then I'll finish Heaven's Ward. It's possible. I don't fucking know. Now, I'm thinking I'm at, like, level... I think I'm at level 30 in the MSQ.

So, you know, I'm past the halfway point pre-patches. Because there's still the patch content to do with Realm Reborn as well. So that's going to take a while after that. But I've discovered the joys of dungeon content. Like, early dungeon content isn't... It's not bad. Like, I don't want to say the early dungeon stuff, like the level, you know, level, like, 10, level 15.

It's as early as dungeons 15. Level 15, level 20, level 25 stuff is bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. It's just not good. What I mean is it's very basic. It's like, oh, you are... It's Babi's first dungeon. To be honest, that's what it is.

So it sort of makes sense why it's so easy. But then you get to places like Aurum Vale. You get to places like Cutter's Cry. And you're like, oh, you could actually die in this. Like, prior to that, the only time I died in a dungeon is when Alhela DC'd. That is the only other time I died. But then when we got to Aurum Vale and all that fun stuff,

then I started actually being like, yeah, I totally get the whole dungeon thing. I get why people run dungeons. I get raiding. This is probably where I'm going to live and spend all of my time. Except that I'm probably also going to be grinding out glamours because that just sounds like fun.

Final Fantasy is a great game. I was talking about this MMO mouse, and I got sidetracked by Final Fantasy. Back to the mouse itself. So I said it has three primary mouse buttons. So we got your left, your, your, your, your, your, that one, left, left,

you got your right, and you got your right-to-right. So basically when you hold this, your ring finger sits on the right-to-right. I don't know what to call this mouse button. I'm going to call it right-to-right. I haven't found nothing, because I've never used

a mouse before that has three primary mouse buttons and when I hold this mouse I very frequently hit that button. So if I haven't found something actually useful, well it's not going to go too well for me, is it? So I don't do that. I just let it be.

I let it exist and let it just Let it just do its thing I guess Mmm But I I have seen some people who buy this mouse who say this is like one of the killer features they buy it for Like this is this is the reason why they own the g600 because of the third primary Third primary mouse button. And I can get it.

If you get used to it, I'm sure that having a button on your ring finger is probably great. And for whatever you're using it for, it's probably really, really efficient. It's just, I've not, I could probably get used to it. I've just not found a use for it. That's my thing. Like, I, I just don't know what to do with it. Like, I probably could, like something that, it has to be something I want to hit very often, but I don't want to hit too often, if you get what I mean. Like, I want it to be something I have to hit very often but if I accidentally hit it it's not a big deal and I just can't think of anything

that sort of fits that problem because most games are designed around two primary mouse buttons so like there's not a third very important action you'd want to put there maybe I no I can't think of anything.

I mentioned this in my G600 review, but if you can think of anything, I would absolutely... I would love some sort of idea. Just any idea, whatever you got, that could help me out with that, and I'll take it. The mouse

is also very, very comfortable, and overall, it's great great one thing i didn't mention about the button grid i'll see if you can see it with the camera actually yeah you can probably see it so the buttons actually aren't just a they're not just a they're not just a 3x4 grid. It's actually two 6-button grids. So, two 3x2 grids. And the buttons in each of the grids actually curve inwards to the grid.

So, you can sort of feel where your finger is without having to, you know, work with completely flat buttons. Plus the fifth key and the eighth key have these little plastic bumps on them. So you can very easily work out where the center is as well. So it's a great mouse. It's great on Linux as well because Piper supports it completely perfectly. And I still love my G305. Um. Yeah. So I'm actually. I'm actually using two mice right now. I've got both these plugged in. And you might think that's crazy.

Why don't you just use the G600. And you know what? I could. Because G600 is great. But. I love this mouse. It's a beautiful mouse. It's great.

It's light. It's. It's very. It's not got a fucking cable on it. That's actually the best thing. And I'm keeping the G305. It's. It's very, it's not got a fucking cable on it, that's, that's actually the best thing, and I'm keeping the G305, it's, it's still my favorite mouse, but it's not gonna be my favorite, it's not going to be my favorite mouse when I play Final Fantasy, and I think it's perfectly fine to have a separate mouse for Final Fantasy, because there's no different from having a flight stick, for example, or a flight stick or a fight stick for your flying games and your fighting games, or having like a DDR pad, or having a Guitar Hero

controller. I think it's perfectly normal to have specific peripherals for certain games. It's just most people don't think about their mouse as one of those peripherals. It's just like, oh, I have a mouse and that's just the mouse I have. But I think there's certainly some value if you are getting into a hotbar MMO to look at one of these mice. If not the G600, maybe the Razer... Naga? No, it's not the Naga, is it? No, it's

definitely not that one. Razer MMO mouse. What is it called? No, it is the Naga. Yeah, it is the Naga. I don't like... Yeah, this has not got... This has got, like, somewhat of a... A curve, I guess, but it's nowhere near as pronounced as it is on the G600. On this one, you can see, like, they're angled inwards, inwards, but not, like, in a curve. They're more, like, just angled inwards, like a V. Also, the 5 and the 8 don't have plastic nubs on them or plastic bumps on them,

so it makes it a bit harder, I would presume, to work out where you're placed. I'm sure you can get used to it. I'm also just not a fan of Razer hardware to begin with. I've never, I've never really, not never. I haven't been a fan of Razer hardware since I was like 13 years old. Ever, ever since I discovered Logitech and discovered like their gaming brands. Yeah, I've been look as much you shouldn't simp for brands. I've sort of been like a Logitech shill for Probably a good ten years. There's been a very short amount of time where I've not been using Logitech mice I don't care about the keyboard. I don't really care about anyone's keyboards except my cherry, but mice. I don't care about the keyboards. I don't really care about anyone's keyboards except my Cherry. But for mice, Logitech is generally my go-to. Corsair also has a mouse that does look

pretty interesting. I know... Actually, I don't know if the Razer mouse is easily configurable under Linux. I know there is a program called Razer CFG that allows you to configure stuff on... Configure the Razer hardware under Linux. But I don't know how well it works for the Naga. Okay, yeah, no. It seems like it's entirely stable for every, all of these versions of the Naga. I don't know... What is the current version? What is the current version actually called?

It is the... That's the Corsair. Naga Trinity, or maybe... I was looking at the Trinity there, and Trinity's not in this list. So, I don't know if that would actually work on the Linux, or whether it wouldn't. It could be the exact same internals as another one of the Nagas, though, so maybe it's fine.

The G600 I knew was going to work, though. As for the Corsair, that is the Corsair Scimitar. That one I think is the cheapest of the three. But this one... The way that this one makes it so easy to work out the buttons is it has... Firstly, it has a bump here, which is great. But also it changes the texture of the button. So rather than

using a curve method, it's flat, great, flat, great, I guess you'd say. I don't think, they are also curved inwards as well. So not curved as a cone. But they are V's. And they are changing materials. So button 9 here and button 8 would feel physically different. Even though they're in the same row with the same material. I think that the Scimitar is a better design than the Naga is. This is just going by images. I haven't used it, so I can't really say.

But judging by the pictures here, it does look better than the Simitar would be. Better than the Naga would be. I believe that there's good... Good configuration software under Linux as well. Yeah, CKB Next, that's the one you use for Corsair mice, and, oh no, this is just for, this is just for RGB, um, is it, maybe, maybe CKB Next does more than that, uh, it actually might, Maybe CKB Next does more than that.

It actually might... Corsair Scimitar on Linux. Let's have a look. Generic Excel drive will work for... Yeah, we know it's a mouse. Configuration. This is always something you should check when you're buying hardware like this for Linux. Oh, okay. You can use CKBnext for it.

I thought CKBnext was just RGB. But no, it does all of the same stuff that Piper does, but holy shit, that is an ugly interface. It's not like Piper is great, but that diagram is not very good.

Let's see if we can find a picture of Piper with G600. is great, but, like, that diagram is not very good. Um... Let's see if we can find a picture of Piper with G600. Nope, because that's bringing up a picture of a plane. Um... Basically, it has, like, a really good like, industry-style

diagram with lines going to the things you want to modify. I think it's a really clean diagram. It's just that the application doesn't make a great use of space, and there's a lot of just empty screen, basically. I feel like they could

eliminate some of the tabs on high-resolution monitors and just put everything in one place. That, I think, would be a good change. Or even just doing it on, like, low... Like, no one has, like... I guess, except the weird people.

Someone at a concert's going to say, oh, but I have a 720p monitor. I have a 480p monitor. I'm sure you do. I know those people exist, but, like, most people have at least 1080p. And, look, you can make better use of space. Like it literally just has a diagram in the center of the screen.

And then I would say like 60% of the screen is just empty space. So like there's a better way you could be using that space. And you really don't need five separate tabs just for all of the information. Some tabs are nice, but there's a bit too many of them. So yeah, I would recommend the G600, and it's great to configure under Linux.

It saves everything on the mouse if you want to do it on Windows, but you don't have to. And yeah, it's a good mouse. Moving on from my mouse, so I don't keep talking about Final Fantasy. Let's talk about... No, actually, there's nothing to talk about here. I just want to show you this video.

I love video game modding. And this is the reason why I love video game modding, because stuff like this can happen. So this is... I just can't see it like this if I fullscreen happen. So this is... I just can't see it like this on full screen. So, this is Dark Souls. This is a sniper rifle. And we are hunting um...

I guess... I don't know, what are they called? What are they called? I know the evil one. You call the evil one an imposter. I don't know. What are they called? What do we call them? I know the evil one. You call the evil one an imposter. I don't play Among Us because I'm not 10 years old. And I'm not a Twitch streamer who likes to make shit loads of money. I think that way. Is that a replacement for an assassin?

I think it is. Man, video game modding is great. Dark Souls in 2021. That's basically the state of Dark Souls in 2021. You gotta make... How old is that game? You gotta make a 10-year-old game fun somehow if you've played a thousand hours.

Dark Souls numero uno. Came out in 2011. Jeez, it is 10 years old. Is Dark Souls 1 hard? Not really. It's really not that difficult. What is the hardest video game

boss ever? Yo! Let's have a look at this list. Okay, let's see the hardest video game bosses ever and how to beat them. And obviously. There is a. Is that Dark Souls 3?

I think that's Dark Souls 3 there. Uh. I have not played Street Fighter 2. Dark Link in Zelda 2. The Adventures of Link. Okay. Dracula in Castlevania. I like how. Three of the first games on here are old games that are jank because they're old games.

And we just didn't know how to make games back then. Aha. Sinister from Sinister. Whizpig from Diddy Kong Racing. Sure. Emerald Weapon from Final Fantasy 7. I've never actually played 7, I should go back and play 7, actually does look like, it does look like a, uh, a fun game, um, oh god, did I just,

did I actually just see that on this list, okay, okay, here's the first one we're gonna, we're gonna see that's dumb, I should go back and play a lot of the older Final Fantasy games, the only, I should go back and play a lot of the older Final Fantasy games. The only one I've played all the way through is X, which is a fantastic game. It's an absolute masterpiece, but VII, I hear, is also very good as well. Ornstein and Smough.

If you thought taking on one Dark Souls boss at the time was already hard enough try squaring off against two at once this is what makes defeating Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough one of the most challenging boss battles in the entire series are you fucking high?

if you want to make things easier on your shelf summoning an L player is always an easy way out fair enough after one of the enemies is defeat after one of the enemies is defeat the other will absorb the powers of the fallen foe

therefore focusing on using therefore focusing on one at a time is a must. Ornstein is likely the easiest to defeat, uh, since he's the hardest to distance yourself from. Using some lightning resistance, armor, and fire-based weaponry will also give you a slight edge during this most, uh, this brutal and unforgiving fight. Ornstein and Smough is a fucking joke. Like, if we're just going with Dark Souls 1, I wouldn't even put Ornstein and Smough in, like, the top five list. Like, Ornstein and Smough is so fucking easy

because there are pillars around the entire arena. And it doesn't matter who you defeat first. It's probably better to kill Ornstein first. But, like, it doesn't matter who you defeat first because they'll both get stuck on the pole. You just walk in a circle and you win. And that's while doing melee as well. That's not a difficult boss.

If I was going to give it to a Dark Souls 1 boss, Artorias? Manus? Calamite? Any of those are harder than Ornstein and Smough? Actually, let's look at a full list of Dark Souls 1 bosses. I'm trying to remember all of them, but my brain

is... It's been a long time since I've played Dark Souls 1. Dank Souls 1. Dank Souls 1. Dank Souls 1 bosses. Okay, let's see a full boss list. Asylum Demon. That's funny. The Cheese Demon, sure.

Belgargo. I think Belgargo is difficult the first time you fight it, but really not a difficult fight. Capra Demon is annoying, not difficult. Ceaseless Discharge is a joke. It's a joke because it's insanely difficult, and it's a joke because you can just

cheese it and don't fight it. Centipede Demon... What was the Centipede Demon? Shit, what was the... I don't remember the centipede demon uh vitamin then you won't have to worry about oh this one yeah no that one's easy yeah that one's that one's easy Chaos Witch, Quelaag

Quelaag's nothing Quelaag you just, you hit once and you run away Priscilla, I don't remember Priscilla being difficult, Gwyndolin is broken because you can just hide behind the pillars and don't take any damage Demon Firesage is

just Asylum Demon with one extra attack Four Kings I would say Four Kings is fairly difficult The Gaping Dragon is also No, Gaping Dragon is just annoying Gaping Dragon is not difficult

Sif is not too bad Sif is a pretty easy boss, I would say. Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. I would, honestly, Lord of Cinder is way harder than Ornstein and Smough. Obviously, you can cheese this fight by parrying every attack. But if you don't parry attacks, I think Gwyn is actually much harder than Ornstein and Smough. Uh, Iron Golem? No, Iron Golem's easy. Moonlight Butterfly?

No, Moonlight Butterfly's very easy It's just using attacks and you dodge them I guess that's every fight It's not a difficult fight Nito is broken because they forgot to design the endgame properly Onsen Ismo as we said, not difficult

Pinwheel? It's not even a boss Seath? Honestly, Seath is harder than Onsen Ismo Stray Demon is just difficult. Pinwheel, it's not even a boss. Seath, honestly Seath is harder than all I've seen in SMO. Stray Demon is just Asylum Demon with more steps. Taurus Demon is broken because it can jump off the edge of the arena, and also you can get half its health defeated, like

the Asylum Demon at the start of the fight. And Bed of Chaos is broken because they didn't finish Endgame. Expansion bosses. Artorias, way harder. Black Dragon Calamite, way harder. Manus, way harder.

Sanctuary Garden. Sanctuary Garden. Sanctuary Guardian. Nah, I would say all of these are way harder than Artorias and Smough. Anything in the mini-bosses? Honestly, the fucking Hydra is harder than Ornstein and Smough.

To be completely honest, the Black Knight. I don't think we can call a Black Knight a mini-boss. Or the Channeler. Yeah, no. Look, I disagree. If we're going to put a or the channeler yeah no I disagree if we're going to put a Dark Souls boss on here it's not going to be Onsen and Smough

Alma from Ninja Gaiden Mike Tyson from Mike Tyson's Punch Out okay I hear that is a difficult fight C'Thun from World of Warcraft. The problem with World of Warcraft is... Well, yeah. Defeating C'Thun is increasingly easier over the years after a number of patches.

Basically because you increase your item level and you just win. Nowadays, any of the early patch content is just easy. Goro from Mortal Kombat. Yellow Devil... Yellow Devil... That's a weird font, Yellow Devil from Mega Man, okay, Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, I should go and actually play Revengeance, that honestly looks like a really fun game, Platinum makes amazing fighters, and, like, I, I've never played Revengeance, uh, Sans, fucking Sans from, Sans from Undertale,

I hate Undertale, I don't know if I've said this before, but I genuinely hate Undertale and don't care about its existence at all. Um, Orphan of Kos Bloodborne. Okay, this is Bloodborne DLC. I was gonna say, because I haven't fought

this boss yet. I am playing through Bloodborne at this point, and you know, this boss yet. I am playing through Bloodborne at this point, and... You know, actually, I'm going to look at the Bloodborne bosses. I'm going to look at the ones that I had difficulty with. Bloodborne bosses. So, some of the bosses were an absolute fucking cakewalk. Some of them were really difficult. Blood Starve Beast was a joke. Very easy. Cleric Beast was only difficult because I was just starting the game. I don't think

it's actually a difficult boss. Father Gascon, Gascoin, whatever you want to call him, defeated him on first shot. Witch of Hemwick is a fucking joke. I got stuck on Vicar Amelia for a very long time. Honestly, I feel like that's harder than most of these other bosses. And Shadow of Yharnam, it took me like three attempts, I think.

But Shadow of Yharnam's an annoying boss. I think out of the bosses that I've fought so far, the hardest was probably Amelia, I would say. Yeah, I reckon. Uh,

oh, we did fight Rom the Vacuous Spider. I fucking hate Rom. It's not difficult. It's just... It's just very... Very time consuming.

I actually should go back and fight some of the optional bosses. Because I know there's going to be some of them that I have missed. Chalice Dungeon bosses. I have not done... Is this endgame stuff, I actually don't know what this is, yeah, okay, this is Endgame stuff, that's actually kind of cool, I didn't know that was a thing, um, enemies, yeah, honestly, some of the enemies have been harder than some of the bosses, to be completely frank, the, uh, the, the Bloodlickers,ers, this is where we're at right now, fighting the guys with giant nutsacks, anyway, moving on from this one, Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 1, I think

that's entirely fair, in 2, Sephiroth is difficult, but 1, he's a whole different beast, Sephiroth is so much harder, um, this human, is he an alien, I didn't know that, Dark Souls 3, The Nameless King, I have not finished Dark Souls 3, so, yeah, I, I can't comment on that, really I've defeated like one or two bosses in that game. So I don't feel like I'm going to spot comment on that. I know I... Is this... Oh, it's a bullet hell. Skolas from Destiny.

And what is it number one? Absolute Virtue from Final Fantasy XI. I've never played XI. So yeah, I can't comment on that, but, I disagree on the Dark Souls one, because, wait, wait, let's look up hardest Dark Souls bosses in order, uh, hardest Dark Souls, we'll go one. Hardest Dark Souls 1 bosses. Yeah, here we go. Game Rant. Thank you, Game Rant. Okay, what are the hardest Dark Souls 1 bosses?

So, 15. Asylum Demon. Is there 15 bosses in this game and it just put Asylum Demon in 15th? Because it's... Because it's the first one you fight. But no, this, if there's more than 15 demons or 15 enemies or 15 bosses, this shouldn't even be on the list. Uh, Bell Gargoyles. I think the first time you fight them, they are difficult.

Because the first time you're fighting two bosses at once and it looks very, very intimidating. Because it's the first time you're fighting two bosses at once. And it looks very, very intimidating. But. You can sort of. You can focus on one of the Gargoyles at once. Iron Golem. Aha.

Honestly, Sen's Fortress is harder than the Iron Golem. No, no, no. Ceaseless Discharge is the easiest boss in the game. Um. No, no, no. Ceaseless Discharge is the easiest boss in the game. You can fight the Ceaseless Discharge, but like... Honestly, if you know the cheese, Ceaseless Discharge is easier than the Asylum Demon. That's not even a boss. That's not a real boss. Centipede demon? Okay. I don't know. I feel like send to be demon... I feel like send to be demon is easier

than gargoyles, if we're being completely honest. Capra demon? Okay. Sure, that's fair. Seath the scale... I don't know. Capra Demon, okay. Sure, that's fair. Seath the Scale. I don't know. I feel like Seath should be higher on the list, but we'll see what else they have.

Gwyn, Lord of Cinder in eighth place. Yeah, Gwyn is a joke if you can parry, but if you can't parry, Gwyn is incredibly difficult. I think maybe in that case, putting it dead in the middle sort of makes sense. Sanctuary Guardian is 7th. Okay. Four Kings is 6th place.

Um. I personally would see a bit higher on the list and Sanctuary Guardian lower. I feel like Seath is way higher on the list and Sanctuary Guardian lower. I feel like Seath is way higher than the Sanctuary Guardian. Uh, Bet... Bet of... No, Bet of Chaos isn't a boss fight. No, Bet of Chaos is not a boss fight.

Bet of Chaos is... Okay, so if you don't know anything wrong... Um, if you don't know the problem with Bet of Chaos... Basically, the endgame for Dark Souls 1 was rushed, and there were a couple of bosses that were left completely unfinished. Mainly things like Nito, Bed of Chaos. This is why they don't really do much. They just were never finished.

Bed of Chaos especially, you don't fight the Bed of Chaos. You just dodge the Bed of Chaos, and you smack a fight the Bed of Chaos you just dodge the Bed of Chaos and you smack a little harder around and you win. Bed of Chaos should be way way way way way lower on this list. Seath is way harder than Bed of Chaos Fourth is Ornstein

and Smough I would put Four Kings above Ornstein and Smough for sure The most notorious boss duo in gaming history I would put Four Kings above all and send in Smough for sure. The most notorious boss duo in gaming history. What are you talking about? They're not that difficult. Third place... Manus...

Okay, if Calamite is not first place, I don't know what's going on here. Manus is third place. Okay, Calamite's's gonna be first place for sure Artorias is second okay this I can agree with this layout I can absolutely agree with no doubt Calamite is insanely fucking difficult

it's not difficult once you know the strat but it's insanely difficult before that Bed of Chaos should be in like 15th Bed of Chaos at't be in, like, 15th, uh, Bed of Chaos at 15th, I think, I think, no, sorry, shit, what's easier, Bed of Chaos or Ceaseless Discharge? I think Ceaseless Discharge is easier, because you literally don't have anything to do, I think 15th goes to Ceaseless Discharge, 14th goes to Bed of Chaos. I think that's a more fair way to put it, in my opinion. I've played Dark Souls 1 in a while, but that's how I would do it, at least. So do you guys know about Twitter Blue? Apparently, Twitter has a subscription thing.

I actually didn't know that that was a thing. I literally learned about it a couple of weeks ago. And there are really basic features being added. It should just be fucking basic Twitter. So, Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US and in Australia, Canada, New Zealand as part of Twitter Blue. I don't care about this. Like, if you want to read ad-free news,

you block, just download that. But this, why is this not a standard feature? Do you know how many arguments could be stopped with the ability to one edit and Undo tweets sure you can delete your tweets. Yeah, that's that's fine, but Why is that not a feature that you just give to your regular users? I look I'm fine with you having a paid subscription. That's fine I'm never going to pay for it because that's

stupid. That, like, that's genuinely dumb. Why would I pay for Twitter? Like, if, if Twitter ever made it so I had to actually pay for it, like, to just do basic shit, or you had, like, a number of tweets you could do every month and you had to pay for it if you did more, I just would stop using Twitter. Like, I don't care about Twitter enough for that. using Twitter. I don't care about Twitter enough for that. But Twitter Blue costs $3 US a month. That

is probably going to be $5 Australian. Let's actually see what the Australian price is. Twitter, because it says equivalent price, but I have a feeling it's not as equivalent as it could be.

How much it's going to cost in Australia? Gizmodo Australia, give me the deets. Give me them deets. Will it change how I use Twitter? Well, it will because you can undo tweets. $4.49 a month. So what's more important? Do you want to get...

Hmm, what could you get for $4.49 a month? You could get four frozen drinks from McDonald's. Or you could pay for Twitter Blue. drinks from McDonald's or you could pay for Twitter blue Why would you bookmark tweets Stop See apparently you can bookmark tweets That you can't already do in your web browser for free. Why would you pay for that?

Undo tweet, which is something that should be free. Reader mode. Wait. Gone are the days of trying to read lengthy threads that feel clunky and split up. You can read the whole thread in plain text. Another thing that should be a basic feature. But luckily, there are third-party apps that let you do that and you don't have to pay for it. I can see what they're trying to do.

They're putting these really, really useful features that people have been asking for, for, I don't know, like since the day that Twitter was born, basically behind a paywall. Like, oh yeah, we could give you undoing. We could give you a proper way to read threads or, or you could pay us four and a half dollars a month if you live in Australia and $3 if you're in the US. I'm just like, you know what? I don't care enough about Twitter to do that I'm just gonna I've been using Twitter for for this long without that feature so I'm just gonna keep using Twitter for much longer without that feature or I'm gonna use something else it's not the main Twitter client you could even use the Twitter client that Twitter owns. That is better. Called TweetDeck. I don't know why people use the main Twitter website.

The main Twitter website is god awful. TweetDeck is so much better. Or there are like really good. Really good third party clients. That you'd use as well. That is better as well. Twitter. Speaking of massive corporations. Who want to take all your money. We all know.

I don't know. Do we all know? We probably know about Amazon Game Studios. Amazon Game Studios. The developers of such fantastic titles as New World. They exist. They make games. They're also making. titles as New World, they exist. They make games.

They're also making as players leave Amazon, as they leave as they leave New World, they're probably going to go to a new game that's also published by

Amazon, being Lost Ark. So, Amazon loses players in one game they go to another game that is published also by amazon uh so amazon doesn't lose anything these are some ridiculous costumes i've it oh it's a south korean mmo That makes a lot of sense. Like, look, I don't, I don't hate these designs, but like, I really don't like the design. I really don't like the designs in Korean MMOs. Like, if you think Japanese MMOs have ridiculous armor, go play some Blade and Soul. Go play the Korean version of Lost Ark. Go play any Korean MMO, and you'll see it's so much worse than it ever possibly could be in a Japanese MMO. There is obviously, like, a level of ridiculousness there, like, more than you'd have for an American game, but it's, it's, like, orders of magnitude less. Anyway,

where I was getting at with this was that apparently this exists. There's a Netflix gaming. Like, Netflix, obviously they have their like, they have their like series stuff, but like,

they actually like have more than that. I don't, like, Netflix has like a game publisher thing. I didn't even know this existed. And they're actually doing things. Oh god, no, no. Oh, it's just a picture, they're actually, like, doing things. Oh, God. No, no. Oh, it's just a picture.

Okay. It's cool, I guess. If Netflix wants to get into gaming as well, that's cool. That means more companies that are going to jump onto the NFT thing. I don't know if you've been hearing about this, but a lot of fucking game studios have been jumping hard onto, let's get NFTs into gaming. Guys, you want NFTs in your video games?

You want to make money from your video games? It sounds compelling, doesn't it? It surely does. Well, why don't we just integrate NFTs into our video games? And sure, there's use cases i guess for like you know owning skins and selling them you don't exactly need a blockchain to do that um you you don't need a blockchain do that you can do that with a regular database um but EA has been jumping on the NFT thing. God, can you imagine what's going to happen when EA integrates NFTs

into their sports games? I was listening to Mudaha talk about this the other day, and when that happens, can you imagine how absolutely insane they're like their fifa is for example there's going to be people actually trying to make so much money selling fifa packs and selling like specific specific soccer players from the FIFA packs. And it's going to be hell. This is just more of a reason for me to just play indie games. Like, go to indie developers who just want to make good games,

who don't want to integrate NFTs into everything. They just want to be like, you know what? I want to play some Stardew Valley. I want to play this game. I want to play that game. I don't want to deal with NFTs in my video games and just let us all have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful fun time.

But, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. It seems like the way the AAA gaming is going is like this. And I know that Square Enix is doing it in some of their mobile games, and you know what? If it's in their mobile games, that's fine. I really,

really hope that it never comes anywhere near Final Fantasy 14, because if it does, honestly, that's going to be enough for me to quit the game. Sure, I love this game. It's great. It's been a big part of my life for the past couple of weeks.

But even if I'm with it for a couple of years, if they decide they're going to integrate NFTs into the game, look, I don't want crypto in my game. Just let me play my damn video games, and I'll do my crypto stuff not in my video games. Just imagine NFTs in a video game and how bad and how absolutely like bad and also endorsed by the developers real money trading is going to be. Like, imagine FIFA, but NFTs, and then you can, like,

buy and sell the best athletes for, like, $300. It's basically... It's basically card games on crack. Digital card games on crack. That's what it is. Or you could even do it with

digital card games. Like, make... Like, I don't know, one of the digital Yu-G could even do it with digital card games. Like make, I don't know, one of the digital Yu-Gi-Oh games or digital magic games, for example, and do exactly that. And just create the most fun and pleasant experience that everyone is going to have a wonderful time with. Anyway, I have so many other topics on here that I just did not talk about, I've just been, I think it's just because I'm actually, like, feeling happy about making

content once again, like, feeling excited about making content once again, I just didn't talk about most of it, I talked about random other shit, um, could that be that I went outside and actually did things, so I actually have stuff to talk about, that is a possibility, but, outside and actually did things, so I actually have stuff to talk about, that is a possibility, but, I don't know, um, so I think that's going to be pretty much it for me, I think we're close to time, I actually don't know what the time is, because I, uh, you know, split it up into four parts, all the parts have worked perfectly, it's been great, this is the way I'm going to be doing it from now on, and it seems like it's a perfectly good system, and I think it actually works better for the, um, for splitting it up like that as well, because it gives me a chance to sort of think about what I'm going to talk

about for the next half an hour or so. I can, like, check over my topics and be like, you know what, maybe I'm going to cover this one, and this one, and that one, rather than just trying to wing it for two hours in one massive long string. It does make the recording go for a little bit longer, but I think overall it makes for a, at least, slightly better experience. But let me, let me guys you know, let me know down below what you guys think, and if it's shit, I'll do something else, I, I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I'll do something else, so if you like this podcast, and you watch, and you watch, and you want to watch the audio version, want to watch the audio, you want to watch the video

version, it's available on YouTube and Odyssey, the audio version is available basically anywhere, basically anywhere you can find audio podcasts. Just knocking shit off my desk. I've got a gaming channel called Brodie Robertson Plays where I live stream twice a week. Upload about five or six YouTube shorts. My main channel is Brodie Robertson. I do Linux content.

I do Linux content. And I do Linux content. So if you want to go check that out, that is Brodie Robertson on YouTube and on Odyssey, and I think that's gonna be pretty much it for me. Actually, if you want to channel the checkout,

go... I've been watching not Zeppela's main channel, I've been watching her live stream clip channel, and it's fun go watch Zeppela's stuff she is

she's great yeah that's all I have to say about Zeppela that's going to be it for me buy anime figures from thrift shops because apparently you can get good deals sometimes and find some cool old stock and I'm out