Tech Over Tea - #94 I Forgot This Goes Live For Christmas | Solo

Episode Date: December 22, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I am, as always, your host, Brodie Robertson, and today, we are back for episode 94 of Tech of a T. Now, I don't know if you're going to notice this, but my mic should sound at least a little bit different. Maybe it peaked there a little. Actually, I'll lower it down a little bit. So, I'm actually messing around with the way that my compression settings are done. That should be hopefully fine there. Previously, the way I was doing compression was on the mixer board itself, but the mixer board doesn't really have much in the way of control of the compression. So, I have a compression knob, and that's it. I can't modify things like the attack, the release.

and that's it. I can't modify things like the attack, the release. I can obviously do boosted gain afterwards, because I have the gain knob here, so I could always just, you know, change that, but I didn't really have as much control as probably made sense. Like, the mixer board is great, and it's great for so many other things, but just for that one thing, Like the mixer board is great and it's great for so many other things. But just for that one thing, I've decided to move it over to doing it inside of OBS. So it should sound a little bit different, especially now that I can feasibly have the mic closer to my face. So I have more of the like, what is the word called? The thing that makes the voice sound more bassy. I don't know.

Anyone who knows about microphones knows what I'm talking about. I still have no idea how microphones work. They're magic. I just work it out as I go. So I'm probably going to tweak it here and there again at some point. But I've been meaning to make this change for quite a while and I finally got around to doing so. So hopefully, hopefully it does sound better.

I'm considering swapping over from this, um, this wind guard to the other one that came with it, just so I can have the mic up like this, and it does eliminate a lot of the plosives, but eliminating the plosives can also just be done by not having the mic directly like in my face pointing it like or having the mic slightly below So the popping sounds go over the mic, but it's still very close to my face so it still should have that that same sort of The name for it is like right on top of my tongue, I just cannot think of what it's called I'm gonna look it up right now, sure, uh, proximity effect, there we go, thank you, is the proximity effect, that's where the, by having the mic closer to your face, it sort of increases the, uh, the proximity, increases the base, makes it seem like, you know, I'm talking closer to you. And I

sort of like that effect and I might as well be making use of it. I thought I did. I thought I just say with my Discord notification, I might as well be making use of it if I'm going to be using something like the Shure SM7B. But that's enough talking about the mic for now. I've got plenty of topics on here for the day, and I was honestly thinking about not doing the podcast. So this week, this week is sort of a mess for me. This is probably the worst case scenario for how my schedule can be in. It could probably get worse, but anything worse than this, I'd be just like, I'm going to just take the entire week off. So this week, a normal week.

Okay, normal week, I do videos and all the channel stuff Monday to Friday. And usually I'll have like three or so shifts at my day job. This week, I have four days. All of those days, I'm also working. And on Wednesday, so yesterday as the recording of this, I spent half the day at my sister's place hanging out with my nieces and nephews. So basically, I have three and a half days to do everything on my channel. Basically, the reason why I don't have the Friday is because Friday, I don't want to do any work because I'm going up to my parents' place first thing in the morning. I could always, like, delay that and then head up later. But I said I was going to go up first thing in the morning, so I'll probably do that.

I'll probably do that. I'll probably leave around. First thing in the morning for me means like at the earliest nine 30, nine 30 or 10, I'm not going to make any rush out of the house. I'm probably not going to like pack any of my stuff until, until tomorrow morning anyway. Um, cause I know I'm going to check over the bag like 10 times regardless. So I might as well check over the bag 10 times while i'm

actually doing the packing it's not like i have anything that crazy to pack but knowing my luck i'd forget to bring like my phone charger or something and then have to drive back home in dead silence because my radio doesn't work like many things in my actually i think my radio does work but i don't know how to use it i don't know how to use it and a lot of the road uh because it's a lot of like rural driving i would have to listen like am stations or like very cutting in and out fm stations and i don't want to do either of those things so i want to to make sure I have audio there to keep myself sane. It seems like the mics... I'm just looking at the light on the mixer board itself.

It seems like it's peaking more than it was when I was doing my regular videos. I guess I wasn't paying attention to it when I was recording those videos. So maybe it was doing that the entire time. I'll have to go back and actually listen to the audio. See if I need to bring the gain. Actually, I might listen to it when I get to the 30-minute mark and then I, you know, take the break, just to see if I need to bring it back down.

So you might notice that as the show goes on, that is going to... It is going to change just a little bit. I'm not going to make any, like, major sweeping changes, but you might notice that there's going to be at least some little tweaks here and there. Um, just, you know, half of you aren't even going to notice it. And you're like, oh, this sounds exactly the same as it did last week. Cause I've had those, I've had those experiences, especially when I bought the new

mic. Some, some people were like, oh yeah, it's just, it sounds the same. Or like I bought the new mic. Some people were like, oh yeah, it sounds the same. Or like, I bought the new camera, which very clearly does not look the same as the old C920. And some people were like, oh yeah, it looks the same as the C920. Like, are you blind? Like, that's fine if you're blind, but like, you need, if you're not blind, I think you need to get your eyes checked, because the C920 does not look like a mirrorless camera. There's nothing you can do to a C920

that's going to make it look anywhere near as good as a mirrorless camera, unless you have it in, like, a little square in the bottom of your screen, which is why a lot of streamers, like, really big streamers, don't upgrade from anything else, because if you're ever going to do, like, a full face cam, like, it doesn't actually

matter either way. I thought my chair was bumping the side of my computer case. It's got, like, a thumb screw on the side, and I noticed that sometimes I actually bump it, and that's why my my chair is, like, rubbing away some of, like, the it's not leather, it's, like, a fake leather covering for the chair or whatever. I have no idea what the chair is made of i'll make chairs anyway uh that's enough talking about bullshit time to talk about different bullshit i went and saw uh sword online progressive uh four days ago four days ago as the

recording of this so if you don't know what SAO Progressive is. Basically. It is a retelling. Of the first arc. Of Sword Art Online. It's not like the movie we saw. Wasn't like a retelling of the entire thing. So Progressive.

I think. Actually I'm going to check what the light level is up to. I feel like it's around. It can't be any further than, like, floor 10, uh, I don't have the exact, uh, let's see, light novel, yep, light novel volumes, thank you, can we just jump directly to the newest one, why is this wiki fucking garbage, uh, garbage. Okay, I'm just gonna click through next here. Anyway, this first movie was about, basically, a retelling of the first floor. So, basically, Asuna and Kirito meeting, fighting who's the what's-it boss, and also Diabel dying because he doesn't understand video games um just actually here we

go anyone who hasn't seen s-series let me explain to you the dumbest scene that's happened in any series ever so sword on online is as the name would suggest it's a anime about an mmo right so they went into a raid boss one of the members of the party the party leader got down by the boss. He was on low health and Kirito went over to him, offered him a potion Diavel was like no, I don't want the

potion. I'm going to tell you my life story instead Why? Like, okay Progressive retconned a lot of the stuff that happened in the um in that first section of the the the story but if you're gonna retcon stuff can you please just retcon how fucking stupid diabel is it didn't make any sense why he died there like mate take the fucking potion why did you just kill yourself so basically rather than focusing on kirito like uh like the main series does at least the first

section doesn't it seems like looking further into Progressive, Kirito does become a bit more of a focus, but this first movie was focusing on Asuna. So, normally when Kirito and Asuna met, it was just before the raid group. So, basically,

just before the raid party of the first boss. So, there was the meeting and Asuna didn't find a party to join. Kirito, also being a loner, didn't find a party to join. They became a party together. That's where they were supposed to meet. In Progressive, though, Asuna actually joins the game with one of her friends called Mito, who, for some reason, doesn't seem to ever show up again in the story after Progressive,

after the first volume of Progressive, so I don't actually know what the deal with Mito is. Anyway, joins the game with Mito, who, before she has her transformation back into, like, how she actually looks in the real world is voiced by Frieza which is fun I kind of wish that the entire movie she was voiced by Frieza but sadly we lost that and have to go back to her just being adorable which is fine I'm fine with that but it would have been funny it honestly would have been funny to see Frieza and Asuna running around the entire time. But, can't win every battle. So, Mito and Asuna, they sort of get used to the game. At the start, Asuna is rightfully terrified. She almost dies literally on the first day.

Like, five minutes after it's announced that if you die in the game, you die in real life. Literally goes out of town and almost dies straight away. But eventually, Asuna gets used to it, and they go, I guess for some reason, they go to this area that has big man-eating plants. I think they're going there for a quest or something, or maybe to grind some experience. I don't remember the exact reason why they went there.

Anyway, Asuna fucked up, activated the trap, and there was hundreds of these enemies that spawned. So Asuna had gone to fight these by herself, because Mito, just before that happened, saw, like, a rare monster off to the side, and went to go get an item. We find out why she got the item a bit later, but at the start, they basically get separated in that in that section Asuna is like one HP away from dying and then Kirito comes in and saves the day because that's what Kirito does He he just jumps in out of fucking nowhere Like this is a common trend throughout the entire series like Alicization Everyone's about to be dead Kirito wakes up from a fucking coma Like, this is a common trend throughout the entire series. Like, Alicization.

Everyone's about to be dead. Kirito wakes up from a fucking coma. Sure. If you say so. But that's when they initially met. Kirito being, like, a super awkward... I think... How old is he at the start of Aincrad? Is he, like, 15 or something?

I'm going to check. I think he's like 14 or 15. 14. So, him being an edgy 14 year old who plays MMORPGs all day and has never spoken to a woman in his entire life

is very awkward speaking to Asuna because, like, she's Asuna. Kirito doesn't know how to speak to an attractive woman. So, he goes to, like, she's Asuna. Kirito doesn't know how to speak to an attractive woman. So he goes to, like, shake Asuna's hand, and he's, like, standing literally as far away from her as possible and not even, like, looking at her in the eye, which was quite an amusing scene.

I think, honestly, makes more sense for the way they first interact with each other than sort of how it was portrayed in the main series itself because it's very obvious judging just by Asuna's voice that Asuna is a female. Kirito clearly should have some issue talking to her, judging by later interactions he has in the series. Also, a hood over your face does not cover your face.

It just covers your hair. So ignoring all of that stupid shit, the initial introduction they have in Progressive actually makes way more sense than it was in the main series. But when Kirito and Asuna met again um actually before that happened sorry so Asuna doesn't actually meet up with Mito after that battle happens so they were actually in a party together and Mito didn't want to be she didn't want to be around when Asuna died. She knew there was no way she was getting back to Asuna

before these plants were able to defeat her because she was also stuck fighting a bunch of them as well. And she was like, you know what? I'm leaving the party. I don't want to be here when Asuna dies, which is kind of a dick move. And also I'll explain why it makes no fucking sense in a bit anyway. So Asuna decides, I'm'm gonna become edgy now.

I'm gonna go beat this game by myself. I'm gonna be legendary solo player. She goes and buys the hood that we see in the anime, and then goes to a fucking dungeon and raids it for three days straight. Now, I need to talk about the leveling system in SAO or the lack thereof. If you thought RuneScape was bad for grinding, holy shit.

So, in the first section of SAO, they were on the first floor, I believe it was three or four weeks. they were on the first floor i believe it was three or four weeks asana being a solo player got to about level 12 it's like 10 or 12 what three weeks this isn't three weeks of you know playing a game going going to school, all that fun stuff. She literally was in a dungeon, raiding for three whole days straight, only stopping to sleep and eat. Got to level fucking 10.

Didn't leave the dungeon to repair her items either. Had 20 spare rapiers in her fucking storage. How are you only at level 10 why does the leveling system in SAO make absolutely no sense so Kirito ended up meeting Asuna in that dungeon while she had the hood on for some reason Kirito was really bad at

discerning voices and couldn't tell they were the same person even though like Asuna and Asuna with the hood sound exactly the same person, even though, like, Asuna and Asuna with the hood sound exactly the same. But Kirito was like, you're a fucking idiot. Why are you doing this? Like, you know you need to leave the dungeon to, like,

rest, right? And she's like, no, I'm not doing that. Asuna fucks up, passes out, and Kirito just, like, drags her out of the dungeon and is like, no, you can sleep here um, which also

doesn't make any sense going by the main series, where they hadn't really had any level of decent conversation till way later in the series, like they clearly had not interacted actually no, even just Arsenal with Like, they clearly had not interacted. Actually, no.

Even just Arsenal with a hood, they clearly had not interacted together or interacted with each other until that first meeting. So the fact that Progressive adds this extra stuff sort of, like, breaks the start of the main series. So, from there, they go fight the boss. Arsenal discovers that Mito is still alive because... plot.

Um, we also discover why Mito ran off to go and, like, kill this rare monster. It wasn't to get an item for herself, like Arsena was thinking. She thought that she had been, like, abandoned by her friend, her friend had run off, thought that this game was changing her friend, um, but what she

actually discovered was that Mito ran off to get the rapier we see Arsena using at the start of the series. I have no idea what the name is. I don't think it actually really matters. I'll see if I can find the name, actually. She actually went through like three rapiers at the start of the game. Like

on the first floor. Is it the Windfloret? Yes. Aquas wants to drop... Wait, no. Is it the Wind Floret? Yes. Acquires a monster drop. Wait, no. Is that acquired later in the series? Sorry, Lambient Light's the one she has later in the series. So, yeah, it'd be the Wind Floret.

This one right here that she's seen using right near the start of the game. Obtained after following Kirito's battle advice. So yeah, they straight up retcon how she actually got the sword. Or is this a different sword? No, so that's the sword that Kirito gave

her. She got a different sword from... The name doesn't matter. She got a sword from Mito. And that's the sword that you see her using in that fight in the dungeon. So they sort of change how she ends up getting it. Basically, the movie ends as soon as they finish the fight kirito gets his uh his signature black cloak the whole beta scene happens uh for anyone who somehow is watching

this section who doesn't know about that um basically there's this idea in seo that the beta testers are bad people. So, basically, before SAO started, like most MMOs nowadays, there is some level of... Some level of... What's the word? Beta test. That's some level of beta test.

There was a closed beta. Yeah, it had to have been a closed beta with like an NDA because otherwise this doesn't make any sense so they did a closed beta then the game happened and then the beta testers didn't apparently share enough information with like the regular players and then for some reason like the beta testers are hated like, the beta testers are hated. Everybody hates the beta testers. But Kirito decides, I'm going to be, like, I'm going to sort of be the place that everyone directs their anger. I'm going to be the biggest asshole on the planet. I'm going to be like, I'm not like these other wimpy beta testers.

I am better than them. i got to floors that they could never get to i'm such a great player all of you hate me now and when i originally saw that i thought it was a really dumb scene but it makes sense why in the context of the overall dumb scene why he would be an arsehole. So, one of the guys in the group, I think his name's... I don't remember his name. He's the dude with the fucking spiky hair. Anyway,

he then says, you're worse than a beta tester. You're a cheater. You're a cheater and a beta tester. That means you're a beater. And Kirito's like, yeah, I'm a beater. You're a cheater and a beta tester. That means you're a beater. And Kirito's like, yeah, I'm a beater. I like the sound of that. I'm a beater. I'm not like those other

beta testers. I'm better than them. It's such a dumb scene. Like, the whole scene overall is dumb. Kirito's reasoning for doing that makes sense. He doesn't want the other beta testers to be harassed. He wants to be

the one they focus their anger on. Just to protect everybody. Like, he makes himself out to be this edgy kid at the start, but clearly he does care about other people. So then they leave the dungeon. Kirito's like, don't

follow me. I'm gonna do my own thing. Asuna's like, don't follow me. I'm going to do my own thing. Asuna's like, no, and just follows him. And then they get out of the dungeon. Asuna's like, wow, pretty new dungeon. And we see someone peeking their head around the corner from the exit of the dungeon. We haven't actually had much focus on her in the main series but it was

what was her name? she was Argo, that one the information dealer the information dealer that Kirito every so often has a conversation with in the main series but we have no idea where Kirito actually ever met her

so she's from what we can see a bit more of a focus in the main series, but we have no idea where Kirito actually ever met her. So she's, from what we can see, a bit more of a focus in the progressive series, which I think makes a lot of sense, and I'm actually really happy to see that. After the credits aired, we found out that there's going to be another movie and the next movie's going to air in 2022. I don't know exactly where we're going to be presumably, judging by

what happened in the first volume, we're going to just adapt in the first movie, we're just going to adapt a single volume. That means we're going to be adapting uh so volume going to adapt a single volume. That means we're going to be adapting... So volume 2 takes place clearing floor 3. So I guess nothing really happens on floor 2? Wait no sorry, no I'm wrong there actually. The um... No I'm actually completely wrong, because the first movie doesn't actually adapt the entire volume that's the other thing that happened so i didn't realize yeah i slipped my mind for a moment

so the first movie aria of a starless knight only adapts up to the end of floor one but then floor two happens and that's rondo of a fragile was it rondo of a fragile blade yeah rondo of a fragile blade and this is going to be the second movie so first and second movie is literally adapting one volume of the light novel which is ridiculous but volume one seems to be the most content-packed volume. Some of the other ones are longer. Like, this one has more pages. But they only cover, like, a single floor. I have no idea how this much was covered in a single volume.

Maybe they just didn't want to... Well, I guess there's not that much that happens in the first floor. Also, no, this one is one is longer yeah this one is much longer i was looking at the english page count versus the japanese one so yeah 520 compared to 390 either way that is a lot of content and the pacing didn't feel weird even though it's covering half a volume usually when that happens like you'd expect it to be like why is nothing happening in this movie but i didn't feel like i definitely did not feel like that at all it's very possible i don't see any reference to mito in like in the descriptions here

it's very possible that the mitito stuff was actually movie-only content. Which would be really strange if that happened actually. I haven't read the Progressive Light novel. I need to go and do that because there's no wiki page for Mito either. Which also really, really confuses me.

Because usually, a character that's sort of at all a focus in a series like this is going to have some page on the wiki. Yeah, there's still

no page for her, which is very strange. Which very much makes me believe that she's a movie-only character. If I'm wrong there, and she does show up in the Progressive Light novel, then let me know. But I'm not seeing any reference here, which is very strange. Yeah, because I'm looking at the light moral right now and it starts from where... It starts from where Kirito meets Asuna in the dungeon.

Kirito witnessed a female solo player overkilling a ruined kobold with continuous use of linear. This is like 30 minutes into the movie. Yeah, this is 30 minutes into the movie. So clearly they added some extra content there. Or this is just not a...

Not a complete summary of what actually happened. Whenever I find... Let's go anime. Is there a page on the movie? There has to be. Phantom Bullet. Alicization. Let's go anime. Is there a page on the movie? There has to be. Phantom Bullet. Alicization.

Progressive. Do you not have a page for progressive yet? I'm going to just search it outside of the wiki. SEO progressive movie? I'm actually thinking there might be a movie canon right now.

Um... Yeah, there's no page on the wiki for it. Huh. Is this movie canon? Wait, did we straight up just pull like a Nana heart and make it like a light novel and a movie canon? Okay, now I'm very excited to see what happens with the second movie. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry, wait, what?

A second movie, Sword Art Online Progressive... Um... It's adapting volume five? Oh, sorry, floor five? Wait, what the fuck are these movies? Hold up. I thought the second movie was adapting floor two. Wait, we the fuck are these movies? Hold up. I thought the second movie was adapting Floor 2. Wait, we're skipping ahead...

What are we skipping ahead to? We're skipping ahead to Volume 4? What? I'm so confused now. Wait. Wait, what yeah, no this is this is the The same title as the new movies gonna have What?

Why? Why we? Why would you adapt the movie or the the series that? That fixes the pacing of ironcrad and then fuck the pacing of Aincrad. What is the purpose of that? Did we cover Floor 5 in the main series? What's Floor 5? That's so stupid!

Um... Slice Shroomen... Yep, that's where Arsena got her new rapier. Uh... I don't think Floor 5 was in the main series. Oh, I can see why they're covering it. I can see why they're covering it.

I can see why they're covering it. It's because it seems to have some members who are eventually going to be joining Laughing Coffin. I see what we're doing here. Yep, these are definitely future Laughing Coffin members.

Yeah, we have references to characters who show up later in the series as well. Okay, I don't want to show any of these pictures just because... Spoilers. But that's stupid. Now I just want to go and read the Progressive Light novel. Just so I can actually get the content in the form that it's supposed to be in so i listened back to the audio from that section i just did and the audio seems fine i don't think there's anything out of the ordinary with like obviously uh it sounds slightly different but

i'm i sort of expected especially with that random peaking that was happening that maybe it was gonna like not sound great in some ways But it seems like that's not an issue and I can sort of go ahead with the The way that it's set up. I think the one thing I might need to worry about is in a livestream I might need to tweak it. Maybe maybe just move the mic further away like having the mic over here Yeah, I think with the live streams, I definitely need to have more leeway with loud noises

that's the problem I have, I notice especially in the live streams if I laugh at something, which is fairly common, especially when I'm playing Bloodborne because holy shit, that is a buggy game. Something will happen and I burst out laughing and then the mic just peaks to hell and it sounds absolutely awful.

So when I get back from my break, I will see how it goes in the live stream, and probably tweak it live on the stream itself. Now, I was thinking about including... This is a terrible segue. I was thinking about including a story at the start of this podcast, but I sort of wanted to change it around, move it to a bit later in the show,

because I don't want to add my clickbait right at the start of the podcast. So yesterday, I almost died. Not clickbait, this actually did happen. So when you're driving a car, the safest thing to be doing is assume that everybody around you is drunk and can't drive to save their lives. Because that's going to make you do things that are safer than you would be if you assume that everybody around you actually knows how to drive. If you assume that everybody is liable to smack into you and cut corners, just pull out randomly from side streets, you're going to be safer.

And I'm lucky that I assumed this because there was a moron last night who almost put me into a high-speed car crash. So I was coming down the highway after work. I finished work at 11, so it would have been, I think, like around 11, 20 or so by the time I was getting home. I was still on the highway just about to get off of it. And like, as you're coming up the highway, there are these like random suburbs along the side and side streets to get onto the highway. Like this is fairly normal stuff. Now, there was this guy, I think he was in, like, I think it was, like, a white Civic or something. I don't know what the car was. It was,

I think it was a white Civic. The model, it doesn't actually matter. He comes out from the side street. Straight into the middle of the highway. Now, I thought he was coming out and was gonna, like, turn into the first lane Because this is a three lane highway

I was in the middle lane And it's fairly common to see people pull out And then just you know slip into that first lane Don't do it It's a bad idea Because if you overshoot the lane You're going to fucking die And you're probably going to kill someone

But it was fine in this case I assumed it was going to be fine Or it was fine this case. I assumed it was going to be fine. It was fine in most cases. I assumed it was going to be fine this time. No, he didn't want to do that. Instead, he wanted to pull into the third lane. So I'm here. Okay, I'm here.

He's here. Third lane's over here. He's like, whew, stops. The thing is, he's like stops he doesn't he doesn't even actually pull into his lane he stops in the second lane like just straight up stops there

I'm going like 80k's an hour like what the fuck are you doing how are you this fucking stupid like if you're gonna do that floor it and get into your fucking lane don't stop there so i slam my feet on the brakes don't want to do it too hard that lock it locks up my wheels because if that happens then i can't turn out of the way if i you know aren't able to stop quick enough so I put my feet down hard enough where it's going to slow down,

just managed to slow down in time. Luckily, there was no one else on the road because I had to, like, swerve into the next lane. I was maybe, maybe at absolute most three meters, probably not even that, maybe like two meters away from hitting this car so yeah that was a um that was a a fun fun fun experience um i didn't get this guy's number plates because if i did i don't know i there's literally nothing i could have done honestly

like i don't know how this guy still has a fucking license. Like, this is the dumbest driver I've ever seen. It's one thing, you know, to not indicate as you're going round and round about. Like, that's a different level of annoying, but it's fine. It's one thing to, like, you know, start to change lanes without checking if the lane is clear. Like, you're going're gonna start a car crash but usually the person in the other lane if they're paying attention can deal with that pulling out from a fucking side street at nearly midnight that's just how are you this dumb he had his lights on as well like that's the other thing. He could clearly see me there. And if this guy waited like ten seconds more, the highway was empty. Nobody was on the

highway. But he decided, no, I'm just gonna pull out right now but here's the what here's here's maybe the worst or the best part i don't know i don't know how you describe it um as soon as that happened right the first thing i thought not oh yeah i'm very happy i didn't die today. Oh, this would have been horrible if I was in a car crash. I'm very happy I don't have been in an ambulance. My first thought was, how do I turn this into content? I thought, hey, I've got the podcast to record first thing tomorrow morning. How do I turn this into content? How do I make money off of this story?

I think I'm like, I'm too deep into the YouTuber hole that my first thought is, I'm thankful I'm not dead. Or my first thought isn't that I'm thankful I'm not dead, it's how do I make money from not being dead? I posted this on Twitter last night and nobody asked me if I was alright. Not a single person. I feel like everybody who saw the tweet assumed that it was just a joke. It was not just a joke.

I straight up almost fucking died last night. You were maybe two metres away from me not recording this podcast. And the worst thing about this, as I mentioned earlier, I'd be driving up to my parents' place for Christmas, so I wouldn't have a fucking car today if this guy had pulled out maybe just a fraction of a second earlier. Maybe I would have probably been in the hospital, to be completely honest.

Because I don't trust my car not to kill me. I don't trust my car to actually be safe. And I actually had, um, you guys wouldn't have known that I'd been, I'd be dead for a little bit. Because I actually have videos queued up, I think for the next three days. So those videos would go up without thumbnails and without proper titles. And then all of a sudden, nothing. Nothing would happen on the channel. It would just be blank.

So, yeah, my last night was fun. That was certainly an experience. And it certainly makes me pay more attention when I'm driving now. Definitely. People. I. People. I hate them. Maybe we should just...

Look, this is why... This is why we should... This is why if we had perfect... Autonomous... Autonomous driving, it would be great. The problem is that modern autonomous driving, it would be great. The problem is that modern autonomous driving isn't great. There's this video I found over on Reddit yesterday. We're going to watch this video.

We don't usually watch videos on the podcast, but this video is so fucking good. Basically, this guy owns a Tesla, and he was demonstrating how absolutely amazing the Tesla self-driving is. Well, this guy uploaded this. He just took the video and then put it onto Reddit. But yeah, there actually is a source for it, which is nice.

Anyway. You're going to see how perfect the Tesla automated driving is. It's not as bad as it could be. It's not great though anyways and there is a ups truck in front of us so this should be interesting to see what happens the car i am taking over i i'm trying all right there we go beautiful already perfect yeah i don't know why i wanted me to take over immediately because Already perfect.

Yeah, I don't know why he wanted me to take over immediately, because... And it tried to go down the actual railroad track on the right. That's not the only time that's gonna happen, by the way. So that's, like... He called it a railroad track, it's... I don't know if it's a railroad track, if it's actually a tram track. Either way, it shouldn't be going there. Like, it shouldn't even... Like, it has a map map it shouldn't even be

Registering that as a road right there, so how did it take over unfortunately? Oh, I don't know what you're doing. Oh Okay, I don't yeah to be fair in that... Okay, first the car should have stopped because it's supposed to have people detection. But that person also was being a moron. I don't know why they were like... I don't know why you would ever cross the road while cars are crossing at a turn. Like, if you do that, you're sort of asking to be hit.

Yes, the driver... I don't know specifically about where this driver is. In Australia, you're supposed to stop if there is a pedestrian who's going over the crossing, or just about to go over the crossing. You're supposed to still stop.

But I would never cross the road at that point, even if I know the driver there is a perfect driver. I put my hands up and was like oh shit cuz I know if they were able to walk or not but they apparently had them yeah I was fucked okay and then the cars trying to go down the railroad tracks again I mean this shit this shit like I've never seen it come that close to pedestrian the our pedestrian eight like a pedestrian and the railroad tracks now this is I'm not gonna comment

just you guys can just see for yourselves it's time to turn right i just got honked at i'm getting honked at again all right whoa whoa i don't know what that was right when i activated it but now here we are again at the right hand turn the railroad tracks and it's really obsessed with these railroad tracks i don't know what the deal is there and yeah I mean it's able to kind of like find it's way but it's not perfect in any sense and right there it told me to stop for a stop sign

and then there's no stop sign are people crying? yeah if you notice that I guess if you listen to the audio version so I would personally wait you don't have to pause it there was a stop sign that was there for turning traffic and is just assumed our stop sign that means I gotta stop it's just going and going these people are just making it annoying

so I reactivated it didn't I right there to me here we go and yeah I mean it's just fine its way but it's not there there we go. And, yeah. I mean, it's just about up here. There, there we go. Yeah, these people are dumb as well. If the traffic is crossing, like, you shouldn't... Or traffic is turning, you should not be crossing. So I reactivated mid section doesn't want to do anything oh and then for the first time it didn't take us down the railroad track

but it did take us into the bus only lane perfect so it once again is coming to a complete stop at the Wells Fargo sign that is right up here anyways I think that's the best part actually. So there's this random fucking red bit here and it's like, yeah, this is red. Clearly red means stop sign. Like Tesla, the future of driving.

Uh, some of these comments in here are actually, some of them are decent comments. It's called not perfected yet. Yes, well that's true, but it also shouldn't be in a consumer vehicle if it's gonna do shit like that. I wonder how well Wells Fargo pay for that feature. Every single company should just have a red sign it'll just make tesla stop there i do think this is a uh this is a really dumb comment i do think that self-driving cars are the future of safe transportation but they are the future they are not the fucking present uh well that explains why i constantly see a dozen smashed Teslas at every shop I drive by

okay shitty streets, they are pretty shitty streets I'll give you that as well the fact that people can cross at a turn is stupid the guy talking is more annoying than the car, lovely I'm not surprised at some of the comments. I'm not even talking about the actual content. Dude keeps trying to drive

in bus lane only and tries to cut corners. Car is just trying to do what it's supposed to, right? No. He's letting the car do what it wants and it keeps driving down to those sections. Did this guy watch the video?

I don't think he watched the video. This is what one would expect from beta software. This should not be purchasable though. If anything, Tesla should be paying drivers for risking their safety to beta test this system. I don't know if it's beta or if it's just buggy. this system. I don't know if it's beta or if it's just buggy. But either way, this

like, this could just be a one-off case. But a one-off case in a vehicle like, a one-off case in a vehicle is something that can kill people. Like, that's the sort of stuff that you cannot allow to be

to be failing. Like, you can't allow that to fail. Let's see. Well, you did run a stop sign, but yeah, I can't No, he didn't run a stop sign. Do you mean the stop sign that he didn't need to stop at? Why is this shit

legal? There's definitely a stop sign. The man blows. He told me to stop for a stop sign. There's no stop sign. Don't be so distracted by your phone. Why did you say 225? You're linking to the wrong video.

Where is 225? Okay, yeah, that's the stop sign for turning. It explained on the screen who that stop sign was for. But yeah, some of the comments in here actually understand the problems. Others, I guess, didn't watch the video and were like, oh, but like, it's not that bad, is it? It saw a stop sign, so it stopped. That's fine.

Ignoring the fact that that's not fine and you shouldn't be just stopping for every stop sign. You should be stopping for the stop signs that are relevant to your lane and relevant to what you are doing. I have no interest in buying a Tesla, but honestly I wasn't going to buy a new car anyway

I'm probably going to be sticking with like pre 2015 cars for a long ass time until we get to the point where modern cars are actually repairable it makes more sense to stick with something just a little bit older, my current car was built in 2002, and I don't give a shit about your modern features that

make the car have a fucking subscription feature, actually, did you guys hear about that, um, guys hear about that um toyota uh toyota has a i think it's past their 2018 model to use their key fob um to use the key fob outside of the car using it out of this at a uh at a distance will require you to have an eight dollar monthly subscription Subscription. No. I just won't buy your car then. I'll just buy older cars. Because there's going to be. Like there's going to be 2015 cars on the road. Till like. 20.

What? There's still cars. Like the mid 90s on the road today. And you can still get them second hand. So there's going to be. Like 2015 cars on the road. and you can still get them second hand so there's going to be like 2015 cars on the road for the next like 30 years the only way you can get like any older cars off the road is if we actually do go down the route of phasing out petrol vehicles but i i feel like there's

going to be a lot of pushback against that and well there sort of already is a lot of pushback against that it's gonna get worse though if there's any plans to like like the only plans that we see are like plans to phase out manufacturing of these cars plans to actually phase out like pet phase out petrol though i think is going to be a bit more of a challenge to get uh to get people to actually accept but anyway um toyota is like oh yeah you can like use your car uh you use your key fob as long as you pay us eight dollars a month but like you also get a you also get like free uh yeah free three to ten years depending on the package you buy. It's like, yeah, but the car's going to be on the road for longer than three to ten years.

So, like, stop it. It's $8 a month, Toyota. It is $8 a month. You don't need the extra $8 a month. I think you got plenty of money from the car being purchased. And then, you know, people going into the Toyota mechanics because the car is getting less repairable and only the official Toyota mechanics are the ones who can actually repair it.

The other problem with this is that there's actually no reason for there to be a subscription. It would be one thing, this is something that Lewis Rossman was saying, it would be one thing if it was contacting Toyota's servers it shouldn't be, it's a key fob that unlocks your car but if it was contacting Toyota's servers to do something

whatever sort of functionality you'd want it to do fine, you're using the servers, it's costing Toyota money to actually allow this function to work, it's a bad function then, but It's costing them money. This isn't. This is a regular key fob. It contacts the car and nothing else

There's no cost that comes from Tesla, uh, Tes- Toyota. They're both shit companies now tes toyota they're both shit companies now uh they're both costs that come from there's no cost that comes from toyota it's completely free actually every car company shit to be honest there's no reason to have a subscription here like there's a lot of things that are getting subscriptions nowadays that don't have anything like don't have any costs attached to them i understand subscriptions for things like for like video sharing services for for things like um for video for content distribution platforms things like netflix because there is a cost in running a service like that the cost may not be anywhere near as high as the subscription fee is actually going to suggest but there is a cost and if there is a cost you can charge whatever you want to

sort of make a profit margin from that cost i don't care it's when there isn't it is when it is literally just a thing that doesn't cost anything. You own it. It does everything completely for free that there shouldn't be a cost. There should never be a cost for that. Especially once you already bought the key fob. I wouldn't be surprised if one day we get to the point where, like, some of these car manufacturers are offering the ability to, like, rent a car from, like, the manufacturer. So, rather than buying, you know, let's say a $40,000 car. So, that's $40,000 Australian. So, like, $30,000-ish US,

which is not, you know, it is not extravagant for a new car you're not buying like a new tesla you're buying like uh a fairly sensible new car new cars aren't sensible anyway but if you're buying a new car it's in the sensible range i wouldn't be surprised if one day it's like oh instead of buying a buying a car, let's say $30,000 divided by 10. So rather than paying for the new car, it's $3,000 a year, which would be, let's say it's $250 a month. Let's, maybe have it be less than that, maybe have it be, maybe have it be, like, $150 a month, so you don't have to pay for this entire, that would be less than what you'd be paying, uh, for, yeah, it would be less than what you'd be paying, um, I guess, for, what's the word, for getting out your car loan. Because let's say you decide,

I don't want to keep the car the entire time. Then after those, like, you know, five, six years you've had the car, then Toyota can decide, oh, okay, so we've sort of made back, let's say, $20,000 on the car, for example. We can now sell the car, because it's only a five-year-old car, we can now sell the car for $15,000 on the car, for example, we can now sell the car, because it's only a five-year-old car,

we can now sell the car for $15,000. So you sort of have the rental service, but then Toyota also does a second-hand service as well. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a model that car companies do start to go down. It gives them a lot more control over who is buying the car. It gives them a lot more ways to monetize a car. It allows them to...

We could also then have... If someone does damage the car, then you could have the payouts from insurance or they could pay the car themselves. So there's really no risk from Toyota's perspective to do a strategy like this. Or from any company, really. I'm just saying Toyota because that's the example in my mind right now.

And hey, well, if you want to get the car repaired because you're renting it, well, you can bring it back to Toyota Repairs and maybe we can factor that you can factor that into the cost per month so let's say it would be 150 per month if you weren't having in the repair cost but then it's 200 a month so you can then say to the user or the the renter whatever you want to call them, come to the Toyota repair shop, whatever, and you get free repairs. But in reality, it's actually a repair that is factored into your cost.

So you are probably paying way, way more for the repairs and for the checkups and all that stuff than you would be if you had bought the car outright. I hope no car companies listen to this because it's a really fucking good idea and would destroy the car industry.

Or destroy the car industry in the consumer perspective. It would be great for car companies. Absolutely fantastic for them, so please don't do it either way I'm going to buy my second hand my second hand Holden from

20 years ago because hey why the fuck not I've still got my like my first car so my first car is this this Barino from 2002 I've had it for like five years at this point. It's a fucking shit box, but it gets me from point A to point B.

And you know what? That's all that matters. I don't need a fancy car. I think, you know, most people need to sort of accept that you don't need a fancy car. Just buy a car. Buy a car that will get you from point A to point B. I get the whole I'm a car guy thing and that's cool. But if you're not a car guy, like why are you buying an expensive car?

I don't get it. If you're just someone who's like, I go to the office with my car. I don't give a shit about cars. I don't even know what an engine is. Why are you spending like $100,000 on a car? I did see someone the other day with a fucking ferrari they they got a ferrari and just parked it in a random ass car park in marion now marion is by no means you know a horrible area it's a good area but like i wouldn't be parking something that expensive in a place where just random people can hit it that's a lot of money maybe they have so

much money that they just don't care if someone scratches their ferrari they just get a new ferrari possible entirely possible i wouldn't be surprised uh when you get to that side of the city uh you know you're getting to the capital and when you get to the capital there's a lot of people who have uh more money than brains. Probably the best way to put it, I would say. Cars. I don't know where I was going with that one. Actually, before we take the short break, since I was on the topic of Toyota and tesla and all that fun stuff here's a very

short topic um the cybertruck it has a comically large window wiper genuinely stupid looking window wipe i don't believe in yeah if people are talking about it now then it surely wasn't in the original demo. It doesn't fucking look real. It does not look like a real car. It really doesn't. But judging by how I would picture the size of the Cybertruck, I would assume that the window wiper would have to be at least a meter and a half long. At least. At least minimum. Does it demonstrate how the window wiper moves?

This would not be a window wiper you could easily replace. Like if you wanted to replace this you would have to go to someone who has specific Tesla parts. Because I don't think there are any standard window wipers. Maybe a bus window wiper. Would a bus window wiper be big enough? Maybe. I still love the Cybertruck though.

I love how Elon straight up just got people talking about it by showing it having a fault. Oh, the glass is bulletproof. Whoops, the glass broke because we totally didn't plan that. That wouldn't be well within the realm of possibilities of things we can do. So many people got tricked into thinking, oh yeah, that actually happened. Haha, funny, funny, the glass

broke. Oh, they fucked up so bad. Oh no, so bad. No, they did it because they knew that there would be people dumb enough to think it was actually something they did and get people talking about it for a long time. And now everyone knows about the sub truck. And now we get to laugh at its comically large window wiper.

How does it move? Does it like... Where is the... Wait, does it actuate from here? Or does it like slide across? If it actuates from here I guess it would work well enough. It would hit most of the

window. If it actuates from here and it goes... No, it couldn't actuate from here and go across because then you'd have a bar going across your window and that would be really annoying. So it's got to actuate from here. That's a lot of weight to have on one point. Look, I'm no engineer.

I'm sure someone who knows what they're doing designed... I'm sure Elon went to someone who knows what they're doing and then Elon was like, make this. And they're like, why? And he was like, do it. And he was like, okay, I'll make it work. And then you got this.

I don't think an engineer went out of their way to like design this uh of free will as uh probably the best way to put it this isn't just true for me but the bigger that i get on youtube the more that i have random ass companies getting into my emails trying to get me to sell their shit. Now, some of these companies have actual good products. So recently, Skillshare and Brilliant hit me up. I was very, very much debating actually going with them because I actually do think that both of them are good companies. They both make really cool stuff and i don't think anyone

would be critical of me saying hey skillshare is cool brilliant is cool do you like to learn shit these are good companies but on the other hand i also get like random ass crypto companies now hitting me up for my inbox. So here is one from a coin called Decentre. Not Decentre like the Decentre... The Decentre... What is it? Is it a web extension? Is it Decentre?

De... Decent... I don't know. It's like... Here it is. Boom. What is it? Is it a web extension? Is it D-Center? D-Center? I don't know. Here it is. Boom. Browse to earn. Basically, it's Brave. Creating a bridge between internet users and applications developed with distributed ledger technology,

an open source platform which enables you to manage and pay with your personal data value. So brave. You've made brave. What is it based on? I actually didn't know it was a browser. I just saw their email. I saw the mention.

They did the thing where it's like dollar and then their coin name. And then I just didn't read anymore. Because I don't give a shit about promoting your stupid browser or your stupid crypto Is a free VP. What are you based on your chromium? Surely your chromium? Where you even open source? Wow your opens oh wait no is this just Okay, that was your website this is is the dissenter blockchain. What about the browser itself? The browser extension, okay.

But what about the browser itself? See, unlike a lot of the projects that hit me up, I don't think that one's a scam. I just think I don't want to touch a crypto project. Anyway. Hi, Brody. Browsing the web equals mining for data. I guess, yeah, you know, I'll accept that.

Decentre allows deck holders to mine the full value of their data secured on our custom blockchain and browse. We secure all your data on the blockchain because that's totally secure. Anyway, and be paid in cash each month.

25k paid out first month after launch. They make it sound like you're going to make... This is an interesting way to phrase it. It makes it sound like you're going to make that. What is actually going to happen is you're going to make what Brave pays you, which is in the realm of like 40 cents. Just by browsing the internet, as they always do,

DEC is the only token with intrinsic value because it is based on a digital asset. This is the best quote. DEC is the only token with intrinsic value because it is based on a digital asset. You have literally described cryptocurrency. You have described the whole market. Every single coin has intrinsic value because it is based on a digital asset. That is the whole purpose of crypto. What are you even saying? What do you mean you're the only one? All of them are this.

What do you mean you're the only one? All of them are this. Did you know that the global data market is currently worth $198 billion and expected to double by 2025? True. I'll take that at face value. I wouldn't be surprised if it does double, especially as we are getting more smart devices and all that fun stuff where they have intrinsic data collection, if we're going to be using the word

intrinsic we would love to work with you in reviewing and promoting the center with your audience also that is a very it's really really similar to the dissenter browser extension and that's not something i want to touch. You really fucked up with that name. I think why they called themselves Decenters is because Decenter, Decentral, Decentralization, rather than Decenter as in descent. In return, we can pay in our deck tokens and help you earn more through that payment by providing

more value with our project. So what you're saying is you're going to provide me with an affiliate link and we will download the browser they're going to be able to give me a bit of extra coin for that. You can read more about Decentre on our official whitepaper

our mainnet launch here our Elio trades review here and our press coverage for mount sinai partnership here i sure you're a great person i'm sure you're a great person making a great product i have no interest in touching a crypto browser. Now, you might be saying, but Brody, you use Brave. Oh, you use Brave. How could you say that? I think Brave is a good browser without the crypto.

You can get rid of the crypto aspect of Brave, and Brave still makes sense to be using. I don't think besides the fact that it apparently comes with a built-in VPN, which I wouldn't want to use anyway because I don't know how you handle your data collection, and I don't know who

you share your data with, and I don't know anything about your VPN, why I would want to use your VPN. Anyone who wants to use a VPN at this point probably has a VPN. Like, there are so many VPN ads out there that if you wanted a VPN already, you've already gotten, like, you use someone's affiliate link and you're already using one. But emails like that are fairly common. I got an email from obs the other day because i forgot that i donated money to the project um i was like why the hell is obs contacting me is this

like i honestly i would have been like super hype if obs wanted to talk to me but no it was basically just about um they're adding in a new feature. Finally, OBS is adding in WebSocket support. So there's a WebSocket extension. I talked about this a while back. I never got around to actually, um, doing a video on it, but the WebSocket extension basically let you control OBS outside of the OBS interface. So you could do things like... What could you do? You could go and start and stop streams, you could change scenes, you could enable or disable elements, things like that. All of that fun stuff. You could do that like from the terminal, from a web browser, you could use a CLI

tool and then hook it up with a like a macro pad and then control OBS from the macro pad without binding anything in the OBS window. You could use OBS WebSocket to get multiple things happening on a single key press and having them happen in the order you want them to be happening in, which is not something you could do inside of the main interface through any means that I know of, at least. Maybe there was some way to do it, but I certainly didn't know of one. What the hell is this one? I got...

Anyway, I think it's a really cool feature, and I've been meaning to check it out for quite a while. I just looked back. Sometimes I see my emails, but I never actually... A lot of the like, I see my emails, but I never actually like, a lot of the time I'll get these like stupid, what's the word? Stupid ad emails.

You just don't read them. Hello. How are you? I am Alina from Clevgard marketing department. We would like to sponsor a video on and then links to my channel. I always love it when they do that. I genuinely love it

when they show no interest in what your content actually is. So I'm writing to you to wonder if... So I am writing to you to wonder if... That is such a weird way to phrase that. So I'm writing to you to wonder if... That is such a weird way to phrase that. So I'm writing to you to wonder if you are willing to review our KidsGuard Pro

for iOS or Android. Here are some key features of the software for your reference. So I'm writing to discover if you're willing. That's how you phrase that. Okay, so what are the key features? Cover 20 plus files on iOS version and 30 plus files on Android version.

What do you mean cover files? Wait, what do you mean cover 20 plus files? Wait, what? Cover 20 plus files on ios version and 30 plus files on android version does that mean do you mean apps do you mean that like it only covers 30 apps is that what you're saying because if if it's files that doesn't make any sense i have no idea what that means. Sync device data over Wi-Fi. Having internet connectivity

is not a feature. That is a basic function. That would be like saying, this water bottle, one of its features, is I can drink water from it. That's not a feature. That's what it fucking does. What are you talking about? No need to root and jailbreak.

I hope not. Because you're an extension. Like, you're just a... You're just a random... You're just a random tool to control what apps you can use. You don't... What?

Oh, I don't think I want to open up their website. I don't trust your website. But there's so many like these and they're all fun. They're all so much fun. What is this one? Oh, here we go. Another

Kiri seller. Hi, this is Aria from Mediumzy. Mediumzy? Medium seller. Hi, this is Aria from Mediumsy. Mediumsy? Mediums. Which is an influencer marketing company which has been developed over 10 years. Okay, so you're from a marketing firm, not from the company themselves. Our partner CD Keysales needseds to promote products on YouTube CD Keysales is an online store

Selling Windows software And official game keys and gift cards We want to book Videos on your channel Dedicated video 3-4 minutes 45 second integration At the beginning of your normal video

Put product links in your video description. If works well, we will book more videos with you in the future. If you're interested in working with us, please give me your offer. We can send you some examples we sponsored before if you want to see how the video will be. I don't want to touch your sketchy Kiwi. Actually, no, we're going to look up this Kiwi seller. It's always fun when I get these Kiwi seller companies coming to me

and then looking up their reviews. Because a lot of the time when you look up companies like this, the first thing you'll get is, are they legit? And then you scroll down and you see it's a single review, but they have one review at one star. Or is it a TrustPilot

page? Okay. Let's see. TrustPilot. 3.5. Okay. What are their excellent ratings? Give me these excellent ratings. Are they going to be employer reviews? I bought the Windows 10 key with a good price.

Okay, I can't read this one. I couldn't tell you if this is a good review. Okay, I also cannot read that one. I definitely cannot read that one. Now, let's see the bad reviews and the great reviews. What else do you have to say? Don't buy here. Bought a very overpriced WoW one month game time card. After paying, I did not get the product and the customer service told me you'll get refund in 24 hours, come back later, then close the chat on me. Don't buy.

I also cannot read that one. Everything went fine. So like. You know. I don't. I don't feel super safe. About using this. It's sort of like.

Buying stuff from like. Like G2A, things like that. Where, yeah, maybe there's... Wait, I'm sorry, you have iTunes... Hold up a second. Okay, anyone who's just listening to the audio right now, they have a section selling gift cards, okay? We have an Apple iTunes gift 10 USD, okay? This is $10. Okay, $10 for iTunes.

Okay, keep the $10 in mind. This is very important. for itunes okay keep the ten dollars in mind this is very important now the normal price is 13.56 and the discounted price is 12.17 now i don't know if like maths is your strong suit right but when something says ten dollars if you you go to, I don't know, what stores do you have in the US where they sell iTunes gift cards? Walmart, okay? How much will the iTunes $10 gift card cost? Now, if you said $10, you would be correct

because that's how much they cost because that's how gift cards work. Oh, here we go. Here a 50 steam usd the normal price is 82.50 the current price at 35 discount 53.97 what what how what what why are people buying from you What? How? Why are people buying from you? Actually, why are people buying from you? You are literally selling... These gift cards are more expensive than buying them at the store. $25 for iTunes.

$25 iTunes, $28. The only one I saw in here that's actually at a sensible price is the 50... Oh, no, sorry. It was at a sensible price. It was $50 of PSN. That used to be $48.59. Now it is $54.54. So you got the idea of selling gift cards,

and then you sold it for more. How? How? How is it? I don't understand. I genuinely don't understand what this company is. Who is buying from this? Who at all is buying from this? Who at all is buying from this?

Like, G2A makes sense because at G2A, usually game keys are cheaper, right? Like, you'll get a, I don't know, whatever cool games people are playing nowadays. You'll get the game keys and they will be cheaper Why would you buy More expensive, why would you buy ones that are more expensive? It does not it does not compute in my brain

Maybe their game keys are fine, and it's just their gift cards that are weird But why even have the gift cards then like If your gift cards aren't going to be priced in a way that makes sense, why would you even have them? I genuinely have no idea. That's going to be enough of me ranting about weird emails that I get.

I wanna, I wanna tell you about my experience with, with a certain type of cable. This is everyone's favorite new, everyone's favorite cable nowadays that I fucking despise. I've made it very, you can't see it. I've made it very clear how I feel about USB-C. I unironically think that USB-C is the worst connector that we have ever created. I have lost,

not lost as in I physically lost them, they've broken three USB-C cables in the past six months. So I bought this one. This is working fine. I've got three more in my drawer just for when they actually break because the only USB-C device I currently have is this PS5 controller and I'm very happy for that. Oh sorry, no the Xbox controller is also USB-C. I'm very happy for that because I am sick of having to buy new cables because they just keep breaking. The port on the device is great. I don't think that port's ever going to break,

but I don't understand the whole idea of why micro USB was bad. I have never had any problems with micro USB. I have had, like, my old phone before this one, I had it for about two years. I had broken cables plugged into the port. And the port was fine. No problem whatsoever. But the main cable I had, I had for about two years. I didn't care about it.

I just threw it on the floor. I'd step on it half the time and it was fine. I start using USB-C and it's already dying. Like, I really don't understand. Maybe I'm just the unluckiest person in the world with USB-C, but I've seen some other people sort of echoing my same complaints. Saying that USB-C, like the cables keep failing. The ports are fine. It's the cables themselves that just consistently keep failing. And I really don't know why.

My USB-C phone keeps killing charges, not the other way around. Because it's not like I'm even... It's not like I'm even, you know, using a, like, fast charger or anything like that. I'm... It's USB... It's basic USB power to power a controller. Like there's nothing crazy happening there. I'm not using any of the more like advanced features. It's just the most basic functionality. Power and data. That is all. And that's without even getting into the problem of USB-C like the standard being an absolute train wreck.

There's like seven different standards on the exact same cable, which sounds fine if you like the idea of having like one connector for everything. The problem though is that nobody labels their cables correctly. So you have no idea what half the cables actually do. Like, oh, some of them can support this, but not this, and this, but not this. Like... Look, I know someone's going to tell me I'm wrong about this, but I really wish we could just go back

to doing everything with micro USB. I do think the micro USB was just a better connector., which you've probably never heard anyone actually say as a serious statement, but believe me, I am being completely serious right now. USB-C, I think, is a horrible connector, and I am holding out moving over to USB-C, honestly, as long as possible. I don't know why it is such a poorly constructed cable. It may have something to do with the fact that it's a reversible cable.

And when you have something reversible, you inherently have to make the structure... You have to structure the cable in a way that makes it like that which is going to remove your ability to reinforce the cable like you would in um in something that isn't reversible for example like uh usb-a like the the pc or the plastic uh bin that isn't there for reinforcement but it does reinforce the cable. Like, that's there as part of the connector, but it does make the structure more rigid. That's probably why USB-A cables never fail.

I've never seen a USB-A cable fail. MicroUSB, it's sort of the same structure, but at a smaller scale. MicroUSB does fail every so often, but usually it's the joint between the metal and the plastic itself, and that will sort of bend. will sort of bend. Sometimes you also have the pins in like the little hook pins inside also grind a bit and then eventually not actually grip properly. I've never understood the whole desire for wanting to have a reversible cable. Like I've sure sometimes you plug the cable in the wrong way but like you're not actually gonna plug it in. You're gonna you plug the cable in the wrong way, but like, you're not actually going to plug it in. You're going to realize, oh, the cable doesn't go in and then turn back around and then you realize it's fine. I've heard some people try to like jam micro USB in backwards and then they break it. Like, how did you do that? Like, it's a different shape. Like, you know, those, those

toys you have as a kid where like, there's a lid on it and it's like put the blocks into the correct hole this is that person who goes and puts every single shape into the square hole it's like oh circle square hole square square hole triangle square hole rectangle square hole they all fit might as well just all put them in the exact same hole doesn't matter. So there's nothing I can do about it because modern devices are going USB-C whether I like it or not. Um, and look, uh, I can sit here and complain about it, but that's about as much as I can do. And it's not like there's going to be choices for like, oh, you want to get a device that doesn't have USB-C? Well, good luck not buying new things. Like, just buy old controllers and stuff.

I don't want to do that. I want to use the modern shit, but I also don't like the USB-C. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, but also it doesn't really matter because I'm complaining about a fucking USB cable. Like, it doesn't actually... in the grand scheme of things, having to buy a $2 cable, like, every couple of months isn't a big deal. It's just more annoying than it should be. And when a cable dies, like, literally in the middle of using it,

it's quite annoying and I don't want to have to deal with it. But that is life. That is life and life is going to be like life do be. Now you thought you were going to escape it, but I guess I should just make Final Fantasy a core part of the podcast at this point because basically every week I have at least something to talk about. Because I do play a lot of the game. It's sort of like the one game I am playing in my free time right now.

Outside of Shin Megami Tensei III. Which I'm slowly making progress through. But my thought is, look. If I can go play Final Fantasy or SMT3 a lot of the time. I'm sort of just in the mood for Final Fantasy instead. But I am getting very close to 50 on my Black Mage. And man, can I just say, I really, really, really like Black Mage. really, really like Black Mage.

Like, at the start, so the way that Final Fantasy works, all of the jobs below level 30 are basically really boring. Like, there's not really much fun. Okay, it's not that bad, right? But up to level 30 is basically the tutorial. Then from 30 to 50, it's the extended uh extended tutorial but those first 30 levels sort of introduce you to like what your job does like what your purpose

in the party is sort of your basic combos and basic abilities but it's past that point where you start getting like the big important abilities that sort of define what your job actually do. And being, I think my Black Mage is at level 45 now, I've gotten a really cool ability, that being Firestarter. Holy shit, Firestarter is fun. Holy shit! Fire starter is fun. So, basically the idea with fire starter is every time you cast the fire spell

there is a 40% chance that you get a free cast of Fire 3? Fire 3, yes. Fire 3 is a more powerful version of Fire. It's not just a free cast, it's also an instant cast. So you cast Fire, and then straight away, there's an instant cast, I guess after the GCD cooldown, there's the Fire 3 cast, and everything just explodes.

And then sometimes, because it's a 40% chance, you will get another one straight away and then shit just keeps blowing up constantly. I now see why Black Mage is fun. Earlier on, it's great. It's all cool. But like, being able to just blow shit up constantly like

this, I think this is why people actually play and really like the Black Mage. So here's a list of what I should have up to 45. So I just got Thunder... Oh no, so I haven't got Thunder 3 yet because that's the job quest that I haven't got around to doing yet. But Thunder 3 deals lightning damage with a potency of 50. Additional effect, lightning damage over time. Oh, so this is

a... Wait, does this just replace Thunder 1? Uh... That literally does the exact same thing as Thunder 1. I think it might replace it. Either way, that's going to be the next spell I get.

The only other thing I get up to 50, so Ethereal Manipulation, Rush to a target member's side, Unable to cast if bound. So basically that's your Black Mage's Teleport, which I don't know. Unable to cast if bound. So basically that's your Black Mage's teleport. Which. I don't know. I guess. I guess the reason why you might use that.

Besides obviously moving around the dungeon. Probably to get yourself. Out of the way of a big attack. Like maybe you're stuck. In a. Maybe you're stuck. In attack range. With someone outside of the attack range, and you just jump over to them.

I think that's why you might want to use that. And then Flare. I guess Flare is the equivalent of Freeze. So Freeze is an ice-aspected spell. We can only use if you're under the effects of Umbrel Ice, which is... Basically, you've used an ice spell, we can only use if you're under the effects of umbral ice which is um basically you've used an ice spell

and then flare is the equivalent of that both these are aoe attacks that costs all of your MP okay so like does it Okay. So, like, does damage reduce as you lose MP? No, it doesn't.

Okay, so it doesn't. The way you would use this, then, is you would use this at the end of an AoE combo. So, you'd get into your fire aspect with fire three, then you would fire three, fire three, fire three, until you get down to basically no mana. Then you flare, then you, oh, I lost the screen. Um, then you would go and blizzard three and then go back into your blizzard phase and then keep staying blizzard phase until you get full MP, go back into your Blizzard phase, and then keep staying in Blizzard phase until you get full MP, swap back with Fire 3 again, and then you're good to go. Anything after that is going to be Heaven's Ward content, which I'm not going to be dealing with for a little bit. As I've said before, I'm going to be going back and trying out different jobs,

just because I want to see what the others are like. But I am. I am really liking Black Mage. The only problem with Black Mage is. Because it's. Because it's a DPS job. And because DPS. Got a new role.

Because it got a new job. That being the Reaper in Endwalker. DPS queuing isn't fun. It is not fun whatsoever. It's not that horrible. A lot of the time what I do is I'll get into queue and then just go start like going through my hunt log or anything like that. Just getting some shit done while I'm waiting like five, ten minutes to take some extra queue. Compare that to Tank, where right now, because no one's playing Tank, it's literally an instant queue for anything

that actually has a... anything that has a... what's the word? A party trying to get it. Speaking of queues though, Queue queue simulator 14 has been it's been getting better

when I want to when I try to log in at peak time now I think there's only like 400 players in queue which sounds like a lot but launch day there was like 5000 so it's coming back down people

are like getting to the end of getting to the end of the MSQ and Endwalker they're like they're getting the stuff they want and the people who weren't playing all the time are going back to not playing all the time and they'll probably come back when

like 6.1 drops or whatever patch they decide to come back for. So it's getting a little bit more, a little bit more tolerable, and which is, which is quite nice, and I'm very, very, very, very happy with that. Wait, so wait. Hold on. I was just looking at the PvE actions versus PvP. And there were some spells removed in... for the PvE side, which are still there for PvP.

Sure. Okay. I don't know why PvP works so differently from PvE now, but I also don't know why PvP works so differently from PvE now but I also don't PvE I don't PvP because this is Final Fantasy 14

and why would you PvP the game's still a lot of fun I'm still very happy that I started playing it and yeah still not sure about what job I'm going to happy that I started playing it, and yeah. Still not sure about what job I'm gonna do next, but I'll work that out when I get to it, and have fun with whatever it is I decide to do.

But I haven't actually played any FFXIV this week, because I've been too busy working and shit, so sadly, I don't have much else to say, but like, working and shit, so, sadly, um, I don't have much else to say, but, yeah, I think that's pretty much all I have to say for FFXIV at this point, after, I should probably have anything to say next week, actually, because I'll probably get, like, one little session

to play, like, this weekend, and that's pretty much going to be it, Yeah, so... I guess maybe there won't be any, um... There won't be any... any FFXIV to talk about next week. And for the guys who don't like FFXIV, maybe that'll be better for you. If you do like it, well, uh...

tune in for the following week, because I guarantee there will be more, much, much more FFXIV at that point. What have we got here? Oh, oh, you know what? Let's end off the podcast by ranting about NFTs. So have you guys heard about the Bored Ape Project? The super great project that has amazing art that everybody loves.

Well, Bored Apes sell for a lot of money. At least they are supposed to. So someone, they were doing their daily trades, you know, flipping NFT art, because that's what you do when you buy NFTs. You don't actually care about the art. All you care about is, because why would you care about it? It's all shit art.

All you care about is making money. Someone accidentally sold their Bored Ape NFT for $3,000 instead of $300,000. And you know what? Serves you fucking right. I don't feel the slightest, absolute slightest bit of sympathy for someone who is buying NFT art and then loses $300,000. If you do, that's good. I don't care. All I care about in this situation is that I get to laugh at you. The thing that makes it even funnier, though, is this guy tried to then cancel the sale, but because this is the NFT world and people are just, like, botting everything,

someone had instantly bought it because, like, the way it probably happened is they were probably, like, auto-buying anything below a certain value and then it got insta-buied. So they got it and then sold it instantly for $250,000. Oh, I love it. I genuinely love

the fact that this guy lost $300,000. That might make me sound like a bad person, and maybe it does. But I don't care. When they initially sold, they were selling for $320.

Now, they sell for at least $200,000. Good. Good. I want more stories like this to come out so more people can laugh at NFs and be like yeah yeah they're stupid aren't they um hey maybe there's use for the technology itself but there's certainly no use whatsoever in the uh the current market the current state of the NFT market is absolutely fucked and it needs to get

it needs to sort of go through this this phase of everything fucking dies and everybody just laughs speaking of that speaking of laughing

honestly the best the best the best take on nfts you'll ever hear is keanu reeves take so there was you probably heard about at this point but i love it nonetheless so keanu reeves was asked about nfts because for the new crypto movie i knew the new matrix movie do you think it's the new matrix movie they're doing like an nft collection alongside of it um and this is his take it's it's fucking amazing it's dystopian like the way the original matrix kind of presented all this is like kind of dystopian where tech was headed like do you think the metaverse is everyone's talking about it now i mean yeah i don't care about the metaverse right crypto currents creation right it's fine it's economic creation right wait there's more to the take than

people actually be showing okay no we're gonna watch the entire thing then do you think it's dystopian like the way the original matrix kind of presented all this is like kind of dystopian where tech was headed like do you think the metaverse is everyone's talking about it now i mean yeah because it's you know i mean it's also you know it's content creation it's fine it's economic creation right cryptocurrency are either of you into cryptocurrency personally a friend of mine bought some for me a while back so but you haven't done anything with it i haven't had to just sitting there appreciating it's just just like, it's probably good. They call that hodl, just to sit there and hold it.

It's called hodl, when you just don't touch your crypto, even if it tanks a little bit, you hodl it. Yeah. So you're hodling your crypto. Yeah, I have a little hodl. She looks... She's not going to be in this conversation right now. Did you guys see the Matrix...

Here's the fun bit, okay bit okay t thing that they did for resurrections just a couple days ago they know they made uh nfts for the new movie and there were like a hundred thousand of them and the site broke like in the first few hours because there were over 300 000 people in the queue trying to buy these nfts for. Just, they're like, mm-hmm. They're trying to, like, let him finish talking before, like, you can clearly see in their eyes, they're like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yup, uh-huh. And so, like, when you think about the concept of digital scarcity and things that are You know, they can't be copied that are easily reproduced

Well, but they're not the same right? It's not fake version of you I wonder what are do we get a cut of that or no? I don't actually I don't think we're in them They probably did other people they can't be copied Oh my god The law like I don't care about the rest of what he said here the laugh is the best part of this take produced well but they're not the same right it's not i think um was it muda heart was it coffeezilla put it best it sounds like he's sort of auditioning for the uh for a role as a hyena in the lion king you know they reproduced well but they're not the

same right it's not fake version of you i wonder what are do we get a cut of that oh no i don't actually i don't think we're in them they probably did other people you can see that he has not given shit about entities whatsoever and just taking the piss out of this. And honestly, it is the best take that I've ever... It is a culmination of all of everything I've said about what I don't like about NFTs, just put into this one little soundbite. Just that laugh sums up everything that I think about the current state of the crypto market, the current state of

NFTs, and how little that I think that you should take it seriously. So to anyone, any companies out there who are listening to this who are like, oh, I maybe will think of getting Brody to promote my NFT collection.

Only if I can laugh at it. Only if I can laugh at it and tell people not to buy it. If that's fine, I'm happy. I'm happy to promote it and tell people not to do it. But don't expect me to be positive about it. Because I'm not going to promote people buying jpegs for ludicrous amounts of money because while these are like 50 right now they're going to go up a lot they are going to go up a lot i guarantee within like a few weeks they're going to be hundreds of thousands

especially now that keanu has laughed about them now that that happened i guarantee they're going to go up even more because now the crypto bros gonna be like oh how dare he make fun of our project nfts are the future nfts are so great how dare you do that uh i actually did see someone who is not not about the keanu thing but who is just so lost in the world of crypto, they think that crypto can solve everything. This got 8,000 upvotes on r slash cryptocurrency because everyone on this subreddit is obviously really, really dumb. I was reminded today that Ticketmaster desperately needs to go the way of Blockbuster.

I bought a ticket seat for a tour concert next year, $74, with fees that came through $97. Ridiculous considering I don't even receive a physical ticket anymore. Blockchain, once mainstream and widespread, will break the stranglehold middlemen have over holdover venues. Imagine direct selling NFs to fans and locking in price so scalping is practically non-existent and the artist would still get a kickback on secondary sales maybe lock in transferring the ticket more than once there's so many possibilities i'm sure these issues will get resolved someday this is why crypto is so exciting the possibilities are endless so also then he says yeah because people

would be like yeah but what about the gas fees which is also a very legitimate issue but like none of what's being said in here none of literally none of what's being said in here requires crypto literally none of it so do you know why the fees are so expensive because ticket master does not like you the ticket master is gonna be like fuck you i'm gonna set the fees to whatever i want and do you know why ticket master can do that oh sorry why the oh why i guess ticket master the one adding the fees but ultimately these tickets are expensive anyway. Do you know why Ticketmaster can do that? Because they have relationships with these venues. You can't just go out of your way and be like, yes, I'm going to just book this venue. Like you need to go through the people who have the ability to let you book the venue. And to do that, you need to have a

relationship with them. And Ticketmaster is one of the ways that you sort of, you know, handle that relationship. Blockchain once mainstream will break the stranglehold middlemen have over venues. It won't because the venues will still have their relationships with these existing providers and what's going to happen

is Ticketmaster will then just become a crypto platform, like they'll just offer you tickets in crypto. Imagine direct selling NFTs to fans and locking in the price so scalping is practically non-existent. Do you know how you deal with the scalping problem? And the artist would get a kickback of secondary sales, maybe lock in transferring the ticket more than once.

The way you lock in the scalping problem is you lock the ticket to the name on the ticket. And then when someone shows you the ticket, if their ticket does not match up with their ID, then the ticket is not valid. This is how you deal with the scalping problem. And this is how you already deal with it. Like this isn't a new idea to deal with scalping. This is how scalping is already dealt with. You have the person's name on the ticket, and then you check their ID at the door. That's all you need to do.

You don't need NFTs to do that. You just need to destroy the market by not letting the tickets be valid unless they have a valid ID associated with the ticket. None of these are solved by crypto. Yes, crypto is a solution to some of these, not this one, this one's dumb. But it is a solution to this one, but it's not a solution that already doesn't exist. But the comments on here are so great. Why would scalpers not exist in the new system?

Comments on here are so great. Why would scalpers not exist in the new system? That's a good question. I guess if you locked the ticket, like the person said, but that's the only way, which you can already do in real life in the state it's currently in. Let's see. I did see some... I did see some...

Isn't Ticketmaster just a company that buys tickets in the hopes of reselling them? No. No, definitely not. I did see some comments in here, but they probably got either deleted by the mods or downvoted to hell. Tickets should be stable... Okay, sure. Where did the fun comments to disagree with this go? Yeah, because gas fees are so much better, right?

True. Ticketmaster can set the fees to whatever they want. Actually, Ticketmaster gives you higher fees if you want a digital ticket rather than a physical ticket. The reason why it's like that is because they can just do that. They don't care. This isn't a digital ticket. Rather than a physical ticket. The reason why it's like that. Is because they can just do that. They don't care. This isn't a crypto problem. This is just doesn't matter.

We have the relationships. Like lol we're just going to do what we want. Make the tickets the NFT. Oh my lord. Actually there already is a platform that does this anyway, so it's not like it's a future thing. It's just that you'd need your events to actually go through it, which would also mean you'd need your managers to use that system,

which would be very unlikely. I love how so many people think that... Wait, I'm sorry, gas... Wait, Ethereum gas fees are that high? Wait, that's $74 but costs $342 after gas fees. What the fuck?

Why is Ethereum so broken right now? Why is Ethereum so broken right now? Locking in price for scalping is practically non-existent. That's impossible since you can give the keys to NFT to someone else. You can always pay real money to the scalper. Well, yeah, you could always just bypass. Yeah, you literally can't lock in the price. I actually didn't think of that.

You can just sell it outside of the system and then just transfer it for free. Yes, for the first time, people will be able to sell tickets directly over the internet. Never before has such technology graced the minds of men. Imagine complaining about going to see Tool. That's fair, actually. Blockchain wouldn't even devour this, though. Wait.

I think the person's agreeing with me, but I can't understand the sentence. But you either have people who have no idea like why this doesn't actually matter or people who are like me who are like no we like literally all of these all of these systems already exist that you don't need crypto for like this is the problem with a lot of the hey look at all of the great things that crypto can do a lot of the things that people say that crypto is

great for you can already do like you don't need a crypto system to be able to sell in game items for money you can do that already it's called real money trading. And it makes games worse.

You don't need it. Or this whole ticket situation. You don't need crypto for it. There are already solutions that exist that are in place today. One of the few things that it does account for is or it does make sense for is making sure that creators of art get paid but even so it doesn't really because nfts aren't stored on the blockchain so if someone just sees the picture, they can still save it. So, like, it doesn't help for that either. Like, I've never heard a use case for NFTs.

There are use cases for crypto, sure. And as long as people are hyped about it, there are certainly money to be made there. Like an immutable database, for example. An immutable database is a perfectly valid reason for a blockchain. Because sure, you can make an immutable database, immutable decentralized database, to be more specific. You can do this without a blockchain,

but you sort of have to trust that they are not manipulating the data but with the blockchain then you couldn't do that like that's an actual use case things like this are not things like this are people just been like wow crypto is so great here's the thing I didn't really think about I crypto so so so so so, so, so, so perfect. Oh, mate. We're not in a bear market. Here's why. No shit, we're not in a bear market.

Have you seen how fucking high the prices are? Are NFTs useful or are they just an outlet for money laundering? It's a good question, isn't it? Especially in the current state of the NFT market. Like the Bored Apes, I'm not saying they are, but look, Bored Apes are not paying the artist money because there's not an artist. A lot of the modern crypto projects we see now,

a lot of the modern crypto projects we see now, a lot of the modern NFT projects aren't actually supporting artists. Like, there's no artist here. Because they literally, like, brag about the fact that these pictures are procedurally generated. Like, that's... Why am I paying you money then? I don't understand. Like, you's... Why am I paying you money then? I don't understand.

Like, you've done nothing. You've just written a Python script. Wroten? You've just written a Python script that changes some fucking colors around. Cool, pay me money. I can do that as well. Crypto. Crypto is fun.

We'll end off the podcast with two things that are not crypto and are actually good. We don't know. I don't think we know exactly what this is going to be at this point. Some people have said a movie, but I don't know if that's been confirmed or not. So some people are saying Okay people are saying movie I guess it has been confirmed movie somewhere This is a I guess a crossover movie

Between SSSS Gridman And SSSS Dinozenon Honestly it's going to be really really Really cool Both of these are Like they're in the same universe SSSS Dinozenon, honestly, is going to be really, really, really cool. Both of these are in the same universe. And there's like 30 plus years of extended universe with live action series as well. So there's a lot of content that can be built upon with this franchise.

But there's going to be a crossover between these two series which means we're gonna have like at minimum a 10 minute uh combination scene where all of the characters in both of these seasons are going to combine together to fight some sort of big bad guy i don't know what it's gonna be but either way it's gonna be fucking hype and i am super super excited about it i'm not usually a big mecha fan but i did enjoy the uh i did enjoy grid man and dino xenon so i'll be absolutely checking this out really doubt it's gonna get a screening near me i I would love if it did. If, uh, if, if, if, uh, I guess they're Funimation now.

If Funimation is listening to this, please get a screening in Australia. I will love you forever. I'll, I'll, I'll give you money for once. Um, the other, the other big one, um, the other one i want to mention is there is now some new art

for dragon ball super let's see if we can get the link the uh the new movie dragon ball these were dragon ball superhero yes dragon ball superhero We don't really know a ton about the movie just yet. I'm pretty sure it's all CG from what we saw. And Pan is in it, which is cool. But I don't see any Goten or Trunks, which is really annoying. any Goten or Trunks, which is really annoying because Goten and Trunks have been sidelined for such a long fucking time and they are actually good characters, but they never get any screen time and they're still stuck at like the same age. They've been the same age since Dragon ball z and there's been like six or

so years between that and now superhero my presumption so basically what i understand of this movie is the red ribbon army has gone and made some androids those being these two androids here um they're probably going to beat the shit out of Goku and Vegeta and probably Gohan Piccolo as well and what's probably going to happen is Broly is going to show up and be like yo I'm Broly and punch them

and they die because there needs to be some way to bring Broly back into like the main series and that's probably the way it's going to be done. And then from there. I presume we're going to get another season of Dragon Ball Super at some point. Maybe.

I don't know what they'd call it. Maybe Super Plus Plus or something. Whatever. Super Z. Super Kai Z. Whatever they want to call it. And then I imagine they'll do the same thing that happened with Dragon Ball Super. Where they recap the previous two movies that happened.

And then go into other stuff. So we get a recap of Broly. And then a recap of Super Hero. And then go into the fun stuff that's happening in the manga now. Which the power scaling is fucking broken in the manga. Uh, they just re- they realized that- or that Toriyama realized that he's broken the power scaling and just needs to, like, he needs to like break the existing cannon just to make things get bigger. So, I don't know how much further you can really take where Dragon Ball's at at this point,

but hey, it's fun nonetheless. I like seeing giant laser battles and I'm happy to see more of them. And I'd be very happy with more of the main series because Super, even though Super wasn't perfect at some points, I felt like the Tournament of Power was honestly the... I feel like Tournament of Power was the best arc that Dragon Ball's had in a very long time.

In a very, very long time. Granted, there wasn't a lot of Dragon Ball for a very long time, so maybe that's a bit of a weird statement to make. So, I'm going to... I hope it gets a screening here. It is Dragon Ball, so it's much more likely than Dino Xenon and Gridman to get one.

And Demon Slayer did get one when that aired the what is it? What is the Japanese name? I know the English name is like Infinity Train. Demon Slayer. Ah, Mugen Train. That one. Yes, that one. So, okay, Mugen Yasha. Uh, anyway. Um.

And then, S.A.R.E. Progressive got one. Sadly, Progressive was only at one Cinder of Mind Tire state. So. Yeah. That's not fun. Hopefully, being Dragon Ball, it does get more cinemas. Hopefully one

close to me. Maybe like five minutes away. Five minutes would be good. That's usually where I go. But, not that time. Anyway, I guess this is going to be the last podcast you see this year

because this will come out when will this come out the wait no maybe you'll see one more wait what day is New Year's Eve? I think it's a Thursday. Maybe you'll see one more after this.

New Year's Eve. Friday. Okay, so New Year's Eve is on a Friday. So there's one more podcast for this year. And I don't have anything planned for it, but there will be topics, like always. And then maybe I'll do like a recap of the year or something, talk about stuff that happened earlier in the year. That sounds like effort, though. And this is the podcast where effort is something I'm allergic to.

So that's going to be pretty much it for me today. If you like the podcast and you want to support my content and all of that fun stuff, I've got... Do I have my Patreon, Liberapay, and Scribstar linked in the description? I should.

If I don't, then I'll add them to the thing. Main channel, Brodie Robertson, where I do Linux-y videos and various other things that catch my attention. I've got the gaming channel where I do gaming twice a week, upload Favre's YouTube Shorts.

At this stage, we are still it may be different by then, but at this stage we are still playing through Bloodborne, the Bourne of the Blood, even though I really don't like the fucking blood vial system. It's the worst system in the entire series. And also Kingdom Hearts, Rechain of Memories specifically,

but we're probably going to be done with Rechain in one more stream. After that, I'm probably going to play Hollow Knight at this point because I am very excited to play it, and people have told me to play it for a very long time. I loved Ender Lilies, and I sort of like this idea of the Dark Souls-esque Metroidvania sort of thing. Didn't think I would like it when I first played them, but I've started to enjoy this genre, and the Dark Souls-esque Metroidvania is sort of becoming a genre all to itself. There are so many games in that specific subset of Souls-like

that there's plenty to choose from. There's actually one about a rat that I saw recently that I need to check out as well. I've got the name of the game is, but the commentator, uh, at least in the video that I was watching, the, the guy doing the video said the commentator was Geralt from Witcher 3. So yeah. Um, yeah. Anyway, I'll find out the name about that one. I'll mention it next week. If I remember, if I don't, then you'll see it when I get around to streaming it at some point.

Anyway, if you like the podcast, it is available as an audio version basically anywhere. If you did listen to the audio version, though, the video version is available on YouTube and Odyssey. I cannot speak. I am a bad YouTuber. Um, and yeah, that's gonna be pretty much it for me then.

Uh, this will be out just before Christmas, so I guess, Merry Christmas to everybody seeing this then. Um, enjoy enjoy your holiday season and don't get too drunk

because I know that I will that's going to be it for me and I'm out