Tech Over Tea - GPT 4 Is Here To Steal Your Memes | Solo

Episode Date: March 22, 2023

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. Welcome to episode one hundred and sixty of Tech of a T. I am as always your host, Brodie Robertson. And you know what, like, kind of annoys me, right? Not, okay, it doesn't really annoy me, it's not like this major deal that really matters, but it just kind of gets under my skin a little i really like talking about all of this machine learning all this ai stuff going on right now i find it really really exciting i am following every little thing that's going on but then when i make a video on the main channel, even when I frame it around, you know, a topic that I feel like would be really interesting to the viewers of the main channel, every single time, it's like, hmm, so nobody cares. Like, it's not like, you you know an awfully performing video that absolutely nobody watches

but it's it's just like this is one of the like you know youtube gives you the uh you know the top 10 videos in the like the orders the top 10 videos based on the performance and usually when i do an ai video it's like eighth ninthth, 9th, or 10th place. Every single time. Even though this is such a fun topic and so much cool stuff is going on right now, nobody in my viewer base actually cares. Usually it gets like a relatively high click-through and then just plummets. Because usually the way that YouTube works is you get like the core audience watching something then it expands out expands out expands out expands out if it doesn't expect like if you

don't get enough viewers within that like expanding range then it pretty much just stops there and stops going what you want is a video that hits your core audience hits the audience outside that outside of that outside of that and eventually it goes. That does not happen when I do an AI video, but I can talk about AI here, because on this channel, I literally don't care about anything. So, I can talk about, you know, Final Fantasy XIV, actually make it better. I can talk about Final Fantasy XI, a game that nobody plays, and nobody cares about whatsoever. Or I can talk about GPT-4. So GPT-4, I want to say it just hit the scene yesterday for me.

GPT-4, yesterday, the day before. Yesterday. So that's the 15th for me. And I guess for the Americans, it would have been the 14th that happened. The of March 2023. I don't know what year you're watching this. Anyway, GPT-4. I did not know.

I knew obviously chat GPT was being powered by GPT 3.5. Obviously, I knew that things were going to get better. I didn't realize how big the jump was going to be. So, you may have seen this floating around. Let's see if I can find it. This is one of those parts where you

really want to be watching the video version. Because GPT-4 can understand memes. So here we go. This is a very simple two-part meme with stick figures, nothing that crazy. If you're just listening, I will read out the text. So the top part is statistical learning. You have an angry stick figure pointing to a chart that is going down. People, our learner overgeneralizes because the VC dimension of our kernel is too high. Get some experts and minimize the structural risk in a new one.

Rework our loss function. Make the next kernel stable, unbiased, and consider using a soft margin. Soft margin? Soft margin. soft margin. The second part, we have a joker stick figure pointing to a graph that is going up, and this is neural network. Stack more layers, but unironically. And then GPT-4 can actually explain why this meme is funny now I would debate this meme is funny, but it can't explain it so the comic is satirizing the difference in approaches to improving at model performance between

Statistical learning and neural networks in statistical learning the character is shown to be concerned with Overfitting and suggests a series of complex and technical solutions, such as minimizing structural risk, reworking the loss function, and using a soft margin. Margin, not margin. I'm going to keep doing that the entire episode. In contrast, the neural networks character simply suggests adding more layers to the model. This is often seen as a common solution to improving performance in neural networks, but it's also considered a simplistic and brute force approach.

The humor comes from the contrast between the complexity and specificity of the statistical learning approach and the simplicity and generality of the neural network approach. The but unironically comment adds to the humor by implying that despite being simplistic, the stack more layers approach is often effective in practice. Which is pretty much a perfect explanation. And this is not the only explanation. So this one here, this is the technical report that OpenAI released about GPT-4, and I believe it's on page, what is this one? Here's page nine. This is, what is funny about

this image? Describe it panel by panel. So, we have an iPhone here. We have a, I guess, an iPhone here, we have a... I guess it's a VGA cable, but it's got a... it's like a... the housing of a VGA cable, but it's got a lightning? Is it called lightning? The iPhone port? Or is that a... wait, sorry, that might not actually be lightning, that might be... it might not be an iPhone. The point is, it's not a VGA cable. It's actually the charging cable for the phone. I guess it is a lightning cable. It literally says right after it. The image shows a package for a lightning cable adapter with three panels. Panel one, a smartphone with a VGA connector, a large blue 15-pin connector typically used for computer monitors plugged into its charging port. The package for the lightning cable,

the package for the lightning cable adapter with a picture of a VGA connector on it. Panel 3, a close-up of the VGA connector with a small lightning connector used for charging iPhones and other Apple devices at the end. The humor in this image comes from the absurdity of plugging a large outdated VGA connector into a small modern smartphone charging port, which is once again a perfect explanation of what is going on in that meme. Or we have this one where it's chicken nuggets shaped like the world map. Sometimes you just look at pictures of the Earth from space and I marvel at how beautiful it is.

This meme is a joke that combines two unrelated things. Pictures of the Earth from space and chicken nuggets. The most important thing. The text of the meme suggests the image below is a beautiful picture of the earth from space however the image is actually of chicken nuggets arranged to vaguely resemble a map of the world wait a map of the yeah lost my spot the humor in this meme comes from the unexpected juxtaposition of the text and the image.

The text sets up an expectation of a majestic image of the earth, but the image is actually something mundane and silly. Just quit. Like, just quit living at this point, because everything is going to be handled by AI. Like, it's getting to the point. I was thinking of something, um, something done the other day, and I kind of want to buy the domain just in case someone else buys it. So, you know how there's that website called Let Me Google That For You, and there's a bunch of different like iterations of it as well. If you've never seen it, basically the idea is, you know, people will ask you a dumb question. It's a question that if you just typed it into Google would give you the results straight away. So the idea with let me Google that for you is

you send them this page. So let's say you want to search for something like, how do I make an apple pie? So if someone asks you, how do you make an apple pie? Well, search it on Google. And then if you go grab the, let me Google that link for you, then it'll go and Google it for you. So the idea that I came up with, right, and I'm sure someone else has thought of this, and I'm sure someone else is going to implement it, let me GPT that for you. There are no results for how to make an Apple...

Okay, take back what I said, this site's broken. How is it broken? All it has to do is query the fucking Google API. How's it broken? All it has to do is query the fucking Google API. Um... Let me GPT that for you. So if someone says, I don't understand this meme, well, what you can do is you can get, you can get GPT-4 to analyze the meme and explain it to you. We have entered a ridiculous time where AI systems are going to have a better grasp on internet humor than actual people are. Like, obviously people on the internet that are like, you know,

terminally online have a good grasp of internet humor. But if you take some of the nonsense you see on like, some of like the Twitch memes, for example, like just a very simple one, like, uh, like some of like the twitch memes for example like just a very simple one like uh from xenosis vex's chat like xffing or make the tree like dumb things like this regular people are like i have what does xffing mean what does that mean i have no idea so those idea. So, those people can defer to the AI to explain how these dumb internet memes work and actually understand what their 12-year-old is saying. We have entered a time

where the normies can understand internet memes. And depending on what datasets these models are going to be trained on well you could have some uh some 4chan memes being explained which i'm sure is gonna go perfectly well i i am very curious to see how how far this goes like everything is improving so quickly just one of the areas i've been paying

attention to is ai art so i remember like during the like early days like i want to say early days means like a year ago like a year two years ago where the ai art systems that existed were just well we generate this thing and it looks weird. It's got like seven fingers on one hand and three on the other. It's got a missing leg, but it's also got like this half extra leg as well. Like it's just a mess and absolute garbage. I'm sure you've all seen some of the early AI art. Early AI...

Anime is where it's most entertaining. Let's see. See if we can find something fun. It's been replaced with all the good art. Actually, you know what? This works. Here you go. We've all seen pictures like this, where it's like, I have no idea what's even going on, but then we look at, like, where it is now, and I browse pixiv relatively often, looking for images, um, and it's getting to the point, as of i think as of i think like last month

some of the art being generated i have to like do a bit of a double take seeing if i can spot it right now it's gotten to the it's genuinely getting to the point where unless you zoom in on the image it's very difficult to tell like if you look at an image that's been like zoomed out it's like how you have it on like a phone for example it's not like there's extra digits anything like that it looks like you would expect it to if it was drawn by hand now that's obviously not every model. But like the big thing happening now is. People blending models together. Giving the model like a specific style.

And this is how it's improving so quickly. As I've said in previous episodes. It's getting crazy. I think one of the things that could be. Like sort of a. Put brakes on this entire thing is one area we sort of have tools for at this point is AI music generation. There are tools that are available. They're not like they're nowhere near as good as what we are seeing on the text and image side.

Like they're nowhere near as good as what we are seeing on the text and image side. So they're not really getting anywhere near as much attention as some of those tools are getting. But when they do, I feel like that's one area that you could legitimately see something be stopped. Like Sony, for example, and all of the other big music labels, if they find out that their work is being used unlicensed in these models, whoever is building that, like, those models, the big companies behind it, they are going to get sued. Like, these companies don't fuck around. The difference with the, the art, text, and I guess code as well with GitHub Copilot, is there's not really any, there's not really any big targets that are being fucked with, like, from my understanding, GitHub Copilot didn't, well, GitHub Copilot's also

by Microsoft, so they're not going to include their own private code in there, but it's not including private repos, the thing that would actually be, you know, get some force behind a lawsuit. Because sure, the EFF is going to get annoyed by staff and sure, the FSF and all of these, you know, organizations, but not massive. The EFF is probably, maybe the Linux Foundation, EFF or Linux Foundation would probably be the biggest organizations in the programming space that would really care about AI code generation. At least until you fucked over some of the big companies using some of their proprietary code, but they know not to do that. AI art is pretty much the same.

There is not really a big organization in a position to go up against, you know, Midjourney or anything like that. What's the company behind Midjourney? Are they called Midjourney? Who develops it? Um...

Oh! It's... wait. who develops it um oh it's wait no it's from an independent research lab so i guess yeah someone could go against it or like you have dali from open ai like open ai has a lot of money like billions of dollars at this point they they went from being a non-profit, I think back in, I think Elon Musk was actually part of forming OpenAI and then eventually became a for-profit company. Now they have a lot of money and are backed by Microsoft.

So, yeah. Like, who, is there anybody in the art space that has enough money to hold a lawsuit against Microsoft, basically? The answer is really no. Like, I totally understand the concerns of the artists who are like, my art's being stolen.

This is so terrible. How dare this happen? But the problem is that nobody has the resources to fight back against that. So it's pretty much just gonna happen no matter what people say on Twitter. And that's not a good thing. It's just the way it is. But music is one of those places where there are really big entities you could fuck with who really are not going to be happy i would imagine any sensible person training an ai music model would train

up more on like the youtube music on creative commons music where it's not going to be a problem you do not want to fuck with sony You do not want to fuck with any of the big music labels because they will fuck with you and you will probably lose. They have more money than you do unless you're Microsoft. I could imagine, you know, if OpenAI wanted to go down the music generation route, I could imagine a lawsuit between OpenAI and Sony Music. Like, lawsuit between OpenAI and Sony Music. Like, that could happen. I don't know if it's gonna happen. I really

don't. I think OpenAI is just focused on text and image right now, because that seems like the most... Like, text especially seems like the most... The... Maybe not the easiest, but the most obvious thing to target if you're, actually, I guess it would probably be the, I guess it would probably be

the easiest out of, like, you know, music, digital art, things like that, like, there's so much extra art, things like that. Like, there's so much extra sort of, how would you say, I guess, details? Maybe that's not the best word, but extra criteria that needs to sort of line up if you're dealing with AI art, for example. Like, just a very simple example. Let's say you have AI art where it's a portrait. Well, there are very clear things that people know that a portrait should and shouldn't have. So you want to have the correct number of fingers. You want to have the eyes placed in a way where they make sense. Yes, there are people that have a lazy eye, but unless the lazy eye is intentional, it looks kind of off in an art piece. Like if,

if it's not clearly set up to be a lazy eye, it's more like one of the eyes are slightly off. Like the human brain and the human eyes, whatever are really good at working out that a face is off. And this is even true with like ai uh anime stuff and like stylized stuff where you know it's not necessarily realistic but we still have a general concept of how a face should look like even though anime faces are anime faces, and especially with, like, the moe stuff with the giant eyes, things like that, you look at that sort of face, and you know it's a

face. Like, you can see, like, when, when an anime face is off, even though it's not, like, a real face. Like, even if you've never watched anime, you can certainly tell, uh, when a face is off. Let me see if I can find a good example of this. It's not AI stuff, but it is the original version of Canon. Where is it yeah here we go this is

there are pictures that exaggerate it but this is one of the actual frames from the show like there's just something the eyes are a little bit too far apart it it throws you off just a little bit there's just something disconcerting about eyes that are

that big that far apart compare that to something you know, the remake of Canon or pretty much anything else, where you're like, okay, it's clearly weird. It's clearly still an anime face, but, like, it's not that bad. It's not horribly bad. But, you know, if you've not, honestly, if you've not looked at the current state of i think the area that's improving the quickest is ai anime because there's just so much there's

just so much art already out there and kumas i i'm not i'm not joking when I say this, right? But the area that's improving the quickest is the hentai. Like, this is just what it is. It is what it is. It's sort of the same with sort of any tech that evolves, any tech that gets adopted, where porn is usually the driving force behind it gaining traction. Like this is why movie,

like movie cinemas, movie theaters, cinemas, whatever theaters will say move places where you go to watch a movie with other people. One of the things that pushed them was porn. Like there was a time where you would go to the cinema and there would be porn. Like, there was a time where you would go to the cinema and there would be porn.

Like, this is... It seems bizarre today. But, like, yeah, this was a thing. And then you had... Like, when VCR... Or VHS, sorry. When VHS hit sorry, when VHS hit the scene, like, one of the things that pushed

that into the home is porn. DVD, porn. Blu-ray, Blu-ray was at a point where the internet had already gotten good enough, where it didn't really matter. Um, so no one cares about Blu-ray. Uh, but the internet, like, one of the big

pushes for that, porn. One of the big pushes for VR, porn. One of the big pushes for AI, porn. Now with the VR one, VR still needs a little bit of a push. It's still a little bit behind. And a big part of that is the fact the headsets are still very expensive. So your average, even just your average gamer, unless they really like the idea of Beat Saber, or what's that gorilla game? Gorilla Tag, I think that's what it is. Yeah, Gorilla Tag. Or think that's what it is. Yeah, Gorilla Tag.

Or like, there are games in VR, or like you're a VR chat person, you don't want to just do VR chat on a regular monitor. Like, there are reasons why you might want to buy a VR headset. But, like, the Vive, how much is

the Vive right now? Because I know Valve has one. There's a couple of other headsets. So, Vive's a new one. But Vive's sort of more gone down the... The Enterprise route, hasn't it? I can't find prices. Wait, is Vive discontinued?

Am I this out of date on what's going on? Oculus. Let's see how much an Oculus is. Okay. But even, like, regardless of what you're looking at, you're still thinking of spending, like, $500, $600, $700, $800. Yeah, like, the Quest 2 is six hundred dollars um

uh Valve Index uh okay I can't buy I can't buy it why can't I buy it? like yeah you look at like two thousand dollars in Australia it's like they're coming down i remember when the

my first experience with vr i think was the oculus i want to say oculus dk2 yeah oculus dk2 i did the roller coaster demo um i see if i can find that demo. I think it was one of the standard ones that everyone knew about. Oculus DK2 rollercoaster. I'm sure I can find it. This is a video from Jacksepticeye from 2014.

Jesus Christ. Is this the one? I don't know if this was the... I feel like there was a rollercoaster outside. I think it, yeah, it might be the same demo, but it's a different, like, part of it. And the DK2? The DK2

was, like, it was not good. Like, it was not good. Like, it was very screen dory. The refresh rate was terrible. I got motion sick within like five minutes of using it. The last time I actively used VR was a, it was a Vive of some sort. And it was better, but it's now 30 minutes to an hour and I get

motion sick. The problem that we still have with VR adoption is they're still a little bit too expensive. Most people would be willing to spend let's just go with the bottom price line. Let's say we're looking at the Quest 2 Pro or the Quest 2 whatever it was. $600. Let's just go with the bottom price. Like, let's say we're looking at the Oculus, like the Quest 2 Pro or the Quest 2 whatever it was, $600.

Let's just go with that range. People are willing to spend that on a monitor, on a GPU, on a CPU. But the VR headset still is not considered to be sort of an essential part of your gaming setup. It's still seen as this like this extra thing so even if the price is like say you bought like a 4090 for example it might still seem really expensive to buy a VR headset because the 4090 is something you're going to be using constantly like the math is playing out in your head And you can work out like yeah, you know it the 4090 is really expensive, but I'm going to use every day

But like how often I'm going to use a VR headset I'm going to use it like once a week once every couple of weeks how much time do I have to do gaming? Like do I have enough time to to add the VR stuff alongside the other games? None of the games that I'm into now are VR games. It's still this point where it's like,

do I, do I not? A lot of people have VR headsets now, and it's certainly expanding, but I think we're still a like, a good five, ten years away from, like, mainstream VR. Like, VR's just not getting as much attention as it was for quite a while. Like, I'm sure it's gonna, like, VR is, it seems like the, like, big logical leap that eventually is gonna happen, but the other problem is just gamers are fucking lazy. Like, that's the other big logical leap that eventually is gonna happen but the other problem is just gamers are fucking lazy like that's the other big thing it's the appeal of vr is sort of the same appeal as the nintendo wii you know you can get up you can stand up and game you can like

yeah it's pretty it's gonna be physical while you're gaming but like that works for a console for the family but if you're sitting around, you're a fucking WoW nerd, you're a 14 nerd you're a, I don't know, RuneScape nerd, do you wanna get up and walk around?

Fuck no like, I think the point where VR is really gonna take off and this probably won't happen it might happen in my lifetime but it's not going to happen while i'm young like when we get to that sort of sort out online point where you don't have to move. It's just all being controlled by your brain. Fucking alarm next door. Because I don't know how much you've seen about it. But there is.

There's this. Elden Ring. Brain. Control. I type in Elden Ring brain. As Elden Ring brain as Elden Ring brain dead um so yeah so this is a really good video

uh going over how how this girl plays like Elden Ring using her mind um and there's a bunch of other clips of it as well this includes like how things map when she thinks of certain things um she still plays with a controller to do certain parts but i think the attacking

and other things are done with the the the the head thingy but it's still something you have to wear on your head and it's still very simple like this bit she's sort of going over um what happens when you think of certain things but it's still like kind of a it's kind of a guesswork it's like we know that when certain parts of the brain light up well probably do this thing like that's sort of the the idea so it's very much just like i don't know I think this is a bit where she's thinking of certain things. Yeah, because then certain parts specifically get lit up more than others. But it's still very much

guesswork. When this gets better, and when we are past just guesswork, and when we are, you know, actually at like, Sword Art Online, you can play this game as if you're just walking around in real life that's when vr is actually gonna be like really popular the problem is doing that is um

probably hard i don't know i'm not a i'm not a... I'm not a neurosurgeon. I'm not a neurologist. I'm not a psychologist. I fucking know. I am not a brain person. I don't have much of a brain either, but I'm not a brain study person. I don't fucking know what I'm doing. But if Elon Musk's

idea of doing Neuralink is, you know, gonna be possible, surely taking that a couple of steps further one day into the future is going to be possible i think getting like medical use for like that level of control like this is still this is as it's still like very much guesswork and requires a lot of training when it gets to that point where it's sort of more like it's like you pick up you know a playstation control and while you know the first time you grab one it might be like oh i don't know what buttons to press like you get used to it

pretty quickly um this is still from my not that quickly, why is it out of focus, what are we focusing on, focus on my face, thank you, Jesus Christ, I've really considered just making the, the focus, manual focus, so it doesn't do that anymore, yeah, I am, I, there's a lot of cool things, like, that are probably gonna happen in my lifetime that I hope I'm still around to see. Like, knowing that things like Neuralink are probably possible, knowing that this is definitely possible, there is some hope that one day Sword Art Online would be possible. And you know what? If that does happen, I'm just gonna live in the game because by the time it happens i'm gonna be like 60 or 70 probably i'm just if i'm retired i'm just gonna

fucking play video games literally all day i'm gonna be fucking running around killing dragons and shit like why would i do anything in the real world fuck the real world i've got this this virtual reality world way better than real world i can've got this, this virtual reality world, way better than real world, I can, like, jump around and shit, I'm 70 years old, I can't do anything in the real world, but I know some people are very worried about, like, the increasing technology in our life, uh, you know, one day, like, we're seeing, like, the breakdown of relationships, things like that, and I'm sure it's really bad, and I'm sure the fact that, like, birth rates in, in, uh, um, in, what do you call it, um, not, not Americanized, it's, like, the, the, the, the the the word for rich countries

not first world countries is another term I'm thinking of but like those a lot of the I would just say rich countries a lot of the rich countries where birth rates are declining because most people are just online not interacting with real people

and this is a problem and I'm sure it's going to it's going to be one of those things where it's sort of it really noticeably becomes a problem 40 50 years from now like i believe it was like this is why the baby boomers existed not because of this but because after world war one because like the war tactics back then were throw bodies at the enemy a lot of people died so you had this massive drop off in population and then when people got back from that then they went to fucking and lots of people got born, but we're gonna sort of get to, like, a similar, it's gonna be a similar result with a different path to get

there, like, people died because there was a war, people are gonna just get old and die, and there's gonna be this, like, this lack of people, maybe that causes, like, a. The baby boomer 2.0. I don't know. But. I don't know how we got here as well. Why am I talking about this? I have no idea. It's actually especially bad.

Already in places like Japan. Japan has a serious problem. With a aging population. And does not have enough people to... The way you have a system where you can have elderly people retire and get money from the government is you need a lot of young... It's basically a pyramid scheme. What I'm saying is most governments operate in a pyramid scheme.

So the only way that you can fund the life of the elderly people is you need a lot of money coming in from the young people right? So you have a lot of young people, you have less people older than them, you have less people than that, and eventually you just have a couple of old people at the end. Now the old people at the end don't make as much money as people at the top of a pyramid, but it's the same idea. You have lots of people at the bottom, less people at the top, the money from the bottom flows up to the top, and eventually they have lives. Um, yeah. thing. Japan sort of, it's already like really accelerated down that direction where they have a lot of old people but I think they have, is it a negative birth rate? I'm gonna check. I want to say I know it's it's very low. Japan birth rate.

That, wait, that number doesn't make any sense. No, that number doesn't, wait, what? Birth? 1.34. No, that doesn Birth? 1.34. No, that doesn't make sense. No, that's not correct. Is it correct? Is it higher than I thought it was?

No, I'm pretty sure it's lower. No, okay. Scratch that. I'm slightly off my numbers. It's not as bad as I thought it was. It's 1.34 per woman. 1.34 per woman. Yeah. Which is not good. That's basically per person. So per person, they're replaced by one person. One and a bit. But that doesn't account for people dying, people leaving the country. So you want that number to be like two at least. Not 1.34.

Not like South Korea. South Korea is actually really bad. South Korea is 0.84. 0.84 is, so every woman in the country, there is less than a single person born. So, their population without bringing people in

over the next, like, 50 or so years is just gonna whoop! And that's a problem. Especially because you also still have the elderly people and you need some way to bring money in to have the social programs so that the ones that don't have these giant retirement funds still have money to be fair um the united states is not much better like this is why i say japan is further along japan is 1.34 united United States is 1.64.

And you compare this to where, like, things used to be, right? So, in 1960, Japan was at 2.05. United States were at 3.65. So, like, that's the rate you want. Like, that's why there was such, like, a boom in population back then. Because, like, everybody was fucking. Everybody was having kids, like, constantly. rate you want like that's why there was such like a boom in population back then because like everybody was fucking everybody was having kids like constantly and that keep in mind that's an average so that means there were families that would have had like way more would have had like

one kid but every single family so obviously you have the two parents so you want to replace at a minimum the two parents in the population yeah South Korea was way higher at one point South Korea used to be at 6.0 to be fair China also used to be very high and then you know one child policy stuff started

happening and the numbers go whoop um how did i get here i don't honestly i don't know what i did to get here i think it was something about me dying before sword art online happens so this is why you watch the podcast because sometimes i talk about things that matter sometimes i go on these random tangents that nobody knows how i got here and i'm just like i'm just winging it basically i'm just like like, hey, fucking keep talking. You're gonna say something smart at some point, but you probably won't. That's how I feel. One thing I didn't touch on at the start that I wanted to is when Bing unveiled all of the Bing GPT stuff, the Bing GPT stuff the the Bing GPT which we thought was

3.5 like chat GPT was using turns out Bing was not actually using that During that testing and still to this day Bing has been powered by GPT-4 so basically Bing Bing search was sort of like a it was sort of a beta test for GPT-4. So basically, Bing search was sort of like a beta test for GPT-4 just to make sure that things were stable as they should be.

And I'm guessing that even though there were definitely issues, it's not perfect. Lambda's not perfect, but Bing didn't get as much attention with it kind of fucking up a lot as well uh but it was still giving really good results that couldn't really be like explained or replicated based around chat gpt obviously um g-4 is specialized for search, but assuming they were powered both by

GPT-3, so GPT-4, Bing GPT is powered, is specialized for search. If they're both using GPT-3.5 on the back end, you'd expect them to be able to produce similar results. But a lot of people suspected that it probably wasn't 3.5. Nobody had any confirmation of it. But yeah, now it's absolutely certain. Yes, it was GPT-4, which is cool, which is actually really cool. And it does bother me that nobody seems to really care about the AI stuff right now, like I remember when it it

it first started like when AI like this chat GPT stuff was first hitting the scene everybody was like so excited about it, like this is crazy, look at what all this can do it's sort of It's sort of It's sort of become like a hammer

Way quicker than I would have expected now what I mean by that for anyone who? Doesn't understand the rambling of an idiot. What I mean is if I show you a hammer It's not very exciting. Actually, a better idea. If I show you a drill, a drill is not very exciting, right? Like, you understand what a drill does, how a drill works. You've used a drill before. It's not that crazy. But when the first person came up with, like, a wireless battery-powered drill, for example, like, this was a big change or just the first electric drill like full stop like this was this was crazy compared to the the manual drills being used before and chat gpt is sort of like it's sort of like a drill now like everybody's just

accepted that it's here and even if these big improvements are happening. No one cares like no one cares that the new like there's a fucking 2023 Ford Mustang a 2024 Ford Mustang like no one cares. It's just another one like what's a big deal and Sadly AI's already ended that and all the excitement's gone away. I think part of the excitement going away is there are a lot of people out there sort of treating AI kind of the same way as crypto. Um, so you've got this, I've seen people throwing around terminology like AI bro, just, because you know like there's crypto bro these people that think that go away I don't

yes I'm still using that fucking email twitter go away so there were people that were like you know crypto bros they're like crypto is gonna save the world everyone is gonna be using crypto your entire bank account is going to be crypto. Like, those people are crypto bros.

And the term AI bro is sort of floating around as well. Like, sort of as a... Trying to dismiss what is really going on. Like, that it's not that big of a deal it's not that crazy it's not really that important just calm down about it no one needs to really

care what's going on but yeah I don't know I'm gonna keep talking about the the ai stuff going on and it's probably gonna happen every couple of episodes or so um but you know it is what it is uh speaking of things like crypto so remember remember how Meta, you know, called them, or Facebook called themselves Meta because they were all in on the Metaverse and all in on NFTs and all that fun stuff. Yeah, so Meta gives up on NFTs for Facebook and Instagram. So even Meta, like this is how dead nfts are at this point and how little anybody cares even

meta gave up on nfts this company like mark zuckerberg it seemed like he was going to bankrupt the company just to go down the path of NFTs. Like, so many people being fired. They were losing so much money. But even better is like, you know what? Hmm. Maybe, maybe NFTs are not a good idea. Like, I didn't think this day would come.

Meta is winding down its work with NFTs on Facebook and Instagram. Meta Commerce and FinTech lead Stefan, Stefan, Kazriel said in a Twitter thread on Monday, the decision means Meta will end its testing of minting and selling NFTs on Instagram, as well as the ability to share NFTs on Instagram and Facebook in the coming weeks. The NFT integration seems to be one causality of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's drive to make 2023 the year of efficiency, along with the Reels Play bonus program.

But their end also follows the shutdown of the meta-backed cryptocurrency DM, and Meta's Novi digital wallet last year. Still, even as Meta exits NFTs, other companies are rushing into the market that collapsed in 2022 and shed billions in value after stratospheric levels of hype in early 2021. Yeah, I remember when NFTs were like

this big crazy thing that everybody was supposed to care about. Like when they first hit the scene, when Bored Ape Yacht Club was first coming out and, you know, the whole, don't screenshot my NFT, you're stealing my property stop stealing my property what a fun time that was but yeah there are still there are still like big companies getting involved I know YouTube

was doing something with NFTs a couple of weeks ago um YouTube NFT integration weeks ago. YouTube NFT integration. Oh, all the way back at September? YouTube includes NFTs

in new creator tools. I didn't actually pay attention to what this was. Creators will be able to monetize short form videos and sell content as NFTs. Creator tools, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blockchain NFTs, deep relationship.

The expected tools give a verifiable way for fans to own unique videos. Is this even like a thing that exists on YouTube? Like, I'm gonna check because I've never seen an NFT related button. I can add merch. Watch page ads, short foods, memberships, super shopping. Maybe I need to like enable

Maybe I need to enable Shopping and then I could do it if we go get started get started Connect us up. I don't have a store learn where you can create a store. I guess maybe you could like link No, it's Shopify Spreadshop and Spring um I don't know what the deal is with that NFT stuff

is like maybe they can maybe it's still a work in progress but I even this happened a month ago I don't even know where I would begin to look for that they can, maybe it's still a work in progress, but I, even though this happened a month ago, I don't even know where I would begin to look for that. I think, okay, I know people will meme on the NFT stuff, but I don't mind it existing as an option. If someone wants, like, this is the thing, right? If someone wants to sell NFTs and someone wants wants to buy them i don't care what i have a problem with is when nfts are the only thing that can be done like when nfts infest a video game for

example and like with um with with dr disrespects game that he's making like he recently put out a bunch of tweets being really confused why everyone's calling his project's game that he's making. He recently put out a bunch of tweets being really confused why everyone's calling his project a scam. And he's even talking about the, you know, hey, if you buy the NFTs, then in a future game we make, you could bring the NFTs over and you actually own them

and they can be just brought into the game. And everyone's like, we've had this discussion like a year a year or two ago you don't need nfts for that you can just have a fucking system like for example with um with counter-strike for example i know there was all the discussions about hey there's going to be a counter-strike global offensive 2 and now the rumors are more like oh it's not going to be a global offensive 2 it's going to be like like oh it's not going to be a global offensive 2 it's going to be like a an engine upgrade which probably is the most likely but even if you

imagine a global offensive 2 it's not like they're going to just throw away all the knives all the skins things like that they are attached to your account so if you just migrate all the assets into the new game then like there's no n's no NFTs here, it just works, it just is what it is, no need for NFTs. I think the dumbest thing about the NFTs in games was when they were like, hey, if you own this NFT in the game, you actually own it. So if your account gets banned, then you can just transfer those assets, those NFTs to a new wallet. And wow, look at that. You still have all your stuff. You still own it. But the thing about that is you don't because your NFT only has value in the game if it has a use in the game. And there's nothing stopping the game developer saying.

Okay you got banned in the game. Well we just blacklist the IDs for everything in your wallet. So now if that NFT is sold to someone. It doesn't do anything. Like it just doesn't work in the game. Like you can do things outside of the game. Like, you can do things outside of the blockchain that

lock it out of the interface. And that's just all... That's just the obvious thing that was going to happen there. Oh, cool. Before NFTs in games even become this major thing. Like,

maybe it'll still happen, right? I'm sure it's going to happen if companies think they can make money from it. If they think they can make, like, okay, I could imagine, right, if you have a Genshin-style game with all these waifus, and it was like, you can actually own the waifu. Like, I could imagine there being people that want to spend that money and actually want to buy that. Like, if it makes some money, it's going to happen. This is one of those, but what's going to happen, right?

Is there's going to be a game like Genshin that's actually good, that has NFTs, and then NFT gaming is going to happen, right, is there's going to be a game like Genshin that's actually good, that has NFTs. And then NFT gaming is going to just be the standard. Like that's what happened with microtransactions. We started getting games that weren't just garbage. They weren't just Angry Birds. They weren't just Candy Crush. They were Genshin Impact.

They were Fate Grand Order. I think I'm just gonna be listing anime games. They were Azur Lane. Like, these, they were Girls Frontline. They were Nikkei. That's a very recent one, but like, they are these games that people

actually wanna play, and they have microtransactions, so microtransactions are now good. Or, just look at Fortnite. Like, they are these games that people actually want to play, and they have microtransactions, so microtransactions are now good. Or, just look at Fortnite. Like, Fortnite, incredibly popular game, has microtransactions, no one cares. Microtransactions are this thing that everyone's just forgotten used to be a problem. The problem is that

when you have this new generation growing up, and they grow up when this thing is just normalized already it's all like gaming if you're a if you're a 10 year old now you're a 15 year old now playing fortnite or whatever you started playing games and every major game was already full of microtransactions so microtransactions are normal. They're just a normal thing that games are going to have. Sure, it might be annoying. You have to pay some money, but like, that's just how gaming is. Like that's how gaming always has been. And the same thing is probably going to happen if NFTs in games, if companies think they can

make money from it, it's going to be like a lot of pushback, like how there was a lot of pushback in the early days with horse armor and map packs and all of this stuff. You eventually get to like guns, skins, things like that. When it's like 20 or so years from now and the generation of gamers growing up are around when every game they play like you play fifa you play call of duty you play fortnite which will probably still be around you play roblox and all of these games already have nfts in them it's like why would why would we get rid of nfts in games nfts have always been in games that's that. That's why it's so important to just keep being annoying about these issues

until the end of time. You're probably going to lose. If we're being honest, you're probably going to lose. No one really cares. If it's a fun game, they'll just play the fun game. But, look, maybe you'll be able to delay stuff longer. Maybe. I wouldn't hold my breath.

Because usually shit going on on Twitter doesn't really affect the real world that much. Like, maybe you'll annoy some people. But, you know, it doesn't really matter to most people. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, speaking of things that didn't matter to most people, do you remember, fuck, when was it?

During the Trump administration when there was discussions to ban TikTok. Uh, how many years ago was this? Uh, obviously I know when Trump was in office but I don't remember when there was talks to ban TikTok.

Uh, US judge. Halts TikTok ban. That's 2020. So like probably 2020, 2019. Would have been when TikTok bans. Were like being discussed. I am so confused.

By the fact that. It's still fucking going. US threatens. Ban if TikTok's Chinese owner doesn't sell steaks like every it seems like every week right now there's some like new news story about like

we're threatening to ban TikTok we're gonna ban TikTok TikTok is banned it's just like is it ever gonna fucking happen it's been talked TikTok is banned. It's just like, is it ever going to fucking happen? It's been talked about for so long and nothing's been done about it. I'm convinced that TikTok is still not going to be banned by the next US election.

I re- what are we now? We're 2023. So 2024 is the next election. I don't think it's gonna be banned. I really don't. I feel like this discussion is still gonna be happening with whoever the next president is going to be. Like, surely, surely it's not this, like, surely it is not this difficult. It can't be this difficult to get a ban like this. I don't know how inefficient the US government is. I'm just talking about this from an outsider. But seeing this from the outside and seeing how often, like, how tiktok ban is brought up i'm just convinced

it's never gonna happen what i am curious about though is what sort of like if it does happen what sort of reaction there's going to be from like, one, other countries, but, two, like, the younger people in the US. Is there going to be a big uptick in VPN usage? Is this going to basically put the platform out of business in the West? Obviously, you know, China has, um, Douyin? Is Douyin the, I think Douyin is the, the Chinese version doyin is the the chinese version chinese branch um doyin yes yeah that is the that is the chinese variant of tiktok um will it kill it in the west will the ban ever actually happen i i don't honestly like if you said that it was or it wasn't at this point I'm just gonna be like yeah yep probably like whatever happens just happens from my perspective right

like I feel like everyone's kind of just forgotten that the US spies on every single citizen. Like, I feel like everyone's just forgotten about Edward Snowden. Everyone has forgotten about the NSA spying. It's not like that ever stopped. So when the US government talks about, hey, China is stealing American citizens american citizens data this is so terrible like you just have to remember that the american citizens data is already being stolen by u.s agencies the only difference with china is is leaving the country That's the only difference. I'm sure that if... I'm sure that if TikTok does have to...

They do have to sell off their Chinese branch and it's closely monitored what they're doing. I don't think TikTok's going to be spying less. They'll just be spying for a different leader. You're not going to be spying for the Chinese regime anymore, it'll be the US regime. That's just how it's gonna be. Like, there's obviously, you know, there's

regulations and all that, but like, if you're a government, if you're a three-letter government agency, those regulations might not apply. If no one realises you're breaking the law, well, who can say anything about it? Oh, that's, oh, I've never really gotten, like, into TikTok. I've used it, like, I used to upload, I think I uploaded the, some of the podcast shorts over there. I know I definitely uploaded some. Some gaming shorts on TikTok.

But. As for like. A general user. I. I just. I just didn't find the appeal. To be honest. Maybe I'm too old for it.

But. I know there's more to the platform. Than just you know, the dances and things like, and the dumb memes and the Zoomer memes. I don't understand. I'm too old for Zoomer memes. Um, but when I, like, even though I do watch YouTube shorts, I feel like the appeal of shorts is that I'm already on YouTube. Like, I like the long-form content on YouTube. Obviously, I'll watch, like, fucking, I don't know. I'll sit down and watch a two-hour Asmongold rant, for example.

And I do watch shorts. Like, sometimes before I start work, I sit in the car and I'm like, okay, you know what? I don't want to walk inside just yet. I am just going to, you know what? I'm just want to walk inside just yet. I am just going to, you know what? I'm just going to chill here for like a minute or two. I'm going to go and watch, I don't know, some Small Ant clips and VTuber clip, things like that.

And that works great in the format of a YouTube short. the format of a of a youtube short but as for like going just like doom scrolling through tiktok i've already got enough platforms where i doom scroll like if i want to doom scroll i can just doom scroll through whatever's trending on twitter right now and just see what the absolute worst people on Earth have to say about what's trending right now. What's trending right now? World War III, OpenAI, Jim Chalmers, and FanFest. FanFest being FFXIV. Because there's a big drama about...

Can you see it? No, you can't see it. There's a big drama right now about tickets to the Las Vegas FanFest event because they didn't have enough tickets. Then you had to be in a lottery to get the right to win a ticket to not even win a ticket to buy a ticket so you're in a lottery to get the chance to buy a ticket it's just like i know i know japan loves lottery systems and i know that i know there's a lottery system in the game to buy a house but like does everything have to be

a lottery? I know why it's like that as well because last year apparently the tickets sold out fucking instantly because they were botted because of course they were botted it's FFXIV, it's a giant game and people are going to spend you $700, $800, $900, $1000 to buy a scalp ticket.

Because they really want to go. I don't have a passport. And I don't really feel like going to Las Vegas. So, yeah, I'm not going. But it's this, like, right right now there's so much just there's so much drama going on in the ff14 community so i think a big part of it is square enix has shifted a lot of their focus away from 14 over to ff16 and yosh, oh, there's not going to be delays in patches because of FFXVI, which obviously was not going to happen, because FFXVI is this giant game, Yoshi-P is trying to

revive the Final Fantasy franchise, so of course there's going to be some delays, but every day, every day, there are just more and more and more people who are just so obsessed with this game. It's kind of, it's kind of weird seeing it from sort of, seeing it from, I'm not outside, but I just, I don't, just don't get involved really in the 14 community. I play the game as a solo RPG, like the way I used to play RuneScape. Like, I didn't do things in groups in RuneScape, for the most part, outside of dungeoneering, and obviously using the Grand Exchange. But other people being in the world was sort of... It was kind of just

inconsequential to the way that I played the game. It's just like, oh, these are all NPCs that occasionally will tell me their fishing level. I just didn't really it just doesn't make any sense to me why you would get so obsessed with a single game.

With all the drama about the patch content, and people being like, oh, there's nothing to do in this game right now, this patch only took me a couple of days to complete, what am I supposed to do for the next four months? Play another video game. Like, no one's forcing you to play one video game. There are other things that exist.

Go play Hi-Fi Rush, go play Elden Ring, go play anything that catches your attention. Like, it doesn't even have to be games that I care about. Just go and play something that isn't this game. If you don't like the state of the game, like, why? Why are you playing it right now? I remember when I was first getting into 14, I think this is, I think the big change is the fact that there's a lot of WoW players playing 14 now, and from my understanding, WoW players are very much, a lot of them are one-game Andes. It's like wow and wow and maybe maybe i play dragonfly and classic maybe but i play wow and that is it and it seems like a lot of those people because

the like patch cycle wasn't really that much different if you go back to the end of Shadowbringers, things like that. Or just even the start of Endwalker. It wasn't that much different. The difference is that there's a lot of people who are one-game Andes who are like, what am I supposed to do? Right, the point I was getting at was, when I first joined XIV, there was this whole idea where if you don't have anything to do in the game,

you don't have to keep your sub going. You can take breaks from the game and come back. Like, that's just a normal... Like, this was encouraged by YoshiP. He's like, yeah, you don't have to stay subbed to the game. Just play it when you want to, and that's fine. But it seems like that mentality is sort of...

I don't know if it's vanished or if it never really existed. Because I don't recall seeing people being as... Like, as aggressive about this when I first started. But maybe it's because when I first started, it was just around Endwalker. And being a whole new expansion, it's got all of these new things that people are excited about. You've got these extra classes or jobs or whatever. You've got these extra levels. You've got this entire MSQ. You've got this new zone to explore.

So it sort of took a while for it to catch up. I was not around during early Shadowbringers. So I don't know if it was any better or any worse then. But at least from when I've played, it certainly seems like it's gotten worse. It could just be, like, maybe this is just me, like, maybe this is just my interpretation of the situation, and it's always like this,

where, you know, you have the expansion, then by the 0.2, 0.3 expansion, everyone's already angry. But I do remember people getting very angry. About Island Sanctuary being added. Instead of something like Eureka or Bosja. But I do recall.

Before Island Sanctuary was added. People complaining about Eureka and Bosja. Maybe I'm just taking the forum too seriously and no one here actually plays the game. It seems like... It's really weird, right? Whenever I go to the forum, I see a lot of the same names.

I don't know if a lot of these people just play the forum rather than playing the game. Because it really does seem like it wait what what is this why do people avoid getting also there are people on this forum that i think are just trolling all the time um why do people avoid getting better at the game the answer is simple there is no reason to getting better at the game? The answer is simple. There is no reason to get better at the game. 14 offers such a casual experience

that the player base has never had a reason to actually get better at game mechanics outside of those who wish to participate in extreme, savage, and ultimate content. The player base got babysit through the entire game, even get difficulty drops and MSQ instances because it's too hard there is no reason to babysit people

people adapt and become better players by being challenged, even if it is only a small, like there are things that are actually challenging in this game, the problem is that no one cares about them I do love the people that get angry about the, like,

the casual players, as if, like, being a casual player of a game somehow makes you, somehow makes you, like, worse in the, like, unless you're playing the game, unless you're a sweaty gamer playing 12 hours a day, it just doesn't matter what you think about the game. The casual players are probably the primary player base. That's sort of the case for most games. Most people playing a game aren't the sweaty gamers. They're just like, Yeah, you know, I've got a family.

I've got two kids. I'm 37 years old. I play the game fucking three hours a week. I keep my sub going, but I'm enjoying it. Like, those are the regular people that are playing a game. But, you know, people, just play other video games. If you don't like the state of the game you're playing, it doesn't matter what it is, just play something else.

It just is what it is. It just is what it is. Just do something else. Enjoy your day. Enjoy your time playing a game. You don't... Okay, as much as I'm probably a bad person to say this because I did play RuneScape for

way too long you don't have to play a game if it's boring you, you don't have to you know, go sweaty gamer cutting trees for 12 hours you don't have to do that you can do other things

and I'm sure there are games in your library that you haven't touched yet. There's games in my library I haven't touched. I've talked about this on the gaming channel a lot. Every time someone mentions a cool new game that I should go and play, it's like, yeah, I want to play it, but like, I've got Dark Souls. I've got like three Souls games I want to play. Sekiro, Dark Souls 3, and Elden Ring. I want to play Hi-Fi Rush. I want to play the Yakuza series. I want to play God of War. I want to finish off Kingdom Hearts. I want to do all- There's too much! There's too many good video- Why am I complaining there's too many video games?

What a- what a complaint to make. There are too many- there are too many things that are to have fun this is the state of the world right now you have too much leisure, maybe that is the problem maybe we need less leisure

and everyone should be fucking out on the farm growing wheat or something I've been watching Vinland Saga, uh, it's very good, if you've not seen Vinland Saga season two, it's very good, um, it sort of made a really big shift from the first season, which I did see turn some people away, see turn some people away, but I feel like the direction the series has gone is actually, like, it, it's better in many ways than the first season, so if you've not seen Vinland Saga, uh, basically, it is, it is based on, um, uh, I think it's based on some, some, like, Viking stories, I don't know what the Viking

stories were called, uh, if I look up Torfinn, uh, uh, no, not, not the wiki of that, I want Torfinn, the actual adventurer, um, uh, it was written down in a series of stories. Yeah, the... I don't know how to read that, actually. But it's like the saga of the Greenlanders, Eric the Red Saga, things like that. So it's sort of... It's loosely based on these

these classic um these classic like viking stories the idea is that uh when people from iceland were going out to sea there was this there was this story from uh leaf Erikson, Leif Erikson, whatever his name was, who eventually managed to find North America. And when he went back, this was Vinland. This was this place that was so much greater than where we were. This is this place that's not... It's not cold all the time. It's not this...

It's... It's like this fertile land. There's animals running everywhere. Like, this was 1000 AD. So, it was long before it was colonized by the British. It was still like... The only people there were the the native americans um so there was just fertile land everywhere and vinland saga um is based around the story of torfinn uh and sort of how he goes through his life vinland Saga part one like the first

season is about when he's a kid and spoilers his dad dies in the second episode uh and this like destroys him he wants to get vengeance against the person who killed his father uh and ends up joining his army as a way to get vengeance because like the only way i can like the only way i can keep an eye on this guy is if i am part of his army he learns how to fight things like that um and first season is very very heavy. Like they're going through a war. Torfin's like killing everybody he sees. No questions asked. Killing children, killing families, everybody.

Because that's the only way he knows he can learn how to fight, get stronger and eventually take down the guy who killed his father. But by the second season um second season starts off with Torfinn being a slave like after some stuff that happened the first season I'm not gonna spoil um he gets sold to slavery and is basically just a destroyed person he didn't know. What to do anymore. It was. Like his entire life. Was just done.

There was. There was no reason. To keep on living. But there was also. Not a good enough reason to die. Um. And the second season. Is sort of about.

And I guess the series going forward. Is a lot about him just. Learning to be human again. After basically. Turning himself into a beast. To. Try to kill this person. And the second season had a lot of like.

There's a lot of segments. Where it's just about a nightmare. About him trying to just cope with what's going on. But when he wakes up, he doesn't remember the nightmare. All he knows is something bad happened. And as it goes on, you sort of expand upon that. But it's also got this parallel story as well. Canute.

Canute the Great. Canute the King of England from 1016. And the King of Denmark from 1018. And the King of Norway from 1028. And then he dies seven years later in 1035. Spoilers. Spoilers for the thousand year old story. But yeah, there's this parallel story about Canute, where

he starts off as... He starts off the story sort of the opposite of Torfin. So right off the start, so at the absolute start, Torfin and Canute are both these very... These very...

How would you say? They're just children. They're just children being children. And Torfin has to grow up very quickly as he needs to become this warrior. But while Torfin is becoming this warrior Canute is still this like this pampered prince he has everything done for him he has really nothing bad in his life and everyone just everyone just forces him oh everyone just like yeah everyone just bows down around him um and eventually he has to sort of become this become this this king that everybody expects him to be uh leading to him poisoning did he point was he did he no yeah he

poisoned his father i believe or someone else now i'm pretty sure he poisoned his father, I believe. Or was it someone else? No, I'm pretty sure he poisoned his father to take over the throne. And then also, turns out, poisoned his brother as well to take over that throne as well. And now, he's sort of... He's seeing these ghosts everywhere

because he's also not exactly fully stable. Like, he's also not exactly fully stable. He's going around killing specific people to take over England, to take over Denmark, to take over Norway. Because he feels like this is the, the right thing to do, the only, the only way that he can sort of keep this, this, this very, these war-torn parts of the world stable, is if there is one king that rules them all he knows that this is the at least he thinks this is the best way to do it but he also knows that like as he gets as he tries to

take out more people there's a higher chance that someone is going to try to take him out as well he's always worried about this and not really sure if he's doing the right thing but he knows he's doing the right thing and it's just like, what do I do? It's this really, really interesting story about two people who come from very different backgrounds but both have to become adults really quickly and take on the responsibility. There's just forced upon them. really quickly and take on the responsibility that is

just forced upon them I highly recommend you go and watch Vinland Saga I'm probably going to go read the manga as well I hear the manga is very good and the manga is

way ahead I believe i believe now torfinn is like leading another army to like sort of he wants to end war like that's his that's his big goal in uh, he's sort of outlined in the most, um, in the most recent episode, he's like, I want, I want to end slavery, I want to end war, I want everyone, you know, not to be friends, not like, you know, happy-go-lucky, everyone be happy and friendly and all that but like not just fighting for the sake of fighting cooperating and cooperating for the the best of everyone and not making more people go through what he had to deal with because by this point in season two i think he's been a slave for like five or six years now to be fair he's sort of like one of the most he's he's a slave in the most loose context possible so the guy who bought him and the guy who bought his now friend aina um's like yeah you know what um you see that forest over there cut that forest down

but you can use that area to grow wheat and if you make enough to pay off how much i spent for you just you can fucking leave like you can just not be a slave anymore. And that's where we are up to now in the anime. They are just about to... Well, stuff's happening with Canute now. But they're at the point now where they can basically pretty much leave soon, I guess. And just not to do that. I do know the next part like like towards the end

of this like the slave arc slave saga the farmland saga as some people have come to call it uh torfinn does go back home to re-meet his family after he hasn't seen them. I think the last time he would have seen his family at this point was like 10 or 15 years ago, because he, so the idea is, the reason why he even got involved in someone trying to kill his father is, um, his father took him out on like a, a neat little expedition. It wasn't supposed to be anything dangerous. But basically they got jumped by some serious Vikings. They're just like... They're just guys from a village. It turns out his father was this very renowned warrior.

But he was the only person there who was like a really strong fighter. And you can't have an entire army go up against one person. With the exception of um one of the characters who his entire bit is just he is giant he's like seven foot tall and just throws people um he's seven foot tall eight foot tall whatever he's literally called Torkel the tall um 230 centimeters I don't know how tall that is. What is that in feet and inches? 230 centimeters, 180 kilos.

CM in feet and inches. That is, yeah, 7.6 foot. So he just throws people. Besides him, like, a regular person can't exactly go up against an army. And the idea with Torkel is he's also Torkel

the Invincible. So he's been shot with, like, a ton of arrows just keeps going. No one can kill him. I don't know if he's dead in the story now. But maybe he is. Maybe, maybe Torkel the Invincible became Torkel the Vincible. Is that the opposite of invincible? I don't know. I don't know. Uh, go watch Vinland Saga. It's very good. But let's move away from Vinland Saga.

I don't know if you guys seen this, but have you seen the video on the world's largest 3DS? Shut up. So this guy has a 3DS, and he's like, hey, let's make let's make

a full size, like human cabinet size 3ds with a 3d tv to get the 3d effect it is stupid like these these buttons here are not not that the the actual buttons Not that, the actual buttons. So the... I think the start and select buttons are like typical buttons you would see on a... On like a arcade cabinet.

These are just ridiculous. I think my favorite part actually is the thumbstick. Because this thing is just... It is a absolute chonker like this is such a cool and dumb project wait new stylus what's this I didn't see the stylus show me the stylus oh god, it's a giant pen. That's actually incredible. This is completely ridiculous. Like, is this a practical way to play 3DS games? No. Is this a good way to play 3DS games? No. Is this a cool way to play 3DS games? Abso-fucking-lutely. Like, this is such a ridiculous way. And, like, it's- the screen's so big that you want- like, you- you want to actually play it in 3D. You don't even- like, you know, a lot of the 3DS games people would play,

people didn't want to do 3D with them. No one cares about 3D on the 3DS. Everyone just turned it off because it just wasted battery life, wasn't really that good of an effect, had to be

on a very specific angle. Oh, and you can actually... I didn't see this part. You can control it from an actual DS. Oh my- this- oh god, playing Dream Drop Distance on this would be a nightmare. Oh it's also being controlled by... It's being controlled by a Steam Deck.

Okay, that's actually kind of awesome. Honestly, I love stupid projects like this. This is a completely impractical way to play any video game. It might be cool as a demo.

Like, you can just show, like, look at this crazy thing. You can just play a giant game on it. But it's so impractical. But it's so cool nonetheless. And I love that the DS and the 3DS are still getting attention. Like, these are ancient systems, but the DS especially, the 3DS was just more DS plus 3D that everyone turned off.

The DS especially was such a different kind of console. And when you try to go back and emulate games on a ds there are so many games that just can't be played the same way unless you're playing on actual hardware like okay when we talk about you know ps2 games ps1 games things like that PS1 games, things like that. If you emulate... What's a good example? Something that's not been re-released. You're not fucked, we'll pick something that has been released. If you go play Kingdom Hearts 1, before the HD remakes came out, before it came out on PC, a lot of people would just emulate the PS2

version, and the experience you get emulating a PS2 game is pretty much the experience of playing it on PS2 hardware. It's probably going to be at a higher res, especially if you've upscaled it. It's probably not going to be on a shit TV like you would have played on when the PS2 came out, but the game itself is going to be the game. And the same is true for pretty much every single console, with the exception of the DS. A lot of DS games are fine, but when we're talking about, you know, the games that are heavy touchscreen use, like Pokemon Ranger, like The World Ends With You. Even if you do the setup that I did for playing The World Ends With You, I was playing on a drawing tablet. it's playable but a lot of the systems in the world ends with you are based around the screen being the ds screen size so a lot of the also just having a a um stylus directly on the

the part where you're gonna see it so you can play it but a lot of things are like this is a bit a bit harder than they would have been playing on hardware that was designed to be like that and the same with pokemon ranger like pokemon ranger you have a on the ds you have a very small screen and the idea with pokemon ranger is basically you draw circles around pokemon and that is how you catch them. Let's see if I can find it. Pokemon Ranger gameplay. This, yeah, here we go. Here we go. So basically you just draw circles around them, and it has a number of circles you have to draw. them and it has a number of circles you have to draw. The problem with doing this on anything bigger than a DS is you have to draw things that are bigger than a DS screen and this

is kind of inconvenient. Like it's really annoying. It can be done, but like it's just nowhere near... It's nowhere near the experience of playing on that. I don't know of a single other... maybe... No, not even the... Maybe you can make the argument for the Wii? But if a game requires, like, the Wii motion, you basically have to play it with a Wii controller anyway, if it's a game that doesn't require the Wii motion, you could have always just played it on a, um, a GameCube controller,

or a, a Wii Pro controller, I don't think there's a single, I, yeah, I don't think there there's really much else where it's so different. Like the same with that exercise game on Switch. Like that's a game that sort of requires you to have that extra hardware to make it make sense. But in the case of DS games, like this is something built into the DS. There are so many DS games where they just don't work unless you are on the DS. Like, Nintendogs is another great example. You can play it with a drawing tablet.

But the parts that require the touchscreen, just, they don't play the same way. I think the closest experience you could get isn't using one of the cheap drawing tablets. It's one of the drawing displays. One of those tablets that have an actual screen on it. So then you can see exactly where your stylus is. That, I think, might give you a reasonable approximation of the experience. That's about as close as you could reasonably get not playing on actual hardware. But that's just my experience.

Maybe you prefer it. Maybe you prefer playing DS games emulated with like drawing caps and things like that. There are some DS games where if they weren't released on the DS. Nothing would have changed. Like Kingdom Hearts Days for example. It could have just. I wish that game got a remake. Like with Dream Drop Distance.

Where you could actually play it on a home console. I know why Dream Drop didn't. But. Dream Drop did. But Days didn't't dream drop when it came out looked like a ps2 game so upscaling that doing the um the regular hd remake stuff wasn't that weird days looked like a barely a ps1 game somewhere between PS1 and PS2, you could have put that on home console, and when I played it on, uh, on, on an emulator upscaled, it, it looked fine, obviously the, the models were very low detail, but it looked fine, there was no reason we couldn't have had an actual remake, but sadly, that, along with Recoded, has been

sort of lost to the what do you call it? The sands of time. And the only way to really go back and play it is through that system. Now, a game that definitely didn't need a remake, but

is now actually playable is Kingdom Hearts V-Cast. So, most Kingdom Hearts fans know about Kingdom Hearts Coded. That was the original version of Recoded. This was a mobile phone game. recoded, this was a mobile phone game. Um, this was on the NTT Dokomo. I don't know what that is. It's some sort of mobile, Japanese mobile phone system. Um, but this game eventually got completely remade into Kingdom Hearts Recoded. A game that sort of has been lost to the history of time was Kingdom Hearts V-Cast.

So Kingdom Hearts V-Cast is another mobile phone game. This was on this was on Verizon's wireless broadband service. It was released in 2004 in Japan and 2005 in the United States.

So this was pre-iPhone. I'll see if I can find a video of Vcast. Because Vcast is now actually going to be playable. Now that the emulator to

play that system, the Menengei emulator or something like that, is getting to a getting to a good state, I think, where does, yeah, here it is, here we go, gamers joint showing it off, so you run around like a fucking tank, you have to turn in place, this was an action game. This wasn't just like, you know, turn-based Kingdom Hearts. This was an actual action game

that existed. It's still in, like, the emulators are still in development, so you can't play it right now, but this is like just around the corner. The only issue with vcast is

uh half the game's missing so like a lot of mobile games especially at the time they were released in parts so there is an archive of part one but nobody has a copy that we know of of part two like the the wonderland segment so some of the game is just missing and sort of isn't going to be playable anytime i hope it is i would love i would absolutely love to play this game and stream this game. It's gonna be bad, like, it's gonna be God of War mobile bad. Oh, in case you didn't know, there was a God of War mobile game. What was the game called, God of War Betrayal, yes, fucking hell, the name has been loud, um, God of War Betrayal, videos, what was this system on, give me one second. This was on this was on Java Platform Micro Edition

or Java ME. And also it's technically canon. So if you want to know the entire story of God of War, technically technically you have to play this. Or you could read a wiki or you could not care because it's god of war um here it is yeah let's see if we can find a bit of combat skip ahead

it was actually a it was a 2d god of war game like it wasn't just some like weird thing that was nothing like god of war the only problem is it was scuffed as hell. Like, it even had... If you look at this, it even had, like, the grab mechanics. Like, it was just straight up God of War through

and through. I don't even know if it had... Did it have the quick time events? Uh, they're not showing it here. But like, I would have loved this if I knew about this as a kid. If I had a phone that could play this as a kid, I would have played this

absolutely constantly. Even if it is scuffed, even if it is shit, and you shouldn't want to play it but like my concept of mobile phone games back then

was Snake and was Tetris and was Solitaire and that's it that is all I didn't even know that things like this existed until That's it. That is all. I didn't even know that things like this existed until maybe like six or seven years ago. This is what I found out about the other day. But just the fact that games that were actual games existed back then, not just a one-off thing for the phone, like

trying to be this legitimate game. I didn't realize those existed for a long time until we got to the iPhone, really. But the problem with a lot of these old games is there are so many systems out there,

and some of them just don't have emulators. I do believe that java me works just fine with an emulator you don't have a problem with that one but there are all these weird systems that might have had like one game that you might want to go back and have a look at but it's just lost to their lost to this the sand is lost to the sands of time and is never, never going to be, uh, never going to be discovered again. But there's always these people that are, there are always these people that want to revive something and just want to see if, want to see if emulating a platform like this is actually possible. And even though it's...

Look, even though there might be better things you could spend your time on, maybe it's a good use of your time to go write an emulator for this archaic platform that has one game that anybody cares about. Maybe that's a waste of time. But who cares? Just make something cool and, uh, have some fun with it. Make something cool and give people something exciting to look at in the world. But, um, speaking of making something cool, so there is this game that you almost certainly have not heard about, unless you watch Asmongold, called Bleak Faith Forsaken. The reason why you've probably not

heard of it is because nobody has played the game. Um, Bleak Faith Forsaken Steam Charts. charts. So, this game had a all-time peak of 1800 players. Now, the reason why it had an all-time peak of

1800 players is this is an indie game. Okay. Okay, okay. This is an indie game. Okay. Okay, okay. This is an indie game that is 40 Australian dollars. This is a

Souls-like game made by three? I want to say three people. Made by three people. It's really ambitious. Like super, super ambitious for an indie game. Made in Unity.

And looked really cool. The problem where you have a really ambitious game and you're an indie studio. The game can be a little bit buggy. So, yeah, um, there's some weird game design in this where, okay, usually when you have a Souls-like game, or you just, usually we have a video game, right? Usually when you have a video game, you tend to make it pretty clear where you can and cannot go. Like, if there is a tower that you cannot go to, that should be far enough away where it cannot be jumped to. There are many areas in this game that you're not supposed to get to,

that you can just jump to, and the game doesn't stop you you can just go over there you fall through the map but the game doesn't stop you going there and as much as i like the idea of doing that um it it shouldn't be happening to be honest like you there is there is like this basic level of quality that is generally expected. One of the main reasons I brought this up is they bought an asset. Did I say Unity? I meant to say Unreal. Pretty sure it's Unreal.

Because they bought assets off the Unreal store. Give me one second, I'm pretty sure, uh, that was where they said, yes, yes, uh, other one. Yes, okay, uh, I said, I said Unity, I meant Unreal, um, my bad, but they bought an asset off of the unreal store and it turns out it was basically copied from from software and people were like you're stealing animations from from software wow dare you uh but they bought the asset from the store so someone straight up just uploaded an asset that they didn't have the rights to um but the the part about this game that I find most amusing is this right here. Additional notes. System requirements inaccurate until further updates. So they have this list of system requirements, but then they're like, nah, they're wrong. So what are these system requirements then?

It's like, why are you saying this is the what are these system requirements then i was like why why are you saying this is the requirements if the system requirements are inaccurate so they're not the system requirements like at all like what are you what are you talking about um i kind of want to go play it i know it's so scuffed but i kind of want to play it because I know it's scuffed. And it's $40. Maybe I buy it just for the meme. Like, it's very tempting to be completely frank. I like my Souls-like games.

I like games that are broken as hell. I like to see what sort of mess happens with them and where they end up going. It seems like the developer of this is really really wanting the game to become better. They are patching

it very frequently. They are trying to make things right. Especially when they have gotten all this attention from... No one's buying it, but they've gotten all this attention from people like Asmongold. I think Asmongold's the only person who even knows this game exists. Actually, here's my favorite part right the number of reviews has almost hit the peak players there are almost more reviews than people who have ever played who are like all played the game at the same time oh i love it honestly like i i think if you're an indie dev i know it can be tempting to make this big expansive game but if we look at the indie games out there that are incredible

like god tier indie games hollow knight hades bastion like all of these games, like Terraria, Stardew Valley, these are games that have a very, they have a very simple goal, and they're not trying to be these graphically impressive games, like not, I guess Hades is, but not, not visual fidelity, they're not trying to be these graphically impressive games. Like, not... I guess Hades is, but not visual fidelity. They're not trying to be these really good-looking games in the way you would typically think of a realistic-looking game. I don't know the best way to put it. But they're not trying to be these crazy detailed textures. They're going down this

artistic route that is a lot simpler to work with when you are a small studio. I don't want to say don't try to make something as ambitious as Bleak Faith, but I think if you were considering making a game and you're an indie studio maybe something like this is a little bit too ambitious because this is their first game like keep that in mind as well this is three people making their first game obviously first game as the studio

they probably had some other experience but first game they Obviously, first game as the studio. They probably had some other experience. But first game they release as a studio and it's a giant Souls-like game with these giant areas, all of these different weapon types, and it just... it's a lot of work For a For an indie studio And if you can make it work Fucking go ahead But Most people

Most people are gonna look at the end result They're not gonna be like Okay it's made by three people I guess we have to give it some Some leeway If it was like a $20 game, yeah, you could be like, yeah, okay, give it some leeway, it's $20, what do you expect? It's a cheap game from an indie studio. If it's not perfect, it's not perfect. But when you're asking for $40, it's like,

oh, we're getting to the point where you expect there to be quality. It doesn't matter if it's made by one people or a thousand people. What you care about is, was my money spent well? Did I buy a game that was worth it generally? And maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. As I've said, I've only seen playthroughs of it and it looks really scuffed right now. But I... maybe I'll play it. Or maybe I won't, because I have way too many games to play like DMC 3 and fucking God of War 2 and Yakuza 0 and Hogwarts and I want to play Hi-Fi Rush And I want to do all this other stuff

FF16 is coming out in a couple of months Too many video games too little time I have so much relaxation to do what am I supposed to do how am I supposed to how am I supposed to manage all this relaxation oh god you know it is what it is

um but well uh I guess do we have anything else I want to touch on before we end off?

No? I guess I'll briefly mention this. I want to buy one because it's stupid, but I will never use it. This is a 21 SSD add-in card. This is a 21 SSD add-in card. So it plugs into a PCIe port and you can attach 21... Yeah, you can attach 21 M.2 SSDs to it. 168 terabytes of storage with 21 8 terabyte SSDs. And it works on Linux!

Why would you buy one? A data center. Would you buy one for a home system? That depends on how much it costs. I don't think they actually have a- system? That depends on how much it costs. I don't think they actually have a a price listed at this stage. Hyper machine learning and hyper

converged infrastructure. Yes. No, there is no price here. Windows, Windows Server, Linux. Yes. Should you buy one? No. Do I want one. Yes. Should you buy one? No Do I want one? Yes

Wait, oh, thank you. X21 pricing is 28 2800 USD. Are you listening to my fucking microphone? I'll close this website. Jesus Christ fucking microphone, I'm gonna close this website, Jesus Christ, um, so $2,100 plus $21,000 for the 8 terabyte, the 21 8 terabyte SSDs, seems like a good deal, probably not, um, but for data centers, like, this could be big, like, this could be a, a crazy thing to have in a data center, and I'm sure this is not the only one, but it's just so cool nonetheless. It's shaped like a GPU, but you just plug in a shitload of SSDs to it. It's awesome. And the last thing I'll mention is the F1 Sim Racing rig. Get the worst value gaming PC ever with this F1 sim rig. This is 99,000 pound... Euro? What the fuck is that symbol? I don't know your European money. What is this?

money, what is this, pound, yes, 99,000 pounds, um, this is made out of the, like, actual shell, like, the actual material, and designed like an actual F1 car, like, this, this front end is straight up just a front end from an F1 car. That's why it's so expensive. But... Yeah. There's no clear indication right now. On what's actually inside of it. Because it comes with a gaming PC. So there is a gaming PC in here. But I don't know how much you would have to...

Like what you would have to have in this system. To justify that much money. I'm sure someone's going to buy it. Like this would be a ridiculous thing to have in your house and someone is going to want it. I'm not the target audience, but someone is. Someone that just has way too much money

and way too little brains. But it's cool. It is really cool. So I think that is going to be it for me. I am going to go edit some videos. I am going to go... I've got to go to work afterwards as well. That'll be great.

And yeah. I am working on doing an episode with Imalo, who is the guy who installs Gentoo and everything. I'm working on doing an episode with Nick from the Linux experiment. And I'm also working on something with Vaxxery, the guy who developed Hyperland. So those may happen, may not happen. Some point in the future, we'll see what happens.

So that is going to be it for me. If you like this episode, go and like the episode. All that fun stuff. If you're not subscribed, do that as well. The audio version is available on any audio podcast platform. The video version is on YouTube, both of which are at Tech Over Tea. The main channel is Brody Robertson. I do Linux videos and sometimes throw in some AI videos six days a week.

The gaming channel, I'm currently playing through Hogwarts Legacy, and Yakuza 0, yes, uh, and I'm probably going to still be playing through it whenever you see this, because both of them are long games, so that is going to be it for me, enjoy the rest of your day, and all that fun stuff, and I'm out.