Tech Over Tea - How Long Till I Release My Own NFT Collection | Donald Feury

Episode Date: March 2, 2022

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I am as always your host Brodie Robinson and today you might notice something. I'm not alone for once, which is rare, especially on this show. Welcome back to the show, Donald, and I've got one important question for you. Yes? When are you going to release your NFT collection? Because that seems to be what everyone's doing right now. Oh man, just gotta talk to the right people on Twitter and I'll be on board. I was just watching

a CoffeeZilla video just before this and I was having lunch and Lana Rhodes released an NFT collection. That name probably rings a bell because it's a porn star. Fairly popular one. I don't recognize the name, but I'll...

Anyway, yeah. She released this collection. Rug pulled it. It was worth $1.5 million. And the reason why she rug pulled it was actually amazing. She didn't like the amount of negativity in her community. So she took $1.5 million. Now, what she means by negativity was actually,

uh, it was NFT bros wasting their money on JPEGs. There was someone in the discord who was like, I spent the last $2,000 I had on this. Now I can't pay my rent. I hope this goes up in value. Like, like typical NFT bro stuff.

That's not even NFT bro. That's just crypto bro. Oh yeah. Well, look, the crypto bro and NFT bro is sort of like, it's the same, same weird collection, but I feel like I can at least like understand what the crypto bros are saying. They see chart, chart go up, chart make the money. I can wrap my head around that logic, but

I buy a JPEG of a poorly drawn monkey. This is going to be my life investment. What? What are you talking about? God, those things. They got so bastardized. See,

how much do you know about like the the nft concept uh enough to know that i've talked too much about it on this show and people have probably stopped watching already just because i mentioned nfts in the first minute uh or maybe they're watching more i don't know like okay so i don't know like a whole bunch about like the whole blockchain space but from what i understand in it like the the in it the the protocol that gave birth to what is now nfts that was like made because of blockchain based games because to create those like quote yeah like non-reproducible like blockchain assets that are using games so like in in the within the context of using something like an nft because it's somehow linked to a game okay it has a use i've talked a lot about why i don't

like nft games but yes i'll give you that there that. There is at least a use there, sure. I'll grant that. But the whole thing of like, oh, it's somehow, I don't know how linked to this piece of art, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, and it somehow has value. It's like, okay, you lost me here.

It's sort of, all of this stuff's being pushed in the same sort of way. I's being pushed in the the same sort of same sort of way i don't know specifically what like the first intended use case of nfts were because they sort of like popped out of nowhere but nfts uh metaverse play to earn gaming has all been like it's all this like meld together of just degeneracy basically they're all sort of pushing each other but i i'm i am actually happy to see that a lot of people are starting to realize that how ridiculous this is like you yeah generally you don't really see you know normal people

pushing this but i've had uh my stepdad asked me like about bitcoin a couple years back uh his financial advisor which he shouldn't have been a financial advisor was like okay so we're gonna take all of your life savings and put it all in on bitcoin um he didn't end up doing it but like that's he's asked me about things like that. But anytime anyone outside of the internet space has asked me about NFTs, it's always been to sort of laugh at the idea. It seems everyone's basically on the same page with this one, except the guys who are actually buying them.

Right, yeah. I mean, I hope more is done to find more interesting use cases with them and not this meme-ass shit with art. Do you know who the guy was that kind of made NFTs blow up as an art thing? Do you mean the creator of the monkey nfts or are you guys speaking no no no no that he was i don't even think he was literally the guy that like pushed it into like mainstream it was have you ever heard of a dude named beeple the name's ringing a bell

he's like this like 3d motion graphics dude he's been he's he's really well known apparently because he did this thing where he's created a work of art every day for the last like 10 years right yeah and uh he i guess he got involved in that space a little bit somehow and i guess because he's like famous he had a nft cell in an auction for like millions of dollars yeah i just found a uh article verge 69 million which is also a great price that's kind of what like you know because that was that was fucking headline news there where a guy sells digital art for millions of dollars i completely missed that that story actually yep that's kind of what pushed it into like even people like even just like regular like nine o'clock news was like i sells digital art for millions of dollars oh what the

because nfts yeah the past couple of years been really really weird like people who i like i i i know about bitcoin like a while back i didn't have money in a while back but i've known about it for at least like five or so years at this point uh i didn't think we would get to a point so quickly where regular people are talking about like this weird this weird blockchainy stuff that like i i knew it would like the the direction that bitcoin and stuff was going i knew it would have to happen at some point but the internet makes stuff move way way quicker than anybody would ever expect yeah and it's not even i think i'm not even i'm not me i'm not so surprised at how quick not even i think i'm not even i'm not me i'm not so surprised at how quick non-techie people hear about now i think i'm more amazed at like what that like what what like what the whole

space is turned into now like not just of like if you asked me like even like a couple years ago if we'd be able to basically like run entire systems off of blockchain stuff like via like ethereum i'd be like what that doesn't make any sense it's just currency but like nope you can really run a whole system off of it now well the way that like one of the early explanations that sort of made me understand what a blockchain really was uh it's actually from, I think it was the developer of Library. No, CEO of Library. Yeah, CEO of Library, Jerry Kaufman.

He posted something. It might have been a video or something. He said, a blockchain is basically a really slow, immutable database. That's the simplest way to think about it. Like, sure, you have this currency attached to it, but the core concept of what a blockchain is

is just a really slow, mutable database. Yeah, pretty much. That's basically what it is. Because back then, that was the days when, if you just said this was a blockchain app, that app just shot up in value. And that's

hasn't really gone away. It's just shifted from blockchain into being NFTs. Even though there's a lot of people who don't like them, just saying it's related to NFTs in any way has that audience that's going to jump on it straight away. You can stick a few more buzzwords in there to get it going, but I'd be like, it's our blockchain decentralized

powered by smart contracts. Mm-hmm. With our utility token. If you want some fun, just find some really shit projects that you know are going to rug pull, or have rug pulled, and just read

their white paper, because it's nothing but technical jargon that means nothing they've just they've just thrown what i forgot there's a um there was a story of a guy who sort of faked his way up to being a i think like a cto or something uh basically doing exactly that like just throwing out technical jargon to, like, upper management who has no idea what they're talking about. I wish I remember what the guy's name was, but that's basically the same thing.

That's basically corporate in a nutshell, too. Act like you're fucking smart or bail some room when they'll think you are. So we're, like, ten minutes into this, and I never... Just in case anyone's new to the show, tell the people who you are. What do you do?

My name is Donald Fury. I've been a software engineer for five or six years. Started making videos on YouTube, basically to help teach some of the stuff that I know. Other than that, we play games, you know, the same typical degeneracy he has on here. You actually still make any videos or not? No, but and I guess I'll

this sort of relates to the meeting scouted thing is. I am basically playing out a next up, I'll ask you'll ask you about this to see if you have input on this. A content strategy for basically building out a MongoDB course and series of videos for YouTube. Uh-huh. Yeah.

You know, that sounds kind of fun. My only problem with jumping into something like that is there's a lot of content already out there it's the same problem with doing like programming tutorials and things like that there's so much sort of saturation in that market that I don't know what I I would really say but I'm sure there's some way you can approach it uh especially i guess this way to say it would be uh approaching it from a certain sort of personality i guess making it and saying its own way yeah i mean i'm fully well aware that probably a lot of the stuff i've even made videos on like again there's a dozen videos about the same shit already on there all right but it's it's the fact of when

i try to explain something on there uh the most of the positive feedback i've gotten on videos has basically been along the lines of um you don't just show what you did you explain exactly like what you did why you did it and you don't bullshit around you just show it you don't like waste a bunch of fucking time in between yeah yeah yeah yeah i i've i don't know i find that some people complain like you always have people complaining when you do it either way like you either show too much or you show too little someone like oh this is too much too much depth just show us nothing but the bullet points. And then the other person will be like,

no, I want a video essay about every single thing that you're saying. And you sort of have to find, I think at the end of the day, you have to find the middle ground that you are happy with. Obviously, you want to make good content and you want to use the feedback you get as some sort of guidepost in a sensible direction because a lot of the time you think you're making something good

and then you realize when someone else looks at it there was like this glaring flaw that you had never like never even thought of so that feedback can be useful but there's a lot of people out there who get a little bit too i guess too locked into not locked in too wrapped up yeah wrapped up in their feedback and sort of lose track of what they were trying to do yeah most of the useful critiques that i've gotten were actually were didn't actually have anything to do with like the information i yeah yeah or like in the form it was like it was actually like the presentation style because i think uh one of the super early critiques i got was uh i think that was back when i was using a vim plugin that hooked up the uh pie wall color scheme generator to them and i could look at it fine but people watch the video like i can't fucking read this shit so i changed the

color scheme to be something readable to not me yeah that was part of that was the pretty that was like the please change this so i can read what you're doing uh but aside from that uh i think the only other like kind of that was this isn't feedback it was just a stupid ass comment get rid of the beard no actually most people they would probably scream if i got rid of the beard um man i made a that'd be nice yeah i made a blog post basically explaining how to do air quotes join in MongoDB and when I shared it I think like the very first comment I got was you can't do a join

in MongoDB it's not a relational database I'm like no shit that's why it's in air quotes it's not a join it's a join in the sense of it's accomplishing the same goal there's a lot of people who only see the part they want to see it's like joy in the sense of it's accomplishing the same goal yeah there's a lot of people who only see the part they want to see it's like what air quotes what what are air quotes i've never heard of those before no no idea i got the exact same thing on a video the other day let's

see what the title was i'll just check it now um where is it uh ah right it was um privacy friendly advertising featuring meta and mozilla which is i i still not a big fan of that title but it's probably the best one i had and then i had privacy in quotes and i got a bunch of comments be like don't put meta and privacy in the same sentence like are you oh my god like what do i need to do to make it very obvious that i'm i i'm being sarcastic here obviously sarcasm and text doesn't come off perfectly but when you put those hints in there there's only so much that you can do and then the rest of it is just like especially when everybody else understands what you're saying at some point there's just a problem with the way that you read it or you just didn't watch it yeah there's a good number of those isn't there oh hey why didn't you

address this point like i i i did i literally said that. I said that word for word, actually. Like, what are you talking about? Part of me wonders how... I think it's probably not a good idea because it'd probably kill engagement. Part of me wonders how interesting an idea would be if there was an option you could, like, tick on a YouTube video that says, like,

you have to have watched this much of the video to comment on the fucking thing. I had that same idea. It would absolutely kill engagement. I think a better way to handle it, because YouTube does already have this data, so you know how when you watch a video on YouTube, it tells you, like, how much of the video you've watched,

and if you go back to the video, it jumps you back to that point. So, what you could do is next to every commenter have a little time stamp this is how far in the video they watched ah obviously they could always jump ahead in the video but most people that would be fairly accurate for so if you if you see someone there who's left a comment and it says 30 seconds you can disregard everything they've said right yeah or or just milk their ass for content because you're right another full shit yeah that's always fun uh so okay so here was the idea i was going to run off you and see if you have an opinion or don't have opinion on it so i have i've basically been creating the learning outcome, right? The learning outcome is I want somebody to be able to be,

like, have a basic understanding of how to use X, which in this case, it's MongoDB. Sure. So the videos would be released in two separate forms. the videos would be released in two separate forms one is uh basically like kind of like a a long video with every single thing in it much like how a lot of people do like the free code camp videos are like fucking two hours long or some shit yeah yeah um and a different way where every single part of that is its own video because you know more videos you have more likely youtube gives it to somebody yeah yeah um i'm going to do both of those now

the question becomes does it make sense to do which one first to me it make more sense to just uh as i'm doing each section to just post a section or i mean i should say queue everything up then have it be scheduled to be released yep and then after it's all done go okay here's the you know you don't want to watch 20 separate videos boom here's one video with 20 bookmarks you know to have fun with it that's a very good question because the way that i handle the podcast basically is like that but far less professional um i i upload the the full version and then split out things after that but because what i'm talking about in the podcast isn't really that i guess the the ordering doesn't matter there's not really time crucial anything like that it works with that format i think that's a really tough question

i think it might be a better idea to release it as it goes and then in the full version then you can go back and address any of the points that you... If you missed anything, for example, you can add in something extra there. Rather than doing it the other way around, we released the full version. Then the full version may have problems, but

then the individual parts wouldn't. I don't really know. They've both got their benefits and issues. I don't i don't really know like they've they've both got their their benefits and issues i i think you're probably better off doing it part by part and then if you want to do a full version after that do a full version yeah that's what i was thinking and what you said is true that i could technically like clean up yeah yeah yeah That's what I'm trying to get at. If I wanted to.

But that extra work. Fuck that, I'm not doing that. Well, yeah, you also don't have to clean up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only difference between the big one and the small ones is the big one is really just the main part, not the fucking, you know, precursor slash outro shit that's on every other video yeah

yeah i think you're better off doing the individual parts first and then going from there that that's the way i would approach it at least yeah okay that makes sense i i would not even have the long version to be honest i would just have the uh i would just have every part in a playlist but if you want to have a long version then I guess that does add value if you want to cut the intros and outros and stuff yeah there might be something there I guess yeah

there's also because I've spoken to people about this there are people who prefer just like finding like an isolated thing yeah yeah using it but then there are also people who would be going okay i don't know shit about this thing just start me from scratch and i want to work my way through the whole thing and then that would be the kind of people who would

rather having to fucking hopscotch from one damn video the next will just sit there and just watch through the whole thing yeah i sort of go with both approaches when i whenever i was learning anything i would initially go through like from you know beginner to advance whatever you want to stop at go from go through all of it uh obviously doing my own stuff as i go but if there's anything i need to reference at any point i like to have an easy way to go back to a specific point let's say i don't know um you're learning how to do join statements in sequel for example i always like the the ability to easily reference that if i forget how to do that specific thing rather than digging through all of the content just trying to find that one specific thing i wanted yeah and part of the

reason for wanting to have everything broken out anyway is again it's just kind of a it's just kind of an seo thing yeah i'm literally wording these as if exactly how i would word if i was like fuck i forgot how to do this thing yep yep yeah i do the thing but yeah yeah yeah yeah that makes sense we i go i actually use a lot of my content to like remember how to do stuff like i there's a good number of videos i've actually re-watched that made like a couple of years ago like wait how did i do virtual cameras how to do this it people think that we make videos for them we make content for them no we just make it so we don't forget it yeah i mean i certainly there's only been like there's there's been like

two videos i might i think i've re-watched because i forgot what like how to do that thing well i think one was what was one of the ffmpeg videos i forgot oh right if we used to do those yeah yeah um and another one was the stuff to do with go modules i forget what some of those commands do yeah you've done you've jumped around a bit with your channel and now actually we didn't mention this but uh now you're doing a podcast as well yeah yeah me and a co-worker started a podcast because we uh we would just talk sometimes and we just realized we kind of had fairly similar viewpoints about i guess work this is the way that everybody starts a podcast i'm true i mean yeah but yeah yeah that's basically what happened we were just just talking one day and he was like,

man, some of the stuff we're talking about, they're like, we should start a podcast. And I was like, sure, why the fuck not? Yup. Yeah. Yeah, most people don't sit down by themselves and talk for two hours like I do. I am the exception,

not the rule. talk for two hours like i do i'm i am the uh the exception not the rule i do appreciate the advice you have you i asked you for like where you use for like hosting yeah yeah oh if anyone who is curious i make use of um anchor that's a spotify service where they so the problem that a lot of not a lot the problem that one the one of the uh the hosting set or one of the the distributed distribution services has being apple podcast what do they call it now i think it's separate from itunes i don't know whatever apple's podcasting is called they They require you to have an Apple account. An Apple account that has made a purchase. At least that was the case when I started the podcast like two years ago.

Which is ridiculous. Why do I need to have an Apple account that's made a purchase? All you need is my RSS feed. Everybody else is fine with just an RSS feed, except Spotify. Spotify is also weird. But they do stuff through Anchor anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Stop. Just let me do this. So Anchor just basically automatically sets your podcast pretty much everywhere that matters. And most of the podcast platforms out there just pull from iTunes itunes anyway or apple podcasts so even if your rss feed isn't on those platforms they will still have access to your like what you upload like i i use uh anchor as my podcast app with the exception of one podcast

it's only on spotify um and that doesn't have its own like podcast distribution thing it just pulls straight from itunes apple whatever they call it whenever we were setting it up so you didn't have to have made a purchase so this was this is what you had to do to have a verified account yeah you had to have a valid payment method on your account and you had to have accepted the like apple like media whatever term yeah yeah which meant you had to take that account and log into itunes now i have literally no way of doing that the only way that he did it was he had to pull out some old macbook that he had and sign into it if i had to do it the way i would have done it probably at the time was at uni so the uni had had imax so i could have logged into an imac there and done it like that. Yeah. But after that,

I, there was some site that I found that had a bunch of, like, podcasting blog posts. Damn, what the hell was that place called? I can't remember now. But anyway, it had, like, a blog post about, like, here are the 27 podcast directories

you should be on. Right, okay. So I literally took our RSS feed from Anchor and just went through every fucking one of them. I probably should do that. I probably, I've only got it set up on the ones that is set up for Anchor, and obviously

the ones that pull from iTunes, but I guess I should go and check what else I should be on, because we are like 100 episodes in and I just haven't done that. Uh, which might be a good idea. Um, aside from that,

we're not going to stay on anchor longterm. We're just kind of using it temporarily. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Uh, cause you know how I like to, I like to host my own shit. Yeah,

of course. Um, I was made aware on, on the Fedipers actually, a open source podcasting hosting solution called Castopod. I feel like someone's mentioned that to me. You might have just seen a post on Mastodon because they went into beta recently.

And it actually looks pretty deep like it looks fairly functional like fairly functional i'm just waiting for somebody to basically make i'm either waiting for somebody or for them to have an official docker image it's made with php and i'm fucking tired of setting up php environments uh once there's a docker image i'm just gonna i'm gonna use it it and Terraform and Ansible to just spin up instances like that. Ah, yeah, yeah. And I'm going to move our stuff over there. I'll have to look at this.

Looks kind of neat. One of the features that it has that I haven't, again, I haven't had a chance to try it, but it sounded really useful for, a chance to like try it but it sounded really useful for maybe not so much me but for the dealer guy my co-host is it if i understood right from the docs all each of your episodes there's a way on the admin dashboard to literally just like take a section and just clip it out into its own video yeah i'm seeing this right now on their website. Custabud helps you get noticed by enforcing best practices and giving you tools to post easily on all social media. Create video clips and soundbites from your episodes and share them everywhere.

That's cool. Yeah, that sounds like... I mean, technically, again, you could take this and do all this shit on your own editor. Well, I do. I guess just having an interface, especially if you're not someone who messes with that stuff much you can just be like oh this clip sounded good boom clip assuming it works that way but yeah i'm just waiting for uh that to be a

sort of a drop-in install and then that all of our shit's going over there yeah that's not a bad idea i i i don't know i like anchor just because anchor is very convenient but there's certainly a lot of uh i don't know there's a lot of stuff i i really should do with the podcast to make sure it's getting out there more it's just i'm i am i'm look i just i just rant for two hours the podcast is basically a wave me to vent for a couple of hours on camera. You're just doing your thing, man.

Basically, I think we actually just passed a thousand subs on the YouTube, though. Let me check. I feel like I did. Speaking of which, I don't think I've got enough um view hours though or watch hours whatever they call it to monetize but hey yeah over a thousand subscribers uh anyway you're saying yes so there's a there's a youtube channel for it too and uh the next time that we're recording

he's gonna be the one recording because So we, the first four episodes, we both recorded them one day. Right, right. I was the one recording. I was screen capturing Discord. My dumb ass didn't turn my compositor off. So the frame rate of the video was like, shit. Uh-huh.

Yep. Yeah. So like he was, because he was like, why is it like it looks like it's like 20 fps or something i was like uh yeah that's uh that's a me thing sorry it won't look like that wait you were screen capturing and not window capturing yes i yeah there was a i forget why but there was a reason why I was screen capturing

I can't remember why that's weird I've never seen an issue like that with screen capture though it's something with mine I always have my I disable it for gaming streams just cause

it's not my compositor that has a problem with the gaming streams. It's Xorg that has a problem. I use the V-Sync built into Xorg to disable screen tearing and it's great. It works wonderfully. Except for games that run

lower than the refresh rate. In which case, the stuttering is turned up really really high so i have to make sure that's uh that's not enabled i just basically kill everything kill my compositor kill that and then it's basically good i can deal with a bit of screen tearing it's not that big of a deal i'd much rather that than stuttering yeah i think uh actually speaking of like janky setup things i gotta decide next time that i build a new system like the the whole like oh build the thing up from scratch the arcelinix thing was yeah like it's been interesting but i think next time basically because uh it

might be yeah eye candy tends to work better in video sometimes anyway. Yeah, yeah. I think I'm just going to slap Guerrilla Linux on her. Yeah, that works. The Dragon Eyes, the ultimate eye candy. That or, I don't know, Manjaro Popware, something easy. Have you got other things? I was going to say, have you got other things to is no point uh you know spending all your time configuring something i know well the reason why i was specific i was specifying garuda is because

they have that that version that's called dragon eyes that has like that super fucking nice uh like theme with it i'm just like but people need to share up on fucking videos probably oh yeah actually that looks pretty cool doesn't it uh wait is that I think that's it yeah no this is it okay cool uh open link in a new tab there we go that looks pretty cool

yeah and I bet any application not made for this desktop sticks out like a sore thumb it probably does. That's the problem with having a super custom theme like that and why I try to keep everything fairly basic.

But hey, these icons look pretty cool. I like them. So I'd like people to know what the podcast is called. they want to go check it out what do you what do you do on the podcast you didn't mention that ever i had uh it's called off the clock because we because the the the the meme of it before that we didn't go with because apparently it was paying to ask to do it was it was meant to go live exactly at 5.01 p.m. Oh, God. That would be a bad. God.

Yeah, that was like, oh, we did research. And I was like, we probably shouldn't release a podcast today because no one would listen to it. But we're mostly talking about like career advice stuff in there. Like the first episode was about resume tips. The second one was about things to look out for during job searching, like job posting. And then the third one was interview tips.

Right, yeah, interview tips. Imagine dealing with job stuff. That would be fun. Yeah, gross. Imagine not just making a making uh make this is a different pod there's did you know there's another podcast called off the clock yeah there's there's a couple of them i'll talk off the clock but we were like eh we like the name yeah that's fair that's the only problem with um with with naming something you want to have something that is

searchable but something that is not something that is not like too too close to an existing term yeah uh i think you i'll leave it linked in the description down below i'm not gonna find it right now there's a bunch of them um yeah i saying, that's the problem with anything, any sort of name. Like, I sort of, I thought about this name for quite a while that I'm using here, Tech of a T. I had, like, a bunch of other names that I was thinking of,

and some of them were, like, too long. Some of them were, like, too similar to other names or someone else or was it using it turns out someone actually is using the name tech of a t but i remember that but their their show is dead so i'm willing to claim it it's mine now

you're gonna have tech of a t.com though i don't care though.coms are expensive i'd rather have my.xyz yeah i do know that someone was telling me about this i don't care though dot coms are expensive i'd rather have my dot xyz yeah i do know that someone's telling me about this i don't know if it's true uh someone's telling me that xyz and uh tlds like that are sort of bad for your your seo uh because a lot of these tlds are used for you know spam sites things like that just because they're much cheaper than buying a dot org or a dot com or something like that um i've heard that and i've

seen people show something that like like grant like analytics that correlates with that like if they had i think actually the one i think i'm thinking of it was somebody that had an xyz tld and then bought the.com version and their search track went like, like it just skyrocketed. And I was like, I mean, yes, that correlates that, but I don't know if that's because of that specifically

because I don't know the context about like that site. Yeah, the problem with any sort of SEO research is it's very much difficult to get useful information out because you're not entirely sure how the Google search actually is handled. One thing I do know for a fact, though, is you probably shouldn't use something like XYZ for an email server

because there are a lot of existing email hosts that automatically block things like xyz so yeah that's what i thought was going to spam things like that that's what i thought was going to happen when i set mine up but it doesn't apparently okay or it might just be because uh the thing that i'm using is very thorough about all the like dns stuff it sets up so maybe it's just it's so thorough that it's like eh i guess it's not spam and it doesn't like the spam yeah i i couldn't tell you man i i leave the the networking stuff to someone else yeah i mean the the email server that i have um i was i set it up with it's called mail in a box okay yeah and it's basically just like a script that installs a bunch of open source tools and

automatically pre-configures everything involving dns and everything like that oh yeah so what it does is if you add a user at the user being like an email address, it automatically adds to its own DNS all of the stuff you have to have to make your domain be like a really secure, valid email authority. And you have to do some stuff on your host name provider to plug it up yep i've actually

been using it for a couple months now actually with the podcast email and my personal email and nothing actually gets spammed as well that's good that yeah that that's actually good i like this was just something i'd read from some like random blog i don't know if it's actually the case if maybe it's just the case with like poorly set up servers and that's why that idea is propagated um it might be because this is why i've never touched email i didn't know mail in a box existed but my understanding is getting a getting an email server setup isn't difficult it's getting everything associated with the email server setup that's a problem like your Like your block list and spam filters and like that.

Just getting it so you don't set up this email server and then realize that you should shut it down like 10 seconds later. Yeah. But I might have to check this out at some point if I ever...

She's going to play with the cat. She's like, hey, I want to talk. She's going to stare at me. Hello. Don't claw my hand. Don't do that. She will scream if I mention that she's being fed. Then she will not

shut the fuck up. Technically it's not my cat, it's my housemate's cat, but it lives in my room anyway, so it is what it is. I have claimed you human. More like he's claimed the bed, basically. And he won't leave that for the

entire day. Anyway, before we get distracted by cats, I want to show you just this... I'll show you a hilarious story I saw the other day. Now, where did my Discord window go? Ah, it's there. Yes. Okay. So, anti-cheat is like kind of a problem for a lot of games a lot of games don't really handle it that well

so instead of doing that how about we uh we sort of just we sort of troll the cheaters instead how do you now let you destroy cheaters with your own automatic god mode basically instead of banning the uh the cheaters they get detected by the anti-cheat,

but instead of banning them, they're allowed to play, but everybody else is invulnerable to their attacks. I like that. Because, look, if you get banned, you're just going to, like, spin up a new account. If you get IP banned, you can just, you know, log in with a VPN.

It's really hard to actually ban someone from a modern game just don't ban them that sounds like a perfectly sensible idea to me assuming it works consistently uh yeah if it doesn't and you know it starts affecting people that maybe just have like weird setups something like that, that could be kind of a problem, but hey, it certainly acts as good marketing for them as well. Yeah, it does. At least

they're trying to actually help deal with their cheating problem unlike a few other games I know of. What games in particular? Dead by Daylight. I've never actually played Dead by Daylight. Uh, it's a fucking

shit show right now. There are literally people who just, like, sell hacks that just let you do whatever the fuck you want because they haven't security patched them in years. Oh my god, okay. Lovely. They'll literally just, like, there are people who will

find, like, even, like, half-decent-sized people who will find like like even like half decent size people who stream that game and just literally hold them hostage because they can use the hacks in the way that you the game won't end yeah yeah and then if you leave it still flags you as getting as you bang the game oh yeah oh and oh what this was the stupidest shit i ever heard so they actually did a like a q a thing and one of the things they brought up was was the fact that they have that really bad cheating problem and what the fuck did one of these people say that was stupid shit they said like we're not telling you what we're doing to fix the problem because if we do

they'll know we're fixing the problem and try to come up new ways around i'm like i've heard this excuse for so many things yeah yeah like oh we can't give you the the boundaries that you're allowed to operate in because then people will know what the what boundaries they can try to push like yeah but what about everyone else who's not cheating what about everyone else who is trying to like What about everyone else who is trying to acknowledge the rules? Yeah. I mean, the thing about that that doesn't make any sense to me, it's like, okay, you're not wrong, probably, that if you say, oh, we know about vulnerability X, Y, and Z,

we're working to patch them, that they'll go, oh, they're going to patch this, so let's find a new way. But they're literally going to do that, even if you just don't say that and then you patch them yeah someone's gonna try and do it go oh wait they must have patched this okay time to find another way like worse you did was prolong the inevitable by a week or something there are some devs who i don't i don't know who's talking like when you have a big dev studio

it's not always the case that the people that you're talking to are the people actually fixing the problems a lot of the time the people that are running the twitter accounts the game updates things like that are going to be their PR people

who may not have you know the most the most... the most in-depth... I just got completely blocked by the cat. Most in-depth understanding of what's going on on the development side. Yeah.

But no, the guy that was talking, I'm pretty sure he's literally one of the devs. Oh, yeah. He's like... So he's just like coming up devs. Oh, yeah. He's like, what the fuck are you talking about? So he's just like coming up with nonsense to make people go away. Yeah. Have you been keeping up at all with the Steam Deck?

A little bit. I know it's out. I know I've seen like, not not not linus what the hell you got gamers nexus like kind of like take it apart and like look at it i've seen those videos like kind of describing like it's thermodynamics and other parts about it yeah well it's not out yet it's out on the uh the 25th so it's still a little bit away they've just had like uh you know review samples things like that that um but right now actually i did a video on this it got a little angry uh because valve has said they've tested thousands

of games and there's literally less than a thousand games they've tested and we were like oh but they might just be releasing your numbers later like okay but like why did i not release the numbers it's been a couple months shut the fuck up this is one of those it's one of those the videos i did where you know you have a lot of people telling you you're wrong and because people are telling you you're wrong that means that you must be wrong as if truth is a democracy where uh you must listen to what everyone else is saying you're not going outside are you cat you're gonna do you just as soon as I start saying something, you're going to go outside. Okay, give me like two seconds. Okay.

Entertain the people. What did I say? Entertain the people. Entertain? We'll talk? No? I guess not. Just stare at me like a grumpy asshole?

Okay. I don't know what you were saying I was talking to my cat and the fact that she's staring at me like an asshole oh well okay that works as well then um anyway right now right now there is like just over

a thousand games have been tested uh there's supposedly about 600 games 600 ish games 700 games they know are going to be working which i i can say for a fact is a absolute fraction of the number of games that are actually going to be working on the steam deck oh yeah i mean again maybe they're not they're not willing to count this because it's like like, community-sourced. But, like, I think you said this, too.

Like, they could literally just point to fucking ProtonDB and go, look at this. This is a pretty decent indication of what's going to work and how well it works. Well, okay, the problem with ProtonDB is that there's a lot of stuff on that platform where, firstly, their rating system isn't entirely clear like i've played bronze games that play basically perfectly like just because of the bronze rating does not mean it's

bad um a lot of the time you have a lot of older reports that drag it down and not enough new ones to really bring it back up so maybe on on older versions of Proton, yeah, it actually was a mess. But Weirion, Proton, what, 7? I want to say 7.0 now. We might have 7.1, but at least 7.0. And even games like Persona 4 Golden, which were notoriously hard to run, are running now.

The problem it had is the cutscenes were encoded in a codec that required Windows proprietary stuff. I think it was like Media Codec. I don't remember what it was called. But with the base version of Proton, you just couldn't watch the cutscenes.

The game would literally crash if you tried to. Now, sometimes the cutscenes play play other times the cut scenes uh just show like a i guess a dummy uh like footage in place of it um but you can at least play the game and that's something i'll give it that yeah there was um have you actually like made a report on there before on proton db uh i think once or twice i did it once for um a game called 30 xx which basically kind of like a roguelike megaman game uh yeah okay when it when it initially came out it wouldn't run in proton and i reported it and literally the first hot fix they did the next day uh changed it from borg basically to runs perfectly yeah because what it was is there

was like there was some way they were trying to load your save data that just didn't work in proton it would air out and die but like they they literally as soon as like the next day they fixed that like oh that's fine now. That's perfect. That's always nice to see. There's actually been a... Oh, yeah, I see the report here. And then, like, just after that, everything's just good.

Yep. There's actually been a surprising number of developers who have been adding in Antitude support. I didn't think it would happen. Sorry, are we Antitude? That's what the list is. I didn't think it would be happening this quickly. There are certainly a lot of games that aren't in a good state, but Battlefield 20 2042 even though no one cares about that game is confirmed Ark is supported Smite is confirmed Rust is confirmed

I think a lot of the Call of Duty games are confirmed as well Black Ops 3 is supported and a lot of the other Call of Duty games are supported as well Dying Light is supported Gary's mod is supported. Surprisingly

we are getting a lot of support. There's still a lot that hasn't been done but I'm impressed with what's happening. We just don't get Fortnite, man. No Fortnite on the Steam Deck. No Fortnite on the Steam Deck.

That was such a fucking dumb situation. Like, what do you mean, Tim? It's literally your software. Why are you telling people not to use it? Man, I don't know. I don't know what goes through Tim Sweeney's mind half the time. Yeah, like, I think that dude

seriously has like because then the way you put where it's like some days he's like I love Linux and other days he's like I fucking hate Linux I'm like oh you got you got like bipolar disorder or something uh no look I stand by what I said there are two people running his Twitter account like Tim

Sweeney and uh I don't know his twin brother mitt tim and mitt there you go yeah they just both run the twitter account he doesn't acknowledge it but hey who even needs anti-cheat when you just have good moderation like 14 does yeah actually i guess 14 i'm pretty sure 14 would run the same deck uh it runs perfectly fine on linux so yeah yeah i was gonna say and with one exception um the a realm reborn opening cut scene for whatever reason soft locks the game so you can't watch that in-game. Heavensward, Shadowbringers, Stormblood, Endwalker, all perfectly fine.

A Realm Reborn, I guess, has a codec problem like the Stone of Fall Golden does. Yeah, that makes sense. But none of the in-game cutscenes are a problem, none of the in-game dungeons, dialogue, anything like that are a problem. I've had no issues with it whatsoever yeah god dude I got

I got sucked the fuck back into that game now holy shit I am uh as always I've been playing a lot of this game I recently like just the other day, finished the Crystal Tower

quest. I'm getting close to the end of the Romerborn patch content as well. I think I'm in, like, 2.4 or something like that. I would smoke it past your ass. Yeah, where are you? I finished the Heavensward

main story. Jesus Christ. Okay. What are you i finished the heavens war main story jesus christ okay what are you what are you playing red mage red red mage i fucking love red mage why are you like oh okay i i don't know i i i don't hate red mage it's just it it's a very different class a lot of the other classes and i just haven't been able to get used to it the the first thing i did when i got red mage and was reading the gauges shit i was like this is fucking confusing i'm gonna go be able to dummy for about 20 minutes and see if i can understand this shit but like literally all their rotation is just alternate between using white and black magic that's literally and black magic like it's not complicated i just it feels off to me and it did it at first because sometimes you have to deliberately stop

and go oh wait did i make one of these fucking gauges go way out of whack because it's supposed to kind of kept somewhere yeah otherwise you Yeah, otherwise you get damage reduction. I need to not use white magic for a minute. But like, after a certain point, I've noticed this, it's almost kind of like, it's muscle memory now. I can just like, I glance at my gauge for like half a second. I'm like, okay. And I

already know what I'm doing for the next like six rotations. Yeah, I'm sure I can get used to it, but I've been playing a bunch of different jobs just to work out what what i want to go into heaven's ward with um i really like the summoner rework it's made the job very very mindless you just you just pop your whatever the thing to activate your summon gauge is you just go through your summons you use the abilities and then by the time you're done you just reactivate you just it's a very very simple loop and you do a lot of damage

and it looks cool that's all fun I never played summoner prior to the rework but I hear that it's always been sort of a mess of a job. And it only just recently, it's actually become like easy to play. I know when I played back in vanilla 2.0, Summoner was basically six summon on thing, throw dots on it. It was like playing Borlock and WoW basically. Okay. Let's see if I can find it.

Summoner ARR. see if i can find it uh summoner arr uh summoner uh a realm reborn uh summoner 2.0 yeah summoner 2.0 that should find it oh boy uh i don't want a video job can we find a text job guide the wiki would be like way updated so that won't work what was it like playing a 2.0 summoner I don't want to oh god these are all really long

you were a dot job and your dots had varying times you juggled up time with ridiculous utility with eye for an eye and plus super virus fate plus adderwin one what uh resurrection it's only aoe was bad what and was spamming a borrowed blizzard 2 what yeah like okay i don't i don't know about like the high level stuff but like literally like the core thing of it was like basically playing an affliction warlock in a way

where you dot shit and you spread the dots that's literally what you did yeah it seems like it was a lot more similar to um um scholar that one yeah it seemed like it was a lot there was a lot less uh obviously scholar being a healer a bit different but there was a lot less um differentiation between those jobs right now when you play an arcanist and you go from arcanist into scholar literally like your entire bar changes

uh you're from arcanist into summoner and like the modern arcanist is basically like a precursor to summoner scholar is like way out there right now i got you the the job that i tried that i hoped I was going to like, but I don't think I like how many fucking buttons you have to press is Mechanist. I have Machinist. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Here's the reason I don't like it as much.

Okay. If I use the term Burst Phase, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so... I'll compare it to red i'll just explain for anyone who doesn't know about it um first phase basically just like your where you pop your damage abilities and you do your bonus damage yeah you spend your usually you spend your class resource to do stuff so that like your burst phase as red mage is really just oh my gauge

is full run in and use the empowered melee yeah that's literally your birth basically you're okay your fucking burst phase in meganess is you pop over it was it's called overdrive yeah overdrive and you by the time you get you have two main off gcd abilities gauss round and ricochet yeah so you want to make sure that neither one of those is maxed when you start this and then when you overheat or overdrive you can use a move called heat blast uh-huh he blast has a one and a half second cooldown and take and reduces the charge time of gauss round and ricochet by 15 seconds. So this is what we have to do when you start it.

He blasts Gauss. He blasts ricochet. He blasts. You do that for like seven rotations. Just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you have to press all these fucking buttons while still moving. I'm like, I don't know if I like this. Not on controller. Maybe on keyboard it's a little easier,

but on controller it's a little pain in the ass to do this and move at the same time. MMO mouse. You got the gamer mouse. Yeah, no, controller... Wouldn't controller be easier? Actually, how does... I've had controller be explained to me like once or twice. Explain how controller actually works

in this game. It's fucking crazy from what i've heard um okay so you're thinking about it i do so your hot bars the way they're displayed is each hot bar is a series of like eight buttons um depending to depict the the the actual like x y x you know x square triangle o buttons and then the directional buttons um you have to hold down like right trigger and then your right hot bar becomes active now if you press like x it'll do like the but the the move assigned to x um same thing with the left side um but then initially that's all you

have yeah while you're leveling that's fine but like okay now i have a shit ton of other abilities how i use these more effectively there's a bunch of other options that are buried that unless you probably watch a video you have no fucking clue exist where um you can basically have like a second set of hot bars available by double tapping and holding triggers so yeah so this is so like your main rotational stuff is on the primary ones but then like the ones you use occasionally you get to it by double tapping one of them yeah and then there's another option where if you like hold both it'll show another hot bar and you can either and which which hot bar is shown depends on which trigger you pressed first yeah but i don't use that because that's confusing as fuck so they just shows the same hot bar all

the time i use that for like uh like emotes and like mount stuff oh yeah that's fair like but like my main hot bars is the ones you get to by either holding one of the triggers or double tapping and holding the trigger actually it sounds complicated as fuck but once you get into flow but you you get you have access to a lot of shit really fast i'm sure it would be fine i've got a mate who plays White Mage or Controller I'm happy with my keyboard and mouse as much as I like playing RPGs on Controller when you have like a hot

bar like I'm just gonna use a keyboard it'll be easier for me or maybe I'll use my mouse that'll be easier for me so for me all I need to do is i have my fingers on wasd and then i can just hit shift and control and like with my pinky right i'm even more of a jerry because i'm also playing it on ps4 hey well you're lucky because ps4 is still gonna keep support for a while uh yeah yeah you saw the live later or saw at least

excerpts from it uh i saw somebody watching the live later yeah yeah i was uh i was watching it well i think i was doing like beast tribe stuff and other stuff like that uh that fucking went so long holy shit it was five and a half hours okay i didn't yeah i didn't see that whole thing i just saw like i think i saw them talking about i guess like what their like plans are like feature wise and then the graphics update those are the things i saw yeah yeah so you can find uh live letter summary uh the graphic update is what you were talking about because i said oh we're still going to be doing these updates still supporting ps4 yeah yeah that was maybe they'd be psychotic not to do it considering it's still paying the ass to try and get ps5 so that's that's sort of the problem with uh i'll show the picture on the screen right now um that's sort of a problem with dropping ps4 sport for a lot of games right now

but these updates aren't supposed to be coming until 7.0 and that means not for like two or so years and i really hope that by then it's easier to get a ps5 like it's not gonna be easy but i hope it's easier i don't know man i've only thing i know is i'm subscribed to like three fucking stock pingers about ps5s um there has not been a ping for a ps5 restock in like three weeks which is a little fucking crazy there was a couple of stores near me a little while back that were doing walk-in buys of PS5 so you couldn't order them online

which was actually really cool I was thinking of getting one but they even if you can get one they're not retail priced right now they're fucking insanely more expensive so I don't want to do that like there's a

PlayStation actually sent me an email a while back saying that they were doing a thing where you could basically like sign up to be entered into a chance to just be given a chance to just buy a ps5 directly from them oh yeah i was like well that's that's smart i don't haven't gotten one yet so i

don't fucking care yet but that'd be nice i'll buy it how much is a ps5 here let's find out how how much would i have to spend on ps5 in australia i would ask for that um what is what is it for you uh the digital version i think is 400 and the disc version is 500 i think your fine one's actually fucking for sale um because a lot of stores here they just if they don't have them for sale they're not even listing them on their site uh so the cycle stock x that i've never heard of that's selling it for 1100 dollars that's i'm guessing that that's the disc version it doesn't have any clear indication. Oh, this is an auction site. Oh, that's gross.

No, no, that's not happening. eBay? Is this... This is the digital edition for $1,100. Yeah, digital edition is $1,100. God damn. And for the record, my currency's not that bad.

Like, it's not $0.33 It's not $0.33 or no, sorry, $3 to a US dollar. That's not how this goes. Man, that's fucking crazy. And right now, I'm not even that

desperate to get one, just cause there's not really much like a play age is selling it for 1500 with $260 delivery what are you talking about the only um

the only downside to playing Final Fantasy on PS it's not the controller it's not it's not even the load times load times are actually pretty good it's the fact that when it's running my ps4 sounds like a jet engine because it's trying so hard to keep up with the heat yeah it might probably work because my ps4 is old as fuck yeah 7.0 they're gonna also be adding maybe 7.0 maybe before that they're gonna add in some graphics options so you can like

lower the settings and get better frame rate or raise them up and things won't sound like a yeah sound like Jandrew Moore um it's nice hey it's nice to have some sort of option there but yeah that's not good i i'm i'm happy playing on pc well i couldn't change anyway just because how

fucking stupid their account system is oh my god dude so you you're stuck on playstation no matter what you feel like unless you want to start a new character no i mean that's fine i'm not changing anyway uh what was i gonna say all right so i think i told you before that most of the content that was in 2.0 i was at least familiar with but anything past that nope this is all right all new territory to me. Right, was Sheep Blade 2.0 when it happened? Yeah, pretty much. And even a little bit of 1.0. Which was like... How do I describe 1.0?

1.0 was... Final Fantasy XI. Yeah, basically. It was a prettier looking Final Fantasy XI. Yeah, basically. I have been... I am very... Basically, from somebody who's coming from having played, like, WoW

a long time ago and all that, I am very impressed by the fact that, unlike WoW, where they just trash all their old content and it's completely useless, all of the fucking content that's been in 14 up to this point so far is still relevant and you either like have to or still can't go through it just because the way the games is on i'm just like yeah this is amazing okay relevant in there's different ways to describe relevance relevance in terms of gear

absolutely not old gears useless um but there are still people that go back and run like ar extremes and heavensward extremes and savages and things like that like people still go back and run the old content like not just the msq stuff yeah well like that even the way that they made the the duty finder is different than the way it works in wow because then wow the only time you can do old content and still actually either get gear or get xp so that you can use it is when they have a thing called time walking where there's like a set of dungeons from an x-pack that you can do it's scaled up to like you know whatever the current stuff is but because of the way it works in 14 where it doesn't matter what you know what level the thing that you're queued for and you get into it just scales you down you can still do old content still get xp for

it uh yeah that i just even just that as a fucking breath of fresh air compared to wow this scale okay when i started playing 14 like before i started playing 14 i'd heard a lot of really good things about the scaling and the scaling for the most part works well there are other times like cape west wind where it doesn't well i guess it's probably taking it out of the fucking game right yeah i guess you get to a regular thing yeah they're playing i think it's turning into an instance dungeon or something so yeah the cape west wind for anyone who doesn't know, it's one of the third dungeon

or trial, whatever, from the end of Aramaborn 2.0 stuff. Now, Cape West Wind, when it first came out, was not difficult, but it had mechanics. Because of the changes, the way the eye level has increased the way that abilities have changed damage potency and all like potency doesn't get scaled down when

the pack like new patches come out so a lot of the potency that was there has now been raised higher jobs are much easier to play it's literally impossible if you're playing with at like gear at the right level to die in cape west wind like you can go into cape west wind without a healer and you will not die because you cannot take enough damage yeah now i someone i made actually gave me an idea for how to make westy fun go in with min i level no job crystals yeah that'd be interesting because you don't like you get like marauders and arcanists and like you don't none of the good stuff you can use yeah you don't have like um You don't have, like, I don't think you have a healer with,

like, a shield healer. Like, you have to use, like, a conjurer. You have to, like, you're pretty much fucked. So you actually can take damage from, like, Westy's missiles. We're going to make this content relevant, damn it. We have to do it ourselves.

Even if you take... You've taken a gladiator. You don't have Shelter on. So, you take so much fucking damage. I am sad that it's going to be getting removed, though. The group that you were in the first time they did the whole thing where they were like,

oh my god, let's get ready for things. Mine was really bad. Oh no. So, I was in the cutscene. They had placed Marcus around the map. They had a macro in chat.

And they were like, giving off all these other strategies as well like what the hell is going on this is gonna be insane i get in there i fight it i'm like oh he's over yep oh i was i was very confused when i that like this time playing through because people were doing it i was like i mean i remember it wasn't like oh hard because you did it back when it actually was like they were mechanics yeah yeah because i was like i mean i don't i don't remember this fight being like particularly hard but i mean i guess there's stuff to it and then his face rolled i was like oh this is I remember so you went back and played a new character

did you? yeah I don't have my old characters anymore oh okay yeah what were you playing through Omroborna then? Monk okay so I keep

wanting to play my summoner but I really like the healer queues. Healer queues are nice. I'm sure. Because it's especially bad on Oceanic because there's not many healers. So if I... All right.

I queue into, like, leveling roulette or trials roulette, and literally the second I click it it pops like what is this the the only you've probably noticed this the only queue that is good for dps is alliances because there's so many dps yeah yeah that's true yeah yeah yeah i i found that we actually filled up the healers and tanks much quicker than DPS every time that I've done it. Oh, yeah. I mean, you need literally five times as many DPS as you need to climb up here. But you're...

Because I know you're not as far as me. What's the favorite fight you've done on Earth before? I don't want to say Thorn March. Yes! No, it's not thorn march god it's definitely not thorn march um that's a tough one actually uh i can't like some of the Crystal Tower fights, to be honest. But... I really like those. Yeah, you know what? Just for the meme, I'm going to say Thorn March.

Thorn March hard is fun. Because you can never get through it. Something always happens and you wipe. Like, people aren't marking. There's someone there who has no idea what they're doing and you wipe the first time because i i don't think i ever did thorn march like when exit came out back before so i actually would have like one so unless you unless you played patch content back then

um i think i remember the first time i did it, we wiped. I was like, I don't know what just happened. We all died. And then the second time, we killed it. My favorite fight you haven't gotten to yet, because it's in Heavensward, is the primal you fight called Havana? I guess his name? That, I, oh my god.

Just that character, the music, the environment, and his attacks are so fucking good like i will just queue up just do that fight i'm going to go read up what the extreme mode of that fight is because i want to do the extreme mode of that fight the problem that thorn march has thorn march isn't difficult the problem with thorn march is you have to do it in... You don't have to. It just gets much harder if you don't. You should approach it in a very specific order. So it's Black Mage, White Mage, Paladin... I forget the rest of it.

Yeah. But if you start attacking King Moogle too early, you just die. Yeah. If you attack the wrong Moogles too early, you just die. There's so many ways you can just die. If you attack the wrong Moogles too early, you just die. There's so many ways you can just die. usually it's the healers who get targeted

first. But I have I've noticed there's a lot of bad really, really bad players in Oceanic. Because I'm never the healer that dies. It's always the other one. It's crazy that um i wonder what that could be about and i'm not good at healing have you looked to see what that fight's like on extreme uh i've read a guide i haven't watched a video though yeah i read i read a guide

i just thought it was funny where it was like the order's totally different on extreme because apparently if you don't kill a thief he'll just walk around in like two shots my understanding is on extreme you have to kill some of them at the same time oh right yeah yeah well the thing i remember that i thought was funny was like okay what is it i remember it's like one of the Moogles or the king, well, we'll just power creep the other Moogles as the fight goes on. Yeah, yeah. And one of the thief has no aggro table. I'll just go around, just randomly hit people, and it'll get to the point where if it gets too strong,

it'll just go through here and go, Boop, and you'll die one hit. God. So you're buying your own business. You go, but I hang out, you know, and just fucking raping your dad, man. so you're behind your own business you're gonna be like hey how you doing just fucking raping your dad man i i think playing other other jobs especially in like four mans gives you a really good idea of like how i think better ways to approach your road and better ways to approach that that job if you actually go and play it yourself. Like when I was just play, I started the game as a paladin or a gladiator.

I didn't really have a good understanding of what, like how to tank well before I went and played a DPS and realized like how annoying a bad tank could be. A tank that didn't face the enemy away from you, a tank that kept like rotating them, things like that. And I feel like doing that has sort of made me better at playing the other roles as well. And now playing healer as well,

I realized there's a lot of really bad healers. Once you hit 50, if you're playing a white mage, just use Medica 2. It will make everything easier just stop worrying about healing stuff just medica 2 and you win one of the things that I see people see sometimes

see people say sometimes about healers is there's one main big difference between an okay healer and a really great healer. And the difference is, do they DPS too? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because they're like,

I've seen a couple of people say like, there's such a huge difference in how long fights take when you have a healer that don't fight, don't DPS, and then the ones that do. Yeah, this is, so when I'm in a fight that like... I'm going through dungeon and we want to clear quickly. I am... I basically start the fight.

Like if I know there's going to be a lot of damage because the tank's actually pulling quickly, I'll medic a two and then chuck a regen on. And that will last the entire fight. And I just stand in the middle spamming holy. That's all I do. Because also, Holy is going to stun them.

So, you're doing mitigation as well. Yep. But generally, just like a regen or a Medica 2. Medica 2, I usually save for the bosses where, you know, sometimes the boss will just randomly attack someone else if they feel like it. Depending on, you know, what dungeon

you're running. Yeah, I've really... randomly attack someone else they feel like it depending on you know what dungeon you're running um yeah i've real like i was really afraid of doing healing back when i first started but now that i've tried it i realize it's actually not that bad and like a lot of the bad healers i've seen i just like really really bad at the game yeah i thought um i thought about trying healing uh later but I was like Trying to select to to heal on controller sounds like a pain in the ass Yeah, I found out there's a way that's not a pain in the ass because What you tab target on controller is hitting left or right on the control pad. Yeah, yeah Yeah, but apparently if you hit up or down it only cycles to party members

Okay apparently if you hit up or down it only cycles through party members okay okay that makes sense i just i just click i just click on the fucking i just i like i i know that you could like you know use your your f keys and that will work i just click i don't want to work out maths in the middle of a fight you like usually it's a tank so they're like number two or three you have like a feuding an ape man um but like i don't i just i just click it i've gotten used to it i i just have my usually my mouse like hovering over my party list now and just do it like that i part of the reason why i'm going through the story quest like i wouldn't say i'm fast but i'm kind of focusing more on it is um one's just the story the story is awesome yeah it's a hell of a step up for most of the other shit that i've played and the other one is um when i was going through red mage's skill list i was very pleasantly surprised that at higher levels, they actually use fucking Flare and Holy. I was like, wait, what?

You can't have Flare and Holy? Fuck. Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah, for Holy and for Flare. Oh, yeah. Because apparently they get an extra resource later that gets generated when you use the empowered melee attacks that you use to cast Flare and Holy.

Right. And then Flare and Holy have another gimmick where, well, if you cast Flare when you have less black magic than white magic, it guarantees a proc for fire or soon. Huh. Okay. And then later, your main single target spell jolt combos from Flare and Holy.

I was like, wait. Spell combos? Oh, baby. So that's Stormblood stuff by the looks of it here. Yeah, that's when Red Mage came out, yeah, with Stormblood. No, I mean like the leveling content you some of those are probably job yeah their job quit like verholy is a job quest you wouldn't be able to do that job quest like get to stormblood

probably yeah i figured that out because that's um that's at 70. Yeah. Yeah, no, no, because when every... Yeah, the job quests are locked by where you are in the MSQ. So I have like a level 65 paladin, because I just keep doing daily stuff. Getting a lot of XP. But I can't go and do any of the

further job quests. Hmm. There's also pleasant supplies that I get cure. That's fucking nice because you can dual cast cure. This is why Red Mage is one of the popular options for Palace of the Dead.

Oh, I actually haven't done Palace of the Dead yet. It's... I don't want to say it's fun. Okay, Palace of the Dead with a party is fun. Palace of the dead yet it's it it's it's i want to say it's fun okay palace of the dead with a party is fun palace of the dead solo is pain and suffering um i keep saying i'm going to go and do palace of the dead solo and i keep making progress and then I die and we restart. One day. One day I'll get my Necromancer achievement. Or my Necromancer title.

What's that for? Like getting through the whole thing? Getting through floor 1 to 200 without dying solo. Wait, how many floors? 1 to 200. Oh yeah, there was 100 extra floors added at some point. I think after... Heaven's Ward?

Stormblood? Something like that. Yeah. Who the fuck goes through two hundred floors of... Yeah, Heaven on High is still only a hundred floors. I was having like... Oh, yeah, Heaven on High wasn't in the game when you initially played. That was added in...

I want to say heaven's ward yeah heaven on high pretty sure it was heaven's ward one sec um it makes sense it's heaven and heaven yeah i was about to say that uh heaven on high uh Tell me what was added, dammit. I'm just gonna say Heaven's Water. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. And there's a third deep dungeon coming out sometime. I think it's part of the 6.x content. Oh, speaking of that, so... How have you interacted with like the housing system in

that game my fc had a house and that is the extent of it oh i also bought an apartment because when when you transferred from uh one server to oceanic they uh refunded you the money plus the price of it so you got like it's 500k gil for an apartment, they refunded you the money plus the price of it. So you got, like, it's 500k gil for an apartment, so they just give you a mil gil back. Oh, okay. Thanks. Basically, they just injected hundreds of thousands of gil into the economy

for all of the Australian players, which is great. Yes, you were saying. Um, so my wife is the reason why I started playing again, because she started playing. And we just made our own free company. Yeah, yeah.

And we're almost to the rank where we can get free company property. And I went, okay, how hard is it to get a plot? Apparently it's a pain in the fucking dick. What server are you playing on? apparently it's a pain in the fucking dick what server are you playing on? right

it's an RP server what data center is it? Primal? oh good fucking man I wouldn't be touching housing until like the new fucking servers come out, to be honest. But yeah, you were saying housing's fucked.

Yeah, well, see, the reason why I like... I think I saw a video about this, I can't remember. So basically, the only way to get a plot now is you have to basically sit there for hours and hours and see if you can snipe when someone's house gets demolished because they haven't been into it. Unless you're one of the ones that can sit there for hours and do it, you ain't getting shit.

But they're introducing a lottery system. Because the Japanese love lotteries, and I don't understand it. But hey, it's cool. I like it. So, what do you think of the lottery? I've heard sort of mixed feelings about it.

I think it will... It solves the main issue, which is that people who literally can't sit there and camp fucking house plaques can actually have a chance to get a house. Yes, functioning human beings is correct, yes. Yes.

Is that the best way to solve the problem? I'm not sure. I think it's a good idea to address the problem. I don't know if there's a better way you could do it. I really don't. Like, unless you just... I can't think of anything else you could do.

Like, you make people fight to the death? I don't know. I don't know if this is in the system. I think one of the things that might help, I don't know if this is part of the system already or not, is basically having, like... Let's say you're somebody who's put in for like five different houses and you've lost every single one

well every single time that you lose you basically kind of get like a little bonus to the chance that you get picked so basically the lottery system but then you get like bonus tickets yeah I don't think that's part of it but I think

that actually would be a good idea because that would then it wouldn't guarantee but it would definitely what's the word preference? Yeah preference people have been trying to get a house for a while yeah

now of course there are people who wouldn't like that because you know the the person who puts their lottery in for the first time is gonna be like oh i might have a chance and then they're gonna be like well no i'm not because somebody's putting their lottery in as like the 10x multiplier because they've lost 10 lotteries already yeah uh the thing with the lottery system though is you need to have all of the gil uh to go into the lottery so if like if you have i don't know but there's a bunch of how let's say you want to get a large house you need to have if you want the first class plot 50 million gil for every single lottery you go into oh yeah like you get the gil redeemed though yeah yeah you do get it right yeah you do get it back but if you want to enter multiple lotteries i

think you need to have the money for each house if i remember correctly otherwise someone with a lot of gil could just put their money on everything and just get yeah yeah i wasn't talking about somebody trying to like mass build that up all at once. I really meant eventually somebody's going to go put in for their lottery, not realizing they're going to get fucked because

somebody's putting in their lottery for the 20th time or some shit. Yeah, that makes sense. I'm happy with the FC house and depending on where we get the house I might just... So if you have an FC house, then you can actually buy an apartment in the FC.

Yeah. But depending on where they get the house, I might just go and buy a separate apartment. I'm not sure where I want to get a place, but mine's going to be a practical house. It's going to have the things I need, and that's it. That's all we need. You don't want to spend millions of guilds

buying novelty shit to put in? I should have taken screenshots of the FC house before we left, because holy shit, there was some crazy stuff. There was one dude who had iron bars and then mannequins inside the bars, and there was a throne at the back of the room i i forget what it looks like the person that my wife and i knew which is the person that

kind of talked us into playing again he he screenshot it one day where apparently he had just he had just completely like decked out his uh private chamber and he fuck how much money did he spend getting the stuff for it was like 20 million or something to get everything like from scratch and i was like well i mean okay i guess you don't have anything else to spend the gill on yeah yeah housing housing and glamour are the true endgame. Yeah. That is crazy. I barely have three three and a quarter

million gil. That's, I'm not, I have enough to buy a bottom class small plot. I could do that and then not have the money to actually build the house on it we have uh i think i have 600k and that's literally just from story quest stuff yeah yeah uh my wife has i think 800k which i'm surprised because she's been doing more crafting than

anything and she actually still bike buy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the main thing she started selling that was actually getting quite a bit of money was chocobo bardings. Huh. Yeah, that actually makes sense. Yeah. Apparently Weaver can make chocobo bardings. Some of them. What? I didn't...

Yeah, it can't be in Rom Reborn because I have a level 50 Weaver. Yeah, I think the one that she made, judging by the name of it and the look, is called the Orthodox Harding. Kind of gives them, like, the, like, uh, Elzen High House kind of garb, yeah. Okay. Oh, that actually looks pretty cool.

Now, let's see, what level do we need for that one? 56. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. That's not a very expensive thing to make either it might just be because it's an rp server too like people will buy like spend like obscene amount of money on aesthetic stuff so like it doesn't take much to make it apparently and she was selling it for like 890k a pop yeah. I'm gonna check how much it's worth on my server. Let's have

a look-see here. I'm gonna guess because pricing on Sephiroth is broken. No one's selling it. Okay. There's one... There's two have sold for 65k. On Sophia,

which is our RP server, three are listed at 80k. Zervan, they're listed at 200k, but nobody plays Zervan. Ravanna, also no one plays Ravanna. Someone's got it for sale for 300,000. But they've sold it 50. It's just because the market board's empty.

When the market board's empty, you set the price yeah yeah you know rp items and glamour items are the ones that typically sell for a lot like no one cares about leveling gear like that's

well especially like rome reborn or heavensward like leveling gear like you get through it so quickly that it doesn't matter um but glamour well fuck you you hit on a market right there yeah i got curious one day just because i was bored and i went okay level requirement one start going down to the bottom of this holy shit some of this shit sells for like a million gil or something. I was like, what the fuck? Well, even just

sticking with what you can get in a Realm Reborn, like the Moonfire Halter. I've talked about this item before. It's the reason why this item, I think it usually sells in the range of like 200-ish thousand. 150 to 200,000,

because it's one of the few bikinis that's not on the, um, not on the mog shop. Oh. A lot of the, uh, so there's a lot of bikinis on the mog shop, because, of course, there is, and a lot of the older ones were event items, which you can't get anymore.

So if you want one and you don't want to pay money, this is one of your few options. And it's one of the few options that's actually a clean look as well. But the funny thing is the items to make it cost more than making the item. Like, on my server it's $150,000 to craft this and $150,000

per marina cloth and you need three of them. So you lose $300,000 guild by crafting it. Like, it's so dumb. The fuck? It's more than I swear. You're sort of better off just selling the

materials when you get them. You know what they're saying, man. Don't dig for gold, sell the pickaxes. Exactly. Oh my god. But hey, if you want to fill out your crafting log, you have to buy it, so...

True. Yeah. Yes. You're planning to swap from Red Mage after you finish off Heaven's Ward, or... Like, for the patch content? Not using Stiglitz? No, I'm sticking that shit all the way through. There's no way I'm switching off that. Especially once I found out that the rotation gets more interesting because I can use fucking Flare of Holy. I was like, nope! Not changing the class. Nope.

That's fair. There. I'll have to go back and try Red Mage. The reason why I picked it without knowing anything about it was... Have you ever played other Final Fantasy games? I've played 10. I've played a bit of a couple others. And the ones where jobs are a thing,

Red Mage was always one of my favorite jobs. Just because of the aesthetic. And I think this makes more sense now. I like the fact that they were jack of trades. They were decent melee, decent white, decent black. And knowing what I know about myself now, I think that makes sense

because I'm a generalist, so I guess it makes sense that I would gravitate towards a generalist job. That makes sense. Yeah. I think the aesthetic is certainly cool. I'll agree with that. I think...

Suave-ass plumed hat. The problem with the Red Mage aesthetic is, I think, in some cases, especially with, like, if you've seen the Endwalker job gear, they're a little bit too constricted by what the style is. Like, the job gear for Endwalker is...

It's not bad, but it's just, like, it's just more Red Mage job gear. Right. bad, but it's just like, it's just more Red Mage job gear. Right. I'm guessing it's just like, oh, it's another version of a plumed hat with an overcoat with a... Yeah. Endwalker job

gear. Yeah, here we go. Okay, there we go uh okay there we go uh oh there you go i closed it like it's not bad by any means but it's just like it's a red mage really it looks very underwhelming for yeah i mean it looks nice but yeah that's the thing that bugs me because that's not even that was never done in the fucking gear you get when you first get red bait but like you take you take any of the other jobs like bard has got a very specific style but it's a very specific style, but it's a lot more freeing style.

Like, you know the Bard is going to have, like, this jester sort of look. But there's not really, like, a set what that needs to be. I think whenever I was doing some, like, very basic glam stuff while I was leveling for that class um i didn't know i didn't stick to the whole like oh my overcoat and bloom pad thing yeah i kind of stuck more to like this i guess almost kind of more like a a fencer look or like a battle mage look where it's like well you're wearing robes but you're wearing like arm

guards because you're going to actually be a melee kind of thing because there's some caster armor that looks less like just like I guess like regular like boots like regular shoes and stuff and they're actually like

thigh guards and like arm guards that look more I guess like that i guess kind of like armor not just fucking cloth yeah yeah i'll see if i can show you what my white major looks like i don't know ah there we go i'm what am i okay cool i am logged i do to set it to the right character Cool Or set it to the right Gear whatever Job yeah that one Here we go

So there's my white mage right now Oh nice Cause I saw the Romerborn White mage job gear. I was like, you know, it's not bad. It's not bad, but it's like I found this. Actually, no, I didn't find this.

I had my retainer find this. Just randomly, my retainer showed up with this item. That's a really cool cloak. I like that. What race are you playing? Fuck. Hrothgar, is that what it's called the cat man no that's the cat man oh oh the furry one yes yeah everyone that okay so do you know that the the the magitek claw mount that like grabs people and like that looks fucking hilarious on that race

because it looks like a fucking cat getting picked up by a squirrel like they did something wrong and it's like Okay that's that you know I can see it yeah that's one reason to run them Every fucking time I do my mount roulette and it gets to that one my fucking wife would have a joke like oh fucking cat man just fucked up again

Oh do you run a random mount? Yeah. I, I, what am I running they're fucked up again. Oh, do you run a random mount? Yeah. What am I running right now? What am I using right now? Oh, I'm using the kobold beast tribe mount. I actually need to go back and do beast tribe stuff. I did a few, but never actually didn't do much with it. It's fun.

It's like, you just do it once a day. It's not that... I got to a point where I just started skipping all of the quest text, because it's the same quest text every single time. But I think it's worth checking out at least a little bit.

It's kind of my favorite, one of the Beast Drive mounts. I was like, my cat knocked shit over oh yeah because all of the other ones you like you see as you go oh you gotta deal with that okay uh anyway all of the other beast tribe mounts you see as uh as you're going through the like the the process of upgrading the beast tribe here it's just like out of fucking nowhere hey uh here's this this uh what this seat just held up by these bombs just enjoy fucking cat knocking shit over. I think I... I've done the Sahagin one as well. I still need to do

all of the others. But that and also the Sylph Beast Trap mount I like. The Gooboo. That is a great mount. I basically have two different mount buttons set up on when I hold both.

X is just specifically a chocobo, and then circle is random. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The chocobo is a really cool feature, actually. Yeah, I can't wait until we get them in the stables. We can, like, you know, was that the shit where you feed them and you change their colors and stuff? Yeah. Yeah.

I didn't get around to doing that on the backwards on JP servers, but when we get the FC house, that's one of the first things I'm doing because I don't hate the fact that you get a yellow chocobo, but like it's a yellow chocobo. It's a boring chocobo.

Let me have, I don't know, like a, I don't know, a black chocobo or something. boring chocobo get let me have i don't know like a i don't know a black chocobo or something i don't know sounds fun i don't even know what colors you can change chocobo to i don't either i know you can i know you can i know you can make it blue because there was a um a streamer that named the chocobo sonic uh and this was for like the gold saucer and they got it maxed out stats for uh super sprint have you done any gold saucer stuff or are you just too focused on you know i've been i've been the gold saucer yeah i didn't i haven't the racing, but I do pop in there to do

like, cackpot and stuff. Ah, yeah. Cackpot, yeah. Not Mahjong. I think my wife tried Mahjong because she's actually played like Mahjong for some reason like it didn't click the way it's done there and she was like, I have fucking no idea. I won, but I don't know why.

My understanding is the 14 version of Mahjong is actually a good implementation, but I've never played Mahjong to say if it is or not. Yeah. And also, like, queuing for it would be hell. That'd be like people, like,

specifically run Mahjong tournaments. Well, there are people that literally have made accounts, got to the level where they can get to the gold saucer and then done nothing but played uh mahjong taking bets i think one of the rarest achievements in the game is actually mahjong achievements like zero point i think i want to say 0.37 of the population uh lal achievements let me see like there are some ridiculously insane achievements no brave show me what I actually searched for rarest titles global uh no so rarest titles not rarest achievements uh it's probably something rarer so the rarest titles, not rarest achievements. It's probably something rarer. So the rarest title right now is The Luckiest of Ladies. That's not a very exciting one.

Second rarest one is from Palace of the Dead. So you know how in Palace of the Dead you can get the Accursed Horde? Those chests that are hidden on the ground? Yeah. 26 players in the entire game have this, or 26 characters. Discover 10,000 pieces of a cursed horde.

Good God. Where's Mahjong Master? I want to say... 568 players have this one. Achieve a Mahjong rating of 2,000, which means you have to play a lot of Mahjong and actually beieve a Mahjong rating of 2000, which means you have to play a lot of

Mahjong and actually be good at Mahjong. Which, good luck with that one. Good luck finding enough players to play Mahjong. I sprung this one on you last second. Do you want to hear about my experience working on a fucking Friday Night Funkin' mod?

Yeah, let me let me know what's going on here. Okay, first, do you know what Friday Night Funkin' is? Not a clue. So, Friday Night Funkin' is a rhythm game kind of synonymous with DDR where you hit arrows in sync.

Oh, I know what this game is. Okay, I just didn't know the name. Okay, yeah. People who don't know basically it was like a game made for like a i guess it's like a new grounds game jam and for some reason it just it's blowing the fuck up i don't know this is one of those things where like for some reason people just latched on to it yep yep um the base games source code is open source. Oh. So people have been modding it. Now, when I say modding,

the game itself does not support mods. The mods are literally just, you fork the code base, replace the assets, change the code, and ta-da, now it's your mod. Mod, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

There was a guy who makes music and makes a lot of remixes on youtube that i follow on twitter that was just like he's he was working on a he had released a version one of a mod and was working on like a 1.5 version apparently he was having a really hard time finding coders for it and i just dm'd him and i was like hey i could help you probably i have to figure out the fuck i'm doing but i can probably help you out um when i came in i didn't get to do a whole lot because it was mostly done i just did like some cleanup stuff but god learning learning that tool that that game's built in is a little little janky language is it what tool is it it's called hacks flixel which is basically this lot kind of like this library that wraps a couple of things one's called hacks which is basically like a a stack language that gets cross-compiled in other

languages oh hey there we go and then yeah and flixel is kind of like a thing for like it's like a little game framework kind of thing so basically just kind of combines those two things uh-huh build be able to basically take hacks code and uh build it into uh a cross-platform uh game okay uh the thing about it is it's it's not like a engine you're right you're not working in like unity or godot or something it's it's just kind of like here's the api do do stuff with it um and the premise most of my time i spent on that project was just trying to look at the fucking code understand what the fuck's everything fit together and um again i've done barely any game development before in my life but they were just like

certain things i was looking at that i was like i'm pretty sure there's a better way to do this um so i had an idea i don't know if i'll do it but i had an idea is I don't know if I'll do it, but I had an idea is game doing game dev stuff was one of those things I always wanted to try at some point anyway. I wondered what the experience would be like making mod actual mod for this game if it was actually instead of written in this thing written in an actual game engine so like i actually spent one like a an hour or two one day just like looking

at the game or just breaking it down by like like what what is this game made of yeah yeah uh not looking at the code just like what is the game and i'm contemplating basically re-implementing the game in godot okay with actual mod support because i actually looked up can you support i think i looked up like can godot support dlc let's take the same thing just not dlc um and you can so there's there's basically a way to format so that somebody could take or just literally install basically an archive of the project, and you would just reference it in the code. Ta-da! Now it's available. You can use it. Huh. Okay.

And the reason why I contemplated doing that is it'll be practice for a very rough game idea I had that I got inspired by from working on the mod. Which is basically taking the concept of rhythm based gameplay, or in this case since Friday Funk you're technically in

battles, but you're not battling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But seeing if I could figure out a way to apply that to an actual RPG setting. Where the enemies have songs that you have to do when you encounter the enemies. Short, obviously. But then you can unlock stuff like special arrows that do things when you hit them and things like that.

Very rough, just kind of like passing thought i had and wrote it down huh well that sounds like a fun project to be honest it might turn into a fucking train wreck if i do it but well hey surely it can't be uh worse than the mess of uh what was what was the sonic game that was built in godot recently I have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, you missed this. There was an official Sonic game. It was a remake of

Sonic Colors Ultimate, yeah. And it was a fucking buggy mess. And people were sort of like People are like Blaming the engine on how bad The developers Handled, like actually worked with the engine

Like oh All of these lighting problems All of these texture glitches And falling through the floor And all this fun stuff Like that's a problem with Godot it's not ready for triple a games oh you dipshit there's been plenty of games made with good now man first game ever made with good what are you talking about actually if i ran the questions with that i remembered that kid um

i forgot his name now remember that guy you had on like last year who's like an indie game dev yes that's him yeah he uses uh yeah silence um but yeah anyway uh kudo is cool i i i know i've done the program in a while oh here was the other reason why i figured it might not hurt to rewrite that fucking game in a different thing yes uh there is one thing hacksflixle is very infamous for which is being really fucking shit with resource users. Aha! Now, I'm assuming what I'm about to describe is not

solely the cause of Haxflexle, but it probably doesn't help. There were two parts in that mod that, when they started up, would completely destroy your RAM in terms of how much memory it was using uh it was like the

phase two of one of the songs and just then one of the other songs i was profiling it when before that my ram uses was like eight gigs with everything else that was running as soon as i hit to like one part of that mod boom i hit i hit a swap is that a problem with the hacksflix or is that a problem with the way it's being used it's both okay fair enough yeah yeah it's both but i mean like when you look at friday funkin like it's not a complicated game but even still it's very very heavy on resource usage i've done some i've done a bit of game dev in lib gdx which is a game library uh in the same fashion as something like hacksflix and when you have when you're doing stuff with a library as opposed to an engine

you have a lot more control but that means you have a lot more room to fuck up and do stupid things. Yeah. Part of the thing that was destroying it, which I think got optimized by some of the people who knew more about what the hell they were doing, was the fact that a lot those things was made were like the whole background like individual pieces were a full like 1920 by 1280 uh sprite sheet i didn't know this someone else told me this which i didn't know this all that like white blank space in the sprite sheet still gets eaten up by memory. I was like, oh, that's horrible. Yeah.

Yeah, you want to... This is why when you see sprite sheets, they're typically in a square or a rectangle or some shape that's easy to cut out. Yeah. 2D games the skills that you need for 2D games are very different from 3D games I don't know if you'd call them harder

because if you're doing stuff by hand or with a library or whatever it's not necessarily harder to deal with sprite sheets and timing your animations as opposed to doing like matrix uh manipulation in a 3d space but it's a different skill set that if you try to go into it without having um it's not going to be a good time

one of the other things that doesn't get used in that library much or maybe it's just the way that game is written is there's some use of like the concept of like reacting to things happening but a lot of it's still really like procedural like regular code yeah yeah which when i when i look at the concept of like how a game is and how it works, it seems like it would lend itself very naturally to structure in a way where you're just simply responding to things happening. Hmm. I think that concept kind of exists in that library.

I'm not sure exactly. I know it definitely exists in things like Godot. It's called Signals. Yeah. And even when Ials. Yeah, yeah. And even when I... Sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, even when I helped somebody with a fucking Roblox game once,

it was all about fucking event stuff. Well, yeah, writing your own event system isn't super complicated anyway. So if you really needed it, like, you could do it. Yeah. But it is certainly nice for it to be there like from the the ground up in the library that is a nice addition yeah i mean it's there because there are some parts of the game that like they do just react based on

when certain happen but i think there there was a a lot more that could have been done with that it's like there's like very basic stuff like animations all make with sugar when like it says like a like a beat hit on the song yeah yeah but then there's like there's like tons of other shit that i feel like should happen reactively that don't and i'm like well you said it was a what made from like a game jam or something years ago yeah i mean it's been obviously it's been yeah it's been updated and there are engines of it which the engine is basically like somebody took the base game refactored it added features without actually like modding it like you change yourself and that becomes like what was it there's like two two kind of i guess well-known ones one's called

cade engine which was like the first engine for that game and another one's called like psych engine really cade engine was big because it refactored the input system the original input system basically was made in a way that you couldn't you couldn't have hard songs like with like a lot of notes because even though there were four arrows it was all kind of treated as like one input but every time you had to hit a note you had to check all four arrows that was that's definitely a game jam game holy shit yeah yep uh but but that engine refactored to that every arrow was a separate input so that like all of a sudden opened up oh no i now i can actually put like hard songs in this game yeah that's that's oh my god i remember doing shit like that as well that was good times that right there that right there is when you want an event system

oh my god um oh we we kind of skipped over this thing because uh we went into the top of my final fantasy but uh this isn't like a this isn't done yet i'm still like waiting on the last part but i i did get mongo db reached out to me you're saying about this yeah um i'm gonna actually talk about some aspect of this in a podcast at some point yeah yeah um because what it is is they have something called mongodb university which is basically like their their resource for learning how to use their stuff um they the guy who's like i guess like the head over the what they call curriculum engineers yeah yeah uh i only just found my youtube channel one day and watched the videos and then got a hold of

their talent recruiter and it was like hey can you get a hold of this guy i want to talk to him and apparently the reason why they were interested is so if you go to it now and go through any of the courses yeah it's very um it's very university format right okay and and uh i even like commented about that when i was in one of the interviews because i was like i wanted to see what you all did and i was like and i even said like are you sure you want like my style is very different than this because i said and i'll be blunt with you and i don't mean to disrespect uh i was going through one of the the curriculums and i was about 30 seconds into one of the videos and i'll be blunt with you and i don't mean to disrespect uh i was going through one of the the curriculums and i was about 30 seconds into one of the videos and i fell asleep because it seriously felt like i was sitting back in college and there any core any class i had back

in college that wasn't taught by like a full like a one or two professors yeah every single other ones the way they taught was so fucking boring i couldn't stay awake in class for five minutes yeah i know yeah yeah uh but apparently they're trying to shift more to this moving away from this like big bulky university style to the more i guess you would say like infotainment? Yeah. I mean not infotainment, but just more like very directed small compartmentalized lessons. Again, something much more

SEO friendly instead of a big MongoDB administration course. It's just, how do I install MongoDB on this yeah how do i set up yeah just very specific little things that are more in line with how i usually did videos anyway or how people who do youtube usually do it like i said yeah yeah yeah that sounds really cool

actually yeah and i'm pretty sure if they give me a job offer, I'm jumping the fuck over there really fast. You're not super attached to your current position? I'm not attached to any fucking company. Yeah, fair enough. Oh, I didn't tell you about this. I actually got into my first fucking

Reddit argument about that, actually. Oh, stop arguing on Reddit. Don't do that. Bad idea. Yeah. Yeah. The only reason I did it was so was it. It's only ghost subreddit.

Somebody asked like something about how feasible it was to get a job with ghost or first job or something. Or they were saying like, oh, they had been job searching for. I think it was a get a job with goes their first job or something or they retained like oh they had been job searching for i think it was a couple months or something and they just hadn't had really good luck um and they linked their stuff one of the people responded the first half of their feedback great sure second half of their feedback, I thought was fucking garbage. Because the first half was, like, about the projects. How they, like, weren't, they didn't seem to, like, line up with what he was looking for job-wise.

Sure, yeah. I said, yep, okay, that all makes sense. Second part was, like, they were critiquing about the fact the guy said that he would apply for, like, 15 jobs a and i was like they were like they're like no no this is your problem you're diluting your efforts too much you need to like hone in on like two or three companies you really want to work for and like i've heard this idea before yeah i was like i was like no no god please no don't fucking do this uh like i i'm not gonna like repeat the entire fucking thing but my thing was like no don't do this uh figure out exactly more or less what you're trying to get get a base resume based around that and then as you find postings that you think are attractive you just start going you just you just hand that shit like you're tipping fucking strippers with $1

bills. If you hear back from one, you go, okay, I want to work with these people, look at their stuff, yes, okay, do an interview, no, tell them no or ghost them,

whatever you want to do. I've been ghosted enough times, I just ghost fucking assholes now at this point um and apparently they didn't like my rebuttal of their take and we kind of went back and forth and said some kind of said some rude shit to each other actually i said some rude shit about their company i didn't actually say rude shit about them oh no i've heard this idea before where it's like you want to treat each company as a special thing you want to show the company that you want to work for them and you don't just want to work for anyone you you don't want you just want to be at this company and show how much you value them no i i hate that mentality the reason why i hate that mentality is because to me when i hear that and i think it's reflected on the personality of people i usually see give that advice you're you're putting the company up

on a pedestal like there's some kind of like higher being or like a like a royalty or something like you have to kiss their ass to get a job it's like no motherfucker it's an exchange of value you're you're giving them your skills your time your expertise to generate them more money supposedly theoretically hopefully and in turn they're giving you money and like chances to learn shit that's That's all it is. I don't get this whole thing where you're like, oh, we're part of a bigger family. We have a larger purpose.

No, motherfucker. What the hell? They're not your family. They're going to drop your ass like a heartbeat saying that you're not useful anymore. You know, there's a part of it. Maybe I should actually go get a corporate job, make money and all that fun stuff

and I'm like you know what I'm good, I'm good as long as I can make this work I'm good, at any point I can sit down for like I don't know, six months a year, build a portfolio, go do dev work and you know, go from there

but if I can avoid doing that for a while, I'm gonna do so yeah i if if you dm'd me randomly one day it was like i think i'm considering getting a job actually i'd be like are you fucking high as fuck like you already have like the groundwork built to get to the point where you won't even have to worry about that shit in the first place like probably like in the next couple years yeah there's this like you know that sometimes along the journey you're like i don't see the destination but i think in probably in the past like six or so months i see where this is going and it hasn't really slowed down in any extent really. In fact, in many cases it's sort of sped up.

And I've seen where like some of the big Linux channels are now which like when I first joined like you didn't see like those things like one or two channels above 100k like Luke and like some of the dista review channels but I don't

I would drive myself insane if I did dista reviews. Like what dista review channels but i don't i would drive insane if i did dista reviews like what what dista is better ubuntu or labuntu labuntu or zabuntu like i don't shut up i don't want to do this um so we ignore those channels like the people who do like desktopy stuff now there's a lot of channels that are hitting 200, some like 300 K in the extreme cases. So there's clearly a, a audience that is developing here at a relatively rapid rate. Yeah. I think as long as you keep doing what you're doing,

you'll be fine. Yeah. You'll, you'll, you'll be, you won't even have to really think about getting a fucking job after a couple of years. I don't feel like.

That'd be nice. I would enjoy that. Uh, but we'll see what, uh, what happens as, uh, as time progresses.

I'm enjoying what I'm doing right now. And if I ever like hate it, I'm not going to just keep, you know, forcing myself to do it. But, but now at least, uh,

you know, it, I like it. I like it. I'm going to keep doing it. I mean, you could always, at some point you could always take that angle where if you actually get a channel if your channel gets to the point where it has I don't know, you know like

50,000, 100,000 subscribers you could always do that, hey do you want to build a successful YouTube channel like I did? I've seen some of those channels that I don't have successful channels it's like you have like 2k subs why are you talking about YouTube success yeah

like obviously you have to start doing that at some point but like build a channel where you start talking about success like otherwise all you're doing is just like I know what you're saying you're repeating the same things that like you know all of the other channels have said and you've

got nothing really of value here maybe you're actually good at presenting but in that case like show me what you can present that isn't this yeah also make it up bitcoin like don't don't try to show me crypto anyway we should probably be ending off the podcast

we've actually passed over two hours now. Oh, no. Gone over time. Nah, it's all good. I've got other videos to record today anyway. But we should do this again at some point, not super far into the future. When were you last on the show?

I don't even know. It wasn't that long ago. It was like what? Maybe a month or two ago? It was fairly recent. It was fairly recent. It was longer. I mean, I sent it to Tom

by just getting a little screwed every now and then, but it wasn't that long ago. Donald. You... There's a picture of... Why did... When was this? This was...

Give me the date. YouTube, how do you work? I don't... December 5th. So, like, three months ago at this point. That's not that long. Could be longer for sure, but it was still quite a while ago.

I was going to tell you that if while you're doing the episodes, if, like, I don't know, you just get tired of doing, like, singles all the time, I wouldn't mind just being, like, a default person to hop on. Yeah, I... I've had a few people mention that to me um that they'd be up for that i don't know i i think it would be good to do more of the like having like a second person on um oh yeah of course but yeah i'll i'll think about that yeah maybe maybe uh you guys will see Donald more often. I don't know.

Depending on what time constraints are like or anything like that, I don't know how good this time is for you normally or if it's just... Oh, it's fine, mate. Is it always good for you? Yeah, pretty much. We'll see what happens in the future then.

I've got some people I do want to bring on, so I will... Actually, I keep meaning to talk to... Because I've talked to him before, just haven't asked him to be on the podcast. Nick from The Linux Experiment. I think he'd be a really fun guy to talk to. Oh, yeah.

I will see what happens. And if not, as I said, I guess you'll come back at some point. Hopefully not three months from now. Maybe. Maybe, yeah. Unless you get too sucked into heaven's ward and then uh well no you're done with heaven's ward so stormblood everything else after that yeah and the shadow bringers and then end walker

look by the time i get to end walk i wouldn't be surprised if like if the next expansion's out to be honest i. I'm taking it slow and steady. Very slow and steady. Anyway, where can people find you, your podcast, whatever it is you want to shout out? You can find me on YouTube. You can just look for Donald Fury.

It should show up pretty much immediately. If you're looking for videos on Go, mostly, and weird shit I did with FFM Peg a while back. There's a lot of idea that I've been paying a while back. There's a lot of blog. I have a personal website, donaldfury.xyz, which has blog posts

that are basically written versions of a lot of the videos and the podcast where we talk about technology career stuff is off the clock. Does that have a website of its own or is it just on podcast apps

it's just it's just anchor okay i will leave a link to the anchor in the description down below then cool uh as actually anything else that it that's it awesome uh as for me uh main channel broderick robertson gaming channel, Kingdom Hearts 2. Yeah, I got my words mixed up. BroderObson plays, playing Kingdom Hearts 2 now, and also Hollow Knight. Also, whenever I feel like throwing it in, I guess we'll play some more needy streamer overdose

because I want to kill this streamer more times. It's fun. Make an overdose a couple times. It's a good game. I enjoy it. Anyway, podcast, video version if you're listening to audio, is available video version?

Yes. YouTube, Odyssey, that places. Yes. I forgot my outro. I don't have an outro. I just make it up as I go. And audio version is available whenever you can find podcasts. Same with your podcast? Probably in more places. Yeah? Awesome. Any final words?

No.