Tech Over Tea - Testing Wayland, Retro Gaming & FFXIV | Donald Feury

Episode Date: July 20, 2022

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. Welcome to episode 124, Tecvati. I am back with another returning guest. Welcome back to the show, Donald. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm your local washed-up YouTuber who hasn't touched YouTube in two fucking years. Yeah, has it actually been that long? I know you're doing podcasts for a while. You You didn't do any more of the podcast did you I know me and him got Backed up with stuff because me and him both Changed jobs that's totally fair And your last YouTube video Was using

Pokemon to explain type switches Golang type switch tutorial Yeah it should have been What 2020 right YouTube doesn't give you the date anymore it just says Yeah, that should have been, what, 2020? Right? YouTube doesn't give you the date anymore, it just says one year ago It will say on your end, but yeah Publicly it doesn't say that Right

What have you been doing, man? How have you been doing? Oh, let's see Got another job That's pretty cool I'm not going to talk about it a ton Because I don't want to talk about Auton because I don't want to get into details, but it's in the

Web 3 space. So I will say that. Okay, right. But aside from that, I found out something interesting about our house that we bought back in october that i didn't know about which wasn't pleasant to find out oh that's always fun yeah like the front foundation

walls about to fall over apparently oh oh okay yeah we had to move my fucking wife's office out of the basement because it flooded oh jesus christ yeah the place that i'm in right now um my housemate when he bought the place he's not very perceptive of problems that most people probably would be like that one that's like a problem that you know you can pretty easily miss but when he bought the place there was a leaking tap out the front it's been leaking for about a year. People who had rented the place didn't realise either. There was a gas leak from the gas meter box. Half the lights in the

house were dead. Do you know the overhead LEDs that aren't just a regular screw-in one? They've got a clip or something you have to put into the roof. I don't know what the thing's actually called, but like half of those were dead,

so we have to replace those. We're in like this really flaky area with internet, so I will just be chilling, going through what I'm normally doing, and then it just cuts out for a moment, and just it's back. Like, okay. That's part of the reason why um

he wanted to speed up getting fiber here so now we have fiber it's just now they connected the fiber and they were like you have an account with us but we don't even see you having like a copper connection we'll get back to you to fix that. So, you know... I would tail for some Fiverr, dude. Well, even with Fiverr here, you can't really get that high speed of a connection. I think the max speed for general

residential is like 250 by 100, which is better than I have, absolutely. But you know, you can't really get gigabit until you start going into the commercial space, sadly. True. But, like, I actually don't know how much

it would cost to get Gigabit anyway. Like, no, actually, sorry, there are some areas where they are starting to roll out Gigabit. It's just some areas, even though they all have fibre, like, you can't get in some place, and, yeah. Not a fun, uh,

not a fun experience, that's for sure. How's the new house? Besides the stuff you said. It is going, okay, yeah, besides the stuff I said, it's going pretty well. Like, I very clearly have a lot more space than I used to have, like, I can, I can move now, which is nice.

So, you know, I couldn't do that before, which means that I've also sort of replaced some stuff that I had before that I sort of just had because I didn't really have much space to do anything better. Like, I've got my standing desk now, which I've wanted to get for a very long time. All my monitors are now on a monitor arm, which I've also get for a very long time all my monitors are now on a monitor arm which i've also wanted for a very long time and i replaced my uh soundbar with a pair of um studio

monitors so nice it was my camera like wait is my camera lagging on obs wait shit i think it might be that's final fix um your no it's it's the camera on like obs itself like the i'm gonna try to do something to it and that's not that's going to freeze it oh that's a good start um let me see if i if i can fix Okay, I'm going to take a... I'm going to take a two-second break, and I'm going to fix it. Five minutes into the show. What a good start.

Everything seems like it's good now. I don't know if it was actually that bad, if it was just me. You know, it definitely seems like it's... It was like maybe a half-second delay before. Whatever. Whatever. Yeah, you were saying about your Weyaling setup just then oh yeah uh so i think from a combination of like i guess seeing you make

a bunch of videos on it and just seeing a bunch of people and like i don't know places like twitter shit basically talk about how it's gotten to the point now where you could pretty much do most things in a whaling environment uh I decided, fuck it, let me actually try doing a Wayland environment. What are you doing at Window Manager, Gnome, KDE? What are you doing? Sway. Ah, okay, yeah.

Makes sense. So that's actually what I was trying to get working on my original installation, but for fucking life of me, I could not get it to work um so the problem i had and i i googled this for hours and no one apparently i could not find an answer to this or answer this problem was uh i never think i figured as far as i could tell i went through like fucking three or four guides about how to set up Wayland. That was what helped sway at me. And when I would

go to start Sway, it would say, hey, I can't find a graphics card to use to start up the backend. And I'm like, what do you mean? If I literally go to the fucking file system for the card, it's there. I even specifically say, use this card.

And it won't start it up. I didn't know you could do that. Yes, there was, apparently. I think it's something that gets passed down to what's that thing called? Excel Roots or whatever it's called. Remember that thing Sway uses under the hood?

WSL. I think it just gets passed on down there. Whatever the fuck it's called. But yeah, it just said, nope, sorry, I don't want to use that card. So I just said, you know what? Fuck this. I backed up my entire home, partitioned onto an external drive, and I just

nuked the installation. I tried a couple different distros that just have, like, ready-to-go sway flavors. I tried the Manjaro

Sway, but I don't like Manjaro much anyway, so I wasn't going to keep that one anyway. I actually tried to use the Arch install tool because it has a Sway profile. Ah, yes. I tried that.

That came out fucked, so... I nuked that again. And the one I ended up actually landing on and keeping, because it feels like the best place to start at and then tweak, is the sway variant of Garuda. Okay, sure. Yeah. Well, i guess if you're gonna use something arch based then garuda is probably it's probably a fine place to be because manjaro has its own repos arco has its own repos i don't does garuda have its own repos i know closer to being arched

than something like manjaro though yeah I want to say it does but then it also has I don't even know what it is they have something called a chaotic AUR oh no that's a third party thing separate from the AUR that you can use just fine on anything the chaotic AUR is basically

just they take the AUR and then pre-compile the binaries. So rather than, you know, you download Firefox Nightly or something, they will actually go and compile that and make sure you don't have to compile Firefox in your local system.

Gotcha. That makes more sense. So how's career going? That's what I'm running. Seems fine so far. I need to go into the S sway config and actually change some stuff because some of the default key bindings make no fucking sense to me but uh i think once i change that and maybe if i get bored one day i want to tweak the color scheme and some other things and I guess how certain windows are used or how certain programs

are handed on there. Seems like it'd be a good starting point, really. What were you using before? Just Arch. What were you running on Arch? BSPWM. Ah, okay.

What made you want to switch anyway like i get that you're saying it like waylon seems like gotten better but like you know even if it's gotten better like why do you want to give it a try now i guess because i was basically starting over kind of what i was starting but like starting something up back again anyway uh that i just one, I just want to give it a try because usually just trying new stuff like this tends to spark my brain to actually get the fuck off my ass

and do shit in the first place. That, and I kind of wanted to see if I would like it better, mostly. Which, I will say even though the fact that BSPWM know fairly lightweight for a window manager this this is acting even less lightweight or even more lightweight yeah well but that's

probably that's more to do with waylon having way less of a footprint than fucking all the x11 shit yeah there's a couple of things going into that so i don I don't know. Are you running all the same applications? Are you trying to build up your same sort of environment in Sway? Or are you running less stuff? I may end up using some of the same things. So, I'm using the same browser still. I pretty much only ever use either VS Code or Vim to edit stuff anyway, so those both work from what I can tell.

OBS is already here. I haven't gotten to the point where I need to try to do other stuff yet, which is where, as I mentioned before, I might start running into the Wayland-specific problems that I might run into. Yeah. What I was going to get to was...

Sway, from my experience, has been lighter as well. I've tried to build up a very similar sort of environment in Sway. It does feel... I don't know if it feels lighter, because I think they still have roughly the same system footprint, but it feels snappier, if that makes sense. I think part of that is due to the way that the driver situation works on the Wayland side.

So, X11 was made... When did X11 come out? What year is X11 from? I want to say something like 84. Oh, sure, yeah. Let me see. X11, 84, yes.

And then, it was a version, okay, no, sorry, X Protocol started in 84, the X11 started in 87. So, when you build something like that, you sort of have a lot of, you know, baggage from the past my favourite is the fact that

Xorg has a print server built into it like you can print to a printer yeah it sort of has like this generic interface that treats printing to a screen and printing to like other devices sort of the same thing. But the other main problem it has is the drivers.

So you've probably... If you install Arch, you would know that when you install Xorg, you have two sets of drivers. You have the X11 drivers, the XF86 ones, and then your 3D drivers. You don't have that on Wayland because it just has the 3D drivers

because modern GPUs don't have 2D acceleration.land because it just has the 3d drivers because it's modern gpus don't have 2d acceleration they just do everything through 3d which i've had people fucking be like oh but modern gpus do have 2d acceleration like no they literally don't like what are you talking about we literally do not have like 2d hardware acceleration anymore it's all just 3D. Like, just stop. If you're going to tell me something stupid, at least do a bit of research first. But yeah, that's probably a big part of it.

It would be hard, like, computers are confusing. Like, there's probably a number of things that are, like, sort of adding into that. But I can definitely say that I've noticed it be at least snappier, if nothing else. Are you doing

some coke down there? Those are my fucking cats doing something, and I'm making sure she's not chewing on fucking cord or something. What are you doing? Get the fuck out of here. You fucking asshole. Come here. This is why I don't let you in here when I'm doing shit. Fuck off.

Jackass. My parents recently adopted some new cats. The story of how they got them is kind of sad. The person who owned them was in like a domestic abuse situation, had to like get out of the house and she couldn't keep the cats with her so

so my parents adopted them and they're really nice cats they're these like I don't know how old they are but they're like, I don't know cat breeds but they're these ginger cats they look real cute and they sort of

settled into the house real quickly they uh showed up and then that day they're like we own the house now sounds like most cats

well they they brought him in together and they it might have been different if it was just one of them that got brought in but

I guess because they stayed together it sort of helped them settle in a bit more. That makes sense. I'm happy that Weyland's been going well. I'm happy that honestly, like, people are willing to give it a

shot. Like, I know that there is this, there's been this sort of sentiment that Weyland is never going to be ready, but there's been a lot of sentiment that wayland is never going to be ready but there's been a lot of work being done in the background that a lot of really smart people are doing and it's the way that i look at wayland maybe your experience has been different but the way that i look at it is wayland is great it's this really great idea really great protocol with these gaping usability holes and if you can avoid those holes, it's perfect.

The problem is that for my use case, I have to jump headfirst into every hole. Can you name one of these holes? You can't use hotkeys in OBS. Oh, can you not? I haven't

tried that, so I didn't know that. OBS uses a global hotkey system and there's no hotkey API in Wayland so either we have to do something specific for every compositor type or we have to wait for the um the there's a solution

being done through portals the same way they're doing like the screen capture um things like that uh i've had issues with gaming i don't know if you've done any gaming on wayland i haven't tried it yet though um some games which were already a little bit flaky in the first case just don't work like i was trying to play is eight for example and it just would not even boot but it did boot other times so i'm not really sure what the deal was like most things are fine like most games are

fine but the the ones that are already kind of flaky yeah not so much um well how do you feel about the the forced vsync because i know a lot of people are sort of I guess it's sort of a contentious thing I don't think I've really noticed it but I'm also really not a fan of a decision being made for you yeah it

I think for like general well I leave vSync on on Xorg like when I'm just generally using my computer. But I guess it could be an issue for gaming. Did my camera start lagging again? I guess we're just going to have a laggy camera today. I don't even know how this happened. I don't know when it happened, how it happened,

what's going on, whatever. Sure. Yeah. So, how long have you been using so far? Three days. Okay. Well, look, you've got plenty of time to start

noticing some of the problems that maybe haven't cropped up just yet. I'm sure. Why'd you specifically go with Sway, though? Probably because up just yet i'm sure why'd you uh specifically go with sway though um probably because out of the stuff that at least i read about that had wayland implementations uh that was the one that seemed close enough to what i would normally use but i also I also I did use i3 like a little bit before, so it's very similar to i3, so

Well, going from BSPWM, which is a dynamic tiler to i3 how's that been? Because i3 is a manual tiler, unless you're using a script to like help the tiling for you Um, I want to say it already does the tiling for me.

Because Garuda already had a lot of stuff sort of baked into this too. Right, Garuda might have come with a script. Because out of the box, it tiles the same way that i3 does, which is it will just keep tiling in whatever direction it's currently set at. So if you have a horizontal tiling set, it'll just keep going

horizontally. Doesn't even matter whatsoever. It looks like, by default, if I'm just doing it, I forget what their parents call it. It's basically going like... Oh, it must have some sort of script. Yeah, it must have some sort of script installed then. I don't know what it would have,

but it might be the same one that I use. Because I liked the manual tiling when I used i3. Then when I stopped using i3 and I used BSPWM, I realized how much worse manual tiling is. Like, I get it if you have a very

specific workflow you need. But, you know, if you don't need it, you might as well just use dynamic tyler it's gonna be much much simpler for you i'm trying to see if i can find real fast if there's actually anything in here that's doing that uh this is it there's gotta if you go into yourway config It's probably launching something Probably something like Sway tile or i3 tile Or something like that

Because Sway is literally just a One for one replacement for i3 A lot of the I think all of the original i3 scripts do work just fine on Sway as well. Which is really nice. Because it means that, you know, you're not building this entirely new thing and then

have nothing built around it. Right. Buy anything? Nope, that's not it. There's a bunch of shit in there. uh nope that's not it there's there's a bunch of shit in there i know yeah yeah of course this is great content right now it is me looking through something i installed like what does it do it doesn't matter if it if it's tiling it's doing something yeah I do like the wallpapers that came with the sister by default

yeah how does Garuda's wallpaper look like um it depends on which one because it came with a bunch of them but uh and I actually changed the script that already runs by default because normally

it was just loading a specific wallpaper in with what's that called? Display? Sway display? Sway BG, is that what it's called? Whatever it's called. And I just changed it to just pick a random thing

out of it rather than doing the same one. Apparently, I didn't realize this. One of the wallpapers in there is based on the uh what was that character called it's like the like uh they're like the waifu arch linux character wait which version of it was uh is it the old one or is it right surely it's not ravioli's version that would be really cool if it was I'm pretty sure it is that's awesome if you can find it let me see

I presume you would know if that was being done unless they just took the wallpaper and were like, fuck it, just gonna put this on here. I don't know. Content.

You know, I'm gonna bring something up. While you're looking for that. So, a game that I never expected to be getting a remake or a reboot. Lollipop Chainsaw is getting a reboot. What? Yeah. Yeah. They wanted to just like do a remaster, which I already didn't understand.

Because it's... I don't know who was asking for a lollipop chainsaw remaster but they lost a lot of the licenses because the game had a lot of licensed music in it. They lost a lot of the licenses because, you know,

licenses expire and all that. So they're like, fuck it, let's just remake the game. But James Gunn and Suda51, who were involved in making the original game, they didn't even know it was happening until it got announced.

Oh, no. They weren't part of the company that was making it anymore, even though they were like, oh, well, some of the original team that worked on this game is still here. It's just like, well, maybe there's like one dev who just never left the company who's still working for them. Like, yeah, some of the original team.

But do you ever play Lollipop Chainsaw? No, it was just one of those things that I would see the box and I'd be like, what the fuck is this? And I just never actually gave it. For anyone who never played it, who might just be listening right now, Lollipop Chainsaw was a game where you played as this cheerleader who had a chainsaw

who would go around murdering zombies because... You know? Why not? Did you end up finding wallpaper? I did. You did. You send it on... Oh, you know, why not? Did you end up finding wallpaper? I did. You did. You send it on...

Oh, you did. Oh, it is Ravioli's version. Oh, shit. I'm going to open this up. Ah, that's where... Jesus Christ, that's big. Can I zoom out? There we go.

It is Ravioli's version. I don't know if Ravioli made that specifically for garuda in this case or if that was like fuck it uh we're just gonna use it anyway i may it might have for all i know they just i don't i don't know if this image already existed or not i think this joint did just put the fucking gorilla next shit on the side but i have no idea i just know it was in the wallpapers all i I know is I specifically... I know the artist who did this. I'm just not sure

whether they were... whether they asked to use it or not. Right. So, you're probably going to stick with Garuda then? You reckon? Yeah, I don't think... This feels like a good starting point because I don't want to...

I contemplated the oh, I'll just build it from scratch again with a base arch install, and I was like I don't want to do that again. I'm just going to pick something that feels good as a starting point and just tweak it from there. Yeah, that's what I tell people as well. You don't have to...

Sure, if you want to do the whole, I'm going to start from space art. I'm going to build everything up. Like, yeah, that's cool and all, but you don't have to, you can just chill and use something easier to use or not easy to use,

like less time consuming to use. Yeah. It's all like well and good to go and build something from scratch but like i totally get it when people don't want to do that when they just want to have something that just basically works because the way that i've i've done it is i've sort of turned the idea of wasting time into money so like it works well for me but if you want if you just want to use a bunch of if you just want to use pop horse if you just want to use whatever else you want to use like that's fine that's totally fine yeah yeah because like i didn't even have the same reason to do that again like i did before because the reason the reason i originally even did that was because

i wanted something that didn't ran like shit on that old ass thinkpad that I have that's the reason why I did it and then I just copied the installation over to my desktop are you on your desktop now yes I am you would know if I was on the laptop

what are you running hardware wise uh fuck I don't remember I built this computer six years ago okay i remember it has a no i remember it has a nvidia nvidia gpu which i when i was trying to get sway to work i really came up with the hey i don't fucking work with proprietary drivers I've heard actually how did that experience go because I've heard nothing but bad things about Wayland

and Nvidia I mean this installation seems fine so far now like I said before I could never even get the shit to start on the other installation so I don't even know if it would even run well at all anyway.

But just so far, I haven't seen any really weird issues yet. I was actually talking about GPU prices on my stream yesterday. It seems like they're actually getting to the point of being reasonable again.

Nature is healing. Slowly we're getting there um let me just check i don't know what u.s pricing is like but like the the 6700 xt normally priced at 1100 now $729. Very nice. Which is basically where it should be. And then, like, most of the 50 cards, they launch basically where they should have been. But, like, even the 6800 XT, normally

$1,699. $999. $999. Like, that's still a lot of money. But it's where it should be. Nature's healing, boys. It's so nice. Like, I am gen-

Like, I was going to just wait until the new GPUs roll around. But, like, I don't know. Maybe I just want to buy a GPU now. Because right now I'm running an RX 570. Anything I buy is is gonna be good and these pro i i don't know i hope these prices stick around it'll be great if they do because people can actually build computers again but i don't know if it's gonna happen oh yeah i forgot neo fetch was a thing uh oh yeah so the processor is a core i5 6500 so it's like that's kind of old uh yeah keep going it's like uh and the gravis card is a geforce gtx 1060

the most popular card on uh no it was the most popular card on steam i think it's Gravis card is a GeForce GTX 1060. The most popular card on... No, it was the most popular card on Steam. I think it's dropped out of that slot now. If I recall correctly. What the fuck was 6th Gen? My brain is so out of it with Intel generations. I've been so...

I can remember everything up to Haswell and then my brain's like wait what are the rest of them called sky lake that's what it is sky lake uh yeah that's i i built this pc launched 2015 i built this pc when we still lived in the apartment back in like 2017? Is that what I say? Right. Yeah. It was kind of a budget build too.

I think I didn't spend more than like $1,000 on this whole build. Remember when you could spend $1,000 on a PC? See, what is... We're going... We're gonna check some US prices. New Egg. We're in New Egg US. Let's see what a 30... I guess 3060 costs. Yeah.

Oi, no. I don't want... Stay in the United States. I don't want to see the stupid Australian pricing. 3060. A 3060 right now is... $440. Huh.

But it used to be. I don't know. $400. Wait, here's one. That's a different card. Here's one for $400. I think before they were going for close to $600 if I remember correctly

but like you could reason maybe not under 1000 but you could probably reasonably build with the same like tier of hardware that system for like 1200 maybe? probably which you know considering inflation

and all that fun stuff not unreasonable I figured Maybe. Which, you know, considering inflation and all that fun stuff, not unreasonable. I figured something was going on with a lot of the pricing and that stuff, because what was it? It was like, uh... Was it, I think, Lions Tech Tips did the first budget build

they've been able to do in two or three years or some shit? You couldn't even do budget builds on second-hand stuff the secondhand market was like either empty or getting past msrp it was just so so few cards out there i don't know what's caused it to come down now. I've heard that there was a big dump of cards because of Prime Day and stuff. Nvidia made sure to get cards out for that. So maybe this won't hold.

But they've been slowly dropping for the past couple of months. I mean, I figured it was some combination of maybe a lot of the supply chain issues that came around because of COVID have started to sort of fix themselves. I wasn't... What the hell did I see this at?

I kept seeing, too, that a lot of it was I think because of a lot of the crypto pains with the crypto prices that a lot of people were dumping their cards. Yeah. I am so happy I didn't buy back into the market when i was considering because i saw when did i when was i gonna consider it i think i saw it back in yeah i saw it back in march when we dropped from i'll do u.s pricing just so it makes more sense the

united states people because i can be like 90 000 bitcoin but no that's australian dollars um yeah when it was at like 60 i think i sold out around i think i saw that around like 60 000 something like that uh and i was looking at it back in like i think may yeah May. Yeah, May when the first drop happened. I was like, it's... I think we're fine here. It's not going to go any lower. And I'm so happy that I didn't consider it then. I am considering, you know, buying back into the market.

But, like, there are people talking about... We might go lower. Like, we might see, like we might see like sub 15 I look it might happen I'm I am NOT a financial expert and no one on tick tock is either but they seem to have ideas about it's gonna go go to the moon um i can say it's going to go to the floor and be basically just as right true we actually like we actually ever actually like invested into the crypto market um i did i invested back in the crypto market um when was crypto like suddenly getting a lot of media attention?

I guess that would have been around September of... I think it was 2018? Was it 2017 or 2018? There was like a period. 2019 is when it shot up like 3x. So in 2018... Early 2019 it up like 3x. So in 20...

Yeah, yeah. So 2018... Early 2019, it was like 3 grand. And then by mid-2019, it was at 11 grand. Okay, it was 2019 then. Yeah. I bought it in... That's when I even started to do any kind of research

as to what the fuck all this shit even was in the first place. Yep, yep, yep. And I think I bought it around like... I want to say it was like seven or eight k and i didn't put i put like 500 bucks in or something yeah of course and i think i sold it when i doubled my money so about 14 uh and i think that was also still around though it was basically kind of been like a exponential gain because I remember it was still going up up up up up and it got to about 20k in like January and then it fucking nosedive back down to 14k and then down below 10k again. Maybe it was earlier.

Wait, maybe it was 2017. Yeah, 2019 was nowhere near as big of a spike. Maybe it was earlier. I don't know. Either way, there's a lot of people who get very greedy and they don't see, hey, I doubled my money in a year and then think maybe maybe this is unsustainable

what's that because other than that i haven't actually like put money into it any of the crypto i have now has been free funny money from like bat tokens or some shit yeah i okay besides what i'd actually put in because i i put money in but like towards the start of covid um which was probably it was without a doubt it's going to be the best time in history to put money into crypto like there's probably never going to be a spike as ridiculous as that two-year period. A healthy functional market doesn't go from $6,000 to $60,000 in a year. Like, that's not normal. But I have put, like, back when Dogecoin and Shibarino were the popular things, I put, like, $50 in.

It's like, fuck it. It's a lottery ticket, let's see what happens And then it went down Goddammit Elon Musk But then I think it went back up because of Elon actually Because that was before Elon started tweeting about it Papa Elon, please shield my crypto So it goes up, thank you

Speaking of Elon, did you hear that he's trying to pull out of the Twitter deal? I did and Twitter's not very happy about it but it's like, no, no, no you already fucked it, you gotta pay me you gotta buy it now yeah, so I didn't actually understand how the deal

was working so he'd actually signed a contract agreeing to pay I think how the deal was working. So he'd actually signed a contract to agree, agreeing to pay. I think it was like some $65 a share, $55 a share, something like that. Um,

so it worked out to be whatever, $40 billion, whatever it was. Um, but he was then like adding terms into the contract. Like we didn't, there was a term in there like if you didn't give me the

bot data then I could pull out of the contract which is just like not at all what the contract was saying and honestly I have a feeling that his goal never was to actually buy Twitter it was to destroy Twitter.

I know, yeah. I kept seeing people say that too. It was either to just basically destroy Twitter outright in terms of just value or some combination of a lot of the internal stuff

that Twitter never would let anybody see outside of Twitter would get pulled out in the limelight just because of all of the stuff that he's doing or they're doing to whatever he was trying to do

with the hell verifying whether Twitter's values was supposed to be based on actual user stuff. That would get dragged out in the lim verifying whether Twitter's values was supposed to be based on actual user stuff. That a lot of that stuff would get dragged out in the limelight and everybody's like, hey, now we get to see actually how ideologically fucked this place actually is. Well,

even just ignoring that, it's just fucked as a business. Twitter doesn't make money. Most tech things don't make money i was so when i first heard about the silicon valley model i was so confused like that's no there's no way that's like a real business model like for anyone listening who might not know what the silicon valley model is so basically your your entire plan as a business is to get purchased.

So you will burn as much money as you physically can without going under to like make some crazy product. And you're going to be losing money like year on year. It does not last very long but if you can make something that's like revolutionary or like it really disrupts the market that's why everyone's a market disruptor like every job description like we're trying to disrupt the market then it will survive but most of the businesses that are just like they are fundamentally bad businesses like snapchat was like that for a very long time as well i feel like i think snapchat's better now but that was their initial goal i was laughing because you said like the the job listings always say like oh we're uh we're

disruptive because i actually got a fucking email literally like three hours ago from somebody saying hey I found you because of your experiences. Yep, yep, yep. Hey, we're this company. We're disrupting the... Everybody's disrupting the market. Give me your

HR tagging, your talking points. Go ahead. I get a lot of these in sponsorship emails as well. It's like, hey, do you want to shield this product? Like, no. No. Go away.

I've actually had a couple that did catch my attention, which I was very heavily considering. Like, Manscaped hit me up at one point. Skillshare as well both of which I was very heavily considering

I actually like both of them as a company but when it's like hey Chinese game key reseller like no or even though I've been trashing a lot of crypto projects I was like, no.

No, I'm not doing that. Go away. I got curious about something one day. I can't remember what I was watching, I think where you had mentioned something about dumbass sponsorship emails and stuff. I kind of wondered, because of

the type of stuff that you make on YouTube, how many times have you gotten emails from people who, I guess, because you do Linux stuff, just assume you're a software developer and offered you jobs? A couple. Not as many as you might think. Oh, okay. It's mainly people who actually do know me who are like, hey, I think you'd be good in this position.

Like not just businesses typically hitting me up, but I've had a couple of people who watch the channel who are like, hey, we need someone to do this or that. Hasn't happened as much now because I don't talk as... Back then I also talked a bit more about programming. Now I mainly focus on Linux. But early on definitely got a lot of those. Nowadays

it's mainly crypto stuff. Would you like to shield this project? No, I don't want to do that. I have said this before though. If you hit me up for sponsoring the podcast i will shill basically anything the main channel i like to keep i like to keep pure and moral but if you hit me up on the podcast and you're like unless it's a straight up scam like i'm not going to be like sh, shilling a pyramid scheme, but...

Look, if you want me to sell... If you want me to sell some fucking condoms, I'll do it. That's fine. I can do that. See, that's probably a bad idea, because my audience probably doesn't need them. If you need me to sell some... some... some sex toys, maybe that'll work. Some male sex toys.

I'll shill those. I don't know how we got here. What's that? Talking about sponsorships. Oh, right. Yes, yes, yes. Right. Speaking of that,

one of the things you sent me was that you were planning to start or thinking of starting up videos and streaming again. Well, I'm not thinking about it. I'm working on it. Oh, you are working on it. Yeah. I actually I wanted to try to

track what I was doing better this time. Because before, I just did the stuff. I didn't track literally anything. Yeah, yeah. I can't remember if the name of the YouTube channel. I literally just got randomly recommended a video buff one day and it was a guy with a pretty decent size youtube channel basically saying like oh here's the stuff i use to throw up my youtube channel and one of the things that he

was using was notion yeah and uh like i've i've used notion before but for some reason i just never tried to do it in there and And I saw what his workflow was. And I was like, you know, that seems simple enough that I could use it, but not like this fucking mess of shit that people who are obsessed with like PKM stuff tend to. Sorry, Brian. I was talking about you right there. And I actually tried to adapt it a little bit. And actually, I'm using it to plan out videos, and I also used it to...

I set up a section in it for my wife's history tracker art commissions. Okay. Yeah. I have said it before, I'm so horrendous at planning stuff. Like, my... I just know...

Like, I've got set days when i'm doing stuff when it comes to like a workflow what's a workflow my workflows i get shit done that's the work yeah pretty much like i am i don't know i'm trying to switch up the way I'm handling stuff right now like I I was starting to fall back into a pretty bad place which tends to happen when I get myself into a too much of a schedule like I need to deal with this before it becomes an actual problem because I've let that happen before and it just it's not good so I'm trying to start like working out more and stuff so maybe I need to at least do a bit of scheduling around that to make sure that's getting fit into my day and all that. But when it comes to like a workflow regarding videos, the way I typically plan out a video, I guess there is kind of workflow. I'll have my topic.

Let's say it's on something like Fedora's AUR thing, they've got a thing called I think it's called Copper? There's a, yeah there's a thing called Copper, it's like the AUR equivalent on Fedora, it's like a new

thing they've been working on so the way I'll typically do it is i won't have my notes planned out in a structured way for a video i'll tend to just get my dot points down and then reorder them afterwards into a way that that makes sense in like how you'd want to tell the story because i've done it the other way around before but then i tend to get a little too focused around the structure and the wording and waste time doing that rather than getting the the information in there um when i said planning planning is probably a bit a bit of a loaded word. What I probably should say is just, like,

tracking what stuff, what ideas I have, and what part of the process. Because, like, when I say planning, I'm sort of, like, going, like, okay, like, I'm actually, like, writing out, like, the whole thing I'm doing. I fucking,

I don't work well that way. Like, it's mostly just being, like, am I actually gonna make't I don't I don't work well that way uh like it's mostly just being like am I actually going to make a video on this because there's a bunch because there's like a bunch I have a bunch of entries in there but they're literally just Marcus ideas like I don't know if I'm actually doing anything with it yeah but the ones I'm like yes I'm going to make a video on this I have it like set to a different status and then I can track it like is there another was there a thumbnail already made for it? No. Obviously there's nothing there. Yes, the thumbnail's there.

Maybe more than one. Title ideas. But once I actually get it up there, like the URL and when I got it up there. And also, I'm going to try to do something. I think I should be able to do this where every video kind of has

like a written article sort of with it that's basically just the written version of the video because I might try to make a bit more shorter succinct videos about certain things like rather than talking about like a whole fucking topic I might just

be like hey here's how you do one thing probably take like four or five minutes or something to do it. There was a time when I was considering doing blog posts or article write-ups alongside the videos, and I did for a brief period of time. The problem, though,

is I just don't feel like, at least for the way that I do content, I don't feel like they're least for the way that I do content, I don't feel like they're that useful. I feel like it's just sort of, unless I was to completely restructure the entire thing, it sort of just feels like doing a transcript of the video,

which I'm sure for some people is fine. And depending on the way you structure your content is probably fine as well. But I don't think it works as well for what I'm doing. And if I was going to do it properly, it would be sort of like a big endeavor on its own. Because I'd want to actually make sure the quality is sort of at the same sort of quality as the videos itself. Not just, hey, it's an article alongside it. If I was, I guess, to cut back on the number of videos

i was doing i guess i could make it work but i'm just sort of doing too many things right now to make it fit with what i'm doing and i don't at least the way that i see i don't see as much i don't see a giant benefit to doing it to sort of justify changing out the way I'm currently working, if that makes sense. Yeah, because the only thing I was sort of trying to think of, like, well, based on what you do,

what would... I also agree that maybe for a large part, it's not as helpful, because, like, there's a difference between, like, you just kind of talking about, like, stuff that's going on, and then, like, the, you know, the open source and Linux field versus someone like me who's usually trying to, like, instruct somebody, like, how to do something.

Now, the thing where maybe I could see where yours might still have some value, and I don't think it'd be a big time sink. Because you already say you usually have bullet points of what you want to talk about. The only thing I could think of is maybe you take a bullet point and you just like, you don't have to write a paragraph. You just expand

upon it a little bit in writing. So like, the article is basically kind of like a very succinct summarization of what your video probably goes into more depth about. Yep, yep. That's something I could like of. I can see that, yeah.

I can see that. But I guess if you... Then you get all that extra Google SSO. Yeah, that would be nice. But I guess if you set everything up like that from the start, then it isn't as big of a deal to just keep doing it. So,

have you made anything so far that you haven't put up yet, or is it just sort of in the works? There is one that I didn't put up yet, but I might have to redo it because I fucked up the editing. I know that feeling. I did that the other day, and people were like, oh, deja vu, this segment

repeated. Like, yep, that happened, didn't it? So, the video that I did was I actually added an additional feature to my YouTube video editing script. Right.

Which is... Oh, right. You do that, don't you? Yeah, yeah. So the thing that I did was I actually added so that if I want to, I can pass in a directory, and it's full of just a bunch of the StreamBeats royalty-free music. Yeah.

It just grabs a random track and basically overlays it as really low volume background music. And so that's basically what the video was. It was explaining like here's what I did. Here's how I did it. Here's what you do and here's the result. I didn't think that the fact that

I put that video, I ran through the same script to give it background music. But then, at the end, I'm like, okay, here's the result, but you can't fucking hear it because the video already has background music playing. Oh my god. Yeah, that was like, oh, I'm a fucking genius.

I have to redo that a little bit. Oh my god. Yeah, that was like, oh, I'm a fucking genius, so I have to redo that a little bit. I completely forgot you were doing that FFmpeg script. Yeah. I actually have a new script, because I had to help my wife with something. So, uh, Krita added a feature in the last major release

where you can actually basically it's a really easy way to get time lapses. Okay. It'll screenshot your canvas after you do certain things or every couple seconds. At the end you can just say hey it just takes all the images and you can definitely do that in FFmpeg.

You just pass in a big thing of images and it just spits out a video with all those being framed and you can just spit out a time lapse all those being framed, and you can just spit out time-lapse. And she's going to start uploading them to YouTube, but she wanted them watermarked, and she hand-edited

one to watermark it. I was like, okay, that took 45 minutes. That's too fucking long, because you've got like 20 time-lapses to do. Let me see if I can figure something out. And I kind of hobble together a couple of Stack Overflow things together and I wrote a script that

pulls all those video files that I had her put on the NAS. Yes. Takes the one specific image she wants to use as her watermark and just renders them all with it on their watermark. She was going to do it by hand.

Well, I mean, she has a good way to do it. Well, I mean, so the video is already rendered out. Oh, right. I thought you meant she's going to put it in each frame. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, I thought she was insane. Yeah, so the video is already rendered out.

So she's going to import the video, put the thing in there as a watermark, and just re-render it back out. Okay. But even that takes a while, because you know, depending on the length of the video, it takes a while to render anyway. Yeah, yeah, of course. So I was like, well, fuck that, I can just automate all this shit,

so fuck that. Yeah, that's a much better idea. Yeah. There are certain parts of my workflow I should probably automate. There are things I have done, like getting out video markers, for example, like chapter markers in my videos, whenever I use those.

Those are just markers in my timeline that are... Because the Kdenlive project file is just an XML file, and parsing XML is dead simple. So you can just find where that's located and strip them out. That's what I've done. But there are other things like...

Maybe... Rather than creating a project file and dragging the files in... I'm almost certain there should be a simple way for me to just... Create a project file that's already loaded the files in. So just run it on that folder and then just go. I don't know if Kdenlive does this. I know

DaVinci does it. It's called Template. I don't know if Kdenlive basically has templates. We'll like load in like a pre-made project with like certain tracks already set for video and audio and stuff like that if it does i'll have to have a look if it doesn't then i can probably just like modify the xml file and

make it work like that also i forget what video editor it was but i noticed i don't know if it was i don't know if it was davinci if there was another one uh one of those i think apparently picked up on the oh people are trying to figure out unique like clever ways of doing literally what you did with cadent live yeah pulling your chapters out and that's really a feature in one of those video editors now is to export is to export your uh your marks as uh as timestamps to put it on youtube description i think is it for me i think premiere just has a feature for it's had it for like years the fact that others don't have it it just baffles me because youtube like youtube's had

these chapter markers for so i don't know like years at this point and how the video editors hadn't caught up i i don't know i don't know i guess i didn know. I guess I didn't think I cared. It didn't matter enough. Maybe. I guess for short videos, it's fine. But when it's longer stuff, you know, if you can add the chapter markers in when you're editing, it is going to make it a little bit simpler. Yeah.

Rather than having a... Say you make like a 40-minute video, go back and watch it to find where the chapters are, even though you've basically already watched it a bunch of times anyway. I'm one of those people that i decide not to put in chapter markers anyway because i have i kind of have the same selfish mindset as the fucking uh devin ashton he's like that hurt my watch time i'm not putting them in there i think depending depending on the content i think it's fine but no i, I can get that. Like, if your content is structured in a way...

Actually, that's a good point with, like, instructional content. And what Devin Nash does as well. A lot of it is instructional. A lot of it is more like covering very specific topics. I think for stuff like that, it definitely can. I think for stuff like that, it definitely can. Because, you know, if you have complete Go tutorial or whatever it is, complete Go introduction,

people are just going to jump to the section they specifically want, which I guess is useful. But yeah, watch time is going to be effective. It's sort of a balance of how you want to handle it. I personally would just put them in. I don't think it would be that big of a deal, but I guess if you are trying to optimize watch time, it makes sense. I think my train of thought about that was,

is that I'm not trying to make it inconvenient to find a specific thing, but at the same time, I think if I wanted you to be able to see a very specific subject matter, that's something I'd probably just put in a fucking blog post.

I'm going to just have a blog post that's like, how do you initialize a variable ago? You don't have to go watch the whole fucking stupid head. You don't have to go watch the fucking 45 minute video. Yeah, no, I totally make sense. Yeah. Actually, that's a really good point with the blog post. You could then use

the blog post to provide a timestamp to the video if you wanted to. Actually, yeah, I was about to say that was that I might just go back in the video and find the spot where I was talking about and be like oh if you want a visual example this time stamped on this yeah yeah that makes sense so what exactly is the plan with the channel going forward i mean it's kind of really the same thing it was before uh i'm so i'm stuck away back in like

it's it's gonna have some more subjects because I've learned more things since then especially around like automated testing because I had to do that quite a bit in the last job and probably a lot of stuff with MongoDB because I had to do a ton of shit with MongoDB

but aside from that I probably won't stream much, per se. That might be almost kind of more like what you do, where it's like a once or twice a week thing, if that. And that's still just going to be, hey, come and hang out while I'm playing some old-ass game or 14 or something, yeah. Well, the thing with streaming for me,

the main reason I don't right now, like I stream on the gaming channel me like the main reason i don't right now like i stream in the gaming channel but the main reason i don't do more streams is just because i work like yeah i am basically working like two full-time jobs right now like a full-time job and a part-time job uh because when i do like my youtube stuff i go basically until i have to get ready for my night job. And that's pretty much Monday to Friday. So there's usually a day off in there. But, yeah.

So, I can't stream more often. I could stream on the weekend, but I don't like particularly working much on the weekend, just because, you know, it's the weekend. I want to chill. Yeah, I mean, it's that, and it like it's still like the fact of the matter is it's like streaming is probably like one of the least productive uses of your time the just in general it depends on i've heard differing opinions on this like from from big creators as well like some big creators think

it's a it's kind of a waste of time some people think it's a far more efficient use of your time uh i think it depends on the way you structure your content and what you do with the streams so if you're sitting there just streaming and you're just like you're not really doing anything with the stream like you're playing a game maybe you're going through reddit or whatever you're doing then i think you're not really doing anything with the stream. Like, you're playing a game, maybe you're going through Reddit or whatever you're doing. Then I think it's, yeah, I think it's fair to call it kind of waste of time. But if you're doing more like the way that Ludwig handles it, or Asmongold handles it, where the stream is used to make the videos, that's a very different style of stream.

And I think a lot of people are starting to shift into that um but i can yeah i absolutely understand that like just just streaming for the sake of streaming isn't the most productive use of time yes i think i'll make it work like xqc makes it work but he also streams like fucking 12 hours a day every day I wouldn't know because I don't know no offense to that dude the longer I hear him talk the more my brain

cells rot no I feel the same way like I don't particularly like xQc's content but I can understand that you know some people enjoy him or a lot of people enjoy him and he's clearly doing it well. Yeah. I feel like that's very much a me thing.

I've watched videos of somebody like him trying to talk about something and I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, no, I get that. It makes sense oh so you're just gonna mainly do the gaming stuff you stream then

maybe do something else yeah yeah like i did i'll have to think about this a little more but i did try to contemplate like if i wanted to basically try to do what you just described the whole the stream is the content thing um that i had to think about like what i would do or how i would structure that yeah because uh to some extent it probably should work because pretty much most of my videos are almost entirely off the cuff anyway. Yeah. But then there's that element of like, there are some things that I don't know, if like some things would be really

awkward or clumsy trying to do live like that. Yeah, but it'll be something I might try at some point, but until then, I'm just going to stick to the I'm going to sit here and I don't know, binge out maybe a couple of videos on like a productive day and then save the streaming for hey come watch me stop not be able to stop leveling jobs on 14 or playing

like this freaking old ass playstation one that i got um well i know there's a lot there are streams that are set up not just to be like you know fun dicking around streams that you turn to the content but like the way the atrioc handles his streams where he'll actually do like presentations on marketing like that you can make things that shouldn't be that shouldn't work in a stream format work if you like put the work into it to sort of play and everything beforehand it's just a matter of how much work you want to put in to make it work and whether that is a good use of your time or you're just better off doing it offline and saving yourself from that yeah i the you said like you gotta plan like planning fucking playing that's one yeah no if that's what you that's what you think and maybe it's best to just do it as a vod then

but yeah um 14 fun game isn't it oh my god i can't i've okay I have played probably almost like a dozen different MMOs at some point in my life and like sure there'll be like you know one two maybe three like classes they have that like I think are pretty fun I'll play them it's like holy fuck I don't know what the fuck Squeenix did but like every single job I play I'm like like, this is fun, I'm going to level this now. And there's not a single class that I've played that I was like, I don't enjoy them.

For me, I'm not a big fan of Red Mage. Maybe it's just like, I need to play a bit more of it. When I played Red Mage, I wasn't having that much fun with it. But everything else, I like everything else.

I know you're busy as shit, and I know you ain't played much, but how much have you played now at this point? I play a lot on the weekends. Oh. Yeah, yeah. So, I don't know. What is it?

A couple hundred hours? I don't know. I've probably still got more hours than you do. I don't know. I'll have to open up the game and check my playtime. But it's not a small amount. Did you start playing a lot more than that? I think I remember you said the last time I talked about this

you played it some off and on but you hadn't played it or you didn't have time to play it a lot I guess I've restructured stuff now and I have more time I only play it on the weekends, pretty much. I might play like an hour or two during the week, but yeah, on the weekends, I will play a lot.

Actually, tonight I'm doing... My FC's set up a Palace of Dead run, and we've got a bunch of parties who are all aiming to do 1-200. Nice. We haven't started yet, but we're doing a run at 10.30 tonight, so I don't know how long I'll stay up. I'm trying to get a grasp of how far

I'm going. Have you finished the main stage? I am one patch away from Stormblood. Okay. So what's your highest level jobs right now? Like, I've got a level 83 Astrologian. Okay, gotcha. Okay, let's see.

Where am I at now? I finished the main story up until, like, the most patch. Yep, yep. And then Walker. Red Mage is 90. gunbreaker is 90 uh summoner slash scholar is 90 i think there's like two jobs at around like 80 i think another one that's at 70 and then everything else is some big mishmash between like one and 60 yeah yeah but yeah just the whole thing i'm'm like, oh fucking Christ I can't. Well, I'll try this.

I'm sure it's not that bad. Oh fuck, wait now I just realized I just played this fucking game for 4 hours. Wait, what happened? Oh, I've been making my fucking wife cringe super hard. So, the last class, the latest class that I tried and I'm leveling right now is Ninja.

Yeah, Ninja's very fun. Ninja's super fun. Actually, I don't know how fun it is. But just to amplify the cringe of it, one day when I was playing it, I opened up Spotify and found a place with a bunch of Naruto

and I was like, I was like, yes, my immersion. Duh, duh, duh. Duh, yes, my immersion. One thing that actually I think makes Ninja a bit easier to deal with, with the jutsu, they don't introduce more. I guess there are add-on mechanics that will change up the way some of them work. But you have your base set, and that's the ones you need to know the ones that come later are like things that proc off of other abilities which is fine i can deal with that but they could be like hey let's let's have like 10 different things you can do and you have to remember all

these different combinations because there's more combinations they could have done but no they're like let's make this reasonable I think they contemplated that one time a long time ago too because the last ninja class quest at 50 you had to fight

like some god's master or whatever he does a lost hidden yeah yeah fine so i think at one point they contemplated doing what they do but we've already got we've already got jutsu that are useless like kyoton doesn't do any like it's that's the ice one that binds yeah you literally never use it i think you might use it more at higher levels. Maybe. I looked at some Reddit posts about it,

and a lot of people are saying they don't really see it used for even at higher levels. Huh. Well, the reason why I assume it got used more was there's a... Traitor. Tell them whatever the fuck. That makes it so that I think that one

and Raitan change when you have a buff active. Okay, maybe during the buff window then? Yeah, because whatever that modified version that is, that's like fucking 1300 potency. Okay, maybe then it has a purpose. At least I'm not understanding something. But it seems like, okay, it seems like this is up. This is your single target when it comes to

AoE. Okay, yeah, if that's the case, then that would make sense. Yeah, right now, I... I... I leveled my ninja to 60 specifically because I want to play it during Stormblood. I was like, you know what, we're going to finish off

Heaven's Ward with my Summoner. Or if I'm lazy and don't want to deal with queues, I'll pop my Astrologian. Because queues on Materia are not great right now. It's a little better than it was, but it's going to be a mess until 7.0 comes out. But

yeah, I specifically leveled it because I want to play Ninja in Stormblood. Ninja is very fun though. Right now I'm just I don't even know if I'm going to be able to do it though because Summon is so much fun. Summon is such a chill job. Summoner is fun. fun summoner is such a fun summoner is

fun also it's uh it's probably the least punishing rotation out of any other magical well here's the funny thing about summoner the rotation's done at 64 it doesn't change past that it's the you don't get no any new ability it's just the same yeah the only thing that happens is every other time your thing's different. It's like, oh, now you summon Ifrit? Oh, no, Ifrit Eggy? Oh, it's Ifrit Eggy 2.

Oh, hey, look, now it's actually just Ifrit. OK, well, that's chill. Yeah, and the only other thing that changes is every other time you use your trance, it's Phoenix instead of Bahamut. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So OK, so I've actually leveled pretty much all three of Bahamut. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, okay. So, I've actually leveled pretty much all three of those classes now.

Yep. Because Summoner's 90, Red Mage is 90, and Black Mage is, like, 70. Black Mage. My housemate plays Black Mage. I don't understand it. Okay, so... You know how... So, you probably know.

You see how, like, Red Mage... Or, not Red Mage. Black Mage gets the rep for being, like, super hard to play or something. Yeah, I don't know, you see how, like, Red Mage, or, not Red, Black Mage gets the, like, rep from being, like, super hard to play or something. Yeah, I don't know why. Or harder to play. Yeah, it's not difficult. You just prep the first weapons. Yeah, so,

the rotation's not hard, and, like, I've been playing it, and I'm like, this isn't that hard. Why do people keep saying this is hard? And then I did a fucking alliance raid at. i hated my life because so i you have to actually know what the fuck is happening because otherwise you drop your fucking rotation all the time and i was like i thought i'm probably not doing any damage i feel worthless right now yeah late line what late Line seems great if you know...

Firstly, if your tank is fucking sane and is keeping the enemy position properly. And two, you know where attacks are going to be coming from. Because if you don't, you're not going to be able to place your Ley Lines in a good spot and you're going to have to constantly leave it. Yeah. Well, I'm not even just talking about Ley Lines.

There are just a lot of mechanics that happen that if you don't like keep stuff ready to allow you to like do things while you're moving like triple cast or something yeah that you'll just drop your you know your astral fire or whatever what you had before you gotta basically start the fucking engine right i come from zero

yeah yeah i think that gets not as hard to do later because they get an ability that they can spam while they're in Umbral Ice to keep Umbral Ice up at three stacks so you can just immediately switch back over to fire. But up until that, boss does a mechanic

where you can't basically stand still and do shit for like, I don't know, five or six seconds. Oh, wait, your fucking Asheville fire's about to run out? Well, fuck you, buddy. Start back over again. From my understanding, the mobility has gotten better with Black Mage, but

I just... I don't know. I like Summoner as a caster because it feels... It does have Ifrit, which does slow you down, but besides that, it's pretty much just Instacast. Yeah, except for when you do stuff

with Ifrit, every single other ability also except for Garuda's... Ruin without... Garuda? No, Garuda. When you get an ability layer that basically gives you the same thing that layer that basically gives you kind of like the same thing that

Bahamut gives you, where you can use like Astral Flare, or whatever it's called. Like that one big nuke. All of the individual edgies also give you one. And the Garuda one, you have to cast for like two and a half seconds. Okay, okay, that makes sense.

So besides that, and besides the free ruin, everything else is just the law. I can run around and just press keys and do damage. Yeah, it's nice. It's fun. I enjoy it. I don't know what my favorite job is so far.

I kind of... I don't know about this. You know what yours is? Yes. It i kind of i don't know you're not yours is yes um it's gumbreaker gum oh yeah i haven't tanked in a while it it was red mage yes and then i tried gumbreaker and for some reason the fact that it's basically a tank that has a rotation that feels like a dps it's's super fucking fun to play. Because apparently a lot of people don't like playing Gunbreaker because it's too busy. And I'm like,

I mean, yeah, you gotta press a lot of buttons, but fucking Christ, it feels fucking fun to play though. Have you played Ninja before? Like, what are you talking about? No, you don't know. I mean, I get, I sort of get what you mean, but no. Ninja rotation is very simple, but when you don't understand the rotation, it feels very busy. Like, it has a lot of things to press.

Yeah. But like, at 90, Gunbreaker, you literally never stop pressing buttons. Right, okay. They have so much off-GCD shit to use. Right, that makes sense. I'll have to play it then.

That sounds fun. Like, as much as. I'll have to play it then. That sounds fun. As much as I enjoy playing my Astrologian, holy shit, healing is kind of brain dead. Aren't they? I know they pushed it back, but they were supposed to be doing a rehaul. Yeah, they were going to be doing a rework

I think in like, I wanted to say like 6.2 or 6.3 something like that now it's 7.0 now we're going to rework that and also rework Dragoon also apparently there was a meme that Astralosion gets free until it ever

expands yeah I like the way Astralosion plays right now but you know okay early on before 50 it's literally a i've said this before it's a white mage that likes to look at the stars too much because it literally has the rotation of a white mage which is no rotation but like all of its abilities are white mage abilities except you also have the cards past that it does change a little bit and gets a lot of um uh of gcd procs

like um so you when you're doing regular dungeons you don't have to use any gcd heals like you can't really not use them yeah as long as your your tank is like because most tanks don't really pull that much like it's sure if your tank's actually playing because most tanks don't really pull that much. Like, sure, if your tank's actually playing well and like actually pulling packs, but like when you have a slow tank, I just pop my either my AoE or my single target region and just then just start casting gravity

and just stand there. I really wish healers actually had some sort of damage rotation. It would... Just anything, it would be nice. Yeah, I do wish healers had something to do besides either spam a single target spell or an AoE spell.

Or you have your dots that you cast every so often. Yeah, yeah. But they've increased the dot times for the ones that were lower. So now you cast the dot even less. Because I think there were a lot of dots that were at 15 seconds. They just doubled them all. Yeah. I'm not really a big fan of melee DPS.

I don't know why. I'm fine with tanking. But something about melee DPSPS. I don't know why. I'm fine with tanking. But something about melee DPS just... I don't know. It doesn't grab my attention as much. Except Ninja. Ninja's an exception. Actually, I was about to say,

I've tried pretty much melee DPS at this point, and it's not that they're not fun, it's just for some reason it doesn't feel as interesting to play. But then, again, like you said, like, I tried Ninja, and I'm like, well, shit, Ninja's fun as fuck for some reason. I don't really know what it is. I don't know what it's fun as fuck.

But, like, I've tried literally everything else. I've tried Lancer, Samurai, Reaper. I'm like, eh. I mean, they're okay. Well, when the first Jutsu you unlock is Rasen Shuriken, like, you gotta have some fun with it. Even though you'll never use it again, until, like,

maybe later levels when you unlock some. But, like, once you unlock the, like, Raiton and Kothon, you just never use the, the, uh, Shuriken again. Like, why would you? Also, I think it was the other thing I said that my wife Chris

said, after you get the second hand side so you can use those two abilities, I was like, bro, I can literally just RP Sasuke now. I got to fire everything, I got to lightning. I'm ready to go, bro. The only thing that's kind of annoying with ninja early on like i as i i'm still haven't

got the storm blood yet but before you get the the um what is it there's a instacast or insta yeah it's not off gcd no instacast g GCD ability that will give you, is it Hjoton? The one that speeds up your... Yeah, the hate buff. Before that, then you have to actually use the jutsu version, which just takes out of your rotation, and it's kind of annoying. Now that I have it, I don't like playing anything below 60. It's just not anywhere near as much fun.

Well, that gets a little less... well, that gets a lot less annoying. I don't like playing anything below 60. It's just not anywhere near as much fun. Well, that gets a little less... Well, it gets a lot less annoying, even at this level, because then you get the second part of your AoE, which refreshes it a little bit. Yeah. And then you have that second melee finisher, which also refreshes it by, like, 30 seconds.

Sure, they refresh it, but... They don't grant it. You still have to use the Jutsu to grant it by like 30 seconds. Sure, they refresh it, but you still have to use the Jutsu to grant it. Yeah. Which, I mean, initially, I mean, that's not... I wouldn't say that's annoying, because, I mean, you do it, and then

also, I don't know why, I didn't realize for a super long time that hiding gives you back your sign charges. What? Yeah, so, I didn't know, i think i had to read that so apparently there's a tool tip thing that gets snuck in after you change the ninja and when you get the hand signs when you hide it gives you back two charges of your hand signs what yeah so the the thing is before the pull you know give yourself the haste buff hide and then to break out a hide, you start doing the hand sign to do the trick attack.

What are you saying? What the fuck? Wait. No, I have to check this. What the fuck? Yes, go check it. I was like, wait, how do you not know this? You've been playing as long as I have.

I've been playing Ninja for fucking like four days. Um. What the? No, Sean. Restores two charges to all moods. What the fuck? Well, no, I don't use hide because now I have the suit on. So I just never had bothered to hide once I got that.

Oh my god. That's... Okay, I'll keep that in mind. You're welcome. You're welcome. Just do it in between pulls too just get your fucking mudra back so you basically have fucking four mudras there until you ever pull oh my god i'll keep that in mind for stormblood then um no i i should go and play some um some gunbreaker like i started the

game off as a um as a paladin as as a whatever the base job was called. I don't remember. Gladiator. Gladiator, that one, yeah. I like it. It's fun. But then I played Dark Knight. I was like, oh. I like Dark Knight. Dark Knight's very fun. Gunbreaker will probably

feel kind of slow until you get to 70? There's an ability they get called Continuation, which is literally just an off-GCD that changes after you're doing their

resource spending combo. Right. So I guess that class is a little unique in that so it has this normal combo right it's normal three hit melee combo but then it has a combo that is all done off one button that requires a charge a cartridge to use right and then you get an ability later that after you do each hit turns into an off GCD you can weave in between. So you do bam bam bam

bam bam bam. So it kind of turns into a six hit combo instead of a three hit combo. Are we sure this is not a fucking DPS job? That's what I said, Lily. It's a tank that really feels like you're playing a DPS job

that's cool yeah I love it I tried leveling up the other tanks and they feel so fucking boring to play after playing Gunbreak because there's so there's not any buttons to press that yeah I get it it makes sense

I should go and level my warrior. So, when I swapped over to material, I swapped over around the first week. Back then, if you got to level 30 on any job, they'd just give you a free meal. Which was nice. And when I was doing that,

I was leveling warrior. And it was fun. and when I was doing that I was leveling warrior and it was fun I enjoyed it I kind of enjoyed it more than I enjoyed paladin I don't know why there's just something about it that just felt even though it's basically the same job you just get mad hit shit

of course it feels good maybe I don't like having a shield maybe that's the problem don't give me a shield. Maybe that's the problem. Don't give me a shield. Just give me a big axe. Actually, someone on the forums suggested a new tank that could come out. Just don't give them a weapon. Just give them a fucking great shield. I'd play that.

It would be pretty cool. I'd play it as well. I'm curious to see what they do for 710. Yeah, like... Have you seen what they talk about in the live letter as much? I tend to... If they have a translator, I tend to watch them. If they don't, I'll usually read the translation or the notes afterwards.

I don't remember if this was a live letter or if this was an interview. Were they... I'm trying to think if I should know the notes afterwards. I don't remember if this was a live letter or if this was an interview. Yoshi P said that I don't think I actually believe this that they had basically tapped out all of the job inspirations of things that already existed in the

fantasy series. And that the next job was going to be a brand new I know what you're talking about. I don't think it's they capped out because there's still a lot series and that they were up to like the next job was going to be like a brand new like they had I know what you're talking I don't think it's like capped out because they there's still a lot of jobs they can do I think I think

I can't what was the exact phrasing I think it was just that he didn't want to keep doing that because there's still a lot of jobs from XI they could just bring over. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Like, XI has so many fucking jobs that just have never been in this game. They've never even considered. But, yeah, I think they want to do something new. They want to do something that hasn't existed in Final Fantasy before. Oh, okay.

Which I totally get, like, because right now 14, and Yoshi P is a strap like this as well, 14 is like a Final Fantasy theme park. Yeah, pretty much. It's like, hey, here's this cool thing from this other Final Fantasy game. You remember that, don't you guys?

And that's totally fine. Like, I enjoy it as it is, but I can get wanting to have sort of your own identity as a game. Speaking of the Final Fantasy theme park, when you get to the Alliance raid that's in Stormblood,

that is my favorite fucking thing in that whole game, period. Okay. That Alliance raid series. I've ran that so many times just to get the fucking gear and shit out of it for glams. Oh, my God. What is the raid gear?

Let's have a look. The Orbon Monastery. Oh. Oh, it's this gear. Yeah. Oh, it's this gear. Yeah. Oh.

I'm not going to get into spoiler shit. Basically, that entire Alliance raid questline is a big homage to Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy 2. Okay. And I'm the big fucking Final Fantasy Tactics slut. Yeah. I think the thing that got me

and I was like, is, you know how XIV has a bunch of music that's from other Final Fantasy games? Usually it's remixes or remasters. They just put the straight Tactics music from the PlayStation

OST in there as the music for the Raz to show i was like i have never played a tactics game oh you if you have time one time you should the tactics is actually pretty hard at some parts uh my my list of game the ever-growing list of games I need to play is never shrinking. I'm sure. I'm sure it'll be fun, though. I've played games in the same

sort of genre, same sort of style. I've just never specifically played a Final Fantasy Tactics game. Right. I used to play a lot of games that were like that. I think... I guess I would have been around the same time frame. I want to play a lot of games that were like that. I think... I guess I would have been around in the same time frame.

I want to say there was a... Was it called Fire Emblem Tactics? I'm sure there was a Fire Emblem game that was in the same style. Someone's going to explain what it is. I think... It's all of us exactly the same, but I guess the way Fire Emblem tends to play is already kind of pretty similar to that.

It was one of the games on the DS. I don't remember the exact game it was. The game that is just like a top-down move units over pieces square thing that I played a shitload of when it was on the Game Boy Advance was Advance Wars. Advance Wars.

Oh my god, I love Advance Wars so much. What is Advance Wars? Oh, this is getting a yeah, okay, no, this is getting a Switch game. It is, yes. Yes. I've never played this. Oh, it's so fun. I love that game so much.

There's a sequel too. Well, there's technically a couple sequels, but I didn't care much for the one that was on I think it was SP. I can't remember. Oh god, that was a while ago, wasn't it? When did the Game Boy SP come out? Game Boy Vant SP.

Let's see. Game Boy Vant SP. That came out in 2003. Yep. Jesus. that came out in 2003 yep Jesus my first console I don't know why these things existed they were such a

terrible terrible device I had a Gameboy Micro I've never even heard of that before exactly exactly nobody has they're fucking terrible you don't even exactly exactly nobody has they're fucking terrible now this picture does a terrible job

at demonstrating it there's a picture below that shows you how small it is it is so ridiculously small oh shit that thing is tiny as fuck how would you even so ridiculously small. Oh, shit. That thing's tiny as fuck. What the hell? How would you even...

Look, when you're a five-year-old, it's fine. But, like, anything past that, no. But, yeah, it was literally just a... a Game Boy Advance,

but in a very tiny system. Huh. Which, to be fair, is kind of impressive for the time. You say that was your first console period? Yeah, first console period. Oh, man. Wait, no. Sorry. First console period was a PS2. I got this

shortly after. So the first console that I actually owned was the the 10 nes yeah the original nes uh now the first one i ever played was the console my uncle had which was an atari 26 yeah okay it was the first one i ever played i played a an Atari 2600 as well. I think one of my uncle? Aunt? One of my family members had someone had an Atari sitting in their shed

they hadn't used in like 20 years. I actually started trying to repurchase old console games because I don't have mine anymore. Oh yeah? I... I get the whole retro hardware thing. i don't have mine anymore oh yeah i i i get the whole retro hardware thing i i don't really care about the i don't really care about it i'm fine with emulation so i'm mostly fine with emulation too but um i don't know what it is about the particular

console generation that consists of the N64 and those things. Emulating those is kind of really hit and miss. Because anything before that, I've literally never had a problem. I think I've even tried to emulate stuff past

that, like PS2, and I don't think I've really had a problem stuff past that, like PS2. And I don't think I really had a problem before. It's just that little time frame right there, just trying to emulate shit's really hit and miss. Especially in 64. Some games run fine. Like, there's no issues whatsoever. Some games, you can try whatever convoluted combination of plugins you can think of and emulators.

And this shit's double one, right? Yeah. Which unfortunately, some of the ones that I want to play are those games that don't emulate worth a shit. Right. Uh,

but they also tend to be, apparently they're also the ones that are, uh, harder to find than they're a bit expensive. Yeah. I, that's one're a bit expensive. Yeah, that's one of the big reasons. Actually, I'm looking at it now. I don't know why you have problems emulating.

Your cards... Oh, wait, no, no, I'm getting... No, yeah, your cards are slower than mine. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's probably why. Yeah. Sorry, what I was going to say was that I go to secondhand, like,

pawn shops and stuff every so often. I'll look at their games cabinets, and I'm like, why is this NES game $70? Like, yeah, what are we doing here? Okay,

so, like, here's two of the games that I don't have, that also don't emulate worth a shit, but I'm not going to pay. I'm not paying for them because they're expensive. One's called Ogre Battle 64. Okay. Usually when I've seen

this at retro game stores, it's somewhere between like 80 to 100 bucks. The other one is a game called Mystical Ninja Star and Goemon. I played the shit out of that back when i had it like a time ago that's probably about 180 to 200 dollars what i'm not there's actually a retro game store near where i live that had it yes i saw it in their uh case and it was 190 dollars and i was0 and I was like why the fuck is this $190

apparently it's just rare okay yeah I actually I've seen games where it's just like they're not even rare it's just they're expensive for some reason so I think it was

I'm gonna get the number for some reason. So, I think it was... I'm going to get the number... Sorry, it's not one of the numbered entries. Is Memories of Celceta, which was available on the PS Vita, $50 for a Vita game that came out in 2012. And it's not like

you can't play the game, because at the time, the Vita store was still active. Like, you could actually just buy the game on that, and it's on PC! And you can get it for like $5 on Steam! The hell? And it's not like it was a remake.

It was just the PC version of it. But you know, sometimes I'll see fun things. Like, I saw a copy of Jack 3 that was like 10 bucks. You know, maybe I'll pick up a copy of Jack 3. I think I may have found like a intermediate

solution of I don't have to go buy a fucking $200 game cart but I can still be able to play this stuff and not have to emulate it. I just found out about this type of thing because the retro game store nearby

actually had something. They have different names but I think the name you typically see is called game store nearby actually had something so there's they have different names but I think the name you typically see is called like a like an ultra cart that's what they're called it's basically kind of like a cart that it's not like a normal cart it has some kind of like special software

OS built into it that basically reads ROMs but you can play the ROM on the actual original hardware and they had one there for 120 bucks that had literally every single Basically reads ROMs, but you can play the ROM on the actual original hardware. And they had one there for $120 that had literally every single N64 game on it. And I actually found

the exact same thing on Amazon. Okay, I think I might want to do this, but not this, because this looks kind of crappy and shady. But I did look around and find other things like it that look far more reliable. Also, unfortunately, a bit more expensive.

Yeah. But I think I'd rather pay like $180 for one thing that lets me play every single N64 game on it and also back it up more reliably because the fucking battery won't die on the cart. But not have to pay fucking $200 for one game

right right so i might end up going down that route i i had uh one of these for my ds um it was actually it was sort of like a mixed thing so the i had an action replay and action replay had the thing you could either built in storage or it supported like an action replay had... I think it had built-in storage or it supported an SD card. Yeah, I think it had an SD card. And the action replay was there mainly for cheating. But you could also just store games on it. So I had a bunch of...

A bunch of ROMs for random things, like Scribblenauts, which I didn't have a copy of. I think I had... I think I owned Pokemon... I owned Pearl and I had like a ROM version of Diamond, for example.

And there's a bunch of things like that. Or like random other games that I never wanted to play because when I bought it, this store loaded a bunch of games onto it. This was when the DS was the relevant console, though. That's the stupid thing. So they were just straight up selling ROMs from their game store.

Now, it was a second-hand store, so it's not like, you know, a store that Nintendo would ever give a crap about. But, like, that's still kind of ballsy that you're straight up just selling ROMs for the current console. Yeah. I was kind of surprised when uh even that fucking store down here had the fucking the ultra card i was like is that really kind of illegal to sell a thing the main thing i remember from this encounter um sadly i think it's still shut down but

uh when when the guy that was loading it uh like loading it with games and stuff, because, you know, it was an old laptop doing it, and SD cards back then were slow, so it took, like, maybe half an hour or something to load it up. We just sat there watching My Name is Earl on his laptop. Because the dude, like, this was a very tiny store, so they had, like, maybe, you know, 10 or 15 customers a day. So yeah, we just sat there with, I guess it was the owner's kid or something, just watching My Name is Earl.

Great show. Anyone who hasn't seen it, go back and watch it. I thought you were going to say something oh no I was trying to think of like so the only stuff I have so far is I have an N64 and I got a Playstation 1 and I got like maybe a couple games for the Playstation 1

and probably a lot more games for the N64 that I probably should have bought already I think I've already bought a dozen games. Because they were not expensive. Do you have a TV of the time to hook it up to?

Or are you just hooking it up to a regular TV? What are you doing? So there was a little... Yeah, there was a little device that the dude just gave me because i bought some shit he's like here uh that you plug the composite into and it converts it into a digital signal that you can plug acmi into yeah yeah that's basically what it is i know that you can

do that like a very rudimentary way i know they're also like more expensive systems that will do like upscaling and sharpening stuff like that to make it look nicer. Because those signals were not made to be displayed on modern TVs. They can, some, especially the older you get, especially, um, tend to look a little bit funky. Yeah, I can only imagine

what it's going to look like if I would try to play NES or Super NES up that fucking 40th The other one with NES is NES is very... what it's going to look like if I were trying to play NES or Super NES up there. The other one with NES is NES is very... very... what's the word? Susceptible to input lag. And you will note

because of how... Because you would have been playing back on a CRT. And CRTs basically have no input latency. So it can start to feel a little bit off.

Gotcha. I know LTT looked at a little box that does all this a while back. I don't remember what it was called. But you can probably find... If you go to any forum about retro gaming, you'll find people recommending stuff that you can use. Yeah you go to any like um forum about retro gaming you'll find people recommending stuff that you can use yeah or i mean that or i mean there are a couple pawn shops right i might just go and see if one's just gonna fucking all that tv light around be like

yeah yeah now my the pawn shops around here mainly seem to have digital TVs now. We've phased out all of the absolute trash and have moved up to, like, you know, at least plasma TVs. Mm-hmm. It actually would be super funny if I actually found, like, a TV, like, my mother used to have back at home. Because the original TV that was in that house

you know i don't know if this was a thing back in australia so like there was this thing back in the us for like every thing was made of wood yeah and it was like just this old ass crt and a giant wooden frame with all the channel buttons and stuff like that that gotta be funny if i found something like that. Do you have room to put something like that? Oh, this is a big-ass house. We got room. Okay, then you should be good. Especially in the space that we were

considering turning into, like, the gaming room anyway. There's definitely space for that big motherfucker in there. I, uh... I remember the first TV that my parents had. that there's damnly space for that big motherfucker in here I uh I remember the first TV that my parents had uh it was this I think it might have been

like maybe it had like a 20 inch screen maybe but like the bezel around it was probably a good 4 or 5 inches on like every side and then it was like a good four or five inches on, like, every side. And then it was, like, fucking, I don't know,

maybe, like, 20 inches deep. Oh, God. It was this ugly grey thing they had. Oh, I think I just... Man. I think I just found the TV I was talking about. Oh, you found the TV you wanted?

I'm pretty sure this is pretty close to the same TV we actually used. Okay, I want to see this. Copy image. Let's see. That's not what I want, you fucking idiot. Oh, okay.

Yes, yes, yes, okay. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Okay. I see. Here we go. That is a ridiculous looking TV. Oh, God. Oh, glorious wooden frame. Mmm. If you can... Oh, glorious wooden frame.

If you can... Honestly, I reckon they'd probably be pretty expensive to pick something up like that now. It probably would be, unless it's somebody just trying to clean out some old storage shit that they have. I have seen some stuff like that show up at garage sales. You'd probably be better off like that, but, you you know maybe some porn shops gonna have something might be in luck i actually speaking of garage sales that was

something i was actually going to a lot more now because most of the people that i've been talking to that already have like pretty well built out like retro retro game collections. That's what they get most of the stuff and not for, not for the retarded price. Most of them. Yeah. There was a time where pawn shops didn't know what they had and you could get good deals. That time has passed. If it is in a pawn shop,

they know how much it is worth and they are probably selling it as, as close to the eBay listing as they possibly can get yep maybe even higher i have gotten some reasonable deals on some things like some of those figures back there uh actually this site yeah down the bottom there down the bottom there those figures came from uh cash converters which is a popular chain of pawn shops here. They were, I think, $30 each, which is not a great price,

but also not unreasonable for what they were. What would they use like that for? I think they would have retailed around like $40 or so. But they were in box, and the box was still sealed. So that was fine to pay. But you know, when it's other ridiculous stuff like... Actually, I still...

I don't know. I'm sure... I'm more certain it was stolen. There was a PS5. A new in box PS5. It's like, that's... Yeah, that's probably what it was. And they were literally selling it

for the same price that I could walk over to an EB Games or a GameStop and get it for. Granted, I couldn't get one there, because at the time, that was when no one had them. You can't even buy them now. I don't even know. Speaking of PS5, I have one now. Oh, you do?

I do. How much did you pay for it? Retail price. What's the retail price in the US? I got the disc version, so I guess it was $500. Okay, okay. Oh, it looks like I can, but wait. Does Big W actually have them?

Limit one per customer. I think I can actually buy one today if I wanted one. Oh, baby. $750. So I got mine from Best Buy, and the reason why I managed to find it was Reddit was actually useful for once. Mm-hmm.

Somebody put on Reddit that there was a i call it trick a trick with the best buy mobile app yeah um so when you do a search on the best buy mobile app there was like a little button you could toggle on that said only show me stuff that's at like my store that marked as my store uh-huh um so if you don't have if you have that turned off and you just do a search just on me stuff that's at my store that I've marked as my store. So if you have that turned off and you just do a search just on their entire stuff, if you search for something that's

out of stock, it shows up as stock. Like PS5s and Xbox One X, whatever the fuck it's called. But if you toggle the button on to only show you stuff, and if they literally don't have any there at all, it won't show up in the results period.

Like it doesn't exist, but if they have it there, it's not for sale yet or hasn't sold. It shows up instead of sold out. Huh? Okay. So what people were saying was if you saw that depending on what time of day it was you like call them immediately and say like hey do you have this here because usually what it means is one of two things one they basically just

got some in and they're going to be available in the morning or they have like an order that got canceled right right right right yeah and when i found that out i just tried a few times on my phone and sure enough what they said was right i would say hey show me only stuff in my place look for ps5 no nothing showed up like it didn't exist okay um and then just randomly i decided to do it at like eight o'clock at night and i did it and then ps5 sold out i was like hold a second um so i looked to see when the best buy opened up the next morning got there as they opened up i wasn't the only one there, by the way. There was about 700 people.

Everyone made a beeline straight to the customer service desk, and they opened up a fucking door, and they just had the shit sitting back there. I went, oh, damn! Oh, god, that's awesome. That's also why I've been playing 14 by the way on the PS5. Oh, nice um i've been having a look just now uh it seems like a lot of the places here now have them but they're doing delivery only

so that i don't know if there's some way you can like get the stores to like show you something in the back uh maybe if you knew someone who worked there that would help out with that. I presume something like this exists in the US, but here there is a Twitter account called PS5 Stock Alerts, which is just a dude who has a bot running that will just

post about Stock Alert being available. Hey, stock at Target, there's stock at Big W. Anywhere else they might be selling it. And for a while, they were post about stock alert being available hey stock at target the stock at big w anywhere else that might be selling it um and for a while they were like pretty much just going out of stock instantly now now it seems like they're sort of staying it seems like we've gotten to the point now where you can actually buy yourself a playstation 5 if you want one oh it's only been when did the PS5 come out? How many years has it been?

I don't know. Because it came out around COVID, didn't it? I think so. 20... Release date... Release date November 12th 2020. Which is like maybe weeks before everything

went down so because I was actually the reason why I was like oh god the best buy trick was I was actually subscribed to like three of those fucking stock trackers and

god how many times was it there was like five or six times that I got a notification or knew about something ahead of time and like immediately was there and just every single time shit would never go through. I was getting so fucking pissed off.

When I found that out, I was like, oh, yes, unsubscribe from all this crap. But when I found that out, I was like, oh, yes, I can unsubscribe from all this crap. Man, I have been thinking about getting one, just because, you know, it's pretty much backwards compatible with PS4.

Yeah. So, like, do I just want to get one? Because it also acts as, like, a PS4 Pro with those games, which is nice. And there's a couple of games on ps5 i want to play like i want to play demon cells at some point uh actually you know that's free and to be honest there's more switch games i want to play right now i heard that bayonetta 3 was going to be a thing and which means i want to go buy a switch because i fucking adore bayonetta um but at some point i'll buy one maybe we'll see the uh so the uh one of the things that blew my mind when i went from playing 14 on ps4 to

playing on ps5 is holy shit so the ps5 version of final fantasy 14 obviously already has like some of the graphics settings just turned up higher anyway, just because it's a better console. But the shit that blows my mind is the load time. Holy shit, the load time is crazy on PS5. So, if I were to load it to

Limsa on PS4, it probably took a good I don't know, almost 20-30 seconds before it actually would load up so I could move. And then everyone would slowly kind of load in as it came in. PS5, I could

go to the most congested area, one second. Boom. I'm like, oh god. I think it was like a 5400 rpm hard drive i want to say it was 5400 i know it was a i know it's mechanical hard drive i don't remember the exact speed but it wasn't it wasn't fast no i i play off of a hard drive because i'm crazy person but like it's not that bad for me.

The PC version also just has other benefits that will probably help it out as well, like just generally fast hardware. Honestly, I should get myself an SSD just to put some games on. That seems like a sensible idea. But, man, I...

I would like to play it on console the problem is how you know how Square Enix's account system works and I literally can't play it on console yep I think at some point that they would actually decide hey maybe we should

combine this shit at some point that they would actually decide, hey, maybe we should combine this shit at some point. Sure, it's probably like this sort of cheeky, convoluted-ass way that they technically get extra revenue because you gotta basically re-buy the fucking game on two different platforms to play it. But at the same time, it's like, that's caused so much headache

for some people that I'm just like, I genuinely think you've probably lost people just from getting confused as fuck about this than just people having to go like, well, I guess I gotta buy on the other platform. The Windows and the Steam version aren't the same thing. Same thing, yep.

And I've heard people be like, oh, Steam's policies don't allow them to do this. Like, have you heard of Path of Exile? Like, that doesn't have this problem. Literally no other games have this problem. There's no Steam policy that says they can't, like, have an account system external to the Steam accounts. Like, that's not a real thing. Um, I can't remember.

Didn't they? And this is pretty recent didn't they recently add something where you could finally actually like a windows account to a steam uh no if you have i think you had to like link your squaring this account your steam account if you're playing on Steam. Oh, okay. Which also then binds it more to Steam and makes it separate from the Windows version. Yeah. It's so stupid. Even if you don't play it on console, something that I

thought would be really fucking hard to do, but it's actually, I think, probably better. You play Ninja with a controller then? Yeah. How does that go? I thought would be really fucking hard to do, but it's actually, I think, probably better, actually. Well, should I just play, like, Ninja on with a controller, then? Yeah. How does that go? It's actually not that hard because I have... So I have the Mudra and

the actual Ninjutsu bound to just over to the... I guess it's my left trigger control pad buttons. Yeah. And so the only thing that is a little funny to see me do, I imagine, and somebody might see it if I stream it one day is because I bound them to the control pad.

I can't like move and press them with one hand at the same time. So when you see me like going into a pool, you'll see me do this. I hold the button down and I go with my other hand oh my fucking god but other than that it's it's fine yo yo okay if you say so then there's me who's like hey uh object it's like oh look MMO mouse yeah yeah yeah I've heard playing on controllers fine it's just like

I don't know I'd want to try it I'd want to at least try it and see what it's like but I just like I just like knowing that everything is in one place easy to get to.

I've heard people describe the way Controller works with FFXIV, and it just doesn't make sense to my brain. Like, you press how many buttons to open up different things? Like, what are we saying? I mean, the only thing I think that kind of feels really

fucking weird to do on controller is... So doing some of the targeting on controllers aids. I've heard about that, yes. Yeah. You can technically set it up so it's not as bad, but targeting on controllers is okay.

Mm-hmm. Especially if you have to target specific things. I probably shouldn't admit I went this long without knowing you could do this. For the longest time, I didn't really think there was a way to target alliance members

with controller. And apparently there is, but you have to use a specific combination to do it. You have to do you have to like use a specific like combination to do it you have to like what is it hold L1 and then press right or left on the control pad and it cycles through alliance members I was like oh

well that would have been fucking helpful when I was playing rep maze and I had a res people that's one of the reasons I don't like playing summoner because people know that summoner has a res yeah so look if i'm playing a fucking a ninja and the healers die fuck it i can't do anything to help just why how do you think how you think it is on red mesh because red mesh has been instacast heals oh because, shit. Because they can use the dual cast on their res.

Oh, shit. Yeah. Which I will also admit, I did not realize that for way long. Probably somebody like grilled me out in a group when we wiped and they're like, why did you res the healer? I'm like, oh, my Swift

cast was down. They're like, what do you mean? You're I'm like oh my swift cast was down they're like what do you mean you're a red mace just use dual cast I went why didn't I think it shit I'm fucking Papaga right now damn oh my god that's the look I can just click on things it's great

i i i need to let you know yes the first time i streamed that game again because i'm i actually camera that's actually on my oh okay sure i want i want to show people what it's actually like to play that game on controller. I mean... And watch people fucking laugh when I have to go like... I am genuinely impressed that they managed to fit a traditional tab-target MMO onto a controller. Yeah, I...

I think I don't think any other game would be good to play at all on there. Unless it's like a... There are other MMOs who are made to be more action-oriented where it works better that way. Terra, I guess, is probably

a good example of that. It's probably good to play on controller. But no, like... If it's not a tab-target MMO, like Lost Ark, Lost Ark would be fun on controller. But when you have like 20 different buttons to press, just the fact that you can fit that onto a controller

is impressive. It would not work had they not added this... What is that feature called? Is it called Cross Hot Bars? It's basically this thing we... And it's not on by default. I didn't know about this. Yeah.

There's this option you can turn on where you assign these two other bars or two of your existing bars to these slots basically and you'll see them hovering over your primary hop bars off to the side. And you can access them

by instead of just pressing the trigger in one, you double tap it and hold it. So now you have access to like, what is it? 4, 8, 12, 16, like 32 buttons like super quickly? Yeah. I'm sure I could

learn it. But like mate there's two extremes with Final Fantasy. You have playing FFXIV on a controller Somehow fitting 32 buttons Onto it And then you have FFXV Where you hold down the attack button

And you attack And that is all Yep pretty much I I am interested to see what happens With 16 because yoshibi's been saying things about it where it's like it's been it's been getting dumb journalists to say stupid things so the game's not gonna be turn-based and journalists be like this means that turn-based final fantasy is dead turn-based final fantasy is it turn-based final Fantasy is dead. Turn-based Final Fantasy... Turn-based Final Fantasy

does not appeal to the younger generation. He said he's not doing a turn-based game because he wants it to appeal to new fans or new people and younger people, which is fair. But the last turn-based Final Fantasy was like 15 years ago, guys. Like,

13.2 was... 13.3 wasn't. 13.2 was like 13.3 wasn't. 13.2 was like a mix of turn-based and an active combat system. 13 was also the same thing. 12, also that. 11 MMO. 10.2.

10.2 is probably the last one where you could call it a turn-based. I think to some extent I would still consider stuff that uses ATG gauges based. You could consider 13 to be, I guess. Yeah. Like, there's a debate whether it is, but okay, let's just say that

13.2 is, because 13.3 is not. I think it's fair. Uh, FF13.2 Unless you want to debate about whether that is, but I think it's fair. FFXIII 2. Unless you want to debate about whether that is. 11 years. The last turn based on fantasy was 11 years ago. It's been a while.

It's pretty dead. It's been dead for a while. Because what they've been doing in that new world is anytime they still want to make another RPG that's more traditional, they've really been making they still want to make another RPG that's more traditional, they've really been making new stuff. Yeah, yeah.

There was like a... I can't remember what it's called now. Fuck. Something Wander? What the hell is it called? Oh, um... I know the one you're talking about. I can't remember anything on it.

What was it called? I was like, what is it? Search engines, give me something. Yes, please. Uh, I can't remember shit okay i don't remember you know i know i should probably should look for the the because they're basically making making what looks like a spiritual successor to it that's either coming already out okay um but so 16 is not going to be turned it's not going to be turn-based it's going to be an action combat system which i hope means that final fantasy actually fucking

embraces an action combat system not this half-assed thing we got in 15. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure it is, because didn't I see that the guy who's designed the combat system is a dude that worked on Devil May Cry? I didn't hear that, but that's very... Yeah. That's very... That's hope-inspiring.

I'm pretty sure it's like a Final Fantasy XVI combat designer. Because I will be happy if it plays like Tales of Berseria. Like, that's fine by me. But if it plays like a Devil May Cry game, now that's

a direction I'm happy with. It's not gonna be open world, which thank fucking god it's not gonna be open world. Because as much as I'm happy with. It's not going to be open world, which, thank fucking god it's not going to be open world. Because as much as I'm enjoying playing through 15 right now, holy crap, there's so much nothing.

It's like, I don't want to run five minutes, like drive five minutes to just get to the next fucking town. Stop it. Oh, here it is. So, blah, blah, blah, blah. With one notable name being Ryoto Suzuki,

the game's combat director, having previously worked on Dragon's Dogma, Ultimate, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Devil May Cry 5. Okay! That's a good fucking lineup! Yeah, boy. Man.

Did you ever play Dragon's Dogma? No, I never played Dragon's Dogma. Oh, dude. Dragon's Dogma is fucking great. So I've heard. It's getting a sequel sometime. Yeah, I've never seen that too.

Do you know anything about Dragon's Dogma? Nope, don't know a fuck all about it. So, it's a western style RPG made by a Japanese studio, which already gives it like a weird sort of feel to it. weird sort of feel to it. But the general idea is as you're... So you have this party made up of... I don't know what they're called. Let's just call them

I don't know, fucking spirits or whatever. It doesn't matter what they're called. These party members, they're not party members that you create, so you only get one party member that you've made. The other party members are actually that party member from other players so you go into this like this like magical area and you can like hire those people to come into

your world but when you have them in your party they don't level so you're constantly rotating these people out trying to like keep things that are in your general level range it's a system i've never seen any other games do uh but besides that the ai is actually like this was the first time i played like a real-time rpg where the ai was good so if an enemy has a weakness like you're fighting a uh a cyclops for example um cyclopses if you hit their eye with a lightning spell they would be temporarily blinded and if you had party members that had lightning spells or had like lightning enchants they would use them and they would make sure they actually get hit nice or if like there wasn't like there was these um iron golems, for example,

which if you didn't have a mage with you, the game wasn't well-balanced. It was a little scuff. But these iron golems were basically immune to physical attacks. So if you didn't have a mage with you, you'd literally, you were just wasting your time. But you'd be told about that as well. Like, this is going like they will

tell you like it's what it could might well like what it probably immune to because if you have these adventurers in your party like they're adventurers they probably know about things in the world it doesn't make any sense that you have this party of adventurers that know nothing which is what a lot of other games will sort of approach it like besides that though the combats the combats sort of kind it was a soulsy game before calling something a soulsy game was like a a weird descriptor the only game i could think of that kind of has something like you're describing where you can like enlist other like the npc versions of other players characters is uh i think there's a feature

kind of like that actually in fancy too oh okay we're like uh i don't remember how you have to do it but i think if someone's on your friend list or something that when you're like recruiting people or your npcs for your where you jump into the actual yeah uh dungeon i think you can basically kind of like get like an npc controlled version of their character yeah yeah uh it also had a fairly reason like the way the class system works was pretty good as well. Like the way FFXIV played back in A Realm Reborn, it had a dual class system.

If you wanted to get one of the advanced classes, you needed to level up two of the classes. So if you wanted to have... Actually, let's find some of the classes. Dragons, Dogma, classes. Here we go. So if you wanted to have like actually let's find some of the classes dragons dogma classes Here we go

Although could vocations so you have these basic vocation so you can start the game as a fighter Which is just your regular sword and shield guy a major where you have a staff or a strider Which is bow and daggers and then you could either go into their like regular advanced vocation so you could take a mage into a sorcerer a strider into a ranger or a fighter into a warrior or if you're a level uh fighter and strider then you could get an assassin or if you leveled strider and mage you get a magic archer or a fighter and a mage a mystic knight and the sorcerers kind of reject oh mages

in this game mages in this game were fucking insane some games do mages weirdly um where it's just like oh you know the spells don't really feel that dangerous you know um the spells don't really feel that dangerous, you know. Um, uh, let's see if I can find, I'll send you a video of one of the insane spells.

Is it this one? Is this the, ah, here it is. Here's the fucking tornado. Yeah, here we go. Uh, no, I'm, I'm not No, I'm not even joking right now. So... And there was like a long

cast time as well. So that was the... I think that was the high-level version of the Dark spell. And there was a- the high-level version of the Fire spell would literally summon meteors, and there would be like a fucking

meteor shell- like, not a small meteor shell, like, this would, like, cover the screen. meteor shell. Like, not a small meteor shell. Like, this would, like, cover the screen. It was a... It was an interesting game. It was a very different

approach to an RPG than I've played before. Yeah, see... Yeah. Holy fuck. See what I mean? This looks really ridiculous within, like, this normal context, but part of me is like, I'm not, I'm not praised by this.

I've played this Gaia games before. If you go to 340, oh, 330. 330, 335. You'll see the start of the, uh, the meteor spell. Yeah, sure, there are more ridiculous games, but, like, in the context of, like, a traditional traditional, like, high fantasy RPG,

like, this is insane. Oh my god. Yeah! Yeah! Like, it's just crazy.

And, like, that was the sorcerer, sorcerer but like if you wanted to play something a bit more chill and down to earth you could go and play like your knight like a knight is gonna play like a knight does but it's still it felt fun it sort of had it's own sort of spin on the combat system oh you mentioned

you mentioned a tales game earlier have you played have you looked at or played the i guess it's the newest tales of game i've not played rise no so i actually got it and i've been playing through it um combat in that game so it was really fucking good holy shit because they they got rid of mp okay there's no MP there's no MP in that game you um use all your arts using like a what they call like a battle gauge yeah and it just it just refreshes in combat but it refreshes slowly while you're actually attacking you have like stop for yeah back off but like yeah but they there's no MP, so

you can just chain attacks like crazy and combo attacks and stuff. That was... I haven't played... I think there was one or two other ones in between, but the last Tales of game I played before

that was Vesperia. Yes, so after that there was um fuck what's the I played a lot of Berseria what was the wonderful Berseria Tales of

um this one had an anime what was it fucking called uh main series Zestiria oh wait oh okay there was Tales of Hearts so after Vesperia there was Tales of Hearts Tales of Graces, Tales of Xillia, Tales of Xillia 2

then Tales of Zestiria Tales of Berseria and then Tales of Arise yeah there was quite a few um Vesperia had this mechanic that I don't know if it's in the other ones in between the rise and this but

where very particular conditions would arise where like a little like symbol would appear above the enemy and if you press the I guess it was like the control path fast enough you would kind of like insta kill them

um that mechanic is press the control path fast enough, you would insta-kill them. That mechanic is in Rise, but the way it's done makes a lot more sense. It's really just the lower the enemy's HP gets, the faster you can technically do that. And the more you combo

them, the better it gets. The way you just like murder shit is to chain some of your uh i don't know what they're called now uh boost boost attacks there's kind of like these like you call in somebody do like an attack yeah in the middle of what you're doing you use that in combination with you know just doing normal combos to just keep juggling the motherfucker over and over and over again until this little... You can see a little, like, circle

filling up, and when it fills up, you can just kill them. Huh. Using, like, a little combo attack. That sounds really cool. Yeah, it feels super good to play. I, yeah, I mainly played Berseria, and Berseria

feels great on certain characters. I'm looking at Arise right now and it looks like the combat it looks like they fixed up the problem the combat had. So at least like they've maybe adjusted it. So

in Berseria, if you wanted to use your I guess more advanced abilities you're like abilities further in your chain you have a have a certain amount of your like there's like a gauge you had like that filled up and that would cost like that would be spent if you use those abilities but they would only regenerate from using attacks so you had to have your combo set up in a way where you could refill your gauge and then either at the end of the combo or your next combo uh actually

use the abilities you want to be using i guess gotcha and there was some of the characters just didn't really either have ways to fill up the gauge quickly, or they just were slow to play anyway. Like you have this caster character, which just because every, pretty much every one of his abilities has a cast timer on it. It just didn't really work in the combat. I don't know if it's like that at all in Arise, but at least from what i'm seeing right

now it seems like the combat's a lot more fluid the so i haven't i want those people that like i didn't even my brain didn't even think switch to other characters for a long time yeah yeah um and when i finally did area is velvet When I actually tried some of the other characters, so the way the casting in that game worked was kind of interesting. So, again, there's no MP. Everything's using the little battle points, whatever it's called in that one. Yeah, I see that this does have the battle point system.

It's just the battle points didn't regen by themselves in Berseria. Oh, gotcha. The way casting works in this is, when you so you're channeling your cast, and when you finish

you can hold it. And then you can also cast something else too, to basically kind of like chain cast them one after the other. Okay. That's cool. Yeah. I want to play Arise at some point. I'll have to do that.

Yeah, it's pretty fucking good. I want to go back and play some of the older Tales of games as well, but you know, Arise is here, and you know. The oldest one that I've played, which was also the first one that I've played which was also the

first one that I ever played was a PS 2 I think was ps2 is called tales of legendia okay oh I see I see real-time power sequence 3D dimensional plane oh okay this has a combat system that seems similar to oh because it came out 2 years later it seems similar to the combat in Symphonia yep I've played a little bit of it

I wasn't a big fan of Symphonia I haven't played that but I have a friend of mine who's a big Tales of nut that's played pretty much every fucking Tales of game that I think I even know first one was on the Super Famicom

oh it was just a regular turn based RPG because it was on the Super Famicom oh man there's a lot of great games out there that i just never ever have gotten around to playing and probably a lot of games that i'll never get around to playing just because there are so many so many great games out there and so not even just great games sometimes just games that are just intriguing

i fell into the fucking elder i fell into the fucking Elden Ring. Hold on. I'm waiting on Elden Ring. I'm going to stream it at some point. Oh man. But I want to have... I don't want to... I know Elden Ring is a big game and a very

pretty looking game. And I don't exactly want to play it on my 570. I want to get a better GPU before I try to touch that game. Fair enough. Because it might be fine just playing it offline, but

streaming, it's going to add an extra hurdle into that as well. And I probably will have to crank it way down, and I don't want to do that. But I guess if you're playing on PS5 it'd be fine oh yeah PS5 gets zero fucks

with that game how is Elden Ring? um so like the open world part of it is interesting because like yes there is just a bunch of ram shit you just find and sure there are new things in it that weren't in other souls games but at the end of the day

yeah but at the end of the day it's a souls game and like I know a lot of the day it's it's a souls game sure like and i know a lot of people made it out to be like this big fucking deal and like sure there are some aspects of that are pretty cool but like i don't know it's just like it's just it's just open world dark souls i don't know yeah from what i've seen about i don't know how from software did it they just translated dark souls into open world

yeah and like a lot of the environments that made are fucking pretty shit like i can't i can't i can't even begin to praise them for that some of the areas and they're amazing looking um and some and some of the new spells and stuff look super cool. And a lot of the new gear looks super nice. But again, like if you played literally any other from software game, you could just reapply the same. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

from what I've seen, it seems like, you know, you have this open world and there are things that happen in the open world, but there are points where it will just turn into a regular souls game. Like when you're in like, you know,

you'll go into like some dungeon somewhere, like certain areas. And if someone just said this is Dark Souls 4, it wouldn't seem out of place. Yep. Which, look, FromSoftware has somehow, without making an open world game in... Have they made an open world game? I have no idea. I'm trying to think. I don't think... Now, you wouldn't call King's Quest open.

No, I don't think they've ever made an open world game, but they somehow managed to do it and then do it better than everybody else. If I have one complaint about the fact that it is open world and it's not really a good place just be bitching about it, is the other Dark Souls games, sure, there would, to some extent, be some different paths you could take.

Yes. But for the most part, it was kind of like a, I wouldn't call it it linear but mostly linear trick i think that's fair and there wasn't and there wasn't like many opportunities to just like wander the area that you have the business being into and getting your ass stomped well that's a really bad problem sometimes you can just okay so the starting area you start at, there is a region, country, like, off to the right of it, and if you wander

in there, and you're probably not already maybe, like, 20 or 30 hours into it, you'll get your fucking ass kicked by, like, in, like, one or two hits from just the rammed trash that are just in the area. I think, okay. Dark Souls 1 definitely has some of those cases.

Like, if you go to the catacombs, you will die. Yeah, you die. But besides the catacombs, it's pretty straight... The drakes as well. If you go to the

bridge with the drakes and you you don't realize they're there um but usually you won't get there unless you grab the like unless you pick the key as your starting item but nobody picks unless it's your you've played the game before you don't pick the key you think the key is useless um but yeah it's only the catacombs and the Drakes in Dark Souls 1 that really caused that problem. Dark Souls 2, I don't fucking remember anything about that game. I've... I never played that one, so I don't know that one. You shouldn't.

Okay, Dark Souls 2 would be fine as a game if it wasn't Dark Souls 2. Like, that's the problem. Like, it's part of the Souls series and it's following Dark Souls 1. So it has to be Dark Souls 2. That's the problem. It's part of the Souls series. And it's following Dark Souls 1. So it has to be Dark Souls again. Or just better. Different in some way that's enjoyable. But it's like. This is not.

What is this game? I don't understand. This is not Dark Souls 2. Why is this Dark Souls 2? Dark Souls 3 is Dark Souls 2. That's all that matters. I can see that being a problem in an open world game.

Because unless you did level scaling, which would sort of break the entire point of a Souls game, you have to have areas like that. Whenever you play those games, do you usually pick a certain class or are you just wretch? I generally

my first playthrough generally go with the knight. But I usually do a minimum five playthroughs. I only pick knight because knight is on the box and I don't pick sorcerer because sorcery is always broken

I think I've played dark souls 1, 3 and elden ring I'm pretty sure every single time I pick Gretch. That's my part. I was the basic bitch of this. I like

to try out all the other starting points. It's always fun to see where you can take the game, how you can make your builds and all that fun stuff. Yeah. But I've seen some crazy crazy magic builds in elden ring because it was bad in dark souls 1 and it was bad in dark souls 2 and it was bad in dark souls 3 but elden ring there are so many spells and it's you know from software games that aren't well known for being balanced

not really you can sort of have combinations of stuff that just break stuff like there's this laser spell I have no idea what it's called but like it will melt bosses I see what you're talking about I think

who was it? Spiffing Brit basically did a video about cheesing Elden Ring by speedrunning to be able to use that spell, and then basically one-shotting a fucking hostage right there that you normally have to be like maybe damn near level 100 not get your fucking cheeks clapped by

normally. I'm curious to see what From Software does from here. There is some rumors that they're going to make another Metalcore game. Make it another what? Oh, you don't know either. Not Metalcore. What the fuck's the game called?

Not Metalcore. Wait, what the fuck's the game called not metalcore wait no what the fuck's the game called from fuck did I get the name wrong um what the fuck no that's not the game armored core metalcore

armored core are they the ones that made Armor? I didn't know they made Armor. Yeah. Armored Core is from software. I'll be all over that shit. I'll be all over that like a horse flying shit. There are rumors that they've

got an Armored Core game in the works. Oh, I would love that. Which I'm very curious to see what modern FromSoftware is going to do. Because the last... When was the last Armored Core game? I would love that. Which I'm very curious to see what modern From Software is going to do. When was the last Armored Core game? I think there was one on the 360. I don't know if

there's one after that. Armored Core 5 was in 2012. Yeah, well, yeah. From hasn't released a new Armored Core game since 2013 when Armored Core hit PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

It's been almost a decade since the last Armored Core game. Yeah. I'm curious. I've never played an Armored Core game. But it looks neat. Yeah. I've played... an Armored Core game but it looks neat yeah I've played a buddy of mine played

Armored Core 2 way too fucking much holy shit and he got me into playing it a fair bit and he just played, he just tried way too hard to make like the cheesiest fucking shit and that sort of that sort of mentality

is kind of perfect for modern from software yeah like just think about like how broken a mage build in elden ring can be compared to like hey if we have this mech that's incredibly customizable how crazy can this get? The one that they mentioned I actually played that game a little bit and they had this interesting multiplayer mode where you would go in the squads

and it was usually like one squad was defending and the other one was attacking and there would usually be people who were in like pre-made squads, obviously. And they had some pretty interesting ways you could build your armor core out in that one. Like there was usually one

that almost every single team I saw had like, I don't know, what I call like a support build. Or like the fucking Zilli got tank treads and really has an artillery cannon. If you get anywhere with his firing, you're like I hope you fucking does

that because if you didn't, your ass is going to hurt. Oh my god. Oh, that sounds crazy. Yeah, I'm if that is, If they actually are making weapons, you can use that one, because... Oh, man, you could...

I can only imagine some of the jank shit you could use. Well, I think that's as good a point to end as any. We're closing in on, like, two and a half hours. This went by real quick. My camera has been desynced for the past

couple of hours and I apologize to the video watchers if I don't fix it. If I do, then ignore everything that I just said. But, we'll see. Anyway. Anyway. Where can people find you what are you doing on the land at this point

anything I'm still you know I'm still you on YouTube if you have I guess go and FFM peg questions you know just search my name on YouTube I'll pop up I still have my personal site, dollofheory.xyz, where I occasionally post blog posts

that are basically written versions of some of the older videos I talked about. Other than that, that's pretty much it. Is there an ETA on when the channel will be back? It's definitely not going to be before the first week of August because they aforementioned I found interesting problems about my house.

It's not getting fixed until after the first week of August. But then I can actually lay down network cable to not stream off of Wi-Fi and then I should be fucking good to go. Awesome. Anything else

to shout out? I guess if you're looking for artwork to get done, y'all should go check out my wife has a site now for art stuff. Jawboneart.com I will be sure to leave that in the

description down below as well. Um. I totally didn't make that site, it was card. Look, everybody uses card at this point, it's fine. Uh, cool. Um, As for me, my main channel is BrodieRobinson.

I do Linux videos. I've got a gaming channel, BrodieRobinsonPlays. Stream twice a week. Other days, upload YouTube shorts. And if you are watching the video version,

the audio version is available basically anywhere you can find audio podcasts. iTunes, Google, whatever Google's thing is. Wherever you can find podcasts. And there's an R rss feed all that's in the description down below and the video version is on youtube i think it's just on youtube right now yeah uh yeah you got any uh final words to say

got a part of my mouth