Tech Over Tea - The Linux Rambling Never Stops | Solo

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. I am as always your host, Brody Robertson, and today we are back for a solo episode. I might be doing a couple of more going forward just because through the Christmas and holiday period, it's kind of a pain to get people on an episode. People have Christmas stuff, they're going on holidays episode. People have like, you know, Christmas stuff, they're going on holidays, they're like doing work to get ready for Christmas, and they're busy doing that. I'm sure I can find people, and if I actually put effort into it, I almost certainly would be able to. But I haven't done that many solo episodes as of this year anyway. It's been mainly the

mainly the guest episodes. There was a period where I was doing a lot of the game developer episodes, but besides that There's been a lot of just general Linux focused episodes. So I kind of want to do more of the solo stuff anyway, it reminds me the way things like, you know, were back in the start of the podcast where I just were back in the start of the podcast where I just randomly had friends on. It wasn't really anything where I was like trying to do these big, interesting discussions. It was actually just shit talking pretty much. Just not doing anything productive, just talking. And I guess people liked it. And there's some people who want solo episodes.

So, you know, I'm more than happy to do them. It does mean I have to talk for two hours, which means I actually have to talk, which is, you know, something different when I have the guests on. When, depending on who it is, they will talk for me for the entire episode, and I will say, like, five words the entire time. There are certainly some people like that who are very... very, very talkative. But I guess, you know what? Let's start off with... Let's start off with the greatest PR that ever came to my attention.

So, I think this was sent to me on... my Discord. It's not a new pull request, but regardless, I have to mention it because it's so good. Now that it's been shared by a few people, it has gotten a few comments on it, but we'll get to those in just a moment. Add support for external Bluetooth devices. This is on a project called Panda 3DS. This is a 3DS emulator.

I believe it's one of the more popular options. 3DS emulation, I'm pretty sure it's in a relatively good state. If somebody wants to correct me on that please let me know but I know people definitely do talk about this one when they talk about 3ds emulation so this is by Sylvie IOT and of course as you can tell because it's always the case they're from fucking Australia why is it always the Australians? No matter where we go, every single fucking time, every fucking time it's the Australians. Add support for external haptic Bluetooth devices, in this case,

butt plugs. This works for all sorts of Bluetooth butt plugs that use the common Bluetooth protocol for BP's The acronym for butt plugs and is also hooked into the lure API so that you can make per game scripts activate and control your device This is early progress code I need some more time to work on it and if and help if possible now I was very curious about how this was functioning because I am aware I Am aware of some things that exist and I just had to be certain so If you have a look in here you'll notice there is a couple of files called a bot plug Cpp dot Cpp and botplugclient.cpp. So, I was curious what this specific file is

related to. So, I went and did a search, and if you look for botplugc++, if I can spell Of course it's not going to show up with that Here we go If you search for it, you will find a library called Buttplug CPP So Is this the one or is this another

project with the same name? Wait, this actually might be another project with the same name? Wait, this actually might be another project with the same name Wait, is it? Hold up. Oh No, no, I'm reading the wrong part. No right here. Right right here. I just go right past it C++ API for butt plug IO so Okay, I'm gonna have to like I I'm gonna have to like educate some people here. So, um, I don't, I don't know if I can show, I, I, I, you know, I'll show, I'll show this part of the website. I'll show you this part of the website. Uh...

Oh, wait, if I zoom in, I don't know what of this website I'm allowed to show, and what's- what's gonna be a problem. So, this is an open source standard and software project for controlling intimate hardware, including sex toys, fucking machines, and more. Uh, I'm just gonna scroll past the pictures of the sex toys, because I'm not sure, I'm honestly not sure how YouTube, how YouTube handles that. If someone knows, let me know. Um, it is implemented in Rust with bindings for C Sharp, JS, and other languages. Is, is the C++, Yeah, the C++ one is listed directly in here as well. Support for popular hardware brands that you will know if you are a degenerate. Plugins for game engines like Unreal, Unity, Godot, Twine and more. Yes. That... Yes. Yes. Yes. that, that is a thing as well. Um, so, okay. Oh yeah, there's also,

there's also Flipper Zero, um, there's also Flipper Zero stuff as well. Uh, there's a list of, there's a list of video games in here. Here we go. So there are game mods as well. Now, some of them are obviously sex games. Others are Buttplug Valley for Stardew Valley, a mod for Ultra Kill, a mod for Skyrim, a mod for Duck Game. Now, obviously, a lot of these are just like haha funny meme

Why do it? Oh yeah beat saber as well called a butt saber So there are people who like to have some fun with this and do some do some stupid stuff now back to Panda 3ds so this is someone trying to add support for Bot Plug IO into Panda 3DS, the 3DS emulator. Now, I am not certain if this is a troll because this is someone who has actually put work into making this happen.

However, however, if you read some of the replies that we see, I'm honestly not certain. So... Here is someone saying please merge this as soon as possible. This is a existing collaborator on the project and they decided to review the code. You added this as a submodule, but not OpenBPCPP. We prefer to store stuff as submodules here so that when GitHub can go private, we don't suffer any damages.

Actually, wait. That would have opposite effect. What was I saying? Oh, please add OpenBPCPP as a submodule instead. Open BPCPP is heavily modified as I made it good while it was horrible before. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to go through 20,000 lines of code to make sure you didn't add a backdoor. Get it.

Somewhere in the program. I done get it. I done get it. Somewhere in the program. I done get it. I done get it. We shouldn't hard code the address slash port like that. More so, what if I want to receive haptic inputs from people all around the globe? Do I have to modify the code myself to change the IP address from my hap device it is coded on? So this is currently looking for the client at the local host so this person is suggesting well what if i don't want it to be local host what if i want it to be

i don't know um what if i want to have esex with uh through the 3ds this adds botpog support, not eSex bro. I don't know what that B word is or what eSex is. Please address the review comment. Okay, that didn't have a reply. This would probably trigger a signed unsigned comparison warning. Don't care what the fuck. This library doesn't feel as really this library doesn't really feel as a core component of Alba to justify being linked to the core library don't care

meaningless comment don't care don't care I think you care I think people are unsure I am unsure I don't know if anyone is sure whether this person is trolling or not Don't care because like they went out of their way to write to this pull request right and like some of the

Some of the the comments have actual legitimate replies to them So I'm so confused what's happening here like if this was just a shitpost you know like the on on KDE When people discovered that on Windows there is a hotkey for I think it's control shift alt Win control shift alt window yeah Control shift alt windows and then a letter. So I think L opened LinkedIn. That's because on modern Windows devices, there is like a special magic Windows key. I think it's on like the Surface devices,

like a Surface key or something, where it specifically is mapped to that binding. So people made like joke pull requests in KDE and things like that, adding that functionality. But that was obviously a joke. I don't know if this is a joke. Magic number. Sir, this is how lure thunks work.

You return the number of return values. Another magic number. I don't know lure. I don't know if this is actually a legitimate comment or if they're just trolling again Lines of code equals performance true This is the this is is the, uh, the, the, the peak chess, uh, the peak chess strat. Why is this PR? Why indeed?

Uh, I didn't understand what the question was asking, which means I am a bumbling idiot. True. Finally, oh, this is after I posted it. So this... Yeah, this was after I posted it. So this is when my people started discovering this and also the developer of of butt plug io also shared my sharing of the comment so i'm sure there's people from that uh that audience as well ultra fan kills having a field day right now modding in- modding in plug support into everything

pluggy wuggy The weirdest I've ever seen also merged this honestly if this is actually true merge this It is obvious that so many people want this merge. Why isn't it merged? It's 3am and I keep getting emails about people wanting this merge I- I do not apologize at all for bringing attention to this. I do not apologize even remotely. Now, if you would like to talk and explain to me if this is or is not a shitpost, I would love to know, I would love to speak to you. Sylvie, if you see this, or if anybody

that knows Sylvie sees this and can put them in contact, please go and do so. I would definitely love to chat. Now, at this stage, the developers have not yet responded again, probably because

probably because this is probably a shitithosting. It's actually fucking stupid. But... Until then, I guess we'll have to wait and see if, um... We'll have to wait and see if the developers have the balls to merge this. I've seen some people say, oh, well, this is not like, this is not suitable for a 3DS emulator. This shouldn't be in a 3DS emulator. I don't care.

Look, I do not care at all. If they want to put it behind like a build option or a config option so it's not exposed in the settings by default. Sure. Sure. Whatever. But, look. Assuming this isn't injecting a backdoor into the code, um, I fully support this being done. I want it to happen. Make it happen. I'm probably gonna do a video about this on the main channel, which is gonna bring even more attention to it. Um... Please don't go and leave stupid comments on the repo.

However, um... However, I do want this to happen. Oh, God. I love the internet. I really do. Like, there's so many. I love the internet. Like, I really do. Like, there's so many people that take shit seriously. Like, they'll see just some dumb discussion and be like, oh, why are you saying?

No, don't care. Don't care. Not serious. Nothing serious. We're talking about fucking adding bot plug APIs into a 3DS emulator. Nothing that is being said is serious right now. Just, just don't worry about anything. That's the real strat, right? Just stop being concerned with everything and your life will be considerably smoother, nicer, considerably more chill chill we'll say yeah i think that works now speaking of being chill discord and wayland has been has been problematic for a while so So, if you ran Discord in your web browser,

because the browser supports the portal stuff, that all works just fine. You can do screen capture, not an issue. You can do audio capture, not an issue, works fine. The problem is in the Discord desktop client, an issue works fine. The problem is in the Discord desktop client, they use a custom web

RTP. I believe it... I believe it's custom. I've heard it's custom. Uh... Uh... Yeah, I believe they use like a custom web art here. I can't find, I can't find a source on it.

Anyway, regardless, regardless of the reason, it's not worked. So if you tried to capture your screen on Wayland, it would just like loop. It would just keep looping, trying over and over again to reconnect and just did not work. Now on X11 it worked fine. That's because on X11 like it has a capture API. You could just capture things on X11 with like no concern whatsoever. Wayland you have to go through the desktop portals. There are other solutions to it as well that exist on things like WLRoots, but the generic solution that every desktop is going to do is through the portals. Turns out, um, somebody has been working

on it over at Discord. I noticed that somebody started working on it where it was kind of like half working, right? So there was a point where I just did nothing. Then it started, it opened the portal prompt, and then just kept reopening it every time. So someone had like pushed some code into production, but it wasn't yet done. make selection button then choose a window application or screen to go live using your system menu and this shows up now under wayland and it's only on the canary branch right now so it's probably going to take i don't know how long stuff stays in the canary branch for i'm going to assume like a couple of weeks and then eventually wayland Discord works fine. I wish Zoom worked fine as well. Now, Zoom does work under Wayland, but the way they've set it up is insane. So, it works completely fine. Just not how it's configured out of the box.

Because out of the box, firstly, Waylandland capture is just set to disabled for some reason I don't know why they've had support for Wayland capture. I think for I Want to say like two or three years at this point like it's not a new feature that needs to be behind a config option But even then if you enable, it still doesn't work. Because then what you need to do, I think it works under GNOME, because I think they've like hard-coded GNOME into the way they detect if you're on Wayland. But if you go into the capture settings,

there is an option for, I think it's called like video source or desktop capture method or something along those lines. If you go and click that option, it's set to auto by default. If you set it down to pipe wire, then it'll go and do the pipe wire portal capture. And if you're on like this, if you're on KDE, if you're on cosmic, if you're on like this if you're on um kde if you're on cosmic if you're on w roots it'll go and open the portal relevant to that environment if you don't do that you can capture your desktop but you can only capture your desktop you can't capture individual monitors or individual windows on w roots i don't think you can do individual windows anyway because of limitations with W roots But that's specifically W roots on

On KDE and I believe cosmic as well it works now So it's really nice to see that these long-running video capture issues are actually being addressed on Wayland because There are still people like every often, I go to the fucking, um, the Wayland Breaks Anything, uh, Wayland Breaks Everything post, and you'll still see comments on there, like, oh, you can't capture your screen, uh, Wayland Breaks, think twice, Wayland Breaks Everything, that is the post, like, Wayland breaks everything. That is the post. Like, Wayland breaks screen recording applications, which is not even true at all. Like, it still mentions Discord on here, which... Firstly, has been resolved...

Years ago. Like, this- this problem IS fixed. Like, this is no longer an issue. I think it was fixed before this issue was made. Like that's how long ago the problem's been dealt with. As for these other ones here, I don't know if these other ones have added portal support yet. I think this one... This one I don't think

is going to. Okay, this one has been... This was archived years ago, so that's never gonna do it. Oh yeah, this was the yeah. This was the one. This was the one that was using, like, weird internal GNOME APIs that they shouldn't have been. They shouldn't have been dealing with.

And GNOME, like, changed how they were handling private APIs. And then it broke that application. And this one. I think. And this one... I think... Ah, this one has been abandoned as well. But like OBS, OBS supports Wayland. Like you can- I'm literally using it right now.

And there are a bunch of other video capture tools that support Wayland. But the issue we have like in this discussion is the developer just doesn't like Dbus, doesn't like portals, doesn't like Red Hat. Anything that involves any of those as a solution is inherently just bad. So even if the solution exists, there's just not good enough as a solution because it needs to work the same way it worked in x11 Otherwise it's not working at all which is just never gonna happen so uh Good luck with that one. I guess But on the bright side at least discord Wayland works now

so I Don't have to be the one in the group chat who when we're like playing um uh buckshot roulette or something somebody else has to go and share the screen because uh I can't share the screen myself or I can share the screen but there's just no audio there which is fine for buckshot but there are other other things where maybe it's gonna make sense to Want the audio shared as well. There are there were ways you can do it like you can route Again, this this is where you get to start like it's like it needs like weird like janky methods where you can take the audio from the game and then route it into your microphone input.

Which hopefully doesn't create weird issues, but also the way Discord handles screen sharing audio and microphone audio is different. They're treated as two separate audio channels, so it probably would do weird things. It would mess with the interface anyway. You couldn't like change the volume level on the on the actual on the actual screen recording. Also, I believe I believe the screen recording would be exempt from from discords built-in

noise from Discord's built-in noise cancelling, which would make sense, because if you're capturing, like, a video game or a movie, you wouldn't want the noise cancelling of the microphones, because that would, like, break... That would break pretty much most game audio. Like, most games have random quiet sounds that you want to be able to hear, but you wouldn't want to have picked up in a microphone.

Like, right now, I don't know if you can hear it. There's a fucking lawnmower going on just outside. It's my neighbor's, I think. Yeah, it's my neighbor's. Luckily, it's not right. It's on my fucking window. My housemate's not home right now. So, yeah, definitely couldn't be outside my window.

Unless someone broke in who wanted to just mow my lawn. Which, look. Look, I wouldn't want to pass some of the weird youtubers out there but you know i don't live in the u.s so uh probably not gonna get as many weird of them speaking of um weird things though we're just gonna be like doing this this uh this this jumping between topics thing until i i there might come a point where i'm like i'm just gonna talk about one thing for like 20 or 30 minutes otherwise i've got a bunch of things in here that I am gonna talk about and we're probably gonna talk about each like 10 or 15 minutes, so

You know, I every time I come back to do these solo episodes. I always kind of forget how to do them It always just ends up being like a different thing. Sometimes. It's just talking about anime for two hours. Other times, I'm like, oh, cool news story I want to talk about. Oh, cool news story I want to talk about. But for now, anyway. So recently, the Steam Deck became available in Australia. November 19th, we started seeing the sale of the Steam Deck. I have mine back here. I did not get this during the sale. I've had this one for quite a while now. This was sent to me directly from Valve. Still very much appreciate that, Valve. Thank you for that. I should use it more than I do. But, alongside that announcement happening,

alongside that being available, see, what game do they have here? What are they showing? This is... Oh, I don't know. What is this game? I don't know. That's Day of the Diver, isn't it? That is the popular fighting game, and there's Armored Core. Was that like

the first boss? I think it might have been um There was also the white steam deck now The white steam deck does look really really cool. Why am I not in focus focus me? Focus me and see my head Getting thinner there's gonna come point where I'm bold. Why is there- why is my camera not focusing? Look at the- look at my top of my head. Oi. Oi.

Focus? There we go. Anyway. My hair- I used to have really thick hair. Eventually- eventually it's gonna become thinner. When I noticeably start becoming bold, um, then we, we are not, we are not gonna go Vegeta. When, when this hairline starts going back, it's, it's all going. Anyway, um, Anyway, Steam Deck.

So there is a white Steam Deck. I like white controllers. I have my uh, I have a, I have one, right, right, the uh, I forgot that you could, you could uh, scroll on the trackpad here. Um, I have the white PS5 controller, I have another one in here as well, and I also have a Xbox One series controller, because it's nicer than the old Xbox One not series controller, it's, it's got some slight modifications to it, a different grip, all that sort of stuff, um, but I, I am a fan of white controllers. The issue with white controllers is they are white controllers. And if you have sweaty gamer hands, which I do, and even if you don't, it's going to become a problem eventually. You are going to get your, your, your gamer grime onto the device. Usually what happens is

anytime there is like connections in the shell, so any like bits like that your hand rubs on, usually any of the usually the face buttons are mostly fine because as you're using you tend to like rub the grime off anyway. With the L1, r2 or l1 l2 r1 r2 shoulder and bumper buttons whatever you want to say uh typically in like the grooves i can go actually i'll go i'll go here so easier typically in like the grooves along the buttons and also with the trackpad like along here as well and then especially on the back where your hands sit because like the bits were actually holding it

fine but it starts like pushing stuff down towards the middle that all starts to get fairly like gross fairly quickly and i don't think valve has done anything magical to make sure that's not gonna happen on on the white Steam Deck so my I Just caution anyone who would consider buying one If you want to make sure it looks nice make sure you are cleaning it You can get away with not cleaning a black controller and it will look fine. You cannot do so with a white controller. It's gonna depend on the plastic and all that stuff, but there's no magic solution that I'm aware of besides

just trying to keep it clean. But if you wanna buy it, that's cool honestly I would prefer honestly I remember the last limited edition they did Steam Deck limited edition not the

white one this one the what's a good picture of it? Limited Edition OLED? Is that what it was? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh...

This one. This one, I think, looked really, really nice. Honestly, they should have gone even harder with the orange. Like, they've got orange accents here. What they should have done is just gone full We Love Orange. Like, orange trackpad, orange sticks. Just fucking ball out with it. Just go hard with it. I do hope they do something fun like that in the future. You know, like you would see with old video game controllers where you'd have, like, translucent green or translucent purple or, like, gold and other things like that.

There's something fun about just throwing caution to the wind and just making it look ridiculous, knowing that people are going to be a bit, bit you know a bit wary on it like some people are gonna think it looks bad other people they are gonna like it but the people who really really like that style are going to absolutely adopt it also just notice he looks like an egg. And his name is Humphrey. Beautiful, beautiful. While we're on the topic of Steam, though, and Steam-related devices and controllers,

there has been a lot of rumors about a Steam Controller 2. Steam Control... I wonder if we'll be got to find the old rumors uh yeah here's the prior rumor so this is a picture of the original steam controller leak valve is making a steam controller and a roy for its deckard this was originally leaked by brad, who is someone who very much likes to explore what is going on behind the scenes in Valve's APIs and digging shit up. And usually, usually it's a fairly good source for leaks. Obviously, going based on what you can see in the public API, things can obviously be bait. based on what you can see in the public API.

Things can obviously be bait. Things can be like tested internally and put into the API, but not actually going to be a real product. But there is a bit more than just a name. Codename for Steam Controller 2 is IBEX. Separate product for Deckard's Roy Controllers. Separate product from Deckard's Roy Controllers. Both are being tooled for mass production

in their factories right now. That's why I know they're in later stages of productization. But we didn't have any idea what the controller could maybe possibly look like. Now, we're still not 100% certain because obviously, we're not sure if this is actually going to be the 3D model of it, but the same person did also discover a 3D model. So let's bring up a bigger picture of that there. So this is a model of the controller that was found within Valve's information,

Valve's, uh, Valve's information, Valve's stuff. Keep in mind, possible work in progress, you don't actually know what it's gonna look like until it exists, or if it is going to exist, you know, until it exists. But let's just assume that this is the design

it is going with., and I think it's fair to assume, because this is a pretty standard size, it's gonna be around the size of a PS5 controller, an Xbox controller, I think the Xbox controller is, it is a tad less wide. Yeah, it is a just maybe like a centimeter, maybe two centimeters less wide. so with that in mind okay for anyone just listening it is it's a it's a it's a weird it is a very weird design so you have the you have the playstation d-pad and face button placement so they're at the top now it does also have track pads those are I wouldn't say in the place of the thumbsticks because if you if you notice here if you if you just if you're if you're watching if you're watching if you're listening so if you have like a PS5 controller, if you have a PS2 controller Imagine where the sticks are came down

I don't know another two centimeters so it extends the plastic down and that's where the track pads are and The sticks are in the same location they are in right now So below like below and to the right of the D-pad and below and to the left of the face buttons. So I'm really curious about the, about how it feels to hold this thing, because at least judging by what we see here, there's a lot less like side grip and obviously we can't tell what it looks like from the back of it so it might extend inwards like we see with the ps5 controller let's actually compare this with the the Steam Deck actually

so I think what's very likely here is on the on the back of the Steam Deck even though it doesn't have that like that upwards con Vex con K the inwards bend that you see on something like a ps5 controller or xbox controller any controller out there It does have these handles. So I'm imagining That back here. We also have handles as well. So this, like around here, this probably rounded outwards. Around here, it's probably rounded outwards as well.

Otherwise, I don't see how this thing could be held. That's the only logical approach I can think of. logical approach I can think of, and I'm guessing, I'm guessing it's gonna have the same feel to it that the trackpads on the PS, on the Steam Deck have. It looks like it's around about the same placement. Obviously, it's kind of hard to tell with the scale here, because we don't have a, a, like, another object for reference to it, but they kind of have done a relatively good job with the sizing of the Steam Deck, so I'm imagining they're going to try something like that, maybe, maybe making the sticks bigger, I, I do kind of hope that, I really don't hope they repurpose the Steam Deck sticks. Not to say the Steam Deck sticks are bad. I think they are fine for a handheld, but of the current generation,

I do think the Steam Deck has the least comfortable sticks. They are the smallest. They have sharp edges on them. My fingers tend to slide off of them, I, I do think that they need to make the top of the sticks wider, maybe like another half a centimeter, maybe, yeah, maybe like another half a centimeter, because, or is it, are they around the same, yeah, I think they're a little bit small in the... They're a little bit small in the PS5 controller sticks. Also, the PS5 controller sticks don't have the hard edge. They have like a rounded rubber, like a rounded rubbery surface, which I find a lot easier to keep my fingers on.

So I'm assuming that this is heavily inspired by the Steam Deck. So I'm assuming that this is heavily inspired by the Steam Deck. That just logically makes sense. Like they use the Steam Deck as their early product and they A-B test from that. Now someone actually posted a... Okay, they also posted this one. The Steam Deck, the Steam Controller with the blushing... The blushing trackpads Where is the picture? Here, so for a while now people have made these renders of the Steam Deck if it didn't have a screen now obviously This is functional, but it's clearly not

like a great design however However, it is very clearly the same concept as what we see over here it just rather than having the trackpads be flat on which doesn't really make sense in such a cramped like area like usually you're used to having your hands angled out rather than like dead straight i i think angling them out like they are here makes more sense also not having the duplicated buttons Not having the speakers as well. I think makes a lot of sense So I'm almost certainly gonna get one of these because it's gonna have like great support on the Linux and all that I Never got an original steam controller

and the Linux and all that, I never got an original Steam controller, but I know there's a lot of people that really, really like them, that really like the idea of using trackpads like this for gaming, so I, I want to know what it's like, I think, honestly, the only thing, the only issues I have with, the only issues I have with the Steam Controller layout is... I think it is just the sticks. I actually do think it is just the sticks. The trackpads are fine. I think... I do think the shoulder and trigger buttons are not as satisfying as they could be, right?

Like, I like the heavier feel of the PS5 controller. Also, having the springs in the PS5 controller, even though they do tend to break, do give you a really nice feel as opposed to what you have with the With the Steam Deck where you have this You have this fairly light push, but they also have like vibration as well and the vibration It's fine. It's just not great But a lot of the stuff we have with the Steam Deck is because it is a handheld like you need to cram You know a CPU you need to cram, you know, a CPU, you need to cram your RAM, storage, all into this device. So, you have to make some...

You have to make some design constraints with the controller. But being purely a controller, there is a lot more space to work with. So, I really do hope they address the tactile feel of the controller. If they do that, will it be my favorite controller? It's really, really hard to dethrone the PS5 controller. I think this is actually one of the best controllers ever made. I've not tried a lot of third-party controllers. I know there's a lot of people that swear by 8-bit dough. I know there's a lot of people that swear by a couple of other companies as well. But of the first-party controllers, I do genuinely think Sony absolutely cooked with the PS5 controller. Because I was not a big fan of the PS4 controller.

It was okay, but I think what they've done with the PS5 controller is they took the classic DualShock design moving into DualSense and just made it a little bit bigger. The DualShock was fine as a child, but as an adult, like, I do agree that, yeah, it's gotten a little, a little less comfortable to hold. Also, having the indented sticks, having the grip on the back, all of that stuff is nice as well.

I never have any complaints about the, about the Sony D-pad. It's pretty much always been great. The face buttons, never a complaint as well. Honestly, the only problem I have is when using the PS5 controller on PC, the trackpad acts like a mouse, which is obviously what it's supposed to do. It's a trackpad. But it also means that it does mouse things,

which means if a game binds something to a trackpad but it also means that it does mouse things which means if a game binds something to the trackpad sometimes it thinks you're using a mouse and then it will change the controller layout it's like it's showing you the pc controls now and that's honestly the the like only actual issue i have with it actually what we're talking about Sony as well, I guess, you know what? We're doing, like, reasonable, um, reasonable segues today. So, I'm sure you guys have heard about

Sony potentially buying Kadokawa. Uh, by buying Kadokawa, you've probably heard it as, uh, Sony might buy fromSoftware, because apparently that is the only thing, that is the only thing that Kadokawa is known for. So, Kadokawa is a, obviously, yes, FromSoftware is big, Elden Ring is big, like, that's the thing a lot of the gaming people are caring about.

But, Karakawa is a... It is a media giant. FromSoft is just one of the things that it owns. So, under publication, it owns BookWalker. It owns Karakawa Publishing. It owns ASCII MediaWorks. It owns the ATX Channel in Japan, it owns Spike Chunsoft from Software, uh, what is a choir, what, what have they, what have they done? Um, They seem to work a lot alongside other studios.

Also, they do ports of things. Okay, they are not as important. Okay, outside of Japan, they own J-Novel Club. They own Anime News Network. They own Yen Press. They 51% own Yen Press. They 51% own Yen Press. They own Dogokobo, the animation studio. They own Kinema Citrus.

They've owned a lot of other stuff in the past. They used to own Magus, who worked on Steins Gate, the visual novel. Steins Gate, the visual novel. There's a bunch of other just random things. Oh, they own Nico Nico as well. Kanokawa is a giant company. And Sony wants to own everything. Sony already owns a lot of the anime industry. And we are actually getting to a point where Sony is becoming like an anime monopoly.

Right now, it hasn't really affected the quality of the content we're getting, which is fine. I just don't know how long that is going to last because I don't trust... Whilst I do trust the engineers at Sony to make really, really nice controllers, I don't trust the corporate leadership to do healthy things with any industry they own a lot of,

whether it be manga publishing, light novel publishing, anime, video games, anything like that. But maybe we'll get Bloodborne on PC. Look, on the bright side, maybe that'll happen. Or maybe we'll get a Bloodborne re-release on PS5. I doubt it. It's probably not gonna happen. I am convinced at this point that FromSoftware legitimately does not have the source code to Bloodborne anymore or there is some like there is some crazy licensing deal that's stopping it being released on anything else because I don't understand any other reason why why Bloodborne has not had a

re-release with people asking for a re-release for so long like you've had re-releases of so many other games Sony is like really big on doing re-releases right now and remasters and all that stuff but bloodborne which is a cult classic game never had anything but that's that's a side tangent i i'm worried i i am i am worried about how this is gonna happen because i know people like to... Think of another giant company, right? Another big company that likes to buy up a lot of other companies is Tencent. Now, Tencent with the Tencent, like...

I guess, more marketed games. Yes, they are fairly, like, fairly problematic. Unless you're a big fan of microtransactions. So, Tencent also owns quite a bit, or they're into like 7% of Kadokawa. They own 10% of Ubisoft, 16% of FromSoft, they own 35% of Epic Games, like this is what I mean, right, they own 35% of ShiftUp, so, how much is, oh, they own the majority of Miniclip, so,

Tencent is a company that, if you're making money, it seems like they, it seems like they are a lot more hands-off. Like, they own Key, the visual novel company in Japan. Um, they own the entirety of Riot, and the entirety of Grinding Gear Games, the developers of Path of exile are i will talk about path of exile 2 in a bit but i actually trust i actually trust tencent a lot more than i trust sony at this point because they have let grinding gear games do whatever they want like people talk Like, people will talk about, oh, Riot microtransactions or, like, Ubisoft being shit or Epic Games and all of this stuff. But, like, the fact that Grinding Gear games is allowed to exist in the way that it is... Like, I... Like, just that by itself gives me hope.

For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about. So, um, if we go to the Path of Exile website. So, Path of Exile is known to have quite a lot of microtransactions. Like, a lot, a lot of microtransactions. Like, crazy microtransactions. Like, crazy microtransactions. Um, if we go to the microtransactions store, let's go to

new, like, you have all of this stuff. This is just on the new page. Actually, let's go to a page that's not new. Let's go to the armor page. And just scroll and just scroll and just keep scrolling. Okay. I guess that's the end. The difference though is every single microtransaction in Path of Exile

with the exception of the stash tabs is a cosmetic. So these character ones we see here, this is just like you want to have different colored utility flasks or different colored Nexus or you want to go to footprints you want to have different footprints or you want to be fucking horrible and get some annoying pet like the goblin troop which i think is in one of the bundles actually and just annoy everyone. Everything in here is cosmetic. Now, normally, I would say cosmetics are the end game. And in a lot of games, they are.

Actually, okay. To be fair, there are... This is probably one of the only other few things that is... Possibly, you could argue pay to win you can buy extra character slots but most people um don't play that many characters anyway and your characters don't matter outside the current league so unless you're playing like standard or you really care about keeping your old characters that have been moved from a league back to standard it's fine doesn't really matter in path of exile there is no so you can't use your regular armor apart as part of like a transmog system as like a glamour system so

no matter what gear you're wearing at the end of the game it's going to look bad the only way to look good in path of exileile is buying the cosmetics. And considering you're normally this big on the screen, like you're a couple of pixels high, like you're never going to, there's never going to be a situation where you really, really desperately care about looking good. Now, the stash tabs are the only thing in this game that actually, not even arguably, legitimately is pay to win. Because whilst you can trade, if you don't buy a stash tab, you are not able to sell things on the market board. So pretty much if you buy this. So this is the upgrade to premium stash tab this is 15 of their tokens i'm never a fan of tokens um but that is like a dollar or something you can't buy perfectly

sized packs yes that is that that is probably one of the things I do think about POE is kind of dumb. I do have extra tokens right now because, uh, I'll explain that in a moment. Um, but yeah, upgrading that to a premium tab or buying a premium quad tab, which is like a, a, like, 4x size tab, basically a requirement if you want to trade. If you want your life to be not insane, you would want to buy stash tabs for all the different item types as well. So gems, flasks, currency, div cards, blight, maps, essence, fragments, ultimatum, delve, uniques you can get away with not having. And then Delirium as well. But because the game is free, that works out to be like 60,

I think it's like 50, 40 US dollars, something in that range. Which I think if you're paying that for a game that you're going to play like a couple thousand hours of, even if you play like 50 hours of Path of Exile and you're like, I'm done with this. Paying like 40, 50 dollars for that, I think is reasonable. Like this is the only purchase in the game that is required. Now, the reason why I have these extra tokens that I don't have,

if you buy a, if you buy a pack, so you want to buy like the lord of ogham supporter pack which i did buy because i wanted a key to the early access and i also wanted the kiwi pet i also like the armor um when you buy a 60 pack you also get 60 worth of points. So you're not just buying the gear, right? So basically if you are going to buy a $60 worth of points, you might as well also buy this as well. Like this, I think this is the, this is the most fair microtransaction system I've ever seen. There is not a game that I can think of that has a more fair system because there is no progression. There is no items that actually have value.

Like in Warframe, for example, you can buy your way to a new Warframe or a new weapon and that speeds up the process. In A Path of Exile, there is none of that. The only stuff you can buy is purely cosmetic and also the sash tabs, which are a one-time purchase. And also transfer from PoE 1 over to PoE 2 as well. So there's also that as well. So, there's also that as well. So, if you bought like... So, if you want to get a free key to the early access,

if you spend $480 US dollars, which is also the price of the top tier pack, if you want this ridiculous looking gear, which I am not a fan of, that'll get you a key as well, but also you could just buy the $30 pack or any of the other packs and you'll get a key, um, why do they get into this topic? Oh, right, right, Tencent owning grinding games, like, yes, there are games that are, like, super microtransaction-y heavy under the Tencent banner. But the fact that there are games like Path of Exile where there is zero progression tied to actually spending money in the game.

You can be a completely free player and be happy minus market board trading. market board trading. That's why I trust Tencent miles, light years more than I trust anything Sony does. Sony is Sony. Sony is Sony. That's how I feel. Sony is Sony. I don't have any reason whatsoever to trust anything that happens with that company. Um, yeah. I spoke about that for a while, didn't I? Like, quite a bit. So, I am really excited for Path of Exile 2. While we're here, I'm really excited for Path of Exile 2. I've seen the end game mechanics trailer, and it looks like they're reworking a lot of the game. So for anyone who hasn't played Path of Exile 2, I'll briefly explain how the system works. So every league, which is every three-ish months, depending on if they forget the league is supposed to end, like

Settlers of Calgar, which I don't know when is going to end. I guess it's going to end at some point, but they've been busy working on POE2, so, like, nobody knows anything about the next league. It's kind of just, like, it's kind of just been forgotten about. Three-ish months. So,

what was I going? Um, right. Every league, you start a new character, you go through the campaign, which, if you're a good player, um, five to ten hours, uh uh POE 1 campaign completion time I'm not a good player I usually get sidetracked doing other things uh campaign about yeah you can do about 5 to 8 hours

if you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, it'll probably close at like 15 or so. And then from there, you go into the end game. And this is the actual start of the game. This is where you start a system called mapping, where you're basically going to these different zones. You're beating a boss there. And you're unlocking a point on your atlas,

which is like your map upgrade system. So it gives you like bonuses to map drops or the other thing, bonuses to end game mechanics. So there's a mechanic called Blight, for example, which is a tower defense mechanic. You're basically trying to protect this core in the center. You're placing towers down and beating enemies that come towards the tower. Or there

are things like Delirium where there's just millions of enemies that spawn and you want to kill them all and you get bonuses as you kill more of them. Or you can just not do mapping and then do Delve, which is a whole separate system, which is like a roguelite system where you're going down

like a mineshaft and it's not even related to maps. So completing delve has nothing to do with maps or there's sanctum where it's another roguelite system, but rather than going down a mine, you're going through like a zone where you don't have health, you use honor and this honor system is different. And if there's like one honor, uh, like runs where if you get hit once you just die which means melee is unplayable because POE 1 melee is bad and the developers know it's bad That's why they're changing POE 2 The problem with POE 1 right now is the game when the POE 1 came out come out POE 1 release date 2013 how many leagues has PoE1 had, uh, okay, so, one, oh wait, sorry, no, this is two

leagues, uh, two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, wait, or is it, wait, hold up 8, 10, 12... Wait, hold up, hold up. I wasn't playing back then. Is that two separate leagues? Oh, okay. No, that is two separate leagues. So, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44. Now, 44 leagues, not all league mechanics come back.

So things like Delve, for example, did come back. Bestiary came back, Harbinger, but random other ones like Metamorph, for example, um, I don't believe anything from Metamorph came back, I, again, I was not playing during Metamorph, uh, no, okay, no, wait, wait, wait, no, okay, no, Catalyst, Catalyst came from Metamorph, okay, so even if, like, the mechanic's not there, okay, Catalyst came from Metamorph. Okay, so even if the mechanic's not there. Okay, bad example.

Prophecy. Did anything come back from Prophecy? Maybe a unique? Bad example again. A base item did. Okay, I'm sure there is something in here, but regardless, like the mechanic might not have come back for some of these leagues. Even if there were items introduced in that league that did come back in some other form. With a game that's had 44 leagues over 11 years, and they're not leagues like Diablo 3 leagues or Diablo 4 leagues, where it's like, let's change some numbers

And let's like add a new boss like these are giant leagues with massive amounts of changes You start having a game that feels very very very bloated A game where there is a lot of systems. You can go through an entire league and never interact with some of the systems. As an example. Let me just see what's here. So you can go through an entire league and never interact with Harbinger.

Because if you don't use any of the Harbinger items or add any Harbinger buffs, you will just not see it. Or you could just completely ignore Delve because this is outside of mapping. Or you can completely ignore You can completely ignore Sanctum because this is outside of mapping. Or you can never do Expedition

or Ultimatum or Heist. Alright, this is another one that's outside of mapping. Or never do harvest or blight. So, PeeWee1 just has so much stuff. Obviously, when people see PeeWee1, they think of... PeeWee1... Okay, it didn't show up. PeeWe 1 Uh Okay, it didn't show up. Peewee 1

Skill Tree Obviously, they think of this Behemoth which is coming back in Peewee 2 It's just laid out differently in Peewee 2 There is going to be 1500 nodes Yes

Yes, 1500 nodes, yes, um, yes, 1500 nodes, so, uh, I don't know how many nodes are in PoE 1, uh, PoE 1, oh, it's 1325 on PoE 1, so there's going to be more in PoE 2, um, most of it you can ignore though, and just play a build guide Just read what somebody online told you to play on max roll And you'll be good to go So People see that and they are scared away Like before they even get to endgame Just trying to level up, people get scared away

But then you get to endgame And you're like, oh There's like 12 different systems I can interact with. And I don't know what one's good. Like what's going to make me the most money? Should I do expedition? Should I do harvest? Should I do blight?

Is one better early end game than late end game? Is one like, is one harder than another? What's actually fun? Because I haven't played these mechanics, so I don't actually know which one I'll enjoy. The game needed a reset. And this is the problem that a lot of games have when they've been around for a long time. Like, FFXIV has the problem.

WoW has the problem. RuneScape has always had the problem, because it's always had 30 fucking skills. How many skills are in RuneScape? RuneScape number of skills. How many skills are in RuneScape? RuneScape. Number of skills. 29.

Yeah. And that's now. I don't know how many there were when I was playing back in 2007. I don't remember what has been added since then. It was around about that number though. PoE 2 is kind of needed to reset it and give people the ability to like approach the game and try it out. Now, I don't know how many of the end game mechanics are going to be back in PoE 2, because in the early access, it's not going to be everything. As an example, so in the early access, there's going to be six classes. PoE 2 early access classes. Um, Peewee 2 Early Access Classes. I don't remember all of the classes that are going to be available.

Uh, so there's going to be the Warrior, which is your guy with a big bonk. Uh, the Sorceress, which is your woman with big lightning. Ranger, which is self-explanatory. Monatory monk which is dude with a bonk stick mercenary which is guy with a crossbow also known as a gun uh and and uh which which is effectively the necromancer it is your minion class we already already know there's gonna be two more they've showed off already. There's going to be a druid and Fuck what was the other one? PoE 2 classes Added after early access. I believe it's a druid and To druid and something else. I don't remember what it's

gonna be, but each of those classes also have two ascendancies, which is basically like your, um, class specialization, right, so if you want to play witch, you can go into the, uh, infernalist, or if you want to play ranger uh dead eye is dead eye back yes dead eye is back so you can go ranger into dead eye or monk into invoker or mercenary into gemling legionnaire which i don't remember what it was so i wasn't paying attention during that part of the stream um or you'd be a witch hunter, which is cool so you have all of this, so you can right now there's gonna be 6 classes

with 2 ascendancies each in the full game there's gonna be 12 classes with 3 ascendancies each, so right now there's only a third of the classes available well, a third of the classes available Well a third of the like the class combinations available

And because Nothing is like gear locked to a class So you can wear any gear on any class use any weapon on any class You can like you any skill gems on any class you can like use any skill gems on any class there's just things that are more specialized to that class and um the way the the skill tree is laid out is different parts of the skill tree are focused on different stats so uh let's just imagine for example that this third here might be the strength third and this third here might be the magic third and this third here might be the strength third, and this third here might be the magic third, and this third here might be the dexterity third.

Sorry, intellect, not magic. Strength, intellect, and dexterity. But if you wanted to go and focus on some other stat, like if you had the stats to use like minions as a warrior, you could do that. And that- that's what makes Path of Exile, like, really, really big. If you want to just go do something stupid, you can try it. And you might find something that is just, like, really, really big.

Or it might be bad. It's probably gonna be bad, though. Because people have thought about stuff for thousands of hours. And, um, yeah, you're probably not gonna- you're probably not gonna make something crazy. But you might. Or it might be bad. It's probably gonna be bad though because people have thought about stuff for thousands of hours and Yeah, you're probably not gonna you're probably not gonna make something crazy, but you might and that'll be cool But PeeWee2's also Hey, this is another problem with PeeWee1. PeeWee1's endgame is if you if you want to play endgame like efficiently Most of the builds are like one button or two button or in some cases three button builds.

So you're only using like two or three buttons to do all your damage and the rest of them might be autocast abilities or might be like situational debuffs, things like that. Or in the case of minions, like you're resummoning minions, things like that. But your main damage is something else One of the downsides is usually listed on a build guide Is it needing more than one button like a one button build is the preferred method but PeeWee 2 is Being slowed down quite a bit and it seems like it's focusing a lot more on like combo focus gameplay so you might uh one example is there's an ability that spawns a bell and if you bonk the bell it like causes an aoe around the bell so you might use that bell ability with the mercenary and use like a um

like a multi-shot gun for example multi- multi-shot crossbow, and like spam out AoE abilities like that, or you might have, um, uh, I don't know, let's imagine something that I don't even know is in the game, let's say you could shock some enemies with like a debuff, and then you hit them with a ball lightning, and that causes double damage to them or something like that. So PeeWee 2 is a lot more about looking how abilities might interact with each other, and specializing in a specific kind of combo, rather than a specific ability. And this is aided by the fact that when you get an ability from your ascension

from your specialization so when you put points in your specialization you'll gain like in Peewee 1 there's one we can summon a this is like big golem that follows you around in Peewee 1 that's just an ability by itself in Peewee 2 and Peewee 1 as well has this system, just not for these abilities. PeeWee has this system where you can take a skill and then link gems to that skill.

So these are support gems. So you have your actual skill ability and then support gems for that ability. So you might have an ability that fires an arrow and then you have a rapid fire support gem or a multi-shot or a fire. Like it ignites enemies when it hits them or it does a chain lightning when it hits them, things like that.

But you don't just add one of these gems. I'm not sure how many gems you can link in POE 2. In POE 1, you can have your one skill gem and then five gems linked to that. I don't know if you're still going to be able to do six links in POE 2. I've not... I don't remember from the interface. I think you can, though. I don't see why they get rid of the ability to do six links.

Oh, that's the other thing. In PoE 1, your skills are attached to your gear. So, skills also have colors for the gems. So, you have these sockets on your gear, they are colored, and then you have to take your skills and socket them into your gear. So you have these sockets on your gear, they are colored, and then you have to take your skills and socket them into your gear. So your chest piece, for example, the max amount of slots that can have is six. Now this means that if you have a, usually your like main skill is going to be on your armor piece, because you usually want your main skill to be your six link. This means that you need not only a six linked piece of gear, but a piece of gear that has the stats you want, and also the sockets are the right color. When you start getting up to six links, gear like this can start getting really tedious to craft

because getting six links on a gear takes a long time. It might take you like a thousand items to do your socketing. So getting the six sockets is one thing, getting the six links is another thing, Sockets is one thing getting the six links is another thing and then making sure you have a piece of gear that has the SATs anyway Especially when you start getting to later in game like you're spending a lot on this gear now The skill gems are moved from your gear to your character so if you want to go from like a big chest plate, for example, to maybe like some cloth for a caster build, you can change that and your gear or your skills will be unaffected,

which makes it so much easier to replace gear into the end game because then the main thing you're worrying about is the stats on the gear rather than is this even going to work for my build in the first place which I'm sure is going to create some interesting market economy changes because now there's going to be a lot of gear that previously was very very build specific like you want a gear with this specific set of sockets, this specific color of sockets. And now that gear is going to be a lot more applicable to other builds because the socket issue is not there.

They do still have sockets on the gear in PeeWee 2, but now the sockets, rather than being for your skills, are for passive buffs. So you might get a... I think they're called charms maybe charms or another system but you can socket in these things that will give you like um plus 20 strength and ice resist or something the stats on them are randomized so it might be something weird or like a 15 attack speed with dual wielding daggers things like that which because so you can like take those out so having the number of sockets is still going to matter so you might still want i think you can still get like five socketed um five socketed gear i think

that has to be like uh that has to be throughout one of the, the crafting systems, uh, the, uh, specifically corruption, um, but I think normally it would be four sockets, I don't remember, regardless, um, it's gonna make gearing a lot easier, and honestly, it's gonna be a lot more fun for me to play, because there got to a point with PoE where, fun for me to play because they got to a point with PoE where We're like I just I just didn't find it fun To get my next gear progression because I knew on the market board There was only like one piece of gear that was gonna fit what I wanted and I needed that piece of gear But maybe like I want some other stats on it

But I can't get those stats on it because I'm not like the POE crafting system is super complex as well I didn't want to go through the crafting system so having this system be Having the lockout be in a different location. I think It's gonna make firstly crafting a lot more approachable for people who want to try crafting but also buying gear is gonna be so much easier as well. I actually got completely sidetracked by like the main point I was talking about there.

The main point I wanted to get to was regarding like endgame mechanics. So PoE 1 just has a lot of them and PoE 2 is gonna have this problem eventually as well, but at least in Early Access, um, I think there's... I wanna say there's like five or so, because people still want a lot of them, and they can't go back to one, right? Like, they can't just have maps, delete everything, and be like, hey guys, here's the new game. It's like the game was 10 years ago. All of the improvements are gone now. So obviously that can't be done. So there's expedition where basically what you do is you come up to these like dig sites and you place down a bunch of

bombs that are linked together and you blow up the bombs enemies come out of the ground you kill the enemies you get these special tokens and then there are some npcs related to expedition where you can either buy specific gear from that uh from that thing there's like a gear trader where you can buy a base piece of gear and then basically bargain for different abilities you might want you're like like, oh, I want that ability, oh no, I don't want that one, I want that one, and you're like trying to craft it as you go, and you might get something really good, or you might get something really bad, there's like an NPC you barter for like currency items and things like that, um, that's, that's one of the ones that are included. Um, PoE 2, Endgame, Mechanics, um, Ritual is back, which is not something, I, I, I don't do a ton of Ritual, it's like, it's not like a bad system, but it can be very hit and miss.

So the idea with ritual, I think it works the same way in PeeWee too. You go to these totems in the ground, you activate the totem, you kill the enemies that spawn around the totem, you get ritual points, and there's a ritual vendor there that you can buy items from. You might get good items, you might get bad ones like a bad ones it is what it is uh delirium so delirium is you walk through this mirror you walk into the delirium world and hundreds of enemies spawn you kill the enemies and you get items and uh breach which is you touch the hand on the ground hundreds of enemies spawn you kill the enemies you drop things drop you get these like

Shards and then you can eventually go to like the the breach bosses Each of these do have like bosses attached to them as well. There's progression systems for them and Having four of these I guess is technically five because there's also labyrinths labyrinths are the system you use to gain your points to go into your Ascension, into your class specialization. But also,

once you have all your specialization points, you can keep running Labyrinths as... Labyrinths as... Labyrinths... That's the word. But like, harder versions than you would have used to get your ascension points and obviously harder versions have bigger rewards now uh there were systems in poe 1 called ultimatum and sanctum ultimatum basically you get the choice of taking the item that is being offered or going to the next round and taking a debuff.

So it might be like traps spawn or you take fire damage every time an enemy hits you or exploding skulls follow you around, things like that. It's going to be tweaked a little bit because in Ultimatum, it was these very short encounters. In the Labyrinth system, it's going to be for these entire rooms. So it needs to be tweaked a bit so you don't just instantly explode. And then Sanctum, I mentioned before, you have this honor system. I fucking hate it because I hate Sanctum. Nobody likes Sanctum, I mentioned before, you have this honor system. I fucking hate it because I hate Sanctum.

Nobody likes Sanctum. There are Sanctum players that really love it. And apparently, if you're really good at Sanctum, it's really good money as well. Which is good for the Sanctum players because no one else plays Sanctum because it sucks. But that's also going to be tweaked as well to fit into labyrinth system and then you can get labyrinth points as well this is the other thing so the end game mechanics i mentioned they're progression systems when you beat the bosses now you're going to be able to add points into the end game mechanic and further boost the end game mechanic make it harder get better rewards

and uh potentially get better gear and better money and get further in the game. And then mapping now. So mapping before was very clear what was happening. You would go to your map device. You'd put the map in. You'd add your map modifiers to it. So these were scarabs. These might add certain endgame mechanics, things like that.

You use your map device to get into boss rooms as well. In Peewee 2, rather than having the explicit map device like you had before, we're not entirely sure about the system, because they didn't really show how you interact with it from your hideout, which is your, your like, um, your, your housing, your, your base, whatever you want to call it, um, now the mapping system is a roguelite system, so rather than you deciding exactly what map you want to go to, now there is this randomly generated, infinitely spawning world, which I'm sure people during early access are gonna find ways to break, people have already suggested, um, what happens if you break every path around you and only have one point to go to? Is the map going- or is mapping itself going to be bricked or is there gonna be something you can do?

So in PeeWee 2, you have this roguelite system. You go from point to point to point to point doing the area there every so often there'll be a map boss. Previously in PeeWee 1, there was a map boss for every single map. Now you only get one chance on every zone. So there isn't a map boss every time. There's a map boss whenever you feel like adding them. So this is more like a delve system

where delve was randomly generated. You go from point to point to point to point. You have, in delve, you didn't have one try. You to point, you have, in, in, um, in Delve, you didn't have one try, you just could go back to the start and try it again, but it's basically the same idea, so there's a lot of stuff changing with POE 2, uh, you're gonna have a dodge roll now, it's gonna be much slower, there's gonna be less enemies, it's gonna be more, if you wanna, if you wanna use the terminology, it's going to be more souls-like. I don't like the term, though.

But it's going to be interesting to see how that goes. Remember how I said I was going to talk about some random topic for, like, 30 minutes and get, like, completely sidetracked by something that didn't matter? I think that happened for Path of Exil- I think that might have happened for, um, for, for Path of Exile. Um, yeah. Since we're on the topic of video games anyway, let's talk about my fucking meme country. So there is an anime called Hunter x Hunter. It is very good.

I highly recommend everybody goes and watches it. It is my favorite anime. It is great. It also has a manga as well that has questionable art at many points because the mangaka does not know when to stop it, questionable art at many points because the mangaka does not know when to stop it, even though he is very, very sick and is unable to continue working on it effectively. So, there is a new game called Hunter x Hunter Nen Impact.

It is a fighting game. I'm not a fan of fighting games, but I did notice this headline. A new fighting game has been banned in Australia, and we only have guesses as to why. Australia has built a reputation as having one of the strictest video game rating systems on the planet. For the record, we do have an 18 plus rating system. It just doesn't mean anything. Call of Duty here is not 18 plus but a video game with anime characters that is a i would argue like most of it just pg uh that's too far and it appears as though another highly anticipated game won't reach the country shore when it's released next year hunter hunter nen

impact the fighting game based on the popular anime has been refused classification by the game won't reach the country's shore when it's released next year. Hunter x Hunter Nen Impact, the fighting game based on the popular anime, has been refused classification by the Australian classification board, the ACB, officially preventing the game from being sold in the country. The group listed no reason for the decision, but with the ACB having a set of precedent with other games with similar ratings and the reason behind them, it could be a few possibilities. The main suspected reason is how drug use has a gameplay benefit, like granting speed or strength, or portraying drug use in a positive light. For example, if a character even gets health restored from narcotics, the game would likely be refused classification if you didn't know this is one of the reasons why in the fallout series

You are taking What is I what are the what are the what are the drugs called? There's a story about this yeah here we go Here Yeah, here we go. Um. Uh, here. So this was a story. This was a story back in 2008. Um. When Fallout 3 was coming out.

Um. You were gonna just, straight up take morphine. But they decided to rename things because in Australia, if you even suggest that taking morphine or taking cocaine or anything like that might have a positive use to it, your game gets banned even though It's a fucking video game So that's the reason we have things like jet and other other like fake names for the drugs in the game Medics as well is is what morphine is So if you ever use something of this possibly like real drugs, even in that case,

Hunter x Hunter does not have real drugs in it. So I don't even know if that would be the reason. Other potential reasons include on-screen depictions of sexual violence and sexualized depictions of characters that appear under 18, which Hunter x Hunter also does not have even remotely. So I don't know what possibly could be their reason in this case. Hunter Hunter Nen Impact gameplay. As a example, here is some gameplay from EVO 2024. Watch this very clearly super sexualized game that only adults should play. Why is this banned?

I wish I could tell you I Genuinely I genuinely wish I could tell you Maybe there is one ability for one character with like One character with like... Oh, boy. Oh, my God. That's no... Can't have that. My country is a meme. My country is an absolute fucking meme country.

I don't understand why... Why it's like this. I do not understand even remotely. On that note, actually, speaking of... well, it's kind of related to what I was saying anyway. It's like, it's a side tangent, but it's still kind of related. So, in Australia, we did have a recent vote on the legalization of cannabis. This was raised by the Greens party, who I'm not a big fan of for a lot of things. However, in this case, I am certainly, certainly a fan.

So they raised a cannabis bill for the legalization of cannabis. It got 13 in favor, 24 against. 13 in favor, 24 against. This is the country that I currently live in. Even though, like, pretty much everywhere else in the Western world, cannabis use is very popular. It is generally supported. Obviously, there are people like, you know,

don't let people do it when they drive, or don't smoke in public. Sure, whatever, any of that stuff's like, sure, fine, whatever. I think most people agree with that. But there is somehow still so much leadership in this country that is just, just... Dumb. Like this is how we get in a situation where clearly a game that has no issues that like Frankly, I don't know how this game has anything worse than like a PG rating let alone refused classification. For the record, refused classification is supposed to be used for, like, extreme sexual material.

Like, it's supposed to be used for, like, you know, games that have rape in them, or for a game where it's just brutal murder on screen the entire time, or like, there is so much worse that does get rated

than in some cases. Get, like, an M or an MA rating, which is so much worse that does get rated, that in some cases, get like an M or an MA rating, which is a 15 plus rating, but somehow, a game that's not even, like there's no blood in the game. Somehow, this game is the thing the Australians rating board wants to be like, no, no, we can't have that, that's, no, that's a problem, this country, this country is so fucking stupid, like, it really, it really fucking is,

I don't think there's a, there's a perfect country out there, don't get me wrong, like, every country has its problems, but, uh, a lot of the problems with Australia directly affect me, and that's, that's the most important thing, when they, when they become a problem for me, that's, um, that's, that's when I start caring. Speaking of that. So, Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2. I was not aware that it had been around for that long.

The first Steam public, uh, the Steam Hardware Survey came in April 2003, but there were private antecedents used by Valve earlier. Uh, the Steam Hardware Survey has become a critical resource for the game industry, allowing curious enthusiasts or

practical-minded developers to get a sense of how the average PC gamer enjoys the hobby. To hear Valve senior engineer Jay Stelitella in Half-Life 2's new 20th anniversary developer commentary, the Steam hardware survey first came about because Valve had no other way

of accessing the information. Honestly, I do think this is a great resource. The problem is you have a lot of developers who frankly are just you know not particularly using the information well um notably games like monster hunter wilds Wilds, where they recommend a 4060. Now, they could certainly get away with recommending something worse, like a 4070, right? But their recommended GPU is a 4060. And whilst this is the most popular group, or sorry, the third most popular group at 4%, it is still only 4% and there's a lot of people with much, much worse than a 40-60 and we've already talked about how cooked the

performances in Monster Hunter Wilds, that is only one game that we have that issue with, Dragons Dogma 2 had issues and I'm sure there's going to be a bunch of other issues. Black Myth, Wukong has a lot of performance issues as well. I don't even know what the performance specs are like for it. I actually have never bothered to check. All I know is playing it does have some

not the best performance. Okay, so the specs it recommends aren't even that high. Oh, we're tested with DLSS, FSR. Of course, as always, can we stop doing this? Honestly, I kind of wish that we like, if a game developer did this, like there's just a note like right here game performance is not real it was tested using dlss or fsr because i'm sick of seeing games where they supposedly have like reasonable specs attached to them and then you actually look at like what the specs are and it's with fucking fsr or dlS so it's actually like way way lower if you don't want to run that

But I do need to upgrade my PC eventually anyway, like I'm probably gonna be doing so sometime relatively soon, I'm kind of hopefully waiting, seeing if there are going to be sales for, uh, for some, for some hardware, like, what I'm thinking of getting, I really doubt it's going to go on sale, but I'm probably going to get a 9800X3D, like like actually just go fucking balls out with it get like a really nice cpu that's what i'm that's what i'm considering doing um obviously that's gonna mean that's gonna mean a full uh a full-on upgrade not everything in my system but it's gonna mean a it's gonna mean a motherboard upgrade it's gonna mean a ram upgrade, it's gonna mean a RAM upgrade, um,

yeah, I'm gonna have to buy a new CPU cooler, because I believe the, the socket, like, the, the, the mounting layouts have changed as well, so, that's the only reason I haven't done it, like, every time I look at PC hardware, I'm like, oh my god. I upgraded like five years ago, right? Like, it's not like I upgrade every year. Yeah, I bought, was it five years ago?

Maybe it was only four years ago. It was like just before COVID. That was when I bought my 3600X. That was also when I killed another CPU because I'm a moron and I bent one of the pins. A lot more expensive of a CPU. I was a 3900x. Don't do that. Bad idea. But

Yeah, eventually I had to upgrade this system. It's just you know Even if it is something spread out over like four or five years, it's always just a lot of money. And like, I don't want to spend it. But also like it's getting to the point where like I want to work with like I want to work with 4K video. I want to play games with higher settings. I want to be able to render things quicker. play games with higher settings. I want to be able to render things quicker.

It's just getting to a point where it actually is becoming... It's becoming not needed, but like... more and more tempting. I'm probably going to upgrade at the end of this month. That's... That's what I'm thinking. I'm going to wait for

Black Friday, Cyber Monday. If there are no sales, I'm going to wait for Black Friday, Cyber Monday. If there are no sales, I'm going to upgrade anyway. Because, yeah, PoE 2 is coming out. Monsanto Wilds is cooked, but I still want to play it. Hopefully, it's less cooked when the full game comes out. My understanding is the game is quite CPU bound rather than GPU bound. So, yeah, because there's a lot more like NPC stuff. There's a lot more AI for the monsters.

There's a lot more monsters on screen than you can be calculated for their AI. So not even just on screen, just generally in the world running about doing things. So yeah. It's just something I've had to do again not had to do just meaning to do meaning to do for a while and putting off and then I'm gonna use that hardware probably

to build another system I don't know if it's gonna be a capture machine or it's gonna be a fuck around machine. It's going to be something or it's going to sit there on my shelf for like five years and I'm never going to do anything. Because I do have a GPU up here as well. Like my old GPU

I still have the old GPU that used to be in this system. Right? It's just not doing anything right now So probably Probably gonna have a new system by the end of the year or mostly new like my my drives are fine My my case fans are fine. I upgraded my GPU earlier this year? Last year?

I don't know. One of the two. So none of that's going to change. But motherboard, CPU, RAM, cooler. Yeah. Yeah. I need to do a proper look at what motherboard and RAM I'm going to buy anyway. Because I know the CPU I'm going to buy, but not sure about the others.

I don't know if I'm going to stick with 32 gigs. The RAM will go up to 64. 32, I don't really need 64. I'm not even getting anywhere near close to using 32 anyway. Well, unless it's cosmic and it has a memory leak but that's a special exception under normal conditions i'm not getting anywhere anywhere to the point of using 32 gigs of ram so it's probably not it's probably not worth Going and making the full upgrade You know what, let's actually find out

How much is How much is RAM right now I know I said I'm going to upgrade soon But I haven't even done like proper research for anything Um Uh, memory DDR5 Uh can we search by, uh, I thought I could search by capacity,

ah, here we go, uh, 232, 416, yeah, that works, and sort by low to high. So, 64 gigs of RAM, $260. Now, wait, is 5200 megahertz like a normal low-end RAM now? 5200 is like low, low. What the fuck? Man, I I really not wait so top end you're seeing on 64 I'm guessing this is getting like server stuff maybe 6600 6600 megahertz I megahertz. I remember when like 3200 was high.

What the fuck? Pfft. Alright, um, let's check, uh, let's check 32 gigs, so... Is that even- Why is that... Why? Why is... Okay. For anyone just listening, the menu is going behind. Okay, so... Like... Okay, whatever.

So there's no six... Wait, so 32 gigs You can get 32 gigs of 6400 megahertz for a hundred and sixty dollars This is why I love PC hardware and like I'm not like I'm not someone who follows PC hardware nowadays like Release to release release. It's kind of like how I handle my phone, right? So every time I look at new phones, it's like every four or so years So I look at what's available in the market and I'm always like what the fuck has happened How was everything so different? Why the fuck is

6400 megahertz 160 Australian dollars, so if you want to go the Okay, let's let's just If we just get rid of all of that and just say anything so So, 144, 5200 megahertz. What the fuck? What? I'm having, like, an existential crisis, is that it? I'm having a mental breakdown.

I'm having a fucking quarter-life crisis. Jesus fucking Christ. Okay, let's have a look at drive prices, actually. Like, memory prices I haven't looked at in a long time. Surely drive prices aren't that crazy. Remember when 1TB drives, like 1TB mechanical hard drives were like $1000? $100 for a Samsung Evo 1TB NVMe SSD. Let's go...

4TB... 8TB. Okay, 8TB is... You can get a... Okay, this is... This is... Quad level storage. Which I believe runs out pretty quickly.

$900 for 8 terabytes. Far out. Fucking hell. Oh, sorry. $89 for a cheaper one. $55 for 500 gigabytes. Man. Man. Okay, let's just Sort by price lowest

So the lowest price thing we have here Is $45 For a 2.5 inch SSD 500 gigabytes Jesus Like while GPU prices might be crazy, and, like, they're never gonna come down, at least storage prices are just ridiculously cheap, right?

Like, this would be, what, 25 US dollars for 500 gigabytes. Like, just think about that in the context of where things were like 10 years ago 25 US dollars for 500 gigabytes Holy shit, holy shit I've thought about this before but maybe I am just just, like, fucking out of touch, and I stopped paying it, like, even in the tech space, I'm just not paying attention what's happening, I just get impressed by what's, uh, what's happening every couple of years, this is, this is how I feel right now, if anyone else hasn't checked hardware prices in a while,

and, like, like, you know, you maybe bought, like, a PC, like, I don't know, four, five years ago, and haven't seen memory prices or hot like drive prices in a while Let me let me know how you feel about that as well. I I do want to know Man man Well um Computers are crazy, yeah, computers, computers are wild, man, I don't even know what to say, I, I, I, I really don't, I, I really just don't know what to say, um,

I guess we should move on to one last thing before we decide to end off the episode so actually let's talk a bit about social media so Actually, let's talk a bit about social media. So, Blue Sky has been gaining quite a bit of popularity. Quite, quite a bit. I don't remember how many users they have right now. Blue Sky user count. There's a stat website.

No, not Statista. There's like a actual Blue Sky stat website. Is this linked to the site? Yes, here it is. Is it gonna load? Okay, Blue Sky post count and author stats.

So, it seems like from the peak, it may have slowed down a bit. Yeah, this is what always tends to happen, right? Like, you have a giant peak and then people go back to what they were on before. Now, we don't really know if it's gonna, like, we don't know if it's gonna have, like, the threads kind of approach, where, you know, a lot of people joined because you got instantly joined over if you had a, uh, Instagram account, and there's a whoom, down is the ground, um, at least so far, down as the ground at least so far

blue sky is looking fairly healthy it's very possible people just go back to twitter and I do expect a lot of these people to go back to twitter um but we'll have to like properly wait and see

like daily followers this one popped off because a lot of people were joining and then a lot of people were finding accounts they were like they they fault they like they like on twitter but as less people are joining then less people are going to be uh following people so that's gonna like jump down uh i believe i don't know what, this one was a month ago. Was that, what happened a month ago? Was that the announcement of, was that the announcement of the AI stuff? Or was that the block button? Because I know this, like, the current peak we have is because of, like, all that stuff happening, it's just, like, shot up. But I don't remember, like, what the peak was,

like all of that stuff happening is just like shot up. But I don't remember like what the peak was like a month back. Hmm. But what I've been seeing a lot of is not on Twitter, because Twitter like knows what it does. Like Twitter people, they don't need to argue with people to prove that Twitter is a popular website. Yes, people are going to argue it being popular. And I do think it has a lot of technical issues that a lot of people are not addressing. A lot of the time, the site just kind of dies for no reason. DMs are like, ah, well, don't come back, you're

gonna be back anyway, because it's Twitter, but from the Mastodon side, I've been seeing, or like Fediverse in general, I've been seeing a lot of, a lot of hostility to Blue Sky, and not just because of the technical differences of the platforms, obviously Fediverse people argue blue sky is not decentralized and in many ways It's not they still have their centralized search system and most people act like accessing website through blue sky and Most people are not hosting any sort of nodes either so it is mostly centralized with a decentralized architecture behind it that hopefully gets expanded upon further as we go. But I've been seeing like a

lot of just general hostility towards people that want to use Blue Sky and why someone would want to use Blue Sky over something like the Fediverse. And I just, I genuinely just don't think any of this is healthy, right? Like, being angry at people for not using your platform is not going to get more people to use your platform. Like, if they feel like Mastodon, the Fediverse, is toxic, why would people want to go to it? Now, some people might argue, well, Twitter's toxic. And sure, but it's toxic in different ways.

On Twitter, you have toxicity from everybody. Doesn't matter what your political leaning is. Doesn't matter what your interest is. Everybody on there is toxic. But you have your little communities on there as well right like yes communities might be toxic to other communities but you have that community there that you know likes the stuff you're doing but on on the fediverse there is this toxicity to anyone who wants to use something else, who might argue the benefits of having any sort of centralization,

of, you know, Mastodon being a confusing thing to join. We have to join these different instances, and you don't just go to mastodon.com and log into something, you have to go to, like, mastodon.online, or mastodon.art, if you hate yourself, or, like, any of these other things, or, like, it's, it's very different to the way that most people are used to interacting with a social media site, whereas Blue Sky, because there is that centralization, you go to the Blue Sky website,, you log into BlueSky, and then you're good. And it's not even just people in, like, the non-technical world that like BlueSky. Like, I'm a big fan of BlueSky. I honestly do think it is a fairly good platform.

I do think that having that some level of centralization there, at least for now, seems to be the better way to deal to be the better way to deal with the search issues to deal with getting content out to people and I Know I I Just I just generally like the experience a lot more There's also a lot of there's a lot of people that are trying to like I Guess be really weird about blue sky as well. It's like well blue sky's also a lot of, there's a lot of people that are trying to, like, I guess be really

weird about Blue Sky as well, it's like, well, Blue Sky, it got a lot of, it got a lot of funding from crypto bros, and it got a lot of funding from, like, big companies, and yeah, but, like, can we talk about the actual merit of the site? I don't really care where the money came from because if the money came from, I don't know, some Saudi Arabian oil prints, but it has nothing to do with things they stand for, or if it comes from, I don't know, I picked some billionaire, like it doesn't matter. if it's not Jeff Bezos but it has nothing to do with things Jeff Bezos cares about

like it doesn't matter the money originally came from that person I think what's more important is looking at what it's currently doing if there is a contract in place where maybe it does have to do something at some point down the line fair enough

like that's a reasonable complaint to make but if the idea is, here, have some money, make a cool platform, I don't think you can really hold that against someone. Just the same as if, like, some billionaire wanted to donate to work on the GIMP project or GNOME or something. I wouldn't hold it against GNOME

that they took, like, I don't know, Elon Musk's money or Bill bill gates money or someone like that like that has nothing to do with if it's a if it's a no strings attached donation or if the idea isn't it's an investment to grow the platform but it's not growing it in a way that i think is negative i just can't really hold that against the platform and it feels like a lot of people on the 30 verse are just kind of grasping at straws trying to find any reason why blue sky is bad rather than focusing on the actual important point which is why do people not want to use the fetty verse what is it about the fetiverse that is bad, that is like detracting from the experience that is convincing people to go to these other things? What is it that people

like about Twitter? What is it that people like about Blue Sky? What is it that the 12 people on threads like about threads? And I do think a lot of that is the ease of access, just knowing that you can go to a thing and you just log into it. I do think what would really help Mastodon is if there was, or just the Fediverse in general, if there was a, like a Mastodon login page, right? Where you say I am on, similar to how Matrix works, where you go to the Matrix website, you can specify your home server. If you could go to some Mastodon website

or Pleroma website or Miskey website or anything like that, we'll just go with Mastodon. You go to a Mastodon website and you say my name or my domain is this, my, like, my, where my account is, is this, this is my username, you log in, and it just basically redirects you over to the actual instance you're on, so if you have an account on Fostodon, for example, you log on to Mastodon.com, and it then redirects you over to Fostodon,

you log on to mastodon.com, and it then redirects you over to Fosterdon. That, I think, obviously would be expensive to run that architecture, but I do think would, just that by itself, would make some of the onboarding process a lot easier, and re-accessing the site a lot easier. Because if you're someone who doesn't really care about the Fediverse, you make an account on mstdn.online. And then you try to log on to mastodon.online, not knowing those different things. You're like, okay, why does my account not exist?

You make a new account. You're like, well, this is not my account though. Like what happened to my account? And you just get confused and leave. And issues like that are just not really being discussed and not really being addressed at all in the world of the Fediverse. And it's sad because I like the Fediverse as a piece of tech. I do think it's got a lot of issues with the people that have stuck around because a lot of the people who...

Most of the people that have stuck in the Fediverse are people who are die-hard Fediverse people, which is why we have this problem of toxicity to anyone who is not a die-hard Fediverse user. So you have this issue where nobody wants to rejoin that because there's no re- like Twitter's not bad enough,

Blue Sky's doing pretty good, Threads no one's on anyway. So Mastodon kind of lost its chance and the Fediverse kind of lost its chance and now that Blue Sky is out of its like private early access I really don't think there's ever going to be a point for the Fediverse to rise again

unless we see Blue Sky going down a really bad route and honestly I expect a lot of Fediverse people who are like diehard Fediverse people to eventually make accounts on other platforms as well, just for the sole purpose of there being a lot of other people on those platforms, and it just makes sense to be there. Maybe they won't be the first ones, but a lot of other people they care about are going to be on those platforms as well, and if they start using

the Fediverse less, then I don't know, you might have more of a migration over to that. But there is a lot of bridging software, because unlike Twitter, which is very much against people using their API, Blue Sky, at least for now, has a lot more freedom in that regard. So there is bridging stuff, and

Mastodon, because it's all open source, there is bridging stuff for that as well. So there's like, I think it's like I think it's called like Fedibr There is bridging stuff for that as well. So there's like, I think it's like, I think it's called like Fetty Bridge. I think Fetty Bridge is the, it was like, well, there's a couple of bridging tools you can use. So I don't know.

I do think the world of social media is interesting. Twitter's not going anywhere. I did think it was going to have a lot of, a lot more technical challenges than it has had. It still has a lot that is really annoying. But it's not collapsed on its face like I thought it would. So I'm genuinely impressed. But it's still kind of buggy.

Pretty buggy and dies a lot. Anyway, we have hit the two-hour mark now, we're just over the two hour mark actually, so I think we're gonna end it off there that was an episode, I don't know what we talked about but I think that was probably kind of fun

so, if you like the episode, that's cool that's really cool. We might be doing some more solo ones as well, unless I decide to actually send messages to people or people I send messages to decide to send messages back to me, which is always the challenge of getting guests on anything. Not any one particular person.

Just people in general. Me, myself. I am bad at responding to messages. So, yeah. Yeah. Anyway. If you're listening to the audio version of this, you can find the video version on YouTube at Tech Over Tea.

If you want to find the audio version, that is on any podcast platform. Search Tech Over Tea and you will find it. There is an RSS feed. We are on Spotify with video as well. So that's cool. The main channel is Brody Robertson. I do Linux videos there six-ish days a week.

I don't know what to be out when you're watching this. So go see what is over there. Also, I've got my gaming channel, Brody on Games. I believe we are probably going to be done with Black Myth Wukong by the time you're seeing this. And maybe Kingdom Hearts 3 as well? Not super sure about

that one. I'm also not certain about what game I'm going to be playing next. I don't know. I'm thinking I'm thinking, I'm thinking metaphor, but there are some other games I want to play as well, and yeah, um, also the React channel, Brody Robertson Reacts, I upload clips there as well, so if you just want to see clips, and just care about me ranting about stuff and not video games,

that is also a thing. So that is going to be it for me. Um, how do I end this? What do I say? Uh, I haven't had a sign off myself in a long ass time. Um, I'm tired. Is that going to be my sign off? You know what? That's fine. Get you later.