Tomorrow - 224: Solvable problems

Episode Date: January 23, 2021

Welcome to episode 224, complete with a new Cyberpunk update, a new DeLorean, and a new President. Things are looking up, kinda! This week, Josh and Ryan discuss the Galaxy S21's incredible camera and the downfall of the Trump empire. Then they scroll through TikTok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey and welcome to Tomorrow, I'm your host Josh Wittipolsky. Today on the podcast we discuss the King camera heads and Diet Coke. I don't always one minute. Let's get right into it. Alright we're back Ryan. Hello. We're back. And we're, are we better than ever? It's hard to tell. I wouldn't, I wouldn't go that far. I don't know.

You know what? I'll be honest with you. First off, Rest and Peace, Larry King, a broadcasting great died today. Well, we're actually recording on, it was a strange day week for us recording on a Saturday. Rest and Peace, Rest in power, Larry King. Probably died from COVID, rest in peace, King.

Probably died from COVID, but you know, no big deal. So in many ways, Donald Trump murdered Larry King. In many ways, and frankly, probably, you know, it would have happened one way or another, I think. You know, but anyhow, oh, and also we have a new president. Yeah, we do. Yeah, it's exciting. I, I, I, I'm very excited.

A couple of things have happened. First off, so, so Joe Biden and, and Kamala Harris have been sworn in, uh, we're sworn in this week as the new president, vice president, uh, then immediately Joe Biden did a bunch of, uh, executive orders like Biden did a bunch of executive orders like repealing a bunch of Trump stuff. Like they had a big stack ready to go on day one, which is great. They pulled out the Diet Coke button. They ripped, they reanked the Diet Coke button off of his debt, which honestly, I have to say, I don't want to give him any, I don't want to give Donald Trump any credit,

but maybe the one cool thing that he did while in office was he had a very like ornate diet coke button installed on his desk that you could press to have somebody bring you a diet coke on a silver platter, which I think he ripped off from Karl Lagerfeld because if you'll recall, there's a great, there's a great piece from several years ago that the New York Times did, the New York Times magazine about one of Karl Lagerfeld's favorite male models and how he would like, Karl Lagerfeld had this thing where he would take like some of his models and they would travel with him.

They were like, he basically didn't have any friends so he paid his models to hang out with him. And, but it talked about a scene where they landed on his private plane. They landed somewhere in like at the end of the runway at the end of the tarmac or whatever was like a his assisted waiting with a diet coke, a glass of ice and a diet coke on a silver platter, which to me is like when I when that when I can do that, I'll know that there's no higher luxury I can enjoy in life. But I take my private plane somewhere, and then when I step off the plane, there's a man

standing there with a platter with a very cold-dike, co-quating for me. That is, it doesn't get any better than that, as they say. Can I tell you something I've heard about carolografeld, and this is completely for memory and I'm not sure if it's true. Yes, the death. Anything that's prefaced like, this may be a lie and I can barely remember it. I can barely remember it and it may be a lie. Although I can fully specifically remember the story, I think it's Carolografeld, but I can't remember specifically.

However, I heard that Carolografeld, when he met with people, his staff would brief them and let them know, don't bring up 9-11 because Carol doesn't know about it. I don't know if that's true or not. He was out of the country and they felt he couldn't handle it, so they never told him. It's something that I heard and they don't know if it's true and I don't know if it's true. I don't know either but it's a great story. I want Larry King to ask Carl right now. Well, there up and having that, having a great interview and die, folks. I do know that Karl

Loggerfut in the in the piece that was done. And I believe the writer is her name is Irina Alexander who did the piece for the New York Times magazine. I'm pretty sure I don't want to misquote it, but the quote is something like He's like, I hate ugly people very depressing. Yeah He's like, I hate ugly people very depressing. Yeah. He used to say, I hate fat people. And people would be like, you used to be fat. He'd be like, and I used to hate myself. Yeah.

Hold on. I think I actually have the quote handy. Pretty bold. Hold on, where is it? Pretty bold life to live. I thought I had it in a slack chat recently. I'm always on a regular basis. I'm referencing this car a log or a failed piece.

It's one of my favorite stories of all time. I just love, it's just such a weird inside look at the life of a person who just is so... He doesn't even know he shouldn't say that. He doesn't care. No, he's, yes, he's been surrounded for, oh here it is. I hate ugly people. I hate ugly people. Longer-filled told me very depressing. No, car logger felt, I mean, all these like fashion people, that's why Anna went or sucks. Like all these fashion people are like in this weird bubble,

like they're so like you're like, oh, like regular people are like, there's systemic races and that's like blood into our, you know, the subconscious of like the regular population and we got to work on that. These people are like, they don't even know... If you're like racism is a thing, they're like, I don't believe in racism. I don't believe in racism. For an upcoming ball. I don't see race.

I don't see color, except for sure, truths that I hate. Racism is a construct. And any rate, Carologer fell Feld may he rest fully in power is not, has not recently died, but Larry King did anyhow. And then so, so, okay, so Donald Trump is no longer president. But Joe Biden is, and it rules, it's great. And it's already, I mean, it just seems like, you know, the reason it's great and the reason it rules is because it's fine. It's like, you know what I mean?

It's so boring. It's fine. It's so un-eventful. She's not tweeting, he's not gonna tweet. Every day, I get through the day and at the end of the day, I go, oh my God, Donald Trump was in prison and all that. And that's great. And it's, and it's, you know's, and it's, you know what,

not everything is just suddenly back to, you know, normal. But you know, it's like, I will say this, I was this morning I spent some time trying to find where my parents could get a vaccination because in Pennsylvania, the rule now is 65 and over, you're eligible to get it, right? They're just trying to get people vaccinated. The system that is 65 and over you can you're eligible to get it right? They're just trying to get people vaccinated The system that that is in place the I say system

But it's not really a single system. It is a very loose network of completely insane systems that are that scale up and down from Call this pharmacy and see if they have it like I'm not shitting you at all like it's like the instructions on the At like the Pennsylvania website are like, pick up the phone and call this pharmacy. Up, maybe they have it. Who knows? Maybe they have it. I don't know.

Like maybe give it a whirl. Up to systems where you get like taken out of like this, the Pennsylvania system to like a right aid system that has a literal virtual line you stand in, where it shows you in a line, like a little avatar, and it's like, you're 20 minutes away from being allowed to go into the website. And then you go into the website, and it's like, fill out this form, then you fill out the form, and it's like, pick a date, and it's like, no vaccinations available on every

date, on every form. Okay. So, you know, it's like you wanna check April? There's nothing available. It's like, it's like, so, you know, nothing really has been fixed yet, but I do believe, because the thing about it is, we're not, it's not that complex of a problem, okay?

We're talking about scheduling, you know, it's like distributing and then scheduling appointments. It's really what we're discussing here. It's like, there needs to be a way to get the vaccines to places and then a way for people to go and universally find out if they can get a vaccine somewhere, right? There is, it is a solvable problem.

New York City vaccinated six million people in less than two weeks in the 19th, 47. Yeah, oh, it the night. Number 47. Yeah, oh, it's 47 in 47. Well, yeah, I mean, it's not impossible. This would have been more efficient to just be like, we're starting at 9 a.m., and we're going until we write out and just show up.

Make a line. Just make a lot here. And there's 2,500 locations. You know, people are gonna, no, but the point is, this is a solo broadcast. I have gotten iPhones every time they have come out. Yes, they have come out. Honestly, and honestly, this is what I was gonna say is that in other countries like in Korea,

the Korean government and Samsung were like, yo, let's LG Samsung come to the table. You guys make all the phones, your Korean companies, we need to make this happen now. We need to get this shit in line. You know, when they block been locked down and stuff. And the company's really, all right, cool. We're going to make an app. It's going to be universal. Everybody's going to get it.

Everybody's going to have to use it. And like two days later, everybody was on it. And it was good. It was fine, right? That's how they actually like stop the spread of it in Korea. They were just like, we're just going to give everybody an app right now. We're going to basically force them to have it.

And it's going to be on their phone. And it's going to be good because it's made by people who make apps. And the like what, you know, what this country should have done was gone to Google and Apple and said, we need to distribute this. This is a priority above anything else that's happening. You need to install an app for people that is going to auto install, doesn't matter if people want it or not, and they open the app, they scan a fucking barcode or something,

they get a QR code, they get a place in line, they get a location, and you're done, and you get a notification of the day before. You know, like there was a way, there was a way to do it using organizational skills and access to major corporations and technology, and it's so clear. It is so clear that the administration, the previous administration, the Trump administration, was literally doing nothing for Americans, maybe ever, but in particular, the last six months,

it is so very painfully clear that they weren't even trying to think about ways to make this work, right? It just wasn't even a topic. No. So what's nice about Joe Biden is, it came up one, it's, they had a meeting. They had a meeting. But like, but I believe without a fucking question

in my mind that there are enough people in the Biden administration as of right now and to come in the next few weeks, who are actually know how to do things and are actually like they're interested in doing the job of like working to solve problems, particularly ones that have like destroyed America, that like this can be and will be figured out. But like the thing is like, you know, the damage we're going to just going to be uncovering

the shocking trail of mismanagement and damage for years to come. And on that point, there was a story yesterday, worth noting, story yesterday in the New York Times in the evening that Trump was like in, had a plan in motion to remove the acting Attorney General, replace him with a sympathetic, like, stooge attorney general who would then, like, force Georgia to avoid its like election results. And I mean, literal coup, shit, not like, oh, they, you know, he said some stuff

that was inflammatory, whatever it was like actual machinations, actual actions taken to steal the election from the American people and from the rightful winners and have him be just anointed president again. So, like that just came out, right? So, I'm excited because they also on the same day, they announced the impeachment hearing timing for the Senate. And I gotta say like,

I'm looking forward to seeing Trump. I hope that he gets, I don't know how this works, but I assume he'll get like pulled back to Washington and have to like testify or sit there or something at some point. And I'm really looking forward to that. I believe, I firmly believe, and you can mark it down. It's January 23rd, 2021.

Put it on the calendar. Josh says, if Trump has to testify in an open setting, which I believe he will have to, he will lose his shit. Like, you will see an actual meltdown. Well, he won't have Twitter to like, bitch and moan and like, set the tone and shape whatever he does and repeat lies. Like, he doesn't have that outlet.

So I don't know what he's gonna be like without. I think we might see tears. I think we could see a man. A broken man crying begging for relief. Florida man. Local Florida man cried. Florida man cried in court. Florida man tears up very hearing.

At any rate. So yeah, so it's, you know, it's a different world we're living in. It's funny how quickly things snapped back. Like it's funny how quickly the New York Times was like Joe Biden has a peloton He's no longer relatable No, Joe by yet. They ran I mean they ran they ran possibly the dumbest fucking story That's the Rolex I I I Think the the Rolex story is gotta be one of the dumbest things in your times they ever run.

It's like Joe Biden wears a Rolex and the story is like, you know, other presidents were cheapy watches and it's like actually, first off, Obama fully wore a Rolex. It's like working in wore a Rolex. Obama had a Rolex and several other nice watches. Donald Trump had like the concept of time etched in fake gold They're like excusing the previous tent, you know, tenet of the White House. It's like well Why why are you doing that? You explain for four years. You never ran that story for four years Very strange very strange at any rate just so fucking dumb. They're like we got a showroom But it's quick. It's crazy how quickly, like, I mean, icy conservatives on Twitter already being like,

where was that plan to fix the problems? It's like, well, they weren't problems to you on January 19th, but it's my January 23rd, you want the pandemic solved. It's crazy, I mean, the whole thing is crazy. I mean, it's crazy, it's so sweet. It's like, it's so obvious what's going on. And we're all, and it's so obvious that these guys are just huge phonies and liars. And yet, like,

we're still subjected to their, to their phone. I like to their ins, to the insanity of having to like, address it, you know, and like, to talk about it. Anyway, so, yeah. So, so, um, you know, at any rate, uh, so we, so we've been through a lot. We have a new president and a new galaxy S21. And a new galaxy S21, which I think is the more important, which I've actually ordered. And I'm waiting. I did. You know, it's been a long time since I've made a completely random unnecessary phone, Android phone purchase.

And I was very intrigued by the camera situation with the new, with the new S21. And Ray Wong did a review of the phone. And I have to say, you know, the images look pretty amazing. I'm very interested in the, it's got this crazy zoom, which, you know, apparently you can use to like take a pretty decent shot of the moon. The, the, I think we're still doing some experimentation around that because there's some spec, there's been a lot of speculation online.

Apparently, Huawei had a version of this like moon shot function where it literally over laid a fake moon onto the moon. And I tweeted about it and people are like, that's AI. That's a fake moon and like so far, uh, it does not appear. That's the case. It appears that it is actually a shot of the moon that it took. It's not a great, like the picture is not great in terms of like, nobody's like,

we've done it. This is the only photo of the moon, no ever. It's not great in terms of like a great picture of the moon, but for a camera to have taken it, it's really impressive. And so anyhow, but it's I'm excited. I'm the other thing is that happens that there's an app that was announced that was created by the person,

the guy behind Pebble watches, which was a very popular. Oh my God, that just took me back before the Apple watch came to into existence. And he started a new app called Beeper. And Beeper is like it blends all of your chat apps into a single feed, including iMessage. And which, like two things about that.

One is like, so yes, the idea of not having to jump between like 16 different chat apps to have conversations. That was a dream that Palm had with the OS in fucking, you know, whatever, 10 years ago or more. And it was a dream that Paul had in fucking you know whatever 10 years ago or more and It was a genius idea. It was a genius idea. It's like let's not have all these applicants have a catcher for what is basically the same thing Which is like chat, you know, so so they're doing a thing. It's really interesting. So they're doing that They say it has end-to-end encryption and they're doing the thing that sort of, that air message has been doing,

which is an iMessage app that will, like basically set iMessages to your Android, which is like uses a computer and always on computer as a kind of pipe to send it to your device. And like if you have your computer that is using iMessage, it kind of uses it as a through line to a phone or to a device. But what's interesting is they're doing a thing this company beeper which sounds a little crazy but I'm very interested in it where they are literally like

taking upcycling jailbroken. They're taking iPhone 4s's, they're upcycling them they're jail breaking them and then I believe they're actually sending them to people to use as a bridge To go from iMessage to another device which is like it's like area or arrow or whatever that yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, I think it's area. Yeah. What was it? It's one of those I don't know I paid for it for three months. It's a genius idea. They were like, we have a room full of antennas and you can rent one. Actually, I don't know if anybody,

it's a closed-cut area. If anybody is what I'm talking about, or what we're talking about, it was a service that was like, you can get broad, all the TV channels that are broadcast, HDTV that are like local to your area. If you don't have that set up,

you can pay $10 a month or $8 a month or whatever it was. We have a warehouse full of antennas receiving your individual signal. It obviously was kind of bullshit. But like, it's good watch it online and it was like super low quality. So they were not reselling broadcast TV in essence. They were sort of repackaged it and reselling broadcast. Even you could record it, it had like a DVR and stuff. It was a very interesting idea that was ultimately illegal, I guess, but you know what? We all have to, you know, you gotta,

you gotta try to innovate, but anyhow, so this, so yeah, so this B per app, so the combination of the new S21 and the B per app and, and, you know, a confluence of other factors, maybe we'll get me back on Android full time. I mean, Lauren, I were just waxing nostalgic about using Android and how much easier it is to do things. I have this feeling on a regular basis where I'm like, this is so much easier. Why do I have to do this? Like Twitter, every link I open on Twitter

opens in Twitter's iOS. I know it's on RAPT browser, which isn't even, doesn't even open Safari. It just is like, hey, do you want to open it in our dumb browser? We have to re-log into every service that you use. And it's like, no, I don't. Just that is like enough to make me really happy. So much of Twitter is embarrassing at this point. Like their video editor and like play back,

like video on Twitter is just it's shocking. It's so bad. It's you can you Twitter really feels it truly feels like an app that has been it feels like news groups in 2000 like 10 you know what do you mean we're like this is still around it's messy it's real messy and I have to say I you know, I, it'll be interesting to see what becomes of Twitter. Misinformation on their platform went down 73% when Trump left. Yeah, in a week. Incredible. It's fucking incredible.

In a week. I mean, imagine if, and people, a lot of people said this, but imagine if they had banned Trump, you know, a few years ago. We'd be living in that futuristic utopia picture that everyone posts. Exactly. I love, I do love the feeling of knowing that somewhere he's sitting somewhere, you know, with no way to do anything to anybody. Just to eat things like this. I mean, he may be tweeting from it it all but I think that's for him that what it doesn't work because the whole Point is that he it's him

Right no, I just like the idea that he's following like Kelly Clark said and he's like like pissed He might be he might be there's no way to know is he gonna go back to petty celebrity Disagreements like Robert Patton said or whatever. I think he's gonna go I think he's gonna go back to nothing. I think that Trump is, I think his brand is dead. I think, and people can debate this all they want. We can talk about the redemption arcs of Americans or whatever, but like, there's never been a person.

It would have been, he would have been, I believe would have been, a people would have been open to redemption stories for Trump if he had just been like a sore loser. But I think that after the Capitol riot, yeah, that's the thing every time I see someone being like, oh, he's the he's the only president who never started an international war. People are immediately like, he tried to start a civil war.

He's right. He's a national war. I think it's it's some ways slightly worse and more worrying. But I do think I do. My mother was like, oh, they're saying Ivanka's gonna run in Florida. It's like, I don't think I don't think there's a dynasty here. I think this is a family of people who do not want to know. Nobody is a name. He ran on charisma. Nobody in his family is charismatic, but yes, exactly. Well, that's exactly what I said to my mom. I was like, you know, the thing about Donald Trump is as much as

you may hate him. He was interesting to listen to. He was consistently entertaining. You know, I hate to say it, but it's true. There's a reason why people liked him. It's not just like he had great policy ideas. You never knew what he was going to do. He was just fascinating. He was just fascinating to listen to, even when he was spewing garbage, you were like, this is, what is this? This is crazy. I've never heard anything like this. Ivanka doesn't have a fucking shred of charisma. I've seen her speak and it is like the opposite.

It is anti-corrism. I'm working very hard on that. His sons. I've never heard Eric speak, but Dawn Jr., it just seems like a coked up mass. He's not fun or interesting to listen to. He doesn't have a sense of humor He's Megan McCain if she was like fucking methed out But but but anyhow, but but the um I think but I also think you know on a bigger level on a more important level the

I think the Trump name is just very, I think people don't wanna be associated with that. I think Trump is synonymous with white supremacy and capital insurrection. And I think that even, maybe there's some die hard like Lynn Wood, whoever Republicans. I think most general Republicans are like, yeah, you know what, it kinda jumped the shark there at the end and I really don't want to be associated

with that. But more importantly, dude's got to go back for a Senate trial and he probably have some other trials that are that are state related trials. And so I expect him to be very busy defending himself. I know there's a rape case. I mean, the E. Jean Carroll rape case is still proceeding. I mean, letisha James is like, she's lining. I mean, the E. Jean Carol rape case is still proceeding. I mean, Littisha James is like, she's lining them up one after the other.

So it's not literally he has a, he has a literal rape case. Yes. A literal rape case that like he's not going to get out of it and is not protected by the federal government anymore. So he has to like deal with it, you know, like in real court with real judges. So yeah, anyhow, it's going to be a fun time. But getting back to the game, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. Oh no, I've just seen a shocking piece of information come across my feed. Cyberpunk 2777's latest

patch reportedly added a game breaking bug. That's not good. That's not good. They're like, we fixed it. Well, we fixed a lot of things, but we also broke it completely. In a way, oh my gosh, it's tested out. Is cyberpunk just got a new patch? I've been playing it. And the patch is as far as I can tell, not very noticeable.

At first, I thought it caused a frame drop, but the frame rate drop, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It continues to run okay on the Xbox. Pretty good on Stadia, but it's on Xbox Series X. Yes, oh god, yes, of course. The highest end Xbox runs it okay. Presumably it's just doing a mid, it's like mid settings PC, right?

I mean, yeah, that's literally what it's doing. On Stadia, it's running a little better, still no ray tracing. But, I mean, we can disagree on this because I know we will. I also just think once they get it running amazing, it's still not like the best game. Like it doesn't live up to anything, I thought it would be.

It's not, it's not. It's, I find it to be really enjoyable to play and I find myself like, what I have been doing is, I'll walk away from it for like five days and then come back to it and get really wrapped up in it. I've actually like, for the first time because I was doing a lot of side missions for the first time, I decided to play like

a bigger chunk of the story mission in a while. And like, it is like, there are things there where you're like, yes, this could be a great, could have been a great game. It is just like, it's satisfying in some ways that you wear exactly how you wanted to be satisfying, but I do think the,

there's a lack of, real lack of vision and- There's a lack of complexity, there's a lack of death there's a lack of death but I think most importantly there's a lack of anything I haven't seen before. Yeah, I mean it's like it feels like playing some of the worst missions in The Witcher 3 or like you know doing some of the sillier stuff in in Grand Theft Auto but like with really good graphics and like,

pretty inventive world-building ideas and a couple compelling characters, but like, at the end of the day, it's just like a very pretty difficult to run version of Grand Theft Auto for. Like, it's not even, it's not like, five. It, it, there's things like, like the city isn't immersive because every time I turn around, everyone who is behind me is gone or pop in or it's just, there's something not finished and broken

and it, it feels like a tech demo. And I don't know, it doesn't feel like a full game. I think, I think, yeah, I think there are, there are not to, not to go down this rabbit hole again, but I do think there are some to not to go down this rabbit hole again, but I do think there are some impressive feats in the game. I do think to your point about, I mean it's more than a tech demo. There is something that's interesting to the game that happens in this game where it's like it seems like a lot more should be possible to do. Okay, there are interesting little like nooks and crannies in the game, but it's like they are just like,

okay, this was something that somebody put in here that like could be something, but it actually isn't like a good example is I had a pivotal scene I was playing last night. There's a pivotal scene with with the most annoying character ever created Johnny Silverhand played by Keanu Reeves who like it's like people are like, oh my god Keanu is in this game. That's so awesome But Kionner Reves his character in the game is such a shit head You're like well, I fucking hate this guy like it sucks that you have to actually listen to him talk he's like Such a just a total douche and then he rate But there's a pivotal scene and in the background of the scene there are people and these people have been there for the beginning There's a hotel outside of the outside of NY City that you go to. And there's a pair of people and and and one of them

appears to be like really, really drunk and fucked up. And the other person is like kind of like holding them as they kind of like are like stumbling. And they you know this people right? There's a couple versions of the game. But like they've been at this hotel for I mean, I think I've played the game for I don't know if it's like several weeks now. I don't know what the timeline is, but like they've been at this hotel for, I mean, I think I've played the game for, I don't know if it's like several weeks now, like I don't know what the timeline is, but it feels like I've been in the game for, let's say at least like three or four weeks of just doing stuff in the game in game time, and like they've been there doing that. Every time I go to the hotel, they're there, okay?

And it's like, I don't know. Sometimes someone will die and someone else will take care of that dying person. Like they'll be like, oh, you okay. Oh, we're gonna get you help. And then weeks will pass and you'll come back and they're like, oh, you okay, we're gonna get you. No.

I, I, I, I, I eventually punched the person who was holding the person throwing up because I was like, I just need this to stop. I need them to stop doing this. It just wasn't going to like, and they did flee. They ended up fleeing it. I was like, I was actually not a lot of satisfaction. I was like, I was able to like, change this dumb thing in the game.

But like, this is the thing. It's like, it's like, you're putting things in a game that are meant to immerse me in this realistic environment. And then immediately what you do with them, it's like if you better, they did almost nothing. Because then it wouldn't be weird. You would notice. I would notice, but like it's like you're doing things

to show me all this activity. Like we need to talk to people. I feel like there's, I've heard the same woman say the same thing to me from the mouth of 25 different people over the course of the game. She's like, what are you looking at? Or whatever it is? And it's like, dude, I don't know, like, you're like a totally different person

at a totally different time and a totally different place, and you have the same voice. It's like, what are you looking at? Women saying like, yes, get out of my way, and then a small child, like, say, get out of my way, it's the same voice, right? It's like, okay. I don't understand why,

you know, why even have the talk option when I walk past somebody? Why give me the option to talk to a random person when you only have like 50 things recorded that they're going to say? There should be thousands and thousands of random recordings of people talking and I should never, basically,

and I actually think Grand Theft Auto, in my recollection, if like Grand Theft Auto does this really well, I never noticed that in people. I've never noticed that in Grand Theft Auto. Yeah, where you if like Grand Theft Auto does this really well, you can walk past people. I never noticed that in Grand Theft Auto. Yeah, where you walk past people, they're having weird random conversations, and it's like, you don't hear them like all the time. You don't hear them at the same time,

in the span of an hour or whatever. I mean, but it's like stuff like that. I've been in buildings where I like, I go into a building and it's like weirdly detailed. I'm like, wow, this could be something. Like, I think it's cool that it's here. There's no purpose for it being there. And so the game, it's like, then there's like businesses you walk past, you're like, why can't I go into this business, right? And it's like, so it's like, in some ways,

it is too immersive. And in other ways, it's not immersive enough. But I do think it creates this weird dynamic for you where you're always questioning what is accessible to you and what isn't. always questioning what is accessible to you and what isn't. And so like, it's like some things are very on rails, some things aren't, but it never totally feels like you really can sort of do whatever you want. You know, there's a lot of like, there's actually a lot of guard rails. There's, it's just a weird mixture of not having any guard rails and then having lots of guard rails. And so I think, yeah, that rears its head a lot.

I think the story itself, I mean, the story itself is like basically peace together from every popular piece of science fiction that has ever been written. Certainly in the last like 30 years or so, it is directly ripping off things like neuro-mancer in a way that is like almost painfully like obvious and sort of embarrassing for them.

And I just, yeah, I just like this game needed a much clearer vision of what it was going to be and much better writing and much more time to be cooked. But I will say here we are talking about it, weeks after months after its release, I'm still playing it. Marketing is very powerful drug. Well, no, it's not just marketing.

I mean, I think there is something about the game that is kind of infectious once you start in on it. It's not like, like, you know, and I'll compare to another flawed game, but I think that just equates itself much better, which is the last of us too,

which from the second I started playing it, there were things about it that bothered me, but the storytelling and the voice acting and the world building was so cohesive and seemed so directional. That it was like hard to put down. Even when I was like in it and I was like, wow, why is this game still going? Like I really thought it should have ended at some point. I'd still pushed through because I was really kind of excited about getting to that narrative sort of that narrative point.

I don't, I couldn't even tell you where I think I am in the narrative for cyberpunk, you know? I've purposely obfuscated that for myself because I understand that sometimes I'm doing something in the plot progresses, but other times I'm just trying to do side-missage because I don't want to miss them and I want to play the game like sort of in the way that it was meant to be played, which is just like, you know, you do trying to do side-missage because I don't want to miss them. And I want to play the game, like, sort of, in the way that it was meant to be played, which is just like, you know, you do a bunch of side-missions, you make some progress on the main story,

you do a bunch of side-missions. But it means that I kind of have lost the urgency or, like, my bearings on the main mission. Like, sometimes I'm like, we just escaped, we killed the most important man in the world. And if we've got this secret thing, and then other times I'm like, all right, so if I pick up this Chinese food

and deliver it to the apartments in time, I'll make $40. You're like, these are steaks are going up and down wildly. And it makes it so I just wanna put it down. Like I just ended up putting it down and I'm like, you know, I'll just play, you know, whatever. Yeah, I think, I almost said the name of multiple games

I'm not supposed to talk about. Oh wow. No,, I've been I've actually been playing Hades a lot as a kind of palette cleanser so good to cyberpunk because you know, it's like it's very easy to pick up play a little bit not really care about much about what happens and like put it back down and it's you know I would say about its bug free as a game gets in my experience. Yeah, thanks. It's very straightforward. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I mean like I'm still intrigued by cyberpunk. I'm sort of like disappointed in its world. Like I wanted it. I wanted to be more, I don't know, like good. Like I want it to be written better more than anything. Yeah, so much stuff in it. There are moments where I'm like, wow, that's like, this is pretty good writing, but then there's a lot of moments where I'm like, this is very stupid.

Like the things that people are saying, the what they're talking about, you know what I mean, they're literally like, you know, Johnny Silverhand is like, the corpse need to be stopped man, they're ruining our world. And it's like, okay, I guess, like, could you be more specific?

Like they don't even tell you what the corpse are doing. No. That they're mad about. I'm like, okay, I get it. Like, we got Amazon in our world. So I totally understand you being unhappy with the state of corporations. But like, could you be more specific

about why you want to do the crime? Like, what is Arasaka? What is Arasaka done exactly? It's unclear. It's like, it literally is the dialogue is like, the corpse just create more wars that could sell us stuff. And it's like, well, yeah, I mean, true, but like, do you have a particular grievance today?

Could you name one of the wars? Just tell me, but also is your, is this a political plan? Like, are you going to like, is there something you're going to put in place? But he's also like a musician. So you're like, was your music about that? I'm unclear on like how that's like.

Right, right. Right, he's a famous musician. And it's also a terrorist. A terrorist. A terrorist. And it's like, there doesn't seem to be a correlation between the two guys. And if you told me someone was a rock star terrorist

as a premise for a sci-fi book, I'd be like, that's kind of cool. How is it worth? It's cool. No, it's like how in, and I haven't read it, but Laura's told me about it apparently in like the later interview with the vampire books, Lestat becomes like a rock star.

Amazing. Yeah, right? Like what a cool idea, of course. Like that's an amazing concept. Like a vampire would be a perfect like celebrity like rock star. Yeah, cool idea But like we don't really even get as much background on Johnny Silverhand. We see him play guitar once He like he was in a band he picked up a guitar at some It seems like it's important, but nobody has said why it's important

He doesn't seem very interested in music. And also, it's not like when he shows up, our main character is like, who are you? But when we see him in his time period, he's like Elvis. I mean, I feel like you would have some reference for me. Anyhow, we don't wish him to send him any more time to him. I'm sorry. I do want to say one of the things that happens that it still happens on a regular basis,

not a regular basis, but once in a while, is like my body gets out of joint in a way where like my arms are twisted and in front of me, in a way that like I can't get them to go back. And I'm like what is, how can I, it's like literally they're in my way. Oh here's my number one gripe about cyberpunk to date.

I think it's insane that you can't see your own reflection. And without turning on a mirror. Right, and not only that, but like what I've discovered is that if you take a picture in like photo mode, you have a reflection. So with care. If you snap into photo mode in any scene where there's reflective surfaces, it immediately produces a reflection for your character.

But for some reason, and I think I know why, I believe that they replaced the head of your character with a camera. And in order for the camera to function, you can't have a head. And I really think this is what it is. I think that like in order for the camera to function, you don't have a head. I am a hundred fucking percent right. Somebody found a way to hack to basically just change

a config file to add your reflection back into the game and you don't have a head. Oh my God. So there is a guy that's definitely can't render a head. And they have screenshots and it's like, but that's the reason they built this game in first person. Like you can tell, I think I'm fairly certain this game was not originally meant

to be a first person experience. I don't know, I don't mind a first person experience. I just mind that I don't have a reflection. And I can't believe that they could not come up with some kind of work around here. Like, how could they not come up with a work around? Like, it's a digital world. Like, you could do anything.

Make the camera not, make the camera look like a head. I guess, I guess couldn't you just tell the camera to essentially not see the parts that make up your head? Like, okay, I'm thinking about this. Sorry, I mean, I know this sounds, this is not an interesting topic, baby, but like, okay, think about it. So your head is a 3D object, right? Everything is a 3D object in the game, right?

The camera views, the camera that the game uses to like show you what you're seeing has to see the 3D objects, right? So your head, it can't see through your head because your head is a 3D object. So you just grant the camera the ability to see through the head. Why not put the camera in front of your head and then set the depth of field a little bit further back. I feel like there's a way to do this. I feel like other games have done. I feel like over Mario 64 or fake it or can't they fake it? Like I was playing Hitman the other day. Hitman shows your reflection in Windows and stuff. Like it

definitely isn't using ray tracing. So you can fake it. Couldn't they fake it? I'm so mad. I'm so annoyed. I'm so annoyed. I'm so annoyed. Ray tracing is required. I'm turning this on tonight. I'm gonna hit this shit. I'm gonna be running around.

Listen, anything's better than not having just nothing in a reflection. It's so disorienting to me. It's like, the whole time I'm like, oh, it's just game about how I'm dead. And I'm like, actually, a ghost in this world. Now, like, is this a philosophical choice? Like, no, they just don't know how to render the camera and they had it at the same time. So they just took, they just took the entire reflection out. I just think this is crazy. I really want to know, I really want to know why they can't put a head on.

It's crazy. Okay, anyhow. And other things that have happened this week, Xbox, Go Hold. They tried to increase the price of it, like double the price of what Xbox Live is. And then everyone was like, hey, I don't like that. And then they turned around and undid that. Which like good, that's great. And then they turned around and undid that. Which, like, good.

That's great. Microsoft listened to its customers and whatever. But what I don't understand is why they thought that nobody was gonna bat an eye. People flip out when Netflix increases the price by $1. And Microsoft's main thing that it's been selling its console on, like the only thing that people are like, you know, you should really get an Xbox is Game Pass and Xbox Live.

Like their services are the whole reason you would buy the box. Right. Why would you make it more expensive when most people haven't even bought the box yet? Like let them get the box before you gouge them. Yeah, it seems like it's a cart before the horse situation. Yeah. Which is, you know, I don't know, I think they're headed in the right direction conceptually.

I just feel like I know we're dealing with COVID. I totally get it. I know it's been a crazy time. The stuff with the new console rollouts is truly unlike anything I've ever seen in this industry, where I can't have shortages. They're just not available. You can't get one.

Like you just really can't get one. They made a limited edition Xbox. Yeah, no, and it's true of the PS5 too. I mean, I guess the takeaway here is like the impact, the COVID impact is huge. And it really has, it really has shown itself, you know, it has surfaced itself in ways that are, you know, truly profound.

But, you know, and I mean, this is obviously not that profound because we're talking about a game system. But it is crazy. Like, this is a major, major, you know, and I mean, this is obviously not that profound because we're talking about a game system. But it is crazy. Like, this is a major, major, was made, two major holiday releases for massive consumer electronics companies. And both of them were like, I mean, how many did they sell? Normally, this would be the kind of thing where they would announce the sales of millions of systems.

That would be there, you know, in January and February, you know, they've got, they don't have earnings coming up. I'm sure we're gonna hear about this. My guess is they did not sell anything like millions of systems or tens of millions. It feels like it's in the hundreds of thousands maybe. Well, it makes sense when you think about global pandemic shortages of graphics cards

Like there's a lot of mitigating factors. We're like, okay, I see that But what bothers me is that even when they do eventually get systems it's still there I mean, it's like the vaccine roll out there like You know, well, I don't know call around. Maybe someone will have it next Tuesday You're like right what and they're, yeah, just load up all the websites and reload them at the same moment. And hopefully you reload the right one and see it within the 30 seconds you have to buy it.

And that's how you can buy PS5. And I mean, I've never, it's just, they're taking for granted that people want this thing at a time when cloud services and mobile gaming and stuff are more competitive than ever. And it's a little confusing to me because like, if I have a switch and I'm like, what kind of on a PS5?

And then it's really hard to get a PS5 twice. I'm not gonna think about the PS5 for a while. Yeah, I mean, for sure it's like, I mean, I ended up buying a graphics card on eBay, but there was a period where I was like, I'm gonna get one and then like, you couldn't get one and I just was just like, no, I'm just abandoning this search. Like it's not going to happen. And I ended up buying one for way more than they actually cost out of desperation, you know, which is, you know, it's a similar situation.

I mean, I looked at, I mean, I looked at you looking eBay, the sales for these things are completely insane. I mean, what people are asking for them is totally nuts and it's like, yeah, it just feels like a very, I don't know, it's, it's, it's, maybe this was unavoidable. I assume it was unavoidable. I assume they want to sell a lot of systems.

But I feel like it just, they would have been better off maybe holding this release, you know? I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I'm not a, not like I'm an expert. Multiple big tech companies have listened to their fans recently because Apple is bringing back USB ports and an SD card slot and taking out the touch part. They're just making a regular laptop again.

I mean, it's the incredible turn of events. Yeah, there's a story that Apple is basically going back. They're like, we walk MagSafe back. Well, MagSafe was great. MagSafe was great. I'm sure Tim Cook pulled his laptop off of a desk or something because he had it plugged in. You know, it's crazy.

They had a really good idea. It's like, what if this thing was magnetic and if you walk past it and you trip on it, it doesn't destroy your computer. It's had a really good idea. It's like, what if this thing was magnetic and if you like walk past it and you trip on it, it doesn't destroy your computer. It's like a really good idea. I, you know, the touch bar, it's like, it was obvious that the touch bar was a failure. I don't know anybody who's like, yes,

I love the touch bar, I'm so into it, I use it all the time. It seems like such a superfluous thing for those computers. John wanted it so bad, he wanted a laptop with a touch bar. He would talk about it. He was like, I would be like, I hate it. It's the worst thing. And he's like, no, no. I really, I've always wanted it. So I got a new laptop and I gave him my old MacBook part with the touch bar. And I haven't heard it peep about the touch bar.

Yeah. It ends up, it's just about set a function keys. Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah, and then the SD card thing, that to me feels like, it's like those aren't going away any time soon. Yeah. There's not going to be a future where you don't, where photographers aren't using them, and you're selling your computer as like a creative, you know, the ultimate creative device,

and it's like, well, but unless you take photos. It's good to know that maybe consumer outrage is working in some ways. I do think, I mean, I literally yesterday was, Laura was like, what was the conversation we were having? She needs to do something with her new computer. Oh, she's like, oh, I need to plug in my phone to my new computer, but I don't have a plug. I don't have the cable, which is lightning to USB-C. Yeah. And it is kind of insane that they're still making phones with USB, sorry, with lightning cable, with lightning adapters.

And every other device they make now is like USB-C is the standard. My air pod and my phone take a lightning adapter. My iPad, my laptops take take the USB-C adapters, and then every other gadget in my life takes USB-C adapters, and it is so weird whenever I need to find the USB-C to lightning or lightning to even like 3.5 millimeter headphone jack versus lightning, or USB-C to three,

it's like a mess. And every single person I know bides a dock or like a dongle or whatever, because yes, USB-C is the future. But I also have a bunch of USB type A things that need to get plugged in. There was standard USB-3 sized things in my life that I'm not replacing for 10 years.

So I just need a way to plug it in. Yeah. It's, well, I mean, it's really crazy that the iPads have USB-C and the iPhones don't do the, to the new, I can't remember if my AirPods Pro's have USB-C or not. The pros have a lightning. I think that my Mac's, okay. Yes, yes, yes. No, the Mac's has lightning too. Yes, it makes no has. No, the max has lightning too.

Yes, makes no sense. Yes, it's so stupid. It's like crazy. It's just a crazy, confusing, anyhow. So maybe Apple will fix this. Maybe they're getting back to sanity. Maybe we're going to discover that. You know, I don't know.

That users actually know what the fuck they're talking about. And you should listen to them once in a while. Speaking of, yes, an electric DeLorean could become reality. I feel like, and I don't think it's the wrong way, but I feel like I don't ever want to hear about or see the electric DeLorean. I don't want to, I feel like I'm, the DeLorean, can we just move on from the DeLorean? I know. Can we just move on from the DeLorean?

It's like, what's so special about the DeLorean? It's crazy, we're still talking about it. Yeah, it would be like, if you were like, oh my God, I got a sailboat and it's so sick. They make it out of Kevlar and you're like, yeah, but it's a sailboat. Like, it's a DeLorean. It's like, you know, it's not the most convenient car and there's definitely better looking cars and the door thing is cool, but lots of cars. Yeah, it's cool. But like, what

do you know, Tesla Model X has it if you want those doors? Like, I just think, I just think, uh, I don't know. I think we have cooler cars now. I'd rather Tesla, they worry about the Tesla's like buses. The Tesla is a much more interesting and much more advanced car than the Delorean ever hope to be. You know, like I don't want to be that guy, but it's the reality that the Delorean is no longer like interesting or cutting edge to me and I'm just so tired of hearing about it like I don't know. I don't know why we're all so fascinated by the delorean.

It's it's it's an iconic pop culture thing which I get but like a car to me like that's a big undertaking to design a car for nostalgia It's not like when they reississue Sonic Pes dispensers, and I'm like, I have to have one, I have one as a kid. It's a Pes dispenser. A car, you have to show me some kind of thing that it does. Outside of just pure nostalgia, you have to show me a Volkswagen Beetle, still pretty much functions

as a normal car, and sometimes they throw in little like additive things where you're like, oh, that's cute. And if you were to tell me they're making an all electric beetle, like, you know, my husband would be so excited because he has an nostalgia for it. And like, but a de lorians like an inconvenient car that didn't work the first time. I get it, it's like looks cool.

And it's a pop culture thing. But I don't know. It's just funny to me that like, that it's funny that we live in a society with that level of excess in car production and nobody can get the vaccine. Yeah, no, true. All right, so what else is there anything else?

Google might leave Australia and Bernie Sanders became a meme again. Let's say about Bernie Sanders being for a minute and then we should own a wrap, get back to my very, very chill Saturday. Bernie Sanders meme, so Bernie Sanders went to the inauguration. He was very cold. He was wearing a big parke and mittens. I mean, I think the mittens are really like, I think it's like nothing, listen, first

off, if Bernie's cold, he should get warm. And nobody should question his methods, okay? But I have to admit, the image of Bernie of old Jewish Bernie Sanders wrapped up in a huge parka where he mittens with his arms crossed as if he'd rather be somewhere else, is iconic. And frankly, he probably would have rather been somewhere else. Anyhow, became a huge meme. And within, I'd say, 48 hours became a meme that I never wanted to see again.

So congratulations to the internet for doing it, for officially doing it. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know what they're to say about it. I think like the best thing about it is that, I feel like there was some really weird controversy around it. Like people were like, this is sexist, like Bernie Sanders being sexist.

Oh God, yeah, there, I mean, no matter what, people really don't wanna like him and they don't want to like aOC because like they get that like conservatives don't and so and they're like quote unquote the quote unquote extreme friends Which like I can't even get into that that how ridiculous that is um and so it gives them something to be like listen. I'm no a OC fan um, and then there's's a strain of that, which is like, it always comes back to like, there has to be some gotcha problematic thing.

And so there's this contingent of people online who are like Bernie Sanders looking dissatisfied or cold. You know, that's disrespectful to Kamala Harris because she's being sworn in and he should be so sure. It's like what? Where people were making a meme out of him for putting no effort into his outfit. Meanwhile, some of these women are up here looking gorgeous

and it's like, yeah, they all got articles written about how great they looked, but also why do you so worried about appearances? I thought we weren't gonna do that. I thought the whole thing, it's a real stretch. It's truly a galaxy brain. It's like the turf people who found out that like trans women are allowed to use the bathroom again, and they're like, well, betrayal from Biden, and you're like, wait, what? In what way? Yeah, no, I'm doing well.

He was pretty clear about letting people pee. It's so crazy. It's so crazy that this is even a topic of conversation. Oh, well, under a president of Anka, it won't be. At least Bernie got a great, you know. You got a fun week out of it. You got to make a sweatshirt. He made a sweatshirt, he's making bank off it now.

You know what, Bernie? Bernie turned it around on all the haters. And you got it. You got to respect that. I don't know. All right. What else? What was the other thing? Oh, Google. I don't care about Google. I'm tired of Google. I'm over Google. I'm a duck duck guy now. That's all the batter. If you have hot duck duck, go got a duck, go gossip. That's what I was. Still loyal to my old pal, Jeves. Ah, Jeves. Jesus great. Got it, mate. All right.

Is there anything nice from this week? Oh, nice. That nice. I mean, the nice stuff is that we got a new president. Yeah. And it immediately feels like the government is in the hands of people who are actually going to try to do some work for the American people.

I mean, we really, like I said this, I'll say this again, and I'll probably say it many times after this, we know, we are going to be recovering from four years of absolute just ball dropping on every level from the the the previous administration. Just people who do not care at all about the job. And it's nice to feel like something is going to start to work again in this country. And I can be wrong, you know? I don't think Joe Biden is like the Messiah. I just think he's surrounded by people who use their brains, you know brains. I'm glad that Dr. Fauci can now talk about science and not be worried about getting arrested or whatever it was happening before. So, my nice thing is that America has a chance to be a real country again, not led by a

completely insane wannabe dictator at Lazy-Ass, do want to be dictator, who fakes his golf scores. And so, yeah, that's my nice thing. My nice thing is the complete opposite, which is the smallest, most inconsequential thing in the world. If you open up TikTok, you do what it wants you to do, which is like you hit the like button, every time you think something's cool or funny

You'll get pigeon-hold into like one corner of TikTok Where I was just being told like hey to all the Trump supporters out there You're fascist and here's some peer-reviewed reasons why and like that's fun and all but one after the other It's just like you know even I can't can't take that much One after the other, it's just like, even I can't take that much. But if you do what I've been doing lately, which is you just chaotically scroll, you just keep flicking for a while and then stop,

TikTok does nowhere to take you. And it will take you to so very weird content. I ended up with a witch who comes up with fake arguments between herself and other witches who don't know enough about magic and she like bullies them and like then like winks at the audience and she gets like a few hundred thousand likes on every post because this is a very niche topic and a very niche way to discuss the topic and that was great and then I sounds the sounds like content you would like. Oh it's great. And then I... And it sounds like content, you would like. Oh, it's great.

Then I found a guy who makes unpleasant foods. Like he just takes things from his cupboards that shouldn't go together, and he just makes something really unpleasant. Like he'll just make a peanut butter and jelly using like a lasagna noodles, and then he'll put like mustard on top and take a bite and it's so horrible and he gets a few hundred likes. I don't know why he's pursuing this but you know I wouldn't have

found that if I did what Tech Talk told me to do. So I want to just everybody go into Tech Talk, scroll like 25 times without interacting at all and then whatever you get is gonna be great. It's gonna be so good. It's gonna be like a cat who loves to eat pizza. It's so fun. So yeah, I would recommend that. It feels like the old internet. And that has been a really great way for me to not think. Interesting. I like it. All right, I'll try it. I'll try it out. All right, and that's it for the week, guys. Yeah, let's get out of here. Well, that is our show for this week. We'll be back next week with more tomorrow, and as always, I wish you and your family the

very best. Though I've just been told that your family is having their touch bars removed and not on their computers.